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81 Davis, Robert Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 6 June 1870 London, Englandd. 29 March 1965 Epsom, Surrey, England[br]English inventor of breathing, diving and escape apparatus.[br]Davis was the son of a detective with the City of London police. At the age of 11 he entered the employment of Siebe, Gorman \& Co., manufacturers of diving and other safety equipment since 1819, at their Lambeth works. By good fortune, his neat handwriting attracted the notice of Mr Gorman and he was transferred to work in the office. He studied hard after working hours and rose steadily in the firm. In his twenties he was promoted to Assistant Manager, then General Manager, Managing Director and finally Governing Director. He retired in 1960, having been made Life President the previous year, and continued to attend the office regularly until May 1964.Davis's entire career was devoted to research and development in the firm's special field. In 1906 he perfected the first practicable oxygen-breathing apparatus for use in mine rescue; it was widely adopted and with modifications was still in use in the 1990s. With Professor Leonard Hill he designed a deep-sea diving-bell incorporating a decompression chamber. He also invented an oxygen-breathing apparatus and heated apparel for airmen flying at high altitudes.Immediately after the first German gas attacks on the Western Front in April 1915, Davis devised a respirator, known as the stocking skene or veil mask. He quickly organized the mass manufacture of this device, roping in members of his family and placing the work in the homes of Lambeth: within 48 hours the first consignment was being sent off to France.He was a member of the Admiralty Deep Sea Diving Committee, which in 1933 completed tables for the safe ascent of divers with oxygen from a depth of 300 ft (91 m). They were compiled by Davis in conjunction with Professors J.B.S.Haldane and Leonard Hill and Captain G.C.Damant, the Royal Navy's leading diving expert. With revisions these tables have been used by the Navy ever since. Davis's best-known invention was first used in 1929: the Davis Submarine Escape Apparatus. It became standard equipment on submarines until it was replaced by the Built-in Breathing System, which the firm began manufacturing in 1951.The firm's works were bombed during the Second World War and were re-established at Chessington, Surrey. The extensive research facilities there were placed at the disposal of the Royal Navy and the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit. Davis worked with Haldane and Hill on problems of the underwater physiology of working divers. A number of inventions issued from Chessington, such as the human torpedo, midget submarine and human minesweeper. In the early 1950s the firm helped to pioneer the use of underwater television to investigate the sinking of the submarine Affray and the crashed Comet jet airliners.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1932.BibliographyDavis was the author of several manuals on diving including Deep Sea Diving and Submarine Operations and Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres. He also wrote Resuscitation: A Brief Personal History of Siebe, Gorman \& Co. 1819–1957.Further ReadingObituary, 1965, The Times, 31 March, p. 16.LRD -
82 Eisler, Paul
[br]b. 1907 Vienna, Austria[br]Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.[br]At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.[br]Bibliography1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.KF -
83 Priestman, William Dent
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 23 August 1847 Sutton, Hull, Englandd. 7 September 1936 Hull, England[br]English oil engine pioneer.[br]William was the second son and one of eleven children of Samuel Priestman, who had moved to Hull after retiring as a corn miller in Kirkstall, Leeds, and who in retirement had become a director of the North Eastern Railway Company. The family were strict Quakers, so William was sent to the Quaker School in Bootham, York. He left school at the age of 17 to start an engineering apprenticeship at the Humber Iron Works, but this company failed so the apprenticeship was continued with the North Eastern Railway, Gateshead. In 1869 he joined the hydraulics department of Sir William Armstrong \& Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, but after a year there his father financed him in business at a small, run down works, the Holderness Foundry, Hull. He was soon joined by his brother, Samuel, their main business being the manufacture of dredging equipment (grabs), cranes and winches. In the late 1870s William became interested in internal combustion engines. He took a sublicence to manufacture petrol engines to the patents of Eugène Etève of Paris from the British licensees, Moll and Dando. These engines operated in a similar manner to the non-compression gas engines of Lenoir. Failure to make the two-stroke version of this engine work satisfactorily forced him to pay royalties to Crossley Bros, the British licensees of the Otto four-stroke patents.Fear of the dangers of petrol as a fuel, reflected by the associated very high insurance premiums, led William to experiment with the use of lamp oil as an engine fuel. His first of many patents was for a vaporizer. This was in 1885, well before Ackroyd Stuart. What distinguished the Priestman engine was the provision of an air pump which pressurized the fuel tank, outlets at the top and bottom of which led to a fuel atomizer injecting continuously into a vaporizing chamber heated by the exhaust gases. A spring-loaded inlet valve connected the chamber to the atmosphere, with the inlet valve proper between the chamber and the working cylinder being camoperated. A plug valve in the fuel line and a butterfly valve at the inlet to the chamber were operated, via a linkage, by the speed governor; this is believed to be the first use of this method of control. It was found that vaporization was only partly achieved, the higher fractions of the fuel condensing on the cylinder walls. A virtue was made of this as it provided vital lubrication. A starting system had to be provided, this comprising a lamp for preheating the vaporizing chamber and a hand pump for pressurizing the fuel tank.Engines of 2–10 hp (1.5–7.5 kW) were exhibited to the press in 1886; of these, a vertical engine was installed in a tram car and one of the horizontals in a motor dray. In 1888, engines were shown publicly at the Royal Agricultural Show, while in 1890 two-cylinder vertical marine engines were introduced in sizes from 2 to 10 hp (1.5–7.5 kW), and later double-acting ones up to some 60 hp (45 kW). First, clutch and gearbox reversing was used, but reversing propellers were fitted later (Priestman patent of 1892). In the same year a factory was established in Philadelphia, USA, where engines in the range 5–20 hp (3.7–15 kW) were made. Construction was radically different from that of the previous ones, the bosses of the twin flywheels acting as crank discs with the main bearings on the outside.On independent test in 1892, a Priestman engine achieved a full-load brake thermal efficiency of some 14 per cent, a very creditable figure for a compression ratio limited to under 3:1 by detonation problems. However, efficiency at low loads fell off seriously owing to the throttle governing, and the engines were heavy, complex and expensive compared with the competition.Decline in sales of dredging equipment and bad debts forced the firm into insolvency in 1895 and receivers took over. A new company was formed, the brothers being excluded. However, they were able to attend board meetings, but to exert no influence. Engine activities ceased in about 1904 after over 1,000 engines had been made. It is probable that the Quaker ethics of the brothers were out of place in a business that was becoming increasingly cut-throat. William spent the rest of his long life serving others.[br]Further ReadingC.Lyle Cummins, 1976, Internal Fire, Carnot Press.C.Lyle Cummins and J.D.Priestman, 1985, "William Dent Priestman, oil engine pioneer and inventor: his engine patents 1885–1901", Proceedings of the Institution ofMechanical Engineers 199:133.Anthony Harcombe, 1977, "Priestman's oil engine", Stationary Engine Magazine 42 (August).JBBiographical history of technology > Priestman, William Dent
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84 Inventar
Inventar n GEN, IND, VERSICH inventory, stock list • Inventar nach Alter aufstellen RW age inventories* * *n <Geschäft, Ind, Versich> inventory, stock list ■ Inventar nach Alter aufstellen < Rechnung> age inventories* * *Inventar
inventory, stock on hand, bill, accountable (expendable, US) stores, (Büroeinrichtungen) office furniture and equipment, (Fabrik) implements and machinery, (Konkurs) schedule (US), (Landwirt) furnishings and fixtures;
• tatsächlich aufgenommenes Inventar physical inventory (stocktaking, Br.);
• buchmäßiges Inventar book inventory;
• festes Inventar fixtures;
• laufend geführtes Inventar continuous (running) inventory;
• landwirtschaftliches Inventar farm stock;
• laufendes Inventar running (going) inventory;
• lebendes Inventar livestock;
• totes Inventar dead stock;
• unbewegliches Inventar installed property;
• Inventar zum Anschaffungspreis (Selbstkostenpreis) inventory at cost;
• Inventar zu Beginn des Geschäftsjahres beginning inventory;
• Inventar zum Schluss des Geschäftsjahres closing inventory;
• Inventar aufnehmen (errichten) to [make up the] inventory, to take inventory (stock), to list;
• zum Inventar gehören to be part of the inventory;
• Inventarabschreibung inventory writedown (US) (write-down, Br.);
• Inventaraufnahme inventory [taking], stocktaking (Br.), taking stock;
• tatsächliche Inventarnahme physical inventory (stocktaking);
• Inventaraufstellung making up an inventory, inventory schedule (sheet);
• Inventarbewertung valuation of inventory, inventory valuation (pricing);
• Inventarblatt inventory sheet;
• Inventarbuch inventory (balance-sheet) book, inventory register, stock ledger;
• Inventardatenbanken inventory databases;
• Inventarerrichtung [making up an] inventory, stocktaking (Br.);
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85 turn
turn [tɜ:n]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. [of wheel] tour mb. ( = bend) virage m• take the next turn on the left prenez la prochaine route (or rue) à gauche• the patient took a turn for the worse/better l'état du malade s'est aggravé/améliorée. ( = action) to do sb a good turn rendre un service à qnf. ( = act) numéro mg. (in game, queue) tour m• whose turn is it? c'est à qui (le tour) ?► by turns• my sister and I visit our mother by turns ma sœur et moi rendons visite à notre mère à tour de rôle► in turn ( = one after another) à tour de rôle ; ( = then) à mon (or son or notre etc) tour• and they, in turn, said... et, à leur tour, ils ont dit...► out of turn• I don't want to speak out of turn but... je ne devrais peut-être pas dire cela mais...► to a turn• done to a turn [food] à point► turn of + noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► For turn + adverb/preposition combinations see also phrasal verbs.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. [+ handle, key, wheel, page] tournerb. [+ mattress] retournerd. ( = reach) [+ age, time] as soon as he turned 18 dès qu'il a eu 18 ans• he would turn in his grave if he knew... il se retournerait dans sa tombe s'il savait...► to turn on sth ( = depend)b. ( = move in different direction) [person, vehicle] tourner ; ( = reverse direction) faire demi-tour ; [road, river] faire un coude ; [tide] changer de directionc. ( = become)► turn + adjective• to turn nasty/pale devenir méchant/pâle• the whole thing turned into a nightmare c'est devenu un véritable cauchemar► to turn to + nound. ( = change) [weather] changer ; [leaves] jaunir4. compounds[+ business, economy] remettre sur pied[traveller] faire demi-tour ; ( = reverse a decision) faire marche arrièrea. ( = send back) faire faire demi-tour à ; [+ demonstrators] faire refluer• we can't turn the clock back on ne peut pas revenir en arrière► turn down separable transitive verbb. [+ heat, sound] baissera. to turn in to a driveway [car, person] tourner dans une alléeb. ( = go to bed) (inf) aller se couchera. ( = hand over) [+ wanted man] livrer (à la police)• to turn o.s. in se rendrea. [person, vehicle] tournerb. to turn off automatically [heater, oven] s'éteindre automatiquement[+ road] quittera. [+ water, tap] fermer ; [+ radio, television, electricity, gas, heater] éteindre ; [+ water, electricity] (at main) couper• what turns teenagers off science? qu'est-ce qui fait que les sciences n'attirent pas les adolescents ?► turn onb. millions of viewers turn on at 6 o'clock des millions de téléspectateurs allument la télé à 6 heures( = attack) attaquera. [+ tap] ouvrir ; [+ gas, electricity, television, heater] allumer ; [+ engine, machine] mettre en marchec. ( = happen) se passer• as it turned out, nobody came en fin de compte personne n'est venu• it turned out nice [weather] il a fait beau en fin de comptea. [+ light] éteindreb. ( = empty out) [+ pockets, suitcase] vider ; [+ room, cupboard] nettoyer à fond ; ( = expel) [+ tenant] expulserc. ( = produce) fabriquera. ( = roll over) se retournerb. ( = change channel) changer de chaîne ; ( = turn page) tourner la pagea. [+ page] tourner ; [+ mattress, earth, playing card, tape] retournerb. ( = hand over) [+ person] livrer (to à)• the firm turns over $10,000 a week l'entreprise réalise un chiffre d'affaires de 10 000 dollars par semaine► turn rounda. [person] se retourner ; ( = change direction) [person, vehicle] faire demi-tour ; ( = rotate) [object] tournerb. ( = improve) se redressera. tourner ; [+ person] faire tourner• he turned the ship round [captain] il a fait demi-tourb. ( = make successful) redresser ; ( = rephrase) reformuler( = arrive) arriver• don't worry about your ring, I'm sure it will turn up ne t'en fais pas pour ta bague, je suis sûr que tu finiras par la retrouvera. [+ collar] relever ; [+ sleeve] retrousserb. ( = find) [+ evidence] trouver• a survey turned up more than 3,000 people suffering from AIDS une enquête a révélé que plus de 3 000 personnes étaient atteintes du sidac. [+ radio, television] mettre plus fort* * *[tɜːn] 1.1) (in games, sequence) tour m‘miss a turn’ — ‘passez votre tour’
to have a turn on ou at ou with the computer — utiliser l'ordinateur à son tour
to take turns at doing —
to speak out of turn — fig commettre un impair
2) ( circular movement) tour mto do a turn — [dancer] faire un tour
3) ( in vehicle) virage mto make ou do a left/right turn — tourner à gauche/à droite
‘no left turn’ — ‘défense de tourner à gauche’
4) (bend, side road) tournant m, virage mtake the next right turn —
5) (change, development) tournure fto take a turn for the better — [person, situation] s'améliorer; [things, events] prendre une meilleure tournure
to take a turn for the worse — [situation] se dégrader; [health] s'aggraver
to be on the turn — [luck, milk] commencer à tourner; [tide] commencer à changer; century
6) (colloq) GB ( attack) crise fa giddy ou dizzy turn — un vertige
to have a funny turn — se sentir tout/-e chose (colloq)
it gave me quite a turn —
7) ( act) numéro m2.in turn adverbial phrase1) ( in rotation) [answer, speak] à tour de rôle2) ( linking sequence) à son tour3.transitive verb1) ( rotate) [person] tourner [wheel, handle]; serrer [screw]; [mechanism] faire tourner [cog, wheel]to turn the key in the door ou lock — ( lock up) fermer la porte à clé; ( unlock) tourner la clé dans la serrure
2) (turn over, reverse) retourner [mattress, soil, steak, collar]; tourner [page]3) ( change direction of) tourner [chair, head, face, car]to turn one's back on — lit tourner le dos à [group, place]; fig laisser tomber [friend, ally]; abandonner [homeless, needy]
4) ( focus direction of)to turn something on somebody — braquer quelque chose sur quelqu'un [gun, hose, torch]; fig diriger quelque chose sur quelqu'un [anger, scorn]
5) ( transform)to turn something white/black — blanchir/noircir quelque chose
to turn something milky/opaque — rendre quelque chose laiteux/opaque
to turn something into — transformer quelque chose en [office, car park, desert]
to turn water into ice/wine — changer de l'eau en glace/vin
to turn somebody into — [magician] changer quelqu'un en [frog]; [experience] faire de quelqu'un [extrovert, maniac]
7) (colloq) ( pass the age of)she has just turned 20/30 — elle vient d'avoir 20/30 ans
8) ( on lathe) tourner [wood, piece, spindle]4.1) ( change direction) [person, car, plane, road] tourner; [ship] virerto turn down ou into — tourner dans [street, alley]
to turn towards — tourner en direction de [village, mountains]
the conversation turned to Ellie — on en est venu/ils en sont venus à parler d'Ellie
2) ( reverse direction) [person, vehicle] faire demi-tour; [tide] changer; [luck] tourner; turn around3) ( revolve) [key, wheel, planet] tourner; [person] se tournerto turn on — [argument] tourner autour de [point, issue]; [outcome] dépendre de [factor]
5) ( spin round angrily)to turn on somebody — [dog] attaquer quelqu'un; [person] se retourner contre quelqu'un
to turn to — se tourner vers [person, religion]
to turn to drink/drugs — se mettre à boire/se droguer
I don't know where ou which way to turn — je ne sais plus où donner de la tête (colloq)
7) ( change)to turn into — [person, tadpole] se transformer en [frog]; [sofa] se transformer en [bed]; [situation, evening] tourner à [farce, disaster]
to turn to — [substance] se changer en [ice, gold]; [fear, surprise] faire place à [horror, relief]
8) ( become by transformation) devenir [pale, cloudy, green]to turn white/black/red — blanchir/noircir/rougir
the weather is turning cold/warm — le temps se rafraîchit/se réchauffe
9) (colloq) ( become) devenir [Conservative, Communist]10) ( go sour) [milk] tourner11) [trees, leaves] jaunir•Phrasal Verbs:- turn in- turn off- turn on- turn out- turn up••at every turn — ( all the time) à tout moment; ( everywhere) partout
one good turn deserves another — Prov c'est un prêté pour un rendu
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86 set
set [set]jeu ⇒ 1 (a) série ⇒ 1 (a) ensemble ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c) cercle ⇒ 1 (b) appareil ⇒ 1 (d) poste ⇒ 1 (d) set ⇒ 1 (e) fixe ⇒ 2 (a) arrêté ⇒ 2 (b) figé ⇒ 2 (b) résolu ⇒ 2 (c) prêt ⇒ 2 (d) mettre ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c), 3 (d) poser ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c), 3 (e), 3 (i) situer ⇒ 3 (b) régler ⇒ 3 (c) fixer ⇒ 3 (f), 3 (i) établir ⇒ 3 (f) faire prendre ⇒ 3 (h) se coucher ⇒ 4 (a) prendre ⇒ 4 (b)1 noun(a) (of tools, keys, golf clubs, sails) jeu m; (of numbers, names, instructions, stamps, weights) série f; (of books) collection f; (of furniture) ensemble m; (of cutlery, dishes, glasses) service m; (of lingerie) parure f; (of wheels) train m; (of facts, conditions, characteristics, data) ensemble m; (of events, decisions, questions) série f, suite f; Typography (of proofs, characters) jeu m; Computing (of characters, instructions) jeu m, ensemble m;∎ a set of matching luggage un ensemble de valises assorties;∎ a set of table/bed linen une parure de table/de lit;∎ a set of sheets une parure de lit;∎ badminton/chess set jeu m de badminton/d'échecs;∎ they're playing with Damian's train set ils jouent avec le train électrique de Damian;∎ the cups/the chairs are sold in sets of six les tasses/les chaises sont vendues par six;∎ I can't break up the set je ne peux pas les dépareiller;∎ they make a set ils vont ensemble;∎ to collect the (whole) set rassembler toute la collection, faire la collection;∎ he made me a duplicate set (of keys) il m'a fait un double des clés; (of contact lenses) il m'en a fait une autre paire;∎ a full set of the encyclopedia une encyclopédie complète;∎ a full set of Tolstoy's works les œuvres complètes de Tolstoï;∎ they've detected two sets of fingerprints ils ont relevé deux séries d'empreintes digitales ou les empreintes digitales de deux personnes;∎ given another set of circumstances, things might have turned out differently dans d'autres circonstances, les choses auraient pu se passer différemment;∎ the first set of reforms la première série ou le premier train de réformes;∎ they ran a whole set of tests on me ils m'ont fait subir toute une série d'examens(b) (social group) cercle m, milieu m;∎ he's not in our set il n'appartient pas à notre cercle;∎ we don't go around in the same set nous ne fréquentons pas le même milieu ou monde;∎ the riding/yachting set le monde ou milieu de l'équitation/du yachting;∎ the literary set les milieux mpl littéraires;∎ the Markham set Markham et ses amis(c) Mathematics ensemble m∎ a colour TV set un poste de télévision ou un téléviseur couleur∎ first set to Miss Williams set Williams∎ on (the) set Cinema & Television sur le plateau; Theatre sur scène(g) (part of performance → by singer, group)∎ he'll be playing two sets tonight il va jouer à deux reprises ce soir;∎ her second set was livelier la deuxième partie de son spectacle a été plus animée(i) (for hair) mise f en plis;∎ to have a set se faire faire une mise en plis∎ I could tell he was angry by the set of his jaw rien qu'à la façon dont il serrait les mâchoires, j'ai compris qu'il était en colère(k) (direction → of wind, current) direction f;∎ suddenly the set of the wind changed le vent a tourné soudainement∎ tomato/tulip sets tomates fpl/tulipes fpl à repiquer(n) (clutch of eggs) couvée f(q) (of badger) terrier m(a) (specified, prescribed → rule, price, quantity, sum, wage) fixe;∎ meals are at set times les repas sont servis à heures fixes;∎ there are no set rules for raising children il n'y a pas de règles toutes faites pour l'éducation des enfants;∎ the tasks must be done in the set order les tâches doivent être accomplies dans l'ordre prescrit;∎ with no set purpose sans but précis∎ her day followed a set routine sa journée se déroulait selon un rituel immuable;∎ he has a set way of doing it il a sa méthode pour le faire;∎ to be set in one's ways avoir ses (petites) habitudes;∎ to become set in one's views devenir rigide dans ses opinions(c) (intent, resolute) résolu, déterminé;∎ to be set on or upon sth vouloir qch à tout prix;∎ I'm (dead) set on finishing it tonight je suis (absolument) déterminé à le finir ce soir;∎ he's dead set against it il s'y oppose formellement(d) (ready, in position) prêt;∎ are you (all) set to go? êtes-vous prêt à partir?∎ he seems well set to win il semble être sur la bonne voie ou être bien parti pour gagner;∎ house prices are set to rise steeply les prix de l'immobilier vont vraisemblablement monter en flèche∎ one of our set books is 'Oliver Twist' un des ouvrages au programme est 'Oliver Twist'(a) (put in specified place or position) mettre, poser;∎ he set his cases down on the platform il posa ses valises sur le quai;∎ she set the steaming bowl before him elle plaça le bol fumant devant lui;∎ to set a proposal before the board présenter un projet au conseil d'administration;∎ to set sb on his/her feet again remettre qn sur pied;∎ to set a match to sth mettre le feu à qch;∎ to set sb ashore débarquer qn(b) (usu passive) (locate, situate → building, story) situer;∎ the house is set in large grounds la maison est située dans un grand parc;∎ his eyes are set too close together ses yeux sont trop rapprochés;∎ the story is set in Tokyo l'histoire se passe ou se déroule à Tokyo;∎ her novels are set in the 18th century ses romans se passent au XVIIIème siècle∎ I set my watch to New York time j'ai réglé ma montre à l'heure de New York;∎ set your watches an hour ahead avancez vos montres d'une heure;∎ he's so punctual you can set your watch by him! il est si ponctuel qu'on peut régler sa montre sur lui!;∎ I've set the alarm for six j'ai mis le réveil à (sonner pour) six heures;∎ how do I set the margins? comment est-ce que je fais pour placer les marges?;∎ set the timer for one hour mettez le minuteur sur une heure;∎ first set the control knob to the desired temperature mettez tout d'abord le bouton de réglage sur la température voulue;∎ the lever was set in the off position le levier était sur "arrêt"∎ the handles are set into the drawers les poignées sont encastrées dans les tiroirs;∎ there was a peephole set in the door il y avait un judas dans la porte;∎ to set a stake in the ground enfoncer ou planter un pieu dans la terre;∎ metal bars had been set in the concrete des barres en métal avaient été fixées dans le béton;∎ the brooch was set with pearls la broche était sertie de perles;∎ the ruby was set in a simple ring le rubis était monté sur un simple anneau;∎ Medicine to set a bone réduire une fracture;∎ figurative his face was set in a frown son visage était figé dans une grimace renfrognée;∎ she set her jaw and refused to budge elle serra les dents et refusa de bouger;∎ we had set ourselves to resist nous étions déterminés à résister(e) (lay, prepare in advance → trap) poser, tendre;∎ to set the table mettre le couvert ou la table;∎ to set the table for two mettre deux couverts;∎ set an extra place at table rajoutez un couvert(f) (establish → date, price, schedule, terms) fixer, déterminer; (→ rule, guideline, objective, target) établir; (→ mood, precedent) créer;∎ they still haven't set a date for the party ils n'ont toujours pas fixé de date pour la réception;∎ you've set yourself a tough deadline or a tough deadline for yourself vous vous êtes fixé un délai très court;∎ it's up to them to set their own production targets c'est à eux d'établir ou de fixer leurs propres objectifs de production;∎ a deficit ceiling has been set un plafonnement du déficit a été imposé ou fixé ou décidé;∎ to set a value on sth décider de la valeur de qch;∎ figurative they set a high value on creativity ils accordent une grande valeur à la créativité;∎ the price was set at £500 le prix a été fixé à 500 livres;∎ the judge set bail at $1,000 le juge a fixé la caution à 1000 dollars;∎ how are exchange rates set? comment les taux de change sont-ils déterminés?;∎ to set an age limit at… fixer une limite d'âge à…;∎ to set a new fashion or trend lancer une nouvelle mode;∎ to set a new world record établir un nouveau record mondial;∎ to set the tone for or of sth donner le ton de qch∎ to set sth alight or on fire mettre le feu à qch;∎ it sets my nerves on edge ça me crispe;∎ also figurative she set me in the right direction elle m'a mis sur la bonne voie;∎ to set sb against sb monter qn contre qn;∎ he/the incident set the taxman on my trail il/l'incident a mis le fisc sur ma piste;∎ to set the dogs on sb lâcher les chiens sur qn;∎ the incident set the family against him l'incident a monté la famille contre lui;∎ it will set the country on the road to economic recovery cela va mettre le pays sur la voie de la reprise économique;∎ his failure set him thinking son échec lui a donné à réfléchir;∎ the scandal will set the whole town talking le scandale va faire jaser toute la ville;∎ to set the dog barking faire aboyer le chien;∎ the wind set the leaves dancing le vent a fait frissonner les feuilles;∎ to set a machine going mettre une machine en marche(h) (solidify → yoghurt, jelly, concrete) faire prendre;∎ pectin will help to set the jam la pectine aidera à épaissir la confiture∎ the strikers' demands set the management a difficult problem les exigences des grévistes posent un problème difficile à la direction;∎ I set them to work tidying the garden je les ai mis au désherbage du jardin;∎ I've set myself the task of writing to them regularly je me suis fixé la tâche de leur écrire régulièrement∎ she set the class a maths exercise, she set a maths exercise for the class elle a donné un exercice de maths à la classe;∎ who sets the test questions? qui choisit les questions de l'épreuve?∎ to set sb's hair faire une mise en plis à qn;∎ and I've just had my hair set! et je viens de me faire faire une mise en plis!;∎ I set my own hair je me fais moi-même mes mises en plis∎ to set type composer∎ to set sth to music mettre qch en musique(a) (sun, moon, stars) se coucher;∎ we saw the sun setting nous avons vu le coucher du soleil(b) (become firm → glue, cement, plaster, jelly, yoghurt) prendre;∎ her features had set in an expression of determination ses traits s'étaient durcis en une expression de très forte détermination∎ he set to work il s'est mis au travail(e) (plant, tree) prendre racine(g) (wind, tide)∎ the wind looks set fair to the east on dirait un vent d'ouest►► Theatre, Cinema & Television set designer décorateur(trice) m,f;Grammar set expression expression f figée;set figures (in skating) figures fpl imposées;set meal, set menu meal menu m;Grammar set phrase expression f figée;(b) (fireworks) pièce f (de feu) d'artifice(c) (of scenery) élément m de décorSport set point (in tennis) balle f de set;Technology set screw vis f de réglage;Sport set scrum (in rugby) mêlée f fermée;set square équerre f (à dessiner);set task tâche f assignée;∎ to give sb a set task to do assigner à qn une tâche bien précise;Mathematics set theory théorie f des ensembles(a) (start → task) se mettre à;∎ she set about changing the tyre elle s'est mise à changer le pneu;∎ I didn't know how to set about it je ne savais pas comment m'y prendre;∎ how does one set about getting a visa? comment fait-on pour obtenir un visa?∎ he set about the mugger with his umbrella il s'en est pris à son agresseur à coups de parapluie∎ to set sth against sth comparer qch à qch;∎ to set the benefits against the costs évaluer les bénéfices par rapport aux coûts;∎ we must set the government's promises against its achievements nous devons examiner les promesses du gouvernement à la lumière de ses actions∎ some of these expenses can be set against tax certaines de ces dépenses peuvent être déduites des impôts(c) (friends, family) monter contre;∎ religious differences have set family against family les différences religieuses ont monté les familles les unes contre les autres;∎ to set oneself or one's face against sth s'opposer résolument à qch∎ to set the clock ahead avancer l'horloge;∎ we're setting the clocks ahead tonight on change d'heure cette nuit(a) (place separately → object) mettre à part ou de côté;∎ there was one deck chair set slightly apart from the others il y avait une chaise longue un peu à l'écart des autres;∎ they set themselves apart ils faisaient bande à part∎ her talent sets her apart from the other students son talent la distingue des autres étudiants(a) (put down → knitting, book) poser;∎ could you set aside what you're working on for a while? pouvez-vous laisser ce que vous êtes en train de faire un moment?(b) (reserve, keep → time, place) réserver; (→ money) mettre de côté; (→ arable land) mettre en friche;∎ I've set tomorrow aside for house hunting j'ai réservé la journée de demain pour chercher une maison;∎ the room is set aside for meetings la pièce est réservée aux réunions;∎ can you set the book aside for me? pourriez-vous me mettre ce livre de côté?;∎ chop the onions and set them aside coupez les oignons et réservez-les(c) (overlook, disregard) mettre de côté, oublier, passer sur;∎ they set their differences aside in order to work together ils ont mis de côté leurs différences pour travailler ensemble(d) (reject → dogma, proposal, offer) rejeter∎ the building is set back slightly from the road l'immeuble est un peu en retrait par rapport à la route(b) (delay → plans, progress) retarder;∎ his illness set him back a month in his work sa maladie l'a retardé d'un mois dans son travail;∎ the news may set him or his recovery back la nouvelle risque de retarder sa guérison;∎ this decision will set the economy back ten years cette décision va faire revenir l'économie dix ans en arrière∎ the trip will set her back a bit le voyage va lui coûter cher(a) (tray, bag etc) poser∎ the bus sets you down in front of the station le bus vous dépose devant la gare(c) (note, record) noter, inscrire;∎ try and set your thoughts down on paper essayez de mettre vos pensées par écrit(d) (establish → rule, condition) établir, fixer;∎ the government has set down a margin for pay increases le gouvernement a fixé une fourchette pour les augmentations de salaire;∎ permissible levels of pollution are set down in the regulations les taux de pollution tolérés sont fixés dans les réglementations;∎ to set sth down in writing coucher qch par écrit;∎ it is clearly set down that drivers must be insured il est clairement signalé ou indiqué que tout conducteur doit être assuréformal (expound → plan, objections) exposer, présenter;∎ the recommendations are set forth in the last chapter les recommandations sont détaillées ou énumérées dans le dernier chapitreliterary partir, se mettre en route➲ set in∎ if infection sets in si la plaie s'infecte;∎ the bad weather has set in for the winter le mauvais temps s'est installé pour tout l'hiver;➲ set off(b) (reaction, process, war) déclencher, provoquer;∎ their offer set off another round of talks leur proposition a déclenché une autre série de négociations;∎ it set her off on a long tirade against bureaucracy cela eut pour effet de la lancer dans une longue tirade contre la bureaucratie;∎ to set sb off laughing faire rire qn;∎ this answer set them off (laughing) cette réponse a déclenché les rires;∎ one look at his face set me off again en le voyant, mon fou rire a repris de plus belle;∎ if you say anything it'll only set him off (crying) again si tu dis quoi que ce soit, il va se remettre à pleurer;∎ the smallest amount of pollen will set her off la moindre dose de pollen lui déclenche une réaction allergique;∎ don't mention Maradona or you'll set him off again surtout ne prononce pas le nom de Maradona sinon il va recommencer;∎ someone mentioned the war and of course that set Uncle Arthur off quelqu'un prononça le mot guerre, et évidemment, oncle Arthur embraya aussitôt sur le sujet;∎ figurative to set sb off on the wrong track mettre qn sur une fausse piste∎ the vase sets off the flowers beautifully le vase met vraiment les fleurs en valeur∎ some of these expenses can be set off against tax certaines de ces dépenses peuvent être déduites des impôtspartir, se mettre en route;∎ he set off at a run il est parti en courant;∎ I set off to explore the town je suis parti explorer la ville;∎ after lunch, we set off again après le déjeuner, nous avons repris la route➲ set on(attack) attaquer, s'en prendre à∎ to set the police on the tracks of a thief mettre la police aux trousses d'un voleur;∎ to set sb on his/her way mettre qn sur les rails∎ to set a dog on sb lâcher un chien sur qn➲ set out∎ the shopping centre is very well set out le centre commercial est très bien conçu(b) (present → ideas) exposer, présenter;∎ the information is set out in the table below ces données sont présentées dans le tableau ci-dessous∎ just as he was setting out au moment de son départ;∎ to set out for school partir pour l'école;∎ to set out again repartir;∎ to set out in pursuit/in search of sb se mettre à la poursuite/à la recherche de qn(b) (undertake course of action) entreprendre;∎ he has trouble finishing what he sets out to do il a du mal à terminer ce qu'il entreprend;∎ I can't remember now what I set out to do je ne me souviens plus de ce que je voulais faire à l'origine;∎ they all set out with the intention of changing the world au début, ils veulent tous changer le monde;∎ she didn't deliberately set out to annoy you il n'était pas dans ses intentions de vous froisser;∎ his theory sets out to prove that… sa théorie a pour objet de prouver que…(a) (begin work) commencer, s'y mettre;∎ we set to with a will nous nous y sommes mis avec ardeur(b) familiar (two people → start arguing) avoir une prise de bec; (→ start fighting) en venir aux mains➲ set up(a) (install → equipment, computer) installer; (→ roadblock) installer, disposer; (→ experiment) préparer;∎ everything's set up for the show tout est préparé ou prêt pour le spectacle;∎ set the chairs up in a circle mettez ou disposez les chaises en cercle;∎ he set the chessboard up il a disposé les pièces sur l'échiquier;∎ the equation sets up a relation between the two variables l'équation établit un rapport entre les deux variables;∎ the system wasn't set up to handle so many users le système n'était pas conçu pour gérer autant d'usagers;∎ he set the situation up so she couldn't refuse il a arrangé la situation de telle manière qu'elle ne pouvait pas refuser(b) (erect, build → tent, furniture kit, crane, flagpole) monter; (→ shed, shelter) construire; (→ monument, statue) ériger;∎ to set up camp installer ou dresser le camp(c) (start up, institute → business, scholarship) créer; (→ hospital, school) fonder; (→ committee, task force) constituer; (→ system of government, republic) instaurer; (→ programme, review process, system) mettre en place; (→ inquiry) ouvrir; (→ dinner, meeting, appointment) organiser;∎ to set up house or home s'installer;∎ they set up house together ils se sont mis en ménage;∎ to set up a dialogue entamer le dialogue;∎ you'll be in charge of setting up training programmes vous serez responsable de la mise en place des programmes de formation;∎ the medical system set up after the war le système médical mis en place après la guerre(d) (financially, in business → person) installer, établir;∎ he set his son up in a dry-cleaning business il a acheté à son fils une entreprise de nettoyage à sec;∎ she could finally set herself up as an accountant elle pourrait enfin s'installer comme comptable;∎ the money would set him up for life l'argent le mettrait à l'abri du besoin pour le restant de ses jours;∎ the army set him up as a dictator l'armée l'installa comme dictateur∎ we're well set up with supplies nous sommes bien approvisionnés;∎ she can set you up with a guide/the necessary papers elle peut vous procurer un guide/les papiers qu'il vous faut;∎ I can set you up with a girlfriend of mine je peux te présenter à ou te faire rencontrer une de mes copines(f) (restore energy to) remonter, remettre sur pied;∎ have a brandy, that'll set you up prends un cognac, ça va te remonter∎ she claims she was set up elle prétend qu'elle est victime d'un coup monté;∎ he was set up as the fall guy on a fait de lui le bouc émissaire□, il a joué le rôle de bouc émissaire□s'installer, s'établir;∎ he's setting up in the fast-food business il se lance dans la restauration rapide;(physically or verbally) attaquer, s'en prendre à -
87 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
88 function
1. сущ.1) общ. функция, (пред)назначениеThe function of an auger is to bore holes. — Сверло предназначено для сверления дыр.
2) мн., упр. функции, (должностные) обязанностиSpecifically, his function is to advise the President of the Philippines on matters related to trade and investments. — В частности, в его обязанности входит консультировать президента Филиппин по вопросам торговли и инвестиций.
3) упр. функция (управления) ( специализация управленческих процессов)See:4) общ. зависимость ( в переносном смысле)Height is a function of age. — Рост зависит от возраста.
5) мат. функция (зависимость между переменными; зависимая переменная)See:6) упр. функция (элемент системы, повышающий ее организованность, т. е. способствующий работе системы в целом)Ant:7) общ. торжественная церемония, вечер, приемpublic function — званый вечер, прием
8) соц. функция (удовлетворение каких-л. жизненно важных потребностей социальной системы)Ant:See:2. гл.1) общ. выполнять функции, использоватьсяThe table functions as a desk. — Стол используется в качестве рабочего места.
2) упр. функционировать, действовать, работатьThe body cannot function without glucose. — Тело не может функционировать без глюкозы.
As a person cannot function without a brain, so a society cannot function without leaders. — Как человек не может действовать без мозга, так и общество не может функционировать без лидеров.
The equipment cannot function without the staff. — Это оборудование не может работать без обслуживающего персонала.
3) упр. исполнять обязанности ( в своей функциональной области)See: -
89 EA
1) Общая лексика: European Cooperation for Accreditation, шт. (инвойс)2) Биология: endemic areas3) Американизм: Exclusive Authorization4) Спорт: Elite Athlete5) Латинский язык: Epistula Augustini6) Военный термин: Economic Analyses, Edgewood arsenal, Emergency Actions, Engineering Analysis, Espionage Act, Evolutionary Acquisition, Executive Agent, Extreme Assassins, educational adviser, electronic attack, electronics assembly, emergency area, enemy action, enemy aircraft, enemy area, energy absorption, engagement area, engineering aid, enlistment allowance, environmental analysis, environmental assessment, escort aircraft, executive assistant, experimental aircraft, Emergency Action (s)7) Техника: earphone amplifier, easy axis, editorial alteration, eikonal approximation, electrical artificer, electrocardiographic amplifier, electronic assembly, enforcement action, engineering assurance, equipment alignment, equivalent availability, ethyl acetate, ethyl acrylate, experimental assembly, extender amplifier8) Сельское хозяйство: exchange acidity9) Химия: Emulsion Aggregation, Epoxy Adhesive10) Метеорология: Energy And Atmosphere11) Юридический термин: Evil Association12) Бухгалтерия: East Anglia, Edward Appleby, Expenditure Authorization13) Грубое выражение: Egotistical Asses, Egotistical Assholes, Einsteins Asshole, Electronic Assholes, Entertaining Assholes, Excruciating Assfuck, Extremely Asshole14) Металлургия: Exhaust Air15) Телекоммуникации: Extended Address, Address Field Extension (HDLC)16) Сокращение: East Africa, Economic Adviser, Electrical Actuator, Electronic Attack (Now know as ECM), Elettronica Aster SpA (Italy), Engineering Authority, Environmental Agency, expectancy age17) Университет: Expanded Academic18) Электроника: усилитель (сигнала) обратной связи (error amplifier)19) Вычислительная техника: effective address, extended attribute, Enterprise Agreement (MS), (Visio for) Enterprise Architects (MS,.NET), Extended Attribute (OS/2), Effective Address (Power4, IBM, CPU), Escrowed Authenticator (Verschluesselung, EES)20) Нефть: expected allowable21) Фирменный знак: Electronic Arts, Electronics Australia, Evening Association22) Экология: Environment Agency23) Патенты: Евразийский патент24) Деловая лексика: Enterprise Architecture, each25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: External Affairs26) Сетевые технологии: electrically alterable27) ЕБРР: Europe Agreement28) Программирование: Erase All29) Химическое оружие: Economic Analysis30) Безопасность: encryption algorithm, Чрезвычайная поправка (Emergency Amendement)31) Электромедицина: электроакупунктура32) Нефть и газ: ОСОС, Оценка состояния окружающей среды33) Электротехника: energy accounting35) Общественная организация: Educate America!, Endometriosis Association36) Должность: Educational Assistant, Employment Authorization, Excused Absence, Executive Administration37) Чат: Easily Amused, Extremely Amazing -
90 ECP
1) Общая лексика: electrical submersible pump, hum. сокр. Emergency Contraception Pill, специалист по глазным болезням (eyecare professional), Emergency Care Practitioner2) Авиация: ecam control panel, efis control panel3) Морской термин: ПАУ (пост аварийного управления)4) Медицина: Early Childhood Program, эозинофильный катионный белок (eosinophilic cathionic protein), endoscopic cyclophotocoagulation5) Американизм: Extreme Corporal Punishment6) Военный термин: Emergency Communications Plan, Exercise Control Plan, electromagnetic compatibility program, emergency command precedence, emission control policy, engineering change proposal, enlisted commissioning program, entry control point, equipment collecting point7) Техника: electrical contact plate, electrical control package, electrically compensated pyrometer, electrochemical potential, electronic calculating punch, electronic circuit protector, electronic control products, emergency cooling pond, employee concerns program, engineering control procedure, estimated critical position, evaporative cooling processor, exchangeable cation percent age9) Сокращение: Efficient Component Pricing, Electronic Combat/Co Pilot, Extended Coherent Processing, electroacupuncture, exchangeable cation percentage, Empty Category Principle, Error Correction Program, Euro-Commercial Paper, Extended Capability Port10) Электроника: Electron Channeling Pattern11) Вычислительная техника: Enhanced Capabilities Port, Enhanced Communication Port / Protocol, Enhanced Capability Port (MS), (PPP) Encryption Control Protocol (PPP, RFC 1968), extended capabilities port12) Нефть: effective core penetration, затрубный пакер (external casing packer), наружный трубный пакер (external casing packer)13) Иммунология: eosinophil cationic protein14) Банковское дело: еврокоммерческий вексель (eurocommercial paper)15) Деловая лексика: еврокоммерческий вексель (Euro commercial paper)16) Бурение: external packer17) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: наружный пакер обсадной колонны (external casing packer)18) Образование: Early Childhood Programs19) Инвестиции: eurocommercial paper20) Сетевые технологии: Encryption Control Protocol, Enhanced Capability Port, Enhanced Communication Port, error correcting program, порт с расширенными возможностями, программа исправления ошибок21) Сахалин Р: external casing packer22) Химическое оружие: environmental compliance plan23) Макаров: effective core potential, эффективный остовный потенциал24) Расширение файла: Enhanced/Extended Capabilities Port (Microsoft)25) Энергосистемы: eligible contract participant26) Нефть и газ: electrical centrifugal pump, electrochemical protection, pipeline electrochemical protection, ЭХЗ, электрохимическая защита, электрохимическая защита трубопровода27) Чат: Electronic Costume Party28) NYSE. Central Newspapers, Inc. -
91 Ea
1) Общая лексика: European Cooperation for Accreditation, шт. (инвойс)2) Биология: endemic areas3) Американизм: Exclusive Authorization4) Спорт: Elite Athlete5) Латинский язык: Epistula Augustini6) Военный термин: Economic Analyses, Edgewood arsenal, Emergency Actions, Engineering Analysis, Espionage Act, Evolutionary Acquisition, Executive Agent, Extreme Assassins, educational adviser, electronic attack, electronics assembly, emergency area, enemy action, enemy aircraft, enemy area, energy absorption, engagement area, engineering aid, enlistment allowance, environmental analysis, environmental assessment, escort aircraft, executive assistant, experimental aircraft, Emergency Action (s)7) Техника: earphone amplifier, easy axis, editorial alteration, eikonal approximation, electrical artificer, electrocardiographic amplifier, electronic assembly, enforcement action, engineering assurance, equipment alignment, equivalent availability, ethyl acetate, ethyl acrylate, experimental assembly, extender amplifier8) Сельское хозяйство: exchange acidity9) Химия: Emulsion Aggregation, Epoxy Adhesive10) Метеорология: Energy And Atmosphere11) Юридический термин: Evil Association12) Бухгалтерия: East Anglia, Edward Appleby, Expenditure Authorization13) Грубое выражение: Egotistical Asses, Egotistical Assholes, Einsteins Asshole, Electronic Assholes, Entertaining Assholes, Excruciating Assfuck, Extremely Asshole14) Металлургия: Exhaust Air15) Телекоммуникации: Extended Address, Address Field Extension (HDLC)16) Сокращение: East Africa, Economic Adviser, Electrical Actuator, Electronic Attack (Now know as ECM), Elettronica Aster SpA (Italy), Engineering Authority, Environmental Agency, expectancy age17) Университет: Expanded Academic18) Электроника: усилитель (сигнала) обратной связи (error amplifier)19) Вычислительная техника: effective address, extended attribute, Enterprise Agreement (MS), (Visio for) Enterprise Architects (MS,.NET), Extended Attribute (OS/2), Effective Address (Power4, IBM, CPU), Escrowed Authenticator (Verschluesselung, EES)20) Нефть: expected allowable21) Фирменный знак: Electronic Arts, Electronics Australia, Evening Association22) Экология: Environment Agency23) Патенты: Евразийский патент24) Деловая лексика: Enterprise Architecture, each25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: External Affairs26) Сетевые технологии: electrically alterable27) ЕБРР: Europe Agreement28) Программирование: Erase All29) Химическое оружие: Economic Analysis30) Безопасность: encryption algorithm, Чрезвычайная поправка (Emergency Amendement)31) Электромедицина: электроакупунктура32) Нефть и газ: ОСОС, Оценка состояния окружающей среды33) Электротехника: energy accounting35) Общественная организация: Educate America!, Endometriosis Association36) Должность: Educational Assistant, Employment Authorization, Excused Absence, Executive Administration37) Чат: Easily Amused, Extremely Amazing -
92 TASE
1) Военный термин: TAACOM (Theater Army Area Command) Area Support Element, tactical air support element, tactical support equipment2) Юридический термин: Tobacco Age Of Sale Enforcement3) Биржевой термин: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange4) Вычислительная техника: Telecontrol Application Service Element (ICCP) -
93 ea
1) Общая лексика: European Cooperation for Accreditation, шт. (инвойс)2) Биология: endemic areas3) Американизм: Exclusive Authorization4) Спорт: Elite Athlete5) Латинский язык: Epistula Augustini6) Военный термин: Economic Analyses, Edgewood arsenal, Emergency Actions, Engineering Analysis, Espionage Act, Evolutionary Acquisition, Executive Agent, Extreme Assassins, educational adviser, electronic attack, electronics assembly, emergency area, enemy action, enemy aircraft, enemy area, energy absorption, engagement area, engineering aid, enlistment allowance, environmental analysis, environmental assessment, escort aircraft, executive assistant, experimental aircraft, Emergency Action (s)7) Техника: earphone amplifier, easy axis, editorial alteration, eikonal approximation, electrical artificer, electrocardiographic amplifier, electronic assembly, enforcement action, engineering assurance, equipment alignment, equivalent availability, ethyl acetate, ethyl acrylate, experimental assembly, extender amplifier8) Сельское хозяйство: exchange acidity9) Химия: Emulsion Aggregation, Epoxy Adhesive10) Метеорология: Energy And Atmosphere11) Юридический термин: Evil Association12) Бухгалтерия: East Anglia, Edward Appleby, Expenditure Authorization13) Грубое выражение: Egotistical Asses, Egotistical Assholes, Einsteins Asshole, Electronic Assholes, Entertaining Assholes, Excruciating Assfuck, Extremely Asshole14) Металлургия: Exhaust Air15) Телекоммуникации: Extended Address, Address Field Extension (HDLC)16) Сокращение: East Africa, Economic Adviser, Electrical Actuator, Electronic Attack (Now know as ECM), Elettronica Aster SpA (Italy), Engineering Authority, Environmental Agency, expectancy age17) Университет: Expanded Academic18) Электроника: усилитель (сигнала) обратной связи (error amplifier)19) Вычислительная техника: effective address, extended attribute, Enterprise Agreement (MS), (Visio for) Enterprise Architects (MS,.NET), Extended Attribute (OS/2), Effective Address (Power4, IBM, CPU), Escrowed Authenticator (Verschluesselung, EES)20) Нефть: expected allowable21) Фирменный знак: Electronic Arts, Electronics Australia, Evening Association22) Экология: Environment Agency23) Патенты: Евразийский патент24) Деловая лексика: Enterprise Architecture, each25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: External Affairs26) Сетевые технологии: electrically alterable27) ЕБРР: Europe Agreement28) Программирование: Erase All29) Химическое оружие: Economic Analysis30) Безопасность: encryption algorithm, Чрезвычайная поправка (Emergency Amendement)31) Электромедицина: электроакупунктура32) Нефть и газ: ОСОС, Оценка состояния окружающей среды33) Электротехника: energy accounting35) Общественная организация: Educate America!, Endometriosis Association36) Должность: Educational Assistant, Employment Authorization, Excused Absence, Executive Administration37) Чат: Easily Amused, Extremely Amazing -
94 tase
1) Военный термин: TAACOM (Theater Army Area Command) Area Support Element, tactical air support element, tactical support equipment2) Юридический термин: Tobacco Age Of Sale Enforcement3) Биржевой термин: Tel Aviv Stock Exchange4) Вычислительная техника: Telecontrol Application Service Element (ICCP) -
95 Bodenausrьstung fьr Luft- und Raumfahrtmaterial
abbrMilitary: (aerospace ground equipment) AGEУниверсальный русско-немецкий словарь > Bodenausrьstung fьr Luft- und Raumfahrtmaterial
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96 Ladefläche
Ladefläche f LOGIS bearing surface* * *f < Transp> bearing surface* * *Ladefläche
loading space (area), (Waggon) load platform;
• Ladefrist loading time;
• Ladegebühren loading charges;
• Ladegeld wharfage;
• Ladegerät loading equipment;
• Ladegeschäft loading and unloading;
• Ladegewicht load, shipping (gross delivery) weight, (Schiff) load displacement;
• Ladegleis loading track (side);
• Ladegut freight[age], cargo;
• Ladehafen port of lading, shipping (loading) port;
• Ladehöhe (Lastwagen) loading platform;
• Ladekai loading wharf (quay);
• Ladekapazität carrying capacity;
• Ladeklappe (Lastwagen) tailboard, tail gate (US);
• Ladekosten loading (handling) charges;
• Ladelinie load (plimsoll) line, water line;
• Ladeliste loading (freight) list, [shipper’s] manifest;
• Lademannschaft loading hands;
• Lademarke (Schiff) load line;
• Lademeister chief loader, (Bahn) railway goods manager;
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97 Überalterung
Überalterung f V&M functional obsolescence (eines Produkts durch den sich ändernden Geschmack oder technische Überholtheit)* * *f <V&M> eines Produkts durch den sich ändernden Geschmack oder technische Überholtheit functional obsolescence* * *Überalterung
excess of age, obsolescence, superannuation;
• geplante Überalterung planned obsolescence;
• Überalterung der Betriebseinrichtung obsolescence of equipment;
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98 electronic
1) (worked or produced by devices built or made according to the principles of electronics: an electronic calculator.) electrónico2) (concerned or working with such machines: an electronic engineer.) electrónicotr[ɪlek'trɒnɪk]1 electrónico,-a\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLelectronic mail correo electrónicoelectronic mailbox buzón nombre masculino electrónicoelectronic [i.lɛk'trɑnɪk] adj: electrónico♦ electronically [-nɪkli] advadj.• electrónico, -a adj.ɪ'lek'trɑːnɪk, ˌɪlek'trɒnɪkadjective electrónicoelectronic data processing — procesamiento m electrónico de datos
electronic publishing — edición f electrónica
[ɪlek'trɒnɪk]electronic tag — etiqueta f de control electrónico
1.ADJ [equipment, circuit, information, signal] electrónico2.CPDelectronic banking N — banca f informatizada
electronic book N — libro m electrónico
electronic data processing N — procesamiento m electrónico de datos
electronic engineer N — ingeniero(-a) m / f electrónico(-a)
electronic engineering N — ingeniería f electrónica
electronic funds transfer N — transferencia f electrónica de fondos
electronic mail N — correo m electrónico
electronic mailbox N — buzón m electrónico
electronic music N — música f electrónica
electronic news gathering N — recogida f electrónica de noticias
electronic point of sale N — punto m de venta electrónico
electronic publishing N — edición f electrónica
electronic shopping N — compra f computerizada
electronic smog N — radiación f electromagnética
electronic surveillance N — vigilancia f electrónica
electronic tagging N — etiquetado m electrónico
* * *[ɪ'lek'trɑːnɪk, ˌɪlek'trɒnɪk]adjective electrónicoelectronic data processing — procesamiento m electrónico de datos
electronic publishing — edición f electrónica
electronic tag — etiqueta f de control electrónico
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99 scrap
I
1. skræp noun1) (a small piece or fragment: a scrap of paper.) pedacito, retazo2) ((usually in plural) a piece of food left over after a meal: They gave the scraps to the dog.) restos, sobras3) (waste articles that are only valuable for the material they contain: The old car was sold as scrap; (also adjective) scrap metal.) chatarra4) (a picture etc for sticking into a scrapbook.) recorte
2. verb(to discard: They scapped the old television set; She decided to scrap the whole plan.) desechar- scrappy- scrappily
- scrappiness
- scrapbook
- scrap heap
II
1. skræp noun(a fight: He tore his jacket in a scrap with another boy.) pelea
2. verb(to fight: The dogs were scrapping over a bone.) pelear(se)scrap n1. trozo / pedazo2. chatarratr[skræp]1 (of paper, cloth, etc) trozo, trocito, pedazo; (of news, conversation) fragmento, migaja2 (of metal) chatarra3 (in negatives) pizca, ápice nombre masculino1 (throw away) desechar; (cars etc) convertir en chatarra, desguazar\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLscrap (metal) dealer chatarrero,-ascrap metal chatarrascrap paper papel nombre masculino de borrador————————tr[skræp]1 pelearsediscard: desecharscrap vifight: pelearsescrap n1) fragment: pedazo m, trozo m2) fight: pelea f4) scraps nplleftovers: restos mpl, sobras fpladj.• de desecho expr.• desechado, -a adj.n.• bronquina s.f.• fragmento s.m.• pedazo s.m.• recorte s.m.• retazo s.m.• sobras s.f.pl.• virutas s.f.pl.• ñaque s.m.v.• achatarrar v.• derogar v.• tirar v.skræp
I
1)a) c (of paper, cloth, leather) pedacito m, trocito mb) ( single bit) (with neg, no pl)she hasn't done a scrap of work — no ha movido un dedo, no ha hecho absolutamente nada, no ha dado golpe (Esp fam)
it doesn't make a scrap of difference what you think — lo que tú pienses no importa en lo más mínimo
2) scraps pl sobras fpl, sobros mpl (AmC)3) u ( reusable waste)we sold our car for scrap — vendimos el coche como chatarra; (before n)
scrap dealer — chatarrero, -ra m,f
scrap iron — chatarra f
scrap merchant — chatarrero, -ra m,f
scrap paper — papel m para borrador
4) c ( fight) (colloq) agarrada f (fam), pelea f
II
1.
- pp- transitive verba) (abandon, cancel) \<\<idea\>\> desechar, descartar; \<\<plan\>\> abandonar; \<\<regulation\>\> abolir*b) ( convert to scrap) \<\<car/ship/machinery\>\> desguazar* or (Méx) deshuesar or (Chi) desarmarc) ( throw away) tirar a la basura, botar (AmL exc RPl)
2.
vi (colloq) pelearse
I [skræp]1. N1) (=small piece) pedacito m ; [of newspaper] recorte m ; [of material] retal m, retazo m ; (fig) pizca f•
there is not a scrap of truth in it — no hay ni un ápice de verdad en eso, no tiene nada de ciertonot a scrap! — ¡ni pizca!, ¡en absoluto!
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what is it worth as scrap? — ¿cuánto vale como chatarra?•
to sell a ship for scrap — vender un barco como chatarra2.VT [+ car, ship etc] chatarrear, convertir en chatarra; [+ old equipment etc] tirar; [+ idea, plan etc] desechar, descartar•
in the end the plan was scrapped — al final se desechó or se descartó el plan3.CPDscrap dealer N — chatarrero(-a) m / f
scrap heap N — montón m de desechos
to throw sth on the scrap heap — (fig) desechar or descartar algo
to be on the scrap heap — [person] no tener nada a que agarrarse
scrap iron N — chatarra f, hierro m viejo
scrap merchant N — chatarrero(-a) m / f
scrap metal N — chatarra f
scrap paper N — pedazos mpl de papel suelto (que se utilizan para borrador)
scrap value N — valor m como chatarra
its scrap value is £30 — como chatarra vale 30 libras
scrap yard N — chatarrería f ; (for cars) cementerio m de coches
II * [skræp]1.N (=fight) riña f, pelea fthere was a scrap outside the pub — hubo una riña or pelea a la salida del pub
to get into or have a scrap with sb — reñir or pelearse con algn
2.VI reñir, pelearse ( with sb con algn)* * *[skræp]
I
1)a) c (of paper, cloth, leather) pedacito m, trocito mb) ( single bit) (with neg, no pl)she hasn't done a scrap of work — no ha movido un dedo, no ha hecho absolutamente nada, no ha dado golpe (Esp fam)
it doesn't make a scrap of difference what you think — lo que tú pienses no importa en lo más mínimo
2) scraps pl sobras fpl, sobros mpl (AmC)3) u ( reusable waste)we sold our car for scrap — vendimos el coche como chatarra; (before n)
scrap dealer — chatarrero, -ra m,f
scrap iron — chatarra f
scrap merchant — chatarrero, -ra m,f
scrap paper — papel m para borrador
4) c ( fight) (colloq) agarrada f (fam), pelea f
II
1.
- pp- transitive verba) (abandon, cancel) \<\<idea\>\> desechar, descartar; \<\<plan\>\> abandonar; \<\<regulation\>\> abolir*b) ( convert to scrap) \<\<car/ship/machinery\>\> desguazar* or (Méx) deshuesar or (Chi) desarmarc) ( throw away) tirar a la basura, botar (AmL exc RPl)
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100 Versorgungsbewilligung
Versorgungsbewilligung
pension approval certificate;
• Versorgungsbezüge pensionable emoluments, superannuation benefits, income received from a pension, retirement income;
• Versorgungsbombe supply bomb;
• Versorgungsdezernat utility department;
• Versorgungsdienst public utility;
• Versorgungsdienstalter pensionable age;
• Versorgungseinrichtungen utility equipment;
• lebenswichtige Versorgungseinrichtung essential service;
• Versorgungsempfänger pensioner;
• Versorgungsengpass bottle-neck in (shortage of) supplies, supply bottleneck;
• Versorgungsfahrzeug service van;
• Versorgungsfall public charge, case;
• Versorgungsflug resupply flight;
• Versorgungsfonds provident (pension) fund;
• Versorgungsgebiet public utility field, supply area, (el., Gas) service area;
• auf dem Transport befindliche Versorgungsgüter pipeline stocks;
• gemeinschaftliche Versorgungsgüter common supplies;
• Versorgungsindustrie (Börse) utilities (US);
• beitragsfreie Versorgungskasse company-financed (non-contributory) pension plan;
• beitragspflichtige Versorgungskasse (Betrieb) contributory pension plan;
• rechtlich selbstständige Versorgungskasse legally independent pension fund;
• Versorgungskette chain of supply;
• Versorgungsklemme shortage in supply;
• Versorgungskontinuität continuity of service;
• angespannte Versorgungslage tight supply situation;
• Versorgungslager supply depot, victualling stores;
• Versorgungsleistung pension [payment];
• in der Zukunft zu erdienende Versorgungsleistungen (Pensionsplan) future service cost;
• Versorgungslücke gap in supplies, famine;
• Versorgungsmodell pattern of benefit;
• Versorgungsmonopol supply monopoly;
• Versorgungsnetz distribution network;
• Versorgungsordnung pension law;
• Versorgungspflicht (Spediteur) common humanity doctrine;
• Versorgungsplan supply plan;
• Versorgungsproblem supply problem;
• Versorgungsquelle supply area, source of supply, (Nachwuchs) recruiting ground (US);
• Versorgungsrecht right to a pension;
• Versorgungsrente (staatlich) public (social, US, national, Br.) assistance;
• Versorgungssatz rate of pension;
• Versorgungsschiff supply (replenishment, depot, victualling) ship;
• Versorgungsschwierigkeiten difficulties of supply;
• Versorgungssicherheit security of supply;
• Versorgungsstaat welfare state;
• Versorgungsstand level of supply;
• Versorgungsstelle supply center (US) (centre, Br.);
• Versorgungssystem supply system, (Altersversorgung) retirement benefit system (US);
• konkurrenzfähiges Versorgungssystem einrichten to provide benefits on competitive terms;
• Versorgungstarif utility rates;
• Versorgungsträger pension fund;
• privat betriebenes Versorgungsunternehmen statutory company (Br.);
• öffentliches Versorgungsunternehmen public utility company (corporation, establishment, society, undertaking);
• Versorgungsvergütung settlement allowance, retirement income, superannuation, pensionable emoluments;
• Versorgungsverpflichtungen pension obligations;
• Versorgungsversicherung endowment insurance;
• Versorgungswagen supply waggon;
• Versorgungswege channels of supply;
• Versorgungswerk pension plan;
• innerbetriebliches Versorgungswerk company-financed pension plan;
• Versorgungswerte (Börse) public utility bonds, utility shares (stocks, US), [public] utilities (US);
• Versorgungswesen service system, logistics;
• Versorgungswirtschaft subsistence economy, utility service.
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Stone Age — the period in the history of humankind, preceding the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, and marked by the use of stone implements and weapons: subdivided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods. [1860 65] * * * First known period of… … Universalium
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