Pala in english
Shovel
pronunciation: ʃʌvəl part of speech: noun
pronunciation: ʃʌvəl part of speech: noun
In gestures
pala = peel ; shovel ; spade.
Example: Another cook works the wood-burning oven, stoking it with almond wood, moving the coals to the back and taking the pizzas in and out with a long-handled peel.Example: In another area he found that the coal shovels being used weighed from 16 to 38 pounds.Example: Tree stumps of a small diameter can be removed relatively easily with a spade and/or preferably a mattock.more:
» pala de madera = wooden peel .
Example: Racks for this purpose were fixed below the ceiling of the warehouse or other drying room and doublings of one or two dozen sheets were lifted on to them two at a time with a wooden peel, a tool similar to the peel with which bakers used to load and unload their ovens = Con este propósito se colocaban estantes por debajo del techo del almacén u otro tipo de secadero y los paquetes de folios impresos a dos caras de una o dos docenas de hojas se ponían sobre ellos de dos en dos con una pala de madera, una herramienta similar a la pala que usaban los panaderos para llenar y vaciar sus hornos.» pala de quitar nieve = snow shovel .
Example: After the alligator snapped at one of them, the teenagers beat it to death with their snow shovels.» pala excavadora = excavator .
Example: This is the kind of excavator that is particularly suited to the work in a confined place.» pala para quitar nieve = snow shovel .
Example: After the alligator snapped at one of them, the teenagers beat it to death with their snow shovels.» quitar con pala = shovel .
Example: Can't you just see some indignant parent working his fine off shovelling snow from the library steps! = ¡Te imaginas a algún padre indignado quitando nieve con una pala de los escalones de la biblioteca para pagar la multa!.» tener dinero a punta pala = roll in + Dinero ; be filthy rich ; be loaded with money ; be made of money ; be rolling in money ; have + money to burn ; be stinking rich ; be loaded rich .
Example: The article is entitled 'Our other customers -- the super rich: they also read who roll in dough'. Example: If your main source of information is that magazine, you might think that everyone in Hollywood is filthy rich. Example: In other words, the guy's so loaded with money he doesn't even know what to do with it all. Example: The same applies to our farmers who also are finding times hard, despite many people thinking they are made of money and having it easy. Example: Saddam did not suffer from the sanctions, he was still rolling in money and politicians like Galloway profited from such sanctions. Example: Companies promoting 'weight loss breakthroughs' can spend six figures on commercials and still have money to burn. Example: Nicknamed 'Richie' by his friends, the 41-year-old is, well, stinking rich. Example: Yet, as far as monetary control, the white privileged people are loaded rich.