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  • 101 lumière

    lumière [lymjεʀ]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = clarté) light
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    lymjɛʀ
    1.
    1) gén, Physique light
    2) fig light

    mettre quelque chose en lumière — ( mettre en évidence) to highlight something; ( révéler) to bring something to light

    3) ( personne)

    2.
    lumières nom féminin pluriel
    1) ( feux d'un véhicule) lights
    2) (colloq) ( connaissances)
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    lymjɛʀ
    1. nf
    1) (naturelle, électrique) light

    Fais de la lumière. — Give us some light., Let's have some light.

    à la lumière de — by the light of, fig, [événements] in the light of

    2) (= point lumineux) light

    On voyait une lumière au large. — We could see a light out at sea.

    On apercevait déjà les lumières du bourg. — We could already make out the lights of the town.

    2. lumières nfpl
    (d'une personne) knowledge sg wisdom sg
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    A nf
    1 gén, Phys light; lumière naturelle/artificielle/électrique natural/artificial/electric light; la lumière des étoiles starlight; la lumière du soleil sunlight; la lumière du jour daylight; que la lumière soit! let there be light!; il doit être là puisqu'il y a de la lumière chez lui/dans la cuisine he must be in because the lights are on/there's a light on in the kitchen; il y a une lumière très particulière dans cette région there's a very special quality to the light in this region; le traitement de la lumière chez ce peintre this painter's use of light; les lumière de la ville the city lights; il a éteint toutes les lumières he put all the lights out; il lisait à la lumière d'une chandelle he was reading by candlelight;
    2 fig ( éclairage) light; la lumière de la raison liter the light of reason; à la lumière des récents événements in the light of recent events; mettre qch en lumière ( mettre en évidence) to highlight sth; ( révéler) to bring sth to light; agir en pleine lumière to act openly, to be open in one's dealings; faire (toute) la lumière sur une affaire to bring the truth about a matter to light;
    3 fig ( personne éminente) leading light, luminary sout; ce n'est pas une lumière he'll never set the world on fire;
    4 Tech aperture; ( d'arme à feu) touchhole; ( d'outil à bois) mouth.
    B lumières nfpl
    1 ( feux d'un véhicule) lights;
    2 ( connaissances) j'ai besoin de vos lumières I need to pick your brains; aider qn de ses lumières to give sb the benefit of one's wisdom; avoir des lumières sur qch to have some knowledge of a subject.
    lumière d'admission intake port; lumière blanche white light; lumière cendrée earthshine; lumière d'échappement exhaust port; lumière froide cold light; lumière noire black light.
    [lymjɛr] nom féminin
    1. [naturelle - généralement] light ; [ - du soleil] sunlight
    a. [recouvrer la vue] to be able to see again
    b. [en sortant d'un lieu sombre] to see daylight again
    c. [retrouver la liberté] to be free again
    2. [artificielle] light (substantif comptable)
    allumer la lumière to turn ou to switch on the light
    éteindre la lumière to turn ou to switch off the light
    3. [éclaircissement] light
    4. [généralementie] genius, (shining) light
    5. ASTRONOMIE & OPTIQUE light
    8. TECHNOLOGIE [orifice] opening
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    lumières nom féminin pluriel
    1. [connaissances] insight (substantif non comptable), knowledge (substantif non comptable)
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    à la lumière de locution prépositionnelle
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    en lumière locution adverbiale
    mettre quelque chose en lumière to bring something out, to shed light on something
    The period beween the death of Louis XIV (1715) and the 1789 Revolution. The reformist, rationalist movement of the 18th century philosophes and encyclopédistes found its most comprehensive expression in the Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and, for a time, d'Alembert, between 1751 and 1765. The works of the philosophes were largely directed against the values of the Ancien Régime. They favoured the view that the purpose of government was the happiness of the people and laid the foundations for the democratic, egalitarian ideas of the following century.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > lumière

  • 102 Henry, Joseph

    [br]
    b. 17 December 1797 Albany, New York, USA
    d. 13 May 1878 Washington, DC, USA
    [br]
    American scientist after whom the unit of inductance is named.
    [br]
    Sent to stay with relatives at the age of 6 because of the illness of his father, when the latter died in 1811 Henry was apprenticed to a silversmith and then turned to the stage. Whilst he was ill himself, a book on science fired his interest and he began studying at Albany Academy, working as a tutor to finance his studies. Initially intending to pursue medicine, he then spent some time as a surveyor before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Albany Academy in 1826. There he became interested in the improvement of electromagnets and discovered that the use of an increased number of turns of wire round the core greatly increased their power; by 1831 he was able to supply to Yale a magnet capable of lifting almost a ton weight. During this time he also discovered the principles of magnetic induction and self-inductance. In the same year he made, but did not patent, a cable telegraph system capable of working over a distance of 1 mile (1.6 km). It was at this time, too, that he found that adiabatic expansion of gases led to their sudden cooling, thus paving the way for the development of refrigerators. For this he was recommended for, but never received, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Five years later he became Professor of Natural Philosophy at New Jersey College (later Princeton University), where he deduced the laws governing the operation of transformers and observed that changes in magnetic flux induced electric currents in conductors. Later he also observed that spark discharges caused electrical effects at a distance. He therefore came close to the discovery of radio waves. In 1836 he was granted a year's leave of absence and travelled to Europe, where he was able to meet Michael Faraday. It was with his help that in 1844 Samuel Morse set up the first patented electric telegraph, but, sadly, the latter seems to have reaped all the credit and financial rewards. In 1846 he became the first secretary of the Washington Smithsonian Institute and did much to develop government support for scientific research. As a result of his efforts some 500 telegraph stations across the country were equipped with meteorological equipment to supply weather information by telegraph to a central location, a facility that eventually became the US National Weather Bureau. From 1852 he was a member of the Lighthouse Board, contributing to improvements in lighting and sound warning systems and becoming its chairman in 1871. During the Civil War he was a technical advisor to President Lincoln. He was a founder of the National Academy of Science and served as its President for eleven years.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1849. President, National Academy of Science 1893–1904. In 1893, to honour his work on induction, the International Congress of Electricians adopted the henry as the unit of inductance.
    Bibliography
    1824. "On the chemical and mechanical effects of steam". 1825. "The production of cold by the rarefaction of air".
    1832, "On the production of currents \& sparks of electricity \& magnetism", American
    Journal of Science 22:403.
    "Theory of the so-called imponderables", Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 6:84.
    Further Reading
    Smithsonian Institution, 1886, Joseph Henry, Scientific Writings, Washington DC.
    KF

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  • 103 Wyatt, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Textiles
    [br]
    b. April 1700 Thickbroom, Weeford, near Lichfield, England
    d. 29 November 1766 Birmingham, England
    [br]
    English inventor of machines for making files and rolling lead, and co-constructor of a cotton-spinning machine.
    [br]
    John Wyatt was the eldest son of John and Jane Wyatt, who lived in the small village of Thickbroom in the parish of Weeford, near Lichfield. John the younger was educated at Lichfield school and then worked as a carpenter at Thickbroom till 1730. In 1732 he was in Birmingham, engaged by a man named Heely, a gunbarrel forger, who became bankrupt in 1734. Wyatt had invented a machine for making files and sought the help of Lewis Paul to manufacture this commercially.
    The surviving papers of Paul and Wyatt in Birmingham are mostly undated and show a variety of machines with which they were involved. There was a machine for "making lead hard" which had rollers, and "a Gymcrak of some consequence" probably refers to a machine for boring barrels or the file-making machine. Wyatt is said to have been one of the unsuccessful competitors for the erection of London Bridge in 1736. He invented and perfected the compound-lever weighing machine. He had more success with this: after 1744, machines for weighing up to five tons were set up at Birmingham, Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Liverpool. Road construction, bridge building, hydrostatics, canals, water-powered engines and many other schemes received his attention and it is said that he was employed for a time after 1744 by Matthew Boulton.
    It is certain that in April 1735 Paul and Wyatt were working on their spinning machine and Wyatt was making a model of it in London in 1736, giving up his work in Birmingham. The first patent, in 1738, was taken out in the name of Lewis Paul. It is impossible to know which of these two invented what. This first patent covers a wide variety of descriptions of the vital roller drafting to draw out the fibres, and it is unknown which system was actually used. Paul's carding patent of 1748 and his second spinning patent of 1758 show that he moved away from the system and principles upon which Arkwright built his success. Wyatt and Paul's spinning machines were sufficiently promising for a mill to be set up in 1741 at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, that was powered by two asses. Wyatt was the person responsible for constructing the machinery. Edward Cave established another at Northampton powered by water while later Daniel Bourn built yet another at Leominster. Many others were interested too. The Birmingham mill did not work for long and seems to have been given up in 1743. Wyatt was imprisoned for debt in The Fleet in 1742, and when released in 1743 he tried for a time to run the Birmingham mill and possibly the Northampton one. The one at Leominster burned down in 1754, while the Northampton mill was advertised for sale in 1756. This last mill may have been used again in conjunction with the 1758 patent. It was Wyatt whom Daniel Bourn contacted about a grant for spindles for his Leominster mill in 1748, but this seems to have been Wyatt's last association with the spinning venture.
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    Further Reading
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London (French collected many of the Paul and Wyatt papers; these should be read in conjunction with Hills 1970).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (Hills shows that the rollerdrafting system on this spinning machine worked on the wrong principles). A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and of the early mills).
    E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, although it is now out of date).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a more recent account).
    W.A.Benton, "John Wyatt and the weighing of heavy loads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 9 (for a description of Wyatt's weighing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Wyatt, John

  • 104 apestante

    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
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    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

    Spanish-English dictionary > apestante

  • 105 arreglárselas lo mejor posible

    (v.) = make + the best of things
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    * * *
    (v.) = make + the best of things

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

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  • 106 celebrar + Acontecimiento

    (v.) = hold + Acontecimiento
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    * * *
    (v.) = hold + Acontecimiento

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

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  • 107 hediondo

    adj.
    stinking, stinky, bad-smelling, evil-smelling.
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    1 (apestoso) stinking, foul-smelling, smelly
    2 figurado (asqueroso) filthy, repulsive
    3 figurado (molesto) annoying
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    ADJ
    1) (=maloliente) stinking, foul-smelling
    2) (=asqueroso) repulsive
    3) (=sucio) filthy
    4) (=obsceno) obscene
    5) (=inaguantable) annoying, unbearable
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    - da adjetivo ( fétido) foul-smelling, stinking
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    = stinking, smelly [smellier -comp., smelliest -sup.], malodourous [malodorous, -USA], rotting, reeking, putrid, noisome.
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    Ex. This article looks at the question of the appropriate treatment by librarians of homeless people, sometimes smelly and mentally disturbed, in the library.
    Ex. Today's sewage nutrients, dyes and toxic or malodorous substances which can be degraded only with difficulty or very slowly.
    Ex. He is a modernist abandoning himself to romanticism and finding beauty in rotting corpses and reeking cities.
    Ex. He is a modernist abandoning himself to romanticism and finding beauty in rotting corpses and reeking cities.
    Ex. Social conventions can influence the labeling of odors, especially those that have putrid, rancid, urinous or sweaty qualities.
    Ex. The bags may be used as an inner skin to a rubbish bin, to stop wet and noisome remains from sticking to the inside of the container.
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    - da adjetivo ( fétido) foul-smelling, stinking
    * * *
    = stinking, smelly [smellier -comp., smelliest -sup.], malodourous [malodorous, -USA], rotting, reeking, putrid, noisome.

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

    Ex: This article looks at the question of the appropriate treatment by librarians of homeless people, sometimes smelly and mentally disturbed, in the library.
    Ex: Today's sewage nutrients, dyes and toxic or malodorous substances which can be degraded only with difficulty or very slowly.
    Ex: He is a modernist abandoning himself to romanticism and finding beauty in rotting corpses and reeking cities.
    Ex: He is a modernist abandoning himself to romanticism and finding beauty in rotting corpses and reeking cities.
    Ex: Social conventions can influence the labeling of odors, especially those that have putrid, rancid, urinous or sweaty qualities.
    Ex: The bags may be used as an inner skin to a rubbish bin, to stop wet and noisome remains from sticking to the inside of the container.

    * * *
    1 (fétido) foul-smelling, stinking
    2 ( fam) (repugnante) disgusting, revolting
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    hediondo
    ◊ -da adjetivo ( fétido) foul-smelling, stinking

    hediondo,-a adjetivo foul-smelling

    ' hediondo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hedionda
    English:
    stinking
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    hediondo, -a adj
    1. [pestilente] stinking, foul-smelling
    2. Formal [insoportable] unbearable
    * * *
    adj stinking, foul-smelling
    * * *
    hediondo, -da adj
    maloliente: foul-smelling, stinking

    Spanish-English dictionary > hediondo

  • 108 lluvia a cántaros

    (n.) = pouring rain
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    * * *

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lluvia a cántaros

  • 109 lluvia torrencial

    f.
    very heavy rain, downpour, heavy rain, heavy shower.
    * * *
    (n.) = pouring rain, torrential rain
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    Ex. Tomás Hernández drove cautiously in the torrential rain, trying not to swerve on the slick pavement of the turnpike.
    * * *
    (n.) = pouring rain, torrential rain

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

    Ex: Tomás Hernández drove cautiously in the torrential rain, trying not to swerve on the slick pavement of the turnpike.

    Spanish-English dictionary > lluvia torrencial

  • 110 vertedero de basuras

    (n.) = garbage dump
    Ex. And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.
    * * *

    Ex: And no matter how set everyone is to have a good time, it is difficult to do more than make the cheerful best of things if the picnic is held, for some crazy reason, on a stinking garbage dump in pouring rain.

    Spanish-English dictionary > vertedero de basuras

  • 111 Murdock (Murdoch), William

    [br]
    b. 21 August 1754 Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
    d. 15 November 1839 Handsworth, Birmingham, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and inventor, pioneer in coal-gas production.
    [br]
    He was the third child and the eldest of three boys born to John Murdoch and Anna Bruce. His father, a millwright and joiner, spelled his name Murdock on moving to England. He was educated for some years at Old Cumnock Parish School and in 1777, with his father, he built a "wooden horse", supposed to have been a form of cycle. In 1777 he set out for the Soho manufactory of Boulton \& Watt, where he quickly found employment, Boulton supposedly being impressed by the lad's hat. This was oval and made of wood, and young William had turned it himself on a lathe of his own manufacture. Murdock quickly became Boulton \& Watt's representative in Cornwall, where there was a flourishing demand for steam-engines. He lived at Redruth during this period.
    It is said that a number of the inventions generally ascribed to James Watt are in fact as much due to Murdock as to Watt. Examples are the piston and slide valve and the sun-and-planet gearing. A number of other inventions are attributed to Murdock alone: typical of these is the oscillating cylinder engine which obviated the need for an overhead beam.
    In about 1784 he planned a steam-driven road carriage of which he made a working model. He also planned a high-pressure non-condensing engine. The model carriage was demonstrated before Murdock's friends and travelled at a speed of 6–8 mph (10–13 km/h). Boulton and Watt were both antagonistic to their employees' developing independent inventions, and when in 1786 Murdock set out with his model for the Patent Office, having received no reply to a letter he had sent to Watt, Boulton intercepted him on the open road near Exeter and dissuaded him from going any further.
    In 1785 he married Mary Painter, daughter of a mine captain. She bore him four children, two of whom died in infancy, those surviving eventually joining their father at the Soho Works. Murdock was a great believer in pneumatic power: he had a pneumatic bell-push at Sycamore House, his home near Soho. The pattern-makers lathe at the Soho Works worked for thirty-five years from an air motor. He also conceived the idea of a vacuum piston engine to exhaust a pipe, later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company's railway and the forerunner of the atmospheric railway.
    Another field in which Murdock was a pioneer was the gas industry. In 1791, in Redruth, he was experimenting with different feedstocks in his home-cum-office in Cross Street: of wood, peat and coal, he preferred the last. He designed and built in the backyard of his house a prototype generator, washer, storage and distribution plant, and publicized the efficiency of coal gas as an illuminant by using it to light his own home. In 1794 or 1795 he informed Boulton and Watt of his experimental work and of its success, suggesting that a patent should be applied for. James Watt Junior was now in the firm and was against patenting the idea since they had had so much trouble with previous patents and had been involved in so much litigation. He refused Murdock's request and for a short time Murdock left the firm to go home to his father's mill. Boulton \& Watt soon recognized the loss of a valuable servant and, in a short time, he was again employed at Soho, now as Engineer and Superintendent at the increased salary of £300 per year plus a 1 per cent commission. From this income, he left £14,000 when he died in 1839.
    In 1798 the workshops of Boulton and Watt were permanently lit by gas, starting with the foundry building. The 180 ft (55 m) façade of the Soho works was illuminated by gas for the Peace of Paris in June 1814. By 1804, Murdock had brought his apparatus to a point where Boulton \& Watt were able to canvas for orders. Murdock continued with the company after the death of James Watt in 1819, but retired in 1830 and continued to live at Sycamore House, Handsworth, near Birmingham.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society Rumford Gold Medal 1808.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, 1861, Lives of the Engineers, Vol. IV: Boulton and Watt, London: John Murray.
    H.W.Dickinson and R.Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    J.A.McCash, 1966, "William Murdoch. Faithful servant" in E.G.Semler (ed.), The Great Masters. Engineering Heritage, Vol. II, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers/Heinemann.
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    Biographical history of technology > Murdock (Murdoch), William

  • 112 Lawrence, Richard Smith

    SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour
    [br]
    b. 22 November 1817 Chester, Vermont, USA
    d. 10 March 1892 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American gunsmith and inventor.
    [br]
    Richard S.Lawrence received only an elementary education and as a young man worked on local farms and later in a woodworking shop. His work there included making carpenters' and joiners' tools and he spent some of his spare time in a local gunsmith's shop. After a brief period of service in the Army, he obtained employment in 1838 with N.Kendall \& Co. of Windsor, Vermont, making guns at the Windsor prison. Within six months he was put in charge of the work, continuing in this position until 1842 when the gun-making ceased; he remained at the prison for a time in charge of the carriage shop. In 1843 he opened a gun shop in Windsor in partnership with Kendall, and the next year S.E. Robbins, a businessman, helped them obtain a contract from the Federal Government for 10,000 rifles. A new company, Robbins, Kendall \& Lawrence, was formed and a factory was built at Windsor. Three years later Kendall's share of the business was purchased by his partners and the firm became Robbins \& Lawrence. Lawrence supervised the design and production and, to improve methods of manufacture, developed new machine tools with the aid of F.W. Howe. In 1850 Lawrence introduced the lubrication of bullets, which practice ensured the success of the breech-loading rifle. Also in 1850, the company undertook to manufacture railway cars, but this involved them in a considerable financial loss. The company took to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, England, a set of rifles built on the interchangeable system. The interest this created resulted in a visit of some members of the British Royal Small Arms Commission to America and subsequently an order for 150 machine tools, jigs and fixtures from Robbins \& Lawrence, to be installed at the small-arms factory at Enfield. In 1852 the company contracted to manufacture Sharps rifles and carbines at a new factory to be built at Hartford, Connecticut. Lawrence moved to Hartford in 1853 to superintend the building and equipment of the plant. Shortly afterwards, however, a promised order for a large number of rifles failed to materialize and, following its earlier financial difficulties, Robbins \& Lawrence was forced into bankruptcy. The Hartford plant was acquired by the Sharps Rifle Company in 1856 and Lawrence remained there as Superintendent until 1872. From then he was for many years Superintendent of Streets in the city of Hartford and he also served on the Water Board, the Board of Aldermen and as Chairman of the Fire Board.
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    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; repub. 1926, New York; and 1987, Bradley, Ill. (provides biographical information and includes in an Appendix (pp. 281–94) autobiographical notes written by Richard S.Lawrence in 1890).
    Merritt Roe Smith, 1974, "The American Precision Museum", Technology and Culture 15 (3): 413–37 (for information on Robbins \& Lawrence and products).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Lawrence, Richard Smith

  • 113 Loos, Adolf

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    b. 10 December 1870 Brno, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic)
    d. 23 August 1933 Vienna, Austria
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    Austrian architect who was one of the earliest pioneers of the modern school in Europe.
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    Loos was the son of a sculptor and trained as a mason before studying architecture at Dresden College of Technology between 1890 and 1893. He then spent three years in America in such diverse areas as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and St Louis. He became a devotee of America and of building there, and he was particularly impressed by the work of Louis Sullivan. He returned to Austria in 1896 and set up practice in Vienna. His early work there was in line with the current Sezessionist mode, but he quickly came to disassociate himself from this trend and increasingly insisted upon very plain and functionalist designs: by 1908 he is quoted as saying that "the evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects". By this time Loos had become the pace-setter for modern ideas and was designing houses constructed from modern materials in as severe and cubic a style as Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) was soon to do. Adolf Loos made many designs, but only a small proportion were translated into building. Of his notable interiors the Kartner Bau (1907) in Vienna had pride of place, while his Steiner Haus (1910) there is regarded as the earliest truly modern house in Europe. Cubic in form and with simplified fenestration, this was the forerunner of inter-war architecture. In 1920 Loos was appointed Chief Housing Architect for Vienna, but he resigned two years later. He spent some time in Paris mixing with avant-garde artists and architects and lectured for a time at the Sorbonne. His last commissions, after he had returned to Vienna in 1928, included some of his best work, notably the Muller House (1930) in Prague.
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    Further Reading
    Benedetto Gravagnuolo, 1982, Adolf Loos: Theory and Works, Milan: Idea Books.
    ——1986, The Architecture of Adolf Loos, Arts Council Exhibition Book (with a Foreword by Sir John Summerson).
    L.Munz and G.Kunstet, 1964, Der Architekt Adolf Loos, Vienna and Munich: Anton Schroll.
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  • 114 Senefelder, Alois

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
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    b. 6 November 1771 Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
    d. 26 February 1834 Munich, Germany
    [br]
    German inventor of lithography.
    [br]
    Soon after his birth, Senefelder's family moved to Mannheim, where his father, an actor, had obtained a position in the state theatre. He was educated there, until he gained a scholarship to the university of Ingolstadt. The young Senefelder wanted to follow his father on to the stage, but the latter insisted that he study law. He nevertheless found time to write short pieces for the theatre. One of these, when he was 18 years old, was an encouraging success. When his father died in 1791, he gave up his studies and took to a new life as poet and actor. However, the wandering life of a repertory actor palled after two years and he settled for the more comfortable pursuit of playwriting. He had some of his work printed, which acquainted him with the art of printing, but he fell out with his bookseller. He therefore resolved to carry out his own printing, but he could not afford the equipment of a conventional letterpress printer. He began to explore other ways of printing and so set out on the path that was to lead to an entirely new method.
    He tried writing in reverse on a copper plate with some acid-resisting material and etching the plate, to leave a relief image that could then be inked and printed. He knew that oily substances would resist acid, but it required many experiments to arrive at a composition of wax, soap and charcoal dust dissolved in rainwater. The plates wore down with repeated polishing, so he substituted stone plates. He continued to etch them and managed to make good prints with them, but he went on to make the surprising discovery that etching was unnecessary. If the image to be printed was made with the oily composition and the stone moistened, he found that only the oily image received the ink while the moistened part rejected it. The printing surface was neither raised (as in letterpress printing) nor incised (as in intaglio printing): Senefelder had discovered the third method of printing.
    He arrived at a workable process over the years 1796 to 1799, and in 1800 he was granted an English patent. In the same year, lithography (or "writing on stone") was introduced into France and Senefelder himself took it to England, but it was some time before it became widespread; it was taken up by artists especially for high-quality printing of art works. Meanwhile, Senefelder improved his techniques, finding that other materials, even paper, could be used in place of stone. In fact, zinc plates were widely used from the 1820s, but the name "lithography" stuck. Although he won world renown and was honoured by most of the crowned heads of Europe, he never became rich because he dissipated his profits through restless experimenting.
    With the later application of the offset principle, initiated by Barclay, lithography has become the most widely used method of printing.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1911, Alois Senefelder, Inventor of Lithography, trans. J.W.Muller, New York: Fuchs \& Line (Senefelder's autobiography).
    Further Reading
    W.Weber, 1981, Alois Senefelder, Erfinder der Lithographie, Frankfurt-am-Main: Polygraph Verlag.
    M.Tyman, 1970, Lithography 1800–1950, London: Oxford University Press (describes the invention and its development; with biographical details).
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  • 115 Cross, Charles Frederick

    [br]
    b. 11 December 1855 Brentwood, Middlesex, England
    d. 15 April 1935 Hove, England
    [br]
    English chemist who contributed to the development of viscose rayon from cellulose.
    [br]
    Cross was educated at the universities of London, Zurich and Manchester. It was at Owens College, Manchester, that Cross first met E.J. Bevan and where these two first worked together on the nature of cellulose. After gaining some industrial experience, Cross joined Bevan to set up a partnership in London as analytical and consulting chemists, specializing in the chemistry and technology of cellulose and lignin. They were at the Jodrell laboratory, Kew Gardens, for a time and then set up their own laboratory at Station Avenue, Kew Gardens. In 1888, the first edition of their joint publication A Textbook of Paper-making, appeared. It went into several editions and became the standard reference and textbook on the subject. The long introductory chapter is a discourse on cellulose.
    In 1892, Cross, Bevan and Clayton Beadle took out their historic patent on the solution and regeneration of cellulose. The modern artificial-fibre industry stems from this patent. They made their discovery at New Court, Carey Street, London: wood-pulp (or another cheap form of cellulose) was dissolved in a mixture of carbon disulphide and aqueous alkali to produce sodium xanthate. After maturing, it was squirted through fine holes into dilute acid, which set the liquid to give spinnable fibres of "viscose". However, it was many years before the process became a commercial operation, partly because the use of a natural raw material such as wood involved variations in chemical content and each batch might react differently. At first it was thought that viscose might be suitable for incandescent lamp filaments, and C.H.Stearn, a collaborator with Cross, continued to investigate this possibility, but the sheen on the fibres suggested that viscose might be made into artificial silk. The original Viscose Spinning Syndicate was formed in 1894 and a place was rented at Erith in Kent. However, it was not until some skeins of artificial silk (a term to which Cross himself objected) were displayed in Paris that textile manufacturers began to take an interest in it. It was then that Courtaulds decided to investigate this new fibre, although it was not until 1904 that they bought the English patents and developed the first artificial silk that was later called "rayon". Cross was also concerned with the development of viscose films and of cellulose acetate, which became a rival to rayon in the form of "Celanese". He retained his interest in the paper industry and in publishing, in 1895 again collaborating with Bevan and publishing a book on Cellulose and other technical articles. He was a cultured man and a good musician. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1917.
    Bibliography
    1888, with E.J.Bevan, A Text-book of Papermaking. 1892, British patent no. 8,700 (cellulose).
    Further Reading
    Obituary Notices of the Royal Society, 1935, London. Obituary, 1935, Journal of the Chemical Society 1,337. Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.
    Edwin J.Beer, 1962–3, "The birth of viscose rayon", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 35 (an account of the problems of developing viscose rayon; Beer worked under Cross in the Kew laboratories).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1978, A History of Technology, Vol. VI, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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  • 116 Ackermann, Rudolph

    [br]
    b. 20 April 1764 Stolberg, Saxony
    d. 30 March 1834 Finchley, London, England
    [br]
    German-born fine-art publisher and bookseller, noted for his arrangement of the steering of the front wheels of horse-drawn carriages, which is still used in automobiles today.
    [br]
    Ackermann's father was a coachbuilder and harness-maker who in 1775 moved to Schneeberg. Rudolph was educated there and later entered his father's workshop for a short time. He visited Dresden, among other towns in Germany, and was resident in Paris for a short time, but eventually settled in London. For the first ten years of his life there he was employed in making designs for many of the leading coach builders. His steering-gear consisted of an arrangement of the track arms on the stub axles and their connection by the track rod in such a way that the inner wheel moved through a greater angle than the outer one, so giving approximately true rolling of the wheels in cornering. A necessary condition for this is that, in the plan view, the point of intersection of the axes of all the wheels must be at a point which always lies on the projection of the rear axle. In addition, the front wheels are inclined to bring the line of contact of the front wheels under the line of the pivots, about which they turn when cornering. This mechanism was not entirely new, having been proposed for windmill carriages in 1714 by Du Quet, but it was brought into prominence by Ackermann and so has come to bear his name.
    In 1801 he patented a method of rendering paper, cloth and other materials waterproof and set up a factory in Chelsea for that purpose. He was one of the first private persons to light his business premises with gas. He also devoted some time to a patent for movable carriage axles between 1818 and 1820. In 1805 he was put in charge of the preparation of the funeral car for Lord Nelson.
    Most of his life and endeavours were devoted to fine-art printing and publishing. He was responsible for the introduction into England of lithography as a fine art: it had first been introduced as a mechanical process in 1801, but was mainly used for copying until Ackermann took it up in 1817, setting up a press and engaging the services of a number of prominent artists, including W.H.Pyne, W.Combe, Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson. In 1819 he published an English translation of J.A.Senefelder's A Complete Course of Lithography, illustrated with lithographic plates from his press. He was much involved in charitable works for widows, children and wounded soldiers after the war of 1814. In 1830 he suffered "an attack of paralysis" which left him unable to continue in business. He died four years later and was buried at St Clement Danes.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    His fine-art publications are numerous and well known, and include the following:
    The Microcosm of London University of Oxford University of Cambridge The Thames
    Further Reading
    Aubrey F.Burstall, "A history of mechanical engineering", Dictionary of National Biography.
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  • 117 Shillibeer, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Land transport
    [br]
    fl. early nineteenth century
    [br]
    English coachbuilder who introduced the omnibus to London.
    [br]
    Little is known of Shillibeer's early life except that he was for some years resident in France. He served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy before joining the firm of Hatchetts in Long Acre, London, to learn coachbuilding. He set up as a coachbuilder in Paris soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and prospered. Early in the 1820s Jacques Laffite ordered two improved buses from Shillibeer. Their success prompted Shillibeer to sell up his business and return to London to start a similar service. His first two buses in London ran for the first time on 4 July 1829, from the Yorkshire Stingo at Paddington to the Bank, a distance of 9 miles (14 km) which had taken three hours by the existing short-stagecoaches. Shillibeer's vehicle was drawn by three horses abreast, carried twenty-two passengers at a charge of one shilling for the full journey or sixpence for a part-journey. These fares were a third of that charged for an inside seat on a short-stagecoach. The conductors were the sons of friends of Shillibeer from his naval days. He was soon earning £1,000 per week, each bus making twelve double journeys a day. Dishonesty was rife among the conductors, so Shillibeer fitted a register under the entrance step to count the passengers; two of the conductors who had been discharged set out to wreck the register and its inventor. Expanded routes were soon being travelled by a larger fleet but the newly formed Metropolitan Police force complained that the buses were too wide, so the next buses had only two horses and carried sixteen passengers inside with two on top. Shillibeer's partner, William Morton, failed as competition grew. Shillibeer sold out in 1834 when he had sixty buses, six hundred horses and stabling for them. He started a long-distance service to Greenwich, but a competing railway opened in 1835 and income declined; the Official Stamp and Tax Offices seized the omnibuses and the business was bankrupted. Shillibeer then set up as an undertaker, and prospered with a new design of hearse which became known as a "Shillibeer".
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.Bird, 1969, Road Vehicles, London: Longmans Industrial Archaeology Series.
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  • 118 С-375

    НА ПЕРВЫЙ СЛУЧАЙ PrepP Invar adv or sent adv fixed WO
    1. as a first (action, step toward some goal etc), as a start
    to start (begin) with
    for starters (openers)).
    (Таня:) Куда вы меня приглашаете? (Колесов:) На свадьбу. На первый случай я приглашаю вас на свадьбу (Вампилов 3). (Т..) What are you inviting me to?
    (К.:) A wedding To start with, I'm inviting you to a wedding (3a).
    «Делать нечего, видно, мне вступиться в это дело да пойти на разбойников с моими домашними. На первый случай отряжу человек двадцать, так они и очистят воровскую рощу...» (Пушкин 1). "It seems that there's nothing for it but for me to take a hand in this affair, and go after the brigands with my own people. To begin with, I'll arm twenty men and have the copse set free of brigands" (1b).
    2. for the initial period of time (that sth. is in effect, sth. is being undertaken, s.o. is doing sth. etc): for the first little while (bit)
    (in limited contexts) for now for the time being.
    «Ваших, то есть мамашу и сестрицу, жду с часу на час... Приискал им на первый случай квартиру...» (Достоевский 3). "I'm expecting your people, that is your mama and sister, at any moment now....I've found them rooms for the time being-" (3a).

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  • 119 на первый случай

    [PrepP; Invar; adv or sent adv; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. as a first (action, step toward some goal etc), as a start:
    - for starters (openers).
         ♦ [Таня:] Куда вы меня приглашаете? [Колесов:] На свадьбу. На первый случай я приглашаю вас на свадьбу (Вампилов 3). [Т..] What are you inviting me to? [K.:] A wedding To start with, I'm inviting you to a wedding (3a).
         ♦ "Делать нечего, видно, мне вступиться в это дело да пойти на разбойников с моими домашними. На первый случай отряжу человек двадцать, так они и очистят воровскую рощу..." (Пушкин 1). "It seems that there's nothing for it but for me to take a hand in this affair, and go after the brigands with my own people. To begin with, I'll arm twenty men and have the copse set free of brigands" (1b).
    2. for the initial period of time (that sth. is in effect, sth. is being undertaken, s.o. is doing sth. etc):
    - [in limited contexts] for now;
    - for the time being.
         ♦ "Ваших, то есть мамашу и сестрицу, жду с часу на час... Приискал им на первый случай квартиру..." (Достоевский 3). "I'm expecting your people, that is your mama and sister, at any moment now....I've found them rooms for the time being - " (3a).

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  • 120 sehen

    n; -s, kein Pl. seeing; (Sehkraft) eyesight; ( nur) vom Sehen (only) by sight; ich kenne ihn nur vom Sehen auch I’ve never actually spoken to him; die Leute kommen zum Sehen und Gesehenwerden these people come to see and be seen
    * * *
    das Sehen
    (Sehkraft) eyesight;
    (Sicht) seeing
    * * *
    Se|hen
    nt -s, no pl
    seeing; (= Sehkraft) sight, vision

    als Fotograf muss man richtiges, bewusstes Séhen lernen — as a photographer one has to learn to see correctly and consciously

    ich kenne ihn nur vom Séhen — I only know him by sight

    * * *
    1) (to have the power of sight: After six years of blindness, he found he could see.) see
    2) (to be aware of by means of the eye: I can see her in the garden.) see
    3) (to look at: Did you see that play on television?) see
    4) (to have a picture in the mind: I see many difficulties ahead.) see
    5) (to investigate: Leave this here and I'll see what I can do for you.) see
    6) (to meet: I'll see you at the usual time.) see
    * * *
    Se·hen
    <-s>
    [ˈze:ən]
    nt kein pl seeing
    jdn nur vom \Sehen kennen to only know sb by sight
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb
    1) see

    schlecht/gut sehen — have bad or poor/good eyesight

    mal sehen, wir wollen od. werden sehen — (ugs.) we'll see

    siehste!(ugs.)

    siehst du wohl! — there, you see!

    lass mal sehenlet me or let's see; let me or let's have a look

    siehe oben/unten/Seite 80 — see above/below/page 80

    da kann man od. (ugs.) kannste mal sehen,... — that just goes to show...

    2) (hinsehen) look

    auf etwas (Akk.) sehen — look at something

    sieh mal od. doch! — look!

    alle Welt sieht auf Washington(fig.) all eyes are turned on Washington

    3) (zeigen, liegen)

    nach Süden/Norden sehen — face south/north

    4) (nachsehen) have a look; see
    5)

    nach jemandem sehen (betreuen) keep an eye on somebody; (besuchen) drop by to see somebody; (nachsehen) look in on somebody

    nach etwas sehen (betreuen) keep an eye on something; (nachsehen) take a look at something

    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb

    jemanden/etwas [nicht] zu sehen bekommen — [not] get to see somebody/something

    von ihm/davon ist nichts zu sehen — he/it is nowhere to be seen

    ich habe ihn kommen [ge]sehen — I saw him coming

    [überall] gern gesehen sein — be welcome [everywhere]

    jemanden/etwas nicht mehr sehen können — (fig. ugs.) not be able to stand the sight of somebody/something any more

    kein Blut sehen können(ugs.) not be able to stand the sight of blood

    2) (ansehen, betrachten) watch <television, performance>; look at <photograph, object>
    3) (treffen) see
    5) (feststellen, erkennen) see

    ich möchte doch einmal sehen, ob er es wagt — I'd just like to see whether he dares [to]

    wir sahen, dass wir nicht mehr helfen konnten — we saw that we could not help any more

    das wollen wir [doch] erst mal sehen! — we'll 'see about that

    man wird sehen [müssen] — we'll [just have to] see

    da sieht man es [mal] wieder — it's the same old story

    so gesehenlooked at that way or in that light

    ich werde sehen, was ich für Sie tun kann — I'll see what I can do for you

    3.
    1)

    sich genötigt/veranlasst sehen,... zu... — feel compelled to...

    sich in der Lage sehen,... zu... — feel able to...; think one is able to...

    * * *
    sehen; sieht, sah, hat gesehen
    A. v/i
    1. see;
    gut/schlecht sehen have good/bad ( oder poor) eyesight;
    ich sehe nicht gut I can’t see very well;
    sie sieht nur auf einem Auge she can only see with one eye, she only has sight in one eye;
    sie konnte kaum aus den Augen sehen she could hardly keep her eyes open;
    sehe ich richtig? umg I must be seeing things
    2. (hinsehen, blicken) look;
    auf seine Uhr sehen look at one’s watch;
    er kann mir nicht in die Augen sehen he can’t look me in the eye;
    sieh nur!, sehen Sie mal! look!;
    wenn ich recht gesehen habe if I saw right, if my eyes weren’t deceiving me;
    wie ich sehe, ist er nicht hier I see he’s not here;
    wie Sie sehen, … as you can see, …;
    siehe oben/unten (abk
    sb/s. u.) see above/below;
    das Fenster sieht auf die See fig the window looks out onto ( oder faces) the sea
    3. fig:
    sehen auf (+akk) (Wert legen auf) set great store by, be (very) particular about;
    nach den Kindern sehen look after (US take care of) the children;
    wir müssen mal wieder nach Oma sehen we must look in on grandma again (to see that she’s all right);
    nach dem Essen sehen see to the dinner;
    nach dem Braten sehen see how the joint is doing;
    siehe da! umg lo and behold!;
    (na,) siehst du! umg there you are; (es ist geschehen, was ich voraussagte) what did I tell you?, see?;
    ich will sehen, dass ich es dir besorge I’ll see if I can ( oder I’ll try to) get it for you;
    man muss sehen, wo man bleibt umg you have to look after number one;
    sieh, dass es erledigt wird see (to it) that it gets done;
    wir werden (schon) sehen we’ll ( oder we shall) see, let’s wait and see;
    lassen Sie mich sehen let me see (auch fig)
    4. (einsehen, erkennen) see, realize;
    sehen Sie, die Sache war so you see, it was like this;
    ich sehe schon, dass er keine Ahnung hat I can see that he has no idea;
    siehst du nun, dass es ein Fehler war? do you see now that it was a mistake?;
    seht ihr denn nicht, dass …? can’t you see that …?;
    daraus ist zu sehen, dass … this shows that …, it’s clear from this that …; ähnlich
    B. v/t
    1. see; (betrachten) look at; TV, SPORT etc: watch; (bemerken) notice;
    kann ich das mal sehen? can I have a look at that?;
    ich sehe gerade die Tagesschau I’m watching the news;
    ich sehe schrecklich gern Tennis/Schnulzen I love watching tennis/schmaltzy films;
    ich sah ihn fallen I saw ( oder watched) him fall;
    er sieht einfach alles he doesn’t miss a thing;
    ich sehe überhaupt nichts I can’t see a thing;
    ich sehe alles doppelt/verschwommen I’m seeing everything double/everything’s blurred;
    flüchtig sehen catch a glimpse of;
    es war/gab nichts zu sehen you couldn’t see a thing/there was nothing to see;
    gehen Sie weiter, hier gibt es nichts zu sehen keep moving, there’s nothing to see here;
    niemand war zu sehen there was nobody to be seen ( oder in sight)
    2.
    gern sehen like (to see);
    er sieht es gern, wenn man ihn bedient he likes being waited on;
    er sieht es nicht gern, wenn sie ausgeht he doesn’t like her going out;
    das sehe ich gar nicht gern I hate to see that sort of thing;
    sie kann ihn nicht mehr sehen (leiden) she can’t stand (the sight of) him
    er hat bessere Tage gesehen he’s seen better days;
    das möchte ich (aber) sehen! that’ll be the day!;
    das werden wir ja sehen we’ll see; skeptisch: auch we’ll see about that;
    da sieht man es mal wieder umg it all goes to show;
    hat man so etwas schon gesehen! umg did you ever see anything like it!, well - I never (did) umg
    ich habe es kommen sehen I could see it coming;
    ich sehe schon kommen, dass er kündigt I can see him handing in his notice
    5.
    sich sehen lassen put in an appearance; umg (ankommen, auftauchen) turn up;
    du hast dich lange nicht sehen lassen you haven’t put in an appearance for a long time;
    lass dich mal wieder sehen! umg come and see me ( oder us) again some time;
    lass dich hier nie mehr sehen! don’t you dare show your face here again;
    sie kann sich sehen lassen umg she’s very attractive;
    das kann sich sehen lassen umg that looks quite respectable; weitS., bei Leistung etc: that’s something to be proud of, that’s a feather in your hat
    6. (treffen) see;
    einander sehen see each other;
    wir sehen uns häufig we see quite a lot of each other, we see each other quite often;
    können wir uns nicht öfter sehen? can’t we get together more often?;
    wir sehen uns zum ersten Mal we’ve never met before
    7. fig (beurteilen, einschätzen) see;
    die Dinge sehen, wie sie sind see things for what they are;
    ich sehe die Sache anders I see it differently;
    wie siehst du das? how do you see it?;
    er sieht es schon richtig he’s got the picture, he’s got it right;
    du siehst es falsch you’ve got it wrong;
    so darf man das nicht sehen you’ve got to look at it differently;
    das darf man nicht so eng sehen umg you mustn’t take such a narrow view;
    oder wie seh ich das? umg am I right?;
    so gesehen (looked at) in that light, from that point of view;
    rechtlich etc
    gesehen from a legal etc standpoint ( oder point of view), legally etc;
    man muss beide Seiten sehen you have to see both aspects;
    ich sehe in ihm ein … I see him as a …
    8.
    sich gezwungen sehen zu (+inf) find o.s. compelled to (+inf)
    in der Lage zu (+inf) I don’t see how I can possibly (+inf)
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb
    1) see

    schlecht/gut sehen — have bad or poor/good eyesight

    mal sehen, wir wollen od. werden sehen — (ugs.) we'll see

    siehste!(ugs.)

    siehst du wohl! — there, you see!

    lass mal sehenlet me or let's see; let me or let's have a look

    siehe oben/unten/Seite 80 — see above/below/page 80

    da kann man od. (ugs.) kannste mal sehen,... — that just goes to show...

    2) (hinsehen) look

    auf etwas (Akk.) sehen — look at something

    sieh mal od. doch! — look!

    alle Welt sieht auf Washington(fig.) all eyes are turned on Washington

    3) (zeigen, liegen)

    nach Süden/Norden sehen — face south/north

    4) (nachsehen) have a look; see
    5)

    nach jemandem sehen (betreuen) keep an eye on somebody; (besuchen) drop by to see somebody; (nachsehen) look in on somebody

    nach etwas sehen (betreuen) keep an eye on something; (nachsehen) take a look at something

    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb

    jemanden/etwas [nicht] zu sehen bekommen — [not] get to see somebody/something

    von ihm/davon ist nichts zu sehen — he/it is nowhere to be seen

    ich habe ihn kommen [ge]sehen — I saw him coming

    [überall] gern gesehen sein — be welcome [everywhere]

    jemanden/etwas nicht mehr sehen können — (fig. ugs.) not be able to stand the sight of somebody/something any more

    kein Blut sehen können(ugs.) not be able to stand the sight of blood

    2) (ansehen, betrachten) watch <television, performance>; look at <photograph, object>
    3) (treffen) see
    5) (feststellen, erkennen) see

    ich möchte doch einmal sehen, ob er es wagt — I'd just like to see whether he dares [to]

    wir sahen, dass wir nicht mehr helfen konnten — we saw that we could not help any more

    das wollen wir [doch] erst mal sehen! — we'll 'see about that

    man wird sehen [müssen] — we'll [just have to] see

    da sieht man es [mal] wieder — it's the same old story

    so gesehenlooked at that way or in that light

    ich werde sehen, was ich für Sie tun kann — I'll see what I can do for you

    3.
    1)

    sich genötigt/veranlasst sehen,... zu... — feel compelled to...

    sich in der Lage sehen,... zu... — feel able to...; think one is able to...

    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,pp.: sah, gesehen)
    = to behold v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: beheld)
    to look (at) v.
    to see v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: saw, seen)
    to see how the wind blows expr.
    to spot v.
    to view v.

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  • For-profit education — (also known as the education services industry or proprietary education) refers to educational institutions operated by private, profit seeking businesses. There are two major types of for profit schools. One type is known as an educational… …   Wikipedia

  • set — set1 W1S1 [set] v past tense and past participle set present participle setting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put)¦ 2¦(put into surface)¦ 3¦(story)¦ 4¦(consider)¦ 5¦(establish something)¦ 6¦(start something happening)¦ 7¦(decide something)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • time — [[t]ta͟ɪm[/t]] ♦ times, timing, timed 1) N UNCOUNT Time is what we measure in minutes, hours, days, and years. ...a two week period of time... Time passed, and still Ma did not appear... As time went on the visits got more and more regular... The …   English dictionary

  • time — I UK [taɪm] / US noun Word forms time : singular time plural times *** Metaphor: Time is like money or like something that you buy and use. I ve spent a lot of time on this project. ♦ We are running out of time. ♦ You have used up all the time… …   English dictionary

  • time — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Measurement of duration Nouns 1. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; fourth dimension; the whole time; era, epoch, age, aeon; time of life; moment, instant, instantaneity,… …   English dictionary for students

  • For Better or For Worse characters — The characters in Lynn Johnston s cartoon strip For Better or For Worse have extensive back stories. The birthdates of the characters as shown below are the characters birthdates in current continuity, as shown on the strip s… …   Wikipedia

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  • SET XV — NOTOC Infobox Aircraft name=SET 10 caption= type=Fighter manufacturer=SET designer=Grigore Zamfirescu first flight=1934 introduced= retired= status= primary user= more users= produced= number built=1 variants with their own articles=The SET XV… …   Wikipedia

  • Time management — is commonly defined as the various means by which people effectively use their time and other closely related resources in order to make the most out of it. [The Concise Dictionary of Business Management, by David A. Statt, Taylor Francis Group… …   Wikipedia

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