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  • 101 stock

    1. сущ.
    1)
    а) торг. запас, резерв (совокупность сырья, товаров и др., хранимая для покрытия будущих потребностей; также в переносном смысле о наборе стандартных фраз, методологических приемов и т. п.); фонд; инвентарь, имущество

    to keep in stock — держать на складе, хранить на складе; иметь в запасе

    to have smth. in stock, to hold smth. in stock— иметь что-л. в запасе; хранить что-л. на складе

    to carry stock — хранить запасы, иметь в запасе

    to be short of stock, to be out of stock — не иметь запаса; не иметь на складе, не иметь в наличии (о сырье, товарах, ценных бумагах и т. д.)

    Syn:
    reserve 1. 1), stockpile 1. 1), inventory, bank, budget 1. 5), fund 1. 1), holding
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    б) торг. ассортимент (продуктов, товаров, напр., в торговой точке)

    varied stock — богатый ассортимент (товаров и т. п.)

    2) с.-х. скот; поголовье (не обязательно скота, а напр., птиц, рыб и т. д.)
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    3) трансп. парк, подвижной состав (совокупность определенных транспортных средств, напр., грузовиков, легковых автомобилей, автобусов, железнодорожных вагонов и т. д.)

    stock of cars — автомобильный парк, парк автомобилей

    Syn:
    4) с.-х. посадочный материал, саженцы (молодые деревья, кустарники и другие многолетние растения, выращенные в специальных питомниках и предназначенные для последующей продажи и посадки в озеленяемых районах, частных хозяйствах и т. д.)
    Syn:
    5)
    а) эк. акционерный капитал (капитал, привлеченный путем выпуска и размещения акций)
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    issue 1. 2), e
    б) эк., преим. мн. акции; пакет акций; фонды (часть суммарного акционерного капитала, принадлежащая определенному лицу или группе лиц)
    Syn:
    See:
    active stock, alpha stocks, alphabet stock, assented stock, assessable stock, auction rate preferred stock, authorized capital stock, authorized common stock, authorized stock, average stock 1), barometer stock, bearer stock, bellwether stock, beta stocks, blue chip stock, Bo Derek stock, bonus stock, callable preferred stock, callable stock, classified common stock, classified stock, closely held stock, common capital stock, common stock, constant growth stock, constant-growth stock, controlling stock, conversion stock, convertible adjustable preferred stock, convertible preference stock, convertible preferred stock, corporate stock, cumulative preferred stock, debenture stock, deferred stock, designer stock, dirty stock, distribution stock, donated stock, dud stock, Dutch auction preferred stock, equity stock, first preferred stock, floating rate preferred stock, floating-rate preferred stock, foreign stock 1), founders' stock, free stock, full stock, fully paid stock, gilt-edged stock, glamor stock, glamour stock, go-go stock, gold stock 2), growth stock, guarantee stock, guaranteed stock, half stock, half-stock, high beta stock, high-beta stock, high-grade stock 1), high-tech stock, hot stock, inactive stock, income stock, inscribed stock, interest-sensitive stock, irredeemable stock 2), issued capital stock, issued stock, junior stock, letter stock, leveraged stock, limited life preferred stock, low beta stock, low-beta stock, low-grade stock, management stock, margin stock, market auction preferred stock, money market preferred stock, monthly income preferred stock, no par value stock, no-load stock, non-assented stock, non-assessable stock, nonconstant growth stock, non-convertible preferred stock, noncumulative preferred stock, nonpar stock, non-par stock, non-par value stock, non-participating preferred stock, non-participating stock, non-par-value capital stock, non-par-value stock, non-voting stock, no-par stock, no-par-value capital stock, no-par-value stock, one decision stock, ordinary stock, orphan stock, out-of-favour stock, over-the-counter margin stock, overvalued stock, paid-up stock, paired stock, par value stock, participating preference stock, participating preferred stock, participating stock, part-paid stock, par-value stock, penny stock, performance stock, perpetual preferred stock, phantom stock, preference stock, preferred capital stock, preferred common stock, preferred equity redemption cumulative stock, preferred ordinary stock, preferred stock, prior preference stock, prior preferred stock, private stock, privately held stock, public stock 1), publicly held stock, quality stock, quarter stock, quarterly income preferred stock, reacquired stock, recovery stock, redeemable preferred stock, redeemable stock, registered stock, restricted stock, seasonal stock 1), second preference stock, second preferred stock, secondary stock, second-tier stock, senior preferred stock, senior stock, shadow stock, stapled stock, stopped stock, story stock, street name stock, street-name stock, stub stock, subscribed stock, supernormal growth stock, target stock, tracking stock, treasury stock, undated stock, under valued stock, underlying stock, undervalued stock, under-valued stock, unregistered stock, utility stock, value stock, variable rate preferred stock, variable-rate preferred stock, voting stock, wallflower stock, watered stock, whisper stock, widow-and-orphan stock, yo-yo stock, zero growth stock, zero-growth stock, stock broker, stockbroker, stock owner, stockholder 1), share capital 1) ordinary share, preference share, stake 1. 3)
    в) эк., преим. брит. облигации; (долговые) фонды; (долговые) ценные бумаги (обобщающее понятие, относящееся к ценным бумагам, свидетельствующим о предоставлении в долг определенной суммы другому лицу и обычно дающим право на получение фиксированного процента и на востребование предоставленной в долг суммы; обычно речь идет о государственных облигациях; термин также может означать и сам капитал, сформированный путем выпуска таких ценных бумаг или вложенный в такие ценные бумаги)
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    г) фин., юр., брит. акция (согласно доктрине британского права, под акцией понимается доля ее держателя, измеряемая определенной суммой, включающий различные права, установленные договором; акции должны быть именными; могут выпускаться как в документарной форме, согласно закону "О компаниях" от 1985 г., так и в электронной форме, согласно Положению о бездокументарных ценных бумагах от 1995 г.; передача прав на акции через средства электронной техники регламентируется законом 1982 г. "О передаче акций"; законом 1963 г. с аналогичным названием была утверждена форма передаточного распоряжения, которая должна заполняться при совершении сделок с акциями)
    See:
    6) пром. сырье, исходный продукт (основа для производства чего-л.)
    See:
    7)
    а) общ. корень, источник происхождения; прародитель

    But we must remember the stock of all mankind has come from the blue-black African. — Но мы должны помнить, что прародителем всего рода человеческого был иссиня-черный африканец.

    б) общ. род, семья; происхождение; родословная, генеалогия

    he is of American stock, born near Terre Haute, Indiana — он американского происхождения, родился около Терре-Хота, штат Индиана

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    в) общ. род, порода ( животных); племя, раса
    8) с.-х. подвой (ствол или побег растения, на который прививают часть другого растения — привоя)
    Syn:
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    5)
    9) СМИ пленка
    10)
    а) общ. репутация, имя
    б) общ. вера, доверие (кому-л. или чему-л.)
    2. гл.
    1) эк. снабжать, поставлять, обеспечивать

    It was not difficult to persuade the local news distributor to stock the shop with papers and magazines. — Было нетрудно убедить местного распространителя информационных изданий поставлять в этот магазин газеты и журналы.

    Some of the money also may be used to stock the lake with additional fish. — Часть этих денег также может быть использована, чтобы пополнить поголовье рыбы в озере.

    All of these discouraging experiences helped to mature him and stock his mind with information, but they did not make him rich. — Весь этот печальный опыт помог ему повзрослеть и обогатить разум новой информацией, но не сделал его богатым.

    2)
    а) общ. создавать запасы; запасать(ся), накапливать (приобретать и хранить товары, которые могут понадобиться в будущем)
    Syn:
    б) эк. иметь в наличии [в продаже, иметь в запасе\]; хранить на складе
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    3) с.-х. выгонять (скот) на пастбище, пасти (скот)

    However, on most south Texas ranches, it would be acceptable to stock cattle at the rate of one animal unit for each 25-30 acres. — Однако, на большинстве ранчо южного Техаса, допустимо пасти скот в расчете одна условная единица скота на каждые 25-30 акров.

    4) с.-х. случать ( домашних животных); осеменять ( животных)
    3. прил.
    1) общ. имеющийся в наличии [наготове, в запасе\] (о товаре, имеющемся на руках у данного лица и готовом к продаже, отпуску в производство или другому использованию)
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    2) общ. заезженный, избитый, дежурный (о фразах, шутках и т. п.); стандартный, типовой

    stock phrase — клише, избитая фраза*; дежурная фраза*

    stock argument — стандартный [обычный\] аргумент (традиционно приводимый в пользу или против чего-л.)

    Syn:
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    3) с.-х. племенной, породистый (о чистопородном или высококровном помесном животном, используемом для размножения)
    4)
    а) с.-х. скотоводческий; животноводческий (занимающийся разведением домашнего скота, связанный с разведением животных)

    stock truck — скотовоз, грузовик для (перевозки) скота

    5) бирж. фондовый; биржевой (относящийся к ценным бумагам, связанный с операциями с ценными бумагами; связанный с фондовой биржей)
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    6) эк. акционерный (о компаниях, капитал которых сформирован за счет выпуска акций; о самой форме собственности, связанной с такими компаниями, также о самом капитале, сформированном таким образом и т. п.)
    Syn:
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    7) эк. складской (связанный с проверкой количества и состояния запасов, управлением уровнем запасов, контролем отпуска сырья или товаров со склада и т. п.)
    See:

    * * *
    1) акция, свидетельство на участие в капитале акционерного общества; ценные бумаги, реально переходящие из рук в руки; сертификаты акций и облигаций (Великобритания); акционерный капитал корпорации (США): обыкновенные и привилегированные акции; см. capital stock; 2) = rolling stock; 3) товарные запасы.
    * * *
    • 1) /vt/ снабжать; 2) /vt/ запасать; 3) /in passive/ снабженный
    • 1) ценные бумаги; 2) основной капитал
    * * *
    . Акционерный капитал корпорации, представленный в виде акций, т.е. ценных бумаг, дающих право их владельцам на часть активов и прибыли корпорации . акция; сертификат оплаченной акции; материально-производственные запасы; ценная бумага; сток Инвестиционная деятельность .
    * * *
    1. ценные бумаги (в Великобритании) с фиксированным процентом, выпускаемые правительством, местными органами власти или компанией одинаковым фиксированным номиналом
    2. распространенное в США название обыкновенных акций
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    Ценные бумаги/Биржевая деятельность
    ценная бумага без установленного срока обращения, которая свидетельствует о внесении известного пая в уставный фонд корпорации, определяет возможность управления ею, дает право на получение части прибыли в виде дивиденда см. - share

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > stock

  • 102 whistle

    'wisl
    1. verb
    1) (to make a shrill, often musical, sound by forcing one's breath between the lips or teeth: Can you whistle?; He whistled to attract my attention; He whistled a happy tune.) silbar
    2) (to make such a sound with a device designed for this: The electric kettle's whistling; The referee whistled for half-time.) silbar, pitar
    3) (to make a shrill sound in passing through the air: The bullet whistled past his head.) pasar silbando
    4) ((of the wind) to blow with a shrill sound.) silbar

    2. noun
    1) (the sound made by whistling: He gave a loud whistle to his friend across the road.) silbido, pitido
    2) (a musical pipe designed to make a whistling noise.) silbato, pito
    3) (an instrument used by policemen, referees etc to make a whistling noise: The referee blew his whistle at the end of the game.) silbato, pito
    1. pito / silbato
    policemen used to carry whistles antes, los policías llevaban silbato
    2. pitido / silbido
    whistle2 vb pitar / silbar
    I whistled, but he did not hear me silbé, pero no me oyó
    tr['wɪsəl]
    1 (instrument) silbato, pito
    2 (noise) silbido, pitido; (of train) pitido; (of wind) silbido
    1 (tune) silbar
    1 (person, kettle, wind) silbar; (referee, police, train) pitar
    2 (call) llamar con un silbido, silbar; (protest) silbar, pitar
    3 (move swiftly) pasar silbando
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to wet one's whistle mojar el gaznate, echarse un trago
    to whistle for something esperar algo vanamente
    whistle ['hwɪsəl] v, - tled ; - tling vi
    : silbar, chiflar, pitar (dícese de un tren, etc.)
    : silbar
    to whistle a tune: silbar una melodía
    1) whistling: chiflido m, silbido m
    2) : silbato m, pito m (instrumento)
    v.
    • chiflar v.
    • gemir v.
    • llamar con un silbido v.
    • silbar v.
    n.
    • chifla s.f.
    • chifladera s.f.
    • chiflato s.m.
    • chifle s.m.
    • chiflido s.m.
    • chiflo s.m.
    • gemido s.m.
    • pitada s.f.
    • pitido s.m.
    • pito s.m.
    • silbato s.m.
    • silbido s.m.
    • silbo s.m.

    I
    1. 'hwɪsəl, 'wɪsəl
    a) ( make sound) \<\<person\>\> silbar; ( loudly) chiflar; \<\<referee\>\> pitar; \<\<kettle\>\> silbar, pitar; \<\<train\>\> pitar; \<\<wind\>\> silbar, aullar*

    if they want more money, they can whistle for it — si quieren más dinero, van a tener que esperar sentados (fam)

    b) (speed, rush) (+ adv compl)

    to whistle by — \<\<bullet/arrow\>\> pasar silbando


    2.
    vt \<\<tune\>\> silbar

    II
    a) ( instrument) silbato m, pito m

    to blow a whistle — tocar* un silbato or pito, pitar

    as clean as a whistle: your lungs are as clean as a whistle no tiene absolutamente nada en los pulmones; his record is as clean as a whistle tiene un historial sin mancha; to blow the whistle on somebody ( inform on) delatar a alguien; ( reprimand) llamar a alguien al orden; to blow the whistle on something ( put a stop to) tomar medidas para acabar con algo; to wet one's whistle — (hum) echarse un trago

    b) ( sound - made with mouth) silbido m; ( loud) chiflido m; (- made by referee's whistle) silbato m, pitido m; (- of kettle) silbido m, pitido m; (- of train) pitido m; (- of wind, bullet) silbido m
    ['wɪsl]
    1. N
    1) (=sound) silbido m, chiflido m (esp LAm)

    final whistle — pitido m final

    2) (=instrument) silbato m, pito m
    - blow the whistle on sb
    2.
    3.
    VI silbar, chiflar (esp LAm); (Sport) pitar, silbar
    * * *

    I
    1. ['hwɪsəl, 'wɪsəl]
    a) ( make sound) \<\<person\>\> silbar; ( loudly) chiflar; \<\<referee\>\> pitar; \<\<kettle\>\> silbar, pitar; \<\<train\>\> pitar; \<\<wind\>\> silbar, aullar*

    if they want more money, they can whistle for it — si quieren más dinero, van a tener que esperar sentados (fam)

    b) (speed, rush) (+ adv compl)

    to whistle by — \<\<bullet/arrow\>\> pasar silbando


    2.
    vt \<\<tune\>\> silbar

    II
    a) ( instrument) silbato m, pito m

    to blow a whistle — tocar* un silbato or pito, pitar

    as clean as a whistle: your lungs are as clean as a whistle no tiene absolutamente nada en los pulmones; his record is as clean as a whistle tiene un historial sin mancha; to blow the whistle on somebody ( inform on) delatar a alguien; ( reprimand) llamar a alguien al orden; to blow the whistle on something ( put a stop to) tomar medidas para acabar con algo; to wet one's whistle — (hum) echarse un trago

    b) ( sound - made with mouth) silbido m; ( loud) chiflido m; (- made by referee's whistle) silbato m, pitido m; (- of kettle) silbido m, pitido m; (- of train) pitido m; (- of wind, bullet) silbido m

    English-spanish dictionary > whistle

  • 103 American Sheetings

    An enormous trade is done by the American manufacturers in plain cloths termed "Sheetings", such as 34/5 fin., 80 yards, 64 X 64, 16/26, 29/30-lb. There is little variation in quality. They are used for sheets when bleached, but also for window blinds, bags, shirts, dress goods, draperies, when dyed or printed. The weave is plain so the cloth is not a true sheeting. The cloth described as "Americans" is also known under this style, but it is not correct, as a sheeting is a twill cloth and very much wider. The term "Cabot" is also given to the cloth (see Cabot)

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > American Sheetings

  • 104 Half-Bred Wools

    A term applied to wools produced Joy breeding from two types of pure bred sheep. North - This is a cross between Border Leicester and Cheviot. It is by far the most important and valuable and is usually classed as demi-lustre wool. It has a 6-in. staple and spins 46's quality. South Ireland- - Similar in quality and length to North wools, it is clean, but not so nice in handle. Scotch Cross is between Leicester and Blackfaced, and between Cheviot and Black-faced. It is inferior in quality. Other well-known crosses are: - Down-Cheviot, Leicester-Down, Down-North, Leicester-North. These are, however, never used for breeding. Lambs or hoggs are fed and slaughtered as they reach condition for the butcher, hence these wools are chiefly from skins. Very good half-breds are also grown in Nottingham, Leicester, Lincoln, Derbyshire and Warwickshire. Eastern Counties' half-breds are very good hosiery types, but are heavier, not so attractive, and have more grey fibres.

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Half-Bred Wools

  • 105 Silk Yarn Counts

    See Denier. Spun silk counts are based on the 840 yards hank, as in cotton, but in folded yarns the finished count is used, not the single count, with the number of component threads placed after the actual count resulting from the doubling. Thus 40/2 has 40 hanks of 840 yards in i-lb. and is composed of two threads of 80's single. Dram System - The weight of 1,000 yards in drams gives the counts, thus if 1,000 yards weighs 6 drams it is known as " 6-dram silk." This is known as the Manchester method of thrown silk counting. Another system is the number of yards per ounce, thus 25,000 organzine or tram yarn means 25,000 yards per ounce, and is that used in Yorkshire. The expression 12/14 as applied to silk yarn counts means that the yarn is not lighter than 12 denier, nor heavier than 14 denier, the average being 13

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Silk Yarn Counts

  • 106 Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside

    [br]
    b. 26 November 1810 Shieldfield, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    d. 27 December 1900 Cragside, Northumbria, England
    [br]
    English inventor, engineer and entrepreneur in hydraulic engineering, shipbuilding and the production of artillery.
    [br]
    The only son of a corn merchant, Alderman William Armstrong, he was educated at private schools in Newcastle and at Bishop Auckland Grammar School. He then became an articled clerk in the office of Armorer Donkin, a solicitor and a friend of his father. During a fishing trip he saw a water-wheel driven by an open stream to work a marble-cutting machine. He felt that its efficiency would be improved by introducing the water to the wheel in a pipe. He developed an interest in hydraulics and in electricity, and became a popular lecturer on these subjects. From 1838 he became friendly with Henry Watson of the High Bridge Works, Newcastle, and for six years he visited the Works almost daily, studying turret clocks, telescopes, papermaking machinery, surveying instruments and other equipment being produced. There he had built his first hydraulic machine, which generated 5 hp when run off the Newcastle town water-mains. He then designed and made a working model of a hydraulic crane, but it created little interest. In 1845, after he had served this rather unconventional apprenticeship at High Bridge Works, he was appointed Secretary of the newly formed Whittle Dene Water Company. The same year he proposed to the town council of Newcastle the conversion of one of the quayside cranes to his hydraulic operation which, if successful, should also be applied to a further four cranes. This was done by the Newcastle Cranage Company at High Bridge Works. In 1847 he gave up law and formed W.G.Armstrong \& Co. to manufacture hydraulic machinery in a works at Elswick. Orders for cranes, hoists, dock gates and bridges were obtained from mines; docks and railways.
    Early in the Crimean War, the War Office asked him to design and make submarine mines to blow up ships that were sunk by the Russians to block the entrance to Sevastopol harbour. The mines were never used, but this set him thinking about military affairs and brought him many useful contacts at the War Office. Learning that two eighteen-pounder British guns had silenced a whole Russian battery but were too heavy to move over rough ground, he carried out a thorough investigation and proposed light field guns with rifled barrels to fire elongated lead projectiles rather than cast-iron balls. He delivered his first gun in 1855; it was built of a steel core and wound-iron wire jacket. The barrel was multi-grooved and the gun weighed a quarter of a ton and could fire a 3 lb (1.4 kg) projectile. This was considered too light and was sent back to the factory to be rebored to take a 5 lb (2.3 kg) shot. The gun was a complete success and Armstrong was then asked to design and produce an equally successful eighteen-pounder. In 1859 he was appointed Engineer of Rifled Ordnance and was knighted. However, there was considerable opposition from the notably conservative officers of the Army who resented the intrusion of this civilian engineer in their affairs. In 1862, contracts with the Elswick Ordnance Company were terminated, and the Government rejected breech-loading and went back to muzzle-loading. Armstrong resigned and concentrated on foreign sales, which were successful worldwide.
    The search for a suitable proving ground for a 12-ton gun led to an interest in shipbuilding at Elswick from 1868. This necessitated the replacement of an earlier stone bridge with the hydraulically operated Tyne Swing Bridge, which weighed some 1450 tons and allowed a clear passage for shipping. Hydraulic equipment on warships became more complex and increasing quantities of it were made at the Elswick works, which also flourished with the reintroduction of the breech-loader in 1878. In 1884 an open-hearth acid steelworks was added to the Elswick facilities. In 1897 the firm merged with Sir Joseph Whitworth \& Co. to become Sir W.G.Armstrong Whitworth \& Co. After Armstrong's death a further merger with Vickers Ltd formed Vickers Armstrong Ltd.
    In 1879 Armstrong took a great interest in Joseph Swan's invention of the incandescent electric light-bulb. He was one of those who formed the Swan Electric Light Company, opening a factory at South Benwell to make the bulbs. At Cragside, his mansion at Roth bury, he installed a water turbine and generator, making it one of the first houses in England to be lit by electricity.
    Armstrong was a noted philanthropist, building houses for his workforce, and endowing schools, hospitals and parks. His last act of charity was to purchase Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, in 1894, intending to turn it into a hospital or a convalescent home, but he did not live long enough to complete the work.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1859. FRS 1846. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Institution of Civil Engineers; British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863. Baron Armstrong of Cragside 1887.
    Further Reading
    E.R.Jones, 1886, Heroes of Industry', London: Low.
    D.J.Scott, 1962, A History of Vickers, London: Weidenfeld \& Nicolson.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Armstrong, Sir William George, Baron Armstrong of Cragside

  • 107 Winding

    The operation of transferring yarn from one form of package to another, such as winding from hanks to bobbins, from bobbins to cones, from cops to bobbins, etc. The process that follows spinning determines whether winding is necessary or not. Cops and ring tubes or bobbins can be used in that form as weft in the shuttle, but they are not suitable for making into warps, nor as supply to knitting or braiding machines. Yarn in the other forms of spun packages requires to be pirned for use as weft. Although yarn winding is not a fundamental process like spinning and weaving, it occupies a very important place in the economics of yarn processing, and probably embraces a wider range of different machines than any other phase of textile processing. Even a bare catalogue of the different kinds of winding machines would far too lengthy for inclusion here. Broadly, winding machines are adapted for: - 1. Winding yarn for use as weft in loom shuttles, including winding on to wood pirns and paper tubes; solid cops for use in shuttles without tongues; quills for use in ribbon and smallware looms; layer locking at the nose of the pirn to prevent sloughing of rayon weft; bunch building at the base of pirns for use in automatic looms; weft rewound from spinner's cops into larger packages to give maximum length at one filling of the shuttle. The yarn supply can be from hanks, cops, spinner's bobbins, cones, cheeses, warps, etc. 2. Winding yarns for making warps from spinner's cops or bobbins, hanks that have been sized, bleached or dyed, cones, cheeses, and other forms of supply. 3. Winding yarns into suitable form for sizing, bleaching, dyeing, or for receiving other wet treatments, including hanks, warps, cheeses, cops, etc. 4. Winding yarns for knitting, i.e., on to splicer bobbins, cones, pineapple cones, bottle bobbins, etc., and on to bobbins for use in braiding machines. 5. Special process winding such as the precision winding of several threads side by side in tape form for covering wire, etc. 6. Winding yarns into packages for retail selling such as winding mending wools on cards; sewing thread on wood spools or small flangeless cheeses; crochet embroidery and other threads into balls; packing string info balls and cheeses; harvesting twine into large balls and cones, etc.

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  • 108 Guericke, Otto von

    [br]
    b. 20 November 1602 Magdeburg, Saxony, Germany
    d. 11 May 1686 Hamburg, Germany
    [br]
    German engineer and physicist, inventor of the air pump and investigator of the properties of a vacuum.
    [br]
    Guericke was born into a patrician family in Magdeburg. He was educated at the University of Leipzig in 1617–20 and at the University of Helmstedt in 1620. He then spent two years studying law at Jena, and in 1622 went to Leiden to study law, mathematics, engineering and especially fortification. He spent most of his life in politics, for he was elected an alderman of Magdeburg in 1626. After the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631, he worked in Brunswick and Erfurt as an engineer for the Swedish government, and then in 1635 for the Electorate of Saxony. He was Mayor of Magdeburg for thirty years, between 1646 and 1676. He was ennobled in 1666 and retired from public office in 168land went to Hamburg. It was through his attendances at international congresses and at princely courts that he took part in the exchange of scientific ideas.
    From his student days he was concerned with the definition of space and posed three questions: can empty space exist or is space always filled? How can heavenly bodies affect each other across space and how are they moved? Is space, and so also the heavenly bodies, bounded or unbounded? In c. 1647 Guericke made a suction pump for air and tried to exhaust a beer barrel, but he could not stop the leaks. He then tried a copper sphere, which imploded. He developed a series of spectacular demonstrations with his air pump. In 1654 at Rattisbon he used a vertical cylinder with a well-fitting piston connected over pulleys by a rope to fifty men, who could not stop the piston descending when the cylinder was exhausted. More famous were his copper hemispheres which, when exhausted, could not be drawn apart by two teams of eight horses. They were first demonstrated at Magdeburg in 1657 and at the court in Berlin in 1663. Through these experiments he discovered the elasticity of air and began to investigate its density at different heights. He heard of the work of Torricelli in 1653 and by 1660 had succeeded in making barometric forecasts. He published his famous work New Experiments Concerning Empty Space in 1672. Between 1660 and 1663 Guericke constructed a large ball of sulphur that could be rotated on a spindle. He found that, when he pressed his hand on it and it was rotated, it became strongly electrified; he thus unintentionally became the inventor of the first machine to generate static electricity. He attempted to reach a complete physical explanation of the world and the heavens with magnetism as a primary force and evolved an explanation for the rotation of the heavenly bodies.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1672, Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio (New Experiments Concerning Empty Space).
    Further Reading
    F.W.Hoffmann, 1874, Otto von Guericke (a full biography).
    T.I.Williams (ed.), 1969, A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, London: A. \& C.Black (contains a short account of his life).
    Chambers Concise Dictionary of Scientists, 1989, Cambridge.
    Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vols. III and IV, Oxford University Press (includes references to Guericke's inventions).
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    Biographical history of technology > Guericke, Otto von

  • 109 Hargreaves, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. c.1720–1 Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn, England
    d. April 1778 Nottingham, England
    [br]
    English inventor of the first successful machine to spin more than a couple of yarns of cotton or wool at once.
    [br]
    James Hargreaves was first a carpenter and then a hand-loom weaver at Stanhill, Blackburn, probably making Blackburn Checks or Greys from linen warps and cotton weft. An invention ascribed to him doubled production in the preparatory carding process before spinning. Two or three cards were nailed to the same stock and the upper one was suspended from the ceiling by a cord and counterweight. Around 1762 Robert Peel (1750–1830) sought his assistance in constructing a carding engine with cylinders that may have originated with Daniel Bourn, but this was not successful. In 1764, inspired by seeing a spinning wheel that continued to revolve after it had been knocked over accidentally, Hargreaves invented his spinning jenny. The first jennies had horizontal wheels and could spin eight threads at once. To spin on this machine required a great deal of skill. A length of roving was passed through the clamp or clove. The left hand was used to close this and draw the roving away from the spindles which were rotated by the spinner turning the horizontal wheel with the right hand. The spindles twisted the fibres as they were being drawn out. At the end of the draw, the spindles continued to be rotated until sufficient twist had been put into the fibres to make the finished yarn. This was backed off from the tips of the spindles by reversing them and then, with the spindles turning in the spinning direction once more, the yarn was wound on by the right hand rotating the spindles, the left hand pushing the clove back towards them and one foot operating a pedal which guided the yarn onto the spindles by a faller wire. A piecer was needed to rejoin the yarns when they broke. At first Hargreaves's jenny was worked only by his family, but then he sold two or three of them, possibly to Peel. In 1768, local opposition and a riot in which his house was gutted forced him to flee to Nottingham. He entered into partnership there with Thomas James and established a cotton mill. In 1770 he followed Arkwright's example and sought to patent his machine and brought an action for infringement against some Lancashire manufacturers, who offered £3,000 in settlement. Hargreaves held out for £4,000, but he was unable to enforce his patent because he had sold jennies before leaving Lancashire. Arkwright's "water twist" was more suitable for the Nottingham hosiery industry trade than jenny yarn and in 1777 Hargreaves replaced his own machines with Arkwright's. When he died the following year, he is said to have left property valued at £7,000 and his widow received £400 for her share in the business. Once the jenny had been made public, it was quickly improved by other inventors and the number of spindles per machine increased. In 1784, there were reputed to be 20,000 jennies of 80 spindles each at work. The jenny greatly eased the shortage of cotton weft for weavers.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1770, British patent no. 962 (spinning jenny).
    Further Reading
    C.Aspin and S.D.Chapman, 1964, James Hargreaves and the Spinning Jenny, Helmshore Local History Society (the fullest account of Hargreaves's life and inventions).
    For descriptions of his invention, see W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester; and W.A.Hunter, 1951–3, "James Hargreaves and the invention of the spinning jenny", Transactions of
    the Newcomen Society 28.
    A.P.Wadsworth and J. de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, Manchester (a good background to the whole of this period).
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    Biographical history of technology > Hargreaves, James

  • 110 Lewis, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. c. 1815 England
    [br]
    English developer of a machine for shearing woollen cloth with rotary cutters.
    [br]
    To give a smooth surface to cloth such as the old English broadcloth, the nap was raised and then sheared off. Hand-operated shears of enormous size were used to cut the fibres that stuck up when the cloth was laid over a curved table top. Great skill was required to achieve a smooth finish. Various attempts, such as that in 1784 by James Harmer, a clergyman of Sheffield, were made to mechanize the process by placing several pairs of shears in a frame and operating them by cranks, but success was not achieved. Samuel G. Dow of Albany, New York, patented a rotary shearer in England in 1794, and there was Samuel Dore in the same year too. John Lewis never claimed that he invented the rotary cutter, and it is possible that he made have seen drawings or actual examples of these earlier machines. His claim in his patent of 1815 was that, for the first time, he brought together a number of desirable features in one machine for shearing cloth to achieve the first really successful example. The local story in the Stroudwater district in Gloucestershire is that Lewis obtained this idea from Budding, who as a lad worked for the Lewis family, clothiers at Brinscombe Mills; Budding invented a lawn mower with rotary barrel blades that works on the same principle, patenting it in 1830. In the shearing machine, the cloth was moved underneath the blades, which could be of the same width so that only one operation was needed for each side. Other inventors had similar ideas, and a Stroud engineer, Stephen Price, took out a patent a month after Lewis did. These machines spread quickly in the Gloucestershire textile industry, and by 1830 hand-shearing was extinct. John Lewis was the son of Joseph, who had inherited the Brinscombe Mills in 1790 but must have died before 1815, when his children mortgaged the property for £12,000. Joseph's three sons, George, William and John, worked the mill for a time, but in 1840 William was there alone.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1815, British patent no. 3,945 (rotary shearing machine).
    Further Reading
    J. de L.Mann, 1971, The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1660 to 1880, Oxford (the best account of the introduction of the shearing machines).
    J.Tann, 1967, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, Newton Abbot (includes notes about the Brinscombe Mills).
    K.G.Ponting, 1971, The Woollen Industry of South-West England, Bath; and H.A.Randall, 1965–6, "Some mid-Gloucestershire engineers and inventors", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 38 (both mention Lewis's machine).
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    Biographical history of technology > Lewis, John

  • 111 Caproni, Giovanni Battista (Gianni), Conte di Taliedo

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 3 June 1886 Massone, Italy
    d. 29 October 1957 Rome, Italy
    [br]
    Italian aircraft designer and manufacturer, well known for his early large-aircraft designs.
    [br]
    Gianni Caproni studied civil and electrical engineering in Munich and Liège before moving on to Paris, where he developed an interest in aeronautics. He built his first aircraft in 1910, a biplane with a tricycle undercarriage (which has been claimed as the world's first tricycle undercarriage). Caproni and his brother, Dr Fred Caproni, set up a factory at Malpensa in northern Italy and produced a series of monoplanes and biplanes. In 1913 Caproni astounded the aviation world with his Ca 30 three-engined biplane bomber. There followed many variations, of which the most significant were the Ca 32 of 1915, the first large bomber to enter service in significant numbers, and the Ca 42 triplane of 1917 with a wing span of almost 30 metres.
    After the First World War, Caproni designed an even larger aircraft with three pairs of triplane wings (i.e. nine wings each of 30 metres span) and eight engines. This Ca 60 flying boat was designed to carry 100 passengers. In 1921 it made one short flight lightly loaded; however, with a load of sandbags representing sixty passengers, it crashed soon after take-off. The project was abandoned but Caproni's company prospered and expanded to become one of the largest groups of companies in Italy. In the 1930s Caproni aircraft twice broke the world altitude record. Several Caproni types were in service when Italy entered the Second World War, and an unusual research aircraft was under development. The Caproni-Campini No. 1 (CC2) was a jet, but it did not have a gas-turbine engine. Dr Campini's engine used a piston engine to drive a compressor which forced air out through a nozzle, and by burning fuel in this airstream a jet was produced. It flew with limited success in August 1940, amid much publicity: the first German jet (1939) and the first British jet (1941) were both flown in secret. Caproni retained many of his early aircraft for his private museum, including some salvaged parts from his monstrous flying boat.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Created Conte di Taliedo 1940.
    Further Reading
    Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, 1976, Vol. XIX.
    The Caproni Museum has published two books on the Caproni aeroplanes: Gli Aeroplani Caproni -1909–1935 and Gli Aeroplani Caproni dal 1935 in poi. See also Jane's
    fighting Aircraft of World War 1; 1919, republished 1990.
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    Biographical history of technology > Caproni, Giovanni Battista (Gianni), Conte di Taliedo

  • 112 Dore (Dorr), Samuel Griswold

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. USA
    d. 1794 England
    [br]
    American inventor of the first rotary shearing machine.
    [br]
    To give a smooth surface to cloth such as the old English broadcloth, the nap was raised and then sheared off. Hand-operated shears of enormous size cut the fibres standing proud of the surface while the cloth was laid over a curved table top. Great skill was required to achieve a smooth finish. Various attempts, such as that in 1784 by James Harmer, a clergyman of Sheffield, were made to mechanize the process by placing several pairs of shears in a frame and operating them by cranks, but these were not successful. The first version of a rotary machine was made by Samuel Griswold Dore (sometimes spelt Dorr), an American from Albany, New York. His first frame, patented in 1792 in America, consisted of a wheel of twelve "spring knives" that were fixed like spokes and set at an angle of about 45° to the horizontal. Under this wheel, and on the same axle, rode a second one, carrying four "tangent knives" that lay almost flat upon the cloth. As the two wheels rotated above the cloth's surface, they acted in "the manner of shears". The principle used in Dore's machine is certainly different from that in the later, successful machine of John Lewis. The machine was thought to be too complicated and expensive for American woollen manufacturers and was much better suited to circumstances in the English industry, Dore therefore moved to England. However, in his British patent in 1793, he introduced a different design, which was more like that on which both Lewis's machine and the lawnmower were based, with knives set across the periphery of a hollow cylinder or barrel. Little more was heard of his machine in Britain, possibly because of Dore's death, which is mentioned in his patent of 1794, although it was used in America and France. Dore's son and others improved the machine in America and brought new specifications to England in 1811, when several patents were taken out.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1792. US patent (rotary shearing machine).
    1793. British patent no. 1,945 (rotary shearing machine). 1794. British patent no. 1,985.
    Further Reading
    D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s, Oxford (examines Dore's inventions and their transfer to Britain).
    Mention of Dore can be found in: J. de L.Mann, 1971, The Cloth Industry in the West of England from 1660 to 1880, Oxford; K.G.Ponting, 1971, The Woollen Industry of South-West England, Bath.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press (discusses Dore's inventions).
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    Biographical history of technology > Dore (Dorr), Samuel Griswold

  • 113 Graham, George

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. c.1674 Cumberland, England
    d. 16 November 1751 London, England
    [br]
    English watch-and clockmaker who invented the cylinder escapement for watches, the first successful dead-beat escapement for clocks and the mercury compensation pendulum.
    [br]
    Graham's father died soon after his birth, so he was raised by his brother. In 1688 he was apprenticed to the London clockmaker Henry Aske, and in 1695 he gained his freedom. He was employed as a journeyman by Tompion in 1696 and later married his niece. In 1711 he formed a partnership with Tompion and effectively ran the business in Tompion's declining years; he took over the business after Tompion died in 1713. In addition to his horological interests he also made scientific instruments, specializing in those for astronomical use. As a person, he was well respected and appears to have lived up to the epithet "Honest George Graham". He befriended John Harrison when he first went to London and lent him money to further his researches at a time when they might have conflicted with his own interests.
    The two common forms of escapement in use in Graham's time, the anchor escapement for clocks and the verge escapement for watches, shared the same weakness: they interfered severely with the free oscillation of the pendulum and the balance, and thus adversely affected the timekeeping. Tompion's two frictional rest escapements, the dead-beat for clocks and the horizontal for watches, had provided a partial solution by eliminating recoil (the momentary reversal of the motion of the timepiece), but they had not been successful in practice. Around 1720 Graham produced his own much improved version of the dead-beat escapement which became a standard feature of regulator clocks, at least in Britain, until its supremacy was challenged at the end of the nineteenth century by the superior accuracy of the Riefler clock. Another feature of the regulator clock owed to Graham was the mercury compensation pendulum, which he invented in 1722 and published four years later. The bob of this pendulum contained mercury, the surface of which rose or fell with changes in temperature, compensating for the concomitant variation in the length of the pendulum rod. Graham devised his mercury pendulum after he had failed to achieve compensation by means of the difference in expansion between various metals. He then turned his attention to improving Tompion's horizontal escapement, and by 1725 the cylinder escapement existed in what was virtually its final form. From the following year he fitted this escapement to all his watches, and it was also used extensively by London makers for their precision watches. It proved to be somewhat lacking in durability, but this problem was overcome later in the century by using a ruby cylinder, notably by Abraham Louis Breguet. It was revived, in a cheaper form, by the Swiss and the French in the nineteenth century and was produced in vast quantities.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1720. Master of the Clockmakers' Company 1722.
    Bibliography
    Graham contributed many papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in particular "A contrivance to avoid the irregularities in a clock's motion occasion'd by the action of heat and cold upon the rod of the pendulum" (1726) 34:40–4.
    Further Reading
    Britten's Watch \& Clock Maker's Handbook Dictionary and Guide, 1978, rev. Richard Good, 16th edn, London, pp. 81, 84, 232 (for a technical description of the dead-beat and cylinder escapements and the mercury compensation pendulum).
    A.J.Turner, 1972, "The introduction of the dead-beat escapement: a new document", Antiquarian Horology 8:71.
    E.A.Battison, 1972, biography, Biographical Dictionary of Science, ed. C.C.Gillespie, Vol. V, New York, 490–2 (contains a résumé of Graham's non-horological activities).
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    Biographical history of technology > Graham, George

  • 114 Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy

    [br]
    b. 14 February 1793 Treator, near Padstow, Cornwall, England
    d. 28 February 1875 Reeds, near Bude, Cornwall, England
    [br]
    English pioneer of steam road transport.
    [br]
    Educated at Truro Grammar School, he then studied under Dr Avery at Wadebridge to become a doctor of medicine. He settled as a surgeon in Wadebridge, spending his leisure time in building an organ and in the study of chemistry and mechanical science. He married Elizabeth Symons in 1814, and in 1820 moved with his wife to London. He delivered a course of lectures at the Surrey Institution on the elements of chemical science, attended by, amongst others, the young Michael Faraday. While there, Gurney made his first invention, the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. For this he received the Gold Medal of the Society of Arts. He experimented with lime and magnesia for the production of an illuminant for lighthouses with some success. He invented a musical instrument of glasses played like a piano.
    In 1823 he started experiments related to steam and locomotion which necessitated taking a partner in to his medical practice, from which he resigned shortly after. His objective was to produce a steam-driven vehicle to run on common roads. His invention of the steam-jet of blast greatly improved the performance of the steam engine. In 1827 he took his steam carriage to Cyfarthfa at the request of Mr Crawshaw, and while there applied his steam-jet to the blast furnaces, greatly improving their performance in the manufacture of iron. Much of the success of George Stephenson's steam engine, the Rocket was due to Gurney's steam blast.
    In July 1829 Gurney made a historic trip with his road locomotive. This was from London to Bath and back, which was accomplished at a speed of 18 mph (29 km/h) and was made at the instigation of the Quartermaster-General of the Army. So successful was the carriage that Sir Charles Dance started to run a regular service with it between Gloucester and Cheltenham. This ran for three months without accident, until Parliament introduced prohibitive taxation on all self-propelled vehicles. A House of Commons committee proposed that these should be abolished as inhibiting progress, but this was not done. Sir Goldsworthy petitioned Parliament on the harm being done to him, but nothing was done and the coming of the railways put the matter beyond consideration. He devoted his time to finding other uses for the steam-jet: it was used for extinguishing fires in coal-mines, some of which had been burning for many years; he developed a stove for the production of gas from oil and other fatty substances, intended for lighthouses; he was responsible for the heating and the lighting of both the old and the new Houses of Parliament. His evidence after a colliery explosion resulted in an Act of Parliament requiring all mines to have two shafts. He was knighted in 1863, the same year that he suffered a stroke which incapacitated him. He retired to his house at Reeds, near Bude, where he was looked after by his daughter, Anna.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1863. Society of Arts Gold Medal.
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    Biographical history of technology > Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy

  • 115 Noble, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. 1850s England
    [br]
    English inventor of the most generally used wool-combing machine.
    [br]
    For many years James Noble had been experimenting with combing machines and had taken out patents, but it was not until he was nearly 50 that he invented a really successful one. In 1853 he took out patents for the machine with which his name has become associated. His invention differed from all others in that the combing and clearing away of the noil was done by and through circles revolving in the same direction with practically the same surface speed. It consisted of a large horizontal revolving circle of vertical pins onto which the wool fibres were fed, and inside this were smaller circles of heated pins revolving at the same speed and which also caught the fibres. The combing occurred at the point where the circles separated. Further rollers drew the fibres off the pins of the other circles. The Noble comb became the machine mostly used for wool combing because of its mechanical simplicity, adaptability for varying classes of wool, superior output and economy, for it required little supervision.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1853, British patent no. 890 (wool-combing machine). 1853, British patent no. 894 (wool-combing machine).
    Further Reading
    L.J.Mills, 1927, The Textile Educator, London (for a full description of the Noble comb).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (provides a good short account of the principles of Noble's machine).
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    Biographical history of technology > Noble, James

  • 116 Cognition

       As used here, the term "cognition" refers to all processes by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used. It is concerned with these processes even when they operate in the absence of relevant stimulation, as in images and hallucinations....
       [G]iven such a sweeping definition, it is apparent that cognition is involved in everything a human being might possibly do; that every psychological phenomenon is a cognitive phenomenon. (Neisser, 1976, p. 4)
       Man is describable as a dual processor, dual memory system with extensive input-output buffering within each system. The input-output system appears to have substantial peripheral computing power itself. But man is not modeled by a dual processor computer. The two processors of the brain are asymmetric. The semantic memory processor is a serial processor with a list structure memory. The image memory processor may very well be a sophisticated analog processor attached to an associative memory. When we propose models of cognition it would perhaps be advisable if we specified the relation of the model to this system architecture and its associated addressing system and data structure. (Hunt, 1973, pp. 370-371)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Cognition

  • 117 glue factory

    Общая лексика: место, где кости лошадей пе (I'm not as young as I used to be, but I'm not ready for the glue factory yet. Я не настолько молод каким был, но и не настолько стар ещё чтобы отправлять меня на переработку на клей.)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > glue factory

  • 118 please

    [pliːz]
    1) Общая лексика: будьте добры (вежливое добавление к просьбам, приказаниям), доставить удовольствие, доставлять удовольствие, желать, изволить, нравиться, пожалуйста, пожалуйте, получать удовольствие, получить удовольствие, понравиться, просьба, радовать, сколько угодно, соблаговолить, угодить, угождать, хотеть, не переводится (переводится добавлением формы второго лица множественного числа: сделайте, нажмите, выберите и т. д.), льст (I am happy your assessment of my profession, young lady, but you should not speak that only on please me. Я рад вашей оценке моей профессии, юная леди, но вы не должны говорить так лишь затем, чтобы польстить мне.), в угодность
    2) Разговорное выражение: польстить
    3) Устаревшее слово: потрафлять, потрафить
    4) Майкрософт: не переводится (The word "please" is often used in English sentences. In Russian equivalents the literate translation "пожалуйста" is out of place. Do not overdo it!)

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > please

  • 119 could

    see academic.ru/10476/can">can II
    * * *
    [kud]
    negative short form - couldn't; verb
    1) (past tense of can: They asked if I could drive a car; I said I couldn't; She asked if she could go.) pret. von `können`
    2) (used to express a possibility: I could go but I'm not going to; I could do it next week if you helped me.) Konjunktiv von `können`
    •
    * * *
    [kʊd, kəd]
    pt, subjunctive of can
    * * *
    [kʊd] pret See: of can
    * * *
    could [kʊd; unbetont kəd] v/aux ( von can1)
    1. prät ich, er, sie, es konnte, du konntest, wir, Sie, sie konnten, ihr konntet:
    2. (konditional, vermutend oder fragend) ich, er, sie, es könnte, du könntest, wir, Sie, sie könnten, ihr könntet:
    I could have killed him ich hätte ihn umbringen können;
    that could be right das könnte stimmen
    * * *
    see can II
    * * *
    aux.
    kann aux.
    konnte aux.
    könnte aux.

    English-german dictionary > could

  • 120 various

    ['ve(ə)rɪəs]
    adj
    1) разный, различный, разнообразный

    There are various ways of improving spelling, but they are not very different. — Есть много способов исправить орфографию, но между ними нет принципиальной разницы.

    Various people come to see him on various reasons. — Разные люди приходят к нему по разным причинам.

    - various motives
    - various duties
    - for various reasons
    - known under various names
    - meet on various occasions
    - talk about various things
    2) отдельный, по отдельности (обыкновенно с определенным артиклем)
    - various territories of the country
    - talk with the various members of the family
    - various are the tastes of men
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    CHOICE OF WORDS:
    Английские эквиваленты русского прилагательного "другой" various, different, diverse, divergent имеют сходные, но и различные значения и употребления. Various - разного вида, разнообразный внутри одного типа: I had to sign various documents before they would let me into the country. Мне пришлось подписать массу разных документов, прежде чем мне разрешили въезд в страну. They discussed advantages of various teaching methods used in schools. Обсуждались достоинства разнообразных методов, применяемых в школе. Various styles of hats. Шляпы разных стилей. Different описывает два или более объекта (предмета, существа) отличных друг от друга: Everyone in the room spoke a different language. Все в комнате разговаривали на разных языках. We tried different kinds of food before we chose the menu for the party. Мы перепробовали разные блюда, прежде чем составили определенное меню для приема. Diverse - различный - подчеркивает расхождение свойств: All the members of the team come from totally diverse background. Все члены команды различаются происхождением и воспитанием. The newspaper aims to cover a diverse range of issues. Газета стремится отражать самые разнообразные проблемы/самый широкий круг проблем. Divergent - различный, противоположный, несовместимый: journalists with divergent political views журналисты разных политических взглядов; the problems of the two countries are widely divergent and one solution alone will not solve them. Проблемы этих двух стран совершенно различны, и для их преодоления нет единого решения
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    (1.) Прилагательное various, как и его синоним different, употребляется всегда перед существительным, но в отличие от different требует существительного во множественном числе. (2.) Существительное, определяемое прилагательным various 2., обычно употребляется с определенным артиклем: I spoke with the various members of the family. Я разговаривал с каждым членом семьи в отдельности; in the various districts/parts of the country в отдельных районах страны. (3.) For various 1.; See different, adj; USAGE (2.), (3.).

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