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fourteen ships

  • 1 ♦ fourteen

    ♦ fourteen /fɔ:ˈti:n/
    a. e n.
    1 quattordici: fourteen ships, quattordici navi; Fourteen is my lucky number, il quattordici è il mio numero fortunato; There are fourteen of them, sono in quattordici; Fourteen out of twenty samples contained sugar, quattordici campioni su venti conteneva zucchero; a fourteen-metre drop, un dislivello di quattordici metri
    2 quattordici ( anni d'età): The girl isn't fourteen yet, la ragazzina non ha ancora quattordici anni; a fourteen-year-old, un ragazzo (o una ragazza) di quattordici anni, un (o una) quattordicenne.

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  • 2 Taylor, David Watson

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 4 March 1864 Louisa County, Virginia, USA
    d. 29 July 1940 Washington, DC, USA
    [br]
    American hydrodynamicist and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy Construction Corps.
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    Taylor's first years were spent on a farm in Virginia, but at the age of 13 he went to RandolphMacon College, graduating in 1881, and from there to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis. He graduated at the head of his class, had some sea time, and then went to the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, where in 1888 he again came top of the class with the highest-ever marks of any student, British or overseas.
    On his return to the United States he held various posts as a constructor, ending this period at the Mare Island Navy Yard in California. In 1894 he was transferred to Washington, where he joined the Bureau of Construction and started to interest the Navy in ship model testing. Under his direction, the first ship model tank in the United States was built at Washington and for fourteen years operated under his control. The work of this establishment gave him the necessary information to write the highly acclaimed text The Speed and Power of Ships, which with revisions is still in use. By the outbreak of the First World War he was one of the world's most respected naval architects, and had been retained as a consultant by the British Government in the celebrated case of the collision between the White Star Liner Olympic and HMS Hawke.
    In December 1914 Taylor became a Rear-Admiral and was appointed Chief Constructor of the US Navy. His term of office was extremely stressful, with over 1,000 ships constructed for the war effort and with the work of the fledgling Bureau for Aeronautics also under his control. The problems were not over in 1918 as the Washington Treaty required drastic pruning of the Navy and a careful reshaping of the defence force.
    Admiral Taylor retired from active service at the beginning of 1923 but retained several consultancies in aeronautics, shipping and naval architecture. For many years he served as consultant to the ship-design company now known as Gibbs and Cox. Many honours came his way, but the most singular must be the perpetuation of his name in the David Taylor Medal, the highest award of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in the United States. Similarly, the Navy named its ship test tank facility, which was opened in Maryland in 1937, the David W. Taylor Model Basin.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 1925–7. United States Distinguished Service Medal. American Society of Civil Engineers John Fritz Medal. Institution of Naval Architects Gold Medal 1894 (the first American citizen to receive it). Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers David W.Taylor Medal 1936 (the first occasion of this award).
    Bibliography
    Resistance of Ships and Screw Propulsion. 1911, The Speed and Power of Ships, New York: Wiley.
    Taylor gave many papers to the Maritime Institutions of both the United States and the United Kingdom.
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    Biographical history of technology > Taylor, David Watson

  • 3 Trevithick, Richard

    [br]
    b. 13 April 1771 Illogan, Cornwall, England
    d. 22 April 1833 Dartford, Kent, England
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    English engineer, pioneer of non-condensing steam-engines; designed and built the first locomotives.
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    Trevithick's father was a tin-mine manager, and Trevithick himself, after limited formal education, developed his immense engineering talent among local mining machinery and steam-engines and found employment as a mining engineer. Tall, strong and high-spirited, he was the eternal optimist.
    About 1797 it occurred to him that the separate condenser patent of James Watt could be avoided by employing "strong steam", that is steam at pressures substantially greater than atmospheric, to drive steam-engines: after use, steam could be exhausted to the atmosphere and the condenser eliminated. His first winding engine on this principle came into use in 1799, and subsequently such engines were widely used. To produce high-pressure steam, a stronger boiler was needed than the boilers then in use, in which the pressure vessel was mounted upon masonry above the fire: Trevithick designed the cylindrical boiler, with furnace tube within, from which the Cornish and later the Lancashire boilers evolved.
    Simultaneously he realized that high-pressure steam enabled a compact steam-engine/boiler unit to be built: typically, the Trevithick engine comprised a cylindrical boiler with return firetube, and a cylinder recessed into the boiler. No beam intervened between connecting rod and crank. A master patent was taken out.
    Such an engine was well suited to driving vehicles. Trevithick built his first steam-carriage in 1801, but after a few days' use it overturned on a rough Cornish road and was damaged beyond repair by fire. Nevertheless, it had been the first self-propelled vehicle successfully to carry passengers. His second steam-carriage was driven about the streets of London in 1803, even more successfully; however, it aroused no commercial interest. Meanwhile the Coalbrookdale Company had started to build a locomotive incorporating a Trevithick engine for its tramroads, though little is known of the outcome; however, Samuel Homfray's ironworks at Penydarren, South Wales, was already building engines to Trevithick's design, and in 1804 Trevithick built one there as a locomotive for the Penydarren Tramroad. In this, and in the London steam-carriage, exhaust steam was turned up the chimney to draw the fire. On 21 February the locomotive hauled five wagons with 10 tons of iron and seventy men for 9 miles (14 km): it was the first successful railway locomotive.
    Again, there was no commercial interest, although Trevithick now had nearly fifty stationary engines completed or being built to his design under licence. He experimented with one to power a barge on the Severn and used one to power a dredger on the Thames. He became Engineer to a project to drive a tunnel beneath the Thames at Rotherhithe and was only narrowly defeated, by quicksands. Trevithick then set up, in 1808, a circular tramroad track in London and upon it demonstrated to the admission-fee-paying public the locomotive Catch me who can, built to his design by John Hazledine and J.U. Rastrick.
    In 1809, by which date Trevithick had sold all his interest in the steam-engine patent, he and Robert Dickinson, in partnership, obtained a patent for iron tanks to hold liquid cargo in ships, replacing the wooden casks then used, and started to manufacture them. In 1810, however, he was taken seriously ill with typhus for six months and had to return to Cornwall, and early in 1811 the partners were bankrupt; Trevithick was discharged from bankruptcy only in 1814.
    In the meantime he continued as a steam engineer and produced a single-acting steam engine in which the cut-off could be varied to work the engine expansively by way of a three-way cock actuated by a cam. Then, in 1813, Trevithick was approached by a representative of a company set up to drain the rich but flooded silver-mines at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, at an altitude of 14,000 ft (4,300 m). Low-pressure steam engines, dependent largely upon atmospheric pressure, would not work at such an altitude, but Trevithick's high-pressure engines would. Nine engines and much other mining plant were built by Hazledine and Rastrick and despatched to Peru in 1814, and Trevithick himself followed two years later. However, the war of independence was taking place in Peru, then a Spanish colony, and no sooner had Trevithick, after immense difficulties, put everything in order at the mines then rebels arrived and broke up the machinery, for they saw the mines as a source of supply for the Spanish forces. It was only after innumerable further adventures, during which he encountered and was assisted financially by Robert Stephenson, that Trevithick eventually arrived home in Cornwall in 1827, penniless.
    He petitioned Parliament for a grant in recognition of his improvements to steam-engines and boilers, without success. He was as inventive as ever though: he proposed a hydraulic power transmission system; he was consulted over steam engines for land drainage in Holland; and he suggested a 1,000 ft (305 m) high tower of gilded cast iron to commemorate the Reform Act of 1832. While working on steam propulsion of ships in 1833, he caught pneumonia, from which he died.
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    Bibliography
    Trevithick took out fourteen patents, solely or in partnership, of which the most important are: 1802, Construction of Steam Engines, British patent no. 2,599. 1808, Stowing Ships' Cargoes, British patent no. 3,172.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and A.Titley, 1934, Richard Trevithick. The Engineer and the Man, Cambridge; F.Trevithick, 1872, Life of Richard Trevithick, London (these two are the principal biographies).
    E.A.Forward, 1952, "Links in the history of the locomotive", The Engineer (22 February), 226 (considers the case for the Coalbrookdale locomotive of 1802).
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    Biographical history of technology > Trevithick, Richard

  • 4 Laird, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 1805 (?) Greenock, Scotland
    d. 26 October 1874 Birkenhead, England
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    Scottish pioneer of large-scale iron shipbuilding.
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    When only 5 years old, Laird travelled with his family to Merseyside, where his father William Laird was setting up a ship-repair yard. Fourteen years later his father established the Birkenhead Ironworks for ship and engine repairs, which in later years was to achieve great things with John Laird at the helm. John Laird trained as a solicitor, but instead of going into practice he joined the family business. Between 1829 and 1832 they built three iron barges for inland use in Ireland; this form of construction had become less of a novelty and followed the example set by Thomas Wilson in 1819, but Laird was fired with enthusiasm for this mode of construction. New iron ships followed in rapid succession, with two of especial note: the paddle steamer Lady Lansdown of 1833, which was dismantled and later re-erected on the river Shannon, becoming one of Britain's first "knock-down" contracts; and the early steamer Robert F.Stockton, which had a double Ericsson screw propeller and the first iron transverse watertight bulkheads. With the good name of the shipyard secure, they received orders from MacGregor Laird (John Laird's younger brother) for iron ships for the West African trade. This African connection was to grow and the yard's products were to include the Ma Roberts for Dr David Livingstone. Being of steel and with constant groundings on African rivers, this craft only lasted 18 months in steady operation. In 1858 a new yard dedicated to iron construction was opened at Monk's Ferry. In 1861 John Laird was returned as the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and his sons took over the day-to-day affairs of the business. Laird was to suffer acute embarrassment by questions at Westminster over the building in the Birkenhead Works of the United States Confederate raider Alabama in 1862. In 1874 he suffered serious injuries in a riding accident; his health declined and he died later that year.
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    Bibliography
    1858, with Fairbairn, Forrester, Lang and Sea-ward, Steam Navigation, Vessels of Iron and Wood, the Steam Engine, etc. 2 vols, London: Weale.
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    Biographical history of technology > Laird, John

  • 5 VIKA

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    (gen. pl. vikna), f.
    1) week; nú lífa sumarit til átta vikna, till it was eight weeks to winter; hin helga v., Holy-week (after Whitsun); efsta v., the last week of Lent, Passion-week;
    2) sea-mile, = vika sjóvar, v. sævar (Ólafseyjar liggja út á firðinum hálfa aðra viku undan Reykjanesi).
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    1.
    u, f., gen. pl. vikna, pl. vikur: [this can hardly be a genuine Teutonic word, but rather is adopted from Lat. vice, otherwise the k could not have remained unchanged; thus Lat. vicus is Icel. vé, Goth. weihs: Ulf. only uses the word in a single instance, viz. to translate ἐν τη τάξει της ἐφημερίας αὐτου by in wikon kunjis seinis in Luke i. 8, where the Latin text ‘in vice sua’ perhaps suggested the word to the translator; A. S. and Hel. wica; Engl. week; O. H. G. wecha; Germ. woche; Dan. uge; Swed. wecha; in Norse dialects vika, veka, vuku, uku, and in compds -oke, Jóns-oke, Ivar Aasen.]
    B. USAGES.—A week, passim: used in a peculiar manner, as marking the remaining weeks of the summer; líðr á sumarit til átta vikna, viz. till eight weeks remained before winter, Nj. 93; var Rútr heima til sex vikna, 10; vá Böðvarr Kolbein Drottins-daginn at fjórum vikum, Ann. 1376. The ancient Scandinavians and Teutons in heathen times seem to have counted the year by pentads, called fimt, as has already been remarked s. v. fimt (p. 153), to which may be added the authority of the late Prof. Schlegel of Copenhagen in a notice of 1825, mentioned in Lex. Mythol. p. 753. The time when the Scandinavians changed their system is quite unknown; it would seem that in Icel. ‘weeks’ were already in use in the middle of the 10th century, could we but trust the record in Íb. ch. 4 as authentic in its details.
    II. spec. usages in the calendar; Helga vika, the Holy-week (i. e. after Whitsun), Thom. 22, Dipl. iii. 10, D. I. i. 594; Efsta-vika, the last week of Lent, i. e. Passion-week, Orkn. 386, D. I. i. 594; Páska-vika, Easter-week; Sælu-vika, Ember-week, passim, see Icel. Almanack; as also Auka-vika or Lagningar-vika, the additional week, intercalary week, = sumar-auki, see p. 604; fyrsta Sumar-vika, síðasta vika sumars, síðasta vika vetrar.
    COMPDS: vikudagr, vikufrestr, vikuför, vikugamall, vikulagning, vikumunr, vikustafr, vikustef, vikustefna, vikuþing, viknamót, viknatal.
    2.
    u, f. [a word quite different from the preceding, akin to vik and vík, the root word being víkja, q. v.]:—a sea mile, knot, answering to a mod. geographical mile, and equal to a ‘röst’ on land (see röst, p. 508): the term seems to have been derived from vík, a small bay, denoting the distance from ness to ness, and so referring to a time when ships coasted along-shore; the word is still in almost exclusive use in Icel. The following instances may suffice:—the distance from Reykjanes to Flatey in western Icel. is counted as three viknr (frá Reykjanesi til Flateyjar, þat eru þrjár vikur sjófar, Bs. i. 461); from Drangey in the north to the nearest point on the mainland as one vika (frá Revkjum er skemst til eyjarinnar ok er þat vika sjóvar … þat var vika sjáfar sem skemst var til lands ór eyjunni, Grett. 144, 148); eyjar þær sem Ólafs-eyjar heita, þær liggja út á firðinum hálfa aðra viku undan Reykjanesi, 125; heyrði yfir til Skarfstaða hálfa viku sjóvar (viz. from Ljárskógar), 129; for the respective distances see the map of Icel.: so in Norway, vatnið var hálfrar viku breitt, Fms. viii. 32; sigla þeir fyrir þat torleiði sex vikur sævar, Fb. i. 186: in the Faroes, þangat var skemst ok var þat þó löng vika sjóvar, Fær. 173 (viz. from the Great Dimon to Suðrey): in Greenland, hann lagðisk eptir geldingi gömlum út í Hvalsey, ok flutti á baki sér, þá er hann vildi fagna Eireki frænda sínum, en ekki var sæfært skip heima, þat er löng hálf vika, Landn. 107: great distances at the open sea are counted by ‘tylpt,’ ‘dozens, sc. of knots,’ leaving out the word ‘vika,’ þá mun siglt vera tylpt fyrir sunnan Ísland, Landn. 25: a writer of the 14th century calculates the voyage round Iceland direct from headland to headland at ‘fourteen dozens,’—fjórtan tylptir umbergis at sigla réttleiðis fyrir hvert nes, Bs. ii. 5.

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  • 6 get

    [get] 1. гл.; прош. вр. got; прич. прош. вр. got, gotten
    1)
    а) получить (в собственность), стать обладателем

    He got a bicycle for his birthday. — На день рождения ему подарили велосипед.

    Syn:
    б) получить, нажить ( неприятности), навлекать на себя

    She got nothing but trouble for her efforts. — За свои старания она нажила себе только одни проблемы.

    Syn:
    2)

    He got this book at the library. — Эту книгу он взял в библиотеке.

    Syn:

    Get me a pillow. — Принеси мне подушку.

    Help me to get the washing in, it's raining. — Помоги мне занести бельё в дом, а то идёт дождь.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) купить, приобрести

    I got these jeans for $100. — Я купил эти джинсы за 100 долларов.

    Syn:
    б) ( get through) тратить, использовать ( в большом количестве)

    Jim gets through a lot of beer while watching football on television every Saturday. — Джим выпивает изрядное количество пива, пока смотрит футбол по телевизору по субботам.

    4)
    а) извлекать, добывать, получать ( в результате собственных усилий)

    He got this information from the Internet. — Он нашёл эту информацию в интернете.

    You can't get water out of a stone. — Из камня нельзя получить воду.

    б) заработать, получить

    I always get high marks in history. — Я всегда получаю хорошие оценки по истории.

    He got $20 for this work. — Он получил 20 долларов за эту работу.

    в) завоевать, приобрести (в результате военных действий)
    5) получить возможность (что-л. делать), получить разрешение на (что-л.)

    I couldn't get a day off because I had to write a report. — Мне не разрешили взять отгул, так как я должен был написать отчёт.

    I finally got to work at home. — Наконец-то я смог поработать дома.

    6)
    а) приходить; прибывать, достигать

    The snow was so deep that the climbers could not get through to the hut. — Снега было так много, что альпинисты не смогли пробраться к хижине.

    Syn:
    б) ( get at) добираться, доставать до (чего-л.)

    I can't get at the top branches, can you bring the ladder? — Я не достаю до верхних веток, принеси мне, пожалуйста, лестницу.

    в) ( get at) разг. иметь в виду
    7) разместиться, занять место, сесть в ( транспорте); воспользоваться (каким-л. видом транспорта)

    She got her plane two minutes before takeoff. — Она поднялась на борт самолёта всего за две минуты до вылета.

    Syn:
    8) застать, дозвониться, суметь установить связь

    I tried to get you, but your phone was busy. — Я пытался связаться с тобой, но телефон был занят.

    I got (through to) him on the telephone at last. — Наконец я дозвонился до него.

    9) заразиться, подхватить инфекцию

    The teacher got chicken pox from the students. — Учитель заразился ветрянкой от учеников.

    Syn:
    10)
    а) подвергаться, испытывать на себе

    He got a severe concussion. — Он получил серьёзное (тяжёлое) сотрясение мозга.

    Syn:
    б) получить в качестве наказания, возмездия; схлопотать

    He got six years in prison for tax fraud. — Он получил шесть лет за налоговые махинации.

    You'll get a spanking when your father comes home. — Когда отец вернётся, получишь взбучку.

    11)
    а) понять, осознать; выяснить

    He didn't get the point of the joke. — Он не понял, в чём шутка.

    It is always difficult to get at the truth. — Выяснять правду всегда нелегко.

    I cannot get at the meaning. — Я не могу понять, что это значит.

    The children didn't quite get onto what the teacher was saying. — Дети не совсем поняли, что говорил учитель.

    Syn:
    б) дойти до сознания, стать понятным

    Did your speech get over / across to the crowd? — Твоя речь дошла до сознания толпы?

    Though the message was clear, it took long to get it over to the minds of Americans. — Хотя идея была понятна, прошло много времени, пока американцы её восприняли.

    12)
    а) выяснить, обнаружить с помощью подсчётов

    I can't get the total. — Я не могу сосчитать.

    These days, scientists use computers to help them to get out the difficult calculations concerned with space travel. — Теперь учёные используют компьютеры для проведения сложных расчётов, связанных с полётами в космос.

    Sorry, I didn't get your name. — Простите, я не разобрал, как вас зовут.

    13) выучить наизусть, запомнить

    I've got this poem off by heart already. — Я уже выучил это стихотворение наизусть.

    How quickly can you get up this piece for the concert? — Как быстро ты сможешь выучить эту вещь, чтобы исполнить её на концерте?

    Syn:
    14) порождать, производить, вызывать
    Syn:
    15) приготовить, обеспечить готовность

    I have to go and work, I must get out my next speech. — Мне нужно пойти поработать, надо подготовить моё следующее выступление.

    The children are getting up a play for next week. — Дети готовят постановку к следующей неделе.

    Syn:
    16)
    а) передвигаться, перемещаться

    Mother is much better now, thank you, she's able to get about a bit more. — Маме лучше, спасибо; она может уже немного ходить.

    Using the new bridge to get across will save people a lot of time. — Люди будут пользоваться новым мостом, чтобы перебраться на другую сторону, это сохранит им массу времени.

    This new car gets away faster than any of our former models. — Новая модель стартует быстрее всех остальных.

    There's enough room for the car to get by. — Автомобиль вполне может здесь проехать.

    I'm sorry I'm late but the telephone rang just as I was about to leave, and I couldn't get away. — Прошу прощения за опоздание, но я не мог уйти, так как прямо перед моим выходом зазвонил телефон.

    On a clear day, you can see the ships far out to sea, until they get beyond the horizon. — В ясный день корабли видны далеко в море, до тех пор, пока они не скроются за горизонтом.

    The cat climbed the tree, and then couldn't get down. — Кошка забралась на дерево и не могла слезть.

    Don't be afraid of the horse, get on! — Не бойся лошади, садись.

    How can we get over? The traffic's so busy. — Как нам перейти (на другую сторону)? Тут такое сильное движение.

    Put the fence deep into the earth so that the rabbits can't get under. — Врой забор поглубже в землю, чтобы кролики не смогли под ним пролезть.

    The hill was so steep that the old car had difficulty getting up. — Холм был такой крутой, что старая машина еле-еле взобралась на него.

    The history lessons get up to the year 1642 and then stop. — На уроках истории доходят до 1642 года и на этом останавливаются.

    б) двигать, способствовать продвижению, вести (кого-л. / что-л.) прям. и перен.

    to get smth. away — вытаскивать что-л. (наружу)

    to get smb. beyond smth. — помогать кому-л. в развитии, продвижении дальше, чем что-л.

    Please get the children in, their dinner's ready. — Зови детей, обед готов.

    It took him just ten minutes to get the car through the traffic. — Всего за десять минут он смог вырулить из сплошного потока машин.

    The captain got his ship into the harbour safely in spite of rough sea. — Капитан благополучно привёл корабль в гавань, несмотря на бурное море.

    Some additional lessons might get you up to the standard demanded by the examiners. — Несколько дополнительных занятий могут помочь тебе подняться до уровня, который требуют экзаменаторы.

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    17)
    а) вмещаться, помещаться

    Since I gained weight, I can't get into my best suit. — Так как я располнел, я не могу влезть в свой лучший костюм.

    Get into bed, and I'll bring you a cup of tea. — Ложись, я принесу тебе чай в постель.

    That grass is newly seeded, please get off! — Газон только что засеяли, пожалуйста, уйдите с него.

    б) класть, помещать, ставить

    This case is too small, I cannot get all my clothes in. — Этот чемодан слишком маленький, я не могу засунуть туда всю мою одежду.

    We shall have to get the tree up by its roots. — Придётся вытащить дерево с корнями.

    I can't get my head into this hat. — Эта шляпа мне мала.

    18)
    а) хватать, брать силой

    The detective got the suspect as he left the restaurant. — Сыщик задержал подозреваемого, когда тот вышел из ресторана.

    The goblins will get you if you don't watch out. — Будь осторожен, иначе тебя поймают гоблины.

    Syn:
    б) захватывать (эмоционально), производить большое впечатление, изумлять

    This music really gets me. — Мне так нравится эта музыка!

    His sad story really got to me, and I was moved to help him. — Его печальная история тронула меня, и мне захотелось помочь ему.

    в) озадачить, поставить проблему

    It gets me why she suddenly decided to sell the house. — Странно, почему она вдруг решила продать дом.

    Syn:
    19) разг.
    а) надоедать, доставать, доканывать

    What got me was his utter lack of initiative. — Его полная безынициативность достала меня.

    His mother at last got across me, making rude remarks in my own home. — Его мать доконала-таки меня своими замечаниями в моем же доме.

    This continuous wet weather is getting me down. — Эта постоянная плохая погода начинает мне надоедать.

    Syn:
    б) ( get after) ругать (кого-л.), придираться к (кому-л.)

    She's always getting after the children for one thing or another. — Вечно она придирается к детям - то за одно, то за другое.

    20)

    She got him on the stomach. — Она ударила его в живот.

    The bullet got him in the leg. — Пуля попала ему в ногу.

    Syn:
    б) разг. побеждать, одолевать, уничтожать прям. и перен.

    The hail got the rose bushes. — Град побил кусты роз.

    The firemen got the fire under in only half an hour. — Пожарные потушили огонь всего за полчаса.

    Syn:
    21) спорт. лишать возможности увеличить счёт ( в бейсболе)
    Syn:
    22) разг. сбежать, исчезнуть; свалить, смыться

    She yelled at the dog to get. — Чтобы прогнать собаку, она стала на неё кричать.

    23) заниматься бизнесом, делать деньги, работать на прибыль

    He puts all his energy into getting and spending. — Он тратит всю свою энергию на то, чтобы зарабатывать деньги и их тратить.

    24) приступать (к чему-л.), приниматься (за что-л.)

    I'd like to get at repainting the house as soon as the weather is suitable. — Я хотел бы снова взяться за перекраску дома, когда погода станет приемлемой.

    We finally got round to answering our correspondence. — Мы наконец выкроили время, чтобы ответить на письма.

    I think I'll be able to get round to this job only next month. — Думаю, до этой работы у меня дойдут руки только в следующем месяце.

    We must get to work at once (on the new building plans). — Надо немедленно приниматься за дело.

    25) (get through / beyond / by / over) проходить через (что-л.), преодолевать, выдерживать прям. и перен.

    I don't know how poor people get through these cold winters. — Не знаю, как бедные переживают такие морозы.

    Your suggestion has got by the first stage and will now be examined by the committee. — Ваше предложение было одобрено на первом этапе и теперь будет рассмотрено комитетом.

    It always takes some time to get over the shock of someone's death. — Когда кто-нибудь умирает, всегда нужно некоторое время, чтобы шок прошёл.

    I can't get over your news, I would never have thought it possible! — Никак не могу свыкнуться с тем, что ты мне сказал, я думал, что такое невозможно.

    The committee will have to find means to get over the difficulty. — Комитет должен будет изыскать средства преодолеть эти трудности.

    а) убедить (кого-л.), заставить (кого-л.) сделать по-своему

    I think I can get round my father to lend us the car. — Я думаю, мне удастся уговорить отца дать нам автомобиль.

    We'll soon get him round (to our point of view). — Мы скоро его переубедим.

    б) обходить (что-л.), уклоняться от (чего-л.)

    If you are clever, you can sometimes get round the tax laws. — Если ты достаточно хитёр, то иногда можно изловчиться и уклониться от налогов.

    Syn:
    27) ( get at) разг. подкупать (кого-л.)

    The prisoners escaped after getting at the guards to leave the gate open. — Заключённым удалось сбежать - они подкупили охрану и ворота остались незапертыми.

    28) (get beyond / past)

    This book got a bit beyond me. — Эта книга оказалась для меня трудноватой.

    It gets past me how he does it! — Мне совершенно непонятно, как он это делает.

    The children tried to build a hut in the garden, but the work got past them and they had to ask their father to help. — Дети хотели построить в саду шалаш, но работа оказалась для них слишком тяжёлой, и они попросили отца помочь им.

    б) иметь трудности с (чем-л.), находить для себя слишком трудным (что-л.)

    Jim's father got beyond running the business on his own. — Отцу Джима оказалось слишком трудным вести дело самому.

    29) ( get onto)
    а) переходить к (чему-л.), начинать (что-л. другое)

    Let's get onto the next scene now. — Теперь перейдем к следующей сцене.

    How did we get onto this subject? It has no connection with what we were talking about. — Как мы перешли к этой теме? У неё же ничего общего с тем, о чём мы говорили?

    б) быть выбранным в (какую-л. организацию)

    My neighbour got onto the city council. — Моего соседа избрали в городской совет.

    в) разг. приставать к (кому-л.), доставать (кого-л.)

    She's been getting onto me for a year to buy her a new coat. — Она уже год выпрашивает у меня купить ей новое пальто.

    г) придумать (что-л.)

    I've got onto a good idea for improving production. — Мне тут пришла в голову неплохая идея на тему улучшения производства.

    30) ( get into)

    You'll get into bad habits if you keep borrowing money. — Если ты и дальше будешь брать деньги в долг, это превратится в дурную привычку.

    в) попадать в какое-л. положение, состояние

    Try not to get into a temper. — Старайся не раздражаться.

    Whatever has got into the children? They're so excitable! — Что это стало с детьми? Они стали так легко возбудимы.

    The devil has got into this class today. — Сегодня в учеников словно вселился дьявол.

    г) попадать, вовлекаться, оказываться впутанным во (что-л.)

    He got into debts. — Его втянули в долги.

    д) начинать (делать что-л.), приступать к (чему-л.)

    I must get into training soon; the cricket season starts next month. — Мне пора начать тренировки; крикетный сезон начинается в следующем месяце.

    е) заинтересоваться (чем-л.), начать заниматься (чем-л.)

    Michael got into radio when he was only fourteen. — Майкл заинтересовался радио, когда ему было всего четырнадцать.

    31) (get smth. / smb. + прич. прош. вр.) получить результат какого-л. действия (над собой, своим имуществом; как следствие собственных усилий или деятельности других лиц)

    He got his arm broken in the fight. — В этой драке ему сломали руку.

    The new director will soon get the firm started. — Новый директор скоро заставит фирму заработать.

    32) (get smth. / smb. + прил.) вызвать (определённое состояние кого-л. / чего-л.)

    He got the children tired and cross. — Он утомил и разозлил детей.

    33)
    а) (get + прич. наст. вр.) начинать делать (что-л.)

    to get going / moving — начать действовать, взяться за дело

    I have to get working on this or I'll miss my deadline. — Я должен начать работать над этим, иначе я не уложусь в сроки.

    б) (get smth. + прич. наст. вр.) обеспечить начало действия чего-л.

    It was he who got the factory working. — Именно благодаря ему завод начал работать.

    34) (have got / got)

    We've got plenty of cash. — У нас много наличности.

    They got a nice house in town. — У них славный домик в городе.

    б) иметь в качестве поручения, обязанности, обязательства

    I have got to leave early. — Мне надо уйти пораньше.

    You've got to do the dishes. — Ты должен помыть посуду.

    35) (get + прич. прош. вр.) подвергнуться указанному действию со стороны (кого-л.)

    She got stung by a bee. — Её ужалила пчела.

    36) (get smb. to do smth.) заставить, просить, убеждать кого-л. что-л. сделать

    The Opera Guild got the governor to serve as honorary chairman. — Гильдия оперных певцов убедила губернатора стать её почётным председателем.

    Syn:
    37) (get + прил. / прич. прош. вр.) становиться, делаться

    Moscow gets awfully cold in winter. — В Москве зимой становится очень холодно.

    - get better
    - get soaked through
    - get wet through
    Syn:
    •
    - get abreast of smth.
    - get abroad
    - get ahead
    - get along
    - get around
    - get away
    - get back
    - get behind
    - get by
    - get down
    - get in
    - get off
    - get on
    - get out
    - get past
    - get round
    - get through
    - get together
    - get up
    ••

    as good as it gets — лучше не бывает; самое лучшее, что можно найти

    to get up an appetite for smth.— почувствовать вкус к чему-л.

    to get smth. into one's head — вбить что-л. себе в голову

    to get on one's feet / legs — вставать, подниматься ( чтобы говорить публично)

    to get smb.'s back up / blood up — разозлить кого-л., вывести из себя

    to get one's dander up, get one's monkey up — разозлиться, выйти из себя

    to have got smb. / smth. on one's nerves — раздражаться из-за кого-л. / чего-л.

    to get the mitten / the sack / walking orders / walking papers — быть уволенным

    to get it in the neck — получить по шее, получить нагоняй

    to get the bit between one's teeth — закусить удила, не знать удержу

    to get one's hand in smth. — набить руку в чём-л., освоиться с чем-л.

    to get one's breath — перевести дыхание; прийти в себя

    to get under way — сдвинуться с места; отправиться

    to get a head — захмелеть, иметь тяжелую голову с похмелья

    to get in wrong with smb. — попасть в немилость к кому-л.

    to get one's own way — добиться своего, настоять на своём, поступать по-своему

    to get rid of smth. / smb — избавиться от чего-л. / кого-л.

    to get back to the grindstone — разг. возвращаться к работе (без особого желания)

    to get hold of smth. — суметь схватить что-л.; суметь достать, приобрести

    to get hold of smb. — разг. застать, перехватить кого-л.

    to get to close quarters — воен. сблизиться, подойти на близкую дистанцию; сцепиться ( в споре); столкнуться лицом к лицу

    Get along with you! — Иди ты! Проваливай! Убирайся!; Так я тебе и поверил! Не болтай ерунды!

    to get smth. under control — установить контроль над чем-л.

    - get left
    - get lost
    - get even
    - get home
    - get oneself together
    - get a bit on
    - get leg in
    - get smth. all wrong
    - get smth. wrong
    - get the upper hand     2. сущ.
    приплод, потомство ( у животных)

    Англо-русский современный словарь > get

  • 7 Roberts, Richard

    [br]
    b. 22 April 1789 Carreghova, Llanymynech, Montgomeryshire, Wales
    d. 11 March 1864 London, England
    [br]
    Welsh mechanical engineer and inventor.
    [br]
    Richard Roberts was the son of a shoemaker and tollkeeper and received only an elementary education at the village school. At the age of 10 his interest in mechanics was stimulated when he was allowed by the Curate, the Revd Griffith Howell, to use his lathe and other tools. As a young man Roberts acquired a considerable local reputation for his mechanical skills, but these were exercised only in his spare time. For many years he worked in the local limestone quarries, until at the age of 20 he obtained employment as a pattern-maker in Staffordshire. In the next few years he worked as a mechanic in Liverpool, Manchester and Salford before moving in 1814 to London, where he obtained employment with Henry Maudslay. In 1816 he set up on his own account in Manchester. He soon established a reputation there for gear-cutting and other general engineering work, especially for the textile industry, and by 1821 he was employing about twelve men. He built machine tools mainly for his own use, including, in 1817, one of the first planing machines.
    One of his first inventions was a gas meter, but his first patent was obtained in 1822 for improvements in looms. His most important contribution to textile technology was his invention of the self-acting spinning mule, patented in 1825. The normal fourteen-year term of this patent was extended in 1839 by a further seven years. Between 1826 and 1828 Roberts paid several visits to Alsace, France, arranging cottonspinning machinery for a new factory at Mulhouse. By 1826 he had become a partner in the firm of Sharp Brothers, the company then becoming Sharp, Roberts \& Co. The firm continued to build textile machinery, and in the 1830s it built locomotive engines for the newly created railways and made one experimental steam-carriage for use on roads. The partnership was dissolved in 1843, the Sharps establishing a new works to continue locomotive building while Roberts retained the existing factory, known as the Globe Works, where he soon after took as partners R.G.Dobinson and Benjamin Fothergill (1802–79). This partnership was dissolved c. 1851, and Roberts continued in business on his own for a few years before moving to London as a consulting engineer.
    During the 1840s and 1850s Roberts produced many new inventions in a variety of fields, including machine tools, clocks and watches, textile machinery, pumps and ships. One of these was a machine controlled by a punched-card system similar to the Jacquard loom for punching rivet holes in plates. This was used in the construction of the Conway and Menai Straits tubular bridges. Roberts was granted twenty-six patents, many of which, before the Patent Law Amendment Act of 1852, covered more than one invention; there were still other inventions he did not patent. He made his contribution to the discussion which led up to the 1852 Act by publishing, in 1830 and 1833, pamphlets suggesting reform of the Patent Law.
    In the early 1820s Roberts helped to establish the Manchester Mechanics' Institute, and in 1823 he was elected a member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. He frequently contributed to their proceedings and in 1861 he was made an Honorary Member. He was elected a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1838. From 1838 to 1843 he served as a councillor of the then-new Municipal Borough of Manchester. In his final years, without the assistance of business partners, Roberts suffered financial difficulties, and at the time of his death a fund for his aid was being raised.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member, Institution of Civil Engineers 1838.
    Further Reading
    There is no full-length biography of Richard Roberts but the best account is H.W.Dickinson, 1945–7, "Richard Roberts, his life and inventions", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 25:123–37.
    W.H.Chaloner, 1968–9, "New light on Richard Roberts, textile engineer (1789–1864)", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 41:27–44.
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Roberts, Richard

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