grano-1
grain.
Most of these (like the photo on the right) are aluminum oxide, but a few grains of spinel have also been found.
al grano
no-nonsense
to the point
When you daydream about conquests you'll never have, the no-nonsense guy daydreams about ladies within reach.
I also appreciate Mark's comments as he has a way of being to the point and direct.
breve y al grano
short and sweet
They say that guys keep conversation short and sweet while girls can talk for hours till they put you to sleep.
de grano grueso
coarse-grained
Coarse-grained textures generally indicate magmas that slowly cooled deep underground.
grano de arena
grain of sand
Again, in the past, as many aeons ago as there are grains of sand in the Ganges, a Buddha named Jewel Nature appeared in the world.
grano de arroz
grain of rice
And if donating a few grains of rice is not enough the you can always loan a few dollars so a farmer can buy a bag of seeds to grow his own.
grano de cacao
cacao bean
cocoa bean
As legend goes Cortes was greeted by natives that gave him a sackful of cacao beans in exchange for some of his own merchandise.
Chocolate comes from the equatorial cacao tree's unassuming cocoa beans.
grano de café
coffee bean
In terms of dollars, what was the export of coffee beans from Brazil to the U.S.?.
grano de mijo
millet seed
Miliary tuberculosis was first described in 1700 by John Jacob Manget, who likened the tiny, disseminated caseous lesions to millet seeds.
grano de sal
grain of salt
Putting all this together, we come out at a figure of two to three grains of salt in each teardrop.
grano de trigo
grain of wheat
Children too exhausted even to wave the flies off their faces, and men and women in rags scrabbling in the dirt for grains of wheat.
grano para alimento humano
food grain
Is it possible to produce food grains and vegetables by just spreading seeds without tilling the land and sowing the seeds in a cultivated land?.
hacer una montaña de un grano de arena
make + a mountain out of a molehill
get + worked up about nothing
fret about + nothing
'After all,' he thought to himself, 'I may be making a mountain out of a molehill in this thing'.
Here's why I think this really was a mistake, and why we're getting worked up about nothing in this particular instance.
I suggest that we are fretting about nothing and that we would do well to go with the flow and let the systems be introduced, as has been proposed.
ir al grano
cut to + the chase
get down to + brass tacks
get down to + bedrock
get down to + the nitty-gritty
get down to + the basics (of things)
cut through + the noise
This is a dating agency for sugar daddies, sugar babies and singles who are looking to cut to the chase and meet new adult singles online.
When you get down to brass tacks, the fundamental reason why the UK is in its current mess is because we were borrowing too much for too long.
But we must nevertheless weed through these various proposals and get down to bedrock to what Dirksen really wants.
They promised much but these scholars never got down to the nitty-gritty .
I was able to get down to the basics of things I needed but ran into some other problems for which I cannot find a solution anywhere.
Automation tools can help you streamline your workflow and cut through the noise.
separar el grano de la paja [Separa lo bueno de lo malo] [Separa lo bueno de lo malo]
divide into + Adjetivo + sheep and + Adjetivo + goats
sort the + Adjetivo + sheep from the + Adjetivo + goats
separate + the wheat from the chaff
sort out + the wheat from the chaff
sift + the wheat from the chaff
An interesting outcome from this research has been that instead of dividing the collection of documents into relevant sheep and irrelevant goats, we rank every document, from 'most relevant' to 'least relevant'.
Instead of ranking the documents retrieved in probable order of relevance, the conventional search sorts the relevant sheep from the irrelevant goats and ignores the fact that there are a lot of 'maybe's' involved.
Special multimedia search engines such as used on CNN and Sony may be better at separating the wheat from the chaff.
The article is entitled 'Sorting out the wheat from the chaff: take a look at the multimedia features of seven Web-wide search services'.
The article is entitled 'Sifting the wheat from the chaff'.
un grano de arena en el desierto
a drop in the ocean
a drop of water in a bucket
The article 'Shipboard libraries: a drop in the ocean?' stresses the importance of shipboard libraries to present-day crews.
Now, I do not know, if this particular information is correct, but a million people seems lake a drop of water in the bucket for Chinese.
