Spanish Open dictionary by furoya

yahoo!

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'Yahoo! Inc. ' is the name of an American media and web technology company founded in 1995 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. At first it was a kind of 'Bookmark' or 'Favorites' published on the Internet with sites organized by categories, to then offer a search engine and other services such as news, mail, instant messaging, . . . The portal with several of those services still exists, though the company was bought by Verizone in 2016. There is more than one version about the origin of the name; one says it's an acronym for Yet Another Hierarchical Organized Oracle! ( "Another oracle more organized by hierarchies!" ) ironically describing its first online version, there is also a legend about David Filo's father calling his son and friend "pair of yahoos!" ( "pair of savages!" ) for their antics as children, but according to their creators it is because of the derogatory way they used at Stanford University -where they studied- to qualify southern students, simple and unsophisticated, which they found sympathetic. In the latter two cases, the term is taken from the novel Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726), where a yahoo is a human-like being, but crude, wild and uncultured. Although for unbelievable origins, I prefer the one found by the Italian philosopher Umberto Eco from the Borgean tale The Brodie Report, where the yahoos were also rustic but able to understand a phrase with their simple monosyllabic language. . . but also to be confused.

  

yahoo

  31

It is not a word that is used in Spanish, but we know it by its literary origin, since it is the name of a race of human-looking beings, uncivilized and considered only as cattle by another called houyhnhnm, made up of horses capable of speaking that live in an idyllic society, found by the traveler Lemuel Gulliver in the novel Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, published in 1726. Since then the English call yahoos to the rustic and uneducated subjects. In 1970 Jorge Luis Borges published his short story The Brodie Report, which is inspired by the work of Swift, where a Scottish missionary finds a wild tribe from Brazil called Mlch, and which he names 'yahoo' according to its English meaning. Both accounts depict these peoples as a cultural and social involution of another that was more advanced and degenerated. View english/yahoo , Yahoo! ( "web services company" ) .

  

houyhnhnm

  32

In the novel Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift, 1726) it is the name of creatures with the appearance of horses, but endowed with reason and without any vice. This contrasts with other characters who inhabit the same island, the yahoos, human-looking but wild-behaving, selfish, envious and aggressive, whom the Houyhnhnm treat like cattle. During his time in this society, Lemuel Gulliver ended up admiring the wisdom and nature of horses, and despising his peers whom he compared to the degenerate race of yahoo. The word houyhnhnm means "horse", and by its etymology: "perfection of nature"; all this according to Swift, of course.

  

hipocapnia

  29

In biology it is the "abnormal reduction of carbon dioxide in cells, especially when they are from the blood", which can lead to death. It is formed by the prefix hypo- ("underneath, reduction") and the component capno ("smoke", which in this case is associated with CO?) . See dioxide, carbon.

  

hipoxia

  31

In biology it is the "abnormal reduction of oxygen in cells" that can cause their death. It is formed by the prefix hypo- ("underneath, reduction") and the oxy component (for "oxygen").

  

federalismo

  32

System of administration that in politics delegates powers and power to several associated agencies that have a certain autonomy. See unitarianism, centralism.

  

centralismo

  23

It is a form of administration with power and decision concentrated in a single body. In government policies it is often called unitarianism. See federalism.

  

magia negra

  50

In the popular belief of spells and witchcraft, 'black magic' is what produces evils and damage using evil spirits and entities. It is usually called necromancy, which is a confusion by necromancy precisely because in Latin nigrum is "lustrous black" and sounded similar. See white magic.

  

magia blanca

  36

In the popular belief of spells and witchcraft, 'white magic' is the one that produces a beneficial influence, the one that undoes the spells of black magic by connecting with nature spirits.

  

guarda-tiempo

  25

It looks like a lousy translation from the English timekeeper ("chronometer") into Spanish. See save , time .

  

psico-vampírico

  39

Error by psychovampiric.

  

pre-inversión

  26

Pre-investment error ("previous investment").

  

semi-industrial

  30

In Spanish the prefix is not separated with a hyphen, and although it looks weird it should be semi-industrial ("production process that could be industrialized, but that has an artisanal or manual part"). See semi-, industrial.

  

semi-mate

  12

Semi-matte error ("surface with a color between glossy and matte" ). See prefix semi- ( "medium , half") .

  

pre-incubadora

  26

See pre-incubator.

  

flexi-vegetariano

  33

Here flexi- works as a prefix, so you should delete the hyphen and write 'flexivegetarian', but it turns out that they already created a syncopation unfortunately valid as "flexitarian", which is already defined.

  

arqui-deco

  44

Abbreviated form that unites architecture with decoration.

  

entourage

  12

It means "entourage, environment"; it is written the same as in French, and precisely comes from that language from the verb entourer ("to surround, to surround").

  

geoglificos

  29

It is probably an error by the plural of geoglyph ("relative to geoglyphs").

  

simbolo

  30

Surely it is a mistake by symbol.

  

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