Ciudad in english

ciudad = city ; town ; county borough ; municipal borough ; burg. 

Example: PSS has nodes in many major cities: users pay ordinary call charges to the nearest node, plus a charge for the use of PSS.Example: Rivers, erosion, towns and glaciers are all phenomena studied by geography.Example: Barnsley itself, a county borough, had at the time of this survey a medium-sized bookshop which had been refitted in 1974 and was well spoken of.Example: Nevertheless, two municipal boroughs, Batley and Castleford, were examples of genuine towns with no bookshops.Example: Townie is in fact a derogatory reference to those who are born and raised in that type of burg or burb, and are assumed to be of inferior intellectual promise.

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» al otro lado de la ciudad = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» arcas de la ciudad, las = city coffers, the .

Example: The fire department was established in 1823 and when there were sufficient funds in the city coffers, the first fire engine was purchased.

» arrasar una ciudad = level + a city .

Example: Kids can use the pliable dough to build all manner of things -- rather than level cities and shoot people -- and they can even eat moderate amounts of it without ending up in the emergency room.

» barrio marginado de la ciudad = inner-city area ; inner-city area .

Example: One of the first initiatives in providing a community information service in a public library took place in a deprived inner-city area.

Example: One of the first initiatives in providing a community information service in a public library took place in a deprived inner-city area.

» barrio pobre del centro de la ciudad = inner-city suburb .

Example: He lived with his mother and two younger sisters in an inner-city suburb and worked as a storeman at a local supermarket.

» barrios pobres del centro de la ciudad = inner city [En los países anglosajones los barrios céntricos se consideran que es donde viven las personas con menos nivel socio-económico] .

Example: Find references to racism in the inner cities.

» calle de la ciudad = city street .

Example: He has became the third athlete to successfully defend their title after a runaway victory around a loop course in the city streets of Daegu.

» casco antiguo de la ciudad, el = the oldest part of the city .

Example: The oldest part of the city is located in an area where the river narrows before opening into an estuary = El casco antiguo de la ciudad se ubica en una zona donde el río se estrecha antes de abrirse al mar en un estuario.

» centro de la ciudad = central city ; downtown ; city centre .

Example: First was a rapid increase in population turnover, marked by a massive movement of whites into the suburbs and a subsequent rise in the number of low-income blacks in the central city.

Example: Shortly after he began as director, he moved the library from a dingy Carnegie mausoleum to a downtown department store that had become vacant.

Example: Use of this library is not still more extensive because those living on the townward side are cut off by an intersecting main road and gravitate naturally to the city centre.

» chica de ciudad = city girl .

Example: It's hard to get the fast-paced high-powered city girl to wear anything other than black and leather.

» chico de ciudad = city kid .

Example: Drew and Myra both grew up in New York, city kids through and through.

» ciudad amurallada = walled city .

Example: Dubrovnik, Croatia, is a walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval times.

» ciudad cosmopolita = cosmopolitan city .

Example: Sydney is a lively city with a vibrant, multicultural landscape making it one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world.

» ciudad costera = beach town ; coastal city ; seaside town .

Example: The novel begins as the heroine leaves Tennessee and settles in a northern Florida beach town, where she gets a job at a souvenir shop during the town's off-season.

Example: A team of archaeologists have unearthed a Greek temple in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria.

Example: Mystery and intrigue have gripped a small seaside town after someone toppled the steeple of the community's 115-year-old Anglican church.

» Ciudad del Cabo = Cape Town .

Example: The article is entitled 'The shift from apartheid to democracy: issues and impacts on public libraries in Cape Town, South Africa'.

» Ciudad del Pecado = Sin City .

Example: Sin City is a bustling, violent metropolis where the police department is as corrupt as the streets are deadly.

» Ciudad del Vaticano, la = Vatican City, the .

Example: The archives of the Vatican City contain valuable sources for historical research.

» ciudad de Nueva York = NYC [New York City] .

Example: I agree yet there are still those hereabouts who think he would be a great NYC mayor.

» ciudad donde viven principalmente jubilados = retirement town [Ciudad que debido a sus condiciones principalmente climáticas o económicas atrae a un gran número de jubilados] .

Example: The study showed that seaside resorts, spas, retirement towns and administrative centres were more likely to have good bookshop than industrial towns.

» ciudad dormitorio = dormitory [Ciudad de reciente creación donde residen los trabajadores de una gran urbe cercana y a donde se regresan después de una jornada intensiva de trabajo] ; commuter town ; bedroom community ; exurb .

Example: This town enjoys a relatively placid existence as a well-appointed dormitory for thousands of commuters to a large metropolitan area of 250,000.

Example: Commuter towns are often built at some distance, sometimes over 100 miles away from a central workplace, often a city, that most residents commute to and from.

Example: Most residents of bedroom communities are gainfully employed in larger cities or work in more developed suburbs nearby.

Example: Many suburbs begin as exurbs, and many exurbs are slowly swallowed up by the suburbs of the regions they neighbor as population growth expands, leading to increased demand for usable land.

» ciudad en auge = boom town .

Example: The most striking manifestation of this exploitation is the boom town, defined as the 'rapid and extreme growth of population in communities adjacent to mines and construction sites,' or as a 'community which is undergoing rapid growth and rapid change'.

» ciudad estado = city state .

Example: As Singapore celebrates 51 years of independence this week, we chart its epic transformation from a colonial backwater into a rich, high-tech city state.

» ciudad eterna, la = Eternal City, the .

Example: Rome has long been known as the Eternal City, was founded with the contribution of a she-wolf and is currently dominated by stray cats!.

» ciudad famosa por el golf = golfing town .

Example: Our journey takes us through the golfing town of Troon, where we will see the championship links course.

» ciudad fortificada = walled city ; fortified town .

Example: Dubrovnik, Croatia, is a walled city, preserved as it existed in medieval times.

Example: The Netherlands has some lovely historical fortified towns which are all worth a visit.

» ciudad fronteriza = frontier municipality .

Example: The authors visited the town library in Comitan and the library in the frontier municipality Las Margeritas.

» ciudad ideal = white picket fence [Expresión utilizada para referirse al concepto semiutópico que hoy día se tiene de que en el pasado las ciudades no padecían de los problemas sociales, de tráfico, de inseguridad, etc. que hoy día padecen] .

Example: This paper explores five scenarios of tomorrow's communities, one of them being a nostalgic return to the romantic notion of the white picket fence.

» ciudad industrial = industrial town ; industrial city .

Example: The overall picture gained from this area analysis was that the hinterlands of the industrial towns were not areas where one could hope to find much in the way of bookshops.

Example: Now a thriving industrial city, it covers 40 square miles, has a population of 78,808, gives employment to 30,500 workers, and distributes an annual payroll of $640.6 million.

» ciudad metropolitana = metropolitan city .

Example: By 2025, seven of ten largest metropolitan cities of the world will be located in Asia.

» ciudad natal = birthplace ; home town ; back home ; home city .

Example: Silicon Valley, the birthplace of multimedia, is still in the forefront of technological change.

Example: It occurred to him that the library might subscribe to his boyhood home town newspaper.

Example: Having entered the next state and a highway off the turnpike, he was amazed by the extraordinary flatness of the land, especially in contrast to the hilly terrain he had grown up with back home.

Example: Lisa Woodman has been banned from every nightclub in her home city for dressing too skimpily.

» ciudad portuaria = port city .

Example: By the early 1700s, Glasgow had become a major port city; in 1770 the Clyde was dredged and jetties built along its banks, allowing larger vessels to dock within the city centre.

» ciudad prohibida, la = forbidden city, the .

Example: It's a little-known fact that cows were domesticated in Mesopotamia and were also used in China as guard animals for the forbidden city.

» ciudad satélite = satellite city .

Example: Their lifestyles have been influenced by the rapid growth of satellite cities around the capital area.

» ciudad universitaria = university town .

Example: What was clear from the analysis was that major population centres such as Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Hull and York (all of which are university towns) had what might be called 'good' bookshop provision.

» convertirse en la ciudad de = become + home to .

Example: This city park has been designed as an ecological preserve for local flora and fauna but has recently become home to about 150 feral dogs.

» convertirse en la ciudad de (uno) = become + the home-from-home of [Sensación de sentirse integrado en un lugar aunque no sea el lugar de origen de uno] .

Example: Now a major centre for all international Arabic newspapers, London has become the home-from-home of the Arab press.

» de fuera de la ciudad = out-of-town .

Example: This newspaper cooperative shares subscriptions to the Sunday editions of 12 out-of-town newspapers.

» del otro lado de la ciudad = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» de otras ciudades = out-of-town .

Example: This newspaper cooperative shares subscriptions to the Sunday editions of 12 out-of-town newspapers.

» destruir una ciudad = level + a city .

Example: Kids can use the pliable dough to build all manner of things -- rather than level cities and shoot people -- and they can even eat moderate amounts of it without ending up in the emergency room.

» de una punta de la ciudad a otra = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» de un extremo de la ciudad a otro = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» de un lado de la ciudad a otro = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» en el centro de la ciudad = downtown .

Example: Shortly after he began as director, he moved the library from a dingy Carnegie mausoleum to a downtown department store that had become vacant.

» en toda la ciudad = all over the city .

Example: We have hundreds of small groups meeting all over the city every day of the week.

» escapada de fin de semana en una ciudad = weekend city break .

Example: Now, in my opinion, no weekend city break would be complete without some form of shopping!.

» espectáculos de la ciudad = local attractions .

Example: All employees can access the intranet where they can find information on the company fitness centre, employee anniversaries, and discount tickets to local attractions.

» gas ciudad = city gas .

Example: Essentially, city gas is a public service, and named such because its usually only available in the city, where its practical to build lines.

» gente de la ciudad = townspeople .

Example: One of the assignments was for students to interview townspeople about their use of the public library.

» habitante de la ciudad = city dweller ; urban dweller ; urban resident ; urbanite ; town dweller ; towner  ; townee [townie/towny]  ; townie [towny/townee] [Término despectivo generalmente usado por los estudiantes universitarios americanos para referirse a los jóvenes de la ciudad donde se ubica la universidad que no estudian en ella] .

Example: A table shows the number of students who passed through the courses during their 5-year existence, and characteristics such as city or country dweller, from public or special library.

Example: Because of the rigidity described earlier the library was not able to respond to the survival and safety/security needs of those who were urban dwellers in the mid twentieth century.

Example: The author discusses his study on 'The Development of Strategies for Dealing with the Information Needs of Urban Residents'.

Example: The rural communities are equally enthusiastic in obtaining information for their daily lives, as are urbanites in facing challenges of the modern world.

Example: Town dwellers, burghers, and tradespeople were considered middle class.

Example: I learned that during the Depression so many towners went to Chicago to find work that the town newspaper had to report on them, and the column had become a tradition.

Example: Townees viewed college students as 'pretty boys', snobby, ignorant of the world, and only book smart.

Example: Townie is in fact a derogatory reference to those who are born and raised in that type of burg or burb, and are assumed to be of inferior intellectual promise.

» hacia el centro de la ciudad = townward .

Example: Use of this library is not still more extensive because those living on the townward side are cut off by an intersecting main road and gravitate naturally to the city centre.

» la ciudad que nunca duerme = the city that never sleeps .

Example: Several cities (New York, Chicago, etc.) have claimed the title of 'the city that never sleeps'.

» las afueras de la ciudad = uptown .

Example: During the early nineteen-thirties, as the city's population moved uptown, so too did many library members.

» luces de la ciudad, las = city lights, the .

Example: Get up in the wee hours of the morning and head out into the country, far from the city lights so you can observe tomorrow's meteor shower.

» plano de la ciudad = street plan ; city map .

Example: Large-scale maps and street plans of the locality and surrounding areas may be consulted, as may current traders' lists and catalogues.

Example: The data were collected by means of city maps and verified through aerial photography.

» por toda la ciudad = citywide [city-wide] ; all over the city .

Example: TIP was promoted citywide through a variety of media including handbills, posters on hoardings and buses, television and radio commercials.

Example: We have hundreds of small groups meeting all over the city every day of the week.

» puerta de la ciudad = city gate .

Example: The bodies of some of the executed were thrown into the sea, while others were dumped, without burial, before the city gates.

» que atraviesa la ciudad = cross-town .

Example: The average speed of cross-town traffic has dropped to 5.2 miles per hour (from 5.6 mph five years ago).

» segunda vivienda en la ciudad = pied-à-terre [Generalmente para personas que viven fuera de ella] .

Example: Get a pied-à-terre in London and an investment too.

» ser la ciudad de = be home to .

Example: This region, known as the Kimberley, has been home to Aborigines for more than 40,000 years.

» vida de la ciudad = urban life ; city life .

Example: Add to that the problems caused by the enormous complexity of urban life in the twentieth century.

Example: In South Africa's rapidly urbanizing society, many individuals are unable to cope with the demands of modern city life.

» visita por la ciudad = city tour .

Example: This city tour will end at the TV tower of Berlin to watch the colours of the city changing when the sun sets while enjoying a glass of German sparkling wine.

» zona deprimida del centro de la ciudad = inner city [En los países anglosajones los barrios céntricos se consideran que es donde viven las personas con menos nivel socio-económico] .

Example: Find references to racism in the inner cities.