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  • 101 hand

    /hænd/ * danh từ - tay, bàn tay (người); bàn chân trước (loài vật bốn chân) =hand in hand+ tay nắm tay =to shake hands+ bắt tay =hands off!+ bỏ tay ra!; không được đụng vào; không được can thiệp vào! =hands up!+ giơ tay lên! (hàng hoặc biểu quyết...) - quyền hành; sự có sãn (trong tay); sự nắm giữ (trong tay); sự kiểm soát =to have something on hand+ có sãn cái gì trong tay =to have the situation well in hand+ nắm chắc được tình hình =in the hands of+ trong tay (ai), dưới quyền kiểm soát của (ai) =to change hands+ sang tay người khác; thay tay đổi chủ (vật) =to fall into the hands of+ rơi vào tay (ai) - sự tham gia, sự nhúng tay vào; phần tham gia =to have (bear) a hand in something+ có tham gia vào việc gì, có nhúng tay vào việc gì - sự hứa hôn =to give one's hand to+ hứa hôn với, bằng lòng lấy (ai) - ((thường) số nhiều) công nhân, nhân công (nhà máy, công trường...); thuỷ thủ =all hands on deck!+ toàn thể thuỷ thủ lên boong! - người làm (một việc gì), một tay =a good hand at fencing+ một tay đấu kiếm giỏi - nguồn =to hear the information from a good hand+ nghe tin tức từ một nguồn đáng tin cậy =to hear the news at first hand+ nghe tin trực tiếp (không qua một nguồn nào khác) - sự khéo léo, sự khéo tay =to have a hand at pastry+ khéo làm bánh ngọt, làm bánh ngọt khéo tay - chữ viết tay; chữ ký =to write a good hand+ viết tốt, viết đẹp =a very clear hand+ chữ viết rất rõ =under someone's hand and seal+ có chữ ký và đóng dấu của ai - kim (đồng hồ) =long hand+ kim dài (kim phút) =short hand+ kim ngắn (kim giờ) - nải (chuối) =a hand of bananas+ nải chuối - (một) buộc, (một) nắm =a hand of tobacco leaves+ một buộc thuốc lá - (một) gang tay (đơn vị đo chiều cao của ngựa, bằng 4 insơ) - phía, bên, hướng =on all hands+ tứ phía, khắp nơi; từ khắp nơi =on the right hand+ ở phía tay phải =on the one hand..., on the other hand...+ mặt này..., mặt khác... - (đánh bài) sắp bài (có trên tay); ván bài; chân đánh bài =to take a hand at cards+ đánh một ván bài - (từ lóng) tiếng vỗ tay hoan hô =big hand+ tiếng vỗ tay vang lên !at hand - gần ngay, có thể với tới được, rất tiện tay - sắp đến, sắp tới !at somebody's hands - ở tay ai, từ tay ai =to receive something at somebody's hands+ nhận được cái gì từ tay ai !to bear (give, lend) a hand to someone - giúp đỡ ai một tay !to be hand in glove with - (xem) glove !to bite the hand that feeds you - (tục ngữ) ăn cháo đái bát !brough up by hand - nuôi bằng sữa bò (trẻ con) !with a high hand - hống hách; kiêu căng, ngạo mạn !to chuck one's hand in - đầu hàng, hạ vũ khí, chịu thua (cuộc) !to clean hand wants no washing - (tục ngữ) vô tội thì chẳng việc gì mà phải thanh minh !to clean hand - (nghĩa bóng) sự trong trắng, sự vô tội !to come to hand(s) - đến tay đã nhận (thư từ...) !to do a hand's turn - làm một cố gắng nhỏ, trở bàn tay ((thường), phủ định) !to figh for one's own hand - chiến đấu vì lợi ích của bản thân !to gain (get, have) the upper hand !to have the better hand - thắng thế, chiếm ưu thế !to get something off one's hands - gạt bỏ cái gì, tống khứ cái gì - giũ trách nhiệm về một việc gì !to have the whip hand of someone - (xem) whip_hand !to give the glad hand to somebody - (xem) glad !to gop hand in hand with - đi tay nắm tay, đi bằng hàng với, đi song song với ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng)) !hand over hand !hand over fist - tay này bắt tiếp lên tay kia (như lúc leo dây) - (nghĩa bóng) tiến bộ chắc chắn, tiến bộ nhanh !hands down - dễ dàng, không khó khăn gì =to win hands down+ thắng một cách dễ dàng =to hang heavily on one's hands+ kéo dài một cách rất chậm chạp, trôi đi một cách rất chậm chạp (thời gian) !to have a free hand - được hoàn toàn tự do hành động, được hành động hoàn toàn theo ý mình !to have a hand like a foot - lóng ngóng, hậu đậu !to have an open hand - hào phóng, rộng rãi !his hand is out - anh ta chưa quen tay, anh ta bỏ lâu không luyện tập !to have (hold, keep) in hand (well in hand) - nắm chắc trong tay !to have one's hands full - bận việc, không được một lúc nào rảnh rỗi !to have one's hands tied - bị trói tay ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng)) !heavy hand - bàn tay sắt, sự độc tài chuyên chế !a helping hand - sự giúp đỡ !to join hands - (xem) join !to keep a tigh hand on somebody - khống chế ai, kiềm chế ai chặt chẽ !to keep (have) one's hands in - vẫn tập luyện đều !to lay hands on - đặt tay vào, để tay vào, sờ vào - chiếm lấy, nắm lấy (cái gì) - hành hung !to live from hand to mouth - (xem) live !on one's hands - trong tay, chịu trách nhiệm phải cáng đáng !out of hand - ngay lập tức, không chậm trễ - không chuẩn bị trước; ứng khẩu, tuỳ hứng - không nắm được, không kiểm soát được nữa !don't put your hand between the bark and the tree - đừng dính vào chuyện riêng của vợ chồng người ta !to put one's hand to the plough - (xem) plough !to serve (wait on) somebody hand and foot - tận tay phục vụ ai, làm mọi việc lặt vặt để phục vụ ai !a show of hands - sự giơ tay biểu quyết (bầu) !to sit on one's hands - (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) được vỗ tay thưa thớt - ngồi khoanh tay không làm gì !to stay somebody's hand - chặn tay ai lại (không cho làm gì) !to take in hand - nhận làm, chịu trách nhiệm làm, chịu cáng đáng !to take one's fate into one's hands - tự mình nắm lấy vận mệnh của mình !to throw up one's hand - bỏ cuộc !to hand - đã nhận được, đã đến tay (thư) =your letter to hand+ bức thư của ông mà chúng tôi đã nhận được (trong thư thương mại) !to wash one's hands - (xem) wash * ngoại động từ - đưa, trao tay, chuyển giao; truyền cho =to hand the plate round+ chuyền tay nhau đưa đĩa đồ ăn đi một vòng =to hand something over to someone+ chuyển (trao) cái gì cho ai =to hand down (on) to posterity+ truyền cho hậu thế - đưa tay đỡ =to hand someone into (out of) the carriage+ (đưa tay) đỡ ai lên (ra khỏi) xe - (hàng hải) cuộn (buồm) lại !to hand in one's check - (xem) check

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  • 102 hand

    I
    [hænd] n ձեռք, դաստակ. իշխա նություն, հսկողություն. right/left hand աջ/ձախ ձեռք. clean/dirty/bony/steady/shaking, trembling/ heavy hand մա քուր/կեղտոտ/ոսկ րոտ/ուժեղ/դողացող/ծանր ձեռք. the palm of the hand ձեռքի ափը. the back of the hand ձեռքի ետևի մասը. cupped hands բուռ. hand in hand ձեռք ձեռքի, միա սին. offer one’s hand ձեռքն առաջարկել. shake one’s hand ձեռքը սեղմել, բարևել. join hand`s փխբ. ջանքերը միացնել, ձեռք ձեռքի տված գործել hands off! Ձեռներդ հեռու. hands up! Ձեռ քերդ վե՛ր. at hand ձեռքի տակ. near at hand մոտիկ, մոտերքում. with one’s bear hands (մերկ) ան զեն ձեռքերով, by hand ձեռքով, ձեռք ի աշխատանքով. at first hand սկզբնաղբյուրից. from hand to hand ձեռքից ձեռք. have only a pair of hands խսկց. երկու ձեռքից ավել չունենալ. get one’s hands on smb մեկին ձեռքը գցել. at the hand of ձեռ քից. die at the hand of the doctor բժշկի ձեռքից մեռնել. (տնօրինություն) be in good hands լավ ձեռքերում լինել. in hand ձեռքի/տնօ րի նության տակ. keep in hand ձեռքում/վերա հսկողության տակ պահել. take matters into one’s own hands գործերն իր ձեռքը վերցնել. get out of hand ձեռքից գնալ. It is not in my hands Դա իմ կա րողությունից դուրս է. hands աշխատող ձեռք, բանվոր, նավաստի. նավի անձ նակազմ. factory hand գործարանային բանվոր. farm hand գյուղատնտեսական բանվոր. hire hands աշխատող վարձել. hands wanted Աշխատող ձեռ քեր են պահանջվում. an old/good hand փորձ ված/լավ/վարպետ աշխատող. all hands up/on deck! ծով. ավրալ. (սլաք) the hands of the clock ժամացույցի սլաքները hour/minute hand (ժամացույցի) փոքր/մեծ սլաք. (ձեռագիր, ստորագրություն) a clear hand պարզ ձեռագիր. legible/illegible hand ընթեռնելի/անընթեռնելի ձե ռագիր. witness the hand ստորագրությունը հաս տատել. (թղթխ.) play a hand of bridge մի ձեռք բրիջ խաղալ. have a good hand լավ խաղա քարտեր ունենալ. show one’s hand փխբ. խա ղա թղթերը բաց անել. send a letter by hand նամակը սուրհանդակով ուղարկել. go down on one’s hands and knees չորեքթաթ անել. Winter is at hand Շուտով ձմեռ է. stick to the matter in hand նյու թից չշեղվել. on the one hand մի կողմից. on the other hand մյուս կողմից. on every/on all hands բո լոր կողմերից. cash in hand առձեռն գումար. have one’s hands full ազատ վայրկյան չունե նալ. give a free hand գործողություններին ազա տություն տալ. give a helping hand օգնել, օգ նություն ցույց տալ. get/gain/have/take the upper hand հաղթել, գերազանցել, հաղթանակ տանել. be hand in glove with մոտ/բարեկամական հարա բերությունների մեջ լինել. change hands ձեռքից ձեռք/ուրիշի ձեռք անցնել. do a hands turn մատը շարժել. He never does a hands turn Երբեք մատը չի շարժի. have/take/bear a hand in smth մատը խառը լինել. turn one’s hand ձեռ նար կել, սկսել. at any hand ամեն դեպքում. take oneself in hand իրեն հավաքել. get one’s hand in ըն տե լանալ, ձեռքը վարժեցնել. get the better hand առավելություն ձեռք բերել. live from hand to mouth կիսաքաղց ապրել. take smth into one’s own hands իր ձեռքն առնել. try one’s hand ձեռքը ինչ-որ բանում փորձել. make money hand over fist շատ փող վաստակել. wash one’s hands ձեռքերը լվանալ, հետ քաշվել. bind/tie hand and foot ձեռքն ու ոտքը կապել. hands down հեշ տությամբ. kiss one’s hand to օդային համ բույր ներ ուղարկել. lay hands on թաթը վրան դնել. off hand հանպատրաստից. անփույթ, ան փու թո րեն
    II
    [hænd] v տալ, փոխանցել, հանձնել. ձեռքը տալ. օգնել. hand a letter/a telegram նամակ/ հեռագիր տալ/հանձնել. hand down իջնելիս օգնել. ավանդ թողնել. hand down a le gend/ custom առասպել/սովորույթ ավանդել. (կտա կել) The picture was handed down from his grandfather Նկարը կտակել էր իր պապիկը. hand in հանձնել, տալ. hand in an application դի մում տալ. hand in the composition շարադ րու թյունը հանձնել. hand out բաժանել, բաշխել. hand over տալ, փոխանցել. hand round առաջարկել. hand round sweets քաղցրեղեն առաջարկել

    English-Armenian dictionary > hand

  • 103 верх

    муж.
    1) top, head, upper part;
    bonnet;
    hood, capote( экипажа) без верхаtopless
    2) (только ед.;
    чего-л.) height, summit, apex, pink (of) быть на верху блаженства ≈ to be on top of the world верх совершенства
    3) только ед. cover, outside, top, right side (ткани, одежды) ∙ одерживать верх, брать верх (над) ≈ to gain the upper hand( over), to prevail( over) с верхом ≈ to the brim;
    to the rim;
    to overflowing
    м.
    1. (верхняя часть) top, upper part;

    2. (верхний этаж) top floor, top storey;

    3. (экипаж) hood;

    4. (одежда) outside, coat;
    это на подкладку, а это для ~а this is for the lining, and this is for the coat/outside;

    5. (рд.;
    высшая степень) the height (of) ;
    (в положит. смысле тж.) the acme (of) ;
    ~ глупости the height of folly;
    ~ совершенства the height/acme of perfection;
    ~ неприличия the height of bad manners;
    ~ блаженства the height/acme of bliss;
    быть на ~у блаженства be* in the seventh heaven;
    взять ~ над кем-л. gain the upper hand of smth. ;
    его мнение одержало ~ his opinion prevailed.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > верх

  • 104 одерживать

    несовер. - одерживать;
    совер. - одержать( что-л.) gain, win: одерживать победу над кем-л. ≈ to gain/win a victory over smb. одерживать/брать верх( над) ≈ to gain the upper hand( over), to prevail( over)
    , одержать: одержать верх gain the upper hand;
    одержать победу win* a victory.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > одерживать

  • 105 брать

    несовер. - брать;
    совер. - взять
    1) (кого-л./что-л.) take;
    shoulder (об ответственности, расходах и т. п.) брать под арест ≈ to arrest, to put under arrest брать кого-л. на попечение ≈ to take charge of smb. брать на себя смелость ≈ to make bold( to do smth.), to take the liberty (of) брать пример с кого-л. ≈ to follow smb.'s example брать свои слова назад ≈ to retract/take back one's words;
    to eat one's words идиом. брать хороший старт ≈ to make a good start брать чью-л. сторону ≈ to take smb.'s part/side, to side with smb. брать верх (над) ≈ to gain the upper hand (over), to prevail( over) брать взаймы ≈ to borrow брать напрокат ≈ to hire брать в аренду ≈ to rent брать в плен ≈ to take prisoner брать в долг ≈ to borrow брать внаем ≈ to rent, to hire брать на плечи ≈ to shoulder брать ссуду ≈ to take a loan (from), to borrow (from) брать отпускvacation брать взяткиaccept bribes, graft;
    finger разг. брать силойforce брать патент ≈ (на что-л.) patent брать подрядtender for брать пробуtest брать урокиtutor амер.;
    разг.
    2) (кого-л.;
    нанимать) hire, take
    3) (чем-л.;
    достигать способностями и т.п.) succeed by dint (of), succeed by the aid (of) он берет умом ≈ he succeeds by dint of his wit
    4) без доп. work, be effective, operate нож не берет ≈ the knife doesn't cut эта винтовка берет на пятьсот метровthis rifle has a range of five hundred metres
    5) (кого-л.;
    охватывать, захватывать) seize, grip его берет страх ≈ he is in the grip of fear его берет отчаяние ≈ he is seized/overcome with despair
    6) (что-л.;
    преодолевать) clear (барьер, высоту и т.п.) брать препятствие ≈ to clear obstacles брать барьер ≈ (о лошади) to fence брать рифыreefбрать начало брать на учет брать на себя брать пример брать слово брать в свои руки брать на себя смелость брать за сердце брать свое брать в свидетели брать свои слова обратно брать себя в руки брать ноту брать в скобки брать за правило брать курс брать направо возьми да скажи ни дать ни взять наша берет наша взяла
    , взять
    1. (вн.) take* (smb., smth.) ;
    ~ кого-л. за руку take* smb.`s hand;
    ~ в рот что-л. put* smth. into one`s mouth;
    ~ тему для сочинения choose* a subject for an essay;
    ~ работу на дом do* work at home;
    ~ кого-л., что-л. с собой take*/bring* smb., smth. along;
    ~ ребёнка на воспитание take* a child* into one`s home;
    ~ что-л. в долг borrow smth. ;
    ~ на прокат hire;
    ~ такси take* a taxi;
    ~ билеты в театр take*/buy* tickets for the theater;
    где вы бёрете молоко? where do you get your milk?;

    2. (вн.;
    взимать, взыскивать) charge( smth.) ;
    перен. exact( smth.) ;
    ~ взятки take* bribes;
    ~ налоги levy taxes;
    ~ пошлины charge duty;
    ~ дорого за что-л. charge high for smth. ;
    ~ слово с кого-л. exact a promise from smb., make* smb. promise;

    3. (вн.;
    заимствовать) borrow (smth.), take* (smth.) ;

    4. (вн.;
    завладевать, захватывать) take* (smth.), capture( smb., smth.) ;
    перен. (овладевать, охватывать) overcome* (smb.), seize (smb.) ;
    ~ верх get the upper hand;
    ~ власть seize power;
    годы берут своё age tells;
    ~ город take/seize a town;
    ~ что-л. приступом take/carry smth. by storm/assault;
    ~ кого-л. в плен take smb. prisoner;
    (меня) зависть берёт I am filled with envy;
    (меня) злость берёт it makes me furious;

    5. (вн.;
    преодолевать) take (smth.) ;
    ~ препятствие clear an obstacle;

    6. (тв.;
    добиваться чего-л.) succeed (through), get* by (with) ;
    он берёт упорством it`s his obstinacy does it;
    ~ нахальством succeed through sheer arrogance;
    чем он берёт? what do people see in him?;

    7. (вн.) разг. (оказывать действие) have* an effect (on) ;
    хлеб такой чёрствый, что его нож не берёт the bread`s so stale you can`t get the knife into it;

    8. разг. (направляться) go*;
    берите левее! more to the left!;
    ~ круто в сторону turn off sharply;

    9. с некоторыми сущ.: ~ что-л. в расчёт take* smth. into account;
    ~ на поруки go* bail( for) ;
    ~ кого-л. под защиту take* smb. under one`s protection;
    ~ что-л. под сомнение question smth., become* doubtful of smth. ;
    ~ курс, направление (на) steer( for), set* course( for) ;
    ~ начало originate (in, from) ;
    ~ пример с кого-л. follow/take* smb.`s example;
    ~ на себя undertake*;
    ~ на себя ответственность за что-л. assume responsibility for smth. ;
    ~ слово (на собрании), rise* to speak;
    take* the floor;
    ~ себя в руки pull oneself together, take* oneself in hand;
    наша взяла our side has won;
    с чего вы это взяли? what makes you think that?;
    where did you get that from?

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > брать

  • 106 одержать

    несовер. - одерживать;
    совер. - одержать (что-л.) gain, win: одерживать победу над кем-л. ≈ to gain/win a victory over smb. одерживать/брать верх( над) ≈ to gain the upper hand( over), to prevail( over)
    сов. см. одерживать.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > одержать

  • 107 взять

    несовер. - брать;
    совер. - взять
    1) (кого-л./что-л.) take;
    shoulder( об ответственности, расходах и т. п.) брать под арест ≈ to arrest, to put under arrest брать кого-л. на попечение ≈ to take charge of smb. брать на себя смелость ≈ to make bold (to do smth.), to take the liberty (of) брать пример с кого-л. ≈ to follow smb.'s example брать свои слова назад ≈ to retract/take back one's words;
    to eat one's words идиом. брать хороший старт ≈ to make a good start брать чью-л. сторону ≈ to take smb.'s part/side, to side with smb. брать верх (над) ≈ to gain the upper hand( over), to prevail( over) брать взаймы ≈ to borrow брать напрокат ≈ to hire брать в аренду ≈ to rent брать в плен ≈ to take prisoner брать в долг ≈ to borrow брать внаем ≈ to rent, to hire брать на плечи ≈ to shoulder брать ссуду ≈ to take a loan (from), to borrow (from) брать отпускvacation брать взяткиaccept bribes, graft;
    finger разг. брать силойforce брать патент ≈ (на что-л.) patent брать подрядtender for брать пробу ≈ test брать урокиtutor амер.;
    разг.
    2) (кого-л.;
    нанимать) hire, take
    3) (чем-л.;
    достигать способностями и т.п.) succeed by dint (of), succeed by the aid (of) он берет умом ≈ he succeeds by dint of his wit
    4) без доп. work, be effective, operate нож не берет ≈ the knife doesn't cut эта винтовка берет на пятьсот метров ≈ this rifle has a range of five hundred metres
    5) (кого-л.;
    охватывать, захватывать) seize, grip его берет страх ≈ he is in the grip of fear его берет отчаяние ≈ he is seized/overcome with despair
    6) (что-л.;
    преодолевать) clear (барьер, высоту и т.п.) брать препятствие ≈ to clear obstacles брать барьер ≈ (о лошади) to fence брать рифы ≈ reef ∙ брать начало брать на учет брать на себя брать пример брать слово брать в свои руки брать на себя смелость брать за сердце брать свое брать в свидетели брать свои слова обратно брать себя в руки брать ноту брать в скобки брать за правило брать курс брать направо возьми да скажи ни дать ни взять наша берет наша взяла
    Pf. to take

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > взять

  • 108 брать верх

    to gain the upper hand (over), to prevail( over)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > брать верх

  • 109 брать верх над

    to gain the upper hand (over), to prevail( over)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > брать верх над

  • 110 одерживать верх

    to gain the upper hand( over), to prevail( over)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > одерживать верх

  • 111 have

    1. n имущие

    the haves and have-nots — богатые и бедные; имущие и неимущие

    2. n разг. обман, надувательство
    3. v иметь

    all I have — всё, что у меня есть

    I have no words to express … — у меня не хватает слов, чтобы выразить …

    I had my work to do — мне надо было сделать работу; у меня ещё была работа

    4. v обладать, иметь
    5. v состоять из; иметь в качестве составной или неотъемлемой части

    to have the duty — нести вахту, стоять на часах

    to have the say-so — иметь власть, распоряжаться

    6. v получать

    they had no news of him — они не получали о нём известий, они ничего не слышали о нём

    7. v приобретать
    8. v узнавать
    9. v добиваться
    10. v зарабатывать
    11. v находиться; иметься

    to have good health — быть здоровым, иметь крепкое здоровье

    12. v происходить, случаться
    13. v знать; уметь

    have you no manner? — вы что, не умеете вести себя?

    14. v разг. усваивать, понимать; найти решение

    have you decided? — вы приняли решение?; вы решились на что-нибудь?

    15. v взять в жёны или мужья

    to have a nose for news — умение выведать всё, что случилось

    to have the world before one — иметь перед собой всю жизнь;

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

    16. v принимать

    to have a bath — принимать ванну; мыться, купаться

    17. v взять, принять

    to have the best of it — взять верх, победить, одолеть

    18. v разг. одолеть, взять верх, победить

    rather, we have won — наоборот, мы победили

    to have the victory — одержать победу, победить

    to have the upper hand — одержать верх, одолеть, выиграть

    19. v разг. обмануть, обойти, перехитрить

    I am afraid you have been done — боюсь, что вас обманули

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. bear (verb) bear; beget; bring forth; deliver; possess
    2. bribe (verb) bribe; buy; buy off; fix; sop; square; tamper with
    3. carry (verb) carry; display; exhibit
    4. command (verb) boast; command
    5. engage (verb) carry on; engage; indulge; partake; participate
    6. fool (verb) beguile; betray; bluff; deceive; delude; dupe; fool; humbug; mislead; trick
    7. get (verb) acquire; annex; chalk up; compass; gain; get; land; obtain; pick up; procure; pull; receive; secure; take; win
    8. give (verb) give; hold; organize; stage
    9. include (verb) comprise; consist of; contain; embody; embrace; encompass; include; involve; subsume; take in
    10. know (verb) appreciate; apprehend; cognize; comprehend; fathom; grasp; know; understand
    11. let (verb) allow; leave; let; permit; suffer
    12. must (verb) must; need; ought; should
    13. outwit (verb) outfox; outgeneral; outjockey; outmaneuver; outreach; outslick; outsmart; outthink; outwit; overreach; undo
    14. own (verb) enjoy; occupy; own; possess; retain
    15. see (verb) endure; experience; feel; go through; meet with; see; sustain; taste; undergo
    16. state (verb) assert; asseverate; aver; maintain; state; testify
    Антонимический ряд:
    cancel; covet; desire; discard; exclude; forego; lack; lose; miss; need; reject; want

    English-Russian base dictionary > have

  • 112 have

    I [hæv] ( полная форма); [həv], [əv], [v] ( редуцированные формы) 1. гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. had; 3 л. ед. настоящего времени has
    1)
    а) иметь, обладать (обычно переводится конструкцией "у кого-л. есть что-л.")

    I have everything I want. — У меня есть всё, что я хочу.

    I have no money on me. — У меня нет при себе денег.

    б) иметь в своем составе, включать, содержать

    The car has power brakes. — У этого автомобиля мощные тормоза.

    April has 30 days. — В апреле 30 дней.

    в) обладать способностью к чему-л., знать, понимать ( о языках)

    He has only a little French. — Он знает французский очень плохо.

    We don't have time to stay. — У нас нет времени оставаться.

    Syn:
    2) получать; приобретать; добывать

    We have a famous lecturer for this seminar. — Семинар у нас будет вести известный лектор.

    I must have that dress in the window. — Я просто должна приобрести то платье в витрине.

    Syn:
    3) (have + сущ.)
    б) означает единичный акт или кратковременное действие, соответствующее значению существительного

    to have a bath (a wash) — принять ванну, помыться

    to have a word — перекинуться парой слов, поговорить

    в) проявлять, испытывать ( чувства)
    г) родить, приносить потомство, иметь детей

    The cat had six kittens. — Кошка родила шестерых котят.

    She is going to have a baby. — Она беременна.

    4) испытывать что-л., подвергаться чему-л.

    She had a sudden heart attack. — У неё внезапно случился сердечный приступ.

    I have a cold. — Я простужен.

    Syn:
    5) разг. поставить в невыгодное, проигрышное положение; обмануть, провести, надуть

    We have him now. — Теперь он наш.

    He realized that he'd been had. — Он понял, что его надули.

    Syn:
    6) терпеть, разрешать, позволять, допускать, мириться с чем-л. ( с отрицанием)

    We'll have no more of that. — Мы этого больше не потерпим.

    Syn:
    7) подкупать, "покупать"

    He can be had for a price — Его можно подкупить за определённую сумму.

    Syn:
    8) разг.; = to have it off обладать женщиной, совершать половой акт

    Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not where to have her. (W. Shakespeare, King Henry IV) — Потому, что она ни рыба ни мясо, и мужчина даже не знает, с какой стороны к ней подступиться. (пер. Е. Бируковой)

    9) провожать, сопровождать
    10) (have smb. / smth. + прич. наст. вр.) конструкция, подчёркивающая опосредованную принадлежность субъекту

    He has a table in his room standing. — У него в комнате стоит стол.

    I had her on the carpet twisting. — Она у меня на ковре танцевала твист.

    11)
    а) (have smb. + инф.) заставить (кого-л. сделать что-л.)

    Have him return it at once. — Заставь его вернуть это немедленно.

    Have him come here at five. — Пригласи его прийти в пять часов.

    What would you have me do? — Что вы хотите, чтобы я сделал?

    Syn:
    б) (have smth. + прич. прош. вр.) получить результат какого-л. действия (над собой, своим имуществом; как следствие собственных усилий или деятельности других лиц)

    He had his watch repaired. — Ему починили часы.

    He had his pocket picked. — Его обокрали.

    12) (have to + инф.) быть должным, обязанным, вынужденным что-л. делать

    Sorry, I've got to go now. — Извините, я должен идти.

    а) утверждать, полагать
    б) говорить, заявлять, выражать мнение

    They had it that he was guilty. — Они утверждали, что он виновен.

    - have it away
    - have back
    - have down
    - have in
    - have off
    - have on
    - have out
    - have over
    - have up
    Gram:
    [ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]have / have got[/ref]
    [ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]must, have to, have got to[/ref]
    ••

    You had better go home. — Вам бы лучше пойти домой.

    Have no doubt. — Можете не сомневаться.

    to have smb. / smth. on board — иметь кого-л. / что-л. на борту

    to have smb. on the phone — говорить с кем-л. по телефону; дозвониться до кого-л.

    to have eyes only for smb. — смотреть только на кого-л., не видеть никого, кроме кого-л.

    to have a question out with smb. — выяснить вопрос с кем-л.

    Let him have it. — Дай ему взбучку.; Задай ему перцу.

    He has had it. — Он безнадёжно отстал.; Он пропал.

    Will you have the goodness to do it? — Будьте настолько добры, сделайте это.

    Have a nice day — До свидания!; Всего доброго!

    - have by the leg
    - have nothing on smb.
    - have it
    - have it all
    - have the upper hand
    - have it in for one
    2. сущ.; разг.
    1)
    а) человек с достатком, обеспеченный человек
    б) ( haves) богатые, обеспеченные (о людях, классах, странах)
    2) мошенничество, надувательство, обман
    II [hæv] ( полная форма); [həv], [əv], [v] ( редуцированные формы) гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. had; 3 л. ед. настоящего времени has
    вспомогательный глагол; употребляется для образования форм перфекта

    I was sure I hadn't met him before. — Я был уверен, что не встречал его раньше.

    Having been there before, I knew what to expect. — Побывав здесь раньше, я знал, чего ожидать.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > have

  • 113 reach

    ri: 
    1. verb
    1) (to arrive at (a place, age etc): We'll never reach London before dark; Money is not important when you reach my age; The noise reached our ears; Has the total reached a thousand dollars yet?; Have they reached an agreement yet?) llegar (a)
    2) (to (be able to) touch or get hold of (something): My keys have fallen down this hole and I can't reach them.) alcanzar
    3) (to stretch out one's hand in order to touch or get hold of something: He reached (across the table) for another cake; She reached out and took the book; He reached across/over and slapped her.) extender/alargar/estirar el brazo
    4) (to make contact with; to communicate with: If anything happens you can always reach me by phone.) contactar
    5) (to stretch or extend: My property reaches from here to the river.) extenderse

    2. noun
    1) (the distance that can be travelled easily: My house is within (easy) reach (of London).) cerca de
    2) (the distance one can stretch one's arm: I keep medicines on the top shelf, out of the children's reach; My keys are down that hole, just out of reach (of my fingers); The boxer has a very long reach.) alcance
    3) ((usually in plural) a straight part of a river, canal etc: the lower reaches of the Thames.) parte, tramo
    reach1 n alcance
    reach2 vb
    1. llegar / alcanzar
    2. alargar la mano
    tr[riːʧ]
    1 (arrive in/at, get to) llegar a
    have you reached a decision? ¿has llegado a una decisión?
    2 (rise to, fall to) alcanzar
    3 (be able to touch) alcanzar, llegar a
    4 (contact) contactar, localizar
    have you got an address where I can reach you? ¿tienes una dirección donde pueda contactar contigo?
    5 (pass) alcanzar
    could you reach me that hammer? ¿podrías alcanzarme ese martillo?
    2 (extend) extenderse
    3 (take) extender la mano, tender la mano
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    beyond the reach of fuera del alcance de
    out of reach of fuera del alcance de
    within reach of (at hand) al alcance de 2 (near) cerca de
    reach ['ri:ʧ] vt
    1) extend: extender, alargar
    to reach out one's hand: extender la mano
    2) : alcanzar
    I couldn't reach the apple: no pude alcanzar la manzana
    3) : llegar a, llegar hasta
    the shadow reached the wall: la sombra llegó hasta la pared
    4) contact: contactar, ponerse en contacto con
    reach vi
    1) or to reach out : extender la mano
    2) stretch: extenderse
    3)
    to reach for : tratar de agarrar
    : alcance m, extensión f
    n.
    (§ pl.: reaches) = alcance s.m.
    envergadura s.f.
    estirón s.m.
    extensión s.f.
    potencia s.f.
    v.
    alargar v.
    alcanzar v.
    cumplir v.
    estirar v.
    extenderse v.
    influenciar v.
    llegar v.
    riːtʃ
    I
    1)
    a) c ( distance) alcance m

    within reacha mi (or tu etc) alcance

    to be within easy reach\<\<book\>\> estar* muy a mano; \<\<station\>\> quedar muy cerca

    out of o beyond reach — fuera de su (or mi etc) alcance

    2) c ( of river) tramo m

    the upper/lower reaches of the Nile — la cuenca alta/baja del Nilo


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( with hand) alcanzar*

    can you reach the top shelf? — ¿alcanzas el estante de arriba?

    b) ( extend to) llegar* a
    2)
    a) \<\<destination/limit/age\>\> llegar* a; \<\<stage/figure\>\> llegar* a, alcanzar*

    applications must reach us by... — las solicitudes deben ser recibidas antes de...

    b) \<\<agreement/compromise\>\> llegar* a, alcanzar*

    I've reached the conclusion that... — he llegado a la conclusión de que...

    3)
    a) ( contact) contactar or ponerse* en contacto con

    where can I reach you? — ¿cómo puedo ponerme en contacto contigo?

    b) ( gain access to) \<\<public/audience\>\> llegar* a
    4) ( pass)

    to reach somebody something — alcanzarle* algo a alguien


    2.
    vi
    a) (extend hand, arm)

    to reach FOR something: he reached for his gun echó mano a la pistola; she reached across the table for the salt — agarró or (esp Esp) cogió la sal, que estaba al otro lado de la mesa

    b) ( stretch far enough) alcanzar*

    I can't reach! — no alcanzo!, no llego!

    c) ( extend) extenderse*
    Phrasal Verbs:
    [riːtʃ]
    1. VT
    1) (=get as far as) [+ place, person, stage, point, age] llegar a; [+ speed, level] alcanzar, llegar a

    to reach the terrace you have to cross the gardenpara llegar a or hasta la terraza tienes que cruzar el jardín

    by the time I reached her she was dead — cuando llegué a donde estaba, la encontré muerta

    when you reach my agecuando llegues a mi edad

    we hope to reach a wider audienceesperamos llegar a un público más variado

    not a sound reached our earsningún sonido llegó a nuestros oídos

    to reach homellegar a casa

    I reached a point where I was ready to give up — llegué a un punto en el que estaba dispuesto a tirar la toalla

    peak 1., 3), point 1., 5)
    2) (=achieve) [+ goal, target] lograr; [+ agreement, compromise] llegar a; [+ decision] tomar

    they failed to reach agreementno consiguieron llegar a un acuerdo

    have they reached a decision yet? — ¿han tomado ya una decisión?

    3) (=extend to) llegar a

    it doesn't reach the bottomno llega al fondo

    her dress reaches the floorel vestido le llega a or hasta el suelo

    the cancer had already reached her liverel cáncer ya le había llegado al hígado

    he reaches her shoulderle llega al or por el hombro

    far-reaching
    4) (=stretch to) alcanzar

    he is tall enough to reach the top shelf — es lo suficientemente alto como para alcanzar el estante de arriba del todo

    5) (=pass) alcanzar

    can you reach me (over) the oil? — ¿me alcanzas el aceite por favor?

    can you reach me (down) that case? — ¿me alcanzas esa maleta por favor?

    6) (=contact) [+ person] ponerse en contacto con, contactar

    to reach sb by telephoneponerse en contacto con or contactar a algn por teléfono

    7) (US) (Jur) (=suborn) [+ witness] sobornar
    2. VI
    1) (=stretch out hand) alargar la mano ( for sth para tomar or coger algo)

    he reached across the desk and shook my hand — me tendió la mano por encima del escritorio y estrechó la mía

    she reached for the bottle — alargó la mano para tomar or coger la botella

    reach for the sky!(US) * ¡arriba las manos!

    she reached into her bag and pulled out a gun — metió la mano en el bolso y sacó una pistola

    he reached up and put the book on the shelf — alargó la mano y puso el libro en el estante

    - reach for the stars
    2) (=extend) [land] extenderse; [clothes, curtains, water level] llegar; (fig) (in time) remontarse
    3) (=stretch far enough) [person] alcanzar; [cable, hose] llegar

    can you reach? — ¿alcanzas?

    3. N
    1) alcance m

    beyond (the) reach of sth/sb: the price is beyond the reach of ordinary people — el precio está fuera del alcance de la gente corriente

    to have a long reach — [boxer, tennis player] tener brazos largos

    out of reach — fuera del alcance

    within sb's reach — al alcance (de la mano) de algn

    at last his goal was within reach — por fin el objetivo que tenía estaba a su alcance, por fin tenía su objetivo al alcance de la mano

    within easy reach — a mano, cerca

    it's within easy reach by bus — en autobús queda cerca, se puede acceder fácilmente en autobús

    a house within easy reach of the station — una casa cerca de la estación, una casa bien situada con respecto a la estación

    within reach of sth — cerca de algo

    2) [of river, canal] (=short stretch) tramo m

    the upper/ lower reaches of the Amazon — (=larger area) la cuenca alta/baja del Amazonas

    * * *
    [riːtʃ]
    I
    1)
    a) c ( distance) alcance m

    within reacha mi (or tu etc) alcance

    to be within easy reach\<\<book\>\> estar* muy a mano; \<\<station\>\> quedar muy cerca

    out of o beyond reach — fuera de su (or mi etc) alcance

    2) c ( of river) tramo m

    the upper/lower reaches of the Nile — la cuenca alta/baja del Nilo


    II
    1.
    1)
    a) ( with hand) alcanzar*

    can you reach the top shelf? — ¿alcanzas el estante de arriba?

    b) ( extend to) llegar* a
    2)
    a) \<\<destination/limit/age\>\> llegar* a; \<\<stage/figure\>\> llegar* a, alcanzar*

    applications must reach us by... — las solicitudes deben ser recibidas antes de...

    b) \<\<agreement/compromise\>\> llegar* a, alcanzar*

    I've reached the conclusion that... — he llegado a la conclusión de que...

    3)
    a) ( contact) contactar or ponerse* en contacto con

    where can I reach you? — ¿cómo puedo ponerme en contacto contigo?

    b) ( gain access to) \<\<public/audience\>\> llegar* a
    4) ( pass)

    to reach somebody something — alcanzarle* algo a alguien


    2.
    vi
    a) (extend hand, arm)

    to reach FOR something: he reached for his gun echó mano a la pistola; she reached across the table for the salt — agarró or (esp Esp) cogió la sal, que estaba al otro lado de la mesa

    b) ( stretch far enough) alcanzar*

    I can't reach! — no alcanzo!, no llego!

    c) ( extend) extenderse*
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > reach

  • 114 mastery

    noun
    1) (skill) Meisterschaft, die
    2) (knowledge) Beherrschung, die (of Gen.)
    3) (upper hand) Oberhand, die
    4) (control) Herrschaft, die (of über + Akk.)
    * * *
    noun ((usually with over or of) control, great skill or knowledge: We have gained mastery over the enemy.) die Herrschaft
    * * *
    mas·tery
    [ˈmɑ:stəri, AM ˈmæstɚi]
    1. (domination) Herrschaft f
    they struggled for [the] \mastery over the oil-rich southern provinces sie kämpften um die Macht in den ölreichen südlichen Provinzen
    2. (expertise) Meisterschaft f (of in + dat)
    she played with some \mastery sie spielte meisterhaft
    she showed her complete \mastery of the subtleties of the language sie zeigte, dass sie die Feinheiten der Sprache meisterhaft beherrschte
    * * *
    ['mAːstərI]
    n
    (= control: of language, technique, instrument etc) Beherrschung f; (= skill) Können nt; (over competitors etc) Oberhand f

    mastery of the seasHerrschaft f über die Meere

    the painter's mastery of formdes Malers meisterhafter Gebrauch von Form

    * * *
    mastery [ˈmɑːstərı; US ˈmæs-] s
    1. Herrschaft f, Gewalt f, Macht f ( alle:
    of, over über akk):
    have complete mastery of etwas völlig in seiner Gewalt haben
    2. Überlegenheit f, Oberhand f:
    gain the mastery over sb über jemanden die Oberhand gewinnen
    3. Beherrschung f (einer Sprache, von Spielregeln etc)
    4. Bezähmung f, Bändigung f (von Leidenschaften etc)
    5. Meisterhaftigkeit f, -schaft f:
    gain the mastery in ( oder of) es (bis) zur Meisterschaft bringen in (dat)
    * * *
    noun
    1) (skill) Meisterschaft, die
    2) (knowledge) Beherrschung, die (of Gen.)
    3) (upper hand) Oberhand, die
    4) (control) Herrschaft, die (of über + Akk.)
    * * *
    n.
    Beherrschung f.
    Herrschaft f.
    Überlegenheit f.

    English-german dictionary > mastery

  • 115 advantage

    1. n преимущество; превосходство
    2. n выгода; польза; выигрыш

    advantage ground — выгодная позиция ; выгодное стратегическое положение

    to advantage — выгодно, хорошо; в выгодном свете

    what you tell me is not to his advantage — то, что вы мне рассказываете, характеризует его отнюдь не с лучшей стороны

    3. n спорт. преимущество в счёте

    advantage game — игра, выигранная в партии после счёта по пяти

    4. v давать преимущество; благоприятствовать; способствовать; приносить пользу, выгоду

    taking advantage of — пользующийся; извлечение выгоды из

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. allowance (noun) allowance; bulge; draw; edge; handicap; head start; jump; odds; start
    2. benefit (noun) benediction; benefit; blessing; convenience; expediency; favour; gain; godsend; good; gratification; improvement; interest; preference; profit; prosperity; purpose; weal; welfare; well-being
    3. better (noun) better; superiority; upper hand; victory; whip hand
    4. dominance (noun) ascendance; dominance; leverage; precedence; preeminence; prevalence; supremacy; vantage point
    5. payoff (noun) accommodation; bonus; boon; payoff; perk; prerogative; privilege; reward; vantage
    6. use (noun) account; applicability; application; appropriateness; avail; fitness; gain; interest; profit; relevance; service; serviceability; use; usefulness; utility; value
    7. benefit (verb) avail; benefit; profit; serve; work for
    Антонимический ряд:
    curse; difficulty; dilemma; disadvantage; disappointment; drawback; frustration; handicap; hindrance; inferiority; loss; obstacle; obstruction; restriction

    English-Russian base dictionary > advantage

  • 116 reach

    1. n тк. g
    2. n протягивание
    3. n размах
    4. n досягаемость; доступность
    5. n радиус действия

    the reach of eye — видимость, пределы видимости

    6. n дистанция удара
    7. n круг, уровень; кругозор; охват
    8. n круги; уровень

    the higher reaches of academic life — академическая элита, высшие научные круги

    9. n область
    10. n протяжение, пространство; полоса
    11. n колено реки; плёс; бьеф

    downstream reach — нижний бьеф, НБ

    12. n прямой участок
    13. n ж. -д. длина плеча
    14. n перегон, этап
    15. n ездка
    16. n мор. галс
    17. v протягивать, вытягивать; простирать
    18. v вытягиваться, протягиваться
    19. v дотягиваться; тянуться
    20. v доставать, брать
    21. v разг. передавать, подавать

    reach me the mustard, please — передайте мне, пожалуйста, горчицу

    22. v простираться; доходить

    empire that reaches from … to … — империя, простирающаяся от … до …

    23. v охватывать
    24. v проникать, достигать
    25. v доходить
    26. v достигать; доезжать, доходить, добираться
    27. v прийти
    28. v арх. поэт. понимать, постигать

    some double sense that I reach not — некий двойной смысл, непостижимый для меня

    29. v достичь, добиться
    30. v доживать; достигать
    31. v составлять; доходить, достигать
    32. v трогать, пронимать; производить впечатление; оказывать влияние

    he saw that he had not reached her at all — он видел, что его слова не произвели на неё никакого впечатления

    what more must I say to reach you? — что же мне ещё сказать, чтобы вы поняли?

    33. v стремиться; добиваться, искать

    to reach after fame — стремиться к славе, искать славы

    34. v разг. связаться; устанавливать контакт; сноситься, сообщаться; застать

    where can I reach you? — куда вам позвонить?; как можно с вами связаться?; где вас можно поймать?

    35. v проф. разг. попасть; задеть, ранить; нанести удар, ударить
    36. v амер. разг. «подъехать»; «обработать»
    37. v амер. разг. подкупить
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. distance (noun) distance; extent; length; span
    2. grab (noun) grab; grasp; stretch
    3. range (noun) ambit; area; capacity; circle; compass; confines; dimensions; distance; extension; extensity; extent; gamut; horizon; influence; ken; length; magnitude; orbit; panorama; purview; radius; range; realm; scope; sphere; sweep; width
    4. arrive (verb) arrive; arrive at; come; come to; get; get in; get to; pull in; show; show up; turn up
    5. communicate with (verb) communicate with; contact; touch
    6. extend (verb) approach; carry; carry over; extend; go; lead; lunge; make; outstretch; overtake; spread; stretch
    7. gain (verb) accomplish; achieve; attain; gain; rack up; realise; realize; score; win
    8. number (verb) aggregate; amount; number; run; total
    9. pass (verb) buck; hand; pass
    Антонимический ряд:
    bungle; cease; drop; fail; leave; miss; start; stop

    English-Russian base dictionary > reach

  • 117 tap

    I 1. noun
    1) Hahn, der; (on barrel, cask) [Zapf]hahn, der

    hot/cold[-water] tap — Warm-/Kaltwasserhahn, der

    on tapvom Fass nachgestellt

    be on tap(fig.) zur Verfügung stehen

    have on tap(fig.) zur Verfügung haben [Geld, Mittel]; an der Hand haben [Experten]

    2) (plug) Zapfen, der; Spund, der
    2. transitive verb,
    - pp-
    1) (make use of) erschließen [Reserven, Ressourcen, Bezirk, Markt, Land, Einnahmequelle]
    2) (Teleph.): (intercept) abhören; anzapfen (ugs.)
    II 1. transitive verb,
    - pp- (strike lightly) klopfen an (+ Akk.); (on upper surface) klopfen auf (+ Akk.)

    tap one's fingers on the table(repeatedly) mit den Fingern auf den Tisch trommeln

    tap one's footmit dem Fuß auf den Boden klopfen

    tap one's foot to the musicmit dem Fuß den Takt schlagen

    tap somebody on the shoulderjemandem auf die Schulter klopfen/(more lightly) tippen

    2. intransitive verb,
    - pp-

    tap at/on something — an etwas (Akk.) klopfen; (on upper surface) auf etwas (Akk.) klopfen

    3. noun
    Klopfen, das; (given to naughty child) Klaps, der (ugs.)

    there was a tap at/on the door — es klopfte an die Tür

    I felt a tap on my shoulder — jemand klopfte/ (more lightly) tippte mir auf die Schulter

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/112654/tap_in">tap in
    * * *
    I 1. [tæp] noun
    (a quick touch or light knock or blow: I heard a tap at the door.) leichtes Klopfen
    2. verb
    ((often with at, on or with) to give a light knock (on or with something): He tapped at/on the window.) leicht klopfen
    - tap-dancing
    - tap-dancer II 1. [tæp] noun
    ((American faucet) any of several types of device (usually with a handle and valve that can be shut or opened) for controlling the flow of liquid or gas from a pipe, barrel etc: Turn the tap off/on!)
    2. verb
    1) (to start using (a source, supply etc): The country has many rich resources that have not been tapped.) erschließen
    2) (to attach a device to (someone's telephone wires) in order to be able to listen to his telephone conversations: My phone was being tapped.) abhören
    * * *
    tap1
    [tæp]
    I. n
    1. (outlet) Hahn m
    beer on \tap Bier nt vom Fass
    a dripping \tap ein tropfender Wasserhahn
    to turn the \tap on/off den Hahn auf-/zudrehen
    to be on \tap ( fig) [sofort [o jederzeit]] verfügbar sein
    there are a lot of interesting projects on \tap es laufen zurzeit viele interessante Projekte
    2. TELEC (intercepting device) Abhörgerät nt; (interception of phone calls) Telefonüberwachung f
    II. vt
    <- pp->
    to \tap sth conversation etw abhören [o mithören]
    to \tap a line/phone [or telephone] eine Leitung/ein Telefon anzapfen
    to \tap sb (for information, money) jdn anzapfen fam
    to \tap sb for advice/support jdn um Rat/Unterstützung angehen
    to \tap sth energy, sources etw erschließen
    to \tap the market/new resources den Markt/neue Quellen erschließen
    4. (let out)
    to \tap sth etw [ab]zapfen
    to \tap a barrel ein Fass anstechen [o anzapfen]
    to \tap beer Bier zapfen
    5. MED
    to \tap sth spinal canal etw punktieren [o fachspr drainieren
    6. ECON
    to \tap sth von etw dat Anleihen machen, etw leihen
    III. vi ( fig fam: gain access) vorstoßen
    to \tap into sb mit jdm vertraut werden [o fam warmwerden]
    to \tap into new markets in neue Märkte vorstoßen, neue Märkte erschließen
    tap2
    [tæp]
    I. n
    1. (light hit) [leichter] Schlag, [leichtes] Klopfen
    2. (tap-dancing) Stepp[tanz] m
    II. adj attr Stepp-
    III. vt
    <- pp->
    to \tap sth door, wall, window [leicht] an [o gegen] etw akk klopfen [o pochen]; floor, table [leicht] auf etw akk klopfen
    to \tap one's fingers [on sth] mit den Fingern [auf etw akk] klopfen
    to \tap sb on the shoulder jdm auf die Schulter tippen
    2. MED chest etw beklopfen [o abklopfen] [o fachspr perkutieren
    IV. vi
    <- pp->
    [leicht] klopfen [o schlagen]
    to \tap against a door [leicht] anklopfen [o an eine Tür klopfen]
    to \tap one's foot on the floor mit dem Fuß [rhythmisch] auf den Boden klopfen
    * * *
    I [tp]
    1. n
    1) (esp Brit) Hahn m

    the hot/cold tap — der Kaltwasser-/Heißwasserhahn

    don't leave the taps runninglass das Wasser nicht laufen!, dreh die Hähne zu!

    on tap ( lit, beer etc ) — vom Fass; (fig) zur Hand

    he has plenty of ideas on taper hat immer Ideen auf Lager (inf)

    2) (of phones) Abhören nt, Abhöraktion f
    2. vt
    1) tree anzapfen
    2) (fig) resources, market erschließen

    to tap telephone wires —

    to tap sb for money/a loan (inf)jdn anzapfen (inf), jdn anpumpen (inf)

    II
    1. n
    1) (= light knock) Klopfen nt
    2) (= light touch) Klaps m, leichter Schlag
    3) sing or pl (MIL) Zapfenstreich m
    2. vt
    klopfen
    3. vi
    klopfen
    * * *
    tap1 [tæp]
    A s
    1. Zapfen m, Spund m, (Fass) Hahn m:
    a) angestochen, angezapft (Fass),
    b) vom Fass (Bier etc),
    c) fig umg (sofort) verfügbar, auf Lager, zur Hand
    2. a) (Wasser-, Gas) Hahn m
    b) Wasserleitung f:
    turn on the tap umg zu heulen anfangen, losheulen
    3. umg (Getränke-)Sorte f
    4. MED Punktion f
    5. umg (An)Pumpversuch m
    6. taproom
    7. TECH
    a) Gewindebohrer m
    b) (Ab-)Stich m
    c) Abzweigung f
    8. ELEK
    a) Stromabnehmer m
    b) Anzapfung f
    c) Zapfstelle f
    B v/t
    1. mit einem Zapfen oder Hahn versehen
    2. eine Flüssigkeit abzapfen
    3. ein Fass anzapfen, anstechen
    4. MED punktieren
    5. a) Strom abzapfen
    b) jemandes Telefon anzapfen
    6. a) ELEK die Spannung abgreifen
    b) anschließen
    7. TECH mit (einem) Gewinde versehen
    8. METALL die Schlacke abstechen
    9. fig Hilfsquellen etc erschließen
    10. Vorräte etc angreifen, anbrechen, anzapfen
    11. umg jemanden anpumpen ( for um)
    C v/i tap into B 10
    tap2 [tæp]
    A v/t
    1. leicht schlagen oder klopfen an (akk) oder auf (akk) oder gegen, etwas beklopfen:
    tap the ash from one’s cigarette die Asche von seiner Zigarette abklopfen;
    tap sb on the shoulder jemandem auf die Schulter klopfen oder tippen;
    nature tapped him on the shoulder hum er spürte ein menschliches Rühren
    2. klopfen mit:
    tap one’s fingers on the table mit den Fingern auf dem oder den Tisch trommeln
    3. antippen:
    4. einen Schuh flicken
    B v/i
    1. leicht schlagen oder klopfen (at, on an akk, auf akk, gegen)
    2. tap in Fußball: einschieben
    3. tap-dance
    C s
    1. leichter Schlag, Klaps m
    2. Stück n Leder, Flicken m
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) Hahn, der; (on barrel, cask) [Zapf]hahn, der

    hot/cold[-water] tap — Warm-/Kaltwasserhahn, der

    on tapvom Fass nachgestellt

    be on tap(fig.) zur Verfügung stehen

    have on tap(fig.) zur Verfügung haben [Geld, Mittel]; an der Hand haben [Experten]

    2) (plug) Zapfen, der; Spund, der
    2. transitive verb,
    - pp-
    1) (make use of) erschließen [Reserven, Ressourcen, Bezirk, Markt, Land, Einnahmequelle]
    2) (Teleph.): (intercept) abhören; anzapfen (ugs.)
    II 1. transitive verb,
    - pp- (strike lightly) klopfen an (+ Akk.); (on upper surface) klopfen auf (+ Akk.)

    tap one's fingers on the table (repeatedly) mit den Fingern auf den Tisch trommeln

    tap somebody on the shoulder — jemandem auf die Schulter klopfen/ (more lightly) tippen

    2. intransitive verb,
    - pp-

    tap at/on something — an etwas (Akk.) klopfen; (on upper surface) auf etwas (Akk.) klopfen

    3. noun
    Klopfen, das; (given to naughty child) Klaps, der (ugs.)

    there was a tap at/on the door — es klopfte an die Tür

    I felt a tap on my shoulder — jemand klopfte/ (more lightly) tippte mir auf die Schulter

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (UK) n.
    Wasserhahn m.
    Wasserleitung f. (faucet) n.
    Hahn ¨-e m. (electricity) n.
    Stromabnehmer m. n.
    Punktion -en (Medizin) f.
    Spund -e m. v.
    abgreifen v.
    abklopfen (Arzt) v.
    abzapfen v.
    anschließen v.
    anzapfen (Telefonleitung) v.
    erschließen (Rohstoffquellen etc.) v.
    klopfen v.
    mit einem Gewinde versehen ausdr.
    mit einem Zapfen oder Hahn versehen ausdr.
    punktieren (Medizin) v.

    English-german dictionary > tap

  • 118 control

    control n
    управление
    acceleration control line flow restrictor
    дроссельный пакет линии управления приемистостью
    acceleration control unit
    автомат приемистости
    aerodrome approach control system
    система управления подходом к аэродрому
    aerodrome control
    управление в зоне аэродрома
    aerodrome control communication
    аэродромная командная связь
    aerodrome controlled zone
    зона, контролируемая авиадиспетчерской службой аэродрома
    aerodrome control point
    аэродромный диспетчерский пункт
    aerodrome control radar
    диспетчерский аэродромный радиолокатор
    aerodrome control radio
    аэродромная радиостанция командной связи
    aerodrome control sector
    зона контроля аэродрома диспетчерской службой
    aerodrome control service
    служба управления движением в зоне аэродрома
    aerodrome control tower
    аэродромный диспетчерский пункт
    aerodrome control tower clearance
    разрешение аэродромного диспетчерского пункта
    aerodrome control unit
    аэродромный диспетчерский пункт
    aerodrome traffic control zone
    зона аэродромного управления воздушным движением
    aerodynamic control
    управление с помощью аэродинамической поверхности
    aerodynamic roll control
    управление креном с помощью аэродинамической поверхности
    aeronautical information control
    аэронавигационное диспетчерское обслуживание
    aileron control system
    система управления элеронами
    aileron trim tab control system
    система управления триммером элерона
    air control
    диспетчерское обслуживание воздушного пространства
    aircraft control loss
    потеря управляемости воздушного судна
    aircraft control margin
    запас управляемости воздушного судна
    aircraft control system
    система управления воздушным судном
    aircraft control transfer
    передача управления воздушным судном
    aircraft sanitary control
    санитарный контроль воздушных судов
    air intake spike control
    управление конусом воздухозаборником
    air mixture control
    регулирование топливовоздушной смеси
    airport control tower
    командно-диспетчерский пункт аэрофлота
    air traffic control
    1. управление воздушным движением
    2. ответчик системы УВД Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee
    Консультативный комитет по управлению воздушным движением
    air traffic control area
    зона управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control boundary
    граница зоны управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control center
    диспетчерский центр управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control clearance
    разрешение службы управления воздушным движением
    air-traffic control instruction
    указания по управлению воздушным движением
    air traffic control loop
    цикл управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control procedures
    правила управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control radar
    радиолокатор управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control routing
    прокладка маршрута полета согласно указанию службы управления движением
    air traffic control service
    служба управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control system
    система управления воздушным движением
    air traffic control unit
    пункт управления воздушным движением
    airways control
    управление воздушным движением на трассе полета
    airworthiness control system
    система контроля за летной годностью
    altitude control unit
    высотный корректор
    amount of controls
    степень использования
    angle-of-attack control
    установка угла атаки
    angular position control
    управление по угловому отклонению
    antitorque control pedal
    педаль управления рулевым винтом
    approach control
    управление в зоне захода на посадку
    approach control point
    диспетчерский пункт захода на посадку
    approach control radar
    радиолокатор управления заходом на посадку
    approach control service
    диспетчерская служба захода на посадку
    approach control tower
    пункт управления заходом на посадку
    approach control unit
    диспетчерский пункт управления заходом на посадку
    area control
    управление в зоне
    area control center
    районный диспетчерский центр управления движением на авиатрассе
    area flight control
    районный диспетчерский пункт управления полетами
    assisted control
    управление с помощью гидроусилителей
    associated crop control operation
    контроль состояния посевов по пути выполнения основного задания
    associated fire control operation
    противопожарное патрулирование по пути выполнения основного задания
    assume the control
    брать управление на себя
    assumption of control message
    прием экипажем диспетчерского указания
    attitude control system
    система ориентации
    (в полете) attitude flight control
    управление пространственным положением
    automatic boost control
    автоматическое регулирование наддува
    automatic control
    автоматическое управление
    automatic exhaust temperature control
    автоматический регулятор температуры выходящих газов
    automatic flight control
    автоматическое управление полетом
    automatic flight control equipment
    оборудование автоматического управления полетом
    automatic flight control system
    автоматическая бортовая система управления
    automatic gain control
    автоматическая регулировка усиления
    automatic level control
    автоматическое управление уровнем
    automatic path control
    автоматический контроль траектории
    automatic volume control
    автоматическое регулирование громкости
    autopilot control
    управление с помощью автопилота
    autostart control unit
    автомат запуска
    backswept boundary layer controlled wing
    крыло с управляемым пограничным слоем
    balance the control surface
    балансировать поверхность управления
    bank control
    управление креном
    blanketing of controls
    затенение рулей
    bleed valve control mechanism
    механизм управления клапанами перепуска воздуха
    bleed valve control unit
    блок управления клапанами перепуска
    boundary layer control
    управление пограничным слоем
    brake control pedal
    педаль управления тормозами
    Budget Control Section
    Секция контроля за выполнением бюджета
    (ИКАО) bypass control
    управление перепуском топлива
    cabin temperature control system
    система регулирования температуры воздуха в кабине
    cable control
    тросовое управление
    cable control system
    система тросового управления
    cargo hatch control switch
    переключатель управления грузовым люком
    change-over to manual control
    переходить на ручное управление
    check control
    контрольный код
    clearance control
    таможенный досмотр
    collective pitch control
    управление общим шагом
    collective pitch control lever
    ручка шаг-газ
    collective pitch control rod
    тяга управления общим шагом
    collective pitch control system
    система управления общим шагом
    (несущего винта) constant altitude control
    выдерживание постоянной высоты
    control actuator
    исполнительный механизм управления
    control board
    пульт управления
    control booster
    усилитель системы управления
    control cable
    трос управления
    control cable fairlead
    направляющая тросовой проводки
    control cable pressure seal
    гермовывод троса управления
    control center
    диспетчерский центр
    control characteristic
    характеристика управляемости
    control circuit
    цепь управления
    control column
    штурвальная колонка
    control column elbow
    колено колонки штурвала
    control column gaiter
    чехол штурвальной колонки
    control communication
    связь для управления полетами
    control console
    пульт управления
    control desk
    пульт управления
    control force
    усилие в системе управления
    control gear
    ведущая шестерня
    control in transition
    управление на переходном режиме
    control lag
    запаздывание системы управления
    controlled aerodrome
    аэродром с командно-диспетчерской службой
    controlled airspace
    контролируемое воздушное пространство
    controlled flight
    контролируемый полет
    controlled route
    контролируемый маршрут
    controlled spin
    управляемый штопор
    control lever
    ручка управления
    controlling beam
    управляющий луч
    controlling fuel
    командное топливо
    control linkage
    проводка системы управления
    control lock
    стопор рулей
    control loss
    потеря управляемости
    control message
    диспетчерское указание
    control mode
    режим управления
    control of an investigation
    контроль за ходом расследования
    control panel
    пульт управления
    control pedestal
    пульт управления
    control position indicator
    указатель положения рулей
    control radar
    радиолокационная станция наведения
    control radio station
    радиостанция диспетчерской связи
    control rod
    тяга управления
    control rod pressure seal
    гермовывод тяги управления
    control signal
    управляющий сигнал
    control slot
    щель управления
    (пограничным слоем) control speed
    эволютивная скорость
    Минимально допустимая скорость при сохранении управляемости. controls response
    чувствительность органов управления
    control stick
    ручка управления
    (воздушным судном) control stick movement
    перемещение ручки управления
    control surface
    поверхность управления
    control surface angle
    угол отклонения руля
    control surface chord
    хорда руля
    control surface deflection
    отклонение поверхности управления
    control surface effectiveness
    эффективность рулей
    control surface load
    нагрузка на поверхность управления
    control surface pilot
    ось руля
    control surface reversal
    перекладка поверхности управления
    control system
    система управления
    control system load
    усилие на систему управления
    control the aircraft
    управлять воздушным судном
    control the pitch
    управлять шагом
    control transfer line
    рубеж передачи управления
    control unit
    командный прибор
    control valve
    клапан управления
    control wheel
    штурвал
    control wheel force
    усилие на штурвале
    control wheel grip
    рукоятка штурвала
    control wheel horn
    рог штурвала
    control wheel rim
    колесо штурвала управления
    control zone
    зона диспетчерского контроля
    crop control flight
    полет для контроля состояния посевов
    crop control operation
    полет для контроля состояния посевов с воздуха
    customs control
    таможенный досмотр
    cyclic pitch control
    управление циклическим шагом
    cyclic pitch control rod
    тяга управления циклическим шагом
    cyclic pitch control stick
    ручка продольно-поперечного управления циклическим шагом
    (несущего винта) cyclic pitch control system
    система управления циклическим шагом
    (несущего винта) data flow control
    управление потоком информации
    deceleration control unit
    дроссельный механизм
    deflect the control surface
    отклонять поверхность управления
    (напр. элерон) differential aileron control
    дифференциальное управление элеронами
    differential control
    дифференциальное управление
    digital engine control
    цифровой электронный регулятор режимов работы двигателя
    direct control
    непосредственный контроль
    directional control
    путевое управление
    directional control capability
    продольная управляемость при посадке
    directional control loss
    потеря путевой управляемости
    directional control pedal
    педаль путевого управления
    direct lift control system
    система управления подъемной силой
    director control
    директорное управление
    distance control
    дистанционное управление
    Document Control Unit
    Сектор контроля за документацией
    drift angle control
    управление углом сноса
    dual control
    спаренное управление
    easy-to-operate control
    легкое управление
    electric propeller pitch control
    электрическое управление шагом воздушного винта
    electronic engine control system
    электронная система управления двигателем
    elevator control
    управление рулем высоты
    elevator control stand
    колонка руля высоты
    emergency control
    аварийное управление
    engine control system
    система управления двигателем
    engine throttle control lever
    рычаг раздельного управления газом двигателя
    environmental control system equipment
    оборудование системы контроля окружающей среды
    environment control
    охрана окружающей среды
    environment control system
    система жизнеобеспечения
    (воздушного судна) environment control system noise
    шум от системы кондиционирования
    fail to maintain control
    не обеспечивать диспетчерское обслуживание
    fail to relinquish control
    своевременно не передать управление
    feedback control system
    система управления с обратной связью
    fire control operation
    противопожарное патрулирование с воздуха
    flight compartment controls
    органы управления в кабине экипажа
    flight control
    диспетчерское управление полетами
    flight control boost system
    бустерная система управления полетом
    flight control fundamentals
    руководство по управлению полетами
    flight control gust-lock system
    система стопорения поверхностей управления
    (при стоянке воздушного судна) flight control load
    нагрузка в полете от поверхности управления
    flight control system
    система управления полетом
    flight director system control panel
    пульт управления системой директорного управления
    flow control
    управление потоком
    flow control center
    диспетчерский центр управления потоком воздушного движения
    flow control procedure
    управление потоком
    foot controls
    ножное управление
    fore-aft control rod
    тяга провольного управления
    fuel control panel
    топливный щиток
    fuel control unit
    командно-топливный агрегат
    fuel injection control
    регулирование непосредственного впрыска топлива
    full-span control surface
    поверхность управления по всему размаху
    (напр. крыла) get out of control
    терять управление
    go out of control
    становиться неуправляемым
    ground control
    управление наземным движением
    ground controlled approach
    заход на посадку на посадку под контролем наземных средств
    ground control system
    наземная система управления
    (полетом) hand control
    ручное управление
    handle the flight controls
    оперировать органами управления полетом
    heading control loop
    рамочная антенна контроля курса
    health control
    медицинский контроль
    helicopter control system
    система управления вертолетом
    hydraulic control
    гидравлическое управление
    hydraulic control boost system
    гидравлическая бустерная система управления
    hydraulic propeller pitch control
    гидравлическое управление шагом воздушного винта
    immigration control
    иммиграционный контроль
    independent control
    автономное управление
    inertial control system
    инерциальная система управления
    integrated control system
    встроенная система контроля
    integrated system of airspace control
    комплексная система контроля воздушного пространства
    interphone control box
    абонентский аппарат переговорного устройства
    irreversible control
    необратимое управление
    jacking control unit
    пульт управления подъемниками
    jet deviation control system
    система управления отклонением реактивной струи
    laminar flow control
    управление ламинарным потоком
    landing control
    управление посадкой
    land use control
    контроль за использованием территории
    lateral control
    поперечное управление
    lateral control rod
    тяга поперечного управления
    lateral control spoiler
    интерцептор - элерон
    lateral control system
    система поперечного управления
    (воздушным судном) layout of controls
    расположение органов управления
    level control
    управление эшелонированием
    longitudinal control
    продольное управление
    longitudinal control rod
    тяга продольного управления
    longitudinal control system
    система продольного управления
    (воздушным судном) loss of control
    потеря управления
    loss the control
    терять управление
    low control area
    нижний диспетчерский район
    maintain control
    обеспечивать диспетчерское обслуживание
    manipulate the flight controls
    оперировать органами управления полетом
    manual control
    ручное управление
    master control
    центральный пульт управления
    mid air collision control
    предупреждение столкновений в воздухе
    mixture control
    высотный корректор
    mixture control assembly
    высотный корректор двигателя
    mixture control knob
    ручка управления высотным корректором
    mixture control lever
    рычаг высотного корректора
    noise control
    контроль уровня шума
    noise control technique
    метод контроля шума
    nonreversible control
    необратимое управление
    nozzle control system
    система управления реактивным соплом
    oceanic area control center
    океанический районный диспетчерский центр
    oceanic control area
    океанический диспетчерский район
    oil control ring
    маслосборное кольцо
    operating controls
    органы управления
    operational control
    диспетчерское управление полетами
    overspeed limiting control
    узел ограничения заброса оборотов
    passport control
    паспортный контроль
    pedal control
    ножное управление
    pilot on the controls
    пилот, управляющий воздушным судном
    pitch control
    продольное управление
    pitch control lever
    ручка шага
    pitch control system
    система управления тангажом
    pitch trim control knob
    кремальера тангажа
    positive control zone
    зона полного диспетчерского контроля
    power augmentation control
    управление форсажем
    power-boost control
    обратимое управление с помощью гидроусилителей
    power-boost control system
    бустерная обратимая система управления
    powered control
    управление с помощью гидроусилителей
    power-operated control
    необратимое управление с помощью гидроусилителей
    power-operated control system
    необратимая система управления
    pressure control system
    система регулирования давления
    pressure control unit
    автомат давления
    propeller control unit
    регулятор числа оборотов воздушного винта
    propeller pitch control
    управление шагом воздушного винта
    propeller pitch control system
    л управления шагом воздушного винта
    pull the control column back
    брать штурвал на себя
    pull the control stick back
    брать ручку управления на себя
    push-button control
    кнопочное управление
    push-pull control system
    жесткая система управления
    (при помощи тяг) push the control column
    отдавать штурвал от себя
    push the control stick
    отдавать ручку управления от себя
    quality control expert
    эксперт по контролю за качеством
    radar approach control
    центр радиолокационного управления заходом на посадку
    radar control
    радиолокационный контроль
    radar control area
    зона действия радиолокатора
    radar transfer of control
    передача радиолокационного диспетчерского управления
    radio control board
    пульт управления по радио
    radio remote control
    радиодистанционное управление
    regional control center
    региональный диспетчерский центр
    release of control
    передача управления
    relinquish control
    передавать управление
    remote control
    дистанционное управление
    remote control equipment
    оборудование дистанционного управления
    remote control system
    система дистанционного управления
    respond to controls
    реагировать на отклонение рулей
    reverser lock control valve
    клапан управления замком реверса
    reversible control
    обратимое управление
    reversible control system
    обратимая система управления
    rigid control
    жесткое управление
    roll control
    управление по крену
    roll control force sensor
    датчик усилий по крену
    roll control knob
    ручка управления креном
    rudder control
    управление рулем направления
    rudder control system
    система управления рулем направления
    rudder trim tab control system
    система управления триммером руля направления
    runway controlled
    диспетчер старта
    runway control van
    передвижной диспетчерский пункт в районе ВПП
    safety control measures
    меры по обеспечению безопасности
    speed control area
    зона выдерживания скорости
    speed control system
    система управления скоростью
    (полета) spring tab control rod
    тяга управление пружинным сервокомпенсатором
    stabilizer control jack
    механизм перестановки стабилизатора
    stack controlled
    диспетчер подхода
    starting fuel control unit
    автомат подачи пускового топлива
    steering-damping control valve
    распределительно демпфирующий механизм
    stiff control
    тугое управление
    surface movement control
    управление наземным движением
    surge control
    противопомпажный механизм
    tab control system
    система управления триммером
    tab control wheel
    штурвальчик управления триммером
    tail rotor control pedal
    педаль управления рулевым винтом
    take over the control
    брать управление на себя
    temperature control
    терморегулятор
    temperature control amplifier
    усилитель терморегулятора
    temporary loss of control
    временная потеря управляемости
    terminal control area
    узловой диспетчерский район
    terminal radar control
    конечный пункт радиолокационного контроля
    terminate the control
    прекращать диспетчерское обслуживание
    termination of control
    прекращение диспетчерского обслуживания
    throttle control
    управление газом
    throttle control knob
    сектор управления газом
    throttle control twist grip
    ручка коррекции газа
    tie bus control
    управление переключением шин
    track controlled
    диспетчер обзорного радиолокатора
    traffic control
    управление воздушным движением
    traffic control instructions
    правила управления воздушным движением
    traffic control personnel
    персонал диспетчерской службы воздушного движения
    traffic control regulations
    правила управления воздушным движением
    transfer of control
    передача диспетчерского управления
    transfer the control
    передавать диспетчерское управление другому пункту
    trim tab control
    управление триммером
    turn control knob
    ручка управления разворотом
    unassisted control
    управление без применения гидроусилителей
    unassisted control system
    безбустерная система управления
    upper area control center
    диспетчерский центр управления верхним районом
    upper control area
    верхний диспетчерский район
    upper level control area
    верхний район управления эшелонированием
    warning system control unit
    блок управления аварийной сигнализации
    weight and balance controlled
    диспетчер по загрузке и центровке
    wind flaps control system
    система управления закрылками
    windshield heat control unit
    автомат обогрева стекол
    wing flap control system
    система управления закрылками
    yaw control
    управление по углу рыскания

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  • 119 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 120 get

    get
    This much-used verb has no multi-purpose equivalent in French and therefore is very often translated by choosing a synonym: to get lunch = to prepare lunch = préparer le déjeuner. get is used in many idiomatic expressions ( to get something off one's chest etc) and translations will be found in the appropriate entry (chest etc). This is also true of offensive comments ( get stuffed etc) where the appropriate entry would be stuff. Remember that when get is used to express the idea that a job is done not by you but by somebody else ( to get a room painted etc) faire is used in French followed by an infinitive ( faire repeindre une pièce etc). When get has the meaning of become and is followed by an adjective (to get rich/drunk etc) devenir is sometimes useful but check the appropriate entry (rich, drunk etc) as a single verb often suffices ( s'enrichir, s'enivrer etc). For examples and further uses of get see the entry below.
    A vtr ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)
    1 ( receive) recevoir [letter, school report, grant] ; recevoir, percevoir [salary, pension] ; TV, Radio capter [channel, programme] ; did you get much for it? est-ce que tu en as tiré beaucoup d'argent? ; what did you get for your car? combien as-tu revendu ta voiture? ; we get a lot of rain il pleut beaucoup ici ; our garden gets a lot of sun notre jardin est bien ensoleillé ; we get a lot of tourists nous avons beaucoup de touristes ; you get lots of attachments with this cleaner il y a beaucoup d'accessoires fournis avec cet aspirateur ; you get what you pay for il faut y mettre le prix ; he's getting help with his science il se fait aider en sciences ;
    2 ( inherit) to get sth from sb lit hériter qch de qn [article, money] ; fig tenir qch de qn [trait, feature] ;
    3 ( obtain) ( by applying) obtenir [permission, divorce, custody, licence] ; trouver [job] ; ( by contacting) trouver [plumber, accountant] ; appeler [taxi] ; ( by buying) acheter [food item, clothing] (from chez) ; avoir [theatre seat, ticket] ; to get something for nothing/at a discount avoir qch gratuitement/avec une réduction ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb ( by buying) acheter qch à qn ; I'll get sth to eat at the airport je mangerai qch à l'aéroport ;
    4 ( subscribe to) acheter [newspaper] ;
    5 ( acquire) se faire [reputation] ; he got his money in oil il s'est fait de l'argent dans le pétrole ;
    6 ( achieve) obtenir [grade, mark, answer] ; he got it right ( of calculation) il a obtenu le bon résultat ; ( of answer) il a répondu juste ; how many do I need to get? ( when scoring) il me faut combien? ; he's got four more points to get il faut encore qu'il obtienne quatre points ;
    7 ( fetch) chercher [object, person, help] ; go and get a chair/Mr Matthews va chercher une chaise/M. Matthews ; to get sb sth, to get sth for sb aller chercher qch pour qn ; get her a chair va lui chercher une chaise ; can I get you your coat? est-ce que je peux vous apporter votre manteau? ;
    8 (manoeuvre, move) to get sb/sth upstairs/downstairs faire monter/descendre qn/qch ; a car to me is just something to get me from A to B pour moi une voiture ne sert qu'à aller de A à B ; I'll get them there somehow je les ferai parvenir d'une façon ou d'une autre ; can you get between the truck and the wall? est-ce que tu peux te glisser entre le camion et le mur? ;
    9 ( help progress) is this discussion getting us anywhere? est-ce que cette discussion est bien utile? ; I listened to him and where has it got me? je l'ai écouté mais à quoi ça m'a avancé? ; this is getting us nowhere ça ne nous avance à rien ; where will that get you? à quoi ça t'avancera? ;
    10 ( contact) did you manage to get Harry on the phone? tu as réussi à avoir Harry au téléphone? ;
    11 ( deal with) I'll get it ( of phone) je réponds ; ( of doorbell) j'y vais ;
    12 ( prepare) préparer [breakfast, lunch etc] ;
    13 ( take hold of) attraper [person] (by à) ; I've got you, don't worry je te tiens, ne t'inquiète pas ; to get sth from ou off prendre qch sur [shelf, table] ; to get sth from ou out of prendre qch dans [drawer, cupboard] ;
    14 ( oblige to give) to get sth from ou out of sb faire sortir qch à qn [money] ; fig obtenir qch de qn [truth] ;
    15 ( catch) gen arrêter [escapee] ; got you! gen je t'ai eu! ; ( caught in act) vu! ; a shark got him un requin l'a eu ; when I get you, you won't find it so funny quand tu auras affaire à moi, tu trouveras ça moins drôle ;
    16 Med attraper [disease] ; he got the measles from his sister sa sœur lui a passé la rougeole ;
    17 ( use as transport) prendre [bus, train] ;
    18 ( have) to have got avoir [object, money, friend etc] ; I've got a headache/bad back j'ai mal à la tête/au dos ;
    19 ( start to have) to get (hold of) the idea ou impression that se mettre dans la tête que ;
    20 ( suffer) to get a surprise être surpris ; to get a shock avoir un choc ; to get a bang on the head recevoir un coup sur la tête ;
    21 ( be given as punishment) prendre [five years etc] ; avoir [fine] ; to get (a) detention être collé ;
    22 ( hit) to get sb/sth with toucher qn/qch avec [stone, arrow, ball] ; got it! ( of target) touché! ; the arrow got him in the heel la flèche l'a touché au talon ;
    23 (understand, hear) comprendre ; I didn't get what you said/his last name je n'ai pas compris ce que tu as dit/son nom de famille ; did you get it? tu as compris? ; now let me get this right… alors si je comprends bien… ; ‘where did you hear that?’-‘I got it from Paul’ ‘où est-ce que tu as entendu ça?’-‘c'est Paul qui me l'a dit’ ; get this! he was arrested this morning tiens-toi bien! il a été arrêté ce matin ;
    24 (annoy, affect) what gets me is… ce qui m'agace c'est que… ; what really got me was… ce que je n'aimais pas c'était… ;
    25 (learn, learn of) to get to do finir par faire ; to get to like sb finir par apprécier qn ; how did you get to know ou hear of our organization? comment avez-vous entendu parler de notre organisation? ; we got to know them last year on a fait leur connaissance l'année dernière ;
    26 ( have opportunity) to get to do avoir l'occasion de faire ; do you get to use the computer? est-ce que tu as l'occasion d'utiliser l'ordinateur? ; it's not fair, I never get to drive the tractor ce n'est pas juste, on ne me laisse jamais conduire le tracteur ; when do we get to eat the cake? quand est-ce qu'on va pouvoir manger le gâteau? ;
    27 ( start) to get (to be) commencer à devenir ; he's getting to be proficient ou an expert il commence à devenir expert ; it got to be quite unpleasant ça a commencé à devenir plutôt désagréable ; he's getting to be a big boy now c'est un grand garçon maintenant ; to get to doing commencer à faire ; we got to talking/dreaming about the holidays on a commencé à parler/rêver des vacances ; then I got to thinking that puis je me suis dit que ; we'll have to get going il va falloir y aller ;
    28 ( must) to have got to do devoir faire [homework, chore] ; it's got to be done il faut le faire ; you've got to realize that il faut que tu te rendes compte que ; if I've got to go, I will s'il faut que j'y aille, j'irai ; there's got to be a reason il doit y avoir une raison ;
    29 ( persuade) to get sb to do demander à qn de faire ; I got her to talk about her problems j'ai réussi à la faire parler de ses problèmes ; did you get anything out of her? est-ce que tu as réussi à la faire parler? ;
    30 ( have somebody do) to get sth done faire faire qch ; to get the car repaired/valeted faire réparer/nettoyer la voiture ; to get one's hair cut se faire couper les cheveux ; how do you ever get anything done? comment est-ce que tu arrives à travailler? ;
    31 ( cause) to get the car going faire démarrer la voiture ; to get the dishes washed faire la vaisselle ; this won't get the dishes washed! la vaisselle ne se fera pas toute seule! ; to get sb pregnant mettre qn enceinte ; as hot/cold as you can get it aussi chaud/froid que possible ; to get one's socks wet mouiller ses chaussettes ; to get one's finger trapped se coincer le doigt.
    B vi ( p prés - tt- ; prét got ; pp got, gotten US)
    1 ( become) devenir [suspicious, rich, old] ; how lucky/stupid can you get! il y en a qui ont de la chance/qui sont vraiment stupides! ; it's getting late il se fait tard ; how did he get like that? comment est-ce qu'il en est arrivé là? ;
    2 ( forming passive) to get (oneself) killed/trapped se faire tuer/coincer ; to get hurt être blessé ;
    3 ( become involved in) to get into ( as hobby) se mettre à [astrology etc] ; ( as job) commencer dans [teaching, publishing] ; fig to get into a fight se battre ;
    4 ( arrive) to get there arriver ; to get to the airport/Switzerland arriver à l'aéroport/en Suisse ; to get (up) to the top ( of hill etc) arriver au sommet ; how did your coat get here? comment est-ce que ton manteau est arrivé là? ; how did you get here? ( by what miracle) comment est-ce que tu es arrivé là? ; ( by what means) comment est-ce que tu es venu? ; where did you get to? où est-ce que tu étais passé? ; we've got to page 5 nous en sommes à la page 5 ;
    5 ( progress) it got to 7 o'clock il était plus de 7 heures ; I'd got as far as underlining the title j'en étais à souligner le titre ; I'm getting nowhere with this essay je n'avance pas dans ma dissertation ; are you getting anywhere with your investigation? est-ce que votre enquête avance? ; now we're getting somewhere ( making progress) on avance vraiment ; ( receiving fresh lead) voilà quelque chose d'intéressant ; it's a slow process but we're getting there c'est un processus lent, mais on avance ; it's not perfect yet but we're getting there ce n'est pas encore parfait mais on avance ;
    6 ( put on) to get into mettre [pyjamas, overalls].
    get ! fiche-moi le camp ! ; get along with you ! ne sois pas ridicule! ; get away with you ! arrête de raconter n'importe quoi ! ; get her ! regarde-moi ça! ; get him in that hat! regarde-le avec ce chapeau! ; he got his ( was killed) il a cassé sa pipe ; I'll get you for that je vais te le faire payer ; I'm getting there je progresse ; it gets me right here! tu vas me faire pleurer! ; I've/he's got it bad je suis/il est vraiment mordu ; I've got it je sais ; to get above oneself commencer à avoir la grosse tête ; to get it together se ressaisir ; to get it up bander , avoir une érection ; to get one's in US prendre sa revanche ; to tell sb where to get off envoyer qn promener ; to get with it se mettre dans le coup ; what's got into her/them? qu'est-ce qui lui/leur a pris? ; where does he get off ? pour qui se prend-il? ; you've got me there! alors là tu me poses une colle !
    1 ( manage to move) se déplacer (by doing en faisant) ; she doesn't get about very well now elle a du mal à se déplacer maintenant ;
    2 ( travel) voyager, se déplacer ; do you get about much in your job? vous voyagez beaucoup pour votre travail? ; he gets about a bit ( travels) il voyage pas mal ; ( knows people) il connaît du monde ;
    3 ( be spread) [news] se répandre ; [rumour] courir, se répandre ; it got about that la nouvelle s'est répandue que, le bruit a couru que.
    1 ( pass to other side) traverser ;
    2 ( be communicated) [message] passer ;
    get across [sth] ( cross) traverser [river, road etc] ;
    get [sth] across
    1 ( transport) how will we get it across? (over stream, gap etc) comment est-ce qu'on le/la fera passer de l'autre côté? ; I'll get a copy across to you (in separate office, building etc) je vous en ferai parvenir un exemplaire ;
    2 ( communicate) faire passer [message, meaning] (to à) ;
    get across [sb] US ( annoy) se mettre [qn] à dos [person].
    1 ( make progress) [person] progresser ; to get ahead of prendre de l'avance sur [competitor] ;
    1 ( progress) how's the project getting along? comment est-ce que le projet se présente? ; how are you getting along? ( in job) comment ça se passe? ; ( to sick or old person) comment ça va? ; ( in school subject) comment est-ce que ça se passe? ;
    2 ( cope) s'en sortir ; we can't get along without a computer/him on ne s'en sortira pas sans ordinateur/lui ;
    3 ( be suited as friends) bien s'entendre (with avec) ;
    4 (go) I must be getting along il faut que j'y aille.
    1 (move, spread) = get about ;
    2 to get around to doing: she'll get around to visiting us eventually elle va bien finir par venir nous voir ; I must get around to reading his article il faut vraiment que je lise son article ; I haven't got around to it yet je n'ai pas encore eu le temps de m'en occuper ;
    get around [sth] ( circumvent) contourner [problem, law] ; there's no getting around it il n'y a rien à faire.
    get at :
    get at [sb /sth]
    1 ( reach) atteindre [object] ; arriver jusqu'à [person] ; fig découvrir [truth] ; let me get at her ( in anger) laissez-moi lui régler son compte ;
    2 ( spoil) the ants have got at the sugar les fourmis ont attaqué le sucre ;
    3 ( criticize) être après [person] ;
    4 ( intimidate) intimider [witness] ;
    5 ( insinuate) what are you getting at? où est-ce que tu veux en venir?
    get away:
    1 ( leave) partir ;
    2 ( escape) [person] s'échapper ; the fish got away le poisson s'est échappé ;
    3 fig ( escape unpunished) to get away with a crime échapper à la justice ; you'll never get away with it! tu ne vas pas t'en tirer comme ça! ; he mustn't be allowed to get away with it il ne faut pas qu'il s'en tire à si bon compte ; she can get away with bright colours elle peut se permettre de porter des couleurs vives ;
    get [sb/sth] away ( for break) emmener [qn] se changer les idées ; to get sb away from a bad influence tenir qn à l'écart d'une mauvaise influence ; to get sth away from sb retirer qch à qn [weapon, dangerous object].
    get away from [sth]
    1 ( leave) quitter [town] ; I must get away from here ou this place! il faut que je parte d'ici! ; ‘get away from it all’ ( in advert) ‘évadez-vous de votre quotidien’ ;
    2 fig ( deny) nier [fact] ; there's no getting away from it on ne peut pas le nier ;
    3 fig ( leave behind) abandonner [practice, method] ;
    get away from [sb] lit, fig échapper à.
    get back:
    1 ( return) gen rentrer ; ( after short time) revenir ; when we get back à notre retour ;
    2 ( move backwards) reculer ; get back! reculez! ;
    3 ( take revenge) to get back at se venger de [aggressor] ;
    get back to [sth]
    1 ( return to) rentrer à [house, city] ; revenir à [office, centre, point] ; we got back to Belgium nous sommes rentrés en Belgique ; when we get back to London à notre retour à Londres ;
    2 ( return to former condition) revenir à [teaching, publishing] ; to get back to sleep se rendormir ; to get back to normal redevenir normal ;
    3 ( return to earlier stage) revenir à [main topic, former point] ; to get back to your problem,… pour en revenir à votre problème,… ;
    get back to [sb]
    1 ( return to) revenir à [group, person] ;
    2 ( on telephone) I'll get right back to you je vous rappelle tout de suite ;
    get [sb/sth] back
    1 ( return) ( personally) ramener [object, person] ; ( by post etc) renvoyer ; Sport ( in tennis etc) renvoyer [ball] ; when they got him back to his cell quand ils l'ont ramené dans sa cellule ;
    2 ( regain) récupérer [lost object, loaned item] ; fig reprendre [strength] ; she got her money back elle a été remboursée ; she got her old job back on lui a redonné son travail ; he got his girlfriend back il s'est remis avec sa petite amie .
    get behind ( delayed) prendre du retard ;
    get behind [sth] se mettre derrière [hedge, sofa etc].
    get by
    1 ( pass) passer ;
    2 ( survive) se débrouiller (on, with avec) ; we'll never get by without him/them nous ne nous en sortirons jamais sans lui/eux.
    get down:
    1 ( descend) descendre (from, out of de) ;
    2 ( leave table) quitter la table ;
    3 ( lower oneself) ( to floor) se coucher ; ( to crouching position) se baisser ; to get down on one's knees s'agenouiller ; to get down to ( descend to reach) arriver à [lower level etc] ; atteindre [trapped person etc] ; ( apply oneself to) se mettre à [work] ; to get down to the pupils' level fig se mettre à la portée des élèves ; let's get down to business parlons affaires ; when you get right down to it quand on regarde d'un peu plus près ; to get down to doing se mettre à faire ;
    get down [sth] descendre [slope] ; if we get down the mountain alive si nous arrivons vivants en bas de la montagne ; when we got down the hill quand nous nous sommes retrouvés en bas de la colline ;
    get [sth] down, get down [sth]
    1 ( from height) descendre [book, jar etc] ;
    2 ( swallow) avaler [medicine, pill] ;
    3 ( record) noter [speech, dictation] ;
    get [sb] down
    1 ( from height) faire descendre [person] ;
    2 ( depress) déprimer [person].
    get in:
    get in
    1 lit ( to building) entrer ; ( to vehicle) monter ;
    2 fig ( participate) to get in on réussir à s'introduire dans [project, scheme] ; to get in on the deal faire partie du coup ;
    3 ( return home) rentrer ;
    4 ( arrive at destination) [train, coach] arriver ;
    5 ( penetrate) [water, sunlight] pénétrer ;
    6 Pol [Labour, Tories etc] passer ; [candidate] être élu ;
    7 Sch, Univ [applicant] être admis ;
    8 ( associate) to get in with se mettre bien avec [person] ; he's got in with a bad crowd il traîne avec des gens peu recommandables ;
    get [sth] in, get in [sth]
    1 ( buy in) acheter [supplies] ;
    2 ( fit into space) I can't get the drawer in je n'arrive pas à faire rentrer le tiroir ;
    3 Agric ( harvest) rentrer [crop] ;
    4 Hort ( plant) planter [bulbs etc] ;
    5 (deliver, hand in) rendre [essay, competition entry] ;
    6 ( include) (in article, book) placer [section, remark, anecdote] ; he got in a few punches il a distribué quelques coups ;
    7 ( fit into schedule) faire [tennis, golf] ; I'll try to get in a bit of tennis j'essayerai de faire un peu de tennis ;
    get [sb] in faire entrer [person].
    get into:
    get into [sth]
    1 ( enter) entrer dans [building] ; monter dans [vehicle] ;
    2 ( be admitted) ( as member) devenir membre de [club] ; ( as student) être admis à [school, university] ; I didn't know what I was getting into fig je ne savais pas dans quoi je m'embarquais ;
    3 ( squeeze into) rentrer dans [garment, size] ; ⇒ debt, habit, trouble ;
    get [sb/sth] into faire entrer [qn/qch] dans [good school, building, room, space].
    get off:
    get off
    1 ( from bus etc) descendre (at à) ;
    2 ( start on journey) partir ;
    3 ( leave work) finir ;
    4 ( escape punishment) s'en tirer (with avec) ;
    5 to get off to partir pour [destination] ; did they get off to school OK? est-ce qu'ils sont partis sans problèmes pour l'école? ; ( make headway) to get off to a good/poor start prendre un bon/mauvais départ ; to get off to sleep s'endormir ; to get off on doing péj ( get buzz from) prendre plaisir à faire ; to get off with, GB rencontrer, ramasser pej [person] ;
    get off [sth]
    1 ( climb down from) descendre de [wall, ledge] ;
    2 ( alight from) descendre de [bus etc] ;
    3 ( remove oneself from) get off my nice clean floor/the grass ne marche pas sur mon sol tout propre/la pelouse ;
    4 fig ( depart from) s'écarter de [subject] ;
    get off [sb] ( leave hold) get off me! lâche-moi! ;
    get [sb/sth] off
    1 ( lift down) descendre [object] ; faire descendre [person] ;
    2 ( dispatch) envoyer [parcel, letter, person] ; I've got the children off to school j'ai envoyé les enfants à l'école ;
    3 ( remove) enlever [stain] ;
    4 ( send to sleep) endormir [baby].
    get on:
    get on
    1 ( climb aboard) monter (at à) ;
    2 ( work) get on a bit faster/more sensibly travaille un peu plus vite/plus sérieusement ;
    3 ( continue with work) let's get on! continuons! ;
    4 GB ( like each other) bien s'entendre ;
    5 ( fare) how did you get on? comment est-ce que ça s'est passé? ;
    6 ( cope) how are you getting on? comment est-ce que tu t'en sors? ;
    7 GB ( approach) he's getting on for 40 il approche des quarante ans ; it's getting on for midnight il est presque minuit ; there are getting on for 80 people il y a presque 80 personnes ;
    8 ( grow late) time's getting on le temps passe ;
    9 ( grow old) to be getting on a bit commencer à vieillir ;
    get on [sth] ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;
    get [sth] on, get on [sth] ( put on) mettre [boots, clothing] ; monter [tyre] ; mettre [lid, tap washer etc].
    get onto:
    get onto [sth]
    1 ( board) monter dans [vehicle] ;
    2 ( be appointed) être nommé à [Board] ;
    3 ( start to discuss) arriver à parler de [topic, subject] ;
    4 GB ( contact) contacter ; I'll get on to the authorities je contacterai les autorités.
    get on with [sth] ( continue to do) to get on with one's work/with preparing the meal continuer à travailler/à préparer le repas ; let's get on with the job! au travail! ;
    get on with [sb] GB s'entendre avec [person].
    get out:
    get out
    1 ( exit) sortir (through, by par) ; get out and don't come back! va-t'en et ne reviens pas! ; they'll never get out alive ils ne s'en sortiront jamais vivants ;
    2 ( make social outing) sortir ; you should get out more tu devrais sortir plus ;
    3 (resign, leave) partir ;
    4 ( alight) descendre ;
    5 ( be let out) [prisoner] être libéré ; he gets out on the 8th il sera libéré le 8 ;
    6 ( leak) [news] être révélé ;
    get [sth] out, get out [sth]
    1 ( bring out) sortir [handkerchief, ID card] ;
    2 ( extract) retirer [cork, stuck object] ; extraire [tooth] ;
    3 ( erase) enlever [stain] ;
    4 ( take on loan) emprunter [library book] ;
    5 ( produce) sortir [plans, product] ;
    6 ( utter) I couldn't get the words out les mots ne voulaient pas sortir ;
    7 ( solve) faire [puzzle] ;
    get [sb] out ( release) faire libérer [prisoner] ; to get sb out of sth ( free from detention) ( personally) libérer qn de qch ; ( by persuasion) faire libérer qn de qch [prisoner] ; to get sth out of sth ( bring out) sortir qch de qch [handkerchief etc] ; ( find and remove) récupérer qch dans qch [required object, stuck object] ; I can't get it out of my mind je ne peux pas l'effacer de mon esprit.
    get out of [sth]
    1 ( exit from) sortir de [building, bed] ;
    2 ( alight from) descendre de [vehicle] ;
    3 ( leave at end of) sortir de [meeting] ;
    4 ( be freed from) être libéré de [prison] ;
    5 ( withdraw from) quitter [organization] ; échapper à [responsibilities] ; he's got out of oil ( as investment) il a vendu toutes ses actions dans le pétrole ;
    6 ( avoid doing) s'arranger pour ne pas aller à [appointment, meeting] ; I'll try to get out of it j'essaierai de me libérer ; I accepted the invitation and now I can't get out of it j'ai accepté l'invitation et maintenant je ne peux pas me défiler ; to get out of doing s'arranger pour ne pas faire ;
    7 ( no longer do) perdre [habit] ;
    8 ( gain from) what do you get out of your job? qu'est-ce que ton travail t'apporte? ; what will you get out of it? qu'est-ce que vous en retirerez?
    get over:
    get over ( cross) passer ;
    get over [sth]
    1 ( cross) traverser [bridge, stream] ;
    2 ( recover from) se remettre de [illness, shock] ; to get over the fact that se remettre du fait que ; I can't get over it ( in amazement) je n'en reviens pas ; I couldn't get over how she looked ça m'a fait un choc de la voir comme ça ; I can't get over how you've grown je n'en reviens pas de ce que tu as grandi ;
    3 ( surmount) surmonter [problem] ; to get sth over with en finir avec qch ; let's get it over with finissons-en ;
    4 ( stop loving) oublier ; she never got over him elle ne l'a jamais oublié ;
    get [sb/sth] over
    1 ( cause to cross) faire passer [injured person, object] ; faire passer [qn/ qch] au-dessus de [bridge, wall etc] ;
    2 ( cause to arrive) get the plumber over here at once faites venir tout de suite le plombier ;
    3 ( communicate) faire passer [message].
    get round GB:
    get round [sth] = get around [sth] ;
    get round [sb] persuader [qn], avoir [qn] au sentiment ; can't you get round him? est-ce que tu ne peux pas le persuader? ; she easily gets round her father elle fait tout ce qu'elle veut de son père.
    1 ( squeeze through) passer ;
    2 Telecom to get through to sb avoir qn au téléphone ; I couldn't get through je n'ai pas réussi à l'avoir ;
    3 to get through to ( communicate with) convaincre [person] ;
    4 ( arrive) [news, supplies] arriver ;
    5 ( survive) s'en sortir (by doing en faisant) ;
    6 Sch, Univ [examinee] réussir ;
    get through [sth]
    1 ( make way through) traverser [checkpoint, mud] ;
    2 ( reach end of) terminer [book, revision] ; finir [meal, task] ; [actor] finir [performance] ;
    3 ( survive mentally) I thought I'd never get through the week j'ai cru que je ne tiendrais pas la semaine ;
    4 ( complete successfully) [candidate, competitor] réussir à [exam, qualifying round] ; I got through the interview l'entretien s'est bien passé ;
    5 (consume, use) manger [supply of food] ; boire [supply of drink] ; dépenser [money] ; I get through two notebooks a week il me faut or j'use deux carnets par semaine ;
    get [sb/sth] through
    1 ( squeeze through) faire passer [car, object, person] ;
    2 ( help to endure) [pills, encouragement, strength of character] aider [qn] à continuer ; her advice/these pills got me through the day ses conseils/ces comprimés m'ont aidé à tenir le coup ;
    3 ( help through frontier etc) faire passer [person, imported goods] ;
    4 Sch, Univ ( help to pass) permettre à [qn] de réussir [candidate] ;
    5 Pol faire passer [bill].
    get together ( assemble) se réunir (about, over pour discuter de) ;
    get [sb/sth] together, get together [sb/sth]
    1 ( assemble) réunir [different people, groups] ;
    2 ( accumulate) réunir [money] ; rassembler [food parcels, truckload] ;
    3 ( form) former [company, action group].
    get under:
    get under passer en-dessous ;
    get under [sth] passer sous [barrier, floorboards etc].
    get up:
    get up
    1 (from bed, chair etc) se lever (from de) ; get up off the grass! ne reste pas sur l'herbe! ;
    2 (on horse, ledge etc) monter ; how did you get up there? comment est-ce que tu es monté là-haut? ;
    3 Meteorol [storm] se préparer ; [wind] se lever ;
    4 to get up to ( reach) arriver à [page, upper floor] ; what did you get up to? fig ( sth enjoyable) qu'est-ce que tu as fait de beau? ; ( sth mischievous) qu'est-ce que tu as fabriqué ? ;
    get up [sth]
    1 arriver en haut de [hill, ladder] ;
    2 ( increase) augmenter [speed] ;
    3 (start, muster) former [group] ; faire [petition] ; obtenir [support, sympathy] ;
    get [sth] up organiser ;
    get [oneself] up in mettre [outfit].

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