costa English

Meaning costa meaning

What does costa mean?

costa

— noun a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)

— noun (= rib) any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates)

Synonyms costa synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as costa?

costa English » English

rib

side

costae rib

Examples costa examples

How do I use costa in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Adriana is from Costa Rica. She is Costa Rican.

I'm from Costa Rica.

Movie subtitles

Mom's gonna be in the Costa for a couple of days.

And she will telephone the Princess de Costa.

Good morning, Costa.

Calm down, my dear Costa. You know drinking is bad for you.

What about that man, Costa?

Gino Costa. let's go.

There are 10,000 troops in Panama whom you could blockade while I destroyed El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica. You would be helping your country's cause.

This is the spot indicated on the French Map, Costa Hermosa, Chile.

It's a speciality of the Costa Verde.

Costa isn't a dentist.

Costa and I heard about it at Campo delle Piastre.

I'm sick of Rasori, Gaibazzi, Costa, of the whole Tara.

Costa, Rasori and Gaibazzi.

Costa, Rasori, Gaibazzi,.. my father's friends.

Where is Costa?

Costa's been held up.

Costa, where are you?

This is a friendly game, Costa. I aim to keep it that way. You're trying to bait me.

Tell him it was a joke, Costa.

Lieutenant Costa, sir.

Get Lieutenant Costa over here. Tell him to bring his platoon sergeant.

Hey, Costa.

Captain, it's Lieutenant Costa on the radio, sir.

I gave Costa my word.

Where's Lieutenant Costa?

How about it, Toliver? What were Lieutenant Costa's chances?

That's for Costa, you squarehead!

About 10. Five dead. Costa's missing.

And she will telephone the Princess de Costa. The princess doesn't like me.

Allow me, don Pedro Alvarez da Costa, duke and Grandee of Spain.

You want to go to the Costa del Sol?

Another beautiful day on the Costa del Sol.

Costa Valdes gave no clue.

Costa Valdes.

And what about Costa?

You must never look back. Don't you know that, Costa?

You can't hold your liquor, Costa.

COSTA VALDES, THE HAWK's accomplice still on the run.

News and current affairs

Estonia and Costa Rica are well-known examples of how information-access strategies can help accelerate output growth and raise income levels.

Costa Rica, for example, has already shown that a system of paying for the provision of environmental services (like maintaining natural forests) can work in ways that preserve the environment and boost the economy.

For example, white-tailed deer living in northwestern Costa Rica host six species of tick.

This debilitating - and difficult to diagnose - illness could thus be introduced to Costa Rica inadvertently by something as simple as an asymptomatic eco-tourist.

The Court's president, Jean-Paul Costa, expressed a similar view, without questioning the legitimacy of the decision, although Judge Cabral Barreto wrote a dissenting opinion.

According to Costa, rejecting the ruling in February 2006 would contradict previous case law.

Chile was the star reformer, but other countries - including Botswana, China, Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South Korea - also avoided pro-cyclical fiscal policies.

Tropical Costa Rica also ranks near the top of the happiness league.

If the courts fail to act, the CALDH will take the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, or perhaps to Europe.

Some countries - Chile, Columbia, and Costa Rica, for example - remain committed to progressive growth-oriented and democratic regimes.

If too we add El Salvador to this list, only Costa Rica and Panama to the south remain out of the loop, leaving Mexico to the north increasingly exposed.

To cite one example: because Costa Rica's government pays private landowners for biodiversity conservation and other ecosystem services, deforestation rates in that country have diminished dramatically.

It must transform itself into something like the Social Christian or Christian Democratic parties that exist in Costa Rica, Chile, Venezuela, and Peru.

Can it be the same President Oscar Arias who (barely) won the recent presidential election in Costa Rica and now returns to power after 20 years?

Costa Rica in Central America and Mauritius in Africa each pulled ahead of its regional peers some time ago.

None of the ticks is known to carry Lyme Disease, which has never been reported in Costa Rica.

The information about Costa Rican deer ticks comes from an inventory of parasites of vertebrates in northern Costa Rica, but it is the only inventory of its kind ever undertaken.

This is true as much as for the rest of Central America - with the general exception of Costa Rica and Panama - as it is for Guatemala alone.

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel, and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses.

We have created a series of social businesses in Bangladesh, and more are now springing up in Albania, Haiti, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom, Japan, India, China, and Germany, among others.

The dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua over navigation on the San Juan River, and the heated jurisdictional arguemnts between Colombia and Venezuela also help raise regional tempers.

But the problem is that the OAS will be holding its annual assembly in June this year in Peru, and several countries -- Canada, Costa Rica, the US, Colombia, Panama, Peru itself, and probably Chile - will push to have Honduras re-admitted.