discusión
debate ; discussion ; disputation ; dispute ; thread ; argument ; spat ; war of words ; tiff.
The debate as to which is the most effective way to classify books has not been positively settled.
In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
Academic disputations are generally entered under the heading for the faculty moderator.
In practice meetings of the Council of Ministers - the Community's main legislative body - have in recent years become a forum for acrimonious dispute.
The thread linking these giants is the acknowledgement that libraries exist to serve their users.
We do not want to see young assistants at the counter getting involved in an argument.
It also includes a blow-by-blow account of spats between management and labor.
War of words exposed chinks in coalition.
She found himself in trouble after a tiff with photo journalists during the shoot of a film.
centrar una discusión
focus + discussion
This discussion focused on the activities of Frank Gillie, who has recently been sent to jail for getting libraries to pay substantial sums for multi-volume works which he could not provide.
discusión acalorada
hand-waving
hot discussion
These will not be easy studies, but facts are a far better basis for planning than are the techno-boosterism and hand-waving that characterize most discussions of these topics.
There were hot discussions, hard solutions, brilliant brain waves and horrible mistakes.
discusión bizantina
pointless discussion
pointless argument
If you go off at tangents, you could end up with pointless discussions about the best car to buy, the public transport alternatives, etc.
Unfortunately the Oz government is hell bent on turning a pointless argument into an economic disaster.
discusiones sobre gustos y colores
flame war
I would greatly appreciate any feedback (no flame wars, please) on this issue.
discusiones sobre nimiedades
hair-splitting argument
That distinction between core and incidental activities will certainly give rise to hair-splitting arguments.
discusión + girar en torno a
discussion + centre around
Discussion centred around the need for a single-source guide to collection management and electronic media.
discusión sin sentido
pointless discussion
pointless argument
If you go off at tangents, you could end up with pointless discussions about the best car to buy, the public transport alternatives, etc.
Unfortunately the Oz government is hell bent on turning a pointless argument into an economic disaster.
discusión sobre nimiedades
hair-splitting argument
hair-splitting [hairsplitting]
That distinction between core and incidental activities will certainly give rise to hair-splitting arguments.
Amazingly, this has done little to temper their penchant for legalese and hair-splitting on international law.
el tema de la discusión
the focus of the discussion
Matters of civility rather than criminality are the focus of the discussion.
foro de discusión [En USENET, el nombre dado a las listas de correro electrónico]
newsgroup [news group]
electronic forum
Newsgroup is the name for discussion groups on USENET.
Information World en Espanol (IWETEL), the first electronic forum for information professionals in Spain, was launched in Nov 93.
ganar una discusión
win + an argument
If you win the argument, but lose the person, you've lost the argument.
generar discusión
generate + discussion
Each workshop was repeated 3 times, generating much interesting debate and discussion.
grupo de discusión
discussion group
Begun in 1973, CONSER was conceived by an ad hoc discussion group on Serials Data Bases of American and Canadian librarians.
lista de discusión [En Internet, grupo de usuarios que están interesados en un tema específico y que automáticamente reciben en su correo electrónico los mensajes relacionados con el mismo que los miembros del grupo se intercambian]
discussion list
Internet users may also derive articles and other information from electronic journals and newsletters and from the many electronic bulletin boards (EEB) and discussion lists.
no admitir discusión
be out of the question
Since a freeze on all hiring was in effect, taking on new people was out of the question.
panel de discusión
discussion panel
This paper gives a general overview of the microfilm industry world-wide, drawing on the comments of members of a discussion panel at the Mid-year meeting of the National Micrographics Association.
perder una discusión
lose + an argument
If you win the argument, but lose the person, you've lost the argument.
posponer una discusión
table + discussion
Discussion on the considerable effect that library administrations can have on the budget is tabled until later in the chapter.
proponer a discusión
moot
I believe that what Ms. Marshall mooted yesterday and what has since rearisen in discussion is a very real, and perhaps unbridgeable, difference of interest.
punto de discusión
bone of contention, the
However, this iconography, along with the style of the monuments, became a bone of contention between different religious & political groups.
retomar una discusión
pick up + discussion
We can pick up this discussion some other time, after you've armed yourself with ammunition!.
suscitar la discusión
spark + discussion
The author offers perspectives intended to challenge acquisitions librarians' thinking, spark discussions, and lead to further investigations.
tema de discusión
discussion topic
Television shows foster titillating discussion topics and trivialize troubles.
tener una discusión
have + a row
If we have a row he sulks for days and I have to try everything to get him to be nice again.
