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  • 1 in the first place

    (in the first (second, etc.) place)
    сперва, прежде всего, первым делом, в первую очередь (во-вторых и т. д.)

    I said, ‘That automobile accident. Do you think there's any possibility Mr. Holgate could have been lying about it?’ She said, ‘In the first place Mr. Holgate doesn't lie and in the second place there was nothing for him to lie about. He admits liability and his story of the accident coincides with yours.’ (E. S. Gardner, ‘Shills Can't Cash Chips’, ch. 7) — - Разве исключена возможность, что мистер Холгейт сказал неправду об этой автомобильной аварии? - спросил я. - Во-первых, мистер Холгейт никогда не говорит неправды, а во-вторых, ему незачем говорить неправду. Он признает свою ответственность за происшедшее. Его описание этого несчастного случая совпадает с вашим, - ответила Лоррен.

    ‘A wretched bad actor.’ ‘I told you that in the first place,’ Willy said, too quickly. (P. H. Johnson, ‘Catherine Carter’, part II, ch. II) — - Малколм Риверс никуда не годный актер. - Я же с самого начала говорил вам об этом, - слишком поспешно сказал Уилли.

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  • 2 have

    have [hæv]
    verbe auxiliaire1 avoir1, 2A (a)-(c), 2B (b)-(e), 2C (a), 2C (b), 2F (a), 2F (d), 2F (h), 2F (i) être1 posséder2A (a) disposer de2A (b) prendre2B (c) passer2B (d) recevoir2C (a), 2C (b) vouloir2C (c), 2F (f) tenir2D (a) faire faire2E (b), 2E (c) placer2F (b) devoir2G (a), 2G (b) concerner2G (c)
    ⓘ GRAM Les formes négatives, haven't et hasn't, s'écrivent have not and has not dans un style plus soutenu.
    ⓘ GRAM Most French verbs will conjugate with avoir to form the perfect tense. However, all reflexive verbs and many intransitive verbs - mainly of motion - will conjugate with être.
    (3rd pers sing pres has [hæz], pt & pp had [hæd])
    to have finished avoir fini;
    to have left être parti;
    to have sat down s'être assis;
    to have been/had avoir été/eu;
    has she slept? a-t-elle dormi?;
    have they arrived? sont-ils arrivés?;
    he has been ill il a été malade;
    when you've calmed down quand vous vous serez calmé;
    I will have forgotten by next week j'aurai oublié d'ici la semaine prochaine;
    the children will have gone to bed by the time we arrive les enfants seront couchés quand nous arriverons;
    you were silly not to have accepted tu es bête de ne pas avoir accepté;
    after or when you have finished, you may leave quand vous aurez fini, vous pourrez partir;
    she was ashamed of having lied elle avait honte d'avoir menti;
    she felt she couldn't change her mind, having already agreed to go elle sentait qu'elle ne pouvait pas changer d'avis, étant donné qu'elle avait dit être d'accord pour y aller;
    I have been thinking j'ai réfléchi;
    he has been working here for two months il travaille ici depuis deux mois, il y a deux mois qu'il travaille ici;
    I have known her for three years/since childhood je la connais depuis trois ans/depuis mon enfance;
    I had known her for years cela faisait des années que je la connaissais, je la connaissais depuis des années;
    she claimed she hadn't heard the news elle a prétendu ne pas avoir entendu la nouvelle;
    I had already gone to bed when he arrived j'étais déjà couché quand il est arrivé;
    we had gone to bed early nous nous étions couchés de bonne heure;
    when he had given his speech, I left une fois qu'il eut terminé son discours, je partis;
    had I known, I wouldn't have insisted si j'avais su, je n'aurais pas insisté;
    if I had known, I wouldn't have said anything si j'avais su, je n'aurais rien dit;
    they would have been happy if it hadn't been for the war ils auraient vécu heureux si la guerre n'était pas survenue;
    why don't you just leave him and have done with it? pourquoi donc est-ce que vous ne le quittez pas, pour en finir?;
    I'd as soon not j'aimerais mieux pas;
    he'd rather or sooner stay at home than go out dancing il aimerait mieux rester ou il préférerait rester à la maison qu'aller danser;
    familiar he's had it (is in trouble) il est fichu ou foutu; (is worn out) il est à bout;
    familiar I've had it with all your complaining! j'en ai jusque-là de tes jérémiades!;
    familiar I've had it up to here with him j'en ai jusque-là de ce type-là;
    familiar the car has just about had it la voiture va bientôt rendre l'âme;
    familiar this plant has had it cette plante est fichue
    have you ever had the measles? - yes, I have/no, I haven't avez-vous eu la rougeole? - oui/non;
    she hasn't finished - yes, she has! elle n'a pas fini - (mais) si!;
    you've forgotten his birthday - no, I haven't! tu as oublié son anniversaire - mais non!;
    have you ever considered going into politics? if you have.../if you haven't… avez-vous déjà envisagé de rentrer dans la vie politique? si oui…/si non…;
    you've forgotten your gloves - so I have! vous avez oublié vos gants - en effet! ou tiens, c'est vrai!
    you've read 'Hamlet', haven't you? vous avez lu 'Hamlet', n'est-ce pas?;
    he hasn't arrived, has he? il n'est pas arrivé, si?;
    so she's got a new job, has she? elle a changé de travail alors?
    A.
    (a) (be in possession of, own) avoir, posséder;
    do you have or have you got a car? avez-vous une voiture?;
    they have (got) a lot of friends/money ils ont beaucoup d'amis/d'argent;
    they don't have or they haven't got any more ils n'en ont plus;
    she shares everything she has (got) with them elle partage tout ce qu'elle a avec eux;
    he has (got) £10 left il lui reste 10 livres;
    we have (got) six of them left il nous en reste six;
    do you have or have you got any children? if you have... avez-vous des enfants? si vous en avez ou si oui...;
    they have (got) a 50 percent interest in the business ils ont ou détiennent 50 pour cent des intérêts dans l'affaire;
    I have (got) a lot of work to finish j'ai beaucoup de travail à finir;
    do we have or have we got any milk in the house? est-ce qu'on a du lait ou est-ce qu'il y a du lait à la maison?;
    she has (got) a baker's shop/bookshop elle tient une boulangerie/librairie;
    do you have or have you got the time? avez-vous l'heure?;
    he doesn't have or hasn't got a job il n'a pas de travail, il est sans travail;
    we have (got) a deadline to meet nous avons un délai à respecter;
    I've got it! ça y est, j'ai trouvé ou j'y suis!;
    paper, envelopes and what have you du papier, des enveloppes et je ne sais quoi encore;
    proverb you can't have your cake and eat it on ne peut pas avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre;
    familiar give it all you have or all you've got! mets-y le paquet!
    (b) (enjoy the use of) avoir, disposer de;
    we had a couple of hours to do our errands nous disposions de ou nous avions quelques heures pour faire nos courses;
    I don't have time or I haven't got time to stop for lunch je n'ai pas le temps de m'arrêter pour déjeuner;
    he has (got) a month to finish il a un mois pour finir;
    he hasn't (got) long to live il ne lui reste pas longtemps à vivre;
    do you have or have you (got) a minute (to spare)? tu as une minute?;
    she had the house to herself elle avait la maison pour elle toute seule;
    such questions have an important place in our lives ce genre de questions occupe une place importante dans notre vie;
    he has (got) nothing to do/to read il n'a rien à faire/à lire
    she has (got) red hair elle a les cheveux roux, elle est rousse;
    you have (got) beautiful eyes tu as de beaux yeux;
    the ticket has (got) a name on it il y a un nom sur le billet;
    to have good taste avoir bon goût;
    to have a bad temper avoir mauvais caractère;
    she has (got) a reputation for being difficult elle a la réputation d'être difficile;
    the house has (got) a beautiful view of the mountains de la maison, on a une belle vue sur les montagnes;
    she has (got) what it takes or she has it in her to succeed elle a ce qu'il faut pour réussir;
    you've never had it so good! vous n'avez jamais eu la vie si belle!;
    familiar he really has it bad for Emma il a complètement craqué pour Emma
    do you have or have you got any experience of teaching? avez-vous déjà enseigné?;
    she has (got) a clear sense of what matters elle sait très bien ce qui est important;
    he has some Greek and Latin il connaît un peu le grec et le latin;
    I have a little Spanish je parle un peu espagnol
    B.
    to have a dream/nightmare faire un rêve/cauchemar;
    I have no regrets je n'ai aucun regret ou pas de regrets;
    I didn't have any trouble in finding it je n'ai eu aucune peine à le trouver;
    we have (got) nothing or we don't have anything against dogs on n'a rien contre les chiens;
    I've had my appendix out je me suis fait opérer de l'appendicite;
    he had all his money stolen il s'est fait voler ou on lui a volé tout son argent;
    I love having my back rubbed j'adore qu'on me frotte le dos;
    they had some strange things happen to them il leur est arrivé de drôles de choses
    (b) (be infected with, suffer from) avoir;
    to have a cold avoir un rhume, être enrhumé;
    do you have or have you got a headache? avez-vous mal à la tête?;
    he has (got) problems with his back il a des problèmes de dos
    (c) (perform, take part in → bath, lesson) prendre; (→ meeting) avoir;
    we had our first argument last night nous nous sommes disputés hier soir pour la première fois;
    to have a stroll se promener, faire un tour;
    I want to have a think about it je veux y réfléchir;
    to have a party (organize) organiser une fête; (celebrate) faire la fête;
    I'll have no part in it je refuse de m'en mêler
    (d) (pass, spend) passer, avoir;
    I had a horrible day at work j'ai passé une journée atroce au travail;
    have a nice day! bonne journée!;
    to have a good time s'amuser;
    did you have a good time? c'était bien?, tu t'es bien amusé?;
    a good time was had by all tout le monde s'est bien amusé;
    she's had a hard time of it lately elle vient de traverser une mauvaise passe
    (e) (exhibit, show) avoir, montrer;
    have mercy on us! ayez pitié de nous!;
    he had the nerve to refuse il a eu le culot de refuser;
    he didn't even have the decency to apologize il n'a même pas eu la décence de s'excuser
    C.
    (a) (obtain, receive) avoir, recevoir;
    I'd like him to have this picture j'aimerais lui donner cette photo;
    I'd like to have your advice on something j'aimerais que vous me donniez un conseil à propos de quelque chose;
    we had a phone call from the mayor nous avons reçu ou eu un coup de fil du maire;
    they've still had no news of the lost plane ils n'ont toujours pas de nouvelles de l'avion (qui a) disparu;
    I have it on good authority je le tiens de bonne source;
    I must have your answer by tomorrow il me faut votre réponse pour demain;
    let me have your answer by next week donnez-moi votre réponse avant la semaine prochaine;
    let me have your keys donne-moi tes clefs;
    let me have the book back when you've finished rends-moi le livre quand tu auras fini;
    she let them have the wardrobe for £300 elle leur a laissé ou cédé l'armoire pour 300 livres;
    there are plenty of flats to be had il y a plein d'appartements;
    familiar I let him have it (attacked him) je lui ai réglé son compte; (told him off) je lui ai passé un savon;
    familiar you had it coming! tu ne l'as pas volé!
    (b) (invite) recevoir, avoir;
    she's having some people (over) for or to dinner elle reçoit ou elle a du monde à dîner;
    let's have him round for a drink et si on l'invitait à prendre un pot?;
    did you have any visitors? avez-vous eu de la visite?;
    after the movie we had them back for coffee après le cinéma, nous les avons invités à venir prendre le café chez nous
    (c) (accept, take) vouloir;
    he'd like to marry but nobody will have him! il aimerait se marier mais personne ne veut de lui!;
    do what you want, I'm having nothing more to do with your schemes fais ce que tu veux, je ne veux plus être mêlé à tes combines
    D.
    (a) (clutch) tenir;
    to have sb in one's power avoir qn en son pouvoir;
    the teacher had (got) him by the arm/the ear le maître le tenait par le bras/l'oreille;
    he had (got) his assailant by the throat il tenait son agresseur à la gorge
    you have me there! là vous me tenez!;
    I have (got) you right where I want you now! je vous tiens!;
    Sport the Bears have it! les Bears ont gagné!
    (c) (bewilder, perplex)
    who won? - you've got me there qui a gagné? - là, tu me poses une colle
    E.
    the news had me worried la nouvelle m'a inquiété;
    I'll have this light fixed in a minute j'en ai pour une minute à réparer cette lampe;
    we'll have everything ready tout sera prêt
    (b) (with past participle) (cause to be done) to have sth done faire faire qch;
    I had my hair cut je me suis fait couper les cheveux;
    we must have the curtains cleaned nous devons faire nettoyer les rideaux ou donner les rideaux à nettoyer;
    three houses had their windows shattered trois maisons ont eu leurs fenêtres brisées;
    she had coffee brought up to the room elle a fait monter du café dans la chambre;
    I had my watch stolen je me suis fait voler ma montre
    (c) (with infinitive) (cause to do) to have sb do sth faire faire qch à qn;
    she had him invite all the neighbours round elle lui a fait inviter tous les voisins;
    have them come in faites-les entrer;
    the boss had him up to his office le patron l'a convoqué dans son bureau;
    he soon had them all laughing il eut tôt fait de les faire tous rire;
    I had the children go to bed early j'ai couché les enfants de bonne heure;
    as he would have us believe comme il voudrait nous le faire croire
    F.
    (a) (consume → food, meal) avoir, prendre;
    we were having lunch nous étions en train de déjeuner;
    we're having dinner out tonight nous sortons dîner ce soir;
    to have breakfast in bed prendre le petit déjeuner au lit;
    would you like to have coffee? voulez-vous (prendre) un café?;
    do you have coffee or tea in the morning? prenez-vous du café ou du thé le matin?;
    I had tea with her j'ai pris le thé avec elle;
    we stopped and had a drink nous nous sommes arrêtés pour boire quelque chose;
    what will you have? - I'll have the lamb (in restaurant) qu'est-ce que vous prenez? - je vais prendre de l'agneau;
    we had fish for dinner nous avons mangé ou eu du poisson au dîner;
    he always has a cigarette after dinner il fume toujours une cigarette après le dîner;
    will you have a cigarette? voulez-vous une cigarette?
    (b) (indicating location, position) placer, mettre;
    we'll have the wardrobe here and the table in there nous mettrons l'armoire ici et la table par là;
    she had her arm around his shoulders elle avait mis le bras autour de ses épaules;
    I had my back to the window je tournais le dos à la fenêtre;
    he had his head down il avait la tête baissée
    she had her mother with her sa mère était avec elle;
    I can't talk right now, I have someone with me je ne peux pas parler, je ne suis pas seul ou je suis avec quelqu'un
    she's had a baby elle a eu un bébé;
    she had her baby last week elle a accouché la semaine dernière;
    she's going to have a baby elle attend ou elle va avoir un bébé;
    he's had three children by her il a eu trois enfants d'elle;
    our dog has just had puppies notre chien vient d'avoir des petits
    (e) (assert, claim) soutenir, maintenir;
    public opinion has it that he is not telling the truth on pense généralement qu'il ne dit pas la vérité;
    rumour has it that they're married le bruit court qu'ils sont mariés;
    as the government would have it comme dirait le gouvernement;
    as Plato has it comme dit Platon, comme l'a écrit Platon
    (f) (with "will" or "would") (wish for) vouloir;
    what would you have me do? que voudriez-vous que je fasse?;
    I'll have you know I have a degree in French je vous fais remarquer que j'ai une licence de français
    (g) (in negative) (allow, permit) I will not have him in my house! il ne mettra pas les pieds chez moi!;
    I won't have it! ça ne va pas se passer comme ça!;
    we can't have you sleeping on the floor nous ne pouvons pas vous laisser dormir par terre;
    familiar we tried to give the dog a bath but he wasn't having any of it! nous avons essayé de donner un bain au chien, mais rien n'y a fait!;
    familiar I'm not having any of your nonsense pas de bêtises
    (h) (in passive) familiar (cheat, outwit) avoir;
    you've been had! tu t'es fait avoir!
    G.
    (a) (with infinitive) (indicating obligation) to have (got) to do sth devoir faire qch, être obligé de faire qch;
    do you have to or have you got to leave so soon? êtes-vous obligé de partir ou faut-il que vous partiez si tôt?;
    I have (got) to go to the meeting il faut que j'aille ou je dois aller ou je suis obligé d'aller à la réunion;
    don't you have to or haven't you got to phone the office? est-ce que tu ne dois pas appeler le bureau?;
    he'll do it if he's got to il le fera s'il est obligé de le faire;
    you don't have to or you haven't got to go tu n'es pas obligé d'y aller;
    we had to take physics at school nous étions obligés de suivre des cours de physique à l'école;
    she had to take a blood test elle a été obligée de ou elle a dû faire un examen sanguin;
    I hate having to get up early j'ai horreur de devoir me lever tôt;
    I won't apologize - you have to je ne m'excuserai pas - il le faut;
    you've got to be joking! vous plaisantez!, c'est une plaisanterie!;
    you didn't have to tell your father what happened! tu n'avais pas besoin d'aller dire à ton père ce qui s'est passé!;
    ironic the train WOULD have to be late today of all days! il fallait que le train soit en retard aujourd'hui!;
    familiar that has (got) to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard! ça doit être l'idée la plus idiote que j'aie jamais entendue!
    (b) (with infinitive) (indicating necessity) devoir;
    you have (got) to get some rest il faut que vous vous reposiez, vous devez vous reposer;
    I'll have to think about it il va falloir que j'y réfléchisse;
    I have (got) to know il faut que je le sache;
    we have to be careful about what we say on doit faire attention ou il faut qu'on fasse attention à ce qu'on dit;
    some problems still have to or have still got to be worked out il reste encore des problèmes à résoudre;
    if you finish the report this evening you won't have to come in to work tomorrow si vous finissez le rapport ce soir, vous n'aurez pas besoin de venir travailler demain;
    first the potatoes have (got) to be washed il faut d'abord laver les pommes de terre;
    I don't like housework but it has (got) to be done je n'aime pas faire le ménage mais il faut bien que quelqu'un le fasse;
    the plumbing has (got) to be redone la plomberie a besoin d'être refaite;
    you'd have to be deaf not to hear that noise il faudrait être sourd pour ne pas entendre ce bruit;
    do you have to turn the music up so loud? vous ne pourriez pas baisser un peu la musique?
    (c) (with "to do") (idioms) the book has to do with archaeology ce livre traite de l'archéologie;
    their argument had to do with money ils se disputaient à propos d'argent;
    this has nothing to do with you ça ne te concerne ou regarde pas;
    I'll have nothing more to do with her je ne veux plus avoir affaire à elle;
    they had nothing to do with her being fired ils n'avaient rien à voir avec son licenciement
    the haves les riches mpl, les nantis mpl;
    the haves and the have-nots les riches mpl et les pauvres mpl, les nantis mpl et les démunis mpl
    (keep available) garder ou avoir sous la main;
    I have the documents around somewhere les documents sont là quelque part, j'ai les documents quelque part;
    she's a useful person to have around il est bon de l'avoir sous la main;
    I don't like having children around je n'aime pas la compagnie des enfants
    British Fencing attaquer
    to have it away (with sb) s'envoyer en l'air (avec qn)
    (invite from upstairs, the north) inviter;
    we're having his family down for the weekend sa famille vient passer le week-end chez nous
    (a) (cause to enter) faire entrer;
    she had him in for a chat elle l'a fait entrer pour discuter
    to have friends in for a drink inviter des amis à prendre un pot
    (c) (doctor, workman) faire venir;
    we had to have the doctor in nous avons dû faire venir le médecin;
    they've got workmen in at the moment ils ont des ouvriers en ce moment
    to have it in for sb avoir une dent contre qn;
    they had it in for me from the day I arrived ils en ont eu après moi dès mon arrivée
    (a) (remove) retirer;
    the barber nearly had my ear off le coiffeur a failli me couper l'oreille
    (b) (have removed) faire retirer;
    she's having the plaster off next week on lui retire son plâtre la semaine prochaine
    to have it off (with sb) s'envoyer en l'air (avec qn)
    (a) (wear) porter;
    what does she have on? qu'est-ce qu'elle porte?, comment est-elle habillée?;
    she had her black dress on elle avait ou portait sa robe noire;
    the child had nothing on l'enfant était tout nu
    (b) (radio, television)
    have you got the radio on? avez-vous allumé la radio?, est-ce que la radio est allumée?;
    he has the radio/television on all night sa radio/sa télévision est allumée toute la nuit
    (c) (commitment, engagement)
    we have a lot on today nous avons beaucoup à faire aujourd'hui;
    do you have anything on for tonight? avez-vous des projets pour ou êtes-vous pris ce soir?;
    I have nothing on for the weekend je n'ai rien de prévu ce week-end
    (d) British familiar (tease, trick) faire marcher;
    you're having me on! tu me fais marcher!;
    I was only having you on c'était juste pour te faire marcher
    they have nothing on me ils n'ont aucune preuve contre moi;
    the police have nothing on him la police n'a rien sur lui
    (a) (tooth) se faire arracher
    to have it out with sb s'expliquer avec qn;
    she had it or the matter or the whole thing out with him elle a eu une longue explication avec lui;
    let's have this out once and for all mettons les choses au point une fois pour toutes
    (invite) inviter
    I'll have you up for blackmail je vais vous poursuivre (en justice) pour chantage;
    they were had up by the police for vandalism ils ont été arrêtés pour vandalisme;
    he was had up (before the court) for breaking and entering il a comparu (devant le tribunal) pour effraction
    (b) (invite from downstairs, the south) inviter;
    he had them up (to his flat) for tea il les a invités à venir prendre le thé;
    we're having them up from London for the weekend il sont venus nous voir de Londres pour le week-end
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  • 3 the kettle calls the pot black

    (the kettle calls (или calling) the pot black (тж. the pot calls или calling the kettle black))
    говорил горшку котелок: уж больно ты чёрен, дружок!; горшок над котлом смеётся, а оба черны; горшок котёл сажей корил; ≈ оба хороши

    ‘Nephew,’ said the old man, ‘You have been a dutiful son, I hear.’ ‘Ecod!’ said Jonas... ‘I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that.’ (Ch. Dickens, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit’, ch. XXIV) — - Племянник, - сказал Мартин, - вы, как я слышал, были почтительным сыном. - Ну да! - сказал Джонас... - я был таким же хорошим сыном, как вы - братом. Коли уж на то пошло, горшку перед котелком нечем хвалиться.

    ‘The fellow is the most conceited little devil I ever met.’ Mr. Satterwaite's eyes twinkled. He had always been of the opinion that the vainest men in creation were actors. He did not exempt Sir Charles Cartwright. This instance of the pot calling the kettle black amused him. (A. Christie, ‘Three Act Tragedy’, ‘First Act’, ch. I) — - Такого самовлюбленного типа сроду не видывал, - сказал сэр Чарльз. У мистера Саттеруэйта появился озорной огонек в глазах. Он всегда считал актеров самыми тщеславными людьми и не делал исключения для сэра Чарльза Картрайта. Эта история весьма его позабавила: вот уж поистине - горшок над котлом смеется, а оба черны.

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  • 4 first

    fə:st
    1. adjective, adverb
    (before all others in place, time or rank: the first person to arrive; The boy spoke first.) primero

    2. adverb
    (before doing anything else: `Shall we eat now?' `Wash your hands first!) primero

    3. noun
    (the person, animal etc that does something before any other person, animal etc: the first to arrive.) primero
    - first aid
    - first-born
    - first-class
    - first-hand
    - first-rate
    - at first
    - at first hand
    - first and foremost
    - first of all

    first1 adj primero
    first2 adv
    1. primero
    he came first in the race llegó el primero en la carrera / ganó la carrera
    you play later, first you must finish your lunch podrás jugar luego, primero acaba de comer
    2. por primera vez
    tr[fɜːst]
    1 primero,-a
    what was your first job? ¿cuál fue tu primer trabajo?
    who was the first man on the moon? ¿quién fue el primer hombre que pisó la luna?
    for the first time in my life... por primera vez en mi vida...
    my first reaction was to... mi reacción inicial fue...
    when you get up, what do you do first? al levantarte, ¿qué es lo primero que haces?
    first, I have to go to the bank primero, tengo que ir al banco
    2 (for the first time) por primera vez
    when we first met, he hated me cuando nos conocimos, me odiaba
    3 (in first place) primero, en primer lugar
    there are several reasons: first,... hay varias razones: en primer lugar,...
    he said he'd die first dijo que antes, preferiría morir
    1 la primera vez
    it's a first for me too! ¡es la primera vez para mí también!
    1 el primero, la primera, lo primero
    2 (gear) primera
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    at first al principio
    at first sight a primera vista
    to come first (in race) llegar el primero 2 (in order) estar primero
    first come, first served el que llega primero tiene prioridad
    first of all en primer lugar
    first thing a primera hora (de la mañana)
    first things first lo primero es lo primero
    from the first desde el principio
    from first to last de principio a fin, desde el principio hasta el final
    First Communion primera comunión nombre femenino
    first floor SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL primer piso 2 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL planta baja
    First Lady Primera Dama
    first night estreno
    first offender delincuente nombre masculino sin antecedentes
    first person SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL primera persona
    First World War Primera Guerra Mundial
    first ['fərst] adv
    1) : primero
    finish your homework first: primero termina tu tarea
    first and foremost: ante todo
    first of all: en primer lugar
    2) : por primera vez
    I saw it first in Boston: lo vi por primera vez en Boston
    first adj
    1) : primero
    the first time: la primera vez
    at first sight: a primera vista
    in the first place: en primer lugar
    the first ten applicants: los diez primeros candidatos
    2) foremost: principal, primero
    first tenor: tenor principal
    1) : primero m, -ra f (en una serie)
    2) : primero m, primera parte f
    3) or first gear : primera f
    4)
    at first : al principio
    adj.
    delantero, -a adj.
    original adj.
    primer adj.
    primero, -a adj.
    principal adj.
    adv.
    primera velocidad adv.
    primero adv.
    n.
    primero s.m.

    I fɜːrst, fɜːst
    1)
    a) ( initial) primero [primero becomes primer when it precedes a masculine singular noun]

    Henry I(léase: Henry the First) Enrique I (read as: Enrique primero)

    who's going to be first? — ¿quién va a ser el primero?

    b) (in seniority, standing) primero

    the first eleven/fifteen — (BrE) el equipo titular

    she's first in line to the throneestá primera or es la primera en la línea de sucesión al trono

    he/she was the first to arrive — fue el primero/la primera en llegar

    the first she knew about it was when... — la primera noticia que tuvo de ello fue cuando...

    from the first — desde el principio, desde el primer momento


    II
    1)
    a) ( ahead of others) primero

    which comes first, your family or your career? — ¿para ti qué está primero, tu familia o tu carrera?

    first come, first served: tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis — se adjudicará(n) las entradas por riguroso orden de solicitud (or llegada etc)

    b) (before other actions, events) primero, en primer lugar

    first, I want to thank everyone for coming — en primer lugar or primero quiero agradecerles a todos que hayan venido

    c) ( beforehand) antes, primero
    d) ( for the first time) por primera vez
    e) ( rather) antes

    form a coalition? I'd resign first — ¿formar una coalición? antes (que eso) renuncio!

    first of all — en primer lugar, antes que nada


    III
    a) first (gear) ( Auto) (no art) primera f
    b) (original idea, accomplishment) primicia f
    [fɜːst]
    1.
    ADJ primero; (before m sing n) primer

    I was first! — ¡yo iba or estaba primero!

    at first — al principio

    on the first floor(Brit) en el primer piso; (US) en la planta baja

    from first to lastde principio a fin

    in the first placeen primer lugar

    to win first place (in competition) conseguir el primer puesto, ganar

    to win first prizeganar el primer premio

    first strike weapon — arma f de primer golpe

    the first timela primera vez

    instance 1., 2), thing 2)
    2. ADV
    1) (in place, priority) primero

    first one, then another — primero uno, después otro

    we arrived first — fuimos los primeros en llegar, llegamos los primeros

    women and children first! — ¡las mujeres y los niños primero!

    first of all — ante todo, antes que nada

    to come first — (in race) ganar, llegar el primero; (=have priority) estar primero, tener prioridad

    the customer/your homework must come first — el cliente es lo primero/tus deberes son lo primero

    first and foremost — ante todo, antes que nada

    to get in first — (in conversation, process) adelantarse

    you go first! — ¡tú primero!, ¡pasa tú!

    head first — de cabeza

    you have to put your children's needs first — primero están las necesidades de tus hijos

    free tickets, on a first-come-first-served basis — entradas gratis, por riguroso orden de llegada

    2) (in time) (=before anything else) primero, antes de nada

    first, I need a drink — primero or antes de nada or antes que nada, necesito una copa

    first, I don't like it, second, I haven't got the money — lo primero: no me gusta, lo segundo: no dispongo del dinero

    first and last(=above all) por encima de todo

    first off * — primero de todo, antes de nada

    3) (=for the first time) por primera vez
    4) (=rather) primero, antes

    let him in this house? I'd kill him first! — ¿dejarle pisar esta casa? ¡primero or antes lo mato!

    I'd die first! — ¡antes me muero!

    3.
    PRON

    the first of January — el primero de enero, el uno de enero

    it's the first I've heard of it — ahora me entero, no lo sabía

    he came in an easy first — llegó el primero con ventaja

    from the (very) first — desde el principio

    to be the first to do sth — ser el primero en hacer algo

    they were the first to arrive — fueron los primeros en llegar, llegaron los primeros

    4. N
    1) (Aut) primera f
    2) (Brit) (Univ) sobresaliente m

    he got a first in French se ha licenciado en francés con una media de sobresaliente

    See:
    5.
    CPD
    first-aid

    first base N — (Baseball) primera base f

    to draw first blood — anotar el primer tanto

    first blood to sb — primer tanto para algn

    first cousin Nprimo(-a) m / f hermano(-a)

    first edition Nprimera edición f ; [of early or rare book] edición f príncipe

    first family N (US) [of president]

    first form or year N — (Scol) primer curso de secundaria

    first-year student — (Univ) estudiante mf de primer año (de carrera universitaria)

    first gear N — (Aut) primera f

    first grade N(US) primero m de primaria; first-grade

    first hand N

    at first hand — directamente

    - see sth at first hand

    first lady N(US) primera dama f

    first language N(=mother tongue) lengua f materna; [of country] lengua f principal

    first lieutenant N(US) (Aer) teniente mf ; (Brit) (Naut) teniente mf de navío

    first light Namanecer m, alba f

    at first light — al amanecer, al alba

    first mate Nprimer oficial m, primera oficial f

    first minister N (in Scotland) primer(a) ministro(-a) m / f

    first name Nnombre m (de pila)

    first night N — (Theat) estreno m

    first offender N — (Jur) delincuente mf sin antecedentes penales

    first officer Nprimer oficial m, primera oficial f

    first performance N — (Theat, Mus) estreno m

    first person N — (Ling) primera persona f

    first person plural N (Gram) —

    first school N(Brit) escuela para niños entre cinco y nueve años

    first secretary, First Secretary N (in Wales) primer(a) ministro(-a) m / f de Gales

    first violin Nprimer violín m, primera violín f

    First World War battlefield Ncampo m de batalla de la Primera Guerra Mundial

    first year N (Scol) — = first form

    * * *

    I [fɜːrst, fɜːst]
    1)
    a) ( initial) primero [primero becomes primer when it precedes a masculine singular noun]

    Henry I(léase: Henry the First) Enrique I (read as: Enrique primero)

    who's going to be first? — ¿quién va a ser el primero?

    b) (in seniority, standing) primero

    the first eleven/fifteen — (BrE) el equipo titular

    she's first in line to the throneestá primera or es la primera en la línea de sucesión al trono

    he/she was the first to arrive — fue el primero/la primera en llegar

    the first she knew about it was when... — la primera noticia que tuvo de ello fue cuando...

    from the first — desde el principio, desde el primer momento


    II
    1)
    a) ( ahead of others) primero

    which comes first, your family or your career? — ¿para ti qué está primero, tu familia o tu carrera?

    first come, first served: tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis — se adjudicará(n) las entradas por riguroso orden de solicitud (or llegada etc)

    b) (before other actions, events) primero, en primer lugar

    first, I want to thank everyone for coming — en primer lugar or primero quiero agradecerles a todos que hayan venido

    c) ( beforehand) antes, primero
    d) ( for the first time) por primera vez
    e) ( rather) antes

    form a coalition? I'd resign first — ¿formar una coalición? antes (que eso) renuncio!

    first of all — en primer lugar, antes que nada


    III
    a) first (gear) ( Auto) (no art) primera f
    b) (original idea, accomplishment) primicia f

    English-spanish dictionary > first

  • 5 the touch

    сущ.; SK, DT
    Парапсихологическая способность на основе интуиции, которая могла проявлятся в разных формах, наиболее распространёнными из которых были ясновидение и телепатия. Эти способности специально воспитывались и развивались у Стрелков. Наиболее сильным даром «прикосновения» обладали Ален Джонс (член первого ка-тета Роланда) и Джейк Чеймберз.

    Then he left, standing on the porch for a moment to verify he still had the Bar K to himself. Of course he did. Yet for a blink or two, there at the end, he’d felt uneasy—almost as though he’d been scented. By some sort of In-World telepathy, mayhap. / There is such; you know it. The touch, it’s called. — Потом вышел из бункера, постоял на крыльце, дабы убедиться, что на ранчо “Полоса К”, кроме него, по-прежнему никого нет. Разумеется, не было. Однако на мгновение-другое ему стало как-то не по себе, он словно почувствовал, что его засекли. Может, с помощью какого-то неведомого ему шестого чувства. / Оно существует, ты это знаешь. Дар, так оно называется. (ТБ 4)

    “Dan-dinh—where did you hear that, Jake?” / “Never did. Picked it up from your mind, I think.” Jake added hastily: “I don’t go snooping in there, or anything like that, but sometimes stuff just comes. Most of it isn’t very important, I don’t think, but sometimes there are phrases.” / <…> / “Yes.” That he hadn’t been concentrating on, and he would have felt better had Jake not known of it. But the boy was strong in the touch, and Roland believed him when he said he hadn’t been snooping. At least not on purpose. — Дан-дин… где ты это слышал, Джейк? / – Нигде. Думаю, почерпнул из твоей головы, – тут Джейк торопливо добавил. – Специально я туда не залезал, будь уверен, но иногда что-то мне перепадает. Обычно всякая ерунда, но бывает, и какие-то фразы. / <…> / – Да, – вот на этом он не сосредотачивался, даже предпочел бы, чтобы Джейк об этом не узнал. Но в прикосновениях мальчику, похоже, уже не было равных, и Роланд верил его словам о том, что он не залезает в чужих головах. Во всяком случае, специально. (ТБ 5)

    “Not Andy,” Roland repeated. It was just a feeling, but his feelings were his version of the touch. “There’s time to think about it, Pere… and we’ll think, too.” — Не Энди, – повторил Роланд. Он ориентировался на свою интуицию, а интуиция, как известно, сродни прикосновениям. – Еще есть время подумать об этом, отец… и мы тоже подумаем. (ТБ 5)

    Однако эти способности могли быть и другого плана, например, что-то наподобие «наложения рук» с разной целью, умение быстро, по наитию находить нужную вещь, вещие сны и прочие, какие обычно называют шестым чувством.

    Now she went to the foot of her bed, knelt, and passed one hand over the earth floor there. Lines appeared in the sour dirt as she did. They formed a square. She pushed her fingers into one of these lines; it gave before her touch. She lifted the hidden panel (hidden in such a way that no one without the touch would ever be able to uncover it), revealing a compartment perhaps a foot square and two feet deep. — Теперь она подошла к изножью кровати, встала на колени и сделала пасс рукой над земляным полом. Под её ладонью в затхлой земле проявились линии, определившиеся в квадрат. Она сунула пальцы вдоль одной из линий, которая разошлась от такого контакта. Приподняла скрытую там дощечку (скрытую таким образом, что никто не смог бы её открыть, не обладая даром прикосновения), под которой оказалось небольшое углубление размером около фута по каждой стороне и двух футов в глубину. (ТБ 4)

    “I hate that noise,” Alain said. He sounded morose and sleepy. In fact, he had been troubled by odd dreams and premonitions all night—things which, of the three of them, only he was prey to. Because of the touch, perhaps—with him it had always been strong. — Ненавижу я этот шум, – пробормотал Ален. Но в действительности его тревожили странные сны, которые донимали его всю ночь. Из всех троих снились они только ему. Из-за дара, возможно, только его природа наградила шестым чувством. (ТБ 4)

    Aye,” she said, “pie for the bumbler, too, as I’m sure he’s Arthur Eld in disguise and will reward me with jewels and gold and the healing touch.” — Ага, ушастик-путаник тоже получит пирог. Я уверена, что на самом деле он – Артур Эльдский, который, вернув себе человеческий облик, вознаградит меня драгоценными камнями, золотом и даром врачевания. (ТБ 5)

    Cuthbert patted Roland’s face with no result. Alain pushed him aside, knelt, and took the gunslinger’s hands. He had never used the touch this way, but had been told it was possible—that one could reach another’s mind, in at least some cases. / Roland! Roland, wake up! Please! We need you! / At first there was nothing. Then Roland stirred, muttered, and pulled his hands out of Alain’s. — Катберт похлопал Роланда по щеке. Безрезультатно. Ален оттолкнул его, опустился на колени, взял руки стрелка в свои. Он никогда не использовал свой дар для того, чтобы помочь человеку прийти в себя, но ему говорили, что такое возможно: в некоторых случаях дар позволяет проникнуть в разум другого. / Роланд! Роланд, проснись! Пожалуйста! Ты нам нужен! / Поначалу ответная реакция напрочь отсутствовала. Потом Роланд шевельнулся, что-то пробормотал, выдернул руки из пальцев Алена. (ТБ 4)

    English-Russian dictionary of neologisms from a series of books by Stephen King "Dark Tower" > the touch

  • 6 Future in the past

    Будущее время в прошедшем
    При описании события, которое интерпретируется говорящим как будущее по отношению к некоторому моменту времени в прошлом, используются, с некоторыми изменениями, те же средства, что и при описании событий, которые интерпретируются говорящим как будущие по отношению к настоящему. Изменения при этом сводятся к следующему:
    1) При образовании времен Future simple, Future continuous, Future perfect, Future perfect continuous вспомогательные глаголы will и shall меняются на глаголы would и should соответственно.

    He knew she would leave next week — Он знал, что она уедет на следующей неделе.

    She looked around the room, wondering where to put the pictures. She would put her favourite water-colour above the fireplace — Она оглядела комнату, раздумывая, куда бы повесить картины. Свою любимую акварель она повесит над камином.

    I thought he would be reading the article when I returned — Я думал, он будет читать статью, когда я вернусь.

    John said he would have taken his exams by the end of the month — Джон сказал, что уже сдаст все экзамены к концу месяца.

    He said that by the first of May he would have been working at that school for twenty years — Он сказал, что к первому мая он будет работать в этой школе уже двадцать лет.

    2) В конструкциях be going to, be to, be + ABOUT + to-infinitive, be + ON THE POINT OF +ing-form глагол be принимает форму прошедшего времени (was/were).

    She was excited because she was going to meet Jack the next day — Она была взволнована, потому что собиралась встретиться с Джеком на следующий день.

    He knew that this young bishop was to become Pope of Rome — Он знал, что этот юный епископ должен был стать Папой Римским.

    He looked at the clock: ten o'clock was about to strike — Он посмотрел на часы: вот-вот должно было пробить десять..

    She had to go to bed early that day because she was flying to London the next morning — Ей пришлось рано лечь в тот день, потому что на следующее утро она должна была лететь в Лондон.

    English-Russian grammar dictionary > Future in the past

  • 7 say

    sei
    1. 3rd person singular present tense - says; verb
    1) (to speak or utter: What did you say?; She said `Yes'.) decir
    2) (to tell, state or declare: She said how she had enjoyed meeting me; She is said to be very beautiful.) decir
    3) (to repeat: The child says her prayers every night.) decir
    4) (to guess or estimate: I can't say when he'll return.) decir

    2. noun
    (the right or opportunity to state one's opinion: I haven't had my say yet; We have no say in the decision.) opinión, voz y voto
    - have
    - I wouldn't say no to
    - let's say
    - say
    - say the word
    - that is to say

    say vb decir
    I didn't hear him, what did he say? no lo he oído, ¿qué ha dicho?
    how do you say "laugh" in Spanish? ¿cómo se dice "laugh" en español?
    tr[seɪ]
    transitive verb (pt & pp said tr[sed])
    1 (gen) decir; (express) expresar; (state) afirmar, declarar
    what did he say? ¿qué dijo?, ¿qué ha dicho?
    could you say that again? ¿podrías repetir eso?
    I thought you said you could cook! ¡no habías dicho que sabías cocinar!
    she said to be here at 9.00 pm dijo que teníamos que estar aquí a las 9.00
    2 (prayer) rezar; (poem, lines) recitar
    3 (newspaper, sign, etc) decir; (clock, meter, etc) marcar
    what does the guidebook say? ¿qué dice la guía?, ¿qué pone en la guía?
    what time does your watch say? ¿qué hora marca tu reloj?
    4 (think) pensar, opinar, decir
    what do you say? ¿qué opinas?
    what do you say we have a break? ¿qué te parece si hacemos un descanso?
    what would you say to an ice-cream? ¿te apetece un helado?
    5 (suppose) suponer, poner, decir
    say you found a wallet, what would you do? supongamos que encuentras una cartera, ¿qué harías?
    come round at, say, 8.00pm pásate hacia las 8.00, ¿te parece?
    shall we say Saturday then? ¿quedamos el sábado, pues?
    1 opinión nombre femenino
    1 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL familiar ¡oye!, ¡oiga!
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    having said that... a pesar de eso..., no obstante...
    I say! (calling somebody) ¡oiga!, ¡oye! 2 (surprise) ¡caramba!, ¡caray!
    I'll say! ¡ya lo creo!
    it goes without saying that... por supuesto que..., huelga decir que...
    it is said that... dicen que..., se dice que...
    never say die no rendirse
    not to have a lot to say for oneself no tener mucho que decir
    not to say... por no decir...
    not to say much for somebody/something decir mal de alguien/algo
    say no more! (interrupting) ¡basta! 2 (I understand) ¡no me digas más!
    say when! ¡ya me dirás basta!
    that is to say es decir
    the least said the better cuanto menos decimos, mejor
    to have one's say dar su opinión, hablar
    to not say a dicky-bird no decir ni pío
    to say a lot for somebody/something decir mucho en favor de alguien/algo
    to say nothing of... por no decir nada de..., por no mencionar...
    to say the least como mínimo
    to say to oneself decir para sí
    when all is said and done al fin y al cabo
    you can say that again! ¡y que lo digas!, ¡ya lo creo!
    you don't say! ¡no me digas!
    you said it! ¡ya lo creo!; ¡dímelo a mí!
    say ['seɪ] v, said ['sɛd] ; saying ; says ['sz] vt
    1) express, utter: decir, expresar
    to say no: decir que no
    that goes without saying: ni que decir tiene
    no sooner said than done: dicho y hecho
    to say again: repetir
    2) indicate: marcar, poner
    my watch says three o'clock: mi reloj marca las tres
    what does the sign say?: ¿qué pone el letrero?
    3) allege: decir
    it's said that she's pretty: se dice que es bonita
    say vi
    : decir
    say n, pl says ['seɪz] : voz f, opinión f
    to have no say: no tener ni voz ni voto
    to have one's say: dar uno su opinión
    n.
    decir s.m.
    voz (Voto) s.f.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: said) = decir v.
    (§pres: digo, dices...) pret: dij-
    pp: dicho
    fut/c: dir-•)

    I
    1. seɪ
    (pres says sez; past & past p said sed) transitive verb
    1) (utter, express in speech) \<\<word/sentence/mass\>\> decir*; \<\<prayer\>\> rezar*

    to say good morning to somebody — darle* los buenos días a alguien

    I said yes/no — dije que sí/no

    he said yes/no to my proposal — aceptó/rechazó mi propuesta

    go away, she said — -vete- dijo

    to say something TO somebody — decirle* algo a alguien

    who shall I say is calling? — ¿de parte de quién?

    well, what can I say? — ¿y qué quieres que te diga?

    it was, how o what shall I say, a tricky situation — fue, cómo te (lo) diría, una situación delicada

    if you disagree, say so — si no está de acuerdo, dígalo

    I should say so — ( emphatic agreement) eso digo yo; ( probability) yo diría que sí

    it doesn't say much for... — no dice mucho de...

    the less said about it, the better — cuanto menos se hable del asunto, mejor

    it goes without saying that... — huelga decir que..., ni que decir tiene que..., por supuesto que...

    though I say it myself — modestia aparte, no es por decirlo

    before you could say knife o Jack Robinson — en un santiamén, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos

    2)
    a) ( state) decir*

    it said in the paper that... — el periódico decía or ponía que...

    b) \<\<watch/dial\>\> marcar*
    3)
    a) ( suppose) (colloq) suponer*, poner*

    (let's) say that... — supongamos or pongamos que...

    shall we say tomorrow? — ¿qué tal mañana? (fam)

    b) ( estimate) decir*
    4)
    a) ( allege) decir*

    he's been ill, or so he says — ha estado enfermo, al menos eso es lo que dice

    to be said to + INF: she's said to be very mean/strict — dicen que es muy tacaña/severa

    b) (decide, pronounce) decir*
    5) ( respond to suggestion) (colloq)

    what do o would you say to a cup of tea — ¿quieres or (esp Esp) te apetece una taza de té?, ¿qué te parece si nos tomamos un té?


    2.
    vi decir*

    you were saying? — ¿(qué) decías?

    who says o says who? — (colloq) ¿quién lo dice?

    you don't say! — (colloq) no me digas!

    I say! — (BrE colloq)


    II
    interjection (AmE colloq) oye! (fam)

    say, that's a great idea! — oye, qué buena idea! (fam)

    say, buddy — eh, amigo!


    III
    noun (no pl)

    to have one's say — dar* su (or mi etc) opinión

    b) ( power)

    say (IN something): I have no say in the matter yo no tengo ni voz ni voto en el asunto; to have the final say (in something) — tener* la última palabra (en algo)

    [seɪ] (vb: pt, pp said)
    1. VT
    VI
    1) [person] (=speak, tell) decir

    "hello," he said — -hola -dijo

    what did you say? — ¿qué dijiste?

    he said to me that... — me dijo que...

    to say to o.s. — decir para sí

    say after me — repite lo que digo yo

    to say sth againrepetir algo

    to say goodbye to sb — despedirse de algn

    to say good morning/ goodnight to sb — dar los buenos días/las buenas noches a algn

    to say massdecir misa

    I've nothing more to say — se acabó

    I must say (that) I disapprove of the idea — la verdad es que no me parece bien la idea

    I must say she's very prettytengo que or debo reconocer que es muy guapa

    it's difficult, I must say — es difícil, lo confieso

    to say nodecir que no

    I wouldn't say no(Brit) * me encantaría

    to say a prayerrezar

    that's what I say — eso digo yo, lo mismo digo yo

    I will say this about him, he's bright — reconozco (a pesar de todo) que es listo

    to say yesdecir que sí

    2) (=show on dial) marcar; (=show in print) poner, decir

    it says here that it was built in 1066aquí pone or dice que se construyó en 1006

    the rules say that... — según las reglas..., en las reglas pone...

    when all is said and done — al fin y al cabo, a fin de cuentas

    she has nothing to say for herself — no tiene conversación, nunca abre la boca

    what have you got to say for yourself? — ¿y tú, qué dices?

    to say the leastpara no decir más

    say what you like about her hat, she's charming — dígase lo que se quiera acerca de su sombrero, es encantadora

    that's saying a loty eso es algo

    though I say it or so myselfaunque soy yo el que lo dice

    there's no saying what he'll do — quién sabe lo que hará

    I'd rather not say — prefiero no decir (nada)

    it's an original, not to say revolutionary, idea — la idea es original y hasta revolucionaria

    to say nothing of the rest — sin hablar de lo demás

    would you really say so? — ¿lo crees de veras?

    that is to say — o sea, es decir

    what do or would you say to a walk? — ¿le apetece or se le antoja un paseo?

    what would you say to that? — ¿qué contestas a eso?

    it goes without saying that... — ni que decir tiene que..., huelga decir que...

    it is said that..., they say that... — se dice que..., dicen que...

    it's easier said than done — del dicho al hecho hay gran trecho

    there's a lot to be said for it/for doing it — hay mucho que decir a su favor/a favor de hacerlo

    it must be said that... — hay que decir or reconocer que...

    there's something to be said for it/for doing it — hay algo que decir a su favor/a favor de hacerlo

    no sooner said than done — dicho y hecho

    say! (esp US)

    I'll say! *

    you can say that again! * — ¡ya lo creo!, ¡exacto!

    you don't say! * (often hum) ¡no me digas!

    enough said! — ¡basta!

    I say! — (Brit) (calling attention) ¡oiga!; (in surprise, appreciation) ¡vaya!, ¡anda!

    say no more! — ¡basta!, ¡ni una palabra más!

    so you say! — ¡eso es lo que tú dices!

    well said! — ¡muy bien dicho!

    you've said it! * — ¡exacto!, ¡tú lo dijiste!

    6) (=suppose) suponer, decir, poner

    (let's) say it's worth £20 — supongamos or digamos or pon que vale 20 libras

    I should say it's worth about £100 — yo diría que vale unas cien libras

    shall we say Tuesday? — ¿quedamos en el martes?

    shall we say £5? — ¿convenimos en 5 libras?

    we sell it at say £25 — pongamos que lo vendemos por 25 libras

    2.
    N

    to have one's say — dar su opinión

    I've had my sayyo he dado mi opinión or he dicho lo que pensaba

    let him have his say! — ¡que hable él!

    * * *

    I
    1. [seɪ]
    (pres says [sez]; past & past p said [sed]) transitive verb
    1) (utter, express in speech) \<\<word/sentence/mass\>\> decir*; \<\<prayer\>\> rezar*

    to say good morning to somebody — darle* los buenos días a alguien

    I said yes/no — dije que sí/no

    he said yes/no to my proposal — aceptó/rechazó mi propuesta

    go away, she said — -vete- dijo

    to say something TO somebody — decirle* algo a alguien

    who shall I say is calling? — ¿de parte de quién?

    well, what can I say? — ¿y qué quieres que te diga?

    it was, how o what shall I say, a tricky situation — fue, cómo te (lo) diría, una situación delicada

    if you disagree, say so — si no está de acuerdo, dígalo

    I should say so — ( emphatic agreement) eso digo yo; ( probability) yo diría que sí

    it doesn't say much for... — no dice mucho de...

    the less said about it, the better — cuanto menos se hable del asunto, mejor

    it goes without saying that... — huelga decir que..., ni que decir tiene que..., por supuesto que...

    though I say it myself — modestia aparte, no es por decirlo

    before you could say knife o Jack Robinson — en un santiamén, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos

    2)
    a) ( state) decir*

    it said in the paper that... — el periódico decía or ponía que...

    b) \<\<watch/dial\>\> marcar*
    3)
    a) ( suppose) (colloq) suponer*, poner*

    (let's) say that... — supongamos or pongamos que...

    shall we say tomorrow? — ¿qué tal mañana? (fam)

    b) ( estimate) decir*
    4)
    a) ( allege) decir*

    he's been ill, or so he says — ha estado enfermo, al menos eso es lo que dice

    to be said to + INF: she's said to be very mean/strict — dicen que es muy tacaña/severa

    b) (decide, pronounce) decir*
    5) ( respond to suggestion) (colloq)

    what do o would you say to a cup of tea — ¿quieres or (esp Esp) te apetece una taza de té?, ¿qué te parece si nos tomamos un té?


    2.
    vi decir*

    you were saying? — ¿(qué) decías?

    who says o says who? — (colloq) ¿quién lo dice?

    you don't say! — (colloq) no me digas!

    I say! — (BrE colloq)


    II
    interjection (AmE colloq) oye! (fam)

    say, that's a great idea! — oye, qué buena idea! (fam)

    say, buddy — eh, amigo!


    III
    noun (no pl)

    to have one's say — dar* su (or mi etc) opinión

    b) ( power)

    say (IN something): I have no say in the matter yo no tengo ni voz ni voto en el asunto; to have the final say (in something) — tener* la última palabra (en algo)

    English-spanish dictionary > say

  • 8 Hooke, Robert

    [br]
    b. 18 July 1635 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England
    d. 3 March 1703 London, England
    [br]
    English physicist, astronomer and mechanician.
    [br]
    Son of Revd John Hooke, minister of the parish, he was a sickly child who was subject to headaches which prevented protracted study. He devoted his time while alone to making mechanical models including a wooden clock. On the death of his father in October 1648 he was left £100 and went to London, where he became a pupil of Sir Peter Lely and then went to Westminster School under Dr Busby. There he learned the classical languages, some Hebrew and oriental languages while mastering six books of Euclid in one week. In 1653 he entered Christ Church College, Oxford, where he graduated MA in 1663, after studying chemistry and astronomy. In 1662 he was appointed Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society and was elected a Fellow in 1663. In 1665 his appointment was made permanent and he was given apartments in Gresham College, where he lived until his death in 1703. He was an indefatigable experimenter, perhaps best known for the invention of the universal joint named after him. The properties of the atmosphere greatly engaged him and he devised many forms of the barometer. He was the first to apply the spiral spring to the regulation of the balance wheel of the watch in an attempt to measure longitude at sea, but he did not publish his results until after Huygens's reinvention of the device in 1675. Several of his "new watches" were made by Thomas Tompion, one of which was presented to King Charles II. He is said to have invented, among other devices, thirty different ways of flying, the first practical system of telegraphy, an odometer, a hearing aid, an arithmetical machine and a marine barometer. Hooke was a small man, somewhat deformed, with long, lank hair, who went about stooped and moved very quickly. He was of a melancholy and mistrustful disposition, ill-tempered and sharp-tongued. He slept little, often working all night and taking a nap during the day. John Aubrey, his near-contemporary, wrote of Hooke, "He is certainly the greatest Mechanick this day in the World." He is said to have been the first to establish the true principle of the arch. His eyesight failed and he was blind for the last year of his life. He is best known for his Micrographia, or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies, first published in 1665. After the Great Fire of London, he exhibited a model for the rebuilding of the City. This was not accepted, but it did result in Hooke's appointment as one of two City Surveyors. This proved a lucrative post and through it Hooke amassed a fortune of some thousands of pounds, which was found intact after his death some thirty years later. It had never been opened in the interim period. Among the buildings he designed were the new Bethlehem (Bedlam) Hospital, the College of Physicians and Montague House.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1663; Secretary 1677–82.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Hooke, Robert

  • 9 Salomans, Sir David Lionel

    [br]
    b. 1851
    d. 1925
    [br]
    English pioneer of electricity and the automobile in England.
    [br]
    Salomans inherited his baronetcy from his uncle, Sir David Salomans (1797–1873), who had been Member of Parliament for Greenwich and the first Jewish Lord Mayor of London. He was the archetypal amateur engineer and inventor of the Victorian age, indulging in such interests as photography, motoring, electricity, woodworking, polariscopy and astronomy. His house, "Broomhill", near Tun bridge Wells in Kent, was one of the first to be lit by electricity and is said to have been the first to use electricity for cooking. He acted as architect for the building of the stables, the water tower and the 150-seat theatre at his home. In 1874 he was granted a patent for an automatic railway signalling system. He was the founder in 1895 of the first motoring organization in Great Britain, the Self Propelled Traffic Association, forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). He was also the organizer of the first motor show to be held in Britain, on 15 October 1895. It is said that, in spite of being the Mayor of Tunbridge Wells, Salomans defied the law and drove without the obligatory pedestrian with a red flag preceding his vehicle; this requirement was removed with the later Light (Road) Locomotives Act, which raised the speed limit to 12 mph (19 km/h).
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Various papers may be consulted from the Sir David Salomans Society. See also Simms, Frederick.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Salomans, Sir David Lionel

  • 10 Daft, Leo

    [br]
    b. 13 November 1843 Birmingham, England
    d. 28 March 1922
    [br]
    English electrical engineer, pioneer of electric-power generation and electric railways in the USA.
    [br]
    Leo Daft, son of a British civil engineer, studied electricity and emigrated to the USA in 1866. After various occupations including running a photographic studio, he joined in 1879 the New York Electric Light Company, which was soon merged into the Daft Electric Company. This company developed electrically powered machinery and built electric-power plants. In 1883 Daft built an electric locomotive called Ampere for the Saratoga \& Mount McGregor Railroad. This is said to have been the first electric main-line locomotive for standard gauge. It collected current from a central rail, had an output of 12 hp (9 kW) and hauled 10 tons at speeds up to 9 mph (14.5 km/h). Two years later Daft made a much improved locomotive for the New York Elevated Railway, the Benjamin Franklin, which drew current at 250 volts from a central rail and had two 48 in. (122 cm)-diameter driving wheels and two 33 in. (84 cm)-diameter trailing wheels. Re-equipped in 1888 with four driving wheels and a 125 hp (93 kW) motor, this could haul an eight-car train at 10 mph (16 km/h). Meanwhile, in 1884, Daft's company had manufactured all the electrical apparatus for the Massachusetts Electric Power Company, the first instance of a complete central station to generate and distribute electricity for power on a commercial scale. In 1885 it electrified a branch of the Baltimore Union Passenger Railway, the first electrically operated railway in the USA. Subsequently Daft invented a process for vulcanizing rubber onto metal that came into general use. He never became an American citizen.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of American Biography.
    F.J.G.Haut, 1969, The History of the Electric Locomotive, London: George Allen \& Unwin.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Daft, Leo

  • 11 Lombe, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. c. 1693 probably Norwich, England
    d. 20 November 1722 Derby, England
    [br]
    English creator of the first successful powered textile mill in Britain.
    [br]
    John Lombe's father, Henry Lombe, was a worsted weaver who married twice. John was the second son of the second marriage and was still a baby when his father died in 1695. John, a native of the Eastern Counties, was apprenticed to a trade and employed by Thomas Cotchett in the erection of Cotchett's silk mill at Derby, which soon failed however. Lombe went to Italy, or was sent there by his elder half-brother, Thomas, to discover the secrets of their throwing machinery while employed in a silk mill in Piedmont. He returned to England in 1716 or 1717, bringing with him two expert Italian workmen.
    Thomas Lombe was a prosperous London merchant who financed the construction of a new water-powered silk mill at Derby which is said to have cost over £30,000. John arranged with the town Corporation for the lease of the island in the River Derwent, where Cotchett had erected his mill. During the four years of its construction, John first set up the throwing machines in other parts of the town. The machines were driven manually there, and their product helped to defray the costs of the mill. The silk-throwing machine was very complex. The water wheel powered a horizontal shaft that was under the floor and on which were placed gearwheels to drive vertical shafts upwards through the different floors. The throwing machines were circular, with the vertical shafts running through the middle. The doubled silk threads had previously been wound on bobbins which were placed on spindles with wire flyers at intervals around the outer circumference of the machine. The bobbins were free to rotate on the spindles while the spindles and flyers were driven by the periphery of a horizontal wheel fixed to the vertical shaft. Another horizontal wheel set a little above the first turned the starwheels, to which were attached reels for winding the silk off the bobbins below. Three or four sets of these spindles and reels were placed above each other on the same driving shaft. The machine was very complicated for the time and must have been expensive to build and maintain.
    John lived just long enough to see the mill in operation, for he died in 1722 after a painful illness said to have been the result of poison administered by an Italian woman in revenge for his having stolen the invention and for the injury he was causing the Italian trade. The funeral was said to have been the most superb ever known in Derby.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Samuel Smiles, 1890, Men of Invention and Industry, London (probably the only biography of John Lombe).
    Rhys Jenkins, 1933–4, "Historical notes on some Derbyshire industries", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 14 (provides an acount of John Lombe and his part in the enterprise at Derby).
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (briefly covers the development of early silk-throwing mills).
    W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (includes a chapter on "Lombe's Silk Machine").
    P.Barlow, 1836, Treatise of Manufactures and Machinery of Great Britain, London (describes Lombe's mill and machinery, but it is not known how accurate the account may be).
    RLH

    Biographical history of technology > Lombe, John

  • 12 Winans, Ross

    [br]
    b. 17 October 1796 Sussex County, New Jersey, USA
    d. 11 April 1877 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    [br]
    American inventor and locomotive builder.
    [br]
    Winans arrived in Baltimore in 1828 to sell horses to the Baltimore \& Ohio Railroad (B \& O), which was then under construction. To reduce friction in rail vehicles, he devised a system of axles which ran in oil-baths, with outside bearings. He demonstrated a hand-driven wagon with this system at the Rainhill Trials; the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway bought some wagons fitted with the system, but found them on test to be inferior to wagons with grease axle boxes. Back in Baltimore, Winans assisted Peter Cooper in building Tom Thumb. He took charge of the B \& O shops c.1834; he is said to have built the first eight-wheeled passenger coach and to have been the first to mount such a coach on two four-wheeled trucks or bogies. The arrangement soon became standard American practice, and, with partners, he built over 100 locomotives for the B \& O. In 1847 he pioneered the use of anthracite as locomotive fuel, and from 1848 he built his "Camel" locomotives with the driver's cab above the boiler.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.H.White Jr, 1979, A History of the American Locomotive-Its Development: 1830–1880, New York: Dover Publications Inc.
    P.Ransome-Wallis (ed.), 1959, The Concise Encyclopaedia of World Railway Locomotives, London: Hutchinson, p. 503 (biography).
    Dictionary of American Biography.
    H.Booth, 1980, Henry Booth, Ilfracombe: Arthur H.Stockwell, pp. 75 and 91–2 (for the Liverpool \& Manchester wagons).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Winans, Ross

  • 13 Cangette

    Coarse serge twill, all wool, said to have been manufactured first at Caen, whence the name is derived. Used for dresses.

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Cangette

  • 14 near cash

    !
    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
    "
    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
    " "
    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
    " "
    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
    "
    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
    "
    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
    "
    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
    " "
    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
    " "
    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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  • 15 Wyatt, John

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

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    b. 1712 Scotland
    d. 1798 England
    [br]
    Scottish manufacturer who installed the first Boulton \& Watt rotative steam-engine in a textile mill.
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    George Robinson is said to have been a Scots migrant who settled at Burwell, near Nottingham, in 1737, but there is no record of his occupation until 1771, when he was noticed as a bleacher. By 1783 he and his son were describing themselves as "merchants and thread manufacturers" as well as bleachers. For their thread, they were using the system of spinning on the waterframe, but it is not known whether they held a licence from Arkwright. Between 1776 and 1791, the firm G.J. \& J.Robinson built a series of six cotton mills with a complex of dams and aqueducts to supply them in the relatively flat land of the Leen valley, near Papplewick, to the north of Nottingham. By careful conservation they were able to obtain considerable power from a very small stream. Castle mill was not only the highest one owned by the Robinsons, but it was also the highest mill on the stream and was fed from a reservoir. The Robinsons might therefore have expected to have enjoyed uninterrupted use of the water, but above them lived Lord Byron in his estate of Newstead Priory. The fifth Lord Byron loved making ornamental ponds on his property so that he could have mock naval battles with his servants, and this tampered with the water supplies so much that the Robinsons found they were unable to work their mills.
    In 1785 they decided to order a rotative steam engine from the firm of Boulton \& Watt. It was erected by John Rennie; however, misfortune seemed to dog this engine, for parts went astray to Manchester and when the engine was finally running at the end of February 1786 it was found to be out of alignment so may not have been very successful. At about the same time, the lawsuit against Lord Byron was found in favour of the Robinsons, but the engine continued in use for at least twelve years and was the first of the type which was to power virtually all steamdriven mills until the 1850s to be installed in a textile mill. It was a low-pressure double-acting condensing beam engine, with a vertical cylinder, parallel motion connecting the piston toone end of a rocking beam, and a connecting rod at the other end of the beam turning the flywheel. In this case Watt's sun and planet motion was used in place of a crank.
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    Further Reading
    R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (for an account of the installation of this engine).
    D.M.Smith, 1965, Industrial Archaeology of the East Midlands, Newton Abbot (describes the problems which the Robinsons had with the water supplies to power their mills).
    S.D.Chapman, 1967, The Early Factory Masters, Newton Abbot (provides details of the business activities of the Robinsons).
    J.D.Marshall, 1959, "Early application of steam power: the cotton mills of the Upper Leen", Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire 60 (mentions the introduction of this steam-engine).
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  • 17 Lee, Revd William

    SUBJECT AREA: Textiles
    [br]
    d. c. 1615
    [br]
    English inventor of the first knitting machine, called the stocking frame.
    [br]
    It would seem that most of the stories about Lee's invention of the stocking frame cannot be verified by any contemporary evidence, and the first written accounts do not appear until the second half of the seventeenth century. The claim that he was Master of Arts from St John's College, Cambridge, was first made in 1607 but cannot be checked because the records have not survived. The date for the invention of the knitting machine as being 1589 was made at the same time, but again there is no supporting evidence. There is no evidence that Lee was Vicar of Calverton, nor that he was in Holy Orders at all. Likewise there is no evidence for the existence of the woman, whether she was girlfriend, fiancée or wife, who is said to have inspired the invention, and claims regarding the involvement of Queen Elizabeth I and her refusal to grant a patent because the stockings were wool and not silk are also without contemporary foundation. Yet the first known reference shows that Lee was the inventor of the knitting machine, for the partnership agreement between him and George Brooke dated 6 June 1600 states that "William Lee hath invented a very speedy manner of making works usually wrought by knitting needles as stockings, waistcoats and such like". This agreement was to last for twenty-two years, but terminated prematurely when Brooke was executed for high treason in 1603. Lee continued to try and exploit his invention, for in 1605 he described himself as "Master of Arts" when he petitioned the Court of Aldermen of the City of London as the first inventor of an engine to make silk stockings. In 1609 the Weavers' Company of London recorded Lee as "a weaver of silk stockings by engine". These petitions suggest that he was having difficulty in establishing his invention, which may be why in 1612 there is a record of him in Rouen, France, where he hoped to have better fortune. If he had been invited there by Henry IV, his hopes were dashed by the assassination of the king soon afterwards. He was to supply four knitting machines, and there is further evidence that he was in France in 1615, but it is thought that he died in that country soon afterwards.
    The machine Lee invented was probably the most complex of its day, partly because the need to use silk meant that the needles were very fine. Henson (1970) in 1831 took five pages in his book to describe knitting on a stocking frame which had over 2,066 pieces. To knit a row of stitches took eleven separate stages, and great care and watchfulness were required to ensure that all the loops were equal and regular. This shows how complex the machines were and points to Lee's great achievement in actually making one. The basic principles of its operation remained unaltered throughout its extraordinarily long life, and a few still remained in use commercially in the early 1990s.
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    Further Reading
    J.T.Millington and S.D.Chapman (eds), 1989, Four Centuries of Machine Knitting, Commemorating William Lee's Invention of the Stocking Frame in 1589, Leicester (N.Harte examines the surviving evidence for the life of William Lee and this must be considered as the most up-to-date biographical information).
    Dictionary of National Biography (this contains only the old stories).
    Earlier important books covering Lee's life and invention are G.Henson, 1970, History of the Framework Knitters, reprint, Newton Abbot (orig. pub. 1831); and W.Felkin, 1967, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures, reprint, Newton Abbot (orig. pub. 1867).
    M.Palmer, 1984, Framework Knitting, Aylesbury (a simple account of the mechanism of the stocking frame).
    R.L.Hills, "William Lee and his knitting machine", Journal of the Textile Institute 80(2) (a more detailed account).
    M.Grass and A.Grass, 1967, Stockings for a Queen. The Life of William Lee, the Elizabethan Inventor, London.
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  • 18 Guido d'Arezzo

    SUBJECT AREA: Recording
    [br]
    b. c. 995 Italy
    d. 1050 Avellana, Italy
    [br]
    Italian music theorist who made important developments in musical notation.
    [br]
    Guido was originally a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of Pomposa, where he began to introduce innovations into the symbolic representation of music, which greatly helped in the training of choristers. Because of jealousies aroused by this work, he was obliged to leave and settled in Arezzo, capital of the province of that name in northern Italy. Around 1030 he went to Rome at the invitation of the Pope, John XIX, to explain his theories, after which he appears to have settled at the monastery of S.Croce di Fonte, Avellana, where he became prior some three years before his death. In an effort to make it easier for the choristers to maintain correct pitch and to learn the complex polyphonic chants then in development, Guido introduced two major innovations. The first was the use of a four-line staff on which the pitch of successive notes could be recorded. The second was a nomenclature for the first six notes of the major scale supposedly based on the initial syllables of a hymn said to have been composed by him, namely ut (later do), re, mi, fa, so and la. These had a dramatic effect on the learning and singing of music. He also apparently devised forms of parallel voices for plainsong.
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    Bibliography
    Guido's work is recorded in his treatise, c.1026, Micrologus.
    Further Reading
    Works describing the development of music and musical notation in medieval times include: W.C.Mickelson, 1977, Hugo Riemann's History of Music Theory, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
    S.Sadie (ed.), 1980, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 9, London: Macmillan, 803.
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  • 19 Pierce, George Washington

    [br]
    b. 11 January 1872 Austin, Texas, USA
    d. 25 August 1956 Franklin, New Hampshire, USA
    [br]
    American physicist who made various contributions to electronics, particularly crystal oscillators.
    [br]
    Pierce entered the University of Texas in 1890, gaining his BSc in physics in 1893 and his MSc in 1894. After teaching and doing various odd jobs, in 1897 he obtained a scholarship to Harvard, obtaining his PhD three years later. Following a period at the University of Leipzig, he returned to the USA in 1903 to join the teaching staff at Harvard, where he soon established new courses and began to gain a reputation as a pioneer in electronics, including the study of crystal rectifiers and publication of a textbook on wireless telegraphy. In 1912, with Kennelly, he conceived the idea of motional impedance. The same year he was made first Director of Harvard's Cruft High- Tension Electrical Laboratory, a post he held until his retirement. In 1917 he was appointed Professor of Physics, and for the remainder of the First World War he was also involved in work on submarine detection at the US Naval Base in New London. In 1921 he was appointed Rumford Professor of Physics and became interested in the work of Walter Cady on crystal-controlled circuits. As a result of this he patented the Pierce crystal oscillator in 1924. Having discovered the magnetostriction property of nickel and nichrome, in 1928 he also invented the magnetostriction oscillator. The mercury-vapour discharge lamp is also said to have been his idea. He became Gordon McKay Professor of Physics and Communications in 1935 and retired from Harvard in 1940, but he remained active for the rest of his life with the study of sound generation by birds and insects.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institute of Radio Engineers 1918–19. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1929.
    Bibliography
    1910, Principles of Wireless Telegraphy.
    1914, US patent no. 1,450,749 (a mercury vapour tube control circuit). 1919, Electrical Oscillations and Electric Waves.
    1922, "The piezo-electric Resonator", Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 10:83.
    Further Reading
    F.E.Terman, 1943, Radio Engineers'Handbook, New York: McGraw-Hill (for details of piezo-electric crystal oscillator circuits).
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  • 20 Howe, Frederick Webster

    [br]
    b. 28 August 1822 Danvers, Massachusetts, USA
    d. 25 April 1891 Providence, Rhode Island, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer, machine-tool designer and inventor.
    [br]
    Frederick W.Howe attended local schools until the age of 16 and then entered the machine shop of Gay \& Silver at North Chelmsford, Massachusetts, as an apprentice and remained with that firm for nine years. He then joined Robbins, Kendall \& Lawrence of Windsor, Vermont, as Assistant to Richard S. Lawrence in designing machine tools. A year later (1848) he was made Plant Superintendent. During his time with this firm, Howe designed a profiling machine which was used in all gun shops in the United States: a barrel-drilling and rifling machine, and the first commercially successful milling machine. Robbins \& Lawrence took to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, England, a set of rifles built on the interchangeable system. The interest this created resulted in a visit of some members of the British Royal Small Arms Commission to America and subsequently in an order for 150 machine tools, jigs and fixtures from Robbins \& Lawrence, to be installed at the small-arms factory at Enfield. From 1853 to 1856 Howe was in charge of the design and building of these machines. In 1856 he established his own armoury at Newark, New Jersey, but transferred after two years to Middletown, Connecticut, where he continued the manufacture of small arms until the outbreak of the Civil War. He then became Superintendent of the armoury of the Providence Tool Company at Providence, Rhode Island, and served in that capacity until the end of the war. In 1865 he went to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to assist Elias Howe with the manufacture of his sewing machine. After the death of Elias Howe, Frederick Howe returned to Providence to join the Brown \& Sharpe Manufacturing Company. As Superintendent of that establishment he worked with Joseph R. Brown in the development of many of the firm's products, including machinery for the Wilcox \& Gibbs sewing machine then being made by Brown \& Sharpe. From 1876 Howe was in business on his own account as a consulting mechanical engineer and in his later years he was engaged in the development of shoe machinery and in designing a one-finger typewriter, which, however, was never completed. He was granted several patents, mainly in the fields of machine tools and firearms. As a designer, Howe was said to have been a perfectionist, making frequent improvements; when completed, his designs were always sound.
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    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; repub. 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, 111. (provides biographical details).
    R.S.Woodbury, 1960, History of the Milling Machine, Cambridge, Mass, (describes Howe's contribution to the development of the milling machine).
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