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cut member

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разрезанный [рассечённый] элемент конструкции ( для целей расчёта)

Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык. С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова. 1995.

Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов > cut member
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Строительство: разрезанный элемент конструкции (для целей расчёта), рассечённый элемент конструкции (для целей расчёта)

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разрезанный [рассечённый] элемент конструкции ( для целей расчёта)

Англо-русский строительный словарь > cut member
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member

n
элемент ( конструкции); деталь; рабочий орган (. element)

members designed for eccentric loading — элементы, рассчитанные на внецентренную нагрузку

member pinned at its ends — элемент с шарнирным опиранием концов

member subjected to bending — изгибаемый элемент

- member of structure
- aluminum load-bearing member
- axial force member
- bent member
- boom member
- bottom chord member
- boundary member
- bow member
- bridge member
- cold-formed steel structural member
- composite member
- compression member
- cross member
- cut member
- fabricated wood members
- flexural member
- fully fixed member
- hybrid flexural member
- light-gauge cold-formed steel structural member
- main member
- main chord members
- multielement member
- plastically designed member
- preassembled member
- precast member
- primary member
- redundant member
- rupture member
- sealed tubular member
- secondary member
- segmental member
- spanning member
- steel framing member
- stiffening member
- stress-bearing structural member
- stressed member
- structural member
- structural member acted upon by forces
- structural member subjected to load
- structural steel member
- supported member
- supporing member
- tension member
- top frame member
- transverse member
- truss members
- tubular member
- unbonded member
- unrestrained member
- unsafe structural member
- unstable structural member
- unstiffened member
- vertical member
- web member

Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык. С.Н.Корчемкина, С.К.Кашкина, С.В.Курбатова. 1995.

Англо-русский словарь строительных терминов > member
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1) строительный элемент, элемент конструкции

2) функциональная единица, часть, звено (машины, механизма)

3) деталь (узла, агрегата)

4) стержень, элемент заполнения решётки

5) рабочий орган

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member in bending — элемент, работающий на изгиб

member in compression — элемент, работающий на сжатие

member in flexure — элемент, работающий на изгиб

member in shear — элемент, работающий на срез

member in tension — элемент, работающий на растяжение

member in torsion — элемент, работающий на кручение

member subject to bending — изгибаемый элемент

- bending member
- bent member - bridge member - compression member - cross member - diagonal element member - diaphragm ball member - double-diaphragm member - filler member - filter member - fluid-jet member - idle member - inertia member - joint member - load-bearing member - measuring member - pneumatic member - preassembled member - resilient member - sealing member - spool member - stiffening member - stream-interacting member - structural member - supported member - three-diaphragm member - throwaway member - tie member - tubular member - vertical web member - web member
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элемент ( конструкции); деталь; рабочий орган (. element)

members designed for eccentric loading — элементы, рассчитанные на внецентренную нагрузку

member pinned at its ends — элемент с шарнирным опиранием концов

member subjected to bending — изгибаемый элемент
- member of structure
- aluminum load-bearing member
- axial force member
- bent member
- boom member
- bottom chord member
- boundary member
- bow member
- bridge member
- cold-formed steel structural member
- composite member
- compression member
- cross member
- cut member
- fabricated wood members
- flexural member
- fully fixed member
- hybrid flexural member
- light-gauge cold-formed steel structural member
- main member
- main chord members
- multielement member
- plastically designed member
- preassembled member
- precast member
- primary member
- redundant member
- rupture member
- sealed tubular member
- secondary member
- segmental member
- spanning member
- steel framing member
- stiffening member
- stress-bearing structural member
- stressed member
- structural member
- structural member acted upon by forces
- structural member subjected to load
- structural steel member
- supported member
- supporing member
- tension member
- top frame member
- transverse member
- truss members
- tubular member
- unbonded member
- unrestrained member
- unsafe structural member
- unstable structural member
- unstiffened member
- vertical member
- web member

Англо-русский строительный словарь > member
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1. n порез; разрез

a cut on the finger — порез пальца

cut set — разрез; сечение

cross cut — поперечный рез

cut test — проба на разрез

shearing cut — ножничный рез

cut down into — сделал разрез

2. n резаная рана

sword cut — резаная рана

3. n резание

cut surface — плоскость резания

starting of cut — начало резания

cut meter — измеритель скорости резания

workpiece under cut — заготовка обрабатываемая резанием

resultant cut surface — поверхность, обработанная резанием

4. n глубина резания

cut command — команда вырезания

shear cut — резание с постепенным врезанием режущей кромки

5. n спец. разрез; пропил; выемка

quantity of cut — объем грунта выемки

repeat cut — программированная разрезка стоп

cut control symbol — метка для контроля разрезки

individual cut — непрограммированная разрезка стоп

automatic sequence cut — программированная разрезка стопы

6. n спец. канал; кювет

7. n спец. насечка

lower cut — первая насечка

coarse cut — грубая насечка

second cut — вторая насечка

smooth cut — мелкая насечка

single cut — простая насечка

8. n спец. сильный удар

the boy got six cuts with a cane — мальчику нанесли шесть ударов тростью

his face had been disfigured by a sabre cut — удар саблей изуродовал его лицо

to give a horse a cut across the flank — хлестнуть лошадь по боку

delayed cut — задержанный удар

replacement cut — повторный удар

9. n спец. отрезанный кусок; вырезка; срез

a cut from the joint — вырезка, филей

bevel cut — косой срез

slant cut — косой срез

angular cut — косой срез

chamfer cut — косой срез

clean cut — чистая резка

10. n спец. настриг

11. n спец. отрез

dead square cut — точный отрез

parallel cut — параллельный рез

manual cut — рез при ручной резке

machine cut — рез при машинной резке

12. n спец. отрезок

13. n спец. очертание, абрис, контур

14. n спец. профиль

15. n спец. покрой

16. n спец. стрижка, фасон стрижки

brush cut — стрижка ёжиком

crew cut — мужская короткая стрижка «ёжик»

poodle cut — короткая женская стрижка «пудель»

17. n спец. сокращение, снижение; уменьшение

a cut in prices — снижение цен

tax cut — сокращение налогов; уменьшение налоговых ставок

defense cut — сокращение расходов на оборону

defence cut — сокращение расходов на оборону

wage cut — снижение заработной платы

cut in salary — снижение жалованья

18. n спец. сокращение; вырезка части текста; купюра

to make cuts in a play — делать купюры в пьесе

drastic cut — резкое сокращение

flame cut — газопламенная резка

cut out — вырезать; делать вырезки

cut to pieces — разрезанный на части

to cut down — отрезать, нарезать на части

19. n спец. путь напрямик, кратчайший путь

to take a short cut — пойти кратчайшим оскорбление, выпад; насмешка; удар

to cut off a corner — срезать угол, пойти напрямик

20. n спец. разг. прекращение знакомства

power cut — прекращение подачи электроэнергии

21. n спец. разг. пропуск

attendance was compulsory, and no cuts were allowed — посещение было обязательным, и никакие пропуски не разрешались

22. n спец. разг. доля

23. n спец. разг. отдельный номер на долгоиграющей пластинке

cut rate — сниженная цена

cut price — заниженная цена

24. n проф. грамзапись

25. n проф. сеанс грамзаписи

26. n проф. гравюра на дереве

we managed to cut him down by ?30 — нам удалось выторговать 30 фунтов

27. n проф. карт. снятие

light cut — снятие тонкой стружки

scraping cut — снятие очень тонкой стружки

28. n проф. кино монтажный кадр

jump cut — очень резкий монтажный переход

cut transition — резкий монтажный переход

hard cut — очень быстрая смена кадров

picture cut — монтажный видеокадр

29. n проф. пролёт моста

стружка

30. n проф. хим. погон, фракция

heavy cut — тяжелая фракция

lube cut — масляная фракция

tarry cut — смолистый погон

petroleum cut — фракция нефти

close cut fraction — узкая фракция

31. n проф. захват

32. n проф. ж. -д. отцеп

33. n проф. горн. выруб

34. n проф. эл. отключение нагрузки

35. n проф. австрал. новозел. отделённая часть стада

cut section — вырезанная часть

36. n проф. австрал. новозел. разг. телесное наказание

37. n спорт. удар мяча на правую сторону поля

flush-trimmed cut — клише без полей

38. n спорт. срезка мяча

a cut and thrust — пикировка, оживлённый спор

guillotine cut — резка на одноножевой бумагорезальной машине

head cut — прямой срез головы

normal cut — нормальный срез

crystal cut — срез кристалла

diagonal cut — косой срез

39. a разрезанный; срезанный; порезанный

cut finger — порезанный палец

cut flowers — срезанные цветы

cut slope — срезанный склон

cut flower — срезанный цветок

cut in strips — разрезать на полосы; разрезанный на полосы

40. a скроенный

41. a шлифованный; гранёный

cut sugar — пилёный сахар

cut glass bottle — флакон из шлифованного стекла

42. a сниженный, уменьшенный

cut prices — сниженные цены

cut down prices — снизить цены

cut expenses — снизить расходы

cut down — выторговать; убедить снизить цену

43. a кастрированный

44. a разг. подвыпивший

45. a сл. разведённый, разбавленный; с примесями, нечистый

straddle cut catch — перемах ноги врозь в упор или в вис

cut and catch — подъем вперед с перемахом ноги врозь в вис

46. v резать, разрезать

to cut glass with a diamond — резать стекло алмазом

cut away — срезать

length of cut — длина реза

cut thread — нарезать резьбу

cut back a loan — урезать заем

to cut off — срезать поворот

47. v нанести резаную рану

I cut my finger — я порезал палец

I cut myself — я порезался

48. v резаться

the butter was frozen hard and did not cut easily — масло сильно замёрзло, и его трудно было резать

49. v срезать, отрезать

to cut flowers — срезать цветы

width of cut — ширина среза

to cut off — отрезать, обрезать

cut off a coupon — отрезать купон

cut off the coupon — отрезать купон

cross section of cut — сечение среза

50. v нарезать

to cut bread — нарезать хлеб

to cut the bread thick — нарезать хлеб толстыми ломтями

to cut to liner — нарезать до наружного слоя картона

to cut up a turkey — нарезать или разрубить индейку

51. v стричь, подстригать

to cut a hedge — подстригать изгородь

52. v сокращать, снижать; уменьшать

to cut prices — снижать цены

cut prices — снижать цены

cut costs — снижать расход

cut time — сокращать время

cut down taxes — снижать налоги

cut down momentum — снижать темп

53. v сокращать путь, брать наперерез

we cut across the field — мы пошли напрямик через поле

cut down military expenditures — сокращать военные расходы

cut by half — сокращать наполовину; сокращенный наполовину

cut a ration — сокращать объем поставок продовольствия

to cut back on the program — сокращать программу

cut down stocks — сокращать размер запасов

54. v сокращать, урезывать; делать купюру

to cut a manuscript — сократить рукопись

cut expenditure — сокращать расход

55. v вырезать

to cut out pictures — вырезать картинки

cut and paste — "вырезать и вставлять"

56. v кроить

to cut a pattern — сделать выкройку

to cut on the bias — кроить по косой линии

57. v ударить; причинить острую боль

he cut the man across the face — он ударил человека по лицу

58. v огорчать, обижать; ранить

what you say cuts me terribly — ваши слова меня ужасно огорчают

59. v пересекать, перекрещивать

the path cuts the meadow diagonally — тропинка пересекает луг по диагонали

60. v перегрызать, прогрызать

61. v разг. удирать, убегать

I must cut — я должен бежать

62. v разг. резко изменить направление, побежать в другую сторону

cut back — вернуться

severe cut — резкое сокращение

63. v разг. переставать, прекращать

cut the noise! — перестаньте шуметь!

cut a loss — прекращать вовремя невыгодное дело

64. v разг. амер. лишать политической поддержки; голосовать против, вычеркнуть кандидатуру

65. v разг. разг. не замечать, не узнавать, игнорировать

I took off my hat to her but he cut me dead — я поклонился ей, но она сделала вид, что не замечает меня

I had to cut out meat — мне пришлось отказаться от мяса

66. v разг. карт. снимать

to cut for deal — снимать колоду для того, чтобы определить, кто должен сдавать

to cut turf — снимать дёрн

67. v разг. делать антраша

to cut eights — делать восьмёрки

68. v разг. жив. выделяться, выступать слишком резко

colours that cut — цвета, которые режут глаз

69. v разг. новозел. разг. кончать, заканчивать, докончить

70. v тех. обрабатывать режущим инструментом, снимать стружку

cut edge — режущая кромка

depth of cut — толщина стружки

rough cut tool — черновой инструмент

71. v тех. полигр. обрезать книжный блок

cut flush — обрезал края книги вместе с обложкой

cut off — обрезать, отрезать, отрубать, отсекать

to cut flush — обрезать края книги вместе с обложкой

72. v тех. сверлить, бурить

73. v тех. стр. тесать, стёсывать

74. v тех. эл. отключать, отсоединять

75. v тех. радио

76. v тех. отстраиваться

77. v тех. переключать с одной программы на другую

подрубать, делать вруб

leg cut — перемах одной ногой

leg over cut — перемах одной ногой

single - leg cut — перемах одной ногой

back cut off — перемах одной ногой назад

leg back cut — перемах одной ногой назад

78. v тех. вет. засекаться

79. n редк. жребий

to draw cuts — тянуть жребий

Синонимический ряд:

1. thin (adj.) dilute; diluted; thin; watered-down; watery; weak

2. abatement (noun) abatement; curtailment; decrease; reduction

3. fashion (noun) fashion; form; garb; kind; mode; sort; stamp; style

4. furrow (noun) ditch; furrow; hollow; trench

5. incision (noun) channel; incision; nip; passage; pierce; rent; stab; trim; wound

6. part (noun) division; member; moiety; parcel; part; piece; portion; section; segment

7. share (noun) allotment; allowance; bite; lot; partage; quota; share

8. slice (noun) gash; slash; slice; slit; split

9. slight (noun) rebuff; slight; snub

10. type (noun) breed; cast; caste; character; class; description; feather; ilk; kidney; manner; mold; mould; nature; order; persuasion; species; stripe; type; variety; way

11. bisect (verb) bisect; cross; divide; intersect

12. carve (verb) carve; cleave; dissect; dissever; sever; split; sunder

13. carved (verb) carved; cleaved or clove/cleaved; dissected; dissevered; severed; sundered

14. clipped (verb) clipped; cropped; lowered; marked down; mowed/mowed or mown; pared; pruned; reduced; shaved/shaved or shaven; sheared/sheared or shorn; trimmed

15. cold-shoulder (verb) cold-shoulder; ostracize; snob; snub

16. cut off (verb) crop; cut off; guillotine; lop; lop off; truncate

17. delete (verb) delete; omit

18. diluted (verb) diluted; thinned; weakened

19. fell (verb) chop; fell; hew; hewed

20. felled (verb) chopped; felled; hewed/hewed or hewn

21. gashed (verb) gashed; incised; pierced; slashed; sliced

22. harvest (verb) harvest; mow; reap

23. hollow out (verb) dig; disembowel; eviscerate; excavate; excise; hollow out

24. insult (verb) hurt; insult; move; slight; touch; wound

25. make (verb) facet; fashion; make; sculpt; whittle

26. operate (verb) open up; operate

27. operated (verb) opened up; operated

28. ostracized (verb) ostracized; snubbed

29. penetrate (verb) claw; gash; incise; lance; penetrate; pierce; score; scratch; slash; slit

30. reduce (verb) cut down; diminish; lessen; lopped; lower; mark down; pare; reduce; shave; shorn

31. sheer (verb) sheer; skew; slue; swerve; veer; yawed

32. shorten (verb) abbreviate; abridge; bob; condense; curtail; cut back; retrench; shorten

33. shortened (verb) abbreviated; abridged; curtailed; retrenched; shortened

34. shun (verb) rebuff; shun; spurn

35. skip (verb) skip

36. slice (verb) chisel; haggle; mangle; rive; slice

37. thin (verb) attenuate; dilute; dissolve; thin; water; water down; weaken

38. trim (verb) clip; prune; shear; skive; snip; trim

Антонимический ряд:

expand; include; increase

English-Russian base dictionary > cut
7 member

1. n член, конечность

the third member of the triangle — третий член треугольника

duties of consortium member — обязанности члена консорциума

to become a member of a family — стать членом семьи

to be member as of right — быть автоматически членом

member in full fellowship — полноправный член Церкви

2. n мужской член

to be a member of a fraternity — быть членом общины

ex officio member — член, входящий по должности

executive member — член исполнительного комитета

nonvoting member — член с совещательным голосом

member clerk — секретарь по учету членов Церкви

3. n тех. элемент конструкции, звено системы; деталь

member type — тип элемента

bridge member — звено моста

data member — элемент данных

class member — элемент класса

frame member — деталь каркаса

4. n геол. колено или бедро складки

member of Christ — добрый христианин

mating member — сопряжённая или парная деталь

Синонимический ряд:

1. appendage (noun) appendage; extremity

2. associate (noun) associate; fellow; participant

3. limb (noun) arm; branch; head; leg; limb; wing

4. part (noun) chapter; component; constituent; cut; district; division; element; moiety; parcel; part; piece; portion; section; segment; subdivision

English-Russian base dictionary > member
8 structural member, 'M' should be cut in two halves and trimmed as required

Общая лексика: элемент конструкции, лМ» необходимо разрезать на две половины и обработать края, как необходимо

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > structural member, 'M' should be cut in two halves and trimmed as required
9 parcel

1. n пакет, свёрток; пачка, связка

brown-paper parcel — свёрток в обёрточной бумаге

a parcel of shares — пакет акций

to make a parcel — сделать пакет

to roll up a parcel — свернуть кулёк

to slap a parcel on the table — швырнуть свёрток на стол

to attach a label to a parcel — прикрепить ярлык к пакету

to fasten up a parcel — завязывать пакет

to tie up a parcel — перевязывать пакет

to slash a parcel open — вскрыть пакет

2. n посылка, бандероль

parcel van — почтовый вагон

United Parcel Service — Объединенная служба доставки посылок

shipment by parcel post — отправление почтовой посылкой

delivery by parcel post — доставка почтовой посылкой

parcel body — кузов для перевозки почтовых посылок

parcel post wrapping — упаковка бандероли

3. n пренебр. группа, кучка

a parcel of scamps — шайка негодяев

4. n куча, масса

a parcel of lies — сплошная ложь

5. n партия товара, мелкая партия груза

parcel receipt — квитанция на мелкую партию груза

parcel ticket — квитанция на мелкую партию груза

6. n участок

parcel limit — предельная цена участка

parcel of land — участок земли

7. n разг. сумма денег

to drop a parcel over a race — проиграть деньги на скачках

8. n уст. часть

9. n мор. парсель

10. v делить на части, дробить

to parcel out the land into 10 divisions — разделить землю на десять участков

part and parcel — неотъемлемая часть

she will call for the parcel — она зайдёт за свёртком

11. v наделять, распределять

to parcel out the land to peasants — распределять землю среди крестьян

parcel out vehicles to units — распределять машины между подразделениями

12. v завёртывать в пакет; делать пакет, свёрток, кулёк

parcel bomb — «бомба в пакете»

heavy parcel — тяжёлый свёрток

to strap a parcel — перевязать пакет

13. v мор. класть клетневину

14. adv уст. частично

parcel blind — полуслепой

Синонимический ряд:

1. bundle (noun) box; bundle; carton; pack; package; packet

2. group (noun) array; batch; battery; body; bunch; clot; clump; cluster; clutch; collection; group; passel; platoon; quantity; set; sort; suite

3. land (noun) acreage; division; land; lot; plat; plot; tract

4. part (noun) cut; member; moiety; part; piece; portion; section; segment; subdivision

5. apportion (verb) apportion; portion; prorate; quota; ration; share

6. deal (verb) allot; deal; deal out; disburse; dispense; distribute; divide; dole out; measure out; mete out

Антонимический ряд:

whole

English-Russian base dictionary > parcel
10 with

wið
preposition

1) (in the company of; beside; among; including: I was walking with my father; Do they enjoy playing with each other?; He used to play football with the Arsenal team; Put this book with the others.) con

2) (by means of; using: Mend it with this glue; Cut it with a knife.) con

3) (used in expressing the idea of filling, covering etc: Fill this jug with milk; He was covered with mud.) de

4) (used in describing conflict: They quarrelled with each other; He fought with my brother.) con

5) (used in descriptions of things: a man with a limp; a girl with long hair; a stick with a handle; Treat this book with care.) con

6) (as the result of: He is shaking with fear.) de

7) (in the care of: Leave your case with the porter.) a

8) (in relation to; in the case of; concerning: Be careful with that!; What's wrong with you?; What shall I do with these books?) con

9) (used in expressing a wish: Down with fascism!; Up with Manchester United!) abajo/arriba el...

with prep

1. con

clean it with bleach límpialo con lejía

a man with big ears un hombre con las orejas grandes

come with me ven conmigo

he won with ease ganó con facilidad

2. de

the balloon filled with air el globo se llenó de aire

he trembled with fear tembló de miedo

with

tr[wɪð, wɪɵ]

preposition

1 (accompanying) con

come with me ven conmigo

do you live with your parents? ¿vives con tus padres?

she went off with a friend se fue con una amiga

mix the flour with the sugar mezclar la harina con el azúcar

I've got an appointment with the bank manager tengo una cita con el director del banco

they leave their child with a babysitter dejan al niño al cuidado de una canguro

have you brought your swimsuit with you? ¿te has traído el bañador?

2 (having, possessing) con, de; (including, and also) con, incluido

the man with the beard el hombre de la barba

the woman with glasses la mujer de las gafas

a room with a view una habitación con vistas

a flat with a terrace un piso con terraza

someone with experience alguien con experiencia

he speaks with an accent habla con acento

with wine it cost 25 euros costó 25 euros, vino incluido

3 (using, by means of) con

cut it with a knife córtalo con un cuchillo

he cleaned it with turps lo limpió con aguarrás

4 (cover, fill, contain) de

you fill it with water lo llenas de agua

the furniture was covered with dust los muebles estaban cubiertos de polvo

5 (agreeing, in support of) con

we're with you all the way! ¡estamos contigo hasta el final!

I agree with Lesley estoy de acuerdo con Lesley

6 (against) con

I've had a row with Daniel he discutido con Daniel

at war with the Serbs en guerra con los serbios

don't argue with your mother! ¡no discutas con tu madre!

7 (because of, on account of) de

trembling with fear temblando de miedo

blue with cold amoratado de frío

he split his sides with laughter se tronchó de risa

with things as they are tal como están las cosas

with my luck I'll come last con la suerte que tengo llegaré el último

8 (indicating manner) con

with pleasure con mucho gusto

with ease con facilidad

with a smile con una sonrisa

9 (in same direction as) con

with the flow con la corriente

10 (at the same time and rate as) con

wine improves with age el vino mejora con los años

11 (regarding, concerning) con

this has nothing to do with you esto no tiene nada que ver contigo

the trouble with Ian is that... lo que pasa con Ian es que...

he's in love with Ellen está enamorado de Ellen

be patient with her sea paciente con ella

is there something wrong with her? ¿le pasa algo?

12 (in the case of, as regards) con respecto a, en cuanto a

with Mrs Smith what happened was that... en el caso de la Señora Smith lo que pasó fue que...

13 (as an employee or client of) en

she's with the council now trabaja en el ayuntamiento ahora

he's been with the company for fifteen years lleva quince años trabajando en esta empresa

who do you bank with? ¿en qué banco tienes una cuenta?

14 (remaining)

with only half an hour to go cuando tan sólo falta media hora

with five laps remaining cuando sólo faltan cinco vueltas para el final de la carrera

15 (despite, in spite of) con

with all his faults con todos sus defectos

16 (in comparisons) con

if we compare this brand with a cheaper one si comparamos esta marca con una más barata

17 (illness) con

he's in bed with flu está en cama con la gripe

18 (according to) según, de acuerdo con

prices vary with the seasons los precios varían según la temporada

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

down with capitalism! ¡abajo el capitalismo!

on with the show! ¡que siga el espectáculo!

to be with somebody (accompany) estar con alguien, acompañar a alguien 2 (understand) seguir a alguien, entender a alguien

with it (fashionable) de moda 2 (alert) al tanto, al día

with that con lo cual

with ['wɪð, 'wɪɵ] prep

1) : con

I'm going with you: voy contigo

coffee with milk: café con leche

2) against: con

to argue with someone: discutir con alguien

3) (used in descriptions) : con, de

the girl with red hair: la muchacha de pelo rojo

4) (indicating manner, means, or cause) : con

to cut with a knife: cortar con un cuchillo

fix it with tape: arréglalo con cinta

with luck: consuerte

5) despite: a pesar de, aún con

with all his work, the business failed: a pesar de su trabajo, el negocio fracasó

6) regarding: con respecto a, con

the trouble with your plan: el problema con su plan

7) according to: según

it varies with the season: varía según la estación

8) (indicating support or understanding) : con

I'm with you all the way: estoy contigo hasta el fin

with

prep.

• con prep.

• de prep.

• en compañía de prep.

• según prep.

wɪð, wɪθ
preposition

1)

a) ( in the company of) con

she went with him/them/me/you — fue con él/con ellos/conmigo/contigo

go with your sister — ve con tu hermana, acompaña a tu hermana

I'm staying with a friend — estoy en casa de un amigo

I'll be with you in a moment — enseguida estoy contigo (or te atiendo etc)

she had brought it with her — lo había traído (consigo)

the bad weather is still with us — seguimos con mal tiempo

are you with me? — (colloq) ¿entiendes (or entienden etc)?, ¿me sigues (or siguen etc)?

b) (member, employee, client etc of) en

are you still with Davis Tools? — ¿sigues en Davis Tools?

I've been banking with them for years — hace años que tengo cuenta en ese banco

c) (in agreement, supporting) con

I'm with you on that — en eso estoy contigo

2) ( in descriptions)

the shirt is black with white stripes — la camisa es negra a or con rayas blancas

the man with the beard/the red tie — el hombre de barba/corbata roja

a tall woman with long hair — una mujer alta con el pelo largo or de pelo largo

he is married, with three children — está casado y tiene tres hijos

3)

a) ( indicating manner) con

the proposal was greeted with derision — la propuesta fue recibida con burlas

it was done with no fuss — se hizo sin aspavientos

b) (by means of, using) con

she ate it with her fingers — lo comió con la mano

c) ( as a result of)

trembling with fright — temblando de miedo

this wine improves with age — este vino mejora con el tiempo

with luck — con suerte

4) (where somebody, something is concerned) con

you can never tell with her — con ella nunca se sabe

the trouble with Roy is that... — lo que pasa con Roy es que...

what's up with you/him today? — (colloq) ¿qué te/le pasa hoy?

5)

a) ( in the same direction as)

with the tide/flow — con la marea/corriente

b) ( in accordance with) según

6) (after adv, adv phrase)

come on, out with it! — vamos, suéltalo!

away with him! — llévenselo!

off with her head! — que le corten la cabeza!

[wɪð, wɪθ]
PREPOSITION When with is part of a set combination, eg good with, pleased with, to agree with, look up the other word. The commonest translation of is. Note that whenever it combines with, or the forms,, are used.
1) con

he had an argument with his brother — tuvo una discusión con su hermano

she mixed the sugar with the eggs — mezcló el azúcar con los huevos

I'll be with you in a moment — un momento y estoy con vosotros, en un momento or enseguida estoy con vosotros

come with me! — ven conmigo

he took it away with him — se lo llevó consigo

with the Alcántara it is the biggest ship in or of its class — junto con el Alcántara es el mayor buque de esa clase
down I, 1., 7), off 1., 3), out 1., 1) along {or}3} together with junto con
he was arrested along or together with four other terrorists — fue detenido junto con otros cuatro terroristas
to be with sb (=in the company of) estar con algn
I was with him — yo estaba con él

I'm with you there — en eso estoy de acuerdo contigo

are you with us or against us? — ¿estás a favor nuestro o en contra?

I'm not with you * — (=able to understand) no te entiendo or sigo

are you with me? * — ¿me entiendes?

it's a problem that will always be with us — es un problema que siempre nos va a afectar, es un problema que no se va a resolver
to be with it * (=up-to-date) estar al tanto or al día; (=fashionable) [person] estar al tanto de lo que se lleva; [thing] estar de moda; (=mentally alert) estar lúcido or despabilado
sorry, I'm just not with it today — lo siento, hoy estoy atontado
to get with it * ponerse al día
get with it! — ¡ponte al día!

2) (in descriptions) con

we're looking for a house with a garden — buscamos una casa con jardín

I don't like men with beards — no me gustan los hombres con barba

a man with checked trousers — un hombre con pantalones de cuadros

a car with the latest features — un coche con las últimas novedades or prestaciones

passengers with tickets — los pasajeros que tienen or con billetes

you can't speak to the queen with your hat on — no se puede hablar con la reina con el sombrero puesto
Note: when the [with] description pinpoints the particular person or thing you are talking about, [with] is usually translated by [de]:
the man with the checked trousers — el hombre de los pantalones de cuadros

the girl with the blue eyes — la chica de los ojos azules

3) (indicating manner, means) con

to walk with a walking stick — andar con bastón

to cut wood with a knife — cortar madera con un cuchillo

with one blow — de un golpe

she took off her shoes with a sigh — se quitó los zapatos dando un suspiro

... and with these words of advice, he left us —... y tras darnos este consejo nos dejó

to fill a glass with wine — llenar una copa de vino

with no trouble at all — sin dificultad alguna, sin ninguna dificultad

with that, he closed the door — luego or a continuación, cerró la puerta, luego, cerró la puerta

4) (indicating cause) de

to shiver with cold — tiritar or temblar de frío

to shake with fear — temblar de miedo

the hills are white with snow — las colinas están cubiertas de nieve

to be ill with measles — tener sarampión

I spent a week in bed with flu — estuve una semana en (la) cama con la gripe

5) (=as regards) con

it's the same with most team sports — lo mismo ocurre con la mayoría de los deportes de equipo

it's a habit with him — es una costumbre que tiene, es algo típico de él

how are things with you? — ¿qué tal?, ¿cómo te va? (esp LAm), ¿qué hubo? (Mex, Chile)

6) (=owing to) con

I couldn't see him with so many people there — no lo vi con tanta gente como había

with so much happening it was difficult to arrange a date — con todo lo que estaba pasando era difícil acordar una cita

with the approach of winter, trade began to fall off — al acercarse el invierno, el comercio empezó a declinar

7) (=according to) [increase, change, improve] con

the risk of developing heart disease increases with the number of cigarettes smoked — el riesgo de sufrir enfermedades coronarias aumenta con el número de cigarrillos que se fume

it varies with the time of year — varía según la estación

8) (=in the house of) con

he lives with his aunt — vive con su tía

she stayed with friends — se quedó con or en casa de unos amigos

9) (=working for)

he's with IBM — trabaja para or en IBM

a scientist with ICI — un científico de ICI

I've been with this company for eight years — llevo ocho años en esta empresa

10) (=in the care of)

to leave sth with sb — dejar algo en manos de algn or con algn

to leave a child with sb — dejar a un niño al cuidado de algn or con algn

11) (=on, about)

he had no money with him — no llevaba dinero (encima)

luckily, she had an umbrella with her — afortunadamente, llevaba (encima) un paraguas

12) (=in the same direction as) con

I was swimming with the current — nadaba con or a favor de la corriente
flow 1.
13) (=in spite of) con

with all his faults — con todos sus defectos

* * *
[wɪð, wɪθ]
preposition

1)

a) ( in the company of) con

she went with him/them/me/you — fue con él/con ellos/conmigo/contigo

go with your sister — ve con tu hermana, acompaña a tu hermana

I'm staying with a friend — estoy en casa de un amigo

I'll be with you in a moment — enseguida estoy contigo (or te atiendo etc)

she had brought it with her — lo había traído (consigo)

the bad weather is still with us — seguimos con mal tiempo

are you with me? — (colloq) ¿entiendes (or entienden etc)?, ¿me sigues (or siguen etc)?

b) (member, employee, client etc of) en

are you still with Davis Tools? — ¿sigues en Davis Tools?

I've been banking with them for years — hace años que tengo cuenta en ese banco

c) (in agreement, supporting) con

I'm with you on that — en eso estoy contigo

2) ( in descriptions)

the shirt is black with white stripes — la camisa es negra a or con rayas blancas

the man with the beard/the red tie — el hombre de barba/corbata roja

a tall woman with long hair — una mujer alta con el pelo largo or de pelo largo

he is married, with three children — está casado y tiene tres hijos

3)

a) ( indicating manner) con

the proposal was greeted with derision — la propuesta fue recibida con burlas

it was done with no fuss — se hizo sin aspavientos

b) (by means of, using) con

she ate it with her fingers — lo comió con la mano

c) ( as a result of)

trembling with fright — temblando de miedo

this wine improves with age — este vino mejora con el tiempo

with luck — con suerte

4) (where somebody, something is concerned) con

you can never tell with her — con ella nunca se sabe

the trouble with Roy is that... — lo que pasa con Roy es que...

what's up with you/him today? — (colloq) ¿qué te/le pasa hoy?

5)

a) ( in the same direction as)

with the tide/flow — con la marea/corriente

b) ( in accordance with) según

6) (after adv, adv phrase)

come on, out with it! — vamos, suéltalo!

away with him! — llévenselo!

off with her head! — que le corten la cabeza!

English-spanish dictionary > with
11 crew

I
1. kru: noun
1) (the group of people who work or operate a ship, aeroplane, bus etc.) tripulación

2) (used jokingly, a group of people: What an odd crew!) pandilla, equipo

2. verb
(usually with for) to act as a crew member (for someone). tripular

- crewcut

II see crow

crew n tripulación

crew

tr[krʊː]

noun

1 (of ship etc) tripulación nombre femenino

2 (working team) equipo

3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (rowing team) equipo de remo

4 familiar (gang) banda, pandilla

■ a motley crew una banda variopinta

■ ground crew personal nombre masculino de tierra

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

camera crew equipo de filmación

film crew equipo de rodaje

crew cut (hair style) corte nombre masculino al rape

crew member miembro de la tripulación, tripulante nombre masulino o femenino

crew neck (on sweater) cuello redondo

————————

crew

tr[krʊː]

past

1→ link=crow crow{

crew ['kru:] n

1) : tripulación f (de una nave)

2) team: equipo m (de trabajadores o atletas)

crew

n.

• banda s.f.

• cuadrilla s.f.

• equipaje s.m.

• equipo s.m.

• partida s.f.

• tripulación s.f.

kruː
noun

a) (Aviat, Naut) tripulación f

cabin/flight/ground crew — personal m de cabina/vuelo/tierra; (before n)

crew member — miembro mf de la tripulación, tripulante mf

b) ( team) equipo m

film crew — ( Cin) equipo m de rodaje or filmación

c) (gang, band) banda f, pandilla f

I [kruː]
1. N

1) (Aer, Naut) tripulación f ; (Navy) dotación f ; (excluding officers) marineros mpl rasos

three crew were drowned — perecieron ahogados tres tripulantes

2) (Cine, Rowing) (gen) (=team) equipo m

3) (=gang) pandilla f, banda f

they looked a sorry crew — daba lástima verlos

2.

VI

to crew for sb — hacer de tripulación para algn

3.

VT tripular

4.

CPD

crew cut N — pelado m al rape

II

[kruː]
PT of crow
* * *
[kruː]
noun

a) (Aviat, Naut) tripulación f

cabin/flight/ground crew — personal m de cabina/vuelo/tierra; (before n)

crew member — miembro mf de la tripulación, tripulante mf

b) ( team) equipo m

film crew — ( Cin) equipo m de rodaje or filmación

c) (gang, band) banda f, pandilla f

English-spanish dictionary > crew
12 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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on
1. preposition
1) (touching, fixed to, covering etc the upper or outer side of: The book was lying on the table; He was standing on the floor; She wore a hat on her head.) sobre, encima de, en

2) (in or into (a vehicle, train etc): We were sitting on the bus; I got on the wrong bus.) en

3) (at or during a certain day, time etc: on Monday; On his arrival, he went straight to bed.) a; el, los

4) (about: a book on the theatre.) sobre

5) (in the state or process of: He's on holiday.) en, de

6) (supported by: She was standing on one leg.) sobre, en

7) (receiving, taking: on drugs; on a diet.) con, a

8) (taking part in: He is on the committee; Which detective is working on this case?) en

9) (towards: They marched on the town.) a, hacia

10) (near or beside: a shop on the main road.) en

11) (by means of: He played a tune on the violin; I spoke to him on the telephone.) por

12) (being carried by: The thief had the stolen jewels on him.) con

13) (when (something is, or has been, done): On investigation, there proved to be no need to panic.) en

14) (followed by: disaster on disaster.) tras

2. adverb
1) ((especially of something being worn) so as to be touching, fixed to, covering etc the upper or outer side of: She put her hat on.) en

2) (used to show a continuing state etc, onwards: She kept on asking questions; They moved on.) continuamente, sin parar

3) ((also adjective) (of electric light, machines etc) working: The television is on; Turn/Switch the light on.) en marcha, en funcionamiento

4) ((also adjective) (of films etc) able to be seen: There's a good film on at the cinema this week.) en exhibición, en cartelera

5) ((also adjective) in or into a vehicle, train etc: The bus stopped and we got on.) a bordo

3. adjective
1) (in progress: The game was on.) en curso

2) (not cancelled: Is the party on tonight?) en pie

•

- oncoming
- ongoing
- onwards
- onward
- be on to someone
- be on to
- on and on
- on time
- on to / onto

on¹ adv

1. encendido / puesto

the light is on la luz está encendida

the heating is on la calefacción está puesta

2. abierto

the tap is on el grifo está abierto

3. puesto

he had no shoes on no llevaba zapatos

put your coat on ponte el abrigo

4.

what time is the programme on? ¿a qué hora dan el programa?

5. adelante / sin parar

the policeman told him to stop, but he drove on el policía le dijo que parara, pero siguió adelante

she saw me, but she just walked on me vio, pero siguió su camino

on² prep

1. en / sobre

she put the money on the table puso el dinero sobre la mesa

2. en

there were a lot of people on the train había mucha gente en el tren

3.

his birthday is on March 2nd su cumpleaños es el 2 de marzo

I'll see you on Friday nos vemos el viernes

she goes dancing on Saturdays va a bailar los sábados

4. en

what's on at the cinema? ¿qué echan en el cine?

5. sobre

a book on trains un libro sobre los trenes

on foot a pie

on the left / on the right a la izquierda / a la derechaon seguido de un gerundio se traduce al español por al más el infinitivo

on arriving, she phoned her mother al llegar, llamó a su madre

on

tr[ɒn]

preposition

1 (covering or touching) sobre, encima de, en

■ put it on the floor ponlo en el suelo

■ it's on the table está encima de la mesa

■ on page 45 en la página 45

■ the ball hit me on the head el balón me dio en la cabeza

2 (supported by, hanging from) en

■ she put the picture on the wall colgó el cuadro en la pared

■ lean on me apóyate en mí

3 (to, towards) a, hacia

■ the army was advancing on Berlin el ejército avanzaba hacia Berlín

■ on the right/left a la derecha/izquierda

4 (at the edge of) en

■ a village on the coast un pueblo de la costa

■ it's on the border está en la frontera

5 (concerning) sobre

■ a tax on alcohol un impuesto sobre el alcohol

6 (travelling expressions) de

■ we went on a journey nos fuimos de viaje, hicimos un viaje

■ he's on a business trip está de viaje de negocios

■ I was on my way to work iba de camino al trabajo

7 (days, dates, times) no se traduce

■ on Saturday el sábado

■ on Saturdays los sábados

■ on November 3rd el tres de noviembre

■ on Christmas Day el día de Navidad

8 (at the time of, just after) al

■ on arrival al llegar

■ on discovering the body al descubrir el cadáver

9 (as a result of) diferentes traducciones

■ on your advice siguiendo tus consejos

■ based on a true story basado en una historia real

10 (as means of transport) a, en

■ on foot, on horseback, on a bicycle a pie, a caballo, en bicicleta

■ on the train, on the bus, on the underground en el tren, en el autobús, en el metro

11 (regarding, about) sobre, de

■ a talk on birds una charla sobre aves

■ a book on art un libro de arte

12 (by means of) por

■ on the radio, on the TV por la radio, por la tele

■ I'm speaking on the phone estoy hablando por teléfono

13 (using) con

■ how do you get by on your pension? ¿cómo te las arreglas con tu pensión?

■ cars run on petrol los coches funcionan con gasolina

14 (state, process) diferentes traducciones

■ it's on fire se está quemando

■ it's on sale now ya está a la venta

■ she's on a diet está a régimen

■ crime is on the increase los delitos van en aumento

■ on strike en huelga

15 (working for, belonging to) diferentes traducciones

■ he's on the committee forma parte de la comisión

■ on the staff en plantilla

■ whose side are you on? ¿de parte de quién estás?

16 (in possession of) con

■ he was caught with drugs on him lo cogieron con drogas

■ have you got any money on you? ¿llevas dinero?

17 (paid for by) pagado por

■ the drinks are on me! ¡invito yo!

■ it's on the house paga la casa

18 (by comparison with) respecto a

■ sales are up on last year las ventas han aumentado respecto al año pasado

adverb

1 (not stopping) sin parar

■ she kept on talking siguió hablando

■ on with the show! the show must go on! ¡que siga el espectáculo!

2 (movement forward) diferentes traducciones

■ walk on until you get to the church sigue hasta que llegues a la iglesia

■ it's time we were moving on es hora de que nos vayamos

3 (clothes - being worn) puesto,-a

■ she had a cap on llevaba puesta una gorra

■ put a jumper on ponte un jersey

■ keep your coat on no te quites el abrigo

4 (working) diferentes traducciones

■ who left the TV on? ¿quién dejó la TV encendida?

■ don't leave the tap on! ¡no dejes el grifo abierto!

■ could you put a record on? ¿podrías poner un disco?

5 (happening) diferentes traducciones

■ is there anything good on TV? ¿dan algo bueno por la tele?

■ what time is the film on? ¿a qué hora ponen la película?

■ have we got anything on this weekend? ¿tenemos plan para este fin de semana?

adjective

1 (in use) diferentes traducciones

■ is the heating on? ¿está puesta la calefacción?

■ all the lights were on todas las luces estaban encendidas

2 (happening) diferentes traducciones

■ the strike's on la huelga sigue convocada

■ is the party still on? ¿se hace la fiesta?

■ the match is on after all después de todo, el partido se celebra

3 (performing) diferentes traducciones

■ you're on next! ¡sales tú el próximo!

■ they're bringing the sub on hacen salir a jugar el suplente

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

and so on y así sucesivamente

from that day on a partir de aquel día

it's not on no hay derecho, eso no vale

on line SMALLCOMPUTING/SMALL conectado,-a

to be on about hablar de

■ what on earth is he on about? ¿de qué diablos está hablando?

to be on at somebody dar la lata a alguien

to be on for something apuntarse a algo

to go on and on about something seguir dale que dale con algo

to have something on somebody tener algo contra alguien

you're on! ¡trato hecho!

on ['ɑn, 'ɔn] adv

1) (indicating contact with a surface)

put the top on: pon la tapa

he has a hat on: lleva un sombrero puesto

2) (indicating forward movement)

from that moment on: a partir de ese momento

farther on: más adelante

3) (indicating operation or an operating position)

turn the light on: prende la luz

on adj

1) (being in operation)

the radio is on: el radio está prendido

2) (taking place)

the game is on: el juego ha comenzado

3)

to be on to : estar enterado de

on prep

1) (indicating position) : en, sobre, encima de

on the table: en (sobre, encima de) la mesa

shadows on the wall: sombras en la pared

on horseback: a caballo

2) at, to: a

on the right: a la derecha

3) aboard, in: en, a

on the plane: en el avión

he got on the train: subió al tren

4) (indicating time)

she worked on Saturdays: trabajaba los sábados

every hour on the hour: a la hora en punto

5) (indicating means or agency) : por

he cut himself on a tin can: se cortó con una lata

to talk on the telephone: hablar por teléfono

6) (indicating a state or process) : en

on fire: en llamas

on the increase: en aumento

7) (indicating connection or membership) : en

on a committee: en una comisión

8) (indicating an activity)

on vacation: de vacaciones

on a diet: a dieta

9) about, concerning: sobre

a book on insects: un libro sobre insectos

reflect on that: reflexiona sobre eso

on

adj.

• conectado, -a adj.

• en marcha adj.

• encendido, -a adj.

adv.

• encima adv.

prep.

• acerca de prep.

• conectado (Electricidad) prep.

• de prep.

• en prep.

• encendido (Electricidad) prep.

• encima de prep.

• sobre prep.

I ɑːn, ɒn
preposition

1)

a) ( indicating position) en

put it on the table — ponlo en or sobre la mesa

on the ground — en el suelo

he hung it on a hook — lo colgó de un gancho

yellow on a black background — amarillo sobre un fondo negro

I live on Acacia Avenue — (esp AmE) vivo en Acacia Avenue

on the right/left — a la derecha/izquierda

b) ( belonging to) de

the handle on the cup — el asa de la taza

c) ( against)

I hit my head on the shelf — me di con la cabeza contra el estante

he cut his hand on the glass — se cortó la mano con el vidrio

2)

a) ( of clothing)

it looks better on you than me — te queda mejor a ti que a mí

b) ( about one's person)

I didn't have any cash on me — no llevaba dinero encima

they found heroin on him — le encontraron heroína (encima)

3) ( indicating means of transport)

I went on the bus — fui en autobús

we had lunch on the train — comimos en el tren

on a bicycle/horse — en bicicleta/a caballo

on foot — a pie

4)

a) ( playing instrument) a

George Smith on drums — George Smith a la or en la batería

b) (Rad, TV)

I heard it on the radio — lo oí por la radio

I was on TV last night — anoche salí por televisión

the play's on channel 4 — la obra la dan en el canal 4

c) ( recorded on) en

on tape — en cinta

5)

a) ( using equipment)

who's on the computer? — ¿quién está usando la computadora?

you've been on the phone an hour! — hace una hora que estás hablando por teléfono!, hace una hora que estás colgado del teléfono! (fam)

b) ( on duty at) en

to be on the door — estar* en la puerta

c) ( contactable via)

call us on 800 7777 — llámenos al 800 7777

6) ( a member of)

she's on the committee — está en la comisión, es miembro de la comisión

on a team — (AmE) en un equipo

7) ( indicating time)

I went on Monday — fui el lunes

on Wednesdays she goes swimming — los miércoles va a nadar

on the anniversary of her death — en el aniversario de su muerte

on -ing — al + inf

on hearing the news — al enterarse de la noticia

8) (about, concerning) sobre

while we're on the subject — a propósito, ya que estamos hablando de esto

9)

a) (indicating activity, undertaking)

on vacation/safari — de vacaciones/safari

we went on a trip to London — hicimos un viaje a Londres, nos fuimos de viaje a Londres

I went there on business — fui allí en viaje de negocios

he's on a diet — está a dieta, está a or de régimen

b) (working on, studying)

we're on page 45 already — ya vamos por la página 45

I'm still on question 1 — todavía estoy con la pregunta número 1

10) (taking, consuming)

she's on antibiotics — está tomando antibióticos

he's on heroin — es heroinómano

11) (talking about income, available funds)

I manage on less than that — yo me las arreglo con menos de eso

she's on £30,000 — (BrE) gana 30.000 libras al año

12) ( according to)

she wants to stay on her terms — quiere quedarse pero imponiendo sus condiciones

acting on his advice — siguiendo sus consejos

13) ( at the expense of)

this round's on me — a esta ronda invito yo, esta ronda la pago yo

it's on the house — invita la casa, atención de la casa

14)

a) ( in comparison with)

profits are up on last year — los beneficios han aumentado respecto al año pasado

b) (in) (AmE)

20 cents on the dollar — el 20 por ciento

II

adverb

1)

a) ( worn)

she had a blue dress on — llevaba (puesto) or tenía puesto un vestido azul

with no clothes on — sin ropa, desnudo

let's see what it looks like on — a ver cómo queda puesto; see also have on, put on

b) ( in place)

the lid's not on properly — la tapa no está bien puesta

to sew a button on — coser or pegar* un botón

2) ( indicating relative position)

head on — de frente

sideways on — de lado

3) ( indicating progression)

a) ( in space)

drive on — sigue adelante

further on — un poco más allá or más adelante

go on up; I'll follow in a minute — tú ve subiendo que yo ya voy

b) (in time, activity)

from then on — a partir de ese momento

from now on — de ahora en adelante

I have nothing on that day — ese día no tengo ningún compromiso

c)

on and off, off and on: we still see each other on and off todavía nos vemos de vez en cuando; it rained on and off o off and on all week — estuvo lloviendo y parando toda la semana

d)

on and on: the film went on and on la película se hizo interminable or (fam) pesadísima; you don't have to go on and on about it! — no hace falta que sigas dale y dale con lo mismo (fam)

4) ( in phrases)

a)

on about — (BrE colloq)

what's she on about? — ¿de qué está hablando?, pero ¿qué dice?

b)

on at — (BrE colloq)

he's always on at her about the same thing — siempre le está encima con lo mismo

III

adjective

1) (pred)

a) ( functioning)

to be on — \<\<light/TV/radio\>\> estar* encendido, estar* prendido (AmL); \<\<faucet\>\> estar* abierto

the electricity/water isn't on yet — la electricidad/el agua todavía no está conectada

the handbrake is on — el freno de mano está puesto

b) ( on duty)

we work four hours on, four hours off — trabajamos cuatro horas y tenemos otras cuatro de descanso

which of the doctors is on today? — ¿qué médico está de guardia hoy?

2) (pred)

a) ( taking place)

there's a lecture on in there — hay or están dando una conferencia allí

while the conference is on — mientras dure el congreso, hasta que termine el congreso

b) ( due to take place)

the party's definitely on for Friday — la fiesta es or se hace el viernes seguro

is the wedding still on? — ¿no se ha suspendido la boda?

c) ( being presented)

what's on at the Renoir? — (Cin, Rad, Theat, TV) ¿qué dan or (Esp tb) ponen or echan en el Renoir?

is that play still on? — ¿sigue en cartelera la obra?

the exhibition is still on — la exposición sigue abierta

d) (performing, playing)

you're on! — ( Theat) a escena!

I'm only on for about five minutes in Act 3 — sólo salgo cinco minutos en el tercer acto

he has been on for most of the game — ha estado jugando casi todo el partido; see also bring, come, go on

3)

a) (indicating agreement, acceptance) (colloq)

you teach me Spanish and I'll teach you French - you're on! — tú me enseñas español y yo te enseño francés - trato hecho! or te tomo la palabra!

b)

not on — (esp BrE colloq)

that sort of thing just isn't on — ese tipo de cosa no se puede tolerar

the idea of finishing by April was never really on — la idea de terminar para abril nunca fue viable

ABBR
(Canada) = Ontario
* * *

I [ɑːn, ɒn]
preposition

1)

a) ( indicating position) en

put it on the table — ponlo en or sobre la mesa

on the ground — en el suelo

he hung it on a hook — lo colgó de un gancho

yellow on a black background — amarillo sobre un fondo negro

I live on Acacia Avenue — (esp AmE) vivo en Acacia Avenue

on the right/left — a la derecha/izquierda

b) ( belonging to) de

the handle on the cup — el asa de la taza

c) ( against)

I hit my head on the shelf — me di con la cabeza contra el estante

he cut his hand on the glass — se cortó la mano con el vidrio

2)

a) ( of clothing)

it looks better on you than me — te queda mejor a ti que a mí

b) ( about one's person)

I didn't have any cash on me — no llevaba dinero encima

they found heroin on him — le encontraron heroína (encima)

3) ( indicating means of transport)

I went on the bus — fui en autobús

we had lunch on the train — comimos en el tren

on a bicycle/horse — en bicicleta/a caballo

on foot — a pie

4)

a) ( playing instrument) a

George Smith on drums — George Smith a la or en la batería

b) (Rad, TV)

I heard it on the radio — lo oí por la radio

I was on TV last night — anoche salí por televisión

the play's on channel 4 — la obra la dan en el canal 4

c) ( recorded on) en

on tape — en cinta

5)

a) ( using equipment)

who's on the computer? — ¿quién está usando la computadora?

you've been on the phone an hour! — hace una hora que estás hablando por teléfono!, hace una hora que estás colgado del teléfono! (fam)

b) ( on duty at) en

to be on the door — estar* en la puerta

c) ( contactable via)

call us on 800 7777 — llámenos al 800 7777

6) ( a member of)

she's on the committee — está en la comisión, es miembro de la comisión

on a team — (AmE) en un equipo

7) ( indicating time)

I went on Monday — fui el lunes

on Wednesdays she goes swimming — los miércoles va a nadar

on the anniversary of her death — en el aniversario de su muerte

on -ing — al + inf

on hearing the news — al enterarse de la noticia

8) (about, concerning) sobre

while we're on the subject — a propósito, ya que estamos hablando de esto

9)

a) (indicating activity, undertaking)

on vacation/safari — de vacaciones/safari

we went on a trip to London — hicimos un viaje a Londres, nos fuimos de viaje a Londres

I went there on business — fui allí en viaje de negocios

he's on a diet — está a dieta, está a or de régimen

b) (working on, studying)

we're on page 45 already — ya vamos por la página 45

I'm still on question 1 — todavía estoy con la pregunta número 1

10) (taking, consuming)

she's on antibiotics — está tomando antibióticos

he's on heroin — es heroinómano

11) (talking about income, available funds)

I manage on less than that — yo me las arreglo con menos de eso

she's on £30,000 — (BrE) gana 30.000 libras al año

12) ( according to)

she wants to stay on her terms — quiere quedarse pero imponiendo sus condiciones

acting on his advice — siguiendo sus consejos

13) ( at the expense of)

this round's on me — a esta ronda invito yo, esta ronda la pago yo

it's on the house — invita la casa, atención de la casa

14)

a) ( in comparison with)

profits are up on last year — los beneficios han aumentado respecto al año pasado

b) (in) (AmE)

20 cents on the dollar — el 20 por ciento

II

adverb

1)

a) ( worn)

she had a blue dress on — llevaba (puesto) or tenía puesto un vestido azul

with no clothes on — sin ropa, desnudo

let's see what it looks like on — a ver cómo queda puesto; see also have on, put on

b) ( in place)

the lid's not on properly — la tapa no está bien puesta

to sew a button on — coser or pegar* un botón

2) ( indicating relative position)

head on — de frente

sideways on — de lado

3) ( indicating progression)

a) ( in space)

drive on — sigue adelante

further on — un poco más allá or más adelante

go on up; I'll follow in a minute — tú ve subiendo que yo ya voy

b) (in time, activity)

from then on — a partir de ese momento

from now on — de ahora en adelante

I have nothing on that day — ese día no tengo ningún compromiso

c)

on and off, off and on: we still see each other on and off todavía nos vemos de vez en cuando; it rained on and off o off and on all week — estuvo lloviendo y parando toda la semana

d)

on and on: the film went on and on la película se hizo interminable or (fam) pesadísima; you don't have to go on and on about it! — no hace falta que sigas dale y dale con lo mismo (fam)

4) ( in phrases)

a)

on about — (BrE colloq)

what's she on about? — ¿de qué está hablando?, pero ¿qué dice?

b)

on at — (BrE colloq)

he's always on at her about the same thing — siempre le está encima con lo mismo

III

adjective

1) (pred)

a) ( functioning)

to be on — \<\<light/TV/radio\>\> estar* encendido, estar* prendido (AmL); \<\<faucet\>\> estar* abierto

the electricity/water isn't on yet — la electricidad/el agua todavía no está conectada

the handbrake is on — el freno de mano está puesto

b) ( on duty)

we work four hours on, four hours off — trabajamos cuatro horas y tenemos otras cuatro de descanso

which of the doctors is on today? — ¿qué médico está de guardia hoy?

2) (pred)

a) ( taking place)

there's a lecture on in there — hay or están dando una conferencia allí

while the conference is on — mientras dure el congreso, hasta que termine el congreso

b) ( due to take place)

the party's definitely on for Friday — la fiesta es or se hace el viernes seguro

is the wedding still on? — ¿no se ha suspendido la boda?

c) ( being presented)

what's on at the Renoir? — (Cin, Rad, Theat, TV) ¿qué dan or (Esp tb) ponen or echan en el Renoir?

is that play still on? — ¿sigue en cartelera la obra?

the exhibition is still on — la exposición sigue abierta

d) (performing, playing)

you're on! — ( Theat) a escena!

I'm only on for about five minutes in Act 3 — sólo salgo cinco minutos en el tercer acto

he has been on for most of the game — ha estado jugando casi todo el partido; see also bring, come, go on

3)

a) (indicating agreement, acceptance) (colloq)

you teach me Spanish and I'll teach you French - you're on! — tú me enseñas español y yo te enseño francés - trato hecho! or te tomo la palabra!

b)

not on — (esp BrE colloq)

that sort of thing just isn't on — ese tipo de cosa no se puede tolerar

the idea of finishing by April was never really on — la idea de terminar para abril nunca fue viable

English-spanish dictionary > ON
14 on

on
1. preposition
1) (touching, fixed to, covering etc the upper or outer side of: The book was lying on the table; He was standing on the floor; She wore a hat on her head.) sobre, encima de, en

2) (in or into (a vehicle, train etc): We were sitting on the bus; I got on the wrong bus.) en

3) (at or during a certain day, time etc: on Monday; On his arrival, he went straight to bed.) a; el, los

4) (about: a book on the theatre.) sobre

5) (in the state or process of: He's on holiday.) en, de

6) (supported by: She was standing on one leg.) sobre, en

7) (receiving, taking: on drugs; on a diet.) con, a

8) (taking part in: He is on the committee; Which detective is working on this case?) en

9) (towards: They marched on the town.) a, hacia

10) (near or beside: a shop on the main road.) en

11) (by means of: He played a tune on the violin; I spoke to him on the telephone.) por

12) (being carried by: The thief had the stolen jewels on him.) con

13) (when (something is, or has been, done): On investigation, there proved to be no need to panic.) en

14) (followed by: disaster on disaster.) tras

2. adverb
1) ((especially of something being worn) so as to be touching, fixed to, covering etc the upper or outer side of: She put her hat on.) en

2) (used to show a continuing state etc, onwards: She kept on asking questions; They moved on.) continuamente, sin parar

3) ((also adjective) (of electric light, machines etc) working: The television is on; Turn/Switch the light on.) en marcha, en funcionamiento

4) ((also adjective) (of films etc) able to be seen: There's a good film on at the cinema this week.) en exhibición, en cartelera

5) ((also adjective) in or into a vehicle, train etc: The bus stopped and we got on.) a bordo

3. adjective
1) (in progress: The game was on.) en curso

2) (not cancelled: Is the party on tonight?) en pie

•

- oncoming
- ongoing
- onwards
- onward
- be on to someone
- be on to
- on and on
- on time
- on to / onto

on¹ adv

1. encendido / puesto

the light is on la luz está encendida

the heating is on la calefacción está puesta

2. abierto

the tap is on el grifo está abierto

3. puesto

he had no shoes on no llevaba zapatos

put your coat on ponte el abrigo

4.

what time is the programme on? ¿a qué hora dan el programa?

5. adelante / sin parar

the policeman told him to stop, but he drove on el policía le dijo que parara, pero siguió adelante

she saw me, but she just walked on me vio, pero siguió su camino

on² prep

1. en / sobre

she put the money on the table puso el dinero sobre la mesa

2. en

there were a lot of people on the train había mucha gente en el tren

3.

his birthday is on March 2nd su cumpleaños es el 2 de marzo

I'll see you on Friday nos vemos el viernes

she goes dancing on Saturdays va a bailar los sábados

4. en

what's on at the cinema? ¿qué echan en el cine?

5. sobre

a book on trains un libro sobre los trenes

on foot a pie

on the left / on the right a la izquierda / a la derechaon seguido de un gerundio se traduce al español por al más el infinitivo

on arriving, she phoned her mother al llegar, llamó a su madre

on

tr[ɒn]

preposition

1 (covering or touching) sobre, encima de, en

■ put it on the floor ponlo en el suelo

■ it's on the table está encima de la mesa

■ on page 45 en la página 45

■ the ball hit me on the head el balón me dio en la cabeza

2 (supported by, hanging from) en

■ she put the picture on the wall colgó el cuadro en la pared

■ lean on me apóyate en mí

3 (to, towards) a, hacia

■ the army was advancing on Berlin el ejército avanzaba hacia Berlín

■ on the right/left a la derecha/izquierda

4 (at the edge of) en

■ a village on the coast un pueblo de la costa

■ it's on the border está en la frontera

5 (concerning) sobre

■ a tax on alcohol un impuesto sobre el alcohol

6 (travelling expressions) de

■ we went on a journey nos fuimos de viaje, hicimos un viaje

■ he's on a business trip está de viaje de negocios

■ I was on my way to work iba de camino al trabajo

7 (days, dates, times) no se traduce

■ on Saturday el sábado

■ on Saturdays los sábados

■ on November 3rd el tres de noviembre

■ on Christmas Day el día de Navidad

8 (at the time of, just after) al

■ on arrival al llegar

■ on discovering the body al descubrir el cadáver

9 (as a result of) diferentes traducciones

■ on your advice siguiendo tus consejos

■ based on a true story basado en una historia real

10 (as means of transport) a, en

■ on foot, on horseback, on a bicycle a pie, a caballo, en bicicleta

■ on the train, on the bus, on the underground en el tren, en el autobús, en el metro

11 (regarding, about) sobre, de

■ a talk on birds una charla sobre aves

■ a book on art un libro de arte

12 (by means of) por

■ on the radio, on the TV por la radio, por la tele

■ I'm speaking on the phone estoy hablando por teléfono

13 (using) con

■ how do you get by on your pension? ¿cómo te las arreglas con tu pensión?

■ cars run on petrol los coches funcionan con gasolina

14 (state, process) diferentes traducciones

■ it's on fire se está quemando

■ it's on sale now ya está a la venta

■ she's on a diet está a régimen

■ crime is on the increase los delitos van en aumento

■ on strike en huelga

15 (working for, belonging to) diferentes traducciones

■ he's on the committee forma parte de la comisión

■ on the staff en plantilla

■ whose side are you on? ¿de parte de quién estás?

16 (in possession of) con

■ he was caught with drugs on him lo cogieron con drogas

■ have you got any money on you? ¿llevas dinero?

17 (paid for by) pagado por

■ the drinks are on me! ¡invito yo!

■ it's on the house paga la casa

18 (by comparison with) respecto a

■ sales are up on last year las ventas han aumentado respecto al año pasado

adverb

1 (not stopping) sin parar

■ she kept on talking siguió hablando

■ on with the show! the show must go on! ¡que siga el espectáculo!

2 (movement forward) diferentes traducciones

■ walk on until you get to the church sigue hasta que llegues a la iglesia

■ it's time we were moving on es hora de que nos vayamos

3 (clothes - being worn) puesto,-a

■ she had a cap on llevaba puesta una gorra

■ put a jumper on ponte un jersey

■ keep your coat on no te quites el abrigo

4 (working) diferentes traducciones

■ who left the TV on? ¿quién dejó la TV encendida?

■ don't leave the tap on! ¡no dejes el grifo abierto!

■ could you put a record on? ¿podrías poner un disco?

5 (happening) diferentes traducciones

■ is there anything good on TV? ¿dan algo bueno por la tele?

■ what time is the film on? ¿a qué hora ponen la película?

■ have we got anything on this weekend? ¿tenemos plan para este fin de semana?

adjective

1 (in use) diferentes traducciones

■ is the heating on? ¿está puesta la calefacción?

■ all the lights were on todas las luces estaban encendidas

2 (happening) diferentes traducciones

■ the strike's on la huelga sigue convocada

■ is the party still on? ¿se hace la fiesta?

■ the match is on after all después de todo, el partido se celebra

3 (performing) diferentes traducciones

■ you're on next! ¡sales tú el próximo!

■ they're bringing the sub on hacen salir a jugar el suplente

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

and so on y así sucesivamente

from that day on a partir de aquel día

it's not on no hay derecho, eso no vale

on line SMALLCOMPUTING/SMALL conectado,-a

to be on about hablar de

■ what on earth is he on about? ¿de qué diablos está hablando?

to be on at somebody dar la lata a alguien

to be on for something apuntarse a algo

to go on and on about something seguir dale que dale con algo

to have something on somebody tener algo contra alguien

you're on! ¡trato hecho!

on ['ɑn, 'ɔn] adv

1) (indicating contact with a surface)

put the top on: pon la tapa

he has a hat on: lleva un sombrero puesto

2) (indicating forward movement)

from that moment on: a partir de ese momento

farther on: más adelante

3) (indicating operation or an operating position)

turn the light on: prende la luz

on adj

1) (being in operation)

the radio is on: el radio está prendido

2) (taking place)

the game is on: el juego ha comenzado

3)

to be on to : estar enterado de

on prep

1) (indicating position) : en, sobre, encima de

on the table: en (sobre, encima de) la mesa

shadows on the wall: sombras en la pared

on horseback: a caballo

2) at, to: a

on the right: a la derecha

3) aboard, in: en, a

on the plane: en el avión

he got on the train: subió al tren

4) (indicating time)

she worked on Saturdays: trabajaba los sábados

every hour on the hour: a la hora en punto

5) (indicating means or agency) : por

he cut himself on a tin can: se cortó con una lata

to talk on the telephone: hablar por teléfono

6) (indicating a state or process) : en

on fire: en llamas

on the increase: en aumento

7) (indicating connection or membership) : en

on a committee: en una comisión

8) (indicating an activity)

on vacation: de vacaciones

on a diet: a dieta

9) about, concerning: sobre

a book on insects: un libro sobre insectos

reflect on that: reflexiona sobre eso

on

adj.

• conectado, -a adj.

• en marcha adj.

• encendido, -a adj.

adv.

• encima adv.

prep.

• acerca de prep.

• conectado (Electricidad) prep.

• de prep.

• en prep.

• encendido (Electricidad) prep.

• encima de prep.

• sobre prep.

I ɑːn, ɒn
preposition

1)

a) ( indicating position) en

put it on the table — ponlo en or sobre la mesa

on the ground — en el suelo

he hung it on a hook — lo colgó de un gancho

yellow on a black background — amarillo sobre un fondo negro

I live on Acacia Avenue — (esp AmE) vivo en Acacia Avenue

on the right/left — a la derecha/izquierda

b) ( belonging to) de

the handle on the cup — el asa de la taza

c) ( against)

I hit my head on the shelf — me di con la cabeza contra el estante

he cut his hand on the glass — se cortó la mano con el vidrio

2)

a) ( of clothing)

it looks better on you than me — te queda mejor a ti que a mí

b) ( about one's person)

I didn't have any cash on me — no llevaba dinero encima

they found heroin on him — le encontraron heroína (encima)

3) ( indicating means of transport)

I went on the bus — fui en autobús

we had lunch on the train — comimos en el tren

on a bicycle/horse — en bicicleta/a caballo

on foot — a pie

4)

a) ( playing instrument) a

George Smith on drums — George Smith a la or en la batería

b) (Rad, TV)

I heard it on the radio — lo oí por la radio

I was on TV last night — anoche salí por televisión

the play's on channel 4 — la obra la dan en el canal 4

c) ( recorded on) en

on tape — en cinta

5)

a) ( using equipment)

who's on the computer? — ¿quién está usando la computadora?

you've been on the phone an hour! — hace una hora que estás hablando por teléfono!, hace una hora que estás colgado del teléfono! (fam)

b) ( on duty at) en

to be on the door — estar* en la puerta

c) ( contactable via)

call us on 800 7777 — llámenos al 800 7777

6) ( a member of)

she's on the committee — está en la comisión, es miembro de la comisión

on a team — (AmE) en un equipo

7) ( indicating time)

I went on Monday — fui el lunes

on Wednesdays she goes swimming — los miércoles va a nadar

on the anniversary of her death — en el aniversario de su muerte

on -ing — al + inf

on hearing the news — al enterarse de la noticia

8) (about, concerning) sobre

while we're on the subject — a propósito, ya que estamos hablando de esto

9)

a) (indicating activity, undertaking)

on vacation/safari — de vacaciones/safari

we went on a trip to London — hicimos un viaje a Londres, nos fuimos de viaje a Londres

I went there on business — fui allí en viaje de negocios

he's on a diet — está a dieta, está a or de régimen

b) (working on, studying)

we're on page 45 already — ya vamos por la página 45

I'm still on question 1 — todavía estoy con la pregunta número 1

10) (taking, consuming)

she's on antibiotics — está tomando antibióticos

he's on heroin — es heroinómano

11) (talking about income, available funds)

I manage on less than that — yo me las arreglo con menos de eso

she's on £30,000 — (BrE) gana 30.000 libras al año

12) ( according to)

she wants to stay on her terms — quiere quedarse pero imponiendo sus condiciones

acting on his advice — siguiendo sus consejos

13) ( at the expense of)

this round's on me — a esta ronda invito yo, esta ronda la pago yo

it's on the house — invita la casa, atención de la casa

14)

a) ( in comparison with)

profits are up on last year — los beneficios han aumentado respecto al año pasado

b) (in) (AmE)

20 cents on the dollar — el 20 por ciento

II

adverb

1)

a) ( worn)

she had a blue dress on — llevaba (puesto) or tenía puesto un vestido azul

with no clothes on — sin ropa, desnudo

let's see what it looks like on — a ver cómo queda puesto; see also have on, put on

b) ( in place)

the lid's not on properly — la tapa no está bien puesta

to sew a button on — coser or pegar* un botón

2) ( indicating relative position)

head on — de frente

sideways on — de lado

3) ( indicating progression)

a) ( in space)

drive on — sigue adelante

further on — un poco más allá or más adelante

go on up; I'll follow in a minute — tú ve subiendo que yo ya voy

b) (in time, activity)

from then on — a partir de ese momento

from now on — de ahora en adelante

I have nothing on that day — ese día no tengo ningún compromiso

c)

on and off, off and on: we still see each other on and off todavía nos vemos de vez en cuando; it rained on and off o off and on all week — estuvo lloviendo y parando toda la semana

d)

on and on: the film went on and on la película se hizo interminable or (fam) pesadísima; you don't have to go on and on about it! — no hace falta que sigas dale y dale con lo mismo (fam)

4) ( in phrases)

a)

on about — (BrE colloq)

what's she on about? — ¿de qué está hablando?, pero ¿qué dice?

b)

on at — (BrE colloq)

he's always on at her about the same thing — siempre le está encima con lo mismo

III

adjective

1) (pred)

a) ( functioning)

to be on — \<\<light/TV/radio\>\> estar* encendido, estar* prendido (AmL); \<\<faucet\>\> estar* abierto

the electricity/water isn't on yet — la electricidad/el agua todavía no está conectada

the handbrake is on — el freno de mano está puesto

b) ( on duty)

we work four hours on, four hours off — trabajamos cuatro horas y tenemos otras cuatro de descanso

which of the doctors is on today? — ¿qué médico está de guardia hoy?

2) (pred)

a) ( taking place)

there's a lecture on in there — hay or están dando una conferencia allí

while the conference is on — mientras dure el congreso, hasta que termine el congreso

b) ( due to take place)

the party's definitely on for Friday — la fiesta es or se hace el viernes seguro

is the wedding still on? — ¿no se ha suspendido la boda?

c) ( being presented)

what's on at the Renoir? — (Cin, Rad, Theat, TV) ¿qué dan or (Esp tb) ponen or echan en el Renoir?

is that play still on? — ¿sigue en cartelera la obra?

the exhibition is still on — la exposición sigue abierta

d) (performing, playing)

you're on! — ( Theat) a escena!

I'm only on for about five minutes in Act 3 — sólo salgo cinco minutos en el tercer acto

he has been on for most of the game — ha estado jugando casi todo el partido; see also bring, come, go on

3)

a) (indicating agreement, acceptance) (colloq)

you teach me Spanish and I'll teach you French - you're on! — tú me enseñas español y yo te enseño francés - trato hecho! or te tomo la palabra!

b)

not on — (esp BrE colloq)

that sort of thing just isn't on — ese tipo de cosa no se puede tolerar

the idea of finishing by April was never really on — la idea de terminar para abril nunca fue viable

[ɒn] When on is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg have on, get on, go on, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, such as broadside on, further on, look up the other word.
1. PREP

1) (indicating place, position) en, sobre

• on the ceiling — sobre el techo

• on the Continent — en Europa

• with her hat on her head — con el sombrero puesto

• on page two — en la página dos

• on the right — a la derecha

• on the high seas — en alta mar

• on all sides — por todas partes, por todos lados

• a house on the square — una casa en la plaza

• on the table — en or sobre la mesa

• a meal on the train — una comida en el tren

• hanging on the wall — colgado en la pared

2) (indicating time)

on Friday — el viernes

on Fridays — los viernes

on May 14th — el catorce de mayo

on or about the 8th — el día 8 o por ahí

on and after the 15th — el día 15 y a partir de la misma fecha

• on a day like this — (en) un día como este

on the next day — al día siguiente

on some days it is — hay días cuando lo es

• on the evening of July 2nd — el 2 de julio por la tarde

3) (=at the time of)

on seeing him — al verlo

on my arrival — al llegar, a mi llegada

on my calling to him — al llamarle yo

4) (=about, concerning) sobre, acerca de

a book on physics — un libro de or sobre física

he lectured on Keats — dio una conferencia sobre Keats

Eden on the events of 1956 — lo que dice Eden acerca de los acontecimientos de 1956

have you read Purnell on Churchill? — ¿has leído los comentarios de Purnell sobre Churchill?

have you heard the boss on the new tax? — ¿has oído lo que dice el jefe acerca de la nueva contribución?

while we're on the subject — como hablamos de esto

5) (=towards, against)

the march on Rome — la marcha sobre Roma

an attack on the government — un ataque contra el gobierno

6) (=earning, receiving)

he's on £6,000 a year — gana seis mil libras al año

• a student on a grant — un estudiante con beca

• many live on less than that — muchos viven con menos

7) (=taking, consuming)

• I'm on a milk diet — sigo un régimen lácteo

• he's back on drugs — ha vuelto a drogarse

• he's on heroin — está enganchado a la heroína

• I'm on three pills a day — tomo tres píldoras al día
live on 1.
8) (=engaged in)

I'm on a new project — trabajo sobre un nuevo proyecto

we're on irregular verbs — estamos con los verbos irregulares

• he's away on business — está en viaje de negocios

• to be on holiday — estar de vacaciones

• the company is on tour — la compañía está en gira

9) (indicating membership)

• he's on the committee — es miembro del comité

• he's on the permanent staff — es de plantilla

10) (=playing)

with Louis Armstrong on trumpet — con Louis Armstrong a la trompeta

all the children play on the piano — todos los chicos saben tocar el piano

he played it on the violin — lo tocó al violín

11) (TV, Rad)

• on the radio — en or por la radio

• on television — en or por (la) televisión

there's a good film on TV tonight — esta noche dan una buena película en la tele

• on video — en vídeo

12) (=about one's person)

I haven't any money on me — no llevo dinero encima

13) (=after, according to)

on this model — según este modelo

14) (=compared to)

prices are up on last year('s) — los precios han subido frente a los del año pasado

15) (=at the expense of)

this round's on me — esta ronda la pago yo, invito yo

the tour was on the Council — la gira la pagó el Consejo, corrió el Consejo con los gastos de la gira

- it's on the house

16) liter

woe on woe — dolor sobre dolor

snow on snow — nieve y más nieve

17) (phrases)

• on account of — a causa de

• on good authority — de buena tinta

on his authority — con su autorización

• on average — por término medio

• to swear on the Bible — prestar juramento sobre la Biblia

• on a charge of murder — acusado de homicidio

• on foot — a pie

• on horseback — a caballo

• on pain of — so pena de

• on sale — de venta

• on the telephone — por teléfono

• on time — a la hora, a tiempo
base I, 2., 2)
2. ADV

1) (=in place) [lid etc] puesto

the lid is on — la tapa está puesta

it's not on properly — no está bien puesto
screw on
2) (with clothes)

to have one's boots on — llevar las botas puestas

to have one's coat on — tener el abrigo puesto

what's she got on? — ¿qué lleva puesto?, ¿cómo va vestida?

she had not got much on — iba muy ligera de ropa

3) (indicating time)

from that day on — a partir de aquel día, de aquel día en adelante

• on and off — de vez en cuando, a intervalos

• it was well on in the evening — estaba ya muy entrada la tarde

well on in June — bien entrado junio

they talked well on into the night — hablaron hasta bien entrada la noche

well on in years — entrado en años, que va para viejo
further 1., 1), later 1., 2)
4) (indicating continuation)

to go/walk on — seguir adelante

to read on — seguir leyendo

• he rambled on and on — estuvo dale que dale *, estuvo dale y dale (esp LAm)

• and so on — (=and the rest) y demás; (=etc) etcétera

• on with the show! — ¡que empiece or continúe el espectáculo!

on with the dancing girls! — ¡que salgan las bailarinas!

5) (in phrases)

• what are you on about? * — ¿de qué (me) hablas?

• he's always on at me about it * — me está majando continuamente con eso *
go on
3. ADJ

1) (=functioning, in operation)

to be on — [engine] estar encendido, estar en marcha; [switch] estar encendido or conectado; [machine] estar encendido or funcionando; [light] estar encendido, estar prendido (LAm); [TV set etc] estar encendido, estar puesto, estar prendido (LAm); [tap] estar abierto; [brake etc] estar puesto, estar echado

in the on position — [tap] abierto, en posición de abierto; (Elec) encendido, puesto, prendido (LAm)

2) (=being performed, shown)

the show is now on — ha comenzado el espectáculo

the show is on in London — se ha estrenado el espectáculo en Londres

the show was on for only two weeks — el show estuvo solamente 15 días en cartelera

what's on at the cinema? — ¿qué ponen en el cine?

what's on at the theatre? — ¿qué dan en el teatro?

"what's on in London" — "cartelera de los espectáculos londinenses"

the programme is on in a minute — el programa empieza dentro de un minuto

there's a good film on tonight — hay una película buena esta noche

3) (=taking place)

is the meeting still on tonight? — ¿sigue en pie la reunión de esta noche?, ¿se lleva a cabo siempre la reunión de esta noche? (LAm)

the deal is on — se ha cerrado el trato

4) (=arranged)

have you got anything on this evening? — ¿tienes compromiso para esta noche?

sorry, I've got something on tonight — lo siento, esta noche tengo un compromiso

5) (=performing, working)

to be on — [actor] estar en escena

you're on in five minutes — sales en cinco minutos

are you on next? — ¿te toca a ti la próxima vez?

are you on tomorrow? — (=on duty) ¿trabajas mañana?, ¿estás de turno mañana?

to have one day on and the next off — trabajar un día y el otro no

6) * (indicating agreement, acceptance)

you're on! — ¡te tomo la palabra!

are you still on for dinner tomorrow night? — ¿sigo contando contigo para cenar mañana?

that's not on — (Brit) eso no se hace, no hay derecho

4.

EXCL ¡adelante!

* * *

I [ɑːn, ɒn]
preposition

1)

a) ( indicating position) en

put it on the table — ponlo en or sobre la mesa

on the ground — en el suelo

he hung it on a hook — lo colgó de un gancho

yellow on a black background — amarillo sobre un fondo negro

I live on Acacia Avenue — (esp AmE) vivo en Acacia Avenue

on the right/left — a la derecha/izquierda

b) ( belonging to) de

the handle on the cup — el asa de la taza

c) ( against)

I hit my head on the shelf — me di con la cabeza contra el estante

he cut his hand on the glass — se cortó la mano con el vidrio

2)

a) ( of clothing)

it looks better on you than me — te queda mejor a ti que a mí

b) ( about one's person)

I didn't have any cash on me — no llevaba dinero encima

they found heroin on him — le encontraron heroína (encima)

3) ( indicating means of transport)

I went on the bus — fui en autobús

we had lunch on the train — comimos en el tren

on a bicycle/horse — en bicicleta/a caballo

on foot — a pie

4)

a) ( playing instrument) a

George Smith on drums — George Smith a la or en la batería

b) (Rad, TV)

I heard it on the radio — lo oí por la radio

I was on TV last night — anoche salí por televisión

the play's on channel 4 — la obra la dan en el canal 4

c) ( recorded on) en

on tape — en cinta

5)

a) ( using equipment)

who's on the computer? — ¿quién está usando la computadora?

you've been on the phone an hour! — hace una hora que estás hablando por teléfono!, hace una hora que estás colgado del teléfono! (fam)

b) ( on duty at) en

to be on the door — estar* en la puerta

c) ( contactable via)

call us on 800 7777 — llámenos al 800 7777

6) ( a member of)

she's on the committee — está en la comisión, es miembro de la comisión

on a team — (AmE) en un equipo

7) ( indicating time)

I went on Monday — fui el lunes

on Wednesdays she goes swimming — los miércoles va a nadar

on the anniversary of her death — en el aniversario de su muerte

on -ing — al + inf

on hearing the news — al enterarse de la noticia

8) (about, concerning) sobre

while we're on the subject — a propósito, ya que estamos hablando de esto

9)

a) (indicating activity, undertaking)

on vacation/safari — de vacaciones/safari

we went on a trip to London — hicimos un viaje a Londres, nos fuimos de viaje a Londres

I went there on business — fui allí en viaje de negocios

he's on a diet — está a dieta, está a or de régimen

b) (working on, studying)

we're on page 45 already — ya vamos por la página 45

I'm still on question 1 — todavía estoy con la pregunta número 1

10) (taking, consuming)

she's on antibiotics — está tomando antibióticos

he's on heroin — es heroinómano

11) (talking about income, available funds)

I manage on less than that — yo me las arreglo con menos de eso

she's on £30,000 — (BrE) gana 30.000 libras al año

12) ( according to)

she wants to stay on her terms — quiere quedarse pero imponiendo sus condiciones

acting on his advice — siguiendo sus consejos

13) ( at the expense of)

this round's on me — a esta ronda invito yo, esta ronda la pago yo

it's on the house — invita la casa, atención de la casa

14)

a) ( in comparison with)

profits are up on last year — los beneficios han aumentado respecto al año pasado

b) (in) (AmE)

20 cents on the dollar — el 20 por ciento

II

adverb

1)

a) ( worn)

she had a blue dress on — llevaba (puesto) or tenía puesto un vestido azul

with no clothes on — sin ropa, desnudo

let's see what it looks like on — a ver cómo queda puesto; see also have on, put on

b) ( in place)

the lid's not on properly — la tapa no está bien puesta

to sew a button on — coser or pegar* un botón

2) ( indicating relative position)

head on — de frente

sideways on — de lado

3) ( indicating progression)

a) ( in space)

drive on — sigue adelante

further on — un poco más allá or más adelante

go on up; I'll follow in a minute — tú ve subiendo que yo ya voy

b) (in time, activity)

from then on — a partir de ese momento

from now on — de ahora en adelante

I have nothing on that day — ese día no tengo ningún compromiso

c)

on and off, off and on: we still see each other on and off todavía nos vemos de vez en cuando; it rained on and off o off and on all week — estuvo lloviendo y parando toda la semana

d)

on and on: the film went on and on la película se hizo interminable or (fam) pesadísima; you don't have to go on and on about it! — no hace falta que sigas dale y dale con lo mismo (fam)

4) ( in phrases)

a)

on about — (BrE colloq)

what's she on about? — ¿de qué está hablando?, pero ¿qué dice?

b)

on at — (BrE colloq)

he's always on at her about the same thing — siempre le está encima con lo mismo

III

adjective

1) (pred)

a) ( functioning)

to be on — \<\<light/TV/radio\>\> estar* encendido, estar* prendido (AmL); \<\<faucet\>\> estar* abierto

the electricity/water isn't on yet — la electricidad/el agua todavía no está conectada

the handbrake is on — el freno de mano está puesto

b) ( on duty)

we work four hours on, four hours off — trabajamos cuatro horas y tenemos otras cuatro de descanso

which of the doctors is on today? — ¿qué médico está de guardia hoy?

2) (pred)

a) ( taking place)

there's a lecture on in there — hay or están dando una conferencia allí

while the conference is on — mientras dure el congreso, hasta que termine el congreso

b) ( due to take place)

the party's definitely on for Friday — la fiesta es or se hace el viernes seguro

is the wedding still on? — ¿no se ha suspendido la boda?

c) ( being presented)

what's on at the Renoir? — (Cin, Rad, Theat, TV) ¿qué dan or (Esp tb) ponen or echan en el Renoir?

is that play still on? — ¿sigue en cartelera la obra?

the exhibition is still on — la exposición sigue abierta

d) (performing, playing)

you're on! — ( Theat) a escena!

I'm only on for about five minutes in Act 3 — sólo salgo cinco minutos en el tercer acto

he has been on for most of the game — ha estado jugando casi todo el partido; see also bring, come, go on

3)

a) (indicating agreement, acceptance) (colloq)

you teach me Spanish and I'll teach you French - you're on! — tú me enseñas español y yo te enseño francés - trato hecho! or te tomo la palabra!

b)

not on — (esp BrE colloq)

that sort of thing just isn't on — ese tipo de cosa no se puede tolerar

the idea of finishing by April was never really on — la idea de terminar para abril nunca fue viable

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1) метод; приём; способ

2) методика

3) технология

4) система

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- accelerated strength testing method

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access method

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activation method

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AFMAG method

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aggregate-decomposition method

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airborne electromagnetic method

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airborne resistivity method

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air-tinting method

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analog method

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anchor-ring method

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angle lap staining method

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annotation method

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aperture-field method

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approximate method

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approximated maximum entropy method

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approximation method

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aqueous method

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arc refraction method

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aromatic adsorption method

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artificial islands method

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asymptotic method

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audio-frequency magnetic method

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audio-magnetotelluric method

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averaging method

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back-filling method

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back-reflection Greninger-Laue method

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back-reflection Laue method

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back-to-back method

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balanced method

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ball-and-ring method

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basic direct access method

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basic methods of printing

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basic partitioned access method

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basic sequential access method

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basin check method

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batch method

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Baumann's method

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beam-scanning method

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benching method

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beta ray method

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borderline method

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boundary integral method

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box-pass method of rolling

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Bragg rotating crystal method

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branch and bound method

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bridge method

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Bridgman method

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brittle-varnish method

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broadside method

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broadside refraction method

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bubble method

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bulk-caving method

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bullhead well control method

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burning additive method

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butterfly method of rolling

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Cabot method

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capacitance method

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caving method

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cavity method

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change-in-stress method

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charcoal method

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charge transfer method

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charge-discharge method

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chelation method

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chemical injection method

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closed building method

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color-dilution method

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combined mining method

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combustion method

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common-depth-point method

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common-depth-point method

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common-reflection-point method

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compaction method

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compensation method

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compressibility factor method

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conductance-measuring method

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constant bottomhole pressure well control method

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contact method

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continuous casting method

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continuous timing method

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contour-type method of irrigation

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controlled directivity reception method

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control-section method

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copper dish method

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correlation method

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correlation refraction method

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critical path method

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cube method

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current-slaved pilot cell method

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cut-and-cover method

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cut-and-test method

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cut-and-test method

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cut-and-try method

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cutset method

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cylinder method

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Czochralski method

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dark-field method

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Dean and Stark method

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deep-etch method

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deep-ground densification method

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deep-refraction method

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deflection method

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de-resistivity method

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describing function method

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destructive method

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diamond grinding-lapping method

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diesel cetane method

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difference method

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difference method

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differential method

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diffraction method

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dimensional method

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dip-angle method

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dipole profiling method

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dipole sounding method

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direct loading method

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direct stabilization method

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direct teaching method

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direction method

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disappearing-phase method

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dispersion method

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displacement method

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dissection method

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distillation method

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distributed-parameters method

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dogleg method

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double-crucible method

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double-sweep method

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double-theodolite pibal method

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double-thread method

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dragline mining method

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driller's well control method

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drop weight method

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dual coil ratiometer method

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Duhamel's method

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dynamic error-free transmission method

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eddy-current method

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effusion method

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elastic method of design

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electric audibility method

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electrical analogy method

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electrical exploration method

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electrical gradient method

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electrical prospecting method

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electrical resistivity method

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electrical sounding method

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electrical transient method

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electrical-surveying method

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electroanalytical method

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electrographic method

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electromagnetic induction method

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electromagnetic prospecting method

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electromagnetic sounding method

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electromagnetic surveying method

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electrometric method

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electron-diffraction method

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electron-orbit method

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electrophoretic method

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electrostatic method

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embedded temperature detector method

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equal-altitude method

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equal-deflection method

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equisignal-zone method

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equivalent energy loss method

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equivalent-current-sheet method

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error compensation method

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error method

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Eshka method

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estimation method

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ETPP method

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evaporation mask method

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explicit method

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extraterrestrial propellant production method

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falling-ball method

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fall-of-potential method

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fast-and-slow method of casting

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feature point method

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FIA method

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fiber elongation method

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field-matching method

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finitary method

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finite-difference method

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finite-element method

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flexibility method

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flip-chip method

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float and chains method

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floating method of charging

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float-on method

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flow coat method

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flow net method

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flowgraph method

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fluorescent penetrant method

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flushing method

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flux-free method

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foam method

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foam-ceramic method

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foil bend method

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foil reference method

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force diagram method

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force method

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four-point control method

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Fox counting method

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frame-by-frame method

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freepoint-string shot method

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frequency analysis method

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frequency-domain method

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frequency-response method

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full enumeration method

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funicular polygon method

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fusing method

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galvanostatic method

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gamma ray method

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gaseous diffusion method

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Gauss-Seidel method

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grab method

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gradient method

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graph method

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graphic access method

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graphical method

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grapho-analytical method

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grasshopper pipeline coupling method

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gravity method

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guide round method of rolling

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heading method

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heading-and-bench method

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heading-and-stall method

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heading-and-stope method

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heat-tinting method

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heuristic method

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hierarchical direct access method

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hierarchical indexed direct access method

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hierarchical sequential access method

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hit-and-miss method

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holoseismic method

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Homer's method

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horizontal-loop method

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Hoyer method of prestressing

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hydraulic fill method

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hydrogen diffusion method

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hydrograph separation method

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hyperquantizing method

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ice-plug method

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implicit method

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in situ method

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inclusion counting method

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indentation method

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index area method

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indexed-sequential access method

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indirect method of refrigeration

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indirect teaching method

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induced electromotive force method

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induced electromotive force method

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induced emf method

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induced magnetomotive force method

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induced polarization method

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induction method

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inference method

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influence line method

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ingot-casting method

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injection flow method

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in-situ optical particle sizing method

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installation method

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intaglio method

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intake thermometer method

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integrated sample method

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intercept method

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isothermal migration method

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isotope dilution method for oxygen

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iteration method

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jackblock method

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Jernkontoret counting method

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jetting method

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keyed sequential access method

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keying method

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knock intensity method

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laboratory test-engine method

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lamp method

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Laplace transform method

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leak testing method

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least-squares method

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lenticular screen method

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life-testing method

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lift-off method

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lift-slab method of construction

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lighting method

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linear method

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linear-transverse inclusion counting method

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link polygon method

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loaded fiber method

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load-factor method of design

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loading method

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loading-back method

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lobe-switching method

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long-wire transmitter method

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loop method

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lost-wax method of cast

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low-waste method

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lumped-parameters method

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magnaflux method

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magnetic method

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magnetotelluric resistivity method

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magnetotelluric sounding method

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mathematical induction method

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matrix method

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maximum entropy method

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maximum likelihood method

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meltback method

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mesh-analysis method

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mesh-current method

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method of alternating directions

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method of analysis

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method of angles

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method of arithmetic means

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method of ascent

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method of column analogy

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method of descent

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method of directions

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method of elastic arch

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method of elimination

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method of feasible directions

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method of fixed points

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method of images

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method of induction

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method of joints

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method of least squares

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method of limit equilibrium

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method of member substitution

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method of moments

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method of pivot selection

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method of potentials

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method of projections

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method of proportional parts

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method of reiteration

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method of resolution

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method of reversals

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method of rotations

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method of saddle points

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method of sections

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method of slopes

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method of small parameter

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method of statistical testing

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method of steepest descent

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method of stripping

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method of successive approximations

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method of successive destruction

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method of successive iteration

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method of successive substitutions

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method of superposition

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method of symmetrical components

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method of undetermined coefficients

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method of variation of constants

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mid-square method

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mining method

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modal-analysis method

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moire method

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moment-distribution method

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Monte Carlo method

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multimeter method

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multiple grid method

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multiple-burn method

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multiple-exposure method

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Muskingum method

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natural current method

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net method

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network telecommunication access method

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n-M method

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nodal method

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nodal-pair method

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node-potential method

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node-potential method

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node-voltage method

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noncoincident peak method

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nondestructive method

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nonimpingement method

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nonterrestrial propellant production method

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nonwaste method

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null method

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numerical method

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offset carrier method

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oil recovery method

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one-circulation well control method

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open-cut method

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open-pit method

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operational method

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opposition method

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optimization method

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orifice method

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out-of-process method

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overtree sprinkler method

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oxygen-bomb method

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paint-on-diffusant method

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parallel navigation method

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paramagnetic-resonance method

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partitioned access method

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pause-and-pull method of casting

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pedestal method

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peek two-circulation well control method

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penalty function method

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penalty method

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pendant drop method

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perturbation method

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phase conjugation method

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phase-plane method

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photoelastic method

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photoelastic method

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photomicrographic method

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pin timing method

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pipe-bridge method

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plastic method of design

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point-by-point method

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potentiometer method

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potentiometer method

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predictor-corrector method

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probe method

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progressive assembly method

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pulling-down method

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pulsed eddy current method

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pure pursuit method

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qualitative methods

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quantitative methods

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queued access method

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queued indexed sequential access method

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radar plotting method

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random linear intercept method

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rapid method

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rapid rendezvous method

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recrystallization method

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recursive least squares method

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reflection method

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reflection spot counting method

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refraction correlation method

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refraction method

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refrigeration method

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relaxation method

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reliability method

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repetition method

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resonance method

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retardation method

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rod-in-tube method

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rolled-embankment method

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roll-on method

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root locus method

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rule of thumb method

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safety methods

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saline fog method

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salt fog method

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salt-dilution method

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sampling method

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sand-island method

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schlieren method

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secant method

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segregated-loss method

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seizure delay method

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self-starting method

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self-synchronizing method

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separated teaching method

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series truncation method

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sessile drop method

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shape from contour method

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shape from shading method

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shape from texture method

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shield method

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shooting method

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short-circuit method

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short-cut method

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similarity method

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similarity method

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simplex method

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simplex well control method

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single-bath method

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singularity expansion method

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slope-area method

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slope-deflection method

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slow rendezvous method

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small oscillations method

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small parameter method

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soap bubble method

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soap suds method

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sol-gel method

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solid casting method

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solid layer method

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spherical harmonics method

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spontaneous polarization method

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spot-size measurement method

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spun-bonded method

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square-root method

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staining method

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state space method

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static fuel flow method

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static indentation method

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statistical method

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steam-air decoking method

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step method

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step-by-step method

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stepwise method of McCabe and Thiele

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stovepipe pipe laying method

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straight flange method of rolling beams

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strain-energy method

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streamline curvature method

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stroboscopic method

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structure-energy method

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stylus method

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substitution method

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suction method of cleaning

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surface photovoltage method

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surface-float method

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suspension method

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symbolical method

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synoptic method

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synthetic unit hydrograph method

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tail-chase method

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tangent method

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tee-test method

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telecommunication access method

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telluric current method

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testing method

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thermal-gradient method

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thermometer method

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three-ammeter method

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three-base method

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three-dimensional seismic method

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three-voltmeter method

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three-wattmeter method

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through-transition method

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thumper method

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tilt-up method of construction

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time program control method

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time-area method

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time-lag method

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timing-fuel flow method

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T-method of gage control

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tongue-and-groove method

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tooling method

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topological method

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total thermal time constant method

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touch method with ten fingers

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towel method

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tracer method

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transferred surge method

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transfiguration method

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transient electromagnetic method

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traveling-matte method

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tremie method of concreting

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trial-and-error method

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triangulation method

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two-base method

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two-staff method

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two-wattmeter method

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Ugine-Perrin method

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ultimate-strength method of design

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unit-hydrograph method

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unsteady surface element method

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vacuum cooling method

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vacuum spectrographic method

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value-iteration method

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vapor crystal growth method

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variable separation method

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variable-area method

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variational method

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vector-potential method

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vertical-loop method

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Vibroseis method

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virtual displacement method

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virtual telecommunication access method

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visual estimation method

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Vlugter method of structural group analysis

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voltage compensation method

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voltameter method

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voltmeter-ammeter method

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voltmeter-wattmeter method

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wait and weight well control method

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wasteless method

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water-jet method of pile driving

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weir method

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well control method

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well geophone method

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well-point method

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well-shooting method

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what-if method

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wire-wrap method

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working stress method of design

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zero beat method

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zero deflection method

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zero method

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zero-caustic method

Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > method
16 lay

I 1. [lei] past tense, past participle - laid; verb
1) (to place, set or put (down), often carefully: She laid the clothes in a drawer / on a chair; He laid down his pencil; She laid her report before the committee.) lægge; anbringe; præsentere

2) (to place in a lying position: She laid the baby on his back.) lægge; anbringe

3) (to put in order or arrange: She went to lay the table for dinner; to lay one's plans / a trap.) dække; lægge

4) (to flatten: The animal laid back its ears; The wind laid the corn flat.) lægge ned

5) (to cause to disappear or become quiet: to lay a ghost / doubts.) få til at forsvinde; få til at tie

6) ((of a bird) to produce (eggs): The hen laid four eggs; My hens are laying well.) lægge

7) (to bet: I'll lay five pounds that you don't succeed.) vædde

•

- layer
2. verb
(to put, cut or arrange in layers: She had her hair layered by the hairdresser.) lægge; lægge i lag

- layabout
- lay-by
- layout
- laid up
- lay aside
- lay bare
- lay by
- lay down
- lay one's hands on
- lay hands on
- lay in
- lay low
- lay off
- lay on
- lay out
- lay up
- lay waste II see lie II III [lei] adjective
1) (not a member of the clergy: lay preachers.) læg-

2) (not an expert or a professional (in a particular subject): Doctors tend to use words that lay people don't understand.) læg-

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- layman
IV [lei] noun
(an epic poem.) kvad

* * *
I 1. [lei] past tense, past participle - laid; verb
1) (to place, set or put (down), often carefully: She laid the clothes in a drawer / on a chair; He laid down his pencil; She laid her report before the committee.) lægge; anbringe; præsentere

2) (to place in a lying position: She laid the baby on his back.) lægge; anbringe

3) (to put in order or arrange: She went to lay the table for dinner; to lay one's plans / a trap.) dække; lægge

4) (to flatten: The animal laid back its ears; The wind laid the corn flat.) lægge ned

5) (to cause to disappear or become quiet: to lay a ghost / doubts.) få til at forsvinde; få til at tie

6) ((of a bird) to produce (eggs): The hen laid four eggs; My hens are laying well.) lægge

7) (to bet: I'll lay five pounds that you don't succeed.) vædde

•

- layer
2. verb
(to put, cut or arrange in layers: She had her hair layered by the hairdresser.) lægge; lægge i lag

- layabout
- lay-by
- layout
- laid up
- lay aside
- lay bare
- lay by
- lay down
- lay one's hands on
- lay hands on
- lay in
- lay low
- lay off
- lay on
- lay out
- lay up
- lay waste II see lie II III [lei] adjective
1) (not a member of the clergy: lay preachers.) læg-

2) (not an expert or a professional (in a particular subject): Doctors tend to use words that lay people don't understand.) læg-

•

- layman
IV [lei] noun
(an epic poem.) kvad

English-Danish dictionary > lay
17 catch

1. n поимка; захват

her catch was quick enough to keep the plate from hitting the floor — она успела быстро схватить падающую на пол тарелку

catch high bar — в хват за верхнюю жердь

2. n улов; добыча

a fine catch of fish — хороший улов рыбы

catch quota — квота улова

catch compound — состав улова

catch composition — состав улова

commercial catch — промысловый улов

miraculous catch of fish — чудесный улов рыбы

3. n разг. хитрость, ловушка; подвох

catch question — каверзный вопрос

cold catch pot — охлаждаемая ловушка

catch trench — яма - ловушка

4. n выгодное приобретение

no catch, not much of a catch — незавидное приобретение; грош цена; не бог весть какое сокровище

5. n задвижка, засов; шпингалет

window catch — оконный шпингалет

6. n тех. захватывающее, запирающее приспособление

catch member — захватывающая деталь

7. n тех. стяжной болт

8. n тех. тормоз; стопор; арретир

9. n приостановка на мгновение; потеря на мгновение

with a catch in her voice — прерывающимся голосом

front over-bar flip to catch — сальто вперед над жердями в упор

10. n отрывки, обрывки, кусочки

catches of old tunes — обрывки старых мелодий

11. n игра в мяч; перебрасывание мяча

to play catch — играть в мяч

vault catch — перелет в вис

catch stitch — шов «ёлочкой»

to muff a catch — пропустить мяч

dislocate catch — дуга назад с выкрутом в вис

the cricketer fluffed the catch — игрок не поймал мяч

12. n поимка мяча

кетч

he made an offer to catch the ball — он попытался схватить мяч

13. n с. -х. самосев хлебных злаков

14. n муз. ист. качча

15. v поймать, схватить; ловить

to catch with nets — ловить сетями

catch hold of — схватывать; схватить

catch red-handed — поймать на месте преступления

to catch cold — схватить простуду, простудиться

to catch a fish with a spear — поймать рыбу острогой

16. v поймать, застигнуть; застать, захватить

to catch in a lie — изобличить во лжи

to be caught in the rain — попасть под дождь

we were caught in a snowstorm — мы были застигнуты метелью

to be caught cheating — быть уличённым в мошенничестве

to be caught in the turmoil — быть вовлечённым в водоворот

a rat was caught in the trap — крыса попалась в крысоловку

17. v схватить, задержать

the policeman caught the thief — полицейский задержал вора

18. v ухватиться, схватить

he caught at the rope — он уцепился за верёвку

19. v прицепляться, придираться к

he catches at everything — он ко всему придирается

catch tank — сливной бак

catch water cistern — водосборный бак

20. v уловить, поймать

to catch a likeness — схватить сходство

21. v разг. уловить смысл, понять

22. v зацепить; задеть; защемить

23. v зацепиться

her dress caught on a nail — она зацепилась платьем за гвоздь

24. v поддеть; провести; поймать в ловушку

catch pan — поддон - ловушка

straddle cut catch — перемах ноги врозь в упор или в вис

cut and catch — подъем вперед с перемахом ноги врозь в вис

cut-off catch — подъем вперед с перемахом ноги врозь в вис

25. v попасть, ударить

the blow caught him on the head — удар пришёлся ему по голове

Синонимический ряд:

1. capture (noun) apprehension; bagging; capture; clutch; collaring; gem; grab; hooking; prize; seizure; snatch; taking; treasure; trophy

2. fastener (noun) bolt; buckle; clasp; closure; fastener; hasp; hook; lock; ratchet; snap

3. prize (noun) plum; prize

4. trick (noun) cheat; deception; decoy; drawback; hitch; hooker; puzzle; rub; snag; trap; trick

5. apprehend (verb) accept; apprehend; arrest; bag; collar; compass; comprehend; conceive; cotton on to; cotton to; fathom; follow; make out; nail; prehend; read; see; take in; tumble to; twig

6. attract (verb) attract; bewitch; captivate; charm; enchant; fascinate; win

7. catch up with (verb) catch up with; go after; reach

8. dupe (verb) bamboozle; befool; chicane; con; dupe; dust; flimflam; gull; hoax; hornswoggle; job; kid; pigeon; spoof; victimize

9. entangle (verb) entangle; hook; lodge; stick

10. fasten (verb) anchor; fasten; fix; latch; moor; secure

11. find (verb) descry; detect; discern; encounter; espy; find; glimpse; hit upon; meet with; spot; spy; turn up

12. get (verb) break out with; capture; come down with; contract; develop; get; incur; net; sicken; sicken of; sicken with

13. grasp (verb) clutch; grab; grapple; grasp; grip; nab; seize; snag

14. hit (verb) clout; ding; hit; knock; pop; slam; slog; smack; smash; smite; sock; strike; swat; whack; wham

15. hoodwink (verb) deceive; discover; expose; fool; hoodwink; pull one over on; startle; trick

16. intercept (verb) block; cut off; intercept

17. marry (verb) espouse; marry; wed

18. overhaul (verb) overhaul; overtake; take

19. perceive (verb) perceive; sense; understand

20. snare (verb) benet; catch up; enmesh; ensnare; entrap; foul; lasso; latch on to; snare; tangle; trammel; trap

21. strike (verb) nip; snap; snatch; strike

22. surprise (verb) board; hit on; surprise

Антонимический ряд:

fail; free; give up; let go; lose; miss; release; restore

English-Russian base dictionary > catch
18 GCM

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Genetic Critical Mass

2) Военный термин: Good Conduct Medal, Ground Control Manual, general court-martial, good conditions, meteorological, ground combat model, МОЦ, модель общей циркуляции (атмосферы)

3) Техника: government communications manager, greatest common measure

4) Математика: Greatest Common Multiple

5) Метеорология: Global Climate Model

6) Автомобильный термин: governor control module, полная масса автопоезда, общая масса автопоезда ( Gross Combination Mass)

7) Горное дело: модель состояния горного массива (ground control model), модель управления горным давлением

8) Нефть: gas-cut mud, газированный буровой раствор (gas-cut mud), generic choke model

9) Экология: general circulation model

10) Деловая лексика: General Clearing Member

11) Бурение: gas cut mud (mud containing quantities of gas from subsurface formations)

12) Макаров: generator coordinate method

13) Электротехника: generator condition monitor

14) Аэропорты: Grand Cayman Island, West Indies

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > GCM
19 MC

1) Компьютерная техника: Manual Compression, Memory Card, Micro Compact, Modular Computing, Multimedia Card

2) Спорт: Marathon Concept

3) Латинский язык: Medium Coeli

4) Военный термин: Joint Military Intelligence College, Maintenance Console, Maneuver Control, Marine Corps, Master Chief, Materiel Command, Midnight Commander, Military Claimant, Military Code, Military Cross, Missile Command, Mission Critical, Mobility Corridor, Morale Check, Morse code, Multi-Channel MC&G Mapping, Charting and Geodesy, Munitions Command, machine carbine, main channel, maintenance center, maintenance code, maintenance cycle, major component, manual control, mapping camera, master commandant, material central, material code, material committee, material control, materiel center, maximum concealable, medical center, medical certificate, medium capacity, message center, metal case, military channels, military characteristics, military college, military community, military construction, military coordination, military correspondent, missile carrier, missile channel, missile checkout, missile code, missile compartment, missile container, missile control, missile crew, mission capable, mission control, mobile communications, mobile control, mode change, mode code, monitoring and control, mortar carrier, motor carrier, motor convoy, motorcar, motorcycle, movement center, movement control, muzzle cap, Military Committee (NATO), Megacycles (superseded by megahertz), modular charge

5) Техника: Minuteman computer, Mitsubishi Corporation, machine committee, magnetic course, main circulator, main condenser, maintenance check, maintenance complexity, manual clock, marked capacity, medico-surgical, medium-curing, memory controller, metal clad, metal clad switchgear, metric carat, military computer, minutes charged, miscellaneous data, monitoring center, mud-cut, multichannel voice-frequency telegraphy

6) Сельское хозяйство: medico-chirurgical

7) Шутливое выражение: Mad Cashier, Mistress Of Chaos

8) Химия: Molten Carbonate

9) Математика: марковская цепь (Markov chain), метод Монте-Карло

10) Метеорология: Meteorological Codes

11) Железнодорожный термин: Maine Coast Railroad Corporation

12) Юридический термин: Major Case, Male Caller, Move The Crowd

13) Экономика: предельные издержки (marginal cost)

14) Бухгалтерия: Marketing Cost, Master Card, предельная стоимость капитала (marginal cost of capital), Master Charge (now called MasterCard), добавочная себестоимость (производства дополнительной единицы продукции)

15) Автомобильный термин: mixture control

16) Грубое выражение: Marketing Crap

17) Музыка: Mad Catz, My Computer, аудиокассета, эм-си (Microphone Controller; Master of Ceremony - исполнитель вокала в хип-хоп культуре)

18) Политика: Macau

19) Психология: multiple choice

20) Телекоммуникации: Make Call, main cross-connect, Main Cross-Connect (DEC)

21) Сокращение: Mail Centre (UK, 2006), Marine Corps (USA), Master Controller, Master of Ceremonies, Medical Corps, Medium Case bomb, Member of Congress, Missile Center, Missile Controller, Mission Computer, Mission-Capable, Monaco, Motivate The Crowd, Multiply-Convolve, main computer, main coolant, maintenance costs, manhole cover, medicine cabinet, momentary contact, motor chain, multichip, multiple contact, Morning Call (daily, USA), Machine Check, Marginal costs, Master Clock, Master Control, Miniature Camera, Minister Councillor, Multi Channel, Multiple Compartments

22) Театр: Music Cinema

23) Текстиль: Mini Cutouts

24) Университет: Main Campus

25) Физика: Magnetic Coil

26) Физиология: Mad Cow

27) Электроника: Meter Coupled, Microphone Controller, Middle Carbonate, Motorcycle Club, Multipoint Controller

28) Вычислительная техника: magnetic core

29) Нефть: Ministry of Construction, mud cut, загрязнённый буровым раствором (mud-cut), метрический карат (metric carat), проверка технического состояния (maintenance check)

30) Биохимия: Mast Cells

31) Банковское дело: кредит по операциям с маржей (marginal credit)

32) Организация производства: получение разрешений, разрешения должны быть получены, разрешения получены

33) Транспорт: Marine Commercial, Motor Coach, Moved Centerline, Mystery Car

34) Силикатное производство: magnesia-chrome

35) Фирменный знак: M Care, McCoy, Merciless Creations, Mystic Crystals

36) Реклама: ведущий

37) СМИ: Main Character, Media Card, Micro Cassette, Movie Clip, Multimedia Content

38) Деловая лексика: Marginal Cost, Mic Controller, market capitalisation

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Main Contractor, Mechanical Completion

40) Образование: Men's Club

41) Инвестиции: marginal credit

42) Сетевые технологии: Motorola Corp., Multi Computer

43) Полимеры: marginal check, medium curing, moisture content

44) Программирование: Master Clear

45) Автоматика: machining center, magnetic card

46) Контроль качества: Monte Carlo (method)

47) Океанография: Maritime Commission

48) Сахалин Ю: marshalling cabinet

49) Расширение файла: M3CG intermediate language file (Modula-3), Manual Chapter (NRC Inspection Manual)

50) SAP.тех. код поиска

51) Нефть и газ: manual call point, medium pressure steam condensate, motor control block, завершение механической части

52) Военно-политический термин: Military Committee

53) Электротехника: making capacity, mercury contact, metal-clad, multiple contacts

54) Фармация: (масс-спектрометрия) МS (http://www.bioinformatix.ru/metabolomika/metabolomika-i-metabonomika-sovremennyie-tehnologii-toksilogicheskih-issledovaniy-chast-3.html)

55) Hi-Fi. moving coil

56) Должность: Mastered The Craft, Microsoft Certified, Music Composer

57) Чат: Microphone Commando

58) Правительство: Motor City

59) НАСА: Mars Crosser

60) Программное обеспечение: Master Copy

61) Хобби: Music Cards

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > MC
20 Mc

1) Компьютерная техника: Manual Compression, Memory Card, Micro Compact, Modular Computing, Multimedia Card

2) Спорт: Marathon Concept

3) Латинский язык: Medium Coeli

4) Военный термин: Joint Military Intelligence College, Maintenance Console, Maneuver Control, Marine Corps, Master Chief, Materiel Command, Midnight Commander, Military Claimant, Military Code, Military Cross, Missile Command, Mission Critical, Mobility Corridor, Morale Check, Morse code, Multi-Channel MC&G Mapping, Charting and Geodesy, Munitions Command, machine carbine, main channel, maintenance center, maintenance code, maintenance cycle, major component, manual control, mapping camera, master commandant, material central, material code, material committee, material control, materiel center, maximum concealable, medical center, medical certificate, medium capacity, message center, metal case, military channels, military characteristics, military college, military community, military construction, military coordination, military correspondent, missile carrier, missile channel, missile checkout, missile code, missile compartment, missile container, missile control, missile crew, mission capable, mission control, mobile communications, mobile control, mode change, mode code, monitoring and control, mortar carrier, motor carrier, motor convoy, motorcar, motorcycle, movement center, movement control, muzzle cap, Military Committee (NATO), Megacycles (superseded by megahertz), modular charge

5) Техника: Minuteman computer, Mitsubishi Corporation, machine committee, magnetic course, main circulator, main condenser, maintenance check, maintenance complexity, manual clock, marked capacity, medico-surgical, medium-curing, memory controller, metal clad, metal clad switchgear, metric carat, military computer, minutes charged, miscellaneous data, monitoring center, mud-cut, multichannel voice-frequency telegraphy

6) Сельское хозяйство: medico-chirurgical

7) Шутливое выражение: Mad Cashier, Mistress Of Chaos

8) Химия: Molten Carbonate

9) Математика: марковская цепь (Markov chain), метод Монте-Карло

10) Метеорология: Meteorological Codes

11) Железнодорожный термин: Maine Coast Railroad Corporation

12) Юридический термин: Major Case, Male Caller, Move The Crowd

13) Экономика: предельные издержки (marginal cost)

14) Бухгалтерия: Marketing Cost, Master Card, предельная стоимость капитала (marginal cost of capital), Master Charge (now called MasterCard), добавочная себестоимость (производства дополнительной единицы продукции)

15) Автомобильный термин: mixture control

16) Грубое выражение: Marketing Crap

17) Музыка: Mad Catz, My Computer, аудиокассета, эм-си (Microphone Controller; Master of Ceremony - исполнитель вокала в хип-хоп культуре)

18) Политика: Macau

19) Психология: multiple choice

20) Телекоммуникации: Make Call, main cross-connect, Main Cross-Connect (DEC)

21) Сокращение: Mail Centre (UK, 2006), Marine Corps (USA), Master Controller, Master of Ceremonies, Medical Corps, Medium Case bomb, Member of Congress, Missile Center, Missile Controller, Mission Computer, Mission-Capable, Monaco, Motivate The Crowd, Multiply-Convolve, main computer, main coolant, maintenance costs, manhole cover, medicine cabinet, momentary contact, motor chain, multichip, multiple contact, Morning Call (daily, USA), Machine Check, Marginal costs, Master Clock, Master Control, Miniature Camera, Minister Councillor, Multi Channel, Multiple Compartments

22) Театр: Music Cinema

23) Текстиль: Mini Cutouts

24) Университет: Main Campus

25) Физика: Magnetic Coil

26) Физиология: Mad Cow

27) Электроника: Meter Coupled, Microphone Controller, Middle Carbonate, Motorcycle Club, Multipoint Controller

28) Вычислительная техника: magnetic core

29) Нефть: Ministry of Construction, mud cut, загрязнённый буровым раствором (mud-cut), метрический карат (metric carat), проверка технического состояния (maintenance check)

30) Биохимия: Mast Cells

31) Банковское дело: кредит по операциям с маржей (marginal credit)

32) Организация производства: получение разрешений, разрешения должны быть получены, разрешения получены

33) Транспорт: Marine Commercial, Motor Coach, Moved Centerline, Mystery Car

34) Силикатное производство: magnesia-chrome

35) Фирменный знак: M Care, McCoy, Merciless Creations, Mystic Crystals

36) Реклама: ведущий

37) СМИ: Main Character, Media Card, Micro Cassette, Movie Clip, Multimedia Content

38) Деловая лексика: Marginal Cost, Mic Controller, market capitalisation

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Main Contractor, Mechanical Completion

40) Образование: Men's Club

41) Инвестиции: marginal credit

42) Сетевые технологии: Motorola Corp., Multi Computer

43) Полимеры: marginal check, medium curing, moisture content

44) Программирование: Master Clear

45) Автоматика: machining center, magnetic card

46) Контроль качества: Monte Carlo (method)

47) Океанография: Maritime Commission

48) Сахалин Ю: marshalling cabinet

49) Расширение файла: M3CG intermediate language file (Modula-3), Manual Chapter (NRC Inspection Manual)

50) SAP.тех. код поиска

51) Нефть и газ: manual call point, medium pressure steam condensate, motor control block, завершение механической части

52) Военно-политический термин: Military Committee

53) Электротехника: making capacity, mercury contact, metal-clad, multiple contacts

54) Фармация: (масс-спектрометрия) МS (http://www.bioinformatix.ru/metabolomika/metabolomika-i-metabonomika-sovremennyie-tehnologii-toksilogicheskih-issledovaniy-chast-3.html)

55) Hi-Fi. moving coil

56) Должность: Mastered The Craft, Microsoft Certified, Music Composer

57) Чат: Microphone Commando

58) Правительство: Motor City

59) НАСА: Mars Crosser

60) Программное обеспечение: Master Copy

61) Хобби: Music Cards

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