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final movement

  • 1 final movement

    Музыка: финал

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > final movement

  • 2 final movement

    English-Russian musical dictionary > final movement

  • 3 final

    1. n спорт. финальная, решающая игра, финал
    2. n спорт. финальный заезд
    3. n спорт. разг. выпускные экзамены
    4. n спорт. разг. последний выпуск газеты
    5. a последний, заключительный; конечный
    6. a окончательный; решающий

    final sentence — окончательное решение; окончательный приговор

    7. a филос. относящийся к цели
    8. a целевой
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. conclusive (adj.) conclusive; decisive; definitive; irrevocable
    2. last (adj.) closing; concluding; eventual; hindmost; lag; last; latest; latter; rearmost; terminal; terminating; ultimate
    Антонимический ряд:
    continuous; current; embryonic; first; inaugural; inchoate; incipient; initial; initiative; interim; open; opening; persistent

    English-Russian base dictionary > final

  • 4 final

    English-Russian big polytechnic dictionary > final

  • 5 final

    English-Russian big medical dictionary > final

  • 6 final controlling drive

    1. исполнительный механизм

     

    исполнительный механизм
    Устройство для управления арматурой, предназначенное для перемещения регулирующего элемента в соответствии с командной информацией, поступающей от внешнего источника энергии.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52720-2007]

    исполнительный механизм
    Механизм, являющийся функциональным блоком, предназначенным для управления исполнительным органом в соответствии с командной информацией.
    Примечание. В системах автоматического регулирования сред исполнительный механизм предназначен для перемещения затвора регулирующего органа
    [ ГОСТ 14691-69]

    исполнительный механизм
    Силовой механизм, используемый для движения машины и ее частей.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    EN

    (electric) actuator
    device that produces a specified movement when excited by an electric signal
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

    actuator

    In electrical engineering, the term actuator refers to a mechanism that causes a device to be turned on or off, adjusted or moved, usually in response to an electrical signal. In some literature the terms actor or effector are also used. The term “effector” is preferred by programmers, whereas engineers tend to favor “actuator.”
    An example of an actuator is a motor that closes blinds in response to a signal from a sunlight detector.
    Actuators enable computers to control complex manufacturing processes without human intervention or supervision.
    [ABB. Glossary of technical terms. 2010]

    FR

    actionneur (électrique), m
    dispositif qui produit un mouvement spécifié en réponse à un signal électrique
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

     

    Тематики

    EN

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > final controlling drive

  • 7 final phase of movement

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > final phase of movement

  • 8 final lever movement

    Англо-русский железнодорожный словарь > final lever movement

  • 9 final phase of movement

    English-Russian sports dictionary > final phase of movement

  • 10 introduce

    introduce [‚ɪntrə'dju:s]
    (a) (present → one person to another) présenter;
    she introduced me to her sister elle m'a présenté à sa sœur;
    may I introduce you? permettez-moi de ou laissez-moi vous présenter;
    let me introduce myself, I'm John je me présente? John;
    has everyone been introduced? les présentations ont été faites?;
    I don't think we've been introduced, have we? nous n'avons pas été présentés, je crois;
    to introduce a speaker présenter un conférencier;
    the main character is introduced in chapter 2 le personnage principal fait son apparition au chapitre 2;
    Cinema introducing Simon McLean et pour la première fois à l'écran, Simon McLean;
    to be introduced to society (débutante) faire son entrée dans le monde
    (c) (bring in) introduire;
    when were rabbits introduced into Australia? quand a-t-on introduit les lapins en Australie?;
    I'd like to introduce a new topic into the debate, if I may si vous le permettez, j'aimerais introduire dans le débat un nouveau sujet;
    her arrival introduced a note of sadness into the festivities son entrée mit une note de tristesse dans la fête;
    Music the arpeggio introduces the final movement l'arpège marque le début du dernier mouvement
    (d) (laws, legislation) déposer, présenter; (reform, fashion, new methods) introduire;
    the government hopes to introduce the new bill next week le gouvernement espère déposer son nouveau projet de loi la semaine prochaine
    (e) (initiate) initier;
    she introduced me to the pleasures of French cooking elle m'a initié aux ou révélé les délices de la cuisine française;
    to introduce sb to sth initier qn à qch, faire découvrir qch à qn;
    it was my sister who introduced me to yoga c'est ma sœur qui m'a initiée au yoga ou fait découvrir le yoga
    (f) (start) ouvrir, donner le départ de;
    a fanfare introduced the start of the ceremony une fanfare a ouvert la cérémonie
    (g) formal (insert) introduire;
    introduce the wire carefully into the cavity introduisez doucement le fil dans le trou
    (h) Grammar (phrase) introduire

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  • 11 lead

    Ⅰ.
    lead1 [led]
    1 noun
    (a) (metal) plomb m;
    it's made of lead c'est en plomb
    they pumped him full of lead ils l'ont plombé
    (c) (in pencil) mine f
    (d) (piece of lead → for sounding) plomb m (de sonde); (→ on car wheel, fishing line) plomb m; Typography interligne m
    to get the lead out (of one's pants) se magner (le train);
    very familiar that'll put some lead in your pencil! (invigorate) ça te requinquera!;
    very familiar to have lead in one's pencil (be sexually potent) ne pas avoir de problèmes pour bander
    (a) (seal) plomber
    (b) Typography interligner
    (made of lead) de ou en plomb; (containing lead) plombifère;
    familiar to go down like a lead balloon tomber à plat
    British Building industry (on roof) plombs mpl (de couverture); (on window) plombures fpl, plombs mpl
    ►► lead crystal verre m de ou au plomb;
    lead glass verre m de ou au plomb;
    lead ore minerai m de plomb;
    lead oxide oxyde m de plomb;
    lead paint peinture f à base de plomb;
    lead pencil crayon m noir ou à papier ou à mine de plomb;
    lead poisoning Medicine intoxication f par le plomb, saturnisme m; American familiar (death) mort f par balle(s); (injury) blessure f par balle(s);
    American familiar to get lead poisoning être tué/blessé par balle(s);
    lead pipe tuyau m de plomb;
    lead shot grenaille f de plomb
    Typography (lines of text) augmenter l'interlignage de
    Ⅱ.
    lead2 [li:d]
    tête1 (a) initiative1 (b) indice1 (c) gros titre1 (d) rôle principal1 (e) laisse1 (g) fil1 (h) mener2 (a), 2 (c), 2 (e) être à la tête de2 (b) diriger2 (b) amener2 (d) aller devant3 (d) principal4
    (pt & pp led [led])
    1 noun
    (a) Sport tête f;
    to be in the lead être en tête, mener;
    to go into or to take the lead (in race) prendre la tête; (in match) mener;
    to have a 10-point/10-length lead avoir 10 points/10 longueurs d'avance;
    to have a good lead over the rest of the field avoir une bonne avance sur les autres concurrents;
    he's opened up a tremendous lead il a pris une avance considérable;
    France are hanging on to the lead (in race) la France reste en tête de la course; (in points table) la France reste en tête du classement
    (b) (initiative) initiative f;
    he took the lead in asking questions il fut le premier à poser des questions;
    take your lead from me prenez exemple sur moi;
    to follow sb's lead suivre l'exemple de qn;
    it's up to the government to give a lead on housing policy c'est au gouvernement (qu'il revient) de donner l'exemple en matière de politique du logement
    (c) (indication, clue) indice m, piste f;
    to give sb a lead mettre qn sur la voie;
    the police have several leads la police tient plusieurs pistes;
    we're currently following up an important lead nous sommes actuellement sur une piste prometteuse
    (d) British Press gros titre m;
    the news made the lead in all the papers la nouvelle était à la une de tous les journaux;
    the 'Telegraph' opens with a lead on the Middle East crisis le 'Telegraph' consacre sa une à la crise au Proche-Orient
    (e) Cinema & Theatre (role) rôle m principal; (actor) premier rôle m masculin; (actress) premier rôle m féminin;
    Jude Law plays the male lead Jude Law tient le premier rôle masculin
    to have the lead jouer le premier;
    your lead! à vous de jouer!;
    whose lead is it? c'est à qui de jouer?;
    you must follow the lead il faut fournir à la couleur demandée;
    a heart lead une ouverture à cœur
    (g) (for dog) laisse f;
    dogs must be kept on a lead (sign) les chiens doivent être tenus en laisse
    (i) (in ice) chenal m
    (a) (take, guide) mener, emmener, conduire;
    to lead sb somewhere mener ou conduire qn quelque part;
    I was led into the garden on m'a emmené ou conduit dans le jardin;
    he led them across the lawn il leur fit traverser la pelouse;
    she led him down the stairs elle lui fit descendre l'escalier;
    she led them to safety elle les a conduits en lieu sûr;
    to lead an army into battle mener une armée au combat;
    to lead a team to victory mener une équipe à la victoire;
    the captain led the team onto the field le capitaine a conduit son équipe sur le terrain;
    she led them through the garden (to get out) elle les fit passer par le jardin; (to visit) elle leur fit visiter le jardin;
    literary he led her to the altar il la prit pour épouse;
    to lead the way montrer le chemin;
    police motorcyclists led the way des motards de la police ouvraient la route;
    they led the cable along the edge of the floor ils ont fait passé le câble par terre, le long du mur;
    Bible lead us not into temptation ne nous soumets pas à la tentation;
    proverb you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink on ne saurait faire boire un âne qui n'a pas soif;
    figurative to lead sb up the garden path mener qn en bateau
    (b) (be leader of) être à la tête de, diriger; (orchestra) diriger;
    to lead the prayers/singing diriger la prière/les chants
    Stardust is leading Black Beauty by 10 lengths Stardust a pris 10 longueurs d'avance sur Black Beauty;
    to lead the field mener;
    to lead sb by 8 points avoir une avance sur qn de 8 points;
    figurative Great Britain leads the field in heart transplant technology la Grande-Bretagne est le pays le plus avancé dans le domaine des greffes cardiaques
    (d) (induce) amener;
    to lead sb to do sth amener qn à faire qch;
    despair led him to commit suicide le désespoir l'a poussé au suicide;
    he led me to believe (that) he was innocent il m'a amené à croire qu'il était innocent;
    everything leads us to believe (that) she is still alive tout porte à croire ou nous avons toutes les raisons de croire qu'elle est encore en vie;
    I was led to the conclusion that he had been lying all along je suis arrivé à la conclusion qu'il mentait depuis le début;
    what led you to apply for this job? qu'est-ce qui vous a conduit ou amené à postuler?;
    he is easily led il se laisse facilement influencer;
    figurative subsequent events led the country into war des événements ultérieurs ont entraîné le pays dans la guerre;
    this leads me to my second point ceci m'amène à ma seconde remarque;
    he led the conversation round to money again il a ramené la conversation sur la question de l'argent
    (e) (life) mener;
    he has lead a life of debauchery il a mené une vie de débauche;
    she has led a full and happy life elle a eu une vie heureuse et bien remplie
    (f) Cards demander, jouer;
    to lead trumps demander ou jouer atout;
    what was led? qu'est-ce qui a été demandé?
    to lead a witness poser des questions tendancieuses à un témoin
    (a) (go) mener;
    this path leads to the village ce chemin mène au village;
    where does this door lead to? sur quoi ouvre cette porte?;
    the stairs lead to the cellar l'escalier mène ou conduit à la cave;
    take the street that leads away from the station prenez la rue qui part de la gare;
    that road leads nowhere cette route ne mène nulle part;
    figurative this is leading nowhere! cela ne rime à rien!
    (b) Sport mener, être en tête;
    to lead by 2 metres avoir 2 mètres d'avance;
    to lead by 3 points to 1 mener par 3 points à 1;
    Black Beauty is leading Black Beauty est en tête
    hearts led cœur (a été) demandé;
    Joanne to lead c'est à Joanne de jouer
    (d) (go in front) aller devant; (in mountaineering) grimper en tête;
    if you lead, I'll follow allez-y, je vous suis
    to lead with sth mettre qch à la une;
    the 'Times' led with news of the plane hijack le détournement d'avion faisait la une ou était en première page du 'Times'
    he leads with his right il attaque toujours du droit ou de la droite
    (g) (in dancing) conduire
    (h) Law être l'avocat principal;
    he led for the prosecution il dirigea l'accusation en tant qu'avocat principal
    (actor, singer) principal, premier; Press (article) de tête
    ►► Commerce leads and lags termaillage m;
    Banking & Stock Exchange lead manager (banque f) chef m de file;
    lead time Industry délai m de préparation; Commerce délai m de livraison;
    Marketing lead user utilisateur(trice) m,f pilote
    emmener;
    the guards led him away les gardes l'ont emmené;
    he led her away from the scene of the accident il l'éloigna du lieu de l'accident
    ramener, reconduire;
    they led him back to his room ils l'ont ramené ou reconduit à sa chambre;
    she led the conversation back to the question of money elle a ramené la conversation sur la question de l'argent
    this path leads back to the beach ce chemin ramène à la plage
    (in conversation) commencer, débuter; (in debate) entamer les débats; (in game) jouer le(la) premier(ère); (at dance) ouvrir le bal; (in relay race) être le premier relayeur
    (a) (begin) commencer, entamer
    (b) (go from) partir de;
    several avenues lead off the square plusieurs avenues partent de la place
    (person) conduire;
    they were led off to jail ils ont été conduits ou emmenés en prison
    lead on
    aller ou marcher devant;
    lead on! allez-y!
    to lead sb on faire marcher qn;
    you shouldn't lead him on like that vous ne devriez pas le faire marcher comme ça
    (b) (bring on) faire entrer;
    lead on the horses! faites entrer les chevaux!
    this leads me on to my second point ceci m'amène à mon deuxième point
    (result in, have as consequence) mener ou aboutir à;
    what's all this leading to? sur quoi tout ceci va-t-il déboucher?;
    the decision led to panic on Wall Street la décision a semé la panique à Wall Street;
    one thing led to another une chose en amenait une autre;
    a course leading to a degree un cursus qui débouche sur un diplôme;
    several factors led to his decision to leave plusieurs facteurs le poussèrent ou l'amenèrent à décider de partir;
    this led to several of them losing their jobs à cause de cela, plusieurs d'entre eux ont perdu leur emploi;
    drinking too much can lead to violence l'excès d'alcool peut conduire à la violence;
    his statement led to a misunderstanding sa déclaration est à l'origine d'un malentendu;
    this could lead to some confusion ça pourrait provoquer une certaine confusion;
    her research led to nothing ses recherches n'ont abouti à rien ou n'ont rien donné
    (a) (path, road) conduire à, mener à;
    a narrow path led up to the house un étroit sentier menait jusqu'à la maison;
    those stairs lead up to the attic cet escalier mène au grenier
    she's leading up to something je me demande où elle veut en venir;
    what are you leading up to? où voulez-vous en venir?;
    I was just leading up to that j'allais justement y venir
    (c) (precede, cause)
    the events leading up to the war les événements qui devaient déclencher la guerre;
    in the months leading up to her death pendant les mois qui précédèrent sa mort;
    Music the chords that lead up to the final movement les accords qui introduisent le dernier mouvement
    Lead on, MacDuff Cette phrase ("après toi, MacDuff") est une déformation d'un vers de Macbeth de Shakespeare, dans un passage où Macbeth défie à l'épée son ennemi MacDuff en prononçant les mots lay on, MacDuff ("frappe, MacDuff"). On utilise la version modifiée de cette phrase de façon humoristique lorsque l'on demande à quelqu'un d'ouvrir la marche.

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  • 12 passage

    'pæsi‹
    1) (a long narrow way through, eg a corridor through a building: There was a dark passage leading down to the river between tall buildings.) pasillo, pasadizo
    2) (a part of a piece of writing or music: That is my favourite passage from the Bible.) pasaje; episodio
    3) ((usually of time) the act of passing: the passage of time.) paso
    4) (a journey by boat: He paid for his passage by working as a steward.) viaje, travesía
    1. pasillo / pasadizo
    2. trozo / pasaje
    tr['pæsɪʤ]
    3 (way, movement - gen) paso; (of vehicle) tránsito, paso
    4 (of time) paso, transcurso
    5 SMALLMARITIME/SMALL (journey) travesía, viaje nombre masculino; (fare) pasaje nombre masculino
    6 (writing, music) pasaje nombre masculino
    7 (of law, bill, etc) aprobación nombre femenino
    8 SMALLANATOMY/SMALL conducto
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to grant somebody a safe passage darle a alguien un salvoconducto
    back passage SMALLANATOMY/SMALL recto
    passage ['pæsɪʤ] n
    1) passing: paso m
    the passage of time: el paso del tiempo
    2) passageway: pasillo m (dentro de un edificio), pasaje m (entre edificios)
    3) voyage: travesía f (por el mar), viaje m
    to grant safe passage: dar un salvoconducto
    4) section: pasaje m (en música o literatura)
    n.
    camino s.m.
    galería s.f.
    pasada s.f.
    pasadizo s.m.
    pasaje s.m.
    pasillo s.m.
    paso s.m.
    tramo s.m.
    transcurso s.m.
    trozo s.m.
    trámite s.m.
    tránsito s.m.
    vía s.f.
    'pæsɪdʒ
    1) c
    a) ( alleyway) callejón m, pasaje m; ( narrow) pasadizo m
    b) ( corridor) (esp BrE) pasillo m, corredor m

    secret passagepasadizo m secreto

    c) ( Anat) conducto m
    2) u
    a) ( right to pass) (frml) derecho m de tránsito; ( movement) paso m
    b) ( transition) paso m
    c) ( lapse)

    the passage of timeel paso or el transcurso del tiempo

    3) c ( voyage) viaje m, travesía f; ( fare) pasaje m
    4) c ( extract) pasaje m, trozo m
    ['pæsɪdʒ]
    1. N
    1) (=corridor) pasillo m ; (between buildings, underground) pasaje m ; (=alley) callejón m

    a house full of secret passages — una casa llena de pasadizos secretos

    2) (Anat) conducto m

    nasal passages — conductos nasales

    back
    3) (=voyage) travesía f, viaje m ; (=fare) pasaje m

    to work one's passage — trabajar a bordo a cambio del pasaje

    4) (=access, way through) paso m

    their win has given them an easy passage to the final — han llegado fácilmente a la final tras esta victoria

    free passage — paso m libre

    right of passage — derecho m de paso

    safe passage — salvoconducto m

    5) (=progress) paso m

    the opposition was giving the bill a rough passage through Parliament — la oposición estaba obstruyendo la aprobación del proyecto de ley en el Parlamento

    the passage of timeel paso del tiempo

    with the passage of time — con el (paso del) tiempo

    bird 2.
    6) (=transition) paso m

    one's passage into womanhood/manhood — el paso de uno a la edad adulta

    to ease their passage from a socialist to a market economy — para facilitar la transición or el paso de una economía socialista a una de mercado

    rite 2.
    7) (=section) [of book, music] pasaje m
    2.
    CPD

    passage money Npasaje m

    * * *
    ['pæsɪdʒ]
    1) c
    a) ( alleyway) callejón m, pasaje m; ( narrow) pasadizo m
    b) ( corridor) (esp BrE) pasillo m, corredor m

    secret passagepasadizo m secreto

    c) ( Anat) conducto m
    2) u
    a) ( right to pass) (frml) derecho m de tránsito; ( movement) paso m
    b) ( transition) paso m
    c) ( lapse)

    the passage of timeel paso or el transcurso del tiempo

    3) c ( voyage) viaje m, travesía f; ( fare) pasaje m
    4) c ( extract) pasaje m, trozo m

    English-spanish dictionary > passage

  • 13 out

    (to allow to come in, go out: Let me in!; I let the dog out.) dejar entrar/salir
    out adv
    1. fuera
    they're out in the garden están fuera, en el jardín
    my father is in, but my mother has gone out mi padre está en casa, pero mi madre ha salido
    2. apagado
    3. en voz alta
    tr[aʊt]
    1 (outside) fuera, afuera
    could you wait out there? ¿podrías esperar allí fuera?
    is it cold out? ¿hace frío en la calle?
    get out! ¡fuera!
    3 (not in) fuera
    there's no answer, they must be out no contestan, deben de haber salido
    shall we eat out? ¿comemos fuera?
    7 (available, existing) diferentes traducciones
    when will her new book be out? ¿cuándo saldrá su nuevo libro?
    9 (flowers) en flor; (sun, stars, etc) que ha salido
    the sun's out ha salido el sol, brilla el sol, hace sol
    10 (protruding) que se sale
    don't put your tongue out! ¡no saques la lengua!
    11 (clearly, loudly) en voz alta
    12 (to the end) hasta el final; (completely) completamente, totalmente
    13 SMALLRADIO/SMALL (end of message) fuera
    1 (extinguished) apagado,-a
    2 (unconscious) inconsciente; (asleep) dormido,-a
    the boxer knocked his opponent out el boxeador dejó K.O. a su contrincante
    3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (defeated) eliminado,-a; (out of play) fuera
    he's out! ¡lo han eliminado!
    4 (wrong, not accurate) equivocado,-a
    my calculation was out by £5 mi cálculo tenía un error de 5 libras
    5 (not fashionable) pasado,-a de moda
    6 (out of order) estropeado,-a
    7 (unacceptable) prohibido,-a
    8 (on strike) en huelga
    9 (tide) bajo,-a
    10 (over, finished) acabado,-a
    1 (away from, no longer in) fuera de
    out of print agotado,-a
    5 (without) sin
    we're out of tea se nos ha acabado el té, nos hemos quedado sin té
    he's out of work está parado, está sin trabajo
    7 (using, made from) de
    made out of wood hecho,-a de madera
    8 (from) de
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    out of favour en desgracia
    out of sight, out of mind ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente
    out of sorts indispuesto,-a
    out of this world extraordinario,-a
    out with it! ¡dilo ya!, ¡suéltalo ya!
    to feel out of it sentirse excluido,-a
    to be out and about (from illness) estar recuperado,-a
    to be out of one's head / be out of one's mind estar loco,-a
    to be out to lunch SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL estar loco,-a
    to be out to do something estar decidido,-a a hacer algo
    out tray bandeja de salidas
    out ['aʊt] vi
    : revelarse, hacerse conocido
    out adv
    she opened the door and looked out: abrió la puerta y miró para afuera
    to eat out: comer afuera
    they let the secret out: sacaron el secreto a la luz
    his money ran out: se le acabó el dinero
    to turn out the light: apagar la luz
    5) outside: fuera, afuera
    out in the garden: afuera en el jardín
    6) aloud: en voz alta, en alto
    to cry out: gritar
    out adj
    1) external: externo, exterior
    2) outlying: alejado, distante
    the out islands: las islas distantes
    3) absent: ausente
    4) unfashionable: fuera de moda
    5) extinguished: apagado
    out prep
    I looked out the window: miré por la ventana
    she ran out the door: corrió por la puerta
    adj.
    fuera adj.
    adv.
    afuera adv.
    fuera adv.
    prep.
    allá en prep.

    I aʊt
    2)
    a) ( outside) fuera, afuera (esp AmL)

    is the cat in or out? — ¿el gato está (a)dentro or (a)fuera?

    all the books on Dickens are out — todos los libros sobre Dickens están prestados; see also out of

    b) (not at home, work)

    he's out to o at lunch — ha salido a comer

    to eat o (frml) dine out — cenar/comer fuera or (esp AmL) afuera

    out and about: you must get out and about more — tienes que salir más; see also go out

    3) ( removed)
    4)
    a) (indicating movement, direction)

    outsalida

    b) (outstretched, projecting)

    arms out, legs together — brazos extendidos, piernas juntas

    ten miles out — ( Naut) a diez millas de la costa

    6)
    a) (ejected, dismissed)
    b) (from hospital, jail)

    out for: Lewis was out for revenge Lewis quería vengarse; out to + inf: she's out to beat the record está decidida a batir el récord; they're only out to make money su único objetivo es hacer dinero; they're out to get you! — andan tras de ti!, van a por ti! (Esp); see also out of

    8)
    a) (displayed, not put away)

    are the plates out yet? — ¿están puestos ya los platos?

    b) ( in blossom) en flor
    c) ( shining)
    9)
    a) (revealed, in the open)

    once the news was out, she left the country — en cuanto se supo la noticia, se fue del país

    out with it! who stole the documents? — dilo ya! ¿quién robó los documentos?

    b) (published, produced)

    a report out today points out that... — un informe publicado hoy señala que...

    c) ( in existence) (colloq)
    10) (clearly, loudly)

    he said it out loud — lo dijo en voz alta; see also call, cry, speak out


    II

    to be out\<\<fire/light/pipe\>\> estar* apagado

    b) ( unconscious) inconsciente, sin conocimiento

    after five vodkas she was out cold — con cinco vodkas, quedó fuera de combate (fam)

    a) ( at an end)

    before the month/year is out — antes de que acabe el mes/año

    b) ( out of fashion) pasado de moda; see also go out 7) a)
    c) ( out of the question) (colloq)

    smoking in the bedrooms is absolutely outni hablar de fumar en los dormitorios (fam), está terminantemente prohibido fumar en los dormitorios

    3) ( Sport)

    to be out<batter/batsman> quedar out or fuera; < team> quedar eliminado; see also out of 3)

    b) ( outside limit) (pred) fuera

    it was outcayó or fue fuera

    4) ( inaccurate) (pred)

    you're way o a long way o miles out — andas muy lejos or muy errado

    5) (without, out of) (colloq) (pred)

    coffee? sorry, I'm completely out — ¿café? lo siento, no me queda ni gota (fam); see also out of 6)

    6) < homosexual> declarado

    III

    he looked out the window — miró (hacia afuera) por la ventana; see also out of 1)


    IV
    1)
    a) ( in baseball) out m, hombre m fuera
    b) ( escape) (AmE colloq) escapatoria f
    2) outs pl (AmE)
    a)

    to be on the outs with somebody — estar* enemistado con alguien


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    [aʊt]
    1. ADV
    When out is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg go out, put out, walk out, look up the verb.
    1) (=not in) fuera, afuera

    it's cold outfuera or afuera hace frío

    they're out in the gardenestán fuera or afuera en el jardín

    to be out(=not at home) no estar (en casa)

    Mr Green is outel señor Green no está or (LAm) no se encuentra

    to be out and about again — estar bien otra vez (después de una enfermedad)

    to have a day out — pasar un día fuera de casa

    out you go! — ¡fuera!

    it's cold out herehace frío aquí fuera

    the journey out — el viaje de ida

    to have a night out — salir por la noche (a divertirse); (drinking) salir de juerga or (LAm) de parranda

    to run out — salir corriendo

    it's dark out thereestá oscuro ahí fuera

    the tide is out — la marea está baja

    out with him! — ¡fuera con él!, ¡que le echen fuera!

    second I, 3., 3)
    2) (=on strike)

    she's out in Kuwait — se fue a Kuwait, está en Kuwait

    three days out from Plymouth — (Naut) a tres días de Plymouth

    4)

    to be out, when the sun is out — cuando brilla el sol

    to come out, when the sun comes out — cuando sale el sol

    5) (=in existence) que hay, que ha habido

    when will the magazine be out? — ¿cuándo sale la revista?

    the book is out — se ha publicado el libro, ha salido el libro

    6) (=in the open) conocido(-a), fuera

    your secret's out — tu secreto se ha descubierto or ha salido a la luz

    out with it! — ¡desembucha!, ¡suéltalo ya!, ¡suelta la lengua! (LAm)

    7) (=to or at an end) terminado(-a)
    8) [lamp, fire, gas] apagado(-a)

    "lights out at ten pm" — "se apagan las luces a las diez"

    9) (=not in fashion) pasado(-a) de moda

    long dresses are out — ya no se llevan los vestidos largos, los vestidos largos están pasados de moda

    10) (=not in power)
    11) (Sport) [player] fuera de juego; [boxer] fuera de combate; [loser] eliminado(-a)

    that's it, Liverpool are out — ya está, Liverpool queda eliminado

    you're out (in games) quedas eliminado

    out! — ¡fuera!

    12) (indicating error) equivocado(-a)

    your watch is five minutes out — su reloj lleva cinco minutos de atraso/de adelanto

    13) (indicating loudness, clearness) en voz alta, en alto

    speak out (loud)! — ¡habla en voz alta or fuerte!

    right 2., 1), straight 2., 1)

    he's out for all he can get — busca sus propios fines, anda detrás de lo suyo

    15)

    to be out(=unconscious) estar inconsciente; (=drunk) estar completamente borracho; (=asleep) estar durmiendo como un tronco

    I was out for some minutes — estuve inconsciente durante varios minutos, estuve varios minutos sin conocimiento

    16)
    17) (=worn through)
    18)

    out of —

    When out of is part of a set combination, eg out of danger, out of proportion, out of sight, look up the other word.
    a) (=outside, beyond) fuera de

    to go out of the house — salir de la casa

    to look out of the window — mirar por la ventana

    to throw sth out of a window — tirar algo por una ventana

    to turn sb out of the house — echar a algn de la casa

    we're well out of it *de buena nos hemos librado

    - feel out of it
    danger 1., proportion 1., 1), range 1., 5), season 1., 2), sight 1., 2)
    b) (cause, motive) por

    out of curiositypor curiosidad

    out of respect for you — por el respeto que te tengo

    to do sth out of sympathyhacer algo por compasión

    necessity, spite
    c) (origin) de

    to copy sth out of a bookcopiar algo de un libro

    to drink sth out of a cupbeber algo de una taza

    to take sth out of a drawersacar algo de un cajón

    a box made out of wood — una caja (hecha) de madera

    it was like something out of a nightmareera como de una pesadilla

    a chapter out of a novelun capítulo de una novela

    d) (=from among) de cada
    e) (=without) sin

    it's out of stock — (Comm) está agotado

    to be out of hearts — (Cards) tener fallo a corazones

    breath 1., 1)
    f) (Vet)

    Blue Ribbon, by Black Rum out of Grenada — el caballo Blue Ribbon, hijo de Black Rum y de la yegua Grenada

    2.
    3.
    VT (=expose as homosexual) revelar la homosexualidad de
    4.
    VI
    * * *

    I [aʊt]
    2)
    a) ( outside) fuera, afuera (esp AmL)

    is the cat in or out? — ¿el gato está (a)dentro or (a)fuera?

    all the books on Dickens are out — todos los libros sobre Dickens están prestados; see also out of

    b) (not at home, work)

    he's out to o at lunch — ha salido a comer

    to eat o (frml) dine out — cenar/comer fuera or (esp AmL) afuera

    out and about: you must get out and about more — tienes que salir más; see also go out

    3) ( removed)
    4)
    a) (indicating movement, direction)

    outsalida

    b) (outstretched, projecting)

    arms out, legs together — brazos extendidos, piernas juntas

    ten miles out — ( Naut) a diez millas de la costa

    6)
    a) (ejected, dismissed)
    b) (from hospital, jail)

    out for: Lewis was out for revenge Lewis quería vengarse; out to + inf: she's out to beat the record está decidida a batir el récord; they're only out to make money su único objetivo es hacer dinero; they're out to get you! — andan tras de ti!, van a por ti! (Esp); see also out of

    8)
    a) (displayed, not put away)

    are the plates out yet? — ¿están puestos ya los platos?

    b) ( in blossom) en flor
    c) ( shining)
    9)
    a) (revealed, in the open)

    once the news was out, she left the country — en cuanto se supo la noticia, se fue del país

    out with it! who stole the documents? — dilo ya! ¿quién robó los documentos?

    b) (published, produced)

    a report out today points out that... — un informe publicado hoy señala que...

    c) ( in existence) (colloq)
    10) (clearly, loudly)

    he said it out loud — lo dijo en voz alta; see also call, cry, speak out


    II

    to be out\<\<fire/light/pipe\>\> estar* apagado

    b) ( unconscious) inconsciente, sin conocimiento

    after five vodkas she was out cold — con cinco vodkas, quedó fuera de combate (fam)

    a) ( at an end)

    before the month/year is out — antes de que acabe el mes/año

    b) ( out of fashion) pasado de moda; see also go out 7) a)
    c) ( out of the question) (colloq)

    smoking in the bedrooms is absolutely outni hablar de fumar en los dormitorios (fam), está terminantemente prohibido fumar en los dormitorios

    3) ( Sport)

    to be out<batter/batsman> quedar out or fuera; < team> quedar eliminado; see also out of 3)

    b) ( outside limit) (pred) fuera

    it was outcayó or fue fuera

    4) ( inaccurate) (pred)

    you're way o a long way o miles out — andas muy lejos or muy errado

    5) (without, out of) (colloq) (pred)

    coffee? sorry, I'm completely out — ¿café? lo siento, no me queda ni gota (fam); see also out of 6)

    6) < homosexual> declarado

    III

    he looked out the window — miró (hacia afuera) por la ventana; see also out of 1)


    IV
    1)
    a) ( in baseball) out m, hombre m fuera
    b) ( escape) (AmE colloq) escapatoria f
    2) outs pl (AmE)
    a)

    to be on the outs with somebody — estar* enemistado con alguien


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    plei
    1. verb
    1) (to amuse oneself: The child is playing in the garden; He is playing with his toys; The little girl wants to play with her friends.) jugar
    2) (to take part in (games etc): He plays football; He is playing in goal; Here's a pack of cards - who wants to play (with me)?; I'm playing golf with him this evening.) jugar (a)
    3) (to act in a play etc; to act (a character): She's playing Lady Macbeth; The company is playing in London this week.) representar, actuar
    4) ((of a play etc) to be performed: `Oklahoma' is playing at the local theatre.) ser representado
    5) (to (be able to) perform on (a musical instrument): She plays the piano; Who was playing the piano this morning?; He plays (the oboe) in an orchestra.) tocar
    6) ((usually with on) to carry out or do (a trick): He played a trick on me.) gastar una broma (a alguien)
    7) ((usually with at) to compete against (someone) in a game etc: I'll play you at tennis.) jugar contra
    8) ((of light) to pass with a flickering movement: The firelight played across the ceiling.) rielar, bailar
    9) (to direct (over or towards something): The firemen played their hoses over the burning house.) dirigir
    10) (to put down or produce (a playing-card) as part of a card game: He played the seven of hearts.) jugar

    2. noun
    1) (recreation; amusement: A person must have time for both work and play.) diversión
    2) (an acted story; a drama: Shakespeare wrote many great plays.) obra
    3) (the playing of a game: At the start of today's play, England was leading India by fifteen runs.) partido
    4) (freedom of movement (eg in part of a machine).) juego
    - playable
    - playful
    - playfully
    - playfulness
    - playboy
    - playground
    - playing-card
    - playing-field
    - playmate
    - playpen
    - playschool
    - plaything
    - playtime
    - playwright
    - at play
    - bring/come into play
    - child's play
    - in play
    - out of play
    - play at
    - play back
    - play down
    - play fair
    - play for time
    - play havoc with
    - play into someone's hands
    - play off
    - play off against
    - play on
    - play a
    - no part in
    - play safe
    - play the game
    - play up

    play1 n
    1. obra de teatro
    2. juego
    play2 vb
    1. jugar
    2. tocar
    tr[pleɪ]
    1 (recreation) juego
    2 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (action) juego; (match) partido; (move) jugada
    3 SMALLTHEATRE/SMALL obra (de teatro), pieza (teatral)
    4 (free and easy movement, slack) juego
    5 (action, effect, interaction) juego
    1 (game, sport) jugar a
    do you play the Stock Exchange? ¿juegas a la Bolsa?
    2 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (compete against) jugar contra; (in position) jugar de; (ball) pasar; (card) jugar; (piece) mover
    have you played David at tennis? ¿has jugado al tenis con David?
    3 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL tocar
    1 (joke, trick) gastar, hacer
    1 SMALLTHEATRE/SMALL (part) hacer el papel de, hacer de; (play) representar, dar
    2 (record, song, tape) poner
    3 (direct - light, water) dirigir
    1 (amuse oneself) jugar (at, a), ( with, con)
    2 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (at game) jugar
    3 SMALLTHEATRE/SMALL (cast) actuar, trabajar; (show) ser representado,-a
    4 (pretend) pretender, jugar a
    what are you playing at? ¿qué pretendes?, ¿a qué estás jugando?
    5 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL tocar
    6 (move) recorrer
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    a play on words un juego de palabras
    to be in play estar dentro de juego
    to be out of play estar fuera de juego
    to be played out estar agotado,-a, estar rendido,-a
    to bring something into play poner algo en juego
    to come into play entrar en juego
    to give full play to something dar rienda suelta a algo
    to make a play for something/somebody intentar conseguir algo/conquistar a alguien
    to play by ear (music) tocar de oído
    to play dead hacerse el/la muerto,-a
    to play for time tratar de ganar tiempo
    to play hard to get hacerse de rogar, hacerse el/la interesante
    to play into somebody's hands hacerle el juego a alguien
    to play it by ear (improvise) decidir sobre la marcha, improvisar
    to play it cool hacer como si nada
    to play one's cards right jugar bien sus cartas
    to play safe / play it safe ir a lo seguro, no arriesgarse
    to play the fool hacer el indio, hacer el tonto
    to play the game jugar limpio
    to play truant hacer novillos, hacer campana
    to play with an idea dar vueltas a una idea
    to play with fire jugar con fuego
    fair play / foul play juego limpio / juego sucio
    play ['pleɪ] vi
    1) : jugar
    to play with a doll: jugar con una muñeca
    to play with an idea: darle vueltas a una idea
    2) fiddle, toy: jugar, juguetear
    don't play with your food: no juegues con la comida
    3) : tocar
    to play in a band: tocar en un grupo
    4) : actuar (en una obra de teatro)
    play vt
    1) : jugar (un deporte, etc.), jugar a (un juego), jugar contra (un contrincante)
    2) : tocar (música o un instrumento)
    3) perform: interpretar, hacer el papel de (un carácter), representar (una obra de teatro)
    she plays the lead: hace el papel principal
    play n
    1) game, recreation: juego m
    children at play: niños jugando
    a play on words: un juego de palabras
    2) action: juego m
    the ball is in play: la pelota está en juego
    to bring into play: poner en juego
    3) drama: obra f de teatro, pieza f (de teatro)
    4) movement: juego m (de la luz, una brisa, etc.)
    5) slack: juego m
    there's not enough play in the wheel: la rueda no da lo suficiente
    n.
    drama s.m.
    holgura s.f.
    huelgo s.m.
    juego s.m.
    jugada s.f.
    obra dramática s.f.
    pieza s.f.
    recreo s.m. (A role)
    v.
    desempeñar v. (An instrument)
    v.
    tocar v. (To drum)
    v.
    tañer v.
    v.
    divertirse v.
    jugar v.
    juguetear v.
    representar v.
    reproducir (Electrónica) v.
    sonar v.
    pleɪ
    I
    1)
    a) u ( recreation) juego m
    b) u ( Sport) juego m

    to bring something/come into play — poner* algo/entrar en juego

    c) c (AmE Sport) ( maneuver) jugada f

    to make a play for somebody/something — (also BrE)

    he made a play for hertrató de ganársela or de conquistársela

    2) u ( interplay) juego m
    3) u ( slack) ( Tech) juego m
    4) c ( Theat) obra f (de teatro), pieza f (teatral), comedia f

    radio playobra f radiofónica

    5) c ( pun)

    II
    1.
    2)
    a) \<\<cards/hopscotch\>\> jugar* a

    to play a jokeick on somebody — hacerle* or gastarle una broma/una jugarreta a alguien

    b) \<\<football/chess\>\> jugar* (AmL exc RPl), jugar* a (Esp, RPl)
    3)
    a) ( compete against) \<\<opponent\>\> jugar* contra

    to play somebody AT something: I used to play her at chess — jugaba ajedrez or (Esp, RPl) al ajedrez con ella

    b) \<\<ball\>\> pasar; \<\<card\>\> tirar, jugar*; \<\<piece\>\> mover*
    c) ( in particular position) jugar* de
    d) ( use in game) \<\<reserve\>\> alinear, sacar* a jugar
    4) ( gamble on) jugar* a

    to play the market — ( Fin) jugar* a la bolsa

    5) ( Theat)
    a) \<\<villain/Hamlet\>\> representar el papel de, hacer* de, actuar* de

    to play the innocent — hacerse* el inocente

    b) \<\<scene\>\> representar

    to play it cool — hacer* como si nada

    to play (it) safe — ir* a la segura, no arriesgarse*

    to play (it) straight — ser* sincero or honesto

    c) \<\<theater/town\>\> actuar* en
    6) ( Mus) \<\<instrument/note\>\> tocar*; \<\<piece\>\> tocar*, interpretar (frml)
    7) ( Audio) \<\<tape/record\>\> poner*
    8) ( move) (+ adv compl)

    2.
    1) vi
    2) ( amuse oneself) \<\<children\>\> jugar*

    to play AT something — jugar* a algo

    what are you playing at? — ¿a qué estás jugando?, ¿qué es lo que te propones?

    to play WITH something/somebody — jugar* con algo/alguien

    3) (Games, Sport) jugar*

    to play fair — jugar* limpio

    to play fair with somebody — ser* justo con alguien

    4)
    a) ( Theat) \<\<cast\>\> actuar*, trabajar; \<\<show\>\> ser* representado
    b) ( pretend)

    to play dead — hacerse* el muerto

    to play hard to gethacerse* el (or la etc) interesante

    5) ( Mus) \<\<musician\>\> tocar*
    6) ( move)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    [pleɪ]
    1. N
    1) (=recreation) juego m

    to be at play — estar jugando

    to do/say sth in play — hacer/decir algo en broma

    2) (Sport) juego m; (=move, manoeuvre) jugada f, movida f

    to be in play[ball] estar en juego

    to be out of play[ball] estar fuera de juego

    fair I, 1., 1), foul 5.
    3) (Theat) obra f (de teatro), pieza f
    plays teatro msing

    the plays of Lope — las obras dramáticas de Lope, el teatro de Lope

    radio/television play — obra f para radio/televisión

    to be in a play[actor] actuar en una obra

    radio
    4) (Tech etc) juego m
    5) (fig) (=interaction)

    to bring or call into play — poner en juego

    to come into play — entrar en juego

    to make a play for sth/sb — intentar conseguir algo/conquistar a algn

    to make (a) great play of sth — insistir en algo, hacer hincapié en algo

    a play on wordsun juego de palabras

    2. VT
    1) [+ football, tennis, chess, bridge, cards, board game etc] jugar a; [+ game, match] jugar, disputar

    do you play football? — ¿juegas al fútbol?

    what position does he play? — ¿de qué juega?

    to play centre-forward/centre-half etc — jugar de delantero centro/medio centro etc

    to play a game of tennis — jugar un partido de tenis

    don't play games with me! — (fig) ¡no me vengas con jueguecitos!, ¡no trates de engañarme!

    - play the field
    - play the game
    2) [+ team, opponent] jugar contra

    last time we played Sunderland... — la última vez que jugamos contra Sunderland...

    to play sb at chess — jugar contra algn al ajedrez

    3) [+ card] jugar; [+ ball] golpear; [+ chess piece etc] mover; [+ fish] dejar que se canse, agotar

    he played the ball into the net — (Tennis) estrelló or golpeó la pelota contra la red

    to play the market — (St Ex) jugar a la bolsa

    - play one's cards right or well
    - play ball
    4) (=perform) [+ role, part] hacer, interpretar; [+ work] representar; (=perform in) [+ town] actuar en

    what part did you play? — ¿qué papel tuviste?

    when we played "Hamlet" — cuando representamos "Hamlet"

    to play the peacemaker/the devoted husband — (fig) hacer el papel de pacificador/de marido amantísimo

    we could have played it differently — (fig) podríamos haber actuado de otra forma

    - play it cool
    - play it safe
    book 1., 1), fool, trick 1., 1)
    5) (Mus etc) [+ instrument, note] tocar; [+ tune, concerto] tocar, interpretar more frm; [+ tape, CD] poner, tocar

    to play the piano/violin — tocar el piano/el violín

    they played the 5th Symphonytocaron or more frm interpretaron la Quinta Sinfonía

    they were playing Beethoventocaban or more frm interpretaban algo de Beethoven

    6) (=direct) [+ light, hose] dirigir

    to play a searchlight on an aircraft — dirigir un reflector hacia un avión, hacer de un avión el blanco de un reflector

    3. VI
    1) (=amuse o.s.) [child] jugar; [puppy, kitten etc] jugar, juguetear

    to play with an idea — dar vueltas a una idea, barajar una idea

    to play with fire — (fig) jugar con fuego

    how much time/money do we have to play with? — ¿con cuánto tiempo/dinero contamos?, ¿de cuánto tiempo/dinero disponemos?

    to play with o.s. *euph tocarse, masturbarse

    2) (Sport) (at game, gamble) jugar

    play! — ¡listo!

    who plays first? — ¿quién juega primero?

    are you playing today? — ¿tu juegas hoy?

    England are playing against Scotland in the final — Inglaterra jugará contra or se enfrentará a Escocia en la final

    to play at chess — jugar al ajedrez

    what are you playing at? * — pero ¿qué haces?, ¿qué te pasa?

    to play by the rules — (fig) acatar las normas

    to play fairjugar limpio

    he plays for Liverpool — juega en el Liverpool

    to play for high stakes — (lit) apostar muy alto; (fig) poner mucho en juego

    to play in defence/goal — (Sport) jugar de defensa/de portero

    he played into the trees — (Golf) mandó la bola a la zona de árboles

    - play for time
    - play into sb's hands
    - play to one's strengths
    3) (Mus) [person] tocar; [instrument, record etc] sonar

    do you play? — ¿sabes tocar?

    will you play for us? — ¿nos tocas algo?

    to play on the piano — tocar el piano

    to play to sb — tocar para algn

    4) (Theat, Cine) (=act) actuar
    - play hard to get
    - play dead
    gallery
    5) (=move about, form patterns) correr
    6) [fountain] correr, funcionar
    4.
    CPD

    play clothes NPLropa f para jugar

    play reading Nlectura f (de una obra dramática)

    * * *
    [pleɪ]
    I
    1)
    a) u ( recreation) juego m
    b) u ( Sport) juego m

    to bring something/come into play — poner* algo/entrar en juego

    c) c (AmE Sport) ( maneuver) jugada f

    to make a play for somebody/something — (also BrE)

    he made a play for hertrató de ganársela or de conquistársela

    2) u ( interplay) juego m
    3) u ( slack) ( Tech) juego m
    4) c ( Theat) obra f (de teatro), pieza f (teatral), comedia f

    radio playobra f radiofónica

    5) c ( pun)

    II
    1.
    2)
    a) \<\<cards/hopscotch\>\> jugar* a

    to play a joke/trick on somebody — hacerle* or gastarle una broma/una jugarreta a alguien

    b) \<\<football/chess\>\> jugar* (AmL exc RPl), jugar* a (Esp, RPl)
    3)
    a) ( compete against) \<\<opponent\>\> jugar* contra

    to play somebody AT something: I used to play her at chess — jugaba ajedrez or (Esp, RPl) al ajedrez con ella

    b) \<\<ball\>\> pasar; \<\<card\>\> tirar, jugar*; \<\<piece\>\> mover*
    c) ( in particular position) jugar* de
    d) ( use in game) \<\<reserve\>\> alinear, sacar* a jugar
    4) ( gamble on) jugar* a

    to play the market — ( Fin) jugar* a la bolsa

    5) ( Theat)
    a) \<\<villain/Hamlet\>\> representar el papel de, hacer* de, actuar* de

    to play the innocent — hacerse* el inocente

    b) \<\<scene\>\> representar

    to play it cool — hacer* como si nada

    to play (it) safe — ir* a la segura, no arriesgarse*

    to play (it) straight — ser* sincero or honesto

    c) \<\<theater/town\>\> actuar* en
    6) ( Mus) \<\<instrument/note\>\> tocar*; \<\<piece\>\> tocar*, interpretar (frml)
    7) ( Audio) \<\<tape/record\>\> poner*
    8) ( move) (+ adv compl)

    2.
    1) vi
    2) ( amuse oneself) \<\<children\>\> jugar*

    to play AT something — jugar* a algo

    what are you playing at? — ¿a qué estás jugando?, ¿qué es lo que te propones?

    to play WITH something/somebody — jugar* con algo/alguien

    3) (Games, Sport) jugar*

    to play fair — jugar* limpio

    to play fair with somebody — ser* justo con alguien

    4)
    a) ( Theat) \<\<cast\>\> actuar*, trabajar; \<\<show\>\> ser* representado
    b) ( pretend)

    to play dead — hacerse* el muerto

    to play hard to gethacerse* el (or la etc) interesante

    5) ( Mus) \<\<musician\>\> tocar*
    6) ( move)
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > play

  • 15 actuator

    1. рукоятка, приводящая в действие некоторый механизм
    2. приводное устройство
    3. привод контактного аппарата
    4. привод
    5. орган управления
    6. механизм конечного выключателя, воздействующий на контакты
    7. исполнительный орган
    8. исполнительный механизм
    9. защелка (для фиксации сочленения розетки и плоского печатного проводника)
    10. воздействующее устройство

     

    воздействующее устройство
    источник сигнала


    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    Синонимы

    EN

     

    исполнительный механизм
    Устройство для управления арматурой, предназначенное для перемещения регулирующего элемента в соответствии с командной информацией, поступающей от внешнего источника энергии.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52720-2007]

    исполнительный механизм
    Механизм, являющийся функциональным блоком, предназначенным для управления исполнительным органом в соответствии с командной информацией.
    Примечание. В системах автоматического регулирования сред исполнительный механизм предназначен для перемещения затвора регулирующего органа
    [ ГОСТ 14691-69]

    исполнительный механизм
    Силовой механизм, используемый для движения машины и ее частей.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    EN

    (electric) actuator
    device that produces a specified movement when excited by an electric signal
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

    actuator

    In electrical engineering, the term actuator refers to a mechanism that causes a device to be turned on or off, adjusted or moved, usually in response to an electrical signal. In some literature the terms actor or effector are also used. The term “effector” is preferred by programmers, whereas engineers tend to favor “actuator.”
    An example of an actuator is a motor that closes blinds in response to a signal from a sunlight detector.
    Actuators enable computers to control complex manufacturing processes without human intervention or supervision.
    [ABB. Glossary of technical terms. 2010]

    FR

    actionneur (électrique), m
    dispositif qui produit un mouvement spécifié en réponse à un signal électrique
    SOURCE: 351-18-46 MOD
    [IEV ref 151-13-49]

     

    Тематики

    EN

     

    исполнительный орган

    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва, 1999 г.]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    EN

     

    механизм конечного выключателя, воздействующий на контакты

    [Я.Н.Лугинский, М.С.Фези-Жилинская, Ю.С.Кабиров. Англо-русский словарь по электротехнике и электроэнергетике, Москва]

    Тематики

    • электротехника, основные понятия

    EN

     

    орган управления
    Часть системы аппарата управления, к которой прилагается извне усилие управления.
    МЭК 60050(441-15-22).
    Примечание. Орган управления может иметь форму рукоятки, ручки, нажимной кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т. п.
    [ ГОСТ Р 50030. 1-2000 ( МЭК 60947-1-99)]

    орган управления

    Часть приводного механизма, к которой прикладывается внешняя сила воздействия.
    Примечание - Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, кнопки, ролика, поршня и т.д.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52726-2007]

    орган управления
    Часть системы привода, подвергаемая внешнему силовому воздействию.
    Примечания
    1. Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, рукоятки, нажимной кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т.д.
    2. Есть несколько способов приведения в действие, которые не требуют внешнего силового воздействия, а только какого-либо действия.
    [ГОСТ ЕН 1070-2003]

    орган управления
    Часть системы управления, которая предназначена непосредственно для воздействия оператором, например путем нажатия.
    [ГОСТ Р ЕН 614-1-2003]

    орган управления

    Часть системы приведения в действие, которая принимает воздействие человека.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60447-2000]

    орган управления
    Часть системы приведения в действие, которая воспринимает воздействие человека (ГОСТ Р МЭК 60447).
    Примечание
    В настоящем стандарте орган управления в виде интерактивного экранного устройства отображения является частью этого устройства, которое представляет функцию органа управления.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60073-2000]

    орган управления
    Часть механизма прибора управления, на который оказывается вручную внешнее силовое воздействие.
    Примечание.
    Орган управления может иметь форму ручки, рукоятки, кнопки, ролика, плунжера и т.д.
    Некоторые органы управления не требуют воздействия внешней силы, а только какого-либо действия.
    [ ГОСТ Р МЭК 60204-1-2007]

    органы управления
    Ручки, переключатели, потенциометры и другие органы, служащие для включения и регулировки аппаратуры. Термин относится преимущественно к аналоговым приборам.
    [Система неразрушающего контроля. Виды (методы) и технология неразрушающего контроля. Термины и определения (справочное пособие). Москва 2003 г.]

    орган управления
    -
    [IEV number 442-04-14]

    средства оперирования
    -

    [Интент]

    EN

    actuator
    the part of the actuating system to which an external actuating force is applied
    NOTE – The actuator may take the form of a handle, knob, push-button, roller, plunger, etc.
    [IEV number 441-15-22]

    actuator
    part of a device to which an external manual action is to be applied
    NOTE 1 The actuator may take the form of a handle, knob, push-button, roller, plunger, etc.
    NOTE 2 There are some actuating means that do not require an external actuating force, but only an action.
    NOTE 3 See also 3.34.
    [IEC 60204-1 -2005]

    actuating member
    a part which is pulled, pushed, turned or otherwise moved to cause an operation of the switch
    [IEV number 442-04-14]

    FR

    organe de commande
    partie du mécanisme transmetteur à laquelle un effort extérieur de manoeuvre est appliqué
    NOTE – L'organe de commande peut prendre la forme d'une poignée, d'un bouton, d'un bouton-poussoir, d'une roulette, d'un plongeur, etc.
    [IEV number 441-15-22]

    organe de manoeuvre
    partie qui est tirée, poussée, tournée ou manipulée de toute autre façon pour provoquer le fonctionnement de l'interrupteur
    [IEV number 442-04-14]


    Аппарат должен оставаться механически действующим. Не допускается сваривание контактов, препятствующее операции размыкания при использовании нормальных средств оперирования.
    [ГОСТ  Р 50030.3-99 (МЭК  60947-3-99) ]

    ВДТ следует оперировать как при нормальной эксплуатации. Операции размыкания должны проводиться в следующем порядке:
    для первых 1000 циклов — с использованием ручных средств оперирования;
    ...
    [ ГОСТ Р 51326. 1-99 ( МЭК 61008-1-96)]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU

    The operating means (for example, a handle) of the supply disconnecting device shall be easily accessible and located between 0,6 m and 1,9 m above the servicing level.
    [IEC 60204-1-2006]

    Органы управления, например, рукоятки аппаратов отключения питания, должны быть легко доступны и располагаться на высоте от 0,6 до 1,9 м от рабочей площадки.
    [Перевод Интент]

    Where the external operating means is not intended for emergency operations, it is recommended that it be coloured BLACK or GREY.
    [IEC 60204-1-2006]

    Если внешние средства оперирования не предназначены для выполнения действий при возникновении аварийных ситуаций, то рекомендуется, применять такие средства ЧЕРНОГО или СЕРОГО цвета.
    [Перевод Интент]

     

    1.2.2. Control devices

    Control devices must be:
    — clearly visible and identifiable and appropriately marked where necessary,
    — positioned for safe operation without hesitation or loss of time, and without ambiguity,
    — designed so that the movement of the control is consistent with its effect,
    — located outside the danger zones, except for certain controls where necessary, such as emergency stop, console for training of robots,
    — positioned so that their operation cannot cause additional risk,
    — designed or protected so that the desired effect, where a risk is involved, cannot occur without an intentional operation,
    — made so as to withstand foreseeable strain; particular attention must be paid to emergency stop devices liable to be subjected to considerable strain.

    1.2.2. Органы управления

    Органы управления должны быть:
    - четко видны, хорошо различимы и, где это необходимо, иметь соответствующее обозначение;
    - расположены так, чтобы ими можно было пользоваться без возникновения сомнений и потерь времени на выяснение их назначения;
    - сконструированы так, чтобы перемещение органа управления согласовывалось с их воздействием;
    - расположены вне опасных зон; исключение, где это необходимо, делается для определенных средств управления, таких, как средство экстренной остановки, пульт управления роботом;
    - расположены так, чтобы их использование не вызывало дополнительных рисков;
    - сконструированы или защищены так, чтобы в случаях, где возможно возникновение рисков, они не могли бы возникнуть без выполнения намеренных действий;
    - сделаны так, чтобы выдерживать предполагаемую нагрузку; при этом особое внимание уделяется органам аварийного останова, которые могут подвергаться значительным нагрузкам.

    Where a control is designed and constructed to perform several different actions, namely where there is no one-to-one correspondence (e.g. keyboards, etc.), the action to be performed must be clearly displayed and subject to confirmation where necessary.

    Если орган управления предназначен для выполнения разных действий, например, если в качестве органа управления используется клавиатура или аналогичное устройство, то должна выводиться четкая информация о предстоящем действии, и, если необходимо, должно выполняться подтверждение на выполнение такого действия.

    Controls must be so arranged that their layout, travel and resistance to operation are compatible with the action to be performed, taking account of ergonomic principles.

    Органы управления должны быть организованы таким образом, чтобы их расположение, перемещение их элементов и усилие, которое оператор затрачивает на их перемещение, соответствовали выполняемым операциям и принципам эргономики.

    Constraints due to the necessary or foreseeable use of personal protection equipment (such as footwear, gloves, etc.) must be taken into account.

    Необходимо учитывать скованность движений операторов при использовании необходимых или предусмотренных средств индивидуальной защиты (таких, как специальная обувь, перчатки и др.).

    Machinery must be fitted with indicators (dials, signals, etc.) as required for safe operation. The operator must be able to read them from the control position.

    Для обеспечения безопасной эксплуатации машинное оборудование должно быть оснащено индикаторами (циферблатами, устройствами сигнализации и т. д.). Оператор должен иметь возможность считывать их с места управления.

    From the main control position the operator must be able to ensure that there are no exposed persons in the danger zones.

    Находясь в главном пункте управления, оператор должен иметь возможность контролировать отсутствие незащищенных лиц.

    If this is impossible, the control system must be designed and constructed so that an acoustic and/ or visual warning signal is given whenever the machinery is about to start.

    Если это невозможно, то система управления должна быть разработана и изготовлена так, чтобы перед каждым пуском машинного оборудования подавался звуковой и/или световой предупредительный сигнал.

    The exposed person must have the time and the means to take rapid action to prevent the machinery starting up.

    [DIRECTIVE 98/37/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL]

    Незащищенное лицо должно иметь достаточно времени и средств для быстрого предотвращения пуска машинного оборудования.

    [Перевод Интент]

    Тематики

    Синонимы

    EN

    DE

    FR

     

    привод
    Устройство для приведения в действие машин и механизмов.
    Примечание
    Привод состоит из источника энергии, механизма для передачи энергии (движения) и аппаратуры управления. Источником энергии служит двигатель (тепловой, электрический, пневматический, гидравлический и др.) или устройство, отдающее заранее накопленную механическую энергию (пружинный, инерционный, гиревой механизм и др.). В некоторых случаях привод осуществляется за счет мускульной силы. По характеру распределения энергии различают групповой, индивидуальный и многодвигательный привод. По назначению привод машин разделяют на стационарный, т.е. установленный неподвижно на раме или фундаменте; передвижной, используемый на движущихся рабочих машинах; транспортный, применяемый для различных транспортных средств. В производстве применяются также гидропривод машин и пневмопривод.
    [РД 01.120.00-КТН-228-06]

    привод

    Устройство для приведения в действие машин, состоящее из двигателя, механизма передачи и системы управления
    [Терминологический словарь по строительству на 12 языках (ВНИИИС Госстроя СССР)]

    Тематики

    • аппарат, изделие, устройство...

    EN

    DE

    FR

     

    привод контактного аппарата
    Устройство, предназначенное для создания или передачи силы, воздействующей на подвижные части контактного аппарата для выполнения функции этого аппарата.
    [ ГОСТ 17703-72]

    привод
    Устройство, предназначенное для создания и передачи силы, воздействующей на подвижные части выключателя для выполнения его функций, а также для удержания выключателя в конечном положении.
    [ ГОСТ Р 52565-2006]

    Приводы являются аппаратами для включения и удержания во включенном положении, а также отключения коммутационных аппаратов (масляного выключателя, выключателя нагрузки или разъединителя).
    С помощью приводов осуществляется ручное, автоматическое и дистанционное управление коммутационными аппаратами.

    По роду используемой энергии приводы разделяются

    • на ручные,
    • пружинные,
    • электромагнитные,
    • электродвигательные,
    • пневматические.

    По роду действия приводы бывают

    В приводах прямого действия движение включающего устройства передается непосредственно на приводной механизм выключателя в момент подачи импульса от источника энергии. Такие приводы потребляют большое количество энергии.
    В приводах косвенного действия энергия, необходимая для включения, предварительно запасается в специальных устройствах: маховиках, пружинах, грузах и т. д.
    [Цигельман И. Е. Электроснабжение гражданских зданий и коммунальных предприятий: Учеб. для электромеханич. спец. техникумов. - М.: Высш. шк. 1988.]


    Приводы служат для включения, удержания во включенном положении и отключения разъединителей и выключателей.
    Основные требования, предъявляемые к приводу выключателя, состоят в том, что каждый привод должен развивать мощность, достаточную для включения выключателя при самых тяжелых условиях работы (включение на короткое замыкание, пониженное напряжение питания), и быть быстродействующим, т. е. производить включение за весьма малый промежуток времени. При медленном включении на существующее в сети КЗ возможно приваривание контактов.
    При включении выключателя совершается большая работа по преодолению сопротивления отключающих пружин, сопротивления упругих частей контактов, трения в механизме, сопротивления масла движению подвижных частей выключателя, электродинамических сил, препятствующих включению, и др.
    При отключении привод выключателя совершает небольшую работу, необходимую только для освобождения запорного механизма, так как отключение выключателя происходит под действием его отключающих пружин.
    В зависимости от рода энергии, используемой для включения, приводы разделяются на ручные, грузовые, пружинно-грузовые, пружинные, электромагнитные, пневматические и гидравлические.

    К наиболее простым относятся ручные приводы, не требующие специального источника электроэнергии для подготовки операции включения. Однако эти приводы имеют ряд существенных недостатков: не позволяют осуществлять дистанционное включение, не могут быть применены в схемах АВР (автоматического включения резерва) и АПВ (автоматического повторного включения), требуют приложения значительной мускульной силы оператора и не позволяют получить высокие скорости подвижных контактов выключателя, необходимые при больших токах КЗ.
    Более совершенными, имеющими большие возможности, но в то же время и более сложными являются грузовые и пружинные приводы, которые обеспечивают значительно более высокие скорости включения выключателя по сравнению с ручными. Это в свою очередь позволяет увеличить включающую способность выключателя. Грузовые и пружинные приводы включают выключатель за счет заранее накопленной энергии поднятого груза или заведенной пружины. Накопление достаточного количества энергии может производиться в течение сравнительно большого промежутка времени (десятки секунд), поэтому мощность электродвигателей таких приводов может быть небольшой (0,1—0.3 кВт).

    Электромагнитные приводы включают выключатель за счет энергии включающего электромагнита. Электромагнитные приводы предназначены для работы на постоянном токе. Питание их осуществляют от аккумуляторных батарей или выпрямителей. По способу питания энергией приводы подразделяют на две группы: прямого и косвенного действия.

    У приводов прямого действия энергия, расходуемая на включение, сообщается приводу во время процесса включения. К приводам прямого действия относятся ручные с использованием мускульной силы человека и электромагнитные или соленоидные приводы. Работа приводов косвенного действия основана на предварительно запасаемой энергии. К таким приводам относятся грузовые, пружинно-грузовые и пружинные приводы, а также пневматические и гидравлические. Последние два типа приводов не нашли широкого применения для выключателей 6—10 кВ и поэтому нами не рассматриваются.
    Приводы прямого действия по конструкции более просты по сравнению с приводами косвенного действия, и в этом их преимущество. Однако поскольку приводы прямого действия питаются от источника энергии непосредственно во время процесса включения выключателя, то потребляемая ими мощность во много раз больше, чем у приводов косвенного действия. Это — существенный недостаток приводов прямого действия.
    Ко всем приводам выключателей предъявляют требование наличия механизма свободного расцепления, т. е. возможности освобождения выключателя от связи с удерживающим и заводящим механизмами привода при срабатывании отключающего устройства и отключения выключателя под действием своих отключающих пружин. Современные приводы имеют свободное расцепление почти на всем ходу контактов, т. е. практически в любой момент от начала включения может произойти отключение. Это особенно важно при включении на КЗ. В этом случае отключение произойдет в первый же момент возникновения дуги, что предотвратит опасность сильного оплавления и сваривания контактов.

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    приводное устройство

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    рукоятка, приводящая в действие некоторый механизм

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    3.3.15 орган управления (actuator): Часть системы управления, к которой прилагают извне усилие управления.

    Примечание- Орган управления может иметь форму рукоятки, нажимной кнопки и т.д.

    Источник: ГОСТ Р 51731-2010: Контакторы электромеханические бытового и аналогичного назначения оригинал документа

    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > actuator

  • 16 sway

    swei
    1. verb
    1) (to (cause to) move from side to side or up and down with a swinging or rocking action: The branches swayed gently in the breeze.) balancear(se), mecer(se)
    2) (to influence the opinion etc of: She's too easily swayed by her feelings.) influir, influenciar; persuadir

    2. noun
    1) (the motion of swaying: the sway of the ship's deck.) balanceo, bamboleo
    2) (power, rule or control: people under the sway of the dictator.) dominio, influencia
    sway vb mecerse / balancearse
    tr[sweɪ]
    1 (movement) balanceo, vaivén nombre masculino, movimiento
    2 figurative use (influence) dominio, influencia ( over, sobre)
    1 (swing) balancear, bambolear
    2 figurative use (influence) influir en, influenciar, convencer
    1 (person, tree, ladder) balancearse, bambolearse; (tower) bambolearse; (crops) mecerse; (person - totter) tambalearse
    2 figurative use (waver) vacilar ( between, entre), oscilar ( between, entre)
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to hold sway (ideas, beliefs) prevalecer 2 (person) dominar
    to hold sway over somebody dominar a alguien
    sway ['sweɪ] vi
    : balancearse, mecerse
    sway vt
    influence: influir en, convencer
    sway n
    1) swinging: balanceo m
    2) influence: influjo m
    n.
    balanceo s.m.
    dominio s.m.
    mando s.m.
    oscilación s.f.
    soberanía s.f.
    vaivén s.m.
    v.
    bambalear v.
    bambolear v.
    cimbrar v.
    columpiar v.
    desviar v.
    dominar v.
    hacer oscilar v.
    inclinar v.
    influir en v.
    mecer v.
    mimbrear v.
    tartalear v.
    sweɪ
    I
    mass noun
    1) ( movement) balanceo m, oscilación f
    2) ( influence) influjo m; ( domination) dominio m

    to hold sway\<\<ideas\>\> prevalecer*; \<\<leader\>\> ejercer* dominio

    to hold sway OVER somebody — ejercer* dominio sobre alguien


    II
    1.
    1) ( swing) \<\<branchee\>\> balancearse; \<\<building/tower\>\> bambolearse, balancearse, oscilar
    2) ( veer) \<\<public opinion\>\> cambiar, dar* un viraje

    2.
    vt
    1) ( influence) \<\<person/crowd\>\> influir* en, influenciar
    2) ( move) \<\<hips\>\> menear, bambolear
    [sweɪ]
    1. N
    1) (also: swaying) (=movement) balanceo m, oscilación f ; [of train, bus, boat] vaivén m, balanceo m ; (=violent swaying) bamboleo m ; (=violent jerk) sacudimiento m ; (=totter) tambaleo m
    2) (=rule) dominio m ; (=influence) influencia f ; (=power) poder m

    his sway over the party — su influencia en el partido, su dominio del partido

    to hold sway over a nationgobernar or dominar una nación

    2.
    VI (=swing) balancearse, oscilar; (gently) mecerse; (violently) bambolearse; (=totter) tambalearse

    the train swayed from side to sideel tren se balanceaba or bamboleaba de un lado para otro

    3. VT
    1) (=move) balancear; (gently) mecer; [+ hips] menear, cimbrear
    2) (=influence) mover, influir en
    * * *
    [sweɪ]
    I
    mass noun
    1) ( movement) balanceo m, oscilación f
    2) ( influence) influjo m; ( domination) dominio m

    to hold sway\<\<ideas\>\> prevalecer*; \<\<leader\>\> ejercer* dominio

    to hold sway OVER somebody — ejercer* dominio sobre alguien


    II
    1.
    1) ( swing) \<\<branch/tree\>\> balancearse; \<\<building/tower\>\> bambolearse, balancearse, oscilar
    2) ( veer) \<\<public opinion\>\> cambiar, dar* un viraje

    2.
    vt
    1) ( influence) \<\<person/crowd\>\> influir* en, influenciar
    2) ( move) \<\<hips\>\> menear, bambolear

    English-spanish dictionary > sway

  • 17 guide

    1. verb
    1) (to lead, direct or show the way: I don't know how to get to your house - I'll need someone to guide me; Your comments guided me in my final choice.) vise vej; lede
    2) (to control the movement of: The teacher guided the child's hand as she wrote.) føre
    2. noun
    1) (a person who shows the way to go, points out interesting things etc: A guide will show you round the castle.) guide; rundviser; turistguide
    2) ((also guidebook) a book which contains information for tourists: a guide to Rome.) guidebog; turistguide
    3) ((usually with capital) a Girl Guide.) pigespejder
    4) (something which informs, directs or influences.) rettesnor
    - guideline
    - guided missile
    * * *
    1. verb
    1) (to lead, direct or show the way: I don't know how to get to your house - I'll need someone to guide me; Your comments guided me in my final choice.) vise vej; lede
    2) (to control the movement of: The teacher guided the child's hand as she wrote.) føre
    2. noun
    1) (a person who shows the way to go, points out interesting things etc: A guide will show you round the castle.) guide; rundviser; turistguide
    2) ((also guidebook) a book which contains information for tourists: a guide to Rome.) guidebog; turistguide
    3) ((usually with capital) a Girl Guide.) pigespejder
    4) (something which informs, directs or influences.) rettesnor
    - guideline
    - guided missile

    English-Danish dictionary > guide

  • 18 tentative

    ['tentətiv]
    1) (not final or complete; not definite: We have made a tentative arrangement.) foreløbig; tentativ
    2) (uncertain or hesitating: a tentative movement.) usikker
    - tentativeness
    * * *
    ['tentətiv]
    1) (not final or complete; not definite: We have made a tentative arrangement.) foreløbig; tentativ
    2) (uncertain or hesitating: a tentative movement.) usikker
    - tentativeness

    English-Danish dictionary > tentative

  • 19 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 20 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

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