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  • 1 all but John

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  • 2 but

    adv. alleen als; met moeite
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    conj. maar; doch
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    n. voorwaarde; weerstand; beperking
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    prep. behalve
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    v. "maar"
    but1
    1  maar ⇒ tegenwerping, bedenking
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   〈 informeel〉 ifs and buts • maren, bedenkingen
         but me no buts • geen gemaar, niks te maren
         〈 informeel〉 no buts about it • zeker weten, reken maar
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    but2
    [ bət, 〈 sterk〉 but] 〈voornaamwoord; steeds met negatief antecedent〉
    1 die/dat niet
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   not a man but was moved to tears • geen man die niet tot tranen toe bewogen was
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    but3
    [ bət, 〈 sterk〉 but] 〈 bijwoord〉
    1  slechts ⇒ enkel, alleen, maar, pas
    2  (en) toch ⇒ echter, anderzijds
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   he's but a student • het is maar een student
         I could but feel sorry for her • ik kon enkel medelijden hebben met haar
         I know but one • ik ken er maar één
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    but4
    [ bət, 〈 sterk〉 but] 〈 voorzetsel〉
    1  behalve ⇒ buiten, uitgezonderd, anders dan
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   none but father • niemand buiten vader
         all but John • allen behalve John
         who but John? • wie anders dan John?
         he wanted nothing but peace • hij wilde slechts rust
         the last but one • op één na de laatste
         the next summer but one • de zomer na de volgende
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    but5
    1 〈 uitzondering〉 behalve ⇒ buiten, uitgezonderd
    2 〈 voor indirecte rede, na negatief/vragend hoofdwerkwoord〉 dat
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   I cannot (choose) but accept his proposal • ik kan niet anders dan zijn voorstel aannemen
         what could I do but surrender? • wat kon ik doen behalve me overgeven?
    2   he did not doubt but that he had failed • hij twijfelde er niet aan dat hij gefaald had
    〈 informeel〉 no sooner had she spoken but it appeared again • ze was nog niet uitgesproken of het verscheen opnieuw
    1 〈 tegenstelling〉 maar (toch) ⇒ niettemin, desondanks
    2 〈 versterkend en tegenstellend〉 en hoe ⇒ wat, maar, en
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   not a man but an animal • geen mens maar een dier
         young but clever • jong maar sluw
         but then (again) • (maar) anderzijds/ja
         but yet • niettemin
    2   he ran but ran! • hij liep, en hoe!
         he ran but fast! • hij liep, en snel ook!
         but no! • nee maar!, nee toch!
         but yes! • maar ja toch!
    → all but all but/, but for but for/

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  • 3 but

    1. conjunction
    1) coordinating aber

    Sue wasn't there, but her sister was — Sue war nicht da, dafür aber ihre Schwester

    we tried to do it but couldn't — wir haben es versucht, aber nicht gekonnt

    2) correcting after a negative sondern

    not that book but this one — nicht das Buch, sondern dieses

    not only... but also — nicht nur..., sondern auch

    3) subordinating ohne dass

    never a week passes but he phones — keine Woche vergeht, ohne dass er anruft

    2. preposition
    außer (+ Dat.)

    the next but one/two — der/die/das über-/überübernächste

    the last but one/two — der/die/das vor-/vorvorletzte

    3. adverb
    nur; bloß

    if I could but talk to her... — wenn ich [doch] nur mit ihr sprechen könnte...

    4. noun
    Aber, das

    no buts [about it]! — kein Aber!

    * * *
    1. conjunction
    (used to show a contrast between two or more things: John was there, but Peter was not.) aber
    2. preposition
    (except (for): no-one but me; the next road but one.) außer
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    [bʌt, bət]
    I. conj
    1. (although) aber
    she's nice \but bossy sie ist nett, wenn auch rechthaberisch
    2. (however) aber, jedoch
    he's a nice guy \but he's not my type er ist zwar ein netter Kerl, doch er ist nicht mein Typ
    I think so, \but then I'm no expert ich denke schon, allerdings bin ich keine Expertin
    3. (except) als, außer
    what could I do \but accept? mir blieb nichts anderes übrig, als Ja zu sagen
    4. (rather)
    ▪ not... \but... nicht..., sondern...
    we must not complain \but do something wir sollten nicht klagen, sondern handeln
    5. (in addition)
    not only... \but also... [too] nicht nur..., sondern auch...
    II. prep
    1. (except) außer + dat
    the last episode \but one die vorletzte Folge
    I have no questions \but one ich habe nur noch [die] eine Frage
    all/anyone \but sb alle/jeder außer jdm
    anything \but... alles, nur... nicht
    2. (only) außer + dat
    she wanted to go nowhere \but home sie wollte nur noch nach Hause
    this car has been nothing \but trouble dieses Auto hat nichts als Ärger gemacht
    ▪ not... \but... nicht..., sondern...
    she's not a painter \but a writer sie ist nicht Malerin, sondern Schriftstellerin
    III. n Aber nt
    no \buts! keine Widerrede!
    ▶ no [ifs, ands or] \buts about it da gibt es kein Wenn und Aber
    ▶ but me no \buts! ( saying) komm mir nicht mit Ausreden!
    IV. adv inv
    1. (only) nur, lediglich
    she's \but a young girl sie ist doch noch ein junges Mädchen
    I cannot [help] \but wonder... ich frage mich bloß,...
    one cannot \but smile man muss einfach lächeln
    2. esp AM (really) aber auch
    everyone, \but everyone, will be there jeder, aber auch wirklich jeder, wird dort sein
    3.
    ▶ \but for sb/sth (except for) bis auf jdn/etw; (thanks to) wäre jd/etw nicht gewesen, dank jdm/etw iron
    ▶ \but that ( old)
    \but that we were young again! wenn wir wieder jung wären!
    ▶ \but then [again] (on the other hand) andererseits; (after all) schließlich, immerhin
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    [bʌt]
    1. conj
    1) aber

    but you must know that... —

    but HE didn't know that — aber er hat das nicht gewusst, er hat das aber nicht gewusst

    they all went but I didn't — sie sind alle gegangen, nur ich nicht

    2)
    3) (subordinating) ohne dass

    never a week passes but she is ill —

    I would have helped but that I was ill (old, liter) — ich hätte geholfen, wäre ich nicht krank gewesen (old)

    4)

    but then you must be my brother! —

    but then do you mean to say... — wollen Sie dann etwa sagen...

    2. adv

    I cannot ( help) but think that... — ich kann nicht umhin zu denken, dass...

    one cannot but admire him/suspect that... — man kann ihn nur bewundern/nur annehmen, dass...

    you can but try — du kannst es immerhin versuchen

    she left but a few minutes ago — sie ist erst vor ein paar Minuten gegangen

    Napoleon, to name but one, lived here — Napoleon, um nur einen zu nennen, hat hier gelebt

    3. prep

    who but Fred would...? — wer außer Fred würde...?

    anything but that! — (alles,) nur das nicht!

    he/it was nothing but trouble — er/das hat nichts als or nur Schwierigkeiten gemacht

    the last house but one/two/three — das vorletzte/vorvorletzte/drittletzte Haus

    the first but one — der/die/das Zweite

    the next street but one/two/three — die übernächste/überübernächste Straße/vier Straßen weiter

    I could definitely live in Scotland, but for the weather — ich könnte ganz bestimmt in Schottland leben, wenn das Wetter nicht wäre

    4. n
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    but [bʌt]
    A adv
    1. nur, bloß:
    there is but one way out es gibt nur einen Ausweg;
    I did but glance ich blickte nur flüchtig hin
    2. erst, gerade:
    he left but an hour ago er ist erst vor einer Stunde (weg)gegangen
    3. wenigstens, immerhin:
    4. all but fast, beinahe, um ein Haar umg:
    he all but died er wäre fast gestorben
    B präp
    1. außer:
    all but him alle außer ihm, alle bis auf ihn;
    the last but one der Vorletzte;
    the last but two der Drittletzte;
    nothing but nonsense nichts als Unsinn;
    but that außer dass; es sei denn, dass
    2. but for ohne:
    but for my parents wenn meine Eltern nicht (gewesen) wären
    C konj
    what can I do but refuse was bleibt mir anderes übrig als abzulehnen;
    he could not but laugh er musste einfach lachen
    2. obs ohne dass:
    he never comes but he causes trouble er kommt nie, ohne Unannehmlichkeiten zu verursachen
    3. auch but that, but what (nach Negativen) obs dass nicht:
    you are not so stupid but ( oder but that, but what) you can learn that du bist nicht so dumm, dass du das nicht lernen könntest
    4. obs but that dass:
    5. but that obs wenn nicht:
    6. aber, jedoch:
    you want to do it, but you cannot du willst es tun, aber du kannst es nicht;
    small but select klein, aber fein;
    a) aber schließlich,
    b) aber andererseits,
    c) immerhin
    7. dennoch, nichtsdestoweniger:
    but yet, but for all that (aber) trotzdem
    8. sondern:
    not only …, but also nicht nur …, sondern auch
    D rel pr neg obs der oder die oder das nicht:
    there is no one but knows about it es gibt niemanden, der es nicht weiß;
    few of them but rejoiced es gab nur wenige, die sich nicht freuten
    E s Aber n, Einwand m, Widerrede f:
    no buts about it! kein Aber!; → academic.ru/36709/if">if1 B
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    1. conjunction
    1) coordinating aber

    Sue wasn't there, but her sister was — Sue war nicht da, dafür aber ihre Schwester

    we tried to do it but couldn't — wir haben es versucht, aber nicht gekonnt

    2) correcting after a negative sondern

    not that book but this one — nicht das Buch, sondern dieses

    not only... but also — nicht nur..., sondern auch

    3) subordinating ohne dass

    never a week passes but he phones — keine Woche vergeht, ohne dass er anruft

    2. preposition
    außer (+ Dat.)

    the next but one/two — der/die/das über-/überübernächste

    the last but one/two — der/die/das vor-/vorvorletzte

    3. adverb
    nur; bloß

    if I could but talk to her... — wenn ich [doch] nur mit ihr sprechen könnte...

    4. noun
    Aber, das

    no buts [about it]! — kein Aber!

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    conj.
    aber konj.
    doch konj.
    ohne dass konj.
    sondern konj.

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  • 4 all right

    1) (unhurt; not ill or in difficulties etc: You look ill. Are you all right?) in Ordnung
    2) (an expression of agreement to do something: `Will you come?' `Oh, all right.') in Ordnung
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    I. adj inv
    1. (OK) in Ordnung; ( approv fam: very good) nicht schlecht präd
    don't worry now, it's \all right schon gut, es ist alles wieder in Ordnung
    gosh, this wine's \all right, isn't it? Mensch, dieser Wein ist aber nicht übel!
    that's \all right (apologetically) das macht nichts; (you're welcome) keine Ursache
    what did you think of the film? — it was \all right, nothing special wie fandest du den Film? — na ja, nichts Besonderes
    would it be \all right if...? wäre es dir recht, wenn...?
    it'll be \all right to leave your car here du kannst deinen Wagen ruhig hier lassen
    to be a bit of \all right BRIT ( fam) nicht schlecht aussehen
    perfectly \all right völlig in Ordnung
    to be doing \all right ein angenehmes Leben führen
    ▪ to be \all right with sb jdm recht sein
    2. (healthy) gesund; (safe) gut
    are you \all right? ist alles in Ordnung?, bist du okay?
    well, we got as far as London \all right, but then... bis London sind wir ja noch gut gekommen, aber dann...
    to get home \all right gut nach Hause kommen
    II. interj
    1. (in agreement) o.k., in Ordnung
    \all right? wie geht's?
    \all right, John? na wie geht's, John?
    III. adv inv
    1. (doubtless) auf jeden Fall, zweifellos
    are you sure it was him? — oh, it was him \all right bist du sicher, dass er es war? — oh ja, eindeutig!
    2. (quite well) ganz gut
    are you managing \all right in your new job? kommst du in deinem neuen Job gut zurecht?
    * * *
    ['ɔːl'raɪt]
    1. adj pred
    1) (= satisfactory) in Ordnung, okay (inf)

    that's or it's all right (after thanks) — schon gut, gern geschehen; (after apology) schon gut, das macht nichts

    it's all right, you don't have to — schon gut, du musst nicht unbedingt

    to taste/look/smell all right — ganz gut schmecken/aussehen/riechen

    it's all right by me — ich habe nichts dagegen, von mir aus gern

    it's all right for him to laugh I made it all right with him — er hat gut lachen ich habe das (mit ihm) wieder eingerenkt

    it'll be all right on the night — es wird schon klappen, wenn es darauf ankommt

    2) (= safe, unharmed) person, machine in Ordnung, okay (inf); object, building, tree etc heil, ganz, okay (inf)

    are you feeling all right? — fehlt Ihnen was?; (iro) sag mal, fehlt dir was?

    he's all right again — es geht ihm wieder gut, er ist wieder in Ordnung (inf)

    the bomb damaged half the street but our house was all right — die Bombe hat die halbe Straße zerstört, aber unserem Haus ist nichts passiert

    it's all right now, Susi's here —

    it's all right, don't worry — keine Angst, machen Sie sich keine Sorgen

    2. adv
    1) (= satisfactorily) ganz gut, ganz ordentlich; (= safely) gut

    did you get/find it all right? — haben Sie es denn bekommen/gefunden?

    2) (= certainly) schon

    that's the boy all right —

    oh yes, we heard you all right — o ja, und ob wir dich gehört haben

    3. interj
    gut, schön, okay (inf); (in agreement) gut, in Ordnung

    may I leave early? – all right — kann ich früher gehen? – ja

    all right that's enough! — okay or komm, jetzt reichts (aber)!

    all right, all right! I'm coming — schon gut, schon gut, ich komme ja!

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    adj.
    in Ordnung ausdr. adv.
    ganz recht adv.
    schon gut adv. expr.
    in Ordnung ausdr.

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  • 5 but

    [bʌt]
    cj
    1) но, а, однако, тем не менее, хотя, несмотря на, зато

    I was not there but my brother was. — Я не был там, но мой брат был.

    They returned tired, but happy. — Они вернулись усталые, но счастливые.

    That is the rule, but there are many exceptions. — Это правило, но есть много исключений.

    It had been raining hard all morning but thousands of people turned up to watch the procession. — Хотя все утро шел сильный дождь, тысячи людей пришли посмотреть процессию.

    2) кроме, за исключением, кроме того
    - last but one
    - next but one
    •
    CHOICE OF WORDS:
    (1.) Союз but вводит противоречащие или ограничивающие друг друга слова и предложения: Not he but his brother. Не он, а его брат. She felt tired but happy. Она чувствовала себя усталой, но счастливой. My room is small, but it is comfortable. Моя комната невелика, но уютна/ удобна. There was nothing else for us to do but obey. Нам не оставалось ничего другого, как подчиниться. В начале предложения but часто указывает на переход к другой теме разговора: But non to the main question. Ну, а теперь перейдем к основному вопросу. (2.) Личные местоимения, следующие за but 2. употребляются в форме объектного падежа: Who would do a thing like that? Nobody but her (him, me). Кто может такое сделать? Никто, кроме нее (Только она одна). Глагол, следующий за but 2. используется в форме инфинитива, частица to может быть опущена: I couldn't do anything but just sit here and hope. Мне ничего не оставалось делать, кроме как сидеть и надеяться. (3.) Придаточное предложение или отдельные слова и словосочетания, вводимые but после отрицаний, используются для того, чтобы подчеркнуть, что справедлива именно вторая часть высказывания (введенная but): They purpose of the scheme is not to help the employers but to provide work for young people. Цель этого проекта не помочь предпринимателям, а предоставить работу (создать рабочие места) молодежи (для молодежи). There is no doubt but that he is guilty. Нет сомнений в том, что он виновен. (4.) But 2. используется только после слов all - все, every one - каждый, any - любой, no - не и их производных, а так же в вопросах, начинающихся с what, who и where: We are all here but Mary. Мы все здесь, за исключением Мэри. Every one knows the answer but me. Ответ знали все, кроме меня. Who but John would say that? Кто кроме Джона скажет так (это)? (5.) Значение противопоставления, контраста, ограничения может быть передано, кроме but, рядом других близкозначных слов и словосочетаний, таких, как yet - и все же, тем не менее: She drove very fast to the airport, yet she missed the plane. Она ехала в аэропорт очень быстро, тем не менее на самолет она опоздала; although/even though - хотя: Although/even thought my room is very small, it is very comfortable. Хотя комната у меня маленькая, она очень уютна/удобна; in spite of the fact that/despite the fact that - несмотря на то, что: In spite of the fact that my room is very small, it is very comfortable. Несмотря на то, что комната у меня маленькая, она очень удобна; however - однако: My room is small, however it is very comfortable. Моя комната невелика, однако она очень удобна; except a, после слов not и always - excepting - кроме, за исключением: The window is never opened except in summer. Это окно никогда не открывается, кроме как летом (Это окно открывается только летом). They were all saved except the captain. Спасли всех, кроме капитана. They were all saved not excepting the captain. Спасли всех, в том числе и капитана. Except - наиболее близкое по значению к but, несколько более официально, но по сравнению с but не ограничено в своем употреблении характером сочетающихся с ним слов: not only but also - не только… но и: He was not only foolish but also stubborn; however - однако. (6.) Когда but и yet соединяют два предложения, то эти предложения отделяются запятой (,): My room is very small, but it is comfortable. (7.) Когда however, even so соединяют два предложения, то они отделяются точкой с запятой (;), а слова however, even so отделяются запятой (,): I agree with you; however, we cannot accept your plan. (8.) Часть предложения, вводимая although/even though, in spite of the fact that/despite the fact that, может стоять в начале или конце предложения. Если эта часть предложения стоит в начале, перед главным предложением, то оно отделяется от него запятой (,): Although my room was small, it was very comfortable. Если же такое придаточное стоит после главного, то запятая не ставится: My room is very comfortable although it is small. (9.) Сочетание can't/could not but do smth соответствует русскому не мог не: I could not but admire her. Я не мог ею не восхищаться. (10.). Сочетание next but one значит - через один (одну): Your stop is next but one. Вам выходить через одну остановку. Сочетание last but one значит - предпоследний: He was last but one in the race. В гонках он оказался (пришел) предпоследним

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  • 6 but

    1. conjunction
    (used to show a contrast between two or more things: John was there, but Peter was not.) toda
    2. preposition
    (except (for): no-one but me; the next road but one.) razen
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    I [bʌt]
    conjunction
    ampak, toda, temveč, marveč, pač pa
    not only... but also — ne samo..., ampak tudi
    there is no doubt but (that) she is ill — ni dvoma, da je bolna
    it is not so late but they may come — ni še tako pozno, da ne bi mogli še priti
    who knows but he may be angry? — kdo ve, če ni morda hud?
    II [bʌt]
    preposition
    razen, mimo, izvzemši
    all but he ( —ali him) — vsi razen njega, samo on ne
    III [bʌt]
    adverb
    samo, le, šele
    all but — skoraj, domala
    IV [bʌt]
    noun
    ugovor, pomislek
    but me no buts! — nobenih ugovorov!
    V [bʌt]
    Scottish
    1.
    adjective
    zunanji;
    2.
    noun
    zunanja soba, kuhinja
    but and ben — zunanji in notranji deli stanovanja, vsa hiša

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  • 7 but

    1. conjunction
    (used to show a contrast between two or more things: John was there, but Peter was not.) mas
    2. preposition
    (except (for): no-one but me; the next road but one.) senão
    * * *
    [b∧t] n objeção, restrição. • conj 1 mas, porém. 2 não obstante, embora. 3 de que. 4 que. 5 mesmo que. 6 que não. 7 todavia, entretanto. 8 senão. • prep com exceção de, exceto, salvo, a não ser, menos. everybody was present but Paul / todos estavam presentes, menos Paulo. nothing more remains but to go / não resta outra coisa a não ser ir embora. they all excused themselves but him / todos se desculparam, menos ele. • adv somente, meramente, apenas. it is but a trifle / é apenas uma bagatela. all but aproximadamente, quase. but for all that apesar disso. but for my good health I should have died não fosse minha boa saúde teria morrido. but then entretanto, no entanto. it never rains but it pours quando chove, chove muito. no doctor but a very inexperienced one somente um médico de pouca experiência. no one but tries ninguém que não experimente. nothing but misfortunes nada além de infortúnios. not only poor but also ill não somente pobre mas também doente, além de pobre doente. the last but one o penúltimo.

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  • 8 all right

    1) (OK) in Ordnung;
    (approv fam: very good) nicht schlecht präd;
    don't worry now, it's \all right schon gut, es ist alles wieder in Ordnung;
    gosh, this wine's \all right, isn't it? Mensch, dieser Wein ist aber nicht übel!;
    that's \all right ( apologetically) das macht nichts;
    ( you're welcome) keine Ursache;
    what did you think of the film? - it was \all right, nothing special wie fandest du den Film? - na ja, nichts Besonderes;
    would it be \all right if...? wäre es dir recht, wenn...?;
    it'll be \all right to leave your car here du kannst deinen Wagen ruhig hierlassen;
    to be a bit of \all right ( Brit) ( fam) nicht schlecht aussehen;
    perfectly \all right völlig in Ordnung;
    to be doing \all right ein angenehmes Leben führen;
    to be \all right with sb jdm recht sein
    2) ( healthy) gesund;
    ( safe) gut;
    are you \all right? ist alles in Ordnung?, bist du okay?;
    well, we got as far as London \all right, but then... bis London sind wir ja noch gut gekommen, aber dann...;
    to get home \all right gut nach Hause kommen interj
    1) ( in agreement) o.k., in Ordnung;
    2) (approv sl: in approval) bravo, super
    3) ( Brit) (fam: greeting)
    \all right? wie geht's?;
    \all right, John? na wie geht's, John? adv
    1) ( doubtless) auf jeden Fall, zweifellos;
    are you sure it was him? - oh, it was him \all right bist du sicher, dass er es war? - oh ja, eindeutig!
    2) ( quite well) ganz gut;
    are you managing \all right in your new job? kommst du in deinem neuen Job gut zurecht?

    English-German students dictionary > all right

  • 9 but

    1. conjunction
    (used to show a contrast between two or more things: John was there, but Peter was not.) pero

    2. preposition
    (except (for): no-one but me; the next road but one.) excepto
    but1 conj
    1. pero
    I'd like to come to the party, but I can't me gustaría ir a la fiesta, pero no puedo
    2. sino
    the party's not on Saturday, but on Sunday la fiesta no es el sábado, sino el domingo
    but2 prep salvo / excepto / menos
    tr[bʌt]
    1 pero
    ■ it's cold, but dry hace frío, pero no llueve
    ■ I'd like to, but I can't me gustaría, pero no puedo
    ■ not two, but three no dos, sino tres
    ■ she told him not to wait, but to go home le dijo que no se esperara, sino que se fuera para casa
    1 (nada) más que, no... sino, solamente, sólo,
    1 excepto, salvo, menos
    1 pero
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    but for de no ser por, si no fuera por
    ■ but for him, we would have failed de no ser por él, habríamos fracasado
    had I but «+ pp»... si lo + imperf subj...
    there is nothing for it but to «+ inf» no hay más remedio que + inf
    the last but one el/la penúltimo,-a
    but ['bʌt] conj
    1) that: que
    there is no doubt but he is lazy: no cabe duda que sea perezoso
    2) without: sin que
    3) nevertheless: pero, no obstante, sin embargo
    I called her but she didn't answer: la llamé pero no contestó
    4) yet: pero
    he was poor but proud: era pobre pero orgulloso
    but prep
    except: excepto, menos
    everyone but Carlos: todos menos Carlos
    the last but one: el penúltimo
    adv.
    • pero adv.
    • sino adv.
    • solamente adv.
    conj.
    • ahora conj.
    • empero conj.
    • mas conj.
    • pero conj.
    • sino conj.
    n.
    • objeción s.f.
    • pero s.m.
    prep.
    • excepto prep.

    I bʌt, weak form bət
    1)
    a) ( however) pero

    she was fired, but they were not — la despidieron a ella pero no a ellos

    everybody, but everybody knows that — eso no hay nadie que no lo sepa

    you're really bugging me but good! — (AmE colloq) qué manera de darme la lata! (fam)

    but what made you say it? — ¿pero por qué lo dijiste?

    surely he doesn't believe that? - oh, but he does! — no puede ser que se crea eso - pues sí que se lo cree

    c)

    but then — (as linker) (however, still) pero; ( in that case) pero entonces

    but then you never were very ambitious, were you? — pero la verdad es que tú nunca fuiste muy ambicioso ¿no?

    I don't want to, but then again I do — no quiero, pero a la vez or al mismo tiempo sí quiero

    2)

    not... but... — no... sino...

    it appears that she's not Greek but Albanian — parece que no es griega, sino albanesa

    not only did she hit him, but she also... — no sólo le pegó, sino que también...


    II
    a) ( except)

    everyone but me — todos menos or excepto or salvo yo

    the next street but one — la próxima calle no: la siguiente

    there's nothing we can do but wait — no podemos hacer otra cosa sino esperar, lo único que podemos hacer es esperar

    b)

    but for: but for them, we'd have lost everything — de no haber sido or si no hubiera sido por ellos, habríamos perdido todo


    III
    adverb (frml)

    IV bʌt
    noun pero m

    no buts: come here at once! — no hay pero que valga, ven aquí inmediatamente!

    [bʌt]
    1. CONJ

    I want to go but I can't afford it — quiero ir, pero no tengo el dinero

    but it does move! — ¡pero sí se mueve!

    • he's not Spanish but Italian — no es español sino italiano

    • we never go out but it rains — nunca salimos sin que llueva

    • but then he couldn't have known — por otro lado, no podía saber or haberlo sabido

    but then you must be my cousin! — ¡entonces tú debes ser mi primo!

    2.
    ADV (=only) solo, sólo, solamente; (=no more than) no más que
    In the past the standard spelling for solo as an adverb was with an accent (sólo). Nowadays the Real Academia Española advises that the accented form is only required where there might otherwise be confusion with the adjective solo.

    if I could but speak to him — si solamente or solo pudiese hablar con él

    • you can but try — con intentar no se pierde nada

    • all but naked — casi desnudo

    • had I but known — de haberlo sabido (yo), si lo hubiera sabido

    3.
    PREP (=except) menos, excepto, salvo

    • anything but that — cualquier cosa menos eso

    • everyone but him — todos menos él

    • but for you — si no fuera por ti

    • the last but one — el/la penúltimo(-a)

    • there is nothing for it but to pay up — no hay más remedio que pagar

    • who but she could have said something like that? — ¿quién sino ella podría haber dicho semejante cosa?

    4.
    N pero m, objeción f

    • no buts about it! — ¡no hay pero que valga!

    come on, no buts, off to bed with you! — ¡vale ya! no hay pero que valga, ¡a la cama!

    BUT There are three main ways of translating the conjunction but: pero, sino and sino que.
    Contrasting
    ► To introduce a contrast or a new idea, use pero:
    Strange but interesting Extraño pero interesante
    I thought he would help me but he refused Creí que me ayudaría, pero se negó ► In informal language, pero can be used at the start of a comment:
    But where are you going to put it? Pero ¿dónde lo vas a poner? NOTE: In formal language, s in embargo or no obstante may be preferred:
    But, in spite of the likely benefits, he still opposed the idea Sin embargo or No obstante, a pesar de las probables ventajas, todavía se oponía a la idea
    Correcting a previous negative
    ► When but or but rather introduces a noun phrase, prepositional phrase or verb in the infinitive which corrects a previous negative, translate but using sino:
    Not wine, but vinegar No vino, sino vinagre
    They aren't from Seville, but from Bilbao No son de Sevilla, sino de Bilbao
    His trip to London was not to investigate the case but to hush it up Su viaje a Londres no fue para investigar el caso sino para taparlo ► When but or but rather introduces a verb clause (or requires a verb clause in Spanish) which corrects a previous negative, translate using sino que:
    He's not asking you to do what he says but (rather) to listen to him No te pide que hagas lo que él dice, sino que le escuches
    Not only... but also
    ► When the but also part of this construction contains ((subject)) + ((verb)), translate using no solo or no sólo or no solamente... sino que también or sino que además:
    It will not only cause tension, but it will also damage the economy No solo or No sólo or No solamente provocará tensiones, sino que además or sino que también dañará la economía ► When the but also part does not contain ((subject)) + ((verb)), translate using no solo or no sólo or no solamente... sino también or sino además:
    Not only rich but also powerful No solo or No sólo or No solamente rico sino también or sino además poderoso
    We don't only want to negotiate but also to take decisions No queremos solo or sóloor solamente negociar, sino también tomar decisiones For further uses and examples, see main entry
    * * *

    I [bʌt], weak form [bət]
    1)
    a) ( however) pero

    she was fired, but they were not — la despidieron a ella pero no a ellos

    everybody, but everybody knows that — eso no hay nadie que no lo sepa

    you're really bugging me but good! — (AmE colloq) qué manera de darme la lata! (fam)

    but what made you say it? — ¿pero por qué lo dijiste?

    surely he doesn't believe that? - oh, but he does! — no puede ser que se crea eso - pues sí que se lo cree

    c)

    but then — (as linker) (however, still) pero; ( in that case) pero entonces

    but then you never were very ambitious, were you? — pero la verdad es que tú nunca fuiste muy ambicioso ¿no?

    I don't want to, but then again I do — no quiero, pero a la vez or al mismo tiempo sí quiero

    2)

    not... but... — no... sino...

    it appears that she's not Greek but Albanian — parece que no es griega, sino albanesa

    not only did she hit him, but she also... — no sólo le pegó, sino que también...


    II
    a) ( except)

    everyone but me — todos menos or excepto or salvo yo

    the next street but one — la próxima calle no: la siguiente

    there's nothing we can do but wait — no podemos hacer otra cosa sino esperar, lo único que podemos hacer es esperar

    b)

    but for: but for them, we'd have lost everything — de no haber sido or si no hubiera sido por ellos, habríamos perdido todo


    III
    adverb (frml)

    IV [bʌt]
    noun pero m

    no buts: come here at once! — no hay pero que valga, ven aquí inmediatamente!

    English-spanish dictionary > but

  • 10 but

    1. conjunction
    (used to show a contrast between two or more things: John was there, but Peter was not.) men, derimot
    2. preposition
    (except (for): no-one but me; the next road but one.) unntatt, uten
    bare
    --------
    men
    I
    subst. \/bʌt\/ ( litterært) men, aber, innvending
    II
    subst. \/bʌt\/
    ( skotsk) forklaring: det ytterste rommet i et to-roms hus
    III
    verb \/bʌt\/
    bare i uttrykk
    but me no buts! det nytter ikke å protestere!, her er det ikke noe 'men'!
    IV
    adv. \/bʌt\/
    bare
    V
    prep. \/bʌt\/
    1) unntatt, unntagen, utenom, bortsett fra, uten
    2) om ikke, hvis ikke
    om ikke du hadde hjulpet meg, hadde jeg ikke kunnet gjøre det
    3) annet enn, bare, enn
    • who else but he could have done it?
    be nothing but a fool være en stor tosk
    but that eller but what ( hverdagslig) uten at, hvis ikke, om ikke
    the first but one den andre
    the last but one den nest siste
    the last but two den tredje siste
    the next but one den andre
    the next but two den tredje
    no man is so old but that he may learn ingen er for gammel til å lære, man blir aldri for gammel til å lære
    VI
    konj. \/bʌt\/, \/bət\/
    men, dog
    • it hurt, but he didn't cry
    • not only rain, but also snow

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  • 11 John Barleycorn

    Джон ячменное Зерно (олицетворение виски, пива и др. спиртных и солодовых напитков) [выражение, известное с первой половины XVII в., приобрело особую популярность благодаря балладе Р. Бёрнса; см. цитату]

    John Barleycorn was a hero bold. Of noble enterprise; For if you do but taste his blood, 't will make your courage rise... Then let us toast John Barleycorn, Each man a glass in hand; And may his great posterity Ne'er fail in old Scotland. (R. Burns, ‘John Barleycorn’) — Недаром был покойный Джон При жизни молодец - Отвагу подымает он Со дна людских сердец... Так пусть же до конца времен Не высыхает дно В бочонке, где клокочет Джон Ячменное Зерно! (перевод С. Маршака)

    It seems old Suzan liked John Barleycorn. She'd souse herself to the ears every chance she got... John Barleycorn... It's the old-fashioned name for whisky. (J. London, ‘The Valley of the Moon’, part III, ch. II) — Похоже, что старая Сузан весьма уважала Джона Ячменное Зерно. Она готова была нагрузиться при всяком удобном случае... Джон Ячменное Зерно... Это ведь старое название виски.

    Jamie: "...By the time I hit Mamie's dump I felt very sad about myself and all the other poor bums in the world. Ready for a weep on any old womanly bosom... You know how you get when John Barleycorn turns on the soft music inside you." (E. O'Neill, ‘Long Day's Journey into Night’, act IV) — Джейми: "...Когда я добрался до заведения мамаши Верне, у меня уже сердце разрывалось от жалости к себе и ко всем несчастным забулдыгам на белом свете. Я вполне созрел, чтобы поплакать на груди у какой-нибудь старушки... Ты же знаешь, как это бывает, когда маэстро Джон Ячменное Зерно заводит внутри тебя нежную, грустную музыку."

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  • 12 all in one piece

    нареч. фраз. безопасно; без повреждений или ранений

    John's father was terribly concerned when his son was sent to war as a pilot, but he came home all in one piece.

    Англо-русский универсальный дополнительный практический переводческий словарь И. Мостицкого > all in one piece

  • 13 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

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  • 14 Roebuck, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology
    [br]
    b. 1718 Sheffield, England
    d. 17 July 1794
    [br]
    English chemist and manufacturer, inventor of the lead-chamber process for sulphuric acid.
    [br]
    The son of a prosperous Sheffield manufacturer, Roebuck forsook the family business to pursue studies in medicine at Edinburgh University. There he met Dr Joseph Black (1727–99), celebrated Professor of Chemistry, who aroused in Roebuck a lasting interest in chemistry. Roebuck continued his studies at Leyden, where he took his medical degree in 1742. He set up in practice in Birmingham, but in his spare time he continued chemical experiments that might help local industries.
    Among his early achievements was his new method of refining gold and silver. Success led to the setting up of a large laboratory and a reputation as a chemical consultant. It was at this time that Roebuck devised an improved way of making sulphuric acid. This vital substance was then made by burning sulphur and nitre (potassium nitrate) over water in a glass globe. The scale of the process was limited by the fragility of the glass. Roebuck substituted "lead chambers", or vessels consisting of sheets of lead, a metal both cheap and resistant to acids, set in wooden frames. After the first plant was set up in 1746, productivity rose and the price of sulphuric acid fell sharply. Success encouraged Roebuck to establish a second, larger plant at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. He preferred to rely on secrecy rather than patents to preserve his monopoly, but a departing employee took the secret with him and the process spread rapidly in England and on the European continent. It remained the standard process until it was superseded by the contact process towards the end of the nineteenth century. Roebuck next turned his attention to ironmaking and finally selected a site on the Carron river, near Falkirk in Scotland, where the raw materials and water power and transport lay close at hand. The Carron ironworks began producing iron in 1760 and became one of the great names in the history of ironmaking. Roebuck was an early proponent of the smelting of iron with coke, pioneered by Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale. To supply the stronger blast required, Roebuck consulted John Smeaton, who c. 1760 installed the first blowing cylinders of any size.
    All had so far gone well for Roebuck, but he now leased coal-mines and salt-works from the Duke of Hamilton's lands at Borrowstonness in Linlithgow. The coal workings were plagued with flooding which the existing Newcomen engines were unable to overcome. Through his friendship with Joseph Black, patron of James Watt, Roebuck persuaded Watt to join him to apply his improved steam-engine to the flooded mine. He took over Black's loan to Watt of £1,200, helped him to obtain the first steam-engine patent of 1769 and took a two-thirds interest in the project. However, the new engine was not yet equal to the task and the debts mounted. To satisfy his creditors, Roebuck had to dispose of his capital in his various ventures. One creditor was Matthew Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's two-thirds share in Watt's steam-engine, rather than claim payment from his depleted estate, thus initiating a famous partnership. Roebuck was retained to manage Borrowstonness and allowed an annuity for his continued support until his death in 1794.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Memoir of John Roebuck in J.Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. 4 (1798), pp. 65–87.
    S.Gregory, 1987, "John Roebuck, 18th century entrepreneur", Chem. Engr. 443:28–31.
    LRD

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  • 15 Nash, John

    [br]
    b. c. 1752 (?) London, England
    d. 13 May 1835 Cowes, Isle of Wight
    [br]
    English architect and town planner.
    [br]
    Nash's name is synonymous with the great scheme carried out for his patron, the Prince Regent, in the early nineteenth century: the development of Marylebone Park from 1811 constituted a "garden city" for the wealthy in the centre of London. Although only a part of Nash's great scheme was actually achieved, an immense amount was carried out, comprising the Regent's Park and its surrounding terraces, the Regent's Street, including All Souls' Church, and the Regent's Palace in the Mall. Not least was Nash's exotic Royal Pavilion at Brighton.
    From the early years of the nineteenth century, Nash and a number of other architects took advantage of the use of structural materials developed as a result of the Industrial Revolution; these included wrought and cast iron and various cements. Nash utilized iron widely in the Regent Street Quadrant, Carlton House Terrace and at the Brighton Pavilion. In the first two of these his iron columns were masonry clad, but at Brighton he unashamedly constructed iron column supports, as in the Royal Kitchen, and his ground floor to first floor cast-iron staircase, in which he took advantage of the malleability of the material to create a "Chinese" bamboo design, was particularly notable. The great eighteenth-century terrace architecture of Bath and much of the later work in London was constructed in stone, but as nineteenth-century needs demanded that more buildings needed to be erected at lower cost and greater speed, brick was used more widely for construction; this was rendered with a cement that could be painted to imitate stone. Nash, in particular, employed this method at Regent's Park and used a stucco made from sand, brickdust, powdered limestone and lead oxide that was suited for exterior work.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Terence Davis, 1960, The Architecture of John Nash, Studio.
    ——1966, John Nash: The Prince Regent's Architect, Country Life.
    Sir John Summerson, 1980, John Nash: Architect to King George IV, Allen \& Unwin.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Nash, John

  • 16 Smeaton, John

    [br]
    b. 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    d. 28 October 1792 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England
    [br]
    English mechanical and civil engineer.
    [br]
    As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.
    In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.
    The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.
    On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.
    Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1753.
    Bibliography
    1759, "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
    Towards the end of his life, Smeaton intended to write accounts of his many works but only completed A Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1791, London.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1874, Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, London. A.W.Skempton, (ed.), 1981, John Smeaton FRS, London: Thomas Telford. L.T.C.Rolt and J.S.Allen, 1977, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen, 2nd edn, Hartington: Moorland Publishing, esp. pp. 108–18 (gives a good description of his work on the steam-engine).
    LRD

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  • 17 Holland, John Philip

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 29 February 1840 Liscanor, Co. Clare, Ireland
    d. 12 August 1915 Newark, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    Irish/American inventor of the successful modern submarine
    [br]
    Holland was educated first in his native town and later in Limerick, a seaport bustling with coastal trade ships. His first job was that of schoolteacher, and as such he worked in various parts of Ireland until he was about 32 years old. A combination of his burning patriotic zeal for Ireland and his interest in undersea technology (then in its infancy) made him consider designs for underwater warships for use against the British Royal Navy in the fight for Irish independence. He studied all known works on the subject and commenced drawing plans, but he was unable to make real headway owing to a lack of finance.
    In 1873 he travelled to the United States, ultimately settling in New Jersey and continuing in the profession of teaching. His work on submarine design continued, but in 1875 he suffered a grave setback when the United States Navy turned down his designs. Help came from an unexpected source, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenian Society, which had been founded in Dublin and New York in 1858. Financial help enabled Holland to build a 4 m (13 ft) one-person craft, which was tested in 1878, and then a larger boat of 19 tonnes' displacement that was tested with a crew of three to depths of 20 m (65 ft) in New York's harbour in 1883. Known as the Fenian Ram, it embodied most of the principles of modern submarines, including weight compensation. The Fenians commandeered this boat, but they were unable to operate it satisfactorily and it was relegated to history.
    Holland continued work, at times independently and sometimes with others, and continuously advocated submarines to the United States Navy. In 1895 he was successful in winning a contract for US$150,000 to build the US Submarine Plunger at Baltimore. With too much outside interference, this proved an unsatisfactory venture. However, with only US$5,000 of his capital left, Holland started again and in 1898 he launched the Holland at Elizabeth, New Jersey. This 16 m (52 ft) vessel was successful, and in 1900 it was purchased by the United States Government.
    Six more boats were ordered by the Americans, and then some by the Russians and the Japanese. The British Royal Navy ordered five, which were built by Vickers Son and Maxim (now VSEL) at Barrow-in-Furness in the years up to 1903, commencing their long run of submarine building. They were licensed by another well-known name, the Electric Boat Company, which had formerly been the J.P.Holland Torpedo Boat Company.
    Holland now had some wealth and was well known. He continued to work, trying his hand at aeronautical research, and in 1904 he invented a respirator for use in submarine rescue work. It is pleasing to record that one of his ships can be seen to this day at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport: HM Submarine Holland No. 1, which was lost under tow in 1913 but salvaged and restored in the 1980s.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, 1910.
    Bibliography
    1900, "The submarine boat and its future", North American Review (December). Holland wrote several other articles of a similar nature.
    Further Reading
    R.K.Morris, 1966 John P.Holland 1841–1914, Inventor of the Modern Submarine, Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute.
    F.W.Lipscomb, 1975, The British Submarine, London: Conway Maritime Press. A.N.Harrison, 1979, The Development of HM Submarines from Holland No. 1 (1901) to
    Porpoise (1930), Bath: MoD Ships Department (internal publication).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Holland, John Philip

  • 18 MacNeill, Sir John Benjamin

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    b. 1793 (?) Mount Pleasant, near Dundalk, Louth, Ireland
    d. 2 March 1880
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    Irish railway engineer and educator.
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    Sir John MacNeill became a pupil of Thomas Telford and served under him as Superintendent of the Southern Division of the Holyhead Road from London to Shrewsbury. In this capacity he invented a "Road Indicator" or dynamometer. Like other Telford followers, he viewed the advent of railways with some antipathy, but after the death of Telford in 1834 he quickly became involved in railway construction and in 1837 he was retained by the Irish Railway Commissioners to build railways in the north of Ireland (Vignoles received the commission for the south). Much of his subsequent career was devoted to schemes for Irish railways, both those envisaged by the Commissioners and other private lines with more immediately commercial objectives. He was knighted in 1844 on the completion of the Dublin \& Drogheda Railway along the east coast of Ireland. In 1845 MacNeill lodged plans for over 800 miles (1,300 km) of Irish railways. Not all of these were built, many falling victim to Irish poverty in the years after the Famine, but he maintained a large staff and became financially embarrassed. His other schemes included the Grangemouth Docks in Scotland, the Liverpool \& Bury Railway, and the Belfast Waterworks, the latter completed in 1843 and subsequently extended by Bateman.
    MacNeill was an engineer of originality, being the person who introduced iron-lattice bridges into Britain, employing the theoretical and experimental work of Fairbairn and Eaton Hodgkinson (the Boyne Bridge at Drogheda had two such spans of 250ft (76m) each). He also devised the Irish railway gauge of 5 ft 2 in. (1.57 m). Consulted by the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, regarding a School of Engineering in 1842, he was made an Honorary LLD of the University and appointed the first Professor of Civil Engineering, but he relinquished the chair to his assistant, Samuel Downing, in 1846. MacNeill was a large and genial man, but not, we are told, "of methodical and business habit": he relied heavily on his subordinates. Blindness obliged him to retire from practice several years before his death. He was an early member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, joining in 1827, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1838.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1838.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
    73:361–71.
    AB

    Biographical history of technology > MacNeill, Sir John Benjamin

  • 19 Metcalf, John

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    b. 1717 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England d. 1810
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    English pioneer road builder.
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    The son of poor working parents, at the age of 6 an attack of smallpox left him blind; however, this did not restrict his future activities, which included swimming and riding. He learned the violin and was much employed as the fiddle-player at country parties. He saved enough money to buy a horse on which he hunted. He took part in bowls, wrestling and boxing, being a robust six foot two inches tall. He rode to Whitby and went thence by boat to London and made other trips to York, Reading and Windsor. In 1740 Colonel Liddell offered him a seat in his coach from London to Harrogate, but he declined and got there more quickly on foot. He set up a one-horse chaise and a four-wheeler for hire in Harrogate, but the local innkeepers set up in competition in the public hire business. He went into the fish business, buying at the coast and selling in Leeds and other towns, but made little profit so he took up his violin again. During the rebellion of 1745 he recruited for Colonel Thornton and served to fight at Hexham, Newcastle and Falkirk, returning home after the Battle of Culloden. He then started travelling between Yorkshire, where be bought cotton and worsted stockings, and Aberdeen, where he sold horses. He set up a twice-weekly service of stage wagons between Knaresborough and York.
    In 1765 an Act was passed for a turnpike road between Harrogate and Boroughbridge and he offered to build the Master Surveyor, a Mr Ostler, three miles (5 km) of road between Minskip and Fearnly, selling his wagons and his interest in the carrying business. The road was built satisfactorily and on time. He then quoted for a bridge at Boroughbridge and for a turnpike road between Knaresborough and Harrogate. He built many other roads, always doing the survey of the route on his own. The roads crossed bogs on a base of ling and furze. Many of his roads outside Yorkshire were in Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire. In all he built some 180 miles (290 km) of road, for which he was paid some £65,000.
    He worked for thirty years on road building, retiring in old age to a cotton business in Stockport where he had six spinning jennies and a carding engine; however, he found there was little profit in this so he gave the machinery to his son-in-law. The last road he built was from Haslington to Accrington, but due to the rise in labour costs brought about by the demand from the canal boom, he only made £40 profit on a £3,000 contract; the road was completed in 1792, when he retired to his farm at Spofforth at the age of 75. There he died, leaving a wife, four children, twenty grandchildren and ninety greatgrandchildren. His wife was the daughter of the landlord of the Granby Inn, Knaresborough.
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    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, Lives of the Engineers, Metcalfe, Telford: John Murray.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Metcalf, John

  • 20 Titt, John Wallis

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    b. 1841 Cheriton, Wiltshire, England
    d. May 1910 Warminster, Wiltshire, England
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    English agricultural engineer and millwright who developed a particular form of wind engine.
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    John Wallis Titt grew up on a farm which had a working post-mill, but at 24 years of age he joined the firm of Wallis, Haslam \& Stevens, agricultural engineers and steam engine builders in Basingstoke. From there he went to the millwrighting firm of Brown \& May of Devizes, where he worked for five years.
    In 1872 he founded his own firm in Warminster, where his principal work as an agricultural engineer was on hay and straw elevators. In 1876 he moved his firm to the Woodcock Ironworks, also in Warminster. There he carried on his work as an agricultural engineer, but he also had an iron foundry. By 1884 the firm was installing water pumps on estates around Warminster, and it was about that time that he built his first wind engines. Between 1884 and 1903, when illness forced his retirement, his wind engines were built primarily with adjustable sails. These wind engines, under the trade marks "Woodcock" and "Simplex", consisted of a lattice tower with the sails mounted on a a ring at the top. The sails were turned to face the wind by means of a fantail geared to the ring or by a wooden vane. The important feature lay in the sails, which were made of canvas on a wood-and-iron frame mounted in a ring. The ends of the sail frames were hinged to the sail circumferences. In the middle of the sail a circular strap was attached so that all the frames had the same aspect for a given setting of the bar. The importance lies in the adjustable sails, which gave the wind engine the ability to work in variable winds.
    Whilst this was not an original patent of John Wallis Titt, he is known to be the only maker of wind engines in Britain who built his business on this highly efficient form of sail. In design terms it derives from the annular sails of the conventional windmills at Haverhill in Suffolk and Roxwell in Essex. After his retirement, his sons reverted to the production of the fixed-bladed galvanized-iron wind engine.
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    Further Reading
    J.K.Major, 1977, The Windmills of John Wallis Titt, The International Molinological Society.
    E.Lancaster Burne, 1906, "Wind power", Cassier' Magazine 30:325–6.
    KM

    Biographical history of technology > Titt, John Wallis

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