acabar
end ; end up ; see through + to its completion ; finish up ; finish ; wind up (in/at) ; curtain + fall ; call it quits ; lay + Nombre + to rest ; wrap up ; break up ; finish off ; top + Nombre + off ; be over ; call it + a day ; round off ; put to + bed ; get + Nombre + done.
Each field also ends with a special delimiter, which signals the end of the fields.
But if you have a certain feeling about language, then language ends up becoming very, very important.
I would like to thank all those who at various times throughout the course of the project assisted so ably in seeing the work through to its completion.
In trying to get the best of both worlds, we may have finished up with the worst.
Activities can be plotted to allow the librarian to determine the most expeditious route that can be taken to finish the event.
Besides, winding up in an exclusive arrangement with a distributor that has rotten customer service ruins any advantage.
The third act is of course the denouement, when everything is made clear, all the loose ends are tied up, and the curtain falls.
'Professional people don't live by the clock: you wouldn't tell a doctor or a lawyer that he couldn't make a decision to call it quits on a particular day'.
A New Orleans style funeral provided a humorous backdrop for library staff to relive the tragedies and successes of the old system as it was laid to rest.
The article is entitled 'ACRL wraps up year 1 of Academic Library Statistics Project'.
Tom Hernandez tried not to show how sad he felt about his friends' leaving, and managed to keep up a cheerful facade until the party broke up.
His statement is a serious threat to the cooperative sector and was aimed at finishing off the movement.
Top it off with spicy yacamole and it's worth the nosh.
Alternatively, the loan policy may be changed to make documents due when the vacation is over.
If he gets in a mood over this then I think it's time to call it a day.
Klaus Ring will round off the plenary sessions with a lecture entitled: 'Are Internet and Print Products Interchangeable Reading Media?' = Klaus Ring will round off the plenary sessions with a lecture entitled: 'Are Internet and Print Products Interchangeable Reading Media?'.
At the session on Sunday 15th, it was agreed to put to bed the non-controversial items.
Hi all, I've been banging my head against a brick wall trying to get this done, so hopefully somebody can help.
a beber y a tragar que el mundo se va a acabar
eat, drink and be merry (for tomorrow we die)
Before we get down to business, let's eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die," the CEO said after everyone had arrived.
acabar bien
end + well
Fortunately it all ended well, and nothing bad happened to me except for some bruises.
acabar cargando con Algo
wind up with + Nombre
'I better get out of here before I wind up with more jobs!' Rachel Bough gave a short laugh.
acabar como el perro y el gato
end up at + each other's throats
One of the best ways to ensure that you and your partner don't end up at each other's throats is by giving each other plenty of leeway to be who you want to be.
acabar con
put + paid to
quell
put to + rest
snuff out
stamp out
kill off
eat + Posesivo + way through
break up with
be through with
Following in the footsteps of Beeching's axe which put paid to the branch-line era of the railways, many rural bus routes have now been threatened by rising petrol costs.
The something that had ached in Zach Ponderal all week and which he thought he had finally quelled, started aching again.
Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
The producer did a 'hatchet job' on the film, substantially dumbing down the project and snuffing out any subtlety or nuance.
The existence of the Internet and World Wide Web has made it almost impossible to stamp out crimes committed by hackers.
'Hyperindividualised' news was always one of the reasons the internet was supposed to be going to kill off print = Noticias hiperindividualizadas" siempre fueron una de las razones por las que se suponía que internet acabaría con la prensa escrita.
After demolishing the cakes and sandwiches, pots of tea and buns laid on the table, he proceeded to eat his way through the contents of the fridge.
After breaking up with Luke several months ago, she is reported having a special romance with an aspiring actor named Leo.
Laurel is through with love; the last boyfriend put her through the wringer and she's got the police report to prove it.
acabar con Algo
be done with it
If it's a simple report, it might be easier just to recreate it from scratch and be done with it.
acabar con el sufrimiento de Alguien
put + Nombre + out of + Posesivo + misery
Surely the writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown and ministers will act in October to put him out of his and our collective miseries.
acabar con la paciencia de Alguien
try + Posesivo + patience
He is to be praised for not wasting the reader's time and trying his patience with the dead issue of the possibility of the ordination of women.
acabar con la paciencia de un santo
test + the patience of a saint
try + the patience of a saint
This may be obvious but circumstances do arise that will test the patience of a saint; those are the times to keep plugging on until solution is found.
Listening to your baby cry and cry and not knowing what to do can try the patience of a saint.
acabar con mejor cara
end up on + a high note
What started off as a pretty bad day ended up on a high note, at least for two women in particular.
acabar con una nota de optimismo
end + Nombre + on a high (note)
Nobody likes to see the end of summer; but if you can end it on a high note, it will start the new school and work year off on the right foot.
acabar con un broche de oro
end + Nombre + on a high (note)
Nobody likes to see the end of summer; but if you can end it on a high note, it will start the new school and work year off on the right foot.
acabar de forma positiva
end + Nombre + on a high (note)
Nobody likes to see the end of summer; but if you can end it on a high note, it will start the new school and work year off on the right foot.
acabar de + Infinitivo
have + just + Participio Pasado
The Quebec Office for the Handicapped has just published a new edition, considerably updated and expanded, of its thesaurus.
acabar de salir de
be fresh out of
These researches indicate that it is important to consider whether the applicant is fresh out of high school, or a repeater, and better selection will be made if the university looks at the high school record.
acabar de trabajar
clock off + work
get off + work
Just wait until they hear the newest company rule: No bathroom breaks until you clock off work at the end of the day.
I can't wait to get off work, then I can finally stop staring at this damn computer, and go stare at a different computer!.
acabar de una vez por todas
get it over (and done) with (once and for all)
get it out of the + way (once and for all)
Let's get it over and done with once and for all, forget the debt ceiling, let the government go out of business.
Try to find out the root cause and tackle it and get it out of the way once and for all.
acabar (el) penúltimo
finish + second from bottom
finish + second to last
come in + second to last
come in + second from bottom
The following two years the club struggled and finished second from bottom in both seasons.
Season 2006 was very disappointing for the club, as they finished second to last and had to play promotion/relegation play-offs.
They came in second to last in their division, which should make it easier to improve.
There was one other rider who was slower than me, and I came in second to last.
acabar (el) primero
come in + first
finish + first
Of course, like any marathon you'll have the ones that come in first; only to be followed by the stragglers, an hour later.
She finished first at last, for a split second.
acabar (el) segundo
finish + second
finish + runner-up
come in + second
come in + runner-up
As the 2000 season closed they finished second in the nation, winning 85 consecutive matches.
In 2001-02 they finished runners-up and the following season they were crowned champions.
They came in second with 71 medals (22 gold).
They played hard but were unlucky and came in runners-up of which they can be very proud.
acabar (el) tercero
finish + third
come in + third
The following season they finished third, a place below the promotion places.
They came in third overall in national competitions, their best score in five years.
acabar el último
come in + last
finish + last
Somebody has to come in last in any race.
There is nothing wrong with finishing last.
acabar en
result (in)
land in
end up in
Objective 1 results in what is known as a direct catalogue, because it gives direct access to a specific document.
Most of the librarians interviewed admitted that they landed in the profession by accident.
Many people have fear that they may end up in prison for not paying their credit card debt.
acabar en empate
finish in + a draw
end in + a draw
result in + a draw
The first leg in Moscow finished in a draw, and so all would be decided in Santiago.
The most important fact known about the game is that, unlike some other games, it can't end in a draw.
They prefer a slow, reflective kind of game that, like chess, may quite often may result in a draw.
acabar en primer lugar
come in + first place
finish in + first place
The girls team came in first place overall in points.
After three weeks of online voting by the general public, they finished in first place with almost 30% more votes than their closest competitor.
acabar en segundo lugar
finish in + second place
come in + second place
Their women's team finished in second place only behind the University of Mary who posted 21 team points.
They came in second place in the 2003 season.
acabar en tercer lugar
finish in + third place
come in + third place
In 1995-96 they finished in third place, missing out on the runners-up spot on goal difference.
They came in third place but they got a standing ovation from the crowd.
acabar en último lugar
come in + last place
finish in + last place
If you win the arms race you come in last place in the human race.
The team's transformation process actually began after the 2000 season when they finished in last place.
acabar las contemplaciones
glove + come off
gloves + be off
Now, the gloves have come off and communities all around America are openly protesting against Islam itself.
As far as she's concerned the gloves are off and it's either them or us.
acabar mal
come to + a bad end
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end.
acabar mejor de lo que + empezar
end up on + a high note
What started off as a pretty bad day ended up on a high note, at least for two women in particular.
acabar paulatinamente
wind + Nombre + down
Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
acabar + Posesivo + días en
end up + Posesivo + days in
The Countess ended up her days in Chicago where for many years she was the leader of her class.
acabar + Posesivo + vida útil
run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life
Blair is accused of presiding over a 'fag-end' government, one that is rapidly running towards the end of its useful life.
acabar primero
take + first place
The 400m relay team took first place in another photo finish.
acabar repentinamente
come to + a swift end
come to + an abrupt end
But these heady days came to a swift end with the stock market crash on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, in New York, Toronto, Montreal and other financial centres in the world.
The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.
acabarse
draw to + a close
peter out
run out
be gone
come to + an end
run out of
draw to + an end
wind down
be all gone
be all over
In 1971 the experimental phase of PRECIS was drawing to a close as the system became operational in the British national bibliography.
Press demands for information soon petered out but enquiries from the general public continued for many months.
He continued writing for two years until his ink ran out.
Hard times lie ahead, the halcyon days are gone - perhaps forever.
The era of paper-based information systems is coming to an end.
The philosophy of science lacks a time dimension and seems to have run out of language to cope with all the abstractions needed.
As the war drew to an end, the horrendous scenes of misery and destitution came to light.
As President Bush's second term winds down, this is no time for him to be making trouble for his successor.
The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
We were outside for over an hour and we were glad when it was all over because it was a bit nippy.
acabarse el entusiasmo
run out of + steam
However, after making some progress the revision committee seems to have run out of steam, and no firm proposals have yet been made.
acabarse el espacio
run out of + space
Many university and state libraries are running out of space and research libraries have a serious conservation problem.
acabarse el tiempo
time + run out
time + be + up
If time is running out, do not feel obliged to read them from cover to cover.
When a speaker's time is up, make it clear by rising and saying words to the effect of 'Thank you very much. That's all the time you have'.
acabar segundo
take + second place
come off + second-best
Niamh practised her words with her mother and went on to take second place in the spelling final.
The Americana tends to come off second-best in just about every evaluative test (size, readability, accessibility, up-to-dateness, prestige, etc.).
acabarse la buena racha
the good times + run out
But the good times ran out and the world recession of the 1970s brought rising inflation, unemployment and increasing pressure for better social services.
acabarse la (buena) suerte
run out of + luck
luck + run out
The current president is a 'gambler,' a risk taker with faith - above all in himself - that has run out of luck.
His luck ran out the second time around after surviving an attempt on his life last April.
acabar siendo eliminado
end up on + the chopping block
As whole neighborhoods atrophy, even good schools like Carstens can face dwindling enrollments and end up on the chopping block.
acabar teniendo
end up with
land up with
Could the USA end up with a House of Delegates rather than a House of Representatives?.
This way you do not get into a fix and land up with a debt which you do not have the capacity to pay back.
acabar un trabajo
complete + a job
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.
a medio acabar
half-finished
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
bien está lo que bien acaba
all is well that ends well
'All is well that ends well,' at least for the three policemen who were released and their families = "Bien está lo que bien acaba", al menos para los tres policías liberados y para sus familias.
como si se acabara el mundo
like there's no tomorrow
The way to live like there's no tomorrow is to basically love life and be as crazy as possible and take risks and chances.
como si se fuese a acabar el mundo
like there's no tomorrow
The way to live like there's no tomorrow is to basically love life and be as crazy as possible and take risks and chances.
cuento de nunca acabar
endless story
never-ending story
As endless stories around corruption continue to spill over into the main news and business pages, businesses should pause for thought before jumping on the sport sponsoring gravy train.
And the Democratic Party is a never-ending story of corruption, greed, petty bickering, and blithe disregard of the voters' interests.
dejar a medio acabar
leave + Nombre + half-finished
Avoid starting a project and leaving it half-finished until who knows when.
dejar a medio terminar
leave + Nombre + half-finished
Avoid starting a project and leaving it half-finished until who knows when.
diplomacia + acabar
glove + come off
gloves + be off
Now, the gloves have come off and communities all around America are openly protesting against Islam itself.
As far as she's concerned the gloves are off and it's either them or us.
empezar a acabarse
run + low (on)
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.
estar acabando con
eat away at
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.
estar acabándose
be on the way out
be on + Posesivo + last legs
Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born.
The world's carefully constructed international system for maintaining peace and security, built around the UN charter, is now on its last legs.
historia de nunca acabar
endless story
As endless stories around corruption continue to spill over into the main news and business pages, businesses should pause for thought before jumping on the sport sponsoring gravy train.
nada se acaba hasta que no se acaba
nothing is done until it's done
And yes, I know that nothing is done until it's done and there's all sorts of things that can go wrong between now and the closing date.
no acabarse nunca
go on and on (and on (forever))
They say silence is golden but some people really just don't get it and they go on and on and on forever!.
por acabar
uncompleted
This guide is organised along the steps involved in buying uncompleted private residential properties from licensed housing developers.
ser el cuento de nunca acabar
never + hear + the end/last of it
This is a rivalry that has gone on for years and I will never hear the end of it for the next ten years if I lose.
¡se te acabó el cuento!
the jig's up!
Okay, the jig's up! Your dean or department chair corners you and says: 'I think it's high time you taught your Introduction to Library History course on the Internet'.
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.
todo lo bueno se acaba
all good things (must) come to an end
I hear all good things must come to an end almost as often as I hear the equally untrue what comes up, must come down.
tumulto + acabar
tumult + die
The tumult died as people came to their senses and integrated A/V materials into their collections and cataloguing rules.
