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in the leading society

  • 1 сфера

    ж.
    (в разн. знач.) sphere; (область тж.) realm

    высшие сферы — the higher / upper spheres

    быть в своей сфере — be on one's own ground; be in one's element

    это вне его сферы — it is out of his sphere / line

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > сфера

  • 2 сфера

    ж
    2) ( область) sphere, realm, range, scope, domain

    сфера діяльності — field, scope of activity

    сфера послуг — human services, non-manufacturing business, service

    3)

    Українсько-англійський словник > сфера

  • 3 Spitze

    umg.
    I Adj. und Interj. great, super, magic
    II Adv.: spitze aussehen look super ( stärker: sensational, stunning); sie hat spitze gespielt she played sensationally ( oder fantastically); das hast du spitze gemacht you did that brilliantly
    * * *
    die Spitze
    (Gewebe) lace;
    (Zinke) prong; pike;
    (oberes Ende) peak; apex; cusp; tip; point; top
    * * *
    Spịt|ze ['ʃpɪtsə]
    f -, -n
    1) (= Schwertspitze, Nadelspitze, Pfeilspitze, Bleistiftspitze, Kinnspitze) point; (= Schuhspitze) toe; (= Fingerspitze, Nasenspitze, Bartspitze, Spargelspitze) tip; (= Zigarrenspitze, Haarspitze) end; (= Bergspitze, Felsspitze) peak, top; (= Baumspitze, Turmspitze, Giebelspitze) top; (= Pyramidenspitze) top, apex (form); (= Dreiecksspitze) top, vertex (form)
    2) (fig) (= Höchstwert) peak; (inf = Höchstgeschwindigkeit) top speed

    dieser Sportwagen fährt 200 Spitze (inf) — ≈ this sports car has a top speed of 125

    3) (= Führung) head; (= vorderes Ende) front; (ESP MIL von Kolonne etc) head; (= Tabellenspitze) top

    an der Spitze stehen — to be at the head; (auf Tabelle) to be (at the) top (of the table)

    an der Spitze liegen (Sport, fig) — to be in front, to be in the lead

    sich an die Spitze setzen — to put oneself at the head; (in Wettbewerb etc, Sport) to go into or take the lead; (auf Tabelle) to go to the top (of the table); (im Pferderennen) to take up the running

    4) (= Zigaretten-/Zigarrenhalter) (cigarette/cigar) holder
    5) (fig = Stichelei) dig (esp Brit), cut (US)

    das ist eine Spitze gegen Sie — that's a dig (esp Brit) or cut (US) at you, that's directed at you

    6) (COMM = Überschuss) surplus
    7) (Gewebe) lace
    8)
    See:
    → auch spitze
    * * *
    die
    1) (the highest point or tip (of something): the apex of a triangle; the apex of a person's career.) apex
    2) (at or in the very front: in the forefront of the battle.) in the forefront
    3) (the front part: He walked at the head of the procession.) head
    4) (an extreme degree; the quality of being extreme: Their suffering reached such extremities that many died.) extremity
    5) (delicate net-like decorative fabric made with fine thread: Her dress was trimmed with lace; ( also adjective) a lace shawl.) lace
    6) (a tall, pointed tower, especially one built on the roof of a church.) spire
    7) (the part of anything which is like a nose in shape or position: the nose of an aeroplane.) nose
    8) (the sharp end of anything: the point of a pin; a sword point; at gunpoint (= threatened by a gun).) point
    9) (a hard, thin, pointed object (of wood, metal etc): The fence had long spikes on top.) spike
    10) (the leaders in any movement: We're in the vanguard of the movement for reform!) vanguard
    11) (the small or thin end, point or top of something: the tips of my fingers.) tip
    12) (the front part of a shoe, sock etc: There's a hole in the toe of my sock.) toe
    13) (the highest part of anything: the top of the hill; the top of her head; The book is on the top shelf.) top
    14) (the position of the cleverest in a class etc: He's at the top of the class.) top
    15) (something that forms a covering on top of something, especially food: a tart with a topping of cream.) topping
    * * *
    Spit·ze1
    <-, -n>
    [ˈʃpɪtsə]
    f
    1. (spitzes Ende o spitze Ecke) point; eines Berges peak, summit; eines Baumes top; eines Dreiecks top; eines Haars end; eines Turms spire; eines Fingers, der Nase tip; eines Schuhs pointed toe
    2. (vorderster Teil) head, front; eines Zuges front
    3. bes SPORT (erster Platz) top [position]
    an der \Spitze liegen (in Rennen, Wettbewerb) to be in front [or a. fig in the lead]; (in Wertung) to be at the top
    sich akk an die \Spitze setzen (in Rennen) to take the lead; (in Wertung) to move into [or take [over]] first place
    an der \Spitze einer S. gen stehen to be at the head of sth
    die \Spitze der Tabelle übernehmen to take over at the top of the table [or division] [or league
    die Temperaturen erreichten im August \Spitzen von 35, 36° C the temperature peaked at 35-36° C in August
    bei einer \Spitze von 250 km/h with a top speed of 250 km/h
    ▪ die \Spitzen the leaders pl; der Gesellschaft the top; eines Unternehmens the heads; der Wirtschaft the leaders
    9. (fam: Zigarettenspitze) holder
    diese \Spitze war gegen dich gezielt that was a dig at you
    11.
    ▶ nur die \Spitze des Eisbergs sein to be only the tip of the iceberg
    ▶ etw dat die \Spitze nehmen (geh) to take the sting out of sth
    ▶ \Spitze sein (fam) to be great
    ▶ \Spitze! great!
    ▶ etw auf die \Spitze treiben, es [mit etw dat] auf die \Spitze treiben to take sth to extremes
    Spit·ze2
    <-, -en>
    [ˈʃpɪtsə]
    f MODE lace no pl
    * * *
    die; Spitze, Spitzen
    1) (NadelSpitze, BleistiftSpitze usw.) point; (PfeilSpitze, HornSpitze usw.) tip
    2) (TurmSpitze, BaumSpitze, MastSpitze usw.) top; (eines Dreiecks, Kegels, einer Pyramide) top; apex; vertex (Math.); (eines Berges) summit; top
    3) (ZigarrenSpitze, HaarSpitze, ZweigSpitze) end; (SchuhSpitze) toe; (FingerSpitze, NasenSpitze, SchwanzSpitze, FlügelSpitze, SpargelSpitze) tip

    an der Spitze liegen — (Sport) be in the lead or in front

    an der Spitze [der Tabelle] stehen od. liegen — (Sport) be [at the] top [of the table]

    sich an die Spitze [einer Bewegung] setzen — put oneself at the head [of a movement]

    6) (einer Firma, Organisation usw.) head; (einer Hierarchie) top; (leitende Gruppe) management
    7) (Höchstwert) maximum; peak; (ugs.): (Spitzenzeit) peak period

    das Auto fährt 160 km Spitze — the car has or does a top speed of 160 km. per hour

    8)

    [absolute/einsame] Spitze sein — (ugs.) be [absolutely] great (coll.)

    9) (fig.): (Angriff) dig ( gegen at)
    10) (Textilwesen) lace
    * * *
    Spitze1 f; -, -n
    1. point; (Gipfel) peak, top, summit; (Baumspitze) top; (spitzes Ende) auch eines Fingers: tip; (Kinnspitze, Haarspitze) end; (Schuhspitze) toe; einer Feder: point; (Turmspitze) spire; einer Insel: tip;
    die Spitze des Eisbergs auch fig the tip of the iceberg
    2. (Zigarettenspitze) (cigarette) holder; (Pfeifenspitze) mouthpiece; (Zigarrenspitze) end, US butt
    3. eines Zuges: front; einer Kolonne: head; MIL (Angriffsspitze) (spear)head; Sport (Führung) lead; Fußball: (Stürmer) striker;
    die Wagen der 1. Klasse befinden sich an der Spitze des Zuges the first-class carriages (US cars) are at the front of the train;
    an der Spitze des Staates/Konzerns etc at the head of the state/company etc;
    an der Spitze sein beruflich etc: have reached the top of the ladder;
    an die Spitze kommen SPORT take over the lead; POL take over the reins of power;
    stehen be in the vanguard of progress etc;
    an der Spitze der Tabelle at the top of the table;
    an der Spitze liegen SPORT be in the lead; der Tabelle: be at the top;
    sich an die Spitze setzen take the lead; der Tabelle: go to the top
    4. (Höchstwert) peak, high; (Höchstgeschwindigkeit) top ( oder maximum) speed;
    seine Spitze erreichen zahlenmäßig etc: peak, reach its peak;
    die höchste Spitze erreichen Ausgaben etc: reach an all-time high;
    etwas auf die Spitze treiben carry sth too far;
    der Wagen fährt 200 Spitze umg the car does 125 (mph)
    5. (Spitzenposition) top position; (Leitung eines Unternehmens etc) management; einer Partei: leadership;
    Spitzen der Partei etc: top brass umg;
    die Spitzen der Gesellschaft the leading figures (lights umg) of society
    6. umg (großartig) brilliant, super;
    es ist einsame Spitze it’s absolutely brilliant ( stärker: sensational);
    sie ist absolute Spitze she’s the tops;
    das war Spitze! that was great!; → auch spitze
    7. (bissige Bemerkung) barb, sideswipe (
    gegen at);
    kannst du nicht deine dauernden Spitzen lassen? can’t you stop making these barbed remarks?
    8. fig:
    jemandes Worten die Spitze nehmen take the sting out of sb’s words;
    jemandes Argumenten die Spitze abbrechen take the wind out of sb’s sails
    Spitze2 f; -, -n; (Gewebe) lace;
    Brüsseler Spitzen Brussels lace sg
    * * *
    die; Spitze, Spitzen
    1) (NadelSpitze, BleistiftSpitze usw.) point; (PfeilSpitze, HornSpitze usw.) tip
    2) (TurmSpitze, BaumSpitze, MastSpitze usw.) top; (eines Dreiecks, Kegels, einer Pyramide) top; apex; vertex (Math.); (eines Berges) summit; top
    3) (ZigarrenSpitze, HaarSpitze, ZweigSpitze) end; (SchuhSpitze) toe; (FingerSpitze, NasenSpitze, SchwanzSpitze, FlügelSpitze, SpargelSpitze) tip

    an der Spitze liegen — (Sport) be in the lead or in front

    an der Spitze [der Tabelle] stehen od. liegen — (Sport) be [at the] top [of the table]

    sich an die Spitze [einer Bewegung] setzen — put oneself at the head [of a movement]

    6) (einer Firma, Organisation usw.) head; (einer Hierarchie) top; (leitende Gruppe) management
    7) (Höchstwert) maximum; peak; (ugs.): (Spitzenzeit) peak period

    das Auto fährt 160 km Spitze — the car has or does a top speed of 160 km. per hour

    8)

    [absolute/einsame] Spitze sein — (ugs.) be [absolutely] great (coll.)

    9) (fig.): (Angriff) dig ( gegen at)
    10) (Textilwesen) lace
    * * *
    -n (Gewebe) f.
    lace n. -n (Kinn-, Messer-) f.
    point n. -n (Turm-) f.
    spire n. -n (eines Berges) f.
    peak n. -n (spitzes Ende) f.
    tip n. -n f.
    cusp n.
    dig (at) n.
    nib n.
    peak n.
    pike n.
    pinnacle n.
    spike n.
    top n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Spitze

  • 4 a la vanguardia

    * * *
    = on the cutting edge, on the leading edge, in the fast lane, on the fast track, at the leading edge, on the bleeding edge
    Ex. The library has stayed on the cutting edge of technology.
    Ex. Academic libraries have been on the leading edge in the provision of services, navigation aids, and user training for the Internet = Las bibliotecas académicas han estado a la vanguardia de la provisión de servicios, herramientas de navegación y formación de usuarios de Internet.
    Ex. The article 'A charmed brew: document delivery and collection in the fast lane' examines the implications of the proliferation of document delivery services and types of access available for librarians.
    Ex. The article ' On the fast track or the road to nowhere' points to the growing practice of subsuming public libraries into larger departments headed by non-librarians = El artículo " A la vanguardia o en un camino sin rumbo" pone de manifiesto la costumbre cada vez más frecuente de incluir las bibliotecas públicas dentro de órganismos más grandes dirigidos por personal no bibliotecario.
    Ex. This process is likely to be doomed in a discipline at the leading edge of the changes of the information society.
    Ex. We will talk about four trends on the bleeding edge that are shaping the fast moving e-conomy.
    * * *
    = on the cutting edge, on the leading edge, in the fast lane, on the fast track, at the leading edge, on the bleeding edge

    Ex: The library has stayed on the cutting edge of technology.

    Ex: Academic libraries have been on the leading edge in the provision of services, navigation aids, and user training for the Internet = Las bibliotecas académicas han estado a la vanguardia de la provisión de servicios, herramientas de navegación y formación de usuarios de Internet.
    Ex: The article 'A charmed brew: document delivery and collection in the fast lane' examines the implications of the proliferation of document delivery services and types of access available for librarians.
    Ex: The article ' On the fast track or the road to nowhere' points to the growing practice of subsuming public libraries into larger departments headed by non-librarians = El artículo " A la vanguardia o en un camino sin rumbo" pone de manifiesto la costumbre cada vez más frecuente de incluir las bibliotecas públicas dentro de órganismos más grandes dirigidos por personal no bibliotecario.
    Ex: This process is likely to be doomed in a discipline at the leading edge of the changes of the information society.
    Ex: We will talk about four trends on the bleeding edge that are shaping the fast moving e-conomy.

    Spanish-English dictionary > a la vanguardia

  • 5 spitze

    umg.
    I Adj. und Interj. great, super, magic
    II Adv.: spitze aussehen look super ( stärker: sensational, stunning); sie hat spitze gespielt she played sensationally ( oder fantastically); das hast du spitze gemacht you did that brilliantly
    * * *
    die Spitze
    (Gewebe) lace;
    (Zinke) prong; pike;
    (oberes Ende) peak; apex; cusp; tip; point; top
    * * *
    Spịt|ze ['ʃpɪtsə]
    f -, -n
    1) (= Schwertspitze, Nadelspitze, Pfeilspitze, Bleistiftspitze, Kinnspitze) point; (= Schuhspitze) toe; (= Fingerspitze, Nasenspitze, Bartspitze, Spargelspitze) tip; (= Zigarrenspitze, Haarspitze) end; (= Bergspitze, Felsspitze) peak, top; (= Baumspitze, Turmspitze, Giebelspitze) top; (= Pyramidenspitze) top, apex (form); (= Dreiecksspitze) top, vertex (form)
    2) (fig) (= Höchstwert) peak; (inf = Höchstgeschwindigkeit) top speed

    dieser Sportwagen fährt 200 Spitze (inf) — ≈ this sports car has a top speed of 125

    3) (= Führung) head; (= vorderes Ende) front; (ESP MIL von Kolonne etc) head; (= Tabellenspitze) top

    an der Spitze stehen — to be at the head; (auf Tabelle) to be (at the) top (of the table)

    an der Spitze liegen (Sport, fig) — to be in front, to be in the lead

    sich an die Spitze setzen — to put oneself at the head; (in Wettbewerb etc, Sport) to go into or take the lead; (auf Tabelle) to go to the top (of the table); (im Pferderennen) to take up the running

    4) (= Zigaretten-/Zigarrenhalter) (cigarette/cigar) holder
    5) (fig = Stichelei) dig (esp Brit), cut (US)

    das ist eine Spitze gegen Sie — that's a dig (esp Brit) or cut (US) at you, that's directed at you

    6) (COMM = Überschuss) surplus
    7) (Gewebe) lace
    8)
    See:
    → auch spitze
    * * *
    die
    1) (the highest point or tip (of something): the apex of a triangle; the apex of a person's career.) apex
    2) (at or in the very front: in the forefront of the battle.) in the forefront
    3) (the front part: He walked at the head of the procession.) head
    4) (an extreme degree; the quality of being extreme: Their suffering reached such extremities that many died.) extremity
    5) (delicate net-like decorative fabric made with fine thread: Her dress was trimmed with lace; ( also adjective) a lace shawl.) lace
    6) (a tall, pointed tower, especially one built on the roof of a church.) spire
    7) (the part of anything which is like a nose in shape or position: the nose of an aeroplane.) nose
    8) (the sharp end of anything: the point of a pin; a sword point; at gunpoint (= threatened by a gun).) point
    9) (a hard, thin, pointed object (of wood, metal etc): The fence had long spikes on top.) spike
    10) (the leaders in any movement: We're in the vanguard of the movement for reform!) vanguard
    11) (the small or thin end, point or top of something: the tips of my fingers.) tip
    12) (the front part of a shoe, sock etc: There's a hole in the toe of my sock.) toe
    13) (the highest part of anything: the top of the hill; the top of her head; The book is on the top shelf.) top
    14) (the position of the cleverest in a class etc: He's at the top of the class.) top
    15) (something that forms a covering on top of something, especially food: a tart with a topping of cream.) topping
    * * *
    Spit·ze1
    <-, -n>
    [ˈʃpɪtsə]
    f
    1. (spitzes Ende o spitze Ecke) point; eines Berges peak, summit; eines Baumes top; eines Dreiecks top; eines Haars end; eines Turms spire; eines Fingers, der Nase tip; eines Schuhs pointed toe
    2. (vorderster Teil) head, front; eines Zuges front
    3. bes SPORT (erster Platz) top [position]
    an der \Spitze liegen (in Rennen, Wettbewerb) to be in front [or a. fig in the lead]; (in Wertung) to be at the top
    sich akk an die \Spitze setzen (in Rennen) to take the lead; (in Wertung) to move into [or take [over]] first place
    an der \Spitze einer S. gen stehen to be at the head of sth
    die \Spitze der Tabelle übernehmen to take over at the top of the table [or division] [or league
    die Temperaturen erreichten im August \Spitzen von 35, 36° C the temperature peaked at 35-36° C in August
    bei einer \Spitze von 250 km/h with a top speed of 250 km/h
    ▪ die \Spitzen the leaders pl; der Gesellschaft the top; eines Unternehmens the heads; der Wirtschaft the leaders
    9. (fam: Zigarettenspitze) holder
    diese \Spitze war gegen dich gezielt that was a dig at you
    11.
    ▶ nur die \Spitze des Eisbergs sein to be only the tip of the iceberg
    ▶ etw dat die \Spitze nehmen (geh) to take the sting out of sth
    ▶ \Spitze sein (fam) to be great
    ▶ \Spitze! great!
    ▶ etw auf die \Spitze treiben, es [mit etw dat] auf die \Spitze treiben to take sth to extremes
    Spit·ze2
    <-, -en>
    [ˈʃpɪtsə]
    f MODE lace no pl
    * * *
    die; Spitze, Spitzen
    1) (NadelSpitze, BleistiftSpitze usw.) point; (PfeilSpitze, HornSpitze usw.) tip
    2) (TurmSpitze, BaumSpitze, MastSpitze usw.) top; (eines Dreiecks, Kegels, einer Pyramide) top; apex; vertex (Math.); (eines Berges) summit; top
    3) (ZigarrenSpitze, HaarSpitze, ZweigSpitze) end; (SchuhSpitze) toe; (FingerSpitze, NasenSpitze, SchwanzSpitze, FlügelSpitze, SpargelSpitze) tip

    an der Spitze liegen — (Sport) be in the lead or in front

    an der Spitze [der Tabelle] stehen od. liegen — (Sport) be [at the] top [of the table]

    sich an die Spitze [einer Bewegung] setzen — put oneself at the head [of a movement]

    6) (einer Firma, Organisation usw.) head; (einer Hierarchie) top; (leitende Gruppe) management
    7) (Höchstwert) maximum; peak; (ugs.): (Spitzenzeit) peak period

    das Auto fährt 160 km Spitze — the car has or does a top speed of 160 km. per hour

    8)

    [absolute/einsame] Spitze sein — (ugs.) be [absolutely] great (coll.)

    9) (fig.): (Angriff) dig ( gegen at)
    10) (Textilwesen) lace
    * * *
    spitze umg
    A. adj & int great, super, magic
    B. adv:
    spitze aussehen look super ( stärker: sensational, stunning);
    sie hat spitze gespielt she played sensationally ( oder fantastically);
    das hast du spitze gemacht you did that brilliantly
    …spitze f im subst
    1. wörtl:
    Bleistiftspitze pencil point;
    Nadelspitze point of a needle
    Konzernspitze management of a combine;
    Fraktionsspitze leadership of the parliamentary party
    Bedarfsspitze peak in demand;
    Temperaturspitze maximum temperature;
    Jahresspitze annual peak
    * * *
    die; Spitze, Spitzen
    1) (NadelSpitze, BleistiftSpitze usw.) point; (PfeilSpitze, HornSpitze usw.) tip
    2) (TurmSpitze, BaumSpitze, MastSpitze usw.) top; (eines Dreiecks, Kegels, einer Pyramide) top; apex; vertex (Math.); (eines Berges) summit; top
    3) (ZigarrenSpitze, HaarSpitze, ZweigSpitze) end; (SchuhSpitze) toe; (FingerSpitze, NasenSpitze, SchwanzSpitze, FlügelSpitze, SpargelSpitze) tip

    an der Spitze liegen — (Sport) be in the lead or in front

    an der Spitze [der Tabelle] stehen od. liegen — (Sport) be [at the] top [of the table]

    sich an die Spitze [einer Bewegung] setzen — put oneself at the head [of a movement]

    6) (einer Firma, Organisation usw.) head; (einer Hierarchie) top; (leitende Gruppe) management
    7) (Höchstwert) maximum; peak; (ugs.): (Spitzenzeit) peak period

    das Auto fährt 160 km Spitze — the car has or does a top speed of 160 km. per hour

    8)

    [absolute/einsame] Spitze sein — (ugs.) be [absolutely] great (coll.)

    9) (fig.): (Angriff) dig ( gegen at)
    10) (Textilwesen) lace
    * * *
    -n (Gewebe) f.
    lace n. -n (Kinn-, Messer-) f.
    point n. -n (Turm-) f.
    spire n. -n (eines Berges) f.
    peak n. -n (spitzes Ende) f.
    tip n. -n f.
    cusp n.
    dig (at) n.
    nib n.
    peak n.
    pike n.
    pinnacle n.
    spike n.
    top n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > spitze

  • 6 sector

    m.
    1 section.
    el sector automovilístico the motor industry
    sector cuaternario leisure industries o sector
    sector primario/secundario primary/secondary sector
    sector privado/público private/public sector
    sector servicios o terciario service industries o sector
    2 sector, area (zona).
    * * *
    1 (gen) sector
    3 figurado (parte) section
    \
    sector primario / sector secundario / sector terciario primary industry / secondary industry / tertiary industry
    sector privado / sector público private sector / public sector
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Econ, Geom) sector

    sector terciario — tertiary sector, service industries pl, service sector

    2) (=sección) [de opinión] section; [de ciudad] area, sector

    sector industrial — Col industrial estate (Brit), industrial park (EEUU)

    * * *
    a) ( grupo) sector, group
    b) (Mat) sector
    c) ( de ciudad) area
    d) (Com, Econ) sector
    * * *
    = end, section, sector, segment, sphere.
    Ex. Scanning must start to the left of the bar codes and must continue past the right end.
    Ex. Plainly such representative sections may not be present in many documents, but sometimes an extract from the results, conclusions or recommendations of a document may serve to identify the key issues covered by the entire document.
    Ex. DC is certainly not regarded as the perfect classification scheme even in sectors where there is no serious alternative.
    Ex. No such constraints exist where online display is anticipated, since only one segment at a time is displayed.
    Ex. I am not convinced that people become connoisseurs -- experts: educated and discriminating people in any sphere -- from limited knowledge and experience, no matter how rich in quality.
    ----
    * dirigido a un sector de la población específico = sector-orientated.
    * disco de sectores blandos = soft sectored disc.
    * en algunos sectores = in some quarters.
    * en algunos sectores de la población = in some quarters.
    * en muchos sectores = in many quarters.
    * en muchos sectores de la población = in many quarters.
    * establecer sectores = sectoring.
    * industria del sector turístico = tourism industry.
    * sector académico, el = academic sector, the.
    * sector agrícola = agricultural sector.
    * sector bancario, el = banking sector, the.
    * sector bibliotecario = library sector.
    * sector blando = soft sector.
    * sector comercial, el = profit-oriented sector, the, profit sector, the, commercial sector, the, for-profit sector, the.
    * sector de la cría de cerdos, el = pig sector, the.
    * sector de la edición, el = publishing sector, the.
    * sector de la industria farmacéutica, el = pharmaceutical sector, the.
    * sector de la información, el = information sector, the, infosphere, the.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel industry, the, travel sector, the.
    * sector del censo = census tract.
    * sector duro = hard sector.
    * sector editorial, el = publishing sector, the.
    * sector empresarial, el = business sector, the, commercial sector, the.
    * sectores = quarters.
    * sector financiero, el = finance sector, the.
    * sector industrial, el = industrial sector, the.
    * sector lácteo, el = dairy sector, the.
    * sector lechero, el = dairy sector, the.
    * sector marginado = deprived sector.
    * sector más avanzado = high end.
    * sector no comercial, el = not-for-profit sector, the, non-profit sector, the.
    * sector privado = private enterprise.
    * sector privado, el = private sector, the, profit sector, the.
    * sector público, el = public sector, the.
    * sector superior = high end.
    * sector terciario = third sector.
    * * *
    a) ( grupo) sector, group
    b) (Mat) sector
    c) ( de ciudad) area
    d) (Com, Econ) sector
    * * *
    = end, section, sector, segment, sphere.

    Ex: Scanning must start to the left of the bar codes and must continue past the right end.

    Ex: Plainly such representative sections may not be present in many documents, but sometimes an extract from the results, conclusions or recommendations of a document may serve to identify the key issues covered by the entire document.
    Ex: DC is certainly not regarded as the perfect classification scheme even in sectors where there is no serious alternative.
    Ex: No such constraints exist where online display is anticipated, since only one segment at a time is displayed.
    Ex: I am not convinced that people become connoisseurs -- experts: educated and discriminating people in any sphere -- from limited knowledge and experience, no matter how rich in quality.
    * dirigido a un sector de la población específico = sector-orientated.
    * disco de sectores blandos = soft sectored disc.
    * en algunos sectores = in some quarters.
    * en algunos sectores de la población = in some quarters.
    * en muchos sectores = in many quarters.
    * en muchos sectores de la población = in many quarters.
    * establecer sectores = sectoring.
    * industria del sector turístico = tourism industry.
    * sector académico, el = academic sector, the.
    * sector agrícola = agricultural sector.
    * sector bancario, el = banking sector, the.
    * sector bibliotecario = library sector.
    * sector blando = soft sector.
    * sector comercial, el = profit-oriented sector, the, profit sector, the, commercial sector, the, for-profit sector, the.
    * sector de la cría de cerdos, el = pig sector, the.
    * sector de la edición, el = publishing sector, the.
    * sector de la industria farmacéutica, el = pharmaceutical sector, the.
    * sector de la información, el = information sector, the, infosphere, the.
    * sector de las agencias de viajes, el = travel industry, the, travel sector, the.
    * sector del censo = census tract.
    * sector duro = hard sector.
    * sector editorial, el = publishing sector, the.
    * sector empresarial, el = business sector, the, commercial sector, the.
    * sectores = quarters.
    * sector financiero, el = finance sector, the.
    * sector industrial, el = industrial sector, the.
    * sector lácteo, el = dairy sector, the.
    * sector lechero, el = dairy sector, the.
    * sector marginado = deprived sector.
    * sector más avanzado = high end.
    * sector no comercial, el = not-for-profit sector, the, non-profit sector, the.
    * sector privado = private enterprise.
    * sector privado, el = private sector, the, profit sector, the.
    * sector público, el = public sector, the.
    * sector superior = high end.
    * sector terciario = third sector.

    * * *
    1 (grupo) sector, group
    ningún sector social se puede beneficiar de estas medidas no sector of society o no social group can benefit from these measures
    2 ( Mat) sector
    el sector norte de la ciudad the northern area o part of the city
    4 ( Com, Econ) sector
    este sector de la economía this sector o area of the economy
    la empresa líder en su sector the leading company in its field
    el sector agrario the agricultural sector o industry, agriculture
    Compuestos:
    agricultural sector o industry
    used o second-hand car market
    aviation industry
    construction industry
    auto industry ( AmE), motor industry ( BrE), car industry ( BrE)
    air transportation sector ( AmE), air transport sector ( BrE)
    service o tertiary sector
    business o corporate sector
    ( Col) (actividad) industrial sector; (zona) industrial area o zone, industrial estate ( BrE)
    primary sector
    private sector
    public sector
    secondary o manufacturing sector
    tertiary o service sector
    * * *

     

    sector sustantivo masculino

    b) (Mat) sector


    d) (Com, Econ) sector

    sector sustantivo masculino
    1 (de una ciudad, edificio, etc) area
    2 (de un grupo) sector
    3 Geom Econ sector
    sector primario/ secundario, primary/secondary sector
    sector público/privado, public/private sector
    ' sector' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    marginar
    - sabática
    - sabático
    - siderúrgica
    - siderúrgico
    - agrario
    - banca
    - bancario
    - cabeza
    - empresa
    - este
    - informal
    - oeste
    - segmento
    - sudeste
    - sudoeste
    - sur
    English:
    banking
    - bracket
    - down-market
    - industrial unrest
    - put
    - section
    - sector
    - service industry
    - service sector
    - downmarket
    - enterprise
    - manufacturing
    - muscle
    - private
    - public
    - segment
    - service
    * * *
    sector nm
    1. [división] section;
    todos los sectores de la sociedad the whole of society
    2. Econ sector, industry;
    el líder del sector the industry leader
    sector cuaternario leisure industries o sector;
    sector exterior foreign sector;
    sector primario primary sector;
    sector privado private sector;
    sector público public sector;
    sector secundario secondary sector;
    sector servicios service industries o sector;
    sector terciario service industries o sector
    3. [zona] sector, area;
    en el sector norte de la ciudad in the northern area o part of the city
    4. Geom sector
    * * *
    m sector
    * * *
    sector nm
    : sector
    * * *
    3. (de industria) sector / industry [pl. industries]
    el sector privado / público the private / public sector

    Spanish-English dictionary > sector

  • 7 grand

    grand, e [gʀɑ̃, gʀɑ̃d]
    1. adjective
       a. ( = de haute taille) tall
       b. ( = plus âgé) son grand frère his older or big (inf) brother
    • tu es grand/grande maintenant you're a big boy/girl now
       c. (en dimensions) big, large ; [bras, distance, voyage, enjambées] long ; [avenue, marge] wide
       d. (en nombre, en quantité) [vitesse, poids, valeur, puissance] great ; [nombre, quantité] large ; [famille] large, big
       e. ( = intense) [bruit, cri] loud ; [froid, chaleur] intense ; [vent] strong ; [danger, plaisir, pauvreté] great
       f. ( = riche, puissant) [pays, firme, banquier, industriel] leading
       g. ( = important) great ; [ville, travail] big
    • je t'annonce une grande nouvelle ! I've got some great news!
       h. ( = principal) main
    • la grande difficulté consiste à... the main difficulty lies in...
       i. (intensif) [travailleur, collectionneur, ami, rêveur] great ; [buveur, fumeur] heavy ; [mangeur] big
       j. ( = remarquable) great
       k. ( = de gala) [réception, dîner] grand
       l. ( = noble) [âme] noble ; [pensée, principe] lofty
    • grand bien vous fasse ! much good may it do you!
    2. adverb
       b. ( = largement) ouvrir (en) grand [+ porte] to open wide ; [+ robinet] to turn full on
    3. masculine noun
       a. ( = élève) senior boy
       b. (terme d'affection) viens, mon grand come here, son
       c. ( = personne puissante) les grands de ce monde men in high places
    4. feminine noun
       a. ( = élève) senior girl
    ► la grande Bleue or bleue the Med (inf)
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    The grandes écoles are competitive-entrance higher education establishments where engineering, business administration and other subjects are taught to a very high standard. The most prestigious include « l'École Polytechnique » (engineering), the three « Écoles normales supérieures » (arts and sciences), « l'ÉNA » (the civil service college), and « HEC » (business administration).
    Pupils prepare for entrance to the grandes écoles after their « baccalauréat » in two years of « classes préparatoires ». → CLASSES PRÉPARATOIRES  CONCOURS  ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION
    * * *

    1.
    grande gʀɑ̃, gʀɑ̃d adjectif
    1) ( de dimensions importantes) ( en hauteur) tall; (en longueur, durée) long; ( en largeur) wide; (en étendue, volume) big
    2) (nombreux, abondant) large, big

    laver à grande eau — to wash [something] in plenty of running water [légumes]; to wash [something] down [sol]

    3) ( à un degré élevé) [rêveur, collectionneur, ami] great; [tricheur, joueur] big; [buveur, fumeur] heavy
    4) ( important) [découverte, expédition, nouvelle] great; [date] important; [rôle] major; [problème, décision] big

    la grande majorité — the great ou vast majority

    5) ( principal) main
    6) ( de premier plan) [société, marque] leading
    7) (brillant, remarquable) [peintre, vin, cause] great; [cœur, âme] noble

    Louis le Grand — Louis the Great; esprit

    8) ( âgé) [frère, sœur] elder; [élève] senior GB, older; ( adulte)

    les grandes classes — École the senior forms GB, the upper classes US

    9) ( qualifiant une mesure) [hauteur, longueur, distance, valeur] great; [pointure, quantité, étendue] large; [vitesse] high
    10) (extrême, fort) [bonté, amitié, danger, intérêt] great; [bruit] loud; [froid] severe; [chaleur] intense; [vent] strong, high; [tempête] big, violent

    à grands cris — loudly; cas, remède

    11) ( de rang social élevé) [famille, nom] great
    12) ( grandiose) [réception, projet] grand
    13) ( emphatique) [mot] big; [phrase] high-sounding

    et voilà, tout de suite les grands mots — there you go, straight off the deep end


    2.
    nom masculin, féminin ( enfant) big boy/girl; École senior GB ou older pupil

    3.
    adverbe wide

    ouvrir grand ses oreilles — fig to prick up one's ears


    4.
    nom masculin

    les cinq grands — Politique the Big Five


    5.
    en grand locution adverbiale
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    ɡʀɑ̃, ɡʀɑ̃d grand, -e
    1. adj
    1) (= de haute taille) tall

    Il est grand pour son âge. — He's tall for his age.

    2) (= aîné)

    C'est sa grande sœur. — She's his big sister.

    3) (= adulte)

    Il est assez grand pour... — He's old enough to...

    4) (= gros, vaste, large) big, large
    5) (importance, stature) great

    C'est un grand ami à moi. — He's a great friend of mine.

    6) (ampleur, degré)

    les grands blessés; Les grands blessés ont été emmenés à l'hôpital en hélicoptère. — The severely injured were taken to hospital by helicopter.

    Ça te fera beaucoup de bien d'être au grand air. — It'll be very good for you to be out in the open air.

    2. adv
    3. nm/f
    1) (= élève, enfant) big boy, big girl

    Il est chez les grands maintenant. — He's in the senior school now.

    C'est une grande, elle peut y aller seule. — She's a big girl now, she can go on her own.

    2) (= personnage)
    4. nm

    en grand [ouvrir] — wide

    * * *
    A adj
    1 ( de dimensions importantes) ( en hauteur) [personne, arbre, tour, cierge] tall; (en longueur, durée) [bras, enjambée, promenade, voyage] long; ( en largeur) [angle, marge] wide; (en étendue, volume) [lac, ville, salle, trou, édifice, paquet] large, big; [tas, feu] big; ( démesuré) [pied, nez, bouche] big; un homme (très) grand a (very) tall man; un grand homme brun, un homme grand et brun a tall dark man; plus grand que nature larger than life; ouvrir de grands yeux to open one's eyes wide;
    2 (nombreux, abondant) [famille, foule] large, big; [fortune] large; grande braderie big sale; pas grand monde not many people; faire de grandes dépenses to spend a lot of money; il fait grand jour it's broad daylight; laver à grande eau to wash [sth] in plenty of running water [légumes]; to wash [sth] down [sol]; à grand renfort de publicité with much publicity;
    3 ( à un degré élevé) [rêveur, collectionneur, travailleur, ami, ennemi, pécheur] great; [tricheur, joueur, lâcheur, idiot] big; [buveur, fumeur] heavy; grand amateur de ballet great ballet lover; c'est un grand timide he's very shy; les grands malades very sick people; c'est un grand cardiaque he has a serious heart condition;
    4 ( important) [découverte, migration, expédition, événement, nouvelle, honneur] great; [date] important; [rôle] major; [problème, décision] big; ( principal) main; c'est un grand jour pour elle it's a big day for her; une grande partie de la maison a large part of the house; une grande partie des habitants many of the inhabitants; la grande majorité the great ou vast majority; ⇒ scène;
    5 ( principal) main; le grand escalier the main staircase; le grand problème/obstacle the main ou major problem/obstacle; les grands axes routiers the main ou trunk GB roads; les grands points du discours the main points of the speech; les grandes lignes d'une politique the broad lines of a policy;
    6 ( de premier plan) Écon, Pol [pays, société, industriel, marque] leading; les grandes industries the big industries;
    7 (brillant, remarquable) [peintre, œuvre, civilisation, vin, cause] great; [cœur, âme] noble; c'est un grand homme he's a great man; les grands écrivains great authors; un grand nom de la musique a great musician; un grand monsieur du théâtre a great gentleman of the stage; Louis/Pierre le Grand Louis/Peter the Great; les grands noms du cinéma/de la littérature indienne the big names of the cinema/of Indian literature; de grande classe [produit] high-class; [exploit] admirable; ⇒ esprit;
    8 ( âgé) [frère, sœur] elder; [élève] senior GB, older; ( adulte) grown-up; mon grand frère my elder brother; les grandes classes Scol the senior forms GB, the upper classes US; quand il sera grand when he grows up; mes enfants sont grands my children are quite old; une grande fille comme toi! a big girl like you!; 12 ans! tu es assez grand pour te débrouiller 12 years old! you're old enough to cope;
    9 ( qualifiant une mesure) [hauteur, longueur, distance, poids, valeur, âge] great; [dimensions, taille, pointure, quantité, nombre, étendue] large; [vitesse] high; [kilomètre, mois, heure] good; il est grand temps que tu partes it's high time you were off ou you went;
    10 (intense, extrême, fort) [bonté, lâcheté, pauvreté, amitié, chagrin, faim, danger, différence, intérêt] great; [bruit] great, loud; [froid] severe; [chaleur] intense; [vent] strong, high; [tempête] big, violent; avec grand plaisir with great ou much pleasure; dans le plus grand secret in great secrecy; d'une grande bêtise/timidité very ou extremely stupid/shy; à ma grande honte/surprise much to my shame/surprise; sans grand espoir/enthousiasme without much hope/enthusiasm; sans grande importance not very important; il n'y a pas grand mal à cela/à faire there isn't much harm in that/in doing; avoir grand faim/soif to be very hungry/thirsty; avoir grand besoin de to be badly in need of; ça te ferait le plus grand bien it would do you a world of good; à grands cris loudly; ⇒ cas, remède;
    11 ( de rang social élevé) [famille, nom] great; grande dame great lady; la grande bourgeoisie the upper middle class;
    12 ( grandiose) [réception] grand; grands projets grand designs; avoir grande allure, avoir grand air to look very impressive;
    13 ( emphatique) [mot] big; [phrase] high-sounding; un grand merci a big thank you; faire de grands gestes to wave one's arms about; et voilà, tout de suite les grands mots there you go, straight off the deep end.
    B nm,f
    1 ( enfant) big boy/girl; Scol senior GB ou older pupil; il a fait ça tout seul comme un grand he did it all by himself like a big boy; il fait le ménage comme un grand he does the housework like a grown-up; pour les grands et les petits for old and young alike;
    C adv wide; ouvrir grand la bouche to open one's mouth wide; ouvrir tout grand les bras to throw one's arms open; les fenêtres sont grand(es) ouvertes the windows are wide open; ouvrir la porte toute grande to open the door wide; ouvrir grand ses oreilles fig to prick up one's ears; ouvrir tout grand son cœur fig to open one's heart; les bottes chaussent grand the boots are large-fitting; leurs vêtements taillent grand their clothes are cut on the large side; voir grand fig to think big.
    D nm ( pays) big power; ( entreprise) leader, big name; les grands de ce monde the great and the good; Pol the world's leaders; les cinq grands Pol the Big Five; les grands de l'automobile the top car manufacturers; c'est un grand de la publicité he's big in advertising.
    E en grand loc adv [ouvrir] wide, completely; faire de l'élevage en grand to breed animals on a large scale; quand ils reçoivent, ils font les choses en grand when they entertain they do things on the grand scale or they really go to town○.
    grand argentier Hist royal treasurer; hum keeper of the nation's purse, Finance minister; le grand art alchemy; grand banditisme organized crime; grand bassin ( de piscine) main pool; Anat upper pelvis; grand cacatois main royal sail; grand caniche standard poodle; le grand capital Écon big money, big investors pl; grand commis de l'État top civil servant; grand coq de bruyère capercaillie; grand corbeau raven; grand couturier couturier; grand débutant absolute beginner; grand duc Zool eagle owl; grand écart Danse, Sport splits (sg); faire le grand écart to do the splits; le grand écran the big screen; grand électeur ( en France) elector who votes in the elections for the French Senate; ( aux États-Unis) presidential elector; grand ensemble high-density housing complex; la vie dans les grands ensembles high-rise living; grand d'Espagne Spanish grandee; grand foc outer jib; grand frais Météo moderate gale; grand hunier main topsail; grand hunier fixe lower main topsail; grand hunier volant upper main topsail; grand invalide civil, GIC civilian who is registered severely disabled; grand invalide de guerre, GIG Prot Soc ex-serviceman who is registered severely disabled; le grand large Naut the high seas (pl); grand magasin Comm department store; grand maître ( aux échecs) grand master; grand maître de l'ordre des Templiers Hist Grand Master of the Knights Templar; grand mât Naut mainmast; le grand monde high society; le Grand Nord Géog the Far North; Grand Œuvre Great Work; grand officier de la Légion d'Honneur high-ranking officer of the Legion of HonourGB; le Grand Orient the Grand Lodge of France; grand panda giant panda; Grand Pardon Day of Atonement; grand patron Méd senior consultant GB, head doctor US; grand perroquet Naut main topgallant sail; grand prêtre Relig, fig high priest; grand prix Courses Aut, Sport grand prix; le grand public the general public; Comm produit grand public consumer product; grand quart Naut six-hour watch; Grand quartier général, GQG Mil General Headquarters, GHQ; grand quotidien Presse big national daily; grand roque Jeux ( aux échecs) castling long; le Grand Siècle Hist the 17th century (in France); grand teint colourfastGB; grand tétras capercaillie; grand tourisme Courses Aut, Aut GT, gran turismo; le Grand Turc the Sultan; grand veneur Chasse master of the hounds; grande Armée Hist Grande Armée (Napoleon's army); grande Baie Australienne Géog Great Australian Bight; la grande banlieue the outer suburbs (pl); Grande Barrière (de Corail) Géog Great Barrier Reef; la grande bleue the sea; la grande cuisine Culin haute cuisine; grande distribution Écon volume retailing; grand école higher education institution; la Grande Guerre Hist the First World War; grande gueule○ loud mouth○; grande hune Naut maintop; la grande muette the army; la grande muraille de Chine Géog the Great Wall of China; grande personne grown-up, adult; la grande presse Presse the popular dailies (pl); grande puissance Pol superpower; grande roue ( de foire) big wheel GB, Ferris wheel US; grande série Comm mass production; fabriqué en grande série mass-produced; grande surface Comm supermarket; grandes eaux fountains; fig ( pleurs) waterworks; dès qu'on la gronde, ce sont les grandes eaux the minute you tell her off, she turns on the waterworks; grandes lignes Rail main train routes; grandes marées spring tides; grandes ondes Radio long wave (sg); Grandes Plaines Géog Great Plains; les grands blessés the seriously injured; grands corps de l'État Admin senior branches of the civil service; grands espaces Écol open spaces; grands fauves Zool big cats; grands fonds Naut ocean depths; les grands froids the cold of winter; Grands Lacs Géog Great Lakes; grands singes Zool great apes; ⇒ école, voyage.
    ⓘ Grande école A prestigious third-level institution where admission is usually by competitive entrance examination or concours. Places are much sought after as they are widely considered to guarantee more promising career prospects than the standard university institutions. Many grandes écoles specialize in particular disciplines or fields of study, e.g. ENA, Sciences Po, etc.
    ( féminin grande) [grɑ̃, grɑ̃d] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou h muet [grɑ̃t]) adjectif
    A.[ASPECT QUANTITATIF]
    1. [de taille élevée - adulte] tall ; [ - enfant] tall, big
    2. [de grandes dimensions - objet, salle, ville] big, large ; [ - distance] long
    grand A/B/C capital A/B/C
    une grande tour a high ou tall tower
    un grand fleuve a long ou big river
    3. [d'un certain âge - être humain] big
    [aîné - frère, sœur] big
    [au terme de sa croissance - personne] grown-up ; [ - animal] fully grown, adult
    4. [qui dure longtemps] long
    5. [intense, considérable] great
    pendant les grandes chaleurs in high summer, in ou at the height of summer
    un grand incendie a major ou great fire
    6. [pour qualifier une mesure] large, great
    la grande majorité de the great ou vast majority of
    7. [entier]
    elle m'a fait attendre une grande heure/semaine she made me wait a good hour/a good week
    B.[ASPECT QUALITATIF]
    1. [important] great, major
    les grands problèmes de notre temps the main ou major ou key issues of our time
    2. [acharné, invétéré] great, keen
    les grands blessés/brûlés/invalides the seriously wounded/burned/disabled
    3. [puissant, influent - banque] top ; [ - industriel] top, leading, major ; [ - propriétaire, famille] important ; [ - personnage] great
    4. [dans une hiérarchie]
    les grands dignitaires du régime the leading ou important dignitaries of the regime
    5. [noble]
    avoir grand air ou grande allure to carry oneself well, to be imposing
    6. [généralementéreux]
    il a un grand cœur he's big-hearted, he has a big heart
    7. [exagéré] big
    grands mots high-sounding words, high-flown language
    8. [fameux, reconnu] great
    un grand journaliste a great ou top journalist
    les grandes dates de l'histoire de France the great ou most significant dates in French history
    10. [omnipotent, suprême] great
    C.[EN INTENSIF]
    sans grand enthousiasme/intérêt without much enthusiasm/interest
    sa grande fierté, c'est son jardin he's very proud of ou he takes great pride in his garden
    un grand merci à ta sœur lots of thanks to ou a big thank you to your sister
    toute la famille au grand complet the whole family, every single member of the family
    jamais, au grand jamais je n'accepterai never in a million years will I accept
    à sa grande surprise much to his surprise, to his great surprise
    ————————
    , grande [grɑ̃, grɑ̃d] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou h muet [grɑ̃t]) nom masculin, nom féminin
    1. [enfant - d'un certain âge]
    [en appellatif]
    merci mon grand! thanks, son!
    allons, ma grande, ne pleure pas! come on now, love, don't cry!
    comme un grand: je me débrouillerai tout seul, comme un grand/toute seule, comme une grande I'll manage on my own, like a big boy/a big girl
    2. [adulte - généralement] grown-up, adult
    [en appellatif]
    alors, ma grande, tu as pu te reposer un peu? well dear, did you manage to get some rest?
    [personne de grande taille]
    pour la photo, les grands se mettront derrière for the photo, tall people ou the taller people will stand at the back
    ————————
    adverbe
    1. [vêtement]
    tailler grand: ça devrait vous aller, ça taille grand it should fit you, it's cut large
    3. [largement]
    4. ART
    ————————
    nom masculin
    1. PHILOSOPHIE → link=infiniment infiniment
    2. [entrepreneur, industriel]
    les grands de l'automobile the major ou leading car manufacturers
    ————————
    grands nom masculin pluriel
    ÉCONOMIE & POLITIQUE
    ————————
    en grand locution adverbiale
    [complètement] on a large scale
    grande école nom féminin
    grand ensemble nom masculin
    housing scheme (UK), housing project (US)
    grande surface nom féminin
    The grandes écoles are relatively small and highly respected higher education establishments. Admission is usually only possible after two years of intensive preparatory studies and a competitive entrance examination. Most have close links with industry. The grandes écoles include l'École des hautes études commerciales or HEC (management and business), l'École polytechnique or l'X (engineering) and l'École normale supérieure (teacher training).

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  • 8 parte

    f part
    ( porzione) portion
    ( lato) side
    law party
    parte civile plaintiff
    far parte di una società belong to a society, be a member of a society
    prendere parte a take part in
    a parte separate
    scherzi a parte joking apart
    mettere da parte qualcosa put something aside
    dall'altra parte della strada on the other side of the street
    da tutte le parti everywhere
    da parte mia for my part, as far as I'm concerned
    in parte in part, partly
    in gran parte largely
    * * *
    parte s.f.
    1 part; ( porzione) share, portion: mi è piaciuta la prima parte, I liked the first part; una parte della casa andò distrutta dal fuoco, part of the house was destroyed by the fire; ho avuto la mia parte di fortuna, I have had my share of luck; non ho ancora avuto la mia parte dei profitti, I have not had my share of the profits yet; dividere in due parti, to divide into two parts; fare le parti, to divide up (o to share out); essere parte integrante di qlco., to be an integral part of sthg. // (mat.) integrazione per parti, integration by parts // parte, ( alcuni) some: una parte di loro non venne, some of them did not come // gran parte di, a lot of (o a large part of); (pl.) a great many (of) (o a lot of): gran parte della gente..., a great many people...; gran parte del mio denaro va per mangiare, a lot of my money goes on food // in parte, in part (o partly): in parte con la forza, in parte con la persuasione, partly by force, partly by persuasion; contribuire in parte alle spese di produzione, to contribute in part towards the expenses of production // in gran parte, largely (o to a great extent) // la maggior parte di, most (of) (o the majority of): la maggior parte della gente, most people; la maggior parte dei miei studenti, most of my students; per la maggior parte, for the most part // aver parte in qlco., to have a hand in sthg. // essere a parte di qlco., to be informed of sthg. (o to be in on sthg.); mettere qlcu. a parte di qlco., to inform s.o. of (o about) sthg. // far parte di qlco., to be (o to form) part of sthg.: far parte della famiglia, to be one of the family; far parte di un partito, to be a member of a party // prender parte a qlco., to take part (o to join) in sthg., ( dividere) to share sthg.: voglio prendere parte alle spese con te, I want to share the expenses with you; prender parte a una congiura, alle celebrazioni, a un affare, to take part in a conspiracy, in the celebrations, in a business-deal; prender parte alla conversazione, to join in the conversation; prendere parte alla gioia di qlcu., to participate in (o to share) s.o.'s joy
    2 ( pezzo) part, piece: parti di ricambio, spare parts
    3 ( luogo, regione) part, region: da qualche parte, somewhere; da che parte viene quell'uomo?, where does that man come from?; dalle mie parti si parla in dialetto, in my part of the country dialect is spoken; devo andare da quelle parti, vuoi un passaggio?, I've got to go over there; if you want I'll give you a lift; non conosco nessuno da queste parti, I don't know anybody in these parts
    4 ( lato) side, part: dall'altra parte, on the other side; dalla parte destra, sinistra, on the right, left (o on the right-hand, left-hand side); da questa parte della montagna, della strada, on this side of the mountain, of the road; nell'altra parte della città, on the other side of the city; da che parte viene il vento?, which way is the wind blowing from?; questa parte del foglio deve rimanere vuota, this side of the paper must be left blank; il quadro pende da una parte, the picture is hanging down on one side; da che parte arriva il treno?, on which side does the train come in?; da questa parte, signori, this way, gentlemen // da una parte all'altra, from one side to the other // a parte, apart (from): a parte ciò, apart from that; a parte qualche eccezione, apart from a few exceptions; in una lista a parte, in a separate list; scherzi a parte, joking apart; questa è una cosa a parte, that's another matter (o a different thing altogether); il servizio è a parte, the service is extra; le telefonate le pago a parte, I pay for the telephone calls separately // da parte, aside: farsi, tirarsi da parte, to step aside (o to get out of the way); tirare da parte, to draw apart; ho alcune migliaia di sterline da parte, I have a few thousand pounds put aside; mettere da parte, ( risparmiare) to put aside (o to save), ( trascurare) to put on one side; sentirsi messo da parte, to feel left out // da una parte..., dall'altra..., on (the) one hand..., on the other... // d'altra parte..., on the other hand... // da parte a parte, right through: la freccia gli passò il braccio da parte a parte, the arrow went right through his arm // da parte di, from, ( di parentela) on one's father's, mother's side: un parente da parte di mio padre, a relative on my father's side; ci sono molte lamentele da parte degli studenti, there are many complaints from the students; da parte mia farò il possibile, for my part (o as for me) I shall do my best; da parte mia non ci sono problemi, there are no problems on my side; da parte sua non ho ricevuto niente, I haven't received anything from him; digli da parte mia che..., tell him from me that...; questo è molto gentile da parte tua, this is very kind of you; salutalo da parte mia, give him my regards // da ogni parte, da tutte le parti, on all sides (o in every direction), ( moto) from all sides: da tutte le parti si vedeva il mare, the sea could be seen on all sides (o in every direction); il forte fu attaccato da ogni parte, da tutte le parti, the fort was attacked from all sides // da tutte e due le parti, on both sides // da due mesi a questa parte non lo vedo, I have not seen him for two months (o I have not seen him these last two months) // sono dalla tua parte, I'm on your side; essere dalla parte del torto, to be in the wrong; mettersi dalla parte del torto, to put oneself in the wrong
    5 (ruolo in opere teatrali, in un affare ecc.) part, rôle: la parte principale di una commedia, the leading rôle of a play; distribuzione delle parti, cast of the play; ( il distribuirle) casting of the play; fece la parte di Otello, he played Othello; assegnare la parte a qlcu., to cast s.o. for a part; sostenere una parte, to act (o to sustain) a rôle; avere una parte importante in un affare, to play (o to take) a prominent part in an affair; fare una parte secondaria, to play a minor (o secondary) rôle // fa sempre la parte dello stupido, he is always playing the fool // ha fatto la sua parte fino alla fine, he played his part to the end // fare una ( brutta) parte a qlcu., ( trattarlo male) to bite s.o.'s head off, ( giocargli un brutto tiro) to play the dirty on s.o.
    6 ( fazione, partito) faction, party: uomo di parte, party man; spirito di parte, party spirit
    7 (comm., dir.) party; side: parte civile, plaintiff; costituirsi parte civile contro qlcu., to bring an action against s.o. (o to sue s.o.); le parti in causa, the parties to the case; la parte lesa, interessata, the injured, interested party; le due parti in un contratto, the two parties to a contract; convocare, udire le parti, to summon, to hear the parties
    8 (mus.) part.
    * * *
    ['parte]
    sostantivo femminile
    2) (porzione) part, share
    3) (componente) part
    4) (lato) side (anche fig.)

    d'altra parte — fig. then again, on the other hand

    da parte a parte — [attraversare, trafiggere] right o straight through

    5) (direzione) way, direction

    da qualsiasi parte — anywhere, anywhere and everywhere

    da un'altra parte — elsewhere, somewhere else

    da queste -i — (nei dintorni) somewhere about o around here

    da parte sua ha dichiarato che... — for his part he declared that...

    da una parte... dall'altra... — on the one hand... on the other hand

    9) (fazione, campo) side

    di parte — [spirito, discorso] partisan

    essere dalla parte di qcn. — to be on sb.'s side

    10) dir. party

    prendere le -i di qcn. — to take sb.'s part, to side with sb., to stand o stick up for sb

    12) teatr. telev. cinem. (ruolo) part, role (anche fig.)

    parte da protagonista — lead o leading role

    fare la propria parte — fig. to do one's part o bit

    13) mus. part

    da parte di qcn. — (per quanto riguarda) by o from sb., on the part of sb.; (per incarico di) on behalf of sb.; (del ramo familiare di) on sb.'s side

    mettere, lasciare qcs. da parte — to put, leave sth. to one side o aside

    prendere qcn. da parte — to take sb. to one side, to get sb. alone

    farsi da parte — to step o move aside

    16) a parte (separatamente) apart, separately; (eccetto, tranne) apart, besides

    nessuno lo sa, a parte Mary — nobody knows, besides Mary

    a parte i cani, gli animali non mi piacciono — dogs apart, I don't like animals

    17) in parte (in) part, partly

    in parte era paura, in parte avidità — it was part fear, part greed

    18) prendere parte a to take* part in, to join in [manifestazione, gioco, attività]; to be* engaged in, to join in [discussione, negoziati]
    •

    parte del discorso — ling. part of speech

    - i intime — private parts, privates colloq.

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    * * *
    parte
    in large measure, to a large o great extent
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    parte
    /'parte/
    sostantivo f.
     1 (di un intero) part; un romanzo in tre -i a three-part novel; per la maggior parte for the most part; la maggior parte della gente most people; dividere in -i uguali to divide equally o evenly
     2 (porzione) part, share; pagare la propria parte to pay one's share; dedica loro una parte del suo tempo libero he devotes some of his free time to them; la maggior parte del tempo most of the time
     3 (componente) part; le -i del corpo the parts of the body; far parte di to be part of; fa parte della famiglia he's one of the family
     4 (lato) side (anche fig.); da ogni parte from all sides; d'altra parte fig. then again, on the other hand; da parte a parte [attraversare, trafiggere] right o straight through; dalla stessa parte on the same side; abita dall'altra parte della strada he lives across the street; il tempo è dalla nostra parte time is on our side
     5 (direzione) way, direction; da che parte andate? which way are you going?
     6 (luogo) da qualche parte somewhere; (in frasi interrogative) anywhere; da qualsiasi parte anywhere, anywhere and everywhere; da un'altra parte elsewhere, somewhere else; da nessuna parte nowhere; (con altra negazione) anywhere; da tutte le -i everywhere
     7 (zona) da queste -i (nei dintorni) somewhere about o around here; dalle -i della stazione in the neighbourhood of the station; se per caso capiti dalle nostre -i if you're ever down our way; un dolce tipico delle nostre -i one of our local cakes
     8 (punto di vista) da parte sua ha dichiarato che... for his part he declared that...; da una parte... dall'altra... on the one hand... on the other hand...
     9 (fazione, campo) side; di parte [spirito, discorso] partisan; essere dalla parte di qcn. to be on sb.'s side; essere dalla parte del torto to be in the wrong
     10 dir. party; la parte lesa the aggrieved; le -i in causa the parties hereto
     11 (difese) prendere le -i di qcn. to take sb.'s part, to side with sb., to stand o stick up for sb.
     12 teatr. telev. cinem. (ruolo) part, role (anche fig.); parte da protagonista lead o leading role; fare la parte del cattivo to play the villain ; fare la propria parte fig. to do one's part o bit
     13 mus. part
     14 da parte di da parte di qcn. (per quanto riguarda) by o from sb., on the part of sb.; (per incarico di) on behalf of sb.; (del ramo familiare di) on sb.'s side; salutalo da parte mia give him my best regards; è stupido da parte sua fare it is stupid of him to do; ho un regalo per te da parte di mia sorella I've got a present for you from my sister
     15 da parte (in serbo) aside; (in disparte) apart; mettere, lasciare qcs. da parte to put, leave sth. to one side o aside; prendere qcn. da parte to take sb. to one side, to get sb. alone; farsi da parte to step o move aside
     16 a parte (separatamente) apart, separately; (eccetto, tranne) apart, besides; scherzi a parte joking aside o apart; un mondo a parte a world apart; a parte il giardino apart from the garden; nessuno lo sa, a parte Mary nobody knows, besides Mary; a parte i cani, gli animali non mi piacciono dogs apart, I don't like animals; preparate una salsa a parte prepare a sauce separately
     17 in parte (in) part, partly; in parte era paura, in parte avidità it was part fear, part greed
     18 prendere parte a to take* part in, to join in [manifestazione, gioco, attività]; to be* engaged in, to join in [ discussione, negoziati]; prendiamo parte al vostro dolore we share your grief
    fare la parte del leone to take the lion's share; anche l'occhio vuole la sua parte you should also please the eye
    \
    parte del discorso ling. part of speech; - i basse groin; - i intime private parts, privates colloq.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > parte

  • 9 Handley Page, Sir Frederick

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 15 November 1885 Cheltenham, England
    d. 21 April 1962 London, England
    [br]
    English aviation pioneer, specialist in large aircraft and developer of the slotted wing for safer slow flying.
    [br]
    Frederick Handley Page trained as an electrical engineer but soon turned his attention to the more exciting world of aeronautics. He started by manufacturing propellers for aeroplanes and airships, and then in 1909 he founded a public company. His first aeroplane, the Bluebird, was not a success, but an improved version flew well. It was known as the "Yellow Peril" because of its yellow doped finish and made a notable flight across London from Barking to Brooklands. In 1910 Handley Page became one of the first college lecturers in aeronautical engineering. During the First World War Handley Page concentrated on the production of large bombers. The 0/100 was a biplane with a wing span of 100 ft (30 m) and powered by two engines: it entered service in 1916. In 1918 an improved version, the 0/400, entered service and a larger four-engined bomber made its first flight. This was the V/1500, which was designed to bomb Berlin, but the war ended before this raid took place. After the war, Handley Page turned his attention to airline operations with the great advantage of having at his disposal large bombers which could be adapted to carry passengers. Handley Page Air Transport Ltd was formed in 1919 and provided services to several European cities. Eventually this company became part of Imperial Airways, but Handley Page continued to supply them with large airliners. Probably the most famous was the majestic HP 42 four-engined biplane, which set very high standards of comfort and safety. Safety was always important to Handley Page and in 1920 he developed a wing with a slot along the leading edge: this made slow flying safer by delaying the stall. Later versions used separate aerofoil-shaped slats on the leading edge that were sometimes fixed, sometimes retractable. The HP 42 was fitted with these slats. From the 1930s Handley Page produced a series of bombers, such as the Heyford, Hampden, Harrow and, most famous of all, the Halifax, which played a major role in the Second World War. Then followed the Victor V-bomber of 1952 with its distinctive "crescent" wing and high tailplane. Sir Frederick's last venture was the Herald short-haul airliner of 1955; designed to replace the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3, it was only a limited success.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1942. CBE 1918. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex 1956–60. Honorary Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
    Bibliography
    1950, "Towards slower and safer flying, improved take-off and landing and cheaper airports", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
    Further Reading
    D.C.Clayton, 1970, Handley Page: An Aircraft Album, London (for details of his aircraft).
    C.H.Barnes, 1976, Handley Page Aircraft since 1907, London.
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Handley Page, Sir Frederick

  • 10 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 11 Wenham, Francis Herbert

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
    [br]
    b. 1824 London, England
    d. 11 August 1908 Folkestone, England
    [br]
    English engineer, inventor and pioneer aerodynamicist who built the first wind tunnel.
    [br]
    Wenham trained as a marine engineer and later specialized in screw propellers and high-pressure engines. He had many interests. He took his steamboat to the Nile and assisted the photographer F.Frith to photograph Egyptian tombs by devising a series of mirrors to deflect sunlight into the dark recesses. He experimented with gas engines and produced a hot-air engine. Wenham was a leading, if controversial, figure in the Microscopical Society and a member of the Royal Photographic Society; he developed an enlarger.
    Wenham was interested in both mechanical and lighter-than-air flight. One of his friends was James Glaisher, a well-known balloonist who made many ascents to gather scientific information. When the (Royal) Aeronautical Society of Great Britain was founded in 1866, the Rules were drawn up by Wenham, Glaisher and the Honorary Secretary, F.W.Brearey. At the first meeting of the Society, on 27 June 1866, "On aerial locomotion and the laws by which heavy bodies impelled through the air are sustained" was read by Wenham. In his paper Wenham described his experiments with a whirling arm (used earlier by Cayley) to measure lift and drag on flat surfaces inclined at various angles of incidence. His studies of birds' wings and, in particular, their wing loading, showed that they derived most of their lift from the front portion, hence a long, thin wing was better than a short, wide one. He published illustrations of his glider designs covering his experiments of c. 1858–9. One of these had five slender wings one above the other, an idea later developed by Horatio Phillips. Wenham had some success with a model, but no real success with his full-size gliders.
    In 1871, Wenham and John Browning constructed the first wind tunnel designed for aeronautical research. It utilized a fan driven by a steam engine to propel the air and had a working section of 18 in. (116 cm). Wenham continued to play an important role in aeronautical matters for many years, including a lengthy exchange of ideas with Octave Chanute from 1892 onwards.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Honorary Member of the (Royal) Aeronautical Society.
    Bibliography
    Wenham published many reports and papers. These are listed, together with a reprint of his paper "Aerial locomotion", in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August 1958).
    Further Reading
    Two papers by J.Laurence Pritchard, 1957, "The dawn of aerodynamics" Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (March); 1958, "Francis Herbert Wenham", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (August) (both papers describe Wenham and his work).
    J.E.Hodgson, 1924, History of Aeronautics in Great Britain, London.
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  • 12 ruolo

    m role
    personale m di ruolo (permanent) members of staff
    * * *
    ruolo s.m.
    1 (amm.) ( elenco) list, roll (anche dir.), roster; ( organico) staff, personnel: ruoli dell'equipaggio, muster-roll; i ruoli del Ministero, the list of Ministry employees; i ruoli del personale docente, the list of state teachers; ruolo di promozione, ( di personale) promotion roster (of staff); ruolo paga, payroll; essere iscritto nei ruoli di un'azienda, to be on a company's payroll // personale di ruolo, fuori ruolo, permanent, temporary staff; impiegato di ruolo, permanent (o regular) employee; assumere qlcu. in ruolo, to put s.o. on the permanent staff; professore di ruolo, permanent (o regular) state teacher; ( universitario) lecturer with tenure // (dir.): la causa fu rinviata a nuovo ruolo, the case was held over; mettere, iscrivere a ruolo una causa, to enter a case for trial; iscrizione di una causa a ruolo, entry of a case for trial // (trib.) ruolo delle imposte, dei contribuenti, list of taxpayers (o tax roll o taxpayers' roll)
    2 (teatr.) ( parte) role, part: ha recitato nel ruolo di Adelchi, he played the role of Adelchi; avere il ruolo principale, to play the leading role
    3 ( funzione) role; (sport) position: il ruolo delle donne nella società moderna, the role of women in modern society; atteggiarmi a intellettuale non è il mio ruolo, playing the intellectual is not my style; le importazioni di petrolio giocano un ruolo di primo piano, oil imports play a major part (o leading role); giocherà nel ruolo di ala sinistra, he'll play (in the) left wing (position).
    * * *
    ['rwɔlo]
    sostantivo maschile
    1) teatr. cinem. telev. part, role

    ruolo principale — lead, leading role

    2) (funzione) role

    avere o svolgere un ruolo di primo piano in qcs. — to play a prominent, leading role o part in sth

    3) sport position
    4) burocr. (elenco) list, roll

    di ruolo — [ insegnante] regular, permanent; [ docente universitario] tenured

    essere di ruolo — [ insegnante] to be on the regular staff; [ docente universitario] to be tenured

    passare di ruolo — [ insegnante] to be made permanent; [ docente universitario] to get tenure, to be given tenure

    5) dir. (registro) register, docket AE

    iscrivere una causa a ruolo — to enter a case for trial, to docket a case AE

    * * *
    ruolo
    /'rwɔlo/
    sostantivo m.
     1 teatr. cinem. telev. part, role; ruolo principale lead, leading role; recitare nel ruolo di Amleto to play (the character o part of) Hamlet
     2 (funzione) role; avere o svolgere un ruolo di primo piano in qcs. to play a prominent, leading role o part in sth.
     3 sport position
     4 burocr. (elenco) list, roll; di ruolo [ insegnante] regular, permanent; [ docente universitario] tenured; essere di ruolo [ insegnante] to be on the regular staff; [ docente universitario] to be tenured; passare di ruolo [ insegnante] to be made permanent; [ docente universitario] to get tenure, to be given tenure
     5 dir. (registro) register, docket AE; iscrivere una causa a ruolo to enter a case for trial, to docket a case AE.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > ruolo

  • 13 Voelcker, John Augustus

    [br]
    b. 24 June 1854 Cirencester, England
    d. 1937 England
    [br]
    English agricultural chemist.
    [br]
    John Augustus Voelcker, as the son of Dr John Christopher Voelcker, grew up in an atmosphere of scientific agriculture and would have had contact with the leading agriculturists of the day. He was educated at University College School and then University College, London, where he obtained both a BA and a BSc Following in his father's footsteps, he studied for his PhD at Giessen University in Germany. At college he enjoyed athletics, an interest he was to pursue for the rest of his life. He decided to take up agricultural chemistry and was to succeed to all the public offices once held by his father, from whom he also took over the directorship of Woburn Farm. The experimental farm had been started in 1876 and was used to study the residual effects of chemicals in the soil. The results of these studies were used as the basis for compensation awards to tenant farmers giving up their farms. Voelcker broadened the range of studies to include trace elements in the soil, but by 1921 the Royal Agricultural Society of England had decided to give up the farm. This was a blow to Voelcker and occurred just before experiments elsewhere highlighted the importance of these elements to healthy plant growth. He continued the research at his own expense until the Rothampsted Experimental Station took over the farm in 1926. Aside from his achievements in Britain, Voelcker undertook a study tour of India in 1890, the report on which led to the appointment of an Agricultural Chemist, and the establishment of a scientific service for the Indian subcontinent.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Royal Society of Public Analysts. Member of Council, Chemical Society, and Institute of Chemistry. Chairman, Farmers' Club.
    Bibliography
    Most of his publications were in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, for which he wrote an annual report, and in another series of reports relating to Woburn Farm. The Improvements of Indian Agriculture was the result of his tour in 1890.
    Further Reading
    Sir E.John Russell, A History of Agricultural Science in Great Britain.
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Voelcker, John Augustus

  • 14 Mond, Ludwig

    SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology
    [br]
    b. 7 March 1839 Cassel, Germany
    d. 11 December 1909 London, England
    [br]
    German (naturalized English) industrial chemist.
    [br]
    Born into a prosperous Jewish merchant family, Mond studied at the Polytechnic in Cassel and then under the distinguished chemists Hermann Kolbe at Marburg and Bunsen at Heidelberg from 1856. In 1859 he began work as an industrial chemist in various works in Germany and Holland. At this time, Mond was pursuing his method for recovering sulphur from the alkali wastes in the Leblanc soda-making process. Mond came to England in 1862 and five years later settled permanently, in partnership with John Hutchinson \& Co. at Widnes, to perfect his process, although complete success eluded him. He became a naturalized British subject in 1880.
    In 1872 Mond became acquainted with Ernest Solvay, the Belgian chemist who developed the ammonia-soda process which finally supplanted the Leblanc process. Mond negotiated the English patent rights and set up the first ammoniasoda plant in England at Winnington in Cheshire, in partnership with John Brunner. After overcoming many difficulties by incessant hard work, the process became a financial success and in 1881 Brunner, Mond \& Co. was formed, for a time the largest alkali works in the world. In 1926 the company merged with others to form Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (ICI). The firm was one of the first to adopt the eight-hour day and to provide model dwellings and playing fields for its employees.
    From 1879 Mond took up the production of ammonia and this led to the Mond producer-gas plant, patented in 1883. The process consisted of passing air and steam over coal and coke at a carefully regulated temperature. Ammonia was generated and, at the same time, so was a cheap and useful producer gas. Mond's major discovery followed the observation in 1889 that carbon monoxide could combine with nickel in its ore at around 60°C to form a gaseous compound, nickel carbonyl. This, on heating to a higher temperature, would then decompose to give pure nickel. Mond followed up this unusual way of producing and purifying a metal and by 1892 had succeeded in setting up a pilot plant to perfect a large-scale process and went on to form the Mond Nickel Company.
    Apart from being a successful industrialist, Mond was prominent in scientific circles and played a leading role in the setting up of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1881. The success of his operations earned him great wealth, much of which he donated for learned and charitable purposes. He formed a notable collection of pictures which he bequeathed to the National Gallery.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1891.
    Bibliography
    1885, "On the origin of the ammonia-soda process", Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry 4:527–9.
    1895. "The history of the process of nickel extraction", Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry 14:945–6.
    Further Reading
    J.M.Cohen, 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond, London: Methuen. Obituary, 1918, Journal of the Chemical Society 113:318–34.
    F.C.Donnan, 1939, Ludwig Mond 1839–1909, London (a valuable lecture).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Mond, Ludwig

  • 15 Ramsden, Jesse

    [br]
    b. 6 October 1735 (?) Halifax, Yorkshire, England
    d. 5 November 1800 Brighton, Sussex, England
    [br]
    English instrument-maker who developed machines for accurately measuring angular and linear scales.
    [br]
    Jesse Ramsden was the son of an innkeeper but received a good general education: after attending the free school at Halifax, he was sent at the age of 12 to his uncle for further study, particularly in mathematics. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a cloth-worker in Halifax and on completion of the apprenticeship in 1755 he moved to London to work as a clerk in a cloth warehouse. In 1758 he became an apprentice in the workshop of a London mathematical instrument-maker named Burton. He quickly gained the skill, particularly in engraving, and by 1762 he was able to set up on his own account. He married in 1765 or 1766 the youngest daughter of the optician John Dollond FRS (1706– 61) and received a share of Dollond's patent for making achromatic lenses.
    Ramsden's experience and reputation increased rapidly and he was generally regarded as the leading instrument-maker of his time. He opened a shop in the Haymarket and transferred to Piccadilly in 1775. His staff increased to about sixty workers and apprentices, and by 1789 he had constructed nearly 1,000 sextants as well as theodolites, micrometers, balances, barometers, quadrants and other instruments.
    One of Ramsden's most important contributions to precision measurement was his development of machines for obtaining accurate division of angular and linear scales. For this work he received a premium from the Commissioners of the Board of Longitude, who published his descriptions of the machines. For the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain, initiated by General William Roy FRS (1726–90) and continued by the Board of Ordnance, Ramsden supplied a 3 ft (91 cm) theodolite and steel measuring chains, and was also engaged to check the glass tubes used to measure the fundamental base line.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1786; Royal Society Copley Medal 1795. Member, Imperial Academy of St Petersburg 1794. Member, Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1793.
    Bibliography
    Instruments, London.
    1779, "Description of two new micrometers", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 69:419–31.
    1782, "A new construction of eyeglasses for such telescopes as may be applied to mathematical instruments", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 73:94–99.
    Further Reading
    R.S.Woodbury, 1961, History of the Lathe to 1850, Cleveland, Ohio; W.Steeds, 1969, A History of Machine Tools 1700–1910, Oxford (both provide a brief description of Ramsden's dividing machines).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Ramsden, Jesse

  • 16 Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 18 February 1745 Como, Italy
    d. 5 March 1827 Como, Italy
    [br]
    Italian physicist, discoverer of a source of continuous electric current from a pile of dissimilar metals.
    [br]
    Volta had an early command of English, French and Latin, and also learned to read Dutch and Spanish. After completing studies at the Royal Seminary in Como he was involved in the study of physics, chemistry and electricity. He became a teacher of physics in his native town and in 1779 was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Pavia, a post he held for forty years.
    With a growing international reputation and a wish to keep abreast of the latest developments, in 1777 he began the first of many travels abroad. A journey started in 1781 to Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Holland, France and England lasted about one year. By 1791 he had been elected to membership of many learned societies, including those in Zurich, Berlin, Berne and Paris. Volta's invention of his pile resulted from a controversy with Luigi Galvani, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna. Galvani discovered that the muscles of frogs' legs contracted when touched with two pieces of different metals and attributed this to a phenomenon of the animal tissue. Volta showed that the excitation was due to a chemical reaction resulting from the contact of the dissimilar metals when moistened. His pile comprised a column of zinc and silver discs, each pair separated by paper moistened with brine, and provided a source of continuous current from a simple and accessible source. The effectiveness of the pile decreased as the paper dried and Volta devised his crown of cups, which had a longer life. In this, pairs of dissimilar metals were placed in each of a number of cups partly filled with an electrolyte such as brine. Volta first announced the results of his experiments with dissimilar metals in 1800 in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society. This letter, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society, has been regarded as one of the most important documents in the history of science. Large batteries were constructed in a number of laboratories soon after Volta's discoveries became known, leading immediately to a series of developments in electrochemistry and eventually in electromagnetism. Volta himself made little further contribution to science. In recognition of his achievement, at a meeting of the International Electrical Congress in Paris in 1881 it was agreed to name the unit of electrical pressure the "volt".
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1791. Royal Society Copley Medal 1794. Knight of the Iron Crown, Austria, 1806. Senator of the Realm of Lombardy 1809.
    Bibliography
    1800, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 18:744–6 (Volta's report on his discovery).
    Further Reading
    G.Polvani, 1942, Alessandro Volta, Pisa (the best account available).
    B.Dibner, 1964, Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery, New York (a detailed account).
    C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1976, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. XIV, New York, pp.
    66–82 (includes an extensive biography).
    F.Soresni, 1988, Alessandro Volta, Milan (includes illustrations of Volta's apparatus, with brief text).
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Volta, Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio

  • 17 beherrschend

    I Part. Präs. beherrschen
    II Adj. (vorherrschend) dominating; beherrschendes Thema der Verhandlungen war... topic number one ( oder the leading topic) at the talks was...
    * * *
    be|hẹrr|schend [bə'hɛrʃənt]
    adj
    fig = vorherrschend) dominating

    beherrschendes Thema der Verhandlungen war... — topic number one or the leading topic of the talks was...

    See:
    → auch beherrschen
    * * *
    1) (with a wide view: The house had a commanding position on the hill.) commanding
    2) (ruling; most important; strongest: the dominant group in society; Green was the dominant colour in the room.) dominant
    * * *
    be·herr·schend
    adj ruling
    * * *
    A. ppr → beherrschen
    B. adj (vorherrschend) dominating;
    beherrschendes Thema der Verhandlungen war … topic number one ( oder the leading topic) at the talks was …
    * * *
    adj.
    dominant adj.
    governmental adj.
    predominant adj.
    ruling adj.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > beherrschend

  • 18 Grove, Sir William Robert

    SUBJECT AREA: Electricity
    [br]
    b. 11 July 1811 Swansea, Wales
    d. 1 August 1896 London, England
    [br]
    Welsh chemist and physicist, inventor of the Grove electrochemical primary cell.
    [br]
    After education at Brasenose College, Oxford, Grove was called to the Bar in 1835. Instead of immediately practising, he became involved in electrical research, devising in 1839 the cell that bears his name. He became Professor of Experimental Philosophy at the London Institution from 1840 to 1845; it was during this period that he built up his high reputation among physicists. In 1846 he published On the Correlation of Physical Forces, which was based on a course of his lectures. He returned to the practice of law, becoming a judge in 1871, but retained his interest in scientific research during his sixteen-year occupancy of the Bench. He served as a member of the Council of the Royal Society in 1846 and 1847 and played a leading part in its reform. Contributing to the science of electrochemistry, he invented the Grove cell, which together with its modification by Bunsen became an important source of electrical energy during the middle of the nineteenth century, before mechanically driven generators became available. The Grove cell had a platinum electrode immersed in strong nitric acid, separated by a porous diaphragm from a zinc electrode in weak sulphuric acid. The hydrogen formed at the platinum electrode was immediately oxidized by the acid, turning it into water. This avoided the polarization which occurred in the early copper-zinc cells. It was a very powerful primary cell with a high voltage and a low internal resistance, but it produced objectionable fumes. Grove also invented his "gas battery", the earliest fuel cell, in which a current resulted from the chemical energy released from combining oxygen and hydrogen. This was developed by Rawcliffe and others, and found applications as a power source in manned spacecraft.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1872. FRS 1840. Fellow of the Chemistry Society 1841. Royal Society Royal Medal 1847.
    Bibliography
    1846, On the Correlation of Physical Forces, London; 1874, 6th edn, with reprints of many of Grove's papers (his only book, an early view on the conservation of energy).
    1839, "On a small voltaic battery of great energy", Philosophical Magazine 15:287–93 (his account of his cell).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1896, Electrician 37:483–4.
    K.R.Webb, 1961, "Sir William Robert Grove (1811–1896) and the origin of the fuel cell", Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 85: 291–3 (for the present-day significance of Grove's experiments).
    C.C.Gillispie (ed.), 1972, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. V, New York, pp. 559–61.
    GW

    Biographical history of technology > Grove, Sir William Robert

  • 19 Lawes, Sir John Bennet

    [br]
    b. 28 December 1814 Rothamsted, Hertfordshire, England
    d. 31 August 1900 Rothamsted, Hertfordshire, England
    [br]
    English scientific agriculturalist.
    [br]
    Lawes's education at Eton and Oxford did little to inform his early taste for chemistry, which he developed largely on his own. By the age of 20 he had fitted up the best bedroom in his house as a fully equipped chemical laboratory. His first interest was in the making of drugs; it was said that he knew the Pharmacopoeia, by heart. He did, however, receive some instruction from Anthony Todd Thomson of University College, London. His father having died in 1822, Lawes entered into possession of the Rothamsted estate when he came of age in 1834. He began experiments with plants with uses as drugs, but following an observation by a neighbouring farmer of the effect of bones on the growth of certain crops Lawes turned to experiments with bones dissolved in sulphuric acid on his turnip crop. The results were so promising that he took out a patent in 1842 for converting mineral and fossil phosphates into a powerful manure by the action of sulphuric acid. The manufacture of these superphosphates became a major industry of tremendous benefit to agriculture. Lawes himself set up a factory at Deptford in 1842 and a larger one in 1857 at Barking Creek, both near London. The profits from these and other chemical manufacturing concerns earned Lawes profits which funded his experimental work at Rothamsted. In 1843, Lawes set up the world's first agricultural experiment station. Later in the same year he was joined by Joseph Henry Gilbert, and together they carried out a considerable number of experiments of great benefit to agriculture, many of the results of which were published in the leading scientific journals of the day, including the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. In all, 132 papers were published, most of them jointly with Gilbert. A main theme of the work on plants was the effect of various chemical fertilizers on the growth of different crops, compared with the effects of farm manure and of no treatment at all. On animal rearing, they studied particularly the economical feeding of animals.
    The work at Rothamsted soon brought Lawes into prominence; he joined the Royal Agricultural Society in 1846 and became a member of its governing body two years later, a position he retained for over fifty years. Numerous distinctions followed and Rothamsted became a place of pilgrimage for people from many parts of the world who were concerned with the application of science to agriculture. Rothamsted's jubilee in 1893 was marked by a public commemoration headed by the Prince of Wales.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Baronet 1882. FRS 1854. Royal Society Royal Medal (jointly with Gilbert) 1867.
    Further Reading
    Memoir with portrait published in J. Roy. Agric. Soc. Memoranda of the origin, plan and results of the field and other experiments at Rothamsted, issued annually by the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee, with a list of Lawes's scientific papers.
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Lawes, Sir John Bennet

  • 20 Gotha

    gotha [gɔta]
    masculine noun
    ( = aristocratie) le gotha high society
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    gɔta
    nom masculin ( noblesse) aristocracy; ( haute société) high society
    * * *
    ɡɔta nm
    (= élite) elite
    * * *
    gotha nm ( noblesse) aristocracy; ( haute société) high society; fréquenter le gotha politique/financier to move in high political/financial circles; le gotha des publicitaires the top advertising agents (pl); le gotha économique the economic elite.
    [gɔta] nom masculin
    [aristocratie] aristocracy
    [élite] elite

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