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book cabinet

  • 1 книжный шкаф

    1) General subject: book-case, bookcase
    2) Engineering: book cabinet, book case, slipcase
    3) Forestry: bookstand, case

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > книжный шкаф

  • 2 bokskap

    subst. bookcase, closed bookcase, glass-fronted bookcase subst. book cabinet

    Norsk-engelsk ordbok > bokskap

  • 3 suojakansi

    • book wrapper
    • cabinet
    • hood
    • jacket

    Suomi-Englanti sanakirja > suojakansi

  • 4 кабинетен

    1. study (attr.); laboratory (attr.)
    кабинетен формат (на снимка) cabinet size
    кабинетен портрет cabinet portrait, photograph
    2. прен. closet (attr.), armchair (attr.); unpractical
    кабинетен стратег an armchair strategist
    кабинетен герой a carpet knight
    кабинетен учен an armchair/a closet scientist
    3. пол. cabinet (attr.)
    кабинетна промяна/реконструкция a cabinet reshuffle
    * * *
    кабинѐтен,
    прил., -на, -но, -ни 1. study (attr.); laboratory (attr.); \кабинетенен портрет cabinet portrait, photograph; \кабинетенен формат (на снимка) cabinet size; \кабинетенни занимания (private) study;
    2. прен. closet (attr.), armchair (attr.); unpractical; \кабинетенен герой carpet knight; \кабинетенен учен armchair/closet scientist; \кабинетенна наука book-learning;
    3. полит. cabinet (attr.); \кабинетенна криза cabinet crisis; \кабинетенна промяна/реконструкция cabinet reshuffle.
    * * *
    cabinet
    * * *
    1. study (attr.);laboratory (attr.) 2. КАБИНЕТЕН герой a carpet knight 3. КАБИНЕТЕН портрет cabinet portrait, photograph 4. КАБИНЕТЕН стратег an armchair strategist 5. КАБИНЕТЕН учен an armchair/a closet scientist 6. КАБИНЕТЕН формат (на снимка) cabinet size 7. кабинетна криза a cabinet crisis 8. кабинетна наука book-learning 9. кабинетна промяна/реконструкция a cabinet reshuffle 10. кабинетни занимания (private) study 11. пол. cabinet (attr.) 12. прен. closet (attr.), armchair (attr.);unpractical

    Български-английски речник > кабинетен

  • 5 crisis

    f. s.&pl.
    crisis.
    estar en crisis to be in crisis
    crisis energética energy crisis
    crisis de identidad identity crisis
    crisis nerviosa nervous breakdown
    * * *
    1 (dificultad) crisis
    2 (ataque) fit, attack
    3 (escasez) shortage
    \
    estar en crisis to be in crisis, reach crisis point
    crisis de gobierno cabinet crisis
    crisis financiera financial crisis
    crisis nerviosa nervous breakdown
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF INV
    1) (Econ, Pol, Sociol) crisis

    • lo que está en crisis es el propio sistema — the system itself is in crisis

    • hacer crisis — to reach crisis point, come to a head

    2) (Med)

    crisis cardíaca — cardiac arrest, heart failure

    crisis epiléptica — epileptic fit, epileptic attack

    * * *
    a) ( situación grave) crisis
    b) (Med) crisis

    hacer crisis — enfermedad to become critical

    c) (period) ( remodelación ministerial) tb
    * * *
    = crisis [crises, -pl.], trough, shakeout [shake-out], crunch, slump, downswing, bust.
    Ex. An I&R service may involve itself in providing 'hotlines', that is emergency help during times of crises or when other services close down, eg evenings, weekends or public holidays.
    Ex. Public libraries have continued to expand since the trough of the 1950s.
    Ex. There will be a dramatic shakeout in librarianship but information scientists face a great opportunity to develop their skills by the opportunities afforded by the new technology.
    Ex. The author of the article 'The crunch and academic library services: a personal view' believes that inflation is one of the underlying causes of the crisis in university libraries.
    Ex. The author discusses the current upswing in paperback sales of children's books in the USA and the slump in hardback sales.
    Ex. A new solution to the problem of predicting cyclical highs and lows in the economy enables one to gauge whether an incipient economic downswing will turn out to be a slowdown in economic growth or a real recession.
    Ex. The article 'El Dorado or bust?' warns that the electronic market is changing.
    ----
    * agravar una crisis = exacerbate + crisis.
    * alcanzar proporciones de crisis = grow to + crisis proportions.
    * causar esta crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * convertirse en una crisis = grow to + a crisis.
    * crisis + aumentar = crisis + deepen.
    * crisis bursátil = market crash, stock market crash.
    * crisis crediticia = credit crunch, credit squeeze.
    * crisis de enormes proporciones = situation of crisis proportions.
    * crisis de fe = crisis of faith.
    * crisis de identidad = crisis of confidence, identity crisis, crisis in confidence.
    * crisis de la industria del libro = book crisis.
    * crisis del libro = book crisis.
    * crisis de los cuarenta = mid-life crisis, middle-age crisis, middle-age blues.
    * crisis de los siete años = seven-year itch.
    * crisis económica = financial straits, economic crisis, financial crisis, crash, bad economic times, shakeout [shake-out], financial crunch, economic slump, difficult economic times, economic depression, economic doldrums.
    * crisis económica mundial = global economic slump.
    * crisis emocional = emotional crisis.
    * crisis energética = energy crisis.
    * crisis financiera = financial crisis, financial crunch.
    * crisis medioambiental = environmental crisis.
    * crisis social = social crisis.
    * desatar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * en crisis = depressed, crisis-ridden, on the rocks.
    * enfrentarse a una crisis = face + crisis.
    * en situación de crisis = on the rocks.
    * estar sumido en una crisis = be deep in crisis.
    * gestión de crisis = crisis management.
    * hacer frente a una crisis = face + crisis, meet + crisis.
    * ocasionar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * pasar una crisis = face + crisis.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * resolver una crisis = solve + crisis.
    * sobrevivir una crisis = survive + crisis.
    * superar una crisis = ford + crisis, survive + crisis.
    * * *
    a) ( situación grave) crisis
    b) (Med) crisis

    hacer crisis — enfermedad to become critical

    c) (period) ( remodelación ministerial) tb
    * * *
    = crisis [crises, -pl.], trough, shakeout [shake-out], crunch, slump, downswing, bust.

    Ex: An I&R service may involve itself in providing 'hotlines', that is emergency help during times of crises or when other services close down, eg evenings, weekends or public holidays.

    Ex: Public libraries have continued to expand since the trough of the 1950s.
    Ex: There will be a dramatic shakeout in librarianship but information scientists face a great opportunity to develop their skills by the opportunities afforded by the new technology.
    Ex: The author of the article 'The crunch and academic library services: a personal view' believes that inflation is one of the underlying causes of the crisis in university libraries.
    Ex: The author discusses the current upswing in paperback sales of children's books in the USA and the slump in hardback sales.
    Ex: A new solution to the problem of predicting cyclical highs and lows in the economy enables one to gauge whether an incipient economic downswing will turn out to be a slowdown in economic growth or a real recession.
    Ex: The article 'El Dorado or bust?' warns that the electronic market is changing.
    * agravar una crisis = exacerbate + crisis.
    * alcanzar proporciones de crisis = grow to + crisis proportions.
    * causar esta crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * convertirse en una crisis = grow to + a crisis.
    * crisis + aumentar = crisis + deepen.
    * crisis bursátil = market crash, stock market crash.
    * crisis crediticia = credit crunch, credit squeeze.
    * crisis de enormes proporciones = situation of crisis proportions.
    * crisis de fe = crisis of faith.
    * crisis de identidad = crisis of confidence, identity crisis, crisis in confidence.
    * crisis de la industria del libro = book crisis.
    * crisis del libro = book crisis.
    * crisis de los cuarenta = mid-life crisis, middle-age crisis, middle-age blues.
    * crisis de los siete años = seven-year itch.
    * crisis económica = financial straits, economic crisis, financial crisis, crash, bad economic times, shakeout [shake-out], financial crunch, economic slump, difficult economic times, economic depression, economic doldrums.
    * crisis económica mundial = global economic slump.
    * crisis emocional = emotional crisis.
    * crisis energética = energy crisis.
    * crisis financiera = financial crisis, financial crunch.
    * crisis medioambiental = environmental crisis.
    * crisis social = social crisis.
    * desatar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * en crisis = depressed, crisis-ridden, on the rocks.
    * enfrentarse a una crisis = face + crisis.
    * en situación de crisis = on the rocks.
    * estar sumido en una crisis = be deep in crisis.
    * gestión de crisis = crisis management.
    * hacer frente a una crisis = face + crisis, meet + crisis.
    * ocasionar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * pasar una crisis = face + crisis.
    * provocar una crisis = precipitate + crisis.
    * resolver una crisis = solve + crisis.
    * sobrevivir una crisis = survive + crisis.
    * superar una crisis = ford + crisis, survive + crisis.

    * * *
    (pl crisis)
    el país sufre/está atravesando una grave crisis energética the country has/is experiencing a serious energy crisis
    la crisis de la vivienda the housing crisis o shortage
    la economía está en crisis the economy is in crisis
    crisis de fe crisis of faith
    su relación está pasando por una etapa de crisis their relationship is going through a crisis
    la situación hizo crisis the situation came to a head, the situation reached crisis point o a crisis level
    2 ( Med) crisis
    la enfermedad hizo crisis al día siguiente the illness became critical the next day
    crisis de Gobierno cabinet reshuffle
    Compuestos:
    heart failure, cardiac arrest
    ● crisis crediticia or del crédito
    credit crunch, credit crisis
    identity crisis
    midlife crisis
    nervous breakdown
    respiratory failure
    * * *

    crisis sustantivo femenino (pl
    ◊ crisis)



    b) (period) ( remodelación ministerial) tb


    crisis sustantivo femenino inv
    1 (mala situación) crisis
    2 Fin crisis
    3 Med (ataque) fit, attack
    ' crisis' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acentuarse
    - actual
    - álgida
    - álgido
    - depresión
    - encarar
    - frenar
    - galopante
    - ingresar
    - pasar
    - agudizar
    - agudo
    - atravesar
    - causante
    - desencadenar
    - económico
    - energético
    - estallar
    - perdurar
    - sacar
    English:
    actual
    - acute
    - background
    - breakdown
    - carry through
    - corner
    - crack
    - crisis
    - flap
    - identity crisis
    - midlife
    - nervous breakdown
    - pull through
    - religion
    - break
    - confront
    - crunch
    - deepen
    - defuse
    - depression
    - develop
    - hang
    - head
    - trouble
    * * *
    crisis nf inv
    1. [situación difícil] crisis;
    la crisis del petróleo the oil crisis;
    la crisis del matrimonio the crisis affecting the institution of marriage;
    la crisis en el mercado de valores the stock market crisis;
    estar en crisis to be in crisis;
    atravesar una crisis to go through a crisis;
    entrar en una época de crisis to go into crisis, to enter a period of crisis
    crisis económica economic crisis, recession;
    crisis energética energy crisis;
    crisis financiera financial crisis;
    crisis de identidad identity crisis;
    crisis ministerial cabinet crisis;
    Hist la crisis de los misiles [en Cuba] the Cuban Missile Crisis
    2. [médica] crisis
    crisis cardiaca cardiac arrest;
    crisis epiléptica epileptic attack;
    crisis nerviosa nervous breakdown
    * * *
    f inv crisis
    * * *
    crisis nf
    1) : crisis
    2)
    crisis nerviosa : nervous breakdown
    * * *
    1. (situación grave) crisis [pl. crises]
    2. (escasez) shortage
    3. (cambio brusco) attack / fit

    Spanish-English dictionary > crisis

  • 6 armario

    m.
    1 cupboard.
    armario empotrado fitted cupboard/wardrobe
    2 cabinet, storage cupboard.
    * * *
    1 (para ropa) wardrobe, US closet; (de cocina) cupboard
    \
    armario empotrado built-in wardrobe, built-in cupboard
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM [de cocina] cupboard, closet (EEUU); [de ropa] wardrobe, closet (EEUU)

    armario ropero — wardrobe, closet (EEUU)

    * * *
    a) ( para ropa - mueble) wardrobe; (- empotrado) closet (AmE), wardrobe (BrE)
    b) ( de cocina) cupboard; ( de cuarto de baño) cabinet
    * * *
    = cupboard, credenza, cabinet, closet, wardrobe.
    Ex. It used to be common practice to keep certain books in the librarian's office or in a locked cupboard (eg books on sex), so a dummy book was place on the appropriate shelf.
    Ex. Suddenly, he extracted from his pocket a set of keys and wheeled his chair toward the credenza.
    Ex. This article describes the main options available (filing cabinets, open shelving, cabinets, carousels, mobile racking, rotary storage) and assesses how these can be applied.
    Ex. Drowsily he slithered out of bed, opened his closet door and got dressed like he had done every morning before.
    Ex. In the bedroom there is a wardrobe, a bed, two bedside rugs, a chest of drawers, two bedside tables, and a coat-stand.
    ----
    * almacenamiento en armarios = cabinet storage.
    * armario de aseo = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de baño = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de cocina = kitchen cabinet.
    * armario de cuarto de baño = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de la ropa blanca = linen closet, linen cupboard.
    * armario de suministros = stock cupboard.
    * armario empotrado = fitted wardrobe.
    * salido del armario = out-of-the-closet.
    * salir del armario = come out of + the closet.
    * * *
    a) ( para ropa - mueble) wardrobe; (- empotrado) closet (AmE), wardrobe (BrE)
    b) ( de cocina) cupboard; ( de cuarto de baño) cabinet
    * * *
    = cupboard, credenza, cabinet, closet, wardrobe.

    Ex: It used to be common practice to keep certain books in the librarian's office or in a locked cupboard (eg books on sex), so a dummy book was place on the appropriate shelf.

    Ex: Suddenly, he extracted from his pocket a set of keys and wheeled his chair toward the credenza.
    Ex: This article describes the main options available (filing cabinets, open shelving, cabinets, carousels, mobile racking, rotary storage) and assesses how these can be applied.
    Ex: Drowsily he slithered out of bed, opened his closet door and got dressed like he had done every morning before.
    Ex: In the bedroom there is a wardrobe, a bed, two bedside rugs, a chest of drawers, two bedside tables, and a coat-stand.
    * almacenamiento en armarios = cabinet storage.
    * armario de aseo = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de baño = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de cocina = kitchen cabinet.
    * armario de cuarto de baño = bathroom cabinet.
    * armario de la ropa blanca = linen closet, linen cupboard.
    * armario de suministros = stock cupboard.
    * armario empotrado = fitted wardrobe.
    * salido del armario = out-of-the-closet.
    * salir del armario = come out of + the closet.

    * * *
    1 (para ropa) closet ( AmE), wardrobe ( BrE)
    2 (de cocina) cupboard, closet ( AmE)
    Compuestos:
    closet/wardrobe with mirrors on both sides of the doors
    (para ropa) built-in closet ( AmE), fitted o built-in wardrobe ( BrE); (de cocina etc) fitted o built-in cupboard
    closet ( AmE), wardrobe ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    armario sustantivo masculino

    (— empotrado) closet (AmE), wardrobe (BrE)

    ( de cuarto de baño) cabinet
    armario m (ropero) GB wardrobe, US closet
    (de cocina) cupboard
    armario empotrado, built-in wardrobe o cupboard
    ' armario' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    capacidad
    - cotillear
    - cuerpo
    - empotrado-a
    - guardar
    - ordenar
    - taquilla
    - adosar
    - bajar
    - barra
    - botiquín
    - encima
    - escaparate
    - escarbar
    - gabinete
    - guardarropa
    - orden
    - percha
    - poner
    - rincón
    - vaciar
    English:
    back
    - bare
    - built-in
    - cabinet
    - clear out
    - closet
    - cubbyhole
    - cupboard
    - fitted wardrobe
    - linen
    - locker
    - shelf
    - skeleton
    - tilt
    - turn out
    - walk-in
    - wardrobe
    - from
    * * *
    1. [para objetos] cupboard;
    [para ropa] wardrobe; Fam
    salir del armario to come out of the closet
    armario empotrado Br fitted o US built-in cupboard/wardrobe;
    armario de luna wardrobe [with mirrors on the doors];
    armario ropero wardrobe
    2. Fam [jugador, deportista] Br donkey, US goat
    * * *
    m closet, wardrobe; de cocina cabinet, Br
    cupboard
    * * *
    1) clóset, ropero: closet
    2) alacena: cupboard
    * * *
    1. (en general) cupboard
    2. (ropero) wardrobe

    Spanish-English dictionary > armario

  • 7 cocina

    f.
    1 kitchen.
    2 cooker, stove.
    cocina eléctrica/de gas electric/gas cooker
    3 cooking (art).
    cocina casera home cooking
    cocina española Spanish cuisine o cooking
    libro/clase de cocina cookery book/class
    4 kitchen stove, stove, cooker, kitchen range.
    5 cuisine, cookery, cooking.
    6 galley, ship's kitchen.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: cocinar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: cocinar.
    * * *
    1 (lugar) kitchen
    2 (gastronomía) cooking
    ■ cocina española Spanish cooking, Spanish cuisine
    3 (aparato) cooker, US stove
    \
    cocina casera home cooking
    cocina de gas gas cooker, US gas stove
    cocina de mercado seasonal produce
    cocina económica cooking range
    cocina eléctrica electric cooker, US electric stove
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=habitación) kitchen
    batería 1., 4), cuchillo 1)
    2) (=aparato) stove, cooker

    cocina de gas — gas cooker, gas stove

    cocina de petróleo — LAm oil stove

    cocina eléctrica — electric cooker, electric stove ( esp EEUU)

    3) (=actividad) cooking, cookery; (=arte) cuisine, cookery

    libro de cocina — cookery book, cookbook (EEUU)

    la cocina valenciana — Valencian cuisine, Valencian cookery

    * * *
    1) ( habitación) kitchen
    2) ( aparato) range (AmE), stove (AmE), cooker (BrE)
    3) ( arte) cookery

    libro de cocina — cookbook, cookery book (BrE)

    * * *
    = cooking, kitchen, cooking facilities.
    Ex. Some libraries have purchased display stands to hold these packs, covering a range of current regional information, such as cooking, baking, business and the natural sciences.
    Ex. The kitchen was full of glancing sunlight and clean color; and as she sat there her mind recurred to her attempts to get her assistant to stay.
    Ex. No sleeping room of a hotel shall include cooking facilities unless the they have been approved by the building department having jurisdiction over the hotel.
    ----
    * alta cocina = haute cuisine.
    * armario de cocina = kitchen cabinet.
    * cocina a carbón = coal-burning stove.
    * cocina a gas = gas stove.
    * cocina a leña = wood-burning stove.
    * cocina casera = home cooking.
    * cocina de carbón = coal-burning stove.
    * cocina de gas = gas stove.
    * cocina de leña = wood-burning stove.
    * cocina modular = modular kitchen.
    * cuchillo de cocina = kitchen knife.
    * dispensador de papel de cocina = kitchen roll holder.
    * encimera de la cocina = kitchen counter top.
    * isla de cocina = kitchen island.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * libro de cocina = book on cookery, cookbook.
    * mesa de cocina = kitchen table.
    * mobiliario de cocina = kitchen furniture.
    * muebles de cocina = kitchen furniture.
    * paño de cocina = tea towel.
    * papel de cocina = paper towel, kitchen paper.
    * placa de cocina = cooktop, hob, kitchen hob.
    * receta de cocina = cookery recipe.
    * robot de cocina = food mixer.
    * rollo de papel de cocina = kitchen roll.
    * si no aguantas el calor, sal de la cocina = if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
    * temporizador de cocina = egg timer.
    * utensilio de cocina = kitchen utensil, cooking utensil.
    * utensilios de cocina = kitchenware.
    * utensilios para la cocina = cookware.
    * * *
    1) ( habitación) kitchen
    2) ( aparato) range (AmE), stove (AmE), cooker (BrE)
    3) ( arte) cookery

    libro de cocina — cookbook, cookery book (BrE)

    * * *
    = cooking, kitchen, cooking facilities.

    Ex: Some libraries have purchased display stands to hold these packs, covering a range of current regional information, such as cooking, baking, business and the natural sciences.

    Ex: The kitchen was full of glancing sunlight and clean color; and as she sat there her mind recurred to her attempts to get her assistant to stay.
    Ex: No sleeping room of a hotel shall include cooking facilities unless the they have been approved by the building department having jurisdiction over the hotel.
    * alta cocina = haute cuisine.
    * armario de cocina = kitchen cabinet.
    * cocina a carbón = coal-burning stove.
    * cocina a gas = gas stove.
    * cocina a leña = wood-burning stove.
    * cocina casera = home cooking.
    * cocina de carbón = coal-burning stove.
    * cocina de gas = gas stove.
    * cocina de leña = wood-burning stove.
    * cocina modular = modular kitchen.
    * cuchillo de cocina = kitchen knife.
    * dispensador de papel de cocina = kitchen roll holder.
    * encimera de la cocina = kitchen counter top.
    * isla de cocina = kitchen island.
    * jefe de cocina = chef.
    * libro de cocina = book on cookery, cookbook.
    * mesa de cocina = kitchen table.
    * mobiliario de cocina = kitchen furniture.
    * muebles de cocina = kitchen furniture.
    * paño de cocina = tea towel.
    * papel de cocina = paper towel, kitchen paper.
    * placa de cocina = cooktop, hob, kitchen hob.
    * receta de cocina = cookery recipe.
    * robot de cocina = food mixer.
    * rollo de papel de cocina = kitchen roll.
    * si no aguantas el calor, sal de la cocina = if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
    * temporizador de cocina = egg timer.
    * utensilio de cocina = kitchen utensil, cooking utensil.
    * utensilios de cocina = kitchenware.
    * utensilios para la cocina = cookware.

    * * *
    A (habitación) kitchen
    armario/mesa de cocina kitchen cupboard/table
    ella lleva la cocina y el marido el bar she does the cooking and her husband runs the bar
    B (aparato) stove, range ( AmE), cooker ( BrE)
    Compuestos:
    field kitchen
    ● cocina de or a gas
    gas stove o range o cooker
    range
    electric stove o range o cooker
    C (arte) cookery
    la cocina vasca Basque cuisine o cookery
    libro de cocina cookbook, cookery book ( BrE)
    curso de cocina cookery course
    * * *

     

    Del verbo cocinar: ( conjugate cocinar)

    cocina es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    cocina    
    cocinar
    cocina sustantivo femenino

    b) ( aparato) stove, cooker (BrE);

    cocina de or a gas gas stove o (BrE) cooker;
    ◊ cocina eléctrica electric stove o (BrE) cooker

    c) ( arte) cookery;

    ( gastronomía) cuisine;

    la cocina casera home cooking
    cocinar ( conjugate cocinar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo
    to cook;
    ◊ ¿quién cocina en tu casa? who does the cooking in your house?

    cocina sustantivo femenino
    1 (habitación de la casa) kitchen
    2 (electrodoméstico) cooker, US stove: la cocina es eléctrica, the cooker is electric
    3 (modo de cocinar) cooking, cuisine
    la cocina peruana, Peruvian cooking
    cocinar verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo to cook

    ' cocina' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amueblada
    - amueblado
    - ancha
    - ancho
    - armario
    - batería
    - bayeta
    - cacharro
    - campaña
    - empantanarse
    - encerrar
    - exterior
    - fogón
    - fuego
    - funcional
    - hornillo
    - llevar
    - maña
    - menaje
    - molde
    - paño
    - pinche
    - pirrar
    - robot
    - rodillo
    - trapo
    - arriba
    - ayudante
    - barrer
    - campana
    - cocinar
    - cocineta
    - condimento
    - criollo
    - cubo
    - cuchillo
    - desnivel
    - dotado
    - enchastrar
    - equipar
    - estufa
    - fregadero
    - gabinete
    - horno
    - libro
    - lumbre
    - mobiliario
    - monumental
    - paleta
    - papa
    English:
    burner
    - chopping board
    - cloth
    - cookbook
    - cooker
    - cookery
    - cookery book
    - cooking
    - cooktop
    - cuisine
    - dishcloth
    - dishtowel
    - do
    - down-home
    - dresser
    - exhaust fan
    - food processor
    - galley
    - gas cooker
    - granite
    - grime
    - hob
    - hotplate
    - intuitively
    - kitchen
    - kitchenware
    - mess about
    - mess around
    - mop
    - nowadays
    - poor
    - pot
    - self-catering
    - self-contained
    - specialize
    - stove
    - tea cloth
    - tea towel
    - utensil
    - worktop
    - bed
    - chef
    - cook
    - dish
    - fixture
    - food
    - hatch
    - keep
    - mean
    - processor
    * * *
    cocina nf
    1. [habitación] kitchen;
    muebles/utensilios de cocina kitchen furniture/utensils
    2. [electrodoméstico] stove, Br cooker
    cocina eléctrica electric stove o Br cooker;
    cocina de gas gas stove o Br cooker
    3. [arte] cooking;
    cocina española/mexicana Spanish/Mexican cuisine o cooking;
    clase de cocina Br cookery o US cooking class;
    libro de cocina cookbook, Br cookery book
    cocina casera home cooking;
    cocina de mercado = cooking using fresh market produce;
    cocina rápida fast food;
    el microondas hace más fácil la cocina rápida the microwave makes it easier to prepare food quickly
    * * *
    f
    1 habitación kitchen
    2 aparato stove, cooker
    3 actividad cooking
    4
    :
    la cocina francesa French cuisine
    * * *
    cocina nf
    1) : kitchen
    2) : stove
    3) : cuisine, cooking
    * * *
    1. (lugar) kitchen
    2. (aparato) cooker
    3. (técnica) cookery
    4. (gastronomía) cooking

    Spanish-English dictionary > cocina

  • 8 almacenamiento

    m.
    1 storage (gen) & (computing).
    2 stockpile, stock, supply.
    3 storing.
    * * *
    1 (acción) storage, warehousing
    3 INFORMÁTICA storage
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM [en almacén, depósito] warehousing; (Inform) storage

    almacenamiento temporal en disco — spooling, disk spooling

    * * *
    = storage, warehousing, hoarding, archiving, storing.
    Ex. Accessibility to the documents stored in files is an important factor, so the physical storage is important.
    Ex. Perhaps university libraries are concentrating on finding low-use book storage on the campus or in cheap local warehousing premises.
    Ex. Too often, the librarian's expertise is seen as a hoarding function.
    Ex. Duplicating, archiving, and the option of computerised indexing is also discussed = También se trata de la duplicación, archivo y de la opción de indización automática.
    Ex. As the world price declines, the difference between the value of exporting and the value of storing decreases.
    ----
    * almacenamiento de archivo = archival storage.
    * almacenamiento de datos = data storage.
    * almacenamiento de imágenes = image archiving, image storage.
    * almacenamiento de la información = information storage.
    * almacenamiento digital = digital archiving.
    * almacenamiento eléctrico = capacitance.
    * almacenamiento electrónico = electronic archiving (e-archiving).
    * almacenamiento en archivadores = cabinet storage.
    * almacenamiento en archivadores giratorios = rotary storage.
    * almacenamiento en armarios = cabinet storage.
    * almacenamiento masivo = mass storage.
    * almacenamiento óptico = optical storage.
    * almacenamiento secundario = secondary storage.
    * almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = storage and retrieval, information storage and retrieval (ISR).
    * almacenamiento y recuperación automatizada de la información = computerised information retrieval and storage.
    * bodega para el almacenamiento de la cerveza = beer cellar.
    * capacidad de almacenamiento = storage capacity.
    * condiciones de almacenamiento = storage conditions.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * dispositivo de almacenamiento = storage device.
    * dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos = store.
    * espacio de almacenamiento = storage space.
    * espacio de almacenamiento en disco = drive storage space.
    * medio de almacenamiento = storage medium.
    * medio de almacenamiento físico = physical storage media.
    * medios de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage media.
    * medios digitalizados de almacenamiento de información = digitised media.
    * memoria de almacenamiento = backing store.
    * memoria de almacenamiento óptico = optical memory.
    * optimizar el espacio de almacenamiento = maximise + storage space.
    * sistema de almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = information storage and retrieval system.
    * tecnología de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage technology.
    * * *
    = storage, warehousing, hoarding, archiving, storing.

    Ex: Accessibility to the documents stored in files is an important factor, so the physical storage is important.

    Ex: Perhaps university libraries are concentrating on finding low-use book storage on the campus or in cheap local warehousing premises.
    Ex: Too often, the librarian's expertise is seen as a hoarding function.
    Ex: Duplicating, archiving, and the option of computerised indexing is also discussed = También se trata de la duplicación, archivo y de la opción de indización automática.
    Ex: As the world price declines, the difference between the value of exporting and the value of storing decreases.
    * almacenamiento de archivo = archival storage.
    * almacenamiento de datos = data storage.
    * almacenamiento de imágenes = image archiving, image storage.
    * almacenamiento de la información = information storage.
    * almacenamiento digital = digital archiving.
    * almacenamiento eléctrico = capacitance.
    * almacenamiento electrónico = electronic archiving (e-archiving).
    * almacenamiento en archivadores = cabinet storage.
    * almacenamiento en archivadores giratorios = rotary storage.
    * almacenamiento en armarios = cabinet storage.
    * almacenamiento masivo = mass storage.
    * almacenamiento óptico = optical storage.
    * almacenamiento secundario = secondary storage.
    * almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = storage and retrieval, information storage and retrieval (ISR).
    * almacenamiento y recuperación automatizada de la información = computerised information retrieval and storage.
    * bodega para el almacenamiento de la cerveza = beer cellar.
    * capacidad de almacenamiento = storage capacity.
    * condiciones de almacenamiento = storage conditions.
    * disco de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage disc.
    * dispositivo de almacenamiento = storage device.
    * dispositivo de almacenamiento de datos = store.
    * espacio de almacenamiento = storage space.
    * espacio de almacenamiento en disco = drive storage space.
    * medio de almacenamiento = storage medium.
    * medio de almacenamiento físico = physical storage media.
    * medios de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage media.
    * medios digitalizados de almacenamiento de información = digitised media.
    * memoria de almacenamiento = backing store.
    * memoria de almacenamiento óptico = optical memory.
    * optimizar el espacio de almacenamiento = maximise + storage space.
    * sistema de almacenamiento y recuperación de la información = information storage and retrieval system.
    * tecnología de almacenamiento óptico = optical storage technology.

    * * *
    storage
    me cobraron $50 por el or de almacenamiento they charged me $50 (for) storage o for storing it
    almacenamiento de datos data storage, storage
    almacenamiento de residuos nucleares storage of nuclear waste
    hicieron un buen almacenamiento de provisiones they laid in o built up a good stock of provisions
    * * *

     

    almacenamiento sustantivo masculino
    storage;

    almacenamiento sustantivo masculino
    1 storage, warehousing
    2 Inform storage

    ' almacenamiento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    sótano
    English:
    storage
    - storage tank
    - stowage
    - cold
    * * *
    1. [de mercancías, información] storage
    2. Informát storage
    almacenamiento masivo mass storage;
    almacenamiento permanente permanent storage;
    almacenamiento temporal temporary storage
    * * *
    m storage
    * * *
    : storage
    almacenamiento de datos: data storage
    * * *
    almacenamiento n storage

    Spanish-English dictionary > almacenamiento

  • 9 carpeta

    f.
    1 file, folder.
    2 writing table cover, table cover.
    * * *
    1 (archivador) folder, file; (informática) folder
    2 (de escritorio) table cover
    3 (cartera) briefcase
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) file, folder
    * * *
    SF
    1) [para papeles, documentos] folder, file

    carpeta de información — information folder, briefing kit

    2) (=cartera) briefcase
    3) [de mesa] table cover
    4) LAm (=pupitre) table, desk
    * * *
    femenino (para documentos, dibujos) folder
    * * *
    = binder, folder, portfolio, cabinet file, project folder, subdirectory.
    Ex. The sheaf catalogue comprises sets of slips held in small looseleaf binders.
    Ex. Photographs are normally kept in drawers of standard filing cabinets, with folders or pockets, or both.
    Ex. A portfolio is a container for holding loose materials, e.g. paintings, drawings, papers, unbound sections of a book, and similar materials, consisting of two covers joined together at the back; the covers are usually tied with tapes at the fore edge, top, and bottom.
    Ex. A wide range of pamphlet and leaflet material was collected and arranged in cabinet files under topic heads such as health, employment, child welfare.
    Ex. For instance, if children are doing a project work on dogs, they will hunt out anything and everything that so much as mentions them and the bits thus mined are assiduously transcribed into project folders.
    Ex. The citations are downloaded to a subdirectory on the microcomputer's hard disc.
    ----
    * carpeta cerrada = pocket.
    * carpeta de anillas = ring binder.
    * * *
    femenino (para documentos, dibujos) folder
    * * *
    = binder, folder, portfolio, cabinet file, project folder, subdirectory.

    Ex: The sheaf catalogue comprises sets of slips held in small looseleaf binders.

    Ex: Photographs are normally kept in drawers of standard filing cabinets, with folders or pockets, or both.
    Ex: A portfolio is a container for holding loose materials, e.g. paintings, drawings, papers, unbound sections of a book, and similar materials, consisting of two covers joined together at the back; the covers are usually tied with tapes at the fore edge, top, and bottom.
    Ex: A wide range of pamphlet and leaflet material was collected and arranged in cabinet files under topic heads such as health, employment, child welfare.
    Ex: For instance, if children are doing a project work on dogs, they will hunt out anything and everything that so much as mentions them and the bits thus mined are assiduously transcribed into project folders.
    Ex: The citations are downloaded to a subdirectory on the microcomputer's hard disc.
    * carpeta cerrada = pocket.
    * carpeta de anillas = ring binder.

    * * *
    A
    1 (para apuntes, documentos, dibujos) folder; ( Inf) folder
    cerrar la carpeta to close the file
    dejar algo en carpeta ( Chi); to put o leave sth on hold
    tener algo en carpeta ( Chi); to have sth under consideration
    2 ( Esp) (de un disco) jacket ( AmE), sleeve ( BrE)
    Compuesto:
    carpeta de anillos or ( Esp)) anillas or (( RPl) ganchos
    ring binder
    B (Col, CS) (tapete — redondo, pequeño) doily; (— rectangular, más grande) runner; (— de otra forma) cover
    C ( Per) (pupitre) desk
    * * *

     

    carpeta sustantivo femenino (para documentos, dibujos) folder;
    carpeta de anillos or (Esp) anillas or (RPl) ganchos ring binder
    carpeta sustantivo femenino folder
    ' carpeta' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    calcada
    - calcado
    - recambio
    - solapa
    - archivador
    - clasificador
    - separador
    English:
    belong
    - bend
    - binder
    - file
    - folder
    - portfolio
    - ring binder
    - doily
    - ring
    - wallet
    * * *
    1. [archivador] file, folder
    carpeta de anillas ring binder
    2. [de disco] Br sleeve, US jacket
    3. Informát folder
    carpeta del sistema system folder
    4. RP [blonda] crochet mat
    5. Perú [pupitre] desk
    * * *
    f
    1 file;
    2 INFOR folder
    3 Cu
    en hotel reception
    * * *
    : folder, binder, portfolio (of drawings, etc.)
    * * *
    carpeta n folder

    Spanish-English dictionary > carpeta

  • 10 estructura

    f.
    structure.
    estructura profunda/superficial deep/surface structure
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: estructurar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: estructurar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) structure
    2 (armazón) frame, framework
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de poema, célula, organización] structure

    estructura profunda — (Ling) deep structure

    estructura superficial — (Ling) surface structure

    2) [de edificio] frame, framework
    * * *
    a) (de edificio, puente) structure, framework; ( de mueble) frame; (de célula, mineral) structure
    b) (de oración, novela) structure
    c) ( de empresa) structure; ( de sociedad) structure, framework
    * * *
    = frame, framework, pattern, structure, texture, lattice, fabric, carcass.
    Ex. Next the book was placed on the sewing frame, and the folded sheets were sewn by hand with needle and thread on to four or five cords or thongs.
    Ex. The intention is to establish a general framework, and then to give exceptions or further explanation and examples for each area in turn.
    Ex. In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex. This chapter does not consider the principles underlying AACR, nor does it review the structure of the code to any significant extent.
    Ex. The fruits of Mr. Kilgour's labors and creations have substantially altered the texture of contemporary America library service = Los frutos de los trabajos y creaciones del Sr. Kilgour han alterado sustancialmente la naturaleza del servicio bibliotecario de la América contemporánea.
    Ex. Special attention should be given to Figure 2, which proposes two lattices (or ladders) for career movement in libraries.
    Ex. The conventional pattern of change has been an evolutionary introduction of the use of technology with no unusual signs of strain in the organizational fabric.
    Ex. The bathroom cabinet carcass is made of plywood.
    ----
    * con estructura de acero = steel-framed.
    * con estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * de estructura de acero = steel-framed.
    * de estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * DSIS (Sistema de Indización de Estructura Profunda) = DISI (Deep Structure Indexing System).
    * estructura arbórea = tree structure.
    * estructura básica = skeleton.
    * estructura de apoyo = support structure.
    * estructura de datos = data structure.
    * estructura de ficheros = file design.
    * estructura de la institución = organisational structure.
    * estructura del edificio = building shell.
    * estructura del registro = record structure.
    * estructura demográfica = demographics.
    * estructura de poder = power structure.
    * estructura de red = network structure.
    * estructura jerárquica = chain of command, hierarchical structure.
    * estructura jerárquica de gestión = line management.
    * estructura jerárquica de una organización = hierarchy ladder.
    * estructura laboral = job structuring.
    * estructura lógica = logical data structure.
    * estructura molecular = molecular structure.
    * estructura organizativa = organisational structure.
    * estructura piramidal = pyramid structure.
    * estructura química = chemical structure.
    * estructura relacional = relation structure.
    * estructura social = social structure.
    * fichero con estructura de red = networked file.
    * libro con estructura plegable = pop-up book.
    * reparador de estructuras altas = steeplejack.
    * sin estructura = unstructured.
    * Sistema de Indización de Estructura Profunda (DSIS) = Deep Structure Indexing System (DSIS).
    * una estructura de = a pattern of.
    * vivienda con estructura de madera = frame dwelling.
    * * *
    a) (de edificio, puente) structure, framework; ( de mueble) frame; (de célula, mineral) structure
    b) (de oración, novela) structure
    c) ( de empresa) structure; ( de sociedad) structure, framework
    * * *
    = frame, framework, pattern, structure, texture, lattice, fabric, carcass.

    Ex: Next the book was placed on the sewing frame, and the folded sheets were sewn by hand with needle and thread on to four or five cords or thongs.

    Ex: The intention is to establish a general framework, and then to give exceptions or further explanation and examples for each area in turn.
    Ex: In the same way that citation orders may have more or less theoretical foundations, equally reference generation may follow a predetermined pattern.
    Ex: This chapter does not consider the principles underlying AACR, nor does it review the structure of the code to any significant extent.
    Ex: The fruits of Mr. Kilgour's labors and creations have substantially altered the texture of contemporary America library service = Los frutos de los trabajos y creaciones del Sr. Kilgour han alterado sustancialmente la naturaleza del servicio bibliotecario de la América contemporánea.
    Ex: Special attention should be given to Figure 2, which proposes two lattices (or ladders) for career movement in libraries.
    Ex: The conventional pattern of change has been an evolutionary introduction of the use of technology with no unusual signs of strain in the organizational fabric.
    Ex: The bathroom cabinet carcass is made of plywood.
    * con estructura de acero = steel-framed.
    * con estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * de estructura de acero = steel-framed.
    * de estructura de madera = timber-framed.
    * DSIS (Sistema de Indización de Estructura Profunda) = DISI (Deep Structure Indexing System).
    * estructura arbórea = tree structure.
    * estructura básica = skeleton.
    * estructura de apoyo = support structure.
    * estructura de datos = data structure.
    * estructura de ficheros = file design.
    * estructura de la institución = organisational structure.
    * estructura del edificio = building shell.
    * estructura del registro = record structure.
    * estructura demográfica = demographics.
    * estructura de poder = power structure.
    * estructura de red = network structure.
    * estructura jerárquica = chain of command, hierarchical structure.
    * estructura jerárquica de gestión = line management.
    * estructura jerárquica de una organización = hierarchy ladder.
    * estructura laboral = job structuring.
    * estructura lógica = logical data structure.
    * estructura molecular = molecular structure.
    * estructura organizativa = organisational structure.
    * estructura piramidal = pyramid structure.
    * estructura química = chemical structure.
    * estructura relacional = relation structure.
    * estructura social = social structure.
    * fichero con estructura de red = networked file.
    * libro con estructura plegable = pop-up book.
    * reparador de estructuras altas = steeplejack.
    * sin estructura = unstructured.
    * Sistema de Indización de Estructura Profunda (DSIS) = Deep Structure Indexing System (DSIS).
    * una estructura de = a pattern of.
    * vivienda con estructura de madera = frame dwelling.

    * * *
    1 (de un edificio, puente) structure, framework; (de un mueble) frame; (de una célula, un mineral) structure
    una estructura de madera/hormigón a wooden/concrete structure
    2 (de una oración, frase) structure; (de una novela, un poema) structure
    3 (de una empresa) structure; (de una sociedad) structure, framework
    la estructura social en la Edad Media the social framework in the Middle Ages
    la estructura jerárquica dentro de la empresa the hierarchical structure within the company
    Compuesto:
    estructura profunda/superficial
    deep/surface structure
    * * *

     

    Del verbo estructurar: ( conjugate estructurar)

    estructura es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    estructura    
    estructurar
    estructura sustantivo femenino
    structure
    estructurar ( conjugate estructurar) verbo transitivo
    to structure, to organize
    estructura sustantivo femenino
    1 structure
    2 (de un edificio, etc) frame, framework
    estructurar verbo transitivo to structure, organize
    ' estructura' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    armadura
    - armazón
    - esqueleto
    - primitiva
    - primitivo
    - tubular
    - aparato
    - carcasa
    - compacto
    - construcción
    - enclenque
    - fuerza
    - sostener
    English:
    climbing frame
    - deserve
    - fabric
    - frame
    - framework
    - inner
    - let
    - make-up
    - shaky
    - shelter
    - structure
    - take down
    - top-heavy
    - unsafe
    - construction
    * * *
    1. [de sustancia, cuerpo, de organización] structure;
    la estructura del átomo the structure of the atom;
    la estructura social en la India the structure of Indian society
    2. [de edificio, mueble, nave] frame, framework
    3. Ling [de oración, texto] structure
    estructura profunda deep structure;
    estructura superficial surface structure
    * * *
    f structure
    * * *
    : structure, framework
    * * *
    estructura n structure

    Spanish-English dictionary > estructura

  • 11 reprendre

    reprendre [ʀ(ə)pʀɑ̃dʀ]
    ➭ TABLE 58
    1. transitive verb
       a. [+ ville, prisonnier] to recapture ; [+ employé, objet prêté] to take back
    • passer reprendre qn to go back or come back for sb
       b. [+ plat] to have some more
    • voulez-vous reprendre des légumes ? would you like some more vegetables?
       c. ( = retrouver) [+ espoir, droits, forces] to regain
    • reprendre confiance/courage to regain one's confidence/courage
    • reprendre haleine or son souffle to get one's breath back
       d. [+ marchandise] to take back ; (contre un nouvel achat) to take in part exchange ; [+ fonds de commerce, entreprise] to take over
       e. ( = recommencer, poursuivre) [+ travaux, études, fonctions, lutte] to resume ; [+ livre, lecture] to go back to ; [+ conversation, récit] to carry on with ; [+ promenade] to continue ; [+ hostilités] to reopen ; [+ pièce de théâtre] to put on again
    • reprendre la route [voyageur] to set off again ; [routier] to go back on the road again
    • reprendre le travail (après maladie, grève) to go back to work ; (après le repas) to get back to work
       f. ( = saisir à nouveau) ses douleurs l'ont repris he is in pain again
    • ça le reprend ! there he goes again!
       g. ( = attraper à nouveau) to catch again
    • que je ne t'y reprenne pas ! (menace) don't let me catch you doing that again!
       h. ( = retoucher) [+ tableau] to touch up ; [+ article, chapitre] to go over again ; [+ manteau] to alter ; (trop grand) to take in ; (trop petit) to let out ; (trop long) to take up ; (trop court) to let down
       i. [+ élève] to correct ; (pour faute de langue) to pull up
       j. [+ refrain] to take up
       k. [+ idée, suggestion] to use again
    2. intransitive verb
       a. [plante] to recover ; [affaires] to pick up
       b. [bruit, pluie, incendie, grève] to start again ; [fièvre, douleur] to come back again
    • l'école reprend or les cours reprennent le 5 septembre school starts again on 5 September
       c. ( = dire) « ce n'est pas moi », reprit-il "it's not me," he went on
    3. reflexive verb
       a. ( = se corriger) to correct o.s. ; ( = s'interrompre) to stop o.s.
    • il allait plaisanter, il s'est repris à temps he was going to make a joke but he stopped himself in time
       c. ( = se ressaisir) to get a grip on o.s.
    * * *
    ʀ(ə)pʀɑ̃dʀ
    1.

    reprendre du pain/vin — to have some more bread/wine

    2) ( prendre de nouveau) to pick [something] up again [objet, outil]; to take [something] back [cadeau, objet prêté]; to recapture [ville, fugitif]; to go back on [parole, promesse]; ( aller chercher) to pick [somebody/something] up, to collect [personne, voiture]

    reprendre sa place — ( son siège) to go back to one's seat

    3) ( accepter de nouveau) to take [somebody] on again [employé]; Commerce to take [something] back [article]; ( contre un nouvel achat) to take [something] in part GB ou partial US exchange
    4) ( recommencer) to resume [promenade, récit, fonctions, études]; to pick up [something] again, to go back to [journal, tricot]; to take up [something] again [lutte]; to revive [pièce, tradition]

    reprendre le travail — (après un congé, une grève) to go back to work

    tu reprends le train à quelle heure? — ( de retour) what time is your train back?

    5) ( acquérir) to take over [cabinet, commerce, entreprise]

    on ne me reprendra plus à lui rendre service! — you won't catch me doing him/her any favours [BrE] again!

    7) ( recouvrer)
    8) ( retoucher) to alter [vêtement, couture]
    9) ( utiliser de nouveau) to take up [idée, politique]
    10) ( répéter) to repeat [argument]; to take up [slogan, chant]

    reprenons à la vingtième mesure — Musique let's take it again from bar 20

    reprendre la leçon précédente — École to go over the previous lesson again

    11) ( corriger) to correct [élève]
    12) ( resurgir)

    voilà que ça le reprend! — (colloq) there he goes again!


    2.
    verbe intransitif
    1) ( retrouver sa vigueur) [commerce, affaires] to pick up again; [plante] to recover
    2) ( recommencer) [cours, bombardements] to start again; [négociations] to resume

    nos émissions reprendront à 7 heures — Radio, Télévision we shall be back on the air at 7 o'clock

    3) ( continuer)

    ‘c'est bien étrange,’ reprit-il — ‘it's very strange,’ he continued


    3.
    se reprendre verbe pronominal
    1) ( se corriger) to correct oneself
    2) ( se ressaisir) [personne] to pull oneself together
    * * *
    ʀ(ə)pʀɑ̃dʀ
    1. vt
    1) [prisonnier, ville] to recapture
    2) [objet prêté, donné] to take back

    Il a repris son livre. — He's taken his book back.

    3) (= chercher)

    je viendrai te reprendre à 4 h — I'll come and fetch you at 4, I'll come back for you at 4

    4) (= se resservir de)

    reprendre du pain — to take more bread, to have more bread

    reprendre un œuf — to take another egg, to have another egg

    5) COMMERCE (= racheter) [article usagé] to take back, (sous condition d'achat) to take in part exchange, [firme, entreprise] to take over
    6) (après une interruption) [travail, promenade] to resume, [rôle, poste] to take up again

    reprendre la route — to resume one's journey, to set off again

    7) (= emprunter) [argument, idée] to take up, to use
    8) [article] to rework
    9) [jupe] to alter
    10) [émission, pièce] to put on again
    11) [chanson, refrain] to take up again
    12) [personne] (= corriger) to correct, to pick up, (= réprimander) to tell off

    Elle le reprend sur les fautes qu'il fait le plus souvent. — She picks him up on the mistakes he makes most often., She corrects him on the mistakes he makes most often.

    Elle le reprend constamment. — She's always telling him off.

    13) (= recouvrer)

    reprendre connaissance — to come to, to regain consciousness

    reprendre haleine; reprendre son souffle — to get one's breath back

    2. vi
    1) [classes, pluie] to start again, [activités, travaux, combats] to resume, to start again

    La réunion reprendra à deux heures. — The meeting will resume at two o'clock., The meeting will start again at two o'clock.

    2) [affaires, industrie] to pick up
    3) (= dire)
    * * *
    reprendre verb table: prendre
    A vtr
    1 ( se resservir) reprendre du pain/vin to have some more bread/wine; je reprendrais bien de ce ragoût I would love some more (of that) stew; reprenez un peu de poulet have some more chicken; j'en ai repris deux fois I had three helpings;
    2 ( prendre de nouveau) to pick up again [objet, outil]; to take [sth] back [cadeau, objet prêté]; to retake, to recapture [ville]; to recapture [fugitif]; to go back on [parole, promesse]; ( aller chercher) to pick [sb/sth] up, to collect [personne, voiture]; il reprit son balai et continua son travail he picked up his broom again and carried on GB ou continued with his work; tu passes me reprendre à quelle heure? what time will you come back for me?; reprendre sa place ( son siège) to go back to one's seat; reprendre sa place de numéro un/deux to regain one's position as number one/two; j'ai repris les kilos que j'avais perdus I've put back on the weight I'd lost; reprendre son nom de jeune fille to revert to one's maiden name;
    3 ( accepter de nouveau) to take [sb] on again [employé]; to take [sb] back [mari, élève]; Comm to take [sth] back [article]; ( contre un nouvel achat) to take [sth] in part GB ou partial US exchange; si on me reprend ma vieille voiture if I can trade in my old car, if they take my old car in part exchange; les marchandises ne sont ni reprises ni échangées goods cannot be returned or exchanged;
    4 ( recommencer) to resume, to continue [promenade, récit, conversation]; to pick up [sth] again, to go back to [journal, tricot]; to take up [sth] again, to resume [fonctions, études]; to take up [sth] again [lutte]; to reopen [hostilités]; to revive [pièce, opéra, tradition]; reprendre le travail or son service (après un congé, une grève) to go back to work; on quitte à midi et on reprend à 14 heures we stop at 12 and start again at 2; ils ont repris les travaux de rénovation the renovation work has started again ou has resumed; reprendre sa lecture to go back to one's book, to resume one's reading; reprendre (le chemin de) l'école to go back to school; on reprend le bateau ce soir ( après une escale) we're sailing again tonight; ( pour le retour) we're sailing back tonight; tu reprends le train à quelle heure? ( de retour) what time is your train back?; reprendre la parole to start speaking again; reprendre le fil de son discours/ses pensées to carry on with one's speech/one's original train of thought; reprendre le fil de la conversation to pick up the thread of conversation; reprendre une histoire au début to go back to the beginning of a story; reprendre les arguments un à un to go over the arguments one by one;
    5 ( acquérir) to take over [cabinet, commerce, entreprise]; reprendre une affaire à son compte to take over a firm, to take a firm over;
    6 ( surprendre de nouveau) reprendre qn à faire qch to catch sb doing sth again; que je ne t'y reprenne plus! don't let me catch you doing that again!; on ne m'y reprendra plus you won't catch me doing that again; on ne me reprendra plus à lui rendre service! you won't catch me doing him/her any favoursGB again!;
    7 ( recouvrer) reprendre confiance to regain one's confidence; reprendre ses vieilles habitudes to get back into one's old ways; la nature reprend ses droits nature reasserts itself; elle a repris sa liberté she's a free woman again; ⇒ bête;
    8 ( retoucher) to alter [vêtement, couture]; Constr to repair [mur]; reprendre le travail de qn to correct sb's work; reprendre cinq centimètres en longueur/largeur Cout to take sth up/in 5 cm; il y a tout à reprendre dans ce chapitre the whole chapter needs re-writing;
    9 ( utiliser de nouveau) to take up [idée, thèse, politique]; Littérat to re-work [intrigue, thème]; reprendre une thèse à son compte to adopt a theory as one's own;
    10 ( répéter) to repeat [argument]; to take up [slogan, chant]; reprenons à la vingtième mesure Mus let's take it again from bar 20; reprendre la leçon précédente Scol to go over the previous lesson again; tous les médias ont repris la nouvelle all the media took up the report; pour reprendre le vieil adage as the saying goes;
    11 ( corriger) to correct [élève]; ( pour langage grossier) to pull [sb] up; permettez-moi de vous reprendre excuse me, but that is not correct;
    12 ( resurgir) mon mal de dents m'a repris my toothache has come back; la jalousie le reprend he's feeling jealous again; les soupçons le reprirent he began to feel suspicious again; voilà que ça le reprend○! iron there he goes again!
    B vi
    1 ( retrouver sa vigueur) [commerce, affaires] to pick up again; [plante] to recover, to pick up; les affaires ont du mal à reprendre business is only picking up slowly; mon camélia reprend bien ( après une maladie) my camellia is recovering nicely; ( après transplantation) my camellia has taken nicely; la vie reprend peu à peu life is gradually getting back to normal;
    2 ( recommencer) [école, cours, bombardement, bruit, pluie] to start again; [négociations] to resume; le froid a repris it's turned cold again; la pluie a repris it's started raining again; nos émissions reprendront à 7 heures Radio, TV we shall be back at 7 o'clock;
    3 ( continuer) ‘c'est bien étrange,’ reprit-il ‘it's very strange,’ he continued.
    1 ( se corriger) to correct oneself; se reprendre à temps to stop oneself in time;
    2 ( se ressaisir) [personne] to pull oneself together; Fin [action, titre] to rally, to pick up;
    3 ( recommencer) s'y reprendre à trois fois pour faire qch to make three attempts to do ou at doing sth; j'ai dû m'y reprendre à plusieurs fois pour allumer le feu it took me several attempts to get the fire going; il se reprend à penser/espérer que c'est possible he's gone back to thinking/hoping it might be possible; se reprendre à craindre le pire to begin to fear the worst again.
    [rəprɑ̃dr] verbe transitif
    1. [saisir à nouveau - objet] to pick up (separable) again, to take again
    2. [s'emparer à nouveau de - position, ville] to retake, to recapture ; [ - prisonnier] to recapture, to catch again
    3. [suj: maladie, doutes] to take hold of again
    ça y est, ça le reprend! there he goes again!
    4. [aller rechercher - personne] to pick up (separable) ; [ - objet] to get back (separable), to collect
    [remporter] to take back (separable)
    tu peux reprendre ton parapluie, je n'en ai plus besoin I don't need your umbrella anymore, you can take it back
    je te reprendrai à la sortie de l'école I'll pick you up ou I'll collect you ou I'll come and fetch you after school
    5. [réengager - employé] to take ou to have back (separable)
    [réadmettre - élève] to take ou to have back
    6. [retrouver - un état antérieur] to go back to
    reprendre courage to regain ou to recover courage
    si tu le fais sécher à plat, il reprendra sa forme if you dry it flat, it'll regain its shape ou it'll get its shape back
    7. [à table]
    [chez un commerçant] to have ou to take more (of)
    8. [recommencer, se remettre à - recherche, combat] to resume ; [ - projet] to take up again ; [ - enquête] to restart, to reopen ; [ - lecture] to go back to, to resume ; [ - hostilités] to resume, to reopen ; [ - discussion, voyage] to resume, to carry on (with), to continue
    reprendre ses études to take up one's studies again, to resume one's studies
    je reprends l'école le 15 septembre I start school again ou I go back to school on September 15th
    a. [après des vacances] to go back to work, to start work again
    b. [après une pause] to get back to work, to start work again
    c. [après une grève] to go back to work
    reprendre la plume/la caméra/le pinceau to take up one's pen/movie camera/brush once more
    reprendre la route ou son chemin to set off again, to resume one's journey
    9. [répéter - texte] to read again ; [ - argument, passage musical] to repeat ; [ - refrain] to take up (separable)
    a. [que j'avais déjà chanté] when I took on the part of Tosca again
    b. [que je n'avais jamais chanté] when I took on ou over the part of Tosca
    [récapituler - faits] to go over (inseparable) again
    10. [dire] to go ou to carry on
    "et lui?", reprit-elle "what about him?" she went on
    11. COMMERCE [article refusé] to take back (separable)
    nous vous reprenons votre vieux salon pour tout achat de plus de 2000 euros your old lounge suite accepted in part exchange for any purchase over 2,000 euros
    ils m'ont repris ma voiture pour 1000 euros I traded my car in for 1,000 euros
    [prendre à son compte - cabinet, boutique] to take over (separable)
    12. [adopter - idée, programme politique] to take up (separable)
    13. [modifier - texte] to rework, to go over (inseparable) again ; [ - peinture] to touch up (separable)
    c'était parfait, je n'ai rien eu à reprendre it was perfect, I didn't have to make a single correction ou alteration
    COUTURE [généralement] to alter
    [rétrécir] to take in
    [en tricot]
    14. [réprimander] to pull up, to reprimand (soutenu), to tell off (separable)
    [corriger] to correct, to pull up (separable)
    15. [surprendre]
    ————————
    [rəprɑ̃dr] verbe intransitif
    1. [s'améliorer - affaires] to improve, to recover, to pick ou to look up
    [repousser - plante] to pick up, to recover
    2. [recommencer - lutte] to start (up) again, to resume ; [ - pluie, vacarme] to start (up) again ; [ - cours, école] to start again, to resume ; [ - feu] to rekindle ; [ - fièvre, douleur] to return, to start again
    3. [retourner au travail - employé] to start again
    ————————
    se reprendre verbe pronominal intransitif
    [retrouver son calme] to settle down
    2. SPORT [au cours d'un match] to make a recovery, to rally
    après un mauvais début de saison, il s'est très bien repris he started the season badly but has come back strongly ou has staged a good comeback
    3. [se ressaisir - après une erreur] to correct oneself
    ————————
    se reprendre à verbe pronominal plus préposition

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > reprendre

  • 12 Chippendale, Thomas

    [br]
    baptized 5 June 1718 Otley, Yorkshire, England
    d. 13 November 1779 London, England
    [br]
    English cabinet-maker who published the first comprehensive book of furniture.
    [br]
    Thomas Chippendale was the son of a carpenter. The business that he set up in London was so well established by 1753 that he was able to move to larger premises—a workshop, timberyard and shop—in the furniture-making centre of London, at 60–62 St Martin's Lane. In 1754 he published his folio work The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, which contained illustrations of every conceivable type of furniture. No previously published book was as comprehensive. The Director, as it came to be called, made Chippendale famous and he became the best known of all such English craftsmen and designers. Further editions of the book followed in 1755 and 1762.
    Stylistically most of the furniture designs in the Director followed the contemporary rococo fashion, but a number followed other popular themes such as the so-called "literary Gothic" and chinoiserie. Indeed, the Chinese versions became so well known that such furniture became known as "Chinese Chippendale". Chippendale's later work was more neo-classical, much of it produced at the request of Robert Adam for the many great houses whose interiors he was re-designing in the 1760s and 1770s.
    From a technical viewpoint, Chippendale's furniture was made from a variety of woods and incorporated diverse decoration. Mahogany was the fashionable wood of the age, particularly during the middle years of the eighteenth century, and lent itself especially to the fine and elaborate carving that characterized Chippendale's intricate chair and settee backs. By the later 1760s other woods were also often in use, sometimes gilded and turned, sometimes inlaid with materials such as ivory or ceramic plaques and fine ormolu mounts. Later still, painted designs were applied to panel surfaces. Alternatively, a delicate form of marquetry had been fashionably revived.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    C.Gilbert, 1972, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale: Studio Vista.
    1986, Dictionary of English Furniture-Makers, The Furniture History Society and W.F. Maney.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Chippendale, Thomas

  • 13 agrupar

    v.
    1 to group (together).
    Ricardo agrupa las flores rojas Richard groups red flowers.
    María agrupa a las chicas Mary groups the girls.
    2 to consolidate.
    El sufrimiento agrupa a las personas Suffering consolidates people.
    3 to join together, to herd together, to cluster together, to crowd together.
    Ricardo agrupa a los cadetes Richard joins the cadets together.
    * * *
    1 to group, put into groups
    1 to group together, form a group
    2 (asociarse) to associate
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    VT (=reunir en grupo) to group, group together; [+ gente, datos etc] to gather, assemble; (=amontonar) to crowd together
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( formar grupos) to put... into groups, to group
    b) ( reunir) <organizaciones/partidos> to bring together
    2.
    agruparse v pron
    a) ( formar un grupo) niños/policías to gather; partidos to come together
    b) ( dividirse en grupos) to get into groups
    * * *
    = bring together, categorise [categorize, -USA], draw together, fall into, group, group together, merge, pull together, put together, stack, encapsulate, coalesce, lump together, juxtapose, stand + together, pool, band, shuffle together.
    Ex. For example, Recreation, previously dispersed over several main classes, is now brought together as a new main class, and Space Science has been added between Astronomy and the Earth Sciences.
    Ex. It is widely recognised that it is difficult and unhelpful to categorise fiction according to a subject classification = Es un hecho ampliamente reconocido la dificultad y la poca utilidad de clasificar la literatura narrativa de acuerdo con una clasificación por materias.
    Ex. The application of the classification schemes, once constructed, involves synthesis, or the drawing together of the single concepts which are listed in the scheme from their different facets, in order to specify compound subjects.
    Ex. References will also be necessary, and will fall into the same types as those identified for personal authors, that is, 'see', 'see also', and explanatory references.
    Ex. There are a number of types of abstracts which will be grouped under the term 'mini-abstracts'.
    Ex. Some schools favor subject arrangement, other group together everything by publisher, and others sort everything out according to a theme.
    Ex. During the construction of a thesaurus, the computer can be enlisted to sort, merge, edit and compare terms.
    Ex. This library decided to launch an attack on illiteracy by pulling together a variety of approaches to learning to read.
    Ex. The way in which this scheme is put together in book form often causes some confusion at first.
    Ex. Cards are filed in drawers, approximately 1000 cards per drawer, which when stacked together may form a catalogue cabinet.
    Ex. The fundamental OOP technique is to encapsulate data with the operations/code that operate on that data into a single entity which is called an object.
    Ex. Mayo's conclusion was that 'the singling out of certain groups of employees for special attention had the effect of coalescing previously indifferent individuals into cohesive groups with a high degree of group ride or esprit-de-corps'.
    Ex. He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex. We might consider that the key term, the one on which the others depend and which will juxtapose the document most usefully with others of a like kind, is Home Office.
    Ex. For instance, in reproduction of Renoir's work under the subject IMPRESSIONISM, Renoir's works would not stand together in the catalog but be spread out according to their titles.
    Ex. The results of two studies of the way reference librarians work were pooled to provide an understanding of the important features necessary in software for computerized reference work.
    Ex. The author advises banding retention policies to focus on a few clear options.
    Ex. This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    ----
    * agrupar los términos sinónimos = merge + synonyms.
    * agrupar palabras que tienen la misma raíz = merge + word forms.
    * agruparse = band together, cluster, team, partner.
    * agruparse (con) = team up (with).
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( formar grupos) to put... into groups, to group
    b) ( reunir) <organizaciones/partidos> to bring together
    2.
    agruparse v pron
    a) ( formar un grupo) niños/policías to gather; partidos to come together
    b) ( dividirse en grupos) to get into groups
    * * *
    = bring together, categorise [categorize, -USA], draw together, fall into, group, group together, merge, pull together, put together, stack, encapsulate, coalesce, lump together, juxtapose, stand + together, pool, band, shuffle together.

    Ex: For example, Recreation, previously dispersed over several main classes, is now brought together as a new main class, and Space Science has been added between Astronomy and the Earth Sciences.

    Ex: It is widely recognised that it is difficult and unhelpful to categorise fiction according to a subject classification = Es un hecho ampliamente reconocido la dificultad y la poca utilidad de clasificar la literatura narrativa de acuerdo con una clasificación por materias.
    Ex: The application of the classification schemes, once constructed, involves synthesis, or the drawing together of the single concepts which are listed in the scheme from their different facets, in order to specify compound subjects.
    Ex: References will also be necessary, and will fall into the same types as those identified for personal authors, that is, 'see', 'see also', and explanatory references.
    Ex: There are a number of types of abstracts which will be grouped under the term 'mini-abstracts'.
    Ex: Some schools favor subject arrangement, other group together everything by publisher, and others sort everything out according to a theme.
    Ex: During the construction of a thesaurus, the computer can be enlisted to sort, merge, edit and compare terms.
    Ex: This library decided to launch an attack on illiteracy by pulling together a variety of approaches to learning to read.
    Ex: The way in which this scheme is put together in book form often causes some confusion at first.
    Ex: Cards are filed in drawers, approximately 1000 cards per drawer, which when stacked together may form a catalogue cabinet.
    Ex: The fundamental OOP technique is to encapsulate data with the operations/code that operate on that data into a single entity which is called an object.
    Ex: Mayo's conclusion was that 'the singling out of certain groups of employees for special attention had the effect of coalescing previously indifferent individuals into cohesive groups with a high degree of group ride or esprit-de-corps'.
    Ex: He also lumps himself and librarians together as 'devoted and in some instances veteran pursuers, preservers, and disseminators of truth'.
    Ex: We might consider that the key term, the one on which the others depend and which will juxtapose the document most usefully with others of a like kind, is Home Office.
    Ex: For instance, in reproduction of Renoir's work under the subject IMPRESSIONISM, Renoir's works would not stand together in the catalog but be spread out according to their titles.
    Ex: The results of two studies of the way reference librarians work were pooled to provide an understanding of the important features necessary in software for computerized reference work.
    Ex: The author advises banding retention policies to focus on a few clear options.
    Ex: This volume is in fact three books shuffled together under one luscious cover, unfurling as a fantasia on technique that explores, among other things, Mau's riffs on modernism.
    * agrupar los términos sinónimos = merge + synonyms.
    * agrupar palabras que tienen la misma raíz = merge + word forms.
    * agruparse = band together, cluster, team, partner.
    * agruparse (con) = team up (with).

    * * *
    agrupar [A1 ]
    vt
    agruparon a los niños por edades they divided o put the children into groups according to their ages
    agrupa esos libros por autores group those books by author
    la coalición agrupa a siete partidos distintos the coalition is made up of seven different parties
    agrupó a varias organizaciones ecologistas it brought together several ecologist groups
    1 (formar un grupo) «niños/policías» to gather, form a group; «partidos» to come together, join forces
    2 (dividirse en grupos) to get into groups
    * * *

     

    agrupar ( conjugate agrupar) verbo transitivo
    a) ( formar grupos) to put … into groups, to group

    b) ( reunir) ‹organizaciones/partidos› to bring together

    agruparse verbo pronominal
    a) ( formar un grupo) [niños/policías] to gather;

    [ partidos] to come together

    agrupar verbo transitivo to group
    ' agrupar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aunar
    English:
    bracket
    - group
    - lump
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to group (together);
    la red agrupa a veinte emisoras locales the network brings together o is made up of twenty local radio stations;
    la guía agrupa toda la información disponible sobre el tema the guide brings together all the available information on the subject;
    una asociación que agrupa a más de 10.000 médicos an association of more than 10,000 doctors
    * * *
    v/t group, put into groups
    * * *
    : to group together
    * * *
    agrupar vb to put into groups [pt. & pp. put]

    Spanish-English dictionary > agrupar

  • 14 armazón

    f. & m.
    1 framework, chassis, external structure, carcass.
    2 rib-like structure, ribbing.
    3 cradle.
    * * *
    ► nombre masculino & nombre femenino
    1 frame, framework (de madera) timberwork
    2 ARQUITECTURA shell (de escultura) armature
    * * *
    noun mf.
    * * *
    SM ó SF
    1) (=armadura) frame; (fig) (=esqueleto) framework; (Aer, Aut) body, chassis; [de mueble] frame
    2) LAm (=estantes) shelving
    * * *
    masculino o femenino
    1) (Const) skeleton; ( de avión) airframe; (de barco, mueble) frame; ( de gafas) frames (pl)
    2) ( de obra literaria) framework, outline
    * * *
    = frame, casing, carcass.
    Ex. Next the book was placed on the sewing frame, and the folded sheets were sewn by hand with needle and thread on to four or five cords or thongs.
    Ex. They can also provide casings in steel or aluminium, powder coated to a colour of your choice.
    Ex. The bathroom cabinet carcass is made of plywood.
    ----
    * armazón de cama = bedstead.
    * * *
    masculino o femenino
    1) (Const) skeleton; ( de avión) airframe; (de barco, mueble) frame; ( de gafas) frames (pl)
    2) ( de obra literaria) framework, outline
    * * *
    = frame, casing, carcass.

    Ex: Next the book was placed on the sewing frame, and the folded sheets were sewn by hand with needle and thread on to four or five cords or thongs.

    Ex: They can also provide casings in steel or aluminium, powder coated to a colour of your choice.
    Ex: The bathroom cabinet carcass is made of plywood.
    * armazón de cama = bedstead.

    * * *
    or
    A
    1 ( Const) skeleton
    2 (de un avión) airframe; (de un barco) frame
    3 (de un mueble, una tienda de campaña) frame
    4 (de una escultura) armature, frame
    5 (de gafas) frames (pl)
    B (de una obra literaria) framework, outline
    * * *

    armazón m or f
    1 (Const) skeleton;
    ( de avión) airframe;
    (de barco, mueble) frame;
    ( de gafas) frames (pl)
    2 ( de obra literaria) framework, outline
    armazón sustantivo masculino frame, framework
    Arquit (estructura) shell
    ' armazón' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    carcasa
    - catre
    English:
    frame
    - framework
    - shell
    - skeleton
    - rim
    * * *
    armazón nm o nf
    1. [de avión, coche] chassis;
    [de barco] frame; [de edificio] skeleton
    2. [ideológico, argumental] framework
    3. RP [de anteojos] frame
    * * *
    f skeleton, framework; Rpl (de gafas) frame
    * * *
    armazón nmf, pl - zones
    1) esqueleto: framework, skeleton
    armazón de acero: steel framework
    2) : frames pl (of eyeglasses)
    * * *
    armazón n frame

    Spanish-English dictionary > armazón

  • 15 póster

    m.
    poster.
    * * *
    1 poster
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    (pl pósteres ó pósters) poster
    * * *
    masculino (pl - ters) poster
    * * *
    = poster, wall chart [wallchart], wall display.
    Ex. The physical format of a document (for example, a book filmstrip, poster) is unlikely to be fully evident from a catalogue.
    Ex. A wall chart is an example of an opaque sheet that exhibits data in graphic or tabular form.
    Ex. This library service includes bright wall displays, pamphlets on open racks, availability of lists and directories, access to index files of local information, clear guiding on shelves and cabinet files, and the re-packaging of complex or ephemeral material.
    ----
    * póster de mujer desnuda = pin-up.
    * * *
    masculino (pl - ters) poster
    * * *
    = poster, wall chart [wallchart], wall display.

    Ex: The physical format of a document (for example, a book filmstrip, poster) is unlikely to be fully evident from a catalogue.

    Ex: A wall chart is an example of an opaque sheet that exhibits data in graphic or tabular form.
    Ex: This library service includes bright wall displays, pamphlets on open racks, availability of lists and directories, access to index files of local information, clear guiding on shelves and cabinet files, and the re-packaging of complex or ephemeral material.
    * póster de mujer desnuda = pin-up.

    * * *
    póster, poster
    (pl - ters)
    poster
    * * *

    póster sustantivo masculino (pl
    ◊ - ters) poster

    póster sustantivo masculino poster

    ' póster' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    anuncio
    - cartel
    - afiche
    - desenrollar
    - romper
    English:
    by
    - life-size
    - life-sized
    - poster
    - stick up
    - fold
    - four
    * * *
    póster (pl pósters) nm
    poster
    * * *
    m poster
    * * *
    poster nm, pl pósters or posters : poster, placard
    * * *
    póster n poster

    Spanish-English dictionary > póster

  • 16 un gran número de

    = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of
    Ex. There is a good deal of scope for users and novice cataloguers to find difficulty in identifying the appropriate heading for many of the works which are the responsibility of corporate bodies.
    Ex. As earlier sections amply demonstrate, there is a great deal of choice with regards to data bases.
    Ex. A good thesaurus is not necessarily one that has been published with a plethora of effective relationship displays.
    Ex. A wide range of pamphlet and leaflet material was collected and arranged in cabinet files under topic heads such as health, employment, child welfare.
    Ex. This university is a privately supported and largely residential institution and it offers a full roster of degrees.
    Ex. This opinion bothers me on two counts, one because it smacks of exploitation and, two, because a fair number of the world's leaders, for better or worse, were remarkably successful as leaders in spite of less than outstanding academic records.
    Ex. Environmental organization receive a great number of public enquiries by phone and letter.
    Ex. Intrantets are becoming very popular among a broad variety of companies.
    Ex. Document descriptions may be drafted for a wide variety of different kinds of library material, but some common principles can be established.
    Ex. Data on a broad range of topics were collected.
    Ex. Basically, the book deals with a vast corpus of oral tradition, including both prose and poetic texts.
    * * *
    = a good deal of, a great deal of, a plethora of, a wide range of, a full roster of, a fair number of, a great number of, a broad variety of, a wide variety of, a broad range of, a vast corpus of

    Ex: There is a good deal of scope for users and novice cataloguers to find difficulty in identifying the appropriate heading for many of the works which are the responsibility of corporate bodies.

    Ex: As earlier sections amply demonstrate, there is a great deal of choice with regards to data bases.
    Ex: A good thesaurus is not necessarily one that has been published with a plethora of effective relationship displays.
    Ex: A wide range of pamphlet and leaflet material was collected and arranged in cabinet files under topic heads such as health, employment, child welfare.
    Ex: This university is a privately supported and largely residential institution and it offers a full roster of degrees.
    Ex: This opinion bothers me on two counts, one because it smacks of exploitation and, two, because a fair number of the world's leaders, for better or worse, were remarkably successful as leaders in spite of less than outstanding academic records.
    Ex: Environmental organization receive a great number of public enquiries by phone and letter.
    Ex: Intrantets are becoming very popular among a broad variety of companies.
    Ex: Document descriptions may be drafted for a wide variety of different kinds of library material, but some common principles can be established.
    Ex: Data on a broad range of topics were collected.
    Ex: Basically, the book deals with a vast corpus of oral tradition, including both prose and poetic texts.

    Spanish-English dictionary > un gran número de

  • 17 ouvrage

    ouvrage [uvʀaʒ]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = œuvre) work ; ( = livre) book
    * * *
    uvʀaʒ
    nom masculin
    1) ( travail) work
    2) ( livre) book, work; ( œuvre) work
    3) (produit par un artisan, un ouvrier, un couturière) piece of work
    ••

    mettre or avoir du cœur à l'ouvrage — to work with a will

    * * *
    uvʀaʒ nm
    1) (= travail) work no pl
    2) (= construction) work no pl
    3) COUTURE, TRICOT work, piece of work

    panier à ouvrage; corbeille à ouvrage — work basket

    4) ART (= objet) work, piece of work
    5) (= livre) work
    * * *
    A nm
    1 ( travail) work; se mettre à l'ouvrage to get down to work; se tuer à l'ouvrage to work oneself to death; ouvrage du temps work of time;
    2 ( livre) book, work; ( œuvre) work; ouvrage de référence reference book, work of reference; ouvrage collectif joint publication;
    3 Cout ( objet) piece of work; un ouvrage de broderie a piece of embroidery;
    4 (produit par un artisan, un ouvrier) piece of work; ouvrage d'ébénisterie/de mosaïque piece of cabinet work/of mosaic work; ouvrage de marqueterie piece of marquetry.
    B ○nf controv c'est de la belle ouvrage it's a very nice piece.
    ouvrage d'art Gén Civ civil engineering structure; ouvrage de maçonnerie ( en briques) brickwork; ( en pierres) stonework, masonry; ouvrage militaire fortification; ouvrage de soutènement retaining work.
    mettre or avoir du cœur à l'ouvrage to work with a will; ne pas avoir le cœur à l'ouvrage not to have one's heart in one's work.
    [uvraʒ] nom masculin
    1. [travail] work
    se mettre à l'ouvrage to get down to work, to start work
    2. [œuvre] (piece of) work
    3. [livre] book
    ————————
    [uvraʒ] nom féminin
    (soutenu & humoristique)

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > ouvrage

  • 18 ouvragé

    ouvrage [uvʀaʒ]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = œuvre) work ; ( = livre) book
    * * *
    uvʀaʒ
    nom masculin
    1) ( travail) work
    2) ( livre) book, work; ( œuvre) work
    3) (produit par un artisan, un ouvrier, un couturière) piece of work
    ••

    mettre or avoir du cœur à l'ouvrage — to work with a will

    * * *
    uvʀaʒ nm
    1) (= travail) work no pl
    2) (= construction) work no pl
    3) COUTURE, TRICOT work, piece of work

    panier à ouvrage; corbeille à ouvrage — work basket

    4) ART (= objet) work, piece of work
    5) (= livre) work
    * * *
    A nm
    1 ( travail) work; se mettre à l'ouvrage to get down to work; se tuer à l'ouvrage to work oneself to death; ouvrage du temps work of time;
    2 ( livre) book, work; ( œuvre) work; ouvrage de référence reference book, work of reference; ouvrage collectif joint publication;
    3 Cout ( objet) piece of work; un ouvrage de broderie a piece of embroidery;
    4 (produit par un artisan, un ouvrier) piece of work; ouvrage d'ébénisterie/de mosaïque piece of cabinet work/of mosaic work; ouvrage de marqueterie piece of marquetry.
    B ○nf controv c'est de la belle ouvrage it's a very nice piece.
    ouvrage d'art Gén Civ civil engineering structure; ouvrage de maçonnerie ( en briques) brickwork; ( en pierres) stonework, masonry; ouvrage militaire fortification; ouvrage de soutènement retaining work.
    mettre or avoir du cœur à l'ouvrage to work with a will; ne pas avoir le cœur à l'ouvrage not to have one's heart in one's work.
    ( féminin ouvragée) [uvraʒe] adjectif
    [nappe] (finely ou elaborately) embroidered
    [construction] elaborate, ornate

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > ouvragé

  • 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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    chez [∫e]
    • être/rester chez soi to be/stay at home to be/stay in
    • faites comme chez vous ! make yourself at home!
    • on n'est plus chez soi avec tous ces touristes ! it doesn't feel like home any more with all these tourists around!
       b. chez qn (maison) at sb's house ; (appartement) at sb's flat (Brit) or apartment (US)
    • chez moi, c'est tout petit my place is tiny
    • chez M. Lebrun (sur une adresse) c/o Mr Lebrun
    • chez les fourmis/le singe in ants/monkeys
    • chez les hommes/les femmes (Sport) in the men's/women's event
       e. (avec personne, œuvre) chez Balzac in Balzac
    • chez lui, c'est une habitude it's a habit with him
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    ʃe
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    va chez Hallé, c'est un très bon médecin — go to Hallé, he's/she's a very good doctor

    ‘chez Juliette’ — ( sur une enseigne) ‘Juliette's’

    chez moi/vous/eux — in my/your/their family

    ça va bien/mal chez eux — things are going well/badly for them

    4) (dans le pays, la région de)

    chez nous — ( d'où je viens) where I come from; ( où j'habite) where I live

    chez eux ils appellent ça... — in their part of the world they call this...

    un nom bien de chez nous — (colloq) ( de France) a good old French name; ( de notre région) a good old local name

    5) ( parmi) among

    chez l'homme/l'animal — in man/animals

    ce que j'aime chez elle, c'est son humour — what I like about her, is her sense of humour [BrE]

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    ʃe prép
    1) (situation: dans la demeure de)

    chez qn — at sb's house, at sb's place

    chez moi — at my house, at home

    Chez moi, c'est moderne: la maison a dû être construite il y a une vingtaine d'années. — My house is modern: it must have been built about twenty years ago.

    Je suis resté chez moi ce week-end. — I stayed at home this weekend.

    2) (direction: à la demeure de)

    chez qn — to sb's house, to sb's place

    chez moi — to my house, home

    Viens chez moi, je te montrerai ma collection de timbres. — Come to my house, I'll show you my stamp collection.

    Viens chez moi, il y une chambre d'amis. — Come and stay at my place, there's a spare bed.

    3) (= à l'entreprise de) (situation) at, (direction) to

    Il travaille chez Renault. — He works for Renault., He works at Renault.

    Je vais chez Larousse cet après-midi. — I'm going to Larousse this afternoon.

    4) (avec profession libérale, un magasin) (situation) at, (direction) to

    chez le boulanger (situation) — at the baker's, (direction) to the baker's

    chez le dentiste (situation) — at the dentist's, (direction) to the dentist's

    J'ai rendez-vous chez le dentiste demain matin. — I've got an appointment at the dentist's tomorrow morning.

    Je vais chez le dentiste. — I'm going to the dentist's.

    5) (= dans le caractère, l'œuvre de) in

    Chez lui, c'est une obsession. — With him it's an obsession.

    * * *
    chez prép
    1 ( au domicile de) chez qn at sb's place; chez David at David's (place); rentre chez toi go home; je reste/travaille/mange chez moi I stay/work/eat at home; tu peux dormir/rester chez moi you can sleep/stay at my place; viens chez moi come to my place; on va chez toi ou chez moi? your place or mine?; on passe chez elle en route we call in on her on the way; de chez qn [téléphoner, sortir, venir] from sb's place; de Paris à chez moi from Paris to my place; je ne veux pas de ça chez moi! I'll have none of that in my home!; fais comme chez toi aussi iron make yourself at home also iron; il a été suivi jusque chez lui he was followed home; derrière chez eux il y a une immense forêt there is a huge forest behind their house; chez qui l'as-tu rencontré? whose place did you meet him at?; vous habitez chez vos parents? do you live with your parents?; faire irruption chez qn to burst in on sb; il a retrouvé le livre chez lui he found the book at home;
    2 ⇒ Les métiers et les professions (magasin, usine, cabinet etc) je ne me sers plus chez eux I don't go there any more; la montre ne vient pas de chez nous this watch doesn't come from our shop GB ou store US; en vente chez tous les dépositaires on sale at all agents; il ne se fait plus soigner les dents chez elle he doesn't use her as a dentist any more; va chez Hallé, c'est un très bon médecin go to Hallé, he's a very good doctor; s'habiller chez un grand couturier to buy one's clothes from a top designer; une montre de chez Lip a Lip watch; paru or publié chez Hachette published by Hachette; le nouveau parfum de chez Patou the new perfume by Patou; je fais mes courses chez l'épicier du coin I do my shopping at the local grocer's; il travaille chez Merlin-Gerin he works at Merlin-Gerin; ‘chez Juliette’ ( sur une enseigne) ‘Juliette's’; il va passer à la télévision, chez Rapp he's going to be on television, on the Rapp show; être convoqué chez le patron ( à son bureau) to be called in before the boss;
    3 ( dans la famille de) chez moi/vous/eux in my/your/their family; comment ça va chez les Pichon? how are the Pichons doing?; ça va bien/mal chez eux things are going well/badly for them;
    4 (dans le pays, la région de) chez nous ( d'où je viens) where I come from; ( où j'habite) where I live; c'est une expression de chez nous it's a local expression; chez eux ils appellent ça… in their part of the world they call this…; un nom/fromage bien de chez nous○ ( de France) a good old French name/cheese; ( de notre région) a good old local name/cheese;
    5 ( parmi) among, chez les enseignants/les femmes enceintes/les Romains among teachers/pregnant women/the Romans; chez les insectes among insects; maladie fréquente chez les bovins common disease in cattle; chez l'homme/l'animal in man/animals;
    6 ( dans la personnalité de) qu'est-ce que tu aimes chez un homme? what do you like in a man?; ce que j'aime chez elle, c'est son humour what I like about her, is her sense of humourGB; c'est une obsession chez elle! it's an obsession with her!;
    7 ( dans l'œuvre de) in; chez Cocteau/Mozart/les surréalistes in Cocteau/Mozart/the surrealists; un thème récurrent chez Buñuel/Prévert a recurrent theme in Buñuel/Prévert.
    [ʃe] préposition
    1. [dans la demeure de]
    il habite chez moi en ce moment he's living with me ou he's staying at my place at the moment
    a. [à pied] she walked him home
    b. [en voiture] she gave him a lift home
    ça s'est passé pas loin de/devant chez nous it happened not far from/right outside where we live
    chez M. Durand [dans une adresse] care of Mr Durand
    b. (ironique) do make yourself at home, won't you
    a. [dans ma famille] in my ou our family
    b. [dans mon pays] in my ou our country
    c'est une coutume/un accent bien de chez nous it's a typical local custom/accent
    2. [dans un magasin, une société etc.]
    aller chez le coiffeur/le médecin to go to the hairdresser's/the doctor's
    je l'ai acheté chez Denver & Smith I bought it from Denver \_ Smith
    une robe de chez Dior a Dior dress, a dress designed by Dior
    3. [dans un pays, un groupe]
    chez l'homme/la femme in men/women
    4. [dans une personne]
    il y a quelque chose que j'apprécie particulièrement chez eux, c'est leur générosité something I particularly like about them is their generosity
    5. [dans l'œuvre de] in

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