Vacilar in english
Hesitate
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
In gestures
vacilar = shake ; waver ; falter ; vacillate ; hang back ; oscillate ; baulk [balk, -USA] ; wobble ; dilly-dally ; shilly-shally ; dither ; think + twice ; give it + a second thought ; miss + a beat ; skip + a beat ; teeter ; showboat ; stutter ; go back and forth (over).
Example: This attitude had to go and by the 1830s it was shaking.Example: The first decision in establishing headings for the works of corporate bodies is the one over which code makers have wavered.Example: The project faltered because the data became increasingly difficult to input and manipulate.Example: Australia's treatment of information technology has vacillated between laissez faire and an interventionist strategy.Example: This article explores the implications of these threats, maintaining that publishers cannot afford to hang back, but must innovate or atrophy.Example: This dichotomy in Muslim history, which has oscillated between periods of piousness & decadence, demonstrates further disunity in the Muslim world.Example: While many scholars concede that military interventions are sometimes permissible, they balk when it comes to deciding whether they are ever a moral duty.Example: This adaptation of David Leavitt's novel wobbles between comedy and melodrama, ultimately fudging the novel's spiky empathy.Example: When it comes to volcanoes, there's no time to dilly-dally.Example: Their faces show the stern resolve and strength of people who have no time to shilly-shally.Example: The Executive Board has been dithering over the control of the search for the next executive director = The Executive Board has been dithering over the control of the search for the next executive director.Example: I would urge you most sincerely and strongly to think twice or three times before putting your shelflist into an undeveloped system.Example: If I had known it would be like this I might have given it a second thought.Example: The implementation was a very smooth process, we did not miss any orders -- our business did not miss a beat.Example: It looked like he didn't skip a beat, kind of stepped in there and looked like he had been in there for a month.Example: Other data from observations and interviews suggest that this seemingly effective local management system may be beginning to teeter.Example: There's no way they'll pass up the opportunity to indulge their penchant for showboating.Example: The latest financial data now shows that the UK's economic recovery is starting to stutter.Example: Both Republican presidential hopefuls are going back and forth over what they think about immigration.more:
» sin vacilar = unswervingly ; unhesitatingly .
Example: He is unswervingly candid about his failures, and his book is wryly engaging, although its objectives are disappointingly unclear. Example: In other cases, these groups unhesitatingly side with the United States and, in effect, become more royalist than the king.» vacilar entre... y/o... = hover between... and/or... .
Example: Goethe too hovers between the ideas of acquiring knowledge by proceeding from the whole to the parts or vice versa.