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chairman and managing director

  • 1 director

    adj.
    director, directing.
    m.
    1 director, leader, principal.
    2 superintendent, manager, officer.
    3 conductor, orchestra conductor.
    4 warden.
    5 headmaster, head teacher.
    * * *
    1 directing, managing
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 director, manager
    2 (de colegio - hombre) headmaster; (mujer) headmistress
    5 (de cárcel) governor
    6 (de orquesta) conductor
    \
    director,-ra de cine film director
    director,-ra de escena stage manager
    director espiritual father confessor
    director,-ra gerente managing director
    * * *
    (f. - directora)
    noun
    director, manager, head, headmaster
    * * *
    director, -a
    1.
    ADJ [consejo, junta] governing; [principio] guiding
    2. SM / F
    1) (=responsable) [de centro escolar] headteacher, headmaster/headmistress, principal; [de periódico, revista] editor; (Cine, TV) director; [de orquesta] conductor; [de hospital] manager, administrator; [de prisión] governor, warden (EEUU)

    director(a) artístico/a — artistic director

    director(a) de departamento — (Univ) head of department

    director(a) de funeraria — undertaker, funeral director, mortician (EEUU)

    director(a) de interiores — (TV) studio director

    director(a) de tesis — thesis supervisor, research supervisor

    2) (Com) (=gerente) manager; [de mayor responsabilidad] director

    director(a) adjunto/a — assistant manager

    director(a) ejecutivo/a — executive director, managing director

    director(a) técnico/a — technical manager

    3.
    SM
    (Rel)
    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino
    a) ( de escuela) (m) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmaster (BrE); (f) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmistress (BrE); (de periódico, revista) editor (in chief); ( de hospital) administrator; ( de prisión) warden (AmE), governor (BrE)
    b) (Com) ( gerente) manager; ( miembro de junta directiva) director, executive
    c) (Cin, Teatr) director
    * * *
    = chairman [chairmen, pl.], chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.], chief, chief librarian, director, head, manager [manageress, -fem.], headmaster, office manager, business manager, chair.
    Ex. As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.
    Ex. Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    Ex. He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex. The chief librarian or director of libraries, by which title the post is sometimes now known, will in general be fully occupied with making decisions on internal professional policy, committee work, and administration and management in the widest sense.
    Ex. Hugh C, Atkinson, director of the University of Illinois Libraries, has consistently been in the forefront in applying automation to traditional library problems and services.
    Ex. She began her career at Central Missouri State University where she was head of the Documents Depository.
    Ex. Such hosts are more likely to be accessed by end-users such as economists and managers, than information workers.
    Ex. The author played a large part in the successful establishment of the school library when her husband became headmaster = La autora desempeñó un gran papel en la creación de la biblioteca escolar cuando su esposo fue nombrado director.
    Ex. This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
    Ex. Watman wondered how the profession would react to the idea of a business manager instead of assistant.
    Ex. Once elected, the chair is responsible for maintaining discipline and ensuring that all students are treated fairly.
    ----
    * cargo de director = directorship.
    * cartas al director = letter to the editor.
    * Conferencia de Directores de Bibliotecas Nacionales (CDNL) = Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).
    * directora conjunta = co-chairperson.
    * director adjunto = assistant director, deputy director, joint director.
    * director artístico = art director.
    * director cinematográfico = film director.
    * director comercial = marketing executive, chief commercial officer.
    * director conjunto = co-chairperson.
    * director de biblioteca = library director.
    * director de cine = film director.
    * director de curso = course leader.
    * director de departamento = department head.
    * director de empresa = company director.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * director de filial = branch head.
    * director de finanzas = finance director.
    * director de funeraria = funeral director, undertaker, mortician.
    * director de la biblioteca = head librarian.
    * director de marketing = marketing executive.
    * director de museo = curator.
    * director de operaciones = chief operating officer (COO), director for operations.
    * director de orquesta = conductor.
    * director de periódico = newspaper editor.
    * director de pompas fúnebres = undertaker, funeral director, mortician.
    * director de prisión = prison warden.
    * director de tesis = PhD supervisor, dissertation adviser, dissertation supervisor, thesis supervisor, thesis adviser, research supervisor.
    * director ejecutivo = executive director, executive officer, chief executive officer (CEO), managing director, chief executive.
    * director ejecutivo de la gestión del conocimiento = knowledge executive.
    * director, el = principal.
    * director financiero = finance director, chief financial officer.
    * director general = executive director, Director-General, executive officer, chief executive officer (CEO), chief executive, senior director.
    * director principal = senior director.
    * partichela de piano director, violín director, etc = piano/violin, etc. conductor part.
    * subdirector = assistant director.
    * * *
    - tora masculino, femenino
    a) ( de escuela) (m) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmaster (BrE); (f) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmistress (BrE); (de periódico, revista) editor (in chief); ( de hospital) administrator; ( de prisión) warden (AmE), governor (BrE)
    b) (Com) ( gerente) manager; ( miembro de junta directiva) director, executive
    c) (Cin, Teatr) director
    * * *
    el director

    Ex: Anthony read the handwritten note he found in his mailbox from the principal of the high school at which he had been employed as head of the school media program for one month.

    = chairman [chairmen, pl.], chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.], chief, chief librarian, director, head, manager [manageress, -fem.], headmaster, office manager, business manager, chair.

    Ex: As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.

    Ex: Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    Ex: He subsequently served as chief of that Division, chief of the Serial Record Division, Assistant Director for Cataloging of the Processing Department, Director of the Processing Department, and Assistant Librarian of Processing Services.
    Ex: The chief librarian or director of libraries, by which title the post is sometimes now known, will in general be fully occupied with making decisions on internal professional policy, committee work, and administration and management in the widest sense.
    Ex: Hugh C, Atkinson, director of the University of Illinois Libraries, has consistently been in the forefront in applying automation to traditional library problems and services.
    Ex: She began her career at Central Missouri State University where she was head of the Documents Depository.
    Ex: Such hosts are more likely to be accessed by end-users such as economists and managers, than information workers.
    Ex: The author played a large part in the successful establishment of the school library when her husband became headmaster = La autora desempeñó un gran papel en la creación de la biblioteca escolar cuando su esposo fue nombrado director.
    Ex: This department is headed by a general office manager who has a staff of bookkeepers, billing clerks, comptrollers, and secretaries.
    Ex: Watman wondered how the profession would react to the idea of a business manager instead of assistant.
    Ex: Once elected, the chair is responsible for maintaining discipline and ensuring that all students are treated fairly.
    * cargo de director = directorship.
    * cartas al director = letter to the editor.
    * Conferencia de Directores de Bibliotecas Nacionales (CDNL) = Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL).
    * directora conjunta = co-chairperson.
    * director adjunto = assistant director, deputy director, joint director.
    * director artístico = art director.
    * director cinematográfico = film director.
    * director comercial = marketing executive, chief commercial officer.
    * director conjunto = co-chairperson.
    * director de biblioteca = library director.
    * director de cine = film director.
    * director de curso = course leader.
    * director de departamento = department head.
    * director de empresa = company director.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * director de filial = branch head.
    * director de finanzas = finance director.
    * director de funeraria = funeral director, undertaker, mortician.
    * director de la biblioteca = head librarian.
    * director de marketing = marketing executive.
    * director de museo = curator.
    * director de operaciones = chief operating officer (COO), director for operations.
    * director de orquesta = conductor.
    * director de periódico = newspaper editor.
    * director de pompas fúnebres = undertaker, funeral director, mortician.
    * director de prisión = prison warden.
    * director de tesis = PhD supervisor, dissertation adviser, dissertation supervisor, thesis supervisor, thesis adviser, research supervisor.
    * director ejecutivo = executive director, executive officer, chief executive officer (CEO), managing director, chief executive.
    * director ejecutivo de la gestión del conocimiento = knowledge executive.
    * director, el = principal.
    * director financiero = finance director, chief financial officer.
    * director general = executive director, Director-General, executive officer, chief executive officer (CEO), chief executive, senior director.
    * director principal = senior director.
    * partichela de piano director, violín director, etc = piano/violin, etc. conductor part.
    * subdirector = assistant director.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    1 (de una escuela) ( masculine) head teacher, principal ( AmE), headmaster ( BrE); ( feminine) head teacher, principal ( AmE), headmistress ( BrE); (de un periódico, una revista) editor, editor in chief; (de un hospital) administrator; (de una prisión) warden ( AmE), governor ( BrE)
    2 ( Com) (gerente) manager; (miembro de la junta directiva) director, executive
    3 ( Cin, Teatr) director
    Compuestos:
    ● director adjunto, directora adjunta
    masculine, feminine deputy director
    ● director/directora de división
    masculine, feminine divisional director
    ● director/directora de escena
    masculine, feminine stage manager
    ● director/directora de orquesta
    masculine, feminine conductor
    ● director/directora de ventas
    masculine, feminine sales manager o director
    ● director ejecutivo, directora ejecutiva
    masculine, feminine executive director
    masculine father confessor
    ● director/directora general
    masculine, feminine (de una empresa) general manager; (de un organismo oficial) director-general
    ● director/directora gerente
    masculine, feminine managing director
    ● director técnico, directora técnica
    masculine, feminine ( AmL) head coach ( AmE), manager ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    director
    ◊ - tora sustantivo masculino, femenino

    a) ( de escuela) (m) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmaster (BrE);

    (f) head teacher, principal (AmE), headmistress (BrE);
    (de periódico, revista) editor (in chief);
    ( de hospital) administrator;
    ( de prisión) warden (AmE), governor (BrE)
    b) (Com) ( gerente) manager;

    ( miembro de junta directiva) director, executive;

    c) (Cin, Teatr) director;


    director,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 director
    (de un colegio) head teacher, US principal
    (de un periódico) editor
    2 (de una película, musical) director
    (de orquesta) conductor
    ' director' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    achuchar
    - cineasta
    - consejera
    - consejero
    - definitivamente
    - desear
    - dirección
    - directiva
    - directivo
    - directora
    - dtor
    - entrante
    - fiscal
    - galerista
    - general
    - proyecto
    - realizador
    - realizadora
    - sazón
    - script
    - subdirector
    - subdirectora
    - adjunto
    - interino
    - jefe
    - llegar
    - secretario
    - señor
    English:
    advertise
    - climax
    - conductor
    - deputy
    - director
    - dismiss
    - distrust
    - film
    - film maker
    - governor
    - head
    - headmaster
    - hook
    - manager
    - managing
    - MD
    - meeting
    - mgr
    - Postmaster General
    - president
    - principal
    - producer
    - put through
    - showman
    - stage director
    - stage manager
    - superintendent
    - act
    - ask
    - coach
    - controller
    - editor
    - editorial
    - elevate
    - funeral
    - instigation
    - managing director
    - mortician
    - movie
    - stage
    - take
    - warden
    * * *
    director, -ora nm,f
    1. [de empresa] director;
    [de hotel, hospital, banco] manager, f manageress; [de periódico] editor; [de colegio] Br headmaster, f headmistress, US principal; [de cárcel] Br governor, US warden director adjunto associate o deputy director;
    director comercial marketing manager;
    director ejecutivo executive director;
    director espiritual spiritual director;
    director financiero finance o financial director, US chief financial officer;
    director en funciones acting manager;
    director general general manager;
    director gerente managing director, chief executive, esp US chief executive officer;
    director de recursos humanos human resources manager;
    director técnico [en fútbol] director of football;
    director de tesis supervisor;
    director de ventas sales director o manager
    2. [de obra artística] director
    director artístico artistic director;
    director de cine movie o Br film director;
    director de circo ringmaster;
    director de escena producer, stage manager;
    director de fotografía director of photography;
    director musical musical director;
    * * *
    I adj leading
    II m, directora f
    1 de empresa manager
    2 EDU principal, Br
    head (teacher)
    3 TEA, de película director
    * * *
    1) : director, manager, head
    2) : conductor (of an orchestra)
    * * *
    1. (de cine) director
    2. (de empresa, banco) manager
    3. (de colegio) head / headteacher
    4. (de periódico) editor

    Spanish-English dictionary > director

  • 2 président-directeur général

    chairman and managing director (UK), president and chief executive officer (US)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > président-directeur général

  • 3 PDG

    PDG [pedeʒe]
    invariable masculine noun
    ( = président-directeur général) chairman and managing director (Brit), chief executive officer (US)
    * * *
    pedeʒe
    nom masculin (abbr = président-directeur général) chairman and managing director GB, chief executive officer, CEO
    * * *
    pedeʒe abr nmf
    président directeur général CEO, (chief executive officer) managing director
    * * *
    PDG nm (abbr = président-directeur général) chairman and managing director GB, chief executive officer, CEO US.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > PDG

  • 4 président

    président [pʀezidɑ̃]
    1. masculine noun
    • Monsieur/Madame le président Mr/Madam President
       b. [de comité, réunion, conseil d'administration, commission, jury d'examen] chairman ; [de club, société savante, firme] president ; [d'université] vice-chancellor (Brit), president (US)
       c. (Law) [de tribunal] presiding judge ; [de jury] foreman
    * * *
    pʀezidɑ̃
    nom masculin (d'État, association, de club, syndicat) president; (d'entreprise, de conseil d'administration, parti, commission, jury) chairman, chairperson; ( d'université) vice-chancellor GB, president US

    Monsieur le Président — Politique Mr President; ( d'une entreprise) Mr Chairman; Droit Your Honour [BrE]

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    pʀezidɑ̃ nm
    See:
    1) POLITIQUE president
    2) [assemblée] chairman
    3) COMMERCE chairman
    4) [examen] chief examiner
    * * *
    président ⇒ Les titres de politesse nm (d'État, association, de club, syndicat) president; (d'entreprise, de conseil d'administration) chairman; (de parti, commission) chairperson; ( de jury d'examen ou de prix) chairman; ( d'université) vice-chancellor GB, president US; ‘Ducostar, président!’ Pol ‘Ducostar for president!’; Monsieur le Président Pol Mr President; Entr Mr Chairman; Jur Your HonourGB; Madame le Président fml Pol Madam President; Entr Madam Chairman; Jur Your HonourGB.
    président de l'Assemblée nationale Pol President of the National Assembly; président du Conseil Hist head of government (during the third and fourth Republics in France); président du Parlement européen President of the European Parliament; président de la République President of the Republic; président de séance ( à une réunion) chair, chairperson; président du Sénat Pol President of the Senate.
    ⓘ Président de la République The president is the head of state and is elected for a term of 5 years. In the terms of the constitution of the Cinquième République, the president plays a strong executive role in the governing of the country.
    [prezidɑ̃] nom masculin
    5. UNIVERSITÉ principal, vice-chancellor (UK), president (US)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > président

  • 5 président-directeur

    pl présidents-directeurs pʀezidɑ̃diʀɛktœʀ nom masculin
    * * *
    président-directeur, pl présidents-directeurs nm président-directeur général chairman and managing director GB, chief executive officer US.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > président-directeur

  • 6 P-DG

    chairman and managing director (UK), Chief Executive Officer (US), ≃ MD (UK), ≃ CEO (US)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > P-DG

  • 7 Brown, Wilfred

    (1908–85) Gen Mgt
    British business executive. Chairman and managing director of the Glacier Metal Company who introduced works councils as an attempt at industrial democracy. During Brown’s leadership, the Glacier Metal Company was used as the basis for the Glacier studies, carried out by Elliot Jaques of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations.

    The ultimate business dictionary > Brown, Wilfred

  • 8 Vorstandsvorsitzende

    Vorstandsvorsitzende m(f) MGT chairman [chairperson] of the board of management, chairman [chairperson] of the executive board, chairwoman [chairperson] of the executive board, chairman [chairperson] of the management board, chairwoman [chairperson] of the management board (Aufsichtsratssystem, two-tier system); (AE) chairperson and chief executive, (BE) chairperson and managing director (eines Unternehmens); president, chairperson of the executive committee, chief executive (Geschäftsleitung innerhalb des Board of Directors, single-tier system)
    * * *
    m/f 1. < Mgmnt> eines Unternehmens chairman of the executive board, chairwoman of the executive board, chairman of the management board, chairwoman of the management board, chairperson and chief executive (AE), chairperson and managing director (BE), Geschäftsleitung president, chairperson of the executive committee, chief executive; 2. < Person> chairman of the executive board, chairwoman of the executive board, chairman of the management board, chairwoman of the management board, chairperson and chief executive (AE), chairperson and managing director (BE), Geschäftsleitung president, chairperson of the executive committee, chief executive

    Business german-english dictionary > Vorstandsvorsitzende

  • 9 président directeur général

    (présidente directrice générale)
    nm/f
    chairman (chairwoman) and managing director Grande-Bretagne chairman (chairwoman) and president USA

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > président directeur général

  • 10 Vorsitzende des Vorstands

    Vorsitzende m(f) des Vorstands PERS chairman of the executive board, chairperson of the executive board, chairman of the management board, chairperson of the management board, (BE) managing director, MD, chairman [chairperson] of the board of management, chairman [chairperson] of the board of managing directors, chairman [chairperson] of the executive board (Aufsichtsratssystem, two-tier system); chairman [chairperson] of the executive committee, (BE) managing director, (AE) chief executive, chief executive officer, CEO (im einstufigen Board-Führungsmodell sind Rechtsstellung, Funktionen und Verantwortungsbereiche nicht deckungsgleich mit denen im deutschen zweistufigen Aufsichtsratsmodell; status, functions and responsibilities in the single-tier board system don’t match those of the German two-tier management system)

    Business german-english dictionary > Vorsitzende des Vorstands

  • 11 Izod, Edwin Gilbert

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 17 July 1876 Portsmouth, England
    d. 2 October 1946 England
    [br]
    English engineer who devised the notched-bar impact test named after him.
    [br]
    After a general education at Vickery's School at Southsea, Izod (who pronounced his name Izzod, not Izod) started his career as a premium apprentice at the works of Maudslay, Sons and Field at Lambeth in January 1893. When in 1995 he was engaged in the installation of machinery in HMS Renown at Pembroke, he gained some notoriety for his temerity in ordering Rear Admiral J.A.Fisher, who had no pass, out of the main engine room. He subsequently worked at Portsmouth Dockyard where the battleships Caesar and Gladiator were being engined by Maudslay's. From 1898 to 1900 Izod worked as a Demonstrator in the laboratories of University College London, and he was then engaged by Captain H. Riall Sankey as his Personal Assistant at the Rugby works of Willans and Robinson. Soon after going to Rugby, Izod was asked by Sankey to examine a failed gun barrel and try to ascertain why it burst in testing. Conventional mechanical testing did not reveal any significant differences in the properties of good and bad material. Izod found, however, that, when specimens from the burst barrel were notched, gripped in a vice, and then struck with a hammer they broke in a brittle manner, whereas sounder material merely bent plastically. From these findings his well-known notched-bar impact test emerged. His address to the British Association in September 1903 described the test and his testing machine, and was subsequently published in Engineering. Izod never claimed any priority for this method of test, and generously acknowledged his predecessors in this field, Swedenborg, Fremont, Arnold and Bent Russell. The Izod Test was rapidly adopted by the English-speaking world, although Izod himself, being a busy man, did little to publicize his work, which was introduced to the engineering world largely through the efforts of Captain Sankey. Izod became Assistant Managing Director at Willans, and in 1910 was appointed Chief Consulting Mechanical and Electrical Engineer to the Central Mining Corporation at Johannesburg. He became Managing Director of the Rand Mines in 1918, and returned to the UK in 1927 to become the Managing Director of Weymann Motor Bodies Ltd of Addlestone. As Chairman of this company he extended its activitiesconsiderably.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    MBE. Member of the Iron and Steel Institute.
    Further Reading
    1903, "Testing brittleness of steel", Engineering (25 September): 431–2.
    ASD

    Biographical history of technology > Izod, Edwin Gilbert

  • 12 Talbot, Benjamin

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 19 September 1864 Wellington, Shropshire, England
    d. 16 December 1947 Solberge Hall, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    Talbot, William Henry Fox English steelmaker and businessman who introduced a technique for producing steel "continuously" in large tilting basic-lined open-hearth furnaces.
    [br]
    After spending some years at his father's Castle Ironworks and at Ebbw Vale Works, Talbot travelled to the USA in 1890 to become Superintendent of the Southern Iron and Steel Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he initiated basic open-hearth steelmaking and a preliminary slag washing to remove silicon. In 1893 he moved to Pennsylvania as Steel Superintendent at the Pencoyd works; there, six years later, he began his "continuous" steelmaking process. Returning to Britain in 1900, Talbot marketed the technique: after ten years it was in successful use in Britain, continental Europe and the USA; it promoted the growth of steel production.
    Meanwhile its originator had joined the Cargo Fleet Iron Company Limited on Teesside, where he was made Managing Director in 1907. Twelve years later he assumed, in addition, the same position in the allied South Durham Steel and Iron Company Limited. While remaining Managing Director, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of both companies in 1925, and Chairman in 1940. The companies he controlled survived the depressed 1920s and 1930s and were significant contributors to British steel output, with a capacity of more than half a million tonnes per year.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Iron and Steel Institute 1928, and (British) National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers. Iron and Steel Institute (London) Bessemer Gold Medal 1908. Franklin Institute (Philadelphia), Elliott Cresson Gold Medal, and John Scott Medal 1908.
    Bibliography
    1900, "The open-hearth continuous steel process", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 57 (1):33–61.
    1903, "The development of the continuous open-hearth process", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 63(1):57–73.
    1905, "Segregation in steel ingots", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 68(2):204–23. 1913, "The production of sound steel by lateral compression of the ingot whilst its centre is liquid", Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute 87(1):30–55.
    Further Reading
    G.Boyce, 1986, entry in Dictionary of Business Biography, Vol. V, ed. J.Jeremy, Butterworth.
    W.G.Willis, 1969, South Durham Steel and Iron Co. Ltd, South Durham Steel and Iron Company Ltd (includes a few pages specifically on Talbot, and a portrait photo). J.C.Carr and W.Taplin, 1962, History of the British Steel Industry, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (mentions Talbot's business attitudes).
    JKA

    Biographical history of technology > Talbot, Benjamin

  • 13 directora

    f.
    1 directress, governess.
    2 directrix, a line determining the motion of another line or point in order to produce a definite curve or surface. (Geometry)
    3 headmistress.
    * * *
    f., (m. - director)
    * * *
    = chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.], chairwoman [chairwomen, pl.], manageress [manager, -masc.], headmistress.
    Ex. Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.
    Ex. As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.
    Ex. Personality profiles of managers and managereses show little relevant difference.
    Ex. Jill Dalladay, a school headmistress, discussed the role of school librarians in the curriculum.
    * * *
    = chairperson [chairpersons, -pl.], chairwoman [chairwomen, pl.], manageress [manager, -masc.], headmistress.

    Ex: Special thanks to the ISAD Program Planning Committee, in particular its chairperson, for the conceptual organization.

    Ex: As head of a committee, and being recognized as such, it's perfectly all right with me if I'm called the chairman rather than the chairwoman.
    Ex: Personality profiles of managers and managereses show little relevant difference.
    Ex: Jill Dalladay, a school headmistress, discussed the role of school librarians in the curriculum.

    * * *

    director,-ora sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 director
    (de un colegio) head teacher, US principal
    (de un periódico) editor
    2 (de una película, musical) director
    (de orquesta) conductor
    ' directora' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    achuchar
    - dtora
    - témpano
    - señor
    English:
    acting
    - headmistress
    - manageress
    - coach
    - head
    - manager
    - managing director
    * * *
    I adj leading
    II m, directora f
    1 de empresa manager
    2 EDU principal, Br
    head (teacher)
    3 TEA, de película director

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  • 14 Garforth, William Edward

    [br]
    b. 1845 Dukinfield, Cheshire, England
    d. 1 October 1921 Pontefract, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    English colliery manager, pioneer in machine-holing and the safety of mines.
    [br]
    After Menzies conceived his idea of breaking off coal with machines in 1761, many inventors subsequently followed his proposals through into the practice of underground working. More than one century later, Garforth became one of the principal pioneers of machine-holing combined with the longwall method of working in order to reduce production costs and increase the yield of coal. Having been appointed agent to Pope \& Pearson's Collieries, West Yorkshire, in 1879, of which company he later became Managing Director and Chairman, he gathered a great deal of experience with different methods of cutting coal. The first disc machine was exhibited in London as early as 1851, and ten years later a pick machine was invented. In 1893 he introduced an improved type of deep undercutting machine, his "diamond" disc coal-cutter, driven by compressed air, which also became popular on the European continent.
    Besides the considerable economic advantages it created, the use of machinery for mining coal increased the safety of working in hard and thin seams. The improvement of safety in mining technology was always his primary concern, and as a result of his inventions and his many publications he became the leading figure in the British coal mining industry at the beginning of the twentieth century; safety lamps still carry his name. In 1885 he invented a firedamp detector, and following a severe explosion in 1886 he concentrated on coal-dust experiments. From the information he obtained of the effect of stone-dust on a coal-dust explosion he proposed the stone-dust remedy to prevent explosions of coal-dust. As a result of discussions which lasted for decades and after he had been entrusted with the job of conducting the British coal-dust experiments, in 1921 an Act made it compulsory in all mines which were not naturally wet throughout to treat all roads with incombustible dust so as to ensure that the dust always consisted of a mixture containing not more than 50 per cent combustible matter. In 1901 Garforth erected a surface gallery which represented the damaged roadways of a mine and could be filled with noxious fumes to test self-contained breathing apparata. This gallery formed the model from which all the rescue-stations existing nowadays have been developed.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1914. LLD Universities of Birmingham and Leeds 1912. President, Midland Institute 1892–4. President, The Institution of Mining Engineers 1911–14. President, Mining Association of Great Britain 1907–8. Chairman, Standing Committee on Mining, Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Fellow of the Geological Society of London. North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers Greenwell Silver Medal 1907. Royal Society of Arts Fothergill Gold Medal 1910. Medal of the Institution of Mining Engineers 1914.
    Bibliography
    1901–2, "The application of coal-cutting machines to deep mining", Transactions of the Federated Institute of Mining Engineers 23: 312–45.
    1905–6, "A new apparatus for rescue-work in mines", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 31:625–57.
    1902, "British Coal-dust Experiments". Paper communicated to the International Congress on Mining, Metallurgy, Applied Mechanics and Practical Geology, Dusseldorf.
    Further Reading
    Garforth's name is frequently mentioned in connection with coal-holing, but his outstanding achievements in improving safety in mines are only described in W.D.Lloyd, 1921, "Memoir", Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers 62:203–5.
    WK

    Biographical history of technology > Garforth, William Edward

  • 15 Morrison, William Murray

    [br]
    b. 7 October 1873 Birchwood, Inverness-shire, Scotland
    d. 21 May 1948 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish pioneer in the development of the British aluminium industry and Highlands hydroelectric energy.
    [br]
    After studying at the West of Scotland Technical College in Glasgow, in January 1895 Morrison was appointed Engineer to the newly formed British Aluminium Company Limited (BAC); it was with this organization that he spent his entire career. The company secured the patent rights to the Héroult and Bayer processes. It constructed a 200 tonne per year electrolytic plant at Foyers on the shore of Loch Ness, together with an adjacent 5000 kW hydroelectric scheme, and it built an alumina factory at Larne Harbour in north-eastern Ireland. Morrison was soon Manager at Foyers, and he became the company's Joint Technical Adviser. In 1910 he was made General Manager, and later he was appointed Managing Director. Morrison successfully brought about improvements in all parts of the production process; between 1915 and 1930 he increased the size of individual electrolytic cells by a factor of five, from 8,000 to 40,000 amperes. Soon after 1901, BAC built a second works for electrolytic reduction, at Kinlochleven in Argyllshire, where the primary design originated from Morrison. In the 1920s a third plant was erected at Fort William, in the lee of Ben Nevis, with hydroelectric generators providing some 75 MW. Alumina factories were constructed at Burntisland on the Firth of Forth and, in the 1930s, at Newport in Monmouthshire. Rolling mills were developed at Milton in Staffordshire, Warrington, and Falkirk in Stirlingshire, this last coming into use in the 1940s, by which time the company had a primary-metal output of more than 30,000 tonnes a year. Morrison was closely involved in all of these developments. He retired in 1946 as Deputy Chairman of BAC.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Commander of the Order of St Olav of Norway 1933 (BAC had manufacturing interests in Norway). Knighted 1943. Vice-Chairman, British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, Faraday Society, Institute of Metals. Institute of Metals Platinum Medal 1942.
    Bibliography
    1939, "Aluminium and highland water power", Journal of the Institute of Metals 65:17– 36 (seventeenth autumn lecture),
    JKA

    Biographical history of technology > Morrison, William Murray

  • 16 McNeill, Sir James McFadyen

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 19 August 1892 Clydebank, Scotland
    d. 24 July 1964 near Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect, designer of the Cunard North Atlantic Liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
    [br]
    McNeill was born in Clydebank just outside Glasgow, and was to serve that town for most of his life. After education at Clydebank High School and then at Allan Glen's in Glasgow, in 1908 he entered the shipyard of John Brown \& Co. Ltd as an apprentice. He was encouraged to matriculate at the University of Glasgow, where he studied naval architecture under the (then) unique Glasgow system of "sandwich" training, alternately spending six months in the shipyard, followed by winter at the Faculty of Engineering. On graduating in 1915, he joined the Army and by 1918 had risen to the rank of Major in the Royal Field Artillery.
    After the First World War, McNeill returned to the shipyard and in 1928 was appointed Chief Naval Architect. In 1934 he was made a local director of the company. During the difficult period of the 1930s he was in charge of the technical work which led to the design, launching and successful completion of the great liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. Some of the most remarkable ships of the mid-twentieth century were to come from this shipyard, including the last British battleship, HMS Vanguard, and the Royal Yacht Britannia, completed in 1954. From 1948 until 1959, Sir James was Managing Director of the Clydebank part of the company and was Deputy Chairman by the time he retired in 1962. His public service was remarkable and included chairmanship of the Shipbuilding Conference and of the British Ship Research Association, and membership of the Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1954. CBE 1950. FRS 1948. President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1947–9. Honorary Vice-President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Military Cross (First World War).
    Bibliography
    1935, "Launch of the quadruple-screw turbine steamer Queen Mary", Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects 77:1–27 (in this classic paper McNeill displays complete mastery of a difficult subject; it is recorded that prior to launch the estimate for travel of the ship in the River Clyde was 1,194 ft (363.9 m), and the actual amount recorded was 1,196 ft (364.5m)!).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > McNeill, Sir James McFadyen

  • 17 Meek, Marshall

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 22 April 1925 Auchtermuchty, Fife, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and leading twentieth-century exponent of advanced maritime technology.
    [br]
    After early education at Cupar in Fife, Meek commenced training as a naval architect, taking the then popular sandwich apprenticeship of alternate half years at the University of Glasgow (with a Caird Scholarship) and at a shipyard, in his case the Caledon of Dundee. On leaving Dundee he worked for five years with the British Ship Research Association before joining Alfred Holt \& Co., owners of the Blue Funnel Line. During his twenty-five years at Liverpool, he rose to Chief Naval Architect and Director and was responsible for bringing the cargo-liner concept to its ultimate in design. When the company had become Ocean Fleets, it joined with other British shipowners and looked to Meek for the first purpose-built containership fleet in the world. This required new ship designs, massive worldwide investment in port facilities and marketing to win public acceptance of freight containers, thereby revolutionizing dry-cargo shipping. Under the houseflag of OCL (now POCL), this pioneer service set the highest standards of service and safety and continues to operate on almost every ocean.
    In 1979 Meek returned to the shipbuilding industry when he became Head of Technology at British Shipbuilders. Closely involved in contemporary problems of fuel economy and reduced staffing, he held the post for five years before his appointment as Managing Director of the National Maritime Institute. He was deeply involved in the merger with the British Ship Research Association to form British Maritime Technology (BMT), an organization of which he became Deputy Chairman.
    Marshall Meek has held many public offices, and is one of the few to have been President of two of the United Kingdom's maritime institutions. He has contributed over forty papers to learned societies, has acted as Visiting Professor to Strathclyde University and University College London, and serves on advisory committees to the Ministry of Defence, the Department of Transport and Lloyd's Register of Shipping. While in Liverpool he served as a Justice of the Peace.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1989. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 1990. President, Royal Institution of Naval Architects 1990–3; North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders 1984–6. Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) 1986. Royal Institution of Naval Architects Silver Medal (on two occasions).
    Bibliography
    1970, "The first OCL containerships", Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Meek, Marshall

  • 18 исполнительный директор

    5) Business: executive officer, chief operating officer (одно из высших должностных лиц в организации — как правило, второе (после CEO) в иерархии лиц, осуществляющих руководство текущей деятельностью), executive supervisor
    6) Sakhalin energy glossary: general manager (GM)
    7) EBRD: Executive Director (ED, IBRD, IMF) (МБРР, МВФ), inside director
    8) Project management: CxO

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > исполнительный директор

  • 19 Fox, Samson

    [br]
    b. 11 July 1838 Bowling, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England
    d. 24 October 1903 Walsall, Staffordshire, England
    [br]
    English engineer who invented the corrugated boiler furnace.
    [br]
    He was the son of a cloth mill worker in Leeds and at the age of 10 he joined his father at the mill. Showing a mechanical inclination, he was apprenticed to a firm of machine-tool makers, Smith, Beacock and Tannett. There he rose to become Foreman and Traveller, and designed and patented tools for cutting bevelled gears. With his brother and one Refitt, he set up the Silver Cross engineering works for making special machine tools. In 1874 he founded the Leeds Forge Company, acting as Managing Director until 1896 and then as Chairman until shortly before his death.
    It was in 1877 that he patented his most important invention, the corrugated furnace for steam-boilers. These furnaces could withstand much higher pressures than the conventional form, and higher working pressures in marine boilers enabled triple-expansion engines to be installed, greatly improving the performance of steamships, and the outcome was the great ocean-going liners of the twentieth century. The first vessel to be equipped with the corrugated furnace was the Pretoria of 1878. At first the furnaces were made by hammering iron plates using swage blocks under a steam hammer. A plant for rolling corrugated plates was set up at Essen in Germany, and Fox installed a similar mill at his works in Leeds in 1882.
    In 1886 Fox installed a Siemens steelmaking plant and he was notable in the movement for replacing wrought iron with steel. He took out several patents for making pressed-steel underframes for railway wagons. The business prospered and Fox opened a works near Chicago in the USA, where in addition to wagon underframes he manufactured the first American pressed-steel carriages. He later added a works at Pittsburgh.
    Fox was the first in England to use water gas for his metallurgical operations and for lighting, with a saving in cost as it was cheaper than coal gas. He was also a pioneer in the acetylene industry, producing in 1894 the first calcium carbide, from which the gas is made.
    Fox took an active part in public life in and around Leeds, being thrice elected Mayor of Harrogate. As a music lover, he was a benefactor of musicians, contributing no less than £45,000 towards the cost of building the Royal College of Music in London, opened in 1894. In 1897 he sued for libel the author Jerome K.Jerome and the publishers of the Today magazine for accusing him of misusing his great generosity to the College to give a misleading impression of his commercial methods and prosperity. He won the case but was not awarded costs.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society of Arts James Watt Silver Medal and Howard Gold Medal. Légion d'honneur 1889.
    Bibliography
    1877, British Patent nos. 1097 and 2530 (the corrugated furnace or "flue", as it was often called).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1903, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers: 919–21.
    Obituary, 1903, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (the fullest of the many obituary notices).
    G.A.Newby, 1993, "Behind the fire doors: Fox's corrugated furnace 1877 and the high pressure steamship", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 64.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Fox, Samson

  • 20 Lartigue, Charles François Marie-Thérèse

    [br]
    b. 1834 Toulouse, France d. 1907
    [br]
    French engineer and businessman, inventor of the Lartigue monorail.
    [br]
    Lartigue worked as a civil engineer in Algeria and while there invented a simple monorail for industrial or agricultural use. It comprised a single rail carried on trestles; vehicles comprised a single wheel with two tubs suspended either side, like panniers. These were pushed or pulled by hand or, occasionally, hauled by mule. Such lines were used in Algerian esparto-grass plantations.
    In 1882 he patented a monorail system based on this arrangement, with important improvements: traction was to be mechanical; vehicles were to have two or four wheels and to be able to be coupled together; and the trestles were to have, on each side, a light guide rail upon which horizontal rollers beneath the vehicles would bear. Early in 1883 the Lartigue Railway Construction Company was formed in London and two experimental prototype monorails were subsequently demonstrated in public. One, at the Paris Agricultural Exhibition, had an electric locomotive that was built in two parts, one either side of the rail to maintain balance, hauling small wagons. The other prototype, in London, had a small, steam locomotive with two vertical boilers and was designed by Anatole Mallet. By now Lartigue had become associated with F.B. Behr. Behr was Managing Director of the construction company and of the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway Company, which obtained an Act of Parliament in 1886 to built a Lartigue monorail railway in the South West of Ireland between those two places. Its further development and successful operation are described in the article on Behr in this volume.
    A much less successful attempt to establish a Lartigue monorail railway took place in France, in the départment of Loire. In 1888 the council of the département agreed to a proposal put forward by Lartigue for a 10 1/2 mile (17 km) long monorail between the towns of Feurs and Panissières: the agreement was reached on the casting vote of the Chairman, a contact of Lartigue. A concession was granted to successive companies with which Lartigue was closely involved, but construction of the line was attended by muddle, delay and perhaps fraud, although it was completed sufficiently for trial trains to operate. The locomotive had two horizontal boilers, one either side of the track. But the inspectors of the department found deficiencies in the completeness and probable safety of the railway; when they did eventually agree to opening on a limited scale, the company claimed to have insufficient funds to do so unless monies owed by the department were paid. In the end the concession was forfeited and the line dismantled. More successful was an electrically operated Lartigue mineral line built at mines in the eastern Pyrenees.
    It appears to have reused equipment from the electric demonstration line, with modifications, and included gradients as steep as 1 in 12. There was no generating station: descending trains generated the electricity to power ascending ones. This line is said to have operated for at least two years.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1882, French patent no. 149,301 (monorail system). 1882, British patent no. 2,764 (monorail system).
    Further Reading
    D.G.Tucker, 1984, "F.B.Behr's development of the Lartigue monorail", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 55 (describes Lartigue and his work).
    P.H.Chauffort and J.-L.Largier, 1981, "Le monorail de Feurs à Panissières", Chemin defer régionaux et urbains (magazine of the Fédération des Amis des Chemins de Fer
    Secondaires) 164 (in French; describes Lartigue and his work).
    PJGR

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