menos
least ; less ; minus ; but ; less so.
Service to the whole community implies positive discrimination towards those who through social or educational deprivation are least adept at using information tools.
The role of analytical entries in an online catalogue is less clear.
Copies of records created by the libraries, minus local data, are added to the pool of cataloguing information available to users.
Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.
Vellum remained popular on the continent, less so in England; while goatskin (morocco), although well established by this time for fine work, was seldom used in trade binding except for prayer books.
al menos
at least
at the very least
At least one reference or added entry is usually deemed to be necessary from each of the 'secondary' concepts in the preferred order.
One very common and straightforward device for guaranteeing at the very least a standard format for abstracting contributions is the abstracting form.
a menos que
unless
short of
The future of the scheme is questionable unless more positive central management can be achieved.
After days of contemplating the large number of variables I now believe that a leisure society is inevitable, short of global catastrophe.
area menos favorecida
less favoured area
Prominent examples are again the structural measures, such as those covering the modernization of farms and the less favoured areas.
cada vez menos
less and less
As continuing deterioration of postal services renders present methods of inter-library co-operation less and less effective, a radically different balance of cost-factors will emerge.
cuando menos te lo esperes
on any given Sunday
They are the weak link in the playoffs, but they are good enough to beat any of their competitors on any given Sunday.
cuanto menos
at least
let alone
at best
At least one reference or added entry is usually deemed to be necessary from each of the 'secondary' concepts in the preferred order.
Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.
Facet analysis in UDC is, at best, inconsistent.
dar menos de lo debido
shortchange
Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
de menos del -10 por ciento
single digit
single figure
The year saw single digit percentage increases over 1996 prices for monographs and double digit increases for serials.
In the non-fiction categories only one class, that of 'education', reached double figures, and all others were in single figures, so that it is difficult to say what is really important in people's non-fiction reading.
dentro de lo malo lo menos malo
the best of a bad lot
By eschewing politics, the film, like the book, lets Clinton off the hook, as the best of a bad lot in a context hopelessly debased by a dim and gullible electorate.
echar de menos [Tercera persona singular misses]
miss
He had been her assistant since she arrived, and she was going to miss him.
echar muchísimo de menos [Utilizado especialmente para dar el pésame] [Generalmente por defunción]
be sorely missed
be sadly missed
He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him and we pass our condolences to those closest to him.
Langer is a great loss to Australia and will be sadly missed.
echar mucho de menos [Utilizado especialmente para dar el pésame] [Generalmente por defunción]
be sorely missed
be sadly missed
He will be sorely missed by all those who knew him and we pass our condolences to those closest to him.
Langer is a great loss to Australia and will be sadly missed.
el último pero no el menos importante
the last but by no means least
The last but by no means least element in personnel are the library assistants, or library technicians as they are known in American libraries.
en todos menos en
in all but
The position of deputy librarian or deputy director exists in all but the smallest libraries, and there is a measure of agreement as to what his duties should entail.
en un futuro más o menos lejano
in the near future
In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.
en un futuro más o menos cercano
in the near future
In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.
en un período más o menos cercano
in the near future
In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.
en un período más o menos lejano
in the near future
In the same context, let me put before you an issue which I think you will be hearing a good deal about in the near future.
estrella venida a menos
fallen star
From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.
figura venida a menos
fallen star
From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.
hacerlo todo menos
stop at + nothing short of
Special library practice implies special service, tailored to the reader's needs, and that such service stops at nothing short of participation in library research activities of readers by the librarian.
hacer que Algo sea menos doloroso
take + the teeth out of
Sometimes making fun of something terrible helps to take the teeth out of it.
horas de menos aglomeración
off-peak times
It also stores any messages which it cannot forward because the receiving terminal is busy or which can be sent at off-peak times.
lo menos posible
as little as possible
The average man is by nature indolent; he works as little as possible = El ciudadno medio es perezoso por naturaleza; trabaja lo menos posible.
los menos locuaces [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
inarticulate, the
NACs see their role as champions of the inarticulate by either taking up their case or providing groups with the information weaponry to campaign for their rights.
más o menos [Generalmente precedido de una cantidad] [Contracción coloquial similar a sorta [sort of]] [Contracción coloquial similar a kinda [kind of]]
more or less
of a sort
or so
of sorts
after a fashion
round about
roughly speaking
give or take
ballpark
kinda [kind of]
sorta [sort of]
DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.
True, the machine is sometimes controlled by a keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.
For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.
In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.
Koenig had a flat-platen machine working after a fashion in 1811, and a prototype cylinder machine in 1812 = Koenig ya en 1811 tenía una máquina de presión plana que más o menos funcionaba y un prototipo de máquina rotativa en 1812.
Estimates of the books currently in print in Britain usually give a number of round about a quarter of a million titles.
Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.
President Bush estimated the Iraqi civilian death toll at 30,000; give or take a few thousand.
In hindsight about 350k dollars (ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.
This paper examines colloquial contractions (spelling variants such as 'kinda' and 'hafta') against a background of other variations in the English writing system.
I feel sorta guilty for spending most of this beautiful afternoon bed.
más o menos + Adverbio
relatively + Adverbio
The solution is fine when the qualifying term that the user seeks is present, and is used relatively consistently.
más o menos cuadrado
squarish
The earlier of the two, the single lay, employed one large, squarish case for a fount of type, and it held about 34 kg.
menos aún
let alone
Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.
menos blandeces y más mano dura
less of the carrot, more of the stick
The article is entitled 'Information provision: less of the carrot, more of the stick'.
menos conocido
lesser known
The library possesses large quantities of the works of lesser known authors from all over Europe who were writing in the mid-nineteenth century.
menos cultos, los
less literate, the
Hence, there is a need for organizations who can interpret the fine points of officialese and present them in a form the less literate can understand.
menos de + Cantidad
under + Cantidad
less than + Cantidad
The cheapest of these machines costs under $100 and they can be bought in stores, supermarkets and by mail-order.
Microcomputers with Winchester disks are now widely available for less than $5000.
menos de + Edad
on the right side of + Edad
On the contrary, those who are on the right side of forty know what their juniors do not, namely that life really does begin at forty!.
menos desarrollado
less developed [less-developed]
underdeveloped
One of the challenges facing most less developed countries is that of raising the health conditions of their populations, particularly that of rural communities.
Third World countries were labeled 'underdeveloped' until the United Nations deemed it appropriate to change that label to 'developing'.
menos en
save in
Metcalfe has received little attention outside his adopted country, Australia, and can be considered to be a prophet without honour save in his own country.
menos en el caso de que
except when
There is therefore no justification for repeating the author's name except when the name in the heading differs significantly from that following the title.
menos favorecido
less-advantaged
less favoured [less favored]
Indeed, one reason for the reluctance of librarians to donate weeded materials to less-advantaged groups may be that such donations raise the thorny question of intrinsic worth.
Even with these problems Fiji has a functioning medical library service; other areas in the Pacific are much less favoured.
menos hecho
rarer
'Hey, I'm tired of this soapbox! how's your hamburger?' - - 'Pretty good, although I tend to like mine rarer'.
menos importante, el
least, the
They have many advantages, not the least of which is their low per copy cost.
menos probable
least likely
less likely
That is to say, class numbers were used in the first place to screen out parts of the data base which seemed least likely to contain relevant items.
The same is not true, of course, of the humanities or social sciences, where the method is less likely to be successful.
menos que
less ... than ...
So, syntactic relationships do arise in documents, but are less permanent than semantic relationships.
menos rápidos, los [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
less fleet of foot, the
The new principle of open access was treating the working class with more dignity, even though stock shortages created another underprivileged minority in the less fleet of foot.
menos sabido
lesser known
The library possesses large quantities of the works of lesser known authors from all over Europe who were writing in the mid-nineteenth century.
menos usado
less used
The original objective was to promote interlibrary cooperation by arranging a national storage and interlending centre for less used library material.
mucho menos
a great deal less
let alone
far less
Those systems using keywords taken from the text cost a great deal less than more sophisticated systems.
Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.
Further, print derived electronic resources are far less transient than their purely electronic counterparts.
nada más y menos que
none other than
His heart leapt to his mouth, for this was none other than the great Brigham Young himself.
nada más y nada menos
as much as + Expresión Numérica
When I first joined the staff at Yale, I was told that sometime around 1980 or 1970 the library collected as much as five percent of the world's publication output = Cuando empecé a trabajar en Yale, me dijeron que en torno a 1980 ó 1970 la biblioteca contaba nada más y nada menos con el cinco porciento de todo lo publicado en el mundo.
nada más y nada menos que
in the order of + Cantidad
nothing less than
A backing store such as cassette tape might hold something in the order of 200K characters per '30 minutes' of tape.
We had charged him with nothing less than outlining a national program for preserving millions of books in danger of deterioration = Le habíamos encargado nada más y nada menos que esbozara un programa nacional para la conservación de millones de libros en peligro de deterioro.
nada más y nada menos que de
to the tune of + Cantidad
The cheapness however is not primarily because the book is a paperback, it is because the book has been printed to the tune of perhaps hundreds of thousands of copies.
nada más y nada menos que desde + Expresión Temporal
from as far back as + Expresión Temporal
In all types of libraries in Lesotho, shortage of, and the need for trained librarians has been felt from as far back as the mid-1970s.
nada más y nada menos que + Número
as many as + Número
Plantin, who may have owned as many as 22 or 23 presses in the middle of his career, abruptly reduced the number in use to 3 in 1576.
nada menos que + Nombre + tan + Adjetivo + como
no less + Adjetivo + Nombre + than
No less prestigious an authority than a Royal Commission was appointed to inquire into the charges brought against the man principally responsible for that volume.
ni más ni menos
nothing more, nothing less
no more, no less
The appropriate perspetive to take is to view a decision and its aftermath as data for the next decision to be make - nothing more, nothing less.
The motto of the paper was, 'A square deal and a fair chance - no more, no less'.
ni mucho menos
by any stretch (of the imagination)
by any means
not by a long shot
Hernandez soon discovered that Rolling Ridge was not, by any stretch of the imagination, anything like the suburban bedroom community of Colony Park.
This is not a complete list by any means.
But following the law is not enough to keep you safe, not by a long shot.
Nombre + más o menos
Nombre + of sorts
In summary, accountability has been perceived by some as a threat of sorts.
no ser menos que el vecino
keep up with + the Joneses
The article 'Keeping up with the Joneses' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.
no ser menos que los demás
keep up with + the Joneses
The article 'Keeping up with the Joneses' deals with the issue of charging fees for library services.
pagar menos de lo que se debería [Verbo irregular: pasado y participio underpaid]
underpay
Dialog is being injured and will continue to be injured if the American Chemical Society continues to assert falsely that Dialog is underpaying royalties.
para no ser menos
not to be outdone
Not to be outdone, the Library Council of Ireland is broadcasting a series of half-hour lectures to mark the 100th Anniversary of the first Carnegie Libraries in Ireland.
personaje venido a menos
fallen star
From shooting stars to fallen stars, we look at the top 5 celebrites who've fallen out with fame.
por último pero no menos importante
last but not least
Planning of national expenditure depends on number of vendors, on national serial output, and last but not least, on the amount of the yearly state budget allocation.
región menos favorecida
less favoured region (LFR)
Broadly the Bank may grant loans for the financing of projects for stimulating development in the less favoured regions (LFRs).
salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera
come out of + the woodwork
And I'm sure there's plenty more unknowns or 'brand-news' yet to come out of the woodwork.
ser menos + Adjetivo
be less of a(n) + Nombre
False drops are perhaps less of an annoyance in a computer-based system.
ser nada más y nada menos que
be nothing less than
Frederick Holler claims that 'Information retrieval (ie, reference work) is nothing less than a full-fledged discipline and not simply a minor skill acquirable as a byproduct of other studies'.
signo menos (-)
minus sign (-)
negative sign (-)
The number entered is preceded by a minus sign to decrease the amount.
The data are represented by a negative sign and as many 9's as will fit the column width (e.g., -999999).
todo menos
everything except (for)
There is a remedy for everything except death.
todos menos
everyone except
everybody except
All in all, Drexler has produced a fascinating book that everyone (except perhaps. serious hypochondriacs) ought to read.
These rail passes are available to everybody except Australian citizens.
todos menos + Número
all but + Número
All but four of the laws are of a civil nature, three involving pupils with contraband in their school lockers and the other one concerning breach of the peace by college students.
todos menos unos cuantos
all but a few
And, he plans to get rid of the Senate, all but a few, who will remain, according to his plans.
todos menos unos pocos
all but a few
And, he plans to get rid of the Senate, all but a few, who will remain, according to his plans.
último pero no el menos importante, el [Expresión usualmente acompañada del artículo]
final and not the least important, the
The final and not the least important part of the whole work is the Relative Index.
venir a menos
retrench
In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
y cuanto mucho menos
much less
Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y cuanto mucho menos conservadores.
y mucho menos
much less
least of all
Book clubs need not be enclosed, much less ingrown = Los clubs de lectores no deben ser cerrados y cuanto mucho menos conservadores.
We have an armory of diminishing terms to apply which fool no one, least of all the children they label.
zona menos favorecida
less favoured area
Prominent examples are again the structural measures, such as those covering the modernization of farms and the less favoured areas.
