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in the east of Scotland

  • 1 east

    east [i:st]
    1. noun
    est m
    • to the east of... à l'est de...
    [coast, wing] est inv
    [go, travel, fly] vers l'est
    Européen (ne) m(f) de l'Est
    * * *
    [iːst] 1.
    noun est m
    2.
    East proper noun Geography

    the east — ( Orient) l'Orient m; ( of country) l'Est m

    3.
    adjective [side, face, coast, door] est inv; [wind] d'est
    4.
    adverb [live, lie] à l'est (of de); [move] vers l'est

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  • 2 East or West, home is best

    посл.
    (East or West, home is best (тж. home is home, though it be never so homely или there is no place like home))
    ≈ в гостях хорошо, а дома лучше [выражение there is no place like home взято из песни: Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...]

    ...I thought what a bully time I'd had in Scotland but all the same I was glad to be going home because East or West home's best. (C. Mackenzie, ‘Hunting the Fairies’, ch. 18) —...я думала о том, как хорошо я провела время в Шотландии, но все же была рада, что еду домой. В гостях хорошо, а дома лучше.

    Occasionally I should take my wife to London, and when we returned invariably express the original idea that there's no place like home. (R. Aldington, ‘Life for Life's Sake’, ch. 5) — Иногда мы с женой ездили в Лондон и по возвращении неизменно повторяли старую истину: "В гостях хорошо, а дома лучше"

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  • 3 Points of the compass

    north = nord N
    south = sud S
    east = est E
    west = ouest O
    nord, sud, est, ouest is the normal order in French as well as English.
    northeast = nord-est NE
    northwest = nord-ouest NO
    north-northeast = nord-nord-est NNE
    east-northeast = est-nord-est ENE
    Where?
    Compass points in French are not normally written with a capital letter. However, when they refer to a specific region in phrases such as I love the North or he lives in the North, and it is clear where this North is, without any further specification such as of France or of Europe, then they are written with a capital letter, as they often are in English, too. In the following examples, north and nord stand for any compass point word.
    I love the North
    = j’aime le Nord
    to live in the North
    = vivre dans le Nord
    Normally, however, these words do not take a capital letter:
    in the north of Scotland
    = dans le nord de l’Écosse
    Take care to distinguish this from
    to the north of Scotland (i.e. further north than Scotland)
    = au nord de l’Écosse
    in the south of Spain
    = dans le sud de l’Espagne*
    it is north of the hill
    = c’est au nord de la colline
    a few kilometres north
    = à quelques kilomètres au nord
    due north of here
    = droit au nord
    * Note that the south of France is more usually referred to as le Midi.
    There is another set of words in French for north, south etc., some of which are more
    common than others:
    (north) septentrion (rarely used) septentrional(e)
    (south) midi méridional(e)
    (east) orient oriental(e)
    (west) occident occidental(e)
    Translating northern etc.
    a northern town
    = une ville du Nord
    a northern accent
    = un accent du Nord
    the most northerly outpost
    = l’avant-poste le plus au nord
    Regions of countries and continents work like this:
    northern Europe
    = l’Europe du Nord
    the northern parts of Japan
    = le nord du Japon
    eastern France
    = l’est de la France
    For names of countries and continents which include these compass point words, such as North America or South Korea, see the dictionary entry.
    Where to?
    French has fewer ways of expressing this than English has ; vers le is usually safe:
    to go north
    = aller vers le nord
    to head towards the north
    = se diriger vers le nord
    to go northwards
    = aller vers le nord
    to go in a northerly direction
    = aller vers le nord
    a northbound ship
    = un bateau qui se dirige vers le nord
    With some verbs, such as to face, the French expression changes:
    the windows face north
    = les fenêtres donnent au nord
    a north-facing slope
    = une pente orientée au nord
    If in doubt, check in the dictionary.
    Where from?
    The usual way of expressing from the is du:
    it comes from the north
    = cela vient du nord
    from the north of Germany
    = du nord de l’Allemagne
    Note also these expressions relating to the direction of the wind:
    the north wind
    = le vent du nord
    a northerly wind
    = un vent du nord
    prevailing north winds
    = des vents dominants du nord
    the wind is in the north
    = le vent est au nord
    the wind is coming from the north
    = le vent vient du nord
    Compass point words used as adjectives
    The French words nord, sud, est and ouest are really nouns, so when they are used as adjectives they are invariable.
    the north coast
    = la côte nord
    the north door
    = la porte nord
    the north face (of a mountain)
    = la face nord
    the north side
    = le côté nord
    the north wall
    = le mur nord
    Nautical bearings
    The preposition by is translated by quart in expressions like the following:
    north by northwest
    = nord quart nord-ouest
    southeast by south
    = sud-est quart sud

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  • 4 north-east

    1 noun
    nord-est m;
    ∎ in the north-east of Scotland dans le nord-est de l'Écosse
    (a) Geography nord-est (inv), du nord-est;
    ∎ in north-east Scotland dans le nord-est de l'Écosse
    (b) (wind) de nord-est, du nord-est
    au nord-est; (travel) vers le nord-est, en direction du nord-est;
    ∎ it's 20 miles north-east of Birmingham c'est à 32 kilomètres au nord-est de Birmingham
    ►► the North-east Corridor = zone fortement peuplée entre Boston et Washington

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  • 5 nor'east

    nor'east, nor'-east [nɔ:'ri:st]
    1 noun
    nord-est m;
    ∎ in the nor'east of Scotland dans le nord-est de l'Écosse
    (a) Geography nord-est (inv), du nord-est;
    ∎ in nor'east Scotland dans le nord-est de l'Écosse
    (b) (wind) de nord-est, du nord-est
    au nord-est; (travel) vers le nord-est, en direction du nord-est;
    ∎ it's 20 miles nor'east of Birmingham ≃ c'est à 32 kilomètres au nord-est de Birmingham

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  • 6 Howden, James

    [br]
    b. 29 February 1832 Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland
    d. 21 November 1913 Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and boilermaker, inventor of the forced-draught system for the boiler combustion chamber.
    [br]
    Howden was educated in Prestonpans. While aged only 14 or 15, he travelled across Scotland by canal to Glasgow, where he served an engineering apprenticeship with James Gray \& Co. In 1853 he completed his time and for some months served with the civil engineers Bell and Miller, and then with Robert Griffiths, a designer of screw propellers for ships. In 1854, at the age of 22, Howden set up as a consulting engineer and designer. He designed a rivet-making machine from which he realized a fair sum by the sale of patent rights, this assisting him in converting the design business into a manufacturing one. His first contract for a marine engine came in 1859 for the compound steam engine and the watertube boilers of the Anchor Liner Ailsa Craig. This ship operated at 100 psi (approximately 7 kg/cm2), well above the norm for those days. James Howden \& Co. was formed in 1862. Despite operating in the world's most competitive market, the new company remained prosperous through the flow of inventions in marine propulsion. Shipbuilding was added to the company's list of services, but such work was subcontracted. Work was obtained from all the great shipping companies building in the Glasgow region, and with such throughput Howden's could afford research and experimentation. This led to the Howden hot-air forced-draught system, whereby furnace waste gases were used to heat the air being drawn into the combustion chambers. The first installation was on the New York City, built in 1885 for West Indian service. Howden's fertile mind brought about a fully enclosed high-speed marine steam engine in the 1900s and, shortly after, the Howden-Zoelly impulse steam turbine for land operation. Until his death, Howden worked on many technical and business problems: he was involved in the St Helena Whaling Company, marble quarrying in Greece and in the design of a recoilless gun for the Admiralty.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Howden was the last surviving member of the group who founded the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland in 1857.
    Bibliography
    Howden contributed several papers to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Further Reading
    C.W.Munn, 1986, "James Howden", Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography, Vol. I, Aberdeen.
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    Biographical history of technology > Howden, James

  • 7 Empire, Portuguese overseas

    (1415-1975)
       Portugal was the first Western European state to establish an early modern overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean and perhaps the last colonial power to decolonize. A vast subject of complexity that is full of myth as well as debatable theories, the history of the Portuguese overseas empire involves the story of more than one empire, the question of imperial motives, the nature of Portuguese rule, and the results and consequences of empire, including the impact on subject peoples as well as on the mother country and its society, Here, only the briefest account of a few such issues can be attempted.
       There were various empires or phases of empire after the capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415. There were at least three Portuguese empires in history: the First empire (1415-1580), the Second empire (1580-1640 and 1640-1822), and the Third empire (1822-1975).
       With regard to the second empire, the so-called Phillipine period (1580-1640), when Portugal's empire was under Spanish domination, could almost be counted as a separate era. During that period, Portugal lost important parts of its Asian holdings to England and also sections of its colonies of Brazil, Angola, and West Africa to Holland's conquests. These various empires could be characterized by the geography of where Lisbon invested its greatest efforts and resources to develop territories and ward off enemies.
       The first empire (1415-1580) had two phases. First came the African coastal phase (1415-97), when the Portuguese sought a foothold in various Moroccan cities but then explored the African coast from Morocco to past the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. While colonization and sugar farming were pursued in the Atlantic islands, as well as in the islands in the Gulf of Guinea like São Tomé and Príncipe, for the most part the Portuguese strategy was to avoid commitments to defending or peopling lands on the African continent. Rather, Lisbon sought a seaborne trade empire, in which the Portuguese could profit from exploiting trade and resources (such as gold) along the coasts and continue exploring southward to seek a sea route to Portuguese India. The second phase of the first empire (1498-1580) began with the discovery of the sea route to Asia, thanks to Vasco da Gama's first voyage in 1497-99, and the capture of strong points, ports, and trading posts in order to enforce a trade monopoly between Asia and Europe. This Asian phase produced the greatest revenues of empire Portugal had garnered, yet ended when Spain conquered Portugal and commanded her empire as of 1580.
       Portugal's second overseas empire began with Spanish domination and ran to 1822, when Brazil won her independence from Portugal. This phase was characterized largely by Brazilian dominance of imperial commitment, wealth in minerals and other raw materials from Brazil, and the loss of a significant portion of her African and Asian coastal empire to Holland and Great Britain. A sketch of Portugal's imperial losses either to native rebellions or to imperial rivals like Britain and Holland follows:
       • Morocco (North Africa) (sample only)
       Arzila—Taken in 1471; evacuated in 1550s; lost to Spain in 1580, which returned city to a sultan.
       Ceuta—Taken in 1415; lost to Spain in 1640 (loss confirmed in 1668 treaty with Spain).
       • Tangiers—Taken in 15th century; handed over to England in 1661 as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II.
       • West Africa
       • Fort/Castle of São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (in what is now Ghana)—Taken in 1480s; lost to Holland in 1630s.
       • Middle East
       Socotra-isle—Conquered in 1507; fort abandoned in 1511; used as water resupply stop for India fleet.
       Muscat—Conquered in 1501; lost to Persians in 1650.
       Ormuz—Taken, 1505-15 under Albuquerque; lost to England, which gave it to Persia in the 17th century.
       Aden (entry to Red Sea) — Unsuccessfully attacked by Portugal (1513-30); taken by Turks in 1538.
       • India
       • Ceylon (Sri Lanka)—Taken by 1516; lost to Dutch after 1600.
       • Bombay—Taken in 16th century; given to England in 1661 treaty as part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry for Charles II.
       • East Indies
       • Moluccas—Taken by 1520; possession confirmed in 1529 Saragossa treaty with Spain; lost to Dutch after 1600; only East Timor remaining.
       After the restoration of Portuguese independence from Spain in 1640, Portugal proceeded to revive and strengthen the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, with international aid to fight off further Spanish threats to Portugal and drive the Dutch invaders out of Brazil and Angola. While Portugal lost its foothold in West Africa at Mina to the Dutch, dominion in Angola was consolidated. The most vital part of the imperial economy was a triangular trade: slaves from West Africa and from the coasts of Congo and Angola were shipped to plantations in Brazil; raw materials (sugar, tobacco, gold, diamonds, dyes) were sent to Lisbon; Lisbon shipped Brazil colonists and hardware. Part of Portugal's War of Restoration against Spain (1640-68) and its reclaiming of Brazil and Angola from Dutch intrusions was financed by the New Christians (Jews converted to Christianity after the 1496 Manueline order of expulsion of Jews) who lived in Portugal, Holland and other low countries, France, and Brazil. If the first empire was mainly an African coastal and Asian empire, the second empire was primarily a Brazilian empire.
       Portugal's third overseas empire began upon the traumatic independence of Brazil, the keystone of the Lusitanian enterprise, in 1822. The loss of Brazil greatly weakened Portugal both as a European power and as an imperial state, for the scattered remainder of largely coastal, poor, and uncolonized territories that stretched from the bulge of West Africa to East Timor in the East Indies and Macau in south China were more of a financial liability than an asset. Only two small territories balanced their budgets occasionally or made profits: the cocoa islands of São Tomé and Príncipe in the Gulf of Guinea and tiny Macau, which lost much of its advantage as an entrepot between the West and the East when the British annexed neighboring Hong Kong in 1842. The others were largely burdens on the treasury. The African colonies were strapped by a chronic economic problem: at a time when the slave trade and then slavery were being abolished under pressures from Britain and other Western powers, the economies of Guinea- Bissau, São Tomé/Príncipe, Angola, and Mozambique were totally dependent on revenues from the slave trade and slavery. During the course of the 19th century, Lisbon began a program to reform colonial administration in a newly rejuvenated African empire, where most of the imperial efforts were expended, by means of replacing the slave trade and slavery, with legitimate economic activities.
       Portugal participated in its own early version of the "Scramble" for Africa's interior during 1850-69, but discovered that the costs of imperial expansion were too high to allow effective occupation of the hinterlands. After 1875, Portugal participated in the international "Scramble for Africa" and consolidated its holdings in west and southern Africa, despite the failure of the contra-costa (to the opposite coast) plan, which sought to link up the interiors of Angola and Mozambique with a corridor in central Africa. Portugal's expansion into what is now Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (eastern section) in 1885-90 was thwarted by its oldest ally, Britain, under pressure from interest groups in South Africa, Scotland, and England. All things considered, Portugal's colonizing resources and energies were overwhelmed by the African empire it possessed after the frontier-marking treaties of 1891-1906. Lisbon could barely administer the massive area of five African colonies, whose total area comprised about 8 percent of the area of the colossal continent. The African territories alone were many times the size of tiny Portugal and, as of 1914, Portugal was the third colonial power in terms of size of area possessed in the world.
       The politics of Portugal's empire were deceptive. Lisbon remained obsessed with the fear that rival colonial powers, especially Germany and Britain, would undermine and then dismantle her African empire. This fear endured well into World War II. In developing and keeping her potentially rich African territories (especially mineral-rich Angola and strategically located Mozambique), however, the race against time was with herself and her subject peoples. Two major problems, both chronic, prevented Portugal from effective colonization (i.e., settling) and development of her African empire: the economic weakness and underdevelopment of the mother country and the fact that the bulk of Portuguese emigration after 1822 went to Brazil, Venezuela, the United States, and France, not to the colonies. These factors made it difficult to consolidate imperial control until it was too late; that is, until local African nationalist movements had organized and taken the field in insurgency wars that began in three of the colonies during the years 1961-64.
       Portugal's belated effort to revitalize control and to develop, in the truest sense of the word, Angola and Mozambique after 1961 had to be set against contemporary events in Europe, Africa, and Asia. While Portugal held on to a backward empire, other European countries like Britain, France, and Belgium were rapidly decolonizing their empires. Portugal's failure or unwillingness to divert the large streams of emigrants to her empire after 1850 remained a constant factor in this question. Prophetic were the words of the 19th-century economist Joaquim Oliveira Martins, who wrote in 1880 that Brazil was a better colony for Portugal than Africa and that the best colony of all would have been Portugal itself. As of the day of the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which sparked the final process of decolonization of the remainder of Portugal's third overseas empire, the results of the colonization program could be seen to be modest compared to the numbers of Portuguese emigrants outside the empire. Moreover, within a year, of some 600,000 Portuguese residing permanently in Angola and Mozambique, all but a few thousand had fled to South Africa or returned to Portugal.
       In 1974 and 1975, most of the Portuguese empire was decolonized or, in the case of East Timor, invaded and annexed by a foreign power before it could consolidate its independence. Only historic Macau, scheduled for transfer to the People's Republic of China in 1999, remained nominally under Portuguese control as a kind of footnote to imperial history. If Portugal now lacked a conventional overseas empire and was occupied with the challenges of integration in the European Union (EU), Lisbon retained another sort of informal dependency that was a new kind of empire: the empire of her scattered overseas Portuguese communities from North America to South America. Their numbers were at least six times greater than that of the last settlers of the third empire.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Empire, Portuguese overseas

  • 8 King, James Foster

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 9 May 1862 Erskine, Scotland
    d. 11 August 1947 Glasgow, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish naval architect and classification society manager who made a significant contribution to the safety of shipping.
    [br]
    King was educated at the High School of Glasgow, and then served an apprenticeship with the Port Glasgow shipyard of Russell \& Co. This was followed by experience in drawing offices in Port Glasgow, Hull and finally in Belfast, where he was responsible for the separate White Star Line drawing office of Harland \& Wolff Ltd, which was then producing the plans for the Atlantic passenger liners Majestic and Teutonic. Following certain unpopular government shipping enactments in 1890, a protest from shipbuilders and shipowners in Ireland, Liverpool and the West of Scotland led to the founding of a new classification society to compete against Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It became known as the British Corporation Register and had headquarters in Glasgow. King was recruited to the staff and by 1903 had become Chief Surveyor, a position he held until his retirement thirty-seven years later. By then the Register was a world leader, with hundreds of thousands of tons of shipping on its books; it acted as consultant to many governments and international agencies. Throughout his working life, King did everything in his power to quantify the risks and problems of ship operation: his contribution to the Load Lines Convention of 1929 was typical, and few major enactments in shipping were designed without his approval. During the inter-war period the performance of the British Corporation outshone that of all rivals, for which King deserved full credit. His especial understanding was for steel structures, and in this respect he ensured that the British Corporation enabled owners to build ships of strengths equal to any others despite using up to 10 per cent less steel within the structure. In 1949 Lloyd's Register of Shipping and the British Corporation merged to form the largest and most influential ship classification society in the world.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CBE 1920. Honorary Member, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1941; North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders (Newcastle) 1943; British Corporation 1940. Honorary Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects.
    Further Reading
    G.Blake, 1960, Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1760–1960, London: Lloyd's Register. F.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuiding, Cambridge: PSL. 1947, The British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft 1890–1947, An
    Illustrated Record, 1947, Glasgow.
    1946, The British Corporation Register. The War Years in Retrospect, 1956, Glasgow.
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    Biographical history of technology > King, James Foster

  • 9 nach

    I Präp. (+ Dat)
    1. räumlich: to; (bestimmt nach) for, bound for; Richtung: auch toward(s); nach außen outward(s); nach rechts to the right; nach unten down; im Haus: downstairs; nach oben up; im Haus: upstairs; nach England reisen go to England; nach England abreisen leave for England; der Zug nach London the train to London; das Schiff fährt nach Australien is bound for ( oder is going to) Australia; nach Hause home; das Zimmer geht nach hinten / vorn hinaus the room faces the back / front; der Balkon geht nach Süden the balcony faces south; Balkon nach Süden south-facing balcony; wir fahren nach Norden we’re travel(l)ing north ( oder northward[s]); bei bestimmten Verben: die Blume richtet sich nach der Sonne the flower turns toward(s) the sun; nach dem Arzt schicken send for the doctor; nach dem Messer greifen grab for the knife
    2. zeitlich: after; fünf ( Minuten) nach eins five (minutes) past (Am. auch after) one; nach zehn Minuten ten minutes later; nach einer Stunde von jetzt an: in an hour(‘s time); nach Ankunft / Erhalt on arrival (receipt)
    3. Reihenfolge: after; einer nach dem anderen one by one, one after the other; der Reihe nach in turn; der Reihe nach! take (it in) turns!, one after the other!; der Größe nach by ( oder according to) size; nach Hauptmann kommt Major major comes after captain; nach ihm kommt lange keiner fig. he’s in a class of his own, he’s streets ahead of the rest
    4. (entsprechend) according to; siehe auch gemäß; nach dem, was er sagte auch going by what he said; nach Ansicht (+ Gen) in ( oder according to) the opinion of; nach meiner Ansicht oder meiner Ansicht nach in my opinion; nach Gewicht verkaufen sell by weight; nach Bedarf as required; seine Uhr nach dem Radio etc. stellen set one’s watch by the radio etc.; wenn es nach mir ginge if I had my way; dem Namen nach by name; seinem Namen / Akzent etc. nach judging oder going by his name / accent etc.; Rehbraten nach Art des Hauses roast venison а la maison; Sauerbraten nach rheinischer Art braised beef marinated in vinegar (Am. sauerbraten) in the Rhenish style; sie kommt ganz nach der Mutter she’s just like her mother; nach Musik tanzen etc.: to music; nach Noten from music; nach Vorlage zeichnen draw from a pattern; eine Geschichte nach dem Leben a story taken from real life; es ist nicht nach i-m Geschmack it’s not to her taste; seinem Wesen nach ist er eher ruhig if anything he is quiet by nature; riechen / schmecken nach smell (taste) of; nach seiner Weise in his usual way; nach Shakespeare according to Shakespeare; frei nach Heine freely adapted from Heine; nach bestem Wissen to the best of one’s knowledge; nach Stunden / Dollar etc. gerechnet in (terms of) hours / dollars etc.; 3 Pfund sind etwa 5 Euro nach unserem Geld 3 pounds is about 5 euros in our money; Ermessen, Meinung etc.
    5. nach jemandem fragen ask for s.o.; die Suche nach dem Glück etc. the pursuit of ( oder search for) happiness etc.
    6. Dial.: nach dem Süden fahren go south; nach Oma gehen go to grandma’s
    II Adv. after; mir nach! follow me!; nach und nach gradually, bit by bit, Am. auch little by little; nach wie vor still, as ever
    * * *
    after (Adv.);
    (Reihenfolge) after (Präp.);
    (Richtung) unto (Präp.); at (Präp.); for (Präp.); to (Präp.); towards (Präp.); bound for (Präp.);
    (Uhrzeit) past (Präp.);
    (gemäß) acc. (Präp.); according to (Präp.)
    * * *
    [naːx]
    1. prep +dat
    1) (örtlich) to

    das Schiff/der Zug fährt nách Kiel — the boat/train is bound for Kiel, the boat/train is going to Kiel

    er ist schon nách London abgefahren — he has already left for London

    nách Osten — eastward(s), to the east

    nách Westen — westward(s), to the west

    von Osten nách Westen — from (the) east to (the) west

    nách links/rechts — (to the) left/right

    von links nách rechts — from (the) left to (the) right

    nách jeder Richtung, nách allen Richtungen (lit) — in all directions; (fig) on all sides

    nách hinten/vorn — to the back/front; (in Wagen/Zug etc auch) to the rear/front

    nách... zu — towards... (Brit), toward... (US)

    nách Norden zu or hin — to(wards) the north

    2)

    (in Verbindung mit vb siehe auch dort) nách jdm/etw suchen — to look for sb/sth

    sich nách etw sehnen — to long for sth

    nách etw schmecken/riechen — to taste/smell of sth

    3) (zeitlich) after

    fünf (Minuten) nách drei — five (minutes) past or after (US) three

    nách Christi Geburt, nách unserer Zeitrechnung — AD, anno Domini (form)

    sie kam nách zehn Minuten — she came ten minutes later, she came after ten minutes

    nách zehn Minuten war sie wieder da — she was back in ten minutes, she was back ten minutes later

    nách zehn Minuten wurde ich schon unruhig — after ten minutes I was getting worried

    was wird man nách zehn Jahren über ihn sagen? — what will people be saying about him in ten years or in ten years' time?

    nách Empfang or Erhalt or Eingang — on receipt

    drei Tage nách Empfang — three days after receipt

    nách allem, was geschehen ist — after all that has happened

    4) (Reihenfolge) after

    eine(r, s) nách dem/der anderen — one after another or the other

    die dritte Straße nách dem Rathaus — the third road after or past the town hall

    ich komme nách Ihnen! — I'm or I come after you

    (bitte) nách Ihnen! — after you!

    der Leutnant kommt nách dem Major (inf) — a lieutenant comes after a major

    nách "mit" steht der Dativ — " mit" is followed by or takes the dative

    5) (= laut, entsprechend) according to; (= im Einklang mit) in accordance with

    nách dem Gesetz, dem Gesetz nách — according to the law

    nách römischem Gesetz — according to or under Roman law

    nách Artikel 142c — under article 142c

    manche Arbeiter werden nách Zeit, andere nách Leistung bezahlt — some workers are paid by the hour, others according to productivity

    etw nách Gewicht kaufen — to buy sth by weight

    nách Verfassern/Gedichtanfängen — in order of or according to authors/first lines

    die Uhr nách dem Radio stellen — to put a clock right by the radio

    seinem Wesen or seiner Natur nách ist er sehr sanft — he's very gentle by nature

    seiner Veranlagung nách hätte er Musiker werden sollen — with his temperament he should have been a musician

    ihrer Sprache nách (zu urteilen) — from her language, judging by her language

    nách dem, was er gesagt hat — from what he's said, according to what he's said

    nách allem, was ich gehört habe — from what I've heard

    nách allem, was ich weiß — as far as I know

    Knödel nách schwäbischer Art — Swabian dumplings

    6) (= angelehnt an) after

    nách dem Russischen — after the Russian

    nách einem Gedicht von Schiller — after a poem by Schiller

    7)

    er wurde nách seinem Großvater genannt — he was named after (Brit) or for (US) his grandfather

    2. adv
    1)

    (räumlich) mir nách! (old, liter) — follow me!

    2)

    (zeitlich) nách und nách — little by little, gradually

    nách wie vor —

    wir treffen uns nách wie vor im "Goldenen Handschuh" — we still meet in the "Golden Glove" as always

    * * *
    1) (in the order of: books arranged according to their subjects.) according to
    2) (in proportion to: You will be paid according to the amount of work you have done.) according to
    3) (later in time or place than: After the car came a bus.) after
    4) (following (often indicating repetition): one thing after another; night after night.) after
    5) (considering: After all I've done you'd think he'd thank me; It's sad to fail after all that work.) after
    6) ((American: in telling the time) past: It's a quarter after ten.) after
    7) (to the place mentioned: I'll come along in five minutes.) along
    8) at
    9) (towards; in the direction of: We set off for London.) for
    10) (in order to have, get, be etc: He asked me for some money; Go for a walk.) for
    11) (closest to: In height, George comes next to me.) next to
    12) (after: It's past six o'clock.) past
    13) (after: The child became ill subsequent to receiving an injection against measles.) subsequent to
    * * *
    [na:x]
    I. präp + dat
    ▪ \nach etw:
    die Küche geht \nach dem Garten/der Straße the kitchen looks out over [or on] the garden/faces the street
    ein Zimmer mit Fenstern \nach dem Garten/der Straße a room overlooking the garden/street
    \nach Norden/Westen gehen to go north/west; s.a. außen, da, dort, hier, hinten, innen, links, oben, rechts, unten, vorn
    2. (als Ziel)
    ▪ \nach etw to sth
    der Weg führt direkt \nach Rom this is the way to Rome
    der Zug \nach Bonn the train for Bonn, the Bonn train
    \nach etw abreisen to leave for sth; s.a. Haus
    ▪ \nach etw after sth
    \nach nur wenigen Minuten after only a few minutes, only a few minutes later
    \nach Ablauf der Verlängerung after [or on] expiry of the extension, at the end of the extension
    20 [Minuten] \nach 10 20 [minutes] past 10
    wird der Baum noch \nach 100 Jahren stehen? will the tree still be standing in a hundred years' time?
    \nach allem, was... after all that...; s.a. Christus
    ▪ etw \nach etw sth after sth
    Schritt \nach Schritt step by step, little by little
    ▪ \nach jdm/etw after sb/sth
    das Museum kommt \nach der Post the museum is after [or past] the post office
    der Leutnant kommt \nach dem Oberst lieutenant ranks lower than colonel
    du stehst \nach mir auf der Liste you're [or you come] after me on the list
    eins \nach dem ander[e]n first things first
    [bitte,] \nach dir/Ihnen! after you!
    6. (gemäß)
    ▪ \nach etw according to sth
    \nach Artikel 23/den geltenden Vorschriften under article 23/present regulations
    \nach allem [o dem], was... from what...
    \nach allem, was ich gehört habe from what I've heard
    \nach dem, was wir jetzt wissen as far as we know
    aller Wahrscheinlichkeit \nach in all probability
    dem Gesetz \nach by law
    etw \nach dem Gewicht/der Größe \nach sortieren to sort sth by [or according to] weight/size
    \nach Lage der Dinge as matters stand
    \nach menschlichem Ermessen as far as one can tell
    [ganz] \nach Wunsch [just] as you wish
    ▪ jds... \nach [o \nach jds...] judging by sb's...
    meiner Ansicht/Meinung \nach in my view/opinion
    \nach meiner Erinnerung as I remember [or recall] it
    \nach Meinung von Experten according to experts; s.a. Art
    ▪ \nach etw:
    \nach einer Erzählung von Poe after [or based on] a story by Poe
    eine Erzählung \nach dem Arbeitsleben a tale from [or based on] working life
    ein Gemälde \nach einem alten Meister a painting in the manner of an old master
    ein Werk \nach einem Thema von Bach a piece on a theme by Bach
    dem Sinn \nach hat er gesagt, dass... the sense of his words were that...
    Ihrem Akzent \nach sind Sie Schotte I hear from your accent [or your accent tells me] that you're from Scotland
    das kostet ungefähr 2 Euro nach unsrem Geld it costs about 2 euros in our money
    \nach etw geformt formed after sth
    [frei] \nach Goethe [freely] adapted from Goethe
    etw \nach Litern/Metern messen to measure sth in litres/metres
    \nach der neuesten Mode in [accordance with] the latest fashion
    jdn dem Namen \nach kennen to know sb by name
    \nach Plan according to plan
    \nach etw riechen/schmecken to smell/taste of sth
    der Sage \nach [o \nach der Sage] according to the legend
    \nach einer Vorlage from an original
    jds Wesen \nach judging from sb's character, by nature; s.a. Gedächtnis, Maß
    ▪ \nach jdm/etw to sb/sth
    \nach der Bahn gehen to go to the station
    \nach dem Osten/Süden fahren to go [to the] east/south
    \nach jdm fragen/rufen/schicken to ask/call/send for sb
    \nach wem hat er gefragt? who was he asking for?
    \nach etw greifen/streben/suchen to reach/strive/look for sth
    wo\nach [o (fam) \nach was] suchst du? what are you looking for?
    er hat erreicht, wo\nach [o (fam) \nach was] er gestrebt hat he has achieved what he has been striving for
    II. adv
    ihm \nach! after him!; (an Hund a.) sic 'im! fam
    mir \nach! follow me!
    da kann man nicht \nach gehen you can't go there
    3.
    ▶ \nach und \nach gradually, little by little
    ▶ \nach wie vor still
    ich halte \nach wie vor an meiner Überzeugung fest I remain convinced
    * * *
    1.

    sich nach vorn/hinten beugen — bend forwards/backwards

    nach links/rechts — to the left/right

    nach Osten [zu] — eastwards; [towards the] east

    nach außen/innen — outwards/inwards

    ich bringe den Abfall nach draußen — I am taking the rubbish outside

    2) (zeitlich) after

    zehn [Minuten] nach zwei — ten [minutes] past two

    3)

    nach fünf Minuten — after five minutes; five minutes later

    4) (mit bestimmten Verben, bezeichnet das Ziel der Handlung) for
    5) (bezeichnet [räumliche und zeitliche] Reihenfolge) after
    6) (gemäß) according to

    nach meiner Ansicht od. Meinung, meiner Ansicht od. Meinung nach — in my view or opinion

    [frei] nach Goethe — [freely] adapted from Goethe

    nach der neuesten Mode gekleidet — dressed in [accordance with] the latest fashion

    nach etwas schmecken/riechen — taste/smell of something

    sie kommt eher nach dem Vater — (ugs.) she takes more after her father

    dem Gesetz nach — in accordance with the law; by law

    2.

    [alle] mir nach! — [everybody] follow me!

    nach und nach — little by little; gradually

    nach wie vor — still; as always

    * * *
    A. präp (+dat)
    1. räumlich: to; (bestimmt nach) for, bound for; Richtung: auch toward(s);
    nach außen outward(s);
    nach rechts to the right;
    nach unten down; im Haus: downstairs;
    nach oben up; im Haus: upstairs;
    nach England reisen go to England;
    nach England abreisen leave for England;
    der Zug nach London the train to London;
    fährt nach Australien is bound for ( oder is going to) Australia;
    das Zimmer geht nach hinten/vorn hinaus the room faces the back/front;
    der Balkon geht nach Süden the balcony faces south;
    Balkon nach Süden south-facing balcony;
    wir fahren nach Norden we’re travel(l)ing north ( oder northward[s]); bei bestimmten Verben:
    die Blume richtet sich nach der Sonne the flower turns toward(s) the sun;
    nach dem Arzt schicken send for the doctor;
    nach dem Messer greifen grab for the knife
    2. zeitlich: after;
    fünf (Minuten) nach eins five (minutes) past (US auch after) one;
    nach zehn Minuten ten minutes later;
    nach einer Stunde von jetzt an: in an hour(’s time);
    nach Ankunft/Erhalt on arrival (receipt)
    3. Reihenfolge: after;
    einer nach dem anderen one by one, one after the other;
    der Reihe nach in turn;
    der Reihe nach! take (it in) turns!, one after the other!;
    der Größe nach by ( oder according to) size;
    nach Hauptmann kommt Major major comes after captain;
    nach ihm kommt lange keiner fig he’s in a class of his own, he’s streets ahead of the rest
    4. (entsprechend) according to; → auch gemäß;
    nach dem, was er sagte auch going by what he said;
    nach Ansicht (+gen) in ( oder according to) the opinion of;
    meiner Ansicht nach in my opinion;
    nach Gewicht verkaufen sell by weight;
    nach Bedarf as required;
    stellen set one’s watch by the radio etc;
    wenn es nach mir ginge if I had my way;
    dem Namen nach by name;
    seinem Namen/Akzent etc
    nach judging oder going by his name/accent etc;
    Rehbraten nach Art des Hauses roast venison à la maison;
    Sauerbraten nach rheinischer Art braised beef marinated in vinegar (US sauerbraten) in the Rhenish style;
    sie kommt ganz nach der Mutter she’s just like her mother;
    nach Musik tanzen etc: to music;
    nach Noten from music;
    nach Vorlage zeichnen draw from a pattern;
    eine Geschichte nach dem Leben a story taken from real life;
    es ist nicht nach i-m Geschmack it’s not to her taste;
    seinem Wesen nach ist er eher ruhig if anything he is quiet by nature;
    riechen/schmecken nach smell (taste) of;
    nach seiner Weise in his usual way;
    nach Shakespeare according to Shakespeare;
    frei nach Heine freely adapted from Heine;
    nach bestem Wissen to the best of one’s knowledge;
    nach Stunden/Dollar etc
    gerechnet in (terms of) hours/dollars etc;
    3 Pfund sind etwa 5 Euro nach unserem Geld 3 pounds is about 5 euros in our money; → Ermessen, Meinung etc
    5.
    die Suche nach dem Glück etc the pursuit of ( oder search for) happiness etc
    6. dial:
    nach Oma gehen go to grandma’s
    B. adv after;
    mir nach! follow me!;
    nach und nach gradually, bit by bit, US auch little by little;
    nach wie vor still, as ever
    * * *
    1.

    sich nach vorn/hinten beugen — bend forwards/backwards

    nach links/rechts — to the left/right

    nach Osten [zu] — eastwards; [towards the] east

    nach außen/innen — outwards/inwards

    2) (zeitlich) after

    zehn [Minuten] nach zwei — ten [minutes] past two

    3)

    nach fünf Minuten — after five minutes; five minutes later

    4) (mit bestimmten Verben, bezeichnet das Ziel der Handlung) for
    5) (bezeichnet [räumliche und zeitliche] Reihenfolge) after
    6) (gemäß) according to

    nach meiner Ansicht od. Meinung, meiner Ansicht od. Meinung nach — in my view or opinion

    [frei] nach Goethe — [freely] adapted from Goethe

    nach der neuesten Mode gekleidet — dressed in [accordance with] the latest fashion

    nach etwas schmecken/riechen — taste/smell of something

    sie kommt eher nach dem Vater — (ugs.) she takes more after her father

    dem Gesetz nach — in accordance with the law; by law

    2.

    [alle] mir nach! — [everybody] follow me!

    nach und nach — little by little; gradually

    nach wie vor — still; as always

    * * *
    konj.
    for conj. präp.
    according to prep.
    after prep.
    to prep.
    towards prep.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > nach

  • 10 secreto mejor guardado

    Ex. After the IFLA Conference I'll be driving up to the West Coast and hopping on a ferry to the islands before crossing to Aberdeen in the East (one of Scotland's best kept secrets).
    * * *

    Ex: After the IFLA Conference I'll be driving up to the West Coast and hopping on a ferry to the islands before crossing to Aberdeen in the East (one of Scotland's best kept secrets).

    Spanish-English dictionary > secreto mejor guardado

  • 11 Bell, Imrie

    [br]
    b. 1836 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 21 November 1906 Croydon, Surrey, England
    [br]
    Scottish civil engineer who built singular and pioneering structures.
    [br]
    Following education at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, Bell served an apprenticeship with a Mr Bertram, engineer and shipwright of Leith, before continuing as a regular pupil with Bell and Miller, the well-known civil engineers of Glasgow. A short period at Pelton Colliery in County Durham followed, and then at the early age of 20 Bell was appointed Resident Engineer on the construction of the Meadowside Graving Dock in Glasgow.
    The Meadowside Dry Dock was opened on 28 January 1858 and was a remarkable act of faith by the proprietors Messrs Tod and McGregor, one of the earliest companies in iron shipbuilding in the British Isles. It was the first dry dock in the City of Glasgow and used the mouth of the river Kelvin for canting ships; at the time the dimensions of 144×19×5.5m depth were regarded as quite daring. This dock was to remain in regular operation for nearly 105 years and is testimony to the skills of Imrie Bell and his colleagues.
    In the following years he worked for the East India Railway Company, where he was in charge of the southern half of the Jumna Railway Bridge at Allahabad, before going on to other exciting civil engineering contracts in India. On his return home, Bell became Engineer to Leith Docks, and three years later he became Executive Engineer to the States of Jersey, where he constructed St Helier's Harbour and the lighthouse at La Corbiere—the first in Britain to be built with Portland cement. In 1878 he rejoined his old firm of Bell and Miller, and ultimately worked from their Westminster office. One of his last jobs in Scotland was supervising the building of the Great Western Road Bridge in Glasgow, one of the beautiful bridges in the West End of the city.
    Bell retired from business in 1898 and lived in Surrey for the rest of his life.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1879–80, "On the St Helier's Harbour works", Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 23.
    Further Reading
    Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, Cambridge: PSL.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Bell, Imrie

  • 12 Stevenson, Robert

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1772 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 12 July 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish lighthouse designer and builder.
    [br]
    After his father's death when he was only 2 years old, Robert Stevenson was educated at a school for children from families in reduced circumstances. However, c. 1788 his mother married again, to Thomas Smith, Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. Stevenson then served an apprenticeship under his new stepfather. The Board, which is still an active force in the 1990s, was founded in 1786 to oversee the lights and buoyage in some of the wildest waters in Western Europe, the seas around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.
    After studies at Andersen's College (now the University of Strathclyde) and later at Edinburgh University, Stevenson assumed responsibility in the field for much of the construction work sanctioned by the Board. After some years he succeeded Smith as Engineer to the Board and thereby the long connection between the Northern Lights and the Stevenson family commenced.
    Stevenson became Engineer to the Board when he was about 30 years old, remaining in that office for the best part of half a century. During these years he improved catoptric lighting, adopted the central lamp refracting system and invented the intermittent flashing light. While these developments were sufficient to form a just memorial to the man, he was involved in greater endeavours in the construction of around twenty lighthouses, most of which had ingenious forms of construction. The finest piece was the Bell Rock Lighthouse, built on a reef off the Scottish East Coast. This enterprise took five years to complete and can be regarded as the most important construction of his life.
    His interests fitted in with those of the other great men living in and around Edinburgh at the time, and included oceanography, astronomy, architecture and antiquarian studies. He designed several notable bridges, proposed a design for the rails for railways and also made a notable study of marine timber borers. He contributed to Encyclopaedia Britannica and to many journals.
    His grandson, born in the year of his death, was the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94).
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS Edinburgh.
    Further Reading
    Sir Walter Scott, 1982, Northern Lights, Hawick.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Stevenson, Robert

  • 13 Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1892 Brechin, Angus, Scotland
    d. 6 December 1973 Inverness, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and scientific adviser known for his work on radar.
    [br]
    Following education at Brechin High School, Watson-Watt entered University College, Dundee (then a part of the University of St Andrews), obtaining a BSc in engineering in 1912. From 1912 until 1921 he was Assistant to the Professor of Natural Philosophy at St Andrews, but during the First World War he also held various posts in the Meteorological Office. During. this time, in 1916 he proposed the use of cathode ray oscillographs for radio-direction-finding displays. He joined the newly formed Radio Research Station at Slough when it was opened in 1924, and 3 years later, when it amalgamated with the Radio Section of the National Physical Laboratory, he became Superintendent at Slough. At this time he proposed the name "ionosphere" for the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere. With E.V. Appleton and J.F.Herd he developed the "squegger" hard-valve transformer-coupled timebase and with the latter devised a direction-finding radio-goniometer.
    In 1933 he was asked to investigate possible aircraft counter-measures. He soon showed that it was impossible to make the wished-for radio "death-ray", but had the idea of using the detection of reflected radio-waves as a means of monitoring the approach of enemy aircraft. With six assistants he developed this idea and constructed an experimental system of radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging) in which arrays of aerials were used to detect the reflected signals and deduce the bearing and height. To realize a practical system, in September 1936 he was appointed Director of the Bawdsey Research Station near Felixstowe and carried out operational studies of radar. The result was that within two years the East Coast of the British Isles was equipped with a network of radar transmitters and receivers working in the 7–14 metre band—the so-called "chain-home" system—which did so much to assist the efficient deployment of RAF Fighter Command against German bombing raids on Britain in the early years of the Second World War.
    In 1938 he moved to the Air Ministry as Director of Communications Development, becoming Scientific Adviser to the Air Ministry and Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1940, then Deputy Chairman of the War Cabinet Radio Board in 1943. After the war he set up Sir Robert Watson-Watt \& Partners, an industrial consultant firm. He then spent some years in relative retirement in Canada, but returned to Scotland before his death.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1942. CBE 1941. FRS 1941. US Medal of Merit 1946. Royal Society Hughes Medal 1948. Franklin Institute Elliot Cresson Medal 1957. LLD St Andrews 1943. At various times: President, Royal Meteorological Society, Institute of Navigation and Institute of Professional Civil Servants; Vice-President, American Institute of Radio Engineers.
    Bibliography
    1923, with E.V.Appleton \& J.F.Herd, British patent no. 235,254 (for the "squegger"). 1926, with J.F.Herd, "An instantaneous direction reading radio goniometer", Journal of
    the Institution of Electrical Engineers 64:611.
    1933, The Cathode Ray Oscillograph in Radio Research.
    1935, Through the Weather Hours (autobiography).
    1936, "Polarisation errors in direction finders", Wireless Engineer 13:3. 1958, Three Steps to Victory.
    1959, The Pulse of Radar.
    1961, Man's Means to his End.
    Further Reading
    S.S.Swords, 1986, Technical History of the Beginnings of Radar, Stevenage: Peter Peregrinus.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Watson-Watt, Sir Robert Alexander

  • 14 Rennie, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 7 June 1761 Phantassie, East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
    d. 4 October 1821 Stamford Street, London, England
    [br]
    Scottish civil engineer.
    [br]
    Born into a prosperous farming family, he early demonstrated his natural mechanical and structural aptitude. As a boy he spent a great deal of time, often as a truant, near his home in the workshop of Andrew Meikle. Meikle was a millwright and the inventor of a threshing machine. After local education and an apprenticeship with Meikle, Rennie went to Edinburgh University until he was 22. He then travelled south and met James Watt, who in 1784 offered him the post of Engineer at the Albion Flour Mills, London, which was then under construction. Rennie designed all the mill machinery, and it was while there that he began to develop an interest in canals, opening his own business in 1791 in Blackfriars. He carried out work on the Kennet and Avon Canal and in 1794 became Engineer for the company. He meanwhile carried out other surveys, including a proposed extension of the River Stort Navigation to the Little Ouse and a Basingstoke-to-Salisbury canal, neither of which were built. From 1791 he was also engaged on the Rochdale Canal and the Lancaster Canal, as well as the great masonry aqueduct carrying the latter canal across the river Lune at Lancaster. He also surveyed the Ipswich and Stowmarket and the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigations. He advised on the Horncastle Canal in 1799 and on the River Ancholme in 1799, both of which are in Lincolnshire. In 1802 he was engaged on the Royal Canal in Ireland, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Government to prepare a plan for flooding the Lea Valley as a defence on the eastern approach to London in case Napoleon invaded England across the Essex marshes. In 1809 he surveyed improvements on the Thames, and in the following year he was involved in a proposed canal from Taunton to Bristol. Some of his schemes, particularly in the Fens and Lincolnshire, were a combination of improvements for both drainage and navigation. Apart from his canal work he engaged extensively in the construction and development of docks and harbours including the East and West India Docks in London, Holyhead, Hull, Ramsgate and the dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. In 1806 he proposed the great breakwater at Plymouth, where work commenced on 22 June 1811.
    He was also highly regarded for his bridge construction. These included Kelso and Musselburgh, as well as his famous Thames bridges: London Bridge (uncompleted at the time of his death), Waterloo Bridge (1810–17) and Southwark Bridge (1815–19). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1798.
    Further Reading
    C.T.G.Boucher, 1963, John Rennie 1761–1821, Manchester University Press. W.Reyburn, 1972, Bridge Across the Atlantic, London: Harrap.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Rennie, John

  • 15 Les points cardinaux

    nord north N
    sud south S
    est east E
    ouest west W
    Noter que la liste des quatre points cardinaux est traditionnellement donnée dans cet ordre dans les deux langues.
    nord-est northeast NE
    nord-ouest northwest NW
    nord-nord-est north northeast NNE
    est-nord-est east northeast ENE
    etc.
    Dans les expressions suivantes, nord est pris comme exemple; les autres noms de points cardinaux s’utilisent de la même façon.
    Où?
    vivre dans le Nord
    = to live in the North
    dans le nord de l’Écosse
    = in the north of Scotland
    au nord du village
    = north of the village ou to the north of the village
    à 7 km au nord
    = 7 kilometres north ou 7 kilometres to the north
    droit au nord
    = due north
    la côte nord
    = the north coast
    la face nord (d’une montagne)
    = the north face
    le mur nord
    = the north wall
    la porte nord
    = the north door
    passer au nord d’Oxford
    = to go north of Oxford
    Les mots en - ern et - erner
    Les mots anglais en -ern et -erner sont plus courants que les adjectifs français septentrional, occidental, oriental et méridional.
    une ville du Nord
    = a northern town
    l’accent du Nord
    = a northern accent
    le dialecte du Nord
    = the northern dialect
    l’avant-poste le plus au nord
    = the most northerly outpost ou the northernmost outpost
    quelqu’un qui habite dans le Nord
    = a northerner
    un homme du Nord
    = a northerner
    les gens du Nord
    = northerners
    Les adjectifs en -ern sont normalement utilisés pour désigner des régions à l’intérieur d’un pays ou d’un continent (⇒ Les régions).
    le nord de l’Europe
    = northern Europe
    l’est de la France
    = eastern France
    le sud de la Roumanie
    = southern Romania
    le nord d’Israël
    = northern Israel
    Mais noter:
    l’Asie du Sud-Est
    = South-East Asia
    Pour les noms de pays qui utilisent les points cardinaux (Corée du Nord, Yémen du Sud), se reporter au dictionnaire.
    Dans quelle direction?
    Noter les adverbes en -ward ou -wards ( GB) et les adjectifs en -ward, utilisés pour indiquer une direction vague.
    aller vers le nord
    = to go north ou to go northward ou to go in a northerly direction
    naviguer vers le nord
    = to sail north ou to sail northward
    venir du nord
    = to come from the north
    un mouvement vers le nord
    = a northward mouvement
    Pour décrire le déplacement d’un objet, on peut utiliser un composé avec -bound.
    un bateau qui se dirige vers le nord
    = a northbound ship
    les véhicules qui se dirigent vers le nord
    = northbound traffic
    Noter aussi:
    les véhicules qui viennent du nord
    = traffic coming from the north
    des fenêtres qui donnent au nord
    = north-facing windows ou windows facing north
    une pente orientée au nord
    = a north-facing slope
    nord quart nord-est
    = north by northeast
    Noter ces expressions servant à donner la direction des vents:
    le vent du nord
    = the north wind
    un vent de nord
    = a northerly wind ou a northerly
    des vents dominants de nord
    = prevailing north winds
    le vent est au nord
    = the wind is northerly ou the wind is in the north
    le vent vient du nord
    = the wind is blowing from the north

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > Les points cardinaux

  • 16 Caird, Sir James

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 2 January 1864 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 27 September 1954 Wimbledon, London, England
    [br]
    Scottish shipowner and shipbuilder.
    [br]
    James Caird was educated at Glasgow Academy. While the connections are difficult to unravel, it is clear he was related to the Cairds of Greenock, whose shipyard on the Clyde built countless liners for the P \& O Company, and to the Caird family who were munificent benefactors of Dundee and the Church of Scotland.
    In 1878 Caird joined a firm of East India Merchants in Glasgow, but later went to London. In 1890 he entered the service of Turnbull, Martin \& Co., managers of the Scottish Shire Line of Steamers; he quickly rose to become Manager, and by 1903 he was the sole partner and owner. In this role his business skill became apparent, as he pioneered (along with the Houlder and Federal Lines) refrigerated shipping connections between the United Kingdom and Australia and New Zealand. In 1917 he sold his shipping interests to Messrs Cayzer Irvine, managers of the Clan Line.
    During the First World War, Caird set up a new shipyard on the River Wye at Chepstow in Wales. Registered in April 1916, the Standard Shipbuilding and Engineering Company took over an existing shipbuilder in an area not threatened by enemy attacks. The purpose of the yard was rapid building of standardized merchant ships during a period when heavy losses were being sustained because of German U-boat attacks. Caird was appointed Chairman, a post he held until the yard came under full government control later in the war. The shipyard did not meet the high expectations of the time, but it did pioneer standard shipbuilding which was later successful in the USA, the UK and Japan.
    Caird's greatest work may have been the service he gave to the councils which helped form the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich. He used all his endeavours to ensure the successful launch of the world's greatest maritime museum; he persuaded friends to donate, the Government to transfer artefacts and records, and he gave of his wealth to purchase works of art for the nation. Prior to his death he endowed the Museum with £1.25 million, a massive sum for the 1930s, and this (the Caird Fund) is administered to this day by the Trustees of Greenwich.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Baronet 1928 (with the title Sir James Caird of Glenfarquhar).
    Further Reading
    Frank C.Bowen, 1950, "The Chepstow Yards and a costly venture in government shipbuilding", Shipbuilding and Shipping Record (14 December).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Caird, Sir James

  • 17 north

    no:Ɵ
    1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) norte
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) norte

    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) norte
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) del norte

    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) al norte, hacia el norte
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west
    4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) hacia el nordeste; hacia el noroeste
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    north n adj adv norte
    we travelled north from Edinburgh to Inverness viajamos hacia el norte, de Edimburgo a Inverness
    tr[nɔːɵ]
    1 del norte
    1 al norte, hacia el norte
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    North Pole Polo Norte
    the North Country SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL el norte nombre masculino
    north ['nɔrɵ] adv
    : al norte
    north adj
    : norte, del norte
    the north coast: la costa del norte
    1) : norte m
    2)
    the North : el Norte m
    adj.
    • del norte adj.
    • norte adj.
    • septentrional adj.
    adv.
    • al norte adv.
    • hacia el norte adv.
    n.
    • aquilón s.m.
    • norte s.m.
    • septentrión s.f.

    I nɔːrθ, nɔːθ
    mass noun
    1)
    a) (point of the compass, direction) norte m

    the wind is blowing from o is in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte or Norte

    b) ( region)

    the north, the North — el norte

    a town in the north of Spain — una ciudad del norte or en el norte de España

    2)

    the North — ( in US history) el Norte, los estados nordistas

    3) North ( in bridge) Norte m

    II
    adjective (before n) <wall/face> norte adj inv, septentrional

    III
    adverb al norte
    [nɔːθ]
    1.
    N norte m

    in the north of the country — al norte or en el norte del país

    the wind is from the or in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte

    North and South — (Pol) el Norte y el Sur

    2.
    ADJ del norte, norteño, septentrional
    3.
    ADV (=northward) hacia el norte; (=in the north) al norte, en el norte

    this house faces north — esta casa mira al norte or tiene vista hacia el norte

    4.
    CPD

    North Africa N — África f del Norte

    North African

    North America N — Norteamérica f, América f del Norte; North American

    North Atlantic Drift N — Corriente f del Golfo

    North Atlantic route N — ruta f del Atlántico Norte

    North Carolina N — Carolina f del Norte

    North Korea N — Corea f del Norte; North Korean

    North Sea gas N — gas m del mar del Norte

    North Sea oil N — petróleo m del mar del Norte

    north star N — estrella f polar, estrella f del norte

    North Vietnam N — Vietnam m del Norte

    North Vietnamese
    * * *

    I [nɔːrθ, nɔːθ]
    mass noun
    1)
    a) (point of the compass, direction) norte m

    the wind is blowing from o is in the north — el viento sopla or viene del norte or Norte

    b) ( region)

    the north, the North — el norte

    a town in the north of Spain — una ciudad del norte or en el norte de España

    2)

    the North — ( in US history) el Norte, los estados nordistas

    3) North ( in bridge) Norte m

    II
    adjective (before n) <wall/face> norte adj inv, septentrional

    III
    adverb al norte

    English-spanish dictionary > north

  • 18 north

    1. noun
    1) (direction) Norden, der

    the north — Nord (Met., Seew.)

    in/to[wards]/from the north — im/nach/von Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    2) usu.

    North — (part lying to the north) Norden, der

    from the North — aus dem Norden

    2. adjective
    nördlich; Nord[wind, -fenster, -küste, -grenze, -tor]
    3. adverb
    nordwärts; nach Norden

    north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    * * *
    [no:Ɵ] 1. noun
    1) (the direction to the left of a person facing the rising sun, or any part of the earth lying in that direction: He faced towards the north; The wind is blowing from the north; I used to live in the north of England.) der Norden
    2) ((also N) one of the four main points of the compass.) der Norden
    2. adjective
    1) (in the north: on the north bank of the river.) nördlich
    2) (from the direction of the north: a north wind.) Nord-...
    3. adverb
    (towards the north: The stream flows north.) nördlich
    - academic.ru/50438/northerly">northerly
    - northern
    - northerner
    - northernmost
    - northward
    - northwards
    - northward
    - northbound
    - north-east / north-west     4. adverb
    (towards the north-east or north-west: The building faces north-west.) nordöstlich, nordwestlich
    - north-easterly / north-westerly
    - north-eastern / north-western
    - the North Pole
    * * *
    [nɔ:θ, AM nɔ:rθ]
    I. n no pl
    1. (direction) Norden m
    ▪ in the \north im Norden
    ▪ to the \north nach Norden [hin]
    magnetic/true \north magnetischer Nordpol/geographische Nordrichtung
    2. (region)
    ▪ the N\north BRIT (North England) Nordengland nt; AM der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl
    II. adj inv nördlich, Nord-
    \north coast/side/wind Nordküste f/-seite f/-wind m
    \north of Manchester nördlich von Manchester
    \north part nördlicher Teil
    \north Vietnam Nordvietnam nt
    III. adv inv nordwärts; ( fig fam: upwards) nach oben
    compared to last year our sales figures have gone \north im Vergleich zum letzten Jahr sind unsere Verkaufzahlen gestiegen
    ▪ up \north ( fam) im Norden
    to drive \north in nördliche Richtung fahren
    * * *
    [nɔːɵ]
    1. n
    1) Norden m

    in/from the north — im/aus dem Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von, im Norden von

    to veer/go to the north — in nördliche Richtung or nach Norden drehen/gehen

    the wind is in the north — es ist Nordwind

    the North (of Scotland/England) — Nordschottland/-england nt

    2) (US HIST)

    the North — der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl

    2. adj attr
    Nord-
    3. adv
    (= towards North) nach Norden, gen Norden (liter), nordwärts (liter, Naut); (MET) in nördliche Richtung
    * * *
    north [nɔː(r)θ]
    A s
    1. Norden m:
    in the north of im Norden von (od gen);
    to the north of → C 3;
    from the north aus dem Norden
    2. auch North Norden m, nördlicher Landesteil:
    the North of Germany Norddeutschland n;
    a) Br Nordengland n,
    b) US der Norden, die Nordstaaten pl
    3. poet Nord(wind) m
    B adj nördlich, Nord…
    C adv
    1. nach Norden, nordwärts
    2. obs aus dem Norden (besonders Wind)
    3. north of nördlich von (od gen): → border A 4
    n. abk
    1. natus, born geb.
    3. LING nominative Nom.
    4. noon
    5. north N
    6. northern nördl.
    7. note
    8. noun Subst.
    9. number Nr.
    N abk
    2. PHYS newton N
    3. north N
    4. northern nördl.
    5. noun Subst.
    N. abk
    1. National (Nationalist)
    2. Navy
    3. north N
    4. northern nördl.
    No. abk
    1. north N
    2. northern nördl.
    3. number Nr.
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (direction) Norden, der

    the north — Nord (Met., Seew.)

    in/to[wards]/from the north — im/nach/von Norden

    to the north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    2) usu.
    2. adjective
    nördlich; Nord[wind, -fenster, -küste, -grenze, -tor]
    3. adverb
    nordwärts; nach Norden

    north of — nördlich von; nördlich (+ Gen.)

    * * *
    adj.
    nördlich adj. n.
    Norden m.

    English-german dictionary > north

  • 19 north

    north [nɔ:θ]
    1. noun
    nord m
    • to the north of... au nord de...
    • in north Wales/London dans le nord du pays de Galles/de Londres
    [lie, be] au nord (of de ) ; [go] vers le nord
    Nord-Africain (e) m(f)
    Nord-Américain (e) m(f)
    ► north-easterly adjective [wind, direction] du nord-est ; [situation] au nord-est adverb vers le nord-est
    ► north-westerly adjective [wind, direction] du nord-ouest ; [situation] au nord-ouest adverb vers le nord-ouest
    * * *
    [nɔːθ] 1. 2.
    North proper noun Politics, Geography (part of world, country)
    3.
    adjective gen nord inv; [wind] du nord

    in/from north London — dans le/du nord de Londres

    4.
    adverb [move] vers le nord; [lie, live] au nord (of de)

    English-French dictionary > north

  • 20 south

    south [saʊθ]
    1. noun
    sud m
    [go] vers le sud ; [be, lie] au sud, dans le sud
    ► south-easterly adjective [wind, direction] du sud-est ; [situation] au sud-est adverb vers le sud-est
    ► south-westerly adjective [wind, direction] du sud-ouest
    * * *
    [saʊθ] 1.
    noun sud m
    2.
    adjective gen sud inv; [wind] gen du sud; Meteorology de sud
    3.
    adverb [move] vers le sud; [lie, live] au sud (of de)

    English-French dictionary > south

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