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101 wild
wild [waɪld]∎ a wild beast une bête sauvage; figurative une bête féroce;∎ a pack of wild dogs une meute de chiens féroces ou sauvages;∎ a wild rabbit un lapin de garenne∎ wild strawberries fraises fpl des bois;∎ many parts of the country are still wild beaucoup de régions du pays sont encore à l'état sauvage∎ wild weather du gros temps;∎ a wild wind un vent violent ou de tempête;∎ a wild sea une mer très agitée;∎ it was a wild night ce fut une nuit de tempête∎ to be wild with grief/happiness/jealousy être fou de douleur/de joie/de jalousie;∎ that noise is driving me wild ce bruit me rend fou;∎ he had wild eyes or a wild look in his eyes il avait une lueur de folie dans le regard∎ a wild-looking young man un jeune homme à l'air farouche∎ the speaker received wild applause l'orateur reçut des applaudissements frénétiques;∎ familiar to be wild about sb être dingue de qn;∎ familiar to be wild about sth être dingue de qch, être emballé par qch;∎ I'm not really wild about modern art l'art moderne ne m'emballe pas vraiment(g) (outrageous → idea, imagination) insensé, fantaisiste; (→ promise) insensé; (→ rumour) délirant; (→ plan) extravagant;∎ he has some wild scheme for getting rich quick il a un projet farfelu ou abracadabrant pour devenir riche en peu de temps;∎ the book's success was beyond his wildest dreams le succès de son livre dépassait ses rêves les plus fous(h) (reckless) fou (folle);∎ they're always having wild parties ils organisent toujours des soirées démentes;∎ that was in my wild youth c'était au temps de ma folle jeunesse;∎ we had some wild times together nous en avons fait des folies ensemble;∎ there was a lot of wild talk about revolution/going to court on a beaucoup parlé de révolution/de porter l'affaire devant les tribunaux∎ to take a wild swing at sth lancer le poing au hasard pour atteindre qch;∎ to make a wild guess (at the answer) répondre à tout hasard ou à l'aveuglette;∎ at a wild guess à vue de nez;∎ Cards aces are wild les as sont libres;∎ figurative to play a wild card prendre un risque∎ to sow one's wild oats jeter sa gourme2 noun∎ in the wild en liberté;∎ the call of the wild l'appel m de la nature;∎ he spent a year living in the wild or the wilds il a passé un an dans la brousse;∎ the wilds of northern Canada le fin fond du nord du Canada3 adverb(a) (grow, live) en liberté;∎ strawberries grow wild in the forest des fraises poussent à l'état sauvage dans la forêt;∎ the deer live wild in the hills les cerfs vivent en liberté dans les collines∎ to go wild with joy/rage devenir fou de joie/de colère;∎ when he came on stage the audience went wild les spectateurs hurlèrent d'enthousiasme quand il arriva sur le plateau∎ they let their children run wild ils laissent leurs enfants traîner dans la rue; figurative ils ne disciplinent pas du tout leurs enfants;∎ they've left the garden to run wild ils ont laissé le jardin à l'abandon ou revenir à l'état sauvage►► Botany wild angelica angélique f sauvage;Zoology wild boar sanglier m;wild card (in card games) joker m; Computing joker m; Sport (player) = sportif invité à participer à une compétition sans s'être qualifié; (in American football) = équipe qualifiée pour la finale sans pour autant avoir remporté sa poule;Computing wild card character caractère m joker;Botany wild carrot carotte f sauvage;Botany wild chicory chicorée f sauvage, mignonnette f;wild horse cheval m sauvage;∎ figurative wild horses couldn't drag it out of me je serai muet comme une tombe;Botany wild hyacinth jacinthe f des bois;Botany wild madder garance f voyageuse;Botany wild mignonette réséda m jaune;Botany wild pansy petite jacée f;Cookery wild rice zizania m, riz m sauvage;wild silk soie f sauvage;Botany wild thyme serpolet m;Wild West Far West m;∎ a Wild West show = un spectacle sur le thème du Far West -
102 Bourn, Daniel
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]fl. 1744 Lancashire, England[br]English inventor of a machine with cylinders for carding cotton.[br]Daniel Bourn may well have been a native of Lancashire. He set up a fourth Paul-Wyatt cotton-spinning mill at Leominster, Herefordshire, possibly in 1744, although the earliest mention of it is in 1748. His only known partner in this mill was Henry Morris, a yarn dealer who in 1743 had bought a grant of spindles from Paul at the low rate of 30 shillings or 40 shillings per spindle when the current price was £3 or £4. When Bourn patented his carding engine in 1748, he asked Wyatt for a grant of spindles, to which Wyatt agreed because £100 was offered immedi-ately. The mill, which was probably the only one outside the control of Paul and his backers, was destroyed by fire in 1754 and was not rebuilt, although Bourn and his partners had considerable hopes for it. Bourn was said to have lost over £1,600 in the venture.Daniel Bourn described himself as a wool and cotton dealer of Leominster in his patent of 1748 for his carding engine. The significance of this invention is the use of rotating cylinders covered with wire clothing. The patent drawing shows four cylinders, one following the other to tease out the wool, but Bourn was unable to discover a satisfactory method of removing the fibres from the last cylinder. It is possible that Robert Peel in Lancashire obtained one of these engines through Morris, and that James Hargreaves tried to improve it; if so, then some of the early carding engines in the cotton industry were derived from Bourn's.[br]Bibliography1748, British patent no. 628 (carding engine).Further ReadingA.P.Wadsworth and J.de Lacy Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire 1600–1780, Manchester (the most significant reference to Bourn).R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (provides an examination of the carding patent).R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester (mentions Bourn in his survey of the textile scene before Arkwright).R.Jenkins, 1936–7, "Industries of Herefordshire in Bygone Times", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 17 (includes a reference to Bourn's mill).C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vol. III, Oxford: Clarendon Press; ibid., 1958, Vol, IV (brief mentions of Bourn's work).RLH -
103 Deane, Sir Anthony
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 1638 Harwich (?), Englandd. 1721 England[br]English master shipwright, one of the most influential of seventeenth-century England.[br]It is believed that Deane was born in Harwich, the son of a master mariner. When 22 years of age, having been trained by Christopher Pett, he was appointed Assistant Master Shipwright at Woolwich Naval Dockyard, indicating an ability as a shipbuilder and also that he had influence behind him. Despite abruptness and a tendency to annoy his seniors, he was acknowledged by no less a man than Pepys (1633–1703) for his skill as a ship designer and -builder, and he was one of the few who could accurately estimate displacements and drafts of ships under construction. While only 26 years old, he was promoted to Master Shipwright of the Naval Base at Harwich and commenced a notable career. When the yard was closed four years later (on the cessation of the threat from the Dutch), Deane was transferred to the key position of Master Shipwright at Portsmouth and given the opportunity to construct large men-of-war. In 1671 he built his first three-decker and was experimenting with underwater hull sheathing and other matters. In 1672 he became a member of the Navy Board, and from then on promotion was spectacular, with almost full responsibility given him for decisions on ship procurement for the Navy. Owing to political changes he was out of office for some years and endured a short period in prison, but on his release he continued to work as a private shipbuilder. He returned to the King's service for a few years before the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688; thereafter little is known of his life, beyond that he died in 1721.Deane's monument to posterity is his Doctrine of Naval Architecture, published in 1670. It is one of the few books on ship design of the period and gives a clear insight into the rather pedantic procedures used in those less than scientific times. Deane became Mayor of Harwich and subsequently Member of Parliament. It is believed that he was Peter the Great's tutor on shipbuilding during his visit to the Thames in 1698.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1673.Bibliography1670, Doctrine of Naval Architecture; repub. 1981, with additional commentaries by Brian Lavery, as Deane's Doctrine of Naval Architecture 1670, London: Conway Maritime.Further ReadingWestcott Abell, 1948, The Shipwright's Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.FMW -
104 Gorton, Richard
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]fl. 1790s England[br]English patentee of a power loom for weaving narrow fabrics.[br]In May 1791, Richard Gorton took out a patent for a new type of power-driven loom for narrow fabrics to "work one or several pieces at the same time, either by hand, lath, steam engine, or by water-machinery". The sley with the reed was worked by a crank, and the picker by a lever and cam. The shuttle-box had springs to retain the shuttle, and the warp was kept tight by weights. A stop, which was usually pushed out of the way by the shuttle entering the box, prevented the sley or lath "driving the shuttle against the piece" when the shuttle stuck in the middle. One particularly interesting feature was the sizing of the warp threads by means of brushes and a roller that turned in a square trough filled with size. This pre-dates Radcliffe's sizing machine, which is always considered the first, by a number of years. The mill in which these machines worked was at Cuckney, near Mansfield, England. In 1788 Thomas Gorton had installed one of the earliest Boulton \& Watt rotative steam engines there.[br]BibliographyMay 1791, British patent no. 1,804 (power loom for weaving narrow fabrics).Further ReadingR.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (provides an account of Gorton's patent).S.D.Chapman, 1967, The Early Factory Masters, Newton Abbot (makes a brief mention of this invention).RLH -
105 Jacquard, Joseph-Marie
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 7 July 1752 Lyons, Franced. 7 August 1834 Oullines, France[br]French developer of the apparatus named after him and used for selecting complicated patterns in weaving.[br]Jacquard was apprenticed at the age of 12 to bookbinding, and later to type-founding and cutlery. His parents, who had some connection with weaving, left him a small property upon their death. He made some experiments with pattern weaving, but lost all his inheritance; after marrying, he returned to type-founding and cutlery. In 1790 he formed the idea for his machine, but it was forgotten amidst the excitement of the French Revolution, in which he fought for the Revolutionists at the defence of Lyons. The machine he completed in 1801 combined earlier inventions and was for weaving net. He was sent to Paris to demonstrate it at the National Exposition and received a bronze medal. In 1804 Napoleon granted him a patent, a pension of 1,500 francs and a premium on each machine sold. This enabled him to study and work at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers to perfect his mechanism for pattern weaving. A method of selecting any combination of leashes at each shoot of the weft had to be developed, and Jacquard's mechanism was the outcome of various previous inventions. By taking the cards invented by Falcon in 1728 that were punched with holes like the paper of Bouchon in 1725, to select the needles for each pick, and by placing the apparatus above the loom where Vaucanson had put his mechanism, Jacquard combined the best features of earlier inventions. He was not entirely successful because his invention failed in the way it pressed the card against the needles; later modifications by Breton in 1815 and Skola in 1819 were needed before it functioned reliably. However, the advantage of Jacquard's machine was that each pick could be selected much more quickly than on the earlier draw looms, which meant that John Kay's flying shuttle could be introduced on fine pattern looms because the weaver no longer had to wait for the drawboy to sort out the leashes for the next pick. Robert Kay's drop box could also be used with different coloured wefts. The drawboy could be dispensed with because the foot-pedal operating the Jacquard mechanism could be worked by the weaver. Patterns could be changed quickly by replacing one set of cards with another, but the scope of the pattern was more limited than with the draw loom. Some machines that were brought into use aroused bitter hostility. Jacquard suffered physical violence, barely escaping with his life, and his machines were burnt by weavers at Lyons. However, by 1812 his mechanism began to be generally accepted and had been applied to 11,000 draw-looms in France. In 1819 Jacquard received a gold medal and a Cross of Honour for his invention. His machines reached England c.1816 and still remain the basic way of weaving complicated patterns.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFrench Cross of Honour 1819. National Exposition Bronze Medal 1801.Further ReadingA.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London.C.Singer (ed.), 1958, A History of Technology, Vol. IV, Oxford: Clarendon Press.R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (covers the introduction of pattern weaving and the power loom).RLH -
106 Kay (of Bury), John
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 16 July 1704 Walmersley, near Bury, Lancashire, Englandd. 1779 France[br]English inventor of the flying shuttle.[br]John Kay was the youngest of five sons of a yeoman farmer of Walmersley, near Bury, Lancashire, who died before his birth. John was apprenticed to a reedmaker, and just before he was 21 he married a daughter of John Hall of Bury and carried on his trade in that town until 1733. It is possible that his first patent, taken out in 1730, was connected with this business because it was for an engine that made mohair thread for tailors and twisted and dressed thread; such thread could have been used to bind up the reeds used in looms. He also improved the reeds by making them from metal instead of cane strips so they lasted much longer and could be made to be much finer. His next patent in 1733, was a double one. One part of it was for a batting machine to remove dust from wool by beating it with sticks, but the patent is better known for its description of the flying shuttle. Kay placed boxes to receive the shuttle at either end of the reed or sley. Across the open top of these boxes was a metal rod along which a picking peg could slide and drive the shuttle out across the loom. The pegs at each end were connected by strings to a stick that was held in the right hand of the weaver and which jerked the shuttle out of the box. The shuttle had wheels to make it "fly" across the warp more easily, and ran on a shuttle race to support and guide it. Not only was weaving speeded up, but the weaver could produce broader cloth without any aid from a second person. This invention was later adapted for the power loom. Kay moved to Colchester and entered into partnership with a baymaker named Solomon Smith and a year later was joined by William Carter of Ballingdon, Essex. His shuttle was received with considerable hostility in both Lancashire and Essex, but it was probably more his charge of 15 shillings a year for its use that roused the antagonism. From 1737 he was much involved with lawsuits to try and protect his patent, particularly the part that specified the method of winding the thread onto a fixed bobbin in the shuttle. In 1738 Kay patented a windmill for working pumps and an improved chain pump, but neither of these seems to have been successful. In 1745, with Joseph Stell of Keighley, he patented a narrow fabric loom that could be worked by power; this type may have been employed by Gartside in Manchester soon afterwards. It was probably through failure to protect his patent rights that Kay moved to France, where he arrived penniless in 1747. He went to the Dutch firm of Daniel Scalongne, woollen manufacturers, in Abbeville. The company helped him to apply for a French patent for his shuttle, but Kay wanted the exorbitant sum of £10,000. There was much discussion and eventually Kay set up a workshop in Paris, where he received a pension of 2,500 livres. However, he was to face the same problems as in England with weavers copying his shuttle without permission. In 1754 he produced two machines for making card clothing: one pierced holes in the leather, while the other cut and sharpened the wires. These were later improved by his son, Robert Kay. Kay returned to England briefly, but was back in France in 1758. He was involved with machines to card both cotton and wool and tried again to obtain support from the French Government. He was still involved with developing textile machines in 1779, when he was 75, but he must have died soon afterwards. As an inventor Kay was a genius of the first rank, but he was vain, obstinate and suspicious and was destitute of business qualities.[br]Bibliography1730, British patent no. 515 (machine for making mohair thread). 1733, British patent no. 542 (batting machine and flying shuttle). 1738, British patent no. 561 (pump windmill and chain pump). 1745, with Joseph Stell, British patent no. 612 (power loom).Further ReadingB.Woodcroft, 1863, Brief Biographies of Inventors or Machines for the Manufacture of Textile Fabrics, London.J.Lord, 1903, Memoir of John Kay, (a more accurate account).Descriptions of his inventions may be found in A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London; R.L. Hills, 1970, Power in theIndustrial Revolution, Manchester; and C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History ofTechnology, Vol. III, Oxford: Clarendon Press. The most important record, however, is in A.P.Wadsworth and J. de L. Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and IndustrialLancashire, Manchester.RLH -
107 Miller, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]fl. 1790s Scotland[br]Scottish pioneer of improvements to the power loom.[br]After Edmund Cartwright many people contributed to the development of the power loom. Among them was Robert Miller of Dumbartonshire, Scotland. In 1796 he took out a patent for an improved protector which stopped the loom altogether when the shuttle failed to enter its box, thus preventing breakage of the warp threads. The same patent contained the specification for his "wiper" loom. The wipers, or cams, worked the picking stick to drive the shuttle across, a feature found on most later looms. He also moved the sley by a cam in one direction and by springs in the other. His looms were still working in 1808 and may have formed the basis for power looms built in Lowell in the USA.[br]Bibliography1796, British patent no. 2,122.Further ReadingR.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (provides the most detailed account of Miller's loom, with illustrations).A.Barlow, 1878, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power, London.W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London.D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830s, Oxford (illustrates Miller's influence in America).RLH -
108 Noyce, Robert
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 12 December 1927 Burlington, Iowa, USA[br]American engineer responsible for the development of integrated circuits and the microprocessor chip.[br]Noyce was the son of a Congregational minister whose family, after a number of moves, finally settled in Grinnell, some 50 miles (80 km) east of Des Moines, Iowa. Encouraged to follow his interest in science, in his teens he worked as a baby-sitter and mower of lawns to earn money for his hobby. One of his clients was Professor of Physics at Grinnell College, where Noyce enrolled to study mathematics and physics and eventually gained a top-grade BA. It was while there that he learned of the invention of the transistor by the team at Bell Laboratories, which included John Bardeen, a former fellow student of his professor. After taking a PhD in physical electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953, he joined the Philco Corporation in Philadelphia to work on the development of transistors. Then in January 1956 he accepted an invitation from William Shockley, another of the Bell transistor team, to join the newly formed Shockley Transistor Company, the first electronic firm to set up shop in Palo Alto, California, in what later became known as "Silicon Valley".From the start things at the company did not go well and eventually Noyce and Gordon Moore and six colleagues decided to offer themselves as a complete development team; with the aid of the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company, the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation was born. It was there that in 1958, contemporaneously with Jack K. Wilby at Texas Instruments, Noyce had the idea for monolithic integration of transistor circuits. Eventually, after extended patent litigation involving study of laboratory notebooks and careful examination of the original claims, priority was assigned to Noyce. The invention was most timely. The Apollo Moon-landing programme announced by President Kennedy in May 1961 called for lightweight sophisticated navigation and control computer systems, which could only be met by the rapid development of the new technology, and Fairchild was well placed to deliver the micrologic chips required by NASA.In 1968 the founders sold Fairchild Semicon-ductors to the parent company. Noyce and Moore promptly found new backers and set up the Intel Corporation, primarily to make high-density memory chips. The first product was a 1,024-bit random access memory (1 K RAM) and by 1973 sales had reached $60 million. However, Noyce and Moore had already realized that it was possible to make a complete microcomputer by putting all the logic needed to go with the memory chip(s) on a single integrated circuit (1C) chip in the form of a general purpose central processing unit (CPU). By 1971 they had produced the Intel 4004 microprocessor, which sold for US$200, and within a year the 8008 followed. The personal computer (PC) revolution had begun! Noyce eventually left Intel, but he remained active in microchip technology and subsequently founded Sematech Inc.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFranklin Institute Stuart Ballantine Medal 1966. National Academy of Engineering 1969. National Academy of Science. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Medal of Honour 1978; Cledo Brunetti Award (jointly with Kilby) 1978. Institution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1979. National Medal of Science 1979. National Medal of Engineering 1987.Bibliography1955, "Base-widening punch-through", Proceedings of the American Physical Society.30 July 1959, US patent no. 2,981,877.Further ReadingT.R.Reid, 1985, Microchip: The Story of a Revolution and the Men Who Made It, London: Pan Books.KF -
109 Paul, Lewis
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]d. April 1759 Brook Green, London, England[br]English inventor of hand carding machines and partner with Wyatt in early spinning machines.[br]Lewis Paul, apparently of French Huguenot extraction, was quite young when his father died. His father was Physician to Lord Shaftsbury, who acted as Lewis Paul's guardian. In 1728 Paul made a runaway match with a widow and apparently came into her property when she died a year later. He must have subsequently remarried. In 1732 he invented a pinking machine for making the edges of shrouds out of which he derived some profit.Why Paul went to Birmingham is unknown, but he helped finance some of Wyatt's earlier inventions. Judging by the later patents taken out by Paul, it is probable that he was the one interested in spinning, turning to Wyatt for help in the construction of his spinning machine because he had no mechanical skills. The two men may have been involved in this as early as 1733, although it is more likely that they began this work in 1735. Wyatt went to London to construct a model and in 1736 helped to apply for a patent, which was granted in 1738 in the name of Paul. The patent shows that Paul and Wyatt had a number of different ways of spinning in mind, but contains no drawings of the machines. In one part there is a description of sets of rollers to draw the cotton out more finely that could have been similar to those later used by Richard Arkwright. However, it would seem that Paul and Wyatt followed the other main method described, which might be called spindle drafting, where the fibres are drawn out between the nip of a pair of rollers and the tip of the spindle; this method is unsatisfactory for continuous spinning and results in an uneven yarn.The spinning venture was supported by Thomas Warren, a well-known Birmingham printer, Edward Cave of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr Robert James of fever-powder celebrity, Mrs Desmoulins, and others. Dr Samuel Johnson also took much interest. In 1741 a mill powered by two asses was equipped at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, with, machinery for spinning cotton being constructed by Wyatt. Licences for using the invention were sold to other people including Edward Cave, who established a mill at Northampton, so the enterprise seemed to have great promise. A spinning machine must be supplied with fibres suitably prepared, so carding machines had to be developed. Work was in hand on one in 1740 and in 1748 Paul took out another patent for two types of carding device, possibly prompted by the patent taken out by Daniel Bourn. Both of Paul's devices were worked by hand and the carded fibres were laid onto a strip of paper. The paper and fibres were then rolled up and placed in the spinning machine. In 1757 John Dyer wrote a poem entitled The Fleece, which describes a circular spinning machine of the type depicted in a patent taken out by Paul in 1758. Drawings in this patent show that this method of spinning was different from Arkwright's. Paul endeavoured to have the machine introduced into the Foundling Hospital, but his death in early 1759 stopped all further development. He was buried at Paddington on 30 April that year.[br]Bibliography1738, British patent no. 562 (spinning machine). 1748, British patent no. 636 (carding machine).1758, British patent no. 724 (circular spinning machine).Further ReadingG.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London, App. This should be read in conjunction with R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester, which shows that the roller drafting system on Paul's later spinning machine worked on the wrong principles.A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and the early mills).E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, but is now out of date).A.Seymour-Jones, 1921, "The invention of roller drawing in cotton spinning", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 1 (a more modern account).RLH -
110 Smeaton, John
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Steam and internal combustion engines[br]b. 8 June 1724 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Englandd. 28 October 1792 Austhorpe, near Leeds, Yorkshire, England[br]English mechanical and civil engineer.[br]As a boy, Smeaton showed mechanical ability, making for himself a number of tools and models. This practical skill was backed by a sound education, probably at Leeds Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered his father's office; he seemed set to follow his father's profession in the law. In 1742 he went to London to continue his legal studies, but he preferred instead, with his father's reluctant permission, to set up as a scientific instrument maker and dealer and opened a shop of his own in 1748. About this time he began attending meetings of the Royal Society and presented several papers on instruments and mechanical subjects, being elected a Fellow in 1753. His interests were turning towards engineering but were informed by scientific principles grounded in careful and accurate observation.In 1755 the second Eddystone lighthouse, on a reef some 14 miles (23 km) off the English coast at Plymouth, was destroyed by fire. The President of the Royal Society was consulted as to a suitable engineer to undertake the task of constructing a new one, and he unhesitatingly suggested Smeaton. Work began in 1756 and was completed in three years to produce the first great wave-swept stone lighthouse. It was constructed of Portland stone blocks, shaped and pegged both together and to the base rock, and bonded by hydraulic cement, scientifically developed by Smeaton. It withstood the storms of the English Channel for over a century, but by 1876 erosion of the rock had weakened the structure and a replacement had to be built. The upper portion of Smeaton's lighthouse was re-erected on a suitable base on Plymouth Hoe, leaving the original base portion on the reef as a memorial to the engineer.The Eddystone lighthouse made Smeaton's reputation and from then on he was constantly in demand as a consultant in all kinds of engineering projects. He carried out a number himself, notably the 38 mile (61 km) long Forth and Clyde canal with thirty-nine locks, begun in 1768 but for financial reasons not completed until 1790. In 1774 he took charge of the Ramsgate Harbour works.On the mechanical side, Smeaton undertook a systematic study of water-and windmills, to determine the design and construction to achieve the greatest power output. This work issued forth as the paper "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills" and exerted a considerable influence on mill design during the early part of the Industrial Revolution. Between 1753 and 1790 Smeaton constructed no fewer than forty-four mills.Meanwhile, in 1756 he had returned to Austhorpe, which continued to be his home base for the rest of his life. In 1767, as a result of the disappointing performance of an engine he had been involved with at New River Head, Islington, London, Smeaton began his important study of the steam-engine. Smeaton was the first to apply scientific principles to the steam-engine and achieved the most notable improvements in its efficiency since its invention by Newcomen, until its radical overhaul by James Watt. To compare the performance of engines quantitatively, he introduced the concept of "duty", i.e. the weight of water that could be raised 1 ft (30 cm) while burning one bushel (84 lb or 38 kg) of coal. The first engine to embody his improvements was erected at Long Benton colliery in Northumberland in 1772, with a duty of 9.45 million pounds, compared to the best figure obtained previously of 7.44 million pounds. One source of heat loss he attributed to inaccurate boring of the cylinder, which he was able to improve through his close association with Carron Ironworks near Falkirk, Scotland.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1753.Bibliography1759, "An experimental enquiry concerning the natural powers of water and wind to turn mills", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.Towards the end of his life, Smeaton intended to write accounts of his many works but only completed A Narrative of the Eddystone Lighthouse, 1791, London.Further ReadingS.Smiles, 1874, Lives of the Engineers: Smeaton and Rennie, London. A.W.Skempton, (ed.), 1981, John Smeaton FRS, London: Thomas Telford. L.T.C.Rolt and J.S.Allen, 1977, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen, 2nd edn, Hartington: Moorland Publishing, esp. pp. 108–18 (gives a good description of his work on the steam-engine).LRD -
111 Wyatt, John
[br]b. April 1700 Thickbroom, Weeford, near Lichfield, Englandd. 29 November 1766 Birmingham, England[br]English inventor of machines for making files and rolling lead, and co-constructor of a cotton-spinning machine.[br]John Wyatt was the eldest son of John and Jane Wyatt, who lived in the small village of Thickbroom in the parish of Weeford, near Lichfield. John the younger was educated at Lichfield school and then worked as a carpenter at Thickbroom till 1730. In 1732 he was in Birmingham, engaged by a man named Heely, a gunbarrel forger, who became bankrupt in 1734. Wyatt had invented a machine for making files and sought the help of Lewis Paul to manufacture this commercially.The surviving papers of Paul and Wyatt in Birmingham are mostly undated and show a variety of machines with which they were involved. There was a machine for "making lead hard" which had rollers, and "a Gymcrak of some consequence" probably refers to a machine for boring barrels or the file-making machine. Wyatt is said to have been one of the unsuccessful competitors for the erection of London Bridge in 1736. He invented and perfected the compound-lever weighing machine. He had more success with this: after 1744, machines for weighing up to five tons were set up at Birmingham, Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Liverpool. Road construction, bridge building, hydrostatics, canals, water-powered engines and many other schemes received his attention and it is said that he was employed for a time after 1744 by Matthew Boulton.It is certain that in April 1735 Paul and Wyatt were working on their spinning machine and Wyatt was making a model of it in London in 1736, giving up his work in Birmingham. The first patent, in 1738, was taken out in the name of Lewis Paul. It is impossible to know which of these two invented what. This first patent covers a wide variety of descriptions of the vital roller drafting to draw out the fibres, and it is unknown which system was actually used. Paul's carding patent of 1748 and his second spinning patent of 1758 show that he moved away from the system and principles upon which Arkwright built his success. Wyatt and Paul's spinning machines were sufficiently promising for a mill to be set up in 1741 at the Upper Priory, Birmingham, that was powered by two asses. Wyatt was the person responsible for constructing the machinery. Edward Cave established another at Northampton powered by water while later Daniel Bourn built yet another at Leominster. Many others were interested too. The Birmingham mill did not work for long and seems to have been given up in 1743. Wyatt was imprisoned for debt in The Fleet in 1742, and when released in 1743 he tried for a time to run the Birmingham mill and possibly the Northampton one. The one at Leominster burned down in 1754, while the Northampton mill was advertised for sale in 1756. This last mill may have been used again in conjunction with the 1758 patent. It was Wyatt whom Daniel Bourn contacted about a grant for spindles for his Leominster mill in 1748, but this seems to have been Wyatt's last association with the spinning venture.[br]Further ReadingG.J.French, 1859, The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, London (French collected many of the Paul and Wyatt papers; these should be read in conjunction with Hills 1970).R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (Hills shows that the rollerdrafting system on this spinning machine worked on the wrong principles). A.P.Wadsworth and J.de L.Mann, 1931, The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780, Manchester (provides good coverage of the partnership of Paul and Wyatt and of the early mills).E.Baines, 1835, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, London (this publication must be mentioned, although it is now out of date).W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (a more recent account).W.A.Benton, "John Wyatt and the weighing of heavy loads", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 9 (for a description of Wyatt's weighing machine).RLH -
112 Young, Arthur
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 11 September 1741 London, Englandd. 20 April 1820 Bradford, England[br]English writer and commentator on agricultural affairs; founder and Secretary of the Board of Agriculture (later the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food).[br]He was the youngest of the three children of Dr Arthur Young, who was at one time Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. He learned Latin and Greek at Lavenham School, and at the age of 17 was apprenticed to a mercantile house, an occupation he disliked. He first published The Theatre of the Present War in North America in 1758. He then wrote four novels and began to produce the literary magazine The Universal Museum. After his father's death he returned home to manage his father's farm, and in 1765 he married Martha Allen.Young learned farming by experiment, and three years after his return he took over the rent of a 300 acre farm, Samford Hall in Essex. He was not a practical farmer, and was soon forced to give it up in favour of one of 100 acres (40.5 hectares) in Hertfordshire. He subsidized his farming with his writing, and in 1768 published The Farmer's Letters to the People of England. The first of his books on agricultural tours, Six Weeks Tours through the Counties of England and Wales, was published in 1771. Between 1784 and 1809 he published the Annals of Agriculture, one of whose contributors was George III, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ralph Robinson.By this time he was corresponding with all of influence in agricultural matters, both at home and abroad. George Washington wrote frequently to Young, and George III was reputed to travel always with a copy of his book. The Empress of Russia sent students to him and had his Tours published in Russian. Young made three trips to France in 1787, 1788 and 1789–90 respectively, prior to and during the French Revolution, and his Travels in France (1792) is a remarkable account of that period, made all the more fascinating by his personal contact with people differing as widely as Mirabeau, the French revolutionary leader, and King Louis XVI.Unfortunately, in 1811 an unsuccessful cataract operation left him blind, and he moved from London to his native Bradford, where he remained until his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsChairman, Agricultural Committee of the Society of Arts 1773: awarded three Gold Medals during his career for his achievements in practical agriculture. FRS. Honorary Member of the Dublin, York and Manchester learned societies, as well as the Economic Society of Berne, the Palatine Academy of Agriculture at Mannheim, and the Physical Society of Zurich. Honourary member, French Royal Society of Agriculture. Secretary, Board of Agriculture 1793.BibliographyHis first novels were The Fair Americans, Sir Charles Beaufort, Lucy Watson and Julia Benson.His earliest writings on agriculture appeared as collected letters in a periodical with the title Museum Rusticum in 1767.In 1770 he published a two-volume work entitled A Course of Experimental Agriculture, and between 1766 and 1775 he published The Farmer's Letters, Political Arithmetic, Political Essays Concerning the Present State of the British Empire and Southern, Northern and Eastern Tours, and in 1779 he published The Tour of Ireland.In addition he was author of the Board of Agriculture reports on the counties of Suffolk, Lincoln, Norfolk, Hertford, Essex and Oxford.Further ReadingJ.Thirsk (ed.), 1989, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. VI (deals with the years 1750 to 1850, the period associated with Young).T.G.Gazeley, 1973, "The life of Arthur Young, 1741–1820", Memoirs, American Philosophical Society 97.AP -
113 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
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114 after
ˈɑ:ftə
1. предл.
1) за, позади (местонахождение, следование Run after him and catch him! ≈ Беги за ним и поймай! Syn: behind
2.
1)
2) за (следование по порядку расположения или по важности) one after another ≈ один за другим
3) после, за ( указывает на следование во времени) ;
через, спустя( указывает на промежуток времени) After two years' absence Richard returned to England. ≈ После двухлетнего отсутствия Ричард вернулся в Англию.
4) указывает на цель to go after gold ≈ отправиться за золотом
5) указывает на объект внимания, заботы и других действий to look after smb. ≈ смотреть за кем-л. My mother asked after you. ≈ Моя мама спрашивала, как Вы себя чувствуете. He shouted after me down the street. ≈ Он закричал мне вдогонку.
6) несмотря на( указывает на логическое противопоставление, чаще всего в сочетании after all;
амер. afterall) after all our advice ≈ несмотря на все наши советы
7) по, с, в соответствии с( образцом, моделью, модой, привычкой и т. п.) to build after the particular pattern ≈ строить по конкретному образцу after the latest fashion ≈ по последней моде Each acted after his kind. ≈ Каждый действовал по-своему.
8) (указывает на сходство с чем-л. или подражание чему-л.) He takes after his father. ≈ Он во всем похож на отца.
9) указывает на человека, в честь которого дали имя He was named after his grandpa. ≈ Его назвали в честь дедушки. ∙ after all ≈ в конце концов after a manner ≈ не очень хорошо, неважно what is he after? ≈ что ему нужно?;
куда он гнет? who is he after? ≈ кто ему нужен?
2. союз после того как
3. нареч.
1) позади, сзади Syn: behind
2) позднее, позже;
потом, затем;
впоследствии soon after ≈ вскоре после этого Syn: afterward, later, later on
4. прил.
1) задний, расположенный сзади the after part of the ship ≈ кормовая часть корабля Syn: back, hind, hinder, posterior
1.
1)
2) последующий, следующий in after years ≈ в будущем our own after experience ≈ наш собственный последующий опыт Syn: following, next, posterior
1.
2), subsequentпоследующий;
позднейший;
- in * years в будущем;
- an * period of life последние годы жизни обыкн. (морское) задний, кормовой;
- the * part of the ship кормовая часть корабля;
- * hold задний трюм, кормовой трюм потом, затем;
позднее;
впоследствии;
- three years * спустя три года;
- the morning * на следующее уттро;
- you speak first, I shall speak * сначала говорите вы, а затем скажу я;
- I never saw him * я никогда его больше не видел;
- soon * вскоре после того;
- they lived happily ever * (фольклор) и жили они долго и счастливо до глубокой старости;
стали жить-поживать да добра наживать сзади, позади;
- to follow * идти следом во временном значении указывает на: последовательную смену явлений: после - * the revolution после революции;
- * Sunday comes Monday за воскресеньем следует понедельник;
- * dark с наступлением темноты промежуток времени, точку отсчета или обстоятельство, после которого что-л происходит: после;
через, спустя - * two years' absence после двухлетнего отсутствия;
- * a year через год, спустя год;
- it is * five теперь шестой час;
- * a while через некоторое время, немного погодя;
- * examining the patient the doctor wrote a prescription осмотрев больного, доктор выписал рецепт;
- the day * tomorrow послезавтра в пространственном значении указывает на: местонахождение позади кого-л, чего-л: за, позади - the school is just * the club школа находится сразу за клубом движение вслед за кем-л, чем-л.: за, вслед за - to walk * smb. идти за кем-л;
- the dogs ran * the fox собаки гнались за лисой;
- they threw stones * him они кидали камни ему вслед;
- shut the door * you закройте за собой дверь;
- * you! прошу вас! (уступая кому-л. дорогу, пропуская кого-л. вперед) указывает на следование по порядку или по важности: за - B comes * A Б идет за А;
- one * another один за другим;
- he reads page * page он читает страницу за страницей;
- day * day день за днем;
изо дня в день;
- time * time не раз, постоянно указывает на причину: после - * what has happened he won't go после того, что произошло, он не пойдет;
- * what you have said I shall be more careful после того, что вы сказали, я буду осторожнее указывает на цель или направление поисков: в погоне, разыскивая - I'm * a decent job я хочу устроится на хорошую работу;
- who is he *? кого он ищет?;
- she is * a husband она ищет себе мужа;
- what are they *? что им нужно? указывает на проявление заботы, внимания: о, относительно - to ask * smb. спрашивать о ком-л;
- he asked * your health он справлялся о вашем здоровье;
- who will look * the baby? кто будет присматривать за ребенком? - I can look * myself я сумею о себе позаботиться указывает на соответствие чему-л, подражание какому-л образцу, сходство с кем-л: согласно, по - he behaved * his nature его поведение соответствовало его характеру;
- this is * my own heart это мне по сердцу;
- * the same pattern по тому же образцу;
- a painting * Titian картина в подражание Тициану;
- she was dressed * the latest fashion она была одета по последней моде;
- he takes * his father он похож на отца указывает на человека, в честь которого кто-л назван: в честь, по имени - he was named * his uncle ему дали имя в честь его дяди (коммерческое) в соответствии, как указано;
- * sight по предъявлении;
- * a date от сего числа в сочетаниях;
- * all после, несмотря на;
в конце концов;
все же - * all my care the vase was broken несмотря на то, что я был очень осторожен, ваза разбилась;
- * all our advice you took that course несмотря на все наши советы, вы так поступили;
- * all, what does it matter? какое это имеет значение, в конце концов? - I was right * all! все же я был прав после того как;
- I reached the station * the train had left я приехал на вокзал после того, как поезд ушел( разговорное) время после полудня;
- this * сегодня днемafter prep выражает уступительность несмотря на;
after all my trouble he has learnt nothing несмотря на все мои старания, он ничему не научился;
after all в конце концов ~ задний;
the after part of the ship кормовая часть корабля ~ prep указывает на внимание, заботу ( о ком-л.) о, за;
to look (after smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.) ;
to ask (или toinquire) (after smb.) спрашивать, справляться( о ком-л.) ~ prep указывает на сходство (с чем-л.) или подражание (чему-л.) по, с, согласно;
after the same pattern по тому же образцу;
an etching after Gainsborough гравюра с (картины или рисунка) Гейнсборо ~ позднее;
потом, затем;
впоследствии;
soon after вскоре после этого ~ cj после того как;
soon after he arrived he began to work at school по приезде он стал работать в школе ~ последующий;
in after years в будущем ~ сзади, позади ~ prep указывает на местонахождение позади данного предмета или движение вдогонку за, позади;
my name comes after yours моя фамилия стоит за вашей;
she entered after her sister она вошла вслед за своей сестрой ~ prep указывает на последовательную смену явлений или промежуток времени, после которого произошло или произойдет действие после, за, через, спустя~ a manner не очень хорошо, неважно;
what is he after? что ему нужно?;
куда он гнет?;
who is he after? кто ему нужен? manner: after a ~ как-нибудьafter prep выражает уступительность несмотря на;
after all my trouble he has learnt nothing несмотря на все мои старания, он ничему не научился;
after all в конце концов amount: to ~ to very little, not to ~ to much быть незначительным, не иметь большого значения;
what, after all, does it amount to? что, в конце концов, это означает?after prep выражает уступительность несмотря на;
after all my trouble he has learnt nothing несмотря на все мои старания, он ничему не научился;
after all в конце концовday ~ day день за днем;
she will come after supper она придет после ужина;
they met after ten years они встретились через десять лет;
after his arrival после его приезда~ задний;
the after part of the ship кормовая часть корабля~ the latest fashion по последней моде;
the boy takes after his father сын во всем похож на отца;
each acted after his kind каждый действовал по-своему~ prep указывает на сходство (с чем-л.) или подражание (чему-л.) по, с, согласно;
after the same pattern по тому же образцу;
an etching after Gainsborough гравюра с (картины или рисунка) Гейнсборо~ prep указывает на сходство (с чем-л.) или подражание (чему-л.) по, с, согласно;
after the same pattern по тому же образцу;
an etching after Gainsborough гравюра с (картины или рисунка) Гейнсборо~ prep указывает на внимание, заботу (о ком-л.) о, за;
to look (after smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.) ;
to ask (или toinquire) (after smb.) спрашивать, справляться( о ком-л.) ask: ask запрашивать ~ назначать цену ~ осведомляться (about, after, for) ;
to ask after a person's health осведомиться о (чьем-л.) здоровье ~ приглашать( разг. тж. ask out) ~ приглашать ~ (за) просить;
to ask 250 pounds for a horse запросить 250 фунтов за лошадь ~ (по) просить;
to ask a favour( for help) просить об одолжении (о помощи) ~ просить ~ спрашивать, хотеть видеть( for) ;
a boy is asking for you тебя какой-то мальчик спрашивает ~ спрашивать;
to ask a question задавать вопрос ~ спрашивать ~ требовать;
it asks (for) attention это требует внимания;
ask me another! разг. не знаю, не спрашивай(те) меня! ~ требовать axe: ~ диал. см. ask~ the latest fashion по последней моде;
the boy takes after his father сын во всем похож на отца;
each acted after his kind каждый действовал по-своемуday ~ day день за днем;
she will come after supper она придет после ужина;
they met after ten years они встретились через десять лет;
after his arrival после его приезда~ the latest fashion по последней моде;
the boy takes after his father сын во всем похож на отца;
each acted after his kind каждый действовал по-своему~ последующий;
in after years в будущем~ prep указывает на внимание, заботу (о ком-л.) о, за;
to look (after smb.) смотреть (за кем-л.) ;
to ask (или toinquire) (after smb.) спрашивать, справляться (о ком-л.) look: look взгляд;
to have (или to take) a look at посмотреть на;
ознакомиться с ~ взгляд ~ вид, наружность;
good looks красота;
миловидность ~ вид ~ выглядеть ~ выражать( взглядом, видом) ;
he looked his thanks весь его вид выражал благодарность ~ выражение (глаз, лица) ;
a vacant look отсутствующий взгляд ~ выходить на..., быть обращенным на...;
my room looks south моя комната выходит на юг ~ как глагол-связка в составном именном сказуемом выглядеть, казаться;
to look well (ill) выглядеть хорошо (плохо) ;
to look big принимать важный вид ~ наружность ~ вчт. поиск ~ проверять ~ вчт. просмотр ~ смотреть, глядеть;
осматривать;
перен. быть внимательным, следить;
to look ahead смотреть вперед (в будущее) ;
look ahead! берегись!;
осторожно! ~ вчт. смотреть ~ смотреть~ prep указывает на местонахождение позади данного предмета или движение вдогонку за, позади;
my name comes after yours моя фамилия стоит за вашей;
she entered after her sister она вошла вслед за своей сестройrank ~ идти непосредственно за~ prep указывает на местонахождение позади данного предмета или движение вдогонку за, позади;
my name comes after yours моя фамилия стоит за вашей;
she entered after her sister она вошла вслед за своей сестройday ~ day день за днем;
she will come after supper она придет после ужина;
they met after ten years они встретились через десять лет;
after his arrival после его приезда~ позднее;
потом, затем;
впоследствии;
soon after вскоре после этого~ cj после того как;
soon after he arrived he began to work at school по приезде он стал работать в школеday ~ day день за днем;
she will come after supper она придет после ужина;
they met after ten years они встретились через десять лет;
after his arrival после его приезда~ a manner не очень хорошо, неважно;
what is he after? что ему нужно?;
куда он гнет?;
who is he after? кто ему нужен?~ a manner не очень хорошо, неважно;
what is he after? что ему нужно?;
куда он гнет?;
who is he after? кто ему нужен? -
115 banner
ˈbænə
1. сущ.
1) знамя;
флаг;
стяг;
перен. символ
2) газетный заголовок крупными буквами на всю полосу, 'шапка'
3) полоса материи, на которой нарисован какой-л. знак, транспарант welcome banners ≈ приветственные транспаранты
4) лозунг, девиз ∙ carry the banner
2. прил.
1) выступающий в поддержку политической партии
1) превосходный, (наи) лучший, прекрасный;
образцовый, первоклассный, примерный, показательный banner year Syn: exemplary, modelзнамя, флаг, стяг - red * красное знамя - the * of revolution знамя революции - under the * of national liberation под знаменем национального освобождения - to join the * стать под знамена - to unfurl one's * развернуть свое знамя (церковное) хоругвь (американизм) (полиграфия) флаговый заголовок, газетный заголовок во всю ширину полосы (ботаника) флаг или парус( в цветке) > to carry the * (американизм) (ироничное) скитаться всю ночь напролет, не имея пристанища (американизм) наилучший, образцовый, ведущий - * year рекордный год - * occasion прекрасный случай - * investment выгоднейшее капиталовложение - * state (политика) передовой штат - of the * class первоклассный, отличнейший (книжное) украшать флагами, снабжать знаменем собирать под знамена печатать под крупным заголовком - the newspapers *ed it газеты кричали об этомbanner заголовок ~ заголовок крупными буквами на всю полосу, "шапка";
to carry the banner амер. ирон. скитаться всю ночь, не имея пристанища ~ знамя;
флаг;
стяг;
перен. тж. символ;
under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin под знаменем Маркса, Энгельса, Ленина ~ (наи) лучщий;
образцовый;
главный;
banner year рекордный год ~ шапка~ (наи) лучщий;
образцовый;
главный;
banner year рекордный год~ заголовок крупными буквами на всю полосу, "шапка";
to carry the banner амер. ирон. скитаться всю ночь, не имея пристанища~ знамя;
флаг;
стяг;
перен. тж. символ;
under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin под знаменем Маркса, Энгельса, Ленинаto join (или to follow) the ~ of... стать под знамена...;
перен. стать на (чью-л.) сторону~ знамя;
флаг;
стяг;
перен. тж. символ;
under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin под знаменем Маркса, Энгельса, Ленина~ знамя;
флаг;
стяг;
перен. тж. символ;
under the banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin под знаменем Маркса, Энгельса, Ленина -
116 counter
̈ɪˈkauntə I
1. сущ.
1) а) тот, кто считает, вычисляет и т. п. (по значению глагола count) б) тех. счетчик;
тахометр
2) фишка( обыкн. для счета при игре в карты)
3) шашка( в игре)
4) конторка;
прилавок The tradesman stands behind the counter. ≈ Продавец стоит за прилавком. Goods are sold and money paid over the counter. ≈ Товары продаются и оплачиваются у прилавка. over the counter ≈ без рецепта under the counter ≈ под прилавком, из-под прилавка, нелегально {(о нелегальных сделках)
2. гл. оборудовать конторкой, прилавком и т. п. The offices were newly countered. ≈ Офисы были заново оборудованы конторками. II
1. сущ.
1) нечто обратное;
противоположность Syn: contrary
1., opposite
2.
2) спорт встречный удар( в боксе или фехтовании)
3) задник (у туфель, ботинка, сапога)
4) восьмерка( конькобежная фигура)
5) холка (у лошади)
6) мор. кормовой подзор
7) муз. альт, высокий тенор Syn: counter-tenor
2. прил. противоположный, обратный, встречный the counter side ≈ противоположная сторона in one direction and in the counter direction ≈ в одном направлении и в противоположном counter order from the colonel ≈ встречный приказ полковника Syn: opposed, opposite
1.
3. нареч. обратно;
в противоположном направлении;
вопреки, против to act counter to ≈ действовать вопреки чему-л. values that run counter to those of society ≈ ценности, которые идут вразрез с ценностями общества Syn: contrary
3.
4. гл.
1) противостоять;
противоречить, возражать( with) to counter a claim ≈ опровергать утверждение Always counter your opponent's attack with a strong return. ≈ Всегда надо отвечать на атаки врага сильной контратакой. The chairman countered the committee member's suggestion with another question. ≈ Председатель ответил на предложение члена комитета встречным вопросом. Syn: oppose, encounter, contradict, controvert
2) спорт нанести встречный удар (в боксе) (with - чем-л.) And now the old fighter counters with a blow to the body. His young opponent counters with his left. ≈ Теперь старик ответил ударом в корпус. Юноша парировал удар левой рукой. прилавок;
стойка;
конторка рабочий стол, высокий длинный кухонный стол касса - check-out * контрольно-кассовый пункт фишка, марка;
жетон шашка (в игре) (техническое) счетчик;
тахометр - Geiger * (физическое) счетчик Гейгера( историческое) долговая тюрьма;
тюрьма при городском суде > fast * (американизм) ловкий счетчик голосов;
пройдоха, мошенник;
> under the * тайно, подпольно;
> to sell under the * продавать из-под прилавка;
> to buy tickets under the * покупать билеты у спекулянта;
> over the * в ручной продаже;
> to buy medicine over the * покупать лекарства без рецепта нечто противоположное, обратное - as a * to smth. в противовес чем-л. загривок, зашеек ( у лошади) задник (сапога, ботинка) (морское) кормовой подзор выкрюк (в фигурном катании) противоположный, обратный, встречный - * revolution( техническое) обратное вращение в противоположном направлении, обратно;
напротив, против - to act * to smb.'s wishes действовать против чьих-л. желаний - to run * to the rules противоречить уставу - your plans are * to ours ваши планы идут вразрез с нашими - he acted * to all advice он действовал вопреки всем советам противостоять;
противиться;
противодействовать;
противоречить противопоставлять - they *ed our proposal with one of their own нашему предложению они противопоставили свое встречный удар;
контрудар - stopping * останавливающий контрудар парируя удар, одновременно нанести встречный удар сокр. от counter-lode add-subtract ~ вчт. реверсивный счетчик address ~ вчт. регистр адреса address ~ вчт. счетчик адреса ~ противное, обратное;
as a counter (to smth.) в противовес( чему-л.) batch ~ вчт. счетчик пакетов bidirectional ~ вчт. реверсивный счетчик binary ~ вчт. двоичный счетчик block-length ~ вчт. счетчик длины блока check-in ~ стойка регистрации checkout ~ касса control ~ вчт. счетчик команд counter восьмерка (конькобежная фигура) ~ встречный ~ задник (сапога) ~ касса ~ конторка ~ мор. кормовой подзор ~ спорт. нанести встречный удар (в боксе) ~ обратно;
в обратном направлении;
напротив;
to run counter идти против ~ обратный ~ отражение удара;
встречный удар, нанесенный одновременно с парированием удара противника ~ прилавок;
стойка;
to serve behind the counter служить в магазине ~ прилавок ~ противиться ~ противное, обратное;
as a counter (to smth.) в противовес (чему-л.) ~ противодействовать ~ противоположный;
обратный;
встречный ~ противоположный ~ противопоставлять ~ противостоять;
противиться;
противоречить;
to counter a claim опровергать утверждение ~ противостоять ~ рабочий стол ~ вчт. регистр ~ стойка ~ вчт. счетчик ~ счетчик ~ тех. счетчик;
тахометр ~ фишка, марка (для счета в играх) ~ холка;
загривок ~ шашка (в игре) ~ противостоять;
противиться;
противоречить;
to counter a claim опровергать утверждение decade ~ вчт. десятичный счетчик decrement ~ вчт. вычитающий счетчик down ~ вчт. вычитающий счетчик event ~ вчт. счетчик событий exponent ~ вчт. счетчик порядков footage ~ вчт. счетчик длины ленты forward-backward ~ вчт. реверсивный счетчик functional ~ вчт. функциональный счетчик Geiger ~ физ. счетчик Гейгера impulse ~ вчт. счетчик импульсов instruction ~ вчт. счетчик команд keystroke ~ вчт. счетчик нажатий клавиш location ~ вчт. счетчик адресов loop ~ вчт. счетчик цикла loop ~ вчт. счетчик циклов lunch ~ буфет, буфетная стойка microprogram ~ вчт. счетчик микропрограмм origin ~ вчт. счетчик начала over the ~ внебиржевой over the ~ продаваемый без посредников over the ~ продаваемый вне биржи pass ~ вчт. счетчик числа прогонов program ~ вчт. счетчик команд program-address ~ вчт. регистр команд pulse ~ вчт. счетчик импульсов reciprocal ~ вчт. реверсивный счетчик regeneration ~ вчт. счетчик регенераций repeat ~ вчт. кристалл с измененной структурой repeat ~ вчт. счетчик повторений repetition ~ вчт. счетчик циклов ring ~ вчт. кольцевой счетчик ripple ~ вчт. счетчик со сквозным переносом ~ обратно;
в обратном направлении;
напротив;
to run counter идти против scale-of-two ~ вчт. двоичный счетчик scale-often ~ вчт. десятичный счетчик ~ прилавок;
стойка;
to serve behind the counter служить в магазине shift-code ~ вчт. сдвигающий счетчик shop ~ прилавок slave ~ вчт. управляемый счетчик start-stop ~ вчт. стартстопный счетчик state ~ вчт. регистр состояния storage ~ вчт. накапливающий счетчик subsequence ~ вчт. счетчик микрокоманд subtract ~ вчт. вычислительный счетчик subtract ~ вчт. вычитающий счетчик summary ~ вчт. накапливающий счетчик timeout ~ вчт. счетчик лимита времени total ~ вчт. итоговый счетчик undirectional ~ вчт. однонаправленный счетчик up ~ вчт. суммирующий счетчик wink ~ вчт. счетчик интервалов малой продолжительности -
117 rear
̈ɪrɪə I гл.
1) поднимать;
возвышать;
возносить Syn: lift
2., lift up
2) воздвигать;
возводить, сооружать Syn: erect
2., construct
2., set up
3) воспитывать, растить( детей) ;
выращивать( животных, растения) We reared our children to help others. ≈ Мы воспитывали наших детей, чтобы они помогали другим. Syn: bring up, raise
1.
4) становиться на дыбы (о лошади) (обыкн. rear up) The horse reared up in fear, throwing its rider off. ≈ Лошадь от страха встала на дыбы и сбросила всадника. ∙ rear up II
1. сущ.
1) тыл to bring up the rear, to follow in the rear ≈ замыкать шествие to take in the rear ≈ нападать с тыла at, from, in the rear ≈ c тыла The column was attacked from the rear. ≈ На колонну напали с тыла.
2) задняя сторона at the rear of the house ≈ позади дома
3) зад, ягодицы
4) огузок
5) разг. отхожее место, уборная
2. прил.
1) задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный Manufactures have been obliged to fit rear seat belts in all new cars. ≈ Производители автомобилей вынуждены снабжать все новые машины ремнями безопасности для задних сидений.
2) воен. тыловой rear sight ≈ прицел rear party ≈ тыловая застава тыл - in the * в тылу - to bring up /to close/ the * замыкать шествие;
(военное) замыкать колонну - to take in (the) * (военное) напасть /атаковать/ с тыла;
выходить в тыл (противника) - to hang on the * преследовать по пятам - in /on/ smb.'s * позади кого-л. - to follow in the * идти сзади, плестись( за кем-л.) - at ((амер) in) the * of сзади (чего-л.) - the garage is at /in/ the * of the house гараж находится позади дома задняя, тыльная сторона - front and * сзади и спереди - the * of a house задняя часть дома - he moved to the * of the hall он прошел в конец зала( грубое) зад (грубое) отхожее место, сортир (авиация) задняя, хвостовая часть( самолета) > to the *, march! кругом, марш! (команда) задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный - * wheel заднее колесо - * entrance задняя дверь;
черный ход - * view вид сзади - * arch задняя лука седла - * rank (военное) замыкающая шеренга - * party( военное) тыльная походная застава - * traverse( военное) тыльный траверс - * slope (топография) обратный скат;
тыльная крутость( военное) тыловой - * boundary тыловая граница - * area тыл, тыловой район - * services службы тыла - * position тыловая оборонительная полоса - * headquarters тыловой эшелон( штаба) (авиация) хвостовой - * control хвостовой руль;
расположенная за крылом рулевая поверхность - * armament хвостовое вооружение( самолета) > * sight( военное) прицел;
целик( пистолета) (книжное) поднимать (голову, руку) - to * one's head поднять голову (тж. перен.) - counter-revolution *ed its head контрреволюция подняла голову - to * one's voice поднять /возвысить, повысить/ голос - to * the banner of revolt( образное) поднять знамя восстания (книжное) воздвигать - to * a monument воздвигнуть памятник - to * a mast поставить мачту - to * a ladder установить стремянку разводить, выращивать, выводить( животных) - to * poultry заниматься птицеводством (книжное) культивировать, возделывать, выращивать ( растения) (книжное) растить, воспитывать (потомство) - to * a child растить ребенка - the hen *s her brood наседка водит свой выводок( книжное) вздымать, возносить - the mountains *ed their crests into the clouds горы вздымали свои вершины до облаков (книжное) возвышаться, выситься, вздыматься, возноситься( книжное) (часто * up) становиться на дыбы (книжное) поднять на дыбы (лошадь) (книжное) встать на дыбы, прийти в бешенство, в ярость( книжное) встать - he *ed himself up он выпрямился во весь рост( книжное) направлять, обращать вверх (взгляд и т. п.) ;
возводить к небу (глаза) (диалектизм) недожаренный, полусырой( диалектизм) сваренный всмятку ~ задняя сторона;
at the rear of the house позади дома ~ тыл;
to bring up the rear, to follow in the rear замыкать шествие;
to take in the rear нападать с тыла ~ тыл;
to bring up the rear, to follow in the rear замыкать шествие;
to take in the rear нападать с тыла rear воздвигать;
сооружать ~ воспитывать;
выводить, культивировать, выращивать ~ задняя сторона;
at the rear of the house позади дома ~ огузок ~ разг. отхожее место, уборная ~ поднимать (голову, руку) ;
возвышать (голос) ;
возносить ~ становиться на дыбы (обыкн. rear up) ~ тыл;
to bring up the rear, to follow in the rear замыкать шествие;
to take in the rear нападать с тыла ~ ягодицы, зад ~ attr. задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный;
воен. тыловой;
rear arch задняя лука седла;
rear sight воен. прицел;
rear party воен. тыльная застава ~ attr. задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный;
воен. тыловой;
rear arch задняя лука седла;
rear sight воен. прицел;
rear party воен. тыльная застава ~ attr. задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный;
воен. тыловой;
rear arch задняя лука седла;
rear sight воен. прицел;
rear party воен. тыльная застава ~ attr. задний, расположенный сзади;
тыльный;
воен. тыловой;
rear arch задняя лука седла;
rear sight воен. прицел;
rear party воен. тыльная застава ~ тыл;
to bring up the rear, to follow in the rear замыкать шествие;
to take in the rear нападать с тыла -
118 solid
ˈsɔlɪd
1. прил.
1) твердый( об агрегатном состоянии вещества)
2) а) сплошной;
цельный, без пробелов;
непрерывный solid printing ≈ набор без шпонов solid square ≈ (сплошное) каре б) пишущийся слитно, без дефиса
3) массивный( не содержащий полостей)
4) а) прочный, крепкий;
солидный (чаще всего ≈ о телосложении) б) плотный, основательный (напр., о приеме пищи) to have a solid meal ≈ плотно поесть ∙ Syn: compact
5) основательный, надежный;
солидный;
веский solid argument ≈ веский довод
6) единодушный, единогласный, сплоченный The faction was solid for its views. ≈ Фракция твердо стояла на своих позициях.
7) а) чистый, неразбавленный;
без примесей б) сл. отличный, хороший, качественный
8) мат. кубический, пространственный, трехмерный ∙ the Solid South амер. ≈ южные штаты, традиционно голосующие за демократическую партию
2. сущ.
1) физ. твердое тело
2) мат. тело
3) мн. твердая пища
4) порода, массив (угля или руды)
3. нареч.
1) единогласно Syn: unanimously
2) полностью, целиком( физическое) твердое тело (математика) тело - regular * правильное (геометрическое) тело - * revolution тело вращения твердая пища - no *s to be given to the patient кормить пациента только жидкой пищей твердое вещество - milk *s сухой остаток молока;
сухие вещества молока слово, пишущееся слитно, без дефиса (американизм) (сленг) закадычный друг( автомобильное) массивная шина (также * tyre) (горное) порода, массив (the *) твердый - * state ( food) твердое состояние( - ая пища) - * sea замерзшее море - to become * on cooling затвердевать при охлаждении густой, плотный - * clouds плотные облака - * honey загустевший (кристаллизованный) мед - * solution густой раствор сплошной, цельный, неполый - * ball сплошной шар - * wall глухая (сплошная) стена - * shot (военное) болванка, бронебойный снаряд - * tyre (автомобильное) массивная шина (также * tyre) сплошной, однородный - * background гладкий (однотонный) фон - * colour ровный цвет;
однотонная окраска( без рисунка) гладкий, без выработки (о ткани, трикотаже) сплошной, непрерывный - * line of defense непрерывная линия обороны - * matter (полиграфия) набор без шпон пишущийся слитно, слитно написанный - * word слитно написанное слово, сложное слово( без дефиса) чистый, беспримесный, неразбавленный - of * gold (silver) из чистого золота( серебра) - * port крепкий портвейн крепкий, прочный, массивный - * basis (foundation) прочное основание( - ый фундамент) - * block of ice монолитная глыба льда - * lump большой (здоровый) кусок - * building (structure) массивное здание (сооружение) - * furniture крепкая (прочная, массивная) мебель - to be on * ground быть (стоять) на твердой почве;
иметь твердую почву под ногами сильный, здоровый, крепкий - a man of * build (frame) человек крепкого (плотного) телосложения - a man of * health человек крепкого (отменного) здоровья - with * step твердым( уверенным) шагом плотный, сытный, питательный - * pudding сытный (тяжелый) пудинг - to have a * meal плотно поесть убедительный, веский, основательный - * argument веский довод - * consideration основательное сооброажение - to have * grounds for supposing smth. иметь веские основания предполагать что-либо солидный, надежный - * firm солидная фирма - a man of * character положительный человек - * merchant солидный коммерсант - * comfort полный комфорт серьезный, глубокий - * reading серьезное чтение, серьезные книги - * respect (satisfaction) глубокое уважение (удовлетворение) - * politician трезвый( серьезный) политик - a man of * sense благоразумный человек, человек трезвого ума единодушный, единогласный;
единый, сплоченный - * delegation (party) сплоченная делегация (партия) - by a * vote единогласно - to be * for (against) smb., smth. твердо стоять за кого-либо, что-либо (против кого-либо, чего-либо) ;
быть всей душой за кого-либо, что-либо (против кого-либо, чего-либо) - to be * in one's afvour (in one's feelings) быть единодушными в своих симпатиях ( в своих чувствах) непрерывный, постоянный - * rain непрерывный дождь( разговорное) целый, полный - for a * day весь( целый) день - I have been waiting a * hour я прождал битый час( американизм) (сленг) хороший, отличный (о музыке и т. п.) (разговорное) находящийся в близких отношениях (с кем-либо) (with) - to be * with smb. быть в милости у кого-либо, пользоваться чьим-либо расположением - to make oneself * with the chief быть на дружеской ноге с начальством (специальное) трехмерный, пространственный - * angle( физическое) телесный( пространственный) угол - * animation (кинематографический) объемная мультипликация - * foot (yard) кубический фут (ярд) - * number( математика) целое число, разлагаемое на три простых множителя > S. South( американизм) южные штаты, традиционно голосующие за демократов > a * bone (ivory) не голова, а кочан капусты полностью, целиком - to go * for (against) smb., sbth. (разговорное) твердо стоять за кого-либо, что-либо (против кого-либо, чего-либо) единодушно, единогласно - to vote * голосовать единогласно to be ~ (with smb.) быть в милости (у кого-л.), the Solid South амер. южные штаты, традиционно голосующие за демократическую партию ~ сплоченный, единогласный;
solid party сплоченная партия;
the decision was passed by a solid vote решение было принято единогласно;
to be solid for стоять твердо за ~ твердый (не жидкий, не газообразный) ;
solid state твердое состояние;
to become solid on cooling твердеть при охлаждении ~ сплоченный, единогласный;
solid party сплоченная партия;
the decision was passed by a solid vote решение было принято единогласно;
to be solid for стоять твердо за ~ непрерывный;
solid line of defence непрерывная линия обороны;
for a solid hour( day) в течение часа (дня) без перерыва ~ прочный, крепкий;
плотный, солидный;
to have a solid meal плотно поесть;
a man of solid build человек плотного сложения ~ прочный, крепкий;
плотный, солидный;
to have a solid meal плотно поесть;
a man of solid build человек плотного сложения ~ основательный, надежный;
солидный;
веский;
solid argument веский довод;
solid grounds реальные основания;
a man of solid sense человек трезвого ума ~ мат. тело;
regular solid правильное (геометрическое) тело solid единогласно;
to vote solid голосовать единогласно ~ единогласный ~ массивный (не полый) ~ непрерывный;
solid line of defence непрерывная линия обороны;
for a solid hour( day) в течение часа (дня) без перерыва ~ основательный, надежный;
солидный;
веский;
solid argument веский довод;
solid grounds реальные основания;
a man of solid sense человек трезвого ума ~ пишущийся вместе, без дефиса ~ плотный ~ порода, массив (угля или руды) ~ прочный, крепкий;
плотный, солидный;
to have a solid meal плотно поесть;
a man of solid build человек плотного сложения ~ прочный ~ сплоченный, единогласный;
solid party сплоченная партия;
the decision was passed by a solid vote решение было принято единогласно;
to be solid for стоять твердо за ~ сплошной;
цельный;
solid colour ровный цвет;
solid printing полигр. набор без шпонов;
solid square воен. (сплошное) каре ~ сплошной ~ твердое тело ~ твердый ~ pl твердая пища ~ физ. твердое тело ~ твердый (не жидкий, не газообразный) ;
solid state твердое состояние;
to become solid on cooling твердеть при охлаждении ~ мат. тело;
regular solid правильное (геометрическое) тело ~ мат. трехмерный, пространственный, кубический;
solid angle телесный (или пространственный) угол;
solid foot кубический фут ~ убедительный ~ a sl. хороший, отличный ~ чистый, неразбавленный;
без примесей;
solid gold чистое золото ~ основательный, надежный;
солидный;
веский;
solid argument веский довод;
solid grounds реальные основания;
a man of solid sense человек трезвого ума ~ сплошной;
цельный;
solid colour ровный цвет;
solid printing полигр. набор без шпонов;
solid square воен. (сплошное) каре ~ мат. трехмерный, пространственный, кубический;
solid angle телесный (или пространственный) угол;
solid foot кубический фут ~ чистый, неразбавленный;
без примесей;
solid gold чистое золото ~ основательный, надежный;
солидный;
веский;
solid argument веский довод;
solid grounds реальные основания;
a man of solid sense человек трезвого ума ~ непрерывный;
solid line of defence непрерывная линия обороны;
for a solid hour (day) в течение часа (дня) без перерыва ~ сплоченный, единогласный;
solid party сплоченная партия;
the decision was passed by a solid vote решение было принято единогласно;
to be solid for стоять твердо за ~ сплошной;
цельный;
solid colour ровный цвет;
solid printing полигр. набор без шпонов;
solid square воен. (сплошное) каре to be ~ (with smb.) быть в милости (у кого-л.), the Solid South амер. южные штаты, традиционно голосующие за демократическую партию ~ сплошной;
цельный;
solid colour ровный цвет;
solid printing полигр. набор без шпонов;
solid square воен. (сплошное) каре ~ твердый (не жидкий, не газообразный) ;
solid state твердое состояние;
to become solid on cooling твердеть при охлаждении solid единогласно;
to vote solid голосовать единогласно -
119 rear
I1. [rıə] n1. тылto bring up /to close/ the rear - а) замыкать шествие; б) воен. замыкать колонну
to take in (the) rear - воен. а) напасть /атаковать/ с тыла; б) выходить в тыл ( противника)
in /on/ smb.'s rear - позади кого-л.
to follow in the rear - идти сзади, плестись (за кем-л.)
at /амер. in/ the rear of - сзади (чего-л.)
the garage is at /in/ the rear of the house - гараж находится позади дома
2. задняя, тыльная сторона3. груб. зад4. груб. отхожее место, сортир5. ав. задняя, хвостовая часть ( самолёта)♢
to the rear, march! - кругом, марш! ( команда)2. [rıə] a1. задний, расположенный сзади; тыльныйrear entrance - задняя дверь, чёрный ход
rear rank - воен. замыкающая шеренга
rear party - воен. тыльная походная застава
rear traverse - воен. тыльный траверс
rear slope - топ. а) обратный скат; б) тыльная крутость
2. воен. тыловойrear area - тыл, тыловой район
3. ав. хвостовойII [rıə] v книжн.rear control - хвостовой руль; расположенная за крылом рулевая поверхность
1. поднимать (голову, руку)to rear one's head - поднять голову (тж. перен.)
to rear one's voice - поднять /возвысить, повысить/ голос
to rear the banner of revolt - образн. поднять знамя восстания
2. воздвигатьto rear a monument [a cathedral] - воздвигнуть памятник [собор]
to rear a mast [a pillar] - поставить мачту [столб]
3. 1) разводить, выращивать, выводить ( животных)to rear poultry [pigs] - заниматься птицеводством [свиноводством]
2) культивировать, возделывать, выращивать ( растения)3) растить, воспитывать ( потомство)4. 1) вздымать, возноситьthe mountains reared their crests into the clouds - горы вздымали свои вершины до облаков
2) тж. refl возвышаться, выситься, вздыматься, возноситься5. ( часто rear up)1) становиться на дыбы2) поднять на дыбы ( лошадь)3) встать на дыбы, прийти в бешенство, в ярость4) тж. refl встать6. направлять, обращать вверх (взгляд и т. п.); возводить к небу ( глаза)II [rıə] a диал.1) недожаренный, полусырой2) сваренный всмятку -
120 solid
1. [ʹsɒlıd] n1. физ. твёрдое тело2. мат. тело3. pl твёрдая пищаno solids to be given to the patient - кормить пациента только жидкой пищей
4. твёрдое веществоmilk solids - сухой остаток молока; сухие вещества молока
5. слово, пишущееся слитно, без дефиса6. амер. сл. закадычный друг7. авт. массивная шина (тж. solid tyre)8. (the solid) горн. порода, массив2. [ʹsɒlıd] a1. твёрдыйsolid state [food] - твёрдое состояние [-ая пища]
2. густой, плотныйsolid honey - загустевший /кристаллизованный/ мёд
3. 1) сплошной, цельный, неполыйsolid wall - глухая /сплошная/ стена
solid shot - воен. болванка, бронебойный снаряд
solid tyre = solid I 7
2) сплошной, однородныйsolid background - гладкий /однотонный/ фон
solid colour - ровный цвет; однотонная окраска ( без рисунка)
3) гладкий, без выработки (о ткани, трикотаже)4) сплошной, непрерывныйsolid matter - полигр. набор без шпон
5) пишущийся слитно, слитно написанныйsolid word - слитно написанное слово, сложное слово (без дефиса)
4. чистый, беспримесный, неразбавленныйof solid gold [silver] - из чистого золота [серебра]
5. крепкий, прочный, массивныйsolid basis [foundation] - прочное основание [-ый фундамент]
solid lump - большой /здоровый/ кусок
solid building [structure] - массивное здание [сооружение]
solid furniture - крепкая /прочная, массивная/ мебель
to be on solid ground - а) быть /стоять/ на твёрдой почве; б) иметь твёрдую почву под ногами
6. сильный, здоровый, крепкийa man of solid build /frame/ - человек крепкого /плотного/ телосложения
a man of solid health - человек крепкого /отменного/ здоровья
with solid step - твёрдым /уверенным/ шагом
7. плотный, сытный, питательныйsolid pudding - сытный /тяжёлый/ пудинг
8. убедительный, веский, основательныйto have solid grounds for supposing smth. - иметь веские основания предполагать что-л.
9. солидный, надёжный10. серьёзный, глубокийsolid reading - серьёзное чтение, серьёзные книги
solid respect [satisfaction] - глубокое уважение [удовлетворение]
solid politician - трезвый /серьёзный/ политик
a man of solid sense - благоразумный человек, человек трезвого ума
11. единодушный, единогласный; единый, сплочённыйsolid delegation [party] - сплочённая делегация [партия]
to be solid for [against] smb., smth. - твёрдо стоять за кого-л., что-л. [против кого-л., чего-л.]; быть всей душой за кого-л., что-л. [против кого-л., чего-л.]
to be solid in one's favour [in one's feelings] - быть единодушными в своих симпатиях [в своих чувствах]
12. непрерывный, постоянный13. разг. целый, полныйfor a solid day - весь /целый/ день
14. амер. сл. хороший, отличный (о музыке и т. п.)15. (with) разг. находящийся в близких отношениях (с кем-л.)to be solid with smb. - быть в милости у кого-л., пользоваться чьим-л. расположением
to make oneself solid with the chief - быть на дружеской ноге с начальством
16. спец. трёхмерный, пространственныйsolid angle - физ. телесный /пространственный/ угол
solid animation - кино объёмная мультипликация
solid foot [yard] - кубический фут [ярд]
solid number - мат. целое число, разлагаемое на три простых множителя
♢
Solid South - амер. южные штаты, традиционно голосующие за демократов3. [ʹsɒlıd] adva solid bone /ivory/ - ≅ не голова, а кочан капусты
1. полностью, целикомto go solid for [against] smb., smth. - разг. твёрдо стоять за кого-л., что-л. [против кого-л., чего-л.]
2. единодушно, единогласно
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