Riña in english
Fight
pronunciation: faɪt part of speech: verb, noun
pronunciation: faɪt part of speech: verb, noun
In gestures
reñir = berate ; bicker ; quarrel ; niggle ; scold ; squabble ; tell + Nombe + off ; argue ; row ; have + a row ; tussle ; wrangle ; take + Nombre + to task.
Example: Unfortunately, many of the writers are simply berating the current situation, holding to rather ancient models of mass culture.Example: Chapter 4 presents solutions for when children fight, bicker, compete, namecall, and hit.Example: But, firstly, the big German banks quarrelled among themselves over the division of the spoils.Example: The House of Commons passed the week in niggling without result over a profusion of theoretical issues.Example: Deciding whether an unruly child has something wrong in his genes or is just full of beans may determine whether he's scolded or offered remedial education.Example: Let's not squabble about the fact that Bush actually eked out a razor-thin victory in the popular vote.Example: Teachers should tackle bad behaviour in class by praising their pupils instead of telling them off, according to research published today.Example: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.Example: A retired policeman died of a heart attack yesterday after rowing with two joggers for dropping litter.Example: If we have a row he sulks for days and I have to try everything to get him to be nice again.Example: My father and I used to tussle about my decision to become an actor.Example: But weeks after wrangling with her lender, Cauley filed for bankruptcy and gave up her home.Example: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.more:
» reñir con = tussle with .
Example: A combative prisoner had to be shot twice with a stun gun after he tussled with police trying to place him into a detention cell.» reñir por = tussle for .
Example: she put a gun to his head and after that they were tussling for the gun and after that all I heard was gun shots.» reñirse con = be at odds with .
Example: These activities may also be at odds with processes routinely applied across the board, such as lamination.» seguir riñiendo = wrangle on .
Example: It was all over bar the shouting, but they wrangled on until late afternoon.riña = fireworks ; donnybrook ; wrangle ; bickering ; squabble ; squabbling ; rumble ; spat ; quarrel ; affray ; dust-up ; fracas ; scrabble ; argument ; tiff ; fallout ; row ; ding-dong ; tussle ; wrangling ; bicker ; bust-up.
Example: 'You know, Tom, if I ever find another job -- and I'm already looking -- there will be some fireworks around here before I leave, I can guarantee you that!'.Example: Feaver mentioned that she and Claverhouse frequently engage in some real 'donnybrooks,' as she put it, which invariably include a lot of amicable bantering, whenever they discuss anything.Example: This is a history of The Old Librarian's Almanack (a pamphlet produced as a hoax in 1909) and of the literary wrangles which ensued from its publication.Example: Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.Example: One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.Example: The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.Example: It is common practice for gang members to make sure that the police are informed of an impending rumble.Example: It also includes a blow-by-blow account of spats between management and labor.Example: The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography = The following account of a quarrel which took place in about 1540 between Thomas Platter and Balthasar Ruch comes from Platter's autobiography.Example: The Public Order Act 1986 contains many of the more common public order offences such as riot, affray and threatening behaviour.Example: The annual global dust-up over whale hunting is about to kick off again.Example: There are, as I see it, approximately three positions one can take on the matter, each with its own adherents in the current fracas.Example: They got into a scrabble with him after he'd made a racial slur towards blacks in a hotel bar once.Example: We do not want to see young assistants at the counter getting involved in an argument.Example: She found himself in trouble after a tiff with photo journalists during the shoot of a film.Example: Two men who beat another to death in a fallout over a cannabis crop have been gaoled for life.Example: The rows over Britain's contributions to the Community budget and runaway spending on the the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which took up two thirds of the budget, were documented blow by blow in the press.Example: George keeps sizing up for a real ding-dong and then backing down because he doesn't really want to risk the consequences of an argument.Example: A nosy octopus nearly got away with a scuba diver's camera in an underwater tussle that lasted a few tense minutes.Example: Mrs. Ross testified that virtually every day Mr. Ross, during their wranglings, would tell her he was 'going to teach her a lesson'.Example: The other day when I flounced out of the living room after a bicker with my father, she ran after me and hugged me tightly.Example: The study found that one in four people has had a bust-up with someone living next door over car parking, loud music and pets.more:
» riña callejera = street fight .
Example: The number of people so seriously injured in street fights that they need hospital treatment has increased by almost half.» riña doméstica = domestic argument .
Example: Two men and a woman were hospitalized late Sunday after domestic argument led to multiple stabbings.» riña familiar = domestic argument .
Example: Two men and a woman were hospitalized late Sunday after domestic argument led to multiple stabbings.» tener una riña = have + a row .
Example: If we have a row he sulks for days and I have to try everything to get him to be nice again.