Plaga in english
Plague
pronunciation: pleɪg part of speech: noun
pronunciation: pleɪg part of speech: noun
In gestures
plaga = pest ; plague ; blight ; infestation ; pestilence ; endemic disease ; endemic illness ; scourge.
Example: For example, a rabbit is always a mammal of a particular species and sometimes a pest, a pet, or the basis of a stew.Example: Parish registers, wills and inventories will be analysed to discover as much information as possible on the migration of population, the effect of the plague, and the incidence of illegitimacy.Example: In Ohio State we've been trying to develop for the last fifteen years a grape that will still survive the grape blight that wiped out the vineyards in southern Ohio in the 1920s.Example: Accounts were given of various recent major and smaller disasters such as extreme weather conditions, power failures, explosions, civil disruption, mould, infestations and spontaneous combustion = Accounts were given of various recent major and smaller disasters such as extreme weather conditions, power failures, explosions, civil disruption, mould, infestations and spontaneous combustion.Example: Much of what lies before our eyes today like a tongue of fire -- animal pestilences and the poisoning of our foodstuffs -- was already announced many years ago.Example: Tuberculosis, the paradigmatic endemic disease of the nineteenth century, was a social disease and a social problem.Example: Some other sources highlight the implementation of measures to control the development of endemic illnesses, particular to the 19th century, namely, dysentery, diphtheria, smallpox, tuberculosis, leprosy, & yellow fever, among others.Example: Chastity belts were once the scourge of women -- locked into mechanical devices to allow their husbands or fathers to feel secure of their virtue.more:
» control de plagas = pest control .
Example: The article 'Nuke 'em! Library pest control' describes tests carried out to determine the effectiveness of microwaves (in the form of a domestic microwave oven) as a means of destroying insect pests in books and other library materials.» diez plagas, las = ten plagues, the [Evento descrito en la Biblia] .
Example: A brief selection of possible scientific explanations for a number of biblical miracles -- Noah's flood, the parting of the Red Sea, the burning bush, the ten plagues, manna from heaven, and the raising of Lazarus -- is provided.» plaga de hongos = fungal infestation .
Example: This paper discusses the means suggested by conservators and microbiologists to cope with the problem of fungal infestation in libraries and archives.plagar = litter ; plague ; besiege ; infest.
Example: There are plenty of omission failures of this sort, and they litter most of the Hennepin County Library Cataloging Bulletins.Example: Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.Example: Concurrently, libraries are besieged with greater demands from the academic community for access to and instruction in electronic information resources such as the Internet.Example: The wizard then cursed the underground shrine, infesting it with swarms of nasty vermin.more:
» el camino hacia + Nombre + está plagado de + Nombre = the road (to/towards) + Nombre + is paved with + Nombre .
Example: The road towards the electronic library is paved with challenges.» estar plagado de = be rife with ; be plagued with .
Example: Educational terminology is rife with concepts that are best described with pre-coordinated terms. Example: Contemporary library and information science discourse is plagued with tunnel vision and blind spots that seriously affect the profession's efforts to plan the library's future = La biblioteca contemporánea y el discurso de las ciencias de la información están plagados de visiones subjetivas y de puntos débiles que seriamente afectan a los esfuerzos de la profesión para planificar el futuro de la biblioteca.» plagar de errores = litter with + failure ; litter with + error .
Example: Only as his experience grew did this young man see that what he did was littered as much, if not more, with failure as it was crowned with success of a lasting kind. Example: Many errors in Watt's 'Bibliotheca Britannica' are repeated by Allibone -- and 'Bibliotheca Britannica' was littered with error!.» plagar de problemas = bedevil .
Example: The article has the title 'Piracy, crooked printers, inflation bedevil Russian publishing'.