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81 défense
défense [defɑ̃s]feminine nounb. ( = protection) protectiond. (Law) defence (Brit), defense (US) ; ( = avocat) counsel for the defence (Brit), defense attorney (US)• qu'avez-vous à dire pour votre défense ? what have you to say in your defence?e. ( = interdiction) « défense d'entrer » "no entrance"• « danger: défense d'entrer » "danger - keep out"• « défense de fumer/stationner » "no smoking/parking"• « défense d'afficher » "stick no bills"f. [d'éléphant, sanglier] tusk* * *defɑ̃s1) ( interdiction)‘défense de pêcher/fumer’ — ‘no fishing/smoking’
‘défense d'entrer’ — ‘no entry’
‘défense de toucher’ — ‘(please) do not touch’
2) ( contre un agresseur) gén, Armée, Sport defence [BrE] ( contre against); (moyens, ouvrages)défenses — defences [BrE]
courir à la défense de quelqu'un — to leap to somebody's defence [BrE]
pour sa défense, elle a dit que... — in her defence [BrE], she said that...
le budget de la défense (nationale) — the defence [BrE] budget
sans défense — ( faible) helpless; ( sans protection) unprotected
prendre la défense de quelqu'un/quelque chose — to stand up for somebody/something
3) Médecine, Psychologie defence [BrE]les défenses de l'organisme — the body's defences [BrE]
4) Zoologie (d'éléphant, de sanglier, morse) tusk* * *defɑ̃s nf1) (pour se protéger) MILITAIRE defence Grande-Bretagne defense USAministre de la défense — Minister of Defence Grande-Bretagne Defence Secretary
2) (pour protéger) defence Grande-Bretagne defense USAprendre la défense de qn — to stand up for sb, to back sb up
3) SPORT defence Grande-Bretagne defense USA4) (interdiction) prohibition"défense de fumer " — "no smoking ", "smoking prohibited"
5) [éléphant] tusk* * *défense nf1 ( interdiction) ‘défense de pêcher/nager/fumer’ ‘no fishing/swimming/smoking’; ‘défense d'entrer’ ‘no entry’; ‘défense de toucher’ ‘(please) do not touch’; défense d'en parler devant lui don't mention it in front of him; ils sont sortis malgré la défense qui leur en avait été faite they went out although they had been forbidden to do so;2 ( contre un agresseur) gén, Mil defenceGB (contre against); (moyens, ouvrages) défenses defencesGB; courir à la défense de qn to leap to sb's defenceGB; le budget de la défense (nationale) the defenceGB budget; ligne/moyens de défense line/means of defenceGB; position/armes de défense defensive position/weapons; assurer la défense du territoire to defend the country; sans défense ( faible) defencelessGB, helpless; ( sans protection) unprotected; ⇒ légitime;3 ( protection) protection; la défense de l'environnement the protection of the environment; la défense du patrimoine/de la langue française the preservation of the national heritage/of the French language; association pour la défense des consommateurs/droits de l'homme/libertés consumer rights/human rights/civil liberties organization; faire grève pour la défense de l'emploi to strike against job cuts; prendre la défense de qn/qch to stand up for sb/sth;4 ( résistance) Sport defenceGB; opposer une défense énergique to put up a stubborn defenceGB ou resistance; jouer en défense Sport to play in defenceGB;5 Physiol, Psych defenceGB; les défenses de l'organisme the body's defencesGB; les défenses immunitaires the immune system;6 (justification, plaidoyer) gén, Jur defenceGB; pour sa défense, elle a dit que… in her defenceGB, she said that…; assurer la défense d'un accusé Jur to conduct the case for the defenceGB;7 Jur ( partie défendante) defenceGB; ( defenseur) defenceGB; l'avocat de la défense counsel for the defenceGB, defense attorney US; la parole est à la défense (the counsel for) the defenceGB may now speak;8 Zool (d'éléphant, de sanglier, morse) tusk;9 la Défense commercial and residential district in Paris.défense passive civil defenceGB.ⓘ La Défense The area immediately to the north-west of Paris, developed as a modern business and residential area from the 1960s to the 1980s. Its biggest attraction is the Grande arche de la Défense, an enormous archway erected in 1989 to mark the bicentenary of the Revolution. It is also an architectural throwback to the Arc de Triomphe which, together with the Obélisque in the Place de la Concorde, can be seen from the vantage point of the steps leading up to the Grande arche itself.[defɑ̃s] nom féminin1. [interdiction] prohibition‘défense d'entrer’ ‘no admittance ou entry’‘danger, défense d'entrer’ ‘danger, keep out’‘défense d'afficher’ ‘stick no bills’‘défense de fumer’ ‘no smoking’‘défense de déposer des ordures’ ‘no dumping’2. [protection] defencepour la défense des institutions in order to defend ou to safeguard the institutions[moyen de protection] defence3. [dans un débat] defenceprendre la défense de quelqu'un/quelque chose to stand up for ou to defend somebody/something7. SPORT————————défenses nom féminin pluriel————————de défense locution adjectivale————————pour ma défense locution adverbiale,pour sa défense etc. locution adverbialein my/his etc. defenceje dirai pour ma défense que... I will say in my (own) defence that...————————sans défense locution adjectivaleDéfense nom propre féminin -
82 way
------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be in the way[Swahili Word] -kingama[Part of Speech] verb[Class] stative[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -kinga------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] find a way or a method[Swahili Word] -pata njia[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] in that way[Swahili Word] hivyo[Part of Speech] adjective------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] in that way[Swahili Word] hivyohivyo[Part of Speech] adjective------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] in this very way[Swahili Word] hivyo[Part of Speech] adverb[Swahili Example] vivyo hivyo------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] in what way?[Swahili Word] jinsi gani?[Part of Speech] phrase[Derived Language] Arabic------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] in what way?[Swahili Word] kwaje[Part of Speech] pronoun[Swahili Example] Inakuwaje?------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] make a way[Swahili Word] -dopoa[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] make way for[Swahili Word] -sabili[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] Make way![Swahili Word] abadan[Part of Speech] interjection------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] Make way![Swahili Word] simile![Part of Speech] interjection------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] Make way![Swahili Word] similla![Part of Speech] interjection------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] Make way![Swahili Word] sumile![Part of Speech] interjection------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] put out of the way[Swahili Word] -towesha[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] railway[Swahili Word] ndia ya reli[Swahili Plural] ndia[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Word] ja------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] show the way[Swahili Word] -ongoza[Part of Speech] verb[English Example] give a good turn to a conversation.[Swahili Example] ongoza maneno------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] the way in which[Swahili Word] vilevile[Part of Speech] adverb[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -le------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] the way things are[Swahili Word] mfumo[Swahili Plural] mifumo[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fuma------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] jiha[Swahili Plural] jiha[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Word] Arabic------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[English Plural] ways[Swahili Word] jinsi[Swahili Plural] jinsi[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Language] Arabic[Swahili Definition] namna[English Example] before explaining the history and other information about Tanzanians and the way in which our country was ruled...[Swahili Example] kabla ya kueleza historia na habari za Watanzania na jinsi nchi yetu ilivyotawaliwa... (Nsekela,"Masomo," 3).------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] kadiri[Swahili Plural] kadiri[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] masafa[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 6[Derived Word] Arabic------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[English Plural] ways[Swahili Word] namna[Swahili Plural] namna[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[English Example] I don't like the way she sewed this shirt[Swahili Example] sipendi namna alivyoshona shati hili------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] ndia[Swahili Plural] ndia[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Word] ja[English Example] railway track[Swahili Example] njia ya railway------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] njia[Swahili Plural] njia[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Word] ja[English Example] Use all ways to get him out of jail.[Swahili Example] tumia njia zote uwezavyo umtoe jelani------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[Swahili Word] usita[Part of Speech] noun[Note] rare------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way[English Plural] ways[Swahili Word] taratibu[Swahili Plural] taratibu[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] -ratibu, ratiba------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way of doing something[English Plural] ways of doing things[Swahili Word] mtindo[Swahili Plural] mitindo[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[English Example] The answer to all of these issues is to use new ways to compose questions; The way to do things today, is for people to do them together as equals.[Swahili Example] Jawabu kwa mambo yote hayo ni kutumia mitindo mipya ya kutunga maswali [Masomo 189]; Mtindo wa siku hizi, watu ni bega kwa bega [Amana, Masomo 405]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way of life[English Plural] ways of life[Swahili Word] kikao[Swahili Plural] vikao[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 7/8[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -kaa[English Example] live in a good way[Swahili Example] kaa kwa kikao chema------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] way out[English Plural] ways out[Swahili Word] budi[Swahili Plural] budi[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 9/10[Derived Language] Arabic[Note] usually used in negative constructions------------------------------------------------------------ -
83 native
['neɪtɪv] 1.1) (original) [ land] nativo, natio; [ tongue] materno2) bot. zool. indigenoto go native — scherz. assumere i costumi del luogo
3) (natural) [cunning, wit] innato2.to be a native of — [person, plant] essere originario di
* * *['neitiv] 1. adjective1) (where one was born: my native land.) natale, natio2) (belonging to that place; local: the native customs/art of Brazil; This animal/plant is native to Australia.) locale, nativo3) (belonging by race to a country: a native Englishman.) nativo4) (belonging to a person naturally: native intelligence.) innato2. noun1) (a person born in a certain place: a native of Scotland; a native of London.) nativo2) (one of the original inhabitants of a country eg before the arrival of explorers, immigrants etc: Columbus thought the natives of America were Indians.) indigeno•- native language/tongue
- native speaker
- native to
- the Nativity* * *['neɪtɪv] 1.1) (original) [ land] nativo, natio; [ tongue] materno2) bot. zool. indigenoto go native — scherz. assumere i costumi del luogo
3) (natural) [cunning, wit] innato2.to be a native of — [person, plant] essere originario di
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84 strong
[strɒŋ] [AE strɔːŋ]1) (powerful) [arm, person] forte, robusto; [army, country, state, swimmer] forte, potente; [current, wind] forte2) (sturdy) [ rope] resistente, forte; [table, shoe] solido, robusto; fig. [bond, alibi] solido, forte; [ cast] d'eccezione; [ candidate] forte, favorito; [ currency] forte, stabileto have a strong stomach — colloq. fig. avere stomaco, avere uno stomaco di ferro
3) (concentrated) [ coffee] ristretto, forte4) (alcoholic) [ drink] forte, molto alcolico5) (noticeable) [smell, taste] forte; [ colour] forte, acceso6) (heartfelt) [desire, feeling, conviction] forte, profondo; [believer, supporter] accanito, convinto; [ opinion] forte, fermo; [criticism, opposition, reaction] forte, deciso7) (resolute) [ruler, leadership] forte, deciso; [action, measure, sanction] deciso, severo8) (pronounced) [ accent] forte, marcato; [ rhythm] forte9) (definite) [ chance] forte, buono10) (good)to be strong in physics — essere forte o ferrato in fisica
he finished the race a strong second — nella corsa si è piazzato secondo e con un distacco minimo (dal primo)
11) (immoderate)strong language — parole forti, linguaggio volgare
13) (in number)••to be still going strong — [person, company] difendersi ancora bene
* * *[stroŋ]1) (firm, sound, or powerful, and therefore not easily broken, destroyed, attacked, defeated, resisted, or affected by weariness, illness etc: strong furniture; a strong castle; a strong wind; She's a strong swimmer; He has a very strong will/personality; He has never been very strong (= healthy); He is not strong enough to lift that heavy table.) forte2) (very noticeable; very intense: a strong colour; a strong smell.) forte3) (containing a large amount of the flavouring ingredient: strong tea.) forte4) ((of a group, force etc) numbering a particular amount: An army 20,000 strong was advancing towards the town.) forte di•- strongly- strength
- strengthen
- strongbox
- strong drink
- stronghold
- strong language
- strong-minded
- strong point
- strongroom
- on the strength of* * *[strɒŋ] [AE strɔːŋ]1) (powerful) [arm, person] forte, robusto; [army, country, state, swimmer] forte, potente; [current, wind] forte2) (sturdy) [ rope] resistente, forte; [table, shoe] solido, robusto; fig. [bond, alibi] solido, forte; [ cast] d'eccezione; [ candidate] forte, favorito; [ currency] forte, stabileto have a strong stomach — colloq. fig. avere stomaco, avere uno stomaco di ferro
3) (concentrated) [ coffee] ristretto, forte4) (alcoholic) [ drink] forte, molto alcolico5) (noticeable) [smell, taste] forte; [ colour] forte, acceso6) (heartfelt) [desire, feeling, conviction] forte, profondo; [believer, supporter] accanito, convinto; [ opinion] forte, fermo; [criticism, opposition, reaction] forte, deciso7) (resolute) [ruler, leadership] forte, deciso; [action, measure, sanction] deciso, severo8) (pronounced) [ accent] forte, marcato; [ rhythm] forte9) (definite) [ chance] forte, buono10) (good)to be strong in physics — essere forte o ferrato in fisica
he finished the race a strong second — nella corsa si è piazzato secondo e con un distacco minimo (dal primo)
11) (immoderate)strong language — parole forti, linguaggio volgare
13) (in number)••to be still going strong — [person, company] difendersi ancora bene
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85 native
['neɪtɪv] 1. ntubylec m, krajowiec m2. adj* * *['neitiv] 1. adjective1) (where one was born: my native land.) ojczysty2) (belonging to that place; local: the native customs/art of Brazil; This animal/plant is native to Australia.) ojczysty3) (belonging by race to a country: a native Englishman.) rodowity mieszkaniec4) (belonging to a person naturally: native intelligence.) wrodzony2. noun1) (a person born in a certain place: a native of Scotland; a native of London.) rodowity2) (one of the original inhabitants of a country eg before the arrival of explorers, immigrants etc: Columbus thought the natives of America were Indians.) tubylec•- native language/tongue
- native speaker
- native to
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86 vernacular
[və'nækjulə(r)]n( of country) miejscowy język m; ( of region) miejscowy dialekt m* * *[və'nækjulə] 1. adjective(colloquial or informally conversational: vernacular speech/language.) potoczny, nieliteracki2. noun(the common informal language of a country etc as opposed to its formal or literary language: They spoke to each other in the vernacular of the region.) język potoczny -
87 vernacular
və'nækjulə
1. adjective(colloquial or informally conversational: vernacular speech/language.) vernáculo, vulgar
2. noun(the common informal language of a country etc as opposed to its formal or literary language: They spoke to each other in the vernacular of the region.) lengua vernáculatr[və'nækjʊləSMALLr/SMALL]1 vernáculo,-a1 lengua vernácula\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto lapse into the vernacular ponerse a hablar como la gente del lugarvernacular [vər'nækjələr] adj: vernáculo: lengua f vernáculaadj.• vernáculo, -a adj.n.• idioma vernáculo s.m.• jerga s.f.• lengua corriente s.f.• vernáculo s.m.
I vər'nækjələr, və'nækjʊlə(r)
II
[vǝ'nækjʊlǝ(r)]1. ADJ1) (Ling) vernáculo, vulgarin vernacular Persian — en persa vulgar, en la lengua vernácula de Persia
2) [architecture] típico, local, regional2.N (Ling) lengua f vernácula; (fig) lenguaje m corriente, lenguaje m vulgar* * *
I [vər'nækjələr, və'nækjʊlə(r)]
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88 nación
f.nation, country.* * *1 nation\Naciones Unidas United Nations* * *noun f.1) nation2) country* * *1.SF (=país) nation; (=pueblo) people2.SMF Cono Sur (=extranjero) foreigner* * *a) ( estado) nationb) ( habitantes) nationc) ( territorio) nation, country* * *= nation, economy [economies, -pl.].Ex. It is virtually impossible to overestimate the importance of LC on bibliographic control in the nation's libraries or, for that matter, in the libraries of the world.Ex. Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.----* al servicio de la nación = uniformed.* capital de la nación = nation-state capital.* Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.* comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.* Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas = United Nations Security Council.* constituirse en nación = evolve into + nationhood.* en toda la nación = nationwide [nation-wide].* informe sobre el estado de la nación = state of the nation report.* Liga de las Naciones = League of Nations, the.* Mancomunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.* nación árabe = Arab state.* nación comercial = trading nation.* nación sin estado = stateless nation.* nación soberana = sovereign nation.* por toda la nación = nationwide [nation-wide].* UNDEX (Indice de Documentos de las Naciones Unidas) = UNDEX (United Nations Documents Index).* UNDI (Indice de Documentos de las Naciones Unidas) = UNDI (United Nations Documents Index).* * *a) ( estado) nationb) ( habitantes) nationc) ( territorio) nation, country* * *= nation, economy [economies, -pl.].Ex: It is virtually impossible to overestimate the importance of LC on bibliographic control in the nation's libraries or, for that matter, in the libraries of the world.
Ex: Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.* al servicio de la nación = uniformed.* capital de la nación = nation-state capital.* Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.* comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.* Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas = United Nations Security Council.* constituirse en nación = evolve into + nationhood.* en toda la nación = nationwide [nation-wide].* informe sobre el estado de la nación = state of the nation report.* Liga de las Naciones = League of Nations, the.* Mancomunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.* nación árabe = Arab state.* nación comercial = trading nation.* nación sin estado = stateless nation.* nación soberana = sovereign nation.* por toda la nación = nationwide [nation-wide].* UNDEX (Indice de Documentos de las Naciones Unidas) = UNDEX (United Nations Documents Index).* UNDI (Indice de Documentos de las Naciones Unidas) = UNDI (United Nations Documents Index).* * *1 (estado) nation2 (habitantes) nationel presidente se dirigió a la nación the president addressed the nation o the peopleel apoyo de toda la nación nationwide support, countrywide support, the support of the whole nation3 (territorio) nation, countryCompuesto:fpl United Nations (pl)* * *
nación sustantivo femenino
nation;
nación sustantivo femenino nation
' nación' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
pueblo
- bandera
- dominar
- estado
- forjar
- nacional
- pobre
- polarizar
- reunificar
English:
archives
- country
- govern
- land
- language
- nation
- nationwide
- peaceloving
- people
- power
- subdue
- once
* * *nación nf[pueblo] nation; [territorio] nation, country nación más favorecida most favoured nation;Naciones Unidas United Nations* * *f nation* * ** * *nación n nation -
89 Introduction
Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.LAND AND PEOPLEThe Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into theAtlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)1864 4,287,000 first census1890 5,049,7001900 5,423,0001911 5,960,0001930 6,826,0001940 7,185,1431950 8,510,0001960 8,889,0001970 8,668,000* note decrease1980 9,833,0001991 9,862,5401996 9,934,1002006 10,642,8362010 10,710,000 (estimated) -
90 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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. -
91 right
1. n1) право2) (the right) полит. правые•to abolish / to abrogate a right — отменять право
to achieve one's legitimate rights — добиваться осуществления своих законных прав
to be within one's rights in doing smth — быть вправе делать что-л.
to challenge smb's right — оспаривать чье-л. право
to champion smb's rights — отстаивать / защищать чьи-л. права, выступать в защиту чьих-л. прав
to come out in support of smb's rights — отстаивать / защищать чьи-л. права, выступать в защиту чьих-л. прав
to consolidate smb's rights — усиливать чьи-л. права
to contest smb's right — оспаривать чье-л. право
to curtail the rights — урезать кого-л. в правах, ограничивать чьи-л. права
to deprive smb of right — лишать кого-л. права, отказывать кому-л. в праве
to dispute smb's right — оспаривать чье-л. право
to enjoy a right to smth / to do smth — обладать / пользоваться правом, иметь право на что-л. / делать что-л.
to enshrine the right of citizenship in the constitution — записывать право гражданства в конституции
to exercise a right — использовать / осуществлять право, пользоваться правом
to forfeit one's right — утрачивать / лишаться своего права
to give / to grant smb a right — предоставлять кому-л. право
to have a right to smth / to do smth — обладать / пользоваться правом, иметь право на что-л. / делать что-л.
to implement a right — использовать / осуществлять право, пользоваться правом
to infringe smb's rights — ущемлять чьи-л. права
to maintain smb's rights — отстаивать / защищать чьи-л. права, выступать в защиту чьих-л. прав
to make new commitments to human rights — брать на себя новые обязательства в деле соблюдения прав человека
to promote respect for and observance of human rights — поощрять уважение и соблюдение прав человека
to reaffirm one's right — подтверждать свое право
to realize a right — использовать / осуществлять право; пользоваться правом
to relinquish / to renounce a right — отказываться от права
to reserve a right to do smth — оставлять / сохранять за собой право делать что-л.
to restore one's rights — восстанавливать свои права
to stand up for smb's rights — отстаивать / защищать чьи-л. права, выступать в защиту чьих-л. прав
to strengthen smb's rights — усиливать чьи-л. права
to suppress smb's right — подавлять чьи-л. права
to uphold the right — поддерживать чье-л. право
to vindicate smb's rights — отстаивать / защищать чьи-л. права, выступать в защиту чьих-л. прав
- abortion rightto violate smb's rights — нарушать / ущемлять чьи-л. права
- abridgment of rights
- abuse of rights
- advocates of human rights
- assault on smb's rights
- basic rights
- belligerent rights
- campaigner for human rights
- capitulations rights
- center right
- champion of human rights
- civic rights
- civil rights
- commitment to human rights
- confirmation right
- constitutional right
- contractual rights
- country's record on human rights - cultural rights
- curtailment of rights
- declaration of rights
- declaration on rights
- defendant's right to silence
- democratic rights
- deprivation of rights
- disregard for human rights
- disregard of human rights
- drift to the right in the government
- drift to the right
- economic rights
- electoral right
- entry rights to a country
- equal rights
- essential right
- European Court of Human Rights
- exclusive rights
- explicit recognition of a country's right to exist
- fishing right
- flagrant violation of rights
- flagrant violations of rights
- frustration of rights
- full right
- fundamental rights
- gay rights
- guaranteed right
- honorable right
- human rights
- hypocrisy over human rights
- immutable right
- implementation of rights
- improved human rights
- inalienable right
- individual rights
- infringement of smb's rights
- infringements of smb's rights
- inherent right
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- invasion of smb's rights
- irrevocable right
- lack of rights
- lacking rights
- land right
- landing right
- lawful right
- legal right
- legitimate right
- minority rights
- monopoly right
- moral-political right
- national rights
- nation's right to self-determination
- navigation right
- negotiating right - oil exploration right
- on the political right
- overflying right
- parental rights
- people's basic rights
- personal rights
- political rights
- port right
- postures about human rights
- preferential right
- procedural rights
- proprietary right
- protection of rights
- realization of rights
- recognition of rights
- religious right
- respect for rights
- respect of rights
- restoration of rights to smb
- restoration of smb's rights
- right of abode
- right of accession
- right of appeal
- right of assembly
- right of association
- right of asylum
- right of authorship
- right of conscience
- right of defense
- right of entry to a country
- right of freedom of thought, conscience and religion
- right of impeachment of the President
- right of inheritance
- right of innocent passage
- right of learning
- right of nations / peoples of self-determination
- right of nations / peoples to self-determination
- right of navigation
- right of passage
- right of peoples to determine their own destiny
- right of peoples to order their own destinies
- right of possession
- right of property
- right of publication
- right of recourse
- right of reply
- right of secession
- right of self-defense
- right of settlement
- right of sovereignty
- right of the defendant to remain silence
- right of veto
- right of visit
- right of workers to strike - right to assembly
- right to associate in public organizations
- right to choose one's own destiny
- right to demonstrate
- right to education
- right to elect and be elected
- right to emigrate
- right to equality before the law
- right to exist
- right to fly a maritime flag
- right to form and to join trade unions
- right to free choice of employment
- right to free education
- right to free medical services
- right to free speech
- right to freedom of conscience
- right to freedom of opinion and expression
- right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- right to freedom of religion
- right to freedom of thought
- right to health protection
- right to housing
- right to independence
- right to inherit
- right to juridical equality
- right to keep and bear arms
- right to know
- right to labor
- right to life, liberty and security of person
- right to maintenance
- right to marry and to found a family
- right to material security in old age, sickness and disability
- right to national autonomy
- right to national independence and sovereignty
- right to one's own convictions
- right to own property
- right to privacy
- right to residence
- right to rest and leisure
- right to rest
- right to run the country
- right to sail
- right to secede
- right to security of person
- right to self-rule
- right to silence
- right to sit the case before the court
- right to social insurance
- right to speedy trial
- right to study in the native language
- right to take part in government
- right to take part in the management and administration of state and public affairs
- right to territorial integrity
- right to trial by jury
- right to vote
- right to work
- rights don't come without responsibilities
- rights of a man
- rights of minorities
- rights of national minorities
- rights of small states
- rights of the child
- rights of trade unions
- sacred right
- SDR
- social rights
- socio-political rights
- sole right
- sovereign right
- special drawing rights - swing to the right in the government
- swing to the right
- tensions on human rights
- territorial rights
- theoretical right to secede from a country
- trade union rights
- transit right
- treaty rights
- unconditional right
- undisputed right
- unequal rights - veto right
- vital rights
- voting right
- waiver of a right
- with a right to vote
- without a right to vote 2. a1) правый, правильный2) полит. ( часто Right) правый•- far right -
92 ἐπιχώριος
A in or of the country,1 of persons,οἱ ἐ.
the people of the country, natives,Hdt.
1.78, 181,al.;οὑπιχώριοι χθονός S.OT 939
, cf.E. Ionl.c.; also of birds,ἐ. ὄρνιθες A.Supp. 800
, cf. 661 (lyr.);οὐ πολλαχοῦ ἐ. Arist.HA 615a14
.2 of things, of or used in the country,ὑποδήματα Hdt.1.195
;κράνεα Id.7.91
, cf.Pi.P.4.80 ;τὸν ἐ. τρόπον Ar.Pl.47
; freq. in neut.,τὸ ἐ., τοὐπιχώριον
the custom of the country, fashion,Id.
Nu. 1173, Th.6.27, etc.;τὰ ἐν Πέρσαις ἐ. X.Cyr. 1.4.25
, cf. Hp.Aër.1:c.dat., usual,οἷόν τ' ἐπιχώριον ἀνδράσι γυιον Emp.62.8
; ἐπιχώριον ὂν ἡμῖν c.inf., as it is the custom of our country, Th.4.17 : c.gen.,τῆς ἡμετέρας μούσης ἐ. Pl.Smp. 189b
; ἐπιχωρίου ὄντος τοῖς Πέρσαις φιλεῖν it being their custom to.., X.Ages.5.4 ; common things,Pi.
P.3.22, cf. Ar.Pl. 342 ; καλὰ ἐ. honours of the country, Pi.I.7(6).2 ;ἐ. ἁμαρτήματα
against fellow-countrymen,Pl.
Lg. 730a ; ἐπιχώριαι ἐνενήκοντα (sc. δραχμαί) Michel 838 ([place name] Didyma). Adv. ; in the language of the country, D.C.38.13, Lyd. Mag.1.7 ; in the local dialect, Gal.14.303.Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > ἐπιχώριος
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93 mrima
------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] Mrima[English Word] coastal region south of Dar es Salaam[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] mrima[Swahili Plural] mirima[English Word] coast[English Plural] coasts[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] mrima[Swahili Plural] mirima[English Word] littoral[English Plural] littorals[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima[Swahili Example] sehemu za mrima zilizo karibu na katikati ya nchi [Masomo 5][English Example] the parts of the coastal littoral that are close to the center of the country------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] mrima[Swahili Plural] mirima[English Word] shore[English Plural] shores[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] mrima[Swahili Plural] mirima[English Word] mainland (as opposed to islands)[English Plural] mainlands[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima------------------------------------------------------------[Swahili Word] mrima[Swahili Plural] mirima[English Word] continent (as opposed to islands)[English Plural] continents[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] Kimrima, mmrima------------------------------------------------------------ -
94 libre
adj.1 free.un taxi libre a free o empty taxiel puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacantser libre de o para hacer algo to be free to do somethinglibre de franqueo post-freelibre de impuestos tax-free2 external (pupil).estudiar por libre to be an external student3 floating.pres.subj.1st person singular (yo) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: librar.* * *► adjetivo1 (gen) free2 (asiento) free, vacant■ ¿está libre? is this seat free?3 (sin ocupación) free4 (exento) free■ el que esté libre de pecado que tire la primera piedra let he who is without sin cast the first stone5 (alumno) external6 (en natación) free-style\dejar libre a alguien to set somebody freeir por libre familiar to do one's own thingentrada libre free admittance* * *adj.1) free2) vacant* * *1. ADJ1) [gen] free (de from, of)¿estás libre? — are you free?
el martes estoy libre, así que podemos quedar — I'm free on Tuesday so we can meet up
2) (=exento)3) (=sin ocupar) [plaza] vacant, unoccupied¿está libre este asiento? — is this seat free?
libre — [parking] spaces; [taxi] for hire
4) [tiempo] spare, free5)6)• por libre (=por cuenta propia) —
ir o funcionar por libre — to go it alone
7) (Dep, Natación)saque 1., 1), tiro 3)8) [traducción, adaptación, verso] free9)libre a bordo — (Com) free on board
10) † (=inmoral) loose, immoralde vida libre — loose-living, immoral
2. SM1) (Dep) (=tiro) free kick2) Méx taxi3.SMF (Dep) (=jugador) sweeper* * *1) <país/pueblo> freelibre de + inf — free to + inf
2)a) <traducción/adaptación> freeb) < estudiante> externalir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases
3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?
¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?
4) (exento, no sujeto)libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us
* * *= free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.Ex. Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.Ex. Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.Ex. The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.Ex. Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.Ex. The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.Ex. Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.Ex. From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.Ex. In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.Ex. Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.Ex. This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.Ex. The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.Ex. Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.Ex. Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.Ex. The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.Ex. If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.Ex. The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.Ex. In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.----* actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.* al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.* barra libre = open bar.* biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.* búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.* campo de texto libre = free-text field.* comida al aire libre = cookout.* de espíritu libre = free-spirited.* definición libre = liberal definition.* dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.* dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.* dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.* día libre = day off.* disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.* en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.* escalada libre = free-climbing.* espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.* espíritu libre = free spirit.* esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.* esquí libre = freestyle skiing.* estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.* estar libre de = be free from.* estilo libre = freestyle.* fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.* fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.* fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.* frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.* horas libres = released time.* indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.* industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.* instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.* juego al aire libre = outdoor game.* lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.* lenguaje libre = free language.* libre albedrío = free will.* libre cambio = laissez-faire.* libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.* libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.* libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.* libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.* libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.* libre de censura = uncensored.* libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.* libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.* libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.* libre de drogas = drug-free.* libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.* libre de humo = smokeless.* libre de humos = smoke-free.* libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.* libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).* libre de peligro = free of danger.* libre de polvo = dust-free.* libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.* libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].* libre de restricciones = unencumbered.* libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.* libre de servicio = off-duty.* libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.* libre de trabas = unencumbered.* libre mercado = free market.* libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.* manos libres = hands-free.* mantener libre de = keep + free of.* mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.* mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.* mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.* pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.* piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.* piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.* por libre = freelance.* pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.* programas de software libre = freeware.* puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.* quedar libre = become + vacant.* recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.* sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.* software libre = freeware, free software.* teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.* tener un rato libre = spare + time.* tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.* trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].* zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.* * *1) <país/pueblo> freelibre de + inf — free to + inf
2)a) <traducción/adaptación> freeb) < estudiante> externalir por libre — (Esp fam) to do as one pleases
3) ( no ocupado) <persona/tiempo/asiento> free¿tienes un rato libre? — do you have a (spare) moment?
¿está libre el cuarto de baño? — is the bathroom free?
4) (exento, no sujeto)libre de algo: la empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibility; artículos libres de impuestos duty-free goods; nadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así — something like that could happen to any of us
* * *= free [freer -comp., freest -sup.], unrestricted, unchecked, unconstrained, unhindered, uninhibited, unobstructed, untrammelled, vacant, unfettered, up for grabs, footloose, free-flowing, at large, unassigned, freewheeling [free-wheeling], fancy-free.Ex: Within a restriction of total record size of maximum of 30,000 characters, an intending user is free to format the records in his system.
Ex: Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.Ex: The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.Ex: Libraries need to tackle issues that can ensure that their clients will have an unconstrained access to electronic information.Ex: The USA is, therefore, campaigning for absolutely unhindered information flow across all national boundaries.Ex: Barriers to the uninhibited international flow of scientific and technical information continue to increase.Ex: From the library she could see miles and miles of unobstructed vistas of rich, coffee-brown, almost black soil, broken only by occasional small towns, farms, and grain elevators.Ex: In times of war, or other reasons for the imposition of barriers to untrammelled distribution of information, such openness in communication cannot be allowed.Ex: Again we find that only the first entry leads us to the specific subject, and the others may in fact lead us to ` vacant' headings, ie headings under which no entries are filed.Ex: This article urges those responsible to ensure that the service goal of libraries remains as unfettered as possible by a collective agreement.Ex: The article 'Internet domain name control up for grabs' relates the decision by the National Science Foundation, USA, not to renew its agreement with Network Solutions Inc to handle Internet domain registrations.Ex: Americans are among the most opulent and footloose people on earth.Ex: Creating an innovative organisation requires a sponsor followed by guidance by example and gradual change aided by free-flowing communication.Ex: The article is entitled 'Librarian at large'.Ex: If you would like to volunteer to present on one of the unassigned listed topics, please contact me.Ex: The culture that grew around this institution was even more freewheeling than it is today.Ex: In those days, he was a fancy-free young American, living out of a suitcase with a red and green camera always under his arm.* actividad al aire libre = outdoor activity.* al aire libre = open-air, in the open, out of doors, outdoors.* barra libre = open bar.* biblioteca de libre acceso = open access library.* búsqueda de texto libre = free text search, free-text searching.* campo de texto libre = free-text field.* comida al aire libre = cookout.* de espíritu libre = free-spirited.* definición libre = liberal definition.* dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.* dejar libre = vacate, leave + vacant.* dejar tiempo libre = free up + time.* día libre = day off.* disponer de un rato libre = spare + time.* en los ratos libres de Uno = in + Posesivo + own time, on + Posesivo + own time.* escalada libre = free-climbing.* espacio al aire libre = outdoor space.* espíritu libre = free spirit.* esquí estilo libre = freestyle skiing.* esquí libre = freestyle skiing.* estanterías de libre acceso = open shelves.* estar libre de = be free from.* estilo libre = freestyle.* fondo de inversión libre = hedge fund.* fondos de acceso libre = open stacks.* fondos de libre acceso = open access stacks.* frase de texto libre = free-text phrase.* horas libres = released time.* indización en lenguaje libre = free language indexing.* industria de actividades al aire libre, la = outdoor industry, the.* instalaciones para dedicar el tiempo libre = leisure facilities.* juego al aire libre = outdoor game.* lenguaje de indización libre = free indexing language.* lenguaje libre = free language.* libre albedrío = free will.* libre cambio = laissez-faire.* libre circulación de la información = free flow of information.* libre circulación de mercancías = free movement of goods.* libre comercio = free trade, free movement of goods.* libre como el viento = footloose and fancy-free.* libre de = unhampered by, unimpeded by, untrammelled by, unencumbered by.* libre de censura = uncensored.* libre de complicaciones = hassle-free.* libre de culpa = guilt-free, blameless.* libre de derechos de autor = royalty-free.* libre de drogas = drug-free.* libre de gravámenes = unencumbered.* libre de humo = smokeless.* libre de humos = smoke-free.* libre de impuestos = tariff-free, duty-free, tax-free.* libre de la amenaza de = unthreatened (by).* libre de peligro = free of danger.* libre de polvo = dust-free.* libre de preocupaciones = worry-free.* libre de problemas = problem-free, trouble free [trouble-free].* libre de restricciones = unencumbered.* libre de riesgo = riskless, risk-free.* libre de servicio = off-duty.* libre de toda sospecha = above suspicion.* libre de trabas = unencumbered.* libre mercado = free market.* libre y sin compromiso = footloose and fancy-free.* manos libres = hands-free.* mantener libre de = keep + free of.* mercadillo al aire libre = street market, open-air market.* mercado al aire libre = street market, open-air market.* mercado libre = open market, free-for-all.* pasar el tiempo libre = spend + Posesivo + leisure time.* piscina al aire libre = outdoor pool, open-air swimming pool, open-air pool.* piscina climatizada al aire libre = outdoor heated pool.* por libre = freelance.* pregunta de respuesta libre = open-ended question.* programas de software libre = freeware.* puesto de trabajo de libre designación = line position.* quedar libre = become + vacant.* recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval.* sistema para la recuperación de texto libre = free text retrieval system.* software libre = freeware, free software.* teatro al aire libre = outdoor theatre.* tener un rato libre = spare + time.* tiempo libre = leisure, leisure time, free time, idle hours.* trabajo por libre = freelance [free-lance].* zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.* * *A1 ‹país/pueblo› freelo dejaron libre they set him free2 libre DE + INF free to + INFeres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you wantsoy muy libre de ir vestida como se me antoje I'm perfectly entitled to dress however I like3(sin compromiso): me confesó que no era libre he admitted that he wasn't a free manCompuestos:masculine free will● libre cambio or comerciomasculine free tradefeminine free market, free market systemmasculine free marketB1 ‹traducción/adaptación› freeuna redacción sobre tema libre an essay on a theme of your choice, a free compositionlos 200 metros libres the 200 meters freestyle2 ‹estudiante› externaltrabajar por libre to work freelancehacer algo por libre ( Esp); to do sth one's own way1 ‹persona› free¿estás libre esta noche? are you free tonight?2 ‹tiempo› free¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?en sus ratos libres in her spare o free timehoy tengo el día libre I have the day off todaycuando tengas un par de horas libres when you have a couple of hours free o to spare3 ‹asiento› free¿ese asiento está libre? is that seat free?no pasó ni un taxi libre not a single empty taxi went by¿está libre el cuarto de baño? is the bathroom free?D (exento, no sujeto) libre DE algo:una propiedad libre de hipotecas an unmortgaged propertyla empresa queda libre de toda responsabilidad the company does not accept any responsibilityartículos libres de impuestos duty-free o tax-free goodsnadie está libre de culpa nobody is blamelessnadie está libre de que le pase una cosa así something like that could happen to any of uslibre de riesgo risk-free( Méx)taxi* * *
Del verbo librar: ( conjugate librar)
libré es:
1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo
libre es:
1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo
Multiple Entries:
librar
libre
librar ( conjugate librar) verbo transitivo
1 ( liberar) libre a algn de algo ‹ de peligro› to save sb from sth;
‹de obligación/responsabilidad› to free sb from sth;◊ ¡Dios nos libre! God forbid!
2 ‹batalla/combate› to fight
librarse verbo pronominal:
librese de algo ‹de tarea/obligación› to get out of sth;
librese de un castigo to escape punishment;
se libró de tener que ayudarlo she got out of having to help him;
se libreon de morir asfixiados they escaped being suffocated;
librese de algn to get rid of sb
libre adjetivo
1 ‹país/pueblo› free;
eres libre de ir donde quieras you're free to go wherever you want;
libre albedrío free will;
libre cambio or comercio free trade;
libre mercado free market
2 ‹traducción/adaptación› free;
3 ( no ocupado) ‹persona/tiempo/asiento› free;◊ ¿tienes un rato libre? do you have a (spare) moment?;
en sus ratos libres in her spare o free time;
tengo el día libre I have the day off
4 ( exento):
librar
I verbo transitivo
1 to free: me libró de un castigo, she let me off from a punishment
2 (una orden de pago) to draw
II vi (tener el día libre) libra los fines de semana, he has weekends off
libre adjetivo free: está libre de sospecha, she's free from suspicion
eres (muy) libre de hacerlo, you are quite free to do it
libre de impuestos, tax-free
¡vía libre!, make way!
' libre' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
aire
- albedrío
- bufé
- carga
- desocupada
- desocupado
- día
- entrada
- franca
- franco
- hueca
- hueco
- impuesta
- impuesto
- librar
- lucha
- perilla
- plaza
- radical
- suelta
- suelto
- tiempo
- tienda
- Tiro
- tomarse
- traducción
- vía
- aduana
- caída
- despejado
- dios
- dueño
- economía
- estilo
- falta
- hora
- lavadero
- limpiar
- limpio
- lugar
- melé
- ocio
- ocupar
- paso
- puerto
- sacar
- teatro
- tiro
- tomar
- tranquilo
English:
all-in wrestling
- available
- buffet
- clear
- clearance
- day off
- door
- duty-free
- economy
- equity
- festival
- free
- free enterprise
- free fall
- free kick
- free love
- free rein
- free trade
- free-style
- garden party
- have off
- hire
- leisure time
- liberal
- liberty
- off
- open
- open-air
- outdoor
- outdoors
- outdoorsman
- own
- place
- quit
- sky-dive
- sky-diver
- sleep out
- smokeless zone
- spare
- take off
- tax free
- unoccupied
- vacancy
- vacant
- day
- demand
- duty
- enterprise
- foot
- freelance
* * *libre adj1. [sin limitaciones] free;el amor libre free love;eres libre de hacer lo que quieras you are free to do as you wish;es libre para casarse con quien quiera she is free to marry whoever she pleases;entrada libre [en letrero] entry freelibre albedrío free will; Econ libre cambio free trade; [de divisas] floating exchange rates; Econ libre circulación de capitales free circulation of capital;libre circulación de mercancías free movement of goods;libre circulación de personas free movement of people;libre mercado free market2. [no encarcelado] free3. [país] free4. [sin novio, pareja] free, available5. [sin obstáculos] [camino, carretera] clear6.libre de [exento] exempt from;libre de culpa free from blame;libre de impuestos [alcohol, cigarrillos] tax-free, duty-free7. [desocupado] [asiento] free;[retrete] vacant; [casa] empty;¿estarás libre mañana? will you be free tomorrow?;el puesto de tesorero ha quedado libre the post of treasurer is now vacant;un taxi libre a free o empty taxi;libre [en taxi] for hire;ahora no tengo las manos libres my hands are full at the moment;aparcamiento: libre [en letrero] parking: spaces8. [tiempo] free, spare;cuando tenga un rato libre, te llamo I'll call you when I've got a (spare) moment;en mis ratos libres me gusta tocar el piano in my spare o free time I like to play the piano;mañana tengo el día libre I've got the day off tomorrow;tengo dos horas libres I have two hours spare9. [independiente] independent;[alumno] external;trabajar por libre to work freelance;estudiar por libre to be an external student;Espir por libre to do things one's own way;Espcuando viajo me gusta ir por libre más que ir en grupo I prefer travelling alone to travelling in a group10. [estilo, traducción] free;Dep200 metros libres 200 metres freestyle* * *adj free; tiempo spare, free;eres libre de you’re free to;trabajar por libre be self-employed;libre de impuestos tax free* * *libre adj1) : freeun país libre: a free countrylibre de: free from, exempt fromlibre albedrío: free will2) desocupado: vacant3)día libre : day off* * *libre adj freelibre de impuestos tax free / duty free -
95 natural
adj.1 natural (no artificial).es más guapa al natural que en la fotografía she's prettier in real life than in the photographser natural en alguien to be in somebody's nature2 natural, normal.es lo más natural del mundo it's the most natural thing in the world, it's perfectly naturales natural que se enfade it's natural that he should be angry3 native (nativo).ser natural de to come from4 illegitimate (ilegítimo) (hijo).5 native born, native, natural.f. & m.1 native (nativo).2 character.m.nature, disposition (talante).* * *► adjetivo1 (no artificial) natural2 (fruta, flor) fresh3 (sin elaboración) plain; (sin alteración) additive-free4 (espontáneo) unaffected, natural5 (lógico) natural, to be expected6 (ilegítimo) natural, illegitimate1 (temperamento) nature, disposition2 (nativo) native, inhabitant3 (en toreo) type of pass\de tamaño natural life-sizeddel natural (pintado, sacado) from lifeser natural de to be a native of, come from* * *adj.1) natural2) native* * *1. ADJ1) (=no artificial) [calor] natural; [luz, frontera] natural; [seda] pure; [flor] real2) (=fresco) fresh3) (=sin aditivos) natural4) (=a temperatura ambiente)5) (=innato) naturalla bondad es natural en él — kindness is in his nature, it's in his nature to be kind
6) (=normal) naturales lo más natural del mundo — it's perfectly natural, it's the most natural thing in the world
7) (=no afectado) natural8) (=ilegítimo) illegitimate9) (=nativo)¿de dónde es usted natural? — where are you from?, where were you born?
10)11) (Mús) natural2.SMF native3. SM1) (=carácter) nature2)al natural: fruta al natural — (=sin aditamentos) fruit in its own juice
se sirve al natural — (=a temperatura ambiente) it is served at room temperature
3) (Arte)del natural: pintar del natural — to paint from life
4) (Taur) type of pass* * *I1)a) < fenómeno> natural; < ingredientes> naturalen estado natural — natural, native
al natural — < mejillones> in brine
es más bonita al natural — she's prettier without makeup
b) ( a temperatura ambiente) <cerveza/gaseosa> unchilledc) (Mús) natural2)a) ( espontáneo) <gesto/persona> naturalb) ( inherente) natural, innatec) ( normal) natural3) (frml) ( nativo)IIser natural de — to be a native of, to come from
1) ( carácter) nature2) ( nativo) native3) (Art)* * *= natural, effortless, natural-born, native, naturally-occurring.Ex. Also, title entries were ordered by grammatical arrangement, rather than in natural word order.Ex. The effortless ease of such replies does conceal from the enquirer the extensive anticipatory effort of the librarian in studying the sources of information and his prior experience in their use.Ex. Giving a natural-born leader a new book to read for himself will mean that, if he likes it, very soon other children in the group will be wanting to read it too = Dar a un líder nato un nuevo libro para que lo lea por su cuenta significa que, si le gusta, muy pronto otros niños del grupo querrán leerlo también.Ex. Malcolm Stanhope, also a native of the state, entered the library field at the age of 30, after having been a computer salesman for eight years.----* a escala natural = full-scale.* alimentos naturales = health food.* catástrofe natural = natural calamity, natural disaster.* ciencias naturales = natural sciences.* como algo natural = as a matter of course.* consecuencia natural = corollary.* defensas naturales = natural defences.* derecho natural = natural right, natural law.* desastre natural = natural disaster, natural calamity.* de un modo poco natural = unnaturally.* en su estado natural = in the wild.* entorno natural = natural setting.* entorno natural, el = natural environment, the.* estado natural = natural state.* fibra natural = natural fibre.* formar parte natural de su entorno = blend into + the landscape.* gas natural = natural gas.* habilidad natural = natural ability.* hábitat natural = wildlife habitat.* iluminación natural = natural lighting.* lenguaje de indización natural = natural indexing language.* lenguaje natural = natural language.* luz natural = natural daylight, natural light.* madre o padre natural = birth parent.* mes natural = calendar month.* mirador natural = belvedere.* morir de muerte natural = die + a natural death.* muerte natural = natural death.* museo de ciencias naturales = natural science museum.* natural del país = native-born.* paisaje natural = natural scenery, natural landscape.* paraje natural = wildland.* parque natural = nature park.* poco natural = unnatural, stilted.* producto natural = natural product.* recursos de gas natural = natural gas resources.* reserva natural = nature reserve, nature preserve, wildlife preserve.* ser algo natural para = be second nature to + Pronombre, come + naturally to.* ser natural de = be a native of.* sobrenatural, lo = supernatural, the.* sopa natural = fresh soup.* tendencia natural = in-built tendency.* término del lenguaje natural = natural-language term.* tienda de alimentos naturales = health food store, health food shop.* ventilación natural = natural ventilation.* * *I1)a) < fenómeno> natural; < ingredientes> naturalen estado natural — natural, native
al natural — < mejillones> in brine
es más bonita al natural — she's prettier without makeup
b) ( a temperatura ambiente) <cerveza/gaseosa> unchilledc) (Mús) natural2)a) ( espontáneo) <gesto/persona> naturalb) ( inherente) natural, innatec) ( normal) natural3) (frml) ( nativo)IIser natural de — to be a native of, to come from
1) ( carácter) nature2) ( nativo) native3) (Art)* * *= natural, effortless, natural-born, native, naturally-occurring.Ex: Also, title entries were ordered by grammatical arrangement, rather than in natural word order.
Ex: The effortless ease of such replies does conceal from the enquirer the extensive anticipatory effort of the librarian in studying the sources of information and his prior experience in their use.Ex: Giving a natural-born leader a new book to read for himself will mean that, if he likes it, very soon other children in the group will be wanting to read it too = Dar a un líder nato un nuevo libro para que lo lea por su cuenta significa que, si le gusta, muy pronto otros niños del grupo querrán leerlo también.Ex: Malcolm Stanhope, also a native of the state, entered the library field at the age of 30, after having been a computer salesman for eight years.Ex: This is a naturally-occurring abrasive traditionally employed in buffing metal.* a escala natural = full-scale.* alimentos naturales = health food.* catástrofe natural = natural calamity, natural disaster.* ciencias naturales = natural sciences.* como algo natural = as a matter of course.* consecuencia natural = corollary.* defensas naturales = natural defences.* derecho natural = natural right, natural law.* desastre natural = natural disaster, natural calamity.* de un modo poco natural = unnaturally.* en su estado natural = in the wild.* entorno natural = natural setting.* entorno natural, el = natural environment, the.* estado natural = natural state.* fibra natural = natural fibre.* formar parte natural de su entorno = blend into + the landscape.* gas natural = natural gas.* habilidad natural = natural ability.* hábitat natural = wildlife habitat.* iluminación natural = natural lighting.* lenguaje de indización natural = natural indexing language.* lenguaje natural = natural language.* luz natural = natural daylight, natural light.* madre o padre natural = birth parent.* mes natural = calendar month.* mirador natural = belvedere.* morir de muerte natural = die + a natural death.* muerte natural = natural death.* museo de ciencias naturales = natural science museum.* natural del país = native-born.* paisaje natural = natural scenery, natural landscape.* paraje natural = wildland.* parque natural = nature park.* poco natural = unnatural, stilted.* producto natural = natural product.* recursos de gas natural = natural gas resources.* reserva natural = nature reserve, nature preserve, wildlife preserve.* ser algo natural para = be second nature to + Pronombre, come + naturally to.* ser natural de = be a native of.* sobrenatural, lo = supernatural, the.* sopa natural = fresh soup.* tendencia natural = in-built tendency.* término del lenguaje natural = natural-language term.* tienda de alimentos naturales = health food store, health food shop.* ventilación natural = natural ventilation.* * *A1 ‹fenómeno› natural; ‹ingredientes› naturaluna de las grandes bellezas naturales de nuestro país one of our country's great natural beauty spots2 (sin elaboración) naturalen estado natural natural, native¿piña natural o de lata? fresh pineapple or tinned?al natural ‹mejillones› in brineuna lata de tomates al natural a can of tomatoes in natural juicees mucho más bonita al natural she's much prettier without makeup3 (a temperatura ambiente) ‹cerveza/gaseosa› unchilledse sirve al natural serve at room temperature4 ( Mús) naturalfa natural F naturalB1 (sin afectación, espontáneo) ‹gesto/pose/persona› naturales muy natural en el trato she has a very natural manner2 (inherente) natural, innateuna inclinación natural hacia la música a natural o an innate musical abilityla generosidad es natural en ella she's generous by nature3 (normal) naturalse acostó tarde y como es natural se quedó dormida she went to bed late and, of course o naturally, oversleptme parece lo más natural del mundo it seems perfectly natural to menatural QUE + SUBJ:es natural que le cueste adaptarse it's quite natural o normal that he should find it hard to adaptes muy natural que le hayan dicho que no it's only natural that they refused o that they should have refused himJuan Prieto, de 33 años, natural de Alicante Juan Prieto, 33 years old, from AlicanteA (carácter) naturees de natural generoso she has a generous nature, she is generous by natureB (nativo) nativelos naturales del lugar people from the areaC ( Art):pintar/dibujar del natural to paint/draw from life(nativo) nativelos naturales del lugar the people from the area* * *
natural adjetivo
1
‹ fruta› fresh;
c) (Mús) natural
2
3 (frml) ( nativo) ser natural de to be a native of, to come from
■ sustantivo masculino
natural
I adjetivo
1 natural: es una persona muy natural, he's a very natural person
(no artificial, fresco) fresh: es una rosa natural, it's a fresh rose
a tamaño natural, life-size
2 (normal, lógico) me parece natural, it seems natural to me
3 (nativo) soy natural de Castilla, I come from Castilla
4 Mat natural
II sustantivo masculino
1 (temperamento, inclinación) nature
2 Arte life: lo pintó del natural, he painted it from life
III mf (oriundo) native
' natural' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
canal
- cien
- cruda
- crudo
- día
- emanación
- expolio
- hijo
- limonada
- lógica
- lógico
- luz
- mirador
- muerte
- nata
- nato
- reserva
- sencilla
- sencillo
- sobrexplotación
- tamaña
- tamaño
- turba
- anfiteatro
- café
- cataclismo
- en
- franco
- gruta
- llano
- museo
- naturalidad
- naturismo
- naturista
- pantano
- parque
- recurso
- riqueza
- siniestro
English:
border
- born
- curl
- designate
- fair
- full-scale
- hail
- life
- life-size
- life-sized
- lifelike
- mention
- native
- natural
- natural childbirth
- naturally
- nature reserve
- nature trail
- plain
- process
- reserve
- successor
- sunlight
- unaffected
- unnatural
- unnaturally
- unspoilt
- wear
- wild
- wildlife park
- die
- dry
- effortless
- environment
- flair
- full
- good
- may
- might
- nature
- pond
- resource
- should
- unspoiled
- wastage
- wilderness
* * *♦ adj1. [de la naturaleza] [recursos, frontera] natural;un fenómeno natural a natural phenomenon2. [sin aditivos] [yogur] natural;[zumo] fresh;al natural [fruta] in its own juice;[en persona] in the flesh;es más guapa al natural que en la fotografía she's prettier in real life o in the flesh than in the photograph3. [fresco] [flores, fruta, leche] fresh4. [lógico, normal] natural, normal;ser natural en alguien to be in sb's nature;es lo más natural del mundo it's the most natural thing in the world, it's perfectly natural;es natural que se enfade it's natural that he should be angry5. [nativo] native;ser natural de to come from6. [ilegítimo] illegitimate;hijo natural illegitimate child7. [hábil y no hábil]año/mes natural calendar year/month;30 días naturales de vacaciones 30 days' holiday (including weekends)8. RP [del tiempo] unchilled, at room temperature;un agua natural a glass of unchilled water9. Mús natural♦ nmf[nativo] native♦ nm1. [talante] nature, disposition3. Taurom = left-handed pass without the sword* * *I adj1 natural;es natural it’s only natural3:ser natural de come fromII m:fruta al natural fruit in its own juice* * *natural adj1) : natural2) : normalcomo es natural: naturally, as expected3)natural de : native of, from4)de tamaño natural : life-sizenatural nm1) carácter: disposition, temperament2) : nativeun natural de Venezuela: a native of Venezuela* * *natural1 adj (en general) naturalnatural2 nlos naturales de Sevilla people born in Seville / people from Seville -
96 open
------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be cut open[Swahili Word] -tumbuka[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be cut open[Swahili Word] -tumburujika[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be open[Swahili Word] -fumbuka[Part of Speech] verb[Class] intr-inver[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fumba[English Example] now [Bahati's heart] was already open[Swahili Example] sasa [moyo wa Bahati] ulikwisha fumbuka [Sul]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be open[Swahili Word] -funguka[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Word] funga v------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be open (a plain etc)[Swahili Word] -tandaa[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be open to (arguments or persuasion)[Swahili Word] -shindua[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Word] shinda V------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be open to (arguments or persuasion)[Swahili Word] -sindua[Part of Speech] verb[Class] inversive------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be opened[Swahili Word] -fungasa[Part of Speech] verb[Swahili Example] Amejifungua mtoto wa kike.------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be opened[Swahili Word] -funguliwa[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Word] funga v------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be opened up[Swahili Word] -zibuka[Part of Speech] verb[Class] intr-inver[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -zibua------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] cut open[Swahili Word] -pingua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -eupe[Part of Speech] adjective[English Example] open land [without trees][Swahili Example] nchi nyeupe------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] huria[Part of Speech] adjective[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] huri, huru, uhuru------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] kimacho[Part of Speech] adjective[Derived Word] jicho N[Swahili Example] alisema naye kimacho------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] wazi[Part of Speech] adjective------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] waziwazi[Part of Speech] adjective------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -fungua[Part of Speech] verb[Class] converse[Derived Word] funga v[English Example] He didn't want to <b>open</b> the door because he felt cold.[Swahili Example] Hakutaka ku<b>fungua</b> mlango kwa sababu alisikia baridi.------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -funua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -gubua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -mamanua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -omoa[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -sambaza[Part of Speech] verb[Class] causative------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -shindua[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Word] shinda V------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -sindua[Part of Speech] verb[Class] inversive------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -tanzua[Part of Speech] verb[English Example] open the eyes[Swahili Example] tanzua macho------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open[Swahili Word] -weka[Part of Speech] verb[Swahili Example] weka duka------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open (by separating parts that had been brought together)[Swahili Word] -fumbua[Part of Speech] verb[Class] inversive[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fumbua[English Example] when he opened his eyes he saw his wife was still sleeping[Swahili Example] alipofumbua macho alimwona mke wake bado alikuwa anasinzia------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open (of buds)[Swahili Word] -chanua[Part of Speech] verb[English Example] another bouquet of roses bent down with sadness, half open[Swahili Example] fumbu jingine la waridi [...] limeinama kwa masikitiko, nusu limechanua [Sul]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open by force[Swahili Word] -nanua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open country[Swahili Word] wanda[Part of Speech] noun------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open mouth wide[Swahili Word] -achama[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open place[Swahili Word] weu[Swahili Plural] nyeu[Part of Speech] noun------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open place (in the front or around a house)[English Plural] open places[Swahili Word] uga[Swahili Plural] nyuga[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 11/10------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open someone's eyes[Swahili Word] -erevusha[Part of Speech] verb[Class] causative[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -erevuka------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up[Swahili Word] -futua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up[Swahili Word] -panua[Part of Speech] verb[English Example] "open up the legs, take long steps".[Swahili Example] panua miguu------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up[Swahili Word] -zibua[Part of Speech] verb[Class] inversive[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -ziba------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up (of an ulcer)[Swahili Word] -buyuka[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up (plants)[Swahili Word] -auka[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open up (wounds or abscesses)[Swahili Word] -chamka[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open wide[Swahili Word] -tanua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] open wide[Swahili Word] -tumbulia[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] split open[Swahili Word] -nanua[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------ -
97 reach
------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] be reached[Swahili Word] -wahiwa[Part of Speech] verb[Class] passive[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -wahi[English Example] the mountain peak was reached at seven in the morning[Swahili Example] kilele cha mlima kiliwahiwa saa moja asubuhi------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] cause to reach someone[Swahili Word] -fikiliza[Part of Speech] verb[Class] appl-caus[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fika------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] out of his or her reach[Swahili Word] si kiasi yake[Part of Speech] adverb[English Example] work that was not of his stature[Swahili Example] kazi isiyokuwa ya kiasi chake [Sul]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach[English Plural] reaches[Swahili Word] mfiko[Swahili Plural] mifiko[Part of Speech] noun[Class] 3/4[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fika------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach[Swahili Word] -fika[Part of Speech] verb[Related Words] kifiko, kufika, mfiko------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach[Swahili Word] -pata[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach[Swahili Word] -tekelea[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach[Swahili Word] -wasili[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Word] Arabic[Swahili Example] atakayewasili leo ni mtoto wao mpenzi [Moh]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach (age)[Swahili Word] -timiza[Part of Speech] verb[Class] causative[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -timu[Related Words] -timia[English Example] my child reaches exactly four years old the day after tomorrow[Swahili Example] mtoto wangu anatimiza miaka minane kamili kesho kutwa------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach (on time)[Swahili Word] -wahi[Part of Speech] verb[Derived Language] Arabic[Related Words] -wahia, -wahiwa, uwahi[English Example] she wanted to reach the train at the right time[Swahili Example] alitaka kuwahi gari la moshi [Rec]------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach (time)[Swahili Word] -timia[Part of Speech] verb[Class] applicative------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach a country[Swahili Word] -pata nchi[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach one's destination[Swahili Word] -soza[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach someone[Swahili Word] -fikia[Part of Speech] verb[Class] applicative[Derived Language] Swahili[Derived Word] -fika------------------------------------------------------------[English Word] reach up to[Swahili Word] -chuchumia[Part of Speech] verb------------------------------------------------------------ -
98 outflow
̘. ̈n.ˈautfləu
1. сущ. истечение;
утечка;
поток;
вытекшее количество an outflow of bad language ≈ поток ругательств outflow of capital Syn: leakage
2. гл. вытекать, истекать Syn: elapse, expire вытекание, истечение - to stop the * of a stream запрудить ручей - an * of bad language поток ругательств - an * of sympathy поток сочувственных слов утечка - the * of gold from the country утечка золота из страны вытекшее количество (гидрология) расход( реки) ~ истечение;
выход;
утечка;
an outflow of bad language поток ругательств;
outflow of capital эк. утечка (или вывоз) капитала capital ~ валютная утечка capital ~ утечка капитала net capital ~ чистая утечка капитала outflow вывоз ~ истекать, вытекать ~ истечение;
выход;
утечка;
an outflow of bad language поток ругательств;
outflow of capital эк. утечка (или вывоз) капитала ~ отлив ~ убыль ~ утечка ~ истечение;
выход;
утечка;
an outflow of bad language поток ругательств;
outflow of capital эк. утечка (или вывоз) капитала ~ of capital утечка капитала ~ of currency утечка валюты ~ of foreign exchange вывоз иностранной валюты ~ of foreign exchange утечка иностранной валюты sustained capital ~ устойчивая утечка капитала -
99 AL
1) Компьютерная техника: Address List2) Медицина: arterial line (внутриартериальный катетер (канюля))3) Военный термин: Administrative Logistics, Applications Layer, Avril Lavigne, FAADC2I Lightweight Computer Unit, acquisition logistician, action left, air landing, air liaison, airlift, allowance list, amendment list, ammunition loading4) Техника: Amplitude Limiter, Artificial Lines, accredited laboratory, acoustics laboratory, action level, address latch, address line, alarm relay, analytical laboratory, angle lock, antenna laboratory, auto-lean mixture, automatic landing, avionics laboratory, бедная смесь ( напр. горючая) (autolean mixture)5) Шутливое выражение: Always Late6) Грубое выражение: Arse Licker7) Музыка: Ad Libitum8) Политика: At Last9) Сокращение: Abraham Lincoln, Alabama (US state), Albania (NATO country code), All Languages, air lock, aluminum, amber light, American League (baseball), arterial line, Absolute Latency, Acceptable Language, Acceptable Level, Acceptance Limit, Access Line (FS-1037c), Account Librarian, Action Level (OSHA), Action Limit (NREL), Active Link (logical communications circuit), Ada Language, Adaptation Layer, Additional Listing, Administrative Leave, Adult Language, Advanced Leader (Toastmasters), Aeronomy Laboratory, Age Location (Internet chat), Agency Liaison, Air Land, Air Leakage, Air Lift, Air Lingus (Irish Airline), Air Liquide, Airloop (AT&T), Alabama (US postal abbreviation), Alagoas (Brazil), Alarm Light (NEC), Albania, Alberta, Albuquerque Operations Office (US DOE), Alessandria (Piemonte, Italy), Alliance Leader (Starkingdoms online game), Alsace-Lorraine, Altec Lansing, Alteration, Amendment Leaflet, American League (baseball), American Legend, American Legion, American Libraries (American Library Association journal), Ames Laboratory, Analog Link, Analog Loopback (diagnostic test), Analytical Laboratories, Analytical Limit, Android Lust (band), Angelic Layer (manga/anime), Anno Lucis, Annual Leave, Answer List, Antennal Lobe, Apache Longbow (Attack Helicopter), Aphus Lassel (gaming, Asheron's Call), Apparatus List, Application Layer, Approach and Landing, Arab League, Armament Laboratory, Armor Level (gaming, Asheron's Call), Armstrong Laboratory, Arrival Locator, Asian Littoral, Assisting Layer, Aster Leafhopper, Astronautics Laboratory, Atomic Learning, Attoliter (10 E^-18, one quintillionth), Auroral Electrojet index lower, Authorized Leave with Pay, Autonomic Logistics, Auxiliary Lighting, Awami League (Bangladesh), Axial Length, Lightship, St. Albans (postcode for a village)10) Физиология: Active Lipid, Left ear11) Вычислительная техника: adaptation level, artificial life, Alabama (US state postal designation), адаптационный уровень, управляемая петля12) Картография: ( instrument) approach and landing (chart)13) Транспорт: Approach & Landing, Automotive Lenses14) Фирменный знак: Atlas15) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: acoustic log (compensated)16) Образование: Adult Literacy, Asynchronous Learning17) Сетевые технологии: arbitrated loop18) Автоматика: Arm Language, assembly language20) Расширение файла: ALAW format Sound file21) Нефть и газ: acoustic log, SL22) Гостиничное дело: всё включено (в стоимость входит проживание, питание в течение дня, алкогольные напитки местного производства)23) ООН: A Law24) Должность: Agricultural Labourer25) NYSE. Alcan Aluminum, LTD.26) Федеральное бюро расследований: Albany Field Office -
100 Al
1) Компьютерная техника: Address List2) Медицина: arterial line (внутриартериальный катетер (канюля))3) Военный термин: Administrative Logistics, Applications Layer, Avril Lavigne, FAADC2I Lightweight Computer Unit, acquisition logistician, action left, air landing, air liaison, airlift, allowance list, amendment list, ammunition loading4) Техника: Amplitude Limiter, Artificial Lines, accredited laboratory, acoustics laboratory, action level, address latch, address line, alarm relay, analytical laboratory, angle lock, antenna laboratory, auto-lean mixture, automatic landing, avionics laboratory, бедная смесь ( напр. горючая) (autolean mixture)5) Шутливое выражение: Always Late6) Грубое выражение: Arse Licker7) Музыка: Ad Libitum8) Политика: At Last9) Сокращение: Abraham Lincoln, Alabama (US state), Albania (NATO country code), All Languages, air lock, aluminum, amber light, American League (baseball), arterial line, Absolute Latency, Acceptable Language, Acceptable Level, Acceptance Limit, Access Line (FS-1037c), Account Librarian, Action Level (OSHA), Action Limit (NREL), Active Link (logical communications circuit), Ada Language, Adaptation Layer, Additional Listing, Administrative Leave, Adult Language, Advanced Leader (Toastmasters), Aeronomy Laboratory, Age Location (Internet chat), Agency Liaison, Air Land, Air Leakage, Air Lift, Air Lingus (Irish Airline), Air Liquide, Airloop (AT&T), Alabama (US postal abbreviation), Alagoas (Brazil), Alarm Light (NEC), Albania, Alberta, Albuquerque Operations Office (US DOE), Alessandria (Piemonte, Italy), Alliance Leader (Starkingdoms online game), Alsace-Lorraine, Altec Lansing, Alteration, Amendment Leaflet, American League (baseball), American Legend, American Legion, American Libraries (American Library Association journal), Ames Laboratory, Analog Link, Analog Loopback (diagnostic test), Analytical Laboratories, Analytical Limit, Android Lust (band), Angelic Layer (manga/anime), Anno Lucis, Annual Leave, Answer List, Antennal Lobe, Apache Longbow (Attack Helicopter), Aphus Lassel (gaming, Asheron's Call), Apparatus List, Application Layer, Approach and Landing, Arab League, Armament Laboratory, Armor Level (gaming, Asheron's Call), Armstrong Laboratory, Arrival Locator, Asian Littoral, Assisting Layer, Aster Leafhopper, Astronautics Laboratory, Atomic Learning, Attoliter (10 E^-18, one quintillionth), Auroral Electrojet index lower, Authorized Leave with Pay, Autonomic Logistics, Auxiliary Lighting, Awami League (Bangladesh), Axial Length, Lightship, St. Albans (postcode for a village)10) Физиология: Active Lipid, Left ear11) Вычислительная техника: adaptation level, artificial life, Alabama (US state postal designation), адаптационный уровень, управляемая петля12) Картография: ( instrument) approach and landing (chart)13) Транспорт: Approach & Landing, Automotive Lenses14) Фирменный знак: Atlas15) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: acoustic log (compensated)16) Образование: Adult Literacy, Asynchronous Learning17) Сетевые технологии: arbitrated loop18) Автоматика: Arm Language, assembly language20) Расширение файла: ALAW format Sound file21) Нефть и газ: acoustic log, SL22) Гостиничное дело: всё включено (в стоимость входит проживание, питание в течение дня, алкогольные напитки местного производства)23) ООН: A Law24) Должность: Agricultural Labourer25) NYSE. Alcan Aluminum, LTD.26) Федеральное бюро расследований: Albany Field Office
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