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  • 1 gælde

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    быть действи́тельным (о билете, законе и т.п.)

    der gǽlder fǿlgende régel — существу́ет тако́е пра́вило

    det gǽlder om at forsǿge — сто́ит попыта́ться

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    apply, come into effect, hold, hold good, stand
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    vb (gjaldt, gældt el. gjaldt)
    ( være i kraft, fx om regel) hold good, apply ( fx the rule holds good in every case; the rule no longer applies), be effective ( fx the new prices are effective as from 1 January),
    ( om lov, bestemmelse) be in force ( fx when will the new postal charges be in force?);
    ( stå ved magt, merk) be firm ( fx the offer (, the price) is firm for 24 hours only);
    ( være gyldig) be valid ( fx the ticket (, the permit) is still valid);
    ( om mønt) be current, be legal tender;
    ( tælle ` med) count;
    ( med objekt) (` passe på, kunne siges om) hold good of, be true of;
    ( angå) apply to, concern,
    ( være møntet på) be aimed at ( fx the remark was aimed at her);
    [ hans første besøg gjaldt hende] his first visit was to her;
    [ hans første tanke gjaldt hende] his first thought was for her;
    [ det gælder ikke] that is not fair;
    [ nu gælder det!] now for it!
    [ det gælder liv og død] it is a matter of life and death;
    [ det gælder hans ære] his honour is at stake;
    (dvs i nødsfald) in an emergency, at a pinch;
    ( når det kommer til stykket) when it comes to the crunch;
    ( når det drejer sig om) when it comes to ( fx politics); in the case of ( fx Britain);
    [ når det gælder børnene] where the children are concerned;
    (se også liv);
    ( anses for) pass for, be regarded as,
    ( angå) apply to;
    [loven gælder fra 1. april] the Act comes into force on 1st April;
    [ hvad gælder denne mønt?] what is the value of this coin?
    [ hvorhen gælder rejsen?] where are you (, they etc) going?
    [ det gælder om at gøre det] the great thing is to do it; we (etc) have got to do it ( fx we've got to be careful).

    Danish-English dictionary > gælde

  • 2 decorrenza

    f : con immediata decorrenza with immediate effect
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    decorrenza s.f. (comm.): con decorrenza dal 3 marzo..., as from March 3rd..., (o starting o counting from March 3rd); con decorrenza immediata, with immediate effect; il decreto avrà decorrenza dal 1o gennaio, the decree will enter into effect as from 1st January; decorrenza del pagamento, date on which the payment falls due // (banca): decorrenza degli interessi, date on which interests become applicable; effetti con decorrenza di 5 giorni, bills of five days' currency // (trib.) decorrenza di un'imposta, starting date of tax application.
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    [dekor'rɛntsa]
    sostantivo femminile
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    decorrenza
    /dekor'rεntsa/
    sostantivo f.
    con decorrenza dal primo gennaio with effect from January 1; entrare in vigore con decorrenza 5 agosto to be effective from August 5.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > decorrenza

  • 3 decorrere

    v/i pass
    a decorrere da oggi with effect from today
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    decorrere v. intr.
    1 ( trascorrere) to pass, to elapse: lasceremo decorrere due mesi, we shall let two months pass (o go by)
    2 ( avere inizio) to start, to run*; ( avere effetto) to become* effective, to come* into force; (amm.) ( essere calcolato) to be reckoned (from), to accrue (from); ( scadere) to expire: a decorrere da, starting (o running) from; a decorrere da oggi, as from today; lo stipendio decorre da oggi, the salary runs from today; l'aumento decorre dal 1o giugno, the increase becomes effective from 1st June; lasciar decorrere un termine, to let a term expire; (banca) gli interessi decorrono dal 1o gennaio, interest accrues (o is reckoned) from 1st January
    3 (letter.) ( fluire verso il basso) to run* down, to flow down.
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    [de'korrere]
    verbo intransitivo (aus. essere) [canone, contratto] to start, to run*
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    decorrere
    /de'korrere/ [32]
    (aus. essere) [canone, contratto] to start, to run*; gli interessi decorrono dall'inizio dell'anno interest accrues from the beginning of the year; a decorrere da domani as from tomorrow.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > decorrere

  • 4 valido

    valid
    persona fit
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    valido agg.
    1 ( valevole) valid (anche dir.), good, effective: contratto, matrimonio, documento valido, valid contract, marriage, document; voto non valido, invalid (o null) vote; questo biglietto non è più valido, this ticket is no longer valid; questo assegno non è valido, this cheque is not good; l'offerta è valida fino a maggio, the offer is valid (o good) until May; clausola valida dal 2 gennaio, clause effective as from January 2nd; una ricevuta valida a fini fiscali, a receipt that is valid for tax purposes // (Borsa) valido revoca, valid until cancelled // valido a, fit for: valido alle armi, fit for service
    2 ( fondato) good, sound, well-grounded, well-founded: argomenti validi, sound arguments; ragioni valide, good reasons; scusa valida, good excuse
    3 (che ha valore, pregio) valid, good, fine; valuable: un'opera molto valida, a fine piece of work; è il mio più valido collaboratore, he's the most valuable member of my team; valido contributo, substantial contribution
    4 ( efficace) efficient; efficacious, effective: valido rimedio, efficacious remedy; mi fu di valido aiuto, he proved of great help to me; la valida azione della penicillina, the effectiveness of penicillin
    5 ( forte) strong; powerful.
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    ['valido]
    1) (valevole) [contratto, biglietto, documento, offerta] valid

    non valido — [biglietto, documento] invalid

    la mia offerta resta -amy offer still holds o is still on the table

    2) (fondato) [motivo, argomento, obiezione] sound, valid
    3) (efficace) [ rimedio] valuable, effective, helpful

    essere di valido aiuto per qcn. — to be a great help to sb

    4) (pregevole, apprezzabile) [ persona] good, capable, able; [opera, progetto] worthwhile
    5) (vigoroso) [ uomo] strong, powerful, able-bodied
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    valido
    /'valido/
     1 (valevole) [contratto, biglietto, documento, offerta] valid; non valido [biglietto, documento] invalid; questo biglietto è valido per due persone this ticket admits two (people); la mia offerta resta -a my offer still holds o is still on the table
     2 (fondato) [motivo, argomento, obiezione] sound, valid; ho delle -e ragioni per I have solid grounds for
     3 (efficace) [ rimedio] valuable, effective, helpful; essere di valido aiuto per qcn. to be a great help to sb.
     4 (pregevole, apprezzabile) [ persona] good, capable, able; [opera, progetto] worthwhile; un valido collaboratore a valued collaborator
     5 (vigoroso) [ uomo] strong, powerful, able-bodied.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > valido

  • 5 partir

    partir [paʀtiʀ]
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    partir is conjugated with être.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━intransitive verb
       a. ( = aller, quitter un lieu) to go ; ( = s'éloigner) to go away
    es-tu prêt à partir ? are you ready to go?
    quand partez-vous pour Paris ? when are you leaving for Paris?
    les voilà partis ! they're off!
    partir de [personne] to leave
    partons de l'hypothèse que... let's assume that...
    en partant de ce principe... on that basis...
       b. ( = démarrer) [moteur] to start ; [train] to leave
    c'est parti ! (inf) here we go! (inf)
       c. ( = être lancé) [fusée] to go up ; [coup de feu] to go off
    faire partir [+ fusée] to launch ; [+ pétard] to set off
    quand ils sont partis à discuter, il y en a pour des heures (inf) once they've got going on one of their discussions, they're at it for hours (inf)
       e. ( = disparaître) [tache] to come out ; [bouton de vêtement] to come off ; [douleur, rougeurs, boutons, odeur] to go
    faire partir [+ tache] to remove ; [+ odeur] to get rid of
       f. ► à partir de from
    à partir du moment où... ( = dès que) as soon as... ; ( = pourvu que) as long as...
    pantalons à partir de 100 € trousers from 100 euros
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    paʀtiʀ
    1.
    verbe intransitif
    1) ( quitter un lieu) [personne] to leave, to go

    partez devant, je vous rejoins — go on ahead, I'll catch you up

    partir en courant/boitant/hurlant — to run off/to limp off/to go off screaming

    partir sans laisser d'adresse — ( sans laisser de traces) to disappear without trace

    partir pour le Mexique/l'Australie — to leave for Mexico/Australia

    ils sont partis en Écosse en stop — ( ils sont encore en voyage) they're hitchhiking to Scotland; ( dans le passé) they hitchhiked to Scotland

    partir à la guerre/au front — to go off to war/to the front

    3) ( se mettre en mouvement) [personne, voiture, car, train] to leave; [avion] to take off; [moteur] to start

    je pars — I'm off, I'm leaving

    à vos marques, prêts, partez! — on your marks, get set, go!

    4) ( être projeté) [flèche, balle] to be fired; [bouchon] to shoot out; [capsule] to shoot off; [réplique] to slip out

    elle était tellement énervée que la gifle est partie toute seule — she was so angry that she slapped him/her before she realized what she was doing ou before she could stop herself

    5) ( commencer) [chemin, route] to start

    partir favori[concurrent, candidat] to start favourite [BrE]

    partir dernier — ( dans une course) to start last

    c'est parti! — ( ordre) go!

    et voilà, c'est parti (colloq), il pleut! — here we go, it's raining!

    être bien parti[coureur, cheval, projet, travail, personne] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start

    c'est mal parti — (colloq) things don't look too good, it doesn't look too promising

    il a l'air parti (colloq) pour réussir — he seems to be heading for success

    le mauvais temps est parti (colloq) pour durer — it looks as if the bad weather is here to stay

    6) ( se fonder)

    partir deto start from [idée, observation]

    7) ( s'enlever) [tache, saleté] to come out; [émail, peinture] to come off; [odeur] to go; [bouton, écusson, décoration] to come off
    8) ( être expédié) [colis, candidature] to be sent (off)
    9) ( se lancer)

    quand il est parti (colloq) on ne l'arrête plus — once he starts ou gets going there's no stopping him

    10) ( mourir) euph to go, to pass away euph

    2.
    à partir de locution prépositive from

    à partir du moment où — ( sens temporel) as soon as; ( sens conditionnel) as long as

    à partir de là, tout a basculé — from then on everything changed radically

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    paʀtiʀ vi

    J'aimerais partir quelque part au soleil. — I'd like to go somewhere sunny.

    Si vous partez pour un long voyage, n'oubliez pas de... — If you go off on a long trip, don't forget to..., If you go away on a long trip, don't forget to...

    Ils sont partis hier pour le Japon. — They went off to Japan yesterday.

    Il est parti à Londres pour apprendre l'anglais. — He's gone to London to learn English.

    2) (quitter un lieu) to go, to leave

    Partez, vous allez être en retard. — You should go, or you'll be late., You should leave, or you'll be late.

    Je peux partir? — Can I go now?, Can I leave now?

    Il est parti à sept heures. — He left at 7 o'clock., He went at 7 o'clock.

    Je lui ai téléphoné mais il était déjà parti. — I phoned him but he'd already gone., I phoned him but he'd already left.

    Il est parti de Nice à sept heures. — He left Nice at 7 o'clock.

    3) (s'éloigner d'un lieu) to go away, to go off, (en voiture) to drive away, to drive off

    Ils sont partis à toute allure. — They drove off at high speed.

    4) (= commencer)

    partir de [hypothèse, principe] — to start from, [élément d'une suite] to start from

    5) [moteur] to start
    6) [pétard] to go off
    7) [bouchon, toute pièce insérée] to come out
    8) [bouton, toute pièce attachée ou fixée] to come off
    9) [tache, marque] to come off

    à partir de; à partir de ce moment — from then on

    Je serai chez moi à partir de huit heures. — I'll be at home from eight o'clock onwards.

    À partir de Verneuil, c'est plus boisé. — After Verneuil, it's more forested.

    C'est fait à partir de graisse de marmotte. — It's made from marmot fat.

    À partir de là, tout est possible. — If that's the case, anything's possible.

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    partir verb table: partir
    A vi
    1 ( quitter un lieu) [personne] to leave, to go; partir sans manger to leave ou go without eating; partez devant, je vous rejoins go on ahead, I'll catch you up; tu pars déjà? are you leaving already?; partir à pied/en voiture/en avion to leave on foot/in a car/in a plane; est-ce qu'ils sont partis en avion ou en train? did they fly or did they take the train?; il est parti en ville à bicyclette he went to town on his bicycle; il est parti il y a cinq minutes he left five minutes ago; ils sont partis en Écosse en stop ( ils sont encore en voyage) they're hitchhiking to Scotland; ( dans le passé) they hitchhiked to Scotland; partir de to leave ou go from [ville, gare, aéroport]; de quelle gare pars-tu? which station are you leaving ou going from?; je suis partie de chez moi à 20 heures I left my house at 8 pm; faire partir qn to make sb leave; j'espère que je ne vous fais pas partir? I hope I'm not driving you away?; fais partir ce chien! get that dog out of here!; partir en courant/boitant/hurlant to run off/to limp off/to go off screaming; partir fâché to go off in a huff; partir content to go away happy; partir avec qn to go off with sb; elle est partie avec un autre she went off with another man; partir sans laisser d'adresse lit to go away without leaving a forwarding address; ( sans laisser de traces) to disappear without trace;
    2 ( pour une destination) to go, to leave; partir loin/dans un pays lointain to go far away/to a far-off country; partir à Paris/à New York/au Mexique to go to Paris/to New York/to Mexico; je pars à Paris demain I'm going to Paris tomorrow, I'm off to Paris tomorrow; partir pour le Mexique/l'Australie to leave for Mexico/Australia; tu pars pour combien de temps? how long are you going for?; partir pour une semaine/six mois to go for a week/six months; est-ce que tu sais que je pars pour une semaine? did you know I was going away for a week?; partir en vacances to go on holiday GB ou vacation US (à to); nous partons en vacances dans les Vosges we're going on holiday GB ou vacation to the Vosges; partir en week-end to go away for the weekend; partir en week-end à Chamonix to go to Chamonix for the weekend; partir en voyage/expédition/croisière to go on a trip/an expedition/a cruise; partir à la guerre/au front to go off to war/to the front; partir au travail to go to work; partir à la pêche/chasse to go fishing/hunting; partir faire to go to do; elle est partie se reposer she's gone for a rest; partir en tournée to set off on tour GB ou on a tour US; partir en retraite to retire;
    3 ( se mettre en mouvement) [voiture, car, train] to leave; [avion] to take off; [moteur] to start; [personne] to be off, to leave; les coureurs sont partis the runners are off; le train à destination de Dijon va partir the train to Dijon is about to depart ou leave; à vos marques, prêts, partez! on your marks, get set, go!;
    4 ( être projeté) [flèche, balle] to be fired; [bouchon] to shoot out; [capsule] to shoot off; [réplique] to slip out; il jouait avec le fusil et le coup de feu est parti he was playing with the gun and it went off; la balle est partie, le blessant à l'épaule the shot was fired, wounding him in the shoulder; le bouchon est parti d'un seul coup the cork suddenly shot out; elle était tellement énervée que la gifle est partie toute seule she was so angry that she slapped him/her before she realized what she was doing ou before she could stop herself;
    5 ( commencer) [chemin, route] to start; le sentier part d'ici the path starts here; les branches qui partent du tronc the branches growing out from the trunk; les avenues qui partent de la Place de l'Étoile the avenues which radiate outwards from the Place de l'Étoile; partir favori [concurrent, candidat] to start favouriteGB (à une course for a race); partir gagnant/battu d'avance to be the winner/loser before one has even started; partir dernier ( dans une course) to start last; le troisième en partant de la gauche the third (starting) from the left; partir de rien to start from nothing; c'est parti! ( si l'on donne un ordre) go!; ( si l'on constate) here we go!; et voilà, c'est parti, il pleut! here we go, it's raining!; être bien parti lit [coureur, cheval] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start; fig [projet, travail, personne] to have got GB ou gotten US off to a good start; être bien parti pour gagner lit, fig to seem all set to win; l'entreprise a l'air bien partie the firm seems to have got off to a good start; être mal parti lit [coureur, cheval] to have got off to a bad start; fig [personne, pays, projet] to be in a bad way; avec la récession le pays est mal parti what with the recession the country is in a bad way; c'est mal parti things don't look too good; il faudrait qu'il fasse beau mais c'est mal parti it would be nice if the weather was fine but it doesn't look too promising; il a l'air parti pour réussir he seems to be heading for success; le mauvais temps est parti pour durer it looks as if the bad weather is here to stay;
    6 ( se fonder) partir de qch to start from sth; je suis parti d'une idée/observation très simple I started from a very simple idea/observation; l'auteur est parti d'un fait divers pour écrire son roman the author used a news snippet as a starting point for his novel; partir du principe que to work on the assumption that; partir d'une bonne intention or d'un bon sentiment [idée, geste] to be well-meant; (en) partant de là on that basis…;
    7 ( s'enlever) [tache, saleté] to come out; [émail, peinture] to come off; [odeur] to go; [bouton, écusson, décoration] to come off; j'ai beau frotter, ça ne part pas no matter how hard I rub, it won't come out; la saleté part bien/mal the dirt's coming off nicely/won't come out; l'étiquette est partie the label has come off; faire partir une tache/un graffiti to remove a stain/a piece of graffiti;
    8 ( être expédié) [colis, lettre, rapport, candidature] to be sent (off);
    9 ( se lancer) quand il est parti on ne l'arrête plus once he starts ou gets going there's no stopping him; partir dans des explications/un monologue to launch into explanations/a monologue; partir dans des digressions to start digressing;
    10 ( mourir) euph to go, to pass away euph.
    B à partir de loc prép
    1 ( dans l'espace) from; à partir d'ici/du feu rouge/du carrefour from here/the traffic lights/the crossroads;
    2 ( dans le temps) from; à partir de 16 heures/du 5 février from 4 o'clock/5 February (onwards); à partir de maintenant from now on; à partir du moment où ( sens temporel) as soon as; ( sens conditionnel) as long as; c'est possible à partir du moment où tu résides dans le pays it's possible as long as you are resident in the country; à partir de là, tout a basculé from then on everything changed radically;
    3 ( supérieur ou égal) from; à partir de 2 000 euros from 2,000 euros; les enfants ne sont admis qu'à partir de huit ans children under eight are not admitted;
    4 ( en utilisant) from; fabriqué à partir de pétrole/d'un alliage made from oil/an alloy;
    5 ( en se basant sur) from, on the basis of; faire une étude à partir de statistiques to base a study on statistics; à partir de cet exemple il a démontré que using ou from this example he proved that; à partir de ces chiffres/résultats il est possible de… on the basis of these figures/results it is possible to…; à partir d'un échantillon représentatif from ou on the basis of a representative sample; ⇒ courir, maille, mourir.
    [partir] verbe intransitif
    1. [s'en aller] to go, to leave
    pars, tu vas rater ton train (off you) go, or you'll miss your train
    empêche-la de partir stop her (going), don't let her go
    je ne vous fais pas partir, j'espère I hope I'm not chasing you away
    a. [prisonnier, otage] to set free, to let go, to release
    b. [écolier] to let out
    c. [employé] to let go
    je ne peux pas partir du bureau avant 17 h 30 I can't leave the office before 5:30
    (euphémisme) [mourir] to pass on ou away
    2. [se mettre en route] to set off ou out, to start off
    pars devant, je te rattrape go ahead, I'll catch up with you
    regarde cette circulation, on n'est pas encore partis! (familier) by the look of that traffic, we're not off yet!
    a. [personne] to fly (off)
    b. [courrier] to go air mail ou by air
    partir en bateau to go (off) by boat, to sail
    partir en voiture to go (off) by car, to drive off
    3. [se rendre] to go, to leave
    je pars à ou pour Toulon demain I'm leaving for ou I'm off to Toulon tomorrow
    partir à la campagne/montagne/mer to go (off) to the countryside/mountains/seaside
    4. [aller - pour se livrer à une activité] to go
    elle est partie au tennis/à la danse she's gone to play tennis/to her dance class
    partir à la chasse/pêche to go shooting/fishing
    partir à la recherche de to set off in search of, to go looking for
    partir en week-end to go off ou away for the weekend
    nous partons en excursion/voyage demain we're setting off on an excursion/a journey tomorrow
    partir skier/se promener to go skiing/for a walk
    5. [s'engager]
    quand elles sont parties sur leur boulot, c'est difficile de les arrêter (familier) once they start on about their job, there's no stopping them
    6. [démarrer - machine, moteur, voiture] to start (up) ; [ - avion] to take off, to leave ; [ - train] to leave, to depart ; [ - fusée] to go up ; [ - pétard] to go off ; [ - plante] to take
    excuse-moi, le mot est parti (tout seul) I'm sorry, the word just came out
    a. [moteur] to start (up)
    b. [pétard] to set ou to let off (separable)
    d. [plante] to get started
    7. [se mettre en mouvement, débuter - coureur, match, concert] to start (off)
    le match est bien/mal parti pour notre équipe the match has started well/badly for our team
    je le vois mal parti pour récupérer son titre the way he's going, I just can't see him winning back his title
    8. [se vendre] to sell
    9. [disparaître, s'effacer - inscription] to disappear, to be rubbed off ou out, to be worn off ; [ - tache] to disappear, to go, to come out ; [ - douleur] to go, to disappear ; [ - boutons] to come off ; [ - pellicules, odeur] to go
    a. [salissure] to get rid of, to remove
    b. [odeur] to get rid of, to clear
    c. [douleur] to ease
    10. [se défaire, se détacher - attache, bouton] to come off, to go ; [ - maille] to run ; [ - étiquette] to come off
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    partir de verbe plus préposition
    1. [dans l'espace]
    le ferry/marathon part de Brest the ferry sails/the marathon starts from Brest
    la cicatrice part du poignet et va jusqu'au coude the scar goes ou stretches from the wrist to the elbow
    c'est le quatrième en partant de la droite/du haut it's the fourth (one) from the right/top
    2. [dans le temps]
    3. [dans un raisonnement]
    partir du principe que to start from the principle that, to start by assuming that
    si l'on part de ce principe, il faudrait ne jamais contester on that basis, one should never protest
    4. [provenir de]
    sa remarque est partie du coeur his comment came ou was (straight) from the heart, it was a heartfelt remark
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    à partir de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [dans le temps] (as) from
    à partir de mardi starting from Tuesday, from Tuesday onwards
    à partir de (ce moment-) là, il ne m'a plus adressé la parole from that moment on ou from then on, he never spoke to me again
    2. [dans l'espace] (starting) from
    3. [numériquement]
    imposé à partir de 5 000 euros taxable from 5,000 euros upwards
    4. [avec, à base de] from

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > partir

  • 6 wirksam

    Adj. effective; sehr wirksam Medikament: auch very strong; wirksam gegen good for; wirksam werden Gesetz etc.: take effect (am... from...); Medikament etc.: (begin to) take effect ( oder have an effect)
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    effective; forcible; efficacious; effectual; efficient; active
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    wịrk|sam ['vɪrkzaːm]
    1. adj
    effective

    mit (dem) or am 1. Januar wirksam werden (form: Gesetz)to take effect on or from January 1st

    2. adv
    effectively; verbessern significantly
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    2) (successful in producing the desired results: He was not very effectual as an organiser.) effectual
    3) (producing the result intended: The medicine was most efficacious.) efficacious
    4) (in action, having effect: Many old laws are still operative.) operative
    * * *
    wirk·sam
    [ˈvɪrkza:m]
    I. adj
    1. PHARM, MED (effektiv) effective
    \wirksam werden to take effect
    4. INFORM (aktiv) active
    5. JUR effective, operative, valid
    II. adv effectively
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv effective

    mit dem 1. Juli wirksam werden — (Amtsspr.) take effect from 1 July

    2.
    adverbial effectively
    * * *
    wirksam adj effective;
    sehr wirksam Medikament: auch very strong;
    wirksam gegen good for;
    wirksam werden Gesetz etc: take effect (
    am … from …); Medikament etc: (begin to) take effect ( oder have an effect)
    …wirksam im adj
    1. (… beeinflussend) having an effect on …;
    bilanzwirksam appearing on the balance sheet;
    fieberwirksam good for fever, effective against fever;
    herzwirksam good for the heart
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv effective

    mit dem 1. Juli wirksam werden — (Amtsspr.) take effect from 1 July

    2.
    adverbial effectively
    * * *
    adj.
    active adj.
    effective adj.
    effectual adj.
    efficacious adj. adv.
    effectually adv.
    efficaciously adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > wirksam

  • 7 efectivo

    adj.
    1 effective, efficacious.
    2 cash.
    3 actual, de facto.
    m.
    cash, money, currency, hard cash.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: efectivar.
    * * *
    1 (real) real, true, actual
    2 (que tiene efecto) effective
    3 (empleo) permanent
    1 (dinero) cash
    2 (plantilla) staff, personnel
    1 MILITAR forces
    \
    efectivo en caja petty cash
    pagar en efectivo to pay cash, pay in cash
    hacer algo efectivo,-a to carry something out
    hacer efectivo un cheque to cash a cheque
    hacerse efectivo,-a DERECHO to come into effect
    ————————
    1 (dinero) cash
    2 (plantilla) staff, personnel
    * * *
    1. noun m. 2. (f. - efectiva)
    adj.
    2) real, actual
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=eficaz) [vacuna, táctica] effective
    2) (=real)

    hacer efectivo — [+ plan] to put into effect; [+ multa, pago] to make payable; [+ cheque] to cash

    su dimisión, anunciada el martes, se hizo efectiva el jueves — his resignation, announced on Tuesday, took effect o became effective on Thursday

    2. SM
    1) (=dinero) cash

    en efectivo — in cash

    50 libras en efectivo — £50 (in) cash

    efectivo en caja, efectivo en existencia — cash in hand

    2) pl efectivos (Mil) forces

    efectivos de la Policía, efectivos policialespolice officers

    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo
    1) <remedio/medio/castigo> effective

    hacer efectivo< cheque> to cash; < pago> to make; <amenaza/plan> to carry out

    2) ( real) real, genuine, true
    II
    1) (Fin) cash
    2) efectivos masculino plural ( fuerzas) (frml)
    * * *
    I
    - va adjetivo
    1) <remedio/medio/castigo> effective

    hacer efectivo< cheque> to cash; < pago> to make; <amenaza/plan> to carry out

    2) ( real) real, genuine, true
    II
    1) (Fin) cash
    2) efectivos masculino plural ( fuerzas) (frml)
    * * *
    efectivo1
    1 = cash.

    Ex: The European Regional Development Fund provides cash for regional economic development and recovery in the worst off regions in the Community.

    * dinero en efectivo = cash.
    * hacer efectivo = cash in.
    * hacer efectivo en metálico = pay in + cash.
    * ingreso de efectivo = cash deposit.
    * movimientos de efectivos = cash flow.
    * pagar en efectivo = pay in + cash.
    * pago en efectivo = cash payment, payment in cash.
    * retirada de efectivo = cash withdrawal.
    * reunir el efectivo = muster (up) + the cash.
    * valor efectivo = cash value.

    efectivo2
    2 = effective, efficacious.

    Ex: Normally the most effective way of summarising a table is to produce a simplified table.

    Ex: Micrographic and computer technologies and their integration will become increasingly efficacious as agents for change with respect to the continued existence of the traditional 75 by 125 millimeter card.
    * poco efectivo = ineffectual.

    * * *
    efectivo1 -va
    A ‹remedio/medio/castigo› effective
    hacer efectivo ‹cheque› to cash;
    ‹pago› to make; ‹amenaza/plan› to carry out
    el abono se hará efectivo por mensualidades the payment will be made in monthly installments
    su dimisión se hará efectiva a partir del 15 de enero her resignation will take effect o become effective from January 15th
    B (real) real, genuine, true
    A ( Fin) cash
    efectivo en caja cash in hand
    sorteamos miles de premios en efectivo thousands of cash prizes to be won
    pagó la cuenta en efectivo she paid the bill in cash
    nunca lleva dinero en efectivo he never carries cash
    numerosos efectivos de la policía rodearon el colegio a large police contingent o number of police surrounded the school
    efectivos militares troops (pl)
    * * *

     

    efectivo 1
    ◊ -va adjetivo ‹remedio/medio/castigo effective;

    hacer efectivo ‹ cheque to cash;

    pago to make
    efectivo 2 sustantivo masculino (Fin) cash;

    efectivo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (eficaz) effective: es muy efectivo contra los insectos, it's very effective against insects
    2 (valedero, real) su ascenso se hará efectivo el martes, his promotion will be effective from Tuesday
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 Fin en efectivo, in cash 2 efectivos, Mil forces
    ♦ Locuciones: Fin hacer efectivo un cheque, to cash a cheque

    ' efectivo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dinero
    - efectiva
    English:
    book
    - cash
    - effective
    - neat
    - out-of-pocket
    - ready cash
    - virtual
    - ready
    * * *
    efectivo, -a
    adj
    1. [eficaz, útil] effective;
    hacer efectivo [realizar] to carry out;
    [promesa] to keep; [dinero, crédito] to pay;
    hacer efectivo un cheque to cash a cheque;
    hacer efectivo un ingreso en una cuenta bancaria to make a deposit in a bank account;
    hacer efectivo un pago to make a payment;
    el técnico holandés hizo efectivo el cambio en el descanso the Dutch manager made the substitution at half time
    2. [real] actual, true;
    su nombramiento no será efectivo hasta mañana her appointment will not take effect until tomorrow
    nm
    1. [dinero] cash;
    en efectivo in cash;
    pagos/premios en efectivo cash payments/prizes;
    pagar/cobrar en efectivo to pay/be paid in cash;
    ¿pagará con tarjeta o en efectivo? would you like to pay by credit card or in cash?
    efectivo en caja Br cash in hand, US cash on hand;
    efectivo disponible available funds
    2.
    efectivos [personal] forces;
    habían llegado efectivos policiales a number of policemen had arrived
    * * *
    I adj
    1 effective
    2 COM
    :
    II m COM
    :
    en efectivo (in) cash
    * * *
    efectivo, -va adj
    1) : effective
    2) : real, actual
    3) : permanent, regular (of employment)
    : cash
    * * *
    efectivo1 adj effective
    efectivo2 n cash

    Spanish-English dictionary > efectivo

  • 8 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.

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  • 9 Wirkung

    Wirkung f GEN effect, impression mit Wirkung von, m. W. v. GEN with effect from, wef
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    f < Geschäft> effect, impression ■ mit Wirkung von (m. W. v.) < Geschäft> with effect from (wef)
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    Wirkung
    effect, operation, action, (Anzeige) appeal, (Ergebnis) result;
    mit Wirkung vom with effect from, as from;
    mit durchschlagender Wirkung with telling effect;
    mit sofortiger Wirkung effective immediately, for immediate release;
    mit Wirkung vom ersten Januar on or after January 1, effective as of January 1st;
    aufschiebende Wirkung delaying (suspensory) effect;
    beschränkte Wirkung limited operation;
    bindende Wirkung binding effect;
    hemmende Wirkung restraining action;
    kanzerogene Wirkung carcinogenic effect;
    konstitutive Wirkung constitutive effect;
    kumulative Wirkung cumulative effect;
    nachfragesteigernde Wirkung demand-increasing effects;
    nachteilige Wirkungen detrimental (disadvantageous) effects;
    psychologische Wirkung psychological impact;
    rechtliche Wirkung legal effect;
    rechtsbegründende Wirkung constitutive effect;
    vermögensrechtliche Wirkung proprietary effect;
    Wirkung des Euro auf die Finanzmärkte impact of the euro on the financial markets;
    richtig zur Wirkung bringen to highlight;
    einschneidende Wirkungen auf die Konjunktur haben to take a bigger bite out of the economy.

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  • 10 с

    I предл. (тв.); = со
    1) (указывает на совместность, объединение) with; and

    он прие́хал с детьми́ — he came with the children

    я пойду́ с ва́ми — I'll go with you; I'll join you

    брат с сестро́й ушли́ — brother and sister went away

    мы с тобо́й [мы с ва́ми] — you and I; we

    нам с ва́ми придётся подожда́ть — we'll have to wait

    повида́ть отца́ с ма́терью — see one's father and mother

    2) (в обществе кого-л, по отношению к кому-л) with

    вести́ себя сде́ржанно с кем-л — be reserved with smb

    с ва́ми мне легко́ — I feel at ease with you

    с ним ве́село — he is fun to be with

    обме́ниваться мне́ниями с кем-л — exchange views with smb

    игра́ть с соба́кой — play with the dog

    мне не́ о чем с ва́ми разгова́ривать — I have nothing to discuss with you

    4) (указывает на наличие чего-л, свойства или особенности предмета) with

    чай с молоко́м [са́харом] — tea with milk [sugar]

    кни́га с карти́нками — picture book

    стано́к с электро́нным управле́нием — electronically operated / controlled machine

    бино́кль с увеличе́нием в 10 раз — 10-power binoculars

    мыть с мы́лом — wash with soap

    с курье́ром — by courier ['kʊrɪə] / messenger

    с после́дним по́ездом — by the last train

    с улы́бкой — with a smile

    с интере́сом — with interest

    с удово́льствием — with pleasure

    со сме́хом — with a laugh, with laughter

    с пе́снями и сме́хом — with song and laughter; singing and laughing

    с уве́ренностью — with certainty; for certain; confidently

    одева́ться со вку́сом — be dressed with taste, have good taste in clothes

    с опереже́нием гра́фика — ahead of schedule

    с то́чностью до 0,1 — to within 0.1

    с части́чной нагру́зкой — at partial load

    со ско́ростью 100 км в час — at a speed of 100 km per hour

    с тако́й же ско́ростью, как — as fast as

    с серьёзными наме́рениями — with serious intentions

    с э́той це́лью — for this purpose, with this in mind; toward(s) this end

    я к вам с про́сьбой — I have a request for you; I have something to ask you for

    я́вка с пови́нной — surrender ( of a criminal to police), giving oneself up (with a confession of one's guilt)

    10) ( одновременно) with; at the time of

    просну́ться с зарёй — awake with the dawn

    с оконча́нием войны́ — when the war is [was] over

    с во́зрастом э́то пройдёт — it will pass with the years [with age; as one grows older]

    с разви́тием эконо́мики — as the economy develops

    с увеличе́нием глубины́ растёт давле́ние — as the depth increases, so does the pressure

    с повыше́нием то́чности измере́ний на́ши взгля́ды на э́то явле́ние измени́лись — as the measurement accuracy increased, our view of that phenomenon changed

    с удале́нием от це́нтра — away / outward from the centre

    12) ( после) after

    с приватиза́цией фи́рмы не́которые пробле́мы разреши́лись — after the company was privatized, some of the problems were resolved

    13) (по поводу, относительно) with respect to, as regards; with

    как у вас дела́ с повыше́нием? — how are things going on with your promotion?

    с рабо́той всё хорошо́ — the work's going on all right

    как у вас со здоро́вьем? — do you have any health problems?

    у него́ что́-то с лёгкими — he has got lung trouble

    у меня́ тугова́то с деньга́ми — I am a bit hard up for money

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    что с тобо́й [ва́ми]? — what is the matter with you?

    с ка́ждым (тв.; при обозначении регулярного отрезка времени)every

    с ка́ждым ча́сом [днём, ме́сяцем, го́дом] — every hour [day, month, year]

    с ка́ждой секу́ндой [мину́той, неде́лей] — every second [minute, week]

    вы молоде́ете с ка́ждым днём — you look younger every day

    II предл. (рд.); = со
    1) (указывает на поверхность, опору, уровень, откуда направлено движение) from; (прочь тж.) off

    взять кни́гу с по́лки — take a book from the shelf

    упа́сть с кры́ши — fall from a roof

    сбро́сить со стола́ — throw off / from the table

    снять кольцо́ с па́льца — take a ring off / from one's finger

    спусти́ться со второ́го этажа́ — come downstairs

    корми́ть с ло́жечки — spoon-feed

    2) (указывает на место отправления, происхождения) from

    верну́ться с рабо́ты — return from work

    съе́хать с да́чи [с кварти́ры] — move from a country house [from a flat брит. / apartment амер.]

    прие́хать с Кавка́за — come from the Caucasus

    ры́ба с Во́лги — fish from the Volga

    3) (указывает на часть, сторону предмета, на которой сосредоточено действие) from

    подойти́ к до́му с торца́ — approach the building from the end side

    пры́гать с ле́вой ноги́ — take off from the left foot

    с двух сторо́н (о движении) — from both sides; ( о письме) on both sides

    печа́ть с двух сторо́н полигр., информ.two-sided printing

    4) (указывает на то, что используется в начале действия) with, using

    писа́ть с прописно́й [стро́чной] бу́квы — write with a capital [small] letter

    идти́ с туза́ карт.play an ace

    начина́ть с ма́лого — start small [in a small way]

    5) (указывает на позицию или показатель в прошлом, подвергнувшиеся изменению) from

    перейти́ с пе́рвого ме́ста на пя́тое — move from first place to fifth place

    зарпла́та повы́силась с 5 до 6 ты́сяч рубле́й — the salary (was) increased from 5,000 to 6,000 roubles

    с сентября́ по дека́брь — from September to December

    с трёх до пяти́ — from three to five

    7) (указывает на начало процесса, состояния в прошлом) since

    он не ви́дел её с про́шлого го́да — he has not seen her since last year

    с тех пор ничего́ не измени́лось — nothing has changed since then

    8) (указывает на начало процесса, состояния в будущем) starting / beginning from

    он бу́дет там с января́ [пя́тницы; трёх часо́в] — he will be there starting from January [Friday; three o'clock]

    зако́н вступа́ет в си́лу с 1 января́ — the law comes into force [becomes effective] (on) January (the) first

    с нату́ры — from life

    писа́ть портре́т с кого́-л — paint smb's picture

    брать приме́р с кого́-л — follow smb's example

    10) (указывает на лицо, от которого требуется оплата, вознаграждение и т.п.)

    с вас 20 рубле́й — 20 roubles, please; ( о возврате долга) you owe me 20 roubles

    с тебя́ буты́лка — you owe me a bottle

    11) разг. (от, из-за, под воздействием чего-л) because of; with

    с ра́дости — with joy

    с го́ря — with grief / frustration

    запи́ть с го́ря — drown one's sorrows in drink

    с доса́ды [со зло́сти] — with vexation [with anger]

    со стыда́ — for / with shame

    со стра́ха — in one's fright, in panic

    кра́сный с моро́за — (with a face) reddened by the cold

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    с пе́рвого взгля́да — at first sight

    с головы́ до ног — from head to foot

    с нача́ла до конца́ — from beginning to end; from start to finish

    взять с бо́ю — take by storm

    с мину́ты на мину́ту — any minute / moment (now)

    он придёт с мину́ты на мину́ту — he may come any minute now

    с чьего́-л разреше́ния / позволе́ния — with smb's permission

    с ва́шего согла́сия — with your consent

    с ви́ду — in appearance

    с доро́ги — after a journey

    с меня́ хва́тит — I've had enough

    III предл.; = со
    (вн.; указывает на приблизительную меру чего-л) the size of; about

    с була́вочную голо́вку — the size of a pin's head

    с вас ро́стом — about the same height as yours

    с ло́шадь величино́й — the size of a horse

    туда́ бу́дет с киломе́тр — it is about a kilometre from here

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  • 11 combien

    combien [kɔ̃bjɛ̃]
    1. adverb
    combien de bouteilles veux-tu ? how many bottles do you want?
    tu en as pour combien de temps ? how long will you be?
    depuis combien de temps travaillez-vous ici ? how long have you been working here?
    combien de fois ? (nombre) how many times? ; (fréquence) how often?
    combien sont-ils ? how many of them are there?
       c. (formal = à quel point) si tu savais combien ça m'a agacé ! you can't imagine how annoyed I was!
       d. ( = avec mesure) combien est-ce ? how much is it?
    combien ça coûte ? how much is it?
    ça fait combien ? (inf) how much is it?
    combien pèse ce colis ? how much does this parcel weigh?
    combien mesures-tu ? how tall are you?
    ça va faire une différence de combien ? what will the difference be?
    ça fait combien de haut ? how high is it?
    2. masculine noun
    (inf) on est le combien ? what's the date?
    il y en a tous les combien ? (fréquence) [de trains, bus] how often do they run?
    * * *

    I
    1. kɔ̃bjɛ̃

    combien coûte une bouteille de vin?how much ou what does a bottle of wine cost?

    combien êtes-vous/sont-ils? — how many of you/them are there?


    2.
    combien de déterminant interrogatif

    combien de fois — ( nombre de fois) how many times; ( fréquence) how often


    II kɔ̃bjɛ̃
    1) ( ordre)

    tu es la combien? — (colloq) ( dans une queue) how many people are before you?

    2) ( date)

    le combien sommes-nous?, on est le combien? — (colloq) what's the date today?

    3) ( mesure)
    * * *
    kɔ̃bjɛ̃
    1. adv
    1) (= quantité) how much
    2) (= nombre) how many
    3) (prix) how much

    combien de (quantité) — how much, (nombre) how many

    2. nm
    * * *
    I.
    A adv
    1Les mesures de longueur, Le poids, Les quantités, Les tailles ( dans une interrogation) combien coûte une bouteille de vin? how much ou what does a bottle of wine cost?; combien vaut le livre? how much ou what is the book worth?; combien mesure le salon? how big is the lounge?; ça fait combien? ( valeur) how much does that come to?; ( dimensions) how big is that?; ( poids) how heavy is that?; j'aimerais savoir combien il a payé son costume I'd like to know how much ou what he paid for his suit; combien êtes-vous/sont-ils? how many of you/them are there?; à combien s'évaluent leurs pertes? how much ou what do their losses come to?; combien pèse ta valise? how much ou what does your case weigh?;
    2 ( adverbe de degré modifiant un verbe) il est triste de voir combien la situation s'est dégradée it's sad to see how the situation has deteriorated; elle souligne combien cette approche peut être efficace she stresses how effective this approach can be; vous voyez combien les choses ont changé you can see how (much) things have changed; il est difficile d'expliquer combien je les apprécie it's difficult to explain how much I appreciate them;
    3 ( adverbe de degré modifiant un adjectif) c'est cher mais combien efficace! it's expensive but so effective!; ‘il est malin!’-‘ô combien!’ ‘he's smart!’-‘isn't he just!’; le combien célèbre chanteur the very famous singer; un travail intéressant mais ô combien difficile an interesting but very difficult job; montrer combien étaient dérisoires les efforts des sauveteurs to show how useless the rescuers' efforts were; il souligne combien est précieuse l'aide de ses collègues he stresses how valuable his colleagues' help is to him;
    4 ( adverbe de degré modifiant un adverbe) il a gagné ô combien brillamment he won really ou absolutely brilliantly; combien peu d'idées how few ideas; combien peu d'or how little gold; combien plus d'argent/plus de personnes how much more money/many more people; combien moins d'argent/moins de personnes how much less money/many fewer people.
    B combien de dét inter
    1 ( avec un nom dénombrable) how many; combien d'élèves accueillerez-vous en janvier? how many pupils will you receive in January?; combien de candidatures avez-vous reçu? how many applications did you receive?; sais-tu combien de voitures circulent dans Paris? do you know how many cars there are in Paris?; c'est à combien de kilomètres? how far away is it?; combien de kilomètres y a-t-il entre les deux villes? how far apart are the two towns?; combien y a-t-il d'ici à la mer? how far is it to the sea?; combien de fois ( nombre de fois) how many times; ( fréquence) how often; dans combien d'années envisages-tu d'avoir des enfants? in how many years time do you intend to start a family?; sais-tu combien de jours il faut pour y aller? do you know how many days it takes to get there?;
    2 ( avec un nom non dénombrable) how much; de combien de pain as-tu besoin? how much bread do you need?; combien de pain reste-t-il? how much bread is left?; combien de temps faut-il? how long does it take?; tu es là depuis combien de temps? how long have you been here?; on arrive dans combien de temps? when will we get there?; combien de temps as-tu mis pour venir? how long did it take you to get here?; dis-moi combien de temps il faut le faire cuire tell me how long it takes to cook.
    II.
    combienLes tailles nmf inv
    1 ( par rapport à un ordre) tu es la combien? ( dans une queue) how many people are before you?; tu es le combien à l'école? where are you in the class?; vous êtes arrivés les combien au rallye? where did you come in the rally?; ‘la sixième en partant de la gauche’-‘la combien?’ ‘the sixth from the left’-‘the which?’;
    2 ( par rapport à une date) le combien sommes-nous?, on est le combien? what's the date today?; vous arrivez le combien? what date are you arriving?;
    3 ( par rapport à une mesure) tu chausses du combien? what size shoes do you take?;
    4 ( par rapport à la fréquence) tu le vois tous les combien? how often do you see him?
    [kɔ̃bjɛ̃] adverbe
    1. [pour interroger sur une somme] how much
    c'est combien?, ça fait combien? how much is it?
    combien coûte ce livre? how much is this book?, how much does this book cost?
    2. [pour interroger sur le nombre] how many
    3. [pour interroger sur la distance, la durée, la mesure etc.]
    combien dure le film? how long is the film?, how long does the film last?
    4. [en emploi exclamatif] how
    ô combien! (littéraire & humoristique) : elle a souffert, ô combien! she suffered, oh how she suffered!
    ————————
    [kɔ̃bjɛ̃] nom masculin invariable
    ————————
    combien de locution déterminante
    1. [pour interroger - suivi d'un nom non comptable] how much ; [ - suivi d'un nom comptable] how many
    combien de fois how many times, how often
    2. [emploi exclamatif]

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > combien

  • 12 Wirkung

    f effect ( auf + Akk on); stärker: impact; mit Wirkung vom Amtsspr. with effect from, as from ( oder of); mit sofortiger Wirkung with immediate effect; Wirkung erzielen have an effect, work; seine Wirkung tun work, have the desired effect; Wirkung / keine Wirkung zeigen have an / no effect; seine Wirkung verfehlen oder ohne Wirkung bleiben have no effect, prove ineffective; Ursache und Wirkung cause and effect; er ist sehr auf Wirkung bedacht he’s out for effect; Ursache
    * * *
    die Wirkung
    effect; impression; consequence
    * * *
    Wịr|kung ['vɪrkʊŋ]
    f -, -en
    effect (bei on); (von Tabletten etc) effects pl

    seine Wirkung tun — to have an effect; (Droge) to take effect

    zur Wirkung kommen (Medikament) — to take effect; (fig

    mit Wirkung vom 1. Januar (form)with effect from January 1st

    * * *
    die
    1) (a strong effect or impression: The film had quite an impact on television viewers.) impact
    2) (a result or consequence: He is suffering from the effects of over-eating; His discovery had little effect at first.) effect
    3) (an impression given or produced: The speech did not have much effect (on them); a pleasing effect.) effect
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    Wir·kung
    <-, -en>
    [ˈvɪrkʊŋ]
    f effect
    aufschiebende \Wirkung suspensory effect
    befreiende/bindende \Wirkung discharging/binding effect
    heilende \Wirkung curative effect
    unmittelbare \Wirkung direct effect
    mit \Wirkung vom... JUR with effect from...
    ohne \Wirkung bleiben [o seine \Wirkung verfehlen] to have no effect, to not have any effect
    eine bestimmte \Wirkung haben [o (geh) entfalten] PHARM, MED to have a certain effect
    Kaffee hat eine anregende \Wirkung coffee has a stimulating effect [or is a stimulant]
    eine schnelle \Wirkung haben [o (geh) entfalten] PHARM, MED to take effect quickly
    mit sofortiger \Wirkung effective immediately
    * * *
    die; Wirkung, Wirkungen effect (auf + Akk. on)

    mit Wirkung vom 1. Juli — (Amtsspr.) with effect from 1 July

    * * *
    Wirkung f effect (
    auf +akk on); stärker: impact;
    mit Wirkung vom ADMIN with effect from, as from ( oder of);
    mit sofortiger Wirkung with immediate effect;
    Wirkung erzielen have an effect, work;
    seine Wirkung tun work, have the desired effect;
    Wirkung/keine Wirkung zeigen have an/no effect;
    ohne Wirkung bleiben have no effect, prove ineffective;
    Ursache und Wirkung cause and effect;
    er ist sehr auf Wirkung bedacht he’s out for effect; Ursache
    * * *
    die; Wirkung, Wirkungen effect (auf + Akk. on)

    mit Wirkung vom 1. Juli — (Amtsspr.) with effect from 1 July

    * * *
    -en f.
    action n.
    effect n.
    force n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Wirkung

  • 13 Huygens, Christiaan

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 14 April 1629 The Hague, the Netherlands
    d. 8 June 1695 The Hague, the Netherlands
    [br]
    Dutch scientist who was responsible for two of the greatest advances in horology: the successful application of both the pendulum to the clock and the balance spring to the watch.
    [br]
    Huygens was born into a cultured and privileged class. His father, Constantijn, was a poet and statesman who had wide interests. Constantijn exerted a strong influence on his son, who was educated at home until he reached the age of 16. Christiaan studied law and mathematics at Ley den University from 1645 to 1647, and continued his studies at the Collegium Arausiacum in Breda until 1649. He then lived at The Hague, where he had the means to devote his time entirely to study. In 1666 he became a Member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris and settled there until his return to The Hague in 1681. He also had a close relationship with the Royal Society and visited London on three occasions, meeting Newton on his last visit in 1689. Huygens had a wide range of interests and made significant contributions in mathematics, astronomy, optics and mechanics. He also made technical advances in optical instruments and horology.
    Despite the efforts of Burgi there had been no significant improvement in the performance of ordinary clocks and watches from their inception to Huygens's time, as they were controlled by foliots or balances which had no natural period of oscillation. The pendulum appeared to offer a means of improvement as it had a natural period of oscillation that was almost independent of amplitude. Galileo Galilei had already pioneered the use of a freely suspended pendulum for timing events, but it was by no means obvious how it could be kept swinging and used to control a clock. Towards the end of his life Galileo described such a. mechanism to his son Vincenzio, who constructed a model after his father's death, although it was not completed when he himself died in 1642. This model appears to have been copied in Italy, but it had little influence on horology, partly because of the circumstances in which it was produced and possibly also because it differed radically from clocks of that period. The crucial event occurred on Christmas Day 1656 when Huygens, quite independently, succeeded in adapting an existing spring-driven table clock so that it was not only controlled by a pendulum but also kept it swinging. In the following year he was granted a privilege or patent for this clock, and several were made by the clockmaker Salomon Coster of The Hague. The use of the pendulum produced a dramatic improvement in timekeeping, reducing the daily error from minutes to seconds, but Huygens was aware that the pendulum was not truly isochronous. This error was magnified by the use of the existing verge escapement, which made the pendulum swing through a large arc. He overcame this defect very elegantly by fitting cheeks at the pendulum suspension point, progressively reducing the effective length of the pendulum as the amplitude increased. Initially the cheeks were shaped empirically, but he was later able to show that they should have a cycloidal shape. The cheeks were not adopted universally because they introduced other defects, and the problem was eventually solved more prosaically by way of new escapements which reduced the swing of the pendulum. Huygens's clocks had another innovatory feature: maintaining power, which kept the clock going while it was being wound.
    Pendulums could not be used for portable timepieces, which continued to use balances despite their deficiencies. Robert Hooke was probably the first to apply a spring to the balance, but his efforts were not successful. From his work on the pendulum Huygens was well aware of the conditions necessary for isochronism in a vibrating system, and in January 1675, with a flash of inspiration, he realized that this could be achieved by controlling the oscillations of the balance with a spiral spring, an arrangement that is still used in mechanical watches. The first model was made for Huygens in Paris by the clockmaker Isaac Thuret, who attempted to appropriate the invention and patent it himself. Huygens had for many years been trying unsuccessfully to adapt the pendulum clock for use at sea (in order to determine longitude), and he hoped that a balance-spring timekeeper might be better suited for this purpose. However, he was disillusioned as its timekeeping proved to be much more susceptible to changes in temperature than that of the pendulum clock.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1663. Member of the Académie Royale des Sciences 1666.
    Bibliography
    For his complete works, see Oeuvres complètes de Christian Huygens, 1888–1950, 22 vols, The Hague.
    1658, Horologium, The Hague; repub., 1970, trans. E.L.Edwardes, Antiquarian
    Horology 7:35–55 (describes the pendulum clock).
    1673, Horologium Oscillatorium, Paris; repub., 1986, The Pendulum Clock or Demonstrations Concerning the Motion ofPendula as Applied to Clocks, trans.
    R.J.Blackwell, Ames.
    Further Reading
    H.J.M.Bos, 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. C.C.Gillispie, Vol. 6, New York, pp. 597–613 (for a fuller account of his life and scientific work, but note the incorrect date of his death).
    R.Plomp, 1979, Spring-Driven Dutch Pendulum Clocks, 1657–1710, Schiedam (describes Huygens's application of the pendulum to the clock).
    S.A.Bedini, 1991, The Pulse of Time, Florence (describes Galileo's contribution of the pendulum to the clock).
    J.H.Leopold, 1982, "L"Invention par Christiaan Huygens du ressort spiral réglant pour les montres', Huygens et la France, Paris, pp. 154–7 (describes the application of the balance spring to the watch).
    A.R.Hall, 1978, "Horology and criticism", Studia Copernica 16:261–81 (discusses Hooke's contribution).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Huygens, Christiaan

  • 14 Whitney, Eli

    [br]
    b. 8 December 1765 Westborough, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 8 January 1825 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American inventor of the cotton gin and manufacturer of firearms.
    [br]
    The son of a prosperous farmer, Eli Whitney as a teenager showed more interest in mechanics than school work. At the age of 15 he began an enterprise business manufacturing nails in his father's workshop, even having to hire help to fulfil his orders. He later determined to acquire a university education and, his father having declined to provide funds, he taught at local schools to obtain the means to attend Leicester Academy, Massachusetts, in preparation for his entry to Yale in 1789. He graduated in 1792 and then decided to study law. He accepted a position in Georgia as a tutor that would have given him time for study; this post did not materialize, but on his journey south he met General Nathanael Greene's widow and the manager of her plantations, Phineas Miller (1764–1803). A feature of agriculture in the southern states was that the land was unsuitable for long-staple cotton but could yield large crops of green-seed cotton. Green-seed cotton was difficult to separate from its seed, and when Whitney learned of the problem in 1793 he quickly devised a machine known as the cotton gin, which provided an effective solution. He formed a partnership with Miller to manufacture the gin and in 1794 obtained a patent. This invention made possible the extraordinary growth of the cotton industry in the United States, but the patent was widely infringed and it was not until 1807, after amendment of the patent laws, that Whitney was able to obtain a favourable decision in the courts and some financial return.
    In 1798 Whitney was in financial difficulties following the failure of the initial legal action against infringement of the cotton gin patent, but in that year he obtained a government contract to supply 10,000 muskets within two years with generous advance payments. He built a factory at New Haven, Connecticut, and proposed to use a new method of manufacture, perhaps the first application of the system of interchangeable parts. He failed to supply the firearms in the specified time, and in fact the first 500 guns were not delivered until 1801 and the full contract was not completed until 1809.
    In 1812 Whitney made application for a renewal of his cotton gin patent, but this was refused. In the same year, however, he obtained a second contract from the Government for 15,000 firearms and a similar one from New York State which ensured the success of his business.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.Mirsky and A.Nevins, 1952, The World of Eli Whitney, New York (a good biography). P.J.Federico, 1960, "Records of Eli Whitney's cotton gin patent", Technology and Culture 1: 168–76 (for details of the cotton gin patent).
    R.S.Woodbury, 1960, The legend of Eli Whitney and interchangeable parts', Technology and Culture 1:235–53 (challenges the traditional view of Eli Whitney as the sole originator of the "American" system of manufacture).
    See also Technology and Culture 14(1973):592–8; 18(1977):146–8; 19(1978):609–11.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Whitney, Eli

  • 15 fecha

    f.
    date.
    una fecha señalada an important date
    en fecha próxima in the next few days
    fijar la fecha de algo to set a date for something
    hasta la fecha to date, so far
    ocurrió por estas fechas it happened around this time of year
    fecha de caducidad sell-by date; (de alimentos) expiry date; (de carné, pasaporte) use before date (de medicamento)
    fecha de entrega delivery date
    fecha límite deadline
    fecha de nacimiento date of birth
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: fechar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: fechar.
    * * *
    1 date
    ¿qué fecha es hoy? what's the date today?
    2 (día) day
    1 (época) time sing
    \
    a seis (cuatro, diez, etc) días fecha COMERCIO six (four, ten, etc) days after sight
    con fecha... dated...
    de fecha... dated...
    en fecha próxima at an early date
    fijar la fecha to fix a date
    hasta la fecha so far, until now
    poner fecha a to date
    sin fecha undated
    fecha de caducidad expiry date
    fecha de nacimiento date of birth
    fecha límite deadline, closing date
    fecha tope deadline, closing date
    * * *
    noun f.
    - fecha límite
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=día preciso) date

    ¿a qué fecha estamos? — what's the date today?

    a partir de esa fecha no volvió a llamarfrom then on o thereafter he never called again

    a 30 días fecha — (Com) at 30 days' sight

    con fecha de, una carta con fecha del 15 de agosto — a letter dated 15 August

    hasta la fecha — to date, so far

    pasarse de fecha — (Com) to pass the sell-by date

    poner la fecha — to date

    en fecha próximasoon

    sin fecha, una carta sin fecha — an undated letter, a letter with no date

    fecha de caducidad[de medicamento, tarjeta] expiry date; [de alimento] sell-by date

    fecha de vencimiento — (Com) due date

    fecha de vigencia — (Com) effective date

    fecha futura, en alguna fecha futura — at some future date

    fecha tope[de finalización] deadline; [de entrega] closing date

    2) pl fechas (=época)
    * * *
    femenino date

    ¿qué fecha es hoy? — what's the date today?, what date is it today?

    con or de fecha 7 de marzo — (Corresp) dated March 7 o (BrE) 7th March

    le dieron/tiene fecha para Agosto — (para examen, entrevista, etc) she has her exam (o interview etc) in August; ( para cita con el médico) she has an appointment in August; ( para el parto) the baby is due in August

    * * *
    = date.
    Ex. This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.
    ----
    * al cumplir la fecha = at term.
    * certificado de fecha de registro = time stamp [timestamp].
    * como fecha final = at the very latest.
    * con fecha = dated.
    * con fecha + Fecha = dated + Fecha.
    * cuya fecha se anunciará más adelante = at a time to be announced later.
    * cuya fecha se determinará más adelante = at a time to be determined later.
    * fecha de caducidad = date due, expiry date, expiration date, best by date, best before date, limited life, sell-by date.
    * fecha de cierre = closed date.
    * fecha de cobertura = date of coverage.
    * fecha de comienzo = starting date, beginning date, date of commencement.
    * fecha de defunción = date of death.
    * fecha de devolución = return date.
    * fecha de edición = edition date.
    * fecha de entrega = delivery date.
    * fecha de expurgo = purge date.
    * fecha de finalización = completion date, completion target.
    * fecha de impresión = imprint date.
    * fecha de inicio = trigger date.
    * fecha de la cubierta = cover date.
    * fecha del copyright = copyright date.
    * fecha de llegada = arrival date.
    * fecha de nacimiento = birth date, date of birth.
    * fecha de pedido = date of order.
    * fecha de publicación = age, date of issue, date of publication.
    * fecha de registro = accession date, time stamp [timestamp].
    * fecha de reimpresión = reprint date.
    * fecha de retención = retention date.
    * fecha de salida = departure date.
    * fecha de vencimiento = date due, expiry date, due date, expiration date, deadline, best by date, best before date, dateline, sell-by date.
    * fecha límite = cut-off date, closing date, deadline, timeline [time line], dateline.
    * fecha tope = deadline, dateline.
    * fijar fecha con antelación = predate.
    * hasta la fecha = to date, up to now, so far.
    * hoja de fecha de devolución = date label.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * ordenado por fecha = in date order.
    * poner la fecha = date-stamp.
    * sello de fecha = date stamp.
    * sin fecha = undated.
    * tener la fecha de + Fecha = be dated + Fecha.
    * * *
    femenino date

    ¿qué fecha es hoy? — what's the date today?, what date is it today?

    con or de fecha 7 de marzo — (Corresp) dated March 7 o (BrE) 7th March

    le dieron/tiene fecha para Agosto — (para examen, entrevista, etc) she has her exam (o interview etc) in August; ( para cita con el médico) she has an appointment in August; ( para el parto) the baby is due in August

    * * *
    = date.

    Ex: This access is achieved by organising the tools so that a user may search under a specific access point or heading or index term, for example, subject term, author, name, title, date.

    * al cumplir la fecha = at term.
    * certificado de fecha de registro = time stamp [timestamp].
    * como fecha final = at the very latest.
    * con fecha = dated.
    * con fecha + Fecha = dated + Fecha.
    * cuya fecha se anunciará más adelante = at a time to be announced later.
    * cuya fecha se determinará más adelante = at a time to be determined later.
    * fecha de caducidad = date due, expiry date, expiration date, best by date, best before date, limited life, sell-by date.
    * fecha de cierre = closed date.
    * fecha de cobertura = date of coverage.
    * fecha de comienzo = starting date, beginning date, date of commencement.
    * fecha de defunción = date of death.
    * fecha de devolución = return date.
    * fecha de edición = edition date.
    * fecha de entrega = delivery date.
    * fecha de expurgo = purge date.
    * fecha de finalización = completion date, completion target.
    * fecha de impresión = imprint date.
    * fecha de inicio = trigger date.
    * fecha de la cubierta = cover date.
    * fecha del copyright = copyright date.
    * fecha de llegada = arrival date.
    * fecha de nacimiento = birth date, date of birth.
    * fecha de pedido = date of order.
    * fecha de publicación = age, date of issue, date of publication.
    * fecha de registro = accession date, time stamp [timestamp].
    * fecha de reimpresión = reprint date.
    * fecha de retención = retention date.
    * fecha de salida = departure date.
    * fecha de vencimiento = date due, expiry date, due date, expiration date, deadline, best by date, best before date, dateline, sell-by date.
    * fecha límite = cut-off date, closing date, deadline, timeline [time line], dateline.
    * fecha tope = deadline, dateline.
    * fijar fecha con antelación = predate.
    * hasta la fecha = to date, up to now, so far.
    * hoja de fecha de devolución = date label.
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * ordenado por fecha = in date order.
    * poner la fecha = date-stamp.
    * sello de fecha = date stamp.
    * sin fecha = undated.
    * tener la fecha de + Fecha = be dated + Fecha.

    * * *
    date
    ¿qué fecha es hoy? what's the date today?, what date is it today?
    con or de fecha 7 de marzo último ( Corresp) dated March 7 o ( BrE) 7th March last
    tuve que adelantar la fecha I had to move up ( AmE) o ( BrE) bring forward the date
    atrasaron la fecha they moved back o ( BrE) put back the date
    le dieron/tiene fecha para Agosto (para un examen, una entrevista etc) she has her exam ( o interview etc) in August, she has an appointment in August; (para el parto) the baby is due in August
    el año pasado por estas fechas this time last year
    [ S ] inauguración en fecha próxima opening soon
    Compuestos:
    (de un medicamento) expiration date ( AmE), expiry date ( BrE); (de un alimento) use-by date
    [ S ] fecha de caducidad 25 junio 2010 (en un medicamento) expires June 25th 2010; (en un alimento) use by June 25th 2010
    best-before date
    (de una letra) due date, maturity date (de un medicamento, alimento) ( AmL) fecha de caducidad
    closing date
    national day
    closing date
    * * *

     

    Del verbo fechar: ( conjugate fechar)

    fecha es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    fecha    
    fechar
    fecha sustantivo femenino
    date;

    con fecha 7 de marzo (Corresp) dated March 7 o (BrE) 7th March;
    hasta la fecha to date;
    el año pasado por estas fechas this time last year;
    en fecha próxima soon;
    fecha de caducidad or (AmL) vencimiento ( de medicamento) expiration date (AmE), expiry date (BrE);

    ( de alimento) use-by date;

    fecha límite or tope (para solicitud, suscripción) closing date;

    (para proyecto, trabajo) deadline
    fechar ( conjugate fechar) verbo transitivo
    to date
    fecha sustantivo femenino
    1 date: hasta la fecha no ha habido cambios, so far there have been no changes
    fecha de caducidad, sell-by date
    fecha límite, deadline 2 fechas, (momento, tiempo) time sing; el mes pasado por estas fechas, this time last month
    por aquellas fechas, at that time
    fechar verbo transitivo to date
    ' fecha' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adelantar
    - botepronto
    - caducidad
    - citar
    - concretar
    - convenir
    - designar
    - día
    - envasada
    - envasado
    - ser
    - estar
    - hasta
    - indicada
    - indicado
    - límite
    - nacimiento
    - señalar
    - señalada
    - señalado
    - tope
    - trasladar
    - a
    - acordar
    - aproximar
    - bien
    - cambiar
    - cercano
    - concreto
    - decisivo
    - determinado
    - encabezamiento
    - envío
    - equivocar
    - fijar
    - fijo
    - inconveniente
    - lugar
    - para
    - programar
    - prorrogar
    - próximo
    - reciente
    - recordar
    - retrasar
    - seguro
    English:
    advance
    - be
    - closing date
    - date
    - deadline
    - expiration date
    - expiry
    - name
    - rearrange
    - sell-by date
    - set
    - settle
    - settle on
    - target date
    - time limit
    - as
    - back
    - birth
    - closing
    - dead
    - hither
    - pin
    - reschedule
    - sell
    - such
    - time
    * * *
    fecha nf
    [día] date; [momento actual] current date;
    una fecha señalada an important date;
    pon la fecha en la carta put the date on the letter, date the letter;
    en fecha próxima in the next few days;
    a fecha de hoy todavía no se conocen los resultados at the moment the results are still not known;
    su lanzamiento todavía no tiene fecha a date has still not been set for its launch;
    el 28 es la fecha de su cumpleaños the 28th is his birthday;
    fijar la fecha de algo to set a date for sth;
    a partir de esta fecha from this date;
    hasta la fecha to date, so far;
    ocurrió por estas fechas it happened around this time of year
    fecha de caducidad [de alimentos] use-by date; [de medicamento] use before date; Cont fecha de cierre closing date;
    fecha de consumo use-by date;
    fecha de entrega delivery date, date of delivery;
    fecha de expedición date of issue;
    fecha de facturación invoice o billing date;
    fecha límite deadline, closing date;
    fecha límite de venta sell-by date;
    fecha de nacimiento date of birth;
    Am fecha patria national holiday [commemorating important historical event];
    fecha tope deadline;
    Fin fecha vencimiento due date
    * * *
    f date;
    hasta la fecha to date;
    en estas fechas at this time of year;
    sin fecha undated
    * * *
    fecha nf
    1) : date
    2)
    fecha de vencimiento : expiration date
    3)
    fecha límite : deadline
    * * *
    fecha n date
    ¿a qué fecha estamos? what's the date today? / what's today's date?
    en/por estas fechas at/around this time of year
    fecha límite / feche tope (en general) deadline (de concurso, etc) closing date

    Spanish-English dictionary > fecha

  • 16 Ewart, Peter

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 14 May 1767 Traquair, near Peebles, Scotland
    d. September 1842 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish pioneer in the mechanization of the textile industry.
    [br]
    Peter Ewart, the youngest of six sons, was born at Traquair manse, where his father was a clergyman in the Church of Scotland. He was educated at the Free School, Dumfries, and in 1782 spent a year at Edinburgh University. He followed this with an apprenticeship under John Rennie at Musselburgh before moving south in 1785 to help Rennie erect the Albion corn mill in London. This brought him into contact with Boulton \& Watt, and in 1788 he went to Birmingham to erect a waterwheel and other machinery in the Soho Manufactory. In 1789 he was sent to Manchester to install a steam engine for Peter Drinkwater and thus his long connection with the city began. In 1790 Ewart took up residence in Manchester as Boulton \& Watt's representative. Amongst other engines, he installed one for Samuel Oldknow at Stockport. In 1792 he became a partner with Oldknow in his cotton-spinning business, but because of financial difficulties he moved back to Birmingham in 1795 to help erect the machines in the new Soho Foundry. He was soon back in Manchester in partnership with Samuel Greg at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, where he was responsible for developing the water power, installing a steam engine, and being concerned with the spinning machinery and, later, gas lighting at Greg's other mills.
    In 1798, Ewart devised an automatic expansion-gear for steam engines, but steam pressures at the time were too low for such a device to be effective. His grasp of the theory of steam power is shown by his paper to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1808, On the Measure of Moving Force. In 1813 he patented a power loom to be worked by the pressure of steam or compressed air. In 1824 Charles Babbage consulted him about automatic looms. His interest in textiles continued until at least 1833, when he obtained a patent for a self-acting spinning mule, which was, however, outclassed by the more successful one invented by Richard Roberts. Ewart gave much help and advice to others. The development of the machine tools at Boulton \& Watt's Soho Foundry has been mentioned already. He also helped James Watt with his machine for copying sculptures. While he continued to run his own textile mill, Ewart was also in partnership with Charles Macintosh, the pioneer of rubber-coated cloth. He was involved with William Fairbairn concerning steam engines for the boats that Fairbairn was building in Manchester, and it was through Ewart that Eaton Hodgkinson was introduced to Fairbairn and so made the tests and calculations for the tubes for the Britannia Railway Bridge across the Menai Straits. Ewart was involved with the launching of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway as he was a director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce at the time.
    In 1835 he uprooted himself from Manchester and became the first Chief Engineer for the Royal Navy, assuming responsibility for the steamboats, which by 1837 numbered 227 in service. He set up repair facilities and planned workshops for overhauling engines at Woolwich Dockyard, the first establishment of its type. It was here that he was killed in an accident when a chain broke while he was supervising the lifting of a large boiler. Engineering was Ewart's life, and it is possible to give only a brief account of his varied interests and connections here.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1843, "Institution of Civil Engineers", Annual General Meeting, January. Obituary, 1843, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Memoirs (NS) 7. R.L.Hills, 1987–8, "Peter Ewart, 1767–1843", Manchester Literary and Philosophical
    Society Memoirs 127.
    M.B.Rose, 1986, The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill The Rise and Decline of a Family Firm, 1750–1914, Cambridge (covers E wart's involvement with Samuel Greg).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester; R.L.Hills, 1989, Power
    from Steam, Cambridge (both look at Ewart's involvement with textiles and steam engines).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Ewart, Peter

  • 17 Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 26 August 1740 Vidalon-lès-Annonay, France
    d. 26 June 1810 Balaruc-les-Bains, France
    [br]
    French ballooning pioneer who, with his brother Jacques-Etienne (b. 6 January 1745 Vidalon-lès-Annonay, France; d. 2 August 1799, Serriers, France), built the first balloon to carry passengers on a "free" flight.
    [br]
    Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier were papermakers of Annonay, near Lyon. Joseph made the first experiments' after studying smoke rising from a fire and assuming that the smoke contained a gas which was lighter than air: of course, this lighter-than-air gas was just hot air. Using fine silk he made a small balloon with an aperture in its base, then, by burning paper beneath this aperture, he filled the balloon with hot air and it rose to the ceiling. Jacques-Etienne joined his brother in further experiments and they progressed to larger hot-air balloons until, by October 1783, they had constructed one large enough to lift two men on tethered ascents. In the same month Joseph-Michel delivered a paper at the University of Lyon on his experiments for a propulsive system by releasing gas through an opening in the side of a balloon; unfortunately, there was not enough pressurefor an effective jet. Then, on 21 November 1783, the scientist Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes ascended on a "free" flight in a Montgolfier balloon. They departed from the grounds of a château in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris on what was to be the world's first aerial journey, covering 9 km (5/2 miles) in 25 minutes.
    Ballooning became a popular spectacle with initial rivalry between the hot-air Montgolfières and the hydrogen-filled Charlières of J.A.C. Charles. Interest in hot-air balloons subsided, but was revived in the 1960s by an American, Paul E. Yost. His propane-gas burner to provide hot-air was a great advance on the straw-burning fire-basket of the Montgolfiers.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Légion d'honneur.
    Further Reading
    C.C.Gillispie, 1983, The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation 1783–1784, Princeton, NJ (one of the publications to commemorate the bicentenary of the Montgolfiers).
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1966, The Aeronauts, London (describes the history of balloons). C.Dollfus, 1961, Balloons, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Montgolfier, Joseph-Michel

  • 18 повысить ставку рефинансирования с 12 до 14 процентов с 8 января

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > повысить ставку рефинансирования с 12 до 14 процентов с 8 января

  • 19 Chappe, Claude

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 25 December 1763 Brulon, France
    d. 23 January 1805 Paris, France
    [br]
    French engineer who invented the semaphore visual telegraph.
    [br]
    Chappe began his studies at the Collège de Joyeuse, Rouen, and completed them at La Flèche. He was educated for the church with the intention of becoming an Abbé Commendataire, but this title did not in fact require him to perform any religious duties. He became interested in natural science and amongst other activities he carried out experiments with electrically charged soap bubbles.
    When the bénéfice was suppressed in 1781 he returned home and began to devise a system of telegraphic communication. With the help of his three brothers, particularly Abraham, and using an old idea, in 1790 he made a visual telegraph with suspended pendulums to relay coded messages over a distance of half a kilometre. Despite public suspicion and opposition, he presented the idea to the Assemblée Nationale on 22 May 1792. No doubt due to the influence of his brother, Ignace, a member of the Assemblée Nationale, the idea was favourably received, and on 1 April 1793 it was referred to the National Convention as being of military importance. As a result, Chappe was given the title of Telegraphy Engineer and commissioned to construct a semaphore (Gk. bearing a sign) link between Paris and Lille, a distance of some 240 km (150 miles), using twenty-two towers. Each station contained two telescopes for observing the adjacent towers, and each semaphore consisted of a central beam supporting two arms, whose positions gave nearly two hundred possible arrangements. Hence, by using a code book as a form of lookup table, Chappe was able to devise a code of over 8,000 words. The success of the system for communication during subsequent military conflicts resulted in him being commissioned to extend it with further links, a work that was continued by his brothers after his suicide during a period of illness and depression. Providing as it did an effective message speed of several thousand kilometres per hour, the system remained in use until the mid-nineteenth century, by which time the electric telegraph had become well established.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.Appleyard, 1930, Pioneers of Electrical Communication.
    International Telecommunications Union, 1965, From Semaphore to Satellite, Geneva.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Chappe, Claude

  • 20 Dassault (Bloch), Marcel

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 22 January 1892 Paris, France
    d. 18 April 1986 Paris, France
    [br]
    French aircraft designer and manufacturer, best known for his jet fighters the Mystère and Mirage.
    [br]
    During the First World War, Marcel Bloch (he later changed his name to Dassault) worked on French military aircraft and developed a very successful propeller. With his associate, Henri Potez, he set up a company to produce their Eclair wooden propeller in a furniture workshop in Paris. In 1917 they produced a two-seater aircraft which was ordered but then cancelled when the war ended. Potez continued to built aircraft under his own name, but Bloch turned to property speculation, at which he was very successful. In 1930 Bloch returned to the aviation business with an unsuccessful bomber followed by several moderately effective airliners, including the Bloch 220 of 1935, which was similar to the DC-3. He was involved in the design of a four-engined airliner, the SNCASE Languedoc, which flew in September 1939. During the Second World War, Bloch and his brothers became important figures in the French Resistance Movement. Marcel Bloch was eventually captured but survived; however, one of his brothers was executed, and after the war Bloch changed his name to Dassault, which had been his brother's code name in the Resistance. During the 1950s, Avions Marcel Dassault rapidly grew to become Europe's foremost producer of jet fighters. The Ouragon was followed by the Mystère, Etendard and then the outstanding Mirage series. The basic delta-winged Mirage III, with a speed of Mach 2, was soon serving in twenty countries around the world. From this evolved a variable geometry version, a vertical-take-off aircraft, an enlarged light bomber capable of carrying a nuclear bomb, and a swept-wing version for the 1970s. Dassault also produced a successful series of jet airliners starting with the Fan Jet Falcon of 1963. When the Dassault and Breguet companies merged in 1971, Marcel Dassault was still a force to be reckoned with.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Guggenheim Medal. Deputy, Assemblée nationale 1951–5 and 1958–86.
    Bibliography
    1971, Le Talisman, Paris: Editions J'ai lu (autobiography).
    Further Reading
    1976, "The Mirage Maker", Sunday Times Magazine (1 June).
    Jane's All the World's Aircraft, London: Jane's (details of Bloch and Dassault aircraft can be found in various years' editions).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Dassault (Bloch), Marcel

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