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attack leader

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1 Strike Leader Attack Training

Abbreviation: SLATS (US)

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Strike Leader Attack Training
2 руководитель парламентской группы

floor leader

быть в лидирующей группе — to stay with the leaders

руководитель группы большинства — majority leader

командир ударной группы — attack leader

руководитель группы — group leader

Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > руководитель парламентской группы
3 командир ударной группы

Military: attack leader

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > командир ударной группы
4 stürzen

I v/i (ist gestürzt)

1. fall; in die Tiefe: plunge, plummet; ins Wasser: dive, plunge; schwer stürzen have a bad ( oder heavy) fall; ( bewusstlos) zu Boden stürzen fall to the ground (unconscious), collapse; vom Fahrrad stürzen fall off one’s bicycle; aus dem Fenster stürzen fall out of the window; aus den Augen stürzen Tränen: stream from s.o.’s eyes; ins Meer stürzen Flugzeug: plunge ( oder dive) into the sea

2. WIRTS., Kurse, Preise: fall ( oder drop) sharply, tumble; Temperatur: drop sharply, plunge

3. POL., Regierung etc.: fall; Minister: be removed from office; der Minister stürzte über diesen Skandal auch this scandal brought about ( oder led to) the minister’s downfall

4. Gelände: drop; in die Tiefe stürzen Abhang etc.: drop sheer, plunge down; die Felsen stürzen dort 100 Meter in die Tiefe the cliffs have a sheer drop of 100 met|res (Am. -ers) at that point

5. (rennen) rush, dash; ins Zimmer stürzen auch burst into the room; in jemandes Arme stürzen fall ( oder fling o.s.) into s.o.’s arms

II v/t (hat)

1. (stoßen) throw; jemanden / etw. aus dem Fenster / von der Brücke stürzen throw s.o. / s.th. out of the window / from ( oder off) the bridge; jemanden ins Elend etc. stürzen plunge s.o. into misery etc.; Verderben

2. (umkippen) turn upside down; (Pudding etc.) turn out of the mo(u)ld ( oder tin); Nicht stürzen! Kistenaufschrift: this side up

3. (Regierung etc.) bring down, bring about the downfall of; durch Gewalt: overthrow

III v/refl (hat)

1. sich ins Wasser stürzen plunge into the water; sich vor einen Zug stürzen throw o.s. in front of a train; sich aus dem Fenster stürzen plunge ( oder fling o.s.) out of the window; sich in Unkosten stürzen go to great expense, spare no expense; er hat sich nicht gerade in geistige Unkosten gestürzt he didn’t exactly strain his grey matter; sich in die Arbeit stürzen throw o.s. into ( oder immerse o.s. in) one’s work; sich ins Nachtleben stürzen umg. abandon o.s. to the pleasures of nightlife; Unglück, Verderben etc.

2. sich stürzen auf (+ Akk) (jemanden) rush to(wards); aggressiv: rush at; (herfallen über) auch Raubkatze: pounce on; Raubvogel: swoop down on; umg., fig. (ein Buffet etc.) fall upon, attack; sich aufeinander stürzen fall upon each other; sich auf die Süßigkeiten stürzen umg. pounce on ( oder attack) the sweets; sich auf die Geschenke stürzen umg. fall upon the presents

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(der Macht entheben) to overthrow; to subvert; to topple; to bring down;

(fallen) to plunge; to fall; to slump; to drop;

(herunterwerfen) to topple; to throw;

(rennen) to rush;

sich stürzen

to plunge; to pounce

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stụ̈r|zen ['ʃtʏrtsn]
1. vi aux sein

1) (= fallen) to fall (von from, off); (geh = steil abfallen) to plunge; (= hervorstürzen) to stream

ins Wasser stürzen — to plunge into the water

vom Pferd stürzen — to fall off a/one's horse

zu Boden stürzen — to crash to the ground

zu Tode or in den Tod stürzen — to fall to one's death

er ist schwer or heftig/unglücklich gestürzt — he had a heavy/bad fall

die Tränen stürzten ihm aus den Augen (geh) — tears streamed from his eyes

2) (fig = abgesetzt werden) to fall

3) (= rennen) to rush, to dash

sie kam ins Zimmer gestürzt — she burst or came bursting into the room

jdm in die Arme stürzen — to fling oneself into sb's arms

2. vt

1) (= werfen) to fling, to hurl

jdn aus dem Fenster stürzen — to fling or hurl sb out of the window

jdn ins Unglück or Verderben stürzen — to bring disaster to sb

jdn/etw in eine Krise stürzen — to plunge sb/sth into a crisis

2) (= kippen) to turn upside down; Pudding to turn out

"nicht stürzen!" — "this side up"

stürzen — to put sth over sth

3) (= absetzen) Regierung, Minister to bring down; (durch Coup) to overthrow; König to depose

3. vr

sich zu Tode stürzen — to fall to one's death; (absichtlich) to jump to one's death

sich auf jdn/etw stürzen — to pounce on sb/sth; auf Essen to fall on sth; auf Zeitung etc to grab sth; auf den Feind to attack sb/sth

sich ins Wasser stürzen — to fling or hurl oneself into the water

sich in die Arbeit stürzen — to throw oneself into one's work

sich in Schulden stürzen — to plunge into debt

sich ins Unglück/Verderben stürzen — to plunge headlong into disaster/ruin

sich ins Vergnügen stürzen — to fling oneself into a round of pleasure

sich in Unkosten stürzen — to go to great expense

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1) (to cause to fall: The storm brought all the trees down.) bring down

2) (to force one's way noisily (through, into): He crashed through the undergrowth.) crash

3) (to move with speed and violence: A man dashed into a shop.) dash

4) (to rush: He flung out of the house.) fling

5) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) pitch

6) ((of a heavy weight) to fall or drop swiftly: The rock plummeted to the bottom of the cliff.) plummet

7) (to (make someone or something) hurry or go quickly: He rushed into the room; She rushed him to the doctor.) rush

8) (to (cause to) fall, especially in a helpless or confused way: She tumbled down the stairs; The box suddenly tumbled off the top of the wardrobe.) tumble

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stür·zen

[ˈʃtʏrtsn̩]

I. vi Hilfsverb: sein

1. (plötzlich fallen) to fall

ich wäre fast gestürzt I nearly fell [down [or over]]

schwer \stürzen to fall heavily

▪ [aus [o von] etw] \stürzen to fall [out of [or from] [or off] sth]

vom Dach/Tisch/Fahrrad/Pferd \stürzen to fall off the roof/table/bicycle/horse

zu Boden \stürzen to fall to the ground; (heftiger) to crash to the ground

2. POL

▪ [über etw akk] \stürzen Regierung to fall [or collapse] [over sth]; Mensch to be forced to resign [over sth]

3. (rennen)

▪ [irgendwohin [o irgendwoher]] \stürzen to rush [or dash] [somewhere]

wohin ist der denn so eilig gestürzt? where did he rush [or dash] off to in such a hurry?

ins Zimmer \stürzen to burst into the room

II. vt Hilfsverb: haben

1. (werfen)

▪ jdn/sich [aus etw dat/vor etw akk] \stürzen to throw [or hurl] sb/oneself [out of [or from] [or off]/in front of sth]

2. POL (absetzen)

▪ jdn/etw \stürzen to bring sb/sth down; Minister to make sb resign; Diktator to overthrow sb; Regierung to topple sb/sth; (mit Gewalt) to overthrow sb/sth

3. KOCHK (aus der Form kippen)

▪ etw \stürzen to turn sth upside down

den Kuchen \stürzen to turn out the cake

4. (kippen)

▪ etw \stürzen to turn sth upside down [or over]

„[bitte] nicht \stürzen!“ “this way [or side] up!”

III. vr

1. (sich werfen)

▪ sich akk [auf jdn] \stürzen to pounce [on sb]

▪ sich akk [auf etw akk] \stürzen to fall on sth

die Gäste stürzten sich aufs kalte Büfett the guests fell on the cold buffet

2. (sich mit etw belasten)

▪ sich akk [in etw akk] \stürzen to plunge into sth

sich akk in Schulden \stürzen to plunge into debt

sich akk in Unkosten \stürzen to go to great expense; s.a. Unglück, Verderben, Vergnügen

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1.
intransitives Verb; mit sein

1) fall (aus, von from); (in die Tiefe) plunge; plummet

2) (fig.) <temperature, exchange rate, etc.> drop [sharply]; < prices> tumble; < government> fall, collapse

3) (laufen) rush; dash

er stürzte ins Zimmer — he burst into the room

4) (fließen) stream; pour
2.
reflexives Verb

sich auf jemanden/etwas stürzen — (auch fig.) pounce on somebody/something

sich aus dem Fenster stürzen — hurl oneself or leap out of the window

sich in etwas (Akk.) stürzen — throw oneself or plunge into something

sich ins Vergnügen stürzen — abandon oneself to pleasure
3.
transitives Verb

1) throw; (mit Wucht) hurl

jemanden ins Unglück stürzen — plunge somebody into misfortune

2) (umdrehen) upturn, turn upside-down <mould, pot, box, glass, cup>; turn out <pudding, cake, etc.>

3) (des Amtes entheben) oust < person> [from office]; (gewaltsam) overthrow, topple <leader, government>

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stürzen

A. v/i (ist gestürzt)

1. fall; in die Tiefe: plunge, plummet; ins Wasser: dive, plunge;

schwer stürzen have a bad ( oder heavy) fall;

(bewusstlos) zu Boden stürzen fall to the ground (unconscious), collapse;

vom Fahrrad stürzen fall off one’s bicycle;

aus dem Fenster stürzen fall out of the window;

aus den Augen stürzen Tränen: stream from sb’s eyes;

ins Meer stürzen Flugzeug: plunge ( oder dive) into the sea

2. WIRTSCH, Kurse, Preise: fall ( oder drop) sharply, tumble; Temperatur: drop sharply, plunge

3. POL, Regierung etc: fall; Minister: be removed from office;

der Minister stürzte über diesen Skandal auch this scandal brought about ( oder led to) the minister’s downfall

4. Gelände: drop;

in die Tiefe stürzen Abhang etc: drop sheer, plunge down;

die Felsen stürzen dort 100 Meter in die Tiefe the cliffs have a sheer drop of 100 metres (US -ers) at that point

5. (rennen) rush, dash;

ins Zimmer stürzen auch burst into the room;

in jemandes Arme stürzen fall ( oder fling o.s.) into sb’s arms

B. v/t (hat)

1. (stoßen) throw;

jemanden/etwas aus dem Fenster/von der Brücke stürzen throw sb/sth out of the window/from ( oder off) the bridge;

jemanden ins Elend etc

stürzen plunge sb into misery etc; → Verderben

2. (umkippen) turn upside down; (Pudding etc) turn out of the mo(u)ld ( oder tin);

Nicht stürzen! Kistenaufschrift: this side up

3. (Regierung etc) bring down, bring about the downfall of; durch Gewalt: overthrow

C. v/r (hat)

1.

sich ins Wasser stürzen plunge into the water;

sich vor einen Zug stürzen throw o.s. in front of a train;

sich aus dem Fenster stürzen plunge ( oder fling o.s.) out of the window;

sich in Unkosten stürzen go to great expense, spare no expense;

er hat sich nicht gerade in geistige Unkosten gestürzt he didn’t exactly strain his grey matter;

sich in die Arbeit stürzen throw o.s. into ( oder immerse o.s. in) one’s work;

sich ins Nachtleben stürzen umg abandon o.s. to the pleasures of nightlife; → Unglück, Verderben etc

2.

sich stürzen auf (+akk) (jemanden) rush to(wards); aggressiv: rush at; (herfallen über) auch Raubkatze: pounce on; Raubvogel: swoop down on; umg, fig (ein Buffet etc) fall upon, attack;

sich aufeinander stürzen fall upon each other;

sich auf die Süßigkeiten stürzen umg pounce on ( oder attack) the sweets;

sich auf die Geschenke stürzen umg fall upon the presents

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1.
intransitives Verb; mit sein

1) fall (aus, von from); (in die Tiefe) plunge; plummet

2) (fig.) <temperature, exchange rate, etc.> drop [sharply]; < prices> tumble; < government> fall, collapse

3) (laufen) rush; dash

er stürzte ins Zimmer — he burst into the room

4) (fließen) stream; pour
2.
reflexives Verb

sich auf jemanden/etwas stürzen — (auch fig.) pounce on somebody/something

sich aus dem Fenster stürzen — hurl oneself or leap out of the window

sich in etwas (Akk.) stürzen — throw oneself or plunge into something

sich ins Vergnügen stürzen — abandon oneself to pleasure
3.
transitives Verb

1) throw; (mit Wucht) hurl

jemanden ins Unglück stürzen — plunge somebody into misfortune

2) (umdrehen) upturn, turn upside-down <mould, pot, box, glass, cup>; turn out <pudding, cake, etc.>

3) (des Amtes entheben) oust < person> [from office]; (gewaltsam) overthrow, topple <leader, government>

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v.

to fall v.

(§ p.,p.p.: fell, fallen)

to fall off v.

to overthrow v.

(§ p.,p.p.: overthrew, overthrown)

to overturn v.

to precipitate v.

to rush v.

to topple v.

Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > stürzen
5 военен

1. прил. (който се отнася до война) war (time), of war; warlike, military, martial, belligerent; munition(s)

военен дух a martial spirit

военен завод a munition(s) factory/works

военен кораб warship, man-of-war

военен музей a war museum

военен съд a court martial

военна намеса an armed intervention

военна флота navy

военна хитрост stratagem

военно време time of war, wartime

военно гробище a war cemetery

военно изкуство art of war; generalship

военно оръжие a weapon of war

военно положение martial law

военни действия military operations, hostilities

започвам/спирам военни действия open/suspend hostilities

военни подвизи wartime exploits

военни почести military honours

военни приготовления war (like) preparations

разг. build-up

военни цели war (like) purposes

2. (които се отнася до-армия, до военнослужещи) military, army, service, forces, air-force, naval

военен бунт mutiny, an army uprising

военен влак a military/troop train

военен диктатор warlord

военен водач an army leader

военен камион a military lorry

военен лагер a military camp

военен магазин an army shop

военен път a military road

военен самолет a military/an airforce plane

военен склад an army service store/depot, an army storehouse

военен стол a forces canteen

военен съвет (пред-сражение) a council of war; an army council

военна база a military base

(военноморска) a naval base

военна музика a military band

военна окупация a military occupation

военна отпуска army leave/furlough

военна повинност/служба national service

военна помощ military assistance/aid

военна пушка an army rifle

военна сила military power

военна тайна a military secret

военна униформа a military uniform

военно дело military science, warfare

военно нападение a military attack

военно обучение military drill/training

военно пристанище a naval port

военни съоръжения military installations

3. същ. military man, ам. soldier, serviceman

той е военен he is in the army

военните the military

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воѐнен,

прил., -на, -но, -ни 1. ( свързан с война) war(time), of war; warlike, military, martial, belligerent; munition(s); \воененен дух martial spirit; \воененен завод munition(s) factory/works; \воененен кораб warship, man-of-war; \воененен музей war museum; \воененен съд court martial; \воененна заплаха threat of war; \воененна намеса armed intervention; \воененна флота navy; \воененна хитрост stratagem; \воененно време time of war, wartime; \воененно гробище war cemetery; \воененно изкуство art of war; generalship; \воененно оръжие weapon of war; \воененно положение martial law; \воененни действия military operations, hostilities; \воененни подвизи wartime exploits; \воененни почести military honours; \воененни приготовления war(like) preparations; разг. build-up; въвеждам \воененно положение impose/declare martial law; започвам/спирам \воененни действия open/suspend hostilities; местни \воененни действия contained war; отменям \воененно положение lift martial law;

2. ( армейски, свързан с военнослужещи) military, army, service, forces, air-force, naval; \воененен бунт mutiny, an army uprising; \воененен влак military/troop train; \воененен диктатор warlord; \воененен камион military lorry; \воененен магазин army shop; \воененен път military road; \воененен самолет military/airforce plane; \воененен склад army service store/depot, army storehouse; \воененен стол forces canteen; \воененен съвет ( преди сражение) council of war; army council; \воененен устав military regulatuions \воененна база military base; ( военноморска) naval base; \воененна музика field music, military band; \воененна отпуска army leave/furlough; \воененна повинност/служба national service; \воененна помощ military assistance/aid; \воененна пушка army rifle; \воененна тайна military secret; \воененна техника и снаряжение munitions of war; \воененно дело military science, warfare; \воененно нападение military attack; \воененно обучение military drill/training; \воененно пристанище naval port; \воененни съоръжения military installations/military equipment;

3. като същ. обикн. членувано \воененният, м.; \воененните, мн. military man, амер. soldier, service-man; \воененните the military; той е \воененен he is in the army.

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army; martial: a военен spirit - военен дух; military: военен operations - военни действия; soldier; war{wO:}

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1. (военноморска) a naval base 2. (които се отнася до -армия, до военнослужещи) military, army, service, forces, air-force, naval 3. 1 прил.(който се отнася до война) war(time), of war;warlike, military, martial, belligerent;munition(s) 4. 3 същ. military man, ам. soldier, serviceman 5. ВОЕНЕН бунт mutiny, an army uprising 6. ВОЕНЕН влак a military/ troop train 7. ВОЕНЕН водач an army leader 8. ВОЕНЕН диктатор warlord 9. ВОЕНЕН дух a martial spirit 10. ВОЕНЕН зaвод a munition(s) factory/works 11. ВОЕНЕН камион a military lorry 12. ВОЕНЕН кораб warship, man-of-war 13. ВОЕНЕН лагер a military camp 14. ВОЕНЕН магазин an army shop 15. ВОЕНЕН музей a war museum 16. ВОЕНЕН път a military road 17. ВОЕНЕН самолет a military/an airforce plane 18. ВОЕНЕН склад an army service store/depot, an army storehouse 19. ВОЕНЕН стол a forces canteen 20. ВОЕНЕН съвет (пред -сражение) a council of war;an army council 21. ВОЕНЕН съд a court martial 22. военна база a military base 23. военна музика a military band 24. военна намеса an armed intervention 25. военна окупация a military occupation 26. военна отпуска army leave/furlough 27. военна повинност/служба national service 28. военна помощ military assistance/aid 29. военна пушка an army rifle 30. военна сила military power 31. военна тайна a military secret 32. военна униформа a military uniform 33. военна флота navy 34. военна хитрост stratagem 35. военни действия military operations, hostilities: започвам/спирам военни действия open/ suspend hostilities 36. военни подвизи wartime exploits 37. военни почести military honours 38. военни приготовления war(like) preparations 39. военни съоръжения military installations 40. военни цели war(like) purposes 41. военните the military 42. военно време time of war, wartime 43. военно гробище a war cеmetery 44. военно дело military science, warfare 45. военно изкуство art of war;generalship 46. военно нападение а military attack 47. военно обучение military drill/training 48. военно оръжие a weapon of war 49. военно положение martial law 50. военно пристанище a naval port 51. разг. build-up 52. той е ВОЕНЕН he is in the army

Български-английски речник > военен
6 punta

f di spillo, coltello point

di dita, lingua tip

geography peak

fig touch, trace

ora f di punta peak hour

ce l'ho sulla punta della lingua it's on the tip of my tongue

fig prendere qualcosa di punta face something head-on

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punta¹ s.f.

1 ( parte appuntita) point; ( estremità) tip, end: punta del naso, tip of the nose; punta del dito, fingertip; la punta di un ago, un coltello, uno spillo, the point of a needle, knife, pin; la punta di una forchetta, the prong of a fork; la punta di un bastone, the end (o point) of a stick; con la punta all'insù, point upwards; ha la punta troppo aguzza, it is too pointed; fare la punta a una matita, to sharpen a pencil // a punta, pointed: cappello a tre punte, three-cornered hat; il mago aveva un cappello a punta, the magician had a pointed hat; scarpe a punta, pointed shoes; stella a cinque punte, five-pointed star; una matita a punta grossa, fine, a pencil with a thick, fine tip // parlare in punta di forchetta, to speak affectedly // prendere qlcu. di punta, to face up to s.o. // mettersi di punta a far qlco., to throw oneself into sthg. // camminare in punta di piedi, to walk on tiptoe (o on the tips of one's toes); danzare sulle punte, ( danza classica) to dance on points // avere qlco. sulla punta delle dita, to have sthg. at one's fingertips; avere qlco. sulla punta della lingua, to have sthg. on the tip of one's tongue

2 (tecn.) ( da trapano) drill; ( per perforazioni) bit; (di macchina utensile, per lavorazione tra le punte) centre: (elettr.) punta da registrazione, recording stylus; punta di diamante, diamond point; punta per compassi, compass-point

3 ( massima intensità) peak, height: la temperatura ha raggiunto una punta di 38 gradi ieri, the temperature reached a maximum (o peak) of 38 degrees yesterday; l'inquinamento ha raggiunto punte preoccupanti, pollution has reached worrying levels // ora di punta, rush hour: il traffico dell'ora di punta, the rush-hour traffic

4 ( cima, sommità) (di albero, campanile ecc.) top; ( di monte) peak

5 (geogr.) ( promontorio) headland, cape, promontory, foreland; ( con nomi propri geografici) point, cape

6 (mil.) front rank, spearhead, vanguard: punta ( d'avanguardia), point // è il nostro uomo di punta, he's our leader

7 ( un po') pinch; touch, trace: una punta di sale, a pinch of salt; una punta di zucchero, cannella, (just) a bit of sugar, of cinnamon; c'era una punta d'invidia nelle sue parole, there was a touch (o a trace) of envy in his words; una punta di ironia non guasterebbe, a touch of irony wouldn't be amiss; questa salsa ha una punta di acido, this sauce is (just) a bit sour

8 (rar.) ( dolore, fitta) sharp pain, twinge: ho una punta nello stomaco, I have a sharp pain (o twinge) in my stomach

9 ( calcio) attacker

10 ( di ciclo economico) peak

11 (poet.) ( ferita) wound.

punta² s.f. ( ferma del cane) set: cane da punta, pointer.

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I ['punta] sf
1) (di matita, ago, coltello) point, (di trapano) drill, (di perforatrice) bit, (di parte del corpo) tip, (di capelli, coda) tip, end, (di campanile, albero) top, (di monte) top, peak

fare la punta a una matita — to sharpen a pencil

le punte degli alberi — the treetops

punta della freccia — arrowhead

in punta di piedi — on tiptoe

camminare in punta di piedi — to walk on tiptoe, tiptoe

ballare sulle punte Danza — to dance on points

a punta — pointed

un paio di scarpe a punta — a pair of pointed shoes

doppie punte — (di capelli) split ends

avere qc sulla punta delle dita fig — to have sth at one's fingertips

avere qc sulla punta della lingua fig — to have sth on the tip of one's tongue

prendere qc di punta fig — to meet sth head on

uomo di punta Sport, Pol — front-rank o leading man

2) (fig : pizzico: di zucchero, farina) touch, (di sale) pinch, (d'invidia), (rancore) touch, hint, (traccia) trace

c'è una punta d'acido nel latte — the milk tastes slightly sour

una punta di invidia — a touch of envy

3) Geog promontory

4) (massima frequenza o intensità) peak

ore di punta — peak hours

il traffico delle ore di punta — rush-hour traffic

punta massima/minima — highest/lowest level

5) Calcio centre forward
II ['punta] sf
cane da punta — pointer

* * *
I ['punta]
sostantivo femminile

1) (di coltello, spillo, stella) point; (di freccia, lancia) head; (di dita, naso, lingua, coda, scarpe, bastone) tip; (di ramo, capelli) end

camminare in punta di piedi — to (walk on) tiptoe, to walk on the tip of one's toes (anche fig.)

con la punta delle dita — with one's fingertips

fare la punta a — to sharpen [ matita]

a punta — pointed

2) (cima) top

3) (piccola quantità, accenno) touch, hint

una punta d'aglio — a touch of garlic

una punta d'ironia — a hint o touch of irony

4) geogr. (capo) point

5) (di scarpetta da ballo) point

danzare sulle -e — to dance on point(s), to point one's toes

6) (di trapano) (drill) bit

7) sport forward, striker

mezza punta — inside forward

8) statist. peak

una punta demografica — a demographic bulge

9) di punta [tecnologia, settore] leading-edge; [ figura] leading

prodotto di punta — market leader

ore di punta — peak time, rush hour

•

punta di diamante — diamond point

essere la punta di diamante di — fig. to be the jewel in the crown of

la punta dell'iceberg — the tip of the iceberg (anche fig.)

••

prendere qcn. di punta — to attack sb. head-on
II ['punta]
sostantivo femminile venat. (dead) set

cane da punta — pointer

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punta¹

/'punta/

sostantivo f.

1 (di coltello, spillo, stella) point; (di freccia, lancia) head; (di dita, naso, lingua, coda, scarpe, bastone) tip; (di ramo, capelli) end; camminare in punta di piedi to (walk on) tiptoe, to walk on the tip of one's toes (anche fig.); con la punta delle dita with one's fingertips; fare la punta a to sharpen [ matita]; a punta pointed

2 (cima) top

3 (piccola quantità, accenno) touch, hint; una punta d'aglio a touch of garlic; una punta d'ironia a hint o touch of irony

4 geogr. (capo) point

5 (di scarpetta da ballo) point; danzare sulle -e to dance on point(s), to point one's toes

6 (di trapano) (drill) bit

7 sport forward, striker; mezza punta inside forward

8 statist. peak; una punta demografica a demographic bulge

9 di punta [tecnologia, settore] leading-edge; [ figura] leading; prodotto di punta market leader; ore di punta peak time, rush hour

IDIOMS

prendere qcn. di punta to attack sb. head-on

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COMPOUNDS

punta di diamante diamond point; essere la punta di diamante di fig. to be the jewel in the crown of; la punta dell'iceberg the tip of the iceberg (anche fig.).

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punta²

/'punta/

sostantivo f.

venat. (dead) set; cane da punta pointer.

Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > punta
7 zamach

m (G zamachu) 1. (szeroki energiczny ruch ręką) backswing
- wziąć zamach to take a swing
2. (próba odebrania życia) attempt
- zamach na prezydenta/przywódcę opozycji an attempt on the life of the president/opposition leader

- niedoszły zamach a failed assassination attempt

- zamach bombowy a bomb attack

- zamach na autonomię uczelni przen. an attempt to limit the autonomy of the university

- zamach stanu a coup d’état

■ za jednym zamachem pot. at a. in one go

* * *

-u; -y; m

( próba zamordowania) assassination attempt; ( zamordowanie) assassination; ( bombowy) attack

zamach stanu — coup (d'état)

dokonać ( perf) zamachu na kogoś/na czyjeś życie — ( nieudanego) to make an attempt on sb's life; ( udanego) to assassinate sb

za jednym zamachem — at one go

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zamach

mi

1. (= atak) attack (na kogoś/coś on sb/sth); (= zamordowanie) assassination ( kogoś of sb); (= próba zamordowania) assassination attempt ( na kogoś on sb); zamach bombowy bomb attack; zamach stanu coup d'état, coup; zamach terrorystyczny terrorist attack; dokonać zamachu na kogoś l. czyjeś życie ( nieudanego) make an attempt on sb l. on sb's life, try to assassinate sb; ( udanego) assassinate sb; knuć zamach plot an assassination attempt; paść ofiarą zamachu fall victim to an assassination; udaremnić zamach foil l. prevent an assassination attempt; uniknąć zamachu escape an assassination attempt.

2. (= zamachnięcie się) sweep, swing; za jednym zamachem pot. at one go.

The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > zamach
8 banda

f.

1 gang (de personas) (cuadrilla).

banda armada terrorist organization

2 sash (faja).

banda magnética magnetic strip

banda sonora soundtrack; (de película) rumble strip (en carretera)

3 band (finance) (tramo).

banda impositiva tax bracket

banda salarial wage bracket, salary band

4 waveband (radio).

banda ancha (telecommunications) broadband

banda de frecuencias frequency (band)

5 cushion.

6 group of men, group of people, party, corps.

7 music band, band.

8 edge of billiard table.

9 lemniscus.

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banda

► nombre femenino

1 (faja) sash

2 (lista) band

3 (tira) strip

4 (lado) side

5 (en billar) cushion

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FRASEOLOGÍA

cerrarse en banda to dig one's heels in

coger por banda a alguien / pillar en banda a alguien to lay one's hands on somebody

banda de frecuencia radio band

banda magnética magnetic strip

banda sonora sound track

banda transportadora conveyor belt

línea de banda touchline

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banda

► nombre femenino

1 (músicos) band

2 (maleantes) gang

3 (pájaros) flock

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

banda armada (delincuentes) armed gang 2 (terroristas) terrorist group

banda de música band

banda de rock rock group

banda municipal town band

banda terrorista terrorist group

* * *

noun f.

1) band

2) gang

3) strip

•

- banda ancha

* * *

SF

1) (=grupo) [de música] band; [de delincuentes, amigos] gang; [de guerrilleros] band; [de partidarios] party, group; [de aves] flock

negociaciones a tres bandas — three-party talks, trilateral negotiations

- cerrarse en banda

banda armada — armed gang

banda juvenil — youth gang, street gang

banda terrorista — terrorist group

2) (=cinta) [en la ropa] band, strip; [de gala] sash

banda gástrica — (Med) gastric band

banda magnética — magnetic strip

banda transportadora — conveyor belt

3) (=franja) [de tierra] strip, ribbon; [de carretera, pista de atletismo] lane

banda ancha — broadband

banda de frecuencia — band, waveband

la banda de Gaza — the Gaza Strip

banda de rodaje, banda de rodamiento — (Aut) tread

banda de sonido — sound track

la Banda Oriental — esp Cono Sur Uruguay

banda salarial — wage scale

banda sonora — [de película] soundtrack; [en carretera] rumble strip

4) (=lado) [de río] side, bank; [de monte] side, edge; [de barco] side

de la banda de acá — on this side

dar un barco a la banda — to careen a ship

irse a la banda — to list

coger a algn por banda —

¡como te coja por banda! — I'll get even with you!

5) (Dep) sideline, touchline

fuera de banda — out of play, in touch

sacar de banda — to take a throw-in, throw the ball in

línea de banda — sideline, touchline

6) (Billar) cushion

* * *

femenino

1) (en la cintura, cruzando el pecho) sash; (franja, lista) band; ( para pelo) (Méx) hairband; ( en brazo) armband

- banda de frecuencias

- banda del ventilador

- banda magnética

- banda salarial

- banda sonora

- banda transportadora

2) ( de barco) side; ( en billar) cushion; (en fútbol, rugby) touchline

saque de banda — ( en fútbol) throw-in; ( en rugby) put-in

lanzó el balón fuera de banda — he kicked the ball into touch o (AmE) out of bounds

cerrarse en banda — to refuse to listen

irse en banda — (CS fam)

el equipo se fue en banda — the team did terribly

3)

a) ( de delincuentes) gang

banda armada — armed gang

banda terrorista — terrorist group

b) (Mús) band

* * *

= bandwidth, strip, band, band, sideline, prong, stripe, group, pod, gang, sash, band.

Ex. Digital transmission is therefore more profligate in its use of bandwidth for the same information.

Ex. Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated.

Ex. For transmission by the telephone network, data must be converted into signals in this band of frequencies, by means of modems.

Ex. The cords themselves could be placed either outside the backs of the folded sheets, where they would show as raised bands across the spine of the book, or in slots sawn into the folds to give the book a flat back.

Ex. The article 'Off the sidelines, onto the playing field' discusses a recent project which commissioned 9 research papers to explore the future of libraries.

Ex. There are 2 prongs to this research, one explores the use of the term 'information' and the other major part of the study investigates a number of aspects of some information management positions.

Ex. This paper describes an oscillating chemical reaction, and discusses numerous parallels to it in research, such as in fibrillation of the heart, body-clock rhythms of animals and plants, the self-assembly of multicellular organisms, and certain stripes in volcanic rock.

Ex. The groups continue, however, to keep alive their heritages through festivals and cultural activities.

Ex. The large pod of about 75 narwhals milled around the bay in the summer feeding grounds.

Ex. In the 1920s and 1930s more than 1 million books were being loaned each year to members as far afield as the most isolated settlers' gangs working on distant branch lines.

Ex. Just one other question: why are some of the sashes worn from left shoulder to right hip or right shoulder to left hip?.

Ex. In recent years a band of disciples has grown up in India, and has contributed to the revision and expansion of the schedules.

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* ancho de banda = bandwidth.

* asalto a dos bandas = two-pronged attack.

* a tres bandas = three pronged.

* banda ancha = wide-band, broadband.

* banda antirrobo magnética = magnetic security tag.

* banda callejera = street gang, gang, gang of youths.

* banda de base = baseband.

* banda de delincuentes = crime ring.

* banda de linchadores = lynch mob.

* banda de música = band, musical band, marching band, brass band.

* banda de rodamiento de neumático = tyre tread.

* banda estrecha = narrow-band.

* banda gástrica = gastric band.

* banda impositiva = income tax bracket, tax bracket.

* banda juvenil = gang of youths.

* banda magnética = magnetic strip, magnetic stripe, magstripe.

* banda musical = musical band.

* banda sonora = sound track film, soundtrack [sound track], rumble strip.

* banda sonora de película = film music.

* banda terrorista = terrorist group.

* cabecilla de la banda = leader of the pack.

* carrete de banda sonora = sound track film reel.

* grabación de banda de música = band recording.

* tarjeta de banda magnética = swipecard.

* * *

femenino

1) (en la cintura, cruzando el pecho) sash; (franja, lista) band; ( para pelo) (Méx) hairband; ( en brazo) armband

- banda de frecuencias

- banda del ventilador

- banda magnética

- banda salarial

- banda sonora

- banda transportadora

2) ( de barco) side; ( en billar) cushion; (en fútbol, rugby) touchline

saque de banda — ( en fútbol) throw-in; ( en rugby) put-in

lanzó el balón fuera de banda — he kicked the ball into touch o (AmE) out of bounds

cerrarse en banda — to refuse to listen

irse en banda — (CS fam)

el equipo se fue en banda — the team did terribly

3)

a) ( de delincuentes) gang

banda armada — armed gang

banda terrorista — terrorist group

b) (Mús) band

* * *

= bandwidth, strip, band, band, sideline, prong, stripe, group, pod, gang, sash, band.

Ex: Digital transmission is therefore more profligate in its use of bandwidth for the same information.

Ex: Later this strip is retyped into ordinary language, for in its nascent form it is intelligible only to the initiated.

Ex: For transmission by the telephone network, data must be converted into signals in this band of frequencies, by means of modems.

Ex: The cords themselves could be placed either outside the backs of the folded sheets, where they would show as raised bands across the spine of the book, or in slots sawn into the folds to give the book a flat back.

Ex: The article 'Off the sidelines, onto the playing field' discusses a recent project which commissioned 9 research papers to explore the future of libraries.

Ex: There are 2 prongs to this research, one explores the use of the term 'information' and the other major part of the study investigates a number of aspects of some information management positions.

Ex: This paper describes an oscillating chemical reaction, and discusses numerous parallels to it in research, such as in fibrillation of the heart, body-clock rhythms of animals and plants, the self-assembly of multicellular organisms, and certain stripes in volcanic rock.

Ex: The groups continue, however, to keep alive their heritages through festivals and cultural activities.

Ex: The large pod of about 75 narwhals milled around the bay in the summer feeding grounds.

Ex: In the 1920s and 1930s more than 1 million books were being loaned each year to members as far afield as the most isolated settlers' gangs working on distant branch lines.

Ex: Just one other question: why are some of the sashes worn from left shoulder to right hip or right shoulder to left hip?.

Ex: In recent years a band of disciples has grown up in India, and has contributed to the revision and expansion of the schedules.

* ancho de banda = bandwidth.

* asalto a dos bandas = two-pronged attack.

* a tres bandas = three pronged.

* banda ancha = wide-band, broadband.

* banda antirrobo magnética = magnetic security tag.

* banda callejera = street gang, gang, gang of youths.

* banda de base = baseband.

* banda de delincuentes = crime ring.

* banda de linchadores = lynch mob.

* banda de música = band, musical band, marching band, brass band.

* banda de rodamiento de neumático = tyre tread.

* banda estrecha = narrow-band.

* banda gástrica = gastric band.

* banda impositiva = income tax bracket, tax bracket.

* banda juvenil = gang of youths.

* banda magnética = magnetic strip, magnetic stripe, magstripe.

* banda musical = musical band.

* banda sonora = sound track film, soundtrack [sound track], rumble strip.

* banda sonora de película = film music.

* banda terrorista = terrorist group.

* cabecilla de la banda = leader of the pack.

* carrete de banda sonora = sound track film reel.

* grabación de banda de música = band recording.

* tarjeta de banda magnética = swipecard.

* * *

banda

feminine

A

1 ( Indum) (en la cintura, cruzando el pecho) sash; (franja, lista) band; (para el pelo) ( Méx) hair band

llevaba una banda negra en el brazo he was wearing a black armband

2 (de tierra) strip

Compuestos:

● banda ancha

broad band

● banda de frecuencias

frequency band

● banda del ventilador

( Méx) fan belt

● banda de rodamiento

tread

● banda elástica

( Ven) rubber band, elastic band ( BrE)

● banda impositiva

tax band

● banda lateral

trim

● banda magnética

magnetic strip

● banda presidencial

ceremonial sash ( worn by the president)

● banda salarial

salary band

● banda sonora

( Cin) sound track; ( Auto) rumble strip

● banda transportadora

( Méx) conveyor belt

B

1 (de un barco) side

2 (en el billar) cushion

3 (en fútbol) touchline

lanzó el balón fuera de banda he kicked the ball into touch o out of play o ( AmE) out of bounds

cerrarse en banda to refuse to listen

coger a algn por banda ( Esp fam); to corner sb

dejar a algn/andar/quedar en banda ( RPl fam): anda en banda he doesn't know what to do with himself, he's at a bit of a loss

se fueron y me dejaron en banda they went off and left me not knowing what to do with myself o and left me at a bit of a loss

irse en banda (CS fam): el equipo se fue en banda the team did terribly

C

1 (de delincuentes) gang

banda armada armed gang

banda terrorista terrorist group

2 ( Mús) band

3 (de aves) flock

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banda sustantivo femenino
1 (en la cintura, cruzando el pecho) sash;
(franja, lista) band;
( para pelo) (Méx) hair-band;
( en brazo) armband;
◊ banda de frecuencias frequency band;

banda sonora (Cin) sound track;
banda ancha broadband;
banda transportadora (Méx) conveyor belt
2 ( de barco) side;
( en billar) cushion;
(en fútbol, rugby) touchline;
◊ saque de banda ( en fútbol) throw-in;

( en rugby) put-in
3
a) ( de delincuentes) gang;

b) (Mús) band

banda 1 sustantivo femenino
1 Mús band
2 (de criminales) gang
banda armada, armed gang
banda terrorista, terrorist group
3 (de pájaros) flock
banda 2 sustantivo femenino
1 (cinta) sash
2 (franja, lista) strip
3 (lado) side
4 (billar) cushion
5 Ftb línea de banda, touchline
saque de banda, throw-in
6 Telec banda de frecuencia, frequency band
Cine banda sonora, sound track
♦ Locuciones: cerrarse en banda, to dig in one's heels
coger a alguien por banda, to approach someone o to put one's hand in someone
jugar a varias bandas, to double-deal o to play the field
' banda' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cabeza
- cerebro
- cerrarse
- escindirse
- forajida
- forajido
- madriguera
- saque
- separarse
- terrorista
- barra
- doblar
- escoleta
- franja
- juez
English:
band
- boundary
- brass band
- bust
- flute
- gang
- protection money
- ring
- rough up
- sideline
- soundtrack
- split off
- strike up
- throw in
- throw-in
- touch
- touchline
- wing
- brass
- broadband
- conveyor (belt)
- crew
- elastic
- fan
- hair
- sash
- side
- sound
- swipe
- tread
- wave

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banda nf

1. [cuadrilla] gang

Comp
banda armada terrorist organization
2. [de música] [de viento y percusión] (brass) band;
[de rock, pop] band;
una banda de gaiteros a pipe band

3. [faja] sash

Comp
banda presidencial presidential sash
4. [para el pelo] hairband

5. [cinta] ribbon

Comp
banda magnética magnetic strip;
banda de Möbius Möbius strip;

banda sonora [de película] soundtrack;

banda transportadora [para bultos, mercancía] conveyor belt;
[para peatones] moving walkway
6. [franja] stripe;

una camisa con bandas blancas a T-shirt with white stripes

Comp
banda sonora [en carretera] rumble strip
7. [escala] band

Comp
Fin banda de fluctuación fluctuation o currency band;
banda de precios price range o band;

banda salarial salary range o band

8. Rad waveband;

ancho de banda bandwidth

Comp
banda ancha broadband;
banda estrecha narrow band;

banda de frecuencia(s) frequency band

9. [en fútbol]
línea de banda touchline;

el balón salió por la banda the ball went out of play;

avanzar por la banda to go down the wing

10. [en billar] cushion

11. [pez] dealfish

12. Hist la Banda Oriental = name of former Spanish territories comprising the present-day Republic of Uruguay and southern Brazil

13. Méx [grupo de jóvenes] gang, crowd;

se descolgó toda la banda al concierto de rock the whole gang went to the rock concert

14. Comp

cerrarse en banda to dig one's heels in;

se han cerrado en banda a cualquier reforma they have flatly refused to accept any reforms;
Esp Fam
agarrar o [m5] coger a alguien por banda [para reñirle] to have a little word with sb;
[atrapar] to buttonhole sb;
jugar a dos bandas to play a double game;
RP Fam
estar/quedar en banda to be/be left at a loss

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banda

f

1 MÚS ( grupo) band

2 de delincuentes gang

3 ( cinta) sash

4 en fútbol touchline

5 de billar cushion

6

:

cerrarse en banda fam stand firm, dig one’s heels in fam

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banda nf

1) : band, strip

2) Mex : belt

banda transportadora: conveyor belt

3) : band (of musicians)

4) : gang (of persons), flock (of birds)

5)

banda de rodadura : tread (of a tire, etc.)

6)

banda sonora or

banda de sonido : sound track

* * *

banda n

1. (de músicos) band / group

toca en una banda de rock he plays in a rock group

2. (de delincuentes) gang

una banda de narcotraficantes a gang of drug traffickers

3. (franja) stripe

la bandera de Galicia tiene una banda diagonal azul the Galician flag has a blue diagonal stripe

banda sonora soundtrack

Spanish-English dictionary > banda
9 lucha

f.

1 fight.

la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer

lucha de clases class struggle o war

lucha libre all-in wrestling

2 tug-of-war.

pres.indicat.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: luchar.

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lucha

► nombre femenino

1 (gen) fight, struggle

2 DEPORTE wrestling

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FRASEOLOGÍA

lucha de clases class struggle

lucha libre free-style wrestling

* * *

noun f.

1) fight

2) struggle

3) wrestling

* * *

SF [forma familiar] de Luz, Lucía

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femenino

1) (combate, pelea) fight; ( para conseguir algo) struggle

la lucha por la supervivencia — the struggle for survival

las luchas internas de un partido — internal conflict within a party

la lucha contra el cáncer — the fight against cancer

- lucha armada

- lucha de clases

2) (Dep) wrestling

•

- lucha libre

* * *

= combat, contention, scramble, fight, struggle, fray, crusade, strife, contest, fighting, tug of war, battle.

Ex. It is not without significance perhaps that some writers on the reference interview use the term 'encounter', which the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines as 'meet as adversary', 'meeting in combat'.

Ex. Among the trends are: more focus on user needs, a contention between optical products and on-line access; and a focus in the USA on formulation of major information policies.

Ex. Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.

Ex. The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.

Ex. The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.

Ex. The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.

Ex. The Thatcher government's crusade for privatisation is also hitting British libraries.

Ex. If performance evaluation is viewed as a tool of second or third-level by supervisors it loses its clout and encourages strife.

Ex. Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.

Ex. The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.

Ex. Library administrators might be able to predict their fortunes in the academic tug of war for funds if they understood more clearly the attitudes of institutional administrators towards libraries.

Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and battles when the colonists won.

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* emprender una lucha contra = launch + attack on.

* en la lucha contra = in the battle against.

* enzarzarse en la lucha = engage in + combat.

* enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.

* lucha a muerte = fight to death.

* lucha armada = armed struggle.

* lucha contra las drogas = war on drugs.

* lucha contra los insectos = pest control.

* lucha de clases = class warfare.

* lucha de ingenio = battle of wits.

* lucha de poderes = power struggle, battle of wills.

* lucha de resistencia = battle of wills.

* lucha diaria = daily grind.

* luchador de lucha libre = wrestler.

* lucha enconada = bitter struggle.

* lucha entre tres = three-horse race.

* lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* lucha intelectual = battle of wits.

* lucha libre = professional wrestling, wrestling.

* lucha por el poder = power struggle.

* lucha por el título = title race.

* luchas internas = infighting [in-fighting].

* lucha territorial = turf war.

* * *

femenino

1) (combate, pelea) fight; ( para conseguir algo) struggle

la lucha por la supervivencia — the struggle for survival

las luchas internas de un partido — internal conflict within a party

la lucha contra el cáncer — the fight against cancer

- lucha armada

- lucha de clases

2) (Dep) wrestling

•

- lucha libre

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= combat, contention, scramble, fight, struggle, fray, crusade, strife, contest, fighting, tug of war, battle.

Ex: It is not without significance perhaps that some writers on the reference interview use the term 'encounter', which the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines as 'meet as adversary', 'meeting in combat'.

Ex: Among the trends are: more focus on user needs, a contention between optical products and on-line access; and a focus in the USA on formulation of major information policies.

Ex: Mergers and acquisitions are playing an increasing important part in corporate strategies, stimulated by the scramble for market position in the new Europe.

Ex: The proud mother, as a result, had been a leader in the fight to establish a program for the 'gifted and talented' in the public school system.

Ex: The struggle to make the library an integral part of the educational process is a long-standing one which has yet to be resolved.

Ex: The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.

Ex: The Thatcher government's crusade for privatisation is also hitting British libraries.

Ex: If performance evaluation is viewed as a tool of second or third-level by supervisors it loses its clout and encourages strife.

Ex: Anyway, experience had taught him that a subordinate who attempts to subdue a superordinate is almost always lost; the superordinate has too many advantages in such a contest.

Ex: The children were involved in manual labour, guard duty, front-line fighting, bomb manufacture, setting sea/land mines & radio & communication.

Ex: Library administrators might be able to predict their fortunes in the academic tug of war for funds if they understood more clearly the attitudes of institutional administrators towards libraries.

Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as MASSACRES when the indigenous people won and battles when the colonists won.

* emprender una lucha contra = launch + attack on.

* en la lucha contra = in the battle against.

* enzarzarse en la lucha = engage in + combat.

* enzarzarse en una lucha a muerte = get into + a fight to the death.

* lucha a muerte = fight to death.

* lucha armada = armed struggle.

* lucha contra las drogas = war on drugs.

* lucha contra los insectos = pest control.

* lucha de clases = class warfare.

* lucha de ingenio = battle of wits.

* lucha de poderes = power struggle, battle of wills.

* lucha de resistencia = battle of wills.

* lucha diaria = daily grind.

* luchador de lucha libre = wrestler.

* lucha enconada = bitter struggle.

* lucha entre tres = three-horse race.

* lucha hasta la muerte = fight to death.

* lucha intelectual = battle of wits.

* lucha libre = professional wrestling, wrestling.

* lucha por el poder = power struggle.

* lucha por el título = title race.

* luchas internas = infighting [in-fighting].

* lucha territorial = turf war.

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lucha

feminine

A

1 (combate, pelea) fight

2 (para conseguir algo, superar un problema) struggle

decidieron abandonar la lucha they decided to give up the struggle

la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal the eternal struggle between good and evil

las luchas internas están debilitando el partido infighting o internal conflict is weakening the party

una campaña de lucha contra el hambre a campaign to combat famine

la lucha por la supervivencia the fight o struggle for survival

la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer

Compuestos:

● lucha armada

armed struggle o conflict

● lucha de clases

class struggle

B ( Dep) wrestling

Compuestos:

● lucha en jaula

cage fighting

● lucha libre

all-in wrestling, freestyle wrestling

● lucha en parejas

tag wrestling

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Del verbo luchar: ( conjugate luchar)

lucha es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

Multiple Entries:
lucha
luchar
lucha sustantivo femenino
a) (combate, pelea) fight;

( para conseguir algo) struggle;
◊ lucha de clases class struggle;

la lucha contra el cáncer the fight against cancer
b) (Dep) wrestling;

◊ lucha libre all-in wrestling

luchar ( conjugate luchar) verbo intransitivo
a) (combatir, pelear) to fight

b) ( para conseguir algo) to struggle, fight;

◊ lucha para salir adelante struggle hard to get on in life;

lucha por la paz to fight for peace
c) ( batallar) lucha con algo ‹ con problema› to wrestle with sth

d) (Dep) to wrestle

lucha sustantivo femenino
1 (combate) fight
lucha libre, wrestling
2 (trabajo, esfuerzo) struggle: hubo una lucha interna para cambiar a los dirigentes del partido, there was internal turmoil regarding replacing party heads
lucha de clases, class struggle
luchar verbo transitivo to fight wrestle
♦ Locuciones: luchar con uñas y dientes, to fight nail and tooth
' lucha' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
antiterrorista
- cuartel
- duelo
- pelea
- abandonar
- armado
- continuo
- cooperar
- desigual
- equilibrado
- guerrilla
- implacable
- llave
- pugna
- sostener
English:
all-in wrestling
- battle
- charity
- class struggle
- contest
- desperate
- fight
- grim
- struggle
- throw
- tug-of-war
- tussle
- war
- wrestling
- warden

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lucha nf

1. [combate físico] fight

Comp
la lucha armada the armed struggle
2. [enfrentamiento] fight;

la lucha contra el cáncer/el desempleo the fight against cancer/unemployment;

hubo una lucha muy dura por el liderato the leadership was bitterly contested;

fracasó en su lucha por cambiar la ley she failed in her struggle o fight to change the law;

las luchas internas del partido the in-fighting within the party

Comp
lucha de clases class struggle
3. [esfuerzo] struggle;

es una lucha conseguir que se coman todo it's a struggle to get them to eat it all up

4. [deporte] wrestling

Comp
lucha grecorromana Graeco-Roman wrestling;
lucha libre freestyle o all-in wrestling

5. [en baloncesto] jump ball

LUCHA LIBRE

Lucha libre, or freestyle wrestling, is a very popular spectator sport in Mexico and features comical masked wrestlers who often become larger-than-life figures. In any fight there will be a goodie (“técnico”) and a baddie (“rudo”) and the action consists of spectacularly acrobatic leaps and throws, and pantomime violence. These wrestlers are so popular that they often feature in special wrestling magazines, as well as on television and radio. The most famous of all was “el Santo” (The Saint), who always wore a distinctive silver mask. He appeared in dozens of films and is still remembered with affection despite his death in 1984.

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lucha

f

1 fight, struggle

2 DEP wrestling

3 en baloncesto jump ball

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lucha nf

1) : struggle, fight

2) : wrestling

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lucha n fight / struggle

la lucha por la supervivencia the fight for survival

lucha libre wrestling

Spanish-English dictionary > lucha
10 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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11 monter

monter [mɔ̃te]

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1. intransitive verb

   a. to go up ( dans into ) ; [avion] to climb

• monter à pied to walk up

• monter en courant to run up

• monter en titubant to stagger up

• monter dans sa chambre to go up to one's room

• monte me voir come up and see me

• monte le prévenir go up and tell him

• faites-le monter (visiteur) ask him to come up

• monter aux arbres to climb trees

• monter à Paris to go up to Paris

► monter sur [+ table, rocher, toit] to climb onto

• monté sur une chaise, il accrochait un tableau he was standing on a chair hanging a picture

• monter sur une colline to go up a hill

• monter sur une bicyclette to get on a bicycle

• monté sur un cheval gris riding a grey horse

   b. (dans un véhicule) monter en voiture to get into a car

• monter dans un avion to get on an aircraft

• je suis monté à Lyon I got on at Lyon

• monter à bord (d'un navire) to go on board (a ship)

• monter à bicyclette ( = faire du vélo) to ride a bicycle

• monter à cheval ( = se mettre en selle) to get on a horse ; ( = faire de l'équitation) to ride

• elle monte bien she rides well

   c. ( = s'élever) to rise ; [mer, marée] to come in ; [voix] to go up

• monter à or jusqu'à to come up to

• la vase lui montait jusqu'aux genoux the mud came right up to his knees

• le chemin monte en lacets the path winds upwards

• jusqu'où monte le téléphérique ? where does the cable car go up to?

• une odeur montait de la cave there was a smell coming from the cellar

• le lait monte (sur le feu) the milk's about to boil over

• ça a fait monter les prix it sent prices up

• la tension monte tension is rising

• le ton monte (colère) the discussion is getting heated

• la voiture peut monter jusqu'à 250 km/h the car can do up to 250km/h

• ce tableau peut monter jusqu'à 30 000 € this painting could fetch up to 30,000 euros

• les blancs n'arrivent pas à monter the egg whites won't go stiff

• elle sentait la colère monter en elle she could feel herself getting angry

• les larmes lui montaient aux yeux tears were welling up in her eyes

• le vin lui monte à la tête wine goes to his head

• le succès lui monte à la tête success is going to his head

• c'est l'artiste qui monte he's the up-and-coming artist

2. transitive verb

   a. ( = gravir) to go up

• monter l'escalier précipitamment to rush upstairs

• monter une côte (en marchant) to walk up a hill

   b. ( = porter) to take up

• montez-lui son petit déjeuner take his breakfast up to him

• faire monter ses valises to have one's luggage taken up

   c. monter un cheval to ride a horse

   d. ( = augmenter) monter le son to turn the sound up

   e. ( = exciter) monter qn contre qn to set sb against sb

• monter la tête à qn to get sb worked up

• quelqu'un lui a monté la tête contre moi someone has set him against me

   f. monter la garde [soldat] to mount guard ; [chien] to be on guard

• « je monte la garde ! » "beware of the dog!"

   g. [+ machine] to assemble ; [+ tente] to pitch ; [+ film] to edit ; [+ robe] to sew together

• monter des mailles to cast on stitches

   h. [+ pièce de théâtre] to put on ; [+ affaire, opération, campagne publicitaire] to set up ; [+ canular] to play ; [+ complot] to hatch

   i. [+ diamant, perle] to mount ; [+ pneu] to put on

• monter qch en épingle to blow sth up out of all proportion

3. reflexive verb

► se monter

   a.

se monter à [+ prix] to amount to

   b. se monter la tête to get all worked up

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mɔ̃te
1.

verbe transitif (+ v avoir)

1) ( transporter) ( en haut) gén to take [somebody/something] up (à to); ( à l'étage) to take [somebody/something] upstairs

2) ( placer plus haut) to put [something] up [objet]; to raise [étagère] (de by)

3) ( réussir à transporter) to get [something] up [objet]

impossible de monter le piano par l'escalier — it's impossible to get the piano up the stairs

4) ( parcourir) to go up [escalier, pente, rue]

monter la colline à bicyclette — to cycle up the hill

5) (en valeur, intensité) to turn up [volume, thermostat]; Musique to raise the pitch of [instrument]

6) Culinaire to beat, to whisk [blanc d'œuf, mayonnaise]

7) ( rendre hostile)

monter quelqu'un contre quelqu'un — to turn ou set somebody against somebody

8) ( chevaucher) to ride [cheval]

9) (couvrir, saillir) to mount, to cover

10) ( assembler) to assemble [meuble, appareil]; to put up [tente, échafaudage]; to set, to mount [pierre précieuse]; to mount [gravure]; Musique to string [instrument]

monter un film — to edit a film

11) ( en couture) to put [something] in [col]; to set [something] in [manche]

12) ( organiser) to hatch [complot]; to mount [attaque]; to set up [société]; Théâtre to stage [pièce]

monter une histoire de toutes pièces — to concoct ou fabricate a story from beginning to end

13) ( fournir)

monter son ménage — to set up home

monter sa garde-robe — to build up one's wardrobe

2.

verbe intransitif (+ v être)

1) ( se déplacer) ( en allant) gén to go up; ( à l'étage) to go upstairs; [avion, hélicoptère] to climb; [oiseau] to fly up; [soleil, brume] to rise

tu es monté à pied? — gén did you walk up?

il est monté au col à bicyclette/en voiture — he cycled/drove up to the pass

monter sur — to get onto [trottoir]; to climb onto [mur]

monter sur le toit — [enfant, chat] to go up onto the roof

monter à l'échelle/l'arbre — to climb (up) the ladder/the tree

monter au ciel — to ascend into Heaven

l'air chaud fait monter les ballons — warm air makes balloons rise

faites-les monter — (clients, marchandises) send them up

2) ( sur un moyen de transport)

monter dans une voiture — to get in a car

monter dans un train/bus/avion — to get on a train/bus/plane

il a peur de monter en avion — he's afraid of flying

monter à bord — to get on board

monter sur — to get on [cheval, bicyclette, tracteur]

3) ( s'étendre de bas en haut) [route, voie ferrée] to go uphill, to climb; [terrain] to rise; [canalisation, ligne téléphonique] ( en allant) to go up

monter en lacets — [route] to wind its way up

monter en pente douce — [terrain, route] to slope up gently

monter en pente raide — [terrain, route] to climb steeply

4) ( atteindre) [vêtement, liquide, neige] to come up

il avait des chaussettes qui lui montaient aux genoux — he was wearing knee socks

5) ( augmenter) gén to rise, to go up (à to; de by); [marée] to come in; Musique [mélodie] to rise

faire monter les cours de 2% — to push prices up by 2%

6) (se rendre, séjourner)

monter à or sur Paris — ( de province) to go up to Paris

7) ( chevaucher)

monter (à cheval) — to ride

monter à bicyclette/moto — to ride a bicycle/motorbike

8) Armée

monter à l'assaut or l'attaque — to mount an attack (de on)

monter au front — to move up to the front

monter en ligne — to move up the line

monter au combat — to go into battle

9) Jeux ( aux cartes) to play a higher card

10) ( progresser) [employé, artiste] to rise

à force de monter, il deviendra directeur — he'll work his way right up to director

monter en puissance — [parti, politicien] to rise

11) ( gagner en intensité) [colère, émotion] to mount; [sanglots] to rise; [larmes] to well up

le ton monta — ( animation) the conversation became noisier; ( énervement) the discussion became heated

12) ( saisir)

monter à la gorge de quelqu'un — [sanglots, cri] to rise (up) in somebody's throat

monter à la tête de quelqu'un — [vin, succès] to go to somebody's head

le rouge lui est monté au front — he/she went red in the face

13) Automobile, Technologie

monter à 250 km/h — to go up to 250 kph

3.

se monter verbe pronominal

1) ( s'élever)

se monter à — [frais, facture] to amount to

2) ( s'équiper) to get oneself set up (en with)

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se monter la tête — (colloq) to get worked up (colloq)

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mɔ̃te
1. vt (avec l'auxiliaire avoir aux temps composés)

1) [escalier, côte] (en allant) to go up, (en venant) to come up

Elle a du mal à monter les escaliers. — She has difficulty going upstairs.

2) [valise, paquet] (en allant) to take up, (en venant) to bring up

Monte les valises pendant que je règle le taxi. — Take the suitcases up while I pay the cab fare.

Monte-moi le dossier. — Bring me up the file.

3) [société, opération] to set up

4) [tente, échafaudage, étagères] to put up, [machine] to assemble

Est-ce que ces étagères sont difficiles à monter? — Are these shelves difficult to put up?

5) (= fixer)

monter qch sur qch [dispositif, moteur] — to fit sth on sth

6) [cheval] to mount, to get on

7) ZOOLOGIE, [femelle] to cover, to serve

8) [bijou] to mount, to set

9) COUTURE, [pièce] to sew on, [manche] to set in

10) CINÉMA to edit

11) THÉÂTRE, [pièce] to put on, to stage

12) (autres locutions)

monter qn contre qn — to set sb against sb

monter la tête à qn — to get sb worked up

2. vi (avec l'auxiliaire être aux temps composés)

1) [personne] (aller) to go up, (venir) to come up

monter à pied — to walk up, to go up on foot

monter sur [chaise, escabeau] — to get onto

Tu vas devoir monter sur une chaise pour changer l'ampoule. — You'll have to get onto a chair to change the light bulb.

monter à un arbre — to climb a tree

monter à une échelle — to climb a ladder

2) [avion, voiture] to climb, to go up

3) [chemin, niveau, température, voix, prix] to go up, to rise

Les prix ont encore monté. — Prices have gone up again.

4) [brouillard, bruit] to rise, to come up

5) [passager] to get on

monter dans le train — to get on the train, to board the train

monter dans l'avion — to get on the plane, to board the plane

Il est temps de monter dans l'avion. — It's time to get on the plane.

monter à bord — to get on board

monter en voiture — to get in the car

6) (= faire du cheval) to ride, to ride a horse

monter à cheval (hobby) — to ride, to go riding, (action) to get on a horse

monter bien — to be a good rider, to ride well

monter mal — to be a poor rider, to ride badly

7) (autres locutions)

monter à bicyclette — to get on a bicycle

monter à la tête de qn — to go to sb's head

monter sur les planches — to go on the stage

monter en grade — to be promoted

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monter verb table: aimer

A vtr (+ v avoir)

1 ( transporter) ( en haut) gén to take [sb/sth] up [personne, objet] (à to); ( à l'étage) to take [sb/sth] upstairs [personne, objet]; ( d'en bas) gén to bring [sb/sth] up [personne, objet] (de from); ( de l'étage) to bring [sb/sth] upstairs [personne, objet]; monter les valises au grenier to take the suitcases up to the attic; monter les bouteilles de la cave to bring the bottles up from the cellar; je peux vous monter au village I can take you up to the village; monte-moi mes pantoufles bring my slippers up (to me); je leur ai fait monter les valises au grenier I made them take the suitcases up to the attic; j'ai fait monter le piano dans la chambre I had the piano taken up to the bedroom; faites -moi monter les dossiers secrets get the secret files brought up to me;

2 ( placer plus haut) to put [sth] up [objet]; to raise [étagère] (de by); monte le store put the blind up; j'ai monté le vase sur l'étagère du haut I put the vase on the top shelf; tu peux me monter cette valise sur l'armoire? can you put ou get this suitcase up on the wardrobe for me?; monter l'étagère d'un cran/de 20 centimètres to raise the shelf by one notch/by 20 centimetres^GB;

3 ( réussir à transporter) to get [sth] up [objet]; impossible de monter le piano par l'escalier/par la fenêtre it's impossible to get the piano up the stairs/up through the window; comment va-t-on monter le piano? ( à l'étage) how are we going to get the piano upstairs?; ( dans le camion) how are we going to get the piano in?;

4 ( parcourir) ( en allant) to go up [pente, rue, marches]; to go up, to climb [côte, escaliers]; ( en venant) to come up [pente, rue, marches, escaliers]; je l'ai vu monter les escaliers sur les or à genoux I saw him go ou climb up the stairs on his knees; monter la colline à bicyclette to cycle up the hill; je leur ai fait monter la colline en courant I made them run up the hill; il m'a fait monter les escaliers trois fois he made me go upstairs ou up the stairs three times;

5 (en valeur, intensité) to turn up [volume, thermostat, gaz]; Mus to raise the pitch of [instrument]; Art to intensify [couleur]; monte un peu la radio turn the radio up a bit; monter un violon d'un ton to raise the pitch of a violin by a tone;

6 Culin to beat, to whisk [blanc d'œuf, mayonnaise]; monter les blancs en neige ( dans une recette) beat ou whisk the egg whites until stiff; monter une sauce to thicken a sauce;

7 ( rendre hostile) monter qn contre qn to turn ou set sb against sb; monter qn contre un projet to put sb off a plan; être monté contre qn to have it in for sb;

8 ( chevaucher) to ride [cheval, âne, éléphant]; ce cheval n'a jamais été monté this horse has never been ridden (before);

9 (couvrir, saillir) to mount, to cover;

10 ( assembler) to assemble [meuble, appareil, machine]; to put up [tente, échafaudage]; to set, to mount [pierre précieuse]; to mount [gravure, estampe, photo]; Mus to string [instrument]; monter un film Cin to edit a film; monter une page Imprim to set (up) a page; monter une émission TV to edit a broadcast; monter en parallèle Électrotech to connect in parallel;

11 Cout to put [sth] in [col]; to set [sth] in [manche]; monter un manteau/une robe to make up a coat/a dress;

12 ( organiser) to hatch [complot]; to mount [attaque, opération militaire]; to set up [société, opération financière]; Théât to stage, to put on [pièce]; monter un spectacle to stage ou put on a show; monter une histoire de toutes pièces to concoct ou fabricate a story from beginning to end;

13 ( fournir) monter son ménage/sa maison to set up home/house; monter sa garde-robe to build up one's wardrobe.

B vi (+ v être)

1 ( se déplacer) [personne] ( en allant) gén to go up (à to); ( à l'étage) to go upstairs; ( en venant) gén to come up (de from); ( à l'étage) to come upstairs; [train, ascenseur, téléphérique] ( en allant) to go up; ( en venant) to come up; [avion, hélicoptère] to climb; [oiseau] to fly up; [soleil, brume] to rise (sur over); [fumée, odeur, bruit] to come up; reste-ici, je monte au grenier stay here, I'm going up to the attic; peux-tu monter chercher mon sac? can you go upstairs and get my bag?; tu peux monter m'aider à pousser l'armoire? can you come upstairs and help me push the wardrobe?; il est monté s'allonger he went upstairs to lie down; te voilà! tu es monté par l'ascenseur? there you are! did you come up in the lift GB ou elevator US?; tu es monté à pied? gén did you walk up?; ( plutôt que par l'ascenseur) did you come up on foot?; je préfère monter par l'escalier I prefer to go up by the stairs; nous sommes montés par le sentier/la route ( à pied) we walked up by the path/the road; ( à cheval) we rode up by the path/the road; il est monté au col à bicyclette/en voiture he cycled/drove up to the pass; il est monté vers moi en rampant he crawled up to me; où est l'écureuil? il a dû monter à l'arbre where's the squirrel? it must have gone up ou climbed the tree; monte, je te suis go on up, I'll follow you; monte ici! come up here!; je suis monté en haut de la tour/au sommet de la falaise I went up to the top of the tower/to the top of the cliff; monter sur [personne] to step onto, to get onto [trottoir, marche]; [animal] to get onto [marche, trottoir]; [personne, animal] to climb onto [mur, tabouret]; il est monté sur le toit [enfant, chat] he's/it's gone up onto the roof; monter à l'échelle/l'arbre/la corde to climb (up) the ladder/the tree/the rope; monter à la verticale [ballon, alpiniste] to climb vertically; monter au ciel to ascend into Heaven; l'air chaud fait monter les ballons/planeurs warm air makes balloons/gliders rise; elle m'a fait/ne m'a pas laissé monter dans sa chambre she had me/didn't let me go up to her bedroom; faites-les monter (clients, marchandises) send them up;

2 ( sur un moyen de transport) monter dans une voiture to get in a car; monter dans un train/bus/avion to get on a train/bus/plane; monter dans un canoë/sur un bateau to get into a canoe/on a boat; il n'est jamais monté en avion he's never been on a plane; il a peur de monter en avion he's afraid of flying; monter à bord to get on board; monter sur to get on [âne, cheval, bicyclette, tracteur]; monté sur son cheval/sur son chameau, il parcourait le pays he travelled^GB the country on horseback/on his camel;

3 ( s'étendre de bas en haut) [route, voie ferrée] to go uphill, to climb; [terrain] to rise; [canalisation, ligne téléphonique] ( en allant) to go up; ( en venant) to come up; monter jusqu'à [chemin, muraille, escalier] ( description) to go up to; ( emphase) to go up as far as; monter jusqu'au sommet [route, ligne téléphonique] to go right up to the top; monter en lacets [route] to wind its way up; monter en pente douce [terrain, route] to slope up gently; monter en pente raide [terrain, route] to climb steeply; monter brusquement sur 200 mètres [pente, route] to climb sharply for 200 metres^GB;

4 ( atteindre) [vêtement, liquide, neige] to come up (jusqu'à to); des chaussettes qui montent jusqu'aux genoux socks that come up to the knees; il avait des chaussettes qui lui montaient aux genoux he was wearing knee socks; l'eau nous montait jusqu'à la taille the water came up to our waists, we were waist-deep in water; l'eau montait sur la berge the water came up onto the bank;

5 ( augmenter) [niveau, baromètre, température, pression, prix, taux] to rise, to go up (à to; de by); [marée] to come in; Mus [mélodie] to rise; l’euro est or a monté par rapport à la livre the euro has risen ou gone up against the pound; faire monter les cours de 2% to push prices up by 2%; ça va faire monter le dollar it'll send ou push the dollar up; ça fait monter la température gén it raises the temperature; Méd it puts one's temperature up; ça ne fera pas monter leur niveau de vie it won't raise their standard of living;

6 (se rendre, séjourner) monter à or sur Paris ( de province) to go up to Paris; monter à Lyon ( du Midi) to go up to Lyons;

7 ( chevaucher) monter (à cheval) to ride; monter à bicyclette/moto to ride a bicycle/motorbike; il ne sait pas monter (à cheval) he can't ride; elle monte à cheval deux fois par semaine she goes riding ou rides twice a week;

8 Mil monter à l'assaut or l'attaque to mount an attack (de on); monter au front to move up to the front; monter en ligne to move up the line; monter au combat to go into battle;

9 Jeux ( aux cartes) to play a higher card; monter à carreau/l'atout to play a higher diamond/trump;

10 ( progresser) ( dans une hiérarchie) to rise, to move up; ( en notoriété) [artiste] to rise; à force de monter, il deviendra directeur he'll work his way right up to director; c'est un jeune peintre qui monte he's an up-and-coming ou a rising young painter; monter en puissance [parti, politicien] to rise;

11 ( gagner en intensité) [colère, émotion] to mount; [sanglots] to rise; [larmes] to well up; le ton monta ( animation) the conversation became noisier; ( énervement) the discussion became heated;

12 ( saisir) monter à la gorge de qn [sanglots, cri] to rise (up) in sb's throat; monter à la tête de qn [vin, alcool, succès] to go to sb's head; le rouge lui est monté au front he/she went red in the face;

13 Aut, Tech monter à 250 km/h [véhicule] to go up to ou reach 250 km/h; [automobiliste] to go up to 250 km/h; monter en puissance [moteur] to increase in power.

C se monter vpr

1 ( s'élever) se monter à [dépenses, frais, facture] to come to, to amount to; [dette] to amount to;

2 ( s'équiper) to get oneself set up (en with).

Idiome

se monter la tête○ to get worked up○.

[mɔ̃te] verbe intransitif (auxiliaire être ou avoir)

1. [personne, animal - vu d'en bas] to go up ; [ - vu d'en haut] to come up

[avion, soleil] to rise, to climb (up)

[drapeau] to go up

[rideau de théâtre, air, fumée] to go up, to rise

[chemin] to go up, to rise, to climb

monte par l'ascenseur go up in ou use the lift

monte sur une chaise pour que j'épingle ton ourlet stand on a chair so I can pin up your hem

le premier de cordée continuait à monter the leader continued to climb ou continued the ascent

es-tu déjà montée au dernier étage de la tour Eiffel? have you ever been up to the top of the Eiffel Tower?

monter en pente douce to climb gently (upwards)

monter en pente raide to climb steeply ou sharply

ça monte trop, passe en première it's too steep, change down into first

monter de [suj: odeur, bruit] to rise (up) from, to come from

2. [dans un moyen de transport]

monter dans

a. [avion, train] to get on ou onto, to board

b. [bus] to get on, to board

c. [voiture] to get into

tu montes (avec moi)? [dans ma voiture] are you coming with me (in my car)?

elle monte à Versailles [dans le train] she gets on at Versailles (station)

monter sur un ou à bord d'un bateau to board a ship

monter sur un cheval to get on ou to mount a horse

monter sur une bicyclette to get on a bicycle

ça fait longtemps que je ne suis pas monté sur une bicyclette it's a long time since I've been on a bicycle

monter à [pratiquer]: monter à cheval/bicyclette to ride (a horse)/a bicycle

ÉQUITATION to ride

3. [apparaître suite à une émotion]

les larmes lui sont montées aux yeux tears welled up in his eyes, his eyes filled with tears

le rouge lui est monté aux joues the colour rose to her cheeks

le sang lui monta au visage the blood rushed to his face

4. [s'élever - température] to rise, to go up ; [ - fièvre] to rise ; [ - prix, taux] to rise, to go up, to increase ; [ - action] to rise ; [ - rivière] to rise ; [ - mer, marée] to come in ; [ - anxiété, mécontentement] to grow, to increase

faire monter [tension, peur] to increase

faire monter les prix

a. [surenchère] to send ou to put prices up

b. [marchand] to put up ou to increase prices

empêcher les prix de monter to keep prices down

les loyers ont monté de 25 % rents have gone up ou increased by 25%

le thermomètre monte (familier) MÉTÉOROLOGIE it's ou the weather's getting warmer

le lait monte

a. [il bout] the milk is boiling

b. [chez une femme qui allaite] lactation has started

prends de grosses aiguilles, ton pull montera plus vite your sweater will knit up more quickly if you use big needles

faire monter des blancs en neige CUISINE to whisk up egg whites

le soufflé a bien monté/n'a pas monté the soufflé rose beautifully/didn't rise

le ton montait

a. [de colère] voices were being raised, the discussion was becoming heated

b. [d'animation] the noise level was rising

5. [atteindre un certain niveau]

la cloison ne monte pas assez haut the partition isn't high enough

monter à ou jusqu'à [eau, vêtement, chaussures] to come up to

son plâtre monte jusqu'au genou his leg is in a plaster cast up to the knee

les pistes de ski montent jusqu'à 3 000 m the ski runs go up to ou as high as 3,000 m

je peux monter jusqu'à 200 km/h (familier) I can do up to 200 km/h

l'hectare de vigne peut monter jusqu'à 30 000 euros one hectare of vineyard can cost up to ou fetch as much as 30,000 euros

6. MUSIQUE [voix] to go up, to rise

il peut monter jusqu'au "si" he can go ou sing up to B

7. [pour attaquer]

monter à l'abordage NAUTIQUE to board

monter à l'attaque ou à l'assaut MILITAIRE to go into the attack

monter à l'assaut de to launch an attack on

monter au filet TENNIS [au volleyball] to go up to the net

8. [dans une hiérarchie] to rise

monter en grade to be promoted

un chanteur qui monte an up-and-coming singer

[dans le temps]

la génération qui monte the rising ou new generation

9. [aller vers le nord]

je monte à Paris demain I'm going (up) to Paris tomorrow

il a dû monter à Lyon pour trouver du travail he had to move (up) to Lyons in order to find work

10. JEUX

monter sur le valet de trèfle to play a club higher than the jack

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[mɔ̃te] verbe transitif (auxiliaire avoir)

1. [gravir] to go up (inseparable)

monter l'escalier to go ou to climb up the stairs, to go upstairs

la voiture a du mal à monter la côte the car has difficulty getting up the hill

monter la gamme MUSIQUE to go up ou to climb the scale

2. [porter en haut - bagages, colis] to take ou to carry up (separable) ; [ - courrier] to take up (separable)

monte-moi mes lunettes bring my glasses up for me

je lui ai monté son journal I took the newspaper up to him

peut-on se faire monter le repas dans les chambres? is it possible to have meals brought to the room?

3. [mettre plus haut]

monte l'étagère d'un cran put the shelf up a notch

monte la vitre, j'ai froid wind up the (car) window, I'm cold

4. [augmenter - son] to turn up (separable) ; [ - prix] to put up (separable)

monte la télé (familier) turn the TV up

[mettre en colère]

monter quelqu'un contre to set somebody against

5. [assembler - kit] to assemble, to put together (separable) ; [ - tente] to pitch, to put up (separable) ; [ - abri] to rig up (separable)

monter une page IMPRIMERIE to make up ou to paste up ou to lay out a page

monter en parallèle/série ÉLECTRICITÉ to connect in parallel/series

6. [fixer - radiateur] to fit, to mount ; [ - store] to put up (separable), to mount

monter une gravure

a. [sur une marie-louise] to mount an engraving

b. [dans un cadre] to frame an engraving

il a monté un moteur plus puissant sur sa voiture he has put a more powerful engine into his car

JOAILLERIE to mount, to set

7. [organiser - généralement] to organize ; [ - pièce, spectacle] to put on (separable), to stage, to produce ; [ - canular] to think up (separable) ; [ - complot, machination] to set up (separable)

monter un atelier de poterie to set up a pottery workshop

il avait monté tout un scénario dans sa tête he'd thought up some weird and wonderful scheme

8. [pourvoir - bibliothèque, collection, cave] to set up (separable)

monter son ménage ou sa maison to set up house

9. ÉQUITATION

monter un cheval to ride a horse

10. CINÉMA [bobine] to mount

[film] to edit

11. COUTURE to fit (on)

monter une manche to sew on ou to attach a sleeve

le pantalon est prêt à être monté the trousers are ready to assemble ou to be made up

[tricoter - maille] to cast on (separable)

12. CUISINE

monter des blancs en neige to whisk up egg whites

monter une mayonnaise to make some mayonnaise

13. MÉDECINE VÉTÉRINAIRE & ZOOLOGIE to cover, to serve

14. NAUTIQUE to crew

monter un gréement to rig a ship

PÊCHE to assemble

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se monter à verbe pronominal plus préposition

[coût, dépenses] to come ou to amount ou to add up to

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se monter en verbe pronominal plus préposition

to equip ou to provide oneself with

se monter en vins to stock (up) one's cellar

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > monter
12 carica

f (pl -che) ( incarico) office

fig (slancio, energia) drive

technology load

military ( attacco) charge

sports tackle

in carica in office

durata f della carica term of office

tornare alla carica insist

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carica s.f.

1 ( pubblico ufficio) office, position, appointment: dimettersi da una carica, to resign office; entrare in carica, to take (o to come into) office; essere in carica, to be in (o to hold) office; occupare una carica pubblica, to hold public office; restare in carica, to continue in office; uscire di carica, to leave office; carica di revisore ( dei conti), di sindaco ( di società), auditorship; carica di ispettore, inspectorship; carica di tesoriere, treasurership; è una carica di responsabilità, it's a responsible position; le alte cariche dello Stato, the high offices of state; accettare una carica onorifica, to accept an honorary appointment

2 (mil.) charge, attack: carica alla baionetta, bayonet charge; carica di cavalleria, cavalry charge; ritornare alla carica, to return to the charge; (fig.) to persist (o to insist); suonare la carica, to sound the charge

3 (sport) tackle, charge: carica regolare, irregolare, fair, unfair tackle

4 ( di arma da fuoco) charge: carica di lancio, propelling (o powder) charge; carica di profondità, depth charge; carica di scoppio, blasting charge

5 (elettr.) charge: carica a corrente costante, constant current charge; carica elettrica, electric charge; carica spaziale, space charge; entità di carica, charging rate; potenziale di carica, charging potential

6 (metall.) charge: carica del minerale e del fondente, charge of ores and fluxes; carica solida, cold charge; prima carica di metallo, bed charge

7 ( di orologio) winding up: dare la carica a un orologio, to wind up a clock; ( da polso) to wind up a watch

8 (fig.) charge, drive, boost, lift: questo nuovo lavoro mi ha dato la carica, this new job has given me a lift; ha una grande carica di entusiasmo, he has a large store of enthusiasm; carica emotiva, emotional potential // dare la carica a qlcu., to encourage s.o. // perdere la carica, to run out of steam.

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pl. - che ['karika, ke] sostantivo femminile

1) (funzione) office, post

il presidente in carica — the incumbent president, the president in office

essere in carica — to be in o to hold office

entrare in carica — to take o come into office

rivestire una carica — to have o fill a post

restare in carica — to remain in office, to stay on

la sua carica di leader del partito — her position as party leader

2) tecn. el. fis. charge

essere sotto carica — to be charging up

mettere sotto carica — to put [sth.] on charge [ batteria]

3) (di meccanismo)

dare la carica a — to wind (up) [ orologio]

4) fig. charge, drive

dare la carica a qcn. — to encourage sb., to give sb. a lift o a boost

5) mil. (assalto) charge

(alla) carica! — charge!

andare alla carica — to charge

(ri)tornare alla carica — to return to the charge; fig. to try again, to insist

6) sport

il campione in carica — the reigning champion

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carica elettrica — electric charge

carica emotiva — emotional charge

carica onorifica — honorary position o appointment

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carica

pl. - che /'karika, ke/

sostantivo f.

1 (funzione) office, post; il presidente in carica the incumbent president, the president in office; essere in carica to be in o to hold office; entrare in carica to take o come into office; rivestire una carica to have o fill a post; restare in carica to remain in office, to stay on; la sua carica di leader del partito her position as party leader

2 tecn. el. fis. charge; essere sotto carica to be charging up; mettere sotto carica to put [sth.] on charge [ batteria]

3 (di meccanismo) dare la carica a to wind (up) [ orologio]

4 fig. charge, drive; dare la carica a qcn. to encourage sb., to give sb. a lift o a boost

5 mil. (assalto) charge; (alla) carica! charge! andare alla carica to charge; (ri)tornare alla carica to return to the charge; fig. to try again, to insist

6 sport il campione in carica the reigning champion

COMPOUNDS

carica elettrica electric charge; carica emotiva emotional charge; carica onorifica honorary position o appointment.

Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > carica
13 दण्डः _daṇḍḥ _ण्डम् _ṇḍam

दण्डः ण्डम् [दण्ड्-अच्]

1 A stick, staff, rod, mace, club, cudgel; पततु शिरस्यकाण्डयमदण्ड इवैष भूजः Māl.5.31; काष्ठदण्डः.

-2 The sceptre of a king, the rod as a symbol of authority and punishment; आत्तदण्डः Ś.5.8.

-3 The staff given to a twice-born man at the time of investiture with the sacred thread; cf Ms.2.45-48.

-4 The staff of a संन्यासिन् or ascetic.

-5 The trunk of an elephant.

-6 The stem or stalk as of a lotus, tree &c.; U.1.31; Māl.9.14; the handle as of an umbrella; ब्रह्माण्डच्छत्रदण्डः &c. Dk.1 (opening verse); राज्यं स्वहस्तधृतदण्डमिवातपत्रम् Ś.5.6; Ku.7.89; so कमल- दण्ड &c.

-7 The oar of a boat.

-8 An arm or leg (at the end of comp.)

-9 The staff or pole of a ban- ner, a tent &c.

-1 The beam of a plough.

-11 The cross-bar of a lute or a stringed instrument.

-12 The stick with which an instrument is played.

-13 A churning-stick.

-14 Fine; Ms.8.341;9.229; Y.2.237.

-15 Chastisement, corporal punishment, punishment in general; यथापराधदण्डानाम् R.1.6; एवं राजापथ्यकारिषु ती- क्ष्णदण्डो राजा Mu.1; दण्डं दण्ड्येषु पातयेत् Ms.8.126; कृतदण्ड स्वयं राज्ञा लेभे शूद्रः सतां गतिम् R.15.23. यथार्हदण्डो (राजा) पूज्यः Kau. A.1.4; सुविज्ञातप्रणीतो हि दण्डः प्रजां धर्मार्थकामै- र्योजयति Kau. A.1.4

-16 Imprisonment.

-17 Attack, assault, violence, punishment, the last of the four expe- dients; see उपाय; सामादीनामुपायानां चतुर्णामपि पण्डिताः । साम- दण्डौ प्रशंसन्ति नित्यं राष्ट्राभिवृद्धये ॥ Ms.7.19; cf. Śi.2.54.

-18 An army; तस्य दण्डवतो दण्डः स्वदेहान्न व्यशिष्यत R.17. 62; Ms.7.65;9.294; Ki.2.15.

-19 A form of mili- tary array; Mb.12.59.4.

-2 Subjection, control, restraint; वाग्दण्डो$थ मनोदण्डः कायदण्डस्तथैव च । यस्यैते निहिता बुद्धौ त्रिदण्डीति स उच्यते ॥ Ms.12.1.

-21 A measure of length equal to 4 Hastas; Bṛi. S.24.9.

-22 The penis.

-23 Pride; या चापि न्यस्तदण्डानां तां गतिं व्रज पुत्रक Mb. 7.78.25.

-24 The body.

-25 An epithet of Yama.

-26 N. of Viṣṇu.

-27 N. of Śiva.

-28 An attendant on the sun.

-29 A horse (said to be m. only in this and the preceding four senses).

-3 A particular appear- ance in the sky (similar to a stick).

-31 An uninter- rupted row or series, a line.

-32 Standing upright or erect.

-33 A corner, an angle.

-34 The Science of Govt. विनयमूलो दण्डः, दण्डमूलास्तिस्त्रो विद्याः Kau. A.1.5.

-35 Harm, injury; न्यासो दण्डस्य भूतेषु मनोवाक्कायजस्य यः Bhāg.7. 15.8.

-Comp. -अजिनम् 1 staff and hide (as outer badges of devotion).

-2 (fig.) hypocrisy, deceit.

-अधिपः a chief magistrate.

-अनीकम् a detachment or division of an army; तव हृतवतो दण्डानीकैर्विदर्भपतेः श्रियम् M.5.2.

-अप (व) तानकः tetanus, lock-jaw.

-अपूपन्यायः see under न्याय.

-अर्ह a. fit to be chastised, deserving punishment.

-अलसिका cholera.

-आख्यम् a house with two wings, one facing the north and the other the east; Bṛi. S.53. 39.

-आघातः a blow with a stick; पूर्वप्रविष्ठान्क्रोधात्तान्दण्डा- घातैरताडयन् Ks.54.23.

-आज्ञा judicial sentence.

-आश्रमः the condition of a pilgrim.

-आश्रमिन् m. a devotee, an ascetic.

-आसनम्, दण्डकासनम् lying prostrate on the ground, a kind of Āsana; Yoga S.2.46.

-आहतम् buttermilk.

-उद्यमः 1 threatening.

-2 (pl.) application of power; निःसाराल्पफलानि ये त्वविधिना वाञ्छन्ति दण्डोद्यमैः Pt.1.376.

-कर्मन् n. infliction of punishment, chastisement; देशकालवयःशक्ति संचिन्त्यं दण्डकर्मणि Y.2.275.

-कलितम् repetition like a measuring rod, i. e. doing a matter after it is done in full first and then repeating it like that a second time and so on; आवृत्तिन्यायानां दण्ड- कलितं न्याय्यम् । ŚB. on MS.1.5.83; ˚वत् ind. in the manner of a measuring rod.

-कल्पः Infliction of punishment; शुद्धचित्रश्च दण्डकल्पः Kau. A.4.

-काकः a raven.

-काण्ठम् a wooden club or staff; दण्डकाष्ठमवलम्ब्य स्थितः Ś2.

-ग्रहणम् assumption of the staff of an asce- tic or pilgrim, becoming a mendicant.

-घ्न a. striking with a stick, committing an assault; Ms.8.386.

-चक्रः a division of an army.

-छदनम् a room in which utensils of various kinds are kept.

-ढक्का a kind of drum.

-दासः one who has become a slave from non-payment of a debt; Ms.8.415.

-देवकुलम् a court of justice.

-धर, -धार a.

1 carrying a staff, staff- bearer.

-2 punishing, chastising; दत्ताभये त्वयि यमादपि दण्डधारे U.2.11.

-3 exercising judicial authority.

(-रः) 1 a king; श्रमनुदं मनुदण्डधरान्वयम् R.9.3; बलीयानबलं ग्रसते दण्डधराभावे Kau. A.1.4.

-2 N. of Yama; यमो निहन्ता......दण्डधरश्च कालः

-3 a judge, supreme magistrate.

-4 a mendicant carrying a staff.

-5 a potter.

-6 a general (of an army;) Dk.2.

-धारणम् 1 carrying a staff (as by a Brahmachārin).

-2 following the order of a mendicant.

-3 infliction of punishment.

-नायकः 1 a judge, a head police-officer, a magistrate.

-2 the leader of an army, a general.

-3 a king. ˚पुरुषः a policeman, constable.

-निधानम् pardoning, indulgence; Mb.12.

-निपातनम् punishing, chastising.

-नीतिः f.

1 administration of justice, judicature.

-2 the system of civil and military administration, the science of poli- tics, polity; Ms.7.43; Y.1.311; फलान्युपायुङ्क्त स दण्ड- नीतेः R.18.46; जरातुरः संप्रति दण्डनीत्या सर्वं नृपस्यानुकरोमि वृत्तम् Nāg.4.1.

-3 an epithet of Durgā.

-नेतृ m.

1 a king.

-2 Yama; गृध्रा रुषा मम कृषन्त्यधिदण्डनेतुः Bhāg.3.16. 1.

-3 a judge; Ms.12.1; Bhāg.4.22.45.

-पः a king.

-पांशुलः a porter, door-keeper.

-पाणिः 1 an epithet of Yama; करोमि चिकित्सां दण्डपाणिरिव जनतायाः Bhāg.5.1.7.

-2 N. of the god Śiva at Benares.

-3 a policeman; इति पश्चात्प्रविष्टास्ते पुरुषा दण्डपाणयः Ks.54.23.

-पातः 1 falling of a stick.

-2 infliction of punishment.

-3 dropping one line in a manuscript.

-पातनम् inflic- tion of punishment, chastisement.

-पारुष्यम् 1 assault, violence.

-2 hard or cruel infliction of punishment; अत ऊर्ध्वं प्रवक्ष्यामि दण्डपारुष्यनिर्णयम् Ms.8.278.

-पालः, -पालकः 1 a head magistrate.

-2 a door-keeper, porter. Kau. A.1.12.

-3 Ns. of two kinds of fishes; L. D. B.

-पाशकः, -पाशिकः 1 a head police-officer; Pt.2; उच्यता- मस्मद्वचनात्कालपाशिको दण्डपाशिकश्च Mu.1.2-21.

-2 a hangman, an executioner.

-पोणम् a strainer furnished with a handle.

-प्रणामः 1 bowing by prostrating the body at full length (keeping it erect like a stick). cf. साष्टाङ्गनमस्कार.

-2 falling flat or prostrate on the ground.

-बालधिः an elephant.

-भङ्गः non-execution of a sentence.

-भृत् m.

1 a potter.

-2 an epithet of Yama.

-माण (न)वः 1 a staff-bearer

-2 an ascetic bearing a staff; Rām.2.32.18.

-3 a chief or leader.

-माथः a principal road, highway.

-मुखः a leader, general of an army.

-यात्रा 1 a solemn procession (particularly bridal).

-2 warlike expedition, conquest (of a region).

-यामः 1 an epithet of Yama.

-2 of Agastya.

-3 a day.

-लेशम् a small fine; Ms.8.51.

-वधः capital punishment.

-वाचिक a. actual or verbal (assault); Ms.8.6; cf. वाक्-पारुष्यम्.

-वादिन् a. reprimanding, censuring, threatening with punishment; (also -m.).

-वारित a. forbidden by threat of punishment.

-वासिकः a door-keeper, warder.

-वासिन् m.

1 a door-keeper.

-2 a magistrate.

-वाहिन् m. a police-officer.

-विकल्पः discretion given to an officer in awarding punishment or fine; Ms.9.228.

-विधिः 1 rule of punishment; see दण्डोद्यमः

-2 criminal law.

-विष्कम्भः the post to which the string of a churning-stick is fastened.

-व्यूहः a particular form of arranging troops, arranging them in long lines or columns; Ms.7.187.

-शास्त्रम् the science of inflicting punishment, criminal law.

-हस्तः 1 a door-keeper, warder, porter.

-2 an epithet of Yama.

Sanskrit-English dictionary > दण्डः _daṇḍḥ _ण्डम् _ṇḍam
14 represalia

f.

1 reprisal.

tomar represalias to retaliate, to take reprisals

2 retaliation, reprisal, vengeance, revenge.

pres.indicat.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: represaliar.

imperat.

2^nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: represaliar.

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represalia

► nombre femenino

1 reprisal, retaliation

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FRASEOLOGÍA

tomar represalias to take reprisals

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SF reprisal

como represalia por — in reprisal for

tomar represalias — to retaliate, take reprisals ( contra against)

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femenino reprisal

tomar represalias — to take reprisals

como represalia por... — in retaliation for...

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= reprisal, retaliation.

Ex. They are afraid to complain or express their unhappiness because of fear of reprisal by the supervisor.

Ex. This follow-up requires open and free communication without fear of retaliation and without judgment but rather with trust and respect.

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* por temor a represalias = under duress.

* represalias = victimisation [victimization, -USA], clampdown (on).

* tomar represalias contra = retaliate against, clamp down on.

* tomar represalias contra Alguien = hold + it against.

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femenino reprisal

tomar represalias — to take reprisals

como represalia por... — in retaliation for...

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= reprisal, retaliation.

Ex: They are afraid to complain or express their unhappiness because of fear of reprisal by the supervisor.

Ex: This follow-up requires open and free communication without fear of retaliation and without judgment but rather with trust and respect.

* por temor a represalias = under duress.

* represalias = victimisation [victimization, -USA], clampdown (on).

* tomar represalias contra = retaliate against, clamp down on.

* tomar represalias contra Alguien = hold + it against.

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represalia

feminine

reprisal

tomar represalias to take reprisals

como represalia por el atentado in reprisal o retaliation for the attack

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represalia sustantivo femenino
reprisal;
◊ como represalia por … in retaliation for …

represalia sustantivo femenino reprisal, retaliation
tomar represalias, to take reprisals o retaliate [contra, against]

' represalia' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
revancha
English:
reprisal
- retaliation
- tit for tat

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represalia nf

reprisal;

tomar represalias to retaliate, to take reprisals;

un ataque en o [m5] como represalia por el asesinato de su líder an attack made in retaliation o in reprisal for the assassination of their leader

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represalia

f reprisal

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represalia nf

1) : reprisal, retaliation

2)

tomar represalias : to retaliate

Spanish-English dictionary > represalia
15 azuzar

v.

1 to set on (animal).

2 to incite, to provoke, to set on, to spur.

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azuzar

► verbo transitivo

1 to egg on

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FRASEOLOGÍA

azuzar los perros a alguien to set the dogs on somebody

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VT

1)

azuzar a los perros a algn — to set the dogs on sb, urge the dogs to attack sb

2) (fig) [+ persona] to egg on, urge on, incite; [+ emoción] to stir up, fan
B
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verbo transitivo

a) < perros> to sic

azuzarle los perros a alguien — to set the dogs on somebody

b) < persona> to egg... on

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= egg on, goad.

Ex. In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.

Ex. Al Qaeda will goad us into war with Iran because it serves their own interests.

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verbo transitivo

a) < perros> to sic

azuzarle los perros a alguien — to set the dogs on somebody

b) < persona> to egg... on

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= egg on, goad.

Ex: In the novel, residents of the drought-plagued hamlet of Champaner, egged on by a salt-of-the-earth hothead leader, recklessly accept a sporting challenge thrown down by the commander of the local British troops.

Ex: Al Qaeda will goad us into war with Iran because it serves their own interests.

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azuzar [A4 ]

vt

1 ‹perros› to sic

azuzarle los perros a algn to set the dogs on sb

2 ‹persona› to egg … on

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azuzar ( conjugate azuzar) verbo transitivo
a) ‹ perros› to sic;

◊ azuzarle los perros a algn to set the dogs on sb

b) ‹ persona› to egg … on

azuzar vtr (achuchar) azuzó a los perros contra nosotros, she set the dogs on us
(incitar a personas a pelearse) to egg on
' azuzar' also found in these entries:
English:
instigate

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azuzar vt

1. [animal]
azuzar a los perros contra alguien to set the dogs on sb

2. [persona] to egg on

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azuzar

v/t

:

azuzar los perros a alguien set the dogs on s.o.; fig egg s.o. on

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azuzar {21} vt

: to incite, to egg on

Spanish-English dictionary > azuzar
16 position

position [pozisjɔ̃]

feminine noun

a. position ; [de navire] bearings

• rester sur ses positions to stand one's ground

• avoir une position de repli to have a fallback position

• arriver en première/deuxième/dernière position to come first/second/last

• être assis dans une mauvaise position to be sitting in an awkward position

• se mettre en position to take up one's position

• en position allongée/assise/verticale in a reclining/sitting/upright position

• être dans une position délicate to be in a difficult position

• être en position de faire qch to be in a position to do sth

• il occupe une position importante he holds an important position

• revoir sa position to review one's position

b. ( = attitude) stance

• prendre position to take a stand

• prendre (fermement) position en faveur de qch to come down (strongly) in favour of sth

• prise de position stand

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pozisjɔ̃
nom féminin

1) ( dans l'espace) position

il faut revoir la position des joueurs — the positioning of the players has to be rethought

en position horizontale/verticale — horizontally/vertically

attention, l'échelle est en position instable — be careful, the ladder isn't steady

2) Armée position

3) ( posture) position

la position des doigts sur une guitare — the positioning of the fingers on a guitar

rien de pire que de rester en position assise toute la journée — there's nothing worse than sitting down all day

4) ( situation) position

une position délicate — a tricky situation

être en position dominante sur le marché — to be a market leader

5) (professionnelle, sociale) position

6) ( au classement) place, position

7) ( point de vue) position, stance

prendre position sur un problème — to take a stand on an issue

prise de position — stance, stand ( sur quelque chose on something)

camper or rester sur ses positions — to stand one's ground

8) Finance (bank) balance

être en position créditrice/débitrice — [compte] to be in credit/debit

9) ( en danse) position

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pozisjɔ̃ nf
1) (= emplacement) position

prendre position (= se poster) — to take up one's position

Les gendarmes venaient de prendre position. — The police had just taken up their positions.

2) (= opinion) position

prendre position (= prendre parti) — to take a stand

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position nf

1 ( dans l'espace) position (de of); la position géographique d'une ville the geographical position of a town; veuillez indiquer votre position Naut, Aviat please state your position; il faut revoir la position des joueurs Sport the positioning of the players has to be rethought; en position horizontale/verticale horizontally/vertically; attention, l'échelle est en position instable be careful, the ladder isn't steady;

2 Mil position; bombarder les positions ennemies to bomb the enemy's positions; la troupe a pris position sur la crête the troop has taken up its position on the ridge;

3 ( posture) position (de of); faire l'amour dans toutes les positions to make love ou have sex in every (possible) position; la position des doigts sur une guitare the positioning of the fingers on a guitar; rien de pire que de rester en position assise toute la journée there's nothing worse than sitting down all day;

4 ( situation) position; placer qn dans une position difficile to put sb in a difficult ou an awkward position; être/se sentir en position de force to be/feel oneself to be in a position of strength; nous ne sommes pas en position de vous aider/d'agir we are in no position to help you/to act; être en position minoritaire/majoritaire to be in the minority/majority; se trouver dans une position délicate to be in a tricky situation; être en position dominante sur le marché to be a market leader;

5 (professionnelle, sociale) position; il occupe une position très en vue he's in a very public position; sa position est très enviée his/her position is widely envied;

6 ( au classement) place, position; être en deuxième/troisième position to be in second/third place ou position;

7 ( point de vue) position, stance; maintenir/durcir sa position to maintain/harden one's position ou stance; définir une position commune to reach a common position; position de principe position ou stance taken on principle; adopter une position de principe to make a stand on principle; revenir sur/réviser ses positions to reconsider/review one's position; prendre position sur un problème to take a stand on an issue; prise de position stance, stand (sur qch on sth); camper or rester sur ses positions to stand one's ground;

8 Fin (bank) balance; demander sa position to ask for the balance of one's account; être en position créditrice/débitrice [compte] to be in credit/debit;

9 Danse position; première/cinquième position first/fifth position.

Composés

position acheteur Fin bull position; position du missionnaire missionary position; position de repli fallback; position vendeur Fin bear position.

[pozisjɔ̃] nom féminin

1. MILITAIRE [lieu d'où l'on mène une action] position

une position dominante a commanding position

position avancée/défensive advanced/defensive position

position clef key position

être en position de combat to be ready to attack

des positions fortifiées a fortified position

position de repli MILITAIRE (figuré) fall-back position

2. [lieu où l'on se trouve] position

déterminer sa position to find one's bearings

déterminer la position de quelque chose to locate something

3. [dans un sondage, une course] position, place

nous sommes en dernière/première position dans le championnat we're bottom of the league/in the lead in the championship

arriver en première/dernière position

a. [coureur] to come first/last

b. [candidat] to come top/be last

ils ont rétrogradé en quatrième position au hit-parade they went down to number four in the charts

4. [posture] posture, position

tu as une mauvaise position you've got bad posture

dans la ou en position verticale when standing up

dans la ou en position allongée when lying down

dans la ou en position assise when sitting, in a sitting position

5. [angle, orientation] position, setting

mettez le siège en position inclinée tilt the seat back

6. [opinion] position, stance, standpoint

prendre position (sur quelque chose) to take a stand ou to take up a position (on something)

prendre position pour ou en faveur de quelque chose to come down in favour of something

prendre position contre quelque chose to come out against something

rester sur ses positions (sens propre & figuré) to stand one's ground, to stick to one's guns

quelle est la position de la France dans ce conflit? what's France's position on this conflict?

position commune POLITIQUE common stance

7. [situation] position, situation

en position de: en position de force in a strong position ou a position of strength

être en position de faire quelque chose to be in a position to do something

[dans une entreprise] position, post

dans sa position, elle devrait se sentir responsable a woman in her position should feel responsible

position sociale social standing

8. BANQUE balance (of account)

position de place BOURSE market position

feuille de position interim statement

9. LINGUISTIQUE [d'un terme, d'une syllabe, d'une voyelle] position

phonème en position forte/faible stressed/unstressed phoneme

10. DANSE position

11. MUSIQUE [accord, doigté] position

12. GÉOMÉTRIE & PSYCHOLOGIE position

13. DROIT status

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de position locution adjectivale

[balise] position (modificateur)

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > position
17 स्कन्द

skandá
m. anything which jumps orﾠ hops (in tṛiṇa-skandá, « grasshopper»

N. of a man) RV. ;
spurting, effusing, effusion, spilling, shedding (cf. á andﾠ ghraṇa-sk-);
perishing, destruction Gīt. ;
quick-silver L. ;
« Attacker»
N. of Kārttikeya (q.v., son of Ṡiva orﾠ of Agni;
he is called god of war as leader of Ṡiva's hosts against the enemies of the gods;
he is alsoﾠ leader of the demons of illness that attack children <cf. - graha>, alsoﾠ god of burglars andﾠ thieves;
cf. - putra andﾠ IW. 427 n. 1) MaitrS. MBh. etc.;
N. of Ṡiva MBh. ;
a king prince L. ;
a clever orﾠ learned man (cf. skandha) L. ;
the body L. ;
the jâ̱di (pl. Saṃskārak.)
- स्कन्दकवच
- स्कन्दगुप्त
- स्कन्दगुरु
- स्कन्दग्रह
- स्कन्दजननी
- स्कन्दजित्
- स्कन्दता
- स्कन्दत्व
- स्कन्ददास
- स्कन्दपुत्र
- स्कन्दपुर
- स्कन्दपुराण
- स्कन्दभट
- स्कन्दभट्ट
- स्कन्दमातृ
- स्कन्दयाग
- स्कन्दयामलतन्त्र
- स्कन्दराज
- स्कन्दवर्मन्
- स्कन्दविशाख
- स्कन्दषष्ठी
- स्कन्दसहस्रनामन्
- स्कन्दस्कारशंकर
- स्कन्दस्तोत्र
- स्कन्दस्वामिन्

Sanskrit-English dictionary > स्कन्द
18 ἡγέομαι

ἡγέομαι

Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `lead, go ahead', posthom. also `think, believe';

Other forms: Dor. ἁγ-, aor. ἡγήσασθαι, fut. ἡγήσομαι (Il.), perf. ἥγημαι, ἅγ- (Hdt., Pi.), aor. pass. ἡγήθην (Pl. Lg. 770b)

Compounds: very often with prefix in different meanings, δι-, εἰσ-, ἐξ-, καθ-, περι-, ὑφ- etc. As 1. member in governing compp., e. g. `Ηγησί-λεως, Άγησί-λαος (Hdt.; also as appellative) - Also ἡγέ-ομαι as 2. member in formations in - της, e. g. κυν-ηγέτης "leader of dogs", `hunter' (Od.), ἀρχ-ηγέτης, f. - τις `who has the power, originator' (Hdt.), partly beside - ηγός and connected with ἄγω, s. Chantraine Et. sur le vocab. gr. 88ff., Sommer 12 w. n. 1. Another compound with σ-stem is περι-ηγής `forming a circle' (Emp., A. R.).

Derivatives: Many derivv., also from the compp. (Dor. forms not sep. noted). Nomina actionis: 1. ἥγησις `leading' (LXX), older and more usual εἰσ-, ἐξ-, δι-, περι-, ὑφ-ήγησις etc. (cf. Holt Les noms d'action en - σις, s. index);. 2. ἥγημα `leading, opinion' (LXX, Pergamon), older and more usual ἀφ-, εἰσ-ήγημα etc. with - ηγημάτιον, - ηγηματικός. Nomina agentis: 3. ἡγεμών, - όνος m. `leader' (Il.; on the formation Schwyzer 522, Fraenkel Glotta 32, 25f,; also from the compp., e. g. καθηγεμών) with ἡγεμονεύω `lead, rule' (Il.; like βασιλεύω), rarely - έω (Pl.; cf. Fraenkel Denom. 184f., Schwyzer 732), ἡγεμον-ία, ἡγεμόνευ-μα, ἡγεμον-ικός a. o.; fem. ἡγεμόνη surname of Artemis a. o. (Call.; Schwyzer 490 n. 4, Sommer Nominalkomp. 145). 4. ` Ηγήμων Att. PN (cf. ἥγημα). 5. ἡγήτωρ, - ορος m. `id.' (Il.), Άγήτωρ surname of Zeus in Sparta (X.), also name of the Aphrodite-priests in Cyprus (E. Kretschmer Glotta 18, 87). 6. ἡγητήρ, - ῆρος m. `id.' (Pi., S.; also ὑφ-, προ-, καθ-ηγητήρ [trag.]) with ( προ-)ἡγήτειρα (A. R.), - τήριος (Ath.). 7. ἡγητής `id.' (A. Supp. 239), usually εἰσ-, ἐξ-, δι-, καθ-, προ-ηγητής (IA); on semantic differentiation of ἡγήτωρ, - ητήρ Benveniste Noms d'agent 46; on ἡγητής Fraenkel Nom. ag. 2, 13. Adj. 8. ( ἐξ-, δι- etc.) ἡγητικός (hell.). - On ἡγηλάζω s. v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [876] * seh₂g- `trace'

Etymology: Iterative present ἡγέομαι, ἁ̄γέομαι, from which all other forms were derived, has a close correspondence in the yot-presents Lat. sāgio `trace, track down' = Germ., e. g. Goth. sokjan `search, attack' (the latter could also be from * sāgeio\/e-). From WestIE. one adduces OIr. saigim, -id `trace something, search', prob a yot-present (from * sh₂g-), s. Thurneysen Grammar 354; for the vowel cf. Lat. săgāx. Uncertain is Hitt. šak-ḫi, -i `know'. - The word may come from the language of hunters, prop. `search'; further Schwyzer 29 and Chantraine l. c.

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Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > ἡγέομαι
19 ведущий звена

flight leader

командир звена — deputy leader

строй звена — flight formation

атака звеньями — attack in flights

фазоопережающее звено — lead network

свинцовое соединительное звено — lead link

Авиация и космонавтика. Русско-английский словарь > ведущий звена
20 guerrillero

adj.

guerrilla.

m.

guerrilla fighter, freedom fighter, guerilla, guerrilla.

* * *

guerrillero

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 guerrilla

* * *
guerrillero, -a
1.

ADJ guerrilla antes de s

líder guerrillero — guerrilla leader

2.

SM / F guerrilla (fighter); (=maqui) partisan

guerrillero/a urbano/a — urban guerrilla

* * *
I
- ra adjetivo guerrilla (before n)
II
- ra masculino, femenino guerrilla

* * *

= freedom fighter, crusading.

Ex. As a freedom fighter at the end of World War 2 he resisted Dutch efforts to regain control of their former colony.

Ex. Jeanneney speaks for himself, in what he says about the Google digital library, but he is no crusading journalist merely grabbing at a headline.

* * *
I
- ra adjetivo guerrilla (before n)
II
- ra masculino, femenino guerrilla

* * *

= freedom fighter, crusading.

Ex: As a freedom fighter at the end of World War 2 he resisted Dutch efforts to regain control of their former colony.

Ex: Jeanneney speaks for himself, in what he says about the Google digital library, but he is no crusading journalist merely grabbing at a headline.

* * *

guerrillero¹ -ra

adjective

guerrilla ( before n)

guerrillero² -ra

masculine, feminine

guerrilla

* * *

guerrillero
◊ -ra sustantivo masculino, femenino

guerrilla

' guerrillero' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
montonero
English:
guerilla
- guerrilla
- partisan
- freedom

* * *

guerrillero, -a

♦ adj

guerrilla;

ataque guerrillero guerrilla attack

♦ nm,f

guerrilla

* * *

guerrillero

m, guerrillera f guerilla

* * *

guerrillero, -ra adj & n

: guerrilla

Spanish-English dictionary > guerrillero

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