o
or.
The Boolean logic operator OR retrieves all records containing two OR more terms.
ahora o nunca
now or never
Live for the moment - it's now or never so let's stand together.
(bien) o
either ... or ...
Indicative-informative abstracts are more common than either the purely indicative or the purely informative abstract.
con respecto a si o
as to whether ... or ...
The article 'The grad versus the undergrad debate: a most ingenious paradox' suggests that opinion is divided as to whether to focus bibliographic instruction on the undergraduate or the graduate student.
él o ella
s/he
Then due to the difficulty of altering a manual file and the pressure to catalog more new books faster, s/he is administratively enjoined from attending to such details.
en uno o dos segundos
in an instant or two
Now rapid selection can slide just the proper card into position in an instant or two, and return it afterward.
grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría
peer group
peer group
The 10 journals published by the National Research Council of Canada were analysed using a peer group of journals constructed from cited and citing journal lists in JCR.
The 10 journals published by the National Research Council of Canada were analysed using a peer group of journals constructed from cited and citing journal lists in JCR.
hacer una búsqueda mediante el operador O
OR together
If you do this, the system Ors together the results of queries 1, 2, and 3.
instrumento o intérprete de la música
executant
Type of executant, size or complexity of executant body, accompanying executant, original executant (for arrangements).
letra rota o a medio imprimir
broken letter
And if you examine a certain page where you will find a broken letter in one, then you will also find it in the other one.
más o menos [Generalmente precedido de una cantidad]
more or less
or so
ballpark
DOBIS/LIBIS stores library files that contain more or less the same information found in manual files in libraries everywhere.
For example, in a normal indexing service all the documents listed in the issue for a specific month will have been published in the last year or so.
In hindsight about 350k dollars (ballpark) turned out to be the magic number.
novela escrita a base de fórmulas o clichés
formula fiction
The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.
novelas o libros que se compran en el supermercado
self-help
Should we ignore the major trade publishers for almost everything except genre fiction, blockbusters, popular self-help, celebrity biographies and exposés?.
o algo así
or something of that sort
or something to that effect
or something of that nature
Fidgety people are rarely well, they have generally `a headache,' or `spasms,' or `nerves,' or something of that sort.
Like Tolstoy said: man has no effect on history...or something to that effect.
If you are trying to break up a cat fight or something to that nature pick it up by the scruff of the neck.
o algo parecido
in the way of
or something of that sort
or something to that effect
or something of that nature
or anything like that
or words to that effect
The overall picture gained from this area analysis was that the hinterlands of the industrial towns were not areas where one could hope to find much in the way of bookshops.
Fidgety people are rarely well, they have generally `a headache,' or `spasms,' or `nerves,' or something of that sort.
Like Tolstoy said: man has no effect on history...or something to that effect.
If you are trying to break up a cat fight or something to that nature pick it up by the scruff of the neck.
Usually, when I have trouble sleeping it's not because I feel wrong or anything like that, it just happens.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (or words to that effect).
o algo similar
or something of that sort
or something to that effect
or something of that nature
or words to that effect
Fidgety people are rarely well, they have generally `a headache,' or `spasms,' or `nerves,' or something of that sort.
Like Tolstoy said: man has no effect on history...or something to that effect.
If you are trying to break up a cat fight or something to that nature pick it up by the scruff of the neck.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing (or words to that effect).
o de algún otro modo
or otherwise
But everyone must also realize that a fair is unlikely to be successful, commercially or otherwise, unless a broad selection of books is displayed.
o eso parece
or so it seems
The challenge of the Christian life, or so it seems to me, is to walk a kind of tightrope strung between this world and the next.
o mejor dicho
or rather
These are analogous, or rather synonymous, terms with intermingled aims and objectives and as such they need some elucidation.
o nada en absoluto
if at all
Elizabethan and Jacobean manuscripts were sketchily punctuated, if at all.
o no
or otherwise
By setting I mean the physical surroundings in which the activity takes place and their appropriateness, or otherwise, to that activity.
o qué sé yo
or whatever
He was swept across the intersection by a miscellaneous crowd of anxious, energetic persons in search of business or raiment or nourishment or whatever.
o quizás + Verbo
if not + Verbo
When Britain coolly marked, if not celebrated, the tenth anniversary of membership, the number of telephone calls had fallen to an avarage of ten a week.
o sea
that is
Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.
o si no
or else
Books are either commissioned by publishers, or else authors (or their agents) offer scripts and ideas to publishing firms.
por las buenas o por las malas
by hook or by crook
She wrote a paper with the title 'by hook or by crook: planning a year's syllabus for professionally-qualified students'.
si + Infinitivo + o no
whether or not to + Infinitivo
Since these words are new they will not appear in the go-list and the computer will not know whether or not to treat them as indexing terms.
ya sea o
whether ... or ...
Thus, the language is derived from the documents input to the system, whether they are abstracts, full text, citations or lists of controlled or uncontrolled index terms.
