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62 float
I [fləʊt]1) pesc. galleggiante m., sughero m.2) aer. galleggiante m.3) (in plumbing) galleggiante m.5) (carnival vehicle) carro m. allegorico6) comm. (anche cash float) = monetine utilizzate per dare il resto ai clienti7) AE (drink) = bibita alla quale viene aggiunta una pallina di gelatoII 1. [fləʊt]1) fare galleggiare [ boat]2) econ. emettere [ shares]; lanciare (con titoli) [ company]; lanciare [ loan]; lasciare fluttuare [ currency]3) (propose) lanciare [idea, suggestion]2.1) (on liquid) galleggiare; (in air) fluttuareto float on one's back — [ swimmer] fare il morto
to float out to sea — [ boat] prendere il largo
2) fig. (waft) [smoke, mist] fluttuare3) econ. [ currency] fluttuare•* * *[fləut] 1. verb(to (make something) stay on the surface of a liquid: A piece of wood was floating in the stream.) galleggiare2. noun1) (something that floats on a fishing-line: If the float moves, there is probably a fish on the hook.) galleggiante2) (a vehicle for transporting certain things: a milk-float; a cattle-float.) furgone•- floating restaurant* * *float /fləʊt/n.1 (naut., aeron., idraul., mecc.) galleggiante5 (naut.) zattera; chiatta8 carro allegorico; carro carnevalesco9 (al pl.) (teatr.) luci della ribalta11 (edil.) levigatrice; spianatrice12 (agric.) erpice livellatore (a lame inclinate)13 (mecc.) lima a taglio semplice16 (rag.) fondo cassa18 ► flotation, def. 2● float chamber, recipiente a galleggiante; vaschetta □ (edil.) float finish, frattazzatura □ (ind. vetro) float glass, vetro float □ (ind. vetro) float process, metodo di fabbricazione del vetro float □ (bot.) float-grass ( Alopecurus geniculatus), volpino angoloso □ (mecc.) float valve, valvola a sfera □ on the float, a galla.♦ (to) float /fləʊt/A v. i.1 galleggiare; stare a galla; ( nel nuoto: anche to float on one's back) fare il morto: to float in a fluid [in a gas], galleggiare in un liquido [in un gas]; to float to the surface, salire a galla; tornare a galla3 scorrere, scivolare (su un liquido, nell'aria); lasciarsi trasportare dalla corrente; ( di legname) fluitare: to float downstream, essere trasportato dalla corrente; scendere un fiume lasciandosi portare dalla corrente; Clouds floated across the sky, nell'aria scivolavano le nuvole4 presentarsi ( alla mente); apparire; agitarsi; fluttuare: His face floated into my mind, mi è tornato in mente il suo viso; Confused ideas floated through his mind, idee confuse gli si agitavano nella mente5 (di suono, odore) arrivare; giungere: Distant voices floated into the room, nella stanza arrivava il suono di voci lontane7 spostarsi senza una meta; vagabondare8 (fin.) fluttuareB v. t.1 far galleggiare; tenere (o rimettere) a galla: to float a stranded ship, rimettere a galla una nave arenata3 (fig.) proporre; suggerire; avanzare; lanciare: to float a plan, proporre un piano; to float an idea, lanciare un'idea5 (fin.) lanciare ( con emissione di titoli); emettere: to float a loan, lanciare un prestito; to float a new company, lanciare (o costituire) una nuova società ( emettendo azioni); quotare una società in borsa; to float bonds, emettere obbligazioni6 (fin.) lasciar fluttuare ( una moneta); far fluttuare: to float the exchange rate, far fluttuare il tasso di cambio● ( slang) to float sb. 's boat, eccitare q.; arrapare q. (pop.) □ (fig.) to float on air, essere al settimo cielo.* * *I [fləʊt]1) pesc. galleggiante m., sughero m.2) aer. galleggiante m.3) (in plumbing) galleggiante m.5) (carnival vehicle) carro m. allegorico6) comm. (anche cash float) = monetine utilizzate per dare il resto ai clienti7) AE (drink) = bibita alla quale viene aggiunta una pallina di gelatoII 1. [fləʊt]1) fare galleggiare [ boat]2) econ. emettere [ shares]; lanciare (con titoli) [ company]; lanciare [ loan]; lasciare fluttuare [ currency]3) (propose) lanciare [idea, suggestion]2.1) (on liquid) galleggiare; (in air) fluttuareto float on one's back — [ swimmer] fare il morto
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63 ♦ knee
♦ knee /ni:/n.1 (anat.) ginocchio: My knees were trembling, mi tremavano le ginocchia; to go down on one's knees, inginocchiarsi; mettersi ginocchioni; ( Down) on your knees!, in ginocchio!; DIALOGO → - Wedding- He got down on one knee, si è inginocchiato; to fall (o to drop, to sink) to one's knees, cadere (o buttarsi) in ginocchio; (fig.) to bend (o to bow) the knee (o one's knee) to sb., piegare il ginocchio (o le ginocchia) davanti a q.; sottomettersi a q.2 (al pl.) ginocchia; grembo (sing.): to sit on sb. 's knees, sedere sulle ginocchia di q. (o in grembo a q.)3 ( di pantaloni, ecc.) ginocchio: Your trousers bag at the knees, i calzoni ti fanno le borse ai ginocchi4 (mecc., falegn., ecc.) giunto a ginocchio; tubo a gomito; pezzo di legno a squadra; mensola ( di fresatrice)6 (archit.) gomito; curva● knee bend, flessione; piegamento □ ( slang USA) knee-bender, baciapile; bigotto □ (anat.) knee bone, rotula; patella □ knee boots, stivali al ginocchio □ (stor.) knee-breeches, brache; calzoni al ginocchio □ knee-deep, immerso fino al ginocchio; (che arriva, alto fino) al ginocchio; (fig.) (dentro) fino al collo: We stood knee-deep in water, eravamo nell'acqua fino al ginocchio; l'acqua ci arrivava alle ginocchia; The snow was knee-deep, la neve arrivava al ginocchio; He is knee-deep in debt, è nei debiti fino al collo □ ( lotta libera) knee drop, schiacciata ( dell'avversario) sul proprio ginocchio □ knee-high, (che arriva, alto fino) al ginocchio: knee-high boots, stivali al ginocchio; knee-high grass, erba alta fino al ginocchio □ (fam.) knee-high to a grasshopper, alto come un soldo di cacio □ knee-hole, spazio per le gambe ( sotto una scrivania) □ (sost.) knee-jerk, (med.) riflesso patellare □ (agg.) knee-jerk, fatto per reazione meccanica, istintivo; impulsivo; viscerale: knee-jerk reaction, reazione automatica (o istintiva); knee-jerk opposition, opposizione viscerale □ knee-joint, (anat.) articolazione del ginocchio; (mecc.) giunto a ginocchio □ knee-length, (che arriva, lungo fino) al ginocchio □ knee-length skirt, gonna al ginocchio □ knee-pad, ginocchiera imbottita □ (anat., antiq.) knee-pan, rotula; patella □ (stor.) knee-piece, ginocchiera ( dell'armatura) □ (edil.) knee-roof, tetto a mansarda □ knee-room, spazio per le gambe ( in auto, in aereo, ecc.) □ knee rug, plaid; coperta da viaggio □ (fam. USA) knee-slapper, barzelletta (o battuta) divertentissima □ ( sci) knee socks, calzettoni; calzini lunghi □ knee support, ginocchiera □ (mus.) knee-swell, leva di organo ( azionata col ginocchio) □ ( anche fig.) knee to knee, fianco a fianco; ( anche) seduti uno di fronte all'altro ( con le ginocchia che si toccano) □ (naut.) knee timber, legname per braccioli □ (volg.) knee trembler, sveltina fatta in piedi □ (fam. GB) knees-up, festa rumorosa; party vivace; baldoria □ knee warmer, copriginocchi ( di un ciclista, una ballerina, ecc.) □ across sb. 's knees, (di traverso) sulle ginocchia □ (fig.) at one's mother's (o father's) knee, nella prima infanzia; fin da bambino □ to bring sb. to their knees, mettere q. in ginocchio; sottomettere q. □ (fig.) on one's knees, in ginocchio; stremato; a pezzi: Our economy is on its knees, la nostra economia è in ginocchio □ (fig.) on bended knees, in ginocchio; in atteggiamento supplice □ to go weak at the knees, sentirsi cedere le ginocchia; sentirsi le gambe molli.(to) knee /ni:/v. t. -
64 standing
1. noun1) (repute) Ansehen, dasbe of or have [a] high standing — ein hohes Ansehen genießen
2) (service)be an MP of twenty years' standing — seit zwanzig Jahren [ununterbrochen] dem Parlament angehören
3) (duration)2. adjectiveof long/short standing — von langer/kurzer Dauer
1) (erect) stehendafter the storm there was scarcely a tree still standing — nach dem Sturm stand kaum mehr ein Baum
leave somebody standing — (lit. or fig.): (progress much faster) jemanden weit hinter sich (Dat.) lassen
2) attrib. (established) fest [Regel, Brauch]he has a standing excuse — er bringt immer die gleiche Entschuldigung
3) attrib. (permanent) stehend [Heer]* * ** * *stand·ing[ˈstændɪŋ]to be in good \standing with sb gute Beziehungen zu jdm habento be of high social \standing hohes soziales Ansehen genießento shake sb's \standing jds Ansehen erschütternfinancial \standing Kreditwürdigkeit f, Bonität fone member, of twelve years' \standing on the committee, resigned ein Mitglied, das zwölf Jahre zum Komitee gehörte, ist zurückgetretento be of long/short \standing von langer/kurzer Dauer seinII. adj attr, inv1. (upright) [aufrecht] stehendto do sth from a \standing position etw im Stehen machen2. (permanent) ständig3. (stationary) stehend\standing water stehendes Wasser4. AGR\standing corn Getreide nt auf dem Halm* * *['stndɪŋ]1. n1) (social) Rang m, (gesellschaftliche) Stellung; (professional) Position f; (financial) (finanzielle) Verhältnisse pl; (= repute) Ruf m, Ansehen ntwhat is his standing locally? — was hält man in der Gegend von ihm?
2) (= duration) Dauer fa treaty of only six months' standing — ein Vertrag, der erst seit sechs Monaten besteht
her husband of five years' standing — ihr Mann, mit dem sie seit fünf Jahren verheiratet ist
of long standing — alt, langjährig; relationship, agreement etc also von langer Dauer
2. adj attrit's a standing joke —
standing room only — nur Stehplätze
to receive a standing ovation — eine stehende Ovation erhalten, stürmischen Beifall ernten
* * *A s1. a) Stand m, Rang m, Stellung fb) Ansehen n, Ruf m:person of high standing hoch angesehene oder hochstehende Persönlichkeit2. Dauer f:of long standing seit Langem bestehend, alt (Brauch, Freundschaft etc)3. Stehen n:“no standing” „keine Stehplätze“;B adj1. stehend (auch fig):standing army MIL stehendes Heer;standing corn Getreide n auf dem Halm;a standing rule eine (fest)stehende Regel;3. WIRTSCH laufend:standing charge laufende Unkosten pl4. Steh…:standing desk Stehpult n5. üblich, gewohnt (Essen etc)* * *1. noun1) (repute) Ansehen, dasbe of or have [a] high standing — ein hohes Ansehen genießen
2) (service)be an MP of twenty years' standing — seit zwanzig Jahren [ununterbrochen] dem Parlament angehören
3) (duration)2. adjectiveof long/short standing — von langer/kurzer Dauer
1) (erect) stehendleave somebody standing — (lit. or fig.): (progress much faster) jemanden weit hinter sich (Dat.) lassen
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65 clean
1. adjective1) чистый; опрятный; clean room чистая комната; clean сору беловик2) чистый, без примеси; без пороков; clean wheat пшеница без примеси; clean timber чистосортный лесной материал (без сучков и др. дефектов)3) неисписанный (о листе бумаги, странице)4) незапятнанный, непорочный; to have a clean record иметь хорошую репутацию5) хорошо сложенный (о человеке)6) ловкий, искусный; clean stroke ловкий удар7) гладкий, ровный; to make a clean cut резать ровноto have clean hands in the matter не быть замешанным в каком-л. делеto make a clean sweep of smth. совершенно отделаться, избавиться от чего-л.; подчистить под метлуSyn:fresh, immaculate, spotless, stainlessAnt:adulterated, contaminated, dirty, grimy, impure, marked, polluted, stained, sullied, tainted2. nounчистка, уборка; to give it a clean почистить, убрать3. adverb1) полностью, совершенно; I clean forgot to ask я совершенно забыл спросить2) начисто3) прямо; как раз; to hit clean in the eye попасть прямо в глаз4. verb1) чистить2) очищать; протирать; сглаживать; полировать (металл); промывать (золото)clean downclean outclean upSyn:cleanse, dust, sweep, tidy, wipeAnt:befoul, besmear, pollute, soil, stain* * *(a) чистый* * ** * *[ kliːn] n. чистка, уборка v. чистить, вычистить, очищать; полировать, сглаживать adj. чистый, опрятный, незапятнанный, непорочный; не бывший в употреблении, неисписанный, чистовой; без примеси; хорошо сложенный, гладкий, ровный; искусный, ловкий adv. совершенно, прямо, полностью, как раз, начисто, набело* * *потрошитьпочиститьчистчиститьчистый* * *1. сущ. уборка 2. прил. 1) а) чистый, очищенный от грязи; чистый б) очищенный от лишнего, от ненужных предметов; отсюда гладкий 2) а) чистый, беспримесный; хорошего качества, без пороков б) незапятнанный в) свежий, острый, тонкий (о вкусе) г) мор. порожний д) сленг "чистый" е) религ. чистый ж) незаразный (обычно о человеке) з) сленг и) (о птицах) неоперенный 3) а) хорошо сложенный, привлекательный, стройный (о человеке) б) авиац. имеющий хорошие обтекаемостные свойства 3. гл. 1) чистить, очищать от загрязнения; чиститься, приводить себя в порядок 2) а) протирать б) сглаживать в) корчевать пни г) обдирать дно корабля от наростов д) авиац. улучшать обтекаемостные свойства е) увольнять нежелательного работника ж) воен. производить зачистку местности; выжигать какое-л. явление каленым железом з) и так далее 3) сленг обчищать 4) сграбастать, отхватить, сорвать куш; сорвать банк (в азартной игре); приносить значительную прибыль 4. нареч. 1) начисто, так, что не остается грязи (может прямо не переводиться) 2) ловко 3) вполне, полностью, совершенно, совсем, начисто, напрочь -
66 suszarni|a
f (G pl suszarni) drying room- suszarnia chmielu an oast house- suszarnia ryb a shed for drying fish- suszarnia drewna a timber drying kilnThe New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > suszarni|a
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67 slide
1. I1) I slid and fell я поскользнулся и упал2) set smth. slide let one's work (one's studies, things, etc.) slide запустить работу и т.д.2. IIslide in some manner slide gently (smoothly, easily, rapidly, cautiously, imperceptibly, etc.) плавно и т.д. скользить; the years slide by /away, past/ годы незаметно уходят; slide somewhere slide up (down, backwards and forwards, etc.) скользить /плавно двигаться/ вверх и т.д.; this window slides up and down easily это окно легко поднимается и опускается; slide in легко вдвигаться /задвигаться/; slide out [плавно] выдвигаться; slide downhill съезжать с горы3. IVslide smth. somewhere slide the drawer in задвигать ящик; slide the drawer out выдвигать ящик; slide smth. forward выдвигать что-л. вперед; slide smth. backwards задвигать что-л. назад4. XVI1) slide on smth. slide on the ice скользить по льду; slide on the floor and fall поскользнуться на полу и упасть; slide over smth. slide over the paper (over the surface of the water, over the waves, etc.) скользить по бумаге и т.д.; slide over a delicate matter /subject/ обойти молчанием щекотливый вопрос; slide down smth. slide down a hill (down a grass slope, etc.) скатываться /съезжать/ с горы и т.д.; slide down а горе спускаться, скользя по канату; slide down the banisters съехать по перилам; slide off smth. slide off my knee (off a table, etc.) соскользнуть с колена и т.д.; slide from smth. slide from smb.'s hands выскользнуть из чьих-л. рук; slide into smth. slide into a room (into a garden, etc.) (проскользнуть [незаметно] в комнату и т.д.; а sword slid into its scabbard шпага легко вошла в ножны; slide behind smth. slide behind the curtains (behind a tree, etc.) скользнуть [и спрятаться] за занавески и т.д.2) slide into smth. slide into error (into sin, into a reverie, into a state of lethargy, etc.) впадать в ошибку и т.д.; slide into bad habits (into evil ways, etc.) незаметно приобретать дурные привычки и т.д.; slide into dishonesty скатиться на нечестный путь5. XXI1slide smth. into smth. slide the drawer (the lid etc.) into its place задвигать ящик и т.д. на место; slide a gun into one's pocket (his hand into his pocket, a letter into smb.'s hand, a coin into her purse, etc.) незаметно (засунуть револьвер в карман и т.д.; slide smth. out of smth. slide the drawer out of a chest выдвигать ящик из комода; slide smth. along smth. slide a decanter along the table плавно передвинуть графин по столу; slide smth. down smth. slide timber down a hill спускать лес по склепу горы; slide smth. under smth. slide a paper under a book (a letter under the door, etc.) подсунуть /спрятать/ бумажку под книгу и т.д. -
68 clean
[kliːn] 1. прил.1) чистый, опрятныйSyn:Ant:2) чистый, не бывший в употребленииHe took a clean sheet of paper. — Он взял чистый лист бумаги.
Syn:fresh 1.3) чистый, беспримесный4) чистоплотный (о людях, прирученных животных)5) хорошего качества, без пороков, изъянов6) незапятнанный, непорочныйSyn:Ant:7) свежий, острый, тонкий ( о вкусе)8) расчищенныйA piece of clean land to husband on. — Участок земли, расчищенный под пашню.
9) гладкий, ровныйThe clean abrupt edge of the fractures. — Ровный острый край отлома.
10) крим. чистый, ни в чём не замешанный11) рел. чистый ( о еде)12) незаразный ( обычно о человеке)13) нарк. не являющийся наркоманом14) хорошо сложённый, привлекательный, стройный ( о человеке)15) авиа имеющий хорошие аэродинамические свойства16) искусный, ловкий; проворныйSyn:17) полный, безоговорочный•- make a clean job of it- show a clean pair of heels••2. гл.to have clean hands in a matter — не быть замешанным в каком-л. деле
1)а) чистить, очищать от загрязненияSyn:Ant:б) чиститься, отчищаться от загрязненияWood flooring not only cleans easily, but it's environmentally friendly into the bargain. — Деревянный пол не только легко моется, но и к тому же экологически безвреден.
2) потрошить (рыбу, птицу)3) протирать, полировать4) сглаживать6) авиа улучшать аэродинамические свойства7) увольнять нежелательного работника; подсиживать8) мыть золото9) спорт. поднимать ( штангу) с помоста на грудь одним непрерывным движением•- clean out
- clean up••3. сущ.уборка, чистка4. нареч.Give it a clean before returning it. — Перед тем как вернуть, эту вещь следует почистить.
1) начистоThe room must be clean swept. — Комнату надо хорошенько подмести.
Syn:2) ловко; хитроThe most honourable exercise is to ride surely and clean. — Самое благородное занятие - это умело и ловко скакать на лошади.
3) полностью, совершенно, совсем, начисто, напрочьI believe he's gone clean off his head. — Сдаётся мне, что он совсем сбрендил.
The purpose of the book seems clean gone out of the writer's mind. — Кажется, автор совершенно забыл, зачем писал книгу.
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69 straight
I [streɪt] adj1) прямой, неизогнутый, ровный- straight nose- straight street2) правильный, ровный, находящийся в порядке- straight sequence of eventsLet's get it (the story, the facts) straight. — Давайте разберемся, как это было в действительности (каковы факты).
- put one's hair straight
- put a room straight
- put one's papers straight
- picture is not straight3) честный, откровенный, искренний, прямой- straight answer- straight question
- straight advice
- straight man
- straight fight
- straight talk
- straight speaking
- be straight in one's business
- be straight in one's actions
- be straight with smb II [streɪt] adv1) (также straight away) сразу, сейчас же, немедленно, то́тчас- go straight home- go straight to bed
- come back straight away
- come straight to the point2) прямо, не сворачиваяDo you see that tower straight ahead? — Вы видите эту башню вон там, прямо?
- go straight down the streetThe post office is straight ahead. — Почта прямо перед вами
- stand straight
- hang smth straight
- drive straight for two blocks
- look straight at smb
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70 идти под гору
разг.1) (о чём-либо; развиваться в неблагоприятном направлении, резко ухудшаться) roll downhill; be on the decline; go to ruin; hit the skids; be slippingДела его вовсе под гору пошли. Охотиться стало не на что, последние денежки перевелись, последние люди разбежались. (И. Тургенев, Записки охотника) — Everything went utterly to ruin. He had no money left for sport; the last of his meagre fortune was spent; the last of his few servants ran away.
И как свалился [Сапегин], так и покатилось всё под гору: вымер от поветрия породистый скот, рухнули оранжереи с приколотыми к стенам шпалерными абрикосами, сквозь осыпь штукатурки в углу гостиной стало гнилое дерево проступать. (Л. Леонов, Русский лес) — When he died everything started rolling downhill. Infectious disease carried off his pedigree stock, the greenhouse with his trellised apricots fastened to the walls collapsed, and the rotting timber began to show through the crumbling plaster in a corner of the drawing-room.
2) ( близиться к концу (о жизни)) be on the decline (of smb.'s life); go downhillТихону Ильичу сравнялось уже пятьдесят. И мысль о том, что жизнь пошла под гору, опять стала овладевать им. (И. Бунин, Деревня) — Tikhon Ilyich was fifty that year. And again he was seized with the thought about his life going downhill.
С этого дня жизнь Корчагина шла под уклон. О работе не могло быть и речи. Всё чаще он проводил дни в кровати. (Н. Островский, Как закалялась сталь) — From that day Pavel felt that his life was on the decline. Work was now out of the question. More and more often he was confined to his bed.
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71 crane
подъёмный кран; подъёмное приспособление; подъёмный механизм; грузоподъёмный кран; вага; изогнутая трубка; сифон; II поднимать краном- crane is carried by wheels - crane loading - crane rides a track - crane rail track - crane truck - hand-slew the crane - stroke of a crane - swing the crane - automatic grab crane - bridge crane - bucket crane - building crane - crawler crane - curb ring crane - deck crane - derrick crane - derrick waggon crane - dipping crane - dock crane - dockyard crane - donkey crane - double-girder travelling crane - double-I-beam travelling crane - electric slewing crane - electric travelling crane - emergency gantry crane - erecting crane - fixed crane - fixed boom crane - fixed-radius crane - floating crane - foundry crane - foundry travelling crane - frame crane - full-swing crane - gantry crane - gearing-system travelling crane - gib crane - grab crane - grabbing crane - grab-bucket crane - half-portal crane - hammer-head crane - hand crane - hand-power crane - hand-slewing crane - hand travelling crane - harbour crane - hatch crane - hoisting crane - hydraulic crane - hydraulic slewing crane - intake stoplog crane - jib crane - loading crane - locomotive crane - lorry-mounted crane - luffing-jib crane - magnet crane - mast crane - monorail crane - monorail-wheeled column jib crane - overhead crane - piler crane - pillar crane - pillar jib crane - pontoon crane - portal crane - power-driven crane - quay crane - rope-driven travelling crane - rotary crane - rotary tower crane - run-about crane - screen cleaning crane - semi-gantry crane - semi-portal crane - shipbuilding crane - single-girder travelling crane - single-I-beam travelling crane - slewing crane - stamp work's crane - stationary crane - steam slewing crane - stock crane - stripping crane - swing crane - swing jib crane - timber crane - tower crane - tower slewing crane - transshipment crane - travelling crane - travelling crane with inside trolley way - travelling crane with upper trolley way - travelling gantry crane - traversing crane - trough charging crane - truck crane - turbine-room crane - turning crane - unloading crane - velocipede crane - walking crane - wall crane - wall bracket crane - wall-mounted derrick crane - wall-track jib crane - wrecking crane - yard jib crane -
72 crew
1. n судовая команда; экипажground crew — посадочная команда, команда обслуживания
2. n мор. матросы; рядовые моряки3. n спорт. команда4. n спорт. гребной спорт5. n спорт. бригада, артельmaintenance crew — ремонтная бригада; бригада техобслуживания
6. n спорт. ж. -д. кондукторская бригадаrolling crew — бригада рабочих, обслуживающих прокатный стан
7. n спорт. воен. орудийный или пулемётный расчёт8. n спорт. обыкн. пренебр. компания, шайка9. v быть членом команды,Синонимический ряд:1. company (noun) company; complement2. force (noun) body; corps; detachment; force; squad; staff; team; unit3. group (noun) assembly; band; bevy; bunch; clique; cluster; coterie; covey; gang; gathering; group; horde; mob; pack; party4. hands (noun) hands; mariners; sailors; seafarers; seamen5. boasted (verb) boasted; bragged; vaunted6. gloried (verb) crew; exulted; gloried; triumphedАнтонимический ряд: -
73 quarter
1. n четверть, четвёртая часть2. n четверть часа, пятнадцать минут3. n квартал, четверть года, три месяцаbusiness quarter — деловой квартал города; деловые круги
4. n разг. квартплата за кварталu.s. quarter — база США
u.s. quarter — база США
5. n амер. четверть доллара, 25 центов6. n амер. монета в 25 центов7. n амер. кул. четвертинаfore quarter — передняя часть, лопатка
8. n амер. доля9. n амер. уст. четвёртая часть тела человека10. n амер. квартер11. n амер. четверть мили12. n амер. спорт. бег на четверть мили13. n амер. мор. четверть румба14. n амер. задник15. n амер. боковая сторона копыта16. n амер. геральд. четверть геральдического щита17. v делить, разделить на четыре равные части18. v редк. делить на части19. v ист. четвертовать20. v геральд. делить на четверти21. v геральд. помещать в одной из четвертей щита22. v геральд. астр. вступать в новую фазу23. v расквартировывать, ставить на постой24. v расквартировываться, размещаться по квартирам25. v квартировать, жить26. v селиться27. v мор. рыскать28. v уступать дорогу; сворачивать в сторону, чтобы разъехаться29. v мор. идти в бакштагСинонимический ряд:1. area (noun) area; country; direction; locale; locality; neighborhood; neighbourhood; point; province; region; zone2. district (noun) district; precinct; section; sector3. division (noun) division; farthing; one-fourth part; portion; quarter section; school term; semester; span; two bits4. fourth (noun) fourth; quartern5. divide (verb) cleave; cut; cut up; dismember; divide; quadrisect; section; section off; sever; split up6. harbor (verb) accommodate; bed; berth; bestow; billet; board; bunk; canton; domicile; domiciliate; entertain; harbor; harbour; hut; put up; room; roost7. lodge (verb) assign; assign to lodgings; establish; house; locate; lodge; place; post; situate; station -
74 straight
1. n прямая линия2. n прямизна3. n спорт. финишная прямаяback straight — прямая, противоположная финишной прямой
4. n честность5. n карт. карты, подобранные подряд по достоинству, «порядок», «стрит»6. n нормальный человек7. n неодобр. «добропорядочный» человек, обыватель, мещанин8. a прямой, неизогнутый9. a не отклоняющийся от курса, не сходящий с дороги; беспрерывныйSturzhang, straight — вис прогнувшись
10. a невьющийся11. a авт. с цилиндрами в ряд12. a правильный, ровный; находящийся в порядкеfaced straight — правильно отрезал; правильно отрезанный
13. a разг. честный, прямой, искреннийstraight dealing — честность, честное ведение дел
to keep straight — оставаться честным; вести честный образ жизни
14. a разг. верный, надёжный15. a амер. полит. неуклонно поддерживающий решения своей партии; преданный своей партии16. a амер. неразбавленный17. a амер. ком. фиксированный, прейскурантный; без скидки за большое количество купленногоcigars 20 cents straight — сигары 20 центов штука, без скидки
18. a лит. театр. чистый по жанру19. a лит. театр. естественный, органичный20. a лит. театр. обыкновенный, рядовойa straight novel — рядовой роман, бесхитростное повествование
21. a лит. театр. идущий по порядкуvertical press with straight arms sideward to support — подъем силой с прямыми руками через стороны в упор
22. a лит. театр. карт. расположенный по порядкуstraight flush — карты одной масти по порядку; «королевский цвет», объективный
23. a разг. обычный, традиционный24. a разг. нормальный; здоровый25. a разг. единственный; прямойa salesman on straight commission — коммивояжёр, работающий только за комиссионные
26. a разг. прямой, непосредственный27. adv по прямой линии, прямоto stand straight — стоять прямо, не горбиться
28. adv прямо, непосредственно29. adv правильно, точно, метко30. adv правильно, упорядоченно31. adv честно, открыто, прямо32. adv объективноto write a story straight — нарисовать объективную картину; изложить события без комментариев
33. adv ясно, здравоСинонимический ряд:1. conventional (adj.) button-down; conventional; orthodox; square2. correct (adj.) accurate; correct; right3. direct (adj.) continuous; direct; linear; nonstop; through; undeviating; uninterrupted; unswerving4. even (adj.) even; flat; flush; level; planate; plane; smooth5. honest (adj.) equitable; fair; honest; honorable; honourable; just; moral; upright; virtuous6. neat (adj.) full-strength; neat; orderly; plain; pure; tidy; unadulterated; unaltered; unblended; unchanged; undiluted; unmixed; unmodified7. open (adj.) candid; forthright; frank; open; plainspoken; undisguised8. rectilinear (adj.) aligned; erect; horizontal; perpendicular; plumb; rectilinear; vertical9. straightforward (adj.) aboveboard; plain dealing; straightforward10. right (noun) good; right11. away (other) at once; away; first off; forthwith; immediately; instanter; instantly; now; PDQ; right away; right off; straight away; straight off; straightway12. directly (other) as the crow flies; dead; direct; directly; due; in a beeline; right; straight ahead; straightly; undeviatinglyАнтонимический ряд:askew; circuitous; crooked; curved; deceptive; deformed; deviating; devious; dishonest; distorted; fraudulent; grotesque; indirect; interrupted; messy; misshapen; mixed; wily -
75 strip
1. n длинный, узкий кусок; лента; полоскаa strip of board — планка; рейка
2. n спец. штрипс3. n полоса; участок4. n рассказ в картинках5. n тех. планка6. n тех. прокладка7. n тех. полоса, лента; полосовое железо8. n тех. ав. взлётно-посадочная полоса9. n тех. спорт. дорожка10. n тех. аэрофотосъёмочный маршрут11. n тех. стрип12. v резать на длинные, узкие куски, на полоски, на лентыstrip city — город, растянувшийся длинной полосой
13. v раздевать; снимать; срыватьto strip a car — «раздевать» автомобиль
14. v раздеваться15. v сдирать, обдирать; счищать; снимать; обнажатьstrip away — соскабливать, сдирать
16. v сдираться; сниматься; счищаться17. v лишать; отбиратьa saint stripped of his halo — святой, лишённый своего нимба
18. v грабить; отнимать19. v исполнять стриптиз; раздеваться под музыкуstrip club — клуб с показом стриптиза, стриптиз-клуб
20. v разбирать, демонтировать21. v тех. срывать резьбу22. v горн. обнажать, вскрывать; разрабатывать открытым способом23. v с. -х. трепать24. v с. -х. выдаивать до конца25. v с. -х. отделять среднюю жилку табака26. v рыб. выдавливатьСинонимический ряд:1. band (noun) band; bandeau; banding; belt; fillet; ribbon; stripe; tape2. bar (noun) bar; billet; ingot; rod; slab; stick3. striptease (noun) stripping; striptease4. bankrupt (verb) bankrupt; bereave; denudate; deprive; dismantle; dispossess; divest; rob; withhold5. ravage (verb) deflower; depredate; desecrate; desolate; despoil; devast; devastate; devour; harry; havoc; lay waste; loot; pillage; plunder; ransack; ravage; sack; scourge; spoil; spoliate; waste6. remove (verb) bare; decorticate; denude; displace; disrobe; excorticate; expose; pare; peel; remove; scale; skin; unclothe; uncover; undressАнтонимический ряд:confer; dress; restore -
76 cross
A n1 ( shape) croix f ; the Cross Relig la Croix ; to put a cross against cocher [name, item] ; ‘put a cross in the box’ ‘faites une croix dans la case’, ‘cochez la case’ ;2 Biol, Bot, Zool ( hybrid) croisement m (between entre) ; a cross between Hitler and Napoleon/Biarritz and Brighton fig un mélange d'Hitler et de Napoléon/de Biarritz et de Brighton ;B adj1 ( angry) fâché ; to be cross with sb être fâché contre qn ; to be cross about sth être agacé par qch ; to get cross se fâcher (with contre) ; to make sb cross mettre qn en colère, agacer qn ; we've never had a cross word (in 20 years) nous ne nous sommes jamais disputés (en 20 ans) ;2 ( transverse) [timber] transversal ;3 ( contrary to general direction) [breeze, swell] contraire.C vtr1 ( go across) lit traverser [road, country, room, sea] ; traverser, passer [river] ; franchir [border, line, threshold, mountains, ditch] ; [bridge] franchir, enjamber [river, road] ; [road, railway line, river] traverser [garden, country, desert] ; [line] barrer [page] ; fig dépasser [limit, boundary] ; it crossed his mind that il lui est venu à l'esprit or l'idée que ; the thought had crossed my mind l'idée m'avait traversé l'esprit (that que) ; a slight frown crossed her features une expression renfrognée est passée sur son visage ; to cross the class/race divide surmonter la barrière des classes/races ; the programme crossed the bounds of decency l'émission a dépassé les limites de la décence ;2 ( meet) [road, path, railway line, river] couper [road, path, railway line, river] ; to cross each other se couper ;3 ( place in shape of a cross) croiser [spoons, knives, ropes] ; to cross one's legs/arms croiser les jambes/bras ;6 ( draw line across) barrer ; to cross a ‘t’ barrer un ‘t’ ; to cross a cheque GB barrer un chèque ;7 ( mark to indicate) [teacher] ≈ souligner [qch] en rouge [answer] ; ( to indicate choice) cocher [box] ;D vi1 ( also cross over) ( go across) traverser ; to cross into Italy/Austria passer en Italie/Autriche ;2 ( meet) [roads, railway lines, cars, trains] se croiser ; [lines] se couper ; [letters] se croiser ; to cross with sth [letter] croiser qch ;3 ( lie in shape of cross) [straps, ropes, beams, bars] se croiser.we seem to have got our wires ou lines crossed il semble y avoir un malentendu (quelque part) ; X and Y have got their wires ou lines crossed X et Y ne se sont pas compris ; to have a ou one's cross to bear porter sa croix ; ⇒ heart.■ cross off:▶ cross [sth/sb] off, cross off [sth/sb] barrer, rayer [name, thing] ; radier [person] ; to cross sb's name off a list rayer qn d'une liste.■ cross out:▶ cross out [sth], cross [sth] out rayer, barrer [qch].1 ( go across) traverser ; to cross over to sth ( change allegiance) passer à qch [party] ; se convertir à [religion] ;2 ( be placed across) [straps] se croiser.▶ cross through [sth] rayer, barrer [qch]. -
77 float
float [fləʊt]1 noun(a) (for fishing line) bouchon m, flotteur m; (on raft, seaplane, fishing net, in carburettor, toilet cistern) flotteur m(d) (cash advance) avance f; (business loan) prêt m de lancement; (money in cash register) fond m de caisse(f) Stock Exchange flottant m;∎ clean float taux mpl de change libres ou flottants;∎ dirty float taux mpl de change concertés∎ the floats (footlights) la rampe∎ the raft/log floated down the river le radeau/le tronc d'arbre a descendu la rivière au fil de l'eau;∎ the bottle floated out to sea la bouteille a été emportée vers le large;∎ the diver floated slowly up to the surface le plongeur est remonté lentement à la surface;∎ we floated downstream (in boat) le courant nous a portés(b) (in the air → balloon, piece of paper) voltiger; (→ mist, clouds) flotter; (→ ghost, apparition) flotter, planer;∎ music/the sound of laughter floated in through the open window de la musique est entrée/des bruits de rires sont entrés par la fenêtre ouverte;∎ she floated out of the room elle est sortie de la pièce d'un pas léger;∎ he seems to just float through life (has no worries) il semble ne jamais avoir de soucis; (has no goals) il semble se laisser porter par les événements∎ the timber is then floated downstream to the mill le bois est ensuite flotté jusqu'à l'usine située en aval(b) (company) lancer, créer; Stock Exchange (onto Stock Market) introduire en Bourse; Finance (bonds, share issue) émettre; (loan) émettre, lancerfloat glass verre m flotté∎ there were rumours floating about that… le bruit courait que…;∎ she's/it's floating about somewhere elle/il traîne dans les parages(free → boat) remettre à flot(a) (be carried away → log, ship etc) partir ou être emporté au fil de l'eau; (in the air → balloon, piece of paper) s'envoler -
78 green
green [gri:n]∎ the wall was painted green le mur était peint en vert;∎ to go or to turn green (tree) devenir vert, verdir; (traffic light) passer au vert; (person) devenir blême, blêmir;∎ to be or to go green with envy être vert de jalousie;∎ as green as grass vert cru;∎ figurative to have British green fingers or American a green thumb avoir la main verte∎ I'm not as green as I might seem je ne suis pas aussi naïf que j'en ai l'air;∎ a green reporter un jeune reporter inexpérimenté(d) (ecological) écologique, vert;∎ all the parties are trying to appear more green tous les partis essaient d'adopter une image plus écolo;∎ to think green penser à l'environnement;∎ to go green virer écolo∎ to keep sb's memory green chérir la mémoire de qn2 noun∎ green suits you le vert te va bien;∎ the girl in green la fille en vert;∎ dressed in green habillé de ou en vert(b) (grassy patch) pelouse f, gazon m;∎ village green place f du village, terrain m communal∎ on the green sur le green(a) (vegetables) légumes mpl verts;∎ you should eat more greens tu devrais manger plus de légumes verts∎ the Greens les Verts mpl, les écologistes mpl►► green audit = rapport sur l'impact des activités d'une entreprise sur l'environnement;green bean haricot m vert;green belt ceinture f verte;the Green Berets les Bérets verts;green card (for insurance) carte f verte (prouvant qu'un véhicule est assuré pour un voyage à l'étranger); (work permit) carte f de séjour (temporaire, aux États-Unis);green channel (at customs) file f "rien à déclarer";Zoology green crab crabe m enragé ou vert;British the green cross code le code de sécurité routière (pour apprendre aux piétons à traverser la route avec moins de risques d'accident);EU green currency monnaie f verte;British green goddess = camion de pompiers de l'armée;Botany green hellebore herbe f à sétons;∎ to give sb/sth the green light donner le feu vert à qn/pour qch;∎ to get the green light from sb obtenir le feu vert de qn;Zoology green mamba mamba m vert;green man British (at pedestrian crossing) bonhomme m vert; humorous (extraterrestrial) petit homme m vert;∎ wait for the green man before crossing attends que le bonhomme passe au vert avant de traverser;∎ little green men petits hommes mpl verts;green marketing marketing m vert ou écologique;Zoology green monkey vervet m, singe m vert;green monkey disease maladie f de Marburg;the Green Mountain State = surnom donné au Vermont;American green onion ciboule f, cive f;British & French Canadian Politics green paper = document formulant des propositions destinées à orienter la politique gouvernementale;the Green party le parti écologiste, les Verts mpl;green peas petits pois mpl;green pepper poivron m vert;green peppercorn grain m de poivre vert;Ornithology green plover vanneau m;Green politics la politique des Verts;green rate taux m vert;green revolution révolution f verte;Theatre & Television green room foyer m des artistes;green salad salade f (verte);Ornithology green sandpiper chevalier m cul-blanc;formerly Green Shield stamps = timbres donnant droit à des cadeaux, distribués par certains magasins en fonction du montant des achats;Finance green taxation fiscalité f écologique;green tea thé m vert;green tourism tourisme m vert;Zoology green turtle tortue f verte;green vegetables légumes mpl verts;British familiar green wellies = bottes de caoutchouc vertes (le terme évoque les classes bourgeoises ou aristocratiques habitant à la campagne);Ornithology green woodpecker pivert m, pic-vert mⓘ This green and pleasant land Il s'agit d'un vers extrait du cantique 'Jerusalem', d'après un poème de William Blake de 1804 (le poème est connu sous le même nom bien que le titre en soit différent). On chante très souvent ce cantique dans les écoles et au cours des manifestations sportives, à tel point qu'il est presque devenu un second hymne national. On utilise la formule this green and pleasant land ("ce pays vert et plaisant") par allusion au cantique et à propos de l'Angleterre; elle véhicule une vision idéalisée et quelque peu désuète du pays. -
79 spruce
spruce [spru:s] (pl inv)1 noun∎ spruce white curtains des rideaux blancs impeccables;∎ she looked very spruce in her uniform elle était toute pimpante dans son uniforme∎ a coat of paint will spruce the room up une couche de peinture rafraîchira la pièce;∎ his image needs sprucing up son image de marque a besoin d'être rafraîchie;∎ to spruce oneself up, to get spruced up se faire beau;∎ he was all spruced up il était tiré à quatre épingles, il était sur son trente et un -
80 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN
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