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61 Cookworthy, William
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1705 Kings bridge, Devon, Englandd. 16 October 1780 Plymouth, England[br]English pioneer of porcelain manufacture in England.[br]The family fortunes having been extinguished by the South Sea Bubble of 1720, Cookworthy and his brother had to fend for themselves. They set up, and succeeded, in the pharmacy trade. At the age of 31, however, William left the business, and after a period of probation he became a minister in the Society of Friends. In a letter of 5 May 1745, Cookworthy mentions some samples of kaolin and china or growan stone that had been brought to him from Virginia. He found similar materials at Treginning Hill in Cornwall, and between 1755 and 1758 he found sufficiently pure china clay and china stone to make a pure white porcelain. Cookworthy took out a patent for his discovery in 1768 which covered the manufacture of porcelain from moonstone or growan and growan clay, with a glaze made from china stone to which lime and fern ash or magnesia alba (basic carbonate of magnesium) were added. Cookworthy's experiments had been carried out on the property of Lord Camelford, who later assisted him, in the company of other Quakers, in setting up a works at Coxside, Plymouth, to manufacture the ware; the works employed between fifty and sixty people. In the absence of coal, Cookworthy resorted to wood as fuel, but this was scarce, so in 1770 he transferred his operation to Castle Green, Bristol. However, he had no greater success there, and in 1773 he sold the entire interest in porcelain manufacture to Richard Champion (1743–91), although Cookworthy and his heirs were to receive royalties for ninety-nine years. Champion, who had been working with Cookworthy since 1764 and was active in Bristol city affairs, continued the firm as Richard Champion \& Co., but when in 1775 Champion tried to renew Cookworthy's patent, Wedgwood and other Staffordshire potters challenged him. After litigation, the use of kaolin and china stone was thrown open to general use. The Staffordshire potters made good use of this new-found freedom and Champion was forced to sell the patent to them and dispose of his factory the following year. The potters of Staffordshire said of Cookworthy, "the greatest service ever conferred by one person on the pottery manufacturers is that of making them acquainted with china clay".[br]Further ReadingW.Harrison, 1854, Memoir of William Cookworthy by His Grandson, London. F.S.Mackenna, 1946, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, Leigh on Sea: Lewis.A.D.Selleck, 1978, Cookworthy 1705–80 and his Circle, privately published.LRD -
62 Hoover, William Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1849 New Berlin (now North Canton), Ohio, USAd. 25 February 1932 North Canton, Ohio, USA[br]American founder of the Electric Suction Company, which manufactured and successfully marketed the first practical and portable suction vacuum cleaner.[br]Hoover was descended from a Swiss farming family called Hofer who emigrated from Basle and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the early eighteenth century. By 1832 the family had become tanners and lived near North Berlin in Ohio. In 1870 William Henry Hoover, who had studied at Mount Union College, bought the tannery with his brothers and soon expanded the business to make horse collars and saddlery. The firm expanded to become W.H.Hoover \& Co. In the early years of the first decade of the twentieth century, horses were beginning to be replaced by the internal combustion engine, so Hoover needed a new direction for his firm. This he found in the suction vacuum cleaner devised in 1907 by J.Murray Spangler, a cousin of Hoover's wife. The first successful cleaner of this type had been operating in England since 1901 (see Booth), but was not a portable model. Attracted by the development of the small electric motor, Spangler produced a vertical cleaner with such a motor that sucked the dust through the machine and blew it into a bag attached to the handle. Spangler applied for a patent for his invention on 14 September in the same year; it was granted for a carpet sweeper and cleaner on 2 June 1908, but Spangler was unable to market it himself and sold the rights to Hoover. The Model O machine, which ran on small wheels, was immediately manufactured and marketed. Hoover's model was the first electric, one-person-operated, domestic vacuum cleaner and was instantly successful, although the main expansion of the business was delayed for some time until the greater proportion of houses were wired for electricity. The Hoover slogan, "it beats as it sweeps as it cleans", came to be true in 1926 with the introduction of the Model 700, which was the first cleaner to offer triple-action cleaning, a process which beat, swept and sucked at the carpet. Further advances in the 1930s included the use of magnesium and the early plastics.[br]Further ReadingG.Adamson, 1969, Machines at Home, Lutterworth Press.How it Works: The Universal Encyclopaedia of Machines, Paladin. D.Yarwood, 1981, The British Kitchen, Batsford, Ch. 6.DY -
63 Wright, Frank Lloyd
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 8 June 1869 Richland Center, Wisconsin, USAd. 9 April 1959 Phoenix, Arizona, USA[br]American architect who, in an unparalleled career spanning almost seventy years, became the most important figure on the modern architectural scene both in his own country and far further afield.[br]Wright began his career in 1887 working in the Chicago offices of Adler \& Sullivan. He conceived a great admiration for Sullivan, who was then concentrating upon large commercial projects in modern mode, producing functional yet decorative buildings which took all possible advantage of new structural methods. Wright was responsible for many of the domestic commissions.In 1893 Wright left the firm in order to set up practice on his own, thus initiating a career which was to develop into three distinct phases. In the first of these, up until the First World War, he was chiefly designing houses in a concept in which he envisaged "the house as a shelter". These buildings displayed his deeply held opinion that detached houses in country areas should be designed as an integral part of the landscape, a view later to be evidenced strongly in the work of modern Finnish architects. Wright's designs were called "prairie houses" because so many of them were built in the MidWest of America, which Wright described as a "prairie". These were low and spreading, with gently sloping rooflines, very plain and clean lined, built of traditional materials in warm rural colours, blending softly into their settings. Typical was W.W.Willit's house of 1902 in Highland Park, Illinois.In the second phase of his career Wright began to build more extensively in modern materials, utilizing advanced means of construction. A notable example was his remarkable Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, carefully designed and built in 1916–22 (now demolished), with special foundations and structure to withstand (successfully) strong earthquake tremors. He also became interested in the possibilities of reinforced concrete; in 1906 he built his church at Oak Park, Illinois, entirely of this material. In the 1920s, in California, he abandoned his use of traditional materials for house building in favour of precast concrete blocks, which were intended to provide an "organic" continuity between structure and decorative surfacing. In his continued exploration of the possibilities of concrete as a building material, he created the dramatic concept of'Falling Water', a house built in 1935–7 at Bear Run in Pennsylvania in which he projected massive reinforced-concrete terraces cantilevered from a cliff over a waterfall in the woodlands. In the later 1930s an extraordinary run of original concepts came from Wright, then nearing 70 years of age, ranging from his own winter residence and studio, Taliesin West in Arizona, to the administration block for Johnson Wax (1936–9) in Racine, Wisconsin, where the main interior ceiling was supported by Minoan-style, inversely tapered concrete columns rising to spreading circular capitals which contained lighting tubes of Pyrex glass.Frank Lloyd Wright continued to work until four days before his death at the age of 91. One of his most important and certainly controversial commissions was the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York. This had been proposed in 1943 but was not finally built until 1956–9; in this striking design the museum's exhibition areas are ranged along a gradually mounting spiral ramp lit effectively from above. Controversy stemmed from the unusual and original design of exterior banding and interior descending spiral for wall-display of paintings: some critics strongly approved, while others, equally strongly, did not.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRIBA Royal Gold Medal 1941.Bibliography1945, An Autobiography, Faber \& Faber.Further ReadingE.Kaufmann (ed.), 1957, Frank Lloyd Wright: an American Architect, New York: Horizon Press.H.Russell Hitchcock, 1973, In the Nature of Materials, New York: Da Capo.T.A.Heinz, 1982, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York: St Martin's.DY -
64 Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
[br]b. 21 October 1833 Stockholm, Swedend. 10 December 1896 San Remo, Italy[br]Swedish industrialist, inventor of dynamite, founder of the Nobel Prizes.[br]Alfred's father, Immanuel Nobel, builder, industrialist and inventor, encouraged his sons to follow his example of inventiveness. Alfred's education was interrupted when the family moved to St Petersburg, but was continued privately and was followed by a period of travel. He thus acquired a good knowledge of chemistry and became an excellent linguist.During the Crimean War, Nobel worked for his father's firm in supplying war materials. The cancellation of agreements with the Russian Government at the end of the war bankrupted the firm, but Alfred and his brother Immanuel continued their interest in explosives, working on improved methods of making nitroglycerine. In 1863 Nobel patented his first major invention, a detonator that introduced the principle of detonation by shock, by using a small charge of nitroglycerine in a metal cap with detonating or fulminating mercury. Two years later Nobel set up the world's first nitroglycerine factory in an isolated area outside Stockholm. This led to several other plants and improved methods for making and handling the explosive. Yet Nobel remained aware of the dangers of liquid nitroglycerine, and after many experiments he was able in 1867 to take out a patent for dynamite, a safe, solid and pliable form of nitroglycerine, mixed with kieselguhr. At last, nitroglycerine, discovered by Sobrero in 1847, had been transformed into a useful explosive; Nobel began to promote a worldwide industry for its manufacture. Dynamite still had disadvantages, and Nobel continued his researches until, in 1875, he achieved blasting gelatin, a colloidal solution of nitrocellulose (gun cotton) in nitroglycerine. In many ways it proved to be the ideal explosive, more powerful than nitroglycerine alone, less sensitive to shock and resistant to moisture. It was variously called Nobel's Extra Dynamite, blasting gelatin and gelignite. It immediately went into production.Next, Nobel sought a smokeless powder for military purposes, and in 1887 he obtained a nearly smokeless blasting powder using nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose with 10 per cent camphor. Finally, a progressive, smokeless blasting powder was developed in 1896 at his San Remo laboratory.Nobel's interests went beyond explosives into other areas, such as electrochemistry, optics and biology; his patents amounted to 355 in various countries. However, it was the manufacture of explosives that made him a multimillionaire. At his death he left over £2 million, which he willed to funding awards "to those who during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind".[br]Bibliography1875, On Modern Blasting Agents, Glasgow (his only book).Further ReadingH.Schuck et al., 1962, Nobel, the Man and His Prizes, Amsterdam.E.Bergengren, 1962, Alfred Nobel, the Man and His Work, London and New York (includes a supplement on the prizes and the Nobel institution).LRD -
65 Field, Joshua
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 1786 Hackney, London, Englandd. 11 August 1863 Balham Hill, Surrey, England[br]English mechanical engineer, co-founder of the Institution of Civil Engineers.[br]Joshua Field was educated at a boarding school in Essex until the age of 16, when he obtained employment at the Royal Dockyards at Portsmouth under the Chief Mechanical Superintendent, Simon Goodrich (1773–1847), and later in the drawing office at the Admiralty in Whitehall. At this time, machinery for the manufacture of ships' blocks was being made for the Admiralty by Henry Maudslay, who was in need of a competent draughtsman, and Goodrich recommended Joshua Field. This was the beginning of Field's long association with Maudslay; he later became a partner in the firm which was for many years known as Maudslay, Sons \& Field. They undertook a variety of mechanical engineering work but were renowned for marine steam engines, with Field being responsible for much of the design work in the early years. Joshua Field was the eldest of the eight young men who in 1818 founded the Institution of Civil Engineers; he was the first Chairman of the Institution and later became a vice-president. He was the only one of the founders to be elected President and was the first mechanical engineer to hold that office. James Nasmyth in his autobiography relates that Joshua Field kept a methodical account of his technical discussions in a series of note books which were later indexed. Some of these diaries have survived, and extracts from the notes he made on a tour of the industrial areas of the Midlands and the North West in 1821 have been published.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1836. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1848–9. Member, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1835; President 1848.Bibliography1925–6, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the Midlands", introd. and notes J.W.Hall, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 6:1–41.1932–3, "Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the provinces", introd. and notes E.C. Smith, Transactions of the Newcomen Society 13:15–50.RTS -
66 Hetzel, Max
[br]b. 5 March 1921 Basle, Switzerland[br]Swiss electrical engineer who invented the tuning-fork watch.[br]Hetzel trained as an electrical engineer at the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich and worked for several years in the field of telecommunications before joining the Bulova Watch Company in 1950. At that time several companies were developing watches with electromagnetically maintained balances, but they represented very little advance on the mechanical watch and the mechanical switching mechanism was unreliable. In 1952 Hetzel started work on a much more radical design which was influenced by a transistorized tuning-fork oscillator that he had developed when he was working on telecommunications. Tuning forks, whose vibrations were maintained electromagnetically, had been used by scientists during the nineteenth century to measure small intervals of time, but Niaudet- Breguet appears to have been the first to use a tuning fork to control a clock. In 1866 he described a mechanically operated tuning-fork clock manufactured by the firm of Breguet, but it was not successful, possibly because the fork did not compensate for changes in temperature. The tuning fork only became a precision instrument during the 1920s, when elinvar forks were maintained in vibration by thermionic valve circuits. Their primary purpose was to act as frequency standards, but they might have been developed into precision clocks had not the quartz clock made its appearance very shortly afterwards. Hetzel's design was effectively a miniaturized version of these precision devices, with a transistor replacing the thermionic valve. The fork vibrated at a frequency of 360 cycles per second, and the hands were driven mechanically from the end of one of the tines. A prototype was working by 1954, and the watch went into production in 1960. It was sold under the tradename Accutron, with a guaranteed accuracy of one minute per month: this was a considerable improvement on the performance of the mechanical watch. However, the events of the 1920s were to repeat themselves, and by the end of the decade the Accutron was eclipsed by the introduction of quartz-crystal watches.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNeuchâtel Observatory Centenary Prize 1958. Swiss Society for Chronometry Gold Medal 1988.Bibliography"The history of the “Accutron” tuning fork watch", 1969, Swiss Watch \& Jewellery Journal 94:413–5.Further ReadingR.Good, 1960, "The Accutron", Horological Journal 103:346–53 (for a detailed technical description).J.D.Weaver, 1982, Electrical \& Electronic Clocks \& Watches, London (provides a technical description of the tuning-fork watch in its historical context).DV -
67 Charmeuse
A dress fabric made of all silk yarns, and with a satin face and crepe-like back. A hard twisted warp and crepe weft is used. The finished cloth is dull but soft. The name Charmeuse is the registered trade mark of a fabric originated by a French firm, Bianchini, Ferier and Co., bat it has been made common by copying the fabric on a large scale. The Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce gives the following opinion: - Charmeuse has been understood commercially for many decades as a woven silk fabric with a lustrous duchess satin-like face and a dull crepe-like back. Originally made from natural silk, this material has been manufactured in the last few years both in part or wholly from rayon. " Tricot-charmeuse " is a knitted fabric, the back of which has an appearance similar to that of Charmeuse. Tricot-charmeuse has been largely used as a rayon hosiery material in Saxony and Thuringia, but such materials have also been called " Charmeuse " for some time past in the factories making Tricot charmeuse. It is considered, therefore, that the term " Charmeuse," without some special designation, has no power of differentiation and cannot be considered for registration as a trade mark. -
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[baɪnd]гл.; прош. вр., прич. прош. вр. bound1) вязать; связывать; завязыватьThey bound his legs tight. — Они крепко связали его ноги.
He was bound to the mast of his ship. — Он был привязан к мачте своего корабля.
The sticks of wood were bound together in bunches. — Хворост был связан в вязанки.
Parcels must be properly bound up for posting to other countries. — Для отправки за границу посылки должны быть соответствующим образом упакованы.
Syn:2) привязыватьThe prisoner was bound to a post and shot. — Приговорённого привязали к столбу и расстреляли.
3) обшивать, обвязывать ( края); вправлять более слабый материал в оправу из более прочногоA sort of low beef-eater hat bound with yellow. — Это была небольшая шляпа наподобие головных уборов лейб-гвардейцев, только обшитая жёлтым.
4) зажимать; стягивать (волосы, горловину мешка)A fillet binds her hair. — Её волосы собраны в хвост и стянуты лентой.
5) перевязывать, делать перевязку; делать компрессGive me another horse and bind up my wounds. — Дайте мне свежую лошадь и перевяжите мои раны.
6) = bind up переплетать книгу; переплетать несколько разных книг или рукописей в один томThe firm has agreed to bind up the six articles into one book. — Фирма согласилась издать эти шесть статей одной книгой.
7) лишать свободы, заковывать в кандалы, сажать в тюрьму, брать в пленSurprise him first, and with hard fetters bind. — Сначала застань его врасплох, а затем закуй в тяжёлые кандалы.
8) ( bind to)The youngest son was bound to a master builder for seven years. — Самый младший сын был отдан в обучение главному строителю на семь лет.
б) заставлять кого-л. повиноватьсяWe must bind the members of the committee to secrecy. — Мы должны обязать членов комитета хранить тайну.
9) задерживать, ограничивать; связывать (чем-л. нематериальным)I have no official business to bind me. — У меня не было никаких служебных дел, связывающих меня.
10) овладевать, подчинять (о болезни, страсти)11) обязывать; обрекатьEvery county is bound to repair the highways which passed through it. — Каждое графство обязано поддерживать в хорошем состоянии дороги, которые проходят через него.
12) скреплять, соединять прям. и перен.A shilling is passed to bind the bargain. — Для скрепления сделки передаётся шиллинг.
This problem is bound up with many others. — Эта проблема связана со многими другими.
The future of the island is bound up with the fortunes of the ruling power. — Будущее острова связано с судьбами его правителей.
13) затвердевать (о снеге, грязи, глине, тесте, фарше)You will need beaten egg to bind. — Чтобы всё схватилось, вам понадобятся взбитые яйца.
14) крепить, вызывать запорThis fruit binds the bowels. — Этот фрукт крепит.
15) запрягать16) заключать брак17) разг. вызывать скуку, быть зануднымVoyages are binding things, and I'm lucky to have had this job to keep me busy. — Путешествия - невыносимо скучная штука, так что я рад, что у меня была с собой работа.
18) жаловатьсяEddy's been binding to Vic about you. — Эдди тут рассказывал Вику про твои делишки.
•- bind off
- bind out
- bind over
- bind together••- be bound up inin bounden duty — по долгу, по чувству долга
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69 hard
1. n твёрдая мощёная или бетонированная дорожкаhard page break — «твёрдая» граница страницы
hard copy — удобочитаемый, печатный или машинописный текст
2. n твёрдый грунт, по которому можно пройти через топкое болотоhard court — твёрдое поле, корт с твёрдым покрытием
3. n звонкая монета4. n сл. каторгаimprisonment at hard labour — лишение свободы с каторжными работами; каторжные работы, каторга
5. n разг. прессованный табак6. a жёсткий, неприятный на ощупьa hard unwilling man — жёсткий, упрямый человек
7. a трудный, тяжёлый; требующий напряженияhard cases make bad law — трудные дела — плохая основа для законодательства, запутанные дела не могут служить прецедентом
8. a такой, с которым трудно; с трудом поддающийсяthings hard to imagine — вещи, которые трудно себе представить
9. a крепкий, закалённый, сильный10. a строгий, суровый; безжалостный, жестокий11. a тяжёлый, трудныйis hard — трудный; твердый
are hard — трудный; твердый
12. a тяжёлый, суровый, полный трудностей и лишений13. a суровый, холодный14. a резкий; грубый; неприятный15. a усердный, упорный; прилежный16. a не знающий удержу, усиленно предающийся17. a стойкий, устойчивыйhard fault — устойчивая неисправность; отказ
18. a спец. стойкий, не поддающийся биологическому распаду19. a звонкий20. a реальный; практичный, лишённый романтики; приземлённыйhard common sense — грубый практицизм; жёсткий рационализм
21. a жёсткий, частыйshe abbreviated so much that it was hard to understand her letters — она так часто сокращала слова, что её письма было трудно понимать
22. a крепко завязанный23. a амер. крепкий; алкогольный24. a разг. кислый, терпкий25. a спец. контрастныйhard light — фото, кино «жёсткий» свет
26. a густой, тягучий27. a физ. проникающий, жёсткий28. a фон. твёрдый29. a создающий привыканиеno hard feelings? — вы не обиделись?; вы не будете на меня обижаться?
hard knocks — удары судьбы; напасти, несчастья
he took some hard knocks — ему не везло; несчастья сваливались на него одно за другим
hard lines — незадача, невезение; полоса неудач
hard and fast — непоколебимый; твёрдый; жёсткий ; строго определённый; незыблемый, раз навсегда установленный
hard of hearing — тугоухий; тугой на ухо, глуховатый
30. adv сильно, интенсивно; энергичноextremely hard — настойчиво; энергичный
31. adv настойчиво, упорно; усердноhard sell — навязывание товара; настойчивое рекламирование; броская реклама
32. adv твёрдо, крепко; накрепкоto hold hard — крепко держать или держаться, не отпускать
33. adv вкрутую34. adv тяжело, с трудомto take hard — принимать близко к сердцу; тяжело переживать
35. adv неумеренно, чрезмерноto drink hard — крепко выпивать; пить запоем
36. adv близко, на небольшом расстоянии; околоhard at hand — близко, рядом
hard by — близко; рядом
37. adv мор. круто, до отказаСинонимический ряд:1. actual (adj.) absolute; actual; factual; genuine; positive; sure-enough2. alcoholic (adj.) alcoholic; ardent; inebriating; intoxicating; spirituous; stimulating; strong3. arduous (adj.) arduous; difficile; exhausting; fatiguing; labored; operose; serious; slavish; sticky; strenuous; terrible; toilful; toilsome; uphill; wearisome4. complicated (adj.) complex; complicated; effortful; enigmatic; formidable; intricate; perplexing; puzzling5. cruel (adj.) cruel; grinding; oppressive; rough; stony; unmerciful; unrelenting; unsparing6. grim (adj.) austere; bitter; bleak; brutal; dour; grim; stringent7. hardy (adj.) casehardened; hardened; hardy; rugged; tough8. heavy (adj.) heavy; hefty9. insensible (adj.) anesthetic; bloodless; dull; impassible; insensate; insensible; insensitive; rocky10. intense (adj.) intense; powerful; violent11. intensive (adj.) blood-and-guts; deep; intensive; profound12. irrefutable (adj.) incontrovertible; irrefutable; undeniable13. realistic (adj.) down-to-earth; earthy; hard-boiled; hardheaded; hard-headed; matter-of-fact; objective; practic; practical; pragmatic; pragmatical; realistic; sober; tough-minded; unfantastic; unidealistic; unromantic; utilitarian14. severe (adj.) adamant; exacting; hard hearted; indifferent; intemperate; relentless; rigorous; severe15. shrewd (adj.) callous; shrewd; unsentimental; unsympathetic16. solid (adj.) adamantine; compact; firm; flinty; impenetrable; inflexible; resistant; resisting; rigid; solid17. stormy (adj.) inclement; stormy; tempestuous; vigorous; vigourous18. taxing (adj.) backbreaking; burdensome; demanding; difficult; knotty; laborious; onerous; taxing; trying; weighty19. unfriendly (adj.) harsh; unfriendly; unkind; unpleasant20. arduously (other) arduously; burdensomely; difficultly; laboriously; onerously; toilsomely21. assiduously (other) assiduously; dingdong; exhaustively; intensely; intensively; painstakingly; thoroughly; unremittingly22. badly (other) badly; gallingly; harshly; painfully; rigorously; roughly; severely; with difficulty23. bitterly (other) bitterly; keenly; rancorously; resentfully; sorely24. close (other) at close hand; close; near; nearby; nigh25. closely (other) closely; searchingly; sharply26. earnestly (other) earnestly; incessantly; intently27. energetically (other) energetically; forcefully; forcibly; hammer and tongs; might and main; mightily; powerfully; strongly; vigorously; with might and main28. fast (other) fast; firm; firmly; fixedly; hardly; solid; solidly; steadfastly; tight; tightly29. fiercely (other) fiercely; frantically; frenziedly; furiously; madly; stormily; tumultuously; turbulently; vigourously; violently; wildlyАнтонимический ряд:brittle; compassionate; delicate; ductile; easy; effeminate; elastic; fair; feeble; fluid; frail; gentle; impressible; intelligible; lenient; mild; simple; soft -
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1. adjective,1) (resistant) stark; gefestigt [Ehe]; stabil [Möbel]; solide, fest [Fundament, Schuhe]; streng [Vorschriften, Vorkehrungen]; robust [Konstitution, Magen, Stoff, Porzellan]you have to have a strong stomach — (fig.) man muss einiges vertragen können
2) (powerful) stark, kräftig [Person, Tier]; kräftig [Arme, Beine, Muskeln, Tritt, Schlag, Zähne]; stark [Linse, Brille, Strom, Magnet]; gut [Augen]as strong as a horse or an ox — (fig.) bärenstark (ugs.)
3) (effective) stark [Regierung, Herrscher, Wille]; streng [Disziplin, Lehrer]; gut [Gedächtnis, Schüler]; fähig [Redner, Mathematiker]; (formidable) stark [Gegner, Kombination]; aussichtsreich [Kandidat]; (powerful in resources) reich [Nation, Land]; leistungsfähig [Wirtschaft]; stark [Besetzung, Delegation, Truppe, Kontingent usw.]4) (convincing) gut, handfest [Grund, Beispiel, Argument]there is a strong possibility that... — es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass...
5) (vigorous, moving forcefully) stark; voll [Unterstützung]; fest [Überzeugung]; kraftvoll [Stil]; (fervent) glühend [Anhänger, Verfechter einer Sache]take strong measures/action — energisch vorgehen
6) (affecting the senses) stark; kräftig, stark [Geruch, Geschmack, Stimme]; markant [Gesichtszüge]; (pungent) streng [Geruch, Geschmack]; kräftig [Käse]7) (concentrated) stark; kräftig [Farbe]I need a strong drink — ich muss mir erst mal einen genehmigen (ugs.)
8) (emphatic) stark [Ausdruck, Protest]; heftig [Worte, Wortwechsel]2. adverbthey are still going strong — (after years of marriage) mit ihnen geht es noch immer gut; (after hours of work) sie sind noch immer eifrig dabei
* * *[stroŋ]1) (firm, sound, or powerful, and therefore not easily broken, destroyed, attacked, defeated, resisted, or affected by weariness, illness etc: strong furniture; a strong castle; a strong wind; She's a strong swimmer; He has a very strong will/personality; He has never been very strong (= healthy); He is not strong enough to lift that heavy table.) stark3) (containing a large amount of the flavouring ingredient: strong tea.) stark4) ((of a group, force etc) numbering a particular amount: An army 20,000 strong was advancing towards the town.) stark•- academic.ru/71368/strongly">strongly- strength
- strengthen
- strongbox
- strong drink
- stronghold
- strong language
- strong-minded
- strong point
- strongroom
- on the strength of* * *[strɒŋ, AM strɑ:ŋ]I. adj1. (powerful) starkthis put him under a \strong temptation to steal it er geriet stark in Versuchung, es zu stehlendanger! \strong currents — do not swim here! Achtung! starke Strömung — Schwimmen verboten!\strong bonds starke Bande\strong character [or personality] starke Persönlichkeit\strong coffee starker Kaffee\strong competition starker Wettbewerb\strong desire brennendes Verlangen\strong doubts erhebliche Zweifel\strong economy leistungsfähige [o gesunde] Wirtschaft\strong evidence schlagender Beweis\strong impression prägender Eindruck; (impressive) sehr guter Eindruck\strong incentive großer Anreiz\strong influence großer Einfluss\strong language (vulgar) derbe Ausdrucksweise\strong lenses starke [Brillen]gläser\strong likeness frappierende [o verblüffende] Ähnlichkeitto take \strong measures against sb/sth energisch gegen jdn/etw vorgehen\strong medicine starkes Medikamentto produce \strong memories lebhafte Erinnerungen hervorrufen\strong policies überzeugende Politik\strong praise großes Lob\strong protest scharfer [o energischer] Protest\strong reaction heftige Reaktionto have \strong reason to do sth gute Gründe haben, etw zu tunthere is \strong reason to... es gibt einige Anzeichen dafür, dass...\strong resistance erbitterter Widerstand\strong rivalry ausgeprägte Rivalität\strong smell strenger Geruchin the \strongest of terms sehr energisch\strong trading links umfangreiche Handelsbeziehungena \strong will ein starker Wille\strong winds heftige [o starke] Winde\strong wish großer Wunsch\strong yearning starke Sehnsucht2. (effective) gut, starkshe's the \strongest candidate sie ist die beste Kandidatintact is not her \strong point Takt ist nicht gerade ihre Stärke\strong constitution robuste Konstitution\strong eyes gute Augento be as \strong as a horse [or an ox] bärenstark seinto have \strong nerves [or a \strong stomach] ( fig) allerhand verkraften können, sehr belastbar sein, ÖSTERR a. einen guten Magen haben5. (deep-seated) überzeugtI felt \strong sympathy for him after all his misfortune er tat mir sehr leid nach all seinem Pech\strong antipathy [or dislike] unüberwindliche Abneigung\strong bias [or prejudice] unüberwindliches Vorurteil\strong conviction feste Überzeugung\strong emotions [or feelings] starke Gefühle\strong fear große Angst\strong objections starke Einwände\strong opinion vorgefasste Meinung\strong tendency deutliche [o klare] Tendenzto have \strong views on sth eine Meinung über etw akk energisch vertreten6. (staunch)\strong friends loyale [o treue] Freunde\strong friendship unerschütterliche Freundschaft\strong opponent überzeugter Gegner/überzeugte Gegnerin\strong supporter überzeugter Anhänger/überzeugte Anhängerin7. (very likely) groß, hoch, stark\strong chances of success hohe [o gute] Erfolgsaussichten\strong likelihood [or probability] hohe Wahrscheinlichkeitour club is currently about eighty \strong unser Klub hat derzeit 80 Mitglieder [o ist derzeit 80 Mann stark9. (marked) stark\strong accent starker Akzent10. (bright) hell, kräftig\strong light grelles Licht11. (pungent) streng\strong odour penetranter [o strenger] Geruch\strong smell beißender [o stechender] Geruch12. FIN hart, stabil, stark\strong currency harte [o starke] Währunghe's always coming on \strong to me er macht mich permanent anto come on too \strong sich akk zu sehr aufregen, übertrieben reagierenstill going \strong noch gut in Form [o fam Schuss]* * *[strɒŋ]1. adj (+er)1) stark; (physically) person, material, kick, hands kräftig, stark; grip, voice kräftig; table, bolt, nail, wall stabil, solide; shoes fest; (= strongly marked) features ausgeprägtyou need a strong stomach to be a nurse — als Krankenschwester muss man allerhand verkraften können
2) (= healthy) kräftig; person, constitution robust, kräftig; teeth, eyes, eyesight, heart, nerves gut3) (= powerful, effective) stark; character, conviction, views fest; country mächtig; candidate, case aussichtsreich; influence, temptation groß, stark; reason, argument, evidence überzeugend; protest, plea energisch; measure drastisch; letter geharnischt, in starken Worten abgefasst; (LITER) plot, sequence, passage, performance gut, stark (inf)to have strong feelings/views about sth — in Bezug auf etw (acc) stark engagiert sein
I didn't know you had such strong feelings about it — ich habe nicht gewusst, dass Ihnen so viel daran liegt or dass Ihnen das so viel bedeutet; (against it) ich habe nicht gewusst, dass Sie so dagegen sind
she has very strong feelings about him — sie hat sehr viel für ihn übrig; (as candidate etc) sie hält sehr viel von ihm; (against him) sie ist vollkommen gegen ihn
his strong point — seine Stärke
I had a strong sense of déjà-vu — ich hatte ganz den Eindruck, das schon einmal gesehen zu haben
there is a strong possibility that... — es ist überaus wahrscheinlich, dass...
5) (= capable) gut, stark (inf)he is strong in/on sth — etw ist seine Stärke or starke Seite
6) (= enthusiastic, committed) begeistert; supporter, Catholic, socialist überzeugt; belief, faith unerschütterlich, stark7) food deftig; smell, perfume etc stark; (= pungent, unpleasant) smell, taste streng; (of butter) ranzig; colour, light kräftig; acid, bleach stark; solution konzentriert8) accent, verb, rhyme stark; syllable etc betont2. adv (+er)1) (inf)to be going strong (old person, thing) — gut in Schuss sein (inf); (runner) gut in Form sein; (party, rehearsals) in Schwung sein (inf)
that's (coming it) a bit strong! —
* * *strong [strɒŋ]1. allga) stark (Ähnlichkeit, Gift, Nerven etc):temptation is strong for sb to do sth die Versuchung, etwas zu tun, ist groß für jemanden;strong at home SPORT heimstarkb) kräftig (Farben, Stimme etc):strong man POL starker Mann;in in dat):he’s strong in mathematics3. fig stark (Glaube etc), fest (Überzeugung etc):be strong against sth entschieden gegen etwas sein;strong face energisches oder markantes Gesicht4. stark, mächtig (Nation etc):a company 200 strong MIL eine 200 Mann starke Kompanie;a nine-strong team ein neun Mann starkes Team;our club is 100 strong unser Klub hat 100 Mitglieder;an 8,000-strong community eine 8000-Seelen-Gemeinde5. fig aussichtsreich (Kandidat etc)6. fig gewichtig, überzeugend, zwingend, schwerwiegend (Argument etc)7. fig energisch, entschlossen (Anstrengungen etc):with a strong hand mit starker Hand;use strong language Kraftausdrücke gebrauchen;strong word Kraftausdruck m;strongly worded in scharfen Worten formuliert8. überzeugt, eifrig (Tory etc)9. schwer (Parfüm, Wein etc)10. schwer, fest (Schuhe)strong flavo(u)r scharfer oder strenger Geschmack;strong butter ranzige Butter12. WIRTSCHa) fest (Markt)b) lebhaft (Nachfrage)c) anziehend (Preise)13. LING stark (Deklination, Verb)B adv1. stark, nachdrücklich, energisch:a) rangehen umg,b) auftrumpfen2. umg tüchtig, mächtig:be going strong gut in Schuss oder in Form sein;b) auftrumpfen;come it too strong dick auftragen umg, übertreiben* * *1. adjective,1) (resistant) stark; gefestigt [Ehe]; stabil [Möbel]; solide, fest [Fundament, Schuhe]; streng [Vorschriften, Vorkehrungen]; robust [Konstitution, Magen, Stoff, Porzellan]you have to have a strong stomach — (fig.) man muss einiges vertragen können
2) (powerful) stark, kräftig [Person, Tier]; kräftig [Arme, Beine, Muskeln, Tritt, Schlag, Zähne]; stark [Linse, Brille, Strom, Magnet]; gut [Augen]as strong as a horse or an ox — (fig.) bärenstark (ugs.)
3) (effective) stark [Regierung, Herrscher, Wille]; streng [Disziplin, Lehrer]; gut [Gedächtnis, Schüler]; fähig [Redner, Mathematiker]; (formidable) stark [Gegner, Kombination]; aussichtsreich [Kandidat]; (powerful in resources) reich [Nation, Land]; leistungsfähig [Wirtschaft]; stark [Besetzung, Delegation, Truppe, Kontingent usw.]4) (convincing) gut, handfest [Grund, Beispiel, Argument]there is a strong possibility that... — es ist sehr wahrscheinlich, dass...
5) (vigorous, moving forcefully) stark; voll [Unterstützung]; fest [Überzeugung]; kraftvoll [Stil]; (fervent) glühend [Anhänger, Verfechter einer Sache]take strong measures/action — energisch vorgehen
6) (affecting the senses) stark; kräftig, stark [Geruch, Geschmack, Stimme]; markant [Gesichtszüge]; (pungent) streng [Geruch, Geschmack]; kräftig [Käse]7) (concentrated) stark; kräftig [Farbe]8) (emphatic) stark [Ausdruck, Protest]; heftig [Worte, Wortwechsel]2. adverbthey are still going strong — (after years of marriage) mit ihnen geht es noch immer gut; (after hours of work) sie sind noch immer eifrig dabei
* * *adj.kampfstark adj.stark adj. -
71 Sellers, William
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 19 September 1824 Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USAd. 24 January 1905 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA[br]American mechanical engineer and inventor.[br]William Sellers was educated at a private school that had been established by his father and other relatives for their children, and at the age of 14 he was apprenticed for seven years to the machinist's trade with his uncle. At the end of his apprenticeship in 1845 he took charge of the machine shop of Fairbanks, Bancroft \& Co. in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1848 he established his own factory manufacturing machine tools and mill gearing in Philadelphia, where he was soon joined by Edward Bancroft, the firm becoming Bancroft \& Sellers. After Bancroft's death the name was changed in 1856 to William Sellers \& Co. and Sellers served as President until the end of his life. His machine tools were characterized by their robust construction and absence of decorative embellishments. In 1868 he formed the Edgemoor Iron Company, of which he was President. This company supplied the structural ironwork for the Centennial Exhibition buildings and much of the material for the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1873 he reorganized the William Butcher Steel Works, renaming it the Midvale Steel Company, and under his presidency it became a leader in the production of heavy ordnance. It was at the Midvale Steel Company that Frederick W. Taylor began, with the encouragement of Sellers, his experiments on cutting tools.In 1860 Sellers obtained the American rights of the patent for the Giffard injector for feeding steam boilers. He later invented his own improvements to the injector, which numbered among his many other patents, most of which related to machine tools. Probably Sellers's most important contribution to the engineering industry was his proposal for a system of screw threads made in 1864 and later adopted as the American national standard.Sellers was a founder member in 1880 of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and was also a member of many other learned societies in America and other countries, including, in Britain, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Iron and Steel Institute.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsChevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1889. President, Franklin Institute 1864–7.Further ReadingJ.W.Roe, 1916, English and American Tool Builders, New Haven; reprinted 1926, New York, and 1987, Bradley, Ill. (describes Sellers's work on machine tools).Bruce Sinclair, 1969, "At the turn of a screw: William Sellers, the Franklin Institute, and a standard American thread", Technology and Culture 10:20–34 (describes his work on screw threads).RTS -
72 Wedgwood, Ralph
SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing[br]fl. late eighteenth/early nineteenth century London, England[br]English inventor of carbon paper.[br]Wedgwood was descended from Thomas Wedgwood, the father of Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the famous pottery firm. In 1806, he patented an apparatus for making copies of handwritten documents, Wedgwood's Stylographic Writer. It was originally developed with the intention of helping the blind to write and had a metal stylus instead of a quill pen: a piece of paper that had been soaked in printer's ink and then dried was placed between two sheets of paper, and wires placed across the page guided the stylus in the hand of the blind writer.A few years later Wedgwood developed this apparatus into a way of making a copy of a letter at the time of writing. He used impregnated paper, which he called carbonic or carbonated paper, the first known reference to carbon paper. It was placed between a sheet of good quality writing paper and one of thin, transparent paper. By writing with the stylus on the thin paper, a good copy appeared on the lower sheet, while a reverse copy appeared on the underside of the other, which could be read right way round through the transparent paper. In its final form, the Manifold Stylographic Writer was put on sale, elegantly presented between marbled covers. Eventually a company was established to make and sell the writer, and by 1818 it was in the name of Wedgwood's son, R.Wedgwood Jun. of Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, London. Many of the writers were sold, although they never came into general use in offices, which preferred battalions of Dickensian Bob Cratchits armed with quill pens. Wedgwood himself did not share in the family prosperity, for his pathetic letters to his daughter show that he had to hawk his apparatus to raise the price of his next meal.[br]Further ReadingW.B.Proudfoot, 1972, The Origin of Stencil Duplicating, London: Hutchinson.LRD
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