parar
halt ; stop ; check ; break off ; shut down ; pull up ; go + cold turkey ; leave off ; give it + a rest ; let + it drop ; pull over ; stop over ; put on + hold ; draw up.
Consequently, a freeze-frame or still-picture effect can be achieved by simply halting the movement of the head across the disc.
Program function key 1 (FP1) tells DOBIS/LIBIS to stop whatever it is doing and go back to the function selection screen.
They concluded that 'our citizens may rationally prefer to check crime and disorder by ounces of educational prevention, than by pounds of cure in the shape of large 'lockups' and expensive suits before the law'.
During this period the compositors worked non-stop, breaking off only to eat, for the almost incredible period of fifty hours: two days and two nights without rest 'in an atmosphere that would poison a vulture'.
Cyberattacks involve routers acting at a predesignated time or trigger time and flooding various targeted Web sites with data - effectively shutting down the Web site.
Trucks started pulling up every hour, day and night, to the library's loading dock and depositing heaps of unordered and unwanted books.
Judging by the critical responses to the article so far, it looks like the world isn't quite ready to go cold turkey on its religion addiction.
This book takes up the thread where Volume One left off.
Anyway after a few minutes of being told to give it a rest, she let it drop.
Anyway after a few minutes of being told to give it a rest, she let it drop.
Since cops were given the go-ahead to pull over people for not wearing seat belts, state troopers have become creative about spotting scofflaws.
With luck the lapwings will now be able to stop over in Syria without coming to further harm.
But for the time being, the natural gas boom has been put on hold until we find out what's really going on.
As I drew up outside the little village chippy, the car clock turned to 1 pm.
decir rápidamente sin parar
rattle off
It's easy to rattle off a list of standards to be supported, but another thing altogether to specify standards compliance in a way that discriminates between different vendor implementations.
hablar sin parar
burble on
It is when speakers have no feeling for pause that their speech seems to burble on without any arresting quality; the club bore is a burbler: he has not learnt the eloquence of silence.
no parar de hablar
go on and on (and on (forever))
They say silence is golden but some people really just don't get it and they go on and on and on forever!.
no parar mucho en un sitio
live out of + a suitcase
In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.
on the go
on-the-go
With technologies such as SMS, Podcasting, voice over IP (VoIP), and more becoming increasingly mainstream, the potential to provide instant, on-the-go reference is limitless.
parar a Alguien de sopetón
stop + Nombre + (dead) in + Posesivo + tracks
stop + Nombre + cold
I stopped him dead in his tracks and pretty much told him that I know about their scam and he really needs to get lost quick.
She replied that way because you stopped her cold and put your foot down.
parar a Alguien en seco
stop + Nombre + (dead) in + Posesivo + tracks
stop + Nombre + cold
I stopped him dead in his tracks and pretty much told him that I know about their scam and he really needs to get lost quick.
She replied that way because you stopped her cold and put your foot down.
parar a un taxi
hail + a cab
For your night out on the town get picked up and dropped off at your home or hotel and enjoy an evening worry free of driving, parking or hailing a cab.
parar derrapando
skid to + a halt
He skidded to a halt before bonking against the living room window.
parar el carro
hold + Posesivo + horses
Over the last couple of months, drug companies had been holding their horses in the hope that the new budget would bring them some relief.
pararle los pies a Alguien
stop + Nombre + (dead) in + Posesivo + tracks
put + Nombre + in + Posesivo + place
cut + Nombre + down to size
knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal
take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails
I stopped him dead in his tracks and pretty much told him that I know about their scam and he really needs to get lost quick.
You have got to stand up and put her in her place until then she will keep trying to push your buttons.
He told Thaksin that when he himself was a boy, his mother always cut him down to size when he got too big for his boots.
They are seen as pompous and elite, and there's nothing quite like knocking them off their pedestal.
He then took the wind out of the sails of the political opposition two weeks ago when they had him on the run and he agreed to a general election.
pararse
stall
In other instances, however, the pay equity process has been stalled becasue of the reluctance on the part of some municipalities to include library workers in their pay equity plans.
pararse a + Infinitivo
take + the time to + Infinitivo
It probably is unnecesary to take the time to recount the uses and wonders of this country's most prominent booktrade journal.
pararse a mitad de
stop in + midstream during
And let me stress yet again that I do not mean we should be constantly stopping in midstream during a reading to ask questions and provoke discussion.
pararse a pensar
pause + to think
step back
take + a step back
pause for + thought
If you pause to think of all the form concepts you will soon realize that this policy would result in a massive and uneconomical number of rather unhelpful index entries.
Before that, however, let us step back for a moment and look at the total picture from the user's point of view.
To make sure why we believe it important to bring up children as willing, avid, responsive readers of literature we have to take a step back and sort out why literature is important to ourselves.
As endless stories around corruption continue to spill over into the main news and business pages, businesses should pause for thought before jumping on the sport sponsoring gravy train.
pararse en el lado del camino [Generalmente con un vehículo]
pull over
But just as she pulled over the road in the pitch blackness of night she heard the unceasing sound of the night like she had never heard it.
pararse por completo
come to + a standstill
be at a standstill
grind to + a standstill
But during the Japanese war the city was attacked by Japanese bombs and suffered heavy damage to its libraries with library activity coming to a standstill.
Many libraries in Africa are faced with little or no money for purchasing new materials, and library development is at a standstill.
Britain's services sector almost ground to a standstill last month, dampening hopes that the economy is on the road to recovery.
sin parar
steadily
non-stop
without a break
without (a) rest
without respite
without stopping
Rather readers grow by fits and starts now rushing ahead, now lying fallow, and now moving steadily on.
A British yachtswoman has become the first woman to sail solo, non-stop, both ways around the world.
Microfilming of Australian records in the UK has continued without a break since 1948 and by 1990 and a total of 9267 reels has been produced.
This sequence was repeated, without rest, for the duration of the technique.
The ancient Egyptian mind was struck by the periodic regularity of certain phenomena: the sun that rises, shines, and disappears without respite every day.
Anyway, I want to try to run at least 3 miles without stopping and running out of breath.
sin parar a pensárselo
off-hand [offhand]
They suggest that instead of undergoing off-hand destruction, ephemera be considered a necessary part of a comprehensive archival collection.
sin pararse a pensar
off-the-cuff
off the top of + Posesivo + head
Someone's off-the-cuff idea may be the clue that will tap another's thought and lead to a successful solution.
Pricing trends for periodicals are discussed with reference to charts not reproduced in the article 'Publishing policies, off the top of my head' but shown at the conference session.
trabajar sin parar
work (a)round + the clock
work + non-stop
be (still) working away
be (still) toiling away
be (still) hard at it
work away
Doctors worked around the clock in its three operating rooms while stretchers crowded the sidewalks outside the building.
During this period the compositors worked non-stop, breaking off only to eat, for the almost incredible period of fifty hours: two days and two nights without rest 'in an atmosphere that would poison a vulture'.
I really admire her passion and love for her life's work, she is 96 and still working away.
Even after 23 years after India declared child labour as illegal, official figures show 12 million youngsters are still toiling away.
I've crossed swords with him before, and the only thing that's remarkable is that he's still hard at it, peddling his view of the future of IT.
This is a practical hands-on training day where you'll follow the process by using your laptop and working away all day long.
