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    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > cutting member

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    стружка; опилки; лоскутки; обрезки; обрезь; обрезок (пиломатериал); нарезание; насечка; резание; резка (напр. газовая); разрезка; разрезание; срезание; перерезание; строжка; обработка резанием; фрезерование; гранение; выемка (бульдозером); разъединение; разрыв; отсоединение; отключение; выключение; отсечка (тока); запирание (цепи); отсечение; вырезание; отбрасывание стр. выемка грунта; лес. подрубка; врубка; рубка; тесание; распиливание; с.х. косьба; кошение; покос; отросток; отводок; черенок
    - cutting accuracy - cutting amperage - cutting and bending - cutting-and-mixing machine - cutting-and-molding machine - cutting and shearing plant - cutting angle - cutting apparatus - cutting area - cutting area work - cutting assemblage - cutting axis - cutting-back - cutting band - cutting-bit head - cutting burrs - cutting by blowtorch - cutting by waterjet - cutting cam - cutting capability - cutting ceramics - cutting chain - cutting chute - cutting conditions - cutting coolant - cutting-cooling medium - cutting cycle - cutting depth - cutting device - cutting diamond - cutting die - cutting divider - cutting down - cutting-down - cutting drag - cutting drum - cutting-edge - cutting edge - cutting edge angle - cutting edge configuration - cutting edge form - cutting edge inclination - cutting edge length - cutting edge normal plane - cutting edge of a knife - cutting edge of machining technology - cutting edge package - cutting-edge seal - cutting edge sharpness - cutting edge technology - 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deep cutting - deskill cutting - diagonal cutting - diamond cutting - double cutting - double-roll cutting - double-roll tooth cutting - drill cuttings - dry cutting - ED cutting-off - ED wire cutting - edge cutting - electric arc-gas jet cutting - electrochemical hole cutting - electrochemical wire cutting - electroerosion cutting - end cutting - fabric cutting - finishing cutting - flame cutting - flux injetion cutting - form cutting - form tooth cutting - friction cutting - fusion cutting - gas cutting - gas metal cutting - gas-shielded arc cutting - gas-shielded tungsten-arc cutting - gas tungsten cutting - gear cutting - grass cutting - groove cutting - guided hand cutting - hand cutting - heavy cutting - high-pressure water-assisted cutting - hoisting and drilling load cuttings - hydraulic cutting - hydrogene cutting - in-line cutting - inserted carbide cutting - internal cutting - internally fed wet cutting - interrupted cutting - irregular depth cutting - keyway cutting - lance cutting - laser cutting - lateral cutting - length cutting - light cutting - little-and-often cutting - low-rpm cutting - machine cutting - manual air-plasma jet cutting - measure cutting - metal cutting - metal-arc cutting - metal powder cutting - miter cutting - multipass cutting - multiple milling cutting - multiple thread cutting - multitool cutting - oblique cutting - orthogonal cutting - oxy-arc cutting - oxygene-arc cutting - oxy-fuel cutting - oxy-fuel gas cutting - oxyacetylene cutting - oxyacetylene flame cutting - oxygen arc cutting - oxygen assisted laser cutting - oxygene lance cutting - oxyhydrogen cutting - oxy-propane cutting - part cutting - percussion cutting - peritheral cutting - pipe cuttings - plasma arc cutting - plasma flame cutting - plasma-jet cutting - playback laser cutting - plunge cutting - press cutting - polygon cutting - polygonal cutting - profile cutting - punch cutting - railway cutting - right-angle cutting - rotary cutting - rough cutting - round cutting - sample cutting - 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    1) часть; деталь; элемент ( конструкции)
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    3) матем. член уравнения
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  • 6 режущий инструмент

    1) General subject: cutter, cutting tool
    3) Medicine: cutting instrument
    4) Engineering: bit, machining tool, tool
    5) Mining: cutter medium
    6) Oil: edge tool
    8) Automation: cutter tool, cutting member, toolpiece
    9) Makarov: cutlery, edgetool
    10) Security: blade

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    bit, cutter, cutting member, cutter tool, cutting tool, machining tool, toolpiece

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    subst. cutting member

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  • 9 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.
       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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    1. part, piece; ( доля) portion, fraction
    частя́ми — portion-wise
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    подбира́ть ча́сти (друг к дру́гу), напр., по разме́ру — match parts for, e. g., size
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    весова́я часть — part by weight
    взаимозаменя́емые ча́сти маш. — interchangeable parts
    ча́сти в компле́кте — assorted parts, a kit of parts
    часть высо́кого давле́ния ( паровой турбины) — high-pressure section
    выступа́ющая часть — prominent [projecting] part, part extending over smth.; мн. ( корабля) appendages
    за́дняя часть — rear part; ( кузова мобиля) afterbody
    запасны́е ча́сти — spare [replacement] parts, spares
    пополня́ть запасны́е ча́сти — replenish (the block of) spares
    зара́мочная часть ( карты) — ( по бокам) edge; ( сверху и снизу) border, margin
    зара́мочная, восто́чная часть — right-hand edge of a map sheet
    зара́мочная, за́падная часть — left-hand edge of a map sheet
    зара́мочная, се́верная часть — top border [margin] of a map sheet
    зара́мочная, ю́жная часть — bottom border [margin] of a map sheet
    испари́тельная часть ( котлоагрегата) — evaporating section
    часть кома́нды, а́дресная вчт. — address part of an instruction
    часть кома́нды, модифици́руемая вчт. — indexing part of an instruction
    часть ко́мплексного числа́, действи́тельная — real part of a complex number
    часть ко́мплексного числа́, мни́мая — imaginary part of a complex number
    кормова́я часть ( судна) — stern
    часть крыла́, консо́льная — outboard wing
    часть крыла́, корнева́я — wing root
    часть крыла́, ожива́льная — ogive
    часть крыла́, отъё́мная — detachable part
    часть крыла́, пере́дняя — leading edge assembly
    часть крыла́, хвостова́я — [tailing] edge assembly
    часть крыла́, головна́я — forebody, nose (part)
    часть, кормова́я — afterbody
    часть носова́я — forebody, nose (part)
    с заострё́нной носово́й [m2]ча́стью— sharp-nosed
    с зату́пленной носово́й ча́стью — blunt-nosed
    часть локомоти́ва, экипа́жная — locomotive underframe
    материа́льная часть — material, equipment, physical facilities
    неподви́жная часть — stationary [static] part
    неразде́льная часть (чего-л. [m2]) — integral part (of smth.)
    голо́вка явля́ется неразде́льной ча́стью болта́ — the head is an integral part of a bolt
    нераствори́мая часть — insoluble part
    несу́щая часть ( конструкции) — load-carrying [load-bearing] part, load-carrying [load-bearing] member
    часть ни́зкого давле́ния ( паровой турбины) — low-pressure section
    носова́я часть ( судна) — bow
    часть обмо́тки, лобова́я эл. — coil end
    опо́рная часть ( конструкции) — bearing part, bearing member
    отде́лочная часть — finishing part
    пере́дняя часть — front, forepart
    часть пове́рхности нагре́ва (ве́рхняя радиацио́нная) — top section of a radiant heating surface
    часть пове́рхности нагре́ва, горя́чая — hot section of a heating surface
    подви́жная часть ( измерительного прибора) — movement, moving element
    крепи́ть подви́жную часть на ке́рнах в подпя́тниках — mount the movement on pivots and jewel bearings [jewels]
    крепи́ть подви́жную часть на растя́жке — support the moving element on taut bands [on taut suspensions]
    подфюзеля́жная часть ав. — belly section
    часть по́езда, хвостова́я — tail piece of a train
    часть пото́ка, вышерасполо́женная — upstream flow
    часть пото́ка, нижерасполо́женная — downstream flow
    прое́зжая часть доро́ги — roadway
    часть произведе́ния, мла́дшая — minor product
    часть произведе́ния, ста́ршая — major product
    прото́чная часть — ( гидротурбины) setting; ( парового котла) flow passage
    рабо́чая часть кали́бра — gauging member of a gauge
    рабо́чая часть шкалы́ — the effective range of a scale
    разро́зненные ча́сти — odd parts
    ре́жущая часть ( врубовой машины) — cutting end, cutting unit
    сме́нная часть — replacement part
    соедини́тельная часть — connector, connecting piece; мн. fittings
    часть сопла́, расширя́ющаяся — divergent [expanding] section of a nozzle
    часть сопла́, сужа́ющаяся — convergent section of a nozzle
    соплова́я часть ( двигателя) — nozzle end
    составна́я часть — ( сама входит в состав другой) component (part), constituent (part); ( обычно смесей) ingredient
    часть сре́днего давле́ния ( паровой турбины) — intermediate-pressure section
    часть то́плива, горю́чая — combustible matter of a fuel, dry-mineral-matter-free fuel; ракет. fuel component of a propellant
    часть то́плива, минера́льная — mineral matter of a fuel
    часть уравне́ния — side of an equation
    перенести́, напр. из ле́вой ча́сти уравне́ния в пра́вую — transpose a term from, e. g., the left-hand to the right-hand side
    приравня́ть, напр. ле́вую часть уравне́ния к нулю́ — equate e. g., the left-hand side to zero, set the left-hand side equal to zero
    часть уравне́ния, пра́вая — right(-hand) side of an equation, right(-hand) [second] member of an equation
    часть фюзеля́жа, за́дняя — rear fuselage
    часть фюзеля́жа, носова́я — forward [front] fuselage
    хвостова́я часть
    с зату́пленной хвостово́й ча́стью — blunt-based
    с клинови́дной хвостово́й ча́стью — wedge-tail(ed)
    2. ( котла) cooler parts
    ходова́я часть ( автомобиля) — driving gear, undercarriage
    часть числа́, дро́бная — fractional part of a number
    часть числа́, це́лая — integral part of a number
    часть числа́, цифрова́я — mantissa (of a floating point calculation)
    часть ши́ны, бегова́я — tread section of a tyre
    часть ши́ны, бортова́я — head (section) of a tyre
    часть ши́ны, плечева́я — shoulder section of a tyre
    часть ште́псельного разъё́ма, отве́тная — mating (part of a) connector
    часть электри́ческого соедини́теля, ви́лочная — plug connector
    часть электри́ческого соедини́теля, перехо́дная — connector adapter
    часть электри́ческого соедини́теля, розе́точная — socket connector

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > часть

  • 11 Herbert, Edward Geisler

    [br]
    b. 23 March 1869 Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, England
    d. 9 February 1938 West Didsbury, Manchester, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor of the Rapidor saw and the Pendulum Hardness Tester, and pioneer of cutting tool research.
    [br]
    Edward Geisler Herbert was educated at Nottingham High School in 1876–87, and at University College, London, in 1887–90, graduating with a BSc in Physics in 1889 and remaining for a further year to take an engineering course. He began his career as a premium apprentice at the Nottingham works of Messrs James Hill \& Co, manufacturers of lace machinery. In 1892 he became a partner with Charles Richardson in the firm of Richardson \& Herbert, electrical engineers in Manchester, and when this partnership was dissolved in 1895 he carried on the business in his own name and began to produce machine tools. He remained as Managing Director of this firm, reconstituted in 1902 as a limited liability company styled Edward G.Herbert Ltd, until his retirement in 1928. He was joined by Charles Fletcher (1868–1930), who as joint Managing Director contributed greatly to the commercial success of the firm, which specialized in the manufacture of small machine tools and testing machinery.
    Around 1900 Herbert had discovered that hacksaw machines cut very much quicker when only a few teeth are in operation, and in 1902 he patented a machine which utilized this concept by automatically changing the angle of incidence of the blade as cutting proceeded. These saws were commercially successful, but by 1912, when his original patents were approaching expiry, Herbert and Fletcher began to develop improved methods of applying the rapid-saw concept. From this work the well-known Rapidor and Manchester saws emerged soon after the First World War. A file-testing machine invented by Herbert before the war made an autographic record of the life and performance of the file and brought him into close contact with the file and tool steel manufacturers of Sheffield. A tool-steel testing machine, working like a lathe, was introduced when high-speed steel had just come into general use, and Herbert became a prominent member of the Cutting Tools Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1919, carrying out many investigations for that body and compiling four of its Reports published between 1927 and 1933. He was the first to conceive the idea of the "tool-work" thermocouple which allowed cutting tool temperatures to be accurately measured. For this advance he was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution in 1926.
    His best-known invention was the Pendulum Hardness Tester, introduced in 1923. This used a spherical indentor, which was rolled over, rather than being pushed into, the surface being examined, by a small, heavy, inverted pendulum. The period of oscillation of this pendulum provided a sensitive measurement of the specimen's hardness. Following this work Herbert introduced his "Cloudburst" surface hardening process, in which hardened steel engineering components were bombarded by steel balls moving at random in all directions at very high velocities like gaseous molecules. This treatment superhardened the surface of the components, improved their resistance to abrasion, and revealed any surface defects. After bombardment the hardness of the superficially hardened layers increased slowly and spontaneously by a room-temperature ageing process. After his retirement in 1928 Herbert devoted himself to a detailed study of the influence of intense magnetic fields on the hardening of steels.
    Herbert was a member of several learned societies, including the Manchester Association of Engineers, the Institute of Metals, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He retained a seat on the Board of his company from his retirement until the end of his life.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Manchester Association of Engineers Butterworth Gold Medal 1923. Institution of Mechanical Engineers Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal 1926.
    Bibliography
    E.G.Herbert obtained several British and American patents and was the author of many papers, which are listed in T.M.Herbert (ed.), 1939, "The inventions of Edward Geisler Herbert: an autobiographical note", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 141: 59–67.
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    Biographical history of technology > Herbert, Edward Geisler

  • 12 ejecutivo

    adj.
    executive.
    m.
    executive, exec, business executive, officer.
    * * *
    1 executive
    2 (rápido) prompt
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 executive
    1 (gobierno) the government
    \
    poder ejecutivo the executive
    * * *
    (f. - ejecutiva)
    noun adj.
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -a
    1. ADJ
    1) [función, poder] executive
    2) (=urgente) [petición] pressing, insistent; [respuesta] prompt; [negocio] urgent, immediate
    2.
    SM (Pol) executive
    3.
    SM / F (Com) executive

    ejecutivo/a de cuentas — account executive

    ejecutivo/a de ventas — sales executive

    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo <función/comisión> executive
    II
    - va masculino, femenino
    1) (Adm, Com) executive
    2) ejecutivo masculino (Gob) executive
    * * *
    = executive, business executive, administrative, administrator, corporate executive, exec, executive.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    Ex. The trustee was generally male, 'past his prime', white, Protestant, well educated, wealthy, a member of the social elite, and usually a member of a profession or a business executive.
    Ex. There is now the highest number of women in top administrative positions than there has been before: 54 women out of a total of 111 directorships.
    Ex. With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex. There are millions of jokes about dumb blondes, but there is not so many jokes about cooperate executives.
    Ex. Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    ----
    * búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunting, executive search.
    * director ejecutivo = chief executive.
    * ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * ejecutivo superior = top executive.
    * empresa de búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunter.
    * poder ejecutivo = chief executive, executive arm, executive power.
    * poder ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * resumen ejecutivo = executive summary.
    * secretario ejecutivo = executive secretary.
    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo <función/comisión> executive
    II
    - va masculino, femenino
    1) (Adm, Com) executive
    2) ejecutivo masculino (Gob) executive
    * * *
    el ejecutivo
    = Executive, the

    Ex: Granting the Executive the power to torture people and jail them indefinitely, without meaningful judicial review, is like playing with fire.

    = executive, business executive, administrative, administrator, corporate executive, exec, executive.

    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.

    Ex: The trustee was generally male, 'past his prime', white, Protestant, well educated, wealthy, a member of the social elite, and usually a member of a profession or a business executive.
    Ex: There is now the highest number of women in top administrative positions than there has been before: 54 women out of a total of 111 directorships.
    Ex: With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex: There are millions of jokes about dumb blondes, but there is not so many jokes about cooperate executives.
    Ex: Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of Managerial Work'.
    * búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunting, executive search.
    * director ejecutivo = chief executive.
    * ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * ejecutivo superior = top executive.
    * empresa de búsqueda personalizada de ejecutivos = headhunter.
    * poder ejecutivo = chief executive, executive arm, executive power.
    * poder ejecutivo, el = Executive, the.
    * resumen ejecutivo = executive summary.
    * secretario ejecutivo = executive secretary.

    * * *
    ejecutivo1 -va
    ‹función/comisión› executive director, poder2 m D. (↑ poder (2))
    ejecutivo2 -va
    masculine, feminine
    A ( Adm, Com) (persona) executive
    ejecutivo de ventas sales executive
    B
    ejecutivo masculine ( Gob): el ejecutivo the executive
    el jefe del ejecutivo the head of the government o the executive
    * * *

     

    ejecutivo 1
    ◊ -va adjetivo ‹función/comisión› executive

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (Bot, Com) executive
    ejecutivo 2 sustantivo masculino (Gob) executive
    ejecutivo,-a
    I adjetivo executive
    el consejo ejecutivo, the executive council
    II sustantivo masculino executive

    ' ejecutivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ejecutiva
    - alto
    English:
    executive
    - high-powered
    - hotshot
    - MD
    - managing director
    - take
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -a
    ♦ adj
    executive
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] executive;
    ejecutivo agresivo thrusting executive;
    un alto ejecutivo de la compañía a top executive of the company
    ejecutivo de cuentas account executive;
    ejecutivo de marketing marketing executive;
    ejecutivo de ventas sales executive
    ♦ nm
    Pol
    el ejecutivo o [m5] Ejecutivo the government;
    fuentes del ejecutivo government sources
    * * *
    I adj executive;
    el poder ejecutivo POL the executive
    II m
    1 executive;
    alto ejecutivo top executive
    2
    :
    el Ejecutivo the government
    * * *
    ejecutivo, -va adj & n
    : executive
    * * *
    ejecutivo adj n executive

    Spanish-English dictionary > ejecutivo

  • 13 force

    4) вставлять с усилием, вдавливать; вгонять, загонять
    6) усиливать; ускорять; увеличивать
    •
    force A is equal and opposite to force B — сила А равна по величине и противоположна по направлению силе В;
    force between track links — натяг между звеньями траковой цепи;
    force in the joint — рбт усилие в сочленении;
    to balance force — уравновешивать силу;
    to exert force — прикладывать силу; прилагать усилие;
    to force home — вгонять (загонять) до отказа;
    to impress force upon structure — прикладывать силу к конструкции или к сооружению;
    to place forces in equilibrium — уравновешивать силы;
    to take ( up) force — воспринимать усилие;
    to force through — продавливать; проталкивать
    force of current interaction — сила взаимодействия токов, экстрадинамическая сила
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    accelerating force
    -
    actual cutting force
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    actuation force
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    adhesion force
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    adsorption forces
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    aerodynamic force
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    aggregation force
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    alternating electromotive force
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    alternating force
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    applied force
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    ascensional force
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    attracting force
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    axial force
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    back electromotive force
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    balance force
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    bending force
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    Bernoulli force
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    biasing magnetizing force
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    body force
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    bolt strap force
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    bonding force
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    braking force
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    breakdown force
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    breakout force
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    buckling force
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    buffing force
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    buoyancy force
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    calculated force
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    calibration force
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    centrifugal force
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    centripetal force
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    clamping force
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    climb force
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    coercitive force
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    coercive force
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    cohesive force
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    collapsing force
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    collision force
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    compression force
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    concentrated force
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    constraining force
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    contact electromotive force
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    contact extraction force
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    contact force
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    contact retention force
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    contractive force
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    Coriolis force
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    cornering force
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    correct track assembly force
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    Coulomb force
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    counter-electromotive force
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    crack-driving force
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    crowding force
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    crowd force
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    crushing force
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    cutting force
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    damping force
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    deflecting force
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    deforming force
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    demagnetization force
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    differential force
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    digging force
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    direct force
    -
    directive force
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    draft force
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    drag force
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    drawbar pulling force
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    drawing force
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    driving force
    -
    dynamic force
    -
    effective force
    -
    effective tractive force
    -
    elastic force
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    electric force
    -
    electrodynamic force
    -
    electrokinetic force
    -
    electromotive force
    -
    electrostatic force
    -
    engaging force
    -
    equivalent force
    -
    exchange forces
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    expulsive force
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    external force
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    feed force
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    field force
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    flow force
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    flux force
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    fracture-driving force
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    fracture force
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    frictional force
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    friction force
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    gravitational force
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    gravity force
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    gripping force
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    hydraulic tractive force
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    ice force
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    image force
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    impact force
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    imposed force
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    impulsive force
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    induced electromotive force
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    inertial force
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    insertion force
    -
    instantaneous force
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    interacting forces
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    interionic forces
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    intermolecular forces
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    internal force
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    ionic force
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    jacking force
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    labor force
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    landing force
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    lateral force
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    levitating force
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    lifting force
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    lift force
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    lip force
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    longitudinal impact force
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    magnetic force
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    magnetizing force
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    magnetomotive force
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    magnifying force
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    mechanical force
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    member force
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    momentary force
    -
    motive force
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    mutual electrodynamic force
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    net drag force
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    net force
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    normal force
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    nuclear forces
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    oil stiction force
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    opposite forces
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    photoelectromotive force
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    pinch force
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    plane-strain crack resistance force
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    ploughing force
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    plug thrust force
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    ponderomotive force
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    press force
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    pressing force
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    pressure-gradient force
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    prestressing force
    -
    proper force
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    propulsive force
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    pryout force
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    psophometric electromotive force
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    pullout force
    -
    pull force
    -
    pulling force
    -
    pulsating electromotive force
    -
    raising force
    -
    rated force
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    reacting force
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    reaction force
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    reactive electromotive force
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    reactive force
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    release force
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    repair force
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    repulsive force
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    reset force
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    resistance force
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    restraining force
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    resultant force
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    retarding force
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    retention force
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    rotating electromotive force
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    saturating forces
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    secondary force
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    seepage force
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    self-inductance electromotive force
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    separating force
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    shearing force
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    shear force
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    side force
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    single force
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    skating force
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    sliding resistance force
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    space force
    -
    specific cutting force
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    specific friction force
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    spring force
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    starting force
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    steady cutting force
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    stretching force
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    suction force
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    sump force
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    superposed force
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    supporting force
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    surface tension force
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    tangential cutting force
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    tangential force
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    task force
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    tearing force
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    tensile force
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    thermal electromotive force
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    thermoelectromotive force
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    Thomson electromotive force
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    tide-generating force
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    tighting force
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    torque force
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    total electromotive force
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    total force
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    towing force
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    tracking force
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    tractive force
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    transient cutting force
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    transverse force
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    turret clamping force
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    twisting force
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    unit force
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    uplift force
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    upward force
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    Van der Waals forces
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    vectorial force
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    vector force
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    viscous force
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    water force
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    wave force
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    wind force
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    withdrawal force

    Англо-русский словарь технических терминов > force

  • 14 press

    pres
    1. verb
    1) (to use a pushing motion (against): Press the bell twice!; The children pressed close to their mother.) apretar, presionar
    2) (to squeeze; to flatten: The grapes are pressed to extract the juice.) exprimir, estrujar; prensar
    3) (to urge or hurry: He pressed her to enter the competition.) presionar; apremiar
    4) (to insist on: The printers are pressing their claim for higher pay.) presionar, insistir
    5) (to iron: Your trousers need to be pressed.) planchar

    2. noun
    1) (an act of pressing: He gave her hand a press; You had better give your shirt a press.) apretón; planchado
    2) ((also printing-press) a printing machine.) prensa
    3) (newspapers in general: It was reported in the press; (also adjective) a press photographer.) prensa
    4) (the people who work on newspapers and magazines; journalists: The press is/are always interested in the private lives of famous people.) prensa
    5) (a device or machine for pressing: a wine-press; a flower-press.) prensa
    •
    - press conference
    - press-cutting
    - be hard pressed
    - be pressed for
    - press for
    - press forward/on
    press1 n prensa
    press2 vb apretar / pulsar
    to print the document, press F7 para imprimir el documento, pulsa F7
    tr[pres]
    1 (newspapers) prensa
    ■ the gutter press la prensa sensacionalista, la prensa amarilla
    2 (printing machine) prensa, imprenta
    3 (for grapes, flowers) prensa
    1 (push down - button, switch) pulsar, apretar, presionar; (- accelerator) pisar; (- key on keyboard) pulsar; (- trigger) apretar
    3 (crush - fruit) exprimir, estrujar; (- grapes, olives, flowers) prensar
    4 (clothes) planchar, planchar a vapor
    5 (record) imprimir
    6 (urge, put pressure on) presionar, instar; (insist on) insistir en, exigir
    1 (push) apretar, presionar
    2 (crowd) apretujarse, apiñarse
    3 (urge, pressurize) presionar, insistir; (time) apremiar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at the time of going to press al cierre de la edición
    to go to press entrar en prensa
    to have a good/bad press tener buena/mala prensa
    to press a point recalcar un punto
    to press charges against somebody presentar cargos contra alguien, formular cargos contra alguien
    to press home an advantage aprovechar una ventaja
    press agency agencia de prensa
    press conference conferencia de prensa, rueda de prensa
    press cutting recorte nombre masculino de prensa
    press box tribuna de prensa
    press release comunicado de prensa
    press stud botón nombre masculino de presión
    press ['prɛs] vt
    1) push: apretar
    2) squeeze: apretar, prensar (frutas, flores, etc.)
    3) iron: planchar (ropa)
    4) urge: instar, apremiar
    he pressed me to come: insistió en que viniera
    press vi
    1) push: apretar
    press hard: aprieta con fuerza
    2) crowd: apiñarse
    3) : abrirse paso
    I pressed through the crowd: me abrí paso entre el gentío
    4) urge: presionar
    1) crowd: multitud f
    2) : imprenta f, prensa f
    to go to press: entrar en prensa
    3) urgency: urgencia f, prisa f
    4) printer, publisher: imprenta f, editorial f
    5)
    the press : la prensa
    freedom of the press: libertad de prensa
    adj.
    • de prensa adj.
    n.
    (§ pl.: presses) = estampa s.f.
    • imprenta s.f.
    • prensa s.f.
    • presión s.f.
    • urgencia s.f.
    v.
    • empujar v.
    • estrechar v.
    • estrujar v.
    • gravitar v.
    • instar v.
    • oprimir v.
    • planchar v.
    • prensar v.
    • presionar v.
    • pulsar (Tecla, botón) v.
    • urgir v.
    pres
    I
    1) u
    a) (newspapers, journalists) prensa f

    the freedom of the press — la libertad de prensa; (before n) <box, gallery> de (la) prensa

    press agency — (BrE) agencia f de prensa

    press agent — encargado, -da m,f de prensa

    press clipping o (BrE) cutting — recorte m de prensa

    press office — oficina f de prensa

    press photographer — reportero gráfico, reportera gráfica m,f

    press release — comunicado m de prensa

    press run — (AmE) tirada f

    to get a good/bad press — tener* buena/mala prensa, tener* buena/mala acogida por parte de la prensa

    2) c
    a) ( printing press) prensa f, imprenta f
    b) ( publishing house) editorial f
    3) c (for pressing - grapes, flowers, machine parts) prensa f; (- trousers) prensa f plancha-pantalones

    II
    1.
    1) ( push) \<\<button/doorbell\>\> apretar*, pulsar; \<\<pedal/footbrake\>\> pisar
    2)
    a) ( squeeze) apretar*
    b) ( in press) \<\<grapes/olives/flowers\>\> prensar
    c) \<\<disk/album\>\> imprimir*
    d) \<\<clothes\>\> planchar
    3)

    when pressed, she admitted it — cuando la presionaron, lo admitió

    to press somebody FOR something/to + INF: I pressed him for an answer insistí en que or exigí que me diera una respuesta; they pressed him to change his policy — ejercieron presión sobre él para que cambiara de política

    b) ( pursue)

    to press charges against somebody — presentar or formular cargos en contra de alguien


    2.
    vi
    1)

    press firmly — presione or apriete con fuerza

    to press (down) ON something — apretar* algo, hacer* presión sobre algo

    b) (crowd, push) \<\<people\>\> apretujarse, apiñarse
    2) (urge, pressurize) presionar

    to press FOR something: they've been pressing for an inquiry han estado presionando para que se haga una investigación; time presses o is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    [pres]
    1. NOUN
    1) (Publishing)
    a) (=newspapers collectively) prensa f

    • to get or have a good/ bad press — (lit, fig) tener buena/mala prensa

    • the press — (=newspapers, journalists) la prensa

    the press reported that... — la prensa informó que...

    member of the press — periodista mf, miembro mf de la prensa

    the national/local press — la prensa nacional/regional

    free 1., 4), gutter I, 2.
    b) (=printing press) imprenta f

    • to go to press — entrar en prensa

    • hot off the press(es) — recién salido de la imprenta

    • to be in press — estar en prensa

    • to pass sth for press — aprobar algo para la prensa

    • to set the presses rolling — poner las prensas en marcha

    c) (=publishing firm) editorial f
    2) (=touch) (with hand) apretón m

    • at the press of a button — con solo apretar un botón

    • to give sth a press — planchar algo

    4) (=apparatus, machine) (for wine, olives, cheese, moulding) prensa f ; (also: trouser press) prensa f para planchar pantalones; (for racket) tensor m

    hydraulic press — prensa f hidráulica

    cider 2., printing 2.
    5) (=crush) apiñamiento m, agolpamiento m
    6) (Weightlifting) presa f
    7) (=cupboard) armario m
    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) (=push, squeeze)
    a) [+ button, switch, doorbell] pulsar, apretar; [+ hand, trigger] apretar; [+ accelerator] pisar

    select the option required, then press "enter" — escoja la opción que desee, y luego pulse or apriete "intro"

    • he pressed his face against the window — apretó la cara contra el cristal

    she pressed herself against me/the wall — se apretó contra mí/contra la pared

    • she pressed a note into his hand — le metió un billete en la mano

    • she pressed the lid on (to) the box — cerró la caja apretando la tapa

    • he pressed her to him — la atrajo hacia sí

    • he pressed his fingertips together — juntó las yemas de los dedos

    - press the flesh
    b) (painfully) apretujar

    as the crowd moved back he found himself pressed up against a wall — a medida que la multitud retrocedía, se vio apretujado contra una pared

    2) (using press) [+ grapes, olives, flowers] prensar
    3) (=iron) [+ clothes] planchar
    4) (Tech) (=make) [+ machine part] prensar; [+ record, disk] imprimir
    5) (=pressurize) presionar

    when pressed, she conceded the point — cuando la presionaron, les dio la razón

    • to press sb for sth — exigir algo de algn

    to press sb for payment — insistir en que algn pague, exigir a algn el pago de lo que se debe

    • to press sb into doing sth — obligar a algn a hacer algo

    • to press sb to do sth — (=urge) insistir en que algn haga algo; (=pressurize) presionar a algn para que haga algo

    pressed
    6) (=insist)

    she smiles coyly when pressed about her private life — cuando insisten en querer saber sobre su vida privada, sonríe con coquetería

    7) (=force)

    • to press sth on sb — insistir en que algn acepte algo

    8)

    • to be pressed into service, we were all pressed into service — todos tuvimos que ponernos a trabajar

    9) (=pursue) [+ claim] insistir en; [+ demand] exigir

    • his officials have visited Washington to press their case for economic aid — sus representantes han ido a Washington para hacer presión a favor de la ayuda económica

    • to press charges (against sb) — presentar cargos (contra algn)

    • the champion failed to press home his advantage — el campeón no supo aprovechar su ventaja

    • I shan't press the point — no insistiré más sobre eso

    suit 1., 4)
    3. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    1) (=exert pressure) apretar

    does it hurt when I press here? — ¿le duele cuando le aprieto aquí?

    • I felt something hard press into my back — noté la presión de algo duro que se apretaba contra mi espalda

    • the bone was pressing on a nerve — el hueso estaba pinzando un nervio

    2) (=move, push)

    • he pressed against her — se apretó contra ella

    • the crowd pressed round him — la muchedumbre se apiñó en torno a él

    • he pressed through the crowd — se abrió paso entre la muchedumbre

    • the audience pressed towards the exit — el público se apresuró hacia la salida

    3) (=urge, agitate)

    • to press for sth — exigir algo, insistir en algo

    to press for sb to resign — exigir la dimisión de algn, insistir en que algn dimita

    • time is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    4) (=weigh heavily)

    • to press on sb — pesar sobre algn

    4.
    COMPOUNDS

    press agency N — agencia f de prensa

    press agent N — encargado(-a) m / f de prensa

    press attaché N — agregado(-a) m / f de prensa

    press baron N — magnate m de la prensa

    press box N — tribuna f de prensa

    press briefing N — rueda f de prensa, conferencia f de prensa

    press card N — pase m de periodista, carnet m de prensa

    press clipping N — = press cutting

    press conference N — rueda f de prensa, conferencia f de prensa

    to call a press conference — convocar una rueda or una conferencia de prensa

    to hold a press conference — celebrar una rueda or una conferencia de prensa

    press corps N — prensa f acreditada

    press coverage N — cobertura f periodística

    press cutting N — recorte m (de periódico)

    press gallery N — tribuna f de prensa

    press gang N — (Hist) leva f

    press kit N — kit m de prensa

    press launch N — lanzamiento m de prensa

    press office N — oficina f de prensa

    press officer N — agente mf de prensa

    press pack N — (=information pack) dosier m de prensa; pej (=group of reporters) grupo m de reporteros; (=sensationalist press) prensa f amarilla

    press pass N — pase m de prensa

    press photographer N — fotógrafo(-a) m / f de prensa

    press release N — comunicado m de prensa

    to issue or put out a press release — publicar un comunicado de prensa

    press report N — nota f de prensa, reportaje m de prensa

    press room N — sala f de prensa

    press run N — (US) tirada f

    press secretary N — secretario(-a) m / f de prensa

    press stud N — (Brit) automático m, broche m de presión

    press view N — preestreno m (para prensa)

    * * *
    [pres]
    I
    1) u
    a) (newspapers, journalists) prensa f

    the freedom of the press — la libertad de prensa; (before n) <box, gallery> de (la) prensa

    press agency — (BrE) agencia f de prensa

    press agent — encargado, -da m,f de prensa

    press clipping o (BrE) cutting — recorte m de prensa

    press office — oficina f de prensa

    press photographer — reportero gráfico, reportera gráfica m,f

    press release — comunicado m de prensa

    press run — (AmE) tirada f

    to get a good/bad press — tener* buena/mala prensa, tener* buena/mala acogida por parte de la prensa

    2) c
    a) ( printing press) prensa f, imprenta f
    b) ( publishing house) editorial f
    3) c (for pressing - grapes, flowers, machine parts) prensa f; (- trousers) prensa f plancha-pantalones

    II
    1.
    1) ( push) \<\<button/doorbell\>\> apretar*, pulsar; \<\<pedal/footbrake\>\> pisar
    2)
    a) ( squeeze) apretar*
    b) ( in press) \<\<grapes/olives/flowers\>\> prensar
    c) \<\<disk/album\>\> imprimir*
    d) \<\<clothes\>\> planchar
    3)

    when pressed, she admitted it — cuando la presionaron, lo admitió

    to press somebody FOR something/to + INF: I pressed him for an answer insistí en que or exigí que me diera una respuesta; they pressed him to change his policy — ejercieron presión sobre él para que cambiara de política

    b) ( pursue)

    to press charges against somebody — presentar or formular cargos en contra de alguien


    2.
    vi
    1)

    press firmly — presione or apriete con fuerza

    to press (down) ON something — apretar* algo, hacer* presión sobre algo

    b) (crowd, push) \<\<people\>\> apretujarse, apiñarse
    2) (urge, pressurize) presionar

    to press FOR something: they've been pressing for an inquiry han estado presionando para que se haga una investigación; time presses o is pressing — el tiempo apremia

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > press

  • 15 Benton, Linn Boyd

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 13 May 1844 Little Falls, New York, USA
    d. 15 July 1932 Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    American typefounder, cutter and designer, inventor of the automatic punch-cutting machine.
    [br]
    Benton spent his childhood in Milwaukee and La Crosse, where he early showed a talent for mechanical invention. His father was a lawyer with an interest in newspapers and who acquired the Milwaukee Daily News. Benton became familiar with typesetting equipment in his father's newspaper office. He learned the printer's trade at another newspaper office, at La Crosse, and later worked as bookkeeper at a type foundry in Milwaukee. When that failed in 1873, Benton acquired the plant, and when he was joined by R.V.Waldo the firm became Benton, Waldo \& Co. Benton began learning and improving type-cutting practice. He first devised unit-width or "self-spacing" type which became popular with compositors, saving, it was reckoned, 20 per cent of their time. Meanwhile, Benton worked on a punch-cutting machine to speed up the process of cutting letters in the steel punches from which matrices or moulds were formed to enable type to be cast from molten metal. His first mechanical punch-cutter worked successfully in 1884. The third machine, patented in 1885, was the model that revolutionized the typefounding operation. So far, punch-cutting had been done by hand, a rare and expensive skill that was insufficient to meet the demands of the new typesetting machines, the monotype of Lanston and the linotype of Merganthaler. These were threatened with failure until Benton saved the day with his automatic punch-cutter. Mechanizing punch-cutting and the forming of matrices made possible the typesetting revolution brought about by mono-and linotype.
    In 1892 Benton's firm merged with others to form the American Type Founders Company. Benton's equipment was moved to New York and he with it, to become a board member and Chief Technical Advisor. In 1894 he became Manager of the company's new plant for type manufacture in Jersey City. Benton steadily improved both machinery and processes, for which he was granted twenty patents. With his son Morris Fuller, he was also notable and prolific in the field of type design. Benton remained in active association with his company until just two weeks before his death.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1932, Inland Printer (August): 53–4.
    P.Cost, 1985, "The contributions of Lyn [sic] Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton to the technology of typesetting and the art of typeface design", unpublished MSc thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology (the most thorough treatment).
    H.L.Bullen, 1922, Inland Printer (October) (describes Benton's life and work).
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  • 16 directivo

    adj.
    directive, managerial, directory, managing.
    m.
    executive, trustee, staff member, official.
    * * *
    1 directive, managing
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 director, manager, board member
    * * *
    1. (f. - directiva)
    adj.
    managerial, executive
    2. (f. - directiva)
    noun
    director, executive
    * * *
    directivo, -a
    1.
    ADJ [junta] managing; [función] managerial, administrative; [clase] executive
    2.
    SM / F (Com) manager
    * * *
    masculino ( gerente) manager; ( ejecutivo) executive, director
    * * *
    = managerial, official, top official, administrator, top executive, top position, senior manager, top manager, exec.
    Nota: Abreviatura de executive.
    Ex. The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of managerial Work'.
    Ex. See also reference tracings include related headings such as personal and corporate headings for officials, pseudonyms used as uniform headings, etc.
    Ex. Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex. With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex. A survey of 40 organisations was used to identify the problems more frequently encountered by top executives using computers for decision support.
    Ex. In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex. Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager.
    Ex. In comparison with the previous year, the remuneration of top managers grew on average by about 7.5% in 2002.
    Ex. Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    ----
    * comité directivo = steering committee.
    * comité directivo de un partido = caucus [caucuses, pl.].
    * directivo de agencia de publicidad = advertising executive.
    * directivo del comercio minorista = retail executive.
    * directivos = senior staff, senior management, administrative personnel.
    * Junta Directiva de la IFLA = IFLA's Executive Board.
    * reunión de la junta directiva = board meeting.
    * * *
    masculino ( gerente) manager; ( ejecutivo) executive, director
    * * *
    = managerial, official, top official, administrator, top executive, top position, senior manager, top manager, exec.
    Nota: Abreviatura de executive.

    Ex: The course had concentrated on executive decision making, with a side excursion into the study and findings of Henry Mintzberg as reported in his book, 'The Nature of managerial Work'.

    Ex: See also reference tracings include related headings such as personal and corporate headings for officials, pseudonyms used as uniform headings, etc.
    Ex: Some who felt that many of the top officials in libraries and professional organizations were men.
    Ex: With continued acquiescence to budget-cutting administrators, tomorrow's libraries may be viewed as mere custodians and perhaps even superfluous to their institutions.
    Ex: A survey of 40 organisations was used to identify the problems more frequently encountered by top executives using computers for decision support.
    Ex: In spite of the preponderance of women in the profession 44 of 61 top positions are held by men.
    Ex: Jan Wilkinson has wide experience of a variety of academic libraries and has spent fifteen years as a senior manager.
    Ex: In comparison with the previous year, the remuneration of top managers grew on average by about 7.5% in 2002.
    Ex: Although there is consensus on the priority of some strategies, execs from different departments don't see eye to eye on many others.
    * comité directivo = steering committee.
    * comité directivo de un partido = caucus [caucuses, pl.].
    * directivo de agencia de publicidad = advertising executive.
    * directivo del comercio minorista = retail executive.
    * directivos = senior staff, senior management, administrative personnel.
    * Junta Directiva de la IFLA = IFLA's Executive Board.
    * reunión de la junta directiva = board meeting.

    * * *
    directivo1 -va
    managerial, executive
    (gerente) manager; (ejecutivo) executive, director
    * * *

    directivo,-a
    I adjetivo directive
    junta directiva, board of directors
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino director, member of the board
    ' directivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    directiva
    - dirección
    English:
    managerial
    - official
    - senior
    - director
    * * *
    directivo, -a
    ♦ adj
    managerial;
    la junta directiva del club the management team of the club;
    un cargo directivo a management post
    ♦ nm,f
    [jefe] manager
    * * *
    I adj governing; COM managing
    II m, directiva f COM manager;
    alto directivo top executive
    * * *
    directivo, -va adj
    : executive, managerial
    directivo, -va n
    : executive, director
    * * *
    directivo n manager / director

    Spanish-English dictionary > directivo

  • 17 Buckle, William

    [br]
    b. 29 July 1794 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
    d. 30 September 1863 London, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer who introduced the first large screw-cutting lathe to Boulton, Watt \& Co.
    [br]
    William Buckle was the son of Thomas Buckle (1759–1849), a millwright who later assisted the 9th Earl of Dundonald (1749–1831) in his various inventions, principally machines for the manufacture of rope. Soon after the birth of William, the family moved from Alnwick to Hull, Yorkshire, where he received his education. The family again moved c.1808 to London, and William was apprenticed to Messrs Woolf \& Edwards, millwrights and engineers of Lambeth. During his apprenticeship he attended evening classes at a mechanical drawing school in Finsbury, which was then the only place of its kind in London.
    After completing his apprenticeship, he was sent by Messrs Humphrys to Memel in Prussia to establish steamboats on the rivers and lakes there under the patronage of the Prince of Hardenburg. After about four years he returned to Britain and was employed by Boulton, Watt \& Co. to install the engines in the first steam mail packet for the service between Dublin and Holyhead. He was responsible for the engines of the steamship Lightning when it was used on the visit of George IV to Ireland.
    About 1824 Buckle was engaged by Boulton, Watt \& Co. as Manager of the Soho Foundry, where he is credited with introducing the first large screw-cutting lathe. At Soho about 700 or 800 men were employed on a wide variety of engineering manufacture, including coining machinery for mints in many parts of the world, with some in 1826 for the Mint at the Soho Manufactory. In 1851, following the recommendations of a Royal Commission, the Royal Mint in London was reorganized and Buckle was asked to take the post of Assistant Coiner, the senior executive officer under the Deputy Master. This he accepted, retaining the post until the end of his life.
    At Soho, Buckle helped to establish a literary and scientific institution to provide evening classes for the apprentices and took part in the teaching. He was an original member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, which was founded in Birmingham in January 1847, and a member of their Council from then until 1855. He contributed a number of papers in the early years, including a memoir of William Murdock whom he had known at Soho; he resigned from the Institution in 1856 after his move to London. He was an honorary member of the London Association of Foreman Engineers.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1850, "Inventions and life of William Murdock", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 2 (October): 16–26.
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  • 18 Taylor, Frederick Winslow

    [br]
    b. 20 March 1856 Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 21 March 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and pioneer of scientific management.
    [br]
    Frederick W.Taylor received his early education from his mother, followed by some years of schooling in France and Germany. Then in 1872 he entered Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, to prepare for Harvard Law School, as it was intended that he should follow his father's profession. However, in 1874 he had to abandon his studies because of poor eyesight, and he began an apprenticeship at a pump-manufacturing works in Philadelphia learning the trades of pattern-maker and machinist. On its completion in 1878 he joined the Midvale Steel Company, at first as a labourer but then as Shop Clerk and Foreman, finally becoming Chief Engineer in 1884. At the same time he was able to resume study in the evenings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and in 1883 he obtained the degree of Mechanical Engineer (ME). He also found time to take part in amateur sport and in 1881 he won the tennis doubles championship of the United States.
    It was while with the Midvale Steel Company that Taylor began the systematic study of workshop management, and the application of his techniques produced significant increases in the company's output and productivity. In 1890 he became Manager of a company operating large paper mills in Maine and Wisconsin, until 1893 when he set up on his own account as a consulting engineer specializing in management organization. In 1898 he was retained exclusively by the Bethlehem Steel Company, and there continued his work on the metal-cutting process that he had started at Midvale. In collaboration with J.Maunsel White (1856–1912) he developed high-speed tool steels and their heat treatment which increased cutting capacity by up to 300 per cent. He resigned from the Bethlehem Steel Company in 1901 and devoted the remainder of his life to expounding the principles of scientific management which became known as "Taylorism". The Society to Promote the Science of Management was established in 1911, renamed the Taylor Society after his death. He was an active member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was its President in 1906; his presidential address "On the Art of Cutting Metals" was reprinted in book form.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Paris Exposition Gold Medal 1900. Franklin Institute Elliott Cresson Gold Medal 1900. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1906. Hon. ScD, University of Pennsylvania 1906. Hon. LLD, Hobart College 1912.
    Bibliography
    F.W.Taylor was the author of about 100 patents, several papers to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, On the Art of Cutting Metals (1907, New York) and The Principles of Scientific Management (1911, New York) and, with S.E.Thompson, 1905 A Treatise on Concrete, New York, and Concrete Costs, 1912, New York.
    Further Reading
    The standard biography is Frank B.Copley, 1923, Frederick W.Taylor, Father of Scientific Management, New York (reprinted 1969, New York) and there have been numerous commentaries on his work: see, for example, Daniel Nelson, 1980, Frederick W.Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management, Madison, Wis.
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  • 19 Bilgram, Hugo

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    b. 13 January 1847 Memmingen, Bavaria, Germany
    d. 27 August 1932 Moylan, Pennsylvania, USA
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    German (naturalized American) mechanical engineer, inventor of bevel-gear generator and economist.
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    Hugo Bilgram studied mechanical engineering at the Augsburg Maschinenbau Schule and graduated in 1865. He worked as a machinist and draughtsman for several firms in Germany before going to the United States in 1869.
    In America he first worked for L.B.Flanders Company and Southwark Foundry \& Machine Company in Philadelphia, designing instruments and machines. In the 1870s he also assisted in an evening class in drawing at The Franklin Institute. He devised the Bilgram Valve Diagram for analysing the action of steam engine slide valves and he developed a method of drawing accurate outlines of gear teeth. This led him to design a machine for cutting the teeth of gear wheels, particularly bevel wheels, which he patented in 1884. He was in charge of the American branch of Brehmer Brothers Company from 1879 and in 1884 became the sole owner of the company, which was later incorporated as the Bilgram Machine Works. He was responsible for several other inventions and developments in gear manufacture.
    Bilgram was a member of the Franklin Institute, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the Philadelphia Technische Verein and the Philadelphia Engineer's Club, and was elected a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1885. He was also an amateur botanist, keenly interested in microscopic work.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute Elliott Cresson Gold Medal. City of Philadelphia John Scott Medal.
    Bibliography
    Hugo Bilgram was granted several patents and was the author of: 1877, Slide Valve Gears.
    1889, Involuntary Idleness.
    1914, The Cause of Business Depression.
    1928, The Remedy for Overproduction and Unemployment.
    Further Reading
    Robert S.Woodbury, 1958, History of the Gear-cutting Machine, Cambridge, Mass, (describes Bilgram's bevel-gear generating machine).
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  • 20 उत्तर _uttara

    1
    उत्तर a. [उद्-तरप्]
    1 Being or produced in the north, northern (declined like a pronoun).
    -2 Upper, higher P.I.1.34 (opp. अधर); उत्तरे-अधरे दन्ताः Śat. Br.; अवनतोत्तरकायम् R.9.6; P.II.2.1.
    -3 (a) Later-latter, following, subsequent (opp. पूर्व); पूर्वमेघः, उत्तरमेघः, ˚मीमांसा; उत्तरार्धः &c. ˚रामचरितम् later adventures of Rāma U.1.2; पूर्वः उत्तरः former-latter H.1.9; एतानि मान्यस्थानानि गरीयो यद्यदुत्तरम् Ms.2.136. (b) Future; concluding; ˚कालः subsequent time; ˚फलम्; ˚वचनम् a reply.
    -4 Left (opp. दक्षिण).
    -5 Superior, chief, excellent; dominant, power- ful. आनयेङ्गुदिपिण्याकं चीरमाहर चोत्तरम् Rām.2.13.2; वाद्यमानेषु तूर्येषु मल्लतारोत्तरेषु च Bhāg.1.42.36.
    -6 Exceeding, transgressing, beyond; तर्कोत्तराम् Mv.2.6.
    -7 More, more than (generally as the last member of a comp. with numerals); षडुत्तरा विंशतिः 26; अष्टोत्तरं शतं 18; दशनागबलाः केचित् केचिद्दशगुणोत्तराः Rām.5.43.22.
    -8 Accompanied or attended with, full of, consisting chiefly of, followed by (at the end of comp.); राज्ञां तु चरितार्थता दुःखोत्तरैव Ś.5; चषकोत्तरा R.7.49; अस्रोत्तर- मीक्षिताम् Ku.5.61; उत्सवोत्तरो मङ्गलविधिः Dk.39,166; K.311; H.1.15; प्रवाल ˚पुष्पशय्ये R.6.5 over spread with; धर्मोत्तरम् 13.7 rich in; 18.7; कम्प ˚ 13.28;17.12; 19.23.
    -9 To be crossed over.
    -रः 1 Future time, futurity.
    -2 N. of Viṣṇu.
    -3 N. of Śiva.
    -रा 1 The north; अस्त्युत्तरस्यां दिशि देवतात्मा Ku.1.1.
    -2 A lunar mansion.
    -3 N. of the daughter of Virāṭa and wife of Abhimanyu.
    -4 N. of a plant (Mar. पिंपरी).
    -रम् 1 An answer, reply; प्रचक्रमे च प्रतिवक्तुमुत्तरम् R.3.47; उत्तरादुत्तरं वाक्यं वदतां संप्रजायते Pt.1.6; a reply is suggested to a reply वचस्तस्य सपदि क्रिया केवलमुत्तरम् Śi.
    -2 (In law) Defence, a rejoinder.
    -3 The last part or following member of a compound.
    -4 (In Mīm.) The fourth member of an अधिकरण q. v. the answer.
    -5 The upper surface or cover.
    -6 Con- clusion.
    -7 Remainder, rest, what followed or took place next; शान्तमथवा किमिहोत्तरेण U.3.26.
    -8 Superiority, excellence.
    -9 Result, the chief or prevalent result or characteristic.
    -1 Excess, over and above; see above (उत्तर a. 8).
    -11 Remainder, difference (in arith.).
    -12 A rectangular moulding (Mānasāra 13.67.)
    -13 The next step, further action; उत्तरं चिन्तयामास वानरो मरुतात्मजः Rām.5.13.59.
    -14 A cover (आच्छादन); सू<?>स्करं सोत्तरबन्धुरेषम् Mb.6.6.9.
    -रम् ind.
    1 Above.
    -2 Afterwards, after; तत उत्तरम्, इत उत्तरम् &c. शापं तं ते$भिविज्ञाय कृतवन्तः किमुत्तरम् Mb.1.36.1.
    -Comp. -अगारम् An upper room, garet.
    - अधर a. higher and lower (fig. also). (
    -रौ du.) the upper and under lip, the two lips; पुनर्विवक्षुःस्फुरितोत्तराधरः Ku.5.83 (स्फुरण- भूयिष्ठो$धरो यस्य Malli.).
    -अधिकारः, -रिता, -त्वम् right to property, heirship, inheritance.
    -अधिकारिन् m. an heir or claimant (subsequent to the death of the ori- ginal owner).
    -अपरा north-west.
    -अभिमुख a. Turned towards the north.
    -अयनम् (˚यणं. न being changed to ण)
    1 the progress of the sun to the north (of the equator); अग्निर्ज्योतिरहः शुक्लः षण्मासा उत्तरायणम् Bg.8.24. cf. भानोर्मकरसंक्रान्तेः षण्मासा उत्तरायणम् । कर्कादेस्तु तथैव स्यात् षण्मासा दक्षिणायनम् ॥
    -2 the period or time of the sum- mer solstice.
    -अरणिः, -णी f. the upper अरणि (which by cutting becomes the प्रमन्थ or churner); दारुपात्राणि सर्वाणि अरणिं चोत्तरारणिम् (दत्त्वा) Rām.6.111.116.
    -अर्थ a. for the sake of what follows.
    -अर्धम् 1 the upper part of the body.
    -2 the northern part.
    -3 the latter half (opp. पूर्वार्ध).
    -4 the further end.
    -अर्ध्य a. being on the northern side.
    -अहः the following day.
    -आभासः a false reply, an indirect, evasive, or prevaricating reply. ˚ता, -त्वम् the semblance of a reply without reality.
    -आशा the northern direction. ˚अधिपतिः, -पतिः the regent of the northern direction, an epithet of Kubera.
    -आषाढा 1 the 21st lunar mansion consisting of three stars.
    -2 N. of bread-fruit or Jak tree (Mar. फणस).
    -आसङ्गः 1 an upper garment; कृतोत्तरासङ्गम् K.43; Śi.2.19; Ku.5.16.
    -2 contact with the north.
    - इतर a. other than उत्तर i. e. southern. (
    -रा) the southern direction.
    -उत्तर a. [उत्तरस्मादुत्तरः]
    1 more and more, higher and higher, further and further.
    -2 successive, ever increasing; ˚स्नेहेन दृष्टः Pt. 1; Y.2.136.
    (-रम्) 1 a reply to an answer, reply on reply; अलमुत्तरोत्तरेण Mu.3.
    -2 conversation, a rejoinder.
    -3 excess, exceeding quantity or degree.
    -4 succession, gradation, sequence.
    -5 descending. (
    -रम्) ind. higher and higher, in constant continuation, more and more. उत्तरोत्तरमुत्कर्षः K. P.1; उत्तरोत्तरं वर्धते H.1.
    -उत्तरिन् a.
    1 ever-increasing.
    -2 one following the other.
    -ओष्ठः the upper lip (उत्तरो-रौ-ष्ठः). Vārt. on P.VI.1.94. ओत्वोष्ठयोस्समासे वा
    -काण्डम् the seventh book of the Rāmāyaṇa.
    -कायः the upper part of the body; तं वाहनादवनतोत्तरकायमीषत् R.9.6.
    -कालः 1 future time.
    -2 time calculated from one full moon to another.
    -कुरु (m. pl.) one of the nine divisions of the world, the country of the northern Kurus (said to be a country of eternal beatitude).
    -कोसलाः (m. pl.) the northern Kosalas; पितुरनन्तरमुत्तरकोसलान् R.9.1.
    -कोशला the city of Ayodhyā; यदुपतेः क्व गता मथुरा पुरी रघुपतेः क्व गतोत्तरकोशला ॥ Udb.
    -क्रिया funeral rites, obsequies.
    -खण्डम् the last section of book.
    -खण्डनम् refutation.
    -गीता N. of a section of the sixth book of the Mahābhārata.
    -ग्रन्थः supplement to a work.
    -च्छदः a bed-covering, covering (in general); शय्योत्तरच्छदविमर्द- कृशाङ्गरागम् R.5.65,17.21; नागचर्मोत्तरच्छदः Mb.
    -ज a. born subsequently or afterwards; चतुर्दश प्रथमजः पुनात्युत्तरजश्च षट् Y.1.59.
    -ज्या the versed sine of an arc (Wilson); the second half of the chord halved by the versed sine (B. and R.).
    -ज्योतिषाः (m. pl.) the northern Jyotiṣas.
    -ततिः f. Ectype (lit. subequent proceedings) उत्तरस्यां ततौ तत्प्रकृतित्वात् MS.1.4.25. शबर explains उत्तरस्यां ततौ as विकृतौ),
    -तन्त्रम् N. of a supplementary section in the medical work of Suśruta.
    -तापनीयम् N. of the second part of the नृसिंहतापनीयो- पनिषद्.
    -दायक a. replying, disobedient, pert, imperti- nent; दुष्टा भार्या शठं मित्रं भृत्याश्चोत्तरदायकाः H.2.11.
    -दिश् f. the north.
    ˚ईशः, -पालः 1 Kubera, the regent of the north.
    -2 the planet बुध. ˚बलिन्
    1 the planet Venus.
    -2 the moon.
    -देशः the country towards the north.
    -धेय a. to be done subsequently.
    -नारायणः the second part of the नारायणसूक्त or पुरुषसूक्त (Rv.1.9.).
    -पक्षः 1 the northern wing or side.
    -2 the dark half of a lunar month.
    -3 the second part of an argument, i. e. a reply, the reason pro. (opp. पूर्वपक्ष); प्रापयन् पवनव्याधेर्गिरमुत्तरपक्षताम् Śi.2.15.
    -4 a demonstrated truth or conclusion.
    -5 the minor proposition in a syllogism.
    -6 (in Mīm.) the fifth member of an Adhikaraṇa, q. v.
    -पटः 1 an upper garment.
    -2 a bed-covering (उत्तरच्छदः).
    -पथः the northern way, way leading to the north; the northern country; P.V.1 77. उत्तरपथेनाहृतं च.
    -पथिक a. travelling in the northern country.
    -पदम् 1 the last member of a compound.
    -2 a word that can be compounded with another.
    -पदिक, -पदकीय a. relating to, studying, or knowing the last word or term.
    -पर्वतकम् A variety of hides. Kāu. A.2.11.
    -पश्चार्धः the northwestern half.
    -पश्चिम a. northwestern. (
    -मः) the north-western country. (
    -मा) [उत्तरस्याः पश्चिमायाश्च दिशोन्तरालम्] the north-west; आलोकयन्नुत्तरपश्चिमेन Mb.12.335.8.
    -पादः the second division of a legal plaint, that part which relates to the reply or defence; पूर्वपक्षः स्मृतः पादो द्वितीयश्चोत्तरः स्मृतः । क्रियापादस्तृतीयः स्याच्चतुर्थो निर्णयः स्मृतः ॥
    -पुरस्तात् ind. north-eastward (with gen.).
    -पुराणम् N. of a Jaina work.
    -पुरुषः = उत्तमपुरुषः q. v.
    -पूर्व a. north-eastern. (
    -र्वा) the north-east.
    -प्रच्छदः a cover lid, quilt.
    -प्रत्युत्तरम् 1 a dispute, debate, a rejoinder, retort.
    -2 the pleadings in a law-suit.
    -फ (फा) ल्गुनी the twelfth lunar mansion consisting of two stars (having the figure of a bed).
    -भागः The second part.
    -भाद्रपद्, -दा 1 the 26 th lunar mansion consisting of two stars (figured by a couch).
    -2 N. of a plant (Mar. कडुनिंब).
    -मन्द्रा a loud but slow manner of singing. ˚मन्द्राद्या a. particular मूर्च्छना in music.
    -मात्रम् a mere reply.
    -मीमांसा the later Mīmāmsā, the Vedānta Philosophy, an inquiry into the nature of Brahman or Jñāna Kāṇḍa (distinguished from मीमांसा proper which is usually called पूर्वमीमांसा).
    -युगम् A particular measure (= 13 Aṅgulas).
    -रहित a. without a reply.
    -रामचरितम् -त्रम् N. of a celebrated drama by Bhavabhūti, which describes the later life of Rāma.
    -रूपम् The second of two combined vowels or consonants.
    -लक्षणम् the indication of an actual reply.
    -लोमन् a. having the hair turned upwards.
    -वयसम्, -स् n. old age, the declining period of life.
    -वरितः a kind of small syringe.
    -वल्ली f. N. of the second section of the काठकोपनिषद् when divided into two अध्यायs.
    -वस्त्रम्, -वासस् n. an upper garment, mantle, cloak; जग्राह तामुत्तरवस्त्रदेशे Mb.3.268. 24.
    -वादिन् m.
    1 a defendant, respondent; (Opp. पूर्ववादिन्.) साक्षिषूभयतः सत्मु साक्षिणः पूर्ववादिनः । पूर्वपक्षे$धरीभूते भवन्त्युत्तरवादिनः ॥ Y.2.17.
    -2 one whose claims are of later date than another's.
    -विद् -वेदन or
    वेदिन् An elephant sensitive to slight stimuli (Mātaṅga L.1.29; 9.39).
    -वीथिः f. The northern orbit; Bṛi. S.
    -वेदिः 1 the northern altar made for the sacred fire.
    -2 N. of a Tīrtha near the कुरुक्षेत्र.
    -सक्थम् the left thigh.
    -संझित a. denoted or named in reply (as a witness). (
    -तः) hearsay-witness.
    -साक्षिन् m.
    1 a witness for the defence.
    -2 a witness deposing to facts from the reports of others.
    -साधक a.
    1 finishing what remains or follows, assisting at a ceremony.
    -2 who or what proves a reply. (
    -कः) an assistant, helper
    -हनुः Ved. the upper jaw-bone.
    2
    उत्तर a.
    1 Crossing over.
    -2 To be crossed over, as in दुरुत्तर.

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