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A word not much used?
Without looking up, not yet anyway, can you tell what "svelteness" means?
In 30 years of being in the US, I haven't heard or read this word before, at least not that I remember. If I ever did hear or read it, probably I didn't pay attention as it is/was used much in Spanish. "Like most anti-malware suites, Symantec's NIS intercepts and scans all e-mails as they stream in. NIS has never earned praise for its speed or svelteness." |
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sceltness means trimness. A person who is svelt doesn't have any
michelines
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Right - "trimness", "slimness", "slenderness" - there's a second definition:
"Refined through wide social experience, smooth, worldly.".
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I when I was a kid I always thought svelte was a New -York word borrowed from Yiddish or German or Polish. I felt the same way about tumult, but it turns out that it too is proper English even though it sounds
Eastern European to me. A propósito acabé de verificar en el diccionario que existe una palabra esbelto en español que significa svelte.
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Correcto. No he/había visto la palabra esa antes..., no me parece, y quería saber si la conocían y hacían uso de ella en inglés. Me he quedado igual. De todas maneras gracias. |
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In my experience, Norton programs are usually slow and "fat", which means that when they run, they do it slowly and "monopolize" a lot of memory resources.
I think that's what they mean by "svelteness" in this context: programs that don't hinder the work of the PC.
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Una palabra bien conocida; de las que vas a oír entre colegas...
Poli - Yes, easily taken as a word of such derivation, Yiddish, etc. Derivation - from Latin and so on - "Onelook Dictionary" site has it all... If you're into etymology along with everything else, can't be beat!
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"Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long." miguel de cervantes saavedra Last edited by hermit; June 10, 2010 at 01:48 PM. |
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Pero es cierto que ha sido mi mejor suite de seguridad en Internet. No soy muy feliz con el que uso ahora, pero es efectivo.
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Here "esbelto" is a word widely known. And there is a brand called Hidden Text: Show/Hide
Click to show hidden text - Da click para revelar el texto oculto (I've hidden to avoid advertisement). |
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