encender
switch on ; turn on ; be fired with ; light ; spark ; inflame ; ignite ; crank up ; fire ; kindle.
Some microfilm readers are less easy to manage (for example, to switch on, locate the appropriate frame) than others.
To use DOBIS/LIBIS, turn the terminal on and wait for it to warm up.
Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
She sat back in her chair, crossed her legs, lighted a cigarette, and smoked herself into a cloud.
The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
His works are among the few films that can inflame the emotions as easily today as they could when they were originally made.
Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
As the sun begins to move toward the horizon, you want to crank up the engine again and head back home.
Mearns, too, has warned against 'profligate expenditure of time and effort when the reference librarian's own curiosity is fired to a point where he feels himself impelled to seek personal satisfaction'.
Some people have the custom to begin reciting this prayer after kindling the first light, while kindling the other lights.
encender la chispa
kindle + spark
But to the person fortunate enough to possess the sacred fire of the art, his work is its own reward, and he blesses the men, living and dead, who kindled the spark within him.
encender la luz
turn + the light on
A third of the libraries in the sample plan to introduce sensors that detect motion and turn lights off and on when needed.
encender petardos
set off + firecrackers
Students who set off firecrackers in schools will get a beating in the schoolyard by their headmaster.
encenderse
light up
Toys are grouped into the following categories: (1) toys that light up or sing; (2) toys that catch your eye; (3) toys that shake, rattle, and roll; (4) switch toys; and (5) toys for the creative artist.
encender un cigarrillo
light up
Your exaggerated coughs and annoyed looks and the oh so dramatic flailing about of your hands and arms when he lights up drive him up a wall.
hacer que se encienda una luz
activate + light
The carrier containing both items is then fed into the rotating rollers of the thermal copier and as it proceeds through the machine it activates an infra-red light.
leña para encender el fuego
kindling
kindling wood
I like to leave a few logs and some kindling for the next campers so that they can have a fire the night they arrive.
Pine, cedar and spruce are best used as kindling wood because they tend to burn quickly.
