quitar
remove ; take off ; take away ; strip away ; roll back ; strip ; trim off ; strip off ; take down ; commandeer ; get off ; bereave + Nombre + of.
Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
For example, books close to the door and the circulation desk may be intended for the user who merely wishes to make a swift selection of items to take away and read elsewhere.
Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
Pluto, scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
If you repeatedly deadhead - trim off the spent flowers - the plant goes into overdrive.
They gathered a whole sackful, stripped off the husks, and filled the sack again.
State officials urge people to take down bird feeders after recent reports of sick and dead birds, according to a news release.
He was left without a scratch and pursued the shooter on foot until the gunman commandeered a passing car.
The full-length, two-direction zipper makes it easy to get on and off, and the bottom is easy to unzip for diaper changes.
And they felt he was somehow bereaving them of income by stealing their content without asking.
bebida para quitar la sed
thirst quencher
In Britain, we drink over six million litres of fizzy drinks each year - but is our favourite thirst quencher good for our health?.
bebida que quita la sed
thirst quencher
quencher
In Britain, we drink over six million litres of fizzy drinks each year - but is our favourite thirst quencher good for our health?.
Over the continued weeks of aging, the oak cask have contributed new dimensions making this beer a real quencher and palate pleaser.
de quita y pon
burn-'em-down-build-'em-up
removable
But if they don't, the practical result of those burn-'em-down-build-'em-up Phoenix schedules is to destroy call-number integrity = Pero si no es así, el resultado práctico de esas clases fénix que ya las quitas, ya las pones es destruir la integridad de la signatura topográfica.
Adequate security for expensive equipment must also be provided for in this decision, and a secluded back room, a remote phone cut-off switch, or a removable keyboard may be mandated.
hablar a calzón quitado
lay + Posesivo + cards on the table
put + Posesivo + cards on the table
Thirdly, he is the only candidate to have laid his cards on the table with a sound, sensible and viable exit strategy from this awful quagmire in Iraq.
Hillary has put her cards on the table and her supporters still do not cry foul.
hasta el cuarenta de mayo no te quites el sayo
cast no clout till May is out
As she walked out of the library, he warned her 'cast no clout till May is out'.
no poder quitar lo bailado
have + no regrets
live + Posesivo + life to the fullest and have no regrets
If you want to get to the end of your life and have no regrets you need to seize every opportunity that comes along.
Jessie admitted that she has lived her life to the fullest and has no regrets.
no poder quitarse Algo de la cabeza
can't get it out of my mind
Some user may come to the library simply to ask for help 'My daughter died six montsh ago and I just can't get it out of my mind'.
pala de quitar nieve
snow shovel
After the alligator snapped at one of them, the teenagers beat it to death with their snow shovels.
pala para quitar nieve
snow shovel
After the alligator snapped at one of them, the teenagers beat it to death with their snow shovels.
poner y quitar
get on and off
The full-length, two-direction zipper makes it easy to get on and off, and the bottom is easy to unzip for diaper changes.
que nos quiten lo bailado
We'll always have Paris
Once settled in the plush leather seats, Steve leaned over and whispered in his best Bogey impersonation, 'We'll always have Paris'.
que se puede quitar
detachable
removable
Manufacturers have produced screens which can be tilted and moved from side to side, together with detachable keyboards which can be placed in the most comfortable position.
Adequate security for expensive equipment must also be provided for in this decision, and a secluded back room, a remote phone cut-off switch, or a removable keyboard may be mandated.
quita o pon
give or take
President Bush estimated the Iraqi civilian death toll at 30,000; give or take a few thousand.
quitar Algo
take + Nombre + out of + Posesivo + hands
Unless librarians move away from their present overconcern with their systems and lack of concern with their users they will become redundant and the task of providing information will be taken out of their hands.
quitar con pala
shovel
Can't you just see some indignant parent working his fine off shovelling snow from the library steps! = ¡Te imaginas a algún padre indignado quitando nieve con una pala de los escalones de la biblioteca para pagar la multa!.
quitar con un cepillo
brush away
Cradle cap, which only develops in infants, can usually be controlled by shampooing more frequently with a baby shampoo and by softly brushing away the scales.
quitar con un golpe
knock off
If they stared up at the arbour of sheets of paper hanging from the cords attached to the ceiling, they knocked their hats off on the iron bars which braced the presses.
quitar de en medio
move + Nombre + out of the way
Gently pick it up and move it out of the way, where no one will step on it.
quitar de la lista
delist
Congress has never before delisted species from the Endangered Species list.
quitar de las manos
snap up
Music has notorious magpie tendencies, snapping up stylistic valuables wherever they may be found.
quitar el aliento
take + Posesivo + breath away
For mountain dwellers it's not the lack of oxygen that takes their breath away, it's the lack of food.
quitar el deseo
suffocate + desire
Children need to be led by methods which do not suffocate the desire to go on reading.
quitar el estigma
destigmatise [destigmatize, -USA]
Efforts to destigmatize euthanasia or even encourage it for some groups may have the untoward effect of promoting suicide in other groups.
quitar el hueso
bone
de-bone
By boning the meat, you avoid cutting the bones, so there is no bone residue to affect the meat's flavor.
Carving a turkey is a lot of work, but de-boning it first can make things easier.
quitar el interés
take + the shine off things
Not being able to run DP on IIS and not being able to find a commercial web hosting company who ran Apache, took the initial shine off things for me.
quitar el mérito a Algo
belittle
Citing a renowned author merely to gain personal respectability for an otherwise mediocre piece of research belittles the work of the cited author.
quitar el perno
unpin
One farmer lost his life to a pulled trailer rolling over him after unpinning the trailer from the tractor.
quitar el poder
disempower
One of the greatest challenges of our society is the provision of humane & affordable services in ways that empower, rather than disempower, its aging members.
quitar el polvo
dust
dust off
550 books a day were dusted and the cleaning of 13500 volumes was completed in 5 weeks.
Dust off your trilby and dig out your tweeds, British heritage is one of the top trends this season.
quitar el sufijo a una palabra
strip + suffix
To see what effect stemming might have on the results, the analysis was repeated for 17 of the records with the following suffixes being stripped.
quitar el valor
render + valueless
The immense cultural differences facing the professions tends to render comparisons valueless.
quitar frotando
rub off
rub
Finally gold leaf was laid in place over the blind impressions, and fixed into them with further impressions of the hot tools, surplus gold being rubbed off.
Finally, test the coating of a glossy paper by rubbing it with a piece of silver.
quitar hierro
take + the bite out of
sugar-coat + the pill
sugar + the pill
sweeten + the pill
tone down
soft-pedal
sugar-coat
take + the teeth out of
take + the sting out of + Algo
The aim of this paper is to chart a different course of interpretation through Husserl's earliest work; a course which doesn't take all of the bite out of Heidegger's critique of technology.
The government has attempted to sugar-coat the pill by making various promises about maintenance of employment and working conditions.
Liberal economists like to sugar the pill by talking about constructing a social safety net.
They also differ in their views of what can be done to 'sweeten the pill,' whether death ought to be viewed as a barrier to self-fulfillment or a means of self-transcendence.
We found an increasing trend toward a more structured approach in data gathering procedures, while loose data collection was toned down significantly.
Antisemitism soft-pedal the importance of religious belief for comprehending the persistence of Jew-hatred.
Some Muslims try to sugar-coat the ugly truths about the way their religion is practised.
Sometimes making fun of something terrible helps to take the teeth out of it.
The director amplified: 'The personal touch would probably take some sting out of the layoff, but if I did it this way I could avoid involved discussions'.
quitar hierro a Algo
play + Nombre + down
It's easier to play things down then hold your ground.
quitar importancia
de-emphasise [de-emphasize, -USA]
understate
trivialise [trivialize, -USA]
minimise + importance
downplay
gloss over
negate
soft-pedal
play + Nombre + down
I did de-emphasize it, because authority information is not nearly as important in an online catalog as it is in a bookform catalog, where it is absolutely imperative to have it.
University faculty generally understate prices of textbooks for their courses = El profesorado universitario generalmente subestima los precios de los libros de textos de sus cursos.
The suggestion proposes changes that will raise the reference librarian's status, thus trivialising an interesting and complicated problem.
Like most of 'women's work', much of scientific communication has been so invisible to outsiders that it has been taken for granted, and its importance is often minimised.
The author focuses on the sites offering features that downplay the technology in favour of the human touch.
To some extent this worked - haphazardly perhaps, but in a cheerful atmosphere that, though he did not realize it then, glossed over the inadequacies of his approach.
Thus excessive delays in the availability of cataloguing records from the central agency will negate much of the value of a central service.
Antisemitism soft-pedal the importance of religious belief for comprehending the persistence of Jew-hatred.
It's easier to play things down then hold your ground.
quitar importancia a un problema
trivialise + trouble
Television shows foster titillating discussion topics and trivialize troubles.
quitar la borrachera
sober up
He was pissed to the gills, and when he got to the door the bus driver wouldn't let him on and told him to come back when he'd sobered up.
quitar la credibilidad
destroy + credence
If mistakes are made of probability, of language, of relationship then these must, in all but the simplest readers, destroy credence.
quitar la humedad
dehumidify
Telephone calls were made to the following: dairy (to secure milk carton storage for books); grocery stores (for freezer space for books); fire department (for fans to dehumidify books); and aerospace companies (for vacuum freezing facilities).
quitar la idea
wipe away + idea
The US Supreme Court's 1991 decision in favour of Feist wiped away the idea that 'sweat of the brow' is adequate for a copyright claim.
quitar la marca
unmark
Press <Shift> <Del> to unmark all marked records.
quitar la mesa
clear away + the things
clear + the table
After eating her dinner in awful silence she cleared away the things and vented her anger in scrubbing the dishes with a spiteful energy.
When our waiter came back out after clearing the table, we were certain that he was going to politely usher us out, but instead, he asked us if we were interested in dessert!.
quitar la respiración
take + Posesivo + breath away
For mountain dwellers it's not the lack of oxygen that takes their breath away, it's the lack of food.
quitar las amarras
unmoor
If this story is correct, it's the latest evidence that copyright law has become unmoored from its foundations.
quitar las arrugas
smooth + the rumples out of
Standing nervously before the full-length mirror, she adjusted her hair for the umpteenth time and smoothed the rumples out of her dress.
quitar la sed
quench + Posesivo + thirst
slake + Posesivo + thirst
Water not only quenches one's thirst, it also heals.
People were just curious, and once they slaked their thirst for this new product, they dropped it like a hot potato.
quitar las escamas
scale
Fish should be gutted and scaled with head and tail left on.
quitar las espinas
bone
de-bone
By boning the meat, you avoid cutting the bones, so there is no bone residue to affect the meat's flavor.
Carving a turkey is a lot of work, but de-boning it first can make things easier.
quitar las ganas de
kill + the momentum
Papers by Lin and coleagues advocate post-processing of downloaded bibliographic text in a way that does not kill the momentum for futher searching.
quitar las malas hierbas
pull + weeds
This year we plan to use almost no herbicide - but that means a lot of work pulling weeds.
quitar las telarañas
dust off + the cobwebs
The article is entitled 'Dusting off the cobwebs: turning the business archives into a managerial tool'.
quitar la tapa
uncap
He took a bottle of water from a vintage refrigerator, uncapped it, and drank thirstily, emptying the entire bottle.
quitar la vida
take + Posesivo + life
She also struggled for a long period with alcoholism and smoking, both of which led to the throat cancer that would take her life.
quitarle a Alguien las ganas de comer
put + Nombre + off + Posesivo +`food
put + Nombre + off + Posesivo + oats
In the summer of 2001, Toby our cat became seriously ill with a severe ear infection that put him off his food.
We trust the news he's just received won't put him off his oats.
quitarle el biberón poco a poco
wean + Nombre + off the bottle
The child psychologist will also be able to advise you with regards to slowly weaning her off the bottle and dummy once she feels safe and secure again.
quitarle el chupete poco a poco
wean + Nombre + off the dummy
The child psychologist will also be able to advise you with regards to slowly weaning her off the bottle and dummy once she feels safe and secure again.
quitarle el sentido
render + meaningless
Although the isolate numbers for the concepts are correct, these mistakes in the use of facet indicators render this class number meaningless.
quitarle importancia a Algo
make + light of
The government should have made light of this whole affair and it would have quietly slipped away almost unnoticed.
quitarle importancia a las cosas
make + light of things
A pert nose reveals a cheeky, fun-loving person, someone who knows how to make light of things.
quitarle mérito
obscure + the fact
But no litany of caveats should be allowed to obscure the fact that on-line searching has added a major weapon to the reference librarian's arsenal.
quitar los alfileres
unpin
After unpinning the shirt, I noticed that the stitching under the right arm is slightly more pronounced than under the left arm.
quitar los hierbajos
pull + weeds
This year we plan to use almost no herbicide - but that means a lot of work pulling weeds.
quitar mérito
detract from
These symbols always detract from the automatic ordering.
quitar pintura mediante chorro de arena a presión
sandblast
They co-operated a while back in the conversion of a supply vessel into a special maintenance vessel for sandblasting and painting offshore.
quitar protaganismo [De manera inesperada, sin ser lo previsto]
steal + the spotlight
It is her big screen debut tonight, so Katy Perry would have wanted to ensure nobody stole the spotlight.
quitar protagonismo [De manera inesperada, sin ser lo previsto]
steal + the limelight
steal + Posesivo + show
take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails
steal + Posesivo + thunder
steal + Posesivo + scene
Little in general is said about the retrieval side of the systems: document analysis has stolen the limelight.
The article is entitled 'Did Paris Steal the Show for American Library Innovations?'.
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.
She said some of the most hurtful things a person could say and it was all because she was afraid I was going to steal her thunder.
But once again her little sister, famous as Kate if not more, is stealing her scene.
quitar puestos de trabajo
shed + jobs
axe + jobs
cut + jobs
Businesses are shedding jobs at an alarming pace, with tens of thousands of new layoffs announced Monday by some of the biggest companies.
British small firms axing jobs at fastest since 1992.
In total, 38% of UK firms surveyed cut jobs during the final quarter.
quitar rápidamente
snatch off
snatch away
The wound was still bleeding but Sparrer meanwhile had snatched off hisneckerchief and was preparing a tourniquet.
It seemed as if Fortune had but played with him, had put the prizealmost within his grasp and then as he reached for it had snatched itaway to tease and mock him.
quitarse [Opuesto de don]
take off
doff
take off
Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek se quitó las gafas y las hacía girar al mismo tiempo que su supervisor le contaba el siguiente incidente.
In the past, she's relied overly much on her ready laugh, lean looks, and willingness to doff her duds.
Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek se quitó las gafas y las hacía girar al mismo tiempo que su supervisor le contaba el siguiente incidente.
quitarse a Alguien de encima
keep + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back
get + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back
Some even go so far as to curry favor with him, to keep him off their backs.
'I'd love to be able to get them off my back', he remonstrated with a deep sigh.
quitarse Algo de encima de una vez por todas
get it over (and done) with (once and for all)
get it out of the + way (once and for all)
Let's get it over and done with once and for all, forget the debt ceiling, let the government go out of business.
Try to find out the root cause and tackle it and get it out of the way once and for all.
quitarse Algo/Alguien de encima
be off + Posesivo + back
Your tech team will love the fact you're off their backs to make changes for testing and optimization purposes.
quitarse de encima
shake off
get + shot of
get + rid of
Only this way can the librarian shake off the aura of elitism pervading the profession and the library.
Many women would do pretty much anything to get shot of stretch marks.
The title of her paper is 'Let's get rid of it: a reference librarian's battle cry'.
quitarse de encima a
rid of
Two recently elected school board members have announced their intention of 'ridding the high school of Mrs Panopoulos' - to which she replied, with a defiant shrug, 'Let them try'.
quitarse de en medio
take + Nombre + out
put + Nombre + on the chopping block
My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
I think this article is very inflammatory and unbelievably false - no one, especially Obama, has 'put social security on the chopping block'.
quitarse del medio de bulla y corriendo
run for + cover
scramble for + safety
scramble for + cover
run for + safety
Guards in the lead car of the convoy threw their doors open and ran for cover, screaming, 'Get away, get away'.
With ominous clouds looming overhead, a huge clap of thunder sent all players scrambling for safety during Sunday night's game.
Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, shots rang out inside Allsups convenience store sending customers and clerks scrambling for cover.
Photo of policemen run for safety as protesters chase them away with stones and sticks near the site of a collapsed footbridge.
quitarse el sombrero
take + Posesivo + hat off
He stood up and almost took his hat off before he remembered his cowlick.
quitarse el sombrero ante [En señal de reconocimiento y admiración]
hats off to + Nombre
take + Posesivo + hat off to
The title of her welcoming address was 'Hats off to paraprofessionals' paying tribute to the versatility of the paraprofessional.
Nothing is impossible when it comes to creativity and innovation and the experts are taking their hats off to Coca-Cola for doing this.
quitar(se) la ropa
undress
disrobe
strip down
take + Posesivo + clothes off
take + Posesivo + kit off
First the women undressed, pulled on their bathing dresses and covered their heads in hideous caps like sponge bags; then the children were unbuttoned.
Sometimes undressing is virtually compulsory as at the airport where you may obliged to disrobe in order to board your flight.
She took him back to her place and stripped down then had him follow her into the shower.
Once he reached the summit, he took his clothes off and stood there for 3 minutes naked.
The minute she turned 18, the frisky young woman took her kit off in front of the camera and hasn't looked back since.
quitarse la vida
take + Posesivo + own life
The painting shows Dido standing before a funeral pyre just prior to taking her own life.
quitársele a Uno las ganas
put + Nombre + off
Whatever the situation, prepared for or unexpected, it is always too easy to overplay one's hand, praising a book so extravagantly, so effusively, that many children are put off.
quitársele a Uno las ganas de comer
go off + Posesivo + food
go off + Posesivo + oats
The vet came out again three weeks ago when she last went off her food and she had a shot of penicillin and has been fine since too.
I have a friend who, as soon as she is under stress, goes off her oats, and gets all pale.
quitarse una mala reputación
clean up + bad reputation
While it is much better to get off to a good start to begin with, there are things that can be done to clean up a bad reputation.
quitarse un (buen) peso de encima
get + a (real) weight off + Posesivo + chest
He said he would feel better and get a weight off his chest if he explained his side of the incident.
quitarse un peso de encima
take + a weight off + Posesivo + mind
take + a load off + Posesivo + mind
Mr Smith praised the police for bringing the teenagers to justice, saying their detection had taken a weight off his mind.
I think we would have done it eventually, but not as quickly as this and, with time being of the essence, this has really taken a load off her mind.
quitar trascendencia
play + Nombre + down
It's easier to play things down then hold your ground.
quitar una maldición
lift + a curse
She has no faith in doctors, blames his paralysis on black magic and wishes to take him home so the curse can be lifted by faqirs.
quitar una preocupación
allay + concern
New requirements on data protection may help to allay concerns about the supply of personal data for membership registration purposes, including Internet access.
quitar un peso de encima
remove + burden from shoulders
Perhaps what they all do more importantly than anything else is to remove the burden from the teachers' shoulders.
quitar un peso de encima a Alguien
lift + a weight off + Posesivo + shoulders
In a sense, the release of this new album has lifted a weight off his shoulders and bookended his first six years as a solo artist.
quitar valor
devalue
deflate
This does not devalue the comparison between enumerative classification and menu-based information retrieval system.
These developments deflate some traditional assumptions about and privileges associated with scientific and technical knowledge.
tener + que quitarse el sombrero
have to hand it to + Nombre
I have to hand it to you, maybe you've got some booze in you or maybe you just like to hang loose, but you put on quite a show.
ya lo quitas, ya lo pones
burn-'em-down-build-'em-up
But if they don't, the practical result of those burn-'em-down-build-'em-up Phoenix schedules is to destroy call-number integrity = Pero si no es así, el resultado práctico de esas clases fénix que ya las quitas, ya las pones es destruir la integridad de la signatura topográfica.
