nube
plume ; cloud.
During this nuclear accident a famous laboratory supplied a continuous flow of meteorological and radioactive plume transport and diffusion data.
The design depicts gods and muses in the clouds and is in the collection of the library.
andar con la cabeza en las nubes
walk (a)round with + Posesivo + head in the clouds
After all, a man with responsibilities can't walk around with his head in the clouds all the time.
bajarse de las nubes
get + real
The author of 'Let's get real about the presidential race' accuses both presidential candidates of not addressing the real issues affecting our economy.
computación en la nube
cloud computing
There are some who see cloud computing as a fad.
con la cabeza en las nubes [También escrito ditsy] [También escrito ditzy]
ditzy [ditzier -comp., ditziest -sup.]
ditsy [ditsier -comp., ditsiest -sup.]
She might be a ditz, you can do that with the money she makes, if she wasn't so rich she'd be just another ditzy broad.
If there is a stereo type for ditsy blondes she really has gone out of her way to fit it perfectly.
costes + ponerse por las nubes
costs + spiral
Costs are spiralling.
costes por las nubes
soaring cost
spiralling costs
The soaring cost of US health care in the 1980s have affected the size and stature of Michigan hospital libraries.
Listed below are a number of alternatives which could be implemented to maintain our vitality under the conditions of declining enrollment, spiraling costs, and different outlooks.
estar por las nubes
be through the roof
The one justified reason to hate Valentine's Day is that chocolate prices are through the roof - the bane of all chocolate addicts.
fumar hasta desaparecer en una nube de humo
smoke + Reflexivo + into a cloud
She sat back in her chair, crossed her legs, lighted a cigarette, and smoked herself into a cloud.
nube convectiva
convective cloud
The development of convective clouds are sometimes hard to follow due to the slow motion.
nube cumuliforme
cumuliform cloud
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud.
nube de ceniza
ash cloud
There are more flight disruptions in Belfast and Dublin because of an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland.
nube de ceniza volcánica
volcanic ash cloud
Flights were back to normal yesterday after the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud returned to ground further flights from Exeter Airport.
nube de humo
smoke pall
pall of smoke
smokescreen
puff of smoke
plume of smoke
Smoke palls occurr more often in the tropical regions where deep convection is most common.
The drought was exacerbated by huge conflagrations of the rainforests, emitting extensive palls of smoke covering the whole region.
Librarians were forced to put up a rhetorical smokescreen which only partially succeeded in hiding the library's true nature.
All about the plane round puffs of white smoke suddenly appeared, broke, and vanished into the blue.
The weather cleared enough that we could get in to the volcanic islands (still spouting plumes of smoke) by copter in safety.
nube de mosquitos
mosquito cloud
cloud of mosquitoes
Dirt roads, no electricity, one-room school a mile away, below zero blizzards in the winter, and mosquito clouds in the summer.
At the same time, however, the clouds of mosquitoes themselves support a rich tapestry of bird life.
nube de polvo
cloud of dust
dust cloud
I should imagine that each time a book was removed from its shelf a cloud of dust would choke the air.
Dust clouds may also play an important role in suppressing hurricane development.
nube de puntos [En estadística, diagrama de dispersión]
scatterplot
cloud of points
Figure 2 shows the scatterplot of the relationship between the percent of abstract words matched and the lenght of the abstract.
The Price Index is not a pure function of the mean or median reference age, but a well-defined relation in the form of a typical cloud of points.
nube de tormenta
storm cloud
The article is entitled 'Storm clouds on the horizon: CIPA and the future of the Internet'.
nube espesa
thick cloud
Orange County should see its coolest day of the week Friday with thick clouds promising light rain.
nube estratiforme
stratiform cloud
Stratiform clouds, in contrast, typically cover much larger areas and are caused by much broader layers of more slowly rising air.
nube nuclear [Nube que se levante en forma de hongo del lugar donde ha habido una explosión nuclear]
mushroom cloud
The symbolism of the mushroom cloud is deeply evocative for adults, albeit fraught with ambiguity.
nubes amenazadoras
threatening clouds
I looked up at the sky and saw threatening clouds and approaching darkness.
nubes + amenazar + lluvia encomiar
clouds + look + menacing
extol
hold out as
laud
praise + highly
praise
speak + highly of
rave about
The clouds look menacing and last night's heavy downpour makes me hesitant about attending the outdoor event.
In order to deal with the ever increasing mass of biomedical information ('journalistic blastoma'), IAIMS has extolled the use of quality filters, to sift the good from the bad.
Community information services seem light years away from the kind of electronic wizardry that is held out as the brave new information world of tomorrow.
Libraries are also lauded for providing other public services with economic benefits.
He praised highly the attempts of the Yugoslav leadership to find a political solution to the conflict.
In spite of their protestations to the contrary, most bosses prefer subordinates whom they get along with, who cause them no anxiety, who quietly accept their decisions, who praise them.
He said to send his regards to everyone, and thanks especially to those who spoke so highly of him.
Past delegates rave about how much they learn from colleagues in other fields.
ponerse por las nubes
go + ballistic
Reducing demand and converting to alternative sources of energy are necessary steps toward accepting the reality of a natural increase in the price of petroleum, which is likely to go ballistic in the next ten years.
por las nubes
soaring
off the chart
skyrocketing
And to make matters worse, retirees on fixed incomes have recently presented the mayor with a petition deploring the soaring property taxes.
Insurance rates are off the chart due to people scamming insurance companies.
Libraries are sharing their resources to cope with shrinking library budgets and skyrocketing collection costs.
precio + ponerse por las nubes
price + go through the roof
price + spiral out of control
price + soar through the roof
And, just as many people had predicted, prices went through the roof.
Banks have put the cat among the pigeons by warning that without heavy increases in interest rates house prices would spiral out of control.
With the price of milk soaring through the roof lots of folks are reconsidering powdered milk for it's economy.
precios + ponerse por las nubes
prices + spiral
Academic librarians have seen their budgets levelled and shrinking and have witnessed serials prices spiralling out of control.
precios por las nubes
spiralling prices
The problem of spiraling prices for periodicals in academic libraries cannot be solved simply by reducing staff.
sentirse como flotando en las nubes
float on + air
walk on + air
tread on + air
She felt the rush of adrenaline and sense of floating on air as the plane lifted off for a tour over the harbor.
She is 'walking on air' after grabbing the limelight by flaunting her fabulous new figure.
Who is this young woman who goes out stealthily like this, and meets a young man, and comes back feeling as if she had been treading on air?.
sin nubes
unclouded
uncloudy
cloudless
As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.
In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.
This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.
sin una nube
unclouded
uncloudy
cloudless
As they grow up in those heady post-war years, in the blue unclouded weather of the late 1940s, these are the sisters you'll never forget.
In that case, the peak of solar energy could be at an uncloudy moment in the morning or afternoon, even though the sun wasn't highest in the sky at that moment.
This is the first cloudless image of the Earth from space.
una nube de
a haze of
a cloud of
a swarm of
The next generation should not have to spend so much of its intellectual life in a haze of continual discussion of code.
Digerati is the digital version of literati and refers to a vague cloud of people seen to be knowledgeable, hip, or otherwise in-the-know in regards to the digital revolution.
This paper reassesses the views of Margaret Edwards who published 'The fair garden and the swarm of beasts,' a guide to young adult services, in 1969.
vivir en las nubes
be in cloud cuckoo land
live in + cloud cuckoo land
live in + a dream world
There are always those, who, if they cannot see any immediate relationship between what is being taught and the present state of practice, declare that the schools of librarianship are 'in cloud cuckoo land' or some other improbable location.
He argued that those who believe the status quo is the best way forward for sustainable development were living in cloud cuckoo land.
Don't ever change that - the ones that live in a dream world are the ones that ended making this world better.
