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  • 1 improved by age

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  • 2 improved

    улучшил; улучшенный

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  • 3 improve

    im'pru:v
    (to (cause to) become better, of higher quality etc: His work has greatly improved; They recently improved the design of that car.) mejorar, perfeccionar
    - improve on
    improve vb mejorar
    tr[ɪm'prʊːv]
    1 (quality etc) mejorar
    2 (skill, knowledge) perfeccionar
    3 (mind) cultivar
    4 (property) hacer mejoras en
    5 (increase) aumentar
    1 (get better) mejorar, mejorarse
    ■ if the weather doesn't improve, we'll go home si el tiempo no mejora, volveremos a casa
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to improve oneself (in mind) cultivarse, educarse 2 (in wealth) mejorar
    to improve with age mejorar con el tiempo
    improve [ɪm'pru:v] v, - proved ; - proving : mejorar
    v.
    • abonar v.
    • bonificar v.
    • encastar v.
    • enmendar v.
    • fomentar v.
    • medrar v.
    • mejorar v.
    • mejorarse v.
    • perfeccionar v.
    • reformar v.
    ɪm'pruːv
    1.
    a) \<\<design/results\>\> mejorar; \<\<chances\>\> aumentar

    to improve one's mind — cultivarse, culturizarse* (hum)

    b) \<\<property/premises\>\> hacer* mejoras en

    2.
    vi \<\<situation/weather/health\>\> mejorar; \<\<chances\>\> aumentar

    to improve with age/use — mejorar con el tiempo/uso


    3.
    v refl
    Phrasal Verbs:
    [ɪm'pruːv]
    1. VT
    1) (=make better) [+ work] mejorar; [+ property] hacer mejoras en

    to improve o.s. or one's mind — cultivarse, instruirse

    to improve o.s. — (in wealth) mejorar su situación

    2) (=favour) [+ appearance] favorecer
    3) (=perfect) [+ skill] perfeccionar; (=add value to) aumentar el valor de
    4) (=increase) [+ production, yield] aumentar

    to improve one's chances of success — aumentar or mejorar las posibilidades de éxito

    the management has refused to improve its offer of 3% — la dirección se ha negado a mejorar su oferta del 3%

    2.
    VI [person] (in skill etc) hacer progresos; (after illness) mejorar(se); [health, weather, work, quality] mejorar; [production, yield] aumentar; [business] mejorar, prosperar

    to improve with age/use — mejorar con el tiempo/el uso

    * * *
    [ɪm'pruːv]
    1.
    a) \<\<design/results\>\> mejorar; \<\<chances\>\> aumentar

    to improve one's mind — cultivarse, culturizarse* (hum)

    b) \<\<property/premises\>\> hacer* mejoras en

    2.
    vi \<\<situation/weather/health\>\> mejorar; \<\<chances\>\> aumentar

    to improve with age/use — mejorar con el tiempo/uso


    3.
    v refl
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > improve

  • 4 improve

    1. I
    the situation (smb.'s business, etc.) is improving положение и т. д. улучшается /становится лучше/; things are improving дела налаживаются; his mathematics has improved он сделал успехи по математике; I hope his health has improved надеюсь, [что] ему лучше; I hope the weather will improve надеюсь, погода наладится
    2. II
    improve in some manner improve rapidly (gradually, tremendously, markedly, definitely, unquestionably, etc.) быстро и т. д. улучшаться /поправляться, налаживаться/
    3. III
    improve smth.
    1) improve the situation (one's condition, the water-supply, the model, communication, etc.) улучшать положение и т. д., I'll improve the shape of the handle so that it is easier for you to use я переделаю форму ручки, чтобы вам было удобнее ею пользоваться; improve smb.'s manners исправлять чьи-л. манеры; improve traffic наладить уличное движение; improve one's gifts /one's talents/ (one's skill, one's abilities, nature, etc.) совершенствовать свой таланты и т. д., he improved his French (his knowledge of Russian) он сделал успехи во французском (в русском) языке; he is reading a lot to improve his mind он много читает для общего развития
    2) book. improve each hour (every moment while you are young, the occasion, the opportunity, an event, an acquaintance, etc.) использовать каждый час и т. д.
    4. IV
    improve smth., smb. in some manner improve smth. greatly (very much, materially, artificially, etc.) значительно и т. д. улучшать /(усовершенствовать/ что-л.; the dress improves her greatly она гораздо лучше выглядит в этом платье. это платье ее красит
    5. XI
    be improved upon this tart (this pudding) cannot be improved upon этот торт (пудинг) лучше не сделаешь
    6. XIV
    improve on doing smth. the book improves on reading чем дальше читаешь, тем книга становится интереснее
    7. XVI
    1) improve in (by, with, through, etc.) smth. improve in health поправляться, выздоравливать; improve in strength окрепнуть, стать сильнее; improve in looks /in appearance/ похорошеть, выглядеть лучше; improve in skill приобретать навык, совершенствоваться; improve in one's Latin совершенствоваться в латыни; improve in one's financial position улучшить свое материальное положение; improve with age делаться лучше с возрастом; improve by degrees постепенно улучшаться; he is improving slowly from the effects of a fall он медленно оправляется после ушибов; he improved by /through/ study благодаря занятиям он достиг определенных успехов; he improved on acquaintance когда я его лучше узнал, он мне больше понравился
    2) improve (ир)оп smth. improve on the plan (upon a tale, on smb.'s translation, on the invention, upon smb.'s ideas, etc.) усовершенствовать / делать лучше/ план и т. д.; surely you can improve on that ты наверняка можешь это сделать лучше; your complexion is wonderful, don't try to improve upon nature у вас прекрасный цвет лица, не пытайтесь подправить природу
    8. XVIII
    improve oneself in smth. improve oneself in drawing (in English, in translation, etc.) научиться лучше рисовать и т. д.; improve oneself in some manner improve oneself professionally повышать свою квалификацию
    9. XXI1
    1) improve smth. by smth. improve one's reading (one's English, one's piano, etc.) by practice /use/ усовершенствовать навыки чтения и т. д. упражнением; improve one's natural gifts by study развивать природные таланты занятиями; improve one's health by constant exercise укреплять здоровье /закалиться/ путем постоянной тренировки
    2) improve smth. for smth. book. improve an attic for storage (the knowledge for one's own end, etc.) использовать чердак под склад и т. д.
    10. XXII
    improve smth. by doing smth.
    1) improve the lot by building on it повышать цену на участок путем возведения на нем строений
    2) book. improve the time by seeing the city (every spare moment by studying, etc.) использовать время для осмотра города и т. д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > improve

  • 5 improve

    1. intransitive verb
    sich verbessern; besser werden; [Person, Wetter:] sich bessern

    he was ill, but he's improving now — er war krank, aber es geht ihm jetzt schon besser

    2. transitive verb
    verbessern; erhöhen, steigern [Produktion]; ausbessern [Haus usw.]; verschönern [öffentliche Anlage usw.]
    3. reflexive verb
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/103426/improve_on">improve on
    * * *
    [im'pru:v]
    (to (cause to) become better, of higher quality etc: His work has greatly improved; They recently improved the design of that car.) verbessern
    - improvement
    - improve on
    * * *
    im·prove
    [ɪmˈpru:v]
    I. vt
    ▪ to \improve sth etw verbessern
    ▪ to \improve oneself an sich dat arbeiten, sich akk verbessern
    II. vi besser werden, sich akk verbessern
    I hope the weather \improves ich hoffe, es gibt besseres Wetter
    ▪ to \improve on [or upon] sth etw [noch] verbessern
    you can't \improve on that! da ist keine Steigerung mehr möglich!
    to \improve with age mit dem Alter immer besser werden
    to \improve in French/mathematics sich akk in Französisch/in Mathematik verbessern
    to \improve with practice mit der Übung immer besser werden
    to \improve dramatically sich akk entscheidend [o erheblich] verbessern
    * * *
    [ɪm'pruːv]
    1. vt
    1) (= make better) verbessern; knowledge erweitern; salaries aufbessern; area, appearance verschönern; sauce, food etc verfeinern; production, value erhöhen, steigern
    2)

    to improve the shining hour (liter) — die Gelegenheit beim Schopfe packen

    2. vi
    sich verbessern, sich bessern; (area, appearance) schöner werden; (production, value) sich erhöhen, steigen

    he has improved in maths — er hat sich in Mathematik gebessert

    the invalid is improving — dem Kranken geht es besser

    I'll try to improve — ich werde versuchen, mich zu bessern

    3. vr

    to improve oneself — an sich (dat) arbeiten

    * * *
    improve [ımˈpruːv]
    A v/t
    1. allg, auch TECH verbessern
    2. Land
    a) AGR meliorieren
    b) erschließen und im Wert steigern
    3. vorteilhaft oder nutzbringend verwenden, ausnutzen
    4. veredeln, verfeinern ( beide:
    into zu)
    5. den Wert etc erhöhen, steigern
    6. improve away ( oder off) (durch Verbesserungsversuche) verderben oder zerstören
    B v/i
    1. sich (ver)bessern, besser werden, Fortschritte machen (auch Patient), sich erholen ( gesundheitlich oder WIRTSCH Markt, Preise), SPORT: sich steigern:
    he is improving (in health) es geht ihm besser;
    improve in strength kräftiger werden;
    improve on acquaintance bei näherer Bekanntschaft gewinnen
    2. WIRTSCH steigen, anziehen (Preise)
    3. improve (up)on
    a) überbieten, -treffen:
    not be improveed upon unübertrefflich
    b) ein früheres Angebot etc verbessern
    C s be on the improve Aus → B 1
    * * *
    1. intransitive verb
    sich verbessern; besser werden; [Person, Wetter:] sich bessern

    he was ill, but he's improving now — er war krank, aber es geht ihm jetzt schon besser

    2. transitive verb
    verbessern; erhöhen, steigern [Produktion]; ausbessern [Haus usw.]; verschönern [öffentliche Anlage usw.]
    3. reflexive verb
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    aufbessern v.
    bessern v.
    sich bessern v.
    verbessern v.

    English-german dictionary > improve

  • 6 improve

    A vtr
    1 ( qualitatively) améliorer [conditions, hygiene, efficiency, appearance, diet, quality, relations] ; to improve one's German se perfectionner en allemand ; improve your memory améliorez votre mémoire ; the new arrangements did not improve matters les nouveaux accords n'ont pas arrangé les choses ; to improve one's mind se cultiver (l'esprit) ; to improve one's lot améliorer son sort ; to improve the lot of the disabled/of pensioners améliorer les conditions de vie des handicapés/des retraités ;
    2 ( quantitatively) ( increase) augmenter [wages] ; accroître [productivity, output, profits] ; to improve one's chances of winning/of getting of a job augmenter ses chances de gagner/d'obtenir un travail ;
    3 Archit, Constr aménager [building, site] ;
    4 Agric amender [soil] ; accroître [yield].
    1 ( better) [diet, efficiency, conditions] amélioré ; improved access accès facilité ; new improved formula Comm nouvelle formule améliorée ;
    2 ( increased) [offer] meilleur.
    C vi
    1 [relations, health, handwriting, weather] s'améliorer ; to improve with age [cake, wine] s'améliorer avec le temps ; the cake/wine will improve in flavour le gâteau/le vin s'améliorera ; living conditions have improved greatly over the past twenty years les conditions de vie se sont beaucoup améliorées ces vingt dernières années ; your Spanish is improving ton espagnol s'améliore ; things are improving la situation s'améliore ; he's improving Med son état s'améliore, il va mieux ;
    2 to improve on ( better) améliorer [score] ; renchérir sur [offer] ; she has improved on last year's result elle a obtenu de meilleurs résultats que l'année dernière ;
    3 ( increase) [productivity, profits] augmenter ;
    4 Agric [yield] augmenter.

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  • 7 Bakewell, Robert

    [br]
    b. 23 May 1725 Loughborough, England
    d. 1 October 1795 Loughborough, England
    [br]
    English livestock breeder who pioneered the practice of progeny testing for selecting breeding stock; he is particularly associated with the development of the Improved Leicester breed of sheep.
    [br]
    Robert Bakewell was the son of the tenant farming the 500-acre (200 hectare) Dishley Grange Farm, near Loughborough, where he was born. The family was sufficiently wealthy to allow Robert to travel, which he began to do at an early age, exploring the farming methods of the West Country, Norfolk, Ireland and Holland. On taking over the farm he continued the development of the irrigation scheme begun by his father. Arthur Young visited the farm during his tour of east England in 1771. At that time it consisted of 440 acres (178 hectares), 110 acres (45 hectares) of which were arable, and carried a stock of 60 horses, 400 sheep and 150 other assorted beasts. Of the arable land, 30 acres (12 hectares) were under root crops, mainly turnips.
    Bakewell was not the first to pioneer selective breeding, but he was the first successfully to apply selection to both the efficiency with which an animal utilized its food, and its physical appearance. He always had a clear idea of the animal he wanted, travelled extensively to collect a range of animals possessing the characteristics he sought, and then bred from these towards his goal. He was aware of the dangers of inbreeding, but would often use it to gain the qualities he wanted. His early experiments were with Longhorn cattle, which he developed as a meat rather than a draught animal, but his most famous achievement was the development of the Improved Leicester breed of sheep. He set out to produce an animal that would put on the most meat in the least time and with the least feeding. As his base he chose the Old Leicester, but there is still doubt as to which other breeds he may have introduced to produce the desired results. The Improved Leicester was smaller than its ancestor, with poorer wool quality but with greatly improved meat-production capacity.
    Bakewell let out his sires to other farms and was therefore able to study their development under differing conditions. However, he made stringent rules for those who hired these animals, requiring the exclusive use of his rams on the farms concerned and requiring particular dietary conditions to be met. To achieve this control he established the Dishley Society in 1783. Although his policies led to accusations of closed access to his stock, they enabled him to keep a close control of all offspring. He thereby pioneered the process now recognized as "progeny testing".
    Bakewell's fame and that of his farm spread throughout the country and overseas. He engaged in an extensive correspondence and acted as host to all of influence in British and overseas agriculture, but it would appear that he was an over-generous host, since he is known to have been in financial difficulties in about 1789. He was saved from bankruptcy by a public subscription raised to allow him to continue with his breeding experiments; this experience may well have been the reason why he was such a staunch advocate of State funding of agricultural research.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    William Houseman, 1894, biography, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. 1–31. H.C.Parsons, 1957, Robert Bakewell (contains a more detailed account).
    R.Trow Smith, 1957, A History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.
    —A History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700 to 1900 (places Bakewell within the context of overall developments).
    M.L.Ryder, 1983, Sheep and Man, Duckworth (a scientifically detailed account which deals with Bakewell within the context of its particular subject).
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    Biographical history of technology > Bakewell, Robert

  • 8 Cartwright, Revd Edmund

    [br]
    b. 24 April 1743 Marnham, Nottingham, England
    d. 30 October 1823 Hastings, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the power loom, a combing machine and machines for making ropes, bread and bricks as well as agricultural improvements.
    [br]
    Edmund Cartwright, the fourth son of William Cartwright, was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, and went to University College, Oxford, at the age of 14. By special act of convocation in 1764, he was elected Fellow of Magdalen College. He married Alice Whitaker in 1772 and soon after was given the ecclesiastical living of Brampton in Derbyshire. In 1779 he was presented with the living of Goadby, Marwood, Leicestershire, where he wrote poems, reviewed new works, and began agricultural experiments. A visit to Matlock in the summer of 1784 introduced him to the inventions of Richard Arkwright and he asked why weaving could not be mechanized in a similar manner to spinning. This began a remarkable career of inventions.
    Cartwright returned home and built a loom which required two strong men to operate it. This was the first attempt in England to develop a power loom. It had a vertical warp, the reed fell with the weight of at least half a hundredweight and, to quote Gartwright's own words, "the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to throw a Congreive [sic] rocket" (Strickland 19.71:8—for background to the "rocket" comparison, see Congreve, Sir William). Nevertheless, it had the same three basics of weaving that still remain today in modern power looms: shedding or dividing the warp; picking or projecting the shuttle with the weft; and beating that pick of weft into place with a reed. This loom he proudly patented in 1785, and then he went to look at hand looms and was surprised to see how simply they operated. Further improvements to his own loom, covered by two more patents in 1786 and 1787, produced a machine with the more conventional horizontal layout that showed promise; however, the Manchester merchants whom he visited were not interested. He patented more improvements in 1788 as a result of the experience gained in 1786 through establishing a factory at Doncaster with power looms worked by a bull that were the ancestors of modern ones. Twenty-four looms driven by steam-power were installed in Manchester in 1791, but the mill was burned down and no one repeated the experiment. The Doncaster mill was sold in 1793, Cartwright having lost £30,000, However, in 1809 Parliament voted him £10,000 because his looms were then coming into general use.
    In 1789 he began working on a wool-combing machine which he patented in 1790, with further improvements in 1792. This seems to have been the earliest instance of mechanized combing. It used a circular revolving comb from which the long fibres or "top" were. carried off into a can, and a smaller cylinder-comb for teasing out short fibres or "noils", which were taken off by hand. Its output equalled that of twenty hand combers, but it was only relatively successful. It was employed in various Leicestershire and Yorkshire mills, but infringements were frequent and costly to resist. The patent was prolonged for fourteen years after 1801, but even then Cartwright did not make any profit. His 1792 patent also included a machine to make ropes with the outstanding and basic invention of the "cordelier" which he communicated to his friends, including Robert Fulton, but again it brought little financial benefit. As a result of these problems and the lack of remuneration for his inventions, Cartwright moved to London in 1796 and for a time lived in a house built with geometrical bricks of his own design.
    Other inventions followed fast, including a tread-wheel for cranes, metallic packing for pistons in steam-engines, and bread-making and brick-making machines, to mention but a few. He had already returned to agricultural improvements and he put forward suggestions in 1793 for a reaping machine. In 1801 he received a prize from the Board of Agriculture for an essay on husbandry, which was followed in 1803 by a silver medal for the invention of a three-furrow plough and in 1805 by a gold medal for his essay on manures. From 1801 to 1807 he ran an experimental farm on the Duke of Bedford's estates at Woburn.
    From 1786 until his death he was a prebendary of Lincoln. In about 1810 he bought a small farm at Hollanden near Sevenoaks, Kent, where he continued his inventions, both agricultural and general. Inventing to the last, he died at Hastings and was buried in Battle church.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Board of Agriculture Prize 1801 (for an essay on agriculture). Society of Arts, Silver Medal 1803 (for his three-furrow plough); Gold Medal 1805 (for an essay on agricultural improvements).
    Bibliography
    1785. British patent no. 1,270 (power loom).
    1786. British patent no. 1,565 (improved power loom). 1787. British patent no. 1,616 (improved power loom).
    1788. British patent no. 1,676 (improved power loom). 1790, British patent no. 1,747 (wool-combing machine).
    1790, British patent no. 1,787 (wool-combing machine).
    1792, British patent no. 1,876 (improved wool-combing machine and rope-making machine with cordelier).
    Further Reading
    M.Strickland, 1843, A Memoir of the Life, Writings and Mechanical Inventions of Edmund Cartwright, D.D., F.R.S., London (remains the fullest biography of Cartwright).
    Dictionary of National Biography (a good summary of Cartwright's life). For discussions of Cartwright's weaving inventions, see: A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester. F.Nasmith, 1925–6, "Fathers of machine cotton manufacture", Transactions of the
    Newcomen Society 6.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1942–3, "A condensed history of rope-making", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 23.
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (covers both his power loom and his wool -combing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Cartwright, Revd Edmund

  • 9 Perkins, Jacob

    [br]
    b. 9 July 1766 Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 30 July 1849 London, England
    [br]
    American inventor of a nail-making machine and a method of printing banknotes, investigator of the use of steam at very high pressures.
    [br]
    Perkins's occupation was that of a gold-and silversmith; while he does not seem to have followed this after 1800, however, it gave him the skills in working metals which he would continue to employ in his inventions. He had been working in America for four years before he patented his nail-making machine in 1796. At the time there was a great shortage of nails because only hand-forged ones were available. By 1800, other people had followed his example and produced automatic nail-making machines, but in 1811 Perkins' improved machines were introduced to England by J.C. Dyer. Eventually Perkins had twenty-one American patents for a range of inventions in his name.
    In 1799 Perkins invented a system of engraving steel plates for printing banknotes, which became the foundation of modern siderographic work. It discouraged forging and was adopted by many banking houses, including the Federal Government when the Second United States Bank was inaugurated in 1816. This led Perkins to move to Philadelphia. In the intervening years, Perkins had improved his nail-making machine, invented a machine for graining morocco leather in 1809, a fire-engine in 1812, a letter-lock for bank vaults and improved methods of rolling out spoons in 1813, and improved armament and equipment for naval ships from 1812 to 1815.
    It was in Philadelphia that Perkins became interested in the steam engine, when he met Oliver Evans, who had pioneered the use of high-pressure steam. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society and conducted experiments on the compressibility of water before a committee of that society. Perkins claimed to have liquified air during his experiments in 1822 and, if so, was the real discoverer of the liquification of gases. In 1819 he came to England to demonstrate his forgery-proof system of printing banknotes, but the Bank of England was the only one which did not adopt his system.
    While in London, Perkins began to experiment with the highest steam pressures used up to that time and in 1822 took out his first of nineteen British patents. This was followed by another in 1823 for a 10 hp (7.5 kW) engine with only 2 in. (51 mm) bore, 12 in. (305 mm) stroke but a pressure of 500 psi (35 kg/cm2), for which he claimed exceptional economy. After 1826, Perkins abandoned his drum boiler for iron tubes and steam pressures of 1,500 psi (105 kg/cm2), but the materials would not withstand such pressures or temperatures for long. It was in that same year that he patented a form of uniflow cylinder that was later taken up by L.J. Todd. One of his engines ran for five days, continuously pumping water at St Katherine's docks, but Perkins could not raise more finance to continue his experiments.
    In 1823 one his high-pressure hot-water systems was installed to heat the Duke of Wellington's house at Stratfield Saye and it acquired a considerable vogue, being used by Sir John Soane, among others. In 1834 Perkins patented a compression ice-making apparatus, but it did not succeed commercially because ice was imported more cheaply from Norway as ballast for sailing ships. Perkins was often dubbed "the American inventor" because his inquisitive personality allied to his inventive ingenuity enabled him to solve so many mechanical challenges.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943, biography which appeared previously as a shortened version in the Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.
    D.Bathe and G.Bathe, 1943–5, "The contribution of Jacob Perkins to science and engineering", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24.
    D.S.L.Cardwell, 1971, From Watt to Clausius. The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age, London: Heinemann (includes comments on the importance of Perkins's steam engine).
    A.F.Dufton, 1940–1, "Early application of engineering to warming of buildings", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 21 (includes a note on Perkins's application of a high-pressure hot-water heating system).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Perkins, Jacob

  • 10 improve **** im·prove

    [ɪm'pruːv]
    1. vt
    (gen) migliorare, (property, land) apportare migliorie a, (production, yield, salary) aumentare
    2. vi
    (gen) migliorare, (person: in skill) fare (dei) progressi

    to improve in sth — migliorare or fare (dei) progressi in qc

    to improve with age/use — migliorare con gli anni/con l'uso

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    English-Italian dictionary > improve **** im·prove

  • 11 much

    1. adjective,
    1) viel; groß [Erleichterung, Sorge, Dankbarkeit]

    he never eats much breakfast/lunch — er isst nicht viel zum Frühstück/zu Mittag

    too much — zu viel indekl.

    2)

    be a bit much — (coll.) ein bisschen zu viel sein; (fig.) ein bisschen zu weit gehen

    2. noun;
    see also academic.ru/47990/more">more 2.; most 2.; vieles

    that doesn't come or amount to much — es kommt nicht viel dabei heraus

    he/this beer isn't up to much — (coll.) mit ihm/diesem Bier ist nicht viel los (ugs.)

    spend much of the day/week doing something — den Großteil des Tages/der Woche damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

    not be much of a cinema-goer — etc. (coll.) kein großer Kinogänger usw. sein (ugs.)

    I expected/thought as much — das habe ich erwartet/mir gedacht

    you are as much to blame as he is — du bist ebenso sehr schuld wie er

    without so much as saying goodbye — ohne auch nur auf Wiedersehen zu sagen

    3. adverb,
    more, most
    1) modifying comparatives viel [besser]

    much more lively/happy/attractive — viel lebhafter/glücklicher/ attraktiver

    2) modifying superlatives mit Abstand [der/die/das beste, schlechteste, klügste usw.]
    3) modifying passive participles and predicative adjectives sehr

    he is much improved — (in health) es geht ihm viel besser

    4) modifying verbs (greatly) sehr [lieben, mögen, genießen]; (often) oft [sehen, treffen, besuchen]; (frequently) viel

    I don't much like him or like him much — ich mag ihn nicht besonders

    not go much on somebody/something — (coll.) nicht viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    much to my surprise/annoyance, I found that... — zu meiner großen Überraschung/Verärgerung stellte ich fest, dass...

    5) (approximately) fast

    [pretty or very] much the same — fast [genau] der-/die-/dasselbe

    6)

    much as or though — (although) sosehr... auch

    much as I should like to go — so gern ich auch gehen würde

    * * *
    comparative of; see more
    * * *
    [mʌtʃ]
    I. adj
    <more, most>
    + sing viel
    there wasn't \much post es kam nicht viel Post
    how \much...? wie viel...?
    how \much time have we got? wie viel Zeit bleibt uns?
    half/twice as \much halb/doppelt so viel
    not/so \much nicht/so viel
    [\much] too \much [viel] zu viel
    a bit too \much etwas [o ein bisschen] [zu] viel
    II. pron
    1. (relative amount) viel
    this \much is certain so viel [o eines] ist sicher
    I don't know \much about fishing ich hab nicht viel Ahnung vom Angeln
    he left without so \much as an apology er ging ohne auch nur ein Wort der Entschuldigung
    half/twice as \much halb/doppelt so viel
    too \much zu viel
    2. (great deal) viel
    \much of what you say is right vieles von dem, was Sie sagen, ist richtig
    you didn't miss \much Sie haben nicht viel verpasst
    well, I guess our picnic won't come to \much ich glaube, aus unserem Picknick wird nichts werden
    my new stereo isn't up to \much meine neue Anlage taugt nicht viel fam
    I'm not up to \much really (not much planned) ich hab nicht viel vor; (not fit for much) mit mir ist nicht viel los fam
    I've never been \much of a dancer ich habe noch nie gut tanzen können
    she's not \much of a believer in horoscopes sie glaubt nicht wirklich an Horoskope
    he's not \much to look at er sieht nicht gerade umwerfend aus
    4. (larger part)
    \much of the day der Großteil des Tages
    \much of sb's time ein Großteil von jds Zeit
    5. (be redundant)
    so \much for... das war's dann wohl mit...
    the car's broken down again — so \much for the trip to the seaside das Auto ist schon wieder kaputt — das war's dann wohl mit unserem Ausflug ans Meer
    how \much is it? was kostet das?
    III. adv
    <more, most>
    1. (greatly) sehr
    we would very \much like to come wir würden sehr gerne kommen
    she would \much rather have her baby at home than in the hospital sie würde ihr Kind viel lieber zu Hause als im Krankenhaus zur Welt bringen
    I've been feeling \much healthier lately ich fühle mich in letzter Zeit viel besser
    \much to our surprise zu unserer großen Überraschung
    to not be \much good at sth in etw dat nicht sehr gut sein
    2. (by far) bei Weitem
    she's \much the best person for the job sie ist bei Weitem die Beste für den Job
    3. (nearly) fast
    things around here are \much as always hier ist alles beim Alten
    as \much as so gut wie
    he as \much as admitted that... er hat so gut wie zugegeben, dass...
    \much the same fast so
    I am feeling \much the same as yesterday ich fühle mich ungefähr genauso wie gestern
    4. (specifying degree)
    as \much as so viel wie
    I like him as \much as you do ich mag ihn genauso sehr wie du
    they fought with each other as \much as ever sie stritten sich wie eh und je
    so \much so [sehr]
    it hurts so \much to see him like that es tut so weh, ihn so zu sehen
    I wanted so \much to meet you ich wollte dich unbedingt treffen
    very \much sehr
    thank you very \much herzlichen Dank
    that's very \much the done thing around here das ist hier so üblich
    5. (exactly that) genau das
    I had expected as \much so etwas hatte ich schon erwartet
    it was as \much as I could do to get out of bed ich konnte gerade noch aufstehen
    6. (often) häufig
    we don't go out \much wir gehen nicht viel [o oft] weg
    do you see \much of her? siehst du sie öfters?
    7. (setting up a contrast)
    they're not so \much lovers as friends sie sind eher Freunde als ein Liebespaar
    IV. conj (although) auch wenn, wenngleich geh
    \much as I like you,... so gern ich dich auch mag,...
    \much as I would like to help you,... so gerne ich euch auch helfen würde,...
    he can barely boil an egg, \much less cook a proper dinner er kann kaum ein Ei kochen, geschweige denn eine richtige Mahlzeit
    however \much you dislike her... wie unsympathisch sie dir auch sein mag,...
    * * *
    [mʌtʃ]
    1. adj, n

    much of this is true — viel or vieles daran ist wahr

    he's/it's not up to much (inf) — er/es ist nicht gerade berühmt (inf)

    I'm not much of a musician/cook/player — ich bin nicht sehr musikalisch/keine große Köchin/kein (besonders) guter Spieler

    that wasn't much of a dinner/party — das Essen/die Party war nicht gerade besonders

    I find that a bit (too) much after all I've done for him — nach allem was ich für ihn getan habe, finde ich das ein ziemlich starkes Stück (inf)

    2)

    that insult was too much for me —

    the sight of her face was too much for me ( inf = outrageous ) —, = outrageous ) ihr Gesicht war zum Schreien (inf)

    these children are/this job is too much for me — ich bin den Kindern/der Arbeit nicht gewachsen

    far too much, too much by half — viel zu viel

    3)

    (just) as much — ebenso viel inv, genauso viel inv

    about/not as much —

    as much as you want/can etc — so viel du willst/kannst etc

    as much as possible —

    they hope to raise as much as £2m — sie hoffen, nicht weniger als zwei Millionen Pfund aufzubringen

    I feared/thought etc as much — (genau) das habe ich befürchtet/mir gedacht etc

    as much as to say... — was so viel heißt or bedeutet wie...

    4)

    so much — so viel inv; (emph so, with following that) so viel

    it's not so much a problem of modernization as... —

    See:
    → also so
    5)

    to make much of sb/sth — viel Wind um jdn/etw machen

    Glasgow makes much of its large number of parks — Glasgow rühmt sich seiner vielen Parks

    I couldn't make much of that chapter — mit dem Kapitel konnte ich nicht viel anfangen (inf)

    2. adv
    1) (with adj, adv) viel; (with vb) sehr; (with vb of physical action) drive, sleep, think, talk, laugh etc viel; come, visit, go out etc oft, viel (inf)

    a much-admired/-married woman —

    he was much dismayed/embarrassed etc — er war sehr bestürzt/verlegen etc

    so much — so viel; so sehr

    too much — zu viel, zu sehr

    I like it very/so much — es gefällt mir sehr gut/so gut or so sehr

    I don't like him/it too much — ich kann ihn/es nicht besonders leiden

    thank you ( ever) so much — vielen herzlichen Dank

    however much he tries —

    there wasn't enough water to drink, much less wash in — es gab nicht genug Wasser zu trinken, ganz zu schweigen, um sich damit zu waschen

    See:
    → also so
    2) (= by far) weitaus, bei Weitem

    much the biggest — weitaus or bei Weitem der/die/das größte

    3) (= almost) beinahe

    they are much of an age or much the same age —

    * * *
    much [mʌtʃ] komp more [mɔː(r); US auch ˈməʊər], sup most [məʊst]
    A adj viel:
    I haven’t got much money on me;
    it wasn’t much fun es war kein sonderliches Vergnügen;
    he’s too much for me umg ich werde nicht mit ihm fertig;
    get too much for sb jemandem über den Kopf wachsen (Arbeit etc)
    B s Menge f, große Sache:
    nothing much nichts Besonderes;
    it did not come to much es kam nicht viel dabei heraus;
    think much of viel halten von, eine hohe Meinung haben von, große Stücke halten auf (akk);
    I don’t think much of him as a teacher ich halte nicht viel von ihm als Lehrer;
    he is not much of a dancer er ist kein großer oder berühmter Tänzer;
    I’m not much of a drinker ich mach mir nicht viel aus Alkohol;
    he’s not much of a husband er ist kein besonders guter Ehemann;
    he’s not much of a scholar mit seiner Bildung ist es nicht weit her;
    it is much of him even to come schon allein, dass er kommt, will viel heißen;
    too much of a good thing zu viel des Guten; → make B 14
    C adv
    1. sehr:
    we much regret wir bedauern sehr;
    much to my regret sehr zu meinem Bedauern;
    much to my surprise zu meiner großen Überraschung;
    it’s not much good umg
    a) es ist nicht besonders gut,
    b) es schmeckt nicht besonders
    much-decorated MIL hochdekoriert;
    a) weit oder viel gereist, weit herumgekommen,
    b) viel befahren;
    much-vaunted viel gerühmt
    3. (vor komp) viel, weit, erheblich:
    much stronger viel stärker
    4. (vor sup) bei Weitem, weitaus:
    5. fast, annähernd, ziemlich (genau), mehr od weniger:
    he did it in much the same way er tat es auf ungefähr die gleiche Weise;
    it is much the same thing es ist ziemlich dasselbeBesondere Redewendungen: as much
    a) so viel,
    b) so sehr,
    c) ungefähr, etwa as much as so viel wie;
    (as) much as I would like so gern ich auch möchte;
    as much more ( oder again) noch einmal so viel (as wie);
    he said as much das war (ungefähr) der Sinn seiner Worte;
    this is as much as to say das soll so viel heißen wie, das heißt mit anderen Worten;
    he made a gesture as much as to say so, als ob er sagen wollte;
    I thought as much das habe ich mir gedacht;
    he, as much as any er so gut wie irgendeiner;
    a) so sehr,
    b) so viel,
    c) lauter, nichts als so much the better umso besser ( for für);
    so much for today so viel für heute;
    so much for our plans so viel (wäre also) zu unseren Plänen (zu sagen);
    not so much as nicht einmal;
    without so much as to move ohne sich auch nur zu bewegen;
    so much so (und zwar) so sehr;
    a) viel weniger,
    b) geschweige denn not much umg (als Antwort) wohl kaum;
    much like a child ganz wie ein Kind
    * * *
    1. adjective,
    1) viel; groß [Erleichterung, Sorge, Dankbarkeit]

    he never eats much breakfast/lunch — er isst nicht viel zum Frühstück/zu Mittag

    too much — zu viel indekl.

    2)

    be a bit much — (coll.) ein bisschen zu viel sein; (fig.) ein bisschen zu weit gehen

    2. noun;
    see also more 2.; most 2.; vieles

    that doesn't come or amount to much — es kommt nicht viel dabei heraus

    he/this beer isn't up to much — (coll.) mit ihm/diesem Bier ist nicht viel los (ugs.)

    spend much of the day/week doing something — den Großteil des Tages/der Woche damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

    not be much of a cinema-goer — etc. (coll.) kein großer Kinogänger usw. sein (ugs.)

    I expected/thought as much — das habe ich erwartet/mir gedacht

    3. adverb,
    more, most
    1) modifying comparatives viel [besser]

    much more lively/happy/attractive — viel lebhafter/glücklicher/ attraktiver

    2) modifying superlatives mit Abstand [der/die/das beste, schlechteste, klügste usw.]
    3) modifying passive participles and predicative adjectives sehr

    he is much improved — (in health) es geht ihm viel besser

    4) modifying verbs (greatly) sehr [lieben, mögen, genießen]; (often) oft [sehen, treffen, besuchen]; (frequently) viel

    I don't much like him or like him much — ich mag ihn nicht besonders

    not go much on somebody/something — (coll.) nicht viel von jemandem/etwas halten

    much to my surprise/annoyance, I found that... — zu meiner großen Überraschung/Verärgerung stellte ich fest, dass...

    [pretty or very] much the same — fast [genau] der-/die-/dasselbe

    6)

    much as or though — (although) sosehr... auch

    * * *
    adj.
    viel adj. n.
    sehr adv.
    viel adj.

    English-german dictionary > much

  • 12 Edison, Thomas Alva

    [br]
    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
    [br]
    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
    [br]
    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

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  • 13 improve

    improve [ɪmˈpru:v]
    ( = make better) améliorer ; [+ physique] développer ; [+ building, property] rénover
    ( = get better) s'améliorer ; [physique] se développer ; [student, patient] faire des progrès
    * * *
    [ɪm'pruːv] 1.
    1) ( in quality) améliorer
    2) ( in quantity) augmenter [wages, chances]; accroître [productivity]
    3) Construction aménager
    2.
    2)

    to improve on — ( better) améliorer [score]; renchérir sur [offer]

    3) ( increase) [productivity] augmenter

    English-French dictionary > improve

  • 14 Merica, Paul Dyer

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 17 March 1889 Warsaw, Indiana, USA
    d. 20 October 1957 Tarrytown, New York, USA
    [br]
    American physical metallurgist who elucidated the mechanism of the age-hardening of alloys.
    [br]
    Merica graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1908. Before proceeding to the University of Berlin, he spent some time teaching in Wisconsin and in China. He obtained his doctorate in Berlin in 1914, and in that year he joined the US National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Washington. During his five years there, he investigated the causes of the phenomenon of age-hardening of the important new alloy of aluminium, Duralumin.
    This phenomenon had been discovered not long before by Dr Alfred Wilm, a German research metallurgist. During the early years of the twentieth century, Wilm had been seeking a suitable light alloy for making cartridge cases for the Prussian government. In the autumn of 1909 he heated and quenched an aluminium alloy containing 3.5 per cent copper and 0.5 per cent magnesium and found its properties unremarkable. He happened to test it again some days later and was impressed to find its hardness and strength were much improved: Wilm had accidentally discovered age-hardening. He patented the alloy, but he made his rights over to Durener Metallwerke, who marketed it as Duralumin. This light and strong alloy was taken up by aircraft makers during the First World War, first for Zeppelins and then for other aircraft.
    Although age-hardened alloys found important uses, the explanation of the phenomenon eluded metallurgists until in 1919 Merica and his colleagues at the NBS gave the first rational explanation of age-hardening in light alloys. When these alloys were heated to temperatures near their melting points, the alloying constituents were taken into solution by the matrix. Quenching retained the alloying metals in supersaturated solid solution. At room temperature very small crystals of various intermetallic compounds were precipitated and, by inserting themselves in the aluminium lattice, had the effect of increasing the hardness and strength of the alloy. Merica's theory stimulated an intensive study of hardening and the mechanism that brought it about, with important consequences for the development of new alloys with special properties.
    In 1919 Merica joined the International Nickel Company as Director of Research, a post he held for thirty years and followed by a three-year period as President. He remained in association with the company until his death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1919, "Heat treatment and constitution of Duralumin", Sci. Papers, US Bureau of Standards, no. 37; 1932, "The age-hardening of metals", Transactions of the American Institution of Min. Metal 99:13–54 (his two most important papers).
    Further Reading
    Z.Jeffries, 1959, "Paul Dyer Merica", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Science 33:226–39 (contains a list of Merica's publications and biographical details).
    LRD

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  • 15 under

    1. preposition
    1) (underneath, below) (indicating position) unter (+ Dat.); (indicating motion) unter (+ Akk.)

    from under the table/bed — unter dem Tisch/Bett hervor

    under treatment — in Behandlung

    under repair — in Reparatur

    fields under cultivation — bebaute Felder; see also academic.ru/20932/discussion">discussion 2); influence 1.; pain 1. 5)

    3) (in conditions of) bei [Stress, hohen Temperaturen usw.]
    4) (subject to) unter (+ Dat.)

    under the doctor, under doctor's orders — in ärztlicher Behandlung

    5) (in accordance with)

    under the terms of the contract/agreement — nach den Bestimmungen des Vertrags/Abkommens

    6) (with the use of) unter (+ Dat.)
    7) (less than) unter (+ Dat.)

    for under five pounds — für weniger als fünf Pfund; see also age 1. 1)

    2. adverb
    1) (in or to a lower or subordinate position) darunter

    stay under — (under water) unter Wasser bleiben; see also go under

    2) (in/into a state of unconsciousness)

    be under/put somebody under — in Narkose liegen/jemanden in Narkose versetzen

    * * *
    1. preposition
    1) (in or to a position lower than, or covered by: Your pencil is under the chair; Strange plants grow under the sea.) unter
    2) (less than, or lower in rank than: Children under five should not cross the street alone; You can do the job in under an hour.) unter,weniger als
    3) (subject to the authority of: As a foreman, he has about fifty workers under him.) unter
    4) (used to express various states: The fort was under attack; The business improved under the new management; The matter is under consideration/discussion.) unter,in
    2. adverb
    (in or to a lower position, rank etc: The swimmer surfaced and went under again; children aged seven and under.) (dar-)unter
    * * *
    un·der
    [ˈʌndəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    I. prep
    1. (below) unter + dat; with verbs of motion unter + akk
    he hid \under the bed er versteckte sich unterm Bett
    she put the thermometer \under my tongue sie steckte mir das Thermometer unter die Zunge
    \under water unter Wasser
    2. (supporting) unter + dat
    it felt good to have the earth \under my feet again es war schön, wieder festen Boden unter meinen Füßen zu haben
    3. (covered by) unter + dat
    he wore a white shirt \under his jacket unter seiner Jacke trug er ein weißes Hemd
    4. (one side to other) unter + dat
    a cold draught blew \under the door ein kalter Zug blies unter der Tür durch
    5. (less than) unter + dat
    all items cost \under a pound alle Artikel kosten weniger als ein Pfund
    \under a minute weniger als eine Minute
    6. (inferior to)
    to be \under sb unter jdm sein [o stehen
    7. (governed by) unter + dat
    the Colonel has hundreds of soldiers \under him dem Oberst unterstehen Hunderte von Soldaten
    they are \under strict orders sie haben strenge Anweisungen
    to be \under sb's influence unter jds Einfluss stehen
    \under the Romans unter römischer Herrschaft
    \under the supervision of sb unter jds Aufsicht
    8. (in condition/state of) unter + dat
    \under anaesthetic unter Betäubung [o Narkose]
    \under arrest/control/quarantine unter Arrest/Kontrolle/Quarantäne
    \under [no] circumstances unter [keinen] Umständen
    \under oath unter Eid
    \under pressure/stress unter Druck/Stress
    \under repair in Reparatur
    \under suspicion unter Verdacht
    9. (in accordance to) gemäß + dat
    \under our agreement gemäß unserer Vereinbarung
    10. (referred to as) unter + dat
    he writes \under a pseudonym er schreibt unter einem Pseudonym
    11. (in the category of) unter + dat
    you'll find that \under Goethe das finden Sie unter Goethe
    12. (during time of)
    \under Pisces/Virgo/Aries im Sternzeichen Fische/Jungfrau/Widder
    13.
    ▶ [already] \under way [bereits [o schon]] im Gange
    to get \under way anfangen, beginnen
    II. adv inv
    1. ( also fig: sink)
    to go \under untergehen a. fig
    thousands of companies went \under during the recession tausende Firmen machten während der Rezession Pleite
    2. (below specified age, amount)
    suitable for kids of five and \under geeignet für Kinder von fünf Jahren und darunter
    £30 and \under 30 Pfund und weniger
    3.
    ▶ to get out from \under sich akk aufrappeln fam
    III. adj pred, inv
    ▪ to be \under unter Narkose stehen
    * * *
    ['ʌndə(r)]
    1. prep
    1) (= beneath place) unter (+dat); (direction) unter (+acc)

    it's under there — es ist da drunter (inf)

    under barley — mit Gerste bebaut

    2) (= less than) unter (+dat)

    there were under 50 of them — es waren weniger als 50, es waren unter 50

    3) (= subordinate to, under influence of etc) unter (+dat)

    to study under sb —

    which doctor are you under? —

    it's classified under history — es ist unter "Geschichte" eingeordnet

    you'll find the number under "garages" — Sie finden die Nummer unter "Werkstätten"

    under sentence of death —

    4) (= according to) nach (+dat), gemäß (+dat), laut (+dat)
    2. adv
    1) (= beneath) unten; (= unconscious) bewusstlos
    2) (= less) darunter
    * * *
    under [ˈʌndə(r)]
    A präp
    1. allg unter (dat oder akk)
    2. (Lage) unter (dat), unterhalb von (oder gen):
    from under the table unter dem Tisch hervor
    3. (Richtung) unter (akk):
    4. unter (dat), am Fuße von (oder gen):
    5. (zeitlich) unter (dat), während:
    he lived under the Stuarts er lebte zur Zeit der Stuarts;
    under the date of unter dem Datum vom 1. Januar etc
    6. unter der Führung von (oder gen), auch MUS unter der Leitung von (oder gen), unter (dat):
    have sb under one jemanden unter sich haben
    7. unter (dat), unter dem Schutz von (oder gen), unter Zuhilfenahme von (oder gen):
    under arms unter Waffen;
    under darkness im Schutz der Dunkelheit
    8. unter (dat), geringer als, weniger als:
    persons under 40 (years of age) Personen unter 40 (Jahren);
    the under-thirties die Personen unter 30 Jahren;
    in under an hour in weniger als einer Stunde;
    he cannot do it under an hour er braucht mindestens eine Stunde dazu oder dafür;
    it cost him under £20 es kostete ihn weniger als 20 Pfund
    9. fig unter (dat):
    a criminal under sentence of death ein zum Tode verurteilter Verbrecher;
    under supervision unter Aufsicht;
    under alcohol unter Alkohol, alkoholisiert;
    under an assumed name unter einem angenommenen Namen
    10. gemäß, laut, nach:
    a) nach den gesetzlichen Bestimmungen,
    b) im Rahmen des Gesetzes;
    claims under a contract Forderungen aus einem Vertrag
    11. in (dat):
    under treatment in Behandlung
    12. bei:
    13. mit:
    under sb’s signature mit jemandes Unterschrift, (eigenhändig) von jemandem unterschrieben oder unterzeichnet
    B adv
    1. darunter, unter:
    children of five and under fünfjährige und jüngere Kinder. → go under, keep under, etc
    2. unten:
    as under wie unten (angeführt);
    a) sich herauswinden,
    b) den Verlust wettmachen
    C adj (oft in Zusammensetzungen)
    1. unter(er, e, es), Unter…:
    the under layers die unteren Schichten oder Lagen;
    the under surface die Unterseite
    2. unter(er, e, es), nieder(er, e, es), untergeordnet, Unter…:
    the under classes die unteren oder niederen Klassen
    3. (nur in Zusammensetzungen) ungenügend, zu gering: → underdose A, etc
    * * *
    1. preposition
    1) (underneath, below) (indicating position) unter (+ Dat.); (indicating motion) unter (+ Akk.)

    from under the table/bed — unter dem Tisch/Bett hervor

    fields under cultivation — bebaute Felder; see also discussion 2); influence 1.; pain 1. 5)

    3) (in conditions of) bei [Stress, hohen Temperaturen usw.]
    4) (subject to) unter (+ Dat.)

    under the doctor, under doctor's orders — in ärztlicher Behandlung

    under the terms of the contract/agreement — nach den Bestimmungen des Vertrags/Abkommens

    6) (with the use of) unter (+ Dat.)
    7) (less than) unter (+ Dat.)

    for under five pounds — für weniger als fünf Pfund; see also age 1. 1)

    2. adverb
    1) (in or to a lower or subordinate position) darunter

    stay under — (under water) unter Wasser bleiben; see also go under

    2) (in/into a state of unconsciousness)

    be under/put somebody under — in Narkose liegen/jemanden in Narkose versetzen

    * * *
    (with) full reserve to my rights n.
    unter Wahrung meiner Rechte m. adj.
    unten adj. prep.
    darunter präp.
    unter präp.

    English-german dictionary > under

  • 16 improve

    1. v улучшать, совершенствовать

    improve upon — улучшать; улучшить

    2. v улучшаться, совершенствоваться

    his spelling has improved — он стал делать меньше ошибок, он стал грамотнее писать

    to improve in health — поправиться, окрепнуть

    3. v разумно использовать; воспользоваться
    4. v улучшать земли; проводить мелиорацию
    5. v повышаться в цене
    6. v эк. подниматься, повышаться
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. ameliorate (verb) ameliorate; amend; better; come around; convalesce; correct; cultivate; emend; enhance; gain; get better; help; look up; meliorate; mend; perk up; rally; recover; rectify; recuperate; refine; right; upgrade
    2. illuminate (verb) edify; enlighten; enrich; illume; illuminate; illumine; irradiate; uplift
    Антонимический ряд:
    decline; degenerate; degrade; depreciate; deteriorate; fade; fail; impair; injure; mar; sink; weaken; worsen

    English-Russian base dictionary > improve

  • 17 improve

    improve [ɪm'pru:v]
    (a) (make better → work, facilities, result) améliorer; (→ system, device) perfectionner; (→ wine, soil) bonifier;
    ∎ to improve one's chances augmenter ses chances;
    ∎ if you cut your hair it would improve your looks tu serais mieux avec les cheveux plus courts;
    ∎ a little basil will greatly improve the flavour ce sera nettement meilleur avec un peu de basilic;
    ∎ she's gone to Madrid to improve her Spanish elle est allée à Madrid pour améliorer son espagnol
    (b) (increase → knowledge, productivity) accroître, augmenter
    ∎ to improve one's mind se cultiver l'esprit;
    ∎ reading improves the mind on se cultive en lisant
    (get better) s'améliorer; (increase) augmenter; (make progress) s'améliorer, faire des progrès; (wine) se bonifier;
    ∎ her health is improving son état (de santé) s'améliore;
    ∎ business is improving les affaires reprennent;
    ∎ your maths has improved vous avez fait des progrès en maths;
    ∎ to improve with age/use s'améliorer en vieillissant/à l'usage;
    ∎ formal he improves on acquaintance il gagne à être connu
    (a) (result, work) améliorer;
    ∎ it's difficult to see how the performance can be improved on il semble difficile d'améliorer cette performance
    ∎ to improve on sb's offer enchérir sur qn

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

  • 18 Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel

    [br]
    b. 19 June 1876 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 5 April 1941 Hertford, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer, designer of the A4-class 4–6–2 locomotive holding the world speed record for steam traction.
    [br]
    Gresley was the son of the Rector of Netherseale, Derbyshire; he was educated at Marlborough and by the age of 13 was skilled at making sketches of locomotives. In 1893 he became a pupil of F.W. Webb at Crewe works, London \& North Western Railway, and in 1898 he moved to Horwich works, Lancashire \& Yorkshire Railway, to gain drawing-office experience under J.A.F.Aspinall, subsequently becoming Foreman of the locomotive running sheds at Blackpool. In 1900 he transferred to the carriage and wagon department, and in 1904 he had risen to become its Assistant Superintendent. In 1905 he moved to the Great Northern Railway, becoming Superintendent of its carriage and wagon department at Doncaster under H.A. Ivatt. In 1906 he designed and produced a bogie luggage van with steel underframe, teak body, elliptical roof, bowed ends and buckeye couplings: this became the prototype for East Coast main-line coaches built over the next thirty-five years. In 1911 Gresley succeeded Ivatt as Locomotive, Carriage \& Wagon Superintendent. His first locomotive was a mixed-traffic 2–6–0, his next a 2–8–0 for freight. From 1915 he worked on the design of a 4–6–2 locomotive for express passenger traffic: as with Ivatt's 4 4 2s, the trailing axle would allow the wide firebox needed for Yorkshire coal. He also devised a means by which two sets of valve gear could operate the valves on a three-cylinder locomotive and applied it for the first time on a 2–8–0 built in 1918. The system was complex, but a later simplified form was used on all subsequent Gresley three-cylinder locomotives, including his first 4–6–2 which appeared in 1922. In 1921, Gresley introduced the first British restaurant car with electric cooking facilities.
    With the grouping of 1923, the Great Northern Railway was absorbed into the London \& North Eastern Railway and Gresley was appointed Chief Mechanical Engineer. More 4–6– 2s were built, the first British class of such wheel arrangement. Modifications to their valve gear, along lines developed by G.J. Churchward, reduced their coal consumption sufficiently to enable them to run non-stop between London and Edinburgh. So that enginemen might change over en route, some of the locomotives were equipped with corridor tenders from 1928. The design was steadily improved in detail, and by comparison an experimental 4–6–4 with a watertube boiler that Gresley produced in 1929 showed no overall benefit. A successful high-powered 2–8–2 was built in 1934, following the introduction of third-class sleeping cars, to haul 500-ton passenger trains between Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
    In 1932 the need to meet increasing road competition had resulted in the end of a long-standing agreement between East Coast and West Coast railways, that train journeys between London and Edinburgh by either route should be scheduled to take 8 1/4 hours. Seeking to accelerate train services, Gresley studied high-speed, diesel-electric railcars in Germany and petrol-electric railcars in France. He considered them for the London \& North Eastern Railway, but a test run by a train hauled by one of his 4–6–2s in 1934, which reached 108 mph (174 km/h), suggested that a steam train could better the railcar proposals while its accommodation would be more comfortable. To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V, a high-speed, streamlined train between London and Newcastle upon Tyne was proposed, the first such train in Britain. An improved 4–6–2, the A4 class, was designed with modifications to ensure free running and an ample reserve of power up hill. Its streamlined outline included a wedge-shaped front which reduced wind resistance and helped to lift the exhaust dear of the cab windows at speed. The first locomotive of the class, named Silver Link, ran at an average speed of 100 mph (161 km/h) for 43 miles (69 km), with a maximum speed of 112 1/2 mph (181 km/h), on a seven-coach test train on 27 September 1935: the locomotive went into service hauling the Silver Jubilee express single-handed (since others of the class had still to be completed) for the first three weeks, a round trip of 536 miles (863 km) daily, much of it at 90 mph (145 km/h), without any mechanical troubles at all. Coaches for the Silver Jubilee had teak-framed, steel-panelled bodies on all-steel, welded underframes; windows were double glazed; and there was a pressure ventilation/heating system. Comparable trains were introduced between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh in 1937 and to Leeds in 1938.
    Gresley did not hesitate to incorporate outstanding features from elsewhere into his locomotive designs and was well aware of the work of André Chapelon in France. Four A4s built in 1938 were equipped with Kylchap twin blast-pipes and double chimneys to improve performance still further. The first of these to be completed, no. 4468, Mallard, on 3 July 1938 ran a test train at over 120 mph (193 km/h) for 2 miles (3.2 km) and momentarily achieved 126 mph (203 km/h), the world speed record for steam traction. J.Duddington was the driver and T.Bray the fireman. The use of high-speed trains came to an end with the Second World War. The A4s were then demonstrated to be powerful as well as fast: one was noted hauling a 730-ton, 22-coach train at an average speed exceeding 75 mph (120 km/h) over 30 miles (48 km). The war also halted electrification of the Manchester-Sheffield line, on the 1,500 volt DC overhead system; however, anticipating eventual resumption, Gresley had a prototype main-line Bo-Bo electric locomotive built in 1941. Sadly, Gresley died from a heart attack while still in office.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1936. President, Institution of Locomotive Engineers 1927 and 1934. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1936.
    Further Reading
    F.A.S.Brown, 1961, Nigel Gresley, Locomotive Engineer, Ian Allan (full-length biography).
    John Bellwood and David Jenkinson, Gresley and Stanier. A Centenary Tribute (a good comparative account).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Gresley, Sir Herbert Nigel

  • 19 Singer, Isaac Merritt

    [br]
    b. 27 October 1811 Pittstown, New York, USA
    d. 23 July 1875 Torquay, Devonshire, England
    [br]
    American inventor of a sewing machine, and pioneer of mass production.
    [br]
    The son of a millwright, Singer was employed as an unskilled labourer at the age of 12, but later gained wide experience as a travelling machinist. He also found employment as an actor. On 16 May 1839, while living at Lockport, Illinois, he obtained his first patent for a rock-drilling machine, but he soon squandered the money he made. Then in 1849, while at Pittsburgh, he secured a patent for a wood-and metal-carving machine that he had begun five years previously; however, a boiler explosion in the factory destroyed his machine and left him penniless.
    Near the end of 1850 Singer was engaged to redesign the Lerow \& Blodgett sewing machine at the Boston shop of Orson C.Phelps, where the machine was being repaired. He built an improved version in eleven days that was sufficiently different for him to patent on 12 August 1851. He formed a partnership with Phelps and G.B. Zieber and they began to market the invention. Singer soon purchased Phelps's interest, although Phelps continued to manufacture the machines. Then Edward Clark acquired a one-third interest and with Singer bought out Zieber. These two, with dark's flair for promotion and marketing, began to create a company which eventually would become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines exported worldwide, with subsidiary factories in England.
    However, first Singer had to defend his patent, which was challenged by an earlier Boston inventor, Elias Howe. Although after a long lawsuit Singer had to pay royalties, it was the Singer machine which eventually captured the market because it could do continuous stitching. In 1856 the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important pooling arrangement in American history, was formed to share the various patents so that machines could be built without infringements and manufacture could be expanded without fear of litigation. Singer contributed his monopoly on the needle-bar cam with his 1851 patent. He secured twenty additional patents, so that his original straight-needle vertical design for lock-stitching eventually included such refinements as a continuous wheel-feed, yielding presser-foot, and improved cam for moving the needle-bar. A new model, introduced in 1856, was the first to be intended solely for use in the home.
    Initially Phelps made all the machines for Singer. Then a works was established in New York where the parts were assembled by skilled workers through filing and fitting. Each machine was therefore a "one-off" but Singer machines were always advertised as the best on the market and sold at correspondingly high prices. Gradually, more specialized machine tools were acquired, but it was not until long after Singer had retired to Europe in 1863 that Clark made the change to mass production. Sales of machines numbered 810 in 1853 and 21,000 ten years later.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    12 August 1851, US patent no. 8,294 (sewing machine)
    Further Reading
    Biographies and obituaries have appeared in Appleton's Cyclopedia of America, Vol. V; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol XVII; New York Times 25 July 1875; Scientific American (1875) 33; and National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
    D.A.Hounshell, 1984, From the American System to Mass Production 1800–1932. The
    Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States, Baltimore (provides a thorough account of the development of the Singer sewing machine, the competition it faced from other manufacturers and production methods).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Singer, Isaac Merritt

  • 20 Spooner, Charles Easton

    [br]
    b. 1818 Maentwrog, Merioneth (now Gwynedd), Wales
    d. 18 November 1889 Portmadoc (now Porthmadog), Wales
    [br]
    English engineer, pioneer of narrow-gauge steam railways.
    [br]
    At the age of 16 Charles Spooner helped his father, James, to build the Festiniog Railway, a horse-and-gravity tramroad; they maintained an even gradient and kept costs down by following a sinuous course along Welsh mountainsides and using a very narrow gauge. This was probably originally 2 ft 1 in. (63.5 cm) from rail centre to rail centre; with the introduction of heavier, and therefore wider, rails the gauge between them was reduced and was eventually standardized at 1 ft 11 1/2 in (60 cm). After James Spooner's death in 1856 Charles Spooner became Manager and Engineer of the Festiniog Railway and sought to introduce steam locomotives. Widening the gauge was impracticable, but there was no precedent for operating a public railway of such narrow gauge by steam. Much of the design work for locomotives for the Festiniog Railway was the responsibility of C.M.Holland, and many possible types were considered: eventually, in 1863, two very small 0–4–0 tank locomotives, with tenders for coal, were built by George England.
    These locomotives were successful, after initial problems had been overcome, and a passenger train service was introduced in 1865 with equal success. The potential for economical operation offered by such a railway attracted widespread attention, the more so because it had been effectively illegal to build new passenger railways in Britain to other than standard gauge since the Gauge of Railways Act of 1846.
    Spooner progressively improved the track, alignment, signalling and rolling stock of the Festiniog Railway and developed it from a tramroad to a miniaturized main line. Increasing traffic led to the introduction in 1869 of the 0–4–4–0 double-Fairlie locomotive Little Wonder, built to the patent of Robert Fairlie. This proved more powerful than two 0–4–0s and impressive demonstrations were given to engineers from many parts of the world, leading to the widespread adoption of narrow-gauge railways. Spooner himself favoured a gauge of 2 ft 6 in. (76 cm) or 2 ft 9 in. (84 cm). Comparison of the economy of narrow gauges with the inconvenience of a break of gauge at junctions with wider gauges did, however, become a continuing controversy, which limited the adoption of narrow gauges in Britain.
    Bogie coaches had long been used in North America but were introduced to Britain by Spooner in 1872, when he had two such coaches built for the Festiniog Railway. Both of these and one of its original locomotives, though much rebuilt, remain in service.
    Spooner, despite some serious illnesses, remained Manager of the Festiniog Railway until his death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1869, jointly with G.A.Huddart, British patent no. 1,487 (improved fishplates). 1869, British patent no. 2,896 (rail-bending machinery).
    1871, Narrow Gauge Railways, E. \& F.N.Spon (includes his description of the Festiniog Railway, reports of locomotive trials and his proposals for narrow-gauge railways).
    Further Reading
    J.I.C.Boyd, 1975, The Festiniog Railway, Blandford: Oakwood Press; C.E.Lee, 1945, Narrow-Gauge Railways in North Wales, The Railway Publishing Co. (both give good descriptions of Spooner and the Festiniog Railway).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1965, Railway Carriages in the British Isles, London: George Allen \& Unwin, pp. 181–3. Pihl, Carl Abraham.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Spooner, Charles Easton

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