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121 próximo
adj.1 next, coming, forthcoming, upcoming.2 nearby, near, nearest, neighboring.* * *► adjetivo1 (cerca) near2 (siguiente) next* * *(f. - próxima)adj.1) next, forthcoming2) near* * *ADJ1) (=cercano) near, close; [pariente] closeen fecha próxima — soon, at an early date
estar próximo a algo — to be close to sth, be near sth
estar próximo a hacer algo — to be on the point of doing sth, be about to do sth
2) (=siguiente) next* * *- ma adjetivo1)a) ( siguiente) nextb) (como pron)2) [ESTAR] ( cercano)a) ( en el tiempo) close, nearla fecha ya está próxima — the day is close o is drawing near
estar próximo A + INF — to be close to + ing, to be about to + inf
estaba próximo a morir — he was close o near to death
b) ( en el espacio) near, closepróximo A algo — close o near to something
* * *= adjacent, adjoining, close [closer -comp., closest -sup.], forthcoming, immediate, next + Expresión Temporal, sorrounding, neighbour [neighbor, -USA], coming, near-side, in sight, over the horizon, on the horizon, proximate.Ex. Before him there are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions.Ex. The library is poorly sited outside the shopping centre and on the brow of a hill, and faces competition from adjoining libraries.Ex. Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.Ex. Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.Ex. This system offers immediate access when required by users and staff, preferably several users at the same time.Ex. And then the young librarian, as in a dream, heard from the lips of her supervisor the words, 'Jeanne, please let bygones be bygones and put this year's evaluation behind you. I'll try to make it up to you next year'.Ex. It examines the role that small university libraries can play in their surrounding communities and the benefits to be gained by both parties.Ex. The command 'neighbour' lists the terms around the base term alphabetically forwards or backwards.Ex. I have myself seen, in a northern market, a bookstall where the stall-holder had over a dozen old shoeboxes under the counter in which each month the ten new titles were placed so that the customers could buy the whole new range gradually over the coming month.Ex. The near-side press point was placed further in towards the middle of the tympan (and of the sheet) than the off-side point.Ex. The trend is definitely towards the electronic submission, but the point where this method will entirely supplant the others is not yet in sight.Ex. This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.Ex. The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.Ex. For example, Literature and Language should be proximate, as should Commerce and Economics and Business, Psychology and Medicine, and so on.----* acontecimiento próximo = coming event.* año próximo, el = coming year, the.* de próxima publicación = about to be published.* durante el próximo año = over the next year.* el año próximo = the year ahead.* en el año próximo = in the coming year, in the coming year.* en el próximo año = in the year ahead, in the coming year.* en las próximas semanas = over the next few weeks.* en los próximos años = in the next few years.* en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.* estar próximo = be at hand.* lado más próximo, el = near side, the.* la próxima moda = the next hot thing.* mes próximo, el = next month.* para el año próximo = for the year ahead.* próxima apertura = opening soon.* próximo a = adjacent to, in the vicinity of, in the proximity of.* próximos años, los = years ahead, the, next few years, the.* * *- ma adjetivo1)a) ( siguiente) nextb) (como pron)2) [ESTAR] ( cercano)a) ( en el tiempo) close, nearla fecha ya está próxima — the day is close o is drawing near
estar próximo A + INF — to be close to + ing, to be about to + inf
estaba próximo a morir — he was close o near to death
b) ( en el espacio) near, closepróximo A algo — close o near to something
* * *= adjacent, adjoining, close [closer -comp., closest -sup.], forthcoming, immediate, next + Expresión Temporal, sorrounding, neighbour [neighbor, -USA], coming, near-side, in sight, over the horizon, on the horizon, proximate.Ex: Before him there are the two items to be joined, projected onto adjacent viewing positions.
Ex: The library is poorly sited outside the shopping centre and on the brow of a hill, and faces competition from adjoining libraries.Ex: Superior cataloguing may result, since more consistency and closer adherence to standard codes are likely to emerge with cataloguers who spend all of their time cataloguing, than with a librarian who tackles cataloguing as one of various professional tasks.Ex: Following internal discussion, it was agreed that a new library should be given the University's top priority in any forthcoming capital building project.Ex: This system offers immediate access when required by users and staff, preferably several users at the same time.Ex: And then the young librarian, as in a dream, heard from the lips of her supervisor the words, 'Jeanne, please let bygones be bygones and put this year's evaluation behind you. I'll try to make it up to you next year'.Ex: It examines the role that small university libraries can play in their surrounding communities and the benefits to be gained by both parties.Ex: The command 'neighbour' lists the terms around the base term alphabetically forwards or backwards.Ex: I have myself seen, in a northern market, a bookstall where the stall-holder had over a dozen old shoeboxes under the counter in which each month the ten new titles were placed so that the customers could buy the whole new range gradually over the coming month.Ex: The near-side press point was placed further in towards the middle of the tympan (and of the sheet) than the off-side point.Ex: The trend is definitely towards the electronic submission, but the point where this method will entirely supplant the others is not yet in sight.Ex: This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.Ex: The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.Ex: For example, Literature and Language should be proximate, as should Commerce and Economics and Business, Psychology and Medicine, and so on.* acontecimiento próximo = coming event.* año próximo, el = coming year, the.* de próxima publicación = about to be published.* durante el próximo año = over the next year.* el año próximo = the year ahead.* en el año próximo = in the coming year, in the coming year.* en el próximo año = in the year ahead, in the coming year.* en las próximas semanas = over the next few weeks.* en los próximos años = in the next few years.* en los próximos días = in the next few days, over the next few days.* estar próximo = be at hand.* lado más próximo, el = near side, the.* la próxima moda = the next hot thing.* mes próximo, el = next month.* para el año próximo = for the year ahead.* próxima apertura = opening soon.* próximo a = adjacent to, in the vicinity of, in the proximity of.* próximos años, los = years ahead, the, next few years, the.* * *próximo -maA1 (siguiente) nexten la próxima estación at the next stationel próximo jueves vamos al cine (esta semana) we're going to the movies this Thursday o on Thursday; (la siguiente) we're going to the movies next Thursdayel mes/año próximo next month/year2 ( como pron):esto lo dejamos para la próxima we'll leave this for next timetome la próxima a la derecha take the next right, take the next on the rightnos bajamos en la próxima we are getting off at the next stopB [ ESTAR] (cercano)1 (en el tiempo) close, nearla fecha ya está próxima the day is close o is drawing nearel verano está próximo summer's nearly hereel programa se emitirá en fecha próxima the program will be transmitted in the near futurepróximo A + INF close TO + INGestaba próximo a morir he was close o near to deathya estaba próximo a graduarse he was close to graduating o he had nearly finished school o he was about to graduate2 (en el espacio) near, close próximo A algo close o near TO sthun hotel próximo a la playa a hotel close to o near the beach* * *
próximo◊ -ma adjetivo
1
b) ( como pron):
tome la próxima a la derecha take the next (on the) right
2 [ESTAR] ( cercano)
en fecha próxima in the near future
próximo A algo close o near to sth
próximo,-a adjetivo
1 (cercano) near, close
una calle próxima, a nearby street
en fechas próximas, soon o in the near future
2 (siguiente) next: me bajo en la próxima (parada), I get off at the next stop
el próximo verano iremos a Berlín, next summer we're going to Berlin
' próximo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cara
- cerca
- concejo
- cónclave
- inmediata
- inmediato
- mes
- novilunio
- pegar
- próxima
- salida
- tomar
- vecina
- vecino
- entrante
- futuro
- lunes
- oriente
- plazo
- proyecto
English:
beside
- bring in
- call
- coming
- forthcoming
- four-door
- kin
- move
- near
- Near East
- next
- operational
- proximate
- close
- dealer
- due
- fare
- Monday
- pending
- start
- tide
- up
* * *próximo, -a adj1. [en el tiempo] near, close;en fecha próxima shortly;las vacaciones están próximas the holidays are nearly here2. [en el espacio] near, close;una casa próxima al río a house near the river;3. [en número] close;un número de muertos próximo al centenar a death toll approaching one hundred4. [siguiente] next;el próximo año next year;el próximo domingo next Sunday;la próxima vez next time;me bajo en la próxima I'm getting off at the next stop;gira en la próxima a la derecha take the next right* * *adj1 ( siguiente) next;el próximo año next year;¡hasta la próxima! see you next time!2 ( cercano) near, close (a to)* * *próximo, -ma adj1) : near, closela Navidad está próxima: Christmas is almost here2) siguiente: next, followingla próxima semana: the following week* * *próximo adj1. (siguiente) next2. (cercano) nearestá próximo el verano it's nearly summer / it will soon be summer -
122 работен
1. workingработен ден working day/hours; workdayработно време working time; business/office hours, hours of workработно място a place of work; office; workshopработна площадка a building siteработни дрехи, работно облекло working clothes; workclothes; overalls(на войници) fatigue dressработен добитък draught animals; beasts of draughtработна пчела worker-beeработна ръка labour (force), workers, handsработна сила manpowerработна заплата salary, ( надница) wagesработно колело тех. driving wheel; runner, impellerработен ход тех. working stroke, driving strokeработен режим тех. work. load, operating conditions; stroke2. вж. работлив* * *рабо̀тен,прил., -на, -но, -ни working; временна \работенна сила икон. casual labour; \работенен ден workday; \работенен диапазон техн. operating range; \работенен добитък сел.-ст. draught animals; beasts of draught; \работенен режим техн. work, load, operating conditions; stroke; \работенен ход техн. working stroke, driving stroke; \работенна дефиниция/хипотеза науч. a working definition/hypothesis; \работенна заплата salary, ( надница) wages; \работенна площадка building site; \работенна ръка labour/work force, workers, hands; \работенна сила labour force, manpower; \работенни дрехи, \работенно облекло workclothes; (на войници) fatigue dress; \работенни условия working environment; \работенно време working time; business/office hours; \работенно колело техн. driving wheel; runner, impeller; \работенно съвещание business meeting.* * *hardworking (работлив); work: работен place - работно място, работен force - работна сила; working: работен day - работен ден, работен time - работно време* * *1. (на войници) fatigue dress 2. working 3. РАБОТЕН ден working day/hours;workday 4. РАБОТЕН добитък draught animals;beasts of draught 5. РАБОТЕН режим тех. work. load, operating conditions;stroke 6. РАБОТЕН ход тех. working stroke, driving stroke 7. вж. работлив 8. работна заплата salary, (надница) wages 9. работна площадка a building site 10. работна пчела worker-bee 11. работна ръка labour (force), workers, hands 12. работна сила manpower 13. работни дрехи, работно облекло working clothes;workclothes;overalls 14. работно време working time;business/office hours, hours of work 15. работно колело тех. driving wheel;runner, impeller 16. работно място a place of work;office;workshop -
123 place
I [pleɪs]1) (location, position) posto m., luogo m.in places — [damaged, worn] in diversi punti, qua e là
place of birth, of work — luogo di nascita, di lavoro
same time, same place — stesso posto, stessa ora
in Oxford, of all places! — proprio a Oxford, figurati!
to lose one's place — (in book) perdere il segno; (in speech) perdere il filo (del discorso)
2) (town, hotel, etc.) posto m.a little place called... — un piccolo paese che si chiama...
all over the place — (everywhere) dappertutto, ovunque; colloq. [ speech] senza capo né coda; [ hair] in disordine
3) (home, house) casa f.at, to Jane's place — da Jane, a casa di Jane
4) (seat, space, setting) posto m.to lay o set a place for sb. — apparecchiare o mettere un posto per qcn
5) (on team, committee, with firm) posto m. (on in)a place as — un posto come [cook, cleaner]
6) BE univ.to get a place on — essere ammesso a [ course]
7) (in competition, race) posto m., posizione f.to take second place — fig. (in importance) passare in secondo piano (to rispetto a)
in the first place — (firstly) in primo luogo; (at the outset) per cominciare, per prima cosa, innanzitutto
to hold sth. in place — tenere qcs. al suo posto
to know one's place — fig. sapere stare al proprio posto
to put sb. in his, her place — rimettere qcn. al suo posto
10) (role)to have no place in — non avere un ruolo in [ organization]
to fill sb.'s place — sostituire qcn.
11) (situation)in my, his place — al mio, suo posto
to change places with sb. — fare cambio o scambiarsi di posto con qcn
12) (moment) momento m.in places — [funny, boring, silly] a tratti, di tanto in tanto
13) out of place [remark, behaviour] fuori luogoto look out of place — [building, person] sembrare fuori posto, stonare
14) in place of al posto di [person, object]••that young man is really going places — colloq. quel ragazzo farà strada
II [pleɪs]to fall o click o fit into place quadrare, diventare chiaro; to go places — AE colloq. andare in giro
1) (put carefully) porre, mettere, collocare; (arrange) disporre [ object]; (locate) collocare, piazzare, mettereto place an order for sth. — ordinare qcs.
2) fig.3) (in competition, exam) classificareto be placed third — [horse, athlete] piazzarsi al terzo posto
4) (judge) considerare5) (identify) riconoscere [person, accent]6) amm. (send, appoint) mettere [student, trainee]; (find home for) trovare una famiglia per [ child]to place sb. in charge of staff — affidare a qcn. la responsabilità dell'organico
* * *[pleis] 1. noun1) (a particular spot or area: a quiet place in the country; I spent my holiday in various different places.) luogo2) (an empty space: There's a place for your books on this shelf.) posto libero3) (an area or building with a particular purpose: a market-place.) posto4) (a seat (in a theatre, train, at a table etc): He went to his place and sat down.) posto5) (a position in an order, series, queue etc: She got the first place in the competition; I lost my place in the queue.) posto6) (a person's position or level of importance in society etc: You must keep your secretary in her place.) posto7) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) pagina8) (duty or right: It's not my place to tell him he's wrong.) compito9) (a job or position in a team, organization etc: He's got a place in the team; He's hoping for a place on the staff.) posto10) (house; home: Come over to my place.) casa11) ((often abbreviated to Pl. when written) a word used in the names of certain roads, streets or squares.) posto12) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) cifra2. verb1) (to put: He placed it on the table; He was placed in command of the army.) mettere2) (to remember who a person is: I know I've seen her before, but I can't quite place her.) riconoscere•- go places
- in the first
- second place
- in place
- in place of
- out of place
- put oneself in someone else's place
- put someone in his place
- put in his place
- take place
- take the place of* * *I [pleɪs]1) (location, position) posto m., luogo m.in places — [damaged, worn] in diversi punti, qua e là
place of birth, of work — luogo di nascita, di lavoro
same time, same place — stesso posto, stessa ora
in Oxford, of all places! — proprio a Oxford, figurati!
to lose one's place — (in book) perdere il segno; (in speech) perdere il filo (del discorso)
2) (town, hotel, etc.) posto m.a little place called... — un piccolo paese che si chiama...
all over the place — (everywhere) dappertutto, ovunque; colloq. [ speech] senza capo né coda; [ hair] in disordine
3) (home, house) casa f.at, to Jane's place — da Jane, a casa di Jane
4) (seat, space, setting) posto m.to lay o set a place for sb. — apparecchiare o mettere un posto per qcn
5) (on team, committee, with firm) posto m. (on in)a place as — un posto come [cook, cleaner]
6) BE univ.to get a place on — essere ammesso a [ course]
7) (in competition, race) posto m., posizione f.to take second place — fig. (in importance) passare in secondo piano (to rispetto a)
in the first place — (firstly) in primo luogo; (at the outset) per cominciare, per prima cosa, innanzitutto
to hold sth. in place — tenere qcs. al suo posto
to know one's place — fig. sapere stare al proprio posto
to put sb. in his, her place — rimettere qcn. al suo posto
10) (role)to have no place in — non avere un ruolo in [ organization]
to fill sb.'s place — sostituire qcn.
11) (situation)in my, his place — al mio, suo posto
to change places with sb. — fare cambio o scambiarsi di posto con qcn
12) (moment) momento m.in places — [funny, boring, silly] a tratti, di tanto in tanto
13) out of place [remark, behaviour] fuori luogoto look out of place — [building, person] sembrare fuori posto, stonare
14) in place of al posto di [person, object]••that young man is really going places — colloq. quel ragazzo farà strada
II [pleɪs]to fall o click o fit into place quadrare, diventare chiaro; to go places — AE colloq. andare in giro
1) (put carefully) porre, mettere, collocare; (arrange) disporre [ object]; (locate) collocare, piazzare, mettereto place an order for sth. — ordinare qcs.
2) fig.3) (in competition, exam) classificareto be placed third — [horse, athlete] piazzarsi al terzo posto
4) (judge) considerare5) (identify) riconoscere [person, accent]6) amm. (send, appoint) mettere [student, trainee]; (find home for) trovare una famiglia per [ child]to place sb. in charge of staff — affidare a qcn. la responsabilità dell'organico
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124 Edison, Thomas Alva
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USAd. 18 October 1931 Glenmont[br]American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.[br]He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.Further ReadingM.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.IMcN -
125 passage
'pæsi‹1) (a long narrow way through, eg a corridor through a building: There was a dark passage leading down to the river between tall buildings.) pasillo, pasadizo2) (a part of a piece of writing or music: That is my favourite passage from the Bible.) pasaje; episodio3) ((usually of time) the act of passing: the passage of time.) paso4) (a journey by boat: He paid for his passage by working as a steward.) viaje, travesíapassage n1. pasillo / pasadizo2. trozo / pasajetr['pæsɪʤ]2 (in building - corridor) pasillo3 (way, movement - gen) paso; (of vehicle) tránsito, paso4 (of time) paso, transcurso6 (writing, music) pasaje nombre masculino7 (of law, bill, etc) aprobación nombre femenino8 SMALLANATOMY/SMALL conducto\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto grant somebody a safe passage darle a alguien un salvoconductoback passage SMALLANATOMY/SMALL rectopassage ['pæsɪʤ] n1) passing: paso mthe passage of time: el paso del tiempo2) passageway: pasillo m (dentro de un edificio), pasaje m (entre edificios)3) voyage: travesía f (por el mar), viaje mto grant safe passage: dar un salvoconducto4) section: pasaje m (en música o literatura)n.• camino s.m.• galería s.f.• pasada s.f.• pasadizo s.m.• pasaje s.m.• pasillo s.m.• paso s.m.• tramo s.m.• transcurso s.m.• trozo s.m.• trámite s.m.• tránsito s.m.• vía s.f.'pæsɪdʒ1) cb) ( corridor) (esp BrE) pasillo m, corredor msecret passage — pasadizo m secreto
c) ( Anat) conducto m2) ua) ( right to pass) (frml) derecho m de tránsito; ( movement) paso mb) ( transition) paso mc) ( lapse)the passage of time — el paso or el transcurso del tiempo
4) c ( extract) pasaje m, trozo m['pæsɪdʒ]1. N1) (=corridor) pasillo m ; (between buildings, underground) pasaje m ; (=alley) callejón m•
a house full of secret passages — una casa llena de pasadizos secretos2) (Anat) conducto mback•
nasal passages — conductos nasales3) (=voyage) travesía f, viaje m ; (=fare) pasaje m•
to work one's passage — trabajar a bordo a cambio del pasaje4) (=access, way through) paso mhis bodyguards forced a passage through the crowds — sus guardaespaldas se abrieron camino or paso entre la muchedumbre
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their win has given them an easy passage to the final — han llegado fácilmente a la final tras esta victoria5) (=progress) paso mthe opposition was giving the bill a rough passage through Parliament — la oposición estaba obstruyendo la aprobación del proyecto de ley en el Parlamento
bird 2.•
with the passage of time — con el (paso del) tiempo6) (=transition) paso m•
one's passage into womanhood/manhood — el paso de uno a la edad adultarite 2.•
to ease their passage from a socialist to a market economy — para facilitar la transición or el paso de una economía socialista a una de mercado7) (=section) [of book, music] pasaje m2.CPDpassage money † N — pasaje m
* * *['pæsɪdʒ]1) cb) ( corridor) (esp BrE) pasillo m, corredor msecret passage — pasadizo m secreto
c) ( Anat) conducto m2) ua) ( right to pass) (frml) derecho m de tránsito; ( movement) paso mb) ( transition) paso mc) ( lapse)the passage of time — el paso or el transcurso del tiempo
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126 throughout
1) (in all parts of: They searched throughout the house.) por todas partes2) (from start to finish of: She complained throughout the journey.) durante todo, a lo largo dethroughout prep1. por todo / en todo2. durante todotr[ɵrʊː'aʊt]1 por todo,-a, en todo,-a2 (time) durante todo,-a, a lo largo de1 (all over) por/en todas partes■ the house has central heating throughout la casa tiene calefacción central en todas las habitaciones2 (completely) completamente3 (time) desde el principio hasta el fin, todo el tiempothroughout [ɵru:'aʊt] adv1) everywhere: por todas partes2) through: desde el principio hasta el fin de (algo)throughout prep1) : en todas partes de, a través dethroughout the United States: en todo Estados Unidos2) : de principio a fin de, durantethroughout the winter: durante todo el inviernoadv.• completamente (de principio a fin) adv.• desde el principio hasta el fin adv.• en todas partes adv.prep.• a lo largo de prep.• durante todo prep.• por todo prep.
I θruː'aʊt1) ( all over)throughout Europe/the world — en toda Europa/en todo el mundo or en el mundo entero
2) ( in time)throughout the afternoon/the weekend — (durante) toda la tarde/todo el fin de semana
II
a) ( all over) totalmentethe house is carpeted/beautifully decorated throughout — la casa está totalmente alfombrada/toda la casa tiene una decoración preciosa
b) ( in time) desde el principio hasta el fin[θrʊ'aʊt]1. PREP1) (place) por todo2) (time, process) durante todo2. ADV1) (=fully) completamente; (=everywhere) en todas partes, por todas partes2) (time, process) de principio a finon this project, the emphasis has been on teamwork throughout — en este proyecto, se ha hecho hincapié en el trabajo en equipo de principio a fin
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I [θruː'aʊt]1) ( all over)throughout Europe/the world — en toda Europa/en todo el mundo or en el mundo entero
2) ( in time)throughout the afternoon/the weekend — (durante) toda la tarde/todo el fin de semana
II
a) ( all over) totalmentethe house is carpeted/beautifully decorated throughout — la casa está totalmente alfombrada/toda la casa tiene una decoración preciosa
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127 unterhalten
v/t (unreg., trennb., hat -ge-) umg. hold s.th. underneath—(unreg., untr., hat)I v/t1. (Institution etc.) maintain; (Geschäft etc.) keep up, keep s.th. going; (Familie etc.) support; (Briefwechsel, Beziehungen) keep up; (Konto) keep, have; das Feuer unterhalten keep the fire burning2. (jemanden) (jemandem die Zeit vertreiben) entertain; (belustigen) auch amuse; das Publikum mit Musik unterhalten entertain the audience by playing some musicII v/refl2. (sich vergnügen) enjoy o.s., have a good time* * *(vergnügen) to amuse; to entertain;(versorgen) to keep; to support; to maintain;sich unterhaltento converse; to talk* * *un|ter|hạl|ten [ʊntɐ'haltn] ptp unterha\#lten insep irreg1. vt1) (= versorgen, ernähren) to support; Angestellten to maintain3) (= instand halten) Gebäude, Fahrzeug etc to maintain4) (= pflegen, aufrechterhalten) Kontakte, Beziehungen to maintain5) Gäste, Publikum to entertain2. vr1) (= sprechen) to talk (mit to, with)man kann sich mit ihm gut/schlecht/glänzend unterhalten — he's easy/not easy/really easy to talk to
man kann sich mit ihm nicht unterhalten — he's impossible to talk to, you can't talk to him
Herr Schmidt, ich hätte mich mal gerne mit Ihnen ein bisschen unterhalten — Herr Schmidt, I would like (to have) a little talk or chat with you
wir unterhalten uns noch! (drohend, begütigend) — we'll talk about that later
2) (= sich vergnügen) to enjoy oneself, to have a good timehabt ihr euch gut unterhalten? — did you enjoy yourselves?, did you have a good time?
* * *1) (to interest or give pleasure to (for a time): They amused themselves playing cards.) amuse2) (to amuse: His stories entertained us for hours.) entertain3) (to provide food, clothes, housing for (someone): He has a wife and child to keep.) keep4) (to pay the expenses of: How can you maintain a wife and three children on your small salary?) maintain5) (to supply with the means of living: He has a wife and four children to support.) support* * *un·ter·hal·ten *1[ʊntɐˈhaltn̩]▪ jdn \unterhalten to support sber muss vier Kinder \unterhalten he has to support four children2. (instand halten, pflegen)▪ etw \unterhalten to maintain sth3. (betreiben)▪ etw \unterhalten to run sth4. (innehaben)▪ etw \unterhalten to have sthein Konto \unterhalten (geh) to have an account▪ etw \unterhalten to maintain sthun·ter·hal·ten2[ʊntɐˈhaltn̩]▪ jdn \unterhalten to entertain sbII. vrdie Kinder können sich alleine \unterhalten the children can amuse themselves alone2. (sprechen)wir müssen uns mal \unterhalten we must have a talkun·ter·hal·ten3[ˈʊntɐhaltn̩]vt (fam)▪ etw \unterhalten to hold sth underneath* * *1.unregelmäßiges transitives Verb1) (versorgen) support2) (instand halten) maintain < building>3) (betreiben) run, keep <car, hotel>4) (pflegen) maintain, keep up <contact, correspondence>5) entertain <guest, audience>2.1) talk; converse2) (sich vergnügen) enjoy oneself* * *unter'halten (irr, untrennb, hat)A. v/t1. (Institution etc) maintain; (Geschäft etc) keep up, keep sth going; (Familie etc) support; (Briefwechsel, Beziehungen) keep up; (Konto) keep, have;das Feuer unterhalten keep the fire burningdas Publikum mit Musik unterhalten entertain the audience by playing some musicB. v/r1. talk (mit jemandem über etwas to sb about sth);sich ungestört unterhalten have a quiet chat2. (sich vergnügen) enjoy o.s., have a good time* * *1.unregelmäßiges transitives Verb1) (versorgen) support2) (instand halten) maintain < building>3) (betreiben) run, keep <car, hotel>4) (pflegen) maintain, keep up <contact, correspondence>5) entertain <guest, audience>2.1) talk; converse2) (sich vergnügen) enjoy oneself* * *v.to amuse v.to converse v.to entertain v.to maintain v. -
128 en este momento
at the moment* * *= at this point, at this stage, at this juncture, at this time, at this moment in time, right nowEx. At this point the user can enter a number or an 'o' for system, in which case the system will assign the borrower number.Ex. At this stage we need not worry about the precise nature of this information.Ex. So at this juncture all we can do is to apply common sense = Así pues, llegado este momento todo lo que podemos hacer es aplicar el sentido común.Ex. Even though both projects are building of the Cornell software and experience, they have encountered the usual delays associated with new technologies, so no significant information is available at this time.Ex. While people dominate at this moment in time, they are altering their environment and, at some future point, will become extinct, giving way to dominance by another organism.Ex. At these words he gulped loudly, spilling his coffee recklessly, and then said ' Right now!'.* * *= at this point, at this stage, at this juncture, at this time, at this moment in time, right nowEx: At this point the user can enter a number or an 'o' for system, in which case the system will assign the borrower number.
Ex: At this stage we need not worry about the precise nature of this information.Ex: So at this juncture all we can do is to apply common sense = Así pues, llegado este momento todo lo que podemos hacer es aplicar el sentido común.Ex: Even though both projects are building of the Cornell software and experience, they have encountered the usual delays associated with new technologies, so no significant information is available at this time.Ex: While people dominate at this moment in time, they are altering their environment and, at some future point, will become extinct, giving way to dominance by another organism.Ex: At these words he gulped loudly, spilling his coffee recklessly, and then said ' Right now!'.
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