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  • 81 Sullivan, Louis Henry

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    b. 3 September 1856 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 14 April 1924 Chicago, Illinois, USA
    [br]
    American architect whose work came to be known as the "Chicago School of Architecture" and who created a new style of architecture suited specifically to steel-frame, high-rise structures.
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    Sullivan, a Bostonian, studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon he joined his parents, who had moved to Chicago, and worked for a while in the office of William Le Baron Jenney, the pioneer of steel-frame construction. After spending some time studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, in 1875 Sullivan returned to Chicago, where he later met and worked for the Danish architect Dankmar Adler, who was practising there. In 1881 the two architects became partners, and during the succeeding fifteen years they produced their finest work and the buildings for which Sullivan is especially known.
    During the early 1880s in Chicago, load-bearing, metal-framework structures that made lofty skyscrapers possible had been developed (see Jenney and Holabird). Louis H.Sullivan initiated building design to stress and complement the metal structure rather than hide it. Moving onwards from H.H.Richardson's treatment of his Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, Sullivan took the concept several stages further. His first outstanding work, built with Adler in 1886–9, was the Auditorium Building in Chicago. The exterior, in particular, was derived largely from Richardson's Field Store, and the building—now restored—is of bold but simple design, massively built in granite and stone, its form stressing the structure beneath. The architects' reputation was established with this building.
    The firm of Sullivan \& Adler established itself during the early 1890s, when they built their most famous skyscrapers. Adler was largely responsible for the structure, the acoustics and function, while Sullivan was responsible for the architectural design, concerning himself particularly with the limitation and careful handling of ornament. In 1892 he published his ideas in Ornament in Architecture, where he preached restraint in its quality and disposition. He established himself as a master of design in the building itself, producing a rhythmic simplicity of form, closely related to the structural shape beneath. The two great examples of this successful approach were the Wainwright Building in St Louis, Missouri (1890–1) and the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, New York (1894–5). The Wainwright Building was a ten-storeyed structure built in stone and brick and decorated with terracotta. The vertical line was stressed throughout but especially at the corners, where pilasters were wider. These rose unbroken to an Art Nouveau type of decorative frieze and a deeply projecting cornice above. The thirteen-storeyed Guaranty Building is Sullivan's masterpiece, a simple, bold, finely proportioned and essentially modern structure. The pilaster verticals are even more boldly stressed and decoration is at a minimum. In the twentieth century the almost free-standing supporting pillars on the ground floor have come to be called pilotis. As late as the 1920s, particularly in New York, the architectural style and decoration of skyscrapers remained traditionally eclectic, based chiefly upon Gothic or classical forms; in view of this, Sullivan's Guaranty Building was far ahead of its time.
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    Bibliography
    Article by Louis H.Sullivan. Address delivered to architectural students June 1899, published in Canadian Architecture Vol. 18(7):52–3.
    Further Reading
    Hugh Morrison, 1962, Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture.
    Willard Connely, 1961, Louis Sullivan as He Lived, New York: Horizon Press.
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  • 82 Lawrence, Richard Smith

    SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour
    [br]
    b. 22 November 1817 Chester, Vermont, USA
    d. 10 March 1892 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American gunsmith and inventor.
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    Richard S.Lawrence received only an elementary education and as a young man worked on local farms and later in a woodworking shop. His work there included making carpenters' and joiners' tools and he spent some of his spare time in a local gunsmith's shop. After a brief period of service in the Army, he obtained employment in 1838 with N.Kendall \& Co. of Windsor, Vermont, making guns at the Windsor prison. Within six months he was put in charge of the work, continuing in this position until 1842 when the gun-making ceased; he remained at the prison for a time in charge of the carriage shop. In 1843 he opened a gun shop in Windsor in partnership with Kendall, and the next year S.E. Robbins, a businessman, helped them obtain a contract from the Federal Government for 10,000 rifles. A new company, Robbins, Kendall \& Lawrence, was formed and a factory was built at Windsor. Three years later Kendall's share of the business was purchased by his partners and the firm became Robbins \& Lawrence. Lawrence supervised the design and production and, to improve methods of manufacture, developed new machine tools with the aid of F.W. Howe. In 1850 Lawrence introduced the lubrication of bullets, which practice ensured the success of the breech-loading rifle. Also in 1850, the company undertook to manufacture railway cars, but this involved them in a considerable financial loss. The company took to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, England, a set of rifles built on the interchangeable system. The interest this created resulted in a visit of some members of the British Royal Small Arms Commission to America and subsequently an order for 150 machine tools, jigs and fixtures from Robbins \& Lawrence, to be installed at the small-arms factory at Enfield. In 1852 the company contracted to manufacture Sharps rifles and carbines at a new factory to be built at Hartford, Connecticut. Lawrence moved to Hartford in 1853 to superintend the building and equipment of the plant. Shortly afterwards, however, a promised order for a large number of rifles failed to materialize and, following its earlier financial difficulties, Robbins \& Lawrence was forced into bankruptcy. The Hartford plant was acquired by the Sharps Rifle Company in 1856 and Lawrence remained there as Superintendent until 1872. From then he was for many years Superintendent of Streets in the city of Hartford and he also served on the Water Board, the Board of Aldermen and as Chairman of the Fire Board.
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    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; repub. 1926, New York; and 1987, Bradley, Ill. (provides biographical information and includes in an Appendix (pp. 281–94) autobiographical notes written by Richard S.Lawrence in 1890).
    Merritt Roe Smith, 1974, "The American Precision Museum", Technology and Culture 15 (3): 413–37 (for information on Robbins \& Lawrence and products).
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  • 83 Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

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    b. 14 June 1890 Little Shasta, California, USA
    d. 3 May 1969 California, USA
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    American pioneer of diesel rail traction.
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    Orphaned as a child, Hamilton went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad in his teens, and then worked for several other companies. In his spare time he learned mathematics and physics from a retired professor. In 1911 he joined the White Motor Company, makers of road motor vehicles in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone to recuperate from malaria. He remained there until 1922, apart from an eighteenth-month break for war service.
    Upon his return from war service, Hamilton found White selling petrol-engined railbuses with mechanical transmission, based on road vehicles, to railways. He noted that they were not robust enough and that the success of petrol railcars with electric transmission, built by General Electric since 1906, was limited as they were complex to drive and maintain. In 1922 Hamilton formed, and became President of, the Electro- Motive Engineering Corporation (later Electro-Motive Corporation) to design and produce petrol-electric rail cars. Needing an engine larger than those used in road vehicles, yet lighter and faster than marine engines, he approached the Win ton Engine Company to develop a suitable engine; in addition, General Electric provided electric transmission with a simplified control system. Using these components, Hamilton arranged for his petrol-electric railcars to be built by the St Louis Car Company, with the first being completed in 1924. It was the beginning of a highly successful series. Fuel costs were lower than for steam trains and initial costs were kept down by using standardized vehicles instead of designing for individual railways. Maintenance costs were minimized because Electro-Motive kept stocks of spare parts and supplied replacement units when necessary. As more powerful, 800 hp (600 kW) railcars were produced, railways tended to use them to haul trailer vehicles, although that practice reduced the fuel saving. By the end of the decade Electro-Motive needed engines more powerful still and therefore had to use cheap fuel. Diesel engines of the period, such as those that Winton had made for some years, were too heavy in relation to their power, and too slow and sluggish for rail use. Their fuel-injection system was erratic and insufficiently robust and Hamilton concluded that a separate injector was needed for each cylinder.
    In 1930 Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton were acquired by General Motors in pursuance of their aim to develop a diesel engine suitable for rail traction, with the use of unit fuel injectors; Hamilton retained his position as President. At this time, industrial depression had combined with road and air competition to undermine railway-passenger business, and Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago, Burlington \& Quincy Railroad, thought that traffic could be recovered by way of high-speed, luxury motor trains; hence the Pioneer Zephyr was built for the Burlington. This comprised a 600 hp (450 kW), lightweight, two-stroke, diesel engine developed by General Motors (model 201 A), with electric transmission, that powered a streamlined train of three articulated coaches. This train demonstrated its powers on 26 May 1934 by running non-stop from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1,015 miles (1,635 km), in 13 hours and 6 minutes, when the fastest steam schedule was 26 hours. Hamilton and Budd were among those on board the train, and it ushered in an era of high-speed diesel trains in the USA. By then Hamilton, with General Motors backing, was planning to use the lightweight engine to power diesel-electric locomotives. Their layout was derived not from steam locomotives, but from the standard American boxcar. The power plant was mounted within the body and powered the bogies, and driver's cabs were at each end. Two 900 hp (670 kW) engines were mounted in a single car to become an 1,800 hp (l,340 kW) locomotive, which could be operated in multiple by a single driver to form a 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) locomotive. To keep costs down, standard locomotives could be mass-produced rather than needing individual designs for each railway, as with steam locomotives. Two units of this type were completed in 1935 and sent on trial throughout much of the USA. They were able to match steam locomotive performance, with considerable economies: fuel costs alone were halved and there was much less wear on the track. In the same year, Electro-Motive began manufacturing diesel-electrie locomotives at La Grange, Illinois, with design modifications: the driver was placed high up above a projecting nose, which improved visibility and provided protection in the event of collision on unguarded level crossings; six-wheeled bogies were introduced, to reduce axle loading and improve stability. The first production passenger locomotives emerged from La Grange in 1937, and by early 1939 seventy units were in service. Meanwhile, improved engines had been developed and were being made at La Grange, and late in 1939 a prototype, four-unit, 5,400 hp (4,000 kW) diesel-electric locomotive for freight trains was produced and sent out on test from coast to coast; production versions appeared late in 1940. After an interval from 1941 to 1943, when Electro-Motive produced diesel engines for military and naval use, locomotive production resumed in quantity in 1944, and within a few years diesel power replaced steam on most railways in the USA.
    Hal Hamilton remained President of Electro-Motive Corporation until 1942, when it became a division of General Motors, of which he became Vice-President.
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    Further Reading
    P.M.Reck, 1948, On Time: The History of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Ill.: General Motors (describes Hamilton's career).
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  • 84 razón

    f.
    1 reason, cause, explanation, motive.
    2 intellect, intelligence, reason.
    3 ratio, rate.
    * * *
    1 (facultad) reason
    2 (motivo) reason, cause
    3 (mensaje) message
    4 (justicia) justice
    5 MATEMÁTICAS ratio, rate
    \
    a razón de in the ratio of, at the rate of
    asistirle a uno la razón to be in the right
    atender a razones to listen to reason
    con razón with good reason
    con razón o sin ella rightly or wrongly
    dar la razón a alguien to agree with somebody, say that somebody is right
    entrar en razón to listen to reason
    mandar razón to send a message
    no tener razón to be wrong
    perder la razón to lose one's reason
    'Razón aquí' "Enquire within", "Apply within"
    'Razón en portería' "Inquiries to caretaker"
    razón de más para... all the more reason to...
    tener razón to be right
    tener razones para hacer algo to have reason to do something
    razón de Estado reason of State
    razón de ser raison d'être
    razón social trade name
    * * *
    noun f.
    •
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=facultad) reason

    • entrar en razón — to see sense, listen to reason

    • perder la razón — to go out of one's mind

    • tener uso de razón: escribo desde que tengo uso de razón — I've been writing for as long as I can remember

    apenas tenían uso de razón cuando... — they were mere babes in arms when...

    2) (=verdad)

    • asistir la razón, le asiste la razón — he has right on his side

    • cargarse de razón — to have right fully on one's side

    quiero cargarme de razón antes de... — I want to be sure of my case before...

    • con razón o sin ella — rightly or wrongly

    • dar la razón a algn — (=estar de acuerdo) to agree that sb is right; (=apoyar) to side with sb

    • quitar la razón a algn — to say sb is wrong

    • razón le sobra — she's only too right

    • tener razón — to be right

    3) (=motivo) reason

    ¿cuál era la razón de su visita? — what was the reason for his visit?

    la razón por la que lo hizo — the reason why he did it, the reason for his doing it

    • con razón — with good reason

    están hartos con toda la razón (del mundo) — they're fed up and they have good reason to be, they're fed up and rightly so

    ¡con razón! — naturally!

    • razón de más, razón de más para ayudarlas — all the more reason to help them

    • en razón a o de — (=debido a) owing to; (=de acuerdo con) according to

    • no atender a razones, no atiende a razones — he won't listen to reason

    4) (=información)

    razón: Princesa 4 — inquiries to 4 Princesa Street, for further details apply to 4 Princesa Street

    • dar razón de algo/algn — to give information about sth/sb

    nadie supo dar razón de su paradero — no one knew o could tell us his whereabouts

    • mandar a algn razón de que haga algo — † to send word (to sb) to do sth

    5) (Mat) ratio

    • a razón de, a razón de cinco a siete — in the ratio of five to seven

    6) (Com)

    razón social — trade name, firm's name

    * * *
    1) (motivo, causa) reason

    ¿por qué razón lo hiciste? — why did you do it?

    se quejan sin razón/con razón — they're complaining for no good reason/they have good reason to complain

    razón de más para... — all the more reason to...

    en razón de los últimos sucesos — in view of o owing to recent events

    atender or atenerse or avenirse a razones — to listen to reason

    razón: portería — inquiries to the doorman (AmE) o (BrE) porter

    razón: 874256 — call 874256

    dar razón de algo/alguien — to give information about something/somebody

    nadie le dio razón — (fam) no one could help him

    3) (verdad, acierto)

    tener or llevar razón — to be right

    tienes toda la razón — (fam) you're absolutely right

    4)
    a) ( inteligencia) reason
    b) ( cordura) reason

    perder la razón — to go out of one's mind; ( en sentido hiperbólico) to take leave of one's senses

    5) (Mat) ratio
    * * *
    = cause, ground, motive, reason, peg.
    Nota: En sentido figurado, razón o motivo utilizado como argumento para defender una actuación concreta.
    Ex. The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.
    Ex. I think there are grounds for dispute on certain terms.
    Ex. Other title information is any title borne by an item indicative of the character, contents, etc. of the item or the motives for, or occasion of, its production or publication.
    Ex. The reason for its popularity was largely that it was based upon a principle of conformity in essentials, and freedom in details.
    Ex. The concepts currently being floated by UNESCO are such as will make convenient pegs to hang pleas for resources for bibliographic and library development to national governments.
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    * aducir razones = provide + reasons.
    * argumentar + Posesivo + razones = argue + Posesivo + case.
    * buscar razones que expliquen Algo = ascribe + reasons to.
    * confirmar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point, make + Posesivo + case.
    * con más razón aún = a fortiori.
    * con razón = rightly, quite rightly, understandably, rightfully.
    * con toda la razón = quite rightly.
    * darle la razón a Alguien = side in + Posesivo + favour.
    * dar razón de ser = bring + purpose.
    * dar una razón = give + reason.
    * demostrar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point, prove + point, make + Posesivo + case.
    * discriminatorio por razones de edad = ageist [agist].
    * el cliente siempre tiene la razón = the customer is always right.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + razón = mentally fit.
    * en razón a = in the interest(s) of, on grounds.
    * en razón a que = on the grounds that/of.
    * entrar en razón = come to + Posesivo + senses.
    * esa es la razón por la que = that is why.
    * escuchar la voz de la razón = listen to + the voice of reason.
    * ésta es la razón por la que = this is why.
    * existir razones para = there + be + ground(s) for.
    * explicar las razones de = set out + the reasons for.
    * exponer las razones = discuss + the reasons.
    * exponer las razones de = set out + the reasons for.
    * exponer una razón = give + reason.
    * hay razones para pensar que = there + be + reason to believe that.
    * la razón de ser = the reason for being.
    * las razones de = the reason behind, the thinking behind, the reasoning behind, the idea behind.
    * la voz de la razón = the voice of reason.
    * llevar razón = be right, be in the right.
    * más allá de toda razón = beyond reason.
    * mostrar las razones por las que = show + cause why.
    * no tener razón = be wrong.
    * no tener razón de ser + Infinitivo = there + be + no sense in + Gerundio.
    * obras son amores y no buenas razones = actions speak louder than words.
    * ofrecer razones = provide + reasons.
    * perder la razón = lose + Posesivo + sanity.
    * permiso por razones familiares = family leave.
    * por alguna razón = for some reason, for whatever reason.
    * por cualquier razón = for whatever reason.
    * por encima de toda razón = beyond reason.
    * por esa razón = thereby, for that reason.
    * por esta razón = for this reason.
    * por esta única razón = for this reason alone.
    * por la sencilla razón = for no other reason.
    * por muchas razones = in many ways.
    * por razones + Adjetivo = for + Nombre + purposes.
    * por razones de = for the sake of.
    * por razones de seguridad = for security reasons, for safety reasons.
    * por razones éticas = on moral grounds.
    * por razones morales = on moral grounds.
    * por razones personales = for personal reasons.
    * por varias razones = for a variety of reasons, for a number of reasons.
    * principal razón = prime cause.
    * probar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point.
    * probrar que se tiene razón = make + Posesivo + case.
    * razón convincente = compelling reason.
    * razón de ser = point, raison d'etre, rationale, sense of purpose.
    * razones del movimiento de personal = turnover behaviour.
    * razones personales = personal reasons.
    * razón fundamental = rationale.
    * razón justificada = justified reason.
    * razón práctica = practical reason.
    * ser la razón de = lie at + the root of.
    * sin razón = wanton, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * sin razón alguna = for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * sin razón aparente = for no apparent reason, for apparently no reason.
    * sin razón justificada = for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * tener razón = be correct, be right, be spot on, be in the right.
    * tener razones para pensar que = have + reason to believe that.
    * todas las razones del mundo = every reason.
    * visita por razones de investigación = research trip, research visit.
    * y con razón = and rightfully so.
    * * *
    1) (motivo, causa) reason

    ¿por qué razón lo hiciste? — why did you do it?

    se quejan sin razón/con razón — they're complaining for no good reason/they have good reason to complain

    razón de más para... — all the more reason to...

    en razón de los últimos sucesos — in view of o owing to recent events

    atender or atenerse or avenirse a razones — to listen to reason

    razón: portería — inquiries to the doorman (AmE) o (BrE) porter

    razón: 874256 — call 874256

    dar razón de algo/alguien — to give information about something/somebody

    nadie le dio razón — (fam) no one could help him

    3) (verdad, acierto)

    tener or llevar razón — to be right

    tienes toda la razón — (fam) you're absolutely right

    4)
    a) ( inteligencia) reason
    b) ( cordura) reason

    perder la razón — to go out of one's mind; ( en sentido hiperbólico) to take leave of one's senses

    5) (Mat) ratio
    * * *
    = cause, ground, motive, reason, peg.
    Nota: En sentido figurado, razón o motivo utilizado como argumento para defender una actuación concreta.

    Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

    Ex: I think there are grounds for dispute on certain terms.
    Ex: Other title information is any title borne by an item indicative of the character, contents, etc. of the item or the motives for, or occasion of, its production or publication.
    Ex: The reason for its popularity was largely that it was based upon a principle of conformity in essentials, and freedom in details.
    Ex: The concepts currently being floated by UNESCO are such as will make convenient pegs to hang pleas for resources for bibliographic and library development to national governments.
    * aducir razones = provide + reasons.
    * argumentar + Posesivo + razones = argue + Posesivo + case.
    * buscar razones que expliquen Algo = ascribe + reasons to.
    * confirmar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point, make + Posesivo + case.
    * con más razón aún = a fortiori.
    * con razón = rightly, quite rightly, understandably, rightfully.
    * con toda la razón = quite rightly.
    * darle la razón a Alguien = side in + Posesivo + favour.
    * dar razón de ser = bring + purpose.
    * dar una razón = give + reason.
    * demostrar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point, prove + point, make + Posesivo + case.
    * discriminatorio por razones de edad = ageist [agist].
    * el cliente siempre tiene la razón = the customer is always right.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + razón = mentally fit.
    * en razón a = in the interest(s) of, on grounds.
    * en razón a que = on the grounds that/of.
    * entrar en razón = come to + Posesivo + senses.
    * esa es la razón por la que = that is why.
    * escuchar la voz de la razón = listen to + the voice of reason.
    * ésta es la razón por la que = this is why.
    * existir razones para = there + be + ground(s) for.
    * explicar las razones de = set out + the reasons for.
    * exponer las razones = discuss + the reasons.
    * exponer las razones de = set out + the reasons for.
    * exponer una razón = give + reason.
    * hay razones para pensar que = there + be + reason to believe that.
    * la razón de ser = the reason for being.
    * las razones de = the reason behind, the thinking behind, the reasoning behind, the idea behind.
    * la voz de la razón = the voice of reason.
    * llevar razón = be right, be in the right.
    * más allá de toda razón = beyond reason.
    * mostrar las razones por las que = show + cause why.
    * no tener razón = be wrong.
    * no tener razón de ser + Infinitivo = there + be + no sense in + Gerundio.
    * obras son amores y no buenas razones = actions speak louder than words.
    * ofrecer razones = provide + reasons.
    * perder la razón = lose + Posesivo + sanity.
    * permiso por razones familiares = family leave.
    * por alguna razón = for some reason, for whatever reason.
    * por cualquier razón = for whatever reason.
    * por encima de toda razón = beyond reason.
    * por esa razón = thereby, for that reason.
    * por esta razón = for this reason.
    * por esta única razón = for this reason alone.
    * por la sencilla razón = for no other reason.
    * por muchas razones = in many ways.
    * por razones + Adjetivo = for + Nombre + purposes.
    * por razones de = for the sake of.
    * por razones de seguridad = for security reasons, for safety reasons.
    * por razones éticas = on moral grounds.
    * por razones morales = on moral grounds.
    * por razones personales = for personal reasons.
    * por varias razones = for a variety of reasons, for a number of reasons.
    * principal razón = prime cause.
    * probar que se tiene razón = prove + Posesivo + point.
    * probrar que se tiene razón = make + Posesivo + case.
    * razón convincente = compelling reason.
    * razón de ser = point, raison d'etre, rationale, sense of purpose.
    * razones del movimiento de personal = turnover behaviour.
    * razones personales = personal reasons.
    * razón fundamental = rationale.
    * razón justificada = justified reason.
    * razón práctica = practical reason.
    * ser la razón de = lie at + the root of.
    * sin razón = wanton, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * sin razón alguna = for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * sin razón aparente = for no apparent reason, for apparently no reason.
    * sin razón justificada = for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * tener razón = be correct, be right, be spot on, be in the right.
    * tener razones para pensar que = have + reason to believe that.
    * todas las razones del mundo = every reason.
    * visita por razones de investigación = research trip, research visit.
    * y con razón = and rightfully so.

    * * *
    A (motivo, causa) reason
    tuvo sus razones para actuar así he had his reasons for acting like that
    la razón por la que te lo digo the reason (that) I'm telling you
    ¿por qué razón lo hiciste? why did you do it?
    la huelga ha de ser la razón por la que or por la cual no vino it must have been the strike that prevented him from coming
    no sé la razón que lo movió a hacer una cosa así I don't know what made him do o what induced him to do a thing like that
    se enojó y con razón she got angry and rightly so o and with good reason
    con razón o sin ella el caso es que se enfadó the fact is that, rightly or wrongly, she lost her temper
    se quejan sin razón they're complaining for nothing o for no good reason
    se quejan con razón they have good reason to complain, they have cause for complaint
    ¡con razón no contestaban el teléfono! no wonder they didn't answer the phone!, that's why o that explains why they didn't answer the phone!
    por una u otra razón siempre llega tarde he always arrives late for one reason or another
    razón de más para venir a vernos all the more reason to come and see us
    no hay razón para que no te quedes there's no reason why you can't stay
    por razones de seguridad for security reasons
    en razón de because of
    nadie resulta discriminado en razón de su edad, sexo o raza nobody is discriminated against on the grounds of o because of (their) age, sex or race
    la posibilidad de que haya sido secuestrado en razón del puesto que ocupa the possibility that he might have been kidnapped because of o on account of the position he holds
    en razón de los últimos acontecimientos in view of o owing to recent events
    Compuesto:
    registered name
    B
    (información): [ S ] Se alquila. Razón: portería For rent, inquiries to the super/caretaker
    [ S ] Se vende bicicleta. Razón: este establecimiento Bicycle for sale, inquire within
    [ S ] Se dan clases de inglés. Razón: 874256 English lessons given. Call 874256
    dar razón de algo/algn to give information about sth/sb
    no pudieron or supieron darnos razón de su paradero they were unable to tell us where to find him, they were unable to give us any information as to his whereabouts
    preguntó a todo el que encontraba si la habían visto pasar, pero nadie le dio razón ( fam); he asked everyone he came across if they had seen her go by, but no one could help him
    mandar razón a algn ( ant); to send word to sb
    Compuestos:
    raison d'être ( frml)
    ese problema no tiene razón de ser there's no reason for that problem to exist
    fpl reasons of State (pl)
    C
    (verdad, acierto): la razón está de su parte he's in the right
    esta vez tú tienes la razón this time you're right
    tuve que darle la razón I had to admit she was right
    me da la razón como a los locos ( fam); he just humors me
    tener or llevar razón to be right
    tienes toda la razón del mundo you're absolutely right
    D
    actuó guiado por la razón he acted on reason
    desde que tengo uso de razón for as long as I can remember
    2 (cordura) reason
    entrar en razón to see reason o sense
    perder la razón to lose one's reason, to go out of one's mind; (en sentido hiperbólico) to take leave of one's senses
    E ( Mat) ratio
    salimos a razón de 500 pesos cada uno it came out at 500 pesos each o a head
    Compuestos:
    difference
    ● razón directa/inversa
    direct/inverse ratio
    ratio
    * * *

     

    razón sustantivo femenino
    1 (motivo, causa) reason;

    se enojó y con razón she got angry and rightly so;
    con razón o sin ella rightly or wrongly;
    se quejan sin razón/con razón they're complaining for no good reason/they have good reason to complain;
    ¡con razón no contestaban! no wonder they didn't answer!;
    razón de más para … all the more reason to …
    2 (verdad, acierto): tener or llevar razón to be right;

    tienes toda la razón (fam) you're absolutely right
    3 ( habilidad para razonar) reason;

    desde que tengo uso de razón for as long as I can remember;
    entrar en razón to see reason o sense;
    perder la razón to go out of one's mind;

    ( en sentido hiperbólico) to take leave of one's senses
    razón sustantivo femenino
    1 (facultad) reason: razón y sentimiento a veces coinciden, reason and emotion sometimes coincide
    2 (verdad, acierto) rightness
    dar la razón a alguien, to say that sb is right
    tiene razón, he's right
    no tienes razón, you're wrong
    3 (motivo) reason: no tienes razón alguna para enfadarte, there is no reason to get angry
    4 (argumento) argument, reason: sus razones no eran demasiado convincentes, his arguments were not that convincing
    5 Mat ratio: avanzan a razón de diez kilómetros por día, they are advancing at the rate of ten kilometres per day
    6 (en un letrero) "razón portería", "details from caretaker"
    ♦ Locuciones: asistir la razón a alguien, to have right on one's side
    entrar en razón, to see sense
    no atender a razones, to refuse to see reason
    perder la razón, to lose the power of reason o to lose one's mind
    ' razón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acá
    - admitir
    - dar
    - desvarío
    - estado
    - hacer
    - móvil
    - ociosa
    - ocioso
    - oponer
    - oscurecer
    - plausible
    - porfiar
    - pretender
    - sentida
    - sentido
    - trastornarse
    - turbar
    - argumento
    - aspecto
    - concluyente
    - convencer
    - descubrir
    - duda
    - justificación
    - motivo
    - oculto
    - peso
    - poder
    - punto
    - rata
    - suponer
    - temer
    - triunfar
    - uso
    English:
    accept
    - bear out
    - compelling
    - concede
    - guess
    - maybe
    - occasion
    - point
    - rate
    - ratio
    - reason
    - right
    - rightly
    - sense
    - show
    - somehow
    - understandably
    - wrong
    - absolutely
    - ageist
    - all
    - be
    - cause
    - could
    - deep
    - for
    - indeed
    - mind
    - nine
    - sanity
    - so
    - very
    - why
    * * *
    razón nf
    1. [causa, motivo, argumento] reason;
    la razón de la huelga/de que estén en huelga the reason for the strike/why they are on strike;
    no entiendo la razón de su marcha I don't understand why she's leaving;
    no hay razón para enfadarse there's no reason to get angry;
    la razón por la que voy the reason (why) I'm going;
    atender a razones to listen to reason;
    con mayor razón si… all the more so if…;
    ¡con razón no quería venir! no wonder he didn't want to come!;
    y con razón and quite rightly so;
    en o [m5] por razón de [en vista de] in view of;
    [a causa de] because of;
    por razones de salud/seguridad for health/safety reasons;
    razón de más para quedarse/protestar all the more reason to stay/protest;
    tiene razones para estar enojado he has good cause o good reason to be angry;
    tenemos razones para creer que… we have reason o cause to believe that…;
    sus razones tendrá para hacer eso she must have her reasons for doing something like that
    Pol razones de Estado reasons of state;
    razón de ser raison d'être;
    su actitud no tiene razón de ser her attitude is completely unjustified
    2. [verdad]
    la razón estaba de su parte, Formal [m5] le asistía la razón he was in the right, he had right on his side;
    razón no le falta he's quite right;
    con razón o sin ella rightly or wrongly;
    dar la razón a alguien to admit that sb is right;
    llevar o [m5] tener razón to be right;
    llevas o [m5] tienes toda la razón you're quite right;
    tener razón en o [m5] al hacer algo to be right to do sth;
    no tener razón to be wrong;
    quitar la razón a alguien [demostrar su equivocación] to prove sb wrong
    3. [juicio, inteligencia] reason;
    entrar en razón to see reason;
    no hay quien le haga entrar en razón no one can make him see reason;
    perder la razón to lose one's reason o mind
    4. [información]
    se vende casa: razón aquí [en letrero] house for sale: enquire within;
    dar razón de to give an account of;
    se recompensará a quien dé razón de su paradero there is a reward for anyone giving information regarding his whereabouts
    Com razón social trade name [of company]
    5. Mat ratio;
    a razón de at a rate of;
    salimos o [m5] tocamos a razón de 300 pesos por persona it worked out at 300 pesos per person
    6. Col, Méx, Ven [recado] message;
    Diego no está, ¿quiere dejarle razón? Diego's not in, do you want to leave a message?;
    viajo mañana, ¿tiene razón para su madre? I'm leaving tomorrow, do you have any messages for your mother?;
    pídale a su padre que mande razón ask her father to send us his news
    * * *
    f
    1 reason;
    sin razón for no reason;
    razón de más all the more reason;
    con mucha razón with good reason
    2
    :
    tener razón be right;
    dar la razón a alguien admit that s.o. is right
    :
    entrar en razón see sense;
    hacer entrar a alguien en razón make s.o. see sense;
    perder la razón lose one’s mind
    4 ( causa)
    :
    de because of;
    por razones de edad on the grounds of age
    5
    :
    * * *
    razón nf, pl razones
    1) motivo: reason, motive
    en razón de: by reason of, because of
    2) justicia: rightness, justice
    tener razón: to be right
    3) : reasoning, sense
    perder la razón: to lose one's mind
    4) : ratio, proportion
    * * *
    razón n (motivo) reason

    Spanish-English dictionary > razón

  • 85 Cross, Charles Frederick

    [br]
    b. 11 December 1855 Brentwood, Middlesex, England
    d. 15 April 1935 Hove, England
    [br]
    English chemist who contributed to the development of viscose rayon from cellulose.
    [br]
    Cross was educated at the universities of London, Zurich and Manchester. It was at Owens College, Manchester, that Cross first met E.J. Bevan and where these two first worked together on the nature of cellulose. After gaining some industrial experience, Cross joined Bevan to set up a partnership in London as analytical and consulting chemists, specializing in the chemistry and technology of cellulose and lignin. They were at the Jodrell laboratory, Kew Gardens, for a time and then set up their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens. In 1888, the first edition of their joint publication A Textbook of Paper-making, appeared. It went into several editions and became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The long introductory chapter is a discourse on cellulose.
    In 1892, Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle took out their historic patent on the solution and regeneration of cellulose. The modern artificial-fibre industry stems from this patent. They made their discovery at New Court, Carey Street, London: wood-pulp (or another cheap form of cellulose) was dissolved in a mixture of carbon disulphide and aqueous alkali to produce sodium xanthate. After maturing, it was squirted through fine holes into dilute acid, which set the liquid to give spinnable fibres of "viscose". However, it was many years before the process became a commercial operation, partly because the use of a natural raw material such as wood involved variations in chemical content and each batch might react differently. At first it was thought that viscose might be suitable for incandescent lamp filaments, and C.H.Stearn, a collaborator with Cross, continued to investigate this possibility, but the sheen on the fibres suggested that viscose might be made into artificial silk. The original Viscose Spinning Syndicate was formed in 1894 and a place was rented at Erith in Kent. However, it was not until some skeins of artificial silk (a term to which Cross himself objected) were displayed in Paris that textile manufacturers began to take an interest in it. It was then that Courtaulds decided to investigate this new fibre, although it was not until 1904 that they bought the English patents and developed the first artificial silk that was later called "rayon". Cross was also concerned with the development of viscose films and of cellulose acetate, which became a rival to rayon in the form of "Celanese". He retained his interest in the paper industry and in publishing, in 1895 again collaborating with Bevan and publishing a book on Cellulose and other technical articles. He was a cultured man and a good musician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1917.
    Bibliography
    1888, with E.J.Bevan, A Text-book of Papermaking. 1892, British patent no. 8,700 (cellulose).
    Further Reading
    Obituary Notices of the Royal Society, 1935, London. Obituary, 1935, Journal of the Chemical Society 1,337. Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.
    Edwin J.Beer, 1962–3, "The birth of viscose rayon", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35 (an account of the problems of developing viscose rayon; Beer worked under Cross in the Kew laboratories).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1978, A History of Technology, Vol. VI, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Cross, Charles Frederick

  • 86 Gibbons, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    fl. 1800–50 Staffordshire, England
    [br]
    English ironmaster who introduced the round hearth in the blastfurnace.
    [br]
    Gibbons was an ironmaster in the Black Country, South Staffordshire, in charge of six blast furnaces owned by the family business. Until Gibbons's innovation in 1832, small changes in the form of the furnace had at times been made, but no one had seriously questioned the square shape of the hearth. Gibbons noticed that a new furnace often worked poorly by improved as time went on. When it was "blown out", i.e. taken out of commission, he found that the corners of the hearth had been rounded off and the sides gouged out, so that it was roughly circular in shape. Gibbons wisely decided to build a blast furnace with a round hearth alongside an existing one with a traditionally shaped hearth and work them in exactly the same conditions. The old furnace produced 75 tons of iron in a week, about normal for the time, while the new one produced 100 tons. Further improvements followed and in 1838 a fellow ironmaster in the same district, T. Oakes, considerably enlarged the furnace, its height attaining no less than 60ft (18m). As a result, output soared to over 200 tons a week. Most other ironmasters adopted the new form with enthusiasm and it proved to be the basis for the modern blast furnace. Gibbons made another interesting innovation: he began charging his furnace with the "rubbish", slag or cinder, from earlier ironmaking operations. It contained a significant amount of iron and was cheaper to obtain than iron ore, as it was just lying around in heaps. Some ironmasters scorned to use other people's throw-outs, but Gibbons sensibly saw it as a cheap source of iron; it was a useful source for some years during the nineteenth century but its use died out when the heaps were used up. Gibbons published an account of his improvements in ironmaking in a pamphlet entitled Practical Remarks on the Construction of the Staffordshire Blast Furnace.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    J.Percy, 1864, Metallurgy. Iron and Steel, London, p. 476. W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longmans, pp. 44–6.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Gibbons, John

  • 87 drop

    [drɔp] 1. гл.
    1)
    а) капать; стекать каплями; выступать каплями

    Water dropped from the ceiling into the pan on the floor. — Вода капала с потолка в стоящий на полу таз.

    Sweat dropped from his brow. — Пот стекал с его лба.

    Syn:
    б) лить, проливать каплями; выпускать по капле
    2)

    You've dropped your comb. — Вы уронили вашу расчёску.

    Be careful not to drop the cup. — Смотри не урони чашку.

    б) бросать; сбрасывать

    I'll drop these letters off as I go home from work. — Я опущу эти письма по дороге с работы.

    3)
    а) валить, сваливать; сшибать, сбивать

    I dropped him with a single punch. — Я повалил его одним ударом.

    The challenger dropped the champion in the fifth round. — Претендент нокаутировал чемпиона в пятом раунде.

    Syn:
    б) падать; валиться, рушиться

    to drop down on one's knees — опускаться, падать на колени

    The apple dropped to the ground. — Яблоко упало на землю.

    The bottle dropped onto the floor. — Бутылка упала на пол.

    He dropped into a chair. — Он упал в кресло.

    The sword dropped out of his hand. — Меч выпал у него из рук.

    The roof has dropped in. — Крыша обвалилась.

    The climber dropped to his death. — Альпинист разбился насмерть.

    One of the buttons has dropped off and I can't find it. — Одна из пуговиц оторвалась, и я не могу её найти.

    The bottom has dropped out of the market. — Рынок обрушился.

    Syn:

    Everyone worked till they dropped. — Все работали до тех пор, пока не кончались силы.

    I feel ready to drop. — Я падаю с ног от усталости.

    5)

    His jaw dropped. — У него отвисла челюсть.

    to drop one's eyes / gaze — опустить взгляд, потупить взор

    в) охот. припадать к земле (при виде дичи; об охотничьей собаке)
    6) = drop away; = drop off идти круто вниз, обрываться

    The cliff dropped away at his feet. — Утёс круто обрывался у него под ногами.

    7)
    а) снижаться, понижаться, уменьшаться

    The temperature dropped to the freezing point last night. — Прошлой ночью температура опустилась до нуля.

    Sales always drop in the spring. — Продажи весной всегда падают.

    Syn:
    б) снижать, понижать, уменьшать

    He dropped his voice. — Он понизил голос.

    Syn:
    8) = drop down
    а) спускаться, плыть по течению

    At the turn of the tide the boats began to drop down the harbour. — При отливе лодки начали спускаться к гавани.

    People dropped like flies within weeks of being diagnosed. — Люди гибли как мухи через несколько недель после того, как им ставили диагноз.

    I lay five to two, Mathilda drops in a year. (W. M. Thackeray) — Ставлю пять к двум, что Матильда через год умрёт.

    10)
    а) кончаться, прекращаться

    This TV show dropped after only three months. — Это телешоу и трёх месяцев не продержалось.

    The rehabilitation program was dropped by the local authority. — Программа по реабилитации была прекращена местными властями.

    Plans for a new bridge were dropped due to the lack of funding. — От планов по строительству нового моста пришлось отказаться из-за отсутствия средств.

    в) прекращать обсуждать (что-л.); прекращаться ( о дискуссии)

    Look, can we just drop it? — Послушай, можем мы оставить тему?

    I'd rather let the matter drop. — Я бы предпочёл больше не обсуждать это.

    г) бросать (заниматься какой-л. деятельностью)

    to drop German — бросить немецкий, бросить заниматься немецким языком

    Drop everything and come at once. — Бросай все дела и приходи немедленно.

    Syn:
    11) снимать, отменять, аннулировать
    12) разг. бросать, оставлять, покидать ( близких)

    He dropped all his old friends. — Он бросил всех своих старых друзей.

    Syn:
    13)
    а) исключать, пропускать, опускать (что-л.); не произносить ( звук в слове)

    When you drop a stitch on a row you are working, pick it up immediately and replace it. — Если вы пропустили петлю в рабочем ряду, сразу же наберите вместо неё новую.

    This article won't be of interest to our readers. Let's drop it. — Эта статья не представляет интереса для наших читателей. Давайте не будем её брать.

    Syn:
    б) = drop out выпадать (о звуке, букве в слове); выходить из употребления ( о слове)

    This word has dropped out of use. — Это слово вышло из употребления.

    14) разг.
    а) проигрывать, спускать ( деньги), сорить ( деньгами)

    He was afraid he would drop several thousand pounds. — Он боялся, что потеряет на этом несколько тысяч фунтов.

    в) запускать в обращение (фальшивые деньги, поддельные чеки)

    Both lots of notes were printed on the Continent and are being 'dropped' in this country. — Обе партии банкнот были отпечатаны на континенте и сбываются в нашей стране.

    She had dropped some LSD and had been tripping for an unknown number of hours. — Она приняла порцию ЛСД и неизвестно сколько времени находилась в отключке.

    16)
    а) сказать невзначай, мимоходом

    to drop a word in favour of smb. — замолвить за кого-л. словечко

    to drop names — фамильярно употреблять громкие имена, хвастаться знакомством с известными людьми

    He let it drop that the famous musician was a close friend of his. — Он обмолвился, что знаменитый музыкант - его близкий друг.

    б) кратко набросать (записку, чертёж)

    to drop a line/note — черкнуть несколько строк

    I dropped a draft. — Я набросал чертёж.

    17)
    б) родить детёнышей; окотиться; отелиться; ожеребиться; откладывать яйца
    18) карт. сбрасывать карту
    19) спорт. забивать гол с полулёта, производить удар с полулёта ( в регби)
    20) ( drop from) не включать в ( команду)

    They dropped her from the team because of leg injury. — Её не включили в команду из-за травмы ноги.

    Syn:
    not include, leave out
    21) ( drop behind) отставать от (кого-л. / чего-л.)

    He dropped behind the other runners. — Он отстал от остальных бегунов.

    We thought the horse would win, but he dropped behind halfway through the race. — Мы думали, эта лошадь победит, но она сильно отстала на середине дистанции.

    Syn:
    22) ( drop across) наталкиваться на (что-л. / кого-л.), случайно встретиться с (кем-л.)

    I dropped across an old friend in town today. — Сегодня в городе я столкнулся со старым знакомым.

    Syn:
    23)
    а) зайти мимоходом, нанести неожиданный визит, забежать, заглянуть (куда-л. / к кому-л.)

    to drop in for tea — зайти, заглянуть на чашку чая

    to drop in at smb.'s place / on smb. — зайти к кому-л.

    Let's drop on Jim on our way back. — Давай на обратном пути зайдём к Джиму.

    Since we're in the neighborhood, why don't we drop in at my brother's? — Раз уж мы тут поблизости, то почему бы не зайти к моему брату?

    Let's drop down to his summer home and see if he's there. — Давай заедем к нему на дачу, вдруг он там.

    Look who's just dropped in! — Ба, кто к нам пришёл!

    б) drop + нареч. постепенно перемещаться, перемещаться поочерёдно

    Then one by one the guests dropped off. — Затем гости постепенно разошлись.

    Hundreds of people dropped in to buy a copy at the presentation, with some lining up as early as 9 pm. — Сотни людей всё просачивались в магазин, чтобы на презентации купить себе экземпляр книги, некоторые занимали очередь с 9 часов вечера.

    One by one, each jet banked and dropped away from the formation. — Один за другим, самолёты закладывали вираж и покидали боевой «клин».

    The defender dropped back behind his teammate. спорт. — Защитник отступил, чтобы оказаться позади товарища по команде (и не создавать положения «вне игры»).

    Many of the Confederate troops dropped back to better cover. воен. — Многие из частей конфедератов отошли в укрытие.

    24) ( drop on) проявлять (назойливое) внимание к (кому-л.), останавливать свой выбор на (ком-л.)

    The examiner can drop on any student to answer questions. — Экзаменатор может задать вопрос любому студенту.

    Why drop on me? It's not my fault. — Что ты ко мне цепляешься? Я тут при чём?

    25)
    а) drop + прил. (быстро) погружаться (в какое-л. состояние)
    б) ( drop into) менять (вид деятельности, состояние) ; предаваться ( привычке)

    to drop into a film / book — с головой погрузиться в фильм, книгу

    to drop into a habit of doing smth. — иметь обыкновение делать что-л.

    We soon dropped back into the old life of sight-seeing and shopping. — Вскоре мы вновь вернулись к нашей прежней жизни - осмотру достопримечательностей и хождению по магазинам.

    26) drop + сущ. называет действие по значению существительного
    •
    - drop back
    - drop behind
    - drop in
    - drop off
    - drop out
    - drop through
    ••

    to drop a brick / clanger — допустить промах, попасть впросак

    to drop smth. like a hot potato — поспешить избавиться от чего-л.

    to drop a line / note — черкнуть несколько строк

    Drop dead! груб. — Иди к чёрту!, Отвали!, Проваливай!, Пошёл на фиг!

    to drop a bombshell разг. — повергнуть в шок, ошеломить неожиданным известием

    - drop a dime
    - drop short 2. сущ.

    Drops of water sparkled in the sunlight. — Капли воды сверкали на солнце.

    drop by drop — капля за каплей, по капле; медленно и постепенно

    2) слеза; капля дождя; капля росы; капля пота; капелька крови

    They would be faithful to him to the last drop. — Они будут верны ему до последней капли крови.

    Syn:
    3) ( drops) мед. капли
    4) небольшое количество, капля

    Add a drop of Tabasco and mix well. — Добавь чуточку соуса табаско и хорошенько перемешай.

    Syn:

    to have a drop in one's eye — быть навеселе, выпить

    I have had a drop, but I had not been drinking. — Я опрокинул чуть-чуть, но я не пил.

    6) подвеска (у люстры, канделябра); серьга
    7) драже; леденец; печенье круглой формы
    8) падение, понижение, снижение

    The drop in temperature was a relief. — Снижение температуры привело к улучшению состояния.

    Syn:
    9) удар по мячу, отскочившему от земли, удар с полулета ( в футболе)
    Syn:
    10) спорт. укороченный удар (резкий удар вниз через сетку; в теннисе, бадминтоне)
    11) карт. сбрасывание карты ( обычно в бридже)
    12) авиа сбрасывание с самолета боеприпасов, снабжения; сбрасывание десанта
    13) приземление самолета, ракеты
    14) ( the drop) амер.; разг. преимущество

    to get the drop on smb. — получить преимущество перед (кем-л.)

    to have the drop on smb. — иметь преимущество перед (кем-л.)

    He had got the drop on us, and he knew it. — Он получил преимущество над нами, и знал об этом.

    Two of us can handle it. We shall have the drop on them. — Мы вдвоем с этим справимся. У нас перед ними будет преимущество.

    15) потомство, помёт ( у животных)

    The bulk of the lambs consisted of this season's drop. — Основная часть ягнят представляла собой помёт этого года..

    16) падающее устройство; падающая дверца; трап
    17) пластинка, закрывающая замочную скважину
    18) театр.; = act drop; = drop-curtain занавес, опускаемый между действиями
    19) опускающаяся подставка, люк ( виселицы); виселица

    It comes to the morning when he is going to get the drop. — Приближается утро, когда его должны повесить.

    20) крим. укрыватель или скупщик краденого
    Syn:
    21)
    а) тайник для краденого; шпионский тайник
    22) амер. щель, прорезь (в почтовом ящике, для монеты или жетона в автомате)
    23) разг. деньги, даваемые в качестве пожертвования или взятки

    A halfpenny's the usual drop. — Полпенни - это обычная сумма для подаяния.

    24) высота, расстояние сверху вниз

    Sometimes the rope slipped, or the drop was insufficient. — Иногда развязывалась веревка, иногда высота оказывалась недостаточной.

    25) обрыв, откос

    The road ends abruptly in a drop to the sea. — Дорога внезапно кончается резким обрывом к морю.

    Syn:
    ••

    a drop in the / a bucket / the ocean — капля в море

    Англо-русский современный словарь > drop

  • 88 Murdock (Murdoch), William

    [br]
    b. 21 August 1754 Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
    d. 15 November 1839 Handsworth, Birmingham, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and inventor, pioneer in coal-gas production.
    [br]
    He was the third child and the eldest of three boys born to John Murdoch and Anna Bruce. His father, a millwright and joiner, spelled his name Murdock on moving to England. He was educated for some years at Old Cumnock Parish School and in 1777, with his father, he built a "wooden horse", supposed to have been a form of cycle. In 1777 he set out for the Soho manufactory of Boulton \& Watt, where he quickly found employment, Boulton supposedly being impressed by the lad's hat. This was oval and made of wood, and young William had turned it himself on a lathe of his own manufacture. Murdock quickly became Boulton \& Watt's representative in Cornwall, where there was a flourishing demand for steam-engines. He lived at Redruth during this period.
    It is said that a number of the inventions generally ascribed to James Watt are in fact as much due to Murdock as to Watt. Examples are the piston and slide valve and the sun-and-planet gearing. A number of other inventions are attributed to Murdock alone: typical of these is the oscillating cylinder engine which obviated the need for an overhead beam.
    In about 1784 he planned a steam-driven road carriage of which he made a working model. He also planned a high-pressure non-condensing engine. The model carriage was demonstrated before Murdock's friends and travelled at a speed of 6–8 mph (10–13 km/h). Boulton and Watt were both antagonistic to their employees' developing independent inventions, and when in 1786 Murdock set out with his model for the Patent Office, having received no reply to a letter he had sent to Watt, Boulton intercepted him on the open road near Exeter and dissuaded him from going any further.
    In 1785 he married Mary Painter, daughter of a mine captain. She bore him four children, two of whom died in infancy, those surviving eventually joining their father at the Soho Works. Murdock was a great believer in pneumatic power: he had a pneumatic bell-push at Sycamore House, his home near Soho. The pattern-makers lathe at the Soho Works worked for thirty-five years from an air motor. He also conceived the idea of a vacuum piston engine to exhaust a pipe, later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company's railway and the forerunner of the atmospheric railway.
    Another field in which Murdock was a pioneer was the gas industry. In 1791, in Redruth, he was experimenting with different feedstocks in his home-cum-office in Cross Street: of wood, peat and coal, he preferred the last. He designed and built in the backyard of his house a prototype generator, washer, storage and distribution plant, and publicized the efficiency of coal gas as an illuminant by using it to light his own home. In 1794 or 1795 he informed Boulton and Watt of his experimental work and of its success, suggesting that a patent should be applied for. James Watt Junior was now in the firm and was against patenting the idea since they had had so much trouble with previous patents and had been involved in so much litigation. He refused Murdock's request and for a short time Murdock left the firm to go home to his father's mill. Boulton \& Watt soon recognized the loss of a valuable servant and, in a short time, he was again employed at Soho, now as Engineer and Superintendent at the increased salary of £300 per year plus a 1 per cent commission. From this income, he left £14,000 when he died in 1839.
    In 1798 the workshops of Boulton and Watt were permanently lit by gas, starting with the foundry building. The 180 ft (55 m) façade of the Soho works was illuminated by gas for the Peace of Paris in June 1814. By 1804, Murdock had brought his apparatus to a point where Boulton \& Watt were able to canvas for orders. Murdock continued with the company after the death of James Watt in 1819, but retired in 1830 and continued to live at Sycamore House, Handsworth, near Birmingham.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society Rumford Gold Medal 1808.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1861, Lives of the Engineers, Vol. IV: Boulton and Watt, London: John Murray.
    H.W.Dickinson and R.Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    J.A.McCash, 1966, "William Murdoch. Faithful servant" in E.G.Semler (ed.), The Great Masters. Engineering Heritage, Vol. II, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Heinemann.
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  • 89 her

    "every, each. - an at any moment. - aşın kaşığı busybody, meddler, interloper. - bakımdan in every respect. - bir each, every single. - biri each one, every one (of). - biri başka bir hava çalmak for everyone (in a group) to behave and think differently from everyone else (in that group); for everyone to have a different opinion. - boyayı boyadık da fıstıki mi kaldı? colloq. Even though we´ve yet to do the fundamental things, you´re already talking about the finishing touches. - boyaya girip çıkmak colloq. to have worked at many different jobs. - daim always. - defa/defasında each time. - dem always. - dem taze 1. young-looking, vigorous for his/her age. 2. evergreen (plant). - derde deva cure-all, panacea. - durumda no matter what, in any case. - gördüğü sakallıyı babası sanmak colloq. to be easily fooled by appearances. - gün every day. - güzelin bir kusuru/huyu vardır. proverb Even the most attractive people and things have their drawbacks. - hal see herhalde. - halde see herhalde. - halü kârda see herhalükârda. - havadan çalmak 1. to be versatile. 2. to claim to be knowledgeable about many different things. - horoz kendi çöplüğünde/küllüğünde öter/eşinir. proverb A person will lay down the law on the turf that is his/her own. - hususta in all respects, from all points of view, in every way. - ihtimale karşı keeping every possibility in mind; just in case. - işe burnunu sokmak to poke one´s nose into everything. - işin başı sağlık. proverb The success of a project is greatly dependent on the good health of those involved in it. - işte bir hayır vardır. proverb Everything we experience in life has its positive side. - kafadan bir ses çıkmak for everyone to be talking all at once. - kim whoever. - kim olursa olsun no matter who it is, whoever it may be. - koyun kendi bacağından asılır. proverb The trouble people get themselves into is usually of their own making. - kuşun eti yenmez. proverb Not every person will bend to your will. - nasılsa somehow or other. - ne whatever. - nedense somehow, for some reason or other. - ne hal ise anyhow, anyway. - ne ise 1. so anyhow. 2. whatever the cost. 3. Anyway,.../Let´s forget it. - ne kadar although, however much. - ne pahasına olursa olsun at any cost. - nerede wherever. - ne zaman whenever. - şey everything. - şeye burnunu sokmak to poke one´s nose into everything. - tarafta all around, everywhere, on all sides. - taraftan from everywhere. - tarakta bezi olmak to have a finger in every pie. - tarladan bir kesek random talk. - telden çalmak 1. to be versatile. 2. to claim to be knowledgeable about many different things. - yerde everywhere. - yiğidin bir yoğurt yiyişi vardır. proverb Everybody cherishes his own way of doing things. - yiğidin gönlünde bir aslan yatar. proverb Everybody cherishes an ambition. - yokuşun bir inişi, her inişin bir yokuşu vardır. proverb All problems eventually get worked out. - zaman always."

    Saja Türkçe - İngilizce Sözlük > her

  • 90 Chapman, Frederik Henrik af

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 9 September 1721 Gothenburg, Sweden
    d. 19 August 1808 Karlskrona, Sweden
    [br]
    Swedish naval architect and shipbuilder; one of the foremost ship designers of all time.
    [br]
    Chapman was born on the west coast of Sweden and was the son of a British naval officer serving in the Swedish Navy. In 1738 he followed in his father's footsteps by joining the naval dockyards as a shipbuilding apprentice. Subsequent experience was gained in other shipyards and by two years (1741–3) in London. His assiduous note taking and study of British shipbuilding were noticed and he was offered appointments in England, but these were refused and he returned to Sweden in 1744 and for a while operated as a ship repairer in partnership with a man called Bagge. In 1749 he started out on his own. He began with a period of study in Stockholm and in London, where he worked for a while under Thomas Simpson, and then went on to France and the Netherlands. During his time in England he learned the art of copper etching, a skill that later stood him in good stead. After some years he was appointed Deputy Master Shipwright to the Swedish Navy, and in 1760 he became Master Shipwright at Sveaborg (now Suomenlinna), the fortress island of Helsinki. There Chapman excelled by designing the coastal defence or skerry fleet that to this day is accepted as beautiful and fit for purpose. He understood the limitations of ship design and throughout his life strove to improve shipbuilding by using the advances in mathematics and science that were then being made. His contribution to the rationalization of thought in ship theory cannot be overemphasized.
    In 1764 he became Chief Shipbuilder to the Swedish Navy, with particular responsibility for Karlskrona and for Stockholm. He assisted in the new rules for the classification of warships and later introduced standardization to the naval dockyards. He continued to rise in rank and reputation until his retirement in 1793, but to the end his judgement was sought on many matters concerning not only ship design but also the administration of the then powerful Swedish Navy.
    His most important bequest to his profession is the great book Architectura Navalis Mercatoria, first published in 1768. Later editions were larger and contained additional material. This volume remains one of the most significant works on shipbuilding.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1772. Rear Admiral 1783, Vice-Admiral 1791.
    Bibliography
    1768, Architecture Navalis Mercatoria; 1975, pub. in English, trans. Adlard Coles. 1775, Tractat om Skepps-Buggeriet.
    Further Reading
    D.G.Harris, 1989, F.H.Chapman, the First Naval Architect and His Work, London: Conway (an excellent biography).
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  • 91 Korolov (Korolyev), Sergei Pavlovich

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 12 January 1907 (30 December 1906 Old Style) Zhitomir, Ukraine
    d. 14 January 1966 Moscow, Russia
    [br]
    Russian engineer and designer of air-and spacecraft.
    [br]
    His early life was spent in the Ukraine and he then studied at Tupolev's aeroplane institute in Moscow. In the mid-1930s, just before his thirtieth birthday, he joined the GIRD (Group Studying Rocket Propulsion) under Frederick Zander, a Latvian engineer, while earning a living designing aircraft in Tupolev's bureau. In 1934 he visited Konstantin Tsiolovsky. Soon after this, under the Soviet Armaments Minister, Mikhail N.Tukhachevsky, who was in favour of rocket weapons, financial support was available for the GIRD and Korolov was appointed General-Engineer (1-star) in the Soviet Army. In June 1937 the Armaments Minister and his whole staff were arrested under Stalin, but Korolov was saved by Tupolev and sent to a sharaska, or prison, near Moscow where he worked for four years on rocket-and jet-propelled aircraft, among other things. In 1946 he went with his superior, Valentin Glushko, to Germany where he watched the British test-firing of possibly three V-2s at Altenwaide, near Cuxhaven, in "Operation Backfire". They were not allowed within the wire enclosure. He remained in Germany to supervise the shipment of V-2 equipment and staff to Russia (it is possible that he underwent a second term of imprisonment from 1948), the Germans having been arrested in October 1946. He kept working in Russia until 1950 or the following year. He supervised the first Russian ballistic missile, R-1, in late 1947. Stalin died in 1953 and Korolov was rehabilitated, but freedom under Nikita Kruschev was almost as restrictive as imprisonment under Stalin. Kruschev would only refer to him as "the Chief Designer", never naming him, and would not let him go abroad or correspond with other rocket experts in the USA or Germany. Anything he published could only be under the name "Sergeyev". He continued to work on his R-7 without the approval that he sought for a satellite project. This was known as semyorka, or "old number seven". In January 1959 he added a booster stage to semyorka. He may have suffered confinement in the infamous Kolyma Gulag around this time. He designed all the Sputnik, Vostok and some of the Voshkod units and worked on the Proton space booster. In 1966 he underwent surgery performed by Dr Boris Petrovsky, then Soviet Minister of Health, for the removal, it is said, of tumours of the colon. In spite of the assistance of Dr Aleksandr Vishaevsky he bled to death on the operating table. The first moon landing (by robot) took place three weeks after his death and the first flight of the new Soyuz spacecraft a little later.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Y.Golanov, 1975, Sergey Korolev. The Appren-ticeship of a Space Pioneer, Moscow: Mir.
    A.Romanov, 1976, Spacecraft Designers, Moscow: Novosti Press Agency. J.E.Oberg, 1981, Red Star in Orbit, New York: Random House.
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  • 92 Metcalf, John

    [br]
    b. 1717 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d. 1810
    [br]
    English pioneer road builder.
    [br]
    The son of poor working parents, at the age of 6 an attack of smallpox left him blind; however, this did not restrict his future activities, which included swimming and riding. He learned the violin and was much employed as the fiddle-player at country parties. He saved enough money to buy a horse on which he hunted. He took part in bowls, wrestling and boxing, being a robust six foot two inches tall. He rode to Whitby and went thence by boat to London and made other trips to York, Reading and Windsor. In 1740 Colonel Liddell offered him a seat in his coach from London to Harrogate, but he declined and got there more quickly on foot. He set up a one-horse chaise and a four-wheeler for hire in Harrogate, but the local innkeepers set up in competition in the public hire business. He went into the fish business, buying at the coast and selling in Leeds and other towns, but made little profit so he took up his violin again. During the rebellion of 1745 he recruited for Colonel Thornton and served to fight at Hexham, Newcastle and Falkirk, returning home after the Battle of Culloden. He then started travelling between Yorkshire, where be bought cotton and worsted stockings, and Aberdeen, where he sold horses. He set up a twice-weekly service of stage wagons between Knaresborough and York.
    In 1765 an Act was passed for a turnpike road between Harrogate and Boroughbridge and he offered to build the Master Surveyor, a Mr Ostler, three miles (5 km) of road between Minskip and Fearnly, selling his wagons and his interest in the carrying business. The road was built satisfactorily and on time. He then quoted for a bridge at Boroughbridge and for a turnpike road between Knaresborough and Harrogate. He built many other roads, always doing the survey of the route on his own. The roads crossed bogs on a base of ling and furze. Many of his roads outside Yorkshire were in Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. In all he built some 180 miles (290 km) of road, for which he was paid some £65,000.
    He worked for thirty years on road building, retiring in old age to a cotton business in Stockport where he had six spinning jennies and a carding engine; however, he found there was little profit in this so he gave the machinery to his son-in-law. The last road he built was from Haslington to Accrington, but due to the rise in labour costs brought about by the demand from the canal boom, he only made £40 profit on a £3,000 contract; the road was completed in 1792, when he retired to his farm at Spofforth at the age of 75. There he died, leaving a wife, four children, twenty grandchildren and ninety greatgrandchildren. His wife was the daughter of the landlord of the Granby Inn, Knaresborough.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, Metcalfe, Telford: John Murray.
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  • 93 открывать

    гл.
    Английские соответствия в отличие от их русского эквивалента открывать конкретизируют данное действие по характеру объекта.
    1. to open — (глагол to open многозначен, и все его значении являются эквивалентами разных значений русского глагола открывать/ открыть): а) открывать, открыть (что-либо закрытое, запертое): to open the door (window, gate) — открыть/раскрыть дверь (окно, калитку); to open a box (barrel, can) — открыть ящик (бочку, консервную байку); to open a book — открыть книгу; to open an egg — разбить яйцо; to open one's eyes — открыть глаза It is so hot in the room and the window is closed. — Oh, sorry I'll go and open it right away. — В комнате так жарко, а окно закрыто. — О, прости, я пойду и открою его сейчас же. В предложениях с глаголом to open и одушевленным подлежащим за глаголом обязательно следует прямое дополнение, если нет реального прямого дополнения, то обязательно употребляется местоимение it. Put the bottle on the table, but don't open it. — Поставь бутылку на стол, но не открывай. b) начинать, открывать ( какое-либо официальное мероприятие): to open a new school — открывать новую школу; to open a meeting — открывать собрание; to open an account with the bank — открыть счет в банке c) открыть, сделать явным, сделать видимым: to open a secret — открыть секрет; to open smb's eyes to the truth — открыть кому-либо глаза на правду
    2. to uncover — открыть, снять покрывало, снять завесу ( снять покрывало и сделать предмет видимым): to unveil a monument (statue, memorial plague) — открыть памятник (статую, мемориальную доску) After a long period of silence he unveiled his plans. — После долгого периода молчания он предал гласности свои планы.
    4. to turn on — открыть, включить: to turn on the cold-water tap — открыть кран холодной воды; to turn on the light — включить свет; to turn on the TV — включить телевизор
    5. to reveal — открывать, раскрывать, обнаруживать, выявить, открыться взору, сделать ( что-либо) видимым (убрав препятствие; употребляется как в прямом, так и в переносном смысле: открыть физически и открыть секрет/тайну): He drew the curtain aside to reveal a beautiful garden. — Он раздвинул шторы, и мы увидели прекрасный сад./Он раздвинул шторы, и нашему взору открылся прекрасный сад. He still didn't reveal what he had felt about me. — Он все еще никак не проявлял своих чувств ко мне. The slant of her eyes and the line of her lips revealed her contempt. — Прищур ее глаз и поджатые губы обнаруживали ее презрение./Прищур ее глаз и поджатые губы говорили о ее презрении. His gaiety had revealed itself as fear of solitude. — За его наигранной веселостью скрывался страх одиночества./За его неестественной веселостью скрывался страх одиночества. They were not ready to reveal the details of their arrest. — Они были не готовы открыть подробности их ареста. A Sunday paper had once revealed that he'd wanted to marry his cousin. — Одна из воскресных газет как-то раз предала гласности факты, говорящие о том, что он намеревался жениться на своей кузине./Одна из воскресных газет однажды раскрыла факты, говорящие о том, что он хотел жениться на своей кузине. Howard now revealed a certain talent for fixing things. — Говард вдруг обнаружил способности улаживать конфликты. It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face. — Я впервые увидел, как на его лице отразились хоть какие-то чувства. A slight trembling of his hand revealed his growing excitement. — Легкое дрожание рук выдавало его растущее возбуждение./Легкое дрожание рук обнаруживало его растущее возбуждение./Его растущее возбуждение проявлялось в дрожании рук. Не revealed an unexpected talent for dancing while on vacation in Spain. — Когда он проводил каникулы в Испании, он неожиданно обнаружил способности к танцам. The screen fell back with a crash and revealed a yawing opening in the wall. — Ширма с грохотом упала, и в стене открылось зияющее отверстие.
    6. to disclose — открывать, раскрывать, предавать гласности ( употребляется в прямом и переносном смысле): Не attempted to disclose that the truth was systematically blocked. — Он попытался открыть тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали./Он сделал попытку раскрыть тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали./Он сделал попытку придать гласности тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали. The curtain rose and disclosed a beautiful landscape. — Занавес поднялся, и глазам открылся прекрасный пейзаж./Занавес раскрылся, и глазам представился прекрасный пейзаж.
    7. to discover — открывать, открыть, раскрывать, обнаруживать, обнаружить, узнать, найти (выявить то, что было неизвестно; сделать открытым до сих пор никому неизвестное): to discover a new star — открыть новую звезду; to discover the truth — обнаружить истину; to discover a plot — раскрыть заговор The two men decided to discover the truth for themselves. — Эти двое решили сами узнать правду./Эти двое решили сами обнаружить правду. Не became very friendly when he discovered that she was my sister. — Он стал весьма дружелюбным, когда узнал, что она моя сестра. Checks are made to discover whether applicants have a criminal record. — Проверки проводятся для того, чтобы обнаружить, нет ли за претендентами криминального прошлого./Провсрки проводятся для того, чтобы выявить, нет ли у претендентов криминального прошлого. I have only recently discovered the benefits of meditation. — Я только недавно постиг все прелести медитации./Я только недавно понял всю пользу медитации. The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930. — Планета Плутон была открыта в 1930 году. The scientists discovered radioactivity in uranium salt. — Учеными была обнаружена радиоактивность в урановых солях. Did you discover what company he worked for? — Вы обнаружили, на какую компанию он работал?/Вы узнали, на какую компанию он работал? She has never been able to discover her father's true identity. — Она так и не смогла узнать, кем на самом деле был ее отец. New organizations need to discoverthe most efficient ways of operating. — Новым организациям надо выяснить наиболее эффективные методы работы. When she discovered she had been taken on, she was really pleased. — Когда она узнала, что ее приняли на работу, она была очень довольна/Когда она выяснила, что ее приняли на работу, она была очень довольна. Has your mother never discovered, why you are out late every night? — Неужели ваша мать не выяснила, куда вы уходите допоздна каждый вечер? Не decided to discover the truth himself. — Он решил разузнать правду сам. New antimalarial drugs have been discovered. — Были открыты новые препараты против малярии. Why not spend a week discovering the beauty of the Caucasus. — Почему бы не провести неделю на Кавказе, открывая для себя его красоты? Police discovered his body yesterday. — Полиция вчера обнаружила его труп. I finally discovered the letter at the back of the drawer. — Я наконец обнаружил это письмо в глубине ящика. Действие глагола to discover сравнимо с тщательным раскапыванием земли в поисках чего-либо, в данном случае каких-либо фактов, новых или неожиданных сведений, что выражено в словосочетаниях, фигурально передающих значение глагола to discover — найти, открывать, обнаруживать: Let me know if you dig up anything about it. — Дай мне знать, если ты что-нибудь об этом раскопаешь. I unearthed some useful facts and figures. — Я раскопал несколько полезных фактов и цифр. The facts only came to light after a long investigation. — Факты увидели свет только после длительного расследования. We left no stone unturned in our search for the truth. — Мы камня на кнмне не оставили в поисках истины./Мы сделали все возможное, чтобы докопаться до истины. The book is a mine/goldmine of information. — Книга прямо кладезь информации. You need to put in a lot of spadework. — Тебе еще предстоит много черновой работы./Тебе еще придется покопаться. It took me a long time to find it, but I finally struck gold/oil. — У меня ушло много времени на поиски, но в конце концов я нашел, что искал./У меня ушло много времени на поиски, но в конце концов мои поиски увенчались успехом. She racked up a lot of scandal. — Она раскопала уйму скандальных фактов.

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    Английские соответствия в отличие от их русского эквивалента открывать конкретизируют данное действие по характеру объекта.
    1. to open — (глагол to open многозначен, и все его значении являются эквивалентами разных значений русского глагола открывать/ открыть): а) открывать, открыть (что-либо закрытое, запертое): to open the door (window, gate) — открыть/раскрыть дверь (окно, калитку); to open a box (barrel, can) — открыть ящик (бочку, консервную байку); to open a book — открыть книгу; to open an egg — разбить яйцо; to open one's eyes — открыть глаза It is so hot in the room and the window is closed. — Oh, sorry I'll go and open it right away. — В комнате так жарко, а окно закрыто. — О, прости, я пойду и открою его сейчас же. В предложениях с глаголом to open и одушевленным подлежащим за глаголом обязательно следует прямое дополнение, если нет реального прямого дополнения, то обязательно употребляется местоимение it. Put the bottle on the table, but don't open it. — Поставь бутылку на стол, но не открывай. b) начинать, открывать ( какое-либо официальное мероприятие): to open a new school — открывать новую школу; to open a meeting — открывать собрание; to open an account with the bank — открыть счет в банке c) открыть, сделать явным, сделать видимым: to open a secret — открыть секрет; to open smb's eyes to the truth — открыть кому-либо глаза на правду
    2. to uncover — открыть, снять покрывало, снять завесу ( снять покрывало и сделать предмет видимым): to unveil a monument (statue, memorial plague) — открыть памятник (статую, мемориальную доску) After a long period of silence he unveiled his plans. — После долгого периода молчания он предал гласности свои планы.
    4. to turn on — открыть, включить: to turn on the cold-water tap — открыть кран холодной воды; to turn on the light — включить свет; to turn on the TV — включить телевизор
    5. to reveal — открывать, раскрывать, обнаруживать, выявить, открыться взору, сделать ( что-либо) видимым (убрав препятствие; употребляется как в прямом, так и в переносном смысле: открыть физически и открыть секрет/тайну): He drew the curtain aside to reveal a beautiful garden. — Он раздвинул шторы, и мы увидели прекрасный сад./Он раздвинул шторы, и нашему взору открылся прекрасный сад. He still didn't reveal what he had felt about me. — Он все еще никак не проявлял своих чувств ко мне. The slant of her eyes and the line of her lips revealed her contempt. — Прищур ее глаз и поджатые губы обнаруживали ее презрение./Прищур ее глаз и поджатые губы говорили о ее презрении. His gaiety had revealed itself as fear of solitude. — За его наигранной веселостью скрывался страх одиночества./За его неестественной веселостью скрывался страх одиночества. They were not ready to reveal the details of their arrest. — Они были не готовы открыть подробности их ареста. A Sunday paper had once revealed that he'd wanted to marry his cousin. — Одна из воскресных газет как-то раз предала гласности факты, говорящие о том, что он намеревался жениться на своей кузине./Одна из воскресных газет однажды раскрыла факты, говорящие о том, что он хотел жениться на своей кузине. Howard now revealed a certain talent for fixing things. — Говард вдруг обнаружил способности улаживать конфликты. It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face. — Я впервые увидел, как на его лице отразились хоть какие-то чувства. A slight trembling of his hand revealed his growing excitement. — Легкое дрожание рук выдавало его растущее возбуждение./Легкое дрожание рук обнаруживало его растущее возбуждение./Его растущее возбуждение проявлялось в дрожании рук. Не revealed an unexpected talent for dancing while on vacation in Spain. — Когда он проводил каникулы в Испании, он неожиданно обнаружил способности к танцам. The screen fell back with a crash and revealed a yawing opening in the wall. — Ширма с грохотом упала, и в стене открылось зияющее отверстие.
    6. to disclose — открывать, раскрывать, предавать гласности ( употребляется в прямом и переносном смысле): Не attempted to disclose that the truth was systematically blocked. — Он попытался открыть тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали./Он сделал попытку раскрыть тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали./Он сделал попытку придать гласности тот факт, что правду систематически скрывали. The curtain rose and disclosed a beautiful landscape. — Занавес поднялся, и глазам открылся прекрасный пейзаж./Занавес раскрылся, и глазам представился прекрасный пейзаж.
    7. to discover — открывать, открыть, раскрывать, обнаруживать, обнаружить, узнать, найти (выявить то, что было неизвестно; сделать открытым до сих пор никому неизвестное): to discover a new star — открыть новую звезду; to discover the truth — обнаружить истину; to discover a plot — раскрыть заговор The two men decided to discover the truth for themselves. — Эти двое решили сами узнать правду./Эти двое решили сами обнаружить правду. Не became very friendly when he discovered that she was my sister. — Он стал весьма дружелюбным, когда узнал, что она моя сестра. Checks are made to discover whether applicants have a criminal record. — Проверки проводятся для того, чтобы обнаружить, нет ли за претендентами криминального прошлого./Провсрки проводятся для того, чтобы выявить, нет ли у претендентов криминального прошлого. I have only recently discovered the benefits of meditation. — Я только недавно постиг все прелести медитации./Я только недавно понял всю пользу медитации. The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930. — Планета Плутон была открыта в 1930 году. The scientists discovered radioactivity in uranium salt. — Учеными была обнаружена радиоактивность в урановых солях. Did you discover what company he worked for? — Вы обнаружили, на какую компанию он работал?/Вы узнали, на какую компанию он работал? She has never been able to discover her father's true identity. — Она так и не смогла узнать, кем на самом деле был ее отец. New organizations need to discoverthe most efficient ways of operating. — Новым организациям надо выяснить наиболее эффективные методы работы. When she discovered she had been taken on, she was really pleased. — Когда она узнала, что ее приняли на работу, она была очень довольна/Когда она выяснила, что ее приняли на работу, она была очень довольна. Has your mother never discovered, why you are out late every night? — Неужели ваша мать не выяснила, куда вы уходите допоздна каждый вечер? Не decided to discover the truth himself. — Он решил разузнать правду сам. New antimalarial drugs have been discovered. — Были открыты новые препараты против малярии. Why not spend a week discovering the beauty of the Caucasus. — Почему бы не провести неделю на Кавказе, открывая для себя его красоты? Police discovered his body yesterday. — Полиция вчера обнаружила его труп. I finally discovered the letter at the back of the drawer. — Я наконец обнаружил это письмо в глубине ящика. Действие глагола to discover сравнимо с тщательным раскапыванием земли в поисках чего-либо, в данном случае каких-либо фактов, новых или неожиданных сведений, что выражено в словосочетаниях, фигурально передающих значение глагола to discover — найти, открывать, обнаруживать: Let me know if you dig up anything about it. — Дай мне знать, если ты что-нибудь об этом раскопаешь. I unearthed some useful facts and figures. — Я раскопал несколько полезных фактов и цифр. The facts only came to light after a long investigation. — Факты увидели свет только после длительного расследования. We left no stone unturned in our search for the truth. — Мы камня на кнмне не оставили в поисках истины./Мы сделали все возможное, чтобы докопаться до истины. The book is a mine/goldmine of information. — Книга прямо кладезь информации. You need to put in a lot of spadework. — Тебе еще предстоит много черновой работы./Тебе еще придется покопаться. It took me a long time to find it, but I finally struck gold/oil. — У меня ушло много времени на поиски, но в конце концов я нашел, что искал./У меня ушло много времени на поиски, но в конце концов мои поиски увенчались успехом. She racked up a lot of scandal. — Она раскопала уйму скандальных фактов.

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    round [raʊnd]
    rond ⇒ 1 (a)-(c), 4 (a) autour (de) ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c), 2 (e), 3 (a) environ ⇒ 2 (g), 6 série ⇒ 4 (c) tournée ⇒ 4 (d), 4 (h) tour ⇒ 4 (f) partie ⇒ 4 (g)
    (a) (circular) rond, circulaire; (spherical) rond, sphérique;
    ∎ to become round s'arrondir;
    ∎ the earth is round la terre est ronde;
    ∎ to have a round face avoir la figure ronde;
    ∎ she looked up, her eyes round with surprise elle leva des yeux écarquillés de surprise;
    ∎ round hand or handwriting écriture f ronde
    (b) (curved → belly, cheeks) rond;
    ∎ to have round shoulders avoir le dos rond ou voûté
    (c) (figures) rond;
    ∎ in round figures en chiffres ronds;
    ∎ that's 500, in round figures ça fait 500 tout rond;
    ∎ a round dozen une douzaine tout rond
    ∎ a round sum une somme rondelette
    (e) literary (candid) net, franc (franche);
    ∎ they gave a round denial ils ont nié tout net
    (f) (rich, sonorous → tone, voice) sonore
    (a) (on all sides of) autour de;
    ∎ sitting round the fire/table assis autour du feu/de la table;
    ∎ the village is built round a green le village est construit autour d'un jardin public;
    ∎ they were all grouped round the teacher ils étaient tous rassemblés autour du professeur;
    ∎ the story centres round one particular family l'histoire est surtout centrée autour d'une famille
    ∎ the pillar is three feet round the base la base du pilier fait trois pieds de circonférence;
    ∎ he's 95 cm round the chest il fait 95 cm de tour de poitrine
    (c) (in the vicinity of, near) autour de;
    ∎ the countryside round Bath is lovely la campagne autour de Bath est très belle;
    ∎ they live somewhere round here ils habitent quelque part par ici
    ∎ the nearest garage is just round the corner le garage le plus proche est juste au coin de la rue;
    ∎ the grocer round the corner l'épicier du coin;
    ∎ she disappeared round the back of the house elle a disparu derrière la maison;
    ∎ the orchard is round the back le verger est derrière;
    ∎ to go round the corner passer le coin, tourner au coin;
    ∎ to go round an obstacle contourner un obstacle;
    ∎ there must be a way round the problem il doit y avoir un moyen de contourner ce problème
    ∎ he put his arm round her shoulders/waist il a passé son bras autour de ses épaules/de sa taille;
    ∎ she wears a scarf round her neck elle porte une écharpe autour du cou;
    ∎ he put a blanket round her legs il lui enveloppa les jambes d'une couverture;
    ∎ the shark swam round the boat le requin faisait des cercles autour du bateau;
    ∎ Drake sailed round the world Drake a fait le tour du monde en bateau;
    ∎ the earth goes or moves round the sun la terre tourne autour du soleil;
    ∎ they were dancing round a fire ils dansaient autour d'un feu
    (f) (all over, everywhere in)
    ∎ all round the world dans le monde entier, partout dans le monde;
    ∎ to travel round the world/country faire le tour du monde/du pays;
    ∎ she looked round the room elle a promené son regard autour de la pièce;
    ∎ to walk round the town faire le tour de la ville (à pied);
    ∎ we went for a stroll round the garden nous avons fait une balade dans le jardin;
    ∎ there's a rumour going round the school une rumeur circule dans l'école
    (g) (approximately) environ, aux environs de;
    ∎ round six o'clock aux environs de ou vers les six heures;
    ∎ round Christmas aux environs de Noël
    ∎ round the clock 24 heures sur 24;
    ∎ we worked round the clock nous avons travaillé 24 heures d'affilée;
    ∎ he slept round the clock il a fait le tour du cadran
    ∎ there's a fence all round il y a une clôture tout autour;
    ∎ there are trees all the way round il y a des arbres tout autour;
    ∎ taking things all round, taken all round à tout prendre, tout compte fait;
    ∎ all round, it was a good result dans l'ensemble, c'était un bon résultat
    ∎ you'll have to go round, the door's locked il faudra faire le tour, la porte est fermée à clé;
    ∎ we drove round to the back nous avons fait le tour (par derrière)
    ∎ turn the wheel right round or all the way round faites faire un tour complet à la roue;
    ∎ the shark swam round in circles le requin tournait en rond;
    ∎ all year round tout au long de ou toute l'année;
    ∎ summer will soon be or come round again l'été reviendra vite
    ∎ turn round and look at me retournez-vous et regardez-moi;
    ∎ she looked round at us elle se retourna pour nous regarder;
    ∎ we'll have to turn the car round on va devoir faire demi-tour;
    ∎ to have one's hat/jumper on the wrong way round avoir son chapeau/son pull à l'envers;
    ∎ to do sth the wrong way round faire qch à l'envers;
    ∎ it's the other way round (quite the opposite) c'est (tout) le contraire;
    ∎ try the key the other way round essaie la clef dans l'autre sens
    ∎ we spent the summer just travelling round on a passé l'été à voyager;
    ∎ can I have a look round? je peux jeter un coup d'œil?
    ∎ hand the sweets round, hand round the sweets faites passer les bonbons;
    ∎ there's a rumour going round il y a une rumeur qui court;
    ∎ there wasn't enough to go round il n'y en avait pas assez pour tout le monde
    ∎ she came round to see me elle est passée me voir;
    ∎ let's invite some friends round et si on invitait des amis?;
    ∎ come round for dinner some time viens dîner un soir;
    ∎ take these cakes round to her house apportez-lui ces gâteaux;
    ∎ he'll be round il passera;
    ∎ to order the car round demander qu'on amène la voiture
    (h) (to a different place, position)
    ∎ she's always moving the furniture round elle passe son temps à changer les meubles de place;
    ∎ try shifting the aerial round a bit essaie de bouger un peu l'antenne
    ∎ we had to take the long way round on a dû faire le grand tour ou un grand détour;
    ∎ she went round by the stream elle fit un détour par le ruisseau
    ∎ the tree is 5 metres round l'arbre fait 5 mètres de circonférence
    4 noun
    (a) (circle) rond m, cercle m
    (b) British (slice → of ham, cheese, bread, toast) tranche f;
    ∎ a round of sandwiches = un sandwich au pain de mie coupé en deux ou en quatre
    (c) (one in a series → of discussions, negotiations) série f; (→ of elections) tour m; (→ of increases) série f, train m;
    ∎ the next round of talks will be held in Moscow les prochains pourparlers auront lieu à Moscou
    (d) (regular route → for delivery) tournée f; (→ of sentry, patrol) ronde f;
    ∎ to do a paper/milk round distribuer les journaux/le lait à domicile;
    ∎ to do a hospital round faire sa visite à l'hôpital, visiter ses malades;
    ∎ to go on or do one's rounds (paperboy, milkman) faire sa tournée; (doctor) faire ses visites; (guard, policeman) faire sa ronde;
    ∎ to go or do or make the rounds (story, rumour, cold) circuler;
    ∎ there are several theories going the rounds at the moment il y a plusieurs théories qui circulent en ce moment;
    ∎ there's a joke/rumour/virus going the rounds in the office il y a une blague/une rumeur/un virus qui circule au bureau;
    ∎ she's doing or making the rounds of literary agents/travel agents elle fait le tour des agents littéraires/des agences de voyages
    ∎ the daily round le train-train quotidien, la routine quotidienne;
    ∎ the daily round of cooking and cleaning les travaux quotidiens de cuisine et de ménage;
    ∎ his life is one long round of parties il passe sa vie à faire la fête
    (f) (stage of competition) tour m, manche f;
    ∎ to be/get through to the next round se qualifier/s'être qualifié pour la manche suivante;
    ∎ she's through to the final round elle participera à la finale
    (g) (of golf, cards) partie f; (in boxing, wrestling) round m, reprise f;
    ∎ Horseriding there were six clear rounds six chevaux avaient fait un sans-faute;
    ∎ Boxing he only went three rounds il n'a fait que trois rounds;
    ∎ to play a round of golf faire une partie de golf;
    ∎ he had the best round of the day c'est lui qui a fait le meilleur parcours ou round
    (h) (of drinks) tournée f;
    ∎ to buy or stand a round of drinks payer une tournée (générale);
    ∎ it's my round c'est ma tournée;
    ∎ let's have another round prenons encore un verre
    (i) (of cheering) salve f
    (j) (of ammunition) cartouche f;
    ∎ how many rounds have we got left? combien de cartouches nous reste-t-il?
    (k) (song) canon m
    ∎ theatre in the round théâtre m en rond
    ∎ sculpture in the round ronde-bosse f
    (a) (lips, vowel) arrondir
    (b) (corner) tourner; Nautical (cape) doubler, franchir
    environ;
    ∎ we need round about 6,000 posters il nous faut environ 6000 affiches;
    ∎ she's round about forty elle a la quarantaine;
    ∎ round about midnight vers minuit
    alentour, des alentours;
    ∎ the villages round about les villages alentour ou des alentours
    ∎ to go round and round tourner;
    ∎ we drove round and round for hours on a tourné en rond pendant des heures;
    ∎ my head was spinning round and round j'avais la tête qui tournait
    ∎ we drove round and round the field on a fait plusieurs tours dans le champ;
    ∎ the helicopter flew round and round the lighthouse l'hélicoptère a tourné plusieurs fois autour du phare
    ►► round of applause des applaudissements mpl;
    ∎ give her a round of applause! on peut l'applaudir!;
    ∎ they got a round of applause ils se sont fait applaudir;
    Architecture round arch arc m en plein cintre;
    Cookery round of beef gîte m à la noix;
    Typography round brackets parenthèses fpl;
    round dance ronde f;
    round figure chiffre m rond;
    ∎ in round figures en chiffres mpl ronds;
    round robin (letter) pétition f (où les signatures sont disposées en rond); esp American (contest) poule f;
    the Round Table la Table ronde;
    round table table f ronde;
    round trip (voyage m) aller et retour m;
    ∎ I did the round trip in six hours j'ai fait l'aller-retour en six heures;
    Anatomy round window fenêtre f ronde
    arrondir au chiffre inférieur;
    ∎ their prices were rounded down to the nearest £10 ils ont arrondi leurs prix aux 10 livres inférieures
    (a) (finish, complete) terminer, clore;
    ∎ he rounded off his meal with a glass of brandy il a terminé son repas par un verre de cognac;
    ∎ to round things off… pour finir…
    (b) (figures → round down) arrondir au chiffre inférieur; (→ round up) arrondir au chiffre supérieur
    attaquer, s'en prendre à
    (complete) compléter; (deepen) approfondir
    prendre des rondeurs
    (a) (cattle, people) rassembler; (criminals) ramasser
    (b) (figures) arrondir au chiffre supérieur

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > round

  • 96 Hancock, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology
    [br]
    b. 8 May 1786 Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
    d. 26 March 1865 Stoke Newington, London, England
    [br]
    English founder of the British rubber industry.
    [br]
    After education at a private school in Marlborough, Hancock spent some time in "mechanical pursuits". He went to London to better himself and c.1819 his interest was aroused in the uses of rubber, which until then had been limited. His first patent, dated 29 April 1820, was for the application of rubber in clothing where some elasticity was useful, such as braces or slip-on boots. He noticed that freshly cut pieces of rubber could be made to adhere by pressure to form larger pieces. To cut up his imported and waste rubber into small pieces, Hancock developed his "masticator". This device consisted of a spiked roller revolving in a hollow cylinder. However, when rubber was fed in to the machine, the product was not the expected shredded rubber, but a homogeneous cylindrical mass of solid rubber, formed by the heat generated by the process and pressure against the outer cylinder. This rubber could then be compacted into blocks or rolled into sheets at his factory in Goswell Road, London; the blocks and sheets could be used to make a variety of useful articles. Meanwhile Hancock entered into partnership with Charles Macintosh in Manchester to manufacture rubberized, waterproof fabrics. Despite these developments, rubber remained an unsatisfactory material, becoming sticky when warmed and losing its elasticity when cold. In 1842 Hancock encountered specimens of vulcanized rubber prepared by Charles Goodyear in America. Hancock worked out for himself that it was made by heating rubber and sulphur, and obtained a patent for the manufacture of the material on 21 November 1843. This patent also included details of a new form of rubber, hardened by heating to a higher temperature, that was later called vulcanite, or ebonite. In 1846 he began making solid rubber tyres for road vehicles. Overall Hancock took out sixteen patents, covering all aspects of the rubber industry; they were a leading factor in the development of the industry from 1820 until their expiry in 1858.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1857, Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchouc or Indiarubber Manufacture in England, London.
    Further Reading
    H.Schurer, 1953, "The macintosh: the paternity of an invention", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 28:77–87.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Hancock, Thomas

  • 97 Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della

    [br]
    b. between 3 October and 15 November 1535 Vico Equense, near Naples, Italy
    d. 4 February 1615 Naples, Italy
    [br]
    Italian natural philosopher who published many scientific books, one of which covered ideas for the use of steam.
    [br]
    Giambattista della Porta spent most of his life in Naples, where some time before 1580 he established the Accademia dei Segreti, which met at his house. In 1611 he was enrolled among the Oziosi in Naples, then the most renowned literary academy. He was examined by the Inquisition, which, although he had become a lay brother of the Jesuits by 1585, banned all further publication of his books between 1592 and 1598.
    His first book, the Magiae Naturalis, which covered the secrets of nature, was published in 1558. He had been collecting material for it since the age of 15 and he saw that science should not merely represent theory and contemplation but must arrive at practical and experimental expression. In this work he described the hardening of files and pieces of armour on quite a large scale, and it included the best sixteenth-century description of heat treatment for hardening steel. In the 1589 edition of this work he covered ways of improving vision at a distance with concave and convex lenses; although he may have constructed a compound microscope, the history of this instrument effectively begins with Galileo. His theoretical and practical work on lenses paved the way for the telescope and he also explored the properties of parabolic mirrors.
    In 1563 he published a treatise on cryptography, De Furtivis Liter arum Notis, which he followed in 1566 with another on memory and mnemonic devices, Arte del Ricordare. In 1584 and 1585 he published treatises on horticulture and agriculture based on careful study and practice; in 1586 he published De Humana Physiognomonia, on human physiognomy, and in 1588 a treatise on the physiognomy of plants. In 1593 he published his De Refractione but, probably because of the ban by the Inquisition, no more were produced until the Spiritali in 1601 and his translation of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1605. In 1608 two new works appeared: a short treatise on military fortifications; and the De Distillatione. There was an important work on meteorology in 1610. In 1601 he described a device similar to Hero's mechanisms which opened temple doors, only Porta used steam pressure instead of air to force the water out of its box or container, up a pipe to where it emptied out into a higher container. Under the lower box there was a small steam boiler heated by a fire. He may also have been the first person to realize that condensed steam would form a vacuum, for there is a description of another piece of apparatus where water is drawn up into a container at the top of a long pipe. The container was first filled with steam so that, when cooled, a vacuum would be formed and water drawn up into it. These are the principles on which Thomas Savery's later steam-engine worked.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1975, Vol. XI, New York: C.Scribner's Sons (contains a full biography).
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (contains an account of his contributions to the early development of the steam-engine).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vol. III, Oxford University Press (contains accounts of some of his other discoveries).
    I.Asimov (ed.), 1982, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 2nd edn., New York: Doubleday.
    G.Sarton, 1957, Six wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance, London: Bodley Head, pp. 85–8.
    RLH / IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della

  • 98 Howden, James

    [br]
    b. 29 February 1832 Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
    d. 21 November 1913 Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and boilermaker, inventor of the forced-draught system for the boiler combustion chamber.
    [br]
    Howden was educated in Prestonpans. While aged only 14 or 15, he travelled across Scotland by canal to Glasgow, where he served an engineering apprenticeship with James Gray \& Co. In 1853 he completed his time and for some months served with the civil engineers Bell and Miller, and then with Robert Griffiths, a designer of screw propellers for ships. In 1854, at the age of 22, Howden set up as a consulting engineer and designer. He designed a rivet-making machine from which he realized a fair sum by the sale of patent rights, this assisting him in converting the design business into a manufacturing one. His first contract for a marine engine came in 1859 for the compound steam engine and the watertube boilers of the Anchor Liner Ailsa Craig. This ship operated at 100 psi (approximately 7 kg/cm2), well above the norm for those days. James Howden \& Co. was formed in 1862. Despite operating in the world's most competitive market, the new company remained prosperous through the flow of inventions in marine propulsion. Shipbuilding was added to the company's list of services, but such work was subcontracted. Work was obtained from all the great shipping companies building in the Glasgow region, and with such throughput Howden's could afford research and experimentation. This led to the Howden hot-air forced-draught system, whereby furnace waste gases were used to heat the air being drawn into the combustion chambers. The first installation was on the New York City, built in 1885 for West Indian service. Howden's fertile mind brought about a fully enclosed high-speed marine steam engine in the 1900s and, shortly after, the Howden-Zoelly impulse steam turbine for land operation. Until his death, Howden worked on many technical and business problems: he was involved in the St Helena Whaling Company, marble quarrying in Greece and in the design of a recoilless gun for the Admiralty.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Howden was the last surviving member of the group who founded the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1857.
    Bibliography
    Howden contributed several papers to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Further Reading
    C.W.Munn, 1986, "James Howden", Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography, Vol. I, Aberdeen.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Howden, James

  • 99 hour

    [auə]
    n

    The clock told the hour of twelve. — Часы показывали двенадцать.

    He worked hard almost to the hour of his death. — Он трудился почти/вплоть до самой смерти.

    He was given an hour's notice. — Его предупредили за час.

    - every hour or two
    - available hour
    - two solid hours
    - additional hour
    - hours
    - last few hours
    - hour's interval
    - hour's time
    - hour hand
    - hour's walk from here
    - quarter of an hour
    - for three long hours
    - over an hour
    - after many hours
    - after an hour's walk
    - at an hour's notice
    - during an hour     - for hours
    - in an hour
    - for some hours
    - for another hour
    - be paid by the hour
    - come an hour later
    - have two hours left
    - have two hours to spare
    - spend two hours in silence
    - two hours ago
    - hour earlier
    - hour later
    - hour after sunrise
    - hour before dinner     - clock strikes the hours and half hours

    What he does after hours is his own business. — Что он делает после работы это его дело.

    We don't keep the lights on out of hours. — Мы не оставляем свет в нерабочее время.

    - rush hours
    - noon hour
    - office hours
    - school hours
    - children's hour
    - non-working hours
    - last hour or two of the day
    - opening hours of the shops
    - out of hours
    - at any hour
    - at such an early hour
    - in smb's sleeping hours
    - in odd hours
    - in the small hours
    - until the early hours of the morning
    - in the early hours of the night
    - in the early hours of the morning
    - in the middle hours of the night
    - at the dead late hours of the night
    - do this work out of hours
    - keep early hours
    - keep good hours
    - get up at all hours
    - work longer hours
    - work after hours
    - apply during office hours
    3) обусловленное время, установленное время, установленный час

    Trains arrive every hour. — Поезда приходят раз в час/каждый час.

    We eat at regular hours. — Мы всегда едим в одно и тоже время.

    Please, call me at the usual hour. — Пожалуйста, зайдите ко мне в обычное время.

    He lay in bed beyond the usual hour. — Он встал позднее обычного времени.

    This was no hour in which to hesitate. — Это было не время для колебаний.

    They eat at all hours. — Они едят, когда придется.

    - evenful hour
    - wasted hour
    - forbidden hours
    - parting hour
    - coming hour     - three hours before dinner
    - two hours after the meeting
    - exact hour of departure
    - hour of curfew
    - need of the hour
    - at the definite hour
    - at the eleventh hour
    - at that particular
    - at other hours
    - at this particular hour
    - at this crucial hour
    - at the hour mentioned
    - at the appointed hour
    - for a brief hour
    - in a good hour
    - tomorrow at this hour
    - in smb's trying hour
    - in a few short hours
    - in off hours
    - through weary hours
    - until this late hour
    - up to this hour
    - within the last hours
    - fight against longer hours
    - fix the hour
    - keep smb hours
    - seize the hour
    - take medicine every hour
    - hour for work
    4) часы, период, время

    The book may help to pass an hour or so. — Книга поможет скоротать часок.

    After his hour of glory he was soon forgotten. — После краткого периода славы его быстро забыли.

    - matter of hours
    - happiest hours of my life
    - at that happy hour
    - in one's idle hours
    - during the sleepless hours of night
    - in the hour of danger
    - in the hour of need
    - count hours
    - pass an emotional hour
    - read hour after hour
    - spend hours doing the same thing
    - hours fly
    5) занятие, урок

    There was an hour called Nature Study (Free Activity). — Был урок, который назывался природоведение (свободная деятельность).

    He was paid two shillings an hour. — Ему платили два шиллинга в час.

    An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. — ◊ Утро вечера мудренее.

    An hour today is worth two tomorrow. — ◊ Лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе

    - dancing hour
    - hour examination paper
    - number of hours a week
    - require 145 credit hours for graduation

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > hour

  • 100 straight

    straight [streɪt]
    ligne droite ⇒ 1 (a) droit ⇒ 2 (a)-(c), 2 (g), 3 (a)-(c) raide ⇒ 2 (a) honnête ⇒ 2 (c) franc ⇒ 2 (c) clair ⇒ 2 (d) en ordre ⇒ 2 (e) quitte ⇒ 2 (f) pur ⇒ 2 (h) consécutif ⇒ 2 (i) directement ⇒ 3 (c), 3 (d) franchement ⇒ 3 (e)
    1 noun
    (a) (on racetrack, railway track) ligne f droite;
    ∎ the final or home straight la dernière ligne droite;
    ∎ figurative we're on the home straight now nous sommes dans la dernière ligne droite;
    ∎ to keep to the straight and narrow rester dans le droit chemin
    ∎ to be out of straight être de biais ou de travers;
    ∎ to cut a material on the straight couper une étoffe de droit fil
    (c) (in poker) quinte f
    (e) familiar (conventional person) personne f conventionnelle ou sérieuse□ ;
    ∎ don't be such a straight! sois pas si sérieux!
    (f) familiar drugs slang (cigarette) clope f (par opposition à une cigarette de haschisch)
    (a) (not curved → line, road, nose) droit; (→ hair) raide;
    ∎ Mathematics a straight line une (ligne) droite;
    ∎ in a straight line en ligne droite;
    ∎ to have a straight back avoir le dos bien droit, se tenir bien droit;
    ∎ keep your back straight tiens-toi droit, redresse-toi;
    ∎ figurative to play with or to keep a straight bat se conduire honorablement
    (b) (level, upright) droit;
    ∎ the picture isn't straight le tableau n'est pas droit ou est de travers;
    ∎ is my tie straight? est-ce que ma cravate est droite?;
    ∎ to put or to set straight (picture) remettre d'aplomb, redresser; (hat, tie) ajuster;
    ∎ hold or keep the tray straight tenez le plateau bien droit
    (c) (honest → person) honnête, droit; (frank → person, answer) franc (franche);
    ∎ straight as a die d'une droiture ou honnêteté absolue;
    ∎ he's always been straight in his dealings with me il a toujours été honnête avec moi;
    ∎ to be straight with sb être franc avec qn;
    ∎ are you being straight with me? est-ce que tu joues franc jeu avec moi?;
    ∎ to play a straight game jouer franc jeu;
    ∎ to give sb a straight answer répondre franchement à qn;
    ∎ to have a straight talk about sth parler franchement de qch;
    ∎ to do some straight talking parler franchement;
    ∎ at the meeting he did some straight talking il n'a pas mâché ses mots à la réunion;
    ∎ it's time we did some straight talking il faut qu'on parle, tous les deux;
    ∎ American familiar a straight shooter une personne franche□ ;
    ∎ American familiar a straight arrow (man) un brave type; (woman) une brave femme;
    ∎ he's a straight arrow (person of integrity) on peut compter sur lui□ ; (too conventional) il est un peu coincé
    (d) (correct, clear) clair;
    ∎ to put or to set the record straight mettre les choses au clair;
    ∎ just to set the record straight pour que ce soit bien clair;
    ∎ I'd like to get things straight before I leave je voudrais mettre les choses au clair avant de partir;
    ∎ let's get this straight entendons-nous bien là-dessus;
    ∎ let's get this straight, he left at two o'clock? mettons les choses au clair, il est parti à deux heures?;
    ∎ have you put her straight? as-tu mis les choses au point avec elle?;
    ∎ you ought to put her straight about what he's (really) like tu devrais lui dire comment il est vraiment;
    ∎ now just you get this straight! mets-toi bien ceci dans la tête!, qu'on se mette bien d'accord sur ce point!
    (e) (tidy, in order → room, desk, accounts) en ordre;
    ∎ to put or to set straight (room, house) mettre en ordre, mettre de l'ordre dans; (affairs, accounts) mettre de l'ordre dans;
    ∎ put your desk straight rangez votre bureau;
    ∎ put your things straight on the desk mettez un peu d'ordre sur le bureau
    (f) (quits) quitte;
    ∎ here's the £5 I owe you, now we're straight voilà les 5 livres que je te dois, maintenant nous sommes quittes;
    ∎ I need five hundred pounds to get myself straight il me faut cinq cents livres pour me remettre d'aplomb ou me refaire
    (g) (direct) droit, direct;
    ∎ Boxing he hit him a straight left/right il lui a porté un direct du gauche/du droit;
    ∎ American to vote a straight ticket voter pour une liste sans panachage
    (h) (pure, utter) pur;
    ∎ it's just straight prejudice ce sont des préjugés, tout simplement;
    ∎ it's just straight propaganda c'est de la propagande pure et simple
    (i) (consecutive) consécutif, de suite;
    ∎ to have three straight wins gagner trois fois de suite ou d'affilée;
    ∎ Sport to win in three straight sets (in tennis) gagner en trois sets;
    ∎ he won in straight sets (best of three sets) il a gagné en deux sets; (best of five sets) il a gagné en trois sets;
    ∎ we worked for three straight days nous avons travaillé trois jours d'affilée;
    ∎ he got straight As all term il n'a eu que de très bonnes notes tout le semestre;
    ∎ a straight A student un étudiant brillant;
    ∎ a straight flush (in poker) une quinte flush
    (j) (neat → whisky, vodka) sec (sèche)
    (k) (serious) sérieux;
    ∎ to keep a straight face garder son sérieux;
    ∎ it's the first straight role she's played in years c'est son premier rôle sérieux depuis des années
    (l) familiar (conventional) conventionnel□, sérieux□
    ∎ to be straight (not criminal) être rangé des voitures; (not on drugs) être clean
    (o) Cars (cylinders) en ligne;
    ∎ a straight eight engine un moteur huit cylindres en ligne
    ∎ this is the straight story of what happened voici comment ça s'est vraiment passé
    (a) (in a straight line) droit, en ligne droite;
    ∎ try and walk straight! essaie de marcher droit!;
    ∎ the rocket shot straight up la fusée est montée à la verticale ou en ligne droite;
    ∎ to shoot straight viser juste;
    ∎ familiar to go straight (criminal) se ranger des voitures
    (b) (upright → walk, sit, stand) (bien) droit;
    ∎ sit up straight! tiens-toi droit ou redresse-toi (sur ta chaise)!
    (c) (directly) (tout) droit, directement;
    ∎ he looked me straight in the face/in the eye il me regarda bien en face/droit dans les yeux;
    ∎ to drink straight from the bottle boire à (même) la bouteille;
    ∎ it's straight across the road c'est juste en face;
    ∎ the car came straight at me la voiture a foncé droit sur moi;
    ∎ the ball went straight through the window la balle est passée par la fenêtre;
    ∎ the knife went straight through my arm le couteau m'a transpercé le bras;
    ∎ we drove straight through Nantes nous avons traversé Nantes sans nous arrêter;
    ∎ to read a book straight through (from beginning to end) lire un livre d'un bout à l'autre; (without stopping) lire un livre d'une traite;
    ∎ he looked straight through me il m'a regardé sans me voir;
    ∎ it went straight to his heart cela lui est allé droit au cœur;
    ∎ straight ahead tout droit;
    ∎ where's the crossroads? - it's straight ahead où se trouve le carrefour? - c'est tout droit devant vous;
    ∎ he looked straight ahead il regarda droit devant lui;
    ∎ straight on tout droit;
    ∎ go straight on till you come to a roundabout continuez tout droit jusqu'à ce que vous arriviez à un rond-point;
    ∎ at the roundabout go straight over au rond-point allez tout droit;
    ∎ familiar to let sb have it straight dire son fait à qn□ ;
    ∎ to come straight out with sth dire qch tout net;
    ∎ she gave it me straight from the shoulder elle me l'a dit sans ambages ou sans prendre de gants
    (d) (without delay) directement;
    ∎ come straight home after the concert! rentre à la maison tout de suite après le concert!;
    ∎ go straight to bed! va tout de suite te coucher!;
    ∎ I'll be straight back je reviens directement;
    ∎ they mostly go straight from school to university pour la plupart, ils passent directement du lycée à l'université;
    ∎ to come straight to the point aller droit au fait;
    ∎ to get straight on with one's work se mettre directement au travail;
    ∎ straight away immédiatement, aussitôt, tout de suite;
    ∎ familiar straight off tout de suite□
    (e) (frankly, honestly) franchement, carrément;
    ∎ I told him straight (out) what I thought of him je lui ai dit franchement ce que je pensais de lui;
    ∎ to play straight jouer franc jeu;
    ∎ familiar I'm giving it to you straight je vous le dis tout net□ ;
    ∎ British familiar straight up? sans blague?;
    ∎ straight up! sans blague!, je t'assure!
    ∎ I can't see straight je ne vois pas bien;
    ∎ I can't think straight je n'ai pas les idées claires
    (g) (neat, unmixed)
    ∎ to drink whisky straight boire son whisky sec
    ∎ to play (it) straight Theatre jouer de façon classique; Music suivre la partition
    ►► Theatre straight actor acteur(trice) m,f sérieux-(euse);
    straight four (in rowing) quatre m de pointe sans barreur;
    Theatre straight man (of comedian) faire-valoir m inv;
    Theatre straight part rôle m sérieux;
    American straight razor rasoir m à main;
    straight theatre le théâtre traditionnel;
    American Politics straight ticket liste f non panachée

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