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  • 1 quarter

    1. noun
    1) Viertel, das

    a or one quarter of — ein Viertel (+ Gen.)

    divide/cut something into quarters — etwas in vier Teile teilen/schneiden; etwas vierteln

    a quarter [of a pound] of cheese — ein Viertel[pfund] Käse

    a quarter of a mile/an hour — eine Viertelmeile/-stunde

    2) (of year) Quartal, das; Vierteljahr, das
    3) (point of time)

    [a] quarter to/past six — Viertel vor/nach sechs; drei Viertel sechs/Viertel sieben (landsch.)

    there are buses at quarter to and quarter past [the hour] — es fahren Busse um Viertel vor und Viertel nach jeder vollen Stunde

    4) (direction) Richtung, die

    blow from all quarters — [Wind:] aus allen Richtungen wehen

    5) (source of supply or help) Seite, die
    6) (area of town) [Stadt]viertel, das; Quartier, das

    in some quarters — (fig.) in gewissen Kreisen

    7) in pl. (lodgings) Quartier, das (bes. Milit.); Unterkunft, die
    8) (Brit.): (measure) (of volume) Quarter, der; (of weight) ≈ Viertelzentner, der
    9) (Amer.) (school term) Viertelschuljahr, das; (university term) halbes Semester
    10) (Astron.) Viertel, das
    11) (mercy)

    give no quarter to somebody — jemandem keinen Pardon (veralt.) gewähren od. geben

    12) (Amer.): (amount, coin) Vierteldollar, der; 25-Cent-Stück, das
    2. transitive verb
    1) (divide) vierteln; durch vier teilen [Zahl, Summe]
    2) (lodge) einquartieren [Soldaten]
    * * *
    ['kwo:tə] 1. noun
    1) (one of four equal parts of something which together form the whole (amount) of the thing: There are four of us, so we'll cut the cake into quarters; It's (a) quarter past / (American) after four; In the first quarter of the year his firm made a profit; The shop is about a quarter of a mile away; an hour and a quarter; two and a quarter hours.) das Viertel
    2) (in the United States and Canada, (a coin worth) twenty-five cents, the fourth part of a dollar.) der Vierteldollar
    3) (a district or part of a town especially where a particular group of people live: He lives in the Polish quarter of the town.) das Viertel
    4) (a direction: People were coming at me from all quarters.) die Gegend
    5) (mercy shown to an enemy.) die Schonung
    6) (the leg of a usually large animal, or a joint of meat which includes a leg: a quarter of beef; a bull's hindquarters.) das Hinterviertel
    7) (the shape of the moon at the end of the first and third weeks of its cycle; the first or fourth week of the cycle itself.) das erste/dritte Mondviertel
    8) (one of four equal periods of play in some games.) das Spielviertel
    9) (a period of study at a college etc usually 10 to 12 weeks in length.) das Viertel
    2. verb
    1) (to cut into four equal parts: We'll quarter the cake and then we'll all have an equal share.) vierteln
    2) (to divide by four: If we each do the work at the same time, we could quarter the time it would take to finish the job.) vierteilen
    3) (to give (especially a soldier) somewhere to stay: The soldiers were quartered all over the town.) einquartieren
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    3. adverb
    (once every three months: We pay our electricity bill quarterly.)
    4. noun
    (a magazine etc which is published once every three months.) die Vierteljahresschrift
    - quarters
    - quarter-deck
    - quarter-final
    - quarter-finalist
    - quartermaster
    - at close quarters
    * * *
    quar·ter
    [ˈkwɔ:təʳ, AM ˈkwɔ:rt̬ɚ]
    I. n
    1. (one fourth) Viertel nt
    the bottle was a \quarter full es war noch ein Viertel in der Flasche
    for a \quarter of the price [or for \quarter the price] zu einem Viertel des Preises
    a \quarter [of a pound] of tea ein Viertel[pfund] Tee
    three \quarters drei Viertel
    to divide sth into \quarters etw in vier Teile teilen
    2. (time) Viertel nt
    a \quarter of a century ein Vierteljahrhundert nt
    a \quarter of an hour eine Viertelstunde
    an hour and a \quarter eineinviertel Stunden
    a \quarter to [or AM of] /past [or AM after] three Viertel vor/nach drei
    3. (1/4 of year) Quartal nt; AM (school term) Quartal nt
    paid by the \quarter vierteljährlich bezahlt
    4. (1/4 of a game) Viertel nt
    5. AM (25 cents) Vierteldollar m
    ▪ \quarters pl ein Spiel, bei dem ein Vierteldollar in ein Glas Bier geschnippt wird
    6. (area) Gegend f; (neighbourhood) Viertel nt, Quartier nt SCHWEIZ, Grätz[e]l nt ÖSTERR
    7. (unspecified place) Seite f; (place) Stelle f
    help came from a totally unexpected \quarter Hilfe kam von völlig unerwarteter Seite
    in certain \quarters in gewissen Kreisen
    from high \quarters von höherer Stelle
    8. (mercy) Gnade f kein pl, Erbarmen nt kein pl
    to ask/cry for \quarter um Gnade bitten/flehen
    no \quarter was asked for and none given es wurde auf beiden Seiten schonungslos gekämpft
    to give \quarter Erbarmen haben
    ▪ \quarters pl Wohnung f; MIL Quartier nt, Unterkunft f
    married \quarters Familienunterkunft f
    servants' \quarters Dienstbotenwohnung f
    to be confined to \quarters MIL Stubenarrest haben
    10. (area of compass) [Himmels]richtung f
    from the north/west \quarter aus nördlicher/westlicher Richtung
    11. NAUT (part of ship)
    on the port \quarter backbord
    on the starboard \quarter steuerbord
    12.
    ▶ at close \quarters with sb in jds Nähe
    they fought at close \quarters sie kämpften Mann gegen Mann
    II. vt
    ▪ to \quarter sth etw vierteln
    ▪ to \quarter sb HIST jdn vierteilen
    2. (give housing)
    ▪ to \quarter sb somewhere jdn irgendwo unterbringen
    ▪ to be \quartered with sb bei jdm untergebracht [o einquartiert] werden
    ▪ to \quarter oneself on sb sich akk bei jdm einquartieren
    III. adj inv Viertel-
    \quarter hour Viertelstunde f
    \quarter pound Viertelpfund nt
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    ['kwɔːtə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= fourth part) Viertel nt

    the bottle was a quarter/three-quarters full — die Flasche war zu einem Viertel/zu drei Vierteln gefüllt, die Flasche war viertel/drei viertel voll

    a quarter of a mile —

    for a quarter (of) the price, for quarter the price — zu einem Viertel des Preises

    a quarter to seven, a quarter of seven (US) — (ein) Viertel vor sieben, drei viertel sieben (dial)

    a quarter past six, a quarter after six (US) — (ein) Viertel nach sechs, viertel sieben (dial)

    the clock has just struck the quarter — die Uhr hat eben Viertel or die Viertelstunde geschlagen

    an hour and a quarter — eineinviertel Stunden, fünf viertel Stunden

    3) (= fourth of year) Vierteljahr nt, Quartal nt
    4) (US) Vierteldollar m, 25-Cent-Stück nt
    5) (= district in town) Viertel nt
    6)

    (= area) he has travelled in every quarter of the globe — er hat schon alle Ecken der Welt bereist

    7) (= direction) (Himmels)richtung f
    8) (NAUT: direction of wind) Richtung f
    9) (= side) Seite f; (= place) Stelle f
    10) pl (= lodgings) Quartier nt (ALSO MIL), Unterkunft f
    11) (NAUT for battle) Posten m
    12) (NAUT: part of ship) Achterschiff nt
    13) (= mercy in battle) Schonung f, Pardon m
    14) (HER) Wappenfeld nt
    15) (of moon) Viertel nt
    16) (SPORT of match) (Spiel)viertel nt
    17) (MEASURE) ≈ Viertelzentner m
    2. adj
    Viertel-

    quarter pound/mile — Viertelpfund nt/-meile f

    the/a quarter part — das/ein Viertel

    3. vt
    1) (= cut into four) vierteln; beef, horse (in vier Teile) zerlegen; traitor's body vierteilen
    2) (= lodge) unterbringen, einquartieren (ALSO MIL) (on bei)
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    quarter [ˈkwɔː(r)tə(r)]
    A s
    1. Viertel n, vierter Teil:
    quarter of a century Vierteljahrhundert n;
    for a quarter (of) the price zu einem Viertel des Preises;
    not a quarter as good as nicht annähernd so gut wie;
    the stadium was only a quarter full das Stadion war nur zu einem Viertel gefüllt
    2. US oder Can Vierteldollar m (= 25 Cents)
    3. auch quarter of an hour Viertelstunde f:
    three quarters of an hour Dreiviertelstunde f;
    (a) quarter to (US a. of) six (ein) Viertel vor sechs, drei Viertel sechs;
    (a) quarter past (US a. after) six (ein) Viertel nach sechs, Viertel sieben;
    the clock strikes the quarters die Uhr schlägt viertelstündlich
    4. auch quarter of the year Vierteljahr n, Quartal n:
    by the quarter vierteljährlich, quartalsweise
    5. ASTRON (Mond)Viertel n
    6. besonders US
    a) UNIV (Studien)Quartal n
    b) SCHULE Viertel n des Schuljahres
    7. SPORT (Spiel)Viertel n
    8. Viertelpfund n (0,113 kg)
    9. besonders SPORT Viertelmeile f
    10. Quarter n:
    a) Br 28 lb. = 12,7 kg, US 25 lb. =11,34 kg (Handelsgewicht)
    b) Br = 2,91 hl (Hohlmaß)
    11. SCHIFF
    a) Kardinalpunkt m, Haupthimmelsrichtung f (des Kompasses)
    b) Viertelstrich m (des Kompasses = 2° 49’)
    12. (Himmels-, Wind) Richtung f:
    what quarter is the wind in? woher oder von welcher Seite weht oder kommt der Wind? (a. fig)
    13. Gegend f, Teil m (eines Landes etc):
    from all quarters von überall(her), aus allen (Himmels)Richtungen ( → A 14);
    in this quarter hierzulande, in dieser Gegend; → close quarters
    14. Stelle f, Seite f, Quelle f:
    higher quarters höhere Stellen;
    in the highest quarters an höchster Stelle;
    in the proper quarter bei der zuständigen Stelle;
    in Government quarters in Regierungskreisen;
    from all quarters von allen Seiten ( → A 13);
    from official quarters von amtlicher Seite; → informed 1
    15. (Stadt)Viertel n, (-)Bezirk m:
    poor quarter Armenviertel;
    16. meist pl MIL Quartier n, (Truppen)Unterkunft f:
    be confined to quarters Stubenarrest haben;
    take up (one’s) quarters Quartier beziehen
    17. meist pl Quartier n, Unterkunft f, Wohnung f, Logis n:
    have free quarters umsonst wohnen, freie Wohnung haben
    18. besonders MIL Pardon m, Schonung f:
    ask for quarter um Schonung bitten;
    give quarter Pardon geben oder gewähren
    19. ( besonders Hinter)Viertel n (eines Schlachttiers), Kruppe f (eines Pferdes)
    20. Seitenteil m/n, Fersenleder n (am Schuh)
    21. SCHIFF Achterschiff n
    22. SCHIFF Posten m:
    beat to quarters die Mannschaft auf ihre Posten rufen
    23. SCHIFF Raharm m
    24. Heraldik: Quartier n, (Wappen)Feld n
    25. ARCH, TECH Stollenholz n, Vierpass m
    B v/t
    1. etwas in vier Teile teilen, vierteln
    2. aufteilen, zerstückeln
    3. HIST jemanden vierteilen
    4. jemanden beherbergen
    5. MIL einquartieren (on, upon bei), Truppen unterbringen:
    be quartered at ( oder in) in Garnison liegen in (dat);
    quarter o.s. on sb allg sich bei jemandem einquartieren
    6. Heraldik: ein Wappenschild vieren
    C v/i
    1. wohnen, leben
    2. einquartiert sein, Quartier haben ( beide:
    at in dat, bei)
    3. umherstreifen (Jagdhunde)
    4. SCHIFF mit Backstagswind segeln
    q. abk
    qu. abk
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Viertel, das

    a or one quarter of — ein Viertel (+ Gen.)

    divide/cut something into quarters — etwas in vier Teile teilen/schneiden; etwas vierteln

    a quarter [of a pound] of cheese — ein Viertel[pfund] Käse

    a quarter of a mile/an hour — eine Viertelmeile/-stunde

    2) (of year) Quartal, das; Vierteljahr, das

    [a] quarter to/past six — Viertel vor/nach sechs; drei Viertel sechs/Viertel sieben (landsch.)

    there are buses at quarter to and quarter past [the hour] — es fahren Busse um Viertel vor und Viertel nach jeder vollen Stunde

    4) (direction) Richtung, die

    blow from all quarters — [Wind:] aus allen Richtungen wehen

    6) (area of town) [Stadt]viertel, das; Quartier, das

    in some quarters — (fig.) in gewissen Kreisen

    7) in pl. (lodgings) Quartier, das (bes. Milit.); Unterkunft, die
    8) (Brit.): (measure) (of volume) Quarter, der; (of weight) ≈ Viertelzentner, der
    9) (Amer.) (school term) Viertelschuljahr, das; (university term) halbes Semester
    10) (Astron.) Viertel, das

    give no quarter to somebody — jemandem keinen Pardon (veralt.) gewähren od. geben

    12) (Amer.): (amount, coin) Vierteldollar, der; 25-Cent-Stück, das
    2. transitive verb
    1) (divide) vierteln; durch vier teilen [Zahl, Summe]
    2) (lodge) einquartieren [Soldaten]
    * * *
    (year) n.
    Quartal -e n. n.
    Gegend -en f.
    Quartier -e n.
    Viertel - n. v.
    einquartieren v.

    English-german dictionary > quarter

  • 2 high

    1 მაღალი
    a high ceiling / mountain / wall მაღალი ჭერი / მთა / კედელი
    high temperature / price / quality / ideas / society / interest მაღალი ტემპერატურა / ფასი / ხარისხი / იდეალები / საზოგადოება / პროცენტი
    2 დიდი
    high pay / speed დიდი ჯამაგირი / სიჩქარე
    3 გარკვეული სიმაღლის მქონე
    it is high time to go კარგა ხანია, წასვლის დროა
    higher education / school უმღლესი განათლება / სასწავლებელი
    it will cost you $100 at the highest მაქსიმუმ 10 დოლარი დაგიჯდება
    4 მაღლა
    pitch the ball higher! ბურთი უფრო მაღლა ააგდე! / ტყორცნე!
    to be in high / low spirits კარგ / ცუდ გუნებაზე ყოფნა
    a woman of high station მაღალი / წარჩინებული წრის ქალბატონი
    it is that high! აი, ამ სიმაღლისაა!
    high/low water მოქცევა/მიქცევა (ზღვისა)
    in the highest degree უაღრესად, უკიდურესად
    his bid was higher than any other მის მიერ შეთავაზებული ფასი ყველაზე მაღალი იყო
    the university conferred a high title upon him უნივერსიტეტმა მას მაღალი წოდება მიანიჭა

    English-Georgian dictionary > high

  • 3 close

    {klolis}
    I. 1. тесен, затворен
    CLOSE vowel фон. затворена гласна
    2. душен, задушен, тежък, спарен, непроветрен
    aCLOSE smell миризма на застоял въздух
    3. скрит, потаен, мълчалив, прикрит
    to keep/lie CLOSE крия се. спотайвам се
    4. стиснат, свидлив, затворен, ограничен, за ограничена категория хора/кандидати/състезатели и пр
    5. под възбрана
    6. строг (за арест и пр.)
    7. близък, интимен, сърдечен
    8. гъст, плътен, сбит (за тъкан, почерк, редици и пр.)
    9. близък, непосредствен (по време, място и пр.), тесен (и прен.), (at) CLOSE intervals (на) малки/чести/близкй интервали
    CLOSE resemblance голяма прилика
    CLOSE combat воен. ръкопашен бой
    10. внимателен, подробен, щателен, точен (за изследване и пр.), съередоточен (за внимание)
    11. почти равен, много оспорван (за шанс, изгледи за успех-при състезания, игра, избери и пр.)
    12. рядък, дефицитен
    II. 1. близо, наблизо, в непосредствена близост
    to be/follow CLOSE behind следвам отблизо, вървя по петите на
    to keep CLOSE to something /someone стоя/държа се близо до нещо/някого
    to keep CLOSE to the text придържам се (строго) към текста
    to flt CLOSE прилягам плътно/точно
    CLOSE together близо един до друг, на гъсто
    sit closer together сгъстете се
    CLOSEat hand недалеч
    CLOSE by, CLOSE on, CLOSE to съвсем наблизо
    CLOSE (up) on близо, почти
    he is CLOSE on fifty той e почти петдесетгодишен
    it is CLOSE (up) on midnight вече e почти полунощ
    CLOSE to the wind мор. почти срещу вятъра, прен. на границата на законното/моралното
    to shave CLOSE бръсна се/избръсвам се гладко
    to cut CLOSE изрязвам/подрязвам ниско/до корена
    2. отблизо, внимателно, щателно
    III. 1. оградено място
    2. ограден двор на катедрала, училищен двор/игрище
    3. задънена/сляпа улица
    IV. 1. затварям (се), затискам, запушвам, запълвам (дута, цепнатина и пр.)
    2. приключвам работа, затварям магазин и пр
    3. прен. затварям
    to CLOSE one's eyes to something правя се, че не виждам нещо, умишлено замижавам пред нещо
    my mouth is CLOSEd не мога/не смея/не бива да говоря
    4. завършвам, привършвам, приключвам, свършвам
    закривам (дебати, сметка и пр.) -, the day is closing денят преваля, смрачава се
    5. затягам, ссъстявам, сплотявам
    close about ограждам, обкръжавам, обгръщам
    the mists CLOSEd about us мъглата ни обгърна/обви (напълно)
    close down затварям, закривам, бивам затворен/закрит, прекратявам работа, спирам производство, рад., телев. прекратявам предаването за деня/до следващия ден
    close in стеснявам кръга, заграждам, обграждам
    падам, спущам се, сгъстявам се (за мрак и пр.) (on, upon)
    ставам по-къс, намалявам (за дни), CLOSE in upon приближавам се и нападам
    close out ам. продавам, ликвидирам, правя пълна разпродажба на стоки
    close up придвижвам се по-наблизо (to до), изпълвам, запълвам, слепвам се, сраствам се, зараствам, сгъстявам (се), сплотявам (се), приключвам, свършвам, закривам се (породи фалит-за фирма и пр.)
    close with съгласявам се с условията на, сключвам сделка/споразумение с, сбивам се, счепквам се, скопчвам се в борба с (някого)
    V. 1. край, завършък (на период и пр.), приключване (на дейност и пр.), закриване, заключение, край
    2. муз. завършък на музикална фраза, каденца
    * * *
    {klolis} а 1. тесен, затворен; close vowel фон. затворена гласна; 2(2) adv 1. близо, наблизо; в непосредствена близост; to be/f{3} n 1. оградено място; 2. ограден двор на катедрала; учили{4} {klouz} v 1. затварям (се); затискам; запушвам, запълвам (д{5} n 1. край, завършък (на период и пр.), приключване (на д
    * * *
    често; щателен; спарен; уединен; тесен; сгъстявам; свидлив; отблизо; ограничен; потаен; приключване; приключвам; близък; близо до; душен; гъст; затварям; запушвам; завършек; закриване; задушен; запарен; заключение; интимен; край;
    * * *
    1. 1 почти равен, много оспорван (за шанс, изгледи за успех-при състезания, игра, избери и пр.) 2. 1 рядък, дефицитен 3. aclose smell миризма на застоял въздух 4. close (up) on близо, почти 5. close about ограждам, обкръжавам, обгръщам 6. close by, close on, close to съвсем наблизо 7. close combat воен. ръкопашен бой 8. close down затварям, закривам, бивам затворен/закрит, прекратявам работа, спирам производство, рад., телев. прекратявам предаването за деня/до следващия ден 9. close in стеснявам кръга, заграждам, обграждам 10. close out ам. продавам, ликвидирам, правя пълна разпродажба на стоки 11. close resemblance голяма прилика 12. close to the wind мор. почти срещу вятъра, прен. на границата на законното/моралното 13. close together близо един до друг, на гъсто 14. close up придвижвам се по-наблизо (to до), изпълвам, запълвам, слепвам се, сраствам се, зараствам, сгъстявам (се), сплотявам (се), приключвам, свършвам, закривам се (породи фалит-за фирма и пр.) 15. close vowel фон. затворена гласна 16. close with съгласявам се с условията на, сключвам сделка/споразумение с, сбивам се, счепквам се, скопчвам се в борба с (някого) 17. closeat hand недалеч 18. he is close on fifty той e почти петдесетгодишен 19. i. тесен, затворен 20. ii. близо, наблизо, в непосредствена близост 21. iii. оградено място 22. it is close (up) on midnight вече e почти полунощ 23. iv. затварям (се), затискам, запушвам, запълвам (дута, цепнатина и пр.) 24. my mouth is closed не мога/не смея/не бива да говоря 25. sit closer together сгъстете се 26. the mists closed about us мъглата ни обгърна/обви (напълно) 27. to be/follow close behind следвам отблизо, вървя по петите на 28. to close one's eyes to something правя се, че не виждам нещо, умишлено замижавам пред нещо 29. to cut close изрязвам/подрязвам ниско/до корена 30. to flt close прилягам плътно/точно 31. to keep close to something /someone стоя/държа се близо до нещо/някого 32. to keep close to the text придържам се (строго) към текста 33. to keep/lie close крия се. спотайвам се 34. to shave close бръсна се/избръсвам се гладко 35. v. край, завършък (на период и пр.), приключване (на дейност и пр.), закриване, заключение, край 36. близък, интимен, сърдечен 37. близък, непосредствен (по време, място и пр.), тесен (и прен.), (at) close intervals (на) малки/чести/близкй интервали 38. внимателен, подробен, щателен, точен (за изследване и пр.), съередоточен (за внимание) 39. гъст, плътен, сбит (за тъкан, почерк, редици и пр.) 40. душен, задушен, тежък, спарен, непроветрен 41. завършвам, привършвам, приключвам, свършвам 42. задънена/сляпа улица 43. закривам (дебати, сметка и пр.) -, the day is closing денят преваля, смрачава се 44. затягам, ссъстявам, сплотявам 45. муз. завършък на музикална фраза, каденца 46. ограден двор на катедрала, училищен двор/игрище 47. отблизо, внимателно, щателно 48. падам, спущам се, сгъстявам се (за мрак и пр.) (on, upon) 49. под възбрана 50. прен. затварям 51. приключвам работа, затварям магазин и пр 52. скрит, потаен, мълчалив, прикрит 53. ставам по-къс, намалявам (за дни), close in upon приближавам се и нападам 54. стиснат, свидлив, затворен, ограничен, за ограничена категория хора/кандидати/състезатели и пр 55. строг (за арест и пр.)
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    close [klous] I. adj 1. predic близо, наблизо, непосредствено; ( follow) \close behind следвам наблизо, съм (вървя) по петите (на); to be \close to signing a contract близо съм до (предстои ми скоро) подписване на договор; the tables were pushed \close together масите бяха доближени (подредени) една до друга; to fit \close прилягам плътно; \close together близо един до друг, нагъсто; sit \closer together! сгъстете се! \close at hand, \close by, \close to съвсем наблизо, на две крачки; \close (up)on почти, близо; he is \close on 50 той е почти 50-годишен; they are \close on us настигат ни, по петите ни са; \close to the wind мор. с нос почти срещу вятъра; прен. леко незаконен, мошенически; • to keep ( lie) \close спотайвам се, крия се, дебна; 2. близък (по време, място, вид); тесен (и прен.); \close intervals малки (близки) интервали; a \close relative близък роднина; \close combat воен. ръкопашен бой, мор. бой отблизо, кораб до кораб; to come to \close quarters разг. счепкваме се, хващаме се за гушите; at \close quarters отблизо; \close quarters тясно жилище, теснина; at \close range отблизо, в упор; in \close proximity непосредствена близост; to keep a \close eye ( watch) on наблюдавам внимателно (отблизо); a \close shave ( thing, call) рисковано измъкване, оттърване на косъм (от нещастие); 3. близък, интимен, сърдечен; 4. внимателен, подробен, щателен; точен; съсредоточен (за внимание); a \close copy ( translation) точен препис (превод); a \close observer внимателен наблюдател; \close inspection внимателно (щателно) проучване (изучаване); 5. почти равен; равностоен (за шанс, изгледи за успех); много оспорван; \close election избори, при които кандидатите имат почти изравнени шансове; a \close finish сп. равен финал, при който състезателите стигат почти едновременно; 6. душен, задушен, тежък, спарен, запарен; open the window, it is very \close in here отвори прозореца, много е задушно; a \close smell миризма на спарено; 7. уединен, самотен; прикрит, потаен, мълчалив; to keep o.s. \close живея уединено (самотно); to play a \close game прикривам картите си (и прен.); 8. стиснат, свидлив; he is very \close with his money той е много стиснат; 9. ограничен (само за избрани хора); 10. строг; добре пазен; keep s.th. a \close secret добре пазена тайна; \close confinement строг тъмничен затвор; a \close prisoner затворник под силна охрана; 11. забранен (сезон за лов); 12. гъст, плътен (за тъкан, редица, дъжд и пр.); сбит (за почерк, текст и пр.); a \close formation сбито формирувание; in \close order в гъсти редици; 13. стегнат, добре прилягащ, тесен (за дреха); прилепнал; 14. ост. затворен; a \close vowel ез. затворена гласна; II. adv отблизо, внимателно, щателно; to shave ( cut) \close избръсвам се гладко; изрязвам ниско (до корена); to look at s.th. \close up (to) разглеждам отблизо; III. n оградено място.IV [klouz] v 1. затварям (се); запушвам, затискам, запълвам (дупка, цепнатина); сгъвам ( чадър); they \close the office early те рано затварят офиса; to \close the door on s.th. прен. не позволявам нищо повече да се разисква; to \close s.o.'s eyes затварям очите на някого (при смъртта); to have o.'s eyes \closed не виждам, не желая да видя; his eyes are \closed той е мъртъв; 2. свършвам, завършвам, привършвам; приключвам; the speaker \closed the meeting говорителят закри събранието; to consider the matter \closed считам въпроса за уреден (приключен); to \close o.'s days завършвам земния си път, умирам; to \close a deal приключвам сделка; 3. закривам ( сметка); 4. фин. затварям (на дадена стойност); the US dollar \closed higher in Tokyo today щатската валута затвори на по-високи стойности днес в Токио; 5. затягам, сгъстявам (редици); 6. скъсявам, намалявам; the distance between the two runners is beginning to \close разстоянието между двамата бегачи започва да намалява; • behind \closed doors при затворени врати; a \closed book нещо напълно непознато; \close o.'s mind to s.th. не искам и да чуя за; \close o.'s ranks 1) обединявам се; in times of crisis party members should \close в кризисен момент членовете на партията трябва да се обединят; 2) воен. сгъстявам редиците; V. n 1. край, завършек, заключение, приключване; закриване; at the \close of на края на; at the \close of day ост. привечер; to draw to a \close наближавам края си, завършвам; to bring to a \close довършвам, завършвам; 2. вкопчване, клинч (в бокса); to come to a \close вкопчваме се един в друг; 3. муз. каденца.

    English-Bulgarian dictionary > close

  • 4 allowance

    1. сущ.
    1)
    а) эк. тр. содержание (денежное на определенный срок, напр., суточные); денежное пособие, денежная помощь; прибавка*, надбавка* (сумма, выплачиваемая в дополнение к обычному вознаграждению в качестве компенсации или поощрения; напр., надбавка к заработной плате за знание иностранных языков, надбавка к заработной плате за работу в неблагоприятных условиях и т. д.; также любые выплаты, призванные компенсировать расходы, понесенные данным лицом, напр., выплаты в счет покрытия транспортных расходов коммивояжера, выплаты работникам на приобретение спецодежды, командировочные и т. п.)

    He had a comfortable allowance from his father and would not have had to worry at all about money. — Он получал от отца достаточное денежное содержание и мог вовсе не беспокоится о деньгах.

    See:
    attendance allowance, away from home allowance, Basic Allowance for Housing, Basic Allowance for Quarters, bereavement allowance, board allowance, burial allowance, carer allowance, carer's allowance, child care allowance, child disability allowance, children's allowance, clothing allowance, cost-of-living allowance, dearness allowance, decorating allowance, disability allowance, disability living allowance, Disability Working Allowance, dismissal allowance, education maintenance allowance, Emergency Maintenance Allowance, enterprise allowance, entertainment allowance 2), family allowance, family separation allowance, finish-out allowance, funeral allowance, guardian's allowance, hardship allowance, higher duties allowance, Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance, hospitality allowance, housing allowance, injury allowance, installation allowance, Independent Circumstances Allowance, job search allowance, jobseeker's allowance, language allowance, living allowance, living away from home allowance, lodging allowance, maternity allowance, mature age allowance, mileage allowance 2), mobility allowance, newstart allowance, night duty allowance, northern allowance, on-call allowance, overtime allowance, paternity allowance, per diem allowance, pharmaceutical allowance, qualification allowance, reduced earnings allowance, relocation allowance, rent allowance, responsibility allowance, retention allowance, seniors concession allowance, severance allowance, severe disability allowance, severe disablement allowance, shift allowance, sickness allowance, special responsibility allowance, subsistence allowance, telephone allowance, temporary duty travel allowance, temporary lodging allowance, tenant improvement allowance, Trade Readjustment Allowance, training allowance, Training Incentive Allowance, travel allowance, uniform allowance, Variable Housing Allowance, weekend allowance, widowed mother's allowance, widowed parent's allowance, widow's allowance, youth allowance, basic pay
    б) эк. карманные деньги; деньги на мелкие расходы (напр., школьника)
    в) мн., эк., воен. довольствие (продовольственное, вещевое и денежное снабжение военнослужащего)
    2)
    а) общ. рацион, порция; паек; норма отпуска, норма выдачи; квота

    to put on short allowance — перевести на ограниченную норму, урезать норму

    See:
    б) общ. норма времени
    See:
    3) торг. скидка (вычет из фактурной стоимости товара, предоставляемый продавцом покупателю в случае быстрой оплаты товара, особых условий сделки (напр., обещание покупателя рекламировать товар) либо в случае, если товар был поставлен позже оговоренного срока или прибыл в поврежденном состоянии; термин обычно не распространяется на скидки с прейскурантной цены товара)

    tariff allowance — скидка с тарифа, тарифная скидка

    Syn:
    deduction 2) б)
    See:
    4) гос. фин. налоговая скидка
    Syn:
    See:
    5) общ. учет; допущение; поправка (напр., на погрешность измерительного прибора при измерении), принятие в расчет, во внимание
    See:
    6)
    а) общ., редк. разрешение, допущение, позволение; легальность
    б) эк., юр., пат. признание (обоснованным, законным и т. п., напр., решение предварительной экспертизы о патентоспособности)
    7) учет, фин. резерв (средства, зарезервированные для будущего покрытия запланированных расходов и компенсирования возможных убытков, напр., резерв под обесценение финансовых вложений, по сомнительным долгам и т. п.; также часть названия бухгалтерских счетов, предназначенных для отражения таких резервов)
    See:
    8)
    а) эк., тех. допуск, допустимое отклонение (напр., размера детали от нормы)
    See:
    б) учет допустимая потеря* (потеря количества или качества, рассматриваемая как нормальная для данного производства)
    2. гл.
    1) общ. ограничивать (кого-л.) строго определенным количеством; рационировать потребление

    I am allowanced two glasses three hours before dinner. — Мне разрешают выпить два бокала за три часа до ужина.

    2) эк. назначать [выдавать\] паек, содержание и т. п.

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    1) налоговая скидка; 2) денежное содержание, командировочные, карманные деньги; 3) допущение; 4) резерв против плохих долгов; 5) резерв для корректировки стоимости актива, амортизации в бухгалтерском учете; 6) скидка с цены; 7) скидка со стоимости счета-фактуры, разрешенная продавцом-производителем товара для покрытия порчи или недостачи, а также расходов на маркетинг товара; см. brokerage allowance;
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    . . Словарь экономических терминов .
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    см. discount
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    освобождаемая от налога сумма, которая вычитывается из налогооблагаемого дохода перед калькуляцией суммы налога

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > allowance

  • 5 high

    1. adjective
    1) (at, from, or reaching up to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: a high mountain; a high dive; a dive from the high diving-board.) høy
    2) (having a particular height: This building is about 20 metres high; My horse is fifteen hands high.) høy
    3) (great; large; considerable: The car was travelling at high speed; He has a high opinion of her work; They charge high prices; high hopes; The child has a high fever/temperature.) stor, voldsom, kraftig, sterk
    4) (most important; very important: the high altar in a church; Important criminal trials are held at the High Court; a high official.) høy(-), høytstående
    5) (noble; good: high ideals.) høy, fornem
    6) ((of a wind) strong: The wind is high tonight.) sterk
    7) ((of sounds) at or towards the top of a (musical) range: a high note.) høy, lys
    8) ((of voices) like a child's voice (rather than like a man's): He still speaks in a high voice.) lys
    9) ((of food, especially meat) beginning to go bad.) vilt som har hengt lenge nok
    10) (having great value: Aces and kings are high cards.) av høy verdi
    2. adverb
    (at, or to, a great distance from ground-level, sea-level etc: The plane was flying high in the sky; He'll rise high in his profession.) høyt
    - highness
    - high-chair
    - high-class
    - higher education
    - high fidelity
    - high-handed
    - high-handedly
    - high-handedness
    - high jump
    - highlands
    - high-level
    - highlight     3. verb
    (to draw particular attention to (a person, thing etc).) framheve, rette søkelyset mot
    - high-minded
    - high-mindedness
    - high-pitched
    - high-powered
    - high-rise
    - highroad
    - high school
    - high-spirited
    - high spirits
    - high street
    - high-tech     4. adjective
    ((also hi-tech): high-tech industries.) høyteknologisk
    - high treason
    - high water
    - highway
    - Highway Code
    - highwayman
    - high wire
    - high and dry
    - high and low
    - high and mighty
    - the high seas
    - it is high time
    høy
    I
    subst. \/haɪ\/
    1) ( hverdagslig) topp, maksimum, rekord, høyde, høydepunkt, rekordtall
    2) ( meteorologi) høytrykk, høytrykksområde
    3) ( kortspill) høyeste kort, høyeste trumf
    4) ( hverdagslig) kick, rus, narkotikapåvirket tilstand
    5) (spesielt amer., hverdagslig, forkortelse for high school) videregående skole
    6) høygir, høyeste gir
    from on high fra oven, fra himmelen, fra det høye
    the High ( hverdagslig) storgaten (spesielt i Oxford)
    hit\/reach a new high sette en ny rekord, nå nye høyder
    on high i høyden, over i himmelen
    II
    adj.
    1) høy
    2) høyt beliggende, øvre, høy-
    3) innlands-, høylands-
    4) høy, høytstående, av høy rang, fornem, høyere
    5) høy, opphøyd
    6) fordelaktig, god
    7) alvorlig, graverende
    8) høy-, hoved-, over-
    9) høy, edel, nobel, fin, opphøyd
    10) høy, stor, sterk, kraftig, intens
    11) ( om pris eller sum) høy, dyr, kostbar
    12) ( om tid) høy, midt, middags-
    13) ( musikk) høy, lys, som ligger høyt på skalaen
    14) ( om lyd) skarp, skingrende
    15) hovmodig, arrogant, overlegen
    16) ekstrem, ytterliggående, ultra-
    17) ( kirkelig) ortodoks, høykirkelig
    18) ( hverdagslig) oppspilt, glad, oppløftet
    19) (hverdagslig, om alkoholrus) animert, brisen
    20) (hverdagslig, om narkotikarus) høy, påvirket, ruset
    21) luksuriøs, flott, ekstravagant
    22) ( om kjøtt) bedervet, harsk
    23) ( om vilt) godt hengt, vellagret, med sterk viltsmak
    24) (sjøfart, om vind) forklaring: som har styrke 10 på Beaufortskalaen, full storm
    25) (kortspill, om kort) forklaring: av høyere verdi enn andre kort eller farger
    26) (kortspill, om kort) i stand til å ta et stikk
    27) ( fonetikk) høy
    at high noon ( også overført) kl. 12 på dagen, når solen står høyest, middagstid
    at high tide ved høyvann
    have a high time ( hverdagslig) ha det kjempegøy
    high and dry ( sjøfart) på tørt land strandet ( overført) på bar bakke, isolert, stilt utenfor, forlatt
    high and low høyt og lavt
    high and mighty ( hverdagslig) arrogant, storaktig, stor på det, høy i hatten, storsnutet som tilhører det øvre sosiale sjikt
    high day midt på lyse dagen
    high definition (TV) med høy oppløsning
    high on something påvirket av noe
    high sign se ➢ sign, 1
    high Tory ultrakonservativ, erkekonservativ
    high, wide and handsome ( hverdagslig) glad, sorgløs, ubekymret
    • after months of worrying, he looked positively high, wide and handsome
    etter måneder med bekymring, så han faktisk sorgløs ut
    in high places\/quarters på høyere hold
    leave someone high and dry la noen i stikken
    the Most High den høyeste
    of high antiquity svært gammel, av høy alder
    run high ( om elv) holde på å svømme over ( om bølger) gå høyt ( om følelser) gå høyt, være intense
    with a high hand egenmektig, selvrådig og vilkårlig
    III
    adv. \/haɪ\/
    1) høyt
    2) høyt, i høyt toneleie
    3) sterkt, kraftig, voldsomt
    4) (sjøfart, om seiling) høyt, skarpt, opp mot vinden
    as high as så høyt som, så mye som
    feelings ran high stemningen var opphisset, bølgene gikk høyt

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  • 6 strike

    I 1. I
    1) he was afraid to strike он боялся ударить; the material seems to change colour when the light strikes когда свет падает на этот материал, он кажется другого цвета
    2) these matches are too wet to strike эти спички сильно отсырели и не зажигаются
    3) I thought I heard the clock strike мне показалось, что пробили часы; has 5 o'clock struck? пять часов уже пробило?; the clock is striking часы бьют; his hour has struck ere час настал /пробил/
    2. II
    1) strike swiftly (instinctively, simultaneously, aimlessly, etc.) быстро и т.д. ударять /бить, наносить удары/
    2) the fish are striking well today рыба сегодня хорошо клюет
    3. III
    1) strike smth., smb. strike a ball (a nail, etc.) ударять по мячу и т.д.; strike a bell ударить в колокол; strike a child (a dog, etc.) ударять /бить/ ребенка и т.д.; why did you strike her? почему вы ее ударили /стукнули/?; paralysis struck him его разбил паралич; а falling stone struck his head упавший камень попал ему в голову /ударил его по голове/; the ship struck a submerged rock корабль наскочил на подводный камень; strike the keys ударить по клавишам; strike a few chords взять несколько аккордов || strike a blow нанести удар; strike the first blow нанести первый удар; начать первым (драку, ссору); быть зачинщиком id what struck you that you behaved that way? что на вас напало /какая муха вас укусила/, что вы себя так странно вели?
    2) strike smth. strike twelve times (four, the hour, etc.) (про)бить двенадцать раз и т.д.; the clock that strikes the quarters часы, которые отбивают четверти /бьют каждые четверть часа/
    3) strike smth. strike a medal (a badge, a coin, etc.) чеканить /выбивать/ медаль и т.д.
    4) strike smth. strike a light /fire/ (a spark, etc.) зажечь /высечь/ огонь и т.д.; strike a match зажечь спичку, чиркнуть спичкой
    5) strike smth. strike oil (gold, a vein of ore, water, etc.) открывать /находить, обнаруживать/ нефть и т.д.; strike an amusing book наткнуться на занятную книгу; strike the main road (the track) выйти на главную дорогу (на тропу); strike an obstruction натолкнуться /наткнуться/ на преграду
    6) strike smb. the sight struck him зрелище произвело на неге впечатление; how does this strike you? что вы об этом думаете?; strike smth. strike smb.'s sight /smb.'s eye/ бросаться кому-л. в глаза; strike smb.'s саг (smb.'s fancy) поразить чей-л. слух (чье-л. воображение); strike a deep chord [in smb.'s heart] вызвать глубокий отклик /задеть заветные струны/ [у кого-л. в душе]; strike a false /wrong/ note взять неправильный тон; strike the right note попасть в тон, взять верный тон
    7) strike smth. strike an average /а mean/ подсчитать /найти/ среднее; strike a balance подвести баланс, подбить итоги; strike a bargain (an agreement) заключить сделку (соглашение)
    8) strike smth. strike sail (s) убирать паруса; strike camp /tents/ свертывать лагерь, сниматься с лагеря; strike one's /the/ flag а) спускать флаг; б) сдаваться
    9) strike smth. strike an item (smb.'s name, a word, etc.) зачеркнуть /вычеркнуть/ какой-л. пункт и т.д.
    10) || strike fish подсекать рыбу
    4. IV
    1) strike smth., smb. in same manner strike smth. hard (softly, suddenly, etc.) сильно и т.д. ударять по чему-л.; strike smb. hard (savagely, violently, etc.) сильно и т.д. ударить кого-л.; never strike a man when he is down лежачего не бьют
    2) strike smb. at some time a [happy] thought /idea/ suddenly struck me меня осенила /мне в голову пришла/ [удачная] мысль; it never struck me before раньше мне это никогда не приходило в голову
    5. V
    strike smb. smth. strike smb. a blow ударить кого-л., нанести кому-л. удар
    6. VI
    1) strike smb. into some state strike smb. dead сразить кого-л. наповал /насмерть/; strike smb. deaf оглушить кого-л. ударом; strike smb. blind ослепить кого-л. ударом; strike smb. dumb /speechless/ лишить кого-л. дара речи; ошарашить кого-л.
    2) strike smth. to some state a tree strikes its roots deep дерево глубоко пускает корни
    7. XI
    1) be struck in some manner the wall sounds hollow when [it is] struck когда по стене бьют, она издает глухой звук; be struck by (below, etc.) smth. that tree's been struck by lightning в это дерево ударила молния; he was struck by lightning его убило молнией; he was struck below the knee его ударили под коленку
    2) be struck /stricken/ with /by/ smth. be struck by fever (with influenza, by disease, with pestilence, etc.) болеть лихорадкой и т.д., слечь /свалиться/ от лихорадки и т.д.; he was struck with paralysis его разбил паралич
    3) be struck by /with/ smth. be struck by terror (with panic, with fear, with awe, with wonder, by remorse, with dizziness, etc.) быть пораженным /охваченным/ ужасом и т.д.; I was struck by her appearance (by her beauty, with her wonderful voice, with her great ability, etc.) я был поражен ее видом и т.д., меня потряс ее вид и т.д.; he was struck with the idea that... ему пришла в голову мысль, что...; его поразила мысль о том, что...
    8. XVI
    1) strike against ((up)on, at, etc.) smth. strike against the pavement (against a table, against a stone, etc.) ударить по тротуару и т.д., удариться о тротуар и т.д.; strike three times on the door постучать в дверь три раза; strike at fascism бить /наносить удар/ по фашизму; strike at the root of the evil вырывать зло с корнем; the light (the sun) strikes against /upon/ the wall (upon the object, upon the figure, etc.) свет (солнце) падает на стену и т.д.; his lectures strike upon dull ears слушатели пропускают его лекции мимо ушей; her entreaties strike upon dull ears они остаются глухими к ее мольбам; strike at smb. he struck at me with a stick (with an open hand, with a fist, with a cosh, etc.) он стукнул меня палкой || strike below the belt бить ниже пояса
    2) strike for smth. strike for a cause (for one's country, for freedom, etc.) бороться за идею и т.д.
    3) strike (up)on smth. strike upon an unknown path напасть /наткнуться, выйти/ на незнакомую дорожку; strike on a novel means of doing smth. обнаружить /открыть/ новый способ чего-л. /делать что-л./; strike upon a plan придумать план; he struck upon an idea (upon a happy thought) он напал на (счастливую) мысль, внезапно ему в голову пришла (счастливая) мысль
    4) strike (in)to (across) smth. strike to the right поворачивать направо; strike across the fields направляться через поля; strike into the jungle углубляться в джунгли
    5) strike at smth. a pang of pity struck at my heart жалость кольнула меня в сердце
    6) semiaux strike into smth. strike into a gallop пуститься галопом; strike into a song неожиданно запеть; strike into conversation заговорить с кем-л., завести беседу; strike into a new subject перевести разговор на другую тему, сменить тему разговора
    9. XXI1
    1) strike smb. with smth. strike smb. with a stick (with one's fist, with a whip, etc.) ударить кого-л. палкой и т.д.; strike smb. in /on/ smth. strike smb. in the eye (in /on/ the mouth, on the back, etc.) ударить /стукнуть/ кого-л. в глаз и т.д.; strike the enemy in the rear (on the flank) ударить противнику в тыл (во фланг); strike smth. on /against/ smth. strike one's foot on a stone (one's head against the wall, etc.) ударить ногу /удариться ногой/ о камень и т.д.; strike smth. with smth. strike the table with one's fist стукнуть кулаком по столу; strike a ball with a racket (a nail with a hammer, etc.) бить ракеткой по мячу и т.д.
    2) || strike a blow for smth. бороться за что-л.; strike a blow for freedom (for liberty of speech, for civil rights, etc.) бороться за свободу и т.д.
    3) || strike a spark out of the stones высечь из камней искру
    4) strike smb. about smb., smth. what strikes me about him is his great patience что меня поражает в нем, так это его колоссальное терпение /долготерпение/; there was nothing about him that struck me в нем не было ничего примечательного /ничего такого, что могло бы поразить/; what strikes me about his book is its length на меня большое впечатление произвел объем его книги; strike smth. into smth. strike terror (fear, dismay, etc.) into smb.'s heart вселять ужас и т.д. в чье-л. сердце /в чью-л. душу/
    5) strike smth. into smth. strike a dagger into smb.'s breast (its fangs into the flesh, spurs into a horse, etc.) вонзать кинжал в чью-л. грудь и т.д.; the plant strikes its roots into the soil растение пускает корни глубоко в землю
    6) strike smth. off smth. strike smb.'s name off the list вычеркнуть чье-л. имя из списков
    10. XXI2
    strike smb. as being of some quality strike smb. as familiar (a strange, as peculiar, as ridiculous, as absolutely perfect, as silly, etc.) казаться кому-л. знакомым и т.д.; the plan strikes me as a bit unusual этот план мне кажется немного необычным
    11. XXVI
    it strikes smb. that... it strikes me that you are afraid (that he is telling a lie, etc.) у меня такое впечатление /мне кажется/, что вы боитесь и т.д.; it struck him suddenly that they were all deaf у него вдруг возникла мысль /ему вдруг показалось/, что они все глухие; doesn't it strike you that...? не кажется ли вам, что...?
    II 1. I
    the coal miners struck шахтеры забастовали
    2. III
    strike smth. strike work (за)бастовать
    3. XVI
    strike for smth. strike for a higher pay (for better conditions, for their rights, etc.) бастовать, добиваясь более высокой оплаты и т.д.; what are the workers striking for? почему бастуют рабочие?; strike against smth. strike against long hours (against the proposal, against the administration, etc.) бастовать против длинного рабочего дня и т.д.

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  • 7 smb.'s opposite number

    1) лицо, занимающее такую же должность в другом учреждении, государстве и т. п., чей-л. коллега

    He got on well, too, with Doctor Milligan, his opposite number, and it was not long before he found himself adopting Milligan's method of dealing with the regular patients. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Citadel’, book IV, ch. 8) — Он ладил и со своим коллегой доктором Миллигеном и с некоторых пор усвоил его метод осмотра постоянных больных.

    The British thereupon assigned an experienced diplomat, Lord Rennell, who had been commissioned Major General, to head the Civil Affairs Division on Eisenhower's staff. Hopkins wanted Laguardia to be Rennell's "opposite number". Secretary Stimson, however, again refused to agree to this appointment. (R. E. Sherwood, ‘Roosevelt and Hopkins’, ch. XXVIII) — В связи с этим англичане присвоили опытному дипломату лорду Реннелу звание генерал-майора и назначили его главой отдела по гражданским делам при штабе Эйзенхауэра. Гопкинс хотел, чтобы Лагардиа был "дублером" Реннела. Однако министр Стимсон снова не дал согласия на его назначение.

    2) предмет, понятие, учреждение, орудие, печатный орган, слово и т. п., аналогичные такому же предмету, понятию и т. д. в другой стране или другой исторической эпохе

    Life for an upper-class dog in New York's select quarters is certainly on a level with, if not higher than his opposite number in Mayfair. (‘Daily Worker’) — Собаки богатых домов Нью-Йорка, без сомнения, живут не хуже (а может быть, и лучше), чем их собратья, обитающие в Мейфере, аристократическом районе Лондона.

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  • 8 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

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  • 9 Edison, Thomas Alva

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    b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA
    d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont
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    American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.
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    He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.
    At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.
    Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.
    He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.
    Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.
    Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.
    Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.
    In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.
    On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.
    Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.
    In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.
    In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.
    In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.
    In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.
    In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.
    Further Reading
    M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.
    R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Edison, Thomas Alva

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