Sobre in english

sobrar = be left over. 

Example: But what about the fact that twelve basketfuls of bread were left over -- already broken into bite-size pieces?.

sobre¹ = envelope ; sachet. 

Example: A jacket or sleeve is a protective envelope for a sound disc, made of cardboard or paper.Example: Piperazine usually comes in a sachet of powder, which you mix with a small amount of milk or water before drinking.

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» licencia en sobre hermético = shrink-wrap licence [shrinkwrap licence] [Licencia que generalmente viene con los programas de ordenador que entra en vigor al abrir el sobre que contiene los discos de instalación] ; shrink-wrapped licence [shrinkwrapped licence] .

Example: Software vendors have long used 'shrinkwrap licences' in connection with the sale of their software.

Example: The enforceability of a shrink wrapped licence has been challenged successfully in North America.

» poner la dirección en un sobre = address + an envelope .

Example: Illiteracy amounts to being unable to read the instructions on a medicine bottle, or to address an envelope, or to read a safety notice.

» sobre acolchado = jiffy bag .

Example: While no custom-made containers exist for shipping books, either in bulk or singly, general-use containers such as corrugated cardboard cartons and jiffy and bubble bags are available.

» sobre acolchado con burbujas de plástico = bubble bag .

Example: While no custom-made containers exist for shipping books, either in bulk or singly, general-use containers such as corrugated cardboard cartons and jiffy and bubble bags are available.

» sobre gustos no hay nada escrito = everyone to their (own) taste ; each (one) to their own (taste) ; to each his own ; different strokes for different folks ; each (one) to his own (taste) ; one man's ceiling is another man's floor .

Example: Like the flea said when he bit the elephant in the butt, 'everyone to his own taste'.

Example: But like Coleen says each to their own, you can always change your name or just get people to call you something else.

Example: To each his own -- everyone has a penchant for something: food, clothes, shoes, accessories, cars, photography and the list just goes on.

Example: 'Different strokes for different folks' is a good slogan, as long as we add that they need to also pursue mutual understanding = "Sobre gustos no hay nada escrito" es un buen eslogan, siempre y cuando le añadamos que debemos intentar entendernos mutuamente.

Example: I think that as far as achieving success and happiness, it should be each to his own.

Example: One man's ceiling is another man's floor, so there can be no one right way to evaluate the potential value of a Web page.

» sobre para el control del préstamo = slip holder pocket .

Example: On presenting his membership card, the librarian will draw up a 'slip holder pocket' containing the library registration number and the personal details of the borrower.

» sopa de sobre = instant soup ; packet soup .

Example: While dehydrated soup sales declined by over 8%, instant soup recorded growth of over 40% over the 1998-2002 period.

Example: Consumers of both tinned and packet soup are increasingly eating fresh soup too.

sobre² = about ; on ; surrounding ; the way in which. 

Example: His report contains sufficient information about a set of events and the people involved to allow for careful, systematic investigation.Example: Efforts are being made in the direction of an international consensus on the definition and treatment of corporate authorship.Example: This section, then, will review the basic problems surrounding the choice of form of headings for persons.Example: Recommendations relating to analytical cataloguing practices concern themselves primarily with the way in which the part of a document or work to be accessed is described.

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» sobre + Cantidad = around + Cantidad .

Example: This started in 1980, and has around forty members who receive some support to cover telephone charges.

» sobre el automóvil = automotive .

Example: This article describes the collection of Detroit Public Library, which is considered the world's largest public archive of automotive records = Este artículo describe la colección de la Biblioteca Pública de Detroit, que se considera el mayor archivo público del mundo de documentos sobre el automóvil.

» sobre ello = thereupon [thereon] [Generalmente colocado al final de la frase] .

Example: The inspector may enter, inspect and examine an amusement park and the amusement devices and structures contained thereupon.

» sobre el que se están haciendo averiguaciones = under investigation .

Example: The Pensions Act provides that the Pensions Ombudsman has power to hold oral hearings before ruling on a matter under investigation.

» sobre gustos no hay nada escrito = everyone to their (own) taste ; each (one) to their own (taste) ; to each his own ; different strokes for different folks ; each (one) to his own (taste) ; one man's ceiling is another man's floor .

Example: Like the flea said when he bit the elephant in the butt, 'everyone to his own taste'.

Example: But like Coleen says each to their own, you can always change your name or just get people to call you something else.

Example: To each his own -- everyone has a penchant for something: food, clothes, shoes, accessories, cars, photography and the list just goes on.

Example: 'Different strokes for different folks' is a good slogan, as long as we add that they need to also pursue mutual understanding = "Sobre gustos no hay nada escrito" es un buen eslogan, siempre y cuando le añadamos que debemos intentar entendernos mutuamente.

Example: I think that as far as achieving success and happiness, it should be each to his own.

Example: One man's ceiling is another man's floor, so there can be no one right way to evaluate the potential value of a Web page.

» sobre la comedia = comedic .

Example: In the year 2000, news and entertainment programs dedicated a great deal of comedic attention to the presidential election.

» sobre la faz de la tierra = on the surface of the earth .

Example: It is well known that corruption is systemic in Nigeria and that Nigeria is one of the most stinkingly corrupt countries on the surface of the earth.

» sobre la marcha = on-the-fly ; off the top of + Posesivo + head ; right off the bat ; spur-of-the-moment ; on the spur of the moment ; while-you-wait [while-u-wait] ; straight away [straightaway] ; as you go ; right away ; at once ; along the way ; as + Pronombre + go along .

Example: Command interpreters work in the same way as a simultaneous interpreter in a meeting, translating 'on-the-fly'.

Example: Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.

Example: I can't think of an exact example to give you right off the bat.

Example: According to their friends, the couple made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tie the knot during a holiday = Según sus amigos, la pareja tomó la decisión de casarse de improviso durante las vacaciones.

Example: The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.

Example: While-you-wait copying facilities are available in a number of reading rooms.

Example: When he arrived back at the media center, Anthony Datto whisked straight away into his glass-enclosed office, to the right of the entrance.

Example: Like, roaming the seven seas with a cutlass between your teeth, killing and stealing and raping as you go?.

Example: Forms that are required right away are printed immediately.

Example: You say that this A/Z index entry will direct him at once to the specific subject he is looking for.

Example: He began to privatize the functions of the agency, giving juicy contracts to large corporations along the way.

Example: Then she just kept at it, like a jazz improvisation, making it up as she went along.

» sobre los glaciares = glaciological .

Example: However, diaries and photos also show the efforts of all expedition members to fulfil Wegener's plans for a meteorological and glaciological profile of Greenland's entire inland ice cap.

» sobre museos = museum-based .

Example: This book explores the underlying institutional factors that help museum-based connoisseurship and aestheticism and university-based critical theory and revisionist scholarship exist.

» sobre ruedas = on wheels ; roll-out ; without a hitch ; without a glitch ; smoothly .

Example: Just a little bus on wheels but preschoolers get a head start.

Example: This paper features test reports on electronic typewriters and lateral roll-out file cabinets.

Example: Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.

Example: Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.

Example: DOBIS/LIBIS can take over much of the housekeeping work necessary for a smoothly functioning library = DOBIS/LIBIS puede encargarse de la mayor parte del trabajo de gestión administrativa para que la biblioteca funcione sin problemas.

» sobre todo = above all ; above everything else ; overwhelmingly ; in particular ; above all things ; nothing if not + Nombre .

Example: Above all, we specified an inviting and functional, rather than impressive, building.

Example: The province of bibliography is, above everything else, to relate all this to the text which it was the author's original intention to have written.

Example: Overwhelmingly, librarians were seen as professionals with a service function.

Example: In particular, most were constructed before the ideas of facet analysis were developed.

Example: Above all things, this film is one woman's passionate protest against the thoughtless abuse of the weak by the strong.

Example: If there's one thing that I've come to know about people is that we're nothing if not creatures of habit.

sobre³ = on top of ; onto ; over ; upon ; atop. 

Example: Cards are superimposed, one on top of another, and carefully aligned.Example: When one is in place, the depression of a lever causes it to be photographed onto the next blank space.Example: The conventional name of a government is the geographic name of the area over which the government has jurisdiction.Example: All love that has not friendship for its base is like a mansion built upon the sand.Example: In Paris, the liberty cap atop the pike became an important icon aimed against the fading tyranny of the ancien regime.

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» sobre ascuas = in suspense .

Example: The audience members will alternately find themselves roaring with laughter and sitting on the edge of their seats in suspense.

» sobre base de arena = sand-based .

Example: The university has a full-sized, sand-based, all-weather pitch that is flood lit for evening use.

» sobre disco = ondisc .

Example: Searches saved as disk files using DIALOGLINK can also be executed ondisc; however, searches saved online cannot be executed directly ondisc.

» sobre el papel = in intent ; nominally ; on paper .

Example: This movement is also encouraged in some Australian universities, in intent at least, if not in implementation.

Example: Librarians were concerned about the wastefulness of duplicating an already existing network of libraries which nominally, at least, aimed to provide a general information service to the public.

Example: On paper, most girls would name the boy-next-door as their ideal mate, although in the real world you're often passed over for more masculine men.

» sobre el terreno = on the ground .

Example: Some local authorities invite Commissioners to visit their area to see the extent of the problems on the ground and discuss possible Community approaches.

» sobre esta base = on this basis ; on that basis .

Example: On this basis innovative programmes would provide graduates with in-demand skills to complement the currently dominant model of technology-driven programmes.

Example: On that basis, consistency rose significantly, with 81% agreement among the three indexers = Como consecuencia, la coincidencia aumentó significativamente, obteniéndose una coincidencia del 81% entre los tres indizadores.

» sobre forro de tela = cloth-backed .

Example: A similar cloth-backed composition had been introduced a few years earlier for covering ink balls.

» sobre la base de = in relation to ; on the usual basis .

Example: It is easiest to discuss the criteria for effective schedules in relation to the treatment of specific subjects.

Example: The system has fairly low specificity, and topics are not included on the usual basis of literary warrant, but rather on the basis of organisational warrant.

» sobre la marcha = on-the-fly ; off the top of + Posesivo + head ; right off the bat ; spur-of-the-moment ; on the spur of the moment ; while-you-wait [while-u-wait] ; straight away [straightaway] ; as you go ; right away ; at once ; along the way ; as + Pronombre + go along .

Example: Command interpreters work in the same way as a simultaneous interpreter in a meeting, translating 'on-the-fly'.

Example: Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.

Example: I can't think of an exact example to give you right off the bat.

Example: According to their friends, the couple made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tie the knot during a holiday = Según sus amigos, la pareja tomó la decisión de casarse de improviso durante las vacaciones.

Example: The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.

Example: While-you-wait copying facilities are available in a number of reading rooms.

Example: When he arrived back at the media center, Anthony Datto whisked straight away into his glass-enclosed office, to the right of the entrance.

Example: Like, roaming the seven seas with a cutlass between your teeth, killing and stealing and raping as you go?.

Example: Forms that are required right away are printed immediately.

Example: You say that this A/Z index entry will direct him at once to the specific subject he is looking for.

Example: He began to privatize the functions of the agency, giving juicy contracts to large corporations along the way.

Example: Then she just kept at it, like a jazz improvisation, making it up as she went along.

» sobre la superficie = above ground .

Example: Because the fact is that even earlier in life Aremis Slake had often escaped into the subway when things got rough above ground.

» sobre la tierra = on earth ; on the face of the earth ; on the ground .

Example: There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Example: E-mail is without question the most powerful method of distributing information on the face of the earth.

Example: But bats also appeared to capture insects near and possibly on the ground and near or in vegetation, flew low over water to drink, and pursued each other in aerial dogfights.

» sobre ruedas = on wheels ; roll-out ; without a hitch ; without a glitch ; smoothly .

Example: Just a little bus on wheels but preschoolers get a head start.

Example: This paper features test reports on electronic typewriters and lateral roll-out file cabinets.

Example: Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.

Example: Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.

Example: DOBIS/LIBIS can take over much of the housekeeping work necessary for a smoothly functioning library = DOBIS/LIBIS puede encargarse de la mayor parte del trabajo de gestión administrativa para que la biblioteca funcione sin problemas.

» sobre suelo firme = on (a) firm footing ; on (a) sure footing .

Example: In order to deliver accurate fire on shore targets the amphibian tank must be stationary on a reef, or approach on smooth, firm footing.

Example: In both instances, we immediately advanced them the money they needed to get back on a sure footing.

» sobre todas las cosas = above all things .

Example: Above all things, this film is one woman's passionate protest against the thoughtless abuse of the weak by the strong.

» sobre todo = above all ; above everything else ; overwhelmingly ; in particular ; above all things ; nothing if not + Nombre .

Example: Above all, we specified an inviting and functional, rather than impressive, building.

Example: The province of bibliography is, above everything else, to relate all this to the text which it was the author's original intention to have written.

Example: Overwhelmingly, librarians were seen as professionals with a service function.

Example: In particular, most were constructed before the ideas of facet analysis were developed.

Example: Above all things, this film is one woman's passionate protest against the thoughtless abuse of the weak by the strong.

Example: If there's one thing that I've come to know about people is that we're nothing if not creatures of habit.

» sobre una base sólida = on (a) sure footing ; on (a) firm footing .

Example: In both instances, we immediately advanced them the money they needed to get back on a sure footing.

Example: In order to deliver accurate fire on shore targets the amphibian tank must be stationary on a reef, or approach on smooth, firm footing.

» Verbo + sobre todo = Verbo + the most .

Example: Large central research libraries want improved access or searching capabilities most, while multilocationed libraries (public, academic, or special) want remote catalog access the most.

» y sobre todo = and worst of all .

Example: Europeans noted with horror their habits of bathing frequently, derision of authoritarian structures, and worst of all, their 'petticoat governments'.