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tirada
throw
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Tirar as a noun: a single throw, or one of several meanings extending from a single pull
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tirar
to throw, to pull
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-ada
noun suffix
Tirada is tirar0 turned into a noun. When tirar means "to throw," a tirada is a single throw. When it means "to pull," tirada has developed a number of meanings extending from the idea of a single pull.
tirada
throw
A single throw, most often of dice or of something tossed in a game.
En la siguiente tirada necesito un seis para ganarOn the next throw I need a six to win
Le tocó la primera tirada de los dadosHe got the first roll of the dice
print run, circulation (printing)
In printing, a bar is pulled to press the type onto the paper. One pull produced one batch of sheets. The word came to mean the printing itself, and then how many copies of a book or newspaper it produced.
La novela tuvo una tirada de cincuenta mil ejemplaresThe novel had a print run of fifty thousand copies
El periódico perdió tirada durante la crisisThe newspaper lost circulation during the crisis
stretch, haul, distance (colloquial)
A distance is a single continuous piece of ground that has been pulled or stretched out. The tirada is the "thing that has been pulled," and from there it came to refer to the distance itself. It's just like the English word "stretch," like a "stretch of road."
Todavía queda una buena tirada hasta el puebloIt's still a fair stretch to the town
Del aeropuerto a mi casa hay una tirada considerableIt's quite a haul from the airport to my house
run, training run (running)
A single run, the distance a runner does in one training session. A distance is a single continuous piece of ground that has been pulled or stretched out. The tirada is the "thing that has been pulled," and from there it came to refer to the distance itself. It's just like the English word "stretch," like a "stretch of road" or a runner completing "the final stretch" of a race.
El domingo tengo una tirada de veinte kilómetrosSunday I have a twenty-kilometer run
Combino una tirada larga con dos cortas cada semanaI combine one long run with two short ones every week
string, stream (colloquial)
A series of words delivered without stopping. When something is pulled, it's stretched out in one continuous length. That extended to mean something continuous and uninterrupted, here referring to the speech itself.
Soltó una tirada de insultos y se marchóHe let out a string of insults and left
Nos recitó una tirada de estadísticas sin pararHe reeled off a stream of statistics without stopping
de una tirada
in one go, in one sitting, in one stretch
Describes doing something in one continuous session without stopping in the middle. When something is pulled, it's stretched out in one continuous length. So when something is done in a way that's "of one pull," meaning it's done in one pull, it happens in a continuous, unbroken way.
Leí el libro entero de una tiradaI read the whole book in one go
Condujimos hasta la costa de una tiradaWe drove to the coast in one stretch