| lanzó |
| 1. v. third-person singular preterite indicative of lanzar | |
| lanzar |
| 1. v. to throw | |
| El bebé lanzó el juguete con todas sus fuerzas. - The baby threw the toy with all his/her strength. | |
| 2. v. to launch | |
| 3. v. (baseball) to pitch | |
| No pude lidiar con el modo en que lanzaba ese tipo. - I couldn't deal with how that guy pitched. | |
| un |
| 1. art. a | |
| 2. num. (before the noun) apocopic form of uno one | |
| chillido |
| 1. n-m. shriek, screech, squawk, hoot | |
| Y |
| 1. Letter. the 26th letter of the Spanish alphabet | |
| 2. conj. and | |
| 3. conj. (in names of number) and | |
| setenta y seis - seventy-six | |
| 4. conj. (in arithmetic) plus, and | |
| uno y uno son dos - one plus one is two | |
| 5. conj. (informal) well | |
| ¡Y por supuesto! - Well, of course! | |
| 6. conj. (informal) what about, how about, where is/are the | |
| Pero, ¿y el concierto? ¿Ya no vamos? - But what about the concert? Are we not going anymore? | |
| ¿Y la niña? ¿Está a salvo? - How about the girl? Is she safe? | |
| ¿Y los archivos? Debo echarles un vistazo. - Where are the files? I should take a look at them. | |
| retrocedió |
| 1. v. third-person singular preterit indicative of retroceder | |
| retroceder |
| 1. v. to back up, to go back, to step back, to move backward, to shrink back | |
| 2. v. to retreat, to fall back, to recede, to draw back | |
| 3. v. to regress | |
| 4. v. to backtrack | |
| 5. v. to recoil | |
| hacia |
| 1. prep. toward, towards | |
| Сaminaremos hacia el centro de la ciudad. (We'll walk towards the center of the city.) | |
| El cohete se dirige hacia la luna. - The rocket is heading towards the Moon. | |
| el |
| 1. art. (masculine singular definite article); the | |
| 2. art. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed 'a': | |
| el alma, las almas - the soul, the souls | |
| el hacha, las hachas - the axe, the axes | |
| cohete |
| 1. n-m. firecracker | |
| 2. n-m. rocket | |
| 3. n-m. (Mexico, Uruguay) drunkenness | |
| 4. n-m. (San Antonio) pistolGillespie-Duelos, Eduardo. (1975) A Glossary of San Antonio Jargon. American Speech, vol. 50, no. 1/2, 140–142. | |
