Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

furoya
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Position	2	2
Accepted meanings	15147	2
Obtained votes	88	2
Votes by meaning	0.01	7
Inquiries	435082	3
Queries by meaning	29	7
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deseo: 1º_ Feeling for which you crave or crave something, it is used as a (almost) euphemism for the "sexual impulse". 2º_ Inflection of the verb to wish. See verbs/desire .
jarte: 1º_ It is a regional version (as for some Caribbean countries) of "harte" as "tiredness, satiety", and also as "drink, drunkenness". 2º_ Inflection of the verb jartar ("to get tired, to annoy") . See verbs/jarte .
remedio: 1º_ It is a resource to amend, correct, repair an error, an evil or a damage. It is especially used as a synonym for medicine ("medicine"). 2º_ It is the agreed difference between the legal value of a currency and its cash value. 3º_ Inflection of the verb to remedy . See verbs/remedy .
machaca: 1º_ Common name of the insect Fulgora laternaria . See peanut jupa. 2º_ Inflection of the verb crush ("to hit repeatedly to crush or knead something"). It is also used figuratively. See verbs/machaca . 3º_ For the previous one, tool to crush, person who insists or repeats something.
brillo: 1º_ Luminosity emitted or reflected by a body. 2º_ Figuratively, "shine", for something or someone who stands out from his environment. 3º_ Inflection of the verb to shine. See verbs/brightness .
chalé: 1º_ It is a type of single-family house, one or two floors surrounded by a garden. The name is the Castilianization of the Swiss French chalet ("rural housing of shepherds") which is also used in Spanish. 2º_ Inflection of the verb chalar . See verbs/chalet .
gollete: Throat, neck, especially the top near the head. By extension it is said of ornaments in clothing that are put on the neck. By comparison, the neck of bottles, amphorae, or similar shapes. From the French goulet ("narrow passage").
pollete: Diminutive or derogatory chicken, especially when it is small in size. For some mistake see poyete ("diminutive of poyo").
triplete: 1º_ Stroke of luck with three hits, or three victories in competitions. See doublet . 2º_ In genetics it is an RNA sequence with three nucleotides. 3º_ In spectrography it is a triple spectral line that appears in a study.
doblete: Augmentative variant of the word "double" with specific uses, as in sports by "two hits, trumps or so many in a row", in linguistics by "two words derived from a common etym", in physics by "a dipole or pair of magnetic fields of opposite signs", . . . See bimembración, triplet .
burrete: 1º_ Contemptuous of donkey (animal) . 2º_ Another way to call the easel (support). 3º_ In some regions of Spain it is a common name for the fish Trigla lucerne.
purrete: In lunfardo rioplatense is a "child, young man". One theory about the origin is in the Latin word puer, pueris ("child, infant") the diminutive or derogatory suffix -ete, although it must have reached America through a variant in Romance language.
burlete: It is a strip of soft material that is placed on the edges of doors and windows so that when closing them it fits and does not pass air through the cracks. The name comes from the French bourrelet which is a diminutive of bourre ("hair or wool for filling") and has a Latin origin in donkey, ae ("wool fabric coats").
filete: 1º_ Fish market or cut of meat that can be of several animals, for cooking. 2º_ In architecture it is another name for the listel ("molding in the columns"). 3º_ Name of a type of herd for the horse's muzzle. 4º_ Derogatory or diminutive of thread or edge. 5º_ For the previous one, decorative lines in the form of threads or cords in painting, engraving, printing. 6º_ For the previous one, "fileteado", artistic design porteño, traditional in Buenos Aires (Argentina).
longevo: Adjective like "elderly, of much lived age". Spanish takes it from the Latin longaevus, a, um, formed by longus, a, um ("long, size") aevum, i ("time of life").
hiato: It is a separation, a hollow, a void, but it has very specific uses in Spanish. Colloquially "to have a hiatus" is "to have a lapse, to go blank for a moment". For anatomy it is a cleft, such as in the mouth or vulva. In language and its metric is the separation of vowels joined by a diphthong into different syllables. It is commonly used in poetry to lengthen a verse and is marked with a tilde on a weak vowel. The name is of Latin origin for hiatus, us ("interruption, cut"), which comes from hio, as, are ("to cleave, open, crack").
tripartito: It is divided into three parts. It is of Latin origin where tri- is an alteration of ter- ("of three") and partitus is "party, distributed". For a group formed of three parts is preferable trio , terceto , triumvirate .
esclusa: 1º_ Gate that separates or isolates two environments or chambers with different characteristics, the most common case occurs in the locks of the dikes or navigable channels, where sections with different water levels are divided. It comes from the Latin ex ("outward") clusus, a, um ("closed with lock"). 2º_ Name in Spanish of the Flemish coastal town of Sluys ("Netherlands"), which in French means 'lock'.
excremento: Residue of a process, is said especially when it is from digestion. It is a word of Latin origin formed by ex- ("out of") and an ancient interpretation of cretum, not as the passive verb "understood" but as "screening", for separating garbage or waste. See incriminate .
vexilo: Banner, specifically in botany for the upper petals of some flowers or in zoology for the beards on the sides of feathers. It comes from the Latin vexillum , i ("small cloth candle, like a pennant or banner"). See vexillology, barbula.