Siniestra in english
Sinister
pronunciation: sɪnɪstɜr part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: sɪnɪstɜr part of speech: adjective
In gestures
siniestra = left hand.
Example: Entry words may be aligned in a centre column or in a left hand column.siniestro1 = disaster.
Example: This situation requires a very skilled information worker if total disaster is to be avoided.more:
» planificación contra siniestros = disaster planning ; disaster preparedness plan ; disaster preparedness planning .
Example: Document restoration is a single component of a wider approach to disaster planning. Example: As systems become more complex and expensive, it will be critical that every library should have a written disaster preparedness plan to preserve the library's collections. Example: The following issues included in the survey are discussed: Collection care and bindery issues; special collections preservation; and disaster preparedness planning.» preparación contra siniestros = disaster preparedness .
Example: As systems become more complex and expensive, it will be critical that every libraryshould have a written disaster preparedness plan to preserve the library's collections.» simulacro de siniestro = disaster exercise drill .
Example: This article describes a disaster exercise drill involving a broken ceiling and mud and water damage to books, designed to test response plans to salvage operations.» siniestro total = write-off [writeoff] ; total write-off ; total wreck ; written-off .
Example: This page contains information on how to deal with a claim if a vehicle is a write-off. Example: This helicopter crashed 4 days after this picture was taken and was a total write-off. Example: A bomber plane was a total wreck when it crash-landed today returning from a test flight = Un bombardero quedó siniestro total al realizar un atterrizaje de emergencia hoy cuando volvía de un vuelo de pruebas. Example: The gang used the vehicle numbers from written-off cars found in scrapyards in Belgium.» tener un siniestro = suffer + a disaster .
Example: When corporations suffer a disaster, they often fail to take forensic evidence at the scene of the accident and this can prove costly later on when details have been forgotten.siniestro2 = ominous ; sinister ; dark ; spooky ; spine-tingling ; portentous ; secretive.
Example: At first blush, nothing seemed particularly ominous about the formation of the ad hoc committee.Example: The selectman received this explanation in silence, but he fastened on the librarian a glance full of sinister meaning.Example: The novel is disturbingly dark, violent, and filled with iconoclasm, despair, and paranoia = The novel is disturbingly dark, violent, and filled with iconoclasm, despair, and paranoia.Example: Records are even being sold with terrifying sounds designed to create a 'spooky' atmosphere at home.Example: This is a spine-tingling collection of real haunted houses and spooky ghost stories.Example: Before me stretched the portentous menacing road of a new decade.Example: There is a tendency to be secretive about information, more prevalent in the UK and USA than in Japan, which is inimical to success.more:
» de un modo siniestro = spookily .
Example: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.» turismo siniestro = dark tourism .
Example: The place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years, Robben Island in South Africa, is one dark tourism destination.siniestro3
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» a diestro y siniestro = like there's no tomorrow ; like nobody's business .
Example: The way to live like there's no tomorrow is to basically love life and be as crazy as possible and take risks and chances. Example: Us blacks come from poverty, so when we get money, we spend it like nobody's business.» empezar a disparar a diestro y siniestro = go on + a shooting spree .
Example: A plumber who went on a shooting spree that left five people dead at a bar shot and killed himself when police surrounded his apartment and ordered him to surrender.» empezar a matar diestro y siniestro = go on + a killing spree .
Example: It is a very odd movie about an expectant mother who goes on a killing spree because her unborn baby is telling her to.» gastar dinero a diestro y siniestro = go on + a spending spree .
Example: During the nineties, perhaps in celebration of their seeming success in making loads of money in stocks, consumers went on a spending spree.» repartir a diestro y siniestro = dish out .
Example: One has only to turn on the television to see that educated people still have little influence on the trash dished out to the uneducated masses.