Paja in english
Straw
pronunciation: strɔ part of speech: noun
pronunciation: strɔ part of speech: noun
In gestures
paja1 = straw ; chaff ; hay.
Example: The situation was probably similar in Britain, except that very little straw pulp was used, and a considerable amount of esparto.Example: Large research libraries play an active role, if often unrecognized, in shaping the direction of scholarship through their decisions about what is important to preserve for posterity and what is chaff to be discarded.Example: These are animal sculptures created from natural materials, e.g., hay, moss and peat.more:
» alimentado con paja = hay-fed .
Example: The E. coli of hay-fed cattle are acid-sensitive and are easily killed by gastric juice.» alpaca de paja = straw bale .
Example: The book discusses the use of straw bales as a building material.» cartón hecho de paja = strawboard .
Example: The typical yellow-back of the mid nineteenth century was a cheap edition of fiction in small crown octavo, retailing a 2 shillings, and its case was made of glazed coloured paper on strawboard.» hacer un tejado de paja = thatch + a roof .
Example: A conical roof is easiest to thatch because the thatcher simply starts at the bottom and goes around until he has circled the entire structure.» hombre de paja = straw man ; straw figure ; frontman .
Example: This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down. Example: The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it. Example: By the time he made his shameless UN appearance, Powell had already spent almost four decades as a frontman for some of the most vicious and ugly elements in American politics and government.» rellenar de paja = pad out .
Example: There were 900-920 pages of text, containing 150,000200,000 words, padded out with wide margins, and extravagant chapter divisions.» separar el grano de la paja = divide into + Adjetivo + sheep and + Adjetivo + goats ; sort the + Adjetivo + sheep from the + Adjetivo + goats ; separate + the wheat from the chaff [Separa lo bueno de lo malo] ; sort out + the wheat from the chaff [Separa lo bueno de lo malo] ; sift + the wheat from the chaff .
Example: An interesting outcome from this research has been that instead of dividing the collection of documents into relevant sheep and irrelevant goats, we rank every document, from 'most relevant' to 'least relevant'. Example: Instead of ranking the documents retrieved in probable order of relevance, the conventional search sorts the relevant sheep from the irrelevant goats and ignores the fact that there are a lot of 'maybe's' involved. Example: Special multimedia search engines such as used on CNN and Sony may be better at separating the wheat from the chaff. Example: The article is entitled 'Sorting out the wheat from the chaff: take a look at the multimedia features of seven Web-wide search services'. Example: The article is entitled 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff'.» sombrero de paja = straw hat ; boater ; straw boater .
Example: The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses. Example: Monet has painted an ethereal figure, draped in a flowing white dress, wearing a boater with a long scarf fluttering behind her. Example: Straw boaters, scarce since the war, are now once more part of the uniform for boys at many schools in Sydney.» techador de tejados de paja = thatcher .
Example: A conical roof is easiest to thatch because the thatcher simply starts at the bottom and goes around until he has circled the entire structure.» tejado de paja = thatched roof ; thatch roof .
Example: The region is further characterized by centuries-old mansions and farm houses with thatched roofs. Example: Urban dwelling types are appearing in the rural environment; wood is replaced by brick and cement and thatch and shingle roofs are replaced by sheet iron.paja2 = wank ; hand job.
Example: Channel 4 has postponed transmission of its 'wank week' programming in a bid to avoid further controversy.Example: Hand jobs are better than blow jobs and deserve more recognition.more:
» hacerle una paja a un muerto = flog + a dead horse ; beat + a dead horse ; fart in(to) + the wind ; piss in(to) + the wind .
Example: When Harries refuted the view that Africans were 'helpless cogs in the wheels of capitalist industrialization,' he was flogging a dead horse. Example: Despite all the written and spoken words, and the charge that to even raise the issue now is to beat a dead horse, there are, regrettably, a host of continuing problems in the area of fairness of headings. Example: Loving people is like farting in the wind; you don't actually accomplish anything, but you feel better. Example: I'll listen to what you guys want to talk about, but it's just pissing in the wind.» hacerse una paja = wank ; jerk + Reflexivo + off ; jag off .
Example: Men that wank too hard, can experience difficulty having penetrative sex with women. Example: It all happened when he was jerking off in the train washroom and the ticket inspector knocked at the door. Example: The sex between then was awesome, a must see film, so unbelievable, just watching them go wild with lust, will make you want to jag off to the scene.» paja mental = mental masturbation ; mental aberration ; mental crap .
Example: Blogging, for me, is mostly brain spew, mental masturbation. Example: He makes his interlocutors wonder whether his violations of maxims are caused by mental aberration, rather than a conscious intent to disrupt verbal exchange. Example: Furthermore, we will demonstrate the consequences and the intended and unintended outcomes stemming from this tsunamic tide of mental crap.