casualidad
accident ; chance ; fluke ; randomness ; fortuity.
Entries are created merely according to the accident of the appearance of words in titles.
In some authority files (titles, ISBN/ISSN, national bibliographic record numbers), no search of the file is made because there is little chance of finding the new entry in the file.
This correlation between Blacks and low socio-economic status Whites is neither an artifact of methodology nor a sampling fluke.
New models have appeared that suggest that manaers need to accommodate the randomness found in complex organizations.
Luck also called fortuity is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a persons control.
da la casualidad
as it happens
As it happens, the way the Library of Congress automated the ISBD was different from the way we did it in Britain.
dar la casualidad que + Indicativo
chance to + Infinitivo
During a trip to Italy, he chanced to see a production of Cavalleria.
dar la casualidad que + Subjuntivo
happen to + Infinitivo
So far we have only provided for the user who happens to consult the A/Z subject index under the term 'Conservative'.
de casualidad
by accident
by a fluke
by chance
accidentally
by a stroke of (good) luck
by luck
Discoveries are sometimes made by accident; they are never made by the dismayed or disheartened = A veces los descubrimientos se hacen por casualidad y nunca por los abatidos o los desmotivados.
The study revealed that most of the deformities are caused by a fluke.
If, by chance, the newly entered item is identical to one already in the file, DOBIS/LIBIS ignores the new entry.
As has been suggested elsewhere in this book, it is axiomatic that regular backup copies of data disks be taken, in order to ensure that data are not accidentally lost.
The stream suddenly swept him away, and it was only by a stroke of luck that they found him.
Machiavelli insisted that the Prince be aware that he was Prince mostly by luck and his job was to never admit it.
dio la casualidad
as it happened
As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
encontrar por casualidad
come across
chance on/upon
stumble on(to)
stumble across
run across
In a jumble of old papers I recently came across the photograph of a young man striding through a classroom door.
He declared that he had chanced on the name while searching the map for a name that would sound appropriately southern Italian.
While trying to figure out ways to cut fat from my diet, I stumbled on a great basic nonfat salad dressing that is terrific all by itself.
I stumbled across it while zapping through the channels and it seemed like a 'real' documentary.
Months after I stopped taking the painkillers I ran across them under the sink.
ni por casualidad
never in a month of Sundays
The two stepsisters also wondered who the newcomer was, for never in a month of Sundays, would they ever have guessed that the beautiful girl was really poor Cinderella who talked to the cat!.
oír por casualidad [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio overheard]
overhear
As he recovers, he overhears a well-intentioned social worker murmuring soothingly about a juvenile facility, and contrives an escape.
por casualidad [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto] [Con sentido positivo o negativo dependiendo del contexto]
by chance
coincidentally
fortuitously
by accident
by happenstance
happen to + Infinitivo
chance to + Infinitivo
accidentally
by a fluke
by luck
by a stroke of (good) luck
as luck would have it
as fate would have it
perchance
If, by chance, the newly entered item is identical to one already in the file, DOBIS/LIBIS ignores the new entry.
Ironically, the latter proved to be the most vulnerable and acutely criticized of Panizzi's rules, as, coincidentally, are the corresponding AACR rules.
On one of them, fortuitously, there was a note entered by the cataloger which said, 'Usually published under the title American Scholar'.
Discoveries are sometimes made by accident; they are never made by the dismayed or disheartened = A veces los descubrimientos se hacen por casualidad y nunca por los abatidos o los desmotivados.
To date, the replacement of old technologies by new technologies has occurred largely by happenstance.
So far we have only provided for the user who happens to consult the A/Z subject index under the term 'Conservative'.
During a trip to Italy, he chanced to see a production of Cavalleria.
As has been suggested elsewhere in this book, it is axiomatic that regular backup copies of data disks be taken, in order to ensure that data are not accidentally lost.
The study revealed that most of the deformities are caused by a fluke.
Machiavelli insisted that the Prince be aware that he was Prince mostly by luck and his job was to never admit it.
The stream suddenly swept him away, and it was only by a stroke of luck that they found him.
Today seemed like any other day under the blue skies of the tradewinds until, as luck would have it, his paddle broke.
As fate would have it, I wasn't pregnant, but I would have accepted and loved this child with all my heart.
He who deliberately kills another without provocation, shall lose his life, unless he be able to prove his innocence of said crime; and if perchance he escape, let him never return.
por si casualidad
in the chance that
Just for the sake of curiosity (and in the chance that it might help someone else at some point), what was the solution you arrived at?.
