others probably too

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Colored Protein, хронический панкреатит

2) Компьютерная техника: Color Printer, Computer Problem, Computer player (компьютерные игры)

3) Медицина: cold pressor test (холодовой прессорный тест), (ceruloplasmin) ЦП (церулоплазмин)

4) Американизм: Candidate Presentation, Colored People, Construction Permit

5) Ботаника: Carnivorous Plant

6) Спорт: Card Points, Cheer Points, Contribution Points

7) Военный термин: Canadian patrol, Career Program, Character Position, Check Points, Closest Point, Co-Pilot, Communication Problem, Contingency Planning, Correction Processor, Counterproliferation, central point, central procurement, checkpoint, chemical protective, collision probability, command paymaster, command pilot, command post, communications personnel, component parts, conceptual phase, concrete-piercing, constrained procedure, contact party, contact point, control panel, control point, control post, control procedures, control program, cost and performances, cross and point, КП, командный пункт

8) Техника: cable party, cable sensor, call on positive, candidate prototype, card punch, center tap, ceramic package, character point, charging pump, clock phase, closed-packed crystals, coating permeability, cold pipe, combined parity, command pulse, communications programs, concrete pipe, condensate pump, console processor, constant pitch, constant power, containment purge, control parameter, control plane, control procedure, coolant pump, cooling pond, copy-protected, corrosion product, cost of propellant, critical power, cyclopentane, molecular heat at constant pressure

9) Сельское хозяйство: Cross Pairs, cost price, crude protein

10) Химия: Creatine Phosphate, хч (химически чистый)

11) Математика: задача с ограничениями (constrained problem), непрерывный параметр (continuous parameter), общая часть (common part), принцип соответствия (correspondence principle), условное доказательство (conditional proof)

12) Религия: Cumberland Presbyterian

13) Метеорология: Continental Polar

14) Железнодорожный термин: Canadian Pacific Railway

15) Юридический термин: Child Pornography, Close Proximity, Community Policing

16) Бухгалтерия: Credit Points

17) Автомобильный термин: crankshaft position sensor (Ford), canister purge (GM)

18) Биржевой термин: C P

19) Грубое выражение: Crap Participation

20) Телекоммуникации: Call Processing, Charging Party, Coordination Processor, Customer Premises

21) Сокращение: Camp, Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), Canadian Pacific, Canadian Press, Captain of the Port, Career Program (USA), Carrier Route Presort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Central Processing/Processor, Circulaire Pivot (Circular pivot (France)), Circular Polarised, Circularly Polarized, Civil aircraft marking (Bolivia), Clock Pulse, Close Protection, Code of Procedure, Colis Postaux (international mail category - see IMM), Communications Processor, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Court of Probate, centre of pressure, coal port, common prayer, copilot, the Canadian Press, Character Pointer, conditions precedent (в юридических текстах), Chrome-Plated (хромированный)

22) Университет: Campus Police, College Program, Course Pack, Course Packet

23) Физика: Coherent Potential, Coulomb Potential

24) Физиология: Cerebral Palsy, Cervical Position, Chest pain, Chronic Pain, Component Pertussis, Current Partner

25) Фото: Colour Printing

26) Электроника: Capability performance, Chip place, Continuous Propagation, Process capability

27) Вычислительная техника: Centronics Parallel, Connection Processor, command processor, current pointer, current position, текущая позиция, Contention Period (DCF, MAC), Control Program (IBM, OS, VM/ESA, VM), Control Point (IBM, SNA), Coordination Point (ISO 9646-3, TTCN), Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), командный процессор, текущая точка, текущей позиции

28) Литература: Charter Party

29) Нефть: casing point, casing pressure, circulating pressure, compaction, controllable pitch, глубина спуска обсадной колонны (casing point), давление в обсадной колонне (casing pressure), сантипуаз (единица абсолютной вязкости), шаг зацепления

30) Биохимия: Continuous Phase

31) Картография: chosen point

32) Банковское дело: коммерческие бумаги (commercial paper), краткосрочный коммерческий вексель (commercial paper)

33) Фирменный знак: Critical Path, Inc.

34) Холодильная техника: coefficient of performance

35) Экология: cloud picture

36) Деловая лексика: Chemical Plant, Commercial Plan, Commercial Property, Common Production, Content Partner, Custom Products, Customer Pick

37) Бытовая техника: указатель символа

38) Бурение: casing pressure( pressure on the annulus between tubing and casing (this is measured at the surface), обсадная труба (casing pipe)

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: connecting pipeline, катодная защита (cathodic protection), cathodic protection (electrical protection of metals against corrosion), Contracting and Procurement, continuous polymerization непрерывная полимеризация

40) Нефтегазовая техника давление в межтрубном пространстве (между эксплуатационной и лифтовой колоннами), защита от коррозии, corrosion protection, антикоррозионная защита

41) Менеджмент: construction plan

42) Образование: Citizens Prevail, Classroom Participation, Corporal Punishment

43) Инвестиции: commercial paper

44) Сетевые технологии: central processor, communication processor, current point, ЦП, коммуникационный процессор, центральный процессор

45) Полимеры: Canadian Patent, calendered plate, calorific power, cathode polarization, cellulose paper, cellulose propionate, center of pressure, chemically pure, close-packed, constant potential, constant pressure, continuous polymerization

46) Программирование: cloud provider

47) Автоматика: chain pull, circular pitch, continuous path

48) Пластмассы: Carbon Petroleum

49) Сахалин Р: cathodic protection

50) Химическое оружие: Construction phase, check point, construction package

51) Макаров: casing pressure, cesspool, circular polarization, conductive plastics, conductive polymer, continuous processor, cost of the propellant

52) Расширение файла: Copy Protected

53) SAP.тех. кодовая страница, копия

54) Нефть и газ: cloud point, electrochemical protection, коррозионная защита, ЭХЗ, электрохимическая защита, cathode protection, электрохимзащита

55) Керамика: Chemical Preparation

56) Логистика: Contracts and Procurement

57) Строительные материалы: Chrome Polished (покрытие)

58) Собаководство: Canine Parvovirus

59) Христианство: Church Planting, ОНЦ

60) Яхтенный спорт: Prismatic Coefficient

61) Должность: Couch Potato

62) Чат: Created Posts, Cutie Patootie

63) NYSE. Canadian Pacific, LTD.

64) НАСА: Controlled Planetary, Crash Pad

65) Международные перевозки: carriage paid, carriage раid

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Colored Protein, хронический панкреатит

2) Компьютерная техника: Color Printer, Computer Problem, Computer player (компьютерные игры)

3) Медицина: cold pressor test (холодовой прессорный тест), (ceruloplasmin) ЦП (церулоплазмин)

4) Американизм: Candidate Presentation, Colored People, Construction Permit

5) Ботаника: Carnivorous Plant

6) Спорт: Card Points, Cheer Points, Contribution Points

7) Военный термин: Canadian patrol, Career Program, Character Position, Check Points, Closest Point, Co-Pilot, Communication Problem, Contingency Planning, Correction Processor, Counterproliferation, central point, central procurement, checkpoint, chemical protective, collision probability, command paymaster, command pilot, command post, communications personnel, component parts, conceptual phase, concrete-piercing, constrained procedure, contact party, contact point, control panel, control point, control post, control procedures, control program, cost and performances, cross and point, КП, командный пункт

8) Техника: cable party, cable sensor, call on positive, candidate prototype, card punch, center tap, ceramic package, character point, charging pump, clock phase, closed-packed crystals, coating permeability, cold pipe, combined parity, command pulse, communications programs, concrete pipe, condensate pump, console processor, constant pitch, constant power, containment purge, control parameter, control plane, control procedure, coolant pump, cooling pond, copy-protected, corrosion product, cost of propellant, critical power, cyclopentane, molecular heat at constant pressure

9) Сельское хозяйство: Cross Pairs, cost price, crude protein

10) Химия: Creatine Phosphate, хч (химически чистый)

11) Математика: задача с ограничениями (constrained problem), непрерывный параметр (continuous parameter), общая часть (common part), принцип соответствия (correspondence principle), условное доказательство (conditional proof)

12) Религия: Cumberland Presbyterian

13) Метеорология: Continental Polar

14) Железнодорожный термин: Canadian Pacific Railway

15) Юридический термин: Child Pornography, Close Proximity, Community Policing

16) Бухгалтерия: Credit Points

17) Автомобильный термин: crankshaft position sensor (Ford), canister purge (GM)

18) Биржевой термин: C P

19) Грубое выражение: Crap Participation

20) Телекоммуникации: Call Processing, Charging Party, Coordination Processor, Customer Premises

21) Сокращение: Camp, Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), Canadian Pacific, Canadian Press, Captain of the Port, Career Program (USA), Carrier Route Presort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Central Processing/Processor, Circulaire Pivot (Circular pivot (France)), Circular Polarised, Circularly Polarized, Civil aircraft marking (Bolivia), Clock Pulse, Close Protection, Code of Procedure, Colis Postaux (international mail category - see IMM), Communications Processor, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Court of Probate, centre of pressure, coal port, common prayer, copilot, the Canadian Press, Character Pointer, conditions precedent (в юридических текстах), Chrome-Plated (хромированный)

22) Университет: Campus Police, College Program, Course Pack, Course Packet

23) Физика: Coherent Potential, Coulomb Potential

24) Физиология: Cerebral Palsy, Cervical Position, Chest pain, Chronic Pain, Component Pertussis, Current Partner

25) Фото: Colour Printing

26) Электроника: Capability performance, Chip place, Continuous Propagation, Process capability

27) Вычислительная техника: Centronics Parallel, Connection Processor, command processor, current pointer, current position, текущая позиция, Contention Period (DCF, MAC), Control Program (IBM, OS, VM/ESA, VM), Control Point (IBM, SNA), Coordination Point (ISO 9646-3, TTCN), Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), командный процессор, текущая точка, текущей позиции

28) Литература: Charter Party

29) Нефть: casing point, casing pressure, circulating pressure, compaction, controllable pitch, глубина спуска обсадной колонны (casing point), давление в обсадной колонне (casing pressure), сантипуаз (единица абсолютной вязкости), шаг зацепления

30) Биохимия: Continuous Phase

31) Картография: chosen point

32) Банковское дело: коммерческие бумаги (commercial paper), краткосрочный коммерческий вексель (commercial paper)

33) Фирменный знак: Critical Path, Inc.

34) Холодильная техника: coefficient of performance

35) Экология: cloud picture

36) Деловая лексика: Chemical Plant, Commercial Plan, Commercial Property, Common Production, Content Partner, Custom Products, Customer Pick

37) Бытовая техника: указатель символа

38) Бурение: casing pressure( pressure on the annulus between tubing and casing (this is measured at the surface), обсадная труба (casing pipe)

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: connecting pipeline, катодная защита (cathodic protection), cathodic protection (electrical protection of metals against corrosion), Contracting and Procurement, continuous polymerization непрерывная полимеризация

40) Нефтегазовая техника давление в межтрубном пространстве (между эксплуатационной и лифтовой колоннами), защита от коррозии, corrosion protection, антикоррозионная защита

41) Менеджмент: construction plan

42) Образование: Citizens Prevail, Classroom Participation, Corporal Punishment

43) Инвестиции: commercial paper

44) Сетевые технологии: central processor, communication processor, current point, ЦП, коммуникационный процессор, центральный процессор

45) Полимеры: Canadian Patent, calendered plate, calorific power, cathode polarization, cellulose paper, cellulose propionate, center of pressure, chemically pure, close-packed, constant potential, constant pressure, continuous polymerization

46) Программирование: cloud provider

47) Автоматика: chain pull, circular pitch, continuous path

48) Пластмассы: Carbon Petroleum

49) Сахалин Р: cathodic protection

50) Химическое оружие: Construction phase, check point, construction package

51) Макаров: casing pressure, cesspool, circular polarization, conductive plastics, conductive polymer, continuous processor, cost of the propellant

52) Расширение файла: Copy Protected

53) SAP.тех. кодовая страница, копия

54) Нефть и газ: cloud point, electrochemical protection, коррозионная защита, ЭХЗ, электрохимическая защита, cathode protection, электрохимзащита

55) Керамика: Chemical Preparation

56) Логистика: Contracts and Procurement

57) Строительные материалы: Chrome Polished (покрытие)

58) Собаководство: Canine Parvovirus

59) Христианство: Church Planting, ОНЦ

60) Яхтенный спорт: Prismatic Coefficient

61) Должность: Couch Potato

62) Чат: Created Posts, Cutie Patootie

63) NYSE. Canadian Pacific, LTD.

64) НАСА: Controlled Planetary, Crash Pad

65) Международные перевозки: carriage paid, carriage раid

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Colored Protein, хронический панкреатит

2) Компьютерная техника: Color Printer, Computer Problem, Computer player (компьютерные игры)

3) Медицина: cold pressor test (холодовой прессорный тест), (ceruloplasmin) ЦП (церулоплазмин)

4) Американизм: Candidate Presentation, Colored People, Construction Permit

5) Ботаника: Carnivorous Plant

6) Спорт: Card Points, Cheer Points, Contribution Points

7) Военный термин: Canadian patrol, Career Program, Character Position, Check Points, Closest Point, Co-Pilot, Communication Problem, Contingency Planning, Correction Processor, Counterproliferation, central point, central procurement, checkpoint, chemical protective, collision probability, command paymaster, command pilot, command post, communications personnel, component parts, conceptual phase, concrete-piercing, constrained procedure, contact party, contact point, control panel, control point, control post, control procedures, control program, cost and performances, cross and point, КП, командный пункт

8) Техника: cable party, cable sensor, call on positive, candidate prototype, card punch, center tap, ceramic package, character point, charging pump, clock phase, closed-packed crystals, coating permeability, cold pipe, combined parity, command pulse, communications programs, concrete pipe, condensate pump, console processor, constant pitch, constant power, containment purge, control parameter, control plane, control procedure, coolant pump, cooling pond, copy-protected, corrosion product, cost of propellant, critical power, cyclopentane, molecular heat at constant pressure

9) Сельское хозяйство: Cross Pairs, cost price, crude protein

10) Химия: Creatine Phosphate, хч (химически чистый)

11) Математика: задача с ограничениями (constrained problem), непрерывный параметр (continuous parameter), общая часть (common part), принцип соответствия (correspondence principle), условное доказательство (conditional proof)

12) Религия: Cumberland Presbyterian

13) Метеорология: Continental Polar

14) Железнодорожный термин: Canadian Pacific Railway

15) Юридический термин: Child Pornography, Close Proximity, Community Policing

16) Бухгалтерия: Credit Points

17) Автомобильный термин: crankshaft position sensor (Ford), canister purge (GM)

18) Биржевой термин: C P

19) Грубое выражение: Crap Participation

20) Телекоммуникации: Call Processing, Charging Party, Coordination Processor, Customer Premises

21) Сокращение: Camp, Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), Canadian Pacific, Canadian Press, Captain of the Port, Career Program (USA), Carrier Route Presort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Central Processing/Processor, Circulaire Pivot (Circular pivot (France)), Circular Polarised, Circularly Polarized, Civil aircraft marking (Bolivia), Clock Pulse, Close Protection, Code of Procedure, Colis Postaux (international mail category - see IMM), Communications Processor, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Court of Probate, centre of pressure, coal port, common prayer, copilot, the Canadian Press, Character Pointer, conditions precedent (в юридических текстах), Chrome-Plated (хромированный)

22) Университет: Campus Police, College Program, Course Pack, Course Packet

23) Физика: Coherent Potential, Coulomb Potential

24) Физиология: Cerebral Palsy, Cervical Position, Chest pain, Chronic Pain, Component Pertussis, Current Partner

25) Фото: Colour Printing

26) Электроника: Capability performance, Chip place, Continuous Propagation, Process capability

27) Вычислительная техника: Centronics Parallel, Connection Processor, command processor, current pointer, current position, текущая позиция, Contention Period (DCF, MAC), Control Program (IBM, OS, VM/ESA, VM), Control Point (IBM, SNA), Coordination Point (ISO 9646-3, TTCN), Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), командный процессор, текущая точка, текущей позиции

28) Литература: Charter Party

29) Нефть: casing point, casing pressure, circulating pressure, compaction, controllable pitch, глубина спуска обсадной колонны (casing point), давление в обсадной колонне (casing pressure), сантипуаз (единица абсолютной вязкости), шаг зацепления

30) Биохимия: Continuous Phase

31) Картография: chosen point

32) Банковское дело: коммерческие бумаги (commercial paper), краткосрочный коммерческий вексель (commercial paper)

33) Фирменный знак: Critical Path, Inc.

34) Холодильная техника: coefficient of performance

35) Экология: cloud picture

36) Деловая лексика: Chemical Plant, Commercial Plan, Commercial Property, Common Production, Content Partner, Custom Products, Customer Pick

37) Бытовая техника: указатель символа

38) Бурение: casing pressure( pressure on the annulus between tubing and casing (this is measured at the surface), обсадная труба (casing pipe)

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: connecting pipeline, катодная защита (cathodic protection), cathodic protection (electrical protection of metals against corrosion), Contracting and Procurement, continuous polymerization непрерывная полимеризация

40) Нефтегазовая техника давление в межтрубном пространстве (между эксплуатационной и лифтовой колоннами), защита от коррозии, corrosion protection, антикоррозионная защита

41) Менеджмент: construction plan

42) Образование: Citizens Prevail, Classroom Participation, Corporal Punishment

43) Инвестиции: commercial paper

44) Сетевые технологии: central processor, communication processor, current point, ЦП, коммуникационный процессор, центральный процессор

45) Полимеры: Canadian Patent, calendered plate, calorific power, cathode polarization, cellulose paper, cellulose propionate, center of pressure, chemically pure, close-packed, constant potential, constant pressure, continuous polymerization

46) Программирование: cloud provider

47) Автоматика: chain pull, circular pitch, continuous path

48) Пластмассы: Carbon Petroleum

49) Сахалин Р: cathodic protection

50) Химическое оружие: Construction phase, check point, construction package

51) Макаров: casing pressure, cesspool, circular polarization, conductive plastics, conductive polymer, continuous processor, cost of the propellant

52) Расширение файла: Copy Protected

53) SAP.тех. кодовая страница, копия

54) Нефть и газ: cloud point, electrochemical protection, коррозионная защита, ЭХЗ, электрохимическая защита, cathode protection, электрохимзащита

55) Керамика: Chemical Preparation

56) Логистика: Contracts and Procurement

57) Строительные материалы: Chrome Polished (покрытие)

58) Собаководство: Canine Parvovirus

59) Христианство: Church Planting, ОНЦ

60) Яхтенный спорт: Prismatic Coefficient

61) Должность: Couch Potato

62) Чат: Created Posts, Cutie Patootie

63) NYSE. Canadian Pacific, LTD.

64) НАСА: Controlled Planetary, Crash Pad

65) Международные перевозки: carriage paid, carriage раid

1) Общая лексика: hum. сокр. Colored Protein, хронический панкреатит

2) Компьютерная техника: Color Printer, Computer Problem, Computer player (компьютерные игры)

3) Медицина: cold pressor test (холодовой прессорный тест), (ceruloplasmin) ЦП (церулоплазмин)

4) Американизм: Candidate Presentation, Colored People, Construction Permit

5) Ботаника: Carnivorous Plant

6) Спорт: Card Points, Cheer Points, Contribution Points

7) Военный термин: Canadian patrol, Career Program, Character Position, Check Points, Closest Point, Co-Pilot, Communication Problem, Contingency Planning, Correction Processor, Counterproliferation, central point, central procurement, checkpoint, chemical protective, collision probability, command paymaster, command pilot, command post, communications personnel, component parts, conceptual phase, concrete-piercing, constrained procedure, contact party, contact point, control panel, control point, control post, control procedures, control program, cost and performances, cross and point, КП, командный пункт

8) Техника: cable party, cable sensor, call on positive, candidate prototype, card punch, center tap, ceramic package, character point, charging pump, clock phase, closed-packed crystals, coating permeability, cold pipe, combined parity, command pulse, communications programs, concrete pipe, condensate pump, console processor, constant pitch, constant power, containment purge, control parameter, control plane, control procedure, coolant pump, cooling pond, copy-protected, corrosion product, cost of propellant, critical power, cyclopentane, molecular heat at constant pressure

9) Сельское хозяйство: Cross Pairs, cost price, crude protein

10) Химия: Creatine Phosphate, хч (химически чистый)

11) Математика: задача с ограничениями (constrained problem), непрерывный параметр (continuous parameter), общая часть (common part), принцип соответствия (correspondence principle), условное доказательство (conditional proof)

12) Религия: Cumberland Presbyterian

13) Метеорология: Continental Polar

14) Железнодорожный термин: Canadian Pacific Railway

15) Юридический термин: Child Pornography, Close Proximity, Community Policing

16) Бухгалтерия: Credit Points

17) Автомобильный термин: crankshaft position sensor (Ford), canister purge (GM)

18) Биржевой термин: C P

19) Грубое выражение: Crap Participation

20) Телекоммуникации: Call Processing, Charging Party, Coordination Processor, Customer Premises

21) Сокращение: Camp, Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), Canadian Pacific, Canadian Press, Captain of the Port, Career Program (USA), Carrier Route Presort rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Central Processing/Processor, Circulaire Pivot (Circular pivot (France)), Circular Polarised, Circularly Polarized, Civil aircraft marking (Bolivia), Clock Pulse, Close Protection, Code of Procedure, Colis Postaux (international mail category - see IMM), Communications Processor, Communist Party, Conservative Party, Court of Probate, centre of pressure, coal port, common prayer, copilot, the Canadian Press, Character Pointer, conditions precedent (в юридических текстах), Chrome-Plated (хромированный)

22) Университет: Campus Police, College Program, Course Pack, Course Packet

23) Физика: Coherent Potential, Coulomb Potential

24) Физиология: Cerebral Palsy, Cervical Position, Chest pain, Chronic Pain, Component Pertussis, Current Partner

25) Фото: Colour Printing

26) Электроника: Capability performance, Chip place, Continuous Propagation, Process capability

27) Вычислительная техника: Centronics Parallel, Connection Processor, command processor, current pointer, current position, текущая позиция, Contention Period (DCF, MAC), Control Program (IBM, OS, VM/ESA, VM), Control Point (IBM, SNA), Coordination Point (ISO 9646-3, TTCN), Campus Police (MIT, others probably too), командный процессор, текущая точка, текущей позиции

28) Литература: Charter Party

29) Нефть: casing point, casing pressure, circulating pressure, compaction, controllable pitch, глубина спуска обсадной колонны (casing point), давление в обсадной колонне (casing pressure), сантипуаз (единица абсолютной вязкости), шаг зацепления

30) Биохимия: Continuous Phase

31) Картография: chosen point

32) Банковское дело: коммерческие бумаги (commercial paper), краткосрочный коммерческий вексель (commercial paper)

33) Фирменный знак: Critical Path, Inc.

34) Холодильная техника: coefficient of performance

35) Экология: cloud picture

36) Деловая лексика: Chemical Plant, Commercial Plan, Commercial Property, Common Production, Content Partner, Custom Products, Customer Pick

37) Бытовая техника: указатель символа

38) Бурение: casing pressure( pressure on the annulus between tubing and casing (this is measured at the surface), обсадная труба (casing pipe)

39) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: connecting pipeline, катодная защита (cathodic protection), cathodic protection (electrical protection of metals against corrosion), Contracting and Procurement, continuous polymerization непрерывная полимеризация

40) Нефтегазовая техника давление в межтрубном пространстве (между эксплуатационной и лифтовой колоннами), защита от коррозии, corrosion protection, антикоррозионная защита

41) Менеджмент: construction plan

42) Образование: Citizens Prevail, Classroom Participation, Corporal Punishment

43) Инвестиции: commercial paper

44) Сетевые технологии: central processor, communication processor, current point, ЦП, коммуникационный процессор, центральный процессор

45) Полимеры: Canadian Patent, calendered plate, calorific power, cathode polarization, cellulose paper, cellulose propionate, center of pressure, chemically pure, close-packed, constant potential, constant pressure, continuous polymerization

46) Программирование: cloud provider

47) Автоматика: chain pull, circular pitch, continuous path

48) Пластмассы: Carbon Petroleum

49) Сахалин Р: cathodic protection

50) Химическое оружие: Construction phase, check point, construction package

51) Макаров: casing pressure, cesspool, circular polarization, conductive plastics, conductive polymer, continuous processor, cost of the propellant

52) Расширение файла: Copy Protected

53) SAP.тех. кодовая страница, копия

54) Нефть и газ: cloud point, electrochemical protection, коррозионная защита, ЭХЗ, электрохимическая защита, cathode protection, электрохимзащита

55) Керамика: Chemical Preparation

56) Логистика: Contracts and Procurement

57) Строительные материалы: Chrome Polished (покрытие)

58) Собаководство: Canine Parvovirus

59) Христианство: Church Planting, ОНЦ

60) Яхтенный спорт: Prismatic Coefficient

61) Должность: Couch Potato

62) Чат: Created Posts, Cutie Patootie

63) NYSE. Canadian Pacific, LTD.

64) НАСА: Controlled Planetary, Crash Pad

65) Международные перевозки: carriage paid, carriage раid

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.

In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.

In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.

It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.

During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.

In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.

On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.

At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.

In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.

The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.

Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.

Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.

Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.

He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.

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1) (to receive or obtain: I got a letter this morning.) få

2) (to bring or buy: Please get me some food.) bringe, hente, kjøpe, skaffe

3) (to (manage to) move, go, take, put etc: He couldn't get across the river; I got the book down from the shelf.) bevege seg, komme, rekke, ta, legge

4) (to cause to be in a certain condition etc: You'll get me into trouble.) få til å, sørge for at

5) (to become: You're getting old.) bli

6) (to persuade: I'll try to get him to go.) få til å, overtale

7) (to arrive: When did they get home?) (an)komme

8) (to succeed (in doing) or to happen (to do) something: I'll soon get to know the neighbours; I got the book read last night.) få, lære å

9) (to catch (a disease etc): She got measles last week.) få

10) (to catch (someone): The police will soon get the thief.) få tak i, fange

11) (to understand: I didn't get the point of his story.) skjønne/få tak i poenget

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- getaway

bli

få

hente

subst. \/ɡet\/

1) ( foreldet om dyr) avkom

2) (brit., hverdagslig) tosk, idiot

3) (austr., newzealandsk, hverdagslig) flukt

• he had to do a get after killing his wife

get up and go ( hverdagslig) ambisjon, initiativ

verb ( got - got, også gotten) \/ɡet\/

1) få, motta

2) skaffe seg

3) (om sykdom, lidelse) pådra seg, få

• I got a sudden pain in my left foot

4) ( om fordeler e.l.) oppnå, få

• the refugees need all the help they can get

5) hente, skaffe til veie

• will you get me a drink, please?

6) finne, få, ha (på et gitt sted eller i en gitt situasjon)

• for someone used to the weather we get in Norway, it shouldn't be too bad

7) ( om transportmidler) ta, kjøre med, rekke, nå

• you'll have to get a taxi if you don't get the bus

8) ( matematikk) få

• what do you get if you subtract sixteen from twenty-eight?

9) ( som reaksjon på ringesignal) åpne (døren), ta (telefonen)

10) bli

• she got extremely worried when she heard the news

• the kittens got drowned

11) få sjanse til, få anledning til

• Claire thought she'd never get to go to Italy

12) ( om transportmidler) komme, ankomme

• what time does the plane get here?

13) ( om situasjoner) få opp i, sette

• my curiosity often gets me into trouble

14) komme (fra et sted til et annet), komme seg

• get out of my dreams and into my car

15) anholde, ta til fange

• the law will get you one of these days

16) treffe, slå

• you got me right in the eye!

17) ( hverdagslig) straffe, skade, drepe

• my big brother will get you for this!

18) ( hverdagslig) irritere, plage

• it is the monotony that really gets me

19) ( hverdagslig) more

• the jokes she tells really get me

20) ( overført) sette fast, overrumple

• you have got me now, I have no idea what to say or do

21) forstå

• what does it mean? I just don't get it

22) ( gammeldags) tilegne seg, lære

• the knowledge that is gotten at school one soon forgets

for getting on ( om tid) i nærmere, i bortimot

• he has been there for getting on five years

get about sette i gang med

• let's get about the job

• he's getting about a good deal

• buses make it easier to get about

( om pasient) være oppe ( om rykte) komme ut, spre seg

get above oneself ( hverdagslig) briske seg, være brautende, bli høy på pæra

get abroad ( om rykte) komme ut, spre seg

get across (to) ( hverdagslig) gå inn (hos), gå hjem (blant), finne gehør (hos), nå frem (til)

• their ideas never got across to others

irritere, forarge, ergre

• his interference got across her

get across the footlights ( teater) nå frem til publikum

get across with komme på kant med

get ahead gjøre suksess, ha fremgang, komme seg frem

get ahead of gå forbi, komme forbi, passere

get along klare seg, overleve

• we can't get along without money

komme videre, komme fremover, gjøre fremskritt gå (sin vei)

• I must be getting along

• get along with you!

(spesielt amer.) komme overens, trives sammen, være venner

get along! (spesielt britisk, hverdagslig) gi deg, da!, slapp av!

get at få tak i, nå, skaffe

• it's locked up and I can't get at it

• just let me get at him

forstå

• get at the meaning

• get at the truth

sikte til, mene, insinuere, hinte om

• who are you getting at?

• what are you getting at?

( hverdagslig) bestikke, kjøpe

• the witness had been got at

(britisk, hverdagslig) hakke på, trakassere

• he was getting at me all the time

get at it! ( hverdagslig) sett i gang!

get away (from) komme seg vekk (fra), dra (fra), slippe fra, komme fra

• did you manage to get away this Easter?

slippe unna (fra), rømme, unnslippe (fra), stikke av (fra)

• there's no getting away from the fact that...

get away with ( hverdagslig) lykkes med, hale i land, gå fri, vri seg unna, slippe unna med

• the charming young man could probably get away with murder

get away with you! ( hverdagslig) sludder!, tøv!, ikke tull!

get back få igjen, få tilbake, skaffe tilbake

• get one's money back

• I'll get it back for you

get back at somebody eller get one's own back on somebody ( hverdagslig) ta revansje over noen, hevne seg på noen, gjøre gjengjeld overfor noen

get before komme før

get behind komme etter forstå, komme på, komme bak

• get behind the scenes

get busy ( hverdagslig) sette i gang

get by komme (seg) forbi

• I can't get by the queue

klare seg, passere, duge

• he can't get by without her

• can I get by in these clothes?

get by someone with something narre noen til å tro noe

• he won't get by me with a story like that

get cracking ( hverdagslig) begynne

get down (amer., slang, gambling) legge pengene på bordet

• everybody get down so we can get started

(eksamen, prøve) skjerpe seg, gjøre det godt

• you gotta get down and start studying to pass that test

(amer., slang, vulgært) ha samleie

• I can't relate to a guy who's only interested in getting down every time we meet

få ned, få i seg

• he couldn't get the medicine down

notere, skrive ned

• did you get the conversation down?

bli lei seg, slite på, tynge

• worries get you down

• don't let it get you down

gå av, gå ned, stige av, stige ned, gå fra bordet

• he got down from his horse

• he got down on the ground

(amer., hverdagslig) slå seg løs på dansegulvet

• get down and party!

get down on (amer., slang) gi inn

• she's gonna get down on you for what you did yesterday

get down on one's knees se ➢ knee, 1

get down to begynne, sette i gang med

• let's get down to business

get down to the facts se ➢ fact

get forward komme fremover, gå fremover, gjøre fremskritt, komme seg frem (i verden), gå på

get home ( hverdagslig) gjøre inntrykk

get going komme i gang, dra av gårde

get his\/hers etc. få som fortjent ( hverdagslig) bli drept

get in få inn, ta inn, få under tak, hente inn

• get in the harvest

• get in the washing

innkassere

• get in money

sette inn

• get in a blow

føye til, ta med, få med

• get in a few extra lines

få hjem, få i hus

• get in more wine for Christmas

( hverdagslig) rekke, ha tid til

• get in some study

• the train got in on time

• I got in through the window

( sport) komme i mål ( om politisk parti eller politiker) komme inn, bli innvalgt

• he got in for Chester

( sjøfart) komme på kloss hold av

get in on komme inn i, få et ben innenfor

• she got in on a very exciting project

get into ( om transportmiddel) gå inn i, sette seg inn i

• she got into the car

( om klær) komme i, få på seg ( om situasjon) havne i, dumpe opp i

• he would always get into trouble

• you'll soon get into the work

( overført) bli tent på, bli bitt av

• my mother has got into landscape painting

• the pain got into his joints

( om følelser) påvirke, styre, komme over

• I don't know what's got into you

get into a rage se ➢ rage, 1

get in with komme sammen med, bli kjent med, gjøre seg til venns med

• he got in with influential people

• he got in with a bad crowd

get it badly eller get it bad ( hverdagslig) være blindt forelsket, være helt på trynet forelsket

• he's got it badly this time

get it done with bli ferdig med noe, få unna noe, få noe unnagjort

get it in the neck se ➢ neck, 1

get it off (slang, vulgært) la det gå for en, få utløsning

• he was no fun in bed, he got it off before we'd even started

get it together ( hverdagslig) få ting til å fungere, lykkes med livet

get lost bli borte, gå seg bort

• get lost!

get off få av (seg), få opp, få løs, ta av (seg), ta opp

• I can't get the lid off

• get one's clothes off

sende av gårde, få av gårde

• get the children off to school

få til å sovne

• get the baby off (to sleep)

• a clever barrister may get you off

• he got off lightly

bli ferdig med, forlate

• they got off the subject

dra, komme seg av gårde, starte

• we got off early

gå av, stige av

• he got off the train

• can you tell me where to get off?

• get off the grass

• get off a treaty

gi opp

• this is where I get off

get off (on something) (amer., slang) nyte (noe), digge (noe), bli tilfredsstilt (av noe)

• can you believe it, back in the '80s I used to get off on this kind of music

(narkotika, slang) ruse seg (på noe), få rus (av noe)

• they said it was a blast to get off on that new drug everyone's talking about

(amer., om jazzmusiker) foreta en vellykket improvisasjon

get off it! kutt ut!, hold opp!

get off on the right\/wrong foot se ➢ foot, 1

get something off one's chest se ➢ chest, 1

get off somebody's back se ➢ back, 1

get off to bed se ➢ bed, 1

get off to sleep se ➢ sleep, 1

get off with ( hverdagslig) bli kjent med, stå i med

• he gets off with a young girl

(britisk, hverdagslig) ha sex, ligge med

get off work se ➢ work, 1

get on få på, sette på

• I can't get the lid on

( om klær) ta på seg, få på seg

• I got my coat on

øke, sette opp anspore, inspirere, spore

• the new teacher is good at getting his pupils on

( om transportmidler) gå på, komme på, stige på, sette seg på

• he got on the train

• he got on his bicycle

• we couldn't get on because of the snow

• how is he getting on?

( om arbeid) gå fremover, gå unna

• how is work getting on?

• get on or get out!

komme overens, trives sammen

• we get on well (together)

bli eldre

• my parents are getting on a bit

get one's act together se ➢ act, 1

get oneself together skjerpe seg, ta seg sammen

get oneself up pynte seg, kle seg opp, gjøre seg fin

• she was beautifully got up

get one's mad up\/out ( slang) bli sint

get on like a house on fire se ➢ house, 1

get (up) on one's feet se ➢ foot, 1

get on one's nerves se ➢ nerve, 1

get one's own back kunne hevde seg, kunne måle seg med noen

get on to komme med

• he couldn't get on to the bus

( om telefon) få tak i, få snakke med

• I got on to his secretary

( hverdagslig) fatte, forstå

• I didn't get on to what he said

gjennomskue

• they are getting on to him at last

merke, få greie på ( spesielt britisk) ta kontakt med

get on with ( om arbeid) gå fremover, gå unna

• how is work getting on?

fortsette, holde på med, sysle med

• the children got on with it quietly

get on (with it)! skynd deg!, fort deg!

get out få frem

• he got out a few words

ta frem, hente frem

• he got out a bottle of wine

få ut, ta ut, få opp

• order one's car to be got out

gi ut, komme ut med

• they got out an anthology of poetry

( om plan e.l.) lage komme (seg) opp av, gå av komme ut, lekke ut

• the secret got out

( som interjeksjon) forsvinn, ut med deg ( som interjeksjon) sludder, tull

get out from under komme seg ut av knipen

get out of ( om transportmidler) gå av, gå ut av, komme ut av, stige ut av, slippe ut av

• get out of the train

komme (seg) unna, unnslippe, snike (seg) unna

• he tried to get out of his duties

• you must get out of that habit

• when he got out of the army

• get out of bed

get out of here! (spesielt amer.) gi deg!

get out of line være frempå, være frekk

get outside of ( slang) helle i seg (drikke), stappe i seg (mat)

• you've got outside of the lot!

( slang) fatte, forstå

get over komme over, gå over overvinne, komme over

• get over one's shyness

komme seg etter (sykdom e.l.) komme over, glemme

• get over somebody's rudeness

• you can't get over the fact that...

• they got over a long distance

get round eller get around omgå, komme utenom, komme forbi

• the company did some creative book-keeping to get round the law

• she tried to get round the responsibility

lure, narre, lokke, overtale

• she knows how to get round him

bli frisk, komme seg løse (et problem) reise rundt, røre på seg

get round to doing something få anledning til å gjøre noe, få tid til å gjøre noe, ha tiltak til

• I never get round to doing it

get shot\/shut of ( hverdagslig) bli kvitt

get someone sette noen fast

• you've got me there!

ta noen

• I'll get you!

• I got you!

• get him!

get someone back kjøre noen tilbake, følge noen hjem, passe på at noen kommer vel hjem

get someone down gjøre noen deprimert, ta motet fra noen

get someone going få noen i gang

get someone in (to do something) få noen hjem til seg (for å gjøre noe)

• they got a man in to fix the dishwasher

get someone into få noen inn i

• get someone into a firm

sette noen i, dra noen inn i, få noen til å havne i

• get someone into an awkward situation

• he got her into bad company

get someone\/something to do something få noen\/noe til å gjøre noe

• we must get him to come

• we must get the computer to work

• get him to do it

get something across to somebody få noen til å forstå gjøre lykke hos noen

get something done sørge for at noe blir gjort, få noe gjort

get something down notere, skrive noe ned (om mat, drikke) få noe ned, svelge unna

get something out (om ytring, publikasjon e.l.) få noe ut, utgi noe (britisk, om oppgave eller problem) lykkes med

get something out of få noe ut av, sko seg på, oppnå

• he obviously thought he was going to get something out of our friendship

get something out of somebody lokke noe ut av noen

get something over ( om idé e.l.) formidle

get something over with få noe unnagjort

get something sorted out få noe gjort, ordne opp i noe

• you'll have to get that sorted out now

get straight ( hverdagslig) ordne i rekkefølge

• in this case, it is important to get the facts straight

• get this straight!

get stuck into ( slang) begynne jobbe intenst

get the best\/worst of somebody få frem det beste\/verste i noen

get thee behind me, Satan ( bibelsk) vik fra meg, Satan

get there komme seg dit, nå sitt mål, lykkes

• we'll get there in the end

get through få gjennom, drive gjennom

• get a bill through Parliament

• get a pupil through an examination

gå gjennom, komme (seg) igjennom, bli ferdig med, greie, avslutte

• he got through his examination

• the bill got through Parliament

( kommunikasjon) komme frem

• I don't know where she is, I've been trying to get through to her all day

bruke opp, kvitte seg med

• he got through all his money

( om tid) fordrive (amer.) skaffe, fikse ( spesielt britisk) bruke opp, forbruke, komme igjennom

• the family get through ten pints of milk every day

( overført) nå frem til, få kontakt

• no one seems to be able to get through to the child

get through with bli ferdig med, avslutte, hale i land

get through to nå frem til, komme innpå

get to bli etter hvert, lære seg å

• I got to like him

komme (frem) til, nå

• get to bed

komme i gang med

• get to talking

• let's get to work

begynne å spise gå noen på nervene

• you're really beginning to get to me

( hverdagslig) gjøre inntrykk

• she's getting annoyed - at least we're getting to her

get to be bli (etter hvert)

• they got to be friends

get together få sammen, samle (sammen), samles, treffes, møtes

• get a team together

• let's get together sometime

(amer.) være enige, enes ordne (opp), sette i stand, rydde

• get the house together

get to know få vite, få greie på

• how did you get to know it?

bli kjent med

• I got to know him in 1999

• I'm getting to know him by now

get to see treffe, ha mulighet til å treffe

• do you ever get to see him?

get under få kontroll over, få bukt med

• get the fire under control

get up få opp, få til å reise seg, løfte opp stå opp

• I always get up early in the morning

( som interjeksjon) opp med deg, reis deg stige til hest ordne, fikse, arrangere, ordne i stand, stille opp, få sammen

• Linda got up a party

• get up a football team

sette sammen, montere

• get up a machine

finne på, dikte opp

• it was all got up

utstyre

• the book was beautifully got up

• she got her hair up

( om teaterstykke) sette opp, iscenesette vaske og stryke

• I want this shirt got up

• get up an appetite

• get up steam

forbedre (helsen), opparbeide (følelser) tilegne seg, lære seg, lese seg til, lese seg opp på

• get up a subject for an exam

( om tap) ta igjen ( om vind eller bølger) tilta, bli kraftigere, øke på, friskne på

• the wind got up

øke, tilta, få fart

• the fire got up

(skog, kratt e.l.)

get up to komme til, nå frem til

• last time we got up to page 11

• we got up to the others

• he got up to mischief

get (out) while the getting's good ( hverdagslig) slutte mens leken er god, komme seg ut mens det ennå er mulig

• we decided to get out while the getting was good

get weaving ( slang) begynne

get with it ( slang) være med på ting

got up kunstig, tilgjort

have got ha, eie

• she has got a nice face

• I haven't got a cent

• what have you got?

have got to være nødt til, måtte

• I've got to go

what you see is what you get eller WYSIWYG ( hverdagslig) det blir ikke bedre enn som så den leveres i denne utførelsen ( EDB) det du ser (på skjermen) er det du får ut (som utskrift)

aggettivo (compar. better, superl. best)

1) (in good health)

2) (in satisfactory state) bene

3) (prudent)

4) (fortunate)

avverbio (compar. better, superl. best)

1) (satisfactorily) [treat, behave, sleep etc.] bene

2) (used with modal verbs)

3) (intensifier) ben

4) (approvingly)

5)

6)

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interiezione (expressing astonishment) beh; (expressing indignation, disgust) insomma; (expressing disappointment) bene; (after pause in conversation, account) allora

1) (in ground) pozzo m.

2) (pool) sorgente f., fonte f.

3) ing. (for stairs, lift) vano m.

4) BE (in law court) = spazio riservato ai difensori

verbo intransitivo well up

- well up

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1. n

(for water etc) pozzo, (of stairs) tromba, (of lift) gabbia

2. vi

(tears, emotions) sgorgare

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- well up

1. adv

1) (gen) bene

2)

3)

2. adj

1)

2) (acceptable, satisfactory) buono (-a)

3. excl

(gen) bene, (resignation, hesitation) be'

4. n

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1 pozzo: artesian well, pozzo artesiano; oil wells, pozzi petroliferi; to sink a well, scavare un pozzo

2 fonte, fontana, sorgente (fig. e nei toponimi): the well of knowledge, la fonte del sapere

3 (edil.) tromba (o pozzo) delle scale; vano dell'ascensore

4 ( di penna stilografica) serbatoio

5 (naut.) pozzo delle pompe

6 (naut.) vivaio ( di un peschereccio)

7 (leg.: nei tribunali ingl.) spazio riservato ai difensori

● (naut.) well boat, (barca) vivaio □ well borer, scavatore di pozzi; (ind. min.) sonda-trivella □ well-boring, che scava pozzi □ (ind. min.) well core, carota □ well-curb, vera (di pozzo) □ (naut.) well deck, ponte a pozzo (per es., di aliscafo) □ (ind. min.) well drilling, trivellazione; sondaggio □ well-hole, pozzo; (edil.) tromba (o pozzo) delle scale □ (metall.) the well of a blast furnace, il crogiolo di un altoforno □ well sinker, scavatore di pozzi □ well sweep, pertica del pozzo; shaduf, sciaduf □ well water, acqua di pozzo.

avv. (compar. better, superl. best)

1 bene; attentamente; diligentemente; rettamente; con cura; a fondo; completamente: to sleep well, dormire bene; to speak well of sb., parlar bene di q.; Stir it well before you drink it, rimescolalo bene prima di berlo; Green and yellow go well together, il verde e il giallo stanno bene insieme; to treat sb. well, trattar bene q.; The work is well done, il lavoro è fatto bene; DIALOGO → - After an exam- I think I answered the questions quite well, credo di aver risposto abbastanza bene a tutte le domande; to know sb. well, conoscer bene q.; conoscere a fondo q.

2 bene; a ragione: You may well say so, puoi ben dirlo; You did well to stay at home, hai fatto bene a restare a casa; You can't very well back out now, non puoi tirarti indietro adesso a ragione

● (fam.) well and truly, del tutto; completamente □ (fam.) well and truly drunk, ubriaco fradicio □ well away, avanti (nel fare qc.); a buon punto; (pop.) bell'e che andato ( cioè ubriaco o addormentato) □ to be well on in life, essere avanti con gli anni □ It's well on midday, è quasi mezzogiorno □ to be well out of it, essersela cavata a buon mercato; esserne fuori □ to be well past forty [fifty, sixty], aver passato la quarantina [la cinquantina, la sessantina] da un pezzo □ to be well up in st., essere al corrente di qc.; conoscere bene qc. □ as well, anche; pure: I shall come as well, verrò io pure; DIALOGO → - Booking online- We might as well book now, potremmo anche (o tanto vale) prenotare adesso NOTA D'USO: - also / too- □ as well as, così come; tanto quanto; non solo ma anche; come pure: He gave me shelter as well as food, mi diede non solo asilo, ma anche da sfamarmi □ to come off well, ( di persona) cavarsela, uscirne bene; ( di cosa) riuscir bene; (fam.) fare una bella figura □ to do well, fare bene ( nella vita, ecc.): Your son will do well, tuo figlio farà bene (o si farà strada) □ to do oneself well, trattarsi bene; non farsi mancar nulla □ to do well out of the sale of one's car, vendere bene la propria automobile □ to examine st. well, esaminare qc. a fondo □ just as well = (That's) just as well ► sotto □ to live well, vivere nell'agiatezza; passarsela bene □ to look well, guardar bene; cercare attentamente; ( anche: di persona) stare bene, fare la propria figura; ( di cosa) stare bene: Jane looks well in green, Jane sta bene vestita di verde; Does this tie look well on me?, mi sta bene questa cravatta? □ perfectly well, alla perfezione; perfettamente □ pretty well finished, quasi finito □ to receive sb. well, fare buona accoglienza a q. □ (impers.) to speak well for sb., far onore a q.: It speaks well for him that he refused, gli fa onore l'aver rifiutato □ to stand well with sb., essere in buoni rapporti con q.; essere nelle buone grazie di q. □ very well, benissimo: You've done your homework very well, hai fatto benissimo i tuoi compiti □ DIALOGO → - Business trip 2- Well done!, ben fatto!; bravo! □ Well met!, proprio te!; che piacere incontrarti! □ Well run! hai fatto un'ottima corsa!; bravo! □ That boy will do well ( in life), quel ragazzo si farà strada (nella vita) □ Look well to yourself, bada a te!; sta' bene attento! □ You might ( just) as well throw your money away, tanto varrebbe che i tuoi soldi li buttassi via □ ( That's) just as well, poco male!; meglio così!; pazienza!; fa lo stesso! □ (prov.) Well begun is half done, chi ben comincia è a metà dell'opera □ (prov.) Let well ( enough) alone, il meglio è nemico del bene.

A a. pred. (compar. better, superl. best)

1 bene; in buona salute; in buone condizioni: Is he well or ill?, sta bene o è malato?; I am feeling well today, oggi mi sento bene; I am perfectly well, sto benissimo; DIALOGO → - Greetings and other useful phrases- I'm very well, thank you, sto molto bene, grazie; fairly (o reasonably) well, abbastanza bene

2 bene; opportuno; consigliabile; utile; giusto; bello: It would be well to inquire, sarebbe bene indagare

B a. attr.

(spec. USA) che sta bene; che è in buona salute; sano: He's not a well man, non sta bene di salute

● well and good!, d'accordo!; sta bene!; alla buon'ora! □ well enough, abbastanza bene; benino; discretamente: I am well enough, sto abbastanza bene □ to be well off, passarsela bene; essere in buone condizioni finanziarie □ to be well up in Latin, essere forte in latino □ to get well ( again), guarire; ristabilirsi; DIALOGO → - Feeling ill- Get well soon!, guarisci presto! □ to look well (o to be looking well), avere una bella cera (o un bell'aspetto) □ (iron.) It's all very well … but, sta bene… ma □ All's well, tutto a posto!; tutto bene! □ (prov.) All's well that ends well, tutto è bene quel che finisce bene.

n. [u]

(il) bene: to wish sb. well, augurare (ogni) bene a q.

● It was well for her that you were present, fu una fortuna (fam.: un bene) per lei che tu fossi presente.

beh; ebbene; dunque; allora: Well, what shall we do now?, beh, e ora che facciamo?; Well, what about it?, ebbene, che ne dici?; Well, as I was saying…, dunque, come stavo dicendo…; Well then?, e allora?, e poi?; e con ciò?

● well, but, sì, ma: Well, but what about the others?, sì, ma gli altri? □ Very well!, benissimo!; benone!; d'accordo!; ( anche) fa pure!; staremo a vedere! □ Well, I see, bene, bene; capisco □ Well, to be sure!, ma certo!; questa sì che è bella!; ( con incredulità) ma no!; davvero? □ Well, I never!, chi l'avrebbe mai detto?; ma no!; impossibile!

(in numerosi composti, quali:) well-adjusted, ben inserito ( nel lavoro, nella società); well-advised, saggio; prudente: a well-advised decision, una decisione saggia; well-appointed, bene attrezzato; bene arredato; ben equipaggiato: a well-appointed office, un ufficio bene arredato; well-balanced, ben proporzionato; bilanciato; equilibrato: (med.) a well-balanced diet, una dieta bilanciata; a well-balanced mind, una mente equilibrata; ( boxe, lotta, ecc.) well-balanced stance, positura bene impostata; buona impostazione della posizione; well-behaved, educato, beneducato; well-beloved, beneamato; amatissimo; well-born, bennato, di buona famiglia; well-bred, ( di persona) educato, beneducato; ( di cavallo, ecc.) di razza; ( di un uomo) well-built, ben piantato; ben messo; well-chosen, scelto bene, appropriato; well-conditioned, onesto, retto; ( di animale) sano; well-conducted, bene costumato, che si comporta bene, disciplinato; ( di azienda, ecc.) gestito bene, bene organizzato; well-connected, di buon parentado; che ha buone relazioni sociali (o commerciali); ( del gioco) well-constructed, ben costruito; articolato; ( di un giocatore) well-coordinated, coordinato; che ha una buona coordinazione; well-defined, ben definito; ( di concetto) chiaro, esplicito; well-deserved, meritato; giusto: well-deserved win, vittoria meritata; well-disposed, bendisposto, benevolo, favorevole; well-doer, chi fa del bene; persona virtuosa; well-doing, l'agir bene; la virtù; well-done, ben fatto; ( di cibo) ben cotto; well-dressed, ben vestito; well-earned, meritato: a well-earned reward, una ricompensa meritata; well-endowed, ben dotato ( fisicamente); superdotato; well established, ( di organo, potere, ecc.) solido, saldo; ( di costume) inveterato, radicato; ( di professionista) affermato; (arc.) well-favoured, bello, di bell'aspetto; well-fed, ben nutrito; well-found, bene attrezzato, ben equipaggiato; well-founded, fondato: well-founded charges, accuse fondate; (arc.) well-graced, aggraziato; attraente; well-groomed, attillato, azzimato; well-grounded, fondato; bene informato, competente, esperto; (fig. fam.) well-heeled, ricco, facoltoso, agiato; ( anche) bene organizzato, ben strutturato; (fam.) well-hung, ( d'abito) che cade bene, che sta bene; ( d'uomo) ben messo ( fisicamente); ben piantato; ( di donna) prosperosa, popputa (pop.); well-informed, bene informato; al corrente; well-intentioned, ben intenzionato; (fatto) a fin di bene; well-judged, pieno di discernimento, assennato, saggio; ( sport) calcolato bene; calibrato; well-kept, ben tenuto; tenuto bene; well-knit, ( di persona) forte, robusto, ben piantato; ( di ragionamento, ecc.) coerente; ( di edificio, ecc.) solido; well-known, notorio, noto; rinomato; well-liked, popolare, amato; well-lined, ( dello stomaco) pieno; ( del portafogli) gonfio; well-made, ben fatto; di belle fattezze; well-managed, gestito bene; condotto bene; well-mannered, educato, cortese, beneducato; well-marked, chiaro, distinto, evidente; well-matched, bene assortito; bene accoppiato; ( sport: di un incontro) equilibrato; ( di due contendenti) di pari forza, dello stesso valore; well-meaning, ben intenzionato; well-meant, fatto (o detto) a fin di bene; (form.) well-nigh, quasi, pressoché; well-off, agiato, benestante, ricco; messo bene ( in fatto di attrezzature, servizi, ecc.); (fam.) fortunato; well-oiled, bene oliato; (fig.) complimentoso, untuoso; ( slang) sbronzo; well-ordered, bene ordinato; well-organised, ben organizzato; well-placed, ben piazzato; ‘Well played!’, ‘bella giocata!’; ‘bravo!’; well-prepared, ( di un atleta) preparato bene; ( di un piano di gioco, ecc.) studiato bene; well-preserved, conservato bene, in buono stato; ( di persona) che si conserva bene, benportante; well-proportioned, ben proporzionato; well-read, che ha letto molto, colto, istruito; well-regulated, bene ordinato, disciplinato; well-reputed, stimato, che gode di buona fama; well-rounded, (ben) finito; completo; ben tornito; (fig.) eclettico; well-seasoned, ( di legno, ecc.) ben stagionato; ( di cibo) ben condito; (fig.: di persona) di grande esperienza; well-set, compatto, saldo, solido; ( di persona) ben messo, ben piantato, robusto; well-set-up, ben fatto, ben piantato, robusto; agiato, facoltoso, ricco; well-spent, speso bene: a well-spent life, una vita spesa bene; well-spoken, facondo, eloquente, raffinato nel parlare; detto (o pronunciato) bene; che parla bene; (org. az.) well-staffed, ben fornito di personale; well-taken, tirato (o battuto) bene; bello; well-thought-of, che gode della considerazione generale; stimato (o benvoluto) da tutti; well-thought-out, ( di una decisione, di un passo) ponderato, ben meditato; ( di un progetto) pensato bene, ben progettato; ( di un libro) well-thumbed, pieno di ditate; (fig.) molto compulsato; well-timed, tempestivo, opportuno; well-to-do, agiato, benestante, ricco; well-tried, provato, sperimentato, sicuro: well-tried remedies, rimedi sicuri; well-trodden, assai frequentato; ( di frase, ecc.) well-turned, ben tornito; well-watered, ( di un giardino, ecc.) ben annaffiato; (agric.) ben irrigato; well-wisher, persona che vuol bene (o che è affezionata); fautore, sostenitore; well-wishing, benaugurante; well-worn, consunto, logoro, liso, frusto, sdrucito; (fig.) comune, trito, banale, vieto: a well-worn tale, una storiella trita.

( di solito to well up, out, forth) scaturire; sgorgare; pullulare; zampillare: Bitter tears welled from her eyes ( o up in her eyes), amare lacrime le sono sgorgate dagli occhi; Suddenly water welled up, d'improvviso zampillò l'acqua.

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aggettivo (compar. better, superl. best)

1) (in good health)

2) (in satisfactory state) bene

3) (prudent)

4) (fortunate)

avverbio (compar. better, superl. best)

1) (satisfactorily) [treat, behave, sleep etc.] bene

2) (used with modal verbs)

3) (intensifier) ben

4) (approvingly)

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interiezione (expressing astonishment) beh; (expressing indignation, disgust) insomma; (expressing disappointment) bene; (after pause in conversation, account) allora

1) (in ground) pozzo m.

2) (pool) sorgente f., fonte f.

3) ing. (for stairs, lift) vano m.

4) BE (in law court) = spazio riservato ai difensori

verbo intransitivo well up

- well up

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Darby's father, John, was a farmer who also worked a small forge to produce nails and other ironware needed on the farm. He was brought up in the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and this community remained important throughout his personal and working life. Darby was apprenticed to Jonathan Freeth, a malt-mill maker in Birmingham, and on completion of his apprenticeship in 1699 he took up the trade himself in Bristol. Probably in 1704, he visited Holland to study the casting of brass pots and returned to Bristol with some Dutch workers, setting up a brassworks at Baptist Mills in partnership with others. He tried substituting cast iron for brass in his castings, without success at first, but in 1707 he was granted a patent, "A new way of casting iron pots and other pot-bellied ware in sand without loam or clay". However, his business associates were unwilling to risk further funds in the experiments, so he withdrew his share of the capital and moved to Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. There, iron ore, coal, water-power and transport lay close at hand. He took a lease on an old furnace and began experimenting. The shortage and expense of charcoal, and his knowledge of the use of coke in malting, may well have led him to try using coke to smelt iron ore. The furnace was brought into blast in 1709 and records show that in the same year it was regularly producing iron, using coke instead of charcoal. The process seems to have been operating successfully by 1711 in the production of cast-iron pots and kettles, with some pig-iron destined for Bristol. Darby prospered at Coalbrookdale, employing coke smelting with consistent success, and he sought to extend his activities in the neighbourhood and in other parts of the country. However, ill health prevented him from pursuing these ventures with his previous energy. Coke smelting spread slowly in England and the continent of Europe, but without Darby's technological breakthrough the ever-increasing demand for iron for structures and machines during the Industrial Revolution simply could not have been met; it was thus an essential component of the technological progress that was to come.

Darby's eldest son, Abraham II (1711–63), entered the Coalbrookdale Company partnership in 1734 and largely assumed control of the technical side of managing the furnaces and foundry. He made a number of improvements, notably the installation of a steam engine in 1742 to pump water to an upper level in order to achieve a steady source of water-power to operate the bellows supplying the blast furnaces. When he built the Ketley and Horsehay furnaces in 1755 and 1756, these too were provided with steam engines. Abraham II's son, Abraham III (1750–89), in turn, took over the management of the Coalbrookdale works in 1768 and devoted himself to improving and extending the business. His most notable achievement was the design and construction of the famous Iron Bridge over the river Severn, the world's first iron bridge. The bridge members were cast at Coalbrookdale and the structure was erected during 1779, with a span of 100 ft (30 m) and height above the river of 40 ft (12 m). The bridge still stands, and remains a tribute to the skill and judgement of Darby and his workers.

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SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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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.

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William Henson worked in the lacemaking industry and in his spare time invented many mechanical devices, from a breech-loading cannon to an ice-machine. It could be claimed that he invented the airliner, for in 1842 he prepared a patent (granted in 1843) for an "aerial steam carriage". The patent application was not just a vague outline, but contained detailed drawings of a large monoplane with an enclosed fuselage to accommodate the passengers and crew. It was to be powered by a steam engine driving two pusher propellers aft of the wing. Henson had followed the lead give by Sir George Cayley in his basic layout, but produced a very much more advanced structural design with cambered wings strengthened by streamlined bracing wires: the intended wing-span was 150 ft (46 m). Henson probably discussed the design of the steam engine and boiler with his friend John Stringfellow (who was also in the lacemaking industry). Stringfellow joined Henson and others to found the Aerial Transit Company, which was set up to raise the finance needed to build Henson's machine. A great publicity campaign was mounted with artists' impressions of the "aerial steam carriage" flying over London, India and even the pyramids. Passenger-carrying services to India and China were proposed, but the whole project was far too optimistic to attract support from financiers and the scheme foundered. Henson and Stringfellow drew up an agreement in December 1843 to construct models which would prove the feasibility of an "aerial machine". For the next five years they pursued this aim, with no real success. In 1848 Henson and his wife emigrated to the United States to further his career in textiles. He became an American citizen and died there at the age of 75.

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SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Textiles

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John Wyatt was the eldest son of John and Jane Wyatt, who lived in the small village of Thickbroom in the parish of Weeford, near Lichfield. John the younger was educated at Lichfield school and then worked as a carpenter at Thickbroom till 1730. In 1732 he was in Birmingham, engaged by a man named Heely, a gunbarrel forger, who became bankrupt in 1734. Wyatt had invented a machine for making files and sought the help of Lewis Paul to manufacture this commercially.

The surviving papers of Paul and Wyatt in Birmingham are mostly undated and show a variety of machines with which they were involved. There was a machine for "making lead hard" which had rollers, and "a Gymcrak of some consequence" probably refers to a machine for boring barrels or the file-making machine. Wyatt is said to have been one of the unsuccessful competitors for the erection of London Bridge in 1736. He invented and perfected the compound-lever weighing machine. He had more success with this: after 1744, machines for weighing up to five tons were set up at Birmingham, Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Liverpool. Road construction, bridge building, hydrostatics, canals, water-powered engines and many other schemes received his attention and it is said that he was employed for a time after 1744 by Matthew Boulton.

It is certain that in April 1735 Paul and Wyatt were working on their spinning machine and Wyatt was making a model of it in London in 1736, giving up his work in Birmingham. The first patent, in 1738, was taken out in the name of Lewis Paul. It is impossible to know which of these two invented what. This first patent covers a wide variety of descriptions of the vital roller drafting to draw out the fibres, and it is unknown which system was actually used. Paul's carding patent of 1748 and his second spinning patent of 1758 show that he moved away from the system and principles upon which Arkwright built his success. Wyatt and Paul's spinning machines were sufficiently promising for a mill to be set up in 1741 at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, that was powered by two asses. Wyatt was the person responsible for constructing the machinery. Edward Cave established another at Northampton powered by water while later Daniel Bourn built yet another at Leominster. Many others were interested too. The Birmingham mill did not work for long and seems to have been given up in 1743. Wyatt was imprisoned for debt in The Fleet in 1742, and when released in 1743 he tried for a time to run the Birmingham mill and possibly the Northampton one. The one at Leominster burned down in 1754, while the Northampton mill was advertised for sale in 1756. This last mill may have been used again in conjunction with the 1758 patent. It was Wyatt whom Daniel Bourn contacted about a grant for spindles for his Leominster mill in 1748, but this seems to have been Wyatt's last association with the spinning venture.

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