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  • 101 Sundback, Gideon

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    fl. 1910 USA
    [br]
    American engineer who improved zip fasteners so they became both a practical and a commercial proposition.
    [br]
    The zip fastener was originally patented in the USA in 1896 by W.L. Judson of Chicago. At first it was used only in boots and shoes and was not a success because it tended to jam or spring open. It was expensive, for it was made largely by hand. Eventually the Automatic Hook and Eye Company of Hoboken, New Jersey, took on Dr Gideon Sundback, a Swedish electrical engineer who had settled in the United States in 1905. After several years' work Sundback filed a patent application and his model was sold as a novelty item but was still unsatisfactory in use. In 1912 he invented a hookless fastener which looked promising but also was impractical in use. Finally, in 1913, he invented a fastener which in all important essentials was the modern zip fastener and, in addition, he invented the machinery to produce it. However, clothing manufacturers continued to oppose its introduction until in 1918 a contractor making flying suits for the United States Navy placed an order for 10,000 fasteners and in 1923 B.F.Goodrich \& Co. put zips in the galoshes that they manufactured. Success was assured from then on.
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    Further Reading
    J.Jewkes, D.Sawers and R.Stillerman, 1969, The Sources of Invention, 2nd edn, London (discusses the invention).
    I.McNeil (ed.), 1990, An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology, London: Routledge pp. 852–3 (for an account of the development of fastenings).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Sundback, Gideon

  • 102 Wenham, Francis Herbert

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 1824 London, England
    d. 11 August 1908 Folkestone, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor and pioneer aerodynamicist who built the first wind tunnel.
    [br]
    Wenham trained as a marine engineer and later specialized in screw propellers and high-pressure engines. He had many interests. He took his steamboat to the Nile and assisted the photographer F.Frith to photograph Egyptian tombs by devising a series of mirrors to deflect sunlight into the dark recesses. He experimented with gas engines and produced a hot-air engine. Wenham was a leading, if controversial, figure in the Microscopical Society and a member of the Royal Photographic Society; he developed an enlarger.
    Wenham was interested in both mechanical and lighter-than-air flight. One of his friends was James Glaisher, a well-known balloonist who made many ascents to gather scientific information. When the (Royal) Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was founded in 1866, the Rules were drawn up by Wenham, Glaisher and the Honorary Secretary, F.W.Brearey. At the first meeting of the Society, on 27 June 1866, "On aerial locomotion and the laws by which heavy bodies impelled through the air are sustained" was read by Wenham. In his paper Wenham described his experiments with a whirling arm (used earlier by Cayley) to measure lift and drag on flat surfaces inclined at various angles of incidence. His studies of birds' wings and, in particular, their wing loading, showed that they derived most of their lift from the front portion, hence a long, thin wing was better than a short, wide one. He published illustrations of his glider designs covering his experiments of c. 1858–9. One of these had five slender wings one above the other, an idea later developed by Horatio Phillips. Wenham had some success with a model, but no real success with his full-size gliders.
    In 1871, Wenham and John Browning constructed the first wind tunnel designed for aeronautical research. It utilized a fan driven by a steam engine to propel the air and had a working section of 18 in. (116 cm). Wenham continued to play an important role in aeronautical matters for many years, including a lengthy exchange of ideas with Octave Chanute from 1892 onwards.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Member of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society.
    Bibliography
    Wenham published many reports and papers. These are listed, together with a reprint of his paper "Aerial locomotion", in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August 1958).
    Further Reading
    Two papers by J.Laurence Pritchard, 1957, "The dawn of aerodynamics" Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (March); 1958, "Francis Herbert Wenham", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August) (both papers describe Wenham and his work).
    J.E.Hodgson, 1924, History of Aeronautics in Great Britain, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Wenham, Francis Herbert

  • 103 Wyatt, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy, Textiles
    [br]
    b. April 1700 Thickbroom, Weeford, near Lichfield, England
    d. 29 November 1766 Birmingham, England
    [br]
    English inventor of machines for making files and rolling lead, and co-constructor of a cotton-spinning machine.
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    John Wyatt was the eldest son of John and Jane Wyatt, who lived in the small village of Thickbroom in the parish of Weeford, near Lichfield. John the younger was educated at Lichfield school and then worked as a carpenter at Thickbroom till 1730. In 1732 he was in Birmingham, engaged by a man named Heely, a gunbarrel forger, who became bankrupt in 1734. Wyatt had invented a machine for making files and sought the help of Lewis Paul to manufacture this commercially.
    The surviving papers of Paul and Wyatt in Birmingham are mostly undated and show a variety of machines with which they were involved. There was a machine for "making lead hard" which had rollers, and "a Gymcrak of some consequence" probably refers to a machine for boring barrels or the file-making machine. Wyatt is said to have been one of the unsuccessful competitors for the erection of London Bridge in 1736. He invented and perfected the compound-lever weighing machine. He had more success with this: after 1744, machines for weighing up to five tons were set up at Birmingham, Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Liverpool. Road construction, bridge building, hydrostatics, canals, water-powered engines and many other schemes received his attention and it is said that he was employed for a time after 1744 by Matthew Boulton.
    It is certain that in April 1735 Paul and Wyatt were working on their spinning machine and Wyatt was making a model of it in London in 1736, giving up his work in Birmingham. The first patent, in 1738, was taken out in the name of Lewis Paul. It is impossible to know which of these two invented what. This first patent covers a wide variety of descriptions of the vital roller drafting to draw out the fibres, and it is unknown which system was actually used. Paul's carding patent of 1748 and his second spinning patent of 1758 show that he moved away from the system and principles upon which Arkwright built his success. Wyatt and Paul's spinning machines were sufficiently promising for a mill to be set up in 1741 at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, that was powered by two asses. Wyatt was the person responsible for constructing the machinery. Edward Cave established another at Northampton powered by water while later Daniel Bourn built yet another at Leominster. Many others were interested too. The Birmingham mill did not work for long and seems to have been given up in 1743. Wyatt was imprisoned for debt in The Fleet in 1742, and when released in 1743 he tried for a time to run the Birmingham mill and possibly the Northampton one. The one at Leominster burned down in 1754, while the Northampton mill was advertised for sale in 1756. This last mill may have been used again in conjunction with the 1758 patent. It was Wyatt whom Daniel Bourn contacted about a grant for spindles for his Leominster mill in 1748, but this seems to have been Wyatt's last association with the spinning venture.
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    Further Reading
    G.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London (French collected many of the Paul and Wyatt papers; these should be read in conjunction with Hills 1970).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (Hills shows that the rollerdrafting system on this spinning machine worked on the wrong principles). A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and of the early mills).
    E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, although it is now out of date).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a more recent account).
    W.A.Benton, "John Wyatt and the weighing of heavy loads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 9 (for a description of Wyatt's weighing machine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Wyatt, John

  • 104 follow up

    1) (to go further in doing something: The police are following up a clue.) seguir
    2) (to find out more about (something): I followed up the news.) seguir
    : seguir (una sugerencia, etc.), investigar (una huella)
    v + o + adv, v + adv + o \<\<case\>\> seguir*, darle* seguimiento a
    1. VT + ADV
    1) (=investigate) [+ case] investigar

    to follow up a lead — seguir or investigar una pista

    2) (=take further action on) [+ offer] reiterar; [+ job application] hacer un seguimiento de; [+ suggestion] investigar
    3) (=reinforce) [+ victory, advantage, success] consolidar

    they imposed trade sanctions and followed that up with an oil embargo — impusieron sanciones comerciales y las consolidaron con un embargo de petróleo

    2.
    VI + ADV (Ftbl) rematar
    * * *
    v + o + adv, v + adv + o \<\<case\>\> seguir*, darle* seguimiento a

    English-spanish dictionary > follow up

  • 105 udsigt

    outlook, panorama, prospect, sight, view
    * * *
    (en -er) view,
    F prospect;
    (fig) prospect, chance ( til of),
    (se ndf);
    ( vejrudsigt) (weather) forecast;
    [ nyde udsigten] enjoy (el. admire) the view (el. the scenery);
    (fig) prospects ( fx gloomy prospects; his prospects are good (, poor)), outlook ( fx a bright (, gloomy) outlook for trade; the outlook is none too promising), chance(s) ( fx he has no chance of success);
    [ det har lange udsigter] that may not be for a long time yet;
    [ med præp:]
    [ udsigterne for høsten] the harvest prospects;
    (dvs vejr) further outlook ( fx further outlook: dry and sunny);
    [ der er god udsigt fra tårnet] there is a good view from the tower;
    [ stille én noget i udsigt] hold out a prospect (el. prospects) of something to somebody;
    [ udsigt over] a view of (el. over) ( fx from my window there is a view of (el. over) the park);
    ( fra vindue) a view of;
    [ der er udsigt til nattefrost] ground frost may be expected;
    [ have udsigt til at] have a chance (el. prospect) of -ing;
    [ en plan der har udsigt til at lykkes] a plan likely to succeed;
    [ der er al mulig udsigt til at] there is every chance (el. prospect) that, the chances are that;
    [ et hotel med udsigt til havet] a hotel with a sea view;
    [ ved udsigten til (at)] at the prospect of (-ing).

    Danish-English dictionary > udsigt

  • 106 actuación

    f.
    1 behavior, behaviour, conduct.
    2 acting, play-acting.
    3 pretense, airs, show.
    4 judicial action, proceeding, action.
    * * *
    1 (en cine, teatro) performance
    2 (intervención) intervention, action
    3 DERECHO legal proceedings plural
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=intervención) [de cantante, deportista] performance; [de actor] acting

    actuación en directo, actuación en vivo — live performance

    2) (=espectáculo)
    3) (=acción) action
    4) (=conducta) behaviour, behavior (EEUU), conduct

    la actuación de la policía en la manifestación — the behaviour o conduct of the police at the demonstration

    5) pl actuaciones (Jur) (legal) proceedings
    * * *
    a) ( acción) action
    b) (Cin, Dep, Teatr) performance
    c) ( conducta) conduct
    d) (recital, sesión) performance, concert
    * * *
    = action, effort, initiative, performance, enactment, engagement, move, deed, action, implementation, measure.
    Ex. Americans, convinced that education could be the panacea for all their ills, answered with vigorous action.
    Ex. Co-operative, carefully planned and financed internationally backed efforts have been the keynote of more recent activity.
    Ex. These discussions will influence subsequent planning initiatives with regard to the design and layout of the new building.
    Ex. The totals and averages at the right-hand side if the screen give summary information about the performance of the vendor.
    Ex. To re-emphasize a point that cannot be over-emphasized: reading aloud to children of all ages is vital, if for no other reason, because this is the way we learn how to turn cold print into a dramatic enactment in the theater of our imagination.
    Ex. Any attempt to coerce a response without good reason based on that child's present predicament is to place in jeopardy the child's willing engagement now and in the future.
    Ex. This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.
    Ex. Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
    Ex. Coates believed that in order to conceptualise an action it is necessary to visualise the thing on which the action is being performed.
    Ex. This software is important to the further implementation of the record format, especially in developing countries.
    Ex. If we as a society hope to deal with a very real and important issue, the implementation of this popular measure is a good place to start.
    ----
    * actuación académica = learning performance.
    * actuación como intermediario = mediating.
    * actuación común = concerted effort.
    * actuación concertada = concerted action.
    * actuación en vivo = live performance, live entertainment, live entertainment.
    * actuación estelar = star performance.
    * actuación legal = legal action, legal proceedings.
    * actuación militar = military action.
    * actuación musical = musical event, musical performance, music performance.
    * actuación positiva = positive action.
    * actuación relacionada con la información = information action.
    * actuación simbólica = symbolic action.
    * ámbito de actuación = sphere of activity, sphere of influence, arena for activity, extent of activity.
    * ámbito geográfico de actuación = catchment area.
    * área de actuación = area for action, area of policy, policy area.
    * calendario de actuación = time scale [timescale], action agenda.
    * calendario de actuaciones = action agenda.
    * campo de actuación = purview, scope, sphere of interest.
    * de actuación = for action.
    * decisión sobre qué política de actuación seguir = policy decision.
    * fase de actuación = implementation stage, stage of implementation.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * llevar a cabo una actuación común = make + a concerted effort.
    * método de actuación = clinical practice.
    * organizar una actuación musical = put on + musical event.
    * pautas de actuación = best practices.
    * plan de actuación = action plan, business plan, plan of action, action statement, road map [roadmap], plan for action, response plan.
    * política de actuación = policy.
    * principio de actuación = governing principle.
    * programa de actuación = programme of action, action programme, action plan, operating programme.
    * * *
    a) ( acción) action
    b) (Cin, Dep, Teatr) performance
    c) ( conducta) conduct
    d) (recital, sesión) performance, concert
    * * *
    = action, effort, initiative, performance, enactment, engagement, move, deed, action, implementation, measure.

    Ex: Americans, convinced that education could be the panacea for all their ills, answered with vigorous action.

    Ex: Co-operative, carefully planned and financed internationally backed efforts have been the keynote of more recent activity.
    Ex: These discussions will influence subsequent planning initiatives with regard to the design and layout of the new building.
    Ex: The totals and averages at the right-hand side if the screen give summary information about the performance of the vendor.
    Ex: To re-emphasize a point that cannot be over-emphasized: reading aloud to children of all ages is vital, if for no other reason, because this is the way we learn how to turn cold print into a dramatic enactment in the theater of our imagination.
    Ex: Any attempt to coerce a response without good reason based on that child's present predicament is to place in jeopardy the child's willing engagement now and in the future.
    Ex: This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.
    Ex: Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.
    Ex: Coates believed that in order to conceptualise an action it is necessary to visualise the thing on which the action is being performed.
    Ex: This software is important to the further implementation of the record format, especially in developing countries.
    Ex: If we as a society hope to deal with a very real and important issue, the implementation of this popular measure is a good place to start.
    * actuación académica = learning performance.
    * actuación como intermediario = mediating.
    * actuación común = concerted effort.
    * actuación concertada = concerted action.
    * actuación en vivo = live performance, live entertainment, live entertainment.
    * actuación estelar = star performance.
    * actuación legal = legal action, legal proceedings.
    * actuación militar = military action.
    * actuación musical = musical event, musical performance, music performance.
    * actuación positiva = positive action.
    * actuación relacionada con la información = information action.
    * actuación simbólica = symbolic action.
    * ámbito de actuación = sphere of activity, sphere of influence, arena for activity, extent of activity.
    * ámbito geográfico de actuación = catchment area.
    * área de actuación = area for action, area of policy, policy area.
    * calendario de actuación = time scale [timescale], action agenda.
    * calendario de actuaciones = action agenda.
    * campo de actuación = purview, scope, sphere of interest.
    * de actuación = for action.
    * decisión sobre qué política de actuación seguir = policy decision.
    * fase de actuación = implementation stage, stage of implementation.
    * línea de actuación = course of action, line of attack, operational line, action line, prong, line of direction.
    * llevar a cabo una actuación común = make + a concerted effort.
    * método de actuación = clinical practice.
    * organizar una actuación musical = put on + musical event.
    * pautas de actuación = best practices.
    * plan de actuación = action plan, business plan, plan of action, action statement, road map [roadmap], plan for action, response plan.
    * política de actuación = policy.
    * principio de actuación = governing principle.
    * programa de actuación = programme of action, action programme, action plan, operating programme.

    * * *
    A
    1 (acción) performance
    el premio a la mejor actuación the prize for the best performance
    es un buen guión pero la actuación es pésima the script is good but the acting is appalling
    la brillante actuación del equipo/del abogado the team's/lawyer's brilliant performance
    criticó la actuación de la policía he criticized the conduct of the police
    2 (recital, sesión) performance
    3 ( Ling) performance
    B actuaciones fpl ( Der) proceedings (pl)
    podría dar lugar a actuaciones penales it could give rise to criminal proceedings
    * * *

     

    actuación sustantivo femenino

    b) (Cin, Dep, Teatr) performance;



    d) (recital, sesión) performance, concert

    actuación sustantivo femenino
    1 (interpretación, participación) performance
    2 (intervención) intervention, action: su actuación fue decisiva para que no murieran ahogados, her intervention was decisive in preventing them from drowning
    ' actuación' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ámbito
    - arbitrariedad
    - broche
    - concertar
    - intervención
    - operación
    - papelón
    - teatralidad
    - aprobación
    - aprobar
    - bravo
    - brillante
    - cometido
    - desafortunado
    - deslucido
    - destacado
    - discreto
    - espontáneo
    - improvisación
    - irrepetible
    - lucido
    - magistral
    - notable
    - papel
    - pobre
    - precipitado
    - rematar
    - sobresaliente
    - valorar
    - vivo
    English:
    appearance
    - booking
    - gig
    - impromptu
    - match up
    - number
    - optimum
    - performance
    - scintillating
    - showing
    - spirited
    - unconvincing
    - uninspired
    - wooden
    - action
    - cameo
    - feature
    - highlight
    - star
    - venue
    * * *
    1. [conducta, proceder] conduct, behaviour
    2. [interpretación] performance;
    la actuación del protagonista es excelente the main character gives an excellent performance;
    esta tarde vamos a una actuación de unos cómicos we're going to a comedy show this evening;
    con la actuación estelar de… starring…;
    tuvo una actuación muy decepcionante she gave a very disappointing performance
    3. Der
    actuaciones proceedings
    4. Ling performance
    * * *
    f
    1 TEA performance
    2 ( intervención) intervention
    3
    :
    actuaciones pl JUR proceedings
    * * *
    actuación nf, pl - ciones
    1) : performance
    2) actuaciones nfpl
    diligencias: proceedings
    * * *
    1. (representación) performance
    2. (acción) action

    Spanish-English dictionary > actuación

  • 107 suponer

    v.
    1 to suppose.
    supongo que ya habrán llegado I suppose o expect (that) they'll have arrived by now
    supongo que sí/no I suppose o expect so/not
    supongamos que me niego supposing I refuse
    es de suponer que se disculparán I would expect them to apologize
    suponiendo que… supposing o assuming that…
    María supone bien Mary supposes well.
    Esto supone un riesgo This entails a risk.
    2 to involve, to entail.
    Supone muchos peligros It involves much danger.
    3 to mean.
    4 to imagine.
    lo suponía I guessed as much
    te suponía mayor I thought you were older
    5 to be important.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ PONER], like link=poner poner (pp supuesto,-a)
    1 (gen) to suppose, assume
    2 (significar) to mean
    3 (conllevar) to mean, entail, require
    4 (adivinar) to guess; (imaginar) to imagine, think
    5 (creer) to think
    1 familiar supposition
    \
    como es de suponer as is to be expected
    ser de suponer to be likely
    * * *
    verb
    1) to suppose, presume
    * * *
    ( pp supuesto)
    1. VT
    1) (=imaginar) to imagine

    estoy muy satisfecho, como puedes suponer — I'm very pleased, as you can imagine

    ya puedes suponer lo que pasó — you can guess o imagine what happened

    le pagaron, supongamos, diez millones — he was paid, say, ten million

    • es de suponer, es de suponer que haya protestas — I would imagine there will be protests, presumably there will be protests

    están muy apenados, como es de suponer — they are very upset, as you would expect

    como era de suponer, llegaron tarde — as was to be expected, they arrived late

    2)

    • suponer que — [intentando adivinar] to imagine that, suppose that, guess that *; [como hipótesis] to suppose that; [dando por sentado] to assume that, presume that

    supongo que necesitaréis unas vacaciones — I imagine o suppose you'll need a holiday, I guess you'll need a holiday *

    sí, supongo que tienes razón — yes, I suppose you're right, yes, I guess you're right *

    supón que tuvieras mucho dinero, ¿qué harías? — suppose o supposing you had a lot of money, what would you do?

    suponiendo que todo salga según lo previsto — assuming o presuming everything goes according to plan

    • supongo que no, -¿crees que llegará tarde? -no lo sé, supongo que no — "do you think he'll be late?" - "I don't know, I don't suppose so"

    -no será fácil -no, supongo que no — "it won't be easy" - "no, I suppose not"

    • supongo que sí — I suppose so, I imagine so, I guess so *

    3) (=atribuir)
    [con objeto indirecto de persona]

    os suponía informados de este asunto — I assumed o presumed you had been informed about this matter

    le supongo unos 60 años — I would say o guess he's about 60

    se le supone una gran antigüedad — it is thought o believed to be very old

    4) (=implicar) to mean
    2.
    See:
    3.
    SM

    • un suponer, a ver, un suponer, si tú fueras su marido, ¿qué harías? — OK, just supposing you were her husband, what would you do?

    si te ofrecen el puesto, es un suponer, ¿lo aceptarías? — supposing o suppose they were to offer you the job, would you accept?

    supongamos, es solo un suponer, que eso sea verdad — let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is true

    * * *
    I

    si quebraran, es un suponer,... — suppose o supposing they were to go bankrupt,...

    si, es un suponer, perdieses tu trabajo... — just supposing for the sake of argument that you were to lose your job

    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tomar como hipótesis) to suppose, assume

    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto — let's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales — let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

    nada hacía suponer que... — there was nothing to suggest that...

    ¿va a venir hoy? - supongo que sí — is she coming today? - I should think so o I imagine so

    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho — presumably o I should think o I would imagine he's been told

    c) ( atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc)

    le suponía más edad — I imagined o thought he was older

    se le suponía un valor aproximado de... — it was thought to be worth approximately...

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio — that would mean having to start from the beginning again; (+ me/te/le etc)

    * * *
    = assume, entail, guess, involve, mean, presume, surmise, suppose, gather, account for.
    Ex. The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.
    Ex. Secondly, the admission of rules incompatible with the general ideology adopted inevitably entails subsequent remedial revision.
    Ex. 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.
    Ex. Generating author indexes or catalogues involves creating headings from author's names, that is the names of persons or organisations.
    Ex. These changes have meant modifications, some very time-consuming, to serials catalogues in libraries.
    Ex. We presumed this principle of organization in the case of searching the public library for a document about programmed instruction.
    Ex. One is to read a portion of the newspaper and to surmise under what headings it has been indexed.
    Ex. Suppose we are searching for information about the subject 'The use of television in remedial teaching in primary schools'.
    Ex. The script was improvised on an outline which, I gathered, was the result of three sessions' hard talking to decide whose ideas out of the many suggested should be used.
    Ex. The major four categories of physical forms outlined so far account for most of the published indexes and catalogues.
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    * como cabría suponer = as might be expected.
    * es de suponer que = presumably.
    * gastos que no suponen un gran desembolso de dinero = out-of-pocket costs.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer nada = add up to + nothing.
    * que supone = associated with.
    * según cabe suponer = presumably, supposedly.
    * según sabe suponer = allegedly.
    * suponer la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso = make or break.
    * suponer peligro = hold + danger.
    * suponerse que + Subjuntivo = be alleged + Infinitivo.
    * suponer una avance sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer una diferencia sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer un avance = be a step forward.
    * suponer un cambio = bring about + change.
    * supongo que = I daresay that.
    * * *
    I

    si quebraran, es un suponer,... — suppose o supposing they were to go bankrupt,...

    si, es un suponer, perdieses tu trabajo... — just supposing for the sake of argument that you were to lose your job

    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tomar como hipótesis) to suppose, assume

    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto — let's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales — let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

    nada hacía suponer que... — there was nothing to suggest that...

    ¿va a venir hoy? - supongo que sí — is she coming today? - I should think so o I imagine so

    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho — presumably o I should think o I would imagine he's been told

    c) ( atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc)

    le suponía más edad — I imagined o thought he was older

    se le suponía un valor aproximado de... — it was thought to be worth approximately...

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio — that would mean having to start from the beginning again; (+ me/te/le etc)

    * * *
    = assume, entail, guess, involve, mean, presume, surmise, suppose, gather, account for.

    Ex: The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.

    Ex: Secondly, the admission of rules incompatible with the general ideology adopted inevitably entails subsequent remedial revision.
    Ex: 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.
    Ex: Generating author indexes or catalogues involves creating headings from author's names, that is the names of persons or organisations.
    Ex: These changes have meant modifications, some very time-consuming, to serials catalogues in libraries.
    Ex: We presumed this principle of organization in the case of searching the public library for a document about programmed instruction.
    Ex: One is to read a portion of the newspaper and to surmise under what headings it has been indexed.
    Ex: Suppose we are searching for information about the subject 'The use of television in remedial teaching in primary schools'.
    Ex: The script was improvised on an outline which, I gathered, was the result of three sessions' hard talking to decide whose ideas out of the many suggested should be used.
    Ex: The major four categories of physical forms outlined so far account for most of the published indexes and catalogues.
    * como cabría suponer = as might be expected.
    * es de suponer que = presumably.
    * gastos que no suponen un gran desembolso de dinero = out-of-pocket costs.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer nada = add up to + nothing.
    * que supone = associated with.
    * según cabe suponer = presumably, supposedly.
    * según sabe suponer = allegedly.
    * suponer la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso = make or break.
    * suponer peligro = hold + danger.
    * suponerse que + Subjuntivo = be alleged + Infinitivo.
    * suponer una avance sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer una diferencia sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer un avance = be a step forward.
    * suponer un cambio = bring about + change.
    * supongo que = I daresay that.

    * * *
    imagínate que te toca la lotería, es un suponer, ¿qué harías? imagine you won the lottery, just supposing, what would you do?
    si la empresa quebrara, es un suponer, … just suppose o just supposing the company were to go bankrupt, …, if the company were to go bankrupt, just for the sake of argument, …
    suponer2 [ E22 ]
    vt
    A
    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto let's suppose o assume what he says is true
    suponiendo que todo salga como está previsto assuming everything goes according to plan
    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal
    ni aun suponiendo que fuera verdad, no tiene derecho a hablar así even supposing it were true, he has no right to talk like that
    2
    (imaginar): supuse que ibas a comprarlo tú I thought o presumed o assumed you were going to buy it
    supongo que tienes razón I suppose you're right
    nada hacía suponer que ocurriría una cosa así there was nothing to suggest o there was no reason to suppose that something like that would happen
    ¿va a venir hoy? — supongo que sí is she coming today? — I should think so o I imagine so
    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho presumably o I should think o I would assume o I would imagine he's been told
    era de suponer que se lo iban a dar it was to be expected that they would give it to him
    se supone que tendría que empezar a las nueve it's supposed to start at nine
    ¿dónde se supone que vamos? where are we supposed o meant to be going?
    3 (atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc):
    le suponía más edad I imagined o thought he was older
    se le suponen propiedades medicinales it is believed o held to have medicinal qualities
    al cuadro se le suponía un valor aproximado de … the painting was thought to be worth approximately …
    B (significar, implicar) to mean
    el proyecto supondrá una inversión de cinco millones de dólares the project will mean an investment of five million dollars
    la preparación del congreso supuso cinco meses de trabajo the preparation for the convention involved o took five months' work
    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio that would mean having to start from the beginning again
    (+ me/te/le etc): ese negocio no le supuso ningún beneficio that deal didn't make him any profit
    no me supone problema ninguno/ninguna molestia it's no trouble at all
    el traslado nos va a suponer muchos inconvenientes the move will cause us a great deal of inconvenience, the move will mean o will involve a great deal of inconvenience
    * * *

     

    suponer ( conjugate suponer) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ supongamos que lo que dice es cierto let's suppose o assume what he says is true;

    suponiendo que todo salga bien assuming everything goes OK
    b) ( imaginar):


    ¿va a venir hoy? — supongo que sí is she coming today? — I should think so o I suppose so;
    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho presumably o I should think he's been told;
    se supone que empieza a las nueve it's supposed to start at nine
    2 (significar, implicar) to mean;

    suponer verbo transitivo
    1 (creer, imaginar) to suppose: supongamos que..., let's assume o suppose that...
    supongo que me llamarán, I presume they're going to phone me
    supongo que sí, I suppose so
    se supone que acaba a las seis, it's supposed to finish at six
    se supone que él es el entendido, he's supposed to be the expert
    te suponía en París, I thought you were in Paris
    2 (conllevar, significar) to mean, involve: no supone ningún riesgo, it doesn't involve any risk
    (la amistad, el aprecio) to mean ➣ Ver nota en mean
    ♦ Locuciones: ser de suponer: es de suponer que se lo han contado, presumably o I would imagine she's been told
    ser un suponer, to be conjecture
    ' suponer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    condicionamiento
    - creer
    - esperar
    - hacer
    - imaginar
    - imaginarse
    - jugar
    - significar
    - asumir
    - supuse
    English:
    assume
    - entail
    - expect
    - guess
    - imagine
    - imply
    - involve
    - mean
    - pose
    - presumably
    - presume
    - suppose
    - surmise
    - take
    - say
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    imagino que nos invitarán – eso es un suponer I imagine they'll invite us – that's pure conjecture o you can't say for sure;
    imagina, y es un suponer, que te quedas sin dinero imagine, for the sake of argument, that you didn't have any money
    ♦ vt
    1. [creer, presuponer] to suppose;
    supongo que ya habrán llegado I suppose o expect (that) they'll have arrived by now;
    supongo que tienes razón I suppose o guess you're right;
    supongo que sí/no I suppose o expect so/not;
    supongamos que me niego supposing I refuse;
    es de suponer que se disculparán I would expect them to apologize;
    es de suponer una nueva bajada de los tipos de interés a further drop in interest rates seems likely, we can expect a further drop in interest rates;
    al final lo perdí todo – era de suponer in the end I lost everything – it was only to be expected o that's hardly surprising;
    nada hacía suponer que… there was nothing to suggest that…;
    todo hacía suponer que se llegaría a un acuerdo everything pointed to an agreement;
    suponiendo que… supposing o assuming that…;
    suponiendo que no te moleste as long as o assuming it doesn't bother you
    2. [implicar] to involve, to entail;
    una dieta así supone mucho sacrificio a diet like that involves a lot of sacrifices;
    esto nos supone un cambio de planes this involves o entails o means a change of plan for us;
    no me supuso ningún esfuerzo it was no trouble (for me)
    3. [significar] to mean;
    supone mucho para mí it means a lot to me;
    este descubrimiento supone un importante avance para la ciencia this discovery constitutes a major advance for science
    4. [conjeturar] to imagine;
    lo suponía I guessed as much;
    te suponía mayor I thought you were older
    * * *
    <part supuesto> v/t suppose, assume;
    supongamos que … let’s suppose o assume that …;
    supongo que sí I suppose so
    * * *
    suponer {60} vt
    1) presumir: to suppose, to assume
    supongo que sí: I guess so, I suppose so
    se supone que van a llegar mañana: they're supposed to arrive tomorrow
    2) : to imply, to suggest
    3) : to involve, to entail
    el éxito supone mucho trabajo: success involves a lot of work
    * * *
    1. (creer) to suppose / to expect
    2. (significar) to mean [pt. & pp. meant]
    3. (implicar, conllevar) to involve / to be
    supongamos que... supposing...

    Spanish-English dictionary > suponer

  • 108 содействовать

    несов. и сов. (сов. тж. посодействовать)
    (кому-л.) assist (smb.), help (smb.); (чему-л.) further (smth.), promote (smth.) contribute (to smth.); make* (for smth.)

    содействовать успеху кого-л. — contribute to smb.'s success

    содействовать осуществлению чего-л. — facilitate the execution of smth.

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > содействовать

  • 109 pass

    1.
    [pɑːs]noun
    1) (passing of an examination) bestandene Prüfung

    get a pass in maths — die Mathematikprüfung bestehen

    ‘pass’ — (mark or grade) Ausreichend, das

    2) (written permission) Ausweis, der; (for going into or out of a place also) Passierschein, der; (Mil.): (for leave) Urlaubsschein, der; (for free transportation) Freifahrschein, der; (for free admission) Freikarte, die
    3) (critical position) Notlage, die

    things have come to a pretty pass [when...] — es muss schon weit gekommen sein[, wenn...]

    4) (Football) Pass, der (fachspr.); Ballabgabe, die; (Fencing) Ausfall, der

    make a pass to a player — [den Ball] zu einem Spieler passen (fachspr.) od. abgeben

    5)

    make a pass at somebody — (fig. coll.): (amorously) jemanden anmachen (ugs.)

    6) (in mountains) Pass, der
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (move onward) [Prozession:] ziehen; [Wasser:] fließen; [Gas:] strömen; (fig.) [Redner:] übergehen (to zu)

    pass further along or down the bus, please! — bitte weiter durchgehen!

    2) (go) passieren; [Zug, Reisender:] fahren ( through durch)

    pass over — (in plane) überfliegen [Ort]

    let somebody pass — jemanden durchlassen od. passieren lassen

    3) (be transported, lit. or fig.) kommen

    pass into history/oblivion — in die Geschichte eingehen/in Vergessenheit geraten

    the title/property passes to somebody — der Titel/Besitz geht auf jemanden über

    4) (change) wechseln
    5) (go by) [Fußgänger:] vorbeigehen; [Fahrer, Fahrzeug:] vorbeifahren; [Prozession:] vorbeiziehen; [Zeit, Sekunde:] vergehen; (by chance) [Person, Fahrzeug:] vorbeikommen

    let somebody/a car pass — jemanden/ein Auto vorbeilassen (ugs.)

    6) (be accepted as adequate) durchgehen; hingehen

    let it/the matter pass — es/die Sache durch- od. hingehen lassen

    7) (come to an end) vorbeigehen; [Fieber:] zurückgehen; [Ärger, Zorn, Sturm:] sich legen; [Gewitter, Unwetter:] vorüberziehen
    8) (happen) passieren; (between persons) vorfallen
    9) (be accepted) durchgehen (as als, for für)
    10) (satisfy examiner) bestehen
    11) (Cards) passen

    pass! — [ich] passe!

    3. transitive verb
    1) (move past) [Fußgänger:] vorbeigehen an (+ Dat.); [Fahrer, Fahrzeug:] vorbeifahren an (+ Dat.); [Prozession:] vorbeiziehen an (+ Dat.)
    2) (overtake) vorbeifahren an (+ Dat.) [Fahrzeug, Person]
    3) (cross) überschreiten [Schwelle, feindliche Linien, Grenze, Marke]
    4) (reach standard in) bestehen [Prüfung]
    5) (approve) verabschieden [Gesetzentwurf]; annehmen [Vorschlag]; [Zensor:] freigeben [Film, Buch, Theaterstück]; bestehen lassen [Prüfungskandidaten]
    6) (be too great for) überschreiten, übersteigen [Auffassungsgabe, Verständnis]
    7) (move) bringen
    8) (Footb. etc.) abgeben (to an + Akk.)
    9) (spend) verbringen [Leben, Zeit, Tag]
    10) (hand)

    would you pass the salt, please? — gibst od. reichst du mir bitte das Salz?

    11) (utter) fällen, verkünden [Urteil]; machen [Bemerkung]
    12) (discharge) lassen [Wasser]
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/53812/pass_away">pass away
    * * *
    1. verb
    1) (to move towards and then beyond (something, by going past, through, by, over etc): I pass the shops on my way to work; The procession passed along the corridor.) vorbeigehen
    2) (to move, give etc from one person, state etc to another: They passed the photographs around; The tradition is passed (on/down) from father to son.) weitergeben
    3) (to go or be beyond: This passes my understanding.) übersteigen
    4) ((of vehicles etc on a road) to overtake: The sports car passed me at a dangerous bend in the road.) überholen
    5) (to spend (time): They passed several weeks in the country.) verbringen
    6) ((of an official group, government etc) to accept or approve: The government has passed a resolution.) annehmen
    7) (to give or announce (a judgement or sentence): The magistrate passed judgement on the prisoner.) fällen
    8) (to end or go away: His sickness soon passed.) vorübergehen
    9) (to (judge to) be successful in (an examination etc): I passed my driving test.) bestehen
    2. noun
    1) (a narrow path between mountains: a mountain pass.) der Paß
    2) (a ticket or card allowing a person to do something, eg to travel free or to get in to a building: You must show your pass before entering.) der Paß
    3) (a successful result in an examination, especially when below a distinction, honours etc: There were ten passes and no fails.) das Bestehen
    4) ((in ball games) a throw, kick, hit etc of the ball from one player to another: The centre-forward made a pass towards the goal.) der Paß
    •
    - passable
    - passing
    - passer-by
    - password
    - in passing
    - let something pass
    - let pass
    - pass as/for
    - pass away
    - pass the buck
    - pass by
    - pass off
    - pass something or someone off as
    - pass off as
    - pass on
    - pass out
    - pass over
    - pass up
    * * *
    [pɑ:s, AM pæs]
    I. NOUN
    <pl -es>
    1. (road) Pass m
    the Khyber \pass der Khaiberpass
    mountain \pass [Gebirgs]pass m
    2. SPORT (of a ball) Pass m (to auf + akk), Vorlage f (für ein Tor)
    3. (sweep: by magician, conjuror) [Hand]bewegung f
    the magician made some \passes with his hands over her body der Zauberer fuhr mit der Hand mehrmals über ihren Körper
    to make a \pass over sth über etw akk fliegen
    the aircraft flew low in a \pass over the ski resort das Flugzeug flog sehr tief über das Skigebiet hinweg
    5. ( fam: sexual advance) Annäherungsversuch m
    to make a \pass at sb sich akk an jdn ranmachen, ÖSTERR bes mit jdm anbandeln fam
    6. BRIT SCH, UNIV (exam success) Bestehen nt einer Prüfung; AM (grade) „Bestanden“
    students just get a \pass or fail in these courses in diesen Kursen können die Studenten nur entweder bestehen oder durchfallen
    to achieve grade A \passes nur Einser bekommen
    to get/obtain a \pass in an exam eine Prüfung bestehen
    7. (permit) Passierschein m; (for a festival) Eintritt m, Eintrittskarte f; (for public transport) [Wochen-/Monats-/Jahres-]karte f
    only people with a \pass are allowed to enter the nuclear power station nur Personen mit einem entsprechenden Ausweis dürfen das Kernkraftwerk betreten
    free \pass Freikarte f
    disabled people have a free \pass for the public transport system Behinderte können die öffentlichen Verkehrsmittel kostenlos benutzen
    8. esp AM SCH (letter of excuse) Entschuldigung f (für das Fernbleiben vom Unterricht)
    9. no pl (predicament) Notlage f, kritische Lage
    this is a \pass — we can't get back into the hotel da haben wir uns ja was Schönes eingebrockt — wir können nicht ins Hotel zurück fam
    it has come to a pretty \pass when... es ist schon weit gekommen, wenn...
    to reach a \pass außer Kontrolle geraten, ausufern
    10. (in fencing) Ausfall m fachspr
    1. (go past)
    ▪ to \pass sb/sth an jdm/etw vorbeigehen; (in car) an jdm/etw vorbeifahren
    if you \pass a supermarket, can you get me some milk? würdest du mir Milch mitbringen, wenn du bei einem Supermarkt vorbeikommst?
    ▪ to \pass sb/sth jdn/etw überholen
    3. (cross)
    to \pass a frontier eine Grenze überqueren
    not a word \passed his lips kein Wort kam über seine Lippen
    4. (exceed)
    ▪ to \pass sth:
    it \passes all belief that... es ist doch wirklich nicht zu fassen, dass...
    don't buy goods which have \passed their sell-by date kauf keine Waren, deren Verfallsdatum bereits abgelaufen ist
    to \pass a limit eine Grenze überschreiten
    to \pass the time limit das Zeitlimit überschreiten
    I'm sorry, you've \passed the time limit es tut mir leid, aber Sie haben überzogen
    5. (hand to)
    ▪ to \pass sth to sb [or sb sth] jdm etw geben, jdm etw [herüber]reichen bes geh; (bequeath to) jdm etw vererben
    could you \pass the salt please? könntest du mir bitte mal das Salz geben?
    to \pass the hat [around] ( fig) den Hut herumgehen lassen fig
    ▪ to be \passed to sb auf jdn [o in jds Besitz] übergehen
    the responsibility was gradually \passed to the British government die Verantwortung wurde nach und nach der britischen Regierung übertragen
    6. (put into circulation)
    to \pass money Geld in Umlauf bringen
    she was caught trying to \pass forged five pound notes sie wurde dabei erwischt, als sie versuchte, mit gefälschten Fünfpfundnoten zu bezahlen
    he once \passed me a forged fiver er hat mir einmal einen gefälschten Fünfer angedreht fam
    to \pass the ball den Ball abgeben [o abspielen]
    to \pass the ball to sb jdm den Ball zuspielen
    to \pass the baton to sb SPORT den Stab an jdn abgeben
    the baton was \passed smoothly der Stab wurde sauber übergeben
    8. (succeed)
    to \pass an exam/a test eine Prüfung/eine Arbeit bestehen
    to \pass muster akzeptabel sein
    to \pass one's days/holiday [or AM vacation] /time doing sth seine Tage/Ferien/Zeit mit etw dat verbringen
    to \pass the time sich dat die Zeit vertreiben
    to \pass the time of day with sb jdn [nur] kurz grüßen
    I just wanted to \pass the time of day with her, but... ich wollte wirklich nur kurz guten Tag sagen und ein wenig mit ihr plaudern, doch...
    ▪ to be \passed law verabschiedet werden
    to \pass a motion einen Antrag genehmigen
    “motion \passed by a clear majority” „Antrag mit deutlicher Mehrheit angenommen“
    to \pass a resolution eine Resolution verabschieden
    the resolution was \passed unanimously die Resolution wurde einstimmig angenommen
    to \pass sb/sth as fit [or suitable] jdn/etw [als] geeignet erklären
    meat \passed as fit for human consumption Fleisch, das für den Verzehr freigegeben wurde
    he was \passed fit for military service er wurde für wehrdiensttauglich erklärt
    the censors \passed the film as suitable for children die Zensurstelle gab den Film für Kinder frei
    to \pass a comment einen Kommentar abgeben
    to \pass a comment on sb eine Bemerkung über jdn machen
    to \pass judgement on sb/sth ein Urteil über jdn/etw fällen, über jdn/etw ein Urteil abgeben
    to \pass one's opinion seine Meinung sagen
    to \pass a remark eine Bemerkung machen
    she's been \passing remarks about me behind my back sie ist hinter meinem Rücken über mich hergezogen
    to \pass sentence [on sb] LAW das Urteil [über jdn] fällen
    12. MED ( form: excrete)
    to \pass blood Blut im Stuhl/Urin haben
    to \pass faeces Kot ausscheiden
    to \pass urine urinieren
    to \pass water Wasser lassen
    13. FIN
    to \pass a dividend eine Dividende ausfallen lassen
    14.
    ▶ to \pass the buck to sb/sth ( fam) die Verantwortung auf jdn/etw abwälzen fam, jdm/etw den Schwarzen Peter zuschieben fam
    1. (move by) vorbeigehen, vorbeilaufen, vorbeikommen; road vorbeiführen; parade vorbeiziehen, vorüberziehen; car vorbeifahren
    we often \passed on the stairs wir sind uns oft im Treppenhaus begegnet
    the Queen \passed among the crowd die Königin mischte sich unter die Menge
    the planes \passed noisily overhead die Flugzeuge donnerten vorbei fam
    the bullet \passed between her shoulder blades die Kugel ging genau zwischen ihren Schulterblättern durch
    if you \pass by a chemist... wenn du an einer Apotheke vorbeikommst...
    a momentary look of anxiety \passed across his face ( fig) für einen kurzen Moment überschattete ein Ausdruck der Besorgnis seine Miene
    to \pass out of sight außer Sichtweite geraten
    to \pass unnoticed unbemerkt bleiben
    ▪ to \pass over sth plane über etw akk hinwegfliegen
    ▪ to \pass under sth unter etw dat hindurchgehen; (by car) unter etw dat hindurchfahren; road unter etw dat hindurchführen
    2. (overtake) überholen
    3. (enter) eintreten, hereinkommen
    may I \pass? kann ich hereinkommen?
    that helps prevent fats \passing into the bloodstream das verhindert, dass Fette in die Blutbahn gelangen
    to allow sb to [or let sb] \pass jdn durchlassen
    they shall not \pass! sie werden nicht durchkommen! (Kampfruf der Antifaschisten)
    4. (go away) vergehen, vorübergehen, vorbeigehen
    it'll soon \pass das ist bald vorüber
    I felt a bit nauseous, but the feeling \passed mir war ein bisschen schlecht, aber das ging auch wieder vorbei
    for a moment she thought she'd die but the moment \passed für einen kurzen Moment lang dachte sie, sie würde sterben
    I let a golden opportunity \pass ich habe mir eine einmalige Gelegenheit entgehen lassen
    ▪ to \pass from sth to sth von etw dat zu etw dat übergehen
    wax \passes from solid to liquid when you heat it beim Erhitzen wird festes Wachs flüssig
    the water \passes from a liquid state to a solid state when frozen Wasser wird fest, wenn es gefriert
    all these English words have \passed into the German language all diese englischen Wörter sind in die deutsche Sprache eingegangen
    to \pass into oblivion in Vergessenheit geraten
    no words have \passed between us since our divorce seit unserer Scheidung haben wir kein einziges Wort miteinander gewechselt
    the looks \passing between them suggested that... die Blicke, die sie miteinander wechselten, ließen darauf schließen, dass...
    greetings were \passed between them sie begrüßten sich
    8. SPORT (of a ball) zuspielen, [den Ball] abgeben [o abspielen
    9. SCH (succeed) bestehen, durchkommen
    he \passed at the fifth attempt er bestand die Prüfung im fünften Anlauf
    10. (go by) time vergehen, verstreichen
    the evening \passed without incident der Abend verlief ohne Zwischenfälle
    11. (not answer) passen [müssen]
    \pass — I don't know the answer ich passe — ich weiß es nicht
    the contestant \passed on four questions der Wettbewerbsteilnehmer musste bei vier Fragen passen
    12. (forgo)
    ▪ to \pass on sth auf etw akk verzichten
    I don't think you'll \pass as 18 keiner wird dir abnehmen, dass du 18 bist
    do you think this jacket and trousers could \pass as a suit? meinst du, ich kann diese Jacke und die Hose als Anzug anziehen?
    he could \pass as a German in our new film für unseren neuen Film könnte er als Deutscher durchgehen
    14. CARDS passen
    15. ( old)
    and it come to \pass that... und da begab es sich, dass...
    * * *
    [pAːs]
    1. n
    1) (= permit) Ausweis m; (MIL ETC) Passierschein m

    a free pass — eine Freikarte; (permanent) ein Sonderausweis m

    2) (Brit UNIV) Bestehen nt einer Prüfung

    to get a pass in German — seine Deutschprüfung bestehen; (lowest level) seine Deutschprüfung mit "ausreichend" bestehen

    3) (GEOG, SPORT) Pass m; (FTBL, for shot at goal) Vorlage f
    4) (FENCING) Ausfall m
    5) (= movement by conjurer, hypnotist) Bewegung f, Geste f

    the conjurer made a few quick passes with his hand over the top of the hat — der Zauberer fuhr mit der Hand ein paar Mal schnell über dem Hut hin und her

    6)

    things had come to such a pass that... — die Lage hatte sich so zugespitzt, dass...

    things have come to a pretty pass when... — so weit ist es schon gekommen, dass...

    7)
    8) (AVIAT)

    on its fourth pass over the area the plane was almost hit —

    the pilot made two passes over the landing strip before deciding to come down — der Pilot passierte die Landebahn zweimal, ehe er sich zur Landung entschloss

    2. vt
    1) (= move past) vorbeigehen/-fahren/-fliegen an (+dat)
    2) (= overtake) athlete, car überholen
    3) (= cross) frontier etc überschreiten, überqueren, passieren; deadline überschreiten
    4) (= reach, hand) reichen

    pass (me) the salt, please —

    the characteristics which he passed to his son — die Eigenschaften, die er an seinen Sohn weitergab

    5)

    it passes my comprehension that... —

    love which passes all understanding — Liebe, die jenseits allen Verstehens liegt

    6) (UNIV ETC) exam bestehen; candidate bestehen lassen
    7)
    8) (= approve) motion annehmen; plan gutheißen, genehmigen; (PARL) verabschieden
    9) (SPORT)

    you should learn to pass the ball and not hang on to it — du solltest lernen abzuspielen, statt am Ball zu kleben

    10) forged bank notes weitergeben
    11)

    he passed his hand across his forehead — er fuhr sich (dat) mit der Hand über die Stirn

    12) (= spend) time verbringen

    he did it just to pass the time — er tat das nur, um sich (dat) die Zeit zu vertreiben

    13) remark von sich geben; opinion abgeben; (JUR) sentence verhängen; judgement fällen
    14) (= discharge) excrement, blood absondern, ausscheiden
    3. vi
    1) (= move past) vorbeigehen/-fahren

    the street was too narrow for the cars to pass — die Straße war so eng, dass die Wagen nicht aneinander vorbeikamen

    we passed in the corridor —

    2) (= overtake) überholen
    3)

    (= move, go) no letters passed between them — sie wechselten keine Briefe

    if you pass by the grocer's... —

    the procession passed down the street —

    the virus passes easily from one person to another —

    expressions which have passed into/out of the language — Redensarten, die in die Sprache eingegangen sind/aus der Sprache verschwunden sind

    to pass into history/legend — in die Geschichte/Legende eingehen

    to pass out of sight —

    he passed out of our lives — er ist aus unserem Leben verschwunden

    everything he said just passed over my head — was er sagte, war mir alles zu hoch

    I'll just pass quickly over the main points again —

    the crown always passes to the eldest son —

    he passed under the archway — er ging/fuhr durch das Tor

    4) (time) vergehen; (deadline) verfallen
    5) (= disappear, end anger, hope, era etc) vorübergehen, vorbeigehen; (storm) (= go over) vorüberziehen; (= abate) sich legen; (rain) vorbeigehen
    6) (= be acceptable) gehen

    let it pass! — vergiss es!, vergessen wirs!

    7) (= be considered, be accepted) angesehen werden (for or as sth als etw)

    this little room has to pass for an office —

    8) (in exam) bestehen

    did you pass in chemistry? — hast du deine Chemieprüfung bestanden?

    9) (SPORT) abspielen

    to pass to sb — jdm zuspielen, an jdn abgeben

    10) (CARDS) passen

    pass (in quiz etc) — passe!

    11) (old

    = happen) to come to pass — sich begeben

    and it came to pass in those days... — und es begab sich zu jener Zeit...

    12) (US euph = die) sterben
    * * *
    pass [pɑːs; US pæs]
    A v/t
    1. a) etwas passieren, vorbei-, vorübergehen, -fahren, -fließen, -kommen, -reiten, -ziehen an (dat)
    b) Tennis: jemanden passieren
    2. vorbeifahren an (dat), überholen ( auch AUTO):
    3. fig übergehen, -springen, keine Notiz nehmen von
    4. WIRTSCH eine Dividende ausfallen lassen
    5. eine Schranke, ein Hindernis passieren
    6. durch-, überschreiten, durchqueren, -reiten, -reisen, -ziehen, passieren:
    pass a river einen Fluss überqueren
    7. durchschneiden (Linie)
    8. a) ein Examen bestehen
    b) einen Prüfling bestehen oder durchkommen lassen:
    pass sb (as) fit ( oder ready) for work MED jemanden gesundschreiben
    c) etwas durchgehen lassen
    9. fig hinausgehen über (akk), übersteigen, -schreiten, -treffen:
    it passes my comprehension ( oder understanding) es geht über meinen Verstand oder Horizont;
    just passing seventeen gerade erst siebzehn Jahre alt
    10. (durch etwas) hindurchleiten, -führen (beide, auch TECH), auch die Hand gleiten lassen:
    he passed his hand over his forehead er fuhr sich mit der Hand über die Stirn
    11. (durch ein Sieb) passieren, durchseihen
    12. vorbei-, durchlassen, passieren lassen
    13. Zeit ver-, zubringen:
    pass the time reading sich die Zeit mit Lesen vertreiben; → time A 4
    14. einen Gegenstand reichen, geben, ( auch JUR Falschgeld) weitergeben:
    pass me the salt, please reichen Sie mir bitte das Salz; → buck1 A 8, hat Bes Redew
    15. übersenden, auch einen Funkspruch befördern
    16. SPORT den Ball abspielen, passen ( beide:
    to zu):
    pass the ball auch abspielen
    17. JUR Eigentum, einen Rechtstitel übertragen, (letztwillig) zukommen lassen
    18. einen Vorschlag durchbringen, -setzen, ein Gesetz verabschieden, eine Resolution annehmen
    19. abgeben, übertragen:
    pass the chair den Vorsitz abgeben ( to sb an jemanden)
    20. rechtskräftig machen
    21. (als gültig) anerkennen, gelten lassen, genehmigen
    22. (on, upon) eine Meinung äußern (über akk), eine Bemerkung fallen lassen oder machen, einen Kommentar geben (zu), ein Kompliment machen:
    pass criticism on Kritik üben an (dat);
    pass an opinion on auch sich äußern über (akk) oder zu
    23. ein Urteil abgeben, fällen, JUR auch sprechen ( alle:
    on, upon über akk)
    24. MED
    a) Eiter, Nierensteine etc ausscheiden
    b) den Darm entleeren
    c) Wasser lassen
    25. ein Türschloss öffnen
    B v/i
    1. sich (fort)bewegen, (von einem Ort zu einem andern) gehen, reiten, fahren, ziehen etc
    2. vorbei-, vorübergehen, -fahren, -ziehen etc (by an dat), AUTO überholen:
    let sb pass jemanden vorbei- oder durchlassen
    3. fahren etc ( through durch):
    it has just passed through my mind fig es ist mir eben durch den Kopf gegangen
    4. übergehen (to auf akk; into the hands of in die Hände gen), übertragen werden (to auf akk), fallen (to an akk):
    it passes to the heirs es geht auf die Erben über, es fällt an die Erben
    5. durchkommen, (die Prüfung) bestehen
    6. übergehen:
    pass from a solid (in)to a liquid state vom festen in den flüssigen Zustand übergehen
    7. vergehen, vorübergehen (Zeit etc, auch Schmerz etc), verstreichen (Zeit):
    the pain will pass der Schmerz wird vergehen;
    fashions pass Moden kommen und gehen
    8. euph entschlafen
    9. sich zutragen, sich abspielen, vor sich gehen, passieren:
    it came to pass that … besonders BIBEL es begab sich oder es geschah, dass …;
    bring sth to pass etwas bewirken
    10. harsh words passed between them es fielen harte Worte zwischen ihnen oder bei ihrer Auseinandersetzung
    11. (for, as) gelten (für, als), gehalten werden (für), angesehen werden (für):
    he passes for a much younger man er wird für viel jünger gehalten;
    this passes for gold das soll angeblich Gold sein
    12. a) an-, hingehen, leidlich sein
    b) durchgehen, unbeanstandet bleiben, geduldet werden:
    let sth pass etwas durchgehen oder gelten lassen;
    let that pass reden wir nicht mehr davon
    13. PARL etc durchgehen, bewilligt oder zum Gesetz erhoben werden, Rechtskraft erlangen
    14. angenommen werden, gelten, (als gültig) anerkannt werden
    15. gangbar sein, Geltung finden (Grundsätze, Ideen)
    16. JUR gefällt werden, ergehen (Urteil, Entscheidung)
    17. MED abgehen, abgeführt oder ausgeschieden werden
    18. SPORT (den Ball) abspielen oder passen (to zu):
    pass back to the goalkeeper (Fußball) zum Torhüter zurückspielen
    19. Kartenspiel: passen:
    (I) pass! a. fig ich passe!;
    I pass on that! fig da muss ich passen!
    C s
    1. a) (Gebirgs)Pass m:
    (narrow) pass Engpass;
    hold the pass fig obs sich behaupten;
    sell the pass fig obs abtrünnig werden
    b) Durchfahrt f
    c) schiffbarer Kanal
    2. a) Ausweis m, Passier-, Erlaubnisschein m
    b) besonders free pass Freikarte f, BAHN etc Freifahrkarte f, -schein m
    3. MIL Urlaubsschein m
    4. besonders Br Bestehen n (einer Prüfung):
    get a pass in physics seine Physikprüfung bestehen
    5. fig
    a) Schritt m, Abschnitt m
    b) umg (schlimme) Lage:
    things have come to a fine ( oder pretty, sorry) pass es ist ganz schön weit gekommen
    6. make a pass over fig etwas überfliegen
    7. a) Handbewegung f (eines Zauberkünstlers)
    b) manueller (Zauber)Trick
    8. Bestreichung f, Strich m (beim Hypnotisieren etc)
    9. Maltechnik: Strich m
    10. SPORT Pass m, Ab-, Zuspiel n:
    from a pass by auf Pass von
    11. Kartenspiel: Passen n
    12. Fechten: Ausfall m
    13. make a pass at umg Annäherungsversuche machen bei
    14. TECH Durchlauf m (abgeschlossener Arbeitszyklus)
    * * *
    1.
    [pɑːs]noun
    1) (passing of an examination) bestandene Prüfung

    ‘pass’ — (mark or grade) Ausreichend, das

    2) (written permission) Ausweis, der; (for going into or out of a place also) Passierschein, der; (Mil.): (for leave) Urlaubsschein, der; (for free transportation) Freifahrschein, der; (for free admission) Freikarte, die
    3) (critical position) Notlage, die

    things have come to a pretty pass [when...] — es muss schon weit gekommen sein[, wenn...]

    4) (Football) Pass, der (fachspr.); Ballabgabe, die; (Fencing) Ausfall, der

    make a pass to a player — [den Ball] zu einem Spieler passen (fachspr.) od. abgeben

    5)

    make a pass at somebody — (fig. coll.): (amorously) jemanden anmachen (ugs.)

    6) (in mountains) Pass, der
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (move onward) [Prozession:] ziehen; [Wasser:] fließen; [Gas:] strömen; (fig.) [Redner:] übergehen (to zu)

    pass further along or down the bus, please! — bitte weiter durchgehen!

    2) (go) passieren; [Zug, Reisender:] fahren ( through durch)

    pass over — (in plane) überfliegen [Ort]

    let somebody pass — jemanden durchlassen od. passieren lassen

    3) (be transported, lit. or fig.) kommen

    pass into history/oblivion — in die Geschichte eingehen/in Vergessenheit geraten

    the title/property passes to somebody — der Titel/Besitz geht auf jemanden über

    4) (change) wechseln
    5) (go by) [Fußgänger:] vorbeigehen; [Fahrer, Fahrzeug:] vorbeifahren; [Prozession:] vorbeiziehen; [Zeit, Sekunde:] vergehen; (by chance) [Person, Fahrzeug:] vorbeikommen

    let somebody/a car pass — jemanden/ein Auto vorbeilassen (ugs.)

    6) (be accepted as adequate) durchgehen; hingehen

    let it/the matter pass — es/die Sache durch- od. hingehen lassen

    7) (come to an end) vorbeigehen; [Fieber:] zurückgehen; [Ärger, Zorn, Sturm:] sich legen; [Gewitter, Unwetter:] vorüberziehen
    8) (happen) passieren; (between persons) vorfallen
    9) (be accepted) durchgehen (as als, for für)
    10) (satisfy examiner) bestehen
    11) (Cards) passen

    pass! — [ich] passe!

    3. transitive verb
    1) (move past) [Fußgänger:] vorbeigehen an (+ Dat.); [Fahrer, Fahrzeug:] vorbeifahren an (+ Dat.); [Prozession:] vorbeiziehen an (+ Dat.)
    2) (overtake) vorbeifahren an (+ Dat.) [Fahrzeug, Person]
    3) (cross) überschreiten [Schwelle, feindliche Linien, Grenze, Marke]
    4) (reach standard in) bestehen [Prüfung]
    5) (approve) verabschieden [Gesetzentwurf]; annehmen [Vorschlag]; [Zensor:] freigeben [Film, Buch, Theaterstück]; bestehen lassen [Prüfungskandidaten]
    6) (be too great for) überschreiten, übersteigen [Auffassungsgabe, Verständnis]
    7) (move) bringen
    8) (Footb. etc.) abgeben (to an + Akk.)
    9) (spend) verbringen [Leben, Zeit, Tag]
    10) (hand)

    would you pass the salt, please? — gibst od. reichst du mir bitte das Salz?

    11) (utter) fällen, verkünden [Urteil]; machen [Bemerkung]
    12) (discharge) lassen [Wasser]
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    n.
    (§ pl.: passes)
    = Arbeitsgang m.
    Ausweis -e m.
    Durchgang m.
    Durchlauf m.
    Pass ¨-e m. (US) v.
    überholen v. (by) (time) v.
    verfließen (Zeit) v. (by) v.
    vorbeigehen (an) v. v.
    ablaufen v.
    absolvieren (Prüfung) v.
    passieren v.

    English-german dictionary > pass

  • 110 beruflich

    be·ruf·lich adj
    professional, vocational;
    \berufliche Aussichten career [or job] prospects;
    \beruflicher Erfolg success in one's career [or job];
    \beruflicher Werdegang career;
    \berufliche Laufbahn career;
    \berufliche Pflichten professional duties [or tasks];
    \berufliche Fortbildung further training;
    aus \beruflichen Gründen verreist [o abwesend] away on business
    adv as far as work is concerned;
    es geht \beruflich bergauf/ bergab things are going well/badly in one's job;
    sich akk \beruflich weiterbilden [o fortbilden] to undertake further training;
    sich akk \beruflich verbessern/ verschlechtern to improve/worsen one's professional situation;
    \beruflich vorankommen to progress in one's career;
    \beruflich unterwegs sein to be away on business;
    \beruflich verhindert sein to be detained by work;
    was macht sie \beruflich? what does she do for a living?

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > beruflich

  • 111 содействовать

    несов. и сов. (кому́-л)
    assist (smb), help (smb); (чему́-л) further [-ðə] (smth), promote (smth), contribute (to smth), facilitate (smth)

    соде́йствовать разви́тию промы́шленности — further the development of industry

    соде́йствовать успе́ху кого́-л — contribute to smb's success

    соде́йствовать осуществле́нию чего́-л — facilitate (the implementation of) smth

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > содействовать

  • 112 содействовать

    нсв/св vi; св - см посодействовать
    кому/чему-л помогать to help, to assist lit; способствовать to further, to promote; вносить вклад to contribute to/towards sth

    соде́йствовать взаимопонима́нию ме́жду наро́дами — to promote international understanding

    соде́йствовать де́лу ми́ра — to further/to promote (the cause of) peace

    мно́гие фа́кторы соде́йствовали его́ успе́ху — various factors contributed to his success

    Русско-английский учебный словарь > содействовать

  • 113 πράσσω

    Grammatical information: v.
    Meaning: `to pass through, to travel' (only ep.), `to finish, to accomplish, to do, to exact', intr. `to come to an end, to succeed, to act'.
    Other forms: Att. - ττω, Cret. - δδω, ep. Ion. πρήσσω, fut. πράξω, Ion. - ήξή, aor. πρᾱ̃ξαι, - ῆξαι (all Il.), pass. πραχθῆναι (S., Th.), perf. πέπρᾱγα, - ηγα (Pi., Hdt.), -ᾱχα, - ηχα (Att., Hdt.), pass. πέπραγμαι (A.).
    Compounds: Often w. prefix, e.g. δια-, εἰσ-, κατα-, συν-. Compounds, e.g. εὑ-, κακο-πρᾱγ-ία f. `prosperity, success', resp. `accident, misfortune' (Pi., Att.) with εὑ-, κακο-πρᾱγ-έω (Att.); anal. δυσ-, κακο-πρᾱγής (Vett. Val., H., not from πρᾶγος); also εὑ-πραξ-ία, Ion. - πρηξ-ίη f., after πρᾶξις, πρᾶξαι.
    Derivatives: (Compact survey). Nom. actionis: 1. πρᾶξις, πρῆξις (also w. δια-, κατα- a.o.) f. `realisation, accomplishment, advancement, act, exaction' (Il.) with πραξ-είδιον n. dimin. (EM), - ιμος `realisable' (Cyprus II-IIIp), `recoverable' (Delos I-IIp), also πράκτιμος (from Dor. *πρᾶκτις or after πρακτι-κός?) `liable to a money-penalty' (Delphi IIa). Further, with formation after the adj. abstr. (cf. Schwyzer 468 f.), the compp. προ-πραξ-ία f. `precedence in negotiation' (Acarnan. inscr. V-IVa), ὑπερ-πράξ-ιον n. `over-exaction, blackmailing' (Mylasa Vp); cf. also 10. below. -- 2. πρᾶγμα (posthom.), Ion. πρῆχμα (\< - κσμ-; inscr.), πρῆγμα (Hdt.; for πρῆχμα?, s. Schulze Festschr. Kretschmer 217 ff. = Kl. Schr. 409ff.) n. `performed act, fact, business', pl. `facts, state affairs etc.'; as 2. member in ἀ-, πολυ-πράγμων etc.; from this πραγμά-τιον, - τικός, - τίας, - τᾶς, - τώδης, - τεύομαι with - τευμα, - τεία, - τειώδης, - τευτής, - τευ-τικός. -- 3. πρᾶγος n. poet. replacement for the worn out πρᾶγμα (Pi., trag.; Schwyzer 512). -- 4. πρακτύς Dor. = πρᾶξις (EM). -- Nom. agentis: 5. πρακτήρ, πρηκτήρ, - ῆρος m. `executor, tradesman' (Hom.), `exactor' (hell.) with - τήριος `effective, decisive' (A.). -- 6. πράκτωρ, - ορος m. `executor, avenger' (A., S., Antiph.), `exactor, tax official' (Att., pap.) with - τορ-ικός, - ειος, - εύω with - εῖον, - εία (- ία?); on the meaning of πράκτωρ Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 220f., 2, 8 f. a. 49 f., Benveniste Noms d'agent 32; attempt to a semant. differentiation of πρακτήρ and πράκτωρ ibd. 47. --7. εἰσ-, ἐκ-πράκτης m. `collector, tax official' (Aq.). -- 8. πρηξών = ἀγοραῖος, i.e. `notary' (Sicil.; Theognost.); prob. from πρῆξις (Schwyzer 517). -- 9. Adj. πρακτικός `concerning action, skilled, practical' (Att.; Chantraine Études 140).
    Origin: IE [Indo-European] [817] * perh₂- `sell'
    Etymology: All forms go back on a common stem πρᾱκ- (analog. πρᾱγ-; Schwyzer 715), which is a κ-enlargement of the zero grade πρᾱ- in πρᾱ-θῆναι, πέ-πρᾱ-μαι, πι-πρά̄-σκομαι etc. (s. πέρνημι) with further connection with πέρᾱ, πείρω (s. vv.) etc. The function of the velar (cf. πλήσσω: πλη-γ-ή, τμή-γ-ω: τέμ-ν-ω, τέμα-χος a.o.) can be designated as terminative (Schwyzer 702 w. n. 5 a. lit.). Assuming a nominal *πρᾱκ- (Schw. 496) is superfluous and unconvincing. For the primary character of πράσσω, πρᾶξαι tell also the old deriv. πρᾶξις, πρῆξις; on this Schw. 505 (where n. 6 is reckoned with a "derived πρήσσω"). -- On meaning and use of πράσσω s. Snell Phil. 85, 141 ff., Braun Stud. itfilcl. N. S. 15, 243ff.
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    Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > πράσσω

  • 114 Adamson, Daniel

    [br]
    b. 1818 Shildon, Co. Durham, England
    d. January 1890 Didsbury, Manchester, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer, pioneer in the use of steel for boilers, which enabled higher pressures to be introduced; pioneer in the use of triple-and quadruple-expansion mill engines.
    [br]
    Adamson was apprenticed between 1835 and 1841 to Timothy Hackworth, then Locomotive Superintendent on the Stockton \& Darlington Railway. After this he was appointed Draughtsman, then Superintendent Engineer, at that railway's locomotive works until in 1847 he became Manager of Shildon Works. In 1850 he resigned and moved to act as General Manager of Heaton Foundry, Stockport. In the following year he commenced business on his own at Newton Moor Iron Works near Manchester, where he built up his business as an iron-founder and boilermaker. By 1872 this works had become too small and he moved to a 4 acre (1.6 hectare) site at Hyde Junction, Dukinfield. There he employed 600 men making steel boilers, heavy machinery including mill engines fitted with the American Wheelock valve gear, hydraulic plant and general millwrighting. His success was based on his early recognition of the importance of using high-pressure steam and steel instead of wrought iron. In 1852 he patented his type of flanged seam for the firetubes of Lancashire boilers, which prevented these tubes cracking through expansion. In 1862 he patented the fabrication of boilers by drilling rivet holes instead of punching them and also by drilling the holes through two plates held together in their assembly positions. He had started to use steel for some boilers he made for railway locomotives in 1857, and in 1860, only four years after Bessemer's patent, he built six mill engine boilers from steel for Platt Bros, Oldham. He solved the problems of using this new material, and by his death had made c.2,800 steel boilers with pressures up to 250 psi (17.6 kg/cm2).
    He was a pioneer in the general introduction of steel and in 1863–4 was a partner in establishing the Yorkshire Iron and Steel Works at Penistone. This was the first works to depend entirely upon Bessemer steel for engineering purposes and was later sold at a large profit to Charles Cammell \& Co., Sheffield. When he started this works, he also patented improvements both to the Bessemer converters and to the engines which provided their blast. In 1870 he helped to turn Lincolnshire into an important ironmaking area by erecting the North Lincolnshire Ironworks. He was also a shareholder in ironworks in South Wales and Cumberland.
    He contributed to the development of the stationary steam engine, for as early as 1855 he built one to run with a pressure of 150 psi (10.5 kg/cm) that worked quite satisfactorily. He reheated the steam between the cylinders of compound engines and then in 1861–2 patented a triple-expansion engine, followed in 1873 by a quadruple-expansion one to further economize steam. In 1858 he developed improved machinery for testing tensile strength and compressive resistance of materials, and in the same year patents for hydraulic lifting jacks and riveting machines were obtained.
    He was a founding member of the Iron and Steel Institute and became its President in 1888 when it visited Manchester. The previous year he had been President of the Institution of Civil Engineers when he was presented with the Bessemer Gold Medal. He was a constant contributor at the meetings of these associations as well as those of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He did not live to see the opening of one of his final achievements, the Manchester Ship Canal. He was the one man who, by his indomitable energy and skill at public speaking, roused the enthusiasm of the people in Manchester for this project and he made it a really practical proposition in the face of strong opposition.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1887.
    President, Iron and Steel Institute 1888. Institution of Civil Engineers Bessemer Gold Medal 1887.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, Engineer 69:56.
    Obituary, Engineering 49:66–8.
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (provides an illustration of Adamson's flanged seam for boilers).
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (covers the development of the triple-expansion engine).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Adamson, Daniel

  • 115 Chappe, Claude

    SUBJECT AREA: Telecommunications
    [br]
    b. 25 December 1763 Brulon, France
    d. 23 January 1805 Paris, France
    [br]
    French engineer who invented the semaphore visual telegraph.
    [br]
    Chappe began his studies at the Collège de Joyeuse, Rouen, and completed them at La Flèche. He was educated for the church with the intention of becoming an Abbé Commendataire, but this title did not in fact require him to perform any religious duties. He became interested in natural science and amongst other activities he carried out experiments with electrically charged soap bubbles.
    When the bénéfice was suppressed in 1781 he returned home and began to devise a system of telegraphic communication. With the help of his three brothers, particularly Abraham, and using an old idea, in 1790 he made a visual telegraph with suspended pendulums to relay coded messages over a distance of half a kilometre. Despite public suspicion and opposition, he presented the idea to the Assemblée Nationale on 22 May 1792. No doubt due to the influence of his brother, Ignace, a member of the Assemblée Nationale, the idea was favourably received, and on 1 April 1793 it was referred to the National Convention as being of military importance. As a result, Chappe was given the title of Telegraphy Engineer and commissioned to construct a semaphore (Gk. bearing a sign) link between Paris and Lille, a distance of some 240 km (150 miles), using twenty-two towers. Each station contained two telescopes for observing the adjacent towers, and each semaphore consisted of a central beam supporting two arms, whose positions gave nearly two hundred possible arrangements. Hence, by using a code book as a form of lookup table, Chappe was able to devise a code of over 8,000 words. The success of the system for communication during subsequent military conflicts resulted in him being commissioned to extend it with further links, a work that was continued by his brothers after his suicide during a period of illness and depression. Providing as it did an effective message speed of several thousand kilometres per hour, the system remained in use until the mid-nineteenth century, by which time the electric telegraph had become well established.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    R.Appleyard, 1930, Pioneers of Electrical Communication.
    International Telecommunications Union, 1965, From Semaphore to Satellite, Geneva.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Chappe, Claude

  • 116 Clegg, Samuel

    [br]
    b. 2 March 1781 Manchester, England
    d. 8 January 1861 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, London, England
    [br]
    English inventor and gas engineer.
    [br]
    Clegg received scientific instruction from John Dalton, the founder of the atomic theory, and was apprenticed to Boulton \& Watt. While at their Soho factory in Birmingham, he assisted William Murdock with his experiments on coal gas. He left the firm in 1804 and set up as a gas engineer on his own account. He designed and installed gas plant and lighting in a number of factories, including Henry Lodge's cotton mill at Sowerby Bridge and in 1811 the Jesuit College at Stoneyhurst in Lancashire, the first non-industrial establishment to be equipped with gas lighting.
    Clegg moved to London in 1813 and successfully installed gas lighting at the premises of Rudolf Ackermann in the Strand. His success in the manufacture of gas had earned him the Royal Society of Arts Silver Medal in 1808 for furthering "the art of gas production", and in 1813 it brought him the appointment of Chief Engineer to the first gas company, the Chartered Gas, Light \& Coke Company. He left in 1817, but remained in demand to set up gas works and advise on the formation of gas companies. Throughout this time there flowed from Clegg a series of inventions of fundamental importance in the gas industry. While at Lodge's mill he had begun purifying gas by adding lime to the gas holder, and at Stoneyhurst this had become a separate lime purifier. In 1815, and again in 1818, Clegg patented the wet-meter which proved to be the basis for future devices for measuring gas. He invented the gas governor and, favouring the horizontal retort, developed the form which was to become standard for the next forty years. But after all this, Clegg joined a concern in Liverpool which failed, taking all his possessions with it. He made a fresh start in Lisbon, where he undertook various engineering works for the Portuguese government. He returned to England to find railway construction gathering pace, but he again backed a loser by engaging in the ill-fated atmospheric-rail way project. He was finally discouraged from taking part in further enterprises, but he received a government appointment as Surveying Officer to conduct enquiries in connection with the various Bills on gas that were presented to Parliament. Clegg also contributed to his son's massive treatise on the manufacture of coal gas.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society of Arts Silver Medal 1808.
    Further Reading
    Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1862) 21:552–4.
    S.Everard, 1949, The History of the Gas light and Coke Company, London: Ernest Benn.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Clegg, Samuel

  • 117 Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 11 June 1910 Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France
    [br]
    French marine explorer who invented the aqualung.
    [br]
    He was the son of a country lawyer who became legal advisor and travelling companion to certain rich Americans. At an early age Cousteau acquired a love of travel, of the sea and of cinematography: he made his first film at the age of 13. After an interrupted education he nevertheless passed the difficult entrance examination to the Ecole Navale in Brest, but his naval career was cut short in 1936 by injuries received in a serious motor accident. For his long recuperation he was drafted to Toulon. There he met Philippe Tailliez, a fellow naval officer, and Frédéric Dumas, a champion spearfisher, with whom he formed a long association and began to develop his underwater swimming and photography. He apparently took little part in the Second World War, but under cover he applied his photographic skills to espionage, for which he was awarded the Légion d'honneur after the war.
    Cousteau sought greater freedom of movement underwater and, with Emile Gagnan, who worked in the laboratory of Air Liquide, he began experimenting to improve portable underwater breathing apparatus. As a result, in 1943 they invented the aqualung. Its simple design and robust construction provided a reliable and low-cost unit and revolutionized scientific and recreational diving. Gagnan shunned publicity, but Cousteau revelled in the new freedom to explore and photograph underwater and exploited the publicity potential to the full.
    The Undersea Research Group was set up by the French Navy in 1944 and, based in Toulon, it provided Cousteau with the Opportunity to develop underwater exploration and filming techniques and equipment. Its first aims were minesweeping and exploration, but in 1948 Cousteau pioneered an extension to marine archaeology. In 1950 he raised the funds to acquire a surplus US-built minesweeper, which he fitted out to further his quest for exploration and adventure and named Calypso. Cousteau also sought and achieved public acclaim with the publication in 1953 of The Silent World, an account of his submarine observations, illustrated by his own brilliant photography. The book was an immediate success and was translated into twenty-two languages. In 1955 Calypso sailed through the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean, and the outcome was a film bearing the same title as the book: it won an Oscar and the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival. This was his favoured medium for the expression of his ideas and observations, and a stream of films on the same theme kept his name before the public.
    Cousteau's fame earned him appointment by Prince Rainier as Director of the Oceanographie Institute in Monaco in 1957, a post he held until 1988. With its museum and research centre, it offered Cousteau a useful base for his worldwide activities.
    In the 1980s Cousteau turned again to technological development. Like others before him, he was concerned to reduce ships' fuel consumption by harnessing wind power. True to form, he raised grants from various sources to fund research and enlisted technical help, namely Lucien Malavard, Professor of Aerodynamics at the Sorbonne. Malavard designed a 44 ft (13.4 m) high non-rotating cylinder, which was fitted onto a catamaran hull, christened Moulin à vent. It was intended that its maiden Atlantic crossing in 1983 should herald a new age in ship propulsion, with large royalties to Cousteau. Unfortunately the vessel was damaged in a storm and limped to the USA under diesel power. A more robust vessel, the Alcyone, was fitted with two "Turbosails" in 1985 and proved successful, with a 40 per cent reduction in fuel consumption. However, oil prices fell, removing the incentive to fit the new device; the lucrative sales did not materialize and Alcyone remained the only vessel with Turbosails, sharing with Calypso Cousteau's voyages of adventure and exploration. In September 1995, Cousteau was among the critics of the decision by the French President Jacques Chirac to resume testing of nuclear explosive devices under the Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Légion d'honneur. Croix de Guerre with Palm. Officier du Mérite Maritime and numerous scientific and artistic awards listed in such directories as Who's Who.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    R.Munson, 1991, Cousteau, the Captain and His World, London: Robert Hale (published in the USA 1989).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

  • 118 Elder, John

    [br]
    b. 9 March 1824 Glasgow, Scotland
    d. 17 September 1869 London, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who introduced the compound steam engine to ships and established an important shipbuilding company in Glasgow.
    [br]
    John was the third son of David Elder. The father came from a family of millwrights and moved to Glasgow where he worked for the well-known shipbuilding firm of Napier's and was involved with improving marine engines. John was educated at Glasgow High School and then for a while at the Department of Civil Engineering at Glasgow University, where he showed great aptitude for mathematics and drawing. He spent five years as an apprentice under Robert Napier followed by two short periods of activity as a pattern-maker first and then a draughtsman in England. He returned to Scotland in 1849 to become Chief Draughtsman to Napier, but in 1852 he left to become a partner with the Glasgow general engineering company of Randolph Elliott \& Co. Shortly after his induction (at the age of 28), the engineering firm was renamed Randolph Elder \& Co.; in 1868, when the partnership expired, it became known as John Elder \& Co. From the outset Elder, with his partner, Charles Randolph, approached mechanical (especially heat) engineering in a rigorous manner. Their knowledge and understanding of entropy ensured that engine design was not a hit-and-miss affair, but one governed by recognition of the importance of the new kinetic theory of heat and with it a proper understanding of thermodynamic principles, and by systematic development. In this Elder was joined by W.J.M. Rankine, Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University, who helped him develop the compound marine engine. Elder and Randolph built up a series of patents, which guaranteed their company's commercial success and enabled them for a while to be the sole suppliers of compound steam reciprocating machinery. Their first such engine at sea was fitted in 1854 on the SS Brandon for the Limerick Steamship Company; the ship showed an improved performance by using a third less coal, which he was able to reduce still further on later designs.
    Elder developed steam jacketing and recognized that, with higher pressures, triple-expansion types would be even more economical. In 1862 he patented a design of quadruple-expansion engine with reheat between cylinders and advocated the importance of balancing reciprocating parts. The effect of his improvements was to greatly reduce fuel consumption so that long sea voyages became an economic reality.
    His yard soon reached dimensions then unequalled on the Clyde where he employed over 4,000 workers; Elder also was always interested in the social welfare of his labour force. In 1860 the engine shops were moved to the Govan Old Shipyard, and again in 1864 to the Fairfield Shipyard, about 1 mile (1.6 km) west on the south bank of the Clyde. At Fairfield, shipbuilding was commenced, and with the patents for compounding secure, much business was placed for many years by shipowners serving long-distance trades such as South America; the Pacific Steam Navigation Company took up his ideas for their ships. In later years the yard became known as the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd, but it remains today as one of Britain's most efficient shipyards and is known now as Kvaerner Govan Ltd.
    In 1869, at the age of only 45, John Elder was unanimously elected President of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland; however, before taking office and giving his eagerly awaited presidential address, he died in London from liver disease. A large multitude attended his funeral and all the engineering shops were silent as his body, which had been brought back from London to Glasgow, was carried to its resting place. In 1857 Elder had married Isabella Ure, and on his death he left her a considerable fortune, which she used generously for Govan, for Glasgow and especially the University. In 1883 she endowed the world's first Chair of Naval Architecture at the University of Glasgow, an act which was reciprocated in 1901 when the University awarded her an LLD on the occasion of its 450th anniversary.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland 1869.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1869, Engineer 28.
    1889, The Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith Elder \& Co. W.J.Macquorn Rankine, 1871, "Sketch of the life of John Elder" Transactions of the
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland.
    Maclehose, 1886, Memoirs and Portraits of a Hundred Glasgow Men.
    The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, 1909, London: Offices of Engineering.
    P.M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde, A History of Clyde Shipbuilding, Cambridge: PSL.
    R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (covers Elder's contribution to the development of steam engines).
    RLH / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Elder, John

  • 119 Girard, Philippe de

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1775 France
    d. 1845
    [br]
    French developer of a successful flax-heckling machine for the preparation of fibres for power-spinning.
    [br]
    Early drawing and spinning processes failed to give linen yarn the requisite fineness and homogeneity. In 1810 Napoleon offered a prize of a million francs for a successful flax-spinning machine as part of his policy of stimulating the French textile industries. Spurred on by this offer, Girard suggested three improvements. He was too late to win the prize, but his ideas were patented in England in 1814, although not under his own name. He proposed that the fibres should be soaked in a very hot alkaline solution both before drawing and immediately before they went to the spindles. The actual drawing was to be done by passing the dried material through combs or gills that moved alternately; gill drawing was taken up in England in 1816. His method of wet spinning was never a commercial success, but his processes were adopted in part and developed in Britain and spread to Austria, Poland and France, for his ideas were essentially good and produced a superior product. The successful power-spinning of linen thread from flax depended primarily upon the initial processes of heckling and drawing. The heckling of the bundles or stricks of flax, so as to separate the long fibres of "line" from the shorter ones of "tow", was extremely difficult to mechanize, for each strick had to be combed on both sides in turn and then in the reverse direction. It was to this problem that Girard next turned his attention, inventing a successful machine in 1832 that subsequently was improved in England. The strick was placed between two vertical sheets of combs that moved opposite to each other, depositing the tow upon a revolving cylinder covered with a brush at the bottom of the machine, while the holder from which the strick was suspended moved up and down so as to help the teeth to penetrate deeper into the flax. The tow was removed from the cylinder at the bottom of the machine and taken away to be spun like cotton. The long line fibres were removed from the top of the machine and required further processing if the yarn was to be uniform.
    When N.L.Sadi Carnot's book Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, was published in 1824, Girard made a favourable report on it.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    M.Daumas (ed.), 1968, Histoire générale des techniques, Vol. III: L'Expansion du
    Machinisme, Paris.
    C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of'Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press. T.K.Derry and T.I.Williams, 1960, A Short History of Technology from the Earliest
    Times to AD 1900, Oxford.
    W.A.McCutcheon, 1966–7, "Water power in the North of Ireland", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 39 (discusses the spinning of flax and mentions Girard).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Girard, Philippe de

  • 120 Gramme, Zénobe Théophile

    [br]
    b. 4 April 1826 Jehay-Bodignée, Belgium
    d. 20 January 1901 Bois de Colombes, Paris, France
    [br]
    Belgian engineer whose improvements to the dynamo produced a machine ready for successful commercial exploitation.
    [br]
    Gramme trained as a carpenter and showed an early talent for working with machinery. Moving to Paris he found employment in the Alliance factory as a model maker. With a growing interest in electricity he left to become an instrument maker with Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff. In 1870 he patented the uniformly wound ring-armature dynamo with which his name is associated. Together with Hippolyte Fontaine, in 1871 Gramme opened a factory to manufacture his dynamos. They rapidly became a commercial success for both arc lighting and electrochemical purposes, international publicity being achieved at exhibitions in Vienna, Paris and Philadelphia. It was the realization that a Gramme machine was capable of running as a motor, i.e. the reversibility of function, that illustrated the entire concept of power transmission by electricity. This was first publicly demonstrated in 1873. In 1874 Gramme reduced the size and increased the efficiency of his generators by relying completely on the principle of self-excitation. It was the first practical machine in which were combined the features of continuity of commutation, self-excitation, good lamination of the armature core and a reasonably good magnetic circuit. This dynamo, together with the self-regulating arc lamps then available, made possible the innumerable electric-lighting schemes that followed. These were of the greatest importance in demonstrating that electric lighting was a practical and economic means of illumination. Gramme also designed an alternator to operate Jablochkoff candles. For some years he took an active part in the operations of the Société Gramme and also experimented in his own workshop without collaboration, but made no further contribution to electrical technology.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knight Commander, Order of Leopold of Belgium 1897. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. Chevalier, Order of the Iron Crown, Austria.
    Bibliography
    9 June 1870, British patent no. 1,668 (the ring armature machine).
    1871, Comptes rendus 73:175–8 (Gramme's first description of his invention).
    Further Reading
    W.J.King, 1962, The Development of Electrical Technology in the 19th Century, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Paper 30, pp. 377–90 (an extensive account of Gramme's machines).
    S.P.Thompson, 1901, obituary, Electrician 66: 509–10.
    C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York, p. 496.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Gramme, Zénobe Théophile

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