put through

poner en comunicación, pasar la llamada

Conectar una llamada con la persona o el departamento con quien se quiere hablar.

En inglés sencillo: To connect someone’s phone call to the person or department they want.

• I’ll put you through now.
• She put me through to the accounts department.
• Can you put this call through to my office?

Cómo se usa: put someone through to someone/something (Could you put me through to the manager?); put someone through (Please hold while I put you through.)

Sinónimos: connect, transfer

Antónimos: disconnect

Expresiones frecuentes: put through a call, put through to someone

hacer pasar por, someter a

Hacer que alguien pase por una situación difícil, desagradable o exigente.

En inglés sencillo: To make someone experience something difficult, unpleasant, or demanding.

• Don’t put me through this again.
• The coach put us through a tough workout.
• She has been put through months of painful tests.

Cómo se usa: put someone through something (The argument put our family through a lot of stress.)

Sinónimos: subject to, make undergo

Antónimos: spare

Expresiones frecuentes: put through something, put through training

pasar por, meter por

Mover algo de un lado a otro de una abertura, haciéndolo pasar por ella.

En inglés sencillo: To move something from one side of an opening to the other.

• Put the letter through the slot.
• She put a thread through the needle.
• Can you put your hand through that gap?

Cómo se usa: put something through something (Put the cable through the hole in the desk.)

Sinónimos: pass through, push through

Expresiones frecuentes: put through a hole, put through a slot

romper, destrozar

Romper el cristal de una ventana de un golpe, abriendo un agujero.

En inglés sencillo: To break a window by hitting it and making a hole in it.

• Someone put the window through.
• The vandals put three shop windows through.
• A thrown brick put the front window through.

Cómo se usa: put a window through (Someone put our kitchen window through last night.)

Sinónimos: smash, break

Expresiones frecuentes: put through a window, put through the glass

dejar solo ante el portero

Pasar el balón a un compañero para dejarlo solo ante el portero y con posibilidad de marcar.

En inglés sencillo: To pass a ball to a teammate so they can face the goalkeeper alone and try to score.

• His pass put me through on goal.
• The midfielder put their striker through with a clever ball.
• Can you put her through before the defenders catch up?

Cómo se usa: put someone through on goal (Her pass put the striker through on goal.)

Sinónimos: play through, send through

Expresiones frecuentes: put someone through, put through a striker

operación extrabursátil

Operación en la que un intermediario reúne a comprador y vendedor fuera de la bolsa.

En inglés sencillo: A deal in which a broker brings a buyer and seller together outside the stock exchange.

• The broker arranged a put through.
• Both parties agreed on the price for the put through.
• The shares changed hands in a put through outside the exchange.

Expresiones frecuentes: a put through, broker’s put through