(able to be contacted)

Adj.

1. ( auch in erreichbarer Nähe) within reach; (zugänglich) accessible; leicht erreichbar sein be within easy reach, be easy to get to; schwer erreichbar sein be hard to get to, not be within easy reach; zu Fuß / mit dem Wagen leicht erreichbar within easy walking / driving distance

2. fig. Ziel etc.: attainable, within (one’s) reach

3. Person: available, there, contactable; er ist nie erreichbar you just can’t get hold of him; ich bin telefonisch erreichbar (habe Telefon) I’m on the phone, Am. I have a phone; ich bin von... bis... telefonisch erreichbar you can reach me ( oder get in touch with me) by phone between... and...; nach 17 Uhr bin ich auf meinem Handy erreichbar after 5 p.m. you can reach me on my mobile phone (Am. cellphone)

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accomplishable; achievable; acquirable; available; attainable; obtainable; reachable

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1. (telefonisch zu erreichen)

▪ [für jdn] \erreichbar sein to be able to be reached [or contacted] [by sb]

2. (zu erreichen)

▪ [irgendwie] \erreichbar sein to be reachable [in a certain way]

die Hütte ist zu Fuß nicht \erreichbar the hut cannot be reached on foot

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1) within reach postpos.; reachable

2)

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erreichbar adj

1. ( auch

in erreichbarer Nähe) within reach; (zugänglich) accessible;

leicht erreichbar sein be within easy reach, be easy to get to;

schwer erreichbar sein be hard to get to, not be within easy reach;

zu Fuß/mit dem Wagen leicht erreichbar within easy walking/driving distance

2. fig Ziel etc: attainable, within (one’s) reach

3. Person: available, there, contactable;

er ist nie erreichbar you just can’t get hold of him;

ich bin telefonisch erreichbar (habe Telefon) I’m on the phone, US I have a phone;

ich bin von … bis … telefonisch erreichbar you can reach me ( oder get in touch with me) by phone between … and …;

nach 17 Uhr bin ich auf meinem Handy erreichbar after 5 p.m. you can reach me on my mobile phone (US cellphone)

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1) within reach postpos.; reachable

2)

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accomplishable adj.

achievable adj.

acquirable adj.

attainable adj.

reachable adj. adv.

within reach expr.

v/t

1. mit der Hand: reach

2. (Ort) reach, arrive at; (auch Ufer) get to; (es schaffen bis) make (it to oder as far as); vom Bahnhof ( aus) leicht zu erreichen within easy reach of the station; siehe auch erreichbar 1

3. (Zug etc.) catch; (auch Anschluss) make; (einholen) catch up with; der Brief erreichte ihn nicht mehr the letter didn’t get to him in time

4. jemanden ( telefonisch) erreichen get hold of s.o. (on the phone); zu erreichen erreichbar 3

5. fig. (hingelangen) reach; (schaffen) achieve; stärker: attain; (erlangen) obtain, get; (gleichkommen) equal, match; (ein gewisses Maß) come up to; ein hohes Alter erreichen live to a ripe old age; etwas erreichen (Erfolg haben) get somewhere, get results, be successful; hast du ( bei ihm) etwas erreicht? did you get anywhere (with him)?; ich habe nichts erreicht I didn’t get anywhere, I got nowhere; ich erreichte zumindest, dass er mich anhörte I managed at least to get him to listen to me; so wirst du nichts erreichen that won’t get you anywhere; damit erreichst du nur, dass ich wütend werde the only thing you’ll achieve (by that) is to make me lose my temper; Höhepunkt, Klassenziel etc.

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to achieve; to attain; to get; to arrive; to obtain; to reach; to catch

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1) (to gain or reach successfully: He has achieved his ambition.) achieve

2) (to gain; to achieve: He attained all his ambitions.) attain

3) (to be in time for, or get on (a train, bus etc): I'll have to catch the 9.45 (train) to London.) catch

4) (to (be able to) touch or get hold of (something): My keys have fallen down this hole and I can't reach them.) reach

5) (to make contact with; to communicate with: If anything happens you can always reach me by phone.) reach

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1. (rechtzeitig hinkommen)

▪ etw \erreichen to catch sth

2. (hingelangen)

▪ etw \erreichen to get to sth

3. (antreffen)

▪ jdn \erreichen to reach sb, to contact sb, to get hold of sb fam

Ihr Brief/Ihre Nachricht hat mich nicht rechtzeitig erreicht your letter/message didn't reach me on time, I didn't receive your letter/message on time

4. (eintreffen)

▪ etw \erreichen to reach sth

wir werden Paris in einer halben Stunde \erreichen in half an hour we will arrive in Paris

5. (erzielen)

▪ etw \erreichen to reach sth

ich weiß immer noch nicht, was du \erreichen willst I still don't know what you want to achieve

6. (einholen)

▪ jdn \erreichen to catch sb up BRIT, to catch up with sb

7. (bewirken)

▪ etw [bei jdm] \erreichen to get somewhere [with sb]

hast du beim Chef etwas \erreichen können? did you manage to get anywhere with the boss?

8. (an etw reichen)

▪ etw [mit etw dat] \erreichen to reach sth [with sth]

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1) reach

2)

3) achieve < goal, aim>

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erreichen v/t

1. mit der Hand: reach

2. (Ort) reach, arrive at; (auch Ufer) get to; (es schaffen bis) make (it to oder as far as);

vom Bahnhof (aus) leicht zu erreichen within easy reach of the station; → auch erreichbar 1

3. (Zug etc) catch; (auch Anschluss) make; (einholen) catch up with;

der Brief erreichte ihn nicht mehr the letter didn’t get to him in time

4.

jemanden (telefonisch) erreichen get hold of sb (on the phone);

zu erreichen → erreichbar 3

5. fig (hingelangen) reach; (schaffen) achieve; stärker: attain; (erlangen) obtain, get; (gleichkommen) equal, match; (ein gewisses Maß) come up to;

ein hohes Alter erreichen live to a ripe old age;

etwas erreichen (Erfolg haben) get somewhere, get results, be successful;

hast du (bei ihm) etwas erreicht? did you get anywhere (with him)?;

ich habe nichts erreicht I didn’t get anywhere, I got nowhere;

ich erreichte zumindest, dass er mich anhörte I managed at least to get him to listen to me;

so wirst du nichts erreichen that won’t get you anywhere;

damit erreichst du nur, dass ich wütend werde the only thing you’ll achieve (by that) is to make me lose my temper; → Höhepunkt, Klassenziel etc

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1) reach

2)

3) achieve <goal, aim>

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to accomplish v.

to achieve v.

to attain v.

to get v.

or p.p.: gotten•)

to obtain v.

to reach (for) v.

1 to deceive, to trick, to take in, to fool.

2 to deceive, to lie.

3 to cheat on, to cuckold, to be unfaithful to, to deceive.

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► verbo transitivo

1 (gen) to deceive, mislead, fool, take in

2 (estafar) to cheat, trick

3 (ser infiel) to be unfaithful to

► verbo intransitivo

1 to be deceptive

► verbo pronominal engañarse

1 (ilusionarse) to deceive oneself

2 (equivocarse) to be mistaken, be wrong

\

engañar el hambre figurado to stave off hunger

engañar el tiempo figurado to kill time

las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive

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1) to cheat

2) deceive

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1. VT

1) [+ persona] (=embaucar) to deceive, trick; (=despistar) to mislead; [con promesas, esperanzas] to delude; (=estafar) to cheat, swindle

2)

VI to be deceptive

- las apariencias engañan

engañarse

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verbo transitivo

a) ( hacer errar en el juicio) to deceive, mislead

b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)

c) ( ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on

engañarse v pron

a) (refl) ( mentirse) to deceive oneself, kid oneself (colloq)

b) ( equivocarse) to be mistaken

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= fool, hoodwink, deceive, cheat (on), delude, trick, dupe, perpetrate + deception, practise + a deception, rip off, take in, swindle, fiddle, bamboozle, shortchange, bluff, cheat + Posesivo + way through, be had, humbug, lead + Nombre + down the garden path, con, hoax, bullshit.

Ex. We may be fooling ourserlves and I would caution public libraries, school libraries and libraries in general that indeed one code might not satisfy all our needs.

Ex. In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.

Ex. Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.

Ex. Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.

Ex. Nonetheless, it is claimed that his 1987 graduate and undergraduate editions continue to delude students seeking information about schools to attend, including schools of library science.

Ex. People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.

Ex. He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.

Ex. The public should at least be told that they will end up paying dearly for the deception being perpetrated upon them.

Ex. Librarians have been practising a deception, and must wake up to three dangers.

Ex. Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.

Ex. 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".

Ex. It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.

Ex. Thus, the wrong impression was gained, for instance, when the olive oil subsidies were being ' fiddled' in Italy.

Ex. Benny Morris claims that Karsh is attempting to hoodwink and bamboozle readers.

Ex. Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.

Ex. They are bluffed easily, and it is quite possible they will be bluffed again.

Ex. One of the major dichotomies between students and teachers is the recognition by students that the technologies can give them an edge, that is they can cheat their way through school.

Ex. By the time Americans learned they'd been had, the die was cast -- we were committed to 58,000 dead!.

Ex. More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

Ex. Intelligent individuals often think that they cannot behave stupidly, but that is precisely what leads them down the garden path.

Ex. A number of victims have contacted police after seeing Masterson's mug shot and recognizing him as the man who conned them.

Ex. He hoaxed the popular media into thinking that he had burnt a million quid for the publicity it would, and has continued to, generate.

Ex. Being able to bullshit effectively requires at least a modicum of knowledge about the subject at hand.

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* dejarse engañar = fall for, get + sucked in.

* engañar al sistema = beat + the system, game + the system.

* engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door.

* las apariencias engañan = don't judge a book by its cover, there's more to it than meets the eye.

* si mi olfato no me engaña = if my hunch is right, if I am not mistaken.

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verbo transitivo

a) ( hacer errar en el juicio) to deceive, mislead

b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)

c) ( ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on

engañarse v pron

a) (refl) ( mentirse) to deceive oneself, kid oneself (colloq)

b) ( equivocarse) to be mistaken

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engañar [A1 ]

(embaucar): no te dejes engañar don't be misled o fooled o deceived o taken in

sé que no estuviste allí, tú a mí no me engañas I know you weren't there, you can't fool me

a él no se lo engaña tan fácilmente he's not so easily fooled o duped o deceived, he's not taken in that easily

te han engañado, no está hecho a mano you've been cheated o conned o had o done, it's not handmade ( colloq)

me engañó la vista my eyes deceived o misled me

si la memoria no me engaña if my memory serves me right o correctly

las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive

engañar el hambre or el estómago to keep the wolf from the door ( colloq)

comimos un poco de queso para engañar el hambre we had some cheese to keep the wolf from the door o to take the edge off our appetites o to keep us going

2 (ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on ( AmE colloq)

su marido la engaña con la secretaria her husband's being unfaithful to her o cheating on her, he's having an affair with his secretary

1 ( refl) (mentirse) to deceive oneself, delude oneself, kid oneself ( colloq)

no te engañes, no se va a casar contigo don't deceive o delude o kid yourself, she's not going to marry you

2 (equivocarse) to be mistaken

duró, si no me engaño, hasta noviembre it lasted until November, if I'm not mistaken

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a) ( hacer errar en el juicio) to deceive, mislead;

◊ me engañó la vista my eyes deceived me;

b) (estafar, timar) to cheat, con (colloq)

c) ( ser infiel a) to be unfaithful to, cheat on

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♦ vt

1. [mentir] to deceive;

engañó a su padre haciéndole ver que había aprobado she deceived her father into believing that she had passed;

es difícil engañarla she is not easily deceived, she's hard to fool;

logró engañar al portero he managed to outsmart the goalkeeper;

me engañó lo bien que vestía y que hablaba she was so well dressed and so well spoken that I was taken in;

¿a quién te crees que vas a engañar? who are you trying to fool o kid?;

a mí no me engañas, sé que tienes cincuenta años you can't fool me, I know you're fifty

2. [ser infiel a] to deceive, to cheat on;

engaña a su marido she cheats on her husband;

me engañó con mi mejor amiga he cheated on me with my best friend

3. [estafar] to cheat, to swindle;

te engañaron vendiéndote esto tan caro they cheated you if they sold that to you for such a high price;

engañar a alguien como a un chino o [m5] a un niño to take sb for a ride

4. [hacer más llevadero] to appease;

engañar el hambre to take the edge off one's hunger

♦ vi

to be deceptive o misleading;

engaña mucho, no es tan tonto como parece you can easily get the wrong impression, he's not as stupid as he seems;

las apariencias engañan appearances can be deceptive

♦ See also the pronominal verb engañarse

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1 deceive, cheat;

engañar el hambre take the edge off one’s appetite;

te han engañado you’ve been had fam

2 ( ser infiel a) cheat on, be unfaithful to

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engañar vt

1) embaucar: to trick, to deceive, to mislead

2) : to cheat on, to be unfaithful to

♦ See also the reflexive verb engañarse

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engañar vb

1. (mentir) to lie

2. (ser infiel) to cheat on

3. (timar) to trick

4. (dar impresión falsa) to be deceptive

moyen¹, -yenne [mwajɛ̃, jεn]

1. adjective

   a. ( = ni grand ni petit) [taille] medium ; [ville, maison] medium-sized ; [prix] moderate

• les moyennes entreprises medium-sized companies

   b. ( = intermédiaire) middle

• il doit exister une voie moyenne there must be a middle way

   c. ( = du type courant) average

• le Français moyen the average Frenchman

   d. ( = ni bon ni mauvais) average

• il est moyen en géographie he is average at geography

• son devoir est très moyen his essay is pretty poor (inf)

• comment as-tu trouvé le spectacle ? -- très moyen what did you think of the show? -- pretty average

   e. (d'après des calculs) average

2. feminine noun

moyenne average ; ( = vitesse) average speed

• la moyenne d'âge the average age

• moyenne générale de l'année average for the year

• avoir la moyenne (à un devoir) to get fifty per cent ; (à un examen) to get a pass

• améliorer sa moyenne to improve one's marks (Brit) or grades (US)

• cet élève est dans la moyenne this pupil is about average

• cet élève est dans la bonne moyenne this pupil is above average

• faire du 100 de moyenne to average 100km/h

• en moyenne on average

• l'usine produit en moyenne 500 voitures par jour the factory turns out 500 cars a day on average

moyen² [mwajɛ̃]

1. masculine noun

   a. ( = procédé, manière) way

• il y a toujours un moyen there's always a way

• par quel moyen allez-vous le convaincre ? how will you manage to convince him?

• c'est le meilleur moyen de rater ton examen it's the best way to fail your exam

• c'est l'unique moyen de s'en sortir it's the only way out

• tous les moyens lui sont bons he'll stop at nothing

• tous les moyens seront mis en œuvre pour réussir we shall use all possible means to succeed

• se débrouiller avec les moyens du bord to get by as best one can

• employer les grands moyens to resort to drastic measures

• trouver le moyen de faire qch to find some means of doing sth

• il a trouvé le moyen de se perdre he managed to get lost

• adverbe de moyen adverb of means

• au moyen de by means of

► par tous les moyens by all possible means ; (même malhonnêtes) by fair means or foul

• j'ai essayé par tous les moyens de le convaincre I've done everything to try and convince him

   b. ► moyen de means of

• moyen d'action means of action

• moyen de communication means of communication

• moyen d'expression means of expression

• moyen de production means of production

• moyen de locomotion means of transport

• moyen de transport means of transport

• moyen de paiement means of payment

• moyen de pression means of applying pressure

• nous n'avons aucun moyen de pression sur lui we have no means of putting pressure on him

• est-ce qu'il y a moyen de lui parler ? is it possible to speak to him?

• pas moyen d'avoir une réponse claire ! there's no way you can get a clear answer!

2. plural masculine noun

moyens

   a. ( = capacités intellectuelles, physiques) ça lui a fait perdre tous ses moyens it left him completely at a loss

• il était en pleine possession de ses moyens his powers were at their peak ; [personne âgée] he was in full possession of his faculties

• par ses propres moyens [réussir] all by oneself

• ils ont dû rentrer par leurs propres moyens they had to make their own way home

   b. ( = ressources financières) means

• il a les moyens he can afford it

• c'est dans mes moyens I can afford it

• il vit au-dessus de ses moyens he lives beyond his means

• il n'a pas les moyens de s'acheter une voiture he can't afford to buy a car

• c'est au-dessus de ses moyens he can't afford it

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- enne mwajɛ̃, ɛn adjectif

1) (intermédiaire en dimension, poids) [taille, épaisseur] medium; [ville, entreprise, légume] medium-sized; [fil] of medium thickness; [prix] moderate

2) ( passable) [élève, résultat] average (en in)

3) ( dans une hiérarchie) [cadre, revenu] middle; [échelon] intermediate

4) ( ordinaire) average

5) (après évaluation, calcul) [taux, température] average, mean

6) ( de compromis) [solution, position] middle-of-the-road

nom masculin

1) ( façon de procéder) means (sg) ( de faire of doing), way ( de faire of doing)

2) (d'action, expression, de production) means; (d'investigation, de paiement) method

3) ( possibilité) way

au moyen de locution prépositive by means of, by using

par le moyen de locution prépositive by means of, through

moyens nom masculin pluriel

1) ( financiers) means

2) ( matériels) resources

3) ( intellectuels) ability

•

- moyen de locomotion or transport

- moyen métrage

- Moyen Âge

- Moyen Empire

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1. adj

1) (taux, niveau, coût) average

2) (lecteur, usager) average

3) (= ni bon ni mauvais) (personne, prestation) average

4) (= ni petit ni grand) (tailles, prix) medium

5) (socialement parlant) middle

2. nm

(= façon) way, means sg

3. moyens nmpl

1) (= méthodes) means

2) (financiers) means

3) (humains, matériels) resources

4) (= intellectuels ou physiques) ability

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moyen, - enne

A adj

1 (intermédiaire en dimension, poids) [stature, taille, épaisseur, surface] medium; [ville, entreprise, légume] medium-sized; [fil] of medium thickness; ma chambre est de grandeur moyenne my room is medium-sized; de moyenne portée medium-range; de moyen calibre of medium calibre^GB ( après n); le cours moyen d'un fleuve Géog the middle reaches of a river;

2 ( passable) average (en in); tes résultats sont assez moyens your results are fairly average; un élève très moyen a very average pupil; ‘comment était le repas/l'hôtel?’-‘moyen’ ‘how was the meal/the hotel?’-‘so-so’;

3 ( dans une hiérarchie) [cadre, revenu] middle; [échelon] intermediate; les salaires moyens ( personnes) people on middle incomes;

4 ( ordinaire) [citoyen, spectateur, utilisateur, lecteur] average; le Français moyen the average Frenchman;

5 (après évaluation, calcul) [nombre, taux, revenu, température] average, mean;

6 ( de compromis) [solution, position] middle-of-the-road; ils pratiquent des prix moyens their prices are reasonable;

7 Ling voyelle moyenne mid-vowel.

B nm

1 ( façon de procéder) means (sg) (de faire of doing), way (de faire of doing); c'est le moyen le plus sûr/le moins coûteux it's the most reliable/the least expensive means ou way; c'est un moyen comme un autre it's as good a way as any; par tous les moyens by every possible means; par n'importe quel moyen by hook or by crook○; empêcher qn de faire qch par tous les moyens to stop sb from doing sth by fair means or foul; consolider son autorité par tous les moyens to use every possible means to consolidate one's authority; tous les moyens sont bons any means will do; tous les moyens leur sont bons they'll stop at nothing; pour lui tous les moyens sont bons pour gagner de l'argent there's nothing he wouldn't do to make money; tous les moyens lui sont bons pour ne pas travailler he'll/she'll do anything not to work; employer les grands moyens to resort to drastic measures;

2 (d'action, expression, de production) means; (d'investigation, de paiement) method; moyen de communication means of communication;

3 ( possibilité) way; il y a moyen de faire there's a way of doing; il y a moyen de s'en sortir there's a way out; n'y avait-il pas moyen de faire autrement? was there no other way to go about it?; (il n'y a) pas moyen d'être tranquille ici there's no peace around here; (il n'y a) pas moyen de lui faire comprendre qu'il a tort it's impossible to make him realize he's wrong; lui faire admettre qu'il a tort? pas moyen! make him admit he's wrong? no chance!;

4 Ling complément de moyen adverbial phrase of means.

C au moyen de loc prép (d'une action, d'un référendum) by means of; ( d'un objet) by means of, by using.

D par le moyen de loc prép by means of, through.

E moyens nmpl

1 ( ressources financières) means; manquer de moyens to lack the resources (pour faire to do); faute de moyens through lack of money; vivre au-dessus de ses moyens to live beyond one's means; je n'ai pas les moyens de faire I can't afford to do; mes moyens ne me permettent pas de partir en vacances I can't afford to take a vacation; avoir de petits/grands moyens not to be/to be very well off; avoir les moyens○ to be well off;

2 ( soutien matériel) resources; la ville a mis d'énormes moyens à notre disposition the town put vast resources at our disposal; je n'ai ni le temps ni les moyens de taper ce texte I have neither the time nor the equipment to type this text; se donner les moyens de son efficacité to take the necessary steps to achieve efficiency; donner à qn les moyens de faire to give sb the means to do; j'ai dû y aller par mes propres moyens I had to go (there) under my own steam○, I had to make my own way there; se débrouiller par ses propres moyens to manage on one's own;

3 ( compétences) ability; cet élève a les moyens de réussir this pupil has the ability to succeed ou do well; il a de petits moyens he has limited ability; être au-dessus des moyens de qn to be beyond sb's abilities ou capabilities; être en possession de tous ses moyens ( intellectuellement) to be at the height of one's powers; ( physiquement) to be at the peak of one's strength; ne plus avoir tous ses moyens to be no longer in full possession of one's faculties; perdre ses moyens to go to pieces.

F moyenne nf

1 ( norme) average; être plus riche que la moyenne to be better off than the average; il est plus grand que la moyenne des hommes he is taller than the average man; être inférieur/supérieur à la moyenne to be below/above (the) average; être au-dessous/au-dessus de la moyenne to be below/above average; être dans la moyenne to be average; des résultats extrêmement faibles par rapport à la moyenne européenne extremely poor results against ou compared to the European average;

2 Scol ( moitié de la note maximale) half marks GB, 50%; j'ai eu tout juste la moyenne ( à un examen) I barely passed; ( à un devoir) I just got half marks GB, I just got 50%;

3 ( après calcul) average; la moyenne d'âge the average age; calculer une moyenne to work out an average; en moyenne on average;

4 ( vitesse) average speed; faire une moyenne de 30 km/h to do an average speed of ou to average 30 kph.

moyen français Ling Middle French; moyen de locomotion = moyen de transport; moyen métrage Cin medium-length film; moyen de trésorerie financial means; moyen de transport means of transport GB ou transportation US; moyenne arithmétique Math arithmetic mean; moyenne géométrique Math geometric mean; moyenne harmonique Math harmonic mean; Moyen Âge Middle Ages (pl); le bas/haut Moyen Âge the late/early Middle Ages; Moyen Empire Middle Kingdom.

la fin justifie les moyens the end justifies the means; qui veut la fin veut les moyens Prov he who wills the end wills the means Prov.

( féminin moyenne) [mwajɛ̃, ɛn] adjectif

1. [intermédiaire - selon des mesures] medium (avant nom), average ; [ - selon une évaluation] medium

a. PHILOSOPHIE middle term

b. [solution] compromise, middle course

2. [prix, taille, consommation, distance] average

[température] average, mean

[aptitudes, niveau, service] average

3. [ordinaire]

4. LINGUISTIQUE [voyelle] middle

[mwajɛ̃] nom masculin

1. [méthode] way

2. [pour intensifier]

3. GRAMMAIRE

adverbe de moyen adverb of means

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moyens nom masculin pluriel

[financiers] means

[intellectuels, physiques]

je suis venu par mes propres moyens I made my own way here

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au moyen de locution prépositionnelle

by means of, with

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par tous les moyens locution adverbiale

[même immoraux] by fair means or foul

j'ai essayé par tous les moyens I've tried everything

er·reich·bar adj

1) ( telefonisch zu erreichen)

[für jdn] \erreichbar sein to be able to be reached [or contacted] [by sb]

2) ( zu erreichen)

[irgendwie] \erreichbar sein to be reachable [in a certain way];

die Hütte ist zu Fuß nicht \erreichbar the hut cannot be reached on foot

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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

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