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  • 1 free

    [friː] 1. прил.
    1)
    а) свободный, вольный, независимый

    to make / set / turn free — освобождать

    to make free use of smth. — пользоваться чем-л. без ограничений; широко пользоваться чем-л.

    Delicate Ariel, I'll set thee free for this. (W. Shakespeare, The Tempest) — Любезный Ариэль, за это я тебе дарую свободу.

    б) свободный, находящийся на свободе

    free animal — животное, находящееся на свободе

    в) свободный, незанятый

    A fortnight hence I shall be free as air. — Через две недели я буду свободен как ветер.

    Syn:
    г) свободный, не стеснённый правилами, обычаями; непринуждённый
    - be free with one's money
    - in a free and easy manner
    д) свободный для доступа, открытый, доступный

    free access — свободный доступ, открытый доступ

    Syn:
    •
    Syn:
    2) добровольный, без принуждения
    3) бесплатный, даровой, освобождённый от оплаты
    - free imports
    - free port
    Syn:
    4) свободный, незакреплённый, неприкреплённый (о верёвке и т. п.)
    5) свободный от чего-л., не имеющий чего-л., лишённый чего-л.

    free of debt — не имеющий долгов, задолженности

    6) лингв. неприкрытый ( о гласной или слоге)
    7) физ.; хим. свободный (об электроне, радикале и т. п.)
    Syn:
    8) без сучков (о древесине, лесе)
    9) грациозный, лёгкий
    •
    - free hand
    - free throw
    - get free
    Gram:
    [ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]free[/ref]
    ••

    to make free with smb. — позволять себе вольности, бесцеремонность по отношению к кому-л.

    It's a free country. — Это свободная страна. (подразумевается, что в действиях говорящего нет ничего, чтобы запрещалось законом)

    2. нареч.
    1) свободно; непринуждённо

    to run free — бегать на свободе прям. и перен.

    2) = free of charge бесплатно
    Syn:
    3) мор. с отпущенными булинями и свободно висящими (ненатянутыми) парусами
    3. гл.
    1)

    Someone has freed the rats from their cages. — Кто-то выпустил крыс из клеток.

    Then he freed one of these four slaves. — Тогда он даровал свободу одному из четырёх рабов.

    The United Nations are trying to free the world from the threat of war. — ООН пытается освободить мир от опасности войны.

    Syn:

    From all these inconveniences we are entirely freed. — Мы полностью освобождены от всех этих неудобств.

    Syn:
    в) освобождать, высвобождать; отсоединять, отвязывать
    Syn:
    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > free

  • 2 clear

    1. adjective
    1) klar; rein [Haut, Teint]
    2) (distinct) scharf [Bild, Foto, Umriss]; deutlich [Abbild]; klar [Ton]; klar verständlich [Wort]
    3) (obvious, unambiguous) klar [Aussage, Vorteil, Vorsprung, Mehrheit, Sieg, Fall]

    make oneself clear — sich deutlich od. klar [genug] ausdrücken

    make it clear [to somebody] that... — [jemandem] klar und deutlich sagen, dass...

    4) (free) frei; (Horse-riding) fehlerfrei [Runde]

    be clear of suspicion — nicht unter Verdacht stehen

    we're in the clear — (free of suspicion) auf uns fällt kein Verdacht; (free of trouble) wir haben es geschafft

    three clear days/lines — drei volle od. volle drei Tage/Zeilen

    6) (open, unobstructed) frei

    keep something clear — (not block) etwas frei halten

    all clear — (one will not be detected) die Luft ist rein (ugs.); see also academic.ru/94374/all-clear">all-clear

    the way is [now] clear [for somebody] to do something — (fig.) es steht [jemandem] nichts [mehr] im Wege, etwas zu tun

    7) (discerning) klar

    keep a clear head — einen klaren od. kühlen Kopf bewahren

    be clear [on or about something] — sich (Dat.) [über etwas (Akk.)] im klaren sein

    2. adverb

    keep clear of something/somebody — etwas/jemanden meiden

    ‘keep clear’ — (don't approach) "Vorsicht [Zug usw.]"

    please stand or keep clear of the door — bitte von der Tür zurücktreten

    the driver was pulled clear of the wreckage — man zog den Fahrer aus dem Wrack seines Wagens

    3. transitive verb
    1) (make clear) klären [Flüssigkeit]

    clear the air — lüften; (fig.) die Atmosphäre reinigen

    2) (free from obstruction) räumen [Straße]; abräumen [Regal, Schreibtisch]; freimachen [Abfluss, Kanal]

    clear the streets of snow — den Schnee von den Straßen räumen

    clear a space for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas Platz machen

    clear one's throat — sich räuspern; see also deck 1. 1); way 1. 6)

    3) (make empty) räumen; leeren [Briefkasten]
    4) (remove) wegräumen; beheben [Verstopfung]
    5) (pass over without touching) nehmen [Hindernis]; überspringen [Latte]
    6) (show to be innocent) freisprechen

    clear oneself — seine Unschuld beweisen

    7) (declare fit to have secret information) für unbedenklich erklären
    8) (get permission for)

    clear something with somebody — etwas von jemandem genehmigen lassen; (give permission for)

    clear a plane for take-off/landing — einem Flugzeug Start-/Landeerlaubnis erteilen

    9) (at customs)
    10) (pay off) begleichen [Schuld]
    4. intransitive verb
    1) (become clear) klar werden; sich klären; [Wetter, Himmel:] sich aufheitern; (fig.) [Gesicht:] sich aufhellen
    2) (disperse) [Nebel:] sich verziehen
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [kliə] 1. adjective
    1) (easy to see through; transparent: clear glass.) klar
    2) (free from mist or cloud: Isn't the sky clear!) klar
    3) (easy to see, hear or understand: a clear explanation; The details on that photograph are very clear.) deutlich
    4) (free from difficulty or obstacles: a clear road ahead.) frei
    5) (free from guilt etc: a clear conscience.) rein
    6) (free from doubt etc: Are you quite clear about what I mean?) sicher
    7) ((often with of) without (risk of) being touched, caught etc: Is the ship clear of the rocks? clear of danger.) frei
    8) ((often with of) free: clear of debt; clear of all infection.) frei
    2. verb
    1) (to make or become free from obstacles etc: He cleared the table; I cleared my throat; He cleared the path of debris.) reinigen
    2) ((often with of) to prove the innocence of; to declare to be innocent: He was cleared of all charges.) freisprechen
    3) ((of the sky etc) to become bright, free from cloud etc.) sich aufklären
    4) (to get over or past something without touching it: He cleared the jump easily.) knapp vorbeikommen
    •
    - clearance
    - clearing
    - clearly
    - clearness
    - clear-cut
    - clearway
    - clear off
    - clear out
    - clear up
    - in the clear
    * * *
    [klɪəʳ, AM klɪr]
    1. (understandable) definition, description, message klar; explanation, description also verständlich; (definite) impression, similarity eindeutig; (distinct) statement, stage klar, deutlich; signs deutlich
    he wasn't very \clear er hat sich nicht sonderlich klar ausgedrückt
    \clear instructions klare Anweisungen
    to have \clear memories of sth ( fig) sich akk deutlich an etw akk erinnern können
    a \clear picture ein scharfes Bild
    to have a \clear perception of sth klare Vorstellungen von etw dat haben
    to have a \clear understanding of sth ein klares Verständnis einer Sache haben
    to make oneself \clear sich akk deutlich [o klar] ausdrücken
    as \clear as a bell glockenhell, glockenrein
    [as] \clear as day eindeutig, unmissverständlich
    2. (obvious) klar, sicher
    is that \clear? ist das klar?
    it's \clear [to me] that... es ist [mir] klar, dass...
    they have made it \clear that... sie haben es unmissverständlich klargemacht, dass...
    Richard isn't at all \clear about what... Richard ist sich nicht im Mindesten darüber im Klaren, was...
    it's not \clear whether... es ist nicht klar, ob...
    he's a \clear favourite er ist ein klarer Favorit
    he's got a \clear lead er führt eindeutig
    a \clear case of... ein klarer Fall von...
    a \clear majority eine klare Mehrheit
    ▪ to be \clear that... sich dat sicher sein, dass...
    ▪ to be \clear about sth sich dat über etw akk im Klaren sein
    to get \clear about sth sich dat über etw akk klarwerden
    to make one's position \clear seine Haltung deutlich machen
    to make oneself \clear [to sb] sich akk [jdm] verständlich machen
    to make sth \clear [to sb] etw [jdm gegenüber] klar zum Ausdruck bringen
    do I make myself \clear? habe ich mich klar ausgedrückt?
    as \clear as day sonnenklar
    3. usu attr (unconfused) klar
    to keep a \clear head einen klaren Kopf bewahren
    a \clear thinker jd, der klar denken kann
    ▪ to be \clear of sth:
    she's \clear of all suspicion sie ist frei von jeglichem Verdacht; (guilt-free)
    to have a \clear conscience ein reines Gewissen haben
    5. (unobstructed) passage, path frei; throat unbelegt; (complete) ganz, voll; ( fig)
    could you see your way \clear to lending me some money? könntest du mir eventuell etwas Geld leihen?
    a \clear view ein freier Blick, eine ungehinderte Aussicht
    6. (transparent) glass durchsichtig; water, soup klar
    as \clear as crystal kristallklar
    that's as \clear as mud da blickt man gar nicht durch
    7. (pure)
    \clear complexion/skin reiner Teint/reine Haut
    a \clear sound ein klarer Ton
    8. (bright, shining) of colours, eyes leuchtend
    9. (of weather, atmosphere) sky, day, night, air klar
    \clear weather heiteres Wetter
    10. inv (net) rein, netto
    a \clear profit ein Reingewinn m
    \clear jump fehlerfreier Sprung
    12. inv (away from)
    the gate must be \clear of the ground das Tor darf den Boden nicht berühren
    ... one wheel \clear of the ground... ein Rad ragte in die Luft
    wait till we're \clear of the main road... warte, bis wir die Hauptstraße verlassen haben
    to keep [or stay] [or steer] \clear of sb/sth sich akk von jdm/etw fernhalten
    13.
    ▶ all \clear die Luft ist rein
    ▶ the coast is \clear die Luft ist rein fam
    ▶ out of a \clear sky aus heiterem Himmel
    II. NOUN
    ▪ to be in the \clear außer Verdacht sein
    III. ADVERB
    he jumped two centimetres \clear of the bar er sprang mit einem Abstand von zwei Zentimetern über die Leiste
    please move \clear of the edge of the platform bitte von der Bahnsteigkante zurücktreten
    make sure you park \clear of the kerb pass auf, dass du nicht zu nah am Randstein parkst
    stand \clear of the doors (in underground) bitte zurückbleiben; (at train station) Türe schließen selbsttätig — Vorsicht bei der Abfahrt
    to steer \clear of sth NAUT um etw herumsteuern
    to steer \clear of sb jdn meiden
    to steer \clear of a place um etw einen großen Bogen machen
    to stand \clear [of sth] (by moving to the side) zur Seite gehen; (by moving back) zurückbleiben; (remain in a distance) von etw dat entfernt bleiben
    to be thrown \clear of sth aus etw dat herausgeschleudert werden
    to get \clear of sth etw hinter sich dat lassen
    to be \clear of sth etw hinter sich dat gelassen haben
    to see \clear klar sehen
    loud and \clear klar und deutlich
    they got \clear away sie haben sich aus dem Staub gemacht
    ▪ to \clear sth etw klären
    2. (remove confusion)
    to \clear one's head einen klaren Kopf bekommen
    ▪ to \clear sth etw beseitigen; land, snow etw räumen
    to \clear the road die Straße frei machen [o räumen]
    ▪ to \clear sth from [or off] sth etw von etw dat wegräumen
    to \clear one's throat sich akk räuspern
    to \clear the way for sb to do sth es jdm ermöglichen, etw zu tun
    4. (remove blemish)
    ▪ to \clear sth etw reinigen
    to \clear the air (remove dirt) die Luft reinigen; (remove bad feeling) die Atmosphäre reinigen
    ▪ to \clear sth (of things) etw ausräumen
    they \cleared the building in 3 minutes sie räumten das Gebäude in 3 Minuten
    to \clear the table den Tisch abräumen
    6. (acquit)
    to \clear sb of charges LAW jdn freisprechen
    to \clear sb of a crime LAW jdn eines Verbrechens freisprechen
    to \clear sb's name jds Namen reinwaschen
    7. (complete work)
    ▪ to \clear sth etw erledigen
    8. FIN
    Bill \clears $200 a week Bill macht 200 Dollar die Woche fam
    to \clear a cheque einen Scheck freigeben, bestätigen, dass ein Scheck gedeckt ist
    to \clear one's debts seine Schulden begleichen
    to \clear a certain sum eine bestimmte Summe freigeben geh
    ▪ to \clear sth über etw akk springen
    10. (approve)
    you'll have to \clear that with the boss das müssen Sie mit dem Chef klären
    11. (give official permission)
    ▪ to \clear sth etw genehmigen
    to \clear a plane for take-off ein Flugzeug zum Start freigeben
    ▪ to \clear sth with sb etw mit jdm abklären
    ▪ to \clear sb to do sth jdm genehmigen, etw zu tun
    to \clear customs Zollformalitäten erledigen
    12. (in football)
    to \clear the ball klären
    to \clear the ball with one's head mit einem Kopfball klären
    13.
    ▶ to \clear the decks ( fam) klar Schiff machen fam
    1. (delete) löschen
    2. (become transparent) sich akk klären
    3. (become free of blemish) sich akk reinigen
    4. (weather) sich akk [auf]klären
    it's \clearing up es klart auf, es wird klar; fog, smoke sich akk auflösen; (go, disappear)
    ▪ to \clear [away] verschwinden
    5. FIN einen Scheck freigeben
    * * *
    clear [klıə(r)]
    A adj (adv → clearly)
    1. klar, hell (Augen, Licht, Tag etc):
    (as) clear as mud umg klar wie Kloßbrühe
    2. a) klar, durchsichtig, rein: → crystal A 1, varnish A 2
    b) deutlich, scharf (Foto, Konturen etc)
    3. klar, heiter (Himmel, Wetter): → sky A 1
    4. rein, flecken-, makellos (Haut etc)
    5. klar, rein, hell (Stimme): → bell1 A 1
    6. fig klar, hell, scharf:
    a clear head ein klarer oder heller Kopf
    7. klar, unvermischt:
    clear soup GASTR klare Suppe
    8. Funk etc: unverschlüsselt:
    clear text → C 1
    9. übersichtlich, klar (Design etc)
    10. klar, verständlich, deutlich:
    make sth clear (to sb) (jemandem) etwas klarmachen oder verständlich machen;
    make it clear that … klipp und klar sagen, dass …;
    make o.s. clear sich deutlich oder klar (genug) ausdrücken
    11. klar, offensichtlich:
    a clear victory SPORT etc ein klarer Sieg;
    gain a clear win over SPORT etc jemanden klar schlagen;
    have a clear lead SPORT etc klar in Führung liegen;
    be clear about sich im Klaren sein über (akk);
    for no clear reason ohne ersichtlichen Grund
    12. klar:
    a) sicher
    b) in Ordnung:
    all clear alles klar; die Luft ist rein umg
    13. frei (of von), unbehindert, offen:
    clear road freie Straße;
    clear of snow schneefrei;
    put sb clear SPORT jemanden freispielen; → coast A 1
    14. (of) frei (von Schulden etc), unbelastet (von):
    clear of debt schuldenfrei;
    clear title einwandfreier Rechtstitel;
    a clear conscience ein reines Gewissen
    15. WIRTSCH netto, Netto…, Rein…:
    clear gain ( oder profit) Reingewinn m;
    clear loss Nettoverlust m, reiner Verlust
    16. glatt, voll, ganz:
    a clear 10 minutes volle 10 Minuten
    17. TECH licht (Höhe etc)
    B adv
    1. hell, klar
    2. klar, deutlich:
    3. umg völlig, ganz, glatt:
    jump clear over the fence glatt über den Zaun springen
    4. frei, los, weg ( alle:
    of von):
    keep clear of sich fernhalten von, meiden (akk);
    be clear of sth etwas los sein;
    get clear of loskommen von;
    finish well clear of SPORT etc mit klarem oder deutlichem Vorsprung gewinnen vor (dat);
    jump clear wegspringen, sich durch einen Sprung retten;
    see one’s way clear freie Bahn haben; → stand B 6, steer1 B 1
    5. go clear (Springreiten) fehlerfrei oder ohne Abwurf bleiben
    C s
    1. freier Raum:
    a) frei, SPORT frei stehend,
    b) fig aus der Sache heraus, besonders vom Verdacht gereinigt
    2. Funk etc: Klartext m:
    in the clear im Klartext
    D v/t
    1. oft clear away wegräumen, -schaffen ( beide:
    from von), das Geschirr abräumen:
    he cleared the thoughts from his mind er verscheuchte die Gedanken
    2. eine Straße etc frei machen, einen Saal etc, WIRTSCH auch ein (Waren)Lager räumen: → head Bes Redew
    3. den Tisch abräumen, abdecken: → table A 2
    4. Land, einen Wald roden
    5. reinigen, säubern:
    clear one’s throat sich räuspern; → air1 A 1, atmosphere 5
    6. leeren, entladen
    7. Schulden tilgen, bezahlen, bereinigen
    8. von Schulden befreien
    9. WIRTSCH
    a) einen Scheck einlösen
    b) einen Scheck etc durch ein Clearinghaus verrechnen lassen
    c) als Reingewinn erzielen
    10. frei-, lossprechen:
    clear o.s. (sb) of a crime sich (jemanden) vom Verdacht eines Verbrechens reinigen;
    clear one’s conscience sein Gewissen entlasten;
    clear one’s name seinen Namen reinwaschen
    11. → clear up A 2
    12. allg abfertigen, besonders SCHIFF
    a) Waren deklarieren, verzollen
    b) das Schiff ausklarieren
    c) aus dem Hafen auslaufen
    d) die Ladung löschen
    e) von der Küste freikommen:
    clear the decks (for action) das Schiff gefechtsklar machen, fig sich bereit oder fertig machen
    13. a) ein Hindernis (glatt) nehmen, über eine Hecke etc setzen: → hurdle A 1
    b) SPORT die Latte, eine Höhe überspringen
    14. (knapp oder heil) vorbeikommen an (dat):
    15. clear the ball SPORT klären
    E v/i
    1. sich klären (Wein etc), klar oder hell werden
    2. aufklaren, sich aufhellen (Wetter)
    3. oft clear away sich verziehen (Nebel etc)
    4. WIRTSCH, SCHIFF
    a) die Zollformalitäten erledigen
    b) ausklarieren, den Hafen nach Erledigung der Zollformalitäten verlassen
    5. Fußball etc: klären ( for a corner zur Ecke)
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) klar; rein [Haut, Teint]
    2) (distinct) scharf [Bild, Foto, Umriss]; deutlich [Abbild]; klar [Ton]; klar verständlich [Wort]
    3) (obvious, unambiguous) klar [Aussage, Vorteil, Vorsprung, Mehrheit, Sieg, Fall]

    make oneself clear — sich deutlich od. klar [genug] ausdrücken

    make it clear [to somebody] that... — [jemandem] klar und deutlich sagen, dass...

    4) (free) frei; (Horse-riding) fehlerfrei [Runde]

    we're in the clear — (free of suspicion) auf uns fällt kein Verdacht; (free of trouble) wir haben es geschafft

    three clear days/lines — drei volle od. volle drei Tage/Zeilen

    6) (open, unobstructed) frei

    keep something clear — (not block) etwas frei halten

    all clear — (one will not be detected) die Luft ist rein (ugs.); see also all-clear

    the way is [now] clear [for somebody] to do something — (fig.) es steht [jemandem] nichts [mehr] im Wege, etwas zu tun

    7) (discerning) klar

    keep a clear head — einen klaren od. kühlen Kopf bewahren

    8) (certain, confident)

    be clear [on or about something] — sich (Dat.) [über etwas (Akk.)] im klaren sein

    2. adverb

    keep clear of something/somebody — etwas/jemanden meiden

    ‘keep clear’ — (don't approach) "Vorsicht [Zug usw.]"

    please stand or keep clear of the door — bitte von der Tür zurücktreten

    3. transitive verb
    1) (make clear) klären [Flüssigkeit]

    clear the air — lüften; (fig.) die Atmosphäre reinigen

    2) (free from obstruction) räumen [Straße]; abräumen [Regal, Schreibtisch]; freimachen [Abfluss, Kanal]

    clear a space for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas Platz machen

    clear one's throat — sich räuspern; see also deck 1. 1); way 1. 6)

    3) (make empty) räumen; leeren [Briefkasten]
    4) (remove) wegräumen; beheben [Verstopfung]
    5) (pass over without touching) nehmen [Hindernis]; überspringen [Latte]
    6) (show to be innocent) freisprechen
    7) (declare fit to have secret information) für unbedenklich erklären

    clear something with somebody — etwas von jemandem genehmigen lassen; (give permission for)

    clear a plane for take-off/landing — einem Flugzeug Start-/Landeerlaubnis erteilen

    10) (pay off) begleichen [Schuld]
    4. intransitive verb
    1) (become clear) klar werden; sich klären; [Wetter, Himmel:] sich aufheitern; (fig.) [Gesicht:] sich aufhellen
    2) (disperse) [Nebel:] sich verziehen
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    adj.
    deutlich adj.
    eindeutig adj.
    frei adj.
    heiter adj.
    hell adj.
    klar adj.
    übersichtlich (Kurve) adj.
    übersichtlich (klar dargestellt) adj. v.
    aufhellen v.
    aufräumen v.
    klären v.
    löschen v.
    reinigen v.
    roden (Land) v.
    räumen v.

    English-german dictionary > clear

  • 3 spring

    spriŋ
    1. past tense - sprang; verb
    1) (to jump, leap or move swiftly (usually upwards): She sprang into the boat.)
    2) (to arise or result from: His bravery springs from his love of adventure.)
    3) (to (cause a trap to) close violently: The trap must have sprung when the hare stepped in it.)

    2. noun
    1) (a coil of wire or other similar device which can be compressed or squeezed down but returns to its original shape when released: a watch-spring; the springs in a chair.)
    2) (the season of the year between winter and summer when plants begin to flower or grow leaves: Spring is my favourite season.)
    3) (a leap or sudden movement: The lion made a sudden spring on its prey.)
    4) (the ability to stretch and spring back again: There's not a lot of spring in this old trampoline.)
    5) (a small stream flowing out from the ground.)
    •
    - springiness
    - sprung
    - springboard
    - spring cleaning
    - springtime
    - spring up
    spring1 n
    1. primavera
    2. muelle
    3. manantial
    spring2 vb saltar
    tr[sprɪŋ]
    1 (season) primavera
    3 (of mattress, seat) muelle nombre masculino; (of watch, lock, etc) resorte nombre masculino; (of car) ballesta
    4 (elasticity) elasticidad nombre femenino; (active, healthy quality) energía, brío
    5 (leap, jump) salto, brinco
    intransitive verb (pt sprang tr[spræŋ], pp sprung tr[sprʌŋ])
    1 (jump) saltar
    2 (appear) aparecer (de repente)
    ■ where did you spring from? ¿de dónde has salido?
    2 figurative use (news, surprise) espetar (on, a), soltar
    3 familiar (help escape, set free) soltar
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    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to spring a leak (empezar a) hacer agua
    to spring forth brotar, surgir
    to spring open abrirse de (un) golpe
    to spring (in)to life (engine) ponerse en marcha 2 (person, animal) animarse
    spring fever fiebre nombre femenino de primavera
    spring onion cebolleta
    spring roll rollito de primavera
    spring tide marea viva
    spring ['sprɪŋ] v, sprang ['spræŋ] or sprung ['sprʌŋ] ; sprung ; springing vi
    1) leap: saltar
    2) : mover rápidamente
    the lid sprang shut: la tapa se cerró de un golpe
    he sprang to his feet: se paró de un salto
    3)
    to spring up : brotar (dícese de las plantas), surgir
    4)
    to spring from : surgir de
    spring vt
    1) release: soltar (de repente)
    to spring the news on someone: sorprender a alguien con las noticias
    to spring a trap: hacer saltar una trampa
    2) activate: accionar (un mecanismo)
    3)
    to spring a leak : hacer agua
    1) source: fuente f, origen m
    2) : manantial m, fuente f
    hot spring: fuente termal
    3) : primavera f
    spring and summer: la primavera y el verano
    4) : resorte m, muelle m (de metal, etc.)
    5) leap: salto m, brinco m
    6) resilience: elasticidad f
    adj.
    • primaveral adj.
    • vernal adj.
    n.
    • ballesta s.f.
    • fontanar s.m.
    • fuente s.f.
    • manantial s.m.
    • muelle s.m.
    • primavera s.f.
    • resorte s.m.
    • salto (Deporte) s.m.
    • venero s.m.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: sprang) or p.p.: sprung•) = brincar v.
    • brotar v.
    • dimanar v.
    • proceder v.
    • salir v.
    (§pres: salgo, sales...) fut/c: saldr-•)
    • saltar v.

    I
    1. sprɪŋ
    (past sprang or esp AmE sprung; past p sprung) intransitive verb
    1)
    a) ( leap) saltar

    to spring to one's feet — levantarse or ponerse* de pie de un salto or como movido por un resorte

    to spring to attention — ponerse* firme

    b) ( pounce)

    the tiger was poised to spring — el tigre estaba agazapado, listo para atacar

    to spring AT somebody/something: the dog sprang at his throat — el perro se le tiró al cuello

    2)
    a) (liter) \<\<stream\>\> surgir*, nacer*; \<\<shoots\>\> brotar

    where did you spring from? — (colloq) ¿y tú de dónde has salido?

    b)

    to spring FROM something — \<\<ideas/doubts\>\> surgir* de algo; \<\<problem\>\> provenir* de algo


    2.
    vt

    to spring something ON somebody: he sprang a surprise on them — les dio una sorpresa

    b)

    to spring a leak — empezar* a hacer agua

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) u c ( season) primavera f

    in (the) spring — en primavera; (before n) <weather, showers> primaveral

    2) c ( Geog) manantial m, fuente f
    3) c ( jump) salto m, brinco m
    4)
    a) c (in watch, toy) resorte m; ( in mattress) muelle m, resorte m (AmL)
    b) ( elasticity) (no pl) elasticidad f
    [sprɪŋ] (vb: pt sprang) (pp sprung)
    1. N
    1) (also: Spring) (=season) primavera f

    in early/late spring — a principios/a finales de la primavera

    2) (in watch) muelle m, resorte m ; (in mattress, sofa) muelle m
    springs (Aut) ballestas fpl
    3) [of water] fuente f, manantial m

    hot springs — fuentes fpl termales

    4) (=leap) salto m, brinco m

    in one spring — de un salto or brinco

    5) (=elasticity) elasticidad f
    6) liter (usu pl) (=origin, source) origen m
    2. VT
    1) (=present suddenly)

    • to spring a leak — [boat] empezar a hacer agua

    2) (=release) [+ trap] hacer saltar; [+ lock] soltar
    3) (=leap over) saltar, saltar por encima de
    3. VI
    1) (=leap) saltar

    • to spring at sb — abalanzarse sobre algn

    the cat sprang at my face — el gato se me tiró or se me abalanzó a la cara

    • to spring back — [person, animal] saltar para atrás

    • where did you spring from? * — ¿de dónde diablos has salido? *

    • to spring into action — entrar en acción

    • the cat sprang onto the roof — el gato dio un salto y se puso en el tejado

    • to spring open — abrirse de golpe

    • her name sprang out at me from the page — al mirar la página su nombre me saltó a la vista

    • to spring out of bed — saltar de la cama

    • she sprang over the fence — saltó por encima de la valla

    • to spring shut — cerrarse de golpe

    • to spring to sb's aid or help — correr a ayudar a algn

    a number of examples spring to mind — se me vienen a la mente or se me ocurren varios ejemplos

    2) (=originate) [stream] brotar, nacer; [river] nacer; [buds, shoots] brotar

    • to spring from sth: the idea sprang from a TV programme he saw — la idea surgió de un programa de televisión que vio

    3) liter (=be born) [person] nacer

    • to spring into existence — surgir de la noche a la mañana, aparecer repentinamente

    4.
    CPD [flowers, rain, sunshine, weather] primaveral, de primavera

    spring balance N — peso m de muelle

    spring binder N — (=file) carpeta f de muelles

    spring bolt N — pestillo m de golpe

    spring break N — (US) (Educ) vacaciones fpl de Semana Santa

    spring equinox N — equinoccio m de primavera, equinoccio m primaveral

    spring fever N — fiebre f primaveral

    spring greens NPL — (Brit) verduras fpl de primavera

    spring gun N — trampa f de alambre y escopeta

    spring mattress N — colchón m de muelles, somier m

    spring onion N — cebolleta f, cebollino m

    spring roll N — rollito m de primavera

    spring tide N — marea f viva

    spring water N — agua f de manantial

    * * *

    I
    1. [sprɪŋ]
    (past sprang or esp AmE sprung; past p sprung) intransitive verb
    1)
    a) ( leap) saltar

    to spring to one's feet — levantarse or ponerse* de pie de un salto or como movido por un resorte

    to spring to attention — ponerse* firme

    b) ( pounce)

    the tiger was poised to spring — el tigre estaba agazapado, listo para atacar

    to spring AT somebody/something: the dog sprang at his throat — el perro se le tiró al cuello

    2)
    a) (liter) \<\<stream\>\> surgir*, nacer*; \<\<shoots\>\> brotar

    where did you spring from? — (colloq) ¿y tú de dónde has salido?

    b)

    to spring FROM something — \<\<ideas/doubts\>\> surgir* de algo; \<\<problem\>\> provenir* de algo


    2.
    vt

    to spring something ON somebody: he sprang a surprise on them — les dio una sorpresa

    b)

    to spring a leak — empezar* a hacer agua

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) u c ( season) primavera f

    in (the) spring — en primavera; (before n) <weather, showers> primaveral

    2) c ( Geog) manantial m, fuente f
    3) c ( jump) salto m, brinco m
    4)
    a) c (in watch, toy) resorte m; ( in mattress) muelle m, resorte m (AmL)
    b) ( elasticity) (no pl) elasticidad f

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  • 4 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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  • 5 rid

    rid
    present participle - ridding; verb
    ((with of); to free (someone etc) from: We must try to rid the town of rats.) librar
    - get rid of
    - good riddance
    rid vb eliminar
    to get rid of something deshacerse de algo / librarse de algo
    tr[rɪd]
    transitive verb (pt & pp rid o ridded, ger ridding)
    1 librar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to get rid of deshacerse de, desembarazarse de
    rid ['rɪd] vt, rid ; ridding
    1) free: librar
    to rid the city of thieves: librar la ciudad de ladrones
    2)
    to rid oneself of : desembarazarse de
    pret., p.p.
    (Preterito definido y participio pasivo de "to rid")
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: rid) = desembarazar v.
    • librar v.
    rɪd
    transitive verb (pres p ridding; past & past p rid)

    he rid them of their fears/doubts — (frml) disipó su miedo/sus dudas

    to get rid of something/somebody — ( of unwanted object) deshacerse* de; ( sell) deshacerse* de, vender; (of boring person, cold) quitarse de encima; \<\<smell\>\> eliminar (frml), quitar; ( kill) eliminar

    to be rid of something/somebody: I'm glad to be rid of the responsibility me alegro de haberme librado de or quitado de encima esa responsabilidad; you're well rid of him — estás mejor sin él

    [rɪd]
    (pt, pp rid, ridded) VT

    • to be rid of sth/sb: she was glad to be rid of him — estaba contenta de haberse librado de él, estaba contenta de habérselo quitado de encima *

    will I never be rid of these debts? — ¿me libraré alguna vez de estas deudas?, ¿me quitaré algún día estas deudas de encima? *

    • to get rid of — [+ unwanted item] deshacerse de; [+ habit] quitarse; [+ rats, smell, waste, corruption] eliminar; (=sell) vender, deshacerse de

    to get rid of sb — librarse de algn; [+ tedious person] quitarse a algn de encima *; euph (=kill) deshacerse de algn, eliminar a algn

    you won't get rid of me that easily — no te librarás or desharás de mí tan fácilmente

    • to rid o.s. of sth/sb, I couldn't rid myself of the feeling that I was being watched — no me podía librar de la sensación de que alguien me estaba vigilando

    • to rid sth/sb of sth, I couldn't rid my mind of these thoughts — no podía quitarme estos pensamientos de la cabeza

    we want to rid the world of this disease — queremos erradicar esta enfermedad en el mundo, queremos librar a la humanidad de esta enfermedad

    * * *
    [rɪd]
    transitive verb (pres p ridding; past & past p rid)

    he rid them of their fears/doubts — (frml) disipó su miedo/sus dudas

    to get rid of something/somebody — ( of unwanted object) deshacerse* de; ( sell) deshacerse* de, vender; (of boring person, cold) quitarse de encima; \<\<smell\>\> eliminar (frml), quitar; ( kill) eliminar

    to be rid of something/somebody: I'm glad to be rid of the responsibility me alegro de haberme librado de or quitado de encima esa responsabilidad; you're well rid of him — estás mejor sin él

    English-spanish dictionary > rid

  • 6 set

    1. I
    1) the sun is setting солнце садится /заходит/
    2) his power has begun to set его могущество /власть/ слабеет; his star has set его звезда закатилась; his glory has set его слава померкла
    3) cement has set цемент схватился /затвердел/; the glue did not set клей не засох; the jelly has set желе застыло; blood (the white of the egg, etc.) set кровь и т.д. свернулась; the milk set молоко свернулось /створожилось/; all his muscles set все его мускулы напряглись; his face set его лицо-окаменело /застыло/
    4) young trees set молодые деревца принялись; the blossoms were abundant but they failed to set цветение было бурным, но плоды не завязались
    2. II
    1) set at some time the sun sets early (late, etc.) солнце заходит рано и т.д.; set in some manner the sun sets slowly солнце медленно садится
    3) set at some time the jelly hasn't set yet желе еще не застыло; set in some manner cement (mortar, glue, etc.) sets quickly цемент и т.д. быстро застывает /схватывается/; her hair sets easily ее волосы легко укладывать, у нее послушные волосы; his lips set stubbornly его губы упрямо сжались; his teeth set stubbornly он упрямо стиснул зубы
    3. III
    1) set smth. set a broken bone (dislocated joints, etc.) вправить кость и т.д.; set one's hair укладывать волосы; set the table накрывать на стол; set the stage расставлять декорации; set the scene подготовить обстановку; set the sails а) ставить паруса; б) отправляться в плавание; set a piano настраивать пианино; set a palette подготавливать палитру; set a razor править бритву; set a saw разводить пилу; set a clock (the hands of the watch, the alarm-clock) поставить часы; set the focus of a microscope настроить микроскоп; set a map ориентировать карту
    2) set smb., smth. set guards /sentries, watches/ расставлять часовых /караульных и т.п./; set the guard (the pickets) выставлять караул (пикеты)
    3) set smth. set the wedding day (the time, a date, a price, etc.) назначать день свадьбы и т.д.; set a fine устанавливать размер штрафа; set the course разработать /выработать/ курс; set standards (limits, a time-limit, boundaries, etc.) устанавливать нормы и т.д.; set requirements определять / вырабатывать/ требования; set a punishment наложить взыскание
    4) set smth. set an examination-paper (questions, problems, etc.) составлять письменную экзаменационную работу и т.д.; set a new style (a tone) задавать новый стиль (тон); set the fashion вводить моду; set a new model (a pattern) внедрять новый образец (покрой); set the расе задавать темп; set a record устанавливать рекорд; set a precedent создавать прецедент; set a good (bad) example подавать хороший (дурной) пример
    5) set smth. set a trap (a snare) поставить капкан (силки); set an ambush устроить засаду
    4. IV
    1) set smth. somewhere set the books back положить /поставить/ книги на место; set the chairs back отодвигать стулья; set back one's shoulders расправить плечи; the dog set its ears back собака прижала уши; set the clock (one's watch, the alarm, the hand of the watch, etc.) back one hour перевести часы /отвести часы/ на один час назад; set one's watch forward one hour поставить /перевести/ часы на один час вперед; set a house well (some distance /some way/, a fair distance, etc.) back from the road (from the street, etc.) построить /поставить/ дом вдали и т.д. от дороги и т.д.; set the book (one's knitting, the newspaper, etc.) aside отложить в сторону /отодвинуть/ книгу и т.A; set down one's load (one's suitcase, a box, etc.) опустить свой груз и т.д. (на землю)-, set the tray down поставить (на стол и т.я.) поднос; set the chair upright поднять стул; set smb. somewhere set the dogs apart растащить [дерущихся] собак; set the children apart отделять /изолировать/ детей
    2) set smb., smth. in some direction the current set them (the boat, the ship, etc.) northward (seawards, etc.) течением их и т.д. понесло к северу и т.д.
    5. V
    set smb. smth.
    1) set the boys (the students, the employees, etc.) a difficult job (an easy task, a difficult problem, the job of cleaning the yard, etc.) (заплавать мальчикам и т.д. трудную работу и т.д., set oneself a difficult task ставить перед бабой трудную задачу; set him a sum задавать ему арифметическую задачу; set one's son a goal поставить перед своим сыном цель
    2) set the children (the younger boys, youngsters, other people, etc.) a good example подавать детям и т.д. хороший пример; set smb. smth. to do smth. set smb. a standard /a pattern/ to follow служить для кого-л. образцом, которому надо следовать
    6. VI
    set smth., smb. in some state
    1) set the window (the door, the gates, etc.) open открывать /оставлять открытым/ окно и т.д.; set the door ajar приоткрывать дверь, оставить дверь полуоткрытой; set one's hat (one's tie, one's skirt, etc.) straight поправить шляпу и т.д., надеть шляпу и т.д. как следует; set the prisoners (the bird, etc.) free освобождать /выпускать на свободу, на волю/ узников и т.д.; set the dog loose спускать собаку (с цепи, с поводка и т.п.); a good night's rest will set you right за ночь вы отдохнете и снова будете хорошо себя чувствовать; why didn't you set the boy right? почему же вы не поправили мальчика?; I can soon set that right я могу это быстро уладить или исправить; set errors right исправлять ошибки; it would set him (myself) right in their eyes это оправдает его (меня) в их глазах; set things /matters/ straight /right/ уладить дела; set things ready приводить все в готовность; set smb.'s curiosity agog возбуждать чье-л. любопытство
    7. VII
    1) set smb. to do smth. set the men to chop wood (the men to saw wood, the boys to dig a field, the pupils to work at their algebra, the girl to shell peas, the pupils to sing, etc.) заставлять рабочих колоть дрова и т.д.; I set him to work at mowing the lawn я велел ему /дал ему задание/ постричь газон; я вменил ему в обязанность подстригать газон; whom did you set to do this? кому вы поручили это сделать?; I set myself to study the problem я решил взяться за изучение этого вопроса; he set himself to finish the job by the end of May он твердо решил /поставил себе целью/ закончить работу к концу мая
    2) set smth. to do smth. set a machine (a device, a mechanism, etc.) to work приводить в действие /завалять. запускать/ машину и т.д.; set the alarm clock to wake us at seven заводить будильник, чтобы он поднял нас в семь часов, поставить будильник на семь часов
    3) set smth. to do smth. set a pattern to be followed подавать пример; создавать пример для подражания
    8. VIII
    set smb., smth. doing smth. set everybody (the company, people, me, etc.) thinking (singing, running, etc.) заставить всех и т.д. (при)задуматься и т.д.; set smb. talking а) заставить кого-л. говорить, разговорить кого-л.; I set him talking about the new invention (about the discovery, about marriage, etc.) я навел его на разговор о новом изобретении и т.д.; б) дать кому-л. пищу для разговоров; this incident set people talking этот случай /инцидент/ вызвал всякие пересуды; my jokes set the whole table (the company, the audience, the boys, etc.) laughing мой шутки смешили всех за столом и т.д.; set them wondering вызвать у них удивление; the smoke set her coughing от дыма она закашлялась; who has set the dog barking? кто там прошел?, почему лает собака?; set tongues wagging вызывать толки /пересуды/, давать пищу для сплетен; the news set my heart beating эта новость заставила мое сердце забиться; it's time we set the machinery (the machine, the engine, etc.) going пора запустить механизм и т.д. /привести механизм и т.д. в действие/; when anybody entered the device set the bell ringing когда кто-нибудь входил, срабатывало устройство и звонок начинал звонить; а strong wind set the bells ringing от сильного ветра колокола зазвонили; set a top spinning запускать волчок; а false step will set stones rolling один неверный шаг set и камни покатятся вниз; set a plan going начать осуществление плана; we must set things going надо начинать действовать
    9. XI
    1) be set in (near, round, on, etc.) smth. her house is set well back in the garden (near the road, some way back from the street, on a hill, etc.) ее дом стоит а глубине сада и т.д.; а town (a country-seat, a village, etc.) is set in a woodland (on an island, north of /from/ London, etc.) город и т.д. расположен в лесистой местности и т.д.; а boundary stone is set between two fields поля разделяет межевой камень; а balcony is set round the house вокруг дома идет балкон; the second act (the scene, the play, etc.) is set in ancient Rome (in a street, in Paris, etc.) действие второго акта и т.д. происходит в древнем Риме и т.д.; а screen is set in a wall экран вделан /вмонтирован/ в стену; there was a little door set in a wall в стене была маленькая дверка; а ruby (a diamond, etc.) was set in a buckle (in a gold ring, in an earring, etc.) в пряжку и т.д. был вделан /вставлен/ рубин и т.д.; а ruby is set in gold рубин в золотой оправе /оправлен золотом/; his blue eyes are set deep in a white face на его бледном лице глубоко посажены голубые глаза; the young plants should be set at intervals of six inches эти молодые растения надо сажать на расстоянии шести дюймов [друг от друга]; be set with smth. the coast is set with modem resorts на побережье раскинулось множество современных курортов; the tops of the wall were set with broken glass верхний край стены был утыкан битым стеклом; the room is set with tables and chairs комната заставлена столами и стульями; tables were set with little sprays of blue flowers столы были украшены маленькими букетиками синих цветов: the field was set with daisies поле было усеяно маргаритками; the sky was set with stars небо было усыпано звездами; а bracelet (a ring, a crown, a sword-handle, a valuable ornament, etc.) was set with diamonds (with jewels, with gems, with rubies, with pearls, with precious stones, etc.) браслет и т.д. был украшен /усыпан/ бриллиантами и т.д.; а gold ring set with two fine pearls золотое кольцо с двумя большими жемчужинами
    3) be set on smth., smb. he (his mind, his heart) was set on it ему этого очень хотелось; his heart was set on her a) он любил лишь ее; б) все его помыслы были связаны с ней; be set on doing smth. be set on going to the stage (on coming here again, etc.) твердо решить пойти на сцену и т.д.; be set on going to the sea окончательно решить стать моряком; be set on having a motor bike (on winning, on finding him, etc.) поставить своей целью приобрести мотоцикл и т.д.; be set against smth.,smb. he is set against all reforms (against having electric light in the house, against this marriage, against the trip, etc.) он решительно [настроен] против всяких реформ и т.д.; he is set against her он и слышать о ней не хочет; be set against doing smth. he was violently set against meeting her он упорно отказывался встретиться /от встречи/ с ней /противился встрече с ней/
    4) be set on by smb. she was set on by robbers (by a lot of roughs in the dark, by a dog, etc.) на нее напали грабители и т.д.
    5) be set the table is set стол накрыт; the sails are set паруса подняты; be set for smb., smth. the table is set for six стол накрыт на шесть человек /персон/; the table is set for dinner (for lunch, etc.) стол накрыт к обеду и т.д.; be set in some state slaves (prisoners, hostages, etc.) were set free /at liberty/ рабы и т.д. были освобождены /отпущены на волю/; this must be set in order a) это надо привести в порядок; б) это надо разместить /разложить/ по порядку; the motor was set in motion включили мотор
    6) be set at some time the mortar is already set цемент уже схватился /затвердел/; the jelly is not set yet желе еще не застыло; has the type for the book been set yet? эту книгу уже набрали?; it was all set now теперь все было готово /подготовлено/; be set in some manner his lips (his jaws, his teeth) were firmly set in an effort to control himself он плотно сжал губы (челюсти, зубы), пытаясь овладеть собой; his mind and character are completely set он вполне сформировался /сложился/ как личность; be set to do smth. be set to go there быть готовым пойти туда; two pumps (machines, wheels, etc.) were set to work два насоса и т.д. были включены /приведены в действие/; be set for smth. be set for the talk (for the meeting, for the game, for the journey, etc.) быть готовым к разговору и т.д.; the scene is set for the tragedy (for the drama, for the climax, etc.) события (в книге, в пьесе и т.п.) подводят /подготавливают/ (читателя, зрителя и т.п.) к трагедии и т.д.; he was all set for a brilliant career у него были все задатки для блестящей карьеры
    7) be set over smb. he was set over people ему была дана власть над людьми; he was set over his rivals его ставили выше его соперников
    8) be set against smth. one's expenses must be set against the amount received расходы следует соразмерить с доходами; the advantages must be set against the disadvantages надо учесть все плюсы и минусы; against these gains must be set the loss of prestige оценивая эти выгоды, нельзя забывать об ущербе в связи с потерей престижа; it's no good when theory is set against practice плохо, когда теорию противопоставляют практике; when one language is set against another... когда один язык сравнивают /сопоставляют/ с другим...
    9) be set for some time the examination (the voting, his departure, etc.) is set for today (for May 2, etc.) экзамен и т.д. назначен на сегодня и т.д., the party is all set for Monday at my place решено вечеринку провести в понедельник у меня; the time and date of the meeting have not yet been set дата и время собрания еще не установлены; be set by smth., smb. rules (standards, terms, fees, etc.) are set by a committee (by the law, by the headmaster, etc.) правила и т.д. устанавливаются комиссией и т.д.
    10) be set the list of questions is set список вопросов /вопросник/ составлен; be set for smth. what subjects have been set for the examination next year? какие предметы включены в экзамен на будущий год? || be set to music быть положенным на музыку
    11) be set in smth. the editorial was set in boldface type передовая была набрана жирным шрифтом
    10. XII
    have smth. set we have everything set у нас все готово /подготовлено/; the ship has her sails set корабль поднял паруса; have a place set for a guest поставить прибор для гостя
    11. XIII
    set to do smth. set to dig the garden (to write letters, etc.) начать вскапывать сад и т.д.; the engineers set to repair the bridge инженеры приступили к ремонту моста
    12. XVI
    1) set behind (in, on, etc.) smth. the sun sets behind the western range of mountains солнце садится за горной грядой на западе; the sun sets in the sea солнце садится в море; the sun never sets on our country над нашей страной никогда не заходит солнце; set at (in) smth. the sun sets at five o'clock (in the evening, etc.) солнце заходит в пять часов и т.д.
    2) set against (to, from, etc.) smth. set against the wind (against the current) двигаться, направляться (идти, плыть и т.п.) против ветра (против течения); set against the tide идти против прилива; the wind sets from the south (from the west, from the north-east, etc.) ветер дует с юга и т.д.: the current sets to the west (to the south, through the channel, through the straits, etc.) течение идет на запад и т.д.; the tide has set in his favour ему начинает везти
    3) set against (with) smth., smb. public opinion is setting against this proposal (against this plan, against his visit, against him, etc.) общественное мнение складывается не в пользу этого предложения и т.д.; circumstances were setting with our plan (with him, etc.) обстоятельства складывались благоприятно для осуществления нашего плана и т.д.
    4) set about (upon, on, to) smth. set about the study of mineralogy (about the composition, about it, about one's washing, about one's work, etc.) приниматься /браться/ за изучение минералогии и т.д.; I don't know how to set about this job не знаю, как приступить /как подступиться/ к этой работе; they set upon the task unwillingly они неохотно взялись за выполнение этой задачи; set to work in earnest, set seriously to work серьезно браться за работу; set to work on the problem приняться за работу над этой проблемой; set to work on one's studies начать заниматься, приняться за учение
    5) set up (on) smb. set upon the enemy атаковать противника; а gang of ruffians set on him на него напала шайка хулиганов; they set upon him with blows они набросились на него с кулаками; they set upon us with arguments они обрушились на нас со своими доводами; set about /at/ smb. coll. set about the boys (about the stranger, about the supporters of the other team, at the bully, etc.) набрасываться /налетать, наскакивать/ на мальчишек и т.д.; they set about each other at once они сразу же сцепились друг с другом /начали колошматить друг друга/; I'd set about you myself if I could я бы сам отколотил тебя, если бы мог; I'd set about him with a stick (with the butt of the spade, etc.) if we have any trouble если что [не так], я стукну его палкой и т.д.
    6) set in smth. cement soon sets in dry weather (in the cold, in the sun, etc.) в сухую погоду /когда сухо,/ и т.д. цемент быстро затвердевает /застывает/
    13. XVII
    set about (to) doing smth. set about getting dinner ready (about tidying up the room, about doing one's lessons, about stamp-collecting, late.) приниматься за обед /за приготовление обеда/ и т.д.; I must. set about my packing мне надо [начать] укладываться; he asked me how lie should set about learning German он спросил меня, с чего ему начать изучение немецкого языка; set to arguing (to fighting, to quarrelling. etc.) начинать /приниматься/ спорить и т.д.; they set to packing они стали упаковываться
    14. XXI1
    1) set smth., smb. on (at, against, in, before, for, etc.) smth., smb. set dishes (a lamp, one's glass, etc.) on the table поставить тарелки и т.д. на стол; set a place for the guest поставить прибор для гостя; set food and drink (wine and nuts, meat, a dish, etc.) before guests (before travellers, etc.) поставить еду и напитки и т.д. перед гостями и т.д.; set a table by the window (an armchair before a desk, a floor-lamp beside an armchair, etc.) поставить стол у окна и т.д.; set chairs around (at) a table расставлять стулья вокруг (у) стола; set a ladder (a bicycle, a stick, etc.) against a wall прислонить /приставить/ лестницу и т.д. к стене; set one's hand on smb.'s shoulder положить руку кому-л. на плечо; set a hand against the door опереться рукой о дверь; set smb. on his feet поставить кого-л. на ноги
    2) set smth., smb. in (by, on, upon, etc.) smth. set things in their place again вернуть /положить/ вещи на место; set flowers in the water (in a vase, etc.) поставить цветы в воду и т.д.; set glass in a window вставлять стекло в окно; set lamps in 'walls вделывать светильники в стены; set one's foot in the stirrup вставить ногу в стремя; set the stake in the ground вкопать столб в землю; set a pearl (a jewel, a diamond, etc.) in gold оправлять жемчужину и т.д. в золото; set smb. by the fire усадить кого-л. у огня: set a child in a high chair посадить ребенка ка высокий стул; set smb. in the dock посадить кого-л. на скамью подсудимых; set a wheel on an axle насадить колесо на ось: set a hen on eggs, set eggs under a hen посадить курицу на яйца; set a boy on horseback подсадить мальчика на лошадь; set smb. on the pedestal поставить /возвести/ кого-л. на пьедестал; set troops on shore высадить войска [на берег]; set one's foot oil a step поставить ногу на ступеньку; set foot on shore ступить на берег; I'll never set foot on your threshold я никогда не переступлю порог вашего дома; set a crown on his head возложить на него корону; set a king on the throne посадить короля на трон; set a kiss upon smb.'s hand приложиться к чьей-л. руке; set smth. with smth. set the top of the wall with broken glass утыкать верхнюю часть стены битым стеклом; set this bed with tulips (with geraniums, etc.) засадить эту клумбу тюльпанами и т.д. || set eyes on smb., smth. увидеть кого-л что-л., I never set eyes on him before today до сегодняшнего дня я его в глаза не видел; that child wants everything he sets his eyes on этому ребенку вынь, да положь все, что он видит
    3) set smth. to smth. set a glass (a trumpet, etc.) to one's lips, set one's lips to a glass (to a trumpet, etc.) подносить стакан и т.д. к губам /ко рту/; set a match (a lighter) to a cigarette (to old papers, to a fire, etc.) подносить спичку (зажигалку) к сигарете и т.д.; set one's shoulder to the door налечь плечом на дверь; set spurs to a horse пришпорить лошадь
    4) set smb. across smth. set him across the river переправлять его через реку /на другой берег/; set a child across the street перевести ребенка на другую сторону улицы /через улицу/; set smth. by smth. set a ship by the compass вести корабль по компасу; set smth. against (to ward(s), to) smth. set the boat against the wind (against the current) направлять лодку против ветра и т.д.; set one's course to the south направляться на юг; set one's face toward the east (toward home, towards the sun, etc.) повернуться лицом к востоку и т.д.; set smb. after (at, on, etc.) smb., smth. set the police (detectives, etc.) after /on the track of/ the criminal (on her, after the spies, etc.) направлять полицию и т.д. по следу преступника и т.д.; set the boys on the wrong (right) track направлять мальчишек по ложному (по правильному) следу; set a dog at a hare (at a fox, at a bull, at his heels, etc.) пустить собаку по следу зайца и т.д.; set dogs on a stranger (on a trespasser, on thieves, etc.) спустить собак на незнакомца и т.д. || set sail for India отплывать /направляться/ в Индию
    5) set smb. against (on, to, etc.) smb., smth. set people against each other (a friend against another, everyone against him, etc.) настраивать людей друг против друга и т.д.; he is trying to set you against me он старается восстановить вас против меня; set oneself against the proposal (against the scheme, against the decision, against his nomination, against him, etc.) был настроенным /выступать/ против этого предложения и т.д.; set the crowd on acts of violence (the crew to mutiny, soldiers to violence, people to robbery, etc.) подстрекать толпу на совершение актов насилия /к насилию/ и т.д.; set smth. against smth. set one thing against another противопоставлять одно другому; set one language against another сопоставлять /сравнивать/ один язык с другим; set smth. on smth. set one's heart /one's mind/ on the trip твердо настроиться на эту поездку; set one's heart on a new dress (on a new car, etc.) жаждать /очень хотеть/ купить новое платье и т.д.; he set his thoughts on the plan все его помыслы направлены на осуществление этого плана || set him at odds with his friends рассорить его с друзьями
    6) set smb., smth. to smth. set the class (the boys, him, etc.) to work (to a task, to sums, to dictation, etc.) засадить класс и т.д. за работу и т.д.; set one's mind /one's wits/ to a question (to a task, to a job, etc.) сосредоточиться на каком-л. вопросе и т.д.; you won't find the work difficult if only you set your mind to it если вы серьезно возьметесь за дело, работа не покажется вам трудной; set one's hand to the work (to the task, to the plough, etc.) взяться за работу и т.д.; he set himself resolutely to the task он решительно взялся за выполнение задачи; set а реп to' paper начать писать, взяться за перо; set smth. before smb. set a task (an object) before him поставить перед ним задачу
    7) set smth., smb. т (on, at, to) smth. set one's affairs (one's papers, one's house, a room, etc.) in order /to rights/ приводить свои дела и т.д. в порядок; set a machine in motion запустить машину; set the project in motion начинать работу над объектом; set the machinery of the government in motion приводить государственную машину в движение; set a chain reaction in motion вызвать цепную реакцию; his jokes set the audience (the table, the whole room, etc.) in a roar от его шуток вся аудитория и т.д. покатывалась со смеху; set smb. on his guard настораживать кого-л.; set smb. (smb.'s guests, the boy, smb.'s mind, etc.) at ease успокаивать кого-л. и т.д.; he set the girl at ease с ним девушке стало легко /девушка почувствовала себя свободно/; а host should try and set his guests at ease хозяин должен стараться, чтобы его гости чувствовали себя свободно /как дома/: now you may set your mind at ease теперь вы можете перестать волноваться /не волноваться/; set a question (the affair, the matter, etc.) at rest разрешить /урегулировать/ вопрос и т.д.; that sets all my doubts at rest это рассеивает все мои сомнения; set prisoners at liberty освобождать заключенных
    8) set smth. for smth. set the table for dinner (for five people, for two, etc.) накрыть стол к обеду и т.д.; set the stage for the next scene in a play подготовить сцену для следующей картины [в пьесе]; set the scene for talks подготовить условия /создать благоприятную обстановку/ для переговоров; set smth. by smth. set one's watch by the radio timesignal (by the town clock, by the clock in the library, by mine, etc.) ставить /сверять/ часы по радиосигналу и т.д.; set smth. to (for, at) smth. set the clock (the hands of the clock) to the correct time (to the proper hour of the day, etc.) точно поставить часы и т.д.; set the alarm for 5 o'clock (the camera lens to infinity, a thermostat at 70°, etc.) поставить будильник на пять часов и т.д.
    9) set smb., smth. at (in, он, etc.) smth. set a guard (a sentry, etc.) at the door (at the gate, at the corner of the street, in the nearest village, on the hill, etc.) поставить сторожа /часового/ и т.д. у дверей и т.д.; set pickets around the camp выставлять дозорных вокруг лагеря
    10) set smb., smth. over (before, among, etc.) smb., smth. set him over others (a supervisor over the new workers, etc.) назначать его начальником над остальными и т.д.; set Vergil before Homer отдавать предпочтение Вергилию перед Гомером, ставить Вергилия выше Гомера; set the author among the greatest writers of today (the painter among the best artists of the world, the team among the strongest teams of Europe, etc.) считать автора одним из крупнейших писателей современности и т.д.; set duty before pleasure ставить долг выше удовольствий /на первое место/; set honesty above everything (diamonds above rubies, etc.) ценить честность превыше всего и т.д., his intelligence (his talent, his character, etc.) sets him apart from others (from ordinary people, from the normal run of people, etc.) его ум и т.д. выделяют его среди других и т.д.; her bright red hair sets her apart from her sisters из всех сестер у нее одной были ярко-рыжие волосы
    11) set smth. at smth. set the price (the value of the canvas, etc.) at t 1000 оценить / назначить, определить цену/ и т.д. в тысячу фунтов; set bail at i 500 установить сумму залога в пятьсот фунтов; set neatness at a high value очень ценить аккуратность, придавать большое значение опрятности; set smth. for smth. set a time for a meeting назначать время собрания; set the rules for a contest вырабатывать правила состязания; set the lesson for tomorrow задавать урок на завтра; set smth. to /for /smth. set limits to smb.'s power (to his extravagance, to his demands, etc.) ограничивать чью-л. власть и т.д., устанавливать предел чьей-л. власти и т.д.; he sets no limit to his ambition его честолюбие не знает предела; set a time-limit for examination установить продолжительность экзамена; set a time-limit for debates установить регламент для выступления в прениях; set a record for the mile устанавливать рекорд в беге на одну милю; set an end to it положить этому конец; set smth. on smth., smb. set a high value on life (on punctuality, etc.) высоко ценить жизнь и т.д.; set a punishment on smb. налагать наказание на кого-л., определять кому-л. меру наказания; set a price on smb.'s head /on smb.'s life/ назначить награду за чью-л. голову /за чью-л. жизнь/; set smth. at some time set the death of the man at midnight установить, что смерть этого человека наступила в полночь || set much store by smth. придавать большее значение чему-л.; set much store by social position (by daily exercise, by what the neighbours say, by the opinion of people like him, etc.) придавать большое значение общественному положению и т.д.
    12) set smth. for (in, to, etc.) smth. set papers for the examination составлять экзаменационные работы; set new questions (problems, etc.) in an examination подготовить новые вопросы и т.д. для экзамена; set the words (this poem, etc.) to music положить эти слова и т.д. на музыку; set new words to an old tune сочинить новые слова на старый мотив; set Othello to music а) написать музыку к "Отелло"; б) написать /сочинить/ оперу "Отелло"; set a piece of music for the violin переложить музыкальное произведение для скрипки
    13) set smth. before smb. set a plan (facts, one's theory, one's proposals, etc.) before the council (before the chief, before experts, etc.) изложить совету /представить на рассмотрение совета/ и т.д. план и т.д.
    14) set smth. to smth. set one's name /one's signature, one's hand/ to a document подписать документ; set a seal to the decree скрепить указ печатью; set smth. on smth. set a veto on smth. накладывать запрет на что-л.
    15) set smth. on (in) smth., smb. set one's life on a chance рисковать жизнью в надежде на удачу; set one's future on a chance строить планы на будущее в расчете на счастливое стечение обстоятельств; set hopes on a chance (on him, on his uncle, etc.) надеяться /возлагать надежды/ на случай и т.д.
    16) set smth. for smb. set a snare for a fox поставить капкан на лису; set poison for rats разложить отраву для крыс
    17) set smth. for smth. set milk for cheese ставить молоко на творог, створаживать молоко
    18) || set fire to a house (to a barn, etc.) поджигать дом и т.д.; set the woods (a woodpile, etc.) on fire поджигать лес и т.д.
    15. XXII
    1) set smth. on doing smth. set one's heart /one's hopes, one's mind, one's thoughts/ on becoming an engineer (on going with us, on going abroad, etc.) очень хотеть /стремиться/ стать инженером и т.д.; I set my heart on going today я решил ехать сегодня; he sets his hopes on getting on in life он очень надеется преуспеть в жизни /добиться в жизни успеха/; if he once sets his mind on doing something it takes a lot to dissuade him если он настроился на что-либо, его очень трудно отговорить
    2) set smb. to doing smth. set him to woodchopping поставить его на колку дров, заставить его колоть дрова; set her to thinking заставить ее задуматься; set a child to crying довести ребенка до слез; he set himself to amusing me он изо всех сил старался развлечь меня
    16. XXIV1
    set smth. as smth. set education (money, revenge, etc.) as one's goal /as one's aim, as one's object, as one's purpose, as one's task/ поставить себе целью получить образование в т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > set

  • 7 clear

    [klɪəʳ, Am klɪr] adj
    1) ( understandable) definition, description, message klar; explanation, description also verständlich;
    ( definite) impression, similarity eindeutig;
    ( distinct) statement, stage klar, deutlich; signs deutlich;
    he wasn't very \clear er hat sich nicht sonderlich klar ausgedrückt;
    \clear instructions klare Anweisungen;
    to have \clear memories of sth ( fig) sich akk deutlich an etw akk erinnern können;
    a \clear picture ein scharfes Bild;
    to have a \clear perception of sth klare Vorstellungen von etw dat haben;
    to have a \clear understanding of sth ein klares Verständnis einer Sache haben;
    to make oneself \clear sich akk deutlich [o klar] ausdrücken;
    as \clear as a bell glockenhell, glockenrein;
    [as] \clear as day eindeutig, unmissverständlich
    2) ( obvious) klar, sicher;
    is that \clear? ist das klar?;
    it's \clear [to me] that... es ist [mir] klar, dass...;
    they have made it \clear that... sie haben es unmissverständlich klargemacht, dass...;
    Richard isn't at all \clear about what... Richard ist sich nicht im Mindesten darüber im Klaren, was...;
    it's not \clear whether... es ist nicht klar, ob...;
    he's a \clear favourite er ist ein klarer Favorit;
    he's got a \clear lead er führt eindeutig;
    a \clear case of... ein klarer Fall von...;
    a \clear majority eine klare Mehrheit;
    to be \clear that... sich dat sicher sein, dass...;
    to be \clear about sth sich dat über etw akk im Klaren sein;
    to get \clear about sth sich dat über etw akk klar werden;
    to make one's position \clear seine Haltung deutlich machen;
    to make oneself \clear [to sb] sich akk [jdm] verständlich machen;
    to make sth \clear [to sb] etw [jdm gegenüber] klar zum Ausdruck bringen;
    do I make myself \clear? habe ich mich klar ausgedrückt?;
    as \clear as day sonnenklar
    3) usu attr ( unconfused) klar;
    to keep a \clear head einen klaren Kopf bewahren;
    a \clear thinker jd, der klar denken kann
    4) ( free)
    to be \clear of sth;
    she's \clear of all suspicion sie ist frei von jeglichem Verdacht;
    to have a \clear conscience ein reines Gewissen haben
    5) ( unobstructed) passage, path frei; throat unbelegt;
    ( complete) ganz, voll; ( fig)
    could you see your way \clear to lending me some money? könntest du mir eventuell etwas Geld leihen?;
    a \clear view ein freier Blick, eine ungehinderte Aussicht
    6) ( transparent) glass durchsichtig; water, soup klar;
    as \clear as crystal kristallklar;
    that's as \clear as mud da blickt man gar nicht durch
    7) ( pure)
    \clear complexion/ skin reiner Teint/reine Haut;
    a \clear sound ein klarer Ton
    8) (bright, shining) of colours, eyes leuchtend
    9) (of weather, atmosphere) sky, day, night, air klar;
    \clear weather heiteres Wetter
    10) inv ( net) rein, netto;
    a \clear profit ein Reingewinn m
    \clear jump fehlerfreier Sprung
    the gate must be \clear of the ground das Tor darf den Boden nicht berühren;
    ... one wheel \clear of the ground... ein Rad ragte in die Luft;
    wait till we're \clear of the main road... warte, bis wir die Hauptstraße verlassen haben;
    to keep [or stay] [or steer] \clear of sb/ sth sich akk von jdm/etw fernhalten
    PHRASES:
    the coast is \clear die Luft ist rein ( fam)
    out of a \clear sky aus heiterem Himmel;
    all \clear die Luft ist rein n
    to be in the \clear außer Verdacht sein adv
    1) ( away from)
    he jumped two centimetres \clear of the bar er sprang mit einem Abstand von zwei Zentimetern über die Leiste;
    please move \clear of the edge of the platform bitte von der Bahnsteigkante zurücktreten;
    make sure you park \clear of the kerb pass auf, dass du nicht zu nah am Randstein parkst;
    stand \clear of the doors ( in underground) bitte zurücktreten;
    ( at train station) Türen schließen selbsttätig;
    to steer \clear of sth naut um etw herumsteuern;
    to steer \clear of sb jdn meiden;
    to steer \clear of a place um etw einen großen Bogen machen;
    to stand \clear [of sth] ( by moving to the side) zur Seite gehen;
    ( by moving back) zurückbleiben;
    ( remain in a distance) von etw dat entfernt bleiben;
    to be thrown \clear of sth aus etw dat herausgeschleudert werden;
    to get \clear of sth etw hinter sich dat lassen;
    to be \clear of sth etw hinter sich dat gelassen haben
    to see \clear klar sehen;
    loud and \clear klar und deutlich
    3) ( entirely)
    they got \clear away sie haben sich aus dem Staub gemacht vt
    to \clear sth etw klären
    to \clear one's head einen klaren Kopf bekommen
    to \clear sth etw beseitigen; land, snow etw räumen;
    to \clear the road die Straße frei machen [o räumen];
    to \clear sth from [or off] sth etw von etw dat wegräumen;
    to \clear one's throat sich akk räuspern;
    to \clear the way for sb to do sth es jdm ermöglichen, etw zu tun
    to \clear sth etw reinigen;
    to \clear the air ( remove dirt) die Luft reinigen;
    ( remove bad feeling) die Atmosphäre reinigen
    5) ( empty)
    to \clear sth ( of things) etw ausräumen;
    they \cleared the building in 3 minutes sie räumten das Gebäude in 3 Minuten;
    to \clear the table den Tisch abräumen
    6) ( acquit)
    to \clear sb of a crime jdn eines Verbrechens freisprechen;
    to \clear sb's name jds Namen reinwaschen
    to \clear sth etw erledigen
    8) fin
    Bill \clears $200 a week Bill macht 200 Dollar die Woche ( fam)
    to \clear a cheque einen Scheck freigeben, bestätigen, dass ein Scheck gedeckt ist;
    to \clear one's debts seine Schulden begleichen;
    to \clear a certain sum eine bestimmte Summe freigeben ( geh)
    to \clear sth über etw akk springen
    you'll have to \clear that with the boss das müssen Sie mit dem Chef klären
    to \clear sth etw genehmigen;
    to \clear a plane for take-off ein Flugzeug zum Start freigeben;
    to \clear sth with sb etw mit jdm abklären;
    to \clear sb to do sth jdm genehmigen, etw zu tun;
    to \clear customs Zollformalitäten erledigen
    to \clear the ball klären;
    to \clear the ball with one's head mit einem Kopfball klären
    PHRASES:
    to \clear the decks ( fam) klar Schiff machen ( fam) vi
    1) ( delete) löschen
    2) ( become transparent) sich akk klären
    3) ( become free of blemish) sich akk reinigen
    4) ( weather) sich akk [auf]klären;
    it's \clearing up es klart auf, es wird klar; fog, smoke sich akk auflösen;
    (go, disappear)
    to \clear [away] verschwinden
    5) fin einen Scheck freigeben

    English-German students dictionary > clear

  • 8 clear

    klɪə
    1. прил.
    1) а) светлый, ясный, безоблачный( о небе) a clear day ≈ ясный, безоблачный день The day dawned with a clear sky. ≈ День наступал ясный, безоблачный. clear white ≈ чистый белый clear brown ≈ светло коричневый Syn: cloudless, unclouded б) прозрачный The water in the bay was clear as glass. ≈ Вода в заливе была прозрачной, как стекло. Syn: transparent, lucid, translucent, crystalline
    1., pellucid, diaphanous в) яркий, блестящий;
    чистый (особ. о коже без прыщей, морщин и т. п.) a dark-coloured coat with clear buttons ≈ темное пальто с яркими пуговицами a clear light ≈ яркий свет clear fire ≈ яркий огонь( без дыма) Her complexion was clear, but quite olive. ≈ Кожа на лице у нее была чистой, но с желтоватым оттенком. Syn: lustrous, bright
    1., brilliant
    2., radiant
    1., luminous
    2) о восприятии, распознавании а) четкий, отчетливый, ясно видимый Syn: well-marked, sharp
    1. б) ясно слышный, звонкий, отчетливый The singing was loud and clear. ≈ Пение было громким и отчетливым. Syn: audible, articulate
    1. в) ясный, понятный, недвусмысленный( о словах, значениях и т. п.) to make clear the meaning of the question ≈ прояснить смысл вопроса If I have made myself clear, you will understand my original meaning. ≈ Если мне удалось ясно выразиться, вы поймете подлинное значение моей мысли. in clear Syn: perspicuous, definite, intelligible, unmistakable, transparent ∙ Syn: distinct Ant: foggy, unclear, unintelligible, blurred, confused, doubtful
    3) а) четкий, ясный, логический;
    проницательный( о мнении, понятии, представлении, памяти, уме) a clear remembrance of Bill Foster's crimes ≈ четкие воспоминания о преступлениях Билла Фостера This problem requires clear thinking. ≈ Для решение этой проблемы требуется ясная голова. Syn: keen I, sharp б) очевидный, явный, не вызывающий сомнений In the midst of the unreality, it became clear that one man at least was serious. ≈ Среди всей этой нереальности стало очевидным, что, по крайней мере, один человек был серьезен. Syn: evident, plain I
    1.
    4) убежденный, уверенный, не сомневающийся I am not quite clear about the date. ≈ Я не очень уверен относительно даты. As to the necessity of including Ireland in its scope he was clear. ≈ Что касалось включения Ирландии в эти границы, то тут он не колебался. Syn: positive
    1., convinced, confident
    1., certain
    1., determined
    5) о моральных качествах ясный, прямой, простодушный;
    чистый, непорочный, невинный a clear conscience ≈ чистая совесть Syn: unsophisticated, guileless, pure, innocent
    2., unspotted
    6) свободный;
    свободный, беспрепятственный( о проходе, дороге и т. п.), свободный (от долгов, подозрений) The path was clear. ≈ Дорога была свободна. Is the sea clear of ice yet? ≈ Море уже свободно ото льда? You are now clear of suspicion. ≈ Вы свободны от подозрений. clear day ≈ свободный, незанятый день all clear all clear signal clear of debts get away clear keep clear of Syn: free
    1., unobstructed, unimpeded
    7) полный, целый;
    абсолютный, неограниченный a clear month ≈ целый месяц Syn: absolute
    1., complete
    1., entire
    1., sheer I
    1.
    8) амер.;
    сл. чистый, без примеси, 'настоящий' solid silver, the clear thing, and no mistake ≈ сплошное серебро, настоящая вещь, без дураков
    2. нареч.
    1) ясно, четко, отчетливо;
    громко, внятно, членораздельно The message came over the wireless loud and clear. ≈ Сообщение, переданное по радио, прозвучало громко и отчетливо. to see one's way clear ≈ не иметь затруднений Syn: clearly, distinctly, plainly, audibly
    2) совсем, совершенно;
    полностью (тж. несколько усиливает знач. наречий away, off, through при глаголах) The jogger ran clear to the end of the island. ≈ Бегун добежал до самого конца острова. three feet clear ≈ целых три фута Syn: entirely, wholly, completely ∙ clear of
    3. гл.
    1) а) очищать;
    осветлять;
    делать прозрачным to clear the water by filtering ≈ очистить воду с помощью фильтров б) очищаться;
    проясняться;
    становиться прозрачным The skies finally cleared. ≈ Погода наконец прояснилась. ∙ Syn: brighten, lighten I
    2) а) оправдывать, снимать подозрение в чем-л. (of) The boy was cleared of the charge of stealing. ≈ С мальчика сняли обвинение в краже. A surprise witness cleared him of the crime. ≈ Удивленный свидетель снял с него подозрение в совершении преступления. to clear one's name ≈ восстановить свое честное имя clear the skirts of Syn: exculpate, exonerate, absolve, acquit, vindicate б) рассеивать( сомнения, подозрения) ;
    подтверждать надежность( кого-л. при приеме на секретную работу) to clear for top-secret work ≈ допускать на сверхсекретную работу Dr. Graham might require access to restricted information, and so he had to be cleared. ≈ Доктору Грэхему может понадобиться конфиденциальная информация, поэтому он должен получить допуск.
    3) прояснять, разъяснять, объяснять, истолковывать to clear up the mystery ≈ прояснить тайну Syn: enlighten, explain, elucidate
    4) а) расчищать, прочищать;
    освобождать, очищать от чего-л., кого-л. (of) to clear the dishes ≈ убирать посуду со стола to clear the table ≈ убирать со стола The snowplows cleared the streets. ≈ Снегоочистители очистили улицы. He cleared his throat, and was silent awhile. ≈ Он прочистил горло и немного помолчал. Machines have cleared the way for progress. ≈ Машины расчистили путь прогресса. to clear the air ≈ разрядить атмосферу;
    положить конец недоразумениям Will you help me clear the garden of these stones? ≈ Поможешь мне убрать из сада эти камни. We must clear the area of enemy soldiers as soon as possible. ≈ Нам нужно очистить район от врага как можно скорее. clear the way clear the decks for action clear one's mind of Syn: unblock, clean
    2., free
    3., unstop, empty
    3., rid, clean
    4. ;
    remove
    2., free
    3. б) спорт отбивать, выбивать (мяч) из штрафной площадки
    5) а) одобрять, разрешать Syn: authorize б) успешно пройти( какие-л. инстанции) ;
    получить одобрение The bill cleared the legislature. ≈ Законопроект получил одобрение законодательных органов.
    6) а) урегулировать финансовые обязательства, производить рассчет;
    заплатить долг to clear an account ≈ рассчитаться clear one's expenses б) банк. осуществлять клиринг чеков или векселей
    7) уплачивать пошлину;
    очищать (товары) от пошлин
    8) распродавать товар по сниженным ценам great reductions in order to clear ≈ большая скидка с целью распродажи
    9) получать чистый доход Syn: net II
    3.
    10) избежать, не задеть;
    преодолеть препятствие to clear the fence ≈ перескочить через барьер This horse can clear 5 feet. ≈ Эта лошадь берет барьер в 5 футов.
    11) эвакуировать
    12) разгружать to clear a ship ≈ разгрузить судно ∙ clear away clear off clear out clear up clear with ясный, светлый;
    - * day ясный день;
    - * sky чистое небо чистый, прозрачный;
    - * water of the lake чистая вода озера;
    - * glass прозрачное стекло зеркальный( о поверхности) отчетливый, ясный;
    - * outline ясное очертание;
    - * sight хорошее зрение;
    - * reflection in the water ясное отражение в воде;
    - * view хорошая видимость звонкий, отчетливый, чистый (о звуке) ;
    - * tone чистый звук;
    - * voices of the children звонкие детские голоса отчетливый, внятный, четкий;
    - his delivery was * and distinct он говорил внятно и отчетливо ясный, понятный;
    не вызывающий сомнений;
    - * conclusion ясный вывод;
    - a * case of murder явное убийство;
    - to make a * statement высказаться ясно и определенно;
    - to have a * idea иметь ясное представление;
    - it is * to me what he is driving at (разговорное) мне понятно, к чему он клонит;
    - I am not * on the point мне этот вопрос не ясен;
    - I am not * about... я не уверен, что... светлый, ясный, логический (об уме) ;
    - * intellect ясный ум;
    - * head светлая голова свободный, незанятый;
    беспрепятственный;
    - * passage свободный проход;
    - * line (железнодорожное) свободный путь;
    свободный перегон;
    - * opening( техническое) просвет;
    свободное сечение;
    - * way (морское) фарватер;
    - next week is *, let's meet then будущая неделя у меня не занята, давай тогда и встретимся (телефония) свободный, незанятый (о линии) чистый;
    здоровый;
    - * conscience чистая совесть;
    - * skin чистая кожа( без прыщей и т. п.) (of) свободный от чего-либо;
    - * of debt не обремененный долгами;
    - * of suspicion вне подозрений;
    - he is * of all bad intentions у него нет дурных намерений;
    - roads * of traffic закрытая для движения дорога;
    - * of strays (радиотехника) свободный от атмосферных помех;
    - we are * of danger now мы сейчас вне опасности полный, целый;
    весь;
    - * month целый месяц чистый (о доходе и т. п.) ;
    - a hundred pounds * profit сто фунтов чистой прибыли;
    - I get a * $50 a week я получаю 50 долларов в неделю чистыми абсолютный, совершенный, полный;
    - a * victory полная победа;
    - he obtained a * majority он получил явное большинство голосов( техническое) незадевающий;
    свободно проходящий (фонетика) светлый;
    - * I sound светлый оттенок звука I в грам. знач. сущ. клер, нешифрованный текст;
    - in * клером, в незашифрованном виде, открытым текстом > to be in the * быть вне подозрений, снять с себя обвинение;
    > the coast is * путь свободен, препятствий нет;
    > all * путь свободен;
    (военное) противник не обнаружен;
    > all * signal сигнал отбоя после тревоги;
    > (as) * as day ясно, как день;
    > (as) * as two and two make four ясно как дважды два четыре;
    > (as) * as a bell ясно слышный, отчетливый ясно (эмоционально-усилительно) совсем, совершенно;
    целиком;
    начисто;
    - three feet * целых три фута (of) в стороне от чего-либо;
    - to steer * (of) избегать, сторониться;
    - keep * of pickpockets! остерегайтесь воров!;
    - keep * of the traffic! соблюдайте осторожность при переходе улиц (спортивное) чисто;
    - (to be) * abreast( быть) чисто в стороне (о яхте в соревновании) > to see one's way * to do smth. не видеть препятствий к чему-либо;
    > to get * away удрать, не оставив следов;
    отделаться;
    разделаться;
    выйти сухим из воды;
    > to get * of отделаться;
    разделаться;
    удрать не оставив следов > to keep * of smth. держаться вдали от чего-либо, сторониться чего-либо очищать;
    - thunder has *ed the air после грозы воздух стал чистым;
    - to * the table убирать со стола очищаться, становиться ясным, чистым;
    делаться прозрачным;
    - the sky is *ing небо очищается от туч;
    - the weather is *ing погода проясняется;
    - the wine will * if the sediment is allowed to settle вино становится прозрачным, если дать ему отстояться объяснить, разъяснить, пролить свет;
    - to * one's meaning разъяснить смысл своих слов;
    - to * smb. in regard to a matter разъяснить кому-либо вопрос освобождать, очищать;
    убирать, устранять препятствия;
    - to * the stones from the road убрать с дороги камни - to * a way освободить дорогу;
    - to * the way открыть путь;
    - to * the way for future action расчистить путь для дальнейших действий;
    - to * the ground расчистить участок земли под пашню;
    - land *ed for cultivation земля, расчищенная для посева;
    - to * the room of people освободить комнату от людей;
    - * the way! разойдитесь!, освободите дорогу!;
    посторонись!, берегись!;
    - to * one's mind of doubts отбросить сомнения оправдывать;
    очищать от подозрений;
    - to * one's character восстановить свою репутацию;
    - to * oneself of a charge оправдаться взять, преодолеть препятствие;
    - to * a hedge перемахнуть через изгородь;
    - to * the hurdle (спортивное) преодолеть препятствие;
    - to * the bar (спортивное) брать высоту;
    - he *ed the bar at six feet (спортивное) он взял высоту в шесть футов едва не задеть, избежать;
    - to * an iceberg at sea еле-еле избежать столкновения с айсбергом;
    - our bus just managed to * the truck наш автобус едва не столкнулся с грузовиком;
    - a tree with branches that barely * the roof дерево, ветки которого почти касаются крыши (военное) вывозить, эвакуировать;
    - to * casualties эвакуировать раненых;
    - to * the enemy очистить от противника (район и т. п.) распутывать( веревку и т. п.) - to * a hawser распутать трос разгружать;
    - to * a ship of her cargo разгрузить корабль заплатить долг, произвести расчет;
    оплатить расходы и т. п.;
    - this sum will * all his debts эта сумма покроет все его долги;
    - to * an encumbered estate очистить имение от долгов (банковское) производить клиринг чеков или векселей;
    производить расчет по векселям или чекам через расчетную палату (коммерческое) очищать товары, груз от пошлин;
    выполнять таможенные формальности;
    - to * a ship at the custom-house произвести очистку судна на таможне (коммерческое) получать чистую прибыль;
    - the firm *ed 300 000 фирма получила триста тысяч чистой прибыли распродавать, устраивать распродажи;
    - to * goods распродавать товары дать допуск к (совершенно) секретной работе( спортивное) отбить( мяч и т. п.) - to * a corner отбить угловой в поле;
    - to * the puck выбить шайбу из зоны защиты (специальное) осветлять;
    очищать (телефония) разъединять абонентов (with) (американизм) согласовать с кем-либо;
    - you must * your plan with the headquarters насчет своего плана вы должны договориться с руководством расшифровывать, декодировать > to * an examinator paper ответить на все вопросы по экзаменационному билету;
    > to * the coast расчистить путь, устранить препятствия;
    > to * one's throat откашляться;
    > to * the decks( морское) приготовиться к бою;
    приготовиться к действиям;
    > to * the air разрядить атмосферу, устранить недоразумения;
    > to * the skirts of smb. смыть позорное пятно с кого-либо;
    восстановить чью-либо репутацию;
    > to * a score расквитаться all ~ отбой( после тревоги) ;
    all clear signal сигнал отбоя all ~ воен. противник не обнаружен all ~ путь свободен all ~ отбой (после тревоги) ;
    all clear signal сигнал отбоя clear гасить ~ не задеть, проехать или перескочить через барьер, не задев его;
    to clear an obstacle взять препятствие;
    this horse can clear 5 feet эта лошадь берет барьер в 5 футов ~ необремененный, свободный от чего-либо ~ объяснять ~ оправдывать ~ освобождать, очищать ~ осуществлять клиринг векселей ~ осуществлять клиринг чеков ~ отчетливый ~ очищать(ся) ;
    расчищать;
    to clear the air разрядить атмосферу;
    положить конец недоразумениям;
    to clear the dishes убирать посуду со стола;
    to clear the table убирать со стола ~ очищать ~ очищать от пошлин, уплачивать пошлины ~ очищать от пошлин ~ получать чистую прибыль ~ торг. получать чистую прибыль ~ понятный, ясный, недвусмысленный ~ понятный ~ прозрачный ~ производить расчет ~ проходить мимо, миновать ~ проясняться ~ пустой ~ разъяснять ~ распродавать (товар) ;
    great reductions in order to clear большая скидка с целью распродажи ~ распродавать ~ торг. распродавать товары по сниженным ценам ~ рассеивать (сомнения, подозрения) ~ сброшенный ~ свободный;
    clear passage свободный проход ~ свободный ~ совсем, целиком (тж. несколько усиливает знач. наречий away, off, through при глаголах) ;
    three feet clear целых три фута ~ становиться прозрачным (о вине) ~ уплачивать пошлины, очищать от пошлин ~ вчт. устанавливать в исходное состояние ~ устранять препятствия ~ целый, полный;
    a clear month целый месяц ~ чистый (о весе, доходе или о совести) ~ чистый ~ эвакуировать ~ ясно;
    to see one's way clear не иметь затруднений ~ ясно слышный, отчетливый ~ ясный, явный, очевидный ~ ясный (об уме) ;
    to get away clear отделаться ~ ясный, светлый;
    clear sky безоблачное небо ~ ясный ~ не задеть, проехать или перескочить через барьер, не задев его;
    to clear an obstacle взять препятствие;
    this horse can clear 5 feet эта лошадь берет барьер в 5 футов ~ away рассеивать (сомнения) ~ away рассеиваться( о тумане, облаках) ~ away убирать со стола ~ down вчт. разъединить ~ down вчт. разъединять ~ from suspicion вне подозрений ~ line ж.-д. свободный перегон (между станциями) ~ целый, полный;
    a clear month целый месяц ~ of debts свободный от долгов ~ of suspicion отводить подозрения ~ off отделываться( от чего-л.) ~ off проясняться (о погоде) ~ off разг. убираться;
    just clear off at once! убирайтесь немедленно! to ~ the way подготовить почву;
    to clear one's expenses покрыть свои расходы ~ out внезапно уехать, уйти ~ out вычищать ~ out очищать ~ out разг. разорять ~ out stocks освобождать склады ~ свободный;
    clear passage свободный проход ~ ясный, светлый;
    clear sky безоблачное небо ~ очищать(ся) ;
    расчищать;
    to clear the air разрядить атмосферу;
    положить конец недоразумениям;
    to clear the dishes убирать посуду со стола;
    to clear the table убирать со стола to ~ the skirts (of smb.) смыть позорное пятно (с кого-л.) ;
    восстановить (чью-л.) репутацию;
    to clear the decks (for action) мор. приготовиться к бою (перен. к действиям) deck: on ~ амер. готовый к действиям;
    to clear the decks (for action) мор. приготовиться к бою;
    перен. приготовиться к действиям ~ очищать(ся) ;
    расчищать;
    to clear the air разрядить атмосферу;
    положить конец недоразумениям;
    to clear the dishes убирать посуду со стола;
    to clear the table убирать со стола to ~ the skirts (of smb.) смыть позорное пятно (с кого-л.) ;
    восстановить (чью-л.) репутацию;
    to clear the decks (for action) мор. приготовиться к бою (перен. к действиям) ~ очищать(ся) ;
    расчищать;
    to clear the air разрядить атмосферу;
    положить конец недоразумениям;
    to clear the dishes убирать посуду со стола;
    to clear the table убирать со стола to ~ the way подготовить почву;
    to clear one's expenses покрыть свои расходы ~ up выяснять ~ up приводить в порядок ~ up раскрывать ~ ясный (об уме) ;
    to get away clear отделаться ~ распродавать (товар) ;
    great reductions in order to clear большая скидка с целью распродажи in ~ тех. в свету in ~ открытым текстом, в незашифрованном виде ~ off разг. убираться;
    just clear off at once! убирайтесь немедленно! to keep ~ (of smb.) остерегаться, избегать ( кого-л.) ~ ясно;
    to see one's way clear не иметь затруднений ~ не задеть, проехать или перескочить через барьер, не задев его;
    to clear an obstacle взять препятствие;
    this horse can clear 5 feet эта лошадь берет барьер в 5 футов ~ совсем, целиком (тж. несколько усиливает знач. наречий away, off, through при глаголах) ;
    three feet clear целых три фута up выяснять;
    распутывать (дело) up прибирать, убирать up проясняться ( о погоде) up: up prep вверх по, по направлению к( источнику, центру, столице и т. п.) ;
    up the river вверх по реке;
    up the hill в гору;
    up the steps вверх по лестнице ~ prep вдоль по;
    вглубь;
    up the street по улице;
    to travel up (the) country ехать вглубь страны ~ вздорожание ~ спорт. впереди;
    he is two points up он на два очка впереди своего противника ~ разг. вскакивать ~ идущий, поднимающийся вверх ~ поезд, автобус и т. п., идущий в Лондон, в большой город или на север ~ prep к северу, в северном направлении ~ направляющийся в крупный центр или на север (особ. о поезде) ;
    up train поезд, идущий в Лондон или большой город ~ повышающийся ~ разг. поднимать;
    повышать (цены) ~ подъем ~ prep против (течения, ветра и т. п.) ;
    up the wind против ветра;
    to row up the stream грести против течения ~ указывает на близость или сходство: he is up to his father as a scientist как ученый он не уступает своему отцу ~ указывает на истечение срока, завершение или результат действия: Parliament is up сессия парламента закрылась ~ указывает на нахождение наверху или на более высокое положение наверху;
    выше;
    high up in the air высоко в небе или в воздухе ~ указывает на переход из горизонтального положения в вертикальное или от состояния покоя к деятельности: he is up он встал ~ указывает на подъем наверх, вверх;
    he went up он пошел наверх;
    up and down вверх и вниз;
    взад и вперед ;
    hands up! руки вверх! ~ указывает на приближение: a boy came up подошел мальчик ~ указывает на совершение действия: something is up что-то происходит;
    что-то затевается;
    what's up? в чем дело?, что случилось? ~ указывает на увеличение, повышение в цене, в чине, в значении и т. п. выше;
    the corn is up хлеб подорожал;
    age 12 up от 12 лет и старше ~ успех ~ шипучий( о напитках) up: ~ там и сям;
    см. тж. up

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > clear

  • 9 return

    1.
    [rɪ'tɜːn]intransitive verb
    1) (come back) zurückkommen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back) zurückgehen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back by vehicle) zurückfahren; zurückkehren (geh.)

    return home — wieder nach Hause kommen/gehen/fahren/zurückkehren

    return to work — (after holiday or strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    2) (revert)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (bring back) zurückbringen; zurückgeben [geliehenen/gestohlenen Gegenstand, gekaufte Ware]; [wieder] zurückschicken [unzustellbaren Brief]; (hand back, refuse) zurückweisen [Scheck]

    returned with thanks — mit Dank zurück

    ‘return to sender’ — (on letter) "zurück an Absender"

    2) (restore)

    return something to its original state or condition — etwas wieder in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzen

    3) (yield) abwerfen [Gewinn]
    4) (give back something similar) erwidern [Besuch, Gruß, Liebe, Gewehrfeuer]; sich revanchieren für (ugs.) [Freundlichkeit, Gefallen]; zurückgeben [Schlag]
    5) (elect) wählen [Kandidaten]
    6) (Sport) zurückschlagen [Ball]; (throw back) zurückwerfen
    7) (answer) erwidern; entgegnen
    8) (declare)

    return a verdict of guilty/not guilty — [Geschworene:] auf "schuldig"/"nicht schuldig" erkennen

    3. noun
    1) (coming back) Rückkehr, die; (to home) Heimkehr, die

    return to health — Genesung, die (geh.)

    many happy returns [of the day]! — herzlichen Glückwunsch [zum Geburtstag]!

    2)

    by return [of post] — postwendend

    3) (ticket) Rückfahrkarte, die

    return[s] — Ertrag, Gewinn, der (on, from aus)

    return on capital — Kapitalgewinn, der

    5) (bringing back) Zurückbringen, das; (of property, goods, book) Rückgabe, die (to an + Akk.)
    6) (giving back of something similar) Erwiderung, die

    receive/get something in return [for something] — etwas [für etwas] bekommen

    press return — Return od. die Returntaste drücken

    return key — Returntaste, die

    * * *
    [rə'tə:n] 1. verb
    1) (to come or go back: He returns home tomorrow; He returned to London from Paris yesterday; The pain has returned.) zurückkehren
    2) (to give, send, put etc (something) back where it came from: He returned the book to its shelf; Don't forget to return the books you borrowed.) zurückstellen,-geben
    3) (I'll return to this topic in a minute.) zurückkommen
    4) (to do (something) which has been done to oneself: She hit him and he returned the blow; He said how nice it was to see her again, and she returned the compliment.) zurückgeben
    5) ((of voters) to elect (someone) to Parliament.) wählen
    6) ((of a jury) to give (a verdict): The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.) aussprechen
    7) ((in tennis etc) to hit (a ball) back to one's opponent: She returned his serve.) zurückschlagen
    2. noun
    1) (the act of returning: On our return, we found the house had been burgled; ( also adjective) a return journey.) die Rückkehr; Rück-...
    2) (especially in United Kingdom, a round-trip ticket, a return ticket: Do you want a single or a return?) die Rückfahrkarte
    •
    - academic.ru/62025/returnable">returnable
    - return match
    - return ticket
    - by return of post
    - by return
    - in return for
    - in return
    - many happy returns of the day
    - many happy returns
    * * *
    re·turn
    [rɪˈtɜ:n, AM -ˈtɜ:rn]
    I. n
    1. (to a place/time) Rückkehr f (to zu + dat), Wiederkehr f geh
    \return home Heimkehr f
    after his \return from the war,... nachdem er aus dem Krieg zurückgekehrt war,...
    \return to school Schulbeginn m
    2. (reoccurrence) of an illness Wiederauftreten nt
    3. (giving back) Rückgabe f
    \return of goods (by post etc.) Warenrücksendung f; (handed back) Rückgabe f
    by \return [of post] BRIT, AUS postwendend
    4. (recompense) Gegenleistung f
    a small \return for your kindness ein kleines Zeichen der Dankbarkeit für Ihre Zuvorkommenheit
    in \return for your cooperation we will give you a free gift als Anerkennung für Ihre Mitarbeit erhalten Sie ein Geschenk von uns
    5. BRIT, AUS (ticket) Hin- und Rückfahrkarte f, Retourbillet nt SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR a. Retourfahrkarte f
    day \return Tagesfahrkarte f
    first-class/second-class \return Hin- und Rückfahrkarte f erster/zweiter Klasse
    weekend \return Wochenendkarte f
    6. SPORT (stroke) Rückschlag m
    \return of serve Return m
    7. ECON (proceeds) Gewinn m, Ertrag m, Rendite f
    \returns on capital Rendite f
    \return of investment Investitionsrückfluss m
    return per day/month/week FIN Tages-/Monats-/Wochenrendite f
    law of diminishing \returns Gesetzmäßigkeit f vom abnehmenden Ertragszuwachs
    8. POL (election) Wahl f [eines Parlamentsabgeordneten]
    his \return to power seine Wiederwahl
    ▪ the \returns pl die Wahlergebnisse
    ▪ \returns pl Rücksendungen pl, Retourwaren pl, Remittenden pl
    11. no pl COMPUT (key on keyboard) Return, Return-Taste f, Eingabetaste f
    12. FIN
    [income] tax \return [Einkommens]steuererklärung f
    13. (end of line indication) Zeilenbruch m
    14. COMPUT (instruction) Rücksprung m
    15.
    ▶ to do sth by \return BRIT etw sofort tun
    ▶ many happy \returns [of the day] herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
    II. adj attr, inv postage, flight, trip Rück-
    III. vi
    1. (come/go back) zurückkehren, zurückkommen; ( fig)
    is there any hope that peace will \return? besteht die Hoffnung, dass es je wieder Frieden geben wird?
    to \return home (come back home) nach Hause kommen; (go back home) nach Hause gehen; (after long absence) heimkehren
    ▪ to \return from somewhere von irgendwo zurückkommen [o zurückkehren]
    ▪ to \return to somewhere irgendwohin zurückkehren
    \return to sender zurück an Absender
    2. (reoccur) pain, illness wiederkommen
    ▪ to \return to sth etw wieder aufnehmen
    she \returned to making her own clothes sie nähte sich ihre Kleider wieder selbst
    she longed to \return to her gardening sie sehnte sich danach, wieder im Garten zu arbeiten
    to \return to office [or power] wiedergewählt werden
    to \return to a problem sich akk einem Problem wieder zuwenden
    to \return to a subject auf ein Thema zurückkommen
    to \return to a task sich akk einer Aufgabe wieder widmen
    to \return to one's old ways in seine alten Gewohnheiten zurückfallen
    to \return to normal things sich wieder normalisieren; person wieder zu seinem alten Ich zurückfinden
    IV. vt
    ▪ to \return sth etw zurückgeben
    when are you going to \return the money you owe me? wann zahlst du mir das Geld zurück, das du mir schuldest?
    ▪ to \return sth to sb/sth (in person) jdm/etw etw zurückgeben; (by post) jdm/etw etw zurückschicken
    to \return goods Waren zurücksenden
    to \return sth to its place etw an seinen Platz zurückstellen
    ▪ to \return sth etw erwidern
    to \return a blow/a salute/a wave zurückschlagen/-grüßen/-winken
    to \return sb's call jdn zurückrufen
    to \return a compliment/a greeting ein Kompliment/einen Gruß erwidern
    to \return a favour sich akk revanchieren
    let me \return your favour jetzt tue ich dir einen Gefallen
    to \return fire das Feuer erwidern
    to \return good for evil Böses mit Gutem vergelten
    to \return sb's love jds Liebe erwidern
    3. (place back)
    ▪ to \return sth somewhere etw irgendwohin zurückstellen [o zurücklegen]
    to \return animals to the wild Tiere auswildern
    4. POL
    ▪ to \return sb BRIT jdn wählen
    to \return sb to power [or office] jdn wieder ins Amt wählen
    \returning officer Wahlleiter(in) m(f)
    5. FIN
    to \return a profit einen Gewinn einbringen [o abwerfen
    to \return a verdict of guilty/not guilty einen Schuldspruch/Freispruch aussprechen
    to \return a volley einen Volley annehmen
    * * *
    [rɪ'tɜːn]
    1. vi
    (come back person, vehicle) zurück- or wiederkommen, zurück- or wiederkehren (geh); (go back, person) zurückgehen; (vehicle) zurückfahren; (symptoms, doubts, fears) wiederkommen, wieder auftreten; (property = pass back to) zurückfallen (to an +acc)

    to return to London/the town/the group — nach London/in die Stadt/zur Gruppe zurückkehren

    to return to (one's) work (after short pause) — wieder an seine Arbeit gehen; (after strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    to return home — nach Hause kommen/gehen, heimkehren (geh)

    2. vt
    1) (= give back) sth borrowed, stolen, lost zurückgeben (to sb jdm); (= bring or take back) zurückbringen (to sb jdm); (= put back) zurücksetzen/-stellen/-legen; (= send back) (to an +acc) letter etc zurückschicken or -senden; (= refuse) cheque nicht einlösen; ball zurückschlagen/-werfen; sound, light zurückwerfen; salute, visit, sb's love, compliment erwidern

    to return a/sb's blow — zurückschlagen

    to return a book to the shelf/box — ein Buch auf das Regal zurückstellen/in die Kiste zurücklegen

    to return goods to the shop —

    to return thanks (form) — danksagen, Dank sagen

    I hope to return your kindness —

    2) (= reply) erwidern, zurückgeben
    3) (= declare) details of income angeben

    to return a verdict of guilty (on sb) (Jur) — (jdn) schuldig sprechen, einen Schuldspruch (gegen jdn) fällen

    to return a verdict of murder on sb (Jur) — jdn des Mordes für schuldig erklären

    4) (FIN) income einbringen; profit, interest abwerfen
    5) (Brit PARL) candidate wählen
    3. n
    1) (= coming/going back of person, vehicle, seasons) Rückkehr f, Wiederkehr f (geh); (of illness) Wiederauftreten nt

    a return to one's old habits — ein Rückfall m in seine alten Gewohnheiten

    many happy returns (of the day)! — herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

    See:
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    2) (= giving back) Rückgabe f; (= bringing or taking back) Zurückbringen nt; (= putting back) Zurücksetzen/-stellen/-legen nt; (= sending back) Zurückschicken nt or -senden nt; (= refusal of cheque) Nichteinlösen nt; (of ball) Zurückschlagen nt/-werfen nt; (of salute, compliment, sb's love) Erwiderung f
    3) (Brit) Rückfahrkarte f; (AVIAT) Rückflugticket nt
    4) (= profit from investments, shareson aus) Einkommen nt; (on capital) Ertrag m, Gewinn m; (= product from land, mine etc) Ertrag m

    return on capital (Fin) — Kapitalertrag m, Rendite f

    5) (fig

    = recompense) in return — dafür

    6) (= act of declaring of verdict, election results) Verkündung f; (= report) Bericht m

    the return of the jury — ≈ das Urteil der Schöffen

    7) (Brit PARL of candidate) Wahl f (to in +acc)
    8) (SPORT: game, match) Rückspiel nt; (= stroke) Rückschlag m; (TENNIS) Return m; (= throw) Rückwurf m; (= return pass) Rückpass m

    to make a good return — den Ball gut zurückschlagen/-werfen

    9) (COMM: returned item) zurückgebrachte Ware; (THEAT) zurückgebrachte Karte; (= book) Remittende f
    10) (= carriage return COMPUT) Zeilenendschaltung f; (on typewriter) Rücklauftaste f
    11) (COMPUT: symbol) Absatzmarke f
    * * *
    return [rıˈtɜːn; US rıˈtɜrn]
    A v/i
    1. zurückkehren, -kommen ( beide:
    from aus, von;
    to zu, nach), wiederkommen, -kehren (beide auch fig), fig wieder auftreten (Krankheit etc):
    return to work an den Arbeitsplatz zurückkehren;
    a) auf ein Thema, ein Vorhaben etc zurückkommen,
    b) in eine Gewohnheit etc zurückfallen, zurückkehren zu,
    c) in einen Zustand zurückkehren, zu Staub etc werden:
    return to health wieder gesund werden;
    normal life was returning to the capital in der Hauptstadt kehrte wieder das normale Leben ein;
    I can always return to my original profession ich kann jederzeit in meinen alten Beruf zurückgehen; → normal B 2
    2. zurückfallen (to an akk) (Besitz)
    3. antworten
    4. “return to sender” Postwesen: „zurück an Absender“
    5. Tennis etc: retournieren
    B v/t
    1. einen Besuch, einen Gruß, jemandes Liebe etc erwidern, ein Kompliment etc auch zurückgeben:
    return fire MIL das Feuer erwidern;
    2. vergelten: → evil C 2
    3. zurückgeben, Geld auch zurückzahlen
    4. zurückschicken, -senden:
    returned letter unzustellbarer Brief
    5. (to) leere Flaschen etc zurückbringen (in den Laden etc), ein Buch etc zurückstellen (in das Regal etc), einen Schalter etc zurückstellen (auf akk)
    6. einbringen, (er)bringen, Gewinn abwerfen, Zinsen tragen:
    return a result ein Ergebnis haben oder zeitigen
    7. JUR
    a) (Vollzugs)Bericht erstatten über (akk)
    b) einen Gerichtsbefehl (mit Vollzugsbericht) vorlegen (to dat)
    8. JUR einen Spruch fällen (Geschworene): → verdict 1
    9. ein Votum abgeben
    10. (amtlich) erklären für oder als, jemanden arbeitsunfähig etc schreiben:
    11. ( besonders zur Steuerveranlagung) erklären, angeben (at mit):
    he returned his income at £20,000
    12. (amtlich) melden
    13. eine amtliche Liste etc vorlegen oder veröffentlichen
    14. POL Br
    b) jemanden als Abgeordneten wählen ( to Parliament ins Parlament)
    15. umwenden, umkehren
    16. Tennis etc: einen Ball retournieren
    17. ein Echo, Strahlen zurückwerfen
    18. WIRTSCH einen Scheck zurückweisen
    19. besonders TECH zurückführen, -leiten
    20. ARCH wiederkehren lassen:
    a) vorspringen lassen
    b) zurücksetzen
    21. Kartenspiel: eine Farbe nachspielen
    C s
    1. Rückkehr f, -kunft f, Wiederkehr f (auch fig):
    by return (of post) Br postwendend, umgehend;
    on my return bei meiner Rückkehr;
    (I wish you) many happy returns of the day herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag;
    the return to democratic conditions die Rückkehr zu demokratischen Verhältnissen
    2. Wiederauftreten n:
    return of cold weather Kälterückfall m
    3. besonders Br
    a) Rückfahrkarte f
    b) FLUG Rückflugticket n
    4. Erwiderung f, Rückgabe f:
    on sale or return WIRTSCH in Kommission
    5. Rücksendung f (auch Ware):
    a) Rückgut n,
    b) (Buchhandel) Remittenden
    6. zurückgewiesene oder zurückgesandte Sache
    7. WIRTSCH Rückzahlung f, -erstattung f:
    return (of premium) (Versicherung) Ristorno n, Prämienrückzahlung
    8. Entgelt n, Gegenleistung f, Vergütung f, Entschädigung f:
    in return dafür;
    expect nothing in return keine Gegenleistung erwarten;
    in return for (als Gegenleistung) für;
    without return unentgeltlich
    9. meist pl WIRTSCH
    a) Umsatz m:
    quick returns rascher Umsatz
    b) Ertrag m, Einnahme f, Gewinn m, Verzinsung f:
    yield ( oder bring) a return Nutzen abwerfen, sich rentieren
    10. Erwiderung f (eines Besuches, eines Grußes, der Liebe etc):
    return of thanks Tischgebet n
    11. (amtlicher) Bericht, (statistischer) Ausweis, Aufstellung f:
    official returns amtliche Ziffern
    12. (Steuer- etc) Erklärung f
    a) Umfrageergebnis n
    b) Antwortenrücklauf m
    14. JUR
    a) Vorlage f (eines Gerichtsbefehls etc) (mit Vollzugsbericht)
    b) Vollzugsbericht m (des Gerichtsvollziehers etc)
    c) Stellungnahme f
    15. POL
    a) Wahlergebnis n
    b) Br Einzug m ( to Parliament ins Parlament), Wahl f (eines Abgeordneten)
    16. Zurückbringen n, -stellen n
    17. TECH
    a) Rückführung f, -leitung f
    b) Rücklauf m, -kehr f
    c) ELEK Rückleitung f
    18. Biegung f, Krümmung f
    19. ARCH
    a) Wiederkehr f
    b) vorspringender oder zurückgesetzter Teil
    c) (Seiten)Flügel m
    d) Kröpfung f
    20. Tennis etc: Rückschlag m, Return m
    21. SPORT Rückspiel n
    22. Kartenspiel: Nachspielen n (einer Farbe)
    D adj
    1. Rück…:
    return bout ( oder fight) (Boxen) Revanche-, Rückkampf m;
    return cable ELEK Rückleitung(skabel) f(n);
    return cargo WIRTSCH Rückfracht f, -ladung f;
    return circuit ELEK Rücklaufschaltung f;
    return current ELEK Rückstrom m;
    return game ( oder match) SPORT Rückspiel n;
    return journey Rückreise f;
    by return mail US postwendend, umgehend;
    return postage Rückporto n;
    return pulley TECH Umlenkrolle f;
    return spring Rückholfeder f;
    a) Rückfahrkarte f,
    b) FLUG Rückflugticket n;
    return valve TECH Rückschlagventil n;
    return visit Gegenbesuch m;
    return wire ELEK Rückleiter m; → booking 1
    2. zurückgebogen:
    a) TECH U-Röhre f,
    b) Haarnadelkurve f (einer Straße)
    3. return key COMPUT Eingabetaste f
    4. return day JUR Verhandlungstermin m
    ret. abk
    * * *
    1.
    [rɪ'tɜːn]intransitive verb
    1) (come back) zurückkommen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back) zurückgehen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back by vehicle) zurückfahren; zurückkehren (geh.)

    return home — wieder nach Hause kommen/gehen/fahren/zurückkehren

    return to work — (after holiday or strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    2. transitive verb
    1) (bring back) zurückbringen; zurückgeben [geliehenen/gestohlenen Gegenstand, gekaufte Ware]; [wieder] zurückschicken [unzustellbaren Brief]; (hand back, refuse) zurückweisen [Scheck]

    ‘return to sender’ — (on letter) "zurück an Absender"

    return something to its original state or condition — etwas wieder in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzen

    3) (yield) abwerfen [Gewinn]
    4) (give back something similar) erwidern [Besuch, Gruß, Liebe, Gewehrfeuer]; sich revanchieren für (ugs.) [Freundlichkeit, Gefallen]; zurückgeben [Schlag]
    5) (elect) wählen [Kandidaten]
    6) (Sport) zurückschlagen [Ball]; (throw back) zurückwerfen
    7) (answer) erwidern; entgegnen

    return a verdict of guilty/not guilty — [Geschworene:] auf "schuldig"/"nicht schuldig" erkennen

    3. noun
    1) (coming back) Rückkehr, die; (to home) Heimkehr, die

    return to health — Genesung, die (geh.)

    many happy returns [of the day]! — herzlichen Glückwunsch [zum Geburtstag]!

    2)

    by return [of post] — postwendend

    3) (ticket) Rückfahrkarte, die

    return[s] — Ertrag, Gewinn, der (on, from aus)

    return on capital — Kapitalgewinn, der

    5) (bringing back) Zurückbringen, das; (of property, goods, book) Rückgabe, die (to an + Akk.)
    6) (giving back of something similar) Erwiderung, die

    receive/get something in return [for something] — etwas [für etwas] bekommen

    press return — Return od. die Returntaste drücken

    return key — Returntaste, die

    * * *
    (ticket) adj.
    hin und zurück adj. (mail) n.
    Rücksendung f. adj.
    Rückhol- präfix. n.
    Ertrag -ë m.
    Rentabilität f.
    Rückgabe -n f.
    Rückkehr -en f.
    Rücklauf -¨e m.
    Wiederkehr f. v.
    erwidern (Besuch, Gefälligkeit) v.
    erwidern (Feuer - Militär) v.
    rückkehren v.
    rückspringen v.
    wiederkehren v.
    zurück gehen v.
    zurück holen v.
    zurück zahlen v.
    zurückholen (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.
    zurückkehren v.
    zurückschicken v.
    zurückzahlen (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

    English-german dictionary > return

  • 10 set

    I [set] n
    1. 1) комплект, набор; коллекция

    in sets - в комплектах, в наборах

    a set of surgical instruments [of weights] - набор хирургических инструментов [гирь]

    a set of exchange - ком. комплект экземпляров переводного векселя

    a set of teeth - а) зубы, ряд зубов; б) вставные зубы, вставная челюсть

    a set of sails - мор. комплект парусов

    well-chosen [valuable] set - хорошо подобранная [ценная] коллекция

    2) сервиз
    3) гарнитур
    4) прибор

    toilet /dressing-table/ set - туалетный прибор

    writing /desk/ set - письменный прибор

    5) (полный) комплект издания

    a set of Pravda - комплект «Правды»

    2. 1) серия, ряд

    a set of assumptions - ряд допущений /предположений/

    2) совокупность
    3. 1) группа ( лиц); состав

    a poor set of players - плохая команда, плохие игроки

    four sets of dancers /partners/ - четыре пары танцоров

    a new set of customers - новый круг покупателей /клиентов/

    2) набор, состав (учащихся, студентов и т. п.)
    3) компания, круг

    the political [the literary] set - политические [литературные] круги

    the smart /the fashionable/ set - а) законодатели мод; б) фешенебельное общество

    gambling set - картёжники, завсегдатаи игорных домов

    he belonged to the best set in the college - в колледже он принадлежал к числу избранных

    he is not in their set, he does not belong to their set - он не принадлежит к их кругу [см. тж. 4)]

    4) банда, шайка

    he is not in their set, he does not belong to their set - он не из их шайки [см. тж. 3)]

    4. 1) театр., кино декорация

    set designer - художник по декорациям; художник кинофильма

    set dresser - кино декоратор

    2) кино съёмочная площадка
    5. спец. прибор, аппарат; установка, агрегат
    6. приёмник
    7. фигура ( в танце); последовательность фигур

    we danced three or four sets of quadrilles - мы протанцевали три или четыре кадрили

    8. завивка и укладка волос
    9. сюита духовной музыки (месса и т. п.)
    10. редк. меблированная квартира
    11. дор. брусчатка, каменная шашка
    12. спорт.
    1) партия ( часть матча)
    2) сет ( теннис)
    13. спорт. расстановка игроков
    14. геол. свита ( пород)
    15. горн. оклад крепи
    16. мат. множество
    17. мат. семейство ( кривых)
    18. полигр. гарнитура шрифта
    19. полигр. набор
    20. карт. недобор взяток ( бридж)
    II
    1. [set] n
    1. тк. sing общие очертания, линия

    the set of his back [of his shoulders] - линия спины [плеч]

    the set of the hills - линия /очертание/ гор

    2. строение; конфигурация; (тело)сложение

    the set of smb.'s head - посадка головы

    3. тк. sing
    1) направление

    the set of a tide [of a current, of wind] - направление прилива [течения реки, ветра]

    2) направленность; тенденция

    the set of public opinion /of public feeling/ - тенденция общественного мнения

    a set towards mathematics - склонность к математике; математический склад ума

    3) психол. направленность, установка ( на принятие наркотика)
    4) наклон, отклонение

    a set to the right - отклонение /наклон/ вправо

    4. тк. sing поэт. заход, закат ( солнца)
    5. музыкальный вечер (особ. джазовой музыки)
    6. сад. молодой побег ( растения); завязь ( плода)
    7. с.-х.
    1) = set onion
    2) посадочный материал (клубни картофеля и т. п.)
    8. охот. стойка
    9. тех. разводка для пил, развод зубьев пилы, ширина развода
    10. стр. осадка ( сооружений)
    11. тех. остаточная деформация
    12. тех. обжимка, державка
    13. полигр. толщина ( литеры)

    ♢ to be at a dead set - завязнуть, застрять

    to make a dead set at smb. - а) обрушиваться /нападать/ на кого-л.; резко критиковать кого-л.; ≅ вцепиться в кого-л. зубами и когтями; б) делать всё возможное, чтобы завоевать кого-л. /завоевать чью-л. любовь, дружбу, доверие и т. п./; в) вешаться кому-л. на шею, навязывать свою любовь, пытаться влюбить в себя (обыкн. о женщине); г) охот. делать стойку ( о собаке)

    2. [set] a
    1. неподвижный; застывший

    with a set face /countenance/ - с каменным лицом

    2. 1) определённый, твёрдо установленный, постоянный

    set wage - твёрдый оклад, постоянная заработная плата

    the hall holds a set number of people - зал вмещает определённое количество людей

    2) неизменный, постоянный; незыблемый

    set programme - постоянная /неизменная/ программа

    to dine at a set hour - обедать в определённые часы /в одно и то же время/ [ср. тж. 4]

    to be set in one's ways [ideas] - никогда не изменять своим привычкам [взглядам]

    3) шаблонный; стереотипный

    in set terms /phrases/ - в шаблонных /избитых/ выражениях, казённым /официальным/ языком

    3. установленный (законом, традицией)
    4. заранее установленный, оговорённый

    at set hours - в установленные часы [ср. тж. 2, 2)]

    set subject - обязательная тема (для сочинения и т. п.)

    set visit - визит ( официального лица) по предварительной договорённости

    5. упрямый, настойчивый; упорный

    set rains - непрекращающиеся /упорные/ дожди

    a man of set opinions - человек, упорно придерживающийся /не меняющий/ своих взглядов

    his jaw looked too square and set - ≅ его лицо выражало упрямство

    6. умышленный, преднамеренный

    on set purpose - уст. нарочно

    7. разг. готовый, горящий желанием (сделать что-л.)

    all set - шутл. ≅ в полной боевой готовности

    all set to do smth. - горящий желанием сделать что-л.

    we were set for an early morning start - мы подготовились к тому, чтобы выступить рано утром

    is everyone set? - все готовы?

    8. встроенный, прикреплённый

    ♢ set affair - вечеринка с очень хорошим угощением

    set dinner - а) званый обед; б) обед за общим столом ( в ресторане); в) общий обед, не включающий порционные блюда ( в ресторане)

    to be hard set - находиться в затруднительном положении /в стеснённых обстоятельствах/

    to be sharp set - быть голодным, проголодаться

    to get set - толстеть, терять стройность

    3. [set] v (set)
    I
    1. 1) ставить, помещать, класть; положить, поставить

    to set a cup [a glass, a dish] (down) on the table - (по)ставить чашку [стакан, блюдо] на стол

    to set smth. in its place again - поставить /положить/ что-л. на своё место

    to set a chair at /by/ the table - поставить стул около стола /к столу/

    to set chairs for visitors - (по)ставить /расставить/ стулья для гостей

    to set one's hand on smb.'s shoulder - класть /положить/ руку на чьё-л. плечо

    to set a trap /snare/ - поставить силки

    to set an ambush - воен. устроить засаду

    to set a crown on smb.'s head - возложить корону на чью-л. голову

    to set smb. on a pedestal - возвести кого-л. на пьедестал

    he took off his hat and set it on the floor - он снял шляпу и положил её на пол

    2) ставить на какое-л. место; придавать ( то или иное) значение

    to set Vergil before Homer - ставить /считать/ Вергилия выше Гомера

    to set smb. among the great writers - считать кого-л. одним из великих писателей

    to set smb., smth. at naught - а) ни во что не ставить, презирать кого-л., что-л.; to set smb.'s good advice at naught - пренебречь чьим-л. разумным советом; б) издеваться над кем-л., чем-л.

    to set much /a great deal/ on smth. - придавать чему-л. большое значение

    he sets a great deal by daily exercise - он придаёт большое значение ежедневным упражнениям

    to set little on smth. - придавать чему-л. мало значения

    I don't set myself up to be better than you - я не считаю себя лучше /выше/ вас

    2. обыкн. pass помещаться, располагаться

    a house set in a beautiful garden - дом, стоящий в прекрасном саду

    a little town set north of London - маленький городок, расположенный к северу от Лондона

    blue eyes set deep in a white face - голубые, глубоко посаженные глаза на бледном лице

    the pudding sets heavily on the stomach - пудинг тяжело ложится на желудок

    3. сажать, усаживать

    to set smb. by the fire - усадить кого-л. у камина /у костра/

    to set smb. on horseback - посадить кого-л. на лошадь

    to set a king on a throne - посадить /возвести/ короля на трон

    4. насаживать, надевать
    5. (in) вставлять
    6. 1) направлять; поворачивать

    to set smb. on the right [wrong] track - направить кого-л. по правильному [ложному] следу

    to set the police after a criminal - направить полицию по следам преступника

    2) иметь ( то или иное) направление, ( ту или иную) тенденцию

    public opinion is setting with [against] him - общественное мнение за [против] него, общественное мнение складывается в [не в] его пользу

    7. подготавливать; снаряжать; приводить в состояние готовности

    to set the scene - описать (в общих чертах) обстановку /положение/

    to set the stage - а) расставлять декорации; б) (под)готовить почву (для чего-л.)

    to set the stage for the application of a new method of therapy - подготовить почву для нового метода лечения

    to be set for smth. - быть готовым к чему-л.

    it was all set now - теперь всё было готово /подготовлено/

    it /the stage/ was all set for a first-class row - всё предвещало первостатейный скандал

    I was all set for the talk - я готовился к этому разговору; я знал, что меня ждёт /мне предстоит/ этот разговор

    he was all set for a brilliant career - перед ним открывалась блестящая карьера, его ждала блестящая карьера

    set! - спорт. внимание!, приготовиться!

    8. устанавливать, определять, назначать

    to set a limit /boundary/ - устанавливать границы /пределы/

    to set a limit to smth. - установить предел чему-л., пресечь что-л.

    to set bounds to smth. - ограничивать что-л.

    to set the pace - а) устанавливать скорость шага /бега/; б) служить образцом, примером; [см. тж. 10]

    to set the style /tone/ - задавать тон

    to set the course - спорт. измерить дистанцию

    to set a time [a date] - назначить время [дату]

    to set a price on smb.'s head /on smb.'s life/ - оценивать чью-л. голову /жизнь/, назначать сумму вознаграждения за поимку кого-л.

    he sets no limit to his ambitions - его честолюбие безгранично /не знает пределов/

    the time and date of the meeting have not yet been set - время и день собрания ещё не назначены

    then it's all set for Thursday at my place - значит решено - в четверг у меня

    9. 1) диал., часто ирон. идти, быть к лицу

    do you think this bonnet sets me? - как вы думаете, идёт мне эта шляпка?

    2) редк. сидеть ( о платье)

    to set well /badly/ - хорошо [плохо] сидеть (на ком-л.)

    10. тех. устанавливать, регулировать

    to set the camera lens to infinity - фото устанавливать объектив на бесконечность

    to set the spark-gap - авт. отрегулировать искровой промежуток

    to set the pace - регулировать скорость [см. тж. 8]

    11. мор. пеленговать
    12. стр. производить кладку
    II А
    1. садиться, заходить ( о небесных светилах)

    his star has /is/ set - образн. его звезда закатилась

    2. ставить (стрелку, часы и т. п.)

    to set a clock /a watch/, to set the hands of a clock - (по)ставить часы (правильно)

    to set one's watch by the town clock [by the time-signal] - ставить свои часы по городским [по сигналу поверки времени]

    to set an alarm-clock - поставить /завести/ будильник

    to set a thermostat at seventy - поставить стрелку термостата на семьдесят

    to set the speedometer to zero - авт. установить спидометр на нуль

    I want you to set your watch by mine - я хочу, чтобы вы поставили свои часы по моим

    3. 1) ставить (задачи, цели и т. п.)
    2) задавать (уроки, вопросы и т. п.)

    the teacher set his boys a difficult problem - учитель задал ученикам трудную задачу

    what questions were set in the examination? - какие вопросы задавали на экзамене?

    4. подавать ( пример)

    to set good [bad] examples - подавать хорошие [дурные] примеры

    5. 1) вводить ( моду)
    2) вводить, внедрять (модель и т. п.)

    to set a new model - внедрять новую модель /-ый образец/

    6. 1) стискивать, сжимать (зубы, губы)

    he set his teeth doggedly [hard] - он упрямо [крепко] стиснул зубы; б) принять твёрдое решение; упрямо стоять на своём, заупрямиться

    with jaws set in an effort to control himself - стиснув зубы, он пытался овладеть собой

    2) сжиматься (о губах, зубах)
    7. застывать, становиться неподвижным (о лице, глазах и т. п.)
    8. 1) твердеть ( о гипсе)
    2) стр. схватываться (о цементе, бетоне)

    the mortar joining these bricks hasn't set yet - известковый раствор, скрепляющий эти кирпичи, ещё не затвердел

    3) застывать (о желе, креме)
    4) заставлять твердеть или застывать (известь и т. п.)
    9. 1) загустеть; свёртываться (о крови, белке); створаживаться ( о молоке)
    2) сгущать (кровь и т. п.); створаживать ( молоко)
    10. 1) оформиться, сформироваться (о фигуре, характере)

    his mind and character are completely set - у него зрелый ум и вполне сложившийся характер

    2) формировать (характер и т. п.); развивать ( мускулатуру)

    too much exercise sets a boy's muscles prematurely - от чрезмерного увлечения гимнастикой мускулы подростка развиваются слишком быстро ( опережая рост)

    11. ставить ( рекорд)

    he set a record for the half mile - он установил рекорд (в беге) на полмили

    12. накрывать ( на стол)

    he quickly set the table (for three) - он быстро накрыл стол (на три персоны)

    the hostess ordered to have a place set for the guest - хозяйка распорядилась поставить прибор для (нового) гостя

    13. 1) вправлять (кости, суставы)

    to set a broken leg [arm, a dislocated joint] - вправить ногу [руку, вывихнутый сустав]

    2) срастаться ( о кости)
    14. вставлять в оправу ( драгоценные камни)

    to set diamonds - вставлять в оправу /оправлять/ бриллианты

    15. приводить в порядок, поправлять (шляпу, платок, галстук, волосы)
    16. укладывать ( волосы); сделать укладку

    to set one's hair - делать причёску, укладывать волосы

    2) муз. аранжировать

    to set a piece of music for the violin - переложить музыкальную пьесу для скрипки

    to set a melody half a tone higher - транспонировать мелодию на полтона выше

    18. подавать ( сигнал)
    19. точить (нож, бритву и т. п.)
    20. выставлять (часовых и т. п.)

    to set the guard - воен. выставлять караул

    to set guards [sentries, watches] - расставить караульных [часовых, стражу]

    21. высаживать (на берег, остров и т. п.; тж. set ashore)

    to set smb., smth. ashore - а) высаживать кого-л. на берег; б) выгружать что-л. на берег

    22. возлагать ( надежды)

    to set one's hopes on smb. - возлагать надежды на кого-л.

    23. накладывать (запрет, наказание и т. п.)

    to set a veto on smth. - наложить запрет на что-л.

    to set a punishment [a fine] - накладывать взыскание [штраф]

    24. ставить, прикладывать ( печать)

    to set a seal - а) поставить печать; б) наложить отпечаток

    25. сажать (растения, семена)

    to set seed [plants, fruit-trees] - сажать семена [растения, фруктовые деревья]

    the young plants should be set (out) at intervals of six inches - молодые растения следует высаживать на расстоянии шести дюймов друг от друга

    26. 1) приниматься ( о деревьях)
    2) бот. завязываться, образовывать завязи (о плодах, цветах)
    27. разрабатывать, составлять ( экзаменационные материалы)

    they had to set fresh papers - им пришлось составлять новую письменную работу

    to set an examination paper - составлять письменную экзаменационную работу

    to set questions in an examination - составлять вопросы для экзаменационной работы

    to set a book - включить какую-л. книгу в учебную программу

    28. 1) определиться (о направлении ветра, течения и т. п.)
    2) заставлять двигаться (в каком-л. направлении)
    29. делать стойку ( об охотничьих собаках)
    30. 1) сажать ( наседку на яйца)
    2) подкладывать ( яйца под наседку)
    31. сажать в печь ( хлебные изделия)
    32. редк. устанавливаться ( о погоде)
    33. спец. растягивать ( кожу)
    34. закрепить ( краску)
    35. полигр. набирать ( шрифт; тж. set up)

    to set close [wide] - набирать плотно [свободно]

    the editorial was set in boldface type - передовая была набрана жирным шрифтом

    36. налаживать ( станок)
    37. тех. осаживать ( заклёпку)
    38. школ. распределять учеников по параллельным классам или группам в зависимости от способностей
    II Б
    1. 1) to set about ( doing) smth. приниматься за что-л., начинать делать что-л., приступать к чему-л.

    to set about one's work - взяться /приняться/ за работу

    to set about one's packing [getting dinner ready] - начинать упаковывать вещи [готовить обед]

    to set about stamp-collecting [learning the German language] - взяться за собирание марок [изучение немецкого языка]

    I don't know how to set about it - я не знаю, как взяться за это дело /как подступиться к этому/

    2) to set smb. about ( doing) smth. засадить кого-л. за какую-л. работу, заставить кого-л. приняться за что-л., начать что-л.

    to set smb. about a task - заставить кого-л. приступить к выполнению задания

    2. 1) to set to do /doing/ smth. приниматься за что-л., начинать делать что-л.

    to set to work - приступить к работе, приниматься за работу

    they set to fighting [arguing] - они стали драться [спорить]

    2) to set smb. (on) to (do) smth. заставить кого-л. приняться за что-л.; поставить кого-л. на какую-л. работу

    to set smb. to work [to dictation] - усадить кого-л. за работу [за диктант]

    to set smb. to saw wood [to dig a field] - заставить кого-л. пилить дрова [вскапывать поле]

    who(m) did you set to do this? - кому вы поручили сделать это?

    she would do what she was set to do with great thoroughness - она тщательно выполняла то, что ей поручали

    3. to set oneself to smth., to set oneself to do /doing/ smth. энергично взяться за что-л.; твёрдо решить сделать что-л.

    she set herself to put him at his ease - она делала всё возможное, чтобы он чувствовал себя свободно

    it is no pleasant task but let us set ourselves to it - это не очень приятное задание, но давайте приступим к его выполнению

    4. 1) to be set to do smth. быть готовым что-л. сделать

    he was (all) set to go when I came - он уже был (совсем) готов (идти), когда я пришёл

    2) to be set on doing smth. твёрдо решить сделать что-л.
    5. to be set (up) on smth. очень хотеть чего-л.; поставить себе целью добиться чего-л.

    to be dead set on smth. - упорно /страстно/ желать чего-л.

    we didn't much like the idea of his going back to New York but he was set on it - мы не очень одобряли его план вернуться в Нью-Йорк, но он твёрдо решил сделать это

    6. to be set against ( doing) smth., to set oneself against ( doing) smth. быть категорически против чего-л., противиться чему-л.

    he set himself against my proposal - он заупрямился и отказался принять моё предложение

    the mother was violently set against the match - мать была категорически против этого брака

    he (himself) was set against going there - он (сам) упорно отказывался идти туда

    7. 1) to set about /at, (up)on/ smb. нападать, напускаться на кого-л.

    to set upon smb. with blows - наброситься на кого-л. с кулаками

    to set upon smb. with arguments - атаковать кого-л. доводами

    they set upon me like a pack of dogs - они набросились на меня, как свора собак

    I'd set about you myself if I could - если бы я мог, я бы сам отколотил тебя

    2) to set smb. at /on, against/ smb. натравить, напустить кого-л. на кого-л.

    to set the dog on /at/ smb. - натравить на кого-л. собаку

    to set detectives on smb. /on smb.'s tracks/ - установить за кем-л. слежку

    he is trying to set you against me - он старается восстановить вас против меня

    3) to set smb. on to do smth. подбить (на что-л.); подтолкнуть (к чему-л.)

    to set smb. on to commit a crime - толкнуть кого-л. на преступление

    8. to set smth. against smth. книжн.
    1) противопоставлять что-л. чему-л., сравнивать что-л. с чем-л.

    when theory is set against practice - когда теорию противопоставляют практике

    when we set one language against another - когда мы сравниваем один язык с другим

    against the cost of a new car, you can set the considerable saving on repairs and servicing - покупка нового автомобиля стоит денег, но, с другой стороны, это даёт экономию на ремонте и обслуживании

    2) опираться чем-л. обо что-л., упираться

    he set a hand against the door and shoved it - он упёрся рукой в дверь и толкнул её

    9. to set smb. (up) over smb. возвысить кого-л., дать кому-л. власть над кем-л.

    to set smb. (up) over a people - посадить кого-л. на трон, сделать кого-л. королём, дать кому-л. власть над народом

    10. to set oneself down as smb.
    1) выдавать себя за кого-л.
    2) зарегистрироваться, записаться ( в гостинице)
    11. to set smb. down for smb. принимать кого-л. за кого-л.

    to set smb. down for an actor - принять кого-л. за актёра

    he set her down for forty - он считал, что ей лет сорок

    12. to set up for smth. выдавать себя за кого-л.

    to set up for a professional [for a scholar] - выдавать себя за профессионала [за учёного]

    13. to set smth. in motion привести что-л. в движение

    to set a chain reaction in motion - физ. привести в действие цепную реакцию

    14. to set smth. with smth.
    1) осыпать, усеивать что-л. чем-л.; украшать что-л. чем-л.

    to set the top of wall with broken glass - утыкать верхнюю часть стены битым стеклом

    tables set with flowers - столы, украшенные цветами

    the sky set with stars - небо, усеянное звёздами

    a coast set with modern resorts - побережье со множеством современных курортов

    2) засевать что-л. чем-л.
    15. to be set to smth. иметь склонность к чему-л.

    a soul that is set to melancholy - душа, склонная к печали

    16. to set smth. to smth. подносить, прикладывать, приставлять что-л. к чему-л.; приближать что-л. к чему-л.

    to set a match [a lighter] to a cigarette - поднести спичку [зажигалку] к сигарете

    to set one's lips to a glass, to set a glass to one's lips - поднести стакан ко рту

    to set one's hand /one's name, one's signature, one's seal/ to a document - подписать документ

    to set pen to paper - взяться за перо, начать писать

    17. to set smth. apart /aside/ for smb., smth. отводить, предназначать, откладывать что-л. для кого-л., чего-л.

    to set apart funds for some purpose - выделять фонды для какой-л. цели

    to set some food apart for further use - откладывать часть продуктов на будущее

    the rooms set apart for the children were large and beautiful - комнаты, отведённые для детей, были просторны и красивы

    18. to set smth. before smb. излагать что-л. кому-л.

    to set a plan [facts] before smb. - излагать /представлять на рассмотрение/ кому-л. план [факты]

    he set his plan before the council - он изложил /представил/ совету свой план

    III А
    1. в сочетании с последующим прилагательным, наречием или предложным оборотом означает приведение в какое-л. состояние:

    to set a prisoner free /at liberty/ - освободить арестованного

    to set afloat - а) мор. спускать на воду; б) приводить в движение; дать (чему-л.) ход

    anger set afloat all his inner grievances - гнев всколыхнул затаённые обиды

    to set smb. wrong - вводить кого-л. в заблуждение

    set your mind at ease! - не беспокойтесь!

    to set smb.'s mind at rest - успокоить кого-л.

    to set a question /affair/ at rest - разрешить какой-л. вопрос, покончить с каким-л. вопросом

    to set smb.'s fears at rest - рассеять чьи-л. опасения

    to set smb.'s curiosity agog - возбудить /вызвать/ чьё-л. любопытство

    to set smb. on the alert - заставить кого-л. насторожиться

    to set at ready - воен. приводить в готовность

    to set one's affairs [papers, room] in order - приводить свои дела [бумаги, комнату] в порядок

    to set going - а) запускать (машину и т. п.); to set machinery going - приводить в действие механизм; б) пускать в ход, в действие

    to set on foot = to set going б)

    2) побуждение к какому-л. действию:

    to set smb. laughing [in a roar] - рассмешить, заставить кого-л. смеяться [покатиться со смеху]

    his jokes set the whole room [the table] laughing - все, кто был в комнате [кто сидел за столом], до упаду смеялись над его шутками

    to set smb. (off) thinking, to set smb. to thinking - заставить кого-л. призадуматься

    to set smb. wondering - вызывать у кого-л. удивление

    to set smb. flying - обратить кого-л. в бегство

    to set tongues wagging - вызывать толки, давать пищу для сплетен

    this incident set everybody's tongue wagging - этот инцидент наделал много шуму

    to set the company talking - а) развязать языки; б) дать пищу злым языкам

    I set him talking about the new discovery - я навёл его на разговор о новом открытии

    ♢

    to set foot somewhere - ходить куда-л., появляться где-л.

    not to set foot in smb.'s house - не переступать порога чьего-л. дома

    to set foot on shore - ступить на землю /на берег/

    to set one's feet on the path - пуститься в путь /дорогу/

    to set one's heart on smth. - стремиться к чему-л., страстно желать чего-л.

    to set one's heart on doing smth. - стремиться сделать что-л.

    he set his heart on going to the South - он очень хотел /твёрдо решил/ поехать на юг

    he has set his heart on seeing Moscow - его заветной мечтой было повидать Москву

    why should it be that man she has set her heart upon? - почему она полюбила именно этого человека?

    to set one's wits to smb.'s (wits) - поспорить /помериться силами/ с кем-л.

    to set one's wits to smth. - пытаться (раз)решить что-л.; ≅ шевелить мозгами

    to set one's wits to work - ломать себе голову над чем-л.

    to set people by the ears /at variance, at loggerheads/ - ссорить, натравливать людей друг на друга

    to set smth. on fire, to set fire /a light/ to smth. - сжечь /поджечь, зажечь/ что-л.

    to have smb. set - схватить кого-л. за горло, прижать кого-л. к стенке

    to set the law [smb.] at defiance - бросать вызов закону [кому-л.]

    НБАРС > set

  • 11 all

    1. n всё сущее; мир, вселенная

    all flesh — всё живое, смертные

    2. a весь, целый, вся, всё

    he sat up all night — он не ложился всю ночь; он вообще не ложился

    with all the trimmings — со всеми причиндалами, как положено

    3. a всякий, всевозможный; любой

    all manner of … — всякого рода …

    at all times — в любой момент; в любое время

    4. a весь, наибольший, предельный; максимально возможный
    5. a какой-нибудь, какой бы то ни было
    6. a амер. диал. кончившийся, истёкший

    the pie is all — весь пирог съеден; пирог кончился

    the butter is all — масло кончилось, масла больше нет

    of all people — кто-кто, но не вы

    7. adv всецело, целиком, полностью

    all set — готовый к действию, в полной готовности

    things are all wrong — всё идёт не так, всё пошло прахом

    8. adv совсем, совершенно
    9. adv только, ничего кроме, исключительно

    pooh, is that all! — ну и ну!; ничего себе!

    all but he were present — все, кроме него, присутствовали

    10. adv спорт. жарг. поровну, ровно
    11. indef pron все
    12. indef pron всё

    is that all you want to say? — это всё, что вы хотите сказать?

    he paid all that was owing — он заплатил всё, что следовало

    have you got all you require? — у вас есть всё, что нужно ?

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. alone (adj.) alone; exclusively; solely
    2. altogether (adj.) altogether; completely; entirely; utterly; wholly
    3. every (adj.) any; each; every
    4. whole (adj.) complete; entire; full; gross; intact; outright; total; uncut; whole
    5. each (noun) each; everybody; everyone; everything
    6. whole (noun) aggregate; be-all and end-all; entirety; gross; sum; sum total; tale; total; totality; whole
    7. all and sundry (other) all and sundry; each and every person; everybody; everyone; one and all
    8. apiece (other) apiece; aside; each; per capita; per caput
    9. everything (other) everything; the entirety; the lot; the totality; the whole kit and caboodle (colloquial); the whole lot; the whole shebang (chiefly US, colloquial); the whole shooting match (colloquial)
    10. totally (other) all in all; altogether; completely; entirely; exactly; in toto; just; purely; quite; solidly; stick; totally; utterly; wholly
    Антонимический ряд:
    nobody; nothing; partially

    English-Russian base dictionary > all

  • 12 dismiss

    1. v опускать; распускать
    2. v воен. распускать
    3. v расходиться
    4. v увольнять, освобождать от работы
    5. v воен. отпускать
    6. v отвергать, отбрасывать

    to dismiss the idea — оставить мысль, отказаться от мысли

    7. v заканчивать; подводить итог, подытоживать
    8. v посылать
    9. v юр. освобождать
    10. v юр. прекращать

    to dismiss a charge — снять обвинение, прекратить дело за отсутствием состава преступления

    11. v юр. отклонять

    to dismiss a case — отказывать в иске, отклонять иск

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. adjourn (verb) adjourn; close; recess
    2. banish (verb) banish; cast out; dispel; shut out
    3. decline (verb) decline; disapprove; refuse; reprobate; repudiate; spurn; turn down
    4. disperse (verb) disperse; excuse; free; release
    5. divorce (verb) divorce; put away; unmarry
    6. drop (verb) drop; give over; give up; skip
    7. eject (verb) boot out; bump; chase; chuck; eject; evict; extrude; kick out; out; throw out
    8. fire (verb) ax; boot; bounce; cashier; depose; discharge; disemploy; drop; fire; lay off; let out; remove; sack; suspend; terminate; turn off; unseat
    9. kiss off (verb) kiss off; pooh-pooh
    10. reject (verb) detach; disband; discard; expel; oust; reject; repel
    11. send away (verb) send away
    Антонимический ряд:
    accept; admit; employ; engage; hire; hold; keep; maintain; preserve; retain; secure

    English-Russian base dictionary > dismiss

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