encogimiento

m.

1 contraction, contracting, drawing together or shortening; constriction, corrugation.

2 pusillanimity, want of resolution.

3 lowness of spirits.

4 humility, submission, resignation.

Encogimiento de los costados (Naut.) the tumbling home or housing in of the sides of a ship

5 shrinkage, contraction, shrink.

6 retraction.

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encogimiento

► nombre masculino

1 (de tejido) shrinkage

2 (del cuerpo) hunching

3 figurado (timidez) shyness, diffidence

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FRASEOLOGÍA

encogimiento de hombros shrug of the shoulders

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SM

1) [de tejidos] shrinking

2)

encogimiento de hombros — shrug ( of the shoulders )

3) (=timidez) shyness, bashfulness

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= shrinkage.

Ex. DBMS systems aim to allow data to be re-organised to accommodate growth, shrinkage and so on.

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* encogimiento de hombros = shrug.

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= shrinkage.

Ex: DBMS systems aim to allow data to be re-organised to accommodate growth, shrinkage and so on.

* encogimiento de hombros = shrug.

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encogimiento

masculine

1 (de hombros) shrug

2 (del cuerpo) shrinking

3 (timidez) shyness

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encogimiento nm

1. [reducción] shrinkage;

con un encogimiento de hombros with a shrug of the shoulders

2. [timidez] shyness;

[cobardía] faint-heartedness

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encogimiento

m

1 de material shrinkage;

encogimiento de hombros shrug

2 de persona shyness

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encogimiento nm

1) : shrinking, shrinkage

2) : shrug

3) timidez: shyness