retazo

m.

1 remnant.

2 remnant of cloth, left-over piece, remnant, remnant of clothes.

3 offal, giblets.

4 bargain.

pres.indicat.

1^st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: retazar.

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retazo

► nombre masculino

1 (retal) remnant, scrap

2 (fragmento) fragment, piece

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noun m.

1) scrap

2) excerpt, fragment

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SM

1) (Cos) remnant, bit, piece

pl retazos snippets, bits and pieces

a retazos — in bits

2) Caribe bargain

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masculino (de tela) remnant; (de texto, obra) snippet

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= remnant, snippet, scrap.

Ex. What survived was a tiny remnant, sometimes, to judge from the binding, a relic of earlier antiquarianism.

Ex. Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.

Ex. The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.

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* retazo de = scrap of.

* retazos = odds and ends, shavings, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.

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masculino (de tela) remnant; (de texto, obra) snippet

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= remnant, snippet, scrap.

Ex: What survived was a tiny remnant, sometimes, to judge from the binding, a relic of earlier antiquarianism.

Ex: Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.

Ex: The demand for the old faces came to an abrupt end and the founders withdrew them from sale, some even destroying the old punches and matrices as so much scrap.

* retazo de = scrap of.

* retazos = odds and ends, shavings, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.

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retazo

masculine

1 (de tela) remnant

2 (de un texto, una obra) snippet

retazos de varias obras snippets o bits and pieces of several works

3 (Méx) (Coc) offal

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retazo sustantivo masculino
1 (de tela) remnant
2 (de información, etc) snippet
'retazo' also found in these entries:
English:
remnant

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retazo nm

1. [resto] remnant

2. [pedazo] fragment;

una conferencia hecha de retazos a speech patched together from bits and pieces of other speeches

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retazo

m fig

snippet, fragment

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retazo nm

1) : remnant, scrap

2) : fragment, piece

retazos de su obra: bits and pieces from his writings