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guard with leather

  • 1 σκυτόω

    A cover or guard with leather, in [voice] Pass., τένοντε (?)

    ἐσκυτωμένω IG12.313.121

    ,314.135; τόξα ἐσκ. ib.22.1631.223, cf. Chron.Lind. B25;

    ξύλιναι ἐσκυτωμέναι μάχαιραι Plb.10.20.3

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    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > σκυτόω

  • 2 cubierta

    f.
    1 cover.
    2 carcass, body.
    3 deck.
    cubierta de paseo promenade deck
    4 envelope.
    5 folder.
    6 boat deck, deck, boat floor.
    7 tire, tyre.
    8 overlay.
    9 involucre, involucrum.
    10 operculum.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: cubrir.
    * * *
    1 (gen) cover, covering
    2 (de libro) cover
    4 (de neumático) tyre (US tire)
    5 (capó) bonnet, US hood
    6 (de barco, avión) deck
    \
    en cubierta on deck
    cubierta de lona tarpaulin, canvas
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) deck
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=cobertura) cover(ing); [de libro] cover, jacket; [de edificio] roof
    2) [de rueda] tyre, tire (EEUU)
    3) (Náut) deck

    salir a cubierta — to go up o out on deck

    4) Méx (=funda) sheath
    5) (=pretexto) cover, pretext
    6) (=sobre) envelope

    bajo esta cubierta — under the same cover, enclosed herewith

    * * *
    1) ( funda) cover; ( de libro) cover, sleeve
    2) (Auto) tire*
    3) (Náut) ( en barco) deck
    •
    * * *
    1) ( funda) cover; ( de libro) cover, sleeve
    2) (Auto) tire*
    3) (Náut) ( en barco) deck
    •
    * * *
    cubierta1
    1 = cover, lid, covering, canopy, top, housing cover.

    Ex: Thus, for instance, a title statement will be extracted from a title page, and not from the cover or the spine.

    Ex: The casting-box for flong moulds was a flat iron case like a portfolio with one hinged lid.
    Ex: The choice of metal chairs with plastic seats, rather than wooden chairs with leather coverings, is meaningful.
    Ex: 'Well, it's just that,' he said under a crawling canopy of smoke, trying to arrange himself easily on the hard chair.
    Ex: Documents should be kept in acid free boxes with loose fitting tops on shelves preferably made from baked enamel steel.
    Ex: A spoken dialogue between the system and the trainee would proceed as follows: System 'Try to assemble the air compressor' Trainee: 'How?' System: 'Install pump, install pump brace, install pulley, install belt housing cover.
    * cubierta anterior = front cover, front board.
    * cubierta de papel = paper cover.
    * cubierta formada por las copas de los árboles = canopy, overstorey [overstory, -USA].
    * cubierta protectora = shield.
    * cubiertas = binding case, case.
    * cubierta terminada = topping-out.
    * diseño de la cubierta = cover design.
    * edición en cubierta dura = hardback, hardcover.
    * fecha de la cubierta = cover date.
    * interior de la cubierta = inside cover.
    * sobrecubierta = dust wrapper.
    * título de cubierta = binder's title.
    * título de la cubierta = cover title.

    cubierta2
    2 = deck, upper deck.

    Ex: To illustrate how the mechanism works in a realistic domain, the author implements design systems for the deck structure and midship section of bulk cargo ships = Para ilustrar cómo funciona el mecanismo en un entorno real, el autor pone en práctica sistemas de diseño para la estructura de cubierta y la sección de mitad del barco de los navíos de carga.

    Ex: Cabins on the upper decks usually cost more than those on the lower decks.
    * cubierta de armas = cannon deck.
    * cubierta de cañones = cannon deck.
    * cubierta de proa = forecastle.
    * cubierta de vuelo = flight deck.
    * cubierta inferior = lower deck.
    * cubierta superior = upper deck.
    * todos a cubierta = all hands on deck!.

    cubierta3
    3 = tyre [tire, -USA].

    Ex: Very many SLIS were able to demonstrate a great deal of IT-related re-training endeavour; 're-treading of old tyres' one respondent rather unkindly put it.

    * * *
    A
    1 (funda) cover
    2 (de un libro) cover, sleeve, jacket
    B ( Auto) tire*
    Compuesto:
    tubeless tire*
    salió a cubierta he went up on deck
    Compuestos:
    ● cubierta de aterrizaje or de vuelo
    flight deck
    promenade deck
    poop deck
    foredeck
    lower deck
    main deck
    upper deck, top deck
    * * *

     

    cubierta sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) ( funda) cover;

    ( de libro) cover, sleeve
    b) (Auto) tire( conjugate tire)

    2 (Náut) ( en barco) deck;

    cubierto,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 covered
    (piscina) indoor
    (cielo) overcast
    2 (trabajo, plaza) filled
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 (asiento y plato para un comensal) place setting
    2 cubiertos, cutlery sing
    cubierta sustantivo femenino
    1 cover
    2 (de rueda) tyre, US tire
    3 Náut deck
    4 (techo) roof
    ' cubierta' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cortante
    - piscina
    - pista
    - encuadernación
    - sacar
    - tarta
    - techo
    English:
    cover
    - covering
    - deck
    - evergreen
    - flight-deck
    - mate
    - promenade deck
    - sheath
    - wash down
    - binding
    - casing
    - flight
    - guard
    - hood
    - mass
    - swimming
    * * *
    1. [de mesa, cama] cover
    cubierta vegetal vegetation
    2. [de libro, revista] cover
    3. [de edificio] roof
    4. [de neumático] tyre
    5. [de barco] deck
    cubierta inferior lower deck;
    cubierta de popa poop deck;
    cubierta de proa foredeck;
    cubierta superior upper deck
    * * *
    f
    1 MAR deck
    2 AUTO tire, Br
    tyre
    3 ARQUI roof
    * * *
    1) : covering
    2) forro: cover, jacket (of a book)
    3) : deck
    * * *
    1. (en general) cover
    4. (de rueda) tyre
    5. (de barco) deck

    Spanish-English dictionary > cubierta

  • 3 guardia

    f.
    la vieja guardia the old guard
    guardia Civil Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts
    2 watch, guard (vigilancia).
    en guardia on guard
    montar (la) guardia to mount guard
    aflojar o bajar la guardia to lower o drop one's guard
    3 duty (turno).
    estar de guardia to be on duty
    f. & m.
    1 policeman, (f) policewoman (person).
    guardia civil civil guard
    guardia municipal (local) policeman, f. (local) policewoman
    guardia de seguridad security guard
    guardia de tráfico traffic policeman, f. traffic policewoman
    2 guard, guardsman, watchman.
    3 safeguard, protection, defense, defence.
    * * *
    1 (vigilancia) watch, lookout
    2 (servicio) duty, call
    3 (tropa) guard
    1 (hombre) policeman; (mujer) policewoman
    \
    bajar la guardia to lower one's guard
    estar de guardia (doctor) to be on duty, be on call 2 (soldado) to be on guard duty 3 (marino) to be on watch
    estar en guardia to be on guard
    mantener la guardia to keep watch
    montar la guardia to mount guard
    ponerse en guardia to put oneself on one's guard
    farmacia de guardia duty chemist's
    guardia civil Civil Guard
    guardia de asalto assault guard
    guardia de corps Royal Guard
    guardia de tráfico (hombre) traffic policeman 2 (mujer) traffic policewoman
    guardia urbano,-a (hombre) policeman 2 (mujer) policewoman
    médico de guardia doctor on duty
    * * *
    noun mf.
    2) policeman / policewoman
    * * *
    1.
    SMF (=policía) policeman/policewoman; (Mil) guardsman

    guardia civil — civil guard, police corps with responsibilities outside towns or cities

    guardia de tráfico — traffic policeman/policewoman

    guardia forestal — (forest) ranger, warden

    guardia municipal, guardia urbano/a — police officer ( of the city or town police)

    guardias de asalto — riot police; (Mil) shock troops

    2. SF
    1) (=vigilancia)

    • estar de guardia — [empleado, enfermero, médico] to be on duty; [soldado] to be on sentry duty, be on guard duty; (Náut) to be on watch

    médico de guardia — doctor on duty, duty doctor

    oficial de guardia — officer on duty, duty officer

    puesto de guardia — (Mil) guard post, sentry box

    • hacer guardia — [médico, empleado] to be on duty; [soldado] to do guard duty, do sentry duty

    • montar guardia — to stand guard

    montar la guardia — (=empezarla) to mount guard

    • relevar la guardia — to change guard

    - poner a algn en guardia contra algo
    farmacia, juzgado
    2) (tb: turno de guardia) [de médico, enfermera] shift; [de soldado] duty session
    3) (Esgrima) (=posición) guard, garde

    estar en guardia — to be on guard, be en garde

    4) (=cuerpo) (Mil) guard

    guardia de honor — guard of honour, guard of honor (EEUU)

    guardia municipal — city police, town police

    Guardia Nacional — Nic, Pan National Guard, Army

    guardia pretoriana — ( Hist) Praetorian Guard; pey corps of bodyguards

    guardia urbana — city police, town police

    GUARDIA CIVIL The Guardia Civil, commonly referred to as la Benemérita, is the oldest of Spain's various police forces. A paramilitary force like the French Gendarmerie, it was set up in 1844 to combat banditry in rural areas, but was also used as an instrument of repression in the cities. Under Franco it was resented by many as an oppressive, reactionary force, and was especially hated in the Basque Country. With the return of democracy, Franco's despised Policía Armada were reformed as the Policía Nacional, and the present-day role of the Guardia Civil was redefined. They are mainly stationed in rural areas, and their duties include policing highways and frontiers and taking part in anti-terrorist operations. Their traditional tunics and capes have been replaced by a green uniform, and the famous black patent-leather three-cornered hats are now reserved for ceremonial occasions.
    See:
    * * *
    I
    1)

    estar de guardia — soldado to be on guard duty; médico to be on duty o call; empleado to be on duty; marino to be on watch

    montaban or hacían guardia frente al palacio — they were standing guard in front of the palace

    bajar la guardia — to lower one's guard

    con la guardia baja — with one's guard down

    estar en guardia — to be on one's guard

    poner en guardia a alguien — to warn somebody

    ponerse en guardia: se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes — they are on the alert for fraud

    2) ( cuerpo militar) guard
    •
    II
    (m) policeman; (f) policewoman
    * * *
    = guard, patrolman, watch.
    Ex. This article reports on the results of a survey measuring student library users' perception of the effectiveness of using guards in the library.
    Ex. Arabs who played a role in the Holocaust included those who personally took part in the persecution of Jews, and patrolmen who tracked down Jewish escapees from forced labor camps.
    Ex. During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
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    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * cambio de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * de guardia = on duty, duty + Profesión, on standby, on call.
    * de la vieja guardia = old-style.
    * estar en guardia = be on guard (against), be on + Posesivo + guard.
    * farmacia de guardia = emergency pharmacy.
    * guardia de honor = guard of honour.
    * guardia del alba = morning watch.
    * guardia de seguridad = security guard.
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * poner a Alguien en guardia = put + Nombre + on + Posesivo + guard.
    * relevo de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * servicio en la Guardia Nacional = National Guard duty.
    * turno de guardia = guard duty.
    * vieja guardia, la = old guard, the.
    * * *
    I
    1)

    estar de guardia — soldado to be on guard duty; médico to be on duty o call; empleado to be on duty; marino to be on watch

    montaban or hacían guardia frente al palacio — they were standing guard in front of the palace

    bajar la guardia — to lower one's guard

    con la guardia baja — with one's guard down

    estar en guardia — to be on one's guard

    poner en guardia a alguien — to warn somebody

    ponerse en guardia: se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes — they are on the alert for fraud

    2) ( cuerpo militar) guard
    •
    II
    (m) policeman; (f) policewoman
    * * *
    = guard, patrolman, watch.

    Ex: This article reports on the results of a survey measuring student library users' perception of the effectiveness of using guards in the library.

    Ex: Arabs who played a role in the Holocaust included those who personally took part in the persecution of Jews, and patrolmen who tracked down Jewish escapees from forced labor camps.
    Ex: During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * cambio de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * de guardia = on duty, duty + Profesión, on standby, on call.
    * de la vieja guardia = old-style.
    * estar en guardia = be on guard (against), be on + Posesivo + guard.
    * farmacia de guardia = emergency pharmacy.
    * guardia de honor = guard of honour.
    * guardia del alba = morning watch.
    * guardia de seguridad = security guard.
    * Guardia Nacional, la = National Guard, the.
    * poner a Alguien en guardia = put + Nombre + on + Posesivo + guard.
    * relevo de la guardia = changing of the guard.
    * servicio en la Guardia Nacional = National Guard duty.
    * turno de guardia = guard duty.
    * vieja guardia, la = old guard, the.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (vigilancia): estar de guardia «soldado» to be on guard duty;
    «médico» to be on duty o call; «empleado» to be on duty; «marino» to be on watch
    la farmacia de guardia the duty pharmacy o ( BrE) chemist
    montaban guardia frente al palacio they were standing guard in front of the palace
    bajar la guardia (en boxeo) to lower one's guard; (descuidarse) to lower one's guard; (ceder) to let up, slacken in one's efforts
    con la guardia baja with one's guard down
    estar en guardia to be on one's guard
    hacerle la guardia a algn (CS); to keep a lookout o an eye out for sb
    poner a algn/ponerse en guardia: me puso en guardia contra los peligros de la expedición she warned me of the dangers of the expedition
    se han puesto en guardia contra posibles fraudes they are on the alert o on their guard against possible frauds
    prestar or hacer guardia «soldado» to do guard duty;
    «marino» to be on watch; «médico» to be on duty o call
    3
    (en esgrima): en guardia on guard, en garde
    cambio de guardia changing of the guard
    relevar la guardia to relieve the guard
    hacer la guardia ( Chi); to do military service
    Compuestos:
    feminine Civil Guard Guardia Civil (↑ guardia a1)
    feminine coastguard service
    feminine guard of honor
    feminine mounted guard, horse guard
    ● guardia municipal or urbana
    feminine royal guard
    feminine Swiss Guard
    ( masculine) police officer, policeman; ( feminine) police officer, policewoman
    Compuestos:
    masculine and feminine security guard
    masculine and feminine, ( masculine) traffic policeman; ( feminine) traffic policewoman
    masculine and feminine security guard
    ● guardia municipal or urbano
    masculine ( Esp) speed bump, sleeping policeman ( BrE)
    * * *

     

    guardia sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) ( vigilancia):



    [ médico] to be on duty o call;
    [ empleado] to be on duty;
    [ marino] to be on watch;

    poner en guardia a algn to warn sb
    b) ( en esgrima):


    2 ( cuerpo militar) guard;

    Gguardia Civil Civil Guard;
    guardia municipal or urbana police ( mainly involved in traffic duties)
    3
    ◊ guardia sustantivo masculino y femenino (sustantivo masculino) policeman;


    (sustantivo femenino) policewoman
    guardia
    I sustantivo femenino
    1 (custodia, vigilancia) watch: montaba guardia bajo su ventana, he kept watch under her window
    2 (cuerpo armado) guard: pertenece a la Guardia Real, he's in the Royal Guard
    3 (turno de servicio) duty
    Mil guard duty: mañana estaré de guardia, I'll be on guard duty tomorrow
    farmacia de guardia, GB duty chemist, US pharmacy on duty
    II mf (hombre) policeman
    (mujer) policewoman
    ♦ Locuciones: bajar la guardia, to lower one's guard
    poner en guardia, to be on guard
    juzgado de guardia, police court
    ' guardia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    juzgado
    - alerta
    - caseta
    - casilla
    - civil
    - farmacia
    - pitar
    - porra
    - reforzar
    - relevar
    English:
    before
    - call
    - coastguard
    - constable
    - duty
    - duty chemist
    - guard
    - lookout
    - watch
    - speed
    - standby
    - while
    * * *
    ♦ nf
    1. [conjunto de personas] guard;
    la vieja guardia the old guard;
    el cambio de guardia the changing of the guard
    Guardia Civil Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts;
    guardia costera coastguard service;
    guardia fronteriza border guard;
    guardia de honor guard of honour;
    la guardia municipal the local police;
    Guardia Nacional National Guard;
    guardia pretoriana Hist Praetorian Guard;
    Fig phalanx of bodyguards;
    guardia real royal guard;
    la Guardia Suiza the Swiss Guard;
    la guardia urbana the local police
    2. [vigilancia] watch, guard;
    también Fig
    aflojar o [m5] bajar la guardia to lower o drop one's guard;
    de guardia on guard;
    me quedé de guardia toda la noche I stayed up watching all night;
    ¡en guardia! en garde!;
    hacer guardia to stand guard;
    montar (la) guardia to mount guard;
    poner a alguien en guardia to put sb on their guard;
    ponerse en guardia [en boxeo] to raise one's guard
    3. [turno] shift;
    este mes hice cinco guardias [médico] I've done five shifts this month;
    [soldado] I've done five turns at guard duty this month;
    le atenderá el médico de guardia the doctor on duty o duty doctor will see you;
    estar de guardia [médico] to be on duty o call;
    [farmacia] to be open 24 hours [on a given day]
    ♦ nmf
    1. [agente] policeman, f policewoman
    guardia civil civil guard;
    guardia municipal (local) policeman, f (local) policewoman;
    guardia de tráfico traffic policeman, f traffic policewoman;
    guardia urbano (local) policeman, f (local) policewoman
    2. [centinela] guard
    guardia jurado security guard;
    guardia de seguridad security guard
    * * *
    I f
    1 guard;
    bajar la guardia fig lower one’s guard;
    poner a alguien en guardia put s.o. on their guard;
    la vieja guardia fig the old guard
    2
    :
    de guardia on duty
    II m/f
    1 MIL guard
    2 ( policía) police officer
    * * *
    1) : guard, defense
    2) : guard duty, watch
    3)
    en guardia : on guard
    guardia nmf
    1) : sentry, guardsman, guard
    2) : police officer, policeman m, policewoman f
    * * *
    1. (cuerpo) guard
    2. (policía) policeman [pl. policemen] / policewoman [pl. policewomen]
    Se refiere al cuerpo de policía; una mujer policía se llama policewoman [pl. policewomen]
    guardia urbano policeman [pl. policemen]

    Spanish-English dictionary > guardia

  • 4 beziehen

    (unreg.)
    I v/t
    1. (Sessel, Schirm) cover; (Bett) put clean sheets on; (Kopfkissen) put a new pillowcase on; mit Saiten: string; das Sofa neu beziehen reupholster the sofa
    2. (Haus, Wohnung) move into
    3. (Ware) get; (kaufen) auch buy; (Zeitung) take, subscribe to; (Informationen) get (hold of); Prügel beziehen get beaten up
    4. (Gelder, Gehalt etc.) receive; sie bezieht einen Teil i-s Einkommens aus Mieteinkünften some of her income is from rent ( oder rental payments)
    5. etw. auf jemanden / etw. beziehen (in Zusammenhang bringen) relate s.th to s.o. / s.th, (anwenden auf) apply s.th. to s.o. / s.th; er bezog es auf sich he took it personally
    6.
    a) MIL. (Stellung) take up (a position);
    b) einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen take a (firm) stand
    II v/refl
    1. Himmel: cloud over, become overcast
    2. sich beziehen auf (+ Akk) refer to; (in Verbindung stehen mit) relate to; (betreffen) concern, apply to; wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom... with reference to your letter of...(, we...); diese Beschreibung bezieht sich nicht auf dich / nicht auf hiesige Verhältnisse this description has nothing to do with you / is independent of local conditions
    * * *
    (Bett machen) to put clean sheets on;
    (abonniert haben) to subscribe to;
    (bespannen) to cover;
    (einziehen in) to move into
    * * *
    be|zie|hen ptp bezogen [bə'tsoːgn] irreg
    1. vt
    1) (= überziehen) Polster, Regenschirm to (re)cover; Bettdecke, Kissen to put a cover on; (mit Saiten) Geige etc to string

    die Betten frisch bezíéhen — to put clean sheets on the beds, to change the beds

    2) (= einziehen in) Wohnung to move into
    3) (ESP MIL = einnehmen) Posten, Position, Stellung to take up; (old ) Universität to enter, to go up to; (fig ) Standpunkt to take up, to adopt

    ein Lager bezíéhen — to encamp

    Wache bezíéhen — to mount guard, to go on guard

    4) (= sich beschaffen) to get, to obtain; Zeitungen etc to take, to get
    5) (= erhalten) to get, to receive; Einkommen, Rente to get, to draw; Prügel etc to get
    6)

    (= in Beziehung setzen) etw auf jdn/etw bezíéhen — to apply sth to sb/sth

    warum bezieht er ( bloß) immer alles auf sich? — why does he always take everything personally?

    auf jdn/etw bezogen — referring to sb/sth

    7) (Sw = einfordern) Steuern to collect
    2. vr
    1) (=sich bedecken Himmel) to cloud over, to darken
    2)

    (= betreffen) sich auf jdn/etw bezíéhen — to refer to sb/sth

    3)

    (= sich berufen) sich bezíéhen auf (+acc) — to refer to

    * * *
    (to live in: The family occupied a small flat.) occupy
    * * *
    be·zie·hen *
    I. vt
    1. (mit Bezug versehen)
    ▪ etw [mit etw dat] \beziehen to cover sth [with sth]
    die Bettwäsche neu \beziehen to change the bed[linen] [or sheets]
    etw neu \beziehen to re-cover sth; MUS (bespannen) to string
    ▪ etw \beziehen to move into sth
    ▪ etw \beziehen to take up sth
    einen Standpunkt \beziehen to adopt a point of view
    ▪ etw [von jdm] \beziehen to obtain [or get] sth [from sb]
    eine Zeitschrift \beziehen to take [or subscribe to] a magazine
    ▪ etw [von jdm/etw] \beziehen to receive [or draw] sth [from sb/sth]
    6. SCHWEIZ (einziehen) to collect
    7. (fam: bekommen) to get
    du beziehst gleich eine Ohrfeige, wenn du nicht mit dem Blödsinn aufhörst! I'll box your ears in a minute if you don't stop messing around!
    ▪ etw auf jdn/etw \beziehen to apply sth to sb/sth
    warum bezieht er [bloß] immer alles auf sich? why does he always [have to] take everything personally?
    II. vr
    ▪ sich akk \beziehen to cloud over, to become overcast
    mit Wolken bezogen clouded over
    ▪ sich akk auf jdn/etw \beziehen to refer to sb/sth
    ▪ sich akk auf jdn/etw \beziehen to refer to sb/sth
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) cover, put a cover/covers on <seat, cushion, umbrella, etc.>

    das Sofa ist mit Leder bezogen — the sofa is upholstered in leather

    2) (einziehen in) move into < house, office>
    3) (Milit.) take up < position, post>

    einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen — (fig.) adopt a clear position; take a definite stand

    4) (erhalten) receive, obtain [one's supply of] < goods>; take < newspaper>; draw, receive < pension, salary>

    Prügel beziehen — (ugs.) get a hiding (coll.)

    5) (in Beziehung setzen) apply (auf + Akk. to)

    etwas auf sich (Akk.) beziehen — take something personally

    bezogen auf jemanden/etwas — [seen] in relation to somebody/something

    2.
    1)

    es/der Himmel bezieht sich — it/the sky is clouding over or becoming overcast

    2)

    sich auf jemanden/etwas beziehen — < person, letter, etc.> refer to somebody/something; <question, statement, etc.> relate to somebody/something

    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom 28. 8., und... — with reference to your letter of 28 August, we...

    * * *
    beziehen (irr)
    A. v/t
    1. (Sessel, Schirm) cover; (Bett) put clean sheets on; (Kopfkissen) put a new pillowcase on; mit Saiten: string;
    das Sofa neu beziehen reupholster the sofa
    2. (Haus, Wohnung) move into
    3. (Ware) get; (kaufen) auch buy; (Zeitung) take, subscribe to; (Informationen) get (hold of);
    Prügel beziehen get beaten up
    4. (Gelder, Gehalt etc) receive;
    sie bezieht einen Teil i-s Einkommens aus Mieteinkünften some of her income is from rent ( oder rental payments)
    5.
    etwas auf jemanden/etwas beziehen (in Zusammenhang bringen) relate s.th to sb/s.th, (anwenden auf) apply sth to sb/s.th;
    er bezog es auf sich he took it personally
    6. MIL (Stellung) take up (a position);
    B. v/r
    1. Himmel: cloud over, become overcast
    2.
    sich beziehen auf (+akk) refer to; (in Verbindung stehen mit) relate to; (betreffen) concern, apply to;
    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom … with reference to your letter of …(, we …);
    diese Beschreibung bezieht sich nicht auf dich/nicht auf hiesige Verhältnisse this description has nothing to do with you/is independent of local conditions
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) cover, put a cover/covers on <seat, cushion, umbrella, etc.>
    2) (einziehen in) move into <house, office>
    3) (Milit.) take up <position, post>

    einen klaren Standpunkt beziehen — (fig.) adopt a clear position; take a definite stand

    4) (erhalten) receive, obtain [one's supply of] < goods>; take < newspaper>; draw, receive <pension, salary>

    Prügel beziehen — (ugs.) get a hiding (coll.)

    5) (in Beziehung setzen) apply (auf + Akk. to)

    etwas auf sich (Akk.) beziehen — take something personally

    bezogen auf jemanden/etwas — [seen] in relation to somebody/something

    2.
    1)

    es/der Himmel bezieht sich — it/the sky is clouding over or becoming overcast

    2)

    sich auf jemanden/etwas beziehen — <person, letter, etc.> refer to somebody/something; <question, statement, etc.> relate to somebody/something

    wir beziehen uns auf Ihr Schreiben vom 28. 8., und... — with reference to your letter of 28 August, we...

    * * *
    v.
    to correlate v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > beziehen

  • 5 защищать

    гл.
    Русский глагол защищать относится к любому виду угрозы, опасности или неприятности. Английские эквиваленты в отличие от русского указывают на характер того, от чего исходит угроза и на цели защиты.
    1. to defend — защищать, оборонять, защищаться, отстаивать (подразумевает защиту от угрожающей опасности; предполагается предпринимать любые действия, чтобы прийти на помощь кому-либо или чему-либо, находящемуся в опасности и нуждающемуся в защите): to defend smb, smth — защищать кого-либо, что-либо; to defend the goal — защищать ворота; to defend one's point of view (one's principles) — отстаивать свою точку зрения (свои принципы); to defend oneself from/ against smb — защищаться от кого-либо; to defend one's action — защищать свои действия; to defend a town — защищать город They defended the city to the last. — Они обороняли город до последнего./Они защищали город до конца. At school he always defended his little brother. — В школе он всегда защищал своего младшего брата. It became impossible to defend the base from airborne attack.— От воздушного нападения базу защищать стало невозможно. She picked up a stick (о defend herself against her attacker. — Она подняла с земли палку, чтобы защититься от нападающего./Она схватила с земли палку, чтобы защитить себя от нападающего. John was the only one who defended me when things started going wrong. — Только Джон встал на мою защиту, когда начались неприятности. As a politician you have to be able to defend yourself when things get rough. — Как политический деятель, вы должны уметь защищаться от резкой критики. Union bosses pleaded that they would courageously defend their members' right to strike. — Профсоюзные лидеры клялись, что будут упорно отстаивать право своих членов на забастовки.
    2. to protect — защищать, предохранять, ограждать (от возможных опасностей или неприятностей, таких как наводнения, пожары или болезни): to protect smb, smth — защищать кого-либо, что-либо; to protect children from catching cold — защищать детей от простуды/предохранять детей от простуды; to protect one's eyes from the sun — защищать глаза от солнца The fence protects the roses from the wind. — Забор защищает розы от ветра. Не was protected by a bodyguard. — Его сопровождал телохранитель./ Он шел с охраной./Его защищал охранник. you should insure to protect yourself in case of fire. — Вам надо застраховаться на случай пожара. The camera comes with a true leather carrying case to protect it. — Фотоаппарат выпускается в кожаном футляре, который его предохраняет./Фотоаппарат продается с кожаным футляром, который его предохраняет. The union's basic function is to protect the interests and employment rights of its members. — Основная функция профсоюзов заключается в защите интересов и права его членов на труд. I jumped behind the wall to protect myself from the explosion. — Я спрятался за стену, чтобы защитить себя от взрыва.
    3. to shield — защищать, предохранять, заслонять, прикрывать (от опасности, особенно встав между ее источником и тем, на что или кого это действие направлено): to shield one's eyes with one's hand — прикрыть глаза рукой; to shield one's child with one's own body — прикрыть ребенка собственным телом; to shield oneself behind smb else — спрятаться за чью-либо спину Не had received a gunshot wound while trying to shield his children. — Он получил огнестрельное ранение, когда пытался защитить детей./Он был ранен, когда пытался спасти своих детей, загородив их собой. A new type of glass has been produced, which shields your eyes from the sun violet rays. —Теперь выпускается новое стекло, которое предохраняет глаза от ультрафиолетовых лучей солнца. These plants should be shielded from direct sunlight. — Эти растения нужно прикрывать от прямого попадания солнечных лучей. The house was shielded from the view by tall trees. — Высокие деревья скрывали дом от посторонних взглядов, She shielded her eyes against the sun glare. — Она заслонила глаза от яркого солнца. She is anxious to shield her children from the press. — Она стремится оградить своих детей от вмешательства прессы в их жизнь.
    4. tо guard — защищать, стоять на страже, охранять, караулить, стеречь, сторожить (предполагает действия, направленные на сохранение того или тех, кто был доверен кому-либо): to guard smb's life (one's reputation) — охранять чью-либо жизнь (свою репутацию); to guard prisoners — караулить узников/охранять пленных; to guard treasure — охранять клад/сторожить клад/караулить клад; to guard one's property against thieves — стеречь/караулить имущество от воров The dog is guarding the sheep. — Собака сторожит овец./Собака караулит овец. There were two soldiers guarding the main gate. — Главные ворота охранялись двумя солдатами. The palace entrance is guarded round the clock. — Подъезд дворца охраняется круглые сутки. The trees guarded the farm from the wind. — Деревья защищали ферму от ветра. The company is fiercely guarding its independence. — Фирма упорно защищает свою независимость./Фирма яростно отстаивает свою независимость./Фирма стоит на страже своей независимости. They have been guarding the details of their research. — Они хранили в секрете результаты своего исследования./Они строго охраняли результаты своего исследования.
    5. to uphold — защищать, поддерживать (предполагает высказывания в защиту/в пользу чего-либо, подтверждения чьих-либо решений или высказанных предположений): The court of appeal upheld the verdict. — Апелляционный суд подтвердил приговор. The headmaster upheld the teacher's decision. — Директор поддержал решение учителя. The Home Secretary's decision was upheld by the House of Lords. — Решение министра внутренних дел получило одобрение в палате лордов./Решение министра внутренних дел было поддержано в палате лордов. They were fighting to uphold the rights of small nations. — Они боролись за права малых народов./Они выступали в поддержку малых народов и их прав./Они выступали в защиту малых народов.

    Русско-английский объяснительный словарь > защищать

  • 6 scharf

    (beißend) caustic; acrimonious; biting; pungent; acrid; tart;
    (bissig) fierce;
    (brüsk) stiff;
    (geladen) live;
    (scharfsinnig) trenchant; incisive; keen;
    (schneidend) cutting; edged; sharp;
    (sexuell erregt) randy (ugs.); horny (ugs.)
    * * *
    schạrf [ʃarf]
    1. adj comp - er
    ['ʃɛrfɐ] superl -ste(r, s) ['ʃɛrfstə]
    1) Messer, Kante, Kurve sharp; (= durchdringend) Wind keen, biting, cutting; Kälte biting; Luft raw, keen; Frost sharp, keen; Ton piercing, shrill

    das scharfe S (Aus inf) — the "scharfes s" (German symbol ß), ess-tset

    2) (= stark gewürzt) hot; Geruch, Geschmack pungent, acrid; Käse strong, sharp; Alkohol (= stark) strong; (= brennend) fiery; (= ätzend) Waschmittel, Lösung caustic

    scharfe Sachen (inf) — hard stuff (inf)

    3) (= hart, streng) Mittel, Maßnahmen tough, severe, drastic; (inf) Prüfung, Untersuchung strict, tough; Lehrer, Polizist tough; Bewachung close, tight; Hund fierce
    4) (= schonungslos, stark) Worte, Kritik sharp, biting, harsh; Widerstand, Konkurrenz fierce, tough; Gegner, Protest strong, fierce; Auseinandersetzung bitter, fierce

    eine scharfe Zunge haben — to have a sharp tongue, to be sharp-tongued

    jdn/etw in scharfer Form kritisieren — to criticize sb/sth in strong terms

    5) (= deutlich, klar, genau) sharp; Unterschied sharp, marked; Brille, Linse sharply focusing; Augen sharp, keen; Töne clear, precise; Verstand, Intelligenz, Gehör sharp, keen, acute; Beobachter keen
    6) (= heftig, schnell) Ritt, Trab hard

    ein scharfes Tempo fahren (inf) — to drive hell for leather (Brit) or like a bat out of hell (inf), to drive at quite a lick (Brit inf)

    7) (= echt) Munition etc, Schuss live
    8) (inf = geil) randy (Brit inf horny (inf)

    scharf werden — to get turned on (inf), to get randy (Brit inf) or horny (inf)

    auf jdn/etw scharf sein — to be keen on (inf) or hot for (inf) sb/sth, to fancy sb/sth (inf)

    der Kleine/Alte ist scharf wie Nachbars Lumpi or tausend Russen or sieben Sensen (dated) — he's a randy (Brit) or horny little/old bugger (inf)

    See:
    → auch scharfmachen
    2. adv comp -er,
    superl am -sten
    1)

    (= intensiv) scharf nach etw riechen — to smell strongly of sth

    scharf würzen — to season highly, to make hot (inf)

    2)

    (= schneidend) etw scharf schleifen — to sharpen or hone sth to a fine edge

    das "s" wird oft scharf ausgesprochen — "s" is often voiceless, "s" is often pronounced as an "s" and not a "z"

    3) (= heftig) attackieren, kritisieren sharply; ablehnen adamantly; protestieren emphatically
    4) (= konzentriert) zuhören closely

    jdn scharf ansehen — to give sb a scrutinizing look; (missbilligend) to look sharply at sb

    scharf nachdenken — to have a good or long think, to think long and hard

    5) (= präzise) analysieren carefully, in detail
    6)

    (= genau) etw scharf einstellen (Bild, Diaprojektor etc) — to bring sth into focus; Sender to tune sth in (properly)

    scharf eingestellt — in (sharp) focus, (properly) tuned in

    scharf sehen/hören — to have sharp eyes/ears

    7) (= schnell) fahren, marschieren fast
    8) (= abrupt) bremsen sharply, hard
    9)

    (= hart) scharf vorgehen/durchgreifen — to take decisive action

    10) (= streng) bewachen closely
    11)

    (= knapp) scharf kalkulieren — to reduce one's profit margin

    12) (= fein) hören, sehen clearly, well
    13) (MIL)

    in der Diskussion wurde ziemlich scharf geschossen (inf) — the discussion became rather heated, sparks flew in the discussion

    * * *
    2) ((of the senses) keen: acute hearing.) acute
    3) ((of food) having a sharp, burning taste: a hot curry.) hot
    4) (insulting or offending: a cutting remark.) cut
    6) keen
    7) (sharp: Her eyesight is as keen as ever.) keen
    8) ((of wind etc) very cold and biting.) keen
    9) ((of food) containing a lot of pepper: The soup is too peppery.) peppery
    10) (full of energy, and capable of becoming active: a live bomb) live
    12) ((of a taste or smell) sharp and strong.) pungent
    13) (unpleasantly stale and strong: a rank smell of tobacco.) rank
    14) severe
    15) (having a thin edge that can cut or a point that can pierce: a sharp knife.) sharp
    16) ((of changes in direction) sudden and quick: a sharp left turn.) sharp
    17) (alert: Dogs have sharp ears.) sharp
    18) (with an abrupt change of direction: Turn sharp left here.) sharp
    19) (in a sharp manner: a sharply-pointed piece of glass; The road turned sharply to the left; He rebuked her sharply.) sharply
    * * *
    <schärfer, schärfste>
    [ʃarf]
    I. adj
    1. (gut geschliffen) Messer, Klinge sharp, keen form
    \scharfe Krallen/Zähne sharp claws/teeth
    etw \scharf machen to sharpen sth
    etw \scharf schleifen to sharpen sth
    eine \scharfe Bügelfalte a sharp crease
    \scharfe Gesichtszüge sharp features
    eine \scharfe Kante a sharp edge
    eine \scharfe Kurve/Kehre a hairpin bend
    eine \scharfe Nase a sharp nose
    3. KOCHK (hochprozentig) strong; (sehr würzig) highly seasoned; (stark gewürzt) hot
    \scharfe Gewürze/ \scharfer Senf hot spices/mustard
    \scharfer Käse strong cheese
    einen S\scharfen trinken (fam) to knock back some of the hard stuff fam
    4. (ätzend) aggressive, caustic [or strong]
    \scharfe Dämpfe caustic vapours [or AM -ors]
    ein \scharfer Geruch a pungent odour [or AM -or]
    \scharfe Putzmittel aggressive detergents; s.a. Sache
    5. (schonungslos, heftig) harsh, severe, tough
    \scharfe Ablehnung fierce [or strong] opposition
    \scharfe Aufsicht/Bewachung/Kontrolle rigorous [or strict] supervision/surveillance/control
    \scharfe Auseinandersetzungen bitter altercations
    \scharfe dirigistische Eingriffe POL drastic state interference
    etw in schärfster Form verurteilen to condemn sth in the strongest possible terms
    ein \scharfer Gegner a fierce opponent
    \scharfe Konkurrenz fierce [or keen] competition
    \scharfe Maßnahmen ergreifen to take drastic [or harsh] measures
    ein \scharfer Polizist a tough policeman
    ein \scharfer Prüfer a strict examiner
    \scharfer Protest strong [or vigorous] protest
    ein \scharfes Urteil a harsh [or scathing] judgement
    6. (bissig) fierce, vicious pej
    \scharfe Kritik biting [or fierce] criticism
    ein \scharfer Verweis a strong reprimand
    \scharfer Widerstand fierce [or strong] resistance
    eine \scharfe Zunge haben to have a sharp tongue
    sehr \scharf gegen jdn werden to be very sharp with sb
    7. inv (echt) real
    eine \scharfe Bombe a live bomb
    mit \scharfen Patronen schießen to shoot live bullets
    \scharfe Schüsse abfeuern to shoot with live ammunition
    8. (konzentriert, präzise) careful, keen
    ein \scharfer Analytiker a careful [or thorough] analyst
    eine \scharfe Auffassungsgabe haben to have keen powers of observation
    ein \scharfes Auge für etw akk haben to have a keen eye for sth
    ein \scharfer Beobachter a keen [or perceptive] observer
    \scharfe Beobachtung astute [or keen] observation
    \scharfe Betrachtung careful [or thorough] examination
    \scharfer Blick close [or thorough] inspection
    \scharfe Intelligenz keen intelligence
    ein \scharfer Verstand a keen [or sharp] mind
    9. FOTO sharp
    ein gestochen \scharfes Foto an extremely sharp photo
    eine \scharfe Linse a strong [or powerful] lens
    \scharfe Umrisse sharp outlines
    10. (schneidend) biting
    \scharfer Frost sharp frost
    \scharfe Kälte biting [or fierce] cold
    \scharfes Licht glaring [or stabbing] light
    \scharfe Luft raw air
    eine \scharfe Stimme a sharp voice
    ein \scharfer Ton a shrill sound
    ein \scharfer Wind a biting wind
    11. (forciert) hard, fast
    in \scharfem Galopp reiten to ride at a furious gallop
    ein \scharfer Ritt a hard ride
    in \scharfem Tempo at a [fast and] furious pace
    12. (sl: fantastisch) great fam, fantastic fam, terrific
    ein \scharfes Auto a cool car
    [das ist] \scharf! [that is] cool!
    das ist das Schärfste! (sl) that [really] takes the biscuit [or AM cake]! fig
    13. FBALL (kraftvoll) fierce
    ein \scharfer Schuss a fierce shot
    14. (aggressiv) fierce
    ein \scharfer [Wach]hund a fierce [watch]dog
    15. (sl: aufreizend, geil) spicy fam, naughty fam, sexy fam
    ein \scharfes Mädchen a sexy girl
    \scharf auf jdn sein (fam) to have the hots for sb fam
    auf etw akk \scharf sein to [really] fancy sth fam, to be keen on sth
    II. adv
    \scharf gebügelte Hosen sharply ironed trousers [or pants
    ich esse/koche gerne \scharf I like eating/cooking spicy/hot food
    \scharf schmecken to taste hot
    etw \scharf würzen to highly season sth
    3. (heftig) sharply
    etw \scharf ablehnen to reject sth outright [or out of hand], to flatly reject sth
    etw \scharf angreifen [o attackieren] to attack sth sharply [or viciously]
    \scharf durchgreifen to take drastic action
    etw \scharf kritisieren to criticize sth sharply [or harshly] [or severely]
    gegen etw akk \scharf protestieren to protest strongly [or vigorously] against sth
    etw \scharf verurteilen to condemn sth strongly [or harshly]
    jdm \scharf widersprechen to vehemently contradict
    4. (konzentriert, präzise) carefully
    \scharf analysieren to analyze carefully [or painstakingly] [or thoroughly]
    \scharf aufpassen to take great [or extreme] care
    ein Problem \scharf beleuchten to get right to the heart of a problem
    \scharf beobachten to observe [or watch] carefully [or closely]
    \scharf hinsehen to look good and hard
    etw \scharf unter die Lupe nehmen to investigate sth carefully [or thoroughly], to take a careful [or close] look at sth
    \scharf nachdenken to think hard
    etw \scharf umreißen to define sth clearly [or sharply
    5. (streng) hard, closely
    etw \scharf bekämpfen to fight hard [or strongly] against sth
    jdn \scharf bewachen to keep a close guard on sb
    gegen etw akk \scharf durchgreifen [o vorgehen] to take drastic [or vigorous] action [or to take drastic steps] against sth
    6. (klar) sharply
    der Baum hebt sich \scharf vom Hintergrund ab the tree contrasts sharply to the background
    das Bild/den Sender \scharf einstellen to sharply focus the picture/tune in the station
    \scharf sehen to have keen [or sharp] eyes
    7. (abrupt) abruptly, sharply
    \scharf links/rechts abbiegen/einbiegen to take a sharp left/right, to turn sharp left/right
    Fleisch \scharf anbraten to sear meat
    \scharf bremsen to brake sharply, to slam on the brakes
    \scharf geladen sein to be loaded [with live ammunition]
    \scharf schießen to shoot [with live ammunition]
    9. (in forciertem Tempo) fast, like the wind [or devil]
    \scharf reiten to ride hard
    10. FBALL (kraftvoll) fiercely
    \scharf schießen to shoot fiercely
    * * *
    1.
    ; schärfer, schärfst... Adjektiv
    2) (stark gewürzt, brennend, stechend) hot; strong <drink, vinegar, etc.>; caustic < chemical>; pungent, acrid < smell>
    3) (durchdringend) shrill; (hell) harsh; biting <wind, air, etc.>; sharp < frost>
    4) (deutlich wahrnehmend) keen; sharp
    5) (deutlich hervortretend) sharp <contours, features, nose, photograph>
    6) (schonungslos) tough, fierce <resistance, competition, etc.>; sharp <criticism, remark, words, etc.>; strong, fierce <opponent, protest, etc.>; severe, harsh <sentence, law, measure, etc.>; fierce < dog>
    7) (schnell) fast; hard <ride, gallop, etc.>
    8) (explosiv) live; (Ballspiele) powerful < shot>
    9)

    das scharfe S — (bes. österr.) the German letter ‘ß’

    10) (ugs.): (geil) sexy <girl, clothes, pictures, etc.>; randy <fellow, thoughts, etc.>
    11)

    scharf auf jemanden/etwas sein — (ugs.) really fancy somebody (coll.) /be really keen on something

    2.
    1)

    scharf würzen/abschmecken — season/flavour highly

    2) (durchdringend) shrilly; (hell) harshly; (kalt) bitingly
    3) (deutlich wahrnehmend) <listen, watch, etc.> closely, intently; <think, consider, etc.> hard
    5) (schonungslos) <attack, criticize, etc.> sharply, strongly; <contradict, oppose, etc.> strongly, fiercely; <watch, observe, etc.> closely
    6) (schnell) fast

    scharf bremsen — brake hard or sharply

    7)
    * * *
    scharf; schärfer, am schärfsten
    A. adj
    1. Messer etc: sharp (auch fig);
    scharfe Zunge sharp tongue
    2. Essen: hot, spicy, highly seasoned; Essig, Senf, Käse: strong; Geruch: acrid, pungent; Säure: caustic; Paprika, Pfeffer: hot; Alkohol: strong; (brennend) sharp; Waschmittel: aggressive;
    scharfe Saucen picante sauces;
    scharfe Sachen umg the hard stuff sg;
    das ist vielleicht ein scharfes Zeug umg it really burns your throat
    3. Sinnesorgan etc: sharp;
    scharfes Auge, scharfer Blick sharp ( oder keen) eye(s), keen eyesight;
    ein scharfes Auge haben für have a keen ( oder good) eye for;
    scharfes Gehör sharp ears, keen sense of hearing;
    scharfer Beobachter/Denker keen observer/thinker;
    scharfer Verstand keen ( oder incisive) mind
    4. Kritik, Zurechtweisung etc: harsh, severe; (heftig) hard;
    scharfer Kritiker severe critic;
    scharfer Protest fierce ( oder sharp oder vehement) protest;
    schärfsten Protest einlegen protest vehemently;
    scharfer Widerstand severe ( oder stiff) opposition;
    in scharfem Ton in a sharp tone
    5. (durchdringend) Ton: piercing, shrill;
    scharfer Wind biting ( oder cutting) wind;
    die Luft ist scharf there’s a nip ( oder bite) in the air
    6. (hart, stark) Gegensatz: stark;
    ein scharfer Gegner von … a sworn enemy of …;
    scharfer Kampf hard fight;
    scharfe Konkurrenz stiff competition;
    scharfe Maßnahmen strict ( oder stringent) measures;
    eine scharfe Satire über … a pungent satire on …;
    scharfe Bestrafung severe punishment;
    ein scharfer Hund an attack dog (trained to attack intruders etc); umg, fig hard taskmaster;
    sie ist eine scharfe Prüferin umg she’s a demanding ( oder tough) examiner
    7. (deutlich) sharp, clear;
    scharfe Umrisse clear ( oder sharp) outlines;
    scharfe Gesichtszüge sharp ( oder clear-cut) features;
    das Bild ist nicht ganz scharf the picture isn’t quite sharp ( oder is slightly blurred);
    eine schärfere Brille brauchen need stronger spectacles; → auch gestochen
    8. (jäh, abrupt) abrupt, sharp;
    scharfe Kurve sharp bend;
    scharfe Kurven umg, fig a sensational figure sg
    9. (schnell) fast;
    scharfer Ritt hard ride;
    scharfes Tempo fast ( oder sharp) pace;
    scharfer Schuss SPORT powerful shot
    10. umg (versessen)
    auf jemanden/etwas scharf sein be keen on (US eager about) sb/sth; stärker: be wild about sb/sth;
    ganz scharf darauf sein zu (+inf) umg be dead keen on (US wild about) (+ger), be dead keen to (US dying to) (+inf)
    11. umg (geil) besonders Br randy, horny sl;
    scharf wie Nachbars Lumpi as randy (US horny) as a dog on (US in) heat;
    scharfer Film/scharfes Buch/scharfe Wäsche sexy film/book/underwear
    12. umg (toll) great, cool;
    scharfe Klamotten/scharfes Auto auch snazzy clothes/car;
    das ist ja scharf that’s really (US real) cool
    13. LING:
    ein scharfes „S“ a German ß character
    14. Munition: live;
    mit scharfer Munition schießen shoot ( oder fire) live bullets
    B. adv
    1. sharply etc;
    scharf sehen/hören have sharp eyes/ears;
    scharf geschnitten Profil etc: clear-cut;
    scharf anbraten (fry to) seal;
    scharf bewachen keep a close guard (fig watch, eye) on;
    scharf aufpassen pay close attention, keep close watch;
    scharf ins Auge fassen fix sb with one’s eyes; fig take a close look at sb (oder sth);
    jemanden scharf anfassen müssen have to be very strict with sb;
    scharf durchgreifen take tough action (
    bei against);
    scharf ablehnen flatly reject;
    scharf verurteilen/kritisieren severely condemn/criticize;
    scharf formuliert sharply ( oder strongly)worded;
    scharf nachdenken think hard, have a good think;
    denkt mal scharf nach umg put your thinking caps on (for a minute);
    scharf schießen shoot with live ammunition;
    in der Diskussion wurde scharf geschossen fig there were some sharp exchanges during the discussion
    2.
    scharf würzen season with hot spices;
    zu scharf gewürzt too highly seasoned;
    gerne scharf essen like highly seasoned ( oder very spicy) food
    3. (genau) sharply, accurately;
    scharf einstellen FOTO focus (accurately);
    schärfer stellen Bild: make sharper; Radio: tune in better ( oder more accurately);
    mit dieser Brille sehe ich nicht scharf I can’t see clearly with these spectacles (US glasses);
    scharf blickend sharp-sighted; fig perspicacious;
    scharf umrissen sharply defined; fig clear-cut
    scharf bremsen brake hard, slam on the brakes;
    scharf anfahren make a racing start;
    ein unheimlich scharf geschossener Ball an incredibly powerful shot
    5.
    scharf nach rechts/links gehen turn sharp right/left;
    scharf rechts/links fahren dicht am Straßenrand: keep well in to the right/left, hug the right-hand/left-hand kerb (US curb); unkontrolliert: swerve ( oder veer) to the right/left; (abbiegen) turn sharp right/left;
    scharf auf ein Auto auffahren drive right up to a car’s rear bumper, besonders US tailgate a car; → schärfen
    * * *
    1.
    ; schärfer, schärfst... Adjektiv
    2) (stark gewürzt, brennend, stechend) hot; strong <drink, vinegar, etc.>; caustic < chemical>; pungent, acrid < smell>
    3) (durchdringend) shrill; (hell) harsh; biting <wind, air, etc.>; sharp < frost>
    4) (deutlich wahrnehmend) keen; sharp
    5) (deutlich hervortretend) sharp <contours, features, nose, photograph>
    6) (schonungslos) tough, fierce <resistance, competition, etc.>; sharp <criticism, remark, words, etc.>; strong, fierce <opponent, protest, etc.>; severe, harsh <sentence, law, measure, etc.>; fierce < dog>
    7) (schnell) fast; hard <ride, gallop, etc.>
    8) (explosiv) live; (Ballspiele) powerful < shot>
    9)

    das scharfe S — (bes. österr.) the German letter ‘ß’

    10) (ugs.): (geil) sexy <girl, clothes, pictures, etc.>; randy <fellow, thoughts, etc.>
    11)

    scharf auf jemanden/etwas sein — (ugs.) really fancy somebody (coll.) /be really keen on something

    2.
    1)

    scharf würzen/abschmecken — season/flavour highly

    2) (durchdringend) shrilly; (hell) harshly; (kalt) bitingly
    3) (deutlich wahrnehmend) <listen, watch, etc.> closely, intently; <think, consider, etc.> hard
    5) (schonungslos) <attack, criticize, etc.> sharply, strongly; <contradict, oppose, etc.> strongly, fiercely; <watch, observe, etc.> closely
    6) (schnell) fast

    scharf bremsen — brake hard or sharply

    7)
    * * *
    adj.
    acrid adj.
    acute adj.
    caustic adj.
    edged adj.
    hot adj.
    keen adj.
    poignant adj.
    pungent adj.
    sharp adj.
    strident adj.
    subtle adj.
    tangy adj.
    trenchant adj.
    twangy adj. adv.
    acridly adv.
    keenly adv.
    poignantly adv.
    pungently adv.
    sharply adv.
    stridently adv.
    trenchantly adv.

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  • 7 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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  • 8 cola

    f.
    1 tail.
    2 train.
    hay mucha cola there's a big o long queue o (British) line (United States)
    4 bottom.
    están a la cola del mundo civilizado en cuanto a inversiones educativas they have the worst record in the civilized world as regards investment in education
    ir a la cola del pelotón to be one of the backmarkers
    tener o traer cola (informal) to have serious consequences o repercussions
    5 glue (pegamento).
    6 cola (bebida).
    7 willy (British), peter (United States) (informal) (penis).
    8 bum (British), butt (United States) (informal) (nalgas). ( Latin American Spanish)
    9 line, row, queue, tail of a list.
    10 wallpaper paste.
    11 cauda.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: colar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: colar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) tail
    3 (fila) queue, US line
    \
    a la cola at the back, at the rear
    estar en la cola figurado to be the last
    hacer cola to queue up, US stand in line
    ponerse en la cola to get into the queue, US get in line
    traer cola familiar to have serious consequences
    cola de caballo (planta) horsetail 2 (peinado) ponytail
    vagón de cola rear coach
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    \
    no pega ni con cola familiar it doesn't match at all
    ————————
    1 (árbol) cola
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) tail
    2) line
    3) glue
    * * *
    I
    SF
    1) [de animal, avión, cometa] tail

    traer cola —

    cola de caballo — (=en el pelo) pony tail; (=planta) horsetail

    cola de milano, cola de pato — (Téc) dovetail

    cola de rata — (Pesca) fly line

    2) [de frac] tail; [de vestido] train
    3) (=hilera) queue, line (EEUU)

    ¡a la cola! — get in the queue!, get in line! (EEUU)

    hacer cola — to queue (up), line up (EEUU)

    ponerse a la cola — to join o get into the queue, join o get into the line (EEUU)

    4) (=parte final) [de manifestación] tail end, back; [de carrera] back

    el ciclista estaba en o a la cola del pelotón — the cyclist was at the back of o at the tail end of the pack

    5) * (=pene) willy *, weenie (EEUU) *
    6) Ven
    (Aut)

    pedir cola — to ask for a lift o ride (EEUU)

    7) Cono Sur * (=trasero) bum **, bottom, butt ** (EEUU); (=cóccix) coccyx
    II
    SF (=pegamento) glue, gum; [para decorar] size

    pintura a la cola — distemper; (Arte) tempera

    no pegar ni con cola —

    III
    SF
    1) (=planta) cola, kola
    2) (=bebida) cola, Coke ®
    3) And (=refresco) fizzy drink
    IV
    * SM Chile poof **, queer **
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (de un animal, pez) tail

    traer or tener cola — to have repercussions

    b) ( de vestido) train; ( de frac) tails (pl)
    c) ( de avión) tail; ( de cometa) tail
    d) (RPl fam) ( nalgas) bottom (colloq)
    e) (Esp fam) ( pene) weenie (AmE colloq), willy (BrE colloq)
    2)
    a) (fila, línea) line (AmE), queue (BrE)

    hacer cola — to line up (AmE), to queue (up) (BrE)

    a la cola! — get in line! o in the queue!

    brincarse or saltarse la cola — (Méx) to jump the line o queue

    b) (de una clasificación, carrera)

    en lo que se refiere a la investigación estamos a la cola — as far as research is concerned, we are at the bottom of the pile o the league (colloq)

    3) ( pegamento) glue

    no pegar ni con cola: esos colores no pegan ni con cola those colors just don't go together; aquí no pega ni con cola — it just doesn't look right here (colloq)

    4) ( bebida) Coke®, cola
    5) (Ven) (Auto)
    II
    masculino (Chi fam & pey) fag (AmE colloq & pej), poof (BrE colloq & pej)
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (de un animal, pez) tail

    traer or tener cola — to have repercussions

    b) ( de vestido) train; ( de frac) tails (pl)
    c) ( de avión) tail; ( de cometa) tail
    d) (RPl fam) ( nalgas) bottom (colloq)
    e) (Esp fam) ( pene) weenie (AmE colloq), willy (BrE colloq)
    2)
    a) (fila, línea) line (AmE), queue (BrE)

    hacer cola — to line up (AmE), to queue (up) (BrE)

    a la cola! — get in line! o in the queue!

    brincarse or saltarse la cola — (Méx) to jump the line o queue

    b) (de una clasificación, carrera)

    en lo que se refiere a la investigación estamos a la cola — as far as research is concerned, we are at the bottom of the pile o the league (colloq)

    3) ( pegamento) glue

    no pegar ni con cola: esos colores no pegan ni con cola those colors just don't go together; aquí no pega ni con cola — it just doesn't look right here (colloq)

    4) ( bebida) Coke®, cola
    5) (Ven) (Auto)
    II
    masculino (Chi fam & pey) fag (AmE colloq & pej), poof (BrE colloq & pej)
    * * *
    cola1
    1 = tail, train.

    Ex: At first he tried self-treatment by rubbing it with the tail of a cat, but eventually gave in and consulted a local physician.

    Ex: This floor-length wedding dress is made of fine apple green taffeta, high waisted, with a small train, and the bodice lined with coarse white linen.
    * ciervo de cola blanca = white-tailed deer.
    * cola de caballo = ponytail, pigtails.
    * cola de discos = disc queue.
    * cola de documentos reservados y disponibles = held-document-available queue.
    * cola de espera = queue.
    * cola de impresión = print queue.
    * cola de los rezagados, la = trailing edge, the.
    * cola de reclamaciones = recall queue.
    * cola de tráfico = tailback.
    * con cola = caudate.
    * con cola espesa = bushy-tailed.
    * con cola tupida = bushy-tailed.
    * formar una cola = form + queue.
    * gestor de colas de impresión = print spooler.
    * hacer cola = queue up.
    * piano de cola = grand piano.
    * poner en cola = queue.
    * poner en cola de espera = place + in queue.
    * ponerse en cola = queue up, line up.
    * procesar una cola de espera = clear + queue.
    * sin cola = ecaudate.
    * viento de cola = tailwind.

    cola2
    2 = size, adhesive, glue.

    Ex: The sheets of paper were dipped by handfuls into hot size, a solution of animal gelatine made from vellum or leather shavings boiled in water, to make them relatively impermeable.

    Ex: A covering material of fast, even colour, was eventually produced that was impervious to the adhesive with which it was stuck to the boards.
    Ex: The solution was found to be a composition of glue and treacle which could be cast at first on to a cloth backing and later directly on to the roller stock.
    * cola de alumbre = alum sizing.
    * cola de colofonia = rosin size.
    * cola de piel de conejo = rabbit-skin glue.
    * encuadernación en cola = perfect binding, adhesive binding.
    * no pegar ni con cola = stick out like + a sore thumb.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de un animal, pez) tail
    traer or tener cola: este asunto va a traer cola this is going to have repercussions
    no lo van a olvidar, te aseguro que esto va a traer cola they aren't going to forget it easily, I'll bet we haven't heard the last of it yet
    el que tiene cola de zacate no puede jugar con lumbre (AmC, Méx); people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
    2 (de un vestido) train; (de un frac) tails (pl)
    4 ( AmL fam) (nalgas) bottom ( colloq), behind ( BrE colloq), backside ( BrE)
    5 ( Esp fam) (pene) thing ( colloq), weenie ( AmE colloq), willy ( BrE colloq)
    6 ( Chi fam) (cóccix) tail bone ( colloq); (zona) lower back
    7 ( Chi fam) (de un cigarrillo) cigarette butt, butt, cigarette o ( BrE colloq) fag end
    Compuestos:
    ponytail
    dovetail, dovetail joint
    ( Chi) rum punch with milk, coffee and vanilla vagón, paja2 (↑ paja (2))
    B
    1 (fila, línea) line ( AmE), queue ( BrE)
    podemos esperar, no hay mucha cola we could wait, there isn't much of a line o queue
    tuvimos que hacer cola durante dos horas we had to wait in line o we had to queue for two hours
    ¡a la cola! get in line!, get in the queue!
    pónganse a la cola por favor please join the (end of the) line o queue
    brincarse or saltarse la cola ( Méx); to push in ( colloq), to cut the line ( AmE), to jump the queue ( BrE)
    2
    (de una clasificación, carrera): un partido entre dos equipos en la cola a game between two bottom-of-the-league teams o two teams at the bottom of the division
    en lo que se refiere a la investigación científica estamos a la cola as far as scientific research is concerned, we are at the bottom of the pile o the league ( colloq)
    a la cola del pelotón at the tail end of the group
    C (pegamento — para papeles) glue, gum; (— para madera) glue
    no pegar ni con cola: esa falda y esa blusa quedan fatal, no pegan ni con cola that skirt and blouse look terrible, they just don't go together
    esos cuadros aquí no pegan ni con cola those paintings just don't look right o ( colloq) don't go in here
    Compuestos:
    wood glue o adhesive
    ● cola de contacto/impacto
    contact/impact adhesive
    fish glue, isinglass ( tech)
    D (bebida) Coke®, cola
    refresco de cola cola drink
    E
    ( Ven) ( Auto): pedir cola to hitchhike
    ¿me puedes dar la cola? can you give me a lift o a ride?
    fag ( AmE colloq pej), poof ( BrE colloq pej)
    * * *

     

    cola sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (Zool) tail;



    ( de frac) tails (pl)
    c) (de avión, cometa) tail

    d) (RPl fam) ( nalgas) bottom (colloq)

    2 ( fila) line (AmE), queue (BrE);
    ◊ hacer cola to line up (AmE), to queue (up) (BrE);

    pónganse a la cola por favor please join the (end of the) line o queue;
    brincarse la cola (Méx) to jump the line o queue;
    a la cola del pelotón at the tail end of the group
    3


    b) ( bebida) Coke®, cola

    4 (Ven) (Auto):

    darle la cola a algn to give sb a lift o a ride
    cola 1 sustantivo femenino
    1 (de animal, de un avión) tail
    2 (peinado) ponytail
    3 (de un vestido) train
    4 (fila) queue, US line: hicimos cola durante una hora, we were queuing for an hour
    5 (final) bottom, a la cola, at the back o rear
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar traer cola, to have consequences
    cola 2 sustantivo femenino (pegamento) glue
    ' cola' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    calimocho
    - coleta
    - piano
    - prensil
    - su
    - turno
    - vagón
    - vez
    - colar
    - coletazo
    - formar
    - interminable
    - kilométrico
    - mover
    - pegado
    - pegar
    - peludo
    - recoger
    - unir
    - viento
    English:
    catch 22
    - Coke
    - fizz
    - flick
    - formula
    - glue
    - grand
    - grand piano
    - join
    - line
    - line up
    - paste
    - ponytail
    - pop-top
    - queue
    - stick
    - stick together
    - superglue
    - swish
    - tail
    - ticket
    - tie on
    - train
    - whisk
    - brush
    - caboose
    - day
    - diet
    - guard
    - hitch
    - pony
    - wear
    * * *
    cola nf
    1. [de mamífero, pez] tail
    2. [de ave] tail
    3. [de avión, cometa] tail;
    Bol, RP
    tener cola de paja to be feeling guilty
    4. [de vestido de novia] train
    5. [parte final] [de clase, lista] bottom;
    [de desfile] end;
    el país está a la cola del mundo civilizado en cuanto a inversiones educativas the country has the worst record in the civilized world as regards investment in education;
    ir a la cola del pelotón to be one of the backmarkers
    6. [fila] Br queue, US line;
    hay mucha cola there's a long Br queue o US line;
    hacer o [m5] guardar cola Br to queue (up), US to stand in line;
    saltarse la cola Br to jump the queue, US to cut in line;
    llegué el último y me tuve que poner a la cola I was the last to arrive, so I had to join the end of the Br queue o US line;
    ¡a la cola! go to the back of the Br queue o US line!
    Informát cola de impresión print queue
    7. [pegamento] glue;
    Fam
    no pegar ni con cola: esa chaqueta y esos pantalones no pegan ni con cola that jacket and those trousers clash horribly;
    esos pantalones no pegan ni con cola en una fiesta tan formal those trousers are totally inappropriate for such a formal do
    cola de pescado fish glue
    8. Fam [consecuencias]
    tener o [m5] traer cola to have serious consequences o repercussions;
    sus declaraciones tendrán o [m5] traerán cola his statement won't be the end of it o won't be the last we hear of it;
    RP
    comer cola to suffer a setback
    9. [peinado]
    10. [árbol]cola tree
    11. [sustancia excitante] cola;
    una bebida de cola a cola drink
    12. Fam [pene] Br willy, US peter
    13. cola de caballo [planta] horse-tail
    14. cola de milano [en carpintería] dovetail;
    ensamblar a o [m5] con cola de milano to dovetail
    15. Am Fam [nalgas] Br bum, US fanny
    16. Arg [de película] trailer
    17. Ven [autoestop]
    dar la cola a alguien to give sb a lift;
    pedir cola to hitchhike
    * * *
    1 f ( pegamento) glue
    2 f
    1 AVIA, de animal tail;
    traer cola have repercussions;
    estar a la cola be in last place
    2 de gente line, Br
    queue;
    hacer cola stand in line, Br queue (up)
    3 L.Am. fam
    de persona butt fam, Br
    bum fam
    3 f BOT cola, kola;
    nuez de cola cola nut, kola nut
    * * *
    cola nf
    1) rabo: tail
    cola de caballo: ponytail
    2) fila: line (of people)
    hacer cola: to wait in line
    3) : cola, drink
    4) : train (of a dress)
    5) : tails pl (of a tuxedo)
    6) pegamento: glue
    7) fam : buttocks pl, rear end
    * * *
    cola n
    1. (de animal) tail
    2. (fila) queue
    3. (pegamento) glue
    4. (de tren) rear
    5. (de vestido) train

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  • 9 हस्तः _hastḥ

    हस्तः [हस्-तन् न इट् Uṇ.3.86]
    1 The hand; हस्तं गत 'fallen in the hand or possession of'; गौतमीहस्ते विसर्जयि- ष्यामि Ś.3 'I shall send it by Gautamī'; so हस्ते पतिता; हस्तसंनिहितां कुरु &c.; शंभुना दत्तहस्ता Me.62 'leaning on Śam- bhu's hand'; हस्ते-कृ
    1 (हस्तेकृत्य-कृत्वा) 'to take or seize by the hand, take hold of the hand, take in hand, take possession of'; Prov.:--हस्तकङ्कणं किं दर्पणे प्रेक्ष्यते Karpūr. 'sight requires no mirror'.
    -2 The truck of an elephant; Ku.1.36; अथवा हस्तिहस्तचञ्चलानि पुरुषभाग्यानि भवन्ति Avimārakam 2.
    -3 N. of the 13th lunar mansion consisting of five stars.
    -4 The fore-arm, cu- bit, a measure of length (equal to 24 aṅgulas or about 18 inches, being the distance between the elbow and the tip of the middle finger).
    -5 Hand-writing, signa- ture; धनी वोपगतं दद्यात् स्वहस्तपरिचिह्नितम् Y.1.319; स्वहस्त- कालसंपन्नं शासनम् 1.32 'bearing date and signature'; धार्यतामयं प्रियायाः स्वहस्तः V.2 'the autograph of my beloved'; 2.2.
    -6 (Hence fig.) Proof, in- dication; Mu.3.
    -7 Help, assistance, support; वात्या खेदं कृशाङ्ग्याः सुचिरमवयवैर्दत्तहस्ता करोति Ve.2.21.
    -8 A mass, quantity, abundance (of hair), in comp. with केश, कच &c.; पाशः पक्षश्च हस्तश्च कलापार्थाः कचात् Ak.; रतिविगलितबन्धे केशहस्ते सुकेश्याः सति कुसुमसनाथे किं करोत्यषे वहीं V.4.22.
    -स्तम् 1 A pair of leather-bellows.
    -2 Skill (in using the hand); कलासु कौशलमक्षभूमिहस्तादिषु Dk. 2.2.
    -Comp. -अक्षरम् one's own hand or signature, one's own sign-manual.
    -अग्रम् the finger (being the extremity of the hand).
    -अङ्गुलिः f. any finger of the hand.
    -अभ्यासः contact with the hand.
    -अवलम्बः, आलम्बनम् support of the hand; दत्तहस्तावलम्बे प्रारम्भे Ratn.1.8 'being aided or helped on'.
    -आमलकम् 'the fruit of the myrobalan held in the hand', a phrase used to denote that which can be clearly and easily seen or understood; cf. करतलामलकफलवदखिलं जगदालोकयताम् K.43.
    -आवापः 1 a finger-guard (ज्याघातवारणम्); V.5; Ś.6.
    -2 a hand-fetter; व्यालकुञ्जरदुर्गेषु सर्पचोरभयेषु च । हस्तावापेन गच्छन्ति नास्तिकाः किमतः परम् ॥ Mb.12.181.5.
    -कमलम् 1 a lotus carried in the hand.
    -2 a lotus-like hand.
    -कौशलम् manual dexterity.
    -क्रिया manual work or performance, handicraft.
    -गत, -गामिन् a. come to hand, fallen into one's possession, obtained, secured; त्वं प्रार्थ्यसे हस्तगता ममैभिः R.7.67;8.1.
    -ग्राहः taking by the hand.
    -चापल्यम् = हस्तकौशलम् q. v.
    -तलम् 1 the palm of the hand.
    -2 the tip of an ele- phant's trunk.
    -तालः striking the palms together, clap- ping the hands.
    -तुला 'hand-balance', weighing in the hand; हस्ततुलयापि निपुणाः पलप्रमाणं विजानन्ति Pt.2.83.
    -दक्षिण a.
    1 situated on the right hand.
    -2 Right, correct.
    -दोषः a slip of the hand.
    -धारणम्, -वारणम् warding off a blow (with the hand).
    -पादम् the hands and feet; न मे हस्तपादं प्रसरति Ś.4.
    -पुच्छम् the hand below the wrist.
    -पृष्ठम् the back of the hand.
    -प्रद a. sup- porting, helping.
    -प्राप्त, -वर्तिन्, -स्थ, -स्थित a.
    1 held in the hand.
    -2 gained, secured.
    -प्राप्य a. easily accessible to the hand; that can be reached with the hand; हस्तप्राप्यस्तबकनमितो बालमन्दारवृक्षः Me.77.
    -बिम्बम् perfuming the body with unguents.
    -भ्रष्ट a. escaped.
    -मणिः a jewel worn on the wrist.
    -रोधम् ind. in the hands; हस्तरोधं दधद् धनुः Bk.5.32.
    -लाघवम् 1 manual readiness or skill.
    -2 a sleight of the hand, legerdemain.
    -लेखः Sketching practice before producing an object of art, hand-drawing; अस्यैव सर्गाय भवत्करस्य सरोजसृष्टिर्मम हस्तलेखः N.7.72; हस्तलेखमसृजत् खलु जन्मस्थानरेणुकमसौ भवदर्थम् ibid.21.69.
    -वापः = हस्तक्षेपः shooting (arrows) with the hand; यस्यैकषष्टिर्निशितास्तीक्ष्णधाराः सुवाससः संमतो हस्तवापः Mb. 5.23.22.
    -वाम a. situated on the left (or wrong) hand.
    -विन्यासः position of the hands.
    -संवाहनम् rub- bing or shampooing with the hands; संभोगान्ते मम समुचितो हस्तसंवाहनानां यास्यत्युरुः सरसकदलीगर्भगौरश्चलत्वम् Me.98.
    -सिद्धिः f.
    1 manual labour, doing with the hands.
    -2 hire, wages.
    -सूत्रम् a bracelet or thread-string worn on the wrist; धात्र्यङ्गुलीभिः प्रतिसार्यमाणमूर्णामयं कौतुकहस्त- सूत्रम् Ku.7.25.
    -स्वस्तिकः crossing the hands; स्तनविनि- हितहस्तस्वस्तिकाभिर्वधूभिः Māl.4.1.
    -हार्य a. manifest.

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  • 10 पादः _pādḥ

    पादः [पद्यते गम्यते$नेन करणे कर्मणि वा घञ्]
    1 The foot (whether of men or animals); तयोर्जगृहतुः पादान् R.1.57; पादयोर्निपत्य, पादपतित &c. (The word पाद at the end of comp. is changed to पाद् after सु and numerals; i. e. सुपाद्, द्विपाद्, त्रिपाद् &c.; and also when the first member is used as a standard of comparison, but is a word other than हस्ति &c.; see P.V.4.138-14; e. g. व्याघ्रपाद्. The nom. pl. of पाद is often added to names of persons or titles of address to show great respect or veneration; मृष्यन्तु लवस्य बालिशतां तातपादाः U.6; जीवत्सु तातपादेषु 1.19; देवपादानां नास्माभिः प्रयोजनम् Pt.1; so एवमाराध्यपादा आज्ञापयन्ति Prab.1; so कुमारिलपादाः &c.
    -2 A ray of light; बालस्यापि रवेः पादाः पतन्त्युपरि भूभृताम् Pt.1.328; Śi.9.34; R.16.53 (where the word has sense 1 also).
    -3 The foot or leg of an inanimate object, as of a bed-stead; चतुष्पदी हि निःश्रेणी ब्रह्मण्येव प्रतिष्ठिता Mb.12.2.4.
    -4 The foot or root of a tree; as in पादप.
    -5 The foot of a mountain, a hill at the foot of a mountain (पादाः प्रत्यन्तपर्वताः); रेवां द्रक्ष्यस्युपलविषमे विन्ध्यपादे विशीर्णाम् Me.19; Ś.6.17.
    -6 A quarter, fourth part; as in सपादो रूपकः 'one and one fourth rupee'; Ms.8.241; Y.2.174; कार्षापणे दीयमाने पादो$पि दत्तो भवति ŚB. on MS.6.7.2.
    -7 The fourth part of a stanza, a line.
    -8 The fourth part of a chap- ter or book, as of the Adhyāyas of Pāṇini, or of the Brahma-sūtras.
    -9 A part in general.
    -1 A column, pillar; सहस्रपादं प्रासादं......अधिरोहन्मया दृष्टः Mb.5.143.3.
    -11 A foot as a measure equal to twelve Aṅgulis.
    -12 The quadrant of a circle.
    -13 The foot-hole or bottom of a water-skin; इन्द्रियाणां तु सर्वेषां यद्येकं क्षरतीन्द्रियम् । तेनास्य क्षरति प्रज्ञा दृतेः पादादिवोदकम् ॥ Ms.2.99.
    -14 A wheel; गिरिकूबरपादाक्षं शुभवेणु त्रिवेणुमत् Mb.3.175.4; Ki.12 21.
    -15 A golden coin (weighing one tola); स ह गवां सहस्रमव- रुरोध दश दश पादा एकैकस्याः शृङ्गयोराबद्धा बभुवुः Bṛi. Up.3.1.1.
    -Comp. -अग्रम् the point or extremity of the foot; पादाग्रस्थितया मुहुः स्तनभरेणानीतया नम्रताम् Ratn.1.1.
    -अङ्कः a foot-mark.
    -अङ्गदम्, -दी an ornament for the foot, an anklet.
    -अङ्गुलिः, -ली f. a toe.
    -अङ्गुष्ठः the great toe.
    -अङ्गुष्ठिका a ring worn on the great toe.
    -अन्तः the point or extremity of the feet.
    -अन्तरम् the interval of a step, distance of a foot. (
    -रे) ind.
    1 after the interval of a step.
    -2 close or near to.
    -अन्तिकम् ind. near to, towards any one.
    -अम्बु n. butter-milk containing a fourth part of water.
    -अम्भस् n. water in which the feet (of revered persons) have been washed.
    -अरविन्दम्, -कमलम्, -पङ्कजम्, -पद्मम् a lotus-like foot.
    -अर्घ्यम् a gift to a Brāhmāṇa or a venerable person.
    -अर्धम् 1 half a quarter, an eighth; पादं पशुश्च योषिच्च पादार्धं रिक्तकः पुमान् Ms.8.44.
    -2 half a line of a stanza.
    -अलिन्दी a boat.
    -अवनामः bowing to a person's feet; इति कृतवचनायाः कश्चिदभ्येत्य बिभ्यद्गलितनयनवारेर्याति पादावनामम् Śi.11.35.
    -अवनेजः washing another's feet; विभ्व्यस्तवा- मृतकथोदवहास्त्रिलोक्याः पादावनेजसरितः शमलानि हन्तुम् Bhāg. 11.6.19.
    -अवसेचनम् 1 washing the feet.
    -2 the water used for washing the feet; दूरात् पादावसेचनम् Ms. 4.151.
    -अष्ठीलः the ankle; मर्मस्वभ्यवधीत् क्रुद्धः पादाष्ठालैः सुदारुणैः Mb.1.8.24.
    -आघातः a kick.
    - आनत a. prostrate, fallen at the feet of; कयासि कामिन् सुरतापराधात् पादानतः कोपनयावधूतः Ku.3.8.
    -आवर्तः 1 a wheel worked by the feet for raising up water from a well.
    -2 a square foot.
    -आसनम् a foot-stool.
    -आस्फालनम् tram- pling or motion of the feet, floundering.
    -आहतः a. kicked.
    -आहति f.
    1 treading or trampling.
    -2 a kick.
    -उदकम्, -जलम् 1 water for washing the feet.
    -2 water in which the feet of sacred and revered persons are washed, and which is thus considered holy; विष्णु- पादोदकं तीर्थं जठरे धारयाम्यहम्.
    -उदरः a serpent; यथा पादो- दरस्त्वचा विनिर्मुच्यते Praśna. Up.5.5.
    -उद्धूतम् stamping the feet.
    -कटकः, -कम्, -कीलिका an anklet.
    -कृच्छ्रम् a vow in which taking of meals and observing a fast are done on alternate days; Y.
    -क्षेपः 1 a foot- step.
    -2 a kick with the foot.
    -गण्डीरः a morbid swel- ling of the legs and feet.
    -ग्रन्थिः the ankle.
    -ग्रहणम् seizing or clasping the feet (as a mark of respectful salutation); अकारयत् कारयितव्यदक्षा क्रमेण पादग्रहणं सतीनाम् Ku.7.27.
    -चतुरः, -चत्वरः 1 a slanderer.
    -2 a goat.
    -3 the fig-tree.
    -4 a sand-bank.
    -5 hail.
    -चापल्यम् shuffling of the feet.
    -चारः going on foot, walking; यदि च विहरेत् पादचारेण गौरी Me.62 'if Gaurī should walk on foot'; R.11.1
    -2 the daily position of the planets.
    -चारिन् a.
    1 walking or going on foot.
    -2 fighting on foot. (-m.)
    1 a pedestrian.
    -2 a foot-soldier.
    -च्छेदनम् cutting off a foot; पादेन प्रहरन् कोपात् पादच्छेदन- मर्हति Ms.8.28.
    -जः a sūdra; पादजोच्छिष्टकांस्यं यत्...... विशुद्धेद् दशभिस्तु तत् Mb.12.35.31.
    -जलम् 1 butter-milk mixed with one fourth of water.
    -2 water for the feet.
    -जाहम् the tarsus.
    -तलम् the sole of the foot.
    -त्रः, -त्रा, -त्राणम् a boot or shoe.
    -दारी, -दारिका a chap in the feet, chilblain.
    -दाहः a burning sensation in the feet.
    -धावनिका sand used for rubbing the feet.
    -नालिका an anklet.
    -निकेतः a foot-stool.
    -न्यासः move- ment of the feet; पादन्यासो लयमनुगतः M.2.9.
    -पः 1 a tree; निरस्तपादपे देशे एरण्डो$पि द्रुमायते H.1.67; अनुभवति हि मूर्ध्ना पादपस्तीव्रमुष्णम् Ś.5.7.
    -2 a foot-stool. (
    -पा) a shoe. ˚खण्डः, -ण्डम् a grove of trees. ˚रुहा a climbing plant.
    -पद्धतिः f. a track.
    -परिचारकः a humble servant.
    -पालिका an anklet.
    -पाशः 1 a foot-rope for cattle.
    -2 an anklet of small bells &c.
    (-शिकः, -शी) 1 a fetter; हस्तिपक-पादपाशिक-सैमिक-वनचर-पारिकर्मिकसखः Kau. A.
    -2 a mat.
    -3 a creeper.
    -पीठः, -ठम् a foot-stool; चूडामणिभि- रुद्घृष्टपादपीठं महीक्षिताम् R.17.28; Ku.3.11.
    -पीठिका 1 a vulgar trade (as that of a barber).
    -2 white stone.
    -पूरणम् 1 filling out a line; P.VI.1.134.
    -2 an ex- pletive; तु पादपूरणे भेदे समुच्चये$वधारणे Viśva.
    -प्रक्षालनम् washing the feet; पादप्रक्षालने वज्री Subhāṣ.
    -प्रणामः prostration (at the feet).
    -प्रतिष्ठानम् a foot-stool.
    -प्रधारणम् a shoe.
    -प्रसारणम् stretching out the feet.
    -प्रहारः a kick.
    -बद्ध a. consisting of verses (as a metre).
    -बन्धनम् 1 a chain, fetter.
    -2 a stock of cattle.
    -भटः a foot soldier.
    -भागः a quarter.
    -मुद्रा a footprint. ˚पङ्क्तिः a track, trail.
    -मूलम् 1 the tarsus.
    -2 the sole of the foot.
    -3 the heel.
    -4 the foot of a mountain.
    -5 a polite way of speaking of a person; देवपादमूलमागताहम् K.8.
    -यमकः paronomasia within the Pādas.
    -रक्षः 1 a shoe.
    -2 a foot-guard; (pl.) armed men protecting the feet of an elephant in battle; शिरांसि पादरक्षाणां बीजवत् प्रवपन् मुहुः Mb.3.271.1.
    -रक्षणम् 1 a cover for the feet.
    -2 a leather boot or shoe.
    -रजस् n. the dust of the feet.
    -रज्जुः f. a tether for the foot of an elephant.
    -रथी a shoe, boot.
    -रोहः, -रोहणः the (Indian) fig-tree.
    -लग्नः a. lying at a person's feet.
    -लेपः an unguent for the feet.
    -वन्दनम् saluting the feet.
    -वल्मीकः elephantiasis.
    -विरजस् f. a shoe, boot. (-m.) a god.
    -वेष्टनिकः, -कम् a stocking.
    -शाखा a toe.
    -शैलः a hill at the foot of a mountain.
    -शोथः swelling of the foot; अन्योन्योपद्रवकृतः शोथः पादसमुत्थितः । पुरुषं हन्ति नारीं तु मुखजो गुह्यजो ह्ययम् ॥ Mādhava.
    -शौचम् cleaning the feet by washing, washing the feet; पादशौचेन गोविन्दः (तृप्तः) Pt.1.172.
    -संहिता the junction of words in a quarter of a stanza.
    -सेवनम्, -सेवा 1 showing respect by touching the feet.
    -2 service.
    -स्तम्भः a supporting beam, pillar, post.
    -स्फोटः 'cracking of the feet', chilblain.
    -हत a. kicked.
    -हर्षः numbness of the feet after pressure upon the crural nerves; हृष्यतः चरणौ यस्य भवतश्च प्रसुप्तवत् । पादहर्षः सः विज्ञेयः कफवातप्रकोपजः ॥ Suśruta.
    -हीनजलम् Water with a portion boiled,
    -हीनात् ind.
    1 without division or transition
    -2 all at once.

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