Перевод: со всех языков на все языки

со всех языков на все языки

The importance of such structures

  • 1 заключаться в том, что

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > заключаться в том, что

  • 2 заключаться в том, что

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > заключаться в том, что

  • 3 Grammar

       I think that the failure to offer a precise account of the notion "grammar" is not just a superficial defect in linguistic theory that can be remedied by adding one more definition. It seems to me that until this notion is clarified, no part of linguistic theory can achieve anything like a satisfactory development.... I have been discussing a grammar of a particular language here as analogous to a particular scientific theory, dealing with its subject matter (the set of sentences of this language) much as embryology or physics deals with its subject matter. (Chomsky, 1964, p. 213)
       Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of his language are necessarily accurate. (Chomsky, 1965, p. 8)
       Much effort has been devoted to showing that the class of possible transformations can be substantially reduced without loss of descriptive power through the discovery of quite general conditions that all such rules and the representations they operate on and form must meet.... [The] transformational rules, at least for a substantial core grammar, can be reduced to the single rule, "Move alpha" (that is, "move any category anywhere"). (Mehler, Walker & Garrett, 1982, p. 21)
       4) The Relationship of Transformational Grammar to Semantics and to Human Performance
       he implications of assuming a semantic memory for what we might call "generative psycholinguistics" are: that dichotomous judgments of semantic well-formedness versus anomaly are not essential or inherent to language performance; that the transformational component of a grammar is the part most relevant to performance models; that a generative grammar's role should be viewed as restricted to language production, whereas sentence understanding should be treated as a problem of extracting a cognitive representation of a text's message; that until some theoretical notion of cognitive representation is incorporated into linguistic conceptions, they are unlikely to provide either powerful language-processing programs or psychologically relevant theories.
       Although these implications conflict with the way others have viewed the relationship of transformational grammars to semantics and to human performance, they do not eliminate the importance of such grammars to psychologists, an importance stressed in, and indeed largely created by, the work of Chomsky. It is precisely because of a growing interdependence between such linguistic theory and psychological performance models that their relationship needs to be clarified. (Quillian, 1968, p. 260)
       here are some terminological distinctions that are crucial to explain, or else confusions can easily arise. In the formal study of grammar, a language is defined as a set of sentences, possibly infinite, where each sentence is a string of symbols or words. One can think of each sentence as having several representations linked together: one for its sound pattern, one for its meaning, one for the string of words constituting it, possibly others for other data structures such as the "surface structure" and "deep structure" that are held to mediate the mapping between sound and meaning. Because no finite system can store an infinite number of sentences, and because humans in particular are clearly not pullstring dolls that emit sentences from a finite stored list, one must explain human language abilities by imputing to them a grammar, which in the technical sense is a finite rule system, or programme, or circuit design, capable of generating and recognizing the sentences of a particular language. This "mental grammar" or "psychogrammar" is the neural system that allows us to speak and understand the possible word sequences of our native tongue. A grammar for a specific language is obviously acquired by a human during childhood, but there must be neural circuitry that actually carries out the acquisition process in the child, and this circuitry may be called the language faculty or language acquisition device. An important part of the language faculty is universal grammar, an implementation of a set of principles or constraints that govern the possible form of any human grammar. (Pinker, 1996, p. 263)
       A grammar of language L is essentially a theory of L. Any scientific theory is based on a finite number of observations, and it seeks to relate the observed phenomena and to predict new phenomena by constructing general laws in terms of hypothetical constructs.... Similarly a grammar of English is based on a finite corpus of utterances (observations), and it will contain certain grammatical rules (laws) stated in terms of the particular phonemes, phrases, etc., of English (hypothetical constructs). These rules express structural relations among the sentences of the corpus and the infinite number of sentences generated by the grammar beyond the corpus (predictions). (Chomsky, 1957, p. 49)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Grammar

  • 4 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence

  • 5 dicho

    adj.
    the aforementioned, aforementioned, this, aforesaid.
    intj.
    I meant what I said.
    m.
    saying, adage, aphorism, byword.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: decir.
    * * *
    1 saying, proverb
    ————————
    1→ link=decir decir
    1 said, mentioned
    ■ dicha casa... the said house...
    1 saying, proverb
    1 betrothal sing
    \
    del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, it's easier said than done
    dicho de otro modo to put it another way, in other words
    dicho sea de paso let it be said in passing
    dicho y hecho no sooner said than done
    lo dicho what we (I, you, etc) said
    propiamente dicho,-a strictly speaking
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    1.
    VB [pp] de decir

    o dicho de otro modo... — or, putting it another way,..., or, in other words...

    bueno, lo dicho — OK, then

    • dejar algo dicho, le dejó dicho lo que tenía que hacer antes de irse — she gave him instructions as to what he should do before leaving

    • o mejor dicho — or rather

    • dicho sea de paso — incidentally, by the way

    propiamente 1)
    2.
    ADJ (=este) this

    quieren reformar la ley y para dicho propósito... — they wish to reform the law and to this end...

    y en la cuarta de dichas cartas... — and in the fourth of these letters...

    vamos a hablar de Cáceres: dicha ciudad fue construida en... — and now we come to Caceres: the city was built in...

    dicha compañía fue disuelta en 1994 — this o the said company was dissolved in 1994

    3. SM
    1) (=máxima popular) saying
    2) (=comentario) remark
    3) pl dichos (Rel) betrothal pledge
    * * *
    I
    - cha participio pasado [ver tb decir 2]

    dicho esto, se fue — having said this, he left

    bueno, lo dicho, nos vemos el domingo — oright, that's settled then, I'll see you on Sunday

    eso no se hace, te lo tengo dicho — I've told you before, you mustn't do that

    ¿le quiere dejar algo dicho? — (CS) do you want to leave a message for her?

    dicho de otro modo — to put it another way, in other words

    dicho sea de paso — incidentally, by the way

    dijo que ella lo prepararía y dicho y hecho! en diez minutos estaba listo — she said she would get it ready and, sure enough, ten minutes later there it was

    me quedan tres días, mejor dicho, dos y medio — I have three, or rather, two and a half days left

    II
    - cha adjetivo demostrativo (frml)

    en dichas cuidades... — in these cities...

    dichos documentos deben presentarse inmediatamente — the above o (frml) said documents must be submitted immediately

    III
    masculino saying

    del dicho al hecho va or hay mucho trecho — it's one thing to say something and another to actually do it

    * * *
    I
    - cha participio pasado [ver tb decir 2]

    dicho esto, se fue — having said this, he left

    bueno, lo dicho, nos vemos el domingo — oright, that's settled then, I'll see you on Sunday

    eso no se hace, te lo tengo dicho — I've told you before, you mustn't do that

    ¿le quiere dejar algo dicho? — (CS) do you want to leave a message for her?

    dicho de otro modo — to put it another way, in other words

    dicho sea de paso — incidentally, by the way

    dijo que ella lo prepararía y dicho y hecho! en diez minutos estaba listo — she said she would get it ready and, sure enough, ten minutes later there it was

    me quedan tres días, mejor dicho, dos y medio — I have three, or rather, two and a half days left

    II
    - cha adjetivo demostrativo (frml)

    en dichas cuidades... — in these cities...

    dichos documentos deben presentarse inmediatamente — the above o (frml) said documents must be submitted immediately

    III
    masculino saying

    del dicho al hecho va or hay mucho trecho — it's one thing to say something and another to actually do it

    * * *
    dicho1
    1 = adage, dictum [dicta, -pl.], utterance, wise saying, old saying, saying, saw, refrain.

    Ex: But now she was beginning to wonder if there was any truth to the old adage that 'It's not what you know, but who you know'.

    Ex: John Ward's dictum was that 'deprivation is as much a lack of information and the knowledge to use it as it is of the basic essentials'.
    Ex: One natural strategy for reducing the impact of miscommunication is selective verification of the user utterance meanings.
    Ex: Stories range from one-sentence statements we call jokes and wise sayings, through gossip to the most profound and complicated structures we call novels and poems and plays.
    Ex: Chapters include drinking and moonshine, courting, old cures and remedies, fishing and hunting, plus a chapter of pithy quotes and old sayings.
    Ex: 'Practice makes perfect' is a saying that can be applied to reading.
    Ex: And his life confirms the famous old saw: No man is a prophet in his own land.
    Ex: The importance of the right to information or the right to know is an increasingly constant refrain in the mouths of academics, the media and governments.
    * como dice el dicho = as the saying goes, so the saying goes.
    * del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho = easier said than done, There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
    * dicho bíblico = biblical saying.
    * dicho familiar = familiar saying.
    * dicho favorito = catchphrase.
    * dicho gracioso = witticism, quip.
    * dicho ingenioso = witticism, quip.
    * dicho popular = adage, wise saying, old saying, saying, familiar saying, saw.
    * dicho preferido = catchphrase.
    * dicho sin hecho no tiene provecho = actions speak louder than words.
    * dichos sabios = nuggets of wisdom.
    * entre el dicho y el hecho hay un gran tr = There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
    * entre el dicho y el hecho hay un gran trecho = many a slip between the cup and the lip.

    dicho2
    2 = stated.

    Ex: Throughout, the code is based upon clearly stated principles.

    * bien dicho = amen to that!.
    * cuatro verdades bien dichas = home truth.
    * del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho = actions speak louder than words, many a slip between the cup and the lip.
    * dicho anteriormente, lo = foregoing, the.
    * dicho de otro modo = in other words, said differently.
    * dicho esto = that said.
    * dicho más arriba, lo = foregoing, the.
    * dicho sea a su favor = to + Posesivo + credit.
    * dicho sea de paso = by the way, on a sidenote, by the by(e).
    * dicho sucintamente = economically told.
    * dicho y hecho = no sooner said than done.
    * la verdad sea dicha = to tell the truth.
    * la verdad sea dicha que = if the truth be told.
    * o mejor dicho = or rather.
    * propiamente dicho = proper, properly.
    * ¿Qué ha dicho? = I beg your pardon?.
    * título propiamente dicho = title proper.
    * verdaderamente dicho = in disguise.

    dicho3
    = such.

    Ex: Preferential relationships generally indicate preferred terms or descriptors and distinguish such terms from non-descriptors or non-preferred terms.

    * * *
    pp
    [ ver tb decir2 (↑ decir (2)) ] dicho esto, recogió sus cosas y abandonó la sala having said this o ( frml) so saying, he picked up his things and left the room
    con eso queda todo dicho that says it all
    me remito a lo dicho en la última reunión I refer to what was said at the last meeting
    bueno, lo dicho, nos vemos el domingo right, that's settled then, I'll see you on Sunday
    eso no se hace, te lo tengo dicho how often do I have to tell you not to do that?, I've told you before, you mustn't do that
    ¿le quiere dejar algo dicho? (CS); do you want to leave a message for her?
    dicho así parece fácil if you put it like that it sounds easy
    dicho de otro modo to put it another way, in other words
    dicho sea de paso incidentally, by the way
    y, dicho sea de paso, se portó muy bien con él and, I have to say o it has to be said, she was very good to him
    y ella, que dicho sea de paso todavía me debe los 500 pesos, … and she, who incidentally still owes me the 500 pesos, …
    dijo que ella lo prepararía y ¡dicho y hecho! en diez minutos estaba listo she said she would get it ready and, what do you know? o ( BrE) hey presto, ten minutes later there it was
    yo dije que se iba a caer y ¡dicho y hecho! se hizo añicos I said it was going to fall and, the next minute, it smashed o and, no sooner had I said it than it smashed
    me quedan tres días, mejor dicho, dos y medio I have three, or rather, two and a half days left
    propiamente dicho strictly speaking
    no es un cereal propiamente dicho it is not, strictly speaking, a cereal
    la pintura cubista propiamente dicha Cubist painting in the strict sense of the term
    ( frml):
    excepto en Guayaquil y Quito: en dichas ciudades … except in Guayaquil and Quito: in these cities …
    dichos documentos deben presentarse inmediatamente the above documents must be submitted immediately, said documents must be submitted immediately ( frml)
    no existía dicha dirección there was no such address
    saying
    como dice el dicho as the saying goes
    del dicho al hecho va or hay mucho trecho it's one thing to say something and another to actually do it, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip
    * * *

     

    Del verbo decir: ( conjugate decir)

    dicho es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    decir    
    dicho
    decir 1 sustantivo masculino:
    ◊ ¿cientos de personas? — bueno, es un dicho hundreds of people? — well, figuratively speaking

    decir 2 ( conjugate decir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹palabra/frase/poema› to say;

    ‹mentira/verdad› to tell;
    para ejemplos con complemento indirecto ver división 2

    ¿eso lo dices por mí? are you referring to me?;
    ¡no lo dirás en serio! you can't be serious!;
    dijo que sí con la cabeza he nodded;
    no se dice `andé', se dice `anduve' it isn't `andé', it's `anduve';
    ¡eso no se dice! you mustn't say that!;
    ¿cómo se dice `amor' en ruso? how do you say `love' in Russian?;
    ¿lo encontró? — dice que sí/no did he find it? — he says he did/he didn't
    b)


    2 dichole algo a algn to tell sb sth;
    ◊ voy a dichole a papá que … I'm going to tell Dad …;

    ¡ya te lo decía yo! I told you so!
    3
    a) (expresando órdenes, deseos, advertencias):

    ◊ ¡porque lo digo yo! because I say so!;

    harás lo que yo diga you'll do as I say;
    dice que llames cuando llegues she says (you are) to phone when you get there;
    dijo que tuviéramos cuidado she said to be careful;
    diles que empiecen tell them to start;
    le dije que no lo hiciera I told him not to do it
    b)


    4
    a) (opinar, pensar) to think;


    ¡quién lo hubiera dicho! who would have thought o believed it?;
    es muy fácil — si tú lo dices … it's very easy — if you say so …
    b) (sugerir, comunicar):


    ¿te dice algo ese nombre? does that name mean anything to you?
    5
    ◊ querer decir [palabra/persona] to mean;

    ¿qué quieres dicho con eso? what do you mean by that?
    6 ( en locs)

    como quien dice so to speak;
    es decir that is;
    ¡he dicho! that's that o final!;
    ni que decir tiene que … it goes without saying that …;
    ¡no me digas! no!, you're kidding o joking! (colloq);
    por así decirlo so to speak;
    el qué dirán (fam) what other people (might) think;
    ver tb dicho 1
    verbo intransitivo

    ◊ papá — dime, hijo dad — yes, son?;

    quería pedirle un favor — usted dirá I wanted to ask you a favor — certainly, go ahead
    b) (Esp) ( al contestar el teléfono): ¿diga? or ¿dígame? hello?

    decirse verbo pronominal
    a) ( refl) to say … to oneself

    b) ( recípr) to say …. to each other;


    dicho 1
    ◊ - cha pp ver tb decir 2: dicho esto, se fue having said this, he left;

    con eso queda todo dicho that says it all;
    dicho de otro modo to put it another way, in other words;
    dicho sea de paso incidentally, by the way;
    y ¡dicho y hecho! en diez minutos estaba listo and, sure enough, ten minutes later there it was
    ■ adj dem (frml): en dichas ciudades … in these cities …;
    dicha información that information;
    dichos documentos (en escrito, documento) the above o (frml) said documents
    dicho 2 sustantivo masculino
    saying
    decir
    I m (dicho, sentencia) saying: es sólo un decir, it's just a manner of speaking
    II verbo transitivo
    1 to say: está diciendo una mentira/la verdad, she's telling a lie/the truth
    no dijo nada, he said nothing
    2 (con complemento indirecto) to tell: no le dije mi opinión, I didn't tell him my opinion
    les dijo que esperaran un rato, she told them to wait for a while
    3 (opinar, afirmar, proponer) ¿qué me dices de mi nuevo corte de pelo?, what do you think of my new haircut?, te digo que es una extravagancia, I think it's quite weird
    yo digo que vayamos a Cuenca, I suggest going to Cuenca
    4 (suscitar interés, una idea) to mean, appeal: ese libro no me dice nada, that book doesn't appeal to me
    ¿le dice algo esta cara?, does this face mean anything to you?
    5 (mostrar, indicar) to say, show: lo que hizo dice mucho en su favor, what he did says a lot for him
    su cara de decepción lo dice todo, his long face says it all
    ♦ Locuciones: Tel Esp diga o dígame, hello?
    digamos, let's say
    digo yo, in my opinion
    el qué dirán, what people will say
    es decir, that is (to say)
    ni que decir tiene, needless to say
    no decir esta boca es mía, not to say a word
    ¡no me digas!, really!
    por así decirlo, as it were o so to speak
    querer decir, to mean
    ¡y que lo digas!, you bet! ➣ Ver nota en mean
    ¿To tell     o to say?
    Observa que to tell menciona a la persona a la cual va dirigida una frase: Dime tu nombre. Tell me your name. Les dijo que se fueran. He told them to go away.
    Por el contrario, to say se centra en el contenido del mensaje, sin importarnos a quién va dirigido: ¿Qué has dicho? What did you say? Dijo que sí. He said yes. ➣ Ver nota en tell.
    dicho,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 said, mentioned: ya os lo tengo dicho, I've told you before
    dicho de otro modo, in other words
    2 (mencionado con anterioridad) dicha publicación, the above-mentioned publication
    II m (refrán, sentencia) saying
    ♦ Locuciones: dicho y hecho, no sooner said than done
    mejor dicho, or rather

    ' dicho' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    actual
    - bastar
    - ciudad
    - coña
    - coordinador
    - coordinadora
    - decir
    - dejar
    - desvarío
    - dicha
    - diversa
    - diverso
    - frase
    - maldad
    - mamarrachada
    - molesta
    - molesto
    - mu
    - necedad
    - picardía
    - propiamente
    - reafirmarse
    - sentencia
    - tal
    - tata
    - tener
    - vez
    - arrepentido
    - bien
    - cómo
    - deber
    - estupidez
    - haber
    - impertinencia
    - indiscreción
    - ingenioso
    - injusticia
    - insensatez
    - insolencia
    - lengua
    - ligereza
    - limitar
    - majadería
    - mejor
    - mentiroso
    - mirar
    - mucho
    - negar
    - paso
    - pavada
    English:
    actual
    - bird
    - but
    - do
    - proper
    - rather
    - recollect
    - said
    - say
    - saying
    - should
    - soon
    - take back
    - what
    - witticism
    - word
    - go
    - hear
    - message
    - ought
    - point
    - something
    - well
    - wish
    * * *
    dicho, -a
    ♦ participio
    ver decir
    ♦ adj
    said, aforementioned;
    dichos individuos… the said o aforesaid individuals…;
    recibió un paquete, dicho paquete contenía… she received a parcel, and this parcel contained…;
    lo dicho no significa que… having said this, it does not mean (that)…;
    de lo dicho se desprende que… from what has been said one gathers that…;
    o mejor dicho or rather;
    dicho y hecho no sooner said than done;
    dejar dicho to leave word;
    dejé dicho que no me molestaran I left word that I was not to be disturbed;
    RP
    ¿quiere dejarle algo dicho? [al teléfono] can I take a message?;
    lo dicho: lo dicho, no voy a ir like I said, I'm not going to go;
    lo dicho, os veré en el cine ok then, I'll see you at the cinema
    ♦ nm
    saying;
    como dice o [m5]reza el dicho,… as the saying goes,…;
    del dicho al hecho hay mucho o [m5] un gran trecho there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
    * * *
    I part → decir
    II adj said
    III m saying;
    del dicho al hecho hay gran trecho easier said than done
    * * *
    dicho, - cha adj
    : said, aforementioned
    dicho nm
    decir: saying, proverb
    * * *
    dicho n saying

    Spanish-English dictionary > dicho

  • 6 Coimbra, University of

       Portugal's oldest and once its most prestigious university. As one of Europe's oldest seats of learning, the University of Coimbra and its various roles have a historic importance that supersedes merely the educational. For centuries, the university formed and trained the principal elites and professions that dominated Portugal. For more than a century, certain members of its faculty entered the central government in Lisbon. A few, such as law professor Afonso Costa, mathematics instructor Sidônio Pais, anthropology professor Bernardino Machado, and economics professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, became prime ministers and presidents of the republic. In such a small country, with relatively few universities until recently, Portugal counted Coimbra's university as the educational cradle of its leaders and knew its academic traditions as an intimate part of national life.
       Established in 1290 by King Dinis, the university first opened in Lisbon but was moved to Coimbra in 1308, and there it remained. University buildings were placed high on a hill, in a position that
       physically dominates Portugal's third city. While sections of the medieval university buildings are present, much of what today remains of the old University of Coimbra dates from the Manueline era (1495-1521) and the 17th and 18th centuries. The main administration building along the so-called Via Latina is baroque, in the style of the 17th and 18th centuries. Most prominent among buildings adjacent to the central core structures are the Chapel of São Miguel, built in the 17th century, and the magnificent University Library, of the era of wealthy King João V, built between 1717 and 1723. Created entirely by Portuguese artists and architects, the library is unique among historic monuments in Portugal. Its rare book collection, a monument in itself, is complemented by exquisite gilt wood decorations and beautiful doors, windows, and furniture. Among visitors and tourists, the chapel and library are the prime attractions to this day.
       The University underwent important reforms under the Pombaline administration (1750-77). Efforts to strengthen Coimbra's position in advanced learning and teaching by means of a new curriculum, including new courses in new fields and new degrees and colleges (in Portugal, major university divisions are usually called "faculties") often met strong resistance. In the Age of the Discoveries, efforts were made to introduce the useful study of mathematics, which was part of astronomy in that day, and to move beyond traditional medieval study only of theology, canon law, civil law, and medicine. Regarding even the advanced work of the Portuguese astronomer and mathematician Pedro Nunes, however, Coimbra University was lamentably slow in introducing mathematics or a school of arts and general studies. After some earlier efforts, the 1772 Pombaline Statutes, the core of the Pombaline reforms at Coimbra, had an impact that lasted more than a century. These reforms remained in effect to the end of the monarchy, when, in 1911, the First Republic instituted changes that stressed the secularization of learning. This included the abolition of the Faculty of Theology.
       Elaborate, ancient traditions and customs inform the faculty and student body of Coimbra University. Tradition flourishes, although some customs are more popular than others. Instead of residing in common residences or dormitories as in other countries, in Coimbra until recently students lived in the city in "Republics," private houses with domestic help hired by the students. Students wore typical black academic gowns. Efforts during the Revolution of 25 April 1974 and aftermath to abolish the wearing of the gowns, a powerful student image symbol, met resistance and generated controversy. In romantic Coimbra tradition, students with guitars sang characteristic songs, including Coimbra fado, a more cheerful song than Lisbon fado, and serenaded other students at special locations. Tradition also decreed that at graduation graduates wore their gowns but burned their school (or college or subject) ribbons ( fitas), an important ceremonial rite of passage.
       The University of Coimbra, while it underwent a revival in the 1980s and 1990s, no longer has a virtual monopoly over higher education in Portugal. By 1970, for example, the country had only four public and one private university, and the University of Lisbon had become more significant than ancient Coimbra. At present, diversity in higher education is even more pronounced: 12 private universities and 14 autonomous public universities are listed, not only in Lisbon and Oporto, but at provincial locations. Still, Coimbra retains an influence as the senior university, some of whose graduates still enter national government and distinguished themselves in various professions.
       An important student concern at all institutions of higher learning, and one that marked the last half of the 1990s and continued into the next century, was the question of increased student fees and tuition payments (in Portuguese, propinas). Due to the expansion of the national universities in function as well as in the size of student bodies, national budget constraints, and the rising cost of education, the central government began to increase student fees. The student movement protested this change by means of various tactics, including student strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations. At the same time, a growing number of private universities began to attract larger numbers of students who could afford the higher fees in private institutions, but who had been denied places in the increasingly competitive and pressured public universities.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Coimbra, University of

  • 7 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 8 place

    1. noun
    1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

    I left it in a safe place — ich habe es an einem sicheren Ort gelassen

    it was still in the same place — es war noch an derselben Stelle od. am selben Platz

    all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

    in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

    find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also academic.ru/73191/take">take 1. 4)

    2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

    know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

    3) (building or area for specific purpose)

    a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

    do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

    place of residence — Wohnort, der

    place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

    place of worship — Andachtsort, der

    4) (country, town) Ort, der

    Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

    place of birth — Geburtsort, der

    go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

    5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

    she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

    [shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

    6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

    change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

    lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

    7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

    lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

    8) (step, stage)

    why didn't you say so in the first place? — warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt?

    in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

    9) (proper place) Platz, der

    everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

    into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

    out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

    10) (position in competition) Platz, der

    take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

    11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der
    12) (personal situation)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (put) (vertically) stellen; (horizontally) legen

    place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

    place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

    2) (fig.)

    place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

    3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

    we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

    how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

    4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)
    5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

    I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

    be placed second in the race — im Rennen den zweiten Platz belegen

    * * *
    [pleis] 1. noun
    1) (a particular spot or area: a quiet place in the country; I spent my holiday in various different places.) der Ort
    2) (an empty space: There's a place for your books on this shelf.) der Platz
    3) (an area or building with a particular purpose: a market-place.) der Platz
    4) (a seat (in a theatre, train, at a table etc): He went to his place and sat down.) der Platz
    5) (a position in an order, series, queue etc: She got the first place in the competition; I lost my place in the queue.) der Platz
    6) (a person's position or level of importance in society etc: You must keep your secretary in her place.) der Platz
    7) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) die Stelle
    8) (duty or right: It's not my place to tell him he's wrong.) die Aufgabe
    9) (a job or position in a team, organization etc: He's got a place in the team; He's hoping for a place on the staff.) der Platz
    10) (house; home: Come over to my place.) die Wohnung
    11) ((often abbreviated to Pl. when written) a word used in the names of certain roads, streets or squares.) der Platz
    12) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) die Stelle
    2. verb
    1) (to put: He placed it on the table; He was placed in command of the army.) stellen, setzen
    2) (to remember who a person is: I know I've seen her before, but I can't quite place her.) einordnen
    •
    - place-name
    - go places
    - in the first
    - second place
    - in place
    - in place of
    - out of place
    - put oneself in someone else's place
    - put someone in his place
    - put in his place
    - take place
    - take the place of
    * * *
    [pleɪs]
    I. NOUN
    1. (location) Ort m
    I hate busy \places ich hasse Orte, an denen viel los ist
    the hotel was one of those big, old-fashioned \places das Hotel war eines dieser großen altmodischen Häuser
    we're staying at a bed-and-breakfast \place wir übernachten in einer Frühstückspension
    let's go to a pizza \place lass uns eine Pizza essen gehen
    this is the exact \place! das ist genau die Stelle!
    this plant needs a warm, sunny \place diese Pflanze sollte an einem warmen, sonnigen Ort stehen
    Scotland is a very nice \place Schottland ist ein tolles Land fam
    that café is a nice \place dieses Café ist echt nett fam
    a nice little \place at the seaside ein netter kleiner Ort am Meer
    please put this book back in its \place bitte stell dieses Buch wieder an seinen Platz zurück
    this is the \place my mother was born hier wurde meine Mutter geboren
    sorry, I can't be in two \places at once tut mir leid, ich kann nicht überall gleichzeitig sein
    \place of birth Geburtsort m
    \place of custody Verwahrungsort m
    \place of death Sterbeort m
    \place of delivery Erfüllungsort m
    \place of employment Arbeitsplatz m
    \place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m
    \place of performance Erfüllungsort m
    \place of refuge Zufluchtsort m
    \place of residence Wohnort m
    a \place in the sun ( fig) ein Plätzchen an der Sonne
    \place of work Arbeitsplatz m, Arbeitsstätte f
    to go \places AM weit herumkommen, viel sehen
    in \places stellenweise
    this plant still exists in \places diese Pflanze kommt noch vereinzelt vor
    2. no pl (appropriate setting) [geeigneter] Ort
    this meeting isn't the \place to discuss individual cases diese Konferenz ist nicht der Ort, um Einzelfälle zu diskutieren
    university was not the \place for me die Universität war irgendwie nicht mein Ding fam
    that bar is not a \place for a woman like you Frauen wie du haben in solch einer Bar nichts verloren
    I'm looking for a \place to live ich bin auf Wohnungssuche
    we'll have a meeting at my \place/Susan's \place wir treffen uns bei mir/bei Susan
    where's your \place? wo wohnst du?; ( fam)
    your \place or mine? zu dir oder zu mir?
    they're trying to buy a larger \place wir sind auf der Suche nach einer größeren Wohnung
    4. ( fig: position, rank) Stellung f
    she's got friends in high \places sie hat Freunde in hohen Positionen
    they have a \place among the country's leading exporters sie zählen zu den führenden Exporteuren des Landes
    it's not your \place to tell me what to do es steht dir nicht zu, mir zu sagen, was ich zu tun habe
    I'm not criticizing you — I know my \place das ist keine Kritik — das würde ich doch nie wagen!
    to keep sb in their \place jdn in seine Schranken weisen
    to put sb in his/her \place [or show sb his/her \place] jdm zeigen, wo es langgeht fam
    ▪ in \place of stattdessen
    you can use margarine in \place of butter statt Butter kannst du auch Margarine nehmen
    I invited Jo in \place of Les, who was ill Les war krank, daher habe ich Jo eingeladen
    ▪ to be in \place an seinem Platz sein; ( fig: completed) fertig [o abgeschlossen] sein
    the chairs were all in \place die Stühle waren alle dort, wo sie sein sollten; ( fig)
    the arrangements are all in \place now die Vorbereitungen sind jetzt abgeschlossen; ( fig)
    the new laws are now in \place die neuen Gesetze gelten jetzt; ( fig)
    suddenly all fell into \place plötzlich machte alles Sinn
    to be out of \place nicht an der richtigen Stelle sein; person fehl am Platz[e] sein; ( fig)
    the large desk was totally out of \place in such a small room der große Schreibtisch war in solch einem kleinen Zimmer völlig deplatziert
    what you've just said was completely out of \place was du da gerade gesagt hast, war völlig unangebracht
    to push sth in \place etw in die richtige Position schieben
    7. MATH (in decimals) Stelle f
    to five \places of decimals bis auf fünf Stellen hinter dem Komma
    8. (job, position) Stelle f; (in team) Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m
    your \place is here by my side du gehörst an meine Seite
    to take the \place of sb jds Platz einnehmen
    9. (in book) Stelle f
    to find one's \place die [richtige] Stelle wiederfinden
    to keep one's \place markieren, wo man gerade ist/war
    to lose one's \place die Seite verblättern[, wo man gerade war]; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, wo man gerade ist
    10. (seat) Platz m
    is this \place taken? ist dieser Platz noch frei?
    to change \places with sb mit jdm die Plätze tauschen
    to keep sb's \place [or save sb a \place] jdm den Platz freihalten
    to lay a/another \place ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen
    to take one's \place at table Platz nehmen
    11. (position) Stelle f
    just put yourself in my \place versetzen Sie sich doch mal in meine Lage!
    if I were in your \place... ich an deiner Stelle...
    what would you do in my \place? was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?
    12. (ranking) Platz m, Position f
    the song went from tenth to second \place in the charts das Lied stieg vom zehnten auf den zweiten Platz in den Charts
    our team finished in second \place unsere Mannschaft wurde Zweiter
    to take [or esp BRIT get] first/second \place Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden
    to take first/second \place ( fig) an erster/zweiter Stelle kommen
    their children always take first \place ihre Kinder stehen für sie immer an erster Stelle
    in second \place auf dem zweiten Platz
    13. SPORT
    to get a \place sich akk platzieren; AM Zweite(r) werden
    14. AM ( fam: somewhere)
    I know I left that book some \place ich weiß, dass ich das Buch irgendwo gelassen habe
    15.
    ▶ all over the \place (everywhere) überall; (badly organized) [völlig] chaotisch; (spread around) in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerstreut
    ▶ a \place for everything and everything in its \place ( prov) jedes Ding hat seinen Platz
    ▶ in the first \place (at first) zuerst; (at all) überhaupt
    we shouldn't have got married in the first \place! wir hätten erst gar nicht heiraten dürfen!
    but why didn't you say that in the first \place? aber warum hast du denn das nicht gleich gesagt?
    ▶ in the first/second \place (firstly, secondly) erstens/zweitens
    ▶ to give \place to sb/sth jdm/etw Platz machen
    ▶ to go \places ( fam) auf dem Weg nach oben sein
    ▶ to take \place stattfinden
    ▶ there is a \place and time for everything alles zu seiner Zeit
    ▪ to \place sth somewhere etw irgendwohin stellen; (lay) etw irgendwohin legen
    bowls of flowers had been \placed on tables auf den Tischen waren Blumenvasen aufgestellt
    the Chancellor \placed a wreath on the tomb der Kanzler legte einen Kranz auf dem Grab nieder
    she \placed her name on the list sie setzte ihren Namen auf die Liste
    he \placed his hand on my shoulder er legte mir die Hand auf die Schulter
    to \place an advertisement in the newspaper eine Anzeige in die Zeitung setzen
    to \place sth on the agenda etw auf die Tagesordnung setzen
    to \place a bet on sth auf etw akk wetten
    to \place sb under sb's care jdn in jds Obhut geben
    to \place a comma ein Komma setzen
    to \place one foot in front of the other einen Fuß vor den anderen setzen
    to \place a gun at sb's head jdn eine Pistole an den Kopf setzen
    to \place money on sth Geld auf etw akk setzen
    ▪ to be \placed shop, town liegen
    2. (impose)
    to \place an embargo on sb/sth über jdn/etw ein Embargo verhängen
    to \place a limit [or ceiling] on sth etw begrenzen
    to \place ten pounds/half a million on sth etw mit zehn Pfund/einer halben Million veranschlagen
    3. (ascribe)
    to \place the blame on sb jdm die Schuld geben
    to \place one's faith [or trust] in sb/sth sein Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen
    to \place one's hopes on sb/sth seine Hoffnungen auf jdn/etw setzen
    to \place importance on sth auf etw akk Wert legen
    ... and she \placed the emphasis on the word ‘soon’... und die Betonung lag auf ‚schnell‘
    he \placed stress on every second syllable er betonte jede zweite Silbe
    4. (arrange for)
    to \place a call ein Telefongespräch anmelden
    to \place sth at sb's disposal jdm etw überlassen
    5. (appoint to a position)
    ▪ to \place sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwo unterbringen [o SCHWEIZ platzieren]
    to \place sb on [the] alert jdn in Alarmbereitschaft versetzen
    to \place sb under arrest jdn festnehmen
    to \place sb in charge [of sth] jdm die Leitung [von etw dat] übertragen
    to \place sb in jeopardy jdn in Gefahr bringen
    to \place sb under pressure jdn unter Druck setzen
    to \place a strain on sb/sth jdn/etw belasten
    to \place staff Personal unterbringen [o vermitteln]
    to \place sb under surveillance jdn unter Beobachtung stellen
    the town was \placed under the control of UN peacekeeping troops die Stadt wurde unter die Aufsicht der UN-Friedenstruppen gestellt
    ▪ to \place sb/sth face, person, voice, accent jdn/etw einordnen
    ▪ to \place sb/sth jdn/etw einordnen
    to be \placed SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM unter die ersten zwei kommen
    to be \placed first/second SPORT Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden
    ▪ to \place sth above [or before] [or over] sth etw über etw akk stellen
    sb \places sth above all other things etw steht bei jdm an erster Stelle
    I'd \place him among the world's ten most brilliant scientists für mich ist er einer der zehn hervorragendsten Wissenschaftler der Welt
    they \placed the painting in the Renaissance sie ordneten das Bild der Renaissance zu
    8. ECON
    ▪ to \place sth goods etw absetzen
    to \place an order for sth etw bestellen
    to \place an order with a firm einer Firma einen Auftrag erteilen
    9. passive (good position)
    ▪ to be well \placed for sth für etw akk eine gute Ausgangsposition haben
    we're well \placed for the shops wir haben es nicht weit zum Einkaufen fam
    to be well \placed financially finanziell gut dastehen
    to be well \placed to watch sth von seinem Platz aus etw gut sehen können
    10. passive (have at disposal)
    ▪ to be well \placed for sth:
    how \placed are you for time/money? wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?
    SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM also (finish second) Zweite(r) werden
    * * *
    [pleɪs]
    1. NOUN
    1) general Platz m, Stelle f

    this is the place where he was born —

    bed is the best place for him — im Bett ist er am besten aufgehoben

    we found a good place to watch the procession from — wir fanden einen Platz, von dem wir den Umzug gut sehen konnten

    in the right/wrong place — an der richtigen/falschen Stelle

    some/any place — irgendwo

    a poor man with no place to go — ein armer Mann, der nicht weiß, wohin

    this is no place for you/children —

    there is no place for the unsuccessful in our society your place is by his side — für Erfolglose ist in unserer Gesellschaft kein Platz dein Platz ist an seiner Seite

    this isn't the place to discuss politics — dies ist nicht der Ort, um über Politik zu sprechen

    I can't be in two places at once! —

    she likes to have a place for everything and everything in its place — sie hält sehr auf Ordnung und achtet darauf, dass alles an seinem Platz liegt

    2) = geographical location = district Gegend f; (= country) Land nt; (= building) Gebäude nt; (= town) Ort m

    there's nothing to do in the evenings in this place —

    3) = home Haus nt, Wohnung f

    come round to my place some time — besuch mich mal, komm doch mal vorbei

    4) in book etc Stelle f

    to keep one's place — sich (dat) die richtige Stelle markieren

    to lose one's place — die Seite verblättern; (on page) die Zeile verlieren

    5) = seat, position at table, in team, school, hospital Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m; (= job) Stelle f

    to take one's place (at table) —

    take your places for a square dance! — Aufstellung zur Quadrille, bitte!

    if I were in your place — an Ihrer Stelle, wenn ich an Ihrer Stelle wäre

    to take the place of sb/sth — jdn/etw ersetzen, jds Platz or den Platz von jdm/etw einnehmen

    6) in hierarchy Rang m, Stellung f

    to know one's place — wissen, was sich (für einen) gehört

    of course I'm not criticizing you, I know my place! (hum) — ich kritisiere dich selbstverständlich nicht, das steht mir gar nicht zu

    it's not my place to comment/tell him what to do — es steht mir nicht zu, einen Kommentar abzugeben/ihm zu sagen, was er tun soll

    that put him in his place! — das hat ihn erst mal zum Schweigen gebracht, da hab ichs/hat ers etc ihm gezeigt (inf)

    7) in exam, competition Platz m, Stelle f

    Lunt won, with Moore in second place — Lunt hat gewonnen, an zweiter Stelle or auf dem zweiten Platz lag Moore

    to win first place — Erste(r, s) sein

    to take second place to sth — einer Sache (dat) gegenüber zweitrangig sein

    to get a place —

    to back a horse for a place — auf Platz wetten, eine Platzwette abschließen

    9) in street names Platz m
    10) MATH Stelle f
    11)

    set structures __diams; place of + noun place of amusement — Vergnügungsstätte f

    place of business or work — Arbeitsstelle f __diams; in places stellenweise

    make sure the wire/screw is properly in place — achten Sie darauf, dass der Draht/die Schraube richtig sitzt

    to look out of place —

    McCormack played in goal in place of Miller — McCormack stand anstelle von Miller im Tor __diams; to fall into place Gestalt annehmen

    in the first place..., in the second place... — erstens..., zweitens...

    he's going places (fig inf) — er bringts zu was (inf) __diams; to give place to sth einer Sache (dat) Platz machen

    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1) = put setzen, stellen; (= lay down) legen; person at table etc setzen; guards aufstellen; shot (with gun) anbringen; (FTBL, TENNIS) platzieren; troops in Stellung bringen; announcement (in paper) inserieren (in in +dat); advertisement setzen (in in +acc)

    she slowly placed one foot in front of the other —

    he placed the cue ball right behind the black he placed a gun to my head — er setzte die Spielkugel direkt hinter die schwarze Kugel er setzte mir eine Pistole an den Kopf

    she placed a finger on her lips —

    to place confidence/trust in sb/sth — Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen

    how are you placed for time/money? — wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?

    we are well placed for the shops — was Einkaufsmöglichkeiten angeht, wohnen wir günstig

    they were well placed to observe the whole battle — sie hatten einen günstigen Platz, von dem sie die ganze Schlacht verfolgen konnten

    we are well placed now to finish the job by next year —

    2) = rank stellen

    to place local interests above or before or over those of central government — kommunale Interessen über die der Zentralregierung stellen

    3) = identify context of einordnen

    in which school would you place this painting? —

    I don't know, it's very difficult to place I can't quite place him/his accent — ich weiß es nicht, es ist sehr schwer einzuordnen ich kann ihn/seinen Akzent nicht einordnen

    historians place the book in the 5th century AD — Historiker datieren das Buch auf das 5. Jahrhundert

    4) COMM goods absetzen; order erteilen (with sb jdm); contract abschließen (with sb mit jdm)

    who did you place the computer typesetting job with? —

    this is the last time we place any work with you — das ist das letzte Mal, dass wir Ihnen einen Auftrag erteilt haben

    5) money (= deposit) deponieren; (= invest) investieren
    6) phone call anmelden
    7) = find job for unterbringen (with bei)

    the agency is trying to place him with a building firm — die Agentur versucht, ihn bei einer Baufirma unterzubringen

    * * *
    place [pleıs]
    A s
    1. Ort m, Stelle f, Platz m:
    from place to place von Ort zu Ort;
    in places stellenweise;
    the goalkeeper was exactly in the right place SPORT der Torhüter stand goldrichtig;
    all over the place umg überall;
    his hair was all over the place umg er war ganz zerzaust;
    come to the wrong place an die falsche Adresse geraten;
    keep sb’s place jemandem seinen Platz frei halten ( in a queue in einer Schlange);
    lay a place for sb für jemanden decken;
    take place stattfinden;
    win a place in the semifinals SPORT ins Halbfinale einziehen, sich fürs Halbfinale qualifizieren; → safe A 1
    2. (mit adj) Stelle f:
    3. (eingenommene) Stelle:
    take sb’s place
    a) jemandes Stelle einnehmen,
    b) jemanden vertreten;
    take the place of ersetzen, an die Stelle treten von (od gen);
    in place of anstelle von (od gen);
    if I were in your place I would … ich an Ihrer Stelle würde …; wenn ich Sie wäre, würde ich …;
    put yourself in my place versetzen Sie sich (doch einmal) in meine Lage!
    4. Platz m (Raum):
    give place (to) Platz machen (für oder dat) (a. fig), nachgeben (dat)
    5. (richtiger oder ordnungsgemäßer) Platz (auch fig): in his library every book has its place hat jedes Buch seinen Platz;
    find one’s place sich zurechtfinden;
    know one’s place wissen, wohin man gehört;
    in (out of) place (nicht) am (richtigen) Platz;
    this remark was out of place diese Bemerkung war deplatziert oder unangebracht;
    feel out of place sich fehl am Platz fühlen;
    a) das oder hier ist nicht der (geeignete) Ort für,
    b) das ist nicht der richtige Zeitpunkt für;
    such people have no place in our club für solche Leute ist kein Platz in unserem Verein;
    put sth back in its place etwas (an seinen Platz) zurücklegen oder -stellen;
    put sb back in their place jemanden in die oder seine Schranken verweisen; → click1 B 4, fall into 1, slot1 C
    6. Ort m, Stätte f:
    one of the best places to eat eines der besten Restaurants oder Speiselokale;
    place of amusement Vergnügungsstätte;
    place of birth Geburtsort;
    place of interest Sehenswürdigkeit f;
    place of work Arbeitsplatz m, -stelle f;
    a) Kultstätte,
    b) Gotteshaus n;
    a) ausgehen,
    b) (umher)reisen,
    c) fig es zu etwas bringen; → assembly 1
    7. WIRTSCH Ort m, Platz m, Sitz m:
    place of business Geschäftssitz;
    place of delivery Erfüllungsort;
    place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m;
    place of payment Zahlungsort;
    8. Haus n, Wohnung f:
    at his place bei ihm (zu Hause);
    he came over to my place yesterday er kam gestern zu mir;
    your place or mine? umg bei dir od bei mir?
    9. Ort(schaft) m(f):
    Munich is a nice place to live in München lebt man angenehm oder lässt es sich angenehm leben; → exile A 1
    10. Gegend f:
    11. THEAT Ort m (der Handlung)
    12. umg Lokal n:
    go to a Greek place zum Griechen gehen
    13. SCHIFF Platz m, Hafen m:
    place of tran(s)shipment Umschlagplatz;
    place of call Anlaufhafen
    14. Raum m (Ggs Zeit)
    15. Stelle f (in einem Buch etc):
    lose one’s place die Seite verblättern oder verschlagen;
    I’ve lost my place auch ich weiß nicht mehr, wo (an welcher Stelle) ich war;
    the audience laughed in the right places an den richtigen Stellen
    16. MATH (Dezimal) Stelle f:
    of many places vielstellig;
    place value Stellenwert m
    17. Platz m, Stelle f (in einer Reihenfolge):
    a) an erster Stelle, erstens, zuerst, als Erst(er, e, es),
    b) in erster Linie,
    c) überhaupt (erst),
    d) ursprünglich;
    why did you do it in the first place? warum haben Sie es überhaupt getan?;
    you should not have done it in the first place Sie hätten es von vornherein bleiben lassen sollen;
    why didn’t you admit it in the first place? warum hast du es nicht gleich zugegeben?;
    in the last place an letzter Stelle, zuletzt, als letzt(er, e, es); schließlich; → second1 A 1
    18. SPORT etc Platz m:
    in third place auf dem dritten Platz;
    take third place den dritten Platz belegen; → second1 A 1
    19. (Sitz)Platz m, Sitz m:
    take your places nehmen Sie Ihre Plätze ein!
    20. a) (An)Stellung f, (Arbeits)Stelle f, Posten m:
    out of place stellenlos
    b) UNIV Studienplatz m
    21. Amt n:
    a) Dienst m:
    in place im Amt (Minister etc), im Staatsdienst
    b) fig Aufgabe f, Pflicht f:
    it is not my place to do this es ist nicht meine Aufgabe, dies zu tun
    22. (soziale) Stellung, Stand m, Rang m:
    in high places an hoher Stelle;
    persons in high places hochstehende Persönlichkeiten
    23. fig Grund m:
    there’s no place for doubt es besteht kein Grund zu zweifeln
    B v/t
    1. stellen, setzen, legen (alle auch fig):
    place together Tische etc zusammenstellen;
    place a call ein (Telefon)Gespräch anmelden;
    place a coffin einen Sarg aufbahren;
    place in order zurechtstellen, ordnen;
    place sb in a difficult place jemanden in eine schwierige Lage bringen;
    he places hono(u)r above wealth ihm ist Ehre wichtiger als Reichtum;
    place on record aufzeichnen, (schriftlich) festhalten;
    the referee was well placed SPORT der Schiedsrichter stand günstig
    2. Posten etc aufstellen:
    place o.s. sich aufstellen oder postieren
    3. I can’t place him ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen oder wohin ich ihn tun soll (woher ich ihn kenne)
    4. einen Wohnungssuchenden etc unterbringen ( with bei), einen Arbeitssuchenden auch vermitteln
    5. jemanden ein-, anstellen
    6. jemanden ernennen oder in ein Amt einsetzen
    7. (der Lage nach) näher bestimmen
    8. WIRTSCH
    a) eine Anleihe, Kapital unterbringen
    b) (with) Aufträge erteilen (dat), vergeben (an akk), eine Bestellung aufgeben (bei)
    c) einen Vertrag, eine Versicherung abschließen:
    place an issue eine Emission unterbringen oder platzieren
    9. Ware absetzen
    10. a) be placed SPORT sich platzieren, platziert sein, unter den ersten drei sein:
    be placed 6th sich an 6. Stelle platzieren
    b) how are you placed for money? bes Br wie sieht es bei dir finanziell aus?
    11. SPORT
    a) den Ball platzieren
    b) Rugby: ein Tor mit einem Platztritt schießen
    12. ELEK schalten:
    place in parallel parallel schalten
    C v/i SPORT US
    a) → B 10 a
    b) den zweiten Platz belegen
    pl. abk
    1. place Pl.
    3. plural Pl.
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

    all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

    in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

    find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also take 1. 4)

    2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

    know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

    it's not my place to do that — es kommt mir nicht zu, das zu tun

    a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

    do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

    place of residence — Wohnort, der

    place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

    place of worship — Andachtsort, der

    4) (country, town) Ort, der

    Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

    place of birth — Geburtsort, der

    go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

    5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

    she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

    [shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

    6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

    change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

    lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

    7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

    lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

    8) (step, stage)

    in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

    9) (proper place) Platz, der

    everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

    into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

    out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

    take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

    11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der
    2. transitive verb

    place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

    place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

    2) (fig.)

    place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

    3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

    we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

    how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

    4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)
    5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

    I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

    * * *
    n.
    Ort -e m.
    Ortschaft f.
    Platzierung f.
    Plazierung (alt.Rechtschreibung) f.
    Plazierung f.
    Stelle -n f.
    Stätte -n f. v.
    platzieren v.
    plazieren (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

    English-german dictionary > place

  • 9 much

    much [mʌtʃ]
    beaucoup de ⇒ 1 beaucoup ⇒ 2 (a), 3 autant de ⇒ 5 1 autant que ⇒ 5 2, 6 2 combien (de) ⇒ 8 tant de ⇒ 10 tellement (de) ⇒ 3
    ⓘ GRAM Hormis dans la langue soutenue et dans certaines expressions, ne s'utilise que dans des structures négatives ou interrogatives.
    beaucoup de;
    ∎ we don't have much time on n'a pas beaucoup de temps;
    ∎ there isn't much cake/money left il ne reste pas beaucoup de gâteau/d'argent;
    ∎ the tablets didn't do much good les comprimés n'ont pas servi à grand-chose ou n'ont pas fait beaucoup d'effet;
    ∎ ironic much good may it do you! grand bien vous fasse!
    (a) (gen) beaucoup;
    ∎ is there much left? est-ce qu'il en reste beaucoup?;
    ∎ is there any left? - not much est-ce qu'il en reste? - pas beaucoup;
    ∎ there's still much to be decided il reste encore beaucoup de choses à décider;
    ∎ he hadn't much to say on the subject il n'avait pas grand-chose à dire à ce sujet;
    ∎ there's not much anyone can do about it personne n'y peut grand-chose;
    ∎ we have much to be thankful for nous avons beaucoup de raisons d'être reconnaissants;
    ∎ much of the time (long period) la majeure partie du temps; (very often) la plupart du temps;
    ∎ much of the coffee had to be thrown away on a dû jeter une grande partie du café;
    ∎ there is not much of it il n'y en a pas beaucoup;
    ∎ I agreed with much of what she said j'étais d'accord avec presque tout ce qu'elle a dit
    ∎ I'm not much of a hiker je ne suis pas un très bon marcheur;
    ∎ it hasn't been much of a holiday ce n'était pas vraiment des vacances;
    ∎ it wasn't much of a surprise ce n'était pas une grande surprise;
    ∎ it wasn't much of a joke ce n'était pas terrible comme plaisanterie;
    ∎ what he said didn't amount to much il n'avait pas grand-chose d'important à dire;
    ∎ his plans didn't come to much ses projets n'ont pas abouti à grand-chose;
    ∎ the defence made much of the witness's criminal record la défense a beaucoup insisté sur le casier judiciaire du témoin;
    ∎ I couldn't make much of the figures je n'ai pas compris grand-chose aux chiffres;
    ∎ I don't think much of him/of his technique je n'ai pas une très haute opinion de lui/de sa technique;
    ∎ there's much to be said for the old-fashioned method la vieille méthode a beaucoup d'avantages;
    ∎ there's much to be said for his suggestions il y a des choses fort intéressantes dans ce qu'il propose;
    ∎ it's not up to much ça ne vaut pas grand-chose;
    ∎ he's not up to much ce n'est pas une lumière;
    ∎ there's not much in it il n'y a pas une grande différence;
    ∎ familiar ironic he doesn't want or ask or expect much, does he? il n'est pas difficile, lui, au moins!
    beaucoup;
    ∎ I don't drink much je ne bois pas beaucoup;
    ∎ I don't like them much, I don't much like them je ne les aime pas beaucoup;
    ∎ much admired/appreciated très admiré/apprécié;
    ∎ much happier/more slowly beaucoup plus heureux/plus lentement;
    ∎ much worse bien pire;
    ∎ I feel very much better je me sens beaucoup mieux;
    ∎ thank you very much (for) merci beaucoup (de ou pour);
    ∎ formal it is much to be regretted that… il est fort regrettable que…;
    ∎ it doesn't matter much cela n'a pas beaucoup d'importance;
    ∎ much to my surprise à mon grand étonnement;
    ∎ we are much obliged to you for… nous vous sommes très obligés de ou pour…;
    ∎ I'm not much good at making speeches je ne suis pas très doué pour faire des discours;
    ∎ it's much the best/the fastest way to travel c'est de beaucoup le meilleur moyen/le moyen le plus rapide de voyager;
    ∎ it's much the best/the fastest c'est le meilleur/le plus rapide de beaucoup;
    ∎ much the same presque pareil;
    ∎ it's (pretty or very) much the same thing c'est à peu près la même chose;
    ∎ she's still much the same as yesterday son état n'a pas changé depuis hier;
    ∎ I feel much the same as you je pense plutôt comme vous;
    ∎ familiar ironic he doesn't like beer, does he? - not much he doesn't! il n'aime pas la bière, non? - et comment, il aime ça!
    ∎ (that, the same) I thought/suspected as much c'est bien ce que je pensais/soupçonnais;
    ∎ I expected as much je m'y attendais;
    ∎ I said as much to him yesterday c'est ce que je lui ai dit hier;
    ∎ would you do as much for me? en ferais-tu autant pour moi?
    ∎ (with multiples, fractions) twice/three times as much deux/trois fois plus;
    ∎ half as much la moitié (de ça);
    ∎ a quarter as much un quart (de ça);
    ∎ as much again encore autant
    5 as much…as
    ∎ (the same amount as) as much…as autant de…que;
    ∎ I've got as much money as you j'ai autant d'argent que vous;
    ∎ take as much sugar as you like prenez autant de ou tout le sucre que vous voulez
    autant…que;
    ∎ he's as much to blame as her elle n'est pas plus responsable que lui, il est responsable autant qu'elle;
    ∎ it is as much your fault as (it is) mine c'est autant de votre faute que de la mienne
    ∎ it costs as much as the Japanese model ça coûte le même prix que le modèle japonais;
    ∎ he looked at me as much as to say… il me regarda avec l'air de (vouloir) dire…;
    ∎ that's as much as to say that I'm a liar ça revient à me traiter de menteur
    ∎ it was as much as I could do to keep a straight face j'ai failli éclater de rire;
    ∎ it was as much as we could do to stand upright nous avions le plus grand mal à nous tenir debout
    autant que;
    ∎ I hate it as much as you do ça me déplaît autant qu'à vous;
    ∎ as much as ever toujours autant;
    ∎ as much as before autant qu'avant;
    ∎ not quite as much as… pas tout à fait autant que…;
    ∎ I don't dislike them as much as all that ils ne me déplaisent pas autant que ça
    ∎ however much money you give him, it won't be enough vous pouvez lui donner autant d'argent que vous voulez, ça ne suffira pas
    ∎ however much they offer, take it quelle que soit la somme qu'ils proposent, acceptez-la
    ∎ however much you dislike the idea… quelle que soit votre aversion pour cette idée…;
    ∎ however much I try, it doesn't work j'ai beau essayer, ça ne marche pas
    combien de;
    ∎ how much flour have we got left? combien de farine nous reste-t-il?
    combien;
    ∎ how much do you want? (gen) combien en voulez-vous?; (money) combien voulez-vous?;
    ∎ how much is the record or does the record cost? combien coûte ce disque?
    ∎ much as I admire him, I have to admit that… malgré toute mon admiration pour lui, je dois admettre que…;
    ∎ much as I would like to, I can't come à mon grand regret, il m'est véritablement impossible de venir;
    ∎ much as I try, I can't succeed j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas;
    ∎ the result was much as I expected le résultat correspondait bien à ce que j'attendais
    tant de, tellement de;
    ∎ it takes up so much time ça prend tellement de temps;
    ∎ it's just so much nonsense c'est tellement bête
    ∎ I've learnt so much on this course j'ai vraiment appris beaucoup (de choses) en suivant ces cours;
    ∎ there's still so much to do il y a encore tant à faire;
    ∎ he has drunk so much that… il a tellement bu que…
    ∎ there's only so much one can do il y a une limite à ce qu'on peut faire;
    ∎ how much water will I put in? - about so much combien d'eau est-ce que je dois mettre? - à peu près ça;
    ∎ so much a kilo tant le kilo
    tellement;
    ∎ I miss you so much tu me manques tellement;
    ∎ I wouldn't mind so much, only he promised to do it ça ne me gêne pas tellement, mais il avait promis de le faire;
    ∎ it's not so much his unpunctuality, it's his rudeness I can't stand ce n'est pas tellement ses retards, c'est sa grossièreté que je ne supporte pas;
    ∎ thank you ever so much merci infiniment ou mille fois;
    ∎ so much the better tant mieux;
    ∎ so much so that… au point que…, à tel point que…;
    ∎ not so much a…, more a… pas vraiment un…, mais plutôt un…
    même;
    ∎ if you so much as breathe a word of this… si seulement tu répètes un mot de tout ça…;
    ∎ without so much as asking permission sans même demander la permission;
    ∎ I would not so much as raise a finger to help him je ne lèverais pas même le petit doigt pour l'aider
    ∎ so much for the agenda; now let us consider… voilà pour ce qui est de l'ordre du jour; maintenant, je voudrais que nous nous penchions sur la question de…;
    ∎ so much for that idea! on peut oublier cette idée!;
    ∎ so much for his friendship! et voilà ce qu'il appelle l'amitié!
    ∎ there was that much food, we thought we'd never finish it il y avait tellement à manger qu'on pensait ne jamais arriver à finir
    ∎ was there much damage? - not that much y a-t-il eu beaucoup de dégâts? - pas tant que ça;
    ∎ did it cost that much? ça a coûté autant que ça?;
    ∎ how much do you want? - about that much combien en veux-tu? - à peu près ça
    3 adverb (with comparative)
    (a) (a lot) beaucoup plus;
    ∎ it'll be that much easier to organize ce sera d'autant plus facile à organiser;
    ∎ not that much better pas beaucoup mieux
    ∎ she's that much taller than me elle est plus grande que moi de ça
    ∎ there was this much coffee left il restait ça de café
    ∎ I had to cut this much off the hem of my skirt j'ai dû raccourcir ma jupe de ça
    (b) (one thing) une chose;
    ∎ this much is true… une chose au moins est vraie…;
    ∎ I'll say this much for her, she's got guts il faut reconnaître une chose, c'est qu'elle a du cran
    trop de
    trop;
    ∎ there's too much to do il y a trop à faire;
    ∎ don't expect too much (be too demanding) ne soyez pas trop exigeant, n'en demandez pas trop; (be too hopeful) ne vous faites pas trop d'illusions;
    ∎ to cost too much coûter trop cher;
    ∎ £10 too much 10 livres de trop;
    ∎ familiar she's too much! elle est trop!;
    ∎ familiar that's too much! ça, c'est trop!;
    ∎ familiar that's a bit much! c'est un peu fort!;
    ∎ you can't have too much of a good thing abondance de biens ne nuit pas
    (work, speak) trop

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > much

См. также в других словарях:

  • The Diamond Age —   …   Wikipedia

  • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion — ( Protocols of the wise men of Zion , Library of Congress s Uniform Title; ru. Протоколы сионских мудрецов , or Сионские протоколы ; see also other titles) is an antisemitic tract alleging a Jewish and Masonic plot to achieve world domination. It …   Wikipedia

  • The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II — Developer(s) EA Los Angeles Publisher(s) …   Wikipedia

  • The Doors of Perception —   …   Wikipedia

  • The Irish (in Countries Other Than Ireland) —     The Irish (in countries other than Ireland)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Irish (in countries other than Ireland)     I. IN THE UNITED STATES     Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • The Legend of the Legendary Heroes — Cover of The Legend of the Legendary Heroes first volume as published by Fujimi Shobo 伝説の勇者の伝説 …   Wikipedia

  • The Singer of Tales — is a book by Albert Lord that discusses the oral tradition as a theory of literary composition and its applications to Homeric and medieval epic. It was published in 1960.ummaryThe book is divided into two parts. In the first, the author… …   Wikipedia

  • The Birth of the Clinic —   …   Wikipedia

  • THE MIDDLE AGES — …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • The Blitz — London Blitz redirects here. For the London based American football team, see London Blitz (American football). For other uses, see Blitz (disambiguation). The Blitz Part of Second World War, Home Front …   Wikipedia

  • The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment — Infobox Person name=The Lazy Man s Guide to Enlightenment caption=The Guide, First and Second Editions (1971,1972)The Lazy Man’s Guide To Enlightenment, is a philosophical essay by New Jersey born American author Thaddeus Golas (1924 1997.) The… …   Wikipedia

Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
… Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»