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back in 1982

  • 1 back-up

    back-up HYDR/PNEU Rückstau m (Druck)

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  • 2 back

    adj.
    1 trasero(a), de atrás (in space) (part, wheel)
    back number número atrasado
    back pay atrasos, salario atrasado
    back rent alquiler o renta pendiente de pago, atrasos (Am)
    3 anterior.
    4 de la espalda.
    adv.
    1 atrás (in space)
    2 (en retorno, desquite)
    to get one's own back (on somebody) tomarse la revancha (contra alguien), desquitarse (de alguien)
    to get back at somebody vengarse de alguien
    to call somebody back llamar más tarde a alguien
    if you kick me I'll kick you back si me pegas una patada, te la devolveré
    when will she be back? ¿cuándo estará de vuelta?
    back in Britain en Gran Bretaña
    a few pages back unas cuantas páginas atrás
    a few years back hace unos cuantos años
    back when… cuando…, en el tiempo en que…
    back in 1982 allá por 1982
    5 de regreso, de vuelta.
    6 hacia atrás.
    excl.
    abreviatura de: go back -> ve atrás.
    intj.
    atrás.
    s.
    1 espalda (de persona) ; lomo (de animal)
    2 dorso (de página, mano, libro) ; respaldo (de silla) ;
    3 (en futbol, rugby)
    right/left back defensa
    to do something behind somebody's back hacer algo a espaldas de alguien
    to be glad to see the back of somebody alegrarse de perder a alguien de vista
    to have one's back to the wall estar contra las cuerdas
    put your back into it! ¡ponte a hacerlo en serio!
    to break the back of the work hacer la parte más dura del trabajo
    get off my back! (familiar) ¡déjame en paz!, ¡deja de fastidiarme!
    5 parte trasera, parte de atrás.
    6 espaldar, respaldo, espaldar de la silla, respaldo de la silla.
    7 parte de atrás del cuchillo.
    8 espalda del vestido, espalda.
    9 fondo de la sala, fondo del teatro.
    10 revés.
    11 trasdós, curva externa de un arco.
    12 envés, reverso de la tela.
    13 defensa, zaguero, zaga.
    14 Back, comando de explorador que lo devuelve a la página Web inmediatamente anterior.
    s. & adj.
    1 galga de ancla. (Familiar & Marina)
    2 espalda de un bote. (náutica)
    3 fondo (de la sala), defensa, zaga (posición defensiva), zaguero (jugador).
    vt.
    1 respaldar, apoyar (support) ; financiar, dar respaldo financiero a (financially)
    2 apostar por (bet on)
    3 mover hacia atrás (move backward)
    4 echar para atrás, retroceder.
    5 documentar.
    6 venir de retroceso, echar para atrás, retroceder, caminar de retroceso.
    7 endosar, brindar abierto apoyo a, confirmar, respaldar.
    vi.
    retroceder, ir hacia atrás (move backward) ; recular, dar marcha atrás (car, driver) (pt & pp backed)

    Nuevo Diccionario Inglés-Español > back

  • 3 behind someone's back

    (without someone's knowledge or permission: He sometimes bullies his sister behind his mother's back.) birine hisettirmeden, arkasından, ardından

    English-Turkish dictionary > behind someone's back

  • 4 low back pain

    1. douleurs de la région lombaire
    2. douleurs du bas du dos
    3. lombalgies
    4. tour de reins

    English-French medical dictionary > low back pain

  • 5 quedar

    vb
    stay vb, remain vb
    quedarse con dinero (money) keep back

    Spanish-English Business Glossary > quedar

  • 6 bajar

    v.
    1 to take/bring down (poner abajo) (libro, cuadro).
    2 to go/come down (descender) (montaña, escaleras).
    bajó las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran down the stairs as fast as she could
    bajar en ascensor to go/come down in the lift o (British) elevator (United States)
    bajar por la escalera to go/come down the stairs
    bajar (a) por algo to go out and get something
    bajar corriendo to run down
    3 to reduce.
    bajar el fuego (de la cocina) to reduce the heat
    4 to lower (ojos, cabeza, voz).
    5 to download (informal) (computing).
    6 to fall, to drop.
    este modelo ha bajado de precio this model has gone down in price, the price of this model has gone down
    bajó la Bolsa share prices fell
    las acciones de C & C han bajado C & C share prices have fallen
    7 to descend, to come down, to decrease, to drop.
    Bajó el calor The heat descended.
    El hielo bajó la temperatura The ice reduced the temperature.
    8 to step down, to stand down, to climb down, to get down.
    Ricardo bajó del camión Richard stepped down from the truck.
    9 to take down, to discharge, to carry down, to get down.
    Pedro bajó el equipaje Peter took down the luggage.
    10 to put down, to lower, to put in a lower position.
    Ella bajó su mano She put down her hand.
    11 to go down, to descend.
    Ese elevador baja That elevator goes down.
    12 to have less.
    Me bajó la temperatura I have less temperature.
    13 to walk down, to descend.
    Ella bajó el camino al mar She walked down the path to the sea.
    * * *
    1 (coger algo de un lugar alto) to get down, take down
    ■ ¿has bajado las persianas? have you lowered the blinds?
    ■ ese cuadro está muy alto, bájalo un poco that picture's too high, bring it down a bit
    3 (reducir) to lower, reduce, bring down
    4 (reducir en intensidad) to lower; (voz) to lower; (sonido, luz, gas) to turn down
    ■ baja la voz, que te van a oír lower your voice, they'll hear you
    ■ baja la tele un poco, no te oigo turn the telly down, I can't hear you
    ■ baja la calefacción, hace calor turn the heating down, it's hot
    5 (alargar) to lengthen, let down
    6 (recorrer de arriba abajo) to go down, come down
    7 (en informática) to download
    1 (ir abajo - acercándose) to come down; (- alejándose) to go down
    ■ ¡baja de ahí ahora mismo! come down from there right now!
    ■ ¿bajas en ascensor o por la escalera? are you going down in the lift or by the stairs?
    ■ bajó corriendo/volando he ran/flew down
    2 (reducirse) to fall, drop, come down
    3 (hinchazón) to go down; (fiebre) to go down, come down
    4 (marea) to go out
    5 (apearse - de coche) to get out (de, of); (de bicicleta, caballo) to get off (de, -); (de avión, tren, autobús) to get off (de, -)
    1 (ir abajo - acercándose) to come down; (- alejándose) to go down
    2 (apearse - de coche) to get out (de, -); (bicicleta, caballo) to get off (de, -); (avión, tren, autobús) to get off (de, -)
    3 (agacharse) to bend down, bend over
    \
    bajarse la cabeza to bow one's head
    no bajar de... to be at least..., not be less than...
    * * *
    verb
    3) fall
    •
    - bajarse
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=llevar abajo) to take down; (=traer abajo) to bring down

    ¿has bajado la basura? — have you taken the rubbish down?

    ¿me bajas el abrigo?, hace frío aquí fuera — could you bring my coat down? it's cold out here

    ¿me baja a la Plaza Mayor? — [en taxi] could you take me to the Plaza Mayor?

    2) (=mover hacia abajo) [+ bandera, ventanilla] to lower; [+ persiana] to put down, lower
    3) [con partes del cuerpo] [+ brazos] to drop, lower

    bajó la vista o los ojos — he looked down

    bajó la cabeza — she bowed o lowered her head

    4) (=reducir) [+ precio] to lower, put down; [+ fiebre, tensión, voz] to lower
    5) [+ radio, televisión, gas] to turn down

    baja la radio que no oigo nada — turn the radio down, I can't hear a thing

    ¡baja la voz, que no estoy sordo! — keep your voice down, I'm not deaf!

    6)

    bajar la escalera — [visto desde arriba] to go down the stairs; [visto desde abajo] to come down the stairs

    7) (=perder) to lose
    8) (Inform) to download
    9) (=humillar) to humble, humiliate
    10) Caribe ** (=pagar) to cough up *, fork out *
    11) And ** (=matar) to do in **
    2. VI
    1) (=descender) [visto desde arriba] to go down; [visto desde abajo] to come down

    ¡ahora bajo! — I'll be right down!

    2) (=apearse) [de autobús, avión, tren, moto, bici, caballo] to get off; [de coche] to get out

    bajar de — [+ autobús, avión, tren, moto, bici, caballo] to get off; [+ coche] to get out of

    3) (=reducirse) [temperatura, fiebre, tensión arterial] to go down, fall, drop; [hinchazón, calidad] to go down
    4)

    • bajar de (=perder) —

    5)

    • no bajar de (=no ser menos de) —

    6) [regla] to start
    3.
    See:
    BAJAR De vehículos ► Bajar(se) de un vehículo privado o de un taxi se traduce por get out of, mientras que bajar(se) de un vehículo público (tren, autobús, avión {etc}) se traduce por get off: Bajó del coche y nos saludó She got out of the car and said hello No baje del tren en marcha Don't get off the train while it is still moving ► Debe emplearse get off cuando nos referimos a bicicletas, motos y animales de montura: Se bajó de la bicicleta He got off his bicycle Otros verbos de movimiento ► Bajar la escalera/ la cuesta {etc}, por regla general, se suele traducir por come down o por go down, según la dirección del movimiento (hacia o en sentido contrario del hablante), pero come y go se pueden substituir por otros verbos de movimiento si la oración española especifica la forma en que se baja mediante el uso de adverbios o construcciones adverbiales: Bajó las escaleras deprisa y corriendo She rushed down the stairs Bajó la cuesta tranquilamente He ambled down the hill Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go down; ( acercándose) to come down

    espérame, ya bajo — wait for me, I'll be right down

    ¿bajas a la playa con nosotros? — are you coming (down) to the beach with us?

    bajar a + inf — to go/come down to + inf

    b) ( apearse)

    bajar de algo — de tren/avión to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    c) (Dep) equipo to go down
    2)
    a) marea to go out
    b) fiebre/tensión to go down, drop; hinchazón to go down; temperatura to fall, drop

    le ha bajado la fiebre — her fever o temperature has gone down

    c) precio/valor to fall, drop; cotización to fall; calidad to deteriorate; popularidad to diminish
    d) menstruación to start
    2.
    bajar vt
    1) <escalera/cuesta> to go down
    2) <brazo/mano> to put down, lower
    3) (Inf) to download
    4)
    a)

    bajar algo (de algo) — de armario/estante to get sth down (from sth); del piso de arriba to bring/take down sth

    ¿me bajas las llaves? — can you bring down my keys?

    b)

    bajar a algn de algo — de mesa/caballo to get sb off sth

    5)
    a) <persiana/telón> to lower; < ventanilla> to open
    b) < cremallera> to undo
    6) < precio> to lower; < fiebre> to bring down; < volumen> to turn down
    3.
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1) ( apearse)

    bajarse de algo — de tren/autobús to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    2) < pantalones> to take down; < falda> to pull down
    * * *
    = come + downstairs, drop, go down, lower, walk down, ebb, subside, move down, come down, wind + Nombre + down, coast, freewheel, take + a tumble, turn down.
    Ex. Meanwhile the journeymen, who had just gone to bed, hearing the row quickly got up again, came downstairs and then shoved me out of the door.
    Ex. The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
    Ex. Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex. Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex. Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex. Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex. Costs are likely to be high but they will only come down as the system moves into the mass market.
    Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex. Pushing our bicycles up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us.
    Ex. His vehicle freewheeled backwards down a hill and collided with another vehicle heading up the hill.
    Ex. Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.
    Ex. Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
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    * bajar a = head down to.
    * bajar a Alguien del pedestal = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size.
    * bajar de categoría = demote.
    * bajar de precio = come down in + price.
    * bajar el listón = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el precio = lower + price.
    * bajar la calidad = lower + standards.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * bajar la moral = lower + morale.
    * bajar la ventana = wind down + window.
    * bajar la voz = lower + Posesivo + voice.
    * bajarle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + down.
    * bajarle los humos a Alguien = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size, take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails.
    * bajar los precios = roll back + prices.
    * bajar mucho = go + way down.
    * bajarse de = get off.
    * bajarse de las nubes = get real.
    * bajarse del tren = get off + the train.
    * hacer bajar = force down.
    * no bajarse del burro = stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * precio + bajar = price + fall.
    * que baja los humos = humbling.
    * subir y = move up and/or down.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go down; ( acercándose) to come down

    espérame, ya bajo — wait for me, I'll be right down

    ¿bajas a la playa con nosotros? — are you coming (down) to the beach with us?

    bajar a + inf — to go/come down to + inf

    b) ( apearse)

    bajar de algo — de tren/avión to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    c) (Dep) equipo to go down
    2)
    a) marea to go out
    b) fiebre/tensión to go down, drop; hinchazón to go down; temperatura to fall, drop

    le ha bajado la fiebre — her fever o temperature has gone down

    c) precio/valor to fall, drop; cotización to fall; calidad to deteriorate; popularidad to diminish
    d) menstruación to start
    2.
    bajar vt
    1) <escalera/cuesta> to go down
    2) <brazo/mano> to put down, lower
    3) (Inf) to download
    4)
    a)

    bajar algo (de algo) — de armario/estante to get sth down (from sth); del piso de arriba to bring/take down sth

    ¿me bajas las llaves? — can you bring down my keys?

    b)

    bajar a algn de algo — de mesa/caballo to get sb off sth

    5)
    a) <persiana/telón> to lower; < ventanilla> to open
    b) < cremallera> to undo
    6) < precio> to lower; < fiebre> to bring down; < volumen> to turn down
    3.
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1) ( apearse)

    bajarse de algo — de tren/autobús to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    2) < pantalones> to take down; < falda> to pull down
    * * *
    = come + downstairs, drop, go down, lower, walk down, ebb, subside, move down, come down, wind + Nombre + down, coast, freewheel, take + a tumble, turn down.

    Ex: Meanwhile the journeymen, who had just gone to bed, hearing the row quickly got up again, came downstairs and then shoved me out of the door.

    Ex: The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
    Ex: Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex: Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex: Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex: Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex: Costs are likely to be high but they will only come down as the system moves into the mass market.
    Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex: Pushing our bicycles up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us.
    Ex: His vehicle freewheeled backwards down a hill and collided with another vehicle heading up the hill.
    Ex: Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.
    Ex: Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
    * bajar a = head down to.
    * bajar a Alguien del pedestal = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size.
    * bajar de categoría = demote.
    * bajar de precio = come down in + price.
    * bajar el listón = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el precio = lower + price.
    * bajar la calidad = lower + standards.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * bajar la moral = lower + morale.
    * bajar la ventana = wind down + window.
    * bajar la voz = lower + Posesivo + voice.
    * bajarle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + down.
    * bajarle los humos a Alguien = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size, take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails.
    * bajar los precios = roll back + prices.
    * bajar mucho = go + way down.
    * bajarse de = get off.
    * bajarse de las nubes = get real.
    * bajarse del tren = get off + the train.
    * hacer bajar = force down.
    * no bajarse del burro = stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * precio + bajar = price + fall.
    * que baja los humos = humbling.
    * subir y = move up and/or down.

    * * *
    bajar [A1 ]
    vi
    A
    1 «ascensor/persona» (alejándose) to go down; (acercándose) to come down
    yo bajo por la escalera I'll walk down o take the stairs
    espérame, ya bajo wait for me, I'll be right down
    ¿bajas a la playa? are you coming (down) to the beach?
    bajar A + INF to go/come down to + INF
    bajó a saludarnos he came down to say hello
    todavía no ha bajado a desayunar she hasn't come down for breakfast yet
    ha bajado a comprar cigarrillos he's gone down to buy some cigarettes
    2 (apearse) bajar DE algo ‹de un tren/un avión› to get off sth; ‹de un coche› to get out OF sth; ‹de un caballo/una bicicleta› to get off sth, dismount FROM sth
    me caí al bajar del autobús I fell as I was getting off the bus
    yo no bajo, me quedo en el coche I'm not getting out, I'll stay in the car
    no sabe bajar sola del caballo she can't get down off the horse o dismount on her own
    3 ( Dep) «equipo» to go down, be relegated
    4
    «río/aguas» (+ compl): el río baja crecido the river is (running) high
    B
    1 «marea» to go out
    2 «fiebre/tensión» to go down, drop, fall; «hinchazón» to go down
    han bajado mucho las temperaturas temperatures have fallen o dropped sharply
    no le ha bajado la fiebre her fever o ( BrE) temperature hasn't gone down
    3 «precio/valor» to fall, drop; «cotización» to fall
    el dólar bajó ligeramente the dollar slipped back o fell slightly
    nuestro volumen de ventas no ha bajado our turnover hasn't fallen o dropped o decreased
    los precios bajaron en un 25% prices fell by 25%
    los ordenadores están bajando de precio computers are going down in price
    ha bajado mucho la calidad del producto the quality of the product has deteriorated badly
    su popularidad ha bajado últimamente her popularity has diminished recently
    seguro que no baja de los dos millones I bet it won't be o cost less than two million
    ha bajado mucho en mi estima he's gone down o fallen a lot in my estimation
    4 «período/menstruación» (+ me/te/le etc) to start
    5
    ( Chi fam) (entrar) (+ me/te/le etc): con el vino le bajó un sueño tremendo the wine made him incredibly sleepy
    al escuchar tanta estupidez nos bajó una rabia … listening to such nonsense made us so angry …
    ■ bajar
    vt
    A ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    bajó la cuesta corriendo she ran down the hill
    B
    1 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    bajó la cabeza/mirada avergonzado he bowed his head/lowered o dropped his eyes in shame
    2 (de un armario, estante) to get down; (de una planta, habitación) to bring/take down
    me ayudó a bajar la maleta he helped me to get my suitcase down
    ¿me bajas las llaves? can you bring down my keys?
    hay que bajar estas botellas al sótano we have to take these bottles down to the basement
    bajar algo/a algn DE algo to get sth/sb down FROM sth
    bájame la caja del estante get the box down from the shelf (for me)
    bájalo de la mesa/del caballo get him down off the table/horse
    3 ‹persiana/telón› to lower
    ¿me bajas la cremallera? will you undo my zipper ( AmE) o ( BrE) zip for me?
    le bajó los pantalones para ponerle una inyección she took his pants ( AmE) o ( BrE) trousers down to give him an injection
    tengo que bajarle el dobladillo I have to let the hem down
    baja la ventanilla open the window
    C ‹precio› to lower; ‹fiebre› to bring down; ‹radio› to turn down
    bájale el volumen or ( Col) al volumen turn the volume down
    baja la calefacción/el gas turn the heating/the gas down
    baja la voz lower your voice
    lo bajaron de categoría it was downgraded o demoted
    D ( Inf) to download
    estoy bajando música a la computadora ( AmL) or al ordenador ( Esp) I'm downloading music to my computer
    A (apearse) bajarse DE algo ‹de un tren/un autobús› to get off sth; ‹de un coche› to get out OF sth; ‹de un caballo/una bicicleta› to get off sth, dismount FROM sth
    me bajo en la próxima I'm getting off at the next stop
    ¡bájate del muro! get down off the wall!
    B ‹pantalones› to take down, pull down; ‹falda› to pull down
    C
    1 (Arg, Col arg) (liquidar) to rub out (sl)
    2 ( Arg arg) (tener relaciones sexuales con) to score with (sl)
    * * *

     

    bajar ( conjugate bajar) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [ascensor/persona] ( alejándose) to go down;

    ( acercándose) to come down;
    ◊ bajar por las escaleras to go/come down the stairs;

    ya bajo I'll be right down
    b) ( apearse) bajar de algo ‹de tren/avión› to get off sth;

    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth
    c) (Dep) [ equipo] to go down

    2

    b) [fiebre/tensión] to go down, drop;

    [ hinchazón] to go down;
    [ temperatura] to fall, drop
    c) [precio/valor] to fall, drop;

    [ calidad] to deteriorate;
    [ popularidad] to diminish;

    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    2 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    3
    a) bajar algo (de algo) ‹de armario/estante› to get sth down (from sth);

    ‹ del piso de arriba› ( traer) to bring sth down (from sth);
    ( llevar) to take sth down (to sth)
    b) bajar a algn de algo ‹de mesa/caballo› to get sb off sth

    4
    a) ‹persiana/telón› to lower;

    ‹ ventanilla› to open

    5 ‹ precio› to lower;
    ‹ fiebre› to bring down;
    ‹ volumen› to turn down;
    ‹ voz› to lower
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( apearse) bajarse de algo ‹de tren/autobús› to get off sth;
    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth;
    ‹de pared/árbol› to get down off sth
    2 ‹ pantalones› to take down;
    ‹ falda› to pull down
    bajar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (descender) to come o go down: bajé corriendo la cuesta, I ran downhill ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (llevar algo abajo) to bring o get o take down: baja los disfraces del trastero, bring the costumes down from the attic
    3 (un telón) to lower
    (una persiana) to let down
    (la cabeza) to bow o lower
    4 (reducir el volumen) to turn down
    (la voz) to lower
    5 (los precios, etc) to reduce, cut
    6 (ropa, dobladillo) tengo que bajar el vestido, I've got to let the hem down
    7 Mús tienes que bajar un tono, you've got to go down a tone
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to go o come down: bajamos al bar, we went down to the bar
    2 (apearse de un tren, un autobús) to get off
    (de un coche) to get out [de, of]: tienes que bajarte en la siguiente parada, you've got to get off at the next stop
    3 (disminuir la temperatura, los precios) to fall, drop: ha bajado su cotización en la bolsa, its share prices have dropped in the stock exchange
    ' bajar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abaratarse
    - basura
    - descender
    - guardia
    - irse
    - a
    - bandera
    - hundir
    - mirada
    - poder
    - vista
    - volumen
    English:
    boil over
    - bow
    - bring down
    - climb down
    - come down
    - decline
    - decrease
    - deflate
    - descend
    - dip
    - down
    - downgrade
    - downstairs
    - draw
    - drop
    - fall
    - force down
    - get down
    - get off
    - go below
    - go down
    - guard
    - hang
    - heave
    - inflammation
    - jump down
    - jump off
    - let down
    - let off
    - lift down
    - lower
    - mark down
    - move down
    - pull down
    - relegate
    - send down
    - slide down
    - slip
    - slip down
    - spiral down
    - steeply
    - subside
    - swoop
    - take down
    - turn down
    - walk down
    - wind down
    - bring
    - can
    - come
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [poner abajo] [libro, cuadro] to take/bring down;
    [telón, persiana] to lower; [ventanilla] to wind down, to open;
    he bajado la enciclopedia de la primera a la última estantería I've moved the encyclopedia down from the top shelf to the bottom one;
    ayúdame a bajar la caja [desde lo alto] help me get the box down;
    [al piso de abajo] help me carry the box downstairs
    2. [ojos, cabeza, mano] to lower;
    bajó la cabeza con resignación she lowered o bowed her head in resignation
    3. [descender] [montaña, escaleras] to go/come down;
    bajó las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran down the stairs as fast as she could;
    bajó la calle a todo correr he ran down the street as fast as he could
    4. [reducir] [inflación, hinchazón] to reduce;
    [precios] to lower, to cut; [música, volumen, radio] to turn down; [fiebre] to bring down;
    bajar el fuego (de la cocina) to reduce the heat;
    bajar el tono to lower one's voice;
    bajar la moral a alguien to cause sb's spirits to drop;
    bajar los bríos o [m5] humos a alguien to take sb down a peg or two
    5. [hacer descender de categoría] to demote
    6. Fam Informát to download
    7. Carib Fam [pagar] to cough up, to pay up
    ♦ vi
    1. [apearse] [de coche] to get out;
    [de moto, bicicleta, tren, avión] to get off; [de caballo] to dismount; [de árbol, escalera, silla] to get/come down;
    bajar de [de coche] to get out of;
    [de moto, bicicleta, tren, avión] to get off; [de caballo] to get off, to dismount; [de árbol, escalera, silla, mesa] to get/come down from;
    es peligroso bajar de un tren en marcha it is dangerous to jump off a train while it is still moving;
    bajar a tierra [desde barco] to go on shore;
    bajo en la próxima parada I'm getting off at the next stop
    2. [descender] to go/come down;
    ¿podrías bajar aquí un momento? could you come down here a minute?;
    tenemos que bajar a sacar la basura we have to go down to put the Br rubbish o US trash out;
    bajo enseguida I'll be down in a minute;
    bajar corriendo to run down;
    bajar en ascensor to go/come down in the Br lift o US elevator;
    bajar por la escalera to go/come down the stairs;
    bajar (a) por algo to go down and get sth;
    ha bajado a comprar el periódico she's gone out o down to get the paper;
    bajar a desayunar to go/come down for breakfast;
    el río baja crecido the river is high;
    está bajando la marea the tide is going out;
    el jefe ha bajado mucho en mi estima the boss has gone down a lot in my estimation
    3. [disminuir] to fall, to drop;
    [fiebre, hinchazón] to go/come down; [cauce] to go down, to fall;
    los precios bajaron prices dropped;
    bajó la gasolina the price of Br petrol o US gasoline fell;
    el euro bajó frente a la libra the euro fell against the pound;
    bajó la Bolsa esp Br share o esp US stock prices fell;
    las acciones de C & C han bajado C & C esp Br share o esp US stock prices have fallen;
    han bajado las ventas sales are down;
    este modelo ha bajado de precio this model has gone down in price, the price of this model has gone down;
    el coste total no bajará del millón the total cost will not be less than o under a million;
    no bajará de tres horas it will take at least three hours, it won't take less than three hours
    4. Fam [ir, venir] to go/come down;
    bajaré a la capital la próxima semana I'll be going down to the capital next week;
    ¿por qué no bajas a vernos este fin de semana? why don't you come down to see us this weekend?
    5. [descender de categoría] to be demoted (a to); Dep to be relegated, to go down (a to);
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 voz, precio lower;
    bajar la mirada lower one’s eyes o gaze, look down;
    bajar algo de arriba get sth down
    2 TV, radio turn down
    3 escalera go down
    4 INFOR download
    II v/i
    1 go down
    2 de intereses fall, drop
    * * *
    bajar vt
    1) descender: to lower, to let down, to take down
    2) reducir: to reduce (prices)
    3) inclinar: to lower, to bow (the head)
    4) : to go down, to descend
    5)
    bajar de categoría : to downgrade
    bajar vi
    1) : to drop, to fall
    2) : to come down, to go down
    3) : to ebb (of tides)
    * * *
    bajar vb
    1. (ir abajo) to go down
    2. (descender) to drop [pt. & pp. dropped] / to fall [pt. fell; pp. fallen] / to go down
    3. (salir de un coche) to get out
    ¡bájate del coche! get out of the car!
    4. (salir de un tren, autobús) to get off
    5. (llevar abajo) to get down / to take down [pt. took; pp. taken]
    ¿me bajas la maleta? can you get my suitcase down?
    6. (traer abajo) to bring down [pt. & pp. brought]
    ¿me bajas el bolso? can you bring my bag down?
    7. (voz, vista) to lower
    8. (cabeza) to bow
    9. (volumen) to turn down
    baja la música, por favor turn the music down, please

    Spanish-English dictionary > bajar

  • 7 difundir

    v.
    1 to spread (noticia, doctrina, epidemia).
    2 to spread out, to broadcast, to blaze abroad, to diffuse.
    La prensa difunde las noticias The press spreads out the news.
    El cono difundía energía The cone diffused energy.
    * * *
    1 (luz, calor) to diffuse
    2 figurado (noticia, enfermedad) to spread
    3 RADIO TELEVISIÓN to broadcast
    1 (luz, calor) to be diffused
    2 figurado (noticia, enfermedad) to spread
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=extender) [+ calor, luz] to diffuse; [+ gas] to give off
    2) (=propagar) [+ programa, imagen] to broadcast, transmit; [+ teoría, ideología] to spread, disseminate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <noticia/rumor> to spread; <ideas/doctrina> to spread, disseminate; < comunicado> to issue
    * * *
    = disseminate, promulgate, publicise [publicize, -USA], report, diffuse, propagate out to, cascade, propagate, bruit, trumpet.
    Ex. The UKLDS or the UK Library Database System is a proposal from the Cooperative Automation Group (CAG) which was first disseminated in a discussion paper published in 1982.
    Ex. This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex. A variety of extension activities, such as book clubs, competitions and quizzes also help to publicize the stock and the work of the library.
    Ex. Criticism is not appropriate in a style which aims to report, but not comment upon the content of the original document.
    Ex. As everywhere, research in library and information science in Australia is diffused over the myriad topics that make up the field.
    Ex. We must develop and study intelligent interfaces that propagate out to the information universe and report back to us.
    Ex. This project is designed to provide a network of practising librarians with a programme in educational methods and skills which can then be disseminated, or ' cascaded', to a wider network of professional colleagues.
    Ex. The update, once started, propagates through the database, respecting local integrity rules for each affected object.
    Ex. Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex. Just weeks after trumpeting the results of a military offensive, the Pakistan army suddenly finds itself under attack on multiple fronts.
    ----
    * difundir buena imagen de = earn + credit for.
    * difundir el conocimiento = spread + knowledge.
    * difundir el evangelio = spread + the gospel.
    * difundir información = hand out + information.
    * difundir la imagen = spread + the good word, pass on + the good word.
    * difundir la noticia = spread + the word, spread + the good word, pass on + the good word, spread + the news.
    * difundir mentiras = spread + lies.
    * difundir noticias = broadcast + news.
    * difundirse = find + Posesivo + way, percolate.
    * difundir una idea = spread + view, spread + an idea, circulate + Posesivo + idea.
    * difundir un rumor = spread + rumour.
    * noticias + difundirse = news + spread.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo <noticia/rumor> to spread; <ideas/doctrina> to spread, disseminate; < comunicado> to issue
    * * *
    = disseminate, promulgate, publicise [publicize, -USA], report, diffuse, propagate out to, cascade, propagate, bruit, trumpet.

    Ex: The UKLDS or the UK Library Database System is a proposal from the Cooperative Automation Group (CAG) which was first disseminated in a discussion paper published in 1982.

    Ex: This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex: A variety of extension activities, such as book clubs, competitions and quizzes also help to publicize the stock and the work of the library.
    Ex: Criticism is not appropriate in a style which aims to report, but not comment upon the content of the original document.
    Ex: As everywhere, research in library and information science in Australia is diffused over the myriad topics that make up the field.
    Ex: We must develop and study intelligent interfaces that propagate out to the information universe and report back to us.
    Ex: This project is designed to provide a network of practising librarians with a programme in educational methods and skills which can then be disseminated, or ' cascaded', to a wider network of professional colleagues.
    Ex: The update, once started, propagates through the database, respecting local integrity rules for each affected object.
    Ex: Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex: Just weeks after trumpeting the results of a military offensive, the Pakistan army suddenly finds itself under attack on multiple fronts.
    * difundir buena imagen de = earn + credit for.
    * difundir el conocimiento = spread + knowledge.
    * difundir el evangelio = spread + the gospel.
    * difundir información = hand out + information.
    * difundir la imagen = spread + the good word, pass on + the good word.
    * difundir la noticia = spread + the word, spread + the good word, pass on + the good word, spread + the news.
    * difundir mentiras = spread + lies.
    * difundir noticias = broadcast + news.
    * difundirse = find + Posesivo + way, percolate.
    * difundir una idea = spread + view, spread + an idea, circulate + Posesivo + idea.
    * difundir un rumor = spread + rumour.
    * noticias + difundirse = news + spread.

    * * *
    difundir [I1 ]
    vt
    ‹noticia/rumor› to spread; ‹ideas/doctrina› to spread, diffuse, disseminate
    difundían el temor entre la población they were spreading fear among the population
    se difundió un comunicado desmintiendo el rumor a communiqué was issued denying the rumor
    la noticia fue difundida por la radio the news was broadcast on the radio
    una institución que se encarga de difundir la cultura an institution responsible for disseminating culture
    son creencias difundidas en esta región such beliefs are widespread in this area
    la lámpara difundía una luz tenue the lamp gave off a dim light
    * * *

     

    difundir ( conjugate difundir) verbo transitivo ‹noticia/rumor› to spread;
    ‹ideas/doctrina› to spread, disseminate;
    ‹ cultura› to disseminate;
    ‹ comunicado› to issue;
    ( por radio) to disseminate;

    difundir vtr, difundirse verbo reflexivo to spread

    ' difundir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    difundirse
    - sembrar
    English:
    bandy about
    - broadcast
    - diffuse
    - propagate
    - radiate
    - spread
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [divulgar] [noticia, pánico, religión] to spread;
    [comunicado, informe] to publish; [cultura, costumbres] to spread, to diffuse
    2. [sujeto: emisora radiofónica, canal televisivo] to broadcast;
    una cadena argentina difundió las imágenes an Argentinian channel broadcast the pictures
    3. [extender] [epidemia, olor] to spread;
    [sonido, ondas] to diffuse, to propagate;
    la estufa difunde muy bien el calor the stove heats the place up well
    * * *
    v/t
    1 spread
    2 programa broadcast
    * * *
    1) : to diffuse, to spread out
    2) : to broadcast, to spread
    * * *
    1. (en general) to spread [pt. & pp. spread]
    2. (radio, televisión) to broadcast [pt. & pp. broadcast]

    Spanish-English dictionary > difundir

  • 8 presupuesto

    adj.
    presupposed, estimated.
    m.
    1 budget, estimate.
    2 presupposition.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: presuponer.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: presupuestar.
    * * *
    1 (en finanzas, política) budget; (de una obra, reparación) estimate
    2 (supuesto) assumption
    ————————
    1→ link=presuponer presuponer
    1 (en finanzas, política) budget; (de una obra, reparación) estimate
    2 (supuesto) assumption
    \
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Econ) budget
    2) [para obra, encargo etc] estimate
    3) (=supuesto) premise, assumption
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Fin) budget

    presupuestos generales del Estado — state/national budget

    b) ( precio estimado) estimate

    pedir/hacer un presupuesto — to ask for/give an estimate

    2) ( supuesto) assumption, supposition
    * * *
    = assumption, budget, presumption, presupposition [pre-supposition], quotation, financial statement, budget dollar, purse strings, budget allocation, budgetary allocation, quote.
    Ex. Also, in controlled indexing language data bases, there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus.
    Ex. Factors here may be: total budget available for the production of abstracts.
    Ex. Some of these presumptions have served only to perpetuate misconceptions of collection.
    Ex. Computers hold pre-defined and fixed presuppositions, whilst those of humans are unpredictable.
    Ex. When costing, the quotation given seriously underestimated the time needed for the job = Cuando se calculó el costo, el presupuesto que se dio subestimó en gran medida el tiempo necesario para hacer el trabajo.
    Ex. These include an explanatory memorandum which sets out the background of the proposal, and usually also a financial statement of likely budget expenditure.
    Ex. The library and information sectors have to escalate their fight for every budget dollar, and some struggle to justify their very existence.
    Ex. The problem is spreading rapidly, affecting people at all levels of society some of whom control the fate and purse strings of libraries.
    Ex. If there is no policy of standardization, the librarian will be free to choose any suitable system within the budget allocation.
    Ex. The figures in brackets are the percentages of the 1982 budgetary allocations for research.
    Ex. This is the most cost-effective method of acquisition because of the opportunity to choose the least expensive quote from multiple quotes through increasing purchasing power.
    ----
    * administrar el presupuesto = manage + funds.
    * agotar el presupuesto = drain + budget.
    * asignación de presupuesto = budgeting.
    * asignar un presupuesto = allocate + funds.
    * aumentar el presupuesto = add + monies to + budget.
    * austeridad de los presupuestos = budgetary stringency.
    * basarse en + presupuesto = assumption + undergird.
    * confección del presupuesto = budgeting.
    * congelación de los presupuestos = budget freeze.
    * congelar el presupuesto = freeze + budget.
    * controlar el presupuesto = control + the purse strings.
    * control de los presupuestos = budgetary control.
    * con un presupuesto limitado = low-budget.
    * con un presupuesto muy exiguo = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con un presupuesto reducido = low-budget.
    * dado a recortar presupuestos = budget-cutting.
    * elaboración del presupuesto = budgeting process.
    * elaboración de presupuesto = budgeting.
    * encargado de hacer el presupuesto = budgetmaker.
    * encargarse del presupuesto = control + the purse strings.
    * equilibrar el presupuesto = balance + the budget.
    * exceso en el presupuesto = budget overrun, overrun [over-run], cost overrun.
    * hacer un presupuesto = cost.
    * inflar un presupuesto = pad + a budget.
    * limitación del presupuesto = budget constraint.
    * partir de presupuestos = make + assumption.
    * presupuesto asignado por actividades = performance budget.
    * presupuesto asignado según una fórmula = formula budget.
    * presupuesto cada vez más pequeño = shrinking budget.
    * presupuesto cada vez menor = shrinking budget.
    * presupuesto congelado = stagnant budget, frozen budget.
    * presupuesto de adquisiciones = acquisitions budget.
    * presupuesto de base cero = zero-base(d) budgeting (ZZB), zero-base(d) budget.
    * presupuesto desglosado por partidas = programme budget, programme budgetting.
    * presupuesto detallado = line item budget.
    * presupuesto exiguo = shoestring budget.
    * presupuesto extraordinario = capital grant.
    * presupuesto global = lump sum budget.
    * presupuesto para adquisición de material = capital budget.
    * presupuesto para gastos de funcionamiento = operating budget, operating funds.
    * presupuesto para la compra de libros = book funds [bookfunds].
    * presupuesto para la compra de material = materials budget.
    * presupuesto para libros = book budget.
    * presupuesto precario = shoestring budget.
    * presupuesto público = public funding.
    * presupuestos = funding.
    * presupuestos de la mayoría = majority assumptions.
    * presupuestos públicos = state finance.
    * proceso de asignación de presupuestos = budgetary process.
    * recortar el presupuesto = cut back + budget, cut + budget, squeeze + budget.
    * recorte del presupuesto = budgetary constraint, funding cut.
    * recorte de presupuesto = cut in budget.
    * recorte en el presupuesto = funding cut.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * sin exceder el presupuesto = budgetable.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Fin) budget

    presupuestos generales del Estado — state/national budget

    b) ( precio estimado) estimate

    pedir/hacer un presupuesto — to ask for/give an estimate

    2) ( supuesto) assumption, supposition
    * * *
    = assumption, budget, presumption, presupposition [pre-supposition], quotation, financial statement, budget dollar, purse strings, budget allocation, budgetary allocation, quote.

    Ex: Also, in controlled indexing language data bases, there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus.

    Ex: Factors here may be: total budget available for the production of abstracts.
    Ex: Some of these presumptions have served only to perpetuate misconceptions of collection.
    Ex: Computers hold pre-defined and fixed presuppositions, whilst those of humans are unpredictable.
    Ex: When costing, the quotation given seriously underestimated the time needed for the job = Cuando se calculó el costo, el presupuesto que se dio subestimó en gran medida el tiempo necesario para hacer el trabajo.
    Ex: These include an explanatory memorandum which sets out the background of the proposal, and usually also a financial statement of likely budget expenditure.
    Ex: The library and information sectors have to escalate their fight for every budget dollar, and some struggle to justify their very existence.
    Ex: The problem is spreading rapidly, affecting people at all levels of society some of whom control the fate and purse strings of libraries.
    Ex: If there is no policy of standardization, the librarian will be free to choose any suitable system within the budget allocation.
    Ex: The figures in brackets are the percentages of the 1982 budgetary allocations for research.
    Ex: This is the most cost-effective method of acquisition because of the opportunity to choose the least expensive quote from multiple quotes through increasing purchasing power.
    * administrar el presupuesto = manage + funds.
    * agotar el presupuesto = drain + budget.
    * asignación de presupuesto = budgeting.
    * asignar un presupuesto = allocate + funds.
    * aumentar el presupuesto = add + monies to + budget.
    * austeridad de los presupuestos = budgetary stringency.
    * basarse en + presupuesto = assumption + undergird.
    * confección del presupuesto = budgeting.
    * congelación de los presupuestos = budget freeze.
    * congelar el presupuesto = freeze + budget.
    * controlar el presupuesto = control + the purse strings.
    * control de los presupuestos = budgetary control.
    * con un presupuesto limitado = low-budget.
    * con un presupuesto muy exiguo = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con un presupuesto reducido = low-budget.
    * dado a recortar presupuestos = budget-cutting.
    * elaboración del presupuesto = budgeting process.
    * elaboración de presupuesto = budgeting.
    * encargado de hacer el presupuesto = budgetmaker.
    * encargarse del presupuesto = control + the purse strings.
    * equilibrar el presupuesto = balance + the budget.
    * exceso en el presupuesto = budget overrun, overrun [over-run], cost overrun.
    * hacer un presupuesto = cost.
    * inflar un presupuesto = pad + a budget.
    * limitación del presupuesto = budget constraint.
    * partir de presupuestos = make + assumption.
    * presupuesto asignado por actividades = performance budget.
    * presupuesto asignado según una fórmula = formula budget.
    * presupuesto cada vez más pequeño = shrinking budget.
    * presupuesto cada vez menor = shrinking budget.
    * presupuesto congelado = stagnant budget, frozen budget.
    * presupuesto de adquisiciones = acquisitions budget.
    * presupuesto de base cero = zero-base(d) budgeting (ZZB), zero-base(d) budget.
    * presupuesto desglosado por partidas = programme budget, programme budgetting.
    * presupuesto detallado = line item budget.
    * presupuesto exiguo = shoestring budget.
    * presupuesto extraordinario = capital grant.
    * presupuesto global = lump sum budget.
    * presupuesto para adquisición de material = capital budget.
    * presupuesto para gastos de funcionamiento = operating budget, operating funds.
    * presupuesto para la compra de libros = book funds [bookfunds].
    * presupuesto para la compra de material = materials budget.
    * presupuesto para libros = book budget.
    * presupuesto precario = shoestring budget.
    * presupuesto público = public funding.
    * presupuestos = funding.
    * presupuestos de la mayoría = majority assumptions.
    * presupuestos públicos = state finance.
    * proceso de asignación de presupuestos = budgetary process.
    * recortar el presupuesto = cut back + budget, cut + budget, squeeze + budget.
    * recorte del presupuesto = budgetary constraint, funding cut.
    * recorte de presupuesto = cut in budget.
    * recorte en el presupuesto = funding cut.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * sin exceder el presupuesto = budgetable.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Fin) budget
    presupuestos generales del Estado state/national budget
    pedir/hacer un presupuesto to ask for/give an estimate
    B (supuesto) assumption, supposition
    parten de unos presupuestos falsos they are basing their theory on false assumptions o premises
    * * *

     

    Del verbo presuponer: ( conjugate presuponer)

    presupuesto es:

    el participio

    Del verbo presupuestar: ( conjugate presupuestar)

    presupuesto es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    presupuestó es:

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

    Multiple Entries:
    presuponer    
    presupuestar    
    presupuesto
    presuponer ( conjugate presuponer) verbo transitivo
    to presuppose (frml), assume
    presupuesto sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (Fin) budget



    2 ( supuesto) assumption, supposition
    presuponer verbo transitivo to presuppose, assume
    presupuestar verbo transitivo
    1 (incluir en un presupuesto) to budget for
    2 (calcular gastos, ingresos) to estimate for
    presupuesto sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin budget
    2 (cálculo aproximado) estimate, (más detallado) quote
    3 (presuposición) supposition, assumption
    Estimate es el presupuesto que pides antes de encargar algún trabajo en un taller, tienda, etc. Budget es el presupuesto que te sirve para planificar tus gastos.
    ' presupuesto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ajustada
    - ajustado
    - compromiso
    - consignar
    - contrapartida
    - dar
    - estiramiento
    - hinchar
    - holgada
    - holgado
    - inflar
    - militar
    - nivelar
    - partida
    - presupuestar
    - reforma
    - cotización
    - reducido
    - salir
    English:
    allocate
    - balance
    - budget
    - estimate
    - low-budget
    - quotation
    - quote
    - sales budget
    - B
    - leeway
    * * *
    presupuesto, -a
    ♦ participio
    ver presuponer
    ♦ nm
    1. [dinero disponible] budget
    presupuestos (generales) del Estado state budget, national budget
    2. [cálculo de costes] estimate;
    pedir (un) presupuesto to ask for an estimate;
    me han dado un presupuesto de dos millones they've given me an estimate of two million
    3. [suposición] assumption
    * * *
    I part → presuponer
    II m POL budget
    * * *
    1) : budget, estimate
    2) : assumption, supposition
    * * *
    antes de pintar el piso, pidió varios presupuestos before having the flat painted, she got several estimates

    Spanish-English dictionary > presupuesto

  • 9 subir

    v.
    1 to go/come up (ascender) (calle, escaleras).
    subió las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran up o climbed the stairs as fast as she could
    subir por la escalera to go/come up the stairs
    2 to lift up (poner arriba).
    3 to put up, to increase (increase) (precio, peso).
    La empresa sube los precios The company increases the prices.
    Me subió la calentura My fever increased.
    4 to raise (alzar) (mano, bandera, voz).
    El chico sube la cama The boy raises the bed.
    5 to raise the pitch of (Music).
    6 to go up, to rise (increase) (precio, temperatura).
    El elevador sube The elevator climbs.
    7 to get on (montar) (en avión, barco).
    sube al coche get into the car
    9 to walk up, to climb.
    Ella subió el sendero She walked up the path.
    * * *
    1 (ir hacia arriba - gen) to go up, come up; (- avión) to climb
    2 (en un vehículo - coche) to get in; (autobús, avión, barco, tren) to get on, get onto
    ■ ¡venga, sube! go on, get in!
    3 (montar - bicicleta) to get on; (- caballo) to get on, mount
    4 (a un árbol) to climb up
    5 figurado (elevarse, aumentar) to rise
    6 figurado (categoría, puesto) to be promoted
    7 figurado (cuenta) to come (a, to)
    1 (escaleras, calle) to go up, climb; (montaña) to climb
    2 (mover arriba) to carry up, take up, bring up; (poner arriba) to put upstairs
    3 (cabeza etc) to lift, raise
    4 (pared) to raise
    5 COSTURA to take up
    6 figurado (precio, salario, etc) to raise, put up
    8 figurado (color) to strengthen
    1 (piso, escalera) to go up
    2 (árbol, muro, etc) to climb up (a, -)
    3 (en un vehículo - coche) to get in (a, -); (autobús) to get on (a, -); (avión, barco, tren) to get on (a, -), get onto (a,-)
    ■ ¡súbete, súbete al coche! get in, get into the car!
    4 (en animales, bicicleta) to get on (a, -), mount
    5 (ropa, calcetines) to pull up; (cremallera) to do up, zip up; (mangas) to roll up
    \
    subir a bordo to get on board
    subir al trono figurado to ascend to the throne
    subir como la espuma familiar to spread like wildfire
    * * *
    verb
    1) to increase, rise
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=levantar) [+ pierna, brazo, objeto] to lift, lift up, raise; [+ calcetines, pantalones, persianas] to pull up

    sube los brazos — lift your arms (up), raise your arms

    2) (=poner arriba) [llevando] to take up; [trayendo] to bring up

    ¿me puedes ayudar a subir las maletas? — can you help me to take up the cases?

    ¿puedes subir ese cuadro de abajo? — could you bring that picture up from down there?

    3) (=ascender) [+ calle, cuesta, escalera, montaña] (=ir arriba) to go up; (=venir arriba) to come up
    4) (=aumentar) [+ precio, salario] to put up, raise, increase; [+ artículo en venta] to put up the price of

    van a subir la gasolina — they are going to put up o increase the price of petrol

    5) (=elevar) [+ volumen, televisión, radio] to turn up; [+ voz] to raise

    sube la radio, que no se oye — turn the radio up, I can't hear it

    6) [en escalafón] [+ persona] to promote
    7) (Arquit) to put up, build

    subir una pared — to put up o build a wall

    8) (Mús) to raise the pitch of
    2. VI
    1) (=ir arriba) to go up; (=venir arriba) to come up; [en un monte, en el aire] to climb

    sube, que te voy a enseñar unos discos — come up, I've got some records to show you

    2) (Transportes) [en autobús, avión, tren, bicicleta, moto, caballo] to get on; [en coche, taxi] to get in

    subir a un autobús/avión/tren — to get on(to) a bus/plane/train

    subir a un caballo — to mount a horse, get on(to) a horse

    subir a bordo — to go o get on board

    3) [en el escalafón] to be promoted (a to)
    4) (=aumentar) [precio, valor] to go up, rise; [temperatura] to rise
    tono 2)
    5) (=aumentar de nivel) [río, mercurio] to rise; [marea] to come in
    6) [cantidad]

    subir a — to come to, total

    3.
    See:
    SUBIR Otros verbos de movimiento ► Subir la cuesta/ la escalera {etc}, por regla general, se suele traducir por to come up o por to go up, según la dirección del movimiento (hacia o en sentido contrario al hablante), pero come y go se pueden reemplazar por otros verbos de movimiento si la oración española especifica la forma en que se sube mediante el uso de adverbios o construcciones adverbiales: Tim subió las escaleras a gatas Tim crept up the stairs El mes pasado los precios subieron vertiginosamente Prices shot up last month Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go up; ( acercándose) to come up

    el camino sube hasta la cima — the path goes up to o leads to the top of the hill

    b)

    subir A algo — a autobús/tren/avión to get on o onto sth; a coche to get in o into sth; a caballo/bicicleta to get on o onto sth, to mount sth (frml)

    subir a bordo — to go o get on board

    c) ( de categoría) to go up; ( en el escalafón) to be promoted

    han subido a primera división — they've been promoted to o they've gone up to the first division

    d) ( en tenis)
    2)
    a) marea to come in; aguas/río to rise
    b) fiebre/tensión to go up, rise; temperatura to rise
    c) leche materna to come in
    3) precio/valor/cotización/salario to rise, go up
    2.
    subir vt
    1) < montaña> to climb; < cuesta> to go up, climb; < escaleras> to go up, climb
    2)
    a) <objeto/niño> ( llevar arriba - acercándose) to bring up; (- alejándose) to take up
    b) <objeto/niño> ( poner más alto)
    c) <persiana/telón> to raise; < pantalones> to pull up

    ¿me subes la cremallera? — will you zip me up?, will you fasten my zipper (AmE) o (BrE) zip?

    d) < dobladillo> to take up; < falda> to take o turn up
    3) (Inf) to upload
    4)
    a) <precios/salarios> to raise, put up

    ¿cuánto te han subido este año? — how much did your salary go up this year?

    b) <volumen/radio> to turn up
    3.
    subirse verbo pronominal
    1)
    a) (a coche, autobús, etc) verbo intransitivo 1 b
    b) ( trepar) to climb

    se subió al árbol/al muro — she climbed up the tree/(up) onto the walls

    estaba subido a un árbol/caballo — he was up a tree/sitting on a horse

    c) (a la cabeza, cara) (+ me/te/le etc)
    2) (refl) <calcetines/pantalones> to pull up
    * * *
    = go up, move up, raise, rise, ascend, mount, walk up, elevate, climb, bring up, zip, move down, hike up, scale, spike, crank up, get + high, move it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch, ratchet up, mark + Nombre + up, amp up, turn up.
    Ex. Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex. Now we move up the chain providing index entries for each of the potentially sought terms.
    Ex. The speaker said that James estimated people function at only 20% of their capacity, and concluded that they could raise this percentage considerable if they knew how to manage their time more efficiently.
    Ex. If suppliers are forced out of business, there will be less software to lend and prices will rise with the lack of competition.
    Ex. As she ascended the staircase to the library director's office, she tried to fathom the reason for the imperious summons.
    Ex. He fully expected the director to acquiesce, for his eyebrows mounted ever so slightly.
    Ex. Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex. Some of the things that are said about genuine bookselling do at times seem to elevate this occupation to a level far beyond mere commerce.
    Ex. Stanton felt a bit like someone who, after boasting that she could dive into water from a great height has climbed to the height and dares not jump, but knows that she must jump.
    Ex. Matrix and mould were pivoted and were brought up to the nozzle of a metal pump for the moment of casting, and then swung back to eject the new-made letter.
    Ex. The study investigated the use of a video to teach 3 self-help skills (cleaning sunglasses, putting on a wristwatch, and zipping a jacket) to 3 elementary students with mental disabilities.
    Ex. Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex. The government has hiked up the rate of income tax being paid by oil multinationals.
    Ex. You'll be scaling walls, jumping between rooftops, swinging on ropes, hanging from pipes, sliding under 4WDs and doing anything you can to avoid those zombies.
    Ex. Baby boomers are desperately trying to hold onto their salad days -- plastic surgery, vitamins and drugs like Viagra have spiked in public demand.
    Ex. Refiners are cranking up diesel output to meet rising global demand.
    Ex. Yes, some people with thin blood or whose pulse and blood pressure get high enough will have a nose bleed when excited.
    Ex. Liverpool and Chelsea are grabbing all the headlines, but Arsenal have quietly moved it up a gear scoring 10 goals in their last three league games.
    Ex. Start gently, ease yourself in by breaking the workout down into three one minute sessions until you are ready to notch it up a gear and join them together.
    Ex. There was not much to separate the sides in the first ten minutes however Arsenal took it up a gear and got the goal but not without a bit of luck.
    Ex. We have a good time together and we're good friends.. but I'd like to take it up a notch.
    Ex. David quickly comprehended our project needs and then cranked it up a notch with impactful design.
    Ex. Went for a bike ride with a mate last week, no problems so will crank it up a gear and tackle some hills in the next few weeks.
    Ex. After a regular walking routine is established, why not move it up a notch and start jogging, if you haven't already.
    Ex. The health department has ratcheted up efforts to prevent or slow down the spread of swine flu in schools.
    Ex. Determine how much it costs to make the item, how much it costs to market that item, and then mark it up by 15-30% or more.
    Ex. In order to gain strength fast, you need to immediately begin amping up your strength thermostat in your mind.
    Ex. Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
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    * estar que + subirse + por las paredes = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * obligar a subir el precio = force up + prices.
    * subir a = board.
    * subir al poder = rise to + power.
    * subir al trono = ascend (to) + the throne.
    * subir a un barco = board + ship.
    * subir de nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir de precio = rise in + price.
    * subir el listón = raise + the bar, move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir el nivel = raise + standard, raise + the bar.
    * subir el precio = push + cost + up, raise + price, jack up + the price, rack up + the price.
    * subir el volumen = pump up + the volume.
    * subir en = ride.
    * subir en bici = ride + a bike.
    * subir en bicicleta = ride + a bike.
    * subir exageradamente = rise + steeply.
    * subir la moral = boost + Posesivo + morale, lift + morale, increase + morale, improve + morale, boost + Posesivo + confidence, bolster + confidence.
    * subirle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + up.
    * subir ligeramente = nudge up.
    * subir los impuestos = push + taxes.
    * subir repentinamente = shoot up.
    * subirse al autobús = get on + the bus.
    * subirse al tren = jump on + the bandwagon, ride + the hype, catch + the fever.
    * subírsele a la cabeza = go to + Posesivo + head.
    * subírsele los colores = go + bright red.
    * subírsele los humos a la cabeza = get + too big for + Posesivo + boots, get + too big for + Posesivo + breeches.
    * subirse por las paredes = be beside + Reflexivo.
    * subir y/o bajar = move up and/or down.
    * telón + subir = curtain + rise.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go up; ( acercándose) to come up

    el camino sube hasta la cima — the path goes up to o leads to the top of the hill

    b)

    subir A algo — a autobús/tren/avión to get on o onto sth; a coche to get in o into sth; a caballo/bicicleta to get on o onto sth, to mount sth (frml)

    subir a bordo — to go o get on board

    c) ( de categoría) to go up; ( en el escalafón) to be promoted

    han subido a primera división — they've been promoted to o they've gone up to the first division

    d) ( en tenis)
    2)
    a) marea to come in; aguas/río to rise
    b) fiebre/tensión to go up, rise; temperatura to rise
    c) leche materna to come in
    3) precio/valor/cotización/salario to rise, go up
    2.
    subir vt
    1) < montaña> to climb; < cuesta> to go up, climb; < escaleras> to go up, climb
    2)
    a) <objeto/niño> ( llevar arriba - acercándose) to bring up; (- alejándose) to take up
    b) <objeto/niño> ( poner más alto)
    c) <persiana/telón> to raise; < pantalones> to pull up

    ¿me subes la cremallera? — will you zip me up?, will you fasten my zipper (AmE) o (BrE) zip?

    d) < dobladillo> to take up; < falda> to take o turn up
    3) (Inf) to upload
    4)
    a) <precios/salarios> to raise, put up

    ¿cuánto te han subido este año? — how much did your salary go up this year?

    b) <volumen/radio> to turn up
    3.
    subirse verbo pronominal
    1)
    a) (a coche, autobús, etc) verbo intransitivo 1 b
    b) ( trepar) to climb

    se subió al árbol/al muro — she climbed up the tree/(up) onto the walls

    estaba subido a un árbol/caballo — he was up a tree/sitting on a horse

    c) (a la cabeza, cara) (+ me/te/le etc)
    2) (refl) <calcetines/pantalones> to pull up
    * * *
    = go up, move up, raise, rise, ascend, mount, walk up, elevate, climb, bring up, zip, move down, hike up, scale, spike, crank up, get + high, move it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch, ratchet up, mark + Nombre + up, amp up, turn up.

    Ex: Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.

    Ex: Now we move up the chain providing index entries for each of the potentially sought terms.
    Ex: The speaker said that James estimated people function at only 20% of their capacity, and concluded that they could raise this percentage considerable if they knew how to manage their time more efficiently.
    Ex: If suppliers are forced out of business, there will be less software to lend and prices will rise with the lack of competition.
    Ex: As she ascended the staircase to the library director's office, she tried to fathom the reason for the imperious summons.
    Ex: He fully expected the director to acquiesce, for his eyebrows mounted ever so slightly.
    Ex: Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex: Some of the things that are said about genuine bookselling do at times seem to elevate this occupation to a level far beyond mere commerce.
    Ex: Stanton felt a bit like someone who, after boasting that she could dive into water from a great height has climbed to the height and dares not jump, but knows that she must jump.
    Ex: Matrix and mould were pivoted and were brought up to the nozzle of a metal pump for the moment of casting, and then swung back to eject the new-made letter.
    Ex: The study investigated the use of a video to teach 3 self-help skills (cleaning sunglasses, putting on a wristwatch, and zipping a jacket) to 3 elementary students with mental disabilities.
    Ex: Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex: The government has hiked up the rate of income tax being paid by oil multinationals.
    Ex: You'll be scaling walls, jumping between rooftops, swinging on ropes, hanging from pipes, sliding under 4WDs and doing anything you can to avoid those zombies.
    Ex: Baby boomers are desperately trying to hold onto their salad days -- plastic surgery, vitamins and drugs like Viagra have spiked in public demand.
    Ex: Refiners are cranking up diesel output to meet rising global demand.
    Ex: Yes, some people with thin blood or whose pulse and blood pressure get high enough will have a nose bleed when excited.
    Ex: Liverpool and Chelsea are grabbing all the headlines, but Arsenal have quietly moved it up a gear scoring 10 goals in their last three league games.
    Ex: Start gently, ease yourself in by breaking the workout down into three one minute sessions until you are ready to notch it up a gear and join them together.
    Ex: There was not much to separate the sides in the first ten minutes however Arsenal took it up a gear and got the goal but not without a bit of luck.
    Ex: We have a good time together and we're good friends.. but I'd like to take it up a notch.
    Ex: David quickly comprehended our project needs and then cranked it up a notch with impactful design.
    Ex: Went for a bike ride with a mate last week, no problems so will crank it up a gear and tackle some hills in the next few weeks.
    Ex: After a regular walking routine is established, why not move it up a notch and start jogging, if you haven't already.
    Ex: The health department has ratcheted up efforts to prevent or slow down the spread of swine flu in schools.
    Ex: Determine how much it costs to make the item, how much it costs to market that item, and then mark it up by 15-30% or more.
    Ex: In order to gain strength fast, you need to immediately begin amping up your strength thermostat in your mind.
    Ex: Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
    * estar que + subirse + por las paredes = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * obligar a subir el precio = force up + prices.
    * subir a = board.
    * subir al poder = rise to + power.
    * subir al trono = ascend (to) + the throne.
    * subir a un barco = board + ship.
    * subir de nivel = move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir de precio = rise in + price.
    * subir el listón = raise + the bar, move it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch.
    * subir el nivel = raise + standard, raise + the bar.
    * subir el precio = push + cost + up, raise + price, jack up + the price, rack up + the price.
    * subir el volumen = pump up + the volume.
    * subir en = ride.
    * subir en bici = ride + a bike.
    * subir en bicicleta = ride + a bike.
    * subir exageradamente = rise + steeply.
    * subir la moral = boost + Posesivo + morale, lift + morale, increase + morale, improve + morale, boost + Posesivo + confidence, bolster + confidence.
    * subirle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + up.
    * subir ligeramente = nudge up.
    * subir los impuestos = push + taxes.
    * subir repentinamente = shoot up.
    * subirse al autobús = get on + the bus.
    * subirse al tren = jump on + the bandwagon, ride + the hype, catch + the fever.
    * subírsele a la cabeza = go to + Posesivo + head.
    * subírsele los colores = go + bright red.
    * subírsele los humos a la cabeza = get + too big for + Posesivo + boots, get + too big for + Posesivo + breeches.
    * subirse por las paredes = be beside + Reflexivo.
    * subir y/o bajar = move up and/or down.
    * telón + subir = curtain + rise.

    * * *
    subir [I1 ]
    vi
    A
    1 «ascensor/persona» (alejándose) to go up; (acercándose) to come up
    hay que subir a pie you have to walk up
    ahora subo I'll be right up, I'm coming up now
    voy a subir al caserío I'm going up to the farmhouse
    los autobuses que suben al pueblo the buses that go up to the village
    el camino sube hasta la cima the path goes up to o leads to the top of the hill
    2 (a un coche) to get in; (a un autobús, etc) to get on subir A algo ‹a un autobús/un tren/un avión› to get ON o ONTO sth; ‹a un coche› to get IN o INTO sth; ‹a un caballo/una bicicleta› to get ON o ONTO sth, to mount sth ( frml)
    subir a bordo to go/get on board
    3 (de categoría) to go up
    ha subido en el escalafón he has been promoted
    han subido a primera división they've been promoted to o they've gone up to the first division
    ha subido mucho en mi estima she has gone up a lot o ( frml) risen greatly in my estimation
    4 ( Arg fam) to take up office/one's post
    5
    (en tenis): subir a la red to go up to the net
    B
    1 «marea» to come in; «aguas/río» to rise
    las aguas no subieron de nivel the water level did not rise
    2 «fiebre/tensión» to go up, rise
    han subido las temperaturas temperatures have risen
    3 ( Med) «leche» to come in, be produced
    C «precio/valor/cotización» to rise, go up
    la leche subió a 60 céntimos milk went up to sixty cents
    el desempleo subió en 94.500 personas en el primer trimestre unemployment rose by 94,500 in the first quarter
    ha subido el dólar con respecto al euro the dollar has risen against the euro
    D ( Inf) to upload
    ■ subir
    vt
    A ‹montaña› to climb; ‹cuesta› to go up, climb
    tiene problemas para subir la escalera he has trouble getting up o climbing the stairs
    subió los escalones de dos en dos he went o walked up the stairs two at a time
    B
    1 ‹objeto/niño› (acercándose) to bring up; (alejándose) to take up
    voy a subir la compra I'm just going to take the shopping upstairs
    tengo que subir unas cajas al desván I have to put some boxes up in the attic
    ¿puedes subir las maletas? could you take the cases up?
    sube al niño al caballo lift the child onto the horse
    ese cuadro está muy bajo, ¿puedes subirlo un poco? that picture is very low, can you put it up a little higher?
    traía el cuello del abrigo subido he had his coat collar turned up
    2 ‹persiana/telón› to raise
    ¿me subes la cremallera? will you zip me up?, will you fasten my zipper ( AmE) o ( BrE) zip?
    subió la ventanilla she wound the window up o closed o raised the window
    ven que te suba los pantalones come here and let me pull your pants ( AmE) o ( BrE) trousers up for you
    3 ‹dobladillo› to take up; ‹falda› to take o turn up
    C
    1 ‹precios/salarios› to raise, put up
    ¿cuánto te han subido este año? how much did your salary go up this year?
    2 ‹volumen/radio› to turn up
    sube el volumen turn the volume up
    sube el tono que no te oigo speak up, I can't hear you
    sube un poco la calefacción turn the heating o heat up a little
    A
    1 (a un coche, autobús, etc) subir vi A 2.
    2 (trepar) to climb
    se subió al muro she climbed (up) onto the wall
    les encanta subirse a los árboles they love to climb trees
    estaban subidos a un árbol they were up a tree
    el niño se le subió encima the child climbed on top of him
    3 (a la cabeza, cara) (+ me/te/le etc):
    el vino enseguida se me subió a la cabeza the wine went straight to my head
    el éxito se le ha subido a la cabeza success has gone to his head
    noté que se me subían los colores (a la cara) I realized that I was going red o blushing
    B ( refl) ‹calcetines/pantalones› to pull up
    * * *

     

    subir ( conjugate subir) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [ascensor/persona/coche] ( ir arriba) to go up;

    ( venir arriba) to come up;

    ahora subo I'll be right up;
    el camino sube hasta la cima the path goes up to o leads to the top of the hill
    b) subir A algo ‹a autobús/tren/avión› to get on o onto sth;

    ‹ a coche› to get in o into sth;
    ‹a caballo/bicicleta› to get on o onto sth, to mount sth (frml);
    ◊ subir a bordo to go o get on board


    ( en el escalafón) to be promoted
    2

    [aguas/río] to rise
    b) [fiebre/tensión] to go up, rise;

    [ temperatura] to rise
    3 [precio/valor/cotización/salario] to rise, go up
    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ montaña› to climb;
    ‹escaleras/cuesta› to go up, climb
    2
    a) ‹objeto/niño› ( traer arriba) to bring up;

    ( llevar arriba) to take up;

    b) ( poner más alto) ‹ objeto› to put up … (higher);

    ‹ cuello de prenda› to turn up:

    c) ‹persiana/telón/ventanilla› to raise;

    ‹ pantalones› to pull up;
    ◊ ¿me subes la cremallera? will you zip me up?, will you fasten my zipper (AmE) o (BrE) zip?


    ‹ falda› to take o turn up
    e) (Inf) to upload

    3
    a) ‹precios/salarios› to raise, put up

    b) ‹volumen/radio/calefacción› to turn up

    subirse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) (a coche, autobús, etc) See Also→ subir verbo intransitivo 1b


    ◊ se subió al árbol/al muro she climbed up the tree/(up) onto the wall;

    estaba subido a un árbol he was up a tree
    c) ( a la cabeza) (+ me/te/le etc):


    2 ( refl) ‹calcetines/pantalones› to pull up;
    ‹ cuello› to turn up
    subir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (una pendiente, las escaleras) to go up
    (hacia el hablante) to come up
    (una montaña) to climb
    2 (llevar arriba) to take up: voy a subir las cajas, I'm going to take the boxes upstairs
    (hacia el hablante) to bring up
    3 (elevar) to raise: sube la mano izquierda, lift your left hand
    (el sueldo, la temperatura, la voz, etc) to raise: sube (el volumen de) la radio, turn the radio up
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (ascender) to go up: ¿por qué no subimos a verla?, why don't we go up to see her?
    (acercándose al hablante) to come up ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (a un avión, tren, autobús) to get on o onto: subimos al tren, we boarded the train
    (a un coche) to get into o in
    3 (la marea, las aguas) to rise
    4 (la temperatura) to rise
    5 (los precios, el sueldo, etc) to rise, go up
    6 (de categoría) to go up
    ' subir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - abrochar
    - ascender
    - bordo
    - cajón
    - cerrar
    - cortante
    - embarcación
    - escena
    - estrado
    - irse
    - trono
    - abordar
    - alto
    - bien
    - escalafón
    - montar
    - volumen
    English:
    aboard
    - ascend
    - board
    - boarding card
    - boarding pass
    - climb
    - come in
    - come up
    - curl
    - elevate
    - escalate
    - flight
    - get into
    - get on
    - go up
    - hand up
    - heave
    - hoist
    - increase
    - jump on
    - mount
    - move up
    - pile in
    - push
    - raise
    - rise
    - roll up
    - send up
    - sharply
    - shoot up
    - show up
    - slope
    - spiral up
    - stair
    - stand
    - steeply
    - tree
    - turn up
    - up
    - volume
    - walk up
    - zip up
    - air
    - come
    - do
    - flow
    - gain
    - get
    - go
    - jump
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [poner arriba] [libro, cuadro] to put up;
    [telón] to raise; [persiana] to roll up; [ventanilla] to wind up, to close;
    he subido la enciclopedia de la primera a la última estantería I've moved the encyclopedia up from the bottom shelf to the top one;
    sube el cuadro un poco move the picture up a bit o a bit higher;
    ¿me ayudas a subir las bolsas? could you help me take the bags up?;
    ayúdame a subir la caja [a lo alto] help me get the box up;
    [al piso de arriba] help me carry the box upstairs
    2. [montar]
    subir algo/a alguien a to lift sth/sb onto
    3. [alzar] [bandera] to raise;
    subir la mano to put one's hand up, to raise one's hand
    4. [ascender] [calle, escaleras] to go/come up;
    [escalera de mano] to climb; [pendiente, montaña] to go up;
    subió las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran up o climbed the stairs as fast as she could;
    subió la calle a todo correr he ran up the street as fast as he could
    5. [aumentar] [precio, impuestos] to put up, to increase;
    [música, volumen, radio] to turn up;
    subió la voz o [m5] el tono para que se le oyera she raised her voice so she could be heard;
    sube la voz o [m5]el tono, no te oigo speak up, I can't hear you;
    subir el fuego de la cocina to turn up the heat;
    subir la moral a alguien to lift sb's spirits, to cheer sb up
    6. [hacer ascender de categoría] to promote
    7. Mús to raise the pitch of
    8. Fam Informát to upload
    ♦ vi
    1. [a piso, azotea] to go/come up;
    ¿podrías subir aquí un momento? could you come up here a minute?;
    subo enseguida I'll be up in a minute;
    subir corriendo to run up;
    subir en ascensor to go/come up in the Br lift o US elevator;
    subir por la escalera to go/come up the stairs;
    subir (a) por algo to go up and get sth;
    subir a la red [en tenis] to come (in) to the net
    2. [montar] [en avión, barco] to get on;
    [en coche] to get in; [en moto, bicicleta, tren] to get on; [en caballo] to get on, to mount; [en árbol, escalera de mano, silla] to climb up;
    subir a [coche] to get in(to);
    [moto, bicicleta, tren, avión] to get on; [caballo] to get on, to mount; [árbol, escalera de mano] to climb up; [silla, mesa] to get o climb onto; [piso] to go/come up to;
    subir a bordo to go on board;
    es peligroso subir al tren en marcha it is dangerous to board the train while it is moving
    3. [aumentar] to rise, to go up;
    [hinchazón, cauce] to rise; [fiebre] to raise, to go up;
    los precios subieron prices went up o rose;
    subió la gasolina the price of petrol went up o rose;
    el euro subió frente a la libra the euro went up o rose against the pound;
    las acciones de C & C han subido C & C share prices have gone up o risen;
    han subido las ventas sales are up;
    este modelo ha subido de precio this model has gone up in price, the price of this model has gone up;
    el coste total no subirá del millón the total cost will not be more than o over a million;
    no subirá de tres horas it will take three hours at most, it won't take more than three hours;
    está subiendo la marea the tide is coming in;
    el jefe ha subido mucho en mi estima the boss has gone up a lot in my estimation
    4. [cuenta, importe]
    subir a to come o amount to
    5. Culin [crecer] to rise
    6. Fam [ir, venir] to come/go up;
    subiré a la capital la próxima semana I'll be going up to the capital next week;
    ¿por qué no subes a vernos este fin de semana? why don't you come up to see us this weekend?
    7. [ascender de categoría] to be promoted (a to); Dep to be promoted, to go up (a to);
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 cuesta, escalera go up, climb; montaña climb
    2 objeto raise, lift; intereses, precio raise
    II v/i
    2 de precio rise, go up
    3 a un tren, autobús get on; a un coche get in
    4
    :
    subir al poder rise to power;
    subir al trono ascend to the throne
    * * *
    subir vt
    1) : to bring up, to take up
    2) : to climb, to go up
    3) : to raise
    subir vi
    1) : to go up, to come up
    2) : to rise, to increase
    3) : to be promoted
    4)
    subir a : to get on, to mount
    subir a un tren: to get on a train
    * * *
    subir vb
    1. (ir arriba) to go up
    ¡sube! ¡la vista es fantástica! come up! the view is fantastic!
    2. (escalar) to climb
    3. (en un coche) to get in
    4. (en un tren, autobús, avión) to get on
    5. (aumentar) to rise [pt. rose; pp. risen] / to go up
    6. (llevar arriba) to take up [pt. took; pp. taken] / to put up [pt. & pp. put]
    7. (incrementar) to put up [pt. & pp. put] / to raise
    8. (hacer más fuerte) to turn up

    Spanish-English dictionary > subir

  • 10 Fox, Michael J.

    (р. 1961) Фокс, Майкл Дж.
    Актер, популярность приобрел в 1982 как исполнитель одной из главных ролей телесериала "Семейные узы" ["Family Ties"], за которую получил премии "Эмми" [ Emmy Award] 1986 и 1987, и как исполнитель главной роли в серии боевиков "Назад к будущему": ["Back to the Future"] (1985), ["Back to the Future, Part II"] (1989), ["Back to the Future Part III"] (1990). Среди других работ - роли в фильмах "Волк-подросток" ["Teen Wolf"] (1985), "Свет дня" ["Light of Day"] (1987), "С трудом" ["The Hard Way"] (1991) и др.

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Fox, Michael J.

  • 11 By, Lieutenant-Colonel John

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals
    [br]
    b. 7 (?) August 1779 Lambeth, London, England
    d. 1 February 1836 Frant, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English Engineer-in-Charge of the construction of the Rideau Canal, linking the St Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers in Canada.
    [br]
    Admitted in 1797 as a Gentleman Cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, By was commissioned on 1 August 1799 as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, but was soon transferred to the Royal Engineers. Posted to Plymouth upon the development of the fortifications, he was further posted to Canada, arriving there in August 1802.
    In 1803 By was engaged in canal work, assisting Captain Bruyères in the construction of a short canal (1,500 ft (460 m) long) at the Cascades on the Grand, now the Ottawa, River. In 1805 he was back at the Cascades repairing ice damage caused during the previous winter. He was promoted Captain in 1809. Meanwhile he worked on the fortifications of Quebec and in 1806–7 he built a scale model of the Citadel, which is now in the National War Museum of Canada. He returned to England in 1810 and served in Portugal in 1811. Back in England at the end of the year, he was appointed Royal Engineer Officer in charge at the Waltham Abbey Gunpowder Works on 1 January 1812 and later planned the new Small Arms Factory at Enfield; both works were on the navigable River Lee.
    In the post-Napoleonic period Major By, as he then was, retired on half-pay but was promoted to Lieu tenant-Colonel on 2 December 1824. Eighteen months later, in March 1826, he returned to Canada on active duty to build the Rideau Canal. This was John By's greatest work. It was conceived after the American war of 1812–14 as a connection for vessels to reach Kingston and the Great Lakes from Montreal while avoiding possible attack from the United States forces. Ships would pass up the Ottawa River using the already-constructed locks and bypass channels and then travel via a new canal cut through virgin forest southwards to the St Lawrence at Kingston. By based his operational headquarters at the Ottawa River end of the new works and in a forest clearing he established a small settlement. Because of the regard in which By was held, this settlement became known as By town. In 1855, long after By's death, the settlement was designated by Queen Victoria as capital of United Canada (which was to become a self-governing Dominion in 1867) and renamed Ottawa; as a result of the presence of the national government, the growth of the town accelerated greatly.
    Between 1826–7 and 1832 the Rideau Canal was constructed. It included the massive engineering works of Jones Falls Dam (62 ft 6 in. (19 m) high) and 47 locks. By exercised an almost paternal care over those employed under his direction. The canal was completed in June 1832 at a cost of £800,000. By was summoned back to London to face virulent and unjust criticism from the Treasury. He was honoured in Canada but vilified by the British Government.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.F.Leggett, 1982, John By, Historical Society of Canada.
    —1976, Canals of Canada, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    —1972, Rideau Waterway, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
    Bernard Pothier, 1978, "The Quebec Model", Canadian War Museum Paper 9, Ottawa: National Museums of Canada.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > By, Lieutenant-Colonel John

  • 12 divulgar

    v.
    1 to reveal (noticia, secreto).
    2 to divulge, to disclose, to broadcast, to make known.
    Ellos reportaron la boda They reported=described the wedding.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ LLEGAR], like link=llegar llegar
    1 (difundir) to divulge, spread, disclose
    2 (por radio) to broadcast
    3 (propagar) to popularize
    1 to become known, spread
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ noticia, ideas] to spread
    2) [+ secreto] to divulge, disclose
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo <noticia/información> to spread, circulate; <secreto/plan> to divulge
    2.
    divulgarse v pron to spread
    * * *
    = disseminate, promulgate, divulge, bruit, promote, popularise [popularize, -USA].
    Ex. The UKLDS or the UK Library Database System is a proposal from the Cooperative Automation Group (CAG) which was first disseminated in a discussion paper published in 1982.
    Ex. This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex. Wittingly or unwittingly, they mask other questions that users do not know how to ask or are uncertain that they want to divulge to someone else.
    Ex. Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex. Initially, it is necessary that the scheme be published and available for purchase, and that its use is generally promoted.
    Ex. The information explosion has created a demand for analysing, organising and disseminating information and has popularised the subject approach to information.
    ----
    * no ser divulgado = be out of the public eye.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo <noticia/información> to spread, circulate; <secreto/plan> to divulge
    2.
    divulgarse v pron to spread
    * * *
    = disseminate, promulgate, divulge, bruit, promote, popularise [popularize, -USA].

    Ex: The UKLDS or the UK Library Database System is a proposal from the Cooperative Automation Group (CAG) which was first disseminated in a discussion paper published in 1982.

    Ex: This practice has been adopted by a number of national cataloguing codes promulgated since that time.
    Ex: Wittingly or unwittingly, they mask other questions that users do not know how to ask or are uncertain that they want to divulge to someone else.
    Ex: Among many observations in this widely bruited report, one in particular struck home: fewer books had been translated into Arabic in a millennium than were translated into Spanish in a year.
    Ex: Initially, it is necessary that the scheme be published and available for purchase, and that its use is generally promoted.
    Ex: The information explosion has created a demand for analysing, organising and disseminating information and has popularised the subject approach to information.
    * no ser divulgado = be out of the public eye.

    * * *
    divulgar [A3 ]
    vt
    1 ‹noticia/información› to spread, circulate
    2 ‹cultura/ideas› to spread
    1 «noticia/rumor» to spread, circulate
    2 «ideas» to spread
    * * *

     

    divulgar ( conjugate divulgar) verbo transitivo ‹noticia/información› to spread, circulate;
    ‹secreto/plan› to divulge;
    ‹ cultura› to spread, disseminate
    divulgarse verbo pronominal
    to spread
    divulgar verbo transitivo
    1 (un secreto, etc) to disclose
    2 Rad TV to broadcast
    ' divulgar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    esparcir
    - publicar
    - voz
    English:
    divulge
    - keep back
    - circulate
    - popularize
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [noticia, rumor] to spread, to circulate;
    la radio divulgó la noticia the radio announced o broke the news
    2. [cultura, ciencia, doctrina] to popularize
    * * *
    v/t spread
    * * *
    divulgar {52} vt
    1) : to spread, to circulate
    2) revelar: to divulge, to reveal
    3) : to popularize
    * * *
    divulgar vb to spread [pt. & pp. spread]

    Spanish-English dictionary > divulgar

  • 13 arriver

    arriver [aʀive]
    ➭ TABLE 1
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    ► arriver is conjugated with être.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    1. intransitive verb
    • arriver à [+ ville] to get to
    • réveille-toi, on arrive ! wake up, we're almost there!
    • arriver le premier (à une course) to come in first ; (à une soirée, une réception) to arrive first
       b. ( = approcher) [saison, nuit, personne, véhicule] to come
    • j'arrive ! I'm coming!
       c. ( = atteindre) arriver à to reach
    • le lierre arrive jusqu'au 1er étage the ivy goes up to the 1st floor
    • et le problème des salaires ? -- j'y arrive and what about the wages problem? -- I'm just coming to that
       d. ( = réussir) arriver à (+ infinitif) to manage to
    • tu y arrives ? how are you getting on?
       e. ( = atteindre une réussite sociale) to succeed
       f. ( = se produire) to happen
    • tu n'oublies jamais ? -- ça m'arrive don't you ever forget? -- yes, sometimes
    • cela ne m'arrivera plus ! I won't let it happen again!
       g. ► en arriver à ( = finir par) to come to
    • on n'en est pas encore arrivé là ! (résultat négatif) we've not reached that stage yet! ; (résultat positif) we've not got that far yet!
    • on en arrive à se demander si... it makes you wonder whether...
    ► il arrive que/de
    * * *
    aʀive
    1.
    verbe intransitif
    1) ( parvenir) [personne, avion, lettre] to arrive; ( s'acheminer) [personne, pluie] to come

    arriver dans les premiers — ( en compétition) to be among the first to finish; ( à une soirée) to be among the first to arrive

    2) ( atteindre)

    arriver à — to reach [niveau, âge, accord]; to find [solution]; to achieve [but, résultat]

    arriver aux chevilles — [eau] to come up to one's ankles; [jupe] to come down to one's ankles

    arriver (jusqu')à quelqu'un — [nouvelle, odeur] to reach somebody

    ‘qu'en est-il du chômage?’ - ‘j'y arrive’ — ‘what about unemployment?’ - ‘I'm coming to that’

    3) ( réussir) ( socialement) to succeed; gén
    4) ( aboutir)

    j'en arrive à croire que... — I'm beginning to think that...

    5) ( survenir) [accident, catastrophe] to happen

    ce sont des choses qui arrivent — these things happen, it's just one of those things


    2.
    verbe impersonnel
    * * *
    aʀive
    1. vi
    1) [train, visiteur, courrier] to arrive

    arriver à Paris — to get to Paris, to arrive in Paris

    Il arrive à Paris à 8 h. — He gets to Paris at 8., He arrives in Paris at 8.

    J'arrive à l'école à huit heures. — I get to school at 8 o'clock., I arrive at school at 8 o'clock.

    j'arrive! — I'm coming!, coming!

    en arriver à faire — to end up doing, to get to the point of doing

    2) (= survenir) to happen

    Ce sont des choses qui arrivent. — These things happen.

    3)

    arriver à (sujet chose) [date, étape] — to reach

    4) (= réussir)

    arriver à [perfection, but] — to reach, to achieve

    J'espère que je vais y arriver. — I hope I'm going to manage it.

    2. vb impers

    Il m'arrive de dormir jusqu'à midi. — I sometimes sleep till midday.

    * * *
    arriver verb table: aimer
    A vi
    1 ( dans l'espace) [personne, avion, train, colis, lettre] to arrive; [nuage, pluie] to come; arriver de [personne, train, bus] to come from; arriver par [eau, gaz] to come through; arriver ensemble to arrive together; elle n'est pas encore arrivée she hasn't arrived yet; arriver à 13 h à Paris to arrive in Paris at 1 pm; arriver dans le centre ville/sur la berge to reach the town centreGB/the bank; arriver par bateau/avion/le train to arrive by boat/plane/train; je suis arrivé chez moi I got home; j'arriverai chez toi dans l'après-midi/tard I'll get to ou arrive at your place in the afternoon/late; appelle-nous dès que tu seras arrivé give us a call as soon as you arrive ou get there; arriver en avance/en retard/à l'heure to arrive early/late/on time; arriver juste au bon moment to arrive ou come at just the right moment; je suis arrivée avant/après toi I got here before/after you; elle est arrivée au Japon en 1982 she came to Japan in 1982; dépêche-toi, le train arrive! hurry up, the train is coming!; regarde qui arrive look who's coming; le mauvais temps arrive par le nord the bad weather is coming from the north; l'eau arrive par ce tuyau the water comes in through this pipe; j'arrive! I'm coming!; j'arrive du centre ville I've just come from the city centreGB; j'arrive de Londres I've just come from London; arriver en courant to come running up; arriver sur qn [orage, cyclone] to hit sb; [personne] to descend on sb; l'eau nous arrivait aux chevilles the water came up to our ankles, we were ankle-deep in water; l'eau arrivait au niveau de la fenêtre the water came up to the window; ma jupe m'arrive aux chevilles my skirt comes down to my ankles; arriver (jusqu')à qn [nouvelle, rumeur, odeur] to reach sb; heureusement cela n'est pas arrivé jusqu'à lui or jusqu'à ses oreilles○ luckily it didn't reach him ou his ears; arriver sur scène [chanteur, acteur] to come on stage; arriver sur le marché [personnes, produits] to come on the market;
    2 ( dans le temps) arriver en tête/en queue to come first/last; en arrivant au ministère when he/she became minister; il est arrivé le premier he arrived first, he was the first to arrive; arriver dans les premiers ( en compétition) to be among the first to finish; ( à une soirée) to be among the first to arrive; de nombreux signes montrent qu'on arrive à la fin d'une période a number of signs show that we are coming to the end of an era; arriver à son terme [contrat] to expire; [projet] to come to an end; ce plan arrive au moment où this plan comes at a time when; maintenant j'arrive au problème de la drogue now, I'll come to the problem of drugs; ‘qu'en est-il du chômage?’-‘j'y arrive’ ‘what about unemployment?’-‘I'm coming to that’; tu arrives à un âge où you are getting to an age when;
    3 (avec un raisonnement, après une suite d'événements) arriver à une somme to come to an amount; arriver à des résultats to achieve results; arriver à une solution to find a solution; arriver à une conclusion to come to a conclusion; arriver à un accord to reach an agreement;
    4 ( réussir) arriver à faire to manage to do, to succeed in doing; je n'arrive pas à faire I can't do; il n'arrive plus à la suivre he can't keep up with her; j'essaie, mais je n'y arrive pas I'm trying, but I can't do it; je n'arrive à rien I'm getting nowhere; arriver à ses fins to achieve one's ends;
    5 ( aboutir) on en arrive à des absurdités you end up with nonsense; comment peut-on en arriver là? how could it have come to this?; (parlant d'un pays, d'une économie) how did things get into that state?; j'en arrive à croire que/à me demander si… I'm beginning to think that/to wonder if…;
    6 ( survenir) [accident, catastrophe] to happen; ce sont des choses qui arrivent these things happen, it's just one of those things; cela n'était pas arrivé depuis longtemps it hadn't happened for a long time; ça arrive mais c'est rare it does happen, but not very often; tout peut arriver anything can happen; ça n'arrive qu'aux autres it only happens to other people; on ne sait jamais ce qui peut arriver you never know what may happen; un accident est si vite arrivé accidents happen so easily; voilà ce qui arrive quand on ne fait pas attention that's what happens when you don't pay attention; la même chose m'est arrivée il y a un mois the same thing happened to me a month ago; tu vois, tout arrive! I told you, you should never give up hope!;
    7 ( réussir socialement) [personne] to succeed; faire n'importe quoi pour arriver to do anything to succeed.
    B v impers il est arrivé quelque chose something has happened (à to); il arrive toujours quelque chose something always happens; qu'est-il arrivé? what happened?; il n'est rien arrivé nothing happened; il n'arrive jamais rien ici nothing ever happens around here; il arrive un moment où there comes a time when; il arrive que qn fasse sometimes sb does; il m'arrive d'être en retard/d'aller à l'opéra sometimes I'm late/I go to the opera; est -ce qu'il arrive que le courrier se perde? does the mail ever go missing GB ou get lost?; est-ce qu'il t'arrive d'y penser? do you ever think about it?; qu'est-il arrivé à ta voiture? what happened to your car?; que t'arrive-t-il? what's wrong with you?; il m'est arrivé une chose bizarre something odd happened to me; quoi qu'il arrive whatever happens; je t'appellerai quoi qu'il arrive I'll call you whatever happens ou come what may; que peut-il arriver au pays? what can happen to the country?
    [arive] verbe intransitif (aux être)
    A.[DANS L'ESPACE]
    1. [parvenir à destination - voyageur, véhicule, courrier] to arrive
    arriver chez soi to get ou to arrive home
    vous voilà enfin arrivés, je m'inquiétais
    a. [ici] here you are ou you've arrived at last, I was getting worried
    b. [là-bas] you got there at last, I was getting worried
    2. [finir - dans un classement] to come (in)
    arriver le premier/dernier
    a. [coureur] to come in first/last, to take first/last place
    b. [invité] to arrive first/last, to be the first/last to arrive
    3. [venir] to come, to approach
    tu es prêt? — j'arrive tout de suite/dans une minute are you ready? — I'm coming/I'll be with you in a minute
    j'arrive, j'arrive! I'm coming!
    B.[DANS LE TEMPS]
    1. [événement, jour, moment] to come
    le jour arrivera où... the day will come when...
    la soixantaine/retraite est vite arrivée sixty/retirement is soon here
    2. [se produire] to happen
    tu ne te décourages jamais? — si, ça m'arrive don't you ever get discouraged? — yes, from time to time
    tu es encore en retard. Que cela ne t'arrive plus! you're late again. Don't let it happen again!
    ————————
    [arive] verbe impersonnel
    1. [venir]
    2. [aventure, événement]
    s'il m'arrivait quelque chose, prévenez mon père if anything happens ou should anything happen to me, let my father know
    3. [se produire parfois]
    ————————
    arriver à verbe plus préposition
    1. [niveau, taille, lieu]
    la boue m'arrivait jusqu'aux genoux the mud came up to my knees, I was knee-deep in mud
    2. [étape, moment, conclusion] to come to, to reach
    j'arrive à un âge où... I've reached an age when...
    et ses tableaux? — j'y arrive/arrivais what about his paintings? — I'm/I was coming to that
    3. [rang, résultat] to get
    [succès] to achieve
    tu as refait l'addition? — oui, j'arrive au même total que toi did you redo the calculations? — yes, I get the same result as you
    4. [pouvoir, réussir à]
    arriver à faire quelque chose to manage to do something, to succeed in doing something
    tu n'arriveras jamais à la convaincre you'll never manage to convince her, you'll never succeed in convincing her
    j'en arrive à penser que... I'm beginning to think that...
    j'en arrive parfois à me demander si... sometimes I (even) wonder if...
    en arriver là: depuis, je ne lui parle plus — c'est malheureux d'en arriver là since then, I haven't spoken to him — it's a shame it has come to that

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > arriver

  • 14 Universal Pictures

    "Юниверсал пикчерс"
    Киностудия, часть голливудской компании "Эм-си-эй" [ MCA], самая крупная киностудия в мире. Расположена в районе Юниверсал-Сити (г. Лос-Анджелес, шт. Калифорния [Universal City, L.A., CA.]). Имеет 561 съемочный павильон и 34 звукозаписывающих павильона, расположенных на территории в 170 га. На студии были созданы такие кассовые фильмы [ blockbuster], как "Кинг Конг" ["King Kong"] (1933), "Челюсти" ["Jaws"] (1975), "Охотник на оленей" ["The Deer Hunter"] (1978), "Инопланетянин" ["E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial"] (1982) и "Назад в будущее" ["Back to the Future"] (1985). Компания также получает огромные доходы от двух тематических парков "Юниверсал стьюдиос" [Universal Studios], расположенных в Голливуде [ Hollywood] и г. Орландо, шт. Флорида, где посетители имеют возможность понаблюдать за ходом кинематографического процесса, прогуляться по реконструированным съемочным площадкам известных фильмов и даже принять участие в "съемках", результат которых можно увезти с собой на видеокассете

    English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Universal Pictures

  • 15 Décentralisation

       regionalisation, decentralisation, devolution of power from the central government to regional and departmental authorities. France has a long legacy as a centralised state, dating back many centuries; the centralised structure of power has survived numerous regime changes in since the French Revolution. It was not until the election of a Socialist government in 1981 that any major steps were taken to reduce the importance of Paris. The first Loi de Décentralisation, passed in 1982, transferred certain powers to the regions, and since then further powers have been devolved, including responsibility for lycées (though not the recruitment of their teachers), regional public transport services, and the management of certain social services.
       Regions are now governed by elected conseils régionaux, under the leadership of a Président de région.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Décentralisation

  • 16 Minitel

       A first generation computerised videotext system, the Minitel briefly put France into the position of world leader in videotext access. Launched in 1982, the Minitel system rapidly entered the majority of French households and offices thanks to a masterly government policy of offering the basic terminals free to all telephone subscribers. Several years before the Internet explosion, the Minitel offered French telephone subscribers free access to a range of information services, including national telephone directories; it also offered a number of pay-per-view services, receipts from which were designed to help pay back the investment in the system. However, the success of the Minitel was also instrumental in slowing down France's uptake of the Internet. While the government remained keen to protect and promote this French technological success in the face of competition from a foreign system, many Minitel service providers also had a good reason to defend the system too. Provision of information via the Minitel, charged by the second, rapidly became seen as a lucrative activity (notably for the " Minitel rose" sites) - far more so than via Internet, where most general information is provided free of charge to the viewer. This economic disincentive meant that many major French providers of Information, such as the SNCF, were reluctant to replace, or even complement, slow but profit-making Minitel services by faster free Internet services - thus delaying French uptake of the Internet.
       Minitel services were completely phased out in 2011.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Minitel

  • 17 ἴσος

    -η,-ον + A 7-0-12-14-7=40 Ex 26,24(bis); 30,34(bis); Lv 7,10
    equal (to) [abs.] Wis 7,6; id. [τινι] Ex 30,34; id. [τινος] Dt 13,7(6); τὸ ἴσον equal portion Lv 7,10
    ἴσα τινί as, even as (as adv.) Jb 5,14; ἔθηκας ἴσα τῇ γῇ τὰ μετάφρενά σου you levelled your back with the ground Is 51,23; ἴσον ἴσῳ in equal parts Ex 30,34; ἐξ ἴσου in the same manner Ex 26,24
    *Ex 26,24 ἴσοι equal-תאמים for MT תמים complete
    Cf. LE BOULLUEC 1989 270-271(Ex 26,24), 313; SPICQ 1982 351.358; →NIDNTT; TWNT

    Lust (λαγνεία) > ἴσος

  • 18 κατέχω

    + V 5-15-6-19-8=53 Gn 22,13; 24,56; 39,20; 42,19; Ex 32,13
    A: to hold [τι] Ct 3,8; to hold back [τι] 1 Chr 13,9; to withhold, to take, to lay hold on [τινα] 2 Sm 2,21; to withhold from [τινα ἀπό τινος] Ps 118(119),53; to keep, to prevent from going away [τινα] Gn 24,56; to keep, to detain (prisoners) [τινα] Gn 39,20; to keep, to live with [τινα] Prv 18,22a; to possess [τι] Ex 32,13; id. [τινα] Prv 19,15; id. [τινος] Ps 72(73),12; to gain possession of [τι] Jos 1,11; id. [τινα] (metaph.) Jb 15,24; to rule, to control [τινος] 1 Mc 6,27; to seize, to occupy [τινος] 2 Chr 15,8; to cling to [τινος] 1 Kgs 1,51; to fill in, to repair [τι] 2 Kgs 12,13
    P: to be held Gn 22,13; to refrain from [τινος] Ru 1,13
    ὅμως οὐ κατέσχεν ἐπιτελέσαι τὸ σχέτλιον αὐτοῦ βούλημα nevertheless he did not succeed in having his merciless will done 2 Mc 15,5; ἐπὶ χεῖρα αὐτῶν κατέσχεν υἱὸς Ουρια the son of Uria made repairs next to them Neh 3,4, cpr. 2 Kgs 12,13
    Cf. DELEKAT 1964a, 172; HARL 1986a 194-195(Gn 22,13); 1986c=1992a 68; SPICQ 1982, 379-385;
    →TWNT

    Lust (λαγνεία) > κατέχω

  • 19 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.
       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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  • 20 Armed forces

       Although armed force has been a major factor in the development of the Portuguese nation-state, a standing army did not exist until after the War of Restoration (1641-48). During the 18th century, Portugal's small army was drawn into many European wars. In 1811, a combined Anglo-Portuguese army drove the French army of Napoleon out of the country. After Germany declared war on Portugal in March 1916, two Portuguese divisions were conscripted and sent to France, where they sustained heavy casualties at the Battle of Lys in April 1918. As Portugal and Spain were neutral in World War II, the Portuguese Army cooperated with the Spanish army to defend Iberian neutrality. In 1949, Portugal became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). When the nationalist quest for independence began in Portugal's colonies in Africa ( Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau) in the 1960s, the military effort (1961-74) to suppress the nationalists resulted in an expansion of the Portuguese armed forces to about 250,000.
       Since the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the number of personnel on active duty in the army, navy, and air force has been greatly reduced (43,200 in 2007) and given a more direct role in NATO. New NATO commitments led to the organization of the Brigada Mista Independente (Independent Composite Brigade), later converted into the Brigada Aero-Transportada. (Air-Transported Brigade) to be used in the defense of Europe's southern flank. The Portuguese air force and navy are responsible for the defense of the Azores-Madeira-Portugal strategic triangle.
       Chronic military intervention in Portuguese political life began in the 19th century. These interventions usually began with revolts of the military ( pronunciamentos) in order to get rid of what were considered by the armed forces corrupt or incompetent civilian governments. The army overthrew the monarchy on the 5 October 1910 and established Portugal's First Republic. It overthrew the First Republic on 28 May 1926 and established a military dictatorship. The army returned to the barracks during the Estado Novo of Antônio de Oliveira Salazar. The armed forces once again returned to politics when the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) overthrew the Estado Novo on 25 April 1974. After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the armed forces again played a major role in Portuguese politics through the Council of the Revolution, which was composed of the president of the Republic, Chiefs of the general staff, three service chiefs, and 14 MFA officers. The Council of the Revolution advised the president on the selection of the prime minister and could veto legislation.
       The subordination of the Portuguese armed forces to civilian authority began in 1982, when revisions to the Constitution abolished the Council of the Revolution and redefined the mission of the armed forces to that of safeguarding and defending the national territory. By the early 1990s, the political influence of Portugal armed force had waned and civilian control was reinforced with the National Defense Laws of 1991, which made the chief of the general staff of the armed forces directly responsible to the minister of defense, not the president of the republic, as had been the case previously. As the end of the Cold War had eliminated the threat of a Soviet invasion of western Europe, Portuguese armed forces continues to be scaled back and reorganized. Currently, the focus is on modernization to achieve high operational efficiency in certain areas such as air defense, naval patrols, and rapid-response capability in case of terrorist attack. Compulsory military service was ended in 2004. The Portuguese armed forces have been employed as United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon.

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