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61 Job
1. n библ. Иов2. n Джоб3. n многострадальный, терпеливый человекto be as patient as Job — быть терпеливым как Иов;
4. n работа, дело, трудin-process job — продолжающаяся работа; незавершенная работа
5. n разг. трудное дело6. n работа, место службы; должность7. n профессия, род занятий, квалификацияjob analysis — исследование особенностей и специфики разных профессий и требований, предъявляемых к рабочим
job family — родственные работы; родственные профессии
8. n эк. рабочее местоto create new jobs — создавать новые рабочие места, содействовать росту занятости
9. n задание; урокby the job — сдельно, поурочно, поштучно, аккордно
10. n хирургическая операция11. n положение вещей, ситуацияbad job — безнадёжное дело; неудача
12. n разг. коррупция; использование служебного положения в личных целях13. n разг. избиение; нанесение увечий14. n разг. сл. воровство, кража; грабёж15. n разг. сл. штучка; нечто особенноеis it the case that he has lost his job? — правда ли, что он лишился работы?
16. n разг. разг. обыкн. залежавшиеся товары, книги, продаваемые по сниженной цене17. n разг. тех. ком. деталь, изделие; обрабатываемый предметthis job is round-necked and long-sleeved — это изделие имеет круглый вырез и длинный акциденция, акцидентная работа
fat job — тёпленькое местечко, выгодное дельце
18. a сдельный, аккордныйjob work — сдельная, штучная работа
work by the job — сдельная работа; поштучная работа
19. a выполняемый по заказамjob shop — предприятие, работающее по заказам
active job — выполняемая работа; продолжающаяся работа
job lot shop — предприятие, работающее по заказам
20. a продаваемый или покупаемый партиями21. a относящийся к работающим, к занятостиjob security — гарантия занятости; обеспечение работой
22. v работать сдельно23. v нанимать на сдельную работуjob font — акцидентный шрифт, шрифт для акцидентных работ
job placement — подыскание работы; направление на работу
24. v работать нерегулярно; брать случайную работу25. v брать или давать внаём, напрокат лошадей, экипажи26. v бирж. спекулировать, барышничать; быть маклером27. v бирж. быть джоббером28. v бирж. разг. обыкн. продавать по пониженной цене залежавшиеся товары, книги29. v бирж. заключать недобросовестную сделку; злоупотреблять своим служебным положениемСинонимический ряд:1. employment (noun) appointment; berth; billet; business; calling; connection; employment; engagement; line; occupation; office; place; position; post; pursuit; situation; slot; spot; trade; vocation; work2. purpose (noun) function; purpose; role3. task (noun) assignment; chare; chore; devoir; duty; effort; onus; responsibility; stint; task; taskwork4. dupe (verb) bamboozle; befool; catch; chicane; con; dupe; dust; flimflam; fool; gull; hoax; hoodwink; hornswoggle; kid; pigeon; spoof; trick; victimize -
62 at
at [ət, stressed æt]∎ at the door/the bus stop à la porte/l'arrêt de bus;∎ at my house/the dentist's chez moi/le dentiste;∎ I'm at the airport je suis à l'aéroport;∎ we're at the Savoy (Hotel) (staying at) nous sommes au Savoy;∎ she's at a wedding/a committee meeting (attending) elle est à un mariage/en réunion avec le comité;∎ she was standing at the window elle se tenait debout à la fenêtre;∎ turn left at the traffic lights/at the Town Hall tournez à gauche au feu/à la mairie;∎ Railways change at Reading prenez la correspondance à Reading;∎ American where are you at with that report? où en êtes-vous avec ce rapport?;∎ familiar this club is where it's at ce club est très chic ou dans le vent;∎ familiar that's not where it's at (not fashionable) ça n'est pas dans le vent; American (not the important thing) là n'est pas la question;∎ familiar that's not where I'm at c'est pas mon truc∎ at noon/six o'clock à midi/six heures;∎ I work at night je travaille de nuit;∎ I like to work at night j'aime travailler la nuit;∎ I'm busy at the moment je suis occupé en ce moment;∎ at a time when... à un moment où…∎ he started working at fifteen il a commencé à travailler à (l'âge de) quinze ans(d) (indicating direction) vers, dans la direction de;∎ look at this! regarde ça!;∎ he shot at the rabbit il a tiré sur le lapin;∎ she grabbed at the purse elle a essayé de s'emparer du porte-monnaie;∎ don't shout at me! ne me crie pas dessus!∎ my parents are at work mes parents sont au travail;∎ he was at lunch il était allé déjeuner;∎ familiar get me some coffee while you're at it prenez-moi du café pendant que vous y êtes;∎ familiar she's at it again! la voilà qui recommence!;∎ familiar don't let me catch you at it again! que je ne t'y reprenne pas!(f) (indicating level, rate)∎ the temperature stands at 30° la température est de 30°;∎ at 50 mph ≃ à 80 km/h;∎ he drove at 50 mph ≃ il faisait du 80 (à l'heure);∎ the rise worked out at £1 an hour l'augmentation correspondait à 1 livre de l'heure∎ it's a bargain at £5 à 5 livres, c'est une bonne affaire;∎ we sell it at (a price of) £1 a kilo nous le vendons 1 livre le kilo∎ the water level was at its highest/lowest le niveau d'eau était au plus haut/au plus bas;∎ she's at her most/least effective in such situations c'est là qu'elle est le plus/le moins efficace∎ he's brilliant/hopeless at maths il est excellent/nul en maths∎ to be (on) at sb harceler qn□ ;∎ he's always (on) at his secretary to arrive earlier il n'arrête pas de harceler sa secrétaire pour qu'elle vienne plus tôt le matin;∎ his mother's always (on) at him to tidy his room sa mère est toujours après lui ou le harcèle toujours pour qu'il range sa chambre∎ "gwilson at transex, dot, co, dot, uk" "gwilson, arrobas, transex, point, co, point, uk"(a) (immediately) tout de suite, immédiatement(b) (simultaneously) en même temps;∎ they all came at once ils sont tous arrivés en même temps;∎ don't all talk at once ne parlez pas tous en même temps -
63 drop
drop [drɒp]laisser tomber ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (d) baisser ⇒ 1 (b) déposer ⇒ 1 (c) laisser échapper ⇒ 1 (e) écrire ⇒ 1 (f) omettre ⇒ 1 (g) perdre ⇒ 1 (h) tomber ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (b) s'écrouler ⇒ 2 (b) baisser ⇒ 2 (c) goutte ⇒ 3 (a) baisse ⇒ 3 (b) chute ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (c) hauteur de chute ⇒ 3 (d)(a) (let fall → accidentally) laisser tomber; (→ liquid) laisser tomber goutte à goutte; (→ trousers) laisser tomber; (→ bomb) lancer, lâcher; (→ stitch) sauter, laisser tomber; (release) lâcher;∎ be careful not to drop it fais attention à ne pas le laisser tomber;∎ drop it! (to dog) lâche ça!;∎ he dropped it from the balcony to his accomplice il l'a lancé à son complice depuis le balcon;∎ they dropped soldiers/supplies by parachute ils ont parachuté des soldats/du ravitaillement;∎ to drop a curtsy faire une révérence;∎ Nautical to drop anchor mouiller, jeter l'ancre;∎ Sport to drop a goal (in rugby) marquer un drop;∎ she dropped the ball over the net (in tennis) elle a placé un amorti juste derrière le filet;∎ could you drop me at the corner, please? pouvez-vous me déposer au coin, s'il vous plaît?;∎ we dropped the parcel at John's on the way home nous avons déposé le paquet chez John en rentrant∎ I've dropped the idea of going j'ai renoncé à y aller;∎ to drop everything laisser tout tomber;∎ he dropped what he was doing and came round to help us il a abandonné ce qu'il était en train de faire pour venir nous aider;∎ let's drop the subject ne parlons plus de cela, parlons d'autre chose;∎ she dropped me to go out with the captain of the rugby team elle m'a laissé tomber pour sortir avec le capitaine de l'équipe de rugby;∎ just drop it! laissez tomber!, assez!(e) (utter → remark) laisser échapper;∎ to drop a hint about sth faire allusion à qch;∎ he dropped me a hint that she wanted to come il m'a fait comprendre qu'elle voulait venir;∎ she let (it) drop that she had been there (accidentally) elle a laissé échapper qu'elle y était allée; (deliberately) elle a fait comprendre qu'elle y était allée(f) (send → letter, note) écrire, envoyer;∎ I'll drop you a line next week je t'enverrai un petit mot la semaine prochaine;∎ I'll drop it in the mail or British post je la mettrai à la poste∎ we dropped the love scene nous avons supprimé la scène d'amour;∎ he drops his h's il n'aspire pas les h;∎ let's drop the formalities, shall we? oublions les formalités, d'accord?;∎ to drop a player from a team écarter un joueur d'une équipe∎ he dropped $50 gambling il a laissé ou perdu 50 dollars au jeu;∎ they dropped one game ils ont perdu un match∎ to drop acid prendre ou avaler de l'acide□∎ the book dropped from or out of her hands le livre lui tomba des mains;∎ the road drops into the valley la route plonge vers la vallée;∎ figurative it all dropped into place tout s'est mis en place;∎ Theatre the curtain dropped le rideau tomba∎ she dropped to her knees elle est tombée à genoux;∎ I dropped exhausted into a chair je me suis écroulé exténué sur une chaise;∎ I'm ready to drop (from fatigue) je tombe de fatigue, je ne tiens plus sur mes jambes; (from sleepiness) je tombe de sommeil;∎ he'll work until he drops il va travailler jusqu'à épuisement;∎ she dropped dead elle est tombée raide morte;∎ familiar drop dead! va te faire voir!;∎ I find that I drop back into the local dialect when I go home je réalise que je retombe dans le dialecte quand je rentre chez moi;∎ the team dropped to third place l'équipe est descendue à la troisième position(c) (decrease → price, speed) baisser, diminuer; (→ temperature) baisser; (→ wind) se calmer, tomber; (→ voice) baisser;∎ shares dropped a point les actions ont reculé d'un point;∎ the pound dropped three points against the dollar la livre a reculé de ou a perdu trois points par rapport au dollar;∎ interest rates have dropped by 1 percent les taux d'intérêt ont baissé de 1 pour cent∎ there the matter dropped l'affaire en est restée là(e) (give birth → animal) mettre bas3 noun(a) (of liquid) goutte f;∎ the rain fell in huge drops la pluie tombait à grosses gouttes;∎ drop by drop goutte à goutte;∎ there hasn't been a drop of rain for weeks il n'y a pas eu une goutte de pluie depuis des semaines;∎ would you like a drop of wine? que diriez-vous d'une goutte ou d'une larme de vin?;∎ there's a drop left in the bottle il reste une goutte dans la bouteille;∎ familiar he's had a drop too much (to drink) il a bu un verre de trop□ ;∎ I haven't touched a drop since je n'y ai pas touché depuis;∎ it's just a drop in the ocean ce n'est qu'une goutte d'eau dans la mer(b) (decrease → in price) baisse f, chute f (in de); (→ in temperature) baisse f (in de); (→ in voltage) chute f (in de)∎ it was a long drop from the top of the wall ça faisait haut depuis le haut du mur;∎ at the drop of a hat sans hésiter, à tout moment;∎ she'll offer to sing at the drop of a hat elle propose de chanter pour un oui ou pour un non(d) (vertical distance) hauteur f de chute; (slope) descente f brusque; (abyss) à-pic m inv, précipice m; (in climbing) vide m;∎ a sudden drop in the ground level une soudaine dénivellation;∎ it's a 50-metre drop from the cliff to the sea il y a (un dénivelé de) ou une hauteur de 50 mètres entre le haut de la falaise et la mer;∎ careful, it's a long drop attention, c'est haut;∎ American to have the drop on sb avoir l'avantage sur qn∎ lemon drops bonbons mpl au citron∎ to make a drop déposer un colis(h) (hiding place) cachette f, dépôt m (clandestin)(i) (place to leave something) lieu m de dépôt∎ he's for the drop il est bon pour la potenceMedicine gouttes fpl►► Cars drop arm bielle f pendante;Computing & Typography drop cap lettrine f;drop curtain rideau m (à la française);Metallurgy drop forge marteau-pilon m;Sport drop goal (in rugby) drop-goal m, drop m;Technology drop hammer marteau-pilon m;drop handlebars guidon m renversé;Sport drop kick (in rugby) coup m de pied tombé;Computing & Typography drop letter lettrine f;drop seat strapontin m;Commerce drop shipment = envoi commercial facturé à un grossiste mais expédié directement au détaillant;Sport drop shot (in tennis) amorti m;Cars drop test essai m de chute;drop zone zone f de droppage(a) (interest, support) diminuer, baisserretourner en arrière, se laisser devancer ou distancerpasser(person) tomber (par terre); (table leaf) se rabattre➲ drop inpasser;∎ I just dropped in for a chat je suis seulement passé bavarder un moment;∎ to drop in on sb passer voir qn(deliver) déposer;∎ I'll drop it in on my way to work je le déposerai demain en allant au travail;∎ familiar you dropped me right in it tu m'as mis dans le pétrin➲ drop off(person) déposer; (package, thing) déposer, laisser(b) (decrease → membership, attendance etc) diminuer, baisser(c) (fall off) tomber;∎ all the flowers dropped off when I moved the plant toutes les fleurs sont tombées lorsque j'ai déplacé la plante(a) (fall out) tomber;∎ my purse must have dropped out of my bag mon porte-monnaie a dû tomber de mon sac(b) (withdraw) renoncer;∎ she dropped out of the race elle s'est retirée de la course;∎ he dropped out of school il a abandonné ses études;∎ words that have dropped out of current usage des mots qui ont disparu de l'usage courant(c) (person → from society) vivre en marge de la sociétépasser;∎ I just dropped round for a chat je suis seulement passé bavarder un moment(deliver) déposer;∎ I'll drop that book round for you tomorrow je déposerai ce livre chez toi demain -
64 Carothers, Wallace Hume
[br]b. 27 April 1896 Burlington, Iowa, USAd. 29 April 1937 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA[br]American chemist, inventor of nylon.[br]After graduating in chemistry, Carothers embarked on academic research at several universities, finally at Harvard University. His earliest published papers, from 1923, heralded the brilliance and originality of his later work. In 1928, Du Pont de Nemours persuaded him to forsake the academic world to lead their new organic-chemistry group in a programme of fundamental research at their central laboratories at Wilmington, Delaware. The next nine years were extraordinarily productive, yielding important contributions to theoretical organic chemistry and the foundation of two branches of chemical industry, namely the production of synthetic rubber and of wholly synthetic fibres.Carothers began work on high molecular weight substances yielding fibres and introduced polymerization by condensation: polymerization by addition was already known. He developed a clear understanding of the relation between the repeating structural units in a large molecule and its physical chemical properties. In 1931, Carothers found that chloroprene could be polymerized much faster than isoprene, the monomer in natural rubber. This process yielded polychloroprene or neoprene, a synthetic rubber with improved properties. Manufacture began the following year, and the material has continued to be used for speciality rubbers.There followed many publications announcing new condensations polymers. On 2 January 1935, he obtained a patent for the formation of new polyamides, including one from adipic acid and hexamethylenediamene. After four years of development work, which cost Du Pont some $27 million, this new polyamide, or nylon, reached the stage of commercial production, beginning on 23 October 1938. Nylon stockings appeared the following year and 64 million were sold during the first twelve months. However, Carothers saw none of this spectacular success: he had died by his own hand in 1937, after a long history of gradually intensifying depression.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsElected to the National Academy of Science 1936 (he was the first industrial organic chemist to be so honoured).BibliographyH.M.Whitby and G.S.Whitby, 1940, Collected Papers of Wallace H.Carothers on Polymerisation, New York.Further ReadingR.Adams, 1939, memoir, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 20:293–309 (includes a complete list of Carothers's sixty-two scientific papers and most of his sixty-nine US patents).LRDBiographical history of technology > Carothers, Wallace Hume
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65 Castner, Hamilton Young
SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology[br]b. 11 September 1858 Brooklyn, New York, USAd. 11 October 1899 Saranoe Lake, New York, USA[br]American chemist, inventor of the electrolytic production of sodium.[br]Around 1850, the exciting new metal aluminium began to be produced by the process developed by Sainte-Claire Deville. However, it remained expensive on account of the high cost of one of the raw materials, sodium. It was another thirty years before Castner became the first to work successfully the process for producing sodium, which consisted of heating sodium hydroxide with charcoal at a high temperature. Unable to interest American backers in the process, Castner took it to England and set up a plant at Oldbury, near Birmingham. At the moment he achieved commercial success, however, the demand for cheap sodium plummeted as a result of the development of the electrolytic process for producing aluminium. He therefore sought other uses for cheap sodium, first converting it to sodium peroxide, a bleaching agent much used in the straw-hat industry. Much more importantly, Castner persuaded the gold industry to use sodium instead of potassium cyanide in the refining of gold. With the "gold rush", he established a large market in Australia, the USA, South Africa and elsewhere, but the problem was to meet the demand, so Castner turned to the electrolytic method. At first progress was slow because of the impure nature of the sodium hydroxide, so he used a mercury cathode, with which the released sodium formed an amalgam. It then reacted with water in a separate compartment in the cell to form sodium hydroxide of a purity hitherto unknown in the alkali industry; chlorine was a valuable by-product.In 1894 Castner began to seek international patents for the cell, but found he had been anticipated in Germany by Kellner, an Austrian chemist. Preferring negotiation to legal confrontation, Castner exchanged patents and processes with Kellner, although the latter's had been less successful. The cell became known as the Castner-Kellner cell, but the process needed cheap electricity and salt, neither of which was available near Oldbury, so he set up the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company works at Runcorn in Cheshire; at the same time, a pilot plant was set up in the USA at Saltville, Virginia, with a larger plant being established at Niagara Falls.[br]Further ReadingA.Fleck, 1947, "The life and work of Hamilton Young Castner" (Castner Memorial Lecture), Chemistry and Industry 44:515-; Fifty Years of Progress: The Story of the Castner-Kellner Company, 1947.T.K.Derry and T.I.Williams, 1960, A Short History of Technology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 549–50 (provides a summary of his work).LRDBiographical history of technology > Castner, Hamilton Young
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66 Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]b. c. 1394–9 Mainz, Germanyd. 3 February 1468 Mainz, Germany[br]German inventor of printing with movable type.[br]Few biographical details are known of Johann Gensfleisch zum Gutenberg, yet it has been said that he was responsible for Germany's most notable contribution to civilization. He was a goldsmith by trade, of a patrician family of the city of Mainz. He seems to have begun experiments on printing while a political exile in Strasbourg c. 1440. He returned to Mainz between 1444 and 1448 and continued his experiments, until by 1450 he had perfected his invention sufficiently to justify raising capital for its commercial exploitation.Circumstances were propitious for the invention of printing at that time. Rises in literacy and prosperity had led to the formation of a social class with the time and resources to develop a taste for reading, and the demand for reading matter had outstripped the ability of the scribes to satisfy it. The various technologies required were well established, and finally the flourishing textile industry was producing enough waste material, rag, to make paper, the only satisfactory and cheap medium for printing. There were others working along similar lines, but it was Gutenberg who achieved the successful adaptation and combination of technologies to arrive at a process by which many identical copies of a text could be produced in a wide variety of forms, of which the book was the most important. Gutenberg did make several technical innovations, however. The two-piece adjustable mould for casting types of varying width, from T to "M", was ingenious. Then he had to devise an oil-based ink suitable for inking metal type, derived from the painting materials developed by contemporary Flemish artists. Finally, probably after many experiments, he arrived at a metal alloy of distinctive composition suitable for casting type.In 1450 Gutenberg borrowed 800 guldens from Johannes Fust, a lawyer of Mainz, and two years later Fust advanced a further 800 guldens, securing for himself a partnership in Gutenberg's business. But in 1455 Fust foreclosed and the bulk of Gutenberg's equipment passed to Peter Schöffer, who was in the service of Fust and later married his daughter. Like most early printers, Gutenberg seems not to have appreciated, or at any rate to have been able to provide for, the great dilemma of the publishing trade, namely the outlay of considerable capital in advance of each publication and the slowness of the return. Gutenberg probably retained only the type for the 42- and 36-line bibles and possibly the Catholicon of 1460, an encyclopedic work compiled in the thirteenth century and whose production pointed the way to printing's role as a means of spreading knowledge. The work concluded with a short descriptive piece, or colophon, which is probably by Gutenberg himself and is the only output of his mind that we have; it manages to omit the names of both author and printer.Gutenberg seems to have abandoned printing after 1460, perhaps due to failing eyesight as well as for financial reasons, and he suffered further loss in the sack of Mainz in 1462. He received a kind of pension from the Archbishop in 1465, and on his death was buried in the Franciscan church in Mainz. The only major work to have issued for certain from Gutenberg's workshop is the great 42-line bible, begun in 1452 and completed by August 1456. The quality of this Graaf piece of printing is a tribute to Gutenberg's ability as a printer, and the soundness of his invention is borne out by the survival of the process as he left it to the world, unchanged for over three hundred years save in minor details.[br]Further ReadingA.Ruppel, 1967, Johannes Gutenberg: sein Leben und sein Werk, 3rd edn, Nieuwkoop: B.de Graaf (the standard biography), A.M.L.de Lamartine, 1960, Gutenberg, inventeur de l'imprimerie, Tallone.Scholderer, 1963, Gutenberg, Inventor of Printing, London: British Museum.S.H.Steinberg, 1974, Five Hundred Years of Printing 3rd edn, London: Penguin (provides briefer details).LRDBiographical history of technology > Gutenberg, Johann Gensfleisch zum
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67 Herbert, Edward Geisler
[br]b. 23 March 1869 Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, Englandd. 9 February 1938 West Didsbury, Manchester, England[br]English engineer, inventor of the Rapidor saw and the Pendulum Hardness Tester, and pioneer of cutting tool research.[br]Edward Geisler Herbert was educated at Nottingham High School in 1876–87, and at University College, London, in 1887–90, graduating with a BSc in Physics in 1889 and remaining for a further year to take an engineering course. He began his career as a premium apprentice at the Nottingham works of Messrs James Hill \& Co, manufacturers of lace machinery. In 1892 he became a partner with Charles Richardson in the firm of Richardson \& Herbert, electrical engineers in Manchester, and when this partnership was dissolved in 1895 he carried on the business in his own name and began to produce machine tools. He remained as Managing Director of this firm, reconstituted in 1902 as a limited liability company styled Edward G.Herbert Ltd, until his retirement in 1928. He was joined by Charles Fletcher (1868–1930), who as joint Managing Director contributed greatly to the commercial success of the firm, which specialized in the manufacture of small machine tools and testing machinery.Around 1900 Herbert had discovered that hacksaw machines cut very much quicker when only a few teeth are in operation, and in 1902 he patented a machine which utilized this concept by automatically changing the angle of incidence of the blade as cutting proceeded. These saws were commercially successful, but by 1912, when his original patents were approaching expiry, Herbert and Fletcher began to develop improved methods of applying the rapid-saw concept. From this work the well-known Rapidor and Manchester saws emerged soon after the First World War. A file-testing machine invented by Herbert before the war made an autographic record of the life and performance of the file and brought him into close contact with the file and tool steel manufacturers of Sheffield. A tool-steel testing machine, working like a lathe, was introduced when high-speed steel had just come into general use, and Herbert became a prominent member of the Cutting Tools Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1919, carrying out many investigations for that body and compiling four of its Reports published between 1927 and 1933. He was the first to conceive the idea of the "tool-work" thermocouple which allowed cutting tool temperatures to be accurately measured. For this advance he was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution in 1926.His best-known invention was the Pendulum Hardness Tester, introduced in 1923. This used a spherical indentor, which was rolled over, rather than being pushed into, the surface being examined, by a small, heavy, inverted pendulum. The period of oscillation of this pendulum provided a sensitive measurement of the specimen's hardness. Following this work Herbert introduced his "Cloudburst" surface hardening process, in which hardened steel engineering components were bombarded by steel balls moving at random in all directions at very high velocities like gaseous molecules. This treatment superhardened the surface of the components, improved their resistance to abrasion, and revealed any surface defects. After bombardment the hardness of the superficially hardened layers increased slowly and spontaneously by a room-temperature ageing process. After his retirement in 1928 Herbert devoted himself to a detailed study of the influence of intense magnetic fields on the hardening of steels.Herbert was a member of several learned societies, including the Manchester Association of Engineers, the Institute of Metals, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He retained a seat on the Board of his company from his retirement until the end of his life.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsManchester Association of Engineers Butterworth Gold Medal 1923. Institution of Mechanical Engineers Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal 1926.BibliographyE.G.Herbert obtained several British and American patents and was the author of many papers, which are listed in T.M.Herbert (ed.), 1939, "The inventions of Edward Geisler Herbert: an autobiographical note", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 141: 59–67.ASD / RTSBiographical history of technology > Herbert, Edward Geisler
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68 Le Roy, Pierre
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 24 November 1717 Paris, Franced. 25 August 1785 Viry-sur-Orge, France[br]French horologist who invented the detached détente escapement and the compensation balance.[br]Le Roy was born into a distinguished horological family: his father, Julien, was Clockmaker to the King. Pierre became Master in 1737 and continued to work with his father, taking over the business when his father died in 1759. However, he seems to have left the commercial side of the business to others so that he could concentrate on developing the marine chronometer. Unlike John Harrison, he believed that the solution lay in detaching the escapement from the balance, and in 1748 he submitted a proposal for the first detached escapement to the Académie des Sciences in Paris. He also differed from Harrison in his method of temperature compensation, which acted directly on the balance by altering its radius of gyration. This was achieved either by mounting thermometers on the balance or by using bimetallic strips which effectively reduced the diameter of the balance as the temperature rose (with refinements, this later became the standard method of temperature compensation in watches and chronometers). Le Roy had already discovered that for every spiral balance spring there was a particular length at which it would be isochronous, and this method of temperature compensation did not destroy that isochronism by altering the length, as other methods did. These innovations were incorporated in a chronometer with an improved detached escapement which he presented to Louis XV in 1766 and described in a memoir to the Académie des Sciences. This instrument contained the three essential elements of all subsequent chronometers: an isochronous balance spring, a detached escapement and a balance with temperature compensation. Its performance was similar to that of Harrison's fourth timepiece, and Le Roy was awarded prizes by the Académie des Sciences for the chronometer and for his memoir. However, his work was never fully appreciated in France, where he was over-shadowed by his rival Ferdinand Berthoud. When Berthoud was awarded the coveted title of Horloger de la Marine, Le Roy became disillusioned and shortly afterwards gave up chronometry and retired to the country.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsHorloger du Roi 1760.Bibliography1748, "Echappement à détente", Histoire et mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.Further ReadingR.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press (still the standard work on the subject).DV -
69 Morris, William Richard, Viscount Nuffield
[br]b. 10 October 1877 Worcester, Englandd. 22 August 1963 Nuffield Place, England[br]English industrialist, car manufacturer and philanthropist.[br]Morris was the son of Frederick Morris, then a draper. He was the eldest of a family of seven, all of whom, except for one sister, died in childhood. When he was 3 years old, his father moved to Cowley, near Oxford, where he attended the village school. After a short time with a local bicycle firm he set up on his own at the age of 16 with a capital of £4. He manufactured pedal cycles and by 1902 he had designed a motor cycle and was doing car-repair work. By 1912, at the Motor Show, he was able to announce his first car, the 8.9 hp, two-seater Morris Oxford with its characteristic "bull-nose". It could perform at up to 50 mph (80 km/h) and 50 mpg (5.65 1/100 km). It cost £165.Though untrained, Morris was a born engineer as well as a natural judge of character. This enabled him to build up a reliable team of assistants in his growing business, with an order for four hundred cars at the Motor Show in 1912. Much of his business was built up in the assembly of components manufactured by outside suppliers. In he moved out of his initial premises by New College in Longwall and bought land at Cowley, where he brought out his second model, the 11.9hp Morris Oxford. This was after the First World War, during which car production was reduced to allow the manufacture of tanks and munitions. He was awarded the OBE in 1917 for his war work. Morris Motors Ltd was incorporated in 1919, and within fifteen months sales of cars had reached over 3,000 a year. By 1923 he was producing 20,000 cars a year, and in 1926 50,000, equivalent to about one-third of Britain's output. With the slump, a substantial overdraft, and a large stock of unsold cars, Morris took the bold decision to cut the prices of cars in stock, which then sold out within three weeks. Other makers followed suit, but Morris was ahead of them.Morris was part-founder of the Pressed Steel Company, set up to produce car bodies at Cowley. A clever operation with the shareholding of the Morris Motors Company allowed Morris a substantial overall profit to provide expansion capital. By 1931 his "empire" comprised, in addition to Morris Motors, the MG Car Company, the Wolseley Company, the SU Carburettor Company and Morris Commercial Cars. In 1936, the value of Morris's financial interest in the business was put at some £16 million.William Morris was a frugal man and uncomplicated, having little use for all the money he made except to channel it to charitable purposes. It is said that in all he gave away some £30 million during his lifetime, much of it invested by the recipients to provide long-term benefits. He married Elizabeth Anstey in 1904 and lived for thirty years at Nuffield Place. He lived modestly, and even after retirement, when Honorary President of the British Motor Corporation, the result of a merger between Morris Motors and the Austin Motor Company, he drove himself to work in a modest 10 hp Wolseley. His generosity benefited many hospitals in London, Oxford, Birmingham and elsewhere. Oxford Colleges were another class of beneficiary from his largesse.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsViscount 1938; Baron (Lord Nuffield) 1934; Baronet 1929; OBE 1917; GBE 1941; CH 1958. FRS 1939. He was a doctor of seven universities and an honorary freeman of seven towns.Further ReadingR.Jackson, 1964, The Nuffield Story.P.W.S.Andrews and E.Brunner, The Life of Lord Nuffield.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Morris, William Richard, Viscount Nuffield
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70 Poulsen, Valdemar
[br]b. 23 November 1869 Copenhagen, Denmarkd. 23 July 1942 Gentofte, Denmark[br]Danish engineer who developed practical magnetic recording and the arc generator for continuous radio waves.[br]From an early age he was absorbed by phenomena of physics to the exclusion of all other subjects, including mathematics. When choosing his subjects for the final three years in Borgedydskolen in Christianshavn (Copenhagen) before university, he opted for languages and history. At the University of Copenhagen he embarked on the study of medicine in 1889, but broke it off and was apprenticed to the machine firm of A/S Frichs Eftf. in Aarhus. He was employed between 1893 and 1899 as a mechanic and assistant in the laboratory of the Copenhagen Telephone Company KTAS. Eventually he advanced to be Head of the line fault department. This suited his desire for experiment and measurement perfectly. After the invention of the telegraphone in 1898, he left the laboratory and with responsible business people he created Aktieselskabet Telegrafonen, Patent Poulsen in order to develop it further, together with Peder Oluf Pedersen (1874– 1941). Pedersen brought with him the mathematical background which eventually led to his professorship in electronic engineering in 1922.The telegraphone was the basis for multinational industrial endeavours after it was demonstrated at the 1900 World's Exhibition in Paris. It must be said that its strength was also its weakness, because the telegraphone was unique in bringing sound recording and reproduction to the telephone field, but the lack of electronic amplifiers delayed its use outside this and the dictation fields (where headphones could be used) until the 1920s. However, commercial interest was great enough to provoke a number of court cases concerning patent infringement, in which Poulsen frequently figured as a witness.In 1903–4 Poulsen and Pedersen developed the arc generator for continuous radio waves which was used worldwide for radio transmitters in competition with Marconi's spark-generating system. The inspiration for this work came from the research by William Duddell on the musical arc. Whereas Duddell had proposed the use of the oscillations generated in his electric arc for telegraphy in his 1901 UK patent, Poulsen contributed a chamber of hydrogen and a transverse magnetic field which increased the efficiency remarkably. He filed patent applications on these constructions from 1902 and the first publication in a scientific forum took place at the International Electrical Congress in St Louis, Missouri, in 1904.In order to use continuous waves efficiently (the high frequency constituted a carrier), Poulsen developed both a modulator for telegraphy and a detector for the carrier wave. The modulator was such that even the more primitive spark-communication receivers could be used. Later Poulsen and Pedersen developed frequency-shift keying.The Amalgamated Radio-Telegraph Company Ltd was launched in London in 1906, combining the developments of Poulsen and those of De Forest Wireless Telegraph Syndicate. Poulsen contributed his English and American patents. When this company was liquidated in 1908, its assets were taken over by Det Kontinentale Syndikat for Poulsen Radio Telegrafi, A/S in Copenhagen (liquidated 1930–1). Some of the patents had been sold to C.Lorenz AG in Berlin, which was very active.The arc transmitting system was in use worldwide from about 1910 to 1925, and the power increased from 12 kW to 1,000 kW. In 1921 an exceptional transmitter rated at 1,800 kW was erected on Java for communications with the Netherlands. More than one thousand installations had been in use worldwide. The competing systems were initially spark transmitters (Marconi) and later rotary converters ( Westinghouse). Similar power was available from valve transmitters only much later.From c. 1912 Poulsen did not contribute actively to further development. He led a life as a well-respected engineer and scientist and served on several committees. He had his private laboratory and made experiments in the composition of matter and certain resonance phenomena; however, nothing was published. It has recently been suggested that Poulsen could not have been unaware of Oberlin Smith's work and publication in 1888, but his extreme honesty in technical matters indicates that his development was indeed independent. In the case of the arc generator, Poulsen was always extremely frank about the inspiration he gained from earlier developers' work.[br]Bibliography1899, British patent no. 8,961 (the first British telegraphone patent). 1903, British patent no. 15,599 (the first British arc-genera tor patent).His scientific publications are few, but fundamental accounts of his contribution are: 1900, "Das Telegraphon", Ann. d. Physik 3:754–60; 1904, "System for producing continuous oscillations", Trans. Int. El. Congr. St. Louis, Vol. II, pp. 963–71.Further ReadingA.Larsen, 1950, Telegrafonen og den Traadløse, Ingeniørvidenskabelige Skrifter no. 2, Copenhagen (provides a very complete, although somewhat confusing, account of Poulsen's contributions; a list of his patents is given on pp. 285–93).F.K.Engel, 1990, Documents on the Invention of Magnetic Re cor ding in 1878, New York: Audio Engineering Society, reprint no. 2,914 (G2) (it is here that doubt is expressed about whether Poulsen's ideas were developed independently).GB-N -
71 Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
[br]b. 21 October 1860 Cincinnatus, Cortland County, New York, USAd. 16 June 1930 Brooklyn, New York, USA[br]American entrepreneur who invented the gyrocompass.[br]Sperry was born into a farming community in Cortland County. He received a rudimentary education at the local school, but an interest in mechanical devices was aroused by the agricultural machinery he saw around him. His attendance at the Normal School in Cortland provided a useful theoretical background to his practical knowledge. He emerged in 1880 with an urge to pursue invention in electrical engineering, then a new and growing branch of technology. Within two years he was able to patent and demonstrate his arc lighting system, complete with its own generator, incorporating new methods of regulating its output. The Sperry Electric Light, Motor and Car Brake Company was set up to make and market the system, but it was difficult to keep pace with electric-lighting developments such as the incandescent lamp and alternating current, and the company ceased in 1887 and was replaced by the Sperry Electric Company, which itself was taken over by the General Electric Company.In the 1890s Sperry made useful inventions in electric mining machinery and then in electric street-or tramcars, with his patent electric brake and control system. The patents for the brake were important enough to be bought by General Electric. From 1894 to 1900 he was manufacturing electric motor cars of his own design, and in 1900 he set up a laboratory in Washington, where he pursued various electrochemical processes.In 1896 he began to work on the practical application of the principle of the gyroscope, where Sperry achieved his most notable inventions, the first of which was the gyrostabilizer for ships. The relatively narrow-hulled steamship rolled badly in heavy seas and in 1904 Ernst Otto Schuck, a German naval engineer, and Louis Brennan in England began experiments to correct this; their work stimulated Sperry to develop his own device. In 1908 he patented the active gyrostabilizer, which acted to correct a ship's roll as soon as it started. Three years later the US Navy agreed to try it on a destroyer, the USS Worden. The successful trials of the following year led to widespread adoption. Meanwhile, in 1910, Sperry set up the Sperry Gyroscope Company to extend the application to commercial shipping.At the same time, Sperry was working to apply the gyroscope principle to the ship's compass. The magnetic compass had worked well in wooden ships, but iron hulls and electrical machinery confused it. The great powers' race to build up their navies instigated an urgent search for a solution. In Germany, Anschütz-Kämpfe (1872–1931) in 1903 tested a form of gyrocompass and was encouraged by the authorities to demonstrate the device on the German flagship, the Deutschland. Its success led Sperry to develop his own version: fortunately for him, the US Navy preferred a home-grown product to a German one and gave Sperry all the backing he needed. A successful trial on a destroyer led to widespread acceptance in the US Navy, and Sperry was soon receiving orders from the British Admiralty and the Russian Navy.In the rapidly developing field of aeronautics, automatic stabilization was becoming an urgent need. In 1912 Sperry began work on a gyrostabilizer for aircraft. Two years later he was able to stage a spectacular demonstration of such a device at an air show near Paris.Sperry continued research, development and promotion in military and aviation technology almost to the last. In 1926 he sold the Sperry Gyroscope Company to enable him to devote more time to invention.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsJohn Fritz Medal 1927. President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1928.BibliographySperry filed over 400 patents, of which two can be singled out: 1908. US patent no. 434,048 (ship gyroscope); 1909. US patent no. 519,533 (ship gyrocompass set).Further ReadingT.P.Hughes, 1971, Elmer Sperry, Inventor and Engineer, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (a full and well-documented biography, with lists of his patents and published writings).LRD -
72 Tesla, Nikola
SUBJECT AREA: Electricity[br]b. 9 July 1856 Smiljan, Croatiad. 7 January 1943 New York, USA[br]Serbian (naturalized American) engineer and inventor of polyphase electrical power systems.[br]While at the technical institute in Graz, Austria, Tesla's attention was drawn to the desirability of constructing a motor without a commutator. He considered the sparking between the commutator and brushes of the Gramme machine when run as a motor a serious defect. In 1881 he went to Budapest to work on the telegraph system and while there conceived the principle of the rotating magnetic field, upon which all polyphase induction motors are based. In 1882 Tesla moved to Paris and joined the Continental Edison Company. After building a prototype of his motor he emigrated to the United States in 1884, becoming an American citizen in 1889. He left Edison and founded an independent concern, the Tesla Electric Company, to develop his inventions.The importance of Tesla's first patents, granted in 1888 for alternating-current machines, cannot be over-emphasized. They covered a complete polyphase system including an alternator and induction motor. Other patents included the polyphase transformer, synchronous motor and the star connection of three-phase machines. These were to become the basis of the whole of the modern electric power industry. The Westinghouse company purchased the patents and marketed Tesla motors, obtaining in 1893 the contract for the Niagara Falls two-phase alternators driven by 5,000 hp (3,700 kW) water turbines.After a short period with Westinghouse, Tesla resigned to continue his research into high-frequency and high-voltage phenomena using the Tesla coil, an air-cored transformer. He lectured in America and Europe on his high-frequency devices, enjoying a considerable international reputation. The name "tesla" has been given to the SI unit of magnetic-flux density. The induction motor became one of the greatest advances in the industrial application of electricity. A claim for priority of invention of the induction motor was made by protagonists of Galileo Ferraris (1847–1897), whose discovery of rotating magnetic fields produced by alternating currents was made independently of Tesla's. Ferraris demonstrated the phenomenon but neglected its exploitation to produce a practical motor. Tesla himself failed to reap more than a small return on his work and later became more interested in scientific achievement than commercial success, with his patents being infringed on a wide scale.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsAmerican Institute of Electrical Engineers Edison Medal 1917. Tesla received doctorates from fourteen universities.Bibliography1 May 1888, American patent no. 381,968 (initial patent for the three-phase induction motor).1956, Nikola Tesla, 1856–1943, Lectures, Patents, Articles, ed. L.I.Anderson, Belgrade (selected works, in English).1977, My Inventions, repub. Zagreb (autobiography).Further ReadingM.Cheney, 1981, Tesla: Man Out of Time, New Jersey (a full biography). C.Mackechnie Jarvis, 1969, in IEE Electronics and Power 15:436–40 (a brief treatment).T.C.Martin, 1894, The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla, New York (covers his early work on polyphase systems).GW -
73 Whittle, Sir Frank
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 1 June 1907 Coventry, England[br]English engineer who developed the first British jet engine.[br]Frank Whittle enlisted in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an apprentice, and after qualifying as a pilot he developed an interest in the technical aspects of aircraft propulsion. He was convinced that the gas-turbine engine could be adapted for use in aircraft, but he could not convince the Air Ministry, who turned down the proposal. Nevertheless, Whittle applied for a patent for his turbojet engine the following year, 1930. While still in the RAF, he was allowed time to study for a degree at Cambridge University and carry out postgraduate research (1934–7). By 1936 the official attitude had changed, and a company called Power Jets Ltd was set up to develop Whittle's jet engine. On 12 April 1937 the experimental engine was bench-tested. After further development, an official order was placed in March 1938. Whittle's engine had a centrifugal compressor, ten combustion chambers and a turbine to drive the compressor; all the power output came from the jet of hot gases.In 1939 an experimental aircraft was ordered from the Gloster Aircraft Company, the E 28/39, to house the Whittle W1 engine, and this made its first flight on 15 May 1941. A development of the W1 by Rolls-Royce, the Welland, was used to power the twin-engined Gloster Meteor fighter, which saw service with the RAF in 1944. Whittle retired from the RAF in 1948 and became a consultant. From 1977 he lived in the United States. Comparisons between the work of Whittle and Hans von Ohain show that each of the two engineers developed his engine without knowledge of the other's work. Whittle was the first to take out a patent, Ohain achieved the first flight; the Whittle engine and its derivatives, however, played a much greater role in the history of the jet engine.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1948. Commander of the Order of the Bath 1947. Order of Merit 1986. FRS 1947. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.Bibliography1953, Jet, London (an account not only of his technical problems, but also of the difficulties with civil servants, politicians and commercial organizations).Further ReadingJ.Golley, 1987, Whittle: The True Story, Shrewsbury (this author based his work on Jet, but carried out research, aided by Whittle, to give a fuller account with the benefit of hindsight).JDS -
74 activities
сущ.
1) деятельность, активность
2) конъюнктура
3) показатели( в экономических исследованиях) ∙ - cash flows from operating activities - broadcasting activities - banking activities - commercial activities - research activities - research-and-development activities - educational activities car locating activities complementary activities day-to-day activities demand stimulation activities economic activities family planning activities integrated activities irregular activities lending activities make-work activities procurement activities promotional activities real estate activities rural activities rural nonfarm activities service activitiesДействияactivities: ~ in field of research and development деятельность в области научных исследований и разработокactivities: ~ in field of research and development деятельность в области научных исследований и разработокadvertising ~ рекламная деятельностьexchange ~ валютные операцииfinancing ~ финансовая деятельностьhorticultural ~ садоводствоinsurance ~ страховая деятельностьlending ~ кредитование lending ~ одалживание lending ~ ссуживаниеmarketing ~ деятельность в области маркетингаofficial ~ служебная деятельностьordinary ~ нормальные показатели ordinary ~ обычные виды деятельностиpension fund ~ деятельность пенсионного фондаplacement ~ деятельность по трудоустройствуself-financing ~ виды хозрасчетной деятельностиsubversive ~ подрывная деятельность subversive: subversive подрывной;
subversive activities подрывная деятельностьtrading ~ торговая деятельностьБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > activities
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75 bank
̈ɪbæŋk I
1. сущ.
1) вал, насыпь
2) берег( реки) ;
край;
тж. перен. The left bank of the glacier. ≈ Левый край ледника. Within the banks of his remembrance. ≈ Насколько он мог помнить.
3) банка, отмель
4) нанос;
занос bank of clouds ≈ гряда облаков
5) авиац. крен (специально создаваемый летчиком при выполнении виража)
6) горн. залежь, пласт
7) уст. муравейник
2. гл.
1) делать насыпь
2) образовать заносы, кучи (тж. to bank up) The morning began fine, but now clouds are banking up. ≈ Утро было отличное, но теперь на небе появились облака. The wind had banked the snow up against the wall. ≈ От сильного ветра у стены вырос огромный сугроб.
3) а) сгребать в кучу, наваливать;
окружать валом Every spring we have to bank up the river to prevent flooding. ≈ Весной нам приходится насыпать валы вдоль реки, чтобы нас не затопило. At night we bank the fire up so that it is still burning in the morning. ≈ Вечером мы сгребаем уголья в кучу, чтобы утром они еще тлели. б) готовить лес к сплаву
4) авиац. закладывать вираж
5) играть от борта (на биллиарде - шар отскакивает рикошетом от борта и ударяет другой)
6) высаживаться на берег, сгружать на берег II
1. сущ.
1) банк to open an account in/with a bank ≈ открыть счет в банке to charter bank;
to establish a bank ≈ учредить банк central bank ≈ центральный банк commercial bank ≈ коммерческий банк credit bank ≈ кредитный банк drive-in bank ≈ банк, где обслуживают клиентов прямо в автомобилях national bank ≈ национальный банк people's bank ≈ народный банк pet bank ≈ банк-любимчик (банк, в котором хранятся государственные средства вследствие особого расположения властей) postal savings bank ≈ почтово-сберегательный банк state bank ≈ государственный банк merchant bank ≈ коммерческий банк savings bank ≈ сберегательный банк bank of issue ≈ эмиссионный банк the Bank for Foreign Trade of Russia ≈ Внешторгбанк России bank account ≈ счет в банке bank currency ≈ банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками bank holiday ≈ официальный нерабочий день (установленный законом)
2) карт. банк break the bank
3) место хранения запасов - blood bank data bank ∙ you can't put it in the bank ≈ амер.;
разг. это ни к чему, от этого никакого толку
2. гл.
1) класть (деньги) в банк;
держать( деньги) в банке;
откладывать bank with
2) карт. метать банк
3) держать банк, быть владельцем банка Giovanni Medici had been a banker before everything, Cosimo an administrator. Lorenzo continued to bank but mismanaged the work and lost heavily. ≈ Джованни Медичи был прежде всего банкиром, Козимо - администратором. Лоренцо тоже вел банковские дела, но шли они неважно и он нес большие убытки.
4) сдавать выручку в банк;
обналичивать
5) хранить что-л. про запас (кровь и т.д.) ∙ bank on bank upon III сущ. ист.
1) скамья, банка ( в лодке)
2) ряд весел (на исторических судах типа трирем и кватрирем, имевших несколько рядов весел один над другим)
3) мануал (органа) ;
ряд клавиш( на пишущей машинке) The organ of Riga Dome has four banks. ≈ У органа Рижского Домского Собора четыре мануала.
4) верстак (в некоторых ремеслах)
5) архаич. суд (от скамьи, на которой сидели судьи)
6) дно емкости для плавления стекла
7) тех. набор одинаковых устройств для массовой работы (напр., в старых АТС)вал, насыпь;
дамба - to dig up a * of earth возвести земляной вал крутой склон берег (реки, озера) отмель, банка, риф - oyster * устричная отмель /банка/ - fisheries * (специальное) рыбная банка - ice * ледяное поле нанос, занос - snow *s сугробы, снежные заносы - the * of clouds spelled rain гряда облаков предвещала дождь - we ran into a * of fog мы попали в полосу тумана борт бильярдного стола (авиация) крен, вираж (горное) забой;
залежь - * of ore пластообразная рудная залежь (горное) уступ( горное) устье шахты сгребать в кучу;
наваливать - to * snow сгребать снег в кучи - the chairs were *ed one upon the other стулья взгромоздили один на другой делать насыпь;
окружать валом, насыпью - to * in окапываться громоздиться, вздыматься - clouds are *ing along the horizon облака скучились на горизонте;
горизонт затянут облаками запруживать окружать, окаймлять - the river is *ed high on both sides река заключена в крутые берега прикрывать (костер) валежником (чтобы он горел спокойно и долго) (авиация) делать вираж;
накреняться сесть на мель (гребля) (сленг) играть шара от борта (бильярд) банк - B. of England, the B. Английский банк (государственный банк Великобритании) - branch * отделение банка - * of issue /of circulation/ эмиссионный банк - to keep an account at a * иметь счет в банке - to keep an account with the National B. иметь счет в государственном банке копилка - father gave her a quarter for her piggy * отец дал ей двадцать пять центов (положить) в копилку (историческое) лавка ростовщика;
стол или лавка менялы фонд;
общий запас;
резерв - blood * запас /банк/ крови (для переливания) ;
донорский пункт - cornea * запас роговицы( для пересадки) банк (в азартных играх) - to keep the * держать банк - to break the * сорвать банк > he is as safe as a * он вполне надужный человек > in the * в убытке > three discount houses were in the * for a small amount три учетные конторы понесли небольшой убыток > to keep smth. in * держать что-л. про запас > you can't put it in the * (американизм) из спасиба шубу не сошьешь класть деньги в банк;
держать, иметь деньги в банке или сберкассе - to * at /with/ the B. of England держать деньги в Английском банке;
(финансовое) вести дела с Английским банком владеть банком, быть банкиром;
заниматься банковским делом превращать (имущество) в деньги - to * an estate продать имение метать банк (в картах и т. п.) (on, upon) (разговорное) рассчитывать, полагаться - to * on /upon/ smb.'s support рассчитывать на чью-л. поддержку - I was *ing on his honesty when I closed the deal я полагался на его честность, когда заключал сделку - you can * on it being true можете быть уверены - это правда преим. (специальное) рад, комплект, набор;
серия - * of cylinders блок цилиндров - * of boilers батарея котлов - * of needles( текстильное) ряд игл;
игольница - * of sieves набор сит - * of lamps (кинематографический) осветительный агрегат - * of keys клавиатура( пишущей машинки, линотипа, органа и т. п.) (устаревшее) скамья (на галере и т. п.) (устаревшее) суд;
судебное присутствие верстак (полиграфия) подзаголовок( специальное) группировать для совместной работы;
комплектовать - the electric lamps were *ed in rows of ten электролампы были сгруппированы по десять в рядadvising ~ банк-консультантagency ~ банк-посредникagent ~ банк-агентbank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банк ~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ банк ~ банкирский дом ~ берег (особ. реки) ~ быть банкиром ~ быть банкиром ~ вал, насыпь ~ ист. верстак (в некоторых ремеслах) ~ владеть банком ~ вносить деньги в банк ~ тех. группа( баллонов, трансформаторов и т. п.) ~ вчт. группа устройств ~ ав. делать вираж;
накреняться ~ делать насыпь ~ держать деньги в банке ~ горн. залежь, пласт (руды, угля в открытых разработках) ~ заниматься банковским делом ~ запас ~ запруживать ~ играть шара от борта, бортов (на бильярде) ~ касса ~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа ~ класть (деньги) в банк;
держать (деньги) в банке;
откладывать ~ кредитное учреждение ~ ав. крен ~ место хранения запасов ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ карт. метать банк;
to bank (up) (on smb.) полагаться (на кого-л.) ~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаков ~ образовать наносы( о песке, снеге;
часто bank up) ~ отмель, банка ~ полный состав суда ~ ист. ряд весел (на галере) ~ сгребать (в кучу), наваливать;
окружать валом ~ ист. скамья (на галере) ~ суд ~ судейская скамья ~ фонд Bank: Bank: World ~ Международный банк реконструкции и развития~ attr. банковый, банковский;
bank account счет в банке;
bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками~ attr. банковый, банковский;
bank account счет в банке;
bank currency банкноты, выпущенные в обращение национальными банками~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банке ~ of issue эмиссионный банк~ ист. клавиатура (органа) ;
bank of keys полигр. клавиатура линотипа~ нанос;
занос;
bank of snow снежный занос;
сугроб;
bank of clouds гряда облаковblood ~ донорский пункт blood ~ запас консервированной крови и плазмы для переливания blood ~ запасы консервированной крови для переливания blood ~ хранилище консервированной крови и плазмыbank карт. банк;
to break the bank сорвать банкcentral ~ центральный банкchartered ~ банк, созданный на основе королевского декрета (Великобритания) chartered ~ банк, созданный на основе Закона о банках (Канада)commercial ~ коммерческий банкconsortium ~ консорциальный банкcooperative savings ~ кооперативный сберегательный банкcorrespondent ~ (амер.) банк-корреспондент correspondent ~ банк-корреспондентcredit ~ кредитный банкdata ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ банк данных data ~ вчт. банк данных data ~ вчт. информационный банк data ~ вчт. хранилище данныхfederally chartered ~ федеральный коммерческий банкforeign ~ иностранный банкfull-service ~ универсальный банкgiro ~ жиробанкinvestment ~ инвестиционный банкissuing ~ банк-эмитентjoint-stock ~ акционерный коммерческий банкlending ~ кредитный банк lending ~ ссудный банкloan ~ кредитный банк loan ~ ссудный банкmember ~ банк - член Федеральной резервной системыmemory ~ вчт. банк памятиmerchant ~ коммерческий банк merchant ~ торговый банкmoney-center ~ банк, наиболее активно оперирующий на денежном рынке money-center ~ банк в ведущем финансовом центреnational ~ национальный банк national: ~ государственный;
national anthem государственный гимн;
national bank государственный банк;
national park амер. заповедник;
национальный паркnationwide ~ государственный банкnote issuing ~ эмиссионнный банк~ банк;
bank of issue эмиссионный банк;
to open an account in (или with) a bank открыть счет в банкеpaying ~ банк-плательщикpiggy ~ копилкаpost office ~ почтово-сберегательный банкpostal savings ~ почтово-сберегательный банкprivate ~ неакционерный банк private ~ семейный банк private ~ частный банк private ~ частный банкирский домprivate credit ~ частный кредитный банкprovincial ~ провинциальный банкpublic ~ государственный банкpublic savings ~ государственный сберегательный банкregional ~ региональный банкsatellite ~ банк-спутникsavings ~ сберегательный банкsecondary ~ второстепенный банкstate ~ государственный банкsyndicated ~ банковский консорциумterm ~ банк терминовtrustee savings ~ доверительно-сберегательный банк (Великобритания)universal ~ универсальный банк~ holiday установленные или дополнительные неприсутственные дни для английских служащих;
you can't put it in the bank амер. разг. это ни к чему, от этого толку мало -
76 sale
seɪl сущ.
1) продажа;
реализация, сбыт to make a sale ≈ продавать cash sale ≈ продажа за наличные be available for sale ≈ иметься в продаже be for sale ≈ продаваться be on sale ≈ продаваться Syn: market
1., selling
2) продажа с аукциона, с торгов public sale ≈ публичные торги, аукцион to put up for sale ≈ продавать с молотка sheriff's sale ≈ распродажа имущества с молотка (как исполнение решения суда) Syn: auction
1.
3) распродажа по сниженной цене on sale ≈ продается to conduct, have, hold, run разг. a sales ≈ устраивать распродажу annual sale ≈ ежегодная распродажа bargain sale, clearance sale, closeout sale ≈ распродажа fire sale ≈ распродажа по сниженным ценам garage sale, yard sale, tag sale ≈ распродажа вещей домашнего обихода на дому jumble sale ≈ распродажа подержанных вещей на благотворительном базаре по низким ценам rummage sale ≈ распродажа подержанных вещей на благотворительном базаре по низким ценам storewide sale ≈ распродажа всех товаров, полная распродажа warehouse sale ≈ распродажа со склада white sale ≈
1) распродажа бельевого товара (постельного, столового белья)
2) распродажа холодильников, плит (и др. предметов домашнего обихода, обычно покрытых белой эмалью)
4) обыкн. мн. а) объем продаж, товарооборот б) валовой доход, валовая выручка Syn: gross receipts продажа;
сбыт - (goods) for * (товары) в продаже /поступившие в продажу/ - "For S." "продается" (ярлык, объявление и т. п.) - cash * продажа за наличный расчет - * on credit продажа в кредит - bill of * закладная;
купчая - * value продажная стоимость - is this car for *? эта машина продается? - I have made no * today сегодня я ничего не продал - there is no * for these articles эти товары не имеют сбыта - these goods have a good * эти товары хорошо идут, это ходкие товары - to find a quick /ready/ * быстро распродаваться, расходиться( о товаре) ;
пользоваться спросом - to find no * не находить покупателя;
залежаться( о товаре) - to command /to enjoy/ a large * пользоваться большим спросом торговля;
торговая сделка - no * took place during the day за день не было заключено ни одной торговой сделки - *s are up this year в этом году торговля идет лучше - the magazine is not on general * этот журнал в общую продажу не поступает продажа с аукциона, продажа с торгов (тж. an auction *) - forced /compulsory/ * принудительная продажа с торгов /с молотка/ - there will be a * of all the furniture вся мебель будет продаваться с торгов - to put up for * продавать с молотка - to knock smth. down to smb. at a * продать кому-л. что-л. с аукциона часто pl распродажа по сниженным ценам - winter *(s) зимняя распродажа (по сниженным ценам) - on * продающиеся по сниженным ценам, уцененные (о товарах) - to have a * on suits продавать уцененные костюмы - marked down *s продажа с уценкой > * work (редкое) товар, изготовленный для рынка;
работа на скорую руку > * goods (редкое) товар, изготовленный для рынка > * and /or/ return соглашение, по которому книготорговец имеет право вернуть издателю непроданные экземпляры издания add-on ~ дополнительный объем продаж add-on ~ прирост продаж advance ~ предварительная продажа advantageous ~ выгодная продажа bargain and ~ договор купли-продажи ~ (обыкн. pl) распродажа по сниженной цене в конце сезона;
bargain (или clearance) sale распродажа по сниженным ценам sale: bargain ~ распродажа sale продажа;
сбыт;
to be for( или on) sale продаваться bilateral commercial ~ коммерческая распродажа двумя сторонами bulk ~ массовая продажа bulk ~ продажа большого количества bulk ~ продажа всего товарного запаса bulk ~ продажа груза целиком cash ~ продажа за наличные closing-down ~ распродажа в связи с закрытием предприятия combination ~ перекрестная продажа complete a ~ осуществлять торговую сделку compulsory ~ принудительная продажа с торгов, продажа с молотка compulsory ~ принудительная продажа с торгов compulsory ~ принудительное отчуждение compulsory ~ продажа с молотка conclude a ~ заканчивать продажу consignment ~ продажа со склада комиссионера credit ~ продажа в кредит distress ~ продажа описанного имущества duty-free ~ беспошлинная продажа effect a ~ осуществлять продажу enforced ~ вынужденная продажа enforced ~ принудительная продажа execution ~ продажа имущества должника по решению суда fictitious ~ фиктивная продажа fire salvage ~ распродажа имущества, спасенного от пожара first ~ первоначальная продажа flat ~ малый объем продаж forced ~ вынужденная продажа forced ~ принудительная продажа foreclosure ~ продажа заложенной недвижимости forward ~ бирж. продажа на срок forward ~ бирж. форвардная продажа government securities ~ продажа правительственных ценных бумаг instalment ~ продажа в рассрочку intermediate ~ предварительная продажа judicial ~ продажа имущества по решению суда judicial ~ продажа по решению суда mail-order ~ реализация товаров по почте mock ~ имитация продажи noncommercial ~ некоммерческий сбыт one-sided commercial ~ односторонняя коммерческая продажа outright ~ продажа с безотлагательным расчетом наличными over-the-counter ~ продажа в розницу panic ~ паническая продажа panic ~ срочная распродажа poor ~ слабый сбыт preinventory ~ продажа до инвентаризации private ~ продажа по частному соглашению private ~ частная торговля proceeds from ~ доход от продажи promote the ~ содействовать увеличению сбыта ~ продажа с аукциона, с торгов;
to put up for sale продавать с молотка quick ~ быстрый сбыт rapid ~ быстрая распродажа real estate ~ продажа недвижимости realization ~ распродажа retail ~ розничная продажа rummage ~ распродажа случайных вещей (обыкн. с благотворительной целью) sale продажа;
сбыт;
to be for (или on) sale продаваться ~ продажа ~ продажа с аукциона, с торгов;
to put up for sale продавать с молотка ~ продажа с аукциона ~ продажа с торгов ~ распродажа ~ (обыкн. pl) распродажа по сниженной цене в конце сезона;
bargain (или clearance) sale распродажа по сниженным ценам ~ распродажа по сниженным ценам ~ реализация ~ сбыт, продажа ~ сбыт ~ торговая сделка ~ торговля Sale: Sale: ~ of Goods Act Закон о продаже товаров (Великобритания) sale: sale: ~ of government papers продажа государственных обязательств ~ at cut prices продажа по низким ценам ~ at cut prices продажа по сниженным ценам ~ by auction аукцион ~ by auction продажа с аукциона ~ by commission комиссионная продажа ~ by description продажа по описанию ~ by instalments продажа в рассрочку ~ by order of court продажа по постановлению суда ~ by order of court продажа по приказу суда ~ by order of court продажа по распоряжению суда ~ by order of court продажа по решению суда ~ by order of court of single piece of property продажа по распоряжению суда одной единицы имущества ~ by private treaty продажа по частному соглашению ~ by retail продажа в розницу ~ by sample продажа по образцу ~ by weight продажа на вес ~ in bulk массовая продажа ~ in bulk продажа без упаковки ~ in bulk продажа всего товарного запаса ~ in bulk продажа груза целиком ~ in bulk продажа насыпью ~ in series продажа в серии ~ of ascertained goods продажа индивидуализированных товаров ~ of bonds and debentures продажа закладных и долговых расписок ~ of bonds and debentures продажа облигаций и долговых обязательств ~ of companies продажа компаний ~ of goods продажа изделий ~ of goods продажа товаров sale: ~ of government papers продажа государственных обязательств ~ of government papers продажа правительственных ценных бумаг ~ of land продажа земли ~ of loan переуступка займа банком ~ of loan продажа долгового обязательства другому кредитору ~ of pledge продажа залога ~ of real property продажа недвижимости ~ of securities продажа ценных бумаг ~ of shares продажа акций ~ of shares продажа доли собственности ~ of subsidiary продажа дочерней компании ~ of subsidiary продажа дочерней фирмы ~ on commission комиссионная продажа ~ on consignment продажа по консигнации ~ on consignment продажа со склада комиссионера ~ on sample продажа по образцу ~ on trial продажа на пробу ~ to ascertain damages продажа для определения ущерба self-help ~ продажа в рамках самопомощи sham ~ фиктивная продажа short ~ продажа без покрытия на срок short ~ продажа на срок без покрытия spot ~ продажа с немедленной поставкой за наличный расчет surreptitious ~ подпольная продажа tax-free ~ беспошлинная продажа tie-in ~ продажа с нагрузкой tie-in ~ продажа с принудительным ассортиментом tie-in ~ условная продажа uncovered ~ продажа без покрытия volume ~ оптовая продажа volume ~ продажа крупными партиями wash ~ фиктивная продажа ценных бумаг -
77 production
1) производство; изготовление; выпуск продукции2) выработка; производительность4) нефт. добыча5) нефт. дебит6) генерация7) ведение телевизионной передачи; выпуск телевизионных программ8) вчт. правило вывода; правило продукции; правило подстановки9) матем. порождение•to bean up well production — увеличивать дебит скважины с помощью штуцера;to gage the production of a well — измерять дебит скважины;-
audio production
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batched-flow production
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batch production
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bulk-coke production
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captive production
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charge-exchange ion production
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chip production
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CNC production
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commercial production of pool
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commercial production
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commingled production
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crude oil production
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crude production
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cumulative production
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current production
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deep production
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defective production
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digester production
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dry-end production
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dust production
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electric utility production
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electricity production
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electronic field production
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electronic film production
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electronic production
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electronically gaged production
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external field production
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field production
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film production
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flow-line production
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folding carton production
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forced production
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full-scale production
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full production
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gas-free production
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green-end production
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gross production
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heat production
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high-run production
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industrial production
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infill production
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in-house production
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initial daily production
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in-line production
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interior field production
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intermittent production
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ion production
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large-lot production
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limited production
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line production
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lot production
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mass production
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motion picture film production
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motion picture production
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motion-picture print production
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multiple camera production
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multiple production
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NC production
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neutron production
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oil-from-coal production
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one setup production
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one-off production
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pair production
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peak power production
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piece-work production
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piece production
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pilot-line production
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pilot production
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power production
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printing production
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quantity production
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rainfall production
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sand production
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scrap production
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shift production
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small-lot production
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specific electric energy production
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speech production
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steam production
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stripper production
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television film production
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ultimate production
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unmanned production
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video post production
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video production
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water-free production
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78 fixed break
1) общ. фиксированный перерывOffice personnel who aren't granted fixed break times are allowed to consume refreshments at their place of work providing the total time doesn't exceed 10 minutes. — Работникам, для которых не установлены фиксированные перерывы (на обед), разрешается перекусывать на рабочем месте, при условии, что общее потраченное время не превысит 10 минут.
2) рекл. закрепленная рекламная пауза* (рекламная вставка в эфире, которая, по настоянию рекламодателя, должна иметь место в определенный день и в определенное время)Syn:Ant:See: -
79 CSW
1) Военный термин: Center for Strategic Wargaming, Common Software, Completed Staff Work, coastal surface warfare, combat support wing, control switch, conventional standoff weapon, crew-served weapon2) Техника: commercial solid waste3) Грубое выражение: Cheating Slut Wife4) Сокращение: Conventional Stand-off Weapon, control power switch5) Эвфемизм: commercial sex worker6) Вычислительная техника: channel status word7) Нефть: contaminated surface water8) Сетевые технологии: слово состояния канала -
80 business
'biznis1) (occupation; buying and selling: Selling china is my business; The shop does more business at Christmas than at any other time.) negocio2) (a shop, a firm: He owns his own business.) negocio, empresa3) (concern: Make it your business to help him; Let's get down to business (= Let's start the work etc that must be done).) asunto•- businessman
- on business
business n1. negocios2. negocio / empresa / industria3. asunto / temait's none of your business no es asunto tuyo / a ti no te importamind your own business! ¡no te metas en lo que no te importa!tr['bɪznəs]1 (commerce) negocios nombre masculino plural2 (firm) negocio, empresa3 (affair) asunto, tema nombre masculino■ does he know about the business with the money? ¿se ha enterado del asunto del dinero?\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLit's my «(your, etc)» business to... me (te, etc) incumbe...to be away on business estar (fuera) de viajeto be big business ser un buen negocioto be in business dedicarse al mundo de los negociosto be the business familiar molar, ser muy guayto do business with somebody comerciar con alguien, tener relaciones comerciales con alguiento get down to business entrar en materiato go out of business quebrarto have no business to «+ inf» no tener ningún derecho a + infto mean business ir en serioto put somebody out of business hacer que alguien quiebreto run a business llevar un negocioto send somebody about his «(her, etc)» business mandar a alguien de paseoto set up a business montar un negociomind your own business! ¡no te metas donde no te llaman!business before pleasure primero es la obligación que la devociónbusiness is business el negocio es el negociobig business grandes negocios nombre masculino pluralbusiness administration administración nombre femenino de negociosbusiness card tarjeta de presentación, tarjeta comercialbusiness centre centro de negociosbusiness consultant asesor,-ra de empresasbusiness consultancy asesoría de empresasbusiness deal trato comercialbusiness district área de negocios, zona comercialbusiness hours horario comercialbusiness of the day orden nombre masculino del díabusiness manager director,-ra de empresasbusiness school escuela de negociosbusiness studies estudios nombre masculino plural empresariales, empresariales nombre masculino pluralbusiness trip viaje nombre masculino de negociosline of business profesión nombre femenino■ what line of business are you in? ¿a qué te dedicas?business ['bɪznəs, -nəz] n1) occupation: ocupación f, oficio m2) duty, mission: misión f, deber m, responsabilidad f3) establishment, firm: empresa f, firma f, negocio m, comercio m4) commerce: negocios mpl, comercio m5) affair, matter: asunto m, cuestión f, cosa fit's none of your business: no es asunto tuyoadj.• comercial adj.• de negocios adj.• empresarial adj.• negocio, -a adj.• negocios adj.n.• asunto s.m.• bártulos s.m.pl.• comercio s.m.• cuestión s.f.• dependencia s.f.• empleo s.m.• empresa s.f.• negocio s.m.• negocios s.m.pl.• trato s.m.• tráfico s.m.'bɪznəs, 'bɪznɪs1) u ( Busn)a) (world of commerce, finance) negocios mpl; (before n)business studies — (ciencias fpl) empresariales fpl
business school — escuela f de administración or gestión de empresas
b) (commercial activity, trading) comercio mto be in business: the firm has been in business for 50 years la empresa tiene 50 años de actividad comercial; the factory is back in business again la fábrica ha reanudado sus operaciones; to set up in business montar or poner* un negocio; go into business: they went into business together montaron or pusieron un negocio juntos; to go out of business cerrar*; business is good el negocio anda or marcha bien; the company lost two million dollars' worth of business la compañía perdió ventas (or contratos etc) por valor de dos millones de dólares; we open for business at nine o'clock — abrimos al público a las nueve
c) (custom, clients)to lose business — perder* clientes or clientela
2) ca) ( firm) negocio m, empresa fb) ( branch of commerce)I'm in the insurance/antiques business — trabajo en el ramo de los seguros/en la compra y venta de antigüedades
the fashion/music business — la industria or el negocio de la moda/música
3) ua) ( transactions)she's here/away on business — está aquí/de viaje por negocios
unfinished business — asuntos mpl pendientes
business before pleasure — antes es la obligación que la devoción, primero el deber (y después el placer)
to get down to business — ir* al grano, entrar en materia
to mean business — decir* algo muy en serio
to talk business — hablar de negocios; (before n) <appointment, lunch> de trabajo, de negocios
business letter — carta f comercial
business trip — viaje m de negocios
b) ( items on agenda) asuntos mpl, temas mplany other business — otros asuntos, ≈ruegos y preguntas
c) (rightful occupation, concern) asunto m, incumbencia fthat's none of your business — eso no es asunto tuyo, eso no te incumbe
I shall make it my business to find out — yo me ocuparé or me encargaré de averiguarlo
like nobody's business — (colloq)
she was getting through those chocolates like nobody's business — les estaba dando duro a los bombones (fam)
4) (affair, situation, activity) (colloq) (no pl) asunto mwhat's all this business about you leaving? — ¿qué es eso de que te vas?
['bɪznɪs]to give somebody the business — (AmE) ( reprimand) echarle la bronca a alguien (fam); ( tease) tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam)
1. N•
business as usual — (=general slogan) aquí no ha pasado nada; (=notice outside shop) "seguimos atendiendo al público durante las reformas"•
business before pleasure — primero es la obligación que la devoción•
to carry on business as — tener un negocio de•
to do business with — negociar con•
he's in business — se dedica al comercio•
to go into business — dedicarse al comercio•
the shop is losing business — la tienda está perdiendo clientela•
he means business — habla en serio•
I'm here on business — estoy (en viaje) de negocios•
to go out of business — quebrar•
to set up in business as — montar un negocio de•
to get down to business — ir al grano2) (=firm) negocio m, empresa f3) (=trade, profession) oficio m, ocupación fwhat business are you in? — ¿a qué se dedica usted?
4) (=task, duty, concern) asunto m, responsabilidad f•
to send sb about his business — echar a algn con cajas destempladas•
the business before the meeting — frm los asuntos a tratar•
I have business with the minister — tengo asuntos que tratar con el ministrowhat business have you to intervene? — ¿con qué derecho interviene usted?
•
we're not in business to — + infin no tenemos por costumbre + infinwe are not in the business of subsidizing scroungers — no tenemos por costumbre costearles la vida a los gorrones
•
that's my business — eso es cosa míait is my business to — + infin me corresponde + infin
•
it's no business of mine — yo no tengo nada que ver con eso, no es cosa mía•
they're working away like nobody's business — están trabajando como locos•
it's none of his business — no es asunto suyo5) * (=affair, matter) asunto m, cuestión fthe Suez business — el asunto de Suez, la cuestión Suez
•
it's a nasty business — es un asunto feo•
finding a flat can be quite a business — encontrar piso or (LAm) un departamento puede ser muy difícil•
did you hear about that business yesterday? — ¿te contaron algo de lo que pasó ayer?•
I can't stand this business of doing nothing — no puedo con este plan de no hacer nada•
what a business this is! — ¡vaya lío!6) (Theat) acción f, gag m7)8)he's/it's the business * — es fantástico
2.CPDbusiness account N — cuenta f comercial, cuenta f empresarial
business address N — dirección f comercial or profesional
business administration N — (as course) administración f de empresas
business agent N — agente mf de negocios
business angel N — (=backer) inversor(a) m / f providencial
business associate N — socio(-a) m / f, asociado(-a) m / f
business card N — tarjeta f de visita
business centre, business center (US) N — centro m financiero
business class N — (Aer) clase f preferente
business college N — escuela f de administración de empresas
business consultancy N — asesoría f empresarial
business consultant N — asesor(a) m / f de empresas
business deal N — trato m comercial
business district N — zona f comercial
business end * N — (fig) [of tool, weapon] punta f
business expenses NPL — gastos mpl (comerciales)
business hours NPL — horas fpl de oficina
business language N — lenguaje m comercial
business letter N — carta f de negocios, carta f comercial
business loan N — préstamo m comercial
business lunch N — comida f de negocios
business machines NPL — máquinas fpl para la empresa
business management N — dirección f empresarial
business manager N — (Comm, Ind) director(a) m / f comercial, gerente mf comercial; (Theat) secretario(-a) m / f
business park N — parque m industrial
business partner N — socio(-a) m / f
business people NPL — gente f de negocios, profesionales mpl
business person N — hombre/mujer m / f de negocios, profesional mf
business plan N — plan m de empresa
business practice N — práctica f empresarial
business premises NPL — local msing comercial
business school N — = business college
business sense N — cabeza f para los negocios
business Spanish N — español m comercial
business studies N — ciencias fpl empresariales, empresariales fpl
business titan N — gigante m empresarial
business use N — uso m empresarial
•
for business use only — solo para uso empresarial•
the business use of sth — el uso de algo con fines empresarialesyou can claim a certain amount for business use of your home — puedes deducir una cierta cantidad por el uso con fines empresariales de tu casa
business venture N — empresa f comercial
•
his first business venture — su primera empresa comercial(Faculty of) Business Studies N — (Facultad f de) Ciencias fpl Empresariales
business suit N — traje m de oficina or de calle
business trip N — viaje m de negocios
* * *['bɪznəs, 'bɪznɪs]1) u ( Busn)a) (world of commerce, finance) negocios mpl; (before n)business studies — (ciencias fpl) empresariales fpl
business school — escuela f de administración or gestión de empresas
b) (commercial activity, trading) comercio mto be in business: the firm has been in business for 50 years la empresa tiene 50 años de actividad comercial; the factory is back in business again la fábrica ha reanudado sus operaciones; to set up in business montar or poner* un negocio; go into business: they went into business together montaron or pusieron un negocio juntos; to go out of business cerrar*; business is good el negocio anda or marcha bien; the company lost two million dollars' worth of business la compañía perdió ventas (or contratos etc) por valor de dos millones de dólares; we open for business at nine o'clock — abrimos al público a las nueve
c) (custom, clients)to lose business — perder* clientes or clientela
2) ca) ( firm) negocio m, empresa fb) ( branch of commerce)I'm in the insurance/antiques business — trabajo en el ramo de los seguros/en la compra y venta de antigüedades
the fashion/music business — la industria or el negocio de la moda/música
3) ua) ( transactions)she's here/away on business — está aquí/de viaje por negocios
unfinished business — asuntos mpl pendientes
business before pleasure — antes es la obligación que la devoción, primero el deber (y después el placer)
to get down to business — ir* al grano, entrar en materia
to mean business — decir* algo muy en serio
to talk business — hablar de negocios; (before n) <appointment, lunch> de trabajo, de negocios
business letter — carta f comercial
business trip — viaje m de negocios
b) ( items on agenda) asuntos mpl, temas mplany other business — otros asuntos, ≈ruegos y preguntas
c) (rightful occupation, concern) asunto m, incumbencia fthat's none of your business — eso no es asunto tuyo, eso no te incumbe
I shall make it my business to find out — yo me ocuparé or me encargaré de averiguarlo
like nobody's business — (colloq)
she was getting through those chocolates like nobody's business — les estaba dando duro a los bombones (fam)
4) (affair, situation, activity) (colloq) (no pl) asunto mwhat's all this business about you leaving? — ¿qué es eso de que te vas?
to give somebody the business — (AmE) ( reprimand) echarle la bronca a alguien (fam); ( tease) tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam)
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