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for five successive years

  • 1 successive

    successive adj [attempt, victory, generation, government] successif/-ive ; [day, week, year] consécutif/-ive ; for five successive years pendant cinq années consécutives or de suite ; with each successive season/disaster… à chaque nouvelle saison/catastrophe…

    Big English-French dictionary > successive

  • 2 consecutivo

    ( di seguito) consecutive
    tre giorni consecutivi three consecutive days, three days in a row
    * * *
    1 ( di seguito) consecutive; running (pred.); in succession (pred.), in a row (pred.): per due mesi consecutivi, for two months in succession; ha superato il record mondiale cinque volte consecutive, he has broken the world record five times running (o in a row) // traduzione consecutiva, consecutive translation // (mat.) angoli consecutivi, consecutive angles
    2 ( seguente) following
    3 (gramm.) consecutive: ( proposizione) consecutiva, consecutive clause.
    * * *
    [konseku'tivo]
    aggettivo (di seguito) consecutive, successive

    per cinque anni -i — for five successive o consecutive years

    * * *
    consecutivo
    /konseku'tivo/
    (di seguito) consecutive, successive; per cinque anni -i for five successive o consecutive years.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > consecutivo

  • 3 deducción por donación a obras benéficas

    (n.) = charitable deduction, charitable tax deduction
    Ex. Artists can claim these donations as charitable deductions on their income tax statements.
    Ex. In instances of very large gifts, the charitable tax deduction can be carried over for up to five successive years after the year in which the gift is made.
    * * *
    (n.) = charitable deduction, charitable tax deduction

    Ex: Artists can claim these donations as charitable deductions on their income tax statements.

    Ex: In instances of very large gifts, the charitable tax deduction can be carried over for up to five successive years after the year in which the gift is made.

    Spanish-English dictionary > deducción por donación a obras benéficas

  • 4 straight

    streit
    1. adjective
    1) (not bent or curved: a straight line; straight (= not curly) hair; That line is not straight.) recto, liso
    2) ((of a person, his behaviour etc) honest, frank and direct: Give me a straight answer!) honrado, de confianza, sincero, franco
    3) (properly or levelly positioned: Your tie isn't straight.) derecho, recto
    4) (correct and tidy: I'll never get this house straight!; Now let's get the facts straight!) en orden, arreglado
    5) ((of drinks) not mixed: a straight gin.) solo
    6) ((of a face, expression etc) not smiling or laughing: You should keep a straight face while you tell a joke.) serio
    7) ((of an actor) playing normal characters, or (of a play) of the ordinary type - not a musical or variety show.) serio, dramático

    2. adverb
    1) (in a straight, not curved, line; directly: His route went straight across the desert; She can't steer straight; Keep straight on.) recto, directamente
    2) (immediately, without any delay: He went straight home after the meeting.) directamente
    3) (honestly or fairly: You're not playing (= behaving) straight.) francamente, con franqueza

    3. noun
    (the straight part of something, eg of a racecourse: He's in the final straight.) recta
    - straightness
    - straightforward
    - straightforwardly
    - straightforwardness
    - straight talking
    - go straight
    - straight away
    - straighten out/up
    - a straight fight
    - straight off
    straight1 adj
    1. liso
    2. recto / derecho
    3. en orden
    straight2 adv
    1. recto / derecho
    2. directamente
    straight away enseguida / inmediatamente
    tr[streɪt]
    1 (not curved - gen) recto,-a; (- hair) liso,-a
    ■ can you walk in a straight line? ¿puedes caminar en línea recta?
    2 (level, upright) derecho,-a, recto,-a
    ■ backs straight! ¡espalda recta!
    ■ is my tie straight? ¿tengo la corbata recta?
    3 (tidy, neat) en orden, arreglado,-a
    4 (honest - person) honrado,-a, de confianza; (sincere) sincero,-a, franco,-a
    5 (direct - question) directo,-a; (- refusal, rejection) categórico,-a, rotundo,-a
    ■ he gave me a straight "no" for an answer su respuesta fue un "no" rotundo
    6 (correct, accurate) correcto,-a
    ■ have you got your facts straight? ¿tienes la información correcta?
    7 (consecutive) seguido,-a
    8 (drink) solo,-a
    9 (play, actor, etc) serio,-a, dramático,-a
    10 (person - conventional) convencional; (- heterosexual) heterosexual; (non-drug user) que no toma droga
    2 (not in a curve) derecho,-a, recto,-a
    3 (directly) directamente
    4 (immediately) en seguida
    5 (frankly) francamente, con franqueza
    6 (clearly) claro, con claridad
    1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (in race) recta
    2 (in cards) escalera
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as straight as an arrow/die (line, direction) derecho,-a como una vela 2 (person) honrado,-a
    the straight and narrow el buen camino
    straight away en seguida
    straight off sin pensarlo, en el acto
    straight up en serio
    to keep a straight face contener la risa
    to play straight (with somebody) jugar limpio (con alguien)
    to put/set the record straight dejar las cosas claras, aclarar las cosas, poner las cosas en su lugar
    to put/set somebody straight (about something) explicar los hechos a alguien
    to vote a/the straight ticket SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL votar a candidatos del mismo partido para todos los cargos
    straight choice alternativa clara
    straight profit beneficio limpio
    straight swap cambio directo
    straight ['streɪt] adv
    1) : derecho, directamente
    go straight, then turn right: sigue derecho, luego gira a la derecha
    2) honestly: honestamente
    to go straight: enmendarse
    3) clearly: con claridad
    4) frankly: francamente, con franqueza
    1) : recto (dícese de las líneas, etc.), derecho (dícese de algo vertical), lacio (dícese del pelo)
    2) honest, just: honesto, justo
    3) neat, orderly: arreglado, ordenado
    adj.
    • derecho, -a adj.
    • directo, -a adj.
    • engallado, -a adj.
    • enhiesto, -a adj.
    • erguido, -a adj.
    • franco, -a adj.
    • liso, -a adj.
    • recto, -a adj.
    • seguido, -a adj.
    • serio, -a adj.
    adv.
    • derechamente adv.
    • derecho adv.
    • directamente adv.
    • recto adv.
    straight* (Sexuality)
    n.
    • buga* s.m.

    I streɪt
    adjective -er, -est
    1)
    a) ( not curved or wavy) recto; < hair> lacio, liso
    b) (level, upright, vertical) (pred)

    to be straight — estar* derecho

    is my tie straight? — ¿tengo la corbata derecha or bien puesta?

    your tie isn't straight — llevas or tienes la corbata torcida

    2) ( in order) (pred)

    is my hair straight? — ¿tengo bien el pelo?

    I have to get o put my room straight — tengo que ordenar mi cuarto

    if I pay for the coffees, we'll be straight — si pago los cafés quedamos or estamos en paz or (CS) a mano

    to get something straight: let's get this straight a ver si nos entendemos; you have to make sure you've got your facts straight tienes que asegurarte de que la información que tienes es correcta; to set the record straight dejar las cosas en claro; to put o set somebody straight about something — aclararle algo a alguien

    3)
    a) (direct, clear) <denial/refusal> rotundo, categórico

    it's a straight choice between buying a car or going on holiday — la alternativa es clara: o se compra un coche o se va de vacaciones

    I made $20,000 straight profit — saqué 20.000 dólares limpios de beneficio

    she got straight A's — ≈sacó sobresaliente en todo

    b) ( unmixed) <gin/vodka> solo
    4) (honest, frank) < question> directo; < answer> claro

    all I want is a straight yes or no — lo único que quiero es que me digas que sí o que no, sin más

    he won in straight sets — ( Sport) ganó sin conceder or sin perder ningún set

    this is the fifth straight day it's happened — (AmE) éste es el quinto día seguido que pasa

    6)
    a) ( serious) <play/actor> dramático, serio
    b) ( conventional) (colloq) convencional
    c) ( heterosexual) (colloq) heterosexual

    II
    1)
    a) ( in a straight line) < walk> en línea recta
    b) ( erect) <sit/stand> derecho
    2)
    a) ( directly) directamente

    I came straight home from work — vine directamente or derecho a casa después del trabajo

    straight after dinner — inmediatamente después de cenar, en cuanto terminé de cenar

    she said straight off she wasn't paying — (colloq) dijo de entrada que ella no pagaba

    I'll come straight to the point — iré derecho or directamente al grano

    3) (colloq)
    a) ( frankly) con franqueza
    b) ( honestly)

    are you playing straight with me? — ¿estás jugando limpio conmigo?

    to go straight: he swore he'd go straight — prometió que se reformaría

    4) ( clearly) <see/think> con claridad
    5) ( Theat) < play> de manera clásica

    III
    [streɪt]
    1. ADJ
    (compar straighter) (superl straightest)
    1) (=not bent or curved) [line, road, nose, skirt] recto; [trousers] de perneras estrechas, de pata estrecha *; [hair] lacio, liso; [shoulders] erguido, recto

    • I couldn't keep a straight face, I couldn't keep my face straight — no podía mantener la cara seria

    2) (=not askew) [picture, rug, hat, hem] derecho

    your tie isn't straight — tienes la corbata torcida, tu corbata no está bien

    • to put or set straight — [+ picture, hat, tie, rug] poner derecho

    3) (=honest, direct) [answer] franco, directo; [question] directo; [refusal, denial] categórico, rotundo

    • all I want is a straight answer to a straight question — lo único que pido es que respondas con franqueza a una pregunta directa

    • it's time for some straight talking — es hora de hablar con franqueza or claramente

    • to be straight with sb — ser franco con algn, hablar a algn con toda franqueza

    4) (=unambiguous) claro

    is that straight? — ¿está claro?

    • to get sth straight, let's get that straight right from the start — vamos a dejar eso claro desde el principio

    have you got that straight? — ¿lo has entendido?, ¿está claro?

    • to put or set sth straight — aclarar algo

    to put or set things or matters straight — aclarar las cosas

    to put or set the record straight — aclarar las cosas

    he soon put or set me straight — enseguida me aclaró las cosas

    5) (=tidy, in order) [house, room] arreglado, ordenado; [books, affairs, accounts] en orden

    • to get or put sth straight — arreglar algo

    6) (=clear-cut, simple) [choice, swap] simple

    we made £50 straight profit on the deal — sacamos 50 libras limpias del negocio

    7) (=consecutive) [victories, defeats, games] consecutivo

    • to get straight As — sacar sobresaliente en todo

    • a straight flush — (in poker) una escalera real

    • she lost in straight sets to Pat Hay — (in tennis) perdió contra Pat Hay sin ganar ningún set

    • we had ten straight wins — ganamos diez veces seguidas, tuvimos diez victorias consecutivas

    8) (=neat) [whisky, vodka] solo
    9) (Theat) (=not comic) [part, play, theatre, actor] dramático, serio
    10) * (=conventional) [person] de cabeza cuadrada *

    she's a nice person, but very straight — es maja pero tiene la cabeza demasiado cuadrada *

    11) * (=not owed or owing money)

    if I give you a fiver, then we'll be straight — si te doy cinco libras, estamos en paz

    12) * (=heterosexual) heterosexual, hetero *
    13) * (=not criminal) [person]
    14) ** (=not using drugs)

    I've been straight for 13 years — hace 13 años que dejé las drogas, llevo 13 años desenganchado de las drogas

    2. ADV
    1) (=in a straight line) [walk, shoot, fly] en línea recta; [grow] recto

    stand up straight! — ¡ponte derecho or erguido!

    • straight above us — directamente encima de nosotros

    • it's straight across the road from us — está justo al otro lado de la calle

    • to go straight ahead — ir todo recto, ir todo derecho

    to look straight ahead — mirar al frente, mirar hacia adelante

    • to look straight at sb — mirar derecho hacia algn

    • to hold o.s. straight — mantenerse derecho

    • to look sb straight in the eye — mirar directamente a los ojos de algn

    • to go straight on — ir todo recto, ir todo derecho

    • the bullet went straight through his chest — la bala le atravesó limpiamente el pecho

    • I saw a car coming straight towards me — vi un coche que venía derecho hacia mi

    • to look straight up — mirar hacia arriba

    2) (=level)

    • to hang straight — [picture] estar derecho

    3) (=directly) directamente; (=immediately) inmediatamente

    I went straight home/to bed — fui derecho a casa/a la cama

    • straight after this — inmediatamente después de esto

    • straight away — inmediatamente, en seguida, al tiro (Chile)

    • straight off — (=without hesitation) sin vacilar; (=immediately) inmediatamente; (=directly) directamente, sin rodeos

    4) (=frankly) francamente, con franqueza

    just give it to me or tell me straight — dímelo francamente or con franqueza

    • to tell sb sth straight out — decir algo a algn sin rodeos or directamente

    • straight up — (Brit) * en serio

    straight from the shoulder —

    5) (=neat) [drink] solo
    6) (=clearly) [think] con claridad
    7) *

    • to go straight — (=reform) [criminal] enmendarse; [drug addict] dejar de tomar drogas, desengancharse

    he's been going straight for a year now — [ex-criminal] hace ahora un año que lleva una vida honrada; [ex-addict] hace un año que dejó las drogas, lleva un año desenganchado de las drogas

    8) (Theat)
    9) (=consecutively)
    3. N
    1) (=straight line)

    • to cut sth on the straight — cortar algo derecho

    2) (Brit) (on racecourse)

    • the straight — la recta

    3) (Cards) runfla f, escalera f
    4) * (=heterosexual) heterosexual mf
    4.
    CPD

    straight angle N — ángulo m llano

    straight arrow * N — (US) estrecho(-a) m / f de miras

    straight man N — actor m que da pie al cómico

    straight razor N — (US) navaja f de barbero

    straight sex N — (=not homosexual) sexo m entre heterosexuales; (=conventional) relaciones fpl sexuales convencionales, sexo m sin florituras *

    straight ticket N (US) (Pol) —

    * * *

    I [streɪt]
    adjective -er, -est
    1)
    a) ( not curved or wavy) recto; < hair> lacio, liso
    b) (level, upright, vertical) (pred)

    to be straight — estar* derecho

    is my tie straight? — ¿tengo la corbata derecha or bien puesta?

    your tie isn't straight — llevas or tienes la corbata torcida

    2) ( in order) (pred)

    is my hair straight? — ¿tengo bien el pelo?

    I have to get o put my room straight — tengo que ordenar mi cuarto

    if I pay for the coffees, we'll be straight — si pago los cafés quedamos or estamos en paz or (CS) a mano

    to get something straight: let's get this straight a ver si nos entendemos; you have to make sure you've got your facts straight tienes que asegurarte de que la información que tienes es correcta; to set the record straight dejar las cosas en claro; to put o set somebody straight about something — aclararle algo a alguien

    3)
    a) (direct, clear) <denial/refusal> rotundo, categórico

    it's a straight choice between buying a car or going on holiday — la alternativa es clara: o se compra un coche o se va de vacaciones

    I made $20,000 straight profit — saqué 20.000 dólares limpios de beneficio

    she got straight A's — ≈sacó sobresaliente en todo

    b) ( unmixed) <gin/vodka> solo
    4) (honest, frank) < question> directo; < answer> claro

    all I want is a straight yes or no — lo único que quiero es que me digas que sí o que no, sin más

    he won in straight sets — ( Sport) ganó sin conceder or sin perder ningún set

    this is the fifth straight day it's happened — (AmE) éste es el quinto día seguido que pasa

    6)
    a) ( serious) <play/actor> dramático, serio
    b) ( conventional) (colloq) convencional
    c) ( heterosexual) (colloq) heterosexual

    II
    1)
    a) ( in a straight line) < walk> en línea recta
    b) ( erect) <sit/stand> derecho
    2)
    a) ( directly) directamente

    I came straight home from work — vine directamente or derecho a casa después del trabajo

    straight after dinner — inmediatamente después de cenar, en cuanto terminé de cenar

    she said straight off she wasn't paying — (colloq) dijo de entrada que ella no pagaba

    I'll come straight to the point — iré derecho or directamente al grano

    3) (colloq)
    a) ( frankly) con franqueza
    b) ( honestly)

    are you playing straight with me? — ¿estás jugando limpio conmigo?

    to go straight: he swore he'd go straight — prometió que se reformaría

    4) ( clearly) <see/think> con claridad
    5) ( Theat) < play> de manera clásica

    III

    English-spanish dictionary > straight

  • 5 следващ

    following, next, coming
    (последвал) subsequent, succeeding
    следващият понеделник next Monday, ( за минало) the following Monday
    през следващите години in the following years; in after years
    през следващите пет години! during the next five years, for five years to come
    следващите поколения the after generations
    да влезе следващият next, please
    * * *
    слѐдващ,
    сег. деят. прич. (и като същ.) following, next, coming; ( последвал) subsequent, succeeding; да влезе \следващият next, please; през \следващите години in the following years; in after years; \следващият понеделник next Monday, (за минало) the following Monday.
    * * *
    following: I will call you следващ weekend. - Ще ти се обадя следващия уикенд.; after ; ensuing ; posterior ; successive
    * * *
    1. (последвал) subsequent, succeeding 2. following, next, coming 3. СЛЕДВАЩите поколения the after generations 4. СЛЕДВАЩият понеделник next Monday, (за минало) the following Monday 5. да влезе СЛЕДВАЩият next, please 6. през СЛЕДВАЩите години in the following years;in after years 7. през СЛЕДВАЩите пет години! during the next five years, for five years to come

    Български-английски речник > следващ

  • 6 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

  • 7 seguido

    adj.
    continuous, back-to-back, successive, consecutive.
    adv.
    frequently.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: seguir.
    * * *
    1 straight
    ■ todo seguido straight on, straight ahead
    ————————
    1→ link=seguir seguir
    1 (continuo) continuous
    2 (consecutivo) consecutive, successive
    ■ dos días seguidos two days running, two days in a row
    3 (en línea recta) straight, direct
    1 straight
    ■ todo seguido straight on, straight ahead
    \
    de seguida (seguidamente) without a break 2 (enseguida) at once, immediately, right away
    en seguida at once, immediately, straight away
    * * *
    1. (f. - seguida)
    adj.
    •
    2. adv.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [línea] continuous, unbroken
    2)

    seguidos: cinco días seguidos — (=ininterrumpidos) five days running, five days in a row

    tres blancos seguidos — three bull's-eyes in a row, three consecutive bull's-eyes

    3)

    seguido de algo/algn — followed by sth/sb

    llegó el ministro seguido de sus colaboradores — the minister arrived, followed by his staff

    2. ADV
    1) (=directo) straight on
    2) (=detrás)
    3) LAm (=a menudo) often
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo consecutive

    seguido DE algo/alguien — followed by something/somebody

    II
    1) (recto, sin desviarse) straight on

    vaya todo seguido — go straight on o straight ahead

    2) (AmL) ( a menudo) often
    * * *
    = in a row, back-to-back.
    Ex. The integrated library systems installed in Canandian libraries are surveyed for the 3rd year in a row.
    Ex. The conference program includes back-to-back papers on techniques for sorting Unicode data.
    ----
    * acto seguido = thereupon [thereon].
    * en seguida = forthwith, thereupon [thereon], promptly.
    * seguido de cerca = closely followed, closely monitored.
    * todo seguido = continuously, straight ahead, straight on.
    * * *
    I
    - da adjetivo consecutive

    seguido DE algo/alguien — followed by something/somebody

    II
    1) (recto, sin desviarse) straight on

    vaya todo seguido — go straight on o straight ahead

    2) (AmL) ( a menudo) often
    * * *
    = in a row, back-to-back.

    Ex: The integrated library systems installed in Canandian libraries are surveyed for the 3rd year in a row.

    Ex: The conference program includes back-to-back papers on techniques for sorting Unicode data.
    * acto seguido = thereupon [thereon].
    * en seguida = forthwith, thereupon [thereon], promptly.
    * seguido de cerca = closely followed, closely monitored.
    * todo seguido = continuously, straight ahead, straight on.

    * * *
    seguido1 -da
    consecutive
    ocurrió en tres visitas seguidas it happened on three consecutive visits
    ha faltado a clase tres días seguidos she hasn't been to school for three days, she's missed school three days running o three days in a row
    lleva dos semanas seguidas con fiebre she's had a fever for two weeks now
    van a dar las dos obras seguidas the two plays will be performed consecutively
    pasaron tres autobuses seguidos three buses went by one after the other o in quick succession
    le hicieron dos operaciones seguidas he had two operations in quick succession o one right after the other
    seguido DE algo/algn followed BY sth/sb
    seguido de Barcelona con 27 puntos followed by Barcelona with 27 points
    A (recto, sin desviarse) straight on
    vaya todo seguido go straight on o straight ahead
    B ( AmL) (a menudo) often
    últimamente voy más seguido I've been going more often lately
    viene seguido a visitarnos he often comes to visit us, he comes to visit us frequently o regularly
    * * *

     

    Del verbo seguir: ( conjugate seguir)

    seguido es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    seguido    
    seguir
    seguido 1
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    consecutive, in a row;
    faltó tres días seguidos she was absent three days running o in a row;
    pasaron tres autobuses seguidos three buses went by one after the other;
    seguido DE algo/algn followed by sth/sb
    seguido 2 adverbio
    1 (recto, sin desviarse) straight on;

    2 (AmL) ( a menudo) often
    seguir ( conjugate seguir) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹persona/vehículo/presa› to follow;
    ◊ camina muy rápido, no la puedo seguido she walks very fast, I can't keep up with her

    2 ‹camino/ruta› to follow, go along;
    ◊ siga esta carretera hasta llegar al puente go along o follow this road as far as the bridge;

    la saludé y seguí mi camino I said hello to her and went on (my way);
    la enfermedad sigue su curso normal the illness is running its normal course
    3
    a) ‹instrucciones/consejo/flecha› to follow

    b) ‹autor/método/tradición/moda› to follow;


    4
    a) ‹trámite/procedimiento› to follow;

    ‹ tratamiento› to undergo
    b) (Educ) ‹ curso› to do, take

    5 ‹explicaciones/profesor› to follow;
    ◊ dicta demasiado rápido, no la puedo seguido she dictates too quickly, I can't keep up

    verbo intransitivo
    1

    siga derecho or todo recto keep o go straight on;

    seguido de largo (AmL) to go straight past
    b)


    resolvieron seguido adelante con los planes they decided to go ahead with their plans
    c) (Col, Ven) ( entrar):

    ◊ siga por favor come in, please

    2 (en lugar, estado):
    ◊ ¿tus padres siguen en Ginebra? are your parents still in Geneva?;

    espero que sigan todos bien I hope you're all keeping well;
    sigue soltera she's still single;
    si las cosas siguen así … if things carry on like this …
    3 [tareas/buen tiempo/lluvia] to continue;
    [ rumores] to persist;

    seguidoé haciéndolo a mi manera I'll go on o carry on doing it my way
    4


    el capítulo que sigue the next chapter
    b) [historia/poema] to continue, go on

    seguido,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 (sin interrupción) continuous: estuvo hablando durante tres horas seguidas, she was talking non-stop for three whole hours
    2 (uno tras otro) consecutive: he ido al cine cuatro fines de semana seguidos, I have been to the cinema four weekends in a row
    se bebió tres vasos de agua seguidos, she drank three glasses of water one after the other
    II seguido adverbio straight
    todo seguido, straight on, straight ahead
    seguir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to follow: ésta es la hermana que me sigue, she's the sister who comes after me
    me sigue a todas partes, he follows me wherever I go
    me seguía con la mirada, his eyes followed me
    2 (comprender) to understand, follow: no soy capaz de seguir el argumento, I can't follow the plot
    3 (una ruta, un camino, consejo) to follow
    4 (el ritmo, la moda) to keep: no sigues el ritmo, you aren't keeping time
    5 (el rastro, las huellas) to track
    6 (una actividad) sigue un curso de informática, she's doing a computer course
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (continuar) to keep (on), go on: seguiremos mañana, we'll continue tomorrow
    siguen casados, they are still married
    sigue tirando de la cuerda, keep (on) pulling at the rope ➣ Ver nota en continue y keep 2 (extenderse, llegar hasta) to stretch (out): los sembrados siguen hasta la ribera, the fields stretch down to the river-bank
    ' seguido' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acto
    - como
    - hasta
    - poner
    - renglón
    - seguida
    - en
    - estar
    - se
    - ser
    - tal
    English:
    admit
    - afterwards
    - appreciate
    - averse
    - avoid
    - catch
    - consider
    - delay
    - deny
    - detest
    - enjoy
    - escape
    - expect
    - finish
    - give up
    - hope
    - imagine
    - intend
    - invite
    - keep
    - look forward to
    - love
    - manage
    - mean
    - must
    - need
    - object
    - opposed
    - practice
    - practise
    - promise
    - put off
    - recollect
    - refuse
    - risk
    - study
    - want
    - worth
    - running
    - solid
    * * *
    seguido, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [consecutivo] consecutive;
    diez años seguidos ten years in a row;
    llamó a la puerta cinco veces seguidas she knocked at the door five times;
    llegaron los tres seguidos the three of them arrived one after the other
    2. [sin interrupción] continuous;
    llevan reunidos cuatro horas seguidas they've been in the meeting for four hours without a break o for four solid hours;
    ha nevado durante dos semanas seguidas it's been snowing for two weeks solid;
    viajaron durante todo el día seguido they travelled the whole day without a break
    3. [inmediatamente después]
    seguido de followed by;
    sopa, seguida de carne soup, followed by meat
    ♦ adv
    1. [sin interrupción] continuously
    2. [en línea recta] straight on;
    todo seguido straight on o ahead;
    por ahí seguido llegarás a la autopista go straight on o ahead and you'll get to the Br motorway o US highway
    3. Am [a menudo] often
    * * *
    I adj
    1 consecutive, successive;
    de seguido in a row, one after another
    2 ( recto)
    :
    ir todo seguido go straight on
    II adv L.Am.
    often, frequently
    * * *
    seguido adv
    1) recto: straight, straight ahead
    2) : often, frequently
    seguido, -da adj
    1) consecutivo: consecutive, successive
    tres días seguidos: three days in a row
    2) : straight, unbroken
    3)
    seguido de : followed by
    * * *
    seguido adj
    1. (consecutivo) running / in a row
    2. (acompañado) followed
    entró el presidente, seguido por el alcalde the president entered, followed by the mayor
    en seguida at once / immediately

    Spanish-English dictionary > seguido

  • 8 straight

    1. adjective
    1) gerade; aufrecht [Haltung]; glatt [Haar]

    in a straight line — in gerader Linie

    2) (not having been bent) ausgestreckt [Arm, Bein]; durchgedrückt [Knie]
    3) (not misshapen) gerade [Bein]
    4) (Fashion) gerade geschnitten
    5) (undiluted, unmodified) unvermischt

    have or drink whisky/gin straight — Whisky/Gin pur trinken

    6) (successive) fortlaufend

    win in straight sets — (Tennis) ohne Satzverlust gewinnen

    the team had ten straight wins — die Mannschaft hat zehn Spiele hintereinander gewonnen

    straight As — (Amer.) lauter Einsen

    7) (undeviating) direkt [Blick, Schlag, Schuss, Pass, Ball, Weg]
    8) (candid) geradlinig [Person]; ehrlich [Antwort]; klar [Abfuhr, Weigerung, Verurteilung]; unmissverständlich [Rat]

    straight dealings/speaking — direkte Verhandlungen/unverblümte Sprache

    he did some straight talking with her — er sprach sich mit ihr offen aus

    9) (Theatre) ernst; (not avant-garde) konventionell
    10) (in good order, not askew)

    is my hair/tie straight? — sitzt meine Frisur/Krawatte [richtig]?

    is my hat [on] straight? — sitzt mein Hut [richtig]?

    put straight — geradeziehen [Krawatte]; gerade aufsetzen [Hut]; gerade hängen [Bild]; aufräumen [Zimmer, Sachen]; richtig stellen [Fehler, Missverständnis]

    get something straight — (fig.) etwas genau od. richtig verstehen

    let's get it or things or the facts straight — wir sollten alles genau klären

    get this straight! — merk dir das [ein für allemal]!

    put or set the record straight — die Sache od. das richtig stellen

    2. adverb

    go straight — (fig.): (give up crime) ein bürgerliches Leben führen

    2) (directly) geradewegs

    come straight to the point — direkt od. gleich zur Sache kommen

    straight ahead or on — immer geradeaus

    3) (honestly, frankly) aufrichtig

    I told him straight [out] that... — ich sagte [es] ihm ins Gesicht, dass...

    4) (upright) gerade [sitzen, stehen, wachsen]
    5) (accurately) zielsicher

    he can't shoot [very] straight — er ist nicht [sehr] zielsicher

    6) (clearly) klar [sehen, denken]
    3. noun
    (straight stretch) gerade Strecke; (Sport) Gerade, die

    final or home or finishing straight — (Sport; also fig.) Zielgerade, die

    * * *
    [streit] 1. adjective
    1) (not bent or curved: a straight line; straight (= not curly) hair; That line is not straight.) gerade, glatt
    2) ((of a person, his behaviour etc) honest, frank and direct: Give me a straight answer!) ehrlich
    3) (properly or levelly positioned: Your tie isn't straight.) ordentlich
    4) (correct and tidy: I'll never get this house straight!; Now let's get the facts straight!) ordentlich
    5) ((of drinks) not mixed: a straight gin.) pur
    6) ((of a face, expression etc) not smiling or laughing: You should keep a straight face while you tell a joke.) nicht verzogen
    7) ((of an actor) playing normal characters, or (of a play) of the ordinary type - not a musical or variety show.) konventionell
    2. adverb
    1) (in a straight, not curved, line; directly: His route went straight across the desert; She can't steer straight; Keep straight on.) gerade(wegs)
    2) (immediately, without any delay: He went straight home after the meeting.) direkt
    3) (honestly or fairly: You're not playing (= behaving) straight.) anständig
    3. noun
    (the straight part of something, eg of a racecourse: He's in the final straight.) die Gerade
    - academic.ru/71096/straighten">straighten
    - straightness
    - straightforward
    - straightforwardly
    - straightforwardness
    - straight talking
    - go straight
    - straight away
    - straighten out/up
    - a straight fight
    - straight off
    * * *
    [streɪt]
    I. n
    1. (race track) Gerade f
    in the finishing [or home] \straight in der Zielgeraden
    2. CARDS Sequenz f; (in poker) Straight m
    3.
    ▶ stay on [or keep to] the \straight and narrow ( saying) bleibe im Lande und nähre dich redlich prov
    II. adj
    1. (without curve) gerade; back, nose gerade; hair glatt; skirt gerade geschnitten; line gerade; road, row, furrow [schnur]gerade
    is my tie \straight? sitzt mein Schlips richtig?
    the picture isn't \straight das Bild hängt schief
    he landed a \straight punch to the face sein Hieb landete geradewegs im Gesicht
    as \straight as a die [or AM pin] (of posture) kerzengerade; (honest) grundehrlich, absolut ehrlich
    2. (frank) advice, denial, refusal offen, freimütig; (honest) ehrlich
    I think we better do a bit of \straight talking ich finde, wir sollten einmal ganz offen miteinander reden
    ▪ to be \straight with sb aufrichtig [o ehrlich] mit jdm sein
    a \straight answer eine offene [und ehrliche] Antwort
    to do \straight dealings with sb mit jdm offen und ehrlich verhandeln
    to go \straight ( fam) keine krummen Sachen machen fam, sich dat nichts zuschulden kommen lassen
    3. inv ( fam: conventional) brav pej
    he looks pretty \straight wearing a tie mit Krawatte sieht er ziemlich spießig aus
    4. (heterosexual) heterosexuell, hetero fam
    5. (plain) einfach; (undiluted) pur
    \straight gin/Scotch Gin m/Scotch m pur
    vodka \straight Wodka m pur
    6. (simply factual) tatsachengetreu, nur auf Fakten basierend attr
    \straight reporting objektive Berichterstattung
    7. (clear, uncomplicated) klar
    well done, Tim, that was \straight thinking gut gemacht, Tim, da hast du wirklich scharf überlegt
    just give me a \straight yes or no sag doch ganz einfach ja oder nein!
    we both liked each other's jumpers, so we did a \straight swap uns gefiel jeweils der Pullover des anderen und da haben wir einfach getauscht
    \straight answer eindeutige Antwort; (in exams)
    \straight A's glatte Einser
    he's a \straight A candidate er ist ein Einserkandidat
    8. attr, inv (consecutive) aufeinanderfolgend, in Folge nach n
    the team has won ten \straight games this season das Team hat in dieser Saison zehn Spiele hintereinander gewonnen
    \straight flush CARDS Straight[flush] m
    the \straight line of succession to the throne die Thronfolge in direkter Linie
    to win/lose in \straight sets TENNIS mehrere Sätze hintereinander gewinnen/verlieren
    9. ( fam: serious) ernst[haft]; (not laughing) ernst; (traditional) traditionell, konventionell
    there's a lot of \straight theatre at the festival beim Festival wird viel Althergebrachtes geboten
    to keep a \straight face [or one's face \straight] ernst bleiben
    to make [or put on] a \straight face ein ernstes Gesicht machen, eine ernste Miene aufsetzen
    \straight actor/actress THEAT Schauspieler/Schauspielerin des ernsten Fachs
    \straight production [or play] ernstes Stück
    10. pred ( fam: quits)
    ▪ to be \straight quitt sein fam
    11. ( fam: no drugs or alcohol) sauber, clean sl
    ‘Getting S\straight’ programme [or AM program] Entziehungskur f
    12. pred (in order) in Ordnung; (clarified) geklärt
    to put things \straight (tidy) Ordnung schaffen; (organize) etwas auf die Reihe kriegen fam, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ a. etwas schaffen
    let's get this \straight, you need £500 tomorrow or else... stellen wir einmal klar: entweder du hast bis morgen 500 Pfund, oder...
    and get this \straight, I'm not lending you any more money damit das klar ist: ich leihe dir keine müde Mark mehr
    to put [or set] sb \straight about sth jdm Klarheit über etw akk verschaffen
    III. adv
    1. (in a line) gerade[aus]
    go \straight along this road folgen Sie immer dieser Straße
    he drove \straight into the tree er fuhr frontal gegen den Baum
    the village lay \straight ahead of us das Dorf lag genau vor uns
    after a couple of gins, I was having difficulty walking \straight nach ein paar Gins konnte ich kaum noch gerade gehen
    the dog seemed to be coming \straight at me der Hund schien direkt auf mich zuzukommen
    the arrow went \straight through the canvas der Pfeil ging glatt durch die Leinwand
    she told me to go \straight ahead with designing the dress sie befahl mir, auf der Stelle mit dem Entwerfen des Kleides anzufangen
    to look \straight ahead geradeaus schauen
    2. inv (directly) direkt fam
    shall we go \straight to the party or stop off at a pub first? sollen wir gleich zur Party fahren oder schauen wir zuerst in einer Kneipe vorbei?
    to look sb \straight in the eye jdm direkt in die Augen sehen [o ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ schauen
    3. inv (immediately) sofort
    I got home and went \straight to bed ich kam nach Hause und ging sofort schlafen
    we've got to leave \straight away wir müssen unverzüglich aufbrechen
    she said \straight off [or away] that she had no time on Friday sie sagte von vornherein, dass sie am Freitag keine Zeit habe
    to get \straight to the point sofort [o ohne Umschweife] zur Sache kommen
    4. ( fam: honestly) offen [und ehrlich]
    tell me \straight, would you rather we didn't go out tonight? nun sag mal ganz ehrlich, wäre es dir lieber, wenn wir heute Abend nicht weggingen?
    I told him \straight that I didn't like his tie ich sagte ihm geradeheraus, dass mir seine Krawatte nicht gefiele
    \straight up, I only paid £20 for the fridge für den Kühlschrank habe ich echt nur 20 Pfund bezahlt
    5. (clearly) klar
    after five glasses of wine I couldn't see \straight nach fünf Gläsern Wein konnte ich nicht mehr richtig sehen
    I'm so tired I can't think \straight any more ich bin so müde, dass ich nicht mehr klar denken kann
    * * *
    [streɪt]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) gerade; shot, pass direkt; stance, posture aufrecht; hair glatt; skirt, trousers gerade geschnitten

    the picture isn't straight —

    please put the picture straight —

    as straight as a die (Brit) — kerzengerade; road schnurgerade

    to keep a straight face, to keep one's face straight — ernst bleiben, das Gesicht nicht verziehen

    straight left/right (Boxing) — gerade Linke/Rechte

    2) (= clear) thinking klar

    to get things straight in one's mind — sich (dat) der Dinge klar werden

    3) (= frank) answer, talking, question offen, direkt; piece of advice offen, ehrlich; denial, refusal direkt, ohne Umschweife; (= honest) person, dealings ehrlich

    to keep sb straight — dafür sorgen, dass jd ehrlich bleibt or nicht auf die schiefe Bahn gerät (inf)

    4) (= plain, straightforward) drink pur; (POL) fight direkt; yes or no, choice, exam pass einfach

    to have a straight choice between... — nur die Wahl zwischen... haben

    5) (= continuous) ununterbrochen

    our team had ten straight wins — unsere Mannschaft gewann zehnmal hintereinander or in ununterbrochener Folge

    in straight sets/games (win) — ohne Satz-/Spielverlust; (lose) ohne Satz-/Spielgewinn, in aufeinanderfolgenden Sätzen/Spielen

    6) (THEAT) production konventionell; actor ernsthaft
    7) pred (in order) house, room ordentlich; paperwork in Ordnung

    to be ( all) straight — in Ordnung sein; ( fig

    if I give you a fiver, then we'll be straight (inf) — wenn ich dir einen Fünfer gebe, sind wir quitt

    8) (inf: heterosexual) hetero (inf); (= conventional) etabliert, spießig (pej)
    2. adv
    1) hold, walk, fly, shoot, grow gerade; sit up, stand up aufrecht, gerade; hit genau; leap at, aim for direkt; above genau, direkt; across direkt

    it went straight up in the air — es flog senkrecht in die Luft

    to look straight ahead —

    the airport is straight ahead —

    2) (= directly) direkt
    3) (= immediately) sofort

    straight away or off —

    he said straight off that... — er sagte ohne Umschweife or sofort, dass...

    4) (= clearly) think, see klar
    5) (= frankly) offen, rundheraus, ohne Umschweife

    I'll give it to you straight, you're fired — ich sage es Ihnen rundheraus or ohne Umschweife, Sie sind entlassen

    to give or tell sb sth/it straight from the shoulder —

    straight up, I got fifty quid for it (inf) — echt, ich habe fünfzig Pfund dafür gekriegt (inf)

    I got fifty quid for it – straight up? (inf) — ich habe fünfzig Pfund dafür gekriegt – echt? (inf)

    6) (THEAT) play, produce konventionell
    7) drink pur
    3. n
    1) (= straight part) (on race track) Gerade f; (on road, RAIL) gerade Strecke

    to keep sb on the straight and narrow — dafür sorgen, dass jd ehrlich bleibt or nicht auf die schiefe Bahn gerät

    2) (= straight line) Gerade f

    to cut sth on the straight — etw gerade ( ab)schneiden; cloth etw am Faden(lauf) entlang schneiden

    3) (inf: heterosexual) Hetero m (inf)
    * * *
    straight [streıt]
    A adj (adv straightly)
    1. gerade (Beine etc):
    straight hair glattes Haar;
    straight line gerade Linie, MATH Gerade f;
    keep a straight face das Gesicht nicht verziehen, engS. ernst bleiben;
    put straight ein Bild etc gerade hängen; → stand up A 1 b
    2. a straight left (right) (Boxen) eine linke (rechte) Gerade;
    in straight sets (Tennis etc) ohne Satzverlust;
    his third straight win SPORT sein dritter Sieg in (ununterbrochener Reihen)Folge
    3. in Ordnung, ordentlich:
    put straight in Ordnung bringen;
    put things straight Ordnung schaffen;
    put a few things straight einige Dinge klarstellen;
    set sb straight jemandem einen Zahn ziehen umg;
    set sb straight on ( oder about) jemandes Meinung über (akk) richtigstellen
    4. a) offen, ehrlich
    b) ehrlich, reell (Geschäftsmann etc): → die2 1
    5. anständig (Leben etc)
    6. umg zuverlässig, sicher (Tipp etc)
    7. geradlinig, folgerichtig (Denken etc)
    8. POL US hundertprozentig (Republikaner etc)
    9. pur:
    drink one’s whisky straight
    10. a) THEAT konventionell (Stück)
    b) THEAT effektlos (Spiel)
    c) gewöhnlich, normal (Roman etc)
    11. WIRTSCH US mit festem Preis, ohne Mengenrabatt
    12. AUTO, TECH Reihen…:
    13. umg quitt:
    we’re straight
    14. sl spießig
    15. sl
    a) hetero (heterosexuell)
    B adv
    1. gerade(aus):
    2. richtig:
    I can’t think straight ich kann nicht (mehr) klar denken;
    get sb straight sl jemanden richtig verstehen
    3. direkt, gerade, gerade(s)wegs, unmittelbar:
    4. oft straight out rundheraus, klipp und klar:
    5. umg go straight keine krummen Sachen mehr machen;
    a) es ernst meinen,
    b) kein Blatt vor den Mund nehmen;
    a) nur heraus mit der Wahrheit!,
    b) mir gegenüber brauchst du kein Blatt vor den Mund zu nehmen
    6. straight away ( oder off) sofort, auf der Stelle, gleich
    7. ohne Eis (Cocktail)
    8. straight up? Br umg echt?, ehrlich?
    C s
    1. Geradheit f:
    out of the straight krumm, schief
    2. SPORT (Gegen-, Ziel) Gerade f
    3. SPORT (Erfolgs-, Treffer- etc) Serie f
    4. Poker: Straight m (Folge von 5 Karten beliebiger Farbe)
    5. fig be on ( oder keep to) the straight and narrow auf dem Pfad der Tugend wandeln;
    go off ( oder stray from) the straight and narrow auf die schiefe Bahn geraten
    6. sl Spießer(in)
    7. sl
    a) Hetero m
    b) jemand, der clean ist
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) gerade; aufrecht [Haltung]; glatt [Haar]
    2) (not having been bent) ausgestreckt [Arm, Bein]; durchgedrückt [Knie]
    3) (not misshapen) gerade [Bein]
    4) (Fashion) gerade geschnitten
    5) (undiluted, unmodified) unvermischt

    have or drink whisky/gin straight — Whisky/Gin pur trinken

    6) (successive) fortlaufend

    win in straight sets — (Tennis) ohne Satzverlust gewinnen

    straight As — (Amer.) lauter Einsen

    7) (undeviating) direkt [Blick, Schlag, Schuss, Pass, Ball, Weg]
    8) (candid) geradlinig [Person]; ehrlich [Antwort]; klar [Abfuhr, Weigerung, Verurteilung]; unmissverständlich [Rat]

    straight dealings/speaking — direkte Verhandlungen/unverblümte Sprache

    9) (Theatre) ernst; (not avant-garde) konventionell
    10) (in good order, not askew)

    is my hair/tie straight? — sitzt meine Frisur/Krawatte [richtig]?

    is my hat [on] straight? — sitzt mein Hut [richtig]?

    put straight — geradeziehen [Krawatte]; gerade aufsetzen [Hut]; gerade hängen [Bild]; aufräumen [Zimmer, Sachen]; richtig stellen [Fehler, Missverständnis]

    get something straight — (fig.) etwas genau od. richtig verstehen

    let's get it or things or the facts straight — wir sollten alles genau klären

    get this straight! — merk dir das [ein für allemal]!

    put or set the record straight — die Sache od. das richtig stellen

    2. adverb

    go straight — (fig.): (give up crime) ein bürgerliches Leben führen

    2) (directly) geradewegs

    come straight to the point — direkt od. gleich zur Sache kommen

    straight ahead or on — immer geradeaus

    3) (honestly, frankly) aufrichtig

    I told him straight [out] that... — ich sagte [es] ihm ins Gesicht, dass...

    4) (upright) gerade [sitzen, stehen, wachsen]
    5) (accurately) zielsicher

    he can't shoot [very] straight — er ist nicht [sehr] zielsicher

    6) (clearly) klar [sehen, denken]
    3. noun
    (straight stretch) gerade Strecke; (Sport) Gerade, die

    final or home or finishing straight — (Sport; also fig.) Zielgerade, die

    * * *
    adj.
    direkt adj.
    gerade adj.
    geradewegs adj.
    rein adj.
    unmittelbar adj.
    unverfälscht adj.

    English-german dictionary > straight

  • 9 Gooch, Sir Daniel

    [br]
    b. 24 August 1816 Bedlington, Northumberland, England
    d. 15 October 1889 Clewer Park, Berkshire, England
    [br]
    English engineer, first locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway and pioneer of transatlantic electric telegraphy.
    [br]
    Gooch gained experience as a pupil with several successive engineering firms, including Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson \& Co. In 1837 he was engaged by I.K. Brunel, who was then building the Great Western Railway (GWR) to the broad gauge of 7 ft 1/4 in. (2.14 m), to take charge of the railway's locomotive department. He was just 21 years old. The initial locomotive stock comprised several locomotives built to such extreme specifications laid down by Brunel that they were virtually unworkable, and two 2–2–2 locomotives, North Star and Morning Star, which had been built by Robert Stephenson \& Co. but left on the builder's hands. These latter were reliable and were perpetuated. An enlarged version, the "Fire Fly" class, was designed by Gooch and built in quantity: Gooch was an early proponent of standardization. His highly successful 4–2–2 Iron Duke of 1847 became the prototype of GWR express locomotives for the next forty-five years, until the railway's last broad-gauge sections were narrowed. Meanwhile Gooch had been largely responsible for establishing Swindon Works, opened in 1843. In 1862 he designed 2–4–0 condensing tank locomotives to work the first urban underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway in London. Gooch retired in 1864 but was then instrumental in arranging for Brunel's immense steamship Great Eastern to be used to lay the first transatlantic electric telegraph cable: he was on board when the cable was successfully laid in 1866. He had been elected Member of Parliament for Cricklade (which constituency included Swindon) in 1865, and the same year he had accepted an invitation to become Chairman of the Great Western Railway Company, which was in financial difficulties; he rescued it from near bankruptcy and remained Chairman until shortly before his death. The greatest engineering work undertaken during his chairmanship was the boring of the Severn Tunnel.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1866 (on completion of transatlantic telegraph).
    Bibliography
    1972, Sir Daniel Gooch, Memoirs and Diary, ed. R.B.Wilson, with introd. and notes, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    Further Reading
    A.Platt, 1987, The Life and Times of Daniel Gooch, Gloucester: Alan Sutton (puts Gooch's career into context).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Ian Allan (contains a good short biography).
    J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles, pp. 112–5.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Gooch, Sir Daniel

  • 10 διά

    διά, poet. [full] διαί ([dialect] Aeol. [full] ζά, q.v.), Prep. governing gen. and acc.— Rad. sense,
    A through; never anastroph. [Prop. δῐᾰ: but Hom. uses [pron. full] ῑ at the beginning of a line, Il.3.357, 4.135, al.: also ᾱ, metri gr., freq. in Hom., for which A. uses [full] διαί in lyr., Ag. 448, al.]
    A WITH GEN.
    I of Place or Space:
    1 of motion in a line, from one end to the other, right through, in Hom. freq. of the effect of weapons,

    διὰ μὲν ἀσπίδος ἦλθε.. ἔγχος καὶ διὰ θώρηκος.. Il. 3.357

    ;

    δουρὶ βάλεν Δάμασον κυνέης διά 12.183

    ;

    δι' ὤμου.. ἔγχος ἦλθεν 4.481

    ; in Prose,

    τιτρώσκειν διὰ τοῦ θώρακος X.An.1.8.26

    ; διὰ τοῦ ὀρόφου ἐφαίνετο πῦρ ib.7.4.16: also of persons, διὰ Σκαιῶν πεδίονδ' ἔχον ὠκέας ἵππους out through the Scaean gate, Il.3.263; δι' ἠέρος αἰθέρ' ἵκανεν quite through the lower air even to the ether, Il.14.288, cf. 2.458; διὰ Τρώων πέτετο straight through them, 13.755;

    δι' ὄμματος.. λείβων δάκρυον S.OC 1250

    , etc.: also in Compos. with πρό and ἐκ, v. διαπρό, διέκ: in adverbial phrases, διὰ πασῶν (sc. χορδῶν), v. διαπασῶν:

    διὰ πάσης

     throughout,

    Th.1.14

    ;

    διὰ κενῆς

     idly,

    Id.4.126

    , etc. (cf.111.1.c).
    2 of motion through a space, but not in a line, throughout, ouer,

    ἑπόμεσθα διὰ πεδίοιο Il.11.754

    ;

    δι' ὄρεσφι 10.185

    , al.; ὀδύνη διὰ χροὸς ἦλθε through all his frame, 11.398;

    τεῦχε βοὴν διὰ ἄστεος Od.10.118

    ;

    δι' ὁμίλου Il.6.226

    , etc.;

    θορύβου διὰ τῶν τάξεων ἰόντος X.An.1.8.16

    , cf. 2.4.26, etc.; later, in quoting an authority,

    ἱστορεῖ δ. τῆς δευτέρας

     in the course of..,

    Ath.10.438b

    .
    3 in the midst of, Il.9.468;

    κεῖτο τανυσσάμενος δ. μήλων Od.9.298

    ; between,

    δ. τῶν πλευρέων ταμόντα Hp.Morb.2.61

    : hence, of pre-eminence,

    ἔπρεπε καὶ δ. πάντων Il.12.104

    ;

    τετίμακε δι' ἀνθρώπων Pi.I.4(3).37

    ;

    εὐδοκιμέοντι δ. πάντων Hdt.6.63

    , cf. 1.25, etc.
    4 in Prose, sts. of extension, along,

    παρήκει δ. τῆσδε τῆς θαλάσσης ἡ ἀκτή Id.4.39

     (but πέταται δ. θαλάσσας across the sea, Pi.N.6.48);

    λόφος, δι' οὗ τὸ σταύρωμα περιεβέβληντο X.HG7.4.22

    .
    5 in Prose, of Intervals of Space, δ. τριήκοντα δόμων at intervals of thirty layers, i. e. after every thirtieth layer, Hdt.1.179; δ. δέκα ἐπάλξεων at every tenth battlement, Th.3.21; cf. infr. 11.3: of a single interval, δ. πέντε σταδίων at a distance of five stades, Hdt.7.30, cf. 198; δ. τοσούτου μᾶλλον ἢ δ. πολλῶν ἡμερῶν ὁδοῦ at so short a distance, etc., Th.2.29; δ. πολλοῦ at a great distance apart, Id.3.94;

    δ. πλείστου Id.2.97

    ;

    δι' ἐλάσσονος Id.3.51

    ;

    ὕδατα δ. μακροῦ ἀλόμενα Hp.

    Aër.9, etc.
    II of Time,
    1 of duration from one end of a period to the other, throughout, δ. παντὸς [τοῦ χρόνου] Hdt.9.13;

    δι' ὅλου τοῦ αἰῶνος Th.1.70

    ;

    δι' αἰῶνος S.El. 1024

    ;

    δι' ἡμέρας ὅλης Ar. Pax 27

    ;

    δι' ὅλης τῆς νυκτός X.An.4.2.4

    , etc.: without an Adj., δι' ἡμέρης all day long, Hdt.1.97;

    δ. νυκτός Th.2.4

    , X.An.4.6.22 (but δ. νυκτός in the course of the night, by night, Act.Ap.5.19, PRyl.138.15 (i A. D.), etc.);

    δ. νυκτὸς καὶ ἡμέρας Pl.R. 343b

    ; δι' ἐνιαυτοῦ, δι' ἔτους, Ar.Fr.569.8, V. 1058;

    δ. βίου Pl.Smp. 183e

    , etc.;

    δ. τέλους

     from beginning to end,

    A.Pr. 275

    , Pl.R. 519c, etc.: with Adjs. alone,

    δ. παντός

     continually,

    A.Ch. 862

     (lyr.), etc.; δι' ὀλίγου for a short time, Th.1.77;

    δ. μακροῦ E.Hec. 320

    ;

    ὁ δ. μέσου χρόνος Hdt. 8.27

    .
    2 of the interval which has passed between two points of Time, δ. χρόνου πολλοῦ or δ. πολλοῦ χρ. after a long time, Id.3.27, Ar.Pl. 1045;

    δ. μακρῶν χρόνων Pl.Ti. 22d

    : without an Adj., δ. χρόνου after a time, S.Ph. 758, X.Cyr.1.4.28, etc.; δι' ἡμερῶν after several days, Ev.Marc.2.1; and with Adjs. alone,

    δι' ὀλίγου Th.5.14

    ;

    οὐ δ. μακροῦ Id.6.15

    ,91;

    δ. πολλοῦ Luc.Nigr.2

    , etc.: with Numerals,

    δι' ἐτέων εἴκοσι Hdt.6.118

    , cf. OGI56.38 (iii B. C.), etc.: but δ. τῆς ἑβδόμης till the seventh day, Luc.Hist.Conscr.21: also distributively, χρόνος δ. χρόνου προὔβαινε time after time, S.Ph. 285;

    ἄλλος δι' ἄλλου E.Andr. 1248

    .
    3 of successive Intervals, δ. τρίτης ἡμέρης every other day, Hdt.2.37; δ. τρίτου ἔτεος ib.4, etc.; δ. πεντετηρίδος every four years (with inclusive reckoning), Id.3.97; δι' ἔτους πέμπτου, of the Olympic games, Ar.Pl. 584 (but δι' ἑνδεκάτου ἔτεος in the course of the eleventh year, Hdt.1.62).
    III causal, through, by,
    a of the Agent, δι' ἀλλέλων or -ου ἐπικηρυκεύεσθαι, ποιεῖσθαι, by the mouth of.., Id.1.69,6.4, cf. 1.113;

    δι' ἑρμηνέως λέγειν X.An.2.3.17

    , etc.;

    τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ Κυρίου δ. τοῦ προφήτου Ev.Matt.1.22

    ;

    δι' ἑκόντων ἀλλ' οὐ δ. βίας ποιεῖσθαι Pl.Phlb. 58b

    ; πεσόντ' ἀλλοτρίας διαὶ γυναικός by her doing, A.Ag. 448 (lyr.);

    ἐκ θεῶν γεγονὼς δ. βασιλέων πεφυκώς X.Cyr.7.2.24

    ; δι' ἑαυτοῦ ποιεῖν τι of oneself, not by another's agency, ib.1.1.4, etc.; but also, by oneself alone, unassisted, D.15.14, cf. 22.38.
    b of the Instrument or Means, δ. χειρῶν by hand (prop. by holding between the hands),

    δι' ὁσίων χ. θιγών S. OC 470

    ; also δ. χερῶν λαβεῖν, δ. χειρὸς ἔχειν in the hand, Id.Ant. 916, 1258 (but τὰ τῶν ξυμμάχων δ. χειρὸς ἔχειν to keep a firm hand on, Th.2.13);

    δ. στέρνων ἔχειν S.Ant. 639

    ;

    ἡ ἀκούουσα πηγὴ δι' ὤτων Id.OT 1387

    ;

    δ. στόματος ἔχειν X.Cyr.1.4.25

    ;

    δ. μνήμης ἔχειν Luc.Cat.9

    ;

    αἱ δ. τοῦ σώματος ἡδοναί X.Mem.1.5.6

    ; δ. λόγων συγγίγνεσθαι to hold intercourse by word, Pl.Plt. 272b;

    δ. λόγου ἀπαγγέλλειν Act.Ap.15.27

    ;

    δι' ἐπιστολῶν 2 Ep.Cor.10.9

    , POxy. 1070.15 (iii A. D.).
    c of Manner (where διά with its Noun freq. serves as an Adv.),

    δ. μέθης ποιήσασθαι τὴν συνουσίαν Pl.Smp. 176e

    ; παίω δι' ὀργῆς through passion, in passion, S.OT 807; δ. τάχους, = ταχέως, Id.Aj. 822, Th.1.63 (but δ. ταχέων ib.80, al.); δ. σπουδῆς in haste, hastily, E.Ba. 212; δι' αἰδοῦς with reverence, respectfully, ib. 441; δ. ψευδῶν ἔπη lying words, Id.Hel. 309; αἱ δ. καρτερίας ἐπιμέλειαι long-continued exertions, X.Mem.2.1.20; δι' ἀκριβείας, δ. πάσης ἀκρ., Pl.Ti. 23d, Lg. 876c;

    δ. σιγῆς Id.Grg. 450c

    ;

    δ. ξυμφορῶν ἡ ξύμβασις ἐγένετο Th.6.10

    ;

    οὐ δι' αἰνιγμάτων, ἀλλ' ἐναργῶς γέγραπται Aeschin.3.121

    ;

    δι' αἵματος, οὐ δ. μέλανος τοὺς νόμους ὁ Δράκων ἔγραψεν Plu.Sol.17

    : also with Adjs., δ. βραχέων, δ. μακρῶν τοὺς λόγους ποιεῖσθαι, Isoc.14.3, Pl.Grg. 449b; ἀποκρίνεσθαι δ. βραχυτάτων ibid. d; cf. infr. IV.
    2 in later Prose, of Material out of which a thing is made,

    κατασκευάζειν εἴδωλα δι' ἐλέφαντος καὶ χρυσοῦ D.S.17.115

    ;

    θυσίαι δι' ἀλφίτου καὶ σπονδῆς πεποιημέναι Plu.Num.8

    ;

    βρώματα δ. μέλιτος καὶ γάλακτος γιγνόμενα Ath.14.646e

    ;

    οἶνος δ. βουνίου Dsc. 5.46

    .
    IV διά τινος ἔχειν, εἶναι, γίγνεσθαι, to express conditions or states, ἀγὼν διὰ πάσης ἀγωνίης ἔχων extending through every kind of contest, Hdt.2.91;

    δι' ἡσυχίης εἶναι Id.1.206

    ; δι' ὄχλου εἶναι to be troublesome, Ar.Ec. 888;

    δ. φόβου εἶναι Th.6.59

    ;

    δι' ἀπεχθείας γίγνεσθαι X.Hier.9.2

    ; ἡ ἐπιμέλεια δ. χάριτος γίγνεται ibid.;

    δ. μιᾶς γνώμης γίγνεσθαι Isoc.4.138

    .
    b with Verbs of motion, δ. μάχης ἐλεύσονται will engage in battle, Hdt.6.9;

    ἐλθεῖν Th.4.92

    ; δ. παντὸς πολέμου, δ. φιλίας ἰέναι τινί, X.An.3.2.8; δ. δίκης ἰέναι τινί go to law with.., S.Ant. 742, cf. Th.6.60;

    δ. τύχης ἰέναι S.OT 773

    ;

    δι' ὀργῆς ἥκειν Id.OC 905

    ; ἐμαυτῷ δ. λόγων ἀφικόμην I held converse with myself, E.Med. 872; δ. λόγων, δ. γλώσσης ἰέναι come to open speech, Id.Tr. 916, Supp. 112; δ. φιλημάτων ἰέναι come to kissing, Id.Andr. 416;

    δ. δικαιοσύνης ἰέναι καὶ σωφροσύνης Pl.Prt. 323a

    , etc.; δ. πυρὸς ἰέναι (v. πῦρ): in pass. sense, δι' ἀπεχθείας ἐλθεῖν τινι to be hated by.., A.Pr. 121 (anap.).
    c with trans. Verbs, δι' αἰτίας ἔχειν or ἄγειν τινά hold in fault, Th.2.60, Ael.VH9.32;

    δι' ὀργῆς ἔχειν τινά Th.2.37

    , etc.;

    δ. φυλακῆς ἔχειν τι Id.7.8

    ; δι' οἴκτου ἔχειν τινά, δι' αἰσχύνης ἔχειν τι, E.Hec. 851, IT 683;

    δ. πένθους τὸ γῆρας διάγειν X.Cyr.4.6.6

    ;

    δι' οὐδενὸς ποιεῖσθαί τι S.OC 584

    .
    B WITH Acc.
    I of Place, only Poet., in same sense as διά c. gen.:
    1 through,

    ἓξ δὲ δ. πτύχας ἦλθε.. χαλκός Il.7.247

    ;

    ἤϊξε δ. δρυμὰ.. καὶ ὕλην 11.118

    , cf. 23.122, etc.; δ. τάφρον ἐλαύνειν across it, 12.62;

    δ. δώματα ποιπνύοντα 1.600

    ;

    ἐπὶ χθόνα καὶ δ. πόντον βέβακεν Pi.I.4(3).41

    ;

    φεύγειν δ. κῦμ' ἅλιον A.Supp.14

     (anap.).
    2 through, among, in,

    οἴκεον δι' ἄκριας Od.9.400

    ;

    ἄραβος δὲ δ. στόμα γίγνετ' ὀδόντων Il.10.375

     (but μῦθον, ὃν.. δ. στόμα.. ἄγοιτο through his mouth, 14.91; so

    δ. στόμα ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαι Hes.Th.65

    ;

    ἀεὶ γὰρ ἡ γυνή σ' ἔχει δ. στόμα Ar.Lys. 855

    );

    δ. κρατερὰς ὑσμίνας Hes.Th. 631

    ;

    νόμοι δι' αἰθέρα τεκνωθέντες S.OT 867

     (lyr.).
    II of Time, also Poet.,

    δ. νύκτα Il.2.57

    , etc.; δ. γλυκὺν ὕπνον during sweet sleep, Mosch.4.91.
    III causal:
    1 of persons, thanks to, by aid of,

    νικῆσαι δ... Ἀθήνην Od.8.520

    , cf. 13.121;

    δ. δμῳὰς.. εἷλον 19.154

    ; δ. σε by thy fault or service, S.OC 1129, Ar.Pl. 145, cf. 160, 170: in Prose, by reason of, on account of,

    δ' ἡμᾶς Th.1.41

    , cf. X.An.7.6.33, D.18.249;

    οὐ δι' ἐμαυτόν And.1.144

    ; so εἰ μὴ διά τινα if it had not been for..,

    εἰ μὴ δι' ἄνδρας ἀγαθούς Lys.12.60

    ;

    Μιλτιάδην εἰς τὸ βάραθρον ἐμβαλεῖν ἐψηφίσαντο, καὶ εἰ μὴ δ. τὸν πρύτανιν ἐνέπεσεν ἄν Pl.Grg. 516e

    , cf. D.19.74;

    εἰ μὴ δ. τὴν ἐκείνου μέλλησιν Th.2.18

    , cf. Ar.V. 558;

    πλέον' ἔλπομαι λόγον Ὀδυσσέος ἢ πάθαν γενέσθαι δι' Ὅμηρον Pi.N.7.21

    .
    2 of things, to express the Cause, Occasion, or Purpose, δι' ἐμὴν ἰότητα because of my will, Il.15.41;

    Διὸς μεγάλου δ. βουλάς Od.8.82

    ; δι' ἀφραδίας for, through want of thought, 19.523;

    δι' ἀτασθαλίας 23.67

    ; δι' ἔνδειαν by reason of poverty, X. An.7.8.6; δ. καῦμα, δ. χειμῶνα, ib.1.7.6;

    δι' ἄγνοιαν καὶ ἀμαθίαν Pl. Prt. 360b

    , etc.: freq. also with neut. Adjs., δ. τί; wherefore?; δ. τοῦτο, δ. ταῦτα on this account; δι' ὅ, δι' ἅ on which account; δ. πολλά for many reasons, etc.
    3 = ἕνεκα, to express Purpose, δἰ ἀχθηδόνα for the sake of vexing, Th.4.40, cf. 5.53; δ. τὴν τούτου σαφήνειαν with a view to clearing this up, Pl.R. 524c, cf. Arist.EN 1172b21; αὐτή δι' αὑτήν for its own sake, Pl.R. 367b, etc.
    C WITHOUT CASE as Adv. throughout, δ. πρό (v. supr. A.I.I);

    δ. δ' ἀμπερές Il.11.377

    .
    I through, right through, of Space, διαβαίνω, διέχω, διιππεύω.
    II in different directions, as in διαπέμπω, διαφορέω; of separation, asunder, διαιρέω, διαλύω; of difference or disagreement, at variance, διαφωνέω, διαφέρω; or simply mutual relation, one with another, διαγωνίζομαι, διάδω, διαθέω, διαπίνω, διαφιλοτιμέομαι.
    III pre-eminence, διαπρέπω, διαφέρω.
    IV completion, to the end, utterly, διεργάζομαι, διαμάχομαι, διαπράττω, διαφθείρω: of Time, διαβιόω.
    V to add strength, thoroughly, out and out, διαγαληνίζω, etc.; cf. ζά.
    VI of mixture, between, partly, esp. in Adj., as διάλευκος, διάχρυσος, διάχλωρος, etc.
    VII of leaving an interval or breach, διαλείπω, διαναπαύω. (Cogn. with δύο, δίς.)

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > διά

  • 11 Neilson, James Beaumont

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 22 June 1792 Shettleston, near Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 18 January 1865 Queenshill, Kirkcudbright-shire, Scotland
    [br]
    Scottish inventor of hot blast in ironmaking.
    [br]
    After leaving school before the age of 14 Neilson followed his father in tending colliery-steam engines. He continued in this line while apprenticed to his elder brother and afterwards rose to engine-wright at Irvine colliery. That failed and Neilson obtained work as Foreman at the first gasworks to be set up in Glasgow. After five years he became Manager and Engineer to the works, remaining there for thirty years. He introduced a number of improvements into gas manufacture, such as the use of clay retorts, iron sulphate as a purifier and the swallow-tail burner. He had meanwhile benefited from studying physics and chemistry at the Andersonian University in Glasgow.
    Neilson is best known for introducing hot blast into ironmaking. At that time, ironmasters believed that cold blast produced the best results, since furnaces seemed to make more and better iron in the winter than the summer. Neilson found that by leading the air blast through an iron chamber heated by a coal fire beneath it, much less fuel was needed to convert the iron ore to iron. He secured a patent in 1828 and managed to persuade Clyde Ironworks in Glasgow to try out the device. The results were immediately favourable, and the use of hot blast spread rapidly throughout the country and abroad. The equipment was improved, raising the blast temperature to around 300°C (572°F), reducing the amount of coal, which was converted into coke, required to produce a tonne of iron from 10 tonnes to about 3. Neilson entered into a partnership with Charles Macintosh and others to patent and promote the process. Successive, and successful, lawsuits against those who infringed the patent demonstrates the general eagerness to adopt hot blast. Beneficial though it was, the process did not become really satisfactory until the introduction of hot-blast stoves by E.A. Cowper in 1857.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1846.
    Further Reading
    S.Smiles, Industrial Biography, Ch. 9 (offers the most detailed account of Neilson's life). Proc. Instn. Civ. Engrs., vol. 30, p. 451.
    J.Percy, 1851, Metallurgy: Iron and Steel (provides a detailed history of hot blast).
    W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longmans (provides brief details).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Neilson, James Beaumont

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