(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Phoebe took her coat off the peg by the door before leaving the house.Phoebe tom贸 su abrigo del gancho que est谩 junto a la puerta antes de salir de la casa.
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Sarah leaves the pegs on the clothes line even when there isn't any washing drying.Sarah deja las pinzas en el tendedero a煤n cuando no hay ropa sec谩ndose.
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
The labor organization wants to peg increases in the minimum wage to inflation.La organizaci贸n de trabajadores quiere ajustar los aumentos en el salario m铆nimo a la inflaci贸n.
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
he builds furniture using wooden pegs instead of nailsthe door was always secured by a peg pushed through a metal haspa hair clip, one of those with a peg through a small circle of olive-woodwe make a little bone peg and carve it and plug it into the amputation stumphe had driven in pegs and used a rope to mark off the circlethe noise of the hammer striking the steel pegshammer the pegs in with a malletI carved a tuning peg and strung it with piano wirepegs are placed in all holes on the board except the middlewhen a player moves his pegs to the last and winning hole, the game is overjust crank up your hearing aid a peg or twothis brought the excitement down by several pegsto [use] pegs
to take or bring sb down a peg (or two)bajar los humos or el copete a algn (informal)
he needs taking down a peg or twoit's time he was brought down a peg or twohe probably told them I was out to seduce you, and needed to be brought down a pegsome will thrive on encouragement, others sometimes require taking down a pegif we leaked some of the information we have on him, that would bring him down a peg or two
your coat? - it's hanging on the peg in the hallhis work jacket hung on the peg in the kitchen
off the peg(Britain)confeccionado;de confección;an off-the-peg suitun traje confeccionado or de confección;he always buys clothes off the pegsiempre compra ropa confeccionada or de confección
3(pretext)pretexto (m)
use the new law as a peg for the questionutiliza la nueva ley como pretexto para hacer la pregunta
this latest revelation about her was the peg for the interviewLocke used patriarchy as a peg for his theories on ecclesiastical and political authoritarianism
a peg on which to hang a theoryun punto de apoyo para justificar una teoría
it was just a peg on which to hang personal rivalriesmemory often works better if we think of pegs to hang things onsome issues may be merely pegs on which to hang individual hostilitieshe gives evidence which provides a peg on which all the circumstantial evidence can be hung
transitive verb
1(secure)(gen)fijar;[+clothes][+tent]fijar con estacas;sujetar con estacas
figureheads, which graced ships under the bowsprit, were made in separate sections and pegged togetherhe carves by hand, uses dovetailing and pegged mortise-and-tenon jointsthe Victorian house has slates pegged with nails
(on line)tender
trying to peg a double sheet on a washing line on a blustery dayto peg sth [on] the clothesline
the Bank wants to peg rates at 9%el banco quiere fijar or estabilizar las tasas en el 9%
to peg wage rises to 2%surely it is not too much to peg prescription charges?UK trading profits were pegged at £40milliona decision by the building societies to peg their mortgage rateslower costs and higher profits have helped peg price increases for Northern Electric's customers to 2 per cent
(link)vincular;toa
they continue to peg their currencies to the dollarsiguen vinculando su moneda al dólar
billions of dollars in aid are pegged to reforms in the Soviet economywage rises have been pegged to the rate of inflationafter the 1987 election he attempted to peg the pound unofficially to the markthey'll have to set the rate at which the pound is pegged to the deutschmarka pegged European currencyshe wants maternity payments pegged to the level of statutory sick payto peg European currencies one against another
(categorize)[+person]encasillar
here you're pegged by what you wearaquí te encasillan por la ropa que llevas
I had you pegged from the startin this country, where you're pegged by what you wear, eat, drive and readcertain things will peg you in a certain position
his accent pegged him as an Englishmansu acento lo delataba como inglés
once they peg you as hard to work with, no one wants youI wouldn't have pegged him as a dancer
to peg one's hopes on sthdepositar or cifrar sus esperanzas en algo
anyone who's pegged any hopes at all on a June election will be disappointed
