Translation of smart in Spanish:
smart
elegante, adj.
See Spanish definition of elegante
adjective smarter, smartest
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1.1(neat, stylish)
(appearance/dress/shoes) eleganteyou're looking very smart today — hoy estás muy elegante- they have a really smart house — tienen una casa muy bien puesta
- his room looks very smart — su habitación está muy bien (arreglada)
- Bacon's not-quite-leading-male good looks are complemented with nondescript, reasonably smart clothes and a neat haircut.
- There came to the door, very late one evening a very shy, middle-aged man, very neat, smart suit, shirt and tie - he had just been thrown out of the family home where enough had been enough.
- The female who turns up wearing neat, smart clothing with well-groomed hair, fingernails and make-up?
- Attractive women in smart hats are not uncommon in Harrogate, but one has been singled out for special attention.
- In smart suit, immaculate blue shirt and plainish tie, Kinski attempts to demystify the complexities of the post-privatisation utility businesses.
- Phillips dressed in smart clothes and passed himself off as an club official: perhaps it's time to introduce dress-down Saturdays for our bufties, to prevent any repeat.
- He said typical bogus callers were aged 25 to 40, could be male or female, wore a uniform, overalls, a yellow reflective jacket or smart clothes.
- During the summer, drivers can wear a plain blue or white polo shirt and smart trousers and shoes, but not shorts or trainers.
- The girls in evening dresses looked glamorous and the men wore smart clothes with a cutting edge.
- I looked up to find her holding a pair of pale blue jeans and a smart button down top.
- Their lovely home and Florence's smart clothes might be showing you the benefits of paying attention to this quality in yourself now.
- ‘Nice outfit,’ Paul said, dressed in an equally smart suit in comparison to the scruffy clothes Kenny and Matt had thrown on.
- She wears smart clothes and carries herself with dignity.
- I'm old-fashioned about ‘going to the bank’, clinging to the feeling that it's a posh outing, needing smart clothes.
- I guess I have to wear smart clothes, either way.
- Now I want to just think and write something in my head but now we have commitments, actions requiring smart clothes and small-talk.
- I probably just about have enough t-shirts, shorts and the like but I need warm weather smart clothes.
- His smart suit, beautifully groomed long hair and supreme confidence symbolized the vital reclamation of a lost life.
- Six months ago I put on a shirt and tie, smart trousers and shoes and I was best man at his wedding when he remarried his ex-wife.
- Many found ways of enriching themselves, parading themselves in their own vehicles and parading their wives in smart clothes, who in turn paraded their poodles or other treasures.
- The man is described as being of smart appearance, 5ft 11 in, of slim to medium build, with short, brown hair brushed forward.
- But the burglars have often been described as in their late teens or early 20s, of smart appearance and well spoken with a local accent.
- Charlotte de Rosnay - who lived near Miss Dando - said the man's overall appearance was smart.
- I had learned his smart appearance was not simply a façade.
- He was an octogenarian with a smart appearance, an upright stance, and a military looking moustache.
- Spit and polish did more than produce a smart appearance: it helped inculcate a corporate spirit.
- He was making sure that if all else failed he would be smart in appearance with a pair of black polished shoes.
- A very smart bunch who appeared to take great delight in posing and trotting about the place.
- Its not all about smart suited execs, bright young techies, missions statements and working breakfasts with the international blogerati in Kensington.
- And being on time, having a positive outlook and a smart appearance help to make a good first impression.
- But this man was the real thing: well-spoken, briefcase, smart dresser.
- They considered themselves to be smart and fashionable.
- Feathering should be trimmed every few months, both to give the dog a smart appearance and to repel the grime that seems to accumulate there.
- The new car has the appeal of fresh looks and a smart interior.
- The local pub has just won Fuller's Pub of the Year competition, for the quality of its ales, smart appearance, ambient atmosphere and good food.
- John Lewis has a good selection of styles in basic colours, as well as red, smart sagey greens, all shades of brown and even a wacky violet.
- The bridge has survived flooding, and was repainted in smart Kendal green in the year 2000.
- The racecourse's smart, modern appearance, location in the middle of the Downs and the glamour associated with horse racing are thought to be the main attractions.
- But there is much more to it than a lovely fresh ringtone or smart wallpaper.
- The mere fact that polish is applied to boots and shoes for the purpose of cleaning them and giving them a smart appearance seems to me to be quite irrelevant in this connection.
- Near the Serpentine, he became aware of a smart green and yellow phaeton stopped ahead of him.
- That summer, we visited Spain in a rather smart Volkswagen camper van I had bought with a small bequest from my Aunt Helen, thought Salamanca was heaven on earth and decided to live there.
- He drove off in his smart van leaving me in a state of unease.
- It is a smart green coloured train with Urdu lettering.
- It was July 1959 when David's smart, green Daimler bus was crossing through traffic lights at Heaton Park's Grand Lodge.
- So, slowly but surely, the Metrobus blue-and-yellow is dying out, and that horrible green Arriva thing will be replaced by a smart red.
- The smallish dining room is smart and comfortable, and the service has personality, wit, and a refreshingly unforced charm.
- Far from looking dull, the black and white combinations are sharp and smart and exude timeless elegance.
- they have a really smart house — tienen una casa muy bien puesta
1.2(chic)
(hotel/neighborhood) elegante(hotel/neighborhood) fino- Ayrshire - the birthplace of our national bard and producer of possibly the best bacon in Scotland - is coming into its own as a startlingly smart place to live.
- I have been to a very smart place called Century on Shaftesbury Ave.
- You can have lots of ugly old photo frames, with masses of pics of yourself in smart places or with famous people.
- Only a mile east of Glasgow's smart city centre streets, this - the third most deprived council ward in Scotland - might as well be on a different planet.
- The style of the gate should match the house: a wicket gate would look out of place in a smart city setting, whereas antique wrought iron might lead to expectations that a cottage garden fails to meet.
- This is a very nice and smart area of central Tokyo, rather like Knightsbridge: a wide leafy boulevard with lots of side streets and fashionable places to shop.
- Dates with the girls took place in smart locations like Mediterranean resorts and even on a luxury yacht off the Côte D' Azur.
- When built at the turn of the last century this was in a smart district of the city, but decay has set in.
- After about half an hour tailing my taxi, we arrive in a smart area on the outskirts of Rhodes town itself, where modern hotels stand shoulder-to-shoulder facing a small but pleasant beach.
- Our weekend cottage is situated in a quiet but rather smart village in the Derbyshire Peak District, somewhere between Ashbourne, Bakewell and Buxton.
- Pulling out of Queen's Park, heading towards Maida Vale through the smart terraces, it was all very nice, until at the Harrow Road a big gang of bus enthusiasts came on.
- Residents living in a smart area of Salisbury are preparing to do battle a second time to save two large detached family homes which are under threat of demolition.
- The family moved to their present home in a smart district on the edge of the town about two-and-a-half years ago.
- The man now regarded as one of the prime suspects in the alleged air terror plot moved into a smart area of Bahawalpur, in southern Punjab, just three months ago.
- Interior of a smart City office, with an elderly businessman sitting at a large oak desk.
- The menu is Scottish with French influences, while the decor and atmosphere are smart without being stuffy.
- In 1982, he was a long way from Angola and his bush fighters, in a smart suburb of Rabat in Morocco.
- The daughters of an insurance investigator, they lived in a smart area close to the cathedral.
- Shocked residents have told of the mayhem brought to their smart suburb after a man was found shot dead.
- Born in 1913 into a family of means and international connections, Helms grew up in smart suburbs of Philadelphia and New York.
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(clever, shrewd)(businessman/child) listo(businessman/child) vivo(answer/comment) inteligente(answer/comment) agudo(trick) hábilshe's made some very smart business moves — ha hecho algunas operaciones muy inteligentes / acertadas- he's just a smart talker — lo que tiene es mucha labia
- he's a bit too smart if you ask me — para mí se pasa de listo
- He's really, really smart - intellectually curious, thoughtful, creative, you name it.
- The sad part is that the present head and deputy head of the nation are by far the most intelligent and smart pair of leaders we have had for a long period of time.
- I would just like to say that I think Owen's a very smart and intelligent kind of gentleman.
- Now she's always been known to be intellectually smart, but that question was really stupid and ignorant!
- If the newspaper publisher is smart, then the intelligent design ought to be continuously updated.
- He lists his ideal mate as needing to be smart, intelligent, possessing a sense of humour and a well toned body.
- This year smart hearts and intelligent emotions are essential survival tools.
- I found Jason to be very smart and quick-witted.
- Shelly was smart, intellectual, and quiet while Kenny, her total opposite, was loud, ridiculous, and hilarious.
- It's one thing to be smart and quick-witted, but can you back it up?
- He always seemed to be the first to get his reply in, quick-witted and clearly smart.
- On top of that, he was grace with a very smart, intelligent, warm, caring, friendly brain.
- A very smart and quick-witted comic, Wuhl always has tons of energy that holds the film together and keeps it moving.
- Brilliant cop, very smart and intuitive, but at the same time he was a people's man.
- I like being the smart, intelligent career woman who is respected by her peers.
- They equate winning with intellect, rich with smart.
- To execute our repertoire, dancers have to be more than good, smart, intelligent movers.
- Once in a while, I get mail which makes me feel that the world is a very beautiful place full of smart intellectual beings.
- My little brother Zack is smart, but not geeky smart, he's intelligent.
- You were beautiful, intelligent, smart, sensitive, and a real friend!
- he's just a smart talker — lo que tiene es mucha labia
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3.1(brisk, prompt)
(pace) rápido- We galloped out of Vals at a smart pace and made the 124 Km quite easily in the prescribed 2 1/2 hours.
- In the first place, we must accept that the purely biographical narratives are compressed accounts: they are stories, and they are stories which march at a smart pace.
- They were wondering why the PM shut the MP up quick smart when he said something similar to what they're thinking.
- We reckon that the royal family should snap up some of the domain names quick smart.
- Now that he has got his head in front, further successes may well follow and Richard Fahey's smart gelding is expected to complete a quick double.
3.2(forceful)
(blow/rap/tap) seco(blow/rap/tap) fuerte
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Electronics
(automated)(machine/terminal) inteligente(machine/terminal) domótico- Alexa is a smart computer system capable of hearing and responding to the human voice.
- Just like in all the science fiction scenarios in which the machines take over and do all sort sorts of nasty things, a truly smart machine will be capable of being a truly evil machine.
- Their suit accused gun makers of ignoring safety devices and smart gun technology that would prevent unauthorized shooters like Myles' killer.
- For the moment, let's ignore three questions: Are we smart enough to program smart appliances?
- Sales of film dropped 15 percent from last year because cameras have become smart devices.
- So part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be opened up to anyone who uses smart devices.
- But I do believe that the clock could be an essential part of a smart device's tech nonetheless.
- The camera is smart enough to sense whether a picture is taken in a portrait or landscape orientation, and compensate with White Balance and other effects based on the orientation.
- No, these are not science fiction, they're just some of the smart devices heading our way.
- Like many smart devices, my phone has an alarm to tell me when the battery is low.
- Other advantages of smart devices include power consumption monitoring and reporting.
- ‘Modern alarm devices are so smart, they can even tell when they need to be cleaned,’ he continues.
- It's a pathetically old technology, especially for an industry that prides itself on such ostensibly smart devices, and it has to go.
- An exhaustive work on the subject of using Linux in embedded systems and smart devices certainly could occupy a lot more pages.
- They can be combined with each other and with other applications and smart devices.
- When the personal computer was introduced 20 years ago, few people foresaw the widespread proliferation of smart devices.
- We know what's going on better than our enemies because of smart weapons and sensors.
- The joke about a surgical strike with a smart missile has been around since the first Gulf war.
- Embedded devices add levels of intelligence to their hosting computer or smart device, and are a common technology on telecom and data networks.
- The third smart gun safety mechanism postulated is magnetic technology.
intransitive verb
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(sting)(eyes) escocer(eyes) picar(eyes) arder(wound) escocer(wound) arder Southern Conethe memory of her words still smarted — sus palabras le seguían doliendo / lo seguían mortificando- A nervous-looking soldier had given her the wound, and she smarted at the pain it was causing her.
- Tamara, still smarting with pain, just cried as Penelope walked out of the house in jealous rage and did not return.
- Her eyes actually smarted with pain as she looked at it and Jade realized she had not felt the sun on her back for at least three days.
- The light scent didn't smart or sting and was, as he put it ‘redolent of old money!’
- While still smarting from the body blows, Mnisi appeared to be cautious while Dintsi suddenly burst into action with his jab and controlling the round.
- At any rate, here you are, sitting in your room, wounds smarting from the rejection.
- Wexford come to the field still smarting from the deep scratches inflicted by the Cats.
- My knees ached from sitting and my eyes smarted from staring at the screen.
- He rubbed his elbow, which smarted from breaking his fall.
- My eyes are more than prickling now, they're smarting, and tears are rolling down my cheeks.
- Though the hot wax smarted, it didn't hurt as bad as Randy would have thought.
- Okay, maybe this doesn't qualify as a safety hazard, but darnit it smarts when it gets into your eyes.
- My tootsies are smarting like you wouldn't believe.
- Makes the skin of your face tingle and smart like it's been slapped.
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(be distressed)to smart from sth — resentirse de algoto smart under sth- The Audit Commission has extended an olive branch to the Council chiefs who are still smarting after the authority was branded ‘weak.’
- Clarets chief Cotterill was smarting after seeing referee Colin Webster ignore his side's appeals for two late spot kicks after Ian Moore had already missed a late penalty.
- This was on top of the fact that at that time he was smarting from various other frustrations with Singapore and perhaps some of the other ASEAN members.
- When he went to register the theft, four other tourists were already in line ahead of him, smarting over similar humiliation.
- In 1996, Kentucky was smarting from the sting of its regional final collapse against North Carolina the previous season.
- He is still clearly smarting from the wounds from this film.
- It was salt in the wounds of a Fianna Fáil party smarting from a grass roots rebellion in the European and local elections.
- When she's being patient and honest, you want to cheer; when she says she's been hurt, it smarts.
- Campaigners still smarting from ‘the bruises’ of wrangles with education officials four years ago advised parents of children who have been declined places from their primary school.
- Still smarting from the terrible interruption to their plans by those cunning security measures in airports - what wily geniuses the enemy are to have thought of making the check-in staff ask such questions!
- Residents in Croydon, still smarting from a 27 per cent increase in this year's council tax, say an extra £20 a year until the 2012 games takes the biscuit.
- Chen's removal, under such circumstances, would amount to a kind of legalized coup by the Kuomintang, which is still smarting from its historic loss of the presidency in the March election.
- Reed is still smarting with his side's defence after they conceded four goals in the first 20 minutes of their 5-1 FA Cup first round defeat at Farnborough.
- Shelbourne were still smarting from a penalty decision that went against them within fifteen seconds of the start of the second half and trailed 1-2 at the time.
- Second-rower Nathan Sharpe, smarting from the Wellington defeat when he was captain, had a stormer but, worryingly, finished the game with a shoulder injury.
- And he expressed no fear about going up against a Democratic opposition, still smarting from election losses and gearing up to fight him every step of the way.
- Even the action groups, who are still smarting from failing to win a single board seat and Treves's dogged refusal to co-opt any of them on to the board, wholeheartedly support his chairmanship.
- Ireland are certain to be given a robust challenge by a team still smarting from the disappointment of conceding three goals to Netherlands in the last seven minutes of their tie on Saturday.
- I was smarting from the realisation that nothing was every going to happen between me and my friend, and I couldn't focus enough to be involved with someone else, even someone as kind as the waiter.