faltar
lack ; be lacking ; be short of ; be unaccounted for.
I think that we have established a communication which we have lacked in the past.
The blame was not theirs that they were so lacking in gumption.
Libraries are ordinarily short of space for collections, staff, and readers = Libraries are ordinarily short of space for collections, staff, and readers.
A total of 234354 centenarians are unaccounted for across Japan despite still being registered as alive under the family registry.
al que no se puede dejar de faltar
unmissable
All these events make the conference an unmissable event.
aún falta lo mejor
the best is yet to come
As always appears to be the case, the best is yet to come.
contar los días que faltan
count down to
The article 'Keeping New Year's resolutions while counting down to the new millennium' discusses the following topics: self-discipline; losing weight; stopping smoking; starting an exercise programme; paying off bills; and meeting someone new.
contar los días que faltan para
count down + the days until/till/to
I now have a little over a week of hard training left and I'm counting down the days until fight night in Hamburg.
empezar a faltar
be in short supply
be at a premium
It is often precisely the talents in SLIS, recognized as being in short supply, which are most attractive to other departments.
Mini-abstracts are particularly important where currency is paramount or abstracting time is at a premium.
faltar a clase
play + hooky
skip + class
play + truant
bunk off
bunk + classes
skive
bunk + school
She admitted to having been the ringleader of the girls who played hooky.
Some students, whose motivation is not too strong, resist the temptation to skip classes if they know that they will be examined at the end of the course.
They were like two peas in a pod but the only problem was that they did not like school and often played truant.
Kids are bunking off school with their parent's permission, according to a new report.
Bunking classes might soon become a thing of the past in schools across the city thanks to radio frequency identification (RFID).
He sat on walls, with the others when they skived school, swigging the very cheapest, tartest cider straight from two-litre bottles.
Poverty means they are more likely to bunk school, enter crime and die younger.
faltar al respeto [Derivado del verbo disrespect]
disrespect
diss
Imagine if it was your house and people were disrespecting you, cursing, urinating and fornicating on your lawn.
And she has the gall to diss a Nobel Prize winner who isn't even in the academic world.
faltar a una clase
miss + class
cut + class
miss + lesson
miss + lecture
Two types of truants exist: those who miss or cut classes and those who miss full days.
Two types of truants exist: those who miss or cut classes and those who miss full days.
They are there to study and knuckle down to academic work, not get drunk, be sick, miss lessons/lectures, and generally be a tax/soap dodger.
They are there to study and knuckle down to academic work, not get drunk, be sick, miss lessons/lectures, and generally be a tax/soap dodger.
faltar a una promesa
go back on + Posesivo + promise
Obama will take a negative hit for appearing to go back on his promise to leave Iraq.
faltar de
be absent (from)
Consideration of information issues was absent from most courses studied.
faltar el canto de un duro para
by the skin of + Posesivo + teeth
come + very close to
The middle class holds on by the skin of its teeth, saved from a real downward slide only by record increases in the number of dual-income families.
A new hypothesis about recent human evolution suggests that we came very close to extinction because of a 'volcanic winter' that occurred 71000 years ago.
faltar el respeto [Derivado del verbo disrespect]
disrespect
diss
Imagine if it was your house and people were disrespecting you, cursing, urinating and fornicating on your lawn.
And she has the gall to diss a Nobel Prize winner who isn't even in the academic world.
faltar mucho
be a long way off
This pie in the sky solution is a long way off and I am doubtful that it will really solve the problem of tieing individual records into the authority file.
faltar mucho (para)
there + be + a long way to go (before)
have + (still) a long way to go (before)
However, there is a long way to go before such a system can be implemented.
The point being that these systems are very much in their infancy and have a long way to go before they reach the comparable sophistication of space probes and reusable rocketry.
faltar poco (para)
have + a short way to go (before)
We have only a short way to go but this is the most important last step.
faltar un poco
be some way off
Online fiction may be still some way off achieving a market.
faltar un tornillo
be soft in the head
One of the curses of being a well-known science-fiction writer is that unsophisticated people assume you to be soft in the head.
faltar un tornillo, tener serrín en la cabeza, estar tocado de la cabeza, es
be soft in the head
One of the curses of being a well-known science-fiction writer is that unsophisticated people assume you to be soft in the head.
faltar versatilidad
be a one-trip pony
He accused her of being a one-trip pony only suited to one type of song and that to be the an all-round singer you need to be diverse.
no faltaba más
by all means
Let's by all means do our share, but we have to give the other ignorant person who uses the term Hottentot a chance to find out its meaning.
no faltar el respeto
be civil towards
Judging from the history of warfare and skirmish between the British and the French, I am surprised you are so civil towards each other.
no faltaría más
by all means
Let's by all means do our share, but we have to give the other ignorant person who uses the term Hottentot a chance to find out its meaning.
para que no falte
for good measure
This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
para que no falte de nada
for good measure
This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
para que no vaya a faltar
for good measure
This is an interesting little town wholly populated by poseurs and backpackers with a few salty sea dogs thrown in for good measure.
parte que falta
missing part
The first is dry leafcasting, (a method to fill in missing parts with fibres by suction removal of dust and impregnation with a thermoplastic).
pieza clave que falta
missing piece
If, in addition, this new piece of information provides an important missing piece of the 'mental jigsaw' or helps to restructure it, we tend to attach greater value to it.
que faltan
wanting
The word 'wanting' when followed by details of parts of volumes of a publication in a catalogue entry indicates that those items are not possessed.
trabajo + no faltar
have + Posesivo + work cut out for + Pronombre
have + Posesivo + job cut out for + Pronombre
'Well, Laura, it looks as if you have your work cut out for you!' remarked Lachaise, a knowing smile spreading over her face.
Time for a change, but whoever gets in, will sure have their job cut out for them thanks to good old Bush.
