Tramo in english
Stretch
pronunciation: stretʃ part of speech: noun, verb
pronunciation: stretʃ part of speech: noun, verb
In gestures
tramar = be up to ; weave ; engineer ; plot ; scheme ; cook up ; concoct.
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!'.Example: You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' -- have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.Example: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.Example: The Moral Majority, a coalition of religious groups, is a collective name for a group of Americans who regularly plot the defeat of incumbent politicians who do not support their views.Example: This remake of William Castle's action adventure adds a genuinely supernatural plot to the old story of the duplicitous wife scheming to kill her husband but being one-upped by his even more ingenious counterplots.Example: He believes that most political brouhahas are cooked up to divert the public's attention from the real terrorism.Example: Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.more:
» andar tramando algo malo = be up to no good ; get up to + no good .
Example: His mom could always tell when he was up to no good -- it must have been that sixth sense mothers have. Example: It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.» estar tramando algo malo = be up to no good ; get up to + no good .
Example: His mom could always tell when he was up to no good -- it must have been that sixth sense mothers have. Example: It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.» estar tramando alguna barrabasada = be up to no good ; get up to + no good .
Example: His mom could always tell when he was up to no good -- it must have been that sixth sense mothers have. Example: It's a cartoon about a mischievous youngster who delights in playing pranks, being rotten to his relatives and generally getting up to no good.» tramar algo = be up to something .
Example: She's up to something, and he's clueless.» tramarse = go down .
Example: If anything is going down here it's woman-hatred, not man-hatred, a veritable war against women.» tramar una conspiración = hatch + a plot ; spin + a conspiracy .
Example: A number of Antiquaries feared that it was all a plot hatched by 'a few designing members' to line their own pockets. Example: He coveted his brother's power and so started to spin a conspiracy in order to assassinate him and take his place both on the throne and on the wedding thalamus.» tramar un complot = hatch + a plot .
Example: A number of Antiquaries feared that it was all a plot hatched by 'a few designing members' to line their own pockets.» tramar un plan = hatch + a plan ; devise + a plan ; craft + a plan ; concoct + a plan .
Example: It is the story of two henpecked husbands who hatch a plan to kill each other's wives. Example: As soon as the giant moved out of earshot, they gathered desperately to devise a plan. Example: But now, it seems the 15 months spent crafting a plan to lessen pilots' flying hours, thus reducing the dangers of pilot fatigue, are about to become a reality. Example: A tourist concocted a novel plan to get back home from his holiday in Malta after he ran out of money -- but it backfired.tramo = stretch ; tranche ; leg.
Example: The university buildings are grouped about stretches of greensward crisscrossed by paths and canopied by impressive trees.Example: The first tranche of NATO enlargement -- adding Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic next year -- will help stabilize an historically unstable region.Example: All these locations share a common inaccessibility with book exchanges completing the last leg of their journey by water.more:
» tramo de escaleras = flight of stairs .
Example: She put her empty cup in the dirty-dish cart, and mounted on the wings of a pure and ingenuous elation the long flight of stairs leading to the offices on the first floor.» último tramo, el = last leg, the .
Example: M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.» un tramo de = a stretch of .
Example: He was killed by a crocodile while snorkelling in a supposedly safe stretch of sea off the north coast.