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A feminine noun is almost always used with feminine articles and adjectives (e.g. la mujer bonita, la luna llena).
feminine noun 1. (tool)
a. shovel Necesito una pala más grande para quitar la nieve de la puerta. I need a bigger shovel to remove the snow from the doorway.
b. spade ¿Dónde está la pala para cavar en el huerto? Where's the garden spade?
c. dustpan (used with a broom or brush)
Regionalism used in Latin America: all the countries in South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Does not include Spain.
(Latin America) Tendrás que utilizar el cepillo y la pala para barrer porque la aspiradora no funciona. You'll have to use the broom and dustpan to sweep up as the vacuum cleaner isn't working.
2. (culinary)
a. spatula (for lifting or turning) Te irÃa mejor comprar una pala de madera para no rayar la sartén. You'd be better off buying a wooden spatula so you don't scratch the frying pan.
b. slice (for lifting or turning) Dame la pala para servir la tarta. Will you pass me the cake slice?
c. fish knife (piece of cutlery) A la hora de comer pescado, hay que tomar el tenedor con la mano izquierda y la pala con la derecha. When eating fish, you should hold the fork in your left hand and the fish knife in your right.
d. scoop (for sugar or flour) Puedes usar una cuchara en lugar de una pala de azúcar. You could use a spoon instead of a sugar scoop.
e. shovel (baker's) Mi abuelo colecciona palas de panadero. My grandfather collects baker's shovels.
f. peel (for pizza or bread) Espolvoree un poco de harina sobre la pala de madera para que la masa de pizza no se pegue. Sprinkle some flour on the wooden peel so that the pizza dough doesn't stick.
3. (racket sports)
a. paddle (table tennis or paddle tennis)
Regionalism used in the United States
(United States) La pala de ping-pong tiene que ser más ligera. The ping-pong paddle needs to be lighter.
b. bat (table tennis or paddle tennis) (United Kingdom) La pala está muy desgastada de darle a la pelota. The bat is very worn from hitting the ball.
c. racket (frontenis) Traen sus palas para jugar un par de partidas de frontenis. Bring your rackets so we can play a couple of rounds of frontenis.
4. (canoeing)
a. paddle Las palas de madera hacen que me salgan ampollas. Wooden paddles give me blisters.
5. (part of a propeller, oar, or ax)
a. blade Se rompió una de las palas de la hélice. One of the propeller blades broke.
6. (part of a shoe)
a. upper (part above sole) Las palas de estos zapatos son de piel. The upper on these shoes is made of leather.
b. vamp
A word or phrase that is only used by experts, professionals, or academics in a particular field (e.g. exposition).
(technical) (part covering front of foot) La pala y la parte superior son sintéticas. The vamp and upper are synthetic.
7.
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g. skinny, grandma).
(colloquial) (anatomy) a. (upper) front tooth Cuando era pequeña, tenÃa unas palas enormes. When I was a child, my upper front teeth were enormous.
8.
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g. skinny, grandma).
(colloquial) (guile) a. cunning Sobrevive gracias a su pala. He survives by his cunning.
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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
Noun 3. (culinary)
a. slice pala mecánica o excavadora excavator, digger
4. (de frontón, ping-pong)
b. paddle
Regionalism used in the United States
(United States) jugar a las palas to play beach tennis
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pala
1 (para cavar) spade; (para nieve, carbón, tierra) shovel pala cargadora mechanical loader
pala de patatas potato fork
pala excavadora digger
pala mecánica power shovel
pala quitanieves snowplough; snowplow; (EEUU)
pala topadora (Arg) bulldozer
2 (Culin) slice pala para el pescado fish slice
3 (Dep) (Béisbol) bat; (en ping-pong) bat; paddle; (EEUU) (en tenis) racket jugar a pala to play beach-tennis
4 [de hélice, remo] blade 5 pala matamoscas fly swat
7 (mano) mitt (muy_familiar) ¡choca la pala! shake on it! (familiar)
8 (astucia) cunning; wiliness Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
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