- quimera
- f.1 fantasy.2 wild fancy, fable, air castle, day dream.* * *quimera► nombre femenino1 (mitología) chimera2 figurado (ilusión) wild fancy, fantasy, pipe dream3 figurado (preocupación) worry; (sospecha infundada) unfounded suspicion* * *SF1) (Mit) (=monstruo imaginario) chimera2) (=alucinación) hallucination; (=ilusión) illusion, chimera; (=noción) fancy, fantastic idea; (=sueño) pipe dream3) (=sospecha) unfounded suspicion
tener la quimera de que ... — to suspect quite wrongly that ...
4) (=riña) quarrel* * *femenino1) (ilusión) illusion, chimera (liter)el proyecto no pasó de ser una quimera — the plan was never anything but a pipe dream
2) (Mit) chimera* * *= chimera, straw man, will o' the wisp, castle in the air, fabrication, straw figure.Ex. Librarians should stop chasing the chimera of professionalism, and concentrate on the important work at hand.Ex. This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down.Ex. Only by a gigantic change of idea will that century-old will o' the wisp,'function', be seen to be equated with 'critique', for they are one and the same.Ex. This is the strongest evidence that his theory is not a castle in the air.Ex. The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.Ex. The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.----* en busca de quimeras = in pursuit of + windmills.* perseguir quimeras = chase + phantoms, grasp at + shadows.* * *femenino1) (ilusión) illusion, chimera (liter)el proyecto no pasó de ser una quimera — the plan was never anything but a pipe dream
2) (Mit) chimera* * *= chimera, straw man, will o' the wisp, castle in the air, fabrication, straw figure.Ex: Librarians should stop chasing the chimera of professionalism, and concentrate on the important work at hand.
Ex: This has long been known to be a straw man (i.e., an obvious fallacy) to be knocked down.Ex: Only by a gigantic change of idea will that century-old will o' the wisp,'function', be seen to be equated with 'critique', for they are one and the same.Ex: This is the strongest evidence that his theory is not a castle in the air.Ex: The author looks at fabrication, falsification and plagiarism in scientific research.Ex: The form this 'hypothesis' has come to take is easily dismissed as a straw figure and serious consideration of the relation between language diversity and thinking has largely tumbled with it.* en busca de quimeras = in pursuit of + windmills.* perseguir quimeras = chase + phantoms, grasp at + shadows.* * *quimerafeminineA (ilusión) illusion, chimera (liter)la dicha no es sino una quimera happiness is just an illusionel proyecto no pasó de ser una quimera the plan was never anything but a pipe dreamB (Mit) chimera* * *
quimera sustantivo femenino (ilusión) illusion, chimera (liter)
quimera sustantivo femenino
1 (ilusión) pipe dream, wishful thinking, illusion
2 Mit chimaera, chimera
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English:
pipe
* * *quimera nf1. [ilusión] chimera;la quimera de una Europa unida the chimera of a united Europe;tus ideas no son más que una quimera your ideas are pie in the sky2. Mitol Chimera* * *quimeraf pipe dream* * *quimera nf: chimera, illusion
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.