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pull [pʊl]fait de tirer ⇒ 1 (a) traction ⇒ 1 (b) résistance ⇒ 1 (c) attrait ⇒ 1 (d) influence ⇒ 1 (e) tirer ⇒ 2 (a)-(c), 3 (a) traîner ⇒ 2 (a) arracher ⇒ 2 (d) se déchirer ⇒ 2 (e) réussir ⇒ 2 (f)1 noun(a) (tug, act of pulling)∎ to give sth a pull, to give a pull on sth tirer (sur) qch;∎ give it a hard or good pull! tirez fort!;∎ give it one more pull tire encore un coup;∎ we'll need a pull to get out of the mud nous aurons besoin que quelqu'un nous remorque ou nous prenne en remorque pour nous désembourber;∎ with a pull the dog broke free le chien tira sur sa laisse et s'échappa;∎ she felt a pull at or on her handbag elle a senti qu'on tirait sur son sac à main;∎ I felt a pull on the fishing line ça mordait∎ the winch applies a steady pull le treuil exerce une traction continue;∎ the gravitational pull is stronger on Earth la gravitation est plus forte sur Terre;∎ we fought against the pull of the current nous luttions contre le courant qui nous entraînait(c) (resistance → of bowstring) résistance f;∎ adjust the trigger if the pull is too stiff for you réglez la détente si elle est trop dure pour vous(d) (psychological, emotional attraction) attrait m;∎ the pull of city life l'attrait m de la vie en ville;∎ he resisted the pull of family tradition and went his own way il a résisté à l'influence de la tradition familiale pour suivre son propre chemin∎ to have a lot of pull avoir le bras long;∎ he has a lot of pull with the Prime Minister il a beaucoup d'influence sur le Premier ministre;∎ his money gives him a certain political pull son argent lui confère une certaine influence ou un certain pouvoir politique;∎ his father's pull got him in son père l'a pistonné∎ it'll be a long pull to the summit la montée sera longue (et difficile) pour atteindre le sommet;∎ it will be a hard pull upstream il faudra ramer dur pour remonter le courant;∎ it's going to be a long uphill pull to make the firm profitable ça sera difficile de remettre l'entreprise à flot(g) (in rowing → stroke) coup m de rame ou d'aviron;∎ with another pull he was clear of the rock d'un autre coup de rame, il évita le rocher∎ to take a pull at or on one's beer boire ou prendre une gorgée de bière;∎ to take a pull at or on one's cigarette/pipe tirer sur sa cigarette/pipe(j) (snag → in sweater) accroc m;∎ my cardigan has a pull in it j'ai fait un accroc à mon cardigan(k) Typography épreuve f∎ she pulled my hair elle m'a tiré les cheveux;∎ to pull the blinds baisser les stores;∎ to pull the British curtains or∎ American drapes tirer ou fermer les rideaux;∎ we pulled the heavy log across to the fire nous avons traîné la lourde bûche jusqu'au feu;∎ pull the lamp towards you tirez la lampe vers vous;∎ he pulled his chair closer to the fire il approcha sa chaise de la cheminée;∎ she pulled the hood over her face elle abaissa le capuchon sur son visage;∎ he pulled his hat over his eyes il enfonça ou rabattit son chapeau sur ses yeux;∎ he pulled the steering wheel to the right il a donné un coup de volant à droite;∎ to pull a drawer open ouvrir un tiroir;∎ she came in and pulled the door shut behind her elle entra et ferma la porte derrière elle;∎ pull the rope taut tendez la corde;∎ pull the knot tight serrez le nœud;∎ pull the tablecloth straight tendez la nappe;∎ he pulled the wrapping from the package il arracha l'emballage du paquet;∎ he pulled the sheets off the bed il enleva les draps du lit;∎ she pulled her hand from mine elle retira (brusquement) sa main de la mienne;∎ she pulled the box from his hands elle lui a arraché la boîte des mains;∎ he was pulling her towards the exit il l'entraînait vers la sortie;∎ he pulled her closer (to him) il l'a attirée plus près de lui;∎ the current pulled us into the middle of the river le courant nous a entraînés au milieu de la rivière;∎ he pulled himself onto the riverbank il se hissa sur la berge;∎ figurative the sound of the doorbell pulled him out of his daydream le coup de sonnette l'a tiré de ou arraché à ses rêveries;∎ figurative he was pulled off the first team on l'a écarté ou exclu de la première équipe;∎ to pull to bits or pieces (toy, appliance) démolir, mettre en morceaux; (book, flower) déchirer; figurative (book, play, person) démolir(b) (operate → lever, handle) tirer;∎ pull the trigger appuyez ou pressez sur la détente(c) (tow, draw → load, trailer, carriage, boat) tirer, remorquer;∎ carts pulled by mules des charrettes tirées par des mules;∎ a suitcase with wheels that you pull behind you une valise à roulettes qu'on tire ou traîne derrière soi;∎ the barges were pulled along the canals les péniches étaient halées le long des canaux∎ he pulled a dollar bill from his wad/wallet il a tiré un billet d'un dollar de sa liasse/sorti un billet d'un dollar de son portefeuille;∎ he pulled a gun on me il a braqué un revolver sur moi;∎ to pull a cork déboucher une bouteille;∎ to have a tooth pulled se faire arracher une dent;∎ it was like pulling teeth c'était pénible comme tout;∎ getting him to talk is like pulling teeth! il faut lui arracher les mots de la bouche!;∎ familiar can you pull that file for me? pourriez-vous me sortir ce dossier?□(e) (strain → muscle, tendon) se déchirer;∎ she pulled a muscle elle s'est déchiré un muscle, elle s'est fait un claquage;∎ a pulled muscle un claquage;∎ my shoulder feels as if I've pulled something j'ai l'impression que je me suis froissé un muscle de l'épaule∎ she has pulled several daring financial coups elle a réussi plusieurs opérations financières audacieuses;∎ he pulled a big bank job in Italy il a réussi un hold-up de première dans une banque italienne;∎ to pull a trick on sb jouer un tour à qn□ ;∎ what are you trying to pull? qu'est-ce que tu es en train de combiner ou manigancer?□ ;∎ don't try and pull anything! n'essayez pas de jouer au plus malin!;∎ don't ever pull a stunt like that again ne me/nous/ etc refais jamais un tour comme ça□ ;∎ to pull a fast one on sb avoir qn, rouler qn;∎ American I pulled an all-nighter j'ai bossé toute la nuit∎ to pull a horse retenir un cheval;∎ also figurative to pull one's punches retenir ses coups, ménager son adversaire;∎ figurative she didn't pull any punches elle n'y est pas allée de main morte(h) (in golf, tennis → ball) puller;∎ to pull a shot puller(i) (in rowing → boat) faire avancer à la rame;∎ he pulls a good oar c'est un bon rameur;∎ the boat pulls eight oars c'est un bateau à huit avirons(l) (gut → fowl) vider∎ people complained and they had to pull the commercial ils ont dû retirer la pub suite à des plaintes∎ the festival pulled a big crowd le festival a attiré beaucoup de monde;∎ how many votes will he pull? combien de voix va-t-il récolter?□∎ he pulls pints at the Crown il est barman au Crown(a) (exert force, tug) tirer;∎ pull harder! tirez plus fort!;∎ to pull on or at a rope tirer sur un cordage;∎ the bandage may pull when I take it off le pansement risque de vous tirer la peau quand je l'enlèverai;∎ the steering pulls to the right la direction tire à droite;∎ Cars the 2-litre model pulls very well le modèle 2 litres a de bonnes reprises;∎ figurative they're pulling in different directions ils tirent à hue et à dia(b) (rope, cord)∎ the rope pulled easily la corde filait librement(c) (go, move)∎ pull into the space next to the Mercedes mettez-vous ou garez-vous à côté de la Mercedes;∎ he pulled into the right-hand lane il a pris la file de droite;∎ pull into the garage entrez dans le garage;∎ when the train pulls out of the station quand le train quitte la gare;∎ she pulled clear of the pack elle s'est détachée du peloton;∎ he pulled clear of the traffic and sped on il est sorti du flot de la circulation et a accéléré;∎ he pulled sharply to the left il a viré brutalement sur la gauche;∎ the lorry pulled slowly up the hill le camion gravissait lentement la côte∎ the engine's pulling le moteur fatigue ou peine∎ the head of personnel is pulling for you or on your behalf vous avez le chef du personnel derrière vous□(f) (snag → sweater) filer;∎ my sweater's pulled in a couple of places mon pull a plusieurs mailles filées∎ to pull for shore ramer vers la côte;∎ to pull with a long stroke ramer à grands coups d'aviron∎ did you pull last night? t'as levé une nana/un mec hier soir?►► American pull date date f limite de vente;Marketing pull strategy stratégie f pull;(handle roughly → person) malmener; (→ object) tirer dans tous les sens, tirailler;∎ stop pulling me about! mais lâche-moi donc!prendre de l'avance;∎ to pull ahead of sb prendre de l'avance sur qn(load, vehicle) tirer; (person) entraîner;∎ he was pulling the suitcase along by the strap il tirait la valise derrière lui par la sangle;∎ she pulled me along by my arm elle m'entraînait en me tirant par le bras(a) (take to pieces → machine, furniture) démonter;∎ now you've pulled it all apart, are you sure you can fix it? maintenant que tu as tout démonté, es-tu sûr de pouvoir le réparer?(b) (destroy, break → object) mettre en morceaux ou en pièces; (→ clothing) déchirer; (body, flesh) déchiqueter;∎ the wreck was pulled apart by the waves les vagues ont disloqué l'épave;∎ tell him where it's hidden or he'll pull the place apart dites-lui où c'est (caché) sinon il va tout saccager(e) (make suffer) déchirer(furniture) se démonter, être démontable;∎ the shelves simply pull apart les étagères se démontent sans outils(a) (cart, toy, suitcase) tirer derrière soi(b) (make turn) tourner, faire pivoter;∎ he pulled the horse around il fit faire demi-tour à son cheval(a) (strain at, tug at) tirer sur;∎ the dog pulled at the leash le chien tira sur la laisse;∎ we pulled at the rope nous avons tiré sur la corde;∎ I pulled at his sleeve je l'ai tiré par la manche;∎ each pulled at an oar chacun tirait sur un aviron;∎ the wind pulled at her hair le vent faisait voler ses cheveux(b) (suck → pipe, cigar) tirer sur;∎ (→ bottle) he pulled at his bottle of beer il a bu une gorgée de bière(withdraw → covering, hand) retirer; (grab) arracher;∎ she pulled her hand away elle retira ou ôta sa main;∎ he pulled me away from the window il m'éloigna de la fenêtre;∎ she pulled the book away from him elle lui arracha le livre(a) (withdraw → person) s'écarter;∎ I put out my hand but she pulled away j'ai tendu la main vers elle mais elle s'est détournée;∎ he had me by the arm but I managed to pull away il me tenait par le bras mais j'ai réussi à me dégager∎ the boat pulled away from the bank le bateau quitta la rive;∎ the train pulled away from the station le train a quitté la gare;∎ as the train began to pull away alors que le train s'ébranlait(c) (get ahead → runner, competitor) prendre de l'avance;∎ she's pulling away from the pack elle prend de l'avance sur le peloton, elle se détache du peloton(a) (draw backwards or towards one) retirer;∎ he pulled his hand back il retira ou ôta sa main;∎ she pulled back the curtains elle ouvrit les rideaux;∎ pull the lever back tirez le levier (vers l'arrière);∎ he pulled me back from the railing il m'a éloigné de la barrière;∎ to pull sb/a company back from the brink faire refaire surface à qn/une entreprise, tirer qn/une entreprise d'affaire(b) (withdraw → troops) retirer(a) (withdraw → troops, participant) se retirer;∎ it's too late to pull back now il est trop tard pour se retirer ou pour faire marche arrière maintenant;∎ they pulled back from committing themselves fully ils ont renoncé à s'engager complètement(b) (step backwards) reculer;∎ to pull back involuntarily avoir un mouvement de recul involontaire(c) (jib → horse, person) regimber(a) (lower → lever, handle) tirer (vers le bas); (→ trousers, veil) baisser; (→ suitcase, book) descendre; (→ blind, window) baisser;∎ pull the blind/the window down baissez le store/la vitre;∎ with his hat pulled down over his eyes son chapeau rabattu sur les yeux;∎ she pulled her skirt down over her knees elle ramena sa jupe sur ses genoux;∎ I pulled him down onto the chair je l'ai fait asseoir sur la chaise;∎ he's pulling the whole team down il fait baisser le niveau de toute l'équipe;∎ my marks in the oral exam will pull me down mes notes à l'oral vont baisser ou descendre ma moyenne(b) (demolish → house, wall) démolir, abattre;∎ they're pulling down the whole neighbourhood ils démolissent tout le quartier;∎ figurative it'll pull down the government ça va renverser le gouvernement(blind) descendre➲ pull in(a) (line, fishing net) ramener;∎ they pulled the rope in ils tirèrent la corde à eux;∎ to pull sb in (into building, car) tirer qn à l'intérieur, faire entrer qn; (into water) faire tomber qn à l'eau∎ to pull oneself in rentrer son ventre(c) (attract → customers, investors, investment) attirer;∎ the show's really pulling them in le spectacle attire les foules∎ they pulled him in for questioning ils l'ont arrêté pour l'interroger(f) (stop → horse) retenir, tirer les rênes de;∎ to pull one's car in to the kerb se ranger près du trottoir;∎ to be pulled in for speeding être arrêté pour excès de vitesse(vehicle, driver → stop) s'arrêter; (→ park) se garer; (→ move to side of road) se rabattre; (arrive → train) entrer en gare;∎ I pulled in for petrol je me suis arrêté pour prendre de l'essence;∎ the car in front pulled in to let me past la voiture devant moi s'est rabattue pour me laisser passer;∎ pull in here arrête-toi là;∎ to pull in to the kerb se ranger près du trottoir;∎ the express pulled in two hours late l'express est arrivé avec deux heures de retard➲ pull off(a) (clothes, boots, ring) enlever, retirer; (cover, bandage, knob, wrapping) enlever; (page from calendar, sticky backing) détacher;∎ to pull the sheets off the bed retirer ou enlever les draps du lit;∎ I pulled her hat off je lui ai enlevé son chapeau; (more violently) je lui ai arraché son chapeau(b) familiar (accomplish → deal, stratagem, mission, shot) réussir□ ; (→ press conference, negotiations) mener à bien□ ; (→ plan) réaliser□ ; (→ prize) décrocher, gagner□ ;∎ the deal will be difficult to pull off cette affaire ne sera pas facile à négocier;∎ will she (manage to) pull it off? est-ce qu'elle va y arriver?;∎ he pulled it off il a réussi∎ to pull sb off branler qn;∎ to pull oneself off se branler∎ he pulled off onto a side road il bifurqua sur une petite route;∎ there's no place to pull off il n'y a pas de place pour s'arrêter∎ the lid simply pulls off il suffit de tirer pour enlever le couvercle;∎ the top pulls off to reveal… le dessus se retire et on peut voir…➲ pull on(clothes, boots, pillow slip) mettre, enfiler(a) (tug at → rope, handle etc) tirer sur(b) (draw on → cigarette, pipe) tirer sur➲ pull out(a) (remove → tooth, hair, weeds) arracher; (→ splinter, nail) enlever; (→ plug, cork) ôter, enlever; (produce → wallet, weapon) sortir, tirer;∎ she pulled a map out of her bag elle a sorti une carte de son sac;∎ he pulled a page out of his notebook il a déchiré une feuille de son carnet;∎ pull the paper gently out of the printer retirez doucement le papier de l'imprimante;∎ to pull a nail out of a plank arracher un clou d'une planche;∎ the tractor pulled us out of the mud/ditch le tracteur nous a sortis de la boue/du fossé;∎ to pull the country out of recession (faire) sortir le pays de la récession;∎ to pull sb out of a tight spot tirer qn d'un mauvais pas;∎ familiar to pull out all the stops (to do sth) faire le maximum (pour faire qch)∎ pull the bed out from the wall écartez le lit du mur;∎ he pulled a chair out from under the table il a écarté une chaise de la table(c) (withdraw → troops, contestant) retirer;∎ the battalion was pulled out of the border area le bataillon a été retiré de la région frontalière;∎ he threatened to pull the party out of the coalition il menaça de retirer le parti de la coalition(a) (withdraw → troops, ally, participant) se retirer; (→ company from project, buyer) se désister; (→ company from place) quitter une/la région/ville/ etc;∎ when they pulled out of Vietnam quand ils se sont retirés du Viêt-nam;∎ she's pulling out of the election elle retire sa candidature;∎ they've pulled out of the deal ils se sont retirés de l'affaire∎ she was pulling out of the garage elle sortait du garage;∎ he pulled out to overtake il a déboîté pour doubler;∎ a truck suddenly pulled out in front of me soudain, un camion m'a coupé la route;∎ to pull out into traffic s'engager dans la circulation;∎ Aviation to pull out of a dive sortir d'un piqué, se rétablir∎ to pull out of a recession/a crisis sortir de la récession/d'une crise∎ the sofa pulls out into a bed le canapé se transforme en lit;∎ the shelves pull out on peut retirer les étagères;∎ the table top pulls out c'est une table à rallonges(a) (draw into specified position) tirer, traîner;∎ pull the chair over to the window amenez la chaise près de la fenêtre;∎ she pulled the dish over and helped herself elle a tiré le plat vers ou à elle et s'est servie(b) (make fall → pile, person, table) faire tomber, renverser;∎ watch out you don't pull that lamp over fais attention de ne pas faire tomber cette lampe(c) (usu passive) (stop → vehicle, driver) arrêter;∎ I got pulled over for speeding je me suis fait arrêter pour excès de vitesse(vehicle, driver → stop) s'arrêter; (→ move to side of road) se ranger, se rabattre;∎ pull over and let the fire engine past rangez-vous ou rabattez-vous sur le côté et laissez passer les pompiers∎ a drop of brandy will pull her round un peu de cognac la remettra ou remontera(regain consciousness) revenir à soi, reprendre connaissance; (recover) se remettre(a) (draw through → rope, thread) faire passer;∎ pull the needle through to the other side faites sortir l'aiguille de l'autre côté(b) (help survive or surmount) tirer d'affaire;∎ he says his faith pulled him through il dit que c'est sa foi qui lui a permis de s'en sortir(recover) s'en sortir, s'en tirer(shut → door, gate) fermer(a) (place together, join) joindre∎ I've pulled together a few suggestions j'ai préparé ou noté quelques propositions(c) to pull oneself together se reprendre, se ressaisir;∎ pull yourself together! ressaisissez-vous!, ne vous laissez pas aller!∎ pull together! (in rowing) avant partout!(b) (combine efforts, cooperate) concentrer ses efforts, agir de concert;∎ we've all got to pull together on this one il faut que nous nous y mettions tous ensemble, il faut que nous nous attelions tous ensemble à la tâche➲ pull up(a) (draw upwards → trousers, sleeve, blanket, lever) remonter; (→ blind) hausser, lever; (→ skirt) retrousser, relever; (hoist oneself) hisser;∎ they pulled the boat up onto the beach ils ont tiré le bateau sur la plage;∎ she pulled herself up onto the ledge elle s'est hissée sur le rebord;∎ to pull one's socks up tirer ou remonter ses chaussettes; familiar figurative se remuer, s'activer(b) (move closer → chair) approcher;∎ I pulled a chair up to the desk j'ai approché une chaise du bureau;∎ why don't you pull up a chair and join us? prenez donc une chaise et joignez-vous à nous!;∎ he pulled the crate up to the scales il a traîné la caisse jusqu'à la balance(c) (uproot → weeds) arracher; (→ bush, stump, tree) arracher, déraciner; (rip up → floorboards) arracher∎ to be pulled up (by the police) se faire arrêter (par un agent);∎ his warning pulled me up short je me suis arrêté net lorsqu'il m'a crié de faire attention;∎ he was about to tell them everything but I pulled him up (short) il était sur le point de tout leur dire mais je lui ai coupé la parole∎ his good marks in maths pulled him up again ses bonnes notes en maths ont remonté sa moyenne∎ he was pulled up for being late il s'est fait enguirlander pour être arrivé en retard;∎ if your work is sloppy, they'll pull you up on it si ton travail est bâclé, tu vas te faire taper sur les doigts∎ as I was pulling up at the red light alors que j'allais m'arrêter au feu rouge;∎ pull up at or outside the main entrance arrêtez-vous devant l'entrée principale;∎ to pull up short s'arrêter net ou brusquement(c) (draw even) rattraper;∎ to pull up with sb rattraper qn;∎ Sun Boy is pulling up on the outside! 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62 Bateman, John Frederick La Trobe
[br]b. 30 May 1810 Lower Wyke, near Halifax, Yorkshire, Englandd. 10 June 1889 Moor Park, Farnham, Surrey, England[br]English civil engineer whose principal works were concerned with reservoirs, water-supply schemes and pipelines.[br]Bateman's maternal grandfather was a Moravian missionary, and from the age of 7 he was educated at the Moravian schools at Fairfield and Ockbrook. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a "civil engineer, land surveyor and agent" in Oldham. After this apprenticeship, Bateman commenced his own practice in 1833. One of his early schemes and reports was in regard to the flooding of the river Medlock in the Manchester area. He came to the attention of William Fairbairn, the engine builder and millwright of Canal Street, Ancoats, Manchester. Fairbairn used Bateman as his site surveyor and as such he prepared much of the groundwork for the Bann reservoirs in Northern Ireland. Whilst the reports on the proposals were in the name of Fairbairn, Bateman was, in fact, appointed by the company as their engineer for the execution of the works. One scheme of Bateman's which was carried forward was the Kendal Reservoirs. The Act for these was signed in 1845 and was implemented not for the purpose of water supply but for the conservation of water to supply power to the many mills which stood on the river Kent between Kentmere and Morecambe Bay. The Kentmere Head dam is the only one of the five proposed for the scheme to survive, although not all the others were built as they would have retained only small volumes of water.Perhaps the greatest monument to the work of J.F.La Trobe Bateman is Manchester's water supply; he was consulted about this in 1844, and construction began four years later. He first built reservoirs in the Longdendale valley, which has a very complicated geological stratification. Bateman favoured earth embankment dams and gravity feed rather than pumping; the five reservoirs in the valley that impound the river Etherow were complex, cored earth dams. However, when completed they were greatly at risk from landslips and ground movement. Later dams were inserted by Bateman to prevent water loss should the older dams fail. The scheme was not completed until 1877, by which time Manchester's population had exceeded the capacity of the original scheme; Thirlmere in Cumbria was chosen by Manchester Corporation as the site of the first of the Lake District water-supply schemes. Bateman, as Consulting Engineer, designed the great stone-faced dam at the west end of the lake, the "gothic" straining well in the middle of the east shore of the lake, and the 100-mile (160 km) pipeline to Manchester. The Act for the Thirlmere reservoir was signed in 1879 and, whilst Bateman continued as Consulting Engineer, the work was supervised by G.H. Hill and was completed in 1894.Bateman was also consulted by the authorities in Glasgow, with the result that he constructed an impressive water-supply scheme derived from Loch Katrine during the years 1856–60. It was claimed that the scheme bore comparison with "the most extensive aqueducts in the world, not excluding those of ancient Rome". Bateman went on to superintend the waterworks of many cities, mainly in the north of England but also in Dublin and Belfast. In 1865 he published a pamphlet, On the Supply of Water to London from the Sources of the River Severn, based on a survey funded from his own pocket; a Royal Commission examined various schemes but favoured Bateman's.Bateman was also responsible for harbour and dock works, notably on the rivers Clyde and Shannon, and also for a number of important water-supply works on the Continent of Europe and beyond. Dams and the associated reservoirs were the principal work of J.F.La Trobe Bateman; he completed forty-three such schemes during his professional career. He also prepared many studies of water-supply schemes, and appeared as professional witness before the appropriate Parliamentary Committees.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS 1860. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1878, 1879.BibliographyAmong his publications History and Description of the Manchester Waterworks, (1884, London), and The Present State of Our Knowledge on the Supply of Water to Towns, (1855, London: British Association for the Advancement of Science) are notable.Further ReadingObituary, 1889, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 97:392– 8.Obituary, 1889, Proceedings of the Royal Society 46:xlii-xlviii. G.M.Binnie, 1981, Early Victorian Water Engineers, London.P.N.Wilson, 1973, "Kendal reservoirs", Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 73.KM / LRDBiographical history of technology > Bateman, John Frederick La Trobe
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63 Lombe, John
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. c. 1693 probably Norwich, Englandd. 20 November 1722 Derby, England[br]English creator of the first successful powered textile mill in Britain.[br]John Lombe's father, Henry Lombe, was a worsted weaver who married twice. John was the second son of the second marriage and was still a baby when his father died in 1695. John, a native of the Eastern Counties, was apprenticed to a trade and employed by Thomas Cotchett in the erection of Cotchett's silk mill at Derby, which soon failed however. Lombe went to Italy, or was sent there by his elder half-brother, Thomas, to discover the secrets of their throwing machinery while employed in a silk mill in Piedmont. He returned to England in 1716 or 1717, bringing with him two expert Italian workmen.Thomas Lombe was a prosperous London merchant who financed the construction of a new water-powered silk mill at Derby which is said to have cost over £30,000. John arranged with the town Corporation for the lease of the island in the River Derwent, where Cotchett had erected his mill. During the four years of its construction, John first set up the throwing machines in other parts of the town. The machines were driven manually there, and their product helped to defray the costs of the mill. The silk-throwing machine was very complex. The water wheel powered a horizontal shaft that was under the floor and on which were placed gearwheels to drive vertical shafts upwards through the different floors. The throwing machines were circular, with the vertical shafts running through the middle. The doubled silk threads had previously been wound on bobbins which were placed on spindles with wire flyers at intervals around the outer circumference of the machine. The bobbins were free to rotate on the spindles while the spindles and flyers were driven by the periphery of a horizontal wheel fixed to the vertical shaft. Another horizontal wheel set a little above the first turned the starwheels, to which were attached reels for winding the silk off the bobbins below. Three or four sets of these spindles and reels were placed above each other on the same driving shaft. The machine was very complicated for the time and must have been expensive to build and maintain.John lived just long enough to see the mill in operation, for he died in 1722 after a painful illness said to have been the result of poison administered by an Italian woman in revenge for his having stolen the invention and for the injury he was causing the Italian trade. The funeral was said to have been the most superb ever known in Derby.[br]Further ReadingSamuel Smiles, 1890, Men of Invention and Industry, London (probably the only biography of John Lombe).Rhys Jenkins, 1933–4, "Historical notes on some Derbyshire industries", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 14 (provides an acount of John Lombe and his part in the enterprise at Derby).R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (briefly covers the development of early silk-throwing mills).W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (includes a chapter on "Lombe's Silk Machine").P.Barlow, 1836, Treatise of Manufactures and Machinery of Great Britain, London (describes Lombe's mill and machinery, but it is not known how accurate the account may be).RLH -
64 Strutt, Jedediah
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 26 July 1726 South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, Englandd. 7 May 1797 Derby, England[br]English inventor of a machine for making ribbed knitting.[br]Jedediah Strutt was the second of three sons of William, a small farmer and maltster at South Normanton, near Alfreton, Derbyshire, where the only industry was a little framework knitting. At the age of 14 Jedediah was apprenticed to Ralph Massey, a wheelwright near Derby, and lodged with the Woollats, whose daughter Elizabeth he later married in 1755. He moved to Leicester and in 1754 started farming at Blackwell, where an uncle had died and left him the stock on his farm. It was here that he made his knitting invention.William Lee's knitting machine remained in virtually the same form as he left it until the middle of the eighteenth century. The knitting industry moved away from London into the Midlands and in 1730 a Nottingham workman, using Indian spun yarn, produced the first pair of cotton hose ever made by mechanical means. This industry developed quickly and by 1750 was providing employment for 1,200 frameworkers using both wool and cotton in the Nottingham and Derby areas. It was against this background that Jedediah Strutt obtained patents for his Derby rib machine in 1758 and 1759.The machine was a highly ingenious mechanism, which when placed in front of an ordinary stocking frame enabled the fashionable ribbed stockings to be made by machine instead of by hand. To develop this invention, he formed a partnership first with his brother-in-law, William Woollat, and two leading Derby hosiers, John Bloodworth and Thomas Stamford. This partnership was dissolved in 1762 and another was formed with Woollat and the Nottingham hosier Samuel Need. Strutt's invention was followed by a succession of innovations which enabled framework knitters to produce almost every kind of mesh on their machines. In 1764 the stocking frame was adapted to the making of eyelet holes, and this later lead to the production of lace. In 1767 velvet was made on these frames, and two years later brocade. In this way Strutt's original invention opened up a new era for knitting. Although all these later improvements were not his, he was able to make a fortune from his invention. In 1762 he was made a freeman of Nottingham, but by then he was living in Derby. His business at Derby was concerned mainly with silk hose and he had a silk mill there.It was partly his need for cotton yarn and partly his wealth which led him into partnership with Richard Arkwright, John Smalley and David Thornley to exploit Arkwright's patent for spinning cotton by rollers. Together with Samuel Need, they financed the Arkwright partnership in 1770 to develop the horse-powered mill in Nottingham and then the water-powered mill at Cromford. Strutt gave advice to Arkwright about improving the machinery and helped to hold the partnership together when Arkwright fell out with his first partners. Strutt was also involved, in London, where he had a house, with the parliamentary proceedings over the passing of the Calico Act in 1774, which opened up the trade in British-manufactured all-cotton cloth.In 1776 Strutt financed the construction of his own mill at Helper, about seven miles (11 km) further down the Derwent valley below Cromford. This was followed by another at Milford, a little lower on the river. Strutt was also a partner with Arkwright and others in the mill at Birkacre, near Chorley in Lancashire. The Strutt mills were developed into large complexes for cotton spinning and many experiments were later carried out in them, both in textile machinery and in fireproof construction for the mills themselves. They were also important training schools for engineers.Elizabeth Strutt died in 1774 and Jedediah never married again. The family seem to have lived frugally in spite of their wealth, probably influenced by their Nonconformist background. He had built a house near the mills at Milford, but it was in his Derby house that Jedediah died in 1797. By the time of his death, his son William had long been involved with the business and became a more important cotton spinner than Jedediah.[br]Bibliography1758. British patent no. 722 (Derby rib machine). 1759. British patent no. 734 (Derby rib machine).Further ReadingFor the involvement of Strutt in Arkwright's spinning ventures, there are two books, the earlier of which is R.S.Fitton and A.P.Wadsworth, 1958, The Strutts and the Arkwrights, 1758–1830, Manchester, which has most of the details about Strutt's life. This has been followed by R.S.Fitton, 1989, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune, Manchester.R.L.Hills, 1970, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Manchester (for a general background to the textile industry of the period).W.Felkin, 1967, History of the Machine-wrought Hosiery and Lace Manufactures, reprint, Newton Abbot (orig. pub. 1867) (covers Strutt's knitting inventions).RLH -
65 Villard de Honnecourt
[br]b. c. 1200 Honnecourt-sur-Escaut, near Cambrai, Franced. mid-13th century (?) France[br]French architect-engineer.[br]Villard was one of the thirteenth-century architect-engineers who were responsible for the design and construction of the great Gothic cathedrals and other churches of the time. Their responsibilities covered all aspects of the work, including (in the spirit of the Roman architect Vitruvius) the invention and construction of mechanical devices. In their time, these men were highly esteemed and richly rewarded, although few of the inscriptions paying tribute to their achievements have survived. Villard stands out among them because a substantial part of his sketchbook has survived, in the form of thirty-three parchment sheets of drawings and notes, now kept in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Villard's professional career lasted roughly from 1225 to 1250. As a boy, he went to work on the building of the Cistercian monastery at Vaucelles, not far from Honnecourt, and afterwards he was apprenticed to the masons' lodge at Cambrai Cathedral, where he began copying the drawings and layouts on the tracing-house floor. All his drawings are, therefore, of the plans, elevations and sections of cathedrals. These buildings have long since been destroyed, but his drawings, perhaps among his earliest, bear witness to their architecture. He travelled widely in France and recorded features of the great works at Reims, Laon and Chartres. These include the complex system of passageways built into the fabric of a great cathedral; Villard comments that one of their purposes was "to allow circulation in case of fire".Villard was invited to Hungary and reached there c. 1235. He may have been responsible for the edifice dedicated to St Elizabeth of Hungary, canonized in 1235, at Kassa (now Košice, Slovakia). Villard probably returned to France c. 1240, at least before the Tartar invasion of Hungary in 1241.His sketchbook, which dates to c. 1235, stands as a memorial to Villard's skill as a draughtsman, a student of perspective and a mechanical engineer. He took his sketchbook with him on his travels, and used ideas from it in his work abroad. It contains architectural designs, geometrical constructions for use in building, surveying exercises and drawings for various kinds of mechanical devices, for civil or military use. He was transmitting details from the highly developed French Gothic masons to the relatively underdeveloped eastern countries. The notebooks were annotated for the use of pupils and other master masons, and the notes on geometry were obviously intended for pupils. The prize examples are the pages in the book, clearly Villard's own work, related to mechanical devices. Whilst he, like many others of the period and after, played with designs for perpetual-motion machines, he concentrated on useful devices. These included the first Western representation of a perpetualmotion machine, which at least displays a concern to derive a source of energy: this was a water-powered sawmill, with automatic feed of the timber into the mill. This has been described as the first industrial automatic power-machine to involve two motions, for it not only converts the rotary motion of the water-wheel to the reciprocating motion of the saw, but incorporates a means of keeping the log pressed against the saw. His other designs included water-wheels, watermills, the Archimedean screw and other curious devices.[br]BibliographyOf several facsimile reprints with notes there are Album de Villard de Honnecourt, 1858, ed. J.B.Lassus, Paris (repr. 1968, Paris: Laget), and The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, 1959, ed. T.Bowie, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Further ReadingJ.Gimpel, 1977, "Villard de Honnecourt: architect and engineer", The Medieval Machine, London: Victor Gollancz, ch. 6, pp. 114–46.——1988, The Medieval Machine, the Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages, London.R.Pernord, J.Gimpel and R.Delatouche, 1986, Le Moyen age pour quoi fayre, Paris.KM / LRD -
66 Reading
1) The Discovery of Truth Depends on the Thoughtful Reading of Authoritative TextsFor the Middle Ages, all discovery of truth was first reception of traditional authorities, then later-in the thirteenth century-rational reconciliation of authoritative texts. A comprehension of the world was not regarded as a creative function but as an assimilation and retracing of given facts; the symbolic expression of this being reading. The goal and the accomplishment of the thinker is to connect all these facts together in the form of the "summa." Dante's cosmic poem is such a summa too. (Curtius, 1973, p. 326)The readers of books... extend or concentrate a function common to us all. Reading letters on a page is only one of its many guises. The astronomer reading a map of stars that no longer exist; the Japanese architect reading the land on which a house is to be built so as to guard it from evil forces; the zoologist reading the spoor of animals in the forest; the card-player reading her partner's gestures before playing the winning card; the dancer reading the choreographer's notations, and the public reading the dancer's movements on the stage; the weaver reading the intricate design of a carpet being woven; the organ-player reading various simultaneous strands of music orchestrated on the page; the parent reading the baby's face for signs of joy or fright, or wonder; the Chinese fortune-teller reading the ancient marks on the shell of a tortoise; the lover blindly reading the loved one's body at night, under the sheets; the psychiatrist helping patients read their own bewildering dreams; the Hawaiian fisherman reading the ocean currents by plunging a hand into the water; the farmer reading the weather in the sky-all these share with book-readers the craft of deciphering and translating signs....We all read ourselves and the world around us in order to glimpse what and where we are. We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but read. Reading, almost as much as breathing, is our essential function. (Manguel, 1996, pp. 6-7)There is a pitched battle between those theorists and modellers who embrace the primacy of syntax and those who embrace the primacy of semantics in language processing. At times both schools have committed various excesses. For example, some of the former have relied foolishly on context-free mathematical-combinatory models, while some of the latter have flirted with versions of the "direct-access hypothesis," the idea that skilled readers process printed language directly into meaning without phonological or even syntactic processing. The problems with the first excess are patent. Those with the second are more complex and demand more research. Unskilled readers apparently do rely more on phonological processing than do skilled ones; hence their spoken dialects may interfere with their reading-and writing-habits. But the extent to which phonological processing is absent in the skilled reader has not been established, and the contention that syntactic processing is suspended in the skilled reader is surely wrong and not supported by empirical evidence-though blood-flow patterns in the brain are curiously different during speaking, oral reading, and silent reading. (M. L. Johnson, 1988, pp. 101-102)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Reading
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67 advance
ədˈvɑ:ns
1. сущ.
1) движение вперед, продвижение Syn: progression
2) воен. наступление (against, on, to, towards) Our troops made an advance against the enemy. ≈ Наши войска наступали на врага.
3) успех, прогресс, достижение It is a very great advance on all your former writing. ≈ Это огромный шаг вперед по сравнению со всем, что вы до этого написали. Syn: improvement, progress
1.
4) сближение( с кем-л.;
попытка завязать более тесные отношения) ;
мн. заигрывания, ухаживания Men don't make 'advances' any longer. Modern man propositions a girl. ≈ Мужчины больше не 'ухаживают'. Современный мужчина сразу же делает девушке гнусное предложение. Syn: overture, approaches
5) рост, повышение (стоимости, цены и т. п.)
6) аванс, авансирование;
ссуда, заем money advance ≈ денежная ссуда advance free of interest ≈ беспроцентная ссуда Syn: loan
1.
7) амер. брифинг, устроенный перед основным мероприятием;
приготовления (особ. рекламного характера) к визиту (государственного деятеля и т. п.)
8) предварение;
упреждение (состояние или нахождение перед, впереди, раньше, заранее;
преим. во фразе:) in advance be in advance
9) электр. опережение по фазе
2. гл.
1) двигать вперед, продвигать to advance the table to the middle of the room ≈ продвинуть стол в середину комнаты Man has advanced the frontier of physical science. ≈ Человек продвинул вперед границы физики. to advance a pawn ≈ продвигать пешку Syn: further
3.
2) а) продвигаться вперед;
воен. наступать( against, on, upon) The crevasses as I advanced became more deep and frequent. ≈ По мере того, как я продвигался вперед, расселины в леднике становились все глубже и встречались все чаще. The enemy advanced with fixed bayonets. ≈ Неприятель наступал с примкнутыми штыками. The forces of the enemy advanced against us. ≈ На нас наступали силы противника. Troops are advancing on the capital. ≈ Войска продвигаются к столице. The enemy advanced upon Rome, and at last conquered it. ≈ Противник наступал на Рим и наконец захватил его. б) выделяться, выступать( о свойстве цвета быть более ярким по сравнению с другими соседствующими с ним цветами)
3) продвигать, содействовать, способствовать to advance the cause of freedom ≈ содействовать делу свободы to advance interests ≈ содействовать кому-л. или чьим-л. интересам Syn: further
3., promote, help on
4) делать успехи, развиваться to advance in knowledge ≈ углублять знания to advance in technique ≈ совершенствовать технику/приемы advance in popularity ≈ становиться более популярным, завоевывать популярность advance in years ≈ стареть
5) вносить, выдвигать (план, предложение и т. п.) to advance a new plan ≈ выдвинуть новый план He advanced а very convincing argument. ≈ Он привел очень убедительное доказательство. Syn: put forward, put forth, bring forward, propose, offer
2.
6) переносить на более ранний срок;
ускорять, убыстрять They advanced the date of their arrival. ≈ Они перенесли дату своего приезда на более ранний срок. to advance the hour-hand ≈ передвигать часовую стрелку вперед Syn: hasten, accelerate
7) платить авансом;
ссужать We advanced a month's salary to him. (We advanced him a month's salary.) ≈ Мы выплатили ему месячную зарплату вперед. to advance money to smb. ≈ ссужать кого-л. деньгами Syn: lend
8) повышать в звании, в должности;
помещать в более выгодную позицию, в более выгодные условия и т. п. He was advanced to the rank of corporal. ≈ Он был повышен до капрала. His eagerness to advance his family may well have offended others. ≈ Его старание протащить свою семью может обидеть других. to advance in rank ≈ получать более высокое звание Syn: prefer
9) а) повышать (цену) to advance prices by 10 per cent ≈ повысить цены на десять процентов The bank has advanced the rate of discount to 5%. ≈ Банк повысил процент учета до пяти. б) повышаться (в цене) coal (sugar, bread, etc.) advances ≈ уголь (сахар, хлеб и т. п.) дорожает to advance in price ≈ дорожать, повышаться в цене ∙ advance to advance towards
3. прил.
1) передовой;
передний;
головной( о вагонах) ;
продвинутый( о курсе обучения) ;
продвинутый, подготовленный( об учащихся, студентах и т. п.) advance guard ≈ передовой отряд
2) предварительный, заблаговременный;
выплаченный авансом advance payment ≈ аванс advance sale ≈ предварительная продажа( билетов) advance edition ≈ предварительное изданиепродвижение, движение вперед;
- * of glacier наступление ледника;
- * * of an epidemic распространение эпидемии;
- * of waves( физическое) распространение волн;
- * of old age приближение старости (военное) наступление;
- * in force наступление крупными силами;
- * of the main attack развитие главного удара;
- to sound the * давать сигнал к атаке;
- * on the enemy's position наступление на вражеские позиции (военное) продвижение от рубежа к рубежу;
- * by bounds продвижение скачками( техническое) опережение;
учреждение, предварение прогресс;
успех;
улучшение;
- days of * век прогресса;
- industrial * индустриальный прогресс, успехи промышленности;
- * of science прогресс науки;
- technological * технический прогресс;
- great *s in space travel большой шаг вперед в области космических полетов повышение, рост;
- * in the cost of living повышение стоимости дизни;
- * on cottons рост цен на хлопчатобумажные изделия продвижение;
- * in rank повышение в звании;
- * in office повышение по службе - * to the position of chairman выдвижение на должность председателя аванс;
ссуда;
- in * авансом;
- to pay in * платить заранее, выдавать аванс;
- the bank makes *s банк предоставляет ссуды;
- * on salary аванс в счет заработной платы обыкн. pl заигрывание, попытки завязать дружбу;
- to encourage smb.'s *s поощрять чье-л ухаживание;
- to make * заигрывать, делать авансы;
идти навстречу;
- to repel smb's *s отвергать чьи-л ухаживания (американизм) предварительная подготовка, подготовительные мероприятия заранее подготовленный репортаж предварительно разосланный или розданный текст( военное) передовые силы (геология) трансгрессия > in * заранее, заблаговременно;
> in * of smth. впереди чего-л;
раньше чего-л;
> to be in * идти вперед, спешить( о часах) ;
> to be in * of smb. прийти раньше кого-л;
опередить кого-л;
> well in * ушедший намного вперед;
> Galileo was well in * of his time Галилей намного опередил свое время задолго, заранее;
заблаговременно;
- to reserve tickets well in * заблаговременно заказать билеты передний, передовой, головной;
- * section of a train головная часть поезда;
сделанный, выданный, выплаченный заранее, заблаговременно;
- * notice заявление об уходе с работы;
уведомление об увольнении;
объявление о предстоящем поступлении книги в продажу предварительный, опережающий;
забегающий вперед;
- * booking резервирование( комнат в гостинице) ;
предварительный заказ( билетов) ;
- * information предварительные сведения;
- * copy текст предстоящего выступления;
(полиграфия) сигнальный экземпляр продвигаться, идти вперед, наступать;
- he *d on me in a threatening manner он угрожающе двинулся на меня;
- to * at a great rate быстро двигаться вперед;
- to * in years стареть (военное) наступать двигать вперед, продвигать;
- to * the puck (спортивное) вести шайбу;
- to * the date переносить день на более ранний срок;
- we *d the date of departure from July 20 to July 10 мы перенесли день отъезда с 20-го на 10-е июля передвигать стрелки часов вперед;
- all clocks should be *d one hour стрелки всех часов должны быть передвинуты на час вперед способствовать (чему-л) ;
приближать, ускорять;
- to * growth ускорять рост;
- to * one's interests энергично отстаивать свои интересы;
проталкивать свои дела делать успехи;
продвигаться;
развиваться;
- to * in knowledge накапливать зания;
- to * in skill повышать квалификацию;
- to * in rank (военное) получить следующее звание;
- as the work *s по мере выполнения работы продвигать;
- he was *d to the position of manager его теперь назначили управляющим;
- to * smb. from lieutenant to the rank of captain присвоить лейтенанту звание капитана;
повышать (цену) ;
- the bank has *d the rate of discount to 15 % банк повысил процент учета до 15 % повышаться, возрастать;
- coal *d цена на уголь повысилась ссужать деньги;
- he *d me $50 он дал мне взаймы 50 долларов платить авансом;
- to * a month's salary выплатить месячную зарплату авансом выдвигать;
- to * an opinion высказать мнение;
- to * a claim заявить претензию (американизм) проводить предварительные мероприятия по организации выступлений, встречи, приема политического деятеля, кандидата в президенты (техническое) наращивать( физическое) опережать( по фазе)advance аванс ~ авансировать ~ возрастать ~ выдвигать (предложение, возражение) ~ выдвигать ~ выдвигать (предложение) ~ давать ссуду ~ движение вперед ~ делать успехи, развиваться ~ делать успехи ~ заем ~ идти вперед ~ воен. наступать ~ воен. наступление ~ эл. опережение по фазе ~ переносить на более ранний срок, ускорять;
they advanced the date of their arrival они перенесли дату своего приезда на более ранний срок ~ платить авансом ~ платить авансом ~ повышать(ся) (в цене) ;
the bank has advanced the rate of discount to 5% банк повысил процент учета до пяти ~ повышать по службе ~ повышать цену ~ повышение (цен и т. п.) ~ повышение цен ~ предварение;
упреждение (тж. тех.) ;
in advance вперед, заранее ~ предоставлять заем ~ приближать ~ прогресс ~ продвигать(ся) (по службе) ~ продвигаться ~ продвигаться вперед ~ продвижение (по службе) ~ продвижение ~ продвижение вперед ~ продвижение вперед ~ продвижение по службе ~ развиваться ~ рост ~ способствовать ~ ссуда;
аванс ~ ссуда ~ ссужать ~ ссужать деньги ~ увеличение ~ улучшение ~ ускорять ~ успех, прогресс;
улучшение~ attr. авансовый;
advance notes ком. авансовые тратты;
to make advances делать авансы, предложения;
идти навстречу( в чем-л.)~ in current account аванс на текущем банковском счете~ attr. авансовый;
advance notes ком. авансовые тратты;
to make advances делать авансы, предложения;
идти навстречу (в чем-л.)~ on securities аванс под ценные бумагиbank ~ банковская ссуда bank ~ банковский аванс~ повышать(ся) (в цене) ;
the bank has advanced the rate of discount to 5% банк повысил процент учета до пятиbanker ~ банковская ссудаto be in ~ идти вперед, спешить (о часах) to be in ~ опередить, обогнатьcarriage ~ вчт. перемещение каретки carriage ~ вчт. продвижение кареткиfurther ~ дальнейшее продвижение~ предварение;
упреждение (тж. тех.) ;
in advance вперед, заранее in ~ авансом in ~ досрочно in ~ заблаговременно in ~ заранееin ~ of (smth.) впереди (чего-л.) in ~ of (smth.) раньше (чего-л.)item ~ вчт. поэлементное продвижениеline ~ вчт. перевод строки~ attr. авансовый;
advance notes ком. авансовые тратты;
to make advances делать авансы, предложения;
идти навстречу (в чем-л.)mortgage plus ~ залог и аванс~ переносить на более ранний срок, ускорять;
they advanced the date of their arrival они перенесли дату своего приезда на более ранний срокwage ~ аванс -
68 come
come [kʌm] v (came; come)1) приходи́ть, подходи́ть;help came in the middle of the battle в разга́р бо́я подошла́ по́мощь
;one shot came after another вы́стрелы сле́довали оди́н за други́м
;to come before the Court предста́ть пе́ред судо́м
2) прибыва́ть; приезжа́ть;she has just come from London она́ то́лько что прие́хала из Ло́ндона
3) случа́ться, происходи́ть, быва́ть;how did it come that...? как э́то случи́лось, что…?
;how comes it? почему́ э́то получа́ется?, как э́то выхо́дит?
;come what may будь, что бу́дет
4) де́латься, станови́ться;things will come right всё обойдётся, всё бу́дет хорошо́
;my dreams came true мои́ мечты́ сбыли́сь
;butter will not come ма́сло ника́к не сбива́ется
;the knot has come undone у́зел развяза́лся
;а) не хвати́ть;б) не дости́гнуть це́ли;в) не оправда́ть ожида́ний5) вести́ своё происхожде́ние; происходи́ть;he comes from London он уроже́нец Ло́ндона
;he comes of a working family он из рабо́чей семьи́
;that comes from your carelessness всё э́то от твое́й небре́жности
6) доходи́ть, достига́ть; равня́ться;the bill comes to 500 roubles счёт составля́ет 500 рубле́й
7) выпада́ть (на чью-л. долю); достава́ться (кому-л.);it came on my head э́то свали́лось мне на го́лову
;ill luck came to me меня́ пости́гла неуда́ча
;this work comes to me э́та рабо́та прихо́дится на мою́ до́лю
8) дости́чь орга́зма, ко́нчить9) в повелительном наклонении восклицание, означающее приглашение, побуждение или лёгкий упрёк:come, tell me all you know about it ну, расскажи́те же всё, что вы об э́том зна́ете
;come, come, be not so hasty! подожди́те, подожди́те, не торопи́тесь!
10) в сочетании с причастием настоящего времени передаёт возникновение действия, выраженного причастием:the boy came running into the room ма́льчик вбежа́л в ко́мнату
;the moonshine came streaming in through the open window в откры́тое окно́ ли́лся лу́нный свет
а) происходи́ть, случа́ться;б) меня́ть направле́ние ( о ветре);come across (случа́йно) встре́титься с кем-л.; натолкну́ться на что-л.;to come across well (badly) произвести́ хоро́шее (плохо́е) впечатле́ние
;а) признава́йся!;б) раскоше́ливайся!;а) сле́довать;б) насле́довать;в) пресле́довать;а) разг. возвраща́ться;б) imp. повтори́те (что вы сказали?);а) соглаша́ться;б) идти́, сопровожда́ть;come along! идём!; потора́пливайся!
;come apart, come asunder распада́ться на ча́сти;а) получи́ть до́ступ к чему-л., доби́ться чего-л.;how did you come at the information? как вы э́то узна́ли?
;б) напада́ть, набра́сываться; добра́ться до кого-л.;just let me come at him да́йте мне то́лько добра́ться до него́
;а) отла́мываться;the handle came away in my hand ру́чка отломи́лась и оста́лась у меня́ в рука́х
;б) уходи́ть;а) возвраща́ться;б) всплыва́ть в па́мяти, вспомина́ться;в) очну́ться, прийти́ в себя́;г) вновь станови́ться популя́рным или мо́дным;д) отвеча́ть тем же са́мым, отплати́ть той же моне́той;come back to возвраща́ться ( к теме беседы);а) предста́ть пе́ред ( судом и т.п.);б) предше́ствовать;в) превосходи́ть;а) проходи́ть ми́мо;б) достава́ть, приобрета́ть;в) амер. заходи́ть;а) па́дать (о снеге, дожде);б) спуска́ться; опуска́ться;в) дегради́ровать;to come down in the world потеря́ть состоя́ние, положе́ние; опусти́ться
;г) переходи́ть по тради́ции;д) па́дать ( о ценах);е) набра́сываться (upon, on — на); брани́ть, нака́зывать (upon, on — кого-л.);ж) разг. раскоше́литься;come down with your money! раскоше́ливайтесь!
;з) разг. разг. заболе́ть ( with — чем-л.);и) быть пова́ленным ( о дереве);к) спада́ть, ниспада́ть;л) быть разру́шенным ( о постройке);а) заходи́ть за;б) напада́ть на;а) выходи́ть вперёд; выдвига́ться;б) отклика́ться;в) предлага́ть свои́ услу́ги;а) входи́ть;б) спорт. прийти́ к фи́нишу;to come in first победи́ть, прийти́ пе́рвым
;в) входи́ть в мо́ду;г) оказа́ться поле́зным, пригоди́ться (тж. come useful);where do I come in? разг. чем я могу́ быть поле́зен?; како́е э́то име́ет ко мне отноше́ние?
;д) поступа́ть ( о новостях и т.п.);е) нача́ть трансля́цию;ж) вступа́ть ( в должность); приходи́ть к вла́сти;з) войти́ в де́ло ( в качестве компаньона);и) прибыва́ть (о поезде, пароходе);come in for получи́ть что-л. ( свою долю и т.п.);he came in for a lot of trouble ему́ здо́рово доста́лось
;come in for подверга́ться (критике, обвинению);а) вступа́ть в;б) получа́ть в насле́дство;в):to come into being ( или existence) возника́ть
;to come into the world роди́ться
;to come into force вступа́ть в си́лу
;to come into notice привле́чь внима́ние
;to come into play нача́ть де́йствовать
;to come into position воен. заня́ть пози́цию
;to come into sight появи́ться
;а) разг. име́ть успе́х; удава́ться, проходи́ть с успе́хом;all came off satisfactorily всё сошло́ благополу́чно
;to come off with honour вы́йти с че́стью
;б) отде́лываться;he came off a loser он оста́лся в про́игрыше
;he came off clear он вы́шел сухи́м из воды́
;в) происходи́ть, име́ть ме́сто;г) сходи́ть, слеза́ть;д) разг. замолча́ть;oh come off it! да переста́нь же!
;е) удаля́ться;ж) отрыва́ться ( о пуговице и т.п.);а) приближа́ться;a storm is coming on приближа́ется гроза́
;б) наступа́ть, напада́ть;в) расти́;г) появля́ться ( на сцене);д) возника́ть ( о вопросе);е) рассма́триваться ( в суде);ж):come on! живе́й!; продолжа́йте!; идём (тж. как формула вызова)
;з) натыка́ться, наска́кивать; поража́ть ( о болезни);а) обнару́живаться; проявля́ться;the secret came out секре́т раскры́лся
;б) появля́ться ( в печати);в) вы́ступить ( with — с заявлением, разоблачением);г) призна́ть себя́ гомосексуали́стом;д) забастова́ть;е) выходи́ть, получа́ться ( о фотографии);ж) дебюти́ровать (на сцене, в обществе);з) проявля́ться ( о пятнах);а) переезжа́ть; приезжа́ть;б) переходи́ть на другу́ю сто́рону;в) охвати́ть, овладе́ть;a fear came over me мной овладе́л страх
;г) разг. перехитри́ть, обойти́;а) заходи́ть ненадо́лго; загляну́ть;a friend came round last night вчера́ ве́чером заходи́л прия́тель
;б) приходи́ть в себя́ (после обморока, болезни);в) меня́ть своё мне́ние, соглаша́ться с чьей-л. то́чкой зре́ния;г) объе́хать, обойти́ круго́м;д) изменя́ться к лу́чшему;I hope things will come round наде́юсь, всё образу́ется
;е) возвраща́ться ( к теме и т.п.);б) вы́путаться из неприя́тного положе́ния;в) проходи́ть внутрь, проника́ть;б) мор. станови́ться на я́корь;в) наконе́ц-то поумне́ть;г) доходи́ть до;to come to blows дойти́ до рукопа́шной
;it came to my knowledge я узна́л
;to come to find out случа́йно обнару́жить, узна́ть, вы́яснить
;to come to good име́ть хоро́ший результа́т
;to come to no good испо́ртиться
;д) сто́ить, равня́ться;а) объедини́ться, собра́ться вме́сте;б) сойти́сь ( о мужчине и женщине);а) поднима́ться;б) достига́ть (богатства, положения в обществе);в) возника́ть ( о проблеме и т.п.);to come up for discussion стать предме́том обсужде́ния
;г) всходи́ть ( о растении);д) доходи́ть (to);е) достига́ть у́ровня, сра́вниваться (to);ж) приезжа́ть (из провинции в большой город, университет и т.п.);з) нагоня́ть ( with — кого-л.);come up against столкну́ться ( с трудностями и т.п.);а) натолкну́ться, напа́сть неожи́данно;б) предъяви́ть тре́бование;в) лечь бре́менем на чьи-л. пле́чи◊to come to bat амер. столкну́ться с тру́дной пробле́мой, тяжёлым испыта́нием
;to come easy to smb. не представля́ть тру́дностей для кого́-л.
;to come to harm пострада́ть
;to come out with one's life оста́ться в живы́х, уцеле́ть ( после боя и т.п.)
;to come in useful прийти́сь кста́ти
;to come to stay утверди́ться, укорени́ться
;it has come to stay э́то надо́лго
;to come natural быть есте́ственным
;(which is) to come гряду́щий; бу́дущий
;things to come гряду́щее
;in days to come в бу́дущем
;pleasure to come предвкуша́емое удово́льствие
;let'em all come! разг. будь что бу́дет!
;to come to pass случа́ться, происходи́ть
;to come to the book дава́ть прися́гу пе́ред исполне́нием обя́занностей судьи́
;light come light go что доста́лось легко́, бы́стро исчеза́ет
;to come it strong разг. де́йствовать энерги́чно
;to come it too strong разг. перестара́ться
;to come clean разг. говори́ть пра́вду
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69 vote
vəut
1. noun((the right to show) one's wish or opinion, eg in a ballot or by raising a hand etc, especially at an election or in a debate: In Britain, the vote was given to women over twenty-one in 1928; Nowadays everyone over eighteen has a vote; A vote was taken to decide the matter.) voto; derecho de voto
2. verb1) (to cast or record one's vote: She voted for the Conservative candidate; I always vote Labour; I shall vote against the restoration of capital punishment.) votar2) (to allow, by a vote, the provision of (something) eg to someone, for a purpose etc: They were voted $5,000 to help them in their research.) votar•- voter- vote of confidence
- vote of thanks
vote1 n1. voto2. votaciónvote2 vb votartr[vəʊt]1 voto2 (voting) voto, votación nombre femenino3 (right to vote) sufragio, (derecho al) voto1 votar■ vote for Shaw! ¡vota a Shaw!1 votar2 (elect) elegir3 familiar considerarse\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto be voted into/out of office ganar/perder las eleccionesto pull in votes atraer el vototo vote by a show of hands votar a mano alzadato vote on something / take a vote on something someter algo a votaciónvote of censure voto de censuravote of confidence voto de confianzawrite-in vote votación nombre femenino por escritoto vote Democratic: votar por los demócratasvote n1) : voto m2) suffrage: sufragio m, derecho m al votov.• votar v.n.• sufragio s.m.• votación (Gobierno) s.f.• voto s.m.• voz (Voto) s.f.vəʊt
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1)a) c ( ballot cast) voto m, sufragio m (frml)to cast one's vote — (frml) emitir su (or mi etc) voto (frml)
b) u ( right to vote)the vote — el sufragio, el derecho de or al voto
to give somebody/gain the vote — conceder a alguien/conseguir* el sufragio or el derecho de or al voto
2)a) c ( act) votación fto put something to the vote, to take a vote on something — someter algo a votación
b) u c ( collective decision)to pass a vote of confidence/no confidence — aprobar* un voto de confianza/de censura
she proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman — pidió que constara el agradecimiento de todos al presidente
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1.
intransitive verb votarto vote FOR somebody — votar por or a alguien
to vote FOR/AGAINST something — votar a favor de/en contra de algo
2.
vt1)a) (support, choose) votar por, votarI've voted Democrat all my life — toda la vida he votado por or a los demócratas
b) ( elect) elegir* por votaciónto vote somebody into office — votar por or a alguien para un cargo
c) (declare, judge) considerar2)a) ( approve) aprobar*b) ( decide)to vote to + INF — votar por + inf
c) ( propose) (colloq)to vote (THAT) — votar por que (+ subj) (fam)
•Phrasal Verbs:- vote in- vote out[vǝʊt]1. Nhe gets my vote any day! — ¡cuenta con mi voto incondicional!
to count the votes — escrutar or computar los votos
cast 2., 2)one person, one vote — una persona, un voto
2) (=votes cast) votos mplthe vote was overwhelmingly in favour of the Democratic Party — el partido demócrata obtuvo una aplastante mayoría
3) (=right to vote) derecho m al voto or a votar, sufragio m•
to give sb the vote — dar a algn el derecho al voto•
to have the vote — tener (el) derecho al voto•
votes for women! — ¡el sufragio para las mujeres!4) (=act) votación f•
to allow a free vote — dejar libertad de voto•
a vote of no confidence — un voto de censura•
by popular vote — (lit) por votación popular; (fig) en la opinión de muchos•
to put sth to the vote — someter algo a votación2. VT1) (=cast one's vote for) votarto vote Labour/Conservative — votar por or a los laboristas/conservadores
vote Ross at the next election! — ¡vote por or a Ross en las próximas elecciones!
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to vote no — votar no•
to vote a bill/measure through parliament — aprobar una ley/una medida en el parlamento2) (=elect) elegir (por votación)3) (=approve) aprobar (por votación)MPs have today voted themselves a pay increase — hoy, los diputados parlamentarios se han aprobado (por votación) un aumento de sueldo
4) (=suggest)I vote we turn back — sugiero or propongo que regresemos
5) (=judge)3.VI votarhow did you vote? — ¿a or por quién votaste?
which way will you be voting? — ¿a quién votarás?
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to vote against sth — votar en contra de algo•
to vote in favour of sth — votar a favor de algo•
to vote for sb — votar por or a algn•
to vote on sth — someter algo a votaciónto vote with one's feet —
if the bank goes on like this, customers may start voting with their feet — si el banco sigue así, es posible que los clientes empiecen a prescindir de sus servicios
4.CPDvote loser * N — lastre m electoral
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it's a vote loser for us — nos hace perder votos, nos supone un lastre electoralvote winner * N — triunfo m electoral
- vote in- vote out* * *[vəʊt]
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1)a) c ( ballot cast) voto m, sufragio m (frml)to cast one's vote — (frml) emitir su (or mi etc) voto (frml)
b) u ( right to vote)the vote — el sufragio, el derecho de or al voto
to give somebody/gain the vote — conceder a alguien/conseguir* el sufragio or el derecho de or al voto
2)a) c ( act) votación fto put something to the vote, to take a vote on something — someter algo a votación
b) u c ( collective decision)to pass a vote of confidence/no confidence — aprobar* un voto de confianza/de censura
she proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman — pidió que constara el agradecimiento de todos al presidente
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1.
intransitive verb votarto vote FOR somebody — votar por or a alguien
to vote FOR/AGAINST something — votar a favor de/en contra de algo
2.
vt1)a) (support, choose) votar por, votarI've voted Democrat all my life — toda la vida he votado por or a los demócratas
b) ( elect) elegir* por votaciónto vote somebody into office — votar por or a alguien para un cargo
c) (declare, judge) considerar2)a) ( approve) aprobar*b) ( decide)to vote to + INF — votar por + inf
c) ( propose) (colloq)to vote (THAT) — votar por que (+ subj) (fam)
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70 distance
1. nountheir distance from each other — die räumliche Entfernung zwischen ihnen
keep [at] a [safe] distance [from somebody/something] — jemandem/einer Sache nicht zu nahe kommen
keep one's distance [from somebody/something] — Abstand [zu jemandem/etwas] wahren
from this distance — aus dieser Entfernung
at a distance of... [from somebody/something] — in einer Entfernung von... [von jemandem/etwas]
a short distance away — ganz in der Nähe
4) (remoter field of vision) Ferne, diein/into the distance — in der/die Ferne
5) (distant point) Entfernung, dieat a distance/[viewed] from a distance — von weitem
6) (space of time) Abstand, der2. transitive verbat a distance of 20 years — aus einem Abstand von 20 Jahren
distance oneself from somebody/something — sich von jemandem/etwas distanzieren
* * *['distəns]1) (the space between things, places etc: Some of the children have to walk long distances to school; It's quite a distance to the bus stop; It is difficult to judge distance when driving at night; What's the distance from here to London?) die Entfernung2) (a far-off place or point: We could see the town in the distance; He disappeared into the distance; The picture looks better at a distance.) entfernt•- academic.ru/21293/distant">distant* * *dis·tance[ˈdɪstən(t)s]I. nit's only a short \distance away from here es ist nicht weit von hierbraking \distance Bremsweg mover long \distances über weite Streckento keep at a safe \distance Sicherheitsabstand haltento close [up] the \distance [to sth] den Abstand [zu etw dat] verringernto cover long \distances lange Strecken zurücklegenwhat's the \distance between Madrid and Barcelona? wie weit sind Madrid und Barcelona voneinander entfernt?you've come from quite a long \distance, haven't you? du kommst von weiter her, stimmt's?within driving/walking \distance mit dem Auto/zu Fuß erreichbarhe lives within walking \distance of work er kann zu Fuß zu Arbeit gehenwithin shouting \distance in Rufweitethey sped off into the \distance sie brausten davonto look off into the \distance in die Ferne blickenin the \distance in der Fernefrom [or at] a distance von Weitemin a \distance of 5 years innerhalb von fünf Jahrento keep one's \distance auf Distanz bleibento keep one's \distance from sb/sth sich akk von jdm/etw fernhalten7.▶ to go the \distance bis zum Ende durchhaltenII. vt* * *['dIstəns]1. n1) (in space) Entfernung f; (= gap, interval) Abstand m, Distanz f (geh); (= distance covered) Strecke f, Weg mthe distance between the eyes/railway lines — der Abstand zwischen den Augen/Eisenbahnschienen
the distance between London and Glasgow is... — die Entfernung zwischen London und Glasgow beträgt...
what's the distance between London and Glasgow? —
I don't know the exact distance we covered the distance between London and Glasgow in five hours — ich weiß nicht genau, wie weit es ist wir haben für die Strecke London-Glasgow fünf Stunden gebraucht
he went with me ( for) part of the distance — er ging einen Teil der Strecke or des Weges mit mir
it's no distance — es ist überhaupt nicht weit, es ist nur ein Katzensprung (inf)
we drove 600 miles – that's quite a distance — wir sind 600 Meilen gefahren – das ist eine ganz schöne Strecke
to go the distance — durchhalten, es durchstehen
to keep one's distance (from sb/sth) — Abstand (von jdm/etw) halten
2)(in time)
from or at a distance of 400 years —at this distance in time — nach einem so langen Zeitraum
2. vt1)See:= outdistance2)to distance oneself/sb from sb/sth — sich/jdn von jdm/etw distanzieren
television may distance the public from reality — das Fernsehen kann die Öffentlichkeit der Wirklichkeit entfremden
* * *distance [ˈdıstəns]A sa) in einiger Entfernung,b) von Weitem, von fern;a good distance off ziemlich weit entfernt;at an equal distance gleich weit (entfernt);from a distance aus einiger Entfernung;it is no distance es ist gar nicht weit (to [bis] zu);what is the distance to London? wie weit ist es bis nach London?2. Ferne f:from (in) the distance aus (in) der Fernebetween zwischen dat):4. Entfernung f, Strecke f:the distance covered die zurückgelegte Strecke;distance of vision Sehweite f;go the distance figa) durchhalten, über die Runden kommen,b) (Boxen) über die volle Distanz gehen;they had travel(l)ed long distances sie waren von weit her gekommen;stay the distance with über die volle Distanz gehen gegen (Boxer)5. (zeitlicher) Abstand, Zeitraum m: I can hardly remember him at this distance of ( oder in) time nach all dieser Zeit6. fig Abstand m, Entfernung f, Entferntheit f7. fig Distanz f, Abstand m, Zurückhaltung f:keep sb at a distance jemandem gegenüber reserviert sein, sich jemanden vom Leib halten;keep one’s distance zurückhaltend sein, (die gebührende) Distanz wahren ( → A 3);know one’s distance wissen, wie weit man gehen darf8. MAL etca) Perspektive fb) auch pl Hintergrund mc) Ferne f9. MUS Intervall n10. SPORTa) Distanz f, Strecke fb) Boxen, Fechten: Distanz f (zwischen den Gegnern)distance race Langstreckenlauf m;distance runner Langstreckenläufer(in), Langstreckler(in)B v/t2. fig überflügeln, -treffendist. abk1. distance2. distant3. distinguish (distinguished)4. district* * *1. nounkeep [at] a [safe] distance [from somebody/something] — jemandem/einer Sache nicht zu nahe kommen
keep one's distance [from somebody/something] — Abstand [zu jemandem/etwas] wahren
at a distance of... [from somebody/something] — in einer Entfernung von... [von jemandem/etwas]
4) (remoter field of vision) Ferne, diein/into the distance — in der/die Ferne
5) (distant point) Entfernung, dieat a distance/[viewed] from a distance — von weitem
6) (space of time) Abstand, der2. transitive verbdistance oneself from somebody/something — sich von jemandem/etwas distanzieren
* * *n.Abstand -¨e m.Distanz -en f.Entfernung f.Ferne -n f.Weite -n f. (dissociate) oneself from expr.sich abgrenzen von (Personen) ausdr. -
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n. inkomen, inkomsten; donjon (gevangenis in fort of kasteel)--------v. houden; bewaren; krijgen; onderhouden; volhouden; leiden; voeren; groot laten worden; eigenaar zijn vankeep1[ kie:p]1 donjon ⇒ (hoofd)toren, burchttoren♦voorbeelden:play for keep • menens/voor het ‘echte’ spelen1 (levens)onderhoud ⇒ kost, voedsel♦voorbeelden:————————keep2♦voorbeelden:1 keep cool! • houd je kalm!keep left • s houdenwill you please keep still! • blijf nou toch eens stil zitten!keep going • door (blijven) gaankeep talking! • blijf praten!how is John keeping? • hoe gaat het met John?keep ahead of • (een stapje) voor blijvenkeep away (from) • uit de buurt blijven (van), wegblijven (van)keep back • op een afstand blijvenkeep down • verstopt/verborgen blijven, beneden/onder blijvenkeep down, you fool! • bukken/kop omlaag, idioot!keep indoors • in huis blijvenif the rain keeps off • als het droog blijftkeep off/out! • verboden toegang!keep together • bij elkaar blijvenkeep under • onder (de oppervlakte) blijvenkeep from smoking • niet rokenkeep off alcohol for a while • de drank een tijdje laten staankeep off the grass • verboden op het gras te lopen→ keep at keep at/, keep in keep in/, keep in with keep in with/, keep on keep on/, keep to keep to/, keep up keep up/II 〈 overgankelijk werkwoord〉1 houden ⇒ zich houden aan, bewaren2 houden ⇒ onderhouden, eropna houden; (in dienst) hebben3 (in bezit) hebben/houden ⇒ bewaren; 〈 bij uitbreiding ook〉 in voorraad hebben, verkopen4 hoeden ⇒ beschermen, bewaren7 houden ⇒ aanhouden, blijven in/op♦voorbeelden:keep a promise • een belofte nakomenkeep the Sabbath • de sabbat in acht nemenkeep a secret • een geheim bewarenkeep a hotel • een hotel hebbenkeep a mistress • een maîtresse hebbenkeep one's wife • z'n vrouw onderhoudenthis shop doesn't keep pencils • deze winkel verkoopt geen potlodenwill you keep this record for me? • wil je deze plaat voor me bewaren?〈 informeel〉 you can keep it • je mag het houden, ik hoef het niet4 may God keep you • God behoede/beware uillness kept him in bed for a week • vanwege ziekte moest hij een week in bed blijvenkeep it clean • houd het netjesthe sick child had to be kept warm • het zieke kind moest warm gehouden wordenkeep something going • iets aan de gang houdenkeep someone waiting • iemand laten wachtenwhat kept you (so long)? • wat heeft je zo (lang) opgehouden?the police tried to keep the fans away • de politie probeerde de fans uit de buurt te houdenkeep back • tegenhouden, op een afstand houden; achterhouden, geheimhoudenwe will keep back 10% of the cost till July as agreed • zoals overeengekomen betalen we de laatste 10% pas in julikeep down • binnenhouden 〈 voedsel〉; omlaaghouden, laag houden; onder de duim houden 〈 insecten(plaag), mensen〉; onderdrukken, inhouden 〈 woede〉keep one's weight down • z'n gewicht binnen de perken houdenthe army kept the people down • het leger onderdrukte het volkkeep your head down! • bukken!keep your voices down! • niet zo hard (praten)!keep someone indoors • iemand binnenhoudenkeep off • op een afstand houdenkeep someone out • iemand buitensluitenkeep together • bij elkaar houdenthey kept him under with morphine • ze hielden hem bewusteloos met morfinekeep that kid away from those wheels! • hou dat jong bij die wielen vandaan!he tried to keep the bad news from his father • hij probeerde het slechte nieuws voor z'n vader verborgen te houdenkeep the girls from scratching each other • zorg dat de meisjes elkaar niet krabbenkeep someone in something • zorgen dat iemand geen gebrek heeft aan ietshe wanted to keep his wife in luxury • hij wilde zijn vrouw in luxe laten levenhe couldn't keep his eyes off the girl • hij kon z'n ogen niet van het meisje afhoudenkeep your hands off me! • blijf met je fikken van me af!keep them out of harm's way • zorg dat ze geen gevaar lopenhe tried to keep the story out of the papers • hij probeerde het verhaal uit de pers te houdenhe kept it to himself • hij hield het voor zichkeep someone abreast of • iemand op de hoogte houden vankeep the middle of the road • op het midden van de weg blijven rijdenkeep your seat! • blijf (toch) zitten! -
72 BE
be [bi:]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verb3. modal verb6. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verba. être• who is that? -- it's me! qui est-ce ? -- c'est moi !• if I were you I would refuse si j'étais vous, je refuserais━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The following translations use ce + être because they contain an article or possessive in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► No article is used in French, unless the noun is qualified by an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• how are you? comment allez-vous ?d. ( = cost) coûter• how much is it? combien ça coûte ?e. ( = equal) fairef.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to be cold/hot/hungry/thirsty/ashamed/right/wrong avoir froid/chaud/faim/soif/honte/raison/tort━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note how French makes the person, not the part of the body, the subject of the sentence in the following.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━g. (with age) avoir• how old is he? quel âge a-t-il ?► to be + -ing━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French does not distinguish between simple and continuous actions as much as English does.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'm coming! j'arrive !• what have you been doing this week? qu'est-ce que tu as fait cette semaine ?• will you be seeing her tomorrow? est-ce que vous allez la voir demain ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► être en train de + infinitive emphasizes that one is in the middle of the action.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I haven't got time, I'm cooking the dinner je n'ai pas le temps, je suis en train de préparer le repas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The imperfect tense is used for continuous action in the past.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► have/had been +... for/since━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French uses the present and imperfect where English uses the perfect and past perfect.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd been at university for six weeks when my father got ill j'étais à l'université depuis six semaines quand mon père est tombé malade• he's a friend of yours, isn't he? c'est un ami à toi, n'est-ce pas ?• she wasn't happy, was she? elle n'était pas heureuse, n'est-ce pas ?• so it's all done, is it? tout est fait, alors ?• you're not ill, are you? tu n'es pas malade j'espère ?c. (in tag responses) they're getting married -- oh are they? ils vont se marier -- ah bon ?• he's going to complain about you -- oh is he? il va porter plainte contre toi -- ah vraiment ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he's always late, isn't he? -- yes, he is il est toujours en retard, n'est-ce pas ? -- oui• is it what you expected? -- no it isn't est-ce que tu t'attendais à ça ? -- non━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The past participle in French passive constructions agrees with the subject.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The passive is used less in French than in English. It is often expressed by on + active verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• it is said that... on dit que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The reflexive can be used to describe how something is usually done.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━3. modal verb► am/are/is to + infinitivea. ( = will)• now the old lady has died, her house is to be sold maintenant que la vieille dame est décédée, sa maison va être mise en venteb. ( = must) you are to follow these instructions exactly tu dois suivre ces instructions scrupuleusementc. ( = should) he is to be pitied il est à plaindre• not to be confused with... à ne pas confondre avec...d. ( = be destined to) this was to have serious repercussions cela devait avoir de graves répercussionse. ( = can) these birds are to be found all over the world on trouve ces oiseaux dans le monde entiera. être ; ( = take place) avoir lieu• he is there at the moment, but he won't be there much longer il est là en ce moment mais il ne va pas rester très longtemps► there is/are ( = there exist(s)) il y a• here you are at last! te voilà enfin !• here you are! ( = take this) tiens (or tenez) !b. ► to have been (to a place)• where have you been? où étais-tu passé ?a. (weather, temperature) faire• it's fine/cold/dark il fait beau/froid/nuit• it's windy/foggy il y a du vent/du brouillard• it was then we realized that... c'est alors que nous nous sommes rendu compte que...• it was they who suggested that... ce sont eux qui ont suggéré que...• why is it that she is so popular? pourquoi a-t-elle tant de succès ?6. compounds* * *noun: abrév bill of exchange -
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straight [streɪt]1. adjectivec. ( = unambiguous) clair• have you got that straight? est-ce bien clair ?d. ( = tidy) to put sth straight mettre de l'ordre dans qche. ( = simple) it was a straight choice between A and B il n'y avait que deux solutions, A ou Bf. ( = consecutive) [victories, defeats, games, months] consécutif• if I give you £5, then we'll be straight si je te donne 5 livres, nous serons quittesi. ( = unsmiling) to keep a straight face garder son sérieuxj. [person] (inf) ( = conventional) conventionnel ; ( = heterosexual) hétéro (inf) ; ( = not criminal) honnête• I've been straight for three years ( = not on drugs) ça fait trois ans que je n'ai pas pris de drogue2. nouna. the straight [of racecourse, athletics track] la ligne droite3. adverba. ( = in a straight line) [walk, stand, grow] droit ; [shoot] juste• to look sb straight in the face/the eye regarder qn bien en face/droit dans les yeux• to go straight towards sb/sth se diriger droit vers qn/qchb. ( = level) to hang straight [picture] être bien droitc. ( = directly) straight after this tout de suite après• to come straight back ( = without detour) revenir directement ; ( = immediately) revenir tout de suite• he went straight to London ( = without detour) il est allé directement à Londres ; ( = immediately) il s'est immédiatement rendu à Londrese. ( = neat) to drink one's whisky straight boire son whisky secf. ( = clearly) he couldn't think straight il n'avait plus les idées clairesh. ( = consecutively) for five days straight pendant cinq jours d'affilée► straight off ( = immediately) tout de suite ; ( = without hesitation) sans hésiter ; ( = without beating about the bush) sans ambages4. compounds* * *[streɪt] 1.noun Sport ligne f droite2.back straight — côté m opposé de la piste
1) ( not bent or curved) gen droit; [hair] raidedead straight — gen tout droit
2) (level, upright) gen bien droit; [bedclothes, tablecloth] bien misthe picture/your tie isn't straight — le tableau/ta cravate est de travers
3) (tidy, in order) en ordreto get ou put something straight — lit, fig mettre quelque chose en ordre
4) ( clear)to put ou set the record straight — établir la vérité
5) (honest, direct) [person] honnête, droit; [answer] clair6) ( unconditional) [majority, profit] net/nette; [choice] simplea straight fight — GB Politics une élection à deux candidats
7) ( undiluted) [drink] sec, sans eau8) ( consecutive) [wins, defeats] consécutif/-iveshe got straight ‘A’s — School elle a eu très bien partout
in straight sets — Sport en deux (or trois) sets
9) Theatre [actor, role] sérieux/-ieuse10) (colloq) ( heterosexual) hétéro (colloq) inv3.1) ( not obliquely) gen droit; [shoot] justeto go/keep straight ahead — aller/continuer tout droit
2) ( without delay) directementstraight away —
she told him straight out that — elle lui a dit carrément or sans ambages que
it seemed like something straight out of the Middle Ages — cela semblait sortir tout droit du Moyen Âge
3) ( frankly) tout netgive it to me straight — (colloq) dis-moi la vérité
to play straight with somebody — fig jouer franc-jeu avec quelqu'un
4) Theatre [act, produce] de manière classique5) ( neat) [drink] sec or sans eau••to go straight — (colloq) [criminal] se ranger
straight up? — (colloq) GB sans blague? (colloq)
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74 seat
1. III1) seat smb. the theatre (tile hall, the cinema, etc.) seats 300 (one thousand, very many people, etc.) театр и т.д. вмещает триста и т.д. человек, в театре и т.д. триста и т.д. мест; this table seats twelve за этим столом могут разместиться /сесть/ двенадцать человек2) seat smth. seat a chair чинить сиденье, поставить новое сиденье; seat an old pair of trousers /a pair of old breeches/ починить /поставить заплату на/ старые брюки3) || seat a candidate провести кандидата [в парламент]2. IVseat smb. in some manner seat smb. comfortably удобно усадить кого-л.; seat smb. somewhere seat smb. to the right of the hostess усадить кого-л. справа от хозяйки: where shall we seat the children? где мы посадим детей?3. XI1) be (keep, remain) seat ed ask /beg/ smb. to be seated попросить кого-л. /предложить кому-л./ сесть /присесть/; please be seated садитесь, пожалуйста; keep /remain/ seated не вставать (со стула), остаться [сидеть] на месте; we are all seated мы все сидим, у нас у всех есть места; may I be seated? можно мне сесть?, разрешите сесть?; be seated in some manner when you are comfortably seated, let us proceed когда вы все усядетесь, давайте начнем; be seated (up)on smth. be seated on the throne (on the back of a bull, upon a bale of wool, etc.) восседать на троне и т.д.; I found him seated on a reversed bucket я увидел его сидящим /, что он сидит/ на перевернутом ведре; be seated between smb. he was seated between us его посадили между нами2) be seated in some manner be well (fairly. ere.) seated быть хорошо и т.д. размещенным; the trouble is deeply seated эти неприятности имеют глубокие корни; the pain, he felt, was deeply seated ему казалось, что болит где-то глубоко внутри; his disease was unfortunately too deeply seated for recovery его болезнь была, к сожалению, очень запущена, и ее уже нельзя было вылечить; his influence is deeply seated in political circles он имеет сильное влияние в политических кругах; be seated for some time a family long seated here семья, давно живущая здесь /в этих краях/; be seated in some place a house seated in a pretty garden дом, расположенный /стоящий/ в красивом саду3) be seated for /to hold/ smb. the hall is seated for /to hold/ three thousand зал рассчитан на три тысячи человек; the carriage is seated for five карета вмещает /рассчитана на/ пять человек4. XVIII1) seat oneself somewhere seat oneself right in the middle of the first row (where they could, in a chair, on the bench, surely in the saddle, etc.) усесться /устроиться/ в самой середине первого ряда и т.д.; he seated himself at table он устроился за столом; seat o neself in some manner they seated themselves in state они торжественно уселись2) seat oneself somewhere the Turks seated themselves on the Bosphorus турки поселились /обосновались/ на Босфоре5. XXI1seat smb. on (in, etc.) smth. seat smb. on a chair (in an armchair, on the grass, etc.) посадить /усадить/ кого-л. на стул к т.д.; how many people can you seat in this room? сколько человек вы можете рассадить в этой комнате?; seat smb. in (according to) smth. seat the guests according to age (according to rank, according to position, in order, etc.) рассадить гостей по возрасту и т.д. -
75 wear
1. I1) I have nothing fit to wear мне нечего носить; I don't know what to wear не знаю, что надеть2) this silk (the stuff, etc.) will wear этот шелк и т.д. хорош в носке /хорошо носится/; strong material that will wear прочный материал, который будет долго носиться; this colour is pretty but it won't wear цвет красивый, но нестойкий /выгорает/2. II1) wear somewhere the dress is a bit too colourful to wear around here платье слишком яркое, чтобы носить его здесь; wear some time the dress was made to wear every day это платье для повседневной носки2) wear in some manner wear well (splendidly, wonderfully, etc.) хорошо и т.д. носиться; wear badly плохо носиться, быстро рваться; colours that wear well цвета, которые не выгорают или не линяют; wear for some time wear long долго носиться || her complexion wears well у нее сохранился хороший цвет лица: this friendship has worn well эта дружба выдержала многие годы /оказалась крепкой/3. III1) wear smth. wear a coat (a hat, a pair of top-boots, a white waistcoat, shorts, a clean collar, a red tie, gloves, a wig, etc.) носить пальто и т.д.; ходить в пальто и т.д.; wear black (white, green, etc.) носить черное и т.д., ходить в черном и т.д.; he wears good clothes он хорошо одевается; wear a beard (a moustache, whiskers, etc.) носить бороду и т.д., ходить с бородой и т.д.; wear jewels (diamonds. a pretty brooch, a watch, rings, mourning, etc.) носить драгоценности и т.д.; wear a sword (a sabre, a cane, a pistol, etc.) ходить со шпагой и т.д.; wear a disguise ходить переодетым2) wear smth. usually in the Continuous be wearing a new dress (felt slippers, a large hat, canvas shoes, white gloves, etc.) быть в новом платье и т.д., быть одетым в новое платье и т.д.; he was wearing all his medals (a gold ring, a wreath of flowers, a blue suit, etc.) на нем были все его медали и т.д.3) wear smth. wear a troubled (a sour, a discontented, a neglected, etc.) look иметь встревоженный и т.д. вид, выглядеть взволнованным и т.д.; wear a [pleasant] smile [приятно] улыбаться; his features wear a harassed (rueful, sad, etc.) expression у него измученное и т.д. лице; wear a face of joy сиять от радости; wear an air of sadness выглядеть грустным; he wears an air of triumph /a triumphant air/ у него победоносный вид; the students wore an air of relief when the exams were over студенты вздохнули с облегчением, когда кончились экзамены; the world begins to wear a different aspect мир стал другим; this action wears two faces у этого поступка есть две стороны4) wear smth. wear one's socks (one's shoes, one's coat, etc.) износить носки и т.д.; I have worn my boots я сносил сапоги; the constant flow of water has worn the stones своим течением вода отшлифовала камни4. IV1) wear smth. at some time always (seldom, never, every day, habitually, invariably, etc.) wear jewels (a coat, black shoes, etc.) всегда и т.д. носить драгоценности и т.д.2) wear smth. at some time what dress are you going to wear tonight? в каком платье вы будете сегодня вечером?, какое платье вы наденете сегодня вечером?3) || wear one's years /one's age/ well хорошо сохраниться, выглядеть моложе своих лет5. VI1) wear smth. in some state wear one's hair long (short) носить длинные (короткие) волосы; wear one's dresses long носить длинные платья2) wear smth. to some state wear smth. smooth отшлифовать /отполировать/ что-л.; wear a surface flat сделать поверхность плоской, стесать поверхность; wear one's coat (a garment) threadbare /thin/ обтрепать /износить/ пальто (одежду)6. IXwear smth. in some state wear one's sleeves rolled up (one's collar turned up, one's hat pulled down, etc.) ходить с засученными рукавами и т.д.; wear one's hair waved носить завивку, завиваться; wear one's hair parted in the middle носить волосы на прямой пробор7. XI1) be worn this suit may be worn этот костим еще можно носить /надевать/; my dress is not fit to be worn мое платье уже нельзя носить; these gloves look as if they had already been worn у этих перчаток поношенный вид /такой вид, словно их уже носили, надевали/; be worn in some manner member's badges must be worn visibly членские значки надо носить так, чтобы их было видно; be worn somewhere a wedding ring is often worn on the fourth finger of the left hand (rubber shoes are worn over shoes, etc.) обручальное кольцо часто носят на безымянном пальце левой руки и т.д.; jewels are worn in pins булавки для галстука часто украшают бриллиантами; the tuxedo coat is often worn to the theatre в театр часто ходят в смокинге; it is much worn in Paris это модно в Париже; be worn at some time this style is much worn now (this year, etc.) этот фасон сейчас и т.д. очень моден2) be worn the inscription has been worn надпись стерлась /стерта/; be worn to some state be much /badly/ worn быть сильно потрепанным /поношенным/; be worn to bits /to ribbons, to rags and tatters/ износиться [до дыр], истрепаться: he was worn to a shadow от него осталась одна тень; be worn by /with/ smth. the rock is worn by waves скала отшлифована волнами и т.д.: stones are worn with rain камни отполированы /отшлифованы/ дождями; the steps are worn by many feet (by the thousands of people who had used them, etc.) ступени истерлись от бесконечного по ним хождения и т.д.: books are worn with too frequent handling книги зачитаны /истрепаны/; he is worn by hard work (by toil and travel, with care, with care and anxiety, etc.) он утомлен /изнурен/тяжёлой работой и т.д.; be worn somewhere a path (a track, etc.) is worn across the field через поле протоптана дорожка и т.д.: the gloves are worn at the fingertips кончики пальцев у перчаток истрепались /разорвались/8. XVwear to some state wear smooth сглаживаться, становиться гладким [от употребления]; wear threadbare окончательно износиться; wear ragged истрепаться в клочья; wear white вытереться до основания; this coin has worn thin эта монета истерлась; his hair is wearing thin у него редеют волосы; my patience is wearing thin мое терпение кончается /на пределе/9. XVIwear for some time wear for years (for a short time, etc.) быть прочным в виске в т.д.; wear (in)to smth. wear into holes износиться до дыр; wear to ribbons /to shreds, to rags/ превратиться a лохмотья, истрепаться10. XXI11) wear smth. on (in, at, etc.) smth. wear a ring on one's finger (a flower in one's buttonhole, nothing on one's head, etc.) носить кольцо на пальцем т.д.; wear shoes on one's feet ходить в ботинках; wear gloves on one's hands носить перчатки; wear smth. over the shoes (with a costume, in bed, etc.) надевать что-л. на ботинки и т.д.; wear a sword at one's side быть при шпаге; wear one's arm in a sling ходить с рукой на перевязи; she wears a red band on her coat sleeve (a red flower in her hair, a ribbon round her hat, etc.) у нее на рукаве красная повязка и т.д.; wear one's hair in a braid (in a knot, in curls, etc.) носить косы и т.д.; wear smth. with smth. he wore his honours with modesty несмотря на то, что он был в почете, он держался скромно; wear one's fame with dignity достойно нести бремя славы2) wear with. (in)to smth. wear one's shoes (one's coat, etc.) into holes износить ботинки и т.д. до дыр; wear one's trousers into bagginess доносить брюки до того, что они висят мешком; wear clothes to rags /to ribbons, to shreds/ носить одежду, пока она не превратится в лохмотья; wear smth. in (across, etc.) smth. wear a hole in one's shoes (in one's trousers, in the paper with an eraser, etc.) протереть дыру в ботинке и т.д.; wear a path /а track/ across a field протоптать /проложить/ тропинку через поле; а rope at last wears a groove in a stout stanchion канат в конце концов протрет в столбе желобок; wear smb. to smth. wear oneself to death замотаться /устать/ до смерти11. XXIV1wear smth. as smth. wear smth. as a badge (as an ornament, etc.) носить что-л. как значок и т.д., в качестве значка и т.д. -
76 hour
[auə]n1) часThe clock told the hour of twelve. — Часы показывали двенадцать.
He worked hard almost to the hour of his death. — Он трудился почти/вплоть до самой смерти.
- every hour or twoHe was given an hour's notice. — Его предупредили за час.
- available hour
- two solid hours
- additional hour
- hours
- last few hours
- hour's interval
- hour's time
- hour hand
- hour's walk from here
- quarter of an hour
- for three long hours
- over an hour
- after many hours
- after an hour's walk
- at an hour's notice
- during an hour - for hours
- in an hour
- for some hours
- for another hour
- be paid by the hour
- come an hour later
- have two hours left
- have two hours to spare
- spend two hours in silence
- two hours ago
- hour earlier
- hour later
- hour after sunrise
- hour before dinner - clock strikes the hours and half hours2) время дняWhat he does after hours is his own business. — Что он делает после работы это его дело.
We don't keep the lights on out of hours. — Мы не оставляем свет в нерабочее время.
- rush hours- noon hour
- office hours
- school hours
- children's hour
- non-working hours
- last hour or two of the day
- opening hours of the shops
- out of hours
- at any hour
- at such an early hour
- in smb's sleeping hours
- in odd hours
- in the small hours
- until the early hours of the morning
- in the early hours of the night
- in the early hours of the morning
- in the middle hours of the night
- at the dead late hours of the night
- do this work out of hours
- keep early hours
- keep good hours
- get up at all hours
- work longer hours
- work after hours
- apply during office hours3) обусловленное время, установленное время, установленный часTrains arrive every hour. — Поезда приходят раз в час/каждый час.
We eat at regular hours. — Мы всегда едим в одно и тоже время.
Please, call me at the usual hour. — Пожалуйста, зайдите ко мне в обычное время.
He lay in bed beyond the usual hour. — Он встал позднее обычного времени.
This was no hour in which to hesitate. — Это было не время для колебаний.
They eat at all hours. — Они едят, когда придется.
- evenful hour- wasted hour
- forbidden hours
- parting hour
- coming hour - three hours before dinner
- two hours after the meeting
- exact hour of departure
- hour of curfew
- need of the hour
- at the definite hour
- at the eleventh hour
- at that particular
- at other hours
- at this particular hour
- at this crucial hour
- at the hour mentioned
- at the appointed hour
- for a brief hour
- in a good hour
- tomorrow at this hour
- in smb's trying hour
- in a few short hours
- in off hours
- through weary hours
- until this late hour
- up to this hour
- within the last hours
- fight against longer hours
- fix the hour
- keep smb hours
- seize the hour
- take medicine every hour
- hour for work4) часы, период, времяThe book may help to pass an hour or so. — Книга поможет скоротать часок.
After his hour of glory he was soon forgotten. — После краткого периода славы его быстро забыли.
- matter of hours- happiest hours of my life
- at that happy hour
- in one's idle hours
- during the sleepless hours of night
- in the hour of danger
- in the hour of need
- count hours
- pass an emotional hour
- read hour after hour
- spend hours doing the same thing
- hours fly5) занятие, урокThere was an hour called Nature Study (Free Activity). — Был урок, который назывался природоведение (свободная деятельность).
He was paid two shillings an hour. — Ему платили два шиллинга в час.
An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening. — ◊ Утро вечера мудренее.
An hour today is worth two tomorrow. — ◊ Лучше синица в руках, чем журавль в небе
- dancing hour- hour examination paper
- number of hours a week
- require 145 credit hours for graduation -
77 Felt
BILLIARD CLOTH, or FELTThe finest textile fabric made and is a woollen cloth of the beaver type. The wool is very carefully selected and then spun with great care. Expert weavers operate the looms which weave into cloths the thousands of very fine threads. The cloth is then milled so thoroughly that it is waterproof and capable of resisting the dampest atmosphere. The dye used is such that light has little effect upon it. The best merino wool is used, and when ready for use the cloth has a perfect level face, soft and smooth. Plain weave is used for the best grades and 3-shaft twill for others. Widths from 72-in. to 81-in. Cloth shrinks about 331/3 per cent from reed width to the finished width. An all-cotton billiard cloth is now being made and is meeting with much support. ———————— A wool fabric united without weaving. It is actually a sheet of wool fibre, matted into a substantial texture by the application of heat, moisture and pressure. There are many woven fabrics that are felted so heavily that it is difficult to decide whether they are woven or not, as the threads are so closely interlocked that they cannot be separated, and this fabric is stronger than a carded felt of same weight. The shrinkage of a woven felt fabric may be up to 50 per cent in both width and length. The peculiar property of felt is believed to have been known in early times, and the process of felting was used for the tents of the Tartar, as well as for articles of their clothing. It is difficult to say when felted wool was first used for hats. Hats of felt were worn in England in the Middle Ages. -
78 date
A n1 ( day of the month) date f ; date of birth date de naissance ; date of delivery/of expiry date de livraison/d'expiration ; what date is your birthday? quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? ; what date is it today?, what's the date today? on est le combien aujourd'hui? ; today's date is May 2 aujourd'hui nous sommes le 2 mai ; there's no date on the letter la lettre n'est pas datée ; ‘date as postmark’ ‘date: voir cachet de la poste’ ; to fix ou set a date fixer une date ; let's set a date now prenons date maintenant ; the date of the next meeting is… la prochaine réunion est fixée au… ; the date for the match is June 5 le match aura lieu le 5 juin ; at a later date à une date ultérieure, plus tard ; ( in past tense) plus tard, par la suite ; at a ou some future date plus tard ; of recent date récent ;3 ( meeting) rendez-vous m ; he has a date with Jane tonight il sort avec Jane ce soir ; on our first date la première fois que nous sommes sortis ensemble ; I have a lunch date on Friday je suis pris à déjeuner vendredi ; to make a date for Monday prendre rendez-vous pour lundi ;4 ( person one is going out with) John is her date for the party c'est John qui l'emmène à la soirée ; who's your date for tonight? avec qui sors-tu ce soir? ;5 ( pop concert) date f ; they're playing five dates in Britain ils font cinq dates en Grande-Bretagne ;6 ( fruit) datte f ;C vtr1 ( mark with date) [person] dater [letter, cheque] ; [machine] imprimer la date sur [envelope, document] ; a cheque/letter dated March 21st un cheque daté/une lettre datée du 21 mars ; a statuette dated 1875 une statuette portant la date 1875 ;2 ( identify age of) dater [skeleton, building, object] ; scientists have dated the skeleton at 300 BC d'après les scientifiques le squelette date de 300 ans avant J.-C. ;3 ( reveal age of) the style of clothing dates the film le style vestimentaire trahit l'âge du film ;4 ( go out with) sortir avec [person].D vi1 ( originate) to date from, to date back to dater de, remonter à ; the church dates from ou back to the 17th century l'église date du XVIIe siècle ; her problems date from ou back to the accident ses problèmes datent du jour or remontent au jour de l'accident ; these customs date from ou back to the Middle Ages ces coutumes remontent à l'époque médiévale ; their friendship dates from ou back to childhood leur amitié remonte à l'enfance ; -
79 Cobham, Sir Alan John
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 6 May 1894 London, Englandd. 21 October 1973 British Virgin Islands[br]English pilot who pioneered worldwide air routes and developed an in-flight refuelling system which is in use today.[br]Alan Cobham was a man of many parts. He started as a veterinary assistant in France during the First World War, but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. After the war he continued flying, by giving joy-rides and doing aerial photography work. In 1921 he joined the De Havilland Aircraft Company (see de Havilland, Geoffrey) as a test and charter pilot; he was also successful in a number of air races. During the 1920s Cobham made many notable flights to distant parts of the British Empire, pioneering possible routes for airline operations. During the early 1930s Sir Alan (he was knighted in 1926) devoted his attention to generating a public interest in aviation and to campaigning for more airfields. Cobham's Flying Circus toured the country giving flying displays and joy-rides, which for thousands of people was their first experience of flying.In 1933 Cobham planned a non-stop flight to India by refuelling his aircraft while flying: this was not a new idea but the process was still experimental. The flight was unsuccessful due to a fault in his aircraft, unrelated to the in-flight refuelling system. The following year Flight Refuelling Ltd was founded, and by 1939 two Short flying boats were operating the first inflight-refuelled service across the Atlantic. Inflight refuelling was not required during the early years of the Second World War, so Cobham turned to other projects such as thermal de-icing of wings, and a scheme which was not carried out, for delivering fighters to the Middle East by towing them behind Wellington bombers.After the Second World War the fortunes of Flight Refuelling Ltd were at a low ebb, especially when British South American Airways abandoned the idea of using in-flight refuelling. Then an American contract and the use of their tanker aircraft to ferry oil during the Berlin Airlift saved the day. In 1949 Cobham's chief designer, Peter Macgregor, came up with an idea for refuelling fighters using a probe and drogue system. A large tanker aircraft trailed a hose with a conical drogue at the free end. The fighter pilot manoeuvred the probe, fitted to his aircraft, so that it locked into the drogue, enabling fuel to be transferred. Since the 1950s this system has become the effective world standard.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1926. Air Force Cross 1926.Bibliography1978, A Time to Fly, ed. C.Derrick, London; pub. in paperback 1986 (Cobham's memoirs).Cobham produced films of some of his flights and published Skyways, 1925, London; MyFlight to the Cape and Back, 1926, London; Australia and Back, 1926, London;Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat, 1930, London.Further ReadingPeter G.Proctor, 1975, "The life and work of Sir Alan Cobham", Aerospace (RAeS) (March).JDS -
80 Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities[br]b. 24 August 1772 Durlach, Baden, Germanyd. 21 May 1826 Munich, Germany[br]German engineer.[br]While he was attending the Military School at Mannheim, Reichenbach drew attention to himself due to the mathematical instruments that he had designed. On the recommendation of Count Rumford in Munich, the Bavarian government financed a two-year stay in Britain so that Reichenbach could become acquainted with modern mechanical engineering. He returned to Mannheim in 1793, and during the Napoleonic Wars he was involved in the manufacture of arms. In Munich, where he was in the service of the Bavarian state from 1796, he started producing precision instruments in his own time. His basic invention was the design of a dividing machine for circles, produced at the end of the eighteenth century. The astronomic and geodetic instruments he produced excelled all the others for their precision. His telescopes in particular, being perfect in use and of solid construction, soon brought him an international reputation. They were manufactured at the MathematicMechanical Institute, which he had jointly founded with Joseph Utzschneider and Joseph Liebherr in 1804 and which became a renowned training establishment. The glasses and lenses were produced by Joseph Fraunhofer who joined the company in 1807.In the same year he was put in charge of the technical reorganization of the salt-works at Reichenhall. After he had finished the brine-transport line from Reichenhall to Traunstein in 1810, he started on the one from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall which was an extremely difficult task because of the mountainous area that had to be crossed. As water was the only source of energy available he decided to use water-column engines for pumping the brine in the pipes of both lines. Such devices had been in use for pumping purposes in different mining areas since the middle of the eighteenth century. Reichenbach knew about the one constructed by Joseph Karl Hell in Slovakia, which in principle had just been a simple piston-pump driven by water which did not work satisfactorily. Instead he constructed a really effective double-action water-column engine; this was a short time after Richard Trevithick had constructed a similar machine in England. For the second line he improved the system and built a single-action pump. All the parts of it were made of metal, which made them easy to produce, and the pumps proved to be extremely reliable, working for over 100 years.At the official opening of the line in 1817 the Bavarian king rewarded him generously. He remained in the state's service, becoming head of the department for roads and waterways in 1820, and he contributed to the development of Bavarian industry as well as the public infrastructure in many ways as a result of his mechanical skill and his innovative engineering mind.[br]Further ReadingBauernfeind, "Georg von Reichenbach" Allgemeine deutsche Biographie 27:656–67 (a reliable nineteenth-century account).W.Dyck, 1912, Georg v. Reichenbach, Munich.K.Matschoss, 1941, Grosse Ingenieure, Munich and Berlin, 3rd edn. 121–32 (a concise description of his achievements in the development of optical instruments and engineering).WKBiographical history of technology > Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von
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