muerto
dead ; deceased ; dulled ; dead and buried ; dead and gone.
The newcomer to the subject may be forgiven for concluding that the concept of post-coordinate indexing is dead.
Deceased persons of high renown in these fields will also be included.
Adolescents cannot be led so easily, so unselfconsciously as children, and disenchantment can be a door that closes tight against attempts to reinvigorate dulled literary receptivity.
The article 'Is horror dead and buried?' discusses the current state of the horror fiction market, and how predictions of its collapse have failed to materialize.
The article is entitled 'Who's gonna take out the garbage when I'm dead and gone? New roles for leaders'.
ángulo muerto
blind spot
Major blind spots are located to the left and right of your vehicle just behind your normal field of forward vision.
bebé que nace muerto
stillbirth [still-birth]
Most of these experiments resulted in badly deformed still-births = La mayoría de estos experimentos dieron como resultado bebés que nacieron muertos y muy deformados.
caer muerto
flop down
crash out
I'm 10 weeks pregnant with my second baby and have an awful habit of flopping down hard into chairs and on couches.
After that we just crashed out on the beach and soaked up the sun.
caerse muerto
drop + (stone) dead
He dropped dead of a heart attack in 1959 at a screening of the film version of his only best-selling novel because he was outraged at the producers' interpretation of his work.
cargar el muerto
pass + the bucket
With ownership also comes responsibility - when you find bugs, you fix them, instead of passing the bucket to someone else.
cargarle el muerto a Alguien
leave + Nombre + holding the bag
He did time after doing a job with buddies who left him holding the bag.
causar muertos
take + a toll on life
Poor people in India continue to suffer the wrath of diseases such as kala azar which takes a toll on life and affects productivity.
completamente muerto
stone dead
as dead as a stone
as dead as a doornail
I assumed she was stone dead when he told me she wasn't breathing.
And there is a world of difference between these and an artificial, plastic plant, which may look very real but is dead as a stone.
They found the poor dog as dead as a doornail, poisoned by the burglars.
comprar hasta caer muerto
shop 'til you drop
The article is entitled 'Shop 'til your modem drops. Internet shopping network is making strides as it learns how to sell in cyberspace'.
cuerpo de animal muerto
carcass
Professional cleavers used for carcass and sectional cutting also work for chops and chickens.
dado por muerto
presumed dead
That brings the number of missing and presumed dead orcas to four and the total population to 86.
declarar muerto
declare + dead
pronounce + dead
Three persons died on the spot, while one was declared dead on arrival al the hospital.
Once handcuffed, he collapsed and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.
doblar a muerto
sound + the death knell for
Terror threats have sounded the death knell for traditional Christmas festivities in Peshawar.
el muerto al hoyo y el vivo al bollo
dead men have no friends
Dead men have no friends; consequently, Israel must abandon its love affair with its putative, feckless friends and kill, once for all, its mortal foes.
estar en punto muerto
be at a standstill
Many libraries in Africa are faced with little or no money for purchasing new materials, and library development is at a standstill.
estar muerto de asco
be bored to death
be bored stiff
be bored to tears
be bored out of + Posesivo + (tiny) mind
Three years on, and we are bored to death with the war on terror.
Instead of spending hours being bored stiff in church, most families spend Christmas with family and loved-ones or are still recovering from the hangover .
The tiger was bored to tears with his viewers and started yawning to show it.
Bored out of her mind with the long hours and mundane tasks, she decided to give radio a try.
estar muerto de hambre
be starving to death
If you were starving to death and you had a way to surgically amputate parts of your body could you prolong your life by eating yourself.
estar muerto de miedo
be scared stiff
be frightened to death
be petrified of
be terrified
Students hate numbers; they are scared stiff of numbers.
However there are a number of reports out there of people being frightened to death by ghosts.
Instead, it has involved coming to terms with being gay and with not being petrified of someone finding out that he is gay.
Americas are suckers for being terrified, it is very sad.
estar muerto de sed
spit + feathers
be parched
be parched with thirst
I ended up parking about two miles away, and by the time I'd lugged the cases through the labyrinth of alleyways and switchbacks, I was spitting feathers.
It is smooth and refreshing with a taste that must be like drawing water from a cactus after being parched in a desert for days.
The day was sultry, and some of the party, being parched with thirst, left the line of march, and scrambled down the bank of the river to drink.
fingir estar muerto
feign + death
The book has a blue mottled sheepskin binding signed by Antoine Menard, a famous bookbinder who was shot in Paris by a firing squad in 1871 but feigned death and escaped to Spain.
hacerle una paja a un muerto
flog + a dead horse
beat + a dead horse
fart in + the wind
When Harries refuted the view that Africans were 'helpless cogs in the wheels of capitalist industrialization,' he was flogging a dead horse.
Despite all the written and spoken words, and the charge that to even raise the issue now is to beat a dead horse, there are, regrettably, a host of continuing problems in the area of fairness of headings.
Loving people is like farting in the wind; you don't actually accomplish anything, but you feel better.
hacerse el muerto
play + possum
play + dead
'From what we gathered, somebody playing possum jumped up and shot him,' said his father = Su padre dijo: "Por lo que pudimos deducir, alguien que se estaba haciendo el muerto de pronto se levantó y le disparó.
My dog found a possum playing dead once, and it freaked him out enough not to touch it.
hombre muerto
goner
The disease can be prevented by vaccination but once symptoms set in the victim is considered a goner.
lengua muerta
dead language
dead tongue
Unfortunately, the only dead language included is Latin.
If you're going to learn a language, it might as well be one with a growing literature, rather than a dead tongue.
manuscritos del Mar Muerto, los
Dead Sea Scrolls, the
This idea is hardly more relevant to the contemporary scheme of things than were those desert caves through the thousands of years that sheltered the Dead Sea Scrolls = Esta idea apenas es más importante para la situación actual que lo fueron las cuevas del desierto durante los miles de años que albergaron los manuscritos del Mar Muerto.
Mar Muerto, el
Dead Sea, the
Bitumen used as a preservative in ancient Egyptian mummies was previously thought to come only from the Dead Sea in Palestine.
más muerto que una piedra
stone dead
as dead as a stone
as dead as a doornail
I assumed she was stone dead when he told me she wasn't breathing.
And there is a world of difference between these and an artificial, plastic plant, which may look very real but is dead as a stone.
They found the poor dog as dead as a doornail, poisoned by the burglars.
más que muerto
dead and buried
The article 'Is horror dead and buried?' discusses the current state of the horror fiction market, and how predictions of its collapse have failed to materialize.
más tieso que un muerto
stone dead
as dead as a stone
as dead as a doornail
I assumed she was stone dead when he told me she wasn't breathing.
And there is a world of difference between these and an artificial, plastic plant, which may look very real but is dead as a stone.
They found the poor dog as dead as a doornail, poisoned by the burglars.
materia muerta
dead matter
inanimate matter
For instance, it's a widely accepted fact among biologists today that all living matter was originally inanimate or dead matter.
For instance, it's a widely accepted fact among biologists today that all living matter was originally inanimate or dead matter.
mosquita muerta
butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
Everytime I mention him though people say things like 'he is a naughty boy' but I don't know why I remember him as the butter wouldn't melt in his mouth type like the rest of us.
muerto de cansancio
tired to death
All danger of freezing was past, but he was as hungry as a bear and tired to death.
muerto de curiosidad
agog
One teacher I knew used to poke his head round the door just at the end of the day and say something like, 'Tomorrow when we meet I am going to tell you about the evil magician,' and then he would disappear leaving us all agog.
muerto de frío
frozen to the bone
frozen to the marrow (of the bones)
chilled to the bone
chilled to the marrow (of the bones)
I will never forget the biting cold on our cheeks; our feet and hands frozen to the bone.
Finally, when the two workers, frozen to the marrow, emerged from beneath the water, they were stunned to hear the spectators burst into side-splitting laughter.
The immediate effect on Dudley was obvious: he was throwing up and chilled to the bone.
And the rest of us, more robust, kept struggling on, chilled to the marrow, advancing by a kind of inertia through the night, through the snow.
muerto de hambre
poverty-stricken
starving
The British Museum Reading Room is filled with cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars who cherish their hobby.
The rights of the little starving author, and the weight of the enormous publishing industry, both are pretty hefty in legal and legislative thinking.
muerto en combate
killed in action
The investigators studied the adjustment of 47 families of servicemen missing in action/killed in action.
muerto en vida
living dead
walking dead
Upon its release in 1968, George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' was attacked by critics for being 'nihilistic'.
There were a few days last week where I felt like a walking dead person, but I am starting to feel better = La semana pasada hubo unos cuantos días que me sentí como un zombi, pero ya me estoy empezando a sentir mejor.
muertos, los
slain, the
dead, the
Had he consulted an Indian history, he would have found, for instance, that what the Britannica called the Fort Phil Kearney massacre the Indians call the 'Battle of the Hundred Slain'.
When the Jesuit order left China they left behind, as their last legacy, a haunting epitaph: 'Move on, voyager, congratulate the dead, console the living, pray for everyone, wonder, and be silent'.
muerto viviente
living dead
walking dead
Upon its release in 1968, George Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead' was attacked by critics for being 'nihilistic'.
There were a few days last week where I felt like a walking dead person, but I am starting to feel better = La semana pasada hubo unos cuantos días que me sentí como un zombi, pero ya me estoy empezando a sentir mejor.
muerto y bien muerto
dead and buried
The article 'Is horror dead and buried?' discusses the current state of the horror fiction market, and how predictions of its collapse have failed to materialize.
nacido muerto
stillborn
Giving birth to a stillborn baby is undoubtedly one of the most devastating experiences a parent could ever have to face.
¡ni muerto!
Not on your life!
You won't catch me doing it
I believe that if I were to ask my colleagues, 'Shouldn't we be collecting blogs?', they would rightly reply, 'Not on your life!'.
That's truely roughing it and you won't catch me doing it anytime soon.
no acercarse a Algo ni muerto
would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole
The Education Secretary says there are some secondary schools in England she 'would not touch with a barge pole'.
no hacer Algo ni muerto
would not touch + Nombre + with a barge pole
wouldn't be caught dead
wouldn't be seen dead
The Education Secretary says there are some secondary schools in England she 'would not touch with a barge pole'.
A homosexual wouldn't be caught dead wearing vertical stripes.
A lot of so called 'fashion' today involves things you wouldn't be seen dead in, but Jeff Banks jeans are not one of those things.
no tener donde caerse muerto
not have two pennies to rub together
down-and-out
Their poor mother worked herself to the ground all day long, didn't have two pennies to rub together, and they were always just a little bit hungry.
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.
número de muertos
death toll
The article 'The mounting death toll' describes the problems experienced by information professionals caused by the loss of databases due to the growth of the World Wide Web.
oler a perros muertos
stink to + high heaven
Early on on a Friday night and three of the loos were out of order, the floor was covered in a layer of rancid water and it stank to high heaven.
pálido como un muerto
deathly pale
He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
pasar el muerto
pass + the bucket
With ownership also comes responsibility - when you find bugs, you fix them, instead of passing the bucket to someone else.
peso muerto
dead weight
Perhaps Metadata are just dead weight, added by page creating tools because it looks good in some sales brochure.
publicación seriada muerta [Revista que ha dejado de publicarse]
dead serial
Up to now ISSNs have been assigned on request to dead serials whenever possible.
punto muerto
stalemate
dead end street
deadlock
standoff
dead end
It appears that the stalemate over this issue has not arisen because instructional technologists and traditional professors are on opposite sides of a barricade, but because they are fighting different battles.
The article is entitled 'The Internet: superhighways, virtual alleys and dead end streets'.
By doing so, they could help break a deadlock that seems to have paralyzed cooperative effort in Britain.
A 12-hour standoff ended with a man lobbing Molotov cocktails at police before taking his own life rather than vacate a home he'd lost to foreclosure.
Shannon's approach proved something of a dead end.
resucitar a los muertos
raise + the dead
EU leaders are trying to raise the dead by taking the rejected constitution and tinkering around the edges.
resucitar a un muerto
grow + hair on an egg
put + hairs on + Posesivo + chest
Why the world doesn't have more bald men walking smelling of bacon grease because I swear that stuff could grow hair on an egg!.
And the coffee was so freaking strong it could put hairs on your chest!.
resucitar de entre los muertos
resurrect from + the dead
According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day after his crucifixion = Según las escrituras cristianas, Jesús fue resucitado de entre los muertos en el tercer día después de su crucifixión.
revista muerta
inactive journal
The transfer includes all materials in popular computing, most pre-1980 monographs, and most inactive journals.
rollos del Mar Muerto, los
Dead Sea Scrolls, the
This idea is hardly more relevant to the contemporary scheme of things than were those desert caves through the thousands of years that sheltered the Dead Sea Scrolls = Esta idea apenas es más importante para la situación actual que lo fueron las cuevas del desierto durante los miles de años que albergaron los manuscritos del Mar Muerto.
ser hombre muerto
be a dead man/woman (walking)
Probst thought he'd last longer, but I knew he was a dead man walking the minute he showed up.
supuestamente muerto
presumed dead
That brings the number of missing and presumed dead orcas to four and the total population to 86.
tema muerto
dead issue
He is to be praised for not wasting the reader's time and trying his patience with the dead issue of the possibility of the ordination of women.
tener cara de muerto [En inglés británico se usa warmed up y en americano warmed over]
look like + death warmed (over/up)
She looked like death warmed over and had tubes and machines hooked up all over her.
tiempo muerto [Tiempo en el que un ordenador no está disponible al usuario debido normalmente a razones de mantenimiento del equipo]
downtime
time out
A log in which equipment 'downtime' is noted will provide documentation useful for the justification of replacements or the arrangement of suitable maintenance schedules.
Login is not possible due to session time out = La conexión no es posible debido a que se ha agotado el tiempo de la sesión.
tocar a muerto
sound + the death knell for
Terror threats have sounded the death knell for traditional Christmas festivities in Peshawar.
trabajar hasta caer muerto
work + Reflexivo + to the ground
work + Reflexivo + to death
Their poor mother worked herself to the ground all day long, didn't have two pennies to rub together, and they were always just a little bit hungry.
The deportees died in part starving and freezing to death in concentration camps and in part working themselves to death under a barbaric police regimen.
