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1 peter out
to come gradually to an end:يَنْضَب، يَنْفَذTheir enthusiasm gradually petered out.
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2 peter
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3 péter
péter [pete]➭ TABLE 61. intransitive verba. [personne] (inf!) to fart (inf!)2. transitive verba. [+ ficelle] to snap• se péter la gueule (inf!) ( = tomber) to fall flat on one's face ; ( = s'enivrer) to get plastered (inf!)* * *pete
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(colloq) verbe transitif ( casser) to bust (colloq) [appareil]; to snap [fil]
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verbe intransitif1) (sl) ( lâcher un pet) to fart (colloq)2) (colloq) ( éclater) lit [ballon, tuyau] to burst; [explosif] to go off; fig to blow up3) ( casser) [appareil, lampe] to bust (colloq); [fil] to snap; [couture] to burst••péter le feu — (colloq) [personne] to be full of beans (colloq)
péter la santé — (colloq) to be bursting with health
* * *pete *1. vi1) (= laisser échapper un pet) to fart *2) (= se rompre) [câble] to snapAttention, le câble risque de péter. — Watch out, it looks like the cable's going to snap.
3) (= exploser) [pneu, ballon, sac] to burst, [bombe] to go off, to explodeL'obus a pété avec un bruit sec. — The shell went off with a bang.
2. vt(= casser) [vitre, appareil, clef] to bust * to break* * *péter verb table: céderA ○vtr ( casser) to break, to bust○ [appareil, circuit]; to snap [cordon, fil]; péter la gueule à qn◑ to beat the hell out of sb◑.B vi1 ◑( lâcher un pet) to fart○;2 ○( éclater) [ballon, tuyau] to burst; [explosif] to go off; l'arme lui a pété à la figure the weapon went off in his face; faire péter une grenade/un pétard to let off a grenade/a banger GB ou firecracker US; la situation est grave, ça va péter d'un jour à l'autre fig the situation is serious, it could blow up any day now;3 ( casser) [appareil, circuit, crayon, lampe] to break, to bust○; [cordon, fil] to snap; [bouton, couture] to burst.C se péter◑ vpr ( se casser) [appareil, circuit, crayon, lampe] to break, to bust○; [cordon, fil] to snap; se péter la gueule ( avoir un accident) to get smashed up; ( se soûler) to get pissed◑ GB ou stoned◑ US; ( se droguer) to get high○; être pété ( soûl) to be pissed GB ou stoned US; ( drogué) to be high○.envoyer qn péter○ to send sb packing○; péter le feu○ [personne] to be full of beans; ça va péter le feu○ there's going to be all hell let loose○; péter la santé○ to be bursting with health; vouloir péter plus haut que son cul◑ to be too big for one's boots; péter dans la soie◑ to live in the lap of luxury.[pete] (familier) verbe intransitif1. (familier) [faire un pet] to fart2. [exploser] to blow up[casser]————————[pete] (familier) verbe transitif2. [être plein de]3. (Belgique)4. (locution)————————se péter (familier) verbe pronominal intransitifattention, ça va se péter! watch out, it's going to break!————————se péter (familier) verbe pronominal transitifse péter la jambe/mâchoire to smash one's leg/jawb. [en voiture] to get smashed up -
4 Fairbairn, Sir Peter
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. September 1799 Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotlandd. 4 January 1861 Leeds, Yorkshire, England[br]British inventor of the revolving tube between drafting rollers to give false twist.[br]Born of Scottish parents, Fairbairn was apprenticed at the age of 14 to John Casson, a mill-wright and engineer at the Percy Main Colliery, Newcastle upon Tyne, and remained there until 1821 when he went to work for his brother William in Manchester. After going to various other places, including Messrs Rennie in London and on the European continent, he eventually moved in 1829 to Leeds where Marshall helped him set up the Wellington Foundry and so laid the foundations for the colossal establishment which was to employ over one thousand workers. To begin with he devoted his attention to improving wool-weaving machinery, substituting iron for wood in the construction of the textile machines. He also worked on machinery for flax, incorporating many of Philippe de Girard's ideas. He assisted Henry Houldsworth in the application of the differential to roving frames, and it was to these machines that he added his own inventions. The longer fibres of wool and flax need to have some form of support and control between the rollers when they are being drawn out, and inserting a little twist helps. However, if the roving is too tightly twisted before passing through the first pair of rollers, it cannot be drawn out, while if there is insufficient twist, the fibres do not receive enough support in the drafting zone. One solution is to twist the fibres together while they are actually in the drafting zone between the rollers. In 1834, Fairbairn patented an arrangement consisting of a revolving tube placed between the drawing rollers. The tube inserted a "middle" or "false" twist in the material. As stated in the specification, it was "a well-known contrivance… for twisting and untwisting any roving passing through it". It had been used earlier in 1822 by J. Goulding of the USA and a similar idea had been developed by C.Danforth in America and patented in Britain in 1825 by J.C. Dyer. Fairbairn's machine, however, was said to make a very superior article. He was also involved with waste-silk spinning and rope-yarn machinery.Fairbairn later began constructing machine tools, and at the beginning of the Crimean War was asked by the Government to make special tools for the manufacture of armaments. He supplied some of these, such as cannon rifling machines, to the arsenals at Woolwich and Enfield. He then made a considerable number of tools for the manufacture of the Armstrong gun. He was involved in the life of his adopted city and was elected to Leeds town council in 1832 for ten years. He was elected an alderman in 1854 and was Mayor of Leeds from 1857 to 1859, when he was knighted by Queen Victoria at the opening of the new town hall. He was twice married, first to Margaret Kennedy and then to Rachel Anne Brindling.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1858.Bibliography1834, British patent no. 6,741 (revolving tube between drafting rollers to give false twist).Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography.Obituary, 1861, Engineer 11.W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (provides a brief account of Fairbairn's revolving tube).C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vols IV and V, Oxford: Clarendon Press (provides details of Fairbairn's silk-dressing machine and a picture of a large planing machine built by him).RLH -
5 Barlow, Peter
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 13 October 1776 Norwich, Englandd. 1 March 1862 Kent, England[br]English mathematician, physicist and optician.[br]Barlow had little formal academic education, but by his own efforts rectified this deficiency. His contributions to various periodicals ensured that he became recognized as a man of considerable scientific understanding. In 1801, through competitive examination, he became Assistant Mathematics Master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and some years later was promoted to Professor. He resigned from this post in 1847, but retained full salary in recognition of his many public services.He is remembered for several notable achievements, and for some experiments designed to overcome problems such as the deviation of compasses in iron ships. Here, he proposed the use of small iron plates designed to overcome other attractions: these were used by both the British and Russian navies. Optical experiments commenced around 1827 and in later years he carried out tests to optimize the size and shape of many parts used in the railways that were spreading throughout Britain and elsewhere at that time.In 1814 he published mathematical tables of squares, cubes, square roots, cube roots and reciprocals of all integers from 1 to 10,000. This volume was of great value in ship design and other engineering processes where heavy numerical effort is required; it was reprinted many times, the last being in 1965 when it had been all but superseded by the calculator and the computer. In the preface to the original edition, Barlow wrote, "the only motive which prompted me to engage in this unprofitable task was the utility that I conceived might result from my labour… if I have succeeded in facilitating abstruse arithmetical calculations, then I have obtained the object in view."[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1823; Copley Medal (for discoveries in magnetism) 1825. Honorary Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1820.Bibliography1811, An Elementary Investigation of the Theory of Numbers.1814, Barlow's Tables (these have continued to be published until recently, one edition being in 1965 (London: Spon); later editions have taken the integers up to 12,500).1817, Essay on the Strength of Timber and Other Materials.Further ReadingDictionary of National Biography.FMW -
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8 wykliniać się o pokładzie
• peter outSłownik polsko-angielski dla inżynierów > wykliniać się o pokładzie
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v/refl (unreg., trennb., hat -ge-) umg., fig. peter ( oder fizzle) out, play itself out, tail off (and stop)* * *tot|lau|fenvr sep (inf)to peter out* * *tot|lau·fenvr irreg (fam)* * *unregelmäßiges reflexives Verb (ugs.) <movement, trend, fashion> peter or die out; <talks, discussions> peter out* * *totlaufen v/r (irr, trennb, hat -ge-) umg, fig peter ( oder fizzle) out, play itself out, tail off (and stop)* * *unregelmäßiges reflexives Verb (ugs.) <movement, trend, fashion> peter or die out; <talks, discussions> peter out -
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v/i (unreg., trennb., ist -ge-)1. fall asleep, go to sleep; ich konnte letzte Nacht nicht einschlafen I couldn’t get to sleep last night; wieder einschlafen go ( oder get) back to sleep; über der Arbeit einschlafen drop off over one’s work, go to sleep on the job; beim Fernsehen / am Steuer einschlafen go to sleep ( oder drop off) in front of the television / at the wheel; komm, schlaf nicht ein! get a move on, don’t go to sleep!2. Glieder: go to sleep; mir ist der rechte Arm eingeschlafen auch I’ve got pins and needles in my right arm3. euph. (sterben) pass away4. Briefwechsel, Unterhaltung etc.: peter out, fizzle out umg.; Freundschaft: cool off; Brauch: die out* * *to go off; to fall asleep* * *ein|schla|fenvi sep irreg aux seinto fall asleep, to go to sleep, to drop off (inf); (Bein, Arm) to go to sleep; (euph = sterben) to pass away; (fig Gewohnheit, Freundschaft) to peter out, to tail offich kann nicht éínschlafen — I can't get to sleep
bei or über seiner Arbeit éínschlafen — to fall asleep over one's work
vor dem Einschlafen zu nehmen (Medizin) — to be taken before retiring
* * *(to fall asleep: I was so tired I dropped off in front of the television.) drop off* * *ein|schla·fenvi irreg Hilfsverb: sein1. (in Schlaf fallen)ich kann nicht \einschlafen I can't sleepdie Tropfen sind vor dem E\einschlafen zu nehmen the drops are to be taken before going to sleep3. (taub werden) to go to sleep, to be[come] numbautsch, mir ist das Bein eingeschlafen! ow, my leg's gone to sleep [or I've got pins and needles in my leg]!4. (nachlassen) to die a [natural] death, to peter outwir wollen unsere Freundschaft nicht \einschlafen lassen we don't want to let our friendship peter out [or tail off]* * *unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein1) fall asleep; go to sleep4) (aufhören) peter out* * *einschlafen v/i (irr, trennb, ist -ge-)1. fall asleep, go to sleep;ich konnte letzte Nacht nicht einschlafen I couldn’t get to sleep last night;über der Arbeit einschlafen drop off over one’s work, go to sleep on the job;beim Fernsehen/am Steuer einschlafen go to sleep ( oder drop off) in front of the television/at the wheel;komm, schlaf nicht ein! get a move on, don’t go to sleep!2. Glieder: go to sleep;mir ist der rechte Arm eingeschlafen auch I’ve got pins and needles in my right arm3. euph (sterben) pass away4. Briefwechsel, Unterhaltung etc: peter out, fizzle out umg; Freundschaft: cool off; Brauch: die out* * *unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein1) fall asleep; go to sleep3) (gefühllos werden) <arm, leg> go to sleep4) (aufhören) peter out* * *v.to fall asleep expr. -
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1) General subject: die, disappear, dispel, disperse, dive, evanesce (как дым), evaporate, fall away, flee, flicker out, fly, go, go under, grow away, immerge (под водой), melt, melt away, merge, ooze, ooze away, pass, pass away, pass off, pass out, peter out, scour away, scour off, self destruct, sheer off, slip, trickle away, trickle out, vanish, vanish into space, wan, wear away, shade away, shade off, submerge, shrink2) Geology: become extinct, die out, taper out (в складках)5) Colloquial: push off6) American: dig out7) Obsolete: fleet9) Engineering: go away, peter (о живых организмах)10) Agriculture: drop out12) Mathematics: (the equations ( 2.1, 2), linearized about the basic steady-state solution, have normal modes that) decay (to zero exponentially), be extinct, cancel out13) Religion: abolish14) Economy: die away (об экономических колебаниях), die to dictum away (об экономических колебаниях)15) Australian slang: shoot off, shoot through16) Telecommunications: fade17) Electronics: collapse18) Jargon: burn rubber, fade away19) Astronautics: nullify20) Business: lapse21) Invective: bag ass22) Oceanography: burn (о тумане)23) Makarov: come out (о пятнах и т.п.), decay, dissipate, go (went; gone), merge (into), peter out (о животных и растениях), peter out (о живых организмах), tail off, trickle, vanish (о члене уравнения), die down, come out (о пятнах и т. п.), come off (о пятне), fade out (об изображении)
См. также в других словарях:
peter out — {v.}, {informal} To fail or die down gradually; grow less; become exhausted. * /After the factory closed, the town pretty well petered out./ * /The mine once had a rich vein of silver, but it petered out./ * /But as he thought of her, his anger… … Dictionary of American idioms
peter out — {v.}, {informal} To fail or die down gradually; grow less; become exhausted. * /After the factory closed, the town pretty well petered out./ * /The mine once had a rich vein of silver, but it petered out./ * /But as he thought of her, his anger… … Dictionary of American idioms
peter out — [v] dwindle, decrease abate, come to nothing*, die out*, diminish, drain, ebb, evaporate, fade, fail, give out, lessen, pall, rebate, recede, run dry, run out, stop, taper off, wane; concepts 105,698 Ant. develop, grow, increase … New thesaurus
peter out — index perish, subside Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
peter out — verb 1. end weakly (Freq. 1) The music just petered out there was no proper ending • Syn: ↑taper off, ↑fizzle out, ↑fizzle • Hypernyms: ↑discontinue • … Useful english dictionary
peter out — phrasal verb [intransitive] Word forms peter out : present tense I/you/we/they peter out he/she/it peters out present participle petering out past tense petered out past participle petered out to gradually become smaller or weaker before coming… … English dictionary
peter out — in. to give out; to wear out. □ I’m about to peter out. I need a rest. □ What’ll we do when the money peters out? … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
peter out — gradually lose power, reduce, run out After 6, sales began to peter out. We had fewer customers … English idioms
peter out — die down gradually, grow less strong The large crowd from the football game has begun to peter out and the streets around the stadium are becoming quiet now … Idioms and examples
peter out — /ˌpi:tər aυt/ verb to come to an end gradually ▪▪▪ ‘…economists believe the economy is picking up this quarter and will do better in the second half of the year, but most expect growth to peter out next year’ [Sunday Times] … Dictionary of banking and finance
peter out — Synonyms and related words: abate, bate, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be disappointing, be no more, be unproductive, be used up, be wiped out, blow, break, break down, burn out, cave in, cease to be, cease to exist, collapse, come… … Moby Thesaurus