Rebuscado in english
Elaborate
pronunciation: ɪlæbrət part of speech: adjective, verb
pronunciation: ɪlæbrət part of speech: adjective, verb
In gestures
rebuscado = arcane ; recondite ; stilted ; far-fetched [farfetched].
Example: It is the breadth, not the depth, of librarians' knowledge that enables them quickly to provide a productive context for even the most apparently arcane questions.Example: This is an example of a source -- albeit in this case a highly recondite one -- which will assist with this type of enquiry.Example: His eccentricity was stilted and contrived.Example: If the situation arises in Britain as in the United States, where there is a proliferation of TV channels, and many local television stations, then it is perhaps not too far-fetched to imagine some of these transmitting either specialized or local teletext information.rebuscar = comb trough ; fumble through ; rummage (among/through) ; grub around ; root through ; forage ; comb ; root ; rifle through ; scrabble ; root around (for) ; rumple through.
Example: By contrast, in the 1962 BTI three entry headings, with one entry under each, and seven cross reference headings, have to be combed through to find reference from 'HYDROGEN Peroxide, Bleaching, Cotton' to its reverse.Example: Stanton drew a breath and went on, 'We'll accept equivalent experience in lieu of professional experience... Let me get the exact wording' -- she fumbled through some papers in a folder -- 'so long as it, ah! here it is, quote, is sufficient to indicate ability to do the job, unquote'.Example: But searching an Internet database through hot new technique such as Wide Area Information Servers is vastly different from using the BITNET protocols to rummage through files on one of its server computers.Example: They are often looking for a call number so that they can go into the stacks and grub around in the materials near that call number.Example: The library would send out squads of trained personnel to root through the piles looking for worthwhile items to be catalogued and shelved.Example: We both woke up bright and early to forage for food nearby, which was a breeze.Example: All barnacles are filter feeders -- extending feathery legs into the water at high tide to comb plankton from the water.Example: We let our 4 hens loose to root in the garden but I think it's not a good idea in the long run, as they would kill raspberries and other plants.Example: We could rifle through history and find many a world leader who has had a misty-eyed public moment.Example: Shrouded bodies lined the streets as dazed survivors scrabbled in the debris for loved ones.Example: Thieves do not like to root around for valuables, so they typically strike places where they know there are goods to be had.Example: After rumping through her clothes hamper, she found her favorite tank top -- solid black with lace around the hem.more:
» mendigo que rebusca en la basura = dumpster rat .
Example: Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.» rebuscar de arriba abajo = ransack .
Example: The two polling stations of the town were ransacked by people who drove electoral officials and prevented the vote.» rebuscar en = sift through .
Example: If the language consists primarily of relatively general terms, the searcher may have to sift through long lists of document citations.» rebuscar en la memoria = comb + Posesivo + memory .
Example: Stanhope frowned his incomprehension, and began to comb his memory for some clue as to what she was speaking of.» rebuscar en la oscuridad = scrabble in + the dark ; scramble in + the dark .
Example: I am scrabbling in the dark trying to understand the problems and any light shed on this matter would be appreciated. Example: A heavy storm sent a wall of water rushing down the river while most campers were sleeping, leaving them scrambling in the dark for safety .» rebuscar en la suciedad = scrabble in + the dirt .
Example: Children too exhausted even to wave the flies off their faces, and men and women in rags scrabbling in the dirt for grains of wheat.» rebuscar en(tre)/por = pick through .
Example: These are the recyclers, the workers who receive the garbage from the trucks, who pick through it and sort materials inside cavernous warehouses filled with rubbish-dust.» rebuscarse en el bolsillo = dig (deep) into + Posesivo + pocket ; dip into + Posesivo + pocket .
Example: With quivering fingers she dug into her pocket and withdrew a penlight. Example: She dipped into her pocket and came up with a medallion of some sort on a long chain.