empollar

v.

1 to incubate (huevo).

2 to bone up on(informal) (study). (peninsular Spanish)

3 to swot (informal). (peninsular Spanish)

4 to brood on, to brood, to hatch.

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empollar

► verbo transitivo

1 (huevos) to hatch

2 familiar (estudiar) to swot, swot up, US bone up on

■ tendrías que empollar historia you'll have to swot up your history

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verb

to incubate

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1. VT

1) (Zool) to incubate, sit on

2) * [+ asignatura] to swot up *

2. VI

1) [gallina] to sit, brood

2) [abejas] to breed

3) * [estudiante] to swot *, grind away (EEUU), cram

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1.

verbo intransitivo

1) gallina to brood

2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)

2.

empollar vt

1) <huevos> to hatch, sit on

2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)

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= cram for, hatch, swot.

Ex. This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

Ex. The article 'TEAL being hatched on Teeside' discusses Teeside Polytechnic Library's change of plan from its original intention to use a UNIVAC computer to its present system involving a PRIME computer.

Ex. Around the country schoolchildren and university students are swotting and sweating as they prepare to sit papers that could decide their future.

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* libro para empollar = crammer.

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1.

verbo intransitivo

1) gallina to brood

2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)

2.

empollar vt

1) <huevos> to hatch, sit on

2) (Esp fam) estudiante to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)

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= cram for, hatch, swot.

Ex: This article divides readers into 3 categories: 'bulimic' readers who read voraciously for no utilitarian purpose, 'swotters' who read to cram for examinations, and 'information foragers' who read only occasionally to seek specific data, mainly in their field of work.

Ex: The article 'TEAL being hatched on Teeside' discusses Teeside Polytechnic Library's change of plan from its original intention to use a UNIVAC computer to its present system involving a PRIME computer.

Ex: Around the country schoolchildren and university students are swotting and sweating as they prepare to sit papers that could decide their future.

* libro para empollar = crammer.

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empollar [A1 ]

vi

A «gallina» to brood

B (Esp fam) «estudiante» to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)

■ empollar

vt

A ‹huevos› to hatch, sit on

B (Esp fam) «estudiante» to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)

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empollar (conjugate empollar) verbo intransitivo
1 [gallina] to brood
2 (Esp fam) [estudiante] to cram (colloq), to swot (BrE colloq)
verbo transitivo
1 ‹huevos› to hatch, sit on
2 (Esp fam) ‹lección› to cram (colloq), to swot up (on) (BrE colloq)
empollar verbo transitivo
1 (la gallina: huevos) to sit on
2 fam (estudiar mucho) to swot (up), US bone up on
'empollar' also found in these entries:
English:
bone up on
- brood
- cram
- hatch
- learn up
- swot
- swot up
- incubate

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empollar

♦ vt

1. [huevo] to incubate

2. Esp Fam [estudiar] to bone up on, Br to swot up (on)

♦ vi

Fam Br to swot, US to grind

♦ See also the pronominal verb empollarse

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empollar

I v/i fam

cram fam, Br

swot fam

II v/t

1 ZO sit on, incubate

2 fam (estudiar) cram fam, Br

swot up on fam

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empollar vi

: to brood eggs

empollar vt

: to incubate

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empollar vb

1. (estudiar mucho) to swot [pt. & pp. swotted]

en junio, se pasa los días empollando in June, she spends all the time swotting

2. (aves) to sit on [pt. & pp. sat]

la gallina empolla los huevos the hen sits on her eggs