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  • 61 Les grades

    La liste suivante regroupe les grades des trois armes, armée de terre, marine et aviation du Royaume-Uni et des États-Unis. Pour les traductions, consulter les articles dans le dictionnaire.
    En anglais comme en français, l’armée de terre et l’armée de l’air distinguent deux catégories: les officiers, commissioned officers (GB) ou warrant officers (US), à partir du grade de Second Lieutenant/Pilot Officer, et tous les autres, à l’exception de Private/Aircraftman/ Airman, non-commissioned officers (the NCOs):
    Royaume-Uni États-Unis
    L’armée de terre
    the British Army the United States Army
    Field Marshal (FM)* General of the Army (GEN)
    General (Gen) General (GEN)
    Lieutenant†-General (Lt-Gen) Lieutenant† General (LTG)
    Major-General (Maj-Gen) Major General (MG)
    Brigadier (Brig) Brigadier General (BG)
    Colonel (Col) Colonel (COL)
    Lieutenant†-Colonel (Lt-Col) Lieutenant† Colonel (LTC)
    Major (Maj) Major (MAJ)
    Captain (Capt) Captain (CAPT)
    Lieutenant† (Lieut) First Lieutenant† (1LT)
    Second Lieutenant† (2nd Lt) Second Lieutenant† (2Lt)
    - Chief Warrant Officer (CWO)
    - Warrant Officer (WO)
    Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) Command Sergeant Major (CSM)
    Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Staff Sergeant Major (SSM)
    - 1st Sergeant (1 SG)
    - Master Sergeant (MSG)
    - Sergeant 1st Class (SFC)
    Staff Sergeant‡ (S/Sgt) Staff Sergeant (SSG)
    ou Colour Sergeant‡ (C/Sgt)‡
    Sergeant (Sgt) Sergeant (SGT)
    Corporal (Cpl) Corporal (CPL)
    Lance Corporal (L/Cpl) Private First Class (P1C)
    Private (Pte) Private (PVT)
    ou Rifleman (Rfm)
    ou Guardsman (Gdm)‡
    La marine
    the Royal Navy (RN)§ the United States Navy (USN)§
    Admiral of the Fleet Fleet Admiral
    Admiral (Adm)* Admiral (ADM)
    Vice-Admiral (V-Adm) Vice Admiral (VADM)
    Rear-Admiral (Rear-Adm) Rear Admiral (RADM)
    Commodore (Cdre) Commodore (CDRE)
    Captain (Capt) Captain (CAPT)
    Commander (Cdr) Commander (CDR)
    Lieutenant†-Commander (Lt-Cdr) Lieutenant† Commander (LCDR)
    Lieutenant† (Lt) Lieutenant† (LT)
    Sub-Lieutenant† (Sub-Lt) Lieutenant† Junior Grade (LTJG)
    Acting Sub- Lieutenant† (Act Sub-Lt) Ensign (ENS)
    - Chief Warrant Officer (CWO)
    Midshipman Midshipman
    Fleet Chief Petty Officer (FCPO) -
    - Master Chief Petty Officer (MCPO)
    - Senior Chief Petty Officer (SCPO)
    Chief Petty Officer (CPO) Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
    - Petty Officer 1st Class (PO1)
    - Petty Officer 2nd Class (PO2)
    Petty Officer (PO) Petty Officer 3rd Class (PO3)
    Leading Seaman (LS) Seaman (SN)
    Able Seaman (AB) -
    Ordinary Seaman (OD) -
    Junior Seaman (JS) Seaman Apprentice (SA), Seaman Recruit (SR)
    Royaume-Uni États-Unis
    L’armée de l’air
    the Royal Air Force (RAF) the United States Air Force (USAF)||
    Marshal of the Royal Air Force General of the Air Force
    Air Chief Marshal (ACM)* General (GEN)
    Air Marshal (AM) Lieutenant† General (LTG)
    Air Vice-Marshal (AVM) Major General (MG)
    Air Commodore (Air Cdre) Brigadier General (BG)
    Group Captain (Gp Capt) Colonel (COL)
    Wing Commander (Wing Cdr) Lieutenant† Colonel (LTC)
    Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Major (MAJ)
    Flight Lieutenant† (Flt Lt) Captain (CAPT)
    Flying Officer (FO) First Lieutenant† (1LT)
    Pilot Officer (PO) Second Lieutenant† (2LT)
    Warrant Officer (WO) -
    Flight Sergeant (FS) Chief Master Sergeant (CMSGT)
    - Senior Master Sergeant (SMSGT)
    - Master Sergeant (MSGT)
    Chief Technician (Chf Tech) Technical Sergeant (TSGT)
    Sergeant (Sgt) Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
    Corporal (Cpl) Sergeant (SGT)
    Junior Technician (Jnr Tech) -
    Senior Aircraftman ou woman (SAC) -
    Leading Aircraftman ou woman (LAC) Airman First Class (A1C) ou Airwoman First Class
    Aircraftman ou Aircraftwoman Airman Basic (AB)
    Comment parler des militaires
    L’anglais emploie l’article indéfini pour les noms de grades utilisés avec les verbes to be ( être), to become ( devenir), to make ( faire) etc.
    Dans les expressions suivantes, colonel est pris comme exemple; les autres noms de grades s’utilisent de la même façon.
    il est colonel
    = he is a colonel
    il est colonel dans l’armée de terre
    = he is a colonel in the army
    devenir colonel
    = to become a colonel
    on l’a nommé colonel
    = he was made a colonel
    Mais avec le verbe to promote ou dans l’expression the rank of…, l’anglais n’emploie pas l’article indéfini:
    être promu colonel
    = to be promoted colonel ou to be promoted to colonel
    il a le grade de colonel
    = he has the rank of colonel
    L’anglais n’emploie pas non plus l’article défini lorsque le grade est suivi du nom propre:
    le colonel Jones est arrivé
    = Colonel Jones has arrived
    Comparer:
    le colonel est arrivé
    = the colonel has arrived
    Noter que le mot Colonel prend une majuscule en anglais devant le nom propre, mais rarement dans les autres cas.
    Comment s’adresser aux militaires
    D’un militaire à son supérieur:
    oui, mon colonel
    = yes, sir
    oui, colonel
    = yes, ma’am
    D’un militaire à son inférieur en grade:
    oui, sergent
    = yes, sergeant
    Les abréviations sont utilisées uniquement par écrit et avec les noms propres, par ex.: Capt. Jones.
    † Noter la prononciation (GB): [leftenant], (US): [lootenant].
    ‡ Le nom varie selon le régiment.
    § Les abréviations RN et USN ne sont utilisées que par écrit.
    || L’abréviation USAF n’est utilisée que par écrit. Dire the US Air Force.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > Les grades

  • 62 морски

    sea (attr.)
    (свързан с мореплаване, крайморски) maritime
    (който се отнася до параходи, моряци или мореплавателско изкуство) nautical
    (който се отнася до море, намира се в морето или е свързан с него) marine
    морски залив bay, gulf
    морски бряг seashore, seaside, coast, beach, seaboard
    морски кабел a submarine cable
    морско дъно bottom of the sea, sea-bottom
    над/под морското равнище above/below sea-level
    морски пейзаж seascape
    морски червей nereid (Nereis)
    морска птица sea-bird/-fowl, an aquatic bird
    морско конче зоол. sea-horse, hippocampus
    морско свинче зоол. guinea-pig
    морска крава зоол. cowfish, sea-cow, manatee
    морска котка зоол. sting ray
    морски таралеж зоол. sea-urchin, науч. echinus
    морска звезда зоол. starfish
    морска игла зоол. needle-fish, pipe-fish
    морско растение weed, a marine plant
    морска трева бот. sea-weed, sea-grass, grass-wrack
    морска пяна минор. meerschaum
    морска сол sea-salt, bay-salt
    морски път a sea route, ам. sea-road
    морско пристанище, морска гара seaport
    морски термин a nautical term
    морска търговия sea/sea-borne/maritime trade
    морски народ a maritime/sea-faring nation
    морска сила/държава a naval/maritime/sea power
    морски сили (флота) sea/naval/marine forces; navy
    морска база a naval base
    морско училище a nautical school
    морски офицер a naval officer, морски капитан a sea-captain
    морска пехота marines, a marine/light infantry
    морски пехотинец marine
    морска артилерия naval artillery/ordnance
    морско сражение sea-fight, a naval battle/action
    морска схватка a naval engagement
    морски разбойник pirate, sea-robber, sea-wolf, sea-rover
    морски курорт a sea resort
    морски вълк прен. an old salt, sea-dog
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    мо̀рски,
    прил., -а, -о, -и sea (attr.); ( мореплавателен; крайморски) maritime; ( свързан с кораби и корабоплаване) nautical; ( свързан с море) marine; ( флотски) naval; лесно ме хваща \морскиа болест be a poor sailor; \морскиа академия a naval academy; \морскиа блокада a sea-blockade; \морскиа болест sea-sickness; \морскиа дълбочина depth of the sea; \морскиа звезда зоол. starfish; \морскиа игла зоол. needle-fish, pipe-fish; \морскиа котка зоол. sting ray; \морскиа крава зоол. cowfish, sea-cow, manatee; \морскиа краставица бот. trepang; \морскиа пехота воен. marines, marine infantry; \морскиа пяна минер. meerschaum; \морскиа сирена зоол. mermaid; \морскиа сол sea-salt, bay-salt; \морскиа схватка naval engagement; \морскиа трева бот. sea-weed, sea-grass, grass-wrack; \морскии бряг seashore, seaside, coast, beach, seaboard; \морскии вълк прен. old salt, sea-dog; \морскии дявол зоол. frog-fish; \морскии език зоол. sole; \морскии кабел submarine cable; \морскии капитан sea-captain; \морскии пехотинец воен. marine; \морскии път sea route, амер. sea-road; \морскии разбойник pirate, sea-robber, sea-wolf, sea-rover; \морскии сили ( флота) sea/naval/marine forces; navy; \морскии таралеж зоол. sea-urchin, echinus; \морскии червей зоол. nereid ( Nereis); \морскио конче зоол. sea-horse, hippocampus; \морскио куче зоол. ( вид акула) dogfish; \морскио пътешествие sea-trip, voyage; \морскио растение weed, marine plant; \морскио свинче зоол. guinea-pig; \морскио сражение sea-fight, naval battle/action; \морскио училище a nautical school; над/под \морскиото равнище above/below sea-level; не ме хваща \морскиа болест be a good sailor; хваща ме \морскиа болест become/be sea-sick.
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    sea; marine: морски fauna - морска фауна; maritime; nautical; pelagic
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    1. (който се отнася до море, намира се в морето или е свързан с него) marine 2. (който се отнася до параходи, моряци или мореплавателско изкуство) nautical 3. (свързан с мореплаване 4. (флотски) naval 5. sea (attr.) 6. МОРСКИ бряг seashore, seaside, coast, beach, seaboard 7. МОРСКИ вълк прен. an old salt, sea-dog 8. МОРСКИ залив bay, gulf 9. МОРСКИ кабел a submarine cable 10. МОРСКИ курорт a sea resort 11. МОРСКИ народ a maritime/sea-faring nation 12. МОРСКИ офицер a naval officer, МОРСКИ капитан a sea-captain 13. МОРСКИ пейзаж seascape 14. МОРСКИ пехотинец marine 15. МОРСКИ път a sea route, ам. sea-road 16. МОРСКИ разбойник pirate, sea-robber, sea-wolf, sea-rover 17. МОРСКИ таралеж зоол. sea-urchin, науч. echinus 18. МОРСКИ термин a nautical term 19. МОРСКИ червей nereid (Nereis) 20. крайморски) maritime 21. лесно ме хваща морска болест be a poor sailor 22. морска академия a naval academy 23. морска артилерия naval artillery/ ordnance 24. морска база a naval base 25. морска блокада a sea-blockade 26. морска болест sea-sickness 27. морска глъбина the deep 28. морска дълбочина depth of the sea 29. морска звезда зоол. starfish 30. морска игла зоол. needle-fish, pipe-fish 31. морска котка зоол. sting ray 32. морска крава зоол. cowfish, sea-cow, manatee 33. морска краставица trepang 34. морска пехота marines, a marine/light infantry 35. морска птица sea-bird/-fowl, an aquatic bird 36. морска пяна минор. meerschaum 37. морска сила/държава a naval/maritime/ sea power 38. морска сирена mermaid 39. морска сол sea-salt, bay-salt 40. морска схватка a naval engagement 41. морска трева бот. sea-weed, sea-grass, grass-wrack 42. морска търговия sea/sea-borne/maritime trade 43. морска фауна marine fauna 44. морски сили (флота) sea/naval/marine forces;navy 45. морско дъно bottom of the sea, sea-bottom 46. морско конче зоол. sea-horse, hippocampus 47. морско куче зоол. (вид акула) dogfish 48. морско пристанище, морска гара seaport 49. морско пътешествие а sea-trip, voyage 50. морско равнище sea-level 51. морско растение weed, a marine plant 52. морско свинче зоол. guinea-pig 53. морско сражение sea-fight, a naval battle/action 54. морско училище a nautical school 55. над/под морското равнище above/below sea-level 56. не ме хваща морска болест be a good sailor 57. страдам от морска болест be sea-sick 58. хваща ме морска болест become/be sea-sick

    Български-английски речник > морски

  • 63 commander

    1) (a person who commands: He was the commander of the expedition.) anfører; hærfører
    2) (in the British navy, an officer of the rank next below the captain.) orlogskaptajn
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    1) (a person who commands: He was the commander of the expedition.) anfører; hærfører
    2) (in the British navy, an officer of the rank next below the captain.) orlogskaptajn

    English-Danish dictionary > commander

  • 64 رئيس

    رَئِيس \ boss: one’s employer; the person in charge.. captain: the leader of a team: a football captain. chief: a leader; the most important person of a group: The chief of police. head: (usu. attrib.) sb. who controls or leads (a school, a government, a company, etc.): the head of the firm. leader: sb. who leads a group. president: the head of a state, or of a company or society. senior: a senior person: A soldier has to show respect to his senior. superior: sb. of higher rank: You must obey your superiors. \ رَئِيس (رُتْبَة بالجيْش)‏ \ captain: an officer’s rank in the army or navy. \ See Also نقيب \ رَئِيس الأَساقِفَة \ archbishop: a very high official in the Christian church. \ رَئِيس أوّل \ major: an army officer, next in rank above a captain. \ رَئِيس بَلَدِيّة \ mayor: the head of the elected government of a city or large town (in London and some other big cities she or he is called the Lord Mayor). \ رَئِيس جَلْسَة \ chairman: sb. who is in charge of a meeting or of a group that meets regularly: My son is chairman of three companies. \ See Also اِجْتِماع أو مَجْلِس \ رَئِيس الطّبّاخِين \ chef: a male cook, esp. in a hotel. \ رَئِيس فِرقَة كَشْفِيَّة \ Scoutmaster: a Scout leader. \ رَئِيس الوُزَرَاء \ prime minister: the head of an elected government. \ رَئِيسة الممرّضات \ matron: a woman in charge of all the nurses in a hospital.

    Arabic-English dictionary > رئيس

  • 65 deniz

    "1. sea, ocean. 2. marine, maritime, nautical, naval. 3. waves, sea; a swell. -in açığı the offing. -e açılmak to put (out) to sea. - albayı navy captain. - ataşesi naval attaché. -de balık something not yet in hand, a bird in the bush. - baskını tidal wave, tsunami. - basması geol. marine transgression. - binbaşısı navy commander. - bindirmek for the sea to get rough suddenly. - buzu sea ice. - buzulu ice mass formed at the seashore. -den çıkmış balığa dönmek to feel like a fish out of water. - derya 1. the boundless seas. 2. all around, as far as the eye can see. - derya ayak altında. You have a wide view of the sea, spread out and beneath you. - durdu/ düştü. The sea has died down. -e düşen yılana sarılır. proverb A drowning man will clutch at a straw. -e elverişli seaworthy. - eri navy seaman. - feneri lighthouse. denizden/-i geçip kıyıda/çayda boğulmak to handle big problems successfully and come to grief over trifles. -e girmek to bathe, go swimming (in the sea). -e girse kurutur. colloq. He can´t do anything right. - hamamı formerly an enclosure for sea bathing. - haritası naut. chart. D- Harp Akademisi Naval Academy. - hortumu waterspout. - hukuku maritime law. -e indirmek /ı/ to launch (a ship). - kabarmak for the sea to get rough. - kazası shipwreck; accident at sea. - kenarı seashore. - kenarında kuyu kazmak to do something the hard way. -leri kolla! naut. Ease the ship! - kulübü seaside club; yacht club. -de kum, onda para. colloq. He has as much money as there is sand in the sea. - kurdu experienced sailor, sea dog, an old salt. - kuvvetleri naval forces. - mili nautical mile. - müzesi naval museum; oceanographic museum. - nakliyat şirketi shipping company. - otobüsü hovercraft; hydrofoil. - sigortası maritime insurance. - subayı naval officer. - tarağı dredge, dredger. - tehlikesi com. sea risks. - ticaret hukuku maritime law. - tutmak /ı/ to get seasick. - tutması seasickness. - uçağı seaplane. - üssü naval base. - yarbayı navy commander. - yeli the steady offshore breeze of summer. - yolları maritime lines. - yoluyla by sea. - yosunu seaweed."

    Saja Türkçe - İngilizce Sözlük > deniz

  • 66 commodore

    ['komədo:]
    (in the British navy, (of) the rank next above captain.) kommandør
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    ['komədo:]
    (in the British navy, (of) the rank next above captain.) kommandør

    English-Danish dictionary > commodore

  • 67 Popoff, Andrei Alexandrovitch

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 21 September 1821 Russia
    d. 6 March 1898 Russia
    [br]
    Russian admiral and naval constructor involved in the building of unusual warships.
    [br]
    After graduating from the Naval School Popoff served in the Russian Navy, ultimately commanding the cruiser Meteor. During the Crimean War he was Captain of a steamship and was later Manager of Artillery Supplies at Sevastopol. At the conclusion of the war he was appointed to supervise the construction of all steamships and so started his real career in naval procurement. For the best part of thirty years he oversaw the Russian naval building programme, producing many new ships at St Petersburg. Probably the finest was the battleship Petr Veliki (Peter the Great), of 9,000 tons displacement, built at Galernii Island in 1869. With some major refits the ship remained in the fleet until 1922. Two remarkable ships were produced at St Petersburg, the Novgorod and the Vice Admiral Popoff in 1874 and 1876, respectively. Their hull form was almost circular in the hope of creating stable and steady gun platforms and to lessen the required depth of water for their duties as defence ships in the shallow waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Despite support for the idea from Sir Edward Reed of the Royal Navy, the designs failed owing to unpleasant oscillations and poor manoeuvring qualities. One further attempt was made to find a successful outcome to this good idea in the construction of the Russian Imperial Yacht Livadia at Elder's Glasgow shipyard in 1880: for many reasons the Livadia never fulfilled her purpose. Despite their great advantages, the age of the Popoffkas was over. Popoff had a remarkable effect on Russian shipbuilding and warship design. He had authority, and used it wisely at a time when the Russian shipbuilding industry was developing quickly.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Associate of the Institution of Naval Architects, London.
    Further Reading
    Fred T.Jane, 1899, The Imperial Russian Navy, London.
    AK / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Popoff, Andrei Alexandrovitch

  • 68 commodore

    ['komədo:]
    (in the British navy, (of) the rank next above captain.) der Flottenadmiral
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    com·mo·dore
    [ˈkɒmədɔ:ʳ, AM ˈkɑ:mədɔ:r]
    n
    1. (in navy) Kommodore m
    2. (of yacht club) Präsident(in) m(f) eines Jachtklubs
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    ['kɒmədɔː(r)]
    n (NAUT)
    Flottillenadmiral m (= senior captain) Kommodore m; (of yacht club) Präsident m
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    commodore [ˈkɒmədɔː(r); US ˈkɑ-] s SCHIFF
    1. Kommodore m:
    a) US Kapitän zur See mit Admiralsrang
    b) Br Kapitän zur See, Geschwaderkommandant (kein offizieller Dienstgrad)
    2. Präsident m (eines Jachtklubs)
    3. Kommodoreschiff n
    * * *
    n.
    Commodore m.

    English-german dictionary > commodore

  • 69 Commander

    noun
    1) Führer, der; Leiter, der
    2) (naval officer below captain) Fregattenkapitän, der
    3)

    Commander-in-Chief — Oberbefehlshaber, der

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    1) (a person who commands: He was the commander of the expedition.) der Kommandant
    2) (in the British navy, an officer of the rank next below the captain.) der Erste Offizier
    * * *
    com·mand·er
    [kəˈmɑ:ndəʳ, AM -ˈmændɚ]
    n
    1. MIL (officer in charge) Kommandant(in) m(f), Befehlshaber(in) m(f)
    2. BRIT MIL, NAUT (naval officer) Fregattenkapitän(in) m(f)
    3. BRIT (assistant chief constable) Kommandeur(in) m(f) der Londoner Polizei
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    [kə'mAːndə(r)]
    n
    1) Führer(in) m(f); (MIL, AVIAT) Befehlshaber(in) m(f), Kommandant(in) m(f); (NAUT) Fregattenkapitän(in) m(f); (Brit, POLICE) Distriktleiter der Londoner Polizei
    2) (of order of chivalry) Komtur m
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    noun
    1) Führer, der; Leiter, der
    2) (naval officer below captain) Fregattenkapitän, der
    3)

    Commander-in-Chief — Oberbefehlshaber, der

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    n.
    Befehlshaber m.

    English-german dictionary > Commander

  • 70 commander

    noun
    1) Führer, der; Leiter, der
    2) (naval officer below captain) Fregattenkapitän, der
    3)

    Commander-in-Chief — Oberbefehlshaber, der

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    1) (a person who commands: He was the commander of the expedition.) der Kommandant
    2) (in the British navy, an officer of the rank next below the captain.) der Erste Offizier
    * * *
    com·mand·er
    [kəˈmɑ:ndəʳ, AM -ˈmændɚ]
    n
    1. MIL (officer in charge) Kommandant(in) m(f), Befehlshaber(in) m(f)
    2. BRIT MIL, NAUT (naval officer) Fregattenkapitän(in) m(f)
    3. BRIT (assistant chief constable) Kommandeur(in) m(f) der Londoner Polizei
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    [kə'mAːndə(r)]
    n
    1) Führer(in) m(f); (MIL, AVIAT) Befehlshaber(in) m(f), Kommandant(in) m(f); (NAUT) Fregattenkapitän(in) m(f); (Brit, POLICE) Distriktleiter der Londoner Polizei
    2) (of order of chivalry) Komtur m
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    commander [kəˈmɑːndə(r); US -ˈmæn-] s
    1. MIL Truppen-, Einheitsführer m:
    a) Kommandeur m (vom Bataillon bis einschließlich Korps), Befehlshaber m (einer Armee)
    b) Kommandant m (einer Festung oder eines Panzers oder Flugzeugs)
    c) (Zug) Führer m, (Kompanie) Chef m
    d) commander in chief (pl commanders in chief) Oberbefehlshaber m;
    be commander in chief of den Oberbefehl haben über (akk)
    2. SCHIFF US Fregattenkapitän m
    3. Commander of the Faithful HIST Beherrscher m der Gläubigen (Sultan der Türkei)
    4. Komtur m, Kommandeur m (eines Verdienstordens)
    5. HIST Komtur m (eines Ritterordens):
    Grand Commander Großkomtur
    com. abk
    * * *
    noun
    1) Führer, der; Leiter, der
    2) (naval officer below captain) Fregattenkapitän, der
    3)

    Commander-in-Chief — Oberbefehlshaber, der

    * * *
    n.
    Befehlshaber m.

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  • 71 commander

    1) (a person who commands: He was the commander of the expedition.) comandante
    2) (in the British navy, an officer of the rank next below the captain.) capitán de fragata
    tr[kə'mɑːndəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL comandante nombre masculino
    2 SMALLMARITIME/SMALL capitán nombre masculino de fragata
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    commander [kə'mændər] n
    : comandante mf
    n.
    • adalid s.m.
    • capitán de fragata (Graduación) s.m.
    • comandante s.m.
    • comendador s.m.
    kə'mændər, kə'mɑːndə(r)
    a) ( officer in command) comandante mf
    b) ( navy rank) ≈capitán m de fragata
    [kǝ'mɑːndǝ(r)]
    N (Mil) comandante mf ; (Hist) [of chivalric order] comendador m ; (Naut) capitán m de fragata
    * * *
    [kə'mændər, kə'mɑːndə(r)]
    a) ( officer in command) comandante mf
    b) ( navy rank) ≈capitán m de fragata

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  • 72 Herreshoff, Nathaniel Greene

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 18 March 1848 Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
    d. 2 June 1938 Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
    [br]
    American naval architect and designer of six successful America's Cup defenders.
    [br]
    Herreshoff, or, as he was known, Captain Nat, was seventh in a family of nine, four of whom became blind in childhood. Association with such problems may have sharpened his appreciation of shape and form; indeed, he made a lengthy European small-boat trip with a blind brother. While working on yacht designs, he used three-dimensional models in conjunction with the sheer draught on the drawing-board. With many of the family being boatbuilders, he started designing at the age of 16 and then decided to make this his career. As naval architecture was not then a graduating subject, he studied mechanical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still studying, c.1867, he broke new ground by preparing direct reading time handicapping tables for yachts up to 110 ft (33.5 m) long. After working with the Corliss Company, he set up the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, in partnership with J.B.Herreshoff, as shipbuilders and engineers. Over the years their output included steam machinery, fishing vessels, pleasure craft and racing yachts. They built the first torpedo boat for the US Navy and another for the Royal Navy, the only such acquisition in the late nineteenth century. Herreshoff designed six of the world's greatest yachts, of the America's Cup, between 1890 and 1920. His accomplishments included new types of lightweight wood fasteners, new systems of framing, hollow spars and better methods of cutting sails. He continued to work full-time until 1935 and his work was internationally acclaimed. He maintained cordial relations with his British rivals Fife, Nicholson and G.L. Watson, and enjoyed friendship with his compatriot Edward Burgess. Few will ever match Herreshoff as an all-round engineer and designer.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Herreshoff was one of the very few, other than heads of state, to become an Honorary Member of the New York Yacht Club.
    Further Reading
    L.F.Herreshoff, 1953, Capt. Nat Herreshoff. The Wizard of Bristol, White Plains, NY: Sheridan House; 2nd edn 1981.
    FMW

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  • 73 rank

    I 1. noun
    1) (position in hierarchy) Rang, der; (Mil. also) Dienstgrad, der

    be above/below somebody in rank — einen höheren/niedrigeren Rang/Dienstgrad haben als jemand

    2) (social position) [soziale] Stellung

    people of all ranks — Menschen aus allen [Gesellschafts]schichten

    3) (row) Reihe, die
    4) (Brit.): (taxi stand) [Taxen]stand, der
    5) (line of soldiers) Reihe, die

    the ranks — (enlisted men) die Mannschaften und Unteroffiziere

    the rank and file — die Mannschaften und Unteroffiziere; (fig.) die breite Masse

    close [our/their] ranks — die Reihen schließen; (fig.) sich zusammenschließen

    rise from the ranks — sich [aus dem Mannschaftsstand] zum Offizier hochdienen; (fig.) sich hocharbeiten

    2. transitive verb

    rank among or with — zählen od. rechnen zu

    3. intransitive verb

    rank among or with — gehören od. zählen zu

    rank above/next to somebody — rangmäßig über/direkt unter jemandem stehen

    II adjective
    1) (complete) blank [Unsinn, Frechheit]; krass [Außenseiter, Illoyalität]
    2) (stinking) stinkend
    3) (rampant)

    rank weeds — [wild] wucherndes Unkraut

    * * *
    I 1. [ræŋk] noun
    1) (a line or row (especially of soldiers or taxis): The officer ordered the front rank to fire.) die Reihe
    2) ((in the army, navy etc) a person's position of importance: He was promoted to the rank of sergeant/colonel.) der Rang
    3) (a social class: the lower social ranks.) die Klasse
    2. verb
    (to have, or give, a place in a group, according to importance: I would rank him among our greatest writers; Apes rank above dogs in intelligence.) einreihen, gelten als
    - academic.ru/119003/the_rank_and_file">the rank and file
    II [ræŋk] adjective
    1) (complete; absolute: rank stupidity; The race was won by a rank outsider.) kraß
    2) (unpleasantly stale and strong: a rank smell of tobacco.) scharf
    •
    * * *
    rank1
    [ræŋk]
    I. n
    1. no pl POL (position) Position f, [hohe [o leitende]] Stellung
    to pull \rank den Vorgesetzten herauskehren fam; POL Rang m
    a top \rank of government ein Spitzenposten m in der Regierung
    2. MIL Dienstgrad m, Rang m
    ▪ the \ranks pl (non-officers) einfache Soldaten
    to close \ranks die Reihen schließen; ( fig) sich akk zusammenschließen
    to join the \ranks in die Armee eintreten
    to join the \ranks of sth sich akk in etw akk einreihen
    John has joined the \ranks of the unemployed John ist dem Heer der Arbeitslosen beigetreten
    to be promoted to the \rank of captain zum Hauptmann befördert werden
    to rise from [or through] the \ranks sich akk zum Offizier hochdienen; ( fig) sich akk hocharbeiten
    ▪ the \ranks Mitglieder pl
    there is great concern about safety among the \ranks of racing drivers unter Rennfahrern herrscht große Sorge über die Sicherheit
    party \ranks Parteimitglieder pl
    4. (row) Reihe f
    cab [or taxi] \rank Taxistand m
    the front \rank of sth die vorderste Reihe einer S. gen
    serried \ranks of sth ganze Reihen von etw dat
    II. adj attr, inv (absolute) absolut, ausgesprochen
    a \rank amateur ein absoluter Amateur
    a \rank beginner ein blutiger Anfänger/eine blutige Anfängerin
    \rank cowardice reine Feigheit
    \rank injustice zum Himmel schreiende Ungerechtigkeit
    \rank insubordination pure Aufsässigkeit; MIL schiere Gehorsamsverweigerung
    \rank negligence extreme Vernachlässigung
    a \rank novice ein absoluter Neuling
    a \rank outsider ein totaler Außenseiter/eine totale Außenseiterin
    \rank stupidity reine [o schiere] Dummheit
    III. vi
    1. (hold a position)
    ▪ to \rank above sb einen höheren Rang als jd einnehmen, im Rang über jdm stehen
    2. (be classified as)
    he currently \ranks second in the world er steht derzeit auf Platz zwei der Weltrangliste, er ist derzeit Weltranglistenzweiter
    she \ranks among the theatre's greatest actors sie gehört mit zu den größten Theaterschauspielern
    IV. vt
    ▪ to \rank sth/sb jdn/etw einstufen
    ▪ to \rank sb among sb/sth jdn zu jdm/etw zählen
    ▪ to \rank sb/sth alongside sb/sth jdn/etw auf die gleiche Stufe mit jdm/etw stellen
    2. (arrange)
    ▪ to \rank sth etw anordnen
    to \rank sb/sth in order of size jdn/etw der Größe nach aufstellen
    rank2
    [ræŋk]
    1. (growing thickly) of a plant üppig wuchernd, wild wachsend
    2. (overgrown) verwildert, überwuchert
    3. (rancid) stinkend attr
    ▪ to be \rank with sth nach etw dat stinken
    his body was \rank with sweat er stank nach Schweiß
    \rank smell/odour [or AM odor] übler Geruch/Gestank
    * * *
    I [rŋk]
    1. n
    1) (MIL: grade) Rang m

    officer of high rank —

    See:
    → pull
    2) (= class, status) Stand m, Schicht f

    people of all ranks — Leute pl aller Stände

    3) (= row) Reihe f; (Brit = taxi rank) Taxistand m
    4) (MIL: formation) Glied nt

    to break rank(s) — aus dem Glied treten

    the ranks, other ranks (Brit) — die Mannschaften und die Unteroffiziere

    the rank and file of the party/union — die Basis der Partei/Gewerkschaft, die einfachen Partei-/Gewerkschaftsmitglieder

    to rise from the ranks — aus dem Mannschaftsstand zum Offizier aufsteigen; (fig) sich hocharbeiten

    See:
    → close
    5) (MUS) Register nt
    2. vt
    (= class, consider)
    3. vi

    to rank above/below sb — bedeutender/weniger bedeutend als jd sein; (athlete) leistungsmäßig über/unter jdm liegen; (officer) rangmäßig über/unter jdm stehen

    he ranks high among her friends —

    it ranks with the best films of the decade — es zählt zu den besten Filmen des Jahrzehnts

    he ranks as a great composer — er gilt als großer Komponist

    to rank 6th — den 6. Rang or Platz belegen

    II
    adj (+er)
    1) plants üppig; grass verwildert
    2) (= offensive) smell übel; dustbin, drain stinkend attr; fat ranzig; person derb, vulgär

    to be rank (dustbin, drains) — stinken; (breath) stinken, übel riechend sein

    3) attr (= utter) disgrace wahr; injustice schreiend; nonsense, insolence rein; outsider, amateur richtig, absolut, ausgesprochen
    * * *
    rank1 [ræŋk]
    A s
    1. (soziale) Klasse, (Gesellschafts)Schicht f
    2. Rang m, Stand m, (soziale) Stellung:
    a man of rank ein Mann von Stand;
    of second rank zweitrangig;
    take the rank of den Vorrang haben vor (dat);
    take rank with sb mit jemandem gleichrangig sein;
    take high rank einen hohen Rang einnehmen;
    rank and fashion die vornehme Welt
    3. MIL etc Rang m, Dienstgrad m:
    in rank im Rang, rangmäßig;
    he is above me in rank er ist ranghöher als ich
    4. pl MIL (Unteroffiziere pl und) Mannschaften pl:
    rank and file der Mannschaftsstand ( → A 5);
    rise from the ranks aus dem Mannschaftsstand hervorgehen, von der Pike auf dienen (a. fig)
    5. auch rank and file (der) große Haufen ( → A 4):
    the rank of workers die große Masse oder das Heer der Arbeiter;
    the rank of a party die Basis einer Partei
    6. Aufstellung f:
    form into ranks sich formieren oder ordnen
    7. MIL Glied n, Linie f:
    a) wegtreten,
    b) in Verwirrung geraten;
    close the ranks die Reihen schließen;
    fall in ranks antreten;
    join the ranks in das Heer eintreten;
    a) aus dem Glied treten,
    b) desertieren
    8. Reihe f, Linie f, Kette f: → cab rank
    9. Schach: waag(e)rechte Reihe
    B v/t
    1. in einer Reihe oder in Reihen aufstellen
    2. (ein)ordnen, einreihen
    3. eine Truppe etc antreten lassen oder aufstellen, formieren
    4. a) einstufen
    b) rechnen, zählen ( beide:
    with, among zu):
    I rank him above Shaw ich stelle ihn über Shaw;
    be ranked 8th in the world an 8. Stelle der Weltrangliste stehen
    5. US einen höheren Rang einnehmen als
    C v/i
    1. eine Reihe oder Reihen bilden, sich formieren oder ordnen
    2. einen Rang oder eine Stelle einnehmen:
    rank equally gleichrangig sein;
    rank first den ersten Rang einnehmen;
    a) einen hohen Rang einnehmen,
    b) einen hohen Stellenwert haben;
    ranking list Rangliste f;
    ranking officer US ranghöchster Offizier;
    ranking tournament SPORT Ranglistenturnier n
    3. gehören, zählen ( beide:
    among, with zu), rangieren ( above über dat, vor dat; next to hinter dat, gleich nach):
    rank as gelten als;
    he ranks next to the president er kommt gleich nach dem Präsidenten
    4. besonders MIL (in geschlossener Formation) marschieren:
    rank off abmarschieren
    5. WIRTSCH, JUR bevorrechtigt sein (Gläubiger etc)
    rank2 [ræŋk] adj (adv rankly)
    1. a) (wild) wuchernd (Pflanzen)
    b) überwuchert (Garten etc)
    2. fruchtbar (Boden etc)
    3. stinkend, übel riechend
    4. widerlich (Geruch, Geschmack)
    5. rein, völlig:
    rank outsider krasse(r) Außenseiter(in);
    rank beginner blutige(r) Anfänger(in);
    rank nonsense blühender Unsinn
    6. ekelhaft, widerwärtig
    7. unanständig, schmutzig (Sprache etc)
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) (position in hierarchy) Rang, der; (Mil. also) Dienstgrad, der

    be above/below somebody in rank — einen höheren/niedrigeren Rang/Dienstgrad haben als jemand

    2) (social position) [soziale] Stellung

    people of all ranks — Menschen aus allen [Gesellschafts]schichten

    3) (row) Reihe, die
    4) (Brit.): (taxi stand) [Taxen]stand, der
    5) (line of soldiers) Reihe, die

    the ranks — (enlisted men) die Mannschaften und Unteroffiziere

    the rank and file — die Mannschaften und Unteroffiziere; (fig.) die breite Masse

    close [our/their] ranks — die Reihen schließen; (fig.) sich zusammenschließen

    rise from the ranks — sich [aus dem Mannschaftsstand] zum Offizier hochdienen; (fig.) sich hocharbeiten

    2. transitive verb

    rank among or with — zählen od. rechnen zu

    3. intransitive verb

    rank among or with — gehören od. zählen zu

    rank above/next to somebody — rangmäßig über/direkt unter jemandem stehen

    II adjective
    1) (complete) blank [Unsinn, Frechheit]; krass [Außenseiter, Illoyalität]
    2) (stinking) stinkend

    rank weeds — [wild] wucherndes Unkraut

    * * *
    n.
    Dienstgrad m.
    Grad -e m.
    Rang ¨-e (Mathematik) m.
    Rang ¨-e m.
    Reihe -n f.
    Stand ¨-e m.
    Stufe -n f.
    sozialer Stand m.

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  • 74 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 11 June 1910 Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
    [br]
    French marine explorer who invented the aqualung.
    [br]
    He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.
    Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.
    The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.
    Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.
    In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Légion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre with Palm. Officier du Mérite Maritime and numerous scientific and artistic awards listed in such directories as Who's Who.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    R.Munson, 1991, Cousteau, the Captain and His World, London: Robert Hale (published in the USA 1989).
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  • 75 Lucas, Anthony Francis

    [br]
    b. 9 September 1855 Spalato, Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary (now Split, Croatia)
    d. 2 September 1921 Washington, DC, USA
    [br]
    Austrian (naturalized American) mining engineer who successfully applied rotary drilling to oil extraction.
    [br]
    A former Second Lieutenant of the Austrian navy (hence his later nickname "Captain") and graduate of the Polytechnic Institute of Graz, Lucas decided to stay in Michigan when he visited his relatives in 1879. He changed his original name, Lucie, into the form his uncle had adopted and became a naturalized American citizen at the age of 30. He worked in the lumber industry for some years and then became a consulting mechanical and mining engineer in Washington, DC. He began working for a salt-mining company in Louisiana in 1893 and became interested in the geology of the Mexican Gulf region, with a view to prospecting for petroleum. In the course of this work he came to the conclusion that the hills in this elevated area, being geological structures distinct from the surrounding deposits, were natural reservoirs of petroleum. To prove his unusual theory he subsequently chose Spindle Top, near Beaumont, Texas, where in 1899 he began to bore a first oil-well. A second drill-hole, started in October 1900, was put through clay and quicksand. After many difficulties, a layer of rock containing marine shells was reached. When the "gusher" came out on 10 January 1901, it not only opened up a new era in the oil and gas business, but it also led to the future exploration of the terrestrial crust.
    Lucas's boring was a breakthrough for the rotary drilling system, which was still in its early days although its principles had been established by the English engineer Robert Beart in his patent of 1884. It proved to have advantages over the pile-driving of pipes. A pipe with a simple cutter at the lower end was driven with a constantly revolving motion, grinding down on the bottom of the well, thus gouging and chipping its way downward. To deal with the quicksand he adopted the use of large and heavy casings successively telescoped one into the other. According to Fauvelle's method, water was forced through the pipe by means of a pump, so the well was kept full of circulating liquid during drilling, flushing up the mud. When the salt-rock was reached, a diamond drill was used to test the depth and the character of the deposit.
    When the well blew out and flowed freely he developed a preventer in order to save the oil and, even more importantly at the time, to shut the well and to control the oil flow. This assembly, patented in 1903, consisted of a combined system of pipes, valves and casings diverting the stream into a horizontal direction.
    Lucas's fame spread around the world, but as he had to relinquish the larger part of his interest to the oil company supporting the exploration, his financial reward was poor. One year after his success at Spindle Top he started oil exploration in Mexico, where he stayed until 1905, when he resumed his consulting practice in Washington, DC.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1899, "Rock-salt in Louisiana", Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 29:462–74.
    1902, "The great oil-well near Beaumont, Texas", Transactions of the American
    Institution of Mining Engineers 31:362–74.
    Further Reading
    R.S.McBeth, 1918, Pioneering the Gulf Coast, New York (a very detailed description of Lucas's important accomplishments in the development of the oil industry).
    R.T.Hill, 1903, "The Beaumont oil-field, with notes on other oil-fields of the Texas region", Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 33:363–405;
    Transactions of the American Institution of Mining Engineers 55:421–3 (contain shorter biographical notes).
    WK

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  • 76 Rang

    Imperf. ringen
    * * *
    der Rang
    (Dienstgrad) rank; grade;
    (Rangstufe) standing; rank; degree; status;
    (Theater) tier; circle
    * * *
    Rạng [raŋ]
    m -(e)s, -e
    ['rɛŋə]
    1) (MIL) rank; (in Firma) position; (= gesellschaftliche Stellung) position, rank; (in Wettbewerb) place, position

    im Rang(e) eines Hauptmanns stehen — to have the rank of captain

    im Rang höher/tiefer stehen — to have a higher/lower rank/position, to rank higher/lower

    einen hohen Rang bekleiden — to hold a high office; (Mil) to have a high rank

    ein Mann von Rang und Würden — a man of considerable or high standing, a man of status

    alles, was Rang und Namen hat — everybody who is anybody

    2) (= Qualität) quality, class

    ein Künstler/Wissenschaftler von Rang — an artist/scientist of standing, a top artist/scientist

    minderen Ranges — low-class, second-rate

    3) (THEAT) circle

    erster/zweiter Rang — dress/upper circle, first/second circle

    wir sitzen (erster/zweiter) Rang Mitte (inf) — we're sitting in the middle of the (dress/upper) circle

    vor leeren/überfüllten Rängen spielen — to play to an empty/a packed house

    4) pl (SPORT = Tribünenränge) stands pl
    5) (= Gewinnklasse) prize category
    * * *
    der
    1) (a privilege etc indicating rank: He had risen to the dignity of an office of his own.) dignity
    2) (a balcony in a theatre etc: We sat in the circle at the opera.) circle
    3) (a grade or rank (of merit): musicians of a high class.) class
    4) ((in the army, navy etc) a person's position of importance: He was promoted to the rank of sergeant/colonel.) rank
    * * *
    <-[e]s, Ränge>
    [raŋ, pl ˈrɛŋə]
    m
    1. kein pl (Stellenwert) standing, status; Entdeckung, Neuerung importance
    von bestimmtem \Rang of a certain importance
    von bedeutendem/hohem/künstlerischem \Rang of significant/great/artistic importance
    ersten \Ranges of the first order [or great significance
    2. (gesellschaftliche Position) station no pl, [social] standing
    alles, was \Rang und Namen hat everybody who is anybody
    zu \Rang und Würden kommen to achieve a high [social] standing [or status]
    jdm [durch etw akk/mit etw dat] den \Rang streitig machen to [try and] challenge sb's position [with sth]
    einen bestimmten \Rang bekleiden [o einnehmen] to hold a certain position
    3. MIL (Dienstgrad) rank
    einen hohen \Rang bekleiden [o einnehmen] to hold a high rank, to be a high-ranking officer
    4. SPORT (Platz) place
    5. FILM, THEAT circle
    vor leeren/überfüllten Rängen spielen to play to an empty/a packed house
    6. (Gewinnklasse) prize category
    7.
    ▶ jdm den \Rang ablaufen to outstrip [or steal a march on] sb
    * * *
    der; Rang[e]s, Ränge
    1) rank; (in der Gesellschaft) status; (in Bezug auf Bedeutung, Qualität) standing

    jemandem/einer Sache den Rang ablaufen — leave somebody/something far behind

    alles, was Rang und Namen hat — everybody who is anybody

    2) (im Theater) circle

    erster Rang — dress circle

    3) (Sport) s. Platz 6)
    * * *
    Rang m; -(e)s, Ränge
    1. rank; MIL (Dienstgrad) rank, US grade, rating ( auch SCHIFF);
    ein Offizier von hohem Rang a high-ranking officer;
    im Rang eines Staatssekretärs/Generals having ( oder with) the rank of state secretary/general
    2. fig (Stellung) standing, status;
    einen hohen/den ersten/den gleichen Rang einnehmen rank high/first/equally;
    ein Mann von/ohne Rang und Namen a distinguished ( oder an eminent) person/a nobody;
    alles, was Rang und Namen hat all the big names, everybody who is anybody
    3. (Güte) quality; (Bedeutung) significance;
    von europäischem Rang of European standing ( oder ranking);
    ersten Ranges of the first rank ( oder order); (erstklassig) first-class, first-rate;
    ein Politikum/Skandal ersten Ranges a political event/a scandal of the most far-reaching significance;
    ein Gitarrist vom Range Segovias a guitarist of Segovia’s stature;
    jemandem den Rang ablaufen outdo sb, outstrip sb;
    4. Lotto, Toto: (dividend) class
    5. SPORT (Platzierung) place;
    den ersten/letzten Rang belegen be in first/last place, come in first/last
    6. in Kino, Theater etc: circle;
    erster Rang THEAT dress circle, US auch balcony;
    zweiter Rang upper circle, US auch second ( oder upper) balcony;
    dritter Rang gallery;
    die Ränge SPORT the terraces;
    vor leeren Rängen spielen play to an empty house (SPORT before an empty stadium)
    * * *
    der; Rang[e]s, Ränge
    1) rank; (in der Gesellschaft) status; (in Bezug auf Bedeutung, Qualität) standing

    jemandem/einer Sache den Rang ablaufen — leave somebody/something far behind

    alles, was Rang und Namen hat — everybody who is anybody

    2) (im Theater) circle
    3) (Sport) s. Platz 6)
    * * *
    ¨-e (Mathematik) m.
    rank n. ¨-e m.
    degree n.
    grade n.
    rank n.
    state n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Rang

  • 77 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology

  • 78 Armed Forces Movement / Movimento das Forças Armadas

       (MFA)
       The organization of career military who overthrew the Estado Novo in a virtually bloodless military coup or pronunciamento generating the Revolution of 25 April 1974. This organization began as a clandestine group of junior career officers, largely from the army, but later including air force and navy officers, who had a series of secret meetings in Évora and other cities beginning in the summer and fall of 1973. The general grievances of these officers, who tended to be junior officers in their thirties and forties with the ranks of lieutenant, captain, and major, centered on the colonial wars in Portugal's African Empire. By 1973, these conflicts were more than a decade old, and in two of the wars, namely Guinea- Bissau and Mozambique, the Portuguese forces were taking heavy losses and losing ground. The catalyst for organizing a formal protest at first was not political but professional and corporate: a July 1973 law passed by the Marcello Caetano government that responded to a shortage of officer candidates in the African wars by lowering the professional qualifications for officer candidates for militia officers, something deeply resented by the career officers. The MFA organized the military coup of 1974 that met little resistance.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Armed Forces Movement / Movimento das Forças Armadas

  • 79 Cowper-Coles, Sherard Osborn

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 8 October 1866 East Harting, Sussex, England
    d. 9 September 1936
    [br]
    English inventor of the sherardizing process for metal protection.
    [br]
    He was the son of Captain Cowper- Coles, Royal Navy, the inventor of the swivelling turret for naval guns. He inherited his father's inventive talents and investigated a variety of inventions in his workshop at his home at Sunbury-on-Thames, assisted by a number of scientific workers. He had been educated by governesses, but he lacked a sound scientific background. His inventions, rarely systematically pursued, ranged from electrolytic processes for making copper sheets and parabolic reflectors to a process for inlaying and decorating metallic surfaces. Overall, however, he is best known for the invention of "sherardizing", the process for producing a rustproof coating of zinc on small metallic articles. The discovery came by chance, when he was annealing iron and steel packed in zinc dust to exclude air. The metal was found to be coated with a thin layer of zinc with some surface penetration. The first patent for the process was obtained in 1900, and later the American rights were sold, with a company being formed in 1908 to control them. A small plant was set up in Chelsea, London, to develop the process to the point where it could be carried out on a commercial scale in a plant in Willesden. Sherardizing has not been a general protective finish, but is restricted to articles such as nuts and bolts which are then painted or finished. The process was still in use in 1977, operated by the Zinc Alloy Company (London) Ltd.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    C.A.Smith, 1978, "Sherard Cowper-Coles: a review of the inception of sherardizing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 49:1–4.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Cowper-Coles, Sherard Osborn

  • 80 Lind, James

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 1716 Edinburgh, Scotland
    d. 13 July 1794 Gosport, England
    [br]
    Scottish physician and naval surgeon whose studies and investigations led to significant improvements in the living conditions on board ships; the author of the first treatise on the nature and prevention of scurvy.
    [br]
    Lind was registered in 1731 as an apprentice at the College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. By 1739 he was serving as a naval surgeon in the Mediterranean and during the ensuing decade he experienced conditions at sea off Guinea, the West Indies and in home waters. He returned to Edinburgh, taking his MD in 1748, and in 1750 was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh, becoming the Treasurer in 1757. In 1758 he was appointed Physician to the Naval Hospital at Haslar, Gosport, near Portsmouth, a post which he retained until his death.
    He had been particularly struck by the devastating consequences of scurvy during Anson's circumnavigation of the globe in 1740. At least 75 per cent of the crews had been affected (though it should be borne in mind that a considerable number of them were pensioners and invalids when posted aboard). Coupled with his own experiences, this led to the publication of A Treatise on the Scurvy, in 1754. Demonstrating that this condition accounted for many more deaths than from all the engagements with the French and Spanish in the current wars, he made it clear that by appropriate measures of diet and hygiene the disease could be entirely eliminated.
    Further editions of the treatise were published in 1757 and 1775, and the immense importance of his observations was immediately recognized. None the less, it was not until 1795 that an Admiralty order was issued on the supply of lime juice to ships. The efficacy of lime juice had been known for centuries, but it was Lind's observations that led to action, however tardy; that for economic reasons the relatively ineffective West Indian lime juice was supplied was in no way his responsibility. It is of interest that there is no evidence that Captain James Cook (1728–79) had any knowledge of Lind's work when arranging his own anti-scorbutic precautions in preparation for his historic first voyage.
    Lind's other work included observations on typhus, the proper ventilation of ships at sea, and the distilation of fresh from salt water.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1754, A Treatise on the Scurvy, Edinburgh.
    1757, An Essay on the most effectual means of Preserving the Health of Seamen in the Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
    Further Reading
    L.Roddis, 1951, James Lind—Founder of Nautical Medicine. Records of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Records of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
    MG

    Biographical history of technology > Lind, James

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