forward-based weapons

1) General subject: fbs

2) Military: forward-based armaments, forward-based means, forward-based weapons

3) Makarov: forward-based systems

1) system

2) эк. (форма организации чего-л.) system

3) (совокупность принципов) system

4) (совокупность организаций, учреждений или предприятий) system, network

5) воен. system

1 carriage, transport costs (gasto de transporte).

portes debidos (commerce) carriage forward (British), freight collect (United States)

portes pagados (commerce) carriage paid (British), freight paid (United States)

2 carriage, transport (transport).

una empresa de portes y mudanzas a removal firm (British), a moving firm (United States)

3 bearing, demeanor (aspecto).

4 conduct, behaviour, bearing, behavior.

5 appearance, air.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: portar.

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► nombre masculino

1 (aspecto - de una persona) bearing; (- de un edificio etc) appearance

2 (transporte) carriage, freight

■ ¿quién va a pagar los portes? who will pay the cost of freight?

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portes debidos carriage due

portes pagados carriage paid

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1) bearing

2) carriage

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1) (Com) (=acto) carriage, transport; (=costos) carriage; (Correos) postage

2) ( esp Náut) (=tonelaje) capacity

3) (=presencia) bearing, demeanour, demeanor (EEUU)

4) (=conducta) behaviour, behavior (EEUU), conduct frm

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1) (aspecto, aire) bearing, demeanor*

2) ( tamaño) size

3)

a) ( costo) carriage

b) ( acción de portar) carrying

4) portes masculino plural ( transporte) transport

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= set, porterage, deportment, cartage, haulage, drayage.

Ex. From the way his left shoulder is tipped forward, from the set of his head and the length of his stride, one gets the feeling that he is a fully clothed sprinter just leaving the starting blocks.

Ex. The price includes porterage based on one suitcase per person.

Ex. Our deportment depends upon our dress.

Ex. Haulage, also called cartage or drayage, is the horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies, and waste.

Ex. Haulage, also called cartage or drayage, is the horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies, and waste.

Ex. Haulage, also called cartage or drayage, is the horizontal transport of ore, coal, supplies, and waste.

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1) (aspecto, aire) bearing, demeanor*

2) ( tamaño) size

3)

a) ( costo) carriage

b) ( acción de portar) carrying

4) portes masculino plural ( transporte) transport

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A (aspecto, aire) bearing, demeanor*

un joven de porte distinguido a distinguished-looking young man, a young man of distinguished bearing o with a distinguished air

una mansión de porte señorial a mansion of extremely grand appearance

B (tamaño) size

un buque de gran porte a vessel of enormous size

es de este porte ( AmL); it's about this big

del porte de una casa or catedral ( Chi fam); huge, enormous, tremendous

1 (precio, costo) carriage

la mercancía se envía a porte pagado the goods are sent freight paid o postage paid o ( BrE) carriage paid

2 (acción de portar) carrying

no se permite el porte de armas it is forbidden to carry arms, the carrying of arms is forbidden

D portes mpl (transporte) transport

portes pagados freight/postage paid, carriage paid ( BrE)

[ S ] se hacen portes freight delivery service

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1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

a) ( comportarse):

◊ portese bien to behave (oneself);

b) ( cumplir):

◊ el Zaragoza se portó en la final Zaragoza delivered the goods in the final;

◊ es de este porte (AmL) it's about this big

◊ portes pagados freight/postage paid

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porte nm

1. [gasto de transporte] transport costs, carriage;

los portes corren a cargo del destinatario transport o carriage is payable by the addressee

enviar algo a portes debidos to send sth Br carriage forward o US freight collect;

enviar algo a portes pagados to send sth Br carriage paid o US freight paid

2. [transporte] carriage, transport;

una empresa de portes y mudanzas Br a removal firm, US a moving firm

3. [capacidad, tamaño] size, capacity;

llegó una caja de este porte [muy grande] a box arrived that was THIS big

4. [aspecto] bearing, demeanour;

su padre tiene un porte distinguido your father has a very distinguished air;

un edificio de porte majestuoso a very grand-looking building

5. RP [permiso] permit, licence;

¿usted tiene porte de armas? do you have a gun licence?

6. RP [acción] carrying;

se prohíbe el porte de armas the carrying of weapons o arms is forbidden

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1 ( aspecto) appearance, air

2 ( gasto de correo) postage;

a portes debidos collect on delivery, Br cash on delivery;

a portes pagados freight paid, Br carriage paid

de este porte about this big

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porte nm

1) aspecto: bearing, demeanor

2) transporte: transport, carrying

porte pagado: postage paid

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Mining and extraction technology, Weapons and armour

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The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.

It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.

In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.

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