total-2
complete ; full ; thorough ; total ; end to end ; supine ; unrelieved ; utter ; gavel to gavel ; systemic ; overarching ; ultimate ; avowed ; out-and-out ; certified ; unmitigaged ; fully blown ; unreserved ; fulsome ; overall ; wall-to-wall ; blithering.
The main entry is the complete catalogue record of the document.
Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
Timely and thorough planning is essential.
This situation requires a very skilled information worker if total disaster is to be avoided.
Next morning the heap, now damp right through, was set up on one end of the horse (later called the bank), a bench long enough to take two piles of paper end to end, and about as high as the coffin of the press.
'I was saying that we shouldn't have a supine acceptance for temporary limitations'.
Although the slave narratives were usually intended to serve in the cause of abolition, not all of them were bitter, unrelieved tirades against the institution of slavery, but rather there were frequently moments of relieving laughter.
There is little to be said for this grudging acceptance or utter rejection of pseudonyms.
A survey of state legislators finds that lawmakers support expanding television coverage of legislative proceedings to include gavel to gavel programming.
There is a need for an examination of the whole process of information dissemination from a 'systemic' framework.
There appears to be an unhealthy tendency among information technology professionals to elevate any single, highly successful practical experience instantly into an overarching paradigm for managerial success.
The whole project is undeniably full of sentimental, cinephiliac rapture, but it provided the ultimate opportunity for filmmakers to talk feverishly about the basic nature of their medium.
Anne Bogart's novel combines avowed misogyny with postfeminist frolic.
Such an appraoch is unlikely to improve the social sciences unless valid informaton can first be distinguished from out-and-out incorrect information.
She is a certified TV-addict - you simply cannot talk to her when she's glued to the box.
Only Bush could take a horrible situation and create an unmitigated disaster.
This time it's a hairline fracture rather than a fully blown break of a metatarsal, however the result is the same.
It is also important that we all give them our unreserved support.
She was strangely attractive, though dressed in fulsome black, a veil over head and face.
There is not necessarily any overall plan for the development and maintenance of the schedules.
It was wall-to-wall crowds, ambulances could not get through and forget being able to buy so much as a coke without an hour wait.
Never before have we seen such blithering incompetence.
cambio total
turnaround
turnabout [turn-about]
This article describes how an innovative response to the problem led to a turnaround in the company's fortunes.
Current uncertainties and frustrations are creating a possible turn-about by many academic librarians from their 1969 position of demanding equal status with faculty.
conversión total [En catalogación, proceso de adaptar completamente a las reglas de catalogación actualmente en uso los registros anteriormente sólo se había adaptado parcialmente superimposition (conversión parcial)]
desuperimposition
Desuperimposition will be handled through the name authority file.
de movimiento total
full-motion
A multimedia computer system can integrate two or more types of media materials in digital form, such as audio, image, full-motion video, and text information.
derrota total [En el deporte, derrota en la que el equipo perdedor no anota ni un solo tanto]
shutout
I think the overall objective was to get the win and finish the game, but the goose egg (shutout) at the end was a statement for our defense.
en total [Adverbio]
all told
altogether
in all
overall
in total
in toto
There are eighteen entries all told under the latter heading, so the search is not particularly tedious.
Altogether between twenty and thirty data bases are offered.
In all 20 per cent of visitors went out of the bookshop with a book they had intended to buy, 15 per cent went out with a book they had not intended to buy and 67 went out with both intended and unintended purchases.
Overall, neither system proved ideal: LEXINET was deficient as regards lack of accessibility and excessive ambiguity; while the manual system gave rise to an over-wide variation of terms.
35 students are admitted each semester, and in total about 390 students enrolled.
Serials control in toto consists of a number of elements which are more or less closely related.
éxito repentino y total
flush of success
The flush of success with AACR1 gave the code compilers and cataloguers the confidence to criticise the new code with the object of further refining it.
éxito toal
thumping success
Their quilted jackets are a thumping success as they not only look trendy but are very comfortable as well.
éxito total
record success
roaring success
Despite threatening skies and warm temperatures, the 20th annual Festival in Sycamore enjoyed record success.
From the beginning the library was a roaring success; 10,000 readers registered before it even opened = Desde el comienzo la biblioteca tuvo un éxito contundente: 10.000 lectores se habían inscrito incluso antes de abrir.
fiasco total
total write-off
complete failure
Not expecting much from a chain pizza restaurant, we thought the day was going to be total write-off.
The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
fracaso total
complete failure
total write-off
The League of Nations was a comically ham-handed debacle which collapsed in complete failure, disgracing all who were associated with it.
Not expecting much from a chain pizza restaurant, we thought the day was going to be total write-off.
integración total
seamlessness
The article covers the growth in World Wide Web based products, pricing, seamlessness, outsourcing, ease of use, and partnerships and alliances.
la suma total de
the total sum of
the sum total of
It is the type of compound that is of primary importance to researchers in chemistry, not the total sum of individual compounds that fall under it.
There was a time when the sum total of human knowledge was sufficiently small for one man to be able to comprehend it all.
limpieza total
clean sweep
Strategies advocated include the clean sweep of all items in a subject collection.
Número + en total
Número + in number
The other systematic schedules, 38 in number, relate to particular classes of persons or things, eg 13 for subclassification under any disease or disorder, 7 for special subjects relative to any personage.
oscuridad total
pitch blackness
pitch darkness
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.
One more reason is that in pitch darkness your torchlight can pick up the eyes of animals easily and in turn the animals cannot see beyond the blinding light.
rechazo total
bold statement against
Vivid and even poetic at times, this text has a profound pathos and a rich story in addition to being a bold statement against literary elitism.
ser una pérdida total
be a dead loss
There is now never the need for someone with a hair problem to feel that the problem cannot be solved; hair loss is no longer a dead loss!.
síndrome de alergia total
total allergy syndrome
'Twentieth-century disease,' or 'total allergy syndrome,' is a condition attributed to hypersensitivity to the environment that may sometimes be seen as so serious that the patient is incapable of living in the modern world = "La enfermedad del siglo veinte", o el "síndrome de alergia total", es un síntoma atribuído a la hipersensibilidad al ambiente que ocasionalmente puede parecer tan serio que el paciente es incapaz de vivir en el mundo moderno.
siniestro total
write-off [writeoff]
total write-off
total wreck
This page contains information on how to deal with a claim if a vehicle is a write-off.
This helicopter crashed 4 days after this picture was taken and was a total write-off.
A bomber plane was a total wreck when it crash-landed today returning from a test flight.
suma total
sum total
count
A facet, then, is the sum total of isolates formed by the division of a subject by one characteristic of division.
Not much data beyond loan counts was available and re-keying and remanipulations were frequently needed to make the information useful.
tener un lleno total
have + a full house
have + a packed house
We had a full house for the weekend including two very happy and well-behaved young dogs.
Last week we had a packed house so come early to get a seat!.
total atención
undivided attention
Work that requires consistent and undivided attention should not be brought to the reference desk.
