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I saw it first in Boston

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1 first

fə:st
1. adjective, adverb
(before all others in place, time or rank: the first person to arrive; The boy spoke first.) primero

2. adverb
(before doing anything else: `Shall we eat now?' `Wash your hands first!) primero

3. noun
(the person, animal etc that does something before any other person, animal etc: the first to arrive.) primero

- firstly
- first aid
- first-born
- first-class
- first-hand
- first-rate
- at first
- at first hand
- first and foremost
- first of all

first¹ adj primero

January is the first month of the year enero es el primer mes del año

it's the first time that I've been here es la primera vez que vengo aquí

Se usa también para decir la fecha

the first of May el uno de mayo

first² adv

1. primero

he came first in the race llegó el primero en la carrera / ganó la carrera

you play later, first you must finish your lunch podrás jugar luego, primero acaba de comer

2. por primera vez

I first saw her at university la vi por primera vez en la universidad

at first al principio

first of all primero

first

tr[fɜːst]

adjective

1 primero,-a

■ what was your first job? ¿cuál fue tu primer trabajo?

■ who was the first man on the moon? ¿quién fue el primer hombre que pisó la luna?

■ she was his first wife fue su primera esposa

■ for the first time in my life... por primera vez en mi vida...

■ my first reaction was to... mi reacción inicial fue...

adverb

1 (before anything else) primero

■ Jane spoke first Jane habló primero

■ when you get up, what do you do first? al levantarte, ¿qué es lo primero que haces?

■ first, I have to go to the bank primero, tengo que ir al banco

2 (for the first time) por primera vez

■ when we first met, he hated me cuando nos conocimos, me odiaba

■ the book was first published in 1990 el libro fue editado por primera vez en 1990

3 (in first place) primero, en primer lugar

■ there are several reasons: first,... hay varias razones: en primer lugar,...

4 (in preference to) antes

■ he said he'd die first dijo que antes, preferiría morir

noun

1 la primera vez

■ it's a first for me too! ¡es la primera vez para mí también!

pronoun

1 el primero, la primera, lo primero

■ Jack was the first to arrive Jack fue el primero en llegar

■ the first I knew about it lo primero que supe

■ that's the first I've heard about it primera noticia

■ Elizabeth I (the First) Isabel I (primera)

noun

1 (first-class degree) ≈ sobresaliente nombre masculino (título universitario que corresponde a la nota más alta)

2 (gear) primera

■ I can't put it into first no puedo meter primera

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

at first al principio

at first sight a primera vista

to come first (in race) llegar el primero 2 (in order) estar primero

first come, first served el que llega primero tiene prioridad

first of all en primer lugar

first thing a primera hora (de la mañana)

first things first lo primero es lo primero

from the first desde el principio

from first to last de principio a fin, desde el principio hasta el final

first aid primeros auxilios nombre masculino plural

first class primera clase nombre femenino

First Communion primera comunión nombre femenino

first floor SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL primer piso 2 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL planta baja

First Lady Primera Dama

first lieutenant teniente nombre masculino de navío

first mate primer oficial nombre masculino

first name nombre nombre masculino de pila

first night estreno

first offender delincuente nombre masculino sin antecedentes

first person SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL primera persona

First World War Primera Guerra Mundial

first ['fərst] adv

1) : primero

finish your homework first: primero termina tu tarea

first and foremost: ante todo

first of all: en primer lugar

2) : por primera vez

I saw it first in Boston: lo vi por primera vez en Boston

first adj

1) : primero

the first time: la primera vez

at first sight: a primera vista

in the first place: en primer lugar

the first ten applicants: los diez primeros candidatos

2) foremost: principal, primero

first tenor: tenor principal

first n

1) : primero m, -ra f (en una serie)

2) : primero m, primera parte f

3) or first gear : primera f

4)

at first : al principio

first

adj.

• delantero, -a adj.

• original adj.

• primer adj.

• primero, -a adj.

• principal adj.

adv.

• primera velocidad adv.

• primero adv.

n.

• primero s.m.

I fɜːrst, fɜːst
adjective

1)

a) ( initial) primero [primero becomes primer when it precedes a masculine singular noun]

the first president of the USA — el primer presidente de los EE UU

Henry I — (léase: Henry the First) Enrique I (read as: Enrique primero)

who's going to be first? — ¿quién va a ser el primero?

our horse was first — nuestro caballo llegó en primer lugar or el primero

first things first — primero lo más importante

b) (in seniority, standing) primero

the first eleven/fifteen — (BrE) el equipo titular

she's first in line to the throne — está primera or es la primera en la línea de sucesión al trono

2) ( elliptical use)

he'll be arriving on the first (of the month) — llegará el primero or (Esp tb) el uno (del mes)

he fell at the first — cayó en la primera valla (or el primer obstáculo etc)

he/she was the first to arrive — fue el primero/la primera en llegar

he came in an easy first — ganó fácilmente

the first she knew about it was when... — la primera noticia que tuvo de ello fue cuando...

3) (in phrases)

at first — al principio

from the first — desde el principio, desde el primer momento

from first to last — de(l) principio a(l) fin

II

adverb

1)

a) ( ahead of others) primero

he came first in the exam — sacó la mejor nota en el examen

which comes first, your family or your career? — ¿para ti qué está primero, tu familia o tu carrera?

I always put my children first — para mí antes que nada or primero están mis hijos

ladies first — primero las damas

first come, first served: tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis — se adjudicará(n) las entradas por riguroso orden de solicitud (or llegada etc)

b) (before other actions, events) primero, en primer lugar

first, I want to thank everyone for coming — en primer lugar or primero quiero agradecerles a todos que hayan venido

c) ( beforehand) antes, primero

d) ( for the first time) por primera vez

when I first met him — cuando lo conocí

e) ( rather) antes

form a coalition? I'd resign first — ¿formar una coalición? antes (que eso) renuncio!

2) (in phrases)

first and foremost — ante todo

first and last — por encima de todo

first of all — en primer lugar, antes que nada

III

noun

a) first (gear) ( Auto) (no art) primera f

b) (original idea, accomplishment) primicia f

another first for Acme Corp — otra primicia de Acme Corp

c) (BrE Educ) nota más alta de la escala de calificaciones de un título universitario

[fɜːst]
1.

ADJ primero; (before m sing n) primer

I was first! — ¡yo iba or estaba primero!

during the first three months of pregnancy — durante los primeros tres meses de embarazo

he felt a bit lonely for the first few days — los primeros días se sentía un poco solo

the first three correct answers win a prize — las tres primeras respuestas correctas se llevan un premio

• at first — al principio

• on the first floor — (Brit) en el primer piso; (US) en la planta baja

• from first to last — de principio a fin

• in the first place — en primer lugar

to win first place — (in competition) conseguir el primer puesto, ganar

• to win first prize — ganar el primer premio

• first strike weapon — arma f de primer golpe

• the first time — la primera vez
instance 1., 2), thing 2)
2. ADV

1) (in place, priority) primero

first one, then another — primero uno, después otro

we arrived first — fuimos los primeros en llegar, llegamos los primeros

ladies first — las señoras primero

women and children first! — ¡las mujeres y los niños primero!

• first of all — ante todo, antes que nada

• to come first — (in race) ganar, llegar el primero; (=have priority) estar primero, tener prioridad

the customer/your homework must come first — el cliente es lo primero/tus deberes son lo primero

• first and foremost — ante todo, antes que nada

• to get in first — (in conversation, process) adelantarse

• you go first! — ¡tú primero!, ¡pasa tú!

• head first — de cabeza

• you have to put your children's needs first — primero están las necesidades de tus hijos

- first come, first served

free tickets, on a first-come-first-served basis — entradas gratis, por riguroso orden de llegada

2) (in time) (=before anything else) primero, antes de nada

first, I need a drink — primero or antes de nada or antes que nada, necesito una copa

first, I don't like it, second, I haven't got the money — lo primero: no me gusta, lo segundo: no dispongo del dinero

• first and last — (=above all) por encima de todo

• first off * — primero de todo, antes de nada

3) (=for the first time) por primera vez

the word was first used in 1835 — la palabra se usó por primera vez en 1835

I first met him in Paris — lo conocí en París

4) (=rather) primero, antes

let him in this house? I'd kill him first! — ¿dejarle pisar esta casa? ¡primero or antes lo mato!

I'd die first! — ¡antes me muero!

3.

PRON

the first of January — el primero de enero, el uno de enero

it's the first I've heard of it — ahora me entero, no lo sabía

Charles the First — Carlos Primero

• he came in an easy first — llegó el primero con ventaja

• from the (very) first — desde el principio

• to be the first to do sth — ser el primero en hacer algo

they were the first to arrive — fueron los primeros en llegar, llegaron los primeros

4. N

1) (Aut) primera f

in first — en primera

2) (Brit) (Univ) ≈ sobresaliente m

he got a first in French — ≈ se ha licenciado en francés con una media de sobresaliente

See:

see cultural note DEGREE in degree

5.

CPD

first aid N — primeros auxilios mpl
first-aid
first aider N — socorrista mf

first base N — (Baseball) primera base f

- not to get to first base

first blood N —

• to draw first blood — anotar el primer tanto

• first blood to sb — primer tanto para algn

first cousin N — primo(-a) m / f hermano(-a)

first degree N — licenciatura f

first edition N — primera edición f ; [of early or rare book] edición f príncipe

first family N (US) [of president] —

the first family — la familia del presidente

first form or year N — (Scol) primer curso de secundaria

first-year student — (Univ) estudiante mf de primer año (de carrera universitaria)

first gear N — (Aut) primera f

first grade N — (US) primero m de primaria; first-grade

first hand N —

• at first hand — directamente

- see sth at first hand

first lady N — (US) primera dama f

the first lady of jazz — la gran dama del jazz

first language N — (=mother tongue) lengua f materna; [of country] lengua f principal

first lieutenant N — (US) (Aer) teniente mf ; (Brit) (Naut) teniente mf de navío

first light N — amanecer m, alba f

• at first light — al amanecer, al alba

first mate N — primer oficial m, primera oficial f

first minister N — (in Scotland) primer(a) ministro(-a) m / f

first name N — nombre m (de pila)

to be on first name terms with sb — tutear a algn

first night N — (Theat) estreno m

first offender N — (Jur) delincuente mf sin antecedentes penales

first officer N — primer oficial m, primera oficial f

first performance N — (Theat, Mus) estreno m

first person N — (Ling) primera persona f

first person plural N (Gram) —

the first person plural — la primera persona del plural

first school N — (Brit) escuela para niños entre cinco y nueve años

first secretary, First Secretary N — (in Wales) primer(a) ministro(-a) m / f de Gales

first violin N — primer violín m, primera violín f

First World N —

the First World — el primer mundo

First World countries NPL — los países del primer mundo

First World War N —

the First World War — la Primera Guerra Mundial

First World War battlefield N — campo m de batalla de la Primera Guerra Mundial

first year N (Scol) — = first form

* * *

I [fɜːrst, fɜːst]
adjective

1)

a) ( initial) primero [primero becomes primer when it precedes a masculine singular noun]

the first president of the USA — el primer presidente de los EE UU

Henry I — (léase: Henry the First) Enrique I (read as: Enrique primero)

who's going to be first? — ¿quién va a ser el primero?

our horse was first — nuestro caballo llegó en primer lugar or el primero

first things first — primero lo más importante

b) (in seniority, standing) primero

the first eleven/fifteen — (BrE) el equipo titular

she's first in line to the throne — está primera or es la primera en la línea de sucesión al trono

2) ( elliptical use)

he'll be arriving on the first (of the month) — llegará el primero or (Esp tb) el uno (del mes)

he fell at the first — cayó en la primera valla (or el primer obstáculo etc)

he/she was the first to arrive — fue el primero/la primera en llegar

he came in an easy first — ganó fácilmente

the first she knew about it was when... — la primera noticia que tuvo de ello fue cuando...

3) (in phrases)

at first — al principio

from the first — desde el principio, desde el primer momento

from first to last — de(l) principio a(l) fin

II

adverb

1)

a) ( ahead of others) primero

he came first in the exam — sacó la mejor nota en el examen

which comes first, your family or your career? — ¿para ti qué está primero, tu familia o tu carrera?

I always put my children first — para mí antes que nada or primero están mis hijos

ladies first — primero las damas

first come, first served: tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis — se adjudicará(n) las entradas por riguroso orden de solicitud (or llegada etc)

b) (before other actions, events) primero, en primer lugar

first, I want to thank everyone for coming — en primer lugar or primero quiero agradecerles a todos que hayan venido

c) ( beforehand) antes, primero

d) ( for the first time) por primera vez

when I first met him — cuando lo conocí

e) ( rather) antes

form a coalition? I'd resign first — ¿formar una coalición? antes (que eso) renuncio!

2) (in phrases)

first and foremost — ante todo

first and last — por encima de todo

first of all — en primer lugar, antes que nada

III

noun

a) first (gear) ( Auto) (no art) primera f

b) (original idea, accomplishment) primicia f

another first for Acme Corp — otra primicia de Acme Corp

c) (BrE Educ) nota más alta de la escala de calificaciones de un título universitario

English-spanish dictionary > first
2 service

(the ships of a country that are employed in trading, and their crews: His son has joined the merchant navy.) marina mercante

service n

1. servicio

the food is good, but the service is slow la comida es buena, pero el servicio es lento

the train service is very good el servicio de trenes es muy bueno

2. oficio religioso

the evening service los oficios de la tarde

3. revisión

my car's got to go in for a service mi coche tiene que hacer la revisión

4. saque

first service! ¡primer saque!

service

tr['sɜːvɪs]

noun

1 (attention to customer) servicio

■ the service here is terribly slow el servicio aquí es muy lento

■ is service included? ¿el servicio está incluido?

2 (organization, system, business) servicio

■ there's a good bus service hay un buen servicio de autobuses

■ there's a 24-hour service hay un servicio permanente, hay un servicio las 24 horas

3 (work, duty) servicio

■ a life of public service una vida de servicio al pueblo

■ he has twenty years' service in the army lleva veinte años de servicio en el ejército

■ he died on active service murió en acto de servicio

■ she went into (domestic) service se puso a trabajar de criada

4 (use) servicio

■ you'll get excellent service from this model este modelo te dará un servicio excelente

■ this machine is not in service esta máquina no funciona

5 (maintenance of car, machine) revisión nombre femenino

6 SMALLRELIGION/SMALL oficio, oficio religioso

■ wedding service ceremonia de boda

7 (of dishes) vajilla; (for tea, coffee) juego

8 (tennis) saque nombre masculino, servicio

9 SMALLLAW/SMALL entrega, citación nombre femenino, notificación nombre femenino

adjective

1 (for use of workers) de servicio

■ service entrance entrada de servicio

2 (military) de militar

■ service family familia de militar

transitive verb

1 (car, machine) revisar, hacer una revisión de

■ I must get the car serviced tengo que llevar el coche a revisión

2 (organization, group) atender, servir

3 (debt, loan) pagar los intereses de

plural noun services

1 (work, act, help) servicios nombre masculino plural

■ the services of a lawyer los servicios de un abogado

■ he was commended for his services to industry lo alabaron por sus servicios a la industria

plural noun the services

1 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL las fuerzas nombre femenino plural armadas

■ which of the services were you in? ¿en qué cuerpo estuviste?

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

at your service a su disposición, para servirle

how can I be of (any) service (to you)? ¿en qué puedo servirle?

it's all part of the service está incluido en el servicio

to do somebody a service hacer un favor a alguien

service area área de servicio

service charge (on bill) servicio 2 (in banking) comisión nombre femenino 3 (for flat) gastos nombre masculino plural de comunidad

service flat apartamento con servicios incluidos

service industry/sector sector nombre masculino de servicios

service road vía de acceso

service station estación nombre femenino de servicio

service ['sərvəs] vt, - viced ; - vicing

1) maintain: darle mantenimiento a (una máquina), revisar

2) repair: arreglar, reparar

service n

1) help, use: servicio m

to do someone a service: hacerle un servicio a alguien

at your service: a sus órdenes

to be out of service: no funcionar

2) ceremony: oficio m (religioso)

3) department, system: servicio m

social services: servicios sociales

train service: servicio de trenes

4) set: juego m, servicio m

tea service: juego de té

5) maintenance: mantenimiento m, revisión f, servicio m

6) : saque m (en deportes)

7)

armed services : fuerzas fpl armadas

service

n.

• entrega s.f.

• juego s.m.

• mantenimiento (Automóvil) s.m.

• misa s.f.

• prestación s.f.

• servicio s.m.

v.

• atender v.

• mantener v.

(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-

fut/c: -tendr-•)

• reparar v.

I 'sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs
noun

1) u

a) (duty, work) servicio m

five years' (length of) service — cinco años de antigüedad or de trabajo

b) ( as domestic servant)

he went into service in 1932 — se puso a trabajar como criado en 1932

c) (given by a tool, machine)

you'll get years of service from this iron — esta plancha le durará años

to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento

2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio m

24-hour emergency service — servicio de emergencia (durante) las 24 horas del día

we no longer require your services — ya no precisamos sus servicios

services 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla

3) c u ( assistance) servicio m

she has done us all a service — nos ha hecho a todos un favor or servicio

my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio

how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?

4) c (organization, system) servicio m

telephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal

the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobusesenes

there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston

5) ( Mil)

the (armed) services — las fuerzas armadas

6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m

service not included — servicio no incluido

7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimiento

service engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento

8) c ( Relig) oficio m religioso

funeral service — funeral m

wedding service — ceremonia f de boda

9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque m

first/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!

to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien

10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f

II

transitive verb

1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a

2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml)

['sɜːvɪs]
1. N

1) (=work)

a) (=period of work) trabajo m

he retired after 50 years' service — se jubiló después de 50 años de trabajo

a middle manager with over 20 years service — un mando medio con más de 20 años de antigüedad (en la empresa)

• he saw service in Egypt — combatió en Egipto

he never saw active service — nunca estuvo en servicio activo

b) (=work provided) servicio m

• the company has a reputation for good service — la empresa tiene fama de dar un buen servicio (a los clientes)

• they offered their services free of charge — ofrecieron sus servicios gratuitamente

• they provide a 24-hour service — proporcionan un servicio de 24 horas

c) (domestic)

• to be in service — ser criado(-a), servir

she was in service at Lord Olton's — era criada or servía en casa de Lord Olton

• to go into service (with sb) — entrar a servir (en casa de algn)

2) (=organization, system) servicio m

• the diplomatic service — el servicio diplomático

• they are attempting to maintain essential services — están intentando mantener en funcionamiento los servicios mínimos

• the postal service — el servicio postal

• rail services were disrupted by the strike — el servicio ferroviario se vio afectado por la huelga

• the train service to Pamplona — el servicio de trenes a Pamplona
secret 3., social 3.
3) (=help, use) servicio m

he was knighted for his services to industry — le concedieron el título de Sir por sus servicios a la industria

he died in the service of his country — murió en acto de servicio a su patria

this machine will give years of service — esta máquina durará años

• Tristram Shandy, at your service! — ¡Tristram Shandy, para servirle or a sus órdenes!

I am at your service — estoy a su disposición

• to be of service — ayudar, servir

how can I be of service? — ¿en qué puedo ayudar or servir?

• the new buses were brought into service in 1995 — los autobuses nuevos entraron en servicio en 1995

• to come into service — [vehicle, weapon] entrar en servicio

• to do sth/sb a service, you have done me a great service — me ha hecho un gran favor, me ha sido de muchísima ayuda

they do their country/profession no service — no hacen ningún favor a su patria/profesión

• to be out of service — (Mech) no funcionar, estar fuera de servicio
community 2.
4) (in hotel, restaurant, shop) servicio m

service not included — servicio no incluido
room 3.
5) services (Econ) (=tertiary sector) sector m terciario or (de) servicios; (on motorway) área f de servicio

6) (Mil)

• service life didn't suit him — la vida militar no le pegaba

• the Services — las fuerzas armadas
military 3., national 3.
7) (Rel) (=mass) misa f ; (other) oficio m (religioso)

I usually go to morning service — normalmente voy a la misa or al oficio matinal
funeral 2., wedding 2.
8) (Aut, Mech) revisión f

the car is in for a service — están revisando el coche, están haciendo una revisión al coche

to send one's car in for a service — mandar el coche a revisar

9) (=set of crockery) vajilla f

• dinner service — vajilla f

• tea service — juego m or servicio m de té

10) (Tennis) servicio m, saque m

• a break of service — una ruptura de servicio

to break sb's service — romper el servicio a or de algn

• to hold/ lose one's service — ganar/perder el servicio

2. VT

1) [+ car] revisar, hacer la revisión a; [+ appliance] realizar el mantenimiento de

2) [+ organization, committee, customers] dar servicio a, proveer de servicios a

3) [+ debt] pagar el interés de

3.

CPD

service area N — (on motorway) área f de servicio

service charge N — (in restaurant) servicio m ; [of flat] gastos mpl de comunidad or de escalera (Sp), gastos mpl comunes (LAm)

service department N — (=repair shop) taller m de reparaciones

service economy N — economía f de servicios

service elevator N (US) — = service lift

service engineer N — técnico(-a) m / f (de mantenimiento)

service families NPL — familias fpl de miembros de las fuerzas armadas

service flat N — (Brit) piso o apartamento con servicio de criada y conserje

service hatch N — ventanilla f de servicio

service history N — [of car] historial m de reparaciones

the car has a full service history — el coche tiene un completo historial de reparaciones

service industry N — (=company) empresa f de servicios

the service industry or industries — el sector terciario or (de) servicios

service lift N — montacargas m inv

service line N — (Tennis) línea f de servicio or saque

service provider N — (Internet) proveedor m de (acceso a) Internet, proveedor m de servicios

service road N — vía f de acceso or de servicio

service sector N — (Econ) sector m terciario or (de) servicios

service station N — gasolinera f, estación f de servicio, bencinera f (Chile), grifo m (Peru)

service tree N — serbal m

service wife N — esposa f de un miembro de las fuerzas armadas

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I ['sɜːrvəs, 'sɜːvɪs]
noun

1) u

a) (duty, work) servicio m

five years' (length of) service — cinco años de antigüedad or de trabajo

b) ( as domestic servant)

he went into service in 1932 — se puso a trabajar como criado en 1932

c) (given by a tool, machine)

you'll get years of service from this iron — esta plancha le durará años

to come into service — entrar en servicio or en funcionamiento

2) u c (of professional, tradesman, company) servicio m

24-hour emergency service — servicio de emergencia (durante) las 24 horas del día

we no longer require your services — ya no precisamos sus servicios

services 1 mile — (BrE) área de servicio a 1 milla

3) c u ( assistance) servicio m

she has done us all a service — nos ha hecho a todos un favor or servicio

my staff are at your service — mis empleados están a sus órdenes or a su entera disposición or a su servicio

how can I be of service to you? — ¿en qué puedo ayudarlo or servirlo?

4) c (organization, system) servicio m

telephone/postal service — servicio telefónico/postal

the bus/rail service — el servicio de autobuses/trenes

there's a daily/an hourly service to Boston — hay un servicio diario/un tren (or autobús etc) cada hora a Boston

5) ( Mil)

the (armed) services — las fuerzas armadas

6) u (in shop, restaurant) servicio m

service not included — servicio no incluido

7) c u (overhaul, maintenance) revisión f, servicio m (AmL), service m (RPl); (before n) <contract, package> de mantenimiento

service engineer — técnico, -ca m,f de mantenimiento

8) c ( Relig) oficio m religioso

funeral service — funeral m

wedding service — ceremonia f de boda

9) c ( in tennis) servicio m, saque m

first/second service! — primer/segundo saque or servicio!

to break somebody's service — romper* el servicio de alguien, romperle* el servicio a alguien

10) c ( dinner service) vajilla f

II

transitive verb

1) (overhaul, maintain) \<\<car\>\> hacerle* una revisión or (AmL) un servicio or (RPl) un service a; \<\<machine/appliance\>\> hacerle* el mantenimiento a

2) ( Fin) \<\<debt/loan\>\> atender* el servicio de (frml)

English-spanish dictionary > service
3 Fulton, Robert

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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b. 14 November 1765 Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

d. 24 February 1815 New York, USA

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American pioneer of steamships and of North American steam navigation.

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The early life of Fulton is documented sparsely; however, it is clear that he was brought up in poor circumstances along with three sisters and one brother by a widowed mother. The War of Independence was raging around them for some years, but despite this it is believed that he spent some time learning the jeweller's trade in Philadelphia and had by then made a name for himself as a miniaturist. Throughout his life he remained skilled with his hands and well able to record technical detail on paper. He witnessed many of the early trials of American steamboats and saw the work of William Henry and John Fitch, and in 1787 he set off for the first time to Europe. For some years he examined steamships in Paris and without doubt saw the Charlotte Dundas on the Forth and Clyde Canal near Glasgow. In 1803 he built a steamship that ran on the Seine at 4 1/2 mph (7.25 km/h), and when it was lost, another to replace it. All his designs were based on principles that had been tried and proved elsewhere, and in this respect he was more of a developer than an inventor. After some time experimenting with submersibles and torpedoes for the British and French governments, in 1806 he returned to the United States. In 1807 he took delivery of the 100 ton displacement paddle steamer Clermont from the yard of Charles Browne of East River, New York. In August of that year it started the passenger services on the Hudson River and this can be claimed as the commencement of world passenger steam navigation. Again the ship was traditional in shape and the machinery was supplied by Messrs Boulton and Watt. This was followed by other ships, including Car of Neptune, Paragon and the world's first steam warship, Demolgos, launched in New York in October 1814 and designed by Fulton for coastal defence and the breaking of the British blockade. His last and finest boat was named Chancellor Livingston after his friend and patron Robert Livingston (1746–1813); the timber hull was launched in 1816, some months after Fulton's death.

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Further Reading

H.P.Spratt, 1958, The Birth of the Steamboat, London: Griffin. J.T.Flexner, 1978, Steamboats Come True, Boston: Little, Brown.

"Robert Fulton and the centenary of steam navigation", Engineer (16 August 1907).

FMW

Biographical history of technology > Fulton, Robert
4 Warren, Henry Ellis

SUBJECT AREA: Horology

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b. 21 May 1872 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

d. 21 September 1957 Ashland, Massachusetts, USA

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American electrical engineer who invented the mains electric synchronous clock.

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Warren studied electrical engineering at the Boston Institute of Technology (later to become the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and graduated in 1894. In 1912 he formed the Warren Electric Clock Company to make a battery-powered clock that he had patented a few years earlier. The name was changed to the Warren Telechron (time at a distance) Company after he had started to produce synchronous clocks.

In 1840 Charles Wheatstone had produced an electric master clock that produced an alternating current with a frequency of one cycle per second and which was used to drive slave dials. This system was not successful, but when Ferranti introduced the first alternating current power generator at Deptford in 1895 Hope-Jones saw in it a means of distributing time. This did not materialize immediately because the power generators did not control the frequency of the current with sufficient accuracy, and a reliable motor whose speed was related to this frequency was not available. In 1916 Warren solved both problems: he produced a reliable self-starting synchronous electric motor and he also made a master clock which could be used at the power station to control accurately the frequency of the supply. Initially the power-generating companies were reluctant to support the synchronous clock because it imposed a liability to control the frequency of the supply and the gain was likely to be small because it was very frugal in its use of power. However, with the advent of the grid system, when several generators were connected together, it became imperative to control the frequency; it was realized that although the power consumption of individual clocks was small, collectively it could be significant as they ran continuously. By the end of the 1930s more than half the clocks sold in the USA were of the synchronous type. The Warren synchronous clock was introduced into Great Britain in 1927, following the setting up of a grid system by the Electricity Commission.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal. American Institute of Electrical Engineers Lamme Medal.

Bibliography

The patents for the synchronous motor are US patent nos. 1,283,432, 1,283,433 and 1,283,435, and those for the master clock are 1,283,431, 1,409,502 and 1,502,493 of 29 October 1918 onwards.

1919, "Utilising the time characteristics of alternating current", Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 38:767–81 (Warren's first description of his system).

Further Reading

J.M.Anderson, 1991, "Henry Ellis Warren and his master clocks", National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Bulletin 33:375–95 (provides biographical and technical details).

DV

Biographical history of technology > Warren, Henry Ellis
5 Edison, Thomas Alva

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA

d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont

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American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.

Further Reading

M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.

R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.

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Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

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