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  • 1 zest

    [zest]
    1) (enthusiasm) gusto m., entusiasmo m.
    2) (piquancy) sapore m. piccante

    to add zest to sth. — aggiungere un po' di pepe a qcs

    3) BE (of citrus fruit) scorza f.
    * * *
    [zest]
    (keen enjoyment: She joined in the games with zest.) entusiasmo
    * * *
    zest /zɛst/
    n. [u]
    1 entusiasmo; ardore; gusto (fig.); godimento; interesse: youthful zest, entusiasmo giovanile; to have a zest for life, avere il gusto della vita
    2 (fig.) nota piccante; pepe: This invention gave ( o added) zest to the story, questa trovata aggiunse una nota piccante alla storia
    * * *
    [zest]
    1) (enthusiasm) gusto m., entusiasmo m.
    2) (piquancy) sapore m. piccante

    to add zest to sth. — aggiungere un po' di pepe a qcs

    3) BE (of citrus fruit) scorza f.

    English-Italian dictionary > zest

  • 2 Strutt, Jedediah

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
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    b. 26 July 1726 South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, England
    d. 7 May 1797 Derby, England
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    English inventor of a machine for making ribbed knitting.
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    Jedediah Strutt was the second of three sons of William, a small farmer and maltster at South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, where the only industry was a little framework knitting. At the age of 14 Jedediah was apprenticed to Ralph Massey, a wheelwright near Derby, and lodged with the Woollats, whose daughter Elizabeth he later married in 1755. He moved to Leicester and in 1754 started farming at Blackwell, where an uncle had died and left him the stock on his farm. It was here that he made his knitting invention.
    William Lee's knitting machine remained in virtually the same form as he left it until the middle of the eighteenth century. The knitting industry moved away from London into the Midlands and in 1730 a Nottingham workman, using Indian spun yarn, produced the first pair of cotton hose ever made by mechanical means. This industry developed quickly and by 1750 was providing employment for 1,200 frameworkers using both wool and cotton in the Nottingham and Derby areas. It was against this background that Jedediah Strutt obtained patents for his Derby rib machine in 1758 and 1759.
    The machine was a highly ingenious mechanism, which when placed in front of an ordinary stocking frame enabled the fashionable ribbed stockings to be made by machine instead of by hand. To develop this invention, he formed a partnership first with his brother-in-law, William Woollat, and two leading Derby hosiers, John Bloodworth and Thomas Stamford. This partnership was dissolved in 1762 and another was formed with Woollat and the Nottingham hosier Samuel Need. Strutt's invention was followed by a succession of innovations which enabled framework knitters to produce almost every kind of mesh on their machines. In 1764 the stocking frame was adapted to the making of eyelet holes, and this later lead to the production of lace. In 1767 velvet was made on these frames, and two years later brocade. In this way Strutt's original invention opened up a new era for knitting. Although all these later improvements were not his, he was able to make a fortune from his invention. In 1762 he was made a freeman of Nottingham, but by then he was living in Derby. His business at Derby was concerned mainly with silk hose and he had a silk mill there.
    It was partly his need for cotton yarn and partly his wealth which led him into partnership with Richard Arkwright, John Smalley and David Thornley to exploit Arkwright's patent for spinning cotton by rollers. Together with Samuel Need, they financed the Arkwright partnership in 1770 to develop the horse-powered mill in Nottingham and then the water-powered mill at Cromford. Strutt gave advice to Arkwright about improving the machinery and helped to hold the partnership together when Arkwright fell out with his first partners. Strutt was also involved, in London, where he had a house, with the parliamentary proceedings over the passing of the Calico Act in 1774, which opened up the trade in British-manufactured all-cotton cloth.
    In 1776 Strutt financed the construction of his own mill at Helper, about seven miles (11 km) further down the Derwent valley below Cromford. This was followed by another at Milford, a little lower on the river. Strutt was also a partner with Arkwright and others in the mill at Birkacre, near Chorley in Lancashire. The Strutt mills were developed into large complexes for cotton spinning and many experiments were later carried out in them, both in textile machinery and in fireproof construction for the mills themselves. They were also important training schools for engineers.
    Elizabeth Strutt died in 1774 and Jedediah never married again. The family seem to have lived frugally in spite of their wealth, probably influenced by their Nonconformist background. He had built a house near the mills at Milford, but it was in his Derby house that Jedediah died in 1797. By the time of his death, his son William had long been involved with the business and became a more important cotton spinner than Jedediah.
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    Bibliography
    1758. British patent no. 722 (Derby rib machine). 1759. British patent no. 734 (Derby rib machine).
    Further Reading
    For the involvement of Strutt in Arkwright's spinning ventures, there are two books, the earlier of which is R.S.Fitton and A.P.Wadsworth, 1958, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758–1830, Manchester, which has most of the details about Strutt's life. This has been followed by R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester.
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (for a general background to the textile industry of the period).
    W.Felkin, 1967, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures, reprint, Newton Abbot (orig. pub. 1867) (covers Strutt's knitting inventions).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Strutt, Jedediah

  • 3 Arnold, Aza

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 4 October 1788 Smithfield, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
    d. 1865 Washington, DC, USA
    [br]
    American textile machinist who applied the differential motion to roving frames, solving the problem of winding on the delicate cotton rovings.
    [br]
    He was the son of Benjamin and Isabel Arnold, but his mother died when he was 2 years old and after his father's second marriage he was largely left to look after himself. After attending the village school he learnt the trade of a carpenter, and following this he became a machinist. He entered the employment of Samuel Slater, but left after a few years to engage in the unsuccessful manufacture of woollen blankets. He became involved in an engineering shop, where he devised a machine for taking wool off a carding machine and making it into endless slivers or rovings for spinning. He then became associated with a cotton-spinning mill, which led to his most important invention. The carded cotton sliver had to be reduced in thickness before it could be spun on the final machines such as the mule or the waterframe. The roving, as the mass of cotton fibres was called at this stage, was thin and very delicate because it could not be twisted to give strength, as this would not allow it to be drawn out again during the next stage. In order to wind the roving on to bobbins, the speed of the bobbin had to be just right but the diameter of the bobbin increased as it was filled. Obtaining the correct reduction in speed as the circumference increased was partially solved by the use of double-coned pulleys, but the driving belt was liable to slip owing to the power that had to be transmitted.
    The final solution to the problem came with the introduction of the differential drive with bevel gears or a sun-and-planet motion. Arnold had invented this compound motion in 1818 but did not think of applying it to the roving frame until 1820. It combined the direct-gearing drive from the main shaft of the machine with that from the cone-drum drive so that the latter only provided the difference between flyer and bobbin speeds, which meant that most of the transmission power was taken away from the belt. The patent for this invention was issued to Arnold on 23 January 1823 and was soon copied in Britain by Henry Houldsworth, although J.Green of Mansfield may have originated it independendy in the same year. Arnold's patent was widely infringed in America and he sued the Proprietors of the Locks and Canals, machine makers for the Lowell manufacturers, for $30,000, eventually receiving $3,500 compensation. Arnold had his own machine shop but he gave it up in 1838 and moved the Philadelphia, where he operated the Mulhausen Print Works. Around 1850 he went to Washington, DC, and became a patent attorney, remaining as such until his death. On 24 June 1856 he was granted patent for a self-setting and self-raking saw for sawing machines.
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    Bibliography
    28 June 1856, US patent no. 15,163 (self-setting and self-raking saw for sawing machines).
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 1.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a description of the principles of the differential gear applied to the roving frame).
    D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830, Oxford (a discussion of the introduction and spread of Arnold's gear).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Arnold, Aza

  • 4 Smith, Sir Francis Pettit

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 9 February 1808 Copperhurst Farm, near Hythe, Kent, England
    d. 12 February 1874 South Kensington, London, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the screw propeller.
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    Smith was the only son of Charles Smith, Postmaster at Hythe, and his wife Sarah (née Pettit). After education at a private school in Ashford, Kent, he took to farming, first on Romney Marsh, then at Hendon, Middlesex. As a boy, he showed much skill in the construction of model boats, especially in devising their means of propulsion. He maintained this interest into adult life and in 1835 he made a model propelled by a screw driven by a spring. This worked so well that he became convinced that the screw propeller offered a better method of propulsion than the paddle wheels that were then in general use. This notion so fired his enthusiasm that he virtually gave up farming to devote himself to perfecting his invention. The following year he produced a better model, which he successfully demonstrated to friends on his farm at Hendon and afterwards to the public at the Adelaide Gallery in London. On 31 May 1836 Smith was granted a patent for the propulsion of vessels by means of a screw.
    The idea of screw propulsion was not new, however, for it had been mooted as early as the seventeenth century and since then several proposals had been advanced, but without successful practical application. Indeed, simultaneously but quite independently of Smith, the Swedish engineer John Ericsson had invented the ship's propeller and obtained a patent on 13 July 1836, just weeks after Smith. But Smith was completely unaware of this and pursued his own device in the belief that he was the sole inventor.
    With some financial and technical backing, Smith was able to construct a 10 ton boat driven by a screw and powered by a steam engine of about 6 hp (4.5 kW). After showing it off to the public, Smith tried it out at sea, from Ramsgate round to Dover and Hythe, returning in stormy weather. The screw performed well in both calm and rough water. The engineering world seemed opposed to the new method of propulsion, but the Admiralty gave cautious encouragement in 1839 by ordering that the 237 ton Archimedes be equipped with a screw. It showed itself superior to the Vulcan, one of the fastest paddle-driven ships in the Navy. The ship was put through its paces in several ports, including Bristol, where Isambard Kingdom Brunel was constructing his Great Britain, the first large iron ocean-going vessel. Brunel was so impressed that he adapted his ship for screw propulsion.
    Meanwhile, in spite of favourable reports, the Admiralty were dragging their feet and ordered further trials, fitting Smith's four-bladed propeller to the Rattler, then under construction and completed in 1844. The trials were a complete success and propelled their lordships of the Admiralty to a decision to equip twenty ships with screw propulsion, under Smith's supervision.
    At last the superiority of screw propulsion was generally accepted and virtually universally adopted. Yet Smith gained little financial reward for his invention and in 1850 he retired to Guernsey to resume his farming life. In 1860 financial pressures compelled him to accept the position of Curator of Patent Models at the Patent Museum in South Kensington, London, a post he held until his death. Belated recognition by the Government, then headed by Lord Palmerston, came in 1855 with the grant of an annual pension of £200. Two years later Smith received unofficial recognition when he was presented with a national testimonial, consisting of a service of plate and nearly £3,000 in cash subscribed largely by the shipbuilding and engineering community. Finally, in 1871 Smith was honoured with a knighthood.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1871.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1874, Illustrated London News (7 February).
    1856, On the Invention and Progress of the Screw Propeller, London (provides biographical details).
    Smith and his invention are referred to in papers in Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 14 (1934): 9; 19 (1939): 145–8, 155–7, 161–4, 237–9.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Smith, Sir Francis Pettit

  • 5 entrega

    f.
    1 handing over.
    el acto de entrega de los Premios Nobel the Nobel Prize award ceremony
    no acudió a la entrega de premios he didn't attend the prizegiving ceremony
    hacer entrega de algo a alguien to present somebody with something
    entrega a domicilio home delivery
    entrega contra reembolso cash on delivery
    2 devotion.
    3 delivery, hand-over, handover, submission.
    4 surrender.
    5 abnegation, self-sacrifice.
    6 treason.
    7 installment.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: entregar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: entregar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) handing over
    2 (de premios) presentation
    3 COMERCIO delivery
    4 (de posesiones) surrender
    5 (fascículo) instalment (US installment), part
    6 figurado (devoción) selflessness, devotion
    7 DEPORTE pass
    \
    hacer entrega de algo (dar) to hand over 2 (repartir) to deliver 3 (premios) to present
    entrega a domicilio home delivery
    entrega contra reembolso cash on delivery
    * * *
    noun f.
    4) dedication, devotion
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=acto) [de documento, solicitud] submission

    hacer entrega de — [+ regalo, premio, cheque] to present

    2) (Com) [de cartas, mercancías] delivery

    si no se efectúa la entrega, devuélvase a... — if undelivered, please return to...

    la entrega se hará en un plazo de 15 días — it will be delivered within 15 days, delivery within 15 days

    entrega contra pago, entrega contra reembolso — cash on delivery

    3) [al rendirse] [de rehenes] handover; [de armas] surrender, handover
    4) (=sección) [de enciclopedia, novela] instalment, installment (EEUU); [de revista] issue; [de serie televisiva] series

    una novela por entregas — a novel published in instalments, a serialized novel

    5) (=dedicación) dedication, devotion
    6) (Dep) pass
    * * *
    1) ( acción) (de envío, paquete) delivery; ( de premio) presentation; ( de rehén) return; ( de ciudad) surrender; (de documento, solicitud)

    entrega de llaves inmediata — vacant possession, ready for immediate occupancy

    le hizo entrega de la copa — (frml) she presented him with the cup

    2)
    a) ( partida) delivery, shipment
    b) (plazo, cuota) installment*

    sin entrega inicial — no downpayment o deposit necessary

    c) ( de enciclopedia) installment*, fascicle; ( de revista) issue
    3) ( dedicación) dedication, devotion; ( abandono) surrender
    * * *
    = delivery, instalment [installment, -USA], submission, surrender, issuance, deliverance, handover [hand-over].
    Ex. Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
    Ex. A fascicle is one of the temporary divisions of a work that, for convenience in printing or publication, is issued in small instalments, usually incomplete in themselves.
    Ex. Most commercial abstracting services rely upon the refereeing procedure applied to the original document in order to eliminate insignificant and inaccurate submissions.
    Ex. This would require central funding, an appropriate communications infrastructure and the surrender by universities of their autonomy over their local libraries.
    Ex. Publications describing or revealing an invention can be a bar to issuance of a patent.
    Ex. Communication can be improved, both a better content of information exchange and by a more timely deliverance of this information.
    Ex. The author assesses the prospects of Hong Kong after the handover of the colony to China in 1997 when it will once again be competing with Shanghai as the publishing hub of the Orient.
    ----
    * ceremonia de entrega de premios = award(s) ceremony.
    * ceremonia de entrega de títulos = graduation ceremony.
    * entrega a = commitment to.
    * entrega de diplomas = commencement.
    * entrega inicial = down payment.
    * fecha de entrega = delivery date.
    * novela por entregas = part-issue.
    * servicio de entrega de documentos = document delivery service (DDS).
    * trabajar con plazos de entrega estrictos = work to + deadlines.
    * * *
    1) ( acción) (de envío, paquete) delivery; ( de premio) presentation; ( de rehén) return; ( de ciudad) surrender; (de documento, solicitud)

    entrega de llaves inmediata — vacant possession, ready for immediate occupancy

    le hizo entrega de la copa — (frml) she presented him with the cup

    2)
    a) ( partida) delivery, shipment
    b) (plazo, cuota) installment*

    sin entrega inicial — no downpayment o deposit necessary

    c) ( de enciclopedia) installment*, fascicle; ( de revista) issue
    3) ( dedicación) dedication, devotion; ( abandono) surrender
    * * *
    = delivery, instalment [installment, -USA], submission, surrender, issuance, deliverance, handover [hand-over].

    Ex: Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.

    Ex: A fascicle is one of the temporary divisions of a work that, for convenience in printing or publication, is issued in small instalments, usually incomplete in themselves.
    Ex: Most commercial abstracting services rely upon the refereeing procedure applied to the original document in order to eliminate insignificant and inaccurate submissions.
    Ex: This would require central funding, an appropriate communications infrastructure and the surrender by universities of their autonomy over their local libraries.
    Ex: Publications describing or revealing an invention can be a bar to issuance of a patent.
    Ex: Communication can be improved, both a better content of information exchange and by a more timely deliverance of this information.
    Ex: The author assesses the prospects of Hong Kong after the handover of the colony to China in 1997 when it will once again be competing with Shanghai as the publishing hub of the Orient.
    * ceremonia de entrega de premios = award(s) ceremony.
    * ceremonia de entrega de títulos = graduation ceremony.
    * entrega a = commitment to.
    * entrega de diplomas = commencement.
    * entrega inicial = down payment.
    * fecha de entrega = delivery date.
    * novela por entregas = part-issue.
    * servicio de entrega de documentos = document delivery service (DDS).
    * trabajar con plazos de entrega estrictos = work to + deadlines.

    * * *
    A
    (acción): la entrega de estos documentos the handing over of these documents
    [ S ] entrega de llaves inmediata vacant possession, ready for immediate occupancy
    las entregas a la zona deliveries to the area
    la fecha tope para la entrega de solicitudes the deadline for handing in o ( frml) submitting applications
    el acto de la entrega de premios the prize-giving ceremony
    le hizo entrega de la copa ( frml); she presented him with the cup
    nos hicieron entrega de una cantidad a cuenta they gave us o handed over a sum of money in part payment
    B
    1 (partida) delivery, shipment
    recibirán los artículos que faltan con la próxima entrega you will receive the missing items in the next delivery o shipment
    2 (plazo, cuota) installment*
    sin entrega inicial no downpayment o deposit necessary
    3 (de una enciclopedia) installment*, fascicle; (de una revista) issue; (de una fotonovela, teleserie) episode
    Compuestos:
    COD, cash on delivery
    extraordinary rendition
    un avión sospechoso de estar involucrado en una entrega extraordinaria a plane suspected of being involved in extraordinary rendition
    C
    1 (dedicación) dedication, devotion, commitment
    2 (abandono) giving in
    * * *

     

    Del verbo entregar: ( conjugate entregar)

    entrega es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    entrega    
    entregar
    entrega sustantivo femenino
    1 (de pedido, paquete, carta) delivery;
    ( de premio) presentation;

    la entrega de los documentos the handing over of the documents;
    el plazo para la entrega de solicitudes the deadline for handing in o (frml) submitting applications;
    servicio de entrega a domicilio delivery service
    2

    b) (plazo, cuota) installment( conjugate installment)


    ( de revista) issue
    3 ( dedicación) dedication, devotion;
    ( abandono) surrender
    entregar ( conjugate entregar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( llevar) ‹pedido/paquete/carta› to deliver
    2
    a) ( dar) to give;

    ◊ me entregó un cuestionario she gave me o handed me a questionnaire;

    no quiso entregármelo he refused to hand it over to me
    b) ‹premio/trofeo› to present;

    entregale algo a algn to present sb with sth
    c) ‹trabajo/deberes/informe› to hand in, give in;

    ‹solicitud/impreso› to hand in, submit (frml)
    3
    a) ‹ciudad/armas› to surrender;

    ‹poder/control› to hand over
    b) ‹delincuente/prófugo› to turn in, hand over;

    ‹ rehén› to hand over


    entregarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( dedicarse) entregase a algo/algn to devote oneself to sth/sb
    2

    entregase a algo/algn ‹al enemigo/a la policía› to give oneself up o surrender to sth/sb


    entrega sustantivo femenino
    1 (de un pedido) delivery
    (de un premio) presentation
    2 (fascículo) issue
    3 (dedicación) devotion
    entregar verbo transitivo
    1 (poner en poder de) to hand over
    2 (unos papeles, trabajo, etc) to give in, hand in
    3 Com to deliver
    ' entrega' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    facturación
    - reembolso
    - reparto
    - plazo
    - pronto
    English:
    allow
    - application
    - dedication
    - delivery
    - installment
    - instalment
    - presentation
    - surrender
    - cash
    - dead
    - deposit
    - down
    - first
    - give
    - home
    * * *
    1. [acto de entregar] handing over, handover;
    [de pedido, paquete] delivery; [de premios] presentation;
    la entrega de rehenes/de un rescate the handover of hostages/ransom money;
    el acto de entrega de los Premios Nobel the Nobel Prize award ceremony;
    no acudió a la entrega de premios he didn't attend the prizegiving ceremony;
    hacer entrega de algo a alguien to hand sth over to sb;
    se le hizo entrega de una placa conmemorativa she was presented with a commemorative plaque;
    hará entrega de las medallas el presidente del COI the president of the IOC will hand out o present the medals;
    pagadero a la entrega payable on delivery
    Com entrega contrarreembolso cash on delivery;
    entrega a domicilio home delivery;
    entrega de llaves: [m5] el resto a pagar con la entrega de llaves the balance to be paid when the keys are handed over;
    entrega urgente express delivery
    2. [dedicación] devotion (a to);
    médicos que trabajan con gran entrega doctors who work with great dedication
    3. [fascículo] instalment;
    por entregas in instalments;
    publicar por entregas to serialize
    4. [capítulo de serial, teleserie] episode;
    en nuestra anterior entrega… in our previous episode…
    5. [envío, partida] delivery;
    nos enviaron el pedido en dos entregas they sent us the order in two deliveries o shipments
    6. Dep pass
    7.
    entrega inicial [pago inicial] down payment, deposit
    * * *
    f
    1 handing over;
    entrega de premios prize-giving, presentation;
    hacer entrega de algo a alguien present s.o. with sth
    2 de mercancías delivery;
    entrega a domicilio (home) delivery
    3 ( dedicación) dedication, devotion
    * * *
    1) : delivery
    2) : handing over, surrender
    3) : installment
    entrega inicial: down payment
    * * *
    1. (en general) handing over
    2. (mercancía) delivery [pl. deliveries]
    3. (fascículo) instalment

    Spanish-English dictionary > entrega

  • 6 molesto

    adj.
    1 annoying, cumbersome, bothersome, embarrassing.
    2 upset, irritated, angry, annoyed.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: molestar.
    * * *
    1 annoying, troublesome
    2 (enfadado) annoyed
    3 (incómodo) uncomfortable
    4 MEDICINA sore
    ■ los puntos ya han cicatrizado, pero todavía está molesto the stitches have healed, but he's still sore
    \
    estar molesto,-a con alguien to be upset with somebody
    ser molesto to be a nuisance
    * * *
    (f. - molesta)
    adj.
    1) annoyed, bothered
    2) annoying, bothersome
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=que causa molestia) [tos, picor, ruido, persona] irritating, annoying; [olor, síntoma] unpleasant

    es sumamente molesto que... — it's extremely irritating o annoying that...

    lo único molesto es el viaje — the only nuisance is the journey, the only annoying thing is the journey

    2) (=que incomoda) [asiento, ropa] uncomfortable; [tarea] annoying; [situación] awkward, embarrassing
    3) (=incómodo) [persona] uncomfortable

    me sentía molesto en la fiesta — I felt uneasy o uncomfortable at the party

    me siento molesto cada vez que me hace un regalo — I feel awkward o embarrassed whenever she gives me a present

    4) (=enfadado) [persona] annoyed

    ¿estás molesto conmigo por lo que dije? — are you annoyed at me for what I said?

    5) (=disgustado) [persona] upset

    ¿estás molesta por algo que haya pasado? — are you upset about something that's happened?

    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) [SER] ( fastidioso) <ruido/tos> annoying, irritating; <sensación/síntoma> unpleasant

    resulta molesto tener que viajar con tantos bultos — it's a nuisance o it's very inconvenient having to travel with so much baggage

    b) [ESTAR] (incómodo, dolorido)
    c) [SER] (violento, embarazoso) awkward, embarrassing
    2) [ESTAR] ( ofendido) upset; ( irritado) annoyed

    está muy molesto por lo que hiciste — he's very upset/annoyed about what you did

    * * *
    = annoying, cumbersome, onerous, uncomfortable, uneasy, vexatious, irksome, vexing, untoward, disruptive, gnawing, pesky [peskier -comp., peskiest -sup.], distracting, off-putting, ill-at-ease, nagging, obtrusive, importunate, bothersome, exasperated, niggling, miffed, troublesome.
    Ex. Inconsistencies are mostly merely annoying, although it can be difficult to be sure whether a group of citations which look similar all relate to the same document.
    Ex. Any shelf arrangement systems which do not permit ready location of specific documents are cumbersome for the user or member of staff seeking a specific document.
    Ex. Sub-arrangement under an entry term can alleviate the onerous task of scanning long lists of entries under the same keyword.
    Ex. And making matters worse, this uncomfortable group sat in a suburban sitting-room flooded with afternoon sunlight like dutifully polite guests at a formal coffee party.
    Ex. Hawthorne gave an uneasy laugh, which was merely the outlet for her disappointment.
    Ex. It is undeniable that the ripest crop of vexatious litigants, pyramidologists, and assorted harmless drudges is to be gathered in the great general libraries of our major cities.
    Ex. The old common press was a brilliant and deservedly successful invention, but by the end of the eighteenth century its limitations were beginning to seem irksome.
    Ex. Knowing precisely who is responsible for specific library services and who will make decisions relieves the uncertainty that can be particularly vexing to a neophyte (and paralyzing to library services).
    Ex. Make sure everyone involved is aware of timetable and room changes and any other administrative abnormalities; and as far as possible prevent any untoward interruptions.
    Ex. The crisis in South African education -- particularly black education -- has resulted from the disruptive effects of apartheid.
    Ex. the underlying mood of the movement is a gnawing impatience with the system.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Small solutions to everyday problems: those pesky URLs'.
    Ex. I think that Mr. Scilken's point was that there's so much material on the traditional three-by-five card that it's less useful, that it's distracting, in fact, and does a disservice to the public library.
    Ex. Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
    Ex. One quite serious barrier to improvement is the reluctance of users to tell librarians of their feelings, but perhaps it is expecting too much of them to complain that they are ill-at-ease.
    Ex. With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex. But the present revision, incorporating ISBD, will literally clutter the entries with obtrusive redundancies and esoterics that will only obscure the content of the entries and obstruct the use of the catalog.
    Ex. She concludes that this problem probes the importunate boundaries separating man from beast and the natural from the monstrous.
    Ex. He shows a masterly command of imagery throughout, but his style has always left little margin for error, and the errors here are bothersome.
    Ex. He was drumming on his desk with exasperated fingers, his mouth quirked at the corners, as if saying: 'Wriggle out of that!'.
    Ex. I always have this niggling doubt about companies that don't provide a telephone number on their websites.
    Ex. These are just superfluous rantings of miffed children.
    Ex. Measures to prevent such incidents include fitting burglar alarms in libraries and taking quick and decisive action against troublesome users.
    ----
    * comportamiento molesto = disruptive behaviour.
    * de un modo molesto = annoyingly.
    * espíritu molesto = poltergeist.
    * estar molesto = be displeased, get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + knickers in a bundle, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, put off.
    * lo molesto de = cumbersomeness.
    * personas molestas, las = nuisance, the.
    * sentirse molesto = stir + uneasily, look + uncomfortable, feel + wrong.
    * sentirse molesto por = be embarrassed at.
    * ser algo molesto = be a thorn in + Posesivo + side.
    * ser molesto = be disturbing.
    * verdad molesta = inconvenient truth.
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) [SER] ( fastidioso) <ruido/tos> annoying, irritating; <sensación/síntoma> unpleasant

    resulta molesto tener que viajar con tantos bultos — it's a nuisance o it's very inconvenient having to travel with so much baggage

    b) [ESTAR] (incómodo, dolorido)
    c) [SER] (violento, embarazoso) awkward, embarrassing
    2) [ESTAR] ( ofendido) upset; ( irritado) annoyed

    está muy molesto por lo que hiciste — he's very upset/annoyed about what you did

    * * *
    = annoying, cumbersome, onerous, uncomfortable, uneasy, vexatious, irksome, vexing, untoward, disruptive, gnawing, pesky [peskier -comp., peskiest -sup.], distracting, off-putting, ill-at-ease, nagging, obtrusive, importunate, bothersome, exasperated, niggling, miffed, troublesome.

    Ex: Inconsistencies are mostly merely annoying, although it can be difficult to be sure whether a group of citations which look similar all relate to the same document.

    Ex: Any shelf arrangement systems which do not permit ready location of specific documents are cumbersome for the user or member of staff seeking a specific document.
    Ex: Sub-arrangement under an entry term can alleviate the onerous task of scanning long lists of entries under the same keyword.
    Ex: And making matters worse, this uncomfortable group sat in a suburban sitting-room flooded with afternoon sunlight like dutifully polite guests at a formal coffee party.
    Ex: Hawthorne gave an uneasy laugh, which was merely the outlet for her disappointment.
    Ex: It is undeniable that the ripest crop of vexatious litigants, pyramidologists, and assorted harmless drudges is to be gathered in the great general libraries of our major cities.
    Ex: The old common press was a brilliant and deservedly successful invention, but by the end of the eighteenth century its limitations were beginning to seem irksome.
    Ex: Knowing precisely who is responsible for specific library services and who will make decisions relieves the uncertainty that can be particularly vexing to a neophyte (and paralyzing to library services).
    Ex: Make sure everyone involved is aware of timetable and room changes and any other administrative abnormalities; and as far as possible prevent any untoward interruptions.
    Ex: The crisis in South African education -- particularly black education -- has resulted from the disruptive effects of apartheid.
    Ex: the underlying mood of the movement is a gnawing impatience with the system.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'Small solutions to everyday problems: those pesky URLs'.
    Ex: I think that Mr. Scilken's point was that there's so much material on the traditional three-by-five card that it's less useful, that it's distracting, in fact, and does a disservice to the public library.
    Ex: Some children are prepared to patronize the shop, and use it in quite a different way, when they find the library (however well run) stuffy or off-putting.
    Ex: One quite serious barrier to improvement is the reluctance of users to tell librarians of their feelings, but perhaps it is expecting too much of them to complain that they are ill-at-ease.
    Ex: With inflated prices, the nagging question was whether consumers were being bilked by the market.
    Ex: But the present revision, incorporating ISBD, will literally clutter the entries with obtrusive redundancies and esoterics that will only obscure the content of the entries and obstruct the use of the catalog.
    Ex: She concludes that this problem probes the importunate boundaries separating man from beast and the natural from the monstrous.
    Ex: He shows a masterly command of imagery throughout, but his style has always left little margin for error, and the errors here are bothersome.
    Ex: He was drumming on his desk with exasperated fingers, his mouth quirked at the corners, as if saying: 'Wriggle out of that!'.
    Ex: I always have this niggling doubt about companies that don't provide a telephone number on their websites.
    Ex: These are just superfluous rantings of miffed children.
    Ex: Measures to prevent such incidents include fitting burglar alarms in libraries and taking quick and decisive action against troublesome users.
    * comportamiento molesto = disruptive behaviour.
    * de un modo molesto = annoyingly.
    * espíritu molesto = poltergeist.
    * estar molesto = be displeased, get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + knickers in a bundle, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, put off.
    * lo molesto de = cumbersomeness.
    * personas molestas, las = nuisance, the.
    * sentirse molesto = stir + uneasily, look + uncomfortable, feel + wrong.
    * sentirse molesto por = be embarrassed at.
    * ser algo molesto = be a thorn in + Posesivo + side.
    * ser molesto = be disturbing.
    * verdad molesta = inconvenient truth.

    * * *
    molesto -ta
    A
    1 [ SER]
    (fastidioso): tengo una tos sumamente molesta I have o I've got a really irritating o annoying cough
    es una sensación muy molesta it's a very uncomfortable o unpleasant feeling
    no es grave, pero los síntomas son muy molestos it's nothing serious, but the symptoms are very unpleasant
    la máquina hace un ruido de lo más molesto the machine makes a very irritating o annoying o tiresome noise
    ¡es tan molesto que te estén interrumpiendo cada cinco minutos! it's so annoying o trying o tiresome o irritating when people keep interrupting you every five minutes
    resulta muy molesto tener que viajar con tantos bultos it's a real nuisance o it's very inconvenient having to travel with so much baggage
    ¿podría abrir la ventana, si no es molesto? would you be so kind as to open the window?
    2 [ ESTAR]
    (incómodo, dolorido): está bastante molesto he's in some pain
    pasó la noche bastante molesto he had a rather uncomfortable night
    está molesto por la anestesia he's in some discomfort because of the anesthetic
    3 [ SER] (violento, embarazoso) awkward
    es una situación muy molesta it's a very awkward o embarrassing situation
    me hace sentir muy molesta que esté constantemente regalándome cosas it's very embarrassing the way she's always giving me presents, she's always giving me presents, and it makes me feel very awkward o embarrassed
    me resulta muy molesto tener que trabajar con ella cuando no nos hablamos I find it awkward working with her when we're not even on speaking terms
    B [ ESTAR] (ofendido) upset
    está molesto con ellos porque no fueron a su boda he's upset o put out o peeved because they didn't go to his wedding
    está muy molesto por lo que hiciste he's very upset about what you did
    * * *

     

    Del verbo molestar: ( conjugate molestar)

    molesto es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    molestó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    molestar    
    molesto    
    molestó
    molestar ( conjugate molestar) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ perdone que lo moleste sorry to trouble o bother you


    2 (ofender, disgustar) to upset
    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( importunar):
    ◊ ¿le molesta si fumo? do you mind if I smoke?;

    me molesta su arrogancia her arrogance irritates o annoys me;
    no me duele, pero me molesta it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable
    2 ( fastidiar) to be a nuisance;
    ◊ no quiero molesto I don't want to be a nuisance o to cause any trouble

    molestarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( disgustarse) to get upset;
    molestose POR algo to get upset about sth;
    molestose CON algn to get annoyed with sb
    2 ( tomarse el trabajo) to bother, trouble oneself (frml);

    se molestó en venir hasta aquí a avisarnos she took the trouble to come all this way to tell us
    molesto
    ◊ -ta adjetivo

    1 [SER]
    a) ( fastidioso) ‹ruido/tos› annoying, irritating;

    ‹sensación/síntoma› unpleasant
    b) (violento, embarazoso) awkward, embarrassing

    2 [ESTAR] ( ofendido) upset;
    ( irritado) annoyed;
    ◊ está muy molesto por lo que hiciste he's very upset/annoyed about what you did

    molestar verbo transitivo
    1 (causar enojo, incomodidad) to disturb, bother: ¿le molestaría contestar a unas preguntas?, would you mind answering some questions?
    me molesta que grites, it annoys me when you shout
    2 (causar dolor, incomodidad) to hurt
    molesto,-a adjetivo
    1 (incómodo) uncomfortable: me encuentro algo molesto después de esa metedura de pata, I feel uncomfortable after that gaffe
    2 (fastidioso) annoying, pestering: es un ruido muy molesto, it's an annoying noise
    3 (enfadado, disgustado) annoyed o cross: ¿no estarás molesta por lo que he dicho?, you're not upset about what I said, are you?
    ' molesto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acalorada
    - acalorado
    - disgustarse
    - enojosa
    - enojoso
    - fastidiada
    - fastidiado
    - molesta
    - molestarse
    - pesada
    - pesado
    - poca
    - poco
    - puñetera
    - puñetero
    - sacudir
    - suplicio
    - fastidioso
    - fregado
    - latoso
    - molestar
    - mosqueado
    English:
    annoying
    - bother
    - hot
    - imposition
    - irksome
    - irritating
    - miffed
    - obtrusive
    - off-putting
    - peeved
    - troublesome
    - uncomfortable
    - unwelcome
    - would
    - intrusive
    - put
    - uneasy
    * * *
    molesto, -a adj
    1.
    ser molesto [incordiante] [costumbre, tos, ruido] to be annoying;
    [moscas] to be a nuisance; [calor, humo, sensación] to be unpleasant; [ropa, zapato] to be uncomfortable;
    es muy molesto tener que mandar callar constantemente it's very annoying to have to be constantly telling you to be quiet;
    tengo un dolor molesto en la espalda I've got an ache in my back which is causing me some discomfort
    2.
    ser molesto [inoportuno] [visita, llamada] to be inconvenient;
    [pregunta] to be awkward
    3.
    ser molesto [embarazoso] to be embarrassing;
    esta situación empieza a resultarme un poco molesta this situation is beginning to make me feel a bit uncomfortable
    4.
    estar molesto [irritado] to be rather upset;
    está molesta porque no la invitamos a la fiesta she's upset because we didn't invite her to the party;
    están molestos por sus declaraciones they are upset by what he has been saying
    5.
    estar molesto [con malestar, incomodidad] [por la fiebre, el dolor] to be in some discomfort;
    no tenía que haber comido tanto, ahora estoy molesto I shouldn't have eaten so much, it's made me feel rather unwell;
    ¿no estás molesto con tanta ropa? aren't you uncomfortable in all those clothes?
    * * *
    adj
    1 ( fastidioso) annoying
    2 ( incómodo) inconvenient
    3 ( embarazoso) embarrassing
    * * *
    molesto, -ta adj
    1) enojado: bothered, annoyed
    2) fastidioso: bothersome, annoying
    * * *
    molesto adj
    1. (que fastidia) annoying
    2. (disgustado) annoyed

    Spanish-English dictionary > molesto

  • 7 Lister, Samuel Cunliffe, 1st Baron Masham

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1 January 1815 Calverly Hall, Bradford, England
    d. 2 February 1906 Swinton Park, near Bradford, England
    [br]
    English inventor of successful wool-combing and waste-silk spinning machines.
    [br]
    Lister was descended from one of the old Yorkshire families, the Cunliffe Listers of Manningham, and was the fourth son of his father Ellis. After attending a school on Clapham Common, Lister would not go to university; his family hoped he would enter the Church, but instead he started work with the Liverpool merchants Sands, Turner \& Co., who frequently sent him to America. In 1837 his father built for him and his brother a worsted mill at Manningham, where Samuel invented a swivel shuttle and a machine for making fringes on shawls. It was here that he first became aware of the unhealthy occupation of combing wool by hand. Four years later, after seeing the machine that G.E. Donisthorpe was trying to work out, he turned his attention to mechanizing wool-combing. Lister took Donisthorpe into partnership after paying him £12,000 for his patent, and developed the Lister-Cartwright "square nip" comber. Until this time, combing machines were little different from Cartwright's original, but Lister was able to improve on this with continuous operation and by 1843 was combing the first fine botany wool that had ever been combed by machinery. In the following year he received an order for fifty machines to comb all qualities of wool. Further combing patents were taken out with Donisthorpe in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852, the last two being in Lister's name only. One of the important features of these patents was the provision of a gripping device or "nip" which held the wool fibres at one end while the rest of the tuft was being combed. Lister was soon running nine combing mills. In the 1850s Lister had become involved in disputes with others who held combing patents, such as his associate Isaac Holden and the Frenchman Josué Heilmann. Lister bought up the Heilmann machine patents and afterwards other types until he obtained a complete monopoly of combing machines before the patents expired. His invention stimulated demand for wool by cheapening the product and gave a vital boost to the Australian wool trade. By 1856 he was at the head of a wool-combing business such as had never been seen before, with mills at Manningham, Bradford, Halifax, Keighley and other places in the West Riding, as well as abroad.
    His inventive genius also extended to other fields. In 1848 he patented automatic compressed air brakes for railways, and in 1853 alone he took out twelve patents for various textile machines. He then tried to spin waste silk and made a second commercial career, turning what was called "chassum" and hitherto regarded as refuse into beautiful velvets, silks, plush and other fine materials. Waste silk consisted of cocoon remnants from the reeling process, damaged cocoons and fibres rejected from other processes. There was also wild silk obtained from uncultivated worms. This is what Lister saw in a London warehouse as a mass of knotty, dirty, impure stuff, full of bits of stick and dead mulberry leaves, which he bought for a halfpenny a pound. He spent ten years trying to solve the problems, but after a loss of £250,000 and desertion by his partner his machine caught on in 1865 and brought Lister another fortune. Having failed to comb this waste silk, Lister turned his attention to the idea of "dressing" it and separating the qualities automatically. He patented a machine in 1877 that gave a graduated combing. To weave his new silk, he imported from Spain to Bradford, together with its inventor Jose Reixach, a velvet loom that was still giving trouble. It wove two fabrics face to face, but the problem lay in separating the layers so that the pile remained regular in length. Eventually Lister was inspired by watching a scissors grinder in the street to use small emery wheels to sharpen the cutters that divided the layers of fabric. Lister took out several patents for this loom in his own name in 1868 and 1869, while in 1871 he took out one jointly with Reixach. It is said that he spent £29,000 over an eleven-year period on this loom, but this was more than recouped from the sale of reasonably priced high-quality velvets and plushes once success was achieved. Manningham mills were greatly enlarged to accommodate this new manufacture.
    In later years Lister had an annual profit from his mills of £250,000, much of which was presented to Bradford city in gifts such as Lister Park, the original home of the Listers. He was connected with the Bradford Chamber of Commerce for many years and held the position of President of the Fair Trade League for some time. In 1887 he became High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and in 1891 he was made 1st Baron Masham. He was also Deputy Lieutenant in North and West Riding.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created 1st Baron Masham 1891.
    Bibliography
    1849, with G.E.Donisthorpe, British patent no. 12,712. 1850, with G.E. Donisthorpe, British patent no. 13,009. 1851, British patent no. 13,532.
    1852, British patent no. 14,135.
    1877, British patent no. 3,600 (combing machine). 1868, British patent no. 470.
    1868, British patent no. 2,386.
    1868, British patent no. 2,429.
    1868, British patent no. 3,669.
    1868, British patent no. 1,549.
    1871, with J.Reixach, British patent no. 1,117. 1905, Lord Masham's Inventions (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    J.Hogg (ed.), c. 1888, Fortunes Made in Business, London (biography).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London; and C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press (both cover the technical details of Lister's invention).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Lister, Samuel Cunliffe, 1st Baron Masham

  • 8 Crompton, Samuel

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 3 December 1753 Firwood, near Bolton, Lancashire, England
    d. 26 June 1827 Bolton, Lancashire, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the spinning mule.
    [br]
    Samuel Crompton was the son of a tenant farmer, George, who became the caretaker of the old house Hall-i-th-Wood, near Bolton, where he died in 1759. As a boy, Samuel helped his widowed mother in various tasks at home, including weaving. He liked music and made his own violin, with which he later was to earn some money to pay for tools for building his spinning mule. He was set to work at spinning and so in 1769 became familiar with the spinning jenny designed by James Hargreaves; he soon noticed the poor quality of the yarn produced and its tendency to break. Crompton became so exasperated with the jenny that in 1772 he decided to improve it. After seven years' work, in 1779 he produced his famous spinning "mule". He built the first one entirely by himself, principally from wood. He adapted rollers similar to those already patented by Arkwright for drawing out the cotton rovings, but it seems that he did not know of Arkwright's invention. The rollers were placed at the back of the mule and paid out the fibres to the spindles, which were mounted on a moving carriage that was drawn away from the rollers as the yarn was paid out. The spindles were rotated to put in twist. At the end of the draw, or shortly before, the rollers were stopped but the spindles continued to rotate. This not only twisted the yarn further, but slightly stretched it and so helped to even out any irregularities; it was this feature that gave the mule yarn extra quality. Then, after the spindles had been turned backwards to unwind the yarn from their tips, they were rotated in the spinning direction again and the yarn was wound on as the carriage was pushed up to the rollers.
    The mule was a very versatile machine, making it possible to spin almost every type of yarn. In fact, Samuel Crompton was soon producing yarn of a much finer quality than had ever been spun in Bolton, and people attempted to break into Hall-i-th-Wood to see how he produced it. Crompton did not patent his invention, perhaps because it consisted basically of the essential features of the earlier machines of Hargreaves and Arkwright, or perhaps through lack of funds. Under promise of a generous subscription, he disclosed his invention to the spinning industry, but was shabbily treated because most of the promised money was never paid. Crompton's first mule had forty-eight spindles, but it did not long remain in its original form for many people started to make improvements to it. The mule soon became more popular than Arkwright's waterframe because it could spin such fine yarn, which enabled weavers to produce the best muslin cloth, rivalling that woven in India and leading to an enormous expansion in the British cotton-textile industry. Crompton eventually saved enough capital to set up as a manufacturer himself and around 1784 he experimented with an improved carding engine, although he was not successful. In 1800, local manufacturers raised a sum of £500 for him, and eventually in 1812 he received a government grant of £5,000, but this was trifling in relation to the immense financial benefits his invention had conferred on the industry, to say nothing of his expenses. When Crompton was seeking evidence in 1811 to support his claim for financial assistance, he found that there were 4,209,570 mule spindles compared with 155,880 jenny and 310,516 waterframe spindles. He later set up as a bleacher and again as a cotton manufacturer, but only the gift of a small annuity by his friends saved him from dying in total poverty.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    H.C.Cameron, 1951, Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Mule, London (a rather discursive biography).
    Dobson \& Barlow Ltd, 1927, Samuel Crompton, the Inventor of the Spinning Mule, Bolton.
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of the Spinning Machine Called the Mule, London.
    The invention of the mule is fully described in H. Gatling, 1970, The Spinning Mule, Newton Abbot; W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London; R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press (provides a brief account).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Crompton, Samuel

  • 9 De Forest, Lee

    [br]
    b. 26 August 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
    d. 30 June 1961 Hollywood, California, USA
    [br]
    American electrical engineer and inventor principally known for his invention of the Audion, or triode, vacuum tube; also a pioneer of sound in the cinema.
    [br]
    De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.
    He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.
    Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.
    Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.
    During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.
    In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1922. President, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers 1930. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal 1946.
    Bibliography
    1904, "Electrolytic detectors", Electrician 54:94 (describes the electrolytic detector). 1907, US patent no. 841,387 (the Audion).
    1950, Father of Radio, Chicago: WIlcox \& Follett (autobiography).
    De Forest gave his own account of the development of his sound-on-film system in a series of articles: 1923. "The Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 16 (May): 61–75; 1924. "Phonofilm progress", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 20:17–19; 1927, "Recent developments in the Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 27:64–76; 1941, "Pioneering in talking pictures", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 36 (January): 41–9.
    Further Reading
    G.Carneal, 1930, A Conqueror of Space (biography).
    I.Levine, 1964, Electronics Pioneer, Lee De Forest (biography).
    E.I.Sponable, 1947, "Historical development of sound films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 48 (April): 275–303 (an authoritative account of De Forest's sound-film work, by Case's assistant).
    W.R.McLaurin, 1949, Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry.
    C.F.Booth, 1955, "Fleming and De Forest. An appreciation", in Thermionic Valves 1904– 1954, IEE.
    V.J.Phillips, 1980, Early Radio Detectors, London: Peter Peregrinus.
    KF / JW

    Biographical history of technology > De Forest, Lee

  • 10 Highs, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. 1760s England
    [br]
    English reedmaker who claimed to have invented both the spinning jenny and the waterframe.
    [br]
    The claims of Highs to have invented both the spinning jenny and the waterframe have been dismissed by most historians. Thomas Highs was a reedmaker of Leigh, Lancashire. In about 1763 he had as a neighbour John Kay, the clockmaker from Warrington, whom he employed to help him construct his machines. During this period they were engaged in making a spinning jenny, but after several months of toil, in a fit of despondency, they threw the machine through the attic window. Highs persevered, however, and made a jenny that could spin six threads. The comparatively sophisticated arrangements for drawing and twisting at the same time, as depicted by Guest (1823), suggest that this machine came after the one invented by James Hargreaves. Guest claims that Highs made this machine between 1764 and 1766 and in the following two years constructed another, in which the spindles were placed in a circle. In 1771 Highs moved to Manchester, where he constructed a double jenny that was displayed at the Manchester Exchange, and received a subscription of £200 from the cotton manufacturers. However, all this occurred after Hargreaves had constructed his jenny. In the trial of Arkwright's patent during 1781, Highs gave evidence. He was recalled from Ireland, where he had been superintending the building of cotton-spinning machinery for Baron Hamilton's newly erected mill at Balbriggan, north of Dublin. Then in 1785, during the next trial of Arkwright's patent, Highs claimed that in 1767 he had made rollers for drawing out the cotton before spinning. This would have been for a different type of spinning machine, similar to the one later constructed by Arkwright. Highs was helped by John Kay and it was these rollers that Kay subsequently built for Arkwright. If the drawing shown by Guest is correct, then Highs was working on the wrong principles because his rollers were spaced too far apart and were not held together by weights, with the result that the twist would have passed into the drafting zone, producing uneven drawing.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.Guest, 1823, A Compendious History of the Cotton-Manufacture: With a Disproval of the Claim of Sir Richard Arkwright to the Invention of its Ingenious Machinery, Manchester (Highs's claim for the invention of his spinning machines).
    R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester (an examination of Highs's claims).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (discusses the technical problems of the invention).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Highs, Thomas

  • 11 credit

    1. noun
    1) no pl. (commendation) Anerkennung, die; (honour) Ehre, die

    give somebody [the] credit for something — jemandem für etwas Anerkennung zollen (geh.)

    take the credit for something — die Anerkennung für etwas einstecken

    [we must give] credit where credit is due — Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt

    it is [much or greatly/little] to somebody's/something's credit that... — es macht jemandem/einer Sache [große/wenig] Ehre, dass...

    it is to his credit that... — es ehrt ihn, dass...

    be a credit to somebody/something — jemandem/einer Sache Ehre machen

    2)

    credits, credit titles — (at beginning of film) Vorspann, der; (at end) Nachspann, der

    3) no pl., no art. (belief) Glaube, der

    gain credit — an Glaubwürdigkeit gewinnen

    4) no pl. (Commerc.) Kredit, der

    give [somebody] credit — [jemandem] Kredit geben

    5) no pl. (Finance, Bookk.) Guthaben, das

    be in credit — [Konto:] im Haben sein; [Person:] mit seinem Konto im Haben sein

    6) (fig.)

    he's cleverer than I gave him credit for — er ist klüger, als ich dachte

    2. transitive verb
    1) (believe) glauben
    3) (Finance, Bookk.) gutschreiben

    credit £10 to somebody/somebody's account — jemandem/jemandes Konto 10 Pfund gutschreiben

    * * *
    ['kredit] 1. noun
    1) (time allowed for payment of goods etc after they have been received: We don't give credit at this shop.) der Kredit
    2) (money loaned (by a bank).) der Kredit
    3) (trustworthiness regarding ability to pay for goods etc: Your credit is good.) der Ruf
    4) ((an entry on) the side of an account on which payments received are entered: Our credits are greater than our debits.) das Haben
    5) (the sum of money which someone has in an account at a bank: Your credit amounts to 2,014 dollars.) das Guthaben
    6) (belief or trust: This theory is gaining credit.) der Glaube
    7) ((American) a certificate to show that a student has completed a course which counts towards his degree.) der Anrechnungspunkt
    2. verb
    1) (to enter (a sum of money) on the credit side( of an account): This cheque was credited to your account last month.) anrechnen
    2) ((with with) to think of (a person or thing) as having: He was credited with magical powers.) zuschreiben
    3) (to believe (something) to be possible: Well, would you credit that!) glauben
    •
    - academic.ru/17119/creditable">creditable
    - creditably
    - creditor
    - credits
    - credit card
    - be a credit to someone
    - be a credit to
    - do someone credit
    - do credit
    - give someone credit for something
    - give credit for something
    - give someone credit
    - give credit
    - on credit
    - take the credit for something
    - take credit for something
    - take the credit
    - take credit
    * * *
    cred·it
    [ˈkredɪt]
    I. n
    1. no pl (recognition, praise) Anerkennung f; (respect) Achtung f; (honour) Ehre f
    all \credit to her for not telling on us alle Achtung, dass sie uns nicht verraten hat!
    to her [great] \credit, she admitted she was wrong man muss [es] ihr hoch anrechnen, dass sie ihren Fehler zugegeben hat
    to be a \credit to sb/sth, to do sb/sth \credit jdm/etw Ehre machen
    to claim \credit [for sth] sich dat etw als Verdienst anrechnen
    we cannot claim much \credit for her success ihr Erfolg ist nicht unser Verdienst
    to get \credit for sth für etw akk Anerkennung bekommen
    to give sb \credit for sth (attribute) jdm etw [o das Verdienst an etw dat] zuschreiben; (praise) jdm für etw akk Anerkennung zollen geh
    to take [the] \credit [for sth] die [ganzen] Lorbeeren [für etw akk] einheimsen fam
    2. no pl (standing) Ansehen nt
    to acquire \credit sich dat Ansehen erwerben
    to gain \credit an Ansehen gewinnen
    3. no pl (achievement) Verdienst nt
    ▪ it is to sb's \credit that... es ist jds Verdienst, dass...
    to have sth to one's \credit etw vorweisen [o für sich akk verbuchen] können
    she has a family, three books and a professorship to her \credit sie kann bereits eine Familie, drei Bücher und eine Professur vorweisen
    he already has three box office hits to his \credit er kann schon drei Kassenerfolge für sich verbuchen
    4. no pl (reliability) Glaubwürdigkeit f
    to have \credit glaubwürdig sein
    to lend \credit to sth etw glaubwürdig erscheinen lassen
    5. no pl (reliance) Glaube[n] m
    to give \credit to sth etw dat Glauben schenken
    to give sb \credit for sth jdm etw zutrauen
    I gave him \credit for better judgement than he showed ich hätte ihm ein besseres Urteilsvermögen zugetraut
    6. no pl FIN, COMM Kredit m
    to buy sth on \credit etw auf Kredit kaufen
    to give [sb] \credit [jdm] Kredit geben
    the newsagent doesn't give me any more \credit ich kann beim Zeitschriftenhändler nicht mehr anschreiben lassen
    to live on \credit auf Kredit [o fam Pump] leben
    to offer \credit on sth einen Kredit für etw akk anbieten
    to sell sth on \credit etw auf Kredit verkaufen
    7. FIN (money in the bank) Haben nt; (right-hand side of account) Habenseite f; (entry) Gutschrift f
    account in \credit Konto nt mit positivem Saldo
    debit and \credit Soll nt und Haben nt
    letter of \credit Akkreditiv nt fachspr
    tax \credit Steuergutschrift f
    \credit by way of bank guaranty Avalkredit m fachspr
    to be in \credit esp BRIT im Plus sein
    to enter [or place] sth to sb's \credit jdm etw gutschreiben
    8. no pl FIN, COMM (trustworthiness) Kreditwürdigkeit f
    9. SCH Auszeichnung f; UNIV Schein m
    ▪ \credits pl FILM, TV Abspann m; LIT Mitarbeiterverzeichnis nt
    11.
    ▶ [give] \credit where \credit's due ( saying) Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt prov
    II. vt
    ▪ to \credit sth to sb jdm etw zuschreiben
    the invention was \credited to him die Erfindung wurde ihm zugeschrieben
    2. (consider to be responsible for)
    ▪ to \credit sth/sb with sth etw/jdm etw zuschreiben
    she is \credited with discovering the substance ihr wird zugeschrieben, den Stoff entdeckt zu haben
    ▪ to \credit sth/sb with sth etw/jdm etw zuschreiben
    he'd always been \credited with understanding and sympathy for his patients alle hielten ihn seinen Patienten gegenüber für sehr verständnisvoll und mitfühlend
    I \credited her with more determination ich hatte ihr mehr Entschlossenheit zugetraut
    ▪ to \credit sth etw glauben
    would [or can] you \credit it?! ist das zu glauben?!
    her excuse took some \crediting ihre Entschuldigung war ziemlich unglaubwürdig
    5. (give, add)
    ▪ to \credit sth to sb/an account jdm/einem Konto etw gutschreiben
    6. (give to, put into)
    ▪ to \credit sb/an account with sth jdm/einem Konto etw gutschreiben
    * * *
    ['kredɪt]
    1. n
    1) no pl (FIN) Kredit m; (in pub, hotel, shop etc) Stundung f

    the bank will let me have £5,000 credit — die Bank räumt mir einen Kredit von £ 5.000 ein

    his credit is good — er ist kreditwürdig; (in small shop) er ist vertrauenswürdig

    to give sb ( unlimited) credit — jdm (unbegrenzt) Kredit geben

    we can't give you credit (bank) — wir können Ihnen keinen Kredit geben; (corner shop etc)

    pubs do not usually give credit — in Lokalen bekommt man normalerweise nichts gestundet

    letter of credit — Kreditbrief m, Akkreditiv nt

    2) (FIN: money possessed by person, firm) (Gut)haben nt; (COMM = sum of money) Kreditposten m

    to be in credit — Geld nt auf dem Konto haben

    3) no pl (= standing) Ansehen nt
    4) no pl (= honour) Ehre f; (= recognition) Anerkennung f; (SCH, UNIV = distinction) Auszeichnung f

    well, all credit to you for not succumbing — alle Achtung, dass Sie nicht nachgegeben haben

    I do all the work and he gets all the credit — ich mache die Arbeit, und ihm wird es als Verdienst angerechnet

    credit where credit is due (prov) — Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt (prov)

    5) no pl (= belief) Glaube m

    to give credit to sth — etw glauben, einer Sache (dat)

    6) (esp US UNIV) Schein m
    7) pl (FILM ETC) Vor-/Nachspann m; (in book) Herausgeber- und Mitarbeiterverzeichnis nt
    2. vt
    1) (= believe) glauben

    would you credit it! — ist das denn zu glauben!, ist das denn die Möglichkeit!

    2) (= attribute) zuschreiben (+dat)

    he was credited with having found the solution —

    it's credited with (having) magic powers — ihm werden Zauberkräfte zugeschrieben

    3) (FIN) gutschreiben

    to credit a sum to sb's account — jds Konto (dat) einen Betrag gutschreiben (lassen)

    he/his account had been credited with £100 — ihm/seinem Konto waren £ 100 gutgeschrieben worden

    * * *
    credit [ˈkredıt]
    A s
    1. Glaube(n) m:
    give credit to sth einer Sache Glauben schenken;
    place credit in Zutrauen haben zu, vertrauen (dat); → worthy A 2
    2. Ansehen n, Achtung f, guter Ruf:
    be in high credit with in hohem Ansehen stehen bei;
    gain credit an Ansehen gewinnen
    3. Glaubwürdigkeit f
    4. Einfluss m
    5. Ehre f:
    be a credit to sb, be to sb’s credit, do sb credit, reflect credit on sb jemandem Ehre machen oder einbringen, jemandem zur Ehre gereichen;
    he has not done you credit mit ihm haben Sie keine Ehre eingelegt;
    to his credit it must be said that … zu seiner Ehre muss man sagen, dass …;
    with credit ehrenvoll;
    credit where credit is due Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt
    6. Anerkennung f, Lob n:
    get credit for sth Anerkennung finden für etwas;
    that’s very much to his credit das ist sehr anerkennenswert oder verdienstvoll von ihm
    7. Verdienst n:
    a) jemandem etwas hoch oder als Verdienst anrechnen,
    b) jemandem etwas zutrauen,
    c) sich jemandem für etwas (dankbar) verpflichtet fühlen;
    he is cleverer than we give him credit for er ist klüger, als wir glauben;
    take credit to o.s. for sth, take (the) credit for sth sich etwas als Verdienst anrechnen, den Ruhm oder das Verdienst für etwas in Anspruch nehmen
    8. WIRTSCH
    a) Kredit m
    b) Zeit f, Ziel n
    c) Akkreditiv n:
    on credit auf Kredit oder Ziel;
    at one month’s credit auf einen Monat Ziel;
    credit on goods Warenkredit;
    give sb credit for £1,000 jemandem einen Kredit von 1000 Pfund geben;
    open a credit einen Kredit oder ein Akkreditiv eröffnen
    9. WIRTSCH Kredit(würdigkeit) f, -fähigkeit f
    10. WIRTSCH
    a) Guthaben n, Kreditposten m
    b) Kredit(seite) m(f), Haben n:
    your credit Saldo zu Ihren Gunsten;
    enter ( oder place, put) a sum to sb’s credit jemandem einen Betrag gutschreiben;
    have sth to one’s credit fig etwas aufzuweisen haben
    11. WIRTSCH, PARL Br Vorgriff m auf das Budget
    12. US (Steuer)Freibetrag m, abzugsfähiger Betrag
    13. UNIV US
    a) Anrechnungspunkt m (auf ein für den Erwerb eines akademischen Grades zu erfüllendes Pensum)
    14. pl FILM, TV Vorspann m oder Ab-, Nachspann m
    B v/t
    1. Glauben schenken (dat), jemandem oder eine Sache glauben:
    would you credit it! ist es denn die Möglichkeit!, man sollte es nicht für möglich halten!
    2. jemandem (ver)trauen
    a) jemandem etwas zutrauen,
    b) jemandem etwas zuschreiben
    4. WIRTSCH
    a) einen Betrag gutschreiben, kreditieren ( beide:
    to sb jemandem):
    credit an account with an amount, credit an amount to an account einen Betrag einem Konto gutschreiben
    b) jemanden erkennen (with, for für):
    5. credit sb with three hours in history UNIV US jemandem für einen Geschichtskurs drei Punkte (aufs Pensum) anrechnen
    cr. abk WIRTSCH credit (creditor)
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    1. noun
    1) no pl. (commendation) Anerkennung, die; (honour) Ehre, die

    give somebody [the] credit for something — jemandem für etwas Anerkennung zollen (geh.)

    [we must give] credit where credit is due — Ehre, wem Ehre gebührt

    it is [much or greatly/little] to somebody's/something's credit that... — es macht jemandem/einer Sache [große/wenig] Ehre, dass...

    it is to his credit that... — es ehrt ihn, dass...

    be a credit to somebody/something — jemandem/einer Sache Ehre machen

    2)

    credits, credit titles — (at beginning of film) Vorspann, der; (at end) Nachspann, der

    3) no pl., no art. (belief) Glaube, der
    4) no pl. (Commerc.) Kredit, der

    give [somebody] credit — [jemandem] Kredit geben

    5) no pl. (Finance, Bookk.) Guthaben, das

    be in credit — [Konto:] im Haben sein; [Person:] mit seinem Konto im Haben sein

    6) (fig.)

    he's cleverer than I gave him credit for — er ist klüger, als ich dachte

    2. transitive verb
    1) (believe) glauben
    3) (Finance, Bookk.) gutschreiben

    credit £10 to somebody/somebody's account — jemandem/jemandes Konto 10 Pfund gutschreiben

    * * *
    n.
    Ansehen - n.
    Kredit -e m. v.
    gutschreiben v.

    English-german dictionary > credit

  • 12 credit

    {'kredit}
    I. 1. вяра, доверие
    to give CREDIT to вярвам на
    to lend CREDIT to правя да изглежда достоверен/правдоподобен, потвърждавам (слух и пр.)
    2. доверие, влияние, уважение, престиж, добро име
    to have CREDIT with someone имам влияние пред някого
    3. уважение, признание, похвала, чест, заслуга
    to give someone CREDIT for something признавам някому заслуга за нещо
    I gave him CREDIT for more sense мислех го за по-умен
    to take CREDIT to oneself приписвам си заслуга
    to take no CREDIT for не се хваля с, не търся похвала за
    be it said/it must be said to his CREDIT that прави му чест, че, в негова полза трябва да кажем, че
    that is all to his CREDIT, it does him CREDIT, it reflects CREDIT on him прави му чест
    to be a CREDIT to one's family/school, etc. чест/гордост съм за семейството/училището си и пр
    4. фин. кредит, дълг, сума, записана на кредит, дясна/кредитна страна на счетоводна книга, актив
    on CREDIT на кредит/вересия
    long CREDIT дългосрочен кредит
    letter of CREDIT кредитно писмо
    to pay a sum to someone's CREDIT плащам сума на нечия сметка
    his CREDIT is good той се ползува с доверие, има добро име
    how much have I to my CREDIT? c каква сума разполагам? колко пари имам (в сметката си)
    5. ам. удостоверение за завършен курс (в училище и пр.)
    6. обик. рl кино, телев. имена на участвуващи във филм/предаване (и CREDIT titles)
    II. 1. вярвам (на), приемам като достоверен
    2. приписвам
    to CREDIT someone with a quality вярвам, че някой има дадено качество
    to CREDIT an invention to someone приписвам на някого изобретение
    he has been wrongly CREDITed with this discovery това откритие погрешно се приписва на него
    3. фин. to CREDIT a sum to someone, to CREDIT someone with a sum вписвам сума към кредитната страна/прихода на нечия сметка, кредитирам сума на някого
    * * *
    {'kredit} n 1. вяра, доверие; to give credit to вярвам на; to lend(2) {'kredit} v 1. вярвам (на), приемам като достоверен; 2. пр
    * * *
    чест; актив; вяра; вярвам; влияние; дълг; доверие; кредит;
    * * *
    1. be it said/it must be said to his credit that прави му чест, че, в негова полза трябва да кажем, че 2. he has been wrongly credited with this discovery това откритие погрешно се приписва на него 3. his credit is good той се ползува с доверие, има добро име 4. how much have i to my credit? c каква сума разполагам? колко пари имам (в сметката си) 5. i gave him credit for more sense мислех го за по-умен 6. i. вяра, доверие 7. ii. вярвам (на), приемам като достоверен 8. letter of credit кредитно писмо 9. long credit дългосрочен кредит 10. on credit на кредит/вересия 11. that is all to his credit, it does him credit, it reflects credit on him прави му чест 12. to be a credit to one's family/school, etc. чест/гордост съм за семейството/училището си и пр 13. to credit an invention to someone приписвам на някого изобретение 14. to credit someone with a quality вярвам, че някой има дадено качество 15. to give credit to вярвам на 16. to give someone credit for something признавам някому заслуга за нещо 17. to have credit with someone имам влияние пред някого 18. to lend credit to правя да изглежда достоверен/правдоподобен, потвърждавам (слух и пр.) 19. to pay a sum to someone's credit плащам сума на нечия сметка 20. to take credit to oneself приписвам си заслуга 21. to take no credit for не се хваля с, не търся похвала за 22. ам. удостоверение за завършен курс (в училище и пр.) 23. доверие, влияние, уважение, престиж, добро име 24. обик. pl кино, телев. имена на участвуващи във филм/предаване (и credit titles) 25. приписвам 26. уважение, признание, похвала, чест, заслуга 27. фин. to credit a sum to someone, to credit someone with a sum вписвам сума към кредитната страна/прихода на нечия сметка, кредитирам сума на някого 28. фин. кредит, дълг, сума, записана на кредит, дясна/кредитна страна на счетоводна книга, актив
    * * *
    credit[´kredit] I. n 1. търг. кредит; дълг; сума, записана на приход; дясната (кредитната) страна на счетоводна книга; актив; in \credit с положителен баланс (за сметка); on \credit на кредит, на вересия; long \credit дългосрочен кредит; letter of \credit кредитно писмо; to pay a sum to s.o.'s \credit внасям (плащам) сума на сметка на някого; his \credit is good той се ползва с доверие, има добър кредит; to have many achievements to o.'s \credit имам (отбелязал съм) много постижения; 2. уважение, признание; похвала, чест; заслуга; he got all the \credit for the discovery откритието беше признато за изцяло негова заслуга; to take \credit for ( doing) s.th. приписвам си заслуга за (че съм направил нещо); to acquit o.s. with \credit оправдавам доверие с чест; be it said ( it must be said) to his \credit за негова чест трябва да се каже; that is all to his \credit, it does him \credit, it reflects \credit on him това му прави чест; he is a \credit to his family той е чест за семейството си; 3. вяра, доверие; to give \credit вярвам на; to gain \credit спечелвам доверие, започват да ми вярват; 4. доверие, влияние, уважение; престиж, авторитет, добро име; a man of highest \credit човек с много добро име; to have \credit with s.o. имам влияние над някого; 5. бюджетна дванадесетинка; 6. удостоверение за завършен курс в учебно заведение; 7. pl (и \credit titles) списък с имената на актьорите, на директора и на снимачния екип на филм, телевизионна програма и др.; II. v 1. фин.: to \credit a sum to s.o., to \credit s.o. with a sum кредитирам сума на някого (някого със сума); вписвам сума към кредитната страна (прихода) на сметката на някого; 2. приписвам; to \credit s.o. with an achievement вярвам (мисля, смятам), че някой е постигнал нещо; they are \crediting science with power it does not possess приписват на науката власт, която тя не притежава; 3. вярвам, приемам за достоверен.

    English-Bulgarian dictionary > credit

  • 13 Welsbach, Baron Carl Auer von

    [br]
    b. 1 September 1858 Vienna, Austria
    d. 4 August 1929 Treibach, Austria
    [br]
    Austrian inventor of the gas mantle.
    [br]
    Welsbach studied at Vienna Polytechnic and then at Heidelberg under the distinguished German chemist Bunsen. He carried out research into the rare earth elements and in 1885 succeeded in separating didymium into two earths, neodymium and praesodymium. He observed that asbestos fibres impregnated with rare earths, when strongly heated, gave off a bright light. This was the basis for his invention of the incandescent gas mande, which he patented in 1885. He found that a mixture of 99 per cent thoria and 1 per cent ceria produced the best light. The invention was well timed, for during the 1880s gas light was being challenged by the new electric light and the Welsbach mande gave gas light a new lease of life. It was in wide use by 1900, and in that year it was further improved by the introduction of the inverted mande burner which had a higher light efficiency and better light distribution. For industrial and street lighting, Welsbach and Lucas achieved still higher efficiencies using the regenerative principle. Welsbach sought a use for the ceria waste from the lamps and formed an alloy of 35–40 per cent ceria with iron, known as Auer metal. This material is in wide use as the flint in cigarette and gas lighters.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Articles in J. Chem. Ed., 1929, pp. 2,051–2, and Chemical News, 1902, pp. 254–6.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Welsbach, Baron Carl Auer von

  • 14 credit

    'kredit
    1. noun
    1) (time allowed for payment of goods etc after they have been received: We don't give credit at this shop.) crédito
    2) (money loaned (by a bank).) crédito
    3) (trustworthiness regarding ability to pay for goods etc: Your credit is good.) solvencia
    4) ((an entry on) the side of an account on which payments received are entered: Our credits are greater than our debits.) haber
    5) (the sum of money which someone has in an account at a bank: Your credit amounts to 2,014 dollars.) saldo
    6) (belief or trust: This theory is gaining credit.) crédito, credibilidad
    7) ((American) a certificate to show that a student has completed a course which counts towards his degree.) crédito

    2. verb
    1) (to enter (a sum of money) on the credit side (of an account): This cheque was credited to your account last month.) abonar, ingresar
    2) ((with with) to think of (a person or thing) as having: He was credited with magical powers.) atribuir
    3) (to believe (something) to be possible: Well, would you credit that!) creer
    •
    - creditably
    - creditor
    - credits
    - credit card
    - be a credit to someone
    - be a credit to
    - do someone credit
    - do credit
    - give someone credit for something
    - give credit for something
    - give someone credit
    - give credit
    - on credit
    - take the credit for something
    - take credit for something
    - take the credit
    - take credit
    1. mérito
    2. crédito
    tr['kredɪt]
    1 (praise, approval) mérito, reconocimiento
    3 (belief, trust, confidence) crédito
    4 SMALLFINANCE/SMALL (gen) crédito; (in accountancy) haber nombre masculino; (on statement) saldo acreedor
    5 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL crédito
    1 (believe) creer, dar crédito a
    2 SMALLFINANCE/SMALL abonar, acreditar
    1 (of film, programme) ficha técnica
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    credit where credit's due reconocimiento al mérito
    'No credit given' "No se fía"
    on credit a crédito
    to be a credit to somebody/something hacer honor a alguien/algo
    ■ your son is a credit to you puede estar orgulloso de su hijo, su hijo le hace honor
    to be in credit tener saldo positivo
    to buy something on credit comprar algo a crédito
    to give somebody credit for something reconocer a alguien el mérito por algo
    to have something to one's credit tener algo a sus espaldas
    to somebody's credit dicho sea en honor de alguien
    to take credit for something atribuirse el mérito de algo
    credit account cuenta a crédito
    credit balance saldo positivo
    credit card tarjeta de crédito
    credit note vale nombre masculino de devolución
    credit squeeze restricciones nombre femenino plural al crédito
    interest-free credit crédito sin intereses
    credit ['krɛdɪt] vt
    1) believe: creer, dar crédito a
    2) : ingresar, abonar
    to credit $100 to an account: ingresar $100 en (una) cuenta
    3) attribute: atribuir
    they credit the invention to him: a él se le atribuye el invento
    1) : saldo m positivo, saldo m a favor (de una cuenta)
    2) : crédito m
    to buy on credit: comprar a crédito
    credit card: tarjeta de crédito
    3) credence: crédito m
    I gave credit to everything he said: di crédito a todo lo que dijo
    4) recognition: reconocimiento m
    5) : orgullo m, honor m
    she's a credit to the school: ella es el orgullo de la escuela
    adj.
    • crediticio, -a adj.
    n.
    • crédito s.m.
    • haber s.m.
    • mérito s.m.
    • precio s.m.
    v.
    • abonar v.
    • acreditar v.
    • creer v.
    • datar v.

    I 'kredət, 'kredɪt
    1) ( Fin)
    a) u ( in store) crédito m

    on credit — a crédito; (before n)

    credit account — (BrE) credicuenta f, cuenta f de or a crédito

    b) u ( in banking)

    if your account is in credit... — si está en números negros..., si tiene fondos en su cuenta...

    to keep one's account in credit — mantener* un saldo positivo; (before n)

    credit balance — saldo m positivo

    credit limit — límite m de crédito

    credit memorandum o (BrE) note — ( given by store) vale m de devolución

    credit rating — calificación f crediticia

    c) c ( on balance sheet) saldo m acreedor or a favor
    2) u (honor, recognition) mérito m

    to her credit, she's very modest — dicho sea en su honor, es muy modesta

    credit where it's due, she's a good cook — en honor a la verdad, hay que reconocer que cocina muy bien

    3) c ( Educ)
    b) ( grade) ≈notable m
    4) credits pl (Cin, TV, Video) créditos mpl, rótulos mpl (de crédito)

    II
    1) \<\<sum/funds\>\>

    to credit something TO something — abonar or ingresar algo en algo

    2)

    to credit somebody WITH something/-ING: I'd credited you with more common sense te creía con más sentido común; please, credit me with some intelligence reconóceme algo de inteligencia, por favor; they are credited with having invented the game — se les atribuye la invención del juego

    b) ( believe) creer*, dar* crédito a

    can you credit it? — ¿te lo puedes creer?, ¿no te parece increíble?

    ['kredɪt]
    1. N
    1) (Econ)
    a) (in account) (=positive balance)

    • his account is in credit — su cuenta tiene saldo positivo or está en números negros

    as long as you stay in credit or keep your account in credit — mientras pueda mantener un saldo positivo

    • you have £10 to your credit — tiene 10 libras en el haber, tiene un saldo a favor de 10 libras

    letter 1., 2)
    b) (for purchases) crédito m

    is his credit good? — ¿se le puede dar crédito sin riesgo?

    • to give sb credit — conceder un crédito a algn

    • interest-free credit — crédito m sin intereses

    • to buy sth on credit — comprar algo a crédito or a plazos

    credit terms available — se vende a plazos, facilidades de pago

    c) (Accounting) saldo m acreedor, saldo m positivo

    • on the credit side — (lit) en el haber; (fig) entre los aspectos positivos

    2) (=honour) honor m

    he's a credit to his family — es un orgullo para su familia, honra a su familia

    • it does you credit — dice mucho a tu favor, te honra

    • to his credit, I must point out that... — debo decir en su favor que...

    3) (=recognition) mérito m

    • they deserve credit for not giving up — merecen que se les reconozca el mérito de no haberse rendido

    • credit where it's or credit's due — a cada uno según sus méritos

    • to get the credit (for sth) — llevarse el mérito (de algo)

    • to give sb credit for (doing) sth — reconocer a algn el mérito de (haber hecho) algo

    • to take the credit for (doing) sth — llevarse el mérito de (haber hecho) algo

    4) (=credence)

    • he's a lot better than people give him credit for — es bastante mejor que lo que la gente cree

    • I have to give some credit to his story — tengo que reconocer que su historia tiene algo de verdad

    5) credits (Cine, TV) (=titles) títulos mpl de crédito, créditos mpl ; (=achievements) logros mpl
    6) (esp US) (Univ) (=award) crédito m, unidad f de valor académico
    2. VT
    1) (=believe) creer

    • it's hard to credit that such things went on — es difícil de creer que pasaran cosas semejantes

    • would you credit it! — ¡parece mentira!

    2) (=attribute)

    • I credited him with more sense — le creía más sensato

    credit me with some sense! — ¡no me tomes por idiota!

    3) (Comm) [+ money, interest] abonar, ingresar

    • the money was credited to his account — el dinero se abonó or se ingresó en su cuenta

    • we credit you with the interest monthly — le abonamos or ingresamos el interés mensualmente

    3.
    CPD

    credit account N — cuenta f de crédito

    credit agency N — agencia f de créditos

    credit balance N — saldo m acreedor, saldo m positivo

    credit bureau N — (US) oficina f de crédito

    credit card N — tarjeta f de crédito

    credit control N — control m del crédito

    credit crunch N — restricciones fpl al crédito

    credit entry N — anotación f en el haber

    credit facilities NPL — facilidades fpl de crédito

    credit history N — [of person] historial m crediticio, informe m de solvencia

    credit hour N — (US) ≈ hora f de crédito

    credit limit N — límite m de crédito

    credit line N — línea f de crédito

    credit note N — nota f de crédito

    credit rating N — clasificación f crediticia; (fig) credibilidad f

    credit reference N — informe m de crédito

    • to be a (bad)credit risk — presentar riesgo crediticio

    • to be a good credit risk — no presentar riesgo crediticio

    credit slip (US) N — comprobante m del crédito

    credit squeeze N — restricciones fpl de crédito

    credit union N — cooperativa f de crédito

    * * *

    I ['kredət, 'kredɪt]
    1) ( Fin)
    a) u ( in store) crédito m

    on credit — a crédito; (before n)

    credit account — (BrE) credicuenta f, cuenta f de or a crédito

    b) u ( in banking)

    if your account is in credit... — si está en números negros..., si tiene fondos en su cuenta...

    to keep one's account in credit — mantener* un saldo positivo; (before n)

    credit balance — saldo m positivo

    credit limit — límite m de crédito

    credit memorandum o (BrE) note — ( given by store) vale m de devolución

    credit rating — calificación f crediticia

    c) c ( on balance sheet) saldo m acreedor or a favor
    2) u (honor, recognition) mérito m

    to her credit, she's very modest — dicho sea en su honor, es muy modesta

    credit where it's due, she's a good cook — en honor a la verdad, hay que reconocer que cocina muy bien

    3) c ( Educ)
    b) ( grade) ≈notable m
    4) credits pl (Cin, TV, Video) créditos mpl, rótulos mpl (de crédito)

    II
    1) \<\<sum/funds\>\>

    to credit something TO something — abonar or ingresar algo en algo

    2)

    to credit somebody WITH something/-ING: I'd credited you with more common sense te creía con más sentido común; please, credit me with some intelligence reconóceme algo de inteligencia, por favor; they are credited with having invented the game — se les atribuye la invención del juego

    b) ( believe) creer*, dar* crédito a

    can you credit it? — ¿te lo puedes creer?, ¿no te parece increíble?

    English-spanish dictionary > credit

  • 15 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
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  • 16 start

    stɑ:t
    1. сущ.
    1) а) отправление;
    начало at the start ≈ в начале from the start ≈ с начала for a start ≈ для начала For a start let's agree where we should meet. ≈ Для начала давайте договоримся, где встретимся. flying start ≈ отличное (многообещающее) начало;
    перевес head start ≈ рывок на старте;
    хорошее начало;
    преимущество fresh start, new start ≈ начало с нуля promising start, running start ≈ многообещающее начало false start б) спорт старт (начало соревнования, дистанции и т.д.) в) авиац. взлет( начало полета)
    2) а) преимущество, фора he gave me a start of 10 yards ≈ он дал мне фору 10 ярдов б) спорт рывок на старте Syn: head start
    3) тех. пуск в ход;
    запуск( какого-л. механизма)
    4) вздрагивание;
    толчок He woke with a start. ≈ Он проснулся, как от толчка.
    2. гл.
    1) а) начинать;
    браться( за что-л.) to start a subject ≈ начать разговор о чем-л. б) начинаться The film starts at 5 o'clock. ≈ Фильм начинается в пять часов. ∙ Syn: begin
    2) бросаться, кидаться( куда-л.) He started when a shot rang out. ≈ Он кинулся (бежать), когда прогремел выстрел. Syn: spring I
    2.
    3) а) отправляться, пускаться в путь;
    трогаться( о трамвае, поезде и т. п.) The train has just started. ≈ Поезд только что ушел. б) спорт стартовать в) авиац. взлетать
    4) перен. начинаться от какой-то отправной точки, 'стартовать' the rates start at $10 ≈ стартовая ставка 10 долларов
    5) учреждать, открывать (предприятие и т. п.) ;
    открывать (свое) дело
    6) тех. пускать, запускать( машину, механизм и т.д.;
    тж. start up)
    7) а) спорт давать старт б) быть в стартующей группе, принимать участие в соревновании
    8) вздрагивать, содрогаться
    9) вспугивать to start a hare охот. ≈ поднять зайца
    10) а) расшатать(ся) ( о механизме, частях механизма) б) расходиться( о шве) в) коробиться( о древесине) ∙ start back start in start off start on start out start up start with to start another hare ≈ поднять новый вопрос для обсуждения;
    переменить тему разговора начало - from * to finish с начала до конца - a * in life начало жизненного пути - to have a good * in life удачно начать карьеру - to give smb. a * in life помочь кому-л. встать на ноги - to give an ex-convict a fresh * in life дать бывшему заключенному возможность начать новую жизнь отправление - we shall make an early * for town рано утром мы отправимся в город( техническое) начало движения;
    пуск, запуск (авиация) взлет (военное) начало атаки - * time время начала атаки - * line рубеж атаки (космонавтика) запуск двигателя( спортивное) старт - high * высокий старт (легкая атлетика) - individual * раздельный старт (велоспорт) - standing * старт с места( велоспорт) - false * фальстарт - * line линия старта - to line up for the * выстроиться на старт - * list стартовый протокал преимущество - to get the * of smth. опередить кого-л.;
    получить преимущество перед кем-л. (спортивное) гандикап - he gave me a * of 10 yards он дал мне фору 10 ярдов вздрагивание;
    рывок - to give a * вздрогнуть - to give smb. a * испугать кого-л., заставить кого-л. вздрогнуть - he sprang up with a * он вдруг /рывком/ вскочил (с места) - your sudden, silent appearance gave me quite a * вы появились так внезапно и бесшумно, что я прямо-таки перепугался (редкое) порыв, приступ( разговорное) неожиданность (часто rum *) > by fits and * урывками;
    неравномерно > to get off to a good * удачно стартовать;
    удачно начаться;
    удачно начать (какую-л. работу) > the conference got off to a good * начало конференции было обещающим;
    > to get off to a slow * медленно развертываться /развиваться/;
    с трудом раскачиваться отправляться, пускаться в путь, трогаться - to * on a journey отправиться в поездку - to * in pursuit of smb., smth. броситься в погоню за кем-л., чем-л. - the train has just *ed поезд только что отошел - he *ed for India last week на прошлой неделе он уехал в Индию - we're going to * as early as possible мы отправимся как можно раньше отправлять - to * a train отправлять поезд направляться - to * north направляться на север - to * forward броситься /рвануться/ вперед - he *ed towards the door он направился к двери начинать;
    приступать( к чему-л.) - to * a squarrel затеять ссору - to * a subject завести разговор о чем-л. - to * a fresh loaf of bread начать /разрезать/ новую буханку хлеба - we must * work at once мы должны немедленно приступить к работе /взяться за дело/ - when do I *? когда мне приступить (к работе) ? - he got *ed on his literary work он всерьез взялся за свой литературный труд - a young man *ing in life молодой человек, начинающий жизнь начинаться - how did the war *? как началась война? - the fire *ed in the kitchen пожар возник на кухне - the rates * at $10 налоги взимаются, начиная с десяти долларов порождать, начинать - to * a rumour пустить слух - to * a movement in art положить начало какому-л. течению в искусстве зажечь - to * a fire развести костер;
    поджечь - to * cigar закурить сигару вздрагивать, пугаться (тж. * up) - he *s at every noise он вздрагивает при каждом шорохе (устаревшее) заставить вздрогнуть, испугать вскакивать, выскакивать (тж. * up) - to * from one's bed вскочить с постели - to * in one's seat подскочить на стуле - to * in one's feet вскочить на ноги - to * from sleep внезапно проснуться (out of) пробудить от чего-л. - the appearance of the teacher at his side *ed John out of his happy daydreaming когда учитель появился рядом с ним, Джон очнулся от своих сладких грез - the audience was *ed out of its somnolence by a sudden crash of the drums сонные слушатели проснулись от внезапного грома барабанов сдвигать( с места) ;
    расшатывать - the damage was trifling, not a rivet was *ed повреждение было незначительным, ни одну заклепку не вырвало сдвигаться( с места) ;
    расшатываться - his tooth *ed у него расшатался зуб вылезать, выступать - his eyes *ed from their sockets у него глаза на лоб полезли (полиграфия) выступать (о листах книги) политься, хлынуть - blood *ed from the wound из раны хлынула кровь - tears *ed from her eyes у нее из глаз полились слезы выливать;
    переливать - to * the beer into a new cask перелить пиво в другой бочонок завести( что-л.), обзавестись( чем-л.) - to * a horse завести себе лошадь - to * a family обзавестись семьей /детьми/ - to * a baby забеременеть выращивать, разводить - to * chicks разводить цыплят (спортивное) стартовать (тж. * out) - five cars *ed but only three finished стартовало пять машин, а к финишу пришло только три давать старт - to * the ball in play ввести мяч в игру быть участником отборочных соревнований (легкая атлетика) (тж. * up) заводить( механизм) ;
    запускать (двигатель) - to * a watch заводить часы заводиться( о машине, двигателе) - I can't get the engine of my car to * моя машина не заводится поднимать, выдвигать( вопрос и т. п.) - to * an objection (юридическое) делать возражение( в процессе) - to * a subject поднять вопрос учреждать, основывать( дело, предприятие и т. п.) - to * a new clothing-store открыть новый магазин готового платья - he decided to * a newspaper он решил издавать газету ослаблять, отпускать (трос и т. п.) (морское) потравливать (шкот, брас) расходиться (о шве) коробить( древесину) коробиться (о древесине) (охота) поднимать (дичь) - to * a hare поднять зайца - to start smb. doing smth. побуждать кого-л. к какому-л. действию - the news *ed me thinking эта новость заставила меня задуматься - this smell always *s my cat sneezing от этого запаха моя кошка всегда начинает чихать - to start smb. (off) in smth. помогать кому-л. начать что-л. - to * smb. in life помочь кому-л. встать на ноги - there's nobody who could * me off in London в Лондоне не было человека, который помог бы мне встать на ноги - to start smb. (off) on smth. заставить кого-л. говорить о чем-л. - don't * him off on his invention не вызывайте его на разговор о его изобретении - to start smb. (off) as smth. принять кого-л. на работу в качестве кого-л.;
    поставить кого-л. на какую-л. должность - the station *ed him as a news announcer он был принят на радио диктором последних известий - to start smb. at some salary установить кому-л. какой-л. оклад - they *ed him at a low salary ему установили низкий оклад как глагол-связка начинать;
    передается тж. приставкой за- - to * talking заговорить - to * smoking закурить - to * into song запеть - the bells *ed ringing зазвонили колокола - she *ed crying она заплакала > to * with начать с того, что..., прежде всего;
    сначала, поначалу;
    сперва > you have no right to be here, to * with во-первых, ты не имеешь права находиться здесь > I'll pay you twelve dollars a week to * with для начала я буду платить тебе 20 долларов в неделю > to * the ball rolling начать какое-л. дело;
    начать разговор > to * smth. заварить кашу > don't you *! ну, брось! > to * another hare переменить тему разговора;
    поднять новый вопрос > to * on smb. (разговорное) дразнить, задирать кого-л.;
    подшучивать над кем-л. deck ~ мор. ав. взлет с палубы ~ начинаться;
    the fire started in the kitchen сначала загорелось в кухне ~ отправление;
    начало;
    to make a start начать;
    отправиться;
    from start to finish с начала до конца ~ преимущество;
    to get the start (of smb.) опередить (кого-л.), получить преимущество (перед кем-л.) ;
    he gave ме a start of 10 yards он дал мне фору 10 ярдов start вздрагивание;
    толчок;
    to give (smb.) a start испугать (кого-л.) ;
    to give a start вздрогнуть start вздрагивание;
    толчок;
    to give (smb.) a start испугать (кого-л.) ;
    to give a start вздрогнуть a ~ in life начало карьеры;
    to give (smb.) a start in life помочь (кому-л.) встать на ноги ~ преимущество;
    to get the start (of smb.) опередить (кого-л.), получить преимущество (перед кем-л.) ;
    he gave ме a start of 10 yards он дал мне фору 10 ярдов ~ out разг. собираться сделать( что-л.) ;
    he started out to write a book он собирался написать книгу ~ расходиться (о шве) ;
    start in разг. начинать, приниматься;
    just start in and clean the room примитесь-ка за уборку комнаты ~ отправление;
    начало;
    to make a start начать;
    отправиться;
    from start to finish с начала до конца ~ up появляться;
    a new idea has started up возникла новая идея start вздрагивание;
    толчок;
    to give (smb.) a start испугать (кого-л.) ;
    to give a start вздрогнуть ~ вздрагивать, содрогаться;
    to start in one's seat привскочить на стуле ~ ав. взлетать ~ ав. взлет ~ вскочить, броситься (тж. start up) ;
    to start back отпрянуть, отскочить назад;
    to start forward броситься вперед ~ вспугивать;
    to start a hare охот. поднять зайца ~ выращивать ~ спорт. давать старт ~ вчт. запуск ~ вчт. запустить ~ коробиться (о древесине) ~ начало ~ начало движения ~ начинать;
    браться (за что-л.) ;
    to start a quarrel затеять ссору;
    to start a subject начать разговор (о чем-л.) ;
    to start working взяться за работу ~ начинать ~ начинаться;
    the fire started in the kitchen сначала загорелось в кухне ~ отправление;
    начало;
    to make a start начать;
    отправиться;
    from start to finish с начала до конца ~ отправление ~ отправлять ~ отправляться, пускаться в путь;
    трогаться (о трамвае, поезде и т. п.) ;
    the train has just started поезд только что ушел;
    to start on a journey отправиться путешествовать ~ отправляться ~ помогать (кому-л.) начать (какое-л. дело и т. п.) ~ порождать ~ преимущество;
    to get the start (of smb.) опередить (кого-л.), получить преимущество (перед кем-л.) ;
    he gave ме a start of 10 yards он дал мне фору 10 ярдов ~ преимущество ~ приступать ~ вчт. пуск ~ пуск в ход;
    запуск ~ пускать (машину;
    тж. start up) ~ разводить ~ расходиться (о шве) ;
    start in разг. начинать, приниматься;
    just start in and clean the room примитесь-ка за уборку комнаты ~ расшатать(ся) ~ старт ~ спорт. старт ~ спорт. стартовать ~ учреждать, открывать (предприятие и т. п.) ~ учреждать, открывать (предприятие и т.п.) ~ вспугивать;
    to start a hare охот. поднять зайца ~ начинать;
    браться (за что-л.) ;
    to start a quarrel затеять ссору;
    to start a subject начать разговор (о чем-л.) ;
    to start working взяться за работу ~ начинать;
    браться (за что-л.) ;
    to start a quarrel затеять ссору;
    to start a subject начать разговор (о чем-л.) ;
    to start working взяться за работу ~ with начинать (с чего-л.) ;
    we had six members to start with у нас сперва было шесть членов;
    to start another hare поднять новый вопрос для обсуждения;
    переменить тему разговора ~ вскочить, броситься (тж. start up) ;
    to start back отпрянуть, отскочить назад;
    to start forward броситься вперед to ~ for Leningrad отправиться в Ленинград ~ вскочить, броситься (тж. start up) ;
    to start back отпрянуть, отскочить назад;
    to start forward броситься вперед ~ расходиться (о шве) ;
    start in разг. начинать, приниматься;
    just start in and clean the room примитесь-ка за уборку комнаты a ~ in life начало карьеры;
    to give (smb.) a start in life помочь (кому-л.) встать на ноги ~ вздрагивать, содрогаться;
    to start in one's seat привскочить на стуле ~ преимущество;
    to get the start (of smb.) опередить (кого-л.), получить преимущество (перед кем-л.) ;
    he gave ме a start of 10 yards он дал мне фору 10 ярдов ~ отправляться, пускаться в путь;
    трогаться (о трамвае, поезде и т. п.) ;
    the train has just started поезд только что ушел;
    to start on a journey отправиться путешествовать ~ out разг. начинать ~ out отправляться в путь ~ out разг. собираться сделать (что-л.) ;
    he started out to write a book он собирался написать книгу ~ up вскакивать ~ up появляться;
    a new idea has started up возникла новая идея ~ up пускать в ход;
    to start up an engine запустить мотор ~ up пускать в ход;
    to start up an engine запустить мотор to ~ with начать с того...;
    прежде всего;
    you have no right to go there, to start with (нужно) начать с того что вы не имеете права ходить туда to ~ with начать с того...;
    прежде всего;
    you have no right to go there, to start with (нужно) начать с того что вы не имеете права ходить туда ~ with начинать (с чего-л.) ;
    we had six members to start with у нас сперва было шесть членов;
    to start another hare поднять новый вопрос для обсуждения;
    переменить тему разговора ~ начинать;
    браться (за что-л.) ;
    to start a quarrel затеять ссору;
    to start a subject начать разговор (о чем-л.) ;
    to start working взяться за работу ~ отправляться, пускаться в путь;
    трогаться (о трамвае, поезде и т. п.) ;
    the train has just started поезд только что ушел;
    to start on a journey отправиться путешествовать ~ with начинать (с чего-л.) ;
    we had six members to start with у нас сперва было шесть членов;
    to start another hare поднять новый вопрос для обсуждения;
    переменить тему разговора to ~ with начать с того...;
    прежде всего;
    you have no right to go there, to start with (нужно) начать с того что вы не имеете права ходить туда

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > start

  • 17 Cort, Henry

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 1740 Lancaster, England
    d. 1800 Hampstead, near London, England
    [br]
    English ironmaster, inventor of the puddling process and grooved rollers for forming iron into bars.
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    His father was a mason and brickmaker but, anxious to improve himself, Cort set up in London in 1765 as a navy agent, said to have been a profitable business. He recognized that, at that time, the conversion of pig iron to malleable or wrought iron, which was needed in increasing quantities as developments in industry and mechanical engineering gathered pace, presented a bottleneck in the ironmaking process. The finery hearth was still in use, slow and inefficient and requiring the scarce charcoal as fuel. To tackle this problem, Cort gave up his business and acquired a furnace and slitting mill at Fontley, near Fareham in Hampshire. In 1784 he patented his puddling process, by which molten pig iron on the bed of a reverberatory furnace was stirred with an iron bar and, by the action of the flame and the oxygen in the air, the carbon in the pig iron was oxidized, leaving nearly pure iron, which could be forged to remove slag. In this type of furnace, the fuel and the molten iron were separated, so that the cheaper coal could be used as fuel. It was the stirring action with the iron bar that gave the name "puddling" to the process. Others had realized the problem and reached a similar solution, notably the brothers Thomas and George Cranage, but only Cort succeeded in developing a commercially viable process. The laborious hammering of the ball of iron thus produced was much reduced by an invention of the previous year, 1783. This too was patented. The iron was passed between grooved rollers to form it into bars. Cort entered into an agreement with Samuel Jellico to set up an ironworks at Gosport to exploit his inventions. Samuel's father Adam, Deputy Paymaster of the Navy, advanced capital for this venture, Cort having expended much of his own resources in the experimental work that preceded his inventions. However, it transpired that Jellico senior had, unknown to Cort, used public money to advance the capital; the Admiralty acted to recover the money and Cort lost heavily, including the benefits from his patents. Rival ironmasters were quick to pillage the patents. In 1790, and again the following year, Cort offered unsuccessfully to work for the military. Finally, in 1794, at the instigation of the Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, Cort was paid a pension of £200 per year in recognition of the value of his improvements in the technology of ironmaking, although this was reduced by deductions to £160. After his death, the pension to his widow was halved, while some of his children received a pittance. Without the advances made by Cort, however, the iron trade could not have met the rapidly increasing demand for iron during the industrial revolution.
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    Bibliography
    1787, A Brief State of Facts Relative to the New Method of Making Bar Iron with Raw Pit Coal and Grooved Rollers (held in the Science Museum Library archive collection).
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson, 1941, "Henry Cort's bicentary", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 21: 31–47 (there are further references to grooved rollers and the puddling process in Vol. 49 of the same periodical (1978), on pp. 153–8).
    R.A.Mott, 1983, Henry Con, the Great Finery Creator of Puddled Iron, Sheffield: Historical Metallurgy Society.
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  • 18 Clymer, George E.

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1754 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 27 August 1834 London, England
    [br]
    American inventor of the Columbian printing press.
    [br]
    Clymer was born on his father's farm, of a family that emigrated from Switzerland in the early eighteenth century. He attended local schools, helping out on the farm in his spare time, and he showed a particular talent for maintaining farm machinery. At the age of 16 he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, which he followed in the same district for over twenty-five years. During that time, he showed his talent for mechanical invention in many ways, including the invention of a plough specially adapted to the local soils. Around 1800, he moved to Philadelphia, where his interest was aroused by the erection of the first bridge over the Schuylkill River. He devised a pump to remove water from the cofferdams at a rate of 500 gallons per day, superior to any other pumps then in use. He obtained a US patent for this in 1801, and a British one soon after.
    Clymer then turned his attention to the improvement of the printing press. For three and a half centuries after its invention, the old wooden-framed press had remained virtually unchanged except in detail. The first real change came in 1800 with the introduction of the iron press by Earl Stanhope. Modified versions were developed by other inventors, notably George Clymer, who after more than ten years' effort achieved his Columbian press. With its new system of levers, it enabled perfect impressions to be obtained with far less effort by the pressman. The Columbian was also notable for its distinctive cast-iron ornamentation, including a Hermes on each pillar and alligators and other reptiles on the levers. Most spectacular, it was surmounted by an American spread eagle, usually covered in gilt, which also served as a counterweight to raise the platen. The earliest known Columbian, surviving only in an illustration, bears the inscription Columbian Press/No.25/invented by George Clymer/Anno Domini 1813/Made in Philadelphia 1816. Few American printers could afford the US$400 selling price, so in 1817 Clymer went to England, where it was taken up enthusiastically. He obtained a British patent for it the same year, and by the following March it was being manufactured by the engineering firm R.W.Cope, although Clymer was probably making it on his own account soon afterwards. The Columbian was widely used for many years and continued to be made even into the twentieth century. The King of the Netherlands awarded Clymer a gold medal for his invention and the Tsar of Russia gave him a present for installing the press in Russia. Doubtless for business reasons, Clymer spent most of his remaining years in England and Europe.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1973, Printing Presses, London: Faber \& Faber.
    —1969, contributed a thorough survey of the press in J. Printing Hist. Soc., no. 3.
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  • 19 talk

    tɔ:k
    1. сущ.
    1) а) разговор;
    диалог;
    беседа I think it's time we had a talk. ≈ Я думаю, нам пора поговорить. She had a long talk with him about his work. ≈ Она долго разговаривала с ним о его работе. big talk blunt talk heart-to-heart talk loose talk pep talk plain talk straight talk sweet talk б) мн. переговоры the next round of Middle East peace talks ≈ следующий раунд переговоров о мире на Ближнем Востоке
    2) лекция;
    беседа, рассказ to give a talk ≈ прочитать лекцию She gave an interesting talk on bringing up children. ≈ Она прочитала интересную лекцию по вопросам воспитания детей.
    3) а) пустой разговор, треп, болтовня It will end in talk. ≈ Это дальше разговоров не пойдет. idle talk ≈ пустословие, болтовня б) слухи, толки, молва There is talk of her resigning. ≈ Поговаривают о том, что она уходит на пенсию. в) предмет разговоров, толков It is the talk of the town. ≈ Об этом толкует весь город.
    2. гл.
    1) а) говорить, вести беседу;
    разговаривать( about, of - о чем-л.;
    with - с кем-л.) to talk bluntly, to talk candidly, to talk frankly, to talk freely ≈ открыто/свободно/искренне разговаривать о чем-л. to talk loud, to talk loudly, to talk openly ≈ во весь голос/открыто заявить о чем-л. to talk oneself sick ≈ договориться до болезненного состояния They were talking about the elections. ≈ Они разговаривали о выборах. She was talking of her trip. ≈ Она рассказывала о своем путешествии. to talk on a topic ≈ вести беседу на какую-л. тему to talk smb. into doing smth. ≈ убедить/уговорить кого-л. сделать что-л. to talk smb. out of doing smth. ≈ отговорить кого-л. делать что-л. I will talk to them about this problem. ≈ Я обсужу с ними этот вопрос. {to} talk big ≈ хвастать(ся) {to} talk bawdy ≈ говорить непристойности б) вести переговоры в) заговорить( о допрашиваемом)
    2) читать, вести лекцию (on)
    3) а) болтать, трепать языком б) сплетничать ∙ talk about talk around talk at smb. talk away talk back talk big talk down talk down to talk into talk of talk on talk out talk out of talk over talk round talk to talk to the point talk up to talk big/large/tall разг. ≈ хвастать, бахвалиться to talk smb.'s head off, to talk a donkey's hind leg off разг. ≈ заговорить до смерти now you are talking! разг. ≈ вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! you can't talk разг. ≈ не тебе говорить, ты бы лучше помалкивал talk against time talk turkey разговор, беседа - straight * откровенный разговор, разговор начистоту - idle * пустой разговор - double * двусмысленный разговор - small * разговор о пустяках, светский /пустой/ разговор - she has no small * она не умеет поддерживать беседу - to meet for a good * встретиться и всласть поговорить - to engage smb. in *, to make a * начинать разговор, пытаться завязать беседу - to fall into * разговориться - to have a * with smb. поговорить с кем-л. - to start a * off in a different direction перевести разговор на другую тему - the * turned to economics разговор перешел на экономику (on, about) лекция, доклад, беседа - to give a * on disarmament прочитать лекцию о разоружении - the coach gave the team a * about the need for more team spirit тренер провел с командой беседу об усилении духа коллективизма пустой разговор, болтовня - to end in * кончиться одними словами, не пойти дальше разговоров - it's just *, it's mere * это одни слова - he's all * он вечно болтает - we want actions, not * нам нужны не слова, а дела разговоры, слухи;
    россказни;
    толки, молва - that will make * теперь пойдут разговоры /толки, слухи/, теперь разговоров не оберешься - there is * of a new invention ходят слухи о новом изобретении предмет толков, разговоров - it's the * of the town об этом толкует /говорит/ весь город, это у всех на устах - to risk * быть выше сплетен /молвы/, не бояться сплетен pl переговоры - informal *s неофициальные переговоры - summit /top-level/ *s переговоры на высшем уровне - peace *s переговоры о мире (разговорное) язык, диалект, жаргон - baby * детский язык - thieves's * воровской /блатной/ жаргон > all * and no cider (американизм) шуму много, а толку мало > that's the *! вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю! разговаривать, беседовать;
    говорить;
    общаться - to * about smb., smth. говорить о ком-л., чем-л. - to get oneself *ed about заставить говорить о себе - I know what I am *ing about я знаю, о чем говорю - to * of smth. говорить о чем-л.;
    упоминать о чем-л.;
    говорить о своем намерении - he *ed of /about/ going abroad он сказал, что собирается за границу;
    он упомянул о своем намерении поехать за границу - to * of one thing and another, to * of this and that поговорить /потолковать/ о том о сем - to * with smb. разговаривать с кем-л. - to * to smb. разговаривать с кем-л.;
    (разговорное) выговаривать кому-л., упрекать /бранить/ кого-л. - she has found smb. to * to она нашла себе собеседницу - to * to oneself говорить с самим собой;
    заговариваться - to * at smb. отпускать замечания на чей-л. счет /по чьему-л. адресу/ - to * by signs говорить /общаться/ с помощью знаков - to * in riddles говорить загадками - to * on a subject говорить на какую-л. тему - to * to the point говорить по существу - he didn't care to * ему не хотелось разговаривать - that's no way to *! так не разговаривают! - he likes to hear himself * он любит слушать (самого) себя говорить (что-л.) - to * sense /business/ говорить дело - to * nonsense говорить чепуху, нести /пороть/ чушь - to * politics говорить о политике - to * scandal распускать слухи, сплетничать - to * treason вести преступные разговоры;
    держать мятежные речи общаться при помощи звуковых сигналов, обладать способностью речи (о живых существах, отличных от человека) ;
    переговариваться - dolphins can * дельфины умеют говорить, у дельфинов есть язык - the birds were *ing loudly слышались громкие голоса птиц - ships were *ing to each other by wireless корабли переговаривались друг с другом по радио говорить - to * fluently говорить бегло - to learn to * учиться говорить - to * in one's sleep говорить во сне - stop *ing! перестаньте разговаривать! - I'll make you * ты у меня заговоришь, я заставлю тебя заговорить говорить на каком-л. языке - to * French говорить по-французски - to * dialect говорить на диалекте (on, about) проводить беседу - to * on discipline проводить беседу о дисциплине - to * on the radio on /about/ smth. выступать по радио( с беседой) о чем-л. (around, round) избегать существа дела;
    обсуждать, не касаясь, не доходя до существа дела;
    ходить вокруг да около, толочь воду в ступе - they *ed around the proposal for several hours они несколько часов обсуждали это предложение, но так ни до чего и не договорились (разговорное) болтать;
    говорить пустое - to * by the hour болтать без умолку, тараторить, трещать - to * small вести пустой /светский/ разговор, вести салонную беседу - to * big /large, tall/ хвастать, бахвалиться, важничать;
    врать с три короба - you * big послушать тебя - так ты все можешь распускать или распространять слухи, сплетничать;
    судачить, злословить - to * behind smb.'s back говорить за спиной у кого-л., судачить /злословить/ на чей-л. счет - the case gave people something to * about это дело дало обильную пищу для толков - people are beginning to * уже пошли разговоры /толки/ - the neighbours are sure to * соседи уж почешут языки доводить разговорами (до чего-л.) - to * oneself hoarse договориться до хрипоты;
    охрипнуть /сорвать голос/ от разговоров - I've *ed myself black in the face telling you! я тут надсаживаюсь, а ты и ухом не ведешь!;
    я уже посинел /охрип/, толкуя тебе об этом! - he *ed himself into trouble он чересчур много говорил и влип в неприятную историю убеждать, уговаривать - to * smb. into agreement вырвать согласие у кого-л. - to * smb. into taking the trip уговорить кого-л. предпринять поездку (разговорное) сообщать нужные сведения;
    доносить;
    "раскалываться" - the prisoner *ed to the police арестованный раскололся и все рассказал полиции - to make a prisoner * заставить арестованного заговорить, "расколоть" арестованного - his accomplices are afraid he'll * его сообщники боятся, как бы он не заговорил /что он их выдаст/ > *ing of (pictures) кстати, о ( картинах) > to * Greek /Hebrew, Double-Dutch, gibberish/ говорить непонятно /заумно/ > to * (cold) turkey( американизм) говорить дело, разговаривать по-деловому;
    говорить начистоту;
    выкладывать всю правду > to * against time говорить для того, чтобы выиграть время;
    стараться соблюсти регламент > to * through one's hat /through (the back of) one's neck/ нести чушь, говорить вздор, пороть чепуху > to * one's head /one's arm, a donkey's hind leg/ off, to * to death наговориться всласть /вволю/ > to * smb,'s head off, to * smb. to death замучить кого-л. разговорами, заговорить кого-л. до потери сознания /до смерти/ > to * horse хвастать, бахвалиться > how you *! рассказывай!, ври больше! > you can't * ты бы уж лучше помалкивал > now you're *ing! вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю!, вот это другой разговор! > * of the devil (and he will come /and he is sure to appear/) легок на помине > look who's *ing чья бы корова мычала ~ разговор;
    беседа;
    a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
    to fall into talk разговориться to get oneself talked about заставить заговорить о себе;
    to talk politics говорить о политике ~ разговор;
    беседа;
    a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
    to fall into talk разговориться to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
    how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! ~ слухи, толки;
    предмет разговоров, толков;
    it is the talk of the town об этом толкует весь город ~ пустой разговор, болтовня;
    it will end in talk это дальше разговоров не пойдет to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить начистоту;
    now you are talking! разг. вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! sales ~ переговоры о продаже товара talk беседа ~ беседовать ~ болтать, говорить пустое ~ говорить;
    разговаривать (about, of - о чем-л.;
    with - с кем-л.) ;
    to talk English говорить по-английски ~ говорить ~ заговорить (о допрашиваемом) ;
    talk at говорить дурно( о ком-л.) в расчете на то, что он это услышит ~ лекция, беседа ~ лекция ~ pl переговоры ~ переговоры ~ пустой разговор, болтовня;
    it will end in talk это дальше разговоров не пойдет ~ разговаривать ~ разговор;
    беседа;
    a heart-to-heart talk разговор по душам;
    to fall into talk разговориться ~ разговор ~ слухи, толки;
    предмет разговоров, толков;
    it is the talk of the town об этом толкует весь город ~ сплетничать, распространять слухи ~ убеждать ~ уговаривать ~ читать лекцию (on) to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
    how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! to ~ against time говорить с целью выиграть время to ~ against time стараться уложиться в установленное время( об ораторе) ~ заговорить (о допрашиваемом) ;
    talk at говорить дурно (о ком-л.) в расчете на то, что он это услышит ~ attr. говорящий;
    talk film звуковой фильм ~ away заговориться, заболтаться;
    болтать без умолку;
    talk back возражать, дерзить ~ up говорить прямо и откровенно;
    to talk big (или large, tall) разг. хвастать, бахвалиться to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
    talk into уговорить, убедить;
    to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ~ down перекричать( кого-л.) ;
    заставить (кого-л.) замолчать ~ говорить;
    разговаривать (about, of - о чем-л.;
    with - с кем-л.) ;
    to talk English говорить по-английски ~ attr. говорящий;
    talk film звуковой фильм to ~ (smb.'s) head off, to ~ a donkey's hind leg off разг. заговорить до смерти;
    how you talk! рассказывай!, ври больше! to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
    talk into уговорить, убедить;
    to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) to ~ down (to smb.) говорить (с кем-л.) свысока;
    talk into уговорить, убедить;
    to talk (smb.) into doing (smth.) уговорить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) to ~ oneself hoarse договориться до хрипоты ~ out выяснить( что-л.) в ходе беседы ~ out парл. затягивать прения с тем, чтобы отсрочить голосование;
    talk out of отговорить, разубедить ~ out исчерпать тему разговора ~ out парл. затягивать прения с тем, чтобы отсрочить голосование;
    talk out of отговорить, разубедить to ~ (smb.) out of doing (smth.) отговорить (кого-л.) (от чего-л.) ~ over обсудить (подробно) ~ over убедить to get oneself talked about заставить заговорить о себе;
    to talk politics говорить о политике ~ round говорить пространно, не касаясь существа дела ~ round переубедить( кого-л.) ;
    talk to выговаривать, бранить ~ round переубедить (кого-л.) ;
    talk to выговаривать, бранить to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить дело, разговаривать по-деловому to ~ turkey амер. разг. говорить начистоту;
    now you are talking! разг. вот сейчас ты говоришь дело! turkey: ~ sl неудача, провал;
    Norfolk turkey житель Норфолка;
    to talk turkey амер. sl. говорить прямо, без обиняков ~ up говорить прямо и откровенно;
    to talk big (или large, tall) разг. хвастать, бахвалиться ~ up хвалить, расхваливать you can't ~ разг. не тебе говорить, ты бы лучше помалкивал

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > talk

  • 20 el

    art.
    el coche the car
    la casa the house
    los niños the children
    el agua/hacha/águila the water/ax/eagle
    fui a recoger a los niños I went to pick up the children
    * * *
    el
    1 the
    ■ la Sra. Rodríguez Mrs. Rodríguez
    2 el de the one
    3 el que (persona - sujeto) the one who; (- objeto) the one, the one that, the one whom
    4 (cosa) the one, the one that, the one which
    * * *
    1. pron. 2. art.
    * * *
    el; la; los; las
    ART DEF
    1) [con nombres de referente único o concreto] the

    ¿está fría el agua? — is the water cold?

    ¿ha llegado ya el abogado? — has the lawyer arrived yet?

    el tío ese — * that chap

    2) [en algunos casos no se traduce]
    a) [con nombres propios]

    ¿qué manda la señora? — what would madam like?

    ha llamado el Sr. Sendra — Mr. Sendra called

    dáselo a la Luisa — * give it to Luisa

    b) [con nombres en sentido genérico]
    c) [con infinitivo]

    el hacerlo fue un error — doing it was a mistake, it was a mistake to do it

    d) [con cifras, proporciones]

    ahora gano el 3% más — I now earn 3% more

    3) [traducido por el posesivo]
    4) [con expresiones temporales]
    5) (=uso distributivo)
    6) [en exclamaciones]

    ¡el frío que hacía! — it was freezing!

    7) [posesivo]

    • el de, mi libro y el de usted — my book and yours

    el del sombrero rojo — the one with o in the red hat

    es un traje bonito, pero prefiero el de Ana — it's a nice suit, but I prefer Ana's

    y el de todos los demás — and that of everybody else, and everybody else's

    8)

    • el que —

    a) + indic

    él es el que quiere — it's he who wants to, he's the one who wants to

    los que hacen eso son tontos — anyone who does that is a fool, those who do so are foolish

    b) + subjun whoever

    el que quiera, que lo haga — whoever wants to can do it

    * * *
    (pl los), la (pl las) articulo
    [the masculine article el is also used before feminine nouns which begin with accented a or ha, e.g. el agua pura, el hada madrina]
    1)

    ¿ya vas a la escuela? — do you go to school yet?

    el mío/las tuyas — mine/yours

    el rojo/último — the red/last one

    los nacidos entre... — those born between...

    2)
    a)

    el + de...: la del sombrero the one with the hat; el de Valencia the one from Valencia; el de las nueve the nine o'clock one; el de Juan/de mi hijo — Juan's/my son's

    b)

    el + que...: el que acaba de entrar the one who's just come in; las que yo ví the ones I saw; los que estén cansados; those who are tired, anyone who's tired; la que te guste whichever you like; el que lo haya hecho — whoever has done it

    el mes pasado/que viene — last/next month

    4) ( cada)

    $80 el metro/kilo — $80 a meter/a kilo

    5) (con fracciones, porcentajes, números)

    la mitad/la cuarta parte del dinero — half the money/a quarter of the money

    el 20% de... — 20% of...

    el cuarto piso — the fifth floor (AmE) o (BrE) fourth floor

    6) (refiriéndose a partes del cuerpo, prendas de vestir, artículos personales, etc)
    a) (con apellidos acompañados de título, adjetivos, etc)

    el señor Ortiz/la doctora Vidal — Mr Ortiz/Doctor Vidal

    b) ( en plural)
    * * *
    (pl los), la (pl las) articulo
    [the masculine article el is also used before feminine nouns which begin with accented a or ha, e.g. el agua pura, el hada madrina]
    1)

    ¿ya vas a la escuela? — do you go to school yet?

    el mío/las tuyas — mine/yours

    el rojo/último — the red/last one

    los nacidos entre... — those born between...

    2)
    a)

    el + de...: la del sombrero the one with the hat; el de Valencia the one from Valencia; el de las nueve the nine o'clock one; el de Juan/de mi hijo — Juan's/my son's

    b)

    el + que...: el que acaba de entrar the one who's just come in; las que yo ví the ones I saw; los que estén cansados; those who are tired, anyone who's tired; la que te guste whichever you like; el que lo haya hecho — whoever has done it

    el mes pasado/que viene — last/next month

    4) ( cada)

    $80 el metro/kilo — $80 a meter/a kilo

    5) (con fracciones, porcentajes, números)

    la mitad/la cuarta parte del dinero — half the money/a quarter of the money

    el 20% de... — 20% of...

    el cuarto piso — the fifth floor (AmE) o (BrE) fourth floor

    6) (refiriéndose a partes del cuerpo, prendas de vestir, artículos personales, etc)
    a) (con apellidos acompañados de título, adjetivos, etc)

    el señor Ortiz/la doctora Vidal — Mr Ortiz/Doctor Vidal

    b) ( en plural)
    * * *
    el2
    = the, ye.

    Ex: The first institute, 'The Catalog: Its Nature and Prospects,' was held in New York City on October 9 and 10, 1975.

    Ex: The article 'Ye olde smart card' presents an annotated list of information sources on the credit card industry.
    * a lo extremo = to the extreme.
    * aunque no lo creas = believe it or not.
    * barrio de los ricos = upper town.
    * de los mejores = as good as any.
    * el abuelo de = the granddaddy of.
    * el acabose = the last straw.
    * el alcance = comprehensiveness.
    * el amor de + Posesivo + vida = the love of + Posesivo + life.
    * el año próximo = the year ahead.
    * el arte de = the art of, the fine art of.
    * el ataque es la mejor defensa = attack is the best form of defence.
    * el auténtico = the real McCoy.
    * el beneficio de la duda = the benefit of the doubt.
    * el bien de = the good of.
    * el buenazo de + Nombre = good old + Nombre.
    * el bueno de + Nombre = good old + Nombre.
    * el camino a seguir = the way ahead, the way to go.
    * el camino correcto = the way ahead, the way to go.
    * el camino hacia + Nombre + está lleno de + Nombre = the road (to/towards) + Nombre + is paved with + Nombre.
    * el camino hacia + Nombre + está plagado de + Nombre = the road (to/towards) + Nombre + is paved with + Nombre.
    * el camino por recorrer = the way ahead.
    * el camino que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * el camino recorrido = the road travelled so far.
    * el camino se hace andando = actions speak louder than words.
    * el centro de atención + ser = all eyes + be + on.
    * el charco = the big pond.
    * el ciudadano de a pie = the average Joe.
    * el ciudadano medio = the average Joe.
    * el cliente siempre tiene la razón = the customer is always right.
    * el colmo = the last straw.
    * el consejo de otra persona = a second opinion.
    * el copón = the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers.
    * el corazón de = the heart of.
    * el crecimiento de = the rising tide of.
    * el cual = which.
    * el de = that in, that of.
    * el diablo está en los detalles = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * el día del Juicio Final = the Day of Judgement.
    * El Diluvio = the Flood.
    * el dinero es el origen de todos los males = money is the root of all evil.
    * el dinero es la fuente de todos los males = money is the root of all evil.
    * el dinero mueve al mundo = money makes the world go (a)round.
    * el dinero no crece en los árboles = money doesn't grow on trees.
    * el doble = twice + as many.
    * el doble de = twice + the number of.
    * El Dorado = El Dorado.
    * el enemigo en casa = the enemy within.
    * el entonces + Nombre = the then + Nombre.
    * el espíritu de la época = the spirit of the times.
    * el estado de las cosas = the lay of the land [the lie of the land, -UK].
    * el evitar = avoidance.
    * el éxito genera éxito = success breeds success (SBS).
    * el éxito llama al éxito = success breeds success (SBS).
    * el final de = the close of.
    * el final de los problemas = the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * el fin del mundo = the ends of the earth.
    * el fin de semana = over the weekend, at the weekend.
    * el fin de todos los fines = the end of all ends.
    * el fin justifica los medios = the end justifies the means.
    * el fruto de + Nombre = the fruit of + Nombre.
    * el futuro = the way ahead, the way of the future.
    * el futuro + estar + justo a la vuelta de la esquina = the future + be + just around the corner.
    * el Gato con Botas = Puss in Boots.
    * el grado de = the extent of.
    * el grado de + Nombre = the breadth and depth of + Nombre.
    * el grado en que = the extent to which.
    * el gran hermano = big brother.
    * el guapo de + Nombre = good old + Nombre.
    * el hecho es que = fact is, the fact is (that).
    * el hecho es que... = the fact of the matter is that....
    * el hombre de la calle = the average Joe.
    * el hombre no es una isla = no man is an island.
    * el hombre propone y Dios dispone = Man proposes, God disposes.
    * el impulsor de = the power behind.
    * el interés público = the public interest.
    * El Juicio Final = The Last Judgement.
    * el lastre de = the shackles of.
    * el llevar = carrying.
    * el lugar que le corresponde a = the due place of.
    * El Mago de Oz = The Wizard of Oz, The Wizard of Oz.
    * el más = all-time.
    * el más + Adjetivo = the most + Adjetivo.
    * el más allá = hereafter.
    * el más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * el más favorito del mes = pick of the month.
    * el más leído = the most widely read.
    * el más recomendado = best of breed, the.
    * el Mediterráneo = Mediterranean Sea, the, the Med.
    * el mejor = best of breed, the.
    * el mejor de todos = the cream of the crop, crème de la crème.
    * el mejor hasta ahora = the best yet.
    * el mejor modo de = the best way of.
    * el mejor momento de todos = the time of all times.
    * el mejor + Nombre = the best available + Nombre.
    * el mejor que ha hecho hasta ahora = Posesivo + best yet.
    * el mentir = lying.
    * el mes pasado = last month.
    * el mío = mine.
    * el mismo + Nombre (+ que) = every bit as much + Nombre (+ as).
    * el mismo número = as many.
    * el modo como = the way in which.
    * el modo de = the way in which.
    * el modo de + Infinitivo = the way to go about + Gerundio.
    * el momento preciso = the point in time at which.
    * el motor de = the power behind.
    * el movimiento se demuestra andando = actions speak louder than words.
    * el muerto al hoyo y el vivo al bollo = dead men have no friends.
    * el mundo de las noticias = newsmaking.
    * el mundo en la palma de la mano = the world in the palm of + Posesivo + hand.
    * el mundo está a sus pies = the world is + Posesivo + oyster.
    * el mundo es un pañuelo = it's a small world.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * el + Nombre + es inestimable = the + Nombre + cannot be overestimated.
    * el + Nombre + más completo = the + Nombre + to end all + Nombre.
    * el no va más = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * el nuevo aspecto de = the changing face of, the changing nature of.
    * el orgullo de = showpiece.
    * el otro lado de la barrera = the other side of the fence.
    * el padre de = the father of.
    * el pan nuestro de cada día = all in a day's work.
    * el paso del tiempo = the passage of time, the sands of time.
    * el peor de todos = the worst of the lot.
    * el perro es el mejor amigo del hombre = a dog is man's best friend.
    * el peso de = brunt of, the.
    * el populacho = the great unwashed.
    * el porqué de = the reason behind, the thinking behind, the reasoning behind, the idea behind.
    * el portavoz de = the voice of.
    * el presente = thisness.
    * el primer intento = the first time around.
    * el primer + Nombre = the earliest + Nombre.
    * el primero mencionado = former.
    * el principal = the number one.
    * el principio de = the dawn of.
    * el principio del fin = the beginning of the end.
    * el principio de + Mes/Estación = early + Mes/Estación.
    * el problema no es el qué, sino el cómo = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * el problema obvio = the elephant in the room.
    * el proletariado = the great unwashed.
    * el pulmón de = the heart of.
    * el punto más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * el que = that, the one.
    * el que aprende = learner.
    * el que las hace, las paga = you've made your bed, now you must lie in it!.
    * el que lo encuentre se lo queda = finders keepers.
    * el que mantiene a la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].
    * el que mucho abarca poco aprieta = jack of all trades, master of none.
    * el que no llora, no mama = the squeaky (squeaking) wheel gets the grease (the oil/oiled).
    * el que no se aventura no cruza el mar = nothing ventured, nothing gained.
    * el que pregunta = inquirer [enquirer, -UK].
    * el quid de la cuestión = the crux of the problem, the crux of the matter.
    * el registro de los registros = record-of-record.
    * el registro modelo = record-of-record.
    * el resto = rest, the.
    * el resto (de) = the remainder (of), the rest (of).
    * El Salvador = El Salvador.
    * el segundo mencionado = latter.
    * el sendero que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * el ser barato = cheapness.
    * el siguiente no, el otro = next but one.
    * el sitio adecuado en el momento adecuado = the right place at the right time.
    * el sueño de toda persona = the stuff dreams are made of.
    * el sueño de todos = the stuff dreams are made of.
    * el sueño de todo ser viviente = the stuff dreams are made of.
    * el súmmum = the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * el tamaño de = the extent of.
    * el tema de la discusión = the focus of the discussion.
    * el tema del debate = the focus of the discussion.
    * el tiempo de Algo = in season.
    * el tiempo es oro = time is money.
    * el tiempo lo dirá = only time will tell.
    * el tiempo vuela = time flies (by).
    * el tipo de = the range of.
    * el todo es más grande que la suma de sus partes = the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
    * el total de = the total sum of, the sum total of.
    * el transcurrir del tiempo = the sands of time.
    * el transcurso del tiempo = as time goes by.
    * el último citado = latter.
    * el último grito = the last word, the cat's meow, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * el último + Nombre = the latest + Nombre.
    * el último pero no el menos importante = the last but by no means least.
    * el único = the one and only.
    * el único e incomparable = the one and only.
    * el único e inimitable = the one and only.
    * el único problema = a fly in the soup, the fly in the ointment.
    * el verdadero = the real McCoy.
    * el verdadero problema = the elephant in the room.
    * el ver televisión = television viewing.
    * el viejo = the elder.
    * el vulgo = the great unwashed.
    * el yugo de = the shackles of.
    * espicharlas = kick + the bucket.
    * la = the, ye.
    * la alternativa + ser = the alternative + be.
    * la belleza es superficial = beauty is only skin deep.
    * La Biblioteca Responde = Ask the Library.
    * la Biblioteca y el Archivo de Canadá = Library and Archives Canada.
    * la buena noticia = the good news.
    * la calidad es nuestro lema = quality is our middle name.
    * la calma que precede a la tormenta = the lull before the storm.
    * la cambiante fisonomía de = the changing face of, the changing nature of.
    * la caridad empieza por uno mismo = charity begins at home.
    * la ciudadana de a pie = the average Jane.
    * la ciudadana media = the average Jane.
    * la ciudad que nunca duerme = the city that never sleeps.
    * la clave de = at the heart of.
    * la clave está en la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * la Convención de la Haya de 1954 = the 1954 Hague Convention.
    * la copa del árbol = the top of the tree.
    * la cosa es que = the thing is.
    * la cosa principal = the number one thing.
    * la crème de la crème = the cream of the crop, crème de la crème.
    * la cruz de = the bane of.
    * la cuestión es que = the thing is.
    * la década de los + Número = the + Número + s.
    * la demanda de = a call for.
    * la diversidad de = the range of.
    * la diversidad de + Nombre = the many + Nombre.
    * la edad se lleva en el alma = you are as old as you feel.
    * la época de Algo = in season.
    * la escoria de la sociedad = the gutter.
    * la espalda de = the back of.
    * la evidencia = the writing on the wall.
    * la fe mueve montañas = faith will move mountains.
    * la filosofía de = the reason behind, the reasoning behind.
    * la flor de + Nombre = the prime of + Nombre.
    * la flor y nata = the cream of the crop, crème de la crème.
    * la forma correcta de hacer las cosas = the way to go.
    * la forma de = ways and means (of/for/to/in/by).
    * la forma de + Infinitivo = the way to go about + Gerundio.
    * la forma de ver las cosas = the way + to see things.
    * la fuerza de la mayoría = strength in numbers.
    * la gente decía que = rumour had it that.
    * la gente dice que = rumour has it that.
    * la gente se está inquietando = the natives are nervous.
    * la gente se está poniendo nerviosa = the natives are nervous.
    * la gente se puso de pie para aplaudir = standing ovation.
    * la gota que colmó el vaso = the straw that broke the camel's back.
    * la Gran Manzana = the Big Apple.
    * la gran mayoría de = the vast majority of, the bulk of.
    * la historia + repetirse = history + come full circle.
    * la historia + volverse a repetir = history + come full circle.
    * la hostia = the cat's pyjamas, the cat's pyjamas, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * la hoz y el martillo = the hammer and sickle.
    * la idea que hay detrás de = the idea behind.
    * la imaginación no tiene límites = your imagination is the limit.
    * la imitación es la mejor forma de que lo halaguen a uno = imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
    * La Isla del Tesoro = Treasure Island.
    * la joya de = showpiece.
    * la judicatura = the Bench.
    * la justicia = the Bench.
    * la juventud no es cuestión de edad sino de espíritu = you are as old as you feel.
    * la leche = the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers.
    * la luz al final del túnel = the light at the end of the tunnel.
    * la magistratura = the Bench.
    * la manera de + Infinitivo = the way to go about + Gerundio.
    * la mano que mece la cuna es la mano que domina el mundo = the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
    * la mano que mece la cuna gobierna el mundo = the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
    * la mar de = a whole slew of.
    * la mayoría con mucho de = the vast majority of.
    * la mayoría de = the majority of, most + Nombre, the main bulk of.
    * la mayoría de la gente = most people, the majority of the people.
    * la mayoría de las personas = most people, the majority of the people.
    * la mayoría de las veces = most of the time, more often than not.
    * la mayoría del mundo = the majority of the world, most people, the majority of the people.
    * la mayoría del tiempo = most of the time.
    * la mayor parte de = the majority of, the main bulk of, the lion's share of.
    * la mayor parte de las veces = more often than not.
    * la medida en que = the extent to which.
    * la mejor forma de hacer Algo = best practices, lessons learned [lessons learnt].
    * la mejor manera = how best.
    * la mejor manera de = the best way of.
    * la mejor oferta = the best deal.
    * la mejor opción = the best bet.
    * la mejor salida = the best way forward.
    * la mejor solución = the best way forward.
    * la menor duda de que = no doubt whatsoever.
    * la mentira = lying.
    * la mirada en = eye(s) on.
    * la misma persona = one and the same person.
    * la mitad (1/2) = one-half (1/2).
    * la necesidad agudiza el ingenio = necessity mothers invention.
    * la ocasión la pintan calva = make + hay while the sun shines.
    * la opinión de otra persona = a second opinion.
    * la oportunidad de + Posesivo + vida = the opportunity of a lifetime.
    * la parte de atrás de = the back of.
    * la parte más dura de = brunt of, the.
    * la parte más importante = the heart of.
    * la parte principal de = the bulk of.
    * la parte superior izquierda de = the upper left of.
    * la parte trasera de = the back of.
    * la personificación de la confianza en uno mismo = confidence personified.
    * la pesadilla de = the bane of.
    * la pesca del día = the day's catch, the catch of the day.
    * la petición de = a call for.
    * la píldora = the pill.
    * la plebe = the great unwashed.
    * la polla = the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers.
    * la práctica hace al maestro = practice makes perfect.
    * la primera tentativa = the first time around.
    * la primera vez = the first time around.
    * la proporción mayor de = the lion's share of.
    * la próxima moda = the next hot thing.
    * la puntilla = the final/last nail in + Posesivo + coffin.
    * la que = that, the one.
    * la razón de ser = the reason for being.
    * la realidad es que = the fact remains that..., fact is, the fact is (that).
    * la rehostia = the dog's bollocks, the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's whiskers.
    * la responsabilidad ahora recae en + Nombre = the ball is in + Posesivo + court.
    * la responsabilidad es de... = the buck + stops....
    * la riqueza de = the wealth of.
    * la ruina de = the bane of.
    * las = the, ye.
    * las 24 horas = round the clock, around the clock.
    * las apariencias engañan = don't judge a book by its cover, there's more to it than meets the eye.
    * las ataduras de = the shackles of.
    * las autoridades = the powers-that-be.
    * las cosas + cambiar = pendulum + swing.
    * las cosas + estar + claras = the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming.
    * las cosas no pasan así como así = everything happens for a reason (and a purpose).
    * las cosas no pasan (así) porque sí = everything happens for a reason (and a purpose).
    * las cosas no son tan simples como parecen = there's more to it than meets the eye.
    * las cosas + seguir + igual = business + revolve + as usual.
    * las cosas siguen igual = business as usual.
    * las cosas sólo pasan una vez = lightning never strikes twice.
    * las cosas son más complicadas de lo que parecen = there's more to it than meets the eye.
    * las cosas tal y como son = the birds and the bees.
    * las cosas + volver + a su punto de partida = the wheel + turn + full circle.
    * las de = those for.
    * las doce del mediodía = noon.
    * la segunda mitad de + Fecha = the latter part of + Fecha.
    * la segunda opción = the next best choice.
    * la segunda vez = the second time around.
    * la semana pasada = last week.
    * la senda que lleva a = a/the doorway to.
    * la situación = the course of events.
    * la sociedad en general = society at large.
    * las posibilidades son infinitas = the possibilities are endless.
    * las profundidades del mar = the deep.
    * las profundidades del océano = the deep.
    * las pruebas = the writing on the wall.
    * las raíces se encuentran = roots + lie.
    * las raíces se remontan a = roots + lie.
    * las razones de = the reason behind, the thinking behind, the reasoning behind, the idea behind.
    * las Reglas de Cutter para un Catálogo Diccionario = Cutter's Rules for a Dictionary Catalog.
    * las triquiñuelas de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * la suerte + cambiar = the tide + turn.
    * la suerte estaba echada = the die was cast, the die had been cast.
    * la suerte está echada = the die is cast.
    * la suma total de = the total sum of, the sum total of.
    * las uvas están verdes = sour grapes.
    * las veinticuatro horas = day and night, day or night, night and day.
    * la temporada de Algo = in season.
    * la tierra de la abundancia = the land of plenty.
    * la tierra de las oportunidades = the land of opportunity.
    * la tira de = a whole slew of.
    * la tira de tiempo = donkey's years.
    * la triste realidad es que = the sad fact is (that).
    * la última palabra = the last word, the last word, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * la última vez = last time.
    * la última vez que = the last time.
    * la única pega = the fly in the ointment, a fly in the soup.
    * la unión hace la fuerza = strength in numbers.
    * la ventaja de = the beauty of.
    * la ventaja es que = on the positive side, the advantage is that, on the bright side.
    * la verdad = the lowdown (on).
    * la verdad es que = if the truth be known, if the truth be told, the fact is (that), fact is.
    * la verdad es que... = the fact of the matter is that....
    * la verdad sea dicha = to tell the truth.
    * la verdad sea dicha que = if the truth be told.
    * la Vía Láctea = the Milky Way.
    * la vida continúa = the show must go on.
    * la vida + continuar = life + go on.
    * la vida es así = life's like that.
    * ¡la vida no es un camino de rosas! = the course of true love never did run smooth!.
    * la vida + seguir = life + go on.
    * la víspera de = on the eve of.
    * la voz de = the voice of.
    * la voz de la conciencia = the voice within.
    * la voz de la experiencia = the voice of experience.
    * la voz de la razón = the voice of reason.
    * la voz del odio = the voice of hate.
    * la voz interior = the voice within.
    * lo absurdo = ridiculousness.
    * lo adecuado = adequacy.
    * lo + Adjetivo + que sea/esté = how + Adjetivo.
    * lo anodino = blandness.
    * lo anteriormente expuesto = the preceding.
    * lo apropiado = appropriateness.
    * lo barato = inexpensiveness.
    * lo básico = essential, the, nuts and bolts, bare minimum, bare necessities, the, the lowdown (on).
    * lo bastante elevado = high enough.
    * lo bastante extenso = adequately scoped.
    * lo bueno de = the beauty of.
    * lo bueno es que = the good news is (that)..., on the positive side, on the bright side.
    * lo bueno viene en frascos pequeños = small is beautiful.
    * lo bueno y lo malo = the rights and wrongs.
    * lo caro = expensiveness.
    * lo chicano = Chicana.
    * lo chulo = coolness.
    * lo cierto es que = fact is, the fact is (that).
    * lo completo = completeness.
    * lo completo que Algo está = fullness.
    * lo creas o no = believe it or not.
    * lo decisivo = the last word.
    * lo definitivo = the last word.
    * lo desagradable = unpleasantness.
    * ¿lo dices en broma? = you must be joking!, you must be kidding!.
    * lo directo = directness.
    * lo divertido = the fun part.
    * lo engorroso de = cumbersomeness.
    * lo esencial = essential, the, nuts and bolts, bare minimum, bare necessities, the, the lowdown (on).
    * lo estrafalario = zaniness.
    * lo estrambótico = zaniness.
    * lo extenso = comprehensiveness.
    * lo favorable = propitiousness.
    * lo hebraico = Hebraica.
    * lo hecho hecho está = no use crying over spilt/spilled milk.
    * lo importante es lo que eres no cómo te llamas = a rose by any other name.
    * lo imprescindible = bare necessities, the, bare minimum.
    * lo incómodo de = cumbersomeness.
    * lo indefinido = indefiniteness.
    * lo indirecto = indirectness.
    * lo indispensable = bare necessities, the, bare minimum.
    * lo insulso = blandness.
    * lo interesante = the fun part.
    * lo judío = Judaica.
    * lo lindo = cuteness.
    * lo llano = flatness.
    * lo más cercano a = the nearest thing to.
    * lo más conveniente es que = optimally.
    * lo más destacado = highlights.
    * lo más detestado = pet hate.
    * lo más importante = most of all, at its core.
    * lo más interesante = highlights.
    * lo más mínimo = so much as.
    * lo más novedoso = the last word.
    * lo más odiado = pet hate.
    * lo más parecido a = the nearest thing to.
    * lo más probable es que = most probably.
    * lo más recio de = brunt of, the.
    * lo más recóndito = nooks and crannies.
    * lo máximo = the be all and end all, the bee's knees, the cat's pyjamas, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks.
    * lo mejor = the top of the tree.
    * lo mejor de = the beauty of, showpiece.
    * lo mejor de ambas partes = the best of both worlds.
    * lo mejor de lo mejor = the best of the best.
    * lo mejor de todo = best of all.
    * lo mejor entre lo mejor = the best of the best.
    * lo mejor es que... = the good news is (that)....
    * lo mejor está aún por llegar = the best is yet to come.
    * lo mejor posible = to the best of + Posesivo + ability, at + Posesivo + (very) best, optimally.
    * lo mejor que pueda = to the best of + Posesivo + ability.
    * lo mejor que se puede hacer = the best bet.
    * lo mejor + ser = the beautiful part + be.
    * lo menos posible = as little as possible.
    * lo mínimo = bare minimum, bare necessities, the.
    * lo mismo ocurre con = the same goes for.
    * lo mismo ocurre en el caso de = the same is true (for/of/with).
    * lo mismo que = the same as, along the lines of, in much the same way as.
    * lo mismo que antes = the same as before.
    * lo mismo que para = the same as that for.
    * lo mismo se aplica a = the same is true (for/of/with).
    * lo molesto de = cumbersomeness.
    * lo mucho que = how extensively.
    * lo noble = high-mindedness.
    * lo no convencional = unconventional, the.
    * lo normal + ser + que = there + be + a tendency (to/for), there + be + a tendency (to/for).
    * lo oportuno = timeliness.
    * lo pasado pasado está = let bygones be bygones.
    * lo peor de = brunt of, the.
    * lo peor del = the armpit of the.
    * lo pintoresco = quaintness.
    * lo plano = flatness.
    * lo poco común = rarity, rareness.
    * lo poco convencional = unconventional, the.
    * lo primero = for one, first off.
    * lo primero de todo = first of all, first off.
    * lo prometido es deuda = a promise is a promise.
    * lo propicio = propitiousness.
    * lo público = publicness.
    * lo que = that which, what.
    * lo que aguarda a = what is on store for.
    * lo que Algo o Alguien se merece, lo que le corresponde, bastante = fair share, fair share.
    * lo que a uno cura a otro mata = one man's meat is another man's poison.
    * lo que demuestra que = which (just) goes to show that.
    * lo que el futuro depara a = what is on store for.
    * lo que es aun más inquietante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun más preocupante = more disturbingly.
    * lo que es aun mejor = better still.
    * lo que es aun peor = worse still.
    * lo que es bueno para uno es bueno para otro = what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
    * lo que es bueno para uno también es bueno para otro = what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
    * lo que es más = what is more, what's more.
    * lo que es más importante = most importantly, more importantly, most of all, most important.
    * lo que es mejor aun = better still.
    * lo que es muy importante = importantly.
    * lo que es peor = what's worse.
    * lo que es peor aun = worse still.
    * lo que espera a = what is on store for.
    * lo que está bien y lo que está mal = rights and wrongs.
    * lo que existe (en el mercado) = what's out there.
    * lo que haya que de ser, será = que sera sera, what's meant to be, will be, whatever will be, will be.
    * lo que hay (en el mercado) = what's out there.
    * lo que hay que hacer = do + the right thing, the way to go.
    * lo que hay que hacer y lo que hay que evitar = do's and don'ts, rights and wrongs.
    * lo que le corresponde = fair share.
    * lo que nos espera = things to come.
    * lo que quiera que = whatever.
    * lo que sea = something or other.
    * lo que se gana por un lado se pierde por otro = swings and roundabouts.
    * lo que se pierda en una cosa se gana en la otra = what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
    * lo que + ser = what + be like.
    * lo que se suele pagar = going rate, the.
    * lo que tenga que pasar, que pase = que sera sera, what's meant to be, will be, whatever will be, will be.
    * lo que tenga que ser, será = que sera sera, whatever will be, will be, what's meant to be, will be.
    * lo que vale para tí también vale para mí = what's good for the goose is good for the gander, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
    * lo rural = rurality.
    * los = the, ye.
    * los 365 días del año = year-round.
    * los 40 principales = Top 40 singles chart.
    * los abajo firmantes = the parties hereto.
    * los acontecimientos = the course of events.
    * lo sagrado = sacredness.
    * los albores de = the dawn of.
    * los años cincuenta = fifties.
    * los años treinta = thirties.
    * los árboles no dejan ver el bosque = lose + sight of the forest for the trees.
    * los avatares de la guerra = the tides of war.
    * los buenos tiempos = the good old days.
    * los comienzos de = the dawn of.
    * los constantes cambios de = the changing face of, the changing nature of.
    * los de = those for, those in.
    * los demás = rest, the, everybody else.
    * los detalles de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * los días antes de = leading up to.
    * los dos = both, both of them, both of which.
    * los efectos negativos se están dejando sentir ahora = chickens come home to roost.
    * los gobernantes = the powers-that-be.
    * los hay para dar y regalar = there's one born every minute.
    * los mandamás = the powers-that-be.
    * los más necesitados = those most in need.
    * los más pobres + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * los menos locuaces = inarticulate, the.
    * los motivos de = the reason behind, the thinking behind, the reasoning behind, the idea behind.
    * los necesitados = the needy.
    * los orígenes de = the dawn of.
    * los otros con los que aparece(n) = neighbours [neighbors, -USA].
    * los peores + Nombre = the poorest + Nombre.
    * los poderes fáticos = the powers-that-be.
    * los pormenores de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * Los Principios de París = Paris Principles.
    * los que = those who.
    * los que detentan el poder = the powers-that-be.
    * los que mandan = the powers-that-be.
    * los que no han recibido formación específica = uninstructed, the.
    * los que + Verbo = those + Participio.
    * los tribunales = the Bench.
    * lo suficientemente cerca = within range.
    * lo suficientemente cerca como para oír = within earshot of.
    * lo suficientemente estúpido como para = dumb enough to.
    * lo suficientemente grande = large enough, big enough.
    * lo suficientemente lejos como para no poder oír = out of earshot.
    * los últimos coletazos = fag-end.
    * lo sumo = the bee's knees, the cat's meow, the cat's whiskers, the dog's bollocks, the cat's pyjamas.
    * los unos a costa de los otros = at each other's expense.
    * los viejos tiempos = the good old days.
    * lo tomas o lo dejas = take it or leave it.
    * lo último = the last word.
    * lo uno es tan malo como lo otro = one is as bad as the other.
    * lo vanguardista = cutting edge.
    * lo yidish = Yiddica.
    * parmarlas = kick + the bucket.
    * ser lo que nos espera = be the shape of things to come.

    * * *
    el (pl los), la; (pl las)
    A (con un referente único, conocido o que se define) the
    el sol the sun
    el lápiz/la goma/los lápices/las gomas que compré the pencil/the eraser/the pencils/the erasers I bought
    no, ése no, el que te presté ayer/el de Julio/el rojo no, not that one, the one I lent you yesterday/Julio's/the red one
    en la calle Solís in Solís Street
    prefiero el mío/los tuyos I prefer mine/yours
    me atendió el estúpido del marido that stupid husband of hers served me
    yo soy la arquitecta, ella es lexicógrafa I'm the architect, she's a lexicographer
    yo fui la que lo rompí or rompió I was the one who broke it
    los nacidos entre … those born between …
    los que faltamos ayer those of us who weren't here yesterday
    ¿cuál es Ardiles? — el del sombrero negro which one's Ardiles? — the one with the black hat
    un encuentro al que asistieron muchas personalidades a meeting which was attended by many well known people
    la obra de la que or de la cual hablábamos the play we were talking about
    B
    (con sustantivos en sentido genérico): me encanta la ópera I love opera
    odio el pescado I hate fish
    así es la vida that's life
    (nosotros) los mexicanos lo sabemos muy bien we Mexicans know only too well
    ¿ya vas a la escuela? do you go to school yet?
    ya salió del hospital she's out of the hospital ( AmE) o ( BrE) out of hospital
    en el mar at sea
    viajar por el espacio to travel in space
    C
    (en expresiones de tiempo): ocurrió el domingo de Pascua/en el verano del 76 it happened on Easter Sunday/in the summer of '76
    mi cumpleaños es el 28 de mayo my birthday's on May 28
    el mes pasado/que viene last/next month
    no trabaja los sábados she doesn't work (on) Saturdays
    estudió toda la mañana he studied all morning
    a las ocho at eight o'clock, at eight
    a eso de las seis around six o'clock
    D
    (cada): lo venden a $80 el kilo/metro they're selling it at $80 a kilo/a meter o at $80 per kilo/meter
    ¿cuánto cuesta el paquete de diez? how much does a packet of ten cost?
    E
    (con fracciones, porcentajes, números): me dio la mitad/la cuarta parte del dinero she gave me half the money/a quarter of the money
    el 20% de los peruanos 20% of Peruvians
    vivo en el cuarto I live on the fifth floor ( AmE) o ( BrE) fourth floor
    (refiriéndose a partes del cuerpo, prendas de vestir, artículos personales, etc): con las manos en los bolsillos with my/your/his hands in my/your/his pockets
    ¡te cortaste el pelo! you've had your hair cut!
    tienes la falda sucia your skirt is dirty
    tienes el suéter puesto al revés you've got your sweater on inside out
    tiene el pelo largo/los ojos azules he has long hair/blue eyes
    1
    (con apellidos acompañados de título, adjetivos, etc): llamó el señor Ortiz/la doctora Vidal/el general Santos Mr Ortiz/Doctor Vidal/General Santos phoned
    el gran Caruso the Great Caruso
    2
    (con nombres de mujeres famosas): la última película de la Monroe Monroe's last movie
    3
    (en plural): los Ortega (matrimonio) the Ortegas, Mr and Mrs Ortega; (familia) the Ortegas, the Ortega family
    a los Josés se les suele llamar Pepe people called José are often known as Pepe
    4 (fam: en muchas regiones crit)
    (con nombres de pila): pregúntale a la Carmen/al Ricardo ask Carmen/Ricardo
    5
    (con algunos nombres geográficos): en la India in India
    en (el) Perú in Peru
    6
    (al calificar): la España de Franco Franco's Spain
    el Buñuel que todos conocemos the Buñuel we all know
    la Italia del siglo pasado Italy in the last century
    7
    (con algunos equipos deportivos): juegan contra el Juventus/el Barcelona they're playing against Juventus/Barcelona
    H el
    (con infinitivo): odiaba el tener que pedírselo he hated having to ask her
    es cuidadoso y pausado en el hablar he's careful and deliberate in the way he speaks
    el frenético girar de los bailarines the frenzied spinning of the dancers
    al + INF ver a prep B 2. (↑ a 3)
    * * *

     

    Multiple Entries:
    el    
    él
    el (pl
    ◊ los), la (pl las) art the masculine article el is also used before feminine nouns which begin with accented a or ha, e.g. el agua pura, el hada madrina

    1




    así es la vida that's life;
    (nosotros) los mexicanos we Mexicans;
    ¿ya vas a la escuela? do you go to school yet?


    las tuyas yours;
    el último the last one;
    el estúpido del marido that stupid husband of hers
    2
    a) el + de:


    el de las nueve the nine o'clock one;
    el de mi hijo my son's
    b) el + que:


    los que estén cansados;
    those who are tired, anyone who's tired;
    la que te guste whichever you like
    3 ( en expresiones de tiempo):

    mi cumpleaños es el 28 de mayo my birthday's on May 28;
    el mes pasado last month;
    toda la mañana all morning;
    a las ocho at eight o'clock
    4 ( cada):
    ◊ $80 el metro/kilo $80 a meter/a kilo, $80 per kilo/meter

    5 (con fracciones, porcentajes, números):
    ◊ la mitad/la cuarta parte del dinero half the money/a quarter of the money;

    el 20% de … 20% of …
    6 (con partes del cuerpo, prendas de vestir, artículos personales, etc):

    ¡te cortaste el pelo! you've had your hair cut!;
    tiene los ojos azules he has blue eyes
    7
    a) (con apellidos acompañados de título, adjetivos, etc):

    ◊ el señor Ortiz/la doctora Vidal Mr Ortiz/Doctor Vidal;

    los Ortega the Ortegas


    ver África, Argentina, etc
    él pron pers
    a) ( como sujeto) he;

    ◊ ¿quién se lo va a decir? — él who's going to tell her? — he is;

    lo hizo él mismo he did it himself;
    fue él it was him
    b) (en comparaciones, con preposiciones) him;

    ( refiriéndose a cosas) it;
    ◊ llegué antes que él I arrived before him o before he did;

    con/para él with/for him;
    son de él they're his
    el art def m
    1 the
    2 (no se traduce) (ante un tratamiento formal) el sr. Gómez, Mr Gomez
    (cuando el sustantivo es general) el hambre/tiempo, hunger/time
    3 (se traduce por un posesivo) (con partes del cuerpo) se ha cortado el pelo, she's cut her hair
    (prendas) se lo metió en el bolsillo, he put it in his pocket
    (pertenencias) guarda el diario en el cajón, put your diary into the drawer
    4 (con días de la semana) iré el miércoles, I'll go on Wednesday
    5 (cuando el sustantivo está elidido) the one: prefiero el azul, I prefer the blue one
    el de las diez, the ten o'clock one
    el que está en la mesa, the one that's on the table
    el que más nos guste, whichever one we like best
    (delante de un posesivo) el de María, Maria's
    es el mío, it's mine
    él pron pers
    1 (sujeto) (persona) he
    (animal, cosa) it: fue él, it was him, fue él el que..., it was him that... o it was he who...
    2 (complemento) (persona) him
    (animal, cosa) it
    dáselo a él, give it to him, es para él, it's for him
    3 (posesivo) de él, his
    4 (oración comparativa) ella es mejor que él, she's better than him o she's better than he is
    'él' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - abajo
    - abalanzarse
    - abaratarse
    - abarquillarse
    - abarrotar
    - abarrotada
    - abarrotado
    - abastecimiento
    - abatir
    - abatimiento
    - abdicar
    - abierta
    - abierto
    - abismo
    - abogada
    - abogado
    - abominar
    - abominable
    - abordar
    - aborigen
    - aborregarse
    - abortar
    - abotargada
    - abotargado
    - abrir
    - abreviar
    - abrirse
    - absoluta
    - absoluto
    - abstención
    - abundancia
    - acabar
    - acabarse
    - acabose
    - acallar
    - acanallar
    - accionariado
    - acero
    - achacosa
    - achacoso
    - achatamiento
    - achicharrarse
    - aclarar
    - aclarado
    - acomodarse
    - acompañar
    - acondicionar
    - acostumbrada
    - acostumbrado
    English:
    A
    - abandon
    - ABC
    - ability
    - about
    - above
    - abroad
    - abseil
    - absence
    - absent
    - absolute
    - absolve
    - absorb
    - abstract
    - academic
    - accelerate
    - accommodate
    - accomplice
    - account
    - accurately
    - accusation
    - accused
    - accustom
    - aching
    - act
    - act on
    - act up
    - actual
    - actually
    - acute
    - address
    - adequately
    - adjourn
    - admission
    - admit
    - advance
    - advanced
    - advantage
    - advantageous
    - advise
    - advocate
    - affair
    - afford
    - afloat
    - afraid
    - after
    - against
    - age
    - agenda
    - aggregate
    * * *
    el (f la, mpl los, fpl las) art determinado el is used instead of la before feminine nouns which are stressed on the first syllable and begin with “a” or “ha” (e.g. el agua, el hacha). Note that el combines with the prepositions a and de to produce the contracted forms al and del.
    1. [con valor especificador] the;
    el coche the car;
    la casa the house;
    los niños the children;
    el agua/hacha/águila the water/axe/eagle;
    fui a recoger a los niños I went to pick up the children
    2. [con sustantivo abstracto, valor genérico]
    el amor love;
    la vida life;
    el hombre Man, human beings;
    los derechos de la mujer women's rights;
    los niños imitan a los adultos children copy adults;
    el pan es un alimento básico bread is a basic food;
    la mayoría de la gente no la conoce most people don't know her;
    vuelve el biquini bikinis are back
    3. [indica posesión, pertenencia]
    se partió la pierna he broke his leg;
    se quitó los zapatos she took her shoes off;
    tiene el pelo oscuro he has dark hair;
    me han robado la maleta my suitcase has been stolen;
    se dieron la mano they shook hands
    4. [con días de la semana, fechas, horas]
    vuelven el sábado they're coming back on Saturday;
    los domingos vamos al cine we go to the movies (on) Sundays;
    llegaré el 1 de mayo [escrito] I'll arrive on 1 May;
    [hablado] I'll arrive on the first of May;
    son las siete it's seven o'clock;
    el año pasado/que viene last/next year
    5. [con nombres propios geográficos]
    el Sena the (River) Seine;
    el Everest (Mount) Everest;
    la India India;
    La Haya The Hague;
    El Cairo Cairo;
    6. [con apellido]
    la señora Márquez Mrs Márquez;
    el señor/el doctor Juárez Mr/Doctor Juárez;
    los Amaya [matrimonio] Mr and Mrs Amaya, the Amayas;
    [familia completa] the Amayas, the Amaya family;
    los Austrias the Hapsburgs;
    el Hitler español the Spanish Hitler
    7. Fam [con nombre propio de persona]
    llama a la María call Maria
    8. [con numerales, porcentajes, fracciones]
    el siete es mi número de la suerte seven's my lucky number;
    llegó el tercero he came third;
    el tercer piso the third floor;
    un aumento del 30 por ciento a 30 percent increase;
    la quinta parte (de) a fifth (of);
    el 20 por ciento (de) 20 percent (of)
    9. [en proporciones, precios]
    100 pesos el kilo 100 pesos a o per kilo
    10. [con complemento especificativo]
    el/la del sombrero the one with the hat;
    los/las de azul [cosas] the blue ones;
    [personas] the ones in blue;
    he perdido el tren, cogeré el de las nueve I've missed the train, I'll get the nine o'clock one;
    el de aquí this one here;
    ¿los del parque son amigos tuyos? were those people in the park friends of yours?;
    prefiero las del escaparate I prefer the ones in the window;
    los del fondo no se callan the people at the back won't shut up
    11. [con complemento posesivo]
    mi hermano y el de Juan my brother and Juan's;
    el mío mine;
    la tuya yours;
    los suyos theirs
    12. [con adjetivo]
    prefiero el rojo al azul I prefer the red one to the blue one;
    el/la mejor the best;
    es la mejor de la clase she's the best in the class, she's top of the class;
    los seleccionados realizarán un examen those chosen will sit an exam;
    el tonto de Ignacio se equivocó that idiot Ignacio got it wrong
    13. [con infinitivo]
    el beber tanto acabó con él all that drinking is what finished him off;
    es amante del buen comer she loves good food;
    me sienta mal el tener que decírtelo I don't like to have to tell you
    14. [con frases subordinadas]
    el/la que [cosa] whichever;
    [persona] whoever;
    los/las que [cosas] whichever;
    [personas] whoever;
    coge el/los que quieras take whichever you like;
    el que más corra whoever runs fastest, the one who runs the fastest;
    las que quieran venir que levanten la mano those who want to come o anyone who wants to come should put their hand up;
    el que no te guste no quiere decir que sea malo the fact that you don't like him doesn't make him a bad person
    15. [con valor enfático]
    ¡la pena que me dio verlo en ese estado! I felt so sorry for him when I saw him in that state!
    * * *
    el
    I art the
    II pron
    :
    el de … that of …;
    el de Juan Juan’s;
    el más grande the biggest (one);
    el que está … the one that is …
    * * *
    él pron
    : he, him
    él es mi amigo: he's my friend
    hablaremos con él: we will speak with him
    1) : the one
    tengo mi libro y el tuyo: I have my book and yours
    de los cantantes me gusta el de México: I prefer the singer from México
    2)
    el que : he who, whoever, the one that
    el que vino ayer: the one who came yesterday
    el que trabaja duro estará contento: he who works hard will be happy
    el, la art, pl los, las : the
    los niños están en la casa: the boys are in the house
    me duele el pie: my foot hurts
    * * *
    el det
    1. the
    ¿qué te pareció el libro? what did you think of the book?
    2. (posesivo) my / your / his / her etcétera
    ¿te has cortado el pelo? have you had your hair cut?
    ¿cuál prefieres? el azul which one do you prefer? the blue one
    ¡Ojo! Algunas veces no se traduce
    ¿quieres salir el sábado? do you want to go out on Saturday?
    el Sr. García Mr. García
    el que (persona) the one who / the one that (cosa) the one which / the one that
    con el que that... with
    en el que that... in

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