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  • 1 medical

    'medikəl
    1. adjective
    (of healing, medicine or doctors: medical care; medical insurance.) clínico

    2. noun
    (a medical examination.) médico
    medical1 adj médico / clínico
    medical2 n revisión médica / examen médico
    tr['medɪkəl]
    1 (treatment, care, examination) médico,-a; (book, student) de medicina
    1 familiar (check-up) chequeo, reconocimiento médico, revisión nombre femenino médica
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    medical school (univ) facultad nombre femenino de medicina
    the medical profession la profesión nombre femenino médica, los médicos nombre masculino plural
    medical ['mɛdɪkəl] adj
    : médico
    adj.
    de medicina adj.
    facultativo, -a adj.
    medicinal adj.
    médico, -a adj.

    I 'medɪkəl
    adjective <care/examination/insurance> médico; < student> de medicina; < case> clínico

    medical history — ( of patient) historial m médico or clínico, historia f clínica (AmL)

    the medical profession — los médicos, la profesión médica, el cuerpo médico

    medical schoolfacultad f de medicina


    II
    noun revisión f médica, examen m médico
    ['medɪkǝl]
    1.
    ADJ [care, facilities, staff, treatment] médico; [records] médico, clínico; [student] de medicina; [problems] de salud

    to seek medical adviceconsultar a un médico

    he is in urgent need of medical attentionnecesita atención médica urgente

    she suffered from a rare medical conditionsufría una enfermedad rara or poco frecuente

    on medical groundspor razones de salud

    the medical history of a patient — el historial médico or clínico de un paciente, la historia clínica de un paciente

    medical opinion is divided on the subject — la opinión médica está dividida con respecto a este tema

    the medical professionla profesión médica

    2.
    N reconocimiento m médico, revisión f médica, examen m médico

    to have a medical — someterse a un reconocimiento médico or a un examen médico or a una revisión médica

    3.
    CPD

    medical board N — (Mil) consejo m de médicos

    medical ethics Nética f médica

    medical examination Nreconocimiento m médico, revisión f médica, examen m médico

    medical examiner N(US) médico(-a) m / f forense

    medical insurance Nseguro m médico

    medical officer Nmédico(-a) m / f ; (Mil) oficial mf médico(-a); [of town] jefe mf de sanidad municipal

    medical practice N(=practice of medicine) práctica f de la medicina; (=place) consultorio m médico

    medical practitioner Nfrm médico(-a) m / f

    the Medical Research Council — organismo británico dedicado a la investigación médica

    medical school Nfacultad f de medicina

    medical science Nmedicina f, ciencia f médica

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    I ['medɪkəl]
    adjective <care/examination/insurance> médico; < student> de medicina; < case> clínico

    medical history — ( of patient) historial m médico or clínico, historia f clínica (AmL)

    the medical profession — los médicos, la profesión médica, el cuerpo médico

    medical schoolfacultad f de medicina


    II
    noun revisión f médica, examen m médico

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  • 2 Davy, Sir Humphry

    [br]
    b. 17 December 1778 Penzance, Cornwall, England
    d. 29 May 1829 Geneva, Switzerland
    [br]
    English chemist, discoverer of the alkali and alkaline earth metals and the halogens, inventor of the miner's safety lamp.
    [br]
    Educated at the Latin School at Penzance and from 1792 at Truro Grammar School, Davy was apprenticed to a surgeon in Penzance. In 1797 he began to teach himself chemistry by reading, among other works, Lavoisier's elementary treatise on chemistry. In 1798 Dr Thomas Beddoes of Bristol engaged him as assistant in setting up his Pneumatic Institution to pioneer the medical application of the newly discovered gases, especially oxygen.
    In 1799 he discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide, discovered not long before by the chemist Joseph Priestley. He also noted its intoxicating qualities, on account of which it was dubbed "laughing-gas". Two years later Count Rumford, founder of the Royal Institution in 1800, appointed Davy Assistant Lecturer, and the following year Professor. His lecturing ability soon began to attract large audiences, making science both popular and fashionable.
    Davy was stimulated by Volta's invention of the voltaic pile, or electric battery, to construct one for himself in 1800. That enabled him to embark on the researches into electrochemistry by which is chiefly known. In 1807 he tried decomposing caustic soda and caustic potash, hitherto regarded as elements, by electrolysis and obtained the metals sodium and potassium. He went on to discover the metals barium, strontium, calcium and magnesium by the same means. Next, he turned his attention to chlorine, which was then regarded as an oxide in accordance with Lavoisier's theory that oxygen was the essential component of acids; Davy failed to decompose it, however, even with the aid of electricity and concluded that it was an element, thus disproving Lavoisier's view of the nature of acids. In 1812 Davy published his Elements of Chemical Philosophy, in which he presented his chemical ideas without, however, committing himself to the atomic theory, recently advanced by John Dalton.
    In 1813 Davy engaged Faraday as Assistant, perhaps his greatest service to science. In April 1815 Davy was asked to assist in the development of a miner's lamp which could be safely used in a firedamp (methane) laden atmosphere. The "Davy lamp", which emerged in January 1816, had its flame completely surrounded by a fine wire mesh; George Stephenson's lamp, based on a similar principle, had been introduced into the Northumberland pits several months earlier, and a bitter controversy as to priority of invention ensued, but it was Davy who was awarded the prize for inventing a successful safety lamp.
    In 1824 Davy was the first to suggest the possibility of conferring cathodic protection to the copper bottoms of naval vessels by the use of sacrificial electrodes. Zinc and iron were found to be equally effective in inhibiting corrosion, although the scheme was later abandoned when it was found that ships protected in this way were rapidly fouled by weeds and barnacles.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1812. FRS 1803; President, Royal Society 1820. Royal Society Copley Medal 1805.
    Bibliography
    1812, Elements of Chemical Philosophy.
    1839–40, The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, 9 vols, ed. John Davy, London.
    Further Reading
    J.Davy, 1836, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). J.A.Paris, 1831, The Life of Sir Humphry Davy, London (a classic biography). H.Hartley, 1967, Humphry Davy, London (a more recent biography).
    J.Z.Fullmer, 1969, Cambridge, Mass, (a bibliography of Davy's works).
    ASD

    Biographical history of technology > Davy, Sir Humphry

  • 3 follow

    V
    1. अनुसरण करना/अनुकरण करना
    One should follow the precedents set by the peers.
    She follows the same way of life as her parents.
    2. पीछे\followजाना
    To reach the city you have to follow markers on this road.
    Before entering the city, the road follows along the sea.
    3. पीछा करना
    He is so infatuated that he follows her everywhere.
    4. आज्ञा मानना
    In the office you should follow what the boss says.
    5. अनुगमन करना
    She is following the medical profession.
    6. समझना
    You should try to follow the instructions of the teacher.
    He tried his best to follow the instructions, but failed.
    Do try to follow how I am playing the instrument.
    7. ध्यान से सुनना
    He sat following every word of the leader's speech.
    8. वर्णन करना
    The story of this film follows the life of the saint.
    9. घटित होना
    A dispute between us is likely to follow due to the false propaganda created by him.
    10. अर्थ निकलना
    If rains are good it does not automatically follow that the crop will be better than previous years.

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  • 4 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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    kɛə
    1. сущ.
    1) забота;
    уход (медицинский) to entrust smb. to smb.'s care, to put smb. in smb.'s care ≈ доверить кого-л. чьим-л. заботам to provide care for smb.≈ обеспечивать уход за кем-л. to take care of smb. ≈ смотреть за кем-л., заботиться о ком-л. child care, infant care ≈ забота о детях;
    уход за детьми care of motherhood and childhoodохрана материнства и детства day care for children ≈ ежедневная забота о детях (tender) loving care ≈ нежная забота long-term care ≈ длительное лечение parental care ≈ родительская забота special care ≈ особый уход This patient requires intensive care. ≈ Этому пациенту необходимо интенсивное медицинское лечение. Have a care!, Take care! ≈ Береги(те) сь! She took care to avoid catching cold. ≈ Она позаботилась о том, чтобы не простыть. into care in care of under the care Syn: solicitude
    2) внимание, осторожность;
    тщательность, щепетильность great, meticulous, painstaking, scrupulous, utmost care ≈ крайняя осторожность The work needs great care. ≈ Работа требует особой тщательности. Take care that you don't get involved. ≈ Постарайся не вляпаться.
    3) тревога;
    проблемы Lean back in a hot bath and forget all the cares of the day. ≈ Прими горячую ванну и забудь все неприятности этого дня. ∙ c/o (читается care of) ≈ через;
    по адресу Mr White c/o Mr Jonesг-ну Джоунзу для передачи г-ну Уайту
    2. гл.
    1) заботиться( for, of, about) ;
    беспокоиться, тревожиться( for) The children are well cared for. ≈ За детьми прекрасный уход. He cares only for himself. ≈ Он только о себе и думает. Syn: worry, look after
    2) проявлять интерес, испытывать любовь/привязанность (for)
    3) иметь желание (to) ∙ care about care for I don't care a straw( damn, button, brass farthing, fig, feather, whoop) ≈ мне безразлично, наплевать I don't care if I do разг. ≈ я не прочь;
    ничего не имею против забота, попечение - * of public health общественное здравоохранение - in * на воспитании - in * of smb. на чьем-л. попечении - the baby was left in Mari's * ребенок остался под присмотром /на попечении/ Мери - the child was returned to its mother's * ребенок был возвращен матери (из больницы, от опекунов и т. п.) - I will leave this to your * оставляю это вам на хранение /на попечение/;
    поручаю это вам, передаю под вашу ответственность - the library is under the * of Mr. Green г-н Грин заведует библиотекой - to take * of smb. заботиться о ком-л.;
    приютить /пригреть/ кого-л.;
    обеспечить кого-л. - to take * of veterans обеспечить ветеранов (войны) - their children are taken into * их дети переданы на воспитание в чужие семьи - the financing of the enterprise has been taken * of by the bank финансирование этого предприятия взял на себя банк - don't worry, I'll take * of it не беспокойтесь, я приму нужные меры /я это возьму на себя/ (эвфмеизм) расправиться /разделаться/ с кем-л. - I'll take * of him предоставьте его мне, я с ним справлюсь - a formidable foe to take * of грозный враг, которого непросто одолеть - to take * about smb. заботиться о ком-л.;
    приютить /пригреть/ кого-л.;
    обеспечить кого-л. наблюдение( врача и т. п.) ;
    обслуживание( больного и т. п.) ;
    уход (тж. за машиной) - under the * of a physician под наблюдением врача - you'll have the best * of this hospital в этой больнице вы получите самое лучшее лечение и уход внимательность, тщательность;
    осторожность - you should give more * to your work надо более внимательно /вдумчиво/ относиться к работе - to be handled with *! обращаться осторожно! - take *! осторожно!, береги(те) сь! - have a *! будьте осторожны!, береги(те) сь! - take * not to wake the baby осторожнее /смотри/, не разбуди ребенка - take * (that) you don't get knocked down when you cross the road смотрите не попадите под машину, когда будете переходить дорогу заботы, забота;
    тревога;
    треволнения - the *s of the day треволнения дня - her face was worn with * у нее было изможденное лицо - * has made him look ten years older заботы состарили его на десять лет - free from *s беззаботный - troubled by the *s of a large family обремененный большой семьей - he hasn't a * in the world его ничто не тревожит, ему не о ком и не о чем заботиться (for, of) пристрастие, любовь, склонность( - care) как компонент сложных слов со значением уход, присмотр - day-care присмотр за детьми в дневное время > * of (сокр. с/о, с.о.) на почтовых отправлениях по адресу;
    через > Mr. Smith c/o Brown & Co. фирме Браун и К для передачи мистеру Смиту > send me the bill * of my solicitor перешлите мне счет через моего поверенного > I wrote to you * of Tatler Hotel я писал вам на гостиницу /по адресу гостиницы/ "Татлер" > * killed a /the/ cat забота и кошку уморит;
    заботы хоть кого в могилу вгонят (for, of, about) заботиться (о ком-л., о чем-л.) ;
    ухаживать - the children are well *d for за детьми прекрасный уход - he *s about nobody but himself он заботится только о себе беспокоиться, тревожиться, волноваться - he failed at the examination, but I don't think he *s very much он провалился на экзамене, но его это, по-видимому, мало волнует /заботит, тревожит/ - I don't * what people say мне все равно, что говорят - you don't seem to * much вас это, очевидно, мало волнует - what do I *?, who *s (a rap) ?, as if I *d! а мне все равно!, а мне-то что!, меня это не интересует! (for) любить;
    питать интерес к( кому-л., чему-л.) - to * for music любить музыку - to * for riches стремиться к богатству - not to * for olives не любить маслин - she really *s for him она его действительно любит - I don't * for gardening садоводство меня не интересует - he doesn't * for his wife to work он не хочет, чтобы его жена работала иметь желание, хотеть - I don't * to be seen here мне не хочется, чтобы меня здесь видели - would you * to read this article? не хотите ли вы прочитать эту статью? - would you * to go for a walk? не хотите ли пройтись? - I don't * to go /about going/ мне не хочется /у меня нет настроения/ идти - I know nothing and * less ничего не знаю и знать не хочу > not to * a bean /a brass farthing, a button, a cent, a curse, a damn, a fig, a feather, a hang, a hoot, a rap, two straws, a whoop/ совершенно не интересоваться, относиться безразлично > I don't * a fig for this мне на это наплевать > I don't * if I do ничего не имею против, я не прочь;
    с удовольствием, охотно( преим. в ответ на предложение выпить) > I couldn't * less мне это совершенно безразлично, мне в высшей степени наплевать > for all I *, for what I * мне-то что;
    что касается меня, то мне до этого нет дела > I might be dead for all you * жив я или умер, вам это в высшей степени безразлично after ~ послелечебный уход (предоставляемый лицам, выписанным из больницы) basic health ~ основы контроля за здоровьем, необходимый минимум мер для поддержания здоровья care беспокоиться, тревожиться ~ внимание, осторожность;
    the work needs great care работа требует особой тщательности;
    have a care!, take care! береги(те) сь! ~ внимательность ~ тж. pl забота, заботы, тревога;
    c/o, care of через;
    по адресу;
    Mr White / Mr Jones г-ну Джоунзу для передачи г-ну Уайту ~ забота;
    попечение, уход;
    medical care медицинская помощь;
    to take care (of smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.), заботиться (о ком-л.) ;
    in care of на попечении ~ забота ~ заботиться (for, of, about) ;
    the children are well cared for за детьми прекрасный уход ~ иметь желание (to) ;
    I don't care мне все равно;
    I don't care to go мне не хочется идти ~ наблюдение ~ обслуживание ~ осторожность ~ питать интерес, любовь (for) ;
    she really cares for him она его действительно любит;
    to care for music интересоваться музыкой;
    not to care for meat не любить мяса ~ попечение ~ тщательность ~ for интересоваться ~ питать интерес, любовь (for) ;
    she really cares for him она его действительно любит;
    to care for music интересоваться музыкой;
    not to care for meat не любить мяса ~ for the alcohol and drug abusers уход за больными злоупотребляющими алкоголем и наркотиками (алкоголиками, токсикоманами и т. п.) ~ in a child day-~ centre уход за детьми (в детском саду, яслях) ~ in old-people's home уход в доме для престарелых;
    содержание в доме для престарелых ~ killed the cat посл. = не работа старит, а забота ~ тж. pl забота, заботы, тревога;
    c/o, care of через;
    по адресу;
    Mr White / Mr Jones г-ну Джоунзу для передачи г-ну Уайту ~ of disabled забота об инвалидах ~ of [the] disabled уход за (конкретным) инвалидом (неспособным к передвижению, парализованным) ~ of handicapped уход за инвалидами ~ of invalids забота об инвалидах;
    уход за инвалидами ~ of mentally deficient забота об умственно отсталых ~ of refugees забота о беженцах (комплекс мероприятий по трудоустройству, обеспечению жильем и т. д.) ~ of the aged уход за престарелыми child ~ социальное обеспечение ребенка child ~ уход за ребенком child committed to ~ ребенок нуждающийся в уходе child day ~ уход за ребенком в дневное время ~ заботиться (for, of, about) ;
    the children are well cared for за детьми прекрасный уход children's day ~ дневной уход за детьми client ~ plan система страхования( предусматривающая оплату лечения и реабилитации, но не предусматривающая выплаты пенсии в случае инвалидности) ~ тж. pl забота, заботы, тревога;
    c/o, care of через;
    по адресу;
    Mr White / Mr Jones г-ну Джоунзу для передачи г-ну Уайту co: co в сложных словах означает общность, совместность действий, сотрудничество, взаимность и т. п. ;
    напр. coordinate координировать;
    согласовывать community ~ совместный уход;
    общественный уход, уход обеспечиваемый общиной community health ~ общинное здравоохранение crisis ~ интенсивная терапия, реанимация custodial ~ попечительство, опекунство, опекунский уход day ~ дневная медицинская помощь day ~ дневной уход (за детьми) day ~ дневной уход day-and-night ~ круглосуточный уход decision on taking into ~ решение о взятии на попечение dental health ~ уход за зубами;
    врачебный контроль состояния зубов domiciliary ~ домашний уход, уход на дому due ~ должная забота due ~ надлежащий уход due ~ необходимая забота elderly ~ уход за пожилыми людьми employees' health ~ медицинское обслуживание служащих extra-mural ~ уход и лечение вне больницы, уход и лечение за пределами стационара family ~ домашний уход family ~ социальная помощь многодетным семьям family day ~ домашний дневной уход foster ~ домашний уход, семейный уход (за детьми) full-day ~ уход в течение целого дня (например в детском саду) group family day ~ семейный уход за группой (детей, инвалидов) half-day ~ уход в течение половины дня handle with ~ транс. обращаться с осторожностью ~ внимание, осторожность;
    the work needs great care работа требует особой тщательности;
    have a care!, take care! береги(те) сь! health ~ здравоохранение health ~ медицинский уход home ~ уход на дому hospital ~ лечение в больнице;
    уход в больнице ~ иметь желание (to) ;
    I don't care мне все равно;
    I don't care to go мне не хочется идти I don't ~ a straw (или a damn, a button, a brass farthing, a fig, a feather, a whoop) мне безразлично, наплевать I don't ~ if I do разг. я не прочь;
    ничего не имею против ~ иметь желание (to) ;
    I don't care мне все равно;
    I don't care to go мне не хочется идти ~ забота;
    попечение, уход;
    medical care медицинская помощь;
    to take care (of smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.), заботиться (о ком-л.) ;
    in care of на попечении individual ~ индивидуальный уход institution for elderly ~ учереждение по уходу за престарелыми;
    дом престарелых institutional ~ уход в специальном учереждении (больнице, лечебном центре, санатории) involuntary ~ недобровольный уход;
    лечение без согласия пациента long-term ~ долгосрочный уход manpower ~ забота о персонале ~ забота;
    попечение, уход;
    medical care медицинская помощь;
    to take care (of smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.), заботиться (о ком-л.) ;
    in care of на попечении medical ~ лечение medical ~ медицинский уход medical ~ медицинское обслуживание medical ~ institution учреждение по оказанию медицинского ухода и лечения ~ тж. pl забота, заботы, тревога;
    c/o, care of через;
    по адресу;
    Mr White / Mr Jones г-ну Джоунзу для передачи г-ну Уайту night ~ ночной уход, уход в ночное время non-institutional ~ уход non-institutional health ~ уход за здоровьем вне врачебного заведения (вне больницы) ~ питать интерес, любовь (for) ;
    she really cares for him она его действительно любит;
    to care for music интересоваться музыкой;
    not to care for meat не любить мяса nursing home ~ уход в частной лечебнице old-age ~ уход за престарелыми out-patient ~ амбулаторное лечение, амбулаторный уход out-patient ~ амбулаторный уход part-time day ~ уход неполный день( за больным, инвалидом) ;
    пребывание пациента на лечении в течение части дня personnel ~ забота о персонале place in day ~ место в учреждении дневного ухода pre-natal ~ наблюдение за беременной женщиной;
    гигиена беременности primary health ~ первичная медицинская помощь residential ~ уход в доме для инвалидов residential ~ for the aged уход за инвалидами в доме для престарелых ~ питать интерес, любовь (for) ;
    she really cares for him она его действительно любит;
    to care for music интересоваться музыкой;
    not to care for meat не любить мяса short-term ~ краткосрочный уход special ~ специальный уход specialized health ~ специальный уход за здоровьем;
    специальный медицинский уход staff ~ услуги персоналу ~ внимание, осторожность;
    the work needs great care работа требует особой тщательности;
    have a care!, take care! береги(те) сь! ~ забота;
    попечение, уход;
    medical care медицинская помощь;
    to take care (of smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.), заботиться (о ком-л.) ;
    in care of на попечении take ~ of заботиться take ~ of присматривать take ~ of смотреть taking into ~ взятие на уход, взятие на лечение under the ~ of a physician под наблюдением врача whole day ~ уход в течение всего дня ~ внимание, осторожность;
    the work needs great care работа требует особой тщательности;
    have a care!, take care! береги(те) сь!

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  • 6 case

    I noun
    1) (instance, matter) Fall, der

    it is [not] the case that... — es trifft [nicht] zu od. stimmt [nicht], dass...

    it seems to be the case that they have... — sie scheinen tatsächlich... zu haben

    as is generally the case with... — wie das normalerweise bei... der Fall ist

    in case... — falls...; für den Fall, dass... (geh.)

    [just] in case — (to allow for all possibilities) für alle Fälle

    in case of fire/ danger — bei Feuer/Gefahr

    in any case(regardless of anything else) jedenfalls

    in no case(certainly not) auf keinen Fall

    in that casein diesem Fall

    2) (Med., Police, Soc. Serv., etc., or coll.): (person afflicted) Fall, der

    he is a mental/psychiatric case — er ist ein Fall für den Psychiater

    3) (Law) Fall, der; (action) Verfahren, das

    the case for the prosecution/defence — die Anklage/Verteidigung

    4) (fig.): (set of arguments) Fall, der; (valid set of arguments)

    have a [good] case for doing something/for something — gute Gründe haben, etwas zu tun/für etwas haben

    5) (Ling.) Fall, der; Kasus, der (fachspr.)
    6) (fig. coll.) (comical person) ulkiger Typ (ugs.); (comical woman) ulkige Nudel (ugs.)
    II 1. noun
    1) Koffer, der; (small) Handkoffer, der; (briefcase) [Akten]tasche, die; (for musical instrument) Kasten, der
    2) (sheath) Hülle, die; (for spectacles, cigarettes) Etui, das; (for jewellery) Schmuckkassette, die
    3) (crate) Kiste, die

    case of oranges — Kiste [mit] Apfelsinen

    4) (glass box) Vitrine, die

    [display] case — Schaukasten, der

    5) (cover) Gehäuse, das
    2. transitive verb
    1) (box) verpacken
    2) (sl.): (examine)

    case the jointsich (Dat.) den Laden mal ansehen (ugs.)

    * * *
    I [keis] noun
    1) (an instance or example: another case of child-beating; a bad case of measles.) der Fall
    2) (a particular situation: It's different in my case.) der Fall
    3) (a legal trial: The judge in this case is very fair.) der Fall
    4) (an argument or reason: There's a good case for thinking he's wrong.) der Fall
    5) ((usually with the) a fact: I don't think that's really the case.) der Fall
    6) (a form of a pronoun (eg he or him), noun or adjective showing its relation to other words in the sentence.) der Fall
    - academic.ru/116781/in_case">in case
    - in case of
    - in that case
    II [keis] noun
    1) (a container or outer covering: a case of medical instruments; a suitcase.) der Kasten
    2) (a crate or box: six cases of whisky.) die Kiste
    3) (a piece of furniture for displaying or containing things: a glass case full of china; a bookcase.) der Schrank
    * * *
    case1
    [keɪs]
    n
    1. (situation, instance) Fall m
    is that the \case with you? trifft das für Sie zu?
    if that is the \case... wenn das der Fall ist...; (is true) wenn das stimmt [o zutrifft]...
    in the \case of her having failed... sollte sie nicht bestanden haben,...
    it's not a \case of choice but of having to mit Wollen hat das nichts zu tun, eher mit Müssen
    in \case of an emergency im Notfall
    a \case in point ein [zu]treffendes Beispiel
    in most \cases meistens, in den meisten Fällen
    as [or whatever] the \case might [or may] be wie dem auch sein mag, wie auch immer
    in \case... für den Fall, dass..., falls...
    in \case the police come, hide the money versteck das Geld, falls [o für den Fall, dass] die Polizei kommt
    bring a map, just in \case you get lost bring eine Karte mit, nur für den Fall, dass du dich verirrst
    just in \case für alle Fälle
    in any \case (besides)
    I haven't been invited in any \case ich bin sowieso nicht eingeladen
    we'll have a look, but it may be too expensive for us in any \case wir schauen es uns mal an, es ist aber vielleicht sowieso zu teuer für uns; (at least)
    the school, or in any \case the head, is against the council's plans die Schule, oder zumindest der Rektor, ist gegen die Gemeindepläne; (regardless)
    in any \case, they ended up having a big argument am Ende haben sie sich jedenfalls [o auf jeden Fall] heftig gestritten
    in no \case unter keinen Umständen, auf keinen Fall
    2. (matter) Angelegenheit f, Frage f
    a \case of conscience eine Gewissensfrage
    3. LAW (matter) [Rechts]fall m, Sache f; (suit) Verfahren nt
    is he the detective on the \case? ist er der Kriminalbeamte, der den Fall bearbeitet
    the \case went against her es wurde gegen sie entschieden
    there was no \case against her es lag nichts gegen sie vor
    an assault \case ein Fall m von Körperverletzung
    murder \case Mordfall m
    civil/criminal \case Zivil-/Strafsache f, Zivil-/Strafverfahren m
    to come down to \cases zur Sache kommen
    to lose/win a \case einen Prozess verlieren/gewinnen
    to state one's \case ( also fig) seinen Fall vortragen a. fig
    4. MED Fall m
    \case of malaria (illness) Malariafall m, Fall m von Malaria; (patient) ein Malariakranker
    mental \case Geisteskranke(r) f(m)
    5. usu sing (arguments) Argumente pl (for/against für/gegen + akk)
    there's a good [or strong] \case for buying our products es gibt viele [gute] Gründe, unsere Produkte zu kaufen
    is there a good \case for reinstating him? was spricht dafür, ihn wieder einzusetzen?
    to make [out] a \case against/for sth gegen/für etw akk argumentieren
    to make out a good \case for sth gute [o überzeugende] Argumente für etw akk vorbringen
    to overstate the \case etw zu vehement vertreten
    6. no pl LAW (evidence) Beweisvorbringen nt fachspr
    let's hear the \case for the defence die Verteidigung hat das Wort
    the \case rests die Beweisführung ist abgeschlossen
    I rest my \case ( fig fam) genau, das sage ich ja schon die ganze Zeit! fam
    a good [or strong] \case ein aussichtsreiches Vorbringen fachspr
    he has a good [or strong] \case seine Klage erscheint aussichtsreich
    no \case to answer unschlüssiges Vorbringen fachspr
    there is no \case to answer das Vorbringen ist unschlüssig fachspr
    she has no \case to answer die gegen sie erhobene Klage ist unschlüssig fachspr
    the court decided that there was no \case to answer die Klage wurde als unschlüssig abgewiesen fachspr
    the prosecution failed to make a \case [for him] to answer die Staatsanwaltschaft konnte keinen schlüssigen Beweise [gegen ihn] vorbringen
    to close the \case die Beweisaufnahme schließen
    7. ( fig: person)
    he's a \case ( also hum fam) er ist eine komische Type fam
    a hard \case ein schwieriger Fall; (criminal) ein schwerer Junge fam
    to be a hopeless/sad \case ein hoffnungsloser/trauriger Fall sein
    to be [or get] on sb's \case jdm auf die Nerven gehen fam
    get off my \case! hör auf, mich zu nerven! fam
    9. LING Fall m, Kasus m fachspr
    to be in the accusative/genitive \case im Akkusativ/Genitiv stehen
    case2
    [keɪs]
    n
    1. (suitcase) Koffer m
    2. (for display) Vitrine f, Schaukasten m
    3. (packaging plus contents) Kiste f; for instruments Kasten m
    a \case of wine eine Kiste Wein
    4. (small container) Schatulle f; (for hat) Schachtel f; (for spectacles) Etui nt; (for musical instrument) Kasten m; (for CD, MC, umbrella) Hülle f
    5. TYPO Setzkasten m
    lower/upper \case letter Klein-/Großbuchstabe m
    to be written in lower/upper \case letters kleingeschrieben/großgeschrieben sein
    case3
    [keɪs]
    vt ( fam)
    to \case the joint sich dat den Laden mal ansehen sl
    to \case a place einen Ort inspizieren
    * * *
    I [keɪs]
    n
    1) (= situation) Fall m

    if that's the case — wenn das der Fall ist, wenn das zutrifft or stimmt

    is that the case with you? — ist das bei Ihnen der Fall?, trifft das auf Sie zu?

    if it is the case that you're right... — sollten Sie wirklich or tatsächlich recht haben..., im Fall(e), dass Sie tatsächlich recht haben...

    such being the caseda das der Fall ist, da dem so ist (geh)

    2) (= instance, police case MED ETC) Fall m

    in most casesmeist( ens), in den meisten Fällen

    a typical case (of) —

    in case of emergencyim Notfall m, bei Gefahr f

    in this/that case — in dem Fall

    in no case — unter keinen Umständen, auf keinen Fall

    five cases of smallpox/pneumonia — fünf Pockenfälle/Fälle von Lungenentzündung f

    3) (JUR) Fall m

    the case for the defence/prosecution — die Verteidigung/Anklage

    in the case Higgins v Schwarz —

    the case for/against the abolition of capital punishment — die Argumente für/gegen die Abschaffung der Todesstrafe

    you haven't got a case — das Belastungsmaterial reicht nicht für ein Verfahren; (fig) Sie haben keine Handhabe

    you/they have a good case — es ist durchaus gerechtfertigt, was Sie/sie sagen

    there's a very good case for adopting this method — es spricht sehr viel dafür, diese Methode zu übernehmen

    they do not have a very good case — sie haben nicht viel Chancen, damit durchzukommen

    to put the case for sth —

    there's a good case for voting Labour — es gibt viele Gründe, Labour zu wählen

    the court decided that there was no case against him — das Gericht entschied, dass nichts gegen ihn vorlag

    4) (GRAM) Fall m, Kasus m
    5) (inf: person) Witzbold m, Type f (inf)

    a hopeless/sad case —

    to be on sb's case ( about sth) — jdn (wegen etw) nerven (inf)

    to get on sb's case (about sth)an jdm (wegen etw) herummeckern (inf)

    get off my case!lass mich in Ruhe! (inf)

    II
    1. n
    1) (= suitcase) Koffer m; (= crate, packing case) Kiste f; (= display case) Vitrine f, Schau- or Glaskasten m
    2) (= box) Schachtel f; (for jewels) Schatulle f, Kästchen nt; (for spectacles) Etui nt, Futteral nt; (= seed case) Hülse f, Hülle f; (for CD, umbrella) Hülle f; (= pillowcase) Bezug m; (for musical instrument) Kasten m; (of watch) Gehäuse nt
    3) (TYP)

    upper/lower case — groß-/kleingeschrieben

    2. vt (inf)

    to case the jointsich (dat) den Laden ansehen (inf)

    * * *
    case1 [keıs]
    A s
    1. Fall m:
    a case in point ein typischer Fall, ein einschlägiges Beispiel;
    a clear case of injustice ein klarer Fall von Ungerechtigkeit;
    it is a case of es handelt sich um; shoplifting, etc
    2. Fall m, Umstand m, Lage f:
    a) auf jeden Fall, jedenfalls,
    b) sowieso;
    in no case auf keinen Fall, keinesfalls;
    a) auch in case that … im Falle, dass …; falls
    b) für alle Fälle;
    in case of im Falle von (od gen);
    in case of need nötigenfalls, im Notfall;
    in that case in diesem Falle;
    just in case für den Fall eines Falles;
    the case is this die Sache ist die, der Fall liegt so;
    as the case may be je nachdem
    3. Fall m, Tatsache f:
    that is not the case (with him) das ist (bei ihm) nicht der Fall, das trifft (auf ihn) nicht zu;
    as is the case with me wie es bei mir der Fall ist;
    if that is the case wenn das der Fall ist, wenn das zutrifft
    4. Sache f, Angelegenheit f, Frage f:
    case of conscience Gewissensfrage;
    that alters the case das ändert die Sache;
    come down to cases umg zur Sache kommen
    5. JUR (Streit-, Rechts) Sache f, (Rechts) Fall m:
    the case of Brown der Fall Brown; leading case
    6. besonders JUR
    a)(Gesamtheit f der) Tatsachen pl und Beweise pl, Beweismaterial n
    b) ( auch begründeter) Standpunkt (einer Partei)
    c) allg Argumente pl, (triftige) Gründe pl:
    the case for the defence (US defense) die Verteidigung;
    make out a case seine Sache beweisen;
    make out one’s case triftige Gründe vorlegen, seine Gründe als stichhaltig beweisen;
    state one’s case seine Klage oder Verteidigung od (a. allg)seine Sache vortragen;
    he has a good ( oder strong) case viele Tatsachen sprechen für ihn, er hat gute Beweise, seine Sache steht gut;
    there is a case for it es gibt triftige Gründe dafür, vieles spricht dafür;
    have no case against sb nichts gegen jemanden in der Hand haben; rest1 C 7
    7. LING Kasus m, Fall m
    8. MED (Krankheits)Fall m, Patient(in):
    two cases of typhoid zwei Fälle von Typhus, zwei Typhuskranke
    9. umg komischer Kauz
    10. US umg Verliebtheit f:
    they had quite a case on each other sie waren schrecklich ineinander verknallt
    B v/t umg eine Bank etc ausbaldowern sl, auskundschaften:
    case the joint sich den Laden genau ansehen
    case2 [keıs]
    A s
    1. Kiste f, Kasten m:
    a case of wine eine Kiste Wein
    2. allg Behälter m, Behältnis n, besonders
    a) Schachtel f
    b) (Schmuck) Kästchen n
    c) (Brillen-, Zigaretten- etc) Etui n, (Brillen-, Messer) Futteral n, (Schutz)Hülle f (für Bücher, Messer etc)
    d) (Akten-, Schreib) Mappe f
    e) Koffer m
    f) (Glas) Schrank m
    g) (Uhr- etc) Gehäuse n
    h) (Kissen) Bezug m, Überzug m
    3. Besteckkasten m (eines Chirurgen etc):
    4. ARCH (Tür-, Fenster) Futter n, Einfassung f
    5. Buchbinderei: Einbanddecke f
    6. TYPO Setzkasten m: lower case 1, upper case 1
    7. TECH Verkleidung f, Mantel m
    8. MIL case shot
    B v/t
    1. in ein Gehäuse oder Futteral stecken, mit einem Gehäuse oder einer Hülle umgeben
    2. (in) einhüllen (in akk), umgeben (mit)
    3. JAGD einen Fuchs etc abziehen, abbalgen
    4. Buchbinderei: den Buchblock (in die Einbanddecke) einhängen
    5. TECH verkleiden, ummanteln
    6. TYPO Lettern in den Setzkasten einordnen
    cs. abk WIRTSCH case ( cases pl)
    * * *
    I noun
    1) (instance, matter) Fall, der

    it is [not] the case that... — es trifft [nicht] zu od. stimmt [nicht], dass...

    it seems to be the case that they have... — sie scheinen tatsächlich... zu haben

    as is generally the case with... — wie das normalerweise bei... der Fall ist

    in case... — falls...; für den Fall, dass... (geh.)

    [just] in case — (to allow for all possibilities) für alle Fälle

    in case of fire/ danger — bei Feuer/Gefahr

    in no case (certainly not) auf keinen Fall

    2) (Med., Police, Soc. Serv., etc., or coll.): (person afflicted) Fall, der

    he is a mental/psychiatric case — er ist ein Fall für den Psychiater

    3) (Law) Fall, der; (action) Verfahren, das

    the case for the prosecution/defence — die Anklage/Verteidigung

    4) (fig.): (set of arguments) Fall, der; (valid set of arguments)

    have a [good] case for doing something/for something — gute Gründe haben, etwas zu tun/für etwas haben

    5) (Ling.) Fall, der; Kasus, der (fachspr.)
    6) (fig. coll.) (comical person) ulkiger Typ (ugs.); (comical woman) ulkige Nudel (ugs.)
    II 1. noun
    1) Koffer, der; (small) Handkoffer, der; (briefcase) [Akten]tasche, die; (for musical instrument) Kasten, der
    2) (sheath) Hülle, die; (for spectacles, cigarettes) Etui, das; (for jewellery) Schmuckkassette, die
    3) (crate) Kiste, die

    case of oranges — Kiste [mit] Apfelsinen

    4) (glass box) Vitrine, die

    [display] case — Schaukasten, der

    5) (cover) Gehäuse, das
    2. transitive verb
    1) (box) verpacken
    2) (sl.): (examine)

    case the jointsich (Dat.) den Laden mal ansehen (ugs.)

    * * *
    (carpentry) n.
    Zarge -n (Tür, Fenster) f. n.
    Angelegenheit f.
    Fach ¨-er n.
    Fall ¨-e m.
    Gehäuse - n.
    Kiste -n f.
    Koffer - m.
    Prozess -e m.
    Sache -n f.

    English-german dictionary > case

  • 7 manage

    ['mænɪdʒ]
    v
    1) руководить (кем-либо, чем-либо)

    She knows how to manage people. — Она умеет обращаться с людьми.

    - manage a business
    - manage a child
    - manage smb's affairs
    2) удаваться, суметь, ухитриться

    You must manage without help. — Вы должны справиться без посторонней помощи.

    How did you manage to get the tickets? — Как вы сумели/ухитрились достать билеты?

    - can you manage all that work alone?
    WAYS OF DOING THINGS:
    Глагол to manage в значении "успешно с чем-либо справляться, суметь что-либо сделать" не характеризует этого действия. Глаголы этого ряда подчеркивают трудность, неожиданность появления или другие обстоятельства того, с чем человек может или умеет справляться. К этим глаголам относятся следующие английские глаголы и словосочетания: to cope with, to come/to get to grips with, to have something under control, to overcome, to rise to the occasion, to take something in one's stride, to succeed.
    To cope with - "успешно справляться с трудной проблемой или каким-либо затруднением": I told her I couldn't cope, I wasn't well enough я сказал ей, что мне с этим не справиться, я еще не совсем здоров; she is very inexperienced, but I am sure that she can cope она еще очень неопытна, но я уверен она справится; young Sam coped very well with his father's sudden death Сэм, несмотря на свою молодость, стоически перенес смерть отца; we must find a new way of coping with the situation нам надо найти новый способ справиться с создавшимся положением вещей.
    To come/to get to grips with - "осознавать серьёзность и трудность чего-либо и серьёзно подойти к этому": the company has failed to come to grips with their financial problems компания не смогла осознать и справиться со своими финансовыми затруднениями; teachers must be prepared to spend time getting to grips with new technology преподаватели должны быть готовыми к тому, чтобы посвятить много времени овладению новыми технологиями; no country had really got to grips with the problem of nuclear wastes ни одна страна ещё не разрешила проблему ядерных отходов.
    To have something under control - "владеть, справляться с существующими в данный момент трудностями, держать что-либо под контролем": the police claimed they had the situation under control полиция заявила, что держит ситуацию под контролем; the flight was very bumpy but the pilot assured us that everything was under control в полёте была большая качка, но пилот уверил нас, что всё находится под контролем; we thought they failed to keep the things under control мы считали, что они не смогли контролировать ситуацию.
    To overcome - "преодолеть трудность, справиться с трудностью, снять трудность, снизить опасность": I have always wanted to overcome my fear of spiders мне всегда хотелось преодолеть свой страх перед пауками; the school overcome the problem of funding by getting local firms to sponsor them школа преодолела свои финансовые затруднения, добившись того, что местные фирмы стали её спонсировать; he is a clever fellow and I'm sure he well overcome the difficulties он умный человек и, я уверен, преодолеет свои трудности/справится со своими трудностями.
    To rise to the occasion - "успешно справиться с неожиданно возникшими трудностями, оказаться на высоте": Steve, who was seldom surprised by anything, rose to the occasion at once Стив, который никогда ничему не удивлялся, тут оказался на высоте; there was a moment's silence then Ella rising to the occasion said: "Please, come in, gentlemen" на минуту воцарилось молчание, а затем Элла, быстро оправившись, сказала: "Пожалуйста, господа, входите".
    To take something in one's stride - "спокойно и уверенно справляться с неожиданной или трудной задачей": they never get upset, they take everything in their stride они никогда не расстраиваются, они спокойно справляются с проблемой; Liz seems to be taking the divorce in her stride Лиза, по-видимому, спокойно воспринимает развод.
    To succeed - "преуспевать, успешно что-либо сделать": we succeed in making contact with the kidnapper нам удалось установить связь с похитителями ребёнка; if you try your hand to get into a medical school, I'm sure you will succeed если вы очень постараетесь, то вам удастся попасть в медицинское училище; if you were trying to cause trouble in the family then you have succeed если вы пытались причинить неприятности в семье, то вы в этом преуспели

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > manage

  • 8 FA

    1) Общая лексика: U.S. area phone code A Football Agency
    2) Компьютерная техника: Finite Automata, Finite Automaton, Functional Application
    7) Шутливое выражение: Food Addicts
    8) Химия: Fully Amorphous
    10) Юридический термин: Female Adult, Fine Attitude
    12) Грубое выражение: For Arse, Fuck All, Fucking A, Fucking Arseholes
    13) Металлургия: Fresh Area
    14) Телекоммуникации: Failed Answer
    15) Сокращение: Football Association, Fraticide Avoidance, Frequency Agile, Russian Frontal Aviation, fore and aft, free aperture, Field Army (China), Persian (Farsi), основные фонды (Fixed Assets), Area Forecast (aviation), Certified Mail (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately), Factor Analysis, Factories Act 1961 (UK), Faculty Assistant, Failure Alarm, Fairchild Aircraft, Faith Alive, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fallen Angel, False Alarm, Fame Academy (UK BBC series), Family Assistance, Family Auto (car dealers), FanArt, Fanconi Anemia (form of aplastic anemia), Fanny Adams, Farm Aid, Farmers' Almanac, Fat Admirer, Fat Albert (fictional character), Feasibility Analysis, Federal Agent, Federal Association, Felonious Assault (law enforcement), Fenton's Approximation (Algorithm), Feudal Age, Fiber Adapter, Fibonacci Association, FictionAlley.org, Field Activities, Field Authorization, Fiery Avenger (Everquest game), Filiae Amatissimae (Latin: To (My) Beloved Daughter, epigraphy), Final Acceptance, Final Alert (mapmaking program), Final Approach, Final Approval, Final Art (desktop publishing/printing/design; approved by client and ready to go to production), Finally Approved (sarcastic variation of Final Approval), Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Advisor, Financial Agent, Financial Aid, Financial Assurance, Finanzamt (German: revenue office), Fine Arts, Fiona Apple (singer), Firearms (half-life modification), Fireman Apprentice, Firma (German: company), First Aid/Medical Aid Station, First Article, Fiscal Agent (Medicaid), Fixed Assets, Flanking Attack, Flash Animation, Flexible Alerting, Fluorescein Angiogramic Angiography, Fluorescein Angiography (retinal, choroidal and iris blood vessels testing), Fluorescent Antibody (laboratory virus testing), Fly Ash (mineral admixture for concrete), Focus Alert, Focus Amplifier, Focus Area, Food Allergy, For Auction, Force Analyzer, Forced Air, Forced Answer, Foreign Agent (network node), Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Foreign Military Affairs, Formal Advertising, Formic Acid, Forte Agent, Fourier Analysis, Framework Approach, Frankford Arsenal (PA; ammunition headstamp), Frankfort Arsenal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Freakin' A! (polite form), Fredericksburg Academy, Free Agent (baseball, football, etc.; player who may sign with any team), French Angora (rabbit), Frequency Agile/Agility, Friederich's Ataxia, Friends Always, Frontal Aviation, Fuel Assembly, Fulbright Association, Full Arc, Full Armor (anime), Fulvic Acid, Function Analysis (product engineering / development tool), Functional Acknowledgment, Functional Administrator, Functional Allocation, Functional Analysis, Functional Assessment, Fund Accounting, Funds Allocated (USACE), Fur Affinity (web site), Fury Assembly, Fuse Alarm, feasibility assessment (US DoD), fractional anisotropy
    16) Университет: Final Answer, Full Accreditation
    17) Физиология: Failed appointment, Fat Analysis, Forearm
    18) Электроника: Filter Anode
    19) Вычислительная техника: Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association), final address (register), (полный) сумматор, (полный)(одноразрядный) сумматор с тремя входами
    21) Иммунология: Fluorescent Antibody
    22) Транспорт: Flight Attendants, Flying Accident
    23) Фирменный знак: First Alert
    24) Экология: free air
    25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: full authority, Functional Authority
    26) Образование: Frequently Asked
    27) Сетевые технологии: fully accessible
    28) Полимеры: fatty acid, folic acid, furfuryl alcohol
    29) Автоматика: factory automation, full adder
    30) Химическое оружие: functional area
    31) SAP.тех. автоматически переадресовано
    32) Электротехника: frequency adjustment, field-accelerating (relay)
    33) Должность: Field Agent
    34) NYSE. Fairchild Corporation
    35) НАСА: First Alien, First Ascent

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > FA

  • 9 Fa

    1) Общая лексика: U.S. area phone code A Football Agency
    2) Компьютерная техника: Finite Automata, Finite Automaton, Functional Application
    7) Шутливое выражение: Food Addicts
    8) Химия: Fully Amorphous
    10) Юридический термин: Female Adult, Fine Attitude
    12) Грубое выражение: For Arse, Fuck All, Fucking A, Fucking Arseholes
    13) Металлургия: Fresh Area
    14) Телекоммуникации: Failed Answer
    15) Сокращение: Football Association, Fraticide Avoidance, Frequency Agile, Russian Frontal Aviation, fore and aft, free aperture, Field Army (China), Persian (Farsi), основные фонды (Fixed Assets), Area Forecast (aviation), Certified Mail (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately), Factor Analysis, Factories Act 1961 (UK), Faculty Assistant, Failure Alarm, Fairchild Aircraft, Faith Alive, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fallen Angel, False Alarm, Fame Academy (UK BBC series), Family Assistance, Family Auto (car dealers), FanArt, Fanconi Anemia (form of aplastic anemia), Fanny Adams, Farm Aid, Farmers' Almanac, Fat Admirer, Fat Albert (fictional character), Feasibility Analysis, Federal Agent, Federal Association, Felonious Assault (law enforcement), Fenton's Approximation (Algorithm), Feudal Age, Fiber Adapter, Fibonacci Association, FictionAlley.org, Field Activities, Field Authorization, Fiery Avenger (Everquest game), Filiae Amatissimae (Latin: To (My) Beloved Daughter, epigraphy), Final Acceptance, Final Alert (mapmaking program), Final Approach, Final Approval, Final Art (desktop publishing/printing/design; approved by client and ready to go to production), Finally Approved (sarcastic variation of Final Approval), Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Advisor, Financial Agent, Financial Aid, Financial Assurance, Finanzamt (German: revenue office), Fine Arts, Fiona Apple (singer), Firearms (half-life modification), Fireman Apprentice, Firma (German: company), First Aid/Medical Aid Station, First Article, Fiscal Agent (Medicaid), Fixed Assets, Flanking Attack, Flash Animation, Flexible Alerting, Fluorescein Angiogramic Angiography, Fluorescein Angiography (retinal, choroidal and iris blood vessels testing), Fluorescent Antibody (laboratory virus testing), Fly Ash (mineral admixture for concrete), Focus Alert, Focus Amplifier, Focus Area, Food Allergy, For Auction, Force Analyzer, Forced Air, Forced Answer, Foreign Agent (network node), Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Foreign Military Affairs, Formal Advertising, Formic Acid, Forte Agent, Fourier Analysis, Framework Approach, Frankford Arsenal (PA; ammunition headstamp), Frankfort Arsenal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Freakin' A! (polite form), Fredericksburg Academy, Free Agent (baseball, football, etc.; player who may sign with any team), French Angora (rabbit), Frequency Agile/Agility, Friederich's Ataxia, Friends Always, Frontal Aviation, Fuel Assembly, Fulbright Association, Full Arc, Full Armor (anime), Fulvic Acid, Function Analysis (product engineering / development tool), Functional Acknowledgment, Functional Administrator, Functional Allocation, Functional Analysis, Functional Assessment, Fund Accounting, Funds Allocated (USACE), Fur Affinity (web site), Fury Assembly, Fuse Alarm, feasibility assessment (US DoD), fractional anisotropy
    16) Университет: Final Answer, Full Accreditation
    17) Физиология: Failed appointment, Fat Analysis, Forearm
    18) Электроника: Filter Anode
    19) Вычислительная техника: Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association), final address (register), (полный) сумматор, (полный)(одноразрядный) сумматор с тремя входами
    21) Иммунология: Fluorescent Antibody
    22) Транспорт: Flight Attendants, Flying Accident
    23) Фирменный знак: First Alert
    24) Экология: free air
    25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: full authority, Functional Authority
    26) Образование: Frequently Asked
    27) Сетевые технологии: fully accessible
    28) Полимеры: fatty acid, folic acid, furfuryl alcohol
    29) Автоматика: factory automation, full adder
    30) Химическое оружие: functional area
    31) SAP.тех. автоматически переадресовано
    32) Электротехника: frequency adjustment, field-accelerating (relay)
    33) Должность: Field Agent
    34) NYSE. Fairchild Corporation
    35) НАСА: First Alien, First Ascent

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Fa

  • 10 fA

    1) Общая лексика: U.S. area phone code A Football Agency
    2) Компьютерная техника: Finite Automata, Finite Automaton, Functional Application
    7) Шутливое выражение: Food Addicts
    8) Химия: Fully Amorphous
    10) Юридический термин: Female Adult, Fine Attitude
    12) Грубое выражение: For Arse, Fuck All, Fucking A, Fucking Arseholes
    13) Металлургия: Fresh Area
    14) Телекоммуникации: Failed Answer
    15) Сокращение: Football Association, Fraticide Avoidance, Frequency Agile, Russian Frontal Aviation, fore and aft, free aperture, Field Army (China), Persian (Farsi), основные фонды (Fixed Assets), Area Forecast (aviation), Certified Mail (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately), Factor Analysis, Factories Act 1961 (UK), Faculty Assistant, Failure Alarm, Fairchild Aircraft, Faith Alive, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fallen Angel, False Alarm, Fame Academy (UK BBC series), Family Assistance, Family Auto (car dealers), FanArt, Fanconi Anemia (form of aplastic anemia), Fanny Adams, Farm Aid, Farmers' Almanac, Fat Admirer, Fat Albert (fictional character), Feasibility Analysis, Federal Agent, Federal Association, Felonious Assault (law enforcement), Fenton's Approximation (Algorithm), Feudal Age, Fiber Adapter, Fibonacci Association, FictionAlley.org, Field Activities, Field Authorization, Fiery Avenger (Everquest game), Filiae Amatissimae (Latin: To (My) Beloved Daughter, epigraphy), Final Acceptance, Final Alert (mapmaking program), Final Approach, Final Approval, Final Art (desktop publishing/printing/design; approved by client and ready to go to production), Finally Approved (sarcastic variation of Final Approval), Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Advisor, Financial Agent, Financial Aid, Financial Assurance, Finanzamt (German: revenue office), Fine Arts, Fiona Apple (singer), Firearms (half-life modification), Fireman Apprentice, Firma (German: company), First Aid/Medical Aid Station, First Article, Fiscal Agent (Medicaid), Fixed Assets, Flanking Attack, Flash Animation, Flexible Alerting, Fluorescein Angiogramic Angiography, Fluorescein Angiography (retinal, choroidal and iris blood vessels testing), Fluorescent Antibody (laboratory virus testing), Fly Ash (mineral admixture for concrete), Focus Alert, Focus Amplifier, Focus Area, Food Allergy, For Auction, Force Analyzer, Forced Air, Forced Answer, Foreign Agent (network node), Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Foreign Military Affairs, Formal Advertising, Formic Acid, Forte Agent, Fourier Analysis, Framework Approach, Frankford Arsenal (PA; ammunition headstamp), Frankfort Arsenal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Freakin' A! (polite form), Fredericksburg Academy, Free Agent (baseball, football, etc.; player who may sign with any team), French Angora (rabbit), Frequency Agile/Agility, Friederich's Ataxia, Friends Always, Frontal Aviation, Fuel Assembly, Fulbright Association, Full Arc, Full Armor (anime), Fulvic Acid, Function Analysis (product engineering / development tool), Functional Acknowledgment, Functional Administrator, Functional Allocation, Functional Analysis, Functional Assessment, Fund Accounting, Funds Allocated (USACE), Fur Affinity (web site), Fury Assembly, Fuse Alarm, feasibility assessment (US DoD), fractional anisotropy
    16) Университет: Final Answer, Full Accreditation
    17) Физиология: Failed appointment, Fat Analysis, Forearm
    18) Электроника: Filter Anode
    19) Вычислительная техника: Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association), final address (register), (полный) сумматор, (полный)(одноразрядный) сумматор с тремя входами
    21) Иммунология: Fluorescent Antibody
    22) Транспорт: Flight Attendants, Flying Accident
    23) Фирменный знак: First Alert
    24) Экология: free air
    25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: full authority, Functional Authority
    26) Образование: Frequently Asked
    27) Сетевые технологии: fully accessible
    28) Полимеры: fatty acid, folic acid, furfuryl alcohol
    29) Автоматика: factory automation, full adder
    30) Химическое оружие: functional area
    31) SAP.тех. автоматически переадресовано
    32) Электротехника: frequency adjustment, field-accelerating (relay)
    33) Должность: Field Agent
    34) NYSE. Fairchild Corporation
    35) НАСА: First Alien, First Ascent

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > fA

  • 11 fa

    1) Общая лексика: U.S. area phone code A Football Agency
    2) Компьютерная техника: Finite Automata, Finite Automaton, Functional Application
    7) Шутливое выражение: Food Addicts
    8) Химия: Fully Amorphous
    10) Юридический термин: Female Adult, Fine Attitude
    12) Грубое выражение: For Arse, Fuck All, Fucking A, Fucking Arseholes
    13) Металлургия: Fresh Area
    14) Телекоммуникации: Failed Answer
    15) Сокращение: Football Association, Fraticide Avoidance, Frequency Agile, Russian Frontal Aviation, fore and aft, free aperture, Field Army (China), Persian (Farsi), основные фонды (Fixed Assets), Area Forecast (aviation), Certified Mail (Scott Catalogue prefix; philately), Factor Analysis, Factories Act 1961 (UK), Faculty Assistant, Failure Alarm, Fairchild Aircraft, Faith Alive, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fallen Angel, False Alarm, Fame Academy (UK BBC series), Family Assistance, Family Auto (car dealers), FanArt, Fanconi Anemia (form of aplastic anemia), Fanny Adams, Farm Aid, Farmers' Almanac, Fat Admirer, Fat Albert (fictional character), Feasibility Analysis, Federal Agent, Federal Association, Felonious Assault (law enforcement), Fenton's Approximation (Algorithm), Feudal Age, Fiber Adapter, Fibonacci Association, FictionAlley.org, Field Activities, Field Authorization, Fiery Avenger (Everquest game), Filiae Amatissimae (Latin: To (My) Beloved Daughter, epigraphy), Final Acceptance, Final Alert (mapmaking program), Final Approach, Final Approval, Final Art (desktop publishing/printing/design; approved by client and ready to go to production), Finally Approved (sarcastic variation of Final Approval), Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Advisor, Financial Agent, Financial Aid, Financial Assurance, Finanzamt (German: revenue office), Fine Arts, Fiona Apple (singer), Firearms (half-life modification), Fireman Apprentice, Firma (German: company), First Aid/Medical Aid Station, First Article, Fiscal Agent (Medicaid), Fixed Assets, Flanking Attack, Flash Animation, Flexible Alerting, Fluorescein Angiogramic Angiography, Fluorescein Angiography (retinal, choroidal and iris blood vessels testing), Fluorescent Antibody (laboratory virus testing), Fly Ash (mineral admixture for concrete), Focus Alert, Focus Amplifier, Focus Area, Food Allergy, For Auction, Force Analyzer, Forced Air, Forced Answer, Foreign Agent (network node), Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, Foreign Military Affairs, Formal Advertising, Formic Acid, Forte Agent, Fourier Analysis, Framework Approach, Frankford Arsenal (PA; ammunition headstamp), Frankfort Arsenal (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Freakin' A! (polite form), Fredericksburg Academy, Free Agent (baseball, football, etc.; player who may sign with any team), French Angora (rabbit), Frequency Agile/Agility, Friederich's Ataxia, Friends Always, Frontal Aviation, Fuel Assembly, Fulbright Association, Full Arc, Full Armor (anime), Fulvic Acid, Function Analysis (product engineering / development tool), Functional Acknowledgment, Functional Administrator, Functional Allocation, Functional Analysis, Functional Assessment, Fund Accounting, Funds Allocated (USACE), Fur Affinity (web site), Fury Assembly, Fuse Alarm, feasibility assessment (US DoD), fractional anisotropy
    16) Университет: Final Answer, Full Accreditation
    17) Физиология: Failed appointment, Fat Analysis, Forearm
    18) Электроника: Filter Anode
    19) Вычислительная техника: Football Association (British soccer--a word derived from Association), final address (register), (полный) сумматор, (полный)(одноразрядный) сумматор с тремя входами
    21) Иммунология: Fluorescent Antibody
    22) Транспорт: Flight Attendants, Flying Accident
    23) Фирменный знак: First Alert
    24) Экология: free air
    25) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: full authority, Functional Authority
    26) Образование: Frequently Asked
    27) Сетевые технологии: fully accessible
    28) Полимеры: fatty acid, folic acid, furfuryl alcohol
    29) Автоматика: factory automation, full adder
    30) Химическое оружие: functional area
    31) SAP.тех. автоматически переадресовано
    32) Электротехника: frequency adjustment, field-accelerating (relay)
    33) Должность: Field Agent
    34) NYSE. Fairchild Corporation
    35) НАСА: First Alien, First Ascent

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > fa

  • 12 qualify

    1) (to cause to be or to become able or suitable for: A degree in English does not qualify you to teach English; She is too young to qualify for a place in the team.) capacitar, reunir las condiciones
    2) ((with as) to show that one is suitable for a profession or job etc, especially by passing a test or examination: I hope to qualify as a doctor.) obtener el título de
    3) ((with for) to allow, or be allowed, to take part in a competition etc, usually by reaching a satisfactory standard in an earlier test or competition: She failed to qualify for the long jump.) clasificarse
    4) ((of an adjective) to describe, or add to the meaning of: In `red books', the adjective `red' qualifies the noun `books'.) calificar
    - qualified
    - qualifying

    1. obtener el título
    2. tener derecho
    staff qualify for a 10% discount los empleados tienen derecho a un descuento del 10%
    3. clasificarse
    tr['kwɒlɪfaɪ]
    1 (entitle, make eligible) capacitar, dar derecho, habilitar
    2 (modify) modificar, matizar, puntualizar
    3 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL calificar
    1 reunir las condiciones necesarias
    I'm afraid you don't qualify for a pension me temo que usted no reúne las condiciones necesarias para percibir una pensión
    2 (obtain degree) obtener el título (as, de)
    3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL clasificarse
    qualify ['kwɑlə.faɪ] v, - fied ; - fying vt
    1) : matizar
    to qualify a statement: matizar una declaración
    2) modify: calificar (en gramática)
    3) : habilitar
    the certificate qualified her to teach: el certificado la habilitó para enseñar
    1) : obtener el título, recibirse
    to qualify as an engineer: recibirse de ingeniero
    2) : clasificarse (en deportes)
    v.
    calificar v.
    capacitar v.
    capacitarse v.
    habilitar v.
    habilitarse v.
    llenar los requisitos v.
    modificar v.
    'kwɑːləfaɪ, 'kwɒlɪfaɪ
    1.
    -fies, -fying, -fied transitive verb
    1) (equip, entitle)

    to qualify somebody FOR something/to + INF: his experience should qualify him for a better post su experiencia debería permitirle acceder a un puesto mejor; this degree qualifies you to practice anywhere in Europe este título te habilita or te faculta para ejercer en cualquier parte de Europa; their low income qualifies them for some benefits — sus bajos ingresos les dan derecho a recibir ciertas prestaciones

    2)
    a) ( limit)

    I'd like to qualify the statement I made earlier — quisiera matizar lo que expresé anteriormente haciendo algunas salvedades (or puntualizaciones etc)

    b) ( Ling) calificar*

    2.
    vi
    a) ( gain professional qualification) titularse, recibirse (AmL)

    to qualify AS something — sacar* el título de algo, recibirse de algo (AmL)

    b) ( Sport)

    to qualify (FOR something) — clasificarse* (para algo)

    to qualify (FOR something) — tener* derecho (a algo)

    ['kwɒlɪfaɪ]
    1. VI
    1) (=gain qualification) (degree) terminar la carrera, sacar el título, recibirse (LAm); (professional exams) obtener la licencia para ejercer (como profesional)

    to qualify as an engineer — sacar el título de ingeniero

    2) (=meet criteria)
    a)

    to qualify as sth, it may qualify as a medical expense — puede que cuente como gastos médicos

    to qualify as disabled, he must... — para ser declarado minusválido, tiene que...

    b)

    to qualify for sth — (=be eligible) tener derecho a (recibir) algo

    she doesn't qualify for a grant — no tiene derecho a una beca, no puede optar a una beca

    3) (Sport) clasificarse ( for para)
    2. VT
    1) (=give qualifications, knowledge to)
    2) (=make eligible)
    3) (=modify) [+ statement] matizar; (=limit) [+ support, conclusion] condicionar
    4) (=describe)
    a) (gen) calificar (as de)
    b) (Gram) calificar a
    * * *
    ['kwɑːləfaɪ, 'kwɒlɪfaɪ]
    1.
    -fies, -fying, -fied transitive verb
    1) (equip, entitle)

    to qualify somebody FOR something/to + INF: his experience should qualify him for a better post su experiencia debería permitirle acceder a un puesto mejor; this degree qualifies you to practice anywhere in Europe este título te habilita or te faculta para ejercer en cualquier parte de Europa; their low income qualifies them for some benefits — sus bajos ingresos les dan derecho a recibir ciertas prestaciones

    2)
    a) ( limit)

    I'd like to qualify the statement I made earlier — quisiera matizar lo que expresé anteriormente haciendo algunas salvedades (or puntualizaciones etc)

    b) ( Ling) calificar*

    2.
    vi
    a) ( gain professional qualification) titularse, recibirse (AmL)

    to qualify AS something — sacar* el título de algo, recibirse de algo (AmL)

    b) ( Sport)

    to qualify (FOR something) — clasificarse* (para algo)

    to qualify (FOR something) — tener* derecho (a algo)

    English-spanish dictionary > qualify

  • 13 test

    test
    1. noun
    1) (a set of questions or exercises intended to find out a person's ability, knowledge etc; a short examination: an arithmetic/driving test.) prueba, examen, test
    2) (something done to find out whether a thing is good, strong, efficient etc: a blood test.) prueba, examen, test; análisis (de sangre)
    3) (an event, situation etc that shows how good or bad something is: a test of his courage.) prueba
    4) (a way to find out if something exists or is present: a test for radioactivity.) ensayo, prueba
    5) (a test match.) partido internacional

    2. verb
    (to carry out a test or tests on (someone or something): The students were tested on their French; They tested the new aircraft.) probar, examinar; hacer un análisis
    - test pilot
    - test-tube

    test1 n examen / prueba
    test2 vb testar / probar / comprobar

    test sustantivo masculino (pl
    tests) test;
    un examen tipo test a multiple-choice exam
    test sustantivo masculino test
    test de calidad, quality test ' test' also found in these entries: Spanish: alcoholemia - análisis - control - ensayar - ensayo - evaluación - examen - graduar - lección - negativa - negativo - positiva - positivo - probar - probeta - prueba - psicotécnica - psicotécnico - suficiencia - testar - verificación - admisión - bebé - citología - comprobación - convivencia - dar - ejercicio - interrogación - Papanicolau - piloto - resistencia - seguro - sondeo - tentar - verificar English: accurately - acid test - aptitude test - attest - blood test - breath test - detest - driving test - ease - polygraph - protest - protester - review - score - smear test - test - test case - test drive - test pilot - test run - test-tube baby - testament - testicle - testify - testimonial - testimony - worried - answer - blood - blow - Breathalyzer - dope - driving - endurance - fail - full - go - grade - graduated - litmus - means - multiple - Pap smear - pass - pilot - positive - quiz - remote - screen - set
    tr[test]
    1 (trial) prueba
    2 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL (gen) examen nombre masculino, prueba; (multiple choice) test nombre masculino
    3 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL análisis nombre masculino
    1 (gen) probar
    2 (patience, loyalty) poner a prueba
    3 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL hacerle una prueba a
    4 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL analizar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to stand the test of time resistir el paso del tiempo
    to take a car for a test drive probar un coche en carretera
    test flight vuelo de prueba
    test match partido internacional
    test pilot piloto de pruebas
    test tube probeta
    test ['tɛst] vt
    : examinar, evaluar
    test vi
    : hacer pruebas
    test n
    : prueba f, examen m, test m
    to put to the test: poner a prueba
    n.
    ensayo s.m.
    examen s.m.
    piedra de toque s.f.
    probatura s.f.
    prueba s.f.
    tanteo s.m.
    test s.m.
    v.
    ensayar v.
    examinar v.
    experimentar v.
    probar v.
    tantear v.
    verificar v.
    test
    I
    1)
    a) ( Educ) prueba f; ( multiple-choice type) test m

    to do o take a test — hacer* una prueba/un test

    to give o set somebody a test — hacerle* or ponerle* a alguien una prueba/un test

    b) (of machine, drug) prueba f

    to put something to the test — poner* algo a prueba

    to stand the test of time — resistir el paso del tiempo; (before n) <run, flight> experimental, de prueba

    c) (analysis, investigation)

    blood/urine test — análisis m de sangre/orina

    to have an eye/a hearing test — hacerse* un examen de la vista/del oído

    2) ( Sport) partido m internacional

    II
    1.
    a) \<\<student/class\>\> examinar, hacerle* una prueba a; \<\<knowledge/skill\>\> evaluar*
    b) test (out) \<\<product/vehicle/weapon\>\> probar*, poner* a prueba

    these cosmetics have not been tested on animals — no se han utilizado animales en las pruebas de laboratorio de estos cosméticos

    c) \<\<friendship/endurance\>\> poner* a prueba
    d) \<\<blood/urine\>\> analizar*; \<\<sight/hearing/reflexes\>\> examinar; \<\<hypothesis\>\> comprobar*

    to test somebody for something: she was tested for AIDS se le hizo un análisis para determinar si tenía el sida; to test something FOR something: the eggs were tested for salmonella — los huevos fueron analizados para determinar si estaban infectados de salmonela


    2.
    vi ( carry out a test) hacer* pruebas; ( Med) hacer* análisis

    just testing! — (hum) era sólo para ver qué decías

    [test]
    1. N
    1) (Scol, Univ) examen m ; (multiple-choice) test m ; (esp for job) prueba f

    to do a test — (Scol, Univ) hacer un examen; (multiple choice) hacer un test; (for job) hacer una prueba

    to fail a test — (Scol, Univ) suspender un examen; (multiple choice) suspender un test; (for job) no pasar una prueba

    to give sb a test (in sth) — examinar a algn (de algo), poner a algn un examen (de algo)

    an oral test — un examen oral

    to pass a test — (Scol, Univ) aprobar un examen; (multiple choice) aprobar un test; (for job) pasar una prueba

    to take a test — (Scol, Univ) hacer un examen; (multiple choice) hacer un test; (for job) hacer una prueba

    a written test — un examen oral/escrito

    aptitude, intelligence
    2) (Aut) (also: driving test) examen m de conducir

    to fail one's test — suspender el examen de conducir

    to pass one's test — aprobar el examen de conducir

    to take one's test — hacer el examen de conducir

    3) (Med) [of organs, functioning] prueba f ; [of sample, substance] análisis m inv

    AIDS test — prueba f del sida

    blood test — análisis m inv de sangre

    eye test — revisión f de la vista

    it was sent to the laboratory for tests — lo mandaron al laboratorio para que lo analizaran

    hearing test — revisión f del oído

    medical test — examen m médico

    pregnancy test — prueba f del embarazo

    urine test — análisis m inv de orina

    breath, fitness, litmus, smear
    4) (=trial) [of aircraft, new product, drug] prueba f

    nuclear test — prueba f nuclear

    they want to ban cosmetics tests on animals — quieren prohibir las pruebas de cosméticos en animales

    flight I, 1., 1), screen 3.
    5) (fig) prueba f

    holidays are a major test of any relationship — irse de vacaciones es una de las pruebas más difíciles a la que se somete cualquier relación

    to put sth to the test — poner or someter algo a prueba

    to stand the test of timeresistir el paso del tiempo

    acid, endurance
    6) (Cricket, Rugby) (also: test match) partido m internacional
    2. VT
    1) [+ student, pupil] examinar; [+ candidate] (for job) hacer una prueba a; [+ knowledge] evaluar; [+ understanding] poner a prueba

    to test sb on sth — (Scol, Univ) examinar a algn de algo; (esp for job) hacer una prueba de algo a algn; (for revision) hacer preguntas de algo a algn (para repasar)

    can you test me on my French/spelling? — ¿me haces preguntas de francés/ortografía?

    2) (Med) [+ blood, urine, sample] analizar

    to have one's eyes tested — hacerse una revisión de la vista

    to test sb/sth for sth, to test sb for AIDS — hacer la prueba del SIDA a algn

    to test sb for drugs (gen) realizar pruebas a algn para comprobar si ha consumido drogas; [+ athlete, sportsperson] realizar el control antidoping a algn

    3) (=conduct trials on) [+ aircraft, weapon, new product, drug] probar

    all our products are tested for quality — probamos la calidad de todos nuestros productos

    to test sth on sth/sb — probar algo con or en algo/algn

    4) (=check) probar
    - test the waters
    5) (fig) (=put to the test) [+ person, courage] poner a prueba
    3.
    VI (=conduct a test)

    testing, testing... — (Telec) probando, probando...

    it is a method used to test for allergies — es un método utilizado en pruebas de alergia

    just testing! — hum ¡por si acaso pregunto!

    to test negative/ positive (for sth) — dar negativo/positivo (en la prueba de algo)

    4.
    CPD

    (nuclear) test ban Nprohibición f de pruebas nucleares

    test ban treaty N (also: nuclear test ban treaty) tratado m de prohibición de pruebas nucleares

    test bed Nbanco m de pruebas

    test card N — (TV) carta f de ajuste

    test case N — (Jur) juicio m que sienta jurisprudencia

    test cricket Ncríquet m a nivel internacional

    test data NPLresultados mpl de prueba

    test drive N (by potential buyer) prueba f en carretera; (by mechanic, technician) prueba f de rodaje

    test-drive

    test flight Nvuelo m de prueba, vuelo m de ensayo

    test marketing Npruebas de un producto nuevo en el mercado

    test marketing has already shown the product to be a great success — las pruebas realizadas en el mercado ya han mostrado que el producto tiene un éxito tremendo

    test match N — (Cricket, Rugby) partido m internacional

    test paper N — (Scol, Univ) examen m ; (multiple-choice) test m ; (Chem) papel m reactivo

    test pattern N (US) (TV) — = test card

    test piece N — (Mus) pieza f elegida para un certamen de piano

    test pilot Npiloto mf de pruebas

    test run N — (lit) vuelta f de prueba, prueba f ; (fig) puesta f a prueba

    test tube Nprobeta f, tubo m de ensayo

    test tube baby Nbebé mf probeta

    * * *
    [test]
    I
    1)
    a) ( Educ) prueba f; ( multiple-choice type) test m

    to do o take a test — hacer* una prueba/un test

    to give o set somebody a test — hacerle* or ponerle* a alguien una prueba/un test

    b) (of machine, drug) prueba f

    to put something to the test — poner* algo a prueba

    to stand the test of time — resistir el paso del tiempo; (before n) <run, flight> experimental, de prueba

    c) (analysis, investigation)

    blood/urine test — análisis m de sangre/orina

    to have an eye/a hearing test — hacerse* un examen de la vista/del oído

    2) ( Sport) partido m internacional

    II
    1.
    a) \<\<student/class\>\> examinar, hacerle* una prueba a; \<\<knowledge/skill\>\> evaluar*
    b) test (out) \<\<product/vehicle/weapon\>\> probar*, poner* a prueba

    these cosmetics have not been tested on animals — no se han utilizado animales en las pruebas de laboratorio de estos cosméticos

    c) \<\<friendship/endurance\>\> poner* a prueba
    d) \<\<blood/urine\>\> analizar*; \<\<sight/hearing/reflexes\>\> examinar; \<\<hypothesis\>\> comprobar*

    to test somebody for something: she was tested for AIDS se le hizo un análisis para determinar si tenía el sida; to test something FOR something: the eggs were tested for salmonella — los huevos fueron analizados para determinar si estaban infectados de salmonela


    2.
    vi ( carry out a test) hacer* pruebas; ( Med) hacer* análisis

    just testing! — (hum) era sólo para ver qué decías

    English-spanish dictionary > test

  • 14 Almeida, Antônio josé de

    (1866-1929)
       Leading political figure in the First Republic, stalwart of republican politics, and the only president of the republic to serve a full term of office during that political experience (1910-26). Like a number of the leading political figures of his generation, Almeida was educated at Coimbra University's medical school and was a staunch republican opponent of the monarchy. Almeida was reputedly the finest speaker and debater of the republican leaders. When the provisional government was named following the Republican Revolution of 5 October 1910, Almeida was included. Compared to Afonso Costa, a moderate republican, Almeida was involved in the fragmenting of the Republican Party (PRP) in 1911-12 and formed an alternate Republican Party, the Evolutionist Republican Party (PRE) or Evolutionists. Almeida headed one government as prime minister (1916-17), but rapidly became exhausted and disillusioned by the First Republic's unstable, ineffective politics and government. After the assassination of Sidónio Pais in late 1918, and the failed right-wing revolution of 1919, Almeida declared himself nonpartisan and his party, the PRE, was dissolved. Loyal to the idea of the republic, however, Almeida wished to serve in some capacity. Due to his image of being above the political fray, he was elected by the congress as president of the republic and served his full term (1919-23). Prematurely aged by the experience, he withdrew from politics and died in Lisbon in 1929.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Almeida, Antônio josé de

  • 15 Abel, John Jacob

    SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology
    [br]
    b. 19 May 1857 near Cleveland, Ohio, USA
    d. 26 May 1938 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    [br]
    American pharmacologist and physiologist, proponent of the "artificial kidney" and the isolator of pure insulin.
    [br]
    Born of German immigrant farming stock, his early scientific education at the University of Michigan, where he graduated PhB in 1883, suffered from a financially dictated interregnum of three years. In 1884 he moved to Leipzig and worked under Ludwig, moving to Strasbourg where he obtained his MD in 1888. In 1891 he was able to return to the University of Michigan as Lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapeutics, and in 1893 he was offered the first Chair of Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University, a position he occupied until 1932. He was a pioneer in emphasizing the importance of chemistry, in its widest sense, in medicine and physiology. In his view, "the investigator must associate himself with those who have laboured in fields where molecules and atoms rather than multi-cellular tissues or even unicellular organisms are the units of study".
    Soon after coming to Baltimore he commenced work on extracts from the adrenal medulla and in 1899 published his work on epinephrine. In later years he developed an "artificial kidney" which could be used to remove diffusible substances from the blood. In 1913 he was able to demonstrate the existence of free amino-acids in the blood and his investigations in this field foreshadowed not only the developments of blood and plasma transfusion but also the possibility of the management of renal failure.
    From 1917 to 1924 he moved to a study of the hormone content of pituitary extracts, but in 1924 he suddenly transferred his attention to the study of insulin. In 1925 he announced the discovery of pure crystalline hormone. This work at first failed to gain full acceptance, but as late as 1955 the full elucidation of the protein structure of insulin proved the final culmination of his studies.
    Abel's dedication to laboratory research and his disdain for matters of administration may explain the relative paucity of worldy honours awarded to such an outstanding figure.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS.
    Bibliography
    1913, "On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood by means of dialysis", Transactions of the Association of American Physiologists.
    Further Reading
    1939, Obituary Notices, Fellows of the Royal Society, London: Royal Society.
    1946, Biographical Memoir: John Jacob Abel. 1857–1938, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
    MG

    Biographical history of technology > Abel, John Jacob

  • 16 Brearley, Harry

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 18 February 1871 Sheffield, England
    d. 14 July 1948 Torquay, Devon, England
    [br]
    English inventor of stainless steel.
    [br]
    Brearley was born in poor circumstances. He received little formal education and was nurtured rather in and around the works of Thomas Firth \& Sons, where his father worked in the crucible steel-melting shop. One of his first jobs was to help in their chemical laboratory where the chief chemist, James Taylor, encouraged him and helped him fit himself for a career as a steelworks chemist.
    In 1901 Brearley left Firth's to set up a laboratory at Kayser Ellison \& Co., but he returned to Firth's in 1904, when he was appointed Chief Chemist at their Riga works, and Works Manager the following year. In 1907 he returned to Sheffield to design and equip a research laboratory to serve both Firth's and John Brown \& Co. It was during his time as head of this laboratory that he made his celebrated discovery. In 1913, while seeking improved steels for rifle barrels, he used one containing 12.68 per cent chromium and 0.24 per cent carbon, in the hope that it would resist fouling and erosion. He tried to etch a specimen for microscopic examination but failed, from which he concluded that it would resist corrosion by, for example, the acids encountered in foods and cooking. The first knives made of this new steel were unsatisfactory and the 1914–18 war interrupted further research. But eventually the problems were overcome and Brearley's discovery led to a range of stainless steels with various compositions for domestic, medical and industrial uses, including the well-known "18–8" steel, with 18 per cent chromium and 8 per cent nickel.
    In 1915 Brearley left the laboratory to become Works Manager, then Technical Director, at Brown Bayley's steelworks until his retirement in 1925.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Iron and Steel Institute Bessemer Gold Medal 1920.
    Bibliography
    Brearley wrote several books, including: 1915 (?), with F.Ibbotson, The Analysis of Steelworks Materials, London.
    The Heat Treatment of Tool Steels. Ingots and Ingot Moulds.
    Later books include autobiographical details: 1946, Talks on Steelmaking, American Society for Metals.
    1941, Knotted String: Autobiography of a Steelmaker, London: Longmans, Green.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1948, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute: 428–9.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Brearley, Harry

  • 17 examination

    1) ((a) close inspection: Make a thorough examination of the area where the crime took place; On examination the patient was discovered to have appendicitis.) inspección, examen
    2) ((also exam) a test of knowledge or ability: school examinations; She is to take a French/dancing exam; (also adjective) examination/exam papers; He failed/passed the English exam.) examen
    3) ((a) formal questioning (eg of a witness).) interrogatorio
    1. examen
    2. reconocimiento / revisión
    tr[ɪgzæmɪ'neɪʃən]
    1 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL examen nombre masculino
    2 (inspection) inspección nombre femenino, examen nombre masculino; (of house, room) registro
    3 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL reconocimiento
    4 SMALLLAW/SMALL interrogatorio
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be under examination (questioned) estar sometido,-a a un interrogatorio 2 (looked at, investigated) estar sometido,-a a examen
    to sit an examination / take an examination examinarse
    examination [ɪg.zæmə'neɪʃən, ɛg-] n
    1) test: examen m
    2) inspection: inspección f, revisión f
    3) investigation: examen m, estudio m
    n.
    examen s.m.
    interrogación s.f.
    investigación s.f.
    reconocimiento s.m.
    reconocimiento médico s.m.
    registro s.m.
    ɪg'zæmə'neɪʃən, ɪgˌzæmɪ'neɪʃən
    1) c (frml Educ) examen m

    to take o (BrE also) sit an examination — dar* or hacer* or (CS) rendir* or (Méx) tomar un examen, examinarse (Esp)

    to pass an examination — aprobar* or pasar un examen

    to fail an examination — reprobar* or (Esp) suspender or (Ur) perder* un examen

    2) c u
    a) ( inspection - of accounts) revisión f, inspección f; (- of passports) control m; (- by doctor) reconocimiento m, examen m, revisación f (RPl)
    b) (study, investigation) examen m
    3) c ( of witness) interrogatorio m
    [ɪɡˌzæmɪ'neɪʃǝn]
    1. N
    1) (Scol, Univ) (=test) examen m

    to take or sit an examination — presentarse a un examen

    2) (=inspection) [of premises] inspección f ; [of luggage] registro m ; [of account] revisión f, inspección f ; [of witness, suspect] interrogatorio m

    on examination — al examinarlo/examinarlos etc

    3) (=inquiry) investigación f, estudio m ( into de)
    4) (Med) reconocimiento m
    2.
    CPD

    examination board N(Brit) una de las varias juntas que coordinan los exámenes a nivel nacional

    examination paper Nexamen m (la hoja)

    examination results Nresultados mpl de los exámenes

    examination room Nsala f del examen

    * * *
    [ɪg'zæmə'neɪʃən, ɪgˌzæmɪ'neɪʃən]
    1) c (frml Educ) examen m

    to take o (BrE also) sit an examination — dar* or hacer* or (CS) rendir* or (Méx) tomar un examen, examinarse (Esp)

    to pass an examination — aprobar* or pasar un examen

    to fail an examination — reprobar* or (Esp) suspender or (Ur) perder* un examen

    2) c u
    a) ( inspection - of accounts) revisión f, inspección f; (- of passports) control m; (- by doctor) reconocimiento m, examen m, revisación f (RPl)
    b) (study, investigation) examen m
    3) c ( of witness) interrogatorio m

    English-spanish dictionary > examination

  • 18 examination

    noun
    1) (inspection) Untersuchung, die; (of accounts) [Über]prüfung, die

    be under examinationuntersucht od. überprüft werden

    2) (Med.) Untersuchung, die
    3) (test of knowledge or ability) Prüfung, die; (final examination at university) Examen, das
    4) (Law) (of witness, accused) Verhör, das; Vernehmung, die; (of case) Untersuchung, die
    * * *
    1) ((a) close inspection: Make a thorough examination of the area where the crime took place; On examination the patient was discovered to have appendicitis.) die Untersuchung
    2) ((also exam) a test of knowledge or ability: school examinations; She is to take a French/dancing exam; ( also adjective) examination/exam papers; He failed/passed the English exam.) die Prüfung
    3) ((a) formal questioning (eg of a witness).) die Vernehmung
    * * *
    ex·ami·na·tion
    [ɪgˌzæmɪˈneɪʃən]
    I. n
    1. (test) Prüfung f; UNIV Examen nt
    to fail an \examination durch eine Prüfung fallen
    to pass/sit/take an \examination eine Prüfung bestehen/ablegen/machen
    2. (investigation) Untersuchung f
    customs \examination ECON Zollkontrolle f
    \examination of the evidence Überprüfung f der Beweismittel
    research \examination Forschungsuntersuchungen
    on closer \examination bei genauerer Überprüfung
    to be under \examination untersucht werden
    the evidence is still under \examination die Beweismittel werden immer noch geprüft
    3. MED Untersuchung f
    to undergo a medical \examination sich akk ärztlich untersuchen lassen
    post-mortem \examination Obduktion f, Autopsie f
    to have [or undergo] an \examination sich akk einer Untersuchung unterziehen
    4. (questioning) suspect, prisoner Vernehmung f, Verhör nt, Einvernahme f SCHWEIZ; witness Zeugenvernehmung f, Zeugeneinvernahme f SCHWEIZ
    direct \examination AM erste Zeugenvernehmung [o SCHWEIZ Zeugeneinvernahme] (durchgeführt von dem Anwalt der benennenden Partei)
    to conduct the \examination of a witness die Zeugenvernehmung [o SCHWEIZ Zeugeneinvernahme] durchführen
    to undergo an \examination vernommen [o verhört] [o SCHWEIZ einvernommen] werden
    II. n modifier (questions, results, certificate) Prüfungs-
    \examination paper Prüfungsunterlagen pl
    * * *
    [Ig"zmI'neISən]
    n
    1) (SCH ETC) Prüfung f; (UNIV) Examen nt, Prüfung f
    2) (= study, inspection) Prüfung f, Untersuchung f; (of machine, premises, passports) Kontrolle f; (of question) Untersuchung f; (of accounts) Prüfung f

    on closer examinationbei genauer( er) Prüfung or Untersuchung

    it was found on examination that... — die Untersuchung ergab, dass...

    3) (MED) Untersuchung f
    4) (JUR of suspect, accused, witness) Verhör nt; (of case, documents) Untersuchung f
    * * *
    examination [ıɡˌzæmıˈneıʃn] s
    1. Untersuchung f ( auch MED), Prüfung f (of [ oder into] sth einer Sache):
    examination board MIL Musterungskommission f;
    not bear ( oder stand) close examination einer näheren Prüfung nicht standhalten;
    hold an examination into a matter eine eingehende Untersuchung einer Sache anstellen;
    be under examination geprüft oder untersucht werden ( 3);
    (up)on examination bei näherer Prüfung;
    examination of the books WIRTSCH Prüfung oder Revision f der Bücher
    2. SCHULE etc Prüfung f, besonders UNIV Examen n:
    examination nerves pl Prüfungsangst f;
    he’s got examination nerves auch er ist kein Prüfungstyp;
    a) schriftliche Prüfung,
    b) Prüfungsarbeit f;
    it’s all part of the examination paper fig das gehört alles mit dazu;
    examination results Prüfungsergebnisse
    3. JUR
    a) Zivilprozess: (meist eidliche) Vernehmung:
    be under examination vernommen werden ( 1)
    b) Strafprozess: Verhör n
    ex. abk
    6. WIRTSCH US exchange
    7. US executed
    8. US executive
    exam. abk
    * * *
    noun
    1) (inspection) Untersuchung, die; (of accounts) [Über]prüfung, die

    be under examinationuntersucht od. überprüft werden

    2) (Med.) Untersuchung, die
    3) (test of knowledge or ability) Prüfung, die; (final examination at university) Examen, das
    4) (Law) (of witness, accused) Verhör, das; Vernehmung, die; (of case) Untersuchung, die
    * * *
    n.
    Examen - n.
    Prüfung -en f.
    Untersuchung f.
    Verhör -e n.

    English-german dictionary > examination

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