Spanish English Dictionary

español - English

la cola in English:

1. queue queue


I'm in a queue
Rob is late for the programme because there was such a long queue for coffee!
A queue is a line of people waiting for something to happen. We see queues in amusement parks, the supermarket and at the cinema when a new movie is released.
To form in a line while waiting (often followed by up). To arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc) into a queue.
Please hold the line so as not to lose your place in the queue.
At the train station, once I had figured out where the queue for tickets actually was, I began the long wait.
I didn't arrive in Harbin until very late, and the queue for taxis was already extremely long.
Japanese and British people usually wait at a bus stop in a queue.
Not long after I joined the queue, a man approached and asked if I wanted a taxi.
This implies a fun and relaxed working atmosphere where team achievement is highly valued, communication is extremely important and traditional 3-hour meetings have been replaced by informal chats in the queue for coffee.
People queued to buy Diablo 3.
I talk to everyone – even people next to me in the queue.
Look the queue is so long, I will not stand here.
This boy jumped a queue.
One of the reasons I prefer travelling by train is that there are often long queues at the airport.

English word "la cola"(queue) occurs in sets:

Shopping and services - Compras y servicios
Shopping and Service - Compras y Servicios
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Unit 4: extra words

2. tail tail


Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
As a tadpole grows, the tail disappears and legs begin to form.
I can't make head nor tail of it.
If you cut the tail off of a lizard, it will grow back.
The tail of a fox is longer than that of a rabbit.
the horse has tail
It was naughty of Mary to pull the kitten's tail.
Despite the fact that Mary keeps saying I was the only man she'd like to marry, when I proposed to her, she said "NO". I cannot make head or tail of it.
Some learned writers have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram, because as the sting of the Scorpion lies in the tail, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Just as if it were my tail, wherever I go, it goes too.
sit on somebody's tail
The farmer wants to start milking again, but now the cow is hitting him with her tail.
The animal sprays liquid from a gland under its tail.
There's the whole long tail problem they have.

English word "la cola"(tail) occurs in sets:

Parts of the body - Partes del cuerpo
The world of the animals - El mundo de los animales
Air transport - Transporte aéreo
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