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1 nommer
nommer [nɔme]➭ TABLE 11. transitive verba. [+ fonctionnaire] to appoint ; [+ candidat] to nominateb. ( = appeler, citer) to name• M. Sartin, pour ne pas le nommer,... without mentioning any names, Mr Sartin...2. reflexive verb► se nommer ( = s'appeler) to be called• comment se nomme-t-il ? what is his name?* * *nɔme
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1) ( désigner pour une fonction) to appoint2) ( dénommer) to name [personne]; to call [chose]3) ( citer) to name [complice, arbre, peintre]
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se nommer verbe pronominal1) ( s'appeler) to be called2) ( donner son nom) to give one's name* * *nɔme vt1) (= baptiser) [enfant] to name, to call, [chose] to callIls l'ont nommé Philippe. — They named him Philippe., They called him Philippe.
On a nommé le nouvel élément lexiconium. — The new element has been called lexiconium.
La nouvelle société a été nommée Medialex. — The new company is called Medialex.
2) (= mentionner) to nameIl n'a voulu nommer personne. — He didn't want to name anybody.
3) (= élire) to appointIl a été nommé directeur. — He was appointed director.
* * *nommer verb table: aimerA vtr1 ( désigner pour une fonction) to appoint; nommer qn (au poste de) directeur to appoint sb director; nommer qn d'office/à un poste to appoint sb automatically/to a position; être nommé à Paris/Berlin to be posted to Paris/Berlin;2 ( dénommer) to name [personne]; to call [chose]; ce qu'on nomme tanka what is called tanka; être nommé d'après sa grand-mère to be named after one's grandmother; comment l'ont-ils nommé? what did they call him?; le nommé Durand the man named Durand; nommé communément commonly known as;B se nommer vpr1 ( s'appeler) to be called;2 ( donner son nom) to give one's name.[nɔme] verbe transitifceux qui sont responsables, pour ne pas les nommer, devront payer those who are responsible and who shall remain nameless, will have to payc'est la faute de Nina, pour ne pas la nommer (ironique) without mentioning any names, it's Nina's fault3. [désigner à une fonction] to appoint————————se nommer verbe pronominal (emploi réfléchi)[se présenter] to introduce oneself————————se nommer verbe pronominal intransitifto be called ou namedcomment se nomme-t-il? what's his name?, what's he called? -
2 affecter
affecter [afεkte]➭ TABLE 1 transitive verba. ( = feindre) to affectb. ( = destiner) to allocate (à to)d. ( = affliger) to affect* * *afɛkte1) ( feindre) to feign, to affect [sentiment, émotion]; to affect [genre, comportement]; to take on [forme]2) ( allouer) to allocate [matériel, lieu, argent] (à to)3) ( nommer) (à une activité, un poste) to appoint (à to); (dans un lieu, un pays) to post (à, en to)4) (toucher, affliger) to affect [pays, marché, autorité, personne]* * *afɛkte vt1) (= affliger) to affectElle a été très affectée par sa mort. — She was deeply affected by his death.
2) (= feindre) [indifférence] to affect, to feign3)affecter qch à [ressources, locaux, personnel] — to allocate sth to, to allot sth to
affecter qn à — to appoint sb to, [diplomate] to post sb to
4) (= doter)affecter qch de [coefficient, numéro] — to assign sth to
* * *affecter verb table: aimer vtr1 ( feindre) to feign, to affect [pitié, gaieté, indifférence, tristesse]; to affect [genre, comportement]; to take on, to assume [forme]; affecter la surprise to feign surprise; innocence/gaieté/pondération affectée feigned innocence/cheerfulness/level-headedness; affecter de faire to pretend to do; il affecte de ne pas être ému he pretends not to be moved; malgré sa tristesse il affecte la gaieté despite his unhappiness he's putting on a show of cheerfulness; affecter de grands airs to put on airs;2 ( allouer) to allocate, to assign [matériel, lieu] (à to); to allocate [logement, argent] (à qn to sb; à qch to, for sth);3 ( nommer) (à une activité, une fonction, un poste) to appoint (à to); (dans un lieu, un pays, une région) to post (à, en to);4 (toucher, affliger) to affect [pays, marché, cours, autorité, personne]; être affecté d'une légère surdité/myopie to be slightly deaf/short-sighted;5 Math to modify; affecté de modified by.[afɛkte] verbe transitifil a affecté l'indifférence he feigned indifference, he put on a show of indifference2. [présenter - une forme]5. [atteindre] to affecttrès affecté par cette lettre/l'accident de ses parents greatly affected by this letter/his parents' accident -
3 direction
direction [diʀεksjɔ̃]feminine nouna. ( = sens) direction• dans quelle direction est-il parti ? which way did he go?• train en direction de... train for...• « autres directions » (panneau) "all other routes"• « toutes directions » (panneau) "all routes"b. ( = action de diriger) [d'entreprise, usine, théâtre] management ; [de journal, pays, gouvernement, parti] running ; [d'orchestre] conducting ; [d'acteurs] directing ; [d'opération, manœuvre] supervision• prendre la direction de [+ service] to become head of ; [+ usine, entreprise] to become manager of ; [+ équipe, travaux] to take charge of ; [+ mouvement, pays] to become leader of ; [+ journal] to take over the editorship ofc. ( = personnel) management ; [de journal] editorial boardd. [de voiture] steering━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *diʀɛksjɔ̃1) ( chemin) directionêtre or aller dans la bonne/mauvaise direction — lit, fig to be heading in the right/wrong direction
dans la direction de, en direction de — [aller, regarder] toward(s)
prenez la direction Nation — ( d'autobus) take the bus going to ‘Nation’; ( de métro) take the train going to ‘Nation’
la direction Lille — ( route) the Lille road
faire un pas or geste en direction de quelqu'un — fig to make an overture to somebody
2) ( fonction de directeur) ( gestion) management; ( supervision) supervision; ( de journal) editorship; (de parti, mouvement) leadershipassurer la direction de — (d'entreprise, de service) to manage, to run; (de projet, travaux) to be in charge of
3) ( personnes) management4) ( lieu) manager's office; ( siège social) head office5) ( service) department6) ( de véhicule) steeringdirection à crémaillère/assistée — rack-and-pinion/power steering
* * *diʀɛksjɔ̃ nf1) [entreprise] (responsabilité, équipe) management2) (= service) [budget, développement] management3) MUSIQUE conducting4) [travaux, chantier] supervision5) AUTOMOBILES steering6) (= sens) directionC'est dans quelle direction? — Which way is it?, Which direction is it in?
On va dans la même direction que vous. — We're going the same way as you., We're going in the same direction as you.
en direction de (avion, train) — for, going to, (bateau) bound for
"toutes directions" AUTOMOBILES — "all routes"
* * *direction nf1 ( chemin) direction; se tromper de direction to go in the wrong direction; être or aller dans la bonne/mauvaise direction lit, fig to be heading in the right/wrong direction; changer de direction lit, fig to change direction; quelle est la direction du vent? which way is the wind blowing?; quelle direction ont-ils prise? which way did they go?; il a pris la direction du nord he headed north; il faut orienter nos recherches dans une autre direction we must take a new direction in our research; dans la direction de, en direction de [aller, regarder] toward(s); un village dans la direction de Clermont a village on the way to Clermont; demander la direction de la poste/mairie to ask the way ou for directions to the post office/town hall; indiquer la direction à qn to tell sb the way, to give sb directions; prenez la direction Nation ( d'autobus) take the bus going to ‘Nation’; ( de métro) take the train going to ‘Nation’; la direction Lille ( route) the Lille road; train en direction de Toulouse Toulouse train; avion/bateau en direction de Lisbonne flight/ship to Lisbon; faire un pas or geste en direction de qn fig to make an overture to sb;2 ( fonction de directeur) ( gestion) management; ( supervision) supervision; ( de journal) editorship; (de parti, mouvement) leadership; on leur a confié la direction du projet/de l'entreprise/des travaux they've been put in charge of the project/company/work; il a été nommé à la direction de l'usine he's been appointed manager of the factory; il veut siéger à la direction he wants to be on the management team; assurer la direction de to manage, to run [entreprise, service]; to be in charge of [opération, travaux, projet]; orchestre sous la direction de orchestra conducted by; thèse /recherches sous la direction de thesis/research supervised by;3 ( personnes) management; la direction et les ouvriers management and workers; la direction refuse de négocier the management refuses to negotiate; allez vous plaindre à la direction go and complain to the management; ‘changement de direction’ ‘under new management’; ‘la direction décline toute responsabilité’ ‘the management accepts no responsibility’;4 ( lieu) manager's office; ( siège social) head office; les grévistes ont occupé la direction de l'usine the strikers took over the factory manager's office;5 ( service) department; direction commerciale/du personnel sales/personnel department;direction assistée Aut power steering; direction à crémaillère Aut rack-and-pinion steering; direction des ressources humaines, DRH human resources department.[dirɛksjɔ̃] nom féminin1. [fonction de chef - d'une entreprise] management, managing ; [ - d'un orchestre] conducting, direction (US) ; [ - d'un journal] editorship ; [ - d'une équipe sportive] captaininga. [société, usine] to take over the running ou management ofb. [journal] to take over the editorship ofse voir confier la direction d'une société/d'un journal/d'un lycée to be appointed manager of a firm/chief editor of a newspaper/head of a school2. [organisation - de travaux] supervision ; [ - d'un débat] chairing, conducting ; [ - de la circulation, des opérations] directing3. [maîtrise, cadres]la direction refuse toute discussion avec les syndicats (the) management refuses to talk to the unions4. [bureau] manager's officevous allez dans quelle direction? which way are you going?, where are you heading for?prenez la direction Nation [dans le métro] take the Nation line‘toutes directions’ ‘all routes’a. [coureurs, ballons] to scatterb. [pétards] to go off in all directionsc. [conversation] to wanderdirection (d'acteurs) directing, direction————————de direction locution adjectivale[équipe] managerial————————en direction de locution prépositionnelleles trains/avions/vols en direction de Marseille trains/planes/flights to Marseillesjeter un regard en direction de quelqu'un to cast a glance at ou towards somebody -
4 Belidor, Bernard Forest de
SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour[br]b. 1698 Catalonia, Spaind. 8 September 1761 Paris, France[br]French engineer and founder of the science of modern ballistics.[br]Belidor was the son of a French army officer, who died when he was six months old, and was thereafter brought up by a brother officer. He soon demonstrated a scientific bent, and gravitated to Paris, where he became involved in the determination of the Paris meridian. He was then appointed Professor at the artillery school at La Fère, where he began to pursue the science of ballistics in earnest. He was able to disprove the popular theory that range was directly proportional to the powder charge, and also argued that the explosive power of a charge was greatest at the end of the explosion; he advocated spherical chambers in order to take advantage of this. His ideas made him unpopular with the "establishment", especially the Master of the King's artillery, and he was forced to leave France for a time, becoming a consultant to authorities in Bohemia and Bavaria. However, he was reinstated, and in 1758 he was appointed Royal Inspector of Artillery, a post that he held until his death.Belidor also made a name for himself in hydraulics and influenced design in this field for more than a century after his death. In addition, he was the first to make practical application of integral calculus.[br]BibliographyBelidor was the author of several books, of which the most significant were: 1739, La Science des ingénieurs, Paris (reprinted several times, the last edition being as late as 1830).1731, Le Bombardier françois, Paris: L'lmprimerie royale.1737, Architecture hydraulique, 2 vols, Paris.Further ReadingR.S.Kirby and P.G.Laurson, 1932, The Early History of Modern Civil Engineering, New Haven: Yale University Press (describes his work in the field of hydraulics).D.Chandler, 1976, The An of Warfare in the Age of Marlborough, London: Batsford (mentions the ballistics aspect).CMBiographical history of technology > Belidor, Bernard Forest de
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5 préfet
préfet [pʀefε]masculine noun* * *pʀefɛnom masculin prefectpréfet de police — prefect of police, police chief
* * *pʀefɛ nmprefect (civil servant responsible for administering a prefecture)préfet de police — Chief Constable Grande-Bretagne Police Commissioner USA
* * *préfet nm1 Admin prefect; préfet de police prefect of police, police chief; préfet maritime post admiral; préfet apostolique prefect apostolic; préfet de région regional prefect;[prefɛ] nom masculina. [en France] prefect ou chief of policeb. [en Grande-Bretagne] ≃ chief constable, ≃ head of the constabularypréfet de région regional prefect ou préfet3. NAUTIQUEOne of a body of civil servants which was created by Napoleon in 1800. The préfet, who is appointed by a décret of the Président de la République is the government representative of a département. -
6 Aubert, Jean
[br]b. 7 February 1894 Paris, Franced. 25 November 1984 Paris, France[br]French civil engineer.[br]Aubert was educated at the Lycée Louis-leGrand in Paris, and entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1913. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, when he served as an artillery officer, being wounded twice and awarded the Croix de Guerre in 1916. He returned to the Ecole Polytechnique in 1919, and from 1920 to 1922 he attended the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées; he graduated as Bachelor of Law from the University of Paris.In 1922 he began his long career, devoted principally to river and canal works. He was engineer in charge of the navigation works in Paris until 1932; he was then appointed Professor in the Chair of Internal Navigation at the Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, a post he held until his retirement in 1961. From 1933 to 1945 he was general manager and later chairman of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône; from 1945 to 1953, chairman of the electricity board of the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer français; and from 1949 to 1967, chairman of the Rhine Navigation Company. Following his retirement, he was chairman of the Société des Constructions des Batignolles, and from 1966 consulting engineer and honorary chairman of SPIE Batignolles; he was also chairman of several other companies.In 1919 he published La Probabilité dans les tires de guerre, for which he was awarded the Pierson-Perrim prize by the Académie des Sciences in 1922. During his career he wrote numerous articles and papers on technical and economic subjects, his last, entitled "Philosophic de la pente d'eau", appearing in the journal Travaux in 1984 when he was ninety years old.Aubert's principal works included the construction of the Pont Edouard-Herriort on the Rhône at Lyon; the design and construction of the Génissiat and Lonzères-Mondragon dams on the Rhône; and the conception and design of the Denouval dam on the Seine near Andresy, completed in 1980. He was awarded the Caméré prize in 1934 by the Académie des Sciences for a new type of movable dam. Overseas governments and the United Nations consulted him on river navigation inter alia in Brazil, on the Mahanadi river in India, on the Konkomé river in Guinea, on the Vistula river in Poland, on the Paraguay river in South America and others.In 1961 he published his revolutionary ideas on the pente d'eau, or "water slope", which was designed to eliminate delays and loss of water in transferring barges from one level to another, without the use of locks. This design consisted of a sloping flume or channel through which a wedge of water, in which the barge was floating, was pushed by a powered unit. A prototype at Mon tech on the Canal Latéral at La Garonne, bypassing five locks, was opened in 1973. A second was opened in 1984 on the Canal du Midi at Fonserannes, near Béziers.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCroix de Guerre 1916. Académie des Sciences: Prix Pierson-Perrim 1922, Prix Caméré 1934. Ingénieur Général des Ponts et Chaussées 1951. Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur 1960.Further ReadingDavid Tew, 1984, Canal Inclines and Lifts, Gloucester: Alan Sutton.JHB -
7 Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
[br]b. 25 April 1874 Bologna, Italyd. 20 July 1937 Rome, Italy[br]Italian radio pioneer whose inventiveness and business skills made radio communication a practical proposition.[br]Marconi was educated in physics at Leghorn and at Bologna University. An avid experimenter, he worked in his parents' attic and, almost certainly aware of the recent work of Hertz and others, soon improved the performance of coherers and spark-gap transmitters. He also discovered for himself the use of earthing and of elevated metal plates as aerials. In 1895 he succeeded in transmitting telegraphy over a distance of 2 km (1¼ miles), but the Italian Telegraph authority rejected his invention, so in 1896 he moved to England, where he filed the first of many patents. There he gained the support of the Chief Engineer of the Post Office, and by the following year he had achieved communication across the Bristol Channel.The British Post Office was also slow to take up his work, so in 1897 he formed the Wireless Telegraph \& Signal Company to work independently. In 1898 he sold some equipment to the British Army for use in the Boer War and established the first permanent radio link from the Isle of Wight to the mainland. In 1899 he achieved communication across the English Channel (a distance of more than 31 miles or 50 km), the construction of a wireless station at Spezia, Italy, and the equipping of two US ships to report progress in the America's Cup yacht race, a venture that led to the formation of the American Marconi Company. In 1900 he won a contract from the British Admiralty to sell equipment and to train operators. Realizing that his business would be much more successful if he could offer his customers a complete radio-communication service (known today as a "turnkey" deal), he floated a new company, the Marconi International Marine Communications Company, while the old company became the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company.His greatest achievement occurred on 12 December 1901, when Morse telegraph signals from a transmitter at Poldhu in Cornwall were received at St John's, Newfoundland, a distance of some 2,100 miles (3,400 km), with the use of an aerial flown by a kite. As a result of this, Marconi's business prospered and he became internationally famous, receiving many honours for his endeavours, including the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909. In 1904, radio was first used to provide a daily bulletin at sea, and in 1907 a transatlantic wireless telegraphy service was inaugurated. The rescue of 1,650 passengers from the shipwreck of SS Republic in 1909 was the first of many occasions when wireless was instrumental in saving lives at sea, most notable being those from the Titanic on its maiden voyage in April 1912; more lives would have been saved had there been sufficient lifeboats. Marconi was one of those who subsequently pressed for greater safety at sea. In 1910 he demonstrated the reception of long (8 km or 5 miles) waves from Ireland in Buenos Aires, but after the First World War he began to develop the use of short waves, which were more effectively reflected by the ionosphere. By 1918 the first link between England and Australia had been established, and in 1924 he was awarded a Post Office contract for short-wave communication between England and the various parts of the British Empire.With his achievements by then recognized by the Italian Government, in 1915 he was appointed Radio-Communications Adviser to the Italian armed forces, and in 1919 he was an Italian delegate to the Paris Peace Conference. From 1921 he lived on his yacht, the Elettra, and although he joined the Fascist Party in 1923, he later had reservations about Mussolini.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize for Physics (jointly with K.F. Braun) 1909. Russian Order of S t Anne. Commander of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (i.e. Knight) of Italy 1902. Freedom of Rome 1903. Honorary DSc Oxford. Honorary LLD Glasgow. Chevalier of the Civil Order of Savoy 1905. Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal. Honorary knighthood (GCVO) 1914. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1920. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1924. Created Marquis (Marchese) 1929. Nominated to the Italian Senate 1929. President, Italian Academy 1930. Rector, University of St Andrews, Scotland, 1934.Bibliography1896, "Improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and in apparatus thereof", British patent no. 12,039.1 June 1898, British patent no. 12,326 (transformer or "jigger" resonant circuit).1901, British patent no. 7,777 (selective tuning).1904, British patent no. 763,772 ("four circuit" tuning arrangement).Further ReadingD.Marconi, 1962, My Father, Marconi.W.J.Baker, 1970, A History of the Marconi Company, London: Methuen.KFBiographical history of technology > Marconi, Marchese Guglielmo
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8 Poitevin, Alphonse Louise
[br]b. 1819 Conflans, Franced. 1882 Conflans, France[br]French chemical engineer who established the essential principles of photolithography, carbon printing and collotype printing.[br]Poitevin graduated as a chemical engineer from the Ecole Centrale in Paris in 1843. He was appointed as a chemist with the Salines National de l'Est, a post which allowed him time for research, and he soon became interested in the recent invention of photography. He conducted a series of electrolytic experiments on daguerreotype plates in 1847 and 1848 which led him to propose a method of photochemical engraving on plates coated with silver or gold. In 1850 he joined the firm of Periere in Lyons, and the same year travelled to Paris. During the 1850s, Poitevin conducted a series of far-reaching experiments on the reactions of chromates with light, and in 1855 he took out two important patents which exploited the light sensitivity of bichromated gelatine. Poitevin's work during this period is generally recognized as having established the essential principles of photolithography, carbon printing and collotype printing, key steps in the development of modern photomechanical printing. His contribution to the advancement of photography was widely recognized and honours were showered upon him. Particularly welcome was the greater part of the 10,000 franc prize awarded by the Duke of Lynes, a wealthy art lover, for the discovery of permanent photographic printing processes. This sum was not sufficient to allow Poitevin to stop working, however, and in 1869 he resumed his career as a chemical engineer, first managing a glass works and then travelling to Africa to work in silver mines. Upon the death of his father he returned to his home town, where he remained until his own death in 1882.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsChevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1865. Paris Exposition Internationale Gold Medal for Services to Photography, 1878.BibliographyDecember 1855, British patent nos 2,815, 2,816.Further ReadingG.Tissandiers, 1876, A History and Handbook of Photography, trans. J.Thomson. J.M.Eder, 1945, History of Photography, trans. E.Epstean, New York.H.Gernsheim and A.Gernsheim, 1969, The History of Photography, rev. edn, London.JWBiographical history of technology > Poitevin, Alphonse Louise
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9 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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1. [rʌn] nI1. 1) бег, пробегat a run - бегом [см. тж. ♢ ]
to cross exposed areas at a run - воен. преодолевать открытые участки перебежками
on the run - а) на ходу, в движении; to be on the run all day - быть весь день в бегах; б) второпях; [см. тж. 2) и 3)]
to keep smb. on the run - а) не давать кому-л. остановиться; б) не давать кому-л. покоя
to break into a run - побежать, пуститься бегом
to make a run for it - а) броситься куда-л. со всех ног; б) сделать перебежку куда-л. (под пулями и т. п.)
he took a short run and cleared the fence - он разбежался и перепрыгнул через забор
there was no run left in me - я больше не мог /у меня больше не было сил/ бежать
2) бегство; беспорядочное отступлениеto be on the run - поспешно отступать, бежать [см. тж. 1) и 3)]
to keep the enemy on the run - воен. не давать противнику закрепляться ( в ходе преследования)
3) побег; нахождение в бегахthe criminal was on the run - преступник был в бегах [см. тж. 1) и 2)]
he is on the run from the police - он скрывается /бегает/ от полиции
4) короткая прогулка (пешком, на лошади и т. п.); пробежкаto go for a run - а) пробежаться; б) проехаться (в автомобиле, на лошади и т. п.)
to go for a short run before breakfast - а) немного пробежаться /сделать небольшую пробежку/ перед завтраком; б) совершить небольшую (автомобильную, верховую и т. п.) прогулку перед завтраком
to give smb. a run - дать пробежаться
I was giving my dog a run in the park - я пустил свою собаку побегать в парке
2. короткая поездкаgood run! - счастливого пути!
3. рейс, маршрутship's run - маршрут /рейс/ корабля
the boat was taken off its usual run - судно было снято со своего обычного рейса
4. 1) переходtrial run - испытательный пробег [см. тж. II 1]
it is a two hour's run from London - это находится в двух часах езды от Лондона
2) ж.-д. перегон, прогон3) ав. полёт; перелёт5. 1) пройденное расстояние; отрезок пути2) ж.-д. пробег (локомотива, вагона)3) ав. отрезок трассы7. 1) тропа ( проложенная животными)2) колея ( след от транспорта)8. период, отрезок ( времени), полосаa run of success [of good luck] - полоса успеха [везения /удачи/]
a run of ill luck - несчастливая полоса, полоса невезения
9. 1) направлениеthe run of the mountains is S.W. - горы тянутся на юго-запад
2) геол. направление рудной жилы10. партия ( изделий)11. тираж (книги и т. п.)12. спорт. ( в крикете и бейсболе)1) единица счёта2) перебежка3) очко за перебежку13. 1) стадо ( животных)2) стая ( птиц)3) косяк ( рыбы)14. карт. ряд, серияa run of cards - карты одной масти, идущие подряд по достоинству; «стрит» ( в покере)
15. средний тип, сорт или разрядthe general run of smth. - что-л. обычное /среднее/
an ordinary run of cloth - обыкновенный /стандартный/ сорт ткани
the common /general, ordinary/ run of men - обыкновенные люди
out of the run - необыкновенный, из ряда вон выходящий, незаурядный
above the ordinary run of mankind - необыкновенный, незаурядный
not like the common run of girls - не такая, как все девушки
16. спросa run on rubber [on a book] - большой спрос на резину [на книгу]
the book had a considerable run - книга пользовалась спросом; книга хорошо распродавалась
a run on the bank - ком. наплыв в банк требований о возвращении вкладов, массовое изъятие вкладов из банка
17. разг. разрешение, право пользоваться (чем-л.)to have the run of smb.'s house - иметь право распоряжаться в чьём-л. доме
to give smb. the (free) run of one's house [books] - разрешить кому-л. (свободно, беспрепятственно) распоряжаться /пользоваться/ своим домом [своими книгами]
I had the run of a well-stocked library - в моём полном распоряжении оказалась богатая библиотека
18. 1) загон (для овец и т. п.)2) вольер (для кур и т. п.)3) австрал. пастбище, особ. овечье4) австрал. скотоводческая ферма19. амер. ручей, поток20. 1) сильный прилив, приток (воды и т. п.)2) амер. ток ( жидкости); истечение21. уклон, трасса22. обвал, оползень23. труба, жёлоб, лоток ( для воды)24. длина (провода, труб)a 500 ft run of pipe - пятисотфутовый отрезок трубы; труба длиной в пятьсот футов
25. размер ( стиха)26. 1) ход рыбы на нерест2) нерестящаяся рыба27. марш ( лестницы)28. мор. кормовое заострение ( корпуса)29. муз. руладаII1. ход, работа, действие (мотора, машины)test /trial/ run - испытание (машины, оборудования и т. п.) [см. тж. I 4, 1)]
an experimental run to test the machinery - опытный /пробный/ запуск агрегата
2. течение, ход (событий и т. п.)the run of the disease - ход /течение/ болезни
the usual /ordinary/ run of things - обычное положение вещей
the run of the market - ком. общая тенденция рыночных цен
3. демонстрирование, показ, просмотр (фильма, спектакля)the first run of the film - премьера кинофильма, выпуск кинофильма на экран
4. провоз ( контрабанды)5. ав. заход на цель (тж. bombing run)6. амер. спустившаяся петля ( на чулке)7. серия ( измерений)♢
at a run - подряд, один за другим [см. тж. I 1, 1)]
in the long run - в конце концов; в конечном счёте; в общем
to go with a run - ≅ идти как по маслу
prices [temperature] came down with a run - цены [температура] резко упали [упала]
to give smb. /to let smb. have/ a good run for his money - а) предоставить кому-л. все удовольствия на свете (обыкн. ирон.); б) заставить кого-л. побегать, поволноваться и т. п.
it's all in the day's run - это всё обычно, мы ко всему этому привыкли
2. [rʌn] athe run of one's teeth - бесплатное питание (обыкн. за проделанную работу)
1. жидкий; расплавленный; растопленный2. вылитый в расплавленном состоянии; литой3. отцеженный, отфильтрованный4. разг. контрабандный5. нерестящийсяrun fish - рыба, пришедшая в пресную воду на нерест
6. спец. мягкийrun coal - мягкий или сыпучий уголь; мягкий битуминозный уголь; рядовой уголь
7. диал. свернувшийся, скисший ( о молоке)3. [rʌn] v (ran, run)I1. бежать, бегатьto run fast [slowly, as hard as one can, like a deer] — бегать быстро [медленно, изо всех сил, как олень]
to run a mile — пробежать милю [ср. тж. II А 6, 2)]
to run about the streets [the fields] — бегать /носиться/ по улицам [по полям]
to run at smb.'s heels — бежать рядом ( о собаке)
to run past smb. — пробежать мимо кого-л.
to run after smb. — а) бежать за кем-л.; run after him — беги за ним!, догони его!; б) ухаживать, «бегать» за кем-л.
run after smth. — бежать за чем-л.
to run for smb. — сбегать за кем-л.
to run to smb. for help — побежать к кому-л. за помощью
she always runs to me in case of trouble — когда у неё неприятности, она всегда прибегает /обращается/ ко мне
I must run now — я должен уже бежать, мне пора (уходить)
2. гнать, подгонятьhe ran me breathless /off my logs, off my feet/ — он меня совершенно загнал, он меня загнал до изнеможения
3. убегать, спасаться бегством (тж. run away, run off)to run from smb., smth. — убегать от кого-л., чего-л.
to run for it — разг. удирать, спасаться, искать спасения в бегстве
to run for one's life /for dear life/ — разг. бежать /удирать/ изо всех сил
to run before the sea — мор. уходить от волны
to run out of range — воен. выходить за пределы досягаемости ( огня)
4. 1) двигаться, катиться, скользитьto run on rails — ходить /двигаться/ по рельсам
to run off the rails — а) сойти с рельсов (о поезде, трамвае); б) сбиться с пути (праведного); в) ≅ с катушек долой
the ship ran before the wind — а) корабль плыл с попутным ветром; б) мор. корабль шёл на фордевинд
life runs smoothly for her — её жизнь течёт гладко /спокойно/
2) амер. разг. катать в автомобиле (кого-л.)5. 1) ходить, следовать, курсировать, плаватьto run every three minutes [daily] — ходить каждые три минуты [ежедневно]
to run behind schedule — опаздывать, отставать от расписания
to run straight for — мор. идти прямо в
to run off the course — мор. сбиваться с курса
to run in with the shore — мор. идти вдоль берега
2) двигаться, идти ( с определённой скоростью)this train runs at 50 miles an hour — этот поезд делает /идёт со скоростью/ пятьдесят миль в час
we run from forty to fifty miles a day — мы проходим /делаем/ от сорока до пятидесяти миль в день
3) съездить (куда-л.) на короткий срокto run up to town (for a day or two) — съездить в город (обыкн. в Лондон) (на день-два)
to run up and visit smb. — съездить к кому-л. погостить
to run down to the country — съездить в деревню /в провинцию/ (обыкн. из Лондона)
4) ав. совершать пробег, разбег5) ав. заходить на цель6. 1) бежать, лететь, протекать ( о времени)time runs fast — время бежит /летит/
2) идти, происходить (о событиях и т. п.)7. проноситься, мелькатьthoughts run in /through/ one's head [mind] — мысли мелькают /проносятся/ в голове [в уме]
8. (быстро) распространятьсяa rumour ran through the town — по городу разнёсся /распространился, пополз/ слух
the news ran like wildfire /like lightning/ — новость распространилась с молниеносной быстротой
a murmur ran through the ranks — ропот пробежал /прокатился/ по рядам
a cheer ran down the line — возгласы одобрения /крики ура/ прокатились по строю
I felt the blood running to my head — я почувствовал, как кровь ударила /бросилась/ мне в голову
9. 1) тянуться, простираться, расстилатьсяto run north and south — тянуться /простираться/ на север и на юг
this line runs from... to... — этот маршрут проходит от... до..., эта линия соединяет...
2) ползти, виться ( о растениях)10. проводить, прокладывать11. 1) быть действительным на определённый срок2) распространяться на определённую территорию, действовать на определённой территорииso far as British justice runs — там, где действует британское правосудие
3) иметь хождение ( о деньгах)4) сопровождать в качестве непременного условияa right-of-way that runs with the land — земля, через которую проходит полоса отчуждения (шоссе и т. п.)
12. 1) течь, литься, сочиться, струитьсяthis river runs smoothly — эта река течёт плавно /спокойно/
wait till the water runs hot — подожди, пока не пойдёт горячая вода
blood ran in torrents — кровь текла /лилась/ ручьём
till the blood ran — пока не потекла /не показалась/ кровь
tears ran down her cheeks — слёзы текли /катились/ по её щекам /лицу/
her eyes ran with tears — её глаза наполнились слезами; из её глаз потекли слёзы
the kettle is beginning to run — чайник закипает /льётся через край/
the scolding ran off him like water off a duck's back — его ругают, а с него как с гуся вода
2) протекать, течьthis tap [barrel, pen] runs — этот кран [бочонок, эта ручка] течёт
his nose was running, he was running at the nose — у него текло из носу
his eyes run — у него слезятся /гноятся/ глаза
3) разливаться, расплываться4) таять, течь5) (into) сливаться, переходить (во что-л.)to run into one — сливаться, объединяться воедино
to run into one another — переходить один в другой, сливаться в одно
13. лить, наливатьto run water into a bath-tub — наливать воду в ванну, напускать ванну
14. 1) вращатьсяa wheel [a spindle] runs — колесо [шпиндель] вращается
to run (up)on an axis — а) вращаться вокруг оси; б) вращаться на оси
2) (on, upon) касаться (какой-л. темы и т. п.)his mind kept running on the problem — его мысли всё время вертелись вокруг этой проблемы; он всё время думал об этой проблеме
our talk /the conversation/ ran on recent events — мы всё время говорили /разговор шёл/ о недавних событиях
3) (over) касаться, слегка дотрагиваться до (чего-л.)15. гласитьthe story runs that (the bank will close) — говорят, что (банк закроется)
the proverb runs like this — вот как звучит эта пословица, эта пословица гласит
16. проходить; преодолевать ( препятствие)to run rapids — преодолевать пороги, проходить через пороги
17. линять18. амер., австрал. дразнить (кого-л.), приставать (к кому-л.), дёргать (кого-л.)19. стр. покрывать штукатуркойII А1. руководить (учреждением и т. п.); вести (дело, предприятие и т. п.)to run a business — вести дело, управлять предприятием
to run a factory — управлять фабрикой, быть управляющим на фабрике
to run a theatre — руководить театром, быть директором театра
to run the house (for smb.) — вести (чьё-л.) хозяйство
to run the show — разг. заправлять (чем-л.)
who is running the show? — разг. кто здесь главный?
2. 1) управлять ( автомобилем); водить (автобус и т. п.)to run the engine — запускать двигатель /мотор/
to run a car into a garage [off the road] — поставить автомобиль в гараж [съехать на обочину]
2) водить корабль без конвоя ( во время войны)to run (the) trials — мор. а) производить ходовые испытания; б) проходить ходовые испытания
4. работать, действовать ( о машине)the motor runs smoothly [very nice] — мотор работает ровно /спокойно/ [хорошо]
you mustn't let the machine run free /idle/ — ты не должен допускать, чтобы машина работала вхолостую /на холостом ходу/
an engine that runs at a very high speed — мотор, работающий на больших скоростях
5. 1) пускать ( линию); открывать (трассу, сообщение)an express train runs between these cities — между этими городами ходит поезд /есть железнодорожное сообщение/
2) отправлять (автобусы и т. п.) на линию, по маршруту6. 1) проводить (соревнования, бега, скачки; тж. run off)we are running a competition to find new dancers — мы проводим конкурс, чтобы выявить новых танцоров
2) участвовать (в соревнованиях, в беге, в скачках)to run (in) a race — участвовать в соревнованиях по бегу или в скачках
to run (a race over) a mile — участвовать в беге на одну милю [ср. тж. I 1]
3) занимать место (в соревнованиях и т. п.)to run second [third] — прийти вторым [третьим]
my horse ran last — моя лошадь пришла последней /заняла последнее место/
also ran — также участвовала (в соревнованиях и т. п. — о лошадях), но не заняла призового места [см. тж. ♢ ]
7. 1) демонстрировать, показывать (пьесу, фильм)2) идти (о пьесе, фильме)the film runs for nearly 21/2 hours — фильм идёт почти два с половиной часа
8. 1) перевозить, транспортировать ( груз)to run smb. into London — отвезти кого-л. в Лондон
2) провозить контрабандойto run liquor [drugs, arms] — нелегально /контрабандой/ провозить спиртные напитки [наркотики, оружие]
9. 1) преследовать, травить (зверя и т. п.)to run to earth — а) загнать в нору; б) скрыться в нору; в) выследить; найти, обнаружить; настигнуть; I was run to earth by Ben — Бен еле-еле разыскал меня; to run a quarry to earth — настичь, жертву; г) спрятаться, притаиться
2) преследовать ( по суду)10. подвергаться (риску, опасности)to run risks /hazards, chances/ — рисковать
we ran a chance of getting no dinner — мы могли /нам грозило, мы рисковали/ остаться без обеда
you run the danger of being suspected of theft — есть опасность, что вас заподозрят в краже
11. печатать, опубликовывать, помещать (в газете, журнале)to run a story on the third page — помещать /давать/ рассказ на третьей странице
12. 1) баллотироваться ( на пост)to run for parliament [for office, for president] — баллотироваться в парламент [на (какую-л.) должность, на пост президента]
2) выставлять ( кандидатуру)to run a candidate — выставлять /выдвигать/ кандидата
who(m) will the Republicans run against the Democratic candidate? — кого выставят республиканцы против кандидата (от) демократической партии?
13. выполнять ( поручение)to run errands — а) выполнять поручения; б) быть на посылках, на побегушках
to run messages — быть посыльным, разносить телеграммы и т. п.
14. болтать; распускать ( язык)15. спускаться ( о петле)16. смётывать (платье и т. п.); сшить на скорую руку (тж. to run up)17. идти ( на нерест)18. 1) плавить ( металл)2) лить, отливать ( металл)19. отставать ( о коре деревьев)20. ударить ( по шару), покатить ( шар — в биллиарде)21. диал.1) скисать, свёртываться ( о молоке)2) квасить, приводить к свёртыванию ( молоко)II Б1. to run across smb., smth. случайно встретить кого-л., что-л., случайно встретиться с кем-л., чем-л.; натолкнуться на кого-л., что-л.I ran across him in the street — я случайно встретился /столкнулся/ с ним на улице
2. to run against smth. наталкиваться, налетать, наскакивать на что-л., сталкиваться с чем-л.to run against a rock — наскочить на скалу, удариться о скалу
3. to run against smb. идти, действовать, выступать против кого-л.4. to run smth. against smth. столкнуть что-л. с чем-л.; стукнуть что-л. обо что-л.to run one's head against a wall — а) стукнуться головой о стену; б) прошибать лбом стену
5. to run smb., smth. against smb. выдвигать кого-л., что-л. против кого-л.6. to run at smb., smth. нападать, набрасываться, накидываться на кого-л., что-л.to run at smth. with a knife — броситься на кого-л. с ножом
7. to run into smth.1) налетать, наскакивать, наталкиваться на что-л., сталкиваться с чем-л.to run into a wall [into a tree, into a boulder] — налететь на стену [на дерево, на камень]
to run into a gale — мор. попасть в шторм
climbing higher, we ran into thick mist — поднявшись выше, мы попали в густой туман /оказались в густом тумане/
2) попадать в какое-л. положениеto run into danger [into mischief, into trouble] — попасть в опасное положение [в беду]
we expect to run into a few snags before the machine is ready for production — вполне возможно, что прежде чем машина будет готова к запуску в производство, в ней обнаружатся некоторые недоделки
3) достигать определённого количества, исчисляться определённой суммойthe damages ran into thousands — компенсация за убытки исчислялась тысячами /достигала нескольких тысяч/ (фунтов)
the ship runs into so many tons displacement — мор. корабль имеет водоизмещение, достигающее стольких-то тонн
8. to run into smb. случайно встретить кого-л., столкнуться с кем-л.to run slap into smb. — разг. налететь на кого-л., столкнуться лицом к лицу с кем-л.
9. to run smth., smb. into smth.1) втыкать, вгонять, вонзать что-л. во что-л.2) вводить, ставить; кого-л. в что-л.to run smb. into expense — ввести кого-л. в расход
to run smb. into difficulties — поставить кого-л. в трудное положение
10. to run smth., smb. into smth., smb. столкнуть что-л., кого-л. с чем-л., кем-л.; заставить что-л., кого-л. налететь, наскочить, натолкнуться на что-л., на кого-л.he lost control of the car and ran it into a lamp-post — он потерял управление и врезался в фонарный столб
11. to run on smth. = to run upon smth.12. to run out of smth. истощать запас чего-л.; иссякать (о запасах и т. п.)to run out of ammunition — воен. израсходовать боеприпасы
to run out of altitude — ав. терять высоту полёта
13. to run smth. over smth., smb. проводить чем-л. по чему-л., кому-л.to run one's hand [fingers] (down [up]) over his face [her] — провести рукой [пальцами] (вниз [вверх]) по его лицу [по ней]
to run an eye over smth., smb. — окинуть взглядом, бегло осмотреть что-л., кого-л.
he ran a rapid eye over the papers — он бросил быстрый взгляд на бумаги /газеты/, он быстро пробежал глазами бумаги /газеты/
14. to run smth. through smth. продевать, пропускать что-л. через что-л.to run a thread through an eyelet — продеть нитку в ушко /в петлю/
to run one's fingers [a comb] through one's [smb.'s] hair — провести пальцами [расчёской] по своим [по чьим-л.] волосам
to run a pen [a pencil] through smth. — зачеркнуть /прочеркнуть, перечеркнуть/ что-л. ручкой [карандашом]
15. to run smth. through smb., to run smb. through with smth. пронзать, прокалывать кого-л. чем-л.to run a sword through smb., to run smb. through with a sword — проколоть /проткнуть, пронзить/ кого-л. шпагой
16. to run through smth.1) бегло прочитывать /просматривать/ что-л.to run through the text [papers] — бегло /быстро/ просмотреть текст /бумаги/
2) разг. повторять (особ. вкратце)I'll just run through the main points of the subject — разрешите вкратце напомнить главные разделы этой темы
would you mind running through your proposals? — пожалуйста, перечислите вкратце ваши предложения
3) репетироватьI'd like to run you through that scene you have with Ophelia — я бы хотел повторить вашу сцену с Офелией
4) тратитьto run through money /fortune/ — промотать деньги /состояние/
17. to run over smth.1) бегло просматривать, пробегать (что-л. глазами)to run over a text [one's part, the names] — просматривать текст [свою роль, список имён]
2) повторять3) репетировать; прослушивать актёра, читающего рольjust run over my lines with me before the rehearsal begins — пожалуйста, послушайте мою роль, пока ещё не началась репетиция (всей пьесы)
18. to run to smth.1) тяготеть к чему-л., иметь склонность к чему-л.to run to fat — а) быть предрасположенным к полноте; б) разг. толстеть, жиреть; в) превращаться в жир
to run to sentiment — а) быть склонным к сентиментальности; б) быть сентиментальным
to run to any length /to anything/ — пойти на что угодно
to run to forgery — пойти на подделку (подписи, документов)
2) достигать (суммы, цифры)the increase may run to ten thousand pounds — увеличение может достигнуть суммы в десять тысяч фунтов
that will run to a pretty penny — это влетит /встанет/ в копеечку
3) хватать, быть достаточным19. to run (up)on smth. неожиданно, внезапно встретиться с чем-л., натолкнуться, наскочить на что-л.to run (up)on rocks — а) потерпеть крушение; б) натолкнуться на непреодолимые препятствия
to run on a mine — мор. наскочить на мину
20. to run smth. (up)on smth. натолкнуть на что-л., заставить наехать на что-л.21. to run smb. up /over, down/ to some place отвезти кого-л. куда-л.to run smb. up to town — отвезти кого-л. в город (обыкн. в Лондон)
22. to run with smb. преим. амер. общаться с кем-л.; водить компанию с кем-л.a ram running with ewes — баран, пасущийся с овечками
23. to run counter to smth. противоречить, идти вразрез с чем-л.III А1. становиться, делатьсяto run dry — а) высыхать; the river ran dry — река высохла /пересохла/; б) выдыхаться, иссякать
my imagination ran dry — моё воображение истощилось, моя фантазия иссякла
to run high — а) подниматься ( о приливе); б) волноваться ( о море); the sea runs high — море волнуется; в) разгораться ( о страстях); passions /feelings/ ran high — страсти разгорались /бушевали/; г) возрастать ( о ценах)
the tide is running strong — вода быстро прибывает, прилив быстро поднимается
to run low — а) понижаться, опускаться; б) истощаться, иссякать, быть на исходе; кончаться
supplies ran low — запасы были на исходе /кончались/
his funds [stores] are running low — его фонды [запасы] подходят к концу
to run short — истощаться, подходить к концу
I have run short of money, my money has run short — у меня кончились деньги, мне не хватило денег
to run wild — а) бурно разрастаться; the garden is running wild — сад зарастает; б) расти без присмотра; не получить образования; в) разойтись, разыграться; his imagination ran wild — его воображение разыгралось; г) не знать удержу, пуститься во все тяжкие
2. быть, являтьсяthe apples [pears] run large /big/ this year — в этом году яблоки [груши] крупные
they run in all shapes — они бывают разной формы /всех видов, всякие, разные/
to run in the blood /in the family/ — быть наследственным
courage [the collecting spirit, fondness for music] runs in the family — храбрость [страсть к коллекционированию, любовь к музыке] — это у них семейное
3. иметьI think I am running a temperature — мне кажется, что у меня (поднимается) температура
he always runs a fever if he gets his feet wet — его всегда лихорадит, если он промочит ноги
♢
an also ran — неудачник [см. тж. II А 6, 3)]
to run riot см. riot I ♢
to run the show — распоряжаться; быть во главе; ≅ командовать парадом
to run smth. close — быть почти равным (по качеству и т. п.)
to run smb. close — а) быть чьим-л. опасным соперником; б) быть почти равным кому-л.
to run to cover — уйти от /избежать/ опасности; принять меры предосторожности
to cut and run — убегать; удирать, спасаться бегством; бежать со всех ног; улепётывать
to run foul (of) — а) мор. столкнуться ( с другим судном); б) ист. брать на абордаж; в) поссориться; вступить в конфликт
to run oneself [smb.] into the ground — измотать себя [кого-л.]; совершенно измочалить себя (работой, спортом и т. п.)
to run smb. ragged см. ragged ♢
to run to seed см. seed I ♢
to run a mile (from) — бегать от кого-л.; изо всех сил избегать кого-л.
he was a bore whom everyone ran a mile from — он был занудой, от которого все старались избавиться
to run it /things/ fine — иметь в обрез (времени, денег)
to run out of steam см. steam I 3
to run rings round см. ring1 I ♢
to run before the hounds — забегать вперед, опережать события
to run the wrong hare — просчитаться, ошибиться в расчётах; пойти по ложному следу
to run aground — мор. а) сесть или посадить на мель; to run a ship aground — посадить корабль на мель; б) выбрасываться на берег
to run ashore — мор. выбрасываться на берег; приткнуться к берегу
to run a line [a rope] ashore — передать /бросить/ конец [трос] на берег
to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds — посл. ≅ служить и нашим и вашим; вести двойную игру
he who runs may read — посл. всякий поймёт, всякому доступно /понятно/ (о чём-л. лёгком, доступном для понимания)
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11 Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 18 February 1745 Como, Italyd. 5 March 1827 Como, Italy[br]Italian physicist, discoverer of a source of continuous electric current from a pile of dissimilar metals.[br]Volta had an early command of English, French and Latin, and also learned to read Dutch and Spanish. After completing studies at the Royal Seminary in Como he was involved in the study of physics, chemistry and electricity. He became a teacher of physics in his native town and in 1779 was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Pavia, a post he held for forty years.With a growing international reputation and a wish to keep abreast of the latest developments, in 1777 he began the first of many travels abroad. A journey started in 1781 to Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and England lasted about one year. By 1791 he had been elected to membership of many learned societies, including those in Zurich, Berlin, Berne and Paris. Volta's invention of his pile resulted from a controversy with Luigi Galvani, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna. Galvani discovered that the muscles of frogs' legs contracted when touched with two pieces of different metals and attributed this to a phenomenon of the animal tissue. Volta showed that the excitation was due to a chemical reaction resulting from the contact of the dissimilar metals when moistened. His pile comprised a column of zinc and silver discs, each pair separated by paper moistened with brine, and provided a source of continuous current from a simple and accessible source. The effectiveness of the pile decreased as the paper dried and Volta devised his crown of cups, which had a longer life. In this, pairs of dissimilar metals were placed in each of a number of cups partly filled with an electrolyte such as brine. Volta first announced the results of his experiments with dissimilar metals in 1800 in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. This letter, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, has been regarded as one of the most important documents in the history of science. Large batteries were constructed in a number of laboratories soon after Volta's discoveries became known, leading immediately to a series of developments in electrochemistry and eventually in electromagnetism. Volta himself made little further contribution to science. In recognition of his achievement, at a meeting of the International Electrical Congress in Paris in 1881 it was agreed to name the unit of electrical pressure the "volt".[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1791. Royal Society Copley Medal 1794. Knight of the Iron Crown, Austria, 1806. Senator of the Realm of Lombardy 1809.Bibliography1800, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 18:744–6 (Volta's report on his discovery).Further ReadingG.Polvani, 1942, Alessandro Volta, Pisa (the best account available).B.Dibner, 1964, Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery, New York (a detailed account).C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1976, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. XIV, New York, pp.66–82 (includes an extensive biography).F.Soresni, 1988, Alessandro Volta, Milan (includes illustrations of Volta's apparatus, with brief text).GWBiographical history of technology > Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio
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12 Wheatstone, Sir Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications[br]b. 1802 near Gloucester, Englandd. 19 October 1875 Paris, France[br]English physicist, pioneer of electric telegraphy.[br]Wheatstone's family moved to London when he was 4 years old. He was educated at various schools in London and excelled in physics and mathematics. He qualified for a French prize but forfeited it because he was too shy to recite a speech in French at the prize-giving.An uncle, also called Charles Wheatstone, has a musical instrument manufacturing business where young Charles went to work. He was fascinated by the science of music, but did not enjoy business life. After the uncle's death, Charles and his brother William took over the business. Charles developed and patented the concertina, which the firm assembled from parts made by "outworkers". He devoted much of his time to studying the physics of sound and mechanism of sound transmission through solids. He sent speech and music over considerable distances through solid rods and stretched wires, and envisaged communication at a distance. He concluded, however, that electrical methods were more promising.In 1834 Wheatstone was appointed Professor of Experimental Philosophy—a part-time posi-tion—in the new King's College, London, which gave him some research facilities. He conducted experiments with a telegraph system using several miles of wire in the college corridors. Jointly with William Fothergill Cooke, in 1837 he obtained the first patent for a practical electric telegraph, and much of the remainder of his life was devoted to its improvement. In 1843 he gave a paper to the Royal Society surveying the state of electrical measurements and drew attention to a bridge circuit known ever since as the "Wheatstone bridge", although he clearly attributed it to S.H.Christie. Wheatstone devised the "ABC" telegraph, for use on private lines by anyone who could read, and a high-speed automatic telegraph which was adopted by the Post Office and used for many years. He also worked on the French and Belgian telegraph systems; he died when taken ill on a business visit to Paris.[br]Further ReadingB.Bowers, 1975, Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS, London: HMSO.BBBiographical history of technology > Wheatstone, Sir Charles
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13 arbiter
arbĭter, tri, m. [ar = ad (v. ad init.) and bito = eo], orig., one that goes to something in order to see or hear it; hence, a spectator, beholder, hearer, an eye-witness, a witness (class. through all periods; used several times by Plaut., but only twice by Ter.; syn.: testis, speculator, conscius).I.In gen.:II.aequi et justi hic eritis omnes arbitri,
Plaut. Am. prol. 16:mi quidem jam arbitri vicini sunt, meae quid fiat domi, Ita per impluvium introspectant,
id. Mil. 2, 2, 3:ne arbitri dicta nostra arbitrari (i. e. speculari, v. arbitror) queant,
id. Capt. 2, 1, 28; so id. ib. 2, 1, 34; id. Cas. 1, 1, 2; 1, 1, 55; id. Mil. 4, 4, 1; id. Merc. 5, 4, 46; id. Poen. 1, 1, 50; 3, 3, 50; id. Trin. 1, 2, 109:aut desine aut cedo quemvis arbitrum,
Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 43:quis est decisionis arbiter?
Cic. Fl. 36:ab arbitris remoto loco,
id. Verr. 2, 5, 31:remotis arbitris,
after the removal of, id. Off. 3, 31, 112:omnibus arbitris procul amotis,
Sall. C. 20, 1 Corte:arbitros eicit,
Liv. 1, 41:remotis arbitris,
id. 2, 4:sine arbitro,
id. 27, 28:absque arbitris,
Vulg. Gen. 39, 11:loca abdita et ab arbitris libera,
Cic. Att. 15, 16 B; Just. 21, 4:secretorum omnium arbiter, i. e. conscius,
Curt. 3, 12, 9:procul est, ait, arbiter omnis,
Ov. M. 2, 458 (cf. id. ib. 4, 63: conscius omnis abest).—Esp.A.In judic. lang., t. t., prop., he that is appointed to inquire into a cause (cf. adire hiberna, Tac. H. 1, 52, and intervenio) and settle it; hence, an umpire, arbiter, a judge, in an actio bonae fidei (i. e. who decides acc. to equity, while the judex decides acc. to laws), Sen. Ben. 3, 7 (cf. Zimmern, Rechtsgesch. 3 B, § 8; 3 B, § 42; 3 B, § 60 sq., and the jurists there cited).— So in the fragments of the Twelve Tables: JVDICI. ARBITROVE. REOVE. DIES. DIFFISVS. ESTO., ap. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. reus, p. 227 Müll.: Prae TOR. ARBITROS. TRES. DATO. ap. Fest. s. v. vindiciae, p. 376 Müll., and the ancient judicial formula:B.P. J. A. V. P. V. D., i. e. PRAETOREM JVDICEM ARBITRVMVE POSTVLO VTI DET,
Val. Prob. p. 1539 P.:ibo ad arbitrum,
Plaut. Rud. 4, 3, 101; so id. ib. 4, 3, 104:Vicini nostri hic ambigunt de finibus: Me cepere arbitrum,
Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 90 (arbiter dabatur his, qui de finibus regendis ambigerent, Don.); so,arbiter Nolanis de finibus a senatu datus,
Cic. Off. 1, 10, 33.—Of the Hebrew judges:subjacebit damno, quantum arbitri judicaverint,
Vulg. Exod. 21, 22.—Hence, trop.:Taurus immensus ipse et innumerarum gentium arbiter,
that sets boundaries to numerous tribes, Plin. 5, 27, 27, § 97:arbitrum familiae herciscundae postulavit,
Cic. Caecin. 7: arbitrum illum adegit (i. e. ad arbitrum illum egit; cf.adigo),
id. Off. 3, 16, 66:quis in hanc rem fuit arbiter?
id. Rosc. Com. 4, 12.—In the time of Cicero, when, acc. to the Lex Aebutia, the decisions were given in definite formulae of the praetor, the formal distinction between judex and arbiter disappeared, Cic. Mur. 12 fin. —Transf. from the sphere of judicial proceedings, a judge, an arbitrator, umpire, in gen.: arbiter inter antiquam Academiam et Zenonem. Cic. Leg. 1, 20, 53:C.Judicet Dominus, arbiter hujus diei, inter etc.,
Vulg. Jud. 11, 27.—So of Paris:arbiter formae,
Ov. H. 16, 69: pugnae, the judge, umpire of the contest, ho brabeutês, Hor. C. 3, 20, 11:favor arbiter coronae,
which adjudged the prize of victory, Mart. 7, 72, 10.—He that rules over, governs, or manages something, a lord, ruler, master (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose; syn.: rex, dominus): arbiter imperii (Augustus), Ov. Tr. 5, 2, 47:armorum (Mars),
id. F. 3, 73:bibendi,
Hor. C. 2, 7, 25 (cf. id. ib. 1, 4, 18: nec regna vini sortiere talis, and in Gr. basileus tou sumposiou):quo (sc. Noto) non arbiter Hadriae Major,
who rules over the sea, id. ib. 1, 3, 15:arbiter Eurystheus irae Junonis iniquae,
i. e. the executor, fulfiller of her wrath, Ov. H. 9, 45 al. —In prose, Tac. A. 1, 26:regni,
id. ib. 13, 14, where Halm reads arbitrium:rerum,
id. ib. 2, 73:di potentium populorum arbitri,
id. ib. 15, 24:(JOVI) RERVM RECTORI FATORVMQVE ARBITRO,
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14 Lubetkin, Berthold
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 12 December 1901 Tiflis, Georgiad. 23 October 1990 Bristol, England[br]Soviet émigré architect who, through the firm of Tecton, wins influential in introducing architecture of the modern international style into England.[br]Lubetkin studied in Moscow, where in the years immediately after 1917 he met Vesnin and Rodchenko and absorbed the contemporary Constructivist ideas. He then moved on to Paris and worked with Auguste Perret, coming in on the ground floor of the modern movement. He went to England in 1930 and two years later formed the Tecton group, leading six young architects who had newly graduated from the Architectural Association in London. Lubetkin's early commissions in England were for animals rather than humans. He designed the gorilla house (1932) at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, after which came his award-winning Penguin Pool there, a sculptural blend of curved planes in reinforced concrete. He also worked at Whipsnade and at Dudley Zoo. The name of Tecton had quickly became synonymous with modern methods of design and structure, particularly the use of reinforced concrete; such work was not common in the 1930s in Britain. In 1938–9 the firm was responsible for another pace-setting design, the Finsbury Health Centre in London. Tecton was disbanded during the Second World War, and although it was reformed in the late 1940s it did not recover its initiative in leading the field of modern work. Lubetkin lived on to be an old man but his post-war career did not fulfil his earlier promise and brilliance. He was appointed Architect-Planner of the Peterlee New Town in 1948, but he resigned after a few years and no other notable commissions materialized. In 1982 the Royal Institute of British Architects belatedly remembered him with the award of their Gold Medal.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRIBA Gold Medal 1982.Further ReadingJohn Allan, 1992, Architecture and the Tradition of Progress, RIBA publications. R.Furneaux Jordan, 1955, "Lubetkin", Architectural Review 36–44.P.Coe and M.Reading, 1981, Lubetkin and Tecton, University of Bristol Arts Council.DY
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English post-Reformation oaths — The English Protestant Reformation was imposed by the English Crown, and submission to its essential points was exacted by the State with post Reformation oaths. With some solemnity, by oath, test, or formal declaration, English churchmen and… … Wikipedia
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Timeline of entomology - post 1900 — 1900 * Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever. He concurred with Carlos Finlay in idenitifying mosquitoes as the agent. *… … Wikipedia
Hôtel de Ville, Paris — The Hôtel de Ville houses the office of the Mayor of Paris The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil], City Hall) in Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris s administration. Standing on the place de l Hôtel de… … Wikipedia
Gerhardt, Charles — ▪ French chemist Introduction in full Charles Frédéric Gerhardt born Aug. 21, 1816, Strasbourg, France died Aug. 19, 1856, Strasbourg French chemist who was an important precursor of the German chemist August Kekule (Kekule von Stradonitz,… … Universalium