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improved risk

  • 1 risk assessment

    Gen Mgt
    the determination of the level of risk in a particular course of action. Risk assessments are an important tool in areas such as health and safety management and environmental management. Results of a risk assessment can be used, for example, to identify areas in which safety can be improved. Risk assessment can also be used to determine more intangible forms of risk, including economic and social risk, and can inform the scenario planning process. The amount of risk involved in a particular course of action is compared to its expected benefits to provide evidence for decision making.

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  • 2 повышенная ответственность при страховании риска

    1. improved risk

     

    повышенная ответственность при страховании риска
    Напр. ограничение гарантированного страхования ядерных объектов до класса наиболее защищенных промышленных рисков
    [А.С.Гольдберг. Англо-русский энергетический словарь. 2006 г.]

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    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > повышенная ответственность при страховании риска

  • 3 mejoría en las condiciones del riesgo

    • improved risk conditions

    Diccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > mejoría en las condiciones del riesgo

  • 4 mediocre

    adj.
    mediocre, average.
    f. & m.
    mediocre person, mediocrity.
    * * *
    1 mediocre
    * * *
    adj.
    mediocre, ordinary
    * * *
    ADJ average; pey mediocre
    * * *
    adjetivo mediocre
    * * *
    = meagre [meager, -USA], nondescript, run-of-the-mill, mediocre, indifferent, second-rate, undistinguished, lamely, unimpressive, unremarkable.
    Ex. Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.
    Ex. He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex. Guides are almost always worth thinking of as the first type of bibliography to search when it is a quick check of run-of-the-mill bibliographical facts which is required.
    Ex. Despite the proliferation of biographies aimed at young adults which have lavish illustrations, easy-to-read print and attractive layout, most of them are lifeless and mediocre.
    Ex. This risk I gladly accept in the hope that I have succeeded in bringing to your notice the fact that there is an ailment here, however indifferent my diagnosis may have been, and by provoking thought on the matter.
    Ex. To date the library profession has been passive in its approach to new technology and has accepted the second-rate products it has been offered.
    Ex. You are about to hear an undistinguished non-expert speak prosaically about the library catalog as it currently is.
    Ex. People think that that this is just a stunt to generate more traffic to a lamely performing Web site.
    Ex. The author deems voice recognition technology to be unimpressive but finds that text-to-speech conversion has greatly improved.
    Ex. This dish, billed as the house specialty, was just an unremarkable griddled steak topped with some green bell peppers and green onions.
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    adjetivo mediocre
    * * *
    = meagre [meager, -USA], nondescript, run-of-the-mill, mediocre, indifferent, second-rate, undistinguished, lamely, unimpressive, unremarkable.

    Ex: Soon, however, the collection outgrew its meagre quarters and a full-fledged library occupying a 40x60 foot area came into being.

    Ex: He went on to explain that while there were no unsightly slums, there was a fairly large district of rather nondescript homes intermingled with plain two- and three-family brick and frame dwellings, principally in the eastern reaches of the city.
    Ex: Guides are almost always worth thinking of as the first type of bibliography to search when it is a quick check of run-of-the-mill bibliographical facts which is required.
    Ex: Despite the proliferation of biographies aimed at young adults which have lavish illustrations, easy-to-read print and attractive layout, most of them are lifeless and mediocre.
    Ex: This risk I gladly accept in the hope that I have succeeded in bringing to your notice the fact that there is an ailment here, however indifferent my diagnosis may have been, and by provoking thought on the matter.
    Ex: To date the library profession has been passive in its approach to new technology and has accepted the second-rate products it has been offered.
    Ex: You are about to hear an undistinguished non-expert speak prosaically about the library catalog as it currently is.
    Ex: People think that that this is just a stunt to generate more traffic to a lamely performing Web site.
    Ex: The author deems voice recognition technology to be unimpressive but finds that text-to-speech conversion has greatly improved.
    Ex: This dish, billed as the house specialty, was just an unremarkable griddled steak topped with some green bell peppers and green onions.

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    mediocre
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    mediocre adjetivo
    mediocre
    mediocre adjetivo mediocre
    ' mediocre' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    discreta
    - discreto
    - ordinaria
    - ordinario
    - regular
    - flojo
    - mediano
    - pobre
    English:
    goalkeeper
    - indifferent
    - mediocre
    - rate
    - sort
    - lack
    - mediocrity
    - second
    * * *
    mediocre, average
    * * *
    adj mediocre
    * * *
    : mediocre, average

    Spanish-English dictionary > mediocre

  • 5 Catholic church

       The Catholic Church and the Catholic religion together represent the oldest and most enduring of all Portuguese institutions. Because its origins as an institution go back at least to the middle of the third century, if not earlier, the Christian and later the Catholic Church is much older than any other Portuguese institution or major cultural influence, including the monarchy (lasting 770 years) or Islam (540 years). Indeed, it is older than Portugal (869 years) itself. The Church, despite its changing doctrine and form, dates to the period when Roman Lusitania was Christianized.
       In its earlier period, the Church played an important role in the creation of an independent Portuguese monarchy, as well as in the colonization and settlement of various regions of the shifting Christian-Muslim frontier as it moved south. Until the rise of absolutist monarchy and central government, the Church dominated all public and private life and provided the only education available, along with the only hospitals and charity institutions. During the Middle Ages and the early stage of the overseas empire, the Church accumulated a great deal of wealth. One historian suggests that, by 1700, one-third of the land in Portugal was owned by the Church. Besides land, Catholic institutions possessed a large number of chapels, churches and cathedrals, capital, and other property.
       Extensive periods of Portuguese history witnessed either conflict or cooperation between the Church as the monarchy increasingly sought to gain direct control of the realm. The monarchy challenged the great power and wealth of the Church, especially after the acquisition of the first overseas empire (1415-1580). When King João III requested the pope to allow Portugal to establish the Inquisition (Holy Office) in the country and the request was finally granted in 1531, royal power, more than religion was the chief concern. The Inquisition acted as a judicial arm of the Catholic Church in order to root out heresies, primarily Judaism and Islam, and later Protestantism. But the Inquisition became an instrument used by the crown to strengthen its power and jurisdiction.
       The Church's power and prestige in governance came under direct attack for the first time under the Marquis of Pombal (1750-77) when, as the king's prime minister, he placed regalism above the Church's interests. In 1759, the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal, although they were allowed to return after Pombal left office. Pombal also harnessed the Inquisition and put in place other anticlerical measures. With the rise of liberalism and the efforts to secularize Portugal after 1820, considerable Church-state conflict occurred. The new liberal state weakened the power and position of the Church in various ways: in 1834, all religious orders were suppressed and their property confiscated both in Portugal and in the empire and, in the 1830s and 1840s, agrarian reform programs confiscated and sold large portions of Church lands. By the 1850s, Church-state relations had improved, various religious orders were allowed to return, and the Church's influence was largely restored. By the late 19th century, Church and state were closely allied again. Church roles in all levels of education were pervasive, and there was a popular Catholic revival under way.
       With the rise of republicanism and the early years of the First Republic, especially from 1910 to 1917, Church-state relations reached a new low. A major tenet of republicanism was anticlericalism and the belief that the Church was as much to blame as the monarchy for the backwardness of Portuguese society. The provisional republican government's 1911 Law of Separation decreed the secularization of public life on a scale unknown in Portugal. Among the new measures that Catholics and the Church opposed were legalization of divorce, appropriation of all Church property by the state, abolition of religious oaths for various posts, suppression of the theology school at Coimbra University, abolition of saints' days as public holidays, abolition of nunneries and expulsion of the Jesuits, closing of seminaries, secularization of all public education, and banning of religious courses in schools.
       After considerable civil strife over the religious question under the republic, President Sidónio Pais restored normal relations with the Holy See and made concessions to the Portuguese Church. Encouraged by the apparitions at Fátima between May and October 1917, which caused a great sensation among the rural people, a strong Catholic reaction to anticlericalism ensued. Backed by various new Catholic organizations such as the "Catholic Youth" and the Academic Center of Christian Democracy (CADC), the Catholic revival influenced government and politics under the Estado Novo. Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar was not only a devout Catholic and member of the CADC, but his formative years included nine years in the Viseu Catholic Seminary preparing to be a priest. Under the Estado Novo, Church-state relations greatly improved, and Catholic interests were protected. On the other hand, Salazar's no-risk statism never went so far as to restore to the Church all that had been lost in the 1911 Law of Separation. Most Church property was never returned from state ownership and, while the Church played an important role in public education to 1974, it never recovered the influence in education it had enjoyed before 1911.
       Today, the majority of Portuguese proclaim themselves Catholic, and the enduring nature of the Church as an institution seems apparent everywhere in the country. But there is no longer a monolithic Catholic faith; there is growing diversity of religious choice in the population, which includes an increasing number of Protestant Portuguese as well as a small but growing number of Muslims from the former Portuguese empire. The Muslim community of greater Lisbon erected a Mosque which, ironically, is located near the Spanish Embassy. In the 1990s, Portugal's Catholic Church as an institution appeared to be experiencing a revival of influence. While Church attendance remained low, several Church institutions retained an importance in society that went beyond the walls of the thousands of churches: a popular, flourishing Catholic University; Radio Re-nascenca, the country's most listened to radio station; and a new private television channel owned by the Church. At an international conference in Lisbon in September 2000, the Cardinal Patriarch of Portugal, Dom José Policarpo, formally apologized to the Jewish community of Portugal for the actions of the Inquisition. At the deliberately selected location, the place where that religious institution once held its hearings and trials, Dom Policarpo read a declaration of Catholic guilt and repentance and symbolically embraced three rabbis, apologizing for acts of violence, pressures to convert, suspicions, and denunciation.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Catholic church

  • 6 Unter

    I Präp. (+ Dat)
    1. under, below; (bes. direkt unter) underneath; unter... hervor from under...; unter 21 ( Jahren) under 21 (years of age); unter zehn Euro under ( oder less than) ten euros; unter seiner Regierung under ( oder during) his reign; unter sich haben (Angestellte, Abteilung etc.) be in charge of; Land unter! land under water!
    2. (zwischen) among; einer unter vielen one of many; nicht einer unter hundert not one in a hundred; unter anderem (u.a.) among other things
    3. unter Beifall amid applause; unter Tränen in tears, tearfully; unter großem Gelächter amid gales of laughter
    4. unter der Woche during the week; unter Mittag / Tags at ( oder around) midday / during the day
    5. unter diesem Gesichtspunkt from this point of view; was versteht man unter...? what is meant by...?; Kritik, Würde, uns etc.
    II Präp. (+ Akk) under; die Temperaturen sanken unter den Gefrierpunkt the temperatures dropped below freezing point; wir mischten uns unter die Menge we mixed with the crowd; etw. unter die Leute bringen (Neuigkeit etc.) spread s.th.
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    nether (Adj.); lower (Adj.);
    (mitten unter) between (Präp.); among (Präp.);
    (unterhalb) below (Präp.); beneath (Präp.); underneath (Präp.); under (Präp.)
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    ụn|ter ['ʊntɐ]
    prep
    1) +dat (= unterhalb von) under; (= drunter) underneath, below; (Unterordnung ausdrückend) under; (= zwischen, innerhalb) among(st); (= weniger, geringer als) under, below

    unter 18 Jahren/EUR 50 — under 18 years (of age)/50 euros

    Städte unter 10.000 Einwohner(n) — towns with a population of under or below 10,000

    unter anderem — among other things, inter alia (form)

    2) +acc under

    bis unter das Dach voll mit... — full to bursting with...

    * * *
    1) (in shares or parts to each person (in a group etc): Divide the chocolate amongst you.) among
    2) (in shares or parts to each person (in a group etc): Divide the chocolate amongst you.) amongst
    3) (lower in position, rank, standard etc than: She hurt her leg below the knee; His work is below standard.) below
    4) (in a lower position than; under; below: beneath the floorboards; beneath her coat.) beneath
    5) (not worthy of: It is beneath my dignity to do that.) beneath
    6) (in or to a position lower than, or covered by: Your pencil is under the chair; Strange plants grow under the sea.) under
    7) (subject to the authority of: As a foreman, he has about fifty workers under him.) under
    8) (used to express various states: The fort was under attack; The business improved under the new management; The matter is under consideration/discussion.) under
    9) (at or to a lower position (than); beneath: She was standing underneath the light; Have you looked underneath the bed?) underneath
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    un·ter
    [ˈʊntɐ]
    1. +dat (unterhalb von etw) under, underneath
    \unter der Jacke trug sie ein T-Shirt she wore a t-shirt under the jacket
    \unter freiem Himmel in the open air
    etw \unter dem Mikroskop betrachten to look at sth under the microscope
    das Haus war bis \unter das Dach voll mit alten Möbeln the house was full to the rafters with old furniture
    sich akk \unter die Dusche stellen to have a shower
    3. +dat (zahlen-, wertmäßig kleiner als) below
    die Temperaturen liegen hier immer \unter null the temperatures here are always below zero
    der Preis liegt \unter zehn Euro the price is less than ten euros
    \unter dem Durchschnitt liegen to be below average
    \unter 50 Stück less than 50 pieces
    Kinder \unter sechs Jahren children under six years of age
    etw \unter Wert verkaufen to sell sth at less than its value
    4. +dat (inmitten) among[st]
    \unter anderem amongst other things [or spec inter alia]
    einer \unter tausend one in a thousand
    einer \unter vielen one of many
    \unter sich dat sein to be by themselves
    5. +dat (zwischen) between
    \unter uns gesagt between you and me
    \unter Menschen gehen to get out [of the house]
    sich akk \unter das Volk mischen (fam) to mix with the people
    7. +dat (begleitet von) under
    \unter der Bedingung, dass... on condition that...
    \unter Beifall/Gelächter/Tränen amid applause/laughter/tears
    \unter Lebensgefahr at risk to one's life
    \unter Umständen possibly
    \unter Verwendung einer S. gen by using sth
    \unter Zwang under duress
    8. +dat o akk (zugeordnet sein) under
    was ist \unter diesem Begriff zu verstehen? what is meant by this term?
    \unter diesem Datum gibt es keinen Eintrag there is no entry under this date
    eine Abteilung \unter sich dat haben to be in charge of a department
    jdn \unter sich dat haben to have sb under one
    etw \unter ein Motto stellen to put sth under a motto
    \unter jds Schirmherrschaft under sb's patronage
    9. +dat (in einem Zustand) under
    \unter Druck/Strom stehen to be under pressure
    \unter einer Krankheit leiden to suffer from an illness
    10. + dat SÜDD (während) during
    \unter Mittag in the morning
    \unter der Woche during the week
    II. adv
    1. (jünger als) under
    er ist noch \unter 30 he's not yet turned 30
    2. (weniger als) less than
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    1.
    1) (Lage, Standort, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    2) (weniger, niedriger usw. als)
    3) during; (modal)

    unter Angst/Tränen — in or out of fear/in tears

    4) (aus einer Gruppe) among[st]

    unter anderem — among[st] other things

    5) (zwischen) among[st]
    6) (Zustand) under

    unter Strom stehen — be live; s. auch Tag 1), Woche

    2.
    1) (Richtung, Ziel, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    3) (zwischen) among[st]

    unter Strom/Dampf setzen — switch on/put under steam

    3.
    Adverb less than
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    Unter m; -s, -; (Spielkarte) jack, knave obs
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    1.
    1) (Lage, Standort, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    2) (weniger, niedriger usw. als)
    3) during; (modal)

    unter Angst/Tränen — in or out of fear/in tears

    4) (aus einer Gruppe) among[st]

    unter anderem — among[st] other things

    5) (zwischen) among[st]
    6) (Zustand) under

    unter Strom stehen — be live; s. auch Tag 1), Woche

    2.
    1) (Richtung, Ziel, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    3) (zwischen) among[st]

    unter Strom/Dampf setzen — switch on/put under steam

    3.
    Adverb less than
    * * *
    adj.
    hypo adj.
    inferior adj.
    underneath adj. adv.
    below adv.
    between adv. präp.
    among prep.
    beneath prep.
    nether prep.
    under prep.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Unter

  • 7 unter

    I Präp. (+ Dat)
    1. under, below; (bes. direkt unter) underneath; unter... hervor from under...; unter 21 ( Jahren) under 21 (years of age); unter zehn Euro under ( oder less than) ten euros; unter seiner Regierung under ( oder during) his reign; unter sich haben (Angestellte, Abteilung etc.) be in charge of; Land unter! land under water!
    2. (zwischen) among; einer unter vielen one of many; nicht einer unter hundert not one in a hundred; unter anderem (u.a.) among other things
    3. unter Beifall amid applause; unter Tränen in tears, tearfully; unter großem Gelächter amid gales of laughter
    4. unter der Woche during the week; unter Mittag / Tags at ( oder around) midday / during the day
    5. unter diesem Gesichtspunkt from this point of view; was versteht man unter...? what is meant by...?; Kritik, Würde, uns etc.
    II Präp. (+ Akk) under; die Temperaturen sanken unter den Gefrierpunkt the temperatures dropped below freezing point; wir mischten uns unter die Menge we mixed with the crowd; etw. unter die Leute bringen (Neuigkeit etc.) spread s.th.
    * * *
    nether (Adj.); lower (Adj.);
    (mitten unter) between (Präp.); among (Präp.);
    (unterhalb) below (Präp.); beneath (Präp.); underneath (Präp.); under (Präp.)
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    ụn|ter ['ʊntɐ]
    prep
    1) +dat (= unterhalb von) under; (= drunter) underneath, below; (Unterordnung ausdrückend) under; (= zwischen, innerhalb) among(st); (= weniger, geringer als) under, below

    unter 18 Jahren/EUR 50 — under 18 years (of age)/50 euros

    Städte unter 10.000 Einwohner(n) — towns with a population of under or below 10,000

    unter anderem — among other things, inter alia (form)

    2) +acc under

    bis unter das Dach voll mit... — full to bursting with...

    * * *
    1) (in shares or parts to each person (in a group etc): Divide the chocolate amongst you.) among
    2) (in shares or parts to each person (in a group etc): Divide the chocolate amongst you.) amongst
    3) (lower in position, rank, standard etc than: She hurt her leg below the knee; His work is below standard.) below
    4) (in a lower position than; under; below: beneath the floorboards; beneath her coat.) beneath
    5) (not worthy of: It is beneath my dignity to do that.) beneath
    6) (in or to a position lower than, or covered by: Your pencil is under the chair; Strange plants grow under the sea.) under
    7) (subject to the authority of: As a foreman, he has about fifty workers under him.) under
    8) (used to express various states: The fort was under attack; The business improved under the new management; The matter is under consideration/discussion.) under
    9) (at or to a lower position (than); beneath: She was standing underneath the light; Have you looked underneath the bed?) underneath
    * * *
    un·ter
    [ˈʊntɐ]
    1. +dat (unterhalb von etw) under, underneath
    \unter der Jacke trug sie ein T-Shirt she wore a t-shirt under the jacket
    \unter freiem Himmel in the open air
    etw \unter dem Mikroskop betrachten to look at sth under the microscope
    das Haus war bis \unter das Dach voll mit alten Möbeln the house was full to the rafters with old furniture
    sich akk \unter die Dusche stellen to have a shower
    3. +dat (zahlen-, wertmäßig kleiner als) below
    die Temperaturen liegen hier immer \unter null the temperatures here are always below zero
    der Preis liegt \unter zehn Euro the price is less than ten euros
    \unter dem Durchschnitt liegen to be below average
    \unter 50 Stück less than 50 pieces
    Kinder \unter sechs Jahren children under six years of age
    etw \unter Wert verkaufen to sell sth at less than its value
    4. +dat (inmitten) among[st]
    \unter anderem amongst other things [or spec inter alia]
    einer \unter tausend one in a thousand
    einer \unter vielen one of many
    \unter sich dat sein to be by themselves
    5. +dat (zwischen) between
    \unter uns gesagt between you and me
    \unter Menschen gehen to get out [of the house]
    sich akk \unter das Volk mischen (fam) to mix with the people
    7. +dat (begleitet von) under
    \unter der Bedingung, dass... on condition that...
    \unter Beifall/Gelächter/Tränen amid applause/laughter/tears
    \unter Lebensgefahr at risk to one's life
    \unter Umständen possibly
    \unter Verwendung einer S. gen by using sth
    \unter Zwang under duress
    8. +dat o akk (zugeordnet sein) under
    was ist \unter diesem Begriff zu verstehen? what is meant by this term?
    \unter diesem Datum gibt es keinen Eintrag there is no entry under this date
    eine Abteilung \unter sich dat haben to be in charge of a department
    jdn \unter sich dat haben to have sb under one
    etw \unter ein Motto stellen to put sth under a motto
    \unter jds Schirmherrschaft under sb's patronage
    9. +dat (in einem Zustand) under
    \unter Druck/Strom stehen to be under pressure
    \unter einer Krankheit leiden to suffer from an illness
    10. + dat SÜDD (während) during
    \unter Mittag in the morning
    \unter der Woche during the week
    II. adv
    1. (jünger als) under
    er ist noch \unter 30 he's not yet turned 30
    2. (weniger als) less than
    * * *
    1.
    1) (Lage, Standort, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    2) (weniger, niedriger usw. als)
    3) during; (modal)

    unter Angst/Tränen — in or out of fear/in tears

    4) (aus einer Gruppe) among[st]

    unter anderem — among[st] other things

    5) (zwischen) among[st]
    6) (Zustand) under

    unter Strom stehen — be live; s. auch Tag 1), Woche

    2.
    1) (Richtung, Ziel, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    3) (zwischen) among[st]

    unter Strom/Dampf setzen — switch on/put under steam

    3.
    Adverb less than
    * * *
    unter1
    A. präp (+dat)
    1. under, below; (besonders direkt unter) underneath;
    unter … hervor from under …;
    unter 21 (Jahren) under 21 (years of age);
    unter zehn Euro under ( oder less than) ten euros;
    unter seiner Regierung under ( oder during) his reign;
    unter sich haben (Angestellte, Abteilung etc) be in charge of;
    Land unter! land under water!
    2. (zwischen) among;
    einer unter vielen one of many;
    nicht einer unter hundert not one in a hundred;
    unter anderem (u. a.) among other things
    3.
    unter Beifall amid applause;
    unter Tränen in tears, tearfully;
    unter großem Gelächter amid gales of laughter
    4.
    unter der Woche during the week;
    unter Mittag at ( oder around) midday
    5.
    unter diesem Gesichtspunkt from this point of view;
    was versteht man unter …? what is meant by …?; → Kritik, Würde, uns etc
    B. präp (+akk) under;
    die Temperaturen sanken unter den Gefrierpunkt the temperatures dropped below freezing point;
    wir mischten uns unter die Menge we mixed with the crowd;
    etwas unter die Leute bringen (Neuigkeit etc) spread sth
    unter2 v/t (irr, untrennb, hat)
    1. (bleiben) refrain from (+ger) (aufhören mit) stop (+ger) (Bemerkung) leave unsaid, (auch Witz) drop;
    unterlass diese Bemerkungen, bitte we can do without your comments, thank you
    2.
    es unter zu (+inf) omit ( oder fail) to (+inf) schuldhaft: neglect to (+inf)
    untere Hilfeleistung JUR failure to give assistance
    * * *
    1.
    1) (Lage, Standort, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    2) (weniger, niedriger usw. als)
    3) during; (modal)

    unter Angst/Tränen — in or out of fear/in tears

    4) (aus einer Gruppe) among[st]

    unter anderem — among[st] other things

    5) (zwischen) among[st]
    6) (Zustand) under

    unter Strom stehen — be live; s. auch Tag 1), Woche

    2.
    1) (Richtung, Ziel, Abhängigkeit, Unterordnung) under
    3) (zwischen) among[st]

    unter Strom/Dampf setzen — switch on/put under steam

    3.
    Adverb less than
    * * *
    adj.
    hypo adj.
    inferior adj.
    underneath adj. adv.
    below adv.
    between adv. präp.
    among prep.
    beneath prep.
    nether prep.
    under prep.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > unter

  • 8 zone

    zone [zon]
    1. feminine noun
       a. zone ; (Transport) travel zone
    • zone de haute/basse pression area of high/low pressure
    • dans cette affaire, des zones d'ombre subsistent encore some aspects of this business remain very unclear
       b. la zone (inf) ( = quartiers pauvres) the slums ; ( = marginalité) the dropout lifestyle
    • c'est la zone ! it's the pits! (inf)
    • enlève ce bric-à-brac de ton jardin, ça fait zone (inf) get rid of that junk in your garden, it looks like a tip (inf)
    ► zone bleue ≈ restricted parking zone
    ► zone de dépression or dépressionnaire trough of low pressure
    • passer/se réfugier en zone libre to enter/take refuge in the unoccupied zone ► zone de libre-échange free trade area
    ► zone piétonne or piétonnière pedestrian precinct
    * * *
    zon
    1) ( secteur) zone, area

    zone interdite — no-go area GB, off-limits area; ( sur un panneau) no entry

    2) fig ( domaine) area
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    zon nf
    1) (= lieu) zone, area
    2) INFORMATIQUE field
    4) * (= désordre)
    * * *
    zone nf
    1 ( secteur) zone, area; zone de radiation/combat radiation/combat zone; zone de pêche fishing zone; zone de cultures agricultural area; zone de turbulences Météo area of turbulence; zone interdite no-go area GB, off-limits area; ( sur un panneau) no entry;
    2 fig ( domaine) area; zone de recherche area of research; zone floue/d'ombre blurred/shady area;
    3 ( banlieue pauvre) la zone the slum belt; de seconde zone second-rate.
    zone d'activités business park; zone d'aménagement concerté, ZAC Admin integrated development zone; zone d'aménagement différé, ZAD Admin area set aside for development; zone artisanale small industrial estate GB ou park; zone bleue Aut restricted parking zone; zone de chalandise Admin, Comm catchment area; zone de données Ordinat data field; zone d'environnement protégé environmental protection zone; zone érogène Physiol erogenous zone; zone euro Euro Zone; zone d'exclusion aérienne Mil no-fly zone; zone franc Fin franc area; zone franche Écon free zone; zone frontière border area; zone industrielle industrial estate GB ou park US; zone d'influence Pol sphere ou area of influence; zone libre Hist unoccupied France; zone de libre-échange Écon free-trade area; zone monétaire Fin monetary area; zone occupée Hist occupied France; zone postale Postes postal area ou zone GB, zone of improved postage, ZIP US; zone sterling Fin sterling area; zone sensible lit potential trouble-spot; fig potential trouble area; zone sinistrée Admin disaster area; zone tampon Mil, Pol buffer zone; zone à urbaniser en priorité, ZUP priority development area.
    [zon] nom féminin
    1. [domaine] zone, area
    zone de flou ou d'incertitude ou d'ombre grey area
    3. ADMINISTRATION [surface délimitée] area, zone
    zone piétonnière ou piétonne pedestrian area ou precinct (UK)
    ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE
    zone libre/occupée unoccupied/occupied France
    zone glaciale/tempérée/torride frigid/temperate/torrid zone
    zone de dépression, zone dépressionnaire trough of low pressure
    7. GÉOLOGIE & MATHÉMATIQUES zone
    b. [désordre] it's a real mess ou tip
    cette famille, c'est vraiment la zone they're real dropouts in that family
    de deuxième zone locution adjectivale
    de troisième zone locution adjectivale
    1. The Paris area is divided into fare zones for public transport. Zones 1 and 2 cover metropolitan Paris and certain areas of the nearby suburbs. The remaining zones cover the outer suburbs: j'habite en zone 3, une carte orange quatre zones.
    2. France is divided into three zones (A, B and C), the schools in the different zones taking their mid-term breaks and Easter holidays at different times to avoid swamping the roads, the public transport system and tourist infrastructure.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > zone

  • 9 означать

    Означать - to mean, to imply, to infer, to connote, to involve, to make sense (говорить о); to stand for, to refer to (о сокращениях); to denote (означать собой); to represent (о значках, буквах); to translate into (обуславливать)
     Do the measured results infer a risk of brittle fracture in large structures?
     Peaking service connotes rapid response, high number of cycles and low operating hours per year. Peaking power also means pressure for minimum first cost.
     A particular choice involves favoring one design criterion over another.
     This interaction of failure modes implies the exhaustion of creep life once the critical creep-initiated crack has occurred.
     Multi Just stands for Multiple Justification.
     Throughout this guide, "Qbasic" refers to MS-DOS Qbasic.
     EMIS stands for Electronic Materials Information Service.
     Examination denotes the performance of all visual observations and nondestructive tests.
     The asterisk represents the factory setting.
     Low values of M represent a lower likelihood of flutter.
     Improved combustion chamber insulation translates into less heat removal through the engine and more heat energy converted into useful work.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > означать

  • 10 einsetzen

    ein|set·zen
    vt
    etw [in etw akk] \einsetzen to write sth in [sth], to insert sth [in sth]
    2) ( einfügen)
    [jdm] etw [in etw akk] \einsetzen to insert sth [in sth], to put sth in [sth];
    für die zu Bruch gegangene Scheibe setzte ihnen der Glaser gleich eine neue ein the glazier replaced the broken pane for them
    3) ( einnähen)
    [jdm] etw [in etw akk] \einsetzen to sew sth in[to sth] [for sb];
    einen Ärmel \einsetzen to set in a sleeve;
    sich dat [von jdm] etw [in etw akk] \einsetzen lassen to have sth sewn in[to sth] [by sb], to have sb sew sth in[to sth]
    etw \einsetzen to establish sth, to set sth up
    5) ( ernennen)
    jdn [als etw] \einsetzen to appoint [or instal[l]] sb [as sth];
    im Testament war sie als Alleinerbin eingesetzt worden in the will she was named [or appointed] as the sole inheritor
    jdn/etw [gegen jdn] \einsetzen to use sb/sth [or bring sb/sth in] [against sb];
    dank der eingesetzten Helfer gelang es, den Katastrophenopfern schneller zu helfen thanks to the helpers who had been brought in, the victims of the catastrophe could be helped more quickly;
    Schlagstöcke/ Gummigeschosse/Gas \einsetzen to use truncheons/rubber bullets/gas sport; Ersatzspieler to bring on sb sep, to use sb
    etw \einsetzen to put sth on, to run sth;
    eingesetzt put on pred, run pred
    8) ( aufbieten)
    etw \einsetzen to use [or employ] sth;
    das Leben [für etw akk] \einsetzen to put one's life at risk [or be ready to die] [for sth]
    etw \einsetzen to use [or employ] sth;
    ( aufwenden) to use sth up;
    ( wetten) to bet sth, to wager
    vi
    1) ( anheben) to start [up], to begin, to commence;
    die Ebbe setzt oft ganz unmerklich ein the tide often starts to ebb quite imperceptibly;
    die \einsetzende Ebbe/ Flut the turning ebb tide/flood tide
    2) med to begin;
    etw setzt bei jdm ein sb gets sth;
    gegen Abend hat bei ihm heftiges Fieber eingesetzt towards evening he was running a very high temperature;
    die Leichenstarre hat bereits eingesetzt rigor mortis has already set in;
    in einem tropischen Klima setzt bei Leichen die Verwesung oft schon nach zwei Tagen ein in tropical climates bodies often begin to decay after only two days
    3) mus to begin to play, to start [up]
    vr
    sich \einsetzen to make an effort, to exert oneself, to work hard;
    sich besonders \einsetzen to make a special effort, to work particularly hard;
    sich voll \einsetzen to make a wholehearted effort [or every effort], to work wholeheartedly;
    Sie sollten sich intensiver \einsetzen you should make a bigger effort [or work harder];
    sich für jdn/etw \einsetzen to be active on sb's/sth's behalf, to stand up for [or support] sb/sth;
    sich bei jdm für jdn/etw \einsetzen to intercede with sb on sb's/sth's behalf;
    ich werde mich bei Direktor Wengel für dich \einsetzen I'll have a word with Mr Wengel, the director, on your behalf;
    sich dafür \einsetzen, dass... to speak out for [or in favour of] sth;
    sie hat sich immer öffentlich dafür eingesetzt, dass dieses Gesetz abgeschafft würde she has always spoken out in favour of getting rid of this law;
    er versprach, sich dafür einzusetzen, dass die Haftbedingungen erleichtert würden he promised to do what he could to make sure prison conditions were improved;
    kannst du dich nicht bei ihm dafür einsetzen, dass er mir den Betrag noch etwas stundet? can't you have a word with him so that he gives me time to pay?

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > einsetzen

  • 11 downshifting

    Gen Mgt
    the concept of giving up all or part of your work commitment and income in exchange for improved quality of life. The term was coined by Charles Handy. Downshifting has increased in popularity because of rising stress in the workplace caused partly by the downsizing trend of the late 20th century, and may be contrasted with the concept of the organization man. Downshifting is integral to the idea of portfolio working, in which individuals opt out of a formal employee relationship to sell their services at a pace and at a price to suit themselves.
         Most people consider downshifting because of family demands, or because they have been asked to do something by their organization that goes strongly against their values, pushing them to question why they are working so hard for that organization. Others downshift as they approach retirement, in order to smooth the transition. People who downshift need to be very sure that that is what they really want and know why they want it, as it can be hard to reverse the decision.
         Someone wanting to take the risk of downshifting should make a thorough assessment of his or her short-term and long-term financial situation by way of preparation. They will need to have a good bed of savings to rely on in the first year. It may be necessary to consider moving to a smaller, cheaper place. Deciding what to keep of the old life and what to let go is another important part of the preparation. Some downshifters will want to completely leave their old work life behind them, starting a new job in a slower-paced organization, or setting up on their own. Others will want to stay with their organization but perhaps move to a less demanding job. Once these things have been considered and decided upon, it is time for the downshifter to make an action plan with a schedule which includes regular reassessment periods.

    The ultimate business dictionary > downshifting

  • 12 Saxby, John

    [br]
    b. 17 August 1821 Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, England
    d. 22 April 1913 Hassocks, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English railway signal engineer, pioneer of interlocking.
    [br]
    In the mid-1850s Saxby was a foreman in the Brighton Works of the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway, where he had no doubt become familiar with construction of semaphore signals of the type invented by C.H. Gregory; the London-Brighton line was one of the first over which these were installed. In the 1850s points and signals were usually worked independently, and it was to eliminate the risk of accident from conflicting points and signal positions that Saxby in 1856 patented an arrangement by which related points and signals would be operated simultaneously by a single lever.
    Others were concerned with the same problem. In 1855 Vignier, an employee of the Western Railway of France, had made an interlocking apparatus for junctions, and in 1859 Austin Chambers, who worked for the North London Railway, installed at Kentish Town Junction an interlocking lever frame in which a movement that depended upon another could not even commence until the earlier one was completed. He patented it early in 1860; Saxby patented his own version of such an apparatus later the same year. In 1863 Saxby left the London Brighton \& South Coast Railway to enter into a partnership with J.S.Farmer and established Saxby \& Farmer's railway signalling works at Kilburn, London. The firm manufactured, installed and maintained signalling equipment for many prominent railway companies. Its interlocking frames made possible installation of complex track layouts at increasingly busy London termini possible.
    In 1867 Saxby \& Farmer purchased Chambers's patent of 1860, Later developments by the firm included effective interlocking actuated by lifting a lever's catch handle, rather than by the lever itself (1871), and an improved locking frame known as the "gridiron" (1874). This was eventually superseded by tappet interlocking, which had been invented by James Deakin of the rival firm Stevens \& Co. in 1870 but for which patent protection had been lost through non-renewal.
    Saxby \& Farmer's equipment was also much used on the European continent, in India and in the USA, to which it introduced interlocking. A second manufacturing works was set up in 1878 at Creil (Oise), France, and when the partnership terminated in 1888 Saxby moved to Creil and managed the works himself until he retired to Sussex in 1900.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1856, British patent no. 1,479 (simultaneous operation of points and signals). 1860, British patent no. 31 (a true interlocking mechanism).
    1867, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 538 (improvements to the interlocking mechanism patented in 1860).
    1870, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 569 (the facing point lock by plunger bolt).
    1871, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 1,601 (catch-handle actuated interlocking) 1874, jointly with Farmer, British patent no. 294 (gridiron frame).
    Further Reading
    Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company, 1956, John Saxby (1821–1913) and His Part in the Development of Interlocking and of the Signalling Industry, London (published to mark the centenary of the 1856 patent).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Saxby, John

  • 13 Stephenson, George

    [br]
    b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England
    [br]
    English engineer, "the father of railways".
    [br]
    George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.
    In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.
    In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.
    It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.
    During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.
    In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.
    On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.
    At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.
    In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.
    The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.
    Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.
    Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.
    Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.
    He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.
    Bibliography
    1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).
    1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).
    S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George

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