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121 defensive
1. n оборона; оборонительная позицияto be on the defensive — обороняться, защищаться; стоять в обороне
2. a защитный3. a оборонительный; оборонный4. a защищающий, направленный на защиту, защитительный5. a бдительный, готовый защищатьсяhe is less defensive with her than with anyone else — с ней он более покладист, чем с любым другим человеком
to act on the defensive — обороняться, защищаться
6. a устойчивый, стабильный; удовлетворяющий насущные потребности и поэтому менее подверженный колебаниям экономического циклаСинонимический ряд:1. cautious (adj.) cautious; closed; wary2. high-strung (adj.) high-strung; jumpy; sensitive; touchy3. preventive (adj.) custodial; guarded; guarding; preventive; protecting; protective; safeguarding; screening; sheltering; shieldingАнтонимический ряд: -
122 test
1. n испытание; проба, проверка; опробованиеfield test — полевое испытание; испытание в эксплуатационных условиях
bench test — заводские испытания, испытания в заводских условиях
test by experiment — проверка на опыте, опытная проверка
under test — испытываемый, испытуемый
test data — данные испытаний, эмпирические данные
2. n мерило, пробный камень; серьёзное испытание; критерийtrade test — профессиональные испытания, проверка мастерства
test dose — тест-доза, пробная, контрольная или опытная доза
3. n проверочная или контрольная работа; экзамен4. n психол. тестmarch test — тест "марш"
5. n хим. исследование; анализ; опыт, проба, реакцияblood test — анализ крови, исследование крови
6. n хим. пробирная чашка7. n хим. хим. реактив8. n хим. рел. отречение от признания папской власти и догмата пресуществления9. v подвергать испытанию; испытывать, проверять; опробоватьsampling test — выборочный контроль; периодические испытания
proof test — испытание; приёмочное или проверочное испытание
10. v быть мерилом11. v проверять, убеждатьсяhe wanted to test whether a small group of specialists could show greater productivity — он хотел проверить, сможет ли небольшая группа специалистов поднять производительность труда
12. v пробоваться13. v обнаруживать определённые свойства в результате испытаний14. v тестировать, проверять с помощью тестовtest program — тест; тестовая программа; программа испытаний
15. v экзаменовать; давать контрольную работу16. v хим. подвергать действию реактива17. v хим. производить опыты18. v хим. брать пробу19. n зоол. панцирь; щит; скорлупа20. v юр. официально подтверждатьСинонимический ряд:1. experimental (adj.) experimental; experimentative; trial2. comprehensive (noun) catechisation; catechism; comprehensive; exam; examination; final; questionnaire; quiz; review3. experiment (noun) experiment; experimentation4. standard (noun) benchmark; criterion; gauge; mark; measure; standard; touchstone; yardstick5. trial (noun) analysis; assay; check; essay; experiment; experimentation; inquest; inquiry; inspection; investigation; probation; proof; trial; trial and error; trial run6. analyze (verb) analyze; inspect; investigate; probe7. examine (verb) examine; question; quiz8. try (verb) analyse; assay; check; demonstrate; essay; experiment; inquire; prove; try; try out; verify -
123 computer
computer [kəm'pju:tə(r)](electronic) ordinateur m;∎ he's good at/he works in computers il est bon en/il travaille dans l'informatique;∎ to have sth on computer avoir qch sur ordinateur►► the computer age l'ère f des ordinateurs ou de l'informatique;computer analyst analyste mf;computer animation animation f par ordinateur;computer art dessin m par ordinateur;American computer camp colonie f de vacances centrée sur l'informatique;computer centre centre m informatique, infocentre m;computer code code m d'ordinateur;computer course cours m d'informatique;computer crime fraude f informatique;computer dating = rencontres sélectionnées par ordinateur;computer dealer revendeur m informatique;computer diagram diagramme m réalisé par ou sur ordinateur;computer engineer ingénieur-informaticien(enne) m,f;computer equipment équipment m informatique;computer expert informaticien(enne) m,f;computer fraud fraude f informatique;familiar computer freak (enthusiast) dingue mf d'informatique;computer game jeu m informatique;familiar computer geek allumé(e) m,f de l'informatique;computer generation génération f d'ordinateur;computer genius génie m de l'informatique;(function) graphiques mpl2 noun(field) infographie f;computer hacker pirate mf informatique;computer hardware matériel m informatique;computer instruction instruction f machine;computer keyboard clavier m d'ordinateur;computer language langage m de programmation;computer link-up liaison f informatique;computer literacy compétence f informatique;computer manager directeur(trice) m,f informatique;computer manufacturer constructeur m informatique;computer model modèle m informatique;computer network réseau m informatique;computer operator opérateur(trice) m,f (sur ordinateur);computer output sortie f d'ordinateur;computer printout sortie f papier; (continuous) listing m, listage m;computer processing traitement m sur ordinateur;computer program programme m informatique;computer programmer programmeur(euse) m,f;computer programming programmation f;computer rage = manifestations d'agressivité à l'égard de son ordinateur;computer room salle f des ordinateurs;computer science informatique f;computer scientist informaticien(enne) m,f;computer simulation simulation f par ordinateur;computer stationery papier m listingcomputer supplier fournisseur m informatique;computer system système m informatique;computer technician technicien(enne) m,f en informatique;computer terminal terminal m informatique;computer translation traduction f par ordinateur;computer typesetting composition f par ordinateur;computer vaccine vaccin m informatique;computer virus virus m informatique -
124 computing
computing [kəm'pju:tɪŋ]∎ she works in computing elle travaille dans l'informatique►► computing centre centre m de calcul;computing course stage m d'informatique;computing machine machine f à calcul;computing power puissance f de calcul -
125 Barry, Sir Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 23 May 1795 Westminster, London, Englandd. 12 May 1860 Clapham, London, England[br]English architect who was a leader in the field between the years 1830 and 1860.[br]Barry was typical of the outstanding architects of this time. His work was eclectic, and he suited the style—whether Gothic or classical—to the commission and utilized the then-traditional materials and methods of construction. He is best known as architect of the new Palace of Westminster; he won the competition to rebuild it after the disastrous fire of the old palace in 1834. Bearing this in mind in the rebuilding, Barry utilized that characteristic nineteenth-century material, iron for joists and roofing plates.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1852. Member of the Royal Academy; the Royal Society; the Academies of St Luke, Rome; St Petersburg (and others); and the American Institute of Architects. RIBA Gold Medal 1850.Further ReadingMarcus Whiffen, The Architecture of Sir Charles Barry in Manchester and Neighbourhood, Royal Manchester Institution.H.M.Port (ed.), 1976, The Houses of Parliament, Yale University Press.H.M.Colvin (ed.), The History of the King's Works, Vol. 6, HMSO.DY -
126 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Land transport, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Ports and shipping, Public utilities, Railways and locomotives[br]b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, Englandd. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England[br]English civil and mechanical engineer.[br]The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.[br]Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
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127 Clerk, Sir Dugald
[br]b. 31 March 1854 Glasgow, Scotlandd. 12 November 1932 Ewhurst, Surrey, England[br]Scottish mechanical engineer, inventor of the two-stroke internal combustion engine.[br]Clerk began his engineering training at about the age of 15 in the drawing office of H.O.Robinson \& Company, Glasgow, and in his father's works. Meanwhile, he studied at the West of Scotland Technical College and then, from 1871 to 1876, at Anderson's College, Glasgow, and at the Yorkshire College of Science, Leeds. Here he worked under and then became assistant to the distinguished chemist T.E.Thorpe, who set him to work on the fractional distillation of petroleum, which was to be useful to him in his later work. At that time he had intended to become a chemical engineer, but seeing a Lenoir gas engine at work, after his return to Glasgow, turned his main interest to gas and other internal combustion engines. He pursued his investigations first at Thomson, Sterne \& Company (1877–85) and then at Tangyes of Birmingham (1886–88. In 1888 he began a lifelong partnership in Marks and Clerk, consulting engineers and patent agents, in London.Beginning his work on gas engines in 1876, he achieved two patents in the two following years. In 1878 he made his principal invention, patented in 1881, of an engine working on the two-stroke cycle, in which the piston is powered during each revolution of the crankshaft, instead of alternate revolutions as in the Otto four-stroke cycle. In this engine, Clerk introduced supercharging, or increasing the pressure of the air intake. Many engines of the Clerk type were made but their popularity waned after the patent for the Otto engine expired in 1890. Interest was later revived, particularly for application to large gas engines, but Clerk's engine eventually came into its own where simple, low-power motors are needed, such as in motor cycles or motor mowers.Clerk's work on the theory and design of gas engines bore fruit in the book The Gas Engine (1886), republished with an extended text in 1909 as The Gas, Petrol and Oil Engine; these and a number of papers in scientific journals won him international renown. During and after the First World War, Clerk widened the scope of his interests and served, often as chairman, on many bodies in the field of science and industry.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1917; FRS 1908; Royal Society Royal Medal 1924; Royal Society of Arts Alber Medal 1922.Further ReadingObituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, no. 2, 1933.LRD -
128 Glenck, Karl Christian Friedrich
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 13 April 1779 Schwäbisch Hall, Germanyd. 21 November 1845 Gotha, Germany[br]German salt-mining expert who introduced large-scale salt explorations.[br]Having studied law at the University of Erlangen, he became Confidential Secretary to the Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, in whose territory his father had been in charge of a saltworks. When this small country fell to Württemberg in 1806, Glenck continued his mineralogical and geological studies in order to develop methods of finding deposits of salt. He was the first to carry out systematic large-scale salt explorations in Germany, mostly in southern and central parts, and achieved remarkable results that far exceeded former non-systematic findings. He worked either on behalf of governments or companies or at his own risk, and in the early 1820s he settled in Gotha to live in the centre of the regions of greatest interest to him.His career began in 1819 with the discovery of the deposits of Ludwigshall near Wimpfen, Neckar, and prospecting salt near Basel in 1836 was his greatest success: Schweizerhall, opened one year later, made Switzerland self-sufficient in salt production. For fifteen years he had invested large sums into this project, which became the fifth salt-works to come into existence due to his drilling. Glenck worked with stir rods and he developed several new technical devices, such as casing the bore holes with iron pipes instead of wood (1830), and using wooden instead of iron rods to reduce the weight (1834). A flexible connection between rod and drill was to be introduced later by Karl von Oeynhausen. One of Glenck's most important followers in the field of deep-drilling was K.G. Kind.[br]Further ReadingW.Carlé, 1969, "Die Salinistenfamilie Glenck", Lebensbilder aus Schwaben und Franken 11: 118–49 (with substantial biographical information).D.Hoffmann, 1959, 150 Jahre Tiefbobrungen in Deutschland, Vienna and Hamburg, (provides an evaluation of his technological developments).WKBiographical history of technology > Glenck, Karl Christian Friedrich
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