Translation for "media palabra" to english

Media palabra

• half word
• halfword

Translation examples

half word

Media palabra aquí y allá. Pero se trataba de Edwarn, sin duda.
A half word here and there. But it was Edwarn.

Yo la seguí animando a que hablara, con gestos y medias palabras, mientras ella describía el encuentro.
I kept her going, with nods and half words, as she described this meeting.

Mientras el público desfilaba ante ella, captó retazos de conversaciones, medias palabras, pero no alcanzó a comprender su significado.
As the audience filed past her, she caught snatches of conversation, half-words, but they didn’t sink in.

Y, en sus prisas por soltar el lastre, dirigía al pasar medias palabras a los que paseaban por la circunvalación.
and in his haste to unload his breast he cast a few half words as he went along to the loiterers on the Promenade.

Cada página estaba dividida en cuatro paneles con un mareante sistema solar de jeroglíficos, medias palabras y diagramas.
Each page was blocked into four panels with a dizzying solar system of hieroglyphs, half words and diagrams.

Así que no tocan los temas político-delicados o, si no hay más remedio, los tocan en susurros, con rodeos y sobreentendidos y medias palabras.
So they don’t go near politically delicate subjects or, if they absolutely have to, they speak in whispers with circumlocutions and shared expressions, and half-words.

Yo no paraba de escupir maldiciones hechas de medias palabras y sin palabras que paulatinamente iban perdiendo el sentido como los galimatías que salían de los labios todavía vivos de mi adversario muerto.
I sputtered curses comprised of half words and nonwords that were every bit as meaningless as the gibberish that passed from my dead adversary’s still moving lips.

Es su manera de ser: palabras, medias palabras, miradas, sonrisas de burla, encogimientos de hombros y, a veces, injusticias intolerables por pequeño que sea el motivo que involuntariamente pueda yo haberle dado.
'Tis thus she works: by words, half-words, looks, sneers, shrugs, and sometimes foul abuse entirely disproportionate to the little cause I may unwittingly have given."