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  • 101 театральный

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > театральный

  • 102 professional

    [-ʃə-]
    1. adjective
    1) (negative unprofessional)
    2) of a profession:

    professional skill.

    مِهَني
    3) of a very high standard:

    a very professional performance.

    حِرَفي، عالي المُسْتَوى
    4) earning money by performing, or giving instruction, in a sport or other activity that is a pastime for other people; not amateur:

    a professional musician/golfer.

    إحْتِرافي، مُحْتَرِف
    2. noun
    (abbreviation pro [prou]) a person who is professional:

    a golf professional/pro.

    شَخْص مُحْتَرِف

    Arabic-English dictionary > professional

  • 103 standard

    [ˈstændəd]
    1. noun
    1) something used as a basis of measurement:

    The kilogram is the international standard of weight.

    مِعْيار
    2) a basis for judging quality, or a level of excellence aimed at, required or achieved:

    You can't judge an amateur artist's work by the same standards as you would judge that of a trained artist

    His performance did not reach the required standard.

    مِقْياس، مِعْيار، مُسْتَوى
    3) a flag or carved figure etc fixed to a pole and carried eg at the front of an army going into battle.
    رايَه
    2. adjective
    نَموذجي، مُوَحَّد، عادي

    Arabic-English dictionary > standard

  • 104 professional

    [-ʃə-]
    1) (of a profession: professional skill.) professionnel
    2) (of a very high standard: a very professional performance.) excellent
    3) (earning money by performing, or giving instruction, in a sport or other activity that is a pastime for other people; not amateur: a professional musician/golfer.) professionnel

    English-French dictionary > professional

  • 105 standard

    ['stændəd] 1. noun
    1) (something used as a basis of measurement: The kilogram is the international standard of weight.) unité
    2) (a basis for judging quality, or a level of excellence aimed at, required or achieved: You can't judge an amateur artist's work by the same standards as you would judge that of a trained artist; high standards of behaviour; His performance did not reach the required standard.) critère
    3) (a flag or carved figure etc fixed to a pole and carried eg at the front of an army going into battle.) pavillon; étendard
    2. adjective
    ((accepted as) normal or usual; The Post Office likes the public to use a standard size of envelope.) normal
    - standardise - standardization - standardisation - standard-bearer - be up to / below standard - standard of living

    English-French dictionary > standard

  • 106 professional

    [-ʃə-]
    1) (of a profession: professional skill.) profissional
    2) (of a very high standard: a very professional performance.) profissional
    3) (earning money by performing, or giving instruction, in a sport or other activity that is a pastime for other people; not amateur: a professional musician/golfer.) profissional

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > professional

  • 107 standard

    ['stændəd] 1. noun
    1) (something used as a basis of measurement: The kilogram is the international standard of weight.) padrão
    2) (a basis for judging quality, or a level of excellence aimed at, required or achieved: You can't judge an amateur artist's work by the same standards as you would judge that of a trained artist; high standards of behaviour; His performance did not reach the required standard.) padrão
    3) (a flag or carved figure etc fixed to a pole and carried eg at the front of an army going into battle.) estandarte, pavilhão
    2. adjective
    ((accepted as) normal or usual; The Post Office likes the public to use a standard size of envelope.) padrão
    - standardise - standardization - standardisation - standard-bearer - be up to / below standard - standard of living

    English-Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary > standard

  • 108 ballet

    A n
    1 ( art) ballet m ; classical ballet le ballet classique ;
    2 ( amateur) danse f (classique) ;
    3 ( performance) ballet m ; to go to the ballet aller voir une représentation de ballet ;
    4 ( also ballet company) corps m de ballet ; the Kirov Ballet le (ballet du) Kirov.
    B modif [company, mistress] de ballet ; [class, school, teacher] de danse ; ballet dress tutu m ; ballet shoe chausson m (de danse).

    Big English-French dictionary > ballet

  • 109 theatrical

    theatrical [θɪ'ætrɪkəl]
    (a) Theatre (performance, season) théâtral
    (b) figurative (exaggerated → gesture, behaviour) théâtral, affecté;
    there's no need to resort to such theatrical behaviour c'est inutile de faire toute cette comédie
    (a) Theatre théâtre m d'amateur
    (b) figurative cinéma m, comédie f;
    I'm fed up with all her theatricals j'en ai assez de son cinéma
    ►► theatrical agent agent m (de théâtre);
    theatrical producer producteur(trice) m,f de théâtre

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > theatrical

  • 110 aircraft

    1. (атмосферный) летательный аппарат [аппараты], воздушное судно [суда]; самолет(ы); вертолет(ы);
    см. тж. airplane,
    2. авиация/ авиационный; бортовой <об оборудовании ЛА>
    4-D aircraft
    4-D equipped aircraft
    9-g aircraft
    ADF aircraft
    advanced-technology aircraft
    adversary aircraft
    aerobatic aircraft
    aft-tail aircraft
    aggressor aircraft
    agile aircraft
    agricultural aircraft
    air defence aircraft
    air-refuellable aircraft
    air-to-ground aircraft
    airborne early warning and control aircraft
    alert aircraft
    all-digital aircraft
    all-training aircraft
    all-electric aircraft
    all-metal aircraft
    all-new aircraft
    all-out stealth aircraft
    all-weather aircraft
    amateur built aircraft
    amphibious aircraft
    antisubmarine warfare aircraft
    around-the-world aircraft
    artificial-stability aircraft
    asymmetric aircraft
    attack aircraft
    attrition aircraft
    augmented aircraft
    automated aircraft
    backside aircraft
    BAI aircraft
    balanced aircraft
    battle-damaged aircraft
    battle-tolerant aircraft
    battlefield aircraft
    bulbous-nosed aircraft
    buoyant quad-rotor aircraft
    bush aircraft
    business aircraft
    business-class aircraft
    calibrated pace aircraft
    canard aircraft
    canard controlled aircraft
    canard-configured aircraft
    canard-winged aircraft
    cargo aircraft
    cargo-capable aircraft
    carrier aircraft
    carrier-based aircraft
    carrier-qualified aircraft
    CAS aircraft
    centerstick aircraft
    centerstick controlled aircraft
    Christmas tree aircraft
    class IV aircraft
    clear weather reconnaissance aircraft
    close-coupled canard aircraft
    coated aircraft
    combat air patrol aircraft
    combat training aircraft
    combat-damaged aircraft
    combat-loaded aircraft
    combi aircraft
    combustible fuel aircraft
    commuter aircraft
    composite material aircraft
    composite-built aircraft
    composite-wing aircraft
    computer-generated aircraft
    conceptual aircraft
    conceptual design aircraft
    conflicting aircraft
    control reconfigurable aircraft
    control-by-wire aircraft
    conventional tailled aircraft
    conventional take-off and landing aircraft
    conventional variable-sweep aircraft
    conventionally designed aircraft
    corporate aircraft
    counter insurgency aircraft
    cropspray aircraft
    cropspraying aircraft
    cruise matched aircraft
    cruise-designed aircraft
    CTOL aircraft
    current-generation aircraft
    damage tolerant aircraft
    day-only aircraft
    day/night aircraft
    de-iced aircraft
    defence-suppression aircraft
    delta-wing aircraft
    demonstrator aircraft
    development aircraft
    developmental aircraft
    divergence prone aircraft
    double-deck aircraft
    drug interdiction aircraft
    drug-smuggling aircraft
    dual-capable aircraft
    ducted-propeller aircraft
    dynamically stable aircraft
    dynamically unstable aircraft
    Earth resources research aircraft
    Earth resources survey aircraft
    ejector-powered aircraft
    Elint aircraft
    EMP-hardened aircraft
    ex-airline aircraft
    FAC aircraft
    fake aircraft
    fan-in-wing aircraft
    fan-powered aircraft
    firefighting aircraft
    fixed-cycle engine aircraft
    fixed-landing-gear aircraft
    fixed-planform aircraft
    fixed-wing aircraft
    flexible aircraft
    flight inspection aircraft
    flight loads aircraft
    flight refuelling aircraft
    flight test aircraft
    flightworthy aircraft
    fly-by-wire aircraft
    flying-wing aircraft
    forgiving aircraft
    forward air control aircraft
    forward-swept-wing aircraft
    four-dimensional equipped aircraft
    freely flying aircraft
    freighter aircraft
    friendly aircraft
    front-line aircraft
    FSD aircraft
    fuel efficient aircraft
    fuel-hungry aircraft
    full-scale aircraft
    full-scale development aircraft
    full-size aircraft
    fully-capable aircraft
    fully-tanked aircraft
    gap filler aircraft
    gas turbine-powered aircraft
    ground-hugging aircraft
    gull-winged aircraft
    heavy-lift aircraft
    high-Mach aircraft
    high-alpha research aircraft
    high-cycle aircraft
    high-demand aircraft
    high-drag aircraft
    high-dynamic-pressure aircraft
    high-flying aircraft
    high-life aircraft
    high-performance aircraft
    high-speed aircraft
    high-tail aircraft
    high-technology aircraft
    high-thrust aircraft
    high-time aircraft
    high-wing aircraft
    high-winged aircraft
    highest cycle aircraft
    highest flight-cycle aircraft
    highly agile aircraft
    highly augmented aircraft
    highly glazed aircraft
    highly maneuverable aircraft
    highly unstable aircraft
    holding aircraft
    home-based aircraft
    home-built aircraft
    hovering aircraft
    hydrocarbon-fueled aircraft
    hydrogen fueled aircraft
    hypersonic aircraft
    ice-cloud-generating aircraft
    icing-research aircraft
    idealized aircraft
    IFR-equipped aircraft
    in-production aircraft
    interrogating aircraft
    intratheater airlift aircraft
    intratheater lift aircraft
    intruder aircraft
    inventory aircraft
    jamming aircraft
    jet aircraft
    jet-flap aircraft
    jet-flapped aircraft
    jet-powered aircraft
    jet-propelled aircraft
    joined-wing aircraft
    JTIDS aircraft
    jump aircraft
    K/s like aircraft
    kit-based aircraft
    kit-built aircraft
    land aircraft
    land-based aircraft
    large aircraft
    large-production-run aircraft
    launch aircraft
    launching aircraft
    lead aircraft
    leading aircraft
    leased aircraft
    Level 1 aircraft
    lift plus lift-cruise aircraft
    light aircraft
    light-powered aircraft
    lighter-than-air aircraft
    long-haul aircraft
    long-winged aircraft
    longitudinally unstable aircraft
    look-down, shoot-down capable aircraft
    low-boom aircraft
    low-cost aircraft
    low-observability aircraft
    low-observable aircraft
    low-powered aircraft
    low-rate production aircraft
    low-RCS aircraft
    low-speed aircraft
    low-time aircraft
    low-to-medium speed aircraft
    low-wing aircraft
    low-winged aircraft
    lowest weight aircraft
    Mach 2 aircraft
    man-powered aircraft
    manned aircraft
    marginally stable aircraft
    mechanically-controlled aircraft
    mechanically-signalled aircraft
    medevac-equipped aircraft
    microlight aircraft
    microwave-powered aircraft
    mid-wing aircraft
    mid-winged aircraft
    minimum weight aircraft
    mission aircraft
    mission-ready aircraft
    multibody aircraft
    multimission aircraft
    multipropeller aircraft
    multipurpose aircraft
    narrow-bodied aircraft
    naturally unstable aircraft
    neutrally stable aircraft
    new-built aircraft
    new-technology aircraft
    night fighting aircraft
    night-capable aircraft
    night-equipped aircraft
    nonagile aircraft
    nonalert aircraft
    nonautomated aircraft
    1950s-vintage aircraft
    nonflying test aircraft
    nonpressurized aircraft
    nonstealth aircraft
    nontransponder-equipped aircraft
    nonpropulsive-lift aircraft
    northeastwardly launching aircraft
    nuclear-hardened aircraft
    nuclear-strike aircraft
    oblique-wing aircraft
    ocean patrol aircraft
    off-the-shelf aircraft
    offensive aircraft
    older-generation aircraft
    out-of-production aircraft
    outbound aircraft
    pace aircraft
    parasol-winged aircraft
    parked aircraft
    partial mission-capable aircraft
    patrol aircraft
    piston aircraft
    piston-engine aircraft
    piston-powered aircraft
    piston-prop aircraft
    pivoting oblique wing aircraft
    point-design aircraft
    powered-lift aircraft
    precision strike aircraft
    probe-equipped aircraft
    production aircraft
    production-line aircraft
    proof-of-concept aircraft
    prop-rotor aircraft
    propeller aircraft
    propeller-powered aircraft
    propulsive-lift aircraft
    prototype aircraft
    public-transport aircraft
    purpose-built aircraft
    pusher aircraft
    pusher-propelled aircraft
    quad-rotor aircraft
    radar test aircraft
    RAM-treated aircraft
    ready aircraft
    rear-engined aircraft
    receiving aircraft
    recent-technology aircraft
    reconnaissance aircraft
    refueling aircraft
    remanufactured aircraft
    research aircraft
    retrofit aircraft
    Rogallo-winged aircraft
    rollout aircraft
    rotary-wing aircraft
    rotary-winged aircraft
    rotodome-equipped aircraft
    safely spinnable aircraft
    scaled-down aircraft
    scaled-up aircraft
    scissor-wing aircraft
    sea-based aircraft
    second-hand aircraft
    self-repairing aircraft
    sensor-carrying aircraft
    short range aircraft
    short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft
    short-coupled flying wing aircraft
    short-haul aircraft
    side-inlet aircraft
    sideslipping aircraft
    silent aircraft
    single engine aircraft
    single-pilot aircraft
    single-service aircraft
    sized aircraft
    sized optimized aircraft
    slender-delta aircraft
    SLEPed aircraft
    small-tailed aircraft
    smuggler aircraft
    solar-powered aircraft
    special operations aircraft
    spin-proof aircraft
    spinning aircraft
    statically stable aircraft
    statically unstable aircraft
    stealth aircraft
    stealthy aircraft
    STOL aircraft
    stopped-rotor aircraft
    stored aircraft
    STOVL aircraft
    straight-tube aircraft
    straight-wing aircraft
    straight-winged aircraft
    stretched aircraft
    strike aircraft
    strike-control aircraft
    sub-scale aircraft
    submarine communications relay aircraft
    sunken aircraft
    superaugmented aircraft
    supersonic cruise aircraft
    supportable aircraft
    surveillance aircraft
    swing-wing aircraft
    T-tail aircraft
    tactical aircraft
    tactical-type aircraft
    tail-aft aircraft
    tail-first aircraft
    tailless aircraft
    tailwheel aircraft
    tandem-seat aircraft
    tandem-wing aircraft
    target-towing aircraft
    TCAS-equipped aircraft
    test aircraft
    threat aircraft
    three-pilot aircraft
    three-surface aircraft
    thrust-vector-control aircraft
    tilt-fold-rotor aircraft
    tilt-proprotor aircraft
    tilt-rotor aircraft
    tilt-wing aircraft
    top-of-the-range aircraft
    trailing aircraft
    trainer cargo aircraft
    trajectory stable aircraft
    transoceanic-capable aircraft
    transonic aircraft
    transonic maneuvering aircraft
    transport aircraft
    transport-size aircraft
    trimmed aircraft
    trisurface aircraft
    tug aircraft
    turbine-powered aircraft
    turboprop aircraft
    turbopropeller aircraft
    TVC aircraft
    twin-aisle aircraft
    twin-engined aircraft
    twin-fuselage aircraft
    twin-jet aircraft
    twin-tailed aircraft
    twin-turboprop aircraft
    two-aircrew aircraft
    two-crew aircraft
    two-pilot aircraft
    two-place aircraft
    ultrahigh-bypass demonstrator aircraft
    ultralight aircraft
    undesignated aircraft
    unpressurized aircraft
    unslatted aircraft
    utility aircraft
    V/STOL aircraft
    variable-stability aircraft
    VATOL aircraft
    vector thrust controlled aircraft
    vectored aircraft
    vectored thrust aircraft
    versatile aircraft
    vertical attitude takeoff and landing aircraft
    VFR aircraft
    violently maneuvering aircraft
    VTOL aircraft
    water tanker aircraft
    weapons-delivery test aircraft
    weight-shift aircraft
    well-behaved aircraft
    wide-body aircraft
    wing-in-ground effect aircraft
    X aircraft
    X-series aircraft
    X-wing aircraft
    yaw-vane-equipped aircraft

    Авиасловарь > aircraft

  • 111 Acres, Birt

    [br]
    b. 23 July 1854 Virginia, USA
    d. 1918
    [br]
    American photographer, inventor and pioneer cinematographer.
    [br]
    Born of English parents and educated in Paris, Acres travelled to England in the 1880s. He worked for the photographic manufacturing firm Elliott \& Co. in Barnet, near London, and became the Manager. He became well known through his frequent lectures, demonstrations and articles in the photographic press. The appearance of the Edison kinetoscope in 1893 seems to have aroused his interest in the recording and reproduction of movement.
    At the beginning of 1895 he took his idea for a camera to Robert Paul, an instrument maker, and they collaborated on the building of a working camera, which Acres used to record the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race on 30 March 1895. He filmed the Derby at Epsom on 29 May and the opening of the Kiel Canal in June, as well as ten other subjects for the kinetoscope, which were sold by Paul. Acres's association with Paul ended in July 1895. Acres had patented the camera design, the Kinetic Lantern, on 27 May 1895 and then went on to design a projector with which he gave the first successful presentation of projected motion pictures to take place in Britain, at the Royal Photographic Society's meeting on 14 January 1896. At the end of the month Acres formed his own business, the Northern Photographic Company, to supply film stock, process and print exposed film, and to make finished film productions.
    His first shows to the public, using the renamed Kineopticon projector, started in Piccadilly Circus on 21 March 1896. He later toured the country with his show. He was honoured with a Royal Command Performance at Marlborough House on 21 July 1896 before members of the royal family. Although he made a number of films for his own use, they and his equipment were used only for his own demonstrations. His last contribution to cinematography was the design and patenting in 1898 of the first low-cost system for amateur use, the Birtac, which was first shown on 25 January 1899 and marketed in May of that year. It used half-width film, 17.5 mm wide, and the apparatus served as camera, printer and projector.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society 1895.
    Bibliography
    27 May 1895 (the Kinetic Lantern).
    9 June 1898 (the Birtac).
    Further Reading
    J.Barnes, 1976, The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, London. B.Coe, 1980, The History of Movie Photography, London.
    BC

    Biographical history of technology > Acres, Birt

  • 112 Grimthorpe (of Grimthorpe), Edmund Beckett, Baron

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 12 May 1816 Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
    d. 29 April 1905 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
    [br]
    English lawyer and amateur horologist who was the first successfully to apply the gravity escapement to public clocks.
    [br]
    Born Edmund Beckett Denison, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, graduating in 1838. He was called to the Bar in 1841 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1854. He built up a large and lucrative practice which gave him the independence to pursue his many interests outside law. His interest in horology may have been stimulated by a friend and fellow lawyer, J.M. Bloxham, who interestingly had invented a gravity escapement with an affinity to the escapement eventually used by Denison. Denison studied horology with his usual thoroughness and by 1850 he had published his Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watchmaking. It was natural, therefore, that he should have been invited to be a referee when a disagreement arose over the design of the clock for the new Houses of Parliament. Typically, he interpreted his brief very liberally and designed the clock himself. The most distinctive feature of the clock, in its final form, was the incorporation of a gravity escapement. A gravity escapement was particularly desirable in a public clock as it enabled the pendulum to receive a constant impulse (and thus swing with a constant amplitude), despite the variable forces that might be exerted by the wind on the exposed hands. The excellent performance of the prestigious clock at Westminster made Denison's form of gravity escapement de rigueur for large mechanical public clocks produced in Britain and in many other countries. In 1874 he inherited his father's baronetcy, dropping the Denison name, but later adopted the name Grimthorpe when he was created a Baron in 1886.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Peerage 1886. President, British Horological Institute 1868–1905.
    Bibliography
    His highly idiosyncratic A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watchmaking first published in 1850, went through eight editions, with slight changes of title, and became the most influential work in English on the subject of public clocks.
    Further Reading
    Vaudrey Mercer, 1977, The Life and Letters of Edward John Dent, London, pp. 650–1 (provides biographical information relating to horology; also contains a reliable account of Denison's involvement with the clock at Westminster).
    A.L.Rawlings, 1948, The Science of Clocks and Watcher, repub. 1974, pp. 98–102 (provides a technical assessment of Denison's escapement).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Grimthorpe (of Grimthorpe), Edmund Beckett, Baron

  • 113 Shortt, William Hamilton

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 28 September 1881
    d. 4 February 1971
    [br]
    British railway engineer and amateur horologist who designed the first successful free-pendulum clock.
    [br]
    Shortt entered the Engineering Department of the London and South Western Railway as an engineering cadet in 1902, remaining with the company and its successors until he retired in 1946. He became interested in precision horology in 1908, when he designed an instrument for recording the speed of trains; this led to a long and fruitful collaboration with Frank HopeJones, the proprietor of the Synchronome Company. This association culminated in the installation of a free-pendulum clock, with an accuracy of the order of one second per year, at Edinburgh Observatory in 1921. The clock's performance was far better than that of existing clocks, such as the Riefler, and a slightly modified version was produced commercially by the Synchronome Company. These clocks provided the time standard at Greenwich and many other observatories and scientific institutions across the world until they were supplanted by the quartz clock.
    The period of a pendulum is constant if it swings freely with a constant amplitude in a vacuum. However, this ideal state cannot be achieved in a clock because the pendulum must be impulsed to maintain its amplitude and the swings have to be counted to indicate time. The free-pendulum clock is an attempt to approach this ideal as closely as possible. In 1898 R.J. Rudd used a slave clock, synchronized with a free pendulum, to time the impulses delivered to the free pendulum. This clock was not successful, but it provided the inspiration for Shortt's clock, which operates on the same principle. The Shortt clock used a standard Synchronome electric clock as the slave, and its pendulum was kept in step with the free pendulum by means of the "hit and miss" synchronizer that Shortt had patented in 1921. This allowed the pendulum to swing freely (in a vacuum), apart from the fraction of a second in which it received an impulse each half-minute.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Master of the Clockmakers' Company 1950. British Horological Society Gold Medal 1931. Clockmakers' Company Tompion Medal 1954. Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Silver Medal.
    Bibliography
    1929, "Some experimental mechanisms, mechanical and otherwise, for the maintenance of vibration of a pendulum", Horological Journal 71:224–5.
    Further Reading
    F.Hope-Jones, 1949, Electrical Timekeeping, 2nd edn, London (a detailed but not entirely impartial account of the development of the free-pendulum clock).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Shortt, William Hamilton

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