toaster
Spanish translation: grabadora
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| 08:28 Jul 16, 2007 |
| English to Spanish translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) / Mobile computing device | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Jose Ramon Biau Gil Spain Local time: 11:34 | ||||||
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| 5 +4 | grabadora |
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| 4 | A peripheral device |
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A peripheral device Explanation: It's slang for "A peripheral device" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2007-07-16 08:36:20 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "I bought my box without toasters, but since then I've added two boards and a second disk drive." -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7 mins (2007-07-16 08:36:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- web toaster n. A small specialized computer, shipped with no monitor or keyboard or any other external peripherals, pre-configured to be controlled through an Ethernet port and function as a WWW server. Products of this kind (for example the Cobalt Qube) are often about the size of a toaster. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2007-07-16 08:36:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- video toaster n. Historically, an Amiga fitted with a particular line of special video effects hardware from NewTek - long a popular platform at special-effects and video production houses. More generally, any computer system designed specifically for video production and manipulation |
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31 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4grabadora Explanation: "Toaster" is slang for "grabadora". It is called toaster because it "burns" ("graba") CDs or DVDs. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2007-07-16 09:55:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Hoy en día, cualquier cosa por abaratar precios: hay portátiles sin batería (son más ligeros), sin grabadora, sin disco duro (son "estaciones de trabajo" que guardan toda la información en un servidor central), etc. |
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