pequeño
small ; slight ; slim ; little ; small scale [small-scale] ; skimpy ; reduced ; tiddly .
The small extract from the index to BNB in figure 2.1 demonstrates some of the features of index entries generated according to PRECIS indexing.
The ISBD(CP)'s recommendations are very similar in principle to those for AACR2's 'in' analytics, except for slight changes in punctuation and order.
Abstracting journals vary enormously in scope ranging from vast publications covering an entire discipline, to slim volumes centred on a relatively narrow topic.
To introduce a little vulgarity, it would be absolutely hell on browsers were all the works by Agatha Christie or Dorothy Sayers or Dashiell Hammett or you name it, entered individually by their title.
While similar systems have been developed on an experimental basis in the past, these have usually been restricted to small scale collections.
Wimbledon organisers have imposed a ban on skimpy tennis outfits ahead of this year's tournament.
The model shows that market concentration rises with inelastic demand, reduced marginal costs and efficient technology.
In particular, my sea bass was overdone and supplied with a rather tiddly portion of baby spuds.
a pequeña escala
in a small way
small scale [small-scale]
The serialization of new fiction in half-crown monthly magazines such as Blackwood's started in a small way in the 1820s, and grew in importance during the following decade.
While similar systems have been developed on an experimental basis in the past, these have usually been restricted to small scale collections.
botella pequeña
small bottle
Many airlines will not allow you to bring the small bottles of alcohol on the plane.
chicos y pequeños
great and small
'At no time in history', according to Geoffrey Langley, 'did people of all types and classes stand more in need of information on all manner of matters great and small'.
con pequeños matices
nuanced
This will move the debate about open access as a model for scholarly communication towards a more measured and nuanced discourse.
dinero para pequeños gastos
out-of-pocket allowance
The travel Grant will cover air ticket, registration fee and a small out-of-pocket-allowance.
escuela de pequeños
infant school
Many infant and junior schools have books in the entrance hall and in the corridors as well as in the classrooms.
finca pequeña
croft
Ponies have been used for riding, transport, work on crofts and in coal mines, domestic service, and in show business.
grandes robles nacen de pequeñas bellotas [Expresión inglesa que expresa que un inicio pequeño puede dar lugar a algo muy importante]
great oaks from little acorns grow
Much more will be needed, but at least a start will have been made; there is an English expression for this: 'great oaks from little acorns grow'.
grandes y pequeños
great and small
'At no time in history', according to Geoffrey Langley, 'did people of all types and classes stand more in need of information on all manner of matters great and small'.
granja pequeña
croft
Ponies have been used for riding, transport, work on crofts and in coal mines, domestic service, and in show business.
hacer (más) pequeño
make + small(er)
She said that she loves her breasts and that it is not true that she wants to make them smaller to look better in her wedding dress.
hacer parecer pequeño
dwarf
The author forecasts that the global market for intranet technologies will dwarf the Internet by the turn of the century.
hacer pequeños ajustes
tinker + around the edges
tinker (about/around) with
EU leaders are trying to raise the dead by taking the rejected constitution and tinkering around the edges.
Johnson's corrected proofs for the first edition of the 'Prefaces to the poets' show him skimming the text, tinkering with the accidentals but not revising them systematically.
hacerse (más) pequeño
get + small(er)
A new study has found that human brains get smaller with age.
hermana pequeña
baby sister
This is a good way of solving the baby brother and sister problem while visiting the library.
hermanita pequeña
baby sister
This is a good way of solving the baby brother and sister problem while visiting the library.
hermanito pequeño
baby brother
This is a good way of solving the baby brother and sister problem while visiting the library.
hermano pequeño
baby brother
This is a good way of solving the baby brother and sister problem while visiting the library.
hijo pequeño
baby son
A paramedic who broke his baby son's arm in an 'unforgivably brutal and shocking' attack was jailed for three years today.
impresor de pequeños trabajos
jobbing house
The division of the printing trade into specialized book, news and jobbing houses had already begun to take place by the beginning of the nineteenth century.
IPE (Integración a Pequeña Escala)
SSI (Small Scale Integration)
There are now a number of degrees of integration: 'SSI' Small Scale Integration (tens of transistors on a single chip); 'MSI' Medium Scale Integration (hundreds of transistors); 'LSI' Large Scale Integration (thousands of transistors); and 'VSLI' (hundreds of thousands of transistors).
la clave está en la letra pequeña
the devil (is/lives) in the details
The article is entitled 'The devil in the details: An academic library acquires a video collection'.
la distancia es como el viento que apaga los fuegos pequeños pero aviva los grandes
absence makes the heart grow fonder
distance makes the heart grow fonder
She and various others I have talked with about this situation all stressed that absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, or so people say, but long distance relationships change the structure of even the sturdiest romances.
la pequeña pantalla [Usado generalmente para referirse a la televisión]
the small screen
The most minimalist method is simply to take some mental notes for what does and doesn't work on the small screen and keep them in the back of your mind.
las triquiñuelas de la letra pequeña
the devil (is/lives) in the details
The article is entitled 'The devil in the details: An academic library acquires a video collection'.
llorar como un niño pequeño
cry like + a baby
I used to cry like a baby when I sliced onions - not any more.
lo bueno viene en frascos pequeños
small is beautiful
It is not unusual these days to apply the much-quoted saying 'small is beautiful' to the needs of small and medium enterprises.
lonja fina y pequeña
sliver
Even though geomorphology is merely a sliver off the corpus of science, it has both intellectual and practical value.
los detalles de la letra pequeña
the devil (is/lives) in the details
The article is entitled 'The devil in the details: An academic library acquires a video collection'.
los pormenores de la letra pequeña
the devil (is/lives) in the details
The article is entitled 'The devil in the details: An academic library acquires a video collection'.
más bien pequeño
smallish
Sometimes it's the smallish things that take up the most room in our hearts.
mosquito pequeño
midge
Africa has lions, Alaska has grizzlies, Nepal has yeti. Britain has the worst of the lot - midgies! They make life hell for campers, walkers and hill-goers alike.
niño pequeño [En especial, aquel que anda a gatas o con dificultad]
toddler
little child
young child
The article 'Sitting pretty: infants, toddlers, & lapsits' outlines the procedures followed at San Francisco public library to help parents introduce their babies to appropriate literature.
In the ditch near by little children paddle about.
This article describes how a group of 12-18 teenage volunteers formed a group to dramatise children's books for young children and their parents at a public library.
pequeña
petite
This petite, agile, graceful and vivacious artiste was a picture of self-confidence on the stage.
pequeña empresa
small business
Small businesses employ more than 53% of Europe's workforce and are responsible for half of Europe's total turnover.
pequeña joya
bijou
It is a cosy and bijou cottage laid out on two floors that aims to provide home from home comfort.
pequeña nobleza, la
gentry, the
The personal papers of the gentry are one of the main categories of records available to historians examining the cultural aspects of urban life.
pequeñas modificaciones
tinkering
The drawback to this is that sometimes tinkering can lead to unintended results.
pequeño agricultor
smallholder
dirt farmer
The article is entitled 'Optimising fisheries information for decision making among Kenyan fish pond smallholders'.
My parents were raised by dirt farmers and they had a collective knowledge of native plants, which I absorbed by osmosis.
pequeño comercio
retailer
retail shop
Nowadays there is a clear three-part division of the book trade into publishers, wholesalers, printers, and retailers, but in the hand-press period the functions of book traders overlapped to a much greater extent.
Books were advertised in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by means of printed publishers' lists, which were carried about by salesmen and were probably put up in retail shops.
pequeño empresario
small business owner
A recent report finds that small business owners who employ five or less staff are, on average, barely scraping a living from all their effort.
pequeño granjero
dirt farmer
smallholder
My parents were raised by dirt farmers and they had a collective knowledge of native plants, which I absorbed by osmosis.
The article is entitled 'Optimising fisheries information for decision making among Kenyan fish pond smallholders'.
pequeño negocio
small business
Small businesses employ more than 53% of Europe's workforce and are responsible for half of Europe's total turnover.
pequeño propietario de tierras
yeoman farmer
She argues that the way yeoman farmers lorded over their wives and dependents was similar to the way wealthy planters lorded over their slaves.
pequeños ajustes
tinkering
The drawback to this is that sometimes tinkering can lead to unintended results.
pequeños detalles
minutiae
petty details
Flaws are emphasized and frequent comparisons made with similar tools, but these are often buried in a mass of minutiae.
We all share the same wants and needs, only the petty details differ.
pez pequeño [Que no merece la pena pescar]
bait fish
minnow
With hundreds of bait fish swarming your spot - feeding like mad - the game fish get extremely excited and start to move into the area to feed on the bait fish.
It only contributes to user frustration and a very poor library image when material on minnows is cataloged under FUNDULUS HETEROCLITUS.
pez plateado pequeño [Usado comúnmente como cebo]
shiner
Already there are minnows in the bays, so it shouldn't be long before they're followed by shiners.
presupuesto cada vez más pequeño
shrinking budget
In the face of rising costs and stagnant or shrinking budgets, libraries are looking for efficient and less expensive methods of processing materials.
presupuesto muy pequeño
shoestring budget
Here are three travel sites for shoestring budgets.
problema pequeño
a cloud no bigger than a man's hand
By 1980 I had decided that developments were moving sufficiently rapidly to justify a new edition, revised to take into account the growth in the use of computer-based services which in 1977 in Australia were a cloud no bigger than a man's hand.
PYME (Pequeña y Mediana Empresa)
SME (Small and Medium Sized Enterprise)
These access points will offer Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) an online catalogue of relevant information services.
quedarse pequeño
overflow
Its extensive collection, a mixture of the rare and valuable and a wide range of modern printed material, overflows its cramped premises.
restaurante pequeño
bistro
The 30,000 square feet bookstore boasts a cafe, bistro, covered atrium doubling as a theatre, and room for 140,000 titles.
rodaja fina y pequeña
sliver
Even though geomorphology is merely a sliver off the corpus of science, it has both intellectual and practical value.
terreno cultivable pequeño
croft
Ponies have been used for riding, transport, work on crofts and in coal mines, domestic service, and in show business.
una pequeña minoría de
a marginal fringe of
This put the matter down to the work of a marginal fringe of hotheads & lunatics.
un pequeño puntito
just a little dot
It might be just a little dot in the huge canvas of our whole lives, but there are those special few that draw the dot with a permanent marker.
volverse cada vez más pequeño
get + smaller and smaller
Trust is like an eraser it gets smaller and smaller after every mistake.
