crítico

adj. critical, crucial, climacteric

n. critic, reviewer

v. criticize, criticise, animadvert, knock, slam, slate, comment, tear into

adj. critical, censorious

n. critic, reviewer; censor

v. criticize; comment; indict; fault; chicane

adj. critic, reviewer, assailant

n. critic, reviewer, assailant

v. criticize, censure, animadvert, comment; slash, knock; carp; attack, assail; vet; impeach, complain

= come under + criticism, condemn, criticise [criticize, -USA], decry, find + fault with, put down, take to + task, deprecate, castigate, speak against, chide, censure, berate, critique, bash, raise + criticism, come under + attack, pick on, go to + bat against, chastise, carp.
Ex: In the 2nd period, 1912-1933, the methods and direction of the movement came under criticism from socialists and educationalists, and a heated debate ensued.
Ex: It must, however, also be considered as a major source of the 'subject index illusion' so trenchantly condemned by Bliss, as mentioned below.
Ex: AACR2 has been criticised on the grounds that it does not identify the cataloguing unit to which the rules refer.
Ex: Dick decried the feeling among some scholarly publishers that there is no link between scholarly researchers, publishers, and the library.
Ex: I will add that since I have been working with the access LC provides to materials on women, a basic fault that I have found with LC subject cataloging is the absence of specificity.
Ex: 'Specifically, I'm told you delight in putting down the professional'.
Ex: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
Ex: In these instances, it is important to avoid putting one's colleagues in another unit on the defensive or deprecating another unit to a patron.
Ex: In his report, one of the few really inspiring documents to have come out of librarianship, McColvin castigated the standards of cataloguing and classification he found.
Ex: As a result public libraries came into disrepute and even today authorities speak against them.
Ex: Some authors of papers lament the lack of a philosophy and gently chide librarians for the 'simplicity of their pragmatism'.
Ex: This agreement must build in incentives to participating libraries as well as methods of censuring those participants which do not fulfil their obligations to the other participating libraries in the network = Este acuerdo debe incorporar incentivos para las bibliotecas participantes así cómo la forma de llamarle la atención a aquellos participantes que no cumplan sus obligaciones con las otras bibliotecas de la red.
Ex: Unfortunately, many of the writers are simply berating the current situation, holding to rather ancient models of mass culture.
Ex: This paper critiques the jurisprudential assumptions upon which legal resources are created, materials are collected, and research practices are justified.
Ex: Newspapers took advantage of the accident to attack or 'bash' the nuclear industry or nuclear power in general.
Ex: The author raises some criticisms of the international standard ISO 2709.
Ex: This bipartite approach has recently come under heavy attack.
Ex: By the way, here I have stolen a phrase from the Library of Congress, not to pick on this wonderful institution, but because its mission statement resonates with a number of individuals like me, who work in research libraries.
Ex: The article has the title 'The minority press goes to bat against segregated baseball'.
Ex: The profession should cease practising the amateurism for which it chastises employers who have untrained persons trying to function as librarians.
Ex: You who carped that the 007 films had devolved into a catalog of fresh gadgets and stale puns, eat crow.
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* criticar a = fulminate about, level + criticism at.
* criticar a Alguien a sus espaldas = cut + Nombre + up + behind + Posesivo + back.
* criticar duramente = tear + Nombre + to shreds, slate, flail away at.
* criticar las ideas de Alguien = trample on + Posesivo + ideas.
* ser criticado = come under + fire.

1 = critic, reviewer, whistle-blower.
Ex: The play is damned by the critics but packs in the crowds and the producers may be upset by the adverse criticisms but they can, as the saying goes, cry all the way to the bank.
Ex: In addition to her reputation as a leading expert in information control, Phyllis Richmond is another of ISAD's official reviewers of the AACR2's draft.
Ex: Whistle-blowers are natural allies to the extent that they provide material that makes corrections and provides new ideas that the authorities overlooked or tried to suppress.
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* crítico de arte = art critic.
* crítico de baile = dance critic.
* crítico de música = music critic.
* crítico literario = literary critic, book reviewer.
* críticos + no estar de acuerdo = critics + be divided.
* haber división de opiniones entre los críticos = critics + be divided.

2 = critical, censorial, censorious, discerning.
Ex: A study then of the underlying features of the classification process and the components of a classification scheme is a preparation for the more critical and informed application of classification schemes.
Ex: As chairman he objected to reduction of library budgets and to censorial interference in library work.
Ex: Some librarians are concerned that the censorious climate is affecting the acquisition of school library materials.
Ex: Moreover, the shady image of video libraries drove away discerning customers.
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* adoptar una postura crítica sobre = take + a critical view of.
* alcanzar masa crítica = reach + critical mass, achieve + critical mass.
* análisis crítico = critical analysis.
* bibliografía crítica = critical bibliography.
* desde un punto de vista crítico = judgmentally [judgementally], critically.
* de un modo crítico = critically.
* edición crítica = critical edition.
* estudio crítico del estado de la cuestión = review, review.
* evaluación crítica = critical evaluation.
* falto de sentido crítico = uncritical.
* masa crítica = critical mass.
* muy crítico = highly critical.
* no crítico = non-critical.
* resumen crítico = critical abstract.

3 = critical, life threatening.
Ex: Needless to say, this technique is relatively slow but can be valuable if retrieval speed is not critical.
Ex: The study also investigated whether persons who had consulted the book before committing suicide had life threatening medical illnesses.
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* alcanzar el punto crítico = come to + a head.
* cuestión crítica = critical issue.
* material crítico = critical matter.
* punto crítico = turning point.