alcanzar
attain ; gain ; reach ; run to ; catch up with ; reach for ; hit ; come up.
A fully comparative account of recommendations for filing orders is likely to prove confusing until the reader has attained some familiarity with the general problems, and the solutions offered by one code.
To many, therefore, this emphasis on information can provide a much-needed opportunity to gain the public library new influence and respect.
This is in part due to the different stages of development reached by different libraries.
Obviously a book on the chemistry of mercury which runs to 200 pages will give less detail than one which runs to 600 pages.
The information centre is now catching up with the belief of its 1984 architect that it would be an electronic library.
She said that a man came in with a ski mask on but that she was able to scare him away when she reached for a baseball bat.
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!'.
The only negative thing I have is that the neck of the shirt comes up too high.
alcanzar a ver
glimpse
The shape of space: have cosmologists glimpsed signs that the universe is bounded?.
alcanzar + Cantidad
run into + Cantidad
Millions of abstracts are produced annually at a total cost that runs into millions of dollars.
alcanzar cifras récord
be at an all-time high
hit + an all-time high
reach + an all-time high
Used car prices are at or near all-time highs making this a great time to get rid of your unneeded vehicles for the best possible price.
Cotton prices hit an all-time high, edging toward $2 a pound on continuing concerns that demand could outpace supplies.
Fish consumption has reached an all-time high and more people than ever are employed in or depend on the fisheries sector.
alcanzar cotas más altas
raise to + greater heights
Data storage for microcomputers will be raised to greater heights by the development of the video disc, and particularly the digital optical disc, which can store up to 2 Gigabytes, or 2 thousand million characters.
alcanzar dimensiones épicas
reach + epic proportions
The environmental waste problem is now reaching epic proportions.
alcanzar el culmen de
reach + the pinnacle of
reach + the height of
This 'civilization' has reached the pinnacle of its development, because it has birthed the seeds of its own transformation.
Founded in 1546 after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
alcanzar el destino de Uno
reach + Posesivo + destination
With that in mind, both girls were all set to go to Mindoro but the circumstances made it extra difficult for them to reach their destination.
alcanzar el estrellato
rise to + stardom
reach + stardom
Instead, he rose to opera stardom and entranced stadium audiences with his singing voice rather than his soccer skills.
No wonder he has finally reached stardom that he has wanted for years.
alcanzar el límite de
reach + the limits of
In such situations we reach the limits of what are known as pre-coordinate systems, i.e. systems which are based on headings summarizing the content of documents in terms coordinated according to a citation order.
alcanzar el límite de + Posesivo + capacidad
stretch + Nombre + beyond the breaking point
stretch + Nombre + to breaking point
stretch + Nombre + to the limit
With every air-conditioner running at full blast, the city's creaky infrastructure is often stretched beyond the breaking point.
The diversity of cookbooks available in the USA today is stretching the market to breaking point and specialist retailers are feeling the pinch.
All agencies, it was found, were stretched to the limit, but by pooling resources these might be made to go further.
alcanzar el límite de + Posesivo + posibilidades
reach + the limits of + Posesivo + potential
The book reached the limits of its potential as an information carrier long ago and libraries unfortunately allowed themselves to become tethered by those limitations.
alcanzar el máximo
reach + a head
crest
Growing concern reached a head in the mid 1980s when a number of practitioners expressed the view that children's librarianship had lost its way.
Rivers in southern Minnesota are expected to crest lower than previously forecast within the next week.
alcanzar el momento cumbre
reach + summit
The reputation of this place reached its summit in the 18th century.
alcanzar el orgasmo
reach + a climax
In most cases, if you have a strong emotional bond with your partner, you will feel a sense of pleasure by helping your partner reach a climax.
alcanzar el poder
come to + power
rise to + power
The Tory modernisers were absolutely mesmerised by Blair; and yet they absolutely misunderstood the reasons why he came to power.
Nazi ideas and brutality were evident to all even at the time, as was the fact that they were rising to power.
alcanzar el punto crítico
come to + a head
The debate appears to have come to a head with the launch of two new titles on DVD.
alcanzar el punto culminante
climax
reach + a climax
When the market for shining victorias and handy runabouts was climaxed by the building of 'horseless carriages,' and tax benefits and lower wages lured mill owners south, thousands emigrated westward.
Carrefour is preparing for protests outside its stores to reach a climax on May 1.
alcanzar el punto de ebullición
reach + boiling point
Such a lengthy boiling period is necessary in order to ensure that all the water has reached boiling point.
alcanzar el punto más álgido [Llegar al punto más alto o al mejor momento]
peak
come into + full bloom
He reflected along the way on the conversation with the head of readers' services, and smiled when he concluded that Balzac's biorhythm chart must have been peaking at that very moment - or so he hoped.
Combined with acces to full texts of papers online in the near future, the navigational and retrieval capabilities of citation links will finally come into full bloom.
alcanzar el tope
crest
Rivers in southern Minnesota are expected to crest lower than previously forecast within the next week.
alcanzar el valor máximo
crest
Rivers in southern Minnesota are expected to crest lower than previously forecast within the next week.
alcanzar la cifra de
total
When Britain coolly marked, if not celebrated, the tenth anniversary of membership, the number of written enquiries totalled no more than twenty a week.
alcanzar la cumbre de
reach + the pinnacle of
reach + the height of
This 'civilization' has reached the pinnacle of its development, because it has birthed the seeds of its own transformation.
Founded in 1546 after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
alcanzar la cúspide de
reach + the pinnacle of
reach + the height of
This 'civilization' has reached the pinnacle of its development, because it has birthed the seeds of its own transformation.
Founded in 1546 after the discovery of a rich silver lode, Zacatecas reached the height of its prosperity in the 16th and 17th centuries.
alcanzar la fama
rise to + stardom
reach + stardom
make + a name for + Reflexivo
Instead, he rose to opera stardom and entranced stadium audiences with his singing voice rather than his soccer skills.
No wonder he has finally reached stardom that he has wanted for years.
He is another young gun looking to make a name for himself with the soccer fans.
alcanzar la madurez
come to + maturity
bring to + maturity
achieve + maturity
reach + maturity
It is not enough to train the rising generation to meet their new responsibilities, for irreversible decisions must be made before they come to maturity.
Music printing from movable type continued alongside plate printing, and was brought to maturity in the 1750s by J. G. I. Breitkopf.
Becker concludes, pessimistically, that the library has 'no role to play in solving the problem of how non-college youth are to achieve maturity'.
Even these sciences have their sceptics and it will be only when the science of information reaches a maturity of its own that one can use the name 'information technology' in any more than a loose way.
alcanzar la mayoría de edad
come of + age
The eighteenth century was the period when the novel came of age - the commonly agreed date is 1740.
alcanzar la plenitud
come to + full flower
It is a time when old rules give way to new and when expectations com to full flower.
alcanzar masa crítica
reach + critical mass
achieve + critical mass
The Web has reached critical mass, making the situation ripe for librarians to build the digital library.
One of the important part played by list moderators is planting 'seeds' in new discussion groups that have not yet achieved critical mass.
alcanzar mayores cotas
rise to + greater heights
Data storage for microcomputers will be raised to greater heights by the development of the video disc, and particularly the digital optical disc, which can store up to 2 Gigabytes, or 2 thousand million characters.
alcanzar niveles mínimos
reach + a low ebb
In the 1980s, because of several factors, including Israel's economic recession, immigration from Europe has reached a low ebb.
alcanzar popularidad
catch on
These new technologies are advancing rapidly in Japan and are likely to catch on quickly in other countries.
alcanzar por atrás
come up (from) behind
On March 14, while he was driving his car, two cars came up behind him and shot at him repeatedly - he died instantly at the scene.
alcanzar + Posesivo + apogeo [Llegar al punto más alto o al mejor momento]
peak
He reflected along the way on the conversation with the head of readers' services, and smiled when he concluded that Balzac's biorhythm chart must have been peaking at that very moment - or so he hoped.
alcanzar su auge
reach + Posesivo + height
reach + Posesivo + highest point
This mania reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
Ancient Greece reached its highest point of achievement in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C..
alcanzar + Posesivo + fin
reach + Posesivo + end
It is clear that a powerful and mysterious force is pushing seniors toward greater volunteer involvement, and nonprofit groups should tap into this particularly civic age group before the Indian summer of volunteering reaches its end.
alcanzar + Posesivo + mejor momento [Llegar al punto más alto o al mejor momento]
peak
He reflected along the way on the conversation with the head of readers' services, and smiled when he concluded that Balzac's biorhythm chart must have been peaking at that very moment - or so he hoped.
alcanzar + Posesivo + mejor momento demasiado pronto
peak + too early
I'm worried that Darryl may have peaked too early in his last match, but he seems to be in very good nick and is capable of holding off Webster.
alcanzar + Posesivo + punto álgido
reach + Posesivo + peak
reach + Posesivo + height
reach + Posesivo + highest point
After 20 years of development ATM installations are expected to reach their peak in the next decade.
This mania reached its height about the beginning of the present century.
Ancient Greece reached its highest point of achievement in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C..
alcanzar proporciones alarmantes
reach + alarming proportions
Trafficking in children in Southeast Asia for prostitution & pornography has reached alarming proportions.
alcanzar proporciones catastróficas
reach + catastrophic proportions
The rate of coastal land loss in Louisiana has reached catastrophic proportions.
alcanzar proporciones de crisis
grow to + crisis proportions
When advance thought and analysis are routine, problems are less likely to grow to crisis proportions.
alcanzar proporciones desmesuradas
reach + epic proportions
The environmental waste problem is now reaching epic proportions.
alcanzar proporciones épicas
reach + epic proportions
The environmental waste problem is now reaching epic proportions.
alcanzar proporciones exageradas
reach + epic proportions
The environmental waste problem is now reaching epic proportions.
alcanzar proporciones mundiales
reach + global proportions
Over the past decade concern over the destruction of the world's coastal rainforests has reached global proportions.
alcanzar tierra firme
come + ashore
Due to the effects of global warming, tens of thousands of walruses have come ashore in Alaska.
alcanzar una conclusión
reach + conclusion
arrive at + a conclusion
The reference librarian must always resist an impulse to be glib; he must scourge and throttle his vanity; he must reach a conclusion rather than begin with it.
She arrived at the conclusion that emphasis on prettiness is 1 of the criteria that accounts for exclusion of pictures of fat children.
alcanzar una cota
hit + high
Then a few weeks ago, we noted that he had shockingly changed his tune, right about the time that the market was hitting new highs.
alcanzar una coyuntura crítica
reach + a critical juncture
Priorities and direction for the Library Association have reached a critical juncture.
alcanzar un acuerdo
reach + agreement
reach + compromise
hammer out + agreement
Agreements have been reached with the National Library of Canada and the Biblothèque Nationale not only to use their records this way but also to redistribute them in an unaltered form.
The article 'Aloft at last!: 'Operating Agreement' gets off the ground as ALA and its divisions reach compromise' reports on the 108th Annual Conference of the American Library Association (ALA).
Trustees will have to consider the conditions of membership in online networks and, in some instances, may need to hammer out ground breaking agreements to govern operations.
alcanzar una decisión
arrive at + decision
The surest way to arrive at such a decision is to be guided by principles of helpful citation order.
alcanzar una meta
accomplish + a goal
achieve + goal
meet + Posesivo + goal
The astute leader will establish short- and long-range goals for the institution, develop specific objectives to accomplish those goals, and activities to meet the objectives.
Productivity, in the form of goals achieved in providing improved services and resources, will be the measurement of good library management and planning.
The author looks at computer networks and how they are affecting academic libraries' ability to meet their goals.
alcanzar una nueva cota
hit + a new high
The stock hit a new high on Monday after gapping up 7%.
alcanzar una solución
arrive at + a solution
Counselling requires much more time and in-depth probing, although it can at one extreme cover simply the act of lending a sympathetic ear to clients who, in externalizing their problems, may thus be better able to face them and arrive at a solution.
alcanzar un compromiso
reach + agreement
Agreements have been reached with the National Library of Canada and the Biblothèque Nationale not only to use their records this way but also to redistribute them in an unaltered form.
alcanzar un máximo histórico
be at an all-time high
hit + an all-time high
reach + an all-time high
Used car prices are at or near all-time highs making this a great time to get rid of your unneeded vehicles for the best possible price.
Cotton prices hit an all-time high, edging toward $2 a pound on continuing concerns that demand could outpace supplies.
Fish consumption has reached an all-time high and more people than ever are employed in or depend on the fisheries sector.
alcanzar un objetivo
attain + Posesivo + goal
This article tries to find out why non-governmental organisations (NGO) in Mauritius often do not succeed in attaining their goal.
alcanzar un precio
fetch + Dinero
One wonders what the students did with all those articles about investing in literary works and about the prices that authors' autographs fetched in auctions!.
ayudar a alcanzar + Posesivo + objetivo
further + Posesivo + goal
You will work side by side with local people, learn what challenges the community faces, and see how your work furthers their goals.
contribuir a alcanzar + Posesivo + objetivo
further + Posesivo + goal
You will work side by side with local people, learn what challenges the community faces, and see how your work furthers their goals.
hasta donde alcance
to the limits of
With ISI's CD Editions you can expand your searching power to the limits of your curiosity.
hasta donde alcanza la vista
as far as the eye can see
This region is blessed with scenic drives where the breathtaking color explosion in the fall and spring stretch as far as the eye can see.
intentar alcanzar
reach for
She said that a man came in with a ski mask on but that she was able to scare him away when she reached for a baseball bat.
no alcanzar a + Infinitivo (con mucho)
fall (far) short of + Gerundio
This, however, falls short of exploiting the full potential of the microcomputer to revolutionize the way in which business documents, memoranda, reports, etc. are produced and disseminated.
un medio para alcanzar un fin
a means to an end
In a business setting, technical documentation is not an end in itself but rather a means to an end.
