bones in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for bones in the English»Spanish Dictionary

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I.bone [Am boʊn, Brit bəʊn] N

1. bone C ANAT:

bone
hueso m
this is too much for my poor old bones
yo ya no estoy para estos trotes
I can feel it in my bones
tengo ese presentimiento
meat on/off the bone
carne f con/sin hueso
the bare bones (of sth)
lo básico (de algo)
as dry as a bone
requeteseco
to be a bone of contention
ser la manzana de la discordia
to be close to the bone
pasarse de castaño oscuro inf
to cut sth to the bone we've cut costs to the bone
hemos reducido los gastos a lo esencial or al mínimo
he cut his finger to the bone
se cortó el dedo hasta el hueso
to have a bone to pick with sb
tener que ajustar cuentas con alguien
to make no bones about sth she makes no bones about her sympathies/being an atheist
no esconde or no oculta sus preferencias/que es atea
let's make no bones about it
no nos andemos con tapujos or con rodeos

II.bone [Am boʊn, Brit bəʊn] VB trans

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T-bone [ˈtiˌboʊn], T-bone steak N

bones in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for bones in the English»Spanish Dictionary (Go to Spanish»English)

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II.bone [bəʊn, Am boʊn] ADJ

III.bone [bəʊn, Am boʊn] VB trans

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bone idle ADJ, bone lazy ADJ inf

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary
creak bones
crujir
creak of bones
crujido m
cranial nerves/bones
nervios/huesos (m pl) craneales

Translations for bones in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

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osamenta
bones pl

bones Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be a bag of bones inf
ser un saco de huesos
to be all skin and bone(s)
estar en los huesos
to feel it in one's bones (that ...)
sentir en la propia piel (que...)
to work one's fingers to the bone
trabajar como un esclavo
to feel sth in one's bones
tener un presentimiento de algo
to make no bones about sth
no ocultar algo
to have a bone to pick with sb inf
tener que ajustar cuentas con alguien
to be all skin and bones
no tener más que el pellejo
to be a rack of bones
estar en los huesos
to be all skin and bones
ser una pelleja
American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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It has a brass plate inscribed with skull-and-cross bones, a sickle and a pick.
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The COI gene of a group of extinct ratite birds, the moa, were sequenced using 26 subfossil moa bones.
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For this example the bones 8, 2, and 5 are placed in the proper order as shown below.
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In those days spare ribs, soup bones and suet were virtual throw away items.
windsorstar.com
The upper bones of the foot (proximals) in turn are fused with the tibia to form tibiotarsus, the centralia disappeared.
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At each of these seats of learning, he left his mark; beyond any other of his contemporaries he animated the dry bones of Roman law.
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The name was originally assigned to a bird-like sacrum (a series of vertebrae fused to the hip bones), initially believed to come from a pterosaur.
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He was recently sentenced to one year in home confinement after investigators eventually recovered the bones.
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The researchers say the most likely conclusion is that the skull bone powder was used in medicine -- it was widely believed that saint bones had medicinal purposes at the time.
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They later started burying people in secret caves in order to save the bones from desecration by enemies.
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