talla

For the Ethiopian alcoholic beverage, see Tella. Talla is a town and commune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany (Italy).
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v. tiller

n. height, stature; size

v. cut, incise; shape; measure; work; bother, annoy; gossip

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layer of an onion; peel or coat of an onion (L+S)

= carving.
Ex: She situates the vessels in the context of Icelandic carving traditions in horn, bone, and walrus ivory = Ella sitúa las vasijas en el contexto de la tradición islandesa de la escultura en astas de cuernos, huesos y marfil de morsa.
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* dar la talla = be up to the mark, be up to scratch, measure up (to), be up to snuff.
* de talla media = middle-sized.
* de talla mundial = world-class.
* talla de madera = wood carving.

= carve, cut, carve out, hew.
Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
Ex: Fraktur, cut with a contrived formality that belied its cursive origins, became the most successful of all the gothic types, surviving as a book face in Germany until the mid twentieth century.
Ex: In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations & communicative strategies.
Ex: Oak was shaped by splitting with wooden wedges, and by hewing with axes or adzes.
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* tallar con una navaja = whittle.