dos-1
two (2).
The second part of this volume combines the proceedings of the two 1977 institutes held in New York and Los Angeles.
a dos niveles
two-tier
The van has improved facilities, including covered access to a two-tier display rack, so that passers-by can browse through a wide variety of information leaflets.
a dos velas
skint
penniless
broke
in the dark
down-and-out
out-of-pocket
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.
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'.
Perhaps instead of arguing, and rushing around in the dark, the time has come to follow our Danish and American friends and begin to find out what we are doing.
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on an overheard conversation between a well-meaning librarian and a down-and-out old man seeking validation for his unpublished poetry.
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.
argumento que presenta los dos puntos de vista
two-sided argument
In addition, 4 major issues are presented regarding information diffusion: logical vs. emotional appeals, one-sided vs two-sided arguments, and order of presentation.
arma de dos filos
double-edged sword
The rise of the World Wide Web is a double-edged sword for these systems.
asalto a dos bandas
two-pronged attack
The solution appears to lie in a two-pronged attack = La respuesta parece encontrarse en una solución doble.
autobús de dos pisos
double-decker bus
In the United Kingdom an 'information double-decker bus' is used, complete with information material and manned by a team of staff from the main library.
cada dos
every other
He cooperates in every way - works two evenings a week, every other Saturday, and one Sunday afternoon in four.
cada dos años [Compárese con biannually (que ocurre dos veces al año)]
biennially
The UDC committee meets at least biennially, usually annually.
cada dos días
every other day
The bottom line of this research is that skipping one meal every day or every other day should slow or prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
cada dos minutos
every other minute
Imagine holding your breath for 30 seconds every other minute for 8 hours - that's what happens to people with sleep apnea.
cada dos por tres
all the time
now and again
often [oftener -comp., oftenest -sup.]
frequently
every other minute
every five minutes
every few minutes
Improvements are, however being made all the time: the dividing line between microcomputer and minicomputer is already blurred.
Such paper was rarely made, but may now and again be found with the watermark in the middle, or next to an edge, of the sheet.
Nevertheless, modern cataloguing practices often represent some amalgam of the collocative and the direct approaches.
Prior to the 1970s UDC was frequently to be found in large card indexes in special libraries and sometimes to be encountered in abstracting and indexing tools.
It's also not always practical to don and remove gloves every other minute when dealing with babies and toddlers.
I am tired of having to blow my nose every five minutes.
Teachers across Britain are subjected to foul language, personal abuse, sexual insults and threats of violence by pupils every few minutes.
cada dos semanas [Generalmente el significado es que se hace u ocurre cada dos semanas, aunque también se podría utilizar para indicar dos veces a la semana]
biweekly [bi-weekly]
The data base is updated biweekly with approximately 1,200 to 1,500 records.
cogido entre dos fuegos
caught between two stools
Do people of mixed race feel caught between two stools or are they nestling in the best of both worlds?.
comer a dos carrillos
stuff + Posesivo + face
stuff + Reflexivo + with
We got stuck waiting for a train back for almost two hours, so we sat in a country pub in the arse of nowhere, stuffing our faces and playing dominoess.
As soon as he had stuffed himself with a host of good dishes, he began to leap and spring, to laugh and to fart like a little ass well stuffed with barley.
Comida + de dos platos
two course + Comida
The price includes two course lunch plus coffee.
comida de dos platos y postre
three-course meal
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.
como dos gotas de agua
as alike as two peas in a pod
The core questionnaire asked for data on birth weight, age at first spoken word, and whether the twins were as alike as two peas in a pod.
como dos y dos son cuatro
as sure as eggs is eggs
You know the kind of thing: if you put your hand in the fire then, as sure as eggs is eggs, your hand will get burnt.
como + Nombre + no hay dos
be one of a kind
be one in a million
She was one of a kind and we were fortunate to have had the chance to make music with her.
He changed my life forever and I will never forget him, he truly was one in a million.
con dos caras
double-faced
The system gave rise to a double-faced social dynamic - inside/inside - which proved itself able to adapt rather well to social change.
con dos facetas
double-faced
The system gave rise to a double-faced social dynamic - inside/inside - which proved itself able to adapt rather well to social change.
con las dos manos
two handed [two-handed]
Subjects reached 50 percent of their two handed typing speed after about 8 hours.
construido en dos niveles
split-level
The library, which is of split-level design on 2 floors, includes a lending collection, children's library, study area, and audio-visual section.
con tejado a dos aguas
gabled
The 'Rathaus' on the market square is an architectural oddity, comprising four gabled houses to which a decorative classical façade was added in 1797.
de dos caras
two-sided
two-faced
Galleys are two- or three-sided trays, nowadays made of metal and three or four times as long as they are wide.
This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
de dos días de duración
two-day [2-day]
Conference assistants must work a minimum of 4 hours to receive this significant discount to the two-day conference.
de dos en dos
two at a time
pairwise
pairwise
Racks for this purpose were fixed below the ceiling of the warehouse or other drying room and doublings of one or two dozen sheets were lifted on to them two at a time with a wooden peel, a tool similar to the peel with which bakers used to load and unload their ovens = Con este propósito se colocaban estantes por debajo del techo del almacén u otro tipo de secadero y los paquetes de folios impresos a dos caras de una o dos docenas de hojas se ponían sobre ellos de dos en dos con una pala de madera, una herramienta similar a la pala que usaban los panaderos para llenar y vaciar sus hornos.
The figure below shows the number of possible pairwise comparisons as a function of the number of conditions in the experiment.
The figure below shows the number of possible pairwise comparisons as a function of the number of conditions in the experiment.
de dos letras
two-letter
The TAG option can be appended to a DISPLAY command to cause two-letter tags to appear along the left side of record.
de dos niveles
two-tier
The van has improved facilities, including covered access to a two-tier display rack, so that passers-by can browse through a wide variety of information leaflets.
de dos páginas
two-page
A good illustration of this is the two-page advertisement placed in the Financial Times during the run up to the 1984 European Parliament election.
de dos partidos políticos
bipartisan [bi-partisan]
Often the majority group in these councils is of the left, but the approach to obtaining finance has been bi-partisan and pragmatic, with groups of every political persuasion avidly pursuing Community money.
de dos patas
two-legged
When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.
de dos piernas
two-legged
When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.
de dos pies
two-legged
When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.
de dos plantas
two-storey [two-story]
He had never before taken the time to examine the immense two-story granite structure of modified Romanesque design, with its massive arched entrance generously treated with carved ornament.
de dos tonalidades
bitonal
This is an adequate way of storing and transmitting scanned paper documents in bitonal and greyscale image data.
de dos tonos
bitonal
This is an adequate way of storing and transmitting scanned paper documents in bitonal and greyscale image data.
de dos volúmenes
two-volume
To recap, the four major parts of the 32-volume Britannica are (l) the one-volume Propaedia, (2) the 12-volume Micropaedia, (3) the 17-volume Macropaedia, and (4) the two-volume index to the set.
de las dos maneras
in both ways
Although printed indexes tend to be either controlled or natural language, many large data bases now can be searched in both ways.
dividir en dos
halve
bisect
rend in + two
The author concludes that this technique almost halves the storage required with no loss of information.
Six different methods for bisecting a line segment are illustrated and explained.
Anthropology as a discipline is in danger of being rent in two by the tensions between those who practice it.
dos años
two-year period
Bell's two-year period of ineligibility begins on November 10, 2006.
dos caras de la misma moneda
two sides of the same coin
Immodesty and the lack of respect for women are two sides of the same coin.
dos entuertos no hacen un derecho
two wrongs do not make a right
And while in multiplication two negatives may make a positive in reality two wrongs do not make a right.
dos no se pelean si uno no quiere
it takes two to tangle
it takes two to tango
it takes two to make a quarrel
It takes two to tangle and the risk is in a woman living with a very dangerous animal, the human male.
Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure, it takes two to tango.
It takes two to make a quarrel, family or otherwise, fathers or sons.
dos peniques [Forma coloquial de pronunciar two pence, unidad de moneda]
tuppence
Tuppence is a valid word in this word list.
dos puntos (:) [En clasificación, símbolo utilizado frecuentemente para combinar clases o materias]
colon (:)
When using the : (colon) to link concepts, the indexer is at liberty to decide in what order the concepts should be cited.
dos semanas
fortnight
A library of approximately 750 books was set up and a librarian visited the rig by helicopter once a fortnight to bring new books.
dos son compañía, tres multitud
two is a company, three is a crowd
In marriage, two is a company and three's a crowd.
dos tercios (-2/-3)
two thirds (2/3)
The rows over Britain's contributions to the Community budget and runaway spending on the the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which took up two thirds of the budget, were documented blow by blow in the press.
dos veces
doubly
twice
on two occasions
two times
For example, a book on Bridges should be entered under Bridges and not under a broader heading such as Engineering, nor doubly under both headings.
They are slower because they actually print each character twice.
Life is most enjoyed on two occasions: when intoxicated or not giving a fuck.
These work schedules offer your employees a weekday off two or four times a month with no cut in pay or benefits.
dos veces al año
twice yearly [twice-yearly]
semiannual [semi-annual]
The journal was originally intended as a quarterly, but changed to twice yearly publication with the 1st issue of 1977.
Information dissemination is via monthly and semiannual publications to subscribers.
dos veces a la semana [Generalmente el significado es que se hace u ocurre cada dos semanas, aunque también se podría utilizar para indicar dos veces a la semana]
twice-weekly
biweekly [bi-weekly]
twice a week
In order to make my twice-weekly half-hour visits to the class more relaxing and, I hoped, more enjoyable, the teacher designed a special area the children called 'the storycorner'.
The data base is updated biweekly with approximately 1,200 to 1,500 records.
The volunteers receive training once a fortnigt in the winter and twice a week in the summer.
dos veces al día
twice a day
The most important part of dental care is to brush and floss your teeth regularly (at least twice a day, better yet after every meal or snack).
durante los dos últimos años
during the past couple of years
One of the major talking points on the electronic publishing scene during the past couple of years has been the need for internationally recognised standards.
durante los dos últimos meses
over the last couple of months
Over the last couple of months, drug companies had been holding their horses in the hope that the new budget would bring them some relief.
en dos años
over a two-year period
The purpose of this analysis was to document the change in body mass index (BMI) over a two-year period in poor women from urban Mexico.
en dos lenguas
bilingually
Some journals are published bilingually in Arabic and English, and a few are in Arabic only.
en dos niveles
split-level
The library, which is of split-level design on 2 floors, includes a lending collection, children's library, study area, and audio-visual section.
en dos ocasiones
on two occasions
Life is most enjoyed on two occasions: when intoxicated or not giving a fuck.
en dos palabras
in a nutshell
in a few words
In a nutshell, I believe we must support all efforts to provide online computer access to bibliographic information.
Recently, someone asked me if I could explain chi-square in a few words.
en dos volúmenes
two-volume
To recap, the four major parts of the 32-volume Britannica are (l) the one-volume Propaedia, (2) the 12-volume Micropaedia, (3) the 17-volume Macropaedia, and (4) the two-volume index to the set.
en los dos últimos años
during the past couple of years
One of the major talking points on the electronic publishing scene during the past couple of years has been the need for internationally recognised standards.
en los dos últimos meses
over the last couple of months
Over the last couple of months, drug companies had been holding their horses in the hope that the new budget would bring them some relief.
entre dos aguas
undecided
Poul Qvist Joergensen, Social Democratic MP, expressed his Party's undecided attitude towards tax exemption for sponsorship.
entre dos fuegos
crossfire
The developing world runs the risk of being caught in the cost based crossfire.
entre las dos y las cuatro
mid-afternoon
A chilly, rain-soaked day can make a class unpleasantly irritable by mid-afternoon.
en un dos por tres
in a flash
at the drop of a hat
in the blink of an eye
in no time
right away
in a jiffy
in a trice
in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
in the wink of an eye
In a flash, without a moment wasted on intelligent astonishment, the poor accosted earthling gives a detailed description of the instrument he apparently assumes without further investigation the stranded space man needs.
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.
Society has moved from micro to macro scale in almost the blink of an eye.
Follow each of these tips, and you'll be on the road to success in no time.
Forms that are required right away are printed immediately.
The article is entitled 'Chemistry in a Jiffy'.
In a trice we find ourselves left without civilisation - just a push of a wrong button and everything goes straight to a primitive state.
He said something to them turned around and was gone in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
This incident happened in plain daylight and in the wink of an eye.
en uno o dos días
in a day or two
All cats get the runs from time to time but it usually runs its course quickly, and your cat is back to his usual self in a day or two.
en uno o dos segundos
in an instant or two
Now rapid selection can slide just the proper card into position in an instant or two, and return it afterward.
espada de dos filos
sword with two edges
two-edged sword
The article has the title 'A sword with two edges: the role of children's literature in the writings of N.K'.
The author uses the example of a public library to show that private funding is a two-edged sword'.
estar a dos velas
not have a bean
And considering the fact that my parents didn't have a bean, how could my father have had a fountain pen that was expensive enough to pawn?.
estar ente dos aguas
be on the horns of a dilemma
Well right now I am on the horns of a dilemma as the weather outside is so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey but I would be barking mad not to go home and get a good heavy coat for later this evening.
estar entre dos aguas
fall between + two stools
sit on + the fence
The article is entitled 'ADONIS: a happy medium or falling between two stools'.
However, some CD-ROM publishers have decided to sit on the fence and offer prices that are neither too high nor too low.
familia con dos coches
two-car family
For the two-car family, living in the countryside can present few problems, but most households are not in such an advantageous position.
familia con dos sueldos
two-income family
As the cost of maintaining a decent standard of living within the family increases, the two-income family is becoming essential in practice if not in ideology.
familia en la que los dos padres trabajan
dual-income family
The middle class holds on by the skin of its teeth, saved from a real downward slide only by record increases in the number of dual-income families.
familia en la que los dos miembros trabajan
two-parent working family
They have become very popular with library patrons, especially in time-rationed, gridlocked metropolitan areas with a high proportion of two-parent working families.
folio impreso a dos caras
doubling
Racks for this purpose were fixed below the ceiling of the warehouse or other drying room and doublings of one or two dozen sheets were lifted on to them two at a time with a wooden peel, a tool similar to the peel with which bakers used to load and unload their ovens = Con este propósito se colocaban estantes por debajo del techo del almacén u otro tipo de secadero y los paquetes de folios impresos a dos caras de una o dos docenas de hojas se ponían sobre ellos de dos en dos con una pala de madera, una herramienta similar a la pala que usaban los panaderos para llenar y vaciar sus hornos.
grado de proximidad entre dos
betweenness
Betweenness is an important theme pervading much of mathematical thinking.
hacer clic dos veces
double click
For the past several days, I've had to double click on each email to open it - Why?.
hender en dos
rend in + two
Anthropology as a discipline is in danger of being rent in two by the tensions between those who practice it.
las dos caras de la moneda
two sides of the coin
Several professors teaching risk management invariably used to tell the students that risk and reward are two sides of the coin.
los dos
both
both of them
both of which
Both institutes were honored by the presence of the twentieth century's greatest cataloging theorist, Seymour Lubetzky.
I get the feeling from both of them that my job may be in jeopardy if I'm not a better sport.
'See also' references link two headings, both of which will be accepted for indexing.
medir a dos raseros
double standard
Parental protectiveness of children is surely a good thing if sensibly applied, but this nonsensical double standard doesn't help anyone.
molde de dos hojas [En la fabricación de papel, molde dividido por la mitad sobre el que se depositaba la pasta de papel para su secado y de este modo obtener dos hojas de papel]
two-sheet mould
Two-sheet moulds, which appear to have been a Dutch invention of the late seventeenth century, were constructed so that the two sheets were made either end to end or side by side.
nadar entre dos aguas
sit on + the fence
fall between + two stools
have + a foot in + Número + camps
be on the horns of a dilemma
However, some CD-ROM publishers have decided to sit on the fence and offer prices that are neither too high nor too low.
The article is entitled 'ADONIS: a happy medium or falling between two stools'.
The article 'The Smithsonian Institution Libraries: a foot in three camps' describes how the SIL operates within 3 camps or environments simultaneously - museums, research libraries, and special libraries - and utilises policies and practices that contain elements of each.
Well right now I am on the horns of a dilemma as the weather outside is so cold it would freeze the balls off a brass monkey but I would be barking mad not to go home and get a good heavy coat for later this evening.
ninguno de los dos
neither
neither of them
Overall, neither system proved ideal: LEXINET was deficient as regards lack of accessibility and excessive ambiguity; while the manual system gave rise to an over-wide variation of terms.
Neither of them relaxed the grip on each other's eyes.
no + haber + dos + Nombre que
no two + Nombre
No two printers of the hand-press period possessed stocks of exactly similar founts of type and of ornaments.
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 tener dos dedos de frente
as thick as a brick
as thick as two (short) planks
knucklehead
the cheese slid off + Posesivo + cracker
Her husband is still as thick as a brick and he still thinks he's been the model husband but Rome wasn't built in a day.
Ashdown, for example, is an out'and'out Nazi, while Menzies'Campbell, who is supposed to be their expert on foreign affairs, is as thick as two planks.
It takes more courage to say no and stand up for what's right and is best for them, than it does to cave in to knuckleheads like you two.
It sounds like the cheese slid off his cracker a long time ago.
pagar dos veces
double-pay
Some U.S. citizens sucessfully argued that U.S. taxpayers were double-paying for MEDLINE's development.
para pelearse hacen falta dos
it takes two to tangle
it takes two to tango
it takes two to make a quarrel
It takes two to tangle and the risk is in a woman living with a very dangerous animal, the human male.
Only time will tell, but one thing is for sure, it takes two to tango.
It takes two to make a quarrel, family or otherwise, fathers or sons.
partir en dos
halve
rend in + two
The author concludes that this technique almost halves the storage required with no loss of information.
Anthropology as a discipline is in danger of being rent in two by the tensions between those who practice it.
pensárselo dos veces
think + twice
give it + a second thought
I would urge you most sincerely and strongly to think twice or three times before putting your shelflist into an undeveloped system.
If I had known it would be like this I might have given it a second thought.
pinchar dos veces en
double click
For the past several days, I've had to double click on each email to open it - Why?.
por dos años
two-year
In addition to his work with the UCLA Library and the Washington, D.C. Public Library, he held successive two-year positions in Zambia and Uganda.
provechoso para los dos
mutually beneficial
Given limited resources and complimentary interests, we seek to work in partnership when mutally beneficial.
rasgar en dos
rend in + two
Anthropology as a discipline is in danger of being rent in two by the tensions between those who practice it.
ser arma de dos filos
be a mixed blessing
This feature, portability, can be a mixed blessing-things which can be moved have a habit of disappearing.
ser como dos gotas de agua
be like two peas in a pod
They were like two peas in a pod but the only problem was that they did not like school and often played truant.
ser dos mundos completamente distintos
be poles apart
The author discusses the evolving shape of competitor intelligence explaining why to date its aims and realities have been poles apart.
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.
sofá de dos plazas
love seat
two-seater sofa
The lounge is fully furnished with a sofa bed and love seat, TV and DVD player.
The living area is furnished with a three-seater sofa, two-seater sofa and 2 armchairs.
sofa para dos
love seat
two-seater sofa
The lounge is fully furnished with a sofa bed and love seat, TV and DVD player.
The living area is furnished with a three-seater sofa, two-seater sofa and 2 armchairs.
sumar dos y dos
put two and two together
Although there's no evidence at all of a link between caffeine and cancer, we're putting two and two together and saying that caffeine can induce these changes.
tener dos pareceres distintos
be in/of [USA] two minds
I have long been of two minds about the relationship of form and content.
tener dos pies izquierdos
have + two left feet
Our classes will appeal to everyone, including people who have not had the confidence to dance before and believe they have two left feet.
tener lo mejor de los dos mundos
have + the best of both worlds
Do people of mixed race feel caught between two stools or are they nestling in the best of both worlds?.
una vez cada dos semanas
once a fortnight
The volunteers receive training once a fortnigt in the winter and twice a week in the summer.
uno de los dos investigadores principales
co-principal investigator
He currently is co-principal investigator on a grant-funded project dealing with environmental grey literature.
vehículo de dos ruedas en línea
two-wheeler
In view of the sharp decline in two-wheeler use between 1978 and 1990, a new approach was required to check this phenomenon and encourage voluntary two-wheeled travel.
verificar dos veces
double-check [doublecheck]
make + double sure
Duplicates should be double-checked before being handled as duplicates.
He said firefighters were there mostly to make double sure it wasn't still smoldering.
