develop a problem

• Вместо того, чтобы пытаться провести общее исследование задачи, мы... - Rather than attempt a general investigation of the problem, we...

• Вместо того, чтобы пытаться проделать это, мы... - Instead of attempting this, we...

• Вместо этого давайте разработаем один общий метод, посредством которого... - Instead, let us develop a general method whereby...

• Вместо этого мы должны предположить, что... - Instead, we must assume that...

• Вместо этого мы обязаны сказать, что... - Instead, we must say that...

• Вместо этого мы рассмотрим... - We direct our attention, rather, to...

• Вместо этого мы удовольствуемся... - We content ourselves, instead, with...

• Вместо этого нам напоминают, что... - One is instead reminded that...

• Вместо этого предполагается, что... - Instead one assumes that...

• Вместо этого, как было указано ранее, мы должны... - Instead, as mentioned above, we should...

• Обычно вместо Р записывают (= используют) Q. - It is customary to write P in place of Q.

• Предположим, что вместо этого мы заинтересованы в... - Suppose instead that we are interested in...

• В этой главе мы пытаемся подвести итог основным достижениям в... - This chapter attempts to summarize the main advances in...

• Вместо того, чтобы пытаться провести общее исследование задачи, мы... - Rather than attempt a general investigation of the problem, we...

• Вместо того, чтобы пытаться проделать это, мы... - Instead of attempting this, we...

• Если мы пытаемся преодолеть эту трудность (путем)... - If we try to escape this difficulty by...

• Мы попытаемся понять... - We will try to understand...

• Следовательно, мы обязаны попытаться развить теорию, которая приводит к... - Hence, we must try to develop a theory that leads to...

• Сложности возникают, как только мы пытаемся... - Difficulties occur as soon as we try to...

• Сначала мы попытаемся найти решение графически. - We will attempt a graphical solution first.

• ЗЕЛЕНАЯ УЛИЦА

[NP; sing only; fixed WO]

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1. a clear path, without obstacles or delays (along which a vehicle can move, a project can develop, a plan can be implemented etc):

- a green light all the way;

- clear passage.

     ♦ "Приношу [в издательство] рецензии [на свою брошюру] от светил, - это не проблема. За меня хватаются. Тут же - в план. Зеленая улица" (Зиновьев 2). "I submit [to the publishers] a few testimonials [for my pamphlet] from leading lights-that's no problem. I've got plenty of them. And they immediately include me in their publishing plan. It's a green light all the way" (2a).

2. obs a punishment in the Imperial army by which the offending soldier was forced to run between two rows of soldiers who beat him with rods as he ran:

- (run <make s.o. run>) the gauntlet.

(entdecken) to find; to discover;

(meinen) to think

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1. vt

1) (= entdecken) to find

2) (= vorfinden) to find

3) (in Verbindung mit n siehe auch dort) Trost, Hilfe, Ruhe, Schlaf etc to find; Anklang, Zustimmung auch to meet with; Beifall to meet or be met with; Berücksichtigung, Beachtung to receive

4) (= ansehen, betrachten) to think

2. vi

3. vti

4. vr

1) (= zum Vorschein kommen) to be found; (= wiederauftauchen auch) to turn up; (= sich befinden auch) to be

2) (Angelegenheit etc = in Ordnung kommen) to sort itself out; (Mensch = zu sich finden) to sort oneself out

3)

4) (= sich treffen) (lit) to find each other; (fig) to meet

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1) (to come upon or meet with accidentally or after searching: Look what I've found!) find

2) (to consider; to think (something) to be: I found the British weather very cold.) find

3) (to come to or be faced with: He met his death in a car accident.) meet

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I. vt

1. (entdecken)

▪ jdn/etw \finden to find sb/sth

es muss doch [irgendwo] zu \finden sein! it has to be [found] somewhere!

ich finde das [richtige] Wort nicht I can't find [or think of] the [right] word

die Polizei fand eine heiße Spur the police discovered a firm lead

2. (bekommen, erlangen)

▪ jdn/etw \finden to find sb/sth

sie hat hier viele Freunde gefunden she found a lot of new friends here

Arbeit/eine Wohnung \finden to find a job/a flat

3. (herausfinden)

▪ etw \finden to find sth

einen Anlass/Grund/Vorwand [für etw akk] \finden to find an occasion/a reason/an excuse [for sth]

die Lösung eines Problems \finden to find the solution to a problem

4. (feststellen)

▪ etw \finden to find sth

▪ etw an jdm \finden to see sth in sb

in letzter Zeit finde ich unerklärliche Veränderungen an ihm I see inexplicable changes in him recently

eine Ursache \finden to find a cause

5. (vorfinden)

▪ jdn/etw \finden to find sb/sth

sie fanden ihn bei der Arbeit they found him at work

sie fanden ihre Wohnung durchwühlt they found their apartment turned upside down

jdn bewusstlos/müde/tot \finden to find sb unconscious/tired/dead

6. in Verbindung mit subst siehe auch dort (erhalten)

▪ etw [bei jdm] \finden to find sth [with sb]

[großen/reißenden] Absatz \finden to sell [well/like hot cakes]

seinen Abschluss/ein Ende \finden to come to a conclusion/an end

sein Auskommen \finden to make a living

Berücksichtigung \finden to be taken into consideration

Gefallen an etw dat \finden to enjoy doing sth

Unterstützung \finden to receive [or win] [or get] support

[bei jdm] Verständnis \finden to find understanding [with sb]

keine Worte \finden können to be at a loss for words, words are failing me/him/etc.

[bei jdm] Zustimmung \finden to meet with approval [from sb] [or sb's approval]

dieser Vorschlag fand bei den Delegierten breite Zustimmung this suggestion met widespread support from the delegates

7. (aufbringen)

▪ etw \finden to find sth

die Kraft/den Mut \finden, etw zu tun to find the strength/courage to do sth

8. (einschätzen, empfinden)

▪ jdn/etw... \finden to think [or find] [that] sb/sth is...

wie findest du das? what do you think [of that]?

ich finde das Wetter gar nicht mal so übel I find the weather is not too bad, I don't think the weather is all that bad

ich fände es besser, wenn... I think it would be better when [or if]...

jdn angenehm/blöd/nett \finden to think [that] sb is pleasant/stupid/nice

etw billig/gut/unmöglich \finden to think [or find] sth is cheap/good/impossible

es kalt/warm \finden to find it cold/warm

nichts an etw/jdm \finden to not think much of sth/sb

nichts dabei \finden, etw zu tun to not see any harm in doing sth, to see nothing wrong with doing sth

9. (an einen Ort gelangen)

▪ irgendwohin \finden to find a place

nach Hause \finden to find one's way home

▶ das wird sich alles finden everything will be all right, we'll see

▶ wer suchet, der findet he who seeks shall find

II. vi

1. (den Weg finden)

▪ zu jdm/etw \finden to find one's way to sb/sth

ich habe leicht zu euch gefunden your place was easy to find

sie findet in der Früh nicht aus dem Bett she can never get up in the morning

2. (meinen) to think

▪ \finden, [dass]... to think that...

\finden Sie? [do] you think so?

III. vr

▪ sich akk \finden

1. (anzutreffen sein) to be found

es fand sich niemand, der es tun wollte nobody was willing to do it

dieses Zitat findet sich bei Shakespeare this quotation is from Shakespeare

in seinem Brief fand sich kein Wort über die Hochzeit he didn't say a word about the wedding in his letter

2. (in Ordnung kommen) to sort itself out

es wird sich schon alles \finden it will all sort itself out [in time]

3. (fig: sich entwickeln)

[zu] sich dat [selbst] \finden to find oneself, to sort oneself out

er hat sich noch nicht gefunden he has not sorted himself out yet

4. (sich abfinden mit)

▪ sich akk in etw akk \finden to resign oneself to sth

sich akk in sein Schicksal \finden to resign oneself to one's fate

sich akk in eine neue Umgebung \finden to get accustomed to a new environment

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1) (entdecken) find

2) (erlangen, erwerben) find <work, flat, wife, etc.>

3) (herausfinden) find <solution, mistake, pretext, excuse, answer>

4) (einschätzen, beurteilen)

5) (erhalten)

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finden; findet, fand, hat gefunden

A. v/t

1. find; (entdecken) auch discover; zufällig: auch come across;

schwer zu finden hard to find ( oder come by);

einen Ausweg finden find a way out (

aus of);

Freunde finden find ( oder make) friends;

Trost finden in (+dat) find comfort in;

keine Worte finden be lost for words;

Zeit finden für find (the) time for;

ich finde die Schlüssel nicht I can’t find the keys;

für den Auftrag ließ sich niemand finden nobody could be found to take on the commission;

es wird sich schon eine Lösung finden (lassen) a solution will be found in the end;

da haben sich zwei (gesucht und) gefunden! iron those two were meant for each other

2. (vorfinden) find;

wir fanden ihn schlafend/bei der Arbeit we found him asleep/at work

3. Meinung: think, believe, find;

ich finde, dass … I think ( oder feel) (that) …;

ich fände es klüger zu (+inf) I think it would be wiser to …;

ich finde es kalt hier I find it cold here;

ich finde es gut/schlecht (Sache) I like it/I don’t like it; (Vorschlag) I think/I don’t think it’s a good idea;

ich finde das zum Lachen/Weinen I find that funny/tragic;

finden Sie nicht (auch)? don’t you think so, too?; don’t you agree?;

wie finden Sie das Buch? how do you like ( oder what do you think of) the book?;

wie finde ich denn das? umg what am I to make of that?

4.

Gefallen finden an (+dat) take pleasure in;

etwas an jemandem/etwas finden see something in sb/sth;

ich weiß nicht, was sie an ihm findet I don’t know what she sees in him;

ich kann nichts dabei finden I don’t see any harm in it;

ich kann nichts dabei finden, dass er … I can’t see any harm in him ( oder his) (+ger)

sie findet nichts dabei, wenn ihre Tochter spät heimkommt she thinks nothing of it ( oder doesn’t mind) when her daughter comes home late

5. fig:

reißenden Absatz finden sell like hotcakes;

großen Anklang finden be very well received;

Beachtung finden receive attention;

jemandes Beifall finden meet with sb’s approval; → Ende, Gehör, Glauben etc

B. v/r

1. (gefunden werden, anzutreffen sein) be found; Verschwundenes: turn up (again) umg;

diese Pflanze findet sich nur im Gebirge this plant is only (to be) found in the mountains;

es fand sich keinerlei Hinweis etc there were no clues etc (at all oder to be found);

es fanden sich nur wenige Freiwillige there were only a few volunteers;

in dem Brief fand sich kein Wort darüber there was not a word about it ( oder no mention of it) in the letter

2. Person:

sich umzingelt/in einer Notlage etc

finden find o.s. surrounded/in dire straits etc

3. (in Ordnung kommen) work out;

es wird sich (schon eine Lösung) finden an answer will be found;

das wird sich schon alles finden it’ll all work out ( oder sort itself out) (in the end)

4. geh Person: find o.s.

5. Person:

sich finden in (+akk) (sich fügen in) resign ( oder reconcile) o.s. to; (sich gewöhnen an) get used to

C. v/i:

nach Hause finden find one’s way home;

zur Musik/Kunst etc

finden discover ( oder develop an appreciation for) music/art etc;

zu sich selbst finden come to terms with o.s., sort o.s. out;

er findet nicht aus dem Bett he just can’t get ( oder drag himself) out of bed;

sie fand nicht zum Zahnarzt she (just) couldn’t bring herself to go to the dentist;

endlich fand die Mannschaft zu ihrem Spiel at last the team got into its ( oder their) stride;

sie hat noch nicht wieder zu ihrer alten Form gefunden she hasn’t yet recovered her old form

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1) (entdecken) find

2) (erlangen, erwerben) find <work, flat, wife, etc.>

3) (herausfinden) find <solution, mistake, pretext, excuse, answer>

4) (einschätzen, beurteilen)

5) (erhalten)

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= to detect v.

to find v.

1 to increase, to rise.

aumentar la producción to increase production

la lente aumenta la imagen the lens magnifies the image

me han aumentado el sueldo my salary has been raised

aumentó casi 10 kilos he put on almost 10 kilos

aumentar de peso/tamaño to increase in weight/size

aumentar de precio to go up o increase in price

el desempleo aumentó en un 4 por ciento unemployment rose o increased by 4 percent

El ejercicio aumenta el apetito Exercising increases the appetite.

Aumentaron los gastos The expenses increased.

Nos aumentaron las ganancias este año Our profits increased this year.

2 to magnify, to amplify.

El reportero aumentó la noticia The reporter magnified the news story.

3 to enlarge.

Vamos a aumentar la casa We will enlarge the house.

4 to raise, to improve.

El movimiento aumentó la temperatura Movement raised the temperature.

5 to increase the size of, to enlarge.

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► verbo transitivo

1 to augment, increase (precios) to put up; (producción) to step up

2 (óptica) to magnify

3 (fotos) to enlarge

4 (sonido) to amplify

► verbo intransitivo

1 to rise, go up

► verbo pronominal aumentarse

1 to increase, be on the increase (precios) to go up, rise

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1) to increase

2) raise

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1. VT

1) [+ tamaño] to increase; (Fot) to enlarge; (Ópt) to magnify

2) [+ cantidad] to increase; [+ precio] to increase, put up; [+ producción] to increase, step up

3) [+ intensidad] to increase

4) (Elec, Radio) to amplify

2. VI

1) [tamaño] to increase

2) [cantidad, precio, producción] to increase, go up

3) [intensidad] to increase

4)

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verbo transitivo

a) <precio/sueldo> to increase, raise; <cantidad/velocidad/tamaño> to increase; <producción/dosis> to increase, step up; dolor/miedo/tensión to increase

b) < puntos> ( en tejido) to increase

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= accelerate, augment, become + large, enhance, enlarge, escalate, expand, grow + larger, increase, raise, rise, strengthen, accentuate, grow, add to, deepen, mushroom, intensify, wax, swell, pump up, bump up, step up, spike, crank up, ramp up, move it up + a gear, notch it up + a gear, take it up + a gear, take it up + a notch, crank it up + a notch, crank it up + a gear, move it up + a notch, ratchet up, amp up, turn up.

Ex. In recent years, the pace of change has accelerated with the introduction of on-line information retrieval.

Ex. These sources which form the basis of the intellectual selection of terms may be augmented by the machine selection of terms.

Ex. If the number of categories becomes large, cross-references will be necessary between individual files.

Ex. An introduction explaining the nature and scope of the indexing language will enhance its value.

Ex. Here entry is made under the original author of an edition that has been revised, enlarged, updated, condensed, and so on by another person.

Ex. Over the past two to three years the numbers of full text data bases and data banks has started to escalate considerably.

Ex. As the quantity of knowledge expands the need to organise it becomes more pressing.

Ex. As the system grows larger it's more difficult to maintain that control.

Ex. Recall is inversely proportional to precision, and vice versa, or in other words, as one increases, the other must decrease.

Ex. The speaker said that James estimated people function at only 20% of their capacity, and concluded that they could raise this percentage considerable if they knew how to manage their time more efficiently.

Ex. If suppliers are forced out of business, there will be less software to lend and prices will rise with the lack of competition.

Ex. He proposes a research agenda that could strengthen archival appraisal and the profession's ability to document society.

Ex. However, future trends may tend to accentuate this division.

Ex. No true reader can be expected to grow on a diet of prescribed texts only regardless of how well chosen they are.

Ex. In addition, Britain has one of the most extensive bodies of legislation in the world, which is added to daily and encrusted with myriad rules and regulations.

Ex. One of the effects of reading in children is that their appreciation of the processes and function of literature is deepened.

Ex. The use of electronic mail systems has mushroomed in the last 5 years in industrialised nations.

Ex. Whilst these achievements are commendable, there is a catch in them -- there can be used to 'intensify' the economic exploitation of women.

Ex. The population waxed again slightly, then waned again, until it finally stabilized around its present 55,000.

Ex. Reference work has been ill-served in the past by its expositors and theoreticians: its extensive literature of several hundred papers and books is swollen by a mass of the transient and the trivial.

Ex. The article ' Pump up the program...' identifies the costs and benefits of undertaking a software upgrade.

Ex. Most librarians will admit that they could probably increase the use made of their lending libraries and bump up their annual loans by stocking more romances and thrillers and fewer serious novels, but they do not do this.

Ex. The intensity of marketing to schools and parents will have to be stepped up by publishers if they are to succeed in the more competitive market.

Ex. Baby boomers are desperately trying to hold onto their salad days -- plastic surgery, vitamins and drugs like Viagra have spiked in public demand.

Ex. Refiners are cranking up diesel output to meet rising global demand.

Ex. EGND has hit a home run with the introduction of a new product line, increasing sales projections, and ramping up production schedules.

Ex. Liverpool and Chelsea are grabbing all the headlines, but Arsenal have quietly moved it up a gear scoring 10 goals in their last three league games.

Ex. Start gently, ease yourself in by breaking the workout down into three one minute sessions until you are ready to notch it up a gear and join them together.

Ex. There was not much to separate the sides in the first ten minutes however Arsenal took it up a gear and got the goal but not without a bit of luck.

Ex. We have a good time together and we're good friends.. but I'd like to take it up a notch.

Ex. David quickly comprehended our project needs and then cranked it up a notch with impactful design.

Ex. Went for a bike ride with a mate last week, no problems so will crank it up a gear and tackle some hills in the next few weeks.

Ex. After a regular walking routine is established, why not move it up a notch and start jogging, if you haven't already.

Ex. The health department has ratcheted up efforts to prevent or slow down the spread of swine flu in schools.

Ex. In order to gain strength fast, you need to immediately begin amping up your strength thermostat in your mind.

Ex. Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.

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* aumentar de importancia = grow in + importance, grow in + significance.

* aumentar de tamaño = grow in + size, grow + larger, increase in + size.

* aumentar de valor = increase in + value.

* aumentar el conocimiento = expand + Posesivo + knowledge, deepen + awareness.

* aumentar el control = tighten (up) + control.

* aumentar el esfuerzo = increase + effort.

* aumentar el precio = mark up + price, jack up + the price.

* aumentar el presupuesto = add + monies to + budget.

* aumentar en cantidad = increase in + quantity.

* aumentar en número = grow in + numbers, increase in + numbers.

* aumentar en variedad = grow in + kind.

* aumentar la confusión = add to + the confusion.

* aumentar la experiencia = deepen + experience.

* aumentar la productividad = increase + productivity, boost + Posesivo + productivity.

* aumentar las diferencias entre... y = widen + the gap between... and.

* aumentar las posibilidades = increase + the odds.

* aumentar las probabilidades = shorten + the odds.

* aumentar las ventas = boost + sales.

* aumentar la velocidad = grow + faster.

* aumentar los costes = cost + rise.

* aumentar los impuestos = increase + taxes.

* aumentar los ingresos = boost + Posesivo + income.

* aumentar rápidamente = snowball.

* crisis + aumentar = crisis + deepen.

* estar aumentando = be on the increase.

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verbo transitivo

a) <precio/sueldo> to increase, raise; <cantidad/velocidad/tamaño> to increase; <producción/dosis> to increase, step up; dolor/miedo/tensión to increase

b) < puntos> ( en tejido) to increase

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aumentar [A1 ]

1 ‹precio› to increase, raise, put up; ‹sueldo› to increase, raise; ‹cantidad/velocidad/tamaño› to increase; ‹producción/dosis› to increase, step up

el microscopio aumenta la imagen the microscope enlarges o magnifies the image

no hizo más que aumentar su dolor/miedo all it did was increase her pain/fear

esto aumentó la tensión this added to o increased the tension

2 ‹puntos› (en tejido) to increase

«temperatura» to rise; «presión» to rise, increase; «velocidad» to increase; «precio/producción/valor» to increase, rise

el niño aumentó 500 gramos the child put on o gained 500 grams

su popularidad ha aumentado his popularity has grown, he has gained in popularity

el costo de la vida aumentó en un 3% the cost of living rose by 3%

la dificultad de los ejercicios va aumentando the exercises get progressively more difficult

aumentará el frío durante el fin de semana it will become colder over the weekend

aumentar DE algo to increase IN sth

aumentó de volumen/tamaño it increased in volume/size

ha aumentado de peso he's put on o gained weight

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a) ( en general) to increase;

b) (Opt) to magnify

◊ aumentará el frío it will become colder;

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♦ vt

to increase;

aumentar la producción to increase production;

los enfrentamientos aumentaron la tensión en la zona the clashes increased the tension in the zone;

me han aumentado el sueldo my salary has been increased o raised;

la lente aumenta la imagen the lens magnifies the image;

aumentó casi 10 kilos he put on almost 10 kilos

♦ vi

aumentar de tamaño to increase in size;

aumentar de precio to go up o increase in price;

el desempleo aumentó en un 4 por ciento unemployment rose o increased by 4 percent;

con lo que come, no me sorprende que haya aumentado de peso it doesn't surprise me that he's put on weight, considering how much he eats

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I v/t increase; precio increase, raise, put up

II v/i de precio, temperatura rise, increase, go up

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aumentar vt

acrecentar: to increase, to raise

aumentar vi

: to rise, to increase, to grow

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aumentar vb

1. (hacer subir) to increase / to raise

2. (subir) to rise [pt. rose; pp. risen] / to increase

3. (con lupa, microscopio) to magnify [pt. & pp. magnified]

1 to deepen (hoyo, conocimientos).

2 to dig deeper.

profundizar en to study in depth (tema)

3 to go deep inside, to deepen inside.

Nos profundizaron sus palabras His words went deep inside us (Coll.)

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Conjugation model [ REALIZAR], like realizar

► verbo transitivo

1 (agujero, hoyo) to deepen

2 profundizar en (tema, cuestión) to look deeply into, analyse (US analyze) in depth

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1) to deepen

2) study in depth

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2. VT

1) [+ hoyo, pozo] to deepen, make deeper

2) (=investigar) [+ asunto] to study in depth, go deeply into; [+ misterio] to fathom, get to the bottom of

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verbo intransitivo

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= dig + deep, dig + deep beneath the surface.

Ex. Are we prepared to dig deep into our well of humanity & humility in order to uplift ourselves?.

Ex. Her central themes are still love and sex, but she digs deeper beneath the surface to examine the gray areas of moral responsibility and gender relations.

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* profundizar el interés = deepen + interest.

* profundizar en el conocimiento = deepen + knowledge.

* profundizar en una idea = carry + argument + one step further.

* profundizar sobre un tema = go into + detail.

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verbo intransitivo

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profundizar [A4 ]

no tenemos tiempo para profundizar en este tema we don't have time to go into this topic in any depth

no llega a profundizar en el personaje he doesn't manage to get inside the character

el escritor ha profundizado más en los personajes femeninos the writer has portrayed his female characters in greater depth

1 ‹conocimientos› to deepen

2 ‹pozo/zanja› to make … deeper

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♦ vt

♦ vi

1. [en excavación] to dig deeper

2. [en estudio, conocimientos] to go into depth;

profundizar en un tema [estudiar] to study a topic in depth;

no profundizó demasiado en los personajes secundarios he didn't really develop the secondary characters

3. [en actividad]

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profundizar en algo go into sth in depth

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profundizar {21} vt

1) : to deepen

2) : to study in depth

profundizar vi

profundizar en : to go deeply into, to study in depth

personal.

una opinión/pregunta personal a personal opinion/question

personal e intransferible non-transferable

personal foul.

staff, personnel (trabajadores).

personal de a bordo cabin crew (en avión)

personal docente teaching staff

personal mínimo skeleton staff

personal en plantilla in-house staff

personal sanitario health workers

personal de tierra ground crew

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► adjetivo

1 personal

► nombre masculino

1 (de una empresa) personnel, staff

2 familiar (gente) everyone, everybody

■ hoy está el personal un poco apagado everyone's a bit down today

► nombre femenino

1 DEPORTE (falta) personal foul

\

personal docente teaching staff

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ADJ personal

2. SM

1) (=plantilla) staff, personnel; ( esp Mil) force; (Náut) crew, complement

2) * (=gente) people

- quedarse con el personal

SF (Baloncesto) personal foul

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adjetivo personal

a) (de fábrica, empresa) personnel (pl), staff (sing or pl)

b) (Esp fam & hum) ( gente) people

- personal de cabina/de tierra/de vuelo

- personal de maestranza

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adjetivo personal

a) (de fábrica, empresa) personnel (pl), staff (sing or pl)

b) (Esp fam & hum) ( gente) people

- personal de cabina/de tierra/de vuelo

- personal de maestranza

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personal¹

¹ = manpower, manpower force, personnel, staff, staffing, work-force [workforce], crew.

personal²

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‹asunto/documento/pregunta› personal; ‹opinión/juicio› personal

objetos de uso personal personal effects

una alusión personal a personal remark

está basado en su experiencia personal it is based on (his own) personal experience

no tiene ningún interés personal en el asunto he has no personal interest in the matter

1 (de una fábrica, empresa) personnel (pl), staff ( sing or pl)

estamos escasos de personal we're short-staffed

intentan aumentar la producción con el mismo personal they are trying to increase production with the same number of staff o with the same workforce

2 ( Esp fam hum) (gente) people

¡cuánto personal hay en la calle! what a lot of people there are in the street!

saca unas copas para el personal get some glasses out for everyone o for people

cabin staff o crew

( Arg) staff ( of a building)

ground crew o staff

flight crew

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◊ objetos de uso personal personal effects

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♦ adj

una opinión/pregunta personal a personal opinion/question;

mi teléfono personal es… my home o private number is…;

para uso personal for personal use;

personal e intransferible non-transferable

♦ nm

1. [trabajadores] staff, personnel

personal de cabina cabin staff o crew;

personal docente teaching staff;

personal de oficina office staff;

personal de planta staff;

personal de tierra ground staff o crew;

personal de ventas sales force o team

2. Esp Fam [gente] people;

el personal quería ir al cine the gang wanted to go to the cinema

♦ nf

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I adj personal

II m

1 personnel, staff;

personal docente teaching staff

2 en baloncesto personal foul

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personal adj

: personal

♦ personalmente adv

personal nm

: personnel, staff

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personal¹ adj personal / private

personal² n staff

 The data gathered in these test series and presented here in part illustrate the influence of the streamwise pressure gradient on flow.

 The attention devoted to the kinetics of photosynthesis is partly the result of failure to develop a more constructive approach to the problem.

— выключать частично

— объясняется это частично

— отгружать в частично разобранном виде

— полностью или частично

— только частично объясняется

— частично... должно быть отнесено на счёт

— частично из-за

— частично или полностью

— частично подтверждать

— частично причина этой проблемы в том, что

— частично совпадать

Heat exchange is the most important reentry problem.

…although some aspects of space flight have been studied by others.

Although the need to develop and launch satellites was occasioned by…

activities undertaken out of doors and away from the everyday work environment with a view to developing the skills and abilities of participants. Adventure training often takes place at a residential outdoor activity center and may include physically challenging activities such as climbing and rappelling or group exercises and games. The activities are designed to promote experiential learning in areas such as interpersonal communication, problem solving, decision making, and teamwork, and to develop self-confidence and leadership skills. Adventure training has its origins in the work of Kurt Hahn, the founder of Gordonstoun School in Scotland, who developed the Outward Bound program of outdoor activities during World War II. Adventure training programs for organizational personnel became popular during the late 1970s and 1980s, although some have doubted their value and effectiveness.

Also known as outdoor training, outward bound training

an interactive game based on a simulation of a real-life situation, where participants role-play, make decisions, and receive feedback on the results of their actions. A simulation game is used for training purposes and enables trainees to put theory into practice in a risk-free environment. Simulation games are used to increase business awareness and develop management skills such as decision making, problem solving, and team working. An element of competition between individuals or teams of players is normally involved. Formats used include board games and computer-based simulations of the running of a business.

SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy

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Soon after graduating from the Ecole des Mines at St-Etienne in 1910, Chevenard joined the Société de Commentry Fourchambault et Decazeville at their steelworks at Imphy, where he remained for the whole of his career. Imphy had for some years specialized in the production of nickel steels. From this venture emerged the first austenitic nickel-chromium steel, containing 6 per cent chromium and 22–4 per cent nickel and produced commercially in 1895. Most of the alloys required by Guillaume in his search for the low-expansion alloy Invar were made at Imphy. At the Imphy Research Laboratory, established in 1911, Chevenard conducted research into the development of specialized nickel-based alloys. His first success followed from an observation that some of the ferro-nickels were free from the low-temperature brittleness exhibited by conventional steels. To satisfy the technical requirements of Georges Claude, the French cryogenic pioneer, Chevenard was then able in 1912 to develop an alloy containing 55–60 per cent nickel, 1–3 per cent manganese and 0.2–0.4 per cent carbon. This was ductile down to −190°C, at which temperature carbon steel was very brittle.

By 1916 Elinvar, a nickel-iron-chromium alloy with an elastic modulus that did not vary appreciably with changes in ambient temperature, had been identified. This found extensive use in horology and instrument manufacture, and even for the production of high-quality tuning forks. Another very popular alloy was Platinite, which had the same coefficient of thermal expansion as platinum and soda glass. It was used in considerable quantities by incandescent-lamp manufacturers for lead-in wires. Other materials developed by Chevenard at this stage to satisfy the requirements of the electrical industry included resistance alloys, base-metal thermocouple combinations, magnetically soft high-permeability alloys, and nickel-aluminium permanent magnet steels of very high coercivity which greatly improved the power and reliability of car magnetos. Thermostatic bimetals of all varieties soon became an important branch of manufacture at Imphy.

During the remainder of his career at Imphy, Chevenard brilliantly elaborated the work on nickel-chromium-tungsten alloys to make stronger pressure vessels for the Haber and other chemical processes. Another famous alloy that he developed, ATV, contained 35 per cent nickel and 11 per cent chromium and was free from the problem of stress-induced cracking in steam that had hitherto inhibited the development of high-power steam turbines. Between 1912 and 1917, Chevenard recognized the harmful effects of traces of carbon on this type of alloy, and in the immediate postwar years he found efficient methods of scavenging the residual carbon by controlled additions of reactive metals. This led to the development of a range of stabilized austenitic stainless steels which were free from the problems of intercrystalline corrosion and weld decay that then caused so much difficulty to the manufacturers of chemical plant.

Chevenard soon concluded that only the nickel-chromium system could provide a satisfactory basis for the subsequent development of high-temperature alloys. The first published reference to the strengthening of such materials by additions of aluminium and/or titanium occurs in his UK patent of 1929. This strengthening approach was adopted in the later wartime development in Britain of the Nimonic series of alloys, all of which depended for their high-temperature strength upon the precipitated compound Ni3Al.

In 1936 he was studying the effect of what is now known as "thermal fatigue", which contributes to the eventual failure of both gas and steam turbines. He then published details of equipment for assessing the susceptibility of nickel-chromium alloys to this type of breakdown by a process of repeated quenching. Around this time he began to make systematic use of the thermo-gravimetrie balance for high-temperature oxidation studies.

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SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Heathcote was the son of a small farmer who became blind, obliging the family to move to Long Whatton, near Loughborough, c.1790. He was apprenticed to W.Shepherd, a hosiery-machine maker, and became a frame-smith in the hosiery industry. He moved to Nottingham where he entered the employment of an excellent machine maker named Elliott. He later joined William Caldwell of Hathern, whose daughter he had married. The lace-making apparatus they patented jointly in 1804 had already been anticipated, so Heathcote turned to the problem of making pillow lace, a cottage industry in which women made lace by arranging pins stuck in a pillow in the correct pattern and winding around them thread contained on thin bobbins. He began by analysing the complicated hand-woven lace into simple warp and weft threads and found he could dispense with half the bobbins. The first machine he developed and patented, in 1808, made narrow lace an inch or so wide, but the following year he made much broader lace on an improved version. In his second patent, in 1809, he could make a type of net curtain, Brussels lace, without patterns. His machine made bobbin-net by the use of thin brass discs, between which the thread was wound. As they passed through the warp threads, which were arranged vertically, the warp threads were moved to each side in turn, so as to twist the bobbin threads round the warp threads. The bobbins were in two rows to save space, and jogged on carriages in grooves along a bar running the length of the machine. As the strength of this fabric depended upon bringing the bobbin threads diagonally across, in addition to the forward movement, the machine had to provide for a sideways movement of each bobbin every time the lengthwise course was completed. A high standard of accuracy in manufacture was essential for success. Called the "Old Loughborough", it was acknowledged to be the most complicated machine so far produced. In partnership with a man named Charles Lacy, who supplied the necessary capital, a factory was established at Loughborough that proved highly successful; however, their fifty-five frames were destroyed by Luddites in 1816. Heathcote was awarded damages of £10,000 by the county of Nottingham on the condition it was spent locally, but to avoid further interference he decided to transfer not only his machines but his entire workforce elsewhere and refused the money. In a disused woollen factory at Tiverton in Devonshire, powered by the waters of the river Exe, he built 300 frames of greater width and speed. By continually making inventions and improvements until he retired in 1843, his business flourished and he amassed a large fortune. He patented one machine for silk cocoon-reeling and another for plaiting or braiding. In 1825 he brought out two patents for the mechanical ornamentation or figuring of lace. He acquired a sound knowledge of French prior to opening a steam-powered lace factory in France. The factory proved to be a successful venture that lasted many years. In 1832 he patented a monstrous steam plough that is reputed to have cost him over £12,000 and was claimed to be the best in its day. One of its stated aims was "improved methods of draining land", which he hoped would develop agriculture in Ireland. A cable was used to haul the implement across the land. From 1832 to 1859, Heathcote represented Tiverton in Parliament and, among other benefactions, he built a school for his adopted town.

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SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines

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McCoy was born into a community of escaped African-American slaves. As a youth he went to Scotland and served an apprenticeship in Edinburgh in mechanical engineering. He returned to North America and ended up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, seeking employment at the headquarters of the Michigan Central Railroad Company. In spite of his training, the only job McCoy could obtain was that of locomotive fireman. Still, that enabled him to study at close quarters the problem of lubricating adequately the moving parts of a steam locomotive. Inefficient lubrication led to overheating, delays and even damage. In 1872 McCoy patented the first of his lubricating devices, applicable particularly to stationary engines. He assigned his patent rights to W. and S.C.Hamlin of Ypsilanti, from which he derived enough financial resources to develop his invention. A year later he patented an improved hydrostatic lubricator, which could be used for both stationary and locomotive engines, and went on to make further improvements. McCoy's lubricators were widely taken up by other railroads and his employers promoted him from the footplate to the task of giving instruction in the use of his lubricating equipment. Many others had been attempting to achieve the same result and many rival products were on the market, but none was superior to McCoy's, which came to be known as "the Real McCoy", a term that has since acquired a wider application than to engine lubricators. McCoy moved to Detroit, Michigan, as a patent consultant in the railroad business. Altogether, he took out over fifty patents for various inventions, so that he became one of the most prolific of nineteenth-century black inventors, whose activities had been so greatly stimulated by the freedoms they acquired after the American Civil War. His more valuable patents were assigned to investors, who formed the Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Company. McCoy himself, however, was not a major shareholder, so he seems not to have derived the benefit that was due to him.

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SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour

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At the age of 14 Whitehead was apprenticed by his father, who ran a cotton-bleaching business, to an engineering firm in Manchester. He moved in 1847 to join his uncle, who was the Manager of another engineering firm, and three years later Whitehead set up on his own in Milan, where he made mechanical improvements to the silk-weaving industry and designed drainage machines for the Lombardy marshes.

In 1848 he was forced to move from Italy because of the revolution and settled in Fiume, which was then part of Austria. There he concen-. trated on designing and building engines for warships, and in 1864 the Austrians invited him to participate in a project to develop a "floating torpedo". In those days the torpedo was synonymous with the underwater mine, and Whitehead believed that he could do better than this proposal and produce an explosive weapon that could propel itself through the water. He set to work with his son John and a mechanic, producing the first version of his torpedo in 1866. It had a range of only 700 yd (640 m) and a speed of just 7 knots (13 km/h), as well as depth-keeping problems, but even so, especially after he had reduced the last problem by the use of a "balance chamber", the Austrian authorities were sufficiently impressed to buy construction rights and to decorate him. Other navies quickly followed suit and within twenty years almost every navy in the world was equipped with the Whitehead torpedo, its main attraction being that no warship, however large, was safe from it. During this time Whitehead continued to improve on his design, introducing a servo-motor and gyroscope, thereby radically improving range, speed and accuracy.

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