Confundir in english
Confuse
pronunciation: kənfjuz part of speech: verb
pronunciation: kənfjuz part of speech: verb
In gestures
confundirse = get + confused ; get + Posesivo + wires crossed.
Example: You'll be amazed at how many student pilots get confused or don't really understand the proper procedure for taxiing while in a crosswind.Example: What I tried to put across to her was that she was getting her wires crossed between cause and effect.confundir = confound ; puzzle ; baffle ; perplex ; cloud ; muddle ; obfuscate ; snarl up ; nonplus ; obnubilate ; vex ; flummox ; befuddle ; fuddle ; fox ; mix up.
Example: To treat these reports differently only because some are serial and the others are monographic in form is to play havoc with the integrity of the catalog and to confound its users.Example: The repetition of the author's name introduces new esoteric punctuation which is bound to puzzle the catalog user.Example: As the domain expands, the problem of rule formalisation may even baffle a human expert.Example: If when you are working you come across a problem which perplexes you, you should write to someone in the field who may be able to help you.Example: Whilst library schools should continue to concentrate upon traditional priorities and the obsession with machines and techniques should not cloud those priorities.Example: But even when valid averages and unit costs are examined, Simpson's Paradox can arise to muddle expectations.Example: Just because the facts don't support his views, he threatens, slanders, lies, obfuscates and charges 'lies, hypocrisy and cruelty'.Example: If all goes as usual, it will snow approximately one inch and completely snarl up traffic until melted.Example: The spectacle in front of Bertie was enough to nonplus anyone -- Gussie in scarlet tights and a pretty frightful false beard.Example: Fourniret is a dangerous man obnubilated by the phantasm of virginity.Example: The gossip this weekend was that he has even been vexed by the problem of how to remove wild rabbits from the racing circuit before the Queen's visit.Example: While a lot of humans are quick to say they love dogs, there are just as many who feel totally flummoxed by their dog's behavior.Example: She befuddled her companions at her remarkable ability to pack two weeks of clothing -- including formal wear -- into a single suitcase.Example: She wanted a clear head, but lack of sleep had fuddled her brain.Example: Ocean energy has foxed the best minds in engineering, but one investor thinks he can crack it.Example: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.more:
» confundir (con) = confuse (with) .
Example: The genus/species relationship must not be confused with other types of relationship such as those between a thing and its properties or between a thing and an operation.» confundir con = mistake + Nombre + for .
Example: Man says he was beaten after running from plain-clothes cop he mistook for a robber.» confundir las diferencias entre = blur + the boundaries between .
Example: Computing, word processing and communications technology will blur the boundaries between these components of the chain.» confundir la situación = cloud + the view ; cloud + the picture .
Example: The author stresses the need to distinguish between fact and opinion and to make explicit all sorts of assumptions and vaguenesses that tend to cloud the view. Example: The complexities inherent in Canadian studies cloud the collection development picture and obscure the appropriate direction to take.» confundir la velocidad con el tocino = one thing + have + nothing to do with the other .
Example: But one thing has nothing to do with the other -- just because he wears eye make up it has nothing to do with him not being masculine.» confundir los límites entre = blur + the boundaries between .
Example: Computing, word processing and communications technology will blur the boundaries between these components of the chain.» confundir los medios con el fin = confuse + the means with the ends .
Example: The issues, it seems to me, are in technology; for example, too often being too close to the operation, one tends to confuse the means with the end.» confundir los papeles = blur + roles .
Example: Recent developments in information technology and networking have, in some ways, blurred the roles of these 2 entities.» confundir + Nombre + por + Nombre = mistake + Nombre + for + Nombre .
Example: In these circumstances it is easy to relapse into 'scientism' and mistake means for ends = En estas circunstancias es fácil reaer en el "cientifismo" y confundir los medios por los fines.» confundirse = get + confused ; get + Posesivo + wires crossed .
Example: You'll be amazed at how many student pilots get confused or don't really understand the proper procedure for taxiing while in a crosswind. Example: What I tried to put across to her was that she was getting her wires crossed between cause and effect.» para confundir aun más las cosas = to add to the confusion .
Example: To add to the confusion, other researchers have detected pleasure-sensing regions in a completely different part of the brain and that dopamine is not responsible for the pleasure response.» que confunde = confounding .
Example: The need to control for the effect of confounding variables is central to empirical research in many disciplines.