paja-1
straw ; chaff ; hay.
The situation was probably similar in Britain, except that very little straw pulp was used, and a considerable amount of esparto.
Large research libraries play an active role, if often unrecognized, in shaping the direction of scholarship through their decisions about what is important to preserve for posterity and what is chaff to be discarded.
These are animal sculptures created from natural materials, e.g., hay, moss and peat.
alpaca de paja
straw bale
The book discusses the use of straw bales as a building material.
cartón hecho de paja
strawboard
The typical yellow-back of the mid nineteenth century was a cheap edition of fiction in small crown octavo, retailing a 2 shillings, and its case was made of glazed coloured paper on strawboard.
hombre de paja
straw man
straw figure
frontman
This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down.
The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.
By the time he made his shameless UN appearance, Powell had already spent almost four decades as a frontman for some of the most vicious and ugly elements in American politics and government.
ombrero de paja
straw boater
Straw boaters, scarce since the war, are now once more part of the uniform for boys at many schools in Sydney.
rellenar de paja
pad out
There were 900-920 pages of text, containing 150,000200,000 words, padded out with wide margins, and extravagant chapter divisions.
separar el grano de la paja [Separa lo bueno de lo malo] [Separa lo bueno de lo malo]
divide into + Adjetivo + sheep and + Adjetivo + goats
sort the + Adjetivo + sheep from the + Adjetivo + goats
separate + the wheat from the chaff
sort out + the wheat from the chaff
sift + the wheat from the chaff
An interesting outcome from this research has been that instead of dividing the collection of documents into relevant sheep and irrelevant goats, we rank every document, from 'most relevant' to 'least relevant'.
Instead of ranking the documents retrieved in probable order of relevance, the conventional search sorts the relevant sheep from the irrelevant goats and ignores the fact that there are a lot of 'maybe's' involved.
Special multimedia search engines such as used on CNN and Sony may be better at separating the wheat from the chaff.
The article is entitled 'Sorting out the wheat from the chaff: take a look at the multimedia features of seven Web-wide search services'.
The article is entitled 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff'.
sombrero de paja
straw hat
boater
The scythe, to me, conjures up a vision of warm summer days and lingering sunsets, straw hats, sackcloth and shire horses.
Monet has painted an ethereal figure, draped in a flowing white dress, wearing a boater with a long scarf fluttering behind her.
tejado de paja
thatched roof
thatch roof
The region is further characterized by centuries-old mansions and farm houses with thatched roofs.
Urban dwelling types are appearing in the rural environment; wood is replaced by brick and cement and thatch and shingle roofs are replaced by sheet iron.
