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1 singer
singer [sɛ̃ʒe]➭ TABLE 3 transitive verb[+ démarche, personne] to ape* * *sɛ̃ʒeverbe transitif to ape [personne, manière]; to feign, to fake [attitude, sentiment]* * *sɛ̃ʒe vtto ape, to mimic* * *[sɛ̃ʒe] verbe transitif -
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m.1 Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer.2 Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer. -
3 singer
nouna person who sings, eg as a profession:Are you a good singer?
مُغَنٍّHe's a trained singer.
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5 Singer
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6 singer
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7 Singer, Isaac Merritt
[br]b. 27 October 1811 Pittstown, New York, USAd. 23 July 1875 Torquay, Devonshire, England[br]American inventor of a sewing machine, and pioneer of mass production.[br]The son of a millwright, Singer was employed as an unskilled labourer at the age of 12, but later gained wide experience as a travelling machinist. He also found employment as an actor. On 16 May 1839, while living at Lockport, Illinois, he obtained his first patent for a rock-drilling machine, but he soon squandered the money he made. Then in 1849, while at Pittsburgh, he secured a patent for a wood-and metal-carving machine that he had begun five years previously; however, a boiler explosion in the factory destroyed his machine and left him penniless.Near the end of 1850 Singer was engaged to redesign the Lerow \& Blodgett sewing machine at the Boston shop of Orson C.Phelps, where the machine was being repaired. He built an improved version in eleven days that was sufficiently different for him to patent on 12 August 1851. He formed a partnership with Phelps and G.B. Zieber and they began to market the invention. Singer soon purchased Phelps's interest, although Phelps continued to manufacture the machines. Then Edward Clark acquired a one-third interest and with Singer bought out Zieber. These two, with dark's flair for promotion and marketing, began to create a company which eventually would become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines exported worldwide, with subsidiary factories in England.However, first Singer had to defend his patent, which was challenged by an earlier Boston inventor, Elias Howe. Although after a long lawsuit Singer had to pay royalties, it was the Singer machine which eventually captured the market because it could do continuous stitching. In 1856 the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important pooling arrangement in American history, was formed to share the various patents so that machines could be built without infringements and manufacture could be expanded without fear of litigation. Singer contributed his monopoly on the needle-bar cam with his 1851 patent. He secured twenty additional patents, so that his original straight-needle vertical design for lock-stitching eventually included such refinements as a continuous wheel-feed, yielding presser-foot, and improved cam for moving the needle-bar. A new model, introduced in 1856, was the first to be intended solely for use in the home.Initially Phelps made all the machines for Singer. Then a works was established in New York where the parts were assembled by skilled workers through filing and fitting. Each machine was therefore a "one-off" but Singer machines were always advertised as the best on the market and sold at correspondingly high prices. Gradually, more specialized machine tools were acquired, but it was not until long after Singer had retired to Europe in 1863 that Clark made the change to mass production. Sales of machines numbered 810 in 1853 and 21,000 ten years later.[br]Bibliography12 August 1851, US patent no. 8,294 (sewing machine)Further ReadingBiographies and obituaries have appeared in Appleton's Cyclopedia of America, Vol. V; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol XVII; New York Times 25 July 1875; Scientific American (1875) 33; and National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.D.A.Hounshell, 1984, From the American System to Mass Production 1800–1932. TheDevelopment of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Baltimore (provides a thorough account of the development of the Singer sewing machine, the competition it faced from other manufacturers and production methods).RLH -
8 Singer Company N. V.
NYSE. SEWУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Singer Company N. V.
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9 Singer Machine
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10 Singer Sewing Machine
Abbreviation: SSMУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Singer Sewing Machine
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11 Singer Under The Influence
Jocular: SUIУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Singer Under The Influence
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12 Singer fire control system
Engineering: SFCSУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Singer fire control system
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13 Singer-Kearfott inertial reference unit
Engineering: SKIRUУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Singer-Kearfott inertial reference unit
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14 singer's formant
Англо-русский словарь промышленной и научной лексики > singer's formant
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15 Prebisch-Singer-These
Prebisch-Singer-These f WIWI Prebisch-Singer thesis (Entwicklungspolitik)* * *f <Vw> Entwicklungspolitik Prebisch-Singer thesis -
16 Crack Loving Singer
Music: CLSУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Crack Loving Singer
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17 Fiona Apple (singer)
Abbreviation: FAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Fiona Apple (singer)
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18 Freddie Mercury (Queen lead singer)
Abbreviation: FMУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Freddie Mercury (Queen lead singer)
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19 Lata Mangeshkar (Indian singer)
Abbreviation: LMУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Lata Mangeshkar (Indian singer)
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20 Louis Armstrong (singer)
Quality control: LAУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > Louis Armstrong (singer)
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Singer — Sin ger (s[i^]n j[ e]r), n. [From {Singe}.] One who, or that which, singes. Specifically: (a) One employed to singe cloth. (b) A machine for singeing cloth. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Singer — Sing er, n. [From {Sing}.] One who sings; especially, one whose profession is to sing. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Singer [2] — Singer, Elisabeth, s. Rowe 2) … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Singer — Singer, 1) Edmund, Violinspieler, geb. 14. Okt. 1830 zu Totis im ungarischen Komitat Komorn, trat schon als Kind öffentlich auf, studierte dann am Wiener Konservatorium unter Böhm und wurde 1848 Orchesterdirektor des deutschen Theaters in Pest.… … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Singer — Singer, Paul, sozialdemokrat. Politiker, geb. 16. Jan. 1844 in Berlin, gründete 1869 mit seinem Bruder das. eine Damenmäntelfabrik, seit 1884 im Reichstag, mit Bebel Vorsitzender im Vorstand der sozialdemokrat. Partei … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon