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tether ; strap ; tie up ; lash ; truss ; rope.
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.
Microfilm is said to have been invented during the Franco-Prussian War, to send reduced diagrams of troop positions by strapping these to the legs of carrier pigeons.
Short wedges, or quoins, were then put in between the long wedges and the inside of the chase, loosely at first so that the string with which the pages were tied up could be unwound and removed.
Gather the eight garden stakes together teepee-style around the center stake and lash them in place securely with garden wire.
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His thighs and knees were then roped to the arm rests.
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tie (to)
Chain indexing is closely tied to the structure (but not necessarily the terminology) of the classification scheme.
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lash (up) to
The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.
atar con cadenas
chain
Some institutional libraries were chained (when the books were necessarily shelved fore-edge outwards), the chains being attached to a staple riveted to an edge of one of the boards.
atar con correa [Generalmente cuando se saca a los animales domésticos de paseo]
leash
I agree with you and i think your auntie was 100% wrong since the other dogs were leashed and her unleashed dog was the one that confronted them.
atar con traílla [Generalmente cuando se saca a los animales domésticos de paseo]
leash
I agree with you and i think your auntie was 100% wrong since the other dogs were leashed and her unleashed dog was the one that confronted them.
atar de pies y manos
hogtie
Four soldiers then carried him, hogtied, to the next processing station for interrogation and propped him in a kneeling position.
atar (los) cabos sueltos
tie up + all the loose ends
put two and two together
join + the dots
connect + the dots
The third act is of course the denouement, when everything is made clear, all the loose ends are tied up, and the curtain falls.
Although there's no evidence at all of a link between caffeine and cancer, we're putting two and two together and saying that caffeine can induce these changes.
For the first time I started to 'join the dots' about the grave implications for the planet and humanity of how modern food is produced.
Spurred by the most severe budget constraints in decades, governments have started to connect the dots and launched international cooperation initiatives to close some of that gap.
cerrar atando
tie + Nombre + shut
He was wearing a caplet that had a high, lacey collar and bows to tie it shut.
de atar
blithering
Never before have we seen such blithering incompetence.
estar loco de atar
be nuts
be crackers
Do you have to be nuts to be a genius?.
They're crackers if they think they have a chance to win.
imbécil de atar
blithering idiot
To be uncharacteristically succinct, he is a blithering idiot: I mean, really stupid.
loco de atar [En general se aplica a una persona activa que se ve afectado por la inactividad]
stark raving mad
raving mad
raving lunatic
stir-crazy
Since he wasn't stark raving mad as a result, but simply very relaxed, I decided I would try it when the opportunity arose.
It is said that if anybody remained there for a night, he would be found in the morning either dead, raving mad, or endowed with remarkable genius.
Since January of 2006 we have had to deal with the raving lunatics and suicidal madmen of the ruling party of Hamas.
The 'Undertaker' is a black comedy about a man trying to make a fortune by setting up a suicide bureau in a stir-crazy arctic town.
volver a atar
re-tie
Take the goose and untie the string around the parson's nose area and fill the cavity with onions and seasoning and re-tie the string.
