bolsa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bag noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- drip verb To fall in individual drops.
- exchange noun An act of exchanging or trading.
- handbag noun A small bag, usually carried by women, used to hold personal items such as a wallet, keys, and makeup.
- pouch noun A small bag, often closed with a drawstring or zipper.
- purse noun A small bag used for carrying money and personal items, especially by women.
- satchel noun A bag, often with one or two shoulder straps, used for carrying books or other belongings.
Senses
bolsa is used for these senses in English:
- bag A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, briefcases, handbags, backpacks, etc.
- cul-de-sac (medicine, botany) A sacklike cavity, a tube open at one end only.
- drip (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- exchange A place for conducting trading.
- handbag (now, rare) A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job. [from 19th c.]
- pouch A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.
- pouch (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.
- purse (US) A handbag (small bag usually used by women for carrying various small personal items)
bag — full definition
- noun A flexible container, often with an opening at the top, used to hold or carry items.
- verb To put something into a bag, or more broadly, to succeed in getting or catching something.
drip — full definition
- verb To fall in individual drops.
- verb To leak or release liquid slowly.
- noun A single drop of liquid falling, or a device that slowly releases fluid, such as an intravenous drip.
- noun (informal) Stylish, fashionable clothing or overall style.