Máquina in english
pronunciation: məʃin part of speech: noun
máquina = machine.
Example: Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.more:
» acabado a máquina = machine-finished .
Example: The finishing or final surfacing of ordinary printing papers took place in the calender of the paper-making machine, when they were said to be machine-finished.» adelante a toda máquina = full steam ahead ; full speed ahead .
Example: The article 'Full steam ahead' describes the implementation of optical disc based imaging system at the photographic library of the National Railway Museum in York. Example: We are full speed ahead, we are hoping to continue the good work that we have started.» aprendizaje de la máquina = machine learning (ML) [En inteligencia artificial, proceso por el cual una máquina u ordenador puede obtener "conocimiento" a partir de los datos con los que trabaja] .
Example: This article reviews some aspects of the relationship between the large and growing fields of machine learning (ML) and information retrieval (IR).» a toda máquina = in the fast lane ; fast lane ; full steam ahead ; at full tilt ; full-tilt ; full-throttle ; at full throttle ; at top speed ; at full blast ; at full speed ; full speed ahead ; full throttled .
Example: The article 'A charmed brew: document delivery and collection in the fast lane' examines the implications of the proliferation of document delivery services and types of access available for librarians. Example: The article is entitled 'The news librarians: fast lane information professionals' = El artículo se titula "Los documentalistas de los medios de comunicación: profesionales de la información a toda pastilla". Example: The article 'Full steam ahead' describes the implementation of optical disc based imaging system at the photographic library of the National Railway Museum in York. Example: Their regular tasks keep them working at full tilt at all times. Example: Do not march off full-tilt in front of the readers. Example: As we enter full-throttle into the Information Age, the mere mention of 'the information highway' conjures up a predictable set of high-tech images. Example: For the past three it has been operating at full throttle. Example: Loosing control at top speed on a highway full of cars, these guys where lucky they recovered without hitting any cars. Example: With every air-conditioner running at full blast, the city's creaky infrastructure is often stretched beyond the breaking point. Example: A train cruising at full speed hit an excavator that had backed up onto the track. Example: We are full speed ahead, we are hoping to continue the good work that we have started. Example: Is today's jarring coexistence of prurience and prudery merely a transitional phenomenon as the Chinese race, full throttled, toward sexual liberation?.» avante a toda máquina = full steam ahead ; full speed ahead .
Example: The article 'Full steam ahead' describes the implementation of optical disc based imaging system at the photographic library of the National Railway Museum in York. Example: We are full speed ahead, we are hoping to continue the good work that we have started.» avanzar a toda máquina = steam ahead ; go (on) + full steam ahead ; carry on + full steam ahead .
Example: Capitalism in the US & GB is steaming ahead at a rapid pace relatively unthreatened by other economies of the world. Example: They are part of those who want to see the war on drugs go full steam ahead, regardless of the consequences to non-violent offenders. Example: The rest of the world will carry on full steam ahead irrespective of who you are in this world, only a handfull of people will feel genuine loss if this had to happen.» borrador escrito a máquina = typewritten draft .
Example: Some will produce a manuscript draft and work on and polish that; others will dictate their material and get a first typewritten draft to work on.» Catalogación Legible por Máquina (MARC) = MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing) .
Example: MARC is a widely used format for the exchange of bibliographic information in machine-readable form and stands for Machine Readable Cataloguing.» cometer un error al escribir a máquina = mistype .
Example: German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.» cometer un error ortográfico al escribir a máquina = mistype .
Example: German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.» correr a toda máquina = run + flat out ; run like + the clappers .
Example: A cheetah running flat out swivels its shoulder blades and flexes its spine to increase the length of its stride and increase its speed. Example: They can run like the clappers, to boot, and have very few predators.» datos legibles por máquina = machine-readable data .
Example: A suitable framework for the citation of microforms, patents, machine-readable data, sound recordings, samples, maps and graphic materials is the ISBD(G).» de escritura a máquina = typing .
Example: Further, the user is not required to have any of the typing skills that are useful when faced with and alphanumeric keyboard, and the need to key in complete search terms.» de la máquina y el hombre = human-machine .
Example: The digital librarian acts as guardian of the information superhighway and as a symbiotic human-machine guru = El bibliotecario digital actúa como guardián de la superautopista de la información y como gurú que representa la simbiosis de la máquina y el hombre.» documento legible por máquina = machine readable document .
Example: In contrast, machine readable documents do not have any of the tactile, tangible characteristics of books which provide the necessary reassurance of immortality.» encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine-minder [En historia de la imprenta, persona que estaba a cargo del manejo de la máquina de imprimir] .
Example: Printing machines were operated by two new grades of worker, skilled machine-minders and unskilled machine boys.» en la dirección de la máquina = machine-direction .
Example: Examine the backs of the folds with a lens; the one that is sharper-edged than the other runs parallel to the machine-direction of the paper.» entre la máquina y el hombre = human-machine .
Example: The digital librarian acts as guardian of the information superhighway and as a symbiotic human-machine guru = El bibliotecario digital actúa como guardián de la superautopista de la información y como gurú que representa la simbiosis de la máquina y el hombre.» escribir a máquina = type ; type in [Introducir datos por medio de teclado] .
Example: To start Bibliofile just type 'bib' at the DOS prompt as shown below, then press <Enter>. Example: The following qualifiers may be added to any search by tabbing over to the appropriate heading and typing in the desired data.» escribir mal a máquina = mistype .
Example: German man finds himself in Montana after mistyping his destination on a flight-booking website.» escrito a máquina = typewritten .
Example: It should be noted that in a typewritten text the edition statement is always underlined as indeed it is in a manuscript text.» escritura a máquina = typewriting .
Example: Carbon paper is paper coated on one side with loosely adhering dye used for transferring impressions of writing, typewriting, drawing, etc.» estar hecho una máquina = be in top condition ; be in top form ; be in top shape .
Example: Airflow outside of the servers is similarly key to ensuring servers are in top condition. Example: She will need to be in top form from the get go this year, when he takes on her opponent on Wednesday evening. Example: She hopes to be back in top shape for next week's league game in Monaco.» formato legible por máquina = machine-readable form ; machine readable format ; machine scannable format .
Example: It will be a long time before all documents are available in machine-readable form. Example: A computer-held data base is held in machine readable format. Example: This was a test project to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a proposed serial issue identifier and its bar code symbology which converts the serial issue identifier into a machine scannable format.» funcionar a toda máquina = fire on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders ; hit on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders ; run on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders .
Example: Coming into the off season firing on all cylinders is just the way we want to see her starting her prep for next year's competition. Example: What stops you from becoming the person you truly want to be: motivated, energized, and hitting on all cylinders?. Example: If we could get running on all cylinders and really using all our talent in the best possible way that would be a great gain for the economy.» hecho a máquina = machine-made .
Example: In 1800 all paper was made, rather expensively, by hand; in 1900 more than 99 per cent of it was machine-made.» ir a toda máquina = go + flat out ; go like + the clappers ; go + hell (bent) for leather .
Example: Rival coaches Naylor and Alan will each demand that their players go flat out to get their hands on the silverware.. Example: At one point her leg and arm stopped shaking but her eye was going like the clappers. Example: Take it nice and easy -- don't go hell for leather as soon as you cross the start line.» joven ayudante del encargado de la máquina de imprimir = machine boy [En imprenta antigua, joven que ayudaba al operario a cargo de la máquina de imprimir] .
Example: Printing machines were operated by two new grades of worker, skilled machine-minders and unskilled machine boys.» legible por máquina = machine-readable .
Example: 'Data base' is a term referring to machine-readable collections of information, whether numerical, representational or bibliographic.» máquina continua de papel = paper-making machine [Sustituo mecánico de la tina de hacer papel a mano que produce una cinta de papel sin interrupción] .
Example: The early paper-making machines were dependent, as the hand vats had been, upon linen and (when they became available) cotton rags as their chief source of raw material.» máquina de afeitar = shaver ; electrical razor ; electric shaver .
Example: An e-book is more than just another handheld electronic gadget like an electric shaver or any other electric product. Example: Most hotels provide 110 Volt outlets for electrical razors. Example: Properly used, most electric shavers can offer the user a shave that is every bit as close as, if not closer, than a shave obtained from a blade razor.» máquina de alzar = gathering machine .
Example: Machines were developed for carrying out these remaining processes between 1856 and 1903, all of them American in origin: case-making machines (1891-5); gathering machines (1900-3); and casing-in machines (1903).» máquina de andar estática = treadmill .
Example: At the end of experiment half of the rats from each group performed a treadmill running till exhaustion.» máquina de cepillar = planing machine .
Example: Later, for around a century, a planing machine fitted with special files was used instead.» máquina de componer en caliente = hot-metal composing machine ; hot-metal machine .
Example: But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job. Example: They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along.» máquina de componer en frío = cold-metal machine ; cold-metal composing machine .
Example: They were cold-metal machines, which set pre-cast type, as distinct from the later hot-metal machines which cast fresh type as they went along. Example: Few nineteenth-century book printers used cold-metal composing machines.» máquina de correr estática = treadmill .
Example: At the end of experiment half of the rats from each group performed a treadmill running till exhaustion.» máquina de cortar en rebanadas = slicer .
Example: Slicers are placed in three categories based upon slicing volume, hours of use, and types of product being sliced.» máquina de coser = sewing machine .
Example: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.» máquina de coser libros = book-sewing machine .
Example: Wire staplers were first introduced in about 1875 in default of satisfactory book-sewing machines (which were not fully developed until 1882).» máquina de cotejar = collating machine .
Example: It is no longer necessary to collate unaided, since copies can now be compared mechanically with a Hinman collating machine, which rapidly shows up all variation between them.» máquina de discos = jukebox .
Example: By about 1939, sales of records for use in jukeboxes was a large percentage of total record sales..» máquina de encartonar = casing-in machine .
Example: Machines were developed for carrying out these remaining processes between 1856 and 1903, all of them American in origin: case-making machines (1891-5); gathering machines (1900-3); and casing-in machines (1903).» máquina de envasar al vacío = shrink wrapping machine .
Example: When it comes to purchasing a shrink wrapping machine, it is important to make sure that you purchase from a reputable company.» máquina de escribir = typewriter .
Example: DOBIS/LIBIS may replace the typewriter, the catalog card, and much leg work, but it cannot replace the decision-making capabilities of the library staff.» máquina de escribir de margarita = daisy-wheel typewriter .
Example: Using golf-ball or daisy-wheel typewriters a good range of typefaces can be used on the same page; different type sizes can also be used.» máquina de escribir de pelota de golf = golf-ball typewriter .
Example: Using golf-ball or daisy-wheel typewriters a good range of typefaces can be used on the same page; different type sizes can also be used.» máquina de escribir eléctrica = electric typewriter ; electronic typewriter .
Example: During the first half of the 2Oth century additional office technologies appeared: automatically switched telephones, the ticker tape, the electric typewriter, telex, duplicating machines, adding machines, etc. Example: This paper features test reports on electronic typewriters and lateral roll-out file cabinets.» máquina de escribir libros = book-writing machine .
Example: During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.» máquina de estampar en relieve = embossing machine .
Example: Then, from about 1830, the covering material was further ornamented in an embossing machine = Entonces, aproximadamente a partir de 1830, el material de la cubierta se adornaba aún más con la ayuda de una máquina de estampar en relieve.» máquina de estampar tela en relieve = cloth-embossing machine .
Example: In 1843 the great London bindery of Westley and Clark had a rolling press, two cloth-embossing machines, and three arming presses.» máquina de fábrica = manufacturing equipment .
Example: The definition of equipment covers a wide range of items - from screwdrivers and ladders to computers, dumper trucks and manufacturing equipment.» máquina de fabricación = manufacturing equipment .
Example: The definition of equipment covers a wide range of items - from screwdrivers and ladders to computers, dumper trucks and manufacturing equipment.» máquina de fabricar tapas = casemaking machine .
Example: Machines were developed for carrying out these remaining processes between 1856 and 1903, all of them American in origin: case-making machines (1891-5); gathering machines (1900-3); and casing-in machines (1903).» máquina de fax = fax machine .
Example: Every fax machine is to be assigned to a person-in-charge who will have the responsibility of distributing incoming fax messages to recipients.» máquina de franquear = franking machine .
Example: Franking machines offer the advantages of dispensing with the purchase and stocking of sheets of stamps of varying values, and of speeding up delivery, as franked items go straight to the sorting office instead of being processed through the Post Office.» maquina de grapar libros = book-stapling machine .
Example: Consequently the book-stapling machines were generally replaced by sewing machines by the late 1880s; the stapling of pamphlets, however, had come to stay.» máquina de imprenta = printing machine .
Example: The author list reprographic equipment suitable for use in libraries (copiers, cutting equipment, printing machines, collators, driers).» maquina de imprimir con mecanismo de reiteración = perfector [En imprenta, máquina de imprirmir con mecanismo que permitía imprimir las segunda cara de una hoja de papel] .
Example: The early single-sided cylinder machines could run at 1,000 impressions per hour (and the perfectors at 2,000).» máquina de imprimir direcciones = addressograph [Máquina que permite imprimir un gran número de direcciones en cartas] ; addressing machine [Máquina que permite imprimir un gran número de direcciones en cartas] .
Example: Addressing machines/addressographs are used in libraries which offer a regular postal service to their clientele. Example: Addressing machines/addressographs are used in libraries which offer a regular postal service to their clientele.» máquina del tiempo = time machine .
Example: His songs are gathering dust somewhere, waiting to be discovered by someone who will invent a time machine and send them back in time.» máquina de matar = killing machine [Persona o animal entrenado o diseñado especialmente para matar] .
Example: Their success is down to them being perfectly adaptive and efficient killing machines.» máquina de papel continuo = newsprint machine .
Example: Newsprint machines, on the other hand, have grown ever larger and faster, and there are newsprint Fourdriniers working today which can eject a web 1,000 cm. wide at speeds of up to 1,000 metres per minute (which is 60 k.p.h.).» máquina de perforar papeles = desk punch .
Example: These machines were similar in principle to the desk punches used today for making eyelet holes in paper.» máquina de picar alimentos = food grinder .
Example: Food grinders are the convenient and modern version of the traditional mortar and pestle and can be used to grind everything from spices to nuts to larger items.» máquina de picar carne = meat grinder ; meat mincer .
Example: These institutions are like meat grinders, they lure you in with cheap wine and cheese and then pull the rug out from under you once you get there. Example: So here's the plan -- I want to get a meat mincer to make my own mince, and have a bash at some bangers.» máquina de presión plana = platen jobber ; platen [En imprenta, máquina de impresión de tamaño reducido en la que la presión se ejerce entre un órganod e rpesión plano y un portaforma también plano] ; platen machine [En imprenta, máquina de impresión de tamaño reducido en la que la presión se ejerce entre un órganod e rpesión plano y un portaforma también plano] ; flat-platen machine .
Example: The platen jobber was a simple machine for dealing with the minor jobs such as billheads and cards for which the hand-press was too slow and the full-sized printing machine too large to be economic. Example: But the early cylinder machines worked less accurately than the platens, tending to slur the impression and batter the type. Example: Finally, most of the platen machines were themselves replaced during the 1860s and 1870s by cylinder machines. Example: Koenig had a flat-platen machine working after a fashion in 1811, and a prototype cylinder machine in 1812 = Koenig ya en 1811 tenía una máquina de presión plana que más o menos funcionaba y un prototipo de máquina rotativa en 1812.» máquina de recortar con cuchilla recta = straight-knife trimming machine .
Example: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.» máquina de refrigeración = chiller .
Example: During the compression cycle, the refrigerant passes through four major components within the chiller: the evaporator, the compressor, the condenser, and then expansion valve.» máquina de registro de préstamos por medio de la fotografía = photocharger ; photocharging machine .
Example: The reader's ticket is placed alongside the stack of transaction cards and a button is depressed to activate the camera in the photocharger. Example: Each book is opened to reveal its label, and placed on the platen of the photocharging machine.» máquina de reiteración = perfecting machine [En imprenta, máquina que imprime las dos caras de una hoja a la vez] .
Example: Thus the double platen was not a perfecting machine, but was in effect two single-sided machines sharing a platen.» máquina de sumar = adding machine .
Example: Put a set of premises into such a device and turn the crank, and it will readily pass out conclusion after conclusion with no more slips that would be expected of a keyboard adding machine.» máquina de tambor = tumbler machine .
Example: Their ascendancy may be traced through the Main or tumbler machine of 1840, Payne's Wharfedale stop-cylinder machine of 1858, and the improved Wharfedales produced by Paine and others in the mid 1860s.» máquina de tejer = knitting machine .
Example: Thes new knitting machine comes with 2 balls of wool to make a hat and instructions to make a scarf, bag and leg warmers.» máquina de torno = nipping machine .
Example: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.» máquina de vapor = steam engine .
Example: When Sadi Carnot undertook to produce the theory of the steam engine the result was an important step to thermodynamics.» máquina excavadora = excavator .
Example: This is the kind of excavator that is particularly suited to the work in a confined place.» máquina expendedora = vending machine .
Example: The author looks at some of the extra activities engaged in by libraries, such as the provision of board games vending machines for the sale of drinks and other items.» máquina expendedora de sellos = stamp dispenser .
Example: Among the items included are opera glasses, letter openers, clocks, buckles, stamp dispensers, and glue pots.» maquina expendora = dispensing machine .
Example: This paper presents arguments for and against libraries in the USA having condom dispensing machines in their public toilets.» máquina Fourdrinier = Fourdrinier machine [En imprenta, primera máquina de hacer rollos continuos de papel de imprenta y desarrollada en el Reino Unido por los hermanos Fourdrinier] .
Example: The increasing demand for paper of all sorts, which the giant productivity of the Fourdrinier machine could easily meet, resulted in a parallel demand for rags which was soon outstripping the supply.» máquina Fourdrinier de papel continuo = newsprint Fourdrinier .
Example: Newsprint machines, on the other hand, have grown ever larger and faster, and there are newsprint Fourdriniers working today which can eject a web 1,000 cm. wide at speeds of up to 1,000 metres per minute (which is 60 k.p.h.).» máquina fundidora de tipos = typecasting machine .
Example: A typecasting machine was developed in America by David Bruce in 1838 which was simple and effective = En 1838, David Bruce desarrolló en América una máquina fundidora de tipos sencilla y eficaz.» máquina gofradora = cloth-embossing machine ; embossing machine .
Example: In 1843 the great London bindery of Westley and Clark had a rolling press, two cloth-embossing machines, and three arming presses. Example: Then, from about 1830, the covering material was further ornamented in an embossing machine = Entonces, aproximadamente a partir de 1830, el material de la cubierta se adornaba aún más con la ayuda de una máquina de estampar en relieve.» máquina industrial = manufacturing equipment .
Example: The definition of equipment covers a wide range of items - from screwdrivers and ladders to computers, dumper trucks and manufacturing equipment.» máquina para leer = reading machine .
Example: Librarians are urged to convince the 'reading experts' that curling up with a real book is the best reading machine invented to teach children to read.» máquina pensante = reasoning engine .
Example: The suggestion that integration can be achieved via a reasoning engine seems fundamentally misconceived.» máquina planográfica = platen machine [En imprenta, máquina de impresión de tamaño reducido en la que la presión se ejerce entre un órganod e rpesión plano y un portaforma también plano] .
Example: Finally, most of the platen machines were themselves replaced during the 1860s and 1870s by cylinder machines.» máquina que funciona con monedas = coin-operated machine .
Example: Most libraries maintain a small cash float for the giving of change and, in addition, money is received from coin-operated machines such as photocopiers and microform reader/printer.» máquina que mantiene las constantes vitales = life-support system .
Example: This is a medical decision making system which predicts the survival rate of patients in intensive care and hence whether they should remain on life-support systems.» máquina redonda = mould machine [Máquina para la fabricación de papel que imita al papel hecho a mano o de tina] .
Example: Another variant of the cylinder machine which had some success was the mould machine, introduced in England in about 1910 for making imitation hand-made (mouldmade) paper from rag stock.» máquina rotativa = cylinder machine .
Example: The average performance of cylinder machines in jobbing offices, on long and short runs, rarely exceeds 3,500 impressions a day, and oftener falls below that number.» máquinas plegadoras = folding machinery .
Example: From the printers' point of view the most important innovations in the binderies were guillotines and powered folding machinery.» máquina tragaperras = (coin) slot machine ; fruit machine ; one-arm(ed) bandit .
Example: At Christmas, the only jingle bells heard in casinos were the noises of slot machines paying out. Example: Fruit machines are so profitable that US casinos are reported to make the bulk of their profits from their vast floors of machines. Example: Adults use these 'one arm bandits' for fun, a substitute for the games they engaged in as children.» montador de máquinas = machine setter .
Example: This article presents and discusses experience with design and use of a hypermedia type training material, SPRING, to be used by new machine setters in the spring industry.» papel a mano-máquina = mouldmade paper [Papel fabricado a máquina pero imitando el papel hecho a mano o de tina] .
Example: The introduction of mouldmade paper (which is a fine machine-made rag paper which looks like hand-made) in about 1920 reduced the production of real hand-made yet further.» papel hecho a máquina = machine-made paper .
Example: Although light-and-shade marks were later successfully adapted for machine-made paper, they were too expensive for normal use in hand moulds.» papel verjurado hecho a máquina = machine-made laid paper .
Example: The first dandy rolls were made in the laid pattern, and thus produced a machine-made laid paper, but wove dandies were also in use from 1828.» posible de ser consultado por máquina = machine-viewable .
Example: One of the factors to consider in the selection of a data base is the documentation, and search aids available to support searching on the data base, such as classification schedules, printed or machine-viewable thesauri, and so on.» sala de máquinas = machine room .
Example: This area contains a milking parlour, facilities for cooling and storage of the milk and a machine room for the mechanical equipment.» seleccionado por máquina = machine-selected .
Example: In a totally machine-selected thesaurus, the listing of terms will be printed or displayed by the computer, and often no further effort is necessary.» ser un máquina = be in top condition ; be in top form ; be in top shape .
Example: Airflow outside of the servers is similarly key to ensuring servers are in top condition. Example: She will need to be in top form from the get go this year, when he takes on her opponent on Wednesday evening. Example: She hopes to be back in top shape for next week's league game in Monaco.» taller de máquinas = machine shop .
Example: The questionnaire was then sent to machine shops throughout the State of Oklahoma.» terminado a máquina = machine-finished .
Example: The finishing or final surfacing of ordinary printing papers took place in the calender of the paper-making machine, when they were said to be machine-finished.» texto escrito a máquina = typescript [Documento escrito a máquina a diferencia de su versión impresa o escrita a mano] .
Example: A manuscript is a writing made by hand (including musical scores), typescripts, and inscriptions on clay tablets, stone, etc.» texto legible por máquina = machine readable text .
Example: The creation and use of new knowledge and its notation has passed through many stages in the last 6,000 years from cuneiform tablets to machine readable text.» trabajar a toda máquina = fire on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders ; hit on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders ; run on + all (four/six/eight) cylinders .
Example: Coming into the off season firing on all cylinders is just the way we want to see her starting her prep for next year's competition. Example: What stops you from becoming the person you truly want to be: motivated, energized, and hitting on all cylinders?. Example: If we could get running on all cylinders and really using all our talent in the best possible way that would be a great gain for the economy.maquinar = conspire ; finesse ; cook up ; scheme ; concoct ; cabal.
Example: There is a future for the public library, despite competing social and economic needs which would seem to conspire to preclude one.Example: The story of the postwar diner suggests some ways that purveyors of consumer commodities finessed and exploited emergent social dislocations in the drive to expand and diversify markets.Example: He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.Example: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Example: Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.Example: The intestine troubles of England were very great at that time, and even John, the King's brother, caballed to dethrone him.more:
» maquinar un plan = concoct + a plan .
Example: A tourist concocted a novel plan to get back home from his holiday in Malta after he ran out of money -- but it backfired.