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(It's time to fold up and go home

  • 1 It's time to fold up and go home

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > It's time to fold up and go home

  • 2 fold up

    phrvi infml
    1)
    2)

    From the moment he appeared on stage the audience folded up in their seats — Как только он появился на сцене, зрители покатились со смеху

    3)

    He jabbed me just once in the solar plexus and I folded up — Он только раз ударил меня в солнечное сплетение, и я был готов

    4)

    They felt that if she didn't fold up when her boy died, she wouldn't fold up when the balloon went up — Они были уверены, что если смерть сына ее не сломила, то она не упадет духом, когда начнется война

    The new dictionary of modern spoken language > fold up

  • 3 fold up

    ['fəʊld'ʌp]
    2) Разговорное выражение: свернуться
    3) Макаров: валиться с ног (от смеха боли), завёртывать, закрыться (о предприятии), обанкротиться, прогореть, свёртывать, складывать (напр. газету), складываться

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > fold up

  • 4 закругляться

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > закругляться

  • 5 Пора закругляться и идти домой

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Пора закругляться и идти домой

  • 6 rientrare

    come back
    a casa come home
    questo non rientrava nei miei piani that was not part of the plan
    * * *
    rientrare v. intr.
    1 ( entrare di nuovo) to re-enter (sthg.); to enter (sthg.) again; ( tornare) to return (to sthg.); to go* back; to come* back: è ora di rientrare ( a casa), it is time to return (o to go) home; rientrò a sera tarda, he returned late in the evening; ho promesso di rientrare per le dieci, I've promised to be back by ten; rientrarono in albergo dopo la passeggiata, they went back to the hotel after their walk; è ancora in ferie e rientrerà domani, he's still on holiday and will be back tomorrow; è rientrato in servizio dopo la malattia, he returned to work after his illness; (mil.) rientrare alla base, to return to base; (mar.) rientrare in porto, to return to port // rientrare in gioco, to return to the game // rientrare in lizza, to return to the fray // rientrare in possesso di qlco., to recover sthg. // rientrare in sé, to return to one's senses // rientrare nelle grazie di qlcu., to regain s.o.'s favour // (teatr.) rientra Macbeth, re-enter Macbeth
    2 ( far parte) to form part (of sthg.), to be part (of sthg.), to be included (in sthg.), to come* into (sthg.); to fall* within (sthg.), to come* within (sthg.): rientrare nella graduatoria dei vincitori, to be included in the list of winners; la questione non rientra nella nostra competenza, the matter doesn't fall within our province; questo non rientra nei miei doveri, this isn't (o doesn't form) part of my duties; questo non rientra nel nostro programma, this doesn't form part of (o come into o is not included in) our programme; questo rientra in un'altra questione, that doesn't come into the question (o that is quite a different matter)
    3 ( essere annullato) to be withdrawn, to be called off: lo sciopero è rientrato, the strike has been called off; la proposta è rientrata, the proposal has been withdrawn
    4 ( presentare una rientranza) to have a recess: qui il muro rientra, there is a recess in the wall here
    5 ( restringersi) to shrink
    6 ( recuperare denaro speso) to recover one's money: sono rientrato nelle spese, I have recovered my expenses.
    * * *
    [rien'trare] 1.
    verbo intransitivo (aus. essere)
    1) (andare di nuovo dentro) to go* back in; (venire di nuovo dentro) to come* back in
    2) (tornare) to come* back, to get* back, to return

    rientrare in possesso di qcs. — to regain possession of sth.

    rientrare alla basemil. to return to base

    3) (non avere realizzazione) [ progetto] to be* dropped
    4) (attenuarsi) [ scandalo] to die away
    5) (formare una rientranza) to curve inwards, to turn inwards
    7) fig. (far parte)

    rientrare in — to be part of, to fall within

    rientrare nei piani di qcn. — to enter into sb.'s plans

    rientrare nei propri compiti — to fall within sb.'s brief

    rientrare nelle possibilità di qcn. — [ spesa] to be within sb.'s reach

    8) (ritrarsi) [ ruote] to retract; [ letto] to fold away
    2.
    verbo transitivo tip. to indent [ riga]
    ••
    * * *
    rientrare
    /rien'trare/ [1]
     (aus. essere)
     1 (andare di nuovo dentro) to go* back in; (venire di nuovo dentro) to come* back in
     2 (tornare) to come* back, to get* back, to return; rientrare dal lavoro to come in from work; mio marito rientrerà il 7 my husband will be home on the 7th; rientrare in servizio to go back to work o to one's duties; rientrare in possesso di qcs. to regain possession of sth.; rientrare alla base mil. to return to base
     3 (non avere realizzazione) [ progetto] to be* dropped
     4 (attenuarsi) [ scandalo] to die away
     5 (formare una rientranza) to curve inwards, to turn inwards
     6 (recuperare) rientrare delle spese to recoup one's costs
     7 fig. (far parte) rientrare in to be part of, to fall within; rientrare nei piani di qcn. to enter into sb.'s plans; rientrare nei propri compiti to fall within sb.'s brief; rientrare in una categoria to fall into a category; rientrare nelle possibilità di qcn. [ spesa] to be within sb.'s reach
     8 (ritrarsi) [ ruote] to retract; [ letto] to fold away
     tip. to indent [ riga]
    rientrare in sé to come to oneself.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > rientrare

  • 7 cinco

    adj.
    1 five.
    2 fifth.
    f. & m.
    five.
    ¡choca esos cinco! (informal) put it there!
    cinco puertas four-door hatchback;
    m.
    five, number five.
    * * *
    1 (cardinal) five; (ordinal) fifth
    1 (número) five
    \
    ¡choca esos cinco! / ¡venga esos cinco! familiar put it there!, give me five! Table 1 NOTA See also seis/Table 1
    * * *
    noun m. adj.
    1) five
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ INV PRON [gen] five; [ordinal, en la fecha] fifth
    - estar sin cinco
    - no estar en sus cinco
    - tener los cinco muy listos
    - ¡vengan esos cinco!
    2. SM
    1) (=número) five; (=fecha) fifth; (Educ) five ( the pass mark)
    2) Ven (=guitarra) five-stringed guitar
    3) Méx * (=trasero) bottom, backside *
    4) CAm, Méx (=moneda) five-peso piece
    seis
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable/pronombre five; [nótese que algunas frases requieren el uso del número ordinal `fifth' en inglés]
    a) (en cifras, cantidades, direcciones)

    la fila cinco — row five, the fifth row

    vinieron/vinimos los cinco — the five of them/of us came

    es el número cinco en la listahe's fifth o number five on the list

    ni cinco — (fam)

    no sabe/entendió ni cinco — (AmL) he doesn't know/he didn't understand a thing

    venga/choca esos cinco — (fam) shake my hand; put it there! (colloq)

    b) (en la hora, en fechas)

    son las cinco de la mañana/tarde — it's five (o'clock) in the morning/afternoon

    cinco para las dos — five to two; ver menos IV b)

    las ocho y cincofive after (AmE) o (BrE) past eight

    hoy estamos a or hoy es cinco — today is the fifth

    el día cinco es su cumpleaños — her birthday is on the fifth, the fifth is her birthday

    II
    1) ( número) five
    2) (Per) ( momento) moment
    * * *
    Ex. Consider placing the following five or six names in the left-hand column, and then tell me what you feel: Eta, Untouchables, Bushmen, Hottentots, Eskimos, and Lapps.
    ----
    * buscarle cinco pies al gato = split + hairs.
    * cada cinco minutos = every five minutes.
    * coche de cinco puertas = hatchback.
    * de cinco años = five yearly [five-yearly].
    * de cinco días de duración = five-day.
    * de cinco estrellas = 5-star [five-star].
    * de cinco meses de duración = five-month-long.
    * fútbol cinco = 5-a-side football.
    * menores de cinco años, los = under-fives, the.
    * niños entre cinco y siete años = five-to-sevens.
    * período de cinco años = five-year period, period of five years.
    * uno de cada cinco = one in five.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo invariable/pronombre five; [nótese que algunas frases requieren el uso del número ordinal `fifth' en inglés]
    a) (en cifras, cantidades, direcciones)

    la fila cinco — row five, the fifth row

    vinieron/vinimos los cinco — the five of them/of us came

    es el número cinco en la listahe's fifth o number five on the list

    ni cinco — (fam)

    no sabe/entendió ni cinco — (AmL) he doesn't know/he didn't understand a thing

    venga/choca esos cinco — (fam) shake my hand; put it there! (colloq)

    b) (en la hora, en fechas)

    son las cinco de la mañana/tarde — it's five (o'clock) in the morning/afternoon

    cinco para las dos — five to two; ver menos IV b)

    las ocho y cincofive after (AmE) o (BrE) past eight

    hoy estamos a or hoy es cinco — today is the fifth

    el día cinco es su cumpleaños — her birthday is on the fifth, the fifth is her birthday

    II
    1) ( número) five
    2) (Per) ( momento) moment
    * * *

    Ex: Consider placing the following five or six names in the left-hand column, and then tell me what you feel: Eta, Untouchables, Bushmen, Hottentots, Eskimos, and Lapps.

    * buscarle cinco pies al gato = split + hairs.
    * cada cinco minutos = every five minutes.
    * coche de cinco puertas = hatchback.
    * de cinco años = five yearly [five-yearly].
    * de cinco días de duración = five-day.
    * de cinco estrellas = 5-star [five-star].
    * de cinco meses de duración = five-month-long.
    * fútbol cinco = 5-a-side football.
    * menores de cinco años, los = under-fives, the.
    * niños entre cinco y siete años = five-to-sevens.
    * período de cinco años = five-year period, period of five years.
    * uno de cada cinco = one in five.

    * * *
    adj inv/pron
    nótese que algunas frases requieren el uso del número ordinal `fifth' en inglés noventa y cinco ninety-five
    quinientos cinco five hundred and five
    la fila cinco row five, the fifth row
    vinieron los cinco the five of them came
    nos invitó a los cinco he invited the five of us
    somos cinco there are five of us
    en grupos de (a) cinco in groups of five
    iban entrando de cinco en cinco they went in five at a time
    la habitación es de cinco por ocho the room is five by eight
    me costó cinco libras y pico I paid five pounds something for it
    es el número cinco en la lista he's fifth on the list
    son las cinco de la mañana/tarde it's five (o'clock) in the morning/afternoon
    las dos menos cinco or ( AmL exc RPl) cinco para las dos five to two
    las ocho y cinco five past eight
    llegó a (las) y cinco she arrived at five after ( AmE) o ( BrE) past
    serían las cinco y pico it must have been just after five (o'clock)
    son las cinco pasadas it's just after five, it's just past five ( AmE), it's just gone five ( BrE)
    hoy estamos a or hoy es cinco today is the fifth
    el día cinco es su cumpleaños her birthday is on the fifth, the fifth is her birthday
    calzo el cinco I take (a) size five
    vive en el número cinco he lives at number five
    en el siglo cinco in the fifth century
    ni cinco ( fam): no tengo ni cinco I'm broke ( colloq), I don't have a red cent ( AmE colloq)
    no sabe/entendió ni cinco ( AmL); he doesn't know/he didn't understand a thing
    venga/choca esos cinco ( fam); put it there! ( colloq), give me five! ( colloq)
    me tocó el cinco I got number five
    aprieta el cinco press (number) five
    hace los cincos al revés he writes his fives backward(s)
    el cinco de corazones the five of hearts
    B ( Per) (momento) moment
    * * *

    cinco adj inv/pron
    five;
    [nótese que algunas frases requieren el uso del número ordinal `fifth' en inglés]

    quinientos cinco five hundred and five;
    la fila cinco row five, the fifth row;
    vinimos los cinco the five of us came;
    somos cinco there are five of us;
    entraron de cinco en cinco they went in five at a time;
    tiene cinco años she's five (years old);
    son las cinco de la mañana it's five (o'clock) in the morning;
    las ocho y cinco five after (AmE) o (BrE) past eight;
    cinco para las dos (AmL exc RPl) five to two;
    ver tb menos preposición 2 b;
    hoy estamos a cinco today is the fifth
    ■ sustantivo masculino
    1 ( número) (number) five;

    2 (Per) ( momento) moment
    cinco adjetivo & sustantivo masculino five
    ' cinco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - adelantada
    - adelantado
    - adelanto
    - baja
    - bajo
    - billete
    - cabeza
    - cabo
    - cambio
    - charla
    - chocar
    - cien
    - coma
    - cuchillada
    - de
    - disolverse
    - edificación
    - ser
    - hacia
    - hasta
    - igual
    - inconsciente
    - ingresar
    - integrar
    - marcha
    - máxima
    - máximo
    - medir
    - par
    - para
    - periplo
    - plantarse
    - profundidad
    - quisque
    - quisqui
    - repicar
    - salvarse
    - sobremesa
    - suma
    - tarde
    - tres
    - voto
    - Y
    - a
    - anual
    - cada
    - catorce
    - cero
    - cifra
    English:
    antsy
    - attain
    - bang
    - be
    - clock in
    - clock on
    - coalition
    - course
    - daily
    - each
    - equal
    - evening
    - five
    - fiver
    - for
    - from
    - grand
    - hatchback
    - in
    - into
    - limerick
    - minute
    - nickel
    - notch up
    - p.m.
    - sentence
    - spare
    - surgery
    - take
    - to
    - unless
    - ago
    - around
    - birthday
    - end
    - fast
    - -fold
    - four
    - gone
    - hatch
    - home
    - infant
    - make
    - nine
    - of
    - or
    - period
    - running
    - senior
    - slow
    * * *
    núm
    five;
    los cinco continentes the five continents [= Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Oceania];
    Antes
    el Cinco Naciones [en rugby] the Five Nations;
    Fam
    ¡choca esos cinco! put it there!, give me five!;
    Fam
    no tener ni cinco to be broke;
    ver también tres
    nm
    1. cinco puertas [vehículo] four-door hatchback
    2. Carib [guitarra] five-string guitar
    * * *
    I adj five
    II m five;
    no tener ni cinco fam not have a red cent fam
    * * *
    cinco adj & nm
    : five
    * * *
    cinco num
    1. (en general) five
    2. (fechas) fifth

    Spanish-English dictionary > cinco

  • 8 Laden

    m; -s, Läden
    1. shop, bes. Am. store
    2. umg. (Unternehmen) business; den Laden schmeißen run the show; fig. (es schaffen) swing it; den Laden dichtmachen shut (Am. close) up shop; (scheitern) auch fold; der Laden läuft geschäftlich: business is good; allg. everything’s hunky-dory; wie ich den Laden (so) kenne if you ask me; das ist ein müder Laden they’re a pretty lame ( oder feeble) outfit
    3. umg., fig. (Sache) business; den Laden hinschmeißen umg. give up the whole thing, chuck (Am. pack) it in
    4. (Fensterladen) shutter(s Pl.)
    * * *
    das Laden
    lading; loading;
    der Laden
    store; retail outlet; shop
    * * *
    La|den I ['laːdn]
    m -s, -
    ['lɛːdn] (= Geschäft) shop (esp Brit), store (US); (inf = Betrieb, Unternehmung) outfit (inf)

    der Láden läuft (inf)business is good

    es wird eine Zeit dauern, bis der Láden läuft (inf)it will be some time before the business gets going or gets off the ground

    dann kann er den Láden zumachen or dichtmachen (inf)he might as well shut up shop (and go home) (inf)

    den Láden schmeißen (inf)to run the show

    den (ganzen) Láden hinschmeißen (inf)to chuck the whole thing in (inf)

    II
    m -s, - or -
    (= Fensterladen) shutter
    * * *
    1) (to make or become filled with electricity: Please charge my car battery.) charge
    2) (to make (a person) responsible for (a task etc): He was charged with seeing that everything went well.) charge
    3) (to put ammunition into (a gun): He loaded the revolver and fired.) load
    4) (a place where goods are sold: a baker's shop.) shop
    5) (a shop: The post office here is also the village store; a department store.) store
    * * *
    La·den1
    <-s, Läden>
    [ˈla:dn̩, pl ˈlɛ:dn̩]
    m
    1. (Geschäft) shop, AM usu store
    2. (fam: Betrieb) business
    der \Laden läuft (fam) business is going well
    [jdm] den \Laden zumachen [o (fam) dichtmachen] to close down the[/sb's] business
    3.
    den [ganzen] \Laden hinschmeißen (fam) to chuck the whole thing in
    den \Laden schmeißen (sl) to run the [whole] show sl
    notfalls können wir den \Laden alleine schmeißen if need be, we can run the show on our own
    La·den2
    <-s, Läden o ->
    [ˈla:dn̩, pl ˈlɛ:dn̩]
    m shutter
    La·den3
    [ˈla:dn̩]
    nt TECH, INFORM booting, loading
    automatisches \Laden autoload
    * * *
    der; Ladens, Läden
    1) shop; store (Amer.)
    2) (ugs.): (Unternehmung)

    wie ich den Laden kenne(fig.) if I know how things go in this outfit (coll.)

    den Laden schmeißenmanage or handle everything with no problem

    Laden (FensterLaden) shutter

    * * *
    Laden m; -s, Läden
    1. shop, besonders US store
    2. umg (Unternehmen) business;
    den Laden schmeißen run the show; fig (es schaffen) swing it;
    den Laden dichtmachen shut (US close) up shop; (scheitern) auch fold;
    der Laden läuft geschäftlich: business is good; allg everything’s hunky-dory;
    wie ich den Laden (so) kenne if you ask me;
    das ist ein müder Laden they’re a pretty lame ( oder feeble) outfit
    3. umg, fig (Sache) business;
    den Laden hinschmeißen umg give up the whole thing, chuck (US pack) it in
    4. (Fensterladen) shutter(s pl)
    * * *
    der; Ladens, Läden
    1) shop; store (Amer.)
    2) (ugs.): (Unternehmung)

    wie ich den Laden kenne(fig.) if I know how things go in this outfit (coll.)

    den Laden schmeißenmanage or handle everything with no problem

    Laden (FensterLaden) shutter

    * * *
    ¨-- m.
    joint (slang) n.
    shop n.
    store n. ¨-- n.
    downloading n.
    loading n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Laden

  • 9 laden

    m; -s, Läden
    1. shop, bes. Am. store
    2. umg. (Unternehmen) business; den Laden schmeißen run the show; fig. (es schaffen) swing it; den Laden dichtmachen shut (Am. close) up shop; (scheitern) auch fold; der Laden läuft geschäftlich: business is good; allg. everything’s hunky-dory; wie ich den Laden (so) kenne if you ask me; das ist ein müder Laden they’re a pretty lame ( oder feeble) outfit
    3. umg., fig. (Sache) business; den Laden hinschmeißen umg. give up the whole thing, chuck (Am. pack) it in
    4. (Fensterladen) shutter(s Pl.)
    * * *
    das Laden
    lading; loading;
    der Laden
    store; retail outlet; shop
    * * *
    La|den I ['laːdn]
    m -s, -
    ['lɛːdn] (= Geschäft) shop (esp Brit), store (US); (inf = Betrieb, Unternehmung) outfit (inf)

    der Láden läuft (inf)business is good

    es wird eine Zeit dauern, bis der Láden läuft (inf)it will be some time before the business gets going or gets off the ground

    dann kann er den Láden zumachen or dichtmachen (inf)he might as well shut up shop (and go home) (inf)

    den Láden schmeißen (inf)to run the show

    den (ganzen) Láden hinschmeißen (inf)to chuck the whole thing in (inf)

    II
    m -s, - or -
    (= Fensterladen) shutter
    * * *
    1) (to make or become filled with electricity: Please charge my car battery.) charge
    2) (to make (a person) responsible for (a task etc): He was charged with seeing that everything went well.) charge
    3) (to put ammunition into (a gun): He loaded the revolver and fired.) load
    4) (a place where goods are sold: a baker's shop.) shop
    5) (a shop: The post office here is also the village store; a department store.) store
    * * *
    La·den1
    <-s, Läden>
    [ˈla:dn̩, pl ˈlɛ:dn̩]
    m
    1. (Geschäft) shop, AM usu store
    2. (fam: Betrieb) business
    der \Laden läuft (fam) business is going well
    [jdm] den \Laden zumachen [o (fam) dichtmachen] to close down the[/sb's] business
    3.
    den [ganzen] \Laden hinschmeißen (fam) to chuck the whole thing in
    den \Laden schmeißen (sl) to run the [whole] show sl
    notfalls können wir den \Laden alleine schmeißen if need be, we can run the show on our own
    La·den2
    <-s, Läden o ->
    [ˈla:dn̩, pl ˈlɛ:dn̩]
    m shutter
    La·den3
    [ˈla:dn̩]
    nt TECH, INFORM booting, loading
    automatisches \Laden autoload
    * * *
    der; Ladens, Läden
    1) shop; store (Amer.)
    2) (ugs.): (Unternehmung)

    wie ich den Laden kenne(fig.) if I know how things go in this outfit (coll.)

    den Laden schmeißenmanage or handle everything with no problem

    Laden (FensterLaden) shutter

    * * *
    laden1; lädt, lud, hat geladen
    A. v/t
    1. load;
    das Schiff hat Getreide geladen the ship has taken on a load of grain; Zustand: the ship is carrying a cargo of grain;
    der LKW hat Kies geladen the truck has been loaded with gravel; Zustand: the truck has a load of gravel;
    die Kisten aus dem Wagen laden unload the crates from the car ( Lieferwagen: van, Pferdewagen: cart);
    die Säcke vom Lkw auf Lasttiere laden load the sacks from the truck onto pack animals;
    auf sich laden fig saddle o.s. with, (Hass, Schuld etc) incur; (Verantwortung) shoulder
    2. ELEK (Akku) charge;
    die Atmosphäre war mit Spannung/Hass geladen the atmosphere was charged with tension/filled with hatred
    3. AUTO (Motor) supercharge, boost
    4. IT (Programm etc) load
    5. (Gewehr etc) load
    B. v/i
    1. load;
    der LKW hat schwer geladen the truck has a heavy load;
    schwer geladen haben umg, hum be plastered ( oder tanked up, besonders US loaded), be three sheets to the wind, Br auch have had one over the eight obs
    2. IT load;
    der Rechner lädt sehr langsam the computer loads very slowly; geladen
    laden2 v/t; lädt (dial ladet), lud, hat geladen
    1. geh (einladen) invite
    2. JUR:
    vor Gericht laden summon before a court; unter Strafandrohung: subpoena
    * * *
    der; Ladens, Läden
    1) shop; store (Amer.)
    2) (ugs.): (Unternehmung)

    wie ich den Laden kenne(fig.) if I know how things go in this outfit (coll.)

    den Laden schmeißenmanage or handle everything with no problem

    Laden (FensterLaden) shutter

    * * *
    ¨-- m.
    joint (slang) n.
    shop n.
    store n. ¨-- n.
    downloading n.
    loading n.

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  • 10 cinco

    cinco adj inv/pron five; [nótese que algunas frases requieren el uso del número ordinal `fifth' en inglés] quinientos cinco five hundred and five; la fila cinco row five, the fifth row; vinimos los cinco the five of us came; somos cinco there are five of us; entraron de cinco en cinco they went in five at a time; tiene cinco años she's five (years old); son las cinco de la mañana it's five (o'clock) in the morning; las ocho y cinco five after (AmE) o (BrE) past eight; cinco para las dos (AmL exc RPl) five to two; ver tb menos preposición 2 b; hoy estamos a cinco today is the fifth ■ sustantivo masculino 1 ( número) (number) five; 2 (Per) ( momento) moment
    cinco adjetivo & sustantivo masculino five ' cinco' also found in these entries: Spanish: A - adelantada - adelantado - adelanto - baja - bajo - billete - cabeza - cabo - cambio - charla - chocar - cien - coma - cuchillada - de - disolverse - edificación - ser - hacia - hasta - igual - inconsciente - ingresar - integrar - marcha - máxima - máximo - medir - par - para - periplo - plantarse - profundidad - quisque - quisqui - repicar - salvarse - sobremesa - suma - tarde - tres - voto - Y - a - anual - cada - catorce - cero - cifra English: antsy - attain - bang - be - clock in - clock on - coalition - course - daily - each - equal - evening - five - fiver - for - from - grand - hatchback - in - into - limerick - minute - nickel - notch up - p.m. - sentence - spare - surgery - take - to - unless - ago - around - birthday - end - fast - - fold - four - gone - hatch - home - infant - make - nine - of - or - period - running - senior - slow

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  • 11 volver

    v.
    1 to turn round (dar la vuelta a).
    al volver la esquina when we turned the corner
    Ella volvió la tortilla She turned the tortilla.
    Volvió inservible el carro.. It rendered the car useless.
    2 to turn (cabeza, ojos).
    3 to go back, to return (ir de vuelta).
    yo allí no vuelvo I'm not going back there
    vuelve, no te vayas come back, don't go
    al volver pasé por el supermercado I stopped off at the supermarket on the o my way back
    aún no ha vuelto del trabajo she isn't back o hasn't got back from work yet
    volver en sí to come to, to regain consciousness
    Ellos volvieron ayer They returned yesterday.
    4 to come back to.
    Me volvieron los recuerdos Memories came back to me.
    5 to vomit.
    Ella volvió los tacos She vomited the tacos.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ MOVER], like link=mover mover (pp vuelto,-a)
    1 (dar vuelta a) to turn, turn over; (hacia abajo) to turn upside down; (de dentro afuera) to turn inside out; (lo de atrás hacia delante) to turn back to front
    2 (convertir) to turn, make, change
    3 (devolver) to give back; (a su lugar) to put back
    4 (torcer) to turn
    1 (regresar) to return; (ir) to go back; (venir) to come back
    2 (a un tema etc) to return, revert
    1 (regresar - ir) to go back; (- venir) to come back
    3 (convertirse) to turn, become
    \
    volver a alguien a la vida to revive somebody, bring somebody back to life
    volver a las andadas to fall back into one's old habits
    volver del revés to turn inside out
    volver en sí to regain consciousness, come round
    volver los ojos hacia to turn one's eyes towards
    volver sobre sus pasos to retrace one's steps
    volverle la espalda a alguien figurado to turn one's back on somebody
    volverse atrás figurado to go back on one's word, back out
    volverse en contra de alguien to turn against somebody
    * * *
    verb
    2) go back, come back
    4) cause, drive, make
    - volverse
    * * *
    ( pp vuelto)
    1. VT
    1) (=dar la vuelta a) [+ cabeza] to turn; [+ colchón, tortilla, enfermo] to turn over; [+ jersey, calcetín] to turn inside out; [+ página] to turn, turn over

    volver la espaldato turn away

    volver la esquinato go round o turn the corner

    2) (=cambiar la orientación de) to turn

    volver la vista atrásto look back

    volver los ojos al pasado — to look back

    volver el pensamiento a Dios — to turn one's thoughts to God

    volver la proa al viento — to turn the bow into the wind

    3) *
    (=devolver) [+ compra] to return; [+ comida] to bring up; [+ imagen] to reflect; [+ objeto lanzado] to send back, return; [+ visita] to return

    volver algo a su lugar — to return sth to its place, put sth back (in its place)

    volver la casa a su estado originalto return o restore the house to its original condition

    4) (=enrollar) [+ manga] to roll up
    5) [+ adj] to make

    el ácido lo vuelve azul — the acid turns it blue, the acid makes it go blue

    6) (Ling) to translate (a into)
    2. VI
    1) (=regresar) (a donde se está) to come back, return; (a donde se estaba) to go back, return (a to) ([de] from)

    volver victorioso — to come back victorious, return in triumph

    volviendo a lo que decía... — going back o returning to what I was saying...

    volver atrás — to go back, turn back

    volver a una costumbreto revert to a habit

    2)

    volver a hacer algo — to do sth again

    me he vuelto a equivocar — I've made a mistake again, I've made another mistake

    volvió a casarse — she remarried, she (got) married again

    3)

    volver en — to come to, come round

    4) [camino] to turn (a to)
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( regresar - al lugar donde se está) to come back; (- a otro lugar) to go back

    ¿cómo vas a volver? — how are you getting back?

    volvió muy cambiadashe came back o returned a different person

    ¿cuándo piensas volver por aquí? — when do you think you'll be o come back this way?

    volver a algo< a un lugar> to go back to something; <a una situación/actividad> to return to something

    volviendo a lo que decía... — to get o go back to what I was saying...

    volver de algo: ¿cuándo volviste de las vacaciones? when did you get back from your vacation?; ha vuelto de Roma she's back from Rome; volvió cansado del trabajo he was tired when he got home from work; volver atrás — ( literal) to go o turn back; ( al pasado) to turn back the clock

    2)
    a) ( repetirse) momento to return
    b) calma/paz to return
    3)
    2.
    volver v aux

    volver a + inf: volver a empezar to start again o (AmE) over; no volverá a ocurrir it won't happen again; no lo volví a ver I never saw him again; lo tuve que volver a llevar al taller — I had to take it back to the workshop

    3.
    volver vt
    a) <colchón/tortilla> to turn (over); < tierra> to turn o dig over; <calcetín/chaqueta> ( poner del revés) to turn... inside out; ( poner del derecho) to turn... the right way round; < cuello> to turn
    b) <cabeza/mirada>
    c) < esquina> to turn
    2) (convertir en, poner)

    me está volviendo loca — it's/he's/she's driving me mad

    3) (Méx)
    4.
    volverse v pron
    1) ( girar) to turn (around)

    no te vuelvas, que nos están siguiendo — don't look back, we're being followed

    volverse boca arriba/abajo — to turn over onto one's back/stomach

    volverse atrásto back out

    2) (convertirse en, ponerse)

    se vuelve agrioit turns o goes sour

    * * *
    = come back, render, return, switch back, turn back, turn over + page, turn over, get back, be back.
    Ex. He wondered whether to chase after Duff and order him to come back or wait and see him later, after she had regained her composure.
    Ex. So strongly was it felt by proponents of change that just such unconscious biases rendered libraries 'part of the problem, instead of the solution'.
    Ex. Returning to government agencies, some agencies are treated as subordinate to a government, whilst others are entered independently.
    Ex. A code at the bottom of the local document summary and full information screens allow switching back to the system catalog.
    Ex. It might be wise for you to turn back and re-read what was said in section 2.
    Ex. Turn over the page and you will find suggested analyses against which you can check your solution.
    Ex. Then he picked up about 2 cm. of type from the right-hand end of the uppermost line (i.e. the last word or two of the last line) with the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, read it, and dropped the pieces of type one by one into their proper boxes, turning over the old house.
    Ex. I have been off on vacation and just got back.
    Ex. Which means I'd give the whole shooting match just to be back where I was before I quit sleeping under the stars and come into the hen-coops.
    ----
    * acción de volver a contar algo = retelling.
    * aguas + volver a su cauce = dust + settle.
    * hacer que la gente se vuelva a mirar = make + heads turn.
    * hora de volver a casa = curfew.
    * la historia + volverse a repetir = history + come full circle.
    * las cosas + volver + a su punto de partida = the wheel + turn + full circle.
    * no volver = go + forever.
    * no volver hasta + Expresión Temporal = not be back for + Expresión Temporal.
    * no volver la vista atrás = never + look back.
    * que puede volver a cerrarse herméticamente = resealable.
    * volvemos siempre al principio = things swing full circle.
    * volver a = depart to, get back to, go back to, move back to, revert (to), go + full circle back to, circle back to, backtrack [back-track], recur to, roll back to, revert back to, head back to, slide back to, default to.
    * volver a abrir = be back in business.
    * volver a adoptar = resume.
    * volver a albergar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alfombrar = recarpet [re-carpet].
    * volver a Alguien loco = drive + Alguien + up a wall, drive + Alguien + to despair, drive + Alguien + mad, drive + Alguien + insane, drive + Alguien + crazy, drive + Alguien + nuts, drive + Alguien + potty.
    * volver a almacenar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alojar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alquilar = rehire [re-hire].
    * volver a analizar = reexamine [re-examine], reanalyse [reanalyze, -USA].
    * volver a aparecer = resurface.
    * volver a aprender = relearn.
    * volver a asegurar = reinsure.
    * volver a asentar = resettle.
    * volver a atar = re-tie.
    * volver a bautizar = re-baptise [re-baptize, -USA].
    * volver a caer (en) = relapse (into).
    * volver a calcular = recalculation.
    * volver a cargar = reload.
    * volver a casa = go + home again.
    * volver a casarse = remarry.
    * volver a clasificar = refolder.
    * volver a combinar = recombine [re-combine].
    * volver a comprimir = recompress.
    * volver a comprobar = check back.
    * volver a conectar = reconnect [re-connect].
    * volver a congelarse = re-freeze [refreeze].
    * volver a considerar = reconsider.
    * volver a consultar = revisit, check back.
    * volver a contar = recount, retell.
    * volver a contextualizar = recontextualise [recontextualize, USA].
    * volver a contratar = rehire [re-hire].
    * volver a convertir = reconvert.
    * volver a convocar = reconvene.
    * volver a copiar = recopy.
    * volver a crear = recreate [re-create].
    * volver a dar forma = reshape [re-shape].
    * volver a descubrir = rediscover.
    * volver a despertar = reawaken [re-awaken].
    * volver a determinar = respecify.
    * volver a diseñar = redesign [re-design], repurpose [re-purpose].
    * volver a dotar = re-equip [reequip].
    * volver a ejecutar = rerun [re-run].
    * volver a empezar = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board, a fresh start, start over, go back to + square one, be back to square one.
    * volver a empezar de cero = be back to square one, go back to + square one.
    * volver a encuadernar = rebind [re-bind].
    * volver a enmoquetar = recarpeting.
    * volver a enseñar = retrain [re-train].
    * volver a entrar = come back in.
    * volver a enviar = resubmit [re-submit], reship, resend [re-send].
    * volver a equipar = re-equip [reequip].
    * volver a escribir = retype [re-type], rewrite [re-write].
    * volver a especificar = respecify.
    * volver a establecer equivalencias = remap.
    * volver a evaluar = reassess [re-assess], reevaluate [re-evaluate], reappraise.
    * volver a financiar = re-fund.
    * volver a formarse = reform.
    * volver a formatear = reformat [re-format].
    * volver a funcionar = be back in business.
    * volver a guardar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a hablar innecesariamente = belabour [belabor, -USA].
    * volver a hacer = redo [re-do], remake.
    * volver a hacer un examen = retake + an exam.
    * volver a hidratar = rehydrate.
    * volver a imprimir = reprint.
    * volver a incluir = reinstate.
    * volver a indizar = re-index [reindex].
    * volver a inscribir = reregister.
    * volver a insertar = reinsert.
    * volver a insertar en el ordenador = rekey [re-key].
    * volver a intentar = retry [re-try].
    * volver a interpretar = reinterpret [re-interpret].
    * volver a introducir = re-enter [reenter], reintroduce, reinsert.
    * volver a juzgar = retry [re-try].
    * volver a la etapa de planificación = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board.
    * volver a la normalidad = get back to + normal, return to + normalcy, get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * volver a la popularidad = return to + favour.
    * volver a la seguridad de = burrow back into.
    * volver a la vida normal = get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * volver a leer = reread [re-read].
    * volver a levantar el sistema = restart.
    * volver Algo a su estado anterior = put + Nombre + back on track.
    * volver Algo del revés = turn + Nombre + inside-out.
    * volver Algo en Otra Cosa = turn + Nombre + into.
    * volver al pasado = turn + the clock back.
    * volver al principio = come + full circle, bring + Pronombre + full-circle.
    * volver al punto de partida = come + full circle, bring + Pronombre + full-circle, go back to + square one, be back to square one.
    * volver al redil = return to + the fold.
    * volver a manejar = rehandle.
    * volver a mezclar = remix.
    * volver a montar = reassemble [re-assemble].
    * volver a mostrar = redisplay.
    * volver a nacer = have + a lucky escape, have + a narrow escape.
    * volver a nombrar = rename.
    * volver a ordenar = resort.
    * volver a oxidar = reoxidise [reoxidize, -USA].
    * volver a pedir = reorder [re-order].
    * volver a pintar = repaint [re-paint].
    * volver a planificar = reschedule.
    * volver a plantearse = reconceive of.
    * volver a ponerse al día = be back on track, be on track.
    * volver a por sus fueros = be back on track, be on track, bite back.
    * volver a preguntar = check back.
    * volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].
    * volver a prestar atención = refocus + attention.
    * volver a procesar = reprocess.
    * volver a programar = reschedule.
    * volver a promover un producto = rehyping.
    * volver a publicar = reissue [re-issue].
    * volver a recibir financiación = re-fund.
    * volver a representar = remap.
    * volver a reunir = reassemble [re-assemble].
    * volver a salir = come back out.
    * volver a salir a la superficie = resurface.
    * volver a ser condenado = reconviction.
    * volver a ser lo que era = be back on track, be on track.
    * volver a subvencionar = re-fund.
    * volver a su camino = get back on + track, get back on + Posesivo + path.
    * volver a tomar = regain, retake.
    * volver a traducir = remap.
    * volver a traer = restore.
    * volver atrás = turn + the clock back, go + backwards.
    * volver a tratar = revisit.
    * volver a unir = reunite [re-unite].
    * volver a untar grasa al cojinete = repack + bearing.
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].
    * volver a utilizar = recapture, reutilise [reutilize, -USA].
    * volver a vivir = relive.
    * volver corriendo = scurry back.
    * volver de nuevo = come back out.
    * volver el reloj atrás = turn + the clock back.
    * volver en + Expresión Temporal = be back in + Expresión Temporal.
    * volver en sí = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.
    * volver hacia atrás = backtrack [back-track].
    * volver la casa al revés = turn + everything upside down.
    * volver la espalda = give + Nombre + the cold shoulder, turn + a cold shoulder to, cold-shoulder.
    * volver la espalda a = turn + Posesivo + back on.
    * volver la página = turn over + page.
    * volver las tornas = turn + the tables (on).
    * volver la vista atrás = look back.
    * volverlo a hacer = go and do it again.
    * volver loco = drive + Alguien + (a)round the bend, piss + Nombre + off.
    * volver loco a Alguien = have + Nombre + jump through the hoops, push + Alguien + over the edge.
    * volver loco, exasperar, sacar de quicio, cabrear, encabronar, dar por culo, = piss + Nombre + off.
    * volver pronto = haste back.
    * volverse = become, turn into, swing around, turn (a)round.
    * volverse + Adjetivo = grow + Adjetivo.
    * volverse a reunir = reconvene.
    * volverse a unir a = rejoin.
    * volverse chalado = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse chiflado = go + potty, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse ciego = become + blind.
    * volverse + Color = turn to + Color.
    * volverse cruel = become + vicious.
    * volverse en contra de = turn against.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse etéreo = etherealise [etherealize, -USA].
    * volverse frenético = go + berserk, go + postal, go + crazy, work up + a lather.
    * volverse ilegible = become + unreadable.
    * volverse líquido = turn to + liquid.
    * volverse loco = go + bananas, take + leave of + Posesivo + senses, go + mad, run + amok, lose + Posesivo + marbles, go + bonkers, go + berserk, go + postal, go + wild, go + crazy, go + nuts, go + potty, get + a buzz from, go out of + Posesivo + mind, throw + a wobbly, go off + the rails, throw + a wobbler, go + haywire, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse loco de alegría = thrill + Nombre + to bits, be chuffed to bits, be tickled pink.
    * volverse loco por = sweep + Nombre + off + Posesivo + feet, go + gaga (over).
    * volverse majareta = go + potty, go out of + Posesivo + mind, go off + the rails, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse marrón = turn + brown.
    * volverse obscuro = turn + dark.
    * volverse obsoleto = go out of + date, become + obsolete, go out of + fashion, obsolesce.
    * volverse obsoleto, pasar de moda, caducar = become + obsolete.
    * volverse oscuro = turn + dark.
    * volverse violento = turn + violent.
    * volver sobre = retrace.
    * volver sobre los pasos de Uno = double-back, retrace + Posesivo + steps, retrace + Posesivo + footsteps, go back on + Posesivo + steps.
    * volver tarde a casa = stay out + late.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( regresar - al lugar donde se está) to come back; (- a otro lugar) to go back

    ¿cómo vas a volver? — how are you getting back?

    volvió muy cambiadashe came back o returned a different person

    ¿cuándo piensas volver por aquí? — when do you think you'll be o come back this way?

    volver a algo< a un lugar> to go back to something; <a una situación/actividad> to return to something

    volviendo a lo que decía... — to get o go back to what I was saying...

    volver de algo: ¿cuándo volviste de las vacaciones? when did you get back from your vacation?; ha vuelto de Roma she's back from Rome; volvió cansado del trabajo he was tired when he got home from work; volver atrás — ( literal) to go o turn back; ( al pasado) to turn back the clock

    2)
    a) ( repetirse) momento to return
    b) calma/paz to return
    3)
    2.
    volver v aux

    volver a + inf: volver a empezar to start again o (AmE) over; no volverá a ocurrir it won't happen again; no lo volví a ver I never saw him again; lo tuve que volver a llevar al taller — I had to take it back to the workshop

    3.
    volver vt
    a) <colchón/tortilla> to turn (over); < tierra> to turn o dig over; <calcetín/chaqueta> ( poner del revés) to turn... inside out; ( poner del derecho) to turn... the right way round; < cuello> to turn
    b) <cabeza/mirada>
    c) < esquina> to turn
    2) (convertir en, poner)

    me está volviendo loca — it's/he's/she's driving me mad

    3) (Méx)
    4.
    volverse v pron
    1) ( girar) to turn (around)

    no te vuelvas, que nos están siguiendo — don't look back, we're being followed

    volverse boca arriba/abajo — to turn over onto one's back/stomach

    volverse atrásto back out

    2) (convertirse en, ponerse)

    se vuelve agrioit turns o goes sour

    * * *
    = come back, render, return, switch back, turn back, turn over + page, turn over, get back, be back.

    Ex: He wondered whether to chase after Duff and order him to come back or wait and see him later, after she had regained her composure.

    Ex: So strongly was it felt by proponents of change that just such unconscious biases rendered libraries 'part of the problem, instead of the solution'.
    Ex: Returning to government agencies, some agencies are treated as subordinate to a government, whilst others are entered independently.
    Ex: A code at the bottom of the local document summary and full information screens allow switching back to the system catalog.
    Ex: It might be wise for you to turn back and re-read what was said in section 2.
    Ex: Turn over the page and you will find suggested analyses against which you can check your solution.
    Ex: Then he picked up about 2 cm. of type from the right-hand end of the uppermost line (i.e. the last word or two of the last line) with the thumb and forefinger of his right hand, read it, and dropped the pieces of type one by one into their proper boxes, turning over the old house.
    Ex: I have been off on vacation and just got back.
    Ex: Which means I'd give the whole shooting match just to be back where I was before I quit sleeping under the stars and come into the hen-coops.
    * acción de volver a contar algo = retelling.
    * aguas + volver a su cauce = dust + settle.
    * hacer que la gente se vuelva a mirar = make + heads turn.
    * hora de volver a casa = curfew.
    * la historia + volverse a repetir = history + come full circle.
    * las cosas + volver + a su punto de partida = the wheel + turn + full circle.
    * no volver = go + forever.
    * no volver hasta + Expresión Temporal = not be back for + Expresión Temporal.
    * no volver la vista atrás = never + look back.
    * que puede volver a cerrarse herméticamente = resealable.
    * volvemos siempre al principio = things swing full circle.
    * volver a = depart to, get back to, go back to, move back to, revert (to), go + full circle back to, circle back to, backtrack [back-track], recur to, roll back to, revert back to, head back to, slide back to, default to.
    * volver a abrir = be back in business.
    * volver a adoptar = resume.
    * volver a albergar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alfombrar = recarpet [re-carpet].
    * volver a Alguien loco = drive + Alguien + up a wall, drive + Alguien + to despair, drive + Alguien + mad, drive + Alguien + insane, drive + Alguien + crazy, drive + Alguien + nuts, drive + Alguien + potty.
    * volver a almacenar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alojar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a alquilar = rehire [re-hire].
    * volver a analizar = reexamine [re-examine], reanalyse [reanalyze, -USA].
    * volver a aparecer = resurface.
    * volver a aprender = relearn.
    * volver a asegurar = reinsure.
    * volver a asentar = resettle.
    * volver a atar = re-tie.
    * volver a bautizar = re-baptise [re-baptize, -USA].
    * volver a caer (en) = relapse (into).
    * volver a calcular = recalculation.
    * volver a cargar = reload.
    * volver a casa = go + home again.
    * volver a casarse = remarry.
    * volver a clasificar = refolder.
    * volver a combinar = recombine [re-combine].
    * volver a comprimir = recompress.
    * volver a comprobar = check back.
    * volver a conectar = reconnect [re-connect].
    * volver a congelarse = re-freeze [refreeze].
    * volver a considerar = reconsider.
    * volver a consultar = revisit, check back.
    * volver a contar = recount, retell.
    * volver a contextualizar = recontextualise [recontextualize, USA].
    * volver a contratar = rehire [re-hire].
    * volver a convertir = reconvert.
    * volver a convocar = reconvene.
    * volver a copiar = recopy.
    * volver a crear = recreate [re-create].
    * volver a dar forma = reshape [re-shape].
    * volver a descubrir = rediscover.
    * volver a despertar = reawaken [re-awaken].
    * volver a determinar = respecify.
    * volver a diseñar = redesign [re-design], repurpose [re-purpose].
    * volver a dotar = re-equip [reequip].
    * volver a ejecutar = rerun [re-run].
    * volver a empezar = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board, a fresh start, start over, go back to + square one, be back to square one.
    * volver a empezar de cero = be back to square one, go back to + square one.
    * volver a encuadernar = rebind [re-bind].
    * volver a enmoquetar = recarpeting.
    * volver a enseñar = retrain [re-train].
    * volver a entrar = come back in.
    * volver a enviar = resubmit [re-submit], reship, resend [re-send].
    * volver a equipar = re-equip [reequip].
    * volver a escribir = retype [re-type], rewrite [re-write].
    * volver a especificar = respecify.
    * volver a establecer equivalencias = remap.
    * volver a evaluar = reassess [re-assess], reevaluate [re-evaluate], reappraise.
    * volver a financiar = re-fund.
    * volver a formarse = reform.
    * volver a formatear = reformat [re-format].
    * volver a funcionar = be back in business.
    * volver a guardar = rehouse [re-house].
    * volver a hablar innecesariamente = belabour [belabor, -USA].
    * volver a hacer = redo [re-do], remake.
    * volver a hacer un examen = retake + an exam.
    * volver a hidratar = rehydrate.
    * volver a imprimir = reprint.
    * volver a incluir = reinstate.
    * volver a indizar = re-index [reindex].
    * volver a inscribir = reregister.
    * volver a insertar = reinsert.
    * volver a insertar en el ordenador = rekey [re-key].
    * volver a intentar = retry [re-try].
    * volver a interpretar = reinterpret [re-interpret].
    * volver a introducir = re-enter [reenter], reintroduce, reinsert.
    * volver a juzgar = retry [re-try].
    * volver a la etapa de planificación = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board.
    * volver a la normalidad = get back to + normal, return to + normalcy, get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * volver a la popularidad = return to + favour.
    * volver a la seguridad de = burrow back into.
    * volver a la vida normal = get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * volver a leer = reread [re-read].
    * volver a levantar el sistema = restart.
    * volver Algo a su estado anterior = put + Nombre + back on track.
    * volver Algo del revés = turn + Nombre + inside-out.
    * volver Algo en Otra Cosa = turn + Nombre + into.
    * volver al pasado = turn + the clock back.
    * volver al principio = come + full circle, bring + Pronombre + full-circle.
    * volver al punto de partida = come + full circle, bring + Pronombre + full-circle, go back to + square one, be back to square one.
    * volver al redil = return to + the fold.
    * volver a manejar = rehandle.
    * volver a mezclar = remix.
    * volver a montar = reassemble [re-assemble].
    * volver a mostrar = redisplay.
    * volver a nacer = have + a lucky escape, have + a narrow escape.
    * volver a nombrar = rename.
    * volver a ordenar = resort.
    * volver a oxidar = reoxidise [reoxidize, -USA].
    * volver a pedir = reorder [re-order].
    * volver a pintar = repaint [re-paint].
    * volver a planificar = reschedule.
    * volver a plantearse = reconceive of.
    * volver a ponerse al día = be back on track, be on track.
    * volver a por sus fueros = be back on track, be on track, bite back.
    * volver a preguntar = check back.
    * volver a presentar = resubmit [re-submit].
    * volver a prestar atención = refocus + attention.
    * volver a procesar = reprocess.
    * volver a programar = reschedule.
    * volver a promover un producto = rehyping.
    * volver a publicar = reissue [re-issue].
    * volver a recibir financiación = re-fund.
    * volver a representar = remap.
    * volver a reunir = reassemble [re-assemble].
    * volver a salir = come back out.
    * volver a salir a la superficie = resurface.
    * volver a ser condenado = reconviction.
    * volver a ser lo que era = be back on track, be on track.
    * volver a subvencionar = re-fund.
    * volver a su camino = get back on + track, get back on + Posesivo + path.
    * volver a tomar = regain, retake.
    * volver a traducir = remap.
    * volver a traer = restore.
    * volver atrás = turn + the clock back, go + backwards.
    * volver a tratar = revisit.
    * volver a unir = reunite [re-unite].
    * volver a untar grasa al cojinete = repack + bearing.
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].
    * volver a utilizar = recapture, reutilise [reutilize, -USA].
    * volver a vivir = relive.
    * volver corriendo = scurry back.
    * volver de nuevo = come back out.
    * volver el reloj atrás = turn + the clock back.
    * volver en + Expresión Temporal = be back in + Expresión Temporal.
    * volver en sí = regain + Posesivo + consciousness.
    * volver hacia atrás = backtrack [back-track].
    * volver la casa al revés = turn + everything upside down.
    * volver la espalda = give + Nombre + the cold shoulder, turn + a cold shoulder to, cold-shoulder.
    * volver la espalda a = turn + Posesivo + back on.
    * volver la página = turn over + page.
    * volver las tornas = turn + the tables (on).
    * volver la vista atrás = look back.
    * volverlo a hacer = go and do it again.
    * volver loco = drive + Alguien + (a)round the bend, piss + Nombre + off.
    * volver loco a Alguien = have + Nombre + jump through the hoops, push + Alguien + over the edge.
    * volver loco, exasperar, sacar de quicio, cabrear, encabronar, dar por culo, = piss + Nombre + off.
    * volver pronto = haste back.
    * volverse = become, turn into, swing around, turn (a)round.
    * volverse + Adjetivo = grow + Adjetivo.
    * volverse a reunir = reconvene.
    * volverse a unir a = rejoin.
    * volverse chalado = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse chiflado = go + potty, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse ciego = become + blind.
    * volverse + Color = turn to + Color.
    * volverse cruel = become + vicious.
    * volverse en contra de = turn against.
    * volverse estúpido = go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse etéreo = etherealise [etherealize, -USA].
    * volverse frenético = go + berserk, go + postal, go + crazy, work up + a lather.
    * volverse ilegible = become + unreadable.
    * volverse líquido = turn to + liquid.
    * volverse loco = go + bananas, take + leave of + Posesivo + senses, go + mad, run + amok, lose + Posesivo + marbles, go + bonkers, go + berserk, go + postal, go + wild, go + crazy, go + nuts, go + potty, get + a buzz from, go out of + Posesivo + mind, throw + a wobbly, go off + the rails, throw + a wobbler, go + haywire, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse loco de alegría = thrill + Nombre + to bits, be chuffed to bits, be tickled pink.
    * volverse loco por = sweep + Nombre + off + Posesivo + feet, go + gaga (over).
    * volverse majareta = go + potty, go out of + Posesivo + mind, go off + the rails, go off + Posesivo + rocker.
    * volverse marrón = turn + brown.
    * volverse obscuro = turn + dark.
    * volverse obsoleto = go out of + date, become + obsolete, go out of + fashion, obsolesce.
    * volverse obsoleto, pasar de moda, caducar = become + obsolete.
    * volverse oscuro = turn + dark.
    * volverse violento = turn + violent.
    * volver sobre = retrace.
    * volver sobre los pasos de Uno = double-back, retrace + Posesivo + steps, retrace + Posesivo + footsteps, go back on + Posesivo + steps.
    * volver tarde a casa = stay out + late.

    * * *
    volver [ E11 ]
    vi
    A (regresaral lugar donde se está) to come back; (— a otro lugar) to go back
    no sé a qué hora volveré I don't know what time I'll be back
    ¿no piensas volver allí algún día? don't you intend going back there some day?
    dos de los cazas no volvieron two of the fighters failed to return
    vete y no vuelvas más get out and don't ever come back
    volvió muy cambiada she came back o returned a different person
    ¿cuándo piensas volver por aquí? when do you think you'll be o get o come back this way?
    ha vuelto con su familia she's gone back to her family
    no sé cómo consiguió volver I don't know how he managed to get back
    volver A algo:
    nunca volvió a Alemania she never went back to o returned to Germany
    no había vuelto a su pueblo desde que era pequeño he hadn't been back to his home town since he was a child
    logró volver al campamento she managed to get back to the camp
    ¿cuándo vuelves al colegio? when do you go back to school?
    volver DE algo:
    ¿cuándo volviste de las vacaciones? when did you get back from your vacation?
    ¿sabes si ha vuelto de Roma? do you know if she's back from Rome?
    volvieron del lugar del accidente they returned o came back from the scene of the accident
    siempre vuelve cansado del trabajo he's always tired when he gets o comes home from work
    volver atrás (en un viaje) to go o turn back; (al pasado) to turn back the clock
    veo que no han entendido, volvamos atrás I can see you haven't understood, let's go back over it again
    vuelve y juega … ( Col fam); here we go again … ( colloq)
    B
    1 (a una situación, una actividad) volver A algo to return TO sth
    el país ha vuelto a la normalidad the country is back to o has returned to normal
    está pensando en volver al mundo del espectáculo she's thinking of returning to o making a comeback in show business
    2 (a un tema) volver A algo:
    volviendo a lo que hablábamos… to go back to what we were talking about…
    ya volvemos a lo de siempre so we're back to the same old problem
    siempre vuelve al mismo tema he always comes back to the same subject
    C
    1 (repetirse) «momento» to return
    aquellos días felices que no volverán those happy days that will never return
    2 «calma/paz» to return volver A algo:
    la paz ha vuelto a la zona peace has returned to the area, the area is peaceful again
    la normalidad ha vuelto a la fábrica the situation at the factory is back to normal
    D
    volver en sí to come to o round
    trataban de hacerlo volver en sí they were trying to bring him round
    E ( Méx) (vomitar) to be sick
    volver A + INF:
    no volverá a ocurrir it won't happen again
    no hemos vuelto a verlo we haven't seen him since
    no volvió a probar el alcohol she never drank alcohol again
    me volvió a llenar el vaso she refilled my glass
    lo tuve que volver a llevar al taller I had to take it back to the workshop
    ■ volver
    vt
    1 ‹colchón/tortilla/filete› to turn, turn over; ‹tierra› to turn o dig over
    2 ‹calcetín/chaqueta› to turn … inside out; ‹cuello› to turn
    vuelve la manga, que la tienes del revés pull the sleeve out, you've got it inside out
    3
    volver la página or hoja to turn the page, turn over
    4 ‹cabeza/ojos›
    volvió la cabeza para ver quién la seguía she turned her head o she looked around to see who was following her
    volvió los ojos/la mirada hacia mí he turned his eyes/his gaze toward(s) me
    volver la mirada hacia el pasado to look back to the past
    5 ‹esquina› to turn
    está ahí, nada más volver la esquina it's up there, just around the corner
    B (convertir en, poner) to make
    la ha vuelto muy egoísta it has made her very selfish
    la televisión los está volviendo tontos television is turning them into morons
    lo vuelve de otro color it turns it a different color
    C
    ( Méx): volver el estómago to be sick
    A (darse la vuelta, girar) to turn, turn around
    se volvió para ver quién la llamaba she turned (around) to see who was calling her
    se volvió hacia él she turned to face him
    no te vuelvas, que nos siguen don't look back, we're being followed
    se volvió de espaldas he turned his back on me/her/them
    volverse boca arriba/abajo to turn over onto one's back/stomach
    volverse atrás to back out
    volverse contra algn to turn against sb
    B
    (convertirse en, ponerse): últimamente se ha vuelto muy antipática she's become very unpleasant recently
    el partido se ha vuelto más radical the party has grown o become more radical
    su mirada se volvió triste his expression saddened o grew sad
    se está volviendo muy quisquillosa she's getting very fussy
    se vuelve agrio it turns o goes sour
    se volvió loca she went mad
    * * *

     

    volver ( conjugate volver) verbo intransitivo
    1 ( regresaral lugar donde se está) to come back;
    (— a otro lugar) to go back;

    ¿cómo vas a volver? how are you getting back?;
    ha vuelto con su familia she's gone back to her family;
    volver a algo ‹ a un lugar› to go back to sth;

    a una situación/actividad› to return to sth;

    quiere volver al mundo del espectáculo he wants to return to show business;
    volviendo a lo que decía … to get o go back to what I was saying …;
    ¿cuándo volviste de las vacaciones? when did you get back from your vacation?;
    ha vuelto de París she's back from Paris
    2 [calma/paz] to return;
    volver a algo to return to sth
    3
    volver en sí to come to o round

    volver v aux:
    volver a empezar to start again o (AmE) over;

    no volverá a ocurrir it won't happen again;
    lo tuve que volver a llevar al taller I had to take it back to the workshop
    verbo transitivo
    1 ( dar la vuelta)
    a)colchón/tortilla to turn (over);

    tierra› to turn o dig over;
    calcetín/chaqueta› ( ponerdel revés) to turn … inside out;
    (— del derecho) to turn … the right way round;
    cuello to turn;

    b) cabeza to turn;


    c) esquina to turn

    2 (convertir en, poner):

    me está volviendo loca it's/he's/she's driving me mad
    3 (Méx)

    volverse verbo pronominal
    1 ( girar) to turn (around);

    no te vuelvas, que nos están siguiendo don't look back, we're being followed;
    se volvió de espaldas he turned his back on me (o her etc);
    volverse boca arriba/abajo to turn over onto one's back/stomach
    2 (convertirse en, ponerse):

    se vuelve agrio it turns o goes sour;
    se volvió loca she went mad
    volver
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 (retornar, regresar: hacia el hablante) to return, come back: volveremos mañana, we'll come back tomorrow
    (: a otro sitio) to return, go back: volvió a su casa, she went back to her home
    2 (: una acción, situación, etc) volveremos sobre ese asunto esta tarde, we'll come back to that subject this afternoon
    (expresando repetición) lo volvió a hacer, he did it again
    volver a empezar, to start again o US over
    II verbo transitivo
    1 (dar la vuelta: a una tortilla, etc) to turn over
    (a un calcetín, etc) to turn inside out
    (a la esquina, la página) to turn
    (la mirada, etc) to turn 2 volverle la espalda a alguien, to turn one's back on sb
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar figurado (superar un gran peligro) volver a nacer: sobrevivió al naufragio, ha vuelto a nacer, he survived the shipwreck miraculously
    volver en sí, to come round
    volver la vista atrás, (mirar al pasado) to look back
    volver a alguien loco: me está volviendo loco, she's driving me mad o crazy
    ' volver' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ambages
    - andadas
    - carga
    - clara
    - claro
    - emocionante
    - enajenar
    - entenderse
    - escopetazo
    - espalda
    - estragos
    - garantizar
    - grupa
    - hervir
    - idea
    - imperiosa
    - imperioso
    - indisponer
    - loca
    - loco
    - mentalizarse
    - mico
    - normalizar
    - placer
    - recalentar
    - rellenar
    - repasar
    - repetir
    - resentirse
    - retroceder
    - soler
    - soñar
    - tornar
    - trastornar
    - venir
    - vista
    - arreglar
    - cuidar
    - empezar
    - endurecer
    - gana
    - hacer
    - poder
    - rehacer
    - tal
    - vuelto
    - vuelva
    English:
    again
    - ask back
    - before
    - call back
    - circle
    - clock
    - come back
    - come round
    - come to
    - despair
    - double back
    - drive
    - get back
    - go back
    - go back to
    - insane
    - lapse
    - live through
    - look round
    - mad
    - make
    - mind
    - move back
    - nuts
    - paint over
    - put back
    - rake up
    - re-enter
    - re-erect
    - reapply
    - reappoint
    - reassemble
    - reassess
    - reconvene
    - reimpose
    - rekindle
    - remarry
    - render
    - reoccupy
    - reopen
    - repeat
    - replace
    - replay
    - replenish
    - reread
    - rerun
    - reschedule
    - resit
    - restock
    - resume
    * * *
    vt
    1. [dar la vuelta a] to turn round;
    [lo de arriba abajo] to turn over; [lo de dentro fuera] to turn inside out;
    vuelve la tele hacia aquí, que la veamos turn the TV round this way so we can see it;
    ayúdame a volver el colchón help me turn the mattress over;
    volver la hoja o [m5] página to turn the page;
    al volver la esquina when we turned the corner
    2. [cabeza, ojos, mirada] to turn;
    vuelve la espalda turn your back to me
    3. [convertir en]
    eso lo volvió un delincuente that made him a criminal, that turned him into a criminal;
    la lejía volvió blanca la camisa the bleach turned the shirt white
    4. Méx
    volver el estómago to throw up
    vi
    1. [persona] [ir de vuelta] to go back, to return;
    [venir de vuelta] to come back, to return;
    yo allí/aquí no vuelvo I'm not going back there/coming back here;
    vuelve, no te vayas come back, don't go;
    ¿cuándo has vuelto? when did you get back?;
    al volver pasé por el supermercado I stopped off at the supermarket on the o my way back;
    no vuelvas tarde don't be late (back);
    ya he vuelto a casa I'm back home;
    volver atrás to go back;
    cuando vuelva del trabajo when I get back from work;
    aún no ha vuelto del trabajo she isn't back o hasn't got back from work yet;
    ha vuelto muy morena de la playa she's come back from the seaside with a nice tan
    2. [mal tiempo, alegría, tranquilidad] to return;
    cuando vuelva el verano when it's summer again;
    todo volvió a la normalidad everything went back o returned to normal;
    vuelve la minifalda miniskirts are back
    3. [reanudar]
    volver a la tarea to return to one's work;
    volver al trabajo/al colegio to go back to work/school;
    volviendo al tema que nos ocupa… to go back to the matter we are discussing…;
    vuelve a leerlo read it again;
    tras el verano volvió a dar clases en la universidad once the summer was over she started teaching at the university again;
    vuelve a dormirte go back to sleep;
    volver con alguien [reanudar relación] to go back to sb;
    volver a nacer to be reborn
    4.
    volver en sí to come to, to regain consciousness
    * * *
    <part vuelto>
    I v/t
    1 página, mirada etc turn (a to;
    hacia toward); tortilla, filete turn (over); vestido turn inside outXXX; boca abajo turn upside down
    2
    :
    volver loco drive crazy;
    el humo volvío negra la pared the smoke turned the wall black, the smoke made the wall go black
    II v/i
    1 return, go/come back;
    volver a casa go/come back home;
    ¿cuándo vuelven? when do they get back?;
    volver sobre algo return to sth, go back to sth;
    volver a la normalidad return to normality
    2
    :
    volver en sí come to, come around
    3
    :
    volver a hacer algo do sth again;
    volver a fumar start smoking again
    * * *
    volver {89} vi
    1) : to return, to come or go back
    volver a casa: to return home
    2) : to revert
    volver al tema: to get back to the subject
    3)
    volver a : to do again
    volvieron a llamar: they called again
    4)
    volver en sí : to come to, to regain consciousness
    volver vt
    1) : to turn, to turn over, to turn inside out
    2) : to return, to repay, to restore
    3) : to cause, to make
    la volvía loca: it was driving her crazy
    * * *
    volver vb
    1. (regresar) to come back [pt. came; pp. come] / to go back
    2. (repetir)... again
    ¿puedes volver a decirlo? can you say that again?
    3. (dar la vuelta a) to turn over / to turn

    Spanish-English dictionary > volver

  • 12 Historical Portugal

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       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

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    prep.
    during (mientras).
    por favor, desconecten sus teléfonos móviles durante la proyección please insure mobile phones are switched off during the film
    durante la guerra during the war
    estuvo sin beber durante un año he went (for) a year without drinking
    durante el verano mejoró su situación económica his financial situation improved over the summer
    durante una hora for an hour
    durante toda su vida throughout her life
    m.
    Durante, Jimmy Durante.
    * * *
    1 during, in, for
    * * *
    prep.
    during, for
    * * *
    PREP [con espacio de tiempo] during; [expresando la duración] for

    ¿qué hiciste durante las vacaciones? — what did you do in o during the holidays?

    ¿ha llovido durante el fin de semana? — did it rain at o over the weekend?

    durante toda la noche — all through the night, all night long

    DURANTE Para traducir durante tenemos que diferenciar si hace referencia a cuándo ocurre la acción o a cuánto dura. ¿Cuándo ocurre la acción? Traducimos durante por during si nos referimos al intervalo de tiempo en que ocurre la acción, cuando la referencia temporal la indica un suceso o actividad determinados: Se conocieron durante la guerra They met during the war Se puso enferma durante una visita a Madrid She became ill during a visit to Madrid La bomba hizo explosión durante la entrega de premios The bomb went off during the prize-giving ceremony ► También se traduce por during cuando la referencia temporal viene indicada por un periodo de tiempo concreto: El tráfico es peor durante el verano The traffic is worse during the summer Durante los años treinta la economía se hallaba en dificultades The economy was in difficulties during the 1930s Si se trata de una acción progresiva, o que continúa o que se repite durante todo el periodo de tiempo que se indica, es preferible traducir durante por over: La situación ha empeorado durante los últimos años The situation has worsened over the last few years Durante el fin de semana el actor ha sido visto en varias ocasiones There have been several sightings of the actor over the weekend ¿Cuánto dura la acción?Si nos referimos a la duración de la acción, durante se traduce generalmente por for: Llevo sufriendo dolores de cabeza durante más de treinta años I've been having headaches for more than 30 years Fue periodista durante cuatro años He was a journalist for four years Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
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    durante 1980during o in 1980

    los precios aumentaron un 0,3% durante el mes de diciembre — prices rose by 0.3% in December

    * * *
    = at the stage of, during, throughout.
    Ex. At the stage of subject analysis the indexer decides which, and there how many, concepts are selected for indexing purposes.
    Ex. This article singles out four trends which have influenced the work of UNESCO during the last decade.
    Ex. Throughout this chapter the term 'document' is used to refer to any item which might be found in a library or information center or data base.
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    * aprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong education.
    * ausentarse durante + Expresión Temporal = not be back for + Expresión Temporal.
    * autoaprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong learning.
    * durante algunos años = for some years, over a period of years.
    * durante algún tiempo = for a while, for some time, for some while, for some time to come, for days.
    * durante años = for years.
    * durante años y años = for years and years (and years).
    * durante casi + Fecha = for the best part of + Fecha, for the better part of + Fecha.
    * durante casi todo el año = for the best part of the year.
    * durante cierto tiempo = over a period of time.
    * durante cuánto tiempo = how long.
    * durante demasiado tiempo = for too long.
    * durante días = for days.
    * durante días y días = for days on end.
    * durante el año pasado = over the past year.
    * durante el apogeo de = during the height of, during the heyday of.
    * durante el auge de = at the height of, during the height of, during the heyday of.
    * durante el descanso = at breaktime.
    * durante el día = by day, daytime [day-time], in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.
    * durante el entrenamiento = in practice.
    * durante el fin de semana = over the weekend.
    * durante el próximo año = over the next year.
    * durante el transcurso de = over the course of.
    * durante el transcurso de los acontecimientos = in the course of events, during the course of events.
    * durante el transcurso de muchos años = over many years.
    * durante el transporte = in transit.
    * durante el último año = over the last year.
    * durante el vuelo = in-flight.
    * durante este período = in the course of events, during the course of events.
    * durante este tiempo = in this time.
    * durante + Expresión Temporal = for + Expresión Temporal, over + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante + Expresión Temporal + y + Expresión Temporal = for + Expresión Temporal + on end.
    * durante generaciones = for generations.
    * durante la bajamar = at low tide.
    * durante la búsqueda = at the search stage.
    * durante la década de = through + Década.
    * durante la guerra = during wartime, wartime [wart-time], war years, the.
    * durante la mayor parte de = for much of.
    * durante la mayor parte del año = for the best part of the year.
    * durante la Navidad = at Christmas time.
    * durante la noche = overnight, night-time.
    * durante la Pascua = at Christmas time.
    * durante la pleamar = at high tide.
    * durante largos períodos de tiempo = over long periods of time.
    * durante las horas de más calor = during the heat of the day.
    * durante las horas puntas = at peak periods.
    * durante la tira de tiempo = for donkey's years.
    * durante los dos últimos meses = over the last couple of months.
    * durante los primeros años = during the early years.
    * durante los próximos años = for the next few years, over the next few years, during the next few years.
    * durante los últimos años = over the past few years, over recent years.
    * durante los últimos + Expresión Temporal = over the past + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante los últimos + Número + años = over the last + Número + years.
    * durante meses y meses = for months on end.
    * durante miles de años = for aeons and aeons, for aeons.
    * durante millones de años = for aeons and aeons, for aeons.
    * durante muchas horas = for many long hours.
    * durante muchísimo tiempo = for ages and ages (and ages), in ages (and ages and ages).
    * durante muchos años = for many years, for years to come, for many years to come, over many years, for years and years (and years).
    * durante mucho tiempo = long [longer -comp., longest -sup.], for generations, long-time [longtime], for a long time to come, for long periods of time, for a long period of time, lastingly, for a very long time, for a very long time, for many long hours, for a long time, in ages (and ages and ages).
    * durante + Posesivo + madurez = in later life.
    * durante siglos = for aeons, for centuries, over the centuries.
    * durante tanto tiempo = for so long, so long.
    * durante tanto tiempo como sea posible = for as long as possible.
    * durante toda la noche = all-night, all night long.
    * durante toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * durante toda una vida = over a lifetime.
    * durante todo = all the way through, throughout.
    * durante todo el día = all day long.
    * durante todo el trimestre = semester-long.
    * durante todo el verano = all summer long.
    * durante todo + Tiempo = all through + Tiempo.
    * durante un largo período de tiempo = over a long time scale, over a long period of time, for a long period of time, over a long period.
    * durante unos instantes = for a bit.
    * durante un período de + Expresión Temporal = over a period of + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante un período de prueba = on a trial basis.
    * durante un período de tiempo = for a number of years.
    * durante un periodo de tiempo determinado = over a period of time.
    * durante un período de tiempo indefinido = over an indefinite period of time, over an indefinite span of time.
    * durante un período indefinido = for an indefinite period.
    * durante un porrón de tiempo = for donkey's years.
    * durante un tiempo indefinido = for an indefinite time to come.
    * durante varios años = for a number of years, for several years.
    * esperado durante tiempo y con ansiedad = long-and-expectantly-awaited.
    * fue durante mucho tiempo = long remained.
    * observar atentamente y durante cierto tiempo = maintain + vigil.
    * trabajar durante un período de tiempo = serve + stint.
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    durante 1980during o in 1980

    los precios aumentaron un 0,3% durante el mes de diciembre — prices rose by 0.3% in December

    * * *
    = at the stage of, during, throughout.

    Ex: At the stage of subject analysis the indexer decides which, and there how many, concepts are selected for indexing purposes.

    Ex: This article singles out four trends which have influenced the work of UNESCO during the last decade.
    Ex: Throughout this chapter the term 'document' is used to refer to any item which might be found in a library or information center or data base.
    * aprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong education.
    * ausentarse durante + Expresión Temporal = not be back for + Expresión Temporal.
    * autoaprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong learning.
    * durante algunos años = for some years, over a period of years.
    * durante algún tiempo = for a while, for some time, for some while, for some time to come, for days.
    * durante años = for years.
    * durante años y años = for years and years (and years).
    * durante casi + Fecha = for the best part of + Fecha, for the better part of + Fecha.
    * durante casi todo el año = for the best part of the year.
    * durante cierto tiempo = over a period of time.
    * durante cuánto tiempo = how long.
    * durante demasiado tiempo = for too long.
    * durante días = for days.
    * durante días y días = for days on end.
    * durante el año pasado = over the past year.
    * durante el apogeo de = during the height of, during the heyday of.
    * durante el auge de = at the height of, during the height of, during the heyday of.
    * durante el descanso = at breaktime.
    * durante el día = by day, daytime [day-time], in the daytime, during the daytime, during daytime.
    * durante el entrenamiento = in practice.
    * durante el fin de semana = over the weekend.
    * durante el próximo año = over the next year.
    * durante el transcurso de = over the course of.
    * durante el transcurso de los acontecimientos = in the course of events, during the course of events.
    * durante el transcurso de muchos años = over many years.
    * durante el transporte = in transit.
    * durante el último año = over the last year.
    * durante el vuelo = in-flight.
    * durante este período = in the course of events, during the course of events.
    * durante este tiempo = in this time.
    * durante + Expresión Temporal = for + Expresión Temporal, over + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante + Expresión Temporal + y + Expresión Temporal = for + Expresión Temporal + on end.
    * durante generaciones = for generations.
    * durante la bajamar = at low tide.
    * durante la búsqueda = at the search stage.
    * durante la década de = through + Década.
    * durante la guerra = during wartime, wartime [wart-time], war years, the.
    * durante la mayor parte de = for much of.
    * durante la mayor parte del año = for the best part of the year.
    * durante la Navidad = at Christmas time.
    * durante la noche = overnight, night-time.
    * durante la Pascua = at Christmas time.
    * durante la pleamar = at high tide.
    * durante largos períodos de tiempo = over long periods of time.
    * durante las horas de más calor = during the heat of the day.
    * durante las horas puntas = at peak periods.
    * durante la tira de tiempo = for donkey's years.
    * durante los dos últimos meses = over the last couple of months.
    * durante los primeros años = during the early years.
    * durante los próximos años = for the next few years, over the next few years, during the next few years.
    * durante los últimos años = over the past few years, over recent years.
    * durante los últimos + Expresión Temporal = over the past + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante los últimos + Número + años = over the last + Número + years.
    * durante meses y meses = for months on end.
    * durante miles de años = for aeons and aeons, for aeons.
    * durante millones de años = for aeons and aeons, for aeons.
    * durante muchas horas = for many long hours.
    * durante muchísimo tiempo = for ages and ages (and ages), in ages (and ages and ages).
    * durante muchos años = for many years, for years to come, for many years to come, over many years, for years and years (and years).
    * durante mucho tiempo = long [longer -comp., longest -sup.], for generations, long-time [longtime], for a long time to come, for long periods of time, for a long period of time, lastingly, for a very long time, for a very long time, for many long hours, for a long time, in ages (and ages and ages).
    * durante + Posesivo + madurez = in later life.
    * durante siglos = for aeons, for centuries, over the centuries.
    * durante tanto tiempo = for so long, so long.
    * durante tanto tiempo como sea posible = for as long as possible.
    * durante toda la noche = all-night, all night long.
    * durante toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * durante toda una vida = over a lifetime.
    * durante todo = all the way through, throughout.
    * durante todo el día = all day long.
    * durante todo el trimestre = semester-long.
    * durante todo el verano = all summer long.
    * durante todo + Tiempo = all through + Tiempo.
    * durante un largo período de tiempo = over a long time scale, over a long period of time, for a long period of time, over a long period.
    * durante unos instantes = for a bit.
    * durante un período de + Expresión Temporal = over a period of + Expresión Temporal.
    * durante un período de prueba = on a trial basis.
    * durante un período de tiempo = for a number of years.
    * durante un periodo de tiempo determinado = over a period of time.
    * durante un período de tiempo indefinido = over an indefinite period of time, over an indefinite span of time.
    * durante un período indefinido = for an indefinite period.
    * durante un porrón de tiempo = for donkey's years.
    * durante un tiempo indefinido = for an indefinite time to come.
    * durante varios años = for a number of years, for several years.
    * esperado durante tiempo y con ansiedad = long-and-expectantly-awaited.
    * fue durante mucho tiempo = long remained.
    * observar atentamente y durante cierto tiempo = maintain + vigil.
    * trabajar durante un período de tiempo = serve + stint.

    * * *
    durante mi ausencia/su reinado during my absence/his reign
    durante 1980 during o in 1980
    gobernó el país durante casi dos décadas she governed the country for almost two decades
    normalmente no salimos durante la semana we don't normally go out during the week
    trabajé en casa durante toda esa semana I worked at home all that week o for the whole of that week
    los precios aumentaron un 0,3% durante el mes de diciembre prices rose by 0.3% in December
    cuando estas drogas se toman durante un período largo when these drugs are taken over o for a long period
    su condición ha empeorado durante los últimos días his condition has worsened over the last few days
    durante estos días realiza una gira por Italia she is at present o currently on tour in Italy
    * * *

     

    durante preposición ( en el transcurso de) during;
    ( cuando se especifica la duración) for;
    durante 1980 during o in 1980;

    gobernó el país durante casi dos décadas she governed the country for almost two decades;
    los precios aumentaron un 0,3% durante el mes de diciembre prices rose by 0.3% in December;
    durante todo el invierno throughout the winter
    durante preposición during: caminamos durante dos horas, we walked for two hours
    hablaremos durante la cena, we'll talk over dinner
    se durmió durante la conferencia, she fell asleep during the lecture
    estuvo llorando durante toda la noche, she was crying all night long
    Recuerda que during se usa con el "nombre" de un período (la guerra, el concierto, el día) y responde a la pregunta ¿cuándo ocurrió? For expresa duración ( tres días, un par de segundos) y responde a la pregunta ¿cuánto tiempo duró?

    ' durante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amiga
    - amigo
    - arrojadiza
    - arrojadizo
    - cada
    - cañón
    - cesar
    - clásica
    - clásico
    - cola
    - como
    - contienda
    - continuismo
    - corrillo
    - desarrollo
    - desnaturalizar
    - día
    - empeorar
    - encierro
    - exilio
    - extracorpórea
    - extracorpóreo
    - filmación
    - herida
    - legislatura
    - mes
    - mientras
    - novelón
    - pajolera
    - pajolero
    - por
    - seguida
    - seguido
    - ver
    - adolescencia
    - bajada
    - callado
    - cartearse
    - cartelera
    - cierto
    - crecimiento
    - detenido
    - empatar
    - guardar
    - lactancia
    - meditar
    - reemplazar
    - reemplazo
    - zarandear
    English:
    all
    - allege
    - almost
    - antsy
    - appal
    - appall
    - assistant
    - badly
    - besiege
    - blackout
    - blow
    - canvasser
    - climate
    - collapse
    - composed
    - course
    - craving
    - crib
    - deliberate
    - detention
    - diving
    - during
    - ensue
    - ferment
    - flatten
    - fluster
    - fold
    - for
    - forceps
    - go on
    - go-between
    - guffaw
    - haggle
    - hold against
    - homesick
    - hooligan
    - hound
    - in
    - in-flight
    - injure
    - intermission
    - intermittent
    - interrogate
    - keep in
    - major
    - monstrosity
    - neutrality
    - observation
    - outage
    - over
    * * *
    durante prep
    [en todo el tiempo de] for; [mientras] during;
    estuvo sin beber durante un año he went (for) a year without drinking;
    durante una hora for an hour;
    durante todo el mes de febrero for the whole of February, throughout the month of February;
    durante las vacaciones during the Br holidays o US vacation;
    llovió varias veces durante la semana it rained several times during the week;
    por favor, desconecten sus teléfonos móviles durante la proyección please ensure cellphones o Br mobile phones are switched off during the movie;
    durante un año se produjeron tres seísmos en la zona there were three earthquakes in the area in the space of a year;
    durante su estancia en Londres visitó varios museos he visited several museums while he was in London;
    durante el verano mejoró su situación económica his financial situation improved over the summer;
    llovió durante toda la semana it rained all week;
    * * *
    durante seis meses for six months
    * * *
    durante prep
    : during
    durante todo el día: all day long
    trabajó durante tres horas: he worked for three hours
    * * *
    durante prep
    1. during
    2. for

    Spanish-English dictionary > durante

  • 14 простой

    1) General subject: ABC, a member of the public (человек), aboriginal, artless, austere, babyish, bald, bare, base, chaste, childlike, coarse, common, dead time (на работе), dolly, down time, down-home, easy, elegant (о формулировке, научном определении и т.п.), elementary, facile, foolproof, gross (о пище), groundling, haplo, home bred, home made, home-bred, homely, homespun, honest, humble, idlesse, informal, infrangible, ingenuous, lay up, lay-up (машины), mere, mobbish, native, no frills, no-frills, onefold, open and shut, open-and-shut, ordinary, outage, penny plain, penny-plain, plain, poor, primitive, profane, pure (о стиле), racy of the soil, rough, run of the mill, run of the mine, rustic, severe (о стиле, манерах, одежде и т.п.), shirt sleeve, silly, simple, snap, standstill, stoppage, straightforward, tailor made, tailored, tailored (о женской одежде), terre-а-terre, unaffected, unartful, unbending, unceremonious, uncomplicated, uncompounded, unfussy, unmannered, unperplexed, unpretentious, unselfconscious, unsophisticated, (сравнительно) unsophisticated (об оборудовании и т.п.), up country, up-country, vera, very, vulgar, tie-up (договор поставки), simple-minded (характеристика человека без пресловутого камня за пазухой), folksy
    3) Colloquial: homey, homish, homy, numpty
    5) Obsolete: russet
    7) Engineering: delay, down (оборудования), fault time, idle, idle time, ineffective time, nonuse, out-of-service time, outage time, shutdown, standing time, stopping, time-out, vanilla
    8) Bookish: inornate, simplex
    9) Agriculture: delay (в работе)
    10) Chemistry: idiotproof
    11) Construction: wasted time
    12) Mathematics: breakdown time, idle time (вынужденная остановка), off-time, prime, short, standing idle, tame
    13) Railway term: idle hours, lay-over
    14) Law: detention (судна), verbal, demurrage (судна и т. п.)
    16) Economy: lie time, simple (напр. о проценте), standby time, straight, work stoppage
    17) Accounting: lost time
    18) Australian slang: cushy
    20) Architecture: straightway
    21) Mining: dead time (на работе), demurrage (при работе), down-time, non-productive time (в работе), standstill (в работе), time-out (в работе)
    22) Diplomatic term: shirt-sleeve, work stoppages
    23) Forestry: single-storeyed
    24) Metallurgy: idle hours (в работе)
    25) Polygraphy: standstill time
    26) Scornful: plebeian
    27) Psychology: demotic, elemental
    28) Textile: delay (оборудования), out-of-service time (машины), standing time (машины), waste of time (машины)
    29) Jargon: square, funky, Mickey Mouse
    30) Information technology: easy-to-understand
    31) Oil: dead time (в бурении), down time (в бурении), holdup (бурового станка), idle hour, off-period, shut down
    32) Silicates: idle (печи, машины)
    33) Advertising: idle capacity
    34) Patents: single
    35) Business: idle period, idleness, loss of use, primary, slack
    36) Drilling: unproductive time
    41) Programming: small
    42) Automation: dead (cycle) time, idle (машины), plain (по конструкции)
    43) Quality control: (вынужденный) downtime, dwell time, inactive time
    44) Robots: idle (оборудования), timeout
    46) Makarov: abecedarian, broken time, common (дроби), downtime (оборудования), home-made, homelike, inartificial, inelaborate, naked, no activity, off, one-fold, shutdown (напр. предприятия, машины), shutdown (напр., предприятия, машины), tailor-made
    47) Phraseological unit: common-and-garden
    48) Microsoft: hassle-free
    49) Trade unions: down-day
    50) General subject: parsimonious (о модели)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > простой

  • 15 recoger

    v.
    1 to pick up.
    recogí los papeles del suelo I picked the papers up off the ground
    Ella recoge la ropa She picks up the clothes.
    María recoge a su hijo Mary picks up her son.
    2 to collect, to gather.
    Ellos recogen manzanas They gather apples.
    3 to clear (ordenar, limpiar) (mesa).
    4 to pick up, to fetch.
    iré a recoger a los niños a la escuela I'll pick the children up from school
    5 to take in (acoger) (mendigo, huérfano, animal).
    6 to gather, to harvest.
    7 to take up, to shorten (acortar) (item of clothing).
    8 to show (mostrar) (sujeto: foto, película).
    la exposición recoge su obra más reciente the exhibition brings together his latest works
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ PROTEGER], like link=proteger proteger
    1 (volver a coger) to take again, take back
    2 (coger) to pick up, take back
    3 (ir a buscar) to pick up, collect
    4 (cosecha) to harvest, gather; (fruta) to pick
    5 (guardar) to put away
    6 (poner al abrigo) to bring in
    recoge las toallas, va a llover bring those towels in, it's going to rain
    7 (suspender) to seize
    8 (juntar) to gather, collect
    9 (velas) to take in; (cortinas) to draw
    10 (dar asilo) to take in, shelter
    11 (ordenar) to clear up, tidy up
    12 (limpiar) to clean; (el polvo) to wipe off; (líquido) to wipe up
    13 (remangar - prendas) to pick up, lift up; (- mangas) to roll up
    14 COSTURA to shorten, take up
    1 (irse a casa) to go home
    2 (irse a dormir) to go to bed
    3 (para meditar) to retire, withdraw
    \
    recoger la mesa to clear the table
    recogerse el pelo to put one's hair up, tie one's hair back
    * * *
    verb
    to collect, gather
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=levantar) [+ objeto caído] to pick up; [+ objetos dispersos] to gather (up), gather together
    2) (=recolectar) [+ datos, información] to gather, collect; [+ dinero, firmas] to collect; [+ correo, basura] to collect, pick up

    ¿a qué hora recogen el correo? — what time is the mail o post collected?, what time do they collect the mail o post?

    3) (=ordenar) [+ objetos] to clear up, clear away; [+ casa, habitación] to tidy up, straighten up

    recoge tus cosas — get your things together, gather up your things

    4) (=guardar) [+ ropa lavada] to take in, get in; [+ herramientas] to put away
    5) (Agr) to harvest, gather in, take in; [+ fruta, guisantes] to pick; [+ flores] to pick, gather
    6) (=reducir, ajustar) [+ cuerda, vela] to take in; [+ alas] to fold; [+ cuernos] to draw in; [+ falda] to gather up, lift up; [+ mangas] to roll up; (Cos) to take in, reduce, shorten
    7) (=almacenar) [+ polvo] to gather; [+ líquido] to absorb, take up; [en recipiente] to collect
    8) (=ir a buscar) [+ persona] to pick up, fetch, collect; [+ billetes, paquete] to collect, pick up

    te vendremos a recoger a las ochowe'll come and pick you up o fetch you o collect you at eight o'clock, we'll come for you at eight o'clock

    9) (=mostrar) to show

    la imagen recoge uno de los momentos más dramáticosthe picture shows o captures one of the most dramatic moments

    10) (=incluir) to include

    el informe recoge diversas sugerencias — various suggestions are included in the report, the report includes various suggestions

    11) [+ demandas, reivindicaciones] to take into account
    12) (=recibir)

    de todo esto van a recoger muy poco — they won't get much back out of all this, they will get very little return from all this

    13) (=retirar) [+ periódico, libro] to seize; [+ moneda] to call in
    14) (=dar asilo) to take in, shelter
    2.
    VI (=ordenar) to tidy up, straighten up; [al cerrar, terminar] to clear up
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( levantar) to pick up
    b) <casa/habitación> to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE)
    2)
    a) <dinero/firmas> to collect
    b) <deberes/cuadernos> to collect, take in
    c) <trigo/maíz> to harvest, gather in; < fruta> to pick; <flores/hongos> to pick, gather
    d) <tienda de campaña/vela> to take down
    e) < pelo>
    3) ( recibir y retener) <agua/polvo> to collect
    4) ( ir a buscar) < persona> to pick up, fetch, collect; < paquete> to collect, pick up; < basura> to collect

    ¿puedes recoger el traje de la tintorería? — can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners?

    fui a recoger mis cosasI went to get o to pick up my things

    5) <huérfano/gatito> to take in
    6) foto <instantánea/momento> to capture; novela <ambiente/contexto social> to depict
    2.
    recoger vi ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    3.
    recogersev pron
    1) ( volver a casa) to go home; ( ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire; (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    2) < pelo> to tie up
    * * *
    = capture, collect, cull, gather, pick up, record, reap, harvest, garner, shuffle together, scoop (out), sweep up, wind, stow, pack + Posesivo + bags, clear up, pack up.
    Ex. In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.
    Ex. Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex. The contents of an extract will often be culled from the results, conclusions or recommendations, i.e. the concluding segments, of the document.
    Ex. A bibliography is a list of materials or items which is restricted in its coverage by some feature other than the materials being gathered in one library collection.
    Ex. Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.
    Ex. Editors and compilers of editions of works are recorded together with the edition statement in the edition area = En en área de edición se incluyen los editores y compiladores de las ediciones de trabajos junto con la mención de edición.
    Ex. Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex. Entire families or groups of families cooperate in growing and harvesting food.
    Ex. The serials file contains a large number of titles, not only contributed by members, but also garnered from other sources.
    Ex. This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    Ex. This service will be useful for end users and for scooping out the availability of information on STN for a variety of search topics.
    Ex. Who else is going to flip the burgers, clean the resistant bomb-proof windows of the glitzy mile-high skyscrapers -- also take out the garbage, wash the dishes, park the cars, sweep up the papers in the parks?.
    Ex. Bring the kite down by slowly winding the kite string around a kite spool.
    Ex. It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex. The next day we shook off our hangovers with another refreshing dip under the waterfall, packed our bags and headed off.
    Ex. What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex. The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
    ----
    * encargado de recoger = gatherer.
    * frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.
    * persona que recoge algo = picker.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * recoger con un rastrillo = rake.
    * recoger datos = collect + data.
    * recoger datos para hacer estadísticas = collect + statistics.
    * recoger evidencia = collect + evidence.
    * recoger experiencia = garner + experience.
    * recoger información = collect + data, collect + information, gather + information, summon + knowledge, harvest + information.
    * recoger la mesa = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas de Uno antes de irse = pack + Posesivo + things.
    * recoger los platos rotos = pick up + the pieces, sort out + the mess.
    * recoger material = gather + material.
    * recoger pruebas = collect + evidence, gather + evidence, accumulate + evidence.
    * recoger y enviar datos = telemeter.
    * sin recoger = uncollected.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( levantar) to pick up
    b) <casa/habitación> to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE)
    2)
    a) <dinero/firmas> to collect
    b) <deberes/cuadernos> to collect, take in
    c) <trigo/maíz> to harvest, gather in; < fruta> to pick; <flores/hongos> to pick, gather
    d) <tienda de campaña/vela> to take down
    e) < pelo>
    3) ( recibir y retener) <agua/polvo> to collect
    4) ( ir a buscar) < persona> to pick up, fetch, collect; < paquete> to collect, pick up; < basura> to collect

    ¿puedes recoger el traje de la tintorería? — can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners?

    fui a recoger mis cosasI went to get o to pick up my things

    5) <huérfano/gatito> to take in
    6) foto <instantánea/momento> to capture; novela <ambiente/contexto social> to depict
    2.
    recoger vi ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    3.
    recogersev pron
    1) ( volver a casa) to go home; ( ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire; (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    2) < pelo> to tie up
    * * *
    = capture, collect, cull, gather, pick up, record, reap, harvest, garner, shuffle together, scoop (out), sweep up, wind, stow, pack + Posesivo + bags, clear up, pack up.

    Ex: In those early days, so the story goes, the library movement was in danger of being captured by an aristocratic intellectual class designing to make the public library an elitist center for scholarly research.

    Ex: Synonyms, related terms and other variants must now be collected, either by human selection, or with the aid of the machine.
    Ex: The contents of an extract will often be culled from the results, conclusions or recommendations, i.e. the concluding segments, of the document.
    Ex: A bibliography is a list of materials or items which is restricted in its coverage by some feature other than the materials being gathered in one library collection.
    Ex: Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.
    Ex: Editors and compilers of editions of works are recorded together with the edition statement in the edition area = En en área de edición se incluyen los editores y compiladores de las ediciones de trabajos junto con la mención de edición.
    Ex: Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex: Entire families or groups of families cooperate in growing and harvesting food.
    Ex: The serials file contains a large number of titles, not only contributed by members, but also garnered from other sources.
    Ex: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    Ex: This service will be useful for end users and for scooping out the availability of information on STN for a variety of search topics.
    Ex: Who else is going to flip the burgers, clean the resistant bomb-proof windows of the glitzy mile-high skyscrapers -- also take out the garbage, wash the dishes, park the cars, sweep up the papers in the parks?.
    Ex: Bring the kite down by slowly winding the kite string around a kite spool.
    Ex: It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex: The next day we shook off our hangovers with another refreshing dip under the waterfall, packed our bags and headed off.
    Ex: What they will not do is clear up the foggy area in most cataloguers' minds, the area that leads to an inconsistent application of half-understood principles'.
    Ex: The hall is quiet, the band has packed up, and the munchies are all gone.
    * encargado de recoger = gatherer.
    * frase que recoge el tema principal del artículo = topic sentence.
    * persona que recoge algo = picker.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * recoger con un rastrillo = rake.
    * recoger datos = collect + data.
    * recoger datos para hacer estadísticas = collect + statistics.
    * recoger evidencia = collect + evidence.
    * recoger experiencia = garner + experience.
    * recoger información = collect + data, collect + information, gather + information, summon + knowledge, harvest + information.
    * recoger la mesa = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas = clear away + the things.
    * recoger las cosas de Uno antes de irse = pack + Posesivo + things.
    * recoger los platos rotos = pick up + the pieces, sort out + the mess.
    * recoger material = gather + material.
    * recoger pruebas = collect + evidence, gather + evidence, accumulate + evidence.
    * recoger y enviar datos = telemeter.
    * sin recoger = uncollected.

    * * *
    recoger [E6 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (levantar) to pick up
    recoge la servilleta pick up the napkin
    lo recogió del suelo she picked it up off the floor
    no pienso recoger vuestros trastos I don't intend to pick up your junk o to clear up after you
    recogía el agua que se salía de la lavadora I was mopping up the water that was coming out of the washing machine
    recoge estos cristales clear up this broken glass
    2 ‹casa/habitación› to straighten (up) ( AmE), to tidy (up) ( BrE)
    recoger la mesa to clear the table
    B
    1 ‹dinero/firmas› to collect
    2 ‹deberes/cuadernos› to collect, take in
    recoger la ropa del tendedero to bring the washing in
    3 ‹trigo/maíz› to gather in, take in, harvest; ‹fruta› to pick, harvest; ‹flores/hongos› to pick, gather
    no llegó a recoger el fruto de su trabajo he was unable to reap the fruits of his labor
    4 ‹tienda de campaña› to take down; ‹alfombra› to take up; ‹vela› to take down
    5 ‹pelo›
    le recogió el pelo en una cola he gathered her hair into a ponytail
    C (retener) ‹agua› to collect
    esta alfombra recoge mucho polvo this carpet collects o gathers a lot of dust
    D (retirar de circulación) ‹periódico› to seize; ‹monedas› to withdraw, take … out of circulation
    E (ir a buscar) ‹persona› to pick up, fetch, collect; ‹paquete› to collect, pick up ‹equipaje› ( Aviac) to reclaim
    ¿a qué hora pasan a recoger la basura? what time do they come to take away o collect the garbage ( AmE) o ( BrE) rubbish?
    el autobús pasará a recogernos a las ocho the bus will come by to collect us o pick us up at eight
    ¿puedes recoger el traje del tinte? can you fetch o pick up the suit from the dry-cleaners
    voy adentro a recoger las maletas I'll go inside and get the suitcases
    fui a recoger mis cosas I went to get o to pick up my things
    F (dar asilo) to take in
    recogieron a un gatito abandonado they took in an abandoned kitten
    un asilo para recoger a los vagabundos a hostel to provide shelter for vagrants
    G
    (incluir, registrar): la obra recoge el trasfondo social de aquel momento the work depicts the social context of that time
    la imagen recoge el momento en que … the picture shows o captures the moment in which …
    el informe recoge estas últimas estadísticas these latest statistics figure o appear in the report
    esta acepción no la recoge ningún diccionario this meaning isn't included in o isn't in any dictionary
    su obra está siendo recogida en cuatro volúmenes his works are being collected for publication in four volumes
    un espectáculo que recoge tres de sus obras breves a show which brings together three of his short works
    ■ recoger
    vi
    to clear up, to straighten up ( AmE), to tidy up ( BrE)
    venga, recoger ya, que vamos a comer come on, clear up (your things), it's time to eat
    A
    1 (volver a casa) to go home; (ir a la cama) to go to bed, retire
    2 (para meditar, rezar) to withdraw
    B
    1 ‹mangas/pantalones› to roll up; ‹falda› to lift up
    2 ‹pelo› to tie up
    recogerse el pelo en un moño to put one's hair up in a bun
    * * *

     

    recoger ( conjugate recoger) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ( levantar) ‹objeto/papeles to pick up;


    b)casa/habitación to straighten (up) (AmE), to tidy (up) (BrE);

    platos to clear away;

    2
    a)dinero/firmas to collect

    b)deberes/cuadernos to collect, take in

    c)trigo/maíz to harvest, gather in;

    fruta to pick;
    flores/hongos to pick, gather
    d)tienda de campaña/vela to take down

    e) peloto tie … back;


    3 ( ir a buscar) ‹ persona to pick up, fetch, collect;
    paquete to collect, pick up;
    basura to collect;
    equipaje to reclaim
    verbo intransitivo ( guardar) to clear up, to straighten up (AmE), to tidy up (BrE)
    recogerse verbo pronominal ‹ pelo to tie up;
    falda to gather up
    recoger
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (un objeto caído) to pick up
    2 (información, dinero, basura, etc) to gather, collect
    3 (una casa) to tidy up
    recoger la mesa, to clear the table
    4 (en un sitio a alguien o algo) to pick up, fetch, collect: vino a recogernos a las tres, she came to pick us up at three o'clock
    5 (ordenar, guardar) to tidy (up), clear up: recoge tus juguetes inmediatamente, pick up your toys this instant
    6 (a una persona o animal necesitados) to take in
    7 (cosecha) to harvest, gather in
    8 (fruta) to pick
    II vi (poner orden, colocar, guardar) to tidy up: antes de irnos tenemos que recoger, we'll have to tidy up before we go
    ' recoger' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    buscar
    - coger
    - inclinarse
    - vendimiar
    - cosechar
    - mesa
    - pala
    - pinchar
    - pretexto
    English:
    call
    - call for
    - clear away
    - clear up
    - collect
    - gather
    - gather in
    - gather up
    - harvest
    - nuisance
    - pack up
    - pick
    - pick off
    - pick up
    - pull in
    - put away
    - rake up
    - reclaim
    - scoop up
    - sweep up
    - tidy away
    - tidy up
    - up
    - clear
    - collection
    - get
    - glean
    - overflow
    - pack
    - pull
    - reap
    - scoop
    - sweep
    - take
    - tidy
    * * *
    vt
    1. [coger, levantar] to pick up;
    recogí los papeles del suelo I picked the papers up off the ground;
    recogieron el agua con una fregona they mopped up the water
    2. [reunir, retener] to collect, to gather;
    están recogiendo firmas/dinero para… they are collecting signatures/money for…;
    este trasto no hace más que recoger polvo this piece of junk is just gathering dust
    3. [ordenar, limpiar] [mesa] to clear;
    [casa, habitación, cosas] to tidy o clear up
    4. [ir a buscar] to pick up, to fetch;
    iré a recoger a los niños a la escuela I'll pick the children up from school;
    ¿a qué hora paso a recogerte? what time shall I pick you up?;
    ¿a qué hora recogen la basura? what time do they collect the rubbish?
    5. [recolectar] [mies, cosecha] to harvest;
    [fruta, aceitunas] to pick; [setas, flores] to pick, to gather; [beneficios] to reap;
    ahora empieza a recoger los frutos de su trabajo now she's starting to reap the rewards of her work
    6. [mostrar] [sujeto: foto, película] to show;
    [sujeto: novela] to depict;
    su ensayo recoge una idea ya esbozada por Spinoza her essay contains an idea already hinted at by Spinoza;
    una comedia que recoge el ambiente de los ochenta a comedy which captures the atmosphere of the eighties;
    la exposición recoge su obra más reciente the exhibition brings together his latest works
    7. [sujeto: ley] to include;
    un derecho recogido por la ley a right enshrined in law
    8. [acoger] [mendigo, huérfano, animal] to take in;
    en el albergue recogen a los sin techo the hostel takes in homeless people
    9. [plegar] [velas, sombrillas] to take down;
    [cortinas] to tie back
    10. [prenda] [acortar] to take up, to shorten;
    [estrechar] to take in
    vi
    [ordenar, limpiar] to tidy o clear up;
    cuando acabes de recoger… when you've finished tidying o clearing up…
    * * *
    v/t
    1 pick up, collect;
    recoger firmas collect signatures;
    recoger las cartas collect one’s mail
    2 habitación tidy up;
    recoger la mesa clear the table
    3 AGR harvest
    4 ( mostrar) show
    5
    :
    recoger las piernas lift up one’s legs
    * * *
    recoger {15} vt
    1) : to collect, to gather
    2) : to get, to retrieve, to pick up
    3) : to clean up, to tidy (up)
    * * *
    1. (coger, ir a buscar) to pick up
    2. (ordenar) to tidy [pt. & pp. tidied]
    3. (reunir) to collect

    Spanish-English dictionary > recoger

  • 16 double

    double ['dʌbəl]
    double1 (a)-(c), 1 (g), 3 (a), 3 (b), 3 (d) deux fois1 (d) en double1 (e) pour deux personnes1 (f) deux fois plus2 demi-tour3 (c) en deux4 doubler5 (a), 5 (c), 6 plier en deux5 (b) contrer5 (d), 6 (c) tourner6 (b)
    (a) (twice as large → quantity, portion) double;
    a double whisky un double whisky
    (b) Botany double
    (c) (line, row) double;
    to go into or reach double figures (of inflation, unemployment etc) atteindre la barre des dix pour cent;
    an egg with a double yolk un œuf à deux jaunes
    (d) (with figures, letters) deux fois;
    double five two one (figure) deux fois cinq deux un; (phone number) cinquante-cinq, vingt et un;
    "letter" is spelt with a double "t" "letter" s'écrit avec deux "t";
    to throw a double six/three faire un double six/trois
    (e) (folded in two) en double, replié;
    double thickness double épaisseur f
    (f) (for two people) pour ou à deux personnes
    (g) (dual → purpose, advantage) double; (ambiguous) double, ambigu(uë);
    a word with a double meaning un mot à double sens;
    to lead a double life mener une double vie;
    to have double standards faire deux poids, deux mesures;
    familiar to do a double take marquer un temps d'arrêt (par surprise);
    he did a double take when I told him lorsque je le lui ai dit, il a marqué un temps d'arrêt;
    the brothers had a double wedding les deux frères se sont mariés au cours de la même cérémonie
    (twice) deux fois plus;
    she earns double my salary elle gagne deux fois plus que moi ou le double de moi;
    we ordered double the usual quantity nous avons commandé le double de la quantité habituelle;
    it took me double the time I expected ça m'a pris le double du temps que je pensais;
    food here costs nearly double what it does at home la nourriture ici coûte presque le double de chez moi
    3 noun
    (a) (twice the amount) double m; (of alcohol) double m;
    he charged us double il nous a fait payer le double;
    they pay him double if he works nights on le paye (au tarif) double s'il travaille la nuit;
    at or on the double au pas de course;
    also figurative on the double! magnez-vous!;
    double or quits quitte ou double
    (b) (duplicate) double m, réplique f; (of person) double m, sosie m; Cinema & Television (stand-in) doublure f; Theatre (actor with two parts) acteur(trice) m,f qui tient deux rôles;
    she's your double! c'est ton sosie!
    (c) (turn) demi-tour m
    (d) Horseracing pari m couplé; Cards contre m; (in darts) double m; (in billiards) doublé m
    (in two) en deux;
    to fold sth double plier qch en deux;
    I was bent double with pain j'étais plié en deux de douleur;
    (a) (increase) doubler;
    he doubled my salary il a doublé mon salaire;
    to double the stakes doubler la mise
    (b) (fold) plier en deux, replier
    (c) Cinema & Television doubler
    (d) Cards (bid, opponent) contrer
    (a) (increase) doubler
    (b) (turn) tourner, faire un crochet
    (c) Cards contrer;
    double! (in bridge) contre!
    the dining room doubles as a study la salle à manger sert également de bureau;
    Theatre he doubles as the priest and the servant il joue les rôles du prêtre et du domestique
    ►► double act duo m comique;
    double agent agent m double;
    Music double bar double barre f;
    Music double bass contrebasse f;
    Music double bassoon contrebasson m;
    double bed grand lit m, lit m à deux places;
    double bill Cin = séance avec deux longs métrages à la suite; TV = programmation de deux longs métrages à la suite;
    Psychology double bind double contrainte f;
    to be caught in a double bind se trouver dans une situation insoluble, être dans une impasse;
    British double bluff = technique consistant à faire croire qu'on bluffe alors qu'on dit la vérité;
    it was a double bluff on her part elle voulait lui/nous/ etc faire croire qu'elle bluffait;
    Golf double bogey bogey m double;
    American double boiler casserole f à double fond;
    to heat sth in a double boiler faire chauffer qch au bain-marie;
    double check revérification f;
    double chin double menton m;
    British double cream crème f épaisse, French Canadian crème f à fouetter;
    double cross trahison f, traîtrise f;
    Typography double dagger diésis m;
    American double date sortie f à quatre (deux couples);
    American double digit nombre m à deux chiffres;
    double doors, a double door une porte à deux battants;
    Sport double dribble (in basketball) reprise f de dribble;
    double Dutch British familiar charabia m, baragouin m; American (game) double dutch m;
    to talk double Dutch baragouiner;
    it's all double Dutch to me! c'est de l'hébreu pour moi!;
    double entendre mot m ou expression f à double sens;
    Accountancy double entry comptabilité f en partie double;
    Photography double exposure surimpression f;
    Sport double fault double faute f;
    Cinema double feature = séance avec deux longs métrages à la suite;
    British University double first mention f très bien (dans deux disciplines à la fois);
    Music double flat double bémol m;
    double Gloucester = fromage à pâte pressée;
    double helix double hélice f;
    British University double honours = licence portant sur deux matières;
    American Insurance double indemnity = clause d'une assurance-vie qui stipule qu'en cas de mort accidentelle de l'assuré la prime est doublée;
    American Law double jeopardy double incrimination f;
    double knit tricot m double face, double face f;
    double knitting = laine assez épaisse utilisée en tricot;
    double knot double nœud m;
    Grammar double negative double négation f;
    double occupancy (of hotel room) occupation f double;
    Stock Exchange double option stellage m;
    double parking stationnement m en double file;
    double play (in baseball) double retrait m;
    American figurative to do a double play faire d'une pierre deux coups;
    Medicine double pneumonia pneumonie f double;
    Computing double precision double précision f;
    Sport double pump (in basketball) = smash en deux temps;
    double room chambre f pour deux personnes;
    Sport double Salchow (in figure skating) double Salchow m;
    British double saucepan casserole f à double fond;
    to cook in a double saucepan faire cuire au bain-marie;
    double scull (in rowing) deux m de couple;
    Music double sharp double dièse m;
    Typography double spacing double interligne m;
    in double spacing à double interligne;
    Astronomy double star étoile f double;
    Music double stopping (on violin) double-corde f;
    Finance double taxation double imposition f;
    Sport double team = bloc de deux défenseurs contre un attaquant;
    double time (pay) salaire m double; Military pas m redoublé; Music mesure f double;
    I get double time on Sundays je suis payé le double le dimanche;
    to march in double time marcher à pas redoublés;
    Music in double time en mesure double;
    Medicine double vision double vision f;
    to have double vision voir double;
    familiar double whammy double coup m de malchance ;
    it was a double whammy: he was attacked by the opposition and by his own party at the same time il était pris entre deux feux, assailli d'un côté par l'opposition, de l'autre par son propre parti ;
    British double white line (on road) double ligne f blanche (d'interdiction de doubler);
    American Music double whole note double ronde f;
    to be parked on a double yellow line être en stationnement interdit
    (animal, person, road) tourner brusquement;
    he doubled back down a side road il a rebroussé chemin par une petite route;
    the path doubles back on itself le sentier te ramène sur tes pas
    (sheet) mettre en double
    Cinema & Theatre doubler
    (bend over) se plier, se courber;
    he doubled over in pain il se plia en deux de douleur
    (a) (bend over) se plier, se courber;
    he doubled up in pain il se plia en deux de douleur;
    to double up with laughter se tordre de rire
    (b) (share) partager;
    there weren't enough rooms so we doubled up il n'y avait pas assez de place, alors nous nous sommes mis à deux par chambre
    plier en deux, replier
    ✾ Film 'Double Indemnity' Wilder 'Assurance sur la mort'

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > double

  • 17 half

    1.
    [hɑːf]noun, pl. halves [hɑːvz]
    1) (part) Hälfte, die

    half [of something] — die Hälfte [von etwas]

    I've only half leftich habe nur noch die Hälfte

    half [of] that — die Hälfte [davon]

    cut something in half or into [two] halves — etwas in zwei Hälften schneiden

    divide something in half or into halves — etwas halbieren

    one/two and a half hours, one hour/two hours and a half — anderthalb od. eineinhalb/zweieinhalb Stunden

    not/never do anything/things by halves — keine halben Sachen machen

    be too cheeky/big by half — entschieden zu frech/groß sein

    go halves or go half and half [with somebody] — halbe-halbe [mit jemandem] machen (ugs.)

    that's only or just or not the half of it — das ist noch nicht alles

    2) (coll.): (half-pint) kleines Glas; (of beer) kleines Bier; Kleine, das (ugs.)

    a half of bitteretc. ein kleines Bitter usw.

    3) (Footb. etc.): (period) Halbzeit, die
    2. adjective

    half the house/books/staff/time — die Hälfte des Hauses/der Bücher/des Personals/der Zeit

    he is drunk half the time(very often) er ist fast immer betrunken

    3. adverb
    1) (to the extent of half) zur Hälfte; halb [öffnen, schließen, aufessen, fertig, voll, geöffnet]; (almost) fast [fallen, ersticken, tot sein]

    half as much/many/big/heavy — halb so viel/viele/groß/schwer

    half run [and] half walk — teils laufen, teils gehen

    I half wished/hoped that... — ich wünschte mir/hoffte fast, dass...

    only half hear what... — nur zum Teil hören, was...

    half listen for/to — mit halbem Ohr horchen auf (+ Akk.)/zuhören (+ Dat.)

    2) (by the amount of a half-hour) halb

    half pastor (coll.)

    half twelve/one/two/three — etc. halb eins/zwei/drei/vier usw

    * * *
    1. plural - halves; noun
    1) (one of two equal parts of anything: He tried to stick the two halves together again; half a kilo of sugar; a kilo and a half of sugar; one and a half kilos of sugar.) die Hälfte
    2) (one of two equal parts of a game (eg in football, hockey) usually with a break between them: The Rangers scored three goals in the first half.) die Halbzeit
    2. adjective
    1) (being (equal to) one of two equal parts (of something): a half bottle of wine.) halb
    2) (being made up of two things in equal parts: A centaur is a mythical creature, half man and half horse.) halb
    3) (not full or complete: a half smile.) halb
    3. adverb
    1) (to the extent of one half: This cup is only half full; It's half empty.) halb
    2) (almost; partly: I'm half hoping he won't come; half dead from hunger.) beinahe
    - academic.ru/116531/half-">half-
    - halve
    - half-and-half
    - half-back
    - half-brother
    - half-sister
    - half-caste
    - half-hearted
    - half-heartedly
    - half-heartedness
    - half-holiday
    - half-hourly
    - half-term
    - half-time
    - half-way
    - half-wit
    - half-witted
    - half-yearly
    - at half mast
    - by half
    - do things by halves
    - go halves with
    - half past three
    - four
    - seven
    - in half
    - not half
    * * *
    [hɑ:f, AM hæf]
    I. n
    <pl halves>
    1. (fifty per cent) Hälfte f
    roughly \half of the class are Spanish die Klasse besteht ungefähr zur Hälfte aus Spaniern
    what's \half of ninety-six? was ist die Hälfte von sechsundneunzig?
    a kilo and a \half eineinhalb [o DIAL anderthalb] Kilo
    \half an apple ein halber Apfel
    \half a dozen ein halbes Dutzend
    \half the amount der halbe Betrag
    by \half um die Hälfte
    bigger by \half eineinhalbmal so groß
    to divide sth by \half etw durch zwei teilen
    to reduce sth by \half etw um die Hälfte reduzieren
    in \half [or into halves] in zwei Hälften
    to cut sth into halves etw halbieren
    to cut in \half in der Mitte durchschneiden, halbieren
    to fold in \half zur Mitte falten
    2. BRIT ( fam: half pint of beer) kleines Bier (entspricht ca. 1/4 Liter), ÖSTERR a. Seidel nt, ÖSTERR a. Seitel nt, Stange f SCHWEIZ
    3. BRIT (child's ticket)
    two adults and three halves, please! zwei Erwachsene und drei Kinder, bitte!
    4. FBALL (midfield player) Läufer(in) m(f)
    first/second \half erste/zweite Spielhälfte [o Halbzeit
    5. ( fam: the whole)
    you haven't heard the \half of it yet! das dicke Ende kommt ja noch!
    that's \half the fun [of it] das ist doch gerade der Spaß daran
    6. ( fam: most) der/die/das meiste...
    \half of them didn't turn up die meisten von ihnen sind gar nicht erschienen
    our boss has lost \half his authority unser Chef hat seine Autorität zum größten Teil eingebüßt
    if you are \half the man I think you are, you'll succeed wenn du auch nur im entferntesten der Mann bist, für den ich dich halte, dann schaffst du das
    \half [of] the time die meiste Zeit
    7.
    to be \half the battle:
    for jobs like that, getting an interview is \half the battle bei Stellen wie diesen hat man schon halb gewonnen, wenn man ein Vorstellungsgespräch bekommt
    given \half a chance wenn man die Möglichkeit hätte
    I'd go to India, given \half a chance wenn ich die Möglichkeit hätte, würde ich nach Indien gehen
    to be too clever by \half ein Schlaumeier sein
    to not do things by halves keine halben Sachen machen fam
    a game/meal and a \half ein Bombenspiel nt/Bombenessen nt fam
    to go halves [on sth] ( fam) sich dat die Kosten [für etw akk] teilen
    I'll go halves with you ich teile mit dir, ich mach mit dir halbe-halbe fam
    my other [or better] \half meine zweite [o bessere] Hälfte
    how the other \half lives ( prov) wie andere Leute leben
    \half a second [or BRIT tick] einen Moment
    I'll be with you in \half a second ich bin sofort bei dir
    II. adj halbe(r, s) attr
    a centaur is half man half horse ein Zentaur ist halb Mensch halb Pferd
    \half [a] per cent ein halbes Prozent
    a \half pint of lager ein kleines Helles
    III. adv
    1. (almost) fast, nahezu, beinahe
    they had been frightened \half out of their minds sie wären fast verrückt geworden vor Angst
    2. (partially, to some extent) halb, zum Teil
    she was \half afraid she'd have to make a speech sie hatte schon fast befürchtet, eine Rede halten zu müssen
    I was \half inclined to call you last night ich hätte dich gestern Abend fast angerufen
    it wasn't \half as good das war bei Weitem nicht so gut
    \half asleep halb wach
    \half cooked halb gar
    \half empty/full halb leer/voll
    \half naked halb nackt
    to be \half right person zum Teil Recht haben; thing zur Hälfte richtig sein
    3. (time)
    [at] \half past nine [um] halb zehn; ( fam)
    meet me at home at \half past on the dot, okay? du bist dann um Punkt halb bei mir, o. k.? fam
    4. (by fifty percent)
    \half as... as... halb so... wie...
    my little brother is \half as tall as me mein kleiner Bruder ist halb so groß wie ich
    he is \half my weight er wiegt halb so viel wie ich
    5. (intensifies negative statement)
    not \half BRIT ( fam) unheimlich fam, wahnsinnig fam, irre sl
    he wasn't \half handsome er sah unverschämt gut aus fam
    she didn't \half shout at him sie hat ihn vielleicht angebrüllt fam; (affirms positive opinion)
    did you enjoy the film? — not \half! hat dir der Film gefallen? — und wie!
    * * *
    [hAːf]
    1. n pl halves
    1) Hälfte f

    to cut sth in half — etw halbieren; (with knife also) etw in zwei Hälften or Teile schneiden; salary etc etw um or auf die Hälfte kürzen

    to break/tear sth in half — etw durchbrechen/durchreißen

    half of it/them — die Hälfte davon/von ihnen

    half the book/money — die Hälfte des Buches/Geldes, das halbe Buch/Geld

    half my life — die Hälfte meines Lebens, mein halbes Leben

    he gave me halfer gab mir die Hälfte

    half a cup/an hour — eine halbe Tasse/Stunde

    he's not half the man he used to be — er ist längst nicht mehr das, was er einmal war

    half a second! —

    to go halves (with sb on sth) — (mit jdm mit etw) halbe-halbe machen (inf)

    one and a half — eineinhalb, anderthalb

    2) (SPORT of match) (Spiel)hälfte f, Halbzeit f; (= player) Läufer(in) m(f)
    3) (of ticket) Abschnitt m der Fahrkarte; (= travel, admission fee) halbe Karte (inf)

    return half (Brit)Abschnitt m für die Rückfahrt

    two adults and one half, please — zwei Erwachsene und ein Kind, bitte

    two and a half (to London) — zweieinhalb(mal London)

    4) (= beer) kleines Bier, Halbe f (dial), Halbe(s) nt, Kleine(s) nt; (Scot, = whisky) einfacher Whisky, Einfache(r) m
    5)

    (= husband etc) or other half — meine bessere Hälfte

    2. adj
    halb

    half one thing half another — halb und halb, halb das eine und halb das andere

    half man half beast —

    it's neither opera nor operetta but sort of half and halfes ist so ein Zwischending nt zwischen Oper und Operette

    3. adv
    1) halb

    I half thought... — ich hätte fast gedacht...

    I was half afraid that... — ich habe fast befürchtet, dass...

    the work is only half donedie Arbeit ist erst halb or zur Hälfte erledigt

    half laughing, half crying — halb lachend, halb weinend

    half laughing, half crying he told me... — mit einem lachenden und einem weinenden Auge erzählte er mir...

    he half rose to his feet —

    I half think that... — ich habe beinahe den Eindruck, dass...

    the book was half in German, half in English — das Buch war zur Hälfte auf Deutsch und zur Hälfte auf Englisch

    2) (Brit inf)

    he's not half stupid/rich etc — er ist vielleicht or unheimlich dumm/reich etc

    3)
    4)

    he earns half as much as you —

    give me half as much againgib mir noch die Hälfte dazu

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    half [hɑːf; US hæf]
    A adj
    1. halb:
    a half mile, meist half a mile eine halbe Meile;
    a half share ein halber Anteil, eine Hälfte;
    half an hour eine halbe Stunde;
    at half the price zum halben Preis;
    two pounds and a half, two and a half pounds zweieinhalb Pfund;
    a fish and a half umg ein Mordsfisch;
    a fellow and a half umg ein Pfundskerl;
    a woman and a half umg eine Superfrau
    2. halb, oberflächlich:
    half knowledge Halbwissen n, Halbbildung f
    B adv
    1. halb, zur Hälfte:
    half cooked halb gar;
    half as long halb so lang;
    half as much halb so viel;
    half as much ( oder as many) again anderthalbmal so viel;
    she is half his age sie ist halb so alt wie er
    2. halb(wegs), fast, nahezu:
    half dead halb tot;
    he half wished (suspected) er wünschte (vermutete) halb oder fast
    a) bei Weitem nicht, lange nicht:
    b) umg (ganz und) gar nicht:
    not half bad gar nicht übel
    c) umg gehörig, mordsmäßig:
    he didn’t half swear er fluchte nicht schlecht
    half past (US a. after) two zwei Uhr dreißig, halb drei;
    half three Br umg halb vier
    5. SCHIFF …einhalb:
    half three dreieinhalb (Faden)
    C pl halves [hɑːvz; US hævz] s
    1. Hälfte f:
    the first half of the year die erste Jahreshälfte;
    one half of it die eine Hälfte davon;
    half of the girls die Hälfte der Mädchen;
    waste half of one’s time die halbe Zeit verschwenden; better1 A 1
    2. SPORT
    a) (Spiel)Hälfte f, Halbzeit f:
    in the first (second) half auch vor (nach) dem Seitenwechsel;
    a game of two different halves ein Spiel mit zwei verschiedenen Halbzeiten
    b) auch half of the field (Spielfeld)Hälfte f
    c) first (second) half of the season Vorrunde (Rückrunde) f
    3. halfback
    4. Golf: Gleichstand m
    5. Fahrkarte f zum halben Preis
    6. half-hour A
    7. halbes Pint (besonders Bier):
    I only had a half ich hab nur ein kleines Bier getrunken
    8. obs Halbjahr nBesondere Redewendungen: half of it is ( oder half of them are) rotten die Hälfte (davon) ist faul;
    half the amount die halbe Menge oder Summe, halb so viel;
    cut in(to) halves ( oder in half) etwas halbieren oder in zwei Hälften teilen;
    do sth by halves etwas nur halb tun;
    do things by halves halbe Sachen oder Halbheiten machen;
    not do things by halves Nägel mit Köpfen machen;
    too clever by half bes Br umg oberschlau;
    go halves with sb in ( oder on) sth etwas mit jemandem teilen, mit jemandem bei etwas halbpart machen;
    not good enough by half bei Weitem nicht gut genug; battle Bes Redew, eye A 2, mind A 5
    hf abk half
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    1.
    [hɑːf]noun, pl. halves [hɑːvz]
    1) (part) Hälfte, die

    half [of something] — die Hälfte [von etwas]

    half [of] that — die Hälfte [davon]

    cut something in half or into [two] halves — etwas in zwei Hälften schneiden

    divide something in half or into halves — etwas halbieren

    one/two and a half hours, one hour/two hours and a half — anderthalb od. eineinhalb/zweieinhalb Stunden

    not/never do anything/things by halves — keine halben Sachen machen

    be too cheeky/big by half — entschieden zu frech/groß sein

    go halves or go half and half [with somebody] — halbe-halbe [mit jemandem] machen (ugs.)

    that's only or just or not the half of it — das ist noch nicht alles

    2) (coll.): (half-pint) kleines Glas; (of beer) kleines Bier; Kleine, das (ugs.)

    a half of bitteretc. ein kleines Bitter usw.

    3) (Footb. etc.): (period) Halbzeit, die
    2. adjective

    half the house/books/staff/time — die Hälfte des Hauses/der Bücher/des Personals/der Zeit

    he is drunk half the time (very often) er ist fast immer betrunken

    3. adverb
    1) (to the extent of half) zur Hälfte; halb [öffnen, schließen, aufessen, fertig, voll, geöffnet]; (almost) fast [fallen, ersticken, tot sein]

    half as much/many/big/heavy — halb so viel/viele/groß/schwer

    half run [and] half walk — teils laufen, teils gehen

    I half wished/hoped that... — ich wünschte mir/hoffte fast, dass...

    only half hear what... — nur zum Teil hören, was...

    half listen for/to — mit halbem Ohr horchen auf (+ Akk.)/zuhören (+ Dat.)

    half pastor (coll.)

    half twelve/one/two/three — etc. halb eins/zwei/drei/vier usw

    * * *
    adj.
    halb adj. n.
    (§ pl.: halves)
    = Hälfte -n f.

    English-german dictionary > half

  • 18 DRAGA

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    I)
    (dreg; dró, drógum; dreginn), v.
    1) to draw, drag, pull;
    draga heim viðinn, to drag the logs home;
    draga árar, to pull the oars;
    absol., drógu þeir skjótt eptir, they soon pulled up to them;
    draga boga, to draw the bow;
    draga segl, to hoist sails (= draga upp segl);
    draga fisk, to catch, pull up fish with a line;
    draga kvernstein, to turn the millstone, to grind;
    2) to draw, inhale (draga úþefjan með nösum);
    draga nasir af e-u, to smell a thing;
    draga öndina, to breathe, live;
    3) to procure, earn, gain (þegar hann hafði fé dregit sem hann vildi);
    draga e-m e-t, to procure (or get) one a thing (eigi sögðust þeir vita, at hann drœgi Haraldi ríki);
    4) to employ as a measure (draga kvarða við viðmál);
    5) to prolong protract (dvalir þessar drógu tímann);
    6) to delay, put off, defer;
    vil ek þessi svör ekki láta draga fyrir mér lengi, I will not wait long for these answers;
    hann dró um þat engan hlut, he made no subterfuge;
    7) to delineate, draw a picture (var dregit á skjöldinn leo með gulli);
    í þann tíma sem hann dregr klæðaföllin (the folds);
    8) to trim or line garments (treyjan var dregin útan ok innan við rauða silki);
    with dat., hjálmr hans var dreginn leiri (overlaid with clay), er áðr var (dreginn) gulli;
    9) intrans to move, draw;
    drógu þeir þeim svá nær (came so near to them), at;
    10) with preps.:
    draga föt, skóklædi af e-m, to pull off one’s clothes, shoes;
    draga hring af hendi sér, to take off a ring from one’s hand;
    dró hann þá grunninu, he pulled them off the shallow;
    draga e-t af e-u, to draw, derive from a source;
    draga e-t af, to take off (Þ. hafði látit af draga brúna);
    draga e-t af við e-n, to keep back, withhold, from one;
    man héðan af eigi af dregit við oss, henceforth we shall no be neglected, stinted;
    Egill dró at sér skipit, E. pulled the ship close up to himself;
    draga vél at e-m, to draw wiles around one;
    draga spott, skaup, at e-u, to hold a thing up to ridicule;
    draga at lið, föng, to collect troops, stores;
    dró at honum sóttin, the illness drew closer to him, he grew worse;
    impers., dró at mætti hans, dró at um matt hans, his strength declined (fell off);
    til þess er dró at degi, till the day drew near;
    þá er dregr at jólum, when Yule drew near;
    dró at því (the time drew near). at hann væri banvænn;
    tók þá at draga fast at heyjum hans, his stock of hay was rapidly diminishing;
    svá dregr at mér af elli, svengd, þorsta, I am so overcome by old age, hunger, thirst;
    nú þykki mér sem fast dragi at þér, that thou art sinking fast;
    draga hring á hönd sér, to put a ring on one’s hand;
    draga (grun) á e-t, to suspect;
    draga á vetr, to rear through the winter (Hrafnkell dró á vetr kálf ok kið);
    impers., dregr á tunglit, the moon is obscured (= dregr myrkr á tunglit);
    dimmu þykkir draga á ráðit Odds, it looks as if a cloud was drawing over Odds’ affairs;
    dregr á gleði biskups, the bishop’s gladness was obscured;
    draga eptir e-m, to gain on one (Þórarinn sótti ákaft róðrinn ok hans menn, ok drógu skjótt eptir þeim Steinólfi ok Kjallaki);
    draga eptir e-m um e-t, to approach one, to be nearly equal to one, in a thing;
    um margar íþróttir (in many accomplishments) dró hann fast eptir Ólafi konungi;
    draga e-t fram, to produce, bring forward (draga fram athugasamlig dœmi); to further, promote (draga fram hlut e-s);
    draga fram kaupeyri sinn, to make money;
    draga fram skip, to launch a ship;
    impers., dregr frá, (cloud darkness) is drawn off;
    hratt stundum fyrir, en stundum dró frá, (clouds) drew sometimes over, sometimes off;
    dregr fyrir sól, tungl, the sun, moon is obscured by clouds or eclipse (tunglskin var ljóst, en stundum dró fyrir);
    ok er í tók at draga skúrirnar, when showers began to gather;
    draga e-ð saman, to collect, gather (draga lið, her, skip saman);
    impers., saman dró kaupmála með þeim, they struck a bargain;
    saman dró hugi þeirra, their hearts were drawn together;
    dregr þá saman or dregr saman með þeim, the distance between them grows less;
    draga e-t í sundr, to draw asunder, disjoin (vil ek eigi draga í sundr sættir yðrar);
    impers., dregr þá í sundr or dregr í sundr með þeim, the distance between them increases;
    draga e-n til e-s, to move, prompt, induce;
    engi ofkæti dregr mik til þessarar ferðar, it is not from wantonness that I undertake this journey;
    slíkt dregr hann til vinsældar, this furthers his popularity;
    ef hann drógi ekki til, if he was not concerned;
    draga e-t til dœmis um e-t, to adduce as a proof of;
    hann hét at draga allt til sætta (to do everything in his power for reconciliation) með þeim Skota konungi;
    impers., nema til verra dragi, unless matters turn out for the worse;
    with dat., þat samband þeirra, er þeim dregr báðum til bana, which will prove fatal to both of them;
    at hér mundi til mikillar úgiptu draga um kaup þessi, that much mischief would arise from this bargain;
    dró þá enn til sundrþykkju með þeim Svíum, the old feud with the Swedes began all over again;
    svá er þat, segir R., ef ekki dregr til, unless some unforesceen thing happens;
    draga e-t undan e-m, to seek to deprive one of a thing (þeir hafa bundizt í því at draga bœndr undan þér);
    draga e-t undan, to delay (drógu Skotar undan sættina);
    hví dregr þú undan at bjóða mér til þín? why dost thou put off inviting me to come?;
    draga rót undan (tölu), to extract the root;
    draga undan e-m, to escape from one (nú lægir seglin þeirra ok draga þeir undan oss);
    impers., hann (acc.) dró undan sem nauðuligast, he had a narrow escape;
    draga e-t undir sik, to apropriate or take fraudulently to oneself (hafði dregit undir sik finnskattinn);
    impers., dró yðr (acc.) undir hrakningina, en oss (acc.) undan, you came in for hard uasge but we escaped;
    draga upp skip, to drag a ship ashore;
    draga upp segl, to hoist a sail (sails);
    impers., þoku dregr upp, fog is coming on;
    11) refl., dragast.
    f. only in pl. ‘drögur’,
    2) metric term, repetition, anadiplosis (when a stanza begins with the last word of the preceding one).
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    pret. dró, pl. drógu; part. dreginn; pres. dreg: pret. subj. drægi: [Lat. trahere; Ulf. dragan, but only once or twice, = επισωρεύειν in 2 Tim. iv. 3; Hel. dragan = portare, ferre (freq.); A. S. dragan; Germ. tragen; the Engl. distinguishes between to drag and draw, whence the derived words to draggle, trail, drawl; Swed. draga; the Danes have drage, but nearly obliterated except in the special sense to travel,—otherwise they have trække, formed from the mod. Germ. tragen]:—to draw, drag, carry, pull.
    A. ACT., with acc.
    I. to drag, carry, pull; hann dró þau öll út, Nj. 131; djöfla þá er yðr munu d. til eilífra kvala, 273; d. heim við, to drag the logs home, 53; d. sauði, to pick sheep out of a fold, Bs. i. 646, Eb. 106; d. skip fram, to launch a ship; d. upp, to draw her up, drag her ashore, Grág. ii. 433; dró Þorgils eptir sér fiskinn, Fs. 129; Egill dró at sér skipit, E. pulled the ship close up to himself, Eg. 221, 306; dró hann þá af grunninu, Fms. vii. 264; hann hafði dregit ( pulled) hött síðan yfir hjálm, Eg. 375, cp. Ad. 3; d. föt, skóklæði af e-m, to draw off clothes, shoes; þá var dregin af ( stripped off) hosa líkinu, Fms. viii. 265; dró hann hana á hönd ser, he pulled it on his hand, Eg. 378; d. hring á hönd sér, to put a ring on one’s hand, 306; (hann) tók gullhring, ok dró ( pulled) á blóðrefilinn, id.: phrases, er við ramman reip at d., ’tis to pull a rope against the strong man, i. e. to cope with the mighty, Fms. ii. 107, Nj. 10,—the metaphor from a game; d. árar, to pull the oars, Fms. ii. 180, Grett. 125 A: absol. to pull, ok drógu skjótt eptir, they soon pulled up to them, Gullþ. 24, Krók. 52: metaph., um margar íþróttir dró hann fast eptir Ólafi, in many accomplishments he pressed hard upon Olave, Fms. iii. 17: d. boga, to draw the bow, x. 362, but more freq. benda ( bend) boga: d., or d. upp segl, to hoist the sails, Eg. 93, Fms. ix. 21, x. 349, Orkn. 260: d. fiska, or simply draga (Luke v. 7), to fish with a hook, to pull up fish with a line (hence fisk-dráttr, dráttr, fishing), Fms. iv. 89, Hým. 21, 23, Fs. 129, Landn. 36, Fas. ii. 31: d. drátt, Luke v. 4; d. net, to fish with a drag-net; also absol., draga á (on or in) á ( a river), to drag a river; hence the metaphor, d. langa nót at e-u, = Lat. longae ambages, Nj. 139: d. steina, to grind in a hand-mill, Sl. 58, Gs. 15: d. bust ór nefi e-m, vide bust: d. anda, to draw breath; d. öndina um barkann, id., (andar-dráttr, drawing breath); d. tönn, to draw a tooth.
    2. phrases mostly metaph.; d. seim, prop. to draw wire, metaph. to read or talk with a drawling tone; d. nasir af e-u, to smell a thing, Ísl. ii. 136; d. dám af e-u, to draw flavour from; draga dæmi af e-u, or d. e-t til dæmis, to draw an example from a thing, Stj. 13, cp. Nj. 65; d. þýðu eðr samræði til e-s, to draw towards, feel sympathy for, Sks. 358; d. grun á e-t, to suspect, Sturl.; d. spott, skaup, gys, etc. at e-u, to hold a thing up to ridicule, Bs. i. 647; d. á sik dul ok dramb, to assume the air of…, 655 xi. 3; d. á sik ofbeldi ok dramb, Fms. vii. 20; d. e-n á talar, to deceive one, metaphor from leading into a trap, 2 Cor. xii. 17; d. vél at e-m, to deceive one, draw a person into wiles, Nj. 280, Skv. i. 33; d. á vetr, to get one’s sheep and cattle through the winter; Hrafnkell dró á vetr kálf ok kið hin firstu misseri, Hrafn. 22, cp. Germ. anbinden, and in mod. Icel. usage setja á vetr; d. nafn af e-m, to draw, derive the name from, Eb. 126 (App.) new Ed.; the phrase, (hann skyldi ekki) fleiri ár yfir höfuð d., more years should not pass over his head, he must die, Þórð.
    II. to draw a picture; kross let hann d. í enni á öllum hjálmum með bleiku, Fms. iv. 96; þá dró Tjörvi líkneski þeirra á kamarsvegg, Landn. 247; var dregit á skjöldinn leo með gulli, Ld. 78, Pr. 428; í þann tíma sem hann dregr ( draws) klæða-föllin (the folds), Mar. (Fr.): d. til stafs (mod.), to draw the letters, of children first trying to write; d. fjöðr yfir e-t, a metaph. phrase, to draw a pen over or through, to hide, cloak a thing: gramm. to mark a vowel with a stroke,—a long vowel opp. to a short one is thus called ‘dreginn;’ hljóðstafir hafa tvenna grein, at þeir sé styttir ( short) eða dregnir (drawn, marked with a stroke), ok er því betr dregit yfir þann staf er seint skal at kveða, e. g. ári Ari, ér er-, mínu minni, Skálda 171: to measure, in the phrases, draga kvarða við vaðmál, Grág. i. 497, 498; draga lérept, N. G. L. i. 323.
    III. to line clothes, etc.; treyja var dregin utan ok innan við rauðu silki, Flov. 19.
    IV. metaph. to delay; dró hann svá sitt mál, at…, Sturl. iii. 13; hann dró um þat engan hlut, he made no subterfuge, Hkr. ii. 157; Halldórr dró þá heldr fyrir þeim, H. then delayed the time, Ld. 322; vil ek ekki lengr d. þetta fyrir þér, 284; vil ek þessi svör eigi láta d. fyrir mér lengr, Eb. 130.
    V. with prepp. af, at, á, fram, frá, saman, sundr, etc., answering to the Lat. attrahere, abstrahere, protrahere, detrahere, distrahere, contrahere, etc.; d. at lið, to collect troops; d. saman her, id., Eg. 172, 269, Nj. 127; d. at föng, to collect stores, 208, 259: metaph., þá dró at honum sóttin, the sickness drew nearer to him, he grew worse, Grett. 119; d. af e-m, to take off, to disparage a person, Fms. vi. 287; d. af við e-n, ok mun héðan af ekki af dregit við oss, we shall not be neglected, stinted, Bjarn. 54: mathem. term, to subtract, Rb. 118: d. fram, to bring forward, promote; d. fram þræla, Fms. x. 421, ix. 254, Eg. 354; skil ek þat, at þat man mína kosti hér fram d. (it will be my greatest help here), at þú átt ekki vald á mér; d. fram kaupeyri, to make money, Fms. vi. 8; d. saman, to draw together, collect, join, Bs. ii. 18, Nj. 65, 76; d. sundr, to draw asunder, disjoin; d. e-t á, to intimate, (á-dráttr) drag eigi á þat, Sturl. iii. 110; d. undan, to escape; kómu segli við ok drógu undan, Fms. iv. 201; nú lægir segl þeirra ok d. þeir nú undan oss, v. 11: metaph. to delay, Uspakr dró þó undan allt til nætr, Nj. 272; hirðin sá þetta at svá mjök var undan dregit, Fms. ix. 251 (undan-dráttr, delay); hví dregr þú undan at bjóða mér til þín, Glúm. 326, Fms. ix. 251, Pass. 16. 13: mathem., d. rót undan, to extract a root, Alg. 366; d. upp, to draw a picture (upp-dráttr, a drawing), to pull up, Edda I; to pull out of the snow, Eg. 546; d. út, to extract, draw out, 655 xxxii. 2; d. undir sik, to draw under oneself, to embezzle, Eg. 61, Fms. vii. 128; d. upp akkeri, to weigh anchor, Jb. 403; d. upp segl, to hoist sail, vide above; ljós brann í stofunni ok var dregit upp, Sturl. i. 142; þar brann ljós ok var dregit upp, en myrkt hit neðra, ii. 230; ok er mönnum var í sæti skipat vóru log upp dregin í stofunni, iii. 182; herbergis sveinarnir drógu upp skriðljósin, Fas. iii. 530, cp. Gísl. 29, 113,—in the old halls the lamps (torches) were hoisted up and down, in order to make the light fainter or stronger; d. e-n til e-s, to draw one towards a thing; mikit dregr mik til þess, Fs. 9; engi ofkæti dregr mik til þessarar ferðar, i. e. it is not by my own choice that I undertake this journey, Fms. ix. 352; slíkt dró hann til vinsældar, this furthered him in popularity, vii. 175, Sks. 443 B; mun hann slíkt til d., it will move, influence him, Nj. 210; ef hann drægi ekki til, if he was not concerned, 224.
    2. draga til is used absol. or ellipt., denoting the course of fate, and many of the following phrases are almost impers.; nema til verra dragi, unless matters turn out worse, Nj. 175; búð, dragi til þess sem vera vill, Lat. fata evenient, 185; ef honum vill þetta til dauða d., if this draw to his death, prove fatal to him, 103, Grett. 114; þat samband þeirra er þeim dregr báðum til bana, which will be fatal to both of them, Nj. 135; enda varð þat fram at koma sem til dró, Ísl. ii. 263; sagði Kveldúlfr at þá ( then) mundi þar til draga sem honum hafði fyrir boðat, Eg. 75; dró til vanda með þeim Rúti ok Unni, it was the old story over again, Nj. 12; dró til vanda um tal þeirra, 129; at hér mundi til mikillar úgiptu draga um kaup þessi, that mickle mischief would arise from this bargain, 30; dró þá enn til sundrþykkju með þeim Svíum, the old feud with the Swedes began over again, Fms. x. 161; ok er úvíst til hvers um dregr, Fs. 6; svá er þat, segir Runólfr, ef ekki dregr til, unless some unforeseen things happen, Nj. 75; hón kvað eigi úlíkligt at til mikils drægi um, Ísl. ii. 19; þá dró nú til hvárttveggja. Bret.; hence til-drög. n. pl. cause.
    B. IMPERS.
    1. of clouds, shade, darkness, to be drawn before a thing as a veil; dimmu (acc.) þykir á draga ráðit Odds, it looked as if gloom were drawing over Odd’s affairs, Band. 10; ok er í tók at draga skúrirnar (acc.), it began to draw into showers, i. e. clouds began to gather, Fms. iii. 206: often ellipt., hratt stundum fyrir en stundum dró frá, [ clouds] drew sometimes over, sometimes off, of the moon wading through them, Grett. 114; dregr fyrir sól, [ a veil] draws over the sun, he is hid in clouds; ský vónarleysu döpur drjúgum dró fyrir mína gleði-sól, Bb. 2. 9; dregr á gleði biskups, [ clouds] drew over the bishop’s gladness, it was eclipsed, Bs. ii. 79; eclipsis heitir er fyrir dregr sól eðr tungl, it is called an eclipse when [ a veil] draws over the sun or moon, 1812. 4; tunglskin var ljóst, en stundum dró fyrir, the moonshine was clear, and in turn [ a veil] drew over it, Nj. 118; þá sá lítið af tungli ljóst ok dró ymist til eðr frá, Ísl. ii. 463; þat gerðisk, at á dregr tunglit, ok verðr eclipsis, Al. 54.
    2. in various connections; dró yðr (acc.) undir hrakningina, en oss (acc.) undan, you were drawn into a thrashing (i. e. got one), but we escaped, Nj. 141; hann (acc.) dró undan sem nauðuligast, he had a narrow escape, Fms. ix. 392: absol., a noun or personal pronoun in acc. being understood, lítt dró enn undan við þik, there was little power of drawing out of thy reach, i. e. thy blow did its work right well. Nj. 199, 155; hvárki dró sundr né saman með þeim, of two running a dead heat: metaph. phrases, mun annarsstaðar meira slóða (acc.) draga, there will be elsewhere a greater trial left, i. e. the consequences will be still worse elsewhere, 54; saman dró hugi þeirra, their hearts were drawn together, of a loving pair, Bárð. 271; saman dró kaupmála með þeim, they struck a bargain, literally the bargain was drawn tight, Nj. 49; hann hreinsar þat skjótt þóat nokkut im (acc.) hafi á oss dregit af samneyti ( although we have been a little infected by the contact with) annarlegs siðferðis, Fms. ii. 261; allt slafr (acc.) dró af Hafri, i. e. H. became quite mute, Grett. (in a verse): in a temp. sense, til þess er dró at degi, till the day drew nigh, Fms. x. 138; þá er dró at miðri nótt, Grett. 140; þá er dregr at Jólum, Yule drew nigh, Fbr. 138; dregr at hjaldri, the battle-hour draws nigh, Fms. vi. (in a verse); dró at því (the time drew nigh), at hann var banvænn, Eg. 126: of sickness, hunger, or the like, to sink, be overcome by, svá dregr at mér af elli, svengd ok þorsta, at…, Fms. iii. 96; nú þykki mér sem fast dragi at þér, thou art sinking fast, Fas. ii. 221; ok er lokið var kvæðinu dregr at Oddi fast, O. was sinking fast, 321: of other things, tók þá at d. fast at heyjum hans, his stock was very low, Fms. iii. 208; þoku dregr upp, a fog draws on, rises, 97 (in a verse), but ok taki sú poka (nom.) fyrir at d. norðrljósit, Sks. an (better þá þoku, acc.)
    C. REFLEX, to draw oneself, move; ef menn dragask til föruneytis þeirra ( join them) úbeðit, Grág. ii. 270; Sigvaldi dregsk út frá flotanum, S. draws away from the fleet, Fms. xi. 140; ofmjök dragask lendir menn fram, i. e. the barons drew far too forward, vii. 22; hyski drósk á flótta, they drew away to flight, Fms. vi. (in a verse); skeiðr drógusk at vígi, the ships drew on to battle, iii. 4 (in a verse); dragask undir = draga undir sik, to take a thing to oneself, Grág. ii. 150; dragask á hendr e-m, drógusk opt þeir menn á hendr honum er úskilamenn voru, Sturl. i. 136; dragask e-n á hendr, hann kvað þess enga ván, at hann drægisk þá á hendr, ii. 120; dragask aptr á leið, to remain behind, Rb. 108; dragask út, to recede, of the tide, 438; dragask saman, to draw back, draw together, be collected, Fms. i. 25, Bs. i. 134; e-m dragask penningar, Fms. vi. 9; d. undan, to be delayed, x. 251; the phrase, herr, lið dregsk e-m, the troops draw together, of a levy, i. 94, vii. 176, Eg. 277; dragask á legg, to grow up, Hkr. iii. 108; sem aldr hans ok vitsmunir drógusk fram, increased, Fms. vi. 7; þegar honum drósk aldr, when he grew up, Fs. 9; dragask á legg, to grow into a man; dragask við e-t, to become discouraged, Fms. viii. 65; d. vel, illa, to do well, ill, Fs. 146: to be worn out, exhausted, drósk þá liðit mjök af kulda, Sturl. iii. 20; drósk hestr hans, ii. 75: part. dreginn, drawn, pinched, starved, hestar mjök dregnir, Fms. ix. 276; görðisk fénaðr dreginn mjök, drawn, thin, iii. 208; stóð þar í heykleggi einn ok dregit at öllu megin, a tapering hayrick, Háv. 53: of sickness, Herra Andrés lagðisk sjúkr, ok er hann var dreginn mjök, Fms. ix. 276.
    β. recipr., þau drógusk um einn gullhring, they fought, pulled. Fas. iii. 387. From the reflex. probably originates, by dropping the reflex. suffix, the mod. Swed. and Dan. at draga = to go, esp. of troops or a body of men; in old writers the active form hardly ever occurs in this sense (the reading drógu in the verse Fms. iii. 4 is no doubt false); and in mod. usage it is equally unknown in Icel., except maybe in allit. phrases as, e. g. út á djúpið hann Oddr dró, Snot 229 new Ed.; to Icel. ears draga in this sense sounds strange; even the reflex. form is seldom used in a dignified sense; vide the references above.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > DRAGA

  • 19 admitir

    v.
    1 to admit, to allow in.
    admitir a alguien en to admit somebody to
    Ricardo admitió su participación Richard admitted his participation.
    El guarda admitió a los clientes The guard admitted=let in the customers.
    2 to admit.
    admito que estaba equivocado I admit I was wrong
    3 to accept.
    admitimos todas las tarjetas de crédito we accept all credit cards
    4 to allow, to permit.
    no admite ni un error he won't stand for a single mistake
    la sala admite doscientas personas the room holds o has room for two hundred people
    6 to admit to, to acknowledge to.
    Ricardo admitió saber esto Richard admitted to knowing this.
    7 to admit of, to allow of.
    Esto no admite explicación alguna This admits of no explanation.
    8 to tolerate, to bear.
    * * *
    1 (dar entrada) to admit, let in
    2 (aceptar) to accept, admit
    'No se admiten propinas' "No tipping", "Tipping not allowed"
    'No se admiten cheques' "No cheques accepted"
    3 (permitir) to allow
    4 (reconocer) to admit
    * * *
    verb
    2) acknowledge, concede
    3) allow, permit
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=dejar entrar) [en organización] to admit, accept; [en hospital] to admit
    2) (=aceptar) [+ opinión, regalo] to accept

    ¿ha admitido la Academia esa palabra? — has the Academy accepted that word?

    se admiten tarjetas de créditowe take o accept credit cards

    3) (=permitir) to allow, permit frm

    el contenido de plomo admitido en las gasolinas — the permitted lead content of petrol, the amount of lead allowed o permitted frm in petrol

    esto no admite demora — this cannot be put off, this will brook no delay frm

    no admite discusiónit is indisputable

    4) (=reconocer) [+ culpabilidad, error] to admit
    5) (=tener cabida para) to hold
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( aceptar) to accept

    se admiten tarjetas de créditowe take o accept credit cards

    b) ( permitir) to allow

    admite varias interpretacionesit allows of o admits of several different interpretations (frml)

    2) (confesar, reconocer) to admit
    3) ( dar cabida a) local to hold

    el estadio admite 4.000 personas — the stadium holds 4,000 people

    * * *
    = admit, concede, own, own up, intromit, intake.
    Ex. This theory would ensure that the basic framework of the scheme would appropriately admit every subject.
    Ex. Only an incurable pessimist would refuse to concede that the future will be longer than the past.
    Ex. 'I don't know what to say,' she owned and lapsed into silence.
    Ex. But let's not forget that he owned up for what he did and even gave all his betting money to charity.
    Ex. During copulation, hamster females maintain lordosis for hundreds of seconds, while the male mounts and intromits repeatedly.
    Ex. As a general rule of thumb, you want front and side fans to intake, rear and top to exhaust.
    ----
    * admitir a Alguien en un grupo = adopt + Nombre + into the fold.
    * admitirlo = come out with + it.
    * admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.
    * no admitir discusión = be out of the question.
    * no tener reparos en admitir que = make + no bones about + Algo.
    * que no admite reserva = unreserved.
    * readmitir = re-admit [readmit].
    * triste de admitir = sad to relate.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( aceptar) to accept

    se admiten tarjetas de créditowe take o accept credit cards

    b) ( permitir) to allow

    admite varias interpretacionesit allows of o admits of several different interpretations (frml)

    2) (confesar, reconocer) to admit
    3) ( dar cabida a) local to hold

    el estadio admite 4.000 personas — the stadium holds 4,000 people

    * * *
    = admit, concede, own, own up, intromit, intake.

    Ex: This theory would ensure that the basic framework of the scheme would appropriately admit every subject.

    Ex: Only an incurable pessimist would refuse to concede that the future will be longer than the past.
    Ex: 'I don't know what to say,' she owned and lapsed into silence.
    Ex: But let's not forget that he owned up for what he did and even gave all his betting money to charity.
    Ex: During copulation, hamster females maintain lordosis for hundreds of seconds, while the male mounts and intromits repeatedly.
    Ex: As a general rule of thumb, you want front and side fans to intake, rear and top to exhaust.
    * admitir a Alguien en un grupo = adopt + Nombre + into the fold.
    * admitirlo = come out with + it.
    * admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.
    * no admitir discusión = be out of the question.
    * no tener reparos en admitir que = make + no bones about + Algo.
    * que no admite reserva = unreserved.
    * readmitir = re-admit [readmit].
    * triste de admitir = sad to relate.

    * * *
    admitir [I1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (aceptar) ‹candidato› to accept; ‹comportamiento/excusa› to accept
    no lo admitieron en el colegio he wasn't accepted by the school
    no fue admitido en el club he wasn't accepted for membership of the club, his application for membership of the club was rejected
    el recurso fue admitido a trámite leave was granted for an appeal to a higher court
    no pienso admitir que llegues a estas horas I will not have you coming home at this time
    [ S ] no se admiten propinas no gratuities accepted, no tipping allowed
    [ S ] se admiten tarjetas de crédito we take o accept credit cards
    [ S ] admite monedas de 1 euro accepts 1 euro coins
    2
    (dar cabida a): un discurso que admite varias interpretaciones a speech which may be interpreted in several different ways, a speech which allows of o admits of several different interpretations ( frml)
    la situación no admite paralelo con la del año pasado the present situation cannot be compared with the situation last year
    lo que dijo no admite discusión there can be no arguing with what she said
    el asunto no admite demora the matter must be dealt with immediately
    B (confesar, reconocer) to admit
    admitió su culpabilidad she admitted her guilt
    admito que me equivoqué I admit I was wrong o that I made a mistake
    admitió haberla visto he admitted having seen her
    C «local» to hold
    el estadio admite 4.000 personas the stadium holds 4,000 people o has a capacity of 4,000
    * * *

     

    admitir ( conjugate admitir) verbo transitivo
    1

    ( on signs) se admiten tarjetas de crédito we take o accept credit cards


    2 ( dar cabida a) [ local] to hold
    admitir verbo transitivo
    1 to admit, let in
    2 (dar por bueno) to accept: por favor, admite mis disculpas, please accept my apologies
    3 (permitir) to allow: no se admiten mascotas, no pets allowed
    4 (convenir, dar la razón) to admit, acknowledge: admito que hice una tontería, I admit I did a silly thing
    ' admitir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acoger
    - conceder
    - empacho
    - recibir
    - coger
    - confesar
    English:
    accept
    - acknowledge
    - care
    - exclude
    - grant
    - support
    - take
    - admit
    - recognize
    * * *
    1. [dejar entrar] to admit, to allow in;
    admitir a alguien en to admit sb to;
    lo admitieron en la universidad he was accepted by the university;
    no se admiten perros [en letrero] no dogs;
    no se admite la entrada a menores de 18 años [en letrero] no admittance for under-18s
    2. [reconocer] to admit;
    admitió la derrota she admitted defeat;
    admito que estaba equivocado I admit I was wrong
    3. [aceptar] to accept;
    se admiten propinas [en letrero] gratuities at your discretion;
    admitimos tarjetas de crédito we accept all major credit cards;
    admitieron a trámite la solicitud they allowed the application to proceed
    4. [permitir, tolerar] to allow, to permit;
    no admite ni un error he won't stand for a single mistake;
    este texto no admite más retoques there can be no more changes to this text;
    es una situación que no admite comparación this situation cannot be compared to others;
    su hegemonía no admite dudas their dominance is unquestioned
    5. [tener capacidad para] to hold;
    este monovolumen admite siete pasajeros this people mover seats seven passengers;
    la sala admite doscientas personas the room holds o has room for two hundred people
    * * *
    v/t
    1 ( aceptar) accept;
    admitir en pago accept as payment
    2 ( reconocer) admit
    :
    el poema admite varias interpretaciones the poem can be interpreted in different ways, the poem admits of various interpretations fml ;
    no admite duda there’s no doubt about it
    * * *
    1) : to admit, to let in
    2) : to acknowledge, to concede
    3) : to allow, to make room for
    la ley no admite cambios: the law doesn't allow for changes
    * * *
    1. (aceptar) to accept
    2. (reconocer, dejar entrar) to admit [pt. & pp. admitted]

    Spanish-English dictionary > admitir

  • 20 aircraft

    1. (атмосферный) летательный аппарат [аппараты], воздушное судно [суда]; самолет(ы); вертолет(ы);
    см. тж. airplane,
    2. авиация/ авиационный; бортовой <об оборудовании ЛА>
    4-D aircraft
    4-D equipped aircraft
    9-g aircraft
    ADF aircraft
    advanced-technology aircraft
    adversary aircraft
    aerobatic aircraft
    aft-tail aircraft
    aggressor aircraft
    agile aircraft
    agricultural aircraft
    air defence aircraft
    air-refuellable aircraft
    air-to-ground aircraft
    airborne early warning and control aircraft
    alert aircraft
    all-digital aircraft
    all-training aircraft
    all-electric aircraft
    all-metal aircraft
    all-new aircraft
    all-out stealth aircraft
    all-weather aircraft
    amateur built aircraft
    amphibious aircraft
    antisubmarine warfare aircraft
    around-the-world aircraft
    artificial-stability aircraft
    asymmetric aircraft
    attack aircraft
    attrition aircraft
    augmented aircraft
    automated aircraft
    backside aircraft
    BAI aircraft
    balanced aircraft
    battle-damaged aircraft
    battle-tolerant aircraft
    battlefield aircraft
    bulbous-nosed aircraft
    buoyant quad-rotor aircraft
    bush aircraft
    business aircraft
    business-class aircraft
    calibrated pace aircraft
    canard aircraft
    canard controlled aircraft
    canard-configured aircraft
    canard-winged aircraft
    cargo aircraft
    cargo-capable aircraft
    carrier aircraft
    carrier-based aircraft
    carrier-qualified aircraft
    CAS aircraft
    centerstick aircraft
    centerstick controlled aircraft
    Christmas tree aircraft
    class IV aircraft
    clear weather reconnaissance aircraft
    close-coupled canard aircraft
    coated aircraft
    combat air patrol aircraft
    combat training aircraft
    combat-damaged aircraft
    combat-loaded aircraft
    combi aircraft
    combustible fuel aircraft
    commuter aircraft
    composite material aircraft
    composite-built aircraft
    composite-wing aircraft
    computer-generated aircraft
    conceptual aircraft
    conceptual design aircraft
    conflicting aircraft
    control reconfigurable aircraft
    control-by-wire aircraft
    conventional tailled aircraft
    conventional take-off and landing aircraft
    conventional variable-sweep aircraft
    conventionally designed aircraft
    corporate aircraft
    counter insurgency aircraft
    cropspray aircraft
    cropspraying aircraft
    cruise matched aircraft
    cruise-designed aircraft
    CTOL aircraft
    current-generation aircraft
    damage tolerant aircraft
    day-only aircraft
    day/night aircraft
    de-iced aircraft
    defence-suppression aircraft
    delta-wing aircraft
    demonstrator aircraft
    development aircraft
    developmental aircraft
    divergence prone aircraft
    double-deck aircraft
    drug interdiction aircraft
    drug-smuggling aircraft
    dual-capable aircraft
    ducted-propeller aircraft
    dynamically stable aircraft
    dynamically unstable aircraft
    Earth resources research aircraft
    Earth resources survey aircraft
    ejector-powered aircraft
    Elint aircraft
    EMP-hardened aircraft
    ex-airline aircraft
    FAC aircraft
    fake aircraft
    fan-in-wing aircraft
    fan-powered aircraft
    firefighting aircraft
    fixed-cycle engine aircraft
    fixed-landing-gear aircraft
    fixed-planform aircraft
    fixed-wing aircraft
    flexible aircraft
    flight inspection aircraft
    flight loads aircraft
    flight refuelling aircraft
    flight test aircraft
    flightworthy aircraft
    fly-by-wire aircraft
    flying-wing aircraft
    forgiving aircraft
    forward air control aircraft
    forward-swept-wing aircraft
    four-dimensional equipped aircraft
    freely flying aircraft
    freighter aircraft
    friendly aircraft
    front-line aircraft
    FSD aircraft
    fuel efficient aircraft
    fuel-hungry aircraft
    full-scale aircraft
    full-scale development aircraft
    full-size aircraft
    fully-capable aircraft
    fully-tanked aircraft
    gap filler aircraft
    gas turbine-powered aircraft
    ground-hugging aircraft
    gull-winged aircraft
    heavy-lift aircraft
    high-Mach aircraft
    high-alpha research aircraft
    high-cycle aircraft
    high-demand aircraft
    high-drag aircraft
    high-dynamic-pressure aircraft
    high-flying aircraft
    high-life aircraft
    high-performance aircraft
    high-speed aircraft
    high-tail aircraft
    high-technology aircraft
    high-thrust aircraft
    high-time aircraft
    high-wing aircraft
    high-winged aircraft
    highest cycle aircraft
    highest flight-cycle aircraft
    highly agile aircraft
    highly augmented aircraft
    highly glazed aircraft
    highly maneuverable aircraft
    highly unstable aircraft
    holding aircraft
    home-based aircraft
    home-built aircraft
    hovering aircraft
    hydrocarbon-fueled aircraft
    hydrogen fueled aircraft
    hypersonic aircraft
    ice-cloud-generating aircraft
    icing-research aircraft
    idealized aircraft
    IFR-equipped aircraft
    in-production aircraft
    interrogating aircraft
    intratheater airlift aircraft
    intratheater lift aircraft
    intruder aircraft
    inventory aircraft
    jamming aircraft
    jet aircraft
    jet-flap aircraft
    jet-flapped aircraft
    jet-powered aircraft
    jet-propelled aircraft
    joined-wing aircraft
    JTIDS aircraft
    jump aircraft
    K/s like aircraft
    kit-based aircraft
    kit-built aircraft
    land aircraft
    land-based aircraft
    large aircraft
    large-production-run aircraft
    launch aircraft
    launching aircraft
    lead aircraft
    leading aircraft
    leased aircraft
    Level 1 aircraft
    lift plus lift-cruise aircraft
    light aircraft
    light-powered aircraft
    lighter-than-air aircraft
    long-haul aircraft
    long-winged aircraft
    longitudinally unstable aircraft
    look-down, shoot-down capable aircraft
    low-boom aircraft
    low-cost aircraft
    low-observability aircraft
    low-observable aircraft
    low-powered aircraft
    low-rate production aircraft
    low-RCS aircraft
    low-speed aircraft
    low-time aircraft
    low-to-medium speed aircraft
    low-wing aircraft
    low-winged aircraft
    lowest weight aircraft
    Mach 2 aircraft
    man-powered aircraft
    manned aircraft
    marginally stable aircraft
    mechanically-controlled aircraft
    mechanically-signalled aircraft
    medevac-equipped aircraft
    microlight aircraft
    microwave-powered aircraft
    mid-wing aircraft
    mid-winged aircraft
    minimum weight aircraft
    mission aircraft
    mission-ready aircraft
    multibody aircraft
    multimission aircraft
    multipropeller aircraft
    multipurpose aircraft
    narrow-bodied aircraft
    naturally unstable aircraft
    neutrally stable aircraft
    new-built aircraft
    new-technology aircraft
    night fighting aircraft
    night-capable aircraft
    night-equipped aircraft
    nonagile aircraft
    nonalert aircraft
    nonautomated aircraft
    1950s-vintage aircraft
    nonflying test aircraft
    nonpressurized aircraft
    nonstealth aircraft
    nontransponder-equipped aircraft
    nonpropulsive-lift aircraft
    northeastwardly launching aircraft
    nuclear-hardened aircraft
    nuclear-strike aircraft
    oblique-wing aircraft
    ocean patrol aircraft
    off-the-shelf aircraft
    offensive aircraft
    older-generation aircraft
    out-of-production aircraft
    outbound aircraft
    pace aircraft
    parasol-winged aircraft
    parked aircraft
    partial mission-capable aircraft
    patrol aircraft
    piston aircraft
    piston-engine aircraft
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    piston-prop aircraft
    pivoting oblique wing aircraft
    point-design aircraft
    powered-lift aircraft
    precision strike aircraft
    probe-equipped aircraft
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    proof-of-concept aircraft
    prop-rotor aircraft
    propeller aircraft
    propeller-powered aircraft
    propulsive-lift aircraft
    prototype aircraft
    public-transport aircraft
    purpose-built aircraft
    pusher aircraft
    pusher-propelled aircraft
    quad-rotor aircraft
    radar test aircraft
    RAM-treated aircraft
    ready aircraft
    rear-engined aircraft
    receiving aircraft
    recent-technology aircraft
    reconnaissance aircraft
    refueling aircraft
    remanufactured aircraft
    research aircraft
    retrofit aircraft
    Rogallo-winged aircraft
    rollout aircraft
    rotary-wing aircraft
    rotary-winged aircraft
    rotodome-equipped aircraft
    safely spinnable aircraft
    scaled-down aircraft
    scaled-up aircraft
    scissor-wing aircraft
    sea-based aircraft
    second-hand aircraft
    self-repairing aircraft
    sensor-carrying aircraft
    short range aircraft
    short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft
    short-coupled flying wing aircraft
    short-haul aircraft
    side-inlet aircraft
    sideslipping aircraft
    silent aircraft
    single engine aircraft
    single-pilot aircraft
    single-service aircraft
    sized aircraft
    sized optimized aircraft
    slender-delta aircraft
    SLEPed aircraft
    small-tailed aircraft
    smuggler aircraft
    solar-powered aircraft
    special operations aircraft
    spin-proof aircraft
    spinning aircraft
    statically stable aircraft
    statically unstable aircraft
    stealth aircraft
    stealthy aircraft
    STOL aircraft
    stopped-rotor aircraft
    stored aircraft
    STOVL aircraft
    straight-tube aircraft
    straight-wing aircraft
    straight-winged aircraft
    stretched aircraft
    strike aircraft
    strike-control aircraft
    sub-scale aircraft
    submarine communications relay aircraft
    sunken aircraft
    superaugmented aircraft
    supersonic cruise aircraft
    supportable aircraft
    surveillance aircraft
    swing-wing aircraft
    T-tail aircraft
    tactical aircraft
    tactical-type aircraft
    tail-aft aircraft
    tail-first aircraft
    tailless aircraft
    tailwheel aircraft
    tandem-seat aircraft
    tandem-wing aircraft
    target-towing aircraft
    TCAS-equipped aircraft
    test aircraft
    threat aircraft
    three-pilot aircraft
    three-surface aircraft
    thrust-vector-control aircraft
    tilt-fold-rotor aircraft
    tilt-proprotor aircraft
    tilt-rotor aircraft
    tilt-wing aircraft
    top-of-the-range aircraft
    trailing aircraft
    trainer cargo aircraft
    trajectory stable aircraft
    transoceanic-capable aircraft
    transonic aircraft
    transonic maneuvering aircraft
    transport aircraft
    transport-size aircraft
    trimmed aircraft
    trisurface aircraft
    tug aircraft
    turbine-powered aircraft
    turboprop aircraft
    turbopropeller aircraft
    TVC aircraft
    twin-aisle aircraft
    twin-engined aircraft
    twin-fuselage aircraft
    twin-jet aircraft
    twin-tailed aircraft
    twin-turboprop aircraft
    two-aircrew aircraft
    two-crew aircraft
    two-pilot aircraft
    two-place aircraft
    ultrahigh-bypass demonstrator aircraft
    ultralight aircraft
    undesignated aircraft
    unpressurized aircraft
    unslatted aircraft
    utility aircraft
    V/STOL aircraft
    variable-stability aircraft
    VATOL aircraft
    vector thrust controlled aircraft
    vectored aircraft
    vectored thrust aircraft
    versatile aircraft
    vertical attitude takeoff and landing aircraft
    VFR aircraft
    violently maneuvering aircraft
    VTOL aircraft
    water tanker aircraft
    weapons-delivery test aircraft
    weight-shift aircraft
    well-behaved aircraft
    wide-body aircraft
    wing-in-ground effect aircraft
    X aircraft
    X-series aircraft
    X-wing aircraft
    yaw-vane-equipped aircraft

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