Spanish English Dictionary

español - English

montón in English:

1. slew


a whole slew of other crimes
I lost control of the car and it slewed sideways into the ditch.
we are going to wrap up a slew of important ideas
A slew of corporate logos adorned the entrance to the soccer match.

English word "montón"(slew) occurs in sets:

Fichas del libro - "A Book of Epigrams" (Various)
Fichas del libro - "Stories of the Old world" (Alf...
Fichas del libro - "Andromache A Play in Three Act...
Fichas del libro - "Tord of Hafsborough and Other ...
Fichas del libro - "How Rifleman Brown Came to Val...

2. heap


The building was reduced to a heap of rubble.
The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
heap of letters
Clothes were heaped on a chair
Lying on the heap of...
A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.
The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs.
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.
... and it drove a heap of traffic backwards and...
in heaps / a rubbish heap
Jack has a whole heaps of CDs.
Joan is just twenty years old, but she looks like a heap.
How much for this heap?
Your room is so dirty, look at this heap of rubbish!
There isn't any car mechanic in the world who can fix this old heap

English word "montón"(heap) occurs in sets:

Fichas del libro - "The Little Gingerbread Man" (G...
Fichas del libro - "An Elephant for the Prinkip" (...
Fichas del libro - "Dolly and Molly and the Farmer...
Fichas del libro - "The Golden Boys Along the Rive...

3. stack


If you stack the dishes up by the sink, I'll do them later.
There is a big stack of mail on the table.
I've got a whole stack of forms.
You need to clean this stack of paper from your desk.
She began stacking plates on the trolley.
stack=pile one on another
a stack of books/CDs
книгохранилище - stacks
these are stack of paper
We were furioulsly digging through the stacks.
Only one stack had a real bill on top.
You stand the axis on the base and then proceed to stack up each part, staggering their position.

English word "montón"(stack) occurs in sets:

Fichas del libro - "A Revised and Illustrated Trea...
Fichas del libro - "A Treatise on Grain Stacking I...