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furoya
  15254

  Value Position Position 2 2 Accepted meanings 15254 2 Obtained votes 125 2 Votes by meaning 0.01 7 Inquiries 445010 3 Queries by meaning 29 7 Feed + Pdf

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dio o dió
  38

View verbs/dio , give .

  
por favor o porfavor
  27

See by , please.

  
tu o tú
  62

See your, you.

  
electrofobia
  20

It was never really a phobia (pathology) but a rejection of everything that was electric. It was a type of neophobia in the late 19th century when electrical-powered artifacts began to appear. Today it is only justified in someone who has received a discharge that left him traumatized.

  
canisfobia
  101

The truth is, it doesn't exist. If anyone invented it, he used a more modern Greek where 954; 945; 957; 953; 962; ( kanís ) is a "lapdog", which narrows a lot of phobia. The "fear of dogs (in general) " is cyphobia, and 10060;canisphobia must have come out of Latin canis, canis ( "dog").

  
mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo
  13

I suggest you see the correctly written saying: "More does the devil know by old than by devil".

  
nunca digas de este agua no beberé
  38

This locution has many versions, but just this one is misspelled. It should be "never say of this water I will not drink"; if you are not missing dialog scripts or quotation marks.

  
muebles de santa apolonia
  16

Obviously it's a mistake for st. Apolonia's teeth. See Saint Apolonia.

  
salam malecum
  42

It would be a mistake by salam alaikum.

  
nom plus ultra
  38

Error by Latin phrase "non plus ultra" . See also plus ultra .

  
que mala onda
  36

See what, bad, wave, bad vibe, good vibe.

  
el diablo sabe por diablo pero más sabe por viejo
  127

It's another version of "the devil knows by old than by devil." In this case extracted from the Gauchesco poem "La vuelta de Martín Fierro" (José Hernández , 1879 ), where it is one of the many advices and teachings that the Old Vizcacha leaves to the son of Fierro.

  
más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo
  38

It is one of the variants that has this saying in Spain, and alludes to the value of experience, the wisdom given by the years, even higher than that which a devil can have with its angelic origin. In this case the phrase seems drawn from the novel "Tiger John : The healer of his honor." ( Ramón Pérez de Ayala, 1926). In Argentina is used more "the devil knows by devil but more knows by old".

  
hipoecoico
  55

That in an ultrasound shows a smaller than expected reflex, or to the reference mean, because it returns little ultrasound signal. See ecoic, ecogenic, hyperecoic .

  
plásmico
  47

Relative to plasma, although in Spanish more plasma is used. It can also be a plastic error, or plasmid.

  
dinamografía
  28

Measurement and recording of force, pressure and movement ratios. In addition to physics, it is useful in medicine and especially in sports.

  
infraaxilar
  33

Region on both sides of the chest, immediately below the 'axillary region' until the end of the false ribs. Although it is a technical term not yet incorporated into the English dictionary, when they do they probably recommend infraxilar . See below.

  
bichectomía
  15

It is the name given to cosmetic surgery that consists of removing some bags of fat found in the cheeks, to fine-tune facial features. These adipose clusters that have no function are known as "Bichat balls" (by Xavier Bichat, who described them correctly in the early 19th century), and 'bichectomy'. . . it's not a good tribute to his memory.

  
disgeusia
  14

Difficulty distinguishing flavors. It is usually a medical condition, which can be temporarily given as a consequence of , p . E.g. , a cold. It is a word taken from the Greek 948; 965; 962; ( dys "difficulty" ) 947; 949; 965; 963; 953; 962; ( geusis "taste" ) . See ageusia .

  
retrónimo
  21

It is a neologism created by the American journalist Frank Mankiewicz (as retronym) for words or phrases that at some point had to be modified or updated and thus avoid confusion for later versions. An example would be the 'steam locomotive', which was in principle simply 'locomotive' and later had to be adjusted to differentiate itself from a diesel or an electric.

  




       


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