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noun1) Gedächtnis, dashave a good/poor memory for faces — ein gutes/schlechtes Personengedächtnis haben
2) (recollection, person or thing remembered, act of remembering) Erinnerung, die (of an + Akk.)have a vague memory of something — sich nur ungenau an etwas (Akk.) erinnern
it slipped or escaped my memory — es ist mir entfallen
from memory — aus dem Gedächtnis od. Kopf
in memory of — zur Erinnerung an (+ Akk.); attrib.
a trip down memory lane — eine Reise in die Vergangenheit
3) (Computing) Speicher, der* * *['meməri]plural - memories; noun1) (the power to remember things: a good memory for details.) das Gedächtnis2) (the mind's store of remembered things: Her memory is full of interesting stories.) das Gedächtnis3) (something remembered: memories of her childhood.) die Erinnerung4) (the time as far back as can be remembered: the greatest fire in memory.) das Gedenken5) (a part of computer in which information is stored for immediate use; a computer with 8 megabytes of memory)•- academic.ru/46134/memorize">memorize- memorise
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- in memory of / to the memory of* * *memo·ry[ˈmeməri, AM -mɚi]nto have a \memory like an elephant ein Elefantengedächtnis habenloss of \memory Gedächtnisschwund mto have a good \memory for names/numbers ein gutes Namen-/Zahlengedächtnis habena bad/good/photographic \memory ein schlechtes/gutes/fotografisches Gedächtnisimpaired \memory Gedächtnisschwäche fwithin living/sb's \memory soweit man/jd zurückdenken kannthis is still within my \memory daran kann ich mich noch erinnernto commit sth to \memory sich dat etw einprägento recite sth from \memory etw aus dem Gedächtnis rezitierento search one's \memory versuchen, sich akk zu erinnernin \memory of sb/sth zum Gedenken an jdn/etwto bring back memories Erinnerungen wachrufen* * *['memərɪ]n1) Gedächtnis nt; (= faculty) Erinnerungsvermögen ntto commit sth to memory — sich (dat) etw einprägen; poem etw auswendig lernen
I have a bad memory for faces/names — ich habe ein schlechtes Personengedächtnis/Namensgedächtnis
See:→ living2) (= thing remembered) Erinnerung f (of an +acc)he had happy memories of his father — er verband angenehme Erinnerungen mit seinem Vater
3) (COMPUT) (Arbeits-, Haupt)speicher m4)sb's memory — jds Andenken nt ehren
in memory of — zur Erinnerung or zum Gedenken (form) an (+acc)
* * *memory [ˈmemərı] s1. Gedächtnis n, Erinnerung(svermögen) f(n):from memory aus dem Gedächtnis, auswendig;speak from memory frei sprechen;call to memory sich etwas ins Gedächtnis zurückrufen;escape sb’s memory jemandes Gedächtnis entfallen;the memory goes first zuerst wird man vergesslich;have a good (weak) memory ein gutes (schwaches) Gedächtnis haben;have a bad memory for names ein schlechtes Namensgedächtnis haben;have a bad memory for faces sich keine Gesichter merken können, ein schlechtes Personengedächtnis haben;retain a clear memory of sth etwas in klarer Erinnerung behalten;if my memory serves me (right) wenn ich mich recht erinnere;before memory, beyond memory vor undenklichen Zeiten;the best of my memory soweit ich mich erinnern kann; → commit 2, erase 3, jog1 A 1, living A 1, sieve A 1, sponge A 1, wipe out 22. Andenken n, Erinnerung f:of an akk):memories of one’s youth Jugenderinnerungen4. COMPUT Speicher m:memory access Speicherzugriff m;memory bank Speicherbank f;memory capacity Speicherkapazität f;memory expansion Speichererweiterung f;memory function Speicherfunktion f;memory location Speicherplatz m;memory protection Speicherschutz m;memory unit Speichereinheit f* * *noun1) Gedächtnis, dashave a good/poor memory for faces — ein gutes/schlechtes Personengedächtnis haben
2) (recollection, person or thing remembered, act of remembering) Erinnerung, die (of an + Akk.)have a vague memory of something — sich nur ungenau an etwas (Akk.) erinnern
it slipped or escaped my memory — es ist mir entfallen
from memory — aus dem Gedächtnis od. Kopf
in memory of — zur Erinnerung an (+ Akk.); attrib.
3) (Computing) Speicher, der* * *n.Andenken - n.Erinnerung f.Gedächtnis n. -
102 set
1. n комплект, набор; коллекцияin sets — в комплектах, в наборах
2. n сервиз3. n гарнитурtwin set — гарнитур, состоящий из жакета и джемпера
4. n комплект изданияa set of Pravda — комплект «Правды»
5. n серия, рядset of diagrams — ряд диаграмм, снятых одновременно
6. n совокупность7. n группа; составa poor set of players — плохая команда, плохие игроки
8. n набор, состав9. n компания, кругgambling set — картёжники, завсегдатаи игорных домов
10. n банда, шайка11. n театр. кино декорацияset designer — художник по декорациям; художник кинофильма
12. n кино съёмочная площадка13. n спец. прибор, аппарат; установка, агрегат14. n приёмник15. n фигура; последовательность фигурtest set — набор тестов; тестовая последовательность
16. n завивка и укладка волос17. n сюита духовной музыкиwords set to music — слова, положенные на музыку
18. n дор. брусчатка, каменная шашка19. n спорт. партия20. n спорт. сет21. n спорт. спорт. расстановка игроков22. n спорт. геол. свита23. n спорт. горн. оклад крепи24. n спорт. мат. множество25. n спорт. мат. семействоset of curves — семейство характеристик; семейство кривых
26. n спорт. полигр. гарнитура шрифта27. n тк. общие очертания, линияgeneral purpose shop set — комплект инструмента и оборудования ремонтной мастерской общего назначения
28. n строение; конфигурация; сложение29. n тк. g30. n направление31. n направленность; тенденция32. n психол. направленность, установка33. n наклон, отклонение34. n тк. поэт. заход, закатset agoing — пустил в ход; пущенный в ход
35. n музыкальный вечер36. n сад. молодой побег; завязь37. n с. -х. посадочный материал38. n с. -х. охот. стойка39. n с. -х. тех. разводка для пил, развод зубьев пилы, ширина развода40. n с. -х. тех. остаточная деформация41. n с. -х. тех. обжимка, державка42. n с. -х. полигр. толщина43. a неподвижный; застывший44. a определённый, твёрдо установленный, постоянныйset wage — твёрдый оклад, постоянная заработная плата
set on edge — устанавливать на ребро; установленный на ребро
set solid — текст, набранный с постоянным интерлиньяжем
set form — установленная форма; формуляр, бланк
45. a неизменный, постоянный; незыблемый46. a шаблонный; стереотипный47. a установленный48. a заранее установленный, оговорённый49. a упрямый, настойчивый; упорный50. a умышленный, преднамеренный51. a разг. готовый, горящий желаниемwe were set for an early morning start — мы подготовились к тому, чтобы выступить рано утром
52. a встроенный, прикреплённый53. v ставить, помещать, класть; положить, поставитьset the limit — устанавливать предел; положить конец
54. v обыкн. помещаться, располагатьсяa house set in a beautiful garden — дом, стоящий в прекрасном саду
a little town set north of London — маленький городок, расположенный к северу от Лондона
blue eyes set deep in a white face — голубые, глубоко посаженные глаза на бледном лице
set up — помещать, ставить, класть
set out — помещать, ставить, выставлять
55. v сажать, усаживать56. v насаживать, надевать57. v вставлять58. v направлять; поворачивать59. v иметь направление, тенденциюpublic opinion is setting with him — общественное мнение за него, общественное мнение складывается в его пользу
60. v подготавливать; снаряжать; приводить в состояние готовностиto set the stage for the application of a new method of therapy — подготовить почву для нового метода лечения
I was all set for the talk — я готовился к этому разговору; я знал, что меня ждёт этот разговор
set in order — приводить в порядок; исправлять
61. v устанавливать, определять, назначать62. v диал. ирон. часто идти, быть к лицуdo you think this bonnet sets me? — как вы думаете, идёт мне эта шляпка?
a man set in authority — лицо, облечённое властью
63. v редк. сидетьthe jacket sets badly — жакет плохо устанавливать, регулировать
64. v мор. пеленговать65. v стр. производить кладку66. программа поиска внеземного разумаСинонимический ряд:1. express (adj.) especial; express; special; specific2. fast (adj.) fast; secure; tenacious; tight3. fixed (adj.) bent; certain; common; customary; decided; decisive; determined; established; firm; fixed; habitual; intent; resolute; solid; stable; stated; stipulated; usual4. little (adj.) borne; ineffectual; limited; little; mean; narrow; paltry; small5. predetermined (adj.) foreordained; predetermined; prefixed; prescribed; resolved6. ready (adj.) prepared; primed; ready7. rigid (adj.) immovable; obstinate; relentless; rigid; stiff; stubborn; unyielding8. settled (adj.) confirmed; entrenched; ingrained; inveterate; settled9. situated (adj.) located; placed; positioned; sited; situate; situated10. bearing (noun) address; air; bearing; comportment; demeanor; deportment; mien; port; presence11. collection (noun) assemblage; assortment; collection; kit; outfit; pack; series12. gang (noun) circle; clique; crowd; gang13. gift (noun) aptness; bump; faculty; flair; genius; gift; head; knack; nose; talent; turn14. group (noun) array; batch; battery; body; bunch; bundle; circle; clique; clot; clump; cluster; clutch; company; coterie; crowd; faction; group; knot; lot; organisation; organization; parcel; passel; platoon; push; sect; sort; suite15. inclination (noun) appearance; aspect; attitude; bent; direction; disposition; inclination; position16. order (noun) category; class; classification; order17. scenery (noun) backdrop; decoration; mise-en-scene; scene; scenery; setting; stage; stage set; stage setting18. belong (verb) belong; fit; go19. brood (verb) brood; cover; hatch; incubate; sit20. call (verb) approximate; call; estimate; reckon21. coagulate (verb) clot; coagulate; gel; gelate; gelatinize; jell; jellify; jelly22. dictate (verb) decree; dictate; impose; lay down; ordain; prescribe23. dictated (verb) decreed; dictated; imposed; laid down; ordained; prescribed24. direct (verb) address; aim; aimed; cast; direct; head; incline; level; point; present; train; turn; zero in25. establish (verb) appoint; assign; determine; establish; fix; laid; lay; place; post; spread; station; stick; stuck26. fixed (verb) arrange; conclude; fixed; negotiate; settle27. harden (verb) cake; concrete; congeal; dried; dry; gelled; harden; indurate; petrified; solidified; solidify; stiffen; thicken28. incite (verb) abet; foment; incite; instigate; provoke; raise; set on; stir up; whip up29. install (verb) adjust; attune; calibrate; frame; install; mount; order; regulate; tune30. put (verb) locate; position; put; site; situate31. sink (verb) decline; dip; go down; sink; wane32. value (verb) evaluate; price; prize; rate; value33. went (verb) bet; betted; gamble; game; play; put on; risk; stake; venture; wager; wentАнтонимический ряд:approximate; disorder; loosen; melt; mollify; mount; move; rise; run; soar; soften; stir; uncertain; unstable; variable -
103 turn
1. n с. -х. оборот пласта2. n вращение; вращательное движение3. n авт. разворот4. n поворот, место поворота5. n изгиб6. n поворот; поворотный пункт; порог, конец7. n поворот; отклонение, отступлениеthe story has so many twists and turns that the reader becomes lost — в рассказе столько поворотов и отступлений, что читатель совершенно теряется
8. n изменение направления9. n смена, перемена курса10. n перемена, изменение11. n очередьin turn, by turns, turn and turn about — по очереди
laughing and crying in turn — то смеясь, то плача
he went hot and cold by turns — его бросало то в жар, то в холод
to take turns — делать по очереди; чередоваться, сменяться
my turn will come! — придёт и мой черёд!; я ещё своё возьму!; я ещё своего добьюсь!
12. n очередной номер программы, выход; сценка, интермедия13. n исполнитель номера14. n короткая прогулка, поездкаto take a turn, to go for a turn — пройтись
15. n короткий период деятельностиa turn of work — небольшая работа, немного работы
16. n особенность, характерная черта; склад17. n стиль, манера; интерпретация18. n способность; дар; жилка19. n строение, форма20. n построение21. n оборот22. n разг. приступ, припадок, вспышка23. n разг. потрясение, шок24. n разг. менструация25. n бирж. акт купли-продажи26. n бирж. прибыль от купли или продажи ценных бумаг27. n бирж. оборот капитала28. n бирж. разница между курсом покупателей и курсом продавцов29. n бирж. полигр. марашка30. n ж. -д. обходный путь31. n ж. -д. виток32. n ж. -д. муз. группеттоturn of the tide — заметное изменение к лучшему, перемена судьбы
turn of life — переходный период, климактерий
to a turn — точно; как нужно
at every turn — на каждом шагу; повсюду, постоянно; каждый раз
travelling through Europe we kept meeting Americans at every turn — путешествуя по Европе, мы на каждом шагу встречали американцев
33. v поворачиватьhe turned the knob and the door opened — он повернул ручку, и дверь открылась
turn round — оборачиваться; поворачиваться
turn aside — отклонять; поворачивать в сторону
34. v отворачивать, отводитьturn away — отворачивать; отклонять
35. v вращать36. v обёртывать, наматывать37. v вращаться38. v кружиться39. v переворачиватьto turn the leaves of a book — переворачивать страницы книги, листать книгу
40. v переворачиваться41. v опрокидывать; переворачивать вверх дном42. v выкладывать, выпускатьturn loose — отпускать; выпускать
43. v загибать; закручивать; отгибать44. v загибаться; закручиваться; отгибатьсяturn up — поднимать вверх; загибать
45. v направлятьсяnot to know which way to turn — не знать, куда идти
46. v поворачиватьсяit is time to turn now if we wish to get home in time for dinner — пора поворачивать назад, если мы хотим поспеть к обеду
47. v отклонять, менять направлениеto turn down — отклонять, отвергать
48. v отклоняться, менять направление49. v нацеливать, направлять50. v огибать, обходить51. v точить, обтачивать на токарном станке52. v поддаваться обработке на токарном станке, поддаваться токарной обработке53. v оттачивать, придавать завершённую форму54. v редк. менять; действоватьhis speech turned my thinking — то, что он сказал, заставило меня изменить свою точку зрения
55. v редк. изменяться, подвергаться изменению56. v редк. обращать в другую веруturn upon — обращаться; обратиться
does it serve your turn — это вам подходит; это вам годится
57. v редк. обращаться в другую веру, менять религиюto turn the room upside down — привести комнату в беспорядок, перевернуть всё в комнате
58. v редк. изменять, предавать59. v редк. редк. вызывать тошноту60. v редк. уст. иметь противоположный результатhow did the game turn out? — чем закончилась игра?, каков результат встречи?
Синонимический ряд:1. action (noun) action; deed; service2. alteration (noun) alteration; fluctuation3. angle (noun) angle; bow; flection; flexure; turning4. arc (noun) arc; curve; twist5. attack (noun) access; attack; fit; seizure; throe6. bend (noun) bend; deflection; double; shift; tack; yaw7. bent (noun) aptitude; bent; bias; disposition; inclination; leaning; partiality; penchant; predilection; predisposition; proclivity; proneness; propensity; squint; talent; tendency8. chance (noun) chance; opportunity; stint9. deviation (noun) change; deviation; variation; vicissitude10. drive (noun) drive; ride; spin11. gift (noun) aptness; bump; faculty; flair; genius; gift; head; knack; nose; set12. go (noun) bout; go; hitch; innings; spell; time; tour; trick; watch13. move (noun) adjustment; manoeuvre; move; movement14. need (noun) exigency; necessity; need; requirement15. reversal (noun) about-face; changeabout; inversion; reversal; reverse; reversement; reversion; right-about; right-about-face; turnabout; volte-face16. revolution (noun) circle; circuit; circulation; circumvolution; cycle; gyration; gyre; orbit; revolution; revolve; rotation; tour; twirl; wheel; whirl17. round (noun) crook; curvature; round18. trend (noun) direction; drift; trend19. walk (noun) constitutional; hike; ramble; saunter; stroll; walk20. become (verb) become; come; get; go; grow; refer; repair; resort to; run; wax21. bend (verb) angle; bend; curve; deflect; deviate; dodge; refract; swerve; veer22. break (verb) break; plough; turn over23. change (verb) alter; change; convert; metamorphose; modify; mutate; refashion; transfer; transform; transmute; turn into; vary24. circle (verb) circle; circumduct; gyrate; gyre; revolve; roll; rotate; twirl; wheel25. decay (verb) break down; corrupt; crumble; decay; decompose; deteriorate; disintegrate; molder; moulder; putrefy; putresce; rot; spoil; taint26. defect (verb) apostatize; defect; desert; rat; renounce; repudiate; tergiversate; tergiverse27. direct (verb) aim; cast; direct; head; incline; lay; level; point; present; set; train; zero in28. distract (verb) derange; distract; disturb; infatuate; infuriate29. dull (verb) blunt; disedge; dull; obtund30. give (verb) address; apply; buckle; concentrate; dedicate; devote; focus; give31. reverse (verb) invert; reverse; transpose32. sheer (verb) avert; divert; pivot; redirect; re-route; sheer; shift; swing; swivel; volte-face; wheel; whip33. upset (verb) disorder; unhinge; unsettle; upset34. wrench (verb) sprain; wrench -
104 Education
In Portugal's early history, education was firmly under the control of the Catholic Church. The earliest schools were located in cathedrals and monasteries and taught a small number of individuals destined for ecclesiastical office. In 1290, a university was established by King Dinis (1261-1325) in Lisbon, but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, where it remained. Coimbra University, Portugal's oldest, and once its most prestigious, was the educational cradle of Portugal's leadership. From 1555 until the 18th century, primary and secondary education was provided by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The Catholic Church's educational monopoly was broken when the Marquis of Pombal expelled the Jesuits in 1759 and created the basis for Portugal's present system of public, secular primary and secondary schools. Pombal introduced vocational training, created hundreds of teaching posts, added departments of mathematics and natural sciences at Coimbra University, and established an education tax to pay for them.During the 19th century, liberals attempted to reform Portugal's educational system, which was highly elitist and emphasized rote memorization and respect for authority, hierarchy, and discipline.Reforms initiated in 1822, 1835, and 1844 were never actualized, however, and education remained unchanged until the early 20th century. After the overthrow of the monarchy on the Fifth of October 1910 by Republican military officers, efforts to reform Portugal's educational system were renewed. New universities were founded in Lisbon and Oporto, a Ministry of Education was established, and efforts were made to increase literacy (illiteracy rates being 80 percent) and to resecularize educational content by introducing more scientific and empirical methods into the curriculum.Such efforts were ended during the military dictatorship (192632), which governed Portugal until the establishment of the Estado Novo (1926-74). Although a new technical university was founded in Lisbon in 1930, little was done during the Estado Novo to modernize education or to reduce illiteracy. Only in 1964 was compulsory primary education made available for children between the ages of 6 and 12.The Revolution of 25 April 1974 disrupted Portugal's educational system. For a period of time after the Revolution, students, faculty, and administrators became highly politicized as socialists, communists, and other groups attempted to gain control of the schools. During the 1980s, as Portuguese politics moderated, the educational system was gradually depoliticized, greater emphasis was placed on learning, and efforts were made to improve the quality of Portuguese schools.Primary education in Portugal consists of four years in the primary (first) cycle and two years in the preparatory, or second, cycle. The preparatory cycle is intended for children going on to secondary education. Secondary education is roughly equivalent to junior and senior high schools in the United States. It consists of three years of a common curriculum and two years of complementary courses (10th and 11th grades). A final year (12th grade) prepares students to take university entrance examinations.Vocational education was introduced in 1983. It consists of a three-year course in a particular skill after the 11th grade of secondary school.Higher education is provided by the four older universities (Lisbon, Coimbra, Oporto, and the Technical University of Lisbon), as well as by six newer universities, one in Lisbon and the others in Minho, Aveiro, Évora, the Algarve, and the Azores. There is also a private Catholic university in Lisbon. Admission to Portuguese universities is highly competitive, and places are limited. About 10 percent of secondary students go on to university education. The average length of study at the university is five years, after which students receive their licentiate. The professoriate has four ranks (professors, associate professors, lecturers, and assistants). Professors have tenure, while the other ranks teach on contract.As Portugal is a unitary state, the educational system is highly centralized. All public primary and secondary schools, universities, and educational institutes are under the purview of the Ministry of Education, and all teachers and professors are included in the civil service and receive pay and pension like other civil servants. The Ministry of Education hires teachers, determines curriculum, sets policy, and pays for the building and upkeep of schools. Local communities have little say in educational matters. -
105 Menzies, Michael
[br]b. end of the seventeenth century Lanarkshire, Scotland (?)d. 13 December 1766 Edinburgh, Scotland[br]Scottish inventor and lawyer.[br]Menzies was admitted as a member of the Faculty of Advocates on 31 January 1719. It is evident from his applications for patents that he was more concerned with inventions than the law, however. He took out his first patent in 1734 for a threshing machine in which a number of flails were attached to a horizontal axis, which was moved rapidly forwards and backwards through half a revolution, essentially imitating the action of an ordinary flail. The grain to be threshed was placed on either side.Though not a practical success, Menzies's invention seems to have been the first for the mechanical threshing of grain. His idea of imitating non-mechanized action also influenced his invention of a coal cutter, for which he took out a patent in 1761 and which copied miners' tools for obtaining coal. He proposed to carry heavy chains down the pit so that they could be used to give motion to iron picks, saws or other chains with cutting implements. The chains could be set into motion by a steam-engine, by water-or windmills, or by horses gins. Although it is quite obvious that this apparatus could not work, Menzies was the first to have thought of mechanizing coal production in the style that was in use in the late twentieth century. Subsequent to Menzies's proposal, many inventors at varying intervals followed this direction until the problem was finally solved one century later by, among others, W.E. Garforth.Menzies had successfully used the power of a steam-engine on the Wear eight years beforehand, when he obtained a patent for raising coal. According to his device a descending bucket filled with water raised a basket of coals, while a steam-engine pumped the water back to the surface; the balance-tub system, in various forms, quickly spread to other coalfields. Menzies's patent from 1750 for improved methods of carrying the coals from the coalface to the pit-shaft had also been of considerable influence: this device employed self-acting inclined planes, whereon the descending loaded wagons hauled up the empty ones.[br]Further ReadingThe article entitled "Michael Menzies" in the Dictionary of National Biography neglects Menzies's inventions for mining. A comprehensive evaluation of his influence on coal cutting is given in the introductory chapter of S.F.Walker, 1902, Coal-Cutting byMachinery, London.WK -
106 Knowledge
It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But, with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it into question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For, what are the forementioned objects but things we perceive by sense? and what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? and is it not plainly repugnant that any one of these, or any combination of them, should exist unperceived? (Berkeley, 1996, Pt. I, No. 4, p. 25)It seems to me that the only objects of the abstract sciences or of demonstration are quantity and number, and that all attempts to extend this more perfect species of knowledge beyond these bounds are mere sophistry and illusion. As the component parts of quantity and number are entirely similar, their relations become intricate and involved; and nothing can be more curious, as well as useful, than to trace, by a variety of mediums, their equality or inequality, through their different appearances.But as all other ideas are clearly distinct and different from each other, we can never advance farther, by our utmost scrutiny, than to observe this diversity, and, by an obvious reflection, pronounce one thing not to be another. Or if there be any difficulty in these decisions, it proceeds entirely from the undeterminate meaning of words, which is corrected by juster definitions. That the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides cannot be known, let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and enquiry. But to convince us of this proposition, that where there is no property, there can be no injustice, it is only necessary to define the terms, and explain injustice to be a violation of property. This proposition is, indeed, nothing but a more imperfect definition. It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration. (Hume, 1975, Sec. 12, Pt. 3, pp. 163-165)Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (the ability to receive impressions), the second is the power to know an object through these representations (spontaneity in the production of concepts).Through the first, an object is given to us; through the second, the object is thought in relation to that representation.... Intuition and concepts constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Both may be either pure or empirical.... Pure intuitions or pure concepts are possible only a priori; empirical intuitions and empirical concepts only a posteriori. If the receptivity of our mind, its power of receiving representations in so far as it is in any way affected, is to be called "sensibility," then the mind's power of producing representations from itself, the spontaneity of knowledge, should be called "understanding." Our nature is so constituted that our intuitions can never be other than sensible; that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects. The faculty, on the other hand, which enables us to think the object of sensible intuition is the understanding.... Without sensibility, no object would be given to us; without understanding, no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind. It is therefore just as necessary to make our concepts sensible, that is, to add the object to them in intuition, as to make our intuitions intelligible, that is to bring them under concepts. These two powers or capacities cannot exchange their functions. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. (Kant, 1933, Sec. 1, Pt. 2, B74-75 [p. 92])Metaphysics, as a natural disposition of Reason is real, but it is also, in itself, dialectical and deceptive.... Hence to attempt to draw our principles from it, and in their employment to follow this natural but none the less fallacious illusion can never produce science, but only an empty dialectical art, in which one school may indeed outdo the other, but none can ever attain a justifiable and lasting success. In order that, as a science, it may lay claim not merely to deceptive persuasion, but to insight and conviction, a Critique of Reason must exhibit in a complete system the whole stock of conceptions a priori, arranged according to their different sources-the Sensibility, the understanding, and the Reason; it must present a complete table of these conceptions, together with their analysis and all that can be deduced from them, but more especially the possibility of synthetic knowledge a priori by means of their deduction, the principles of its use, and finally, its boundaries....This much is certain: he who has once tried criticism will be sickened for ever of all the dogmatic trash he was compelled to content himself with before, because his Reason, requiring something, could find nothing better for its occupation. Criticism stands to the ordinary school metaphysics exactly in the same relation as chemistry to alchemy, or as astron omy to fortune-telling astrology. I guarantee that no one who has comprehended and thought out the conclusions of criticism, even in these Prolegomena, will ever return to the old sophistical pseudo-science. He will rather look forward with a kind of pleasure to a metaphysics, certainly now within his power, which requires no more preparatory discoveries, and which alone can procure for reason permanent satisfaction. (Kant, 1891, pp. 115-116)Knowledge is only real and can only be set forth fully in the form of science, in the form of system. Further, a so-called fundamental proposition or first principle of philosophy, even if it is true, it is yet none the less false, just because and in so far as it is merely a fundamental proposition, merely a first principle. It is for that reason easily refuted. The refutation consists in bringing out its defective character; and it is defective because it is merely the universal, merely a principle, the beginning. If the refutation is complete and thorough, it is derived and developed from the nature of the principle itself, and not accomplished by bringing in from elsewhere other counter-assurances and chance fancies. It would be strictly the development of the principle, and thus the completion of its deficiency, were it not that it misunderstands its own purport by taking account solely of the negative aspect of what it seeks to do, and is not conscious of the positive character of its process and result. The really positive working out of the beginning is at the same time just as much the very reverse: it is a negative attitude towards the principle we start from. Negative, that is to say, in its one-sided form, which consists in being primarily immediate, a mere purpose. It may therefore be regarded as a refutation of what constitutes the basis of the system; but more correctly it should be looked at as a demonstration that the basis or principle of the system is in point of fact merely its beginning. (Hegel, 1910, pp. 21-22)Knowledge, action, and evaluation are essentially connected. The primary and pervasive significance of knowledge lies in its guidance of action: knowing is for the sake of doing. And action, obviously, is rooted in evaluation. For a being which did not assign comparative values, deliberate action would be pointless; and for one which did not know, it would be impossible. Conversely, only an active being could have knowledge, and only such a being could assign values to anything beyond his own feelings. A creature which did not enter into the process of reality to alter in some part the future content of it, could apprehend a world only in the sense of intuitive or esthetic contemplation; and such contemplation would not possess the significance of knowledge but only that of enjoying and suffering. (Lewis, 1946, p. 1)"Evolutionary epistemology" is a branch of scholarship that applies the evolutionary perspective to an understanding of how knowledge develops. Knowledge always involves getting information. The most primitive way of acquiring it is through the sense of touch: amoebas and other simple organisms know what happens around them only if they can feel it with their "skins." The knowledge such an organism can have is strictly about what is in its immediate vicinity. After a huge jump in evolution, organisms learned to find out what was going on at a distance from them, without having to actually feel the environment. This jump involved the development of sense organs for processing information that was farther away. For a long time, the most important sources of knowledge were the nose, the eyes, and the ears. The next big advance occurred when organisms developed memory. Now information no longer needed to be present at all, and the animal could recall events and outcomes that happened in the past. Each one of these steps in the evolution of knowledge added important survival advantages to the species that was equipped to use it.Then, with the appearance in evolution of humans, an entirely new way of acquiring information developed. Up to this point, the processing of information was entirely intrasomatic.... But when speech appeared (and even more powerfully with the invention of writing), information processing became extrasomatic. After that point knowledge did not have to be stored in the genes, or in the memory traces of the brain; it could be passed on from one person to another through words, or it could be written down and stored on a permanent substance like stone, paper, or silicon chips-in any case, outside the fragile and impermanent nervous system. (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993, pp. 56-57)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Knowledge
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1) Общая лексика: associate, institute of financial accountants (Krokodil)2) Биология: Aphanizomenon flos-aquae3) Спорт: American Freestyle Association4) Военный термин: Air Force Academy, Air Force Act, Air Force, Auxiliary, Alien Firearms Act, Architecture of the Future Army, Armed Forces Act, Army field artillery, Army flight activity, aerial field artillery, armored field artillery5) Техника: American Foundry men's Association, advanced fuel assembly, audio-frequency amplifier, azimuth follow-up amplifier6) Математика: альфа-факторный анализ (alpha-factor analysis)7) Бухгалтерия: Accounting Firms Associated, Inc.8) Ветеринария: American Federation of Aviculture, American Ferret Association9) Грубое выражение: All For Assholes, Association Of Fat Asses10) Металлургия: American Foundrymen's Association11) Сокращение: Afghanistan Afghani, After First Article approval, Air Force Association (USA), American Finance Association, American Forensic Association, Associate of the Faculty of Actuaries, Audio Frequency Amplifier, Afro- Asiatic (Other), Accelerated File Access12) Университет: Adjunct Faculty Association13) Физиология: All Fluids Allowed14) Воздухоплавание: Air Force Association15) Фирменный знак: Ag Food Associates16) Экология: American Forestry Association17) СМИ: Advertising Federation of America18) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Anti-foam agent, anti-foaming agent19) Электротехника: УЗЧ (усилитель звуковых частот - audio frequency amplifier)20) Общественная организация: American Family Association21) Должность: Associate in Fine Arts22) Аэропорты: San Rafael, MD, Argentina -
108 sight
1. noun1) (the act or power of seeing: The blind man had lost his sight in the war.) vista2) (the area within which things can be seen by someone: The boat was within sight of land; The end of our troubles is in sight.) vista3) (something worth seeing: She took her visitors to see the sights of London.) atracción turística4) (a view or glimpse.) visión5) (something seen that is unusual, ridiculous, shocking etc: She's quite a sight in that hat.) figura6) ((on a gun etc) an apparatus to guide the eye in taking aim: Where is the sight on a rifle?) mira
2. verb1) (to get a view of; to see suddenly: We sighted the coast as dawn broke.) observar, ver, divisar2) (to look at (something) through the sight of a gun: He sighted his prey and pulled the trigger.) apuntar•- sight-seer
- catch sight of
- lose sight of
sight n1. vista2. algo... de vertr[saɪt]1 (faculty) vista2 (range of vision) vista■ don't let him out of your sight! ¡no lo pierdas de vista!■ get out of my sight! ¡fuera de mi vista!3 (act of seeing, view) vista4 (thing seen, spectacle) espectáculo■ you look a sight! ¡tienes una pinta horrorosa!, ¡estás horroroso!5 (on gun) mira1 familiar (a great deal) mucho\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLin one's sights en la mirain/within sight a la vistain the sight of God ante Diosout of sight, out of mind ojos que no ven, corazón que no sientesight unseen sin haberlo visto antesto be a sight for sore eyes dar gusto verloto catch sight of ver, divisarto come into sight aparecerto hate/loathe the sight of somebody no poder ni ver a alguiento keep out of sight no dejarse ver, esconderseto know somebody by sight conocer a alguien de vistato lose sight of somebody/something perder a alguien/algo de vistato raise one's sights aspirar a más, apuntar más altoto set one's sights on something tener la mira puesta en algoto take a sight apuntarsight ['saɪt] vt: ver (a una persona), divisar (la tierra, un barco)sight n1) : vista f (facultad)out of sight: fuera de vista2) : algo vistoit's a familiar sight: se ve con frecuenciashe's a sight for sore eyes: da gusto verla3) : lugar m de interés (para turistas, etc.)4) : mira f (de un rifle, etc.)5) glimpse: mirada f breveI caught sight of her: la divisé, alcancé a verlan.• aspecto s.m.n.• brújula s.f.• escena s.f.• mira s.f.• puntería s.f.• visión s.f.• vista s.f.v.• avistar v.• visar v.
I saɪt1) u ( eyesight) vista fto lose one's sight — perder* la vista or la visión
to have poor sight — tener* mala vista, ver* mal
2) u ( range of vision)to come into sight — aparecer*
to lose sight of something/somebody — perder* algo/a alguien de vista
we were in sight of victory victory was within sight la victoria estaba cercana; she watched until they were out of sight los siguió con la mirada hasta que los perdió de vista; (get) out of my sight! fuera de aquí!; I daren't let him out of my sight for a second no me atrevo a dejarlo solo ni un minuto; out of sight, out of mind — ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
3) (act of seeing, view) (no pl)it was love at first sight — fue amor a primera vista, fue un flechazo
to catch sight of something/somebody: we caught sight of them going up the mountain los vimos or los avistamos subiendo la montaña; as he opened the drawer, I caught sight of the gun cuando abrió el cajón, pude ver el revólver; to know somebody by sight conocer* a alguien de vista; to play at o by sight ( Mus) tocar* a primera vista; deserters will be shot on sight los desertores serán fusilados en el acto; I can't stand the sight of him — (colloq) no lo puedo ver (fam)
4) ca) ( thing seen)the sparrow is a familiar sight in our gardens — el gorrión se ve con frecuencia en nuestros jardines
it's not a pretty sight — (colloq) no es muy agradable de ver
it is/it was a sight for sore eyes — da/daba gusto verlo
a sight — (colloq)
I look a sight! — estoy horrorosa!, qué parezco!
c) sights pl ( famous places)5)a) c ( of gun) mira fto have something in one's sights, to have one's sights on something — tener* la mira puesta en algo
6) ( lot) (colloq)a (far o damn) sight happier/richer — muchísimo más feliz/rico
it's a (far o damn) sight better — es muchísimo mejor
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transitive verb \<\<land/ship\>\> divisar, avistar; \<\<person/animal\>\> ver*[saɪt]1. N1) (=eyesight) vista f•
to have good sight — tener buena vista•
I'm losing my sight — estoy perdiendo la vista•
to have poor sight — tener mala vista•
to regain one's sight — recobrar la vista2) (=act of seeing) vista f•
at sight — a la vista•
I know her by sight — la conozco de vista•
it came into sight — apareció•
to catch sight of sth/sb — divisar algo/a algn•
to be in sight — estar a la vista (of de)to find favour in sb's sight — [plan etc] ser aceptable a algn; [person] merecerse la aprobación de algn
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to lose sight of sth/sb — perder algo/a algn de vistato lose sight of sb — (fig) perder contacto con algn
to lose sight of the fact that... — no tener presente el hecho de que...
to be lost to sight — desaparecer, perderse de vista
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to shoot on sight — disparar sin previo aviso•
to be out of sight — no estar a la vistakeep out of sight! — ¡que no te vean!
out of sight — (US) * fabuloso *
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to be within sight — estar a la vista (of de)3) (=spectacle) espectáculo mhis face was a sight! — ¡había que ver su cara!; (after injury etc) ¡había que ver el estado en que quedaba su cara!
I must look a sight — debo parecer horroroso, ¿no?
doesn't she look a sight in that hat! — ¡con ese sombrero parece un espantajo!
what a sight you are! — ¡qué adefesio!
to see or visit the sights of Madrid — visitar los lugares de interés turístico de Madrid, hacer turismo por Madrid
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it's not a pretty sight — no es precisamente bonito•
it's a sad sight — es una cosa triste- lower one's sights- raise one's sights- set one's sights on sth/doing sth- set one's sights too high5) * (=a great deal)2. VT1) (Naut) [+ land] ver, divisar; [+ bird, rare animal] observar, ver; [+ person] ver2) (=aim)to sight a gun — apuntar un cañón (at, on a)
3.CPDsight draft N — letra f a la vista
sight translation N — traducción f oral or a libro abierto
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I [saɪt]1) u ( eyesight) vista fto lose one's sight — perder* la vista or la visión
to have poor sight — tener* mala vista, ver* mal
2) u ( range of vision)to come into sight — aparecer*
to lose sight of something/somebody — perder* algo/a alguien de vista
we were in sight of victory victory was within sight la victoria estaba cercana; she watched until they were out of sight los siguió con la mirada hasta que los perdió de vista; (get) out of my sight! fuera de aquí!; I daren't let him out of my sight for a second no me atrevo a dejarlo solo ni un minuto; out of sight, out of mind — ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
3) (act of seeing, view) (no pl)it was love at first sight — fue amor a primera vista, fue un flechazo
to catch sight of something/somebody: we caught sight of them going up the mountain los vimos or los avistamos subiendo la montaña; as he opened the drawer, I caught sight of the gun cuando abrió el cajón, pude ver el revólver; to know somebody by sight conocer* a alguien de vista; to play at o by sight ( Mus) tocar* a primera vista; deserters will be shot on sight los desertores serán fusilados en el acto; I can't stand the sight of him — (colloq) no lo puedo ver (fam)
4) ca) ( thing seen)the sparrow is a familiar sight in our gardens — el gorrión se ve con frecuencia en nuestros jardines
it's not a pretty sight — (colloq) no es muy agradable de ver
it is/it was a sight for sore eyes — da/daba gusto verlo
a sight — (colloq)
I look a sight! — estoy horrorosa!, qué parezco!
c) sights pl ( famous places)5)a) c ( of gun) mira fto have something in one's sights, to have one's sights on something — tener* la mira puesta en algo
6) ( lot) (colloq)a (far o damn) sight happier/richer — muchísimo más feliz/rico
it's a (far o damn) sight better — es muchísimo mejor
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109 judgment
= judgement, noun1) Urteil, dasjudgment was given in favour of/against somebody — das Urteil fiel zu jemandes Gunsten/Ungunsten aus
pass [a] judgment — ein Urteil abgeben (on über + Akk.)
in or according to my judgment — meines Erachtens
form a judgment — sich (Dat.) ein Urteil od. eine Meinung bilden
error of judgment — Fehlurteil, das; Fehleinschätzung, die
I leave it to your judgment — ich stelle das in Ihr Ermessen
3) (trial by God)day of judgment, Judgment Day — Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts
the last judgment — das Jüngste od. Letzte Gericht
* * *['dZʌdZmənt]n1) (JUR) (Gerichts)urteil nt; (ECCL) Gericht nt, Richterspruch m; (= divine punishment) Strafe f Gottesto await judgment (Jur) — auf sein or das Urteil warten; (Eccl)
to pass or give judgment (also fig) — ein Urteil fällen, das Urteil sprechen (on über +acc )
to sit in judgment on a case — Richter in einem Fall sein
to sit in judgment on sb — über jdn zu Gericht sitzen; (Jur also) die Verhandlung über jdn führen
I don't want to sit in judgment on you — ich möchte mich nicht zu Ihrem Richter aufspielen
it's a judgment from above —
it's a judgment on him for being so lazy — das ist die Strafe Gottes dafür, dass er so faul ist
2) (= opinion) Meinung f, Ansicht f, Urteil nt; (= moral judg(e)ment, value judg(e)ment) Werturteil nt; (= estimation of distance, speed etc) Einschätzung fto give one's judgment on sth — sein Urteil über etw (acc) abgeben, seine Meinung zu etw äußern
an error of judgment — eine falsche Einschätzung, eine Fehleinschätzung
in my judgment — meines Erachtens, meiner Meinung nach
against one's better judgment — gegen (sein) besseres Wissen, wider besseres Wissen
3) (= discernment) Urteilsvermögen nt* * *judgment [ˈdʒʌdʒmənt] s1. JUR (Gerichts)Urteil n, gerichtliche Entscheidung:a) einen Fall verhandeln,2. JURa) Urteil(surkunde) n(f)b) Br Urteilsbegründung f3. Urteil n, Beurteilung f4. Urteilsvermögen n, -kraft f, Verständnis n, Einsicht f:a man of sound judgment ein urteilsfähiger Mensch;use one’s best judgment nach bestem Ermessen handeln;against (one’s) better judgment wider bessere Einsichton über akk):in my judgment meines Erachtensb) göttliches (Straf)Gericht:the Last Judgment das Jüngste Gericht;7. göttlicher Ratschluss8. Glaube m:* * *= judgement, noun1) Urteil, dasjudgment was given in favour of/against somebody — das Urteil fiel zu jemandes Gunsten/Ungunsten aus
pass [a] judgment — ein Urteil abgeben (on über + Akk.)
in or according to my judgment — meines Erachtens
form a judgment — sich (Dat.) ein Urteil od. eine Meinung bilden
error of judgment — Fehlurteil, das; Fehleinschätzung, die
day of judgment, Judgment Day — Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts
the last judgment — das Jüngste od. Letzte Gericht
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noun1) (faculty) Talent, dashave a knack of doing something — das Talent haben, etwas zu tun
get the knack [of doing something] — den Bogen rauskriegen[, wie man etwas macht] (ugs.)
there's a [real] knack in or to doing something — es gehört schon [einiges] Geschick dazu, etwas zu tun
have lost the knack — es nicht mehr zustande bringen od. (ugs.) hinkriegen
2) (habit)have a knack of doing something — es [mit seltenem Talent] verstehen, etwas zu tun (iron.)
* * *[næk](the ability to do something skilfully and easily: It took me some time to learn the knack of making pancakes.) der Dreh* * *[næk]n no plthere's a \knack to getting this lock to open es gibt einen Dreh, wie man dieses Schloss aufkriegt famto get the \knack of sth herausfinden, wie etw geht famto lose the \knack of sth etw nicht mehr zustande bringen [o fam hinkriegen]due to arthritis, he lost the \knack of playing the guitar wegen Arthritis kann er nicht mehr Gitarre spielenshe has the \knack of putting her foot in her mouth sie hat ein Talent, ins Fettnäpfchen zu treten* * *[nk]nTrick m, Kniff m; (= talent) Talent nt, Geschick ntthere's a ( special) knack (to it) — da ist ein (gewisser) Trick or Kniff dabei
there's a (special) knack to opening it — da ist ein Trick or Kniff dabei, wie man das aufbekommt
to get the knack of doing sth — (es) herausbekommen, wie man etw macht
you'll soon get the knack of it — Sie werden den Dreh bald rausbekommen or raushaben
I've lost the knack — ich bekomme or kriege (inf) das nicht mehr hin or fertig
she's got a knack of saying the wrong thing — sie hat ein Geschick or Talent, immer das Falsche zu sagen
* * *knack [næk] s1. Kniff m, Trick m:get the knack of doing sth dahinterkommen oder herausbekommen, wie man etwas tut;have the knack of it den Bogen raushaben umg2. Geschick n, Talent n:have the ( oder a) knack of doing sth Geschick oder das Talent haben, etwas zu tun, iron ein besonderes Geschick oder Talent (dafür) haben, etwas zu tun* * *noun1) (faculty) Talent, dashave a knack of doing something — das Talent haben, etwas zu tun
get the knack [of doing something] — den Bogen rauskriegen[, wie man etwas macht] (ugs.)
there's a [real] knack in or to doing something — es gehört schon [einiges] Geschick dazu, etwas zu tun
have lost the knack — es nicht mehr zustande bringen od. (ugs.) hinkriegen
2) (habit)have a knack of doing something — es [mit seltenem Talent] verstehen, etwas zu tun (iron.)
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111 possess
transitive verb1) (own) besitzen2) (have as faculty or quality) haben3) (dominate) [Furcht usw.:] ergreifen, Besitz nehmen von [Person]what possessed you/him? — (coll.) was ist in dich/ihn gefahren?
* * *[pə'zes](to own or have: How much money does he possess?) besitzen- academic.ru/56938/possession">possession- possessive
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- possessor* * *pos·sess[pəˈzes]vt1. (own, have)▪ to \possess sth etw besitzento \possess charm Charme haben [o besitzen]to \possess dignity voller Würde seinto \possess magical powers über magische Kräfte verfügento \possess special skills besondere Fähigkeiten besitzen▪ to \possess sth etw [illegal] besitzenhe was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for \possessing heroin er wurde wegen Heroinbesitzes zu sechs Monaten Haft verurteiltthey've been charged with \possessing guns and explosives sie sind wegen Waffen- und Sprengstoffbesitzes angeklagt worden▪ to \possess sb:what \possessed you? was ist denn [bloß] in dich gefahren?to be \possessed by demons/the Devil von Dämonen/vom Teufel besessen seinto be \possessed by the urge to do sth von dem Drang besessen sein, etw tun zu müssenlike [some]one/a man/woman \possessed wie ein Besessener/eine Besessene▪ to be \possessed of sth etw besitzen [o haben]to be \possessed of a sense of humour Humor haben6.* * *[pə'zes]vtbesitzen; (form) foreign language, facts verfügen über (+acc)to be possessed of sth (form) — über etw (acc) verfügen
it possesses many advantages — es hat viele Vorteile
to be possessed by the urge to do sth — von dem Drang besessen sein, etw tun zu müssen
like a man/woman possessed —
whatever possessed you to do that? —
* * *possess [pəˈzes] v/t1. allg, auch fig Eigenschaften, Mut, Kenntnisse etc besitzen, haben3. Gewalt haben über (akk), auch weitS. eine Sprache etc beherrschen:possess one’s soul in patience obs sich in Geduld fassenbe possessed of sth etwas besitzen;possess o.s. of sth etwas in Besitz nehmen, sich einer Sache bemächtigen* * *transitive verb1) (own) besitzen2) (have as faculty or quality) haben3) (dominate) [Furcht usw.:] ergreifen, Besitz nehmen von [Person]what possessed you/him? — (coll.) was ist in dich/ihn gefahren?
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преподавательский состав, преподаватели (особенно при наличии противопоставления административному или техническому персоналу)For an academic staff member to be employed on an additional appointment all of the following requirements must be met. — Чтобы преподавателя назначили на какую-либо дополнительную должность, необходимо выполнение всех нижеприведённых требований.
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n книжн. пристрастие, склонность; предпочтениеСинонимический ряд:1. attraction (noun) attraction; fondness; partiality; passion; preference2. faculty (noun) bent; capability; capacity; faculty; proficiency; talent3. leaning (noun) bias; disposition; drift; favoring; inclination; inclining; leaning; lurch; penchant; predisposition; prejudice; proclivity; proneness; propensity; sentiment; squint; tendency; turnАнтонимический ряд:aversion; dislike -
114 Ideas
I never wrote or concluded that the mind required innate ideas which were in some sort different from its faculty of thinking; but when I observed the existence in me of certain thoughts which proceeded, not from extraneous objects nor from the determination of my will, but solely from the faculty of thinking which is within me, then... I termed [these] "innate." (Descartes, 1955, p. 442)[S]imple ideas are not fictions of our fancies, but the natural and regular productions of things without us really operating upon us.... Thus, the idea of whiteness or bitterness, as it is in the mind, exactly answering that power which is in any body to produce it there, has all the real conformity it can or ought to have with things without us.... [However], all our complex ideas except those of substances being archetypes of the mind's own making, not intended to be the copies of anything, as to their originals, cannot want any conformity necessary to real knowledge. For that which is not designed to represent anything but itself, can never be capable of a wrong representation, nor mislead us from the true apprehension of anything by its dislikeness to it; and such, excepting those of substances, are all our complex ideas: which... are combinations of ideas which the mind by its free choice puts together without considering any connection they have in nature. (Locke, 1956, B. IV, Chap. 4, Sec. 5)[O]ur moral ideas as well as mathematical, being archetypes themselves, and so adequate and complete ideas, all the agreement or disagreement which we shall find in them will produce real knowledge, as well as in mathematical figures. (Locke, 1956, B. IV, Chap. 4, Sec. 7)Ideas... are real things, or do really exist; this we do not deny, but we deny they can subsist without the minds which perceive them, or that they are resemblances of any archetypes existing without the mind; since the very being of a sensation or idea consists in being perceived, and an idea can be like nothing but an idea. (Berkeley, 1996, Pt. I, No. 90, pp. 63-64)The empiricists were right to believe that facts and ideas are significantly connected, but they inverted the relationship. Ideas create information, not the other way around. Every fact grows from an idea; it is the answer to a question we could not ask in the first place if an idea had not been invented which isolated some portion of the world, made it important, focused our attention, and stimulated inquiry. (Roszak, 1994, p. 105)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Ideas
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115 FAST
1) Компьютерная техника: Flexible Architecture Simulator Tool, Functional Analysis Systems Technique3) Американизм: Fast Action Stops Torture, Federal Acquisition Services For Technology, Free And Secure Trade, Frequent Accurate Specific And Timely4) Спорт: Fans Against Scalping Tickets, Father And Son Team, Functional Agility Speed And Technique, Functional Agility Strength Training5) Военный термин: Field Assistance in Science and Technology, Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, Fleet Antiterrorism Support Team, Fleet Antiterrorist Support Teams, Forward Area Support Terminal, fast acquisition, search and tracking, fast automatic search and tracking, fence against satellite threats, force and supply tracking, forecasting and scheduling technique, foreign area specialist training, forward air strike task, forward airborne surveillance and tracking, frequency agile search and track, functional analysis system technique, fuze and sensing techniques, Forward Area Support Team (terminal), Подразделение обеспечения безопасности флота против терроризма6) Техника: Fairchild advanced Schottky technology, facility for automatic sorting and testing, failure analysis by statistical technique, fast acquisition, search and track, fixed abrasive slicing technique, fuel aerosol simulation test, fuel assembly stability test, Functions Analysis Systems Technique7) Юридический термин: Fast Action Service Team, Foster Allegation Support Team, Freely Available Software Technology8) Биржевой термин: Financial Agent Secured Transactions9) Музыка: Feed A Songwriter Today10) Телекоммуникации: Field Automated Subscriber Testing11) Сокращение: Facility Access Shipment and Tracking system (another translation of above), Facility Access and Shipment Tracking system (manages drop ship appointments, 2005), Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team, Fleet Anti-terrorist Security Team, Fly Away Satellite Terminal, Forecasted Annually Shipped Timely (centralized procurement system), Forward Area Shelterized Terminal, Fully Automatic Scoring Target, Fuze Activating Static Targets, fast automatic shuttle transfer, Facility for Accelerated Service Testing, Группы оказания помощи пострадавшим семьям (Family Services Teams)12) Университет: Facetted Application Of Subject Terminology, Faculty Academic Support Team, Fordham Alumni Student Teams13) Физиология: Focused Abdominal Sonography For Trauma, Fortified Amino Scalp Therapy14) Вычислительная техника: Federation Against Software Theft, First Application System Test, Fast ARM Solutions Toolkit (ARM, Palm, PDA), Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer (Space)15) Нефть: гидроразрыв с использованием пара высокого давления, (process) fracture-assisted steamflood technology (process)16) Иммунология: fiber-optic array scanning technology, fluoroallergosorbent test17) Космонавтика: Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer18) Транспорт: Final Approach Spacing Tool19) Экология: Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment (mine)20) Деловая лексика: Factory Authorized Service Teams, Fast Automated Screen Trading, Flexible Accelerated Securities Transfer21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: fracture assisted steamflooding22) Нефтегазовая техника гидроразрыв с использованием пара высокого давления (fracture assisted steamflooding)23) Образование: Families And School Together, Families And Schools Together, Family And School Together, Fun After School Teens24) Океанография: Flow Actuated Sediment Trap, Fore- Aft Scanning Technique25) Пожарное дело: группа поиска и спасения (личный состав, назначаемый для поиска и спасения оказавшихся в опасности пожарных (Firefighter Assist and Search Team))26) Энергосистемы: facility for accelarated service testing27) Нефть и газ: Field Asset Strategy Team28) Автодорожное право: Facilitate Acceleration through Special Technique, Ускорение развития путем использования специальных методов29) Общественная организация: Food Allergies Survivors Together31) Правительство: Fair And Simple Tax32) Программное обеспечение: Fully Active Starburst Technology -
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1) Компьютерная техника: Flexible Architecture Simulator Tool, Functional Analysis Systems Technique3) Американизм: Fast Action Stops Torture, Federal Acquisition Services For Technology, Free And Secure Trade, Frequent Accurate Specific And Timely4) Спорт: Fans Against Scalping Tickets, Father And Son Team, Functional Agility Speed And Technique, Functional Agility Strength Training5) Военный термин: Field Assistance in Science and Technology, Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, Fleet Antiterrorism Support Team, Fleet Antiterrorist Support Teams, Forward Area Support Terminal, fast acquisition, search and tracking, fast automatic search and tracking, fence against satellite threats, force and supply tracking, forecasting and scheduling technique, foreign area specialist training, forward air strike task, forward airborne surveillance and tracking, frequency agile search and track, functional analysis system technique, fuze and sensing techniques, Forward Area Support Team (terminal), Подразделение обеспечения безопасности флота против терроризма6) Техника: Fairchild advanced Schottky technology, facility for automatic sorting and testing, failure analysis by statistical technique, fast acquisition, search and track, fixed abrasive slicing technique, fuel aerosol simulation test, fuel assembly stability test, Functions Analysis Systems Technique7) Юридический термин: Fast Action Service Team, Foster Allegation Support Team, Freely Available Software Technology8) Биржевой термин: Financial Agent Secured Transactions9) Музыка: Feed A Songwriter Today10) Телекоммуникации: Field Automated Subscriber Testing11) Сокращение: Facility Access Shipment and Tracking system (another translation of above), Facility Access and Shipment Tracking system (manages drop ship appointments, 2005), Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team, Fleet Anti-terrorist Security Team, Fly Away Satellite Terminal, Forecasted Annually Shipped Timely (centralized procurement system), Forward Area Shelterized Terminal, Fully Automatic Scoring Target, Fuze Activating Static Targets, fast automatic shuttle transfer, Facility for Accelerated Service Testing, Группы оказания помощи пострадавшим семьям (Family Services Teams)12) Университет: Facetted Application Of Subject Terminology, Faculty Academic Support Team, Fordham Alumni Student Teams13) Физиология: Focused Abdominal Sonography For Trauma, Fortified Amino Scalp Therapy14) Вычислительная техника: Federation Against Software Theft, First Application System Test, Fast ARM Solutions Toolkit (ARM, Palm, PDA), Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer (Space)15) Нефть: гидроразрыв с использованием пара высокого давления, (process) fracture-assisted steamflood technology (process)16) Иммунология: fiber-optic array scanning technology, fluoroallergosorbent test17) Космонавтика: Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer18) Транспорт: Final Approach Spacing Tool19) Экология: Fixed Activated Sludge Treatment (mine)20) Деловая лексика: Factory Authorized Service Teams, Fast Automated Screen Trading, Flexible Accelerated Securities Transfer21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: fracture assisted steamflooding22) Нефтегазовая техника гидроразрыв с использованием пара высокого давления (fracture assisted steamflooding)23) Образование: Families And School Together, Families And Schools Together, Family And School Together, Fun After School Teens24) Океанография: Flow Actuated Sediment Trap, Fore- Aft Scanning Technique25) Пожарное дело: группа поиска и спасения (личный состав, назначаемый для поиска и спасения оказавшихся в опасности пожарных (Firefighter Assist and Search Team))26) Энергосистемы: facility for accelarated service testing27) Нефть и газ: Field Asset Strategy Team28) Автодорожное право: Facilitate Acceleration through Special Technique, Ускорение развития путем использования специальных методов29) Общественная организация: Food Allergies Survivors Together31) Правительство: Fair And Simple Tax32) Программное обеспечение: Fully Active Starburst Technology -
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'biznis1) (occupation; buying and selling: Selling china is my business; The shop does more business at Christmas than at any other time.) negocio2) (a shop, a firm: He owns his own business.) negocio, empresa3) (concern: Make it your business to help him; Let's get down to business (= Let's start the work etc that must be done).) asunto•- businessman
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business n1. negocios2. negocio / empresa / industria3. asunto / temait's none of your business no es asunto tuyo / a ti no te importamind your own business! ¡no te metas en lo que no te importa!tr['bɪznəs]1 (commerce) negocios nombre masculino plural2 (firm) negocio, empresa3 (affair) asunto, tema nombre masculino■ does he know about the business with the money? ¿se ha enterado del asunto del dinero?\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLit's my «(your, etc)» business to... me (te, etc) incumbe...to be away on business estar (fuera) de viajeto be big business ser un buen negocioto be in business dedicarse al mundo de los negociosto be the business familiar molar, ser muy guayto do business with somebody comerciar con alguien, tener relaciones comerciales con alguiento get down to business entrar en materiato go out of business quebrarto have no business to «+ inf» no tener ningún derecho a + infto mean business ir en serioto put somebody out of business hacer que alguien quiebreto run a business llevar un negocioto send somebody about his «(her, etc)» business mandar a alguien de paseoto set up a business montar un negociomind your own business! ¡no te metas donde no te llaman!business before pleasure primero es la obligación que la devociónbusiness is business el negocio es el negociobig business grandes negocios nombre masculino pluralbusiness administration administración nombre femenino de negociosbusiness card tarjeta de presentación, tarjeta comercialbusiness centre centro de negociosbusiness consultant asesor,-ra de empresasbusiness consultancy asesoría de empresasbusiness deal trato comercialbusiness district área de negocios, zona comercialbusiness hours horario comercialbusiness of the day orden nombre masculino del díabusiness manager director,-ra de empresasbusiness school escuela de negociosbusiness studies estudios nombre masculino plural empresariales, empresariales nombre masculino pluralbusiness trip viaje nombre masculino de negociosline of business profesión nombre femenino■ what line of business are you in? ¿a qué te dedicas?business ['bɪznəs, -nəz] n1) occupation: ocupación f, oficio m2) duty, mission: misión f, deber m, responsabilidad f3) establishment, firm: empresa f, firma f, negocio m, comercio m4) commerce: negocios mpl, comercio m5) affair, matter: asunto m, cuestión f, cosa fit's none of your business: no es asunto tuyoadj.• comercial adj.• de negocios adj.• empresarial adj.• negocio, -a adj.• negocios adj.n.• asunto s.m.• bártulos s.m.pl.• comercio s.m.• cuestión s.f.• dependencia s.f.• empleo s.m.• empresa s.f.• negocio s.m.• negocios s.m.pl.• trato s.m.• tráfico s.m.'bɪznəs, 'bɪznɪs1) u ( Busn)a) (world of commerce, finance) negocios mpl; (before n)business studies — (ciencias fpl) empresariales fpl
business school — escuela f de administración or gestión de empresas
b) (commercial activity, trading) comercio mto be in business: the firm has been in business for 50 years la empresa tiene 50 años de actividad comercial; the factory is back in business again la fábrica ha reanudado sus operaciones; to set up in business montar or poner* un negocio; go into business: they went into business together montaron or pusieron un negocio juntos; to go out of business cerrar*; business is good el negocio anda or marcha bien; the company lost two million dollars' worth of business la compañía perdió ventas (or contratos etc) por valor de dos millones de dólares; we open for business at nine o'clock — abrimos al público a las nueve
c) (custom, clients)to lose business — perder* clientes or clientela
2) ca) ( firm) negocio m, empresa fb) ( branch of commerce)I'm in the insurance/antiques business — trabajo en el ramo de los seguros/en la compra y venta de antigüedades
the fashion/music business — la industria or el negocio de la moda/música
3) ua) ( transactions)she's here/away on business — está aquí/de viaje por negocios
unfinished business — asuntos mpl pendientes
business before pleasure — antes es la obligación que la devoción, primero el deber (y después el placer)
to get down to business — ir* al grano, entrar en materia
to mean business — decir* algo muy en serio
to talk business — hablar de negocios; (before n) <appointment, lunch> de trabajo, de negocios
business letter — carta f comercial
business trip — viaje m de negocios
b) ( items on agenda) asuntos mpl, temas mplany other business — otros asuntos, ≈ruegos y preguntas
c) (rightful occupation, concern) asunto m, incumbencia fthat's none of your business — eso no es asunto tuyo, eso no te incumbe
I shall make it my business to find out — yo me ocuparé or me encargaré de averiguarlo
like nobody's business — (colloq)
she was getting through those chocolates like nobody's business — les estaba dando duro a los bombones (fam)
4) (affair, situation, activity) (colloq) (no pl) asunto mwhat's all this business about you leaving? — ¿qué es eso de que te vas?
['bɪznɪs]to give somebody the business — (AmE) ( reprimand) echarle la bronca a alguien (fam); ( tease) tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam)
1. N•
business as usual — (=general slogan) aquí no ha pasado nada; (=notice outside shop) "seguimos atendiendo al público durante las reformas"•
business before pleasure — primero es la obligación que la devoción•
to carry on business as — tener un negocio de•
to do business with — negociar con•
he's in business — se dedica al comercio•
to go into business — dedicarse al comercio•
the shop is losing business — la tienda está perdiendo clientela•
he means business — habla en serio•
I'm here on business — estoy (en viaje) de negocios•
to go out of business — quebrar•
to set up in business as — montar un negocio de•
to get down to business — ir al grano2) (=firm) negocio m, empresa f3) (=trade, profession) oficio m, ocupación fwhat business are you in? — ¿a qué se dedica usted?
4) (=task, duty, concern) asunto m, responsabilidad f•
to send sb about his business — echar a algn con cajas destempladas•
the business before the meeting — frm los asuntos a tratar•
I have business with the minister — tengo asuntos que tratar con el ministrowhat business have you to intervene? — ¿con qué derecho interviene usted?
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we're not in business to — + infin no tenemos por costumbre + infinwe are not in the business of subsidizing scroungers — no tenemos por costumbre costearles la vida a los gorrones
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that's my business — eso es cosa míait is my business to — + infin me corresponde + infin
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it's no business of mine — yo no tengo nada que ver con eso, no es cosa mía•
they're working away like nobody's business — están trabajando como locos•
it's none of his business — no es asunto suyo5) * (=affair, matter) asunto m, cuestión fthe Suez business — el asunto de Suez, la cuestión Suez
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it's a nasty business — es un asunto feo•
finding a flat can be quite a business — encontrar piso or (LAm) un departamento puede ser muy difícil•
did you hear about that business yesterday? — ¿te contaron algo de lo que pasó ayer?•
I can't stand this business of doing nothing — no puedo con este plan de no hacer nada•
what a business this is! — ¡vaya lío!6) (Theat) acción f, gag m7)8)he's/it's the business * — es fantástico
2.CPDbusiness account N — cuenta f comercial, cuenta f empresarial
business address N — dirección f comercial or profesional
business administration N — (as course) administración f de empresas
business agent N — agente mf de negocios
business angel N — (=backer) inversor(a) m / f providencial
business associate N — socio(-a) m / f, asociado(-a) m / f
business card N — tarjeta f de visita
business centre, business center (US) N — centro m financiero
business class N — (Aer) clase f preferente
business college N — escuela f de administración de empresas
business consultancy N — asesoría f empresarial
business consultant N — asesor(a) m / f de empresas
business deal N — trato m comercial
business district N — zona f comercial
business end * N — (fig) [of tool, weapon] punta f
business expenses NPL — gastos mpl (comerciales)
business hours NPL — horas fpl de oficina
business language N — lenguaje m comercial
business letter N — carta f de negocios, carta f comercial
business loan N — préstamo m comercial
business lunch N — comida f de negocios
business machines NPL — máquinas fpl para la empresa
business management N — dirección f empresarial
business manager N — (Comm, Ind) director(a) m / f comercial, gerente mf comercial; (Theat) secretario(-a) m / f
business park N — parque m industrial
business partner N — socio(-a) m / f
business people NPL — gente f de negocios, profesionales mpl
business person N — hombre/mujer m / f de negocios, profesional mf
business plan N — plan m de empresa
business practice N — práctica f empresarial
business premises NPL — local msing comercial
business school N — = business college
business sense N — cabeza f para los negocios
business Spanish N — español m comercial
business studies N — ciencias fpl empresariales, empresariales fpl
business titan N — gigante m empresarial
business use N — uso m empresarial
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for business use only — solo para uso empresarial•
the business use of sth — el uso de algo con fines empresarialesyou can claim a certain amount for business use of your home — puedes deducir una cierta cantidad por el uso con fines empresariales de tu casa
business venture N — empresa f comercial
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his first business venture — su primera empresa comercial(Faculty of) Business Studies N — (Facultad f de) Ciencias fpl Empresariales
business suit N — traje m de oficina or de calle
business trip N — viaje m de negocios
* * *['bɪznəs, 'bɪznɪs]1) u ( Busn)a) (world of commerce, finance) negocios mpl; (before n)business studies — (ciencias fpl) empresariales fpl
business school — escuela f de administración or gestión de empresas
b) (commercial activity, trading) comercio mto be in business: the firm has been in business for 50 years la empresa tiene 50 años de actividad comercial; the factory is back in business again la fábrica ha reanudado sus operaciones; to set up in business montar or poner* un negocio; go into business: they went into business together montaron or pusieron un negocio juntos; to go out of business cerrar*; business is good el negocio anda or marcha bien; the company lost two million dollars' worth of business la compañía perdió ventas (or contratos etc) por valor de dos millones de dólares; we open for business at nine o'clock — abrimos al público a las nueve
c) (custom, clients)to lose business — perder* clientes or clientela
2) ca) ( firm) negocio m, empresa fb) ( branch of commerce)I'm in the insurance/antiques business — trabajo en el ramo de los seguros/en la compra y venta de antigüedades
the fashion/music business — la industria or el negocio de la moda/música
3) ua) ( transactions)she's here/away on business — está aquí/de viaje por negocios
unfinished business — asuntos mpl pendientes
business before pleasure — antes es la obligación que la devoción, primero el deber (y después el placer)
to get down to business — ir* al grano, entrar en materia
to mean business — decir* algo muy en serio
to talk business — hablar de negocios; (before n) <appointment, lunch> de trabajo, de negocios
business letter — carta f comercial
business trip — viaje m de negocios
b) ( items on agenda) asuntos mpl, temas mplany other business — otros asuntos, ≈ruegos y preguntas
c) (rightful occupation, concern) asunto m, incumbencia fthat's none of your business — eso no es asunto tuyo, eso no te incumbe
I shall make it my business to find out — yo me ocuparé or me encargaré de averiguarlo
like nobody's business — (colloq)
she was getting through those chocolates like nobody's business — les estaba dando duro a los bombones (fam)
4) (affair, situation, activity) (colloq) (no pl) asunto mwhat's all this business about you leaving? — ¿qué es eso de que te vas?
to give somebody the business — (AmE) ( reprimand) echarle la bronca a alguien (fam); ( tease) tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam)
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1) (painting and sculpture: I'm studying art at school; Do you like modern art?; (also adjective) an art gallery, an art college.) arte2) (any of various creative forms of expression: painting, music, dancing, writing and the other arts.) arte3) (an ability or skill; the (best) way of doing something: the art of conversation/war.) arte•- artful- artfully
- artfulness
- arts
art n artetr[ɑːt]1 (painting etc) arte nombre masculino\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLart dealer marchante nombre masculinoart deco art deco nombre masculinoart exhibition exposición nombre femenino de obras de arteart nouveau art nouveau nombre masculino, modernismoart school escuela de bellas artes————————tr[ɑːt]1 architecture→ link=be be{art ['ɑrt] n1) : arte m2) skill: destreza f, habilidad f, maña f3) arts npl: letras fpl (en la educación)4)fine arts : bellas artes fpln.• arte s.m.• artificio s.m.• ciencia s.f.• habilidad s.f.
I ɑːrt, ɑːt1)a) u ( object of aesthetics) arte mshe's studying art — estudia Bellas Artes; (before n) < class> de arte; ( in school) de dibujo
art exhibition — exposición f de obras de arte
art gallery — ( museum) museo m de arte
art school o college — escuela f de Bellas Artes; ( for minor arts) escuela f de Artes y Oficios
b) u c ( artwork) trabajos mpl artísticos2) arts pla)b) (BrE Educ) letras fpl3) (skill, craft) (no pl) arte m
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I [ɑːt]1. N1) (=painting etc) arte mwork of art — obra f de arte
2) (=skill) arte m, habilidad f, destreza f; (=technique) técnica f; (=knack) maña f; (=gift) don m, facilidad ffine I, 1., 1)the art of persuasion/seduction — el arte de la persuasión/la seducción
3) (Univ)bachelor, masterFaculty of Arts — Facultad f de Filosofía y Letras
4) (=cunning) arte m2.CPDart collection N — colección f de arte
art college N — escuela f de Bellas Artes
art dealer N — marchante mf
art director N — director(a) m / f artístico(-a)
art exhibition N — exposición f de arte
art gallery N — (state-owned) museo m (de arte); (private) galería f de arte
art lover N — aficionado(-a) m / f al arte
art nouveau N — modernismo m
arts and crafts NPL — artesanías fpl
art school N — escuela f de Bellas Artes
Arts Council N — (Brit) institución pública encargada de la promoción de la cultura y de las actividades artísticas
Arts degree N — licenciatura f en Letras
Arts student N — estudiante mf de Letras
performanceart student N — estudiante mf de Bellas Artes
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†† [ɑːt]PRESENT (thou form) of be* * *
I [ɑːrt, ɑːt]1)a) u ( object of aesthetics) arte mshe's studying art — estudia Bellas Artes; (before n) < class> de arte; ( in school) de dibujo
art exhibition — exposición f de obras de arte
art gallery — ( museum) museo m de arte
art school o college — escuela f de Bellas Artes; ( for minor arts) escuela f de Artes y Oficios
b) u c ( artwork) trabajos mpl artísticos2) arts pla)b) (BrE Educ) letras fpl3) (skill, craft) (no pl) arte m
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119 capacity
[kə'pæsətɪ] 1. сущ.1) вместимость, ёмкость; объём- measure of capacity
- seating capacity
- capacity for heat
- capacity for moisture
- fill to capacity
- play to capacity
- over capacity2) способность (что-л. делать)capacity for making friends — коммуникабельность, способность сходиться с людьми
She has the capacity to go all the way to the top. — У неё хватит сил пройти весь путь до самой вершины.
Our capacity for giving care, love and attention is limited. — Наши возможности для проявления заботы, любви и внимания ограничены.
Syn:3) = mental capacity умственные способности4) роль, должность, качествоI am dead in a natural capacity, dead in a poetical capacity, and dead in a civil capacity. (A. Pope, Letters, 1710) — Я мёртв как человек, мёртв как поэт, мёртв как гражданин.
The King, in his individual capacity, had very little to give. (Th. B. Macaulay, History of England from the Accession of James the Second, 1848) — Король, сам по себе, не имел почти ничего.
5) возможность6) юр. правоспособностьcapacity to marry — способность ( правовая) к вступлению в брак
7) тех. мощность, нагрузка; производительностьat capacity — при мощности, при нагрузке
full labour capacity — максимальная производительность; производительность труда
2. прил.productive capacity — производительность, производственная мощность
наполняющий до отказа (что-л.)Swimming baths, of course, attracted capacity crowds throughout the day. — Плавательный бассейн, разумеется, ломился от желающих туда попасть.
Both the play and film are now drawing capacity houses in London. — И пьеса, и фильм идут в Лондоне при полном аншлаге.
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120 Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich
[br]b. 16 March 1859 Bogoslavsky, Zamod, Ural District, Russiad. 13 January 1906 St Petersburg, Russia[br]Russian physicist and electrical engineer acclaimed by the former Soviet Union as the inventor of radio.[br]Popov, the son of a village priest, received his early education in a seminary, but in 1877 he entered the University of St Petersburg to study mathematics. He graduated with distinction in 1883 and joined the faculty to teach mathematics and physics. Then, increasingly interested in electrical engineering, he became an instructor at the Russian Navy Torpedo School at Krondstadt, near St Petersburg, where he later became a professor. On 7 May 1895 he is said to have transmitted and received Morse code radio signals over a distance of 40 m (130 ft) in a demonstration given at St Petersburg University to the Russian Chemical Society, but in a paper published in January 1896 in the Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society, he in fact described the use of a coherer for recording atmospheric disturbances such as lightning, together with the design of a modified coherer intended for reception at a distance of 5 km (3 miles). Subsequently, on 26 November 1897, after Marconi's own radio-transmission experiments had been publicized, he wrote a letter claiming priority for his discovery to the English-language journal Electrician, in the form of a translated précis of his original paper, but neither the original Russian paper nor the English précis made specific claims of either a receiver or a transmitter as such. However, by 1898 he had certainly developed some form of ship-to-shore radio for the Russian Navy. In 1945, long after the Russian revolution, the communist regime supported his claim to be the inventor of radio, but this is a matter for much debate and the priority of Marconi's claim is generally acknowledged outside the USSR.[br]Bibliography1896, Journal of the Russian Physical and Chemical Society (his original paper in Russian).1897, Electrician 40:235 (the English précis).Further ReadingC.Susskind, 1962, "Popov and the beginnings of radio telegraphy", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 50:2,036.——1964, Marconi, Popov and the dawn of radiocommunication', Electronics and Power, London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 10:76.KFBiographical history of technology > Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich
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