girar
deflect ; rotate ; turn ; whirl ; twist ; spin around ; revolve ; swing ; swing back ; wind ; swivel ; twirl ; gyrate ; spin ; wheel ; veer.
On deflecting one of these levers to the right he runs through the book before him, each page in turn being projected at a speed which just allows a recognizing glance at each.
The computer creates a series of entries by rotating the component terms with which it has been provided.
The brightness can be adjusted by turning the two knobs at the lower right of the screen.
Visitors would laugh at the workman's jerking and whirling with the mould, but that was where the skill lay.
The cheeks were braced from their tops to the ceiling, to prevent the press from twisting or shifting about in use.
With considerable reluctance, he spun his chair around and was about to return to his papers when Preston Huish put his head into the room.
This was the cylinder machine, which formed a web of paper not on an endless belt of woven wire but on a cylinder covered with wire mesh (looking like a large dandy roll) which revolved half-submerged in a vat of stuff.
The article has the title 'The pendulum swings to the right: censorship in the eighties'.
Matrix and mould were pivoted and were brought up to the nozzle of a metal pump for the moment of casting, and then swung back to eject the new-made letter.
Bring the kite down by slowly winding the kite string around a kite spool.
The light direction can be controlled by swivelling the reflector.
A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs, or neck.
The women dance, stamping their feet, clapping and chanting while some of them gyrate their hips suggestively in the centre of the circle.
In summary, the fluid in your ears still sloshing around causes you to feel dizzy when you stop spinning in one direction.
Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.
I called her to heel and she fell into step nicely, but after a few paces she veered left to go sniff something.
argumento + girar en torno a
argument + revolve around
The argument revolved (and still does revolve) around the sense in which the word 'control' is used.
cuestión + girar en torno a
question + revolve around
Industry questions usually revolve around either: what is this industry about; or what is the future of this industry.
discusión + girar en torno a
discussion + centre around
Discussion centred around the need for a single-source guide to collection management and electronic media.
girar -1-80 grados
move + 180 degrees
By focusing on the client, the library moves 180 degrees from the outdated approach to service.
girar al descubierto
overdraw
overdraft
Bank charges for going overdrawn or for bounced cheques are the equivalent of a charge for breach of contract, known as liquidated damages, and the courts can enforce payment.
So I ended up overdrafting several times - in the end, they were charging me 30 dollars each for overdrafts of less than ten dollars.
girar alrededor de
spin about
orbit
A disk is made up of a series of individual rigid disks, arranged one above another, and spinning about a vertical axis.
For some time past satellites have been orbiting the Earth and sending back images of it to ground stations.
girar bruscamente
swerve
Tomás Hernández drove cautiously in the torrential rain, trying not to swerve on the slick pavement of the turnpike.
girar en torno a
hinge on/upon
revolve around
circle around
It is important to recognise that citation indexing hinges upon the continuation of documents as separate units and the perpetuation of the practices of citing other words.
Ordinarily the training of staff revolves around specific library procedures, but the location and use of various reference tools are sometimes the subject of special tours and briefings.
The conversation on his final show circled around the supposed decline of the French language.
girar media vuelta
swing in + a half-circle
Drew Pope put down his pencil, pushed back in his chair, stretched his arms overhead, and swung in a half-circle so he could look out the window.
girar sobre un pivote
pivot
The method is to treat prepositions as points at which the phrases can be pivoted.
hacer girar
twiddle
twirl
Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek se quitó las gafas y las hacía girar al mismo tiempo que su supervisor le contaba el siguiente incidente.
A hula hoop is a toy hoop that is twirled around the waist, limbs, or neck.
mundo + girar en torno a
enterprise + revolve on
The central activity on which scientific enterprise revolves and is sustained is communication.
polémica + girar en torno a
controversy + revolve around
Many of the problems in children's reading, and much of the controversy over what should be stocked in children's libraries, revolve around the matter of choosing 'suitable' books for children of all ages.
problemas + girar en torno a
problems + turn on
problems + revolve around
Not unlike several other institutions of higher education today, private universities find themselves beset with an array of problems, most of which turn on two closely linked axes: student enrollment is declining and costs are rising.
Many of the problems in children's reading, and much of the controversy over what should be stocked in children's libraries, revolve around the matter of choosing 'suitable' books for children of all ages.
que hace girar la mirada
head-turning
This foxy girl has a wardrobe full of head-turning outfits and not a stitch of clothing to wear.
