Pedazo in english
Piece
pronunciation: pis part of speech: noun
pronunciation: pis part of speech: noun
In gestures
pedazo = chunk ; shred ; morsel ; hunk ; shard ; snip.
Example: So there is at least that big chunk of a file which is already a rather coherent catalog.Example: The article 'Shreds and patches: macrostatistics on libraries in the European Community' is a summary of the results of a study to compile economic and statistical data.Example: The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.Example: This is especially good if you cut a turkey breast in hunks and marinade overnight then grill.Example: A man bled to death when he was impaled on a large shard of glass after throwing his girlfriend through a shop window in a street row.Example: If you missed it, here was a snip of our live music last Thursday!.more:
» caerse a pedazos = fall to + pieces ; fall to + bits .
Example: One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details. Example: If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.» caerse en pedazos = fall to + bits ; fall to + pieces ; drop in(to) + pieces .
Example: If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits. Example: One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details. Example: Worse case ever, my phone slipped out of my hand and the case dropped into pieces flying in every direction of the store.» cayéndose a pedazos = disintegrating [Pincha en para ver otras palabras que comienzan con este prefijo] .
Example: For all Havana's crumbling structures, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalopies, it attracts over a million tourists each year.» cortar en pedazos = cut + Nombre + up ; cut + Nombre + in(to) pieces .
Example: They tortured her into revealing her Pin number and safe code before cutting her up and disposing of her in bin liners. Example: If you like the skin, cut it into pieces with kitchen shears and arrange it on the platter with the sliced meat.» deshacerse en pedazos = fall to + pieces ; fall to + bits .
Example: One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details. Example: If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits.» hacer pedazos = shatter ; smash + Nombre + to bits ; tear + Nombre + (in)to shreds ; rip + Nombre + to shreds ; smash + Nombre + to matchwood ; smash up ; tear + Nombre + apart ; break + Nombre + apart .
Example: Her feeling of well-being was soon rudely shattered. Example: In this caricature representation, the Jew is followed by the Jewess, who lays a huge Jew egg that the children of the village attack with gusto, smashing it to bits. Example: I can't get over how librarians tear their colleagues to shreds when they're together. Example: It detonated underwater and he was well away from the blast zone, and yet he was still ripped to shreds. Example: Boats were smashed to matchwood and the whole of the seafront was awash with shingle and broken glass. Example: A man who went berserk and smashed up his home with a sledgehammer has been arrested by police. Example: He is a stickler for detail and can tear apart a budget or a balance sheet faster than anyone. Example: It was the size of a truck and was breaking apart as it crashed down, throwing out little bits of hot shrapnel that zinged past me.» hacerse pedazos = fall to + pieces ; fall to + bits ; come to + pieces ; come apart .
Example: One must accept that it is impossible to satisfy all people all the time; this author has seen several prison librarians fall to pieces, while the librarian was drowning in details. Example: If you leave it there for a few months, your bike will rust, perish and fall to bits. Example: They are characters living in the margins, often coming to pieces, and sometimes, as in a nightmare, in constant flight from something horrid. Example: The ball joint came apart with only a few slogs with the club hammer and it all went back together like a dream.» hecho pedazos = smashed ; shattered ; ratty [rattier -comp., rattier -sup.] ; smashed-up .
Example: Her friend came out of work after 5:30pm and walked up to her car to find an old lady standing next to it and her car had a smashed window. Example: It is clear that it will take a considerable period to fully assess the damage and loss and even longer to begin to rebuild damaged infrastructure and shattered communities. Example: The two books were old and ratty, and he had got them for a song -- twenty bucks. Example: The result was that he ended up in trees with a smashed-up car!.» que no se rompe en mil pedazos = shatterproof .
Example: The article is entitled 'The Glass Ceiling in Social Work: Is It Shatterproof?'.» romper en pedazos = tear + Nombre + (in)to bits ; tear + Nombre + (in)to pieces ; tear + Nombre + up .
Example: According to a myth about the phases of the moon, the wicked god Seth plucked out the eye of Horus and tore it to bits = Según un mito sobre las fases lunares, el malvado dios Seth le arrancó el ojo a Horus y lo rompió en pedazos. Example: Fumbling inside my school bag, I pulled out a blank sheet of paper and started tearing it into pieces. Example: She went along with her family to Africa and on the way she wrote almost every day, but when they docked she tore the letters up.» ser un pedazo de pan = have + a heart of gold ; as good as gold .
Example: Though my old man's a dustman he's got a heart of gold. Example: It may look like junk, but to thieves scrap metal has become as good as gold.