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  • 41 основа, самое главное, важнейшая составляющая

    General subject: big-ticket item (Пример: Brand awareness has been the big-ticket item among marketing professionals for a number of years.)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > основа, самое главное, важнейшая составляющая

  • 42 auf Jahre zurückgeworfen werden

    auf Jahre zurückgeworfen werden
    to be set back for a number of years

    Business german-english dictionary > auf Jahre zurückgeworfen werden

  • 43 caravana1

    1 = caravan, house trailer.
    Ex. The same authority also experimented for a number of years with a mobile consumer advice caravan which travelled a fortnightly rota of small market towns = El mismo organismo responsable también experimentó durante varios años con una caravana ambulante de información al consumidor que recorría las poblaciones con mercado ambulante quincenalmente.
    Ex. The case of an arson fire that destroyed a house trailer and motorhome in Forestburg has been finally cracked.
    ----
    * camping para caravanas = caravan site.
    * caravana fija = mobile home.

    Spanish-English dictionary > caravana1

  • 44 продолжаться

    Продолжаться - to continue, to be continuing, to be continued; to persist; to proceed, to be proceeding; to be in progress
     At moderate light intensities the O2 uptake continues at an unchanged pace.
     Progress to an understanding of these factors is continuing along the lines detailed in the initial sections of this paper.
     Its use will surely be continued.
     Further studies are in progress to investigate the effect on current superalloys such as IN738, IN792, IN939, etc.
     For a number of years the 50, 25, 15, 10 rule has also persisted: the maintenance cost be broken down into 50-percent memory, 25-percent packaging and power, 15-percent I/O logic, and 10-percent CPV logic.
     Development work is proceeding on transmitter design with the aim of further increasing immunity to interference from commercial and military transmission.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > продолжаться

  • 45 een aantal jaren lang

    een aantal jaren lang

    Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > een aantal jaren lang

  • 46 Pixii, Antoine Hippolyte

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
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    b. 1808 France
    d. 1835
    [br]
    French instrument maker who devised the first machine to incorporate the basic elements of a modern electric generator.
    [br]
    Mechanical devices to transform energy from a mechanical to an electrical form followed shortly after Faraday's discovery of induction. One of the earliest was Pixii's magneto generator. Pixii had been an instrument maker to Arago and Ampère for a number of years and his machine was first announced to the Academy of Sciences in Paris in September 1832. In this hand-driven generator a permanent magnet was rotated in close proximity to two coils on soft iron cores, producing an alternating current. Subsequently Pixii adapted to a larger version of his machine a "see-saw" switch or commutator devised by Ampère, in order to obtain a unidirectional current. The machine provided a current similar to that obtained with a chemical cell and was capable of decomposing water into oxygen and hydrogen. It was the prototype of many magneto-electric machines which followed.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Academy of Sciences, Paris, Gold Medal 1832.
    Further Reading
    B.Bowers, 1982, A History of Electric Light and Power, London, pp. 70–2 (describes the development of Pixii's generator).
    C.Jackson, 1833, "Notice of the revolving electric magnet of Mr Pixii of Paris", American Journal of Science 24:146–7.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Pixii, Antoine Hippolyte

  • 47 en venta

    = for sale, in print, priced, on release, on sale
    Ex. People are checking over the giant noticeboard of community events, ' for sale,' 'ads,' and 'help wanted' notices.
    Ex. It therefore includes not only new publications but books published a number of years previously which are still in print.
    Ex. Much of this is free games software, with some educational programs, but there are also some priced applications programs available.
    Ex. This article reviews the first DVD-RW (DVD-Rewritable) on release in the UK.
    Ex. This is a bibliography of books and pamphlets published but not on sale.
    * * *
    = for sale, in print, priced, on release, on sale

    Ex: People are checking over the giant noticeboard of community events, ' for sale,' 'ads,' and 'help wanted' notices.

    Ex: It therefore includes not only new publications but books published a number of years previously which are still in print.
    Ex: Much of this is free games software, with some educational programs, but there are also some priced applications programs available.
    Ex: This article reviews the first DVD-RW (DVD-Rewritable) on release in the UK.
    Ex: This is a bibliography of books and pamphlets published but not on sale.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en venta

  • 48 количество лет

    лет; летний — year old

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > количество лет

  • 49 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.

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  • 50 Jahr

    n; -(e)s, -e
    1. Zeitspanne: year; ein halbes Jahr six months; anderthalb Jahre a year and a half, eighteen months; im Jahr 2003 in (the year) 2003; bis zum 31. Dezember d. J. (= dieses Jahres) until December 31st of this year; Anfang der achtziger Jahre in the early eighties; das ganze Jahr all year; alle Jahre every year; auf Jahre hinaus for years to come; im Lauf der Jahre through ( oder over) the years; in diesem / im nächsten Jahr this / next year; mit den Jahren with (the) years; nach Jahren after (many) years; nach Jahr und Tag after a very long time, (many) years later; seit Jahr und Tag for a long time, for many years; heute vor einem Jahr a year ago today; von Jahr zu Jahr from year to year; weitS. as the years go by; Jahr für Jahr year after year
    2. Alter: mit oder im Alter von 20 Jahren at the age of twenty; in den besten Jahren sein be in the prime of life; in die Jahre kommen be getting on (a bit), be getting a bit long in the tooth hum., Am. be getting up there; seine Jahre spüren feel one’s age; ( noch) jung an Jahren sein be (still) young ( oder in one’s youth); mit den Jahren lernt man das over the years, as the years go by; seine Jahre voll haben be able to retire (having contributed to pension fund for the necessary number of years), have reached retirement (age); Buckel 2
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    das Jahr
    year
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    [jaːɐ]
    nt -(e)s, -e
    1) year

    ein halbes Jáhr — six months sing or pl

    ein drei viertel Jáhr — nine months sing or pl

    anderthalb Jáhre — one and a half years sing, eighteen months sing or pl

    zwei Jáhre Garantie — a two-year guarantee

    im Jáhr(e) 1066 — in( the year) 1066

    die sechziger Jáhre — the sixties sing or pl

    alle Jáhre — every year

    alle zehn Jáhre — every ten years

    alle Jáhre wieder — year after year

    ein Jáhr ums andere — year after year

    auf Jáhre hinaus — for years ahead

    auf Jáhr und Tag — to the very day

    einmal im Jáhr(e) — once a year

    das ganze Jáhr über — all year (round or through)

    pro Jáhr — a year, per annum

    das Buch des Jáhres — the book of the year

    noch nach Jáhren — years later

    nach Jáhr und Tag — after (many) years

    vor Jáhr und Tag — (many) years ago

    seit Jáhr und Tag — for years

    mit den Jáhren — as( the) years go by, over the years

    zwischen den Jáhren (inf) — between Christmas and New Year

    (freiwilliges) soziales/ökologisches Jáhr — year of voluntary work in the social services/environmental sector

    2)

    (= Alter, Lebensjahr) er ist zehn Jáhre (alt) — he is ten years old

    mit dreißig Jáhren — at the age of thirty

    Personen über 18 Jáhre/unter 18 Jáhren — people over/under (the age of) 18

    in die Jáhre kommen (inf) — to be getting on (in years)

    man sieht ihm seine Jáhre nicht an — his age doesn't show

    in den besten Jáhren sein or stehen — to be in the prime of one's life

    mit den Jáhren — as one gets older

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    das
    1) (the period of time the earth takes to go once round the sun, about 365 days: We lived here for five years, from November 1968 to November 1973; a two-year delay.) year
    2) (the period from January 1 to December 31, being 365 days, except in a leap year, when it is 366 days: in the year 1945.) year
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    <-[e]s, -e>
    [ˈja:ɐ̯]
    nt
    1. (Zeitraum von 12 Monaten) year
    die 20er-/30er-\Jahre etc. the twenties/thirties etc. + sing/pl vb
    anderthalb \Jahre a year and a half
    ein dreiviertel \Jahr nine months
    ein halbes \Jahr six months, half a year
    das ganze \Jahr über throughout the whole year
    ein viertel \Jahr three months
    letztes [o im letzten] \Jahr last year
    nächstes [o im nächsten] \Jahr next year
    das neue \Jahr the new year
    alles Gute zu Weihnachten und viel Glück im neuen \Jahr! merry Christmas and a happy new year
    \Jahr für [o um] \Jahr year after year
    noch früh im \Jahr sein to be at the beginning of the year
    im \Jahre... in [the year]...
    ... im [o pro] \Jahr... a year
    ich gehe zweimal im \Jahr zum Arzt I go to the doctor's twice a year
    in diesem/im nächsten \Jahr this/next year
    in einem \Jahr/in... \Jahren in a year/in... years
    mit den \Jahren as the years go by, over the years
    mit... \Jahren at... [years of age]
    nach einem \Jahr after a year
    nach \Jahren for years
    vor einem \Jahr a year ago
    vor [...] \Jahren [...] years ago
    alle... \Jahre every... years
    alle hundert \Jahre ändert sich das Klima the climate changes every hundred years
    alle \Jahre wieder every year
    der/die/das... des \Jahres the... of the year
    dieser Bestseller wurde zum Buch des \Jahres gekürt this bestseller was chosen as book of the year
    auf \Jahre hinaus for years to come
    2. (Lebensjahre)... [years old]
    ... \Jahre jung sein (hum)... years young hum
    sie ist 80 \Jahre jung she's 80 years young
    3.
    ▶ in den besten \Jahren [sein] [to be] in one's prime
    ▶ im \Jahre des Heils (veraltet) in the year of grace old
    ▶ im \Jahre des Herrn anno domini, in the year of our Lord
    ▶ in die \Jahre kommen (euph fam) to be getting on [in years]
    ▶ nach/seit \Jahr und Tag (geh) after/for many years
    ▶ das verflixte siebte \Jahr (fam) the seven-year itch
    * * *
    das; Jahr[e]s, Jahre
    1) year

    anderthalb Jahre — eighteen months; a year and a half

    im Jahr[e] 1908 — in [the year] 1908

    jedes zweite Jahr — [once] every two years

    lange Jahre [hindurch] — for many years

    Jahr für od. um Jahr — year after year

    von Jahr zu Jahr — from one year to the next; from year to year

    vor Jahr und Tag — (mit Präteritum) many years ago; (mit Plusquamperfekt) many years before

    2) (LebensJahr) year

    er ist zwanzig Jahre [alt] — he is twenty years old or of age

    Kinder bis zu zwölf Jahren — children up to the age of twelve or up to twelve years of age

    alle Männer zwischen 18 und 45 Jahren — all men between the ages of 18 and 45

    mit 65 Jahren od. im Alter von 65 Jahren — at the age of 65

    das hat er schon in jungen Jahren gelernt — he learned that at an early age or while he was still young

    mit den Jahren — as he/she etc. grows/grew older

    * * *
    Jahr n; -(e)s, -e
    1. Zeitspanne: year;
    ein halbes Jahr six months;
    anderthalb Jahre a year and a half, eighteen months;
    im Jahr 2003 in (the year) 2003;
    bis zum 31. Dezember d. J. (=
    dieses Jahres) until December 31st of this year;
    Anfang der achtziger Jahre in the early eighties;
    das ganze Jahr all year;
    alle Jahre every year;
    auf Jahre hinaus for years to come;
    im Lauf der Jahre through ( oder over) the years;
    in diesem/im nächsten Jahr this/next year;
    mit den Jahren with (the) years;
    nach Jahren after (many) years;
    nach Jahr und Tag after a very long time, (many) years later;
    seit Jahr und Tag for a long time, for many years;
    heute vor einem Jahr a year ago today;
    von Jahr zu Jahr from year to year; weitS. as the years go by;
    Jahr für Jahr year after year
    2. Alter:
    im Alter von 20 Jahren at the age of twenty;
    in den besten Jahren sein be in the prime of life;
    in die Jahre kommen be getting on (a bit), be getting a bit long in the tooth hum, US be getting up there;
    seine Jahre spüren feel one’s age;
    (noch) jung an Jahren sein be (still) young ( oder in one’s youth);
    mit den Jahren lernt man das over the years, as the years go by;
    seine Jahre vollhaben be able to retire (having contributed to pension fund for the necessary number of years), have reached retirement (age); → Buckel 2
    * * *
    das; Jahr[e]s, Jahre
    1) year

    anderthalb Jahre — eighteen months; a year and a half

    im Jahr[e] 1908 — in [the year] 1908

    jedes zweite Jahr — [once] every two years

    lange Jahre [hindurch] — for many years

    Jahr für od. um Jahr — year after year

    von Jahr zu Jahr — from one year to the next; from year to year

    vor Jahr und Tag — (mit Präteritum) many years ago; (mit Plusquamperfekt) many years before

    2) (LebensJahr) year

    er ist zwanzig Jahre [alt] — he is twenty years old or of age

    mit 65 Jahren od. im Alter von 65 Jahren — at the age of 65

    mit den Jahren — as he/she etc. grows/grew older

    * * *
    -e n.
    year n.

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  • 51 ред

    1. (линия, ивица) row, range, line
    (ръкописен, печатен) line
    на първия ред in the front row
    нов ред a new/fresh line/paragraph
    почвам нов ред begin anew paragraph
    чета между редовете read between the lines
    ред дървета a linc/row of trees
    ред чинове a row of desks
    2. (известен брой, поредица) a number/succession of; series
    безкраен ред мат. an infinite series
    ред въпроси/трудности a series of questions/difficulties
    ред мисли a chain of ideas
    в тоя ред на мисли in this train of thought
    ред посещения a round of visits
    ред правила a set of rules
    ред събития a sequence of events
    по ред причини for a number/variety of reasons
    по азбучен ред in alphabetic order/sequence
    и ред други and many others
    ред по ред one after another, successively, in succession
    (години) под ред (years) in succession
    3. (начин на действие, подреждане, изправност, обичаи, сбор от правила, норми, строй, режим) order, system
    воен. order, formation, array
    ред и законност law and order
    внасям/слагам ред в regulate
    внасям известен ред в put some sort of system in
    научавам на ред discipline; teach s.o. order
    научавам се на ред be disciplined, learn to be orderly
    слагам в ред put in order, set to rights, ( стая и) do, ( нещо повредено) put right
    слагам работите си в ред put/set o.'s affairs in order, put o.'s house in order
    карам под ред take matters in order
    поддържам реда maintain order, (в къща и пр.) keep (a house, etc,) in order
    нарушавам/развалям реда break the routine
    променям реда си change o.'s routine
    приет ред accepted order, usage
    установен ред a fixed routine, an established usage/method
    такъв е редът тук this is the custom here
    вътрешен ред internal discipline, (на пансион и пр.) house regulation/rules
    човек на реда a man of method, a methodical man
    при добър/пълен ред in complete order, without disorder, smoothly
    по административен ред through administrative channels
    по надлежния ред through the proper channels
    по съдебен ред in legal form; by order of the court
    старият ред the old order/regime
    без (никакъв) ред ре ll-mell, higgledy-piggledy
    (според) както му е редът in the proper way; in due form
    боен ред воен, order of battle, battle order/formation/array
    походен ред воен. marching formation
    ред на гласуване voting procedure
    в ред (за книжа и пр.) in (good) order, ( за машина) in work-ing order
    не в ред (развален, повреден) out of order
    очите ми нещо не са в ред s.th. is wrong with my eyes, there is s.th. wrong with my eyes
    тук има нещо, което не е в ред there's s.fh. wrong here, разг. there's a screw loose somewhere
    4. (време, удобен случай) turn; time
    на свой ред in o.'s turn
    всеки на свой ред each one in his turn
    чакам си реда wait o.'s turn
    идва ми редът, сега е мой ред да it is my turn to
    идва ми отново редът have o.'s turn again
    още не му е дошъл редът the time is not yet ripe for it
    всичко на реда си everything has its day
    всичко върви по реда си things take their regular course
    когато му дойде редът all in good time
    дойде ред човек да види... we will live to see...
    5. мн. ч. (на армия, организация) ranks
    * * *
    м., -овѐ, (два) рѐда 1. ( линия; ивица) row, range, line; ( ръкописен, печатен) line; линотипен \ред полигр. slug; на първия \ред in the front row; нов \ред indentation; по четирима на \ред four abreast, (на дълбочина) four deep;
    2. ( известен брой, поредица) a number/succession of; series; ( последователност) sequence; безкраен \ред мат. infinite series; в тоя \ред на мисли in this train of thought; и \ред други and many others; по азбучен \ред in alphabetic order; по канален \ред in due order; through official/proper channels; по \ред причини for a number/variety of reasons; ( години) под \ред (years) in succession; \ред мисли chain of ideas; \ред по \ред one after another, successively, in succession; \ред (поредица) посещения round of visits; \ред правила set of rules;
    3. ( начин на действие, подреждане; изправност; обичаи; сбор от правила, норми; строй, режим) order, system; воен. order, formation, array; без (никакъв) \ред pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy; боен \ред воен. order of battle, battle order/formation/array; вътрешен \ред internal discipline, (на пансион и пр.) house regulation/rules; administrative arrangement; домашен/обществен и пр. \ред domestic/social, etc. arrangements; карам под \ред take matters in order; нарушавам/развалям \реда break the routine; научавам на \ред discipline; teach s.o. order; научавам се на \ред be disciplined, learn to be orderly; не в \ред ( развален, повреден) out of order; не съм в \ред (не се чувствам добре) be/feel unwell; очите ми нещо не са в \ред there is s.th. wrong with my eyes; по административен \ред through administrative channels; по законен \ред legally; по надлежния \ред through the proper channels; по съдебен \ред in legal form; by order of the court; походен \ред воен. marching formation; преследвам по съдебен \ред prosecute, bring to trial; призовавам към \ред call to order; \ред за наемане на работа conditions of employment; \ред и законност law and order; \ред на гласуване voting procedure; слагам в \ред put in order, set to rights, ( стая и пр.) do, ( нещо повредено) put right; (според) както му е \редът in the proper way; in due form; такъв е \редът тук this is the custom here; установен \ред fixed routine, an established usage/method; човек на \реда man of method, methodical man;
    4. ( време, удобен случай) turn; time, разг. go; всичко върви по \реда си things take their regular course; всичко по \реда си everything has its day; когато му дойде \редът all in good time; на свой \ред in o.’s turn; още не му е дошъл \редът the time is not yet ripe for it; преди да ми е дошъл \редът ahead of turn; чакам си \реда wait o.’s turn;
    5. само мн. (на армия, организация) ranks; той влезе в \редовете на армията he joined the army/ranks;
    6. мат. series; • дневен \ред agenda; на дневен \ред съм (за въпрос) be up for discussion; нещо, което е в \реда на нещата a matter of course, a routine matter; отивам по \реда си ( умирам) go the way of all flesh; слагам в дневния \ред put on the agenda.
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    row: We found seats in the front ред. - Намерихме си места на първия ред.; range (в текст): new ред - нов ред, a ред of trees - ред от дървета; sequence: The president will visit a ред of events. - Президентът ще посети ред събития.; number (брой); series (последователност и мат.); variety (множество): A ред of problems appeared. - Възникнаха ред проблеми.; chain; order (правила и пр.): in alphabetical ред - по азбучен ред, My car is out of ред. - Колата ми не е в ред., The government restored law and ред.- Правителството възстанови законността и реда., put in ред - привеждам в ред, maintain ред - поддържам реда; protocol; routine (рутина): You must follow the fixed ред. - Трябва да спазвате установения ред.; channels (административен); orderliness(воен.); course; placement; rank{rEnk}; turn (удобен случай): It is my ред to speak. - Мой ред е да говоря., Wait for your ред. - Изчакайте реда си.; agenda (дневен ред)
    * * *
    1. (време, удобен случай) turn;time 2. (години) под РЕД (years) in succession 3. (известен брой, поредица) а number/succession of;series 4. (линия 5. (начин на действие, подреждане 6. (последователност) sequence 7. (ръкописен, печатен) line 8. (според) както му е РЕДът in the proper way;in due form 9. no законен РЕД legally 10. РЕД въпроси/трудности a series of questions/difficulties 11. РЕД дървета а linc/row of trees 12. РЕД и законност law and order 13. РЕД мисли a chain of ideas 14. РЕД на гласуване voting procedure 15. РЕД пo РЕД one after another, successively, in succession 16. РЕД посещения a round of visits 17. РЕД правила a set of rules 18. РЕД събития a sequence of events 19. РЕД чинове a row of desks 20. без (никакъв) РЕД реll-mell, higgledy-piggledy 21. безкраен РЕД мат. an infinite series 22. боен РЕД воен, order of battle, battle order/formation/array 23. в РЕД (за книжа и пр.) in (good) order, (за машина) in work-ing order 24. в тоя РЕД на мисли in this train of thought 25. внасям известен РЕД в put some sort of system in 26. внасям/слагам РЕД в regulate 27. воен. order, formation, array 28. всеки на свой РЕД each one in his turn 29. всичко върви пo РЕДa си things take their regular course 30. всичко на РЕДа си everything has its day 31. вътрешен РЕД internal discipline, (на пансион и np.) house regulation/rules 32. дойде РЕД човек да види.., we will live to see,.. 33. и РЕД други and many others 34. ивица) row, range, line 35. идва ми РЕДът, сега е мой РЕД да it is my turn to 36. идва ми отново РЕДът have o.'s turn again 37. изправност 38. карам под РЕД take matters in order 39. когато му дойде РЕДът all in good time 40. линотипен РЕД печ. slug 41. мн. ч. (на армия, организация) ranks 42. на първия РЕД in the front row 43. на свой РЕД in o.'s turn 44. нарушавам/развалям РЕДа break the routine 45. научавам на РЕД discipline;teach s.o. order 46. научавам се на РЕД be disciplined, learn to be orderly 47. не в РЕД (развален, повреден) out of order 48. не съм в РЕД (не се чувствувам добре) be/feel unwell 49. нов РЕД a new/fresh line/paragraph 50. обичаи 51. отстъпвам в добър РЕД retreat in (good) order 52. очите ми нещо не са в РЕД s.th. is wrong with my eyes, there is s.th. wrong with my eyes 53. още не му е дошъл РЕДът the time is not yet ripe for it 54. пo РЕД причини for a number/ variety of reasons 55. пo административен РЕД through administrative channels 56. пo азбучен РЕД in alphabetic order/sequence 57. пo надлежния РЕД through the proper channels 58. пo съдебен РЕД in legal form;by order of the court 59. пo четирима на РЕД four abreast, (на дълбочина) four deep 60. поддържам РЕДа maintain order, (в къща и пр.) keep (a house, etc,) in order 61. походен РЕД воен. marching formation 62. почвам нов РЕД begin anew paragraph 63. преди да ми е дошъл РЕДът ahead of turn 64. преследвам no съдебен РЕД prosecute, bring to trial 65. при добър/пълен РЕД in complete order, without disorder, smoothly 66. привеждам в РЕД put in order 67. приетРЕД accepted order, usage 68. призовавам към РЕД call to order 69. променям РЕДa си change o.'s routine 70. сбор от правила, норми 71. слагам в РЕД put in order, set to rights, (стая и) do, (нещо повредено) put right 72. слагам работите си в РЕД put/set o.'s affairs in order, put o.'s house in order 73. старият РЕД the old order/regime 74. стол на първия РЕД a front row seat 75. строй, режим) order, system 76. такъв е РЕДът тук this is the custom here 77. той влезе в 78. тук има нещо, което не е в РЕД there's s.fh. wrong here, разг. there's a screw loose somewhere 79. установен РЕД a fixed routine, an established usage/method 80. чакам си РЕДa wait o.'s turn 81. чета между РЕДовете read between the lines 82. човек на РЕДa a man of method, a methodical man 83. щ

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  • 52 reserva

    f.
    1 reservation, booking.
    he hecho la reserva de las entradas I've booked the tickets
    reserva anticipada advance booking
    reserva de grupo block booking
    2 reserves.
    tener algo de reserva to keep something in reserve
    reservas monetarias monetary reserves
    reservas de oro gold reserves
    3 reservation.
    sin reservas without reservation
    4 discretion.
    5 reservation.
    6 reserve.
    reserva natural nature reserve
    7 reserve (military).
    pasar a la reserva to become a reservist
    8 resource, reserve, reservoir.
    f. & m.
    reserve, substitute (sport).
    m.
    vintage (wine) (vino).
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: reservar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: reservar.
    * * *
    1 (de plazas, entradas) booking, reservation
    2 (provisión) reserve; (existencias) stock
    ■ reservas de carburante fuel reserves, fuel stocks
    3 (cautela) reservation
    4 (discreción) discretion, reserve
    5 (vino) vintage
    6 (de animales) reserve; (de personas) reservation
    7 MILITAR reserve, reserves plural
    1 DEPORTE reserve, substitute
    1 COMERCIO reserves, stock sing
    \
    'Reserva de habitaciones' "Room reservations"
    con la mayor reserva in the strictest confidence
    guardar algo en reserva to keep something in reserve
    hacer una reserva to make a reservation, make a booking, book
    pasar a la reserva MILITAR to be put in the reserves
    sin reserva / sin reservas openly, without reservation
    tener reservas sobre algo to have reservations about something
    tener algo en reserva to keep something in reserve
    reserva de divisas foreign currency reserves plural
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    1. SF
    1) (=provisiones) [de minerales, petróleo, armamentos, vitaminas] reserve; [de agua] supply; [de productos ya almacenados] stock

    pasta, arroz, legumbres, tienen reservas de todo — pasta, rice, pulses, they have stocks of everything

    de reserva — [precio, jugador, fondo] reserve antes de s ; [zapatos, muda] spare

    2) (Econ) reserve

    reserva en efectivo, reserva en metálico — cash reserves pl

    reserva para amortización, reserva para depreciaciones — depreciation allowance

    reservas monetarias — [de un país] currency reserves

    reservas ocultas — hidden reserves, secret reserves

    3) (=solicitud) [en hotel, avión] reservation; [en teatro, restaurante] reservation, booking

    se pueden hacer reservas por teléfono — you can book by phone, you can make a telephone booking o reservation

    4) (=territorio) reserve

    reserva biológica — wildlife sanctuary, wildlife reserve

    reserva de pesca — protected fishing area, fishing preserve

    5) (Mil)
    6) (Dep)
    7) (Aut) [de gasolina] reserve tank
    8) (=recelo) reservation

    el pacto será aprobado, aunque con algunas reservas — the agreement will be sanctioned, but with certain reservations

    9) [de carácter] (=inhibición) reserve; (=discreción) discretion
    10) (=secreto) confidence
    11)

    a reserva de que... — unless...

    2.
    SMF (Dep) reserve
    3.
    RESERVA Quality Spanish wine is often graded Crianza, Reserva or Gran Reserva according to the length of bottle-ageing and barrel-ageing it has undergone. Red Reserva wines are at least three years old, having spent a minimum of one year in cask, and white Reserva wines are at least two years old with at least six months spent in cask. A Gran Reserva wine is a top-quality wine. A red must be aged for at least two years in an oak cask and three years in the bottle. White wine must be aged for four years, with at least six months in cask.
    See:
    * * *
    I
    1) (de habitación, pasaje) reservation; ( de mesa) booking, reservation

    ¿tiene reserva? — do you have a reservation?, have you booked?

    2)
    a) ( cantidad guardada) reserve

    reservas de trigo — reserves o stocks of wheat

    este dinero lo tengo de reserva para... — I'm keeping this money in reserve for...

    b) reservas femenino plural (Biol) reserves (of fat) (pl)
    3)
    a) (Dep) ( equipo) reserves (pl), reserve team; ( conjunto de suplentes) substitutes (pl)
    b) (Mil)
    4) ( de indígenas) reservation; ( de animales) reserve
    5) (secreto, discreción)
    6) reservas femenino plural
    a) ( dudas) reservations (pl)

    lo aceptó, pero no sin reservas — he agreed, but not without reservations

    b) ( reparos)

    díselo sin reservas — tell her everything, don't keep anything back

    7) (Méx)

    a reserva de que + subj: iremos a reserva de que (no) llueva — we'll go as long as o provided it doesn't rain

    II
    masculino y femenino Dep reserve
    III •• Cultural note:
    Vinos de reserva are those of a better than average vintage. To qualify for this designation, red wines must have been aged in cask and bottle for a minimum of three years, and white wines for two years. See also gran reserva
    * * *
    I
    1) (de habitación, pasaje) reservation; ( de mesa) booking, reservation

    ¿tiene reserva? — do you have a reservation?, have you booked?

    2)
    a) ( cantidad guardada) reserve

    reservas de trigo — reserves o stocks of wheat

    este dinero lo tengo de reserva para... — I'm keeping this money in reserve for...

    b) reservas femenino plural (Biol) reserves (of fat) (pl)
    3)
    a) (Dep) ( equipo) reserves (pl), reserve team; ( conjunto de suplentes) substitutes (pl)
    b) (Mil)
    4) ( de indígenas) reservation; ( de animales) reserve
    5) (secreto, discreción)
    6) reservas femenino plural
    a) ( dudas) reservations (pl)

    lo aceptó, pero no sin reservas — he agreed, but not without reservations

    b) ( reparos)

    díselo sin reservas — tell her everything, don't keep anything back

    7) (Méx)

    a reserva de que + subj: iremos a reserva de que (no) llueva — we'll go as long as o provided it doesn't rain

    II
    masculino y femenino Dep reserve
    III •• Cultural note:
    Vinos de reserva are those of a better than average vintage. To qualify for this designation, red wines must have been aged in cask and bottle for a minimum of three years, and white wines for two years. See also gran reserva
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    reserva1
    1 = reserve, preserve.

    Ex: News of boundless timber reserves spread, and before long lumberjacks from the thinning hardwood forests of New England swarmed into the uncharted area with no other possessions than their axes and brawn and the clothing they wore.

    Ex: This article discusses the role of the librarian, who may view on-line as either status-enhancing or their own preserve.
    * reserva de animales = wildlife preserve, game reserve.
    * reserva india = Indian reservation.
    * reserva natural = nature reserve, nature preserve, wildlife preserve.
    * reservas de agua subterránea = groundwater reservoir.

    reserva2
    2 = hold, reservation, reserve, set-aside, title hold, booking, slack, cushion, standby [stand-by], deposit, collection.

    Ex: If holds have been placed on the title, an 'X' appears in the hold column.

    Ex: This system incorporates all the usual functions associated with the issue, return and reservation of library materials.
    Ex: This is sometimes called a ' reserve' because the document is reserved for a borrower when it becomes available.
    Ex: Even sympathetic librarians may not have the political clout to force their local government to mandate minority business set-asides.
    Ex: If there is a title hold on the copy, an error message is displayed and the master number is not changed.
    Ex: Film and other media bookings can be handled by one or two programs which are available for microcomputers.
    Ex: Therefore, there must be some slack in the system to absorb the additional I & R services or the service must be reduced in other areas.
    Ex: Libraries ordinarily have only a small staff ' cushion' to provide for sickness, vacation, and compensatory days off.
    Ex: Standbys and understudies rarely get the job when a star needs to be replaced long-term, and Calaway and Patterson know how lucky they are to have beaten the odds.
    Ex: Accommodation deposit will be refunded minus $25 handling fee.
    Ex: While there are a profusion of techniques in existence to gain access to the collections, there is no uniform system.
    * acumulación de reservas = stockpile, accumulation of stockpiles, stockpiling.
    * acumular reservas = stockpile.
    * admitir un número de reservas mayor a las plazas existentes = overbook.
    * colocar Algo en reserva = place + Nombre + in reserve, place + Nombre + on reserve, place + Nombre + on hold.
    * depósito de reserva = local reserve store, reserve store.
    * de reserva = standby [stand-by].
    * descuento por reserva anticipada = early booking discount.
    * ejército de reserva = reserve army.
    * en estado de reserva = on standby.
    * en reserva = on hold.
    * estantería de reserva = hold shelf.
    * fondo de reserva = reserve fund.
    * guardar en reserva = keep in + reserve, hold in + reserve.
    * hacer una reserva = make + reservation.
    * hoja de reserva = hold slip, booking form.
    * impreso de reserva = booking form.
    * lista de reserva = hold list.
    * mantener en reserva = keep on + reserve, keep in + reserve.
    * material de reserva = reserve stock.
    * que no admite reserva = unreserved.
    * reserva de billetes de avión = airline reservation.
    * reserva de hotel = hotel reservation.
    * reserva de libro = book reservation.
    * reserva de libros = reserve book room.
    * reserva de multimedia = media booking.
    * reserva de películas = film booking.
    * reserva de puestos de lectura = seat reservation.
    * reserva disponible = hold available.
    * reservas = stockpile.
    * satisfacer una petición de reserva = satisfy + hold request.
    * satisfacer una reserva = satisfy + hold.
    * sin reserva = unreserved.
    * sin reservas = forthright, categorical, uncompromising, uncompromisingly, unqualified, categoric, unmitigaged.
    * sistema de reservas = booking system.
    * solicitud de reserva = reservation form.
    * tener en reserva = hold in + reserve.
    * vino de reserva = mature wine.

    reserva3
    * con reserva = doubtfully.
    * con reservas = qualified, with reservations.
    * reserva absoluta = nondisclosure [non-disclosure].
    * sin reserva = unconditionally.
    * sin reservas = unshielded, go + the whole hog, the full monty, without reservation, wholeheartedly [whole-heartedly], unreserved, unreservedly.
    * * *
    A (de una habitación) reservation; (de una mesa) booking, reservation; (al comprar un inmueble) ( Arg) deposit; (de un pasaje, billete) reservation
    ¿tiene reserva? do you have a reservation?, have you booked?
    he hecho una reserva para el vuelo de las nueve I've made a reservation for the nine o'clock flight, I'm booked on the nine o'clock flight
    el sistema de reservas the booking o reservation system
    B
    1 (cantidad, porción que se guarda) reserve
    las reservas de divisas foreign currency reserves
    las reservas de trigo se están agotando reserves o stocks of wheat are running out
    la reserva es de cinco litros the reserve tank holds five liters
    tengo otro par de reserva I have a spare pair
    el agua de reserva the reserve water supply
    termina la botella tranquila, tengo otra de reserva don't worry, finish the bottle, I have another one o I can always open another one
    este dinero lo tengo de reserva para una emergencia I'm keeping this money in reserve for an emergency
    2 reservas fpl ( Biol) reserves (of fat) (pl)
    C
    1 ( Dep) (equipo) reserves (pl), reserve team; (conjunto de suplentes) substitutes (pl)
    2 ( Mil):
    la reserva the reserve
    Compuesto:
    active reserve
    D (de indígenas) reservation; (de animales) reserve
    Compuesto:
    nature reserve
    E
    (secreto, discreción): se garantiza la más absoluta reserva all applications treated in the strictest confidence
    le pidió mantener en la mayor reserva la información recibida he asked her to keep the information she had received absolutely secret
    pidió reserva de su nombre he asked for his name not to be revealed
    1 (dudas) reservations (pl)
    lo aceptó, pero no sin reservas he agreed, but not without (certain) reservations
    2
    (reparos, limitaciones): habló sin reservas de lo que había pasado he talked openly o freely of what had happened
    díselo sin reservas tell her everything, don't keep anything back
    G
    ( Méx) a reserva DE QUE + SUBJ: lo haré mañana a reserva de que (no) llueva I'll do it tomorrow as long as o provided it doesn't rain
    reserve
    reserva (↑ reserva a1)
    Vinos de reserva are those of a better than average vintage. To qualify for this designation, red wines must have been aged in cask and bottle for a minimum of three years, and white wines for two years. See also gran reserva (↑ grana a1)
    * * *

     

    Del verbo reservar: ( conjugate reservar)

    reserva es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    reserva    
    reservar
    reserva sustantivo femenino
    1 (de habitación, pasaje) reservation;
    ( de mesa) booking, reservation;

    2 ( cantidad guardada) reserve;

    3
    a) (Dep) ( equipo) reserves (pl), reserve team;

    ( conjunto de suplentes) substitutes (pl)

    ( de animales) reserve;

    4 (secreto, discreción):

    5
    ◊ reservas sustantivo femenino plural

    a) ( dudas) reservations (pl)

    b) ( reparos):

    ◊ habló sin reservas he talked openly o freely

    6 (Méx):
    ◊ a reserva de que (no) llueva as long as o provided (that) it doesn't rain

    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Dep) reserve
    reservar ( conjugate reservar) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹asiento/habitación/mesa› to reserve, book;
    ‹pasaje/billete› to book
    2 ( guardar) ‹porción de comida/dinero› to set aside;

    reservó lo mejor para el final she kept the best till last
    reservarse verbo pronominal
    a) ( para sí mismo) ‹porción/porcentaje› to keep … for oneself;



    reserva
    I sustantivo femenino
    1 (en un hotel, restaurante, vuelo, etc) reservation, booking
    2 (depósito) reserve, stock: Auto el depósito del coche está en reserva, the tank is almost empty
    las reservas de agua potable, reserves of drinking water
    3 (prudencia, discreción) reserve, discretion: díselo sin reservas, tell it all to her without holding anything back
    4 (objeción, duda, recelo) reservation: aceptó mi proyecto con reservas, he accepted my project with reservations
    5 (territorio acotado) reserve
    reserva natural, nature reserve
    una reserva india, an Indian reservation
    6 Mil reserve, reserves pl
    II m (vino) vintage wine
    III mf Dep reserve, substitute
    IV fpl si sigues trabajando sin comer te quedarás sin reservas, if you continue to work and don't eat, you'll exhaust your energy
    reservar verbo transitivo
    1 (algo para más tarde) to keep back
    (guardar para alguien) to keep (aside): le reservamos una sorpresa, we have a surprise in store for him
    2 (en un hotel, restaurante, etc) to book, reserve: hemos reservado una mesa para cuatro (personas), we reserved a table for four
    ' reserva' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    confianza
    - reservarse
    - secreta
    - secreto
    - sigilo
    - terminarse
    - discreción
    - pudor
    - reservación
    - resguardo
    - reticencia
    English:
    advance
    - book
    - book in
    - booking
    - constraint
    - designate
    - detachment
    - hand
    - hoard
    - menagerie
    - nature reserve
    - qualification
    - reservation
    - reserve
    - reservedly
    - reservedness
    - reservoir
    - ROTC
    - sanctuary
    - secretiveness
    - stand-offishness
    - standby generator
    - stock
    - store
    - store away
    - Territorial Army
    - unreservedly
    - back
    - doubtfully
    - federal
    - nature
    - preserve
    * * *
    ♦ nf
    1. [de hotel, avión] reservation;
    no tenemos reserva we don't have a reservation;
    he hecho la reserva de las entradas I've booked the tickets;
    tengo una reserva en el restaurante I've reserved o booked a table at the restaurant
    reserva anticipada advance booking
    2. [provisión] reserves;
    tenemos una reserva de carbón para el invierno we're stocked up with coal for the winter;
    tener algo de reserva to keep sth in reserve;
    agotó sus reservas de agua he used up his water supply o his reserves of water
    reservas energéticas energy reserves;
    reservas hídricas water reserves;
    reservas minerales mineral reserves
    3. Econ reserve
    reservas de divisas foreign currency reserves;
    la Reserva Federal [en Estados Unidos] the Federal Reserve;
    reservas monetarias monetary reserves;
    reservas de oro gold reserves
    4. [objeción, cautela] reservation;
    aceptaron el acuerdo, pero con reservas they accepted the agreement, with some reservations;
    sin reservas without reservation;
    tener reservas to have reservations
    5. [discreción] discretion;
    puedes hablar sin reservas you can speak openly;
    con la mayor reserva in the strictest confidence
    6. [de indígenas] reservation
    7. [de animales, plantas] reserve
    reserva de caza game preserve;
    reserva forestal forest park;
    reserva natural nature reserve
    8. Mil reserves;
    pasar a la reserva to become a reservist
    9. Biol [de grasa, energía] reserves
    ♦ nmf
    Dep reserve, substitute
    ♦ nm
    [vino] vintage (wine) [at least three years old]
    ♦ a reserva de loc prep
    pending;
    a reserva de un estudio más detallado… pending a more detailed analysis…
    * * *
    I f
    1 reservation;
    reserva de asiento FERR seat reservation;
    hacer una reserva make a reservation
    2 ( duda)
    :
    sin reservas without reservation
    II m/f DEP reserve, substitute
    * * *
    1) : reservation
    2) : reserve
    3) : confidence, privacy
    con la mayor reserva: in strictest confidence
    4)
    de reserva : spare, in reserve
    5) reservas nfpl
    : reservations, doubts
    * * *
    1. (de hotel, etc) reservation / booking
    2. (provisión) supply / stock
    3. (zona natural) reserve
    4. (jugador suplente) reserve / substitute
    ¿han hecho ustedes reserva? did you book?

    Spanish-English dictionary > reserva

  • 53 destruir

    v.
    to destroy.
    El temblor destruyó la pared The quake destroyed the wall.
    Sus trucos destruyeron a María His tricks destroyed Mary.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ HUIR], like link=huir huir
    1 to destroy
    2 figurado to destroy, ruin, wreck
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ objeto, edificio] to destroy
    2) (=estropear) [+ amistad, matrimonio, armonía] to wreck, destroy; [+ argumento, teoría] to demolish; [+ esperanza] to dash, shatter; [+ proyecto, plan] to wreck, ruin
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.
    Ex. Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.
    Ex. I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex. Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex. This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex. Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex. At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex. If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex. Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex. The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex. That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex. If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex. They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex. Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex. The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex. Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex. It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex. It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex. The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex. The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    ----
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) <documentos/pruebas> to destroy; < ciudad> to destroy; < medio ambiente> to damage
    b) ( echar por tierra) < reputación> to ruin; < plan> to wreck; < esperanzas> to dash, shatter

    le destruyó la vida — it/he wrecked o destroyed his/her life

    * * *
    = demolish, destroy, knock out, scupper, wipe out, trash, pull apart, sweep away, knock down, rack [wrack], wreak + destruction, destruct, shred, wreck, decimate, lay + waste to, wash out, run down, break down, blow up, rubbish, stomp + Nombre + out, smash.

    Ex: Having just demolished enumerative classification to some extent in the previous section, it is reasonable to ask how effective menu-based information retrieval systems might be.

    Ex: I am frequently taken to task as someone who would try to destroy the integrity of certain catalogs on the West Coast.
    Ex: Two years ago Hurricane Hugo nearly knocked out Charleston.
    Ex: This arrangement could definitely help solve the librarian's problems, unless unexpected events scupper it.
    Ex: Strong economic forces, inflation and an over-strong pound wiped out any noticeable benefits of EEC membership to industry.
    Ex: At the same time, the author takes issue with the view that the great libraries of America are being ' trashed' by the rush towards technology.
    Ex: If solutions are not found to meet this challenge, users' hunger for multimedia could pull the Internet apart.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex: Both countries that have been wracked for the last ten years by violent civil wars.
    Ex: The author laments the demise of the paper card catalogue as a 'paroxysm of shortsightedness and antiintellectualism' on the part of over zealous librarians, wreaking destruction in a class with the burning of the library at Alexandria.
    Ex: That means that the abstractions of scientific knowledge reduce the reality and even destruct it.
    Ex: If they do muster up the courage to participate, they have learned what it is like to lose: they describe it as being 'slaughtered,' 'blown away,' or ' shredded'.
    Ex: They had made a secret deal with Otto Reich to wreck Cuba's economy.
    Ex: Insect pests decimate a significant proportion of the world's food supply and transmit a number of deadly human diseases.
    Ex: The mutilation of periodicals is laying waste to vital and expensive periodical collections in all kinds of library across the USA, and it seems to strike academic libraries with particular virulence.
    Ex: Some sections of road washed out by flood waters.
    Ex: It really is time we stopped kow-towing to every Tom, Dick and Harry who runs down our industry.
    Ex: It describes our experience in combatting mould which grew as a result of high humidity and temperatures when the air conditioning system broke down for several days after several days of rain.
    Ex: The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex: The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    * chocar destruyendo = smash into.
    * destruir completamente = blow + Nombre + to bits.
    * destruir la esperanza = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * destruir un mito = explode + myth.
    * fuego + destruir = fire + destroy.
    * fuego + destruir por completo = fire + gut.

    * * *
    vt
    1 ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy; ‹ciudad› to destroy
    productos que destruyen el medio ambiente products that damage the environment
    2 (echar por tierra) ‹reputación› to ruin; ‹plan› to ruin, wreck; ‹esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    los problemas económicos destruyeron su matrimonio financial problems wrecked o ruined their marriage
    la droga está destruyendo muchas vidas drugs are wrecking o ruining o destroying the lives of many people
    * * *

     

    destruir ( conjugate destruir) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹documentos/pruebas› to destroy;

    ‹ ciudad› to destroy;
    ‹ medio ambiente› to damage

    ‹ plan› to wreck;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash, shatter
    destruir verbo transitivo to destroy
    ' destruir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - barrer
    - dinamitar
    - minar
    - socavar
    - anular
    - consumir
    - liquidar
    English:
    destroy
    - flatten
    - gut
    - nuke
    - obliterate
    - shatter
    - zap
    - explode
    - ruin
    - shred
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [destrozar] to destroy
    2. [desbaratar] [argumento] to demolish;
    [proyecto] to ruin, to wreck; [ilusión, esperanzas] to dash; [reputación] to ruin; [matrimonio, relación] to wreck; [pareja] to break up
    3. [hacienda, fortuna] to squander
    * * *
    v/t
    1 destroy
    2 ( estropear) ruin, wreck
    * * *
    destruir {41} vt
    : to destroy
    * * *
    destruir vb to destroy

    Spanish-English dictionary > destruir

  • 54 Reihe

    f; -, -n
    1. row, line; (Sitzreihe) row; wir saßen in der ersten Reihe we had seats in the first row; ( sich) in einer Reihe aufstellen line up, form a line; aus der Reihe tanzen umg., fig. be different, have one’s own way allg.; (Anstoß erregen) step out of line
    2. (Anzahl, Folge) series (Sg.) sie hat eine Reihe von Büchern darüber geschrieben she’s written a series of books about it; eine ganze Reihe von a lot of, a whole string of umg.; nach einer Reihe von Jahren after a number of years; eine Reihe von Indizien a number of clues
    3. (Aufeinanderfolge) row, succession; warten, bis man an die Reihe kommt oder an der Reihe ist wait (until it is) one’s turn; wer ist an der Reihe? whose turn is it?; ( immer) der Reihe nach in turn, by turns, one after the other; ich bin / er ist an der Reihe it’s my / his turn; Sie sind nicht an der Reihe you are out of turn; ich kam außer der Reihe dran beim Arzt etc.: they took me before (it was) my turn; erzähl der Reihe nach! tell it from the beginning, start at the beginning
    4. (Zeitschriften-, Buchreihe etc.) series (Sg.) die Sendung / das Buch ist Teil einer Reihe the program(me) / book is part of a series
    5. fig., in Wendungen: aus den Reihen der Abgeordneten etc.: from the ranks of, from among; einen Verräter in den eigenen Reihen haben have a traitor in one’s ranks; die Reihen lichten sich fig. the ranks are thinning; aus der Reihe kommen umg. get muddled; etw. auf die Reihe bringen umg. put ( oder set) s.th. right; etw. ( wieder) auf die Reihe kriegen umg. get s.th. sorted out
    6. MATH. (Zahlenreihe) progression, series (Sg.)
    * * *
    die Reihe
    (Anzahl) number;
    (Aufreihung) line; row; file; string; sequence;
    (Serie) series; set; range;
    * * *
    Rei|he ['raiə]
    f -, -n
    1) (= geregelte Anordnung) row, line; (= Sitzreihe, beim Stricken) row

    in Réíhe(n) antreten — to line up; (Mil) to fall in

    in Réíhen zu (je) drei antreten/marschieren — to line up/march in rows of three or in threes

    sich in einer Réíhe aufstellen — to line up, to form a row or line

    sich in die Réíhe stellen — to join the row or line

    sich in eine Réíhe stellen — to line up; (Mil) to fall in

    in einer Réíhe stehen — to stand in a row or line

    aus der Réíhe tanzen (fig inf) — to be different

    die Réíhe herumgehen (Gegenstand) — to be passed around, to go the rounds

    die Réíhen schließen (Mil) — to close ranks

    die Réíhen lichten sich (fig) — the ranks are thinning

    in den eigenen Réíhen — within our/their etc own ranks

    die Réíhe eröffnen (fig) — to start off

    in einer Réíhe mit jdm stehen (fig) — to be on a par with sb

    sich in eine Réíhe mit jdm stellen (fig) — to put oneself on a par or on an equal footing with sb

    in die erste Réíhe (vor)rücken (fig) — to move into the top rank

    in der vordersten Réíhe stehen (fig) — to be in the topmost rank

    2)

    (= Reihenfolge) er ist an der Réíhe — it's his turn, he's next; (beim Spiel etc auch) it's his go

    die Réíhe ist an jdm — it's sb's turn

    er kommt an die Réíhe — he's next, it's his turn next, it's him next (inf)

    warte, bis du an die Réíhe kommst — wait till it's your turn/go

    er kommt immer außer der Réíhe — he always comes just when he pleases

    der Réíhe nach, nach der Réíhe — in order, in turn

    sie sollen der Réíhe nach hereinkommen — they are to come in one by one or one at a time

    erzähl mal der Réíhe nach, wie alles war — tell us how it was in the order it all happened

    außer der Réíhe — out of order; (bei Spielen auch) out of turn

    wenn ich das Auto mal außer der Réíhe brauche — if I should happen to need the car at a time when I don't normally have it

    es kommt ganz selten vor, dass ich mal außer der Réíhe da bin — it's very rare for me to be there out of my routine

    3) (=Serie MATH, MUS) series sing; (BIOL = Ordnung) order
    4) (= unbestimmte Anzahl) number

    in die Réíhe der Mitgliedsstaaten eintreten — to join the ranks of the member states

    in der Réíhe der Stars — amongst the ranks of the stars

    eine ganze Réíhe (von) — a whole lot (of)

    eine ganze Réíhe von Beispielen — a whole string of examples

    5)

    (inf: = Ordnung) jdn aus der Réíhe bringen — to muddle or confuse sb

    wieder in die Réíhe kommen — to get one's equilibrium back; (gesundheitlich) to get back on form

    nicht in der Réíhe sein — to be unwell (esp Brit), not to be one hundred per cent (Brit inf) or percent (US inf)

    in die Réíhe bringen — to put in order, to put straight

    nicht alle auf der Réíhe haben (sl) — to have a screw loose (inf)

    etw auf die Réíhe kriegen (inf) — to handle sth

    * * *
    die
    1) (a line of soldiers etc walking one behind the other.) file
    2) (in computing, a collection of data stored eg on a disc.) file
    3) (a collection of rows (of instruments etc): The modern pilot has banks of instruments.) bank
    4) (a long series: a battery of questions.) battery
    5) (a row or group of objects or persons arranged side by side or one behind the other: The children stood in a line; a line of trees.) line
    6) (a row or series: a mountain range.) range
    7) (a line or row (especially of soldiers or taxis): The officer ordered the front rank to fire.) rank
    8) (a line: two rows of houses; They were sitting in a row; They sat in the front row in the theatre.) row
    9) (a row of seats: They sat in the front/first tier.) tier
    10) (a connected series: Then began a train of events which ended in disaster.) train
    11) (one's chance or duty (to do, have etc something shared by several people): It's your turn to choose a record; You'll have to wait your turn in the bathroom.) turn
    * * *
    Rei·he
    <-, -n>
    [ˈraiə]
    f
    1. (Linie von Menschen) row, line; MIL, SCH file
    in \Reihen antreten to line up; MIL, SCH to fall in
    sich akk in [vier] \Reihen aufstellen to line up in [four] rows, to form [four] lines
    in \Reihe zu [je] vier marschieren MIL to march in rows of four [or in fours]
    aus der zweiten \Reihe schießen SPORT to take a long shot [at goal]
    in einer \Reihe stehen to stand in a row [or line]
    sich akk in die \Reihe stellen to join the row [or line]
    sich akk in eine \Reihe mit jdm stellen (fig) to put oneself on a par [or an equal footing] with sb
    in einer \Reihe mit jdm stehen (fig) to be on a par with sb
    aus der \Reihe treten to step out of the line
    2. kein pl (Reihenfolge) series
    der \Reihe nach in order [or turn], one after the other
    sie sollen der \Reihe nach hereinkommen they are to come in one by one [or one at a time]
    berichten Sie bitte der \Reihe nach please report events in chronological order
    erzählen Sie mal der \Reihe nach, wie das alles war tell us how it was in the order it all happened
    die \Reihe ist an jdm it's sb's turn
    an die \Reihe kommen to be next
    sie kommt jetzt an die \Reihe she's next, it's her turn
    jeder kommt an die \Reihe everyone will get a turn
    warte, bis du an die \Reihe kommst wait till it's your turn
    [mit etw dat] an der \Reihe sein to be next in line [for sth]
    wer ist an der \Reihe? whose turn is it?
    du bist an der \Reihe it's your turn
    ich war jetzt an der \Reihe! I was next!
    erst sind wir an der \Reihe! we're first!
    ich bin erst morgen mit der Untersuchung an der \Reihe I am only due to be examined tomorrow
    ▪ eine \Reihe von Personen/Sachen a number of persons/things
    eine \Reihe von zusätzlichen Informationen a lot of additional information
    eine ganze \Reihe [von Personen/Sachen] a whole lot [of people/things]
    eine ganze \Reihe von Beschwerden a whole string of complaints
    eine ganze \Reihe von Fehlern a whole host of mistakes
    4. meist pl (Gruppe von Menschen) ranks npl
    die Flasche ging die \Reihen herum the bottle was passed around
    aus/in den eigenen \Reihen from/within one's own ranks
    die \Reihe eröffnen to start off
    die \Reihen lichten sich the ranks are thinning
    die \Reihen schließen to close ranks
    5. (Sitzreihe, beim Stricken) row
    6. ELEK, TECH
    Geräte in \Reihe schalten ELEK, TECH to connect pieces of equipment in series
    7. MATH, MUS series sing
    arithmetische \Reihe arithmetic[al] series [or progression]
    geometrische \Reihe geometric[al] series [or progression]
    zufällige \Reihe random order
    8. (im Schach) rank
    9.
    ▶ außer der \Reihe out of [the usual] order; (bei Spielen a.) out of turn; (nicht wie gewöhnlich) out of the usual way of things
    eine außer der \Reihe erfolgende Zahlung an unexpected payment
    sie kommt immer außer der \Reihe she always comes just when she pleases
    ▶ etw in die \Reihe bringen to get sth straight
    ▶ aus der \Reihe kommen (in Unordnung geraten) to get out of order; (seelisch) to lose one's equilibrium; (körperlich) to fall ill
    ▶ wieder in die \Reihe kommen (seelisch) to get one's equilibrium back; (körperlich) to get back on form [or on one's feet]
    ▶ nicht in der \Reihe sein to not be well, to be feeling under par
    ▶ in Reih und Glied in rank and file
    die Kinder standen in Reih und Glied vor dem Lehrer the children stood lined up in front of their teacher
    in Reih und Glied antreten to line up in formation
    ▶ etw auf die \Reihe kriegen (fam: etw kapieren) to get sth into one's head; (in etw Ordnung bringen) to handle sth
    ▶ aus der \Reihe tanzen (fam) to step out of line
    * * *
    die; Reihe, Reihen
    1) row

    in Reihen (Dat.) antreten — line up; (Milit.) fall in

    sich in fünf Reihen aufstellen — line up in five rows; form five lines

    in Reih und Glied — (Milit.) in rank and file

    aus der Reihe tanzen — (fig. ugs.) be different

    etwas in die Reihe bringen — (fig. ugs.) put something straight or in order

    2) o. Pl. (Reihenfolge) series

    die Reihe ist an ihm/ihr — usw

    er/sie usw. ist an der Reihe — it's his/her etc. turn

    der Reihe nach, nach der Reihe — in turn; one after the other

    4) (Gruppe) ranks pl.

    aus den eigenen Reihen — from one's/its own ranks

    5) (Math., Musik) series
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    Reihe f; -, -n
    1. row, line; (Sitzreihe) row;
    wir saßen in der ersten Reihe we had seats in the first row;
    (sich) in einer Reihe aufstellen line up, form a line;
    aus der Reihe tanzen umg, fig be different, have one’s own way allg; (Anstoß erregen) step out of line
    2. (Anzahl, Folge) series (sg)
    sie hat eine Reihe von Büchern darüber geschrieben she’s written a series of books about it;
    eine ganze Reihe von a lot of, a whole string of umg;
    nach einer Reihe von Jahren after a number of years;
    eine Reihe von Indizien a number of clues
    3. (Aufeinanderfolge) row, succession;
    warten, bis man an die Reihe kommt oder
    an der Reihe ist wait (until it is) one’s turn;
    wer ist an der Reihe? whose turn is it?;
    (immer) der Reihe nach in turn, by turns, one after the other;
    ich bin/er ist an der Reihe it’s my/his turn;
    Sie sind nicht an der Reihe you are out of turn;
    ich kam außer der Reihe dran beim Arzt etc: they took me before (it was) my turn;
    erzähl der Reihe nach! tell it from the beginning, start at the beginning
    4. (Zeitschriften-, Buchreihe etc) series (sg)
    die Sendung/das Buch ist Teil einer Reihe the program(me)/book is part of a series
    5. fig, in Wendungen:
    aus den Reihen der Lehrer etc: from the ranks of, from among;
    einen Verräter in den eigenen Reihen haben have a traitor in one’s ranks;
    die Reihen lichten sich fig the ranks are thinning;
    aus der Reihe kommen umg get muddled;
    etwas auf die Reihe bringen umg put ( oder set) sth right;
    etwas (wieder) auf die Reihe kriegen umg get sth sorted out
    6. MATH (Zahlenreihe) progression, series (sg)
    * * *
    die; Reihe, Reihen
    1) row

    in Reihen (Dat.) antreten — line up; (Milit.) fall in

    sich in fünf Reihen aufstellen — line up in five rows; form five lines

    in Reih und Glied — (Milit.) in rank and file

    aus der Reihe tanzen — (fig. ugs.) be different

    etwas in die Reihe bringen — (fig. ugs.) put something straight or in order

    2) o. Pl. (Reihenfolge) series

    die Reihe ist an ihm/ihr — usw

    er/sie usw. ist an der Reihe — it's his/her etc. turn

    der Reihe nach, nach der Reihe — in turn; one after the other

    4) (Gruppe) ranks pl.

    aus den eigenen Reihen — from one's/its own ranks

    5) (Math., Musik) series
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    -n (Mathematik) f.
    progression n.
    series n. -n f.
    array n.
    bank n.
    column n.
    file n.
    line n.
    line-up n.
    product range n.
    rank n.
    row n.
    sequence n.
    series n.
    set n.
    tandem n.
    tier n.

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  • 55 viel

    I Adj. a lot of, lots of umg.; viele many; nicht viel not much; nicht viele not many; sehr viel a great deal (of); sehr viele very many, a lot ( oder lots umg) (of), a great many; noch einmal so viel as much again; ziemlich viel(e) quite a lot (of); viel verdienen earn a lot of money; viele sind dafür etc. many people are in favo(u)r of it etc.; einer zu viel one too many; einer unter vielen one among(st) many; ein bisschen viel a bit ( oder little) (too) much; siehe auch bisschen II; viel zu viel far too much; das viele Geld all that money; in vielem in many ways; viel Erfreuliches etc. lots of nice things etc.; das letzte Jahr hat nicht viel Erfreuliches gebracht the past year hasn’t brought much joy; um vieles besser far ( oder much) better; das will viel / nicht viel heißen that’s saying a lot / that’s not saying much; Dank, Glück 1, so I 8; Spaß 2 etc.
    II Adv.
    1. a lot, lots umg.; viel reisen / krank sein etc. travel / be ill etc. a lot; die Straße wird viel befahren the road is used a lot, a lot of traffic uses the road; viel besser much better; was gibt es da noch viel zu bereden? what is there to discuss?, I thought we’d settled things; was soll ich dir noch viel erzählen? there’s no point in my going into (any great) detail about it
    2. mit P.P.: viel beachtet well regarded; viel befahren very busy; eine viel befahrene Straße auch a road with heavy traffic; viel begehrt Künstler, Junggeselle etc.: much ( oder highly) sought-after; viel benutzt well-used; viel beschäftigt very busy; viel besucht much-frequented; viel besungen lit. oder hum. präd. frequently celebrated in song, attr. auch oft-sung lit.; viel bewundert much-admired; viel diskutiert much-discussed, widely discussed; viel gebraucht much-used; viel gefragt very popular; viel gefragt sein auch be in great demand; viel gehasst much-hated; viel gekauft frequently bought; viel gelesen much-read; viel geliebt much-loved; viel gelobt much-praised; viel genannt often-mentioned, lit. oft-mentioned; Buch: much-cited, oft-cited; (berühmt) noted, distinguished; viel gepriesen much-praised; viel geprüft sorely tried; viel gereist widely- ( oder much-)travel(l)ed; er ist ein viel gereister Mann he’s done a lot of travel(l)ing (in his time); viel gerühmt much-praised; viel geschmäht oder gescholten much-maligned, much-reviled; viel kritisiert much-criticized; viel umjubelt highly acclaimed; viel umstritten highly controversial; viel umworben much sought-after; viel zitiert much-cited, oft-cited
    3. mit Part. Präs.: viel sagend Blick: meaningful; sie sah mich viel sagend an she gave me a meaningful look; viel sagend schweigen fall into a meaningful silence; viel verheißend oder viel versprechend (very) promising
    * * *
    a great deal (Adv.); much (Adj.); much (Adv.); a lot (Adv.); a lot of (Pron.); lots of (Pron.)
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    [fiːl]
    indef pron, adj comp mehr
    [meːɐ] superl meiste(r, s) or adv am meisten ['maistə]
    1) sing (adjektivisch) a lot of, a great deal of; (substantivisch) a lot, a great deal; (esp fragend, verneint) much

    víéles — a lot of things

    víél(es), was..., víél(es) von dem, was... — a lot or great deal of what...

    in víélem, in víéler Hinsicht or Beziehung — in many respects

    mit víélem — with a lot of things

    um víéles besser etc — a lot or much or a great deal better etc

    sehr víél (Geld etc) — a lot or a great deal (of money etc)

    nicht sehr víél (Geld etc) — not very much (money etc)

    so víél — so much

    halb/doppelt so víél — half/twice as much

    so víél als or wie... — as much as...

    nimm dir so víél du willst — take as much as you like

    noch einmal so víél — the same again

    das ist so víél wie eine Zusage — that is tantamount to a promise, that amounts to a promise

    so víél für heute! — that's all for today

    so víél, was ihn betrifft — so much for him

    so víél (Arbeit etc) — so much or such a lot (of work etc)

    noch (ein)mal so víél (Zeit etc) — as much (time etc) again

    zweimal so víél (Arbeit etc) — twice as much (work etc)

    gleich víél (Gewinn etc) — the same amount (of profit etc)

    wie víél — how much; (bei Mehrzahl) how many

    (um) wie víél größer — how much bigger

    ziemlich víél (Schmutz etc) — rather a lot (of dirt etc)

    zu víél — too much; (inf

    víél zu víél — much or far too much

    besser zu víél als zu wenig — better too much than too little

    wenns dir zu víél wird, sag Bescheid — say if it gets too much for you

    ihm ist alles zu víél (inf) — it's all too much for him

    da krieg ich zu víél (inf) — I blow my top (inf)

    einer/zwei etc zu víél — one/two etc too many

    einen/ein paar zu víél trinken (inf) — to drink or have (inf) one/a few too many

    was zu víél ist, ist zu víél — that's just too much, there's a limit to everything

    ein bisschen víél (Regen etc) — a bit too much (rain etc)

    furchtbar víél (Regen etc) — an awful lot (of rain etc)

    víél Erfolg! — good luck!, I wish you every success!

    víél Spaß! — have fun!, enjoy yourself/yourselves!

    víél Neues/Schönes etc — a lot of or many new/beautiful etc things

    víél Volk — a lot of people

    das víéle Geld — all that money

    sein víéles Geld — all his money

    das víéle Geld/Lesen etc — all this money/reading etc

    víél zu tun haben — to have a lot to do

    er hält víél von ihm/davon — he thinks a lot or a great deal of him/it

    er hält nicht víél von ihm/davon — he doesn't think much of him/it

    das will víél/nicht víél heißen or sagen — that's saying a lot or a great deal/not saying much

    2)

    víéle pl (adjektivisch) — many, a lot of, a great number of; (substantivisch) many, a lot

    es waren nicht víéle auf der Party — there weren't many (people) or a lot (of people) at the party

    es waren nicht víéle in der Schule — there weren't many (children) or a lot (of children) at school

    da wir so víéle sind — since there are so many or such a lot of us

    davon gibt es nicht víéle — there aren't many or a lot about

    davon gibt es nicht mehr víéle — there aren't many or a lot left

    furchtbar víéle (Kinder/Bewerbungen etc) — a tremendous number or an awful lot (of children/applications etc)

    gleich víéle (Angestellte/Anteile etc) — the same number (of employees/shares etc)

    so/zu víéle (Menschen/Fehler etc) — so/too many (people/mistakes etc)

    er hat víél(e) Sorgen/Probleme etc — he has a lot of worries/problems etc

    víéle hundert or Hundert Menschen — many hundreds of people

    die/seine víélen Fehler etc — the/his many mistakes etc

    die víélen Leute/Bücher! — all these people/books!

    víéle glauben,... — many (people) or a lot of people believe...

    und víéle andere —

    es waren derer or ihrer víéle (liter) — there were many of them

    3) (adverbial: mit vb) a lot, a great deal; (esp fragend, verneint) much

    er arbeitet víél — he works a lot

    er arbeitet nicht víél — he doesn't work much

    er arbeitet zu víél — he works too much

    er arbeitet so víél — he works so much or such a lot

    sie ist víél krank/von zu Hause weg — she's ill/away a lot

    die Straße wird (sehr/nicht) víél befahren — this street is (very/not very) busy

    dieses Thema wird víél diskutiert — this subject is much debated

    sich víél einbilden — to think a lot of oneself

    4) (adverbial: mit adj, adv) much, a lot

    víél größer etc — much or a lot bigger etc

    víél beschäftigt — very busy

    víél diskutiert — much discussed

    víél erörtert — much discussed

    víél gehasst — much-hated

    víél gekauft — frequently bought, much-purchased

    víél geliebt — much-loved

    víél genannt — much-cited, frequently mentioned

    víél geprüft (hum) — sorely tried

    víél gereist — much-travelled (Brit), much-traveled (US)

    víél geschmäht — much-maligned

    víél umworben — much-sought-after; Frau much-courted

    víél verheißend — promising, full of promise; anfangen promisingly

    sich víél verheißend anhören — to sound promising

    nicht víél anders — not very or much or a lot different

    víél zu... — much too...

    víél zu víél — much or far too much

    víél zu víéle — far too many

    ich würde víél lieber auf eine Party gehen — I'd much rather go to a party, I'd much prefer to go to a party

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    1) (a large quantity or number: What a lot of letters!) a lot
    2) (a (great) amount or quantity of: This job won't take much effort; I found it without much difficulty; How much sugar is there left?; There's far too much salt in my soup; He ate so much ice-cream that he was sick; Take as much money as you need; After much discussion they decided to go.) much
    3) (a large amount; a great deal: He didn't say much about it; Much of this trouble could have been prevented; Did you eat much?; not much; too much; as much as I wanted; How much did you eat?; Only this/that / so much; How much is (= What is the price of) that fish?; Please tidy your room - it isn't much to ask.) much
    4) ((by) a great deal; (by) far: She's much prettier than I am; He isn't much older than you; How much further must we walk?; much more easily; He's much the best person to ask.) much
    5) (to have a good, or bad, opinion of: She thought highly of him and his poetry.) think highly
    6) (to have a good, or bad, opinion of: She thought highly of him and his poetry.) well
    7) (to have a good, or bad, opinion of: She thought highly of him and his poetry.) badly etc of
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    [fi:l]
    ▪ \vieles a lot, a great deal, much/many
    sie weiß \vieles she knows a lot [or a great deal]
    ich habe meiner Frau \vieles zu verdanken I have to thank my wife for a lot
    \vieles, was du da sagst, trifft zu a lot [or much] of what you say is correct
    in \vielem hast du Recht in many respects you're right
    in \vielem gebe ich Ihnen Recht I agree with you in much of what you say
    mit \vielem, was er vorschlägt, bin ich einverstanden I agree with many of the things he suggests
    mein Mann ist um \vieles jünger als ich my husband is much younger than me
    es ist \vieles neu an diesem Modell this model has many [or a lot of] new features
    schöner ist dieser Lederkoffer natürlich, aber auch um \vieles teurer this leather suitcase is nicer, of course, but a lot more expensive
    sie kam mit \vielem alten Zeug she came with a lot of old stuff
    in \vieler Beziehung in many respects
    \vieles Ermutigende/Faszinierende/Schreckliche much encouragement/fascination/horror
    \vieles Interessante gab es zu sehen there was much of interest [or were many interesting things] to see
    III. adj
    <mehr, meiste>
    1. sing, attr, inv
    \viel Arbeit/Geduld/Geld a lot [or great deal] of work/patience/money
    \viel Erfolg! good luck!, I wish you every success!
    \viel Glück! all the best!, I wish you luck!
    \viel Spaß! enjoy yourself/yourselves!, have fun!
    \viel Vergnügen! enjoy yourself/yourselves!
    2. sing, attr
    ▪ \viele/ \vieler/ \vieles... many/much..., a lot of...
    ihre Augen waren rot von \vielem Weinen her eyes were red from much crying
    \vielen Dank! thank you very much!
    3. sing, attr
    ▪ der/die/das \viele... all this/that
    das \viele Essen über die Weihnachtstage ist mir nicht bekommen all that food over Christmas hasn't done me any good
    der \viele Ärger lässt mich nicht mehr schlafen I can't get to sleep with all this trouble
    ▪ sein \vieler/sein \vieles/seine \viele... all one's...
    4. sing, allein stehend, inv a lot, a great deal, much/many
    ich habe zu \viel zu tun I have too much to do
    sechs Kinder sind heute \viel six children today are many [or a lot]
    das ist sehr/unendlich \viel that's a huge/an endless amount/number
    viel wurde getan a lot [or a great deal] [or much] was done
    ihr Blick sagte \viel her look spoke volumes
    sie hat \viel von ihrem Mutter she has a lot of her mother
    das ist ein bisschen \viel [auf einmal]! that's a little too much [all at once]!
    nicht/recht \viel not much [or a lot]/quite a lot
    von dem Plan halte ich nicht \viel I don't think much of the plan
    das hat nicht \viel zu bedeuten that doesn't mean much
    er kann nicht \viel vertragen he can't hold his drink
    sie ist nicht \viel über dreißig she's not much over thirty
    was kann dabei schon \viel passieren? (fam) nothing's going to happen!
    \viel verheißend/versprechend highly promising
    was zu \viel ist, ist zu \viel enough is enough
    5. pl, attr
    ▪ \viele... a lot of..., a great number of..., many...
    unglaublich \viele Heuschrecken an unbelievable number of grasshoppers
    ein Geschenk von \vielen hundert Blumen a present of many hundreds of flowers
    und \viele andere and many others
    ▪ die \vielen... the great many [or number of]...
    6. pl, allein stehend
    ▪ \viele many; von Dingen a. a lot
    diese Ansicht wird immer noch von \vielen vertreten this view is still held by many [people]
    es sind noch einige Fehler, aber \viele haben wir verbessert there are still some errors, but we've corrected many [or a lot] [of them]
    \viele deiner Bücher kenne ich schon I know many [or a lot] of your books already
    es waren \viele von ihnen [o (geh) ihrer \viele] da there were many of them there
    einer unter \vielen one among many
    so \viel ist gewiss one thing is for certain
    ebenso \viel equally many/as much
    genauso \viel exactly as many/much
    gleich \viel just as much/many, the same
    gleich \viel Sand/Wasser the same amount of sand/water
    wir haben gleich \viele Dienstjahre we've been working here for the same number of years
    nicht \viel nützen (fam) to be not much use
    wie \viel/ \viele? how much/many?
    8. sing, allein stehend, inv DIAL (fam: nichts)
    ich weiß \viel, was du willst I haven't a clue what you want fam
    IV. adv
    <mehr, am meisten>
    im Sommer halten wir uns \viel im Garten auf we spend a lot of time in the garden in summer
    früher hat sie ihre Mutter immer \viel besucht she always used to visit her mother a lot
    man redet \viel von Frieden there's much [or a lot of] talk about peace
    eine \viel befahrene Straße a [very] busy street
    ein \viel beschäftigter Mann a very busy man
    \viel diskutiert much discussed
    einmal zu \viel once too often
    ein \viel erfahrener Pilot a pilot with a lot of experience
    ein \viel gefragtes Model a model that is in great demand
    \viel gekauft popular
    \viel gelesen widely read
    \viel geliebt much loved
    \viel gepriesen highly acclaimed
    ein \viel gereister Mann a man who has travelled a great deal
    \viel geschmäht much maligned [or abused]
    eine \viel gestellte Frage a question that comes up frequently
    \viel ins Kino/Theater gehen to go to the cinema/theatre frequently [or a lot], to be a regular cinema-goer/theatre-goer
    \viel umstritten highly controversial
    woanders ist es nicht \viel anders als bei uns there's not much [or a lot of] difference between where we live and somewhere else
    ich weiß \viel mehr, als du denkst I know far [or much] [or a lot] more than you think
    \viel kürzer/schwerer/weiter far [or much] [or a lot] shorter/heavier/more distant
    \viel zu groß/lang/teuer far [or much] too big/long/expensive
    \viel zu viel far [or much] too much
    * * *
    1.
    Indefinitpronomen und unbestimmtes Zahlwort
    1) Sg. a great deal of; a lot of (coll.)

    so/wie/nicht/zu viel — that/how/not/too much

    viel[es] — (viele Dinge, vielerlei) much

    viel sagend — (fig.) meaningful

    viel versprechend — [very] promising

    2) Plural many

    gleich viel[e] — the same number of

    wie viel[e] — how many

    zu viel[e] — too many

    2.
    1) (oft, lange) a great deal; a lot (coll.)
    2) (wesentlich) much; a great deal; a lot (coll.)

    viel mehr/weniger — much more/less

    viel zu viel — far or much to much

    * * *
    A. adj a lot of, lots of umg;
    viele many;
    nicht viel not much;
    nicht viele not many;
    sehr viel a great deal (of);
    sehr viele very many, a lot ( oder lots umg) (of), a great many;
    noch einmal so viel as much again;
    ziemlich viel(e) quite a lot (of);
    viel verdienen earn a lot of money;
    viele sind dafür etc many people are in favo(u)r of it etc;
    einer zu viel one too many;
    einer unter vielen one among(st) many;
    ein bisschen viel a bit ( oder little) (too) much; → auch bisschen B;
    viel zu viel far too much;
    das viele Geld all that money;
    in vielem in many ways;
    viel Erfreuliches etc lots of nice things etc;
    das letzte Jahr hat nicht viel Erfreuliches gebracht the past year hasn’t brought much joy;
    um vieles besser far ( oder much) better;
    das will viel/nicht viel heißen that’s saying a lot/that’s not saying much; → Dank, Glück 1, so A 8; Spaß 2 etc
    B. adv
    1. a lot, lots umg;
    viel reisen/krank sein etc travel/be ill etc a lot;
    die Straße wird viel befahren the road is used a lot, a lot of traffic uses the road;
    viel besser much better;
    was gibt es da noch viel zu bereden? what is there to discuss?, I thought we’d settled things;
    was soll ich dir noch viel erzählen? there’s no point in my going into (any great) detail about it
    2. mit pperf:
    viel beachtet well regarded;
    viel befahren very busy;
    eine viel befahrene Straße auch a road with heavy traffic;
    viel begehrt Künstler, Junggeselle etc: much ( oder highly) sought-after;
    viel benutzt well-used;
    viel beschäftigt very busy;
    viel besucht much-frequented;
    viel besungen liter oder hum präd frequently celebrated in song, attr auch oft-sung liter;
    viel bewundert much-admired;
    viel diskutiert much-discussed, widely discussed;
    viel gebraucht much-used;
    viel gefragt very popular;
    viel gefragt sein auch be in great demand;
    viel gehasst much-hated;
    viel gekauft frequently bought;
    viel gelesen much-read;
    viel geliebt much-loved;
    viel gelobt much-praised;
    viel genannt often-mentioned, liter oft-mentioned; Buch: much-cited, oft-cited; (berühmt) noted, distinguished;
    viel gepriesen much-praised;
    viel geprüft sorely tried;
    viel gereist widely- ( oder much-)travel(l)ed;
    er ist ein viel gereister Mann he’s done a lot of travel(l)ing (in his time);
    viel gerühmt much-praised;
    gescholten much-maligned, much-reviled;
    viel kritisiert much-criticized;
    viel umjubelt highly acclaimed;
    viel umstritten highly controversial;
    viel umworben much sought-after;
    viel zitiert much-cited, oft-cited
    3. mit ppr:
    viel versprechend (very) promising
    * * *
    1.
    Indefinitpronomen und unbestimmtes Zahlwort
    1) Sg. a great deal of; a lot of (coll.)

    so/wie/nicht/zu viel — that/how/not/too much

    viel[es] — (viele Dinge, vielerlei) much

    viel sagend — (fig.) meaningful

    viel versprechend — [very] promising

    2) Plural many

    gleich viel[e] — the same number of

    wie viel[e] — how many

    zu viel[e] — too many

    2.
    1) (oft, lange) a great deal; a lot (coll.)
    2) (wesentlich) much; a great deal; a lot (coll.)

    viel mehr/weniger — much more/less

    viel zu viel — far or much to much

    * * *
    (wenig) zu wünschen übriglassen ausdr.
    to leave much (little)
    to be desired expr. adj.
    many adj.
    much adj.
    much n.
    umpteen adj.
    various adj.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > viel

  • 56 Mylne, Robert

    [br]
    b. 1733 Edinburgh, Scotland d. 1811
    [br]
    Scottish engineer, architect and bridge-builder.
    [br]
    Mylne was the eldest son of Thomas Mylne, Surveyor to the City of Edinburgh. Little is known of his early education. In 1754, at the age of 21, he left Edinburgh by sea and journeyed to Rome, where he attended the Academy of St Luke. There he received the first prize for architecture. In 1759 he left Rome to travel back to England, where he arrived in time for the competition then going ahead for the design and building of a new bridge across the Thames at Blackfriars. Against 68 other competitors, Mylne won the competition; the work took some ten years to complete.
    In 1760 he was appointed Engineer and Architect to the City of London, and in 1767 Joint Engineer to the New River Company together with Henry Mill, who died within a few years to leave Mylne to become Chief Engineer in 1770. Thus for the next forty years he was in charge of all the works for the New River Company between Clerkenwell and Ware, the opposite ends of London's main water supply. By 1767 he had also been appointed to a number of other important posts, which included Surveyor to Canterbury Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. In addition to undertaking his responsibilities for these great public buildings, he designed many private houses and villas all over the country, including several buildings for the Duke of Argyll on the Inverary Castle estate.
    Mylne was also responsible for the design of a great number of bridges, waterworks and other civil engineering works throughout Britain. Called in to advise on the Norwich city waterworks, he fell out with Joseph Bramah in a somewhat spectacular dispute.
    For much of his life Mylne lived at the Water House at the New River Head at Islington, from which he could direct much of the work on that waterway that came under his supervision. He also had residences in New Bridge Street and, as Clerk of Works, at Greenwich Hospital. Towards the end of his life he built himself a small house at Amwell, a country retreat at the outer end of the New River. He kept a diary from 1762 to 1810 which includes only brief memoranda but which shows a remarkable diligence in travelling all over the country by stagecoach and by postchaise. He was a freemason, as were many of his family; he married Mary Home on 10 September 1770, with whom he had ten children, four of whom survived into adulthood.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Fellow of the Royal Society 1767.
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of National Biography, London.
    A.E.Richardson, 1955, Robert Mylne, 1733–1811, Engineer and Architect, London: Batsford.

    Biographical history of technology > Mylne, Robert

  • 57 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Introduction

  • 58 depreciation

    Gen Mgt
    an allocation of the cost of an asset over a period of time for accounting and tax purposes. Depreciation is charged against earnings, on the basis that the use of capital assets is a legitimate cost of doing business. Depreciation is also a noncash expense that is added into net income to determine cash-flow in a given accounting period.
    EXAMPLE
    To qualify for depreciation, assets must be items used in the business that wear out, become obsolete, or lose value over time from natural causes or circumstances, and they must have a useful life beyond a single tax year. Examples include vehicles, machines equipment, furnishings, and buildings, plus major additions or improvements to such assets. Some intangible assets also can be included under certain conditions. Land, personal assets, stock, leased or rented property, and a company’s employees cannot be depreciated.
          Straight-line depreciation is the most straightforward method. It assumes that the net cost of an asset should be written off in equal amounts over its life. The formula used is:
    (Original cost – scrap value)/Useful life (years)
    For example, if a vehicle cost $20,000 and can be expected to serve the business for seven years, its original cost would be divided by its useful life:
    (30,000 – 2,000)/7 = 4,000 per year
    The $4,000 becomes a depreciation expense that is reported on the company’s year-end income statement under “operation expenses.”
         In theory, an asset should be depreciated over the actual number of years that it will be used, according to its actual drop in value each year. At the end of each year, all the depreciation claimed to date is subtracted from its cost in order to arrive at its book value, which would equal its market value. At the end of its useful business life, any undepreciated portion would represent the salvage value for which it could be sold or scrapped.
         For tax purposes, some accountants prefer to use accelerated depreciation to record larger amounts of depreciation in the asset’s early years in order to reduce tax bills as soon as possible. In contrast to the straight-line method, the declining-balance method assumes that the asset depreciates more in its earlier years of use. The table opposite compares the depreciation amounts that would be available, under these two methods, for a $1,000 asset that is expected to be used for five years and then sold for $100 in scrap.
         The depreciation method to be used for a particular asset is fixed at the time that the asset is first placed in service. Whatever rules
    or tables are in effect for that year must be followed as long as the asset is owned.
         Depreciation laws and regulations change frequently over the years as a result of government policy changes, so a company owning property over a long period may have to use several different depreciation methods.

    The ultimate business dictionary > depreciation

  • 59 baccalauréat

    baccalauréat [bakalɔʀea]
    masculine noun
       b. (au Canada = licence) ≈ BA
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    The bac, as it is popularly known, is the school leaving examination all French « lycée » students take in their final year. Before beginning their baccalauréat studies, pupils choose a specialization known as a « série », represented by an initial letter: a bac with a scientific bias is known as a « bac S » (for « scientifique ») while an arts-oriented bac is referred to as a « bac L » (for « littéraire »), for example. When the word bac is followed by a plus sign and a number, this refers to the number of years of formal study completed since obtaining the baccalauréat qualification: « bac + 3 » refers to the « licence » or equivalent, « bac + 4 » to the « maîtrise » etc. These abbreviations are often used in job advertisements to indicate the level of qualification required.
    * * *
    known informally as the bac, is an examination sat in the final year of the lycée ( la terminale), so usually at age 17 or 18. Students sit exams in a fairly broad range of subjects in a particular category: the bac S places the emphasis on the sciences, for example, whilst the bac L has a literary bias. Some categories cater for students specializing in more directly job-based subjects such as agriculture
    * * *
    bakalɔʀea nm
    GCE A-levels pl Grande-Bretagne high school diploma USA

    Elle a passé son baccalauréat l'année dernière. — She did her A levels last year.

    * * *
    baccalauréat nm Scol baccalaureate.
    ⓘ Baccalauréat known informally as the bac, is an examination sat in the final year of the lycée ( la terminale), so usually at age 17 or 18. Students sit exams in a fairly broad range of subjects in a particular category: the bac S places the emphasis on the sciences, for example, whilst the bac L has a literary bias. Some categories cater for students specializing in more directly job-based subjects such as agriculture.
    [bakalɔrea] nom masculin
    final secondary school examination, qualifying for university entrance, ≃ A-levels (UK), ≃ high school diploma (US)
    The baccalauréat or bac is taken by students who have completed their final year at the lycée; successful candidates may go to university. There are three main types (filières) of bac, each corresponding to a specific field: bac L (littéraire) being arts-oriented, bac S (scientifique) science-based and bac ES (économique et social) economics and social studies. Within each domain various obligatory and optional subjects can be combined to give up to eleven different types of diploma. There is also the bac professionnel which offers thirty-eight different specialist or vocational subjects.
    The different levels of studies in France are referred to in terms of Bac + (Bac + 2 for the DEUG, Bac + 3 for the licence, Bac + 4 for the maîtrise, Bac + 5 for a DEA or a DESS) and are used in job advertisements, CVs and day-to-day life in order to indicate one's level or years of studies.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > baccalauréat

  • 60 Maudslay, Henry

    [br]
    b. 22 August 1771 Woolwich, Kent, England
    d. 15 February 1831 Lambeth, London, England
    [br]
    English precision toolmaker and engineer.
    [br]
    Henry Maudslay was the third son of an ex-soldier and storekeeper at Woolwich Arsenal. At the age of 12 he was employed at the Arsenal filling cartridges; two years later he was transferred to the woodworking department, adjacent to the smithy, to which he moved when 15 years old. He was a rapid learner, and three years later Joseph Bramah took him on for the construction of special tools required for the mass-production of his locks. Maudslay was thus employed for the next eight years. He became Bramah's foreman, married his housekeeper, Sarah Tindale, and, unable to better himself, decided to leave and set up on his own. He soon outgrew his first premises in Wells Street and moved to Margaret Street, off Oxford Street, where some examples of his workmanship were displayed in the window. These caught the attention of a visiting Frenchman, de Bacquancourt; he was a friend of Marc Isambard Brunel, who was then in the early stages of designing the block-making machinery later installed at Portsmouth dockyard.
    Brunel wanted first a set of working models, as he did not think that the Lords of the Admiralty would be capable of understanding engineering drawings; Maudslay made these for him within the next two years. Sir Samuel Bentham, Inspector-General of Naval Works, agreed that Brunel's system was superior to the one that he had gone some way in developing; the Admiralty approved, and an order was placed for the complete plant. The manufacture of the machinery occupied Maudslay for the next six years; he was assisted by a draughtsman whom he took on from Portsmouth dockyard, Joshua Field (1786–1863), who became his partner in Maudslay, Son and Field. There were as many as eighty employees at Margaret Street until, in 1810, larger premises became necessary and a new works was built at Lambeth Marsh where, eventually, there were up to two hundred workers. The new factory was flanked by two houses, one of which was occupied by Maudslay, the other by Field. The firm became noted for its production of marine steam-engines, notably Maudslay's table engine which was first introduced in 1807.
    Maudslay was a consummate craftsman who was never happier than when working at his bench or at a machine tool; he was also one of the first engineers to appreciate the virtues of standardization. Evidence of this appreciation is to be found in his work in the development of the Bramah lock and then on the machine tools for the manufacture of ship's blocks to Marc Brunel's designs; possibly his most important contribution was the invention in 1797 of the metal lathe. He made a number of surface plates of the finest quality. The most celebrated of his numerous measuring devices was a micrometer-based machine which he termed his "Lord Chancellor" because, in the machine shop, it represented the "final court of appeal", measuring to one-thousandth of an inch.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    1934–5, "Maudslay, Sons \& Field as general engineers", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 15, London.
    1963, Engineering Heritage, Vol. 1, London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers. L.T.C.Rolt, 1965, Tools for the Job, London: Batsford.
    W.Steeds, 1969, A History of Machine Tools 1700–1910, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Maudslay, Henry

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