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  • 1 red

    [red]
    noun, adjective
    1) ((of) the colour of blood: a red car/dress / cheeks; Her eyes were red with crying.) rdeč
    2) ((of hair or fur) (of) a colour which varies between a golden brown and a deep reddish-brown.) rdečkast
    3) ((a) communist: Red China; A lot of his university friends are Reds.) rdečkar
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    - redden
    - reddish
    - redness
    - redcurrant
    - redhead
    - red herring
    - red-hot
    - Red Indian
    - red-letter day
    - red tape
    - be in the red
    - catch red-handed
    - see red
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    I [red]
    adjective ( redly adverb)
    rdeč; rus; pordečen ( with od); okrvavljen, krvav; rdeče razžarjen ali razbeljen; politics rdeč, komunističen, sovjetski; anarhističen, revolucionaren; marksističen
    red cap British English vojaški policist, American postrešček, nosač na postaji
    red coats slang vojaki
    red eye American slang cenen viski
    red flannel slang jezik
    red hat — kardinalski klobuk, kardinal(ska čast); British English slang štabni častnik
    red herring — prekajen slanik, figuratively nekaj, kar odvrača pozornost od neprijetnega, nevarnega predmeta
    red handed — krvavih rok, hudodelski, ki je pri hudodelskem dejanju
    red meat — govedina, bravina
    a red radical politics hud, zagrizen radikal
    red rag (to a bull) — rdeča krpa (ki razdraži bika), figuratively nekaj, kar človeka razdraži
    red, white and blue slang mrzla soljena govedina
    neither fish, flesh nor good red herring — ne ptič ne miš, nekaj nedoločljivega
    to draw a red herring across the track (the path) — s kako stransko stvarjo odvrniti pozornost od glavne stvari; z veščim manevrom odvrniti pozornost, zabrisati sled
    to have red hands — imeti krvave roke, zakriviti smrt kake osebe
    to paint the town red — hrupno veseljačiti, razgrajati, delati kraval po mestu
    to see red figuratively pobesneti
    to see the red light figuratively videti, spoznati pretečo nevarnost
    to turn red — postati rdeč, zardeti
    II [red]
    intransitive verb aeronautics dobiti nenaden naval krvi v glavo
    III [red]
    noun
    rdeča barva, rdečilo; rdečica; American rdeča tinta; politics ironically rdečkar, socialist, komunist, hud radikal, revolucionar, anarhist; (često Red) marksist, boljševik, sovjetski Rus
    Reds plural Rdečekožci, Indijanci
    reds plural rdeče vrste (vina); rdeči, tj. socialisti, komunisti
    the red — stran dolgov (v kontu), izguba, deficit, dolgovi
    to be in the red figuratively imeti deficit, dolgove, izgubo
    to be out of the red — biti, izvleči se iz dolgov
    to come out of the red American izkazati dobiček
    to see red figuratively pobesneti

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  • 2 red

    [red]
    noun, adjective
    1) ((of) the colour of blood: a red car/dress / cheeks; Her eyes were red with crying.) vermelho
    2) ((of hair or fur) (of) a colour which varies between a golden brown and a deep reddish-brown.) ruivo
    3) ((a) communist: Red China; A lot of his university friends are Reds.) comunista
    •
    - redden
    - reddish
    - redness
    - redcurrant
    - redhead
    - red herring
    - red-hot
    - Red Indian
    - red-letter day
    - red tape
    - be in the red
    - catch red-handed
    - see red
    * * *
    [red] n 1 cor vermelha ou qualquer cor semelhante (ocre, almagre). 2 rubor, vermelhidão. 3 pessoa, animal, vestimenta ou qualquer objeto vermelho. 4 político ultra-radical. 5 comunista, esquerdista. 6 anarquista. 7 índio americano. • adj 1 vermelho ou de cor semelhante (escarlate, encarnado). 2 ruivo. bright red vermelho vivo. dark / deep red vermelho escuro. in the red Amer estar endividado, estar perdendo dinheiro, estar no vermelho. like a red rag to a bull provocativo, provocante, que induz à cólera. red as a beetroot vermelho como um pimentão. the reds comunistas. to grow red corar. to paint the town red sl fazer uma farra, cair na gandaia. to see red a) coll enfurecer-se. b) fig ter sede de sangue. to turn red avermelhar, corar.

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  • 3 red

    [red] 1. прил.
    1) красный, алый; багряный
    Syn:
    а) румяный, порозовевший
    Syn:

    eyes red from crying — глаза, покрасневшие от слёз

    Syn:
    в) окровавленный, запачканный кровью
    Syn:
    bloody 1., bloodstained
    Syn:
    4) "красный", революционный, коммунистический, советский

    red revolution — социалистическая или коммунистическая революция

    Syn:
    5) разг.
    а) золотой, изготовленный из золота
    Syn:
    ••
    2. сущ.
    1) красный цвет; краснота

    There is too much red in your painting. — В твоих картинах слишком много красного цвета.

    Syn:
    3) разг.; = red wine красное вино
    5) фин. задолженность, долг, убыток, дефицит
    - out of the red
    - be in the red
    - be in red
    - go into the red
    - go into red
    Ant:

    I was doing over fifty and jumping reds. — Я ехал со скоростью более пятидесяти миль в час, проезжая светофоры на красный свет.

    7) = Red "красный"; коммунист, революционер; радикал; республиканец; анархист
    Syn:
    8) разг.; преим. амер.; = red cent
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    Англо-русский современный словарь > red

  • 4 Red Republican

    полит жарг
    "красный республиканец"
    Политический экстремист. Прозвище появилось в середине XIX в. и впервые встречается в романе Г. Бичер-Стоу [ Stowe, Harriet Beecher] "Хижина дяди Тома" ["Uncle Tom's Cabin"] (1852). Ныне ассоциируется с левыми радикалами.

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  • 5 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 6 RRR

    1) Компьютерная техника: Round Robin Rtos
    3) Американизм: Risk Retention Reporter
    5) Техника: ( minimum) required rate of return, Raleigh Research Reactor, repairable return rate
    6) Шутливое выражение: Rum Romanism And Rebellion
    7) Бухгалтерия: Required Reserve Ratio
    8) Статистика: Ratios of the rate ratios
    9) Сокращение: RAM Rationale Report, Radical Religious Right, Raleigh Research Reactor( North Carolina State College), Range Rover Register, Rayman Raving Rabbids (game), Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, Real Rate of Return, Real Recognizes Real, Recommended Retail Rate, Red Right Returning (nautical navigation), Reduccion del Riesgo Relativo (Spanish: absolute risk reduction), Reduce Reuse Recycle, Regular Rate and Rhythm (normal cardiac physical exam), Relative Risk Ratio, Relative Risk Reduction, Release Readiness Review (software engineering), Release Requirements Review, Religious Radical Right, Remove, Repair & Replace, Required Rate of Return, Requirements Rational Report, Resistor-Reactor Rectifier, Resource Recovery and Recycling, Resource Rent Royalty (Australia), Resource Requisitions Request, Respiration, Rate, and Rhythm (Cardiac examination), Return, Repair and Reshipment, Right-Red-Return (navigation, channel bouy color), Risk Reduction Reports, Ritalin Reading Room, River Regulating Reservoir, Road Runner Relay (fundraising event), Rotors Running Refuel, Routing with Resource Reservation, Royal Rhodesia Regiment, Ruff Ryder Records (record label)
    10) Физиология: Regular rate and rhythm
    11) Электроника: Range and Range Rate, Residual Resistance Ratio
    13) Экология: rainfall-runoff relation
    17) Образование: Reading Respect Responsibility
    18) Физика твёрдого тела: residual resistivity ratio

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > RRR

  • 7 sea

    si:
    1. noun
    1) ((often with the) the mass of salt water covering most of the Earth's surface: I enjoy swimming in the sea; over land and sea; The sea is very deep here; (also adjective) A whale is a type of large sea animal.) mar
    2) (a particular area of sea: the Baltic Sea; These fish are found in tropical seas.) mar
    3) (a particular state of the sea: mountainous seas.) mar
    •
    - seaward
    - seaboard
    - sea breeze
    - seafaring
    - seafood
    2. adjective
    seafood restaurants.) de marisco
    - sea-going
    - seagull
    - sea level
    - sea-lion
    - seaman
    - seaport
    - seashell
    - seashore
    - seasick
    - seasickness
    - seaside
    - seaweed
    - seaworthy
    - seaworthiness
    - at sea
    - go to sea
    - put to sea
    sea n mar
    by sea por mar / en barco
    Del verbo ser: ( conjugate ser) \ \
    sea es: \ \
    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo
    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo
    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo
    Multiple Entries: sea     ser
    sea,
    ◊ seas, etc see ser

    ser ( conjugate ser) cópula 1 ( seguido de adjetivos) to be
    ◊ ser expresses identity or nature as opposed to condition or state, which is normally conveyed by estar. The examples given below should be contrasted with those to be found in estar 1 cópula 1 es bajo/muy callado he's short/very quiet;
    es sorda de nacimiento she was born deaf; es inglés/católico he's English/(a) Catholic; era cierto it was true; sé bueno, estate quieto be a good boy and keep still; que seas muy feliz I hope you'll be very happy; (+ me/te/le etc) ver tb imposible, difícil etc 2 ( hablando de estado civil) to be; es viuda she's a widow; ver tb estar 1 cópula 2 3 (seguido de nombre, pronombre) to be; ábreme, soy yo open the door, it's me 4 (con predicado introducido por `de'): soy de Córdoba I'm from Cordoba; es de los vecinos it belongs to the neighbors, it's the neighbors'; no soy de aquí I'm not from around here 5 (hipótesis, futuro): ¿será cierto? can it be true? verbo intransitivo 1
    b) (liter) ( en cuentos):
    ◊ érase una vez … once upon a time there was …
    2
    a) (tener lugar, ocurrir):
    ¿dónde fue el accidente? where did the accident happen?
    ◊ ¿qué habrá sido de él? I wonder what happened to o what became of him;
    ¿qué es de Marisa? (fam) what's Marisa up to (these days)? (colloq); ¿qué va a ser de nosotros? what will become of us? 3 ( sumar):
    ◊ ¿cuánto es (todo)? how much is that (altogether)?;
    son 3.000 pesos that'll be o that's 3,000 pesos; somos diez en total there are ten of us altogether 4 (indicando finalidad, adecuación) sea para algo to be for sth; ( en locs)
    ◊ a no ser que (+ subj) unless;
    ¿cómo es eso? why is that?, how come? (colloq); como/cuando/donde sea: tengo que conseguir ese trabajo como sea I have to get that job no matter what; hazlo como sea, pero hazlo do it any way o however you want but get it done; el lunes o cuando sea next Monday or whenever; puedo dormir en el sillón o donde sea I can sleep in the armchair or wherever you like o anywhere you like; de ser así (frml) should this be so o the case (frml); ¡eso es! that's it!, that's right!; es que …: ¿es que no lo saben? do you mean to say they don't know?; es que no sé nadar the thing is I can't swim; lo que sea: cómete una manzana, o lo que sea have an apple or something; estoy dispuesta a hacer lo que sea I'm prepared to do whatever it takes; o sea: en febrero, o sea hace un mes in February, that is to say a month ago; o sea que no te interesa in other words, you're not interested; o sea que nunca lo descubriste so you never found out; (ya) sea …, (ya) sea … either …, or …; sea como sea at all costs; sea cuando sea whenever it is; sea donde sea no matter where; sea quien sea whoever it is; si no fuera/hubiera sido por … if it wasn't o weren't/hadn't been for … ( en el tiempo) to be;
    ◊ ¿qué fecha es hoy? what's the date today?, what's today's date;
    serían las cuatro cuando llegó it must have been (about) four (o'clock) when she arrived; ver tb v impers sea v impers to be; sea v aux ( en la voz pasiva) to be; fue construido en 1900 it was built in 1900 ■ sustantivo masculino 1
    a) ( ente) being;
    ◊ sea humano/vivo human/living being
    b) (individuo, persona):
    2 ( naturaleza):
    ser
    I sustantivo masculino
    1 being: es un ser despreciable, he's despicable
    ser humano, human being
    ser vivo, living being
    2 (esencia) essence: eso forma parte de su ser, that is part of him
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (cualidad) to be: eres muy modesto, you are very modest
    2 (fecha) to be: hoy es lunes, today is Monday
    ya es la una, it's one o'clock
    3 (cantidad) eran unos cincuenta, there were about fifty people (al pagar) ¿cuánto es?, how much is it?
    son doscientas, it is two hundred pesetas Mat dos y tres son cinco, two and three make five
    4 (causa) aquella mujer fue su ruina, that woman was his ruin
    5 (oficio) to be a(n): Elvira es enfermera, Elvira is a nurse
    6 (pertenencia) esto es mío, that's mine
    es de Pedro, it is Pedro's
    7 (afiliación) to belong: es del partido, he's a member of the party
    es un chico del curso superior, he is a boy from the higher year
    8 (origen) es de Málaga, she is from Málaga
    ¿de dónde es esta fruta? where does this fruit come from?
    9 (composición, material) to be made of: este jersey no es de lana, this sweater is not (made of) wool
    10 ser de, (afinidad, comparación) lo que hizo fue de tontos, what she did was a foolish thing
    11 (existir) Madrid ya no es lo que era, Madrid isn't what it used to be
    12 (suceder) ¿qué fue de ella?, what became of her?
    13 (tener lugar) to be: esta tarde es el entierro, the funeral is this evening 14 ser para, (finalidad) to be for: es para pelar patatas, it's for peeling potatoes (adecuación, aptitud) no es una película para niños, the film is not suitable for children
    esta vida no es para ti, this kind of life is not for you
    15 (efecto) era para llorar, it was painful
    es (como) para darle una bofetada, it makes me want to slap his face
    no es para tomárselo a broma, it is no joke
    16 (auxiliar en pasiva) to be: fuimos rescatados por la patrulla de la Cruz Roja, we were rescued by the Red Cross patrol
    17 ser de (+ infinitivo) era de esperar que se marchase, it was to be expected that she would leave Locuciones: a no ser que, unless
    como sea, anyhow
    de no ser por..., had it not been for
    es más, furthermore
    es que..., it's just that...
    lo que sea, whatever
    o sea, that is (to say)
    sea como sea, in any case o be that as it may
    ser de lo que no hay, to be the limit ' sea' also found in these entries: Spanish: adentro - arrastrar - besugo - blanca - blanco - caballito - comunicar - cualquiera - elefante - ser - erizo - erotizar - espada - exclusión - flexible - gruesa - grueso - hipocampo - loba - lobo - lubina - mar - marina - marino - marítima - marítimo - negarse - nivel - no - oportuna - oportuno - orientarse - respeto - segundón - segundona - siquiera - sugestión - un - una - vía - agrado - alto - altura - barco - bendito - breve - bruma - caer - calma - Caribe English: above - apply - as - blast - calm - can - Caribbean - clingy - damn - danger - Dead Sea - devil - facing - however - lost - lung - matter - may - Mediterranean - mist - place - prospect - Red Sea - sea - sea dog - sea lion - sea mist - sea-fish - sea-green - sea-lane - sea-level - sea-water - shame - sink - so - South Sea Islands - spin out - splendid - though - urchin - view - voyage - whenever - whichever - whoever - whose - wonder - word - Adriatic - Aegean
    tr[siː]
    1 mar m & f
    ■ the sea is calm/rough today la mar está serena/picada hoy
    ■ a heavy/light sea una mar gruesa/llana
    1 marítimo,-a, de mar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at sea en el mar
    by the sea a orillas del mar
    out to sea mar adentro
    to be all at sea estar perdido,-a, estar confundido,-a
    to find one's sea legs acostumbrarse al mar, no marearse
    to go by sea ir en barco
    to go to sea hacerse marinero
    to put (out) to sea zarpar, hacerse a la mar
    to send something by sea enviar algo por mar
    sea anemone anémona de mar
    sea bass lubina, róbalo
    sea bream pagro, pargo
    sea breeze brisa marina
    sea captain capitán nombre masculino de barco
    sea change cambio radical, metamorfosis nombre femenino
    sea dog lobo de mar
    sea fog bruma
    sea horse caballito de mar, hipocampo
    sea legs equilibrio
    sea mile milla marina (6000 pies ó 1000 brazas ó 1828,8 metros)
    sea mist bruma
    sea pink armenia marítima
    sea power (country) potencia naval 2 (power) poderío naval
    sea trout trucha de mar, reo
    sea urchin erizo de mar
    sea ['si:] adj
    : del mar
    sea n
    1) : mar mf
    the Black Sea: el Mar Negro
    on the high seas: en alta mar
    heavy seas: mar gruesa, mar agitada
    2) mass: mar m, multitud f
    a sea of faces: un mar de rostros
    adj.
    • marinero, -a adj.
    • marino, -a adj.
    n.
    • mar s.f.
    • mar s.m.
    • océano s.m.
    siː
    1) c
    a) (often pl) ( ocean) mar m [The noun mar is feminine in literary language and in some set idiomatic expressions]

    a house by the sea — una casa a orillas del mar, una casa junto al mar

    to goavel by sea — ir*/viajar en barco

    to put (out) to sea — hacerse* a la mar

    to dump waste at sea — verter* desechos en el mar

    to feel/be at sea: this left him feeling completely at sea esto lo confundió totalmente; at first I was all at sea al principio me sentí totalmente perdido or confundido; (before n) <route, transport> marítimo; < battle> naval; < god> del mar; < nymph> marino; the sea air/breeze el aire/la brisa del mar; sea crossing — travesía f

    b) ( inland) mar m
    2) (swell, turbulence) (usu pl)

    heavy o rough seas — mar f gruesa, mar m agitado or encrespado or picado

    3) (large mass, quantity) (no pl)
    [siː]
    1. N
    1) (=not land) mar m (or f in some phrases)

    • (out) at sea — en alta mar

    to remain two months at sea — estar navegando durante dos meses, pasar dos meses en el mar

    • beside the sea — a la orilla del mar, junto al mar

    • beyond the seas — más allá de los mares

    • to go by sea — ir por mar

    a house by the sea — una casa junto al mar or a la orilla del mar

    • heavy sea(s) — mar agitado or picado

    • on the high seas — en alta mar

    • on the sea — (boat) en alta mar

    • rough sea(s) — mar agitado or picado

    • to sail the seas — navegar los mares

    • the seven seas — todos los mares del mundo

    • in Spanish seas — en aguas españolas

    • the little boat was swept out to sea — la barquita fue arrastrada mar adentro

    to go to sea — [person] hacerse marinero

    to put (out) to sea — [sailor, boat] hacerse a la mar, zarpar

    - be all at sea about or with sth
    north
    2) (fig)

    • a sea of blood — un río or mar de sangre

    • a sea of corn — un mar de espigas

    • a sea of faces — un mar de caras

    • a sea of flame — un mar de llamas

    • a sea of troubles — un mar de penas

    2.
    CPD

    sea air N — aire m de mar

    sea anemone N — anémona f de mar

    sea bass N — corvina f

    sea bathing N — baño m en el mar

    sea battle N — batalla f naval

    sea bed N — fondo m del mar, lecho m marino frm

    sea bird N — ave f marina

    sea boot N — bota f de marinero

    sea bream N — besugo m

    sea breeze N — brisa f marina

    sea captain N — capitán m de barco

    sea change N — (fig) viraje m, cambio m radical

    sea chest † N — cofre m

    sea coast N — litoral m, costa f marítima

    sea cow N — manatí m

    sea defences NPL — estructuras fpl de defensa (contra el mar)

    sea dog N — (lit, fig) lobo m de mar

    sea fight N — combate m naval

    sea fish N — pez m marino

    sea floor N — fondo m del mar

    sea front N — paseo m marítimo

    sea grass N — hierbas fpl marinas

    sea-green

    sea horse N — caballito m de mar, hipocampo m

    sea kale N — col f marina

    sea lamprey N — lamprea f marina

    sea lane N — ruta f marítima

    sea legs NPL —

    sea level N — nivel m del mar

    sea lion N — león m marino

    sea mist N — bruma f marina

    sea perch N — perca f de mar

    sea power N — potencia f naval

    sea room N — espacio m para maniobrar

    sea route N — ruta f marítima

    sea salt N — sal f marina

    sea scout N — scout m / f marino(-a)

    sea serpent N — serpiente f de mar

    sea transport N — transporte m por mar, transporte m marítimo

    sea trip N — viaje m por mar

    sea trout N — trucha f marina, reo m

    sea turtle N — (US) tortuga f de mar, tortuga f marina

    sea urchin N — erizo m de mar

    sea view N — (Brit) vistas fpl al mar

    sea wall N — malecón m, rompeolas m inv

    sea water N — agua f de mar

    sea wrack N — algas fpl (en la playa)

    * * *
    [siː]
    1) c
    a) (often pl) ( ocean) mar m [The noun mar is feminine in literary language and in some set idiomatic expressions]

    a house by the sea — una casa a orillas del mar, una casa junto al mar

    to go/travel by sea — ir*/viajar en barco

    to put (out) to sea — hacerse* a la mar

    to dump waste at sea — verter* desechos en el mar

    to feel/be at sea: this left him feeling completely at sea esto lo confundió totalmente; at first I was all at sea al principio me sentí totalmente perdido or confundido; (before n) <route, transport> marítimo; < battle> naval; < god> del mar; < nymph> marino; the sea air/breeze el aire/la brisa del mar; sea crossing — travesía f

    b) ( inland) mar m
    2) (swell, turbulence) (usu pl)

    heavy o rough seas — mar f gruesa, mar m agitado or encrespado or picado

    3) (large mass, quantity) (no pl)

    English-spanish dictionary > sea

  • 8 BRC

    1) Общая лексика: ( British Refugee Council) Британский совет по делам беженцев
    2) Компьютерная техника: bit rate conversion
    3) Авиация: brace
    7) Шутливое выражение: Big Remote Control
    8) Железнодорожный термин: Belt Railway Company of Chicago
    9) Ветеринария: British Rabbit Council
    10) Политика: Black Radical Congress
    12) Электроника: Bit-Rate Control
    13) Экология: better retailing climate
    15) Деловая лексика: Business Reply Card, Business Resource Center
    16) Таможенная деятельность: Bank Realisation Certificate
    17) Сахалин Ю: basic regulatory control
    18) Расширение файла: Branch Conditional
    19) Маркетология: (business reply card) возвратная карточка запроса деловой информации
    20) Аварийное восстановление: business recovery coordinator
    22) NYSE. Brady Corporation
    23) Базы данных: Block, Rows, Columns

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > BRC

  • 9 Brc

    1) Общая лексика: ( British Refugee Council) Британский совет по делам беженцев
    2) Компьютерная техника: bit rate conversion
    3) Авиация: brace
    7) Шутливое выражение: Big Remote Control
    8) Железнодорожный термин: Belt Railway Company of Chicago
    9) Ветеринария: British Rabbit Council
    10) Политика: Black Radical Congress
    12) Электроника: Bit-Rate Control
    13) Экология: better retailing climate
    15) Деловая лексика: Business Reply Card, Business Resource Center
    16) Таможенная деятельность: Bank Realisation Certificate
    17) Сахалин Ю: basic regulatory control
    18) Расширение файла: Branch Conditional
    19) Маркетология: (business reply card) возвратная карточка запроса деловой информации
    20) Аварийное восстановление: business recovery coordinator
    22) NYSE. Brady Corporation
    23) Базы данных: Block, Rows, Columns

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Brc

  • 10 R

    1) Общая лексика: кино "R", фильмы, на которые дети до 16-17 лет допускаются только в сопровождении взрослых, чистый для анализа (ч.д.а.) (R (Reagent Grade) = GR (Guaranteed Reagent) = AR (Analytical grade) = PA (Pure for Analysis) = чистый для анализа) (http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_russian/chemistry%3B_chem_sci_eng/2145428-r.html), научно-производственный
    2) Компьютерная техника: Read, Regional
    3) Биология: arginine, respiration
    4) Американизм: Removed, Revised
    6) Военный термин: Ramming, Readiness, Required, Resources, Retreat, Revision, Rock Outcrops, Routine, Russian, radiation, radio, radioactivity, radiological, radiotelegram, railhead, railroad, railway, range, rank, rate, ration, rationing, reaction, rear, receiver, recoilless, recoverable, recruiting, reference, regiment, regimental, regulation, reinforcement, reliability, repair, repairable, replaceability, report, representative, research, reserve, residence, response, restricted, retired, retiree, review, reward, rifle, rifled, rimmed, rocket, round-nose, route, runner, пуск ракеты с корабля, самолёт СВ, транспортный самолёт (ВМС), (reconnaissance) разведывательный (самолёт; фото- или электронной разведки), в отставке, офицер запаса
    8) Сельское хозяйство: reactive, refrigerator, rough
    10) Математика: Ratio, Ray, Rays, Rounded, Row, интенсивность (rate), размах (range), скорость (rate)
    12) Юридический термин: Reasonable, Responsible, Restraint, Revert, Ridiculous, Robber
    14) Бухгалтерия: Re-Bill, Rebill, Record, Revenue
    15) Автомобильный термин: возвращение назад
    16) Музыка: Rollicking
    17) Оптика: Rankine
    18) Политика: Republican
    19) Телекоммуникации: Ring, Router, R reference point (ISDN)
    20) Сокращение: Reaumur, Reynolds number, Rolemaster, Romeo (phonetic alphabet), Royal, Rwanda, Time zone 67.5 W - 82.5 W (GMT +5), railroad, ready, rector, regulations, relative, rood, rubber, radar (comb form)
    21) Университет: Repeat, Room
    22) Физиология: Recto, Rehabilitate, Relax, Respirations
    23) Шахматы: Rook
    24) Электроника: Redundant
    25) Вычислительная техника: are, reset, resistor, reverse, right, Restricted (Movie rating)
    26) Нефть: (Vcl) clay content deduced from resistivity, current or producing gas/oil ratio, degrees Rankine, electrical resistivity, recovery, reflection coefficient, reservoir, rock bit, running, universal gas constant, Reaumur (scale)
    28) Картография: rapid, rapids, red
    29) Транспорт: Rider
    30) Пищевая промышленность: Rubbish
    31) Холодильная техника: refrigerant
    32) СМИ: Recite
    33) Деловая лексика: Results, Retailer, Risk, Risky, The Retailer's
    34) Бурение: температурная шкала Реомюра (Reamur), шарошечное долото (rock bit)
    35) Образование: Respect, Responsibility, Retentive, Rithmetic
    36) Складское дело: период между заказами (review period)
    38) Сетевые технологии: Reply
    39) Полимеры: Rydberg constant, radical, radius, ratio (соотношение), reflux ratio, registered, regular, resistance, rotary
    40) Программирование: Return
    41) Автоматика: register, reject, relation
    42) Контроль качества: rejection number
    43) Океанография: Radiancy, Rankine Temperature Scale
    47) Должность: Romance
    48) Чат: Repulsive
    49) Правительство: Resolution
    50) NYSE. Ryder Systems, Inc.
    51) НАСА: Radial, Rail, Roll, Rugged
    52) Федеральное бюро расследований: Racial
    53) Единицы измерений: Radians
    54) Международные перевозки: reduced class rate (rate classification)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > R

  • 11 RH

    2) Компьютерная техника: Red Hat
    3) Медицина: radical hysterectomy
    4) Спорт: Roller Hockey
    7) Юридический термин: Recreational Homicide
    8) Автомобильный термин: правого вращения, правый
    9) Телекоммуникации: Request/Response Header
    10) Сокращение: Royal Hussars (British Army), relative humidity (сравнительная влажность)
    11) Текстиль: Roman Halter
    12) Университет: Regular And Honors, Residence Hall
    13) Физиология: Rhesus (monkey) factor
    14) Электроника: Relative Humidity
    15) Вычислительная техника: Request Header
    16) Нефть: rat hole, ствол малого диаметра (rat hole), шурф под квадрат (rat hole)
    17) Иммунология: Releasing Hormone
    18) Картография: root of hedge, round house
    19) Транспорт: Ranch Hauler, Roadside Hazard
    20) Бурение: правосторонний (right hand), с правой резьбой (right hand)
    21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: относительная влажность (relative humidity)
    22) Сетевые технологии: Resource Header
    23) Полимеры: Rockwell hardness
    24) Общая лексика: right hand
    25) Расширение файла: Resource header (Borland C++, Visual C++)
    26) Имена и фамилии: Rich Herrick, Richard Hoffmann, Robert Holmes, Russell Hays
    27) Правительство: Rose Hill
    28) Федеральное бюро расследований: Richmond Field Office
    29) Единицы измерений: Run Hour

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > RH

  • 12 Rh

    2) Компьютерная техника: Red Hat
    3) Медицина: radical hysterectomy
    4) Спорт: Roller Hockey
    7) Юридический термин: Recreational Homicide
    8) Автомобильный термин: правого вращения, правый
    9) Телекоммуникации: Request/Response Header
    10) Сокращение: Royal Hussars (British Army), relative humidity (сравнительная влажность)
    11) Текстиль: Roman Halter
    12) Университет: Regular And Honors, Residence Hall
    13) Физиология: Rhesus (monkey) factor
    14) Электроника: Relative Humidity
    15) Вычислительная техника: Request Header
    16) Нефть: rat hole, ствол малого диаметра (rat hole), шурф под квадрат (rat hole)
    17) Иммунология: Releasing Hormone
    18) Картография: root of hedge, round house
    19) Транспорт: Ranch Hauler, Roadside Hazard
    20) Бурение: правосторонний (right hand), с правой резьбой (right hand)
    21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: относительная влажность (relative humidity)
    22) Сетевые технологии: Resource Header
    23) Полимеры: Rockwell hardness
    24) Общая лексика: right hand
    25) Расширение файла: Resource header (Borland C++, Visual C++)
    26) Имена и фамилии: Rich Herrick, Richard Hoffmann, Robert Holmes, Russell Hays
    27) Правительство: Rose Hill
    28) Федеральное бюро расследований: Richmond Field Office
    29) Единицы измерений: Run Hour

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Rh

  • 13 r

    1) Общая лексика: кино "R", фильмы, на которые дети до 16-17 лет допускаются только в сопровождении взрослых, чистый для анализа (ч.д.а.) (R (Reagent Grade) = GR (Guaranteed Reagent) = AR (Analytical grade) = PA (Pure for Analysis) = чистый для анализа) (http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_russian/chemistry%3B_chem_sci_eng/2145428-r.html), научно-производственный
    2) Компьютерная техника: Read, Regional
    3) Биология: arginine, respiration
    4) Американизм: Removed, Revised
    6) Военный термин: Ramming, Readiness, Required, Resources, Retreat, Revision, Rock Outcrops, Routine, Russian, radiation, radio, radioactivity, radiological, radiotelegram, railhead, railroad, railway, range, rank, rate, ration, rationing, reaction, rear, receiver, recoilless, recoverable, recruiting, reference, regiment, regimental, regulation, reinforcement, reliability, repair, repairable, replaceability, report, representative, research, reserve, residence, response, restricted, retired, retiree, review, reward, rifle, rifled, rimmed, rocket, round-nose, route, runner, пуск ракеты с корабля, самолёт СВ, транспортный самолёт (ВМС), (reconnaissance) разведывательный (самолёт; фото- или электронной разведки), в отставке, офицер запаса
    8) Сельское хозяйство: reactive, refrigerator, rough
    10) Математика: Ratio, Ray, Rays, Rounded, Row, интенсивность (rate), размах (range), скорость (rate)
    12) Юридический термин: Reasonable, Responsible, Restraint, Revert, Ridiculous, Robber
    14) Бухгалтерия: Re-Bill, Rebill, Record, Revenue
    15) Автомобильный термин: возвращение назад
    16) Музыка: Rollicking
    17) Оптика: Rankine
    18) Политика: Republican
    19) Телекоммуникации: Ring, Router, R reference point (ISDN)
    20) Сокращение: Reaumur, Reynolds number, Rolemaster, Romeo (phonetic alphabet), Royal, Rwanda, Time zone 67.5 W - 82.5 W (GMT +5), railroad, ready, rector, regulations, relative, rood, rubber, radar (comb form)
    21) Университет: Repeat, Room
    22) Физиология: Recto, Rehabilitate, Relax, Respirations
    23) Шахматы: Rook
    24) Электроника: Redundant
    25) Вычислительная техника: are, reset, resistor, reverse, right, Restricted (Movie rating)
    26) Нефть: (Vcl) clay content deduced from resistivity, current or producing gas/oil ratio, degrees Rankine, electrical resistivity, recovery, reflection coefficient, reservoir, rock bit, running, universal gas constant, Reaumur (scale)
    28) Картография: rapid, rapids, red
    29) Транспорт: Rider
    30) Пищевая промышленность: Rubbish
    31) Холодильная техника: refrigerant
    32) СМИ: Recite
    33) Деловая лексика: Results, Retailer, Risk, Risky, The Retailer's
    34) Бурение: температурная шкала Реомюра (Reamur), шарошечное долото (rock bit)
    35) Образование: Respect, Responsibility, Retentive, Rithmetic
    36) Складское дело: период между заказами (review period)
    38) Сетевые технологии: Reply
    39) Полимеры: Rydberg constant, radical, radius, ratio (соотношение), reflux ratio, registered, regular, resistance, rotary
    40) Программирование: Return
    41) Автоматика: register, reject, relation
    42) Контроль качества: rejection number
    43) Океанография: Radiancy, Rankine Temperature Scale
    47) Должность: Romance
    48) Чат: Repulsive
    49) Правительство: Resolution
    50) NYSE. Ryder Systems, Inc.
    51) НАСА: Radial, Rail, Roll, Rugged
    52) Федеральное бюро расследований: Racial
    53) Единицы измерений: Radians
    54) Международные перевозки: reduced class rate (rate classification)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > r

  • 14 rH

    2) Компьютерная техника: Red Hat
    3) Медицина: radical hysterectomy
    4) Спорт: Roller Hockey
    7) Юридический термин: Recreational Homicide
    8) Автомобильный термин: правого вращения, правый
    9) Телекоммуникации: Request/Response Header
    10) Сокращение: Royal Hussars (British Army), relative humidity (сравнительная влажность)
    11) Текстиль: Roman Halter
    12) Университет: Regular And Honors, Residence Hall
    13) Физиология: Rhesus (monkey) factor
    14) Электроника: Relative Humidity
    15) Вычислительная техника: Request Header
    16) Нефть: rat hole, ствол малого диаметра (rat hole), шурф под квадрат (rat hole)
    17) Иммунология: Releasing Hormone
    18) Картография: root of hedge, round house
    19) Транспорт: Ranch Hauler, Roadside Hazard
    20) Бурение: правосторонний (right hand), с правой резьбой (right hand)
    21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: относительная влажность (relative humidity)
    22) Сетевые технологии: Resource Header
    23) Полимеры: Rockwell hardness
    24) Общая лексика: right hand
    25) Расширение файла: Resource header (Borland C++, Visual C++)
    26) Имена и фамилии: Rich Herrick, Richard Hoffmann, Robert Holmes, Russell Hays
    27) Правительство: Rose Hill
    28) Федеральное бюро расследований: Richmond Field Office
    29) Единицы измерений: Run Hour

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > rH

  • 15 rh

    2) Компьютерная техника: Red Hat
    3) Медицина: radical hysterectomy
    4) Спорт: Roller Hockey
    7) Юридический термин: Recreational Homicide
    8) Автомобильный термин: правого вращения, правый
    9) Телекоммуникации: Request/Response Header
    10) Сокращение: Royal Hussars (British Army), relative humidity (сравнительная влажность)
    11) Текстиль: Roman Halter
    12) Университет: Regular And Honors, Residence Hall
    13) Физиология: Rhesus (monkey) factor
    14) Электроника: Relative Humidity
    15) Вычислительная техника: Request Header
    16) Нефть: rat hole, ствол малого диаметра (rat hole), шурф под квадрат (rat hole)
    17) Иммунология: Releasing Hormone
    18) Картография: root of hedge, round house
    19) Транспорт: Ranch Hauler, Roadside Hazard
    20) Бурение: правосторонний (right hand), с правой резьбой (right hand)
    21) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: относительная влажность (relative humidity)
    22) Сетевые технологии: Resource Header
    23) Полимеры: Rockwell hardness
    24) Общая лексика: right hand
    25) Расширение файла: Resource header (Borland C++, Visual C++)
    26) Имена и фамилии: Rich Herrick, Richard Hoffmann, Robert Holmes, Russell Hays
    27) Правительство: Rose Hill
    28) Федеральное бюро расследований: Richmond Field Office
    29) Единицы измерений: Run Hour

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > rh

  • 16 R

    1. acknowledge receipt - получение подтверждения;
    2. acoustic resistance - акустическое сопротивление;
    3. angle of reflection - угол отражения;
    4. arginine - аргинин;
    5. correlation coefficient - коэффициент корреляции;
    6. gas constant - газовая постоянная;
    7. heavy self-reversed - сильно самообращённая линия;
    8. production rate - скорость образования частиц;
    9. racemic - рацемический;
    10. radial distance - расстояние по радиусу;
    11. radical - радикал;
    12. radio - радиовещание; радиосвязь; радиоприёмник;
    13. radius - радиус;
    14. rain - дождь;
    15. range - дальность действия; дальность; диапазон; динамический диапазон; курсовой радиомаяк; полигон; пределы измерения; радиомаячный азимут;
    16. rate - быстрота; доза; доля; интенсивность; класс; коэффициент; норма; оценка; пропорция; процент; расход; скорость; сорт; ставка; степень; стоимость; тариф; темп;
    17. ratio - коэффициент; отношение; соотношение; степень;
    18. Re-display - радиолокационный индикатор типа К; индикатор типа А с лупой дальности;
    19. reaction - влияние; воздействие; обратное действие; положительная обратная связь; противодействие; реакция;
    20. reactive - реактивный;
    21. read - считывание; считывать; читать;
    22. Reaumur scale - шкала Реомюра;
    23. receipt - расписка; квитанция;
    24. received - принято;
    25. receiver - приёмник; приёмное устройство; радиоприёмник; радиоприёмное устройство; ресивер; телефон;
    26. reconnaissance - разведка;
    27. red - красный;
    28. reddish - красноватый;
    29. reflux ratio - флегмовое число;
    30. refraction - рефракция;
    31. refrigerant - холодильный агент, хладагент;
    32. refrigerator - холодильник; рефрижератор;
    33. register - книга записей;
    34. registered - заказное;
    35. rehydratable food - обезвоженные продукты питания;
    36. relative humidity - относительная влажность;
    37. relay - реле; радиорелейная линия; трансляция;
    38. reluctance - магнитное сопротивление;
    39. repetition - повторение;
    40. report - донесение, сообщение; рапорт; доклад; представление;
    41. research - исследование; изыскание, научно-исследовательская работа; НИР;
    42. reserve - запас, резерв; запасать; резервировать; запасный, резервный;
    43. reset - возврат в исходное положение или состояние; восстановление; сброс; установка в положение "0"; установка на нуль;
    44. resistance - невосприимчивость; резистентность; резистор; сопротивление; сопротивляемость; стойкость, устойчивость;
    45. resistor - резистор;
    46. respiration - дыхание;
    47. response - реакция; ответ;
    48. result - результат;
    49. reverse - изменение направления на обратное; реверс; реверсирование; обратный; перевёрнутый; противоположный;
    50. right - правый;
    51. river - река;
    52. road - дорога;
    53. rock - горная порода; камень;
    54. rock bit - шарошечное долото;
    55. roentgen - рентген;
    56. rolled - катаный; прокатанный;
    57. rotational quantum number - вращательное квантовое число;
    58. rough - грубый;
    59. rubber - резина; каучук;
    60. Rydberg constant - постоянная Ридберга;
    61. slightly self-reversed - слабо самообращённая линия

    Англо-русский словарь технических аббревиатур > R

  • 17 fringe

    [frɪndʒ] noun
    1) (bordering) Fransen; Fransenkante, die (on an + Dat.)
    2) (hair) [Pony]fransen (ugs.)
    3) (edge) Rand, der; attrib. Rand[geschehen, -gruppe, -gebiet]

    live on the fringe[s] of the city/of society — in den Randgebieten der Stadt wohnen/am Rand der Gesellschaft leben

    lunatic fringe — Extremisten; attrib.

    * * *
    [frin‹] 1. noun
    1) (a border of loose threads on a carpet, shawl etc: Her red shawl has a black fringe.) die Franse
    2) (hair cut to hang over the forehead: You should have your fringe cut before it covers your eyes.) der Pony
    3) (the outer area; the edge; the part farthest from the main part or centre of something: on the fringe of the city.) der aüßerste Rand
    2. verb
    (to make or be a border around: Trees fringed the pond.) umsäumen
    * * *
    [frɪnʤ]
    I. n
    1. (edging) Franse f
    \fringe of bushes/reeds Busch-/Schilfgürtel m
    2. BRIT, AUS (hair) Pony m, Franseln pl SCHWEIZ
    3. (of area) Rand m
    on the \fringe of the wood am Waldrand
    4. + sing/pl vb ( fig: of group, activity)
    the radical \fringe of the party der radikale Flügel der Partei
    on the \fringes of society am Rand der Gesellschaft
    the lunatic \fringe die Extremisten pl
    ▪ the \fringe die Alternativszene
    the Edinburgh F\fringe Festival das Alternativfestival von Edinburgh
    ▪ to \fringe sth area, water etw umgeben; cloth etw umsäumen
    III. adj inv
    1. (not mainstream) Rand-
    \fringe character FILM, THEAT Nebenrolle f
    \fringe medicine BRIT Alternativmedizin f
    2. BRIT (of art) Alternativ-
    * * *
    [frɪndZ]
    1. n
    1) (on shawl) Fransenkante f, Fransen pl
    2) (Brit: hair) Pony m
    3) (fig: periphery) Rand m
    See:
    → academic.ru/88895/lunatic_fringe">lunatic fringe
    2. vt
    mit Fransen versehen
    * * *
    fringe [frındʒ]
    A s
    1. Franse f, Besatz m
    2. Rand m, Saum m, Einfassung f, Umrandung f
    3. besonders Br Ponyfrisur f
    4. a) Randbezirk m, äußerer Bezirk:
    b) fig Rand(gebiet) m(n), Grenze f:
    the fringes of civilization die Randzonen der Zivilisation;
    on the fringe(s) of society am Rande der Gesellschaft; → lunatic A a
    B v/t
    1. mit Fransen besetzen
    2. als Rand dienen für
    3. umsäumen
    * * *
    [frɪndʒ] noun
    1) (bordering) Fransen; Fransenkante, die (on an + Dat.)
    2) (hair) [Pony]fransen (ugs.)
    3) (edge) Rand, der; attrib. Rand[geschehen, -gruppe, -gebiet]

    live on the fringe[s] of the city/of society — in den Randgebieten der Stadt wohnen/am Rand der Gesellschaft leben

    lunatic fringe — Extremisten; attrib.

    * * *
    n.
    Einfassung f.
    Franse -n f.
    Pony -s m.
    Ponyfrisur f.
    Rand ¨-er m.
    Randzone -n f.
    Umrandung f. v.
    mit Fransen besetzen ausdr.
    säumen v.
    umsäumen v.

    English-german dictionary > fringe

  • 18 pink

    [piŋk]
    noun, adjective
    1) ((of) (any shade of) a colour between red and white: a dress of pink satin.) cor-de-rosa
    2) ((of) the colour of healthy skin: pink cheeks; Her cheeks are pink with health.) rosado
    •
    - pinkish
    * * *
    pink1
    [piŋk] n Naut pinque: embarcação de popa estreita.
    ————————
    pink2
    [piŋk] n 1 Bot cravo, craveiro. 2 fig auge, ápice. 3 cor-de-rosa. 4 modelo, encarnação, personificação. 5 casaco de caçador de raposas. 6 Amer sl simpatizante do comunismo. • adj 1 cor-de-rosa. 2 Amer sl simpatizante do comunismo, moderadamente radical. 3 emocionado. the pink of perfection a mais alta perfeição. to be in the pink estar com ótima saúde ou disposição.
    ————————
    pink3
    [piŋk] vt 1 recortar. 2 trespassar, apunhalar. 3 adornar, decorar com furos.
    ————————
    pink4
    [piŋk] vt bater (motor de explosão).

    English-Portuguese dictionary > pink

  • 19 ♦ change

    ♦ change /tʃeɪndʒ/
    n.
    1 [cu] cambiamento; variazione; mutamento; alterazione: a change of direction [of plan], un cambiamento di direzione [di programma]; a marked change, un notevole cambiamento; a refreshing change, un cambiamento piacevole; a radical change, un mutamento radicale; (econ.) technological change, progresso (o sviluppo) tecnologico; change in price, variazione di prezzo; a change for the better, un cambiamento in meglio; social change, cambiamenti sociali; to make (o to implement) changes, fare cambiamenti; to undergo a change, subire un mutamento; to propose a change, suggerire un cambiamento; for a change, (tanto) per cambiare; per fare qualcosa di diverso; He's against change, è contario ai cambiamenti
    2 cambio; ricambio; sostituzione: a change of clothes, un cambio d'abiti; abiti di ricambio; a change of socks, un paio di calze di ricambio; (autom.) change of tyres, cambio di gomme; a change of government, un cambio di governo
    3 [u] spiccioli (pl.); moneta (spicciola); monetine (pl.): loose change (o small change) spiccioli; exact change, denaro contato; Can you give me change for a 10-pound note?, può cambiarmi un biglietto da dieci sterline?; DIALOGO → - Pool- I'll ask for some change, chiedo se hanno da cambiare; DIALOGO → - Pool- Have you got any change for the pool table?, hai spiccioli per il tavolo da biliardo?
    4 [u] resto ( di denaro): Keep the change!, tenga il resto!; You gave me the wrong change, ha sbagliato a darmi il resto; 57 cent change, 57 centesimi di resto; «No change given», la macchina non dà resto
    5 – (fam.) the change (o the change of life) la menopausa
    6 – (arc.) the Change, la Borsa Valori
    ● a change of air, un cambiamento d'aria □ (econ.) change in demand [supply], variazione della domanda [dell'offerta] ( a parità di prezzo) □ change of heart, mutamento d'opinione; ripensamento □ ( USA) change purse, portamonete; borsellino □ change ringing, la tecnica di suonare le campane con variazioni continue ( secondo l'uso inglese) □ (fam. GB) to get no change out of sb., non cavare un ragno da un buco con q. □ to make a change, costituire un cambiamento (o una novità); essere qualcosa di diverso □ to ring the changes, suonare le campane a concerto; (fig.) variare, introdurre variazioni.
    NOTA D'USO: - change o exchange?- ♦ (to) change /tʃeɪndʒ/
    A v. t.
    1 cambiare; trasformare; modificare; mutare: to change the subject, cambiare argomento; to change shape, mutare forma; trasformarsi; The prince was changed into a frog, il principe fu mutato in rana; to change one's ways, cambiare vita; Success changed him, il successo lo ha trasformato; (autom.) to change gear, cambiare (marcia)
    2 cambiare; scambiare, scambiarsi; fare un cambio: to change trains [buses], cambiare treno [autobus]; to change jobs, cambiare lavoro; I'll take it back to the shop and change it for a green one, lo riporto al negozio e lo cambio con uno verde; to change places with sb., scambiarsi di posto con q.; (fig.) fare cambio con q., essere al posto di q.; (fig.) to change sides, passare dall'altra parte, mutar bandiera
    3 cambiare ( denaro, banconote, ecc.): to change dollars into euros, cambiare dollari in euro
    4 sostituire ( un pezzo, ecc.); cambiare: to change a bulb [a wheel], cambiare una lampadina [una ruota]; DIALOGO → - At the photocopier- Do you know how to change the cartridge?, sai come si cambia la cartuccia?
    B v. i.
    1 cambiare; mutare; mutarsi; trasformarsi: Tom has changed a lot, Tom è molto cambiato; The steady flow changed to a trickle, il flusso regolare è diventato uno sgocciolio; The lights changed from red to green, il semaforo è passato dal rosso al verde
    2 cambiarsi (d'abito): to change for dinner, cambiarsi per la cena; She changed into a pair of jeans, (si è cambiata e) ha indossato un paio di jeans; to change out of, togliersi (un indumento, per indossarne un altro); to get changed, cambiarsi (d'abito)
    3 cambiare ( mezzo di trasporto): We have to change at Crewe, dobbiamo cambiare a Crewe
    4 (autom.) cambiare: to change into third, (cambiare e) mettere la terza
    ● to change address, cambiare indirizzo □ to change a baby, cambiare un bambino □ to change the bed, fare il cambio delle lenzuola; cambiare le lenzuola □ ( sport) to change ends, cambiare campo □ ( del tempo, ecc.) to change for the better [for the worse], migliorare [peggiorare] □ to change hands, cambiare mano; (fig.) passare in altre mani, cambiare di proprietario: No money changed hands, non c'è stato passaggio di denaro □ to change one's mind, cambiare idea (o opinione); mutar (di) parere; avere un ripensamento □ ( anche fig.) to change one's tune, cambiar tono; mutare registro; cambiare musica □ to change step, cambiare passo ( marciando) □ (trasp., ferr.) «All change!», «fine della corsa!».

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ change

  • 20 fringe

    I 1. [frɪndʒ]
    1) BE (of hair) frangia f.
    2) (decorative trim) frangia f., frange f.pl.
    3) (edge) (of forest etc.) margine m., margini m.pl.
    4) pol. sociol. (group) frangia f.
    5) teatr.
    2.
    nome plurale fringes
    3.
    1) teatr. [ theatre] d'avanguardia, sperimentale
    2) pol. sociol. [ activity] marginale
    II [frɪndʒ]
    1) (put trim on) ornare di frange, frangiare [ curtains]
    2) (form border) [ trees] contornare [ field]
    * * *
    [frin‹] 1. noun
    1) (a border of loose threads on a carpet, shawl etc: Her red shawl has a black fringe.) frangia
    2) (hair cut to hang over the forehead: You should have your fringe cut before it covers your eyes.) frangetta
    3) (the outer area; the edge; the part farthest from the main part or centre of something: on the fringe of the city.) orlo, margine
    2. verb
    (to make or be a border around: Trees fringed the pond.) contornare
    * * *
    [frɪndʒ]
    1. n
    1) (on shawl, rug) frangia, (Brit: of hair) frangia, frangetta
    2)

    fringes npl — (of forest) margine m, (of city) periferia

    2. vt
    (shawl) frangiare
    * * *
    fringe /frɪndʒ/
    A n.
    1 frangia (ornamentale); penero
    2 (GB, di capelli) frangetta; frangia: to wear a fringe, portare la frangetta
    3 orlo; margine; zona marginale: to live on the fringes of society, vivere ai margini della società
    4 (= fringe group) frangia; fazione; ala; gruppuscolo: the radical fringe of a party, l'ala radicale di un partito; the extreme-left fringe, la frangia dell'ultrasinistra
    5 (fis.) frangia
    6 (fotogr.) iridescenza
    B a. attr.
    1 marginale; collaterale; periferico; accessorio: fringe role, ruolo marginale; fringe benefit, fringe benefit; beneficio accessorio; indennità accessoria; (econ.) fringe market, mercato marginale
    2 anticonvenzionale; alternativo: fringe medicine, medicina alternativa; fringe theatre, teatro alternativo; teatro off.
    (to) fringe /frɪndʒ/
    A v. t.
    1 ornare di frange; frangiare
    2 orlare; contornare: The lake is fringed with luxuriant vegetation, il lago è contornato da una vegetazione lussureggiante
    B v. i.
    ( spesso to fringe out) estendersi come una frangia.
    * * *
    I 1. [frɪndʒ]
    1) BE (of hair) frangia f.
    2) (decorative trim) frangia f., frange f.pl.
    3) (edge) (of forest etc.) margine m., margini m.pl.
    4) pol. sociol. (group) frangia f.
    5) teatr.
    2.
    nome plurale fringes
    3.
    1) teatr. [ theatre] d'avanguardia, sperimentale
    2) pol. sociol. [ activity] marginale
    II [frɪndʒ]
    1) (put trim on) ornare di frange, frangiare [ curtains]
    2) (form border) [ trees] contornare [ field]

    English-Italian dictionary > fringe

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