plant

planta baja — ground o (EEUU) first floor

asentar sus plantas en — iró to install o.s. in

planta potabilizadora — waterworks sing, water treatment plant

primera/tercera planta — second/fourth floor (AmE), first/third floor (BrE)

primera/tercera planta — second/fourth floor (AmE), first/third floor (BrE)

Ex: Concepts which denote parts of a plant, eg leaf, flower, etc, are also Personality concepts.

Ex: The library, which is of split-level design on 2 floors, includes a lending collection, children's library, study area, and audio-visual section.

Ex: The author describes the approach and its application to 2 different processes: coffee roasting and decaffeination in a Nestle plant.

le plantó sus cosas en mitad de la calle — * she dumped his things in the middle of the street *

plantar una bofetada a algn — to slap sb *

plantó sus estudios y se marchó a Francia — he packed o chucked in his studies and went to France *

los invité a cenar y me plantaron — I invited them to dinner but they didn't turn o show up

lo planté en la calle — I threw o (colloq) chucked him out

fue y plantó su silla delante del televisor — she went and plonked o stuck her chair right in front of the television (colloq)

se plantó delante de la puerta — he planted himself in front of the door (colloq)

se plantó en su actitud — he dug his heels in (colloq)

se plantó aquí con tres amigas — she turned o showed up here with three friends

los invité a cenar y me plantaron — I invited them to dinner but they didn't turn o show up

lo planté en la calle — I threw o (colloq) chucked him out

fue y plantó su silla delante del televisor — she went and plonked o stuck her chair right in front of the television (colloq)

se plantó delante de la puerta — he planted himself in front of the door (colloq)

se plantó en su actitud — he dug his heels in (colloq)

se plantó aquí con tres amigas — she turned o showed up here with three friends

Ex: The article is entitled 'To everything there is a season...a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted: a life-cycle analysis of education for librarianship'.

Ex: A book for instance on ' vegetable gardening' may contain equally valuable information on 'growing tomatoes' as a book devoted entirely to 'growing tomatoes'.

Ex: A thesaurus might advise the searcher that the following alternative terms might prove fruitful: factories and other more specific terms, e.g. Printing works.

sembrar un campo de nabos — to sow o plant a field with turnips

sembrar minas en un estrecho, sembrar un estrecho de minas — (Náut) to mine a strait, lay mines in a strait

sembrar el pánico — to spread panic, sow panic liter

sembrar algo DE algo — de flores/papeles strewn o covered with something

sembrar algo DE algo — de flores/papeles strewn o covered with something

Ex: The same spelling is sometimes used for different words, which may or may not be pronounced the same, eg sow and sow, China and china.

Ex: Castor-oil plants are monoecious, with separate female and male flowers on the same plant.

depuradora de aguas residuales — sewage plant o farm

Ex: It was a dozen years later that the first central electric power station was built; a decade was to pass before the automobile was invented, and nearly three decades before the first airplane flew.

el personaje central de la novela — the central o main character in the novel

central de abasto — Méx market

central azucarera — Cuba, Perú sugar mill

central depuradora — sewage works pl

Ex: As the pointer moves, its potential is varied in accordance with a varying electrical current received over wires from a distant station.

Ex: Informative abstracts are appropriate for texts describing experimental work, and document with a central theme.

Ex: The article 'Fruit of the vine: world wine magazines' evaluates the wine journals of the world.

camión frigorífico — refrigerator lorry, refrigerator truck (EEUU)

Ex: When removed from the sink the items were left to drain off for half an hour at room temperature, then packaged in polythene in separate bundles and placed in a domestic refrigerator for 7 weeks.

Ex: The appearance of a cafeteria worker to re-fill the salt and pepper shakers tilted her out of her fantasy.

mata de coco — Caribe coconut palm

mata de plátano — Caribe banana tree