functioned as

- assembly worker

1) цемент (используется для скрепления камней, чаще всего кирпича)

2) связывающее вещество, скрепляющее вещество

3) консолидирующая сила ( в обществе), объединяющий момент

4) мед. костная ткань

1) цементировать, бетонировать

2) крепить, скреплять ( об отношениях между людьми); сплачивать

1 función (of machine, person, institution) (& matemática)

2 celebración (celebration); acto (official occasion)

3 recepción.

4 acto ceremonial.

5 tecla de función.

6 serie ordenada de tareas para realizar alguna acción.

funcionar, surtir efecto.

funcionar. (pt & pp functioned)

1) важная персона; местный заправила (диал. cock of the midden) [walk в выражении cock of the walk означает помещение, где содержится бойцовый петух перед боем]

2) хозяин положения

   Established by the Portuguese Constitution of 1976, but with earlier forms in several previous political systems, an organ with the function of advising the president of Portugal in the exercise of his discretionary, reserve powers. The Council by law must be summoned by the president of the Republic in case the president decides to dissolve the Assembly of the Republic, to declare war or peace, or when a government resigns. Headed by the president of the Republic, the Council includes the following members: president of the Assembly of the Republic (parliament); prime minister; president of the Constitutional Court; attorney general or Provedor de Justiça; president of Azores Regional Government; president of the Madeira Regional Government; former elected presidents of the Republic; five members designated by the president of the Republic, including figures such as the Bank of Portugal's president; five members elected by the Assembly of the Republic, usually one from each political party with seats in parliament; and the Secretary of the Council of State. A similar organ functioned during the Estado Novo regime, under the 1933 Constitution.

SUBJECT AREA: Textiles

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Jacquard was apprenticed at the age of 12 to bookbinding, and later to type-founding and cutlery. His parents, who had some connection with weaving, left him a small property upon their death. He made some experiments with pattern weaving, but lost all his inheritance; after marrying, he returned to type-founding and cutlery. In 1790 he formed the idea for his machine, but it was forgotten amidst the excitement of the French Revolution, in which he fought for the Revolutionists at the defence of Lyons. The machine he completed in 1801 combined earlier inventions and was for weaving net. He was sent to Paris to demonstrate it at the National Exposition and received a bronze medal. In 1804 Napoleon granted him a patent, a pension of 1,500 francs and a premium on each machine sold. This enabled him to study and work at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers to perfect his mechanism for pattern weaving. A method of selecting any combination of leashes at each shoot of the weft had to be developed, and Jacquard's mechanism was the outcome of various previous inventions. By taking the cards invented by Falcon in 1728 that were punched with holes like the paper of Bouchon in 1725, to select the needles for each pick, and by placing the apparatus above the loom where Vaucanson had put his mechanism, Jacquard combined the best features of earlier inventions. He was not entirely successful because his invention failed in the way it pressed the card against the needles; later modifications by Breton in 1815 and Skola in 1819 were needed before it functioned reliably. However, the advantage of Jacquard's machine was that each pick could be selected much more quickly than on the earlier draw looms, which meant that John Kay's flying shuttle could be introduced on fine pattern looms because the weaver no longer had to wait for the drawboy to sort out the leashes for the next pick. Robert Kay's drop box could also be used with different coloured wefts. The drawboy could be dispensed with because the foot-pedal operating the Jacquard mechanism could be worked by the weaver. Patterns could be changed quickly by replacing one set of cards with another, but the scope of the pattern was more limited than with the draw loom. Some machines that were brought into use aroused bitter hostility. Jacquard suffered physical violence, barely escaping with his life, and his machines were burnt by weavers at Lyons. However, by 1812 his mechanism began to be generally accepted and had been applied to 11,000 draw-looms in France. In 1819 Jacquard received a gold medal and a Cross of Honour for his invention. His machines reached England c.1816 and still remain the basic way of weaving complicated patterns.

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   1) мecтный зaпpaвилa, вaжнaя пepcoнa [ walk oзнaчaeт пoмeщeниe, гдe coдepжитcя бoйцoвый пeтуx пepeд бoeм]

    'You think you're the cock of the walk,' she said, implying: 'But I'll tame you, you see if I don't' (A. Sillitoe)

   2) xoзяин пoлoжeния

    Wherever he functioned Nicolas was certainly cock of the walk (J. Galsworthy)