Topado in english

Bumped

pronunciation: bʌmpt part of speech: verb
In gestures

topar = hit. 

Example: When I saw what he was up to, I drew back for a punch and hit him so hard on the nose that he fell on his back and lay there for some time, so that his wife stood over him and cried out 'Mercy! You've done my husband in!'.

more:

» topar con(tra) un murocome up against + a brick wallbe up against a brick wallhit + a (brick) wall .

Example: There are moments when someone feels that they have come up against a brick wall and they don't quite know where to turn next.

Example: Have you ever been in a situation in which you were up against a brick wall and felt there was absolutely no where to turn?.

Example: You ever have those moments when you are making great progress, and things seem to be coming together, and then suddenly you hit a wall and can't get anything else done?.

» toparse conmeet withcome acrossrun intobump intocross + Posesivo + pathcross + paths withrun acrosswalk intostumble acrosslight on/uponalight on/upon .

Example: 'I'll let you know if you're spending too much!' She said this firmly and yet endearingly, and met his eyes with her eyes.

Example: In a jumble of old papers I recently came across the photograph of a young man striding through a classroom door.

Example: If they were watching the nimble movements of a compositor as he gathered the types from the hundred and fifty-two boxes of his case, they would run into a ream of wetted paper weighted down with paving stones.

Example: The phone booth on the corner of my street is listing to one side as if a vehicle bumped into it, but it still works.

Example: Based on hundreds of interviews with Hollywood's power players, she weaves Eisner's story together with those who have crossed his path.

Example: Some of you old timers are likely stealing a smile as you read this, tinking that you were lucky not to have crossed paths with him.

Example: Months after I stopped taking the painkillers I ran across them under the sink.

Example: He is presented in the movie as a somewhat comical character, with a lumbering but pleasant clumsiness as he walks through doors and into furniture.

Example: I stumbled across it while zapping through the channels and it seemed like a 'real' documentary.

Example: After years of experimenting, he lighted upon Velcro, which was patented in 1952 and was directly inspired by the natural hooked design of the burdock seeds.

Example: About 1,000 years ago, Taoist monks in China alighted upon the recipe for gunpowder -- accidentally, it's believed.

» toparse con dificultadesrun up against + difficulties .

Example: Traditional logic-based approaches to legal expert systems run up against difficulties when dealing with conflicts about the rules themselves.

» toparse con un problemaencounter + a problemcome across + a problemmeet with + a problem .

Example: The problems that might be encountered in using chain indexing with DC can be grouped into three categories.

Example: If when you are working you come across a problem which perplexes you, you should write to someone in the field who may be able to help you.

Example: These are circumstances in which natural language indexing meets with many problems.
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