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earth / la Tierra
earth
A. -noun
1. (=the world)
·(the) Earth
·la Tierra
·here [on] earth
·en este mundo
a. she looks like [nothing] on earth * está hecha un desastre
·it tasted like nothing on earth
*
(=good) sabía de maravilla *
(=bad) sabía a rayos *
·nothing on earth would make me do it
·no lo haría por nada del mundo
·nothing on earth will stop me now
·no lo dejo ahora por nada del mundo
b. [what]/[where]/[who] on earth ...? * ¿qué/dónde/quiénoun demonios or diablos ...?
·what on earth are you doing here?
·¿qué demonios or diablos haces aquí?
c. [why] on earth do it now? = ¿por qué demonios or diablos vamos a hacerlo ahora?
d. to [come down] to earth volver a la realidad
e. it must have [cost] the earth! * ¡te habrá costado un ojo de la cara!
f. to [promise] the earth prometer el oro y el moro
2. (=ground) tierra (f), suelo (m)
(=soil) tierra (f)
·to fall to earth
·caer al suelo
3. [of fox] madriguera (f), guarida (f)
b. to [go] to earth
[fox] meterse en su madriguera
[person] esconderse, refugiarse
c. to [run] to earth
[+animal] cazar or atrapar en su guarida
[+person] perseguir y encontrar
4. (electricity) toma (f) de tierra, tierra (f)
B. -transitive verb (electricity)
[+apparatus] conectar a tierra
C. -compound
·earth cable
·earth lead -noun cable (m) de toma de tierra
·earth mother -noun (mythology) la madre tierra *
(=woman) venus (f)
·earth sciences -noun plural ciencias concernientes a la Tierra
(=geology) geología (f)
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged and Audio Headword Pronunciation (Spanish) 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. 1971,1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992,1993,1996,1997,2000,2003,2005.
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