menos
SÍMBOLOS MATEMÁTICOS
+; Más; El Signo +; Signo más; Signo menos; −; Signos mas y menos; Menos; +/-; -/+; +-; -+; +−; −+; +/−; −/+; Signo mas; − +; + -; + −; - +
= least, less [lesser -comp., least -sup.], minus, but, less so.
Ex: Service to the whole community implies positive discrimination towards those who through social or educational deprivation are least adept at using information tools.
Ex: The role of analytical entries in an online catalogue is less clear.
Ex: Copies of records created by the libraries, minus local data, are added to the pool of cataloguing information available to users.
Ex: Rotundas were widely used for all but the most formal texts in the fifteenth century, but fell out of fashion during the sixteenth century, surviving longest in Spain.
Ex: Vellum remained popular on the continent, less so in England; while goatskin (morocco), although well established by this time for fine work, was seldom used in trade binding except for prayer books.
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* al menos = at least, at the very least.
* a menos que = unless, short of.
* area menos favorecida = less favoured area.
* cada vez menos = less and less.
* cuanto menos = at least, let alone, at best.
* dar menos de lo debido = shortchange.
* de menos del 10 por ciento = single digit, single figure.
* dentro de lo malo lo menos malo = the best of a bad lot.
* echar de menos = miss.
* echar muchísimo de menos = be sorely missed, be sadly missed.
* echar mucho de menos = be sorely missed, be sadly missed.
* el último pero no el menos importante = the last but by no means least.
* en todos menos en = in all but.
* hacerlo todo menos = stop at + nothing short of.
* horas de menos aglomeración = off-peak times.
* lo menos posible = as little as possible.
* más o menos = more or less, of a sort, or so, of sorts, after a fashion, round about, roughly speaking, give or take.
* más o menos + Adverbio = relatively + Adverbio.
* más o menos cuadrado = squarish.
* menos aún = let alone.
* menos blandeces y más mano dura = less of the carrot, more of the stick, less of the carrot, more of the stick.
* menos conocido = lesser known.
* menos cultos, los = less literate, the.
* menos de + Cantidad = under + Cantidad, less than + Cantidad.
* menos de + Edad = on the right side of + Edad.
* menos desarrollado = less developed [less-developed].
* menos en = save in.
* menos en el caso de que = except when.
* menos favorecido = less-advantaged, less favoured [less favored].
* menos hecho = rarer.
* menos importante, el = least, the.
* menos probable = least likely, less likely.
* menos ... que ... = less ... than ....
* menos rápidos, los = less fleet of foot, the.
* menos usado = less used.
* mucho menos = a great deal less, let alone, far less.
* nada más y nada menos = as much as + Expresión Numérica.
* nada más y nada menos que = in the order of + Cantidad, nothing less than.
* nada más y nada menos que de = to the tune of + Cantidad.
* nada más y nada menos que desde + Expresión Temporal = from as far back as + Expresión Temporal.
* nada más y nada menos que + Número = as many as + Número.
* nada menos que + Nombre + tan + Adjetivo + como = no less + Adjetivo + Nombre + than.
* ni más ni menos = nothing more, nothing less, no more, no less.
* ni mucho menos = by any stretch of the imagination, by any means, not by a long shot.
* Nombre + más o menos = Nombre + of sorts.
* no ser menos que el vecino = keep up with + the Joneses.
* no ser menos que los demás = keep up with + the Joneses.
* pagar menos de lo que se debería = underpay.
* para no ser menos = not to be outdone.
* por último pero no menos importante = last but not least.
* región menos favorecida = less favoured region (LFR).
* salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera = come out of + the woodwork.
* ser menos + Adjetivo = be less of a(n) + Nombre.
* ser nada más y nada menos que = be nothing less than.
* signo menos (-) = minus sign (-), negative sign (-).
* todo menos = everything except (for).
* todos menos = everyone except.
* todos menos + Número = all but + Número.
* último pero no el menos importante, el = final and not the least important, the.
* venir a menos = retrench.
* y cuanto mucho menos = much less.
* y mucho menos = much less, least of all.
* zona menos favorecida = less favoured area.