ripper

desgarrador, descosedor

Herramienta o máquina que separa materiales rasgándolos o cortándolos.

En inglés sencillo: A tool or machine that tears or cuts material apart.

• Use a seam ripper to remove the stitches.
• The tractor pulled a ripper through the hard ground.
• This ripper has a sharp metal tip.

Expresiones frecuentes: seam ripper, soil ripper

asesino destripador

Asesino que usa un arma cortante y suele causar cortes graves en el cuerpo de sus víctimas.

En inglés sencillo: A murderer who uses a sharp weapon and often badly cuts victims’ bodies.

• Police hunted the ripper.
• The ripper attacked his victims with a knife.
• Another body was linked to the ripper.

Sinónimos: killer, murderer

Expresiones frecuentes: serial ripper, hunt the ripper

desgarrador

Persona que separa algo en partes rasgándolo o cortándolo.

En inglés sencillo: A person who tears or cuts something apart.

• The paper ripper tore each sheet into strips.
• Two rippers prepared the cloth for recycling.
• He was the fastest ripper on the team.

Expresiones frecuentes: paper ripper, cloth ripper

ley de transferencia de nombramientos

Ley que permite a un dirigente o consejo nombrar cargos antes elegidos por otros.

En inglés sencillo: A law that gives an executive or board the power to choose officials previously chosen by others.

• The legislature passed a ripper bill.
• The ripper gave the mayor control over official appointments.
• Critics opposed the new ripper act.

Expresiones frecuentes: ripper bill, ripper act

genial, fantástico

Muy bueno o muy agradable.

En inglés sencillo: Very good or enjoyable.

• We had a ripper day.
• That was a ripper game of cricket.
• She threw a ripper party last weekend.

Sinónimos: excellent, great, fantastic

Antónimos: awful

Expresiones frecuentes: a ripper day, a ripper game, a ripper party