engineering and methods

1) General subject: accident prevention, prevention of accidents (на производстве), safety (measures), safety arrangements, occupational safety, occupational safety and health (AD), accidentology

2) Geology: safety first engineering

3) Aviation: safety-first, safety-first engineering

4) Military: safeguarding, safety regulations, safety rules, surety (напр. при обращении с ЯО)

5) Engineering: accidents prevention, safety engineering, safety methods, security means, work safety, workers' protection

6) Construction: safety norms, safety relaxation

7) Railway term: protective works

8) Law: safety

9) Economy: industrial safety measures, industrial safety precautions, industrial safety rules, safety conditions

10) Accounting: safety technique

11) Mining: safety system

12) Forestry: safety practice

13) Politics: job safety rules, labor safety rules, labor safety standards

14) Psychology: safety measure

15) Oil: hazard engineering, safe operating procedure, safe practice, safety measures, safety method

16) Mechanics: guarding technique, safety equipment

17) Advertising: safety precautions

18) Business: safety facilities

19) Oilfield: safety precautions safety measures

20) Labor protection: safety (laws) (система организационных мероприятий и технических средств, предотвращающих или уменьшающих воздействие на работающих вредных производственных факторов)

21) Robots: operational safety

22) Chemical weapons: safety( accident prevention) procedures, safety code, safety equipment (технические средства обеспечения безопасности), system safety engineering (инженерная дисциплина; её предмет: применение научных и инженерных принципов, критериев и методов для определения и исключения или снижения риска, связанного с опасностями), safety engineering (ТБ)

23) Aviation medicine: safety procedure, safety technology

24) Makarov: accident preventatives, prevention, safety arrangements and precautions

25) Logistics: safe handling, safe working

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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From 1844 until 1962, the Clyde shipyard of William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, produced over 1,500 ships, trained innumerable students of all nationalities in shipbuilding and marine engineering, and for the seventy-plus years of their existence were accepted worldwide as the leaders in the application of science to ship design and construction. Until the closure of the yard members of the Denny family were among the partners and later directors of the firm: they included men as distinguished as Dr Peter Denny (1821(?)–95), Sir Archibald Denny (1860–1936) and Sir Maurice Denny (1886– 1955), the main collaborator in the design of the Denny-Brown ship stabilizer.

One of the most influential of this shipbuilding family was William Denny, now referred to as William 3! His early education was at Dumbarton, then on Jersey and finally at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, before he commenced an apprenticeship at his father's shipyard. From the outset he not only showed great aptitude for learning and hard work but also displayed an ability to create good relationships with all he came into contact with. At the early age of 21 he was admitted a partner of the shipbuilding business of William Denny and Brothers, and some years later also of the associated engineering firm of Denny \& Co. His deep-felt interest in what is now known as industrial relations led him in 1871 to set up a piecework system of payment in the shipyard. In this he was helped by the Yard Manager, Richard Ramage, who later was to found the Leith shipyard, which produced the world's most elegant steam yachts. This research was published later as a pamphlet called The Worth of Wages, an unusual and forward-looking action for the 1860s, when Denny maintained that an absentee employer should earn as much contempt and disapproval as an absentee landlord! In 1880 he initiated an awards scheme for all company employees, with grants and awards for inventions and production improvements. William Denny was not slow to impose new methods and to research naval architecture, a special interest being progressive ship trials with a view to predicting effective horsepower. In time this led to his proposal to the partners to build a ship model testing tank beside the Dumbarton shipyard; this scheme was completed in 1883 and was to the third in the world (after the Admiralty tank at Torquay, managed by William Froude and the Royal Netherlands Navy facility at Amsterdam, under B.J. Tideman. In 1876 the Denny Shipyard started work with mild-quality shipbuilding steel on hulls for the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company, and in 1879 the world's first two ships of any size using this weight-saving material were produced: they were the Rotomahana for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand and the Buenos Ayrean for the Allan Line of Glasgow. On the naval-architecture side he was involved in Denny's proposals for standard cross curves of stability for all ships, which had far-reaching effects and are now accepted worldwide. He served on the committee working on improvements to the Load Line regulations and many other similar public bodies. After a severe bout of typhoid and an almost unacceptable burden of work, he left the United Kingdom for South America in June 1886 to attend to business with La Platense Flotilla Company, an associate company of William Denny and Brothers. In March the following year, while in Buenos Aires, he died by his own hand, a death that caused great and genuine sadness in the West of Scotland and elsewhere.

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SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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Of Scandinavian parentage, Arup attended school in Germany and Denmark before taking his degree in mathematics and philosophy at Copenhagen University in 1914. He then graduated as a civil engineer from the Royal Technical College in the same city, specializing in the theory of structures.

Arup retained close ties with Europe for some time, working in Hamburg as a designer for the Danish civil engineering firm of Christiani \& Nielsen. Then, in the 1930s, he began what was to be a long career in England as an engineering consultant to a number of architects who were beginning to build with modern materials (par-ticularly concrete) and methods of construction. He became consultant to the famous firm of Tecton (under the direction of Berthold Lubetkin) and was closely associated with the leading projects of that firm at the time, notably the High-point flats at Highgate, the Finsbury Health Centre and the award-winning Penguin Pool at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, all in London.

In 1945 Arup founded his own firm, Ove Arup \& Partners, working entirely as a consultant to architects, particularly on structural schemes, and in 1963 he set up a partnership of architects and engineers, Arup Associates. The many and varied projects with which he was concerned included Coventry Cathedral and the University of Sussex with Sir Basil Spence, the Sydney Opera House with Joern Utzon and St Catherine's College, Oxford, with Arne Jacobsen.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering

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Richard Edmund Reason was educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal College of Science (Imperial College), where he studied under Professor A.F.C.Pollard, Professor of Technical Optics. After graduating in 1925 he joined Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Ltd, Leicester, manufacturers of optical, electrical and scientific instruments, and remained with that firm throughout his career. One of his first contributions was in the development, with E.F.Fincham, of the Fincham Coincidence Optometer. At this time the firm, under William Taylor, was mainly concerned with optical instruments and lens manufacture, but in the 1930s Reason was also engaged in developing means for measuring the roughness of machined surfaces. The need for establishing standards and methods of measurement of surface finish was called for when the subcontracting of aero-engine components became necessary during the Second World War. This led to the development by Reason of an instrument in which a stylus was moved across the surface and the profile recorded electronically. This was called the Talysurf and was first produced in 1941. Further development followed, and from 1947 Reason tackled the problem of measuring roundness, producing the first Talyrond machine in 1949. The technology developed for these instruments was used in the production of others such as the Talymin Comparator and the Talyvel electronic level. Reason was also associated with the development of optical projection systems to measure the profile of parts such as gear teeth, screw threads and turbine blades. He retired in 1968 but continued as a consultant to the company. He served for many years on committees of the British Standards Institution on surface metrology and was a representative of Britain at the International Standards Organization.

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1) Engineering: statistical methods in quality control and reliability

2) Oil: STAQUAREL (statistical methods in quality control and reliability)

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Japanese academic and consultant. Known for his contribution to quality engineering and founder of the Taguchi method, which seeks to integrate quality control into product design using experiment and statistical analysis. His concepts, including quality loss (see Taguchi methods), are explained in publications such as Introduction to Quality Engineering (1986).

1 group (conjunto).

en grupo in a group

grupo de discusión discussion group; (computing) focus group (marketing)

grupo electrógeno ( Elec) generator

grupo de empresas (commerce) (corporate) group

grupo ecologista environmental group

grupo de estudio study group

grupo de música pop pop group

grupo de noticias (computing) newsgroup

grupo parlamentario (politics) parliamentary group

grupo de presión (politics) pressure group, lobby

grupo de riesgo group at risk

grupo de rock rock group

grupo sanguíneo (medicine) blood group

2 group of people, bevy, circle, group.

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► nombre masculino

1 group

2 TÉCNICA unit, set

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en grupo together, en masse

■ todos bajaron en grupo a quejarse they all went down together to complain

grupo electrógeno power plant

grupo sanguíneo blood group

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1) group

2) band

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- grupo de presión

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1) [gen] group; (=equipo) team; [de árboles] cluster, clump

2) (Elec, Téc) unit, plant; (=montaje) assembly

3) Cono Sur (=trampa) trick, con *

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a) (de personas, empresas, países) group; ( de árboles) clump

b) (Mús) tb

- grupo de control

- grupo de interés or presión

- grupo de trabajo

- grupo sanguíneo

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= aggregate, bank, batch [batches, -pl.], body, class, cluster, clutch, congeries, grouping, pack, cohort, camp, set, group, gang, bunch, corps, band, class group, combine, constituent group, collective, ensemble, bevy, line-up, cluster, segment, pod, order, mob.

Ex. The result of this is to provide a distinct class number for an aggregate of subjects which are adjacent in the UDC schedule order.

Ex. A recitation of the best thought out principles for a cataloging code is easily drowned out by the clatter of a bank of direct access devices vainly searching for misplaced records.

Ex. A KWIC index is based upon the 'keywords' in the titles of the batch of documents to be indexed.

Ex. The main body of criticism centred upon the treatment of nonbook materials.

Ex. The following highlights are what this first class of Fellows recall of their time overseas.

Ex. The local system is designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of a single library or those of a library cluster.

Ex. This approach does tend to lead to small clutches of periodicals on a given subject.

Ex. To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.

Ex. This scheme aims for a more helpful order than the major schemes, by following the groupings of subjects as they are taught in schools.

Ex. The notched cards, representing relevant documents, will drop off the needle and fall from the bulk of the pack.

Ex. This article examines the views of librarians held by a number of faculty cohorts.

Ex. This is a situation much debated between the two camps of those who would give everyone what he wants and those who would give each reader only the things of some constructive value.

Ex. SELECT retrieves records containing the search term or terms you specify and stores them in sets.

Ex. The groups continue, however, to keep alive their heritages through festivals and cultural activities.

Ex. In the 1920s and 1930s more than 1 million books were being loaned each year to members as far afield as the most isolated settlers' gangs working on distant branch lines.

Ex. They are a very impatient bunch, however: knowing themselves what the technology can do, they can get a little short with obstructionists who raise non-technical objections.

Ex. Quality abstracting services take pride in their corps of abstractors.

Ex. In recent years a band of disciples has grown up in India, and has contributed to the revision and expansion of the schedules.

Ex. If the panel members represent class groups, they must canvass for suggestions.

Ex. 158 public organisations with very diverse computer machinery formed a combine to develop an application which would make the database available on the organisations' different computer systems. = 158 instituciones públicas con equipos informáticos muy diversos crearon un grupo para desarrollar una aplicación que hiciera que la base de datos estuviese disponible en sus diferentes sistemas informáticos.

Ex. Different constituent groups tend to rate aspects of the library quite differently.

Ex. These collectives are at present seeking compensation for copies made of copyrighted material based on the nature, volume and use of copies made.

Ex. DIANE is the name that has been given to the ensemble of available information services.

Ex. It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.

Ex. The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.

Ex. Various other methods of obtaining clusters have been described, including the use of fuzzy sets, but these are beyond the scope of this book.

Ex. No such constraints exist where online display is anticipated, since only one segment at a time is displayed.

Ex. The large pod of about 75 narwhals milled around the bay in the summer feeding grounds.

Ex. The taxonomic subclass of acari (mites and ticks) comprises tens of thousands of species, grouped in many families and several orders.

Ex. In the afternoon quite a few of our mob decided that they would prefer to spend a bit of time lazing about in the water and soaking up a few rays.

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* admitir a Alguien en un grupo = adopt + Nombre + into the fold.

* análisis de grupo = cohort analysis.

* atacar en grupo = swarm.

* camaradería de grupo = group ride.

* cena de grupo = dinner party.

* cena en grupo = group dinner, dinner party.

* como grupo = collectively.

* crear un grupo = set up + group.

* debate de grupo = group discussion.

* debate en grupo = group discussion.

* división del mercado por grupos de consumidores = market segmentation.

* empresa de nuestro grupo = sister company, sister organisation.

* empresa de un grupo = operating company.

* en algunos grupos = in some quarters.

* en algunos grupos de la población = in some quarters.

* enano del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.

* en muchos grupos = in many quarters.

* en muchos grupos de la población = in many quarters.

* entre grupos sociales = intergroup.

* entrevista en grupo = group interview.

* formación de grupos de presión = lobbying representation.

* formar un grupo = set up + group.

* formar un grupo de presión = form + lobby.

* G7 (Grupo de los Siete), el = G7 (Group of Seven), the.

* gran grupo = constellation.

* grupo activista = faction group.

* grupo al Algo que va dirigido = target group.

* grupo alimenticio = food group.

* grupo asesor = advisory group.

* Grupo Asesor sobre Redes (NAG) = Network Advisory Group (NAG).

* grupo chantajista = extortion racket.

* grupo cívico = civic group.

* grupo consultivo = advisory group.

* grupo coordinador = steering group.

* grupo cultural = cultural group.

* grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.

* grupo de amigos = clan of friends.

* grupo de amigos y conocidos = social network.

* grupo de apoyo = interest group, support group.

* grupo de autoayuda = self-help group, self-help group, self-help group.

* grupo de cantantes femenino = girl band.

* grupo de cantantes masculino = boy band.

* grupo de ciudadanos desatentido = unserved, the.

* grupo de consumidores = consumer group.

* grupo de control = control group.

* grupo de datos = data set [dataset].

* grupo de debate = discussion group, focus group, discussion list, electronic forum, panel discussion, panel debate.

* grupo de dirección = management.

* grupo de discusión = discussion group.

* grupo de edad = age bracket, age group [age-group].

* grupo de empresas = business group.

* grupo de estanterías = stack, stack range.

* grupo de estudio = study circle.

* grupo de expertos = cadre, brains trust, group of experts, network, think tank.

* grupo defensor = interest group.

* grupo de gestión = management team.

* grupo de incondicionales, el = hard core, the.

* grupo de intelectuales = intelligentsia.

* grupo de interés = focus group, interest group.

* grupo de investigación = research group.

* Grupo de Investigación sobre la Clasificación (CRG) = Classification Research Group (CRG).

* grupo de la oposición = opposition group.

* grupo de los 20 = G-20.

* grupo de los ocho, el = G8, the.

* grupo del proyecto = project team.

* grupo de negociación = bargaining unit.

* grupo de normalización = standards group.

* grupo de opinión = focus group.

* grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría = peer group.

* grupo de poder = power group.

* grupo de presión = lobby group, pressure group, lobbyist.

* grupo de protección a menores = Shelter group.

* grupo de protección ciudadana = civic trust group.

* grupo de recursos = clump.

* grupo de referencia = reference group.

* grupo de representantes = focus group.

* grupo de rock = rock group.

* grupo de seguidores = fandom.

* grupo de términos de búsqueda relacionados = search hedge, subject hedge.

* grupo de trabajo = study group, study team, task force, working party, task group, research group, working group, project team.

* Grupo de Trabajo de Ingeniería de Internet (IETF) = Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

* grupo de trabajo por tema de interés = breakout group.

* Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la Asociaci = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).

* grupo de tres = threesome.

* grupo de usuarios = user group, users' group, population served.

* grupo de usuarios al que va dirigido = target user group.

* grupo disidente = splinter group, splinter party.

* grupo dominante = dominant group.

* grupo eléctrico = power unit, electrical generator, power generator.

* grupo electrógeno = electrical generator, power unit, power generator.

* grupo especial = special interest group.

* grupo específico = niche.

* grupo etario = age bracket.

* grupo étnico = ethnic group, racial group, cultural group.

* grupo experimental = experimental group.

* grupo extremista = extremist group.

* grupo incondicional, el = hard core, the.

* grupo influyente = force.

* grupo instrumental = ensemble.

* grupo integrante = constituent group.

* grupo interdisciplinar = cross-functional team.

* grupo intérprete = executant body.

* grupo marginado = deprived group, marginalised group.

* grupo marginal = disadvantaged community, marginalised group.

* grupo mayoritario = majority group.

* grupo mínimo relacionado = minimum zone cohort.

* grupo minoritario = minority group.

* grupo mixto = cross-functional team.

* grupo musical en directo = live band.

* grupo político = political group.

* grupo principal de usuarios = primary user group.

* grupo profesional = occupational group.

* grupo racial = racial group.

* grupo racista = hate group.

* grupo referente = reference group.

* grupo religioso = denominational body, religious group.

* grupos = quarters.

* grupo sanguíneo = blood group, blood type.

* grupos de diez = tens of.

* grupo según edad = age group [age-group].

* grupo social = community group, social group.

* grupo supervisor = steering group.

* grupo temáticamente afín = subject-related group.

* grupo terrorista = terrorist group.

* más débil del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.

* obra para grupo instrumental = ensemble work.

* pensamiento de grupo = groupthink.

* perfil de grupo = group profile.

* por grupos = in batches.

* presión del grupo = peer pressure.

* relativo a un grupo = group-related.

* reunión de grupo = group meeting.

* RLG (Grupo de Bibliotecas de Investigación) = RLG (Research Libraries Group).

* rodear en grupo = swarm.

* SDI por grupos = group SDI.

* sentimiento de grupo = togetherness.

* sesión de grupo = group session.

* tarifa de grupo = group rate.

* técnica de grupo nominal = nominal group technique.

* terapia de grupo = group therapy.

* trabajar en grupo = team.

* trabajar en grupo (con) = team up (with).

* una grupo impreciso de = a cloud of.

* un grupo aferrado de = a hard core of.

* un grupo cada vez mayor de = a growing body of.

* un grupo de = a set of, a bunch of, a crop of, a pool of, a cadre of, a cluster of, a galaxy of, a clutch of, a company of.

* un grupo de gente variada = a cast of people.

* un grupo incondicional de = a hard core of.

* un grupo variado de = a collection of.

* violación en grupo = gang rape.

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a) (de personas, empresas, países) group; ( de árboles) clump

b) (Mús) tb

- grupo de control

- grupo de interés or presión

- grupo de trabajo

- grupo sanguíneo

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1 (de personas) group; (de empresas, países) group; (de árboles) clump

los grupos sociales marginados marginalized social groups

un grupo de casas a group o cluster of houses

se dividieron en grupos de (a) cuatro they split into groups of four

en grupo ‹salir/trabajar› in a group/in groups

2 ( Mús) tb

grupo musical group, band

3 ( Quím) group

support group

advisory group, think tank

construction consortium

control group

consortium

hotel chain

pressure group

jazz group o band

internet forum

press consortium

( Pol) Group of Eight

newsgroup

working party

user group

generator

phonic/tonic group

target group

( frml); peer group

parliamentary group

blood group

tener el grupo sanguíneo Rh or Rhesus positivo/negativo to be Rhesus positive/negative

¿qué grupo sanguíneo tiene? what blood group are you?

tengo el grupo sanguíneo A/AB/B positivo/negativo I'm blood group A/AB/B positive/negative

control group

B ( Chi arg) (mentira) lie; (engaño) trick

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a) (de personas, empresas, países) group;

◊ grupo sanguíneo blood group;

b) (Mús) tb

◊ grupo musical group, band

* * *

grupo nm

1. [conjunto] group;

grupo (de empresas) (corporate) group;

en grupo in a group;

el grupo de cabeza [en carrera] the leading group

grupo ecologista environmental group;

grupo de edad age group;

grupo empresarial (business) group o combine;

grupo de estudio study group;

el grupo de los ocho (grandes) the G8 countries;

grupo parlamentario parliamentary group;

grupo de riesgo group at risk;

grupo sanguíneo blood group;

el grupo de los siete (grandes) the G7 countries;

2. [de músicos] group, band

3. Tec unit, set

4. Quím group

5. Ling grupo consonántico consonant cluster;

grupo fónico phonic group;

grupo nominal noun phrase;

grupo de palabras word group;

grupo vocálico vowel cluster

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m group;

en grupos in groups

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grupo nm

: group

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grupo n group

1 technique, skill, expertise, know-how.

2 procedure, method.

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► nombre femenino

1 (tecnología) technique, technology

2 (habilidad) technique, method

3 (ingeniería) engineering

■ técnica mecánica mechanical engineering

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1) (=método) technique

2) (=tecnología) technology

3) (=destreza) skill

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1)

a) ( método) technique

b) ( destreza) skill

2) ( tecnología) technology

3) ( en baloncesto) technical foul

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= approach [approaches, -pl.], know-how, mechanics, skill, technique, technic.

Ex. During the last twenty years the variety of approaches to the organisation of knowledge has proliferated with the introduction of computer-based methods.

Ex. What was lacking, however, was the know-how for forming and running such groups.

Ex. However, it is clear that the mechanics of searching post-coordinate indexes differ from those involved in searching pre-coordinate indexes.

Ex. However, successful human free language indexing is very dependent upon the skills of the individual indexer.

Ex. Improvements in document delivery services (DDS) via the further application of techniques such as facsimile transmission will also have an important role to play.

Ex. The technic of automatic indexing indicates a list of key-words (simple and compound words) to an expert in a given field.

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* arte y técnica de escribir obras de teatro = playwriting.

* desarrollar una técnica = develop + skill, build + skill.

* dominar una técnica = master + technique.

* técnica analítica = analytical technique.

* técnica bibliométrica = bibliometric technique.

* técnica bibliotecaria = library technique.

* técnica cluster = clustering technique.

* técnica convolucionista = convolution technique.

* técnica de apoyo = enabling skill.

* técnica de audio simultáneo = audio streaming.

* técnica de búsqueda automatizada = computer-searching technique.

* técnica de construcción = construction technique.

* técnica de diseño = design technique.

* técnica de encuadernación = binding technique.

* técnica de fabricación = construction technique.

* técnica de grupo nominal = nominal group technique.

* técnica de incidencias = critical incident technique.

* técnica de investigación = research technique.

* técnica Delphi, la = Delphi technique, the.

* técnica de mercado = merchandising technique.

* técnica de navegación = navigational technique.

* técnica de recuperación de información por coincidencia óptima = best match technique.

* técnica de recuperación por medio de la lógica difusa = fuzzy IR technique.

* técnica de repografía = reprography technique.

* técnica de vídeo simultáneo = video streaming.

* técnica documental = document-handling technique.

* técnicas de composición escrita = writing skills.

* técnicas de estudio = study skills.

* técnicas de proyección = forecasting techniques.

* técnicas de redacción = writing skills.

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1)

a) ( método) technique

b) ( destreza) skill

2) ( tecnología) technology

3) ( en baloncesto) technical foul

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* * *

1 (método) technique

2 (habilidad, destreza) skill

conduce con mucha técnica she's a very skilful driver

B (tecnología) technology

avances de la técnica advances in technology

electronic technology

hydraulic technology

C (en baloncesto) technical foul

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a) ( método) technique

b) ( destreza) skill

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técnica nf

1. [procedimiento] technique;

en Florencia aprendió la técnica pictórica del fresco in Florence he learned the fresco technique;

tiene mucha técnica she has very good technique, she's very skilful

técnicas de venta sales techniques

2. [tecnología] technology;

los grandes avances de la técnica great advances in technology

3. [en baloncesto] technical foul;

el árbitro le pitó una técnica al entrenador the referee blew the whistle for a technical foul by the trainer

4. ver técnico

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1 technique

2 en baloncesto: infracción technical foul

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técnica nf

1) : technique, skill

2) : technology

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técnica n technique

SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Metallurgy

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Edward Geisler Herbert was educated at Nottingham High School in 1876–87, and at University College, London, in 1887–90, graduating with a BSc in Physics in 1889 and remaining for a further year to take an engineering course. He began his career as a premium apprentice at the Nottingham works of Messrs James Hill \& Co, manufacturers of lace machinery. In 1892 he became a partner with Charles Richardson in the firm of Richardson \& Herbert, electrical engineers in Manchester, and when this partnership was dissolved in 1895 he carried on the business in his own name and began to produce machine tools. He remained as Managing Director of this firm, reconstituted in 1902 as a limited liability company styled Edward G.Herbert Ltd, until his retirement in 1928. He was joined by Charles Fletcher (1868–1930), who as joint Managing Director contributed greatly to the commercial success of the firm, which specialized in the manufacture of small machine tools and testing machinery.

Around 1900 Herbert had discovered that hacksaw machines cut very much quicker when only a few teeth are in operation, and in 1902 he patented a machine which utilized this concept by automatically changing the angle of incidence of the blade as cutting proceeded. These saws were commercially successful, but by 1912, when his original patents were approaching expiry, Herbert and Fletcher began to develop improved methods of applying the rapid-saw concept. From this work the well-known Rapidor and Manchester saws emerged soon after the First World War. A file-testing machine invented by Herbert before the war made an autographic record of the life and performance of the file and brought him into close contact with the file and tool steel manufacturers of Sheffield. A tool-steel testing machine, working like a lathe, was introduced when high-speed steel had just come into general use, and Herbert became a prominent member of the Cutting Tools Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1919, carrying out many investigations for that body and compiling four of its Reports published between 1927 and 1933. He was the first to conceive the idea of the "tool-work" thermocouple which allowed cutting tool temperatures to be accurately measured. For this advance he was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution in 1926.

His best-known invention was the Pendulum Hardness Tester, introduced in 1923. This used a spherical indentor, which was rolled over, rather than being pushed into, the surface being examined, by a small, heavy, inverted pendulum. The period of oscillation of this pendulum provided a sensitive measurement of the specimen's hardness. Following this work Herbert introduced his "Cloudburst" surface hardening process, in which hardened steel engineering components were bombarded by steel balls moving at random in all directions at very high velocities like gaseous molecules. This treatment superhardened the surface of the components, improved their resistance to abrasion, and revealed any surface defects. After bombardment the hardness of the superficially hardened layers increased slowly and spontaneously by a room-temperature ageing process. After his retirement in 1928 Herbert devoted himself to a detailed study of the influence of intense magnetic fields on the hardening of steels.

Herbert was a member of several learned societies, including the Manchester Association of Engineers, the Institute of Metals, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He retained a seat on the Board of his company from his retirement until the end of his life.

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SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Photography, film and optics

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William Taylor served an apprenticeship from 1880 to 1885 in London with Paterson and Cooper, electrical engineers and instrument makers. He studied at the Finsbury Technical College under Professors W.E.Ayrton (1847–1908) and John Perry (1850–1920). He remained with Paterson and Cooper until 1887, when he joined his elder brother, who had set up in Leicester as a manufacturer of optical instruments. The firm was then styled T.S. \& W.Taylor and a few months later, when H.W.Hobson joined them as a partner, it became Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, as it was known for many years.

William Taylor was mainly responsible for technical developments in the firm and he designed the special machine tools required for making lenses and their mountings. However, his most notable work was in originating methods of measuring and gauging screw threads. He proposed a standard screw-thread for lens mountings that was adopted by the Royal Photographic Society, and he served on screw thread committees of the British Standards Institution and the British Association. His interest in golf led him to study the flight of the golf ball, and he designed and patented the "Dimple" golf ball and a mechanical driving machine for testing golf balls.

He was an active member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, being elected Associate Member in 1894, Member in 1901 and Honorary Life Member in 1936. He served on the Council from 1918 and was President in 1932. He took a keen interest in engineering education and advocated the scientific study of materials, processes and machine tools, and of management. His death occurred suddenly while he was helping to rescue his son's car from a snowdrift.

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travail (plural - aux) [tʀavaj, o]

1. masculine noun

   a. ( = activité) le travail work

• il est en plein travail he's in the middle of something

• se mettre au travail to get down to work

• avoir du travail/beaucoup de travail to have some work/a lot of work to do

• j'ai un travail fou en ce moment (inf) I'm up to my eyes in work at the moment (inf)

• horaire/vêtements de travail work schedule/clothes

• conditions/méthodes/groupe/déjeuner de travail working conditions/methods/group/lunch

• à travail égal, salaire égal equal pay for equal work

• améliorer la communication, c'est tout un travail ! improving communications is quite a task!

   b. ( = tâche) work uncount, job ; ( = résultat) work uncount

• c'est un travail de spécialiste (difficile à faire) it's a job for a specialist ; (bien fait) it's the work of a specialist

• tu as fait du beau travail you've done a really good job

• travaux de recherche/de construction research/building work

• faire faire des travaux dans la maison to have some work done in the house

• les grands travaux présidentiels the major projects undertaken by the president

• « pendant les travaux, le magasin restera ouvert » "business as usual during alterations"

• il y a des travaux (sur la chaussée) there are roadworks in progress

• « attention ! travaux ! » "caution! work in progress!" ; (sur la route) "roadworks ahead!" (Brit) "roadwork ahead!" (US)

   c. ( = métier, profession) job ; ( = situation) work uncount, job

• avoir un travail intéressant/lucratif to have an interesting/a highly paid job

• apprendre un travail to learn a job

• être sans travail

• ne pas avoir de travail to be out of work

• travail de bureau office work

• travail d'équipe or en équipe team work

• travail en usine factory work

• reprendre le travail to go back to work

• le monde du travail the world of work

   d. ( = façonnage) [de bois, cuir, fer] working

• le travail du marbre requiert une grande habileté working with marble requires great skill

   e. ( = accouchement) labour (Brit), labor (US)

• le travail n'a pas encore commencé she hasn't gone into labour yet

2. compounds

► travaux agricoles farm work

► travaux d'aiguille needlework

► travail à la chaîne assembly-line work

► travaux dirigés (University) tutorial

► travail à distance remote work

► travaux forcés hard labour

► un travail de fourmi a long, painstaking job

► travaux manuels (School) handicrafts

► travaux ménagers housework

► travail au noir undeclared work ; (en plus d'un autre) moonlighting

► travaux personnels encadrés multidisciplinary school project

► travaux pratiques (en classe) practical work ; (en laboratoire) lab work (Brit), lab (US)

► travaux publics civil engineering

• ingénieur des travaux publics civil engineer

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pl - aux tʀavaj, o nom masculin

1) ( contraire de repos) work

2) (tâche faite, à faire) job; (ensemble des tâches, besogne) work [U]

3) ( fait d'exercer un emploi) work; ( emploi rémunéré) work [U], job; ( lieu) work

4) Économie, Sociologie (activité, population active) labour [BrE] [U]

5) ( résultat d'un fonctionnement) (de machine, d'organe) work [U]

6) ( ouvrage érudit) work ( sur on)

7) ( façonnage)

8) (technique, exécution) workmanship

9) Physique work

10) ( action) (d'eau, érosion) action (de of); fig (d'imagination, inconscient) workings (pl) (de of)

11) ( altération) ( de vin) fermentation, working; ( de bois) warping

12) Médecine ( pendant un accouchement) labour [BrE]

travaux nom masculin pluriel

1) ( en chantier) work [U]; ( sur une route) roadworks GB, roadwork [U] US

2) (recherche, études) work [U] ( sur on)

3) ( débats) deliberations

4) ( opérations de même nature)

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- travail à la chaîne

- travail au noir

- travaux dirigés

- travaux forcés

- travaux manuels

- travaux ménagers

- travaux pratiques

- travaux publics

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1. nm

1) (= activité, effort) work

2) (= tâche spécifique) job

3) (= emploi, gagne-pain) job, work no pl

4) (= lieu) work

5) ÉCONOMIE (= ressource, facteur) labour Grande-Bretagne labor USA

6) MÉDECINE (de l'accouchement) labour Grande-Bretagne labor USA

7) (= façonnage)

2. travaux nmpl

(= chantier) (de réparation, agricoles) work, (sur route) roadworks, [construction] building work, building

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travail, pl - aux

A nm

1 ( contraire de repos) work; le travail intellectuel intellectual work; le travail scolaire schoolwork; ça demande des mois de travail it requires months of work; se mettre au travail to get down to work, to start work; être en plein travail to be busy working;

2 (tâche faite, à faire) job; (ensemble des tâches, besogne) work ¢; faire un travail to do a job; distribuer le travail to allocate jobs; ce n'est pas mon travail it's not my job; c'est un travail de professionnel ( à faire) it's a job for a professional; ( bien fait) it's a very professional job; c'est un travail d'homme it's man's work; commencer un travail to start a job; mener un travail de recherche to do research work; avoir du travail to have work to do; j'ai un travail fou I'm up to my eyes in work, I've got a lot of work on; les enfants, ça donne du travail, les enfants, c'est du travail children make a lot of work; les gros travaux the heavy work; s'occuper à de petits travaux to do little jobs; faire quelques travaux de jardinage to do a few gardening jobs; (félicitations) c'est du beau travail! aussi iron you've done a great job on that; qu'est-ce que c'est que ce travail? what do you call this?; et voilà le travail! that's that done!;

3 ( fait d'exercer un emploi) work; ( emploi rémunéré) work ¢, job; ( lieu) work; ne me téléphone pas à mon travail don't call me at work; chercher du/un travail to look for work/a job; bien content d'avoir du/un travail glad to be in work/to have a job; être sans travail to be out of work; donner du travail à qn ( employer) to give sb a job; reprendre le travail to go back to work; cesser le travail to stop work; aller au travail to go to work; être au travail to be at work; que fais-tu comme travail? what do you do?, what's your job?; il ne fait que son travail he's only doing his job; le travail en usine/de bureau factory/office ou clerical work; le travail temporaire/à mi-temps temporary/part-time work; un travail à mi-temps a part-time job; le travail en équipe team work; le travail en équipes shiftwork; le travail de nuit nightwork; il a un travail de nuit he works nights; le travail indépendant freelance work, self-employment; conditions/semaine de travail working conditions/week; vivre de son travail to work for one's living; ⇒ salaire;

4 Écon, Sociol (activité, population active) labour^GB ¢; le capital et le travail capital and labour^GB; organisation/division du travail organization/division of labour^GB; force de travail workforce; entrer dans le monde du travail to enter the world of work; la psychologie du travail industrial psychology;

5 ( résultat d'un fonctionnement) (de machine, d'organe) work ¢; le travail du cœur the work done by the heart; le travail musculaire muscular effort, the work done by the muscles;

6 ( ouvrage érudit) work (sur on); publier un travail sur la Renaissance to publish a work on the Renaissance;

7 ( façonnage) le travail de working with ou in [métal, bois, pierre]; le travail de l'ivoire est difficile working with ou in ivory is difficult; apprendre le travail du bois/métal to learn woodwork/metalwork;

8 (technique, exécution) workmanship; un travail superbe a superb piece of workmanship; un coffret d'un beau travail a beautifully made box; une dentelle d'un travail délicat a delicate piece of lacework;

9 Mécan, Phys work;

10 ( action) (d'eau, érosion) action (de of); fig (d'imagination, inconscient) workings (pl) (de of); le travail du temps the work of time;

11 ( altération) ( de vin) fermentation, working; ( de bois) warping;

12 Méd ( pendant accouchement) labour^GB; entrer/être en travail to go into/be in labour^GB; salle de travail labour^GB ward.

B travaux nmpl

1 ( en chantier) work (sg); ( sur une route) roadworks GB, roadwork ¢ US; travaux de construction/réfection/soutènement construction/renovation/retaining work ¢; travaux de terrassement earthworks; travaux d'aménagement ( de bâtiment) alterations (de to), improvements (de to); ( d'un site) redevelopment ¢ (de of); ( d'une route) roadworks (de on); faire faire des travaux dans sa maison to have work done in one's house; nous sommes en plein travaux we're in the middle of having some work done; ‘fermé pour travaux’ ( sur une devanture) ‘closed for repairs ou alterations’; ‘attention, travaux’ gén ‘caution, work in progress’; ( sur une route) ‘caution, road under repair’;

2 (recherche, études) work ¢ (sur on); publier le résultat de ses travaux to publish the results of one's work;

3 ( débats) (d'assemblée, de commission) deliberations;

4 ( opérations de même nature) les travaux agricoles/de la ferme agricultural/farm work; travaux de couture needlework.

travail à la chaîne assembly-line work; travail clandestin work for which no earnings are declared; travail à domicile working at or from home; travail des enfants child labour^GB; travail d'intérêt général Jur community service; travail manuel manual work; travail au noir○ gén work for which no earnings are declared; ( exercice d'un second emploi non déclaré) moonlighting; travail aux pièces piece work; travail posté shift work; travail de Romain Herculean task; travail de titan = travail de Romain; travaux d'aiguille needlework ¢; travaux des champs agricultural ou farm work ¢; travaux de dame fancywork ¢; travaux dirigés, TD Univ practical (sg); travaux forcés Jur hard labour^GB (sg); fig slave labour^GB ¢; travaux manuels Scol handicrafts; travaux ménagers housework ¢; travaux pratiques, TP Scol, Univ practical work ¢; ( en laboratoire) lab work ¢; travaux préparatoires Jur ( pour un texte de loi) preliminary documents; travaux publics, TP ( travail) civil engineering ¢; ( ouvrages) civil engineering works, public works; travaux routiers roadworks GB, roadwork ¢ US.

travail, pl travails nm ( appareil) trave.

( pluriel travaux) [travaj, o] nom masculin

A.[ACTION]

1. [occupation]

a. [occasionnel] undeclared casual work, moonlighting

b. [comme pratique généralisée] black economy

a. [généralement] temporary work

b. [dans un bureau] temping

2. [tâches imposées] work

3. [tâche déterminée] job

4. [efforts] (hard) work

5. [exécution] work

6. [façonnage] working

7. [poste] job, occupation, post

[responsabilité] job

8. [dans le système capitaliste] labour

9. [contrainte exercée - par la chaleur, l'érosion] action

10. PHYSIOLOGIE [accouchement] labour

[activité] work

B.[RÉSULTAT, EFFET]

1. [écrit] piece

2. [transformation - généralement] work

[modification interne - dans le bois] warping ; [ - dans le fromage] maturing ; [ - dans le vin] working

C.[LIEU D'ACTIVITÉ PROFESSIONNELLE] work, workplace

travaux nom masculin pluriel

1. [tâches] work, working

a. MILITAIRE approaches

b. (figuré) manoeuvring

a. MYTHOLOGIE labours of Hercules

b. (figuré) Herculean tasks

a. [généralement] arts and crafts

b. ÉDUCATION handicraft

a. [généralement] practical work

b. [en laboratoire] lab work

2. [d'une commission] work

nous publierons le résultat de nos travaux we'll publish our findings

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au travail locution adverbiale

1. [en activité] at work, working

2. [sur le lieu d'activité] at work, in the workplace

je vous donne mon numéro au travail I'll give you my work number

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de travail locution adjectivale

1. [horaire, séance] working

[vêtement, camarade, permis] work (modificateur)

2. [d'accouchement - période] labour (modificateur) ; [ - salle] labour (modificateur), delivery (modificateur)

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du travail locution adjectivale

[accident, sociologie, législation] industrial

droit du travail employment law

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en travail adverbe

entrer en travail to go into ou to start labour

( pluriel travails) [travaj] nom masculin

MÉDECINE VÉTÉRINAIRE trave

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Railways and locomotives

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The son of a lawyer, he entered an academy in Cape Cod and, at the age of 19, the English Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, for five terms. He was then in the employ of Samuel L. Fenton of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He served a three-year apprenticeship, then went to the Windsor White River Division of the Vermont Central Railroad. He was Resident Engineer of the Cheshire Railroad at Walpote, New Hampshire, from 1847 to 1849, and then worked in independent practice as a civil engineer and surveyor until his death. He was involved with nearly all the railroads running out of Boston, especially the Boston \& Maine. In April 1863 he was appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel, which was already being built. He introduced new engineering methods, relocated the line of the tunnel and achieved great accuracy in the meeting of the borings. He was largely responsible for the development in the USA of the advanced system of tunnelling with machinery and explosives, and pioneered the use of compressed air in the USA. In 1869 he was Chief Engineer of the Burlington \& Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska, laying down some 240 miles (386 km) of track in four years. During this period he became interested in the building of a Congregational College at Crete, Nebraska, for which he gave the land and which was named after him. In 1873 he returned to Charlestown and was again appointed Chief Engineer of the Hoosac Tunnel. At the final opening of the tunnel on 9 February 1875 he drove the first engine through. He remained in charge of construction for a further two years.

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Kettering gained degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from Ohio State University. He was employed by the National Construction Register (NCR) of Dayton, Ohio, where he devised an electric motor for use in cash registers. He became Head of the Inventions Department of that company but left in 1909 to form, with the former Works Manager of NCR, Edward A. Deeds, the Dayton Engineering Laboratories (later called Delco), to develop improved lighting and ignition systems for automobiles. In the first two years of the new company he produced not only these but also the first self-starter, both of which were fitted to the Cadillac, America's leading luxury car. In 1914 he founded Dayton Metal Products and the Dayton Wright Airplane Company. Two years later Delco was bought by General Motors. In 1925 the independent research facilities of Delco were moved to Detroit and merged with General Motors' laboratories to form General Motors Research Corporation, of which Kettering was President and General Manager. (He had been Vice-President of General Motors since 1920.) In that position he headed investigations into methods of achieving maximum engine performance as well as into the nature of friction and combustion. Many other developments in the automobile field were made under his leadership, such as engine coolers, variable-speed transmissions, balancing machines, the two-way shock absorber, high-octane fuel, leaded petrol or gasoline, fast-drying lacquers, crank-case ventilators, chrome plating, and the high-compression automobile engine. Among his other activities were the establishment of the Charles Franklin Kettering Foundation for the Study of Chlorophyll and Photosynthesis at Antioch College, and the founding of the Sloan- Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York City. He sponsored the Fever Therapy Research Project at Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, which developed the hypertherm, or artificial fever machine, for use in the treatment of disease. He resigned from General Motors in 1947.