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  • 1 prever

    v.
    1 to foresee, to anticipate.
    una reacción que los médicos no habían previsto a reaction the doctors hadn't foreseen
    se prevé una fuerte oposición popular a la ley strong popular opposition to the law is anticipated o expected
    Ella previó el desastre She foresaw the disaster.
    2 to plan.
    prevén vender un millón de unidades they plan to sell a million units
    tenía previsto ir al cine esta tarde I was planning to go to the cinema this evening
    3 to forecast, to predict (predecir) (catástrofe, acontecimiento).
    4 to prepare for, to plan ahead, to make provisions for, to make provision for.
    Ellos previeron la tormenta They prepared for the storm.
    Ellos previeron They planned ahead.
    5 to bargain for, to bargain on.
    Ellos previeron un mejor precio They bargained for a better price.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ VER], like link=ver ver (pp previsto,-a)
    1 (anticipar) to foresee, forecast
    2 (preparar) to plan
    * * *
    verb
    anticipate, envisage, foresee
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=adivinar) to foresee; (=predecir) to predict, forecast

    prever que... — to anticipate that..., expect that...

    2) (=proyectar) to plan

    la elección está prevista para... — the election is scheduled o planned for...

    3) (=establecer) to provide for, establish

    la ley prevé que... — the law provides o stipulates that...

    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( anticipar) <acontecimiento/consecuencias> to foresee, anticipate; < tiempo> to forecast
    b) (proyectar, planear)

    tiene prevista su llegada a las 11 horas — it is due o scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock

    c) ley to envisage
    2.
    prever vi
    * * *
    = anticipate, envisage, envision, foresee, make + provision for, look + ahead, predict, contemplate, slate (for).
    Ex. The information that most modern indexes must organise concerns much more complex subjects than Cutter could have anticipated.
    Ex. It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex. Let me further specify the requirements of the catalog envisioned by the Paris Principles.
    Ex. Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.
    Ex. We must of course make provision for those users who look for information under one of the other terms, and this is discussed below in the section on showing semantic relationships.
    Ex. The author gives a brief description of the library and information scene in 1974 and looks ahead to what it will be like in 2014.
    Ex. Further, it is necessary to predict in avance the areas in which new subjects are likely to arise and to leave gaps accordingly; this forecasting is obviously difficult.
    Ex. These details are primarily useful as a record of expenditure or to organisations or individuals contemplating the purchase of a work.
    Ex. The next IFLA Conference is slated for August 14-28, 1995, in Istanbul, Turkey.
    ----
    * prever una necesidad = project + need.
    * previendo = in anticipation of.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( anticipar) <acontecimiento/consecuencias> to foresee, anticipate; < tiempo> to forecast
    b) (proyectar, planear)

    tiene prevista su llegada a las 11 horas — it is due o scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock

    c) ley to envisage
    2.
    prever vi
    * * *
    = anticipate, envisage, envision, foresee, make + provision for, look + ahead, predict, contemplate, slate (for).

    Ex: The information that most modern indexes must organise concerns much more complex subjects than Cutter could have anticipated.

    Ex: It is fairly common to have to modify a standard list, or compile a fresh list when a new application is envisaged.
    Ex: Let me further specify the requirements of the catalog envisioned by the Paris Principles.
    Ex: Developments in this area are proceeding at such a pace it is impossible to foresee total needs for next year let alone for the life of the building.
    Ex: We must of course make provision for those users who look for information under one of the other terms, and this is discussed below in the section on showing semantic relationships.
    Ex: The author gives a brief description of the library and information scene in 1974 and looks ahead to what it will be like in 2014.
    Ex: Further, it is necessary to predict in avance the areas in which new subjects are likely to arise and to leave gaps accordingly; this forecasting is obviously difficult.
    Ex: These details are primarily useful as a record of expenditure or to organisations or individuals contemplating the purchase of a work.
    Ex: The next IFLA Conference is slated for August 14-28, 1995, in Istanbul, Turkey.
    * prever una necesidad = project + need.
    * previendo = in anticipation of.

    * * *
    prever [ E29 ]
    vt
    1 (anticipar) ‹acontecimiento/consecuencias› to foresee, anticipate; ‹tiempo› to forecast
    lo siento, pero no podía prever lo que iba a suceder I'm sorry, but I couldn't foresee o anticipate what was going to happen
    no habían previsto los posibles fallos de la maquinaria they had not foreseen the possibility of machine failure
    se prevé un aumento de los precios del petróleo an increase in the price of oil is predicted o forecast
    todo hace prever su victoria en las próximas elecciones everything points to her victory in the coming elections
    2
    (proyectar, planear): las medidas previstas por el gobierno the measures planned by the government
    la terminación del puente está prevista para finales de año the bridge is due to be completed by the end of the year
    tiene prevista su llegada a las 11 horas its expected time of arrival is 11 o'clock, it is due o scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock
    todo salió tal como estaba previsto everything turned out just as planned
    el presidente decidió continuar con el programa previsto the president decided to continue with the program as planned
    tenía previsto comenzar su gira el próximo martes he had planned to start his tour next Tuesday
    que su madre viniera no estaba previsto en el programa ( hum); her mother coming along wasn't part of the plan ( colloq)
    3 «ley» to envisage
    ■ prever
    vi
    to expect
    como era de prever as was to be expected
    * * *

     

    prever ( conjugate prever) verbo transitivo
    a) ( anticipar) ‹acontecimiento/consecuencias› to foresee, anticipate;

    ‹ tiempo› to forecast;

    b) (proyectar, planear):


    tiene prevista su llegada a las 11 horas it is due o scheduled to arrive at 11 o'clock;
    todo salió tal como estaba previsto everything turned out just as planned

    verbo intransitivo:

    prever verbo transitivo
    1 (anticipar) to foresee, predict: no previó las consecuencias, she didn't foresee the consequences
    2 (disponer) to plan, prepare: la salida está prevista para las 9 horas, departure is due at 9 a.m.

    ' prever' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    contar
    - esperar
    English:
    anticipate
    - envisage
    - envision
    - forecast
    - foresee
    - outguess
    - think ahead
    - visualize
    - contingency
    - foregone
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [predecir] to forecast, to predict;
    él había previsto el terremoto he had forecast o predicted the earthquake
    2. [planear] to plan;
    prevén vender un millón de unidades del nuevo modelo they plan to sell a million units of the new model;
    tenía previsto ir al cine esta tarde I was planning to go to the cinema this evening;
    tenía previsto llamarte en cuanto supiera la noticia I was intending to phone you as soon as I heard the news
    3. [anticipar] to foresee, to anticipate;
    era una reacción que los médicos no habían previsto it was a reaction the doctors hadn't foreseen;
    se prevé una fuerte oposición popular a la ley strong popular opposition to the law is anticipated o expected;
    no se prevén grandes atascos en las carreteras no major holdups on the roads are anticipated;
    todo hace prever que nevará este fin de semana all the signs are that it will snow this weekend
    ♦ vi
    como era de prever as was to be expected
    * * *
    <part previsto> v/t foresee
    * * *
    prever {88} vt
    anticipar: to foresee, to anticipate
    * * *
    prever vb to foresee [pt. foresaw; pp. foreseen]

    Spanish-English dictionary > prever

  • 2 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

    [br]
    b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, England
    d. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England
    [br]
    English civil and mechanical engineer.
    [br]
    The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.
    From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).
    Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).
    The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.
    Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.
    As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.
    The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).
    The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

  • 3 Ellet, Charles

    SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering
    [br]
    b. 1 January 1810 Penn's Manor, Pennsylvania, USA
    d. 21 June 1862 Cairo, Illinois, USA
    [br]
    American engineer who built the world's first long-span wire-cable bridge.
    [br]
    Ellet worked for three years as a surveyor and assistant engineer and then studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He travelled widely in Europe and returned to the USA in 1832. In 1842 he completed the first wire suspension bridge in the USA at Fairmont, Pennsylvania, and in 1846–9 redesigned and built the world's first long-span wire-cable bridge over the Ohio River at Wheeling. It had a central span of 308 m (1,010 ft). It failed in 1854 due to aerodynamic instability. He invented naval rams and in the American Civil War he equipped nine Mississippi river boats as rams; they defeated a fleet of Confederate rams. He died in battle.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    The Macmillan Dictionary of Biography, 1981.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Ellet, Charles

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