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  • 101 run

    run
    A n
    1 ( act or period of running) course f ; a two-mile run une course de deux miles ; that was a splendid run by Reeves Reeves a fait une course magnifique ; to go for a run aller courir ; to take the dog for a run in the park aller faire courir le chien au parc ; to break into a run se mettre à courir ; to do sth at a run faire qch en courant ; to take a run at prendre son élan pour franchir [fence, hedge, stream] ; to give sb a clear run fig laisser le champ libre à qn (at doing pour faire) ;
    2 ( flight) on the run [prisoner] en fuite, en cavale ; to be on the run from sb/sth fuir qn/qch ; to have sb on the run lit mettre qn en fuite ; fig réussir à effrayer qn ; to make a run for it fuir, s'enfuir ; to make a run for the door se précipiter vers la porte ;
    3 ( series) (of successes, failures, reds, blacks) série f (of de) ; to have a run of (good) luck être en veine ; to have a run of bad luck jouer de malchance ; a run of fine weather une période de beau temps ; we've had a long run without any illness nous avons eu une longue période sans maladie ; the product has had a good run but… le produit a bien marché mais… ;
    4 Theat série f de représentations ; to have a long run tenir longtemps l'affiche ; to have a six-month run tenir l'affiche pendant six mois ; the play is beginning its Broadway run la pièce commence à se jouer à Broadway ;
    5 ( trend) (of events, market) tendance f ; the run of the cards/dice was against me le jeu était contre moi ; against the run of play Sport en sens inverse du cours réel du jeu ; in the normal run of things dans l'ordre normal des choses ; out of the common run hors du commun ;
    6 ( series of thing produced) ( in printing) tirage m ; ( in industry) série f ; a paperback run of 10,000 un tirage de 10 000 exemplaires en poche ;
    7 Fin ( on Stock Exchange) ( rush) ruée f ; a run on une ruée sur [stock market, bank, item] ; a run on sterling/the dollar une ruée spéculative sur la livre sterling/le dollar ;
    8 (trip, route) route f, trajet m ; it's only a short run into town ( in car) avec la voiture on est tout de suite en ville ; to go out for a run in the car aller faire un tour en voiture ; the run up to York la route jusqu'à York ; he does the Leeds run twice a week il fait le trajet jusqu'à Leeds deux fois par semaine ; a ferry on the Portsmouth-Caen run le ferry faisant la traversée Portsmouth-Caen ; a bombing run une mission de bombardement ;
    9 (in cricket, baseball) point m ; to score ou make a run marquer un point ;
    10 (for rabbit, chickens) enclos m ;
    11 (in tights, material) échelle f ;
    12 ( for skiing etc) piste f ;
    13 ( in cards) suite f ; a run of three une suite de trois cartes ; ⇒ practice run, test run, trial run.
    B runs npl the runs la courante , la diarrhée.
    C vtr ( prét ran ; pp run)
    1 ( cover by running) courir [race, heat, stage, distance, marathon] ; I ran the rest of the way j'ai couru le reste du chemin ; she ran a brilliant race/a very fast time elle a fait une course superbe/un très bon temps ; the race will be run at 10.30 la course se court à 10 h 30 ;
    2 ( drive) to run sb to the station/to hospital conduire qn à la gare/à l'hôpital ; to run sb home ou back reconduire qn ; to run the car over to the garage conduire la voiture au garage ; to run sth over to sb's house apporter qch chez qn en voiture ; to run the car into a tree jeter la voiture contre un arbre ;
    3 (pass, move) to run one's hand over sth passer la main sur qch ; to run one's finger down the list parcourir la liste du doigt ; to run one's eye(s) over sth parcourir rapidement qch ; to run a duster/the vacuum cleaner over sth passer un coup de chiffon/d'aspirateur sur qch ; to run one's pen through sth rayer qch ;
    4 ( manage) diriger [business, hotel, store, school, country] ; a well-/badly-run organization une organisation bien/mal dirigée ; who is running things here? qui est-ce qui commande ici? ; I'm running this show ! c'est moi qui commande ! ; stop trying to run my life! arrête de vouloir diriger ma vie! ;
    5 ( operate) faire fonctionner [machine] ; faire tourner [motor, engine] ; exécuter [program] ; entretenir [car] ; to run sth off the mains/off batteries faire fonctionner qch sur secteur/avec des piles ; the car is cheap to run la voiture est peu coûteuse à entretenir ; to run a tape/a film mettre une cassette/un film ; to run tests on sth effectuer des tests sur qch ; to run a check on sb [police] vérifier les antécédents de qn ; ( generally) prendre des renseignements sur qn ;
    6 (organize, offer) organiser [competition, lessons, course] ; mettre [qch] en place [train, bus, service] ;
    7 (extend, pass) (of cable, wire, pipe) to run sth between/from/to/around faire passer qch entre/de/à/autour de ; to run a rope through a ring faire passer une corde dans un anneau ;
    8 ( cause to flow) faire couler [water, bath] ; ouvrir [tap] ; I'll run you a bath je vais te faire couler un bain ; to run water into/over sth faire couler de l'eau dans/sur qch ;
    9 Journ [newspaper] publier, faire passer [story, article] ;
    10 ( pass through) franchir [rapids] ; forcer [blockade] ; brûler [red light] ;
    11 ( smuggle) faire passer [qch] en fraude [guns, drugs] ;
    12 ( enter in contest) faire courir [horse] ; présenter [candidate].
    D vi ( prét ran ; pp run)
    1 ( move quickly) [person, animal] courir ; to run to catch the bus/to help sb courir pour attraper le bus/pour aider qn ; to run to meet sb courir à la rencontre de qn ; to run across/down/up sth traverser/descendre/monter qch en courant ; to run around the house/around (in) the garden courir dans toute la maison/dans le jardin ; will you run over to the shop and get some milk? peux-tu courir au magasin chercher du lait? ; to run for the train courir pour attraper le train ; to run for the exit courir vers la sortie ; to run for one's country Sport courir pour son pays ; to run in the 100 metres/in the 3.30 (race) courir le 100 mètres/dans la course de 15 h 30 ; she came running towards me elle a couru vers moi ; the customers will come running fig les clients vont se précipiter ;
    2 ( flee) fuir, s'enfuir ; I dropped everything and ran j'ai tout jeté et je me suis enfui ; to run for one's life s'enfuir pour sauver sa peau ; run for your life!, run for it ! sauve qui peut!, déguerpissons ! ; I had to run for it j'ai dû déguerpir ; there's nowhere to run (to) il n'y a nulle part où aller ; to go running to the police courir à la police ; to go running to one's parents se réfugier chez ses parents ;
    3 ( rush off) filer ; sorry-must run! désolé-il faut que je file! ;
    4 ( function) [machine, generator] marcher ; [engine, press] tourner ; to leave the engine running laisser tourner le moteur ; to run off fonctionner sur [mains, battery] ; to run on marcher à [diesel, unleaded] ; to run fast/slow [clock] prendre de l'avance/du retard ; the organization runs very smoothly l'organisation fonctionne parfaitement ;
    5 (continue, last) [contract, lease] courir ; to have another month to run avoir encore un mois à courir ; to run from… to… [school year, season] aller de… à… ;
    6 Theat [play, musical] tenir l'affiche ; this show will run and run! ce spectacle tiendra l'affiche pendant des mois! ; to run for six months tenir l'affiche pendant six mois ; the film will run (for) another week le film reste à l'affiche une semaine encore ;
    7 ( pass) to run past/through sth [frontier, path, line] passer/traverser qch ; to run (from) east to west aller d'est en ouest, être orienté est-ouest ; the road runs north for about ten kilometres la route va vers le nord sur une dizaine de kilomètres ; to run parallel to sth être parallèle à qch ; the stripes run vertically les rayures sont verticales ; the bird has a green stripe running down its back l'oiseau a une bande verte le long du dos ; a scar runs down her arm une cicatrice court le long de son bras ;
    8 ( move) [sledge, vehicle] glisser (on sur ; forward vers l'avant ; back vers l'arrière) ; [curtain] coulisser (on sur) ; to run through sb's hands [rope] filer entre les mains de qn ; a pain ran up my leg une douleur m'est remontée le long de la jambe ; a wave of excitement ran through the crowd un frisson d'excitation a parcouru la foule ; his eyes ran over the page il a parcouru la page des yeux ; the news ran from house to house la nouvelle s'est transmise de maison en maison ;
    9 ( operate regularly) [buses, trains] circuler ; they don't run on Sundays ils ne circulent pas le dimanche ; a taxi service/ferry runs between X and Y il existe un service de taxi/un ferry entre X et Y ; the train is running late le train est en retard ; programmes are running late this evening ( on TV) les émissions ont du retard ce soir ; we are running 30 minutes behind schedule ou late nous avons 30 minutes de retard ; we're running ahead of schedule nous sommes en avance ;
    10 ( flow) [water, liquid, stream, tap, bath, nose] couler ; the tap is running le robinet coule or est ouvert ; my nose is running j'ai le nez qui coule ; tears ran down his face les larmes coulaient sur son visage ; there was water running down the walls il y avait de l'eau qui coulait le long des murs ; my body was running with sweat mon corps ruisselait de sueur ; the streets will be running with blood fig le sang coulera à flots dans les rues ; the river ran red with blood la rivière est devenue rouge de sang ; the meat juices ran pink/clear le jus qui est sorti de la viande était rose/incolore ;
    11 ( flow when wet or melted) [colour, dye, garment] déteindre ; [ink, makeup, butter, cheese] couler ;
    12 Pol ( as candidate) se présenter ; to run for être candidat/-e au poste de [mayor, governor] ; to run for president être candidat/-e à la présidence ; to run against se présenter or être candidat/-e contre [person] ;
    13 ( be worded) [message, speech] se présenter, être libellé sout ; the telex runs… le télex se présente or est libellé comme suit… ; so the argument runs selon l'argument habituellement avancé ;
    14 ( snag) [tights, material] filer.
    to have the run of sth avoir qch pour soi ; to give sb the run of sth mettre qch à la disposition de qn ; in the long run à la longue, à longue échéance ; in the short run à brève échéance.
    run about, run around:
    1 (hurrying, playing etc) courir ; I've been running around all over the place looking for you j'ai couru partout pour essayer de te trouver ;
    2 ( have affair with) courir ; to run around with voir , sortir avec [woman, man].
    run across :
    run across [sth/sb] tomber sur [acquaintance, reference].
    run after:
    run after [sb] lit, fig courir après [thief, woman, man].
    run along se sauver , filer ; run along! sauve-toi !
    run at:
    run at [sth]
    1 ( charge towards) se précipiter sur [door, person] ;
    2 ( be at) [inflation, unemployment] atteindre, être de l'ordre de [percentage, rate, figure] ; with inflation running at 12% avec une inflation de l'ordre de 12%.
    run away:
    1 ( flee) s'enfuir (from sb devant qn ; to do pour faire) ; to run away from home s'enfuir de chez soi ; to run away from one's responsibilities/a situation fuir ses responsabilités/une situation ;
    2 ( run off) [water, liquid] couler ;
    run away with [sth/sb]
    1 ( flee) partir avec [profits, object, person] ;
    2 ( carry off easily) rafler [prizes, title] ;
    3 GB dial ( use up) [activity] engloutir [money] ;
    4 ( get into one's head) to run away with the idea ou notion that s'imaginer que ; I don't want him running away with that idea je ne veux pas qu'il s'imagine ça ; to let one's emotions/one's enthusiasm run away with one se laisser emporter par ses émotions/son enthousiasme.
    run back:
    run back [sth], run [sth] back rembobiner [tape, film].
    run back over [sth] revenir sur [points, plans].
    run down:
    run down [battery] se décharger ; [watch] retarder ; [exports, reserves] diminuer ; [machine, industry, company] s'essouffler ;
    run down [sth/sb], run [sth/sb] down
    1 ( in vehicle) renverser ; to be ou get run down by sth être renversé par qch ;
    2 (reduce, allow to decline) réduire [production, operations, defences, industry, reserves] ; user [battery] ;
    3 ( disparage) dénigrer [person, economy] ;
    4 Naut éperonner, heurter [boat] ;
    5 ( track down) retrouver [person] ; dénicher [thing].
    run in:
    run in [sth], run [sth] in roder [car, machine] ; ‘running in-please pass’ ‘en rodage’ ;
    run [sb] in ( arrest) épingler [person].
    run into:
    run into [sth/sb]
    1 ( collide with) [car, person] heurter, rentrer dans [car, wall] ;
    2 ( encounter) rencontrer [person, difficulty, opposition, bad weather] ; to run into debt s'endetter ;
    3 ( amount to) [debt, income, sales] se compter en [hundreds, millions] ; the trial could run into months le procès pourrait durer des mois.
    run off:
    run off
    1 [person, animal] partir en courant ; to run off with partir avec [person, savings] ;
    2 [liquid, water] couler ;
    run off [sth], run [sth] off
    1 ( print) sortir [copy] (on sur) ;
    2 ( contest) disputer [heats].
    run on:
    run on [meeting, seminar] se prolonger ;
    run on [sth] ( be concerned with) [mind] être préoccupé par ; [thoughts] revenir sur ; [conversation] porter sur ;
    run on [sth], run [sth] on
    1 Print faire suivre [qch] sans alinéa ;
    2 Literat faire enjamber [line].
    run out:
    run out
    1 ( become exhausted) [supplies, resources, oil] s'épuiser ; time is running out le temps manque ; my money ran out mes ressources s'étaient épuisées ; my patience is running out je suis en train de perdre patience ;
    2 ( have no more) [pen, vending machine] être vide ; sorry, I've run out désolé, je n'en ai plus ; quick, before we run out vite, avant que nous n'ayons plus rien ;
    3 ( expire) [lease, passport] expirer ;
    run out of ne plus avoir de [petrol, time, money, ideas] ; the car ran out of petrol la voiture est tombée en panne d'essence ; to be running out of n'avoir presque plus de [petrol, time, money, ideas].
    run out on [sb] abandonner, laisser tomber [family, lover, ally].
    run over:
    1 [meeting, programme] se prolonger, dépasser l'horaire prévu ; to run over by 10 minutes/by an hour dépasser l'horaire prévu de 10 minutes/d'une heure ;
    2 ( overflow) [container] déborder ; my cup runneth over Bible la coupe est pleine ;
    run over [sth] ( run through) passer [qch] en revue [arrangements, main points] ;
    run over [sth/sb], run [sth/sb] over
    1 ( injure) renverser [person, animal] ; ( kill) écraser [person, animal] ; you'll get run over tu vas te faire écraser ;
    2 ( drive over) passer sur [log, bump, corpse].
    run through [sth]
    1 ( pass through) [thought, tune, murmur] courir dans ;
    2 ( be present in) [theme, concern, prejudice] se retrouver dans [work, society] ;
    3 ( look through) parcourir [list, article, notes] ; ( discuss briefly) passer [qch] en revue [main points, schedule] ;
    4 (use, get through) dépenser [money, inheritance] ;
    run through [sth], run [sth] through ( rehearse) répéter [scene, speech] ;
    run [sb] through littér ( with sword) transpercer [person] (with avec, de) ; to run sth through the computer passer qch dans l'ordinateur ; to run sth through a series of tests faire passer une série de tests à qch.
    run to:
    run to [sth] ( extend as far as) [book, report] faire [number of pages, words] ; her tastes don't run to modern jazz ses goûts ne vont pas jusqu'au jazz moderne ; his salary doesn't run to Caribbean cruises son salaire ne lui permet pas une croisière aux Caraïbes ; I don't think I can run to that je ne crois pas pouvoir me permettre cela.
    run up:
    run up [sth], run [sth] up
    1 ( accumulate) accumuler [bill, debt] ;
    2 ( make) fabriquer [dress, curtains] ;
    3 ( raise) hisser [flag].
    run up against [sth] se heurter à [obstacle, difficulty].

    Big English-French dictionary > run

  • 102 do

    Ⅰ.
    do1 [du:]
    (3rd person singular does [dʌz], pt did [dɪd], pp done [dʌn])
    ⓘ GRAM Les formes négatives sont don't/doesn't et didn't, qui deviennent do not/does not et did not à l'écrit, dans un style plus soutenu.
    do you know her? est-ce que tu la connais?, la connais-tu?;
    don't/didn't you know? vous ne le savez/saviez pas?;
    did I understand you correctly? vous ai-je bien compris?, est-ce que je vous ai bien compris?;
    why don't you tell her? pourquoi est-ce que tu ne (le) lui dis pas?, pourquoi ne (le) lui dis-tu pas?;
    do I know London! si je connais Londres?;
    boy, do I hate paperwork! nom d'un chien, qu'est-ce que je peux avoir horreur des paperasses!
    he takes you out a lot, doesn't he? il te sort souvent, n'est-ce pas ou hein?;
    he doesn't take you out very often, does he? il ne te sort pas souvent, n'est-ce pas ou hein?;
    so you want to be an actress, do you? alors tu veux devenir actrice?;
    you didn't sign it, did you? (in disbelief, horror) tu ne l'as pas signé, quand même?;
    you surely don't want any more, do you? tu ne veux quand même pas en reprendre, si?;
    look, we don't want any trouble, do we? (encouraging, threatening) écoute, nous ne voulons pas d'histoires, hein?
    I don't believe you je ne te crois pas;
    please don't tell her s'il te plaît, ne (le) lui dis pas;
    British don't let's go out ne sortons pas
    I DO believe you sincèrement, je vous crois;
    do you mind if I smoke? - yes I DO mind cela vous dérange-t-il que je fume? - justement, oui, ça me dérange;
    he DOES know where it is il sait bien où c'est;
    we DO like it here (refuting accusation) mais si, nous nous plaisons ici, bien sûr que nous nous plaisons ici; (like it very much) nous nous plaisons vraiment ici;
    I DID tell you (refuting someone's denial) mais si, je te l'ai dit, bien sûr que je te l'ai dit; (emphasizing earlier warning) je te l'avais bien dit;
    if you DO decide to buy it si tu décides finalement de l'acheter;
    let me know when you DO decide dis-moi quand tu auras décidé;
    DO sit down asseyez-vous donc;
    DO let us know how your mother is surtout dites-nous comment va votre mère;
    DO stop crying mais arrête de pleurer, enfin
    you know as much as/more than I do tu en sais autant que/plus que moi;
    so do I/does she moi/elle aussi;
    neither do I/does she moi/elle non plus;
    he didn't know and neither did I il ne savait pas et moi non plus;
    do you smoke? - I do/don't est-ce que vous fumez? - oui/non;
    may I sit down? - please do puis-je m'asseoir? - je vous en prie;
    I'll talk to her about it - please do/don't! je lui en parlerai - oh, oui/non s'il vous plaît!;
    don't, you'll make me blush! arrête, tu vas me faire rougir!;
    will you tell her? - I may do (le) lui diras-tu? - peut-être;
    I may come to Paris next month - let me know if you do il se peut que je vienne à Paris le mois prochain - préviens-moi si tu viens;
    you said eight o'clock - oh, so I did tu as dit huit heures - oh, c'est vrai;
    I liked her - you didn't! (surprised) elle m'a plu - non! vraiment?;
    I wear a toupee - you do? (astonished) je porte une perruque - vraiment? ou non! ou pas possible!;
    it belongs/it doesn't belong to me - does/doesn't it? cela m'appartient/ne m'appartient pas - vraiment?;
    yes you do - no I don't mais si - mais non;
    yes it does - no it doesn't mais si - mais non;
    you know her, I don't tu la connais, moi pas;
    you don't know her - I do! tu ne la connais pas - si (je la connais)!;
    not only did you lie… non seulement tu as menti…;
    little did I realize… j'étais bien loin de m'imaginer…
    (a) (be busy or occupied with) faire; (carry out → task, work) faire;
    what are you doing? qu'est-ce que tu fais?, que fais-tu?, qu'es-tu en train de faire?;
    are you doing anything next Saturday? est-ce que tu fais quelque chose samedi prochain?;
    what do you do for a living? qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?;
    what are these files doing here? qu'est-ce que ces dossiers font ici?;
    somebody DO something! que quelqu'un fasse quelque chose!;
    there's nothing more to be done il n'y a plus rien à faire;
    he does nothing but sleep, all he does is sleep il ne fait que dormir;
    you'll have to do it again il va falloir que tu le refasses;
    he did a good job il a fait du bon travail;
    what do I do to start the machine? comment est-ce que je fais pour mettre la machine en marche?;
    what do I have to do to make you understand? mais qu'est-ce que je dois faire pour que tu comprennes?;
    have I done the right thing? ai-je fait ce qu'il fallait?;
    what are you going to do about the noise? qu'est-ce que tu vas faire au sujet du bruit?;
    what can I do for you? que puis-je (faire) pour vous?;
    the doctors can't do anything more for him la médecine ne peut plus rien pour lui;
    that dress really does something/nothing for you cette robe te va vraiment très bien/ne te va vraiment pas du tout;
    the new wallpaper does a lot for the room le nouveau papier peint transforme la pièce;
    what do you do for entertainment? quelles sont vos distractions?, comment est-ce que vous vous distrayez?;
    what shall we do for water to wash in? où est-ce qu'on va trouver de l'eau pour se laver?;
    who did this to you? qui est-ce qui t'a fait ça?;
    what have you done to your hair? qu'est-ce que tu as fait à tes cheveux?;
    I hate what your job is doing to you je n'aime pas du tout l'effet que ton travail a sur toi;
    it does something to me ça me fait quelque chose;
    humorous don't do anything I wouldn't do ne fais pas de bêtises;
    that does it! cette fois c'en est trop!;
    that's done it, the battery's flat et voilà, la batterie est à plat
    (b) (produce, provide → copy, report) faire;
    I don't do portraits je ne fais pas les portraits;
    British the pub does a good lunch on sert un bon déjeuner dans ce pub;
    could you do me a quick translation of this? pourriez-vous me traduire ceci rapidement?;
    do you do day trips to France? (to travel agent) est-ce que vous avez des excursions d'une journée en France?
    (c) (work on, attend to) s'occuper de;
    he's doing your car now il est en train de s'occuper de votre voiture;
    can you do Mrs Baker first? (in hairdresser's) peux-tu t'occuper de Mme Baker d'abord?;
    to do the garden s'occuper du jardin;
    he's doing the garden il est en train de jardiner;
    they do you very well in this hotel on est très bien dans cet hôtel;
    this old car has done me well over the years cette voiture m'a bien servi au cours des années
    (d) (clean, tidy → room, cupboard) faire; (decorate → room) faire la décoration de; (arrange → flowers) arranger;
    to do one's teeth se brosser les dents
    to do medicine/law étudier la médecine/le droit, faire sa médecine/son droit;
    we're doing Tartuffe nous étudions Tartuffe
    (f) (solve → sums, crossword, equation) faire
    (g) Cars & Transport (speed, distance) faire;
    the car will do over 100 la voiture peut faire du 160;
    it does thirty-five miles to the gallon elle fait sept litres aux cents (kilomètres);
    we did the trip in under two hours nous avons fait le voyage en moins de deux heures
    (h) Cinema, Theatre & Television (produce → play, film) faire; (appear in) être dans; (play part of) faire; Music (perform) jouer
    (i) Cookery (cook) faire; (prepare → vegetables, salad) préparer;
    to do sth in the oven faire (cuire) qch au four;
    how would you like your steak done? comment voulez-vous votre steak?
    (j) familiar (spend time → working, in prison) faire ;
    she's doing three years for robbery elle fait trois ans pour vol
    will £10 do you? 10 livres, ça te suffira?;
    those shoes will have to do the children for another year les enfants devront encore faire un an avec ces chaussures
    well that's that done, thank goodness bon, voilà qui est fait, dieu merci;
    once I've done what I'm doing dès que j'aurai fini ce que je suis en train de faire;
    have you done eating/crying? tu as fini de manger/pleurer?;
    it will never be done in time ce ne sera jamais fini à temps;
    done! (in bargain) marché conclu!
    (m) (imitate) imiter, faire;
    he does you very well il t'imite très bien
    she was done for speeding elle s'est fait pincer pour excès de vitesse;
    we could do you for dangerous driving nous pourrions vous arrêter pour conduite dangereuse
    (o) familiar (rob, burgle → bank, shop) cambrioler, se faire
    (p) familiar (cheat) rouler, avoir;
    you've been done tu t'es fait rouler ou avoir
    to do London/the sights faire Londres/les monuments
    to do drugs se camer;
    let's do lunch il faudrait qu'on déjeune ensemble un de ces jours
    (s) British familiar (beat up) s'occuper de, en mettre une à;
    I'll do you! je vais m'occuper de toi, moi!
    (t) familiar (kill) zigouiller, buter
    (a) (perform → in exam, competition etc) s'en tirer, s'en sortir;
    you did very well tu t'en es très bien tiré ou sorti;
    his team didn't do well in the match son équipe ne s'en est pas très bien tirée pendant le match;
    the company's not doing too badly l'entreprise ne se débrouille pas trop mal;
    how are you doing in the new job/at school? comment te débrouilles-tu dans ton nouveau travail/à l'école?;
    try to do better in future essaie de mieux faire à l'avenir;
    how are we doing with the corrections? (checking progress) où en sommes-nous avec les corrections?;
    well done! bien joué!, bravo!
    how is she doing, doctor? comment va-t-elle, docteur?;
    he's not doing too well il ne va pas trop bien;
    mother and baby are both doing well la maman et le bébé se portent tous les deux à merveille;
    how is your eldest boy doing? comment va votre aîné?
    (c) (act, behave) faire;
    do as you please fais ce qui te plaît, fais ce que tu veux;
    do as you're told! fais ce qu'on te dit!;
    you would do well to listen to your mother tu ferais bien d'écouter ta mère;
    to do well by sb bien traiter qn;
    British to be/to feel hard done by être/se sentir lésé;
    British he'll feel very hard done by if you don't at least send him a birthday card il se sentira vraiment blessé si tu ne lui envoies même pas de carte d'anniversaire;
    proverb do as you would be done by = traite les autres comme tu voudrais être traité
    (d) (be enough) suffire;
    will £20 do? 20 livres, ça ira ou suffira?;
    that will do! (stop it) ça suffit comme ça!
    that will do (nicely) ça ira ou conviendra parfaitement, cela fera très bien l'affaire;
    this won't do ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça;
    it wouldn't do to be late ce ne serait pas bien d'arriver en retard;
    will that do? (as alternative) est-ce que ça ira?;
    will Sunday do instead? et dimanche, ça irait?
    (f) (always in continuous form) (happen) is there anything doing at the club tonight? est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose au club ce soir?;
    there's nothing doing here at weekends il n'y a rien à faire ici le week-end;
    familiar nothing doing (rejection, refusal) rien à faire
    (g) (always in perfect tense) (finish) have you done? tu as fini?
    it has to do with your missing car c'est au sujet de votre voiture volée;
    that's got nothing to do with it! (is irrelevant) cela n'a rien à voir!;
    I want nothing to do with it/you je ne veux rien avoir à faire là-dedans/avec toi;
    I had nothing at all to do with it je n'avais rien à voir là-dedans, je n'y étais pour rien;
    it's nothing to do with me je n'y suis pour rien;
    we don't have much to do with the people next door nous n'avons pas beaucoup de contacts avec les gens d'à côté;
    what I said to him has got nothing to do with you (it's none of your business) ce que je lui ai dit ne te regarde pas; (it's not about you) ce que je lui ai dit n'a rien à voir avec toi;
    that has a lot to do with it cela joue un rôle très important;
    he is or has something to do with printing il est dans l'imprimerie
    (i) British familiar (work as cleaner) faire le ménage ;
    to do for sb faire le ménage chez qn
    4 noun
    the do's and don'ts of car maintenance les choses à faire et à ne pas faire dans l'entretien des voitures
    (b) British familiar (party, celebration) fête f;
    he's having a do to celebrate his promotion il donne une fête pour célébrer sa promotion;
    leaving do pot m de départ
    dog do crotte f de chien
    (a) (abolish → institution, rule, restriction) abolir; (get rid of → object) se débarrasser de
    (b) (kill) se débarrasser de, faire disparaître;
    to do away with oneself mettre fin à ses jours
    (a) (criticize, disparage) rabaisser, médire sur, dire du mal de ;
    to do oneself down se rabaisser
    (b) (cheat) avoir, rouler
    (a) British (murder) zigouiller; (cause death of) tuer
    (b) (ruin → object, engine) bousiller; (cause failure of → plan) ruiner ; (→ company) couler ;
    I'm done for je suis cuit;
    the project is done for le projet est tombé à l'eau ou foutu;
    the industry is done for l'industrie est fichue
    (c) British (exhaust) tuer, crever;
    shopping always does for me je suis toujours crevé après les courses;
    I'm done for je suis mort ou crevé;
    it was that last hill that did for me c'est la dernière colline qui m'a épuisé
    (d) British familiar (do housework for) faire le ménage chez ;
    who does for you? qui fait votre ménage?
    (a) (murder, kill) zigouiller, buter, butter
    (b) (exhaust) tuer, crever;
    I'm completely done in je suis complètement crevé
    to do one's back/one's knee in se bousiller le dos/le genou;
    you'll do your lungs in tu vas te bousiller les poumons
    British familiar (clean thoroughly) nettoyer à fond ; (decorate) refaire
    to do sb out of sth soutirer ou carotter qch à qn; (money) refaire ou escroquer qn de qch;
    to do sb out of a job (of person) faire perdre son travail à qn ;
    all this automation is doing people out of jobs toute cette automatisation supprime des emplois ;
    the new structure did him out of his job la nouvelle structure lui a fait perdre son travail;
    she's been done out of her share of the money elle s'est fait escroquer de sa part de l'argent
    (a) (room) refaire;
    the whole house needs doing over toute la maison a besoin d'être refaite
    (c) British familiar (beat up) casser la gueule ou la tête à
    (d) British familiar (rob → person) dépouiller; (→ house, bank etc) cambrioler
    do up
    (a) (fasten → dress, jacket) fermer; (→ zip) fermer, remonter; (→ buttons) boutonner; (→ shoelaces) attacher;
    do me up will you? tu peux fermer ma robe?
    (b) (wrap, bundle up) emballer;
    envelopes done up in bundles of 20 des enveloppes en paquets de 20;
    a parcel done up in brown paper un paquet emballé dans du papier kraft
    (c) familiar (renovate → house, cottage etc) refaire, retaper; (old dress, hat) arranger;
    the house needs a bit of doing up la maison a besoin d'être un peu refaite ou retapée;
    to do oneself up (make more glamorous) se faire beau/belle;
    I didn't recognize you all done up like that je ne t'ai pas reconnu tout beau comme ça;
    to be done up to the nines être sur son trente et un
    (skirt, dress) se fermer; (zip) se fermer, se remonter; (buttons) se fermer, se boutonner;
    it does up at the side cela se ferme sur le côté
    (a) British familiar (after "could") (need, want) avoir besoin de ;
    I could have done with some help j'aurais eu bien besoin d'aide;
    I could do with a drink je prendrais bien un verre, j'ai bien envie de prendre un verre
    (b) British familiar (after "can't") (tolerate) supporter ;
    I can't do or be doing with all this noise je ne supporte pas ce vacarme;
    he couldn't be doing with living in London il ne pouvait pas supporter de vivre à Londres
    (c) (after "what") (act with regard to) faire de;
    she didn't know what to do with herself (to keep busy) elle ne savait que faire ou à quoi s'occuper; (for joy) elle ne se tenait pas de joie; (for awkwardness) elle était gênée, elle ne savait plus où se mettre;
    what are we going to do with your father for two whole weeks! qu'allons-nous faire de ton père pendant deux semaines entières?;
    what do you want me to do with this? que veux-tu que je fasse de ça?;
    what have you done with the hammer? qu'as-tu fait du marteau?
    (d) (with past participle) (finish with) finir avec;
    I'm done with men for ever j'en ai fini pour toujours avec les hommes;
    I haven't done with him yet! (haven't finished scolding him) je n'en ai pas encore fini avec lui!;
    I'm done with trying to be nice to her je n'essaierai plus jamais d'être gentil avec elle;
    can I borrow the ashtray if you've done with it? puis-je emprunter le cendrier si tu n'en as plus besoin?
    faire sans;
    he'll have to do without il devra s'en passer ou faire sans
    se passer de;
    I could have done without this long wait j'aurais bien pu me passer de cette longue attente;
    we can do without the sarcasm on n'a pas besoin de ces sarcasmes
    Ⅱ.
    do2 [dəʊ]
    Music (fixed) do m inv, ut m inv;
    Scottish familiar to be up to high do être dans tous ses états

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  • 103 Bell, Henry

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 1767 Torphichen Mill, near Linlithgow, Scotland
    d. 1830 Helensburgh, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish projector of the first steamboat service in Europe.
    [br]
    The son of Patrick Bell, a millwright, Henry had two sisters and an elder brother and was educated at the village school. When he was 9 years old Henry was sent to lodge in Falkirk with an uncle and aunt of his mother's so that he could attend the school there. At the age of 12 he left school and agreed to become a mason with a relative. In 1783, after only three years, he was bound apprentice to his Uncle Henry, a millwright at Jay Mill. He stayed there for a further three years and then, in 1786, joined the firm of Shaw \& Hart, shipbuilders of Borrowstoneness. These were to be the builders of William Symington's hull for the Charlotte Dundas. He also spent twelve months with Mr James Inglis, an engineer of Bellshill, Lanarkshire, and then went to London to gain experience, working for the famous John Rennie for some eighteen months. By 1790 he was back in Glasgow, and a year later he took a partner, James Paterson, into his new business of builder and contractor, based in the Trongate. He later referred to himself as "architect", and his partnership with Paterson lasted seven years. He is said to have invented a discharging machine for calico printing, as well as a steam dredger for clearing the River Clyde.
    The Baths Hotel was opened in Helensburgh in 1808, with the hotel-keeper, who was also the first provost of the town, being none other than Henry Bell. It has been suggested that Bell was also the builder of the hotel and this seems very likely. Bell installed a steam engine for pumping sea water out of the Clyde and into the baths, and at first ran a coach service to bring customers from Glasgow three days a week. The driver was his brother Tom. The coach was replaced by the Comet steamboat in 1812.
    While Henry was busy with his provost's duties and making arrangements for the building of his steamboat, his wife Margaret, née Young, whom he married in March 1794, occupied herself with the management of the Baths Hotel. Bell did not himself manufacture, but supervised the work of experts: John and Charles Wood of Port Glasgow, builders of the 43ft 6 in. (13.25 m)-long hull of the Comet; David Napier of Howard Street Foundry for the boiler and other castings; and John Robertson of Dempster Street, who had previously supplied a small engine for pumping water to the baths at the hotel in Helensburgh, for the 3 hp engine. The first trials of the finished ship were held on 24 July 1812, when she was launched from Wood's yard. A regular service was advertised in the Glasgow Chronicle on 5 August and was the first in Europe, preceded only by that of Robert Fulton in the USA. The Comet continued to run until 1820, when it was wrecked.
    Bell received little reward for his promotion of steam navigation, merely small pensions from the Clyde trustees and others. He was buried at the parish church of Rhu.
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    Further Reading
    Edward Morris, 1844, Life of Henry Bell.
    Henry Bell, 1813, Applying Steam Engines to Vessels.
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  • 104 Bewick, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. August 1753 Cherryburn House, Ovingham, Northumberland, England
    d. 8 November 1828 Gateshead, England
    [br]
    English perfecter of wood-engraving.
    [br]
    The son of a farmer, Bewick was educated locally, but his progress was unremarkable save for demonstrating an intense love of nature and of drawing. In 1767 he was apprenticed to Ralph Beilby, an engraver in Newcastle. Wood-engraving at that time was at a low ebb, restricted largely to crude decorative devices, and Hogarth, commenting on a recent book on the art, doubted whether it would ever recover. Beilby's business was of a miscellaneous character, but Bewick's interest in wood-engraving was noticed and encouraged: Beilby submitted several of his engravings to the Royal Society of Arts, which awarded a premium of £80 for them. His apprenticeship ended in 1774 and he went to London, where he readily found employment with several printers. The call of the north was too strong, however, and two years later he returned to Newcastle, entering into partnership with Beilby. With the publication of Select Fables in 1784, Bewick really showed both his expertise in the art of wood-engraving as a medium for book illustration and his talents as an artist. His engravings for the History of British Birds mark the high point of his achievement. The second volume of this work appeared in 1804, the year in which his partnership with Beilby was dissolved.
    The essential feature of Bewick's wood-engravings involved cutting across the grain of the wood instead of along it, as in the old woodcut technique. The wood surface thus obtained offered a much more sensitive medium for engraving than before. It paved the way for the flowering of engraving on wood, and then on steel, for the production of illustrated material for an ever wider public through the Victorian age.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1864, Memoir of Thomas Bewick (autobiography, completed by his daughter). 1784, Select Fables.
    Further Reading
    M.Weekley, 1963, Thomas Bewick, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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  • 105 Carbutt, John

    [br]
    b. 1832 Sheffield, England
    d. 1905 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    [br]
    Anglo-American photographer and photographic manufacturer.
    [br]
    Carbutt emigrated in 1853 from England to the United States, where he remained for the rest of his life. He began working as a photographer in Chicago, where he soon earned a considerable reputation and became the official photographer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1870 he purchased the American rights of Woodbury's photomechanical printing process and established a business to produce Woodburytypes in Philadelphia. In 1879 Carbutt set up the first successful gelatine halide dry-plate factory in America. A year later he was elected first President of the Photographers' Association of America. He began experimenting with flexible film supports in 1884 and was the first to produce satisfactory flat films on celluloid commercially. The first kinetoscope film strips used by Thomas Edison were supplied by Carbutt. Carbutt's celluloid films were exported to Europe, where nothing comparable was available at the time. He was also a pioneer manufacturer of orthochromatic plates, X-ray plates and photographic colour filters.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1905, Journal of the Franklin Institute: 461–3. L.W.Shipley, 1965, Photography's Great Inventors, Philadelphia.
    G.Hendricks, 1961, The Edison Motion Picture Myth (makes reference to aspects of Carbutt's work on celluloid).
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  • 106 Davenport, Thomas

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 9 July 1802 Williamstown, Vermont, USA
    d. 6 July 1851 Salisbury, Vermont, USA
    [br]
    American craftsman and inventor who constructed the first rotating electrical machines in the United States.
    [br]
    When he was 14 years old Davenport was apprenticed to a blacksmith for seven years. At the close of his apprenticeship in 1823 he opened a blacksmith's shop in Brandon, Vermont. He began experimenting with electromagnets after observing one in use at the Penfield Iron Works at Crown Point, New York, in 1831. He saw the device as a possible source of power and by July 1834 had constructed his first electric motor. Having totally abandoned his regular business, Davenport built and exhibited a number of miniature machines; he utilized an electric motor to propel a model car around a circular track in 1836, and this became the first recorded instance of an electric railway. An application for a patent and a model were destroyed in a fire at the United States Patent Office in December 1836, but a second application was made and Davenport received a patent the following year for Improvements in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electromagnetism. A British patent was also obtained. A workshop and laboratory were established in New York, but Davenport had little financial backing for his experiments. He built a total of over one hundred motors but was defeated by the inability to obtain an inexpensive source of power. Using an electric motor of his own design to operate a printing press in 1840, he undertook the publication of a journal, The Electromagnet and Mechanics' Intelligencer. This was the first American periodical on electricity, but it was discontinued after a few issues. In failing health he retired to Vermont where in the last year of his life he continued experiments in electromagnetism.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1837, US patent no. 132, "Improvements in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electromagnetism".
    6 June 1837 British patent no. 7,386.
    Further Reading
    F.L.Pope, 1891, "Inventors of the electric motor with special reference to the work of Thomas Davenport", Electrical Engineer, 11:1–5, 33–9, 65–71, 93–8, 125–30 (the most comprehensive account).
    Annals of Electricity (1838) 2:257–64 (provides a description of Davenport's motor).
    W.J.King, 1962, The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Paper 28, pp. 263–4 (a short account).
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  • 107 Eastman, George

    [br]
    b. 12 July 1854 Waterville, New York, USA
    d. 14 March 1932 Rochester, New York, USA
    [br]
    American industrialist and pioneer of popular photography.
    [br]
    The young Eastman was a clerk-bookkeeper in the Rochester Savings Bank when in 1877 he took up photography. Taking lessons in the wet-plate process, he became an enthusiastic amateur photographer. However, the cumbersome equipment and noxious chemicals used in the process proved an obstacle, as he said, "It seemed to be that one ought to be able to carry less than a pack-horse load." Then he came across an account of the new gelatine dry-plate process in the British Journal of Photography of March 1878. He experimented in coating glass plates with the new emulsions, and was soon so successful that he decided to go into commercial manufacture. He devised a machine to simplify the coating of the plates, and travelled to England in July 1879 to patent it. In April 1880 he prepared to begin manufacture in a rented building in Rochester, and contacted the leading American photographic supply house, E. \& H.T.Anthony, offering them an option as agents. A local whip manufacturer, Henry A.Strong, invested $1,000 in the enterprise and the Eastman Dry Plate Company was formed on 1 January 1881. Still working at the Savings Bank, he ran the business in his spare time, and demand grew for the quality product he was producing. The fledgling company survived a near disaster in 1882 when the quality of the emulsions dropped alarmingly. Eastman later discovered this was due to impurities in the gelatine used, and this led him to test all raw materials rigorously for quality. In 1884 the company became a corporation, the Eastman Dry Plate \& Film Company, and a new product was announced. Mindful of his desire to simplify photography, Eastman, with a camera maker, William H.Walker, designed a roll-holder in which the heavy glass plates were replaced by a roll of emulsion-coated paper. The holders were made in sizes suitable for most plate cameras. Eastman designed and patented a coating machine for the large-scale production of the paper film, bringing costs down dramatically, the roll-holders were acclaimed by photographers worldwide, and prizes and medals were awarded, but Eastman was still not satisfied. The next step was to incorporate the roll-holder in a smaller, hand-held camera. His first successful design was launched in June 1888: the Kodak camera. A small box camera, it held enough paper film for 100 circular exposures, and was bought ready-loaded. After the film had been exposed, the camera was returned to Eastman's factory, where the film was removed, processed and printed, and the camera reloaded. This developing and printing service was the most revolutionary part of his invention, since at that time photographers were expected to process their own photographs, which required access to a darkroom and appropriate chemicals. The Kodak camera put photography into the hands of the countless thousands who wanted photographs without complications. Eastman's marketing slogan neatly summed up the advantage: "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest." The Kodak camera was the last product in the design of which Eastman was personally involved. His company was growing rapidly, and he recruited the most talented scientists and technicians available. New products emerged regularly—notably the first commercially produced celluloid roll film for the Kodak cameras in July 1889; this material made possible the introduction of cinematography a few years later. Eastman's philosophy of simplifying photography and reducing its costs continued to influence products: for example, the introduction of the one dollar, or five shilling, Brownie camera in 1900, which put photography in the hands of almost everyone. Over the years the Eastman Kodak Company, as it now was, grew into a giant multinational corporation with manufacturing and marketing organizations throughout the world. Eastman continued to guide the company; he pursued an enlightened policy of employee welfare and profit sharing decades before this was common in industry. He made massive donations to many concerns, notably the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and supported schemes for the education of black people, dental welfare, calendar reform, music and many other causes, he withdrew from the day-to-day control of the company in 1925, and at last had time for recreation. On 14 March 1932, suffering from a painful terminal cancer and after tidying up his affairs, he shot himself through the heart, leaving a note: "To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?" Although Eastman's technical innovations were made mostly at the beginning of his career, the organization which he founded and guided in its formative years was responsible for many of the major advances in photography over the years.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    C.Ackerman, 1929, George Eastman, Cambridge, Mass.
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  • 108 Ged, William

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1690 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 19 October 1749 Edinburgh, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor of stereotyping.
    [br]
    While in business as a goldsmith and jeweller, he came across the earliest known attempt to make stereotypes, that by Van der Meys of Leiden in the sixteenth century. He soldered types to the bases of a bed of type, but the process proved too expensive to be adopted. Ged took out a patent of privilege in 1725 to develop Mey's method, agreeing with a printer that if they could make casts of made-up pages of type they "would make a fortune". After many experiments to find a suitable metal, he arrived at an alloy similar to type metal. However, Ged's efforts to promote his stereotypes were blocked by the indifference of the printers and the opposition of the compositors. He tried his luck in London but failed again for much the same reason as in Edinburgh. Thither he returned, but he died in poverty.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Nichols, 1781, Biographical Memoir of William Ged (the 1819 edition includes "Supplementary narrative of William Ged and his inventions, written by his daughter").
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  • 109 Holtzapffel, Charles

    [br]
    b. 1806 London, England
    d. 11 April 1847 London, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer and author of Turning and Mechanical Manipulation.
    [br]
    Charles Holtzapffel was the son of John Holtzapffel, a native of Germany who settled in London c.1787 and set up as a manufacturer of lathes and tools for amateur mechanics. Charles Holtzapffel received a good English education and training in his father's workshop, and subsequently became a partner and ultimately succeeded to the business. He was engaged in the construction of machinery for printing banknotes, of lathes for cutting rosettes and for ornamental and plain turning. Holtzapffel is chiefly remembered for his monumental work entitled Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, intended as a work of general reference and practical instruction on the lathe. Publication began in 1843 and only the first two volumes were published in his lifetime. A third volume was edited by his widow from his notes and published shortly after his death. The fourth and fifth volumes were completed by his son, John Jacob Holtzapffel, more than thirty years later. Holtzapffel was an Associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers and served on its Council: he was also a member of the Society of Arts and Chairman of its Committee on Mechanics.
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  • 110 Lumière, Auguste

    [br]
    b. 19 October 1862 Besançon, France
    d. 10 April 1954 Lyon, France
    [br]
    French scientist and inventor.
    [br]
    Auguste and his brother Louis Lumière (b. 5 October 1864 Besançon, France; d. 6 June 1948 Bandol, France) developed the photographic plate-making business founded by their father, Charles Antoine Lumière, at Lyons, extending production to roll-film manufacture in 1887. In the summer of 1894 their father brought to the factory a piece of Edison kinetoscope film, and said that they should produce films for the French owners of the new moving-picture machine. To do this, of course, a camera was needed; Louis was chiefly responsible for the design, which used an intermittent claw for driving the film, inspired by a sewing-machine mechanism. The machine was patented on 13 February 1895, and it was shown on 22 March 1895 at the Société d'Encouragement pour l'In-dustrie Nationale in Paris, with a projected film showing workers leaving the Lyons factory. Further demonstrations followed at the Sorbonne, and in Lyons during the Congrès des Sociétés de Photographie in June 1895. The Lumières filmed the delegates returning from an excursion, and showed the film to the Congrès the next day. To bring the Cinématographe, as it was called, to the public, the basement of the Grand Café in the Boulevard des Capuchines in Paris was rented, and on Saturday 28 December 1895 the first regular presentations of projected pictures to a paying public took place. The half-hour shows were an immediate success, and in a few months Lumière Cinématographes were seen throughout the world.
    The other principal area of achievement by the Lumière brothers was colour photography. They took up Lippman's method of interference colour photography, developing special grainless emulsions, and early in 1893 demonstrated their results by lighting them with an arc lamp and projecting them on to a screen. In 1895 they patented a method of subtractive colour photography involving printing the colour separations on bichromated gelatine glue sheets, which were then dyed and assembled in register, on paper for prints or bound between glass for transparencies. Their most successful colour process was based upon the colour-mosaic principle. In 1904 they described a process in which microscopic grains of potato starch, dyed red, green and blue, were scattered on a freshly varnished glass plate. When dried the mosaic was coated with varnish and then with a panchromatic emulsion. The plate was exposed with the mosaic towards the lens, and after reversal processing a colour transparency was produced. The process was launched commercially in 1907 under the name Autochrome; it was the first fully practical single-plate colour process to reach the public, remaining on the market until the 1930s, when it was followed by a film version using the same principle.
    Auguste and Louis received the Progress Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in 1909 for their work in colour photography. Auguste was also much involved in biological science and, having founded the Clinique Auguste Lumière, spent many of his later years working in the physiological laboratory.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Guy Borgé, 1980, Prestige de la photographie, Nos. 8, 9 and 10, Paris. Brian Coe, 1978, Colour Photography: The First Hundred Years, London ——1981, The History of Movie Photography, London.
    Jacques Deslandes, 1966, Histoire comparée du cinéma, Vol. I, Paris. Gert Koshofer, 1981, Farbfotografie, Vol. I, Munich.
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  • 111 Morse, Samuel Finley Breeze

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 27 April 1791 Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 2 April 1872 New York City, New York, USA
    [br]
    American portrait painter and inventor, b est known for his invention of the telegraph and so-called Morse code.
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    Following early education at Phillips Academy, Andover, at the age of 14 years Morse went to Yale College, where he developed interests in painting and electricity. Upon graduating in 1810 he became a clerk to a Washington publisher and a pupil of Washington Allston, a well-known American painter. The following year he travelled to Europe and entered the London studio of another American artist, Benjamin West, successfully exhibiting at the Royal Academy as well as winning a prize and medal for his sculpture. Returning to Boston and finding little success as a "historical-style" painter, he built up a thriving portrait business, moving in 1818 to Charleston, South Carolina, where three years later he established the (now defunct) South Carolina Academy of Fine Arts. In 1825 he was back in New York, but following the death of his wife and both of his parents that year, he embarked on an extended tour of European art galleries. In 1832, on the boat back to America, he met Charles T.Jackson, who told him of the discovery of the electromagnet and fired his interest in telegraphy to the extent that Morse immediately began to make suggestions for electrical communications and, apparently, devised a form of printing telegraph. Although he returned to his painting and in 1835 was appointed the first Professor of the Literature of Art and Design at the University of New York City, he began to spend more and more time experimenting in telegraphy. In 1836 he invented a relay as a means of extending the cable distance over which telegraph signals could be sent. At this time he became acquainted with Alfred Vail, and the following year, when the US government published the requirements for a national telegraph service, they set out to produce a workable system, with finance provided by Vail's father (who, usefully, owned an ironworks). A patent was filed on 6 October 1837 and a successful demonstration using the so-called Morse code was given on 6 January 1838; the work was, in fact, almost certainly largely that of Vail. As a result of the demonstration a Bill was put forward to Congress for $30,000 for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore. This was eventually passed and the line was completed, and on 24 May 1844 the first message, "What hath God wrought", was sent between the two cities. In the meantime Morse also worked on the insulation of submarine cables by means of pitch tar and indiarubber.
    With success achieved, Morse offered his invention to the Government for $100,000, but this was declined, so the invention remained in private hands. To exploit it, Morse founded the Magnetic Telephone Company in 1845, amalgamating the following year with the telegraph company of a Henry O'Reilly to form Western Union. Having failed to obtain patents in Europe, he now found himself in litigation with others in the USA, but eventually, in 1854, the US Supreme Court decided in his favour and he soon became very wealthy. In 1857 a proposal was made for a telegraph service across the whole of the USA; this was completed in just over four months in 1861. Four years later work began on a link to Europe via Canada, Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Russia, but it was abandoned with the completion of the transatlantic cable, a venture in which he also had some involvement. Showered with honours, Morse became a generous philanthropist in his later years. By 1883 the company he had created was worth $80 million and had a virtual monopoly in the USA.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    LLD, Yale 1846. Fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences 1849. Celebratory Banquet, New York, 1869. Statue in New York Central Park 1871. Austrian Gold Medal of Scientific Merit. Danish Knight of the Danneborg. French Légion d'honneur. Italian Knight of St Lazaro and Mauritio. Portuguese Knight of the Tower and Sword. Turkish Order of Glory.
    Bibliography
    E.L.Morse (ed.), 1975, Letters and Journals, New York: Da Capo Press (facsimile of a 1914 edition).
    Further Reading
    J.Munro, 1891, Heroes of the Telegraph (discusses his telegraphic work and its context).
    C.Mabee, 1943, The American Leonardo: A Life of Samuel Morse; reprinted 1969 (a detailed biography).
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  • 112 fee

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landing fee плата за посадку самолета licence fee лицензионный сбор licence fee плата за лицензию license fee вчт. плата за разрешение listing fee плата за допуск ценных бумаг на биржу loan application fee плата за заявку на получение ссуды loan commitment fee комиссионные за обязательство по ссуде loan transaction fee плата за кредитную сделку loan transaction fee сбор за кредитную сделку management fee гонорар за управленческие услуги membership fee плата за членство membership fee членский взнос membership: fee attr. членский; membership card членский билет; membership fee членский взнос moorage fee плата за стоянку судна no fee is charged плата не взимается nonparticipation fee комиссионные за неучастие nonrecurring fee единовременное вознаграждение one-time fee вчт. одновременная плата origination fee комиссия банку за организацию кредита overdraft fee комиссионный сбор за предоставление кредита по текущему счету parking fee плата за стоянку participation fee плата за участие patent fee патентная пошлина pilot's fee плата проводнику plaint fee исковой сбор printing fee публикационная пошлина private fee личный гонорар probate fee гонорар за оформление завещания processing fee плата за оформление документов professional fee вознаграждение за профессиональную деятельность prolongation fee сбор за продление срока prospecting fee плата за исследовательскую работу protest fee комиссионный платеж за оформление протеста векселя registration fee регистрационная пошлина registration fee регистрационный сбор regulatory fee сбор за осуществление распорядительных функций renewal fee пат. возобновительная пошлина retaining fee предварительный гонорар адвокату retainer: retainer = retaining fee safe-custody fee плата за ответственное хранение safekeeping fee плата за ответственное хранение scale fee гонорар по тарифной ставке sealing fee пошлина за выдачу патента sealing fee пошлина за скрепление патента печатью security fee комиссионный сбор за операции с ценными бумагами selling fee комиссионное вознаграждение за продажу selling fee комиссионное вознаграждение за размещение новых ценных бумаг service fee плата за обслуживание service fee плата за услуги stevedoring fee стивидорные расходы stowage fee плата за укладку или хранение на складе subscription fee плата за подписку supplementary fee дополнительное вознаграждение transfer fee плата за перевоз грузов tuition fee плата за обучение underwriting fee вознаграждение, которое гарант получает за покрытие риска по новому займу underwriting fee гарантийная комиссия user fee плата за использование user fees взнос пользователя; взнос пациента (когда система социального обеспечения возмещает только часть расходов) witness fee плата за услуги свидетелю

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  • 113 licence

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    building licence лицензия на строительство business licence лицензия на ведение дела compulsory licence обязательная лицензия compulsory licence пат. принудительная лицензия construction licence лицензия на строительство contractual licence договорная лицензия driver's licence водительские права licence разрешение, лицензия; патент; driving licence водительские права, разрешение на право вождения автомашины driving licence водительские права exchange licence лицензия на операции с иностранной валютой exclusive licence исключительное право exclusive licence эксклюзивная лицензия export licence лицензия на экспорт export licence разрешение на вывоз export licence экспортная лицензия game licence охотничья лицензия general licence генеральная лицензия grant a licence выдавать лицензию hunting licence разрешение на охоту import licence импортная лицензия import licence лицензия на импорт licence лицензия licence отклонение от правила, нормы (в искусстве, литературе); poetic licence поэтическая вольность licence официальное разрешение licence патент licence разрешение, лицензия, патент licence разрешение, лицензия; патент; driving licence водительские права, разрешение на право вождения автомашины licence удостоверение license: license n = licence licence plate номерной знак на автомашине licence to dump dredge material разрешение на отвал грунта выемки licence to sell spirits лицензия на продажу спиртных напитков liquor licence лицензия на торговлю спиртными напитками manufacturing under licence выпуск продукции по лицензии manufacturing under licence изготовление продукции по лицензии marriage licence разрешение на вступление в брак marriage: licence attr. брачный; marriage licence разрешение на брак; marriage bonds брачные узы; marriage lines свидетельство о браке municipal building licence лицензия на городское строительство operating licence водительские права operating licence права на управление автомобилем patent licence патентная лицензия pilot's licence лицензия пилота licence отклонение от правила, нормы (в искусстве, литературе); poetic licence поэтическая вольность printing licence лицензия на печатание production licence лицензия на выпуск продукции production licence лицензия на разработку месторождения production under licence производство по лицензии radio licence лицензия на радиовещание radio licence разрешение на ведение радиопередач regional licence региональная лицензия selling licence лицензия на продажу sole licence исключительная лицензия special licence специальная лицензия television licence лицензия на телевизионное вещание trade licence промысловое свидетельство trade licence разрешение на торговлю trade licence торговая лицензия traffic licence лицензия на право перевозок wireless licence лицензия на радиовещание

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