loosely

[US]/'lu:sli/
[UK]/ˈluslɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adv. no de manera ajustada; de manera relajada; sin estrictamente.

Phrases & Collocations

loosely tied

holgamente atado

loosely based

holgadamente basado

loosely connected

débilmente conectado

loosely defined

vagamente definido

loosely organized

holgadamente organizado

loosely interpreted

holgadamente interpretado

Example Sentences

a very loosely structured organization

una organización muy poco estructurada

A cofactor bound loosely to the apoenzyme and readily separable from it is a coenzyme.

Un cofactor ligado flojamente a la apoenzima y fácilmente separable de ella es una coenzima.

a loosely organized confederacy of allies

una confederación laxa de aliados

an offensive by seven loosely allied guerrilla groups

una ofensiva de siete grupos guerrilleros aliados de forma laxa

He had lost weight and the suit hung loosely on him.

Había perdido peso y el traje le quedaba suelto.

the scarves were knotted loosely around their throats.

Los bufandas estaban atados sueltamente alrededor de sus cuellos.

He wore plimsolls, loosely tied with bits of string.

Llevaba plimsolls, atados holgadamente con trozos de cuerda.

His shaggy grey hair fell loosely across his brow.

Su cabello gris y desgreñado caía suelto sobre su frente.

I worked loosely with the oils, allowing colours to bleed into one another.

Trabajé libremente con los aceites, permitiendo que los colores se filtraran unos en otros.

Trama The inner tissue of the gills in basidiomycete fungi that is made up of loosely packed hyphae.

Trama El tejido interno de las agallas en hongos basidiomicetos que está compuesto de hifas sueltas.

A nineteenth-century adventure yarn , loosely derived from a poem by Lord Byron , Le Corsaire tells of harems , abductions , pirates , pashas , slave girls , treachery , true love and a shipwreck.

Una historia de aventuras del siglo XIX, vagamente derivada de un poema de Lord Byron, Le Corsaire, cuenta sobre harems, secuestros, piratas, pachás, esclavas, traición, verdadero amor y un naufragio.

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