acto
act ; event ; deed.
The sheer act of preservation renders the material permanent rather than transitory.
The concept of corporate body includes named occasional groups and events, such as meetings, conferences, congresses, expeditions, exhibitions, festivals, and fairs.
Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
acto barbárico
barbaric act
Twelve Nepalese hostages are killed by Islamic militants in Iraq in what Nepal calls a 'barbarian act'.
acto comunicativo
communication act
According to semiotics, communication acts in public libraries occur at subtle levels of expression (signifier) and content (signified).
acto de bravura
act of courage
act of valour
Sometimes getting out of bed is an amazing act of courage.
It was an act of valor to testify on that witness stand for so many hours and still stay cool and collected about his most private and humiliating experiences.
acto de cobardía
act of cowardice
Form my history of clans , all 'alliances' between clans are acts of cowardice and usualy ends with some sneaky bitch backstabbing people.
acto de contrición
act of contrition
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that if a person makes a 'perfect' act of contrition, his mortal sins are forgiven.
acto de crueldad
act of cruelty
It is an act of cruelty that seems to defy explanation.
acto de devoción
act of devotion
Vows of chastity can also be taken by laypersons as a voluntary act of devotion.
acto de evitar
avoidance
This avoidance of unnecessary repetition in the listing of concepts is a feature of CC and of all faceted classification schemes.
acto de fé
act of faith
By and large, the introduction of such services has been an act of faith by librarians committed to the idea.
acto de generosidad
act of generosity
While fleecing someone with a long, sharp butcher's knife, the American grandees pose as though they were performing an act of great generosity.
acto delictivo
delinquent act
criminal act
The study suggests some preventative measures which include a simple publicity campaign to educate students on the danger posed to library services by such delinquent acts.
Simenon may be read by many people for amusement only, but if we read him thoughtfully he shows us a variety of insights into the kind of crises that push people into criminal acts.
acto demencial
senseless act
Lives are lost every day to senseless acts of murder.
acto de piratería
piracy
Strictly speaking, the word piracy or infringement can be applied only to the flowing back of unauthorised reproductions to countries of origen = En su estricto sentido, la palabra piratería o infracción puede aplicarse solamente a la entrada de vuelta a los países de origen de reproducciones que se hayan hecho sin la debida autorización.
acto de publicar
publication
In order to support these three elements, and to ensure that schemes are updated it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.
acto de rebeldía
act of opposition
'Catching 10' while the supervisor is looking the other way is both a salve to the tired body & a little act of opposition.
acto de traición
treasonable
treasonable
act of treachery
act of treason
Printers or publishers were sometimes shy of giving their real names - usually because a book was treasonable, or libellous, or a piracy - and for similar reasons they might give a false place of publication and a false date.
Printers or publishers were sometimes shy of giving their real names - usually because a book was treasonable, or libellous, or a piracy - and for similar reasons they might give a false place of publication and a false date.
This dramatic act of treachery against the Republic was actually entirely due to political infighting between republican factions.
It is also an act of treason against humanity, since it has been used to justify an attempt to destroy the world economy.
acto de valentía
act of valour
act of courage
It was an act of valor to testify on that witness stand for so many hours and still stay cool and collected about his most private and humiliating experiences.
Sometimes getting out of bed is an amazing act of courage.
acto de valor
act of valour
act of courage
It was an act of valor to testify on that witness stand for so many hours and still stay cool and collected about his most private and humiliating experiences.
Sometimes getting out of bed is an amazing act of courage.
acto de violencia
act of violence
The strategy of terrorists is to commit acts of violence that draws the attention of the the world to their cause.
acto espontáneo de
random act of
Teachers are facing random acts of violence seldom faced in the past.
acto extraño
weirdness
As examples of this weirdness he points to such instances as the bombings in Nevada and the militias in Arizona.
acto fallido
Freudian slip
It is to him that we owe phrases that have been incorporated into the language, such as the Freudian slip, the Oedipus Complex and the concept of the Ego.
acto ilícito
wrongful act
To have the reputation 'of good repute', however, was powerful enough to acquit a person suspected of a crime or wrongful act.
acto irracional
irrational act
senseless act
Terrorism is not an irrational act.
Lives are lost every day to senseless acts of murder.
acto oficial
official act
public engagement
This publication reports official acts and activities of the various units of the Association.
He is well-known for making bloomers in public engagements.
acto público
public function
Royalty have always been chauffeured to public functions and events and quite often make use of this facility in their private lives too.
acto racional
rational act
The Concise Oxford dictionary defines instinct as an 'innate propensity to certain seemingly rational acts performed without conscious intention'.
acto raro
weirdness
As examples of this weirdness he points to such instances as the bombings in Nevada and the militias in Arizona.
acto reflejo
knee-jerk reaction
This is a knee-jerk reaction that if it is supported by a right-wing government it must be bad.
acto relacionado con el libro
book event
This article describes the thinking behind a new book event for countries in the Pacific region which will take place in May 93.
acto religioso
religious service
religious ceremony
A new study shows that older women who regularly attend religious services reduce their risk of death by 20%.
Prayer and religious ceremonies may help patients near the end of life and their relatives find comfort and discover meaning in their lives.
acto seguido [Generalmente colocado al principio de la frase]
thereupon [thereon]
Thereupon he rallied, and with an air of accepting the inevitable turned into the library parking lot and went to his office.
acto sexual
sexual act
Police say an employee at a homeless shelter in downtown Charleston offered reduced lodging rates in exchange for sexual acts.
actos heroicos
heroics
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.
acto sin sentido
senseless act
Lives are lost every day to senseless acts of murder.
acto social
networking event
These prestigious networking events will provide you with the latest news and trends in the design industry.
acto terrorista
act of terror
When the security services carry out acts of terror, they employ patsies who often are petty criminals or people who are mentally backward or mentally unstable.
acto violento
act of violence
The strategy of terrorists is to commit acts of violence that draws the attention of the the world to their cause.
acto voluntario
voluntary act
Vows of chastity can also be taken by laypersons as a voluntary act of devotion.
cometer un acto de traición
commit + an act of treason
We tend to forget that to sign the Declaration of Independence was to commit an act of treason - and the punishment for treason was death.
cometer un acto violento
commit + violence
The violence was committed by a wide range of ordinary citizens, including psychopaths, conformists, fanatics, opportunists, & cowards.
en el acto
ipso facto
outright
on the spot
while-you-wait [while-u-wait]
at the drop of a hat
immediately
Any action that is repeated frequently become cast into a pattern which can be reproduced with an economy of effort which, ipso facto, is apprehended by its performer as a pattern.
The author of an unpublished book normally had to sell it outright for whatever the publisher chose to pay in cash or in printed copies.
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.
While-you-wait copying facilities are available in a number of reading rooms.
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.
When you meet with a new co-worker, you immediately begin to develop an initial impression of this person.
fusilar en el acto
shoot on + sight
These people should be shot on sight and all their genetic material vaporized... fucking losers.
hacer acto de presencia
show + Posesivo + face
put in + an appearance
I've been told to get over here again and show my face!.
While odd red-footed falcons put in appearances locally every year, the birds nest regularly no nearer to Britain than Eastern Europe.
matar en el acto
kill + Nombre + stone dead
Having built up your reputation for over half a century you have managed to kill it stone dead in only a few seconds.
organizar un acto
hold + event
Numerous events are also to be held as a tribute to the work of artists and political personalities.
organizar un acto público
organise + a function
The RML can organise large functions in the adjacent civic hall.
presidir un acto
preside over + act
But if the groundwork for these accomplisments can be laid with patient, constructive efforts, that contribution is more important than presiding over the final act.
realizar un acto
commit + an act
Our reactions to actual crime - disbelief about the act committed, anger at the hurt caused, a desire to get even, and fear for ourselves and our children - arrive in an indecipherable rush of emotion.
salón de actos
auditorium [auditoriums/auditoria, -pl.]
assembly hall
assembly room
lecture hall
Counting the media center (which everyone persists in calling the library), there are 26 classrooms, 2 shops (one for auto repair and one for woodworking), a basement gymnasium, and a flat-floor auditorium.
Experts feel that unless a retaining wall is built the structure of the newly-built assembly hall may collapse.
On the first day of classes the students gathered in the assembly room and began their day with the singing of the national anthem.
We only have to listen to each other talking, anywhere from the bedroom to the lecture hall, from the street to our living rooms, to witness the fact that people are language-made.
