balsa

f.

1 raft.

2 pond, pool.

ser una balsa de aceite (figurative) to be as calm as a millpond; (mar) to go smoothly (reunión)

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balsa

► nombre femenino

1 pool

2 MARÍTIMO raft

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FRASEOLOGÍA

como una balsa de aceite (mar) like a millpond 2 figurado very peaceful

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I

SF

1) (Náut) (=embarcación) raft

balsa de salvamento, balsa salvavidas — life raft

balsa neumática — rubber dinghy

2) (Bot) balsa, balsa wood

II

SF

1) (=charca) pool, pond

el pueblo es una balsa de aceite — the village is as quiet as the grave

2) Méx (=pantano) swamp, marshy place

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femenino

1) (embarcación) raft

balsa inflable/neumática — inflatable/rubber raft

- balsa salvavidas

2) (charca) pool (where water is stored for irrigation purposes)

como una balsa de aceite — as calm o smooth as a millpond

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= raft.

Ex. And there is more to be gained from an imaginary nineteenth-century boy floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a fleeing black slave than a good deal of everyday, 'direct' experience can give.

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* balsa de pontones = pontoon raft.

* balsa salvavidas = life raft.

* como una balsa de aceite = like a millpond, calm like a millpond.

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femenino

1) (embarcación) raft

balsa inflable/neumática — inflatable/rubber raft

- balsa salvavidas

2) (charca) pool (where water is stored for irrigation purposes)

como una balsa de aceite — as calm o smooth as a millpond

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= raft.

Ex: And there is more to be gained from an imaginary nineteenth-century boy floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a fleeing black slave than a good deal of everyday, 'direct' experience can give.

* balsa de pontones = pontoon raft.

* balsa salvavidas = life raft.

* como una balsa de aceite = like a millpond, calm like a millpond.

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balsa

feminine

A (embarcación) raft

balsa inflable/neumática inflatable/rubber raft

Compuesto:

balsa salvavidas or de salvamento

life raft

B (Bot) balsa

C (charca) pool (where water is stored for irrigation purposes)

como una balsa de aceite: el mar está como una balsa de aceite the sea is like a millpond

todo va como una balsa de aceite it's all going swimmingly o very smoothly

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balsa sustantivo femenino (embarcación) raft;

◊ balsa inflable/salvavidas inflatable/life raft

balsa 1 sustantivo femenino Náut raft
balsa hinchable, inflatable raft
balsa salvavidas, life raft
balsa 2 sustantivo femenino
1 (charca, estanque) pool, pond
♦ Locuciones: figurado como una balsa de aceite, as calm as a millpond

'balsa' also found in these entries:
English:
downstream
- ferry
- float
- raft
- life

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balsa nf

1. [embarcación] raft

2. [estanque] pond, pool;

Comp

ser una balsa de aceite [mar] to be as calm as a millpond;

[reunión] to go smoothly

3. [árbol] balsa;

[madera] balsa-wood

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balsa

f raft;

como una balsa de aceite fig like a mill pond

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balsa nf

1) : raft

2) : balsa

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balsa n

1. (embarcación) raft

atravesaron el Pacífico en una balsa they crossed the Pacific on a raft

2. (charca) pool

los molinos tienen una balsa donde acumular el agua mills have a pool where water can be stored