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1 variety
nounadd or give variety to something — etwas abwechslungsreicher gestalten
for a variety of reasons — aus verschiedenen Gründen
a wide variety of birds/flowers — viele verschiedene Vogelarten/Blumen
3) (Theatre) Varietee, das* * *plural - varieties; noun1) (the quality of being of many different kinds or of being varied: There's a great deal of variety in this job.) die Abwechslung2) (a mixed collection or range: The children got a variety of toys on their birthdays.) die Vielfalt3) (a sort or kind: They grow fourteen different varieties of rose.) die Spielart4) (a type of mixed theatrical entertainment including dances, songs, short sketches etc: I much prefer operas to variety; ( also adjective) a variety show.) das Variete'; Variete'...* * *va·ri·ety[vəˈraɪəti, AM -ət̬i]nto lend \variety Abwechslung bieten [o bringen3. no pla \variety of courses verschiedene Kursea \variety of different possibilities eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Möglichkeitenthis device can be used for a \variety of purposes dieses Gerät kann für die unterschiedlichsten Verwendungszwecke eingesetzt werdenin a \variety of ways auf vielfältige Weisea new \variety of tulip/sweetcorn eine neue Tulpen-/Maissorte6.* * *[və'raIətɪ]n1) (= diversity) Abwechslung fto add variety to sth — Abwechslung in etw (acc) bringen
variety is the spice of life (prov) — öfter mal was Neues (inf)
that's quite a variety for one company — das ist ein ziemlich breites Spektrum für eine (einzige) Firma
I have seen him in a variety of different moods — ich habe ihn in einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Stimmungen erlebt
for a variety of reasons — aus verschiedenen or mehreren Gründen
a wide variety of birds — eine große Vielfalt an Vogelarten, viele verschiedene Vogelarten
you meet a great variety of people at this hotel — in diesem Hotel können Sie die verschiedensten Leute treffen
a new variety of tulip/potato — eine neue Tulpen-/Kartoffelsorte
* * *variety [vəˈraıətı] s1. Verschiedenheit f, Buntheit f, Mannigfaltigkeit f, Vielseitigkeit f, Abwechslung f:add variety to Abwechslung bringen in (akk);variety is the spice of life (Sprichwort) Abwechslung ist die Würze des Lebens2. Vielfalt f, Reihe f, Anzahl f, besonders WIRTSCH Auswahl f:a variety of silks ein Sortiment von Seidenstoffen;for a variety of reasons aus den verschiedensten Gründen3. Sorte f, Art f4. allg Spielart f5. BOT, ZOOLa) Varietät f (Unterabteilung einer Art)b) Spielart f, Variante f6. Varieté n7. → academic.ru/79767/variety_store">variety storevar. abk1. variable2. variant3. variation4. variety5. various versch(ied).* * *nounadd or give variety to something — etwas abwechslungsreicher gestalten
a wide variety of birds/flowers — viele verschiedene Vogelarten/Blumen
3) (Theatre) Varietee, das* * *n.Art -en f.Auswahl -en f.Buntheit -en f.Mannigfaltigkeit f.Verschiedenheit f.Vielfalt -en f. -
2 Leonardo da Vinci
[br]b. 15 April 1452 Vinci, near Florence, Italy,d. 2 May 1519 St Cloux, near Amboise, France.[br]Italian scientist, engineer, inventor and artist.[br]Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer. His first sixteen years were spent with the lawyer's family in the rural surroundings of Vinci, which aroused in him a lifelong love of nature and an insatiable curiosity in it. He received little formal education but extended his knowledge through private reading. That gave him only a smattering of Latin, a deficiency that was to be a hindrance throughout his active life. At sixteen he was apprenticed in the studio of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence, where he received a training not only in art but in a wide variety of crafts and technical arts.In 1482 Leonardo went to Milan, where he sought and obtained employment with Ludovico Sforza, later Duke of Milan, partly to sculpt a massive equestrian statue of Ludovico but the work never progressed beyond the full-scale model stage. He did, however, complete the painting which became known as the Virgin of the Rocks and in 1497 his greatest artistic achievement, The Last Supper, commissioned jointly by Ludovico and the friars of Santa Maria della Grazie and painted on the wall of the monastery's refectory. Leonardo was responsible for the court pageants and also devised a system of irrigation to supply water to the plains of Lombardy. In 1499 the French army entered Milan and deposed Leonardo's employer. Leonardo departed and, after a brief visit to Mantua, returned to Florence, where for a time he was employed as architect and engineer to Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna. Around 1504 he completed another celebrated work, the Mona Lisa.In 1506 Leonardo began his second sojourn in Milan, this time in the service of King Louis XII of France, who appointed him "painter and engineer". In 1513 Leonardo left for Rome in the company of his pupil Francesco Melzi, but his time there was unproductive and he found himself out of touch with the younger artists active there, Michelangelo above all. In 1516 he accepted with relief an invitation from King François I of France to reside at the small château of St Cloux in the royal domain of Amboise. With the pension granted by François, Leonardo lived out his remaining years in tranquility at St Cloux.Leonardo's career can hardly be regarded as a success or worthy of such a towering genius. For centuries he was known only for the handful of artistic works that he managed to complete and have survived more or less intact. His main activity remained hidden until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, during which the contents of his notebooks were gradually revealed. It became evident that Leonardo was one of the greatest scientific investigators and inventors in the history of civilization. Throughout his working life he extended a searching curiosity over an extraordinarily wide range of subjects. The notes show careful investigation of questions of mechanical and civil engineering, such as power transmission by means of pulleys and also a form of chain belting. The notebooks record many devices, such as machines for grinding and polishing lenses, a lathe operated by treadle-crank, a rolling mill with conical rollers and a spinning machine with pinion and yard divider. Leonardo made an exhaustive study of the flight of birds, with a view to designing a flying machine, which obsessed him for many years.Leonardo recorded his observations and conclusions, together with many ingenious inventions, on thousands of pages of manuscript notes, sketches and drawings. There are occasional indications that he had in mind the publication of portions of the notes in a coherent form, but he never diverted his energy into putting them in order; instead, he went on making notes. As a result, Leonardo's impact on the development of science and technology was virtually nil. Even if his notebooks had been copied and circulated, there were daunting impediments to their understanding. Leonardo was left-handed and wrote in mirror-writing: that is, in reverse from right to left. He also used his own abbreviations and no punctuation.At his death Leonardo bequeathed his entire output of notes to his friend and companion Francesco Melzi, who kept them safe until his own death in 1570. Melzi left the collection in turn to his son Orazio, whose lack of interest in the arts and sciences resulted in a sad period of dispersal which endangered their survival, but in 1636 the bulk of them, in thirteen volumes, were assembled and donated to the Ambrosian Library in Milan. These include a large volume of notes and drawings compiled from the various portions of the notebooks and is now known as the Codex Atlanticus. There they stayed, forgotten and ignored, until 1796, when Napoleon's marauding army overran Italy and art and literary works, including the thirteen volumes of Leonardo's notebooks, were pillaged and taken to Paris. After the war in 1815, the French government agreed to return them but only the Codex Atlanticus found its way back to Milan; the rest remained in Paris. The appendix to one notebook, dealing with the flight of birds, was later regarded as of sufficient importance to stand on its own. Four small collections reached Britain at various times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; of these, the volume in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle is notable for its magnificent series of anatomical drawings. Other collections include the Codex Leicester and Codex Arundel in the British Museum in London, and the Madrid Codices in Spain.Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Leonardo's true stature as scientist, engineer and inventor began to emerge, particularly with the publication of transcriptions and translations of his notebooks. The volumes in Paris appeared in 1881–97 and the Codex Atlanticus was published in Milan between 1894 and 1904.[br]Principal Honours and Distinctions"Premier peintre, architecte et mécanicien du Roi" to King François I of France, 1516.Further ReadingE.MacCurdy, 1939, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 2 vols, London; 2nd edn, 1956, London (the most extensive selection of the notes, with an English translation).G.Vasari (trans. G.Bull), 1965, Lives of the Artists, London: Penguin, pp. 255–271.C.Gibbs-Smith, 1978, The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford: Phaidon. L.H.Heydenreich, Dibner and L. Reti, 1981, Leonardo the Inventor, London: Hutchinson.I.B.Hart, 1961, The World of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Macdonald.LRD / IMcN -
3 range
rein‹ 1. noun1) (a selection or variety: a wide range of books for sale; He has a very wide range of interests.) utvalg; område2) (the distance over which an object can be sent or thrown, sound can be heard etc: What is the range of this missile?; We are within range of / beyond the range of / out of range of their guns.) skudd-/rekkevidde, aksjonsradius3) (the amount between certain limits: I'm hoping for a salary within the range $30,000 to $34,000; the range of a person's voice between his highest and lowest notes.) område4) (a row or series: a mountain range.) rekke, kjede5) (in the United States, land, usually without fences, on which cattle etc can graze.) uinngjerdet beiteland6) (a place where a person can practise shooting etc; a rifle-range.) skytefelt7) (a large kitchen stove with a flat top.) komfyr2. verb1) (to put in a row or rows: The two armies were ranged on opposite sides of the valley.) stille opp på rekke2) (to vary between certain limits: Weather conditions here range between bad and dreadful / from bad to dreadful.) veksle/variere/ligge mellom3) (to go, move, extend etc: His talk ranged over a number of topics.) bevege seg; spenne over•- rangerkomfyr--------rekkeviddeIsubst. \/reɪn(d)ʒ\/1) rad, rekke, serie, kjede2) ( gammeldags) retning, linje3) ( militærvesen) skytefelt, skytebane, prøvefelt4) skuddhold, skuddvidde, skyteavstand5) rekkevidde, spennvidde, (aksjons)radius, område, utstrekning, omfang6) ( om stemme) omfang, register7) ( fotografi eller radar) avstand, distanse8) spillerom, råderom9) klasse, kategori, skala, spekter, utvalg11) (zoologi, botanikk) utbredelse(sområde)12) (amer.) stort beite(land), jaktområde, åpent landområde, streifområde13) (amer.) utflukt, (streif)tur, vandring14) komfyrat a range of fra en avstand på, med en avstand påat long range på langt holdat short\/close range på nært holdin (a) range with på linje medout of\/beyond range utenfor skuddholdoutside one's range utenfor ens område, utenfor ens gebetrange of prices eller price range prisklasse, prisskala, prisintervall, priskategoriwithin range of (something) innen rekkevidde av noeIIverb \/reɪn(d)ʒ\/1) stille på rekke, stille opp2) oppstille systematisk, klassifisere, rangere, (inn)ordne3) ta parti, slutte opp om4) ( også overført) streife omkring5) (amer.) sette på beite6) ( om teleskop e.l.) innstille, rette inn7) ( om pistol) skyte (seg) inn8) strekke seg, dekke (også overført)9) ha sin plass, ligge10) (zoologi, botanikk) være utbredt, ha utbredelse, forekomme11) variere (innen visse grenser)12) nå, ha en rekkevidde avrange along a coast ( sjøfart) seile langs en kystrange alongside ( sjøfart) legge seg kloss inntilrange oneself alongside ( overført) gjøre felles sak med, stille seg på linje medrange oneself behind somebody slutte opp om noenrange one's glance over la blikket fare over
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