Vaga in english
Vaga
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
pronunciation: none part of speech: none
In gestures
vagar = bob about ; meander ; roam (about/around) ; range ; wander ; drift off ; rove ; maunder.
Example: 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.Example: They are mixed up as the talk meanders about, apparently without conscious pattern.Example: Unless children are given time to roam about unhindered among books of many kinds, left alone to choose for themselves, and to do what any avid adult reader does, then maybe we labor in vain.Example: We will be bringing scholars from all over the world both to range widely in our multiform collections and put things together rather than just take them apart.Example: The article is entitled 'Wandering the Web: further developments on the global information bazaar'.Example: The study loses track of its argument at times and drifts off into analyses of the peacemaking process that are not relevant.Example: The production is extremely lively: Wandering musicians rove the tiny stage and aisles, competing with birdsong and baroque concertos over the tannoy.Example: For two weeks now he had been maundering around the woods, dejectedly shooting anything that moved.more:
» vagar como alma en pena = wander (a)round like + a lost soul ; walk (a)round like + a lost soul .
Example: The first winter after her death he wandered around like a lost soul, not interested in anything or anybody. Example: He walked around like a lost soul, trying to remember things.» vagar libremente = roam + free .
Example: While in traditional working society, everybody was kept busy, and out of trouble, a leisured society would be one in which people roamed free and unfettered, and capable of absolutely anything.vago1 = slacker ; bum ; lazybones ; layabout ; idler ; lounger ; thumb twiddler.
Example: The article is entitled 'No slackers here: SLA's youngest members have the vision and enthusiasm to shape the profession'.Example: Although the results provide support for the 'drunken bum' theory of wife beating, they also demythologize the stereotype because alcohol is shown to be far from a necessary or sufficient cause of wife abuse.Example: Many see his art as a vocation for lazybones and social misfits.Example: There is no evidence that inherited wealth is in itself responsible for turning young people into useless layabouts.Example: This magazine prints essays and stories that celebrate the joyful life of an idler.Example: So which one of us will be the first one who gets fired because of being a lounger?.Example: Lincoln was not a thumb twiddler like his predecessor in the White House, James Buchanan.more:
» persona vaga y mal vestida = slob .
Example: It's laughable when Archie Bunker says that, because we know he's an uneducated slob.vago2 = dim ; fuzzy ; vague ; feeble ; loose ; wooly ; indistinct ; indistinctive ; nebulous ; crude ; shadowy ; wispy .
Example: The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.Example: This is a rather fuzzy basis for establishing subject headings, but fuzziness is not the guidelines only fault.Example: Some of the terms are vague.Example: Mearns warns us, 'Recollection is treacherous; it is usually too broad or too narrow for another's use; and what is more serious, it is frequently undependable and worn and feeble'.Example: Kast points out that there is a 'rather loose, conglomeration of interests and approaches' in this developing field.Example: On the other side, some aspects of the planning study remains wooly.Example: The typescript will be fuzzy and indistinct without the smooth, firm surface which the backing sheet offers.Example: This research suggests that people are threatened by categorizations that portray them as too distinctive or too indistinctive.Example: The concept of such a center remained nebulous at best, and we later learned that communication problems early on had muddied the message about what was really needed.Example: Keywords or indexing terms may serve as a crude indicator of subject scope of a document.Example: It was there that my husband about jumped out of his skin when he saw a shadowy figure suddenly dart out of the kitchen.Example: The creatures who dwell there are translucent and ethereal, nothing more than wispy recollections of human beings.more:
» dar una idea vaga = give + a vague idea .
Example: The floor plan gives a vague idea of how the house will look like once complete.» de manera vaga = hazily .
Example: Such detail helps speed our response to both the extremely detailed requirements of researchers and the sometimes hazily expressed demands of students.» haber (una) vaga(s) posibilidad(es) de que = there + be + a slim chance that ; there + be + a faint chance that .
Example: But there was a slim chance that Kyle the perpetually smarmy had actually heard something useful. Example: The forecast was not very encouraging, yet there was a faint chance that there could be a little break in the gloomy weather in the afternoon.» haber (una) vaga(s) probabilidad(es) de que = there + be + a slim chance that ; there + be + a faint chance that .
Example: But there was a slim chance that Kyle the perpetually smarmy had actually heard something useful. Example: The forecast was not very encouraging, yet there was a faint chance that there could be a little break in the gloomy weather in the afternoon.» tener una idea vaga = have + a vague idea ; get + a vague idea .
Example: She does not communicate with me so I only have a vague idea as to how I can help. Example: After a great deal of hard work he will at last get a vague idea of what it all means.» vaga probabilidad = slim chance ; faint chance .
Example: The article 'Slim chance for ethnic funding' explains how funding for library projects to provide assistance to ethnic minorities has almost dried up. Example: Manchester City remains 12 points behind league-leading Manchester United, with a faint chance of catching them for the league title.vago3 = lazy ; slack.
Example: It is most likely to occur when a supervisor is careless or lazy about the rating or does not know the worker well.Example: I left a message on the landlord's answerphone, but he's such a slack bastard I'd better try harder to hunt him down.more:
» ojo vago = lazy eye .
Example: A lazy eye, technically referred to as amblyopia, means that one eye has not developed normally and always has blurred vision, even with the best glasses the eye doctor can prescribe.