sin
without.
Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully.
abogado sin escrúpulos
shyster
When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
acatar sin rechistar
obey without + question(ing)
If you blindly obey without question, you run the risk of being responsible for what someone else decided you should do.
aceptar Algo sin rechistar
take + Nombre + lying down
The Archer administration may be a lame duck, but it's still not taking shots lying down.
acercarse sin ser visto
sidle up to
'Do you ever let anyone leave without inspecting their bags?' Carpozzi asked as she sidled up to the checker.
afable pero sin sinceridad
suave
Preston Huish smiled approvingly, expressed his thanks, and walked away with suave confidence.
agua sin gas
still water
In the first experiment, the children will observe the movement of a drop of food coloring in still water.
andar sin prisa
mosey
It's quite amusing to watch her mosey around in what appear to be over-sized clown shoes.
arreglárselas sin
live without
get along without
The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.
It is thus that the library makes itself almost impossible to get along without.
aunque sin ningún resultado
but (all) to no avail
I have tried a few different ways of helping him remember the difference but to no avail.
barato pero sin avergonzarse de ello
cheap and cheerful
The article 'cheap and cheerful: developments in the library's photocopying services' describes the changes recently made in the organisation of the photocopying services.
biblioteca sin muros
library without walls
The library without walls is not developing as fast as the technology.
biblioteca sin paredes
library without walls
The library without walls is not developing as fast as the technology.
bordado sin consido
needlepoint lace
Not uncommonly the user will need to see everything that is available, on for example, infant deaths, or Rhode Island Reds, or needlepoint lace, or miners' lamps.
callejón sin salida [Situación problemática de la que no hay salida]
blind alley
catch 22
cul-de-sac
dead end
impasse
It is of course possible to stamp 'Withdrawn' on the accessions card, but it would be better not to lead the reader up this blind alley if it can be avoided.
The catch 22 aspect of this attempt to reconcile the needs of research and nonresearch libraries is that our central cataloging agency, the Library of Congress (LC), does not provide dual cataloging copy.
If no such standards can be observed then, it would seem, romantic fiction along with westerns and detective stories must be regarded as some sort of cul-de-sac and rather stagnant backwater quite separate from the main stream of 'literature'.
Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end.
This apparent impasse between what we may want to communicate and the way we communicate is resolved by separating the content of information from its representation.
camino sin rumbo
the road to nowhere
The article 'On the fast track or the road to nowhere' points to the growing practice of subsuming public libraries into larger departments headed by non-librarians = El artículo "A la vanguardia o en un camino sin rumbo" pone de manifiesto la costumbre cada vez más frecuente de incluir las bibliotecas públicas dentro de órganismos más grandes dirigidos por personal no bibliotecario.
casi sin previo aviso
without much notice
Under most circumstances disasters happen quickly and without much notice.
coche sin caballos [Nombre dado a los primeros automóviles para diferenciarlos de los tirados por caballos] [Nombre dado a los primeros automóviles para diferenciarlos de los tirados por caballos]
horseless carriage automobile
horseless carriage
It is certainly a new technology in the same sense that the 'horseless carriage' automobile was a different technology from the horse and buggy.
When the market for shining victorias and handy runabouts was climaxed by the building of 'horseless carriages,' and tax benefits and lower wages lured mill owners south, thousands emigrated westward.
colocado sin escalón entre pieza y pieza
edge-flush
The following recommendations are made: select copying machines carefully (edge-flush platens are best; don't flex a book more than 180 degrees; educate patrons and staff to be gentle with books; and limit the number of pages copied from each volume.
continuar sin detenerse
go straight ahead
If this is the case, it may be possible to select a search term and display all the related terms, or go straight ahead and expand our search to include them = Si es así, puede ser posible seleccionar un término de búsqueda y mostrar todos los términos relacionados, o continuar y ampliar nuestra búsqueda de modo que los incluya.
conversación sin trascendencia
small-talk
During the nearly hour long interview the interviewing board and the candidate had roamed freely over an enormous range of topics, much of it in the vein of small-talk.
decir rápidamente sin parar
rattle off
It's easy to rattle off a list of standards to be supported, but another thing altogether to specify standards compliance in a way that discriminates between different vendor implementations.
dejar sin aliento
leave + Nombre + breathless
The identification of resources, the referral of colleagues and studnets, the reliance on the content have been so transfigured in the electronic world that it should leave the researchers breathless.
dejar sin cambiar
leave + unchanged
Normally the claim category assigned to the vendor is left unchanged, since it reflects the time that vendor requires to deliver documents.
dejar sin hacer
leave + undone
The curator, librarian or archivist should leave a repair undone rather than do something of which he/she is uncertain.
dejar sin referente a una referencia anafórica
dangle + anaphoric reference
Subsequently, work has been carried out on the twin problems of recognising anaphoric references, and constructing passages in which no anaphoric references are left dangling.
dejar sin tocar
leave + Nombre + alone
Like the bear who could take it or could leave it alone, we may find that if we lean over too far backwards we might as well fall flat on our face.
dejar sin trabajo
put + Nombre + out of work
I think I had rather see 5,000 filers than a machine put 5,000 people out of work.
demanda sin variaciones
inelastic demand
The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand.
demostrar sin lugar a dudas
prove + conclusively
As American industry has conclusively proven, the most direct way to cut costs is to debase the quality of the product.
demostrar sin ninguna duda
demonstrate + beyond any doubt
prove + beyond any doubt
prove + beyond all doubt
OCLC has demonstrated beyond any doubt that the computer can be successfully applied to traditional library problems with the most positive results.
Educational professionals have proven beyond doubt that intellectual and physical stimuli can vastly improve the quality of life of mentally handicapped adults.
It has been proved beyond all doubt that sharing books with babies is not only desirable but vital.
demostrar sin ningún género de duda
demonstrate + beyond (all) doubt
demonstrate + emphatically
demonstrate + beyond any doubt
prove + beyond any doubt
prove + beyond any doubt
The Parry Report has demonstrated beyond all doubt how critical to the functioning of a university, both as a seat of learning and a centre of research, an effective library is.
It's also important, as Ben-Ami Lipetz's catalog use study at Yale University emphatically demonstrated, to get that information distributed fast.
OCLC has demonstrated beyond any doubt that the computer can be successfully applied to traditional library problems with the most positive results.
Educational professionals have proven beyond doubt that intellectual and physical stimuli can vastly improve the quality of life of mentally handicapped adults.
Educational professionals have proven beyond doubt that intellectual and physical stimuli can vastly improve the quality of life of mentally handicapped adults.
desarrollarse sin problemas
go + smoothly
The interview went smoothly; the committee was impressed by her knowledge of the current library scene, her enthusiasm, and her engaging personality.
estar sin vivir
be worried sick
Of course, we are freaking worried sick of this merger so much so I can't even sleep well at night!.
evaluación sin intervención del examinador [Evaluación en la que el evaluador no interviene en el proceso durante la realización del mismo]
unobtrusive testing
Reports of unobtrusive testing in public reference libraries suggest that relative probability can be a long way from certainty.
hablando sin rodeos
crudely put
Crudely put, a computer is a device which can store large quantities of data (numeric or textual) and can manipulate that data in many ways and with great speed and accuracy.
hablar sin parar
burble on
It is when speakers have no feeling for pause that their speech seems to burble on without any arresting quality; the club bore is a burbler: he has not learnt the eloquence of silence.
hablar sin ser entendido
speak in + tongues
The following papers were presented: 'Speaking in tongues: erecting a professional Tower of Babel'.
hacerlo sin la ayuda de nadie
do it on + Posesivo + own
Unlike the nation's research libraries, which get what they need from LC, they must do it on their own, and it is very, very expensive.
homicidio sin premeditación
manslaughter
A ban was issued on the publication of information about the trial for manslaughter of Karla Homolka in order to ensure her estranged husband Paul Teale gets a fair trial.
ir a un Sitio sin prisa
mosey
It's quite amusing to watch her mosey around in what appear to be over-sized clown shoes.
lanzarse sin ton ni son
dive (in) + head-first
This article criticises the profession's readiness to dive head-first into the latest technology.
más largo que un día sin pan
as long as (my/your) arm
The waiting lists are closed and the existing list is as long as your arm.
medicamento sin receta médica
over-the-counter medicine
The library contains hundreds of articles about disease and illness, exercise, nutrition, lifestyle, and 7,500 prescription and over the counter medicines.
medicamentos sin receta médica
non-prescription medication
over-the-counter medication
One benefit of non-prescription medication for dogs is that it is readily available and no veterinary consultation is required.
Choosing an over-the-counter medication can be tricky, and many people are choosing the wrong ones for their symptoms.
método de la media sin ponderar
unweighted means method
This analysis is broadly confirmed by applying the unweighted means method, and also by the weighted means method for main effects.
nación sin estado
stateless nation
The term 'stateless nations' as used here is understood to mean those people who share a common heritage and distinctive culture and have a strong sense of national identity but are now subservient to other states.
noche sin poder dormir
sleepless night
'Sleepless nights redux' is a follow-up article to a presentation on book and serial acquisitions entitled 'Things that keep me awake at night'.
no hay dos sin tres [Comúnmente precedido del adjetivo good o bad]
things + come in threes
They say that good things come in threes - so it is no surprise that today's website update is three updates in one.
no importa lo + Adjetivo + que + Subjuntivo
no matter how + Adjetivo
howsoever
No matter how large the collection, the library is of little value if it is unable to retrieve the right documents as and when they are required.
Howsoever intelligent we may be, or wealthy, or experienced, we all make mistakes.
no miel sin hiel
no pain, no gain
no pain without gain
'The old adage 'no pain, no gain' should be less relevant as we age than when we're younger,' Lonner said = "El viejo dicho popular "quien algo quiere algo le cuesta" debería ser menos importante a medida que envejecemos que cuando somos más jóvenes", dijo Lonner .
Some people would call this madness, but David believes there is no gain without pain.
no sin fundamento
not without basis
Yet such suspicions are becoming more widespread, not without basis.
obedecer sin rechistar
obey without + question(ing)
If you blindly obey without question, you run the risk of being responsible for what someone else decided you should do.
oficina sin papel [Situación dentro de una organización en la que la información fluye de oficina a oficina por medio de una red de comunicaciones y en la que el papel como soporte documental apenas existe]
paperless office
The paperless office implies a distribution network based on a large central computer, within one particular organization.
papel sin acidez [Papel que ha sido tratado especialmente para que su grado de acidez, medido en valores pH, sea bajo pues ésta es una de las causas principales del deterioro del mismo]
acid-free paper
Acid-free paper is now available at a price which competes with acid paper.
pasar sin
live without
live without
The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.
The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.
pasar sin ser visto
sneak under + Posesivo + radar
go + unnoticed
'What I'm trying to get across is that chocolate is sneaking under the radar of unhealthy foods,' said the doctor from Airdrie Health Centre = "Lo que estoy tratando de hacer entender es que el chocolate pasa inadvertido como alimento poco saludable," dijo el médico del centro de salud Airdrie.
For some years this work went largely unnoticed in the West, until after the Second World War it was discovered by a new generation of librarians.
película sin fin
filmloop [film loop/film-loop]
Examples of types of specific material designation that would be described in the physical description area are: hand puppet, jigsaw puzzle, film loop, film reel, paperweight, stereograph reel, and so on.
permanecer sin cambios
remain + unchanged
The need to design the buildings so that books, readers and staff are interchangeable remains unchanged.
permanecer sin especificar
remain + undefined
If this information is to remain undefined, an 'n' can be entered, as when the order was placed.
pero sin conseguirlo
but no dice
We'd hoped to see it sometime in 2008, but no dice.
pero sin suerte
but no dice
We'd hoped to see it sometime in 2008, but no dice.
persona sin problemas de vista
sighted person
Newspapers have not been available to the blind except in shortened recorded versions, mostly received long after sighted persons get their newspapers.
personas sin hogar
homelessness
Government documents provide a source of information on homelessness.
personas sin techo
homelessness
Government documents provide a source of information on homelessness.
político sin escrúpulos
shyster
When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
pozo sin fondo
bottomless pit
Some view the library as a bottomless pit; all recognise that the library is unlikely to generate much political pressure for its own aggrandisement.
pregunta sin respuesta
unanswerable question
These unanswerable questions arise because it is impossible to forecast with complete accuracy the sale of any one book.
publicación sin papel [Situación dentro de la publicación en la que la producción y distribución de los documentos se hace por medio de redes de comunicaciones y en la que no existe el papel como soporte documental]
paperless publishing
This suggests the idea of 'paperless publishing' - the production of such items as scientific journals in machine-readable form and subsequent distribution via a computer network.
quedarse sin aliento
run out of + breath
Anyway, I want to try to run at least 3 miles without stopping and running out of breath.
quedarse sin espacio
run out of + space
Many university and state libraries are running out of space and research libraries have a serious conservation problem.
quedarse sin habla
stun into + speechlessness
All of us were stunned into speechlessness when we received the news of the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddhas.
quedarse sin negocio
go out of + business
Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.
quedarse sin palabras
stun into + speechlessness
All of us were stunned into speechlessness when we received the news of the destruction of the famous Bamiyan Buddhas.
quedarse sin sitio
run out of + space
Many university and state libraries are running out of space and research libraries have a serious conservation problem.
rechazar a Alguien sin más (explicaciones)
reject + Nombre + out of hand
In this instance, she worked successfully for years while taking her prescription medication, but they simply rejected her out of hand.
rechazar sin más
dismiss + out of hand
It is easy to sympathise with the critics but the contents cannot now be simply dismissed out of hand.
referencia anafórica sin referente
dangling anaphoric reference
The early workers concentrated on techniques for extracting informative sentences from documents, which resulted in abstracts which were highly disjointed, due especially to the presence of dangling anaphoric references.
rima sin sentido
nonsense
nonsense verse
Listening to stories, poems, nursery rhymes, nonsense, while occupied with a loved adult in a comforting activity, acclimatizes the infant to the rhythms of prose and poetry.
For the student of literature, the rediscovery of the pleasures of nursery rhyme, of folk and fairy tales, of nonsense verse and story leads in itself to a realization of their importance and function in our lives.
salir sin ser visto
slip out
The two deflated employees exchanged looks and slipped quietly out of the room.
sin abrir
unopened
By sheet-books he meant what most bibliographers now call a chapbook, that is a small pamphlet containing popular matter which comprised no more than a single sheet, which was sold generally folded into pamphlet form, but unopened.
sin abrirse
unfolded
A broadsheet is a separately published piece of paper, printed on one side only and intended to be read unfolded.
sin abrochar
undone
After he returned from the ousting, students were complaining that he was wearing the same baggy pants, minus boxers and with zipper undone.
sin acabar
unfinished
uncompleted
But clearly a book read and enjoyed is more likely to lead on to further reading than is a book unread or unfinished.
This guide is organised along the steps involved in buying uncompleted private residential properties from licensed housing developers.
sin acentuar
unaccented
unstressed
Another device was to make matrices for accented sorts with the punches already used for unaccented sorts: the letter punch was stepped on its shank so that one of several accent punches could be bound on to the step to make a combined punch.
Unstressed vowels cause spelling problems because they are difficult to hear and identify.
sin acompañamiento
unaccompanied
Never walk unaccompanied at night in poorly-lit streets or along deserted streets.
sin acompañante
unaccompanied
Never walk unaccompanied at night in poorly-lit streets or along deserted streets.
sin acontecimientos que destacar
uneventful
The resulting music shares several attributes with ambient music - its emphasis on texture and timbre, the absence of rhythm, and its adherence to the dictate that ambient music should be uneventful.
sin adornos
unadorned
unvarnished
Concrete illustrations are always better than unadorned abstract description.
He presents us with an unvarnished look at their fanaticism.
sin afectar
unaffected
No area of library operations would be unaffected - from the selection of materials to the hiring and termination of personnel.
sin afeitar
unshaven
Loud, unscripted quarrels between unshaven peasants break out in odd corners of the auditorium and add to the liveliness.
sin afeitar desde hace varios días
stubbly [stubblier -comp., stubbliest -sup.]
Do men find hairy legs more unattractive or stubbly legs more annoying on a woman?.
sin afiliación a un partido político
non-partisan [nonpartisan]
To support these ends, the public library must be readily accessible to all, its use must be free of charge, it must be non-partisan and non-sectarian.
sin afiliación religiosa
non-sectarian [nonsectarian]
To support these ends, the public library must be readily accessible to all, its use must be free of charge, it must be non-partisan and non-sectarian.
sin agallas
gutless
I am ashamed to live in a state with such gutless leaders as we appear to have in Augusta.
sin agua
waterless
This area is visited only by desert rats, biologists, military personnel, and those desperate people willing to walk across as much as 60 miles of waterless trail.
sin aguja
needleless
It's very simple and there is no baster involved, a needleless syringe does the trick.
sin ajustar
unadjusted
loosely hanging
baggy [baggier -comp., baggiest -sup.]
saggy [saggier -comp., saggiest -sup.]
loosely
The acid rain literature illustrated the 1st paradigm, where journals from the unadjusted literature were thrust forward in the adjusted literature, and no unadjusted journal fell into obscurity.
A nightgown (also called a nightdress) is a loosely hanging item of nightwear nowadays mostly for women.
After he returned from the outing, students were complaining that he was wearing the same baggy pants, minus boxers and with zipper undone.
The most overlooked secret to perfect skin is avoiding conditions that lead to wrinkling, age spots, saggy skin and in general all around skin damage.
Having crocked the pot, fill it loosely with the cutting mix, making a hole with the hand for the reception of the bulb.
sin alcohol
alcoholfree
On a Dutch forum a similar question was asked regarding alcoholfree beer.
sin aliento
breathlessly
breathless
out of breath
These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
The stories are told in the breathless voice of a gossip, full of juicy tidbits, and a shrewd understanding of what makes one life connect to another.
It's normal to feel out of breath when you're first starting to run.
sin alinear [Con el margen derecho alineado de modo que todas las líneas terminan en la misma posición]
unjustified
Every major survey of people with reading difficulties during the last 30 years has shown that poor readers perform better with an unjustified right hand margin.
sin alterar
unaltered
unmodified
The unaltered message remains in your list of messages unless you request that the changed message be saved.
The terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and unmodified into a thesaurus.
sin ambigüedad
unambiguous
Written in a telegram style, telegraphic abstracts stretch the skills of the abstractor in writing in an abbreviated yet unambiguous style.
sin amor
loveless
The story relates the experiences of a young conscript whose desire for an amorous adventure with one of his many female penfriends results in a loveless and unhappy marriage.
sin analizar
unexamined
unanalysed
Traditional measures of retrieval effectiveness, of which the recall ratio is an outstanding example, are strongly influence by the relevance properties of unexamined documents - documents with which the system user has no direct contact.
The reasons for this failure are as yet unanalysed in the literature.
sin ánimo
despondently
She stood up and said despondently: 'The die is cast; stake is life or death' .
sin ánimo de lucro
non-profit [nonprofit]
non-profit making
not-for-profit
generously
This non-profit organisation was formed to promote quality library and information services.
SWALCAP is a non-profit making organisation based at the University of Bristol.
The friction in this industry between private, for-profit services and not-for-profit learned societies or government bodies is deep-seated.
Course brochure and prospectuses of course programmes were often generously supplied.
sin apenas ser oído
as quiet as a mouse
Quiet as a mouse, she had crept in to see what they were doing.
sin apoyo
unsupported
Unsupported by any other teaching methods, browsing is not, of course, enough to make children into literate readers.
sin apretar
loosely hanging
baggy [baggier -comp., baggiest -sup.]
saggy [saggier -comp., saggiest -sup.]
loosely
A nightgown (also called a nightdress) is a loosely hanging item of nightwear nowadays mostly for women.
After he returned from the outing, students were complaining that he was wearing the same baggy pants, minus boxers and with zipper undone.
The most overlooked secret to perfect skin is avoiding conditions that lead to wrinkling, age spots, saggy skin and in general all around skin damage.
Having crocked the pot, fill it loosely with the cutting mix, making a hole with the hand for the reception of the bulb.
sin árboles
treeless
On the treeless mound he took out his fieldglasses and began to survey the enemy's positions on the hills about 2 miles away.
sin arreglo
beyond repair
And when, finally, the heavily timbered ranges had been pillaged almost beyond repair, many lumbermen pulled stakes and pushed westward.
sin arrepentimiento
no-looking-back
High morale and enthusiasm for institutional goals will make adaptation and innovation a one-way, no-looking-back ticket into the information age.
sin asignar
unallocated
The article is entitled 'Cancelling periodicals in the context of an allocated budget'.
sin asignar todavía
unassigned
If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.
sin asimilar
undigested
However, in producing a bulletin one is often torn between including the scanty, undigested and possibly inaccurate details of a new proposal and holding fire until fuller information is available, and thereby missing a publication deadline.
sin atajar
unconfronted
This sense of practical issues unconfronted led to a proposal for a different approach to the curriculum debate.
sin atractivo
unattractive
The simplest KWIC indexes are unattractive and tedious to scan owing to their physical format and typeface.
sin atrasos
paid-up
in good standing
Nominators must be paid-up members in good standing for the year of the election.
Nominators must be paid-up members in good standing for the year of the election.
sin autorización
unauthorised [unauthorized, -USA]
unlicensed
Do not use your first name, last name, or initials as a password, since this information is easily guessed by an unauthorized person.
Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders, they operate illegally and away from any sort of regulation that governs the financial industry.
sin avergonzarse
unashamed
There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
sin avisar
unannounced
out of the (clear) blue (sky)
like a bolt out of the blue
like a bolt from the blue
The arrival of the school doctor or dentist or of well-knwon personalities visiting the school normally occur unannounced.
The article is entitled 'Software out of the blue'.
The election results came like a bolt out of the blue, threatening his loss of power.
A white bird in the distance was seen to dart down like a bolt from the blue and seize a flying fish in the air.
sin aviso previo
without warning
In February 1986 an unforeseeable financial crisis at the Georgia Institute of Technology's library made it necessary to divert the binding budget to other areas and without warning binding activities were halted.
sin ayuda
unaided
unassisted
Unless we believe we can do all this unaided, then we had better pay heed to literature.
A library cannot, unassisted, keep abreast of the various sources of local information.
sin ayuda de nadie
all by + Reflexivo
by + Reflexivo
One can only cultivate one's virtues all by oneself, and no one else can take one's place.
Certainly, it is possible to do it by oneself.
sin azúcar
sugar-free
Sugar-free tigernut milk is suitable for diabetics due to its high content of arginine, which liberates the hormone that produces insulin.
sin barba
beardless
A possible explanation is related to the depiction of Christ as beardless.
sin barnizar
unvarnished
The unvarnished painting was crumbling, making it necessary to impregnate it with synthetic resin.
sin base
unsupported
ill-founded
Even more reprehensible than the unsupported recollection is the guess, however well informed.
The society appears to have assumed that these bibliographies would remain valid indefinitely, an assumption that is unfortunately ill-founded.
sin blanca
penniless
broke
skint
out-of-pocket
out-at-(the)-elbows
Now he lives penniless near a beautiful lake surrounded by rainforest and teeming with waterfowl.
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
Manchester City leave the bookies out of pocket and three things we learned about betting from the weekend.
Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian - happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.
sin blanquear
unbleached
At first, paper made from bleached stock was not so handsome as the unbleached papers of the hand-press period had been - apart from any foxing, it tended to be greyish in tone.
sin blindar [Referido al cableado]
unshielded
Coaxial cables have been the principal transmission medium for most local area networks (LANs) but other types of cabling, including shielded and unshielded twisted pair and fibre optic, are gaining acceptance.
sin bombo(s) ni platillo(s)
without much ado
Without much ado, he accepted the principles and procedure that had helped us - he is undoubtedly on the road to recovery.
sin brillo
dull
tarnished
dully
Among the visual attributes found to be most useful were: absorption (soaks in, sits on top), luster (shiny, dull), flakiness (doesn't flake off, flakes off), and thickness (thin, thick).
Coca-Cola appears to be taking pains to buff up its tarnished image - a controversy continues to brew over pesticides found in its soda products.
In the Pleiades star cluster only six of the stars shine brightly, the seventh, Merope, shines dully because she is shamed for eternity for having an affair.
sin buscarlo
without asking for it
chances that you will get what you need without asking for it are pretty slim.
sin cabeza
headless
decapitated
The article 'Of Wonderland and headless chickens' describes the functions of Alice, a PC-based library automation system offering cataloguing, enquiry, acquisitions, and periodicals control = El artículo "Sobre el país de las maravillas y los pollos sin cabeza" describe las funciones de Alice, un sistema de automatización de bibliotecas para ordenadores personales que permite la catalogación, las consultas, las adquisiciones y el control de publicaciones periódicas.
The decapitated ants, on the contrary, were insensitive to the air current.
sin cables
wireless
wirelessly
In the proposed setup only one of six or seven computers would be have wireless connectivity which is of course sufficient for making a big security hole.
The tiniest endoscope yet takes 30 two-megapixel images per second and offloads them wirelessly.
sin caducar
unexpired
This study was aimed at determining the microbiological quality of unexpired and expired syrups.
sin cafeina
decaffeinated
Politically correct tolerance is giving us a decaffeinated belief: a belief which does not hurt anyone and does not fully commit even ourselves.
sin calorías
calorieless
For example, the author's title might be 'Eureka!' whereas the abstractor's title is 'Eureka! (The discovery of a calorieless beer)' = Por ejemplo, el título del autor podría ser "¡Eureka! mientras que el título del resumidor es "¡Eureka! (El descubrimiento de una cerveza sin calorías)".
sin cámara
tubeless
Fixing a tubeless wheelbarrow tire is fairly easy, if you know how, and can mean the difference between completed a job or leaving it half done.
sin cambio
inviolate
The number should remain inviolate regardless of the heading's metamorphoses.
sin cambios [Adjetivo]
monotone
stable
undisturbed
unchanged
unmodified
unaltered
unedited
The notion of functional dependency requires an additional structure in the form of a monotone nondecreasing function.
Although we may disagree about the fine detail, semantic relationships are the relationships between subjects, which are reasonably stable, and reflect the consensus of opinion concerning the connections between subjects.
Notice that the bibliographic record is undisturbed, as the linking number remains the same.
The most recent book on the subject, almost fifty years later, makes it plain that the situation is unchanged.
The terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and unmodified into a thesaurus.
The unaltered message remains in your list of messages unless you request that the changed message be saved.
This bank of data represented a valuable source of unedited views about users' perceptions, thoughts and attitudes about libraries and electronic resources.
sin camino de regreso
no way back
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin camino de vuelta
no way back
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin camino que seguir
no way forward
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin camisa
shirtless
He was shirtless and covered with grass shavings, because the bag on the mower was ripped and held together with clothes pins.
sin cancelar
uncancelled
Finally, a few copies of an edition seem generally to have slipped through with their cancellanda uncancelled, so that examples of the original settings may sometimes be found (occasionally slashed by the warehouse keeper's shears, deliberate defacement which escaped notice).
sin canjear
unredeemed
Before an unredeemed dog is sold to a new owner, the poundkeeper may require that such dog be held under observation in a veterinary hospital.
sin cansancio
indefatigably
They have campaigned indefatigably for humane prison conditions and have been documenting and exposing human rights abuses.
sin capacidad de discernimiento
undiscriminating
On the one side is 'high culture' catering for the intellectual elites, on the other side is 'mass culture' catering for an undiscriminating mass audience of 'consumers'.
sin cara
faceless
Two faceless, 30-inch unisex dolls were designed to represent the child.
sin carácter
boneless
spineless
By running away he shows who he is - a boneless coward who never engaged in direct confrontation with the enemy.
To call a supervisor 'spineless' is to tag him as weak and therefore unfair to his really good employees.
sin carne
meatless
It seems that meatless menu alternatives are becoming more and more popular at ballparks across the country.
sin casco
bareheaded
A bareheaded motorcyclist participating in a ride to protest mandatory helmet laws was killed when he was thrown over the handlebars.
sin castigo
impunitive
unpunished
The personality characteristics included impunitive responses to frustration, rigidness, lack of self-confidence, & inefficient use of intellectual resources.
This reinforces the interpretation that violence is frequently unpunished and socially acceptable.
sin catalogar
uncatalogued [uncataloged, -USA]
When the move took place in 1897, it was found that there was a backlog of some thirty years of uncatalogued and unbound material.
sin causa alguna
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin causa aparente
for no apparent reason
for apparently no reason
These outbursts often happen for no apparent reason and may be due to the child's inability to tolerate the present environment.
The formatting on my main page has gone haywire for apparently no reason.
sin causa justificada
without justified reason
According to this draft, employers would be allowed to dismiss workers without justified reason = Según este anteproyecto de ley, los empresarios podrán despedir a los trabajadores sin causa justificada.
sin causa razonable
without any reasonable cause
In order to entitle you to file a petition for divorce, you would be required to prove that your wife has deserted you without any reasonable cause.
sin causar daño
harmlessly
The value of reading good novels was easily explained as helping the working class to rub shoulders with the best of English manners and thought and encouraging them to pass their time happily and harmlessly.
sin ceremonias
unceremonious
unceremoniously
Although the flag-raising was a spontaneous and unceremonious gesture, the photograph has become to many people the symbol of that terrible day.
They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
sin cerrar con llave
unlocked
Theft or attempted theft of belongings is excluded if your car has been left unlocked, left with the keys in it or with a window or roof open.
sin certeza de cobrar [Abreviatura de on speculation usada para indicar que se hace un trabajo pero sin ninguna seguridad de que al final se cobrará por él]
on spec
Sometimes writers who have trouble publishing will write on spec because it is more important for them to be published than to get paid.
sin cesar
steadily
Rather readers grow by fits and starts now rushing ahead, now lying fallow, and now moving steadily on.
sin clases sociales
classless
American writers have always found the subject of class in a putatively classless society irresistible.
sin clavos
studless
In general, studless tires do best on snow, while those with studs are best on icy roads.
sin clemencia
mercilessly
Low was possibly the most celebrated political cartoonist of the 20th century, best remembered for the way he mercilessly ridiculed Hitler and Mussolini in a humorous vein.
sin cobrar
free of charge
unredeemed
uncollected
Law centres employ qualified lawyers and they receive a waiver from the Law Society that allows them to provide their services free of charge.
Before an unredeemed dog is sold to a new owner, the poundkeeper may require that such dog be held under observation in a veterinary hospital.
As the economy has nosedived, hospitals have seen their uncollected debt increase - from low, single digits to more than 5 percent.
sin cocer
uncooked
That is the major drawback to rawism, the diet trend that promotes the consumption of uncooked food.
sin cocinar
uncooked
That is the major drawback to rawism, the diet trend that promotes the consumption of uncooked food.
sin codificar
uncoded
Hauliers, consignees and consignors will be informed as to which of their vehicles' information has not been entered into the database - uncoded vehicles.
sin código
uncoded
Hauliers, consignees and consignors will be informed as to which of their vehicles' information has not been entered into the database - uncoded vehicles.
sin cohesión
scrappily
scrappy [scrappier -comp., scrappiest -sup.]
bitty [bittier -comp., bittiest -sup.]
This film adaptation is scrappily made and jumpy, and there is nothing here that evokes either the joy of the moment or the death of the soul.
It is a scrappy book, apparently assembled in haste.
However, his use of a remorselessly chronological approach yields a narrative that is often bitty, sometimes ponderously plodding.
sin cohibiciones
unselfconsciously
Adolescents cannot be led so easily, so unselfconsciously as children, and disenchantment can be a door that closes tight against attempts to reinvigorate dulled literary receptivity.
sin cola
ecaudate
Amphibians found in Poland belong to two orders: caudate amphibians and ecaudate amphibians.
sin columnas
single-column
pillar-free
The final version of the paper will have to fit within 15 single-column pages, including all figures and bibliography, so plan accordingly.
This spacious, flat-floored, pillar-free hall is extremely flexible allowing a wide variety of stand configurations.
sin comentar
unannotated
It also includes a longer, unannotated list of additional works classified under various headings.
sin comerlo ni beberlo
without having anything to do with it
You can always say you've been changed, but really, September 11 is the first thing that changed me without having anything to do with it.
sin comérselo ni bebérselo
without having anything to do with it
without asking for it
You can always say you've been changed, but really, September 11 is the first thing that changed me without having anything to do with it.
chances that you will get what you need without asking for it are pretty slim.
sin comodidades
comfortless
A house without furniture is like a room without paint - colorless and comfortless!.
sin compañía
unaccompanied
Never walk unaccompanied at night in poorly-lit streets or along deserted streets.
sin compasión
mercilessly
Low was possibly the most celebrated political cartoonist of the 20th century, best remembered for the way he mercilessly ridiculed Hitler and Mussolini in a humorous vein.
sin compensación monetaria
uncompensated
Employees routinely performed an average of 30 minutes of unrecorded and uncompensated work.
sin complicaciones [Generalmente se refiere a las condiciones de una licencia de uso de un producto cuyas condiciones son las que normalmente se estipulan en todas las licencias de ese tipo y que por lo tanto se copian automáticamente]
smoothly
boilerplate [boiler plate]
uncomplicated
straightforward
uncomplicatedly
hassle-free
DOBIS/LIBIS can take over much of the housekeeping work necessary for a smoothly functioning library = DOBIS/LIBIS puede encargarse de la mayor parte del trabajo de gestión administrativa para que la biblioteca funcione sin problemas.
This article suggests a boilerplate policy for not for profit organizations that may wish to explore this avenue for publicity and revenue generation.
It is an example of an uncomplicated but practical and successful artificial intelligence application.
Even in this apparently straightforward situation, complications can arise.
Children which lack reading experience should be presented with a sequence of shorter, very directly told, and uncomplicatedly structured books, rather than with denser and more subtle texts.
Cooking dry beans in the crockpot makes them relatively hassle-free.
sin comprimir
uncompressed
The project is investigating transmitting images from CD-ROM databases in both compressed and uncompressed files.
sin comprobar
untested
Yet the documentation strategy is still a largely untested concept.
sin compromiso
without obligation
fancy-free
unattached
For more information please contact us without obligation.
In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.
sin compromisos
with no strings attached
The author shows the social benefit inherent in giving private collections to institutions - or at least selling them intact to institutions with no strings attached.
sin concluir
unfinished
But clearly a book read and enjoyed is more likely to lead on to further reading than is a book unread or unfinished.
sin concretar
to be decided
operational dates, possible use of existing software and costing are yet to be decided.
sin condiciones
unconditionally
She links Quentin's suicide at the end of the Maundy Thursday of the novel with the death of Judas, who also betrayed one who loved unconditionally and then committed suicide.
sin condiciones especiales
with no strings attached
The author shows the social benefit inherent in giving private collections to institutions - or at least selling them intact to institutions with no strings attached.
sin conductor
driverless
Driverless cars could help ease traffic congestion, lower pollution and prevent accidents.
sin confirmar
unconfirmed
unsubstantiated
unvalidated
to be confirmed [TBC]
A penciled note on the catalog card that a publication is temporarily suspended is better than unconfirmed surmise that a publication has ceased.
Calls are being made for a code of ethics for bloggers in which weblogs should explicitly acknowledge known bias, misinformation, unsubstantiated facts and conflicts of interest.
Knowledge organization is generally based on world pictures derived from opinion unvalidated by sound theories.
Venue to be confirmed.
sin conocer
ignorant of
The user may come to the catalogue relatively ignorant of the heading under which a work is to be found.
sin conocimiento
unconscious
By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
sin conocimiento de causa
unbeknown to
unbeknownst to
Unbeknown to the users who accessed the system, the knowledge-base included two human experts, communicating with them from a different building, via the computer screen.
A honeypot is a decoy computer system designed to look like a legitimate system an intruder will want to break into while, unbeknownst to the intruder, they are being covertly observed.
sin conservar información sobre las consultas realizadas anteriormente
stateless
Web search engines are stateless, losing previous search criteria.
sin conservar información sobre las consultas realizadas anterior
stateless
Web search engines are stateless, losing previous search criteria.
sin constancia de ello
unrecorded
A study of early printed records for the county of Northumberland has identified some previously unrecorded parochial libraries.
sin consumir
nonconsumptive
In addition, environmental research has focused on nonconsumptive use of wildlife resources, such as viewing wildlife and valuing the pure existence of wildlife.
sin contacto
non-contact
The present invention relates to a toilet bowl adapted for non-contact use by a person in a crouching position.
sin contaminar
untainted
uncontaminated
The information needs of minorities are important and that libraries must organise to become neutral service points making untainted information available to all.
Their mission is to supply consumers with objective information uncontaminated by commercial self-interest.
sin contar
not including
excluding
barring
According to this story, owning a horse can cost about $10000 a year, not including the horse = Según esta historia, poseer un caballo puede costar alrededor de $ 10000 al año, sin incluir el caballo.
Durable goods excluding transportation soared by 2.0% in June in the U.S.
All abstracts, barring possibly those of exceptional length, should consist of one paragraph only.
sin contar con
in the absence of
In the absence of, or in addition to, an ISADN an alternative number assigned by a regional or national agency may be given.
sin contenido
contentless
trivial
Other titles are just plain contentless.
A further problem is the fact that place names may appear in a trivial context.
sin contenido en turba
peat-free
This ready-to-use potting compost is peat-free and 4 times lighter than conventional compost due to the fact it is dehydrated.
sin contestar
unanswered
Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.
sin contratiempos
smoothly
DOBIS/LIBIS can take over much of the housekeeping work necessary for a smoothly functioning library = DOBIS/LIBIS puede encargarse de la mayor parte del trabajo de gestión administrativa para que la biblioteca funcione sin problemas.
sin control
uncontrolled
Publishers are right to be concerned about uncontrolled republication.
sin control administrativo
unmanaged
This is not to say that only companies with unmanaged infrastructures suffer the scourge of rogue spending.
sin controlar
unsupervised
This model can handle supervised learning and unsupervised learning simultaneously.
sin control de gestión
unmanaged
This is not to say that only companies with unmanaged infrastructures suffer the scourge of rogue spending.
sin convicción
doubtfully
lamely
This makes the account doubtfully reconcilable with the special epistemic relation that each of us has to oneself.
'I know,' he said lamely.
sin coordinación
uncoordinated [unco-ordinated]
Duplication of publications, debasement of quality, misleading titles, and an unplanned, uncoordinated and piecemeal growth of secondary publications are part and parcel of this information indiscipline.
sin corbata
open-neck
open-necked
I go to a girl school and we wear ties in winter and spring terms, but May-July we get to wear an open-neck collar.
That's why you rarely see him in an open-necked shirt and, then, almost never without a neckerchief.
sin correa
unleashed
I agree with you and i think your auntie was 100% wrong since the other dogs were leashed and her unleashed dog was the one that confronted them.
sin corregir
unamended
uncorrected
unrevised
Short abstracts are generally preferred, but there are instances where the most effective approach is to cite the original unamended, and to state that this is what has been done.
Sometimes references cited have never been read so incorrect versions go uncorrected.
The second part, Sociology, including Socialism, Communism and Anarchism, was published in an unrevised cumulation as the fourth edition, 1981.
sin correlacionar
uncorrelated
This technique can be used to derive either orthogonal or uncorrelated dimensions for any type of input data.
sin corroborar
unsubstantiated
Calls are being made for a code of ethics for bloggers in which weblogs should explicitly acknowledge known bias, misinformation, unsubstantiated facts and conflicts of interest.
sin cortapisas
untrammelled
In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
sin cortar
uncut
The length and breadth of the sheet are taken if possible from an uncut copy of the book = Si es posible, se indicarán la longitud y la anchura del pliego de un ejemplar sin cortar.
sin coscarse
without batting an eyelid
without turning a hair
He knew the names of celebs but he could have walked past any one of them in the street without batting an eyelid.
Nothing is more unrealistic that seeing the hero take in an unlikely number of hits without turning a hair.
sin costas
land-bound [landbound]
land-locked [landlocked]
Ultimately, this film is just a land-bound rerun of Jaws, down to the sacrifice of the grizzled, expert hunter so the younger, more clean-cut, family man can face his own fears and prove his prowess.
Because Zambia is land-locked, book acquisition is difficult.
sin coste alguno
at no personal cost
at no cost
without cost
costless
without charge
free of charge
free of cost
cost free
for free
at no charge
In this way 15-20 persons can attend both the Pre-Session Seminar and the General Conference annually at no personal cost.
Some commercial information providers are giving away a little information at no cost in order to attract customers onto the system.
The author looks at how 'free' information really is and whether we can continue to expect high quality information to be available without cost.
Another property of DSMA protocols is a provision for a graceful dynamic reconfiguration and costless protocol recovery after a lost token.
There is a drop-in centre with a fully equipped sound recording studio and video editing suite offering guitar tuition and rehearsal space to local teenagers without charge.
Law centres employ qualified lawyers and they receive a waiver from the Law Society that allows them to provide their services free of charge.
An annexure reviews electronic journals available free of cost.
In an attempt to overcome this problem, a group of small health related libraries responded by forming a cost free cooperative called GRATIS in 1982.
In addition, most or all of the contents of the resources listed are available for free.
This latest move makes available at no charge more than 150 electronic publications for which fees were previously charged.
sin costo adicional alguno
at no extra charge
at no extra cost
at no extra charge
At no extra charge, this produc offers the added benefit of monthly updates, allowing users to keep abreast of the latest developments in their own field of interest.
Some options are included at no extra cost.
At no extra charge, this produc offers the added benefit of monthly updates, allowing users to keep abreast of the latest developments in their own field of interest.
sin costuras
seamless
The solution was found to be a composition of glue and treacle which could be cast on to the roller stock and which made a seamless, resilient surface that inked perfectly.
sin crecimiento
non-growth
In today's economic situation we are seeing the actualization of the nongrowth library.
sin créditos
non-credit
Although all schools are engaged to some extent in non-credit continuing education programmes, continuing education is not given high priority.
sin criterio alguno
indiscriminate
indiscriminately
Nonetheless, the indiscriminate use of both terms in a data base creates a situation in which the serious scholar is either deprived of access to half of the material in the collection, or must consult two sequences.
Furthermore, the value of citation bibliometry is currently being undermined by the formation of 'citation clubs', which aim to indiscriminately achieve maximum cross-citing between 'club members'.
sin cuajar
runny [runnier -comp., runniest -sup.]
If you have runny nail polish, pour some onto a paper plate, add a bit of flour and stir it up with something like a toothpick.
sin cuantificar
unmeasured
The impact on collections and budgets will be significant, but are largely yet unmeasured.
sin cubrir
unfilled
Although acquisitions in the priority languages of Tamil, Persian, and Arabic have kept pace, processing has lagged behind because of unfilled staff vacancies.
sin cuestionar Algo
without question
The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.
sin cuestionarlo
uncritically
We must be cautions about accepting Ranganathan's fundamental categories uncritically.
sin cultivar
uncultivated
Stinging nettles are able to survive in a wide range of conditions but are most common on ground that's been left uncultivated for a long period.
sin cultura
uncultured
uncultivated
In Japan, where literacy rates are high, the importance of illiteracy as a problem is not well recognised and 'illiterate' is equated with 'uncultured'.
We never have seen her and know little of her, but there is no telling what such an uncultivated person as she might do.
sin daños
undamaged
A library from C. 2600 BC was discovered in Ebla, Syria, 15 years ago and C. 17,000 clay tablets were found, of which 1800 are undamaged.
sin dar basto
left, right and centre
It hasn't helped that the Americans are being so unilateralist and pulling out of treaties left, right and centre.
sin dar crédito a + Posesivo + oídos
in disbelief
in disbelief
He remembers their eyes staring up at him in disbelief as he beat the life out of them.
He remembers their eyes staring up at him in disbelief as he beat the life out of them.
sin dar crédito a + Posesivo + ojos
in disbelief
He remembers their eyes staring up at him in disbelief as he beat the life out of them.
sin darle importancia
airily
Perhaps Jane Austen was aware of this, for having stated the fact of the elopement briefly, she says airily: 'Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery, I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can'.
sin darme cuenta
before I know what's happened
Then I came within this disagreeable person's atmosphere, and lo! before I know what's happened I'm involved in an unpleasant altercation.
sin darnos cuenta
out of sight
More through inattention than any attempt at concealment, the shaping of the twenty-first century is happening offstage, out of sight.
sin darse cuenta
inadvertently
unwittingly
unknowingly
without realising
without noticing
unconsciously
Use this operator carefully - you may inadvertently eliminate relevant records.
Wittingly or unwittingly, they mask other questions that users do not know how to ask or are uncertain that they want to divulge to someone else.
The ways in which library professionals - knowingly and unknowingly - undermine intellectual freedom are discussed = Se analizan las formas en las que los profesionales de las bibliotecas, consciente o inconscientemente, socavan la libertad intelectual.
Similarly, an English woman visiting Italy who touches her earlobes a lot, without realising the cultural significance of this action, would be behaving flirtatiously in that context.
They gradually soak up language, discovering the rules by which it works almost without noticing it.
He often did this, almost unconsciously, to avert an immediate sign of reaction to an irksome confrontation.
sin debatir
undiscussed
Its distortive influence on feminist research has so far remained undiscussed.
sin decir nada
dumbly
Meek looked at her dumbly = Meek la miró sin decir nada.
sin decir ni mu
as quiet as a mouse
tight-lipped
Quiet as a mouse, she had crept in to see what they were doing.
Police remain tight-lipped over the sudden, unexplained death of a security guard in west Auckland.
sin decir ni pío
as quiet as a mouse
without saying a word
without question
unquestioningly
tight-lipped
Quiet as a mouse, she had crept in to see what they were doing.
And there was the curious behaviour of Plantin's compositor Michel Mayer, who in June 1564 spent Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in a brothel, then packed his things and left the establishment without saying a word to anyone.
The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.
We should be cautious about accepting the recall-precision curve unquestioningly.
Police remain tight-lipped over the sudden, unexplained death of a security guard in west Auckland.
sin decir palabra
tight-lipped
Police remain tight-lipped over the sudden, unexplained death of a security guard in west Auckland.
sin decir una palabra
without saying a word
And there was the curious behaviour of Plantin's compositor Michel Mayer, who in June 1564 spent Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in a brothel, then packed his things and left the establishment without saying a word to anyone.
sin defecto
untainted
unblemished
The information needs of minorities are important and that libraries must organise to become neutral service points making untainted information available to all.
Many traditional treatments, on the other hand, have tended to glorify him portraying him as an unblemished hero.
sin dejar huella
into thin air
Their debates have operated with a more fluid notion of power, which at times has become so fluid as to evaporate into thin air.
sin dejar nada fuera
the works!
Whole cities laid to waste, heroes falling in battle, death of gods, the works!.
sin dejar rastro
into thin air
Their debates have operated with a more fluid notion of power, which at times has become so fluid as to evaporate into thin air.
sin dejarse amedrentar por
undaunted by
The Bolsheviks have manfully set their shoulders to the wheel undaunted by this staggering catastrophe.
sin dejarse amilanar por
undaunted by
The Bolsheviks have manfully set their shoulders to the wheel undaunted by this staggering catastrophe.
sin dejarse desanimar
undaunted
His novels reflect the story of the spirit of man, undaunted and ceaselessly toiling and achieving ever higher levels of culture.
sin dejarse intimidar por
undaunted by
The Bolsheviks have manfully set their shoulders to the wheel undaunted by this staggering catastrophe.
sin delimitar
unmapped
The question of how web-based education affects teaching and learning remains largely unanswered, and the terrain of online learning remains largely unmapped.
sin demora
on the spot
straight away
without delay
at short notice
promptly
right away
at once
timely
Libraries should be the first point of contact for people in need and should be capable, like the General Practitioner in medicine, of dealing with 75% of cases on the spot.
When he arrived back at the media center, Anthony Datto whisked straight away into his glass-enclosed office, to the right of the entrance.
A National Library Commission, on a par with the National University Commission, should be set up without delay as a coordinating body.
Each of the experts is available for telephone consultation at short notice.
Significantly, however, Panizzi's rules did not prove as viable as did his ideology, and they were promptly and materially changed and recast by his most ardent admirers and followers.
Forms that are required right away are printed immediately.
You say that this A/Z index entry will direct him at once to the specific subject he is looking for.
The State, as producer, is deficient in producing sufficient copies to meet demand, ensuring timely distribution, and providing efficient bibliographic control.
sin demorarse un (solo) minuto
without a moment wasted
without a wasted moment
without a minute wasted
without a wasted minute
The days will be packed full, without any filler and without a moment wasted.
This is a very fun movie that goes from one thing to another without a wasted moment.
By answering some key questions, you're directed to information pertinent to your business without a minute wasted.
If the meeting swept forward without a wasted minute, the President was interested and satisfied.
sin demoras
in a timely fashion
in a timely manner
It is a recognized fact that the Library of Congress cannot possibly catalog all the books needed by all libraries in a timely fashion.
Not only is it crucial to follow validation requirements to the letter, it is extremely important to carry them out in a timely manner.
sin demostrar
unsubstantiated
Calls are being made for a code of ethics for bloggers in which weblogs should explicitly acknowledge known bias, misinformation, unsubstantiated facts and conflicts of interest.
sin desarrollar
undeveloped
I would urge you most sincerely and strongly to think twice or three times before putting your shelflist into an undeveloped system.
sin descansar
without a break
without (a) rest
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
sin descanso
relentlessly
restlessly
breathlessly
unabated
without a break
without (a) rest
day in and day out
without respite
Computers, on the other hand adhere to their initial instructions and execute these relentlessly until the task that is set is completed.
The basic thesis of the book under review is that throughout his career Rembrandt restlessly fashioned and refashioned his self.
These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
The demand for English as the world's lingua franca continues unabated.
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
People with diabetes have to do it every day, day in and day out.
The ancient Egyptian mind was struck by the periodic regularity of certain phenomena: the sun that rises, shines, and disappears without respite every day.
sin descubrir
undiscovered
This incompleteness of search and retrieval therefore makes possible, and plausible, the existence of undiscovered public knowledge.
sin descuento
undiscounted
In fact, the discounted prices for large consortia are meaningless; probably not a single buyer has actually paid the undiscounted price.
sin desdoblarse
unfolded
A broadsheet is a separately published piece of paper, printed on one side only and intended to be read unfolded.
sin desearlo
unwantedly
My problem is that sometimes I will get tensed up unwantedly for small problems.
sin desgastar
unworn
A printer who wanted to achieve a sharp impression from unworn type of even height to paper would put hard rather than soft packing in the tympan.
sin desperdiciar un (solo) minuto
without a moment wasted
without a wasted moment
without a minute wasted
without a wasted minute
The days will be packed full, without any filler and without a moment wasted.
This is a very fun movie that goes from one thing to another without a wasted moment.
By answering some key questions, you're directed to information pertinent to your business without a minute wasted.
If the meeting swept forward without a wasted minute, the President was interested and satisfied.
sin desviarse del rumbo
true to course
And you will have a greater chance of success and survival if your gyroscope is finely tuned and true to course.
sin determinación de culpabilidad
no-fault
In 1978 the Pearson Commission in the United Kingdom rejected a no-fault system in dealing with clinical negligence.
sin determinar
undefined
The flexibilities possible with machine processing will, at some time in the undefined future, obviate most of the problems not addressed.
sin detonar
unexploded
Although national parks are perceived as pristine areas, many are dumping grounds for hazardous materials - everything from industrial toxins to unexploded munitions.
sin deudas
debt free
Living debt free is living without worries.
sin dientes
toothless
The earliest known fossil of a toothless bird that flew across the skies 120 million years ago has been dug up by scientists.
sin diferencias
undifferentiated
On the other hand, in a library with many documents on these subjects, it will lead to an undifferentiated build-up of entries at the broad heading.
sin dificultad
without difficulty
As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
sin dificultad alguna
without a hitch
without a glitch
Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.
Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.
sin digerir
undigested
The birds had enjoyed feeding on grain spilt from nosebags or undigested in dung.
sin diluir
undiluted
However, an undiluted diet of the so-called classics would drive away readers.
sin dinero
impecunious
Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.
sin dinero en metálico
cashless
The impact of this type of transactions is foreseen as a major step toward the long-heralded 'cashless society'.
sin discapacidad
able-bodied
The reference staff of the library is responsible for providing the same standard of service to both handicapped and able-bodied students.
sin discapacidades
able-bodied
The reference staff of the library is responsible for providing the same standard of service to both handicapped and able-bodied students.
sin disciplina
undisciplined
ill-disciplined
However, it is concluded that sociology's role as an 'undisciplined joker' in the scientific realm may itself have value.
British troops can't patrol properly, are ill-disciplined and injury-prone and have bad personal hygiene.
sin discriminación alguna
without any discrimination
All vessels using trawls, including Norwegian vessels, will be subject to the same restrictions without any discrimination.
sin discriminar
indiscriminate
on equal terms
Nonetheless, the indiscriminate use of both terms in a data base creates a situation in which the serious scholar is either deprived of access to half of the material in the collection, or must consult two sequences.
Rather than take a whole lot of time on this, let me utter a brief commercial on behalf of a book which addresses precisely this area of women-related headings, Joan Marshall's 'On Equal Terms'.
sin discutir
no arguments!
undiscussed
And picking up the check he said 'Lunch is on me today, Florence - no arguments!'.
Its distortive influence on feminist research has so far remained undiscussed.
sin disminuir
non-decreasing
unabated
The notion of functional dependency requires an additional structure in the form of a monotone nondecreasing function.
The demand for English as the world's lingua franca continues unabated.
sin disolver
undiluted
However, an undiluted diet of the so-called classics would drive away readers.
sin disponer de
in the absence of
In the absence of, or in addition to, an ISADN an alternative number assigned by a regional or national agency may be given.
sin división espacial
spatially unstructured
The territorial behaviour of children in a spatially unstructured library setting is investigated.
sin doblarse
unfolded
A broadsheet is a separately published piece of paper, printed on one side only and intended to be read unfolded.
sin documentar
undocumented
The existence of non professional library staff within libraries has a long, though largely undocumented, history.
sin dolor
painless
Almost without exception libraries have agreed with the liberal-minded who wanted to make the immigrants' transition into a new society as painless as possible.
sin domicilio fijo
of no fixed abode
The defendants were predominantly male, single, and of no fixed abode, suffering from serious psychiatric disorder.
sin dones
ungifted
Those who do well are designated as 'gifted and talented,' which means that everyone else is, by definition, ungifted and untalented.
sin dotes
ungifted
Those who do well are designated as 'gifted and talented,' which means that everyone else is, by definition, ungifted and untalented.
sin drenar
undrained
Then mix together the undrained fruit cocktail and coconut extract in a large mixing bowl.
sin duda
doubtless
no doubt
of course
surely
to be sure
undoubtedly
indubitably
without a doubt
without doubt
no mistake
hands down
well and truly
CD-ROMs and videodiscs are the formats currently mentioned, but others will doubtless join them.
The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme = El compilador del sistema de clasificación sin duda estará muy familiariazado con el orden de las materias dentro del sistema.
The library catalogue is, of course, a much more effective index to the documents in the collection than the arrangement of the documents themselves.
Paperback bibles are included in the category of 'other', which must surely indicate that they are a negligible quantity.
To be sure, there is not much flexibility in the classical bookform catalog.
Undoubtedly the most important citation indexes are the products of the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).
These changes will indubitably be ruled by the demands of commercial markets, largely multi-media entertainment, not the requirements of the academic community.
What certainly happens without a doubt is that the experienced librarian telescopes into what may appear to be a single instantaneous decision a whole series of logically-connected search steps.
Magnetic disks are, without doubt, the most important medium for bulk data storage in microcomputers.
We were in a pickle too and no mistake.
The absolute, hands down, without question best social network in the blogosphere.
Astro well and truly blew his chances of winning the show with his tantrum a couple of weeks ago.
sin duda alguna
without any doubt
sure enough
Without any doubt, the specific area of social psychology research that has made the greatest impact on reference librarians in recent years has been non-verbal communication.
I told my roommate he can't come to Florida for spring break unless he shaves his chest, and sure enough he did.
sin dudar
without a doubt
What certainly happens without a doubt is that the experienced librarian telescopes into what may appear to be a single instantaneous decision a whole series of logically-connected search steps.
sin dudarlo
without hesitation
But the old printers were men, not abstractions, who had good days and bad ones and who improvised and botched without hesitation whenever their tools or materials did not precisely meet the needs of the moment.
sin editar
unedited
This bank of data represented a valuable source of unedited views about users' perceptions, thoughts and attitudes about libraries and electronic resources.
sin elegir
unelected
The protesters chafe at what they see as the military and unelected royalist aristocracy meddling in politics.
sin el menor asomo de duda
without a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
sin embargo
however
nevertheless
still
yet
that being said
all this said
However, one important feature to note about such systems is that many of them do not in fact organise knowledge or retrieve information.
Nevertheless, some classes contain tables which may be used to extend the classes shown in the main schedules.
This process is slow and the resulting picture is poor in detail; still, it does give another process of dry photography, in which the picture is finished as soon as it is taken.
Yet even these indexes recognise some rules concerning the structure of headings.
That being said, every normal person can think of places we've worked where we were more like whiners than winners.
All this said, he is a restless person, but in the active, productive sense rather than a fidget.
sin emitir humo
smokeless
A case study is then presented of the technology information and communication associated with the project 'making a smokeless wood-burning stove'.
sin empleo
jobless
out of a job
Experts say a hoard of buried treasure discovered by a jobless English man is 'war booty' and probably belonged to a pagan king.
'I'm not a miracle worker,' Obama declared, after saying he's not 'content' when workers are out of jobs = "No soy un obrador de milagros," declaró Obama, después de decir que no estaba contento cuando los trabajadores están en paro.
sin encuadernar
unbound
The processing code specifies whether the volume is to be bound, kept unbound, discarded, and so forth.
sin energía
lethargic
Learning disabled and mentally retarded children have limited attention span and may be hyperactive or lethargic.
sin engorros
hassle-free
Cooking dry beans in the crockpot makes them relatively hassle-free.
sin entallar
loosely hanging
baggy [baggier -comp., baggiest -sup.]
saggy [saggier -comp., saggiest -sup.]
A nightgown (also called a nightdress) is a loosely hanging item of nightwear nowadays mostly for women.
After he returned from the outing, students were complaining that he was wearing the same baggy pants, minus boxers and with zipper undone.
The most overlooked secret to perfect skin is avoiding conditions that lead to wrinkling, age spots, saggy skin and in general all around skin damage.
sin enterrar
unburied
Let us dig up the hatchet of war, and revenge the bones of our countrymen; they lie unburied, and cry to us for vengeance.
sin entrecejo
monobrow
unibrow
I often wonder why there are so many people in this world with monobrows.
Here are some tips on how to get rid of a unibrow so it no longer cramps your style.
sin entusiasmo
half-hearted [halfhearted]
Yet the response from government has been half-hearted at best.
sin envolver
unwrapped
This sector covers all bread sales both in the wrapped and the unwrapped sector.
sin errores
error-free
Of the 93 articles examined, only two had completely error-free reference lists.
sin escapatoria
no way out
There was no love, no marriage, but no way out.
sin escatimar
without stint
unstintingly
Only a man like D'Andrea, willing to use force without stint or limit, could rise to leadership against John Powers & his protected, armed partisans.
Cathy contributed unstintingly to her neighborhood association with wise counsel and encouragement.
sin escenificar
unproduced
Most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in 1997.
sin escrúpulos
unscrupulous
unconscionable
without scruples
unprincipled
He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
Slowly - but not without sustained and unconscionable injustices to Native and African Americans - the United States grew from a republic into a more inclusive democracy.
From small-time stick-ups to vengeful bloodbaths, they become insatiable predators without scruples.
Term paper fraud runs amok on the Web as dozens of fee and free sites have thousands of term papers available for lazy and unprincipled students.
sin escurrir
undrained
Then mix together the undrained fruit cocktail and coconut extract in a large mixing bowl.
sin esfuerzo
effortless
effortlessly
The effortless ease of such replies does conceal from the enquirer the extensive anticipatory effort of the librarian in studying the sources of information and his prior experience in their use.
Talking and writing are activities that most humans learn at a relatively early age and carry out fairly effortlessly for the rest of their lives.
sin esfuerzo alguno
effortlessly
Talking and writing are activities that most humans learn at a relatively early age and carry out fairly effortlessly for the rest of their lives.
sin especializar
non-specialised
Such systems of arrangement may well prove more attractive to users in small non-specialised libraries.
sin especificar
unspecified
Such considerations suggest that exhortations directed at SLIS to transform their curricula in unspecified radical fashion miss the mark.
sin esperanza
hopeless
dispiritedly
hopelessly
This article discusses the pre-revolutionary shortage of books on agriculture economy in 1913, and how existing books only discussed the miserable, hopeless life of the peasants.
He stood on the muddy bank of the river just after dawn, staring dispiritedly at the roiling current separating him from Mexico.
Woman, hopelessly left behind, remains in the rut of a past of which she herself knows but little.
sin esperarlo
out of the (clear) blue (sky)
like a bolt out of the blue
like a bolt from the blue
The article is entitled 'Software out of the blue'.
The election results came like a bolt out of the blue, threatening his loss of power.
A white bird in the distance was seen to dart down like a bolt from the blue and seize a flying fish in the air.
sin espinas
boneless
Chump chops are reckoned to be the finest cuts of lamb, boneless and tender they are the perfect chop.
sin estar obstaculizado por
untrammelled by
This view offers a version of information futures untrammelled by mundane resource considerations.
sin estilo
dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.]
This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
sin estructura
unstructured
The problem reside in the fact that they environment we seek to tame and control is an open, unstructured dynamic process, while human organizations are static and highly resistant to change.
sin estudios
ill-educated
He goes on to show that a similar percentage of people are 'relatively ill-educated' and that this might 'reinforce the idea that the majority will not be in the market for new technology information systems'.
sin evaluar
unevaluated
There has been little planning about what to do about the huge quantities of unevaluated and perhaps unwanted information which threatens to engulf the unsuspecting user.
sin examinar
unexamined
Traditional measures of retrieval effectiveness, of which the recall ratio is an outstanding example, are strongly influence by the relevance properties of unexamined documents - documents with which the system user has no direct contact.
sin exceder el presupuesto
budgetable
Keep the price simple, flexible, understandable and budgetable, and when in doubt, overprice.
sin excepción
without exception
Almost without exception libraries have agreed with the liberal-minded who wanted to make the immigrants' transition into a new society as painless as possible.
sin excesivo rigor
loosely
The term category has been at times used somewhat loosely in the literature of indexing and, for this reason, it can cause confusion.
sin excusa justificada
unexcused
Many school districts have adopted a hard-line approach to reducing unexcused absenteeism; in one such district, truancy rates were reduced 45 percent when truants and their parents were taken to court.
sin existencias
out-of-stock
We understand that 'out-of-print' is a sort of final death knell, but the current out-of-stock limbo is bewildering.
sin éxito
unsuccessful
no joy
Hundreds of unsuccessful children's books are written by practising mothers and only a few are lucky enough to have their work published.
I've tried several things I've read about in the forum but still no joy.
sin experiencia
inexperience
callow [callower -comp., callowest -sup.]
Their effective operation is not immediately obvious to the uninitiated and the cards in the index are liable to become disorganized if inexperienced information seekers tamper with the index.
Marco Polo set out from Venice, with his father and uncle, a very callow 17-year-old.
sin expirar
unexpired
This study was aimed at determining the microbiological quality of unexpired and expired syrups.
sin explicación
unaccounted
The raids have revealed that the actress has an unaccounted wealth worth millions of dollars in the form of jewellery, property and business.
sin explicar
unexplained
Please avoid using unexplained acronyms, initials, jargon and phrases which an international audience may not understand.
sin explorar
unexplored
Derfer was determined not only to revitalize but to expand library services into heretofore unexplored areas.
sin explotar
untapped
unexploded
unexploited
Archivists who do have such material in their charge are the keepers of a largely untapped source of historical material which offers a different and balancing perspective on history.
Although national parks are perceived as pristine areas, many are dumping grounds for hazardous materials - everything from industrial toxins to unexploded munitions.
Kenya and other African states are sitting on a fortune in the form of unexploited natural cures.
sin extras
no-frills
This is a good guide for independent travellers looking for cheap, no-frills intercity transport around the country.
sin fallar
without fail
Without fail, every time the roosters crowed in the morning, the sun rose afterwards.
sin fallos
flawlessly
Overall the drive was judged to perform flawlessly and well beyond what was expected by the reviewer.
sin falta
without fail
Without fail, every time the roosters crowed in the morning, the sun rose afterwards.
sin fecha
undated
There has always been a proportion of undated books, especially in the machinepress period when cheap reprints were left undated so that they could be sold over periods of years without advertising themselves as old stock.
sin fechar
undated
There has always been a proportion of undated books, especially in the machinepress period when cheap reprints were left undated so that they could be sold over periods of years without advertising themselves as old stock.
sin fianza
without bail
He was being held without bail after his fifth arrest for operating under the influence.
sin fin
never-finishing
never-ending
bottomless
interminably
unending
And becoming aware (a never-finishing process of intelligent life) is in itself action.
His, he concludes, is the never-ending search for what is new in the world out yonder.
The novel is a bottomless quagmire of melodramatic weirdness.
Also unfortunately common is the lonely soul who visits interminably with whomever is on the desk - and occasionally with other readers.
In the mean time, the piles outside the library are multiplying and shapeshifting and, for every 100 books the library SWAT team rescues, 100 are added by the unending delivery trucks.
sin finalidad
purposeless
Nor are these training periods held in a purposeless vacuum.
sin finalizar
uncompleted
This guide is organised along the steps involved in buying uncompleted private residential properties from licensed housing developers.
sin financiación
unfunded
The article 'The citation impact of funded and unfunded research in economics' asks whether research which receives grant support is more cited than unfunded research.
sin fines lucrativos
non-profit [nonprofit]
non-profit making
This non-profit organisation was formed to promote quality library and information services.
SWALCAP is a non-profit making organisation based at the University of Bristol.
sin firma
unsigned
The first study did not require evaluators to sign their forms and the director found that signed forms had higher ratings than unsigned forms.
sin firmar
unsigned
The first study did not require evaluators to sign their forms and the director found that signed forms had higher ratings than unsigned forms.
sin fondo
bottomless
The novel is a bottomless quagmire of melodramatic weirdness.
sin forma
bodilessly
formless
Worse is the bodilessly aesthetic production which tries to treat words and forms as ends in themselves.
He contends, however, that the seemingly formless, overabundant, inchoate texture of the novel might also suggest a valid mode for the novelization of slavery.
sin formación
ill-educated
He goes on to show that a similar percentage of people are 'relatively ill-educated' and that this might 'reinforce the idea that the majority will not be in the market for new technology information systems'.
sin formación previa
untrained
EasyNet is an American-based, menu-driven information retrieval system which links untrained users to over 800 data bases from nearly 20 on-line service vendors.
sin forrar
uncovered
Newspapers are best bound in uncovered boards with a cloth spine and corners, journals should be provided with cloth covered boards and spine.
sin fronteras
borderless
The overall aim is to create a network of borderless libraries and information services.
sin fundamento
unwarranted
unsupported
ungrounded
without foundation
without basis
Panizzi introduced what seemed to his critics unwarranted and capricious complications calculated to make the catalog much more difficult for the librarian to prepare and the reader to use.
Even more reprehensible than the unsupported recollection is the guess, however well informed.
This is an ungrounded notion = Ésta idea es infundada.
He acquits Brissot on all counts but finds that Darnton's suspicions were not entirely without foundation.
The imputation was totally without basis and was motivated purely by malice.
sin fundamento alguno
without any basis
This contention seems to have been raised only to contest the test results without any basis.
sin ganas
half-heartedly
Video graphics equipment does exist, but is being marketed only half-heartedly.
sin gastos
no cost(s)
Respondents who preferred CD-ROM searching did so because they liked doing their own searches and the fact that there were no costs involved.
sin gestionar
unmanaged
This is not to say that only companies with unmanaged infrastructures suffer the scourge of rogue spending.
sin goles
scoreless
Having been kept scoreless during the first half, Wales came out after the break and began scoring.
sin grabar
unengraved
The copperplate was warmed and then inked with a dabber and wiped to clean the unengraved areas.
sin gracia
dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.]
This article shows how the dowdy and boring image of the stereotypical librarian as presented in fiction, taints the portrayal of all who work in libraries.
sin grasa
nonfat
While trying to figure out ways to cut fat from my diet, I stumbled on a great basic nonfat salad dressing that is terrific all by itself.
sin grasas
nonfat
fat free
While trying to figure out ways to cut fat from my diet, I stumbled on a great basic nonfat salad dressing that is terrific all by itself.
A product labeled low fat must not contain more than 3 grams of fat per serving; and to be labeled fat free it must contain less than 0.5 grams of fat per serving.
sin guardar una correlación
uncorrelated
This technique can be used to derive either orthogonal or uncorrelated dimensions for any type of input data.
sin haber contacto
non-contact
The present invention relates to a toilet bowl adapted for non-contact use by a person in a crouching position.
sin haberlo buscado
without asking for it
without having anything to do with it
chances that you will get what you need without asking for it are pretty slim.
You can always say you've been changed, but really, September 11 is the first thing that changed me without having anything to do with it.
sin haber pasado por la calandria
uncalendered
Cloth styles began to change in the 1920s with the introduction of plain uncalendered materials that made a virtue of showing the pattern of the weave.
sin haber probado una gota de alcohol
stone-cold sober
Neither of us was charged because we were both stone-cold sober.
sin habla
speechless
The confrontation with this reality is understood as a consequence of the speechless horror that evil produces.
sin hacer
undone
After he returned from the ousting, students were complaining that he was wearing the same baggy pants, minus boxers and with zipper undone.
sin hacer caso
regardless
What can we do is rethink our query, or we can 'bash on regardless' using the power of the computer to perform lots more searches in the hope that 'something will turn up'.
sin hacer distinciones
one size fits all
And digital library developers might look at both situations before trying to offer simply a 'one size fits all' digital solution to some strange amalgam of Internet library users.
sin hacer nada
idly
Instead of going to his desk, he proceeded to the window and lingered there idly watching the rain spatter on the pavement outside.
sin hacer ruido
as quiet as a mouse
furtively
softly
Quiet as a mouse, she had crept in to see what they were doing.
Seditious books continued to appear, nevertheless, both from secret presses in England moving furtively from hideout to hideout.
You touch the illustration and the book begins to softly play the music, the score on the page moving to keep up with the notes.
sin hacer trampa
fair and square
Kevin wants to play and win or lose fair and square.
sin herrar
unshod
Many children walk barefoot in South Africa and unshod or partially shod (thong-type sandals) leisure behaviour may persist in adulthood.
sin hilación
rambling
Try to avoid vague expressions and long, rambling sentences.
sin hogar
homeless
Bryan Talbot's novel focuses on Helen, a homeless London teenager who finds hope in the stories of Beatrix Potter.
sin hueso
boneless
Chump chops are reckoned to be the finest cuts of lamb, boneless and tender they are the perfect chop.
sin humo
smokeless
A case study is then presented of the technology information and communication associated with the project 'making a smokeless wood-burning stove'.
sin humor
humourless [humorless, -USA]
According to Virginia Boucher, in a scholarly though not entirely humourless paper, 'The Irate Patron stance is characterised by very erect posture'.
sin humos
smoke-free
There are cities that have taken action, and have expanded upon this law and made entire beaches and parks smoke-free.
sin idea
clueless
Well, if you've come this far, and you started off clueless, I must congratulate you for wading through all these explanations.
sin ideas preconcebidas
open mind
The publisher needs to approach these data with an open mind.
sin identificar
unidentified
unmapped
unnamed
Names of speakers from the audience which were not clear from the tapes are listed as 'unidentified'.
The question of how web-based education affects teaching and learning remains largely unanswered, and the terrain of online learning remains largely unmapped.
The author examines a case study of a power struggle over a reviewer critique within an unnamed 'Ivy League' university.
sin igual
unequalled
unexampled
unsurpassed
unique unto itself
unrivalled [unrivaled, -USA]
without equal
matchless
peerless
without peer
unmatched
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have generated a level of common international interest on a level unequalled since the construction of the railways.
Hitherto her behavior had been unexampled.
He was a scholar-librarian whose Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts remained unsurpassed for 250 years, and is still useful.
Their problem, Waikart concluded, 'was unique unto itself'.
On-line data banks are still expanding, as they provide unrivalled services, even when these have to be paid for by users.
The Iberian horse was already regarded as a war horse without equal.
My reaction to both of them was not one of despair or of envy, but of pleasure in watching a matchless performance.
He had a peerless ability to coin expressions of invective and to hurl them against his chosen enemies.
A wide-ranging survey without peer, it also elucidates the universal truths that Christianity shares with other traditions and spiritual paths.
Its natural beauty is unmatched anywhere else on the planet.
sin impedimentos
unimpeded
No existing library provides users with unimpeded access to bibliographical information held in remote databases.
sin importancia [Para otros adjetivos terminados con este sufijo véase 'ible']
negligible
unimportant
trifling
immaterial
of no consequence
nothing major
Microforms are obviously very compact, and the microforms themselves occupy negligible space.
The maintenance of orderly shelf arrangement is often considered an unimportant chore.
But to employ a professional librarian on a case where the intellectual content is trifling and the clerical labour massive is as unreasonable as to call in a detective to trace a pair of mislaid spectacles = Aunque contratar a un bibliotecario para un trabajo donde el contenido intelectual es insignificante y el trabajo administrativo enorme es tan poco razonable como llamar a un detective para buscar unas gafas extraviadas.
Coblans shows in his paper that the 'information explosion' is largely immaterial anyway due to the sheer irrelevance of much published literature.
Don't waste your time on this mean-spirited little film of no consequence.
The cooling fan is a bit loud, but nothing major.
sin importar
regardless of
independently of
disregarding
without regard to
irrespective of
irrelevant of
Since all of the headings are alphabetical words, it is possible to interfile entries regardless of the nature of their heading.
Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.
'Affirmative action' was used by John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin = John F. Kennedy usó el concepto de "Acción afirmativa". hace ya más de 30 años para expresar la igualidad e igualdad de acceso para todos, idependientemente de la raza, creencia, color o país de origen.
The term 'corporate name heading' is used to designate the type of heading by reference to the type of name or title on which the heading is based, without regard to its function or relationship to other headings.
Similar principles may be applied in the formulation and assignment of headings irrespective of the physical form of the document.
Irrelevant of its cytology, a neoplasm of epithelial origin with this form of growth is also called papilloma.
sin importar + Adjetivo/Adverbio + que sea
however + Adjetivo/Adverbio
However successful, human free language indexing is very dependent upon the skills of the individual indexer.
sin importar cómo
no matter what
In hand-to-hand combat, the soldier must have the attitude that he will defeat the enemy and complete the mission, no matter what.
sin importar el tiempo
all-weather
So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.
sin importar las consecuencias
regardless of the consequences
The situation can improve especially when people have the courage to speak the truth regardless of the consequences.
sin importar qué
no matter what/which
Indeed, it is a professional duty to equip oneself sufficiently to be able to help a child along as a reader no matter what genre appeals to him.
sin impuestos
duty-free
tax-free
Nowhere is this climate of change more dramatic than within Europe, which in 1991 accounted for over 50% of worldwide duty-free sales.
Tax-free reductions in tax rates could be used to provide a selective subsidy method.
sin impurezas
purified
Lastly, get thou to the apothecary and make haste with a purified protein derivative.
sin incluir
unlisted
exclusive of
not including
excluding
barring
Materials acquired are often, perforce, left unsorted and unlisted for years through lack of staffing to undertake the task.
A UNESCO definition of a book, adopted in 1964, defines it simply as`a non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages exclusive of the cover pages'.
According to this story, owning a horse can cost about $10000 a year, not including the horse = Según esta historia, poseer un caballo puede costar alrededor de $ 10000 al año, sin incluir el caballo.
Durable goods excluding transportation soared by 2.0% in June in the U.S.
All abstracts, barring possibly those of exceptional length, should consist of one paragraph only.
sin incluir las comidas
self-catering
Accommodation comprises 200 fully equipped, self-catering rondavels with own bathroom, kitchen and braai facilities = El alojamiento no incluye las comidas y consta de 200 cabañas totalmente equipadas, con baño, cocina y barbacoa.
sin índice
indexless
This article offers reasons for indexless books and gives suggestions and guidelines for deciding whether or not a publication should have an index.
sin + Infinitivo
without + Gerundio
It is difficult to neglect either entirely, without impairing the effectiveness in fulfilling the other objective.
sin información sobre el estado anterior
stateless
Web search engines are stateless, losing previous search criteria.
sin inhibiciones
uninhibited
Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
sin inmutarse
undeterred
impassively
without batting an eyelid
without turning a hair
nonchalantly
So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.
Gordon plays the role stiffly and impassively, which actually works well for this character.
He knew the names of celebs but he could have walked past any one of them in the street without batting an eyelid.
Nothing is more unrealistic that seeing the hero take in an unlikely number of hits without turning a hair.
She arrived in floods of tears, having been told nonchalantly by her booker to 'skip a few meals' in the run-up to London Fashion Week if she wanted to work.
sin intención
involuntarily
Large libraries are thus involuntarily subsidising small libraries = De este modo las grandes bibliotecas están subsidiando de manera involuntaria a las pequeñas.
sin interés
unexciting
uninteresting
unmoving
vapid
The author argues that the advantages for higher education are unclear, and rather unexciting.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The outcome is strangely unmoving.
Television has become so vapid and devoid of information that I didn't see the point of watching the presidential debate.
sin intermediarios
unmediated
Even if unmediated experience were possible, such an experience necessarily would be empty, for any attempts to represent it would involve mediation.
sin interrupción
continuously
without a break
without (a) rest
in an unbroken line
The format of the body of entry is the same as for catalog cards except that the fields are printed continuously instead of starting new lines.
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
The office of Governor General is the oldest institution in Canada's public life, going back in an unbroken line to Samuel de Champlain.
sin interrupciones
in a single phase
The new library was built in a single phase, with stock and facilities housed in temporary accommodation during demolition and construction.
sin intervención de un intermediario
disintermediated
Database records are enhanced with links through to the full text of periodical articles, where these are available, or to the Library's disintermediated document delivery system where an online version of the article is not available.
sin intervención directa
nonobtrusive
This method has been defined as a nonobtrusive observation 'during which the personal characteristics and behavior of sedentary individuals in a complex are recorded at a particular point in time' = Se ha definido este método como la observación no intrusiva por parte del investigador "durante la cual se tomaba nota de las características personales y el comportamiento de las personas que no estaban desplazándose en un gran edificio en un momento concreto".
sin investigar
unresearched
This paper evaluates the annual reports of 16 major international publishing companies, an area which is largely unresearched, and sets out the reasons for omissions and disqualification.
sin justificación
unreasonably
unjustified
This does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
Many citation analyses draw conclusions unjustified by the evidence, which could mislead unwary librarians.
sin justificación alguna
wantonly
Anyone who wilfully or wantonly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statue belonging to the Library shall be punished to the full extent of the law of the State.
sin justificar [Con el margen derecho alineado de modo que todas las líneas terminan en la misma posición]
unjustified
Every major survey of people with reading difficulties during the last 30 years has shown that poor readers perform better with an unjustified right hand margin.
sin la amenaza de
unthreatened (by)
Capitalism in the US & GB is steaming ahead at a rapid pace relatively unthreatened by other economies of the world.
sin la ayuda de nadie
single-handed
single-handedly
So we see extraordinary hardships cheerfully borne (indeed, apparently enjoyed) by zealous mountaineers, earnest single-handed yachtsmen floating round the world, and all-weather fishing-hobbyists sit patiently at the side of, and sometimes in, rivers, undeterred by the paucity of their catches.
He almost single-handedly created Nigeria's first academic press and, with his wife, its 1st university bookshop.
sin la debida autorización
unauthorised [unauthorized, -USA]
warrantless
Do not use your first name, last name, or initials as a password, since this information is easily guessed by an unauthorized person.
With each passing day, it becomes more evident that the main purpose behind Bush's illegal, warrantless spying program is not collecting intelligence on terrorists.
sin la debida consideración
without due consideration
The existing efficient systems of document supply are in danger of being destabilised without due consideration of the consequences.
sin la más mínima duda
without the shadow of a doubt
without a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
She was, without the shadow of a doubt, an exceptionally lovely woman and her pallor made her expression truly supernatural.
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
sin la menor duda
no mistake
no doubt
We were in a pickle too and no mistake.
The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme = El compilador del sistema de clasificación sin duda estará muy familiariazado con el orden de las materias dentro del sistema.
sin la menor idea
clueless
Well, if you've come this far, and you started off clueless, I must congratulate you for wading through all these explanations.
sin la menor sombra de duda
without a shadow of a doubt
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
sin la suficiente financiación
underfinanced [under-financed]
Academic libraries are underfinanced.
sin lavar
unwashed
It was Burke who first called the mob 'the great unwashed,' but the term 'unwashed' had been applied to them before.
sin leer
unread
But clearly a book read and enjoyed is more likely to lead on to further reading than is a book unread or unfinished.
sin levadura
unleavened
The condition of this unleavened lump is described in the title of this chapter 'The Documentary Chaos'.
sin licencia
unlicensed
Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders, they operate illegally and away from any sort of regulation that governs the financial industry.
sin líder
leaderless
This article attempts to draw lessons for library management from a cooperative, leaderless orchestra in the USA, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
sin limitaciones
without stint
without limit
Only a man like D'Andrea, willing to use force without stint or limit, could rise to leadership against John Powers & his protected, armed partisans.
As stated earlier, the purposes to which cases can be put vary almost without limit, and there is no 'correct' technique for using them, no formula to be offered to ensure success.
sin límite
without limit
without stint
interminably
uncapped
As stated earlier, the purposes to which cases can be put vary almost without limit, and there is no 'correct' technique for using them, no formula to be offered to ensure success.
Only a man like D'Andrea, willing to use force without stint or limit, could rise to leadership against John Powers & his protected, armed partisans.
Also unfortunately common is the lonely soul who visits interminably with whomever is on the desk - and occasionally with other readers.
While the rest of the world has been enjoying cheap uncapped Internet for long now, South African has been milked for every cent they have.
sin límites
unbounded
unfettered
unstinting
unstintingly
boundless
The public library is a way of escape from the narrow area of our individual lives into the field, finite, no doubt, but unbounded, of the wisdom and experience of all mankind.
This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
The revolutionary people of the world are unstinting in their praise.
Cathy contributed unstintingly to her neighborhood association with wise counsel and encouragement.
News of boundless timber reserves spread, and before long lumberjacks from the thinning hardwood forests of New England swarmed into the uncharted area with no other possessions than their axes and brawn and the clothing they wore.
sin límite(s)
the sky is the limit
King Abdullah issued a statement saying that 'the sky is the limit' for the freedom of the press.
sin litoral
land-bound [landbound]
land-locked [landlocked]
Ultimately, this film is just a land-bound rerun of Jaws, down to the sacrifice of the grizzled, expert hunter so the younger, more clean-cut, family man can face his own fears and prove his prowess.
Because Zambia is land-locked, book acquisition is difficult.
sin llamar la atención
inconspicuously
He had merely stolen away as inconspicuously as possible.
sin lógica ni explicación
without rhyme or reason
Many disliked the movement, which was abstract and appeared to be without rhyme or reason.
sin lugar a dudas
conclusively
undeniably
unquestionably
without any doubt
by all accounts
no mistake
no doubt
without a shadow of a doubt
beyond a shadow of a doubt
to be sure
without question
This proved conclusively that we had planned a flexible building.
Technology undeniably has produced significant and far-reaching changes in the information professions.
Unquestionably staff numbers and operational resources will be reduced.
Without any doubt, the specific area of social psychology research that has made the greatest impact on reference librarians in recent years has been non-verbal communication.
By all accounts, trafficking in human beings is increasing at staggering rates.
We were in a pickle too and no mistake.
The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme = El compilador del sistema de clasificación sin duda estará muy familiariazado con el orden de las materias dentro del sistema.
This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the weirdest and probably disturbing postings I have ever had the pleasure to read.
The film proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash and that all the evidence points towards an inside job.
To be sure, there is not much flexibility in the classical bookform catalog.
Without question, information has most assuredly become the competitive edge for business and industry.
sin lujos
no-frills
This is a good guide for independent travellers looking for cheap, no-frills intercity transport around the country.
sin luna
moonless
Shipments of these goods arrive on caravans that travel on moonless nights to evade the searchlights of low-flying helicopters.
sin luz de luna
moonless
Shipments of these goods arrive on caravans that travel on moonless nights to evade the searchlights of low-flying helicopters.
sin madera
woodfree
A curious technical term, 'woodfree', should be mentioned here: it refers to paper that contains no mechanical wood, although it may contain any amount of chemical wood.
sin madurar
unripened
To ripen tomatoes, add a whole lime to unripened tomatoes in a paper bag and store at room temperature for a few days.
sin maldad
guileless
He cites, for example, a popular reference book from the 1880s, which gushes about the Eskimo's guileless character, keen intelligence, and harmonious politics.
sin malicia
guileless
He cites, for example, a popular reference book from the 1880s, which gushes about the Eskimo's guileless character, keen intelligence, and harmonious politics.
sin mancha
unblemished
untainted
stainless
Many traditional treatments, on the other hand, have tended to glorify him portraying him as an unblemished hero.
The information needs of minorities are important and that libraries must organise to become neutral service points making untainted information available to all.
In this study of sapphism in the British novel, Moore often directs our attention to the periphery of sapphic romances, when an abjected body suffers on behalf of the stainless heroine.
sin mandíbula
jawless
The lamprey, which evolved some 250 million years ago, belongs to a near-extinct family of jawless fishes.
sin mangas
sleeveless
It is odd that she was the only person in that huge room on that cold night who was sleeveless.
sin mantenimiento
maintenance-free
This solid particles removal device has a lifespan of at least 7 years and is virtually maintenance-free for the first 26,400 h of use.
sin marcar
unpriced
Eastern European serials are unpriced as they come via exchange agreements.
sin marca registrada
non-proprietary
The need to share information between computers, produced by different manufacturers, has given rise to 2 non-proprietary protocols to support interoperability and telecommunications compatibility: TCP/IP and OSI.
sin más
out of hand
unceremoniously
unceremonious
Collections housed in this way are, it is true, preserved for posterity but are almost as effectively lost to contemporary scholars as if they had been destroyed out of hand.
They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
Although the flag-raising was a spontaneous and unceremonious gesture, the photograph has become to many people the symbol of that terrible day.
sin más dilación
without (any) further ado
without (any) more ado
without warning
So without further ado, I'd like to introduce our keynote speaker, Doctor Sam Eriks.
If this man is right we will have no alternative than to pay him without more ado.
In February 1986 an unforeseeable financial crisis at the Georgia Institute of Technology's library made it necessary to divert the binding budget to other areas and without warning binding activities were halted.
sin más explicaciones
out of hand
Collections housed in this way are, it is true, preserved for posterity but are almost as effectively lost to contemporary scholars as if they had been destroyed out of hand.
sin más ni más
unceremoniously
unceremonious
for the love of it
without much ado
They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
Although the flag-raising was a spontaneous and unceremonious gesture, the photograph has become to many people the symbol of that terrible day.
Andrew is a musician truly doing it for the love of it, what you see is what you get.
Without much ado, he accepted the principles and procedure that had helped us - he is undoubtedly on the road to recovery.
sin más preámbulos
without (any) further ado
without (any) more ado
So without further ado, I'd like to introduce our keynote speaker, Doctor Sam Eriks.
If this man is right we will have no alternative than to pay him without more ado.
sin mediación
unmediated
Even if unmediated experience were possible, such an experience necessarily would be empty, for any attempts to represent it would involve mediation.
sin medir
unmeasured
The impact on collections and budgets will be significant, but are largely yet unmeasured.
sin mencionar
not to mention
not to say
not to speak of
UNIMARC could make a significant contribution to UBC but, if it is to succeed, it requires the co-operation and effort, not to mention the financial outlay, of all national MARC users.
In fact, all he is doing by forming the exercise in this fashion is to teach a misuse, not to say a misunderstanding, of language.
And it takes little imagination to conceive of future combinations and developments to existing systems, not to speak of new and even more sophisticated means of storing, retrieving and transporting information.
sin meternos en el hecho de que
to say nothing of
And how in heaven's name will we get any work done around here if we have to worry about grievance hearings, to say nothing of the grievant being in the same building.
sin mezcla
unmixed
But the next Oxford catalog, published in 1620, represented an unmixed finding catalog, consisting of one alphabetical listing of all the books in the library irrespective of their arrangement on the shelves.
sin mezclar
unmixed
But the next Oxford catalog, published in 1620, represented an unmixed finding catalog, consisting of one alphabetical listing of all the books in the library irrespective of their arrangement on the shelves.
sin miedo
with confidence
fearlessly
unafraid
The advice is to chill out most artefacts with confidence, although coating on wood may crackle a little bit by -50 degrees centigrade.
Knowing that he was up against a large enemy force, he fearlessly rode to the head of his troops to calm them before sending them into battle.
Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.
sin miramientos
unceremoniously
They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
sin misericordia
ruthlessly
The traditional lending services were revamped and the book collection ruthlessly weeded to books that are used frequently.
sin modificar
unmodified
unaltered
unedited
The terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and unmodified into a thesaurus.
The unaltered message remains in your list of messages unless you request that the changed message be saved.
This bank of data represented a valuable source of unedited views about users' perceptions, thoughts and attitudes about libraries and electronic resources.
sin molestias
hassle-free
Cooking dry beans in the crockpot makes them relatively hassle-free.
sin motivo alguno
wantonly
Anyone who wilfully or wantonly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys any book, plate, picture, engraving, or statue belonging to the Library shall be punished to the full extent of the law of the State.
sin motivo aparente
for no apparent reason
for apparently no reason
These outbursts often happen for no apparent reason and may be due to the child's inability to tolerate the present environment.
The formatting on my main page has gone haywire for apparently no reason.
sin motivo justificado
without justified reason
According to this draft, employers would be allowed to dismiss workers without justified reason = Según este anteproyecto de ley, los empresarios podrán despedir a los trabajadores sin causa justificada.
sin moverse del sitio
in place
I told him about the doctor's explanation for my lack of weight loss and he did a few hops in place, excited for me that there's an explanation for not losing weight.
sin movimiento
unmoving
motionless
The dynamic path generation problem of robots in environments with other unmoving and moving objects is considered.
In a control condition, participants recited memorized text to the research assistant who sat motionless.
sin mucha antelación
at short notice
Each of the experts is available for telephone consultation at short notice.
sin mucha anticipación
at short notice
Each of the experts is available for telephone consultation at short notice.
sin mucha dificultad
painlessly
Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Sin las RCAA es dudoso que la catalogación automatizada se hubiera implementado tan fácilmente y con tanto éxito, relativamente hablando.
sin muchas contemplaciones
unceremoniously
They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
sin muchos inconvenientes
without much grudging
The residents do not know a great deal about the library, and not many of them use it directly; but they do approve of it, and they support it without much grudging.
sin nada de gracia
unfunny
This ostensible comedy about two straight men on a gay cruise is acutely unfunny.
sin nada que destacar
uneventful
The resulting music shares several attributes with ambient music - its emphasis on texture and timbre, the absence of rhythm, and its adherence to the dictate that ambient music should be uneventful.
sin necesidad de ello
gratuitous
gratuitously
However, most librarians do not have the training for counseling and should avoid gratuitous tampering with the lives of library patrons.
The proceedings of a conference are, under ISBD, to have the full name of the conference gratuitously repeated after the title only to encumber the entry and obscure the significant elements of its content.
sin necesidad de pensar
thought-free
Intenrnet also enables enterprising would-be cheaters to cut and paste material for easy and relatively thought-free composition of essay assignments.
sin ninguna discriminación
without any discrimination
All vessels using trawls, including Norwegian vessels, will be subject to the same restrictions without any discrimination.
sin ninguna duda
without question
without any doubt
beyond doubt
beyond any doubt
no mistake
no doubt
Without question, information has most assuredly become the competitive edge for business and industry.
Without any doubt, the specific area of social psychology research that has made the greatest impact on reference librarians in recent years has been non-verbal communication.
The future growth of Prestel as a public information service is beyond doubt.
The published material confirms beyond any doubt that he was suffering from syphilis and its common manifestation, general paresis.
We were in a pickle too and no mistake.
The compiler of the classification scheme will no doubt be all too familiar with the order of subjects within the scheme = El compilador del sistema de clasificación sin duda estará muy familiariazado con el orden de las materias dentro del sistema.
sin ningún cosste
without cost
The author looks at how 'free' information really is and whether we can continue to expect high quality information to be available without cost.
sin ningún coste
without charge
free of charge
at no cost
free of cost
cost free
for free
costless
at no charge
There is a drop-in centre with a fully equipped sound recording studio and video editing suite offering guitar tuition and rehearsal space to local teenagers without charge.
Law centres employ qualified lawyers and they receive a waiver from the Law Society that allows them to provide their services free of charge.
Some commercial information providers are giving away a little information at no cost in order to attract customers onto the system.
An annexure reviews electronic journals available free of cost.
In an attempt to overcome this problem, a group of small health related libraries responded by forming a cost free cooperative called GRATIS in 1982.
In addition, most or all of the contents of the resources listed are available for free.
Another property of DSMA protocols is a provision for a graceful dynamic reconfiguration and costless protocol recovery after a lost token.
This latest move makes available at no charge more than 150 electronic publications for which fees were previously charged.
sin ningún esfuerzo
effortlessly
Talking and writing are activities that most humans learn at a relatively early age and carry out fairly effortlessly for the rest of their lives.
sin ningún esfuerzo mental
thought-free
Intenrnet also enables enterprising would-be cheaters to cut and paste material for easy and relatively thought-free composition of essay assignments.
sin ningún género de duda
without any doubt whatsoever
without any doubt whatsoever
I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.
I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.
sin ningún género de dudas
indisputably
Rigorous mechanical control of the machine-based catalog of a single institution is indisputably desirable.
sin ningún motivo
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin ningún nivel de especialización
unskilled
Luckham and his co-workers found in 1964 that less than one in ten of the library users were skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled manual workers.
sin ningún otro motivo
(just) for the hell of (doing) it
(just) for the sake of it
The article is entitled 'A Marshland index - or ìndexing for the hell of it'.
When they started to eff and blind just for the sake of it, I felt they lost the plot a bit.
sin ningún problema
without a hitch
without a glitch
Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.
Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.
sin ningún remedio posible
beyond redemption
This is not necessarily a defect; in a subject where language and meaning are confused beyond redemption it may be the only answer.
sin ningún reparo
unabashed
The article is entitled 'What's the number?: an unofficial and unabashed guide to the Library of Congress Classification for the social sciences'.
sin ningún resultado
to no avail
without any avail
of no avail
to no purpose
to no effect
So when the user looked to no avail under all of these entries, he understandably concluded the library did not own the volume.
I have been searching for a solution to this problem without any avail - Maybe someone here can offer a suggestion?.
All medicines were tried but of no avail, he remained in his state of absolute forgetfulness of the world.
What is true of mankind as a whole is true of each of us individually: we are here to no purpose.
My grandpa is having some problems with sleeping and I have tried to help by giving diazepam but it was to no effect.
sin ningún sentido
senselessly
Macbeth is the tragedy of a king so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in his path, eventually leading to his own demise.
sin ningún tipo de discriminación
without any discrimination
All vessels using trawls, including Norwegian vessels, will be subject to the same restrictions without any discrimination.
sin ningún tipo de restricciones
no holds barred
He has demanded a 'no holds barred' investigation of the causes of the electrical power blackout that crippled New York last week.
sin nombrar
unnamed
The author examines a case study of a power struggle over a reviewer critique within an unnamed 'Ivy League' university.
sin normalizar
unstandardised [unstandardized, -USA]
The values displayed in the figure were unstandardised estimates.
sin norte
aimless
off course
rudderless
aimlessly
Browsing when one has no clue what one wants is not a very intellectual activity, it is rather aimless meandering.
Russia has launched an investigation into why a manned space capsule returned to earth hundreds of miles off course.
She was 15 kilograms too heavy, rudderless, half-lost to drinking and chatting up other girls' boyfriends.
A new study has cautioned parents from allowing their teenage children to roam aimlessly without any supervision.
sin norte fijo
aimlessly
A new study has cautioned parents from allowing their teenage children to roam aimlessly without any supervision.
sin notar la diferencia
seamlessly
seamless
A multimedia system is one that seamlessly integrates text, numerics, pictures, video, animation and sound within a single, digital information environment.
CD-I (CD-Interactive) finally allows them to be integrated together in a seamless fashion = Finalmente el CD-I (CD-Interactivo) les permite integrarse de una manera transparente.
sin nubes
unclouded
uncloudy
cloudless
As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.
In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.
This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.
sin numeración Ex: If the book has no printed pagination or foliation, the total number of pages is added in brackets : -9-2 leaves, unnumbered [pp -1--1-8-4]
unnumbered
sin numerar Ex: If the book has no printed pagination or foliation, the total number of pages is added in brackets : -9-2 leaves, unnumbered [pp -1--1-8-4]
unnumbered
sin obligaciones
at leisure
Equally the housewife happily crossing off her numbers in the bingo hall is just as much at leisure as is her husband painting his pigeon loft and then going for a drink with his mates at the pub.
sin obstáculos
unchecked
unhindered
unimpeded
unobstructed
The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
No existing library provides users with unimpeded access to bibliographical information held in remote databases.
From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
sin obstáculos de por medio
uncluttered
Google, the search engine, became popular because of its efficiency, simple structure uncluttered by advertising and its non-commercial look and feel.
sin obstrucciones
unobstructed
From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.
sin olor
odourless [odorless, -USA]
108 subjects completed a variety of tests in weakly scented (jasmine, lavender or odorless) rooms without having been made aware of the odor.
sin olvidar
not to mention
UNIMARC could make a significant contribution to UBC but, if it is to succeed, it requires the co-operation and effort, not to mention the financial outlay, of all national MARC users.
sin operario
unmanned
The 'strategic computing' plan announced by the United States in early 1984 envisages, among others, the use of intelligent robots (for example, to serve as ammunition loaders in tanks, or in unmanned reconnaissance and manipulating devices).
sin oposición
without opposition
unchallenged
unopposed
The men of the 6th Armored Infantry secured the beachhead without opposition.
In the sales field, however, the Publications Office's responsibility is largely unchallenged, and a number of factors have led to an increase in its scope.
He became the agency's longest-serving commissioner and unopposed spiritual leader.
sin orden
unordered
Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.
sin ordenar
unordered
unsorted
Experience has shown that the vastness of this as yet unordered field holds many pitfalls for the unwary librarian and researcher.
Unsorted search results generally display in reverse order of entry of the records into the database.
sin orden ni concierto
higgledy-piggledy
without rhyme or reason
A decision has to be made about whether the books will be displayed higgledy-piggledy or according to a plan.
Many disliked the movement, which was abstract and appeared to be without rhyme or reason.
sin originalidad
unoriginal
Their terminology is confusing and unrealistic, and the ideas about education for librarianship are fanciful but unoriginal.
sin palabras
wordless
This kind of wordless communication is a two-way process, of course.
sin papel [Adjetivo que se utiliza para describir la situación en la que el papel ha sido sustituido por otros medios audiovisuales como soporte documental]
paperless
However, to use terminals producing printed output would be to negate part of the fundamental philosophy of the 'paperless' system.
sin par
unequalled
unexampled
unsurpassed
unique unto itself
unique
without peer
unrivalled [unrivaled, -USA]
without equal
matchless
one-of-a-kind
peerless
unmatched
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have generated a level of common international interest on a level unequalled since the construction of the railways.
Hitherto her behavior had been unexampled.
He was a scholar-librarian whose Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts remained unsurpassed for 250 years, and is still useful.
Their problem, Waikart concluded, 'was unique unto itself'.
The basic requirement of a shelf arrangement system is that each document has a unique place in the sequence.
A wide-ranging survey without peer, it also elucidates the universal truths that Christianity shares with other traditions and spiritual paths.
On-line data banks are still expanding, as they provide unrivalled services, even when these have to be paid for by users.
The Iberian horse was already regarded as a war horse without equal.
My reaction to both of them was not one of despair or of envy, but of pleasure in watching a matchless performance.
Join leading experts in cultural heritage informatics for a one-of-a-kind learning experience.
He had a peerless ability to coin expressions of invective and to hurl them against his chosen enemies.
Its natural beauty is unmatched anywhere else on the planet.
sin paralelo
unparalleled
But these designers did more than copy the Aldine original: they developed it in a whole range of new sizes, and produced a series of romans hitherto unparalleled for elegance and utility.
sin parangón
unparalleled
unequalled
without peer
matchless
peerless
unmatched
But these designers did more than copy the Aldine original: they developed it in a whole range of new sizes, and produced a series of romans hitherto unparalleled for elegance and utility.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have generated a level of common international interest on a level unequalled since the construction of the railways.
A wide-ranging survey without peer, it also elucidates the universal truths that Christianity shares with other traditions and spiritual paths.
My reaction to both of them was not one of despair or of envy, but of pleasure in watching a matchless performance.
He had a peerless ability to coin expressions of invective and to hurl them against his chosen enemies.
Its natural beauty is unmatched anywhere else on the planet.
sin parar
steadily
non-stop
without a break
without (a) rest
on-the-go
interminably
without respite
without stopping
Rather readers grow by fits and starts now rushing ahead, now lying fallow, and now moving steadily on.
A British yachtswoman has become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, both ways around the world.
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
With technologies such as SMS, Podcasting, voice over IP (VoIP), and more becoming increasingly mainstream, the potential to provide instant, on-the-go reference is limitless.
Also unfortunately common is the lonely soul who visits interminably with whomever is on the desk - and occasionally with other readers.
The ancient Egyptian mind was struck by the periodic regularity of certain phenomena: the sun that rises, shines, and disappears without respite every day.
Anyway, I want to try to run at least 3 miles without stopping and running out of breath.
sin parar a pensárselo
off-hand [offhand]
They suggest that instead of undergoing off-hand destruction, ephemera be considered a necessary part of a comprehensive archival collection.
sin pararse a pensar
off-the-cuff
off the top of + Posesivo + head
Someone's off-the-cuff idea may be the clue that will tap another's thought and lead to a successful solution.
Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.
sin patente
non-proprietary
The need to share information between computers, produced by different manufacturers, has given rise to 2 non-proprietary protocols to support interoperability and telecommunications compatibility: TCP/IP and OSI.
sin pausa
breathlessly
These comedies, especially the seven he created in his glory years, lurch breathlessly in every direction, simultaneously sophisticated and boisterous, urbane and philistine.
sin peculio
impecunious
Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.
sin pedirlo
without asking for it
chances that you will get what you need without asking for it are pretty slim.
sin peligro alguno
safely
Until recently movable shelving was used mainly in closed access stacks, but since some systems can be operated safely by anyone, it is being used increasingly in open access stacks.
sin pelo
hairless
Jonah was thrown clothed into the mouth of the sea monster and emerged nude and hairless.
sin pelos en la lengua
outspokenly
Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
sin pensar
mindlessly
When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.
sin pensar en
unmindful of
with little or no thought of
Unmindful of the epic moves that made it what it is today, Elwood Bibeau fastened his seat belt as his plane approached the Wexler airport.
The concern was usually on the present, with little or no thought of what rapid change might dictate.
sin pensar (en)
without thinking (about)
Many simple actions such as eating or reaching for a pain reliever, which we perform without thinking, are tied to chemistry.
sin pensarlo
spur-of-the-moment
on the spur of the moment
According to their friends, the couple made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tie the knot during a holiday = Según sus amigos, la pareja tomó la decisión de casarse de improviso durante las vacaciones.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.
sin pensarlo demasiado
off-the-cuff
off the top of + Posesivo + head
Someone's off-the-cuff idea may be the clue that will tap another's thought and lead to a successful solution.
Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.
sin pensarlo detenidamente
out of + Posesivo + head
Their problems are never so simple that the librarian can produce the answers out of his head.
sin pensarlo mucho
off the top of + Posesivo + head
right off the bat
Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.
I can't think of an exact example to give you right off the bat.
sin pensárselo
spur-of-the-moment
on the spur of the moment
According to their friends, the couple made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tie the knot during a holiday = Según sus amigos, la pareja tomó la decisión de casarse de improviso durante las vacaciones.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.
sin pensárselo dos veces
without a second thought
spur-of-the-moment
on the spur of the moment
at the drop of a hat
The worst interruptions of all, in my experience, come from those public address systems rigged in many schools in every room and used apparently without a second thought by administrative staff.
According to their friends, the couple made a spur-of-the-moment decision to tie the knot during a holiday = Según sus amigos, la pareja tomó la decisión de casarse de improviso durante las vacaciones.
The classic form of April fool hoax is to present an improbable situation in such a convincing way that people fall for it on the spur of the moment but later cannot understand why they did so.
Sometimes these tantrums start at the drop of a hat for often no apparent reason other than the fact that he's 2 years old.
sin pepitas
seedless
Some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even though they do not flower.
sin percatarse
without realising
without noticing
unconsciously
unknowingly
unwittingly
Similarly, an English woman visiting Italy who touches her earlobes a lot, without realising the cultural significance of this action, would be behaving flirtatiously in that context.
They gradually soak up language, discovering the rules by which it works almost without noticing it.
He often did this, almost unconsciously, to avert an immediate sign of reaction to an irksome confrontation.
The ways in which library professionals - knowingly and unknowingly - undermine intellectual freedom are discussed = Se analizan las formas en las que los profesionales de las bibliotecas, consciente o inconscientemente, socavan la libertad intelectual.
Wittingly or unwittingly, they mask other questions that users do not know how to ask or are uncertain that they want to divulge to someone else.
sin perder de vista
with an eye on
Thus Panizzi, with a eye on the printed book catalog demanding stable entries, was led to rule that the works of an author should be entered under his earliest name which evoked the scorn of his critics.
sin perder un (solo) minuto
without a moment wasted
without a wasted moment
without a minute wasted
without a wasted minute
The days will be packed full, without any filler and without a moment wasted.
This is a very fun movie that goes from one thing to another without a wasted moment.
By answering some key questions, you're directed to information pertinent to your business without a minute wasted.
If the meeting swept forward without a wasted minute, the President was interested and satisfied.
sin pérdida
lossless
This article presents two new techniques for lossless image compression.
sin perfume
unscented
non-scented
They have scented and unscented types of wipes; along with baby wipes specifically designed for babies with sensitive skin.
Until your skin gets use to it, it will itch but non-scented talcum powder will help, just make sure you don't inhale any of that shit.
sin perjuicio de
notwithstanding
Notwithstanding these activities, the printed word remains an essential vehicle for transmitting information to both specialized and general audiences.
sin perjuicios
open mind
The publisher needs to approach these data with an open mind.
sin permiso
without permission
unlicensed
Shortly after lunch, he went home without permission.
Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders, they operate illegally and away from any sort of regulation that governs the financial industry.
sin pestañear
impassively
without batting an eyelid
without turning a hair
Gordon plays the role stiffly and impassively, which actually works well for this character.
He knew the names of celebs but he could have walked past any one of them in the street without batting an eyelid.
Nothing is more unrealistic that seeing the hero take in an unlikely number of hits without turning a hair.
sin pico
flat-topped
Since shales and siltstones erode faster than sandstones and limestones, the basic topography is flat-topped mountains with stepped flanks.
sin piedad
ruthlessly
remorseless
mercilessly
The traditional lending services were revamped and the book collection ruthlessly weeded to books that are used frequently.
The population explosion and the remorseless growth of knowledge are discussed.
Low was possibly the most celebrated political cartoonist of the 20th century, best remembered for the way he mercilessly ridiculed Hitler and Mussolini in a humorous vein.
sin piel
skinless
Of 33 retail products examined, including skinless sausages, hot-dog sausages and frankfurters, 25 (75%) contained levels of mineral hydrocarbons from 10 to 105 milligrams per kilogram.
sin pies ni cabeza
without rhyme or reason
Many disliked the movement, which was abstract and appeared to be without rhyme or reason.
sin pilares
pillar-free
This spacious, flat-floored, pillar-free hall is extremely flexible allowing a wide variety of stand configurations.
sin pistas
clueless
Well, if you've come this far, and you started off clueless, I must congratulate you for wading through all these explanations.
sin planificar
unplanned
In fact, it is exactly these unplanned events that give him an insight into the country which he could not get from written sources.
sin poblar
unpopulated
In the USA and Australia, the impression is that there is a lot of wide open, largely unpopulated space between towns of a size to support static library services.
sin poder avanzar
no way forward
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin poder contenerse
helplessly
Before saying anything, she glanced long into the humid eyes of the woman sitting helplessly in front of her.
sin poder dormir
sleepless
The article 'Sleepless in Belgrade: a virtual community during war' presents the results of research on the role of a virtual community during wartime.
sin poder extinguirlo
inextinguishably
Nitrate film ignites readily, burns fiercely, virtually inextinguishably and with highly toxic fumes.
sin poder hacer nada
helplessly
Before saying anything, she glanced long into the humid eyes of the woman sitting helplessly in front of her.
sin poder regresar
no way back
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin poder volver
no way back
Millions of refugees and displaced persons worldwide live in dangerous situations, in an unbearable state of limbo, with no way forward and no way back.
sin ponderar
unweighted
Table 1 below shows the unweighted results from the sample.
sin poner Algo en entredicho
without question
The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.
sin poner en escena
unproduced
Most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in 1997.
sin ponerlo en duda
uncritically
We must be cautions about accepting Ranganathan's fundamental categories uncritically.
sin ponerse en duda
unquestioned
Cutter has had an immense influence, especially on dictionary cataloguing in the US, and many of its rulings on subject headings still remain almost unquestioned = Cutter ha ejercido una inmensa influencia, especialmente sobre el catálogo diccionario en los Estados Unidos y muchas de sus reglas sobre los encabezamientos de materia aún siguen siendo casi sin ponerse en duda.
sin + Posesivo + aprobación
without + Posesivo + approval
It's got to the point where I cannot do anything without her approval otherwise If I dont I will feel guilty and could end up upsetting her.
sin + Posesivo + conocimiento
without + Posesivo + knowledge
It appears they sent out a mayday without his knowledge and when he found out he tried to disable the alarm system.
sin + Posesivo + consentimiento
without + Posesivo + consent
But while under the anaesthetic her Fallopian tubes were removed without her consent.
sin precedente
unparalleled
unexampled
But these designers did more than copy the Aldine original: they developed it in a whole range of new sizes, and produced a series of romans hitherto unparalleled for elegance and utility.
Hitherto her behavior had been unexampled.
sin precedentes
unprecedented
record breaking
record-high
all-time
We might next note the unprecedented success of the Library of Congress' MARC Distribution Service, which provides authoritative, quality cataloging data in machine-readable, and hence, machine-manipulatable, form.
The company has managed to survive for 75 years, with an unbroken string of more than 40 years of profitability (the last 2 record breaking) when so many others have fallen by the wayside.
Record-high bank fees are making it harder for consumers to stay financially afloat.
Nevada's all-time leading scorer is leaving school to get a head start on the NBA's 2007 draft.
sin precio
unpriced
Eastern European serials are unpriced as they come via exchange agreements.
sin preguntar
unasked
Quite apart from the great toll of unasked questions, any hint of mutual antipathy between enquirer and librarian is fatal to the reference interview.
sin prejuicios
open-minded
fair-minded [fairminded]
unprejudiced
Is there any responsiveness at LC to the need for a close and open-minded examination of the problem?.
We are confident that, after examining both sides of the issue, fair-minded judges will be able to determine who is reliable.
Nationalist backbencher Bonnici has called for an 'unprejudiced' debate on censorship, soon after the Justice Minister proclaimed himself against its total removal in the arts.
sin prentesiones
unpretentious
There is a need for unpretentious, informative manuals which help readers to play bowls, arrange flowers, decorate the house, and the like.
sin preocupaciones
carefree
worry-free
Alcohol in moderation is effective in reducing stress and may increase overall affective expression, happiness, euphoria, conviviality, & carefree feelings.
For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.
sin preocuparse lo más mínimo
blithely
The people who blithely assert that we could do this job instead of immigrants are wildly underestimating what's involved in becoming a skilled picker.
sin preparación técnica
non-technical
Ideally, this reference manual should provide step-by-step guidance for the non-technical, first-time user.
sin préstamo
non-circulating [noncirculating]
The method is especially useful in assessing collection use for non-circulating titles.
sin prestar atención
mindlessly
When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.
sin pretensiones
unassuming
humble [humbler -comp., humblest -sup.]
understated
The term 'librarian' may confer the impression of being a quiet, respectable and unassuming person and consequently be useful on insurance forms, passports and rental agreements.
In spite of much complexity, they perform reliably; witness the humble typewriter, or the movie camera or the automobile.
Whatever its look is, understated or overboard, a crystal chandelier doesn't blend in with all kinds of rooms.
sin previo aviso [Abreviatura de on speculation]
unannounced
without warning
without notice
without prior notice
without prior notification
on spec
at the drop of a hat
without (any) further notice
The arrival of the school doctor or dentist or of well-knwon personalities visiting the school normally occur unannounced.
In February 1986 an unforeseeable financial crisis at the Georgia Institute of Technology's library made it necessary to divert the binding budget to other areas and without warning binding activities were halted.
All programmes, events and tours are subject to change and/or cancellation without notice.
This paper presents the views of four general education teachers who without prior notice or training were assigned to teach special education classes.
Programme schedules are subject to change without prior notification.
You are lucky to find anywhere to stay if you just turn up on spec in Amsterdam in the middle of August.
Sometimes these tantrums start at the drop of a hat for often no apparent reason other than the fact that he's 2 years old.
We reserve the right to make changes without further notice to any products herein.
sin principios
unscrupulous
unprincipled
He had always anathematized those who took unscrupulous advantage of their positions, and those who succumbed to their insolent methods.
Term paper fraud runs amok on the Web as dozens of fee and free sites have thousands of term papers available for lazy and unprincipled students.
sin prisa(s)
unhurriedly
leisurely
Few pleasures for the true reader rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books.
If we instruct it to ponder this question more leisurely, it will quickly try the user's patience with digressions concerning the less illustrious senior MOZART, LEOPOLD.
sin problema alguno
without a hitch
without a glitch
Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.
Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.
sin problemas
smoothly
smooth [smoother -comp., smoothest -sup.]
problem-free
trouble free [trouble-free]
without a hitch
unproblematically
carefree
without difficulty
in good standing
without a glitch
DOBIS/LIBIS can take over much of the housekeeping work necessary for a smoothly functioning library = DOBIS/LIBIS puede encargarse de la mayor parte del trabajo de gestión administrativa para que la biblioteca funcione sin problemas.
Some librarians anxious to make the transfer from the children's to the adult department as smooth as possible, often create a 'young adults' fiction section within the children's department.
The operational system chosen should allow problem-free transfer from one generation to another.
It is anticipated that the replacement bindings usedwill give centuries of trouble free service.
Should files follow the 8.3 standard or can long file names be used without a hitch?.
In this context television and radio appear as unproblematically and meaningfully available for anyone and everyone.
Alcohol in moderation is effective in reducing stress and may increase overall affective expression, happiness, euphoria, conviviality, & carefree feelings.
As it happened, the snowfall was moderate and all the rest of us worked all day and got home without difficulty.
Nominators must be paid-up members in good standing for the year of the election.
Suprisingly, Windows had no boot issues at all, it started up without a glitch.
sin problemas de vista
sighted
Ways are explored in which public library children's librarians can help sighted children increase their understanding of persons with visual impairment.
sin procesar
unprocessed
The causes were accumulated dust on the books and an influx of unprocessed and unclean materials into the room.
sin propiedades
propertyless
However numerous the class of menials may be, it has not, as a rule, been able to absorb the whole number of those left propertyless.
sin propiedad rural
landless
While the new technology increased food production, it also caused wealthy farmers to benefit more than the landless.
sin protección
unprotected
Society is falling apart at the seams, causing individuals who have not been able to cope with the changes to feel unprotected and hopeless.
sin protestar
unquestioningly
We should be cautious about accepting the recall-precision curve unquestioningly.
sin provocación
unprovoked
But still what possible justification is there for unprovoked rudeness?.
sin publicar
unpublished
Many libraries have special collections of foreign, unpublished or unusual materials which include items unlikely to be acquired by other libraries.
sin pulir
unpolished
It seems too rush, too unpolished to be a final product.
sin puntos
scoreless
Having been kept scoreless during the first half, Wales came out after the break and began scoring.
sin quejarse
uncomplaining
uncomplainingly
without complaining
without (a word of) complaint
without question
His faith was pretty blind and his arrogance, luckily, borne with uncomplaining good humor by his colleagues.
The criteria of choice will be heavily influenced - even if we contribute ourselves, uncomplainingly, to the riches of this project - by a point of view which is Anglo-Saxon.
To complete this challenge, you have to go 21 straight days without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping.
From washing dishes, cleaning the house, pruning his family's oak tree, to tutoring his naughty cousin, he did it all without a word of complaint.
The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.
sin quemar
unburned
Canopy light penetration and overstorey tree density were measured in both burned and unburned forests.
sin querer
involuntarily
unwilling
by accident
accidentally
unintentionally
unwantedly
Large libraries are thus involuntarily subsidising small libraries = De este modo las grandes bibliotecas están subsidiando de manera involuntaria a las pequeñas.
The author concentrates on the negative aspects of information, both the unwilling, innocent or accidental error and the interest-based disinformation.
Discoveries are sometimes made by accident; they are never made by the dismayed or disheartened = A veces los descubrimientos se hacen por casualidad y nunca por los abatidos o los desmotivados.
As has been suggested elsewhere in this book, it is axiomatic that regular backup copies of data disks be taken, in order to ensure that data are not accidentally lost.
The Hawthorne effect, ie the well-established fact that individuals who know that they are being observed usually change their patterns of behaviour, even unintentionally, will obviously come into play if the observation is obtrusive.
My problem is that sometimes I will get tensed up unwantedly for small problems.
sin querer + Infinitivo
unwilling to + Infinitivo
I have found in reading extracts from Scott's diary of his trip to the South Pole that pupils interrupted all the time to ask questions, until the final entries were reached, when everyone went very quiet, moved deeply by Scott's words and unwilling to bruise the emotion they felt.
sin quererlo
unwantedly
My problem is that sometimes I will get tensed up unwantedly for small problems.
sin que se entienda
slurred
One should answer the telephone clearly and pleasantly - not in a bored voice or in slurred haste.
sin que se note la diferencia
seamlessly
A multimedia system is one that seamlessly integrates text, numerics, pictures, video, animation and sound within a single, digital information environment.
sin rabo
ecaudate
Amphibians found in Poland belong to two orders: caudate amphibians and ecaudate amphibians.
sin razón
wanton
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities - e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism - are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin razón alguna
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin razón aparente
for no apparent reason
for apparently no reason
These outbursts often happen for no apparent reason and may be due to the child's inability to tolerate the present environment.
The formatting on my main page has gone haywire for apparently no reason.
sin razón justificada
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no good reason
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin razón justificda
for no particular reason
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
sin recelo
with confidence
The advice is to chill out most artefacts with confidence, although coating on wood may crackle a little bit by -50 degrees centigrade.
sin receta médica
over the counter
non-prescription
With minor revision, the design recommendations were appropriate for developing over the counter medicinal leaflets.
The hype was caused by the fact that they are non-prescription, but just a lighter version of a successful existing brand.
sin rechistar
without complaining
without (a word of) complaint
without saying a word
without question
unquestioningly
To complete this challenge, you have to go 21 straight days without complaining, criticizing, or gossiping.
From washing dishes, cleaning the house, pruning his family's oak tree, to tutoring his naughty cousin, he did it all without a word of complaint.
And there was the curious behaviour of Plantin's compositor Michel Mayer, who in June 1564 spent Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in a brothel, then packed his things and left the establishment without saying a word to anyone.
The nature of science is that one should not accept anything without question and if you are accepting scientific theory without question.
We should be cautious about accepting the recall-precision curve unquestioningly.
sin reclamar
unredeemed
unclaimed
Before an unredeemed dog is sold to a new owner, the poundkeeper may require that such dog be held under observation in a veterinary hospital.
It becomes impossible to find the owner of unclaimed money due to the fact that the owner has changed his residence.
sin recoger
uncollected
Uncollected goods may be sold after one month from the date on which they are ready for collection or delivery.
sin reconocer
unrecognised [unrecognized, -USA]
It is undeniable that the ripest crop of unrecognised great inventors, long-lost heirs to dormant peerages, and assorted harmless drudges is to be gathered in the great general libraries of our major cities.
sin reconocimiento de créditos
non-credit
Although all schools are engaged to some extent in non-credit continuing education programmes, continuing education is not given high priority.
sin recopilar
uncollected
Below is a list of all of the known uncollected short stories by Stephen King.
sin recursos
resource-starved
Librarians trained in developed countries face severe psychological problems on their return to their resource-starved home countries where librarianship is a low-status, poorly-regarded, unappreciated profession.
sin refinar
unrefined
The main list of index terms is the core of the thesaurus and can be expected to feature in any thesaurus however elementary or unrefined.
sin reflexionar
rashly
Act rashly, and our children will suffer in years to come.
sin registrar
unlisted
Materials acquired are often, perforce, left unsorted and unlisted for years through lack of staffing to undertake the task.
sin reglamentar
unregulated
But the unions were able to add their weight to the authority of the parliamentary investigators in bringing the worst excesses of unregulated apprenticeship and of working conditions under control = No obstante, los sindicatos pudieron reforzar la autoridad de los investigadores parlamentarios para controlar los peores excesos que se cometían en el aprendizaje de un oficio y las condiciones laborales sin regularizar.
sin regular
unregulated
But the unions were able to add their weight to the authority of the parliamentary investigators in bringing the worst excesses of unregulated apprenticeship and of working conditions under control = No obstante, los sindicatos pudieron reforzar la autoridad de los investigadores parlamentarios para controlar los peores excesos que se cometían en el aprendizaje de un oficio y las condiciones laborales sin regularizar.
sin regularizar
unregulated
But the unions were able to add their weight to the authority of the parliamentary investigators in bringing the worst excesses of unregulated apprenticeship and of working conditions under control = No obstante, los sindicatos pudieron reforzar la autoridad de los investigadores parlamentarios para controlar los peores excesos que se cometían en el aprendizaje de un oficio y las condiciones laborales sin regularizar.
sin relación
unrelated
unconnected
Adjacent technical papers bound in journals may often be unrelated.
To take some very common examples, many academic libraries will not answer any enquiries at all from people unconnected with the university.
sin relación con
unrelated to
Initially, however, we shall consider these phenomena as concepts in their own right, divorced from and unrelated to any particular discipline or context of study.
sin remedio
beyond repair
incurably
incorrigibly
And when, finally, the heavily timbered ranges had been pillaged almost beyond repair, many lumbermen pulled stakes and pushed westward.
Regrettably, the well-intentioned publication of Devereux's typescript has been incurably bungled, and Rastell remains without either a complete or trustworthy bibliography.
The logic of nuclear deterrence is incorrigibly probabilistic, but probabilistic reasoning in this area is inappropriate.
sin remordimientos
no-looking-back
High morale and enthusiasm for institutional goals will make adaptation and innovation a one-way, no-looking-back ticket into the information age.
sin remuneración
uncompensated
Employees routinely performed an average of 30 minutes of unrecorded and uncompensated work.
sin reparar
unrepaired
A small chip in your windscreen can quickly spread causing even more costly damage if left unrepaired.
sin reparo
unashamed
There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
sin reparos
unshielded
A feeling of unshielded relief filled Pope's whole being.
sin representación
unrepresented
In order to stimulate international input, the IFLA Office for UBC invited catalogers in unrepresented countries to recommend revisions of the AACR and to comment on the potential of the second edition as an international code.
sin reserva
unconditionally
unreserved
She links Quentin's suicide at the end of the Maundy Thursday of the novel with the death of Judas, who also betrayed one who loved unconditionally and then committed suicide.
On certain short-distance routes, coach seating is unreserved, available to passanges on a first-come, first-served basis.
sin reservas
unshielded
wholehearted [whole-hearted]
go + the whole hog
the full monty
without reservation
wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly]
forthright
categorical
uncompromising
uncompromisingly
unqualified
categoric
unmitigaged
unreserved
unreservedly
A feeling of unshielded relief filled Pope's whole being.
The project never achieved wholehearted international support and encouragement.
The article 'Patent information: going the whole hog' presents an overview of Derwent's products in the patent information field.
The article 'The digital full monty?' forecasts that the world of information is likely to be dominated by global giants on the one hand and selective niche providers on the other.
Unfortunately, few of these are verified and convincing enough for us to accept them without reservation.
I agree whole-heartedly that the subject approach is used chiefly by the beginner, whether it is a historical researcher or a high school student who is looking for term paper material.
We have been told once, in clear and forthright terms, what it is that we need.
There is a categorical moral imperative for a deepening and a renewal of the concept of collegiality - that is a blend of intense competition and mutual support - in relations between research scholars and research librarians.
What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
For the first time the stress was uncompromisingly vertical, while the italic was intended to be a mechanically sloped roman, quite unconnected with calligraphy.
Wing has not had the almost unqualified praise from the reviewers that Pollard and Redgrave received.
The question of the need for categoric assurances is not locked into a 12 month timeframe or any other timeframe.
Only Bush could take a horrible situation and create an unmitigated disaster.
It is also important that we all give them our unreserved support.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday he had unreservedly discussed all issues with visiting U.S. President Barack Obama.
sin residencia en la localidad
non-local
The issue of non-local women from the mainland coming to Hong Kong to give birth is nothing new.
sin residencia fija
of no fixed abode
The defendants were predominantly male, single, and of no fixed abode, suffering from serious psychiatric disorder.
sin resistencia
unchallenged
unopposed
In the sales field, however, the Publications Office's responsibility is largely unchallenged, and a number of factors have led to an increase in its scope.
He became the agency's longest-serving commissioner and unopposed spiritual leader.
sin resistirse
passively
The Simultaneous Remote Searching (SRS) technique allows remote patrons to observe passively the search process on their own computers as it is being carried out by an experienced searcher at another location.
sin resolver
unresolved
unsolved
unsettled
uncleared
Other instances of unresolved or partially resolved conflicts of this type abound in our precomputer cataloging codes.
Retrospective cataloguing is an unsolved problem for many libraries.
No one among librarians, suppliers or publishers is throwing in the towel but the position this format takes in library collections in the near future is unsettled.
Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.
sin respiración
out of breath
It's normal to feel out of breath when you're first starting to run.
sin respiro
without a break
without (a) rest
without respite
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
The ancient Egyptian mind was struck by the periodic regularity of certain phenomena: the sun that rises, shines, and disappears without respite every day.
sin responder
unanswered
Whether, in the future, the co-operatives will be able to fund appropriate developments at a sufficiently rapid rate remains an unanswered question.
sin restricciones
unrestricted
unlimited
uninhibited
unrestrictive
unfettered
free-flowing
without stint
without limit
no holds barred
unencumbered
Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.
New York State has recently moved away from former relatively unrestrictive policies by requiring bids on all items priced over $10,000.
This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.
Only a man like D'Andrea, willing to use force without stint or limit, could rise to leadership against John Powers & his protected, armed partisans.
As stated earlier, the purposes to which cases can be put vary almost without limit, and there is no 'correct' technique for using them, no formula to be offered to ensure success.
He has demanded a 'no holds barred' investigation of the causes of the electrical power blackout that crippled New York last week.
Every unencumbered license, except temporary licenses, issued under this Article shall be renewed for two years.
sin restricciones de horario
unscheduled
At Suffolk University library free unscheduled access is offered set up with software to perform a variety of tasks from wordprocessing to retrieving and manipulating commercial data files.
sin resuello
out of breath
It's normal to feel out of breath when you're first starting to run.
sin resultado
no joy
I've tried several things I've read about in the forum but still no joy.
sin retirar
uncleared
uncollected
Its relation to cognitive impairment is as yet uncleared.
Uncollected goods may be sold after one month from the date on which they are ready for collection or delivery.
sin retrasos
in a timely fashion
in a timely manner
It is a recognized fact that the Library of Congress cannot possibly catalog all the books needed by all libraries in a timely fashion.
Not only is it crucial to follow validation requirements to the letter, it is extremely important to carry them out in a timely manner.
sin revelar
undisclosed
unrevealed
These records reveal facts about individuals and business entities that the parties concerned might prefer undisclosed.
More than half the paintings in the exhibition represented groups of people watching interesting spectacles, some of which were unrevealed.
sin revestir
uncoated
The master has a glossy side coated with kaolin and an uncoated reverse side.
sin revisar
unrevised
The second part, Sociology, including Socialism, Communism and Anarchism, was published in an unrevised cumulation as the fourth edition, 1981.
sin riesgo
riskless
Riskless adventure is impossible and pointless.
sin rodeos
head-on
baldly
bluntly
outspokenly
no-nonsense
in plain + Lengua
in plain language
to the point
Behaviour Management encourages leadership that is positive, helps prevent situations that are already unsatisfactory from deteriorating, and avoids head-on confrontations between people.
The search may sometimes prove fruitless: this is also an 'answer', but it is rarely satisfactory to present it to the enquirer baldly as such = A veces la búsqueda puede resultar infructuosa, lo cual en sí es un tipo de "respuesta", pero no es siempre adecuado decírselo al usuario directamente como tal.
In comparison with adult literature, South African children's literature presents issues more bluntly and also explores themes barely touched on in adult fiction.
Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
In plain English, it means we don't have enough students and expenses must be cut.
Clear writing in plain language saves time, money, and lives.
I also appreciate Mark's comments as he has a way of being to the point and direct.
sin ruido
soundless
Some of them were conversing together in soundless whispers.
sin rumbo
aimless
off course
rudderless
aimlessly
Browsing when one has no clue what one wants is not a very intellectual activity, it is rather aimless meandering.
Russia has launched an investigation into why a manned space capsule returned to earth hundreds of miles off course.
She was 15 kilograms too heavy, rudderless, half-lost to drinking and chatting up other girls' boyfriends.
A new study has cautioned parents from allowing their teenage children to roam aimlessly without any supervision.
sin rumbo fijo
aimlessly
A new study has cautioned parents from allowing their teenage children to roam aimlessly without any supervision.
sin saberlo
unbeknown to
unbeknownst to
Unbeknown to the users who accessed the system, the knowledge-base included two human experts, communicating with them from a different building, via the computer screen.
A honeypot is a decoy computer system designed to look like a legitimate system an intruder will want to break into while, unbeknownst to the intruder, they are being covertly observed.
sin saber qué decir
nonplussed [nonplused]
be bereft of words
He was nonplussed when the crowd he expected protesting his policy of arresting illegal immigrants turned out to be seven.
Once again I was bereft of words, left longing for language that could speak from heart to heart.
sin sabor
tasteless
Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas and is the product of the incomplete combustion of carbon-containing compounds.
sin salario
unwaged
Training fees are dependent if you are waged/unwaged and how many times per week you wish to train.
sin saldar
uncollected
As the economy has nosedived, hospitals have seen their uncollected debt increase - from low, single digits to more than 5 percent.
sin salida
no way out
There was no love, no marriage, but no way out.
sin salida al mar
land-bound [landbound]
land-locked [landlocked]
Ultimately, this film is just a land-bound rerun of Jaws, down to the sacrifice of the grizzled, expert hunter so the younger, more clean-cut, family man can face his own fears and prove his prowess.
Because Zambia is land-locked, book acquisition is difficult.
sin sanción
unsanctioned
The rapid growth in the student market in Pakistan and the dependence on imported books has resulted in large scale book piracy, or unsanctioned reprinting.
sin sede en la localidad
non-local
The issue of non-local women from the mainland coming to Hong Kong to give birth is nothing new.
sin seleccionar
unselected
The union's contract stipulates that only the 'seniormost' unselected candidate has the right to grieve.
sin semillas
seedless
Some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even though they do not flower.
sin sensacionalismo(s)
hype-free
Here's a decent, relatively hype-free article about switching from a PC to a Mac.
sin sensiblerías
no-nonsense
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
sin sentido
meaningless
purposeless
pointless
senseless
wanton
nonsensical
unconscious
senselessly
pointlessly
Although the isolate numbers for the concepts are correct, these mistakes in the use of facet indicators render this class number meaningless.
Nor are these training periods held in a purposeless vacuum.
Money should be spent wisely by establishing proper priorities and eliminating the trivial and pointless tasks often assigned to libraries.
Above all the senseless rivalry between German academic and public libraries could eventually harm both groups.
The book focuses on images where hideous atrocities - e.g., murder, blasphemy, wanton destruction and even cannibalism - are shown to be part of the daily life of the common people of Paris during the revolution.
Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
By conscious or unconscious fixation on this single, already passé, facet of data processing technology we risk totally ignoring the other functions of a catalog.
Macbeth is the tragedy of a king so blinded by ambition and paranoia that he senselessly murders those in his path, eventually leading to his own demise.
The Arabic press has been maundering on pointlessly for decades about the rise and fall of Osama bin Laden.
sin sentir ninguna vergüenza
unashamedly
I was fascinated by the monkey's bright blue scrotum and dark pink penis, and by its ability to unashamedly show his prize jewels off.
sin sentir ningún reparo
unashamed
There is a need for more study of current lending patterns to establish a clear mandate for unashamed purchase of AV materials by traditionally print-oriented librarians.
sin sentir vergüenza
shamelessly
I'm pretty sure I should have been born a boy - I swear like a trooper, I eat like an animal, I burp shamelessly and I constantly make rude remarks.
sin ser afectado
untouched (by)
Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands - especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.
sin ser anunciado de antemano
unannounced
The arrival of the school doctor or dentist or of well-knwon personalities visiting the school normally occur unannounced.
sin ser consciente de ello
unbeknownst to
unbeknown to
A honeypot is a decoy computer system designed to look like a legitimate system an intruder will want to break into while, unbeknownst to the intruder, they are being covertly observed.
Unbeknown to the users who accessed the system, the knowledge-base included two human experts, communicating with them from a different building, via the computer screen.
sin ser detectado
undetected
The user is required to pay a deposit to ensure that he or she doesn't slip out of the library undetected without paying for the information pages accessed.
sin ser evaluado por expertos
unrefereed
Some academic groups have begun to publish unrefereed papers on preprint servers operating over the Internet.
sin ser necesario
gratuitous
gratuitously
However, most librarians do not have the training for counseling and should avoid gratuitous tampering with the lives of library patrons.
The proceedings of a conference are, under ISBD, to have the full name of the conference gratuitously repeated after the title only to encumber the entry and obscure the significant elements of its content.
sin ser percibido
out of sight
More through inattention than any attempt at concealment, the shaping of the twenty-first century is happening offstage, out of sight.
sin ser superado
unsurpassed
He was a scholar-librarian whose Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts remained unsurpassed for 250 years, and is still useful.
sin ser visto
unseen
undetected
unobserved
out of sight
But he was wiry and wily, too, and he could often out-run, track, back-track, double-back, and finally dodge unseen in the subway.
The user is required to pay a deposit to ensure that he or she doesn't slip out of the library undetected without paying for the information pages accessed.
Differentials long attributed to marital status may in part reflect previously unobserved effects of sexual orientation.
More through inattention than any attempt at concealment, the shaping of the twenty-first century is happening offstage, out of sight.
sin significado
meaningless
Although the isolate numbers for the concepts are correct, these mistakes in the use of facet indicators render this class number meaningless.
sin silla
bareback
This was her first time cantering, and she did it bareback too!.
sin simplificar
unabridged
This article examines the abridged versus unabridged debate in the realm of books on tape or audiocassettes outlining the advantages of each format.
sin sistematizar
unsystematised [unsystematized, -USA]
Local knowledge is knowledge that is 'unique to a given culture or society, which is oral, rural, holistic, powerless, and culturally-embedded and the result of 'dynamic innovation' although informal and unsystematised'.
sin soltar prenda
tight-lipped
Police remain tight-lipped over the sudden, unexplained death of a security guard in west Auckland.
sin soltar prenda, sin decir palabra, en hermético silencio, en estricto sec
tight-lipped
Police remain tight-lipped over the sudden, unexplained death of a security guard in west Auckland.
sin solucionar
unsolved
Retrospective cataloguing is an unsolved problem for many libraries.
sin sombrero
bareheaded
A bareheaded motorcyclist participating in a ride to protest mandatory helmet laws was killed when he was thrown over the handlebars.
sin sosiego
restlessly
The basic thesis of the book under review is that throughout his career Rembrandt restlessly fashioned and refashioned his self.
sin subvención
unfunded
The article 'The citation impact of funded and unfunded research in economics' asks whether research which receives grant support is more cited than unfunded research.
sin sueldo
unsalaried
non-salaried
The mayor, like other councilors, is unsalaried and has virtually no administrative or appointive powers.
These loans are basically offered to non-salaried individuals.
sin suerte
but no dice
no joy
We'd hoped to see it sometime in 2008, but no dice.
I've tried several things I've read about in the forum but still no joy.
sin suerte, sin éxito, sin resultado
no joy
I've tried several things I've read about in the forum but still no joy.
sin sufrimiento
painlessly
Without AACR is doubtful whether computerised cataloguing would have been implemented so relatively painlessly and successfully = Sin las RCAA es dudoso que la catalogación automatizada se hubiera implementado tan fácilmente y con tanto éxito, relativamente hablando.
sin sujetador
topless
He certainly invaded her privacy by using a telephoto lens to photograph her inside her home when she was topless or partly dressed.
sin supervisar
unsupervised
This model can handle supervised learning and unsupervised learning simultaneously.
sin tacha
unblemished
untainted
stainless
blameless
guilt-free
Many traditional treatments, on the other hand, have tended to glorify him portraying him as an unblemished hero.
The information needs of minorities are important and that libraries must organise to become neutral service points making untainted information available to all.
In this study of sapphism in the British novel, Moore often directs our attention to the periphery of sapphic romances, when an abjected body suffers on behalf of the stainless heroine.
But he is completely wrong to say that he as a state employee is utterly blamelessfor the mess our pensions and state budgets are in.
The article 'Guilt-free automated claiming' evaluates the impact of automation on serials claiming.
sin talento
untalented
Those who do well are designated as 'gifted and talented,' which means that everyone else is, by definition, ungifted and untalented.
sin tapadera
uncovered
A man who fell down an uncovered drain and was stuck for three hours today spoke of his ordeal.
sin tapar
uncovered
A man who fell down an uncovered drain and was stuck for three hours today spoke of his ordeal.
sin tapujos
up-front [up front]
go + the whole hog
the full monty
straight talk
outspokenly
The author recommends the up-front negotiation of ownership accompanied by a written agreement to eliminate the possibility of doubt as to the identity of the owner.
The article 'Patent information: going the whole hog' presents an overview of Derwent's products in the patent information field.
The article 'The digital full monty?' forecasts that the world of information is likely to be dominated by global giants on the one hand and selective niche providers on the other.
The article 'Straight talk in the library' presents the views of 6 decision makers in the library sector of the children's book market.
Episcopalians were roiled by the approval of a rector outspokenly conservative on such matters as the liturgy, the hymnal and ordination.
sin techo
homeless
Bryan Talbot's novel focuses on Helen, a homeless London teenager who finds hope in the stories of Beatrix Potter.
sin techo, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
homeless, the
Problem patrons include, but are not limited to, illiterates simply seeking shelter, alcoholics, the homeless, the mentally disturbed, aggressive young people, and those with offensive odours.
sin tejuelo
unlabeled
If you encounter an unlabeled document during charge-out, peel off one of the preprinted labels and put it in the document.
sin temor
with confidence
fearlessly
unafraid
The advice is to chill out most artefacts with confidence, although coating on wood may crackle a little bit by -50 degrees centigrade.
Knowing that he was up against a large enemy force, he fearlessly rode to the head of his troops to calm them before sending them into battle.
Freedom is to stand alone, unattached and unafraid, free in the understanding of desire which breeds illusion.
sin tener
in the absence of
In the absence of, or in addition to, an ISADN an alternative number assigned by a regional or national agency may be given.
sin tener en cuenta
never mind
without regard to
independently of
disregarding
not including
irrespective of
irrelevant of
But of its four sentences, the third was so determined to present a grammatically structured metaphor for its meaning that it dazzled my eye, never mind my already unsympathetic brain.
The term 'corporate name heading' is used to designate the type of heading by reference to the type of name or title on which the heading is based, without regard to its function or relationship to other headings.
Findings reaffirm that television stigmatises the occupation of business, independently of economic factors.
'Affirmative action' was used by John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin = John F. Kennedy usó el concepto de "Acción afirmativa". hace ya más de 30 años para expresar la igualidad e igualdad de acceso para todos, idependientemente de la raza, creencia, color o país de origen.
According to this story, owning a horse can cost about $10000 a year, not including the horse = Según esta historia, poseer un caballo puede costar alrededor de $ 10000 al año, sin incluir el caballo.
Similar principles may be applied in the formulation and assignment of headings irrespective of the physical form of the document.
Irrelevant of its cytology, a neoplasm of epithelial origin with this form of growth is also called papilloma.
sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que
overlook + the fact that
The media have regularly stoked public feelings of shame by affirming that English football fans are synonymous with hooliganism, overlooking the fact that not all fans are 'hooligans'.
sin tener que recurrir a
without recourse to
Can we avoid racism, sexism and the crippling effects of other forms of prejudicial stereotyping without recourse to censorship?.
sin teñir
undyed
The raw material of white paper was undyed linen - or in very early days hempen - rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
sin terminar
unfinished
uncompleted
But clearly a book read and enjoyed is more likely to lead on to further reading than is a book unread or unfinished.
This guide is organised along the steps involved in buying uncompleted private residential properties from licensed housing developers.
sin tiempo que perder
without a minute to spare
When you've had a long day, and don't have the energy to prepare a three course meal or for those unexpected guests that drop in without a minute to spare, here's a quick meal to serve.
sin tierras
landless
While the new technology increased food production, it also caused wealthy farmers to benefit more than the landless.
sin timón
rudderless
She was 15 kilograms too heavy, rudderless, half-lost to drinking and chatting up other girls' boyfriends.
sin tipificar
unstandardised [unstandardized, -USA]
The values displayed in the figure were unstandardised estimates.
sin titubear
unswervingly
He is unswervingly candid about his failures, and his book is wryly engaging, although its objectives are disappointingly unclear.
sin titulación
unqualified
The author examines the problem of poorly qualified or unqualified teachers in the South African educational system for black children.
sin título
untitled
Much modern art has nondistinctive titles like Mood Number Four, Picture Number Eight, Untitled, which makes title entry really ludicrous.
sin tocar
untouched (by)
Certainly the last thing we want is that books be shut up in tastefully decorated warehouses, watched over by highly trained storekeepers whose main purpose is to see that everything is kept tidily in its place and, as far as possible, untouched by human hands - especially the sticky-fingered hands of marauding children.
sin ton ni son
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
without rhyme or reason
just like that
aimlessly
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
Many disliked the movement, which was abstract and appeared to be without rhyme or reason.
All I have to say is nothing happens just like that overnight, it takes time and exhausting waiting.
A new study has cautioned parents from allowing their teenage children to roam aimlessly without any supervision.
sin tonterías
no-nonsense
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
sin tope
uncapped
While the rest of the world has been enjoying cheap uncapped Internet for long now, South African has been milked for every cent they have.
sin trabajo
jobless
out of a job
Experts say a hoard of buried treasure discovered by a jobless English man is 'war booty' and probably belonged to a pagan king.
'I'm not a miracle worker,' Obama declared, after saying he's not 'content' when workers are out of jobs = "No soy un obrador de milagros," declaró Obama, después de decir que no estaba contento cuando los trabajadores están en paro.
sin trabas
unrestricted
unconstrained
unhampered
unhindered
unimpeded
untrammelled
unfettered
freewheeling [free-wheeling]
unencumbered
Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.
Staff were able to cope with drastic changes and revisions while providing unhampered services to the library's clientele.
The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.
No existing library provides users with unimpeded access to bibliographical information held in remote databases.
In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.
This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.
The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.
Every unencumbered license, except temporary licenses, issued under this Article shall be renewed for two years.
sin traducción [Usado como énfasis]
yet
it (Complemento)
EEC's activities provoke general interest only when they seem to pose a threat to yet another apect of the British way of life.
We found it difficult to come to a consensus of the professional staff on several key points.
sin traducir
untranslated
It looks like he is also going to be translating some of, and possibly all of the previously untranslated chapters in this book.
sin traílla
unleashed
I agree with you and i think your auntie was 100% wrong since the other dogs were leashed and her unleashed dog was the one that confronted them.
sin trascendencia
of no consequence
Don't waste your time on this mean-spirited little film of no consequence.
sin tratar
untreated
Wood pulp can be made either by grinding up untreated logs (when it is called mechanical wood, or groundwood), or by digesting wood chips chemically (chemical wood).
sin tregua
unrelenting
unremitting
unabated
without a break
without (a) rest
unrelentingly
Unrelenting tuition increases are pricing private institutions out of the reach of many middle-class parents.
This unremitting castigation of the Nazi masks both the historical complicity of the United States with Nazi crimes and our own racist and genocidal histories.
The demand for English as the world's lingua franca continues unabated.
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
This book explains why 'the good old days' were only good for a privileged few and why they were unrelentingly hard for most.
sin turba
peat-free
This ready-to-use potting compost is peat-free and 4 times lighter than conventional compost due to the fact it is dehydrated.
sin una meta clara
unfocused [unfocussed]
They may be unfocused, underprepared, and not of a frame of mind to devote time and thoughtful energy to library research.
sin una nube
unclouded
uncloudy
cloudless
As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.
In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.
This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.
sin una pela
broke
skint
penniless
out-at-(the)-elbows
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
Now he lives penniless near a beautiful lake surrounded by rainforest and teeming with waterfowl.
Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian - happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.
sin un arañazo
without a scratch
Local veterinarian Lisia Sturm was astounded to find the animal had survived without a scratch.
sin un centavo
broke
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
sin un céntimo
skint
penniless
out-at-(the)-elbows
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
Now he lives penniless near a beautiful lake surrounded by rainforest and teeming with waterfowl.
Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian - happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.
sin un chavo
skint
broke
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
sin un cuarto
down-and-out
broke
skint
penniless
out-at-(the)-elbows
The story is based on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
Now he lives penniless near a beautiful lake surrounded by rainforest and teeming with waterfowl.
Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian - happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.
sin un descanso
without a break
without (a) rest
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
sin un duro
broke
down-and-out
skint
penniless
out-at-(the)-elbows
The article is entitled 'Tough luck: To be a professional sport climber in America probably means you're broke, fed up and still no match for the foreign competition'.
The story is based on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.
How does it feel to be skint in a world that seems to be obsessed with money and riches?.
Now he lives penniless near a beautiful lake surrounded by rainforest and teeming with waterfowl.
Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian - happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.
sin un formato determinado
unformatted
The task of a modern information system is to describe such unformatted data automatically and in doing so, to support the user in storing and especially in retrieving natural language documents.
sin un + Nombre
without a + Nombre + to + Posesivo + name
I'm sat here, galloping towards thirty without a quid to my name, living and working out of my bedroom, unable to sell even a single copy of my dead dog's comic.
sin un + Nombre + en el bolsillo
without a + Nombre + to + Posesivo + name
I'm sat here, galloping towards thirty without a quid to my name, living and working out of my bedroom, unable to sell even a single copy of my dead dog's comic.
sin un objetivo claro
non-purposive
unfocused [unfocussed]
The picture of the self-improvement-oriented readers contrasts sharply with the typical adult user who borrows popular light fiction for nonpurposive leisure.
They may be unfocused, underprepared, and not of a frame of mind to devote time and thoughtful energy to library research.
sin un rasguño
unscarred
without a scratch
The statue of the Buddha facing the tidal waves sat serenely as it has always done and unscarred by the waters.
Local veterinarian Lisia Sturm was astounded to find the animal had survived without a scratch.
sin vacilar
unswervingly
He is unswervingly candid about his failures, and his book is wryly engaging, although its objectives are disappointingly unclear.
sin validar
unvalidated
Knowledge organization is generally based on world pictures derived from opinion unvalidated by sound theories.
sin valor
dummy
worthless
valueless
drossy
DOBIS/LIBIS, therefore, assigns them the dummy master number zero.
Teachers and librarians cannot afford to turn a blind eye to the literature a child is brought up with at home, no matter how anemic and worthless it may seem to be.
But the biggest impact was felt when boxes appeared, sometimes anonymously, filled with old books and magazines - mostly valueless.
Its polestar nature has the ability to guide us through the drossy deserts that poetry sometimes founders in.
sin variaciones
monotonously
Dogs with the disease often display compulsive behaviors such as tail chasing, snapping the air, licking excessively and barking monotonously without any change in volume or intonation.
sin vencer
unexpired
This study was aimed at determining the microbiological quality of unexpired and expired syrups.
sin venderse
unsold
They can hold prices down by short-circuiting the wholesalers and buying rejects and unsold merchandise.
sin venir a cuento
out of the (clear) blue (sky)
like a bolt out of the blue
like a bolt from the blue
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
come out of/from + left field
The article is entitled 'Software out of the blue'.
The election results came like a bolt out of the blue, threatening his loss of power.
A white bird in the distance was seen to dart down like a bolt from the blue and seize a flying fish in the air.
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
I think the reason most people here are thinking that Rose and Nat might get back together is because their break up seemed to come out of left field.
sin venir a pelo
out of the (clear) blue (sky)
like a bolt out of the blue
for no reason
for no specific reason
for no particular reason
for no good reason
The article is entitled 'Software out of the blue'.
The election results came like a bolt out of the blue, threatening his loss of power.
When women frequently go to family restaurants, this leads to them going out of their homes excessively for no reason, which goes against the command of Allah.
On February 20, 2000, she was arrested at home by police for no specific reason and illegally detained for fifteen days.
Nearly a third of internet users go online on a typical day for no particular reason, just for fun or to pass the time.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
sin ventana(s)
windowless
For example, you already know that living in a windowless room will make you cranky and out of sorts.
sin verbalizar
unverbalised [unverbalized]
There will also be those who have in fact decided what information they need but are afflicted by the paralysis of 'unverbalised thought'.
sin verificar
unverified
The next logical step is to admit that our theories must be viewed as unverified conjecture.
sin vestir
unclothed
In a matter of minutes, eight cameras coupled with computer software can generate three-dimensional images of the human body, both clothed and unclothed.
sin vetas
ungrained
Much the commonest grains were rib, the various moroccos, sand, and pebble; while plain (ungrained) cloth was never rare.
sin vida
lifeless
Despite the proliferation of biographies aimed at young adults which have lavish illustrations, easy-to-read print and attractive layout, most of them are lifeless and mediocre.
sin vigilancia
unattended
He was hired to bring the library up to speed after a period of 2 years when it had been unattended by a librarian.
sin vigilar
unsupervised
This model can handle supervised learning and unsupervised learning simultaneously.
sin vinculación con
unassociated
The program is written in dBase 3 and runs on an IBM PC/XT, and reports the number of searches performed and prints end-of-the-month invoices for users unassociated with the university but with standing accounts.
sin vistas
viewless
It is our professional duty to help the reader, leading him from author to author, book to book, with enough sure-footed confidence that he is guided up the literary mountain and not left wandering in the viewless foothills because of one's own incompetence.
situación sin solución
impasse
This apparent impasse between what we may want to communicate and the way we communicate is resolved by separating the content of information from its representation.
sociedad sin libros [Expresión que se aplica a aquellos países del tercer mundo en donde apenas si existen libros]
bookless society
According to Zell, 'Many parts of Africa now present a picture of a 'bookless society''.
sociedad sin papel, la [Situación en la cual el papel ha sido sustituido por otros medios audio-visuales como soporte de los documentos]
paperless society, the
Despite continued assurances about the arrival of the paperless society, it remains a fact that most people want to see information down in black and white.
terrenos sin construir
vacant land
A survey of vacant land in urban areas of England is one of the many practical applications of geographic information systems (GIS).
tomar una decisión sin consultar con nadie
take it upon + Reflexivo + to
In return, the young librarian took it upon himself to design an entire section of the second floor to be the domain of young adult.
trabajador sin titulación específica
non-professional [nonprofessional]
In such ways parents and teachers can get together and learn from each other, breaking down the barriers of mistrust that often exist between the 'expert' professionals and the 'ignorant' nonprofessionals.
trabajar sin descanso
work off + Posesivo + shoes
Teacher herself is worked off her shoes coping with appeals for help with grammar, style, spelling, and, most of all, providing infusions of energy when authorial spirits run low.
trabajar sin respiro
work at + full tilt
In addition to their regular tasks, which keep them working at full tilt at all times, 15,000 periodical titles had arrived and had to be processed.
traer sin cuidado
not give a fuck
But to say 'no one gives a fuck about Haiti' is frankly quite offensive to the people who have donated their time and money to help.
tratar Algo sin parcialismo
treat + Nombre + with an even hand
There is a fundamental conflict of interests between the historian, who seeks to evaluate sources, and the librarian, who tries to treat them all with an even hand.
tratar Algo sin rodeos
address + Nombre + head-on
meet + Nombre + head-on
tackle + Nombre + head-on
face + Nombre + head-on
The inclusion of vendors and publishers allows everyone to address sticky business relationships head-on.
While we lament the changed environment in which we live, we must not permit inertia and rigidity to prohibit us from meeting head on the demands it makes on us.
The author emphasizes the importance for libraries of tackling copyright issues head on.
Both stress the need to face the issues head on, but prudently, by documenting the extent of the problem before meeting with the library director.
valerse sin
live without
The article is entitled 'I cannot live without books': Thomas Jefferson, bibliophile'.
