estímulo
= boost, incentive, leaven, prodding, spur, stimulation, stimulus [stimuli, -pl.], encouragement, enhancer, facilitator, prod, kick-start [kickstart], kick-start [kickstart], word of encouragement, nudge, titillation, driving force, stimulant.
Ex: Consequently, Leforte came to expect -- perhaps even take for granted -- the periodic boosts of ego and income that the evaluations provided.
Ex: This article considers the strengths of a pay scale as a work incentive.
Ex: But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
Ex: Computers are quite adroit at such simple yes/no response without much prodding.
Ex: This was a spur to several other London boroughs who set up shop-front consumer advice centres from 1972.
Ex: The reader of this work can relive with some degree of verisimilitude the excitement and stimulation created by these institutes and such colloquies as the Kilgour-Lubetzky exchange.
Ex: This was not intended as a criticism of their hard working colleagues but simply as an admission that they needed additional support and stimulus.
Ex: Nevertheless my debts are real, and I particularly want to thank David Foxon for his illuminating commentary on the final sections, and D. F. McKenzie for his encouragement throughout.
Ex: The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.
Ex: Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.
Ex: She sat back in her chair and considered her supervisor's gentle prods.
Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
Ex: That would be a great kick-start to raising awareness of IFLA 2002.
Ex: This he knew happens to employees who are not given a word of encouragement, some recognition.
Ex: Results showed that student teachers needed additional support, either via nudge or overt expectations, to actually apply what they had learned.
Ex: At heart, it is a smirkingly adolescent pursuit of cheap laughs and mild titillation, with a surfeit of jokes involving breasts and bums and with new extremes of scatological humiliation.
Ex: On-line services have been one of the most powerful driving forces moving information away from its traditional definition and towards the commodity view.
Ex: The system consequently retrieves any record in which the term "stimulants" appears.
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* dar estímulo = provide + boost.
* estímulo excesivo = overstimulation.
* estímulos visuales = visual stimuli.
* ofrecer estímulo = provide + stimulus.
* ser un estímulo = be motivating.