Opuesto in english
Opposite
pronunciation: ɑpəzət part of speech: adjective, noun
pronunciation: ɑpəzət part of speech: adjective, noun
In gestures
oponerse = oppose ; set against ; buck.
Example: A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant.Example: Classes of children can sometimes prove to be stubbornly set against having anything to do with book introductions, and it is better then to engage them in other activities rather than be doggedly determined to have one's own way and to go on in the face of their antagonism.Example: While some prostate cancers may be as meek as a lamb, others can buck like a bull.oponer
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» oponer resistencia = put up + resistance ; put up + a (good) fight .
Example: As it was me who did the washing-up I didn't put up too much resistence. Example: Americans are such suckers, being taken over by foreigners and their children and won't even put up a fight.» oponer resistencia a la autoridad = resist + arrest .
Example: A straight-A student suffered a ruptured testicle during a pat-down by Philadelphia police and was then charged with resisting arrest.» oponerse = oppose ; set against ; buck .
Example: A respondent is a candidate for a degree who, in an academic disputation, defends or opposes a thesis proposed by the praeses (q.v.); also called the defendant. Example: Classes of children can sometimes prove to be stubbornly set against having anything to do with book introductions, and it is better then to engage them in other activities rather than be doggedly determined to have one's own way and to go on in the face of their antagonism. Example: While some prostate cancers may be as meek as a lamb, others can buck like a bull.» oponerse a = be averse to ; combat [Pasado y Participio Presente: (UK) combatted/combated (USA) y (UK) combatting/combating (USA)] ; contravene ; resist ; be set against ; be contrary to ; be hostile to ; stand up to ; argue against ; go + head-to-head with ; be negatively disposed to ; object to ; stand in + opposition to ; run up against ; line up against ; hold + the line against ; be opposed to .
Example: Some respondents were not averse to describing IT merely as another bandwagon. Example: The faithful adherents of the ideology of the finding catalog were determined to combat the unwelcome intrusion of Panizzi's scheme before the Royal Commission. Example: Any mis-spellings, poor grammar and verbose phrasing and any other features that contravene good abstracting practice must be eliminated. Example: Abstracts are, it must be noted, covered by copyright provisions, and an author may resist direct copying of his abstract. Example: The difficulty for teachers is that they cannot just duck away when children, individually or corporately, are set against what is being asked of them. Example: This is a rather unexpected conclusion, and is of course contrary to most of what has been stated in this text; it is also contrary to the experience of large numbers of librarians, who have found that controlled vocabularies are helpful in practice. Example: Although he recognized the need for some forms of synthesis, Bliss was hostile to the idea of complete analysis and synthesis put forward by Ranganathan. Example: In their role as mediator between the scholar and the information system, academic librarians should stand up to, and challenge the censorship and suppression that takes place during academic controversy. Example: Some teachers argue against book clubs, claiming that they bring together only a certain kind of avid reader, the literary equivalent of the religiously effete and over-pious. Example: We went head-to-head with those that wanted a uniform look for the whole library Website! = Nos enfrentamos a aquellos que querían un aspecto uniforme en el diseño de todo el sitio web de la biblioteca. Example: The 2 remaining teachers -- the resisters -- were negatively disposed to the innovations and failed to implement them. Example: In one library, the director objected to the category heading 'Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender' = En una biblioteca, el director se opuso a que se utilizase la categoría "Gay, Lesbiana, Bisexual y Transexual". Example: Ideologies stand in opposition to scientific claims for truth. Example: Some of the information from the EEC Government in Brussels is provided off the record, which sometimes runs up against the UK Government's wall of secrecy. Example: The author examines claims by Microsoft's Bill Gates that networked computers have no future, and looks at the opposition lining up against him. Example: Crews were able to hold the line against two wind-whipped wildfires in Northern California. Example: First of all, I'm going to put on record that I am not really opposed to miscegenation, provided that it is born out of mutual respect and actual love.» oponerse a la autoridad = fight + authority .
Example: Your righteous indignation I can understand, and even sympathise, but getting stroppy and fighting authority will only exacerbate the situation.» persona que se opone a Algo = opponent .
Example: 'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.opuesto = antithetical ; conflicting ; contrary ; differing ; inverse ; opposing ; inimical ; argumentative ; opposite ; counterpoint ; competing ; opposed ; adversarial ; aversive ; contrasting ; averse ; reverse ; resistant ; refractory.
Example: Production quotas, I believe, are antithetical to careful, thoughtful cataloging.Example: As is the way with these things there were two conflicting criticisms levelled at the joint code.Example: Perhaps there has been a contrary reaction by British academic librarians to conserve their collections.Example: Different devices for the organisation of knowledge place differing emphasis on the relative importance of these two objectives.Example: Most relationships should be shown in both their direct and inverse forms.Example: When it is clear that material is biased or misrepresents a group, librarians should correct the situation, either by refusing the material or by giving equal representation to opposing points of view.Example: Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.Example: 'I don't know about that one,' Bogardus said, politely argumentative.Example: Cutter instructs that 'of two subjects exactly opposite choose one and refer from the other, e.g. 'Free Trade and Protection', 'Protection' See 'Free Trade and Protection''.Example: The point and counterpoint nature of the talks specifically concerned with AACR reflects the official roles the speakers have with respect to that draft.Example: This article identifies predominant worldview and competing schools of thought regarding the teaching of reference work.Example: Librarianship is faced with the problem of the reconciliation of opposed objectives -- the arrest of deterioration in books versus the idea that books are meant to be used, becoming ultimately worn with use.Example: The relationship between the author and editor is based on collaboration, but can also be adversarial at certain points.Example: In fact, weeding aversive staff tend to spend a lot more time complaining about having nothing on the shelves.Example: The author describes 2 contrasting Florida libraries on the Gulf of Mexico, how they serve and are served by the community.Example: The advantage of an acoustic pulse as the averse stimulus is discussed.Example: He creates a type of reverse orientalism peopled by sex-hungry 'dark-age femme fatales' and 'lusty young Barbarians reeking of ale'.Example: After a number of years in office, however, they became increasingly abrasive, remote, contemptuous of criticism, and resistant to any change that might reduce their authority.Example: However, these mushy words do little to reveal the refractory person uttering them.more:
» como algo opuesto a = as against .
Example: To the extent that headings are dictated by conformity to a pattern, as against the likely approach of the reader resting on psychological rather than logical grounds, the subject catalog will lose in effectiveness.» como opuesto a = as distinct from ; as opposed to .
Example: In the author approach there is a clear emphasis on document retrieval as distinct from information retrieval. Example: This command types the information immediately at the user's terminal, as opposed to the PRINT command generating offline prints which are subsequently mailed to the user.» continuar opuesto a = remain + unreconciled to .
Example: Clinton diehards remain unreconciled to Obama.» diametralmente opuesto a = diametrically opposed to ; diametrically opposite to .
Example: The library as an institution of learning stands diametrically opposed to censorship = La biblioteca como institución del saber está diametralmente opuesta a la censura. Example: It is also possible that the paper was written by a professional whose views are diametrically opposite to those of the abstractor.» diametralmente opuestos = worlds apart .
Example: International law & cyberspace are not worlds apart anymore.» en direcciones opuestas = in opposite directions .
Example: Every pumpkin plant has a main and a secondary vine that usually grow in opposite directions.» en la dirección opuesta = in the opposite direction .
Example: When toilets flush why do they flush in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere than the northern hemisphere?.» estar opuesto a = be opposed to ; be hostile to .
Example: First of all, I'm going to put on record that I am not really opposed to miscegenation, provided that it is born out of mutual respect and actual love. Example: Although he recognized the need for some forms of synthesis, Bliss was hostile to the idea of complete analysis and synthesis put forward by Ranganathan.» estar opuestos = be at odds .
Example: As they stand, these two theories of pictorial representation are neither in agreement nor at odds, but incommensurable.» grupo opuesto = opposing group .
Example: The police immediately came to interpose themselves between the two opposing groups, both of which were now vehemently shouting at each other and coming close to blows.» jugar en equipos opuestos = play against + each other .
Example: After all of those early years playing against each other, it's great to finally be on the same team.» lo opuesto = conversely .
Example: Thus material are classified and grouped first by language and conversely, for example, poetry is scattered according to language.» mirar en direcciones opuestas = face away from + each other ; face away from + one another .
Example: When Charles and Diana got married the Australian royal stamp had the couple facing away from each other, which caused much criticism. Example: Since the houses were designed to face away from one another, maintaining privacy has never been an issue.» mirar en dirección opuesta a = face away from .
Example: Instead she chose to kick start the show sitting down and facing away from her captive audience.» mundos opuestos = like oil and water .
Example: The two are like oil and water.» opiniones opuestas = contrasting opinions .
Example: The participants expressed contrasting opinions that seemed to transcend religious, ethnic, cultural and national boundaries.» opuesto a = versus (vs - abreviatura) ; antagonistic to ; at odds with .
Example: I believe that the emphasis on abuse of title entry in the name of speeding up cataloging is not the question of a title entry versus other entries, it is the question of simplification. Example: In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable. Example: Moreover, many soon found themselves ill at ease in a milieu so radically at odds with the traditional work ethic.» opuesto al negocio = anti-business .
Example: That such a hullabaloo can start from a passing remark made during an interview stems from the problem that the public expects the politics of the left to be anti-business.» opuesto, el = reverse, the [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo] .
Example: The final order on the shelves is the reverse of this, so that an order of increasing speciality is achieved.» opuesto, lo = converse, the [Expresión generalmente acompañada del artículo] .
Example: The converse of a subordinate subject is a superordinate subject.» página opuesta = facing page [Página opuesta a la que se está leyendo, normalmente la página derecha o impar] .
Example: The countries are represented by letter codes that can be found in the corresponding table on the facing page.» polos opuestos = polar types ; worlds apart ; like oil and water ; like chalk and cheese ; like apples and oranges .
Example: The typical sociological use of polar types, dichotomies and contrasted opposites is useful up to a point, but requires further analysis if it is not to mislead. Example: International law & cyberspace are not worlds apart anymore. Example: The two are like oil and water. Example: In many ways they are like chalk and cheese to the point where I find myself even questioning how on earth their relationship works. Example: Observation and theory are generally like apples and oranges -- they don't interact.» reacciones opuestas = mixed reactions .
Example: This article describes the curved futuristic design of the new Cholla Library and the mixed public reactions to the building designed by the architect Will Bruder.» seguir opuesto a = remain + unreconciled to .
Example: Clinton diehards remain unreconciled to Obama.» sexo opuesto, el = opposite sex, the .
Example: It is plausible that hormones from one human fetus could masculinize or feminize an opposite-sex twin fetus.» tendencia opuesta = countertendency .
Example: There is also a countertendency to modify, replace, or avoid terms that are seen as overused.