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  • 1 firme

    adj.
    1 firm.
    2 solid.
    3 resolute.
    ¡firmes! (military) attention!
    4 single-minded, firm.
    5 secure, strong, firm.
    adv.
    hard.
    mantenerse firme en to hold fast to
    se mantuvo firme en su actitud he refused to give way, he stood his ground
    m.
    road surface.
    pres.subj.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: firmar.
    * * *
    1 (estable) firm, steady
    2 (color) fast
    1 (pavimento) road surface
    1 hard
    \
    de firme hard
    en firme firm
    estar en lo firme to be in the right
    ¡firmes! MILITAR attention!
    mantenerse firme figurado to hold one's ground
    * * *
    adj.
    1) firm
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [mesa, andamio] steady; [terreno] firm, solid
    2) [paso] firm, steady; [voz] firm; [mercado, moneda] steady; [candidato] strong
    3) [amistad, apoyo] firm, strong; [decisión, convicción] firm

    estar en lo firme — † to be in the right

    4) [sentencia] final
    5) (Mil)

    ¡firmes! — attention!

    ponerse firmes — to come o stand to attention

    2.
    ADV hard
    3.
    SM (Aut) road surface

    firme del suelo — (Arquit) rubble base (of floor)

    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <escalera/silla/mesa> steady

    pisar terreno firme — to be on safe o firm o solid ground

    con paso/pulso firme — with a firm step/steady hand

    de firme — <estudiar/trabajar> hard

    b) ( color) fast
    c) < candidato> strong
    2) (Mil)

    en posición de firmes — standing at o (BrE) to attention

    3)
    a) < persona> firm

    se mantuvo firme — (ante las presiones, el enemigo) she stood her ground

    me mantuve firme en mi postura/idea — I stuck o kept to my position/idea

    b) (delante del n) <creencia/convicción> firm
    II
    masculino road surface
    * * *
    = firm [firmer -comp., firmest -sup.], powerful, sound [sounder -comp., soundest -sup.], strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], uncompromising, steadfast, assertive, adamant, taut [tauter -comp., tautest -sup.], tight [tighter -comp., tightest -sup.], uncompromised, staunch [stanch, -USA], rock solid, unswerving, toned.
    Ex. Full consideration of the above factors should form a firm basis for the design of an effective thesaurus or list of subject headings.
    Ex. Because DOBIS/LIBIS integrates the authority files into the cataloguing process, it provides a unique and very powerful authority file facility.
    Ex. Thus the scheme has a sound organisational backing.
    Ex. In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.
    Ex. What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex. He does admit, however, that 'this power is unusual, it is a gift which must be cultivated, an accomplishment which can only be acquired by vigorous and steadfast concentration'.
    Ex. I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex. The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.
    Ex. While the stencil is held taut, the cylinder is slowly rotated until the bottom edge of the wax sheet can be clamped in position.
    Ex. The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.
    Ex. The Gazette advocated uncompromised racial equality and viewed the migration as a weapon against oppression.
    Ex. This article reviews the work of Professor Kaula, the staunch crusader of librarianship in India.
    Ex. The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.
    Ex. His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.
    Ex. If you are shorter or have very nice toned legs without veins, scars or dark hair, I say take the skirt up a few inches if you want.
    ----
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * con pie firme = sure-footed.
    * en tierra firme = on dry land.
    * mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.
    * mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * permanecer firm = stay in + place.
    * poco firme = tenuous, rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.].
    * ponerse firme = stand to + attention.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * sobre suelo firme = on firm footing.
    * terreno firme = safe ground, solid ground.
    * tierra firme = solid ground.
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <escalera/silla/mesa> steady

    pisar terreno firme — to be on safe o firm o solid ground

    con paso/pulso firme — with a firm step/steady hand

    de firme — <estudiar/trabajar> hard

    b) ( color) fast
    c) < candidato> strong
    2) (Mil)

    en posición de firmes — standing at o (BrE) to attention

    3)
    a) < persona> firm

    se mantuvo firme — (ante las presiones, el enemigo) she stood her ground

    me mantuve firme en mi postura/idea — I stuck o kept to my position/idea

    b) (delante del n) <creencia/convicción> firm
    II
    masculino road surface
    * * *
    = firm [firmer -comp., firmest -sup.], powerful, sound [sounder -comp., soundest -sup.], strong [stronger -comp., strongest -sup.], uncompromising, steadfast, assertive, adamant, taut [tauter -comp., tautest -sup.], tight [tighter -comp., tightest -sup.], uncompromised, staunch [stanch, -USA], rock solid, unswerving, toned.

    Ex: Full consideration of the above factors should form a firm basis for the design of an effective thesaurus or list of subject headings.

    Ex: Because DOBIS/LIBIS integrates the authority files into the cataloguing process, it provides a unique and very powerful authority file facility.
    Ex: Thus the scheme has a sound organisational backing.
    Ex: In fact, the 1979 index figures show a strong contrast between the hardback and paperback turnovers, with the hardback market being down and the paperback market up.
    Ex: What precipitated that furor was that Panizzi's volume represented a uncompromising rejection of the comfortable ideology of the finding catalog.
    Ex: He does admit, however, that 'this power is unusual, it is a gift which must be cultivated, an accomplishment which can only be acquired by vigorous and steadfast concentration'.
    Ex: I tried to say at the very outset of my remarks that there probably has not been sufficient consumer-like and assertive leverage exerted upon our chief suppliers.
    Ex: The point is that even our most adamant, conservative faculty members are slowly dribbling in and saying, 'Could you add our name to your selective dissemination of information service?'.
    Ex: While the stencil is held taut, the cylinder is slowly rotated until the bottom edge of the wax sheet can be clamped in position.
    Ex: The platen was lashed up tight to the toe of the spindle by cords which connected hooks at its four corners to another set of hooks at the four lower corners of the hose.
    Ex: The Gazette advocated uncompromised racial equality and viewed the migration as a weapon against oppression.
    Ex: This article reviews the work of Professor Kaula, the staunch crusader of librarianship in India.
    Ex: The numbers in the ad, which are quite eye-opening, are rock-solid.
    Ex: His mistaken assumption that cult heroes are supermen, and his unswerving devotion to an empirical testing of the play impose significant limitations on his account.
    Ex: If you are shorter or have very nice toned legs without veins, scars or dark hair, I say take the skirt up a few inches if you want.
    * adoptar una postura firme ante una cuestión = take + position on + issue.
    * con pie firme = sure-footed.
    * en tierra firme = on dry land.
    * mantener firme = keep + steady, hold in + line, hold + steady.
    * mantenerse firme = stand + Posesivo + ground, stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * permanecer firm = stay in + place.
    * poco firme = tenuous, rocky [rockier -comp., rockiest -sup.].
    * ponerse firme = stand to + attention.
    * senos firmes y de punta = pert breasts.
    * sobre suelo firme = on firm footing.
    * terreno firme = safe ground, solid ground.
    * tierra firme = solid ground.

    * * *
    A
    1 ‹escalera/silla/mesa› steady
    edificar sobre terreno firme to build on solid ground
    tenemos que asegurarnos de que pisamos terreno firme we must make sure that we're not treading on dangerous ground
    tener las carnes firmes to have a firm body
    se acercó con paso firme he approached with a determined o firm step
    con pulso firme with a firm o steady hand
    una oferta en firme a firm offer
    un fallo a firme an enforceable o executable judgment
    de firme hard
    estudiar de firme to study hard
    2 (color) fast
    3 ‹candidato› strong
    B ( Mil):
    ¡firmes! attention!
    estaban en posición de firmes they were standing to attention
    C
    1 ‹persona› firm
    tienes que mostrarte más firme con él you have to be firmer with him
    se mantuvo firme she remained firm, she stood her ground, she did not waver
    2 ( delante del n) ‹creencia/convicción› firm
    su firme apoyo a los detenidos their firm support for the prisoners
    D ( Per fam) (excelente) excellent, brilliant ( colloq)
    road surface
    firme deslizante slippery surface
    ( Chi fam)
    la firme the truth
    te diré la firme I'll be honest with you o I'll tell you the truth
    * * *

     

    Del verbo firmar: ( conjugate firmar)

    firmé es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    firme es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    firmar    
    firme
    firmar ( conjugate firmar) verbo transitivo/intransitivo
    to sign
    firme adjetivo
    1 ‹escalera/silla/mesa› steady;

    con paso/pulso firme with a firm step/steady hand;
    una oferta en firme a firm offer;
    de firme ‹estudiar/trabajar› hard
    2 (Mil):
    ◊ ¡firmes! attention!

    3
    a) ‹ persona› firm;


    me mantuve firme en mi idea I stuck o kept to my idea
    b) ( delante del n) ‹creencia/convicción› firm

    firmar verbo transitivo to sign
    firme
    I adjetivo
    1 firm: se mantuvo firme ante la oposición, she stood firm against the opposition
    II m (pavimento de carretera) road surface
    III adv (con constancia) firm, firmly, hard
    IV excl Mil ¡firmes! attention!
    ♦ Locuciones: de firme, firm, hard
    en firme, definitive
    ' firme' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    hasta
    - inquebrantable
    - plantarse
    - pulso
    - roca
    - terrestre
    - actitud
    - enérgico
    - paso
    - postura
    - propósito
    - tierra
    English:
    adamant
    - assertive
    - deploy
    - exploit
    - fast
    - firm
    - govern
    - hard
    - hold
    - land
    - name
    - secure
    - self-assertion
    - self-assertive
    - shaky
    - shore
    - solid
    - steadfast
    - steady
    - stiff
    - stout
    - strong
    - surface
    - unsteady
    - unwavering
    - wonky
    - attention
    - decisive
    - definite
    - ground
    - intention
    - march
    - sound
    - sure
    - unbending
    - wobbly
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [fuerte, sólido] firm;
    [andamio, construcción] stable; [pulso] steady; [paso] resolute;
    tiene unos principios muy firmes she has very firm principles, she's extremely principled;
    tiene la firme intención de resolver el problema she fully intends to solve the problem, she has every intention of solving the problem;
    llovió de firme durante varias horas it rained hard for several hours
    2. [argumento, base] solid;
    trabaja de firme en el nuevo proyecto she's working full-time on the new project;
    una respuesta en firme a definite answer;
    quedamos en firme para el miércoles we are definitely agreed on Wednesday;
    tenemos un acuerdo en firme para intercambiar información we have a firm agreement to exchange information
    3. [carácter, actitud] resolute;
    hay que mostrarse firme con los empleados you have to be firm with the workers;
    Fam
    poner firme a alguien to bring sb into line
    4. Mil
    ¡firmes! attention!;
    en la posición de firmes standing to attention
    ♦ nm
    road surface;
    firme en mal estado [en letrero] uneven road surface
    ♦ adv
    hard;
    mantenerse firme en to hold fast to;
    se mantuvo firme en su actitud he refused to give way, he stood his ground
    * * *
    I adj
    1 firm; ( estable) steady; ( sólido) solid;
    2 MIL
    :
    ¡ firmes! attention!;
    poner firme a alguien fig fam take a firm line with s.o.
    II m pavement, Br
    road surface
    III adv
    :
    trabajar firme work hard
    * * *
    firme adj
    1) : firm, resolute
    2) : steady, stable
    * * *
    firme1 adj
    1. (estable) steady [comp. steadier; superl. steadiest]
    2. (constante) firm
    firme2 n road surface

    Spanish-English dictionary > firme

  • 2 твёрдый

    1) ( не жидкий) solid

    твёрдое те́ло физ. — solid

    твёрдый грунт — firm soil; с.-х. stiff soil

    твёрдая мозо́ль — hardened corn

    твёрдая пшени́ца — durum / hard wheat

    3) (крепкий, прочный) hard, strong

    твёрдый оре́х — hard nut

    он оста́лся твёрд — he remained firm / steadfast

    твёрдый ду́хом челове́к — a steadfast / unflinching man

    твёрдое наме́рение — unwavering / steady / fixed purpose

    твёрдое реше́ние — firm decision

    твёрдое убежде́ние — strong / firm conviction

    твёрдая уве́ренность — firm belief

    5) (установленный, не допускающий отклонений) stable

    твёрдая цена́ — fixed / firm price

    твёрдое зада́ние — specified / definite task

    твёрдое пра́вило — hard and fast rule

    6) (прочно усвоенный, основательный) firm

    твёрдые зна́ния — sound knowledge sg

    он не твёрд в хи́мии — he is not strong in chemistry

    7) (ровный - о почерке, голосе) firm
    ••

    твёрдый согла́сный лингв. — hard consonant

    твёрдая валю́та — hard currency

    в здра́вом уме́ и твёрдой па́мяти — of sound mind and memory

    стать твёрдой ного́й где-л — secure a firm footing somewhere

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > твёрдый

  • 3 твёрдый

    ( не мягкий) hard; ( не жидкий) solid; ( крепкий) firm, strong; (перен.: непоколебимый) firm; ( стойкий) steadfast; ( установленный) stable

    твёрдая пшеница — durum wheat, hard wheat

    твёрдый грунт — firm soil; с.-х. stiff soil

    он остался твёрд — he remained firm / steadfast

    твёрдый духом человек — a steadfast / unflinching man*

    твёрдое намерение — unwavering / steady / fixed purpose

    твёрдое убеждение — strong / firm conviction

    стать твёрдой ногой где-л. — secure a firm footing somewhere

    твёрдые цены — fixed / stable prices

    твёрдое задание — specified / definite task

    ♢ твёрдый знак — hard sign, the Russian letter ъ

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > твёрдый

  • 4 fermo

    "retainer, clamp;
    Vorreiber;
    tramela"
    * * *
    1. adj still, motionless
    veicolo stationary
    ( saldo) firm
    mano steady
    star fermo ( non muoversi) keep still
    l'orologio è fermo the watch has stopped
    2. int fermo! (alt!) stop!
    (immobile!) keep still!
    3. m law detention
    * * *
    fermo agg.
    1 still, motionless, immobile; ( inattivo) idle: star, rimanere fermo, to keep still, ( in piedi) to stand still; vuoi stare fermo?, (fam.) keep still!; un uomo se ne stava fermo nell'ombra, a man stood motionless in the shadows; il treno era fermo in stazione, the train was standing in the station; la situazione è ferma al punto in cui l'ho lasciata tre mesi fa, the situation is the same as I left it three months ago; fermi tutti, questa è una rapina!, nobody move, this is a holdup!; tener fermo qlcu., to keep hold of s.o.; il motore era fermo, the engine was not running // l'orologio è fermo, the clock has stopped // acque ferme, still (o stagnant o dead) waters // (gramm.) punto fermo, full stop (o period) // (mus.) canto fermo, plain song
    2 ( saldo, stabile) firm, steady; (fig.) firm, immovable; ( risoluto) resolute: reggeva il bicchiere con mano ferma, he held the glass with a steady hand; diresse l'azienda per vent'anni con mano ferma, he managed the company for 20 years with a firm hand; nonostante l'emozione la sua voce si mantenne ferma, in spite of the emotion his voice remained steady; fermo come una roccia, as firm as a rock; un fermo proposito, a steady purpose; fermo nei propositi, firm in one's intentions; una fede ferma, a firm faith; un fermo rifiuto, a flat (o firm) refusal; volontà ferma, unfaltering will // resta fermo quanto è stato deciso ieri, what was decided yesterday still holds // restando fermo che..., it being understood that... // per fermo, certainly // aspettare a piè fermo, to stand one's ground
    3 (econ.) ( stabile) firm, steady, undepressed; ( che langue) dull, flat, depressed, stagnant: gli affari sono fermi, business is stagnant (o flat); mercato fermo, ( stabile) undepressed market; offerta ferma, firm offer
    ◆ s.m.
    1 ( oggetto, dispositivo per fermare) ( blocco) lock; ( arresto) stop: mettere il fermo a una porta, to put a stop against a door; fermo automatico, automatic stop (o brake); fermo immagine, ( di videoregistratore) freeze, freeze-frame; still
    2 ( arresto provvisorio) police detention, holding for questioning; (dir.) (provisional) arrest: procedere al fermo di qlcu., to hold s.o.; convalidare un fermo, to confirm an arrest
    3 (comm.) ( confisca, sequestro) distraint, seizure: fermo ai pagamenti, stoppage of payments; mettere il fermo su merce di contrabbando, to seize contraband goods; imporre il fermo, ( su navi, merci) to embargo; (banca) mettere il fermo su un assegno, to stop a cheque.
    * * *
    ['fermo] fermo (-a)
    1. agg
    1) (immobile: persona) still, motionless, (veicolo, traffico) at a standstill, stationary, (non in funzione) not working

    stai fermo con le mani! — keep your hands still!, (non toccarmi) keep your hands to yourself!

    fermo! — don't move!, stay where you are!

    2) (costante, risoluto) firm, (non tremante: voce, mano) steady

    resta fermo che... — it is settled that...

    fermo restando che... — it being understood that...

    2. sm
    1) Dir

    fermo di polizia — police custody (before formal accusation of a crime)

    2) (di porta: gancio) catch
    3)
    * * *
    ['fermo] 1.
    1) (che non si muove) [persona, barca, aria] still; [veicolo, coda, traffico] stationary; [ treno] standing

    rimanere o restare fermo [persona, gatto] to keep o stand o stay still; non stare fermo un minuto, non stare mai fermo to be restless, never to keep o stand still; stai fermo! don't move! hold still! -i tutti! everybody stand still! tenere fermo qcn. to hold sb. down; tenere fermo qcs. to keep o hold sth. steady, to hold sth. down; essere fermo fig. [ricerca, progetto] to be at a stop o stand; stare fermo un giro gioc. to miss a turn; acqua -a — (stagnante) slack water

    2) (non funzionante) [ macchina] idle, not working; [ motore] not running
    3) (saldo) [persona, carattere] firm, resolute; [convinzione, rifiuto] firm, steadfast; [intenzione, proposito] firm, fixed; [mano, voce] steady, firm, sure; [ passo] unfaltering, steady
    4) econ. comm. [ mercato] stagnant, dull, stalled; [ fabbrica] idle, at a standstill; [ capitale] idle
    2.
    sostantivo maschile
    1) (chiusura) lock
    2) dir. custody, detention, provisional arrest

    essere, mettere in stato di fermo — to be placed, to take into custody

    3) econ. stop payment
    •
    * * *
    fermo
    /'fermo/
     1 (che non si muove) [persona, barca, aria] still; [veicolo, coda, traffico] stationary; [ treno] standing; rimanere o restare fermo [persona, gatto] to keep o stand o stay still; non stare fermo un minuto, non stare mai fermo to be restless, never to keep o stand still; stai fermo! don't move! hold still! -i tutti! everybody stand still! tenere fermo qcn. to hold sb. down; tenere fermo qcs. to keep o hold sth. steady, to hold sth. down; essere fermo fig. [ricerca, progetto] to be at a stop o stand; stare fermo un giro gioc. to miss a turn; acqua -a (stagnante) slack water
     2 (non funzionante) [ macchina] idle, not working; [ motore] not running; l'orologio è fermo the watch has stopped
     3 (saldo) [persona, carattere] firm, resolute; [convinzione, rifiuto] firm, steadfast; [intenzione, proposito] firm, fixed; [mano, voce] steady, firm, sure; [ passo] unfaltering, steady; fermo sulle gambe steady on one's legs
     4 econ. comm. [ mercato] stagnant, dull, stalled; [ fabbrica] idle, at a standstill; [ capitale] idle; gli affari sono -i business is stagnant o slacking off; la produzione è -a production is at a stop
     1 (chiusura) lock
     2 dir. custody, detention, provisional arrest; essere, mettere in stato di fermo to be placed, to take into custody
     3 econ. stop payment; apporre il fermo su un assegno to stop a cheque
    fermo immagine freeze frame.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > fermo

  • 5 стоя

    1. stand, be
    (престоявам) stop. stay, remain; be
    (намирам се, лежа) be, lie
    стояправ stand
    стоя изправен (за предмет) stand on end
    стоя здраво на краката си stand/be firm on o.'s feet (и прен.)
    стоя на пръсти stand on tip-toe
    стоя на колене kneel
    стоя на четири крака be/stand on all fours
    стояи разговарям/пуша stand talking/smoking
    стоя на опашка stand in a queue/line; queue
    стоя на разстояние stand off
    стоя на едно място stand still
    стоя часовой, стоя на стража stand sentry/sentinel/guard; keep watch
    стоя на поста си be at o.'s post
    стоя на кормилото be/stand at the helm
    стоя на котва lie at anchor
    стоя на власт be in power
    стоя в къщи stay at home
    стоя до късно sit up late, stay up
    стоя на пътя на някого (и прен.) stand/be s. o/s way
    чашите стоят в бюфета the cups/glasses are in the cupboard
    стоя неизползуван lie idle
    стоя без работа stand idle/by, do nothing
    парите му стоят в джоба he keeps his money in his pocket
    тук влакът стои 10 минути the train stops here for ten minutes
    тя дълго стоя така she remained like that for a long time
    2. (не липсвам) still be there, still stand
    стоят ли ти още парите? have you still got the money? Is the money still there?
    старата къща още стои the old house still stands/is still standing
    3. прен. (за въпрос и пр.) stand
    така стоят работите/нещата that is how matters stand
    въпросът, който стои пред нас the question we are faced with/which confronts us
    пред него стои изборът дали he is faced with the choice whether
    4. (подхожда, прилича) suit
    be becoming (to), (no мярка е) fit
    стои ти много добре it suits/fits you very well. it's a perfect fit
    стоя на страна stand/keep away/aloof
    стоя нащрек вж. щрек
    стояна тръни/игли/бодли be on tenterhooks, be on thorns
    стоя на два стола sit on the fence, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
    стоя на думата си keep o.'s word
    стоя на своето stick to o.'s guns; not budge (an inch)
    стоя зад някого back s.o.
    стоя над главата на някого press s.o. (hard), pester s.o.
    стоя като треснат/гръмнат stand dumbfounded
    5. вж. стон
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    стоя̀,
    гл.
    1. stand; be; ( престоявам) stop, stay, remain; be; ( намирам се, лежа) be, lie; \стоя без работа stand idle/by, do nothing; \стоя вкъщи stay at home; \стоя до късно sit up late, stay up; \стоя здраво на краката си stand/be firm on o.’s feet (и прен.); \стоя изправен (за предмет) stand on end; \стоя на власт be in power; \стоя на едно място stand still; \стоя на котва lie at anchor; \стоя на опашка stand in a queue/line; queue; \стоя на пръсти stand on tip-toe; \стоя на разстояние stand off; \стоя прав stand; \стоя часовой, \стоя на стража stand sentry/sentinel/guard; keep watch;
    2. (не липсвам) still be there, still stand; старата къща още стои the old house still stands/ is still standing;
    3. прен. (за въпрос и пр.) stand; така стоят работите/нещата that is how matters stand;
    4. ( подхожда, прилича) suit; be becoming (to), (по мярка е) fit; стои ти много добре it suits/fits you very well, it’s a perfect fit; • стой! stop! halt! stand! ( почакай) hold on! wait a moment! \стоя зад някого back s.o.; \стоя на два стола sit on the fence, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds; \стоя на тръни/игли/бодли be on tenterhooks, be on thorns; \стоя настрана stand/keep away/aloof.
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    stay: стоя here till I come back - Стой тук докато се върна., стоя at home - стоя си вкъщи; stand (прав): стоя on tiptoe - стоя на пръсти, стоя still - стоя мирно, The matter стояs thus. - Така стоят нещата., This book стояs on the top shelf. - Тази книга стои на най-горния рафт., стоя aside - стоя на страна, стоя iddle - стоя без работа; abide (седнал); suit (подхожда, за дреха)
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    1. (намирам се, лежа) be, lie 2. (не липсвам) still be there, still stand 3. (подхожда, прилича) suit 4. (престоявам) stop. stay, remain;be 5. 2 минути the train stops here for ten minutes 6. be becoming (to), (no мярка е) fit 7. stand, be 8. СТОЯ без работа stand idle/by, do nothing 9. СТОЯ в къщи stay at home 10. СТОЯ до късно sit up late, stay up 11. СТОЯ зад някого back s. o. 12. СТОЯ здраво на краката си stand/be firm on o.'s feet (и прен.) 13. СТОЯ изправен (за предмет) stand on end 14. СТОЯ като треснат/гръмнат stand dumbfounded 15. СТОЯ на власт be in power 16. СТОЯ на два стола sit on the fence, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds 17. СТОЯ на думата си keep o.'s word 18. СТОЯ на еднo място stand still 19. СТОЯ на колене kneel 20. СТОЯ на кормилото be/stand at the helm 21. СТОЯ на котва lie at anchor 22. СТОЯ на опашка stand in a queue/line;queue 23. СТОЯ на поста си be at o.'s post 24. СТОЯ на пръсти stand on tip-toe 25. СТОЯ на пътя на някого (и прен.) stand/be s. o/s way 26. СТОЯ на разстояние stand off 27. СТОЯ на своето stick to o.'s guns;not budge (an inch) 28. СТОЯ на страна stand/keep away/aloof 29. СТОЯ на четири крака be/stand on all fours 30. СТОЯ над главата на някого press s. o. (hard), реster s.o. 31. СТОЯ неизползуван lie idle 32. СТОЯ часовой, СТОЯ на стража stand sentry/sentinel/guard;keep watch 33. СТОЯи разговарям/пуша stand talking/smoking 34. СТОЯна тръни/игли/бодли be on tenterhooks, be on thorns 35. СТОЯправ stand 36. вж. стон 37. въпросът, който стои пред нас the question we are faced with/which confronts us 38. парите му стоят в джоба he keeps his money in his pocket 39. пред него стои изборът дали he is faced with the choice whether 40. прен. (за въпрос и пр.) stand 41. с мене работата стои малко по-иначе things are a little different with me 42. старата къща още стои the old house still stands/is still standing 43. стои ти много добре it suits/fits you very well. it's a perfect fit 44. стоя нащрек вж. щрек 45. стоят ли ти ощe парите? have you still got the money?Is the money still there? 46. така стоят работите/нещата that is how matters stand 47. тук влакът стои 48. тя дълго стоя така she remained like that for a long time 49. чашите стоят в бюфета the cups/glasses are in the cupboard

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  • 6 ἵστημι

    ἵστημι (Hom.+, ins, pap [Mayser 353]; LXX [Thackeray 247f]; pseudepigr., Philo, Joseph., apolog. exc. Ar.) and also ἱστάνω (since I B.C. SIG 1104, 26 ἱστανόμενος; pap [Mayser, loc. cit., with ἀνθιστάνω documented here as early as III B.C.]; Epict. 3, 12, 2; LXX [Ezk 17:14; Thackeray, loc. cit.]; later wr. in Psaltes 236) Ro 3:31; Hs 8, 1, 10 (s. Whittaker on 8, 1, 8; s. B-D-F §93; Mlt-H. 202). Fut. στήσω; 1 aor. ἔστησα; 2 aor. ἔστην, impv. στῆθι, inf. στῆναι, ptc. στάς; pf. ἕστηκα ( I stand), ptc. ἑστηκώς, ός and ἑστώς En 12:3; JosAs 7:2; J 12:29,-ῶσα J 8:9 v.l., neut. ἑστώς Rv 14:1 v.l. (s. B-D-F §96; W-S. §14, 5; Mlt-H. 222) and ἑστός, inf. always ἑστάναι; plpf. εἱστήκειν ( I stood) or ἱστήκειν GPt 2:3, third pl. εἱστήκεισαν Mt 12:46; J 18:18; Ac 9:7; Rv 7:11 (W-H. spell it ἱστ. everywhere); ἑστάκαμεν w. act. mng. 1 Macc 11:34; fut. mid. στήσομαι Rv 18:15. Pass.: 1 fut. σταθήσομαι; 1 aor. ἐστάθην (PEg2 65). S. στήκω. Trans.: A. Intr.: B, C, D.
    A. trans. (pres., impf., fut., 1 aor. act.; s. B-D-F §97, 1; Mlt-H. 241) gener. ‘put, place, set’.
    ① to cause to be in a place or position, set, place, bring, allow to come τινά someone, lit. ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ Ac 5:27. εἰς αὐτούς before them 22:30. ἐκ δεξιῶν τινος at someone’s right (hand) Mt 25:33. ἐν μέσῳ in the midst, among 18:2; Mk 9:36; J 8:3. ἐνώπιόν τινος before someone Ac 6:6. Also κατενώπιόν τινος Jd 24. ἐπί τι upon someth. Mt 4:5; Lk 4:9. παρά τινι beside someone 9:47.
    ② to propose someone for an obligation, put forward, propose, lit. (e.g. Just., A I, 60, 3 Μωυσέα … τύπον σταυροῦ … στῆσαι ἐπὶ τῇ ἁγίᾳ σκηνῇ) τινά for a certain purpose: the candidates for election to the apostleship Ac 1:23. μάρτυρας ψευδεῖς 6:13 (cp. Mel., P. 93, 700 ψευδομάρτυρες).
    ③ to set up or put into force, establish, fig. ext. of 1 (cp. Gen 26:3 τὸν ὅρκον; Ex 6:4) τὴν ἰδίαν δικαιοσύνην Ro 10:3. τὸ δεύτερον (opp. ἀναιρεῖν τὸ πρῶτον, a ref. to sacrificial system) Hb 10:9.—Of legal enforcement κύριε, μὴ στήσῃς αὐτοῖς ταύτην τ. ἁμαρτίαν Lord, do not hold this sin against them Ac 7:60 (contrast ἀφίημι 1 Macc 13:38f; 15:5; Stephen’s expression=ἄφες Lk 23:34; s. Beginn. IV, ad loc.).
    ④ to validate someth. that is in force or in practice, reinforce validity of, uphold, maintain, validate τὶ someth. fig. ext. of 1 (1 Macc 2:27 τὴν διαθήκην) τὴν παράδοσιν ὑμῶν validate or maintain your own tradition Mk 7:9. νόμον ἱστάνομεν we uphold (the) law Ro 3:31 (s. καταργέω 2).
    ⑤ to cause to be steadfast, make someone stand δυνατεῖ ὁ κύριος στῆσαι αὐτόν Ro 14:4.
    ⓐ set/fix a time a period of time ἡμέραν (s. ἡμέρα 3a) Ac 17:31.
    ⓑ determine a monetary amount οἱ δὲ ἔστησαν αὐτῷ τριάκοντα ἀργύρια Mt 26:15 (=Zech 11:12 ἔστησαν τὸν μισθόν μου τριάκοντα ἀργύρους), presents a special problem for interpreters because of the author’s theological and narrative interests, which prompt him to connect an allusion here to Zech 11:12 in anticipation of a fulfillment statement at Mt 27:9f, which in haggadic fashion draws on Zech 11:13 in the longer form of the Mt and Jer 32 (Mt 39):7–9 (s. JDoeve, Jewish Hermeneutics in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts, ’54, 185–87). Jer 39:9 and Zech 11:12 use the verb ἱ. in the sense weigh out on scales (Hom.; X., Cyr. 8, 2, 21, Mem. 1, 1, 9 al.; GDI p. 870, n49 A [Ephesus VI B.C.] 40 minas ἐστάθησαν; Is 46:6; Jer 39:9; 2 Esdr 8:25), and some (e.g. BWeiss, HHoltzmann, JWeiss; FSchulthess, ZNW 21, 1922, 227f; Field, Notes 19f) interpret Mt 26:15 in this sense. Of course Mt’s readers would know that coinage of their time was not ‘weighed out’ and would understand ἱ. in the sense of striking a bargain (ἵστημι=set a price, make an offer, close a bargain: Herodas 7, 68 pair of shoes; BGU 1116, 8 [I B.C.]; 912, 25 [I A.D.]; PRainer 206, 10 [II A.D.] κεφάλαιον), they set out (=offered, allowed) for him (=paid him) 30 silver coins (Wlh., OHoltzmann, Schniewind), but the more sophisticated among them would readily recognize the obsolete mng. Ac 7:60 is sometimes interpreted in a related sense, but the absence of a direct object of amount paid suggests that the pass. is better placed in 3 above.
    B. intr., aor. and fut. forms
    ① to desist from movement and be in a stationary position, stand still, stop (Hom., Aristot.; Philostrat., Ep. 36, 2 ὁ ποταμὸς στήσεται; TestSol 7:3 οὕτως ἔστη ἡ αὔρα) Lk 24:17. στὰς ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐφώνησεν αὐτούς Mt 20:32.—Mk 10:49; Lk 7:14; 17:12; 18:40. στῆναι τὸ ἅρμα Ac 8:38. ἀπὸ μακρόθεν ἔστησαν Rv 18:17; cp. vs. 15. ἔστησαν ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τοῦ σπηλαίου GJs 19:2. ἔστη ἐπὶ τόπου πεδινοῦ he took his stand on a level place Lk 6:17. Of a star ἐστάθη ἐπάνω οὗ ἦν τὸ παιδίον Mt 2:9; also ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ παιδίου GJs 21:3. Of a flow of blood come to an end ἔστη ἡ ῥύσις τ. αἵματος Lk 8:44 (cp. Ex 4:25 [though HKosmala, Vetus Test. 12, ’62, 28 renders it as an emphatic εἶναι] Heraclid. Pont., Fgm. 49 W.; POxy 1088, 21 [I A.D.]; Cyranides p. 117 note γυναικὶ … αἷμα ἵστημι παραχρῆμα). στῆθι stand Js 2:3. ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ἄνω his hand remained (motionless) upraised GJs 18:3 (not pap).
    ② to come up in the presence of others, come up, stand, appear ἔμπροσθέν τινος before someone Mt 27:11; Lk 21:36. Also ἐνώπιόν τινος Ac 10:30; GJs 11:2 (κατενώπιον TestSol 22:13; Just., D. 127, 3) or ἐπί τινος: σταθήσεσθε you will have to appear Mt 10:18 v.l.; Mk 13:9; ἐπί τοῦ παλατίου AcPl Ha 9, 20. στῆθι εἰς τὸ μέσον Lk 6:8; cp. vs. 8b; J 20:19, 26 (Vi. Aesopi I c. 6 p. 243, 15 Αἴσωπος στὰς εἰς τὸ μέσον ἀνέκραξεν). Also ἐν μέσῳ Lk 24:36; Ac 17:22; Ox 1 verso, 11 (s. Unknown Sayings, 69–71). ἔστη εἰς τὸ κριτήριον she stood before the court GJs 15:2. Cp. J 21:4; Rv 12:18; Lk 7:38. Step up or stand to say someth. or make a speech Lk 18:11. Cp. 19:8; Ac 2:14; 5:20; 11:13 al. ἔστησαν … προσδοκῶντες τὸν Ζαχαρίαν they stood waiting for Z. GJs 24:1. Pract. in the sense of the pf. δυνάμενοι … ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ στῆναι (the cult images) which could not remain standing AcPl Ha 1, 20 (cp. ἵστατο δένδρον κυπάρισσος TestAbr A 3 p. 79, 17 [Stone p. 6]; ὁ τόπος ἐν ᾧ ἱστάμεθα GrBar 6:13).
    ③ to stand up against, resist, w. πρὸς and acc. offer resistance (Thu. 5, 104) Eph 6:11; abs. resist (Ex 14:13) vs. 13. (Cp. the term στάσις in the sense of ‘rebellion’.)
    ④ stand firm so as to remain stable, stand firm, hold one’s ground (Ps 35:13) in battle (X., An. 1, 10, 1) Eph 6:14. σταθήσεται will stand firm Ro 14:4a. τίς δύναται σταθῆναι; Rv 6:17. εἰς ἣν στῆτε stand fast in it (Goodsp., Probs. 198) 1 Pt:12. Of house, city, or kingdom Mt 12:25f; Mk 3:24f; Lk 11:18. Cp. Mk 3:26. The OT expr. (Dt 19:15) ἵνα ἐπὶ στόματος δύο μαρτύρων ἢ τριῶν σταθῇ πᾶν ῥῆμα Mt 18:16; 2 Cor 13:1.
    ⑤ come to a standing position, stand up ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας on one’s feet (Ezk 2:1) Ac 26:16; Rv 11:11. Abs. Ac 3:8.
    C. intr., perf. and plupf.
    ① to be in a standing position, I stand, I stood of bodily position, e.g. of a speaker J 7:37; Ac 5:25, of hearers J 12:29 or spectators Mt 27:47; Lk 23:35; Ac 1:11, of accusers Lk 23:10. Cp. J 18:5, 16, 18ab, 25; 19:25; Ac 16:9 al.
    ② to be at a place, stand (there), be (there), w. the emphasis less on ‘standing’ than on ‘being, existing’.
    ⓐ position indicated by adv. of place ἔξω Mt 12:46f; Lk 8:20; 13:25. μακρόθεν Lk 18:13. ἀπὸ μακρόθεν at a distance 23:49; Rv 18:10. ἐκεῖ Mk 11:5. ὅπου 13:14. ὧδε Mt 16:28; 20:6b. αὐτοῦ Lk 9:27; ἀπέναντι AcPl Ha 3, 30.
    ⓑ w. place indicated by a prep. ἐκ δεξιῶν τινος at the right (hand) of someone or someth. Lk 1:11; Ac 7:55f (HOwen, NTS 1, ’54/55, 224–26). ἐν αὐτοῖς among them Ac 24:21; w. ἐν and dat. of place Mt 20:3; 24:15; J 11:56; Rv 19:17. ἐν μέσῳ J 8:9 v.l. μέσος ὑμῶν 1:26 (v.l. στήκει). ἐπί w. gen. (X., Cyr. 3, 3, 66; Apollodorus [II B.C.]: 244 Fgm. 209 Jac. ἐπὶ τ. θύρας) Ac 5:23; 21:40; 24:20; 25:10; Rv 10:5, 8; AcPl Ha 7, 37; w. dat. Ac 7:33; w. acc. Mt 13:2; Rv 3:20; 7:1; 14:1; 15:2; GJs 5:2 (ἕστηκας codd., ἔστης pap). παρά w. acc. of place Lk 5:1f. πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης J 6:22. πρό w. gen. of place Ac 12:14. πρός w. dat. of place J 20:11. σύν τινι Ac 4:14. μετά τινος AcPl Ha 11, 3. κύκλῳ τινός around someth. Rv 7:11. W. ἐνώπιον (functioning as prep.) ἐνώπιόν τινος Rv 7:9; 11:4; 12:4; 20:12.
    ⓒ abs. (Epict. 4, 1, 88 ἑστῶσα of the citadel, simply standing there; Tat. 26, 2 παρατρέχοντας μὲν ὑμᾶς, ἑστῶτα δὲ τὸν αἰῶνα) Mt 26:73; J 1:35; 3:29; 20:14; Ac 22:25. τὰ πρόβατα εἱστήκει the sheep stood still GJs 18:2 (not pap). The verb standing alone in the sense stand around idle (Eur., Iph. Aul. 861; Aristoph., Av. 206, Eccl. 852; Herodas 4, 44) Mt 20:6a. ἀργός can be added (Aristoph., Eccl. 879f, Pax 256 ἕστηκας ἀργός) vs. 6a v.l., 6b (w. the question cp. Eubulus Com., Fgm. 15, 1 K. τί ἕστηκας ἐν πύλαις; Herodas 5, 40). W. modifying words (Pla., Phdr. 275d ἕστηκε ὡς ζῶντα τὰ ἔκγονα) εἱστήκεισαν ἐνεοί they stood there speechless Ac 9:7. ὡς ἐσφαγμένον Rv 5:6. cp. Ac 26:6. εἱστήκει ἀπεκδεχόμενος AcPl Ant 13, 22 (=Aa I, 237, 5).
    ③ to stand in attendance on someone, attend upon, be the servant of Rv 8:2 (RCharles, Rv ICC vol. 1, p. 225).
    ④ stand firm in belief, stand firm of personal commitment in gener. (opp. πεσεῖν), fig. ext. of 1, 1 Cor 10:12; 2 Cl 2:6. τ. πίστει ἕστηκας you stand firm because of your faith Ro 11:20; cp. 2 Cor 1:24. ὸ̔ς ἕστηκεν ἐν τ. καρδίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἑδραῖος one who stands firm in his heart 1 Cor 7:37. ὁ θεμέλιος ἕστηκεν the foundation stands (unshaken) 2 Ti 2:19 (Stob. 4, 41, 60 [vol. V, p. 945]: Apelles, when he was asked why he represented Tyche [Fortune] in a sitting position, answered οὐχ ἕστηκεν γάρ=because she can’t stand, i.e. has no stability; Hierocles 11, 441 ἑστῶτος τοῦ νόμου=since the law stands firm [unchanged]; Procop. Soph., Ep. 47 μηδὲν ἑστηκὸς κ. ἀκίνητον; 75).
    ⑤ to be in a condition or state, stand or be in someth., fig. ext. of 1; grace (Hierocles 12, 446 ἐν ἀρετῇ) Ro 5:2; within the scope of the gospel 1 Cor 15:1; in truth J 8:44.
    D. intr., pres. mid. to have a beginning, begin, calendaric expression (as old as Hom.) μὴν ἱστάμενος the month just beginning (oft. ins) MPol 21—B. 835. DELG. M-M. TW.

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  • 7 motivar

    v.
    1 to motivate (to encourage).
    Sus comentarios motivan a Ricardo Her comments motivate Richard.
    2 to cause, to provoke, to draw forth, to give a reason for.
    Su pereza motivó el despido His laziness caused the dismissal.
    * * *
    1 (causar) to cause, give rise to
    2 (estimular) to motivate
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    verb
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    VT
    1) (=estimular) to motivate
    2) (=causar) to cause
    3) (=explicar) to justify, explain
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    verbo transitivo
    1) ( impulsar) to motivate

    ¿qué te motivó a hacerlo? — what made you do it?

    2) ( causar) to bring about

    el factor que motivó su derrota — the cause of o the reason for his defeat

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    = cause, lead on, motivate, prompt, be fired with, actuate.
    Ex. As usage of the language causes terms to become anachronistic, or as increases in our level of awareness reveal undesirable connotations, we seek to change subject heading terms.
    Ex. While poking about among books children naturally discuss those they have read, swopping responses, and so leading each other on.
    Ex. It is, in general, quite difficult to motivate an administrator to divert the resources necessary to upgrade an existing file of poor quality.
    Ex. An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex. Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
    Ex. CRG has always remained an amateur organization in the sense that it does not dispose of large funds, and its members are actuated by enthusiasm for the subject rather than by the hope of wealth.
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    verbo transitivo
    1) ( impulsar) to motivate

    ¿qué te motivó a hacerlo? — what made you do it?

    2) ( causar) to bring about

    el factor que motivó su derrota — the cause of o the reason for his defeat

    * * *
    = cause, lead on, motivate, prompt, be fired with, actuate.

    Ex: As usage of the language causes terms to become anachronistic, or as increases in our level of awareness reveal undesirable connotations, we seek to change subject heading terms.

    Ex: While poking about among books children naturally discuss those they have read, swopping responses, and so leading each other on.
    Ex: It is, in general, quite difficult to motivate an administrator to divert the resources necessary to upgrade an existing file of poor quality.
    Ex: An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex: Librarians and bibliographers are as deeply fired with the idealistic fervour which is alleged to have imbued the medieval knights.
    Ex: CRG has always remained an amateur organization in the sense that it does not dispose of large funds, and its members are actuated by enthusiasm for the subject rather than by the hope of wealth.

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    motivar [A1 ]
    vt
    A (estimular) to motivate
    no está nada motivada en ese trabajo that job doesn't motivate her at all, she doesn't feel at all motivated in her job
    B
    1
    (causar): este fue el principal factor que motivó su derrota this was the main cause of o the principal reason for his defeat
    esto ha motivado la subida de precios this has brought about o given rise to the price increase
    2 (impulsar) to motivate
    motivado por deseos de venganza motivated by revenge o feelings of revenge
    ¿qué te motivó a hacerlo? what made you do it?
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    motivar ( conjugate motivar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( en general) to motivate;

    ¿qué te motivó a hacerlo? what made you do it?
    2 ( causar) to bring about, cause
    motivar verbo transitivo
    1 (provocar) to cause
    2 (animar) to motivate
    ' motivar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    determinar
    English:
    ability
    - motivate
    - provoke
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    ♦ vt
    1. [causar] to cause;
    la tormenta motivó el aplazamiento del concierto the storm caused the concert to be postponed
    2. [estimular] to motivate;
    un incentivo así no me motiva nada I'm not at all motivated by an incentive like that;
    la desesperada situación lo motivó a emigrar the desperate situation caused him to emigrate
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    v/t motivate
    * * *
    1) causar: to cause
    2) impulsar: to motivate
    * * *
    1. (causar) to cause
    2. (incentivar) to motivate

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  • 8 Pratt, Francis Ashbury

    [br]
    b. 15 February 1827 Woodstock, Vermont, USA
    d. 10 February 1902 Hartford, Connecticut, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer.
    [br]
    Francis A.Pratt served an apprenticeship as a machinist with Warren Aldrich, and on completing it in 1848 he entered the Gloucester Machine Works as a journeyman machinist. From 1852 to 1854 he worked at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, where he met his future partner, Amos Whitney. He then became Superintendent of the Phoenix Iron Works, also at Hartford and run by George S.Lincoln \& Company. While there he designed the well-known "Lincoln" miller, which was first produced in 1855. This was a development of the milling machine built by Robbins \& Lawrence and designed by F.W. Howe, and incorporated a screw drive for the table instead of the rack and pinion used in the earlier machine.
    Whitney also moved to the Phoenix Iron Works, and in 1860 the two men started in a small way doing machine work on their own account. In 1862 they took a third partner, Monroe Stannard, and enlarged their workshop. The business continued to expand, but Pratt and Whitney remained at the Phoenix Iron Works until 1864 and in the following year they built their first new factory. The Pratt \& Whitney Company was incorporated in 1869 with a capital of $350,000, F.A.Pratt being elected President. The firm specialized in making machine tools and tools particularly for the armament industry. In the 1870s Pratt made no less than ten trips to Europe gaining orders for equipping armouries in many different countries. Pratt \& Whitney was one of the leading firms developing the system of interchangeable manufacture which led to the need to establish national standards of measurement. The Rogers-Bond Comparator, developed with the backing of Pratt \& Whitney, played an important part in the establishment of these standards, which formed the basis of the gauges of many various types made by the firm. Pratt remained President of the company until 1898, after which he served as their Consulting Engineer for a short time before retiring from professional life. He was granted a number of patents relating to machine tools. He was a founder member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1880 and was elected a vice-president in 1881. He was an alderman of the city of Hartford.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Vice-President, American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1881.
    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; reprinted 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, 111. (describes the origin and development of the Pratt \& Whitney Company).
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  • 9 Whitney, Amos

    [br]
    b. 8 October 1832 Biddeford, Maine, USA
    d. 5 August 1920 Poland Springs, Maine, USA
    [br]
    American mechanical engineer and machine-tool manufacturer.
    [br]
    Amos Whitney was a member of the same distinguished family as Eli Whitney. His father was a locksmith and machinist and he was apprenticed at the age of 14 to the Essex Machine Company of Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 1850 both he and his father were working at the Colt Armory in Hartford, Connecticut, where he first met his future partner, F.A. Pratt. They both subsequently moved to the Phoenix Iron Works, also at Hartford, and in 1860 they started in a small way doing machine work on their own account. In 1862 they took a third partner, Monroe Stannard, and enlarged their workshop. The business continued to expand, but Pratt and Whitney remained at the Phoenix Iron Works until 1864 and in the following year they built their first new factory. The Pratt \& Whitney Company was incorporated in 1869 with a capital of $350,000, Amos Whitney being appointed General Superintendent. The firm specialized in making machine tools and tools particularly for the armament industry. Pratt \& Whitney was one of the leading firms developing the system of interchangeable manufacture which led to the need to establish national standards of measurement. The Rogers-Bond Comparator, developed with the backing of Pratt \& Whitney, played an important part in the establishment of these standards, which formed the basis of the gauges of many various types made by the firm.
    Amos Whitney was made Vice-President of Pratt \& Whitney Company in 1893 and was President from 1898 until 1901, when the company was acquired by the Niles- Bement-Pond Company: he then remained as one of the directors. He was elected a Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1913.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    J.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; reprinted 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, Ill. (describes the origin and development of the Pratt \& Whitney Company).
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  • 10 твёрдо

    I кратк. прил. II нареч.
    1) ( устойчиво) firmly, firm

    твёрдо держа́ться — stand firm / fast

    твёрдо стоя́ть на нога́х — be steady on one's legs

    2) (не колеблясь, уверенно) firmly; ( окончательно) decidedly, definitely

    твёрдо отве́тить — reply firmly / resolutely

    твёрдо реши́ть (+ инф.) — be determined (+ to inf), resolve (+ to inf, on ger)

    он твёрдо реши́л уе́хать — he is determined to go; he has firmly resolved to go [on going]

    бы́ло твёрдо решено́, что — it was firmly decided that; the firm decision was made / taken that

    твёрдо стоя́ть на своём — stand one's ground (firmly), hold one's own, stand firm

    3) ( безошибочно) thoroughly

    твёрдо вы́учить (вн.) — learn (d) thoroughly

    он твёрдо запо́мнил её слова́ — he remembered her words well, her words remained fixed in his memory

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  • 11 sto

    sto, stĕti, stătum, 1 (scanned stĕtĕrunt, Verg. A. 2, 774; 3, 48; Ov. H. 7, 166; Prop. 2, 8, 10), v. n. [root sta-; Sanscr. sthā, sthalam, locus; Gr. sta-, histêmi, to set, place; statêr, weight; O. H. Germ. stām; Goth. standa; Engl. stand], to stand, in opposition to sitting, walking, or lying prostrate, to stand still, remain standing, stand upright.
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.:

    hos quos videtis stare hic captivos duos, Illi qui astant, hi stant ambo, non sedent,

    Plaut. Capt. prol. 1 sq.; cf.:

    cum virgo staret et Caecilia in sellā sederet,

    Cic. Div. 1, 46, 104:

    si iste ibit, ito: stabit, astato simul,

    Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 74:

    abi intro, noli stare,

    id. Mil. 4, 3, 36; so (opp. ire) id. Merc. 3, 3, 21; id. Mil. 4, 2, 95; 4, 9, 10; id. Pers. 3, 3, 43; 4, 4, 50; Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 6; 3, 2, 12:

    i: quid stas, lapis?

    id. Heaut. 4, 7, 3:

    ante aedes,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 56; 1, 1, 250; 2, 2, 35; id. Truc. 2, 3, 14:

    ante ostium,

    Ter. Eun. 5, 2, 4; id. And. 3, 1, 17; id. Hec. 3, 4, 14; 5, 4, 14:

    ante oculos,

    Ov. Am. 1, 5, 17:

    ad januam,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 353:

    ad undam,

    Verg. G. 4, 356:

    orantem juxta,

    Stat. Th. 11, 618:

    hic foris,

    Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 12:

    hinc procul,

    Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 1:

    propter in occulto,

    Cic. Clu. 28, 78; cf.:

    qui proximi steterant,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 35, 3:

    propius,

    Hor. A. P. 361:

    sta ilico,

    Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 18:

    qui frequentissimi in gradibus concordiae steterunt,

    Cic. Phil. 7, 8, 21:

    stans pede in uno,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 10 et saep.—Of things:

    ita statim stant signa,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 120:

    quorum statuae steterunt in Rostris,

    Cic. Phil. 9, 2, 4:

    statua,

    id. Div. 1, 34, 75:

    signa ad impluvium, ad valvas Junonis,

    id. Verr. 2, 1, 23, § 61:

    stabat acuta silex,

    Verg. A. 8, 233:

    columna,

    Hor. C. 1, 35, 14:

    cerea effigies,

    id. S. 1, 8, 32; cf. poet.:

    aeneus ut stes,

    id. ib. 2, 3, 183.— Pass. impers.: Ps. Statur hic ad hunc modum. Sim. Statum vide hominis, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 44: Gn. Quid agitur? Pa. Statur, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 40:

    confecto munerum cursu moriar stando,

    Amm. 24, 3, 7.—Prov.:

    inter sacrum saxumque sto, nec quid faciam scio,

    i.e. I am in a pinch, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 84; v. sacrum.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., to stand firm or immovable; to last, remain, continue: cui nec arae patriae domi stant; fractae et disjectae jacent, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 44 (Trag. v. 115 Vahl.):

    nec domus ulla nec urbs stare poterit,

    Cic. Lael. 7, 23:

    stantibus Hierosolymis,

    id. Fl. 28, 69:

    ut praeter spem stare muros viderunt,

    Liv. 38, 5:

    urbem innoxiam stare incolumem pati,

    id. 31, 31, 15:

    hasta, quae radice novā, non ferro stabat adacto,

    stuck fast, remained fixed, Ov. M. 15, 562:

    missum stetit inguine ferrum,

    id. ib. 5, 132; cf. id. ib. 5, 34;

    8, 415: stat glacies iners,

    Hor. C. 2, 9, 5:

    aquae,

    Ov. M. 4, 732:

    longā stare senectā,

    Sil. 3, 94:

    cornus stetit inter tempora frontis,

    id. 4, 142.—
    2.
    To remain, tarry, linger any where (cf. moror):

    paulisper stetimus in illā ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo,

    Cic. Pis. 6, 13:

    hos quos video volitare in foro, quos stare ad curiam,

    id. Cat. 2, 3, 5: cur non aut stantem comprehenderint, aut fugientem consecuti sint, remaining in the city, id. Cael, 28, 67;

    so (opp. fugio),

    id. Tusc. 2, 23, 54:

    cum gladiis in conspectu senatus,

    id. Phil. 2, 4, 8:

    qui domi stare non poterant,

    id. Fl. 6, 13:

    (meretrix) olente in fornice stans,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 30; cf. Ov. Am. 1, 10, 21; Juv. 10, 239; cf.

    of minerals not attracted by the magnet: pondere enim fretae partim stant, quod genus aurum,

    Lucr. 6, 1058. —
    3.
    In milit. lang.
    a.
    To stand in the ranks or under arms, to fight:

    quisque uti steterat, jacet obtinetque ordinem,

    Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 86: ut sustinere corpora plerique nequeuntes arma sua quisque stantes incumberet, Sall. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 229 (H. 3, 72 Dietsch):

    cum milites a mane diei jejuni sub armis stetissent defatigati, Auct. B. Afr. 42, 3: primo haud impari stetere acie,

    Liv. 26, 44:

    in Asia totius Asiae steterunt vires,

    id. 37, 58: in acie, Auct. B. Hisp. 28 fin.:

    pars acie stabat, Auct. B. Afr. 51, 6: stetit acies in armis,

    Sen. Phoen. 389; cf.:

    stetit ordine certo Infelix acies,

    Luc. 7, 2, 16.—
    b.
    Pregn., to stand firm in fight, stand one's ground, maintain the contest (opp. abjecto scuto fugere), Cic. Tusc. 2, 23, 54; cf.:

    in acie stare ac pugnare (opp. in castra refugere),

    Liv. 22, 60, 25:

    Tarquiniensis, novus hostis non stetit solum, sed etiam ab suā parte Romanum pepulit,

    id. 2, 6, 11:

    comminus,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 47:

    inque gradu stetimus, certi non cedere,

    Ov. M. 9, 43; cf.:

    contra leonem,

    Spart. Carac. 5.—
    c.
    Transf., of a battle, to last, hold out, continue (a favorite expression of Livy):

    ibi aliquamdiu atrox pugna stetit,

    Liv. 29, 2:

    diu pugna neutro inclinata stetit,

    id. 27, 2:

    ita anceps dicitur certamen stetisse,

    id. 8, 38:

    primo stetit ambiguā spe pugna,

    id. 7, 7.—
    4.
    Nautical t. t., to lie, to lie or ride at anchor:

    ante hostium portus in salo stare,

    Liv. 37, 16;

    Auct. B. Afr. 62: naves regiae in sinu Maliaco,

    Liv. 36, 20:

    classis instructa in portu,

    id. 37, 11:

    classis in salo ad Leptim, Auct. B. Afr. 62, 4: litore puppes,

    Verg. A. 6, 901.—
    5.
    Of servants, to stand, wait, attend (very rare): neque pueri eximiā facie stabant, C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12, 2:

    sto exspectans, si quid mihi imperent,

    Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 46:

    ad cyathum et vinum,

    Suet. Caes. 49; cf.:

    ad pedes,

    id. Galb. 22.—
    6.
    Of buildings, cities, etc., to stand finished, be erected (mostly poet.):

    intra annum nova urbs stetit,

    Liv. 6, 4, 6:

    jam stabant Thebae,

    Ov. M. 3, 131:

    moenia jam stabant,

    id. F. 3, 181:

    stet Capitolium Fulgens,

    Hor. C. 3, 3, 42:

    aedificant muros... Stabat opus,

    Ov. M. 11, 205:

    jam stare ratem,

    Val. Fl. 1, 96.—
    7.
    Of the countenance, to be unmoved, to be at rest ( poet.):

    stat num quam facies,

    Luc. 5, 214:

    stant ora metu,

    are rigid, Val. Fl. 4, 639; cf.:

    cur ad patrios non stant tua lumina vultus,

    Stat. Th. 10, 693.—
    8.
    To stand up, stand upright, stand on end; to bristle up, stiffen, etc. ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose): papillae, Lucil. ap. Non. 391, 26:

    mammae,

    Plin. 28, 19, 77, § 249:

    steterunt comae,

    Verg. A. 2, 774; 3, 48; Ov. M. 7, 631; cf. id. ib. 10, 425:

    crines fulvi pulvere,

    Stat. Th. 3, 326:

    setae,

    Ov. M. 8, 286:

    in vertice cristae,

    id. ib. 6, 672:

    aristae,

    id. ib. 10, 655:

    stantes oculi,

    prominent, Ov. F. 6, 133:

    oculis rigentibus et genis stantibus,

    fixed, Plin. 23, 1, 24, § 49. —In mal. part., Mart. 3, 73, 2; App. M. 2, p. 117, 39; Auct. Priap. 75, 2.—Rarely of fluids, to coagulate, stiffen:

    sanguis stetit,

    Sen. Oedip. 585.—
    9.
    With abl., to stand out with, be thick with, full of any thing (mostly poet.): stant pulvere campi, Enn. ap. Porphyr. ad Hor. C. 1, 9, 1 (Ann. v. 592 Vahl.): cupressi Stant rectis foliis, id. ap. Philarg. ad Verg. G. 2, 444 (Ann. v. 268 ib.): stat sentibu' fundus, Lucil. ap. Don. Ter. And. 4, 2, 16; Titin. ap. Non. 391, 21; so,

    ager sentibus,

    Caecil. ib. 391, 23:

    vides ut altā stet nive candidum Soracte,

    Hor. C. 1, 9, 1: caelum caligine stat, Sisenn. ap. Non. 392, 8:

    pulvere caelum,

    Verg. A. 12, 408:

    pulvereo globo astra,

    Stat. Th. 7, 124:

    stant lumina (Charontis) flammā,

    Verg. A. 6, 300:

    stant pulvere Syrtes,

    Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 257.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., to stand: mentes, rectae quae stare solebant, Enn. ap. Cic. Sen. 6, 16 (Ann. v. 208 Vahl.):

    stetisse ipsum in fastigio eloquentiae,

    Quint. 12, 1, 20.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., to stand one's ground, stand firm or unshaken; to endure, persevere, persist, abide, continue:

    moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque, Enn. ap. Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 21 (Ann. v. 492 Vahl.): disciplinam militarem, quā stetit ad hanc diem Romana res, solvisti,

    Liv. 8, 7:

    res publica staret,

    Cic. Phil. 2, 10, 24; cf. id. Cat. 2, 10, 21:

    stante urbe et curiā,

    id. Planc. 29, 71:

    ut eo neglecto civitas stare non possit,

    id. Cael. 1, 1:

    utinam res publica stetisset, quo coeperat statu,

    id. Off. 2, 1, 3:

    qui illam (rem publicam) cadere posse stante me non putārant,

    id. Fam. 6, 6, 2:

    ut stante re publicā facere solebamus,

    id. Off. 2, 1, 3:

    neque enim aliter stare possemus,

    id. Sest. 45, 97:

    per quos homines ordinesque steterim, quibusque munitus fuerim, non ignoras,

    id. Fam. 13, 29, 7; cf.:

    eorum auxilio, qui me stante stare non poterant,

    id. ib. 7, 2, 3:

    respublica stetit virtute tuā,

    Liv. 4, 40:

    stetit regnum puero,

    id. 1, 3:

    dum stetimus,

    Ov. Tr. 1, 9, 17:

    stamus animis,

    Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2:

    stas animo,

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 213:

    Gabinium sine provinciā stare non posse,

    could not hold out, subsist, Cic. Pis. 6, 12; cf. id. Fl. 6, 14; Suet. Oth. 5:

    nedum sermonum stet honos,

    Hor. A. P. 69.—Hence, nearly—esse, tantā stat praedita culpā (natura), Lucr. 5, 199:

    pausam stare fragori,

    id. 1, 747.—
    b.
    (Acc. to its use as a milit. t. t., v. supra, I. B. 3.) To maintain the contest:

    cum in senatu pulcherrime staremus,

    Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1.—
    c.
    Stare in aliquā re, simply aliquā re, and post-class. also alicui rei, to stand firm, persist, persevere; to rest, abide, adhere to, continue in a thing.
    (α).
    In aliquā re:

    si in fide non stetit,

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 10, 28:

    sin in eo non stat,

    id. Att. 2, 4, 1:

    stare oportet in eo, quod sit judicatum,

    id. Fin. 1, 14, 47:

    in sententiā,

    Liv. 4, 44.—
    (β).
    With abl.:

    eā omnes stant sententiā,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 35:

    suis stare judiciis,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 28, 81:

    censoris opinione,

    id. Clu. 47, 132:

    alicujus decreto,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 13:

    stare conditionibus,

    Cic. Att. 7, 15, 2:

    stare conventis,

    id. Off. 3, 25, 95:

    stare jurejurando,

    Quint. 5, 6, 4:

    nihil quo stat loco stabit, omnia sternet abducetque vetustas,

    Sen. ad Marc. 26, 4.— Pass. impers.:

    stabitur consilio,

    Liv. 7, 35:

    etsi priore foedere staretur,

    id. 21, 19:

    famā rerum standum est,

    id. 7, 6.—
    (γ).
    With dat.:

    arbitri sententiae stare,

    Dig. 4, 7, 23 fin.:

    voluntati patris,

    ib. 26, 7, 3; 36, 3, 6:

    rei judicatae,

    ib. 42, 1, 32:

    emptioni,

    ib. 19, 1, 13; ib. 4, 8, 27 (five times) et saep.—
    (δ).
    Stat sententia, aliquid, or, impersonally, stat ( alicui), the determination stands or holds good; I ( thou, he, etc.) am determined: Pa. Vide quid agas. Ph. Stat sententia, Ter. Eun. 2, 1, 18:

    Hannibal, postquam ipsi sententia stetit, pergere ire,

    Liv. 21, 30:

    stat sententia tradere mecum Dotalem patriam,

    Ov. M. 8, 67:

    modo nobis stet illud, unā vivere in studiis nostris,

    Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 5:

    stat pectore fixum, Aeetae sociare manus,

    Val. Fl. 5, 289:

    nos in Asiam convertemus: neque adhuc stabat, quo potissimum,

    Cic. Att. 3, 14, 2:

    mihi stat alere morbum,

    Nep. Att. 21, 6:

    quos ut seponi stetit,

    Sil. 3, 68:

    stat, casus renovare omnes,

    Verg. A. 2, 750. —
    d.
    In aliquā re, or simply aliquā re, to rest on, be fixed on, depend upon, etc.:

    omnis in Ascanio stat cura parentis,

    Verg. A. 1, 646:

    regnum fraternā stare concordiā,

    Liv. 45, 19:

    quā (disciplinā) stetit Romana res,

    id. 8, 7:

    hac arte (i.e. bello) in patriā steti,

    id. 5, 44, 2; Val. Fl. 3, 673; Verg. A. 2, 163:

    magis famā quam vi stare res suas,

    Tac. A. 6, 30:

    apud quos virtute quam pecuniā res Romana melius stetit,

    id. H. 2, 69 fin.:

    famā bella stare,

    Curt. 3, 8, 7.—
    2.
    In theatr. lang., of plays and actors, to stand, i.e. to please, take, succeed:

    quod si intellegeret, cum stetit olim nova (fabula), Actoris operā magis stetisse quam suā,

    Ter. Phorm. prol. 9 sq.:

    partim vix steti, id. Hec. prol. alt. 7: securus, cadat an recto stat fabula talo,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 176:

    illi, scripta quibus comoedia prisca viris est, Hoc stabant, hoc sunt imitandi,

    id. S. 1, 10, 17.—
    3.
    Stare, ab, cum, or pro aliquo, or aliquā re, or with adv. loci, to stand by, on the side of, adhere to a person or thing, take the part of:

    ut nemo contra civium perditorum dementiam a senatu et a bonorum causā steterit constantius,

    Cic. Brut. 79, 273:

    a se potius quam ab adversariis,

    id. Inv. 1, 43, 81:

    a mendacio contra verum,

    id. ib. 1, 3, 4:

    a contrariā ratione,

    Auct. Her. 4, 2, 4:

    cum di prope ipsi cum Hannibale starent,

    Liv. 26, 41, 17; 5, 38:

    stabat cum eo senatus majestas,

    id. 8, 34, 1:

    nobiscum adversus bar, baros,

    Nep. Ages. 5, 4:

    si pro meā patriā ista virtus staret,

    Liv. 2, 12:

    pro jure gentium,

    id. 38, 25:

    pro vobis adversus reges stetimus,

    id. 45, 22, 10; 23, 8, 3 Fabri ad loc.:

    pro Jubā atque Afris,

    Quint. 11, 1, 80:

    pro signis,

    Ov. A. A. 1, 200:

    quamvis duces non essent praesentes, staret tamen pro partibus invicta fortuna ultoris,

    Flor. 4, 7, 10:

    hic primo pro Pompei partibus, mox simulatione contra Pompeium stetit,

    Vell. 2, 48, 4:

    voluptas pro iisdem partibus standi,

    Sen. Vit. Beat. 4, 1; cf.:

    et dii quoque pro meliore stant causā,

    Curt. 4, 1, 13:

    hinc stas, illinc causam dicis,

    Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 48:

    unde stetisset, eo se victoria transferret,

    Just. 5, 4, 12: non semper vostra evortet: nunc Juppiter hac stat, stands at your side, stands by you, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1 (Ann. v. 263 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. A. 12, 565.—So with in:

    Graeci, qui in Darei partibus steterant,

    Curt. 3, 11, 18.—
    4.
    Stare per aliquem, to stand to one's account, be chargeable or owing to one; to lie at one's door, be one's fault; followed by a negative consequence or effect, expressed by quin, [p. 1763] quominus, or ne.
    (α).
    With quin:

    quoniam per eum non stetisset, quin praestaretur, etc.,

    Liv. 2, 31, 11 Weissenb.ad loc.—
    (β).
    With quominus (freq.):

    si poterit fieri, ut ne pater per me stetisse credat, Quominus haec fierent nuptiae, volo: sed si id non poterit, Id faciam in proclivi quod est, per me stetisse, ut credat,

    Ter. And. 4, 2, 16 sq.:

    Caesar ubi cognovit per Afranium stare, quominus proelio dimicaretur,

    Caes. B. C. 1, 41:

    graviter eam rem tulerunt, quod stetisse per Trebonium, quominus oppido potirentur, videbatur,

    id. ib. 2, 13; so,

    nec, quominus perpetua cum eis amicitia esset, per populum Romanum stetisse,

    Liv. 8, 2, 2; 9, 14, 1; 6, 33, 2; 44, 14, 12.—
    (γ).
    With ne:

    ne praestaremus per vos stetit, qui, etc.,

    Liv. 45, 23, 6:

    non per milites stetisse, ne vincerent,

    id. 3, 61, 2:

    quasi per ipsum staret, ne redderetur,

    Suet. Aug. 28.—Rarely without the negation; so with ut:

    per quam (ignorantiam) stetit, ut tibi obligarer,

    Plin. Ep. 10, 6 (22), 2; cf. Ter. And. 4, 2, 17 supra; absol.:

    id est, non per me stetit, sed per illud,

    Quint. 3, 6, 78; with subj.-clause:

    si per eum non stetit, parere defuncti voluntati,

    Dig. 32, 1, 36.—
    5.
    Of price, to stand one in, to come to, to cost (mostly post-Aug.):

    Periclum vitae meae tuo stat periculo,

    Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 82:

    Polybius scribit, centum talentis eam rem Achaeis stetisse,

    Liv. 34, 50; cf.:

    sit argumento tibi gratis stare navem,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 19, § 48:

    haud illi stabunt Aeneia parvo Hospitia,

    Verg. A. 10, 494:

    quae neque magno Stet pretio,

    Hor. S. 1, 2, 122:

    multo sanguine ac vulneribus ea Poenis victoria stetit,

    Liv. 23, 30:

    haud scio an magno detrimento certamen staturum fuerit,

    id. 3, 60:

    utrique vindicta libertatis morte stetit,

    Vell. 2, 64, 3:

    heu quanto regnis nox stetit una tuis?

    Ov. F. 2, 812 et saep.:

    nulla pestis humano generi pluris stetit,

    Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 1.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > sto

  • 12 Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

    [br]
    b. 19 July 1814 Clefmont (Haute-Marne), France
    d. 11 September 1891 Le Mans, France
    [br]
    French inventor of the rotor-stator wind engine and founder of the Bollée manufacturing industry.
    [br]
    Ernest-Sylvain Bollée was the founder of an extensive dynasty of bellfounders based in Le Mans and in Orléans. He and his three sons, Amédée (1844–1917), Ernest-Sylvain fils (1846–1917) and Auguste (1847-?), were involved in work and patents on steam-and petrol-driven cars, on wind engines and on hydraulic rams. The presence of the Bollées' car industry in Le Mans was a factor in the establishment of the car races that are held there.
    In 1868 Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père took out a patent for a wind engine, which at that time was well established in America and in England. In both these countries, variable-shuttered as well as fixed-blade wind engines were in production and patented, but the Ernest-Sylvain Bollée patent was for a type of wind engine that had not been seen before and is more akin to the water-driven turbine of the Jonval type, with its basic principle being parallel to the "rotor" and "stator". The wind drives through a fixed ring of blades on to a rotating ring that has a slightly greater number of blades. The blades of the fixed ring are curved in the opposite direction to those on the rotating blades and thus the air is directed onto the latter, causing it to rotate at a considerable speed: this is the "rotor". For greater efficiency a cuff of sheet iron can be attached to the "stator", giving a tunnel effect and driving more air at the "rotor". The head of this wind engine is turned to the wind by means of a wind-driven vane mounted in front of the blades. The wind vane adjusts the wind angle to enable the wind engine to run at a constant speed.
    The fact that this wind engine was invented by the owner of a brass foundry, with all the gear trains between the wind vane and the head of the tower being of the highest-quality brass and, therefore, small in scale, lay behind its success. Also, it was of prefabricated construction, so that fixed lengths of cast-iron pillar were delivered, complete with twelve treads of cast-iron staircase fixed to the outside and wrought-iron stays. The drive from the wind engine was taken down the inside of the pillar to pumps at ground level.
    Whilst the wind engines were being built for wealthy owners or communes, the work of the foundry continued. The three sons joined the family firm as partners and produced several steam-driven vehicles. These vehicles were the work of Amédée père and were l'Obéissante (1873); the Autobus (1880–3), of which some were built in Berlin under licence; the tram Bollée-Dalifol (1876); and the private car La Mancelle (1878). Another important line, in parallel with the pumping mechanism required for the wind engines, was the development of hydraulic rams, following the Montgolfier patent. In accordance with French practice, the firm was split three ways when Ernest-Sylvain Bollée père died. Amédée père inherited the car side of the business, but it is due to Amédée fils (1867– 1926) that the principal developments in car manufacture came into being. He developed the petrol-driven car after the impetus given by his grandfather, his father and his uncle Ernest-Sylvain fils. In 1887 he designed a four-stroke single-cylinder engine, although he also used engines designed by others such as Peugeot. He produced two luxurious saloon cars before putting Torpilleur on the road in 1898; this car competed in the Tour de France in 1899. Whilst designing other cars, Amédée's son Léon (1870–1913) developed the Voiturette, in 1896, and then began general manufacture of small cars on factory lines. The firm ceased work after a merger with the English firm of Morris in 1926. Auguste inherited the Eolienne or wind-engine side of the business; however, attracted to the artistic life, he sold out to Ernest Lebert in 1898 and settled in the Paris of the Impressionists. Lebert developed the wind-engine business and retained the basic "stator-rotor" form with a conventional lattice tower. He remained in Le Mans, carrying on the business of the manufacture of wind engines, pumps and hydraulic machinery, describing himself as a "Civil Engineer".
    The hydraulic-ram business fell to Ernest-Sylvain fils and continued to thrive from a solid base of design and production. The foundry in Le Mans is still there but, more importantly, the bell foundry of Dominique Bollée in Saint-Jean-de-Braye in Orléans is still at work casting bells in the old way.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    André Gaucheron and J.Kenneth Major, 1985, The Eolienne Bollée, The International Molinological Society.
    Cénomane (Le Mans), 11, 12 and 13 (1983 and 1984).
    KM

    Biographical history of technology > Bollée, Ernest-Sylvain

  • 13 Riefler, Sigmund

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    b. 9 August 1847 Maria Rain, Germany
    d. 21 October 1912 Munich, Germany
    [br]
    German engineer who invented the precision clock that bears his name.
    [br]
    Riefler's father was a scientific-instrument maker and clockmaker who in 1841 had founded the firm of Clemens Riefler to make mathematical instruments. After graduating in engineering from the University of Munich Sigmund worked as a surveyor, but when his father died in 1876 he and his brothers ran the family firm. Sigmund was responsible for technical development and in this capacity he designed a new system of drawing-instruments which established the reputation of the firm. He also worked to improve the performance of the precision clock, and in 1889 he was granted a patent for a new form of escapement. This escapement succeeded in reducing the interference of the clock mechanism with the free swinging of the pendulum by impulsing the pendulum through its suspension strip. It proved to be the greatest advance in precision timekeeping since the introduction of the dead-beat escapement about two hundred years earlier. When the firm of Clemens Riefler began to produce clocks with this escapement in 1890, they replaced clocks with Graham's dead-beat escapement as the standard regulator for use in observatories and other applications where the highest precision was required. In 1901 a movement was fitted with electrical rewind and was encapsulated in an airtight case, at low pressure, so that the timekeeping was not affected by changes in barometric pressure. This became the standard practice for precision clocks. Although the accuracy of the Riefler clock was later surpassed by the Shortt free-pendulum clock and the quartz clock, it remained in production until 1965, by which time over six hundred instruments had been made.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Franklin Institute John Scott Medal 1894. Honorary doctorate, University of Munich 1897. Vereins zur Förderung des Gewerbefleisses in Preussen Gold Medal 1900.
    Bibliography
    1907, Präzisionspendeluhren und Zeitdienstanlagen fürSternwarten, Munich (for a complete bibliography see D.Riefler below).
    Further Reading
    D.Riefler, 1981, Riefler-Präzisionspendeluhren, Munich (the definitive work on Riefler and his clock).
    A.L.Rawlings, 1948, The Science of Clocks and Watches, 2nd edn; repub. 1974 (a technical assessment of the Riefler escapement in its historical context).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Riefler, Sigmund

  • 14 eisern

    I Adj.
    1. (aus Eisen) iron, fachspr. ferrous, ferric; präd. of iron; eiserne Lunge MED. iron lung; eiserner Vorhang THEAT. safety curtain; der Eiserne Vorhang HIST. the Iron Curtain; Jungfrau
    2. fig. (unerschütterlich) iron, steely; präd. of iron ( oder steel); (unnachgiebig) adamant, hard; (fest, unerschrocken) firm; Energie: tireless, inexhaustible; Sparsamkeit etc.: rigorous; eiserne Regel hard and fast rule, absolute rule; mit eisernem Besen auskehren take a radical new broom to; mit eiserner Faust niederschlagen (Revolte etc.) crush (ruthlessly); ein Tyrann mit eiserner Faust a heavy-handed ( oder implacable) tyrant; mit eisernem Griff with a grip of iron ( oder steel); mit eiserner Hand herrschen rule with a rod of iron; eiserne Hochzeit seventieth ( oder seventy-fifth) wedding anniversary; mit eiserner Miene with a stony ( oder grim) expression, grim-faced; eiserne Ration / Reserve iron rations Pl. / emergency reserves Pl.; mit eiserner Ruhe with imperturbable calm; sie hat eine eiserne Gesundheit she’s got a cast-iron constitution; dazu braucht man eiserne Nerven this requires nerves of steel
    II Adv. (fest) firmly; (unnachgiebig) unyieldingly, rigidly, implacably; (unbeirrbar) resolutely, unswervingly, with iron ( oder steely) determination; eisern lernen / üben etc. study / practi|se (Am. -ce) etc. hard; eisern bei etw. bleiben oder in etw. (Dat) eisern sein stick rigidly to s.th., take a hard line on s.th.; eisern festhalten an hold on rigidly to; eisern durchhalten keep going to the (bitter) end; sich eisern behaupten stand one’s ground doggedly; ( aber) eisern! umg. you bet!
    * * *
    of iron; ironclad; iron
    * * *
    ei|sern ['aizɐn]
    1. adj
    1) attr (= aus Eisen) iron

    der éíserne Vorhang (Theat) — the safety curtain

    éíserne Lunge (Med) — iron lung

    die éíserne Jungfrau (Hist) — the Iron Maiden

    éíserne Hochzeit — 65th wedding anniversary

    2) (= fest, unnachgiebig) Disziplin iron attr, strict; Wille iron attr, of iron; Energie unflagging, indefatigable; Ruhe unshakeable

    éíserne Gesundheit — iron constitution

    sein Griff war éísern — his grip was like iron

    mit éíserner Faust — with an iron hand

    es ist ein éísernes Gesetz, dass... — it's a hard and fast rule that...

    ein éísernes Regiment führen — to rule with a rod of iron (Brit), to rule with an iron fist

    éísern sein/bleiben — to be/remain resolute about sth

    da bin or bleibe ich éísern! (inf) — that's definite

    mit éísernem Besen (aus)kehren — to make a clean sweep, to be ruthless in creating order

    3) attr (= unantastbar) Reserve emergency

    éíserne Ration — emergency or iron rations pl

    2. adv
    resolutely; trainieren with iron determination

    er schwieg éísern — he remained resolutely silent

    er ist éísern bei seinem Entschluss geblieben — he stuck steadfastly or firmly to his decision

    (aber) éísern! (inf) — (but) of course!, absolutely!

    * * *
    1) (very strong: cast-iron muscles.) cast-iron
    2) iron
    3) (stubborn, unyielding: grim determination.) grim
    * * *
    ei·sern
    [ˈaizɐn]
    I. adj
    1. attr CHEM iron
    2. (unnachgiebig) iron, resolute
    \eiserne Energie unflagging [or indefatigable] energy
    \eiserne Ruhe unshakeable patience
    ▪ \eisern sein [o bleiben] to be/remain resolute
    und wenn du noch so bettelst, da bin/bleibe ich \eisern! however much you beg, I will not change my mind
    mit \eisernem Besen auskehren (fig) to make a clean sweep
    3. (fest) firm
    4. attr (für Notfälle) iron
    jds \eiserne Reserve sb's nest egg
    5.
    ▶ aber \eisern! (fam) of course [or absolutely
    II. adv resolutely
    sie hat sich \eisern an den Plan gehalten she stuck firmly [or steadfastly] to the plan
    * * *
    1.
    1) nicht präd. (aus Eisen) iron

    eiserne Lunge — (Med.) iron lung

    der Eiserne Vorhang — (Politik) the Iron Curtain

    2) (unerschütterlich) iron < discipline>; unflagging < energy>
    3) (unerbittlich) iron; unyielding; iron < discipline>

    eiserner Bestand/eiserne Reserve — emergency stock/reserves pl.

    die eiserne Ration — the iron rations pl.; (fig.) one's last reserves pl. or standby

    2.
    1) (unerschütterlich) resolutely

    eisern sparen/trainieren — save/train with iron determination

    eisern durchgreifen — take drastic measures or action

    * * *
    A. adj
    1. (aus Eisen) iron, fachspr ferrous, ferric; präd of iron;
    eiserne Lunge MED iron lung;
    eiserner Vorhang THEAT safety curtain;
    der Eiserne Vorhang HIST the Iron Curtain; → Jungfrau
    2. fig (unerschütterlich) iron, steely; präd of iron ( oder steel); (unnachgiebig) adamant, hard; (fest, unerschrocken) firm; Energie: tireless, inexhaustible; Sparsamkeit etc: rigorous;
    eiserne Regel hard and fast rule, absolute rule;
    mit eisernem Besen auskehren take a radical new broom to;
    mit eiserner Faust niederschlagen (Revolte etc) crush (ruthlessly);
    ein Tyrann mit eiserner Faust a heavy-handed ( oder implacable) tyrant;
    mit eisernem Griff with a grip of iron ( oder steel);
    mit eiserner Hand herrschen rule with a rod of iron;
    eiserne Hochzeit seventieth ( oder seventy-fifth) wedding anniversary;
    mit eiserner Miene with a stony ( oder grim) expression, grim-faced;
    eiserne Ration/Reserve iron rations pl/emergency reserves pl;
    mit eiserner Ruhe with imperturbable calm;
    sie hat eine eiserne Gesundheit she’s got a cast-iron constitution;
    dazu braucht man eiserne Nerven this requires nerves of steel
    B. adv (fest) firmly; (unnachgiebig) unyieldingly, rigidly, implacably; (unbeirrbar) resolutely, unswervingly, with iron ( oder steely) determination;
    eisern lernen/üben etc study/practise (US -ce) etc hard;
    in etwas (dat)
    eisern sein stick rigidly to sth, take a hard line on sth;
    eisern festhalten an hold on rigidly to;
    eisern durchhalten keep going to the (bitter) end;
    sich eisern behaupten stand one’s ground doggedly;
    (aber) eisern! umg you bet!
    * * *
    1.
    1) nicht präd. (aus Eisen) iron

    eiserne Lunge — (Med.) iron lung

    der Eiserne Vorhang — (Politik) the Iron Curtain

    2) (unerschütterlich) iron < discipline>; unflagging < energy>
    3) (unerbittlich) iron; unyielding; iron < discipline>

    eiserner Bestand/eiserne Reserve — emergency stock/reserves pl.

    die eiserne Ration — the iron rations pl.; (fig.) one's last reserves pl. or standby

    2.
    1) (unerschütterlich) resolutely

    sich eisern an etwas (Akk.) halten — keep resolutely to something

    eisern sparen/trainieren — save/train with iron determination

    * * *
    adj.
    iron adj.
    ironclad adj.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > eisern

  • 15 inconmovible

    adj.
    1 unshakeable, unyielding.
    2 unshakable, firm, fixed, inexorable.
    * * *
    1 (decisión) unshakable, firm
    2 (personas) immovable
    * * *
    ADJ [persona] unmoved; [creencia, fe] unshakeable
    * * *

    es inconmovible, de nada valen las súplicas — he's implacable, no amount of pleading will make him change his mind

    * * *

    es inconmovible, de nada valen las súplicas — he's implacable, no amount of pleading will make him change his mind

    * * *
    es inconmovible, de nada valen las súplicas he's implacable, no amount of pleading will make him change his mind
    permaneció inconmovible ante mi llanto she remained unmoved by my tears
    * * *
    1. [seguro, firme] firm, solid
    2. [inalterable] unshakeable, unyielding
    * * *
    adj unmoved, implacable

    Spanish-English dictionary > inconmovible

  • 16 स्थित _sthita

    स्थित p. p. [स्या-क्त]
    1 Stood, remained, stayed.
    -2 Standing.
    -3 Standing up, risen; स्थितः स्थितामुच्चलितः प्रयाताः... छायेव तां भूपतिरन्वगच्छत् R.2.6.
    -4 Staying, resting, living, being, existing, situated; धन्या केयं स्थिता ते शिरसि Mu.1.1; Me.7; oft. with gerunds merely as a copula; वेदान्तेषु यमाहुरेकपुरुषं व्याप्य स्थितं रोदसी V.1.1; Ś.1.1; Ku.1.1.
    -5 Happened, occurred; सुहृदः पश्य वसन्त किं स्थितम् Ku.4.27.
    -6 Stationed in, occupying, appointed to; अभिजनवतो भर्तुः श्लाध्ये स्थिता गृहिणीपदे Ś.4.18.
    -7 Acting up to, abiding by, conforming to; किमत्र चित्रं यदि कामसूर्भूर्वृत्ते स्थितस्याधिपतेः प्रजानाम् R.5.33; धर्मे स्थिताः (राजानः) Māl.1.25.
    -8 Stood still, stopped, desisted.
    -9 Fixed on, firmly attached to; ममात्र भावैकरसं मनः स्थितम् Ku.5.82.
    -1 Steady, firm; as in स्थितधी or स्थितप्रज्ञ q. v.
    -11 Determined, resolved; इति देहविमुक्तये स्थिताम् (रतिम्) Ku.4.39.
    -12 Established, decreed.
    -13 Steadfast in conduct, steady-minded.
    -14 Upright, virtuous.
    -15 Faithful to a promise or agreement.
    -16 Agreed, engaged, contracted.
    -17 Ready, being close or at hand.
    -तम् 1 Standing by itself (as a word).
    -2 Stopping, standing still.
    -3 Manner of standing.
    -4 Perseverance on the right path.
    -Comp. -उपस्थित a. with and without the particle 'इति' (as a word).
    -धी a. firm-minded, steady-minded, cool.
    -पाठ्यम् recitation in Prākṛi&ta by a woman while standing.
    -प्रज्ञ a. firm in judgment or wisdom, free from any hallucination, contented; प्रजहाति यदा कामान् सर्वान् पार्थ मनोगतान् । आत्मन्येवात्मना तुष्टः स्थितप्रज्ञस्तदोच्यते Bg.2.55.
    -प्रेमन् m. a staunch or faithful friend.
    -लिङ्ग a. having the virile member erected.
    -संकेत, -संविद् a. keeping a promise.

    Sanskrit-English dictionary > स्थित _sthita

  • 17 твёрдо

    1. прил. кратк. см. твёрдый 2. нареч.
    firmly, firm

    твёрдо выучить (вн.) — learn* thoroughly (d.)

    твёрдо держаться — stand* firm / fast

    твёрдо запомнил её слова — he remembered her words well, her words remained fixed in his memory

    твёрдо решить (+ инф.) — determine (+ to inf., on ger.), resolve (+ to inf., on ger.)

    он твёрдо решил уехать — he is determined to go, или on going; he has firmly resolved to go, или on going

    твёрдо стоять на своём — stand* one's ground (firmly), hold* one's own, stand* firm

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > твёрдо

  • 18 Herbert, Edward Geisler

    [br]
    b. 23 March 1869 Dedham, near Colchester, Essex, England
    d. 9 February 1938 West Didsbury, Manchester, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor of the Rapidor saw and the Pendulum Hardness Tester, and pioneer of cutting tool research.
    [br]
    Edward Geisler Herbert was educated at Nottingham High School in 1876–87, and at University College, London, in 1887–90, graduating with a BSc in Physics in 1889 and remaining for a further year to take an engineering course. He began his career as a premium apprentice at the Nottingham works of Messrs James Hill \& Co, manufacturers of lace machinery. In 1892 he became a partner with Charles Richardson in the firm of Richardson \& Herbert, electrical engineers in Manchester, and when this partnership was dissolved in 1895 he carried on the business in his own name and began to produce machine tools. He remained as Managing Director of this firm, reconstituted in 1902 as a limited liability company styled Edward G.Herbert Ltd, until his retirement in 1928. He was joined by Charles Fletcher (1868–1930), who as joint Managing Director contributed greatly to the commercial success of the firm, which specialized in the manufacture of small machine tools and testing machinery.
    Around 1900 Herbert had discovered that hacksaw machines cut very much quicker when only a few teeth are in operation, and in 1902 he patented a machine which utilized this concept by automatically changing the angle of incidence of the blade as cutting proceeded. These saws were commercially successful, but by 1912, when his original patents were approaching expiry, Herbert and Fletcher began to develop improved methods of applying the rapid-saw concept. From this work the well-known Rapidor and Manchester saws emerged soon after the First World War. A file-testing machine invented by Herbert before the war made an autographic record of the life and performance of the file and brought him into close contact with the file and tool steel manufacturers of Sheffield. A tool-steel testing machine, working like a lathe, was introduced when high-speed steel had just come into general use, and Herbert became a prominent member of the Cutting Tools Research Committee of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1919, carrying out many investigations for that body and compiling four of its Reports published between 1927 and 1933. He was the first to conceive the idea of the "tool-work" thermocouple which allowed cutting tool temperatures to be accurately measured. For this advance he was awarded the Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal of the Institution in 1926.
    His best-known invention was the Pendulum Hardness Tester, introduced in 1923. This used a spherical indentor, which was rolled over, rather than being pushed into, the surface being examined, by a small, heavy, inverted pendulum. The period of oscillation of this pendulum provided a sensitive measurement of the specimen's hardness. Following this work Herbert introduced his "Cloudburst" surface hardening process, in which hardened steel engineering components were bombarded by steel balls moving at random in all directions at very high velocities like gaseous molecules. This treatment superhardened the surface of the components, improved their resistance to abrasion, and revealed any surface defects. After bombardment the hardness of the superficially hardened layers increased slowly and spontaneously by a room-temperature ageing process. After his retirement in 1928 Herbert devoted himself to a detailed study of the influence of intense magnetic fields on the hardening of steels.
    Herbert was a member of several learned societies, including the Manchester Association of Engineers, the Institute of Metals, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He retained a seat on the Board of his company from his retirement until the end of his life.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Manchester Association of Engineers Butterworth Gold Medal 1923. Institution of Mechanical Engineers Thomas Hawksley Gold Medal 1926.
    Bibliography
    E.G.Herbert obtained several British and American patents and was the author of many papers, which are listed in T.M.Herbert (ed.), 1939, "The inventions of Edward Geisler Herbert: an autobiographical note", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 141: 59–67.
    ASD / RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Herbert, Edward Geisler

  • 19 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.
    [br]
    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).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Howe, Frederick Webster

  • 20 Moulton, Alexander

    [br]
    b. 9 April 1920 Stratford-on-Avon
    [br]
    English inventor of vehicle suspension systems and the Moulton bicycle.
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    He spent his childhood at The Hall in Bradfordon-Avon. He was educated at Marlborough College, and in 1937 was apprenticed to the Sentinel Steam Wagon Company of Shrewsbury. About that same time he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he took the Mechanical Sciences Tripos. It was then wartime, and he did research on aero-engines at the Bristol Aeroplane Company, where he became Personal Assistant to Sir Roy Fedden. He left Bristol's in 1945 to join his family firm, Spencer \& Moulton, of which he eventually became Technical Director and built up the Research Department. In 1948 he invented his first suspension unit, the "Flexitor", in which an inner shaft and an outer shell were separated by an annular rubber body which was bonded to both.
    In 1848 his great-grandfather had founded the family firm in an old woollen mill, to manufacture vulcanized rubber products under Charles Goodyear's patent. The firm remained a family business with Spencer's, consultants in railway engineering, until 1956 when it was sold to the Avon Rubber Company. He then formed Moulton Developments to continue his work on vehicle suspensions in the stables attached to The Hall. Sponsored by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and the Dunlop Rubber Company, he invented a rubber cone spring in 1951 which was later used in the BMC Mini (see Issigonis, Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine): by 1994 over 4 million Minis had been fitted with these springs, made by Dunlop. In 1954 he patented the Hydrolastic suspension system, in which all four wheels were independently sprung with combined rubber springs and damper assembly, the weight being supported by fluid under pressure, and the wheels on each side being interconnected, front to rear. In 1962 he formed Moulton Bicycles Ltd, having designed an improved bicycle system for adult use. The conventional bicycle frame was replaced by a flat-sided oval steel tube F-frame on a novel rubber front and rear suspension, with the wheel size reduced to 41 cm (16 in.) with high-pressure tyres. Raleigh Industries Ltd having refused his offer to produce the Moulton Bicycle under licence, he set up his own factory on his estate, producing 25,000 bicycles between 1963 and 1966. In 1967 he sold out to Raleigh and set up as Bicycle Consultants Ltd while continuing the suspension development of Moulton Developments Ltd. In the 1970s the combined firms employed some forty staff, nearly 50 per cent of whom were graduates.
    He won the Queen's Award for Industry in 1967 for technical innovation in Hydrolastic car suspension and the Moulton Bicycle. Since that time he has continued his innovative work on suspensions and the bicycle. In 1983 he introduced the AM bicycle series of very sophisticated space-frame design with suspension and 43 cm (17 in.) wheels; this machine holds the world speed record fully formed at 82 km/h (51 mph). The current Rover 100 and MGF use his Hydragas interconnected suspension. By 1994 over 7 million cars had been fitted with Moulton suspensions. He has won many design awards and prizes, and has been awarded three honorary doctorates of engineering. He is active in engineering and design education.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Queen's Award for Industry 1967; CBE; RDI. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
    Further Reading
    P.R.Whitfield, 1975, Creativity in Industry, London: Penguin Books.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Moulton, Alexander

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