Retoque in english
Retouch
pronunciation: ritaʊtʃ part of speech: verb
pronunciation: ritaʊtʃ part of speech: verb
In gestures
retocar = tinker (about/around) with ; upgrade ; retrofit ; twiddle ; fuss with ; tweak ; sex up ; muck around/about ; fiddle with ; fudge ; tinker around + the edges ; neaten (up).
Example: Johnson's corrected proofs for the first edition of the 'Prefaces to the poets' show him skimming the text, tinkering with the accidentals but not revising them systematically.Example: Sometimes it will be necessary to upgrade CIP records once the book is published, and this process is undertaken by BLBSD as appropriate.Example: This model is attractive both for 'retrofitting' existing software as well as providing flexibility to new systems.Example: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.Example: Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.Example: This book offers strategies for high school teachers that provide tools for creating, repairing, and tweaking all the discernible components of teaching.Example: Kelly reportedly said that top aides of Prime Minister Tony Blair had 'sexed up' intelligence reports to help justify an invasion of Iraq.Example: I have looked at the book and mucked around with the database and using switches but can't see a solution.Example: The writer bemoans record studios' tendency to chop up and fiddle with opera performances.Example: The author explains how scientific literature is written, refereed, edited, and published, and contends that the data it contains have often been fudged or stolen from others.Example: EU leaders are trying to raise the dead by taking the rejected constitution and tinkering around the edges.Example: Many people trim their cuticles to neaten the overall appearance of their fingers and hands.more:
» retocar con Photoshop = Photoshop .
Example: So many images of celebrities giving the middle finger have clearly been Photoshopped but this one, by gum, has not!.retoque = remanipulation ; tweaking ; tweak.
Example: Not much data beyond loan counts was available and re-keying and remanipulations were frequently needed to make the information useful.Example: The PCC intends that Program records, full or core, represent acceptable bibliographic control such that record 'tweaking' at the local level is minimized.Example: This system simultaneously searches the Web and a large, multidisciplinary, full text database, using a relevance system with some clever tweaks.more:
» dar los últimos retoques a = put + the finishing touches on .
Example: She had just put the finishing touches on a draft of a study of the possibilities of automating personnel records.» retoques = tinkering .
Example: The drawback to this is that sometimes tinkering can lead to unintended results.