piedra
stone ; rock.
A manuscript is a writing made by hand (including musical scores), typescripts, and inscriptions on clay tablets, stone, etc.
The Museum's scientific research draws on unique fossil, rock and mineral collections.
algo grabado en piedra
tablet of stone
While the operating instructions must be regarded as authoritative, they should not be seen as sacrosanct tablets of stone.
a un tiro de piedra
just a shot away
within a stone's throw (away/from)
a stone's throw away
The song's lyrics paint a picture of social apocalypse - storm, fire, flood, war, rape, murder, all 'just a shot away'.
His childhood home is a squat little bungalow perched on a hill within a stone's throw from Jack London's cabin.
Though only a stone's throw away across the grand Atlantic, Europeans and Americans are as different as night and day.
banco de piedra
stone bench
Evan took a seat on the stone bench, eagerly folding his legs into the lotus position.
bloque de piedra
stone block
A famous gaolbreak there led to Henry VIII ordering re-enforcement of the floor with giant stone blocks.
cartón piedra
papier mâché
When appropriate, give the material(s) of which the object is made; e.g., 1 diorama (various pieces) : plywood and papier mâché.
con corazón de piedra
stony-hearted
In vain I walked from one end of London to the other, and trod the 'stony-hearted streets' from morning to night, day after day.
con (muchas) piedras
stony [stonier -comp., stoniest -sup.]
Nice hotel but no air con in restaurant and very stony beach.
corazón de piedra
stony heart
heart of stone
In fact, then as now, a publisher, to achieve success, needed charm, financial acumen, a knowledge of the future, a stony heart, and a very rich wife.
This is a film that that will melt hearts of stone, with its cast of scruffy urchins who learn both song and life lessons under the tutelage of a paternalistic mentor at a grim boarding school for 'difficult' boys .
de piedra
stone
flinty [flintier -comp., flintiest -sup.]
Selection, in this broad sense, is a stone adze in the hands of a cabinet maker.
'I wish she'd tell me when she asks one of my people to do something,' she added in the same flinty tone.
de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano
hit-and-run
But on the other hand, these electronic message boards can have a hit-and-run quality where vitriolic or off-topic comments are posted by contributors hidden in the safety of anonymity.
duro como una piedra
rock-hard
In this article we have discussed the most popular and efficient workout program to get rock-hard abs and gain muscle.
Edad de Piedra, la
Stone Age, the
Generally made from massive tree trunks, dugouts are known as the best prehistoric boats, which date back to the Stone Age.
en la edad de la piedra
in the dark ages
It would be highly desirable to have a phone sitting on top of the library catalogue (if your are still in the dark ages with a card catalogue that is).
grabado en piedra
carved in a tablet of stone
What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
grabar en piedra
engrave in + stone
In no sense are policies engraved in stone and unchangeable.
más duro que una piedra
as tough as nuts
as tough as nails
as tough as leather
as tough as old boots
as tough as shoe leather
Not only was he talented, but he was tough as nuts and rarely has anyone personified grit and determination more than he.
She was a tough-as-nails realist ready to see the dark side of things.
Moleskin is a wonderfully comfortable, tough and hard-wearing cotton fabric that is as tough as leather but as soft as velvet to the touch.
Ferns are as tough as old boots even if the top dies off there is plenty under the ground waiting for the warmer weather so they can erupt.
Chefs sometimes use the term 'shoemaker' as an insult, implying that the chef in question has made his food as tough as shoe leather.
más frío que una piedra
as cold as a stone
stone cold
I wanted to be free from my pathological father and cold as a stone mother.
Our order took forever to arrive and when it did there was something missing and what was served was stone cold.
más muerto que una piedra
stone dead
as dead as a stone
as dead as a doornail
I assumed she was stone dead when he told me she wasn't breathing.
And there is a world of difference between these and an artificial, plastic plant, which may look very real but is dead as a stone.
They found the poor dog as dead as a doornail, poisoned by the burglars.
más tieso que una piedra
stone dead
as dead as a stone
as dead as a doornail
I assumed she was stone dead when he told me she wasn't breathing.
And there is a world of difference between these and an artificial, plastic plant, which may look very real but is dead as a stone.
They found the poor dog as dead as a doornail, poisoned by the burglars.
mojón de piedras
cairn
Continue ahead and take the right-hand fork as the path splits to head up towards a cairn about a further hundred yards ahead.
muro de piedra
stone wall
masonry wall
There may be millions of fine thoughts, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form.
The perfect sealing of a masonry wall surface is almost impossible since fine cracks and joints will allow the passage of water into the wall.
piedra angular
cornerstone [corner-stone]
keystone
linchpin [lynchpin]
Abstracts are the cornerstone of secondary publications.
These, then, are keystones to labor relations today.
Staff are the organisation's communication gatekeepers, they are linchpins in the change process and determine the effectiveness of the communication process.
piedra arenisca
sandstone
These tombs are made out of grey sandstone which crumbles when outdoors over a hundred years.
piedra caliza
limestone
With the rain, the limestone rocks and stiles were very slippy and at least one of our party came a cropper.
piedra + charca + formar + ondas
stone + pond + cast + ripples
This rather large stone in the pond will cast quite widespread ripples.
piedra de afilar
sharpening stone
whetstone
Do not use sharpening stone on pinking shears.
Some whetstones have a coarse side and a fine side for more accurate sharpening.
piedra de amolar
sharpening stone
Do not use sharpening stone on pinking shears.
piedra de encendedor
lighter flint
Cerium is used in lighter flints because it will ignite in air when heated.
piedra de mechero
lighter flint
Cerium is used in lighter flints because it will ignite in air when heated.
piedra de moler
grinding stone
millstone
grindstone
He covered the roof with tiles, installed new waterwheels and grinding stones, and produced flour that was white as snow.
Granite millstones were quarried in Louisiana as early as 1810.
Grindstones were made of imported lava or basalt and were relatively expensive.
piedra de molino
grinding stone
millstone
grindstone
He covered the roof with tiles, installed new waterwheels and grinding stones, and produced flour that was white as snow.
Granite millstones were quarried in Louisiana as early as 1810.
Grindstones were made of imported lava or basalt and were relatively expensive.
piedra de toque
touchstone
The touchstone for professional practice are the professional codes of ethics that govern medicine in face-to-face relationships with patients.
piedra fisosofal, la
philosopher's stone, the
The philosopher's stone is a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold.
piedra litográfica [Piedra utilizada para imprimir en la litografía] [En impresión, piedra caliza sobre la que se dibuja la imagen que se ha de imprimir]
press stone
litho stone
lithographic stone
limestone
When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
The 1850s also saw the appearance of photolithography, whereby a chemical film spread on the surface of a litho stone or plate was rendered insoluble and water-repellent by exposure to light.
Lithographic stones are easy to prepare, they can give a very large number of impressions, and they can be resurfaced by polishing with an abrasive.
Porous Bavarian limestone was used as this absorbs grease and water equally.
piedra litográfica de color
colour stone
But for the most part chromolithographers combined the three-colour method with the superimposition of flat tones and used a larger number of colour stones than the basic three.
piedra miliar
milestone
On their way back the driver lost control over the wheel and the car dashed against a milestone and fell into the river.
piedra miliaria
milestone
On their way back the driver lost control over the wheel and the car dashed against a milestone and fell into the river.
piedra movediza nunca moho la cobija
a rolling stone gathers no moss
There's a saying that many people are familiar with that goes: 'A rolling stone gathers no moss'.
piedra pómez
pumice
pumice stone
The Romans mixed pumice with their cement to make it lighter when they made the dome of the Pantheon in Rome.
Using a pumice stone or an emery board can also help with removing hard skin but they don't work well for corns.
piedra preciosa [Figurilla tallada en piedra preciosa y usada como joya]
gem
cameo
precious stone
gemstone
For example, DIAMONDS could not be a NT under CUTTING TOOLS as well as under gems.
The article 'A passage to India: a bibliographical cameo' celebrates the bibliographical ties between the India and Britain.
Mineralogists analyze and classify minerals and precious stones according to their composition and structure.
In 1897 he quit a wretchedly underpaid job and set out to make his fortune as a prospector in the gemstone fields of Alice Springs.
piedra renal
kidney stone
The author examines the relationship between tea consumption and oral health, bone health, thermogenesis, cognitive function, and kidney stones.
piedra rojiza
brownstone
The library building is noteworthy for it use of granite and brownstone on the exterior.
piedra Roseta
Rosetta stone
In the narrow case, reductionist processes reveal a common underlying principle or process which can serve as a Rosetta stone.
piedra semipreciosa
semi-precious stone
Some of these exotic bindings were sometimes enriched with chased metal, semi-precious stones, or pasted-on pictures.
piedra volcánica
lava rock
It is an old legend that taking lava rocks from Hawaii results in being followed by bad luck.
quedarse de piedra
You could have pushed + Nombre + over with a feather
You could have pushed the young man over with a feather.
sacar agua de las piedras
get + water from a stone
Blood may be thicker than water, but you can't get water from a stone either.
sólido como una piedra
rock solid
The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.
tablilla de piedra
stone tablet
The library also collects old and rare books, rubbings from stone tablets, oracle bones and maps.
tan duro como la piedra
as hard as nails
From a distance she gives the impression of being as hard as nails.
tan duro como una piedra
as hard as nails
as tough as nuts
as tough as nails
as tough as leather
as tough as old boots
as tough as shoe leather
From a distance she gives the impression of being as hard as nails.
Not only was he talented, but he was tough as nuts and rarely has anyone personified grit and determination more than he.
She was a tough-as-nails realist ready to see the dark side of things.
Moleskin is a wonderfully comfortable, tough and hard-wearing cotton fabric that is as tough as leather but as soft as velvet to the touch.
Ferns are as tough as old boots even if the top dies off there is plenty under the ground waiting for the warmer weather so they can erupt.
Chefs sometimes use the term 'shoemaker' as an insult, implying that the chef in question has made his food as tough as shoe leather.
tan frío como una piedra
as cold as a stone
stone cold
I wanted to be free from my pathological father and cold as a stone mother.
Our order took forever to arrive and when it did there was something missing and what was served was stone cold.
tirar piedras contra tu propio tejado
cut + the branch + you sit on
cut off + Posesivo + nose to spite + Posesivo + face
It may sound as if the librarians and information professionales are about to cut the branch on which they sit, but progress aimed toward informational self-service cannot be stopped.
The article 'Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face' discusses the harmful results to British libraries of increasing fees for overseas library students.
tirarse piedras contra el propio tejado
shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot
In other words, we have become our worst enemy, continually shooting ourselves in the foot.
