to all intents and purposes

Meaning: (idiomatic,British)For every functional purpose; in every practical sense; in every important respect;practicallyspeaking.To all intents and purposesthe case is closed.This treaty isto all intents and purposesno longer viable.2011December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, inThe Guardian‎[1]:With the arrival of the cold war, relations between the two countries (for this is,to all intents and purposes, what they became after the end of the war) were almost completely broken off, with whole families split for the ensuing decades, some for ever.2020November 18, Gareth Dennis, “Can Cambridgeshire plan transform transportation?”, inRail, page64:Have you heard the word "gadgetbahn"? It's a portmanteau coined to describe transport proposals that,to all intents and purposes, ought to be delivered using proven railway technology... and yet go out of their way to be anything but a railway.

Examples:

EN: The matter would appear to all intents and purposes to be approaching a conclusion.
ES: El asunto parece estar próximo a su término.
EN: 'I leave behind a whole continent, 'vast, mysterious, inhospitable, 'and still, to all intents and purposes, unknown.'
ES: "Dejo atrás todo un continente", "vasto, misterioso, inhóspito", "y, a pesar de todos los intentos y propósitos",
EN: What's the difference, since to all intents and purposes, I'm dead already?
ES: ¿Cuál es la diferencia si ya estoy muerto?
EN: Haman, the chief minister, that prince of festering corruption, Is to all intents and purposes our ruler.
ES: Hamán, el Primer Ministro, ese príncipe de la corrupción, es quien gobierna a todos los efectos.
EN: Commissioner, to all intents and purposes he is human.
ES: Señor comisionado, por todos los actos de la vida, el es humano.
EN: Then, to all intents and purposes - we're going to die!
ES: Y entonces a todos los efectos vamos a morir.
EN: Euh, to all intents and purposes.
ES: No exactamente, pero como si lo fueran.
EN: Well, yes, damn it, it is, to all intents and purposes
ES: No, señor. ¡Empezad ya!
EN: It's two and three-quarter inches long, preserved in miraculous detail, and to all intents and purposes it looks identical with a stork feather.
ES: Tiene 7 centímetros de largo, conservada en milagroso detalle, y para todos los efectos y fines luce idéntica a una pluma de cigueña.
EN: - Yes. Someone who, to all intents and purposes, leads a thoroughly unremarkable life and yet who, at given times, becomes a totally different person with characteristics wholly unlike his - or her - other self.
ES: Sí, el hombre que intenta convencernos de que lleva una vida pacífica y que, sin él mismo saberlo puede dejarse llevar por las características de otra personalidad distinta a la suya.
EN: The Firefox is to all intents and purposes invisible.
ES: El Firefox es en efecto, invisible.
EN: Well, to all intents and purposes he is.
ES: - Bueno, ese es el propósito.
EN: Miss Hebron omitted my name from the form requested, an oversight, of course, but to all intents and purposes,
ES: La Srta. Hebron omitió mi nombre en el legado. Un descuido, por supuesto.
EN: My contribution will be, to all intents and purposes, a warning, a statement I am forced to make in public, even though I deplore the necessity and am uncomfortable in that arena.
ES: Mi aporte será, por sobre todo, una advertencia. Una declaración, que estoy forzado a hacer públicamente, aunque esa situación se me hace complicada.
EN: They're in your wife's name, but to all intents and purposes, they're yours?
ES: Están a nombre de tu mujer, pero a todos los efectos, ¿son tuyos?

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