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brought the war to an end

  • 1 brought the war to an end

    to bring to an end — закончить, завершить

    brought to an end — законченный; закончил

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > brought the war to an end

  • 2 bring the war to an end

    brought to an end — законченный; закончил

    to bring to an end — закончить, завершить

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > bring the war to an end

  • 3 bringing the war to an end

    заканчивающий войну; завершение военных действий

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > bringing the war to an end

  • 4 brought to an end

    законченный; закончил

    to bring to an end — закончить, завершить

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > brought to an end

  • 5 close

    1. adjective
    1) (near in space) dicht; nahe

    be close to something — nahe bei od. an etwas (Dat.) sein

    you're too close to the fire — du bist zu dicht od. nah am Feuer

    I wish we lived closer to your parents — ich wünschte, wir würden näher bei deinen Eltern wohnen

    be close to tears/breaking point — den Tränen/einem Zusammenbruch nahe sein

    at close quarters, the building looked less impressive — aus der Nähe betrachtet, wirkte das Gebäude weniger imposant

    at close range — aus kurzer Entfernung

    2) (near in time) nahe (to an + Dat.)
    3) eng [Freund, Freundschaft, Beziehung, Zusammenarbeit, Verbindung]; nahe [Verwandte, Bekanntschaft]

    be/become close to somebody — jemandem nahe stehen/nahekommen

    4) (rigorous, painstaking) eingehend, genau [Untersuchung, Prüfung, Befragung usw.]
    5) (stifling) stickig [Luft, Raum]; drückend, schwül [Wetter]
    6) (nearly equal) hart [[Wett]kampf, Spiel]; knapp [Ergebnis]

    that was a close call or shave or thing — (coll.) das war knapp!

    7) (nearly matching) wortgetreu [Übersetzung]; getreu, genau [Imitation, Kopie]; groß [Ähnlichkeit]
    8) eng [Schrift]
    2. adverb
    1) (near) nah[e]

    be close at hand — in Reichweite sein

    close by — in der Nähe

    close on 60 years — fast 60 Jahre

    close on 2 o'clock — kurz vor 2 [Uhr]

    close to somebody/something — nahe bei jemandem/etwas

    don't stand so close to the edge of the cliff — stell dich nicht so nah od. dicht an den Rand des Kliffs

    it brought them closer together — (fig.) es brachte sie einander näher

    be/come close to tears — den Tränen nahe sein

    2) fest [schließen]; genau [hinsehen]
    3. transitive verb
    1) (shut) schließen, (ugs.) zumachen [Augen, Tür, Fenster, Geschäft]; zuziehen [Vorhang]; (declare shut) schließen [Laden, Geschäft, Fabrik, Betrieb, Werk, Zeche]; stilllegen [Betrieb, Werk, Zeche, Bahnlinie]; sperren [Straße, Brücke]
    2) (conclude) schließen, beenden [Besprechung, Rede, Diskussion]; schließen [Versammlung, Sitzung]
    3) (make smaller) schließen (auch fig.) [Lücke]
    4. intransitive verb
    1) (shut) sich schließen; [Tür:] zugehen (ugs.), sich schließen

    the door/lid doesn't close properly — die Tür/der Deckel schließt nicht richtig

    2) [Laden, Geschäft, Fabrik:] schließen, (ugs.) zumachen; (permanently) [Betrieb, Werk, Zeche:] geschlossen od. stillgelegt werden; [Geschäft:] geschlossen werden, (ugs.) zumachen
    3) (come to an end) zu Ende gehen; enden; (finish speaking) schließen
    5. noun
    1) no pl. Ende, das; Schluss, der

    come or draw to a close — zu Ende gehen

    bring or draw something to a close — einer Sache (Dat.) ein Ende bereiten; etwas zu Ende bringen

    2) (cul-de-sac) Sackgasse, die
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/13537/close_down">close down
    * * *
    I 1. [kləus] adverb
    1) (near in time, place etc: He stood close to his mother; Follow close behind.) nahe
    2) (tightly; neatly: a close-fitting dress.) eng
    2. adjective
    1) (near in relationship: a close friend.) vertraut
    2) (having a narrow difference between winner and loser: a close contest; The result was close.) knapp
    3) (thorough: a close examination of the facts; Keep a close watch on him.) genau
    4) (tight: a close fit.) eng
    5) (without fresh air: a close atmosphere; The weather was close and thundery.) schwül
    6) (mean: He's very close (with his money).) geizig
    7) (secretive: They're keeping very close about the business.) verschwiegen
    •
    - closely
    - closeness
    - close call/shave
    - close-set
    - close-up
    - close at hand
    - close on
    - close to     II 1. [kləuz] verb
    1) (to make or become shut, often by bringing together two parts so as to cover an opening: The baby closed his eyes; Close the door; The shops close on Sundays.) schließen
    2) (to finish; to come or bring to an end: The meeting closed with everyone in agreement.) enden
    3) (to complete or settle (a business deal).) abschließen
    2. noun
    (a stop, end or finish: the close of day; towards the close of the nineteenth century.) das Ende
    - close down
    - close up
    * * *
    close1
    [kləʊs, AM kloʊs]
    I. adj usu pred
    1. (short distance) nah[e]
    let's go to the \closest pub lasst uns in das nächste Pub gehen!
    ▪ to be \close to sth in der Nähe einer S. gen liegen
    our guest-house was \close to the sea unsere Pension war nicht weit vom Meer entfernt
    \close combat Nahkampf m
    \close to the ground dicht über dem Boden
    in \close proximity in unmittelbarer Nähe
    at \close quarters aus der Nähe [betrachtet]
    at \close range aus kurzer Entfernung
    \close together nahe [o dicht] beieinander
    to be \close to exhaustion total erschöpft sein
    to be \close to perfection so gut wie perfekt sein
    to be \close to tears den Tränen nahe sein
    3. (near in time) nahe [bevorstehend]
    it's \close to Christmas Weihnachten steht vor der Tür
    war is \close ein Krieg steht unmittelbar bevor
    \close together nahe [o dicht] beieinander
    ▪ to be \close to sb jdm [sehr] nahestehen
    my brother and I have always been very \close mein Bruder und ich standen uns schon immer sehr nahe
    ... because of their \close links with terrorist groups... wegen ihrer engen Verbindung zu Terrorgruppen
    \close bond enges Band
    \close co-operation enge Zusammenarbeit
    just \close family nur die nächsten Verwandten
    \close friend enger Freund/enge Freundin
    \close friendship enge Freundschaft
    \close links eine enge Verbindung
    \close relatives nahe Verwandte
    5. (little space between) eng
    \close handwriting enge Schrift
    ten pages of \close print zehn eng bedruckte Seiten
    \close ranks geschlossene Reihen
    \close weave dichtes Gewebe
    6. ( fig: dense)
    \close argument stichhaltiges Argument
    \close reasoning geschlossene Argumentation
    7. (almost equal) knapp
    the race is going to be a \close contest das wird ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen!
    the election was too \close to call der Ausgang der Wahl war völlig offen
    \close race Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen nt
    8. (similar)
    to be the \closest equivalent to sth etw dat am nächsten kommen
    \close resemblance große Ähnlichkeit
    to bear a \close resemblance to sb/sth jdm/etw sehr ähnlich sehen/sein
    9. (exact) genau
    to pay \close attention to sb jdm gut zuhören
    to pay \close attention to sth genau auf etw akk achten
    to keep a \close eye on sth etw gut im Auge behalten
    10. (secret) verschwiegen
    she's very \close about her relationship was ihre Beziehung angeht, ist sie sehr verschwiegen
    \close secret großes Geheimnis
    11. (airless, stifling) schwül; (in room) stickig
    12. (mean) knauserig pej
    \close to [or on] ... nahezu..., fast...
    \close to midnight kurz vor Mitternacht
    14. LING
    \close vowel geschlossener Vokal
    15.
    ▶ to be \close to the bone der Wahrheit ziemlich nahekommen
    ▶ that was a \close call! das war knapp!
    ▶ that was too \close for comfort! das ging gerade nochmal gut!; (distance)
    she lives too \close for comfort sie wohnt näher als ihr lieb ist
    ▶ to hold [or keep] one's cards \close to one's chest sich dat nicht in die Karten sehen lassen
    ▶ that was a \close shave! das war knapp! fam
    ▶ to have had a \close shave gerade noch davongekommen sein
    II. adv (near in location) nahe; (near in time) nahe [bevorstehend]
    please come \closer kommen Sie doch näher!
    the election is getting \close die Wahlen stehen unmittelbar vor der Tür
    she came \close to getting that job fast hätte sie die Stelle bekommen
    to come \close to blows beinahe handgreiflich werden
    to be \close at hand person in Reichweite sein; event unmittelbar bevorstehen
    to come \close to tears den Tränen nahekommen
    to come \close to the truth der Wahrheit [ziemlich] nahekommen
    to get \close to sb/sth jdm/etw nahekommen
    to hold sb \close jdn fest an sich drücken
    on looking \closer bei genauerem Hinsehen
    ▪ \close by in der Nähe
    the little child stood \close by his mother das kleine Kind stand dicht bei seiner Mutter
    ▪ from \close up aus der Nähe
    ▪ \close together dicht beieinander
    please stand \closer together können Sie vielleicht noch ein bisschen aufrücken?
    these appointments are too \close together diese Termine liegen einfach zu dicht aufeinander
    ▶ to sail \close to the wind sich akk hart an der Grenze des Erlaubten bewegen
    III. vi
    1. (move nearer)
    ▪ to \close on sb/an animal sich akk jdm/einem Tier [bedrohlich] nähern
    2. STOCKEX (reach a price)
    shares \closed at 15 dollars die Aktien erreichten eine Schlussnotierung von 15 Dollar
    IV. n BRIT Hof m; (in street names) Straßenname für Sackgassen; (around cathedral) Domhof m; SCOT schmaler, meist offener Durchgang oder Hof
    close2
    [kləʊz, AM kloʊz]
    I. vt
    ▪ to \close sth etw schließen
    to \close a book ein Buch zumachen
    to \close a company/factory/shop einen Betrieb/eine Fabrik/einen Laden schließen
    to \close the curtains die Vorhänge zuziehen
    to \close the door/one's mouth/the window die Tür/seinen Mund/das Fenster zumachen
    to \close one's ears ( fig) sich akk taub stellen
    to \close one's eyes seine Augen zumachen [o schließen]
    to \close one's eyes to sth ( fig) die Augen vor etw dat verschließen
    to \close a plant/railway line ein Werk/eine Bahnstrecke stilllegen
    to \close ranks die Reihen schließen
    the party has \closed ranks on the issue die Partei nimmt dem Thema gegenüber eine geschlossene Stellung ein
    to \close a road eine Straße sperren; ECON, FIN
    to \close an account ein Konto auflösen
    2. (bring to an end)
    the matter is \closed der Fall ist abgeschlossen
    the performance was \closed with ‘Auld Lang Syne’ die Aufführung endete mit dem Lied ‚Auld Lang Syne‘
    to \close a bank account ein Konto auflösen
    to \close a case LAW einen Fall abschließen
    case \closed also LAW der Fall ist abgeschlossen
    to \close a deal einen Handel [ab]schließen
    to \close a discussion eine Diskussion beenden
    let's \close this discussion with a brief summary lassen Sie mich diese Diskussion mit einer kurzen Zusammenfassung abschließen
    to \close a meeting eine Besprechung beenden
    ▪ to \close sth etw schließen
    to \close the gap between x and y die Kluft zwischen x und y überwinden
    4. ELEC
    to \close a circuit einen Stromkreis schließen
    to \close a file eine Datei zumachen [o schließen
    6.
    ▶ to \close the stable door after the horse has bolted den Brunnen erst zudecken, wenn das Kind hineingefallen ist prov
    II. vi
    1. (shut) wound sich schließen; door, window, lid zugehen; shop, bank schließen
    her eyes \closed in tiredness vor Müdigkeit fielen ihr die Augen zu
    this box doesn't \close properly diese Kiste geht nicht richtig zu
    2. (shut down) schließen; shop zumachen; factory also stilllegen
    3. (end) zu Ende gehen; meeting schließen; play abgesetzt werden; STOCKEX
    the pound \closed at $1.62 das Pfund schloss mit 1,62 Dollar
    4. (approach) sich akk nähern
    the tanks \closed to within 50 metres of the frontline die Panzer kamen bis auf 50 Meter an die Front heran
    III. n
    1. no pl (end) Ende nt, Schluss m
    to bring [or draw] sth to a \close etw beenden
    to come to a \close zu Ende gehen, enden
    to draw to a \close sich dem Ende zuneigen
    at the \close of business bei Geschäftsschluss
    at the \close of trading bei Börsenschluss
    2. STOCKEX Börsenschluss m
    by the \close bei Börsenschluss
    3. (in cricket)
    4. MUS Kadenz f
    * * *
    I [kləʊs]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) (= near) nahe (
    to +gen), in der Nähe ( to +gen, von) to +gen )

    at close quarters —

    he chose the closest cake — er nahm den Kuchen, der am nächsten lag

    we use this pub because it's close/the closest — wir gehen in dieses Lokal, weil es in der Nähe/am nächsten ist

    2) (in time) nahe (bevorstehend)

    nobody realized how close a nuclear war was — es war niemandem klar, wie nahe ein Atomkrieg bevorstand

    3) (fig) friend, co-operation, connection etc eng; relative nahe; resemblance groß, stark

    they were very close (to each other) — sie waren or standen sich or einander (geh) sehr nahe

    4) (= not spread out) handwriting, print eng; ranks dicht, geschlossen; (fig) argument lückenlos, stichhaltig; reasoning, game geschlossen
    5) (= exact, painstaking) examination, study eingehend, genau; translation originalgetreu; watch streng, scharf

    you have to pay very close attention to the traffic signs —

    to keep a close lookout for sb/sth — scharf nach jdm/etw Ausschau halten

    6) (= stuffy) schwül; (indoors) stickig
    7) (= almost equal) fight, result knapp

    a close election — ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen nt, eine Wahl mit knappem Ausgang

    the vote/election was too close to call — der Ausgang der Abstimmung/Wahl war völlig offen

    8)

    close on sixty/midnight — an die sechzig/kurz vor Mitternacht

    2. adv (+er)
    nahe; (spatially also) dicht

    close to the water/ground —

    the closer the exams came the more nervous he got —

    this pattern comes close/closest to the sort of thing we wanted — dieses Muster kommt dem, was wir uns vorgestellt haben, nahe/am nächsten

    if you get too close up... — wenn du zu nahe herangehst...

    3. n
    (in street names) Hof m; (of cathedral etc) Domhof m; (Scot = outside passage) offener Hausflur II [kləʊz]
    1. vt
    1) (= shut) schließen; eyes, door, shop, window, curtains also zumachen; (permanently) business, shop etc schließen; factory stilllegen; (= block) opening etc verschließen; road sperren

    "closed" — "geschlossen"

    sorry, we're closed — tut uns leid, wir haben geschlossen or zu

    to close one's eyes/ears to sth — sich einer Sache gegenüber blind/taub stellen

    to close the gap between... — die Diskrepanz zwischen... beseitigen

    2) (= bring to an end) church service, meeting schließen, beenden; affair, discussion also abschließen; bank account etc auflösen; sale abschließen
    3) (ELEC) circuit schließen
    2. vi
    1) (= shut, come together) sich schließen; (door, window, box, lid, eyes, wound also) zugehen; (= can be shut) schließen, zugehen; (shop, factory) schließen, zumachen; (factory permanently) stillgelegt werden

    his eyes closed — die Augen fielen ihm zu; (in death) seine Augen schlossen sich

    2) (= come to an end) schließen; (tourist season) aufhören, enden, zu Ende gehen; (THEAT, play) auslaufen
    3) (= approach) sich nähern, näher kommen; (boxers etc) aufeinander losgehen
    4) (COMM: accept offer) abschließen, zu einem Abschluss kommen

    the shares closed at £5 — die Aktien erreichten eine Schlussnotierung von £ 5

    3. n
    Ende nt, Schluss m

    to come to a close — enden, aufhören, zu Ende gehen

    to draw to a close — sich dem Ende nähern, dem Ende zugehen

    to draw or bring sth to a close —

    at/towards (Brit) or toward (US) the close of (the) day — am/gegen Ende des Tages

    * * *
    A adj [kləʊs] (adv → closely)
    1. ver-, geschlossen, (nur präd) zu
    2. obs von Mauern etc umgeben
    3. zurückgezogen, abgeschieden
    4. verborgen, geheim
    5. dumpf, schwül, stickig, drückend
    6. fig verschlossen, verschwiegen, zurückhaltend
    7. geizig, knaus(e)rig
    8. knapp, beschränkt:
    money is close das Geld ist knapp
    9. nicht zugänglich, nicht öffentlich, geschlossen
    10. dicht, fest (Gewebe etc)
    11. eng, (dicht) gedrängt:
    close handwriting enge Schrift
    12. knapp, kurz, bündig (Stil etc)
    13. kurz (Haar)
    14. eng (anliegend) (Kleid etc)
    15. (wort)getreu, genau (Übersetzung)
    16. stark (Ähnlichkeit)
    17. nah, dicht:
    close combat MIL Nahkampf m;
    close fight Handgemenge n, weitS. zähes Ringen, harter Kampf;
    close together dicht beieinander;
    a) nahe oder dicht bei,
    b) (zeitlich) dicht vor (dat), nahe (dat),
    c) fig (jemandem) nahestehend, vertraut mit,
    d) fig eng verwandt oder verbunden mit;
    this subject is very close to me dieses Thema liegt mir sehr am Herzen;
    close to tears den Tränen nahe;
    a speed close to that of sound eine Geschwindigkeit, die dicht an die Schallgrenze herankommt; → bone1 A 1, proximity, range A 5
    18. eng (Freunde):
    he was a close friend of mine, we were close friends wir waren eng befreundet
    19. nah (Verwandte)
    20. fig knapp:
    21. fig scharf, hart, knapp:
    close victory knapper Sieg;
    close election knapper Wahlausgang;
    close finish scharfer Endkampf
    22. gespannt (Aufmerksamkeit)
    23. gründlich, eingehend, scharf, genau:
    close investigation gründliche oder eingehende Untersuchung;
    close observer scharfer Beobachter;
    close questioning strenges Verhör; → inspection 1
    24. streng, scharf:
    close arrest strenge Haft;
    close prisoner streng bewachter Gefangener;
    in close custody unter scharfer Bewachung;
    keep a close watch on scharf im Auge behalten (akk)
    25. streng, logisch, lückenlos (Beweisführung etc)
    26. LING geschlossen (Laut etc): → punctuation 1
    27. MUS eng:
    close harmony enger Satz
    B adv [kləʊs] eng, nahe, dicht:
    a) nahe oder dicht dabei, ganz in der Nähe,
    b) nahe oder dicht bei, neben (dat);
    close at hand nahe bevorstehend;
    close on two hundred fast oder annähernd zweihundert;
    fly close to the ground dicht am Boden fliegen;
    come close to fig dicht herankommen oder -reichen an (akk), fast … sein;
    cut close ganz kurz schneiden;
    keep close in der Nähe bleiben;
    lie ( oder keep) close sich verborgen halten;
    press sb close jemanden hart bedrängen;
    run sb close jemandem dicht auf den Fersen sein;
    if you look closer wenn du näher oder genauer hinsiehst; → wind1 A 1
    C s [kləʊz]
    1. (Ab)Schluss m, Ende n:
    bring to a close eine Versammlung etc beenden;
    come ( oder draw) to a close zu Ende gehen
    2. Schlusswort n
    3. Briefschluss m
    4. MUS Kadenz f, Schluss(fall) m
    5. Handgemenge n, Kampf m
    6. [kləʊs] Br
    a) Einfriedung f, Hof m (einer Kirche, Schule etc)
    b) Gehege n
    c) JUR (eingefriedetes) Grundstück: → breach Bes Redew
    7. [kləʊs] Br (kurze, umbaute) Sackgasse
    8. [kləʊs] schott Hausdurchgang m zum Hof
    D v/t [kləʊz]
    1. (ab-, ver-, zu)schließen, zumachen, COMPUT eine Datei etc schließen: → closed, door Bes Redew, eye A 1, gap 6, heart Bes Redew, mind A 2, rank1 A 7
    2. ein Loch etc verstopfen
    3. a) einen Betrieb, die Schule etc schließen
    b) they had their ground closed for two games SPORT sie bekamen eine Platzsperre für zwei Spiele
    4. ein Gelände, eine Straße (ab)sperren:
    close a road to traffic eine Straße für den Verkehr sperren
    5. die Hand schließen, die Faust ballen
    6. die Sicht versperren
    7. ELEK den Stromkreis schließen
    8. fig beenden, be-, abschließen:
    close a case einen Fall abschließen;
    close the court JUR die Verhandlung schließen;
    close an issue eine (strittige) Sache erledigen;
    close a procession einen Zug beschließen;
    close one’s days seine Tage beschließen (sterben);
    the subject was closed das Thema war beendet
    9. WIRTSCH
    a) ein Konto auflösen
    b) eine Rechnung abschließen: → book A 9
    10. einen Handel, ein Geschäft abschließen
    11. einen Abstand verringern
    12. SCHIFF näher herangehen an (akk):
    close the wind an den Wind gehen
    13. WIRTSCH US → close out A 2
    E v/i [kləʊz]
    1. allg sich schließen (auch Lücke, Wunde etc)
    2. geschlossen werden
    3. schließen, zumachen:
    the shop closes at 5 o’clock
    4. enden, aufhören, zu Ende gehen
    5. schließen ( with the words mit den Worten)
    6. Börse: abschließen (at mit)
    7. heranrücken, sich nähern:
    close (a)round ( oder about) sb jemanden einschließen, jemanden umzingeln
    8. close with sb mit jemandem (handels)einig werden, sich mit jemandem einigen ( beide:
    on über akk)
    9. close with sb mit jemandem handgemein werden oder aneinandergeraten
    10. sich verringern (Abstand, Strecke)
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (near in space) dicht; nahe

    be close to something — nahe bei od. an etwas (Dat.) sein

    I wish we lived closer to your parents — ich wünschte, wir würden näher bei deinen Eltern wohnen

    be close to tears/breaking point — den Tränen/einem Zusammenbruch nahe sein

    at close quarters, the building looked less impressive — aus der Nähe betrachtet, wirkte das Gebäude weniger imposant

    2) (near in time) nahe (to an + Dat.)
    3) eng [Freund, Freundschaft, Beziehung, Zusammenarbeit, Verbindung]; nahe [Verwandte, Bekanntschaft]

    be/become close to somebody — jemandem nahe stehen/nahekommen

    4) (rigorous, painstaking) eingehend, genau [Untersuchung, Prüfung, Befragung usw.]
    5) (stifling) stickig [Luft, Raum]; drückend, schwül [Wetter]
    6) (nearly equal) hart [[Wett]kampf, Spiel]; knapp [Ergebnis]

    that was a close call or shave or thing — (coll.) das war knapp!

    7) (nearly matching) wortgetreu [Übersetzung]; getreu, genau [Imitation, Kopie]; groß [Ähnlichkeit]

    be the closest equivalent to something — einer Sache (Dat.) am ehesten entsprechen

    8) eng [Schrift]
    2. adverb
    1) (near) nah[e]

    close on 2 o'clock — kurz vor 2 [Uhr]

    close to somebody/something — nahe bei jemandem/etwas

    it brought them closer together — (fig.) es brachte sie einander näher

    be/come close to tears — den Tränen nahe sein

    2) fest [schließen]; genau [hinsehen]
    3. transitive verb
    1) (shut) schließen, (ugs.) zumachen [Augen, Tür, Fenster, Geschäft]; zuziehen [Vorhang]; (declare shut) schließen [Laden, Geschäft, Fabrik, Betrieb, Werk, Zeche]; stilllegen [Betrieb, Werk, Zeche, Bahnlinie]; sperren [Straße, Brücke]
    2) (conclude) schließen, beenden [Besprechung, Rede, Diskussion]; schließen [Versammlung, Sitzung]
    3) (make smaller) schließen (auch fig.) [Lücke]
    4. intransitive verb
    1) (shut) sich schließen; [Tür:] zugehen (ugs.), sich schließen

    the door/lid doesn't close properly — die Tür/der Deckel schließt nicht richtig

    2) [Laden, Geschäft, Fabrik:] schließen, (ugs.) zumachen; (permanently) [Betrieb, Werk, Zeche:] geschlossen od. stillgelegt werden; [Geschäft:] geschlossen werden, (ugs.) zumachen
    3) (come to an end) zu Ende gehen; enden; (finish speaking) schließen
    5. noun
    1) no pl. Ende, das; Schluss, der

    come or draw to a close — zu Ende gehen

    bring or draw something to a close — einer Sache (Dat.) ein Ende bereiten; etwas zu Ende bringen

    2) (cul-de-sac) Sackgasse, die
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    abschließen v.
    schließen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: schloß, geschlossen)
    zumachen v.

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  • 6 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 7 bring

    [brɪŋ]
    гл., прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. brought
    1) приносить, привозить; приводить; доставлять

    They are going to bring one of their friends with them. — Они собираются привести с собой одного из своих друзей.

    Any goods brought to our country must be carefully checked. — Всякий продукт, поступающий в нашу страну, должен проходить тщательную проверку.

    Bring your running shoes along, and we'll get some exercise. — Захвати с собой свои кроссовки, побегаем.

    Bring the new members around to the meeting tonight. — Приведи сегодня на встречу новеньких.

    You must bring these library books back next week. — Ты должен сдать эти книги в библиотеку на следующей неделе.

    On your way home from your aunt's will you bring back some coffee? — Когда пойдёшь домой от тёти, захвати кофе.

    Bring the washing in, it's raining. — Забери бельё домой, пошёл дождь.

    The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors. — Спасательная лодка спасла большую часть людей с корабля, потерпевшего крушение.

    The waiter brought the next dish on. — Официант подал следующее блюдо.

    When the doctor arrives, bring him up. — Когда доктор прибудет, проводите его наверх.

    As I brought the handkerchief out of my pocket, several other objects fell out with it. — Когда я вытащил платок из кармана, оттуда вывалилось ещё несколько предметов.

    Why don't you bring your new boyfriend over one evening? We'd like to meet him. — Почему бы тебе не привести как-нибудь к нам своего молодого человека? Нам интересно на него посмотреть.

    Syn:
    carry 1., fetch I 1., lead II 2., convey 1., transport 2., conduct 2.
    2) = bring to доводить (до чего-л., какого-л. состояния)

    bring to a state of — приводить в какое-л. состояние

    Bring water to a / the boil. — Доведите воду до кипения.

    Having him talking all the time usually brings me to a state of exhaustion. — Его разговоры обычно сильно утомляют меня.

    He always brings everything to an end. — Он всегда доводит все до конца.

    to bring an end to smth. — прекращать; заканчивать что-л.

    The water brought my shoes to a state of a total mess. — Вода привела мои туфли в состояние полной негодности.

    The statement brought him into a state of furious anger. — Это заявление привело его в состояние бешенства.

    I had to bring the car to a halt for I couldn't keep my eyes on the road anymore. — Мне пришлось на время остановиться, так как я уже не мог следить за дорогой.

    3) заставлять, убеждать (кого-л. сделать что-л.)

    to bring smb. to do smth. — заставить кого-л. сделать что-л.

    He could bring me to do anything he ever wanted. — Он мог убедить меня сделать всё, чего бы он только не пожелал.

    4) выдвигать, приводить (доводы, аргументы); возбуждать ( дело)

    to bring legal action against smb. — возбудить дело против кого-л.

    to bring charges against smb. — выдвигать обвинения против кого-л.

    5) ( bring before) заставить кого-л. предстать перед судом

    Peter has been brought before the court on a charge of drunken driving. — Питер предстал перед судом по обвинению в вождении автомобиля в нетрезвом состоянии.

    Syn:
    6) ( bring before) предложить на рассмотрение

    Your suggestion will be brought before the committee at a suitable date. — Ваше предложение будет рассмотрено комитетом в удобное для него время.

    Syn:
    go 1. 25), lay before, place before, set 3. 19), take 1. 42), be 27)
    а) оградить от каких-л. трудностей, помочь преодолеть трудности

    The doctor brought Mother through a serious illness. — Врач вылечил маму от опасной болезни.

    Their courage brought the people through the war. — Их мужество помогло людям пройти через войну.

    Syn:
    8) ( bring under) включать, заносить в (графу, категорию)

    We can bring your suggestions under several headings. — Ваши предложения можно поделить на несколько групп.

    9) ( bring within) согласовывать

    The shops will have to bring the clothes within our price range, or they won't sell them. — Магазинам придётся снизить цены до наших возможностей, а то им не удастся продать эту одежду.

    Syn:
    •
    - bring along
    - bring around
    - bring away
    - bring back
    - bring down
    - bring forth
    - bring forward
    - bring in
    - bring off
    - bring on
    - bring out
    - bring over
    - bring round
    - bring through
    - bring to
    - bring together
    - bring under
    - bring up
    ••

    to bring smb. to grips with something — усложнять жизнь кому-л чем-л.

    to bring smb. to himself, to bring smb. to his senses — приводить кого-л. в сознание

    to bring smb. to his knees — поставить кого-л. на колени; полностью подчинить кого-л.

    to bring to life — оживлять (кого-л. / что-л.)

    to bring smth. to rest — останавливать что-л.

    to bring down fire — воен. открыть огонь; накрыть огнём

    to bring to attention — воен. скомандовать "смирно"

    - bring home the bacon
    - bring the house down
    - bring down the house
    - bring to the fore
    - bring down a peg or two
    - bring in a verdict
    - bring in on the ground floor
    - bring low
    - bring to a dead end
    - bring smth. to a head
    - bring smth. home to smb.
    - bring to the ground
    - bring to ruin
    - bring to bear influence
    - bring to the boil
    - bring to such a pretty pass
    - bring to such a pass
    - bring up to date

    Англо-русский современный словарь > bring

  • 8 bring

    bring [brɪŋ]
    amener ⇒ (a), (b), (d), (e) apporter ⇒ (a) provoquer ⇒ (c) rapporter ⇒ (g)
    (pt & pp brought [brɔ:t]) transitive verb
    (a) (take → animal, person, vehicle) amener; (→ object) apporter; (→ fashion, idea, product) introduire, lancer;
    ∎ I'll bring the books (across) tomorrow j'apporterai les livres demain;
    ∎ her father's bringing her home today son père la ramène à la maison aujourd'hui;
    ∎ what brings you here? qu'est-ce qui vous amène?;
    ∎ can you bring me a beer, please? vous pouvez m'apporter une bière, s'il vous plaît?;
    ∎ that brings the total to £350 cela fait 350 livres en tout;
    ∎ he brought his dog with him il a emmené son chien;
    ∎ did you bring anything with you? as-tu apporté quelque chose?;
    ∎ black musicians brought jazz to Europe les musiciens noirs ont introduit le jazz en Europe;
    ∎ this programme is brought to you by the BBC ce programme est diffusé par la BBC
    (b) (into specified state) entraîner, amener;
    ∎ to bring sth into play faire jouer qch;
    ∎ to bring sth into question mettre ou remettre qch en question;
    ∎ to bring sb to his/her senses ramener qn à la raison;
    ∎ to bring sth to an end or a close or a halt mettre fin à qch;
    ∎ to bring sth to sb's attention or knowledge or notice attirer l'attention de qn sur qch;
    ∎ to bring a child into the world mettre un enfant au monde;
    ∎ to bring sth to light mettre qch en lumière, révéler qch;
    ∎ to bring sth to mind rappeler qch;
    ∎ to bring sth onto the market introduire qch sur le marché
    (c) (produce) provoquer, causer;
    ∎ her performance brought wild applause son interprétation a provoqué un tonnerre d'applaudissements;
    ∎ to bring sth upon sb attirer qch sur qn;
    ∎ her foolhardiness brought misfortune upon the family son imprudence a attiré le malheur sur la famille;
    ∎ you've brought it on yourself vous l'avez cherché;
    ∎ you bring credit to the firm vous faites honneur à la société;
    ∎ it brings bad/good luck ça porte malheur/bonheur;
    ∎ he brought a sense of urgency to the project il a fait accélérer le projet;
    ∎ to bring new hope to sb redonner de l'espoir à qn;
    ∎ the story brought tears to my eyes l'histoire m'a fait venir les larmes aux yeux;
    ∎ his speech brought jeers from the audience son discours lui a valu les huées de l'assistance;
    ∎ money does not always bring happiness l'argent ne fait pas toujours le bonheur;
    ∎ the winter brought more wind and rain l'hiver a amené encore plus de vent et de pluie;
    ∎ tourism has brought prosperity to the area le tourisme a enrichi la région;
    ∎ who knows what the future will bring? qui sait ce que l'avenir nous/lui/ etc réserve?
    (d) (force) amener;
    ∎ she can't bring herself to speak about it elle n'arrive pas à en parler;
    ∎ her performance brought the audience to its feet les spectateurs se sont levés pour l'applaudir
    (e) (lead) mener, amener;
    ∎ the path brings you straight (out) into the village ce chemin vous mène (tout) droit au village;
    ∎ the shock brought him to the verge of a breakdown le choc l'a mené au bord de la dépression nerveuse;
    ∎ to bring sb into a conversation/discussion faire participer qn à une conversation/discussion;
    ∎ that brings us to the next question cela nous amène à la question suivante
    ∎ to bring an action or a suit against sb intenter un procès à ou contre qn;
    ∎ to bring a charge against sb porter une accusation contre qn;
    ∎ the case was brought before the court l'affaire a été déférée au tribunal;
    ∎ he was brought before the court il a comparu devant le tribunal;
    ∎ the murderer must be brought to justice l'assassin doit être traduit en justice;
    ∎ to bring evidence avancer ou présenter des preuves
    (g) (financially) rapporter;
    ∎ her painting only brings her a few thousand pounds a year ses peintures ne lui rapportent que quelques milliers de livres par an
    (a) (cause → changes, war) provoquer, amener, entraîner; (→ reconciliation) amener; (→ person's downfall) entraîner; (→ accident) provoquer, causer;
    ∎ what brought about his dismissal? pourquoi a-t-il été renvoyé exactement?, quel est le motif de son renvoi?
    (b) Nautical faire virer de bord
    (person) amener; (thing) apporter
    (memories, impressions) garder
    (a) (fetch → person) ramener; (→ thing) rapporter;
    ∎ no amount of crying will bring him back pleurer ne le ramènera pas à la vie;
    ∎ Law to bring a case back before the court ressaisir le tribunal d'un dossier
    (b) (restore) restaurer;
    ∎ the news brought a smile back to her face la nouvelle lui a rendu le sourire;
    ∎ they're bringing back miniskirts ils relancent la minijupe;
    ∎ to bring sb back to life ranimer qn
    (c) (evoke → memory) rappeler (à la mémoire);
    ∎ that brings it all back to me ça réveille tous mes souvenirs
    ∎ to bring sb by amener qn
    (a) (fetch → person) amener; (→ thing) descendre, apporter
    (b) (reduce → prices, temperature) faire baisser; (→ currency) déprécier, avilir; (→ birthrate, inflation, unemployment, swelling) réduire
    (c) (cause to land → kite) ramener (au sol); (→ plane) faire atterrir
    (d) (cause to fall → prey) descendre; (→ plane, enemy, tree) abattre;
    ∎ her performance brought the house down son interprétation lui a valu des applaudissements à tout rompre
    (e) Politics (overthrow) faire tomber, renverser
    (g) familiar (depress) déprimer□, donner le cafard à
    (h) literary (provoke → anger) attirer;
    ∎ to bring down the wrath of God on sb attirer la colère de Dieu sur qn;
    ∎ stop making so much noise or you'll bring the headmaster down on us ne fais pas tant de bruit, tu vas attirer l'attention du proviseur sur nous
    (a) (produce → fruit) produire; (→ child) mettre au monde; (→ animal) mettre bas
    (b) (elicit) provoquer
    (a) (present → person) faire avancer; (→ argument) avancer, présenter; Law (→ witness) produire; Law (→ evidence) avancer, présenter
    (b) (chair etc) avancer
    (c) Administration (move → date, meeting) avancer;
    ∎ the conference has been brought forward to the 28th la conférence a été avancée au 28
    (d) Accountancy reporter;
    ∎ brought forward reporté
    (a) (fetch in → person) faire entrer; (→ thing) rentrer;
    ∎ to bring in the harvest rentrer la moisson;
    ∎ they want to bring a new person in ils veulent prendre quelqu'un d'autre;
    ∎ we will have to bring in the police il faudra faire intervenir la ou faire appel à la police;
    ∎ to bring sb in for questioning emmener qn au poste de police pour l'interroger
    (b) (introduce → laws, system) introduire, présenter; (→ fashion) lancer;
    ∎ the government has brought in a new tax bill le gouvernement a présenté ou déposé un nouveau projet de loi fiscal;
    ∎ can I just bring in a new point? est-ce que je peux faire une autre remarque?
    (c) (yield, produce) rapporter;
    ∎ to bring in interest rapporter des intérêts;
    ∎ tourism brings in millions of dollars each year le tourisme rapporte des millions de dollars tous les ans;
    ∎ her work doesn't bring in much money son travail ne lui rapporte pas grand-chose
    (d) Law (verdict) rendre;
    ∎ they brought in a verdict of guilty ils l'ont déclaré coupable
    (a) British familiar (trick) réussir□ ; (plan) réaliser□ ; Commerce (deal) conclure□, mener à bien□ ;
    ∎ did you manage to bring it off? avez-vous réussi votre coup?
    (b) Sport (player) faire sortir
    (c) (person → from ship) débarquer;
    ∎ the injured men will be brought off by helicopter les blessés seront évacués en hélicoptère
    ∎ to bring sb off branler qn;
    ∎ to bring oneself off se branler
    (a) (induce) provoquer, causer;
    ∎ the shock brought on a heart attack le choc a provoqué une crise cardiaque;
    ∎ humorous what brought this on? (why are you offering to help?) qu'est-ce que tu me caches?
    (b) (encourage) encourager;
    ∎ the warm weather has really brought on the flowers la chaleur a bien fait pousser les fleurs;
    ∎ the idea is to bring on new tennis players il s'agit d'encourager de nouveaux tennismen
    (c) Theatre (person) amener sur scène; (thing) apporter sur scène;
    ∎ please bring on our next contestant faites entrer le concurrent suivant
    (d) Sport (substitute) faire entrer
    (a) (take out → person) faire sortir; (→ thing) sortir
    (b) Commerce (commercially → product, style) lancer; (→ record) sortir; (→ book) publier
    (c) (accentuate) souligner;
    ∎ that colour brings out the green in her eyes cette couleur met en valeur le vert de ses yeux;
    ∎ her performance brought out the character's comic side son interprétation a fait ressortir le côté comique du personnage;
    ∎ to bring out the best/worst in sb faire apparaître qn sous son meilleur/plus mauvais jour;
    ∎ humorous it brings out the beast in me cela réveille l'animal qui est en moi
    (d) British Medicine (in rash, spots)
    ∎ strawberries bring me out in spots les fraises me donnent des boutons
    (e) (encourage → person) encourager;
    ∎ he's very good at bringing people out (of themselves) il sait très bien s'y prendre pour mettre les gens à l'aise;
    ∎ the sun has brought out the roses le soleil a fait s'épanouir les roses
    (f) Industry (workers) appeler à la grève;
    ∎ they're threatening to bring everyone out (on strike) ils menacent d'appeler tout le monde à faire grève
    ∎ to bring out new shares émettre de nouvelles actions
    (take → person) amener; (→ thing) apporter
    (a) (take → person) amener; (→ thing) apporter;
    ∎ British figurative I brought the conversation round to marriage j'ai amené la conversation sur le mariage
    (b) (revive) ranimer
    (c) (persuade) convaincre, convertir;
    ∎ to bring sb round to a point of view convertir ou amener qn à un point de vue
    ∎ he brought the country through the depression il a réussi à faire sortir le pays de la dépression;
    ∎ the doctors brought me through my illness grâce aux médecins, j'ai survécu à ma maladie
    (a) (revive) ranimer
    (b) Nautical mettre en panne
    (a) (people) réunir; (facts) rassembler
    (b) (introduce) mettre en contact, faire se rencontrer;
    ∎ her brother brought them together son frère les a fait se rencontrer
    (c) (reconcile) réconcilier;
    ∎ Industry an arbitrator is trying to bring the two sides together un médiateur essaie de réconcilier les deux parties
    (a) (take → person) amener; (→ thing) monter
    (b) (child) élever;
    ∎ to be well/badly brought up être bien/mal élevé;
    ∎ I was brought up to be polite on m'a appris la politesse
    (c) (mention → fact, problem) signaler, mentionner; (→ question) soulever;
    ∎ don't bring that up again ne remettez pas cela sur le tapis;
    ∎ we won't bring it up again nous n'en reparlerons plus
    (d) (vomit) vomir, rendre
    ∎ to bring sb up before a judge citer ou faire comparaître qn devant un juge
    (f) (move forward → troops) faire avancer; (→ reinforcements, fresh supplies etc) faire venir
    ∎ to bring sb/sth up to professional standard élever qn/qch à un niveau professionnel

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

  • 9 bring

    1 (brought) მოტანა (მოიტანს), მოყვანა, მიყვანა, მიტანა
    it will bring you nothing but trouble ეს უსიამოვნების მეტს არაფერს მოგიტანს
    to bring sth home to smb. შეგნება (შეაგნებინებს)
    to bring smb. to his senses გონს მოყვანა, მორჯულება
    to bring smb. to ვისიმე მოსულიერება/გონზე მოყვანა, მობრუნება (მოაბრუნებს)
    two years in prison brought him to sense ციხეში გატარებულმა ორმა წელმა იგი მოარჯულა
    to bring together შეხვედრა (შეახვედრებს), შეყრა (შეჰყრის)
    to bring up გაზრდა, აღზრდა
    to bring up a child ბავშვის გაზრდა/აღზრდა
    badly brought up ცუდად აღზრდილი, გაზრდელი
    the question of money was brought up ფულის საკითხი დაისვა/წამოიჭრა
    to bring down a plane/tyrant/pheasant თვითმფრინავის/ტირანის/ხოხბის ჩამოგდება
    to bring down the prices ფასების დაკლება/დაგდება
    to bring in/into შემოტანა, შემოყვანა
    they brought out a new book/model ახალი წიგნი გამოსცეს/ახალი მოდელი გამოუშვეს
    we brought her round გრძნობაზე მოვიყვანეთ//მოვასულიერეთ
    2 გამოწვევა
    3 დარწმუნება, დაყოლიება
    4 მოტრიალება (მოატრიალებს), მობრუნება
    to bring back უკან მოტანა/მიყვანა
    5 გახსენება, გაიხსენებს
    6 გამოშვება
    7 გადატანა
    he brought the conversation round to politics საუბარი პოლიტიკაზე გადაიტანა
    8 პირღებინება (აღებინებს), რწყევინება
    he brought up his breakfast რაც ისაუზმა, არწყია // საუზმის მერე აღებინა
    to bring smb. to his knees დაჩოქება (დააჩოქებს) / ქედის მოხრევინება (ქედს მოახრევინებს)
    to bring smb. to trial // to put smb. on trial ვისიმე სამართალში / პასუხისგებაში მიცემა
    he trained his dog to bring him his shoes ძაღლს ფეხსაცმელების მოტანა აწავლა
    to bring smb. to justice სამართალში მიცემა
    to bring a charge against smb. ბრალდების წაყენება
    bring it to the boil! აადუღე / წამოადუღე!
    his body was brought to Georgia for burial მისი ცხედარი დასაკრძალავად საქართველოში ჩამოასვენეს
    he brought many curiosities from India ინდოეთიდან ბევრი საოცრება ჩამოიტანა
    this experiment bring brought his research to finality ამ ექსპერიმენტმა მის გამოკვლევას დასრულებული სახე მისცა
    I brought the chairs together with the table საკამები მაგიდასთნ ერთად ვიყიდე
    his singing brought the house down მისმა სიმღერამ მქუხარე აპლოდისმენტები დაიმსახურა

    English-Georgian dictionary > bring

  • 10 Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville

    [br]
    b. 26 September 1887 Ripley, Derbyshire, England
    d. 30 October 1979 Leatherhead, Surrey, England
    [br]
    English aeronautical designer and inventor.
    [br]
    Wallis was apprenticed first at Thames Engineering Works, and then, in 1908, at John Samuel White's shipyard at Cowes. In 1913, the Government, spurred on by the accelerating development of the German Zeppelins (see Zeppelin, Ferdinand von), ordered an airship from Vickers; Wallis was invited to join the design team. Thus began his long association with aeronautical design and with Vickers. This airship, and the R80 that followed it, were successfully completed, but the military lost interest in them.
    In 1924 the Government initiated a programme for the construction of two airships to settle once and for all their viability for long-dis-tance air travel. The R101 was designed by a Government-sponsored team, but the R100 was designed by Wallis working for a subsidiary of Vickers. The R100 took off on 29 July 1930 for a successful round trip to Canada, but the R101 crashed on its first flight on 4 October, killing many of its distinguished passengers. The shock of this disaster brought airship development in Britain to an abrupt end and forced Wallis to direct his attention to aircraft.
    In aircraft design, Wallis is known for his use of geodesic construction, which combined lightness with strength. It was applied first to the single-engined "Wellesley" and then the twin-en-gined "Wellington" bomber, which first flew in 1936. With successive modifications, it became the workhorse of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War until the autumn of 1943, when it was replaced by four-engined machines. In other areas, it remained in service until the end of the war and, in all, no fewer than 11,461 were built.
    Wallis is best known for his work on bomb design, first the bouncing bomb that was used to breach the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr district of Germany in 1943, an exploit immortalized in the film Dambusters. Encouraged by this success, the authorities then allowed Wallis to realize an idea he had long urged, that of heavy, penetration bombs. In the closing stages of the war, Tallboy, of 12,000 lb (5,400 kg), and the 10-ton Grand Slam were used to devastating effect.
    After the Second World War, Wallis returned to aeronautical design and was given his own department at Vickers to promote his ideas, principally on variable-geometry or swing-wing aircraft. Over the next thirteen years he battled towards the prototype stage of this revolutionary concept. That never came, however; changing conditions and requirements and increasing costs led to the abandonment of the project. Bit-terly disappointed, Wallis continued his researches into high-speed aircraft until his retirement from Vickers (by then the British Aircraft Corporation), in 1971.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1968. FRS 1945.
    Further Reading
    J.Morpurgo, 1972, Barnes Wallis: A Biography, London: Longman (a readable account, rather biased in Wallis's favour).
    C.J.Heap, 1987, The Papers of Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979) in the Science Museum Library, London: Science Museum; with a biographical introd. by L.R.Day.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville

  • 11 in

    [ɪn] prep
    1) ( enclosed in) in +dat;
    the butter is \in the fridge die Butter ist im Kühlschrank;
    they live \in a cottage sie wohnen in einer Hütte;
    to be \in bed im Bett sein;
    to ride \in a car [im] Auto fahren;
    he likes swimming \in lakes er schwimmt gerne in Seen;
    it was covered \in dirt es war mit Schmutz überzogen;
    to lie \in the sun in der Sonne baden [o liegen];
    to find information \in the internet Informationen im Internet finden;
    she has over $100,000 \in a savings account sie hat über $100.000 auf einem Sparkonto;
    I've got a pain \in my back ich habe Schmerzen im Rücken;
    \in sb's head in jds Kopf;
    I never know what's going on \in her head ich weiß nie, was in ihrem Kopf vorgeht;
    to be \in hospital im Krankenhaus sein;
    to be \in and out of sth immer wieder in etw dat sein;
    she's been \in and out of hospitals ever since the accident sie war seit dem Unfall immer wieder im Krankenhaus
    2) ( surrounded by) in +dat;
    there are several gangs \in my neighbourhood in meiner Umgebung gab es mehrere Gangs;
    down below \in the valley unten im Tal;
    I got stuck \in a traffic jam ich bin in einen Stau gekommen;
    to stand \in the road auf der Straße sehen;
    the ducks swam \in the pond die Enten schwammen im Teich;
    I live \in New York ich lebe in New York;
    to look at oneself \in the mirror sich akk im Spiegel betrachten;
    \in the middle of sth in der Mitte von etw dat
    3) ( visible through) in +dat;
    \in the window im Fenster;
    the lady stood \in the doorway die Frau stand im Eingang
    4) after vb ( into) in +dat;
    to get \in the car ins Auto steigen;
    I just put too much milk \in my coffee ich habe zu viel Milch in meinen Kaffee getan;
    they decided to invest their savings \in stocks sie entschieden sich dazu, ihre Ersparnisse in Aktien anzulegen;
    to invest \in the future in die Zukunft investieren
    5) (Am) (at) auf +dat;
    is Erika still \in school? ist Erika noch auf der Schule?;
    Boris is \in college Boris ist auf dem College
    6) ( as part of) in +dat;
    who's the woman \in that painting? wer ist die Frau auf diesem Bild?;
    he was singer \in a band er war Sänger in einer Band;
    over 20 horses were \in the race an dem Rennen nahmen 20 Pferde teil;
    he looked for her face \in the crowd er suchte ihre Gesicht in der Menge;
    these themes can often be found \in Schiller diese Themen kommen bei Schiller oft vor;
    what do you look for \in a relationship? was erwartest du in einer Beziehung?;
    you're with us \in our thoughts wir denken an dich
    \in sth in etw dat;
    she works \in publishing sie arbeitet bei einem Verlag;
    they enlisted \in the army for two years sie verpflichteten sich für zwei Jahre als Soldaten;
    a degree \in sth ein Abschluss in etw dat;
    \in search of sb/ sth auf der Suche nach jdm/etw
    8) ( dressed) in +dat;
    the man [dressed] \in the grey suit der Mann in dem grauen Anzug;
    you look nice \in green grün steht dir;
    \in the nude nackt;
    to sunbathe \in the nude nackt sonnenbaden
    9) ( expressed as) oil paint, watercolour mit +dat;
    cheques should be written \in ink Schecks sollten mit Tinte ausgefüllt werden; French, English auf +dat;
    they spoke \in Russian the whole time sie sprachen die ganze Zeit auf Russisch;
    can you give me that offer \in writing? können Sie mir dieses Angebot schriftlich geben?;
    \in a small voice mit leiser Stimme;
    \in all honesty in aller Aufrichtigkeit;
    to tell sb sth \in all seriousness jdm etw in vollem Ernst sagen;
    to pay \in dollars mit [o in] Dollar zahlen;
    to write \in short simple sentences in kurzen einfachen Sätzen schreiben;
    to swear \in an oath einen Eid schwören;
    she told me \in a promise that she would wait for me sie hat mir versprochen, auf mich zu warten;
    to say sth \in a nutshell etw in aller Kürze sagen;
    \in conclusion schließlich, zum Schluss;
    he always talks \in a whisper er spricht immer sehr leise;
    to speak to sb \in a normal tone of voice sich akk mit jdm normal unterhalten;
    to listen to music \in stereo Musik stereo hören;
    Mozart's Piano Concerto \in E flat Mozarts Klavierkonzert in E-Moll;
    \in fact tatsächlich, in Wirklichkeit;
    \in the form of sth in Form von dat;
    \in the form of a request in Form einer Anfrage
    10) ( during) am +dat, in +dat;
    \in the morning/ evening am Morgen/Abend;
    did you hear the thunder \in the night? hast du heute Nacht den Donner gehört?;
    \in the autumn/ spring im Herbst/Frühling;
    we're going to Italy \in April wir fahren im April nach Italien;
    \in the late 60s in den späten Sechzigern;
    they met \in 1885 sie trafen sich 1885;
    she hasn't heard from him \in six months sie hat seit sechs Monaten nichts mehr von ihm gehört;
    I haven't done that \in a long time ich habe das lange Zeit nicht mehr gemacht;
    to be with the Lord \in eternity bei Gott im Himmel sein;
    \in the aftermath of the earthquake in der Zeit nach dem Erdbeben
    11) ( at later time) in +dat;
    dinner will be ready \in ten minutes das Essen ist in zehn Minuten fertig;
    \in the end am Ende, schließlich
    12) ( no later than) in +dat;
    \in two weeks;
    we need that contract signed \in two days der Vertrag muss in zwei Tagen unterzeichnet sein;
    they completed the journey \in record time sie haben die Reise in einer Rekordzeit beendet
    13) ( at distance of) nach +dat;
    the house should be coming up \in about one mile das Haus müsste nach einer Meile auftauchen
    14) (expressing state, condition) in +dat;
    \in anger im Zorn;
    \in horror voller Entsetzen;
    to live \in luxury im Luxus leben;
    \in the secret im Geheimen, heimlich;
    \in private vertraulich;
    she was \in stress at the moment sie war gerade im Stress;
    he left \in a hurry sie ging in aller Eile davon;
    to be \in doubt zweifeln;
    to get \in trouble Schwierigkeiten bekommen;
    he cried out \in pain er schrie vor Schmerzen;
    she was \in a good mood that day ihre Stimmung an diesem Tag war gut;
    he always drinks \in excess er trinkt immer zu viel;
    to be \in no doubt nicht an etw dat zweifeln;
    to fall \in love [with sb] sich akk [in jdn] verlieben;
    to come \in question in Frage gestellt werden;
    \in a state of sth in einem Zustand von etw dat;
    \in a state of panic in Panik;
    everything is \in a state of chaos alles ist in einem chaotischen Zustand;
    \in his excitement in seiner Begeisterung
    \in exchange als Ersatz, dafür;
    \in response to als Antwort auf +akk;
    \in reply [or answer] to als Reaktion [o Antwort] auf +akk;
    \in refusing to work abroad, she missed a good job weil sie sich weigerte, im Ausland zu arbeiten, entging ihr ein guter Job;
    \in doing so dabei, damit;
    \in that... ( form) insofern als;
    I was fortunate \in that I had friends ich hatte Glück, weil ich Freunde hatte
    16) ( arranged as) in +dat;
    then we sat down \in a circle wir setzten uns in einem Kreis hin;
    get together \in groups of four! bildet Vierergruppen!;
    sometimes customers buy books \in twos manchmal kaufen Kunden Bücher doppelt;
    slice the potatoes \in two beforehand! schneiden Sie die Kartoffel vorher einmal durch!;
    to die \in their thousands zu Tausenden sterben;
    he ripped up the note \in pieces er zerriss den Notizzettel in kleine Fetzen;
    \in total insgesamt
    17) ( comparing amounts) pro +dat;
    six pence \in the pound sechs Pennys pro Pfund;
    one \in ten people jeder zehnte;
    she has a one \in three chance ihre Chancen stehen eins zu drei;
    there's nothing [or not much] [or very little] \in it da ist kein großer Unterschied
    he is deaf \in his left ear er hört auf dem linken Ohr nichts;
    to be equal \in weight gleich viel wiegen;
    he's about six foot \in height er ist ca. zwei Meter groß;
    dark \in colour dunkelfarbig;
    difference \in quality Qualitätsunterschied m;
    it's not \in his nature es liegt nicht in seiner Natur;
    \in every respect in jeder Hinsicht;
    \in sb mit jdm;
    \in Kim, he's got a very good friend as well as a lover mit Kim hat er eine sehr gute Freundin und Liebhaberin;
    it isn't \in sb to do sth jd ist nicht zu etw dat in der Lage;
    it's not \in me to lie ich kann nicht lügen;
    to not have it \in one to do sth nicht in der Lage sein, etw zu tun
    19) ( approximately) in +dat;
    to be \in one's forties in den Vierzigern sein;
    temperatures tomorrow will be \in the mid-twenties die Temperaturen bewegen sich um 25 Grad
    to assist a doctor \in an operation einem Arzt bei einer Operation assistieren;
    the whole family shared \in his success die ganze Familie nahm Anteil an seinem Erfolg;
    don't interfere \in my business unasked! mische dich nicht ungefragt in meine Angelegenheiten ein!;
    she's interested \in photography sie interessiert sich für Fotografie after n
    we have confidence \in you wir vertrauen dir;
    she had no say \in the decision sie hatte keinen Einfluss auf die Entscheidung;
    a change \in sth eine Änderung in etw dat;
    she underwent a change \in style sie hat ihren Stil geändert
    \in sth anstatt etw +dat;
    he came to the party \in his friend's place er kam anstatt seinem Freund auf die Party;
    \in God's/ heaven's name um Gottes/Himmels willen;
    \in lieu of sth anstelle von, anstatt
    PHRASES:
    to put one's foot \in one's mouth [or it] ins Fettnäpfchen treten;
    to follow \in sb's footsteps in jds Fußstapfen treten;
    \in hell ( fam) überhaupt;
    \in line übereinstimmend;
    they tried to keep their children \in line sie versuchten, die Kinder bei der Stange zu halten;
    to put sb \in their place jdn in seine Schranken weisen;
    to leave sth \in one's wake etw zur Folge haben;
    \in stereo gleichzeitig;
    \in all insgesamt;
    there were 10 of us \in all wir waren zu zehnt;
    all \in all alles in allem;
    all \in all it's been a good year insgesamt gesehen war es ein gutes Jahr adv
    1) ( into sth and hither) herein;
    come \in! herein!;
    the sea was freezing, but \in she went das Meer war eiskalt, doch sie kannte nichts und ging hinein
    2) ( there) da;
    ( at home) zu Hause;
    is David \in? ist David da?;
    to have a quiet evening \in einen ruhigen Abend zu Hause verbringen
    to be due \in fällig sein;
    the train is due \in any moment now der Zug müsste jetzt jeden Moment [an]kommen;
    ( towards land) landeinwärts;
    the tide comes \in very quickly here die Flut kommt hier sehr rasch herein;
    we stood on the harbour for a while watching the ship come \in wir standen eine Zeitlang am Hafen und beobachteten das einlaufende Schiff
    4) ( inside) nach innen;
    could you bring the clothes \in? könntest du die Wäsche 'reinholen?;
    I didn't hear you come \in ich habe dich nicht [ins Haus] kommen hören;
    the farmer brought the harvest \in der Bauer brachte die Ernte ein;
    the roof of their house caved \in das Dach ihres Hauses fiel in sich zusammen
    5) ( submitted)
    to get [or hand] sth \in etw abgeben [o einreichen];
    when does your essay have to be \in? wann musst du deinen Essay abgeben?
    the ball was definitely \in! der Ball war keineswegs im Aus!;
    to be \in player am Ball sein
    7) ( take part)
    to go \in for sth an etw dat teilnehmen;
    I never went \in for collecting stamps mit Briefmarken sammeln habe ich mich nie abgegeben
    PHRASES:
    day \in, day out tagein, tagaus;
    \in between dazwischen;
    to be \in for sth sich akk auf etw akk gefasst machen müssen;
    to be \in for it sich akk auf etw akk gefasst machen können;
    to be \in on sth über etw akk Bescheid wissen;
    to be \in with sb mit jdm zusammen sein;
    to get \in with sb sich akk bei jdm lieb Kind machen ( fam)
    to let sb \in on sth jdm etw verraten adj
    1) ( leading in) einwärts;
    the door \in opens inwards die Tür hinein geht nach innen auf;
    \in basket Behälter m für eingehende Postsendungen
    2) ( in fashion) in;
    to be \in in [o ( fam) hipp] sein;
    to be the \in place to dance/ dine als Tanzlokal/Restaurant in sein ( fam)
    he's \in with the boss at the moment zurzeit ist er beim Chef gut angeschrieben;
    she just says those things to get \in with the teacher die sagt so was doch bloß, um sich beim Lehrer lieb Kind zu machen
    4) pred ( in season) reif;
    pumpkins are \in! Kürbisse jetzt frisch! n
    ( connection) Kontakt[e] m[pl];
    he wants to get involved with that group but doesn't have an \in er würde gern mit dieser Gruppe in Kontakt kommen, aber bis jetzt fehlt ihm die Eintrittskarte
    PHRASES:
    the \ins and outs of sth jedes kleine Detail einer S. gen;
    to understand the \ins and outs of sth etw hundertprozentig verstehen

    English-German students dictionary > in

  • 12 Shaw, Percy

    [br]
    b. 1889 Yorkshire, England d. 1975
    [br]
    English inventor of the "catseye" reflecting roadstud.
    [br]
    Little is known of Shaw's youth, but in the 1930s he was running a comparatively successful business repairing roads. One evening in 1933, he was driving to his home in Halifax, West Yorkshire; it was late, dark and foggy and only the reflection of his headlights from the tram-tracks guided him and kept him on the road. He decided to find or make an alternative to tramlines, which were not universal and by that time were being taken up as trams were being replaced with diesel buses.
    Shaw needed a place to work and bought the old Boothtown Mansion, a cloth-merchant's house built in the mid-eighteenth century. There he devoted himself to the production of a prototype of the reflecting roadstud, inspired by the reflective nature of a cat's eyes. Shaw's design consisted of a prism backed by an aluminium mirror, set in pairs in a rubber casing; when traffic passed over the stud, the prisms would be wiped clean as the casing was depressed. In 1934, Shaw obtained permission from the county surveyor to lay, at his own expense, a short stretch of catseyes on a main highway near his home: fifty were laid at Brightlington cross-roads, an accident blackspot near Bradford. This was inspected by a number of surveyors in 1936. The first order for catseyes had already been placed in 1935, for a pedestrian crossing in Baldon, Yorkshire. There were alternative designs in existence, particularly in France, and in 1937 the Ministry of Transport laid an 8 km (5 mile) stretch in Oxfordshire with sample lengths of different types of studs. After two years, most of them had fractured, become displaced or ceased to reflect; only the product of Shaw's company, Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd, was still in perfect condition. The outbreak of the Second World War brought blackout regulations, which caused a great boost to sales of reflecting roadstuds; orders reached some 40,000 per week. Production was limited, however, due to the shortage of rubber supplies after the Japanese overran South-East Asia; until the end of the war, only about 12,000 catseyes were produced a year.
    Over fifty million catseyes have been installed in Britain, where on average there are about two hundred and fifty catseyes in each kilometre of road, if laid in a single line. The success of Shaw's invention brought him great wealth, although he continued to live in the same house, without curtains—which obstructed his view—or carpets—which harboured odours and germs. He had three Rolls-Royce cars, and four television sets which were permanently switched on while he was at home, each tuned to a different channel.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    OBE 1965.
    Further Reading
    E.de Bono (ed.), 1979, Eureka, London: Thames \& Hudson.
    "Percy's bright idea", En Route (the magazine of the Caravan Club), reprinted in The Police Review, 23 March 1983.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Shaw, Percy

  • 13 Szilard, Leo

    SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour
    [br]
    b. 11 February 1898 Budapest, Hungary
    d. 30 May 1964 La Jolla, California, USA
    [br]
    Hungarian (naturalized American in 1943) nuclear-and biophysicist.
    [br]
    The son of an engineer, Szilard, after service in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, studied electrical engineering at the University of Berlin. Obtaining his doctorate there in 1922, he joined the faculty and concentrated his studies on thermodynamics. He later began to develop an interest in nuclear physics, and in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, Szilard emigrated to Britain because of his Jewish heritage.
    In 1934 he conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction through the breakdown of beryllium into helium and took out a British patent on it, but later realized that this process would not work. In 1937 he moved to the USA and continued his research at the University of Columbia, and the following year Hahn and Meitner discovered nuclear fission with uranium; this gave Szilard the breakthrough he needed. In 1939 he realized that a nuclear chain reaction could be produced through nuclear fission and that a weapon with many times the destructive power of the conventional high-explosive bomb could be produced. Only too aware of the progress being made by German nuclear scientists, he believed that it was essential that the USA should create an atomic bomb before Hitler. Consequently he drafted a letter to President Roosevelt that summer and, with two fellow Hungarian émigrés, persuaded Albert Einstein to sign it. The result was the setting up of the Uranium Committee.
    It was not, however, until December 1941 that active steps began to be taken to produce such a weapon and it was a further nine months before the project was properly co-ordinated under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project. In the meantime, Szilard moved to join Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and it was here, at the end of 1942, in a squash court under the football stadium, that they successfully developed the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reactor. Szilard, who became an American citizen in 1943, continued to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, however, when the Western Allies began to believe that only the atomic bomb could bring the war against Japan to an end, Szilard and a number of other Manhattan Project scientists objected that it would be immoral to use it against populated targets.
    Although he would continue to campaign against nuclear warfare for the rest of his life, Szilard now abandoned nuclear research. In 1946 he became Professor of Biophysics at the University of Chicago and devoted himself to experimental work on bacterial mutations and biochemical mechanisms, as well as theoretical research on ageing and memory.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Atoms for Peace award 1959.
    Further Reading
    Kosta Tsipis, 1985, Understanding Nuclear Weapons, London: Wildwood House, pp. 16–19, 26, 28, 32 (a brief account of his work on the atomic bomb).
    A collection of his correspondence and memories was brought out by Spencer Weart and Gertrud W.Szilard in 1978.
    CM

    Biographical history of technology > Szilard, Leo

  • 14 wrong

    rɔŋ
    1. сущ.
    1) неправда;
    заблуждение, ошибочность Is anything wrong with the documents? ≈ Разве что-нибудь не в порядке с документами? do wrong be in the wrong Syn: untruth, lie
    2) а) зло;
    несправедливость б) юр. правонарушение Syn: injustice, unfairness, sin
    2. прил.
    1) неправильный, ошибочный;
    несправедливый be quite wrong
    2) неподходящий;
    несоответствующий
    3) изнаночный( о стороне) wrong side out wrong side foremost
    4) неисправный, сломаный ∙ go wrong
    3. нареч. неверно, неправильно
    4. гл.
    1) вредить;
    причинять зло, обижать Syn: abuse, maltreat, oppress, persecute Ant: favour, help, nurse, protect, uphold
    2) быть несправедливым (к кому-л.) ;
    приписывать дурные побуждения (кому-л.) Syn: mistreat вред;
    зло;
    обида - right and * добро и зло - to make * right называть черное белым - to right a * исправить зло неправда;
    неправильность;
    ошибочность несправедливость;
    неправомерность;
    неоправданность (юридическое) правонарушение, деликт - private *s нарушения законных прав и интересов частных лиц - public *s нарушения государственных или общественных прав и интересов > the king can do no * (юридическое) король не несет ответственности( за политику кабинета при конституционной монархии) > to be in the * быть неправым, ошибаться;
    быть виновным > to acknowledge oneself in the * признать свою ошибку /вину/ > the dead are always * (пословица) мертвые всегда виноваты;
    на мертвых все можно свалить > to do * to smb. быть несправедливым к кому-л., обидеть кого-л.;
    неправильно судить о ком-л. > to suffer * терпеть обиду /несправедливость/ > to labour under a sense of * действовать под влиянием обиды;
    считать себя обиженным /обойденным/ неправильный, неверный, ошибочный;
    ложный - * answer неверный ответ - * decision неправильное решение - * hypothesis ошибочная гипотеза - * statement неправильное заявление - * ideas ложные представления - * note (музыкальное) фальшивая нота - * use of a word неправильное употребление слова - a * move неверный шаг;
    неудачный /ошибочный/ ход( в шахматах и т. п.) - to put smb. on the * track пустить кого-л. по ложному следу - to be on the * track /scent/ идти по ложному следу - to be * ошибаться;
    быть неправым в чем-л. - that's just where you are * в этом как раз и состоит ваша ошибка неподходящий, несоответствующий;
    не тот, который нужен - to take the * turning свернуть не туда, куда нужно - to swallow the * way подавиться - to get the * number не туда попасть (по телефону) - sorry, * number! вы не туда попали!;
    простите, я не туда попал! - to drive on the * side of the road ехать по полосе встречного движения - you've been given the * number /connection/ вас неправильно соединили - you're doing it in the * way вы делаете это не так, как нужно - you've brought the * book вы принесли не ту книгу - we got into the * train мы сели не в тот поезд - at the * time в неподходящее время;
    не в назначенное время - it went the * way не в то горло попало (о еде) - quite the * dress for the hot weather совершенно неподходящее платье для жаркой погоды - this is the * hat for you эта шляпа вам не идет неуместный - to laugh in the * place засмеяться некстати - that was the * thing to say этого говорить не следовало;
    это было очень неудачно /неуместно/ сказано дурной;
    порочный, аморальный;
    неэтичный - he thought war was * он считал войну злом - you were * to borrow his bicycle without asking his permission ты поступил непорядочно, взяв его велосипед без разрешения несправедливый;
    неоправданный - * act (юридическое) неправомерное действие неудовлетворительный - what's * with you? что с вами?, что у вас случилось? - I hope there is nothing * надеюсь, ничего( неприятного) не произошло - there's something * with his nerves у него неважно /неладно/ с нервами - there is something * with me мне что-то не по себе, мне нездоровится - * in the head (разговорное) психически неуравновешенный;
    с приветом неисправный - something is * with the machinery механизм неисправен - there's something * somewhere здесь что-то не так - my watch is * мои часы идут неточно - this watch goes two minutes *, either way часы то отстают, то спешат на две минуты левый, изнаночный ( о стороне) - * side out наизнанку (полиграфия) чужой( о шрифте) - * fount "чужой" (указание в корректуре) > not far * почти верный > you are not far * да, это почти так;
    вы в основном правы > * side up вверх дном > to get out of bed on the * side встать с левой ноги > to be born on the * side of the tracks родиться в бедной семье, выйти из низов > to be on smb.'s * side не пользоваться расположением кого-л. > on the * side of forty за сорок (лет) > to get off on the * foot неудачно начать;
    произвести плохое впечатление > to have hold of the * end of the stick неправильно понять, превратно истолковать, извратить( что-л.) > to be in the * box быть в затруднительном или ложном положении > what's * with it? чем это плохо?, почему это не подходит?;
    почему бы не...;
    что же тут такого? > what's * with a cup of tea? почему бы не выпить чашку чая? > to stroke the cat the * way гладить кошку против шерсти неправильно, неверно, ошибочно - to guess * ошибиться в догадке - to answer * ответить неправильно /неверно/ - you led me * вы ввели меня в заблуждение - you've got it * вы просчитались;
    вы неправильно /не так/ поняли - don't get me * (разговорное) поймите меня правильно предосудительно;
    неподобающе - embarrassment made him act * от смущения он делал не то, что следовало дурно, плохо;
    несправедливо - it would be * to punish him будет несправедливо наказывать его в неправильном направлении - he turned * at the junction на перекрестке он повернул не в ту сторону > to go * сбиться с пути( истинного) ;
    провалиться;
    не выйти, не получиться;
    выйти из строя;
    начать работать с перебоями( о механизме и т. п.) ;
    испортиться > a girl who has gone * сбившаяся с пути девушка > everything went * все вышло не так (как было задумано) > all our plans went * все наши замыслы провалились > his watch has gone * его часы стали шалить > my digestion has gone * у меня неладно с пищеварением > to get in * with smb. попасть к кому-л. в немилость > to get smb. in * подвести кого-л., поставить кого-л. под удар, подставить кого-л. быть несправедливым (к кому-л.) ;
    приписывать дурные побуждения (кому-л.) - he *ed me when he said I was envious он без всяких оснований обвинил меня в зависти вредить, причинять зло;
    обижать позорить, бесчестить обесчестить( женщину) ;
    соблазнить, совратить (of) отнимать;
    лишать (обманом, силой) нанести телесное повреждение ~ не тот (который нужен) ;
    несоответствующий;
    at the wrong time в неподходящее время I can prove you ~ я могу доказать, что вы неправы;
    to be quite wrong жестоко ошибаться be ~ быть неправым be ~ ошибаться ~ неправда;
    неправильность, ошибочность, заблуждение;
    to do wrong заблуждаться;
    грешить;
    to be in the wrong быть неправым to go ~ не удаваться;
    everything went wrong все шло не так to go ~ выйти из строя( о машине и т. п.) ;
    to get hold of the wrong end of the stick неправильно понять, превратно истолковать (что-л.) to get off on the ~ foot произвести плохое впечатление;
    неудачно начать;
    on the wrong side of 40 за сорок (лет) to go ~ выйти из строя (о машине и т. п.) ;
    to get hold of the wrong end of the stick неправильно понять, превратно истолковать (что-л.) to go ~ не удаваться;
    everything went wrong все шло не так to go ~ сбиться с пути истинного, согрешить;
    опуститься (морально) he took the ~ street он пошел не по той улице;
    to talk to the wrong man обращаться не по адресу I can prove you ~ я могу доказать, что вы неправы;
    to be quite wrong жестоко ошибаться ~ неправильно, неверно;
    I'm afraid you got me wrong боюсь, вы меня не так поняли legal ~ правонарушение ~ неисправный;
    something is wrong with the motor мотор неисправен;
    my liver is wrong у меня что-то не в порядке с печенью ~ неправильный, ошибочный;
    the whole calculation is wrong весь расчет неверен;
    my watch is wrong мои часы неверны to get off on the ~ foot произвести плохое впечатление;
    неудачно начать;
    on the wrong side of 40 за сорок (лет) public ~ вред публичного характера public ~ преступление public ~ уголовно наказуемое деяние ~ зло;
    несправедливость;
    обида;
    to put (smb.) in the wrong свалить вину (на кого-л.) ~ неисправный;
    something is wrong with the motor мотор неисправен;
    my liver is wrong у меня что-то не в порядке с печенью he took the ~ street он пошел не по той улице;
    to talk to the wrong man обращаться не по адресу what's ~ with it ~ почему бы не...;
    what's wrong with a cup of coffee? почему бы не выпить чашечку кофе? what's ~ with it ~ почему бы не...;
    what's wrong with a cup of coffee? почему бы не выпить чашечку кофе? what's ~ with it ~ почему это вам не нравится или не подходит? what's ~ with it ~ что же тут такого? ~ неправильный, ошибочный;
    the whole calculation is wrong весь расчет неверен;
    my watch is wrong мои часы неверны wrong быть несправедливым (к кому-л.) ;
    приписывать дурные побуждения (кому-л.) ~ вред ~ вредить;
    причинять зло, обижать ~ деликт ~ дурной, несправедливый ~ зло;
    несправедливость;
    обида;
    to put (smb.) in the wrong свалить вину (на кого-л.) ~ левый, изнаночный (о стороне) ;
    wrong side out наизнанку;
    wrong side foremost задом наперед ~ нарушение законных прав ~ не тот (который нужен) ;
    несоответствующий;
    at the wrong time в неподходящее время ~ неисправный;
    something is wrong with the motor мотор неисправен;
    my liver is wrong у меня что-то не в порядке с печенью ~ неправда;
    неправильность, ошибочность, заблуждение;
    to do wrong заблуждаться;
    грешить;
    to be in the wrong быть неправым ~ неправда ~ неправильно, неверно;
    I'm afraid you got me wrong боюсь, вы меня не так поняли ~ неправильный, ошибочный;
    the whole calculation is wrong весь расчет неверен;
    my watch is wrong мои часы неверны ~ неправильный ~ несправедливый ~ ошибочность ~ ошибочный ~ юр. правонарушение ~ правонарушение, деликт, вред ~ правонарушение ~ причинять вред ~ левый, изнаночный (о стороне) ;
    wrong side out наизнанку;
    wrong side foremost задом наперед ~ левый, изнаночный (о стороне) ;
    wrong side out наизнанку;
    wrong side foremost задом наперед

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > wrong

  • 15 have

    have [hæv]
    verbe auxiliaire ⇒ 1 avoir ⇒ 1, 2A (a)-(c), 2B (b)-(e), 2C (a), 2C (b), 2F (a), 2F (d), 2F (h), 2F (i) être ⇒ 1 posséder ⇒ 2A (a) disposer de ⇒ 2A (b) prendre ⇒ 2B (c) passer ⇒ 2B (d) recevoir ⇒ 2C (a), 2C (b) vouloir ⇒ 2C (c), 2F (f) tenir ⇒ 2D (a) faire faire ⇒ 2E (b), 2E (c) placer ⇒ 2F (b) devoir ⇒ 2G (a), 2G (b) concerner ⇒ 2G (c)
    ⓘ GRAM Les formes négatives, haven't et hasn't, s'écrivent have not and has not dans un style plus soutenu.
    ⓘ GRAM Most French verbs will conjugate with avoir to form the perfect tense. However, all reflexive verbs and many intransitive verbs - mainly of motion - will conjugate with être.
    (3rd pers sing pres has [hæz], pt & pp had [hæd])
    ∎ to have finished avoir fini;
    ∎ to have left être parti;
    ∎ to have sat down s'être assis;
    ∎ to have been/had avoir été/eu;
    ∎ has she slept? a-t-elle dormi?;
    ∎ have they arrived? sont-ils arrivés?;
    ∎ he has been ill il a été malade;
    ∎ when you've calmed down quand vous vous serez calmé;
    ∎ I will have forgotten by next week j'aurai oublié d'ici la semaine prochaine;
    ∎ the children will have gone to bed by the time we arrive les enfants seront couchés quand nous arriverons;
    ∎ you were silly not to have accepted tu es bête de ne pas avoir accepté;
    ∎ after or when you have finished, you may leave quand vous aurez fini, vous pourrez partir;
    ∎ she was ashamed of having lied elle avait honte d'avoir menti;
    ∎ she felt she couldn't change her mind, having already agreed to go elle sentait qu'elle ne pouvait pas changer d'avis, étant donné qu'elle avait dit être d'accord pour y aller;
    ∎ I have been thinking j'ai réfléchi;
    ∎ he has been working here for two months il travaille ici depuis deux mois, il y a deux mois qu'il travaille ici;
    ∎ I have known her for three years/since childhood je la connais depuis trois ans/depuis mon enfance;
    ∎ I had known her for years cela faisait des années que je la connaissais, je la connaissais depuis des années;
    ∎ she claimed she hadn't heard the news elle a prétendu ne pas avoir entendu la nouvelle;
    ∎ I had already gone to bed when he arrived j'étais déjà couché quand il est arrivé;
    ∎ we had gone to bed early nous nous étions couchés de bonne heure;
    ∎ when he had given his speech, I left une fois qu'il eut terminé son discours, je partis;
    ∎ had I known, I wouldn't have insisted si j'avais su, je n'aurais pas insisté;
    ∎ if I had known, I wouldn't have said anything si j'avais su, je n'aurais rien dit;
    ∎ they would have been happy if it hadn't been for the war ils auraient vécu heureux si la guerre n'était pas survenue;
    ∎ why don't you just leave him and have done with it? pourquoi donc est-ce que vous ne le quittez pas, pour en finir?;
    ∎ I'd as soon not j'aimerais mieux pas;
    ∎ he'd rather or sooner stay at home than go out dancing il aimerait mieux rester ou il préférerait rester à la maison qu'aller danser;
    ∎ familiar he's had it (is in trouble) il est fichu ou foutu; (is worn out) il est à bout;
    ∎ familiar I've had it with all your complaining! j'en ai jusque-là de tes jérémiades!;
    ∎ familiar I've had it up to here with him j'en ai jusque-là de ce type-là;
    ∎ familiar the car has just about had it la voiture va bientôt rendre l'âme;
    ∎ familiar this plant has had it cette plante est fichue
    ∎ have you ever had the measles? - yes, I have/no, I haven't avez-vous eu la rougeole? - oui/non;
    ∎ she hasn't finished - yes, she has! elle n'a pas fini - (mais) si!;
    ∎ you've forgotten his birthday - no, I haven't! tu as oublié son anniversaire - mais non!;
    ∎ have you ever considered going into politics? if you have.../if you haven't… avez-vous déjà envisagé de rentrer dans la vie politique? si oui…/si non…;
    ∎ you've forgotten your gloves - so I have! vous avez oublié vos gants - en effet! ou tiens, c'est vrai!
    ∎ you've read 'Hamlet', haven't you? vous avez lu 'Hamlet', n'est-ce pas?;
    ∎ he hasn't arrived, has he? il n'est pas arrivé, si?;
    ∎ so she's got a new job, has she? elle a changé de travail alors?
    A.
    (a) (be in possession of, own) avoir, posséder;
    ∎ do you have or have you got a car? avez-vous une voiture?;
    ∎ they have (got) a lot of friends/money ils ont beaucoup d'amis/d'argent;
    ∎ they don't have or they haven't got any more ils n'en ont plus;
    ∎ she shares everything she has (got) with them elle partage tout ce qu'elle a avec eux;
    ∎ he has (got) £10 left il lui reste 10 livres;
    ∎ we have (got) six of them left il nous en reste six;
    ∎ do you have or have you got any children? if you have... avez-vous des enfants? si vous en avez ou si oui...;
    ∎ they have (got) a 50 percent interest in the business ils ont ou détiennent 50 pour cent des intérêts dans l'affaire;
    ∎ I have (got) a lot of work to finish j'ai beaucoup de travail à finir;
    ∎ do we have or have we got any milk in the house? est-ce qu'on a du lait ou est-ce qu'il y a du lait à la maison?;
    ∎ she has (got) a baker's shop/bookshop elle tient une boulangerie/librairie;
    ∎ do you have or have you got the time? avez-vous l'heure?;
    ∎ he doesn't have or hasn't got a job il n'a pas de travail, il est sans travail;
    ∎ we have (got) a deadline to meet nous avons un délai à respecter;
    ∎ I've got it! ça y est, j'ai trouvé ou j'y suis!;
    ∎ paper, envelopes and what have you du papier, des enveloppes et je ne sais quoi encore;
    ∎ proverb you can't have your cake and eat it on ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre;
    ∎ familiar give it all you have or all you've got! mets-y le paquet!
    (b) (enjoy the use of) avoir, disposer de;
    ∎ we had a couple of hours to do our errands nous disposions de ou nous avions quelques heures pour faire nos courses;
    ∎ I don't have time or I haven't got time to stop for lunch je n'ai pas le temps de m'arrêter pour déjeuner;
    ∎ he has (got) a month to finish il a un mois pour finir;
    ∎ he hasn't (got) long to live il ne lui reste pas longtemps à vivre;
    ∎ do you have or have you (got) a minute (to spare)? tu as une minute?;
    ∎ she had the house to herself elle avait la maison pour elle toute seule;
    ∎ such questions have an important place in our lives ce genre de questions occupe une place importante dans notre vie;
    ∎ he has (got) nothing to do/to read il n'a rien à faire/à lire
    ∎ she has (got) red hair elle a les cheveux roux, elle est rousse;
    ∎ you have (got) beautiful eyes tu as de beaux yeux;
    ∎ the ticket has (got) a name on it il y a un nom sur le billet;
    ∎ to have good taste avoir bon goût;
    ∎ to have a bad temper avoir mauvais caractère;
    ∎ she has (got) a reputation for being difficult elle a la réputation d'être difficile;
    ∎ the house has (got) a beautiful view of the mountains de la maison, on a une belle vue sur les montagnes;
    ∎ she has (got) what it takes or she has it in her to succeed elle a ce qu'il faut pour réussir;
    ∎ you've never had it so good! vous n'avez jamais eu la vie si belle!;
    ∎ familiar he really has it bad for Emma il a complètement craqué pour Emma
    ∎ do you have or have you got any experience of teaching? avez-vous déjà enseigné?;
    ∎ she has (got) a clear sense of what matters elle sait très bien ce qui est important;
    ∎ he has some Greek and Latin il connaît un peu le grec et le latin;
    ∎ I have a little Spanish je parle un peu espagnol
    B.
    ∎ to have a dream/nightmare faire un rêve/cauchemar;
    ∎ I have no regrets je n'ai aucun regret ou pas de regrets;
    ∎ I didn't have any trouble in finding it je n'ai eu aucune peine à le trouver;
    ∎ we have (got) nothing or we don't have anything against dogs on n'a rien contre les chiens;
    ∎ I've had my appendix out je me suis fait opérer de l'appendicite;
    ∎ he had all his money stolen il s'est fait voler ou on lui a volé tout son argent;
    ∎ I love having my back rubbed j'adore qu'on me frotte le dos;
    ∎ they had some strange things happen to them il leur est arrivé de drôles de choses
    (b) (be infected with, suffer from) avoir;
    ∎ to have a cold avoir un rhume, être enrhumé;
    ∎ do you have or have you got a headache? avez-vous mal à la tête?;
    ∎ he has (got) problems with his back il a des problèmes de dos
    (c) (perform, take part in → bath, lesson) prendre; (→ meeting) avoir;
    ∎ we had our first argument last night nous nous sommes disputés hier soir pour la première fois;
    ∎ to have a stroll se promener, faire un tour;
    ∎ I want to have a think about it je veux y réfléchir;
    ∎ to have a party (organize) organiser une fête; (celebrate) faire la fête;
    ∎ I'll have no part in it je refuse de m'en mêler
    (d) (pass, spend) passer, avoir;
    ∎ I had a horrible day at work j'ai passé une journée atroce au travail;
    ∎ have a nice day! bonne journée!;
    ∎ to have a good time s'amuser;
    ∎ did you have a good time? c'était bien?, tu t'es bien amusé?;
    ∎ a good time was had by all tout le monde s'est bien amusé;
    ∎ she's had a hard time of it lately elle vient de traverser une mauvaise passe
    (e) (exhibit, show) avoir, montrer;
    ∎ have mercy on us! ayez pitié de nous!;
    ∎ he had the nerve to refuse il a eu le culot de refuser;
    ∎ he didn't even have the decency to apologize il n'a même pas eu la décence de s'excuser
    C.
    (a) (obtain, receive) avoir, recevoir;
    ∎ I'd like him to have this picture j'aimerais lui donner cette photo;
    ∎ I'd like to have your advice on something j'aimerais que vous me donniez un conseil à propos de quelque chose;
    ∎ we had a phone call from the mayor nous avons reçu ou eu un coup de fil du maire;
    ∎ they've still had no news of the lost plane ils n'ont toujours pas de nouvelles de l'avion (qui a) disparu;
    ∎ I have it on good authority je le tiens de bonne source;
    ∎ I must have your answer by tomorrow il me faut votre réponse pour demain;
    ∎ let me have your answer by next week donnez-moi votre réponse avant la semaine prochaine;
    ∎ let me have your keys donne-moi tes clefs;
    ∎ let me have the book back when you've finished rends-moi le livre quand tu auras fini;
    ∎ she let them have the wardrobe for £300 elle leur a laissé ou cédé l'armoire pour 300 livres;
    ∎ there are plenty of flats to be had il y a plein d'appartements;
    ∎ familiar I let him have it (attacked him) je lui ai réglé son compte; (told him off) je lui ai passé un savon;
    ∎ familiar you had it coming! tu ne l'as pas volé!
    (b) (invite) recevoir, avoir;
    ∎ she's having some people (over) for or to dinner elle reçoit ou elle a du monde à dîner;
    ∎ let's have him round for a drink et si on l'invitait à prendre un pot?;
    ∎ did you have any visitors? avez-vous eu de la visite?;
    ∎ after the movie we had them back for coffee après le cinéma, nous les avons invités à venir prendre le café chez nous
    (c) (accept, take) vouloir;
    ∎ he'd like to marry but nobody will have him! il aimerait se marier mais personne ne veut de lui!;
    ∎ do what you want, I'm having nothing more to do with your schemes fais ce que tu veux, je ne veux plus être mêlé à tes combines
    D.
    (a) (clutch) tenir;
    ∎ to have sb in one's power avoir qn en son pouvoir;
    ∎ the teacher had (got) him by the arm/the ear le maître le tenait par le bras/l'oreille;
    ∎ he had (got) his assailant by the throat il tenait son agresseur à la gorge
    ∎ you have me there! là vous me tenez!;
    ∎ I have (got) you right where I want you now! je vous tiens!;
    ∎ Sport the Bears have it! les Bears ont gagné!
    (c) (bewilder, perplex)
    ∎ who won? - you've got me there qui a gagné? - là, tu me poses une colle
    E.
    ∎ the news had me worried la nouvelle m'a inquiété;
    ∎ I'll have this light fixed in a minute j'en ai pour une minute à réparer cette lampe;
    ∎ we'll have everything ready tout sera prêt
    (b) (with past participle) (cause to be done) to have sth done faire faire qch;
    ∎ I had my hair cut je me suis fait couper les cheveux;
    ∎ we must have the curtains cleaned nous devons faire nettoyer les rideaux ou donner les rideaux à nettoyer;
    ∎ three houses had their windows shattered trois maisons ont eu leurs fenêtres brisées;
    ∎ she had coffee brought up to the room elle a fait monter du café dans la chambre;
    ∎ I had my watch stolen je me suis fait voler ma montre
    (c) (with infinitive) (cause to do) to have sb do sth faire faire qch à qn;
    ∎ she had him invite all the neighbours round elle lui a fait inviter tous les voisins;
    ∎ have them come in faites-les entrer;
    ∎ the boss had him up to his office le patron l'a convoqué dans son bureau;
    ∎ he soon had them all laughing il eut tôt fait de les faire tous rire;
    ∎ I had the children go to bed early j'ai couché les enfants de bonne heure;
    ∎ as he would have us believe comme il voudrait nous le faire croire
    F.
    (a) (consume → food, meal) avoir, prendre;
    ∎ we were having lunch nous étions en train de déjeuner;
    ∎ we're having dinner out tonight nous sortons dîner ce soir;
    ∎ to have breakfast in bed prendre le petit déjeuner au lit;
    ∎ would you like to have coffee? voulez-vous (prendre) un café?;
    ∎ do you have coffee or tea in the morning? prenez-vous du café ou du thé le matin?;
    ∎ I had tea with her j'ai pris le thé avec elle;
    ∎ we stopped and had a drink nous nous sommes arrêtés pour boire quelque chose;
    ∎ what will you have? - I'll have the lamb (in restaurant) qu'est-ce que vous prenez? - je vais prendre de l'agneau;
    ∎ we had fish for dinner nous avons mangé ou eu du poisson au dîner;
    ∎ he always has a cigarette after dinner il fume toujours une cigarette après le dîner;
    ∎ will you have a cigarette? voulez-vous une cigarette?
    (b) (indicating location, position) placer, mettre;
    ∎ we'll have the wardrobe here and the table in there nous mettrons l'armoire ici et la table par là;
    ∎ she had her arm around his shoulders elle avait mis le bras autour de ses épaules;
    ∎ I had my back to the window je tournais le dos à la fenêtre;
    ∎ he had his head down il avait la tête baissée
    ∎ she had her mother with her sa mère était avec elle;
    ∎ I can't talk right now, I have someone with me je ne peux pas parler, je ne suis pas seul ou je suis avec quelqu'un
    ∎ she's had a baby elle a eu un bébé;
    ∎ she had her baby last week elle a accouché la semaine dernière;
    ∎ she's going to have a baby elle attend ou elle va avoir un bébé;
    ∎ he's had three children by her il a eu trois enfants d'elle;
    ∎ our dog has just had puppies notre chien vient d'avoir des petits
    (e) (assert, claim) soutenir, maintenir;
    ∎ public opinion has it that he is not telling the truth on pense généralement qu'il ne dit pas la vérité;
    ∎ rumour has it that they're married le bruit court qu'ils sont mariés;
    ∎ as the government would have it comme dirait le gouvernement;
    ∎ as Plato has it comme dit Platon, comme l'a écrit Platon
    (f) (with "will" or "would") (wish for) vouloir;
    ∎ what would you have me do? que voudriez-vous que je fasse?;
    ∎ I'll have you know I have a degree in French je vous fais remarquer que j'ai une licence de français
    (g) (in negative) (allow, permit) I will not have him in my house! il ne mettra pas les pieds chez moi!;
    ∎ I won't have it! ça ne va pas se passer comme ça!;
    ∎ we can't have you sleeping on the floor nous ne pouvons pas vous laisser dormir par terre;
    ∎ familiar we tried to give the dog a bath but he wasn't having any of it! nous avons essayé de donner un bain au chien, mais rien n'y a fait!;
    ∎ familiar I'm not having any of your nonsense pas de bêtises
    (h) (in passive) familiar (cheat, outwit) avoir;
    ∎ you've been had! tu t'es fait avoir!
    G.
    (a) (with infinitive) (indicating obligation) to have (got) to do sth devoir faire qch, être obligé de faire qch;
    ∎ do you have to or have you got to leave so soon? êtes-vous obligé de partir ou faut-il que vous partiez si tôt?;
    ∎ I have (got) to go to the meeting il faut que j'aille ou je dois aller ou je suis obligé d'aller à la réunion;
    ∎ don't you have to or haven't you got to phone the office? est-ce que tu ne dois pas appeler le bureau?;
    ∎ he'll do it if he's got to il le fera s'il est obligé de le faire;
    ∎ you don't have to or you haven't got to go tu n'es pas obligé d'y aller;
    ∎ we had to take physics at school nous étions obligés de suivre des cours de physique à l'école;
    ∎ she had to take a blood test elle a été obligée de ou elle a dû faire un examen sanguin;
    ∎ I hate having to get up early j'ai horreur de devoir me lever tôt;
    ∎ I won't apologize - you have to je ne m'excuserai pas - il le faut;
    ∎ you've got to be joking! vous plaisantez!, c'est une plaisanterie!;
    ∎ you didn't have to tell your father what happened! tu n'avais pas besoin d'aller dire à ton père ce qui s'est passé!;
    ∎ ironic the train WOULD have to be late today of all days! il fallait que le train soit en retard aujourd'hui!;
    ∎ familiar that has (got) to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard! ça doit être l'idée la plus idiote que j'aie jamais entendue!
    (b) (with infinitive) (indicating necessity) devoir;
    ∎ you have (got) to get some rest il faut que vous vous reposiez, vous devez vous reposer;
    ∎ I'll have to think about it il va falloir que j'y réfléchisse;
    ∎ I have (got) to know il faut que je le sache;
    ∎ we have to be careful about what we say on doit faire attention ou il faut qu'on fasse attention à ce qu'on dit;
    ∎ some problems still have to or have still got to be worked out il reste encore des problèmes à résoudre;
    ∎ if you finish the report this evening you won't have to come in to work tomorrow si vous finissez le rapport ce soir, vous n'aurez pas besoin de venir travailler demain;
    ∎ first the potatoes have (got) to be washed il faut d'abord laver les pommes de terre;
    ∎ I don't like housework but it has (got) to be done je n'aime pas faire le ménage mais il faut bien que quelqu'un le fasse;
    ∎ the plumbing has (got) to be redone la plomberie a besoin d'être refaite;
    ∎ you'd have to be deaf not to hear that noise il faudrait être sourd pour ne pas entendre ce bruit;
    ∎ do you have to turn the music up so loud? vous ne pourriez pas baisser un peu la musique?
    (c) (with "to do") (idioms) the book has to do with archaeology ce livre traite de l'archéologie;
    ∎ their argument had to do with money ils se disputaient à propos d'argent;
    ∎ this has nothing to do with you ça ne te concerne ou regarde pas;
    ∎ I'll have nothing more to do with her je ne veux plus avoir affaire à elle;
    ∎ they had nothing to do with her being fired ils n'avaient rien à voir avec son licenciement
    ∎ the haves les riches mpl, les nantis mpl;
    ∎ the haves and the have-nots les riches mpl et les pauvres mpl, les nantis mpl et les démunis mpl
    (keep available) garder ou avoir sous la main;
    ∎ I have the documents around somewhere les documents sont là quelque part, j'ai les documents quelque part;
    ∎ she's a useful person to have around il est bon de l'avoir sous la main;
    ∎ I don't like having children around je n'aime pas la compagnie des enfants
    British Fencing attaquer
    ∎ to have it away (with sb) s'envoyer en l'air (avec qn)
    (invite from upstairs, the north) inviter;
    ∎ we're having his family down for the weekend sa famille vient passer le week-end chez nous
    (a) (cause to enter) faire entrer;
    ∎ she had him in for a chat elle l'a fait entrer pour discuter
    ∎ to have friends in for a drink inviter des amis à prendre un pot
    (c) (doctor, workman) faire venir;
    ∎ we had to have the doctor in nous avons dû faire venir le médecin;
    ∎ they've got workmen in at the moment ils ont des ouvriers en ce moment
    ∎ to have it in for sb avoir une dent contre qn;
    ∎ they had it in for me from the day I arrived ils en ont eu après moi dès mon arrivée
    (a) (remove) retirer;
    ∎ the barber nearly had my ear off le coiffeur a failli me couper l'oreille
    (b) (have removed) faire retirer;
    ∎ she's having the plaster off next week on lui retire son plâtre la semaine prochaine
    ∎ to have it off (with sb) s'envoyer en l'air (avec qn)
    (a) (wear) porter;
    ∎ what does she have on? qu'est-ce qu'elle porte?, comment est-elle habillée?;
    ∎ she had her black dress on elle avait ou portait sa robe noire;
    ∎ the child had nothing on l'enfant était tout nu
    (b) (radio, television)
    ∎ have you got the radio on? avez-vous allumé la radio?, est-ce que la radio est allumée?;
    ∎ he has the radio/television on all night sa radio/sa télévision est allumée toute la nuit
    (c) (commitment, engagement)
    ∎ we have a lot on today nous avons beaucoup à faire aujourd'hui;
    ∎ do you have anything on for tonight? avez-vous des projets pour ou êtes-vous pris ce soir?;
    ∎ I have nothing on for the weekend je n'ai rien de prévu ce week-end
    (d) British familiar (tease, trick) faire marcher;
    ∎ you're having me on! tu me fais marcher!;
    ∎ I was only having you on c'était juste pour te faire marcher
    ∎ they have nothing on me ils n'ont aucune preuve contre moi;
    ∎ the police have nothing on him la police n'a rien sur lui
    (a) (tooth) se faire arracher
    ∎ to have it out with sb s'expliquer avec qn;
    ∎ she had it or the matter or the whole thing out with him elle a eu une longue explication avec lui;
    ∎ let's have this out once and for all mettons les choses au point une fois pour toutes
    (invite) inviter
    ∎ I'll have you up for blackmail je vais vous poursuivre (en justice) pour chantage;
    ∎ they were had up by the police for vandalism ils ont été arrêtés pour vandalisme;
    ∎ he was had up (before the court) for breaking and entering il a comparu (devant le tribunal) pour effraction
    (b) (invite from downstairs, the south) inviter;
    ∎ he had them up (to his flat) for tea il les a invités à venir prendre le thé;
    ∎ we're having them up from London for the weekend il sont venus nous voir de Londres pour le week-end
    ✾ Film 'To Have and Have Not' Hawks 'Le Port de l'angoisse'

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  • 16 Sopwith, Sir Thomas (Tommy) Octave Murdoch

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 18 January 1888 London, England
    d. 27 January 1989 Stockbridge, Hampshire, England
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    English aeronautical engineer and industrialist.
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    Son of a successful mining engineer, Sopwith did not shine at school and, having been turned down by the Royal Navy as a result, attended an engineering college. His first interest was motor cars and, while still in his teens, he set up a business in London with a friend in order to sell them; he also took part in races and rallies.
    Sopwith's interest in aviation came initially through ballooning, and in 1906 he purchased his own balloon. Four years later, inspired by the recent flights across the Channel to France and after a joy-ride at Brooklands, he bought an Avis monoplane, followed by a larger biplane, and taught himself to fly. He was awarded the Royal Aero Society's Aviator Certificate No. 31 on 21 November 1910, and he quickly distinguished himself in flying competitions on both sides of the Atlantic and started his own flying school. In his races he was ably supported by his friend Fred Sigrist, a former motor engineer. Among the people Sopwith taught to fly were an Australian, Harry Hawker, and Major Hugh Trenchard, who later became the "father" of the RAF.
    In 1912, depressed by the poor quality of the aircraft on trial for the British Army, Sopwith, in conjunction with Hawker and Sigrist, bought a skating rink in Kingston-upon-Thames and, assisted by Fred Sigrist, started to design and build his first aircraft, the Sopwith Hybrid. He sold this to the Royal Navy in 1913, and the following year his aviation manufacturing company became the Sopwith Aviation Company Ltd. That year a seaplane version of his Sopwith Tabloid won the Schneider Trophy in the second running of this speed competition. During 1914–18, Sopwith concentrated on producing fighters (or "scouts" as they were then called), with the Pup, the Camel, the 1½ Strutter, the Snipe and the Sopwith Triplane proving among the best in the war. He also pioneered several ideas to make flying easier for the pilot, and in 1915 he patented his adjustable tailplane and his 1 ½ Strutter was the first aircraft to be fitted with air brakes. During the four years of the First World War, Sopwith Aviation designed thirty-two different aircraft types and produced over 16,000 aircraft.
    The end of the First World War brought recession to the aircraft industry and in 1920 Sopwith, like many others, put his company into receivership; none the less, he immediately launched a new, smaller company with Hawker, Sigrist and V.W.Eyre, which they called the H.G. Hawker Engineering Company Ltd to avoid any confusion with the former company. He began by producing cars and motor cycles under licence, but was determined to resume aircraft production. He suffered an early blow with the death of Hawker in an air crash in 1921, but soon began supplying aircraft to the Royal Air Force again. In this he was much helped by taking on a new designer, Sydney Camm, in 1923, and during the next decade they produced a number of military aircraft types, of which the Hart light bomber and the Fury fighter, the first to exceed 200 mph (322 km/h), were the best known. In the mid-1930s Sopwith began to build a large aviation empire, acquiring first the Gloster Aircraft Company and then, in quick succession, Armstrong-Whitworth, Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Ltd and its aero-engine counterpart, and A.V.Roe, which produced Avro aircraft. Under the umbrella of the Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company (set up in 1935) these companies produced a series of outstanding aircraft, ranging from the Hawker Hurricane, through the Avro Lancaster to the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first in-service jet aircraft, and the Hawker Typhoon, Tempest and Hunter. When Sopwith retired as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1963 at the age of 75, a prototype jump-jet (the P-1127) was being tested, later to become the Harrier, a for cry from the fragile biplanes of 1910.
    Sopwith also had a passion for yachting and came close to wresting the America's Cup from the USA in 1934 when sailing his yacht Endeavour, which incorporated a number of features years ahead of their time; his greatest regret was that he failed in his attempts to win this famous yachting trophy for Britain. After his retirement as Chairman of the Hawker Siddeley Group, he remained on the Board until 1978. The British aviation industry had been nationalized in April 1977, and Hawker Siddeley's aircraft interests merged with the British Aircraft Corporation to become British Aerospace (BAe). Nevertheless, by then the Group had built up a wide range of companies in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering, and its board conferred on Sopwith the title Founder and Life President.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1953. CBE 1918.
    Bibliography
    1961, "My first ten years in aviation", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (April) (a very informative and amusing paper).
    Further Reading
    A.Bramson, 1990, Pure Luck: The Authorized Biography of Sir Thomas Sopwith, 1888– 1989, Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens.
    B.Robertson, 1970, Sopwith. The Man and His Aircraft, London (a detailed publication giving plans of all the Sopwith aircraft).
    CM / JDS

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  • 17 open

    open ['əʊpən]
    ouvert ⇒ 1 (a)-(d), 1 (n), 1 (o), 1 (q)-(s) découvert ⇒ 1 (e) dégagé ⇒ 1 (g) vacant ⇒ 1 (h) libre ⇒ 1 (h) non résolu ⇒ 1 (k) franc ⇒ 1 (n) ouvrir ⇒ 2 (a)-(g), 3 (d) déboucher ⇒ 2 (a) commencer ⇒ 2 (e), 3 (e) engager ⇒ 2 (e) dégager ⇒ 2 (g) s'ouvrir ⇒ 3 (a)-(c)
    (a) (not shut → window, cupboard, suitcase, jar, box, sore, valve) ouvert;
    ∎ her eyes were slightly open/wide open ses yeux étaient entrouverts/grands ouverts;
    ∎ he kicked the door open il a ouvert la porte d'un coup de pied;
    ∎ the panels slide open les panneaux s'ouvrent en coulissant;
    ∎ to smash/lever sth open ouvrir qch en le fracassant/à l'aide d'un levier;
    ∎ I can't get the bottle open je n'arrive pas à ouvrir la bouteille;
    ∎ there's a bottle already open in the fridge il y a une bouteille entamée dans le frigo;
    ∎ you won't need the key, the door's open tu n'auras pas besoin de la clef, la porte est ouverte
    (b) (not fastened → coat, fly, packet) ouvert;
    ∎ his shirt was open to the waist sa chemise était ouverte ou déboutonnée jusqu'à la ceinture;
    ∎ his shirt was open at the neck le col de sa chemise était ouvert;
    ∎ her blouse hung open son chemisier était déboutonné;
    ∎ the wrapping had been torn open l'emballage avait été arraché ou déchiré
    (c) (spread apart, unfolded → arms, book, magazine, umbrella) ouvert; (→ newspaper) ouvert, déplié; (→ legs, knees) écarté;
    ∎ the book lay open at page 6 le livre était ouvert à la page 6;
    ∎ I dropped the coin into his open hand or palm j'ai laissé tomber la pièce de monnaie dans le creux de sa main;
    ∎ the seams had split open les coutures avaient craqué;
    ∎ he ran into my open arms il s'est précipité dans mes bras
    ∎ I couldn't find a bank open je n'ai pas pu trouver une banque qui soit ouverte;
    ∎ are you open on Saturdays? ouvrez-vous le samedi?;
    ∎ we're open for business as usual nous sommes ouverts comme à l'habitude;
    ∎ open to the public (museum etc) ouvert ou accessible au public;
    ∎ open late ouvert en nocturne
    (e) (not covered → carriage, wagon, bus) découvert; (→ car) décapoté; (→ grave) ouvert; (→ boat) ouvert, non ponté; (→ courtyard, sewer) à ciel ouvert;
    ∎ the passengers sat on the open deck les passagers étaient assis sur le pont;
    ∎ the wine should be left open to breathe il faut laisser la bouteille ouverte pour que le vin puisse respirer
    (f) (not enclosed → hillside, plain)
    ∎ the shelter was open on three sides l'abri était ouvert sur trois côtés;
    ∎ the hill was open to the elements la colline était exposée à tous les éléments;
    ∎ our neighbourhood lacks open space notre quartier manque d'espaces verts;
    ∎ the wide open spaces of Texas les grands espaces du Texas;
    ∎ shanty towns sprang up on every scrap of open ground des bidonvilles ont surgi sur la moindre parcelle de terrain vague;
    ∎ they were attacked in open country ils ont été attaqués en rase campagne;
    ∎ open countryside stretched away to the horizon la campagne s'étendait à perte de vue;
    ∎ open grazing land pâturages mpl non clôturés;
    ∎ ahead lay a vast stretch of open water au loin s'étendait une vaste étendue d'eau;
    ∎ in the open air en plein air;
    ∎ nothing beats life in the open air il n'y a rien de mieux que la vie au grand air;
    ∎ he took to the open road il a pris la route;
    ∎ it'll do 150 on the open road elle monte à 150 sur l'autoroute;
    ∎ the open sea la haute mer, le large
    (g) (unobstructed → road, passage) dégagé; (→ mountain pass) ouvert, praticable; (→ waterway) ouvert à la navigation; (→ view) dégagé;
    ∎ only one lane on the bridge is open il n'y a qu'une voie ouverte à la circulation sur le pont
    (h) (unoccupied, available → job) vacant; (→ period of time) libre;
    ∎ we have two positions open nous avons deux postes à pourvoir;
    ∎ I'll keep this Friday open for you je vous réserverai ce vendredi;
    ∎ she likes to keep her weekends open elle préfère ne pas faire de projets pour le week-end;
    ∎ it's the only course of action open to us c'est la seule chose que nous puissions faire;
    ∎ she used every opportunity open to her elle a profité de toutes les occasions qui se présentaient à elle;
    ∎ he wants to keep his options open il ne veut pas s'engager
    (i) (unrestricted → competition) ouvert (à tous); (→ meeting, trial) public; (→ society) ouvert, démocratique;
    ∎ the contest is not open to company employees le concours n'est pas ouvert au personnel de la société;
    ∎ club membership is open to anyone aucune condition particulière n'est requise pour devenir membre du club;
    ∎ a career open to very few une carrière accessible à très peu de gens ou très fermée;
    ∎ there are few positions of responsibility open to immigrants les immigrés ont rarement accès aux postes de responsabilité;
    ∎ the field is wide open for someone with your talents pour quelqu'un d'aussi doué que vous, ce domaine offre des possibilités quasi illimitées;
    ∎ to extend an open invitation to sb inviter qn à venir chez soi quand il le souhaite;
    ∎ it's an open invitation to tax-dodgers/thieves c'est une invitation à la fraude fiscale/aux voleurs;
    ∎ American familiar Reno was a pretty open town in those days à cette époque, Reno était aux mains des hors-la-loi□ ;
    ∎ they have an open marriage ils forment un couple très libre
    (j) (unprotected, unguarded → flank, fire) ouvert; (→ wiring) non protégé;
    ∎ the two countries share miles of open border les deux pays sont séparés par des kilomètres de frontière non matérialisée;
    ∎ Sport he missed an open goal il n'y avait pas de défenseurs, et il a raté le but;
    ∎ to lay oneself open to criticism prêter le flanc à la critique
    (k) (undecided → question) non résolu, non tranché;
    ∎ the election is still wide open l'élection n'est pas encore jouée;
    ∎ it's still an open question whether he'll resign or not on ne sait toujours pas s'il va démissionner;
    ∎ I prefer to leave the matter open je préfère laisser cette question en suspens;
    ∎ he wanted to leave the date open il n'a pas voulu fixer de date
    ∎ his speech is open to misunderstanding son discours peut prêter à confusion;
    ∎ the prices are not open to negotiation les prix ne sont pas négociables;
    ∎ the plan is open to modification le projet n'a pas encore été finalisé;
    ∎ it's open to debate whether she knew about it or not on peut se demander si elle était au courant;
    ∎ open to doubt douteux
    ∎ to be open to suggestions être ouvert aux suggestions;
    ∎ I don't want to go but I'm open to persuasion je ne veux pas y aller mais je pourrais me laisser persuader;
    ∎ I try to keep an open mind about such things j'essaie de ne pas avoir de préjugés sur ces questions;
    ∎ open to any reasonable offer disposé à considérer toute offre raisonnable
    (n) (candid → person, smile, countenance) ouvert, franc (franche); (→ discussion) franc (franche);
    ∎ let's be open with each other soyons francs l'un avec l'autre;
    ∎ they weren't very open about their intentions ils se sont montrés assez discrets en ce qui concerne leurs intentions;
    ∎ he is open about his homosexuality il ne cache pas son homosexualité
    (o) (blatant → contempt, criticism, conflict, disagreement) ouvert; (→ attempt) non dissimulé; (→ scandal) public; (→ rivalry) déclaré;
    ∎ her open dislike son aversion déclarée;
    ∎ the country is in a state of open civil war le pays est en état de véritable guerre civile;
    ∎ they are in open revolt ils sont en révolte ouverte;
    ∎ they acted in open violation of the treaty ce qu'ils ont fait constitue une violation flagrante du traité;
    ∎ they showed an open disregard for the law ils ont fait preuve d'un manque de respect flagrant face à la loi;
    ∎ it's an open admission of guilt cela équivaut à un aveu
    (p) (loose → weave) lâche
    (q) Sport (play → free-flowing) ouvert, dégagé
    (r) Linguistics (vowel, syllable) ouvert
    (u) Music (string) à vide
    (a) (window, lock, shop, eyes, border) ouvrir; (wound) rouvrir; (bottle, can) ouvrir, déboucher; (wine) déboucher;
    ∎ open quotations or inverted commas ouvrez les guillemets;
    ∎ she opened her eyes very wide elle ouvrit grand les yeux, elle écarquilla les yeux;
    ∎ they plan to open the border to refugees ils projettent d'ouvrir la frontière aux réfugiés;
    ∎ Photography open the aperture one more stop ouvrez d'un diaphragme de plus;
    ∎ figurative to open one's heart to sb se confier à qn;
    ∎ we must open our minds to new ideas nous devons être ouverts aux idées nouvelles
    (b) (unfasten → coat, envelope, gift, collar) ouvrir
    (c) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, penknife, arms, hand) ouvrir; (→ newspaper) ouvrir, déplier; (→ legs, knees) écarter
    (d) (pierce → hole) percer; (→ breach) ouvrir; (→ way, passage) ouvrir, frayer;
    ∎ to open a road through the jungle ouvrir une route à travers la jungle;
    ∎ the agreement opens the way for peace l'accord va mener à la paix
    (e) (start → campaign, discussion, account, trial) ouvrir, commencer; (→ negotiations) ouvrir, engager; (→ conversation) engager, entamer; Banking & Finance (→ account, loan) ouvrir;
    ∎ her new film opened the festival son dernier film a ouvert le festival;
    ∎ to open a file on sb ouvrir un dossier sur qn;
    ∎ to open fire (on or at sb) ouvrir le feu (sur qn);
    ∎ to open the bidding (in bridge) ouvrir (les enchères);
    ∎ to open the betting (in poker) lancer les enchères;
    ∎ Finance to open a line of credit ouvrir un crédit;
    ∎ to open Parliament ouvrir la session du Parlement;
    ∎ Law to open the case exposer les faits
    (f) (set up → shop, business) ouvrir; (inaugurate → hospital, airport, library) ouvrir, inaugurer
    (g) (clear, unblock → road, lane, passage) dégager; (→ mountain pass) ouvrir
    (a) (door, window) (s')ouvrir; (suitcase, valve, padlock, eyes) s'ouvrir;
    ∎ the window opens outwards la fenêtre (s')ouvre vers l'extérieur;
    ∎ open wide! ouvrez grand!;
    ∎ to open, press down and twist pour ouvrir, appuyez et tournez;
    ∎ both rooms open onto the corridor les deux chambres donnent ou ouvrent sur le couloir;
    ∎ figurative the heavens opened and we got drenched il s'est mis à tomber des trombes d'eau et on s'est fait tremper
    (b) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ bud, leaf) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir;
    ∎ a new life opened before her une nouvelle vie s'ouvrait devant elle
    (c) (gape → chasm) s'ouvrir
    ∎ what time do you open on Sundays? à quelle heure ouvrez-vous le dimanche?;
    ∎ the doors open at 8 p.m. les portes ouvrent à 20 heures;
    ∎ to open late ouvrir en nocturne
    (e) (start → campaign, meeting, discussion, concert, play, story) commencer;
    ∎ the book opens with a murder le livre commence par un meurtre;
    ∎ the hunting season opens in September la chasse ouvre en septembre;
    ∎ she opened with a statement of the association's goals elle commença par une présentation des buts de l'association;
    ∎ the film opens next week le film sort la semaine prochaine;
    ∎ Theatre when are you opening? quand aura lieu la première?;
    ∎ when it opened on Broadway, the play flopped lorsqu'elle est sortie à Broadway, la pièce a fait un four;
    ∎ the Dow Jones opened at 2461 le Dow Jones a ouvert à 2461;
    ∎ to open with two clubs (in bridge) ouvrir de deux trèfles
    4 noun
    (a) (outdoors, open air)
    ∎ (out) in the open (gen) en plein air, dehors; (in countryside) au grand air;
    ∎ eating (out) in the open gives me an appetite manger au grand air me donne de l'appétit;
    ∎ to sleep in the open dormir à la belle étoile
    ∎ to bring sth (out) into the open exposer ou étaler qch au grand jour;
    ∎ the riot brought the instability of the regime out into the open l'émeute a révélé l'instabilité du régime;
    ∎ the conflict finally came out into the open le conflit a finalement éclaté au grand jour
    (c) Sport open m;
    ∎ the British Open (golf) l'open m ou le tournoi open de Grande-Bretagne;
    ∎ the French Open (tennis) Roland-Garros
    ►► Banking open account compte m ouvert;
    open bar buvette f gratuite, bar m gratuit;
    Banking open cheque chèque m ouvert ou non barré;
    Military & Politics open city ville f ouverte;
    School open classroom classe f primaire à activités libres;
    Stock Exchange open contract position f ouverte;
    Finance open credit crédit m à découvert;
    British open day journée f portes ouvertes;
    Economics open economy économie f ouverte;
    open house American (open day) journée f portes ouvertes; (party) grande fête f;
    ∎ British to keep open house tenir table ouverte;
    open inquiry enquête f publique;
    British open learning enseignement m à la carte (par correspondance ou à temps partiel);
    open letter lettre f ouverte;
    ∎ an open letter to the President une lettre ouverte au Président;
    open market marché m libre;
    ∎ to buy sth on the open market acheter qch sur le marché libre;
    ∎ Stock Exchange to buy shares on the open market acheter des actions en Bourse;
    open mike = période pendant laquelle les clients d'un café-théâtre ou d'un bar peuvent chanter ou raconter des histoires drôles au micro;
    open mesh mailles fpl lâches;
    Stock Exchange open money market marché m libre des capitaux;
    Stock Exchange open outcry criée f;
    Stock Exchange open outcry system système m de criée;
    open pattern motif m aéré;
    Insurance open policy police f flottante;
    Stock Exchange open position position f ouverte;
    American Politics open primary = élection primaire américaine ouverte aux non-inscrits d'un parti;
    open prison prison f ouverte;
    open sandwich (gen) tartine f; (cocktail food) canapé m;
    open season saison f;
    ∎ the open season for hunting la saison de la chasse;
    ∎ figurative the tabloid papers have declared open season on the private lives of rock stars les journaux à scandale se sont mis à traquer les stars du rock dans leur vie privée;
    Aviation & Theatre open seating places fpl non réservées;
    British open secret secret m de Polichinelle;
    ∎ it's an open secret that Alison will get the job c'est Alison qui aura le poste, ce n'est un secret pour personne;
    sésame, ouvre-toi!
    2 noun
    ∎ good A level results aren't necessarily an open sesame to university de bons résultats aux "A levels" n'ouvrent pas forcément la porte de l'université;
    Industry open shop British (open to non-union members) = entreprise ne pratiquant pas le monopole d'embauche; American (with no union) établissement m sans syndicat;
    open ticket billet m open;
    Sport open tournament (tournoi m) open m;
    British Open University = enseignement universitaire par correspondance doublé d'émissions de télévision ou de radio;
    Law open verdict verdict m de décès sans cause déterminée
    (a) (unfold → bud, petals) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir; (→ parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ sail) se gonfler;
    ∎ the sofa opens out into a bed le canapé est convertible en lit;
    ∎ the doors open out onto a terrace les portes donnent ou s'ouvrent sur une terrasse
    (b) (lie → vista, valley) s'étendre, s'ouvrir;
    ∎ miles of wheatfields opened out before us des champs de blé s'étendaient devant nous à perte de vue
    (c) (widen → path, stream) s'élargir;
    ∎ the river opens out into a lake la rivière se jette dans un lac;
    ∎ the trail finally opens out onto a plateau la piste débouche sur un plateau
    ∎ he opened out after a few drinks quelques verres ont suffi à le faire sortir de sa réserve
    (unfold → newspaper, deck chair, fan) ouvrir;
    ∎ the peacock opened out its tail le paon a fait la roue
    ➲ open up
    ∎ open up or I'll call the police! ouvrez, sinon j'appelle la police!;
    ∎ open up in there! ouvrez, là-dedans!
    (b) (become available → possibility) s'ouvrir;
    ∎ we may have a position opening up in May il se peut que nous ayons un poste disponible en mai;
    ∎ new markets are opening up de nouveaux marchés sont en train de s'ouvrir
    (c) (for business → shop, branch etc) (s')ouvrir;
    ∎ a new hotel opens up every week un nouvel hôtel ouvre ses portes chaque semaine
    (d) (start firing → guns) faire feu, tirer; (→ troops, person) ouvrir le feu, se mettre à tirer
    (e) (become less reserved → person) s'ouvrir; (→ discussion) s'animer;
    ∎ he won't open up even to me il ne s'ouvre pas, même à moi;
    ∎ he needs to open up about his feelings il a besoin de dire ce qu'il a sur le cœur ou de s'épancher;
    ∎ I got her to open up about her doubts j'ai réussi à la convaincre de me faire part de ses doutes
    (f) (become interesting) devenir intéressant;
    ∎ things are beginning to open up in my field of research ça commence à bouger dans mon domaine de recherche;
    ∎ the game opened up in the last half le match est devenu plus ouvert après la mi-temps
    (a) (crate, gift, bag, tomb) ouvrir;
    ∎ we're opening up the summer cottage this weekend nous ouvrons la maison de campagne ce week-end;
    ∎ the sleeping bag will dry faster if you open it up le sac de couchage séchera plus vite si tu l'ouvres
    ∎ each morning, Lucy opened up the shop chaque matin, Lucy ouvrait la boutique;
    ∎ he wants to open up a travel agency il veut ouvrir une agence de voyages
    (c) (for development → isolated region) désenclaver; (→ quarry, oilfield) ouvrir, commencer l'exploitation de; (→ new markets) ouvrir;
    ∎ irrigation will open up new land for agriculture l'irrigation permettra la mise en culture de nouvelles terres;
    ∎ the airport opened up the island for tourism l'aéroport a ouvert l'île au tourisme;
    ∎ a discovery which opens up new fields of research une découverte qui crée de nouveaux domaines de recherche;
    ∎ the policy opened up possibilities for closer cooperation la politique a créé les conditions d'une coopération plus étroite
    ∎ he opened it or her up il a accéléré à fond

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  • 18 Herbert, Edward Geisler

    [br]
    b. 23 March 1869 Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, England
    d. 9 February 1938 West Didsbury, Manchester, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor of the Rapidor saw and the Pendulum Hardness Tester, and pioneer of cutting tool research.
    [br]
    Edward Geisler Herbert was educated at Nottingham High School in 1876–87, and at University College, London, in 1887–90, graduating with a BSc in Physics in 1889 and remaining for a further year to take an engineering course. He began his career as a premium apprentice at the Nottingham works of Messrs James Hill \& Co, manufacturers of lace machinery. In 1892 he became a partner with Charles Richardson in the firm of Richardson \& Herbert, electrical engineers in Manchester, and when this partnership was dissolved in 1895 he carried on the business in his own name and began to produce machine tools. He remained as Managing Director of this firm, reconstituted in 1902 as a limited liability company styled Edward G.Herbert Ltd, until his retirement in 1928. He was joined by Charles Fletcher (1868–1930), who as joint Managing Director contributed greatly to the commercial success of the firm, which specialized in the manufacture of small machine tools and testing machinery.
    Around 1900 Herbert had discovered that hacksaw machines cut very much quicker when only a few teeth are in operation, and in 1902 he patented a machine which utilized this concept by automatically changing the angle of incidence of the blade as cutting proceeded. These saws were commercially successful, but by 1912, when his original patents were approaching expiry, Herbert and Fletcher began to develop improved methods of applying the rapid-saw concept. From this work the well-known Rapidor and Manchester saws emerged soon after the First World War. A file-testing machine invented by Herbert before the war made an autographic record of the life and performance of the file and brought him into close contact with the file and tool steel manufacturers of Sheffield. A tool-steel testing machine, working like a lathe, was introduced when high-speed steel had just come into general use, and Herbert became a prominent member of the Cutting Tools Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1919, carrying out many investigations for that body and compiling four of its Reports published between 1927 and 1933. He was the first to conceive the idea of the "tool-work" thermocouple which allowed cutting tool temperatures to be accurately measured. For this advance he was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution in 1926.
    His best-known invention was the Pendulum Hardness Tester, introduced in 1923. This used a spherical indentor, which was rolled over, rather than being pushed into, the surface being examined, by a small, heavy, inverted pendulum. The period of oscillation of this pendulum provided a sensitive measurement of the specimen's hardness. Following this work Herbert introduced his "Cloudburst" surface hardening process, in which hardened steel engineering components were bombarded by steel balls moving at random in all directions at very high velocities like gaseous molecules. This treatment superhardened the surface of the components, improved their resistance to abrasion, and revealed any surface defects. After bombardment the hardness of the superficially hardened layers increased slowly and spontaneously by a room-temperature ageing process. After his retirement in 1928 Herbert devoted himself to a detailed study of the influence of intense magnetic fields on the hardening of steels.
    Herbert was a member of several learned societies, including the Manchester Association of Engineers, the Institute of Metals, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He retained a seat on the Board of his company from his retirement until the end of his life.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Manchester Association of Engineers Butterworth Gold Medal 1923. Institution of Mechanical Engineers Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal 1926.
    Bibliography
    E.G.Herbert obtained several British and American patents and was the author of many papers, which are listed in T.M.Herbert (ed.), 1939, "The inventions of Edward Geisler Herbert: an autobiographical note", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 141: 59–67.
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  • 19 wrong

    1. [rɒŋ] n
    1. вред; зло; обида

    to make wrong right - ≅ называть чёрное белым

    2. неправда; неправильность; ошибочность
    3. несправедливость; неправомерность; неоправданность
    4. юр. правонарушение, деликт

    public wrongs - нарушения государственных или общественных прав и интересов

    ♢ the king can do no wrong - юр. король не несёт ответственности ( за политику кабинета при конституционной монархии)

    to be in the wrong - а) быть неправым, ошибаться; б) быть виновным

    to acknowledge oneself in the wrong - признать свою ошибку /вину/

    the dead are always wrong - посл. мёртвые всегда виноваты; на мёртвых всё можно свалить

    to do wrong to smb. - а) быть несправедливым к кому-л., обидеть кого-л.; б) неправильно судить о ком-л.

    to suffer wrong - терпеть обиду /несправедливость/

    the labour under a sense of wrong - а) действовать под влиянием обиды; б) считать себя обиженным /обойдённым/

    2. [rɒŋ] a
    1. неправильный, неверный, ошибочный; ложный

    wrong answer [opinion] - неверный ответ [-ое мнение]

    wrong note - муз. фальшивая нота

    a wrong move - а) неверный шаг, б) неудачный /ошибочный/ ход (в шахматах и т. п.)

    to put smb. on the wrong track - пустить кого-л. по ложному следу

    to be on the wrong track /scent/ - идти по ложному следу

    to be wrong - ошибаться; быть неправым в чём-л.

    2. неподходящий, несоответствующий; не тот, который нужен

    to take the wrong turning - свернуть не туда, куда нужно

    sorry, wrong number! - а) вы не туда попали!; б) простите, я не туда попал!

    to drive on the wrong side of the road - ехать по полосе встречного движения

    you've been given the wrong number /connection/ - вас неправильно соединили

    you're doing it in the wrong way - вы делаете это не так, как нужно

    at the wrong time - а) в неподходящее время; б) не в назначенное время

    quite the wrong dress for the hot weather - совершенно неподходящее платье для жаркой погоды

    3. неуместный

    that was the wrong thing to say - этого говорить не следовало; это было очень неудачно /неуместно/ сказано

    4. 1) дурной; порочный, аморальный; неэтичный

    you were wrong to borrow his bicycle without asking his permission - ты поступил непорядочно, взяв его велосипед без разрешения

    2) несправедливый; неоправданный

    wrong act - юр. неправомерное действие

    5. 1) неудовлетворительный

    what's wrong with you? - что с вами?; что у вас случилось?

    I hope there is nothing wrong - надеюсь, ничего (неприятного) не произошло

    there's something wrong with his nerves - у него неважно /неладно/ с нервами

    there is something wrong with me - мне что-то не по себе, мне нездоровится

    wrong in the head - разг. психически неуравновешенный; с приветом

    2) неисправный

    this watch goes two minutes wrong, either way - часы то отстают, то спешат на две минуты

    6. левый, изнаночный ( о стороне)
    7. полигр. чужой ( о шрифте)

    wrong fount - «чужой» ( указание в корректуре)

    ♢ not far wrong - почти верный

    you are not far wrong - да, это почти так; вы и основном правы

    to be born on the wrong side of the tracks - родиться в бедной семье; выйти из низов

    to be on smb.'s wrong side - не пользоваться расположением кого-л.

    to get off on the wrong foot - неудачно начать; произвести плохое впечатление

    to have hold of the wrong end of the stick - неправильно понять, превратно истолковать, извратить (что-л.)

    what's wrong with it? - а) чем это плохо?, почему это не подходит?; б) почему бы не...; what's wrong with a cup of tea? - почему бы не выпить чашку чая?; в) что же тут такого?

    3. [rɒŋ] adv
    1. неправильно, неверно, ошибочно

    to answer wrong - ответить неправильно /неверно/

    you've got it wrong - а) вы просчитались; б) вы неправильно /не так/ поняли

    don't get me wrong - разг. поймите меня правильно

    2. предосудительно; неподобающе

    embarrassment made him act wrong - от смущения он делал не то, что следовало

    3. дурно, плохо; несправедливо
    4. в неправильном направлении

    he turned wrong at the junction - на перекрёстке он повернул не в ту сторону

    ♢ to go wrong - а) сбиться с пути (истинного); a girl who has gone wrong - сбившаяся с пути девушка; б) провалиться; не выйти, не получиться; everything went wrong - всё вышло не так (как было задумано); all our plans went wrong - все наши замыслы провалились; в) выйти из строя; начать работать с перебоями (о механизме и т. п.); испортиться; his watch has gone wrong - его часы стали шалить; my digestion has gone wrong - у меня неладно с пищеварением

    to get in wrong with smb. - попасть к кому-л. в немилость

    to get smb. in wrong - подвести кого-л., поставить кого-л. под удар, подставить кого-л.

    4. [rɒŋ] v
    1. быть несправедливым (к кому-л.); приписывать дурные побуждения (кому-л.)

    he wronged me when he said I was envious - он без всяких оснований обвинил меня в зависти

    2. вредить, причинять зло; обижать
    3. 1) позорить, бесчестить
    2) обесчестить ( женщину) соблазнить, совратить
    4. (of) отнимать; лишать (обманом, силой)
    5. нанести телесное повреждение

    НБАРС > wrong

  • 20 heel

    1. noun
    1) Ferse, die

    heel of the hand — Handballen, der

    Achilles' heel — (fig.) Achillesferse, die

    bring somebody to heel — (fig.) jemanden auf Vordermann bringen (ugs.)

    take to one's heels — (fig.) Fersengeld geben (ugs.); see also academic.ru/20416/dig_in">dig in 2. 2)

    2) (of shoe) Absatz, der; (of stocking) Ferse, die

    down at heel — abgetreten; (fig.) heruntergekommen (ugs.)

    2. transitive verb

    heel a shoe — einen Schuh mit einem [neuen] Absatz versehen

    * * *
    [hi:l] 1. noun
    1) (the back part of the foot: I have a blister on my heel.) die Ferse
    2) (the part of a sock etc that covers this part of the foot: I have a hole in the heel of my sock.) die Ferse
    3) (the part of a shoe, boot etc under or round the heel of the foot: The heel has come off this shoe.) der Absatz
    2. verb
    1) (to put a heel on (a shoe etc).) mit Absätzen versehen
    2) ((usually with over) (of ships) to lean to one side: The boat heeled over in the strong wind.) sich auf die Seite legen
    •
    - -heeled
    - at/on one's heels
    - kick one's heels
    - take to one's heels
    - to heel
    - turn on one's heel
    * * *
    heel1
    [hi:l]
    I. n
    1. (body part) Ferse f; of animal Hinterfuß m, Hinterlauf m; of horse hinterer Teil des Hufs
    the \heel of the hand der Handballen
    ▪ to be at sb's \heels (follow) jdm [dicht] folgen; ( fig: chase) jdm auf den Fersen sein
    2. (of shoe) Absatz m; (of sock) Ferse f
    ▪ \heels pl hochhackige Schuhe, Stöckelschuhe pl
    to turn on one's \heel auf dem Absatz kehrtmachen
    3. (end part) Anschnitt m, Endstück nt; of bread [Brot]kanten m bes NORDD, Scherz m SÜDD, ÖSTERR, Knust m DIAL; of violin bow Frosch m; of golf club Ferse f
    4. ( pej dated fam: man) Scheißkerl m pej sl; (woman) Miststück nt pej sl
    5.
    ▶ to bring sb/an animal to \heel jdn/ein Tier gefügig machen
    ▶ to bring sth to \heel etw unter Kontrolle bringen
    ▶ to come to \heel person sich akk fügen, spuren fam; dog bei Fuß gehen
    ▶ to dig one's \heels in sich akk auf die Hinterbeine stellen
    ▶ to be down at [the] \heel person heruntergekommen sein; shoe abgetreten sein
    ▶ to follow close [or hard] on the \heels of sth unmittelbar auf etw akk folgen
    ▶ to be hard [or close] [or hot] on sb's \heels jdm dicht auf den Fersen sein
    ▶ to kick [or cool] one's \heels (wait) sich dat die Beine in den Bauch stehen; (do nothing) Däumchen drehen fam, rumhängen fam
    ▶ to kick up one's \heels auf den Putz hauen fam
    ▶ to show [sb] a clean pair of \heels (run away) jdm die Fersen zeigen, Fersengeld geben; (leave behind) jdn abhängen
    ▶ to take to one's \heels die Beine in die Hand nehmen fam, Fersengeld geben
    ▶ under the \heel of sb/sth unter der Herrschaft einer Person/einer S. gen
    II. interj
    ▪ \heel! bei Fuß!
    III. vt
    to \heel a shoe einen neuen Absatz auf einen Schuh machen
    to \heel a ball den Ball mit der Ferse schlagen
    3.
    ▶ to be well \heeled ( fam) gut betucht sein
    IV. vi FBALL mit dem Absatz kicken; (in rugby) einen Ball hakeln [o mit dem Absatz spielen]
    heel2
    [hi:l]
    I. vi
    ▪ to \heel over sich akk auf die Seite legen, krängen fachspr
    to \heel hard over sich akk stark auf die Seite legen, stark krängen fachspr
    II. vt
    to \heel a boat/ship ein Boot/Schiff zum Krängen bringen [o fachspr krängen lassen
    III. n (instance) Seitenneigung f, Krängung f fachspr; (angle) Neigungswinkel m
    * * *
    I [hiːl]
    1. n
    1) Ferse f; (of shoe) Absatz m

    with his dog/the children at his heels — gefolgt von seinem Hund/den Kindern

    to be right on sb's heels — jdm auf den Fersen folgen; ( fig

    to follow hard upon sb's heels — jdm dicht auf den Fersen sein, sich an jds Fersen (acc) heften (geh)

    the police were hot on our heels — die Polizei war uns dicht auf den Fersen

    to be down at heel (person) — abgerissen or heruntergekommen sein; (building) heruntergekommen sein

    to take to one's heels — sich aus dem Staub(e) machen, Fersengeld geben (dated, hum)

    he brought the dog to heel — er befahl dem Hund, bei Fuß zu gehen

    to bring sb to heel — jdn an die Kandare nehmen (inf)

    to set or rock sb back on his/her etc heels (fig inf) — jdm einen Schock versetzen

    2) (of golf club) Ferse f; (of loaf) Kanten m; (of mast) Fuß m
    3) (dated pej sl: person) Saukerl m (sl)
    2. vt
    1)
    2) (RUGBY) ball hakeln
    II (NAUT)
    1. vi
    (ship) krängen (spec), sich (auf die Seite) legen or neigen

    to heel hard over — sich stark auf die Seite legen, stark krängen (spec)

    2. vt
    krängen lassen (spec), sich seitlich überlegen lassen
    3. n
    (seitliches) Überlegen, Seitenneigung f
    * * *
    heel1 [hiːl]
    A v/t
    1. Absätze machen auf (akk)
    2. eine Ferse anstricken an (akk)
    3. a) Golf: den Ball mit der Ferse des Schlägers treiben
    b) Rugby: den Ball hakeln
    c) Fußball: den Ball mit dem Absatz kicken
    4. Kampfhähne mit Sporen bewaffnen
    5. umg
    a) ( besonders mit Geld) ausstatten
    b) US informieren
    c) US für eine Zeitung arbeiten
    6. heel out eine Zigarette mit dem Absatz ausdrücken
    B v/i
    1. bei Fuß gehen oder bleiben (Hund)
    2. US umg rennen, flitzen
    C s
    1. ANAT Ferse f:
    heel of the hand Handballen m
    2. ZOOL umg
    a) hinterer Teil des Hufs
    b) pl Hinterfüße pl
    c) Fuß m
    3. a) Absatz m, Hacken m (vom Schuh)
    b) hochhackige Schuhe pl
    4. Ferse f (vom Strumpf etc, a vom Golfschläger)
    5. vorspringender Teil, Ende n, besonders (Brot)Kanten m
    6. SCHIFF Hiel(ing) f
    7. BOT Achselsteckling m
    8. Rest m
    9. MUS Frosch m (am Bogen)
    10. sl obs Schuft mBesondere Redewendungen: down at heel
    a) mit schiefen Absätzen,
    b) auch out at heels fig heruntergekommen (Person, Hotel etc), abgerissen (Person);
    on the heels of unmittelbar auf (akk), gleich nach (dat);
    a) bei Fuß (Hund),
    b) fig gefügig, gehorsam;
    bring sb to heel jemanden gefügig oder umg kirre machen;
    be carried away heels first ( oder foremost) mit den Füßen zuerst (tot) weggetragen werden;
    a) bei Fuß gehen,
    b) gehorchen, spuren umg;
    cool ( oder kick) one’s heels umg
    a) sich die Beine in den Bauch stehen,
    b) untätig herumstehen;
    follow at sb’s heels, follow sb at heel, follow sb at ( oder on) their heels jemandem auf den Fersen folgen, sich jemandem an die Fersen heften;
    kick up one’s heels umg auf den Putz hauen;
    a) jemanden dingfest machen, zur Strecke bringen,
    b) die Oberhand oder das Übergewicht gewinnen über (akk);
    rock sb back on their heels umg jemanden umhauen;
    rock back on one’s heels umg aus den Latschen kippen;
    show a clean pair of heels umg die Beine in die Hand oder unter die Arme nehmen, Fersengeld geben;
    show sb a clean pair of heels umg jemandem die Fersen zeigen;
    stick one’s heels in umg sich auf die Hinterbeine stellen oder setzen;
    take to one’s heels umg die Beine in die Hand oder unter den Arm nehmen, Fersengeld geben;
    tread on sb’s heels
    a) jemandem auf die Hacken treten,
    b) jemandem auf dem Fuß oder den Fersen folgen;
    turn on one’s heels auf dem Absatz kehrtmachen; → Achilles, dig in A 1, drag B 2
    heel2 [hiːl] SCHIFF
    A v/t & v/i auch heel over (sich) auf die Seite legen, krängen
    B s Krängung f
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Ferse, die

    heel of the hand — Handballen, der

    Achilles' heel — (fig.) Achillesferse, die

    bring somebody to heel — (fig.) jemanden auf Vordermann bringen (ugs.)

    take to one's heels — (fig.) Fersengeld geben (ugs.); see also dig in 2. 2)

    2) (of shoe) Absatz, der; (of stocking) Ferse, die

    down at heel — abgetreten; (fig.) heruntergekommen (ugs.)

    2. transitive verb

    heel a shoe — einen Schuh mit einem [neuen] Absatz versehen

    * * *
    n.
    Absatz -¨e m.
    Ferse -n f.
    Schuhabsatz m.

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