air
 noun
 ar
EN In many of the mountains great pillars of granite look as if they had been thrown into the air and poised themselves marvellously as they fell.
GL En moitas das montañas os grandes penedos de granito dispóñense coma se primeiro os botasen ó ar para despois equilibrárense a si mesmos ó tempo que caían.
 Fonte: GAL (348)
aire
EN From another window open to the air came the sound of a piano, scale after scale rising into the treble.
GL Doutra fiestra, aberta ao aire, viña o son dun piano, subindo escala tras escala ata as notas máis agudas.
Fonte: RET (1894)
refacho
EN Only through the rusty hinges and swollen sea-moistened woodwork certain airs, detached from the body of the wind (the house was ramshackle after all) crept round corners and ventured indoors.
GL Só polos gonzos enferruxados e pola madeira inchada pola humidade do mar se filtraban algúns refachos separados do resto do vento (a casa, despois de todo, estaba escanastrada) virando polas esquinas e aventurándose no interior.
Fonte: CAR (1958)
..... air conditioning
aire acondicionado
EN There are so many CFCs around --in deep freeze and air conditioning plants-- that it is not going to be possible to get rid of them quickly.
GL Hai tantos CFC ó noso redor -- nos frigórificos e nas instalacións de aire acondicionado -- que non sería doado desfacerse deles.
Fonte: C20 (865)
transitive verb
airear
EN Slowly and painfully, with broom and pail, mopping, scouring, Mrs McNab, Mrs Bast stayed the corruption and the rot; rescued from the pool of Time that was fast closing over them now a basin, now a cupboard; fetched up from oblivion all the Waverley novels and a tea-set one morning; in the afternoon restored to sun and air a brass fender and a set of steel fire-irons.
GL Pousada e traballosamente, coa vasoira e o balde, limpando, fregando, a señora McNab e maila señora Bast detiveron a degradación e a podremia; rescataron do abismo do Tempo que se lles ía botando enriba, primeiro unha almofía, logo un armario; nunha mañá salvaron do esquecemento tódalas novelas Waverley e un xogo de té; pola tarde sacaron ó sol para aireala un trasfogueiro de bronce e un xogo de zoscadoiros de cheminea.
Fonte: CAR (2137)
difundir
EN The channel also airs interviews with Sri Lankan and Indian celebrities, literary reviews, sports and popular cultural programmes.
GL A radio difunde tamén entrevistas con celebridades de Sri Lanka e da India, programas culturais e deportivos.
Fonte: C19 (277)
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