Tal in english

tal = such. 

Example: Preferential relationships generally indicate preferred terms or descriptors and distinguish such terms from non-descriptors or non-preferred terms.

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» aceptar las cosas (tal y) como vienen = go with + the current ; go with + the flow (of things) ; take + the good and bad ; take + the bad with the good ; roll with + the punches ; keep + Posesivo + chin up ; grin and bear it ; put on/up + a brave face [También se usa esta expresión colocando la partícula on al final put + a brave face on] ; put on/up + a brave front [También se usa esta expresión colocando la partícula on al final put + a brave front on] ; put on/up + a bold face [También se usa esta expresión colocando la partícula on al final put + a brave face on] ; keep + Posesivo + pecker up .

Example: Business owners need to understand the currents of the market and decide when it is good to go with the current and when it is better to head into the current.

Example: The author takes this case as a model to illustrate how academic libraries can go with the flow instead of being swept upstream.

Example: When she started to well up, Usher added fuel to the flames by saying, 'You have to be able to take the good and bad in this business'.

Example: Ya gotta take the bad with the good -- without pain joy wouldn't feel so good.

Example: Life doesn't always turn out how you plan, but I've realized that I need to just roll with the punches.

Example: She's kept her chin up as she nurses a new life into toddlerhood, and is now doing a lot better.

Example: She wanted to tell him to mind his own business, but since she was a bit indebted to him, she just had to grin and bear it.

Example: It's no secret that all Commonwealth Games sites are lagging behind schedule but the organisers are putting on a brave face.

Example: Outwardly she put on a brave front so as to give her children security.

Example: I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it.

Example: Honestly, I was so moved I nearly sent her a tenner, just to keep her pecker up.

» aceptar tal cual = take + Nombre + at face value ; accept + Nombre + at face value .

Example: Some librarians find it more comfortable to stifle their professional consciences and take the question at its face value, disregarding any suspicion they may feel that it is not what the enquirer really needs.

Example: Shareholders and industry watchers can find it difficult to see the true state of a company if they accept the accounts at face value.

» alejarse como si tal cosa = saunter away .

Example: Then, with a smile and a kiss, she rose up and sauntered away with her ferine friend in tow.

» a tal efecto = to this effect .

Example: If no copies are available in any library in the network, a message to this effect is displayed.

» a tales efectos = hereto .

Example: During the period relevant hereto defendant Hamas organized, planned and executed acts of violence and terrorism against Jewish civilians .

» como si tal cosa = be (as) right as rain ; unfazed ; just like that .

Example: Essentially this novel is about being right as rain for nearly a whole lifetime in a country full of light and sun, and tremendous goodwill.

Example: Polish Prime Minister said his country was unfazed by Russian threats to point missiles at a planned US missile shield site in Poland.

Example: All I have to say is nothing happens just like that overnight, it takes time and exhausting waiting.

» como tal = as such ; in this capacity ; qua .

Example: As such, indexing is the major activity supporting all aspects of information retrieval.

Example: The National Library of Australia is the only library in the country with a large collection of overseas documents and in this capacity holds exhibitions of these materials.

Example: Such a concept came as a great surprise to many information educators who rather dismissively regarded the information qua information field of activity as being too limited.

» con tal de que + Subjuntivo = provided (that) ; providing (that) .

Example: Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.

Example: Providing enough people are availabe via the system, then it will be used frequently.

» con tal de que = as long as .

Example: Quite frequently a user will be satisfied with a few items on a topic, as long as they are relevant, and meet other criteria such as language, date and level.

» con tal de que + Subjuntivo = provided (that) ; providing (that) .

Example: Computers are reliable, and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly.

Example: Providing enough people are availabe via the system, then it will be used frequently.

» copiar tal cual = lift + wholesale and unmodified ; lift out .

Example: The terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and unmodified into a thesaurus.

Example: They are one-sidedly ransacking his writings to 'cherry-pick' and string together whatever can possibly be lifted out and turned against him.

» de modo tal que = so much so that .

Example: The number of circuits which can be stored on a single chip has increased rapidly over the last few years, so much so that there are now a number of degrees of integration.

» de tal envergadura = such that ; of such magnitude .

Example: Nowadays, the quantity of new information being generated is such that no individual can hope to keep pace with even a small fraction of it.

Example: These difficulties are of such a magnitude that the use of law in international situations becomes non-efficient.

» de (tal) forma que = so that .

Example: This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.

» de tal forma que = in (such) a way that .

Example: The concepts are organised into facets, and the facets are arranged and applied in such a way that the general to special order is preserved.

» de tal forma que + ser/estar = in such form as to + be .

Example: They will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulation.

» de (tal) manera que = so that .

Example: This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.

» de tal manera que = in (such) a way that .

Example: The concepts are organised into facets, and the facets are arranged and applied in such a way that the general to special order is preserved.

» de tal modo que = in (such) a way that ; so .

Example: The concepts are organised into facets, and the facets are arranged and applied in such a way that the general to special order is preserved.

Example: Some library members are still reticent about using technological innovations such as microfiche readers so it may be only library staff who use the catalogue.

» de (tal) modo que = so that .

Example: This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.

» de tal modo que raya en lo ridículo = ridiculously .

Example: There exists a failure to recognize new topics, or a failure to recognize them until it's almost ridiculously too late, that is, after there has been abundant literary warrant for them.

» de tal modo que + Subjuntivo = in such a way as to + Infinitivo .

Example: Thus care in indexing is essential, and systems should be designed in such a way as to minimise the possibility of error.

» de tal naturaleza = such that .

Example: Nowadays, the quantity of new information being generated is such that no individual can hope to keep pace with even a small fraction of it.

» de tal palo tal astilla = a chip off the old block ; like father, like son .

Example: The article has the title 'Tomorrow's information worker -- new man or chip off the old block'.

Example: 'Like father, like son' is the favorite cliche of sons who 'have a conflict with authority' = "De tal palo, tal astilla" es la cita favorita de los hijos que "tienen un conflicto de autoridad".

» entrar como si tal = swan in ; waltz in .

Example: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have just swanned in and expected it all to be hunky-dory.

Example: My daughter just waltzed in and announced that she knows what she wants to be when she grows up: a CORONER!.

» fulano de tal = so-and-so .

Example: Well, if I'm told beforehand that so-and-so is not too bright, I might approach that person differently than I would if I hadn't been told anything.

» hasta tal grado que = so much so that .

Example: The number of circuits which can be stored on a single chip has increased rapidly over the last few years, so much so that there are now a number of degrees of integration.

» hasta tal punto + Adjetivo = such a + Nombre .

Example: Slake is such a dreamer that he bumps into lampposts.

» hasta tal punto que = to a point where .

Example: Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.

» irse como si tal = breeze off .

Example: I glared at her but she just swanned out of her car, slammed the door and breezed off with a smirk on her face.

» largarse como si tal a = swan off to .

Example: Cameron is under fire again for swanning off to Ibiza whilst the UK is supposedly facing a terror crisis.

» no existir como tal = there + be + no such thing as .

Example: It makes good sense to hire the person most qualified for a job, and there is no such thing as being 'overqualified' for reference work.

» que se precie (como tal) = worth + Posesivo + mettle ; self-respecting ; worth + Posesivo + salt .

Example: Of course, any composer who's worth his mettle will be able to work with just his trusted piano and his ears.

Example: Why any self-respecting female would wear this t-shirt is completely beyond me.

Example: Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

» salir como si tal = swan out ; waltz out .

Example: I glared at her but she just swanned out of her car, slammed the door and breezed off with a smirk on her face.

Example: Melina just waltzed out the door with Sebastian, and I don't think she's coming back.

» tal como = such as ; such + Nombre + as ; just as ; just like .

Example: Indicative abstracts abound in phrases such as 'is discussed' or 'has been surveyed', but do not record the outcome of the discussion or survey.

Example: The construction of the hypothesis should be limited to such considerations as whether the subject heading list is designed to serve the general public or the scientific community, the adult or the juvenile user.

Example: Anything to demonize the West is ok in their book, just as it was during the cold war.

Example: Just like wine connoisseurs there are beer connoisseurs too, and they're just as passionate!.

» tal como es = warts and all .

Example: This program tells the Haggard story -- warts and all -- from his humble beginnings growing up in a boxcar to his election to the Hall of Fame.

» tal como lo conocemos = as we know it .

Example: The music industry as we know it is slowly fading into oblivion.

» tal cual = unaltered ; uncritically ; unmodified ; unedited ; warts and all ; just as ; like that ; like this .

Example: The unaltered message remains in your list of messages unless you request that the changed message be saved.

Example: We must be cautions about accepting Ranganathan's fundamental categories uncritically.

Example: The terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and unmodified into a thesaurus.

Example: This bank of data represented a valuable source of unedited views about users' perceptions, thoughts and attitudes about libraries and electronic resources.

Example: This program tells the Haggard story -- warts and all -- from his humble beginnings growing up in a boxcar to his election to the Hall of Fame.

Example: Anything to demonize the West is ok in their book, just as it was during the cold war.

Example: I love movies like that -- where slowly, gradually, bit by bit, all the characters realize that the villain was really disastrously mendacious and criminal.

Example: And as small as Iowa as, I think something like this can have a far larger effect than you might realize if you live in a large industrial area.

» tal o cual = such and such .

Example: As Carlyle saw it, 'the grand use of any catalog is to tell you, in any intelligible way, that such and such books are in the library'.

» tal que = such that .

Example: Nowadays, the quantity of new information being generated is such that no individual can hope to keep pace with even a small fraction of it.

» tal vez = perhaps ; perchance .

Example: For our profession, what we call information science, we need the courage of our conviction that we can establish or perhaps re-establish our credibility as a profession = Para nuestra disciplina, lo que denominamos documentación, necesitamos la fuerza de la convicción de que podemos establecer o quizás restablecer nuestra credibilidad como profesión.

Example: He who deliberately kills another without provocation, shall lose his life, unless he be able to prove his innocence of said crime; and if perchance he escape, let him never return.

» tal y como aparece = as it/they stand(s) .

Example: An analysis of this class number, as it stands, would not reveal this concept in the chain and thus the specific subject would receive no A/Z index entry.

» tal y como es/son = as it/they stand(s) .

Example: An analysis of this class number, as it stands, would not reveal this concept in the chain and thus the specific subject would receive no A/Z index entry.

» tal y como + ser = in + Posesivo + true colours .

Example: That is life in its true colours.

» tal y cual = such and such .

Example: As Carlyle saw it, 'the grand use of any catalog is to tell you, in any intelligible way, that such and such books are in the library'.