Glossary Act.28
Glossary Act.28
25 Retirement Complex terms
In this glossary, terms found in the integral project are shown: Retirament Complex.
- Access
- noun
- Place where one enters or reaches a place.
- Example: "single rooms have private baths accessed via the balcony"
- en: Acceso
- Administration
- noun
- the process or activity of running a business, organization, etc.
- Example: "the day-to-day administration of the company"
- en: Administración
- Auditorium
- noun
- The part of a theatre, or similar building, where the people who are watching and listening sit:
- Example: No smoking in the auditorium.
- en: Auditorio
- Bathrooms
- noun
- a room containing a toilet and sink and typically also a bathtub or shower.
- en: Baños
- Coffee Shop
- noun
- a cafe serving coffee and light refreshments.
- Example: This is promoting books as gifts. There is also a COFFEE SHOP a Costa Coffee chain.
- en: Cafetería
- Dance hall
- noun
- a large room set aside or suitable for dances especially : a public hall offering facilities for dancing.
- Example: She was in the dance hall yesterday.
- en: Salon de baile
- Foundation
- noun
- The lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level.
- Example: Build the arch resting on top of this solid foundation.
- Frame system
- noun
- Framing systems are forms of construction utilized to resist vertical forces (gravity) and lateral pressures (wind and earthquakes) against a building. The principal structural system of a building is its framing system; foundation systems are covered separately.
- Example: The new shopping center is built with a frame system
- en: Sistema de marcos
- Gallery
- noun
- A room or building for the display or sale of works of art.
- Example: Mona Lisa is found in the art gallery
- en: Galeria
- Garden
- noun
- a small piece of ground used to grow vegetables, fruit, herbs, or flowers.
- Example: They brought us tomatoes from their garden.
- en: Jardín
- Green Wall
- noun
- Green walls are vertical structures that have different types of plants or other greenery attached to them. The greenery is often planted in a growth medium consisting of soil, stone, or water
- Example: The green wall of the reception is incredible
- en: Muro verde
- Nursing
- The profession or practice of providing care for the sick and infirm.
- Example: Not enough people are entering nursing.
- en: Enfermería
- Occupational therapy
- noun
- A form of therapy for those recuperating from physical or mental illness that encourages rehabilitation through the performance of activities required in daily life.
- Example: Occupational therapy improves the lives of retirees
- en: Terapia Ocupacional
- Olympic Pool
- noun
- An Olympic-size swimming pool conforms to regulated dimensions that are large enough for international competition.
- Example: An olympic pool is needed for the competition
- en: Piscina Olimpica
- Pensioners
- A person who receives a pension.
- Example: The pensioners have already arrived at the event
- en: Pensionados
- Relaxed
- adjetive
- free from tension and anxiety; at ease.
- Example: Norma is very relaxed
- en: Relajado
- Sport Área
- noun
- Area where sports activities take place
- Example: The children are in the sports area
- en: Área deportiva
- Steel
- noun
- a hard, strong, gray or bluish-gray alloy of iron with carbon and usually other elements, used extensively as a structural and fabricating material.
- Example: steel girders
- en: Acero
- Structure
- noun
- the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.
- Example: Flint is extremely hard, like diamond, which has a similar structure.
- en: Estructura
- Teacher
- noun
- A person who teaches, especially in a school.
- Example: My English teacher is the best
- en: Maestro
- Textures
- noun
- the feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or substance.
- Example: skin texture and tone.
- en: Texturas
- Tranquility
- noun
- the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.
- Example: passing cars are the only noise that disturbs the tranquility of rural life.
- en: Tranquilidad
- Waiting room
- noun
- a room provided for the use of people who are waiting to be seen by a doctor or dentist or who are waiting in a station for a bus or train.
- Example: The director stay in the waiting room
- en: Sala de espera
- Warehouse
- noun
- a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored before their export or distribution for sale.
- Example: store (goods) in a warehouse.
- en: bodega
- Water
- noun
- a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
- Example: water is life
- en: Agua
