in a rudimentary way

(elementary) elementar; primitiv [Gebäude]

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adjective (primitive or undeveloped: rudimentary tools.) rudimentär

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[ˌru:dɪˈment^əri, AM -dəˈ-]

adj ( form)

1. (basic) elementar

\rudimentary knowledge Grundkenntnisse pl

2. (not highly developed) primitiv

\rudimentary equipment primitive Ausrüstung

\rudimentary method einfache Methode

\rudimentary system primitives System

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rudimentary [-tərı] adj (adv rudimentarily)

1. elementar, Anfangs…

2. rudimentär ( auch BIOL)

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(elementary) elementar; primitiv [Gebäude]

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rudimentär adj.

(v.) = give + lip service

Ex. It was found that despite lip service given to the importance of information retrieval, specialists go about searching and processing information in a very rudimentary way.

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1. (in a rudimentary way) primitiv

\crudely drawn grob umrissen

2. (rudely) rüde

to behave \crudely sich akk ungehobelt benehmen

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1) (= vulgarly) ordinär, derb

2) (= unsophisticatedly) primitiv; behave ungehobelt; (= approximately) estimate, draw grob

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ungehobelt adv.

crude·ly [ʼkru:dli] adv

1) ( in a rudimentary way) primitiv;

\crudely drawn grob umrissen

2) ( rudely) rüde;

to behave \crudely sich akk ungehobelt benehmen

ὑποτῠπ-όω,

A sketch out, outline, Arist.EN 1098a21, Plb.21.30.6 ([voice] Pass.):—[voice] Med., draft,

συγγραφὴν -τυπώσασθαι καὶ γράψαι PSI4.429.10

(iii B. C.).

2 predispose,

πρὸς σωφροσύνην Phld.Mus.p.57

K., cf. p.77 K.

3 prescribe,

τροφὴν αὐτάρκη καὶ λουτρά Paul.Aeg.6.110

.

II [voice] Med., ἐν ἀνθρώποις εὐθὺς γιγνομένοις ὑπετυπώσαντο τὴν τῶν ὀνύχων γένεσιν took care to have nails formed in a rudimentary way, Pl.Ti. 76e; ὑποτυπωσάμενος τὴν οὐσίαν.. τί ἐστι having formed a notion of it, Arist. Metaph. 1028b31, cf. Hdn.1.3.5, Philostr.VS1 Prooem.

rudely ['ru:dlɪ]

adverb

(a) (impolitely) impoliment, de façon mal élevée; (stronger) grossièrement; (insolently) insolemment;

∎ as I was saying, before you so rudely interrupted me,… comme je le disais, avant que vous ne m'interrompiez très impoliment,…

(b) (indecently) indécemment, d'une manière obscène;

∎ to gesture rudely faire un geste obscène

(c) (suddenly) violemment, brutalement;

∎ to be rudely awakened être réveillé brusquement; figurative sortir brusquement de sa torpeur;

∎ they were rudely awakened to the difficulties which such an operation entails ils se rendirent soudain compte des difficultés qu'une telle opération implique

(d) (in a rudimentary way → made, drawn) grossièrement;

∎ rudely made tools des outils mpl rudimentaires

1 joke (cuento).

contar chistes to tell jokes

no tiene ningún chiste (figurative) there's nothing special about it

chiste verde dirty joke (Mexican Spanish)

chiste colorado dirty joke (Mexican Spanish)

2 joke, prank. (Andean Spanish (Bolivia, Chilean Spanish, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru), Mexican Spanish, River Plate)

hacerle un chiste a alguien to play a joke o prank on somebody

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) Present Subjunctive of Spanish verb: chistar.

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► nombre masculino

1 (dicho) joke, funny story

2 (dibujo) cartoon

\

caer en el chiste to get the joke

contar un chiste / explicar un chiste to tell a joke

tener chiste irónico to be funny

tomar algo a chiste to take something as a joke

chiste verde blue joke, dirty joke

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SM joke

- tomar algo a chiste

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1) ( cuento gracioso) joke

- chiste colorado

- chiste picante or verde

2) (Bol, CS, Méx) ( broma) joke

3) (Col, Méx fam) ( gracia)

4) chistes masculino plural (RPl) ( historietas) comic strips (pl), funnies (pl) (AmE colloq)

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= joke, gag, wisecrack.

Ex. Stories range from one-sentence statements we call jokes and wise sayings, through gossip to the most profound and complicated structures we call novels and poems and plays.

Ex. With their rudimentary visuals and sub-par writing, the comics of the day were nothing more than gags and cheap laughs.

Ex. A crowd-pleaser at any tournament, Didrikson played to the gallery with wisecracks and displays of athleticism.

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* chiste graciosísimo = rib tickler.

* chiste infantil = infantile joke.

* chiste malo = shaggy dog story.

* chiste para desternillarse = rib tickler.

* chiste pueril = infantile joke.

* chiste tonto para desternillarse = knee slapper.

* chiste tonto pero gracioso = knee slapper.

* estropear un chiste = kill + a joke.

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1) ( cuento gracioso) joke

- chiste colorado

- chiste picante or verde

2) (Bol, CS, Méx) ( broma) joke

3) (Col, Méx fam) ( gracia)

4) chistes masculino plural (RPl) ( historietas) comic strips (pl), funnies (pl) (AmE colloq)

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A (cuento gracioso) joke

contar or ( Col) echar un chiste to tell a joke

¡suena a chiste! it's unbelievable!, it's incredible!

no le veo el chiste I don't see what's so funny, I don't see the joke, I don't get it ( colloq)

¡es de chiste! it's a joke! ( colloq)

(Bol, Méx) dirty joke

dirty joke

dirty joke

B (Bol, CS, Méx) (broma) joke

vamos a hacerle un chiste let's play a joke o trick on her

no es chiste, le debo más de un millón de pesos it's no joke o I'm not joking, I owe her more than a million pesos

¿me lo estás diciendo en chiste? are you joking?, is that a joke?

ni de chiste ( Méx fam); no way ( colloq)

ni de chiste le vuelvo a prestar dinero there's no way I'm going to lend him money again, I'm not going to lend him money again, no chance o no way!

(Col, Méx fam) (gracia): el chiste es hacerlo en menos de un minuto the idea o point is to do it in less than a minute

tiene el chiste del paisaje y nada más ( Méx); it has the countryside but that's about it

tener su chiste ( Méx); to be tricky

se ve fácil pero tiene su chiste it looks easy but it's quite tricky o it's not at all straightforward

D chistes mpl ( RPl) (historietas) comic strips (pl), funnies (pl) ( AmE colloq)

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1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

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

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

◊ ¡y sin chiste! and not another word!;

a) ( cuento gracioso) joke;

b) (Bol, CS, Méx) ( broma) joke;

◊ hacerle un chiste a algn to play a joke o trick on sb;

c) (Col, Méx fam) ( gracia):

◊ el chiste está en hacerlo rápido the idea o point is to do it quickly;

◊ chistes sustantivo masculino plural (RPl) ( historietas) comic strips (pl), funnies (pl) (AmE colloq)

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chiste nm

1. [cuento] joke;

contar chistes to tell jokes;

¡lo que cuentas suena a chiste! it sounds like a joke!;

no tiene ningún chiste there's nothing special about it

chiste verde dirty joke

2. Andes, Méx, RP [broma] joke, prank;

hacerle un chiste a alguien to play a joke o prank on sb;

la pelea era CSur [m5]en o Méx [m5] de chiste the fight was just for fun;

no es chiste, perdió las dos piernas en un accidente I'm not kidding, he lost both his legs in an accident;

ni en chiste, Méx [m5]ni de chiste: ¿vas a la fiesta? – ni en chiste are you going to the party? – no way! o you must be joking!;

no vuelvas a hacer eso ni de chiste don't even think about doing that again

3. Andes, Méx, RP Irónico [cosa cara]

acaban de volver de China, ¿sabes cuánto les salió el chiste? they've just got back from China, how much do you think that little jaunt set them back?

4. Andes, Méx, RP [gracia]

5. Méx [truco] knack;

esto parece fácil, pero tiene su chiste this looks easy, but there's a knack to it

6. RP

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m joke;

tener chiste L.Am. fam be funny

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chiste nm

1) : joke, funny story

tener chiste : to be funny

tener su chiste Mex : to be tricky

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chiste n

1. (hablado) joke

2. (dibujo) cartoon

1 to attack.

le acometió el sueño he was overcome by tiredness

El maleante acometió a Silvia ayer The mugger attacked Silvia yesterday.

2 to undertake.

Mario acomete una empresa Mario undertakes a venture.

3 to undertake to, to begin to.

Alicia acometió poner la obra en escena Alice undertook to stage the play.

4 to rush against, to dash against.

Los soldados acometieron el fuerte The soldiers rushed against the fort.

5 to be suddenly assailed by, to feel, to be suddenly overcome by.

Le acometió un mal presentimiento He was suddenly assailed by a bad...

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► verbo transitivo

1 (embestir) to attack

2 (emprender) to undertake

3 (empezar repentinamente) to be seized by

■ le acometió la risa he burst out laughing

■ le acometió la duda she was nagged by doubt

■ le acometió la tos she had a coughing fit

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1) to undertake, tackle

2) attack

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1) (=atacar) to attack, set upon; [toro] to charge

2) [+ tarea] to undertake, attempt; [+ asunto] to tackle, deal with; [+ construcción] to begin, start on

3) [sueño] to overcome; [miedo] to seize, take hold of; [dudas] to assail; [enfermedad] to attack

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verbo transitivo

1) ( atacar) to attack

2) <empresa/proyecto> to undertake, tackle; < reforma> to undertake

3) ( asaltar) temor/deseo to take hold of

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= attack, come to + grips with, embark on/upon, go about, assail, get to + grips with, set out on, get + a grip on.

Ex. Some of the deficiencies in our catalogs are the result of very practical factors in personnel resources; some are probably a fault in the way that we attack subject headings and put them in the catalog.

Ex. Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.

Ex. Before we embark upon more extensive consideration of the software packages and their use in information retrieval, it is worth reviewing the options for computer hardware.

Ex. I think he outlined the feasible way to go about meeting our needs without doing in anybody else in the process.

Ex. It's ridiculous to assail people who are making a code for abandoning all the principles which have been going strong for 100 years.

Ex. The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.

Ex. However rudimentary or advanced the system, and no matter what the age of the children involved, certain matters should be considered before setting out on the venture.

Ex. The article ' Getting a grip on change' argues that only by confronting the challenges and inevitability of change can libraries retain their relevancy in the information age.

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* acometer un problema = attack + problem.

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verbo transitivo

1) ( atacar) to attack

2) <empresa/proyecto> to undertake, tackle; < reforma> to undertake

3) ( asaltar) temor/deseo to take hold of

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acometer [E1 ]

A (atacar) to attack

B ‹empresa/proyecto› to undertake, tackle; ‹reforma› to undertake

C (asaltar) «temor/deseo» to seize, take hold of

me acometió el sueño sleep came over me

de repente me acometió la duda I was suddenly assailed by doubt

to attack acometer CONTRA algo/algn to attack sth/sb

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♦ vt

1. [atacar] to attack

2. [emprender] to undertake;

acometió la tarea con ilusión she took on the task with enthusiasm

3. [sobrevenir]

me acometió el sueño I was overcome by sleepiness

♦ vi

acometer contra to attack, to charge at

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I v/t

1 attack

2 tarea, proyecto undertake, tackle

II v/i attack;

acometer contra algo attack sth

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acometer vt

1) atacar: to attack, to assail

2) emprender: to undertake, to begin

acometer vi

acometer contra : to rush against

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acometer vb to attack

1) (coarse, uneven) rau; holp[e]rig [Straße usw.]; uneben [Gelände]; aufgewühlt [Wasser]; unruhig [Überfahrt]

2) (violent) rau, roh [Person, Worte, Behandlung, Benehmen]; rau [Gegend]

3) (harsh to the senses) rau; kratzig [Geschmack, Getränk]

4) (trying) hart

5) (fig.): (lacking finish, polish) derb; rau [Empfang]; unbeholfen [Stil]; ungeschliffen [Benehmen, Sprache]

6) (rudimentary) primitiv [Unterkunft, Leben]; (approximate) grob [Skizze, Schätzung, Einteilung, Übersetzung]; vag[e] [Vorstellung]

7) (coll.): (ill) angeschlagen (ugs.)

1) (Golf) Rough, das

2)

3) (unfinished state)

- academic.ru/91100/rough_out">rough out

- rough up

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1) (not smooth: Her skin felt rough.) rauh

2) (uneven: a rough path.) uneben

3) (harsh; unpleasant: a rough voice; She's had a rough time since her husband died.) rauh,hart

4) (noisy and violent: rough behaviour.) roh

5) (stormy: The sea was rough; rough weather.) rauh

6) (not complete or exact; approximate: a rough drawing; a rough idea/estimate.) roh

1) (a violent bully: a gang of roughs.) der Schläger

2) (uneven or uncultivated ground on a golf course: I lost my ball in the rough.) unebener Boden

•

- roughly

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I. adj

1. (uneven) rau; ground, terrain uneben; landscape rau, unwirtlich; road holprig

\rough fur/hair struppiges Fell/Haar

\rough skin raue Haut

2. (not soft) accent, sound, voice rau, hart; (in taste) wine sauer; brandy hart

3. (harsh) rau, hart

\rough area raue Gegend

\rough play raues [o hartes] Spiel

\rough sea raue See

\rough weather raues [o stürmisches] Wetter

4. ( fam: difficult) hart, schwer

▪ to be \rough on sb für jdn schwer [o hart] sein

to give sb a \rough time jdm das Leben ganz schön schwermachen

5. BRIT ( fam: ill)

to look \rough mitgenommen aussehen fam

to feel \rough sich akk elend fühlen

6. (plain) furniture unbearbeitet; gem ungeschliffen, Roh-

7. (makeshift) einfach, primitiv

8. (unrefined) rau, ungehobelt

\rough ways ungehobelte Manieren

9. (imprecise) grob

\rough calculation/estimate grobe [o ungefähre] Kalkulation/Schätzung

to give sb a \rough idea of sth jdm eine ungefähre Vorstellung von etw dat geben

\rough work Rohfassung f

▶ to give sb the \rough edge [or side] of one's tongue ( fam) jdm gegenüber einen rauen Ton anschlagen fam

▶ to give sb a \rough ride [or time] jdm gehörig den Marsch blasen fam

II. adv ( fam) rau

▶ to sleep \rough BRIT im Freien schlafen

III. n

1. esp BRIT ( pej: person) Rohling m pej

2. no pl (in golf)

▪ the \rough das Rough fachspr

3. (sketch) Entwurf m, Konzept nt

in \rough skizzenhaft

▶ to be a diamond in the \rough AM rau, aber herzlich sein

▶ to take the \rough with the smooth die Dinge nehmen, wie sie kommen

IV. vt ( fam)

to \rough it [ganz] primitiv leben [o pej hausen]

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1. adj (+er)

1) (= uneven) ground uneben; path, road uneben, holprig; surface, skin, hands, cloth rau

2) (= harsh) sound hart; voice, tone rau; taste, wine sauer; words grob, hart

3) (= coarse, unrefined) person ungehobelt; manners, speech grob, roh

4) (= violent) person, child grob, roh; treatment, handling grob, hart; life wüst; children's game wild; match, sport, work hart; neighbourhood, manners, pub rau; sea, weather, wind rau, stürmisch; sea crossing stürmisch

5) (inf

6) (= approximate, rudimentary) plan, calculation, estimate, translation grob, ungefähr; workmanship schludrig

7) (= basic, crude) shelter notdürftig; clothes derb

8) (inf

2. adv

3. n

1) unwegsames Gelände; (GOLF) Rau nt

2)

3) (= draft, sketch) Rohentwurf m

4) (= person) Rowdy m, Schläger m

4. vt

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rough [rʌf]

A adj (adv → roughly)

1. allg rau (Haut, Oberfläche, Stimme etc)

2. rau, struppig (Haar)

3. holp(e)rig, uneben (Straße etc)

4. rau, unwirtlich, zerklüftet (Gegend etc)

5. a) rau (Wind)

b) stürmisch (Wetter):

a rough passage eine stürmische Überfahrt, fig eine schwierige Zeit;

give sb a rough passage jemandem arg zu schaffen machen;

he is in for a rough passage ihm steht einiges bevor;

rough sea SCHIFF grobe See; → ride A 1

6. fig

a) grob, roh (Manieren, Mann etc)

b) raubeinig, ungehobelt (Kerl etc)

c) heftig (Temperament)

d) rücksichtslos, hart (Spiel etc):

rough stuff umg Gewalttätigkeit(en) f(pl); → roughhouse A

7. rau, barsch, schroff (Person, Redeweise):

have a rough tongue eine raue Sprache sprechen, barsch sein;

give sb the rough side of one’s tongue jemandem den Marsch blasen umg

8. umg

a) rau (Behandlung etc)

b) hart (Tag, Leben etc)

c) garstig, böse:

it was rough es war eine böse Sache;

she had a rough time es ist ihr ziemlich dreckig gegangen umg;

give sb a rough time jemanden (ganz schön) rannehmen;

it was rough on her es war (ganz schön) hart für sie;

that’s rough luck for him da hat er aber Pech (gehabt)

9. roh, grob, unbearbeitet, im Rohzustand:

rough food grobe Kost;

rough rice unpolierter Reis;

a) unbehauener Stein,

b) un(zu)geschliffener (Edel-)Stein;

rough style grober oder ungeschliffener Stil;

rough work grobe Arbeit; → rough-and-ready, rough diamond

10. Grob…, grobe Arbeit verrichtend (Arbeiter, Werkzeug): → rough file

11. unfertig, Roh…:

rough draft Rohfassung f;

rough sketch Faustskizze f;

in a rough state im Rohzustand, unfertig; → copy A 1

12. fig grob:

a) annähernd (richtig), ungefähr

b) flüchtig, im Überschlag:

rough analysis Rohanalyse f;

a rough guess eine grobe Schätzung;

at a rough guess grob geschätzt;

rough calculation Überschlag(srechnung) m(f);

rough size TECH Rohmaß n;

I have a rough idea where it is ich kann mir ungefähr vorstellen, wo es ist; → estimate C 1, outline A 4

13. TYPO unbeschnitten (Buchrand)

14. primitiv, unbequem (Unterkunft etc)

15. herb, sauer (Wein)

16. PHARM drastisch (Arzneimittel)

17. Br sl schlecht:

a) ungenießbar, verdorben

b) mies:

B s

1. Rauheit f, Unebenheit f, (das) Raue oder Unebene:

over rough and smooth über Stock und Stein;

take the rough with the smooth fig die Dinge nehmen, wie sie kommen;

the rough(s pl) and the smooth(s pl) of life fig das Auf und Ab des Lebens; → rough-and-tumble B

2. Rohzustand m:

work from the rough aus dem Groben arbeiten;

in the rough im Rohzustand;

he’s a diamond in the rough US fig er hat eine raue Schale;

take sb in the rough jemanden nehmen, wie er ist

3. a) holp(e)riger Boden

b) Golf: Rough n (mit langem Gras bewachsene Fläche entlang der Spielbahn etc)

4. Rowdy m, Rabauke m

C adv

1. hart:

play rough; → cut up B 1

2. sleep rough im Freien oder unter freiem Himmel übernachten

D v/t

1. an-, aufrauen

2. oft rough up jemanden misshandeln, übel zurichten

3. meist rough out Material roh oder grob bearbeiten, vorbearbeiten, METALL vorwalzen, eine Linse, einen Edelstein grob schleifen

4. ein Pferd zureiten

5. einen Pferdehuf mit Stollen versehen

6. rough in ( oder out) einen Plan etc entwerfen, skizzieren

7. rough up Haare, Gefieder gegen den Strich streichen:

rough sb up the wrong way fig jemanden reizen oder verstimmen

8. SPORT einen Gegner hart nehmen

9. rough it umg primitiv oder anspruchslos leben, ein spartanisches Leben führen

E v/i

1. rau werden

2. SPORT (übertrieben) hart spielen

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1) (coarse, uneven) rau; holp[e]rig [Straße usw.]; uneben [Gelände]; aufgewühlt [Wasser]; unruhig [Überfahrt]

2) (violent) rau, roh [Person, Worte, Behandlung, Benehmen]; rau [Gegend]

3) (harsh to the senses) rau; kratzig [Geschmack, Getränk]

4) (trying) hart

5) (fig.): (lacking finish, polish) derb; rau [Empfang]; unbeholfen [Stil]; ungeschliffen [Benehmen, Sprache]

6) (rudimentary) primitiv [Unterkunft, Leben]; (approximate) grob [Skizze, Schätzung, Einteilung, Übersetzung]; vag[e] [Vorstellung]

7) (coll.): (ill) angeschlagen (ugs.)

1) (Golf) Rough, das

2)

3) (unfinished state)

- rough out

- rough up

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derb adj.

grob adj.

rabiat adj.

rau adj.

rauh (alt.Rechtschreibung) adj.

roh adj.

spröde (Haut) adj.

   1) The Book of Nature Is Written in the Language of Mathematics

   Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)

   2) Arranging Speech so as to Reply Appropriately

   It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)

   3) No Other Animal Has the Language Capacity of the Human

   It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)

   4) Human Beings Do Not Live Only in the World of Objects

   Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)

   5) Language Powerfully Conditions All Our Thinking

   It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)

   6) A List of Language Games

   [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]

   Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it

   Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another

   LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)

   7) Language Constrains Certain Modes of Interpretation

   We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)

   8) We Dissect Nature in Accordance with Our Native Languages

   We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.

   The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)

   9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language

   The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)

    10) The Analysis of Certain Types of Utterances

   It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)

    11) The Dictionary of a Language Is a System of Concepts

   In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)

    12) Talk about the Evolution of the Language Capacity is Beside the Point

   In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)

    13) The Development of Language

   [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)

    14) Sentential and Conceptual Levels in Language

   he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.

   The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)

    15) Linguistic Realities Have Not Yet Been Captured by Theoretical Models

   The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.

   But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)

    16) The Final Steps to Human Language

   The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)

    17) The Inadequacy of Formal Linguistic Models for Ordinary Language Usage

    t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)

    18) When a Language Is an Abstract Machine

   A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)

    19) Metaphor and Metonymy Underpin the Formation of Linguistic Signs

   Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)

    20) Language and the Analysis of Nature

   It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)

    21) Correspondence Rules for Mapping Old Theory into Subsets of New Theory

   First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....

   Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)

    22) The Inclusion of Non- linguistic Factors in a Theory of Grammar

   If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)

    23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction

   Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)

    24) The Genetic Blueprints of Language

   By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)

    25) Languages Are Machines

   Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

pauvre [povʀ]

1. adjective

   a. poor

• l'air est pauvre en oxygène the air is low in oxygen

• le pays est pauvre en ressources the country is short of resources

• une nourriture pauvre en calcium (par manque) a diet lacking in calcium ; (par ordonnance) a low-calcium diet

   b. (avant le nom) poor

• pauvre type ! (inf) ( = malheureux) poor guy! (inf) ; ( = crétin) stupid bastard! (vulg!)

• c'est un pauvre type (inf) ( = mal adapté) he's a sad case ; ( = minable) he's a dead loss (inf)

• pauvre con ! (vulg!) you stupid bastard! (vulg!)

• tu es bien naïve ma pauvre fille ! poor girl, you're so naïve!

• c'est une pauvre fille she's a sad case

• pauvre petit ! poor thing!

• mon pauvre ami my dear friend

2. masculine noun, feminine noun

   a. ( = personne pauvre) poor man or woman

• les pauvres the poor

   b. (commisération) le pauvre, il a dû en voir ! (inf) the poor guy (inf), he must have had a hard time of it!

• les pauvres ! the poor things!

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1) ( sans ressources) poor

2) ( déficient) [sol, alimentation, vocabulaire] poor; [végétation] sparse; [langue, style] impoverished

3) ( malheureux) [personne] poor; [sourire] weak

nom masculin ( indigent)

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1. adj

1) (= sans argent) poor

2) (exprimant la pitié) poor

3)

2. nmf

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pauvre

A adj

1 ( sans ressources) [personne, quartier, pays] poor; les pauvres gens the poor;

2 ( déficient) [sol, alimentation, vocabulaire] poor; [végétation] sparse; [minerai] poor quality; [mélange] Aut lean; [langue, style] impoverished; pauvre en éléments nutritifs/oxygène poor ou lacking in nutrients/oxygen; régime pauvre en sucre ( insuffisant) diet lacking in sugar; ( conseillé) low-sugar diet; minerai pauvre en métal ore with a low metal content; pauvre en main-d'œuvre with a shortage of labour^GB;

3 ( malheureux) [personne] poor; [sourire] weak, sad; pauvre enfant! poor child!; un pauvre type○ ( à plaindre) a poor chap○ GB ou guy○ US; ( incapable) a dead loss○; pauvre type or imbécile○! ( idiot) you jerk◑!; pauvre de moi! poor me!; c'est comme ça, ma pauvre dame○ that's the way it goes, my dear;

4 ( défunt) mon pauvre mari disait… my poor husband used to say…; son pauvre mari her late husband.

B ○nmf ( à plaindre) le/la pauvre! poor man/woman!; ( attendri) poor thing!; ah, ma pauvre, si tu m'avais vu! well, my dear, you should have seen me!

C nm un pauvre a poor man, a pauper†; il y a beaucoup de pauvres there are a lot of poor people; donner aux pauvres to give to the poor; les nouveaux pauvres the new poor; la technologie du pauvre rudimentary technology; plat de pauvre humble dish; pauvre d' esprit half-wit.

[povr] adjectif

1. [sans richesse - personne, pays, quartier] poor

2. (avant le nom) [pitoyable - demeure, décor] humble, wretched ; [ - personne] poor

3. [insuffisant] poor

régime pauvre en calories low-calorie diet

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[povr] nom masculin et féminin

1. [par compassion] poor thing

2. [en appellatif]

mais mon pauvre/ma pauvre, il ne m'obéit jamais! [pour susciter la pitié] but my dear fellow/my dear, he never does as I say!

tu es vraiment trop bête, ma pauvre/mon pauvre! [avec mépris] you're really too stupid for words, my dear girl/boy!

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[povr] nom masculin

du pauvre: c'est le champagne du pauvre it's poor man's champagne

SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Ports and shipping, Railways and locomotives

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The son of a miller, he received a rudimentary education in the village school. At an early age he was helping his father in the mill, and in 1800 he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker. After four years he returned to work with his father, but, preferring to leave the parental home, he not long afterwards joined a firm of agricultural-machinery makers in Swanton in Norfolk. There he acquired a reputation for making accurate patterns for the iron caster and demonstrated a talent for mechanical invention, patenting a self-regulating windmill sail in 1807. He then set up on his own as a millwright, but he found he could better himself by joining the engineering works of Ransomes of Ipswich in 1812. He was soon appointed their Chief Engineer, and after nine years he became a partner in the firm until he moved to London in 1826. Around 1818 he invented the treadmill, with the aim of putting prisoners to useful work in grinding corn and other applications. It was rapidly adopted by the principal prisons, more as a means of punishment than an instrument of useful work.

From 1814 Cubitt had been gaining experience in civil engineering, and upon his removal to London his career in this field began to take off. He was engaged on many canal-building projects, including the Oxford and Liverpool Junction canals. He accomplished some notable dock works, such as the Bute docks at Cardiff, the Middlesborough docks and the coal drops on the river Tees. He improved navigation on the river Severn and compiled valuable reports on a number of other leading rivers.

The railway construction boom of the 1840s provided him with fresh opportunities. He engineered the South Eastern Railway (SER) with its daringly constructed line below the cliffs between Folkestone and Dover; the railway was completed in 1843, using massive charges of explosive to blast a way through the cliffs. Cubitt was Consulting Engineer to the Great Northern Railway and tried, with less than his usual success, to get the atmospheric system to work on the Croydon Railway.

When the SER began a steamer service between Folkestone and Boulogne, Cubitt was engaged to improve the port facilities there and went on to act as Consulting Engineer to the Boulogne and Amiens Railway. Other commissions on the European continent included surveying the line between Paris and Lyons, advising the Hanoverian government on the harbour and docks at Hamburg and directing the water-supply works for Berlin.

Cubitt was actively involved in the erection of the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; in recognition of this work Queen Victoria knighted him at Windsor Castle on 23 December 1851.

Cubitt's son Joseph (1811–72) was also a notable civil engineer, with many railway and harbour works to his credit.

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"1. eye. 2. sight, vision. 3. eye, manner or way of looking at a thing; estimation; opinion. 4. fountainhead, source (of a stream or river); spring. 5. eye (of a needle). 6. division, section, compartment; pigeonhole; cubbyhole. 7. drawer (in a piece of furniture). 8. pan (of a balance). 9. evil eye. 10. bad luck inflicted by an evil eye. 11. esteem, favor, friendly regard. 12. rudimentary bud. 13. eye (on a potato). 14. eye, the depression at the calyx end of some fruits. 15. section, division, square (on a game board). 16. central core (of a boil). 17. eye (in cheese); hole (in bread). 18. desire, interest. -ünde /ın/ in the eyes of. -ü aç greedy, avaricious, insatiable. - açamamak to have no rest or respite. -ü açık clever, sharp, wide-awake, shrewd. -ü açık gitmek to die without having fulfilled one´s desire. -ü açılmak to become shrewd. - açıp kapayıncaya kadar/- açıp kapamadan in the twinkling of an eye, in an instant. -lerini açmak to wake up. -ünü açmak 1. to keep one´s eyes open, watch out, be wary, be on guard. 2. /ın/ to enlighten (someone), open (someone´s) eyes. 3. to be enlightened. 4. /ın/ to take (a virgin) to bed. 5. /da/ to have intercourse for the first time (with). - açtırmamak /a/ to give no respite to, give (someone) no chance to do anything else. -ünü ağartmak to open one´s eyes wide (in astonishment or anger). - ağrısı 1. eyestrain. 2. one´s old or first love or sweetheart. - ahbaplığı/aşinalığı knowing someone by sight. -ü akmak to be blinded (by accident). -e ak düşmek to get a cataract in one´s eye. - alabildiğine as far as the eye can see. - aldanımı/aldanması optical illusion. - alıcı eye-catching. - almak to dazzle. -e almak /ı/ to risk, accept the risk of, take or run the chance of. - ardı etmek /ı/ to undervalue, pay insufficient attention to. -ü arkada kalmak to leave with something left undone or with a desire left unsatisfied. - aşinalığı slight acquaintanceship. - atmak /a/ to take a glance at, run an eye over. -ün/-ünüz aydın! I´m happy for you!/Congratulations! (said to one whose long-awaited wish has come true). - aydına gitmek /a/ to visit (someone) to congratulate him/her. -ünü ayırmamak /dan/ not to take one´s eyes off of. - aynası ophthalmoscope. -lerini bağışlamak to donate one´s eyes on death. -ünü bağlamak /ın/ 1. to blindfold. 2. to hoodwink. -ü bağlı 1. blindfolded. 2. blindly, blindfoldedly. 3. bewitched. (...) -üyle bakmak /a/ to look at (someone, something) from the point of view of. - bankası eye bank. - banyosu 1. eyewash. 2. colloq. girl-watching. -e batmak 1. to stick out, hit one in the eye. 2. to attract attention. -leri bayılmak for one´s eyes to have a sleepy or desirous look. -lerini belertmek to open one´s eyes wide (in astonishment or anger). - boncuğu blue bead (worn to avert the evil eye). - boyamak to mislead, delude, deceive, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone´s eyes. -leri buğulanmak/bulutlanmak for one´s eyes to fill with tears. -ü bulanmak for one´s eyes to become clouded over. -ü büyükte olmak to be full of ambition. -leri büyümek to open one´s eyes wide (in surprise, with terror). -ünde büyümek /ın/ to assume great proportions to (someone). -ünde büyütmek /ı/ to blow up (something, someone) out of proportion. -leri çakmak çakmak olmak for one´s eyes to be bloodshot. -ünün çapağını silmeden the first thing on awakening, before wiping the sleep from one´s eyes. -e çarpmak to strike or catch one´s eyes; to be conspicuous. -leri çekik having slanting eyes, slant-eyed. -den çıkarmak /ı/ to be prepared to pay; to be willing to give up or sacrifice (something). -ünü çıkarmak /ın/ to do the worst possible job of (something), ruin, spoil. -üm çıksın/kör olsun Strike me blind if.... - çukuru anat. orbit, eye socket. -leri çukura gitmek/kaçmak to become hollow-eyed. -ünü daldan budaktan/çöpten esirgememek/sakınmamak to disregard dangers. -ü dalmak to gaze vacantly, stare into space. - damlası med. ey