Nube in english
Cloud
pronunciation: klaʊd part of speech: noun
pronunciation: klaʊd part of speech: noun
In gestures
nube = plume ; cloud.
Example: During this nuclear accident a famous laboratory supplied a continuous flow of meteorological and radioactive plume transport and diffusion data.Example: The design depicts gods and muses in the clouds and is in the collection of the library.more:
» andar con la cabeza en las nubes = walk (a)round with + Posesivo + head in the clouds .
Example: After all, a man with responsibilities can't walk around with his head in the clouds all the time.» bajar de las nubes = come down to + earth .
Example: The second paragraph came down to earth stylistically.» bajar de las nubes de golpe = come down to + earth with a bump .
Example: The adrenaline rush that had propelled him through his frantic excavation took a while to wear off, but when it did he came down to earth with a bump.» bajar de las nubes de sopetón = come down to + earth with a bump .
Example: The adrenaline rush that had propelled him through his frantic excavation took a while to wear off, but when it did he came down to earth with a bump.» bajarse de las nubes = get + real .
Example: The author of 'Let's get real about the presidential race' accuses both presidential candidates of not addressing the real issues affecting our economy.» computación en la nube = cloud computing .
Example: There are some who see cloud computing as a fad.» con la cabeza en las nubes = ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.] ; ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.] .
Example: She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad. Example: If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.» con la moral por las nubes = in (very) high spirits .
Example: There are several reasons for the Japanese people to enter 2012 in high spirits.» costes + ponerse por las nubes = costs + spiral .
Example: Costs are spiralling.» costes por las nubes = soaring cost ; spiralling costs .
Example: The soaring cost of US health care in the 1980s have affected the size and stature of Michigan hospital libraries. Example: Listed below are a number of alternatives which could be implemented to maintain our vitality under the conditions of declining enrollment, spiraling costs, and different outlooks.» desaparecer destrás de una nube de humo = disappear in + a puff of smoke .
Example: But just seven months later the family has 'disappeared in a puff of smoke' leaving locals thousands of dollars out of pocket.» en las nubes = spaced-out ; spacey [spacier -comp., spaciest -sup.] .
Example: As I opened the curtains I saw him staring at the wall -- he looked spaced out, he was kind of looking at the wall like somebody was talking to him. Example: The main side effects of these weight loss pills are that they can increase your blood pressure and they can also make you feel a bit spacey.» estar en las nubes = be out in left field .
Example: At times she's quite rational, but at other times she's out in left field.» estar por las nubes = be through the roof .
Example: The one justified reason to hate Valentine's Day is that chocolate prices are through the roof -- the bane of all chocolate addicts.» fumar hasta desaparecer en una nube de humo = smoke + Reflexivo + into a cloud .
Example: She sat back in her chair, crossed her legs, lighted a cigarette, and smoked herself into a cloud.» hacer saltar por las nubes = blow + Nombre + sky high .
Example: This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.» hacer volar por las nubes = blow + Nombre + sky high .
Example: This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.» nube cirro = cirrus cloud .
Example: The most common form of high-level clouds are thin and often wispy cirrus clouds.» nube convectiva = convective cloud .
Example: The development of convective clouds are sometimes hard to follow due to the slow motion.» nube cumuliforme = cumuliform cloud .
Example: A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud.» nube de ceniza = ash cloud ; plume of ash ; cloud of ash .
Example: There are more flight disruptions in Belfast and Dublin because of an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland. Example: It has been spewing plumes of ash and gas far above its crater and volcanologists say its activity has been on the upswing. Example: At the beginning of May the volcano started to spit clouds of ashes.» nube de ceniza volcánica = volcanic ash cloud .
Example: Flights were back to normal yesterday after the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud returned to ground further flights from Exeter Airport.» nube de gas = plume of gas .
Example: It has been spewing plumes of ash and gas far above its crater and volcanologists say its activity has been on the upswing.» nube de humo = smoke pall ; pall of smoke ; smokescreen [También escrita separada smoke screen] ; puff of smoke ; plume of smoke .
Example: Smoke palls occurr more often in the tropical regions where deep convection is most common. Example: The drought was exacerbated by huge conflagrations of the rainforests, emitting extensive palls of smoke covering the whole region. Example: Librarians were forced to put up a rhetorical smokescreen which only partially succeeded in hiding the library's true nature. Example: All about the plane round puffs of white smoke suddenly appeared, broke, and vanished into the blue. Example: The weather cleared enough that we could get in to the volcanic islands (still spouting plumes of smoke) by copter in safety.» nube de mosquitos = mosquito cloud ; cloud of mosquitoes .
Example: Dirt roads, no electricity, one-room school a mile away, below zero blizzards in the winter, and mosquito clouds in the summer. Example: At the same time, however, the clouds of mosquitoes themselves support a rich tapestry of bird life.» nube de polvo = cloud of dust ; dust cloud .
Example: I should imagine that each time a book was removed from its shelf a cloud of dust would choke the air. Example: Dust clouds may also play an important role in suppressing hurricane development.» nube de puntos = scatterplot ; cloud of points [En estadística, diagrama de dispersión] .
Example: Figure 2 shows the scatterplot of the relationship between the percent of abstract words matched and the lenght of the abstract. Example: The Price Index is not a pure function of the mean or median reference age, but a well-defined relation in the form of a typical cloud of points.» nube de tormenta = storm cloud .
Example: The article is entitled 'Storm clouds on the horizon: CIPA and the future of the Internet'.» nube espesa = thick cloud .
Example: Orange County should see its coolest day of the week Friday with thick clouds promising light rain.» nube estratiforme = stratiform cloud .
Example: Stratiform clouds, in contrast, typically cover much larger areas and are caused by much broader layers of more slowly rising air.» nube nuclear = mushroom cloud [Nube que se levante en forma de hongo del lugar donde ha habido una explosión nuclear] .
Example: The symbolism of the mushroom cloud is deeply evocative for adults, albeit fraught with ambiguity.» nubes amenazadoras = threatening clouds .
Example: I looked up at the sky and saw threatening clouds and approaching darkness.» nubes + amenazar + lluvia = clouds + look + menacing .
Example: The clouds look menacing and last night's heavy downpour makes me hesitant about attending the outdoor event.» nubes dispersas = scattered clouds ; periodic clouds .
Example: Scattered clouds with a few lingering rain showers will be possible through early Sunday, with gradual clearing expected in the afternoon. Example: The current forecast for Sunday's race is clear and sunny skies with periodic clouds.» nubes y claros = sunny intervals ; sunny periods ; sunny spells .
Example: The forecast is cloudy with sunny intervals rather than the other way round. Example: September's usually quite a wet month but there are still likely to be quite a few pleasant sunny periods in between showers. Example: As you will have guessed, there were more showery intervals than sunny spells. encomiar = extol ; hold out as ; laud ; praise + highly ; praise ; speak + highly of ; rave about ; big up . Example: In order to deal with the ever increasing mass of biomedical information ('journalistic blastoma'), IAIMS has extolled the use of quality filters, to sift the good from the bad. Example: Community information services seem light years away from the kind of electronic wizardry that is held out as the brave new information world of tomorrow. Example: Libraries are also lauded for providing other public services with economic benefits. Example: He praised highly the attempts of the Yugoslav leadership to find a political solution to the conflict. Example: In spite of their protestations to the contrary, most bosses prefer subordinates whom they get along with, who cause them no anxiety, who quietly accept their decisions, who praise them. Example: He said to send his regards to everyone, and thanks especially to those who spoke so highly of him. Example: Past delegates rave about how much they learn from colleagues in other fields. Example: This dance festival bigs up the diverse and exciting range of high quality dance theatre talent we've got on our very own doorstep.» ponerse por las nubes = go + ballistic .
Example: Reducing demand and converting to alternative sources of energy are necessary steps toward accepting the reality of a natural increase in the price of petroleum, which is likely to go ballistic in the next ten years.» por las nubes = soaring ; off the chart ; skyrocketing .
Example: And to make matters worse, retirees on fixed incomes have recently presented the mayor with a petition deploring the soaring property taxes. Example: Insurance rates are off the chart due to people scamming insurance companies. Example: Libraries are sharing their resources to cope with shrinking library budgets and skyrocketing collection costs.» precio + ponerse por las nubes = price + go through the roof ; price + spiral ; price + spiral out of control ; price + soar through the roof ; price + soar ; price + explode .
Example: And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof. Example: Most airline carriers have been making losses as aviation fuel prices spiralled after crude prices soared = La mayoría de las compañías aéreas han estado teniendo pérdidas debido a que el precio del combustible de avión se ha puesto por las nubes tras dispararse el precio del crudo. Example: Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control. Example: With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy. Example: Most airline carriers have been making losses as aviation fuel prices spiralled after crude prices soared = La mayoría de las compañías aéreas han estado teniendo pérdidas debido a que el precio del combustible de avión se ha puesto por las nubes tras dispararse el precio del crudo. Example: This rural backwater, ignored by every boom since the agricultural revolution, grabbed the headlines as property prices exploded.» precios por las nubes = spiralling prices .
Example: The problem of spiraling prices for periodicals in academic libraries cannot be solved simply by reducing staff.» sentirse como flotando en las nubes = float on + air ; walk on + air ; tread on + air .
Example: She felt the rush of adrenaline and sense of floating on air as the plane lifted off for a tour over the harbor. Example: She is 'walking on air' after grabbing the limelight by flaunting her fabulous new figure. Example: Who is this young woman who goes out stealthily like this, and meets a young man, and comes back feeling as if she had been treading on air?.» sin nubes = unclouded ; uncloudy ; cloudless .
Example: As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget. Example: In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment. Example: This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.» sin una nube = unclouded ; uncloudy ; cloudless .
Example: As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget. Example: In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment. Example: This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.» tener la cabeza en las nubes = Posesivo + head + be + in the clouds ; have + Posesivo + head in the clouds .
Example: She all too often gets lost in conversation and although her feet are on the ground, her head is in the clouds. Example: She was tall, portly while she was gangly, supportive while she tended to be domineering, sober while she loved her drink, and rooted in the earth while she often had her head in the clouds.» tener la moral por las nubes = be on cloud nine .
Example: The author hypothesized that schizophrenia patients would show impaired idiom processing for literally plausible idioms (e.g., kick the bucket) but not for literally implausible idioms (e.g., be on cloud nine).» una nube de = a haze of ; a cloud of ; a swarm of .
Example: The next generation should not have to spend so much of its intellectual life in a haze of continual discussion of code. Example: Digerati is the digital version of literati and refers to a vague cloud of people seen to be knowledgeable, hip, or otherwise in-the-know in regards to the digital revolution. Example: This paper reassesses the views of Margaret Edwards who published 'The fair garden and the swarm of beasts,' a guide to young adult services, in 1969.» vivir en las nubes = be in cloud cuckoo land ; live in + cloud cuckoo land ; live in + a dream world ; be out in left field .
Example: There are always those, who, if they cannot see any immediate relationship between what is being taught and the present state of practice, declare that the schools of librarianship are 'in cloud cuckoo land' or some other improbable location. Example: He argued that those who believe the status quo is the best way forward for sustainable development were living in cloud cuckoo land. Example: Don't ever change that -- the ones that live in a dream world are the ones that ended making this world better. Example: At times she's quite rational, but at other times she's out in left field.nube2 = marshmallow.
Example: Marshmallows are by no means a health food, but the marshmallow root from which they're made is one of the healthiest substances for your gut.