squat

posición de cuclillas, sentadilla

Postura baja con las rodillas muy dobladas y el peso del cuerpo sobre los pies.

En inglés sencillo: A low position with your knees deeply bent and your weight resting on your feet.

• She lowered herself into a squat.
• Hold the squat for ten seconds.
• He rested in a squat beside the fire.

Sinónimos: crouch

Expresiones frecuentes: deep squat, in a squat, hold a squat

ponerse en cuclillas, agacharse

Bajar el cuerpo doblando mucho las rodillas y manteniéndose sobre los pies.

En inglés sencillo: To lower your body by bending your knees deeply while staying on your feet.

• Squat down beside me.
• She squatted to pick up the coin.
• He was squatting near the door when I arrived.

Cómo se usa: squat down (He squatted down to examine the tracks.)

Sinónimos: crouch

Antónimos: stand

Expresiones frecuentes: squat down, squat beside someone, squat on something

hacer sentadillas

Hacer un ejercicio bajando con las rodillas dobladas y levantándose mientras se sostiene un peso.

En inglés sencillo: To lift a weight by bending your knees and then standing up with it.

• I can squat fifty kilograms.
• She squatted a heavier weight today.
• How much can you squat safely?

Expresiones frecuentes: squat heavy weights, squat a barbell

descatalogar

Dejar de fabricar o de dar soporte a un kit de modelos o a una serie de kits.

En inglés sencillo: To stop producing or supporting a model kit or a group of model kits.

• The company may squat that faction.
• They squatted the entire range last year.
• Fans were disappointed when the manufacturer squatted their favorite kits.

Sinónimos: discontinue, retire

Expresiones frecuentes: squat a faction, squat a range, squat a kit

achaparrado, rechoncho

De poca altura y mucha anchura, a menudo con aspecto pesado o poco atractivo.

En inglés sencillo: Short and wide, often looking heavy or unattractive.

• It was a squat building.
• A squat bottle stood on the shelf.
• The squat tower looked small beside the church.

Sinónimos: stocky, stumpy

Antónimos: slender

Expresiones frecuentes: squat building, squat tower, squat bottle