abri (m)
n.
underground bomb shelter, bunker; refuge, haven, nest, hearth; poorhouse, shed
abrir
v.
open; open up; cut open (Medical); spread out, extended; discover, expose; unfold, uncurl; run away, escape; sharpen; turn on; unbar; undo; start, begin
abrir
v.
open, unlock, unfasten, cut, open up, ditch, unclasp, barge, deploy, drift, frank, rive, unfold, unseal
abrir
= forge, open up, open, unfold, unfurl, unlock.
Ex: This article calls on libraries to forge a renewed national commitment to cooperate in the building of a national information network for scholarly communications.
Ex: Here is a key paper by a non librarian which opens up a new and constructive approach to library purpose.
Ex: The 1st phase of a cultural centre, with library, art gallery, swimming pool, cafe and day centre for the elderly, was opened in Sept 87.
Ex: This algorithm handles cyclic graphs without unfolding the cycles nor looping through them.
Ex: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
Ex: This allows borrowers to browse but it is tedious for staff to keep unlocking the case every time a cassette is borrowed or returned.
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* ¡ábrete sésamo! = open sesame!.
* abrir arrancando = rip + open.
* abrir camino (a) = make + way (for).
* abrir con lanceta = lance.
* abrir con llave = unlock.
* abrir cortando = lance.
* abrir de nuevo = reopen [re-open].
* abrir de un empujón = fling + open.
* abrir el apetito = whet + the appetite.
* abrir el corazón = bare + Posesivo + soul.
* abrir el debate = open + the debate.
* abrir el mercado = open up + market.
* abrir forzando = force + open.
* abrir forzando con palanca = prise open.
* abrir fronteras = break + new ground, break + ground.
* abrir horizontes = open out + horizons.
* abrir la boca = open + Posesivo + mouth.
* abrir la mente = broaden + Posesivo + outlook.
* abrir la puerta a = throw + open the door to.
* abrir la puerta empujándola = push + open + door.
* abrir las puertas de = unlock.
* abrir los brazos = spread + hands.
* abrir los ojos a = open + Posesivo + eyes to.
* abrir + Nombre + al debate = open + Nombre + to discussion.
* abrir nuevas fronteras = forge + new frontiers.
* abrir nuevas posibilidades = open up + new territory, open up + possibilities, open + possibilities.
* abrir nuevos caminos = break + new ground, push + Nombre + into new latitudes, break + ground, blaze + trail.
* abrir nuevos horizontes = open + new realms, forge + new frontiers.
* abrir nuevos mercados = branch out (into), branch into.
* abrir paso (a) = make + way (for).
* abrir puertas = open + avenues, open + doors.
* abrirse = gape, swing + open, hew.
* abrirse a = render + open to, open + Posesivo + mind up to.
* abrirse camino = plough through, elbow + Posesivo + way into, elbow into, foist + Posesivo + way into, make + Posesivo + way in the world.
* abrirse camino (a empujones) = push + Posesivo + way across/into.
* abrirse camino en el mundo = make + Posesivo + way in the world.
* abrirse en espiral = spiral out.
* abrirse paso = jostle, break through, elbow + Posesivo + way into, elbow into.
* abrirse un socavón = cave in.
* abrir una brecha = breach.
* abrir una cerradura con ganzúa = pick + lock.
* abrir una consulta = hang out + Posesivo + shingle.
* abrir un agujero = cut + hole.
* abrir una interrogante sobre = leave + open the question of.
* abrir una negociación = open up + negotiation.
* abrir una ventana = switch on + window.
* abrir un camino = chart + direction.
* abrir un menú = pop up + a menu.
* a medio abrir = half-opened.
* en un abrir y cerrar de ojos = in a jiffy, in the time it takes to flick a switch, at the flick of a switch, with the flick of a switch, in a flash, in no time at all, in next to no time, in no time, with the tip of a hat, in and out in a flash, in a heartbeat.
* en un abrir y cerrar de ojos = in the blink of an eye, in a twinkling of an eye, in a snap.
* paréntesis que abre = left parenthesis.
* sin abrir = unopened.
* sin abrirse = unfolded.
* volver a abrir = be back in business.