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1. n выбор, отбор, подбор2. n тот, кто или то, что отобраноthe selections for a match — игроки, отобранные для участия в матче
3. n набор, выбор; подборка; выборкаselection matrix — матрица выборки; матричный дешифратор
4. n избранное произведение, избранный отрывок; сборник избранных произведений5. n биол. отбор; селекцияrandom selection — случайный выбор; случайная селекция
judicial selection — отбор, подбор кандидатов в судьи
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[sıʹlekʃ(ə)n] n1. выбор, отбор, подборextensive [unlimited, rich, conscious] selection - широкий [неограниченный, богатый, сознательный] выбор
careful [occasional] selection - тщательный [случайный] отбор
to make a selection from smth. - выбирать /отбирать/ (что-л.) из чего-л.
selection felling /cutting/ - лес. выборочная рубка
selection match - спорт. отборочное соревнование
Selection Board - воен. отборочная комиссия
2. 1) тот, кто или то, что отобраноthe selections for a match - игроки, отобранные для участия в матче
2) набор (каких-л. вещей, образцов), выбор; подборка; выборкаto have a good selection of smth. - иметь хороший выбор /широкий ассортимент/ чего-л.
3) избранное произведение, избранный отрывок; сборник избранных произведенийselections from Shakespeare [from American poets] - избранные произведения Шекспира [американских поэтов]
to play some musical selections - играть отрывки из музыкальных произведений
3. биол. отбор; селекцияnatural [artificial] selection - естественный [искусственный] отбор
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n1) вибір, відбір, добір2) той, кого вибрали; те, що вибралиthe selections for a match — гравці, дібрані для участі у матчі
3) набір, добірка; асортиментto have a good selection of smth. — мати гарний набір (широкий асортимент) чогось
4) вибраний твір; збірка вибраних творів5) біол. селекція, відбірS. board — військ. відбіркова комісія
* * *n1) вибір, відбір, підбір2) те, що відібране; набір (речей, зразків), вибір; добірка; вибірка; вибраний твір3) бioл. відбір; селекція -
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sɪˈlekʃən сущ.
1) выбор, подбор, отбор to make a selection ≈ производить отбор natural selection ≈ естественный отбор Syn: assortment, picking out, picking up б) вариант выбора;
выборка;
подборка
2) а) набор( каких-л. вещей) б) сборник избранных произведений
3) биол. отбор, селекция выбор, отбор, подбор - extensive * широкий выбор - careful * тщательный отбор - to make one's own * сделать собственный выбор - to make a * from smth. выбирать /отбирать/ (что-л.) из чего-л. - * felling /cutting/ (лесохозяйственное) выборочная рубка - * match( спортивное) отборочное соревнование - S. Board( военное) отборочная комиссия тот, кто или то, что отобрано - the *s for a match игроки, отобранные для участия в матче - the hat is her own * эту шляпу она сама выбрала набор (каких-л. вещей, образцов), выбор;
подборка;
выборка - to have a good * of smth. иметь хороший выбор /широкий ассортимент/ чего-л. - the shop has a good * of hats в магазине большой выбор шляп избранное произведение, избранный отрывок;
сборник избранных произведений - *s from Shakespeare избранные произведения Шекспира - to play some musical *s играть отрывки из музыкальных произведений (библеизм) отбор;
селекция - natural * естественный отбор aiding customer in ~ помощь покупателю в выборе branch ~ вчт. выбор ветви counter ~ отбор рисков, повышающий вероятность наступления страхового случая data ~ вчт. выбор данных exchange ~ вчт. выборка с обменом geographic ~ территориальный отбор, отбор на основе географического принципа involve a ~ предполагать выбор menu ~ вчт. пункт меню ordered ~ вчт. обслуживание в порядке поступления product ~ отбор продукции program ~ вчт. выбор программы selection выбор, подбор ~ выбор ~ набор (каких-л. вещей) ~ набор товаров ~ отбор ~ биол. отбор, селекция ~ подбор ~ сборник избранных произведений ~ селекция set ~ вчт. выбор набора site ~ выбор строительной площадки teaching ~ обучающая выборкаБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > selection
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9 large
A adj1 ( big) [area, car, city, feet, house] grand (before n) ; [appetite, piece, fruit, hand, nose, eye] gros/grosse ; to take a large size prendre une grande taille ; to grow ou get large grandir ;2 ( substantial) [amount, fortune, sum] important, gros/grosse (before n) ; [part] gros/grosse (before n) ; [number, quantity] grand (before n) ; [population, percentage] fort (before n), important ; [crowd, family] nombreux/-euse (after n) ; [proportion] gros/grosse, fort (before n) ; to be out in large numbers [people] être nombreux/-euses ;4 ( extensive) [selection, range, choice] grand (before n) ; in large measure, to a large extent en grande partie ; on a large scale [plan, demolish, reorganize] sur une grande échelle ; [emigrate, desert] en grand nombre.1 ( free) [prisoner, killer] en liberté ;2 ( in general) [society, population] en général, dans son ensemble ; in the country at large dans l'ensemble du pays ; the public at large le grand public.by and large de façon générale, en général ; larger than life [character, personality] exubérant ; he turned up two days later as large as life il a réapparu deux jours plus tard bien vivant. -
10 Leonardo da Vinci
[br]b. 15 April 1452 Vinci, near Florence, Italy,d. 2 May 1519 St Cloux, near Amboise, France.[br]Italian scientist, engineer, inventor and artist.[br]Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer. His first sixteen years were spent with the lawyer's family in the rural surroundings of Vinci, which aroused in him a lifelong love of nature and an insatiable curiosity in it. He received little formal education but extended his knowledge through private reading. That gave him only a smattering of Latin, a deficiency that was to be a hindrance throughout his active life. At sixteen he was apprenticed in the studio of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence, where he received a training not only in art but in a wide variety of crafts and technical arts.In 1482 Leonardo went to Milan, where he sought and obtained employment with Ludovico Sforza, later Duke of Milan, partly to sculpt a massive equestrian statue of Ludovico but the work never progressed beyond the full-scale model stage. He did, however, complete the painting which became known as the Virgin of the Rocks and in 1497 his greatest artistic achievement, The Last Supper, commissioned jointly by Ludovico and the friars of Santa Maria della Grazie and painted on the wall of the monastery's refectory. Leonardo was responsible for the court pageants and also devised a system of irrigation to supply water to the plains of Lombardy. In 1499 the French army entered Milan and deposed Leonardo's employer. Leonardo departed and, after a brief visit to Mantua, returned to Florence, where for a time he was employed as architect and engineer to Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna. Around 1504 he completed another celebrated work, the Mona Lisa.In 1506 Leonardo began his second sojourn in Milan, this time in the service of King Louis XII of France, who appointed him "painter and engineer". In 1513 Leonardo left for Rome in the company of his pupil Francesco Melzi, but his time there was unproductive and he found himself out of touch with the younger artists active there, Michelangelo above all. In 1516 he accepted with relief an invitation from King François I of France to reside at the small château of St Cloux in the royal domain of Amboise. With the pension granted by François, Leonardo lived out his remaining years in tranquility at St Cloux.Leonardo's career can hardly be regarded as a success or worthy of such a towering genius. For centuries he was known only for the handful of artistic works that he managed to complete and have survived more or less intact. His main activity remained hidden until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, during which the contents of his notebooks were gradually revealed. It became evident that Leonardo was one of the greatest scientific investigators and inventors in the history of civilization. Throughout his working life he extended a searching curiosity over an extraordinarily wide range of subjects. The notes show careful investigation of questions of mechanical and civil engineering, such as power transmission by means of pulleys and also a form of chain belting. The notebooks record many devices, such as machines for grinding and polishing lenses, a lathe operated by treadle-crank, a rolling mill with conical rollers and a spinning machine with pinion and yard divider. Leonardo made an exhaustive study of the flight of birds, with a view to designing a flying machine, which obsessed him for many years.Leonardo recorded his observations and conclusions, together with many ingenious inventions, on thousands of pages of manuscript notes, sketches and drawings. There are occasional indications that he had in mind the publication of portions of the notes in a coherent form, but he never diverted his energy into putting them in order; instead, he went on making notes. As a result, Leonardo's impact on the development of science and technology was virtually nil. Even if his notebooks had been copied and circulated, there were daunting impediments to their understanding. Leonardo was left-handed and wrote in mirror-writing: that is, in reverse from right to left. He also used his own abbreviations and no punctuation.At his death Leonardo bequeathed his entire output of notes to his friend and companion Francesco Melzi, who kept them safe until his own death in 1570. Melzi left the collection in turn to his son Orazio, whose lack of interest in the arts and sciences resulted in a sad period of dispersal which endangered their survival, but in 1636 the bulk of them, in thirteen volumes, were assembled and donated to the Ambrosian Library in Milan. These include a large volume of notes and drawings compiled from the various portions of the notebooks and is now known as the Codex Atlanticus. There they stayed, forgotten and ignored, until 1796, when Napoleon's marauding army overran Italy and art and literary works, including the thirteen volumes of Leonardo's notebooks, were pillaged and taken to Paris. After the war in 1815, the French government agreed to return them but only the Codex Atlanticus found its way back to Milan; the rest remained in Paris. The appendix to one notebook, dealing with the flight of birds, was later regarded as of sufficient importance to stand on its own. Four small collections reached Britain at various times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; of these, the volume in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle is notable for its magnificent series of anatomical drawings. Other collections include the Codex Leicester and Codex Arundel in the British Museum in London, and the Madrid Codices in Spain.Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Leonardo's true stature as scientist, engineer and inventor began to emerge, particularly with the publication of transcriptions and translations of his notebooks. The volumes in Paris appeared in 1881–97 and the Codex Atlanticus was published in Milan between 1894 and 1904.[br]Principal Honours and Distinctions"Premier peintre, architecte et mécanicien du Roi" to King François I of France, 1516.Further ReadingE.MacCurdy, 1939, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 2 vols, London; 2nd edn, 1956, London (the most extensive selection of the notes, with an English translation).G.Vasari (trans. G.Bull), 1965, Lives of the Artists, London: Penguin, pp. 255–271.C.Gibbs-Smith, 1978, The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford: Phaidon. L.H.Heydenreich, Dibner and L. Reti, 1981, Leonardo the Inventor, London: Hutchinson.I.B.Hart, 1961, The World of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Macdonald.LRD / IMcN -
11 vast
(of very great size or amount: He inherited a vast fortune.) vasto, inmenso- vastnessvast adj enorme / inmenso / grandetr[vɑːst]1 (extensive) vasto,-a, inmenso,-a; (huge) inmenso,-a, enormevast ['væst] adj: inmenso, enorme, vastoadj.• dilatado, -a adj.• extenso, -a adj.• inconmensurable adj.• vasto, -a adj.væst, vɑːstadjective <size/wealth> inmenso, enorme; < area> vasto, extenso; <range/repertoire> muy extenso, amplísimo; <experience/knowledge> vastovast sums of money — sumas fpl astronómicas de dinero
[vɑːst]ADJ (compar vaster) (superl vastest) [building, quantity, organization] enorme, inmenso; [area] vasto, extenso; [range, selection] enorme, amplísimo; [knowledge, experience] vasto* * *[væst, vɑːst]adjective <size/wealth> inmenso, enorme; < area> vasto, extenso; <range/repertoire> muy extenso, amplísimo; <experience/knowledge> vastovast sums of money — sumas fpl astronómicas de dinero
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12 wide
1. adjective1) (great in extent, especially from side to side: wide streets; Her eyes were wide with surprise.) ancho, grande2) (being a certain distance from one side to the other: This material is three metres wide; How wide is it?) de largo3) (great or large: He won by a wide margin.) amplio, extenso4) (covering a large and varied range of subjects etc: a wide experience of teaching.) variado, diverso
2. adverb(with a great distance from top to bottom or side to side: He opened his eyes wide.) completamente- widely- widen
- wideness
- width
- wide-ranging
- widespread
- give a wide berth to
- give a wide berth
- wide apart
- wide awake
- wide open
wide1 adj1. ancho2. ampliowide2 adv completamente / totalmentetr[waɪd]1 (broad) ancho,-a; (space, hole, gap) grande2 (having specified width) de ancho■ how wide is it? ¿cuánto hace de ancho?3 (large - area) amplio,-a, extenso,-a; (- knowledge, experience, repercussions) amplio,-a; (- coverage, range, support) extenso,-a4 (eyes, smile) abierto,-a5 (off target) desviado,-a1 (fully - gen) completamente■ wide awake completamente despierto,-a■ wide apart muy separados,-as■ open wide! said the dentist ¡abre bien la boca! dijo el dentista2 (off target) desviado\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLfrom far and wide de todas partesto be/fall wide of the mark no dar en el blanco, no acertarto give somebody/something a wide berth evitar a alguien/algoto go into something with one's eyes wide open saber muy bien dónde se está metiendo unowide open (to something) (exposed) completamente expuesto,-a (a algo)1) widely: por todas partesto travel far and wide: viajar por todas partes2) completely: completamente, totalmentewide open: abierto de par en par3)wide apart : muy separados1) vast: vasto, extensivoa wide area: una área extensiva2) : anchothree meters wide: tres metros de ancho3) broad: ancho, amplio5)wide of the mark : desviado, lejos del blancoadj.• ancho, -a adj.• anchuroso, -a adj.• campanudo, -a adj.• de ancho adj.• desenfadado, -a adj.• desparramado, -a adj.• extenso, -a adj.• muy abierto adj.adv.• lejos adv.
I waɪdadjective wider, widest1) ( in dimension) <river/feetousers> ancho; < gap> grande; <desert/ocean> vastoit's two meters wide — tiene or mide dos metros de ancho
2) (in extent, range) <experience/powers> amplio; < area> amplio, extenso3) ( off target) <ball/shot> desviadowide OF something — lejos de algo; mark I 4)
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adverb wider, widest1) (completely, fully)her mouth gaped wide — se quedó boquiabierta or con la boca abierta
wide apart: with your feet wide apart con los pies bien or muy separados; wide awake: to be wide awake estar* completamente espabilado or despierto; open wide! abra bien la boca, abre grande (fam); wide open: you left the door wide open dejaste la puerta abierta de par en par; I'm going into this with my eyes wide open sé muy bien en qué me estoy metiendo; he's laid himself wide open to criticism él mismo se ha expuesto a que lo critiquen; the game is wide open — el partido no está definido
2) ( off target)[waɪd]1. ADJ(compar wider) (superl widest)1) [street, river, trousers] ancho; [area] extenso; [ocean, desert] vasto; [space, circle, valley] amplioit's ten centimetres wide — tiene diez centímetros de ancho or de anchura
a three-mile-wide crater — un cráter de tres millas de ancho or de anchura
how wide is it? — ¿cuánto tiene de ancho?, ¿qué anchura tiene?
- give sb a wide berth2) (=extensive) [support, variety] gran; [range, selection] amplioa wide choice of bulbs is available — hay una gran variedad de bulbos donde escoger, hay una gran variedad de bulbos disponible
3) (=large) [gap, differences] grande4) (=off target)his first shot was wide — (Ftbl) su primer tiro or chute pasó de largo; (Shooting) su primer disparo no dio en el blanco
- be wide of the marktheir accusations may not be so wide of the mark — puede que sus acusaciones no se encuentren tan lejos de la realidad
2. ADV1) (=fully)•
to be wide awake — (lit) estar completamente despiertowe'll have to be wide awake for this meeting — tendremos que estar con los ojos bien abiertos en esta reunión, tendremos que estar muy al tanto en esta reunión
with his eyes (open) wide or wide open — con los ojos muy abiertos
2) (=off target)the shot went wide — (Ftbl) el tiro or chute pasó de largo; (Shooting) el disparo no dio en el blanco
far 1., 1)Fleming shot wide — (Ftbl) Fleming realizó un disparo que pasó de largo a la portería
3.N (Cricket) pelota que el bateador no puede golpear porque la han lanzado muy lejos y que cuenta como una carrera para el equipo del bateador4.CPDwide area network N — red f de área amplia
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I [waɪd]adjective wider, widest1) ( in dimension) <river/feet/trousers> ancho; < gap> grande; <desert/ocean> vastoit's two meters wide — tiene or mide dos metros de ancho
2) (in extent, range) <experience/powers> amplio; < area> amplio, extenso3) ( off target) <ball/shot> desviadowide OF something — lejos de algo; mark I 4)
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adverb wider, widest1) (completely, fully)her mouth gaped wide — se quedó boquiabierta or con la boca abierta
wide apart: with your feet wide apart con los pies bien or muy separados; wide awake: to be wide awake estar* completamente espabilado or despierto; open wide! abra bien la boca, abre grande (fam); wide open: you left the door wide open dejaste la puerta abierta de par en par; I'm going into this with my eyes wide open sé muy bien en qué me estoy metiendo; he's laid himself wide open to criticism él mismo se ha expuesto a que lo critiquen; the game is wide open — el partido no está definido
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wide [waɪd]1. adjectivea. ( = broad) [road, river] large ; [selection] grand• how wide is the room? quelle est la largeur de la pièce ?b. ( = off target) the shot was wide le coup est passé à côté2. adverb• wide open [door, window] grand ouvert3. compounds* * *[waɪd] 1.1) ( broad) gen large; [margin] grand2) ( immense) vaste3) ( extensive) [variety, choice] grand4) Sport [ball, shot] perdu2.to be wide of the mark — [ball] être à côté; fig [guess] être loin de la vérité
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14 stock
[stɔk]n1) запас, фонд- word stock
- commodity stock
- emergency stock
- new stock
- limited stock of words
- stock of finished products
- stocks on order
- check the stock
- exhaust one's stock of patience
- have a rich stock of knowledge
- keep a sufficient stock on hand
- lay in a stock of coal
- lay in one's autumn stock
- reduce one's stock
- coal stocks are low2) ассортимент- stock account
- large stock of toys
- have an excellent selection in stock3) товар, инвентарь- season stock
- surplus stock
- stock on view
- stocks in hand
- stock in trade
- delivery of stock
- list of items out of stock
- sale of dairy stock
- take stock of smth
- have goods in stock4) (обыкновенно pl) акции, ценные бумаги- founder's stocks
- preference stocks
- bank stocks
- bearer's stocks
- government stocks
- joint stock
- ordinary stocks
- security stocks
- reserve stock
- capital stock
- Stock Exchange
- stock broker
- stock market
- stock company
- stocks and shares
- stocks for sale
- new issue of stocks
- controlling block of stock
- fall in stocks
- buy the whole stock of business
- have one's money in stocks
- have stocks in this company
- hold stocks
- have stocks
- buy stocks
- hold stocks for a rise
- invest one's money in a railway company stocks
- turn one's stocks into cash5) раса, нация, род, группа родственников, родословная, порода, племяTheir stock was King Alfred. — Их родословная восходит к королю Альфреду.
The stock dies out. — Эта порода/это племя вымирает.
- old stock- Mongoloid stock
- true to his stock
- people of Irish stock
- of good stock
- be of the same ethnic stock
- come from common stock
- come of a sound stock
- belong to a Puritan stock
- preserve the stock
- two nations are of kindred stock
- stock remains pure6) скот, порода скота- grazing stock- growing stock
- farming stock
- live stock
- fat stock
- healthy stock
- farm with all its stock
- breed a new stock
- take in the stock for the winterThe gun was fitted with a special stock. — К пистолету была приделана специальная рукоятка.
- rifle stock- gun stock8) стапель (и все, что связано с кораблями)- stock of a anchor- ships on the stocks
- be on the stocks9) парк (транспортный, подвижного состава)The airliner was on the stocks. — Воздушный лайнер строится.
- rolling stock- railway rolling stock
- locomotive stock10) сырьё- soap stock11) стандарт, шаблонIt's the stock dodge. — Это обычная шаблонная увертка.
He has three stock speeches. — У него есть три заранее заготовленные речи.
- stock figureTo stand like a stock. — ◊ Стоять как чурбан/болван
- stock car
- stock brick
- stock greeting
- stock argument
- stock phrase
- stock joke
- stock pastime
- stock comparison
- stock medicine
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1) набор; комплект- semiconductor assembly set - set of Belleville springs - set of conventional set - set of drawing instruments - set of gate patterns - set of gauge blocks - set of logical elements - set of statistical data - set of technical aids- snap set2) партия3) совокупность; множество4) установка; агрегат- desk telephone set - dial telephone set- gear set- local-battery telephone set - man-pack radio set - multi-operator welding set - sound-powered telephone set - wall telephone set5) регулировка; настройка || регулировать; настраивать6) группа; ансамбль7) класс; семейство9) схватывание || схватываться10) затвердевание || затвердевать11) крепление || закреплять12) геол. свита пород13) осадка (грунта) || оседать ( о грунте)14) радиоточка15) спорт сет16) включать, приводить в действие17) мат. множествоset closed under operation — множество, замкнутое относительно операции
- absolutely compact set - absolutely continuous set - absolutely convex set - absolutely irreducible set - absolutely measurable set - affinely independent set - affinely invariant set - algebraically independent set - almost finite set - almost full set - angular cluster set - asymptotically indecomposable set - at most denumerable set - centro-symmetric set - completely bounded set - completely continuous set - completely generating set - completely improper set - completely irreducible set - completely nonatomic set - completely normal set - completely ordered set - completely productive set - completely reducible set - completely separable set - constructively nonrecursive set - convexly independent set - countably infinite setto set aside — не учитывать, не принимать во внимание; откладывать
- cut set- cyclically ordered set - deductively inconsistent set - derived set - doubly well-ordered set - dual set of equations - dynamically disconnected set - effectively enumerable set - effectively generating set - effectively nonrecursive set - effectively simple set - enumeration reducible set - finely perfect set - finitely definite set - finitely measurable set- flat set- full set- fully reducible set - functionally closed set - functionally complete set - functionally open set - fundamental probability set - generalized almost periodic set- goal set- internally stable set- knot set- left directed set - left normal set - left-hand cluster set - linearly ordered set - local peak set - locally arcwise set - locally closed set - locally compact set - locally connected set - locally contractible set - locally convex set - locally finite set - locally invariant set - locally negligible set - locally null set - locally polar set - locally polyhedral set - metrically bounded set - metrically dense set - multiply ordered set - nearly analytic set - nearly closed set - nonvoid set - normally ordered set- null set- open in rays set - partitioned data set- peak set- pole set- positively homothetic set- pure set- radially open set - rationally independent set - recursively creative set - recursively indecomposable set - recursively isomorphic set - recursively productive set - regularly convex set - regularly situated sets - relatively closed set - relatively compact set - relatively dense set - relatively interpretable set - relatively open set - right normal set - right-hand cluster set- scar set- sequentially complete set - serially ordered set - set of elementary events - set of first category - set of first kind - set of first species - set of possible outcomes - set of probability null - set of second category - set of second species - shift invariant set - simply connected set - simply ordered set - simply transitive set- skew set- star set- strongly bounded set - strongly closed set - strongly compact set - strongly connected set - strongly convex set - strongly dependent set - strongly disjoint sets - strongly enumerable set - strongly independent set - strongly minimal set - strongly polar set - strongly reducible set - strongly separated set - strongly simple set - strongly stratified set- tame set- tautologically complete set - tautologically consistent set - tautologically inconsistent set- test set- thin set- tie set- time set- totally disconnected set - totally imperfect set - totally ordered set - totally primitive set - totally unimodular set - totally unordered set - truth-table reducible set - uniformly bounded set - uniformly continuous set - uniformly convergent set - uniformly integrable set - uniformly universal set - unilaterally connected set- unit set- vacuous set- void set- weakly compact set - weakly convex set - weakly n-dimensional set - weakly stratified set - weakly wandering set - well chained set - well founded set - well measurable set - well ordering set - well quasiordered set -
16 Bakewell, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 23 May 1725 Loughborough, Englandd. 1 October 1795 Loughborough, England[br]English livestock breeder who pioneered the practice of progeny testing for selecting breeding stock; he is particularly associated with the development of the Improved Leicester breed of sheep.[br]Robert Bakewell was the son of the tenant farming the 500-acre (200 hectare) Dishley Grange Farm, near Loughborough, where he was born. The family was sufficiently wealthy to allow Robert to travel, which he began to do at an early age, exploring the farming methods of the West Country, Norfolk, Ireland and Holland. On taking over the farm he continued the development of the irrigation scheme begun by his father. Arthur Young visited the farm during his tour of east England in 1771. At that time it consisted of 440 acres (178 hectares), 110 acres (45 hectares) of which were arable, and carried a stock of 60 horses, 400 sheep and 150 other assorted beasts. Of the arable land, 30 acres (12 hectares) were under root crops, mainly turnips.Bakewell was not the first to pioneer selective breeding, but he was the first successfully to apply selection to both the efficiency with which an animal utilized its food, and its physical appearance. He always had a clear idea of the animal he wanted, travelled extensively to collect a range of animals possessing the characteristics he sought, and then bred from these towards his goal. He was aware of the dangers of inbreeding, but would often use it to gain the qualities he wanted. His early experiments were with Longhorn cattle, which he developed as a meat rather than a draught animal, but his most famous achievement was the development of the Improved Leicester breed of sheep. He set out to produce an animal that would put on the most meat in the least time and with the least feeding. As his base he chose the Old Leicester, but there is still doubt as to which other breeds he may have introduced to produce the desired results. The Improved Leicester was smaller than its ancestor, with poorer wool quality but with greatly improved meat-production capacity.Bakewell let out his sires to other farms and was therefore able to study their development under differing conditions. However, he made stringent rules for those who hired these animals, requiring the exclusive use of his rams on the farms concerned and requiring particular dietary conditions to be met. To achieve this control he established the Dishley Society in 1783. Although his policies led to accusations of closed access to his stock, they enabled him to keep a close control of all offspring. He thereby pioneered the process now recognized as "progeny testing".Bakewell's fame and that of his farm spread throughout the country and overseas. He engaged in an extensive correspondence and acted as host to all of influence in British and overseas agriculture, but it would appear that he was an over-generous host, since he is known to have been in financial difficulties in about 1789. He was saved from bankruptcy by a public subscription raised to allow him to continue with his breeding experiments; this experience may well have been the reason why he was such a staunch advocate of State funding of agricultural research.[br]Further ReadingWilliam Houseman, 1894, biography, Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. 1–31. H.C.Parsons, 1957, Robert Bakewell (contains a more detailed account).R.Trow Smith, 1957, A History of British Livestock Husbandry to 1700, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.—A History of British Livestock Husbandry 1700 to 1900 (places Bakewell within the context of overall developments).M.L.Ryder, 1983, Sheep and Man, Duckworth (a scientifically detailed account which deals with Bakewell within the context of its particular subject).AP
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