In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
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(support)abrazadera femenino- They were shackled to the metal braces of the building brace.
- Nail in the braces with 6 or 8-penny common nails; drive the nails halfway down so you can remove them easily later on.
- Attach braces to table top with 4-inch screws from below.
- For large repairs, build a wooden form and hold it in place with wooden braces, bricks, concrete blocks, or similar heavy objects.
- Once you have it exact, nail some temporary cross braces from the ledger to the joists at an angle to keep the joists in place.
- You may also consider installing poles across a portion of the ceiling for hanging plants, or employing wall braces.
- A short, stout man, solidly built like a timber brace came out the big tent with a flourish.
- Reposition the fabric-covered cornice and reattach the braces to the cornice.
- Apply a bead of sealant on the backsplash, push the counter against the wall, and attach the top from below with screws installed through cabinet corner braces.
- If diagonal braces are attached to the window to keep it square, leave these in place until the window is installed.
- All members with the exception of the collar ties and wind braces are mortised and tenoned together with long tapered pins that secure the joints.
- Place the cornice against the wall so it fits around the braces you installed when making the cornice.
- Moonlight spilled from the tower's crosshatched iron braces and, pooling at the foot of the steps, seemed to invite me up.
- Stiffening in the other vertical plane is added by diagonal braces between the lattice girders on both gable walls.
- When building the legs and braces that support your workbench, don't use finished lumber!
- The gable braces along the exterior and the trim around all the windows help define the house.
- In addition buy a package of four corner braces.
- Again, two crossbeams with camel's hump-shaped braces support the roof truss, and there is no king post.
- Once the cap plate is in place you can remove the temporary braces.
- Complete the main frame by adding the two handle braces, the plywood floor, the roost bar and the nest box.
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Medicinaaparato ortopédico masculino- As the paramedics lifted his body onto the stretcher and applied a neck brace Kim was held back by the police.
- Mr Hill was shaking with shock and reaction and taken to hospital with a neck brace, though doctors later decided he had no broken bones.
- Emergency crews had to fit a neck brace to the injured woman and push the Cavalier back on to its wheels before she could be rescued.
- He called 911 and they came immediately, placing a brace around my neck and put my lifeless body on a board.
- He is expected to wear a neck brace for six to 12 weeks and his physical therapy will begin after he recovers from the concussion and neck injury.
- Nutritional supplements, braces, exercise, medication, and heel wedges are some of the new treatments available, according to the release.
- There can be problems with the length of time your child is required to wear the brace and the embarrassment it may cause.
- Many children with cerebral palsy have problems that are in the middle range of severity and may need ongoing therapy and devices such as braces or wheelchairs.
- Pain medicines, back braces, and physical therapy may also be used.
- Mild cases of CSM can be treated with neck braces or neck traction, but it's not clear if these treatments help in the long run.
- The teenager was seen lying on the ground not moving and wearing a neck brace before ambulance crews took him away.
- There's a role for braces and other supporting devices when rehabilitating an injury.
- Wearing a neck brace because of chronic back pain, Anwar walked into his home with dozens of police and prison guards.
- Traditional and conservative treatments include bed rest, ice followed by heat therapy, medication regimens, braces, and physical therapy.
- I suddenly remembered my fall as they placed a neck brace on me, then my body on a backboard.
- McAllan, who has just returned to the sport after being out for nearly a year following knee surgery, will spend the next six weeks in a body brace.
- Knee braces are supports that you wear for a painful or injured knee.
- I had a halo brace fitted to my body basically, which resembled a human building site for about six weeks.
- Roberta had been using the laptop during the school day to help her with her work because of a medical condition which forces her to wear a body brace and restricts her ability to write at a desk.
- Specialist equipment such as splints, callipers and braces can help with paralysis and contractures.
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Odontologíaaparato masculinoaparatos masculinobrackets masculinofrenos masculinofierros masculino México Perúfrenillos masculino América Latina4
(drill)berbiquí masculinobrace and bit — berbiquí y barrena- The head on the bit braces should be mounted on the ball bearing so it will turn easier from the rest of the brace.
- A Hudson brace and Gigli saw are used to perform a basic craniotomy, and the cost of these items is minimal compared to the cost of a power drill.
- The tool also includes a means for rotating the cutting edge, usually using a brace or bit stock, a wrench, or a handle.
- As with so many other pre-nineteenth century tools, we have much to learn about early braces, their designs, and their fabrication.
- He presented a broad overview of bit history and discussed many types of boring tools for the brace, including several types of bits.
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BritanicoIndumentariatirantes masculinocargaderas femenino Colombiatiradores masculino Río de la Platasuspensores masculino Chile- Then the scene changed to an office where a fat black police chief in shirt sleeves and braces was holding a polystyrene cup of coffee and cursing to himself.
- He's smiling, comfortable, in his sixties - wearing a whiter-than-white shirt, black braces looped over his shoulders.
- He's wearing a white shirt with a stiff collar, black trousers with braces, and dancing shoes with leather spats.
- On the door was a man who looked like he was trying to emulate a 30s movie star - blue suit, very high pulled up trousers with red braces, round thick rimmed glasses, bald.
- He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
- He joked: ‘When I bought my new suit I needed braces to keep the trousers up - now they keep themselves up because I have put on a stone and a half.’
- It was the heady days of the late 1980s, the days of sharp suits, slicked back hair and red braces over striped shirts.
- It goes beyond the cliche of the braces and striped shirts to expose a dangerous and compelling side to the world of international futures trading.
- Visit the store and you will find a wide range of shirts, socks, belts and braces to go with the trousers.
- Half a dozen elderly men with huge trousers and big braces watched avidly, but with little emotion.
- I passed an old man wearing cloth cap and braces and riding a totally rusted bike.
- He wore a bowler hat, white shirt, trousers and braces like the main character and would become aggressive and menacing when he played the film music.
- He is a typical city boy, red braces, no socks and plenty of arrogance.
- There were bowler hats, striped shirts, braces, dress-suits and stilettos jostling past us on all species of worker, all entirely intent on their destination.
- The display cabinets house socks, handkerchiefs, underwear, braces, belts - I am sure there are drawers and drawers of treasures beneath hiding away.
- At work he wears tailor-made suits, smart shirts and braces.
- Farm labourers stand on top of the thrashing machine in shirt sleeves and braces, waiting for work to begin.
- The tight fitting black and white clothing is quite the opposite of the clowns colourful baggy trousers with braces, and giant floppy shoes.
- Today I went into town to purchase a pair of braces (the ones I got are in red) for a 4 year old.
- R.L. comes lumbering out onto the porch, looking old and tired, wearing mud-smeared trousers held up with braces and a checked shirt fraying at the collar.
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Britanico(pair)par masculinothey took home two brace of pheasant — cobraron dos pares de faisanes- The gap was still one hole at the turn, after a brace of deuces at the short ninth from Westwood and Haas.
- There's only one good way to cook a brace of coneys.
- A brace of ptarmigan flutter away for dear life.
- Ketheral looked around the inside of the armory, picked up a chainwhip, a normal whip, a brace of throwing knives, and a couple of shields.
- Having shown good pace all weekend, the speedy young Malaysian was understandably disappointed to come away from Thruxton with just a brace of 11 th place finishes.
- Kieran O'Callaghan added a brace of points, but Monaleen were determined to have the last say, with Pat Carroll and Dave McAuliffe finding their range.
- The morning after he is nominated for a brace of Oscars (script and direction) for Vera Drake, Mike Leigh is holed up in an unremarkable office in a London side street.
- There was a brace of hot, salty little birds to pick up and chew.
- Early January also saw the birth of a brace of goats and a couple of antelopes.
- The 31-year-old scored a brace of goals two seasons ago as Blues completed the double over their bitter rivals.
- While Breen, fresh from a brace of wins last weekend, made the seven-horse jump-off, two down with Old Town Katie ensured he did not augment his points tally.
- She took Wolf's arm and inserted herself into a file of carts, getting in front of a brace of mules whose driver cursed her, but whose whip was too short to reach her neck.
- I had a pretty dinner for them, viz. a brace of stewed carp, six roast chickens and a jowl of hot salmon.
- Among the groups and couples were a brace of men eating in appreciative silence at tables for one - something I've always thought is a sign of a top kitchen.
- A brace of £60,000 races highlight a cracking card at Haydock, where Time Ahead will surely take all the beating in the bet 365 Lancashire Oaks.
- The saloon deck was a Noah's Ark of Labradorians: there were Celts two by two, pairs of Indians, a brace of hunters and thick, hot knots of Inuit and icemen.
- The only other possible impediment to romping home with a brace of seats in the next general election would be if they were to be generally held responsible for the collapse of the peace process.
- Fishing a groundbait feeder, and alternating worm and red maggot hookbaits, he took a brace of skimmers plus three roach for his winning 3lb 15 oz.
- Writing throughout his sideman career, the guitarist found himself with a brace of songs that reflected not only his love of rock, but also his interest in other types of music.
- Take one unpopular president, a brace of struggling statesmen and a couple of global summits.
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Imprentallave femeninocorchete redondo masculino- Whatever you choose, put the appropriate word between curly braces.
- These breaksite hotspot clusters are indicated by braces in Fig 3.
- Seldom used in ordinary writing, brace or curly brackets are common in mathematics and other formulaic usage, where they serve to enclose complex sets of symbols.
- This is shown in Figure 7 with the brace indicating the route segment with shorter signpost spacings.
- Chapter 1 covers what a LaTeX command does - the meaning of all those backslashes and curly braces.
- The 10 proposed novel evolutionary groups are indicated by braces to the right of the groups.
- Note that parentheses indicate faces, whereas braces indicate forms.
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1.1(support)
apuntalar- A tilt-up concrete shear wall braces a wood-frame structure, and a steel frame supports the cantilever.
- Samyn's lightweight version is braced by a network of tensile cables.
- The channels are braced back to the structure with aluminum clips where required to resist wind pressure.
- Columns are attached to the walls by a system of horizontal tensile wires, so as to brace the entire structure against earthquake forces.
- The grid acts as stiffening element, bracing the structure against seismic forces.
- The post and lintel were just frames for a set of double door gates wrought of thick lumber and braced with iron.
- Possibly because of its reduced width, the jaw apparatus is more strongly braced in the center.
- The Duramount is a laminate mounted onto a smooth, thin board which is then braced with a sturdy, lightweight wood frame on the back.
- Can the furniture be used in the fight (and if so, must it be braced or reinforced?)
- The piles were tarred ironbark and the beams were kauri with iron brackets to brace them.
- The frame is braced with a steel support to preserve its integrity, and then the destructive fun begins.
- To support the areas with higher slab thicknesses, additional MEP gates were used to brace the post shores so they could be charged with higher loads.
- Weak corner joints may be braced with angle irons, and triangles of wood.
- Full-height, double-glazed sheets brace the structure and barely divide interior from exterior.
- Angled legs prevent the arch from flattening and the structure is further braced by four cross frames which also accommodate cross walls.
- It is much stronger than the rest of the hull, often reinforced with extra ribs bracing the inside.
- Light seismic frames brace the existing concrete structure with minimal disruption of the original space or the soil below.
1.2(place firmly)
(foot/hand) afirmar(foot/hand) apoyar- The world spun as he staggered to his feet, braced himself on a post, and tried his utmost to shake off his daze.
- Additionally, the stirrups can be useful before the impact, to brace the rider more firmly against the cantle.
- Rose of Sharon braced her body against the movements of the car in an effort to protect her fetus.
- An afternoon spent in the Landmannalaugar region of Iceland involved bracing myself against a strong wind.
- With your right arm, grasp the dumbbell with an overhand grip and place your left hand firmly on your left thigh to brace your upper body.
- He braced his shaking body against the wall and forced his legs to defy gravity and support him one last time.
- He went to the table and braced himself, palms flat against the rough wood.
- Her legs were in a ridiculous bunch at the edge of her bed, while her arms groped blindly for a sturdy surface to brace her body.
- He braced his body to stand as he got up, and his asleep leg almost buckled underneath him, but his hand found the wall just in time.
- By twisting her body and bracing her legs to counteract the momentum, she barely managed to prevent herself from falling face-first onto the hard, grimy pavement.
- For preacher curls, my body is braced in position, so I don't use body motion.
- He spread his legs and braced his feet in the sand to stay upright.
- The top of the pillar was about chest length and I braced a trembling hand flat on the surface before putting the other one next to it.
- He stumbled and only saved himself from falling down a second time by bracing himself on the alley wall.
- I suggest he brace his leg against the wall so he doesn't fall over on the turn.
- Your form will be challenged because only one side of your body is performing the movements, while the other side is in a very different position, bracing your body.
- Above him was the strong willow's branch, he braced his feet against the trunk behind him, and pushed.
- He braced his legs and stood up as the rush began.
- She stood with her hands braced firmly on her hips.
- Sit in the machine with your back braced against the support and your feet placed under the cushions.
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Odontologíahe had his teeth braced — le pusieron frenillos (en los dientes) Chile
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to brace oneself for sth — prepararse para algo- brace yourself, John won the prize — agárrate, John se ganó el premio
verbo intransitivo
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prepararseto brace for sth — prepararse para algo
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