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Seven Years War

  • 1 Seven Years' War

    ◙ n. מלחמת שבע השנים (1756-1763), מלחמה בין מספר מדינות אירופאיות והתוצאה של שני מאבקים חשובים (המאבק בין אנגליה לצרפת על השליטה במושבות בצפון אמריקה והמאבק בין אוסטריה לפרוסיה על השליטה בגרמניה)
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    ◙ (הינמרגב הטילשה לע היסורפל הירטסוא ןיב קבאמהו הקירמא ןופצב תובשומב הטילשה לע תפרצל הילגנא ןיב קבאמה) םיבושח םיקבאמ ינש לש האצותהו תויאפוריא תונידמ רפסמ ןיב המחלמ,(3671-6571) םינשה עבש תמחלמ◄

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  • 2 Seven Years' War

    the subst.
    ( historisk) sjuårskrigen

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  • 3 Seven\ Years'\ War

    Seitsmeaastane sõda

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  • 4 the Seven Years’ War

    the Seven Years’ War
    a guerra dos sete anos.

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  • 5 the Seven Years' War

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  • 6 seven

    seven ['sevən]
    1 noun
    (number, numeral) sept m inv
    sept
    sept;
    ∎ the seven deadly sins les sept péchés mpl capitaux; see also five
    ►► seven seas toutes les mers fpl (du monde);
    ∎ to sail the seven seas parcourir les mers;
    History the Seven Years' War la guerre de Sept Ans
    ✾ Book 'The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' T E Lawrence 'Les Sept piliers de la sagesse'

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  • 7 seven

    1. adjective
    sieben; see also academic.ru/23561/eight">eight 1.
    2. noun
    Sieben, die; see also eight 2. 1), 3), 4)
    * * *
    sev·en
    [ˈsevən]
    I. adj
    1. (number) sieben
    the \seven deadly sins die sieben Todsünden
    to sail the \seven seas die sieben Meere befahren; see also eight I. 1
    2. (age) sieben; see also eight I. 2
    3. (time) sieben
    \seven am/pm sieben Uhr morgens [o früh] /abends [o neunzehn Uhr]
    half past [or BRIT ( fam) half] \seven halb acht
    at \seven thirty um halb acht, um sieben [o neunzehn] Uhr dreißig
    at \seven forty-five um Viertel vor acht [o drei viertel acht]; see also eight I. 3
    II. n
    1. (number, symbol, quantity) Sieben f, Siebener m ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ a.; see also eight II. 1
    2. BRIT (shoe size) [Schuhgröße] 40; AM (shoe size) [Schuhgröße] 38
    3. CARDS Sieben f, Siebener m ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ
    ▪ the \seven die Sieben, der Siebener
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    ['sevn]
    1. adj
    sieben

    he's got the seven-year itch (inf) — er ist im verflixten siebenten Jahr

    2. n
    Sieben f → also six
    See:
    → also six
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    seven [ˈsevn]
    A adj sieben:
    the seven deadly sins die sieben Todsünden;
    seven-league boots Siebenmeilenstiefel;
    the seven seas die sieben Meere;
    the Seven Sisters ASTRON das Siebengestirn;
    the seven-year itch umg (etwa) das verflixte sieb(en)te Jahr;
    the Seven Years’ War HIST der Siebenjährige Krieg; → wonder A 1
    B s Sieben f (Zahl, Spielkarte etc):
    the seven of hearts die Herzsieben;
    by sevens immer sieben auf einmal
    * * *
    1. adjective
    sieben; see also eight 1.
    2. noun
    Sieben, die; see also eight 2. 1), 3), 4)
    * * *
    adj.
    sieben adj.

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  • 8 seven

    [sevn]
    1.
    adjective
    sedem; sedem-;
    2.
    noun
    številka 7, sedmica; sedmerica; ura sedem; sedem let (starosti)
    at sixes and sevens figuratively v neredu, v zmedi
    Seven Sisters astronomy Plejade
    Seven Seas — sedem morij, svetovno morje

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  • 9 seven

    sev.en
    [s'evən] n número sete. • num sete. the seven deadly sins os sete pecados capitais. the seven wonders of the world as sete maravilhas do mundo. the Seven Years’ War a guerra dos sete anos.

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  • 10 семилетний

    прил. of seven years, seven-year( о сроке) ;
    of seven (years), seven-year-old (о возрасте)

    1. (о сроке) seven-year attr., of seven years пocле сущ. ;
    Семилетняя война the Seven Years War;

    2. (о возрасте) seven-year-old;
    of seven после сущ.

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  • 11 Twiss, William

    [br]
    b. 1745
    d. 14 March 1827 Hardon Grange, Bingley, Yorkshire, England.
    [br]
    English army officer and military engineer.
    [br]
    William Twiss entered the Ordnance Department at the age of 15, and in 1762, aged 17, he was appointed Overseer of Works at Gibraltar. At the end of the Seven Years War, in 1763, he was commissioned Ensign in the Engineers, and further promotion followed while he still remained in Gibraltar. In 1771, as a Lieutenant, he returned to England to be employed on Port-smouth's dockyard fortifications. In 1776 he was posted to Canada, where he was soon appointed Controller of Works for the building of a British fleet for Lake Champlain. He was involved in military operations in the American War of Independence and in 1777 was present at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga (New York State). He was taken prisoner shortly afterwards, but was soon exchanged, and a year later he was promoted Captain.
    In 1779 he was given the task of constructing a short canal at Coteau du Lac, Quebec, to bypass rough water at this point in the St Lawrence River between Montreal and Pointe Maligne. This was probably the first locked canal in North America. In 1781, following his appointment as Chief Engineer for all military works in Canada, he supervised further navigational improvements on the St Lawrence with canals at Les Cèdres and the Cascades. In parallel with these projects, he was responsible for an amazing variety of works in Canada, including hospitals, windmills, store-houses, barracks, fortifications, roads, bridges, prisons, ironworks and dams. He was also responsible for a temporary citadel in Quebec.
    In 1783 he returned to England, and from 1794–1810 he served as Lieutenant- Governor of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, although in 1799 he was sent to Holland as Commanding Engineer to the Duke of York. In 1802 he was promoted Colonel and was in Ireland reporting on the defences there. He became Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers, in 1809, and retired two years later. In retirement he was promoted Lieu tenant-General in 1812 and General in 1825.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    W.Porter, 1889–1915, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, London: Longmans.
    JHB

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  • 12 SYW

    1) Разговорное выражение: So You Wanna
    2) Фирменный знак: SoYouWanna.com
    3) Деловая лексика: Start Your Wealth
    4) Расширение файла: Harvard Graphics for Windows Graphics symbols, Yamaha SY-85/SY-99 Wave File
    5) ООН: Seven Years War
    6) Программное обеспечение: Sense Your World! Display Software
    7) СМС: So You Wish

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  • 13 SYWAJ

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  • 14 a cloud of witnesses

    множество свидетелей, очевидцев [этим., библ. Hebrews XII, 1]

    A cloud of witnesses testified to the flagrant conduct of the Americans in trading with the enemy during the Seven Years' War.... (Ch. Beard and M. Beard ‘The Rise of American Civilization’, ch. V) — Множество свидетелей подтвердили своими показаниями возмутительное поведение американцев, которые вели торговлю с противником во время Семилетней войны...

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  • 15 be out of hand

    отбиться от рук, выйти из повиновения, из подчинения, из-под контроля; проявлять непокорность

    Had this youth known that Sylvia would not understand passion so out of hand as this? (J. Galsworthy, ‘The Dark Flower’, part III, ch. VII) — Знал ли этот юноша, что Сильвия не может оценить такую бурную страсть?

    Upon the conclusion of the Seven Years' War in 1763, which definitely crippled the power of France in America and Europe, England decided upon a more drastic policy regarding her American colonies, which were fast getting out of hand, with their expanding commerce and budding industries. (W. Foster, ‘The Negro People in American History’, ch. 4) — По прекращении в 1763 году Семилетней войны, окончательно подорвавшей власть Франции в Америке и Европе, Англия обратилась к более жестокой политике в отношении своих быстро выходивших из подчинения американских колоний с их расширявшейся торговлей и пускавшей первые ростки промышленностью.

    ‘It's a pity that nationalism gets so much out of hand,’ he agreed unhappily. (J. Aldridge, ‘The Last Exile’, ch. LXX) — - Такой разгул национализма - настоящая беда, - произнес Скотт, совсем расстроенный.

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  • 16 Evans, Oliver

    [br]
    b. 13 September 1755 Newport, Delaware, USA
    d. 15 April 1819 New York, USA
    [br]
    American millwright and inventor of the first automatic corn mill.
    [br]
    He was the fifth child of Charles and Ann Stalcrop Evans, and by the age of 15 he had four sisters and seven brothers. Nothing is known of his schooling, but at the age of 17 he was apprenticed to a Newport wheelwright and wagon-maker. At 19 he was enrolled in a Delaware Militia Company in the Revolutionary War but did not see active service. About this time he invented a machine for bending and cutting off the wires in textile carding combs. In July 1782, with his younger brother, Joseph, he moved to Tuckahoe on the eastern shore of the Delaware River, where he had the basic idea of the automatic flour mill. In July 1782, with his elder brothers John and Theophilus, he bought part of his father's Newport farm, on Red Clay Creek, and planned to build a mill there. In 1793 he married Sarah Tomlinson, daughter of a Delaware farmer, and joined his brothers at Red Clay Creek. He worked there for some seven years on his automatic mill, from about 1783 to 1790.
    His system for the automatic flour mill consisted of bucket elevators to raise the grain, a horizontal screw conveyor, other conveying devices and a "hopper boy" to cool and dry the meal before gathering it into a hopper feeding the bolting cylinder. Together these components formed the automatic process, from incoming wheat to outgoing flour packed in barrels. At that time the idea of such automation had not been applied to any manufacturing process in America. The mill opened, on a non-automatic cycle, in 1785. In January 1786 Evans applied to the Delaware legislature for a twenty-five-year patent, which was granted on 30 January 1787 although there was much opposition from the Quaker millers of Wilmington and elsewhere. He also applied for patents in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Hampshire. In May 1789 he went to see the mill of the four Ellicot brothers, near Baltimore, where he was impressed by the design of a horizontal screw conveyor by Jonathan Ellicot and exchanged the rights to his own elevator for those of this machine. After six years' work on his automatic mill, it was completed in 1790. In the autumn of that year a miller in Brandywine ordered a set of Evans's machinery, which set the trend toward its general adoption. A model of it was shown in the Market Street shop window of Robert Leslie, a watch-and clockmaker in Philadelphia, who also took it to England but was unsuccessful in selling the idea there.
    In 1790 the Federal Plant Laws were passed; Evans's patent was the third to come within the new legislation. A detailed description with a plate was published in a Philadelphia newspaper in January 1791, the first of a proposed series, but the paper closed and the series came to nothing. His brother Joseph went on a series of sales trips, with the result that some machinery of Evans's design was adopted. By 1792 over one hundred mills had been equipped with Evans's machinery, the millers paying a royalty of $40 for each pair of millstones in use. The series of articles that had been cut short formed the basis of Evans's The Young Millwright and Miller's Guide, published first in 1795 after Evans had moved to Philadelphia to set up a store selling milling supplies; it was 440 pages long and ran to fifteen editions between 1795 and 1860.
    Evans was fairly successful as a merchant. He patented a method of making millstones as well as a means of packing flour in barrels, the latter having a disc pressed down by a toggle-joint arrangement. In 1801 he started to build a steam carriage. He rejected the idea of a steam wheel and of a low-pressure or atmospheric engine. By 1803 his first engine was running at his store, driving a screw-mill working on plaster of Paris for making millstones. The engine had a 6 in. (15 cm) diameter cylinder with a stroke of 18 in. (45 cm) and also drove twelve saws mounted in a frame and cutting marble slabs at a rate of 100 ft (30 m) in twelve hours. He was granted a patent in the spring of 1804. He became involved in a number of lawsuits following the extension of his patent, particularly as he increased the licence fee, sometimes as much as sixfold. The case of Evans v. Samuel Robinson, which Evans won, became famous and was one of these. Patent Right Oppression Exposed, or Knavery Detected, a 200-page book with poems and prose included, was published soon after this case and was probably written by Oliver Evans. The steam engine patent was also extended for a further seven years, but in this case the licence fee was to remain at a fixed level. Evans anticipated Edison in his proposal for an "Experimental Company" or "Mechanical Bureau" with a capital of thirty shares of $100 each. It came to nothing, however, as there were no takers. His first wife, Sarah, died in 1816 and he remarried, to Hetty Ward, the daughter of a New York innkeeper. He was buried in the Bowery, on Lower Manhattan; the church was sold in 1854 and again in 1890, and when no relative claimed his body he was reburied in an unmarked grave in Trinity Cemetery, 57th Street, Broadway.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    E.S.Ferguson, 1980, Oliver Evans: Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution, Hagley Museum.
    G.Bathe and D.Bathe, 1935, Oliver Evans: Chronicle of Early American Engineering, Philadelphia, Pa.
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  • 17 Ewing, Sir James Alfred

    [br]
    b. 27 March 1855 Dundee, Scotland
    d. 1935
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and educator.
    [br]
    Sir Alfred Ewing was one of the leading engineering academics of his generation. He was the son of a minister in the Free Church of Scotland, and was educated at Dundee High School and Edinburgh University, where he studied engineering under Professor Fleeming Jenkin. On Jenkin's nomination, Ewing was recruited as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tokyo, where he spent five years from 1878 to 1883. While in Tokyo, he devised an instrument for measuring and recording earthquakes. Ewing returned to his home town of Dundee in 1883, as the first Professor of Engineering at the University College recently established there. After seven years building up the department in Dundee, he moved to Cambridge where he succeeded James Stuart as Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics. In thirteen creative years at Cambridge, he established the Engineering Tripos (1892) and founded the first engineering laboratories at the University (1894). From 1903 to 1917 Ewing served the Admiralty as Director of Naval Education, in which role he took a leading part in the revolution in British naval traditions which equipped the Royal Navy to fight the First World War. In that war, Ewing made an important contribution to the intelligence operation of deciphering enemy wireless messages. In 1916 he returned to Edinburgh as Principal and Vice-Chancellor, and following the war he presided over a period of rapid expansion at the University. He retired in 1929.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1887. KCB 1911. President, British Association for the Advancement of Science 1932.
    Bibliography
    He wrote extensively on technical subjects, and his works included Thermodynamics for Engineers (1920). His many essays and papers on more general subjects are elegantly and attractively written.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography Supplement.
    A.W.Ewing, 1939, Life of Sir Alfred Ewing (biography by his son).
    AB

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  • 18 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

    [br]
    b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, England
    d. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England
    [br]
    English civil and mechanical engineer.
    [br]
    The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.
    From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).
    Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).
    The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.
    Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.
    As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.
    The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).
    The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.
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  • 19 plenty

    1. noun, no pl.

    plenty of — viel; eine Menge; (coll.): (enough) genug

    2. adjective
    (coll.) reichlich vorhanden
    3. adverb
    (coll.)

    it's plenty large enough — es ist groß genug

    there's plenty more where this/those etc. came from — es ist noch genug da (ugs.)

    * * *
    ['plenti] 1. pronoun
    1) (a sufficient amount; enough: I don't need any more books - I've got plenty; We've got plenty of time to get there.) reichlich
    2) (a large amount: He's got plenty of money.) reichlich
    2. adjective
    That's plenty, thank you!) reichlich
    - academic.ru/56180/plenteous">plenteous
    - plentiful
    * * *
    plen·ty
    [ˈplenti, AM -t̬-]
    I. n no pl ( form: abundance) Reichtum m
    such natural phenomena as famine and \plenty Naturphänomene wie Hunger und Überfluss
    food in \plenty Nahrung in Hülle und Fülle
    a land of \plenty ein Land nt, wo Milch und Honig fließen prov
    the land of \plenty das Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten
    a time of \plenty üppige Jahre
    seven years of \plenty REL sieben fette Jahre
    to live in \plenty im Überfluss leben
    II. adv inv ( fam)
    I'm \plenty warm enough, thank you mir ist warm genug, fast schon zu warm, danke
    the house is \plenty big enough das Hause ist mehr als groß genug
    \plenty more noch viel mehr
    there's \plenty more beer in the fridge es ist noch mehr als genug Bier im Kühlschrank
    she has \plenty more ideas sie hat noch viele Ideen
    there are \plenty more where he/she came from ( pej) wo er/sie herkommt, gibt's noch mehr davon fam
    I hear you broke up with her — yeah, but there are \plenty more where she came from ich habe gehört, du hast mit ihr Schluss gemacht — ja, aber andere Mütter haben auch schöne Töchter hum
    \plenty good/bad AM sehr gut/schlecht
    III. pron
    1. (more than enough) mehr als genug
    there's still \plenty of storage space in the attic auf dem Dachboden kann man noch eine Menge unterbringen
    he's had \plenty of opportunities to apologize er hatte reichlich Gelegenheiten, sich zu entschuldigen
    I spent an hour with them one day and that was \plenty ich verbrachte einmal eine Stunde mit ihnen, und das war mehr als genug
    \plenty of money/time viel Geld/Zeit
    we've got \plenty of time before we need to leave for the airport wir haben noch jede Menge Zeit, bevor wir zum Flughafen fahren müssen
    2. (a lot) genug
    do we have problems? — yeah, we've got \plenty haben wir Probleme? — ja, allerdings!
    you'll have \plenty to keep you busy du hast genug Beschäftigung
    there's \plenty of work to be done wir haben [o es gibt] viel Arbeit zu erledigen
    this car cost me \plenty AM ( fam) dieses Auto hat mich eine Stange Geld gekostet fam
    IV. adj inv DIAL ( fam) viel
    there was \plenty room es gab genug Platz
    * * *
    ['plentɪ]
    1. n

    land of plenty — Land des Überflusses

    times of plenty — Zeiten pl des Überflusses, fette Jahre pl (Bibl)

    that's plenty, thanks! — danke, das ist reichlich

    I met him once, and that was plenty! — ich habe ihn nur einmal getroffen und das hat mir gereicht!

    I've got plenty to do —

    have I got problems? I've got plenty — ob ich Probleme habe? mehr als genug!

    there's plenty more where that came from —

    take plenty — nimm dir or bedien dich reichlich

    2)

    plenty of — viel, eine Menge

    plenty of time/milk — viel Zeit/Milch, eine Menge Zeit/Milch

    plenty of eggs/reasons — viele Eier/Gründe, eine Menge Eier/Gründe

    there is no longer plenty of oil — Öl ist nicht mehr im Überfluss vorhanden

    we arrived in plenty of time to get a good seat — wir kamen so rechtzeitig, dass wir einen guten Platz kriegten

    don't worry, there's plenty of time — keine Angst, es ist noch genug or viel Zeit

    2. adj (US inf)
    reichlich
    3. adv (esp US inf)

    he's plenty mean —

    sure, I like it plenty — sicher, ich mag das sehr

    * * *
    plenty [ˈplentı]
    A s Fülle f, Überfluss m, Reichtum m ( alle:
    of an dat):
    years of plenty Jahre des Überflusses;
    have plenty of sth mit etwas reichlich versehen sein, etwas in Hülle und Fülle haben;
    in plenty im Überfluss;
    plenty of money (time) eine Menge oder (sehr) viel Geld (Zeit);
    plenty of times sehr oft; → horn A 6
    B pron genug, reichlich:
    that’s plenty das genügt, das reicht
    C adv umg
    1. bei Weitem (oft unübersetzt):
    2. US mächtig, ganz schön:
    * * *
    1. noun, no pl.

    plenty of — viel; eine Menge; (coll.): (enough) genug

    2. adjective
    (coll.) reichlich vorhanden
    3. adverb
    (coll.)

    there's plenty more where this/those etc. came from — es ist noch genug da (ugs.)

    * * *
    n.
    Fülle nur sing. f.
    Menge -n f.
    Überfluss m.

    English-german dictionary > plenty

  • 20 Du Cane, Peter

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. England
    d. 31 October 1984
    [br]
    English engineer, one of the foremost designers of small high-speed ships.
    [br]
    Peter Du Cane was appointed a midshipman in the Royal Navy in 1913, having commenced as a cadet at the tender age of 13. At the end of the First World War he transferred to the engineering branch and was posted ultimately to the Yangtze River gunboat fleet. In 1928 he resigned, trained as a pilot and then joined the shipbuilders Vosper Ltd of Portsmouth. For thirty-five years he held the posts of Managing Director and Chief Designer, developing the company's expertise in high-speed, small warships, pleasure craft and record breakers. During the Second World War the company designed and built many motor torpedo-boats, air-sea rescue craft and similar ships. Du Cane served for some months in the Navy, but at the request of the Government he returned to his post in the shipyard. The most glamorous products of the yard were the record breakers Bluebird II, with which Malcolm Campbell took the world water speed record in 1939, and the later Crusader, in which John Cobb lost his life. Despite this blow the company went from strength to strength, producing the epic Brave class fast patrol craft for the Royal Navy, which led to export orders. In 1966 the yard merged with John I.Thornycroft Ltd. Commander Du Cane retired seven years later.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Commander of the Royal Navy. CBE 1965.
    Bibliography
    1951, High Speed Small Craft, London: Temple Press.
    Further Reading
    C.Dawson, 1972, A Quest for Speed at Sea, London: Hutchinson.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Du Cane, Peter

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