hábito-1
habit ; practice.
This feature, portability, can be a mixed blessing-things which can be moved have a habit of disappearing.
This practice ensures that a later match can be achieved between the document and its description.
abandonar un hábito
stop + habit
When you decide to quit smoking, establishing smoke-free zones will help you to stop your habit.
caer en un hábito
lapse into + habit
Employees must call upon the services of the librarians and not lapse into 'do-it-yourself' habits.
cultivar los hábitos de lectura
cultivate + reading habits
This article mentions the libraries of the Arab Cultural Centres referring particularly to their role in fighting illiteracy and cultivating reading habits in different groups of the population.
dejar el hábito [Dejar una mala costumbre]
kick + the habit
Here's one you forgot: How about sponsoring a 'kick the habit' program?.
dejar un hábito
stop + habit
When you decide to quit smoking, establishing smoke-free zones will help you to stop your habit.
fomento del hábito de la lectura
reading promotion
This article outlines the creation of a new library and the subsequent reading promotion which took place throughout the school including: more class reading; visits by authors; taped stories; competitions, etc.
fomento del hábito lector
reading promotion
This article outlines the creation of a new library and the subsequent reading promotion which took place throughout the school including: more class reading; visits by authors; taped stories; competitions, etc.
fuerza del hábito, la
force of habit
After mulling this over for days, I have reached the conclusion that sheer force of habit has a whole lot to do with my track record.
hábito alimentario
eating habit
By preventing poor eating habits, diseases and retrograde behaviour, the consumption of honey and royal jelly could prove that the reintroduction of natural foods will protect the human body.
hábito alimenticio
eating habit
By preventing poor eating habits, diseases and retrograde behaviour, the consumption of honey and royal jelly could prove that the reintroduction of natural foods will protect the human body.
hábito de búsqueda de información
information-seeking habit
A survey was carried out into the information needs and information-seeking habits of hospital physicians.
hábito de citación
citing habit
This parallelism suggests similar citing habits of scientists in the fields studied.
hábito de compra
shopping habit
buying habit
purchasing habit
consumption habit
The author discusses the effects of the reform of the Sunday shopping hours on national shopping habits.
There are firms that can compile profiles of users' buying habits based on the type of Web transactions and user behaviour recorded from the Web and sell this information on to other bodies.
In the general book market, however, there is still a great deal of variety in purchasing habits.
Between the ages of nine and twelve, children develop consumption habits that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
hábito de consumo
shopping habit
buying habit
purchasing habit
consumption habit
The author discusses the effects of the reform of the Sunday shopping hours on national shopping habits.
There are firms that can compile profiles of users' buying habits based on the type of Web transactions and user behaviour recorded from the Web and sell this information on to other bodies.
In the general book market, however, there is still a great deal of variety in purchasing habits.
Between the ages of nine and twelve, children develop consumption habits that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
hábito de consumo de alcohol
drinking practice
drinking habit
Advertising may have a direct impact on youth drinking practices and drinking problems.
Since World War II, British brewing, pubs and drinking habits have gone through fundamental changes.
hábito de lectura
reading habit
The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.
hábito de publicación
publishing habit
In a period corresponding to 2 scientific generations, important changes in writing and publishing habits were observed.
hábito de trabajo
work habit
working habit
The best assistants tend to be average students who are punctual and reliable with good work habits.
This study reveals details of the working habits of authors.
hábito de uso
usage pattern
use pattern
These characteristics were used to create a model to record and analyse usage patterns.
The author discusses the use of bar codes as a method of assessing use patterns of bound periodicals.
hábito informativo
information habit
In physics traditional information habits are preserved with a few leading scientists publishing articles with few co-authors.
hábito lector
reading habit
The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.
hábito personal
personal habit
These are some of the personal habits and management styles that make a good/bad library director.
hábito saludable
healthy habit
Healthy habits can protect everyone from getting germs or spreading germs at home, school, or work.
hábitos de vida
lifestyle [life style/life-style]
Through guided discussions of novels that represent different lifestyles and backgrounds librarians and teachers can help students deal with their own differences and those that they see in others.
hábito social
social pattern
social custom
T.V. has surely cut down the incentive to acquire the habit of reading where this is not already part of the accepted social pattern.
Social customs sometimes caused problems in borrowing.
perder el hábito
lose + the habit
This article describes a workshop for students designed to develop a taste for reading among educated people who had lost the habit.
Posesivo + viejos hábitos
Posesivo + old ways
The rest of us can only content ourselves with silly attempts to change, only to default to our old ways.
que crea hábito
addictive
Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful.
reformar malos hábitos
reform + bad habits
And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government = Y los que manejemos el dinero público tendremos que responder de ello (gastar con prudencia, cambiar malos hábitos y hacer nuestro trabajo a la luz del día) porque sólo entonces podremos restablecer la confianza entre el pueblo y su gobierno.
tener el hábito de
have + the habit of
The director had a habit of postponing certain questions and never returning to them.
