grande un quarto

1) (one fourth) quarto m.

2) (15 minutes)

3) (three months) trimestre m.

4) (district) quartiere m.

5) (group) ambiente m., settore m.

6) (mercy) lett.

7) AE (25 cents) quarto m. di dollaro

8) metrol. GB = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 113,4 g; US = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 12,7 kg

9) gastr.

10) mar.

11) at close quarters da vicino

1) (25%) quarto m.

2) (in time phrases)

3) (in age)

1) (divide into four) dividere in quattro (parti) [cake, apple]

2) (accommodate) acquartierare [ troops]; alloggiare [ people]; trovare un riparo per [ livestock]

3) stor. (torture) squartare [ prisoner]

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1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) quarto

2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) (moneta da venticinque centesimi), (quarto di dollaro)

3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) quartiere

4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) parte, direzione

5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) grazia

6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) quarto

7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) quarto

8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) tempo

9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) trimestre

1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) dividere in quattro

2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) dividere in quattro

3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) acquartierare, alloggiare

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- quarterly

- quarters

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1) (one fourth) quarto m.

2) (15 minutes)

3) (three months) trimestre m.

4) (district) quartiere m.

5) (group) ambiente m., settore m.

6) (mercy) lett.

7) AE (25 cents) quarto m. di dollaro

8) metrol. GB = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 113,4 g; US = unità di misura di peso equivalente a 12,7 kg

9) gastr.

10) mar.

11) at close quarters da vicino

1) (25%) quarto m.

2) (in time phrases)

3) (in age)

1) (divide into four) dividere in quattro (parti) [cake, apple]

2) (accommodate) acquartierare [ troops]; alloggiare [ people]; trovare un riparo per [ livestock]

3) stor. (torture) squartare [ prisoner]

royal ['rɔɪəl]

1 adjective

(a) (seal, residence, visit) royal; (horse, household, vehicle) royal, du roi, de la reine;

∎ by royal charter par acte du souverain;

∎ the royal "we" le "nous" de majesté

(b) figurative formal (splendid) royal, princier;

∎ they gave us a (right) royal welcome ils nous ont accueillis comme des rois;

∎ to be in royal spirits être d'excellente humeur

(c) familiar (for emphasis) sombre, de première;

∎ that guy is a right royal pain in the neck ce type est un véritable emmerdeur;

∎ her whining gives me a royal pain elle me fait vraiment chier avec ses jérémiades;

∎ he's a royal idiot c'est un sombre crétin ou un crétin de première

(d) (paper) (format m) grand raisin m;

∎ royal octavo/quarto in-huit m/in-quarto m raisin

2 noun

familiar = membre de la famille royale;

∎ the Royals la famille royale^□

►► the Royal Academy (of Arts) Académie f royale britannique des beaux-arts;

the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art = Conservatoire national d'art dramatique, à Londres;

the Royal Academy of Music = conservatoire national de musique, à Londres;

the Royal Air Force armée f de l'air britannique;

Royal Ascot = événement hippique annuel, étalé sur plusieurs jours, qui entre dans le calendrier mondain de la haute société anglaise;

royal assent = signature royale qui officialise une loi;

the Royal Ballet = compagnie nationale de ballet qui a son siège à Covent Garden à Londres;

royal blue bleu m roi;

the Royal British Legion = association britannique d'anciens militaires;

royal burgh ville f établie par charte royale;

the Royal Canadian Mounted Police la Gendarmerie royale du Canada;

the Royal College of Music Collège m royal de musique (école de musique située à Londres);

the Royal College of Physicans Collège m royal de médecine (organisation de médecins);

the Royal College of Surgeons Collège m royal de chirurgie (organisation de chirurgiens);

the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Collège m royal de médecine vétérinaire (organisation de vétérinaires);

the Royal Commission = commission nommée par le monarque sur recommandation du premier ministre;

the Royal Court = théâtre à Londres;

Royal Doulton = porcelaine fine anglaise;

the Royal Enclosure = tribune de la famille royale à Royal Ascot;

the Royal Engineers le génie militaire britannique;

the Royal Family la famille royale;

Botany royal fern osmonde f royale;

Cards royal flush quinte f royale; (in poker) flush m royal;

Royal Highland Show = grande foire agricole annuelle qui a lieu à Ingleston, près d'Édimbourg;

Your Royal Highness Votre Altesse Royale;

∎ His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales Son Altesse Royale, le prince de Galles;

Their Royal Highnesses Leurs Altesses Royales;

the Royal Horse Guards = la garde à cheval qui assure la garde du palais et du souverain;

British Cookery royal icing = glaçage à base de sucre glace et de blancs d'œufs (utilisé pour les cakes);

the Royal Institute of British Architects = institut d'architectes, à Londres;

the Royal Institution l'Académie f des sciences britannique;

royal jelly gelée f royale;

the Royal Mail = la Poste britannique;

the Royal Marines les Marines mpl (britanniques);

Nautical royal mast mât m de cacatois;

the Royal Mile = rue d'Édimbourg qui relie le château au palais de Holyrood;

the Royal Mint = la Monnaie britannique, ≃ (l'hôtel m de) la Monnaie;

the Royal Navy la marine f nationale britannique;

the Royal Opera House l'opéra m de Covent Garden;

Botany royal palm palmier m royal;

royal prerogative prérogative f du souverain;

∎ to exercise the royal prerogative faire acte de souverain;

the Royal School of Music École f royale de musique;

Royal Scottish Academy Académie f royale écossaise des beaux-arts;

the Royal Shakespeare Company = célèbre troupe de théâtre basée à Stratford-on-Avon et à Londres;

the Royal Show = le salon annuel de l'agriculture en Grande-Bretagne;

the Royal Society l'Académie f des sciences britannique;

Royal Society of Medicine Fondation f britannique de médecine;

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals = société britannique protectrice des animaux, ≃ SPA f;

British the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ≃ Fondation f pour l'enfance;

the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds = ligue britannique pour la protection des oiseaux;

royal standard = drapeau représentant les armoiries de la couronne britannique, hissé lorsque le monarque est au château;

the Royal Tournament = meeting annuel destiné au public organisé par les forces armées, avec entre autres choses des démonstrations de gymnastique;

the Royal Ulster Constabulary = corps de police d'Irlande du Nord;

the Royal Variety Show = spectacle de variétés organisé à Londres en faveur de la Fédération des artistes de variétés;

royal warrant brevet m de fournisseur du souverain;

Royal Worcester = porcelaine fine anglaise

ⓘ THE ROYAL SOCIETY Cette société à vocation scientifique, fondée par Charles II en 1660, contribua à renforcer la crédibilité des hommes de science, qui jouirent également d'une plus grande liberté. En firent notamment partie Isaac Newton et Robert Boyle.

(1775-1842)

   Portuguese composer who began his musical studies under his father, Francisco Saveiro Bomtempo, the oboist in the royal court of King José I (1750-77). At the age of 14, he became a singer in the Royal Chapel of Bemposta and, after his father's death, took his place as court oboist at age 20. In 1801, he decided to go to France to continue his musical studies instead of Italy, which was the custom in his day. In Paris, he associated with a group of exiled Portuguese liberals from whom he absorbed liberal ideas and became a committed constitutional monarchist. During his time in Paris, he began his career as a virtuoso pianist and, inspired by Clementi, Cramer, and Dussek, wrote his first compositions: the Grande Sonata para Piano, Primeiro Concerto em Mi bemol para Piano e Orquestra, and the Secundo Concerto para Piano.

   After Napoleon's armies were defeated by a combined Portuguese-British army commanded by General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington), Bomtempo's prospects in France deteriorated and he left for London in 1810, where he was well received and became a well-regarded professor of piano. During this period, he published many compositions, such as the Terceiro Concerto para Piano, and Capricho e Variações Sobre " GodSave the King." Bom-tempo became active in the Masons at this time. In 1813, to celebrate the final defeat of the French, Bomtempo composed a cantata titled Hino Lusitano, with verses by the liberal poet Vicente Pedro Nolasco da Cunha. He also composed the Primeira Grande Sinfonia and the Quarto Concerto para Piano during this period.

   In 1815, Bomtempo returned to Portugal, where he founded a philharmonic society in order to fill a serious lacuna in the musical culture of Portugal. With the return of the royal court from Brazil and the increasing repression of Portuguese Masons, the situation in Lisbon became untenable for liberals. Bomtempo, who favored a constitutional monarch, returned to London, where he dedicated his work to the "Portuguese nation." He returned to Portugal in 1818, where he composed his best-known work: O Requiem: A Memória de Camões. In 1820, he composed a second requiem in memory of General Gomes Freire, the grand master of Portuguese masonry, who was hanged in 1817. In 1822, his philharmonic society began periodic concerts, but these were forbidden by the absolutist King Miguel I (1802-66) in 1828, and Bomtempo took refuge in the Russian consulate in Lisbon, where he lived for five years until a constitutional monarchy was established by King Pedro IV (1798-1834) in 1834.

   With the establishment of constitutionalism, Bomtempo returned to his artistic activities. In 1835, he composed the Segunda Sinfonia e um Libera Me, dedicated to the memory of King Pedro IV who, exhausted from his struggle against his brother during the " War of the Brothers," died soon after returning to the throne. In 1836, Bon-tempo was made music director of the Court Orchestra and professor of piano in the royal music school, where he introduced the musical pedagogy of Clementi. He continued to compose and direct until his death on 18 August 1842.

A n.

1 [u] (relig.) inferno: to go to hell, andare all'inferno

2 [u] (mitol.) averno; inferi

3 [u] (fig.) inferno: School is hell, la scuola è un inferno; a living hell, un vero (o autentico) inferno: She's made my life a living hell, mi ha reso la vita un vero inferno

4 (fam.) pandemonio; putiferio; casino del diavolo (fam.): to raise hell, fare il diavolo a quattro; scatenare un putiferio; sollevare un pandemonio

5 [u] (fam.) guaio, guai: to go through hell, passare dei bei guai; vederne (o passarne) di cotte e di crude; vedersela brutta

6 – the hell ( nelle domande, come rafforzativo) diavolo; caspita; cavolo: What the hell are you doing here?, che diavolo ci fai qui?; How the hell can they stand her?, come cavolo fanno a sopportarla?

7 (= gambling hell) bisca

B inter.

(fam.) accidenti!; maledizione!; diavolo!: Oh, hell!, accidenti!; Bloody hell!, maledizione!

● ( in origine, USA) Hell's Angels, gli Angeli dell'Inferno ( teppisti in motocicletta) □ (fam.) Hell's bells!, accidenti!; maledizione!; porca miseria! □ (fam.) hell-bent, caparbio, ostinato, testardo; incosciente, temerario: to be hell-bent on doing st., essere deciso a fare qc. a tutti i costi □ (tipogr.; un tempo) hell-box, cassetta per i caratteri di scarto □ hell-fire ► hellfire □ (fam.) hell for leather, a più non posso, a tutto spiano, a spron battuto; a tutta birra: to ride hell for leather, andare a briglia sciolta (o a spron battuto) □ (fam.) a hell of a, un sacco di, una gran quantità di; ( in senso negativo) infernale, orribile, pessimo, del diavolo; ( in senso positivo) grande, eccellente, ( di persona) in gamba, bravo: a hell of a lot of people, proprio un sacco di gente; a hell of a day, una giornata bestiale; una giornataccia; You did a hell of a job, hai fatto un gran (bel) lavoro; a hell of a guy, un tipo in gamba □ to have a hell of a time ( doing st.), impazzire (per riuscire a fare qc.); incontrare moltissima difficoltà (a fare qc.): We had a hell of a time finding a substitute, siamo impazziti per riuscire a trovare un sostituto □ (fig.) hell on earth, l'inferno in terra; un autentico inferno □ (fam.) to be hell on sb. [st.], essere un inferno (o un tormento, una rovina) per q. [qc.] □ ( slang GB) Hell's teeth! = Hell's bells! ► sopra □ ( slang) hell to pay, un sacco di guai; un casino (fam.): There'll be hell to pay when your boss finds out, succederà un casino (o la pagherai cara) quando il tuo capo lo verrà a sapere □ hell-raiser ► hellraiser □ (bot.) hell-weed, ( Cuscuta) cuscuta; ( Convolvulus sepium) vilucchione □ (fam.) as hell, tremendamente, terribilmente; del diavolo (fam.): I felt guilty as hell, mi sentivo terribilmente in colpa; It's as cold as hell, fa un freddo del diavolo □ (fam. USA) to catch hell, prendersi una bella sgridata □ (fam.) come hell or high water, costi quel che costi; a qualunque costo; qualunque cosa accada □ (fam.) ( just) for the hell of it, così; per divertirsi un po'; tanto per farlo (o per fare qualcosa) □ (fam.) from hell, d'inferno, infernale; orribile; terribile; insopportabile: neighbours from hell, vicini insopportabili □ (fam.) to get hell = to catch hell ► sopra □ to give sb. hell, rendere la vita difficile a q.; ( anche) far passare un brutto quarto d'ora a q., strapazzare, strigliare q. □ (fam. USA) to go to hell in a handbasket, andare a rotoli, andare a ramengo (region.) □ I wish (o I hope) to hell…, vorrei proprio che…; quanto vorrei che…: I wish to hell he'd go away!, quanto vorrei che se ne andasse! □ to laugh like hell, ridere a crepapelle □ like hell, (fam.) moltissimo, a più non posso; ( slang) neanche per sogno; un corno, col cavolo (fam.): to work like hell, lavorare a più non posso (o come un matto); It hurts like hell, fa un male cane; to run like hell, correre a rotta di collo (o a più non posso); Like hell he helped me!, col cavolo che mi ha aiutato! □ not to have a hope in hell ( of doing st.), non avere la benché minima possibilità (di fare qc.) □ one hell of a = a hell of a ► sopra □ (fam. GB) to play ( merry) hell with st., mandare all'aria, rovinare, sciupare qc. □ to suffer hell on earth, soffrire (o patire) le pene dell'inferno □ (fam.) to hell and gone, lontanissimo; a casa del diavolo; ( anche) per sempre, per l'eternità □ ( You can) go to hell!, va' all'inferno (o al diavolo)! □ The hell I will!, neanche per sogno!; col cavolo che lo faccio (o che ci vado, ecc.)! □ To hell ( with sb. o st.)!, al diavolo, all'inferno (q. o qc.)!: To hell with you and your money!, al diavolo tu e i tuoi soldi! □ Until hell freezes over, per sempre; fino alla fine dei tempi □ ( slang) What the hell, al diavolo (i dubbi, gli scrupoli, ecc.)!: It's a risk, but what the hell, è un rischio, ma al diavolo i dubbi! □ What the hell ► A, def. 6 □ When hell freezes over, mai; quando nevicherà rosso □ (prov.) Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, niente è più temibile di una donna respinta □ (prov.) The road to hell is paved with good intentions, la strada per l'inferno è lastricata di buone intenzioni.

A a.

prossimo; (il) più vicino; vicino; contiguo; seguente; successivo; primo: the next house, la casa più vicina; la casa accanto; the next train, il prossimo treno; il treno seguente; il primo treno ( dopo questo): DIALOGO → - At the station 1- What time's the next train?, a che ora è il prossimo treno?; DIALOGO → - At the station 1- The next train leaves in six minutes, il primo treno parte tra sei minuti; the next stop, la prossima fermata; la fermata successiva; la prima fermata ( dopo questa); the next day, il giorno seguente; il giorno dopo; next Monday (o on Monday next) lunedì prossimo; next week, la prossima settimana; next year, l'anno prossimo; l'anno venturo

B n.

(agg. sost.) prossimo; primo ( dopo un altro): I will tell you in my next, te ne parlerò nella mia prossima (lettera); the next to arrive, il prossimo (che arriva); il primo ad arrivare ( in seguito); Next, please!, avanti un altro!; avanti il prossimo!; sotto a chi tocca! (fam.)

C avv.

1 in seguito; dopo; poi: What shall I do next?, che cosa devo fare dopo?; to come next, venire subito dopo; Who comes next?, a chi tocca dopo?; a chi tocca ora?; What comes next?, e adesso che cosa viene; a che cosa tocca ora?

2 la prossima volta; la volta dopo: When shall I meet you next?, quando ti vedrò la prossima volta?; quando ti rivedrò?; When I saw him next, he had grown a beard, quando lo rividi, portava la barba

D prep. (arc., ora next to)

1 vicino a; accanto a; presso: a seat next to the fire, un posto ( a sedere) vicino al fuoco; the building next to the post office, l'edificio vicino alla Posta

2 subito dopo; dopo: Ann loves you next to her own son, sei la persona che Ann ama di più, dopo suo figlio; the largest city next to New York, la città più grande dopo New York

● the next after that, quello ( autobus, treno, ecc.) dopo □ the next best ( thing), la migliore alternativa □ next but one, (il) secondo; quello dopo il prossimo □ next but two, il secondo dopo il prossimo; il terzo ( in una fila) □ next but three, il terzo dopo il prossimo; il quarto ( in una fila) □ next door, accanto a: They live next door to me, abitano accanto a me □ next-door, della porta accanto □ next-door neighbours, vicini di casa; ( in un albergo) vicini di camera □ (fig.) next door to, quasi; pressoché: It's next door to impossible, è pressoché impossibile □ next of kin, parente più prossimo □ (fam.) next off, per seconda cosa; in secondo luogo (correlato con first off) □ next to impossible, quasi impossibile □ next to none, quasi nessuno □ next to nothing, quasi niente □ in the next place, inoltre ( in secondo, in terzo luogo, ecc.) □ the Sunday next before Easter, l'ultima domenica prima della Pasqua ( la Domenica delle Palme) □ the year after next, tra due anni □ as curious [ambitious, etc.] as the next man, curioso [ambizioso, ecc.] come chiunque altro; non meno curioso [ambizioso, ecc.] degli altri □ What next?, e poi?; che altro? □ (iron.) What (o Whatever) next!, accidenti!; acciderba!; c'è da aspettarsi di tutto.

1) (gen) di

2) (cause) di, per

3) (material) di, in

4) (concerning) di

5) (partitive) di