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11 de nov. de 2005 · New Member. Valparaíso. Chile, Spanish. Nov 11, 2005. #1. Hola a todos, quisiera confirmar la diferencia entre food chain y food web Food chain: cadena alimentaria (o alimenticia) Food web: red trófica (conjunto de relaciones entre las cadenas alimentarias, según RAE) Saludos ^_^.
12 de oct. de 2009 · Banned. Chain stopper - estopor. Estopor es un mecanismo intercalado entre el cabrestante del ancla y el escobén a fin de evitar el movimiento de la cadena. Aparato colocado en cubierta que sirve para frenar la cadena del ancla. estopor. (Del fr. stoppeur, que detiene). 1. m. Mar. Aparato de hierro que sirve para morder y detener a voluntad la ...
28 de dic. de 2020 · It's off the charts It's off the chain Do these expressions have the same meaning or is there a slight difference ?
4 de dic. de 2013 · American English. Dec 4, 2013. #2. You can certainly use shackles, or handcuffs, to secure both an individual's hands (or feet) to something. The verb "shackle" does not, however, always mean "confine with shackles;" as the dictionary here points out, it can also mean "confine as if by shackles," which could be accomplished with a chain.
3 de nov. de 2010 · Italy, Italian. Nov 3, 2010. #1. Hello everyone, I found this expression several times, and I figured it must be some AE idiom used in office work areas, the context is talking about work in a department, inside a big organization. The sentence are. "called in by the boss tor review a passionless memo heading 'up the chian'".
4 de abr. de 2022 · from a post of someone else's the whole paragraph is "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured. i realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, i was still free: free to hate ...
27 de ene. de 2014 · Spanish. Jan 27, 2014. #3. Yes, it is military. A commander is informed of an attack and he sais that he needs confirmation because he can't take that up the chain. Thanks!
8 de jun. de 2007 · Tirar/jalar la cadena. The reason why we say "cadena" (chain in Eng.) is because the first toilets used to have the water tank above one's head and to get it to work, there was a chain attached to the mechanism that you had to pull on in order for some sort of bell-like device to create vacuum in the water-filled tank,which ultimately forced the water downwards to flush the toilet, with real ...
There are several owners in "a chain" buying and selling houses. Often, the person buying a house is waiting for someone to buy his/her house, someone is waiting for clearance of a mortgage, someone else is waiting for survey etc. etc. All these factors can delay the sales and purchases in a "chain" of people.
11 de abr. de 2006 · Yo entiendo "ball and chain" como "esposo-esposa", usada mucho más para la esposa que para el marido, pero sí en el sentido de cortarle a uno las alas. Parecido a los chistes que enlazan "esposas" con "esposa". Me sabe un poco a los humoristas de "slapstick", como por ejemplo él (no recuerdo su nombre de momento, que decía, "Take my wife.
