| instrumento |
| 1. n-m. instrument (device) | |
| 2. n-m. (musical) instrument | |
| 3. n-m. tool, means | |
| 4. n-m. (law) instrument | |
| 5. n-m. (vulgar) tool (a term for the penis) | |
| 6. v. first-person singular present indicative of instrumentar | |
| instrumentar |
| 1. v. to orchestrate | |
| metálico |
| 1. adj. metallic | |
| usado |
| 1. adj. used | |
| 2. adj. worn, worn-out | |
| 3. Participle. past participle of usar | |
| masculine singular usar |
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| usar |
| 1. v. to use | |
| Usa la fuerza, Luke! - Use the force, Luke! | |
| 2. v. to wear | |
| 3. v. to consume | |
| 4. v. to be used | |
| 5. v. to be fashionable | |
| en |
| 1. prep. in, at, on | |
| Estoy en casa. - I'm at home. | |
| Estoy sentado en la computadora. - I'm sitting at the computer. | |
| en esta página - on this page | |
| en la caja en la mesa - in the box on the table | |
| 2. prep. in (a time) | |
| en la antigüedad - in antiquity | |
| en 1999 - in 1999 | |
| 3. prep. in (a language) | |
| No conozco esta palabra en francés. - I don't know this word in French. | |
| en todos los idiomas - in all languages | |
| 4. prep. used after some verbs and translated by various prepositions in English | |
| Pienso en ti. - I'm thinking of you. | |
| 5. prep. in (in various expressions) | |
| en el sentido - in the sense | |
| en nuestro afán - in our eagerness | |
| medicina |
| 1. n-f. medicine | |
| medicinar |
| 1. v. to medicate | |
| para |
| 1. prep. for, to (expressing a recipient) | |
| La niña compró un regalo de navidad para su abuela. - The girl bought a Christmas gift for her grandmother. | |
| Ahora me gustaría hacer un truco de magia para ustedes. - I'd now like to perform a magic trick for you all. | |
| 2. prep. to, in order to, so, for (expressing the intended purpose of an action) | |
| Estudio cada noche sin descanso para conseguir un trabajo decente al fin de todo esto. - I study every night tirelessly so that I get a decent job at the end of all this. | |
| Voy a salir temprano para evitar el tráfico. - I am going to leave early to avoid traffic. | |
| 3. prep. by, due, due on, due by (expressing a deadline) | |
| Necesito tu decisión para fin de mes. - I need your decision by the end of the month. | |
| Sus proyectos de grupo son para el viernes sin excepción. - Your group projects are due on Friday without exception. | |
| 4. prep. for (expressing contrast from what is expected) | |
| Para un turista americano, él es en realidad bastante respetuoso. - For an American tourist, he is actually pretty respectful. | |
| 5. prep. for, to, in one's opinion, as far as one is concerned (expressing an opinion, perception or perspective) | |
| Para mí, la música es lo único bueno sobre esa película. - For me, the music was the only good thing about that film. | |
| Para mi hermano, su esposa tiene toda la razón. - As far as my brother is concerned, his wife is totally in the right. | |
| 6. prep. for (expressing using one's efforts for a group or an authority figure such as a sports team or a company/boss) | |
| Mi sobrino juega para el equipo de los Patos Poderosos. - My nephew plays for the Mighty Ducks' team. | |
| Trabajamos para la misma jefe aunque no al mismo tiempo. - We worked for the same boss but not at the same time. | |
| Ella trabajó para Microsoft durante años, pero ahora trabaja para Apple. - She worked for Microsoft for years, but now she works for Apple. | |
| 7. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of parir | |
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| parar |
| 1. v. to stop, halt | |
| 2. v. to put up, stand up | |
| 3. v. to lift, raise | |
| 4. v. to stand up | |
| 5. v. to situate oneself | |
| 6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, Chile) see pararlas | |
| hacer |
| 1. v. to do | |
| ¿Qué haces? - What are you doing? | |
| No sé que hago. - I don't know what I'm doing. | |
| Prefiero no hacerlo - I prefer not to do it. | |
| 2. v. to make (something) | |
| Empecemos a hacer el pastel. - Let's start making the cake. | |
| Le gustaba hacer poemas placenteros. - She liked to make pleasant poems. | |
| 3. v. to make (e.g. someone do something or feel a certain way.) | |
| No sabe cómo hacerla feliz. - He doesn't know how to make her happy. | |
| Lo hiciste llorar / Hiciste que llorara. - You made him cry. | |
| 4. v. to be | |
| hace frío - it's cold | |
| hace calor - it's hot | |
| hace sol - it's sunny | |
| hace viento - it's windy | |
| 5. v. to go (to release or excrete (urine, excrement)) | |
| hacer pis, pipí, el número uno - to pee | |
| hacer caca, pupú, el número dos - to poo | |
| 6. v. (ambitransitive, optionally with de) to play (a part in a play) | |
| hacer la princesa - to play the princess | |
| hacer de princesa - to play a princess | |
| hacer de Óscar - to play (the character of) Oscar | |
| 7. v. to become; to get | |
| ¡Hazte vegetariano! - Become vegetarian! | |
| Me haré rico. - I will get rich. | |
| Ese niño se hizo todo un hombre. - That boy became a real man. | |
| 8. v. to pretend being, play | |
| hacerse el tonto - to pretend being a fool, play the fool | |
| hacerse la víctima - to play the victim | |
| Háganse los sofisticados si quieren, igual nadie les cree. - You can pretend to be sophisticated if you want, no one believes you anyway. | |
| 9. v. to play the fool | |
| No te hagás: vos sabés lo que hiciste. - Don't play the fool, you know what you did. | |
| 10. v. to prep, adorn, do (a body part) | |
| hacerse las uñas - to do one's nails | |
| 11. v. to get used to (chiefly in idioms) | |
| El cuerpo se hace a las fatigas. - The body gets used to tiredness. | |
| El caballo se hace al fuego. - A horse gets used to fire (for the Luminarias). | |
| 12. v. to arrive (said of a certain time), be now | |
| Se hace tarde. - It's getting late. | |
| Se hicieron las doce. - It was now/suddenly 12 o'clock. | |
| 13. n-m. task, action | |
| Nos quedan muchos haceres. - We have a lot of tasks left. | |
| Cortes |
| 1. Proper noun. any of several legislative assemblies of Spain and Portugal; parliamentary chambers which exercise the power to craft legislation and control the actions of government as elected representatives of th | |
| 2. n. plural of corte | |
| 3. v. informal second-person singular present subjunctive of cortar | |
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| cortar |
| 1. v. to cut | |
| 2. v. to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip | |
| 3. v. to chop, chop up, chop off | |
| 4. v. to slice, to slit | |
| 5. v. to mow | |
| 6. v. to slash, to hack | |
| 7. v. to carve, to engrave | |
| 8. v. to hang up, to terminate a telephone call | |
| 9. v. (Chile, informal) to stop an action | |
| ¡Córtala!, déjame tranquilo. (Stop it! leave me alone.) | |
| 10. v. (Chile) to shut off | |
| Corta el agua, por favor. (Shut the water off please.) | |
| 11. v. to finish a relationship | |
| Deberías cortar con él. (You should break up with him.) | |
| 12. v. to haircut | |
| 13. v. to cut, to cut off, to slit (oneself or a part of the body) | |
| corte |
| 1. n-m. cut (the act of cutting) | |
| 2. n-m. cut (the result of cutting) | |
| 3. n-m. cut (an opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound) | |
| 4. n-m. haircut | |
| 5. n-m. (colloquial) embarrassment | |
| Me da corte hacerlo. - I'm embarrassed to do it. | |
| 6. n-m. style or type | |
| Hay varios cortes de mediocampista. Necesitamos un mediocampista de corte defensivo, un jugador con un corte parecido al del ghanés Thomas Partey. - There are many types of midfielder. We need | |
| 7. n-m. cross section | |
| 8. v. third-person singular present subjunctive of cortar | |
| 9. n-f. court (the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered) | |
| O |
| 1. Letter. the 16th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
| 2. n. abbreviation of oeste; west | |
| 3. conj. or | |
| ¿Quieres un café o algo más? - Do you want a coffee or something else? | |
| 4. conj. either … or | |
| (ant-lite, ni, alt1=ni … ni) | |
| incisiones |
| 1. n. plural of incisión | |
| incisión |
| 1. n-f. incision, cut | |
| precisas |
| 1. adj. feminine plural of preciso | |
| 2. v. informal second-person singular present indicative of precisar | |
| precisar |
| 1. v. to state, specify | |
| 2. v. to need, to require | |
| preciso |
| 1. adj. precise | |
| 2. adj. necessary | |
| 3. v. first-person singular present indicative of precisar | |
| a |
| 1. prep. to | |
| 2. prep. by | |
| 3. prep. at | |
| 4. prep. ng-lite, Used before words referring to people, pets, or personified objects or places that function as direct objects: personal a. | |
| Lo busca a usted. - He is looking for you. | |
| los |
| 1. art. the | |
| ¿Qué hacen los muchachos? - What do the boys do? | |
| 2. pron. accusative of ellos and ustedes (when referring to more than one man); them, you all (formal) | |
| 3. pron. plural masculine or neuter pronoun | |
| los que no hablan - those who do not speak | |
| pacientes |
| 1. adj. plural of paciente | |
| 2. n. plural of paciente | |
| paciente |
| 1. adj. patient | |
| 2. n. (medical) patient | |
