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a controversial figure

  • 1 controversial figure

    English-Ukrainian law dictionary > controversial figure

  • 2 figure

    I ['fɪgə(r)] [AE 'fɪgjər]
    1) (number, amount) cifra f., numero m.

    a four-, six-figure sum — una somma a quattro, sei cifre

    in single, double figures — [ inflation] inferiore al 10%, a due cifre

    2) (person) figura f., personaggio m.
    3) (human form) figura f., forma f.

    a familiar, imposing figure — una figura familiare, imponente

    reclining figure — art. figura distesa

    mother, father figure — figura materna, paterna

    5) (body shape) linea f., figura f.

    to keep, lose one's figure — mantenere, perdere la linea

    to have a great figure — colloq. avere un gran bel fisico

    6) (geometric shape) figura f.

    plane, solid figure — figura piana, solida

    7) (diagram) figura f., illustrazione f.
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    II 1. ['fɪgə(r)] [AE 'fɪgjər]
    1) colloq. (suppose)

    to figure (that) — immaginare o figurarsi che

    2) letter. (express) raffigurare, rappresentare
    2.
    1) (appear) figurare, apparire
    2) colloq. (make sense) quadrare, tornare
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    ['fiɡə, ]( American[) 'fiɡjər] 1. noun
    1) (the form or shape of a person: A mysterious figure came towards me; That girl has got a good figure.) figura; personale
    2) (a (geometrical) shape: The page was covered with a series of triangles, squares and other geometrical figures.) figura
    3) (a symbol representing a number: a six-figure telephone number.) cifra
    4) (a diagram or drawing to explain something: The parts of a flower are shown in figure 3.) figura
    2. verb
    1) (to appear (in a story etc): She figures largely in the story.) figurare
    2) (to think, estimate or consider: I figured that you would arrive before half past eight.) pensare
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    - figuratively
    - figurehead
    - figure of speech
    - figure out
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    I ['fɪgə(r)] [AE 'fɪgjər]
    1) (number, amount) cifra f., numero m.

    a four-, six-figure sum — una somma a quattro, sei cifre

    in single, double figures — [ inflation] inferiore al 10%, a due cifre

    2) (person) figura f., personaggio m.
    3) (human form) figura f., forma f.

    a familiar, imposing figure — una figura familiare, imponente

    reclining figure — art. figura distesa

    mother, father figure — figura materna, paterna

    5) (body shape) linea f., figura f.

    to keep, lose one's figure — mantenere, perdere la linea

    to have a great figure — colloq. avere un gran bel fisico

    6) (geometric shape) figura f.

    plane, solid figure — figura piana, solida

    7) (diagram) figura f., illustrazione f.
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    II 1. ['fɪgə(r)] [AE 'fɪgjər]
    1) colloq. (suppose)

    to figure (that) — immaginare o figurarsi che

    2) letter. (express) raffigurare, rappresentare
    2.
    1) (appear) figurare, apparire
    2) colloq. (make sense) quadrare, tornare
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    English-Italian dictionary > figure

  • 3 controversial

    дискусійний, спірний, суперечливий (в т. ч. про рішення тощо), який викликає суперечки; оскаржений
    - controversial activities
    - controversial bill
    - controversial conclusion
    - controversial decision
    - controversial figure
    - controversial issue
    - controversial judgement
    - controversial judgment
    - controversial opinion
    - controversial nature
    - controversial point
    - controversial provision

    English-Ukrainian law dictionary > controversial

  • 4 controversial

    [ˏkɔntrə`və:ʃəl] прил.
    1) неоднозначный, противоречивый

    || a controversial figure in public life

    Selling a work associated with Nazism is controversial.

    2) спорный, дискуссионный
    - controversial question
    - controversial point
    3) вызывающий полемику, разногласия в оценках

    || Immigration is a controversial issue in many countries...

    - controversial book

    || both candidates tried to avoid controversial issues — оба кандидата тщательно обходили больные вопросы

    4) любящий спорить, несговорчивый

    Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > controversial

  • 5 figure

    figure, US [transcription]["fIgj\@r"]
    A n
    1 (number, amount) chiffre m ; a provisional/disappointing figure un chiffre provisoire/décevant ; a figure of 15 million un chiffre de 15 millions ; a figure of £150 la somme de 150 livres ; government/official figures les chiffres gouvernementaux/officiels ; a four-/six-figure sum un montant de quatre/six chiffres ; her salary runs into six figures elle gagne plus de 100 000 livres GB or dollars US ; inflation is in single/double figures le taux d'inflation est à unchiffre/à deux chiffres ; to have a head forfigures, to be good with figures être doué pour lecalcul ;
    2 ( known or important person) personnalité f, personnage m ; controversial/well-known/political figure personnalité controversée/célèbre/politique ; a minor ou marginal figure une personnalité peu importante ; a legendary figure in rugby/rock music un personnage légendaire du rugby/du rock ;
    3 (person, human form) personnage m ; (in painting, sculpture) figure f ; a familiar/imposing/diminutive figure un personnage familier/imposant/minuscule ; human/reclining figure Art figure humaine/allongée ; a figure appeared through the mist une silhouette est apparue dans le brouillard ; to cut a sorry/fine figure faire piètre/bonne figure ; to cut a dashing figure avoir l'air fringant ;
    4 ( representative or symbol) mother/father figure image f de la mère/du père ; authority figure symbole m de l'autorité ; hate figure bète f noire ; she is something of a Cassandra/Lady Macbeth figure c'est une sorte de Cassandre/Lady Macbeth ;
    5 ( body shape) ligne f ; to keep one's figure garder la ligne ; to lose one's figure prendre de l'embonpoint ; to watch one's figure surveiller sa ligne ; to have a great figure ○ avoir une silhouette sensationnelle ○ ; made for a man's/woman's figure fait pour une silhouette masculine/féminine ;
    6 ( geometric or other shape) figure f ; plane/solid figure figure plane/à trois dimensions ;
    7 ( diagram) figure f ; see figure 4 voir figure 4 ;
    8 (in dance, skating) figure f de style.
    B vtr
    1 ○ ( suppose) to figure (that) penser or se dire que ;
    2 Literat ( express) symboliser.
    C vi
    1 (feature, appear) figurer ; to figure in ou on a list figurer sur une liste ; to figure in a novel/report figurer dans un roman/rapport ;
    2 ○ ( make sense) se comprendre ; that figures ça se comprend ; it doesn't figure ça n'a pas de sens.
    ■ figure in US:
    ▶ figure in [sth], figure [sth] in inclure, compter.
    ■ figure on ○: figure on [sth] s'attendre à ; I hadn't figured on that! je ne m'attendais pas à ça! ; to figure on doing compter faire ; to figure on sb doing s'attendre à ce que qn fasse.
    ▶ figure out [sth], figure [sth] out trouver [answer, reason, best way] ; to figure out who/why/how etc arriver à comprendre qui/pourquoi/comment etc ; I can't figure him out je ne comprends rien à cet homme-là ; she's got her future figured out elle a son avenir tout tracé.

    Big English-French dictionary > figure

  • 6 controversial

    adjective
    umstritten [Mode, Kunstwerk, Gesetz, Idee]; strittig [Frage, Punkt, Angelegenheit]; (given to controversy) streitsüchtig
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    [kontrə'və:ʃəl]
    adjective (causing controversy: His new book is very controversial.) umstritten
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    con·tro·ver·sial
    [ˌkɒntrəˈvɜ:ʃəl, AM ˌkɑ:ntrəˈvɜ:r-]
    adj umstritten, kontrovers geh; decision, matter, question also strittig
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    ["kɒntrə'vɜːSəl]
    adj
    speech, person, figure etc kontrovers; (= debatable) matter, decision also umstritten, strittig

    it is still controversial whether... —

    he is deliberately controversial — er gibt sich bewusst kontrovers

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    controversial [ˌkɒntrəˈvɜːʃl; US ˌkɑntrəˈvɜrʃəl; -sıəl] adj (adv controversially)
    1. strittig, umstritten, kontrovers:
    a controversial book ein umstrittenes Buch;
    a controversial subject eine Streitfrage
    2. polemisch
    3. streitsüchtig
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    adjective
    umstritten [Mode, Kunstwerk, Gesetz, Idee]; strittig [Frage, Punkt, Angelegenheit]; (given to controversy) streitsüchtig
    * * *
    adj.
    brisant adj.
    kontrovers adj.
    strittig adj.
    umstritten adj.

    English-german dictionary > controversial

  • 7 суперечлива особа

    Українсько-англійський юридичний словник > суперечлива особа

  • 8 posta|ć1

    f (N pl postacie a. postaci) 1. (forma) form
    - postać larwalna owadów the larval form of insects
    - w postaci kryształów/pożyczki in the form of crystals/a loan
    - pomoc w postaci darmowych obiadów aid in the form of free lunches
    - przyjmiemy pomoc w każdej postaci we appreciate help in any form
    - przyjąć a. przybrać postać ludzką/łabędzia to take a. assume the form of a man/a swan
    - występować pod różnymi postaciami to occur in various forms
    - nie tknie alkoholu pod żadną postacią he won’t touch alcohol in any form
    - Duch Święty objawił się pod postacią gołębicy the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove
    - pod postacią chleba i wina Relig. under the species of bread and wine
    - komunia pod dwiema postaciami Relig. Communion in both kinds
    - to zmienia postać rzeczy that changes everything
    2. (sylwetka) figure
    - czyjaś szczupła/ogromna postać sb’s slim/large figure
    - z mgły wyłoniła się jakaś postać a figure loomed out of the mist
    3. (osobistość) figure
    - postać polityczna a political figure
    - ważna/legendarna/kontrowersyjna postać an important/a legendary/a controversial figure
    - najwybitniejsza postać epoki the most prominent figure of the time
    - niezbyt ciekawa postać a rather shady figure
    4. (bohater literacki, filmowy) character
    - pierwszoplanowa postać the leading character
    - wszystkie postacie są fikcyjne all characters are fictional
    - kreować w filmie postać prezydenta to play the president in a film

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > posta|ć1

  • 9 Reizfigur

    Reiz|fi|gur
    f
    controversial figure

    er ist eine politische Réízfigur — he is a politically controversial figure

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    Reiz·fi·gur
    f object of scorn [or ridicule]

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Reizfigur

  • 10 brusco

    adj.
    1 sudden, abrupt.
    2 snappish, gruff, rude, blunt.
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    1 (repentino) sudden
    2 (persona) brusque, abrupt
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    (f. - brusca)
    adj.
    1) sudden, abrupt
    2) brusque, rough
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=repentino) [descenso, curva, declive] sharp; [movimiento] sudden; [cambio] abrupt, sudden
    2) (=grosero) [actitud, porte] curt, brusque; [comentario] rude
    2.
    SM (Bot) butcher's broom
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    - ca adjetivo
    a) <movimiento/cambio> abrupt, sudden; <subida/descenso> sharp, sudden, abrupt
    b) <carácter/modales> rough; <tono/gesto> brusque, abrupt; < respuesta> curt, brusque
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    = abrasive, abrupt, curt, gruff, blunt, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand].
    Ex. She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.
    Ex. There were abrupt fluctuations in his output from one week to the next.
    Ex. The young man pointed to him and said in a sharp, curt tone: 'Let me see your briefcase'.
    Ex. She is a controversial figure, and has a reputation for being direct and gruff.
    Ex. The author discusses the range of enquiries he deals with, the sources of information he uses, and the blunt attitude with which he deals with many enquirers.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex. The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
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    * brusca y repentinamente = summarily.
    * cambio brusco = flip-flop.
    * cambio brusco de velocidad del viento = wind shear.
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    - ca adjetivo
    a) <movimiento/cambio> abrupt, sudden; <subida/descenso> sharp, sudden, abrupt
    b) <carácter/modales> rough; <tono/gesto> brusque, abrupt; < respuesta> curt, brusque
    * * *
    = abrasive, abrupt, curt, gruff, blunt, short, short-tempered, off-hand [offhand].

    Ex: She wanted to say: 'You are a conceited, obstinate, inflexible, manipulative, pompous, close-minded, insensitive, abrasive, opinionated, platitudinous oaf!'.

    Ex: There were abrupt fluctuations in his output from one week to the next.
    Ex: The young man pointed to him and said in a sharp, curt tone: 'Let me see your briefcase'.
    Ex: She is a controversial figure, and has a reputation for being direct and gruff.
    Ex: The author discusses the range of enquiries he deals with, the sources of information he uses, and the blunt attitude with which he deals with many enquirers.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: A medical doctor had told him that the reason why women have faster pulse beats is because they are short-tempered.
    Ex: The osteopath was accused of being off-hand with a female patient and not putting her at ease.
    * brusca y repentinamente = summarily.
    * cambio brusco = flip-flop.
    * cambio brusco de velocidad del viento = wind shear.

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    brusco -ca
    1 ‹movimiento/cambio› abrupt, sudden; ‹subida/descenso/viraje› sharp, sudden, abrupt
    el brusco giro de los acontecimientos the sudden turn of events
    se deben evitar las frenadas bruscas you should avoid braking suddenly o sharply
    2 ‹carácter/modales› rough; ‹tono/gesto› brusque, abrupt; ‹respuesta› curt, brusque
    no seas tan brusco que lo vas a romper don't be so rough or you'll break it
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    brusco
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    a) ‹movimiento/cambio› abrupt, sudden;

    ‹subida/descenso› sharp, sudden
    b) ‹carácter/modales› rough;

    ‹tono/gesto› brusque, abrupt;
    ‹ respuesta› curt, brusque
    brusco,-a adjetivo
    1 (rudo, poco amable) brusque, abrupt
    2 (súbito) sudden, sharp
    ' brusco' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    brusca
    - dura
    - duro
    - sacudida
    - tajante
    - viraje
    - bestia
    - bruto
    - explosión
    English:
    abrupt
    - blunt
    - brusque
    - curt
    - dramatic
    - gruff
    - jerk
    - offhand
    - rough
    - rough-and-tumble
    - sharp
    - short
    - sudden
    - swerve
    - switch
    - unceremonious
    - snappy
    - steep
    - toss
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    brusco, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [repentino, imprevisto] sudden, abrupt;
    un cambio brusco de las temperaturas a sudden change in temperature;
    dio un frenazo brusco she braked sharply
    2. [tosco, grosero] brusque;
    me contestó de forma brusca he answered me brusquely
    ♦ nm,f
    brusque person
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    adj
    1 cambio abrupt, sudden
    2 respuesta, persona brusque, curt
    * * *
    brusco, -ca adj
    1) súbito: sudden, abrupt
    2) : curt, brusque
    ♦ bruscamente adv
    * * *
    brusco adj
    1. (repetino) sudden
    2. (persona) abrupt

    Spanish-English dictionary > brusco

  • 11 masterful

    ['mɑːstəfl] [AE 'mæs-]
    1) (dominating) autoritario
    2) (skilled) [ person] esperto; [ technique] magistrale
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    adjective (showing the power, authority or determination of a master: a masterful man.) autoritario
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    masterful /ˈmɑ:stəfl/
    a.
    1 autoritario: He has a masterful way that makes him a controversial figure, i suoi metodi autoritari fanno di lui una figura controversa; He spoke with a masterful tone, ha parlato con un tono di virile autorevolezza
    2 da maestro; magistrale: It was a masterful performance that left the audience in tears, era un'esecuzione da grande maestro che ha lasciato il pubblico in lacrime
    masterfully avv. NOTA D'USO: - masterly o masterful?-.
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    ['mɑːstəfl] [AE 'mæs-]
    1) (dominating) autoritario
    2) (skilled) [ person] esperto; [ technique] magistrale

    English-Italian dictionary > masterful

  • 12 death

    death n ( of person) mort f, décès m ; ( of animal) mort f ; fig (of hopes, plans, dreams, civilization, democracy) anéantissement m ; at (the time of) his death à sa mort ; a death in the family un décès dans la famille ; death by hanging/drowning mort par pendaison/noyade ; to starve/freeze to death mourir de faim/de froid ; to burn to death mourir carbonisé ; to put sb to death exécuter qn ; to sentence sb to death Jur condamner qn à mort ; death to the king! mort au roi! ; a fight to the death un combat à mort ; they fought to the death ils se sont battus à mort ; to drink oneself to death se tuer en buvant ; to work oneself to death se tuer au travail or à la tâche ; she's working herself to death! elle se tue au travail! ; she fell to her death elle s'est tuée en tombant ; she jumped to her death elle s'est tuée en sautant dans le vide ; he met his death in a skiing accident il a trouvé la mort dans un accident de ski ; to come close to death friser la mort ; he remains a controversial figure in death as in life il reste un personnage controversé aussi bien mort que vivant ; to die a violent death mourir de mort violente ; to do sb to death assassiner qn ; that excuse/joke has been done to death fig cette excuse/blague est éculée or est vieille comme le monde ; that play has been done to death cette pièce a été jouée tant de fois qu'on finit par s'en lasser ; they were united in death ils ont été unis dans la mort ; till death do us part jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare ; ‘Deaths’ Journ ‘Rubrique Nécrologique’ ; a fall would mean ou spell death une chute serait fatale ; this means ou spells the death of the old industries cela va être la mort des vieilles industries.
    to die a ou the death [fashion] disparaître complètement ; [entertainer, play] faire un bide ○ ; he died the death il aurait voulu rentrer sous terre ; those children will be the death of me! ces enfants me tueront! ; that thesis/car will be the death of her! cette thèse/voiture la tuera! ; don't tell him, it will be the death of him ne le lui dis pas, ça l'achèvera ; it's a matter of life or death c'est une question de vie ou de mort ; to look like death warmed up avoir l'air d'un cadavre ambulant ; I feel like death (warmed up)! je ne me sens pas bien du tout! ; to be at death's door être à (l'article de) la mort ; to be worried to death ○ se ronger les sangs (about au sujet de) ; to be frightened to death ○ être mort de peur ; to frighten ou scare sb to death faire une peur bleue à qn ○ ; to be bored to death ○ s'ennuyer à mourir ; I'm sick ou tired to death ○ of this! j'en ai par-dessus la tête!, j'en ai ras le bol ○ ! ; you'll catch your death (of cold) ○ tu vas crever ○ or mourir de froid ; ⇒ thousand.

    Big English-French dictionary > death

  • 13 Shockley, William Bradford

    [br]
    b. 13 February 1910 London, England
    d. 12 August 1989, Palo Alto, California, USA.
    [br]
    American physicist who developed the junction transistor from the point contact transistor and was joint winner (with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain) of the 1956 Nobel Prize for physics.
    [br]
    The son of a mining engineer, Shockley graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1932 and in 1936 obtained his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In that year, he joined the staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
    Since the early days of radio, crystals of silicon or similar materials had been used to rectify alternating current supply until these were displaced by thermionic valves or tubes. Shockley, with Bardeen and Brattain, found that crystals of germanium containing traces of certain impurities formed far better rectifiers than crystals of the material in its pure form. The resulting device, the transistor, could also be used to amplify the current; its name is derived from its ability to transfer current across a resistor. The transistor, being so much smaller than the thermionic valve which it replaced, led to the miniaturization of electronic appliances. Another advantage was that a transistorized device needed no period of warming up, such as was necessary with a thermionic valve before it would operate. The dispersal of the heat generated by a multiplicity of thermionic valves such as were present in early computers was another problem obviated by the advent of the transistor.
    Shockley was responsible for much development in the field of semiconductors. He was Deputy Director of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group of the US Department of Defense (1954–5), and in 1963 he was appointed the first Poniatoff Professor of Engineering Science at Stanford University, California. During the late 1960s Shockley became a controversial figure for expressing his unorthodox views on genetics, such as that black people were inherently less intelligent than white people, and that the population explosion spread "bad" genes at the expense of "good" genes; he supported the idea of a sperm bank from Nobel Prize winners, voluntary sterilization and the restriction of interracial marriages.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Nobel Prize for Physics 1956.
    Further Reading
    I.Asimov (ed.), 1982, Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, New York: Doubleday \& Co.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Shockley, William Bradford

  • 14 Wenham, Francis Herbert

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 1824 London, England
    d. 11 August 1908 Folkestone, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor and pioneer aerodynamicist who built the first wind tunnel.
    [br]
    Wenham trained as a marine engineer and later specialized in screw propellers and high-pressure engines. He had many interests. He took his steamboat to the Nile and assisted the photographer F.Frith to photograph Egyptian tombs by devising a series of mirrors to deflect sunlight into the dark recesses. He experimented with gas engines and produced a hot-air engine. Wenham was a leading, if controversial, figure in the Microscopical Society and a member of the Royal Photographic Society; he developed an enlarger.
    Wenham was interested in both mechanical and lighter-than-air flight. One of his friends was James Glaisher, a well-known balloonist who made many ascents to gather scientific information. When the (Royal) Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was founded in 1866, the Rules were drawn up by Wenham, Glaisher and the Honorary Secretary, F.W.Brearey. At the first meeting of the Society, on 27 June 1866, "On aerial locomotion and the laws by which heavy bodies impelled through the air are sustained" was read by Wenham. In his paper Wenham described his experiments with a whirling arm (used earlier by Cayley) to measure lift and drag on flat surfaces inclined at various angles of incidence. His studies of birds' wings and, in particular, their wing loading, showed that they derived most of their lift from the front portion, hence a long, thin wing was better than a short, wide one. He published illustrations of his glider designs covering his experiments of c. 1858–9. One of these had five slender wings one above the other, an idea later developed by Horatio Phillips. Wenham had some success with a model, but no real success with his full-size gliders.
    In 1871, Wenham and John Browning constructed the first wind tunnel designed for aeronautical research. It utilized a fan driven by a steam engine to propel the air and had a working section of 18 in. (116 cm). Wenham continued to play an important role in aeronautical matters for many years, including a lengthy exchange of ideas with Octave Chanute from 1892 onwards.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Member of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society.
    Bibliography
    Wenham published many reports and papers. These are listed, together with a reprint of his paper "Aerial locomotion", in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August 1958).
    Further Reading
    Two papers by J.Laurence Pritchard, 1957, "The dawn of aerodynamics" Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (March); 1958, "Francis Herbert Wenham", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August) (both papers describe Wenham and his work).
    J.E.Hodgson, 1924, History of Aeronautics in Great Britain, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Wenham, Francis Herbert

  • 15 utilizar

    v.
    1 to use.
    El cartero utiliza un saco The mailman uses a sack.
    El traidor utilizó a su novia The traitor used his girlfriend.
    2 to spend.
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    1 to use, make use of
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    verb
    to use, utilize
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    VT
    1) (=usar) to use, make use of, utilize frm

    ¿qué medio de transporte utilizas? — which means of transport do you use?

    2) (=explotar) [+ recursos] to harness; [+ desperdicios] to reclaim
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    verbo transitivo to use, utilize (frml)
    * * *
    = adopt, deploy, employ, enlist, exploit, handle, harness, help + Reflexivo, rely on/upon, take in + use, tap, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], find + Posesivo + way (a)round/through + Complemento, draw on/upon, bring to + bear, build on/upon, make + use of, leverage, mobilise [mobilize, -USA], play + Nombre + along.
    Ex. The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.
    Ex. The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex. The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex. Capital letters, and various punctuation symbols eg:,(),' may be enlisted as facet indicators.
    Ex. The Library of Congress List of Subject Headings (LCSH) can be exploited as a general index, since it shows LCC numbers for many of the headings listed.
    Ex. An author's name is usually shorter than a title, and thus is arguably easier to handle and remember.
    Ex. When computers were first harnessed for information retrieval and cataloguing applications, the information retrieval systems, and some of the cataloguing systems developed in different environments.
    Ex. There was a need for more basic information materials, i.e. laymen's guides, so that people could help themselves.
    Ex. When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex. The last 3 years while grants were available saw a rise in loans, readers and outreach services, a controversial stock revision and scrapping were carried out and a PC was taken in use.
    Ex. It must be pointed out, however, that the potential for online catalogs to increase library staff productivity has hardly been tapped.
    Ex. A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex. Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex. Those familiar with conventional lists of subject headings will have no difficulty in finding their way around a typical thesaurus.
    Ex. Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex. For such a task the librarian is particularly well fitted by his professional education: bringing to bear the great analytical power of classification should be second nature to him.
    Ex. The system should build on existing resources, rather than develop expensive new programmes.
    Ex. The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex. Information seeking in electronic environments will become a collaboration among end user and various electronic systems such that users leverage their heuristic power and machines leverage algorithmic power.
    Ex. It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    Ex. Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.
    ----
    * confeccionar utilizando un modelo = model.
    * empezar a utilizarse = come into + use.
    * introducción de datos utilizando un teclado = keypunching.
    * persona que utiliza la biblioteca = non-library user.
    * poder utilizarse = be usable.
    * que utiliza el tiempo como variable = time-dependent.
    * que utiliza muchos recursos = resource-intensive.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * utilizar el dinero sabiamente = spend + wisely.
    * utilizar el ordenador = operate + computer.
    * utilizar en contra = set against.
    * utilizar la red = go + online.
    * utilizar las ideas de (Alguien) = draw on/upon + Posesivo + ideas.
    * utilizar los conocimientos de Uno = put + Posesivo + knowledge to work.
    * utilizar los recursos del personal propio = insource.
    * utilizar para un fin = put to + purpose.
    * utilizar poco = underutilise/under-utilise [underutilize/under-utilize, -USA].
    * utilizar por primera vez = pioneer.
    * utilizar recursos = mobilise + resources, tap + resources, tap into + resources.
    * utilizarse con demasiada frecuencia = be overworked.
    * utilizarse en = be at home in.
    * utilizar una metodología = employ + methodology.
    * utilizar un terminal = sit at + terminal.
    * volver a utilizar = recapture, reutilise [reutilize, -USA].
    * * *
    verbo transitivo to use, utilize (frml)
    * * *
    = adopt, deploy, employ, enlist, exploit, handle, harness, help + Reflexivo, rely on/upon, take in + use, tap, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], find + Posesivo + way (a)round/through + Complemento, draw on/upon, bring to + bear, build on/upon, make + use of, leverage, mobilise [mobilize, -USA], play + Nombre + along.

    Ex: The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.

    Ex: The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex: The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex: Capital letters, and various punctuation symbols eg:,(),' may be enlisted as facet indicators.
    Ex: The Library of Congress List of Subject Headings (LCSH) can be exploited as a general index, since it shows LCC numbers for many of the headings listed.
    Ex: An author's name is usually shorter than a title, and thus is arguably easier to handle and remember.
    Ex: When computers were first harnessed for information retrieval and cataloguing applications, the information retrieval systems, and some of the cataloguing systems developed in different environments.
    Ex: There was a need for more basic information materials, i.e. laymen's guides, so that people could help themselves.
    Ex: When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex: The last 3 years while grants were available saw a rise in loans, readers and outreach services, a controversial stock revision and scrapping were carried out and a PC was taken in use.
    Ex: It must be pointed out, however, that the potential for online catalogs to increase library staff productivity has hardly been tapped.
    Ex: A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex: Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex: Those familiar with conventional lists of subject headings will have no difficulty in finding their way around a typical thesaurus.
    Ex: Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex: For such a task the librarian is particularly well fitted by his professional education: bringing to bear the great analytical power of classification should be second nature to him.
    Ex: The system should build on existing resources, rather than develop expensive new programmes.
    Ex: The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex: Information seeking in electronic environments will become a collaboration among end user and various electronic systems such that users leverage their heuristic power and machines leverage algorithmic power.
    Ex: It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    Ex: Dennis played her along until she decided to back out at which time he threatened to imprison her unless she paid up $2 million.
    * confeccionar utilizando un modelo = model.
    * empezar a utilizarse = come into + use.
    * introducción de datos utilizando un teclado = keypunching.
    * persona que utiliza la biblioteca = non-library user.
    * poder utilizarse = be usable.
    * que utiliza el tiempo como variable = time-dependent.
    * que utiliza muchos recursos = resource-intensive.
    * utilizar al máximo = stretch + Nombre + to the limit.
    * utilizar al máximo por medio del ordenador = explode.
    * utilizar el dinero sabiamente = spend + wisely.
    * utilizar el ordenador = operate + computer.
    * utilizar en contra = set against.
    * utilizar la red = go + online.
    * utilizar las ideas de (Alguien) = draw on/upon + Posesivo + ideas.
    * utilizar los conocimientos de Uno = put + Posesivo + knowledge to work.
    * utilizar los recursos del personal propio = insource.
    * utilizar para un fin = put to + purpose.
    * utilizar poco = underutilise/under-utilise [underutilize/under-utilize, -USA].
    * utilizar por primera vez = pioneer.
    * utilizar recursos = mobilise + resources, tap + resources, tap into + resources.
    * utilizarse con demasiada frecuencia = be overworked.
    * utilizarse en = be at home in.
    * utilizar una metodología = employ + methodology.
    * utilizar un terminal = sit at + terminal.
    * volver a utilizar = recapture, reutilise [reutilize, -USA].

    * * *
    utilizar [A4 ]
    vt
    to use, utilize ( frml)
    la principal fuente de energía que utilizan es la solar they rely on o use o utilize solar power as their main source of energy, the main source of energy they employ o use o utilize is solar power
    utilizan los recursos naturales indiscriminadamente they make indiscriminate use of natural resources
    utilizan la religión como instrumento para sus fines they use religion as a means to (achieve) their ends
    no se da cuenta de que la están utilizando she doesn't realize that she's being used
    * * *

     

    utilizar ( conjugate utilizar) verbo transitivo
    to use, utilize (frml)
    utilizar verbo transitivo to use, utilize
    ' utilizar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    emplear
    - explotar
    - manipular
    - servirse
    - terminar
    - usar
    - valerse
    - encanto
    - modelo
    - violento
    English:
    bunk
    - deploy
    - employ
    - exploit
    - idle
    - instruction
    - toilet-train
    - toilet-training
    - unemployed
    - use
    - utilize
    - discriminate
    - harness
    - misuse
    - stone
    - user
    * * *
    1. [expresión, método, producto] to use
    2. [compañero, amigo] to use;
    te está utilizando he's using you
    * * *
    v/t use
    * * *
    utilizar {21} vt
    : to use, to utilize
    * * *
    utilizar vb to use

    Spanish-English dictionary > utilizar

  • 16 A Portuguesa

       The official Portuguese national anthem since 1911. A Portuguesa, which means "The Portuguese Woman," refers to the historical symbolic female figure or "Lady Republic," a Portuguese woman who wears republican garb, including a republican banner or flag and a Phrygian bonnet. The concept and name were modeled on the similar figure from the French Revolution of 1789, and the name of the French national anthem, "The Woman from Marseilles," and republican symbols from France's Third Republic. Under the constitutional monarchy, the national anthem was called "The Hymn of the Charter," referring to the 1826 Charter or constitution drafted by Emperor Pedro I of Brazil or Pedro IV of Portugal to replace the controversial 1822 Constitution.
        A Portuguesa was composed during the popular frenzy and outcry generated by the English Ultimatum crisis of January 1890. Portugal capitulated to an English ultimatum presented to Lisbon by London during an Anglo-Portuguese conflict over possession of territory in central-east Africa. Intense feelings of patriotism, nationalism, and xenophobia were generated in the wake of the Lisbon government's capitulation and its subsequent resignation from office. Inspired by the popular reaction to this incident, Alfredo Keil, a Portuguese musician and opera composer of German descent, wrote the music for A Portuguesa, whose melody bears a slight resemblance to that of the stirring Internationale. The sentimental, bellicose lyrics were written by Keil's friend, Lopes de Mendonça.
       During the remaining years of the waning monarchy, A Portuguesa was sung as a rallying cry by republican partisans who wished to abolish the monarchy. The song's spirit is not only nationalistic, but is imbued with an imperative of Portuguese national revival in order to remind the people of their greatness of centuries ago. After the First Republic replaced the monarchy, the republic's Constituent Assembly adopted A Portuguesa as the country's national anthem in June 1911, and it has remained so ever since. The first verse with chorus imparts the spirit of the entire patriotic message of the anthem:
       Heroes of the sea, noble race
       valiant and immortal nation,
       now is the hour to raise up on high once more
       Portugal's splendor.
       From out of the mists of memory,
       of Homeland, we hear the voices
       of your great forefathers
       that shall lead you on to victory!
        Chorus:
       To arms, to arms
       on land and sea!
       To arms, to arms
       to fight for our Homeland!
       To march against the enemy guns!

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > A Portuguesa

  • 17 (to) rehabilitate

    (to) rehabilitate /ri:əˈbɪləteɪt/
    v. t.
    1 recuperare ( tossicodipendenti, criminali, ecc.): More needs to be done to rehabilitate young offenders, bisogna fare di più per recuperare i giovani delinquenti
    2 (med.) riabilitare; rieducare: This therapy could help rehabilitate stroke victims, questa terapia potrebbe contribuire a rieducare chi ha subito un ictus
    3 riabilitare: to rehabilitate sb. 's reputation, riabilitare la reputazione di q.; This book attempts to rehabilitate one of the most controversial figures in British history, questo libro tenta di riabilitare una delle figure più controverse della storia britannica
    4 ripristinare, ristrutturare ( una casa); risanare ( un terreno, un quartiere, ecc.): a project to rehabilitate the road network after the quake, un progetto per ripristinare i collegamenti stradali dopo il terremoto
    rehabilitation
    n. [u]
    2 (med.) riabilitazione; rieducazione
    4 ristrutturazione, ripristino ( di un edificio); risanamento ( di un terreno, un quartiere, ecc.).

    English-Italian dictionary > (to) rehabilitate

  • 18 (to) rehabilitate

    (to) rehabilitate /ri:əˈbɪləteɪt/
    v. t.
    1 recuperare ( tossicodipendenti, criminali, ecc.): More needs to be done to rehabilitate young offenders, bisogna fare di più per recuperare i giovani delinquenti
    2 (med.) riabilitare; rieducare: This therapy could help rehabilitate stroke victims, questa terapia potrebbe contribuire a rieducare chi ha subito un ictus
    3 riabilitare: to rehabilitate sb. 's reputation, riabilitare la reputazione di q.; This book attempts to rehabilitate one of the most controversial figures in British history, questo libro tenta di riabilitare una delle figure più controverse della storia britannica
    4 ripristinare, ristrutturare ( una casa); risanare ( un terreno, un quartiere, ecc.): a project to rehabilitate the road network after the quake, un progetto per ripristinare i collegamenti stradali dopo il terremoto
    rehabilitation
    n. [u]
    2 (med.) riabilitazione; rieducazione
    4 ristrutturazione, ripristino ( di un edificio); risanamento ( di un terreno, un quartiere, ecc.).

    English-Italian dictionary > (to) rehabilitate

  • 19 Cody, Colonel Samuel Franklin

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. probably 6 March 1861 Texas, USA
    d. 7 August 1913 Farnborough, England
    [br]
    American (naturalised British) aviation pioneer who made the first sustained aeroplane flight in Britain.
    [br]
    "Colonel" Cody was one of the most colourful and controversial characters in aviation history. He dressed as a cowboy, frequently rode a horse, and appeared on the music-hall stage as a sharpshooter. Cody lived in England from 1896 and became a British subject in 1909. He wrote a melodrama, The Klondyke Nugget, which was first performed in 1898, with Cody as the villain and his wife as the heroine. It was a great success and Cody made enough money to indulge in his hobby of flying large kites. Several man-lifting kites were being developed in the mid-1890s, primarily for military observation purposes. Captain B.S.F. Baden-Powell built multiple hexagonal kites in England, while Lawrence Hargrave, in Australia, developed a very successful boxkite. Cody's man-lifting kites were so good that the British Government engaged him to supply kites, and act as an instructor with the Royal Engineers at the Balloon Factory, Farnborough. Cody's kites were rather like a box-kite with wings and, indeed, some were virtually tethered gliders. In 1905 a Royal Engineer reached a record height of 2,600 ft (790 m) in one of Cody's kites. While at Farnborough, Cody assisted with the construction of the experimental airship "British Army Dirigible No. 1", later known as Nulli Secundus. Cody was on board for the first flight in 1907. In the same year, Cody fitted an engine to one of his kites and it flew with no one on board; he also built a free-flying glider version. He went on to build a powered aeroplane with an Antoinette engine and on 16 October 1908 made a flight of 1,390 ft (424 m) at Farnborough; this was the first real flight in Britain. During the following years, Cody's large "Flying Cathedral" became a popular sight at aviation meetings, and in 1911 his "Cathedral" was the only British aeroplane to complete the course in the Circuit of Britain Contest. In 1912 Cody won the first British Military Aeroplane competition (a similar aeroplane is preserved by the Science Museum, London). Unfortunately, Cody and a passenger were killed when his latest aeroplane crashed at Farnborough in 1913; because Cody was such a popular figure at Farnborough, the tree to which he sometimes tethered his aeroplane was preserved as a memorial.
    Later, there was a great controversy over who the first person to make an aeroplane flight in Britain was, as A.V. Roe, Horatio Phillips and Cody had all made hops before October 1908; most historians, however, now accept that it was Cody. Cody's title of'Colonel' was unofficial, although it was used by King George V on one of several visits to see Cody's work.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Cody gave a lecture to the (Royal) Aeronautical Society which was published in their
    Aeronautical Journal, London, January 1909.
    Further Reading
    P.B.Walker, 1971, Early Aviation at Farnborough, 2 vols, London (an authoritative source).
    A.Gould Lee, 1965, The Flying Cathedral, London (biography). G.A.Broomfield, 1953, Pioneer of the Air, Aldershot (a less-reliable biography).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Cody, Colonel Samuel Franklin

  • 20 Wright, Frank Lloyd

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1869 Richland Center, Wisconsin, USA
    d. 9 April 1959 Phoenix, Arizona, USA
    [br]
    American architect who, in an unparalleled career spanning almost seventy years, became the most important figure on the modern architectural scene both in his own country and far further afield.
    [br]
    Wright began his career in 1887 working in the Chicago offices of Adler \& Sullivan. He conceived a great admiration for Sullivan, who was then concentrating upon large commercial projects in modern mode, producing functional yet decorative buildings which took all possible advantage of new structural methods. Wright was responsible for many of the domestic commissions.
    In 1893 Wright left the firm in order to set up practice on his own, thus initiating a career which was to develop into three distinct phases. In the first of these, up until the First World War, he was chiefly designing houses in a concept in which he envisaged "the house as a shelter". These buildings displayed his deeply held opinion that detached houses in country areas should be designed as an integral part of the landscape, a view later to be evidenced strongly in the work of modern Finnish architects. Wright's designs were called "prairie houses" because so many of them were built in the MidWest of America, which Wright described as a "prairie". These were low and spreading, with gently sloping rooflines, very plain and clean lined, built of traditional materials in warm rural colours, blending softly into their settings. Typical was W.W.Willit's house of 1902 in Highland Park, Illinois.
    In the second phase of his career Wright began to build more extensively in modern materials, utilizing advanced means of construction. A notable example was his remarkable Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, carefully designed and built in 1916–22 (now demolished), with special foundations and structure to withstand (successfully) strong earthquake tremors. He also became interested in the possibilities of reinforced concrete; in 1906 he built his church at Oak Park, Illinois, entirely of this material. In the 1920s, in California, he abandoned his use of traditional materials for house building in favour of precast concrete blocks, which were intended to provide an "organic" continuity between structure and decorative surfacing. In his continued exploration of the possibilities of concrete as a building material, he created the dramatic concept of'Falling Water', a house built in 1935–7 at Bear Run in Pennsylvania in which he projected massive reinforced-concrete terraces cantilevered from a cliff over a waterfall in the woodlands. In the later 1930s an extraordinary run of original concepts came from Wright, then nearing 70 years of age, ranging from his own winter residence and studio, Taliesin West in Arizona, to the administration block for Johnson Wax (1936–9) in Racine, Wisconsin, where the main interior ceiling was supported by Minoan-style, inversely tapered concrete columns rising to spreading circular capitals which contained lighting tubes of Pyrex glass.
    Frank Lloyd Wright continued to work until four days before his death at the age of 91. One of his most important and certainly controversial commissions was the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York. This had been proposed in 1943 but was not finally built until 1956–9; in this striking design the museum's exhibition areas are ranged along a gradually mounting spiral ramp lit effectively from above. Controversy stemmed from the unusual and original design of exterior banding and interior descending spiral for wall-display of paintings: some critics strongly approved, while others, equally strongly, did not.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    RIBA Royal Gold Medal 1941.
    Bibliography
    1945, An Autobiography, Faber \& Faber.
    Further Reading
    E.Kaufmann (ed.), 1957, Frank Lloyd Wright: an American Architect, New York: Horizon Press.
    H.Russell Hitchcock, 1973, In the Nature of Materials, New York: Da Capo.
    T.A.Heinz, 1982, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York: St Martin's.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Wright, Frank Lloyd

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