Singer Machine

SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors, Textiles

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The son of a millwright, Singer was employed as an unskilled labourer at the age of 12, but later gained wide experience as a travelling machinist. He also found employment as an actor. On 16 May 1839, while living at Lockport, Illinois, he obtained his first patent for a rock-drilling machine, but he soon squandered the money he made. Then in 1849, while at Pittsburgh, he secured a patent for a wood-and metal-carving machine that he had begun five years previously; however, a boiler explosion in the factory destroyed his machine and left him penniless.

Near the end of 1850 Singer was engaged to redesign the Lerow \& Blodgett sewing machine at the Boston shop of Orson C.Phelps, where the machine was being repaired. He built an improved version in eleven days that was sufficiently different for him to patent on 12 August 1851. He formed a partnership with Phelps and G.B. Zieber and they began to market the invention. Singer soon purchased Phelps's interest, although Phelps continued to manufacture the machines. Then Edward Clark acquired a one-third interest and with Singer bought out Zieber. These two, with dark's flair for promotion and marketing, began to create a company which eventually would become the largest manufacturer of sewing machines exported worldwide, with subsidiary factories in England.

However, first Singer had to defend his patent, which was challenged by an earlier Boston inventor, Elias Howe. Although after a long lawsuit Singer had to pay royalties, it was the Singer machine which eventually captured the market because it could do continuous stitching. In 1856 the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important pooling arrangement in American history, was formed to share the various patents so that machines could be built without infringements and manufacture could be expanded without fear of litigation. Singer contributed his monopoly on the needle-bar cam with his 1851 patent. He secured twenty additional patents, so that his original straight-needle vertical design for lock-stitching eventually included such refinements as a continuous wheel-feed, yielding presser-foot, and improved cam for moving the needle-bar. A new model, introduced in 1856, was the first to be intended solely for use in the home.

Initially Phelps made all the machines for Singer. Then a works was established in New York where the parts were assembled by skilled workers through filing and fitting. Each machine was therefore a "one-off" but Singer machines were always advertised as the best on the market and sold at correspondingly high prices. Gradually, more specialized machine tools were acquired, but it was not until long after Singer had retired to Europe in 1863 that Clark made the change to mass production. Sales of machines numbered 810 in 1853 and 21,000 ten years later.

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1) Общая лексика: singlemode

2) Компьютерная техника: Scheduler Message, Set Mode, Small Machine, Smart Media, Software Modem, Spell Menu, Super Mini

3) Биология: Master of Science

4) Авиация: сухопутная миля, statute mile (1, 6 км)

5) Американизм: Sado Masochistic, Simple Majority

6) Спорт: Score Of Matching, Super Mongo

7) Латинский язык: Sclerosis multiplex

8) Военный термин: Memorandum by the Secretary, JCS, Sadism Masochism, Salvage Mechanic, Security Monitor, Selection Mechanism, Service Mode, Sixteen Millimetre, Smart Modules, Soldier's Medal, Standard missile, Statute Mile, Submariner, Survey Methods, System Monitor, sappers and miners, secretary's memorandum, security manual, sergeant-major, service manual, service member, shell model, shelter management, shop maintenance, simulated missile, simulation model, single manager, situation map, soldier's manual, special memorandum, staff memorandum, state militia, storage mark, strategic missile, supply manual, support munitions, surface missile, system manager, Staff Month (20 Days)

9) Техника: scan mode, scanning mode, scattering matrix, scheduled maintenance, security manager, servomotor, shift manager, shuttle management, signal master, signalman, space mirror, space multiplexing, stationary medium, step motor, stepping motor, studio microphone, submarine, supply and maintenance, supporting members, switch memory, военное обозначение моделирующих устройств и тренажёров, Soling Machine (shoes)

10) Математика: матрица рассеяния (scatter matrix), многошаговая максимизация (stepwise maximization), симплекс-метод (simplex method), симплексный метод (simplex method)

11) Религия: Scripture Mastery

12) Метеорология: Sailor Moon, Simple Model, Solar Modulation

13) Железнодорожный термин: St. Marys Railroad Company

14) Юридический термин: Sadism And Masochism, Sado Masochism, Simple Monopoly

15) Грубое выражение: Sexual Magic, Stupid Movement

16) Оптика: single mode

17) Политика: San Marino

18) Телекоммуникации: Switching Module (AT&T 5ESS)

19) Сокращение: Samoan, Sandeep Metalcraft Pvt Ltd (India), Saturday Morning, Service Mark, Simulation Module, Smoke, Special Mission (USA), Svenska Marinen, sales manager, sausages and mashed potatoes, smoothing, sihgle-mode

20) Текстиль: Small Medium

21) Университет: Student Mail, Student Miss, Supplementary Materials

22) Электроника: Stress Migration, (surface mount) поверхностный монтаж

23) Вычислительная техника: services mark, память второго уровня, Sparse Mode (PIM, Multicast), Smart Media (card), вторичная память

24) Нефть: surface measurement, планово-предупредительное техническое обслуживание (scheduled maintenance), снабжение и техническое обслуживание (supply and maintenance), техническое обслуживание в ремонтной мастерской (shop maintenance)

25) Иммунология: smooth muscle

26) Космонавтика: Structural Model Programme, служебный модуль

27) Картография: saw mill

28) Транспорт: Side Mounted

29) Пищевая промышленность: (skim milk) обезжиренное молоко

30) Силикатное производство: silica modulus

31) Фирменный знак: Saama, Samsung Motors, Singer Machine, Stone Mill

32) Деловая лексика: Standard Model

33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: square meter

34) Нефтепромысловый: (Scheduled Maintenance) ПТО (плановое техническое обслуживание)

35) Производство: Site Management (организация работы производственной площадки)

36) Сетевые технологии: Smart Card, secondary memory, shared memory, разделяемая память, установить режим, Sparse Mode, уплотнённый режим

37) Сахалин Ю: steam medium pressure

38) Химическое оружие: Subcontractor Management

39) Авиационная медицина: sensory-motor task

40) Расширение файла: Smalltalk language source code file, Text document (Samna Word), Script (ScriptMaker)

41) Нефть и газ: submersible motor

42) Электротехника: stability margin, synchronous machine

43) Имена и фамилии: Shawn Michaels, Stephen Marshall, Steven Mead

44) Должность: Safety Management, Single Mom, Stage Manager, Sub Manager, Supreme Master

45) Чат: Simply Marvelous, Stupid Mother

46) NYSE. Sulzer Medica

47) НАСА: Structural Model, Surface Mount, Service Module (Apollo)

48) Программное обеспечение: Storage Manager

49) Федеральное бюро расследований: Security Matter, Summary

50) СМС: See Message

1) Общая лексика: singlemode

2) Компьютерная техника: Scheduler Message, Set Mode, Small Machine, Smart Media, Software Modem, Spell Menu, Super Mini

3) Биология: Master of Science

4) Авиация: сухопутная миля, statute mile (1, 6 км)

5) Американизм: Sado Masochistic, Simple Majority

6) Спорт: Score Of Matching, Super Mongo

7) Латинский язык: Sclerosis multiplex

8) Военный термин: Memorandum by the Secretary, JCS, Sadism Masochism, Salvage Mechanic, Security Monitor, Selection Mechanism, Service Mode, Sixteen Millimetre, Smart Modules, Soldier's Medal, Standard missile, Statute Mile, Submariner, Survey Methods, System Monitor, sappers and miners, secretary's memorandum, security manual, sergeant-major, service manual, service member, shell model, shelter management, shop maintenance, simulated missile, simulation model, single manager, situation map, soldier's manual, special memorandum, staff memorandum, state militia, storage mark, strategic missile, supply manual, support munitions, surface missile, system manager, Staff Month (20 Days)

9) Техника: scan mode, scanning mode, scattering matrix, scheduled maintenance, security manager, servomotor, shift manager, shuttle management, signal master, signalman, space mirror, space multiplexing, stationary medium, step motor, stepping motor, studio microphone, submarine, supply and maintenance, supporting members, switch memory, военное обозначение моделирующих устройств и тренажёров, Soling Machine (shoes)

10) Математика: матрица рассеяния (scatter matrix), многошаговая максимизация (stepwise maximization), симплекс-метод (simplex method), симплексный метод (simplex method)

11) Религия: Scripture Mastery

12) Метеорология: Sailor Moon, Simple Model, Solar Modulation

13) Железнодорожный термин: St. Marys Railroad Company

14) Юридический термин: Sadism And Masochism, Sado Masochism, Simple Monopoly

15) Грубое выражение: Sexual Magic, Stupid Movement

16) Оптика: single mode

17) Политика: San Marino

18) Телекоммуникации: Switching Module (AT&T 5ESS)

19) Сокращение: Samoan, Sandeep Metalcraft Pvt Ltd (India), Saturday Morning, Service Mark, Simulation Module, Smoke, Special Mission (USA), Svenska Marinen, sales manager, sausages and mashed potatoes, smoothing, sihgle-mode

20) Текстиль: Small Medium

21) Университет: Student Mail, Student Miss, Supplementary Materials

22) Электроника: Stress Migration, (surface mount) поверхностный монтаж

23) Вычислительная техника: services mark, память второго уровня, Sparse Mode (PIM, Multicast), Smart Media (card), вторичная память

24) Нефть: surface measurement, планово-предупредительное техническое обслуживание (scheduled maintenance), снабжение и техническое обслуживание (supply and maintenance), техническое обслуживание в ремонтной мастерской (shop maintenance)

25) Иммунология: smooth muscle

26) Космонавтика: Structural Model Programme, служебный модуль

27) Картография: saw mill

28) Транспорт: Side Mounted

29) Пищевая промышленность: (skim milk) обезжиренное молоко

30) Силикатное производство: silica modulus

31) Фирменный знак: Saama, Samsung Motors, Singer Machine, Stone Mill

32) Деловая лексика: Standard Model

33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: square meter

34) Нефтепромысловый: (Scheduled Maintenance) ПТО (плановое техническое обслуживание)

35) Производство: Site Management (организация работы производственной площадки)

36) Сетевые технологии: Smart Card, secondary memory, shared memory, разделяемая память, установить режим, Sparse Mode, уплотнённый режим

37) Сахалин Ю: steam medium pressure

38) Химическое оружие: Subcontractor Management

39) Авиационная медицина: sensory-motor task

40) Расширение файла: Smalltalk language source code file, Text document (Samna Word), Script (ScriptMaker)

41) Нефть и газ: submersible motor

42) Электротехника: stability margin, synchronous machine

43) Имена и фамилии: Shawn Michaels, Stephen Marshall, Steven Mead

44) Должность: Safety Management, Single Mom, Stage Manager, Sub Manager, Supreme Master

45) Чат: Simply Marvelous, Stupid Mother

46) NYSE. Sulzer Medica

47) НАСА: Structural Model, Surface Mount, Service Module (Apollo)

48) Программное обеспечение: Storage Manager

49) Федеральное бюро расследований: Security Matter, Summary

50) СМС: See Message

1) Общая лексика: singlemode

2) Компьютерная техника: Scheduler Message, Set Mode, Small Machine, Smart Media, Software Modem, Spell Menu, Super Mini

3) Биология: Master of Science

4) Авиация: сухопутная миля, statute mile (1, 6 км)

5) Американизм: Sado Masochistic, Simple Majority

6) Спорт: Score Of Matching, Super Mongo

7) Латинский язык: Sclerosis multiplex

8) Военный термин: Memorandum by the Secretary, JCS, Sadism Masochism, Salvage Mechanic, Security Monitor, Selection Mechanism, Service Mode, Sixteen Millimetre, Smart Modules, Soldier's Medal, Standard missile, Statute Mile, Submariner, Survey Methods, System Monitor, sappers and miners, secretary's memorandum, security manual, sergeant-major, service manual, service member, shell model, shelter management, shop maintenance, simulated missile, simulation model, single manager, situation map, soldier's manual, special memorandum, staff memorandum, state militia, storage mark, strategic missile, supply manual, support munitions, surface missile, system manager, Staff Month (20 Days)

9) Техника: scan mode, scanning mode, scattering matrix, scheduled maintenance, security manager, servomotor, shift manager, shuttle management, signal master, signalman, space mirror, space multiplexing, stationary medium, step motor, stepping motor, studio microphone, submarine, supply and maintenance, supporting members, switch memory, военное обозначение моделирующих устройств и тренажёров, Soling Machine (shoes)

10) Математика: матрица рассеяния (scatter matrix), многошаговая максимизация (stepwise maximization), симплекс-метод (simplex method), симплексный метод (simplex method)

11) Религия: Scripture Mastery

12) Метеорология: Sailor Moon, Simple Model, Solar Modulation

13) Железнодорожный термин: St. Marys Railroad Company

14) Юридический термин: Sadism And Masochism, Sado Masochism, Simple Monopoly

15) Грубое выражение: Sexual Magic, Stupid Movement

16) Оптика: single mode

17) Политика: San Marino

18) Телекоммуникации: Switching Module (AT&T 5ESS)

19) Сокращение: Samoan, Sandeep Metalcraft Pvt Ltd (India), Saturday Morning, Service Mark, Simulation Module, Smoke, Special Mission (USA), Svenska Marinen, sales manager, sausages and mashed potatoes, smoothing, sihgle-mode

20) Текстиль: Small Medium

21) Университет: Student Mail, Student Miss, Supplementary Materials

22) Электроника: Stress Migration, (surface mount) поверхностный монтаж

23) Вычислительная техника: services mark, память второго уровня, Sparse Mode (PIM, Multicast), Smart Media (card), вторичная память

24) Нефть: surface measurement, планово-предупредительное техническое обслуживание (scheduled maintenance), снабжение и техническое обслуживание (supply and maintenance), техническое обслуживание в ремонтной мастерской (shop maintenance)

25) Иммунология: smooth muscle

26) Космонавтика: Structural Model Programme, служебный модуль

27) Картография: saw mill

28) Транспорт: Side Mounted

29) Пищевая промышленность: (skim milk) обезжиренное молоко

30) Силикатное производство: silica modulus

31) Фирменный знак: Saama, Samsung Motors, Singer Machine, Stone Mill

32) Деловая лексика: Standard Model

33) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: square meter

34) Нефтепромысловый: (Scheduled Maintenance) ПТО (плановое техническое обслуживание)

35) Производство: Site Management (организация работы производственной площадки)

36) Сетевые технологии: Smart Card, secondary memory, shared memory, разделяемая память, установить режим, Sparse Mode, уплотнённый режим

37) Сахалин Ю: steam medium pressure

38) Химическое оружие: Subcontractor Management

39) Авиационная медицина: sensory-motor task

40) Расширение файла: Smalltalk language source code file, Text document (Samna Word), Script (ScriptMaker)

41) Нефть и газ: submersible motor

42) Электротехника: stability margin, synchronous machine

43) Имена и фамилии: Shawn Michaels, Stephen Marshall, Steven Mead

44) Должность: Safety Management, Single Mom, Stage Manager, Sub Manager, Supreme Master

45) Чат: Simply Marvelous, Stupid Mother

46) NYSE. Sulzer Medica

47) НАСА: Structural Model, Surface Mount, Service Module (Apollo)

48) Программное обеспечение: Storage Manager

49) Федеральное бюро расследований: Security Matter, Summary

50) СМС: See Message

SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors

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Born in upstate New York, where his father was a small manufacturer, Edward Clark attended college at Williams and graduated in 1831. He became a lawyer in New York City and from then on lived either in the city or on his rural estate near Cooperstown in upstate New York. After a series of share manipulations, Clark acquired a one-third interest in Isaac M. Singer's company. They soon bought out one of Singer's earlier partners, G.B.Zeiber, and in 1851, under the name of I.M.Singer \& Co., they set up a permanent sewing machine business with headquarters in New York.

The success of their firm initially rested on marketing. Clark introduced door-to-door sales-people and hire-purchase for their sewing machines in 1856 ($50 cash down, or $100 with a cash payment of $5 and $3 a month thereafter). He also trained women to demonstrate to potential customers the capabilities of the Singer sewing machine. At first their sewing machines continued to be made in the traditional way, with the parts fitted together by skilled workers through hand filing and shaping so that the parts would fit only onto one machine. This resembled European practice rather than the American system of manufacture that had been pioneered in the armouries in that country. In 1856 Singer brought out their first machine intended exclusively for home use, and at the same time manufacturing capacity was improved. Through increased sales, a new factory was built in 1858–9 on Mott Street, New York, but it soon became inadequate to meet demand.

In 1863 the Singer company was incorporated as the Singer Manufacturing Co. and began to modernize its production methods with special jigs and fixtures to help ensure uniformity. More and more specialized machinery was built for making the parts. By 1880 the factory, then at Elizabethport, New Jersey, was jammed with automatic and semi-automatic machine tools. In 1882 the factory was producing sewing machines with fully interchangeable parts that did not require hand fitting in assembly. Production rose from 810 machines in 1853 to half a million in 1880. A new family model was introduced in 1881. Clark had succeeded Singer, who died in 1875, as President of the company, but he retired in 1882 after he had seen through the change to mass production.

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SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors, Textiles

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Son of Elias Howe, a farmer, he acquired his mechanical knowledge in his father's mill. He left school at 12 years of age and was apprenticed for two years in a machine shop in Lowell, Massachusetts, and later to an instrument maker, Ari Davis in Boston, Massachusetts, where his master's services were much in demand by Harvard University. Fired by a desire to invent a sewing machine, he utilized the experience gained in Lowell to devise a shuttle carrying a lower thread and a needle carrying an upper thread to make lock-stitch in straight lines. His attempts were so rewarding that he left his job and was sustained first by his father and then by a partner. By 1845 he had built a machine that worked at 250 stitches per minute, and the following year he patented an improved machine. The invention of the sewing machine had an enormous impact on the textile industry, stimulating demand for cloth because making up garments became so much quicker. The sewing machine was one of the first mass-produced consumer durables and was essentially an American invention. William Thomas, a London manufacturer of shoes, umbrellas and corsets, secured the British rights and persuaded Howe to come to England to apply it to the making of shoes. This Howe did, but he quarrelled with Thomas after less than one year. He returned to America to face with his partner, G.W.Bliss, a bigger fight over his patent (see I.M. Singer), which was being widely infringed. Not until 1854 was the case settled in his favour. This litigation threatened the very existence of the new industry, but the Great Sewing Machine Combination, the first important patent-pooling arrangement in American history, changed all this. For a fee of $5 on every domestically-sold machine and $1 on every exported one, Howe contributed to the pool his patent of 1846 for a grooved eye-pointed needle used in conjunction with a lock-stitch-forming shuttle. Howe's patent was renewed in 1861; he organized and equipped a regiment during the Civil War with the royalties. When the war ended he founded the Howe Machine Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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1) (to do, especially with care or as a duty: The doctor performed the operation.) realizar, efectuar, ejecutar

2) (to act (in the theatre etc) or do anything musical, theatrical etc to entertain an audience: The company will perform a Greek play; She performed on the violin.) representar

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- performance

perform vb

1. representar / interpretar

2. responder / rendir / obtener buenos resultados

tr[pə'fɔːm]

transitive verb

1 (task) ejecutar, llevar a cabo; (function) desempeñar, hacer, cumplir; (experiment) realizar; (operation) practicar; (miracle) hacer

2 (piece of music) interpretar, tocar; (song) cantar; (play) representar, dar; (role) interpretar, representar; (sumersault, trick) hacer, ejecutar

intransitive verb

1 (actor) actuar; (singer) cantar; (musician) tocar, interpretar; (dancer) bailar; (company) dar una representación

2 (machine) funcionar, marchar; (car) andar, ir; (person) trabajar

perform [pər'fɔrm] vt

1) carry out: realizar, hacer, desempeñar

2) present: representar, dar (una obra teatral, etc.)

perform vi

: actuar (en una obra teatral), cantar (en una ópera, etc.), tocar (en un concierto, etc.), bailar (en un ballet, etc.)

• actuar v.

• celebrar v.

• cumplir v.

• desempeñar v.

• efectuar v.

• ejecutar v.

• funcionar v.

• hacer v.

(§pres: hago, haces...) pret: hic-

• interpretar v.

• obrar v.

• practicar v.

• realizar v.

• representar v.

• tocar v.

1) (Mus, Theat) \<\<actor/comedian\>\> actuar*, trabajar; \<\<singer\>\> cantar; \<\<musician\>\> tocar*; \<\<dancer\>\> bailar

2) (work, produce results) \<\<student/worker\>\> rendir*, trabajar; \<\<team/athlete/vehicle\>\> responder; \<\<company/stocks\>\> rendir*; \<\<economy\>\> marchar

1) (Mus, Theat) \<\<play\>\> representar, dar*; \<\<role\>\> interpretar, representar; \<\<aria\>\> interpretar, cantar; \<\<symphony\>\> tocar*, interpretar, ejecutar

2) (carry out, fulfill) \<\<function\>\> desempeñar, cumplir; \<\<role\>\> desempeñar; \<\<task\>\> ejecutar, llevar a cabo; \<\<experiment\>\> realizar*; \<\<ceremony\>\> celebrar; \<\<rites\>\> practicar*

1. VT

1) (Theat, Mus) [+ play] representar; [+ part, piece, song, dance] interpretar

2) (=carry out) [+ task, experiment, feat] realizar, llevar a cabo; [+ operation, autopsy] practicar, realizar, llevar a cabo; [+ duty] cumplir con; [+ function, role] desempeñar, cumplir; [+ rite, ritual, ceremony] celebrar; [+ miracle] realizar, hacer

2. VI

1) (Theat, Mus) [entertainer, actor] actuar; [musician] tocar; [orchestra, pop group] actuar, tocar; [singer] cantar; [dancer] bailar; [trained animal] hacer trucos, realizar trucos

2) (=respond, behave) [vehicle, machine] responder, funcionar; [team, athlete, horse] responder; [investment, shares] rendir; [metal, material] comportarse; [worker] (=be productive) rendir; (=react) responder

3) * esp hum (=go to toilet) [child, dog] hacer sus menesteres

4) * (sexually) cumplir *

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1) (Mus, Theat) \<\<actor/comedian\>\> actuar*, trabajar; \<\<singer\>\> cantar; \<\<musician\>\> tocar*; \<\<dancer\>\> bailar

2) (work, produce results) \<\<student/worker\>\> rendir*, trabajar; \<\<team/athlete/vehicle\>\> responder; \<\<company/stocks\>\> rendir*; \<\<economy\>\> marchar

1) (Mus, Theat) \<\<play\>\> representar, dar*; \<\<role\>\> interpretar, representar; \<\<aria\>\> interpretar, cantar; \<\<symphony\>\> tocar*, interpretar, ejecutar

2) (carry out, fulfill) \<\<function\>\> desempeñar, cumplir; \<\<role\>\> desempeñar; \<\<task\>\> ejecutar, llevar a cabo; \<\<experiment\>\> realizar*; \<\<ceremony\>\> celebrar; \<\<rites\>\> practicar*

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Heathcote was the son of a small farmer who became blind, obliging the family to move to Long Whatton, near Loughborough, c.1790. He was apprenticed to W.Shepherd, a hosiery-machine maker, and became a frame-smith in the hosiery industry. He moved to Nottingham where he entered the employment of an excellent machine maker named Elliott. He later joined William Caldwell of Hathern, whose daughter he had married. The lace-making apparatus they patented jointly in 1804 had already been anticipated, so Heathcote turned to the problem of making pillow lace, a cottage industry in which women made lace by arranging pins stuck in a pillow in the correct pattern and winding around them thread contained on thin bobbins. He began by analysing the complicated hand-woven lace into simple warp and weft threads and found he could dispense with half the bobbins. The first machine he developed and patented, in 1808, made narrow lace an inch or so wide, but the following year he made much broader lace on an improved version. In his second patent, in 1809, he could make a type of net curtain, Brussels lace, without patterns. His machine made bobbin-net by the use of thin brass discs, between which the thread was wound. As they passed through the warp threads, which were arranged vertically, the warp threads were moved to each side in turn, so as to twist the bobbin threads round the warp threads. The bobbins were in two rows to save space, and jogged on carriages in grooves along a bar running the length of the machine. As the strength of this fabric depended upon bringing the bobbin threads diagonally across, in addition to the forward movement, the machine had to provide for a sideways movement of each bobbin every time the lengthwise course was completed. A high standard of accuracy in manufacture was essential for success. Called the "Old Loughborough", it was acknowledged to be the most complicated machine so far produced. In partnership with a man named Charles Lacy, who supplied the necessary capital, a factory was established at Loughborough that proved highly successful; however, their fifty-five frames were destroyed by Luddites in 1816. Heathcote was awarded damages of £10,000 by the county of Nottingham on the condition it was spent locally, but to avoid further interference he decided to transfer not only his machines but his entire workforce elsewhere and refused the money. In a disused woollen factory at Tiverton in Devonshire, powered by the waters of the river Exe, he built 300 frames of greater width and speed. By continually making inventions and improvements until he retired in 1843, his business flourished and he amassed a large fortune. He patented one machine for silk cocoon-reeling and another for plaiting or braiding. In 1825 he brought out two patents for the mechanical ornamentation or figuring of lace. He acquired a sound knowledge of French prior to opening a steam-powered lace factory in France. The factory proved to be a successful venture that lasted many years. In 1832 he patented a monstrous steam plough that is reputed to have cost him over £12,000 and was claimed to be the best in its day. One of its stated aims was "improved methods of draining land", which he hoped would develop agriculture in Ireland. A cable was used to haul the implement across the land. From 1832 to 1859, Heathcote represented Tiverton in Parliament and, among other benefactions, he built a school for his adopted town.

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To give a smooth surface to cloth such as the old English broadcloth, the nap was raised and then sheared off. Hand-operated shears of enormous size cut the fibres standing proud of the surface while the cloth was laid over a curved table top. Great skill was required to achieve a smooth finish. Various attempts, such as that in 1784 by James Harmer, a clergyman of Sheffield, were made to mechanize the process by placing several pairs of shears in a frame and operating them by cranks, but these were not successful. The first version of a rotary machine was made by Samuel Griswold Dore (sometimes spelt Dorr), an American from Albany, New York. His first frame, patented in 1792 in America, consisted of a wheel of twelve "spring knives" that were fixed like spokes and set at an angle of about 45° to the horizontal. Under this wheel, and on the same axle, rode a second one, carrying four "tangent knives" that lay almost flat upon the cloth. As the two wheels rotated above the cloth's surface, they acted in "the manner of shears". The principle used in Dore's machine is certainly different from that in the later, successful machine of John Lewis. The machine was thought to be too complicated and expensive for American woollen manufacturers and was much better suited to circumstances in the English industry, Dore therefore moved to England. However, in his British patent in 1793, he introduced a different design, which was more like that on which both Lewis's machine and the lawnmower were based, with knives set across the periphery of a hollow cylinder or barrel. Little more was heard of his machine in Britain, possibly because of Dore's death, which is mentioned in his patent of 1794, although it was used in America and France. Dore's son and others improved the machine in America and brought new specifications to England in 1811, when several patents were taken out.

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Cotton was originally employed in Loughborough and became one of the first specialized hosiery-machine builders. After the introduction of the latch needle by Matthew Townsend in 1856, knitting frames developed rapidly. The circular frame was easier to work automatically, but attempts to apply power to the flat frame, which could produce fully fashioned work, culminated in 1863 with William Cotton's machine. In that year he invented a machine that could make a dozen or more stockings or hose simultaneously and knit fashioned garments of all kinds. The difficulty was to reduce automatically the number of stitches in the courses where the hose or garment narrowed to give it shape. Cotton had early opportunities to apply himself to the improvement of hosiery machines while employed in the patent shop of Cartwright \& Warner of Loughborough, where some of the first rotaries were made. He remained with the firm for twenty years, during which time sixty or seventy of these machines were turned out. Cotton then established a factory for the manufacture of warp fabrics, and it was here that he began to work on his ideas. He had no knowledge of the principles of engineering or drawing, so his method of making sketches and then getting his ideas roughed out involved much useless labour. After twelve years, in 1863, a patent was issued for the machine that became the basis of the Cotton's Patent type. This was a flat frame driven by rotary mechanism and remarkable for its adaptability. At first he built his machine upright, like a cottage piano, but after much thought and experimentation he conceived the idea of turning the upper part down flat so that the needles were in a vertical position instead of being horizontal, and the work was carried off horizontally instead of vertically. His first machine produced four identical pieces simultaneously, but this number was soon increased. Cotton was induced by the success of his invention to begin machine building as a separate business and thus established one of the first of a class of engineering firms that sprung up as an adjunct to the new hosiery manufacture. He employed only a dozen men and turned out six machines in the first year, entering into an agreement with Hine \& Mundella for their exclusive use. This was later extended to the firm of I. \& R.Morley. In 1878, Cotton began to build on his own account, and the business steadily increased until it employed some 200 workers and had an output of 100 machines a year.

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time [taɪm]

temps ⇒ 1 (a)-(e), 1 (m), 1 (o) durée ⇒ 1 (e) heure ⇒ 1 (f), 1 (g), 1 (m) moment ⇒ 1 (i), 1 (j) fois ⇒ 1 (k) époque ⇒ 1 (o) fin ⇒ 1 (r) mesure ⇒ 1 (u) chronométrer ⇒ 2 (a) fixer l'heure de ⇒ 2 (b) choisir le moment de ⇒ 2 (c) régler ⇒ 2 (d)

1 noun

(a) (continuous stretch of time) temps m;

∎ as time goes by avec le temps;

∎ the price has gone up over time le prix a augmenté avec le temps;

∎ it's only a matter or a question of time ce n'est qu'une question de temps;

∎ these things take time cela ne se fait pas du jour au lendemain;

∎ to have time on one's hands or time to spare avoir du temps;

∎ time hangs heavy on his hands le temps lui pèse, il trouve le temps long;

∎ since the dawn of time depuis la nuit des temps;

∎ time flies le temps passe vite;

∎ doesn't time fly! comme le temps passe vite!;

∎ time heals all wounds le temps guérit tout;

∎ only time will tell seul l'avenir nous le dira;

∎ time will prove me right l'avenir me donnera raison;

∎ it's a race against time c'est une course contre la montre;

∎ they're working against time to save her ils ne disposent que de très peu de temps pour la sauver;

∎ time is on our side le temps joue en notre faveur;

∎ time out of mind de temps immémorial, de toute éternité;

∎ time is money le temps, c'est de l'argent;

∎ proverb time and tide wait for no man les événements n'attendent personne

(b) (period of time spent on particular activity) temps m;

∎ there's no time to lose il n'y a pas de temps à perdre;

∎ he lost no time in telling me il s'est empressé de me le dire;

∎ to make up for lost time rattraper le temps perdu;

∎ to make good/poor time doing sth mettre peu de temps/longtemps à faire qch;

∎ I passed the time reading j'ai passé mon temps à lire;

∎ take your time prenez votre temps;

∎ take your time over it prenez le temps qu'il faudra;

∎ it took me all my time just to get here! avec le temps que j'ai mis pour arriver ici!;

∎ you took your time about it! tu en as mis du temps!;

∎ she took the time to explain it to us elle a pris le temps de nous l'expliquer;

∎ she made the time to read the report elle a pris le temps de lire le rapport;

∎ I can always make time for you pour vous, je suis toujours là;

∎ I spend half/all my time cleaning up je passe la moitié de/tout mon temps à faire le ménage;

∎ half the time he doesn't know what he's doing la moitié du temps il ne sait pas ce qu'il fait;

∎ most of the time la plupart du temps;

∎ he was ill part or some of the time il a été malade une partie du temps;

∎ it rained part or some of the time il a plu par moments;

∎ we spend the better part of our time working nous passons le plus clair de notre temps à travailler;

∎ I start in three weeks' time je commence dans trois semaines;

∎ they'll have finished the project in three weeks' time ils auront terminé le projet dans trois semaines;

∎ all in good time! chaque chose en son temps!;

∎ I'll finish it in my own good time je le finirai quand bon me semblera;

∎ in no time (at all), in next to no time en un rien de temps, en moins de rien

(c) (available period of time) temps m;

∎ I haven't (the) time to do the shopping je n'ai pas le temps de faire les courses;

∎ I've no time for gossip je n'ai pas de temps à perdre en bavardages;

∎ I've no time for that sort of attitude je ne supporte pas ce genre de mentalité;

∎ he has no time for sycophants/for laziness il n'a pas de temps à perdre avec les flatteurs/les paresseux;

∎ my time is my own mon temps m'appartient;

∎ my time is not my own je ne suis pas libre de mon temps;

∎ we've just got time to catch the train on a juste le temps d'attraper le train;

∎ that doesn't leave them much time to get ready cela ne leur laisse guère de temps pour se préparer;

∎ you'll have to find the time to see her il faut que tu trouves le temps de la voir;

∎ you have plenty of time to finish it vous avez largement le temps de le finir;

∎ we've got plenty of time or all the time in the world nous avons tout le temps

(d) (while) temps m;

∎ after a time après un (certain) temps;

∎ a long time longtemps;

∎ a long time ago il y a longtemps;

∎ it's a long time since we've been out for a meal together ça fait longtemps que nous ne sommes pas sortis dîner ensemble;

∎ she's been dreaming of this for a long time now voilà longtemps qu'elle en rêve;

∎ he waited for a long time il a attendu longtemps;

∎ I worked for a long time as a translator j'ai travaillé (pendant) longtemps comme traducteur;

∎ for a long time he refused to eat meat il a (pendant) longtemps refusé de manger de la viande;

∎ it'll be a long time before I do that again je ne suis pas près de recommencer, je ne recommencerai pas de si tôt ou de sitôt;

∎ the car takes a long time to warm up la voiture met longtemps à chauffer;

∎ you took a long time! tu en as mis du temps!, il t'en a fallu du temps!;

∎ familiar long time no see! ça faisait longtemps!;

∎ a short time peu de temps;

∎ after a short time peu (de temps) après;

∎ a short time before their wedding peu avant leur mariage;

∎ she's going to stay with us for a short time elle va rester avec nous pendant quelque temps;

∎ in the shortest possible time dans les plus brefs délais, le plus vite ou tôt possible;

∎ after some time au bout de quelque temps, après un certain temps;

∎ some time after their trip quelque temps après leur voyage;

∎ some time ago il y a quelque temps;

∎ for some time past depuis quelque temps;

∎ for some time (to come) pendant quelque temps;

∎ it's the best film I've seen for some time c'est le meilleur film que j'aie vu depuis un moment;

∎ it will take (quite) some time to repair il va falloir pas mal de temps pour le réparer;

∎ all this time pendant tout ce temps

(e) (time taken or required to do something) temps m, durée f;

∎ the flying time to Madrid is two hours la durée du vol pour Madrid est de deux heures;

∎ the cooking time is two hours le temps de cuisson est de deux heures;

∎ the winner's time was under four minutes le gagnant a fait un temps de moins de quatre minutes;

∎ 1 minute 34 seconds is her best/a good time 1 minute 34 secondes, c'est son meilleur temps/un bon temps;

∎ it takes time cela prend du temps;

∎ how much time will it take? combien de temps cela prendra-t-il?;

∎ she finished in half the time it took me to finish elle a mis deux fois moins de temps que moi pour finir

(f) (by clock) heure f;

∎ what time is it?, what's the time? quelle heure est-il?;

∎ what time do you make it? quelle heure avez-vous?;

∎ do you have the time? vous avez l'heure?;

∎ have you got the right time on you? avez-vous l'heure juste?;

∎ the time is twenty past three il est trois heures vingt;

∎ what time are we leaving? à quelle heure partons-nous?;

∎ do you know how to tell the time? est-ce que tu sais lire l'heure?;

∎ could you tell me the time? pourriez-vous me dire l'heure (qu'il est)?;

∎ have you seen the time? avez-vous vu l'heure?;

∎ I looked at the time j'ai regardé l'heure;

∎ this old watch still keeps good time cette vieille montre est toujours à l'heure ou exacte;

∎ at this time of day à cette heure de la journée;

∎ we'll have to keep an eye on the time il faudra surveiller l'heure;

∎ it is almost time to leave/for my bus il est presque l'heure de partir/de mon bus;

∎ it's time I was going il est temps que je parte;

∎ it's dinner time, it's time for dinner c'est l'heure de dîner;

∎ there you are, it's about time! te voilà, ce n'est pas trop tôt!;

∎ I wouldn't give him the time of day je ne lui dirais même pas bonjour;

∎ to pass the time of day with sb échanger quelques mots avec qn

(g) (system)

∎ local time heure f locale;

∎ it's 5 o'clock Tokyo time il est 5 heures, heure de Tokyo

(h) (schedule)

∎ is the bus running to time? est-ce que le bus est à l'heure?;

∎ within the required time dans les délais requis

(i) (particular point in time) moment m;

∎ at that time I was in Madrid à ce moment-là, j'étais à Madrid ou j'étais alors à Madrid;

∎ I worked for her at one time à un moment donné j'ai travaillé pour elle;

∎ at the present time en ce moment, à présent;

∎ he is president at the present time il est actuellement président;

∎ at the time of delivery au moment de la livraison;

∎ at a later time plus tard;

∎ at a given time à un moment donné;

∎ at any one time à la fois;

∎ there's room for 15 people at any one time il y a de la place pour 15 personnes à la fois;

∎ an inconvenient time un moment inopportun;

∎ you called at a most inconvenient time vous avez appelé à un très mauvais moment;

∎ there are times when I could scream il y a des moments où j'ai envie de hurler;

∎ at the best of times même quand tout va bien;

∎ even at the best of times he is not that patient même dans ses bons moments il n'est pas particulièrement patient;

∎ at no time did I agree to that je n'ai jamais donné mon accord pour cela;

∎ by the time you get this… le temps que tu reçoives ceci…, quand tu auras reçu ceci…;

∎ by that time it will be too late à ce moment-là il sera trop tard;

∎ by that time we'll all be dead d'ici là nous serons tous morts;

∎ by this time next week d'ici une semaine, dans une semaine;

∎ this time next week la semaine prochaine à cette heure-ci;

∎ this time last week il y a exactement une semaine;

∎ from that time on we had nothing to do with them à partir de ce moment-là, nous avons refusé d'avoir affaire à eux;

∎ in between times entre-temps;

∎ some time or other un jour ou l'autre;

∎ some time next month dans le courant du mois prochain;

∎ until such time as I hear from them jusqu'à ce que ou en attendant que j'aie de leurs nouvelles

(j) (suitable moment) moment m;

∎ she chose her time badly elle a mal choisi son moment;

∎ this is no time for you to leave ce n'est pas le moment de partir;

∎ now's our time to tell her c'est maintenant que nous devrions ou voici venu le moment de le lui dire;

∎ now is the time to invest c'est maintenant qu'il faut investir;

∎ when the time comes le moment venu, quand le moment sera venu;

∎ we'll talk about that when the time comes nous en parlerons en temps utile;

∎ the time has come to make a stand c'est le moment d'avoir le courage de ses opinions;

∎ the time for talking is past ce n'est plus le moment de parler;

∎ it's about time we taught her a lesson il est grand temps que nous lui donnions une bonne leçon;

∎ there's no time like the present (let's do it now) faisons-le maintenant;

∎ there's a time and a place for everything il y a un temps et un lieu pour ou à tout

(k) (occasion, instance) fois f;

∎ I'll forgive you this time je vous pardonne cette fois-ci ou pour cette fois;

∎ each or every time chaque fois;

∎ she succeeds every time elle réussit à chaque fois;

∎ the last time he came la dernière fois qu'il est venu;

∎ the time before la fois précédente ou d'avant;

∎ another or some other time une autre fois;

∎ I called her three times je l'ai appelée trois fois;

∎ many times bien des fois, très souvent;

∎ many a time I've wondered… je me suis demandé plus d'une ou bien des fois…;

∎ several times plusieurs fois;

∎ several times in the past plusieurs fois déjà;

∎ he asked me several times if… il m'a demandé plusieurs fois si…;

∎ it costs 15 cents a time ça coûte 15 cents à chaque fois;

∎ the one time I'm winning, he wants to stop playing pour une fois que je gagne, il veut arrêter de jouer;

∎ nine times out of ten the machine doesn't work neuf fois sur dix la machine ne marche pas;

∎ we'll have to decide some time or other tôt ou tard ou un jour ou l'autre il va falloir nous décider;

∎ do you remember that time we went to Germany? tu te rappelles la fois où nous sommes allés en Allemagne?;

∎ there's always a first time il y a un début à tout;

∎ I've told you a hundred times! je te l'ai dit vingt ou cent fois!;

∎ give me a good detective story every time! rien ne vaut un bon roman policier!

(l) (experience)

∎ to have a good time bien s'amuser;

∎ she's had a terrible time of it elle a beaucoup souffert;

∎ I had the time of my life jamais je ne me suis si bien ou autant amusé;

∎ we had an awful time at the picnic nous nous sommes ennuyés à mourir au pique-nique;

∎ it was a difficult time for all of us c'était une période difficile pour nous tous;

∎ she had a hard time bringing up five children alone ça a été difficile pour elle d'élever cinq enfants seule;

∎ to give sb a hard or rough or tough time en faire voir de dures à qn, en faire voir de toutes les couleurs à qn;

∎ what a time I had with him! (fun) qu'est-ce que j'ai pu m'amuser avec lui!; (trouble) qu'est-ce qu'il m'en a fait voir!

(m) (hours of work)

∎ to put in time faire des heures (de travail);

∎ to work part/full time travailler à temps partiel/à plein temps;

∎ British in company time, American on company time pendant les heures de travail;

∎ British in your own time, American on your own time pendant votre temps libre, en dehors des heures de travail

(n) (hourly wages)

∎ we pay time and a half on weekends nous payons les heures du week-end une fois et demie le tarif normal;

∎ overtime is paid at double time les heures supplémentaires sont payées ou comptées double

(o) (usu plural) (era) époque f, temps m;

∎ in Victorian times à l'époque victorienne;

∎ in the time of Henry IV à l'époque d'Henri IV, du temps d'Henri IV;

∎ in times past, in former times autrefois, jadis;

∎ in times to come à l'avenir;

∎ at one time, things were different autrefois ou dans le temps les choses étaient différentes;

∎ the house has seen better times la maison a connu des jours meilleurs;

∎ in happier times en un ou des temps plus heureux;

∎ in time or times of need/war en temps de pénurie/de guerre;

∎ time was when doctors made house calls il fut un temps où les médecins faisaient des visites à domicile;

∎ those were happy times! c'était le bon (vieux) temps!;

∎ times are hard les temps sont durs;

∎ in our time de nos jours;

∎ the times we live in l'époque f où nous vivons;

∎ in my time children didn't talk back de mon temps, les enfants ne répondaient pas;

∎ she was probably a good singer in her time en son temps, c'était sûrement une bonne chanteuse;

∎ it was a very popular car in its time c'était une voiture très populaire à l'époque (où elle est sortie);

∎ very advanced for its time très en avance sur son temps ou sur l'époque;

∎ to be ahead of or before one's time être en avance sur son époque ou sur son temps;

∎ to be behind the times être en retard sur son époque ou sur son temps;

∎ to keep up with the times vivre avec son temps;

∎ to move with the times évoluer avec son temps;

∎ times have changed autres temps, autres mœurs

(p) (lifetime)

∎ I've heard some odd things in my time! j'en ai entendu, des choses, dans ma vie!;

∎ it won't happen in our time nous ne serons pas là pour voir ça;

∎ if I had my time over again si j'avais à recommencer (ma vie);

∎ at my time of life à mon âge;

∎ that was before your time (birth) vous n'étiez pas encore né; (arrival) vous n'étiez pas encore là;

∎ her time has come (childbirth) elle arrive à son terme; (death) son heure est venue ou a sonné; (success) son heure est venue;

∎ he died before his time il est mort avant l'âge

(q) (season)

∎ it's hot for the time of year il fait chaud pour la saison

(r) (end of period) fin f;

∎ time's up (on exam, visit) c'est l'heure; (on meter, telephone) le temps est écoulé;

∎ British time (gentlemen), please! (in pub) on ferme!;

∎ Sport the referee called time l'arbitre a sifflé la fin du match

(s) American Commerce (credit)

∎ to buy sth on time acheter qch à tempérament ou à terme ou à crédit

(t) familiar (in prison)

∎ to do time faire de la taule;

∎ he's serving time for murder il est en taule pour meurtre

(u) Music (tempo) mesure f; (note value) valeur f (d'une note);

∎ to keep time, to be in time être en mesure;

∎ he beat time with his foot il battait ou marquait la mesure du pied;

∎ in triple or three-part time à trois temps

(v) Radio & Television espace m;

∎ to buy/to sell time on television acheter/vendre de l'espace publicitaire à la télévision

(w) American familiar (idiom)

∎ to make time with sb (pursue) draguer qn; (be with) être avec qn^□ (en couple) ; (have sex with) s'envoyer en l'air avec qn

2 transitive verb

(a) (on clock → runner, worker, race) chronométrer;

∎ they timed her at four minutes a mile ils l'ont chronométrée ou ils ont chronométré son temps à quatre minutes au mille;

∎ time how long she takes to finish regardez combien de temps elle met pour finir;

∎ he timed his speech to last twenty minutes il a fait en sorte que son discours dure vingt minutes;

∎ to time an egg minuter le temps de cuisson d'un œuf

(b) (schedule) fixer ou prévoir (l'heure de); Photography (exposure) calculer;

∎ they timed the attack for 6 o'clock l'attaque était prévue pour 6 heures

(c) (choose right moment for) choisir ou calculer le moment de;

∎ she timed her entrance well elle a bien choisi le moment pour faire son entrée;

∎ he timed the blow perfectly il a frappé au bon moment;

∎ your remark was perfectly/badly timed votre observation est venue au bon/au mauvais moment

(d) (synchronize) régler, ajuster;

∎ she tried to time her steps to the music elle essayait de régler ses pas sur la musique

3 times

1 plural noun

(indicating degree) fois f;

∎ she's ten times cleverer than or as clever as he is elle est dix fois plus intelligente que lui;

∎ he ate four times as much cake as I did il a mangé quatre fois plus de gâteau que moi

2 preposition

∎ Mathematics 3 times 2 is 6 3 fois 2 font ou égalent 6;

∎ 1 times 6 is 6 une fois six fait ou égale six

4 ahead of time adverb

en avance;

∎ I'm ten minutes ahead of time j'ai dix minutes d'avance

5 all the time adverb

∎ he talked all the time we were at lunch il a parlé pendant tout le déjeuner;

∎ he's been watching us all the time il n'a pas cessé de nous regarder;

∎ I knew it all the time je le savais depuis le début

6 any time adverb

n'importe quand;

∎ come over any time venez quand vous voulez;

∎ you're welcome any time vous serez toujours le bienvenu;

∎ thanks for all your help - any time merci de votre aide - de rien

7 at a time adverb

∎ for days at a time pendant des journées entières, des journées durant;

∎ to do two things at a time faire deux choses à la fois;

∎ take one book at a time prenez les livres un par un ou un (seul) livre à la fois;

∎ she ran up the stairs two at a time elle a monté les marches quatre à quatre

8 at all times adverb

à tous moments

9 at any time adverb

à toute heure;

∎ hot meals at any time repas chauds à toute heure;

∎ at any time of day or night à n'importe quelle heure du jour ou de la nuit;

∎ at any time during office hours n'importe quand pendant les heures de bureau;

∎ he could die at any time il peut mourir d'un moment à l'autre;

∎ if at any time… si à l'occasion…

10 at the same time adverb

(a) (simultaneously) en même temps;

∎ they all spoke at the same time ils se sont mis à parler tous en même temps;

∎ they arrived at the same time (as) he did ils sont arrivés en même temps que lui

(b) (yet) en même temps;

∎ she was pleased but at the same time a bit concerned elle était contente mais en même temps un peu inquiète

(c) (nevertheless) pourtant, cependant;

∎ at the same time, we must not forget… pourtant ou cependant, il ne faut pas oublier…

11 at the time adverb

∎ at the time of their wedding au moment de leur mariage;

∎ I didn't pay much attention at the time sur le moment, je n'ai pas fait vraiment attention

12 at times adverb

parfois, par moments

13 behind time adverb

en retard;

∎ we're a bit behind time nous sommes légèrement en retard;

∎ the project was running behind time le projet avait du retard

14 for a time adverb

pendant un (certain) temps;

∎ for a time, he was unable to walk pendant un certain temps, il n'a pas pu marcher

15 for all time adverb

pour toujours

16 for the time being adverb

pour le moment

17 from time to time adverb

de temps en temps, de temps à autre

18 in time adverb

(a) (eventually)

∎ she'll come to her senses in time elle finira par revenir à la raison;

∎ he'll forget about it in (the course of) time il finira par l'oublier (avec le temps)

(b) (not too late)

∎ let me know in (good) time prévenez-moi (bien) à l'avance;

∎ she arrived in time for the play elle est arrivée à l'heure pour la pièce;

∎ you're just in time to greet our guests tu arrives juste à temps pour accueillir nos invités;

∎ I'll be back in time for the film je serai de retour à temps pour le film

(c) Music en mesure;

∎ to be or keep in time (with the music) être en mesure (avec la musique)

19 in (next to) no time, in no time at all adverb

en un rien de temps

20 of all time adverb

de tous les temps

21 of all times adverb

∎ why now of all times? pourquoi faut-il que ce soit juste maintenant?

22 on time adverb

à l'heure;

∎ to run on time (trains etc) être à l'heure;

∎ she arrived right on time elle est arrivée juste à l'heure;

∎ is the bus on time? est-ce que le bus est à l'heure?

23 out of time adverb

∎ Music he got out of time il a perdu la mesure

24 time after time, time and (time) again adverb

maintes et maintes fois

25 time off noun

temps m libre;

∎ what do you do in your time off? qu'est-ce que vous faites de votre temps libre?

26 time out noun

(a) Sport temps m mort; (in chess match) temps m de repos;

∎ Sport to take time out faire un temps mort

(b) (break)

∎ I took time out to travel (from work) je me suis mis en congé pour voyager; (from studies) j'ai interrompu mes études pour voyager;

∎ she took time out to read the report elle a pris le temps de lire le rapport

►► time of arrival heure f d'arrivée;

Stock Exchange time bargain marché m à terme;

Finance time bill traite f à terme; also figurative time bomb bombe f à retardement;

∎ figurative a demographic time bomb une situation démographique qui menace d'exploser;

∎ the situation is like a time bomb ticking away la situation est explosive;

∎ figurative they're sitting on a time bomb ils sont assis sur un volcan;

time capsule capsule f témoin (qui doit servir de témoignage historique aux générations futures);

Industry time card carte f ou fiche f de pointage;

time chart (showing time zones) carte f des fuseaux horaires; (showing events) table f d'événements historiques; (showing planning) calendrier m, planning m;

time check (on radio) rappel m de l'heure; (in cycling, skiing, motor racing) contrôle m du temps intermédiaire;

Grammar time clause proposition f temporelle;

Industry time clock pointeuse f;

time code code m temporel;

time of departure heure f de départ;

American Finance time deposit dépôt m à terme;

time difference décalage m horaire;

Finance time draft traite f à terme;

time exposure (of film) (temps m de) pose f; (photograph) photo f prise en pose;

time frame délai m;

∎ what's our time frame? de combien de temps disposons-nous?;

time fuse détonateur m ou fusée f à retardement;

time lag (delay) décalage m dans le temps; (in time zones) décalage m horaire;

time lapse intervalle m, laps m de temps;

time limit (gen) délai m, date f limite; Law délai m de forclusion;

∎ there is a strict time limit for applications il y a un délai impératif ou de rigueur pour la remise des dossiers de candidature;

∎ we'll have to set ourselves a time limit for the work il va falloir nous imposer un délai pour finir ce travail;

∎ the work must be completed within the time limit le travail doit être terminé avant la date limite;

Finance time loan emprunt m à terme;

time machine machine f à voyager dans le temps;

time management gestion f du temps de travail;

Marketing time pricing fixation f des prix en fonction du moment;

time sheet feuille f de présence;

Radio time signal signal m ou top m horaire;

Music time signature indication f de la mesure;

Computing time slice tranche f de temps;

Computing time slicing temps m partagé;

time slot créneau m ou tranche f horaire;

time switch (for oven, heating) minuteur m; (for lighting) minuterie f;

time travel voyage m dans le temps;

time traveller personne f qui voyage dans le temps;

Sport time trial course f contre la montre, contre-la-montre m inv;

Telecommunications time unit unité f;

time value Music valeur f (d'une note); Finance valeur f temporelle;

time warp (in science fiction) faille f spatio-temporelle;

∎ it's like living in a time warp c'est comme si on vivait hors du temps;

∎ the country seems to have entered a time warp le temps semble s'être arrêté dans le pays;

∎ the house/company seems to be caught in a 19th century time warp la maison/la société semble ne pas avoir changé depuis le XIXème siècle;

time zone fuseau m horaire

✾ Book 'The Time Machine' Wells 'La Machine à explorer le temps'

ⓘ I may be some time Ce sont les mots ("je risque d'en avoir pour un certain temps") qu'aurait prononcés le capitaine Oates lorsqu'il sortit de la tente qu'il occupait avec le capitaine Scott au cours de leur expédition de 1912 au pôle sud. Oates souffrait de gelures multiples et afin de ne pas ralentir la progression de ses camarades, il décida de se sacrifier en disparaissant dans la tourmente. Cet épisode est censé symboliser les qualités d'héroïsme et d'abnégation associées au caractère britannique. Aujourd'hui, on emploie cette formule par allusion à Oates sur le mode humoristique lorsque l'on sort d'une pièce ou bien lorsqu'on va aux toilettes.

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After John Levers had brought out his lacemaking machine in 1813, other lacemakers proceeded to elaborate their machinery so as to imitate the more complicated forms of handwork. One of these was Samuel Draper of Nottingham, who took out one patent in 1835 for the use of a Jacquard mechanism on a lace making machine, followed by another in 1837. However, material made on his machine cost more than the handmade article, so the experiment was abandoned after three years. Then, in Nottingham in 1841, Hooton Deverill patented the first truly successful application of the Jacquard to lacemaking. The Jacquard needles caused the warp threads to be pushed sideways to form the holes in the lace while the bobbins were moved around them to bind them together. This made it possible to reproduce most of the traditional patterns of handmade lace in both narrow and wide pieces. Lace made on these machines became cheap enough for most people to be able to hang it in their windows as curtains, or to use it for trimming clothing. However, it raised in a most serious form the problem of patent rights between the two patentees, Deverill and Draper, threatening much litigation. Deverill's patent was bought by Richard Birkin, who with his partner Biddle relinquished the patent rights. The lacemaking trade on these machines was thus thrown open to the public and a new development of the trade took place. Levers lace is still made in the way described here.

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Early drawing and spinning processes failed to give linen yarn the requisite fineness and homogeneity. In 1810 Napoleon offered a prize of a million francs for a successful flax-spinning machine as part of his policy of stimulating the French textile industries. Spurred on by this offer, Girard suggested three improvements. He was too late to win the prize, but his ideas were patented in England in 1814, although not under his own name. He proposed that the fibres should be soaked in a very hot alkaline solution both before drawing and immediately before they went to the spindles. The actual drawing was to be done by passing the dried material through combs or gills that moved alternately; gill drawing was taken up in England in 1816. His method of wet spinning was never a commercial success, but his processes were adopted in part and developed in Britain and spread to Austria, Poland and France, for his ideas were essentially good and produced a superior product. The successful power-spinning of linen thread from flax depended primarily upon the initial processes of heckling and drawing. The heckling of the bundles or stricks of flax, so as to separate the long fibres of "line" from the shorter ones of "tow", was extremely difficult to mechanize, for each strick had to be combed on both sides in turn and then in the reverse direction. It was to this problem that Girard next turned his attention, inventing a successful machine in 1832 that subsequently was improved in England. The strick was placed between two vertical sheets of combs that moved opposite to each other, depositing the tow upon a revolving cylinder covered with a brush at the bottom of the machine, while the holder from which the strick was suspended moved up and down so as to help the teeth to penetrate deeper into the flax. The tow was removed from the cylinder at the bottom of the machine and taken away to be spun like cotton. The long line fibres were removed from the top of the machine and required further processing if the yarn was to be uniform.

When N.L.Sadi Carnot's book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, was published in 1824, Girard made a favourable report on it.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Josué Heilmann, of Mulhouse, was awarded 5,000 francs offered by the cotton spinners of Alsace for a machine that would comb cotton. It was a process not hitherto applied to this fibre and, when perfected, enabled finer, smoother and more lustrous yarns to be spun. The important feature of Heilmann's method was to use a grip or nip to hold the end of the sliver that was being combed. Two or more combs passed through the protruding fibres to comb them thoroughly, and a brush cylinder and knife cleared away the noils. The combed section was passed forward so that the part held in the nip could then be combed. The combed fibres were joined up with the length already finished. Heilmann obtained a British patent in 1846, but no machines were put to work until 1851. Six firms of cotton spinners in Lancashire paid £30,000 for the cotton-combing rights and Marshall's of Leeds paid £20,000 for the rights to comb flax. Heilmann's machine was used on the European continent for combing silk as well as flax, wool and cotton, so it proved to be very versatile. Priority of his patent was challenged in England because Lister had patented a combing machine with a gripper or nip in 1843; in 1852 the parties went to litigation and cross-suits were instituted. While Heilmann obtained a verdict of infringement against Lister for certain things, Lister also obtained one against Heilmann for other matters. After this outcome, Heilmann's patent was bought on speculation by Messrs Akroyd and Titus Salt for £30,000, but was afterwards resold to Lister for the same amount. In this way Lister was able to exploit his own patent through suppressing Heilmann's.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Lister was descended from one of the old Yorkshire families, the Cunliffe Listers of Manningham, and was the fourth son of his father Ellis. After attending a school on Clapham Common, Lister would not go to university; his family hoped he would enter the Church, but instead he started work with the Liverpool merchants Sands, Turner \& Co., who frequently sent him to America. In 1837 his father built for him and his brother a worsted mill at Manningham, where Samuel invented a swivel shuttle and a machine for making fringes on shawls. It was here that he first became aware of the unhealthy occupation of combing wool by hand. Four years later, after seeing the machine that G.E. Donisthorpe was trying to work out, he turned his attention to mechanizing wool-combing. Lister took Donisthorpe into partnership after paying him £12,000 for his patent, and developed the Lister-Cartwright "square nip" comber. Until this time, combing machines were little different from Cartwright's original, but Lister was able to improve on this with continuous operation and by 1843 was combing the first fine botany wool that had ever been combed by machinery. In the following year he received an order for fifty machines to comb all qualities of wool. Further combing patents were taken out with Donisthorpe in 1849, 1850, 1851 and 1852, the last two being in Lister's name only. One of the important features of these patents was the provision of a gripping device or "nip" which held the wool fibres at one end while the rest of the tuft was being combed. Lister was soon running nine combing mills. In the 1850s Lister had become involved in disputes with others who held combing patents, such as his associate Isaac Holden and the Frenchman Josué Heilmann. Lister bought up the Heilmann machine patents and afterwards other types until he obtained a complete monopoly of combing machines before the patents expired. His invention stimulated demand for wool by cheapening the product and gave a vital boost to the Australian wool trade. By 1856 he was at the head of a wool-combing business such as had never been seen before, with mills at Manningham, Bradford, Halifax, Keighley and other places in the West Riding, as well as abroad.

His inventive genius also extended to other fields. In 1848 he patented automatic compressed air brakes for railways, and in 1853 alone he took out twelve patents for various textile machines. He then tried to spin waste silk and made a second commercial career, turning what was called "chassum" and hitherto regarded as refuse into beautiful velvets, silks, plush and other fine materials. Waste silk consisted of cocoon remnants from the reeling process, damaged cocoons and fibres rejected from other processes. There was also wild silk obtained from uncultivated worms. This is what Lister saw in a London warehouse as a mass of knotty, dirty, impure stuff, full of bits of stick and dead mulberry leaves, which he bought for a halfpenny a pound. He spent ten years trying to solve the problems, but after a loss of £250,000 and desertion by his partner his machine caught on in 1865 and brought Lister another fortune. Having failed to comb this waste silk, Lister turned his attention to the idea of "dressing" it and separating the qualities automatically. He patented a machine in 1877 that gave a graduated combing. To weave his new silk, he imported from Spain to Bradford, together with its inventor Jose Reixach, a velvet loom that was still giving trouble. It wove two fabrics face to face, but the problem lay in separating the layers so that the pile remained regular in length. Eventually Lister was inspired by watching a scissors grinder in the street to use small emery wheels to sharpen the cutters that divided the layers of fabric. Lister took out several patents for this loom in his own name in 1868 and 1869, while in 1871 he took out one jointly with Reixach. It is said that he spent £29,000 over an eleven-year period on this loom, but this was more than recouped from the sale of reasonably priced high-quality velvets and plushes once success was achieved. Manningham mills were greatly enlarged to accommodate this new manufacture.

In later years Lister had an annual profit from his mills of £250,000, much of which was presented to Bradford city in gifts such as Lister Park, the original home of the Listers. He was connected with the Bradford Chamber of Commerce for many years and held the position of President of the Fair Trade League for some time. In 1887 he became High Sheriff of Yorkshire, and in 1891 he was made 1st Baron Masham. He was also Deputy Lieutenant in North and West Riding.

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1) (a railway engine with its carriages and/or trucks: I caught the train to London.) tren

2) (a part of a long dress or robe that trails behind the wearer: The bride wore a dress with a train.) cola

3) (a connected series: Then began a train of events which ended in disaster.) serie, sucesión

4) (a line of animals carrying people or baggage: a mule train; a baggage train.) (animales) recua; convoy

1) (to prepare, be prepared, or prepare oneself, through instruction, practice, exercise etc, for a sport, job, profession etc: I was trained as a teacher; The race-horse was trained by my uncle.) formar, enseñar, instruir; entrenar, preparar

2) (to point or aim (a gun, telescope etc) in a particular direction: He trained the gun on/at the soldiers.) apuntar; (cámara) enfocar

3) (to make (a tree, plant etc) grow in a particular direction.) guiar

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- trained

train¹ n tren

train² vb

1. entrenar

2. estudiar / formarse

tr[treɪn]

noun

1 (transport) tren nombre masculino

■ some got on the train and some got off unos subieron al tren y otros bajaron

■ I changed trains at Miranda hice transbordo en Miranda

2 (of dress) cola

3 (line - of animals) recua; (- of vehicles) convoy nombre masculino

4 (retinue) grupo, séquito

5 (of ideas, thoughts) serie nombre femenino, hilo; (of events) serie nombre femenino, sucesión nombre femenino

transitive verb

1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL entrenar, preparar

2 (teach) enseñar, formar, capacitar

■ to train the mind formar la mente

■ he trained us to fight nos enseñó a luchar

■ the police are trained to shoot se enseña a la policía a disparar

3 (one's eye, ear, voice) educar

4 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL adiestrar

5 (animal) enseñar; (to perfom tricks) amaestrar, adiestrar

6 (direct - gun) apuntar (on, a); (- camera) enfocar (on, a), dirigir (on, hacia); (- plant) guiar

intransitive verb

1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL entrenarse, prepararse

■ he was training for the marathon se entrenaba para (correr) el maratón

2 (teach) estudiar

■ she trained to be a teacher estudió magisterio

■ he was trained as a nurse estudió enfermería

3 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL adiestrarse

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in train en fase de preparación

to bring in its train acarrear, traer como consecuencia

train driver maquinista nombre masulino o femenino

train set juego de trenes

train spotter aficionado,-a a los trenes

train ['treɪn] vt

1) : entrenar (atletas), capacitar (empleados), adiestrar, amaestrar (animales)

2) point: apuntar (un arma, etc.)

train vi

: entrenar(se) (físicamente), prepararse (profesionalmente)

she's training at the gym: se está entrenando en el gimnasio

train n

1) : cola f (de un vestido)

2) retinue: cortejo m, séquito m

3) series: serie f (de eventos)

4) : tren m

passenger train: tren de pasajeros

• adiestrar v.

• aleccionar v.

• amaestrar v.

• educar v.

• enseñar v.

• entrenar v.

• formar v.

• orientar v.

• cola s.f.

• cola de un vestido s.f.

• convoy s.m.

• reguero de pólvora s.m.

• serie s.m.

• sucesión s.f.

• séquito s.m.

• tren s.m.

1) ( Rail) tren m

2)

a) (of servants, followers) séquito m, cortejo m

b) (of events, disasters) serie f

3) (of dress, robe) cola f

1)

a) ( instruct) \<\<athlete\>\> entrenar; \<\<soldier\>\> adiestrar; \<\<child\>\> enseñar; ( accustom) acostumbrar, habituar*; \<\<animal\>\> enseñar; ( to perform tricks etc) amaestrar, adiestrar; \<\<employee/worker\>\> ( in new skill etc) capacitar; \<\<teacher\>\> formar

b) \<\<voice/ear\>\> educar*

c) \<\<plant\>\> guiar*

2) ( aim)

a) ( receive instruction) \<\<nurse/singer/musician\>\> estudiar

b) ( Sport) entrenar(se)

1. N

1) (Rail) tren m

2) (=line) [of people, vehicles] fila f ; [of mules, camels] recua f, reata f

3) (=sequence) serie f

4) (=entourage) séquito m, comitiva f

5) [of dress] cola f

6) (Mech) [of gears] tren m

2. VT

1) (=instruct) [+ staff] formar; [+ worker] (in new technique) capacitar; [+ soldier, pilot] adiestrar; [+ athlete, team] entrenar; [+ animal] (for task) adiestrar; (to do tricks) amaestrar; [+ racehorse] entrenar, preparar

2) (=develop) [+ voice, mind] educar

3) (=direct) [+ gun] apuntar (on a); [+ camera, telescope] enfocar (on a)

4) (=guide) [+ plant] guiar (up, along por)

3. VI

1) (=learn a skill) estudiar

2) (Sport) entrenar, entrenarse

- train up

* * *

1) ( Rail) tren m

2)

a) (of servants, followers) séquito m, cortejo m

b) (of events, disasters) serie f

3) (of dress, robe) cola f

1)

a) ( instruct) \<\<athlete\>\> entrenar; \<\<soldier\>\> adiestrar; \<\<child\>\> enseñar; ( accustom) acostumbrar, habituar*; \<\<animal\>\> enseñar; ( to perform tricks etc) amaestrar, adiestrar; \<\<employee/worker\>\> ( in new skill etc) capacitar; \<\<teacher\>\> formar

b) \<\<voice/ear\>\> educar*

c) \<\<plant\>\> guiar*

2) ( aim)

a) ( receive instruction) \<\<nurse/singer/musician\>\> estudiar

b) ( Sport) entrenar(se)

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Edmund Cartwright's combing machine needed a great deal of improvement before it could be used to tackle the finer qualities of wool. Various people carried out experiments over the next thirty years, including G.E.Donisthorpe of Leicester. Together with Henry Rawson, Donisthorpe obtained his first patent for improvements to wool combing in 1835, but his important ones were obtained in 1842 and 1843. These attracted the attention of S.C. Lister, who had become interested in developing a machine to comb wool after seeing the grim working conditions of the hand-combers supplying his mill at Manningham. Lister was quick to perceive that Donisthorpe's invention carried sufficient promise to replace the hand-comber, so in 1842 he made Donisthorpe an offer, which was accepted, of £2,000 for half the patent rights. In the following year Lister purchased the other half of the patent for £10,000, whereby Donisthorpe ceased to have any pecuniary interest in it. Lister took Donisthorpe into partnership and they worked together over the ensuing years with patience and diligence until they eventually succeeded in bringing out a combing machine that was generally acceptable. They were combing fine botany wool for the first time by machine in 1843. Further patents were taken out in their joint names in 1849 and 1850: these included the "nip" mechanism, the priority of which was disputed by Heilmann. Donisthorpe also took out patents for wool combing with John Whitehead in 1849 and John Crofts in 1853.

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1) Компьютерная техника: Screen Saver Machine, Soft System Methodology

2) Спорт: Sport Study Model

3) Военный термин: Midget Submarine, Silver Star Medal, Simulation Support Module, semisubmersible minehunter, ship simulation model, ship-to-ship missile, space station module, squadron sergeant major, staff sergeant major, subsystem manager, surface-to-ship missile, surface-to-surface missile, system support management, РЗЗ (ракета "земля - земля")

4) Техника: single-sideband modulation, spacecraft systems monitor, spread spectrum modem, stellar seeing monitor, support system module, system status monitor, system support manager, Sealed Switch Module

5) Шутливое выражение: Sonic Super Mop

6) Математика: стохастический последовательный автомат (stochastic sequential machine)

7) Автомобильный термин: special service message

8) Дипломатический термин: ракета класса "корабль - корабль", (surface-to-surface missile) ракета класса "земля - земля"

9) Музыка: Solid State Music

10) Оптика: stage scanning microscope

11) Телекоммуникации: Single Segment Message (DQDB, SMDS)

12) Сокращение: Sea-Skimmer Missile, Singer Sewing Machine, Small Stamp Machine, Software Structure Model, Soldier System Modeling, Squadron Sergeant Major (British Army), Staff Sergeant Major (British Army), Turkish Defence Industries Undersecretariat, satellite system monitoring, single-stage missile, сообщение о текущем состоянии синхронизации (syncronization status message)

13) Физика: surface stress measurements

14) Электроника: Single-sideband Signal Multiplier, Strategic sourcing methodology

15) Вычислительная техника: Set System Mask, Simplified Storage Management (HSM), Source Specific Multicast (IETF, WG, Multicast)

16) Онкология: Superficial Spreading Melanoma

17) СМИ: Sunbonnet Sue Mystery

18) Деловая лексика: Shared Savings Mechanism, Supply Side Management

19) Сетевые технологии: SAA Service Manager, Service Session Manager, Simplified Storage Management, Super Simple Multicast, упрощённое управление хранением информации, Source Specific Multicast

20) Программирование: Source Support Module

21) Химическое оружие: system safety manager

22) Макаров: spread-spectrum modulation, surface skimming mode

23) США: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

24) Чат: Sex Starved Marriage

25) Правительство: Sault Ste Marie

26) Аэропорты: Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan USA

27) НАСА: Standard Solar Model

1) Компьютерная техника: Screen Saver Machine, Soft System Methodology

2) Спорт: Sport Study Model

3) Военный термин: Midget Submarine, Silver Star Medal, Simulation Support Module, semisubmersible minehunter, ship simulation model, ship-to-ship missile, space station module, squadron sergeant major, staff sergeant major, subsystem manager, surface-to-ship missile, surface-to-surface missile, system support management, РЗЗ (ракета "земля - земля")

4) Техника: single-sideband modulation, spacecraft systems monitor, spread spectrum modem, stellar seeing monitor, support system module, system status monitor, system support manager, Sealed Switch Module

5) Шутливое выражение: Sonic Super Mop

6) Математика: стохастический последовательный автомат (stochastic sequential machine)

7) Автомобильный термин: special service message

8) Дипломатический термин: ракета класса "корабль - корабль", (surface-to-surface missile) ракета класса "земля - земля"

9) Музыка: Solid State Music

10) Оптика: stage scanning microscope

11) Телекоммуникации: Single Segment Message (DQDB, SMDS)

12) Сокращение: Sea-Skimmer Missile, Singer Sewing Machine, Small Stamp Machine, Software Structure Model, Soldier System Modeling, Squadron Sergeant Major (British Army), Staff Sergeant Major (British Army), Turkish Defence Industries Undersecretariat, satellite system monitoring, single-stage missile, сообщение о текущем состоянии синхронизации (syncronization status message)

13) Физика: surface stress measurements

14) Электроника: Single-sideband Signal Multiplier, Strategic sourcing methodology

15) Вычислительная техника: Set System Mask, Simplified Storage Management (HSM), Source Specific Multicast (IETF, WG, Multicast)

16) Онкология: Superficial Spreading Melanoma

17) СМИ: Sunbonnet Sue Mystery

18) Деловая лексика: Shared Savings Mechanism, Supply Side Management

19) Сетевые технологии: SAA Service Manager, Service Session Manager, Simplified Storage Management, Super Simple Multicast, упрощённое управление хранением информации, Source Specific Multicast

20) Программирование: Source Support Module

21) Химическое оружие: system safety manager

22) Макаров: spread-spectrum modulation, surface skimming mode

23) США: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

24) Чат: Sex Starved Marriage

25) Правительство: Sault Ste Marie

26) Аэропорты: Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan USA

27) НАСА: Standard Solar Model