urdir

v.

1 to plot, to forge (plan).

2 to warp (hilos).

3 to contrive, to cook up, to plot, to brew.

4 to cast on.

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urdir

► verbo transitivo

1 (textil) to warp

2 figurado (tramar) to plot, scheme

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VT

1) [+ tela] to warp

2) (=tramar) to plot

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verbo transitivo

a) (en telar) to warp; <puntos> to cast on

b) <plan> to devise, hatch

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= weave, weave, engineer, texture, spin, concoct.

Ex. You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' -- have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.

Ex. This article compares an expert system to a rug and the shell to the loom on which it was woven.

Ex. So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.

Ex. The play was an entrancing production that was textured with ideas, witty, and cunningly crafted.

Ex. Then the fairies told them how happily the spiders lived among the green leaves spinning garments for their neigbbors.

Ex. Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.

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* urdir una conspiración = hatch + plot.

* urdir una historia = weave + story.

* urdir un complot = hatch + plot.

* urdir un cuento = weave + a tale.

* urdir un plan = devise + a plan.

* urdir un relato = weave + a tale.

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verbo transitivo

a) (en telar) to warp; <puntos> to cast on

b) <plan> to devise, hatch

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= weave, weave, engineer, texture, spin, concoct.

Ex: You cannot get pleasure from a literary book until you have 'lived inside it' -- have discovered the patterns of event, of character, of language, of meaning, being woven in it.

Ex: This article compares an expert system to a rug and the shell to the loom on which it was woven.

Ex: So, in telephone transmission the bandwidth of each speech circuit is engineered to be 4kHz.

Ex: The play was an entrancing production that was textured with ideas, witty, and cunningly crafted.

Ex: Then the fairies told them how happily the spiders lived among the green leaves spinning garments for their neigbbors.

Ex: Their unquenchable thirst for revenge enabled them to concoct a diabolical scheme.

* urdir una conspiración = hatch + plot.

* urdir una historia = weave + story.

* urdir un complot = hatch + plot.

* urdir un cuento = weave + a tale.

* urdir un plan = devise + a plan.

* urdir un relato = weave + a tale.

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urdir [I1 ]

vt

(en un telar) to warp; ‹puntos› to cast on

urdían una conspiración para derrocarlo they were plotting o they were hatching a plot to overthrow him

habían urdido un plan they had devised o hatched a plan

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urdir (conjugate urdir) verbo transitivo

a) (en telar) to warp;

‹puntos› to cast on

b) ‹plan› to devise, hatch

urdir vtr (preparar en secreto) to devise, scheme for
'urdir' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
discurrir
- fraguar
- planear
- tejer
English:
engineer
- hatch

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urdir vt

1. [plan] to plot, to forge

2. [hilos] to warp

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urdir

v/t

1 complot hatch

2 hilos warp