Remate in english
pronunciation: ɑkʃən part of speech: noun
rematar = finish off ; top + Nombre + off ; bookend ; finish + Nombre + off ; round off ; polish + Nombre + off.
Example: His statement is a serious threat to the cooperative sector and was aimed at finishing off the movement.Example: Top it off with spicy yacamole and it's worth the nosh.Example: In a sense, the release of this new album has lifted a weight off his shoulders and bookended his first six years as a solo artist.Example: What his brother did was beyond evil, they should've finished him off with the death sentence.Example: Klaus Ring will round off the plenary sessions with a lecture entitled: 'Are Internet and Print Products Interchangeable Reading Media?' = Klaus Ring will round off the plenary sessions with a lecture entitled: 'Are Internet and Print Products Interchangeable Reading Media?'.Example: Martin cut it in half, and we polished it off before going to bed.more:
» para rematarlo = to top it all (off) ; to cap it all (off) ; to crown it all (off) ; to top things off .
Example: They never recieved the money order because the fucking mail lost it, and to top it all off my mom lost the tracking number so there was no way to find it. Example: To cap it all, when Crane became editor of the state library association magazine he appointed Hernandez production manager. Example: To crown it all, the text was printed in blue and light green, instead of plain black. Example: To top things off, we had to put one of our dogs down on November 10th.remate1 = punchline [punch line].
Example: Young kids like listening to these shaggy dog stories, but don't usually 'get it', while parents generally groan over the punch lines.more:
» de remate = certified ; blithering .
Example: She is a certified TV-addict -- you simply cannot talk to her when she's glued to the box. Example: Never before have we seen such blithering incompetence.» estar loco de remate = be a real nutter ; be off + Posesivo + head ; have + bats in the belfry ; be completely mad .
Example: He seems to be a real nutter rather than someone who becomes gradually ensnared by a cause that appears to have some appeal. Example: Clearly he is off his head and has no idea what he was talking about. Example: Being creatively inclined goes hand-in-hand with a predisposition for behaving as though you have bats in the belfry. Example: She stared at him as if he were completely mad.» idiota de remate = blithering idiot .
Example: To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.» loco de remate = barking mad ; certified madman ; stir-crazy [En general se aplica a una persona activa que se ve afectado por la inactividad] ; raving mad ; barking lunatic ; as nutty as a fruitcake .
Example: Well right now I am on the horns of a dilemma as the weather outside is so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey but I would be barking mad not to go home and get a good heavy coat for later this evening. Example: But it is a fact that since Marshall's time only a certified madman would resign the chief justiceship to become governor, let me say. Example: The 'Undertaker' is a black comedy about a man trying to make a fortune by setting up a suicide bureau in a stir-crazy arctic town. Example: It is said that if anybody remained there for a night, he would be found in the morning either dead, raving mad, or endowed with remarkable genius. Example: That lead me to wonder whether American consumers had simply, collectively turned into a bunch of barking lunatics. Example: We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.» para remate = to cap it all (off) ; to crown it all (off) ; to top it all (off) ; to top things off .
Example: To cap it all, when Crane became editor of the state library association magazine he appointed Hernandez production manager. Example: To crown it all, the text was printed in blue and light green, instead of plain black. Example: They never recieved the money order because the fucking mail lost it, and to top it all off my mom lost the tracking number so there was no way to find it. Example: To top things off, we had to put one of our dogs down on November 10th.» remate de muro = coping ; copestone ; coping stone ; capstone .
Example: According to their tradition, a crow on the coping of the house wall denotes that a relation is coming on a visit = De acuerdo con su tradición, un cuervo en el remate del muro de la casa indica que un familiar se presentará de visita. Example: The exterior of the armory will be chiefly of brick with copestones topping the walls. Example: Many parapet walls are finished with a coping stone. Example: The joints between the capstones must be waterproof or must be equipped with a system which will prevent the water from penetrating the joints.» remate de una letra = serif [En tipografía, trazo decorativo de las astas de algunas letras] .
Example: It was a hybrid letter, with the bracketed, inclined serifs of the old face combined with the vertical stress and sharp regularity of modern.» remate en plancha = diving header .
Example: Players famed for their diving headers are fearless when diving in amongst flying boots to poach a goal in the six-yard box.» remate final = the final/last nail in + Posesivo + coffin ; clearance sale .
Example: The final nail in her coffin was when somehow during the interview she mentioned being a single mom. Example: Instead of keeping such items in our warehouse collecting dust, we are placing them here for a clearance sale at significantly marked-down prices.» remate modulado = sloped serif .
Example: The baroque designers retained the sloped and bracketed serifs that derived from obliquely-stressed pen forms.» remate uniforme = unbracketed serif .
Example: Didot's first neo-classic type did not show marked contrast, but later developments of the form, by Didot himself and by Bodoni in Italy, resulted by 1800 in faces of great contrast combined with vertical stress and unbracketed, hairline serifs.» tonto de remate = as daft as a brush ; as thick as two (short) planks ; prize idiot ; knucklehead .
Example: His colleagues would say he's as daft as a brush, has bags of energy and enthusiasm but gets the job done. Example: Ashdown, for example, is an out'and'out Nazi, while Menzies'Campbell, who is supposed to be their expert on foreign affairs, is as thick as two planks. Example: Everyone has natural apprehension about doing something new since you' re never sure if you're going to end up looking a prize idiot. Example: It takes more courage to say no and stand up for what's right and is best for them, than it does to cave in to knuckleheads like you two.» volver loco de remate = make + Nopmbre + stir-crazy .
Example: After returning from Europe, Elizabeth worked an office job that made her stir-crazy.» volverse loco de remate = go + stir-crazy .
Example: Anyone have ideas on things you'll be doing not to go stir-crazy during maternity leave?.remate2 = overhang ; kern.
Example: Alternatively vowels could be cast without accents as kerned letters, with bodies only half as wide as usual, part of the face being cast on the overhang, or kern.Example: Indeed, the Clarendon Press kept a Napier double platen machine at work until 1950 for the sake of its gentleness with the delicate kerns of Fell italic.