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conservative process

  • 1 conservative process

    French\ \ processus conservatif; processus stochastique conservatif
    German\ \ konservativer Prozeß
    Dutch\ \ conservatief proces
    Italian\ \ processo conservativo
    Spanish\ \ proceso conservativo
    Catalan\ \ procés conservatiu
    Portuguese\ \ processo conservativo; processo conservador
    Romanian\ \ -
    Danish\ \ konservativ proces
    Norwegian\ \ konservativ prosess
    Swedish\ \ konservativ process
    Greek\ \ συντηρητική διαδικασία
    Finnish\ \ konservatiivinen prosessi
    Hungarian\ \ óvatos folyamat
    Turkish\ \ tutucu süreç; koruyucu süreç (proses)
    Estonian\ \ konservatiivne test
    Lithuanian\ \ konservatyvusis procesas
    Slovenian\ \ konzervativno proces
    Polish\ \ proces konserwatywny
    Ukrainian\ \ консервативний процес
    Serbian\ \ конзервативни процес
    Icelandic\ \ íhaldssamt ferli
    Euskara\ \ kontserbadore prozesua
    Farsi\ \ -
    Persian-Farsi\ \ فرايند محافظه‌کار
    Arabic\ \ عملية محافظة
    Afrikaans\ \ konserwatiewe proses
    Chinese\ \ 守 恒 过 程
    Korean\ \ 보수적과정

    Statistical terms > conservative process

  • 2 консервативный процесс

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь Масловского > консервативный процесс

  • 3 консервативный процесс

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > консервативный процесс

  • 4 adinerado

    adj.
    wealthy, rich, well-fixed, well-off.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: adinerarse.
    * * *
    1→ link=adinerarse adinerarse
    1 rich, wealthy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 rich person
    * * *
    ADJ wealthy, well-off
    * * *
    - da adjetivo wealthy, moneyed
    * * *
    = affluent, monied, well-heeled, well-to-do, moneyed, solvent, wealthy [wealthier -comp., wealthiest -sup.], well-off.
    Ex. It is easy to predict that a majority of either large or affluent libraries in this country will employ some form of catalog under machine control in the foreseeable future.
    Ex. This will shift the dynamics of information flow to policymakers to favour monied special interests, which threatens the democratic process.
    Ex. This class is conservative in politics, aristocratic in social affairs, and characteristically well-bred, well-educated, well-housed, and well-heeled.
    Ex. Librarians deny that only the young and well-to-do use music libraries.
    Ex. It is generally recognized that collecting money from moneyed deadbeats is as much a social problem as street thuggery.
    Ex. Botswana is a stable, well-governed and solvent country but is nevertheless a good example of the deep-seated problems of regulating information transfer.
    Ex. Today's sophisticated media provide clear advantages to wealthy, well-established interest groups.
    Ex. Well-off women are more likely to survive breast cancer than less affluent sufferers, a new study shows.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo wealthy, moneyed
    * * *
    = affluent, monied, well-heeled, well-to-do, moneyed, solvent, wealthy [wealthier -comp., wealthiest -sup.], well-off.

    Ex: It is easy to predict that a majority of either large or affluent libraries in this country will employ some form of catalog under machine control in the foreseeable future.

    Ex: This will shift the dynamics of information flow to policymakers to favour monied special interests, which threatens the democratic process.
    Ex: This class is conservative in politics, aristocratic in social affairs, and characteristically well-bred, well-educated, well-housed, and well-heeled.
    Ex: Librarians deny that only the young and well-to-do use music libraries.
    Ex: It is generally recognized that collecting money from moneyed deadbeats is as much a social problem as street thuggery.
    Ex: Botswana is a stable, well-governed and solvent country but is nevertheless a good example of the deep-seated problems of regulating information transfer.
    Ex: Today's sophisticated media provide clear advantages to wealthy, well-established interest groups.
    Ex: Well-off women are more likely to survive breast cancer than less affluent sufferers, a new study shows.

    * * *
    wealthy, moneyed
    * * *

    adinerado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    wealthy, moneyed
    adinerado,-a
    I adjetivo wealthy, rich
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino rich person

    ' adinerado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adinerada
    - desahogada
    - desahogado
    English:
    sugar daddy
    - wealthy
    - well
    * * *
    adinerado, -a adj
    wealthy
    * * *
    adj wealthy
    * * *
    adinerado, -da adj
    : moneyed, wealthy
    * * *
    adinerado adj wealthy [comp. wealthier; superl. wealthiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > adinerado

  • 5 firme

    adj.
    1 firm.
    2 solid.
    3 resolute.
    ¡firmes! (military) attention!
    4 single-minded, firm.
    5 secure, strong, firm.
    adv.
    hard.
    mantenerse firme en to hold fast to
    se mantuvo firme en su actitud he refused to give way, he stood his ground
    m.
    road surface.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: firmar.
    * * *
    1 (estable) firm, steady
    2 (color) fast
    1 (pavimento) road surface
    1 hard
    \
    de firme hard
    en firme firm
    estar en lo firme to be in the right
    ¡firmes! MILITAR attention!
    mantenerse firme figurado to hold one's ground
    * * *
    adj.
    1) firm
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [mesa, andamio] steady; [terreno] firm, solid
    2) [paso] firm, steady; [voz] firm; [mercado, moneda] steady; [candidato] strong
    3) [amistad, apoyo] firm, strong; [decisión, convicción] firm

    estar en lo firme — † to be in the right

    4) [sentencia] final
    5) (Mil)

    ¡firmes! — attention!

    ponerse firmes — to come o stand to attention

    2.
    ADV hard
    3.
    SM (Aut) road surface

    firme del suelo — (Arquit) rubble base (of floor)

    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <escalera/silla/mesa> steady

    pisar terreno firme — to be on safe o firm o solid ground

    con paso/pulso firme — with a firm step/steady hand

    de firme — <estudiar/trabajar> hard

    b) ( color) fast
    c) < candidato> strong
    2) (Mil)

    en posición de firmes — standing at o (BrE) to attention

    3)
    a) < persona> firm

    se mantuvo firme — (ante las presiones, el enemigo) she stood her ground

    me mantuve firme en mi postura/idea — I stuck o kept to my position/idea

    b) (delante del n) <creencia/convicción> firm
    II
    masculino road surface
    * * *
    = firm [firmer -comp., firmest -sup.], powerful, sound [sounder -comp., soundest -sup.], strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], uncompromising, steadfast, assertive, adamant, taut [tauter -comp., tautest -sup.], tight [tighter -comp., tightest -sup.], uncompromised, staunch [stanch, -USA], rock solid, unswerving, toned.
    Ex. Full consideration of the above factors should form a firm basis for the design of an effective thesaurus or list of subject headings.
    Ex. Because DOBIS/LIBIS integrates the authority files into the cataloguing process, it provides a unique and very powerful authority file facility.
    Ex. Thus the scheme has a sound organisational backing.
    Ex. In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.
    Ex. What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex. He does admit, however, that 'this power is unusual, it is a gift which must be cultivated, an accomplishment which can only be acquired by vigorous and steadfast concentration'.
    Ex. I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex. The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.
    Ex. While the stencil is held taut, the cylinder is slowly rotated until the bottom edge of the wax sheet can be clamped in position.
    Ex. The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.
    Ex. The Gazette advocated uncompromised racial equality and viewed the migration as a weapon against oppression.
    Ex. This article reviews the work of Professor Kaula, the staunch crusader of librarianship in India.
    Ex. The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.
    Ex. His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.
    Ex. If you are shorter or have very nice toned legs without veins, scars or dark hair, I say take the skirt up a few inches if you want.
    ----
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * con pie firme = sure-footed.
    * en tierra firme = on dry land.
    * mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.
    * mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * permanecer firm = stay in + place.
    * poco firme = tenuous, rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.].
    * ponerse firme = stand to + attention.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * sobre suelo firme = on firm footing.
    * terreno firme = safe ground, solid ground.
    * tierra firme = solid ground.
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <escalera/silla/mesa> steady

    pisar terreno firme — to be on safe o firm o solid ground

    con paso/pulso firme — with a firm step/steady hand

    de firme — <estudiar/trabajar> hard

    b) ( color) fast
    c) < candidato> strong
    2) (Mil)

    en posición de firmes — standing at o (BrE) to attention

    3)
    a) < persona> firm

    se mantuvo firme — (ante las presiones, el enemigo) she stood her ground

    me mantuve firme en mi postura/idea — I stuck o kept to my position/idea

    b) (delante del n) <creencia/convicción> firm
    II
    masculino road surface
    * * *
    = firm [firmer -comp., firmest -sup.], powerful, sound [sounder -comp., soundest -sup.], strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], uncompromising, steadfast, assertive, adamant, taut [tauter -comp., tautest -sup.], tight [tighter -comp., tightest -sup.], uncompromised, staunch [stanch, -USA], rock solid, unswerving, toned.

    Ex: Full consideration of the above factors should form a firm basis for the design of an effective thesaurus or list of subject headings.

    Ex: Because DOBIS/LIBIS integrates the authority files into the cataloguing process, it provides a unique and very powerful authority file facility.
    Ex: Thus the scheme has a sound organisational backing.
    Ex: In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.
    Ex: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex: He does admit, however, that 'this power is unusual, it is a gift which must be cultivated, an accomplishment which can only be acquired by vigorous and steadfast concentration'.
    Ex: I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex: The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.
    Ex: While the stencil is held taut, the cylinder is slowly rotated until the bottom edge of the wax sheet can be clamped in position.
    Ex: The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.
    Ex: The Gazette advocated uncompromised racial equality and viewed the migration as a weapon against oppression.
    Ex: This article reviews the work of Professor Kaula, the staunch crusader of librarianship in India.
    Ex: The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.
    Ex: His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.
    Ex: If you are shorter or have very nice toned legs without veins, scars or dark hair, I say take the skirt up a few inches if you want.
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * con pie firme = sure-footed.
    * en tierra firme = on dry land.
    * mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.
    * mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * permanecer firm = stay in + place.
    * poco firme = tenuous, rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.].
    * ponerse firme = stand to + attention.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * sobre suelo firme = on firm footing.
    * terreno firme = safe ground, solid ground.
    * tierra firme = solid ground.

    * * *
    A
    1 ‹escalera/silla/mesa› steady
    edificar sobre terreno firme to build on solid ground
    tenemos que asegurarnos de que pisamos terreno firme we must make sure that we're not treading on dangerous ground
    tener las carnes firmes to have a firm body
    se acercó con paso firme he approached with a determined o firm step
    con pulso firme with a firm o steady hand
    una oferta en firme a firm offer
    un fallo a firme an enforceable o executable judgment
    de firme hard
    estudiar de firme to study hard
    2 (color) fast
    3 ‹candidato› strong
    B ( Mil):
    ¡firmes! attention!
    estaban en posición de firmes they were standing to attention
    C
    1 ‹persona› firm
    tienes que mostrarte más firme con él you have to be firmer with him
    se mantuvo firme she remained firm, she stood her ground, she did not waver
    2 ( delante del n) ‹creencia/convicción› firm
    su firme apoyo a los detenidos their firm support for the prisoners
    D ( Per fam) (excelente) excellent, brilliant ( colloq)
    road surface
    firme deslizante slippery surface
    ( Chi fam)
    la firme the truth
    te diré la firme I'll be honest with you o I'll tell you the truth
    * * *

     

    Del verbo firmar: ( conjugate firmar)

    firmé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    firme es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    firmar    
    firme
    firmar ( conjugate firmar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo
    to sign
    firme adjetivo
    1 ‹escalera/silla/mesa› steady;

    con paso/pulso firme with a firm step/steady hand;
    una oferta en firme a firm offer;
    de firme ‹estudiar/trabajar› hard
    2 (Mil):
    ◊ ¡firmes! attention!

    3
    a) ‹ persona› firm;


    me mantuve firme en mi idea I stuck o kept to my idea
    b) ( delante del n) ‹creencia/convicción› firm

    firmar verbo transitivo to sign
    firme
    I adjetivo
    1 firm: se mantuvo firme ante la oposición, she stood firm against the opposition
    II m (pavimento de carretera) road surface
    III adv (con constancia) firm, firmly, hard
    IV excl Mil ¡firmes! attention!
    ♦ Locuciones: de firme, firm, hard
    en firme, definitive
    ' firme' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hasta
    - inquebrantable
    - plantarse
    - pulso
    - roca
    - terrestre
    - actitud
    - enérgico
    - paso
    - postura
    - propósito
    - tierra
    English:
    adamant
    - assertive
    - deploy
    - exploit
    - fast
    - firm
    - govern
    - hard
    - hold
    - land
    - name
    - secure
    - self-assertion
    - self-assertive
    - shaky
    - shore
    - solid
    - steadfast
    - steady
    - stiff
    - stout
    - strong
    - surface
    - unsteady
    - unwavering
    - wonky
    - attention
    - decisive
    - definite
    - ground
    - intention
    - march
    - sound
    - sure
    - unbending
    - wobbly
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [fuerte, sólido] firm;
    [andamio, construcción] stable; [pulso] steady; [paso] resolute;
    tiene unos principios muy firmes she has very firm principles, she's extremely principled;
    tiene la firme intención de resolver el problema she fully intends to solve the problem, she has every intention of solving the problem;
    llovió de firme durante varias horas it rained hard for several hours
    2. [argumento, base] solid;
    trabaja de firme en el nuevo proyecto she's working full-time on the new project;
    una respuesta en firme a definite answer;
    quedamos en firme para el miércoles we are definitely agreed on Wednesday;
    tenemos un acuerdo en firme para intercambiar información we have a firm agreement to exchange information
    3. [carácter, actitud] resolute;
    hay que mostrarse firme con los empleados you have to be firm with the workers;
    Fam
    poner firme a alguien to bring sb into line
    4. Mil
    ¡firmes! attention!;
    en la posición de firmes standing to attention
    ♦ nm
    road surface;
    firme en mal estado [en letrero] uneven road surface
    ♦ adv
    hard;
    mantenerse firme en to hold fast to;
    se mantuvo firme en su actitud he refused to give way, he stood his ground
    * * *
    I adj
    1 firm; ( estable) steady; ( sólido) solid;
    2 MIL
    :
    ¡ firmes! attention!;
    poner firme a alguien fig fam take a firm line with s.o.
    II m pavement, Br
    road surface
    III adv
    :
    trabajar firme work hard
    * * *
    firme adj
    1) : firm, resolute
    2) : steady, stable
    * * *
    firme1 adj
    1. (estable) steady [comp. steadier; superl. steadiest]
    2. (constante) firm
    firme2 n road surface

    Spanish-English dictionary > firme

  • 6 Art

       Portugal did not produce an artist of sufficient ability to gain recognition outside the country until the 19th century. Domingos Antônio Segueira (1768-1837) became well known in Europe for his allegorical religious and historical paintings in a neoclassical style. Portuguese painting during the 19th century emphasized naturalism and did not keep abreast of artistic innovations being made in other European countries. Portugal's best painters lived abroad especially in France. The most successful was Amadeo Souza- Cardoso who, while living in Paris, worked with the modernists Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. Souza-Cardoso introduced modernism into Portuguese painting in the early 20th century. A sustained modernist movement did not develop in Portugal, however. Naturalism remained the dominant school, and Portugal remained isolated from international artistic trends, owing to Portugal's conservative artistic climate, which prevented new forms of art from taking root, and the lack of support from an artistically sophisticated, art-buying elite supported by a system of galleries and foundations.
       Interestingly, it was during the conservative Estado Novo that modernism began to take root in Portugal. As Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's secretary for national propaganda, Antônio Ferro, a writer, journalist, and cultural leader who admired Mussolini, encouraged the government to allow modern artists to create the heroic imagery of the Estado Novo following the Italian model that linked fascism with futurism. The most important Portuguese artist of this period was Almada Negreiros, who did the murals on the walls of the legendary café A Brasileira in the Chiado district of Lisbon, the paintings at the Exposition of the Portuguese World (1940), and murals at the Lisbon docks. Other artists of note during this period included Mário Eloy (1900-51), who was trained in Germany and influenced by George Grosz and Otto Dix; Domingos Alvarez (1906-42); and Antônio Pedro (1909-66).
       During the 1950s, the Estado Novo ceased to encourage artists to collaborate, as Portuguese artists became more critical of the regime. The return to Portugal of Antônio Pedro in 1947 led to the emergence of a school of geometric abstract painting in Oporto and the reawakening of surrealism. The art deco styles of the 1930s gave way to surrealism and abstract expression.
       In the 1960s, links between Portugal's artistic community and the international art world strengthened. Conscription for the wars against the nationalist insurgencies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-75) resulted in a massive exodus of Portugal's avante-garde artists to Europe to avoid military service. While abroad, artists such as Joaquin Rodrigo (1912-93), Paula Rego (1935-), João Cutileiro (1947-), and others forged links with British, French, Italian, and Spanish artistic communities.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 created a crisis for Portugal's artists. The market for works of art collapsed as left-wing governments, claiming that they had more important things to do (eliminate poverty, improve education), withdrew support for the arts. Artists declared their talents to be at the "service of the people," and a brief period of socialist realism prevailed. With the return of political stability and moderate governments during the 1980s, Portugal's commercial art scene revived, and a new period of creativity began. Disenchantment with the socialist realism (utopianism) of the Revolution and a deepening of individualism began to be expressed by Portuguese artists. Investment in the arts became a means of demonstrating one's wealth and social status, and an unprecedented number of art galleries opened, art auctions were held, and a new generation of artists became internationally recognized. In 1984, a museum of modern art was built by the Gulbenkian Foundation adjacent to its offices on the Avenida de Berna in Lisbon. A national museum of modern art was finally built in Oporto in 1988.
       In the 1980s, Portugal's new generation of painters blended post-conceptualism and subjectivism, as well as a tendency toward decon-structionism/reconstructionism, in their work. Artists such as Cabrita Reis (1956-), Pedro Calapez (1953-), José Pedro Croft (1957-), Rui Sanches (1955-), and José de Guimarães (1949-) gained international recognition during this period. Guimarães crosses African art themes with Western art; Sarmento invokes images of film, culture, photography, American erotica, and pulp fiction toward sex, violence, and pleasure; Reis evolved from a painter to a maker of installation artist using chipboard, plaster, cloth, glass, and electrical and plumbing materials.
       From the end of the 20th century and during the early years of the 21st century, Portugal's art scene has been in a state of crisis brought on by a declining art trade and a withdrawal of financial support by conservative governments. Although not as serious as the collapse of the 1970s, the current situation has divided the Portuguese artistic community between those, such as Cerveira Pito and Leonel Moura, who advocate a return to using primitive, strongly textured techniques and others such as João Paulo Feliciano (1963-), who paint constructivist works that poke fun at the relationship between art, money, society, and the creative process. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, the factors that have prevented Portuguese art from achieving and sustaining international recognition (the absence of a strong art market, depending too much on official state support, and the individualistic nature of Portuguese art production) are still to be overcome.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Art

  • 7 Huntsman, Benjamin

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 1704 Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire, England
    d. 21 June 1776 Sheffield, England
    [br]
    English inventor of crucible steelmaking.
    [br]
    Of Dutch descent, Hunstman was apprenticed to a clockmaker at Epworth, Lincolnshire. In 1725 he set up in Doncaster as a maker of clocks, locks and roasting jacks. He made improvements in his tools but found himself hampered by the poor quality of the steel available, then made by the cementation process, which yielded a steel with a non-uniform carbon content. Around 1740, Huntsman moved to Handsworth, now part of Sheffield, and began experimenting by heating varying compositions of fuel and flux with crude steel in a crucible, to obtain a steel of uniform composition. During the years 1745 to 1750 he attained his object, but not without many unsuccessful "heats", as excavations of the site of his works now reveal. Although his steel was far better than that previously available, however, the conservative cutlers of Sheffield rejected it, claiming it was too hard to work; therefore Huntsman exported his product to France, where the cutlers promptly worked it into high-quality knives and razors that were exported to England. The Sheffield cutlers' attempts to prevent Huntsman from exporting his steel proved unsuccessful. Huntsman did not patent his process, preferring to retain his advantage by shrouding his work in secrecy, carrying out his melting at night to escape observation, but a rival cutler, Samuel Walker, gained admittance to Huntsman's works disguised as a tramp seeking food. As a result, Walker was able to make crucible steel at a handsome profit. Huntsman fought back and earned success through the sheer quality of his steel, and had to move to.a larger site at Attercliffe in 1770. Crucible steelmaking remained important through the nineteenth century although, as it was a small-scale process, its application was restricted to engineers' cutting tools and the cutting edges of certain tools.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    E.W.Hulme, 1945, "The pedigree and career of Benjamin Huntsman, inventor in Europe of crucible steel", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 24:37–48.
    W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longman.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Huntsman, Benjamin

  • 8 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.

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  • 9 tirar

    v.
    1 to throw.
    tirar algo a algo/alguien to throw something to something/somebody (para que lo agarre) to throw something at something/somebody (para hacer daño)
    tírame una manzana throw me an apple
    Ella tira bolas She throws balls.
    3 to knock over (derribar) (botella, lámpara).
    4 to throw away.
    tirar algo a la basura to throw something away
    eso es tirar el dinero that's a complete waste of money
    5 to fire (disparar) (bala, misil).
    tirar una foto to take a picture
    6 to play (jugar) (carta).
    7 to take (sport) (falta, penalti).
    tirar a gol to shoot, to have a shot at goal
    8 to print.
    La imprenta tiró la primera edición The printer printed the first edition.
    10 to shoot.
    tirar a matar to shoot to kill
    11 to have a pull (informal) (atraer).
    me tira la vida del campo I feel drawn toward life in the country
    tirar de algo to attract something
    12 to draw (cigarrillo, chimenea).
    13 to go, to work (informal) (funcionar).
    14 to go, to head.
    tira por esa calle go up o take that street
    15 to (have one's) go.
    17 to last.
    18 to knock down, to break down, to batter down.
    La policía tiró la puerta The police broke down the door.
    19 to pull.
    El tractor tira fuerte The tractor pulls hard.
    * * *
    1 (echar) to throw, fling
    2 (dejar caer) to drop
    3 (desechar) to throw away
    4 (derribar) to knock down; (casa, árbol) to pull down
    5 (derramar) to spill
    6 (vaso, botella) to knock over
    7 (estirar) to pull
    8 (imprimir) to print
    9 (hacer - foto) to take; (línea, plano) to draw
    10 (un tiro) to fire; (una bomba) to drop; (cohete) to launch
    11 (beso) to blow; (pellizco) to give; (patada, coz) to kick
    12 DEPORTE to take
    13 figurado (malgastar) to waste, squander
    1 (cuerda, puerta) to pull (de, -)
    2 (carreta, carro) to draw (de, -)
    3 (atraer) to draw, attract
    4 (estufa, chimenea) to draw
    5 (en juegos) to be a player's move, be a player's turn
    6 familiar (funcionar) to work, run
    7 familiar (durar) to last
    8 (quedar estrecho) to be tight on
    9 figurado (tender) to tend (a, towards); (ser un poco) to be a bit
    10 familiar figurado (atraer) to attract, appeal
    11 figurado (inclinarse) to be attracted (a/hacia, to), be drawn (a/hacia, to)
    12 figurado (parecerse) to take after (a, -)
    13 figurado (ir) to go, turn
    14 figurado (mantenerse) to get by, get along
    15 (disparar) to shoot, fire
    16 DEPORTE (fútbol) to shoot; (ciclismo) to set the pace
    1 (lanzarse) to throw oneself, hurl oneself
    2 (abalanzarse) to rush ( sobre, at), jump ( sobre, on)
    3 (tumbarse) to lie down
    4 familiar (tiempo) to spend
    5 argot (fornicar) to lay (a, -)
    \
    a todo tirar figurado at the most, at the latest
    ir tirando (espabilarse) to manage, get by 2 (tener buena salud) to be okay
    tira y afloja figurado give and take
    tirar abajo (gen) to demolish, pull down 2 (puerta) to smash in
    tirar al blanco to shoot at a target
    tirar de cartera to dip into one's wallet
    tirar la casa por la ventana figurado to spare no expense, push the boat out
    tirar la primera piedra figurado to cast the first stone
    tirar una moneda al aire to toss a coin
    tirarse de cabeza al agua to dive into the water
    * * *
    verb
    1) to throw, hurl, toss
    3) shoot, fire
    4) pull, draw
    •
    - tirar a
    - tirar de la cadena
    - tirar para
    * * *
    Para las expresiones como tirar de la lengua, tirar de la manta, tirar por la borda, tirar por tierra, ver la otra entrada.
    1. VERBO TRANSITIVO
    1) (=lanzar) to throw

    tirar algo a algn — [para que lo coja] to throw sth to sb; [para hacer daño] to throw sth at sb

    2) (=derribar) [+ edificio] to pull down; [+ jarrón, silla, estatua] to knock over; [+ pared, verja] to knock down

    van a tirar la casa — they are going to demolish {o} pull down the house

    ¡abre, o tiro la puerta abajo! — open up, or I'll break the door down!

    3) (=dejar caer) to drop
    4) (=desechar) to throw away

    no tires las sobras, que se las voy a dar al perro — don't throw away the leftovers, I'll give them to the dog

    no tires el aceite por el sumidero — don't tip {o} pour the oil down the drain

    estos pantalones están para tirarlos — these trousers have had it, these trousers are about ready for the dustbin

    5) (=malgastar) [+ dinero] to waste; [+ fortuna] to squander

    has tirado el dinero comprando eso — it was a waste of money buying that, you wasted your money buying that

    6) (=disparar) [+ tiro] to fire; [+ flecha] to shoot; [+ cohete] to launch, fire

    el aparato tira el proyectil a 2.000m — the machine throws the projectile 2,000m

    7) [+ foto] to take
    8) (=dar, pegar)

    la mula le tiró una coz — the mule kicked him {o} gave him a kick

    ¡mamá, Carlos me ha tirado un mordisco! — Carlos has bitten me, Mum!

    9) (Tip) (=imprimir) to print, run off
    10) (=trazar) [+ línea] to draw, trace
    11) * (=suspender)

    ya me han vuelto a tirar en química — I've failed chemistry again, I've flunked chemistry again ( esp EEUU) *

    12) And (=usar) to use
    13) And, Caribe, Cono Sur (=acarrear) to cart, haul, transport
    14)

    • tirarla [de] — † (=dárselas de) to fancy oneself as, pose as

    2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO
    1) [haciendo fuerza]
    a) (=traer hacia sí) to pull

    ¡tira un poco más fuerte! — pull a bit harder!

    • tirar [de] — [+ soga, cuerda] to pull

    ¡no le tires de la trenza a tu hermana! — don't pull your sister's pigtail!

    tirar de la cadena (del wáter) — to flush the toilet, pull the chain

    tirar — Esp [en puerta etc] pull

    tire — LAm [en puerta etc] pull

    b) (=llevar tras sí)

    • tirar [de] — to pull

    un burro tiraba de la carreta — a donkey was pulling the cart along, the cart was drawn by a donkey

    2) * (=atraer)

    no le tira el estudio — studying does not appeal to him, studying holds no attraction for him

    3) (=estar tirante) [ropa] to be tight
    4) (=usar)

    • tirar [de] — [+ espada, navaja] to draw

    tiramos de diccionario y lo traducimos en un minuto — * if we use a dictionary it will just take a minute to translate

    5) (=disparar) to shoot

    ¡no tires! — don't shoot!

    • tirar al [blanco] — to aim

    • tirar a [matar] — to shoot to kill

    6) (Dep) [con balón] to shoot; [con fichas, cartas etc] to go, play

    ¡tira! — shoot!

    • tirar a [puerta] — Esp to shoot at goal

    7) * (=arreglárselas) to get by

    ir tirando — to get by, manage

    -¿qué tal esa salud? -vamos tirando — "how's your health?" - "we're getting by"

    8) (=funcionar) [motor] to pull; [chimenea, puro] to draw, pull
    9) (=ir) to go

    ¡tira de una vez! — get on with it!, go on, then!

    tirar por una calle — to turn down a street, go off along a street

    10) * (=durar) to last
    11) [seguido de preposición]
    tirar a (=tender)

    es mediocre tirando a malo — it's middling to bad, it's mediocre verging on bad

    tirar para (=aspirar a ser)
    12)

    nos queda gasolina para 20km a todo tirar — we have only enough petrol for 20kms at the most {o} at the outside

    13) LAm *** [sexualmente] to screw ***
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( arrojar) to throw

    no tires los papeles al suelo — don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground

    tirarle algo a alguien — ( para que lo agarre) to throw somebody something; ( con agresividad) to throw something at somebody

    b) (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    c) ( desperdiciar) to waste
    2)
    a) ( hacer caer) to knock over

    cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! — be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!

    b) ( derribar) to knock down
    3)
    a) < bomba> to drop; < cohete> to fire, launch; < flecha> to shoot; < tiros> to fire
    b) < foto> to take
    4) (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    5) (Impr) to print, run off
    6) (Mat) < línea> to draw
    7) (Chi) < lotería> to draw the winning number in; < rifa> to draw
    2.
    tirar vi
    1) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    2) ( atraer)
    3)
    a) ( disparar) to shoot
    b) (Dep) to shoot

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta — to shoot at goal

    tirando por lo bajo/alto — at the (very) least/most

    c) (Jueg) ( descartarse) to throw away; ( en juegos de dados) to throw; ( en dardos) to throw; ( en bolos) to bowl
    4)
    a) chimenea/cigarro to draw
    b) coche/motor to pull
    5)
    a) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by

    con $100 podemos tirar — with $100 we could get by

    b) tirando gerundio (fam)

    ¿qué tal andas? - tirando... — how are things? - not too bad

    6) (Esp fam) ( desplazarse)

    vamos, tira — get a move on

    tira por esta calle abajo — go o turn down this street

    7) (AmL vulg) ( en sentido sexual) to screw (vulg), to fuck (vulg)

    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito — he's average to short in height

    3.
    tirarse v pron
    1)
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself

    tirarse en paracaídas — to parachute; ( en emergencia) to bale out

    tirarse al agua — to dive/jump into the water

    tirarse de cabeza — to dive in, to jump in headfirst

    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    tirárselas de algo — (AmL fam)

    2) (fam) <horas/días> to spend
    3) (vulg) ( en sentido sexual)

    tirarse a alguien — to screw somebody (vulg), to lay somebody (sl)

    4) (fam) ( expulsar)
    5) (Col fam) ( echar a perder) to ruin
    * * *
    = dump, haul, run off, throw, throw out, throw away, tear down, toss out, fling, toss, pull down, knock down, jettison, pitch, turf out, toss away, hurl, chuck + Nombre + out.
    Ex. The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
    Ex. However, he would prefer a binding that will stand up to being stuffed into after-hours book drops and being hauled from one library to another.
    Ex. Not only are they the same work, they were run off from the same plates.
    Ex. The point to be made for the novice abstractor is that editors are not ghouls who must be thrown raw meat before a check is issued.
    Ex. Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex. The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
    Ex. A group opposing the incumbent alderman decided that the board's feasibility study amounted to a covert plan to tear down the house that served as the library and erect an ugly building.
    Ex. In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex. A gust of wind flung a powder of snow from the window-sill into the room.
    Ex. Everything being online, the exquisite oaken cabinets housing the card files were tossed.
    Ex. Evacuation of the building was followed by a recovery process which included covering stacks with plastic, locating damaged books, pulling down water-soaked ceiling tiles and removing computer terminals.
    Ex. Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex. The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts, but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts.
    Ex. They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
    Ex. You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex. It's a waste to toss them away, so I decided to make them into this pair of lovely bobby pins.
    Ex. Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails Friday at Israeli soldiers operating south of Nablus, the army said.
    Ex. Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
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    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano = hit-and-run.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * ir tirando = shuffle along, tick over, muddle along, keep + the wolves from the door.
    * persona que tira basura al suelo = litterbug, litter lout.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * sacar tirando = haul out.
    * seguir tirando el dinero = throw + good money after bad.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirando a corto = shortish.
    * tirando a marrón = brownish.
    * tirando a morado = purplish.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo = knock + Nombre + to the ground, knock + Nombre + to the floor.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo de un golpe = knock + Nombre + to the floor, knock + Nombre + to the ground.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.
    * tirar al suelo = upset.
    * tirar a matar = go for + the jugular, deadly force, shoot to + kill.
    * tirar bombas = bomb.
    * tirar de = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage.
    * tirar de la cadena = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la cisterna = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la manta = let + the cat out of the bag, blow + the gaff, spill + the beans.
    * tirar de las orejas = tell + Nombe + off.
    * tirar del carro = pull + Posesivo + (own) weight, pull together, lend + a (helping) hand, put + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, set + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, muck in, pitch in.
    * tirar de una manivela = pull + lever.
    * tirar de una palanca = depress + lever.
    * tirar dinero y esfuerzo por la borda = be money and effort down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero = throw + Posesivo + money down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero por la ventana = be money and effort down the drain, throw + Posesivo + money down the drain, be money down the drain.
    * tirar la casa por la ventana = lash out (on), go to + town on.
    * tirar la esponja = throw in/up + the sponge.
    * tirar la toalla = throw in + the towel.
    * tirar ligeramente de = tug on.
    * tirar los tejos = flirt, throw + hints.
    * tirar piedras contra tu propio tejado = cut + the branch + you sit on, cut + the branch + you sit on, cut off + Posesivo + nose to spite + Posesivo + face.
    * tirar por el desagüe = pour down + the drain.
    * tirarse a la calle = go out on + the road.
    * tirarse a la jugular = go for + the jugular.
    * tirarse a la piscina = take + a dive.
    * tirarse a las calles = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * tirarse con ala delta = hang-glide.
    * tirarse de cabeza = jump in + head first, dive in, dive + head-first.
    * tirarse de las barbas = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse en paracaídas = parachute.
    * tirarse flores = blow + Posesivo + own trumpet.
    * tirarse piedras contra el propio tejado = shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot.
    * tirarse una plancha = put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, blunder.
    * tirarse un eructo = belch, burp.
    * tirarse un farol = bullshit.
    * tirarse un pedo = fart, trump, break + wind, trumpet.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( arrojar) to throw

    no tires los papeles al suelo — don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground

    tirarle algo a alguien — ( para que lo agarre) to throw somebody something; ( con agresividad) to throw something at somebody

    b) (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    c) ( desperdiciar) to waste
    2)
    a) ( hacer caer) to knock over

    cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! — be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!

    b) ( derribar) to knock down
    3)
    a) < bomba> to drop; < cohete> to fire, launch; < flecha> to shoot; < tiros> to fire
    b) < foto> to take
    4) (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    5) (Impr) to print, run off
    6) (Mat) < línea> to draw
    7) (Chi) < lotería> to draw the winning number in; < rifa> to draw
    2.
    tirar vi
    1) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    2) ( atraer)
    3)
    a) ( disparar) to shoot
    b) (Dep) to shoot

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta — to shoot at goal

    tirando por lo bajo/alto — at the (very) least/most

    c) (Jueg) ( descartarse) to throw away; ( en juegos de dados) to throw; ( en dardos) to throw; ( en bolos) to bowl
    4)
    a) chimenea/cigarro to draw
    b) coche/motor to pull
    5)
    a) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by

    con $100 podemos tirar — with $100 we could get by

    b) tirando gerundio (fam)

    ¿qué tal andas? - tirando... — how are things? - not too bad

    6) (Esp fam) ( desplazarse)

    vamos, tira — get a move on

    tira por esta calle abajo — go o turn down this street

    7) (AmL vulg) ( en sentido sexual) to screw (vulg), to fuck (vulg)

    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito — he's average to short in height

    3.
    tirarse v pron
    1)
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself

    tirarse en paracaídas — to parachute; ( en emergencia) to bale out

    tirarse al agua — to dive/jump into the water

    tirarse de cabeza — to dive in, to jump in headfirst

    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    tirárselas de algo — (AmL fam)

    2) (fam) <horas/días> to spend
    3) (vulg) ( en sentido sexual)

    tirarse a alguien — to screw somebody (vulg), to lay somebody (sl)

    4) (fam) ( expulsar)
    5) (Col fam) ( echar a perder) to ruin
    * * *
    tirar(de)
    (v.) = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage

    Ex: Do not push or pull on the disc drawer.

    Ex: Do not pull a book from the shelf by forcefully tugging the top of the spine.
    Ex: The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.
    Ex: He had a tough time lugging his lumpy, oversized travelbag onto the plane and stuffing it in the overhead bin.
    Ex: Information seeking in electronic environments will become a collaboration among end user and various electronic systems such that users leverage their heuristic power and machines leverage algorithmic power.

    = dump, haul, run off, throw, throw out, throw away, tear down, toss out, fling, toss, pull down, knock down, jettison, pitch, turf out, toss away, hurl, chuck + Nombre + out.

    Ex: The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.

    Ex: However, he would prefer a binding that will stand up to being stuffed into after-hours book drops and being hauled from one library to another.
    Ex: Not only are they the same work, they were run off from the same plates.
    Ex: The point to be made for the novice abstractor is that editors are not ghouls who must be thrown raw meat before a check is issued.
    Ex: Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex: The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
    Ex: A group opposing the incumbent alderman decided that the board's feasibility study amounted to a covert plan to tear down the house that served as the library and erect an ugly building.
    Ex: In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex: A gust of wind flung a powder of snow from the window-sill into the room.
    Ex: Everything being online, the exquisite oaken cabinets housing the card files were tossed.
    Ex: Evacuation of the building was followed by a recovery process which included covering stacks with plastic, locating damaged books, pulling down water-soaked ceiling tiles and removing computer terminals.
    Ex: Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex: The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts, but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts.
    Ex: They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
    Ex: You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex: It's a waste to toss them away, so I decided to make them into this pair of lovely bobby pins.
    Ex: Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails Friday at Israeli soldiers operating south of Nablus, the army said.
    Ex: Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano = hit-and-run.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * ir tirando = shuffle along, tick over, muddle along, keep + the wolves from the door.
    * persona que tira basura al suelo = litterbug, litter lout.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * sacar tirando = haul out.
    * seguir tirando el dinero = throw + good money after bad.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirando a corto = shortish.
    * tirando a marrón = brownish.
    * tirando a morado = purplish.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo = knock + Nombre + to the ground, knock + Nombre + to the floor.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo de un golpe = knock + Nombre + to the floor, knock + Nombre + to the ground.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.
    * tirar al suelo = upset.
    * tirar a matar = go for + the jugular, deadly force, shoot to + kill.
    * tirar bombas = bomb.
    * tirar de = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage.
    * tirar de la cadena = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la cisterna = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la manta = let + the cat out of the bag, blow + the gaff, spill + the beans.
    * tirar de las orejas = tell + Nombe + off.
    * tirar del carro = pull + Posesivo + (own) weight, pull together, lend + a (helping) hand, put + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, set + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, muck in, pitch in.
    * tirar de una manivela = pull + lever.
    * tirar de una palanca = depress + lever.
    * tirar dinero y esfuerzo por la borda = be money and effort down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero = throw + Posesivo + money down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero por la ventana = be money and effort down the drain, throw + Posesivo + money down the drain, be money down the drain.
    * tirar la casa por la ventana = lash out (on), go to + town on.
    * tirar la esponja = throw in/up + the sponge.
    * tirar la toalla = throw in + the towel.
    * tirar ligeramente de = tug on.
    * tirar los tejos = flirt, throw + hints.
    * tirar piedras contra tu propio tejado = cut + the branch + you sit on, cut + the branch + you sit on, cut off + Posesivo + nose to spite + Posesivo + face.
    * tirar por el desagüe = pour down + the drain.
    * tirarse a la calle = go out on + the road.
    * tirarse a la jugular = go for + the jugular.
    * tirarse a la piscina = take + a dive.
    * tirarse a las calles = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * tirarse con ala delta = hang-glide.
    * tirarse de cabeza = jump in + head first, dive in, dive + head-first.
    * tirarse de las barbas = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse en paracaídas = parachute.
    * tirarse flores = blow + Posesivo + own trumpet.
    * tirarse piedras contra el propio tejado = shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot.
    * tirarse una plancha = put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, blunder.
    * tirarse un eructo = belch, burp.
    * tirarse un farol = bullshit.
    * tirarse un pedo = fart, trump, break + wind, trumpet.

    * * *
    tirar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (lanzar, arrojar) to throw
    ¿quiénes estaban tirando piedras? who was throwing stones?
    tiró la colilla por la ventanilla she threw the cigarette butt out of the window
    tiró la pelota al aire he threw the ball up in the air
    tiraban piedrecitas al río they were throwing stones into the river
    no tires los papeles al suelo don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground
    tirarle algo A algn (para que lo agarre) to throw sth TO sb, to throw sb sth; (con agresividad) to throw sth AT sb
    le tiró la pelota she threw him the ball, she threw the ball to him
    tírame las llaves throw me the keys
    me tiró una piedra she threw a stone at me
    le tiraron un cubo de agua they threw a bucket of water over him
    le tiró los brazos he put o stretched his arms out to her
    tírale un beso blow him a kiss
    2 (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    todo esto es para tirar all this can be thrown out o away, this is all going out ( colloq)
    estos zapatos ya están para tirar(los) these shoes are about ready to be thrown away o out
    ¡que asco! tira eso inmediatemente a la basura ugh! throw that away right now!, ugh! put that in the garbage can ( AmE) o ( BrE) the bin right now!
    3 (desperdiciar) to waste
    ¡qué manera de tirar el dinero! what a waste of money!
    B (dejar en desorden) (+ compl):
    no tiren los juguetes por todos lados don't leave o strew your toys all over the place
    se quitó la camisa y la tiró en un rincón he took off his shirt and threw it into a corner
    C
    1 (hacer caer) to knock over
    ¡cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!
    tiró el jarrón al suelo de un codazo he knocked the vase off the table ( o shelf etc) with his elbow
    2 (derribar) to knock down
    el perro se le echó encima y lo tiró al suelo the dog leaped up at him and knocked him to the ground o knocked him over
    tiró todos los bolos de una vez he knocked all the pins down in one go
    van a tirar (abajo) esta pared or van a tirar esta pared (abajo) they're going to knock this wall down
    tiraron la puerta abajo they broke the door down
    D
    1 ‹bomba› to drop; ‹cohete› to fire, launch; ‹flecha› to shoot; ‹tiros› to fire
    le tiraron tres tiros they shot at him three times, they fired three shots at him
    2 ‹foto› to take
    E (dar) ‹puñetazo› to throw
    tiraba puñetazos a diestra y siniestra he was throwing punches o lashing out left and right ( AmE) o ( BrE) left, right and center
    el perro me tiró un mordisco the dog snapped at me
    no me tires más pellizcos stop pinching me
    tiró la cadena he pulled the chain
    no le tires el pelo don't pull his hair
    te voy a tirar las orejas I'm going to tweak your ears
    le tiraba la manga she was tugging o pulling at his sleeve
    G ( Impr) to print, run off
    H ( Mat) ‹línea› to draw
    I ( Chi)
    1 ‹carrera› to start, give the starting signal for
    2 ‹lotería› to draw the winning number in; ‹rifa› to draw
    ■ tirar
    vi
    A
    ¡vamos, tiren todos a una! come on, everybody pull together!
    [ S ] tirar pull
    tirar DE algo to pull sth
    no le tires del pelo don't pull her hair
    dos caballos tiraban del carro the cart was drawn by two horses
    tirar de la cadena to pull the chain
    le tiró de la manga she tugged o pulled at his sleeve
    le tiró de la oreja she tweaked his ear
    2 «vestido/blusa» to be (too) tight
    me tira it's too tight on me
    B
    (atraer): le sigue tirando México she still hankers after o misses Mexico
    no parece que le tiren mucho los deportes he doesn't seem to be very interested in o keen on sport
    la sangre tira blood is thicker than water
    C
    1
    (disparar): le tiró a traición she shot him in the back
    ¡no tiren! don't shoot!
    le tiró al corazón he shot him through the heart
    tirar a dar to shoot to wound ( not to kill)
    tirar a matar (literal) to shoot to kill
    (para ofender, atacar): cuando empieza a criticar, tira a matar when she starts criticizing you, she really goes for the jugular o she really sticks the knife in ( colloq)
    siempre que me dice algo, tira a matar whenever he says anything to me, he goes all out to hurt me
    2 ( Dep) to shoot
    tirar al arco ( AmL) or ( Esp) a puerta to shoot at goal
    tirando por lo bajo/alto at the (very) least/most
    3 ( Jueg) (descartarse) to throw away, discard; (en juegos de dados) to throw; (en dardos) to throw; (en bolos) to bowl
    D
    1 «chimenea/cigarro» to draw
    2 «coche/motor» to pull
    E
    1 ( fam) (llegar, sobrevivir) to get by
    con $100 podríamos tirar hasta fin de mes with $100 we could get by until the end of the month
    con este uniforme podrás tirar hasta fin de año this uniform will last you o ( colloq) will do you till the end of the year
    ger ( fam): ¿qué tal andas? — ya lo ves, tirando … how are things? — well, you know, not too bad o we're getting by
    no ganamos mucho pero vamos tirando we don't earn much but we're managing
    F
    ( Esp fam) (seguir adelante): tira, que creo que no nos ha visto go on, I don't think he's seen us
    vamos, tira come on, get moving o get a move on
    si tiras para atrás cabe otro coche if you back up o go back a bit we can get another car in
    tira (p'alante), no te pares ahora keep going, don't stop now
    hay mucho que hacer pero entre todos podemos tirar p'alante there's a lot to be done but if we all pull together we can get through it
    tira por esta calle abajo go o turn down this street
    en cuanto nos vieron, tiraron por otro lado as soon as they saw us they went off in a different direction/they turned off up a different street
    G ( AmL vulg) (en sentido sexual) to screw ( vulg), to fuck ( vulg)
    (tender a): un amarillo fuerte tirando a naranja a bright orangish o ( BrE) orangy yellow
    no es verde, tira más bien a azul it's not green, it's more of a bluish color
    los precios son más bien tirando a caros the prices are a bit on the expensive o ( colloq) steep side
    el erotismo de la película tiraba a pornográfico the eroticism in the film tended toward(s) o verged on the pornographic
    los niños tiran más a la madre the children take after their mother more
    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito he's average to short in height
    A
    1 (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself
    se tiró por la ventana he threw himself o he leapt out of the window
    tirarse al agua to dive/jump into the water
    tirarse del trampolín to dive off the springboard
    tirarse de cabeza to dive in, to jump in headfirst
    intentó tirarse del tren en marcha she tried to throw herself from o to jump off the train while it was moving
    se le tiró a los brazos she threw herself into his arms
    2 «coche/conductor» (+ compl) to pull over
    se tiró bruscamente a un lado he swerved to one side
    3 ( AmL) (tumbarse) to lie down
    estoy agotada, me voy a tirar un rato I'm exhausted, I'm going to lie down for a while
    tirárselas de algo (Col, RPl fam): se las tira de valiente he makes out he's so brave
    B ( fam); ‹horas/días› to spend
    nos hemos tirado media hora para encontrar la casa it's taken us half an hour to find the house
    se tiró dos años escribiéndolo he spent two years writing it
    se ha tirado una hora entera hablando por teléfono he's been on the phone for a whole hour, he's spent a whole hour on the phone
    C ( vulg)
    (joder): tirarse a algn to screw sb ( vulg), to fuck sb ( vulg), to lay sb (sl)
    D ( fam)
    (expulsar): tirarse un pedo to fart (sl), to pass wind
    tirarse un eructo to belch, to burp ( colloq)
    E ( Col fam) (echar a perder) to ruin
    el aguacero se tiró el paseo the downpour washed out o ruined our walk
    se tiró el examen he flunked the exam ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    tirar ( conjugate tirar) verbo transitivo
    1


    tirarle algo a algn ( para que lo agarre) to throw sb sth;

    ( con agresividad) to throw sth at sb
    b) ( desechar) to throw out o away


    ◊ ¡qué manera de tirar el dinero! what a waste of money!

    2
    a) ( hacer caer) ‹jarrón/silla› to knock over;


    b) ( derribar) ‹pared/puerta› to knock down

    3
    a) ‹ bomba› to drop;

    ‹ cohete› to fire, launch;
    ‹ flecha› to shoot
    b) ‹ foto› to take

    4 (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull;

    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull;
    tirar de algo to pull sth;

    2


    b) (Dep) to shoot;

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta to shoot at goal

    ( en juegos de dados) to throw;
    ( en dardos) to throw;
    ( en bolos) to bowl
    3
    a) [chimenea/cigarro] to draw

    b) [coche/motor] to pull

    4
    ◊ tirando ger (fam): gano poco pero vamos tirando I don't earn much but we're managing;

    ¿qué tal andas? — tirando how are things? — not too bad
    5
    ◊ tirar a ( tender a): tira más bien a azul it's more of a bluish color;

    ella tira más a la madre she takes after her mother more
    tirarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) to throw oneself;


    tirarse en paracaídas to parachute;

    ( en emergencia) to bale out;

    tirarse de cabeza to dive in, to jump in headfirst
    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    2 (fam) ‹horas/días› to spend;

    3 (fam) ( expulsar):

    tirar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (arrojar, echar) to throw: lo tiró al agua, he threw it into the water
    no tires la cáscara al suelo, don't throw o drop the peel on the floor
    (enérgicamente) to fling, hurl: lo tiró al fuego, she threw it on the fire
    2 (deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    tiré mis zapatos viejos, I threw my old shoes away
    3 (malgastar) tiraste el dinero con esa joya falsa, you've wasted your money on that fake jewel
    (despilfarrar) to squander
    4 (hacer caer) to knock over: tiré el vaso, I knocked the glass over
    5 (derribar a alguien) to knock o push over
    tirar abajo (una pared, una puerta) to knock down
    (demoler) to pull down
    6 (una bomba) to drop
    (un tiro, un cohete) to fire
    7 (una foto) to take
    8 Impr to print
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (hacer fuerza hacia sí) to pull: no le tires del pelo, don't pull his hair
    ¡tira de la cuerda!, tug on the rope!
    2 (disparar) to shoot
    Dep to shoot
    (dados, dardos) to throw
    3 fam (gustar) le tira mucho el baloncesto, he's very keen on basketball
    4 (tender) tira a azul, it's bluish
    (parecerse) tira a su madre, she takes after her mother
    5 fam (arreglárselas) ir tirando, to get by, manage
    6 (ir) tira a la derecha, turn right
    ' tirar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aire
    - bala
    - borda
    - calle
    - casa
    - esconder
    - palanca
    - toalla
    - trapo
    - apedrear
    - arrojar
    - basura
    - blanco
    - botar
    - cadena
    - crimen
    - echar
    - jalar
    - pinta
    - zumbar
    English:
    aim at
    - archery
    - bung
    - cast
    - chain
    - chuck
    - chuck away
    - chuck out
    - clearout
    - dash
    - drag
    - draw
    - fling
    - flush
    - haul
    - heave
    - keep
    - knock off
    - knock over
    - lash out
    - pitch
    - pull
    - pull on
    - pull over
    - putt
    - run off
    - shoot
    - sling
    - sling out
    - splash out
    - sponge
    - strain
    - throw
    - throw aside
    - throw away
    - throw out
    - toss
    - toss away
    - towel
    - town
    - trash
    - tug
    - turf out
    - waste
    - yank
    - beat
    - blow
    - bring
    - disposable
    - ditch
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [lanzar] to throw;
    tiraron las gorras al aire they threw their caps (up) in the air;
    tirar algo a alguien [para que lo agarre] to throw sth to sb;
    [para hacer daño] to throw sth at sb;
    tírame una manzana throw me an apple;
    le tiró un beso she blew him a kiss;
    le tiraban piedras a la policía they were throwing stones at the police
    2. [dejar caer] [objeto] to drop;
    [líquido] [derramar] to spill;
    no tiren los papeles al suelo don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground;
    tiró las maletas y se tumbó en la cama she dropped her suitcases and lay down on the bed;
    me has tirado salsa en el traje you've spilt some sauce on my suit
    3. [derribar] [botella, lámpara] to knock over;
    [muro, tabique, edificio] to knock down;
    tiró la lámpara con un codo al pasar she knocked over the lamp with her elbow as she went by;
    la violencia del choque la tiró al suelo the force of the collision knocked o hurled her to the floor;
    esta pared habrá que tirarla we're going to have to knock this wall down
    4. [desechar] to throw away o out;
    tirar algo a la basura to throw sth out;
    tíralo a la papelera throw it in the wastepaper basket;
    esto está para tirarlo you/we/ etc should throw this away o out;
    eso es tirar el dinero that's a complete waste of money
    5. [arrastrar]
    un carro tirado por bueyes an ox-drawn cart
    6. [disparar] [balas, misiles, disparos] to fire;
    [bomba] to drop; [petardo, cohete] to let off; [dardos, flechas] to shoot; Fam
    tirar una foto to take a picture
    7. [jugar] [carta] to play;
    [dado] to throw
    8. [en deportes] [falta, penalti] to take;
    [balón] to pass
    9. [imprimir] to print
    10. [trazar] [línea] to draw
    11. Fam [suspender] to fail, US to flunk;
    me han tirado en geografía I've failed o US flunked geography
    ♦ vi
    1. [disparar] to shoot;
    tirar al aire to fire shots into the air;
    tirar a dar to shoot to wound, not to kill;
    tirar a matar [con arma] to shoot to kill;
    [con comentario] to go for the jugular
    2. [estirar, arrastrar]
    tirar (de algo) to pull (sth);
    el ciclista colombiano tiraba del pelotón the Colombian cyclist was pulling the bunch along;
    me tiró del pelo she pulled my hair;
    [en letrero] pull;
    me tiró del brazo/de la manga she tugged at my arm/sleeve;
    RP
    tirar parejo: esto no es justo, o tiramos parejo o yo me retiro this is not fair, either we all pull together or I'm dropping out
    3. [estar tirante] to be tight;
    la chaqueta me tira de atrás the jacket's a bit tight at the back
    4. [en deportes] [con el pie] to kick;
    [con la mano] to throw; [a meta, canasta] to shoot;
    tirar a gol o Am [m5] al arco o Esp [m5] a puerta to shoot, to have a shot at goal
    5. [dirigirse] to go ( hacia o para towards), to head ( hacia o para for o towards); Fam
    ¡tira! [para empezar a moverse] get moving!;
    Fam
    ¡tira que llegamos tarde! let's get a move on or we'll be late!;
    Fam
    tira para arriba, que ahora subo yo you go on up, I'll come up in a minute;
    tira por esa calle go up o take that street
    6. [jugar] to go, to have one's go;
    te toca tirar a ti [en naipes, dados, billar] it's your go
    7. [cigarrillo, chimenea] to draw;
    este tabaco no tira these cigarettes aren't drawing properly
    8. Fam [funcionar] to go, to work;
    el motor no tira the engine isn't working properly;
    el coche tira bien the car runs well
    9. [durar] to last;
    estos zapatos tirarán otro año these shoes will last another year
    10. Fam [atraer]
    la familia tira mucho blood is thicker than water;
    la tierra siempre tira de uno your homeland never loses its pull on you;
    tirarle a alguien: me tira la vida del campo country life appeals to me;
    no le tira la profesión de su padre his father's profession doesn't appeal to him;
    no le tira viajar she doesn't feel the urge to travel;
    tirar de alguien to exert a pull on sb
    11. Fam [apañárselas]
    aún puedo tirar con este abrigo un par de inviernos this coat should do me for another couple of winters yet;
    ir tirando to get by;
    voy tirando I'm OK, I've been worse
    12. [tener aspecto de o tendencia a]
    tirar a: tira a gris it's greyish;
    tira a su abuela she takes after her grandmother;
    este programa tira a (ser) hortera this programme is a bit on the tacky side;
    el tiempo tira a mejorar the weather looks as if it's getting better;
    es un reformista tirando a radical he's somewhere between a reformist and a radical;
    es verde tirando a azul it's a bluey green;
    es tirando a delgado if anything, he's rather thin;
    tira para deportista he has the makings of a sportsman
    13. Fam [hacer uso]
    tirar de algo to use sth;
    cuando no hay dinero hay que tirar del ingenio when you don't have any money, you have to rely on your wits;
    hubo que tirar de los ahorros we had to draw on our savings
    14. Ven Vulg [copular] to fuck
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 throw; edificio, persona knock down; ( volcar) knock over
    2 basura throw away; dinero waste, throw away fam
    3 TIP print
    4 fam
    en examen fail
    5 foto take
    6 tiro fire
    II v/i
    1 de coche pull;
    tirar de algo pull sth
    2 ( disparar) shoot
    :
    tirar a puerta shoot at goal;
    tirar fuera shoot wide
    4 ( atraer) pull, attract;
    no me tira la música music doesn’t turn me on
    5
    :
    tirar a tend toward;
    tirar a conservador/verde have conservative/Green tendencies
    6 ( girar)
    :
    tirar a la derecha turn right, take a right
    7
    :
    ir tirando fam get by, manage
    * * *
    tirar vt
    1) : to throw, to hurl, to toss
    2) botar: to throw away, to throw out, to waste
    3) derribar: to knock down
    4) : to shoot, to fire, to launch
    5) : to take (a photo)
    6) : to print, to run off
    tirar vi
    1) : to pull, to draw
    2) : to shoot
    3) : to attract
    4) : to get by, to manage
    va tirando: he's getting along, he's managing
    5)
    tirar a : to tend towards, to be rather
    tira a picante: it's a bit spicy
    * * *
    tirar vb
    1. (lanzar) to throw [pt. threw; pp. thrown]
    2. (desechar) to throw away [pt. threw; pp. thrown]
    3. (derribar) to knock over / to knock down
    4. (malgastar) to waste
    5. (arrastrar, estirar) to pull
    6. (disparar) to shoot [pt. & pp. shot]
    7. (atraer, gustar) to like

    Spanish-English dictionary > tirar

  • 10 Berechnung

    Berechnung f 1. COMP calculation, computation; 2. GEN calculation, estimate
    * * *
    f 1. < Comp> calculation, computation; 2. < Geschäft> calculation, estimate
    * * *
    Berechnung
    (Belastung) charge, charging, (Fakturieren) billing, invoicing, (Preisstellung) pricing, quotation, (Rechnung) reckoning, figuring out, (Überschlag) calculation, computation, account, estimate, rate, valuation, assessment, (Umrechnung) conversion, reduction;
    • bei billigster (niedrigster) Berechnung on most moderate terms, at the lowest price (calculation);
    • nach meiner Berechnung according to my calculation;
    • nach unten stehender Berechnung acording to the statement below;
    • annähernde Berechnung approximation;
    • erneute Berechnung recalculation;
    • falsche Berechnung miscalculation, miscomputation;
    • flüchtige Berechnung rough calculation;
    • komplizierte Berechnungen complex calculations;
    • pauschale Berechnung flat calculation;
    • statische Berechnung static calculation;
    • überschlägliche Berechnung rude sketch;
    • vereinfachte Berechnung short-cut computation;
    • vorsichtige Berechnung conservative (safe) estimate;
    • Berechnung der Abschreibungssätze (Abschreibungsbeträge auf das Anlagevermögen) capital allowance computation, computation of the capital allowance (Br.);
    • Berechnung des Aktienwertes computation of share value;
    • Berechnung der Ausgleichspflicht hotchpot calculation (computation);
    • Berechnung der Beiträge calculation of contributions;
    • Berechnung einer Frist computation of a term;
    • Berechnung der Inlandskapitalrendite domestic return-on-capital computation;
    • Berechnung der Kosten calculation (computation) of expenses;
    • Berechnung der Leistungen calculation of benefits;
    • Berechnung der Produktionskapazität capacity evaluation;
    • Berechnung der Produktionskosten process costing;
    • Berechnung des Satzumfangs cast off, character count (Br.);
    • Berechnung der Selbstkosten (des Selbstkostenpreises) costing, cost accounting;
    • Berechnung zu höheren Steuersätzen higher rates calculation;
    • Berechnung von Zinsen computation of interest;
    • Berechnung anstellen (vornehmen) to make a calculation, to calculate, to work a sum.

    Business german-english dictionary > Berechnung

  • 11 Bewertung

    Bewertung f 1. FIN rating; 2. GEN assessment, evaluation, valuation; 3. MGT appraisal; 4. PERS appraisal, report card, perception
    * * *
    f 1. < Finanz> rating; 2. < Geschäft> assessment, evaluation, valuation; 3. < Mgmnt> appraisal; 4. < Person> appraisal, report card, perception
    * * *
    Bewertung
    estimate, [e]valuation, valuing, appraisal, appraisement, pricing, rating, (Absatzuntersuchung) weight, (Beurteilung) estimation, rating, (Bilanz) appraisal (US), (Grundstück) extend (Br.), assessment;
    • erneute Bewertung revaluation;
    • gutachtliche Bewertung official appraisement;
    • zu hohe Bewertung overappraisal, overassessment;
    • marktgemäße Bewertung market valuation;
    • niedrige Bewertung reduced assessment;
    • zu niedrige Bewertung underrate;
    • punktuelle Bewertung rating by points;
    • steuerliche Bewertung assessment, assessed valuation (US);
    • vorsichtige Bewertung conservative valuation;
    • zollamtliche Bewertung official valuation;
    • Bewertung eines Anspruchs claim assessment;
    • Bewertung der laufenden Arbeiten valuation of work in process;
    • Bewertung als gute Arbeitskraft good work evaluation;
    • Bewertung im Fall einer Liquidation breakup valuation;
    • Bewertung von Fernsehsendungen durch das Publikum television ratings;
    • Bewertung von Forderungen evaluation of claims;
    • Bewertung der Forschungstätigkeit research appraisal;
    • Bewertung von Führungskräften executive evaluation;
    • Bewertung landwirtschaftlich genutzten Geländes appraisal of agricultural land;
    • Bewertung eines Geschäftsgrundstücks business property appraisal;
    • Bewertung von Grundvermögen assessment of property;
    • Bewertung der Lagerbestände stock evaluation;
    • Bewertung für Nachlasszwecke valuation of probate;
    • Bewertung nach dem Nettowert der Prämien (Versicherung) net valuation;
    • berufliche Bewertung nach dem Punktsystem job rating;
    • Bewertung zum Rechnungswert cost-method valuation;
    • Bewertung durch Sachverständige expert appraisal;
    • Bewertung von Verbindlichkeiten liability verification;
    • Bewertung zum Verkehrswert [open] market valuation, (Vermögen) fair valuation;
    • Bewertung zu Versicherungszwecken appraisal for insurance purposes;
    • Bewertung des Vorratsvermögens zu Durchschnittspreisen periodic average inventory plan;
    • Bewertung anhand des Wirtschaftsindexes index [number] valuation;
    • Bewertung zu einem früheren Zeitpunkt retrospective appraisal;
    • Bewertung vornehmen to make appraisal, to [e]valuate, to appraise;
    • Bewertung im Blitzverfahren vornehmen to evaluate on a hurry-up basis.

    Business german-english dictionary > Bewertung

  • 12 cálculo

    m.
    1 calculation, figuring, computation, estimate.
    2 calculation, guess, conjecture.
    3 calculus.
    4 calculus, stone.
    * * *
    1 calculation, estimate
    2 (conjetura) conjecture, reckoning
    3 MATEMÁTICAS calculus
    4 MEDICINA gallstone
    \
    cálculo biliar bile stone
    cálculo mental mental arithmetic
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) reckoning, estimate
    * * *
    SM
    1) [gen] calculation, reckoning; (=conjetura) estimate, conjecture; (Mat) calculus

    según mis cálculos — by my reckoning, by my calculations

    cálculo de costo — costing, pricing (EEUU)

    2) (Med) stone
    * * *
    1) (Mat)
    a) ( operación) calculation
    b) ( disciplina) calculus
    2) (plan, conjetura)

    fue un error de cálculo — I/he/they misjudged o miscalculated

    3) (Med) stone, calculus (tech)
    •
    * * *
    1) (Mat)
    a) ( operación) calculation
    b) ( disciplina) calculus
    2) (plan, conjetura)

    fue un error de cálculo — I/he/they misjudged o miscalculated

    3) (Med) stone, calculus (tech)
    •
    * * *
    cálculo1
    1 = arithmetic, calculation, calculus [calculuses, -pl.], computation, counting, estimation, calculability, reckoning.

    Ex: Since the system's arithmetic depends upon the way amounts of money are entered, standards for entry for the various currencies must be established.

    Ex: For example, without scanning the entire index it is impossible to estimate the total number of relevant documents in the system, a figure that is required in the calculation of recall.
    Ex: He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformations of equations by the use of calculus.
    Ex: Frequently numeric data bases and the hosts which support them permit some computation and manipulation of the retrieved data.
    Ex: Rapid electrical counting appeared soon after the physicists found it desirable to count cosmic rays.
    Ex: Our estimation is that we have 845,000 nonunique names in the MARC data base.
    Ex: According to George Ritzer's theory of McDonaldization, services and procedures once subject to the fluctuations of human interaction undergo a rationalization process that emphasizes efficiency, predictability, calculability, and control.
    Ex: On the most superficial reckoning it is a matter of national concern.
    * cálculo aproximado = estimate, ballpark estimate.
    * cálculo matemático = mathematical calculation.
    * centro de cálculo = computer centre, computing centre, central computing facility.
    * error de cálculo = miscalculation, mathematical mistake, mathematical error, calculation error, calculation mistake.
    * hoja de cálculo = spreadsheet.
    * hoja de cálculo electrónica = electronic spreadsheet.
    * procedimiento de cálculo = arithmetic.
    * realizar un cálculo = carry out + calculation.
    * regla de cálculo = slide rule.
    * tabla de cálculo = reckoner, ready reckoner.

    cálculo2
    2 = kidney stone, calculus [calculi, -pl.].

    Ex: The author examines the relationship between tea consumption and oral health, bone health, thermogenesis, cognitive function, and kidney stones.

    Ex: Nephritic colic only appears when a calculus obstructs the ureter, which runs from the kidney to the bladder.
    * cálculo biliar = gallstone.
    * cálculo renal = calculus [calculi, -pl.].

    * * *
    A ( Mat)
    1 (operación) calculation
    según mis cálculos debe faltar poco para llegar according to my calculations o by my reckoning we must be nearly there
    hizo un cálculo aproximado de los gastos she made a rough estimate of the costs
    2 (disciplina) calculus
    Compuestos:
    calculation of probabilities
    differential calculus
    integral calculus
    mental arithmetic
    B
    (plan, conjetura): eso no entraba en mis cálculos I hadn't allowed for that in my plans o calculations
    le fallaron los cálculos things didn't work out as he had hoped o planned
    superó los cálculos más optimistas it exceeded even the most optimistic estimates
    fue un error de cálculo I/he/they misjudged o miscalculated
    C ( Med) stone, calculus ( tech)
    Compuestos:
    gallstone, bilestone
    kidney stone, renal calculus ( tech)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo calcular: ( conjugate calcular)

    calculo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    calculó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    calcular    
    cálculo
    calcular ( conjugate calcular) verbo transitivo
    1


    b) ( evaluar) ‹pérdidas/gastas› to estimate

    c) ( conjeturar) to reckon, to guess (esp AmE);

    ◊ yo le calculo unos sesenta años I reckon o guess he's about sixty


    2 ( planear) to work out;

    cálculo sustantivo masculino
    1 (Mat)


    hizo un cálculo aproximado she made a rough estimate;
    cálculo mental mental arithmetic

    2 ( plan):
    ◊ eso no entraba en mis cálculos I hadn't allowed for that in my plans o calculations;

    le fallaron los cálculos things didn't work out as he had planned;
    un error de cálculo a miscalculation
    3 (Med) stone, calculus (tech)
    calcular verbo transitivo
    1 Mat to calculate
    2 (evaluar, estimar) to (make an) estimate: no supe calcular los riesgos, I was not able to determine the risks
    calculé mal la distancia y me caí, I failed to gauge the distance and I fell
    3 (conjeturar) to reckon, guess: calculo que mañana podré ir al museo, I guess I'll be able to go to the museum tomorrow
    cálculo sustantivo masculino
    1 (operación matemática) calculation
    2 (previsión, conjetura) reckoning
    según mis cálculos, by my reckoning
    3 Med gallstone
    4 Mat (disciplina) calculus
    ' cálculo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    antecesor
    - antecesora
    - calcular
    - cuenta
    - error
    - estimativa
    - estimativo
    - exagerada
    - exagerado
    - hoja
    - margen
    - por
    - presupuesto
    - aproximado
    - balance
    - estimación
    - expulsar
    - piedra
    - ponderar
    - sacar
    - vuelo
    English:
    assessment
    - calculation
    - computation
    - computing
    - estimate
    - estimation
    - gallstone
    - miscalculation
    - printout
    - reckoning
    - rough
    - spreadsheet
    - stone
    - sum
    - allow
    - conservative
    - gall
    - judgment
    - mark
    - quantity
    - slide
    - spread
    * * *
    1. [operación] calculation;
    hacer un cálculo aproximado to estimate, to make an estimate;
    hacer cálculos to do some calculations;
    estamos haciendo cálculos para saber cuánta gente vendrá we're trying to work out how many people are going to come
    Com cálculo de costos costing;
    cálculo mental: [m5] hacer cálculos mentales to do mental arithmetic
    2. [ciencia] calculus
    cálculo diferencial differential calculus;
    cálculo infinitesimal infinitesimal calculus;
    cálculo integral integral calculus
    3. [evaluación] estimate;
    si no me fallan los cálculos,… if my calculations are correct,…;
    según mis cálculos, llegaremos a las cinco by my reckoning, we'll arrive at five o'clock
    cálculo de probabilidades probability theory
    4. Med stone, Espec calculus
    cálculo biliar gallstone;
    cálculo renal kidney stone
    * * *
    m
    1 calculation
    2 MED stone
    * * *
    1) : calculation, estimation
    2) : calculus
    3) : plan, scheme
    4)
    cálculo biliar : gallstone
    5)
    hoja de cálculo : spreadsheet
    * * *
    cálculo n calculation

    Spanish-English dictionary > cálculo

  • 13 принимать в расчёт

    Принимать в расчёт / во внимание - to take into account, to take into consideration, to take credit for, to give credit for, to pay heed to (учитывать); to bear in mind (иметь в виду)
     To prevent this, mechanisms should exist whereby external costs are taken fully into account in the decision-making process.
     Under these conditions the stalled flow model would have to be modified to take this pressure drop into account, as shown schematically in Fig.
     The ASME Code permits taking credit for the stiffening effect of the tubes, but cautions as to the many variables involved.
     To be conservative, it is recommended that no credit be given for compressive stress states with TF < 1. In such cases let TF = 1.
     Currently, PVRC is sponsoring studies to conform the observation by L. that credit should be given for yield strength.
     Pay heed to the pressure Pmax according to Section 3.1.
     It should be borne in mind that individual impact sites may be small enough to fall within an individual phase at the bearing surface.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > принимать в расчёт

  • 14 принимать во внимание

    Принимать в расчёт / во внимание - to take into account, to take into consideration, to take credit for, to give credit for, to pay heed to (учитывать); to bear in mind (иметь в виду)
     To prevent this, mechanisms should exist whereby external costs are taken fully into account in the decision-making process.
     Under these conditions the stalled flow model would have to be modified to take this pressure drop into account, as shown schematically in Fig.
     The ASME Code permits taking credit for the stiffening effect of the tubes, but cautions as to the many variables involved.
     To be conservative, it is recommended that no credit be given for compressive stress states with TF < 1. In such cases let TF = 1.
     Currently, PVRC is sponsoring studies to conform the observation by L. that credit should be given for yield strength.
     Pay heed to the pressure Pmax according to Section 3.1.
     It should be borne in mind that individual impact sites may be small enough to fall within an individual phase at the bearing surface.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > принимать во внимание

  • 15 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 16 Christian Democratic Party

       Established originally as the Centro Democático e Social (CDS) in May 1974, following the fall of the Estado Novo, the CDS was supported by conservatives inspired by Christian humanism and Catholic social doctrines. In the first democratic elections after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, which were held on 25 April 1975, the CDS won only a disappointing 7.6 percent of the vote for the Constituent Assembly. In the following general elections for the Assembly of the Republic, in April 1976, however, the party more than doubled its votes to 16 percent and surpassed the number of votes for the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP). In 1979-80, the Christian Democrats joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in a coalition called the Aliança Democrática (Democratic Alliance), a grouping that defeated the Socialist Party (PS) in the succeeding elections. The Christian Democrats remained in the background as the principal party rivals for power were the PS and the PSD.
       In the 1990s, the CDS altered its name to the Partido Popular (PP) and featured new leaders such as party chief Paulo Portas. While the democratic Portuguese system had become virtually a two-party dominant system by the 1980s and 1990s, the PP would have opportunities, depending upon circumstances, to share power in another coalition with one of the two larger, major parties, the PS or PSD. Indeed, parliamentary election results in March 2002 gave the party just such an opportunity, as the PP won 14 percent of the vote, thus surpassing for the first time since the 1975 elections the PCP, which was reduced to 12 percent of the vote. The PP thus gained new influence as the PSD, which won the largest number of seats in this election, was obliged to share governance with the PP in order to have a working majority in the legislature.
       Various right-wing lobbies and interest groups influenced the PP. In early 2000, the PP proposed a law to the Assembly of the Republic whereby former colonists, now mainly resident in Portugal, who had lost property in Portugal's former colonies of Angola and Mozambique, would be compensated by Portugal for material losses during decolonization. The PP leadership argued that the manner in which the governments after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 administered the disputed, controversial decolonization process in these territories made the government responsible for compensating Portuguese citizens for such losses. The PS-dominated government of then prime minister, Antônio Guterres, argued, however, that independent governments of those former colonies were responsible for any compensation due. Thus, Guterres declined to accept the proposed legislation. This proposal by the PP and others like it followed upon other proposed laws such as Law 20, 19 June 1997, put before the Assembly of the Republic, which was passed under the aegis of the PS. This law pledged to compensate opposition militants (the survivors) who had opposed the Estado Novo and had spent years in exile, as well as in clandestine activities. Such compensations would come in the form of pensions and social security benefits. Given the strength of conservative constituencies and former settlers' lobbies, it is likely that the Christian Democrats will introduce more such proposed laws in future parliamentary sessions.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Christian Democratic Party

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