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  • 61 Cobham, Sir Alan John

    SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace
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    b. 6 May 1894 London, England
    d. 21 October 1973 British Virgin Islands
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    English pilot who pioneered worldwide air routes and developed an in-flight refuelling system which is in use today.
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    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.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1926. Air Force Cross 1926.
    Bibliography
    1978, A Time to Fly, ed. C.Derrick, London; pub. in paperback 1986 (Cobham's memoirs).
    Flight to the Cape and Back, 1926, London; Australia and Back, 1926, London;
    Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat, 1930, London.
    Further Reading
    Peter G.Proctor, 1975, "The life and work of Sir Alan Cobham", Aerospace (RAeS) (March).
    JDS

    Biographical history of technology > Cobham, Sir Alan John

  • 62 Cowper, Edward Alfred

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
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    b. 10 December 1819 London, England
    d. 9 May 1893 Weybridge, Surrey, England
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    English inventor of the hot-blast stove used in ironmaking.
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    Cowper was apprenticed in 1834 to John Braithwaite of London and in 1846 obtained employment at the engineers Fox \& Henderson in Birmingham. In 1851 he was engaged in the contract drawings for the Crystal Palace housing the Great Exhibition, and in the same year he set up in London as a consulting engineer. Cowper designed the 211 ft (64.3 m) span roof of Birmingham railway station, the first large-span station roof to be constructed. Cowper had an inventive turn of mind. While still an apprentice, he devised the well-known railway fog-signal and, at Fox \& Henderson, he invented an improved method of casting railway chairs. Other inventions included a compound steam-engine with receiver, patented in 1857; a bicycle wheel with steel spokes and rubber tyre (1868); and an electric writing telegraph (1879). Cowper's most important invention by far was the hot-blast stove, the first application of C.W. Siemens's regenerative principle to ironmaking, patented in 1857. Waste gases from the blast furnace were burnt in an iron chamber lined with a honeycomb of firebricks. When they were hot, the gas was directed to a second similar chamber while the incoming air blast for the blast furnace was heated by passing it through the first chamber. The stoves alternatively received and gave up heat and the heated blast, introduced by J.B. Neilson, led to considerable fuel economies in blast-furnace operation; the system is still in use. Cowper played an active part in the engineering institutions of his time, becoming President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1880–1. He was commissioned by the Science and Art Department to catalogue the collections of machinery and inventions at the South Kensington Museum, whose science collections now form the Science Museum, London.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1880–1.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1893, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute: 172–3, London.
    W.K.V.Gale, 1969, Iron and Steel, London: Longmans, pp. 42, 75 (describes his hot-blast stoves).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Cowper, Edward Alfred

  • 63 Kirkaldy, David

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    b. 4 April 1820 Mayfield, Dundee, Scotland
    d. 25 January 1897 London, England
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    Scottish engineer and pioneer in materials testing.
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    The son of a merchant of Dundee, Kirkaldy was educated there, then at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and at Edinburgh University. For a while he worked in his father's office, but with a preference for engineering, in 1843 he commenced an apprenticeship at the Glasgow works of Robert Napier. After four years in the shops he was transferred to the drawing office and in a very few years rose to become Chief. Here Kirkaldy demonstrated a remarkable talent both for the meticulous recording of observations and data and for technical drawing. His work also had an aesthetic appeal and four of his drawings of Napier steamships were shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, earning both Napier and Kirkaldy a medal. His "as fitted" set of drawings of the Cunard Liner Persia, which had been built in 1855, is now in the possession of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, London; it is regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the world, and has even been exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.
    With the impending order for the Royal Naval Ironclad Black Prince (sister ship to HMS Warrior, now preserved at Portsmouth) and for some high-pressure marine boilers and engines, there was need for a close scientific analysis of the physical properties of iron and steel. Kirkaldy, now designated Chief Draughtsman and Calculator, was placed in charge of this work, which included comparisons of puddled steel and wrought iron, using a simple lever-arm testing machine. The tests lasted some three years and resulted in Kirkaldy's most important publication, Experiments on Wrought Iron and Steel (1862, London), which gained him wide recognition for his careful and thorough work. Napier's did not encourage him to continue testing; but realizing the growing importance of materials testing, Kirkaldy resigned from the shipyard in 1861. For the next two and a half years Kirkaldy worked on the design of a massive testing machine that was manufactured in Leeds and installed in premises in London, at The Grove, Southwark.
    The works was open for trade in January 1866 and engineers soon began to bring him specimens for testing on the great machine: Joseph Cubitt (son of William Cubitt) brought him samples of the materials for the new Blackfriars Bridge, which was then under construction. Soon The Grove became too cramped and Kirkaldy moved to 99 Southwark Street, reopening in January 1874. In the years that followed, Kirkaldy gained a worldwide reputation for rigorous and meticulous testing and recording of results, coupled with the highest integrity. He numbered the most distinguished engineers of the time among his clients.
    After Kirkaldy's death, his son William George, whom he had taken into partnership, carried on the business. When the son died in 1914, his widow took charge until her death in 1938, when the grandson David became proprietor. He sold out to Treharne \& Davies, chemical consultants, in 1965, but the works finally closed in 1974. The future of the premises and the testing machine at first seemed threatened, but that has now been secured and the machine is once more in working order. Over almost one hundred years of trading in South London, the company was involved in many famous enquiries, including the analysis of the iron from the ill-fated Tay Bridge (see Bouch, Sir Thomas).
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Gold Medal 1864.
    Bibliography
    1862, Results of an Experimental Inquiry into the Tensile Strength and Other Properties of Wrought Iron and Steel (originally presented as a paper to the 1860–1 session of the Scottish Shipbuilders' Association).
    Further Reading
    D.P.Smith, 1981, "David Kirkaldy (1820–97) and engineering materials testing", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 52:49–65 (a clear and well-documented account).
    LRD / FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Kirkaldy, David

  • 64 Rennie, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Canals, Civil engineering
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    b. 7 June 1761 Phantassie, East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland
    d. 4 October 1821 Stamford Street, London, England
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    Scottish civil engineer.
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    Born into a prosperous farming family, he early demonstrated his natural mechanical and structural aptitude. As a boy he spent a great deal of time, often as a truant, near his home in the workshop of Andrew Meikle. Meikle was a millwright and the inventor of a threshing machine. After local education and an apprenticeship with Meikle, Rennie went to Edinburgh University until he was 22. He then travelled south and met James Watt, who in 1784 offered him the post of Engineer at the Albion Flour Mills, London, which was then under construction. Rennie designed all the mill machinery, and it was while there that he began to develop an interest in canals, opening his own business in 1791 in Blackfriars. He carried out work on the Kennet and Avon Canal and in 1794 became Engineer for the company. He meanwhile carried out other surveys, including a proposed extension of the River Stort Navigation to the Little Ouse and a Basingstoke-to-Salisbury canal, neither of which were built. From 1791 he was also engaged on the Rochdale Canal and the Lancaster Canal, as well as the great masonry aqueduct carrying the latter canal across the river Lune at Lancaster. He also surveyed the Ipswich and Stowmarket and the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigations. He advised on the Horncastle Canal in 1799 and on the River Ancholme in 1799, both of which are in Lincolnshire. In 1802 he was engaged on the Royal Canal in Ireland, and in the same year he was commissioned by the Government to prepare a plan for flooding the Lea Valley as a defence on the eastern approach to London in case Napoleon invaded England across the Essex marshes. In 1809 he surveyed improvements on the Thames, and in the following year he was involved in a proposed canal from Taunton to Bristol. Some of his schemes, particularly in the Fens and Lincolnshire, were a combination of improvements for both drainage and navigation. Apart from his canal work he engaged extensively in the construction and development of docks and harbours including the East and West India Docks in London, Holyhead, Hull, Ramsgate and the dockyards at Chatham and Sheerness. In 1806 he proposed the great breakwater at Plymouth, where work commenced on 22 June 1811.
    He was also highly regarded for his bridge construction. These included Kelso and Musselburgh, as well as his famous Thames bridges: London Bridge (uncompleted at the time of his death), Waterloo Bridge (1810–17) and Southwark Bridge (1815–19). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1798.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1798.
    Further Reading
    C.T.G.Boucher, 1963, John Rennie 1761–1821, Manchester University Press. W.Reyburn, 1972, Bridge Across the Atlantic, London: Harrap.
    JHB

    Biographical history of technology > Rennie, John

  • 65 phraseology of meteorological breefing/consultation

    фразеология метеоконсультации

    This is the 0600 UTC surface synoptic (significant weather, high level) chart. – Это приземная синоптическая (особых явлений, высотная) карта за 0600 UTC.

    This prognostic significant weather (high level, 200, 300 hPa) chart is valid for 1800 UTC. – Эта прогностическая карта особых явлений (высотная, 200, 300 гПа) на 18 UTC.

    Wind speed and displacement of baric systems on our charts is given in kmh. – Скорость ветра и смещения барических систем на наших картах указана в км/ч.

    Altitudes on our charts are given in decametres. – Высоты на наших картах даны в декаметрах.

    This cyclone (anticyclone) according to data of barric topography is tracked up to the altitude of... km. – Этот циклон (антициклон) по данным барической топографии прослеживается до высоты... км.

    The cyclone (anticyclone) centred at (Northern, Southern...) Norway is displacing North-East (South...) with the speed of... kmh. – Циклон (антициклон), расположенный над (северной, южной...) Норвегией смещается к северо-востоку (югу...) со скоростью... км/ч.

    The low (high) centred North (South...) of the Bahames is moving North-Eastward (South-Eastward...) at about 20 kmh and is deepening. – Циклон (антициклон), расположенный севернее (южнее...) Багамских о-вов, смещается в северо-восточном (юго-восточном...) направлении со скоростью 20 км/ч углубляясь.

    The 300 hPa chart shows a trough lying North-East to South-West across the track. – На карте 300 гПа поверхности прослеживается ложбина, пересекая маршрут с северо-востока на юго-запад.

    The trough is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours. – Предполагается, что положение ложбины сохранится на ближайшие 12 часов.

    The semi-permanent high (low) over the Baltic sea is bilding up. – Квазистационарный антициклон (циклон) формируется над Балтийским морем.

    Weather along the route (section of the route) will be influenced by... Northern (Southern, Eastern...) periphery of deepening, (filling) cyclone (anticyclone, trough, crest, warm sector of the cyclone). – Погода по маршруту (участку маршрута) обуславливается... северной (южной, восточной) периферией углубляющегося (заполняющегося) циклона (антициклона, ложбины, гребня, теплым сектором циклона).

    Weather conditions on the route... to... are therefore expected to be... – Поэтому по маршруту... ожидаются метеоусловия...

    Flight in cold (warm, secondary cold, occluded) front zone. – Полет в зоне холодного (теплого, вторичного холодного, окклюдированного) фронта.

    Flight along cold (warm...) front (cold front with waves). – Полет вдоль холодного (теплого) фронта (холодного фронта с волнами).

    While crossing cold (warm...) front... – При пересечении холодного (теплого...) фронта...

    Cold (warm...) front is displacing North (Northeast...) with the speed... kmh, to the East (West...). – Холодный (теплый...) фронт смещается к северу (северо-востоку...) со скоростью... км/ч, на восток (запад...).

    An active warm front lying South-East to North-West along the coast of Norway at 12 UTC is moving East at 30 kmh. It is preceded by a narrow belt of heavy snow. – Активный теплый фронт, пролегающий с юго-востока на северо-запад вдоль побережья Норвегии на 12 UTC, смещается на восток со скоростью 30 км/ч. Ему предшествует узкая зона сильного снегопада.

    Front is well expressed in temperature contrasts (wind regime, precipitation...). – Фронт хорошо выражен в температурных контрастах (в ветровом режиме, осадках...).

    A cold (warm...) front is shown on 12 UTC surface chart. – На приземной карте, за 12 UTC показан холодный (теплый...) фронт.

    It is recommended not to cross cold front zone, to go above clouds at a distance not less than 1000 m from CB. – Рекомендуется не пересекать зону холодного фронта, идти над облаками на расстоянии не менее 1000 м от куч.-дождевых облаков.

    Warm (high warm) front is placed over Norway at 18 UTC. – Теплый (высотный теплый) фронт расположен над Норвегией на 18 UTC.

    In connection with it, it is expected... – В связи с этим ожидается...

    Scattered (broken, overcast) clouds (layers), embedded CB – Рассеянная (значительная, сплошная) облачность (слой), маскированная куч.-дождевая

    Base of cloud... km. – Нижняя граница облачности... км.

    Top... km. – Верхняя граница... км.

    CB top above... km. – Верхняя границы куч.-дождевой облачности выше... км.

    Cloud base will be lowering to... m (km) (rapidly). Increasing cloud layers, (local) thunderstorm(s) (probability of thunderstorm, thunderstorm situation is shown on the charts as RISK &) – Нижняя границы облачности понизится до... м (км) (быстро). Повышающаяся облачность, (местами) гроза(ы), (вероятность грозы, т.е. грозовое положение на картах RISK |^)

    Cb clouds with tops above 10 km and associated thunderstorms are expected to effect the route – Предполагается по маршруту влияния куч.-дождевой облачности с верхней границей свыше 10 км и связанные с ней грозы.

    Light (moderate, severe) icing in cloud (precipitation). – Слабое (умеренное, сильное) обледенение в облаках (осадках).

    Moderate (severe) turbulence in cloud (surface layer). – Умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в облаках (приземном слое).

    (Orographic) Moderate (severe) clear air turbulence is expected North of... (the jet stream) at... km – (Орографическая) умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в ясном небе ожидается к северу от... (оси струйного течения) на высоте... км

    To escape icing (turbulence) we advise you to choose flight level over... km. – Чтобы избежать обледенения (турбулентности) рекомендуем выбрать высоту полета выше... км.

    Data from boards confirm presence of moderate (severe) icing (turbulence) in cloud. – Бортовые данные подтверждают наличие умеренного (сильного) обледенения (турбулентности) в облаках.

    Radar (satellite) data confirm presence of thunderstorms, CB clouds. – Радиолокационные (спутниковые) данные подтверждают наличие грозовых очагов, куч.-дождевой облачности.

    Displacing Northward (Southward...). – Смещение к северу (югу...).

    Visibility... km (m) (in rain). – Видимость... км (м) (в дожде).

    Changing for the best (worse) – Улучшение (ухудшение)

    The altitude of tropopause is... km – Высота тропопаузы... км

    Sharp slope of tropopause is observed over area of... – Резкий наклон тропопаузы наблюдается над районом...

    Upper wind and temperature, wind and temperature aloft – Ветер и температура на высоте

    The 500 hPa prognostic chart for 12 UTC indicates upper winds of 240 degrees 60 kilometres per hour with temperature minus 20 degrees Celsius – По 500 гПа прогностической карте за 12 UTC высотный ветер 240° 60 км/ч и температура – 20° С

    Wind direction... degrees (variable) – Направление ветра... град (неустойчивое)

    Wind speed... kilometres per hour (metres per second if surface) – Скорость ветра... км/ч (если приземный – м/сек)

    Wind speeds over the route Moscow – London are expected to increase (decrease) from... to... kmh – Предполагается усиление (ослабление) ветра по маршруту Москва – Лондон от... до... км/ч

    Wind shift – Изменение ветра

    It is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours – Предполагается сохранение настоящего положения на последующие 12 часов

    Maximum wind – Максимальный ветер

    The jet stream with winds 240 degrees and speed 200 kmh is expected at 12 km – Струйное течение с ветром 240° 200 км/ч предполагается на высоте 12 км

    Wind shear was reported by aircrafts – Борты сообщают о сдвиге ветра

    According data from arriving (departing) aircrafts... – Согласно данным прибывающих (вылетающих) воздушных судов...

    Information about observed (expected) existence of wind shear – Информация о наблюдаемом (ожидаемом) сдвиге ветра

    (In this case) wind shear conditions are associated with thunderstorm (cold/warm front; strong surface wind; low level temperature inversion) – (В этом случае) условия сдвига ветра связаны с грозой (холод ным/теплым фронтом; сильным приземным ветром; температурной инверсией в приземном слое)

    Wind shear could adversly affect aircraft on the takeoff path (in climb out) in layer from runway level to 500 metres – Сдвиг ветра может оказать неблагоприятное воздействие на воздушное судно на взлете (при наборе высоты) в слое – уровень ВПП/500 м

    The intensity of wind shear – Интенсивность сдвига ветра

    Wind shear warning surface wind 320/10 wind at 60m 360/25 in approach – Оповещения о сдвиге ветра – в зоне захода на посадку – приземный ветер 320/10, на высоте 60 м – 360/25

    B-707 reported moderate (strong, severe) wind shear in approach (while takeoff, in climbout) runway 34 at 15.10 – Б707 сообщает об умеренном (сильном, очень сильном) сдвиге ветра при подходе (на взлете, при наборе высоты) к ВПП 34 в 15.10

    Temperature between... and (minus)... degrees Celsius – Температура... (м)... градусов Цельсия

    Zero isotherm is at the altitude of... km – Нулевая изотерма на высоте... км

    At the beginning (end, in the middle, in the first half) of the route – В начале (конце, в середине, в первой половине) маршрута

    It is displacing to the North (South...) Northward (Southward...) – Смещается к северу (югу...), на север (юг...)

    Locally from... to... – Местами от... до...

    At the altitude of... km – На высоте... км

    In the layer from (between)... to (and)... km – В слое... –... км (между)...

    While landing (takeoff) – При посадке (взлете)

    The information depicted on high level (wind, temperature) charts should be grid points data – Информация на высотных картах (ветер, температура) является данными в точках сетки

    Satellite nephanalysis for 12 UTC today shows that... – На основании данных нефанализа за 12 UTC настоящего дня видно, что...

    Actual weather in the point of departure (landing) – Фактическая погода в пункте вылета (посадки)

    Runway visual range is... m – Дальность видимости на ВПП –... м

    Your alternate is... – Ваш запасной...

    Have you any questions? – У вас есть вопросы?

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  • 66 Historical Portugal

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

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    run [rʌn]
    course ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) excursion ⇒ 1 (c) trajet ⇒ 1 (e) vol ⇒ 1 (f) série ⇒ 1 (i), 1 (k) tendance ⇒ 1 (l) ruée ⇒ 1 (m) diriger ⇒ 2 (a) organiser ⇒ 2 (b) (faire) marcher ⇒ 2 (c), 3 (k) courir ⇒ 2 (e), 3 (a), 3 (b) transporter ⇒ 2 (i) conduire ⇒ 2 (k) (faire) passer ⇒ 2 (l), 2 (m), 3 (d) se sauver ⇒ 3 (c) couler ⇒ 3 (h), 3 (i) fondre ⇒ 3 (i) circuler ⇒ 3 (l) durer ⇒ 3 (m) être à l'affiche ⇒ 3 (n) (se) présenter ⇒ 2 (q), 3 (r)
    (pt ran [ræn], pp run, cont running)
    1 noun
    (a) (action) course f;
    ∎ he took a short run and cleared the gate après un court élan il a franchi la barrière;
    ∎ at a run en courant;
    ∎ to go for a run aller faire du jogging;
    ∎ to go for a 5-mile run ≃ courir 8 kilomètres;
    ∎ I took the dog for a run in the park j'ai emmené le chien courir dans le parc;
    ∎ two policemen arrived at a run deux policiers sont arrivés au pas de course;
    ∎ to break into a run se mettre à courir;
    ∎ to make a run for it prendre la fuite, se sauver;
    ∎ the murderer is on the run le meurtrier est en cavale;
    ∎ she was on the run from her creditors/the police elle essayait d'échapper à ses créanciers/à la police;
    ∎ we've got them on the run! nous les avons mis en déroute!;
    ∎ figurative we have the run of the house while the owners are away nous disposons de toute la maison pendant l'absence des propriétaires;
    ∎ we give the au pair the run of the place nous laissons à la jeune fille au pair la libre disposition de la maison;
    ∎ you've had a good run (for your money), it's time to step down tu en as bien profité, maintenant il faut laisser la place à un autre;
    ∎ they gave the Russian team a good run for their money ils ont donné du fil à retordre à l'équipe soviétique;
    ∎ familiar to have the runs (diarrhoea) avoir la courante
    (b) (race) course f;
    ∎ a charity run une course de charité
    (c) (drive) excursion f, promenade f;
    ∎ we went for a run down to the coast nous sommes allés nous promener au bord de la mer;
    ∎ she took me for a run in her new car elle m'a emmené faire un tour dans sa nouvelle voiture;
    ∎ humorous shall I make or do a beer run? je vais chercher de la bière?;
    ∎ I do the school run in the morning c'est moi qui emmène les enfants à l'école tous les matins
    (d) (for smuggling) passage m;
    ∎ the gang used to make runs across the border le gang passait régulièrement la frontière
    (e) (route, itinerary) trajet m, parcours m;
    ∎ the buses on the London to Glasgow run les cars qui font le trajet ou qui assurent le service Londres-Glasgow;
    ∎ he used to do the London (to) Glasgow run (pilot, bus or train driver) il faisait la ligne Londres-Glasgow;
    ∎ it's only a short run into town le trajet jusqu'au centre-ville n'est pas long;
    ∎ there was very little traffic on the run down nous avons rencontré très peu de circulation
    (f) Aviation (flight) vol m, mission f;
    ∎ bombing run mission f de bombardement
    (g) Sport (in cricket, baseball) point m;
    ∎ to make 10 runs marquer 10 points
    (h) (track → for skiing, bobsleighing) piste f
    (i) (series, sequence) série f, succession f, suite f;
    ∎ they've had a run of ten defeats ils ont connu dix défaites consécutives;
    ∎ the recent run of events la récente série d'événements;
    ∎ a run of bad luck une série ou suite de malheurs;
    ∎ you seem to be having a run of good/bad luck on dirait que la chance est/n'est pas de ton côté en ce moment;
    ∎ the play had a triumphant run on Broadway la pièce a connu un succès triomphal à Broadway;
    ∎ the play had a run of nearly two years la pièce a tenu l'affiche (pendant) presque deux ans;
    ∎ to have a long run (of fashion, person in power) tenir longtemps; (of play) tenir longtemps l'affiche;
    ∎ in the long/short run à long/court terme
    (k) (of product) lot m, série f; (of book) tirage m;
    ∎ a run of fewer than 500 would be uneconomical fabriquer une série de moins de 500 unités ne serait pas rentable
    (l) (general tendency, trend) tendance f;
    ∎ to score against the run of play marquer contre le jeu;
    ∎ I was lucky and got the run of the cards j'avais de la chance, les cartes m'étaient favorables;
    ∎ the usual run of colds and upset stomachs les rhumes et les maux de ventre habituels;
    ∎ she's well above the average or ordinary run of students elle est bien au-dessus de la moyenne des étudiants;
    ∎ the ordinary run of mankind le commun des mortels;
    ∎ in the ordinary run of things normalement, en temps normal;
    ∎ out of the common run hors du commun
    (m) (great demand → on product, currency, Stock Exchange) ruée f (on sur);
    ∎ the heatwave caused a run on suntan cream la vague de chaleur provoqua une ruée sur les crèmes solaires;
    ∎ a run on the banks un retrait massif des dépôts bancaires;
    ∎ Stock Exchange there was a run on the dollar il y a eu une ruée sur le dollar
    (n) (operation → of machine) opération f;
    ∎ computer run passage m machine
    (o) (bid → in election) candidature f;
    ∎ his run for the presidency sa candidature à la présidence
    (p) (ladder → in stocking, tights) échelle f, maille f filée;
    ∎ I've got a run in my tights mon collant est filé
    (q) (enclosure → for animals) enclos m;
    ∎ chicken run poulailler m
    (r) (of salmon) remontée f
    (s) Music roulade f
    (a) (manage → company, office) diriger, gérer; (→ shop, restaurant, club) tenir; (→ theatre) diriger; (→ farm) exploiter; (→ newspaper, magazine) rédiger; (→ house) tenir; (→ country) gouverner, diriger;
    ∎ she runs the bar while her parents are away elle tient le bar pendant l'absence de ses parents;
    ∎ a badly run organization une organisation mal gérée;
    ∎ the library is run by volunteer workers la bibliothèque est tenue par des bénévoles;
    ∎ the farm was too big for him to run alone la ferme était trop grande pour qu'il puisse s'en occuper seul;
    ∎ who's running this outfit? qui est le patron ici?;
    ∎ I wish she'd stop trying to run my life! j'aimerais bien qu'elle arrête de me dire comment vivre ma vie!
    (b) (organize, lay on → service, course, contest) organiser; (→ train, bus) mettre en service;
    ∎ to run a bridge tournament/a raffle organiser un tournoi de bridge/une tombola;
    ∎ they run evening classes in computing ils organisent des cours du soir en informatique;
    ∎ they run extra trains in the summer l'été ils mettent (en service) des trains supplémentaires;
    ∎ several private companies run buses to the airport plusieurs sociétés privées assurent un service d'autobus pour l'aéroport
    (c) (operate → piece of equipment) faire marcher, faire fonctionner; Computing (program) exécuter, faire tourner;
    ∎ you can run it off solar energy/the mains vous pouvez le faire fonctionner à l'énergie solaire/sur secteur;
    ∎ this computer runs most software on peut utiliser la plupart des logiciels sur cet ordinateur;
    ∎ Aviation to run the engines (for checking) faire le point fixe;
    ∎ I can't afford to run a car any more je n'ai plus les moyens d'avoir une voiture;
    ∎ she runs a Porsche elle roule en Porsche
    (d) (conduct → experiment, test) effectuer
    (e) (do or cover at a run → race, distance) courir;
    ∎ to run the marathon courir le marathon;
    ∎ I can still run 2 km in under 7 minutes j'arrive encore à courir ou à couvrir 2 km en moins de 7 minutes;
    ∎ the children were running races les enfants faisaient la course;
    ∎ the race will be run in Paris next year la course aura lieu à Paris l'année prochaine;
    ∎ to run messages or errands faire des commissions ou des courses;
    ∎ he'd run a mile if he saw it il prendrait ses jambes à son cou s'il voyait ça;
    ∎ it looks as if his race is run on dirait qu'il a fait son temps
    ∎ to be run off one's feet être débordé;
    ∎ you're running the poor boy off his feet! le pauvre, tu es en train de l'épuiser!;
    ∎ to run oneself to a standstill courir jusqu'à l'épuisement
    (g) (enter for race → horse, greyhound) faire courir
    (h) (hunt, chase) chasser;
    ∎ to run deer chasser le cerf;
    ∎ the outlaws were run out of town les hors-la-loi furent chassés de la ville
    (i) (transport → goods) transporter; (give lift to → person) conduire, emmener;
    ∎ I'll run you to the bus stop je vais te conduire à l'arrêt de bus;
    ∎ to run sb back home reconduire qn chez lui;
    ∎ I've got to run these boxes over to my new house je dois emporter ces boîtes dans ma nouvelle maison
    (j) (smuggle) faire le trafic de;
    ∎ he's suspected of running drugs/guns il est soupçonné de trafic de drogue/d'armes
    (k) (drive → vehicle) conduire;
    ∎ I ran the car into the driveway j'ai mis la voiture dans l'allée;
    ∎ could you run your car back a bit? pourriez-vous reculer un peu votre voiture?;
    ∎ I ran my car into a lamppost je suis rentré dans un réverbère (avec ma voiture);
    ∎ he tried to run me off the road! il a essayé de me faire sortir de la route!
    (l) (pass, quickly or lightly) passer;
    ∎ he ran his hand through his hair il se passa la main dans les cheveux;
    ∎ he ran a comb through his hair il se donna un coup de peigne;
    ∎ I'll run a duster over the furniture je passerai un coup de chiffon sur les meubles;
    ∎ she ran her hands over the controls elle promena ses mains sur les boutons de commande;
    ∎ she ran her finger down the list/her eye over the text elle parcourut la liste du doigt/le texte des yeux
    ∎ it would be better to run the wires under the floorboards ce serait mieux de faire passer les fils sous le plancher;
    ∎ we could run a cable from the house nous pourrions amener un câble de la maison;
    ∎ run the other end of the rope through the loop passez l'autre bout de la corde dans la boucle
    (n) (go through or past → blockade) forcer; (→ rapids) franchir; American (→ red light) brûler
    (o) (cause to flow) faire couler;
    ∎ run the water into the basin faites couler l'eau dans la cuvette;
    ∎ to run a bath faire couler un bain
    (p) (publish) publier;
    ∎ the local paper is running a series of articles on the scandal le journal local publie une série d'articles sur le scandale;
    ∎ to run an ad (in the newspaper) passer ou faire passer une annonce (dans le journal)
    ∎ they're running a candidate in every constituency ils présentent un candidat dans chaque circonscription
    ∎ to run a temperature or fever avoir de la fièvre
    ∎ to run the danger or risk of doing sth courir le risque de faire qch;
    ∎ you run the risk of a heavy fine vous risquez une grosse amende;
    ∎ do you realize the risks you're running? est-ce que vous réalisez les risques que vous prenez?
    (a) (gen) courir;
    ∎ I run every morning in the park je cours tous les matins dans le parc;
    ∎ to come running towards sb accourir vers qn;
    ∎ they ran out of the house ils sont sortis de la maison en courant;
    ∎ to run upstairs/downstairs monter/descendre l'escalier en courant;
    ∎ I had to run for the train j'ai dû courir pour attraper le train;
    ∎ she ran for the police elle a couru chercher la police;
    ∎ run and fetch me a glass of water cours me chercher un verre d'eau;
    ∎ I'll just run across or round or over to the shop je fais un saut à l'épicerie;
    ∎ to run to meet sb courir ou se précipiter à la rencontre de qn;
    ∎ I've been running all over the place looking for you j'ai couru partout à ta recherche;
    ∎ figurative I didn't expect her to go running to the press with the story je ne m'attendais pas à ce qu'elle coure raconter l'histoire à la presse;
    ∎ don't come running to me with your problems ne viens pas m'embêter avec tes problèmes
    (b) (compete in race) courir; (score in cricket, baseball) marquer;
    ∎ to run in a race (horse, person) participer à une course;
    ∎ there are twenty horses running in the race vingt chevaux participent à la course;
    ∎ she ran for her country in the Olympics elle a couru pour son pays aux jeux Olympiques
    (c) (flee) se sauver, fuir;
    ∎ run for your lives! sauve qui peut!;
    ∎ familiar if the night watchman sees you, run for it! si le veilleur de nuit te voit, tire-toi ou file!;
    ∎ figurative you can't just keep running from your past vous ne pouvez pas continuer à fuir votre passé
    (d) (pass → road, railway, boundary) passer;
    ∎ a tunnel runs under the mountain un tunnel passe sous la montagne;
    ∎ the railway line runs through a valley/over a viaduct le chemin de fer passe dans une vallée/sur un viaduc;
    ∎ the pipes run under the road les tuyaux passent sous la route;
    ∎ the road runs alongside the river/parallel to the coast la route longe la rivière/la côte;
    ∎ hedgerows run between the fields des haies séparent les champs;
    ∎ the road runs due north la route va droit vers le nord;
    ∎ to run north and south être orienté nord-sud;
    ∎ a canal running from London to Birmingham un canal qui va de Londres à Birmingham;
    ∎ a high fence runs around the building une grande barrière fait le tour du bâtiment;
    ∎ the lizard has red markings running down its back le dos du lézard est zébré de rouge;
    ∎ the line of print ran off the page la ligne a débordé de la feuille;
    ∎ figurative our lives seem to be running in different directions il semble que nos vies prennent des chemins différents
    (e) (move, go → ball, vehicle) rouler; (slip, slide → rope, cable) filer;
    ∎ the pram ran down the hill out of control le landau a dévalé la côte;
    ∎ the tram runs on special tracks le tramway roule sur des rails spéciaux;
    ∎ the crane runs on rails la grue se déplace sur des rails;
    ∎ the piano runs on casters le piano est monté sur (des) roulettes;
    ∎ the truck ran off the road le camion a quitté la route;
    ∎ let the cord run through your hands laissez la corde filer entre vos mains;
    ∎ his fingers ran over the controls ses doigts se promenèrent sur les boutons de commande;
    ∎ her eyes ran down the list elle parcourut la liste des yeux;
    ∎ a shiver ran down my spine un frisson me parcourut le dos;
    ∎ his thoughts ran to that hot August day in Paris cette chaude journée d'août à Paris lui revint à l'esprit
    (f) (words, text)
    ∎ how does that last verse run? c'est quoi la dernière strophe?;
    ∎ their argument or reasoning runs something like this voici plus ou moins leur raisonnement;
    ∎ the conversation ran something like this voilà en gros ce qui s'est dit
    (g) (spread → rumour, news) se répandre
    (h) (flow → river, water, tap, nose) couler;
    ∎ let the water run until it's hot laisse couler l'eau jusqu'à ce qu'elle soit chaude;
    ∎ the water's run cold l'eau est froide au robinet;
    ∎ you've let the water run cold tu as laissé couler l'eau trop longtemps, elle est devenue froide;
    ∎ your bath is running ton bain est en train de couler;
    ∎ your nose is running tu as le nez qui coule;
    ∎ the cold made our eyes run le froid nous piquait les yeux;
    ∎ the hot water runs along/down this pipe l'eau chaude passe/descend dans ce tuyau;
    ∎ their faces were running with sweat leurs visages ruisselaient de transpiration;
    ∎ tears ran down her face des larmes coulaient sur son visage;
    ∎ the streets were running with blood le sang coulait dans les rues;
    ∎ the river ran red with blood les eaux de la rivière étaient rouges de sang;
    ∎ the Jari runs into the Amazon le Jari se jette dans l'Amazone
    (i) (butter, ice cream, wax) fondre; (cheese) couler; (paint) goutter;
    ∎ her mascara had run son mascara avait coulé
    (j) (in wash → colour, fabric) déteindre;
    ∎ wash that dress separately, the colour might run lave cette robe à part, elle pourrait déteindre
    (k) (operate → engine, machine, business) marcher, fonctionner;
    ∎ to run on or off electricity/gas/diesel fonctionner à l'électricité/au gaz/au diesel;
    ∎ this machine runs off the mains cet appareil se branche sur (le) secteur;
    ∎ the tape recorder was still running le magnétophone était encore en marche;
    ∎ leave the engine running laissez tourner le moteur;
    ∎ the engine is running smoothly le moteur tourne rond;
    ∎ the new assembly line is up and running la nouvelle chaîne de montage est en service;
    ∎ Computing do not interrupt the program while it is running ne pas interrompre le programme en cours d'exécution;
    ∎ Computing this software runs on DOS ce logiciel tourne sous DOS;
    ∎ Computing running at… cadencé à…;
    ∎ figurative everything is running smoothly tout marche très bien
    ∎ this train doesn't run/only runs on Sundays ce train ne circule pas/ne circule que le dimanche;
    ∎ some bus lines run all night certaines lignes d'autobus sont en service toute la nuit;
    ∎ the buses stop running at midnight après minuit il n'y a plus de bus;
    ∎ trains running between London and Manchester trains qui circulent entre Londres et Manchester;
    ∎ trains running to Calais are cancelled les trains à destination de Calais sont annulés;
    ∎ he took the tube that runs through Clapham il prit la ligne de métro qui passe par Clapham
    (m) (last) durer; (be valid → contract) être ou rester valide; (→ agreement) être ou rester en vigueur; Finance (→ interest) courir;
    ∎ the sales run from the beginning to the end of January les soldes durent du début à la fin janvier;
    ∎ the sales have only another two days to run il ne reste que deux jours de soldes;
    ∎ the meeting ran for an hour longer than expected la réunion a duré une heure de plus que prévu;
    ∎ I'd like the ad to run for a week je voudrais que l'annonce passe pendant une semaine;
    ∎ the lease has another year to run le bail n'expire pas avant un an;
    ∎ your subscription will run for two years votre abonnement sera valable deux ans;
    ∎ interest runs from 1 January les intérêts courent à partir du 1er janvier
    (n) Cinema & Theatre (be performed → play, film) être à l'affiche;
    ∎ the play has been running for a year la pièce est à l'affiche depuis un an;
    ∎ the film is currently running in Hull le film est actuellement sur les écrans à Hull;
    ∎ his new musical should run and run! sa nouvelle comédie musicale devrait tenir l'affiche pendant des mois!;
    ∎ Television this soap opera has been running for twenty years ça fait vingt ans que ce feuilleton est diffusé;
    ∎ America's longest-running TV series la plus longue série télévisée américaine
    (o) (occur → inherited trait, illness)
    ∎ twins run in our family les jumeaux sont courants dans la famille;
    ∎ heart disease runs in the family les maladies cardiaques sont fréquentes dans notre famille
    (p) (range) aller;
    ∎ the colours run from dark blue to bright green les couleurs vont du bleu foncé au vert vif
    ∎ to run high (sea) être grosse ou houleuse;
    ∎ feelings or tempers were running high les esprits étaient échauffés;
    ∎ their ammunition was running low ils commençaient à manquer de munitions;
    ∎ our stores are running low nos provisions s'épuisent ou tirent à leur fin;
    ∎ he's running scared il a la frousse;
    ∎ to be running late être en retard, avoir du retard;
    ∎ programmes are running ten minutes late les émissions ont toutes dix minutes de retard;
    ∎ sorry I can't stop, I'm running a bit late désolé, je ne peux pas rester, je suis un peu en retard;
    ∎ events are running in our favour les événements tournent en notre faveur;
    ∎ inflation was running at 18 percent le taux d'inflation était de 18 pour cent
    (r) (be candidate, stand) se présenter;
    ∎ to run for president or the presidency se présenter aux élections présidentielles, être candidat aux élections présidentielles ou à la présidence;
    ∎ to run for office se porter candidat;
    ∎ she's running on a law-and-order ticket elle se présente aux élections avec un programme basé sur la lutte contre l'insécurité;
    ∎ he ran against Reagan in 1984 il s'est présenté contre Reagan en 1984
    (s) (drive) faire un tour ou une promenade;
    ∎ why don't we run down to the coast/up to London? si on faisait un tour jusqu'à la mer/jusqu'à Londres?
    ∎ to run (before the wind) filer vent arrière;
    ∎ to run aground échouer; figurative (project, plan) capoter
    (u) (ladder → stocking, tights) filer
    (v) (salmon) remonter les rivières
    (w) (tide) monter
    British courir (çà et là);
    ∎ I've been running about all day looking for you! j'ai passé ma journée à te chercher partout!
    (meet → acquaintance) rencontrer par hasard, tomber sur; (find → book, reference) trouver par hasard, tomber sur
    traverser en courant
    also figurative courir après;
    ∎ it's not like her to run after a man ce n'est pas son genre de courir après un homme;
    ∎ she spends half her life running after her kids elle passe son temps à être derrière les enfants;
    ∎ he's got all these assistants running after him the whole time il a tout un tas d'assistants qui passent sans arrêt derrière ce qu'il fait
    (go away) s'en aller, partir;
    ∎ it's getting late, I must be running along il se fait tard, il faut que j'y aille;
    ∎ run along to bed now, children! allez les enfants, au lit maintenant!
    (a) (from place to place) courir (çà et là)□ ;
    ∎ I've been running around all day looking for you! j'ai passé ma journée à te chercher partout!□
    (b) (be unfaithful → husband) courir après les femmes; (→ wife) courir après les hommes;
    ∎ he was sure his wife was running around il était sûr que sa femme le trompait□
    familiar (be friendly with) fréquenter□ ; (have affair with) sortir avec□ ;
    ∎ he's always running around with other women il est toujours en train de courir après d'autres femmes
    (a) (flee) se sauver, s'enfuir;
    ∎ their son has run away from home leur fils a fait une fugue;
    ∎ I'll be with you in a minute, don't run away je serai à toi dans un instant, ne te sauve pas;
    ∎ run away and play now, children allez jouer ailleurs, les enfants;
    ∎ figurative to run away from one's responsibilities fuir ses responsabilités;
    ∎ to run away from the facts se refuser à l'évidence
    (b) (elope) partir
    ∎ he ran away with his best friend's wife il est parti avec la femme de son meilleur ami;
    ∎ he ran away with the takings il est parti avec la caisse
    ∎ she tends to let her imagination run away with her elle a tendance à se laisser emporter par son imagination
    (c) (get → idea)
    ∎ don't go running away with the idea or the notion that it will be easy n'allez pas vous imaginer que ce sera facile
    (d) (win → race, match) emporter haut la main; (→ prize) remporter;
    ∎ they ran away with nearly all the medals ils ont remporté presque toutes les médailles
    (a) (drive back) raccompagner (en voiture);
    ∎ she ran me back home elle m'a ramené ou raccompagné chez moi en voiture;
    ∎ he ran me back on his motorbike il m'a raccompagné en moto
    (b) (rewind → tape, film) rembobiner
    (a) (return) retourner ou revenir en courant;
    ∎ familiar to come running back (errant husband etc) revenir□
    ∎ to run back over sth passer qch en revue
    ∎ to run sth by sb (submit) soumettre qch à qn;
    ∎ you'd better run that by the committee vous feriez mieux de demander l'avis du comité;
    ∎ run that by me again répétez-moi ça
    (a) (reduce, diminish → gen) réduire; (→ number of employees) diminuer; (→ stocks) laisser s'épuiser; (→ industry, factory) fermer progressivement;
    ∎ they are running down their military presence in Africa ils réduisent leur présence militaire en Afrique;
    ∎ the government was accused of running down the steel industry le gouvernement a été accusé de laisser dépérir la sidérurgie;
    ∎ you've run the battery down vous avez déchargé la pile; (of car) vous avez vidé ou déchargé la batterie, vous avez mis la batterie à plat
    (b) familiar (criticize, denigrate) rabaisser□ ;
    ∎ they're always running her friends down ils passent leur temps à dire du mal de ou à dénigrer ses amis□ ;
    ∎ stop running yourself down all the time cesse de te rabaisser constamment
    (c) (in car → pedestrian, animal) renverser, écraser;
    ∎ he was run down by a bus il s'est fait renverser par un bus
    (d) (track down → animal, criminal) (traquer et) capturer; (→ person, object) dénicher;
    ∎ I finally ran down the reference in the library j'ai fini par dénicher la référence à la bibliothèque
    (a) (person) descendre en courant
    (b) (clock, machine) s'arrêter; (battery → through use) s'user; (→ through a fault) se décharger;
    ∎ the batteries in the radio are beginning to run down les piles de la radio commencent à être usées
    ➲ run in
    (a) British (car, engine) roder
    (a) (person) entrer en courant
    (b) British (car, engine)
    ∎ running in en rodage
    (a) (encounter → problem, difficulty) rencontrer
    (b) (meet → acquaintance) rencontrer (par hasard), tomber sur;
    ∎ to run into debt faire des dettes, s'endetter
    (c) (collide with → of car, driver) percuter, rentrer dans;
    ∎ I ran into a lamppost je suis rentrée dans un réverbère;
    ∎ you should be more careful, you nearly ran into me! tu devrais faire attention, tu as failli me rentrer dedans!
    (d) (amount to) s'élever à;
    ∎ debts running into millions of dollars des dettes qui s'élèvent à des millions de dollars;
    ∎ takings run into five figures la recette atteint les cinq chiffres
    (e) (merge into) se fondre dans, se confondre avec;
    ∎ the red runs into orange le rouge devient orange;
    ∎ the words began to run into each other before my eyes les mots commençaient à se confondre devant mes yeux
    ➲ run off
    (a) (print) tirer, imprimer; (photocopy) photocopier;
    ∎ run me off five copies of this report faites-moi cinq copies de ce rapport
    (c) Sport (race) disputer;
    ∎ the heats will be run off tomorrow les éliminatoires se disputeront demain
    (d) (lose → excess weight, fat) perdre en courant
    (e) (liquid) laisser s'écouler
    (a) (flee) se sauver, s'enfuir;
    ∎ I'll be with you in a minute, don't run off je serai à toi dans un instant, ne te sauve pas
    (b) (liquid) s'écouler
    ➲ run on
    (lines of writing) ne pas découper en paragraphes; (letters, words) ne pas séparer, lier
    (a) (continue) continuer, durer; (drag on) s'éterniser;
    ∎ the play ran on for hours la pièce a duré des heures;
    ∎ the discussion ran on for an extra hour la discussion a duré une heure de plus que prévu
    (b) familiar (talk non-stop) parler sans cesse□ ;
    ∎ he does run on rather quand il est parti celui-là, il ne s'arrête plus;
    ∎ he can run on for hours if you let him si tu le laisses faire il peut tenir le crachoir pendant des heures
    (c) (line of text) suivre sans alinéa; (verse) enjamber
    ➲ run out
    (a) (cable, rope) laisser filer
    ∎ to run a batsman out mettre un batteur hors jeu
    (a) (person, animal) sortir en courant; (liquid) s'écouler
    (b) (be used up → supplies, money etc) s'épuiser, (venir à) manquer; (→ time) filer;
    ∎ hurry up, time is running out! dépêchez-vous, il ne reste plus beaucoup de temps!;
    ∎ their luck finally ran out la chance a fini par tourner, leur chance n'a pas duré
    (c) (expire → contract, passport, agreement) expirer, venir à expiration
    manquer de;
    ∎ we're running out of ammunition nous commençons à manquer de munitions;
    ∎ we're running out of sugar nous allons nous trouver à court de sucre;
    ∎ he's run out of money il n'a plus d'argent;
    ∎ to run out of patience être à bout de patience;
    ∎ to run out of petrol tomber en panne d'essence
    (spouse, colleague) laisser tomber, abandonner;
    ∎ she ran out on her husband elle a quitté son mari;
    ∎ his assistants all ran out on him ses assistants l'ont tous abandonné ou laissé tomber
    (pedestrian, animal) écraser;
    ∎ I nearly got run over j'ai failli me faire écraser;
    ∎ he's been run over il s'est fait écraser;
    ∎ the car ran over his legs la voiture lui est passé sur les jambes
    (a) (review) revoir; (rehearse) répéter; (recap) récapituler;
    ∎ let's run over the arguments one more time before the meeting reprenons les arguments une dernière fois avant la réunion;
    ∎ could you run over the main points for us? pourriez-vous nous récapituler les principaux points?
    ∎ to run over the allotted time excéder le temps imparti
    (a) (overflow) déborder;
    ∎ literary my cup runneth over je nage dans le bonheur;
    ∎ to run over with energy/enthusiasm déborder d'énergie/d'enthousiasme
    (b) (run late) dépasser l'heure; Radio & Television dépasser le temps d'antenne, déborder sur le temps d'antenne;
    ∎ the programme ran over by twenty minutes l'émission a dépassé son temps d'antenne de vingt minutes
    passer en courant
    (a) (cross → of person) traverser en courant;
    ∎ figurative money runs through his fingers like water l'argent lui brûle les doigts
    (b) (pervade → of thought, feeling)
    ∎ a strange idea ran through my mind une idée étrange m'a traversé l'esprit;
    ∎ a thrill of excitement ran through her un frisson d'émotion la parcourut;
    ∎ an angry murmur ran through the crowd des murmures de colère parcoururent la foule;
    ∎ his words kept running through my head ses paroles ne cessaient de retentir dans ma tête;
    ∎ an air of melancholy runs through the whole film une atmosphère de mélancolie imprègne tout le film
    (c) (review) revoir; (rehearse) répéter; (recap) récapituler;
    ∎ she ran through the arguments in her mind elle repassa les arguments dans sa tête;
    ∎ let's just run through the procedure one more time reprenons une dernière fois la marche à suivre;
    ∎ I'll run through your speech with you je vous ferai répéter votre discours
    (d) (read quickly) parcourir (des yeux), jeter un coup d'œil sur
    (e) (use up → money) dépenser; (→ case of wine, coffee) consommer; (squander → fortune) gaspiller;
    ∎ he runs through a dozen shirts a week il lui faut une douzaine de chemises par semaine
    ∎ to run sb through (with a sword) transpercer qn (d'un coup d'épée)
    (a) (amount to) se chiffrer à;
    ∎ her essay ran to twenty pages sa dissertation faisait vingt pages
    (b) British (afford, be enough for)
    ∎ your salary should run to a new computer ton salaire devrait te permettre d'acheter un nouvel ordinateur;
    ∎ the budget won't run to champagne le budget ne nous permet pas d'acheter du champagne
    ➲ run up
    (a) (debt, bill) laisser s'accumuler;
    ∎ I've run up a huge overdraft j'ai un découvert énorme
    (b) (flag) hisser
    (c) (sew quickly) coudre rapidement ou à la hâte
    (climb rapidly) monter en courant; (approach) approcher en courant;
    ∎ a young man ran up to me un jeune homme s'approcha de moi en courant
    (encounter) se heurter à;
    ∎ we've run up against some problems nous nous sommes heurtés à quelques problèmes

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  • 68 Ayrton, William Edward

    [br]
    b. 14 September 1847 London, England
    d. 8 November 1908 London, England
    [br]
    English physicist, inventor and pioneer in technical education.
    [br]
    After graduating from University College, London, Ayrton became for a short time a pupil of Sir William Thomson in Glasgow. For five years he was employed in the Indian Telegraph Service, eventually as Superintendent, where he assisted in revolutionizing the system, devising methods of fault detection and elimination. In 1873 he was invited by the Japanese Government to assist as Professor of Physics and Telegraphy in founding the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo. There he created a teaching laboratory that served as a model for those he was later to organize in England and which were copied elsewhere. It was in Tokyo that his joint researches with Professor John Perry began, an association that continued after their return to England. In 1879 he became Professor of Technical Physics at the City and Guilds Institute in Finsbury, London, and later was appointed Professor of Physics at the Central Institution in South Kensington.
    The inventions of Avrton and Perrv included an electric tricycle in 1882, the first practicable portable ammeter and other electrical measuring instruments. By 1890, when the research partnership ended, they had published nearly seventy papers in their joint names, the emphasis being on a mathematical treatment of subjects including electric motor design, construction of electrical measuring instruments, thermodynamics and the economical use of electric conductors. Ayrton was then employed as a consulting engineer by government departments and acted as an expert witness in many important patent cases.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1881. President, Physical Society 1890–2. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1892. Royal Society Royal Medal 1901.
    Bibliography
    28 April 1883, British patent no. 2,156 (Ayrton and Perry's ammeter and voltmeter). 1887, Practical Electricity, London (based on his early laboratory courses; 7 edns followed during his lifetime).
    1892, "Electrotechnics", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 21, 5–36 (for a survey of technical education).
    Further Reading
    D.W.Jordan, 1985, "The cry for useless knowledge: education for a new Victorian technology", Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 132 (Part A): 587– 601.
    G.Gooday, 1991, History of Technology, 13: 73–111 (for an account of Ayrton and the teaching laboratory).
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  • 69 Hopkinson, John

    [br]
    b. 27 July 1849 Manchester, England
    d. 27 August 1898 Petite Dent de Veisivi, Switzerland
    [br]
    English mathematician and electrical engineer who laid the foundations of electrical machine design.
    [br]
    After attending Owens College, Manchester, Hopkinson was admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1867 to read for the Mathematical Tripos. An appointment in 1872 with the lighthouse department of the Chance Optical Works in Birmingham directed his attention to electrical engineering. His most noteworthy contribution to lighthouse engineering was an optical system to produce flashing lights that distinguished between individual beacons. His extensive researches on the dielectric properties of glass were recognized when he was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society at the age of 29. Moving to London in 1877 he became established as a consulting engineer at a time when electricity supply was about to begin on a commercial scale. During the remainder of his life, Hopkinson's researches resulted in fundamental contributions to electrical engineering practice, dynamo design and alternating current machine theory. In making a critical study of the Edison dynamo he developed the principle of the magnetic circuit, a concept also arrived at by Gisbert Kapp around the same time. Hopkinson's improvement of the Edison dynamo by reducing the length of the field magnets almost doubled its output. In 1890, in addition to-his consulting practice, Hopkinson accepted a post as the first Professor of Electrical Engineering and Head of the Siemens laboratory recently established at King's College, London. Although he was not involved in lecturing, the position gave him the necessary facilities and staff and student assistance to continue his researches. Hopkinson was consulted on many proposals for electric traction and electricity supply, including schemes in London, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. He also advised Mather and Platt when they were acting as contractors for the locomotives and generating plant for the City and South London tube railway. As early as 1882 he considered that an ideal method of charging for the supply of electricity should be based on a two-part tariff, with a charge related to maximum demand together with a charge for energy supplied. Hopkinson was one the foremost expert witnesses of his day in patent actions and was himself the patentee of over forty inventions, of which the three-wire system of distribution and the series-parallel connection of traction motors were his most successful. Jointly with his brother Edward, John Hopkinson communicated the outcome of his investigations to the Royal Society in a paper entitled "Dynamo Electric Machinery" in 1886. In this he also described the later widely used "back to back" test for determining the characteristics of two identical machines. His interest in electrical machines led him to more fundamental research on magnetic materials, including the phenomenon of recalescence and the disappearance of magnetism at a well-defined temperature. For his work on the magnetic properties of iron, in 1890 he was awarded the Royal Society Royal Medal. He was a member of the Alpine Club and a pioneer of rock climbing in Britain; he died, together with three of his children, in a climbing accident.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1878. Royal Society Royal Medal 1890. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1890 and 1896.
    Bibliography
    7 July 1881, British patent no. 2,989 (series-parallel control of traction motors). 27 July 1882, British patent no. 3,576 (three-wire distribution).
    1901, Original Papers by the Late J.Hopkinson, with a Memoir, ed. B.Hopkinson, 2 vols, Cambridge.
    Further Reading
    J.Greig, 1970, John Hopkinson Electrical Engineer, London: Science Museum and HMSO (an authoritative account).
    —1950, "John Hopkinson 1849–1898", Engineering 169:34–7, 62–4.
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  • 70 Preece, Sir William Henry

    [br]
    b. 15 February 1834 Bryn Helen, Gwynedd, Wales
    d. 6 November 1913 Penrhos, Gwynedd, Wales
    [br]
    Welsh electrical engineer who greatly furthered the development and use of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Britain, dominating British Post Office engineering during the last two decades of the nineteenth century.
    [br]
    After education at King's College, London, in 1852 Preece entered the office of Edwin Clark with the intention of becoming a civil engineer, but graduate studies at the Royal Institution under Faraday fired his enthusiasm for things electrical. His earliest work, as connected with telegraphy and in particular its application for securing the safe working of railways; in 1853 he obtained an appointment with the Electric and National Telegraph Company. In 1856 he became Superintendent of that company's southern district, but four years later he moved to telegraph work with the London and South West Railway. From 1858 to 1862 he was also Engineer to the Channel Islands Telegraph Company. When the various telegraph companies in Britain were transferred to the State in 1870, Preece became a Divisional Engineer in the General Post Office (GPO). Promotion followed in 1877, when he was appointed Chief Electrician to the Post Office. One of the first specimens of Bell's telephone was brought to England by Preece and exhibited at the British Association meeting in 1877. From 1892 to 1899 he served as Engineer-in-Chief to the Post Office. During this time he made a number of important contributions to telegraphy, including the use of water as part of telegraph circuits across the Solent (1882) and the Bristol Channel (1888). He also discovered the existence of inductive effects between parallel wires, and with Fleming showed that a current (thermionic) flowed between the hot filament and a cold conductor in an incandescent lamp.
    Preece was distinguished by his administrative ability, some scientific insight, considerable engineering intuition and immense energy. He held erroneous views about telephone transmission and, not accepting the work of Oliver Heaviside, made many errors when planning trunk circuits. Prior to the successful use of Hertzian waves for wireless communication Preece carried out experiments, often on a large scale, in attempts at wireless communication by inductive methods. These became of historic interest only when the work of Maxwell and Hertz was developed by Guglielmo Marconi. It is to Preece that credit should be given for encouraging Marconi in 1896 and collaborating with him in his early experimental work on radio telegraphy.
    While still employed by the Post Office, Preece contributed to the development of numerous early public electricity schemes, acting as Consultant and often supervising their construction. At Worcester he was responsible for Britain's largest nineteenth-century public hydro-electric station. He received a knighthood on his retirement in 1899, after which he continued his consulting practice in association with his two sons and Major Philip Cardew. Preece contributed some 136 papers and printed lectures to scientific journals, ninety-nine during the period 1877 to 1894.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    CB 1894. Knighted (KCB) 1899. FRS 1881. President, Society of Telegraph Engineers, 1880. President, Institution of Electrical Engineers 1880, 1893. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1898–9. Chairman, Royal Society of Arts 1901–2.
    Bibliography
    Preece produced numerous papers on telegraphy and telephony that were presented as Royal Institution Lectures (see Royal Institution Library of Science, 1974) or as British Association reports.
    1862–3, "Railway telegraphs and the application of electricity to the signaling and working of trains", Proceedings of the ICE 22:167–93.
    Eleven editions of Telegraphy (with J.Sivewright), London, 1870, were published by 1895.
    1883, "Molecular radiation in incandescent lamps", Proceedings of the Physical Society 5: 283.
    1885. "Molecular shadows in incandescent lamps". Proceedings of the Physical Society 7: 178.
    1886. "Electric induction between wires and wires", British Association Report. 1889, with J.Maier, The Telephone.
    1894, "Electric signalling without wires", RSA Journal.
    Further Reading
    J.J.Fahie, 1899, History of Wireless Telegraphy 1838–1899, Edinburgh: Blackwood. E.Hawkes, 1927, Pioneers of Wireless, London: Methuen.
    E.C.Baker, 1976, Sir William Preece, F.R.S. Victorian Engineer Extraordinary, London (a detailed biography with an appended list of his patents, principal lectures and publications).
    D.G.Tucker, 1981–2, "Sir William Preece (1834–1913)", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 53:119–36 (a critical review with a summary of his consultancies).
    GW / KF

    Biographical history of technology > Preece, Sir William Henry

  • 71 due

    dju:
    1. сущ.
    1) должное;
    то, что причитается When I come to demand my dues I shall find it a hard matter to get them. ≈ Когда я пришел требовать то, что мне причитается, я обнаружил, что не так-то просто это получить. to give ( a man) his due ≈ отдавать( человеку) должное, оценивать( человека) по заслугам to give the devil his due ≈ объективно оценивать, отдавать должное (даже плохому человеку, врагу и т. п.) Syn: recognition
    2) а) мн. сборы, налоги, пошлины (плата, обусловленная законодательством) to pay due ≈ платить налоги annual due ≈ ежегодный налог custom dues Syn: toll II б) мн. взносы( вносимые членами клубов, учениками колледжей и т. п.) membership due ≈ членский взнос Syn: fee в) амер.;
    сл.;
    перен. обязательства, обязанность to pay one's dues ≈ выполнить свой долг, хорошо потрудиться We've paid considerable amounts of dues in trying to get this thing off the ground. ≈ Мы сделали все, что могли, чтобы вытащить эту штуковину из земли. Syn: responsibility, obligation ∙ for a full due ≈ основательно, прочно
    2. прил.
    1) должный, надлежащий, соответствующий with due attention ≈ с должным вниманием after due consideration ≈ после внимательного рассмотрения It will produce its due effects. ≈ Это произведет надлежащий эффект. In due course of time they got into the hot air of London. ≈ В должный час они вступили в жаркий Лондон. Syn: appropriate
    1., adequate, fitting
    2) предик. должный, обязанный;
    ожидаемый The train is due in London at 5 a.m. ≈ Поезд должен прибыть в Лондон в 5 утра по расписанию. I must go, I am due at Mr. B.'s at seven o'clock. ≈ Я должен идти, так как я обязан в 7 часов быть у мистера Б.
    3) подлежащий выплате Those sums remained due. ≈ Эти суммы остаются подлежащими выплате.
    4) обязанный (чему-л. - to) an accident due to negligence ≈ авария, произошедшая из-за невнимательности Syn: attributable, ascribable
    3. нареч.
    1) точно, прямо due north ≈ точно на север Syn: directly, exactly, right, straight
    2) уст. должным образом Syn: duly должное;
    то, что причитается - to give smb. his * воздавать кому-л. по заслугам;
    отдавать кому-л. должное - to give the devil his * отдавать должное противнику - to get one's * получить по заслугам - that is his * это положено ему по праву, это его право pl сборы, налоги, пошлины - harbour /port/ *s портовые сборы - *s and fees (экономика) сборы (в отличие от налогов) взносы (партийные или профсоюзные) - to pay one's *s заплатить взносы - *s shop цех или предприятие, где работают члены профсоюза > for a full * на века, прочно, на совесть должный, соответствующий, надлежащий - * process of law законный порядок - in * course своим чередом, в свое /в надлежащее/ время - in * time в свое время - in * form по всем правилам, по форме, в должной форме - with * regard с должным вниманием - with * respect со всем уважением - after /upon/ * consideration после внимательного рассмотрения - within * limits в разумных пределах - to give smb. * warning официально предупредить кого-л. - to take * measures принять надлежащие меры - he was received with * ceremony он был принят по всей форме /с полным соблюдением протокола/ обыкн. predic должный, обязанный - he is * at his office on Monday он должен явиться в контору в понедельник - he is * to speak он должен выступить - it is * to you to explain things мы ждем от вас объяснений ожидаемый - the mail is * tomorrow почта придет завтра - the train is * at 8 o'clock поезд прибывает в 8 вечера - he was * to start tomorrow он должен был выезжать /выехать/ завтра - I'm * for a rise меня ждет повышение;
    пришло время повысить мне зарплату подлежащий выплате - * date срок выплаты долга - * bill счет к оплате - the bill falls * вексель подлежит опалет заслуженный, полагающийся, причитающийся - * penalty заслуженное наказание - the reward * to his services вознаграждение, причитающееся за его услуги - the first place is * to John первого места заслуживает Джон, первое место должно быть присуждено Джону точно, прямо - to go * east идти прямо на восток( устаревшее) надлежащим образом ~ должный, надлежащий, соответствующий;
    with due attention с должным вниманием;
    after due consideration после внимательного рассмотрения amount ~ причитающаяся сумма amount ~ сумма долга balance ~ дебетовое сальдо be ~ to быть должным ~ pl сборы, налоги, пошлины;
    custom dues таможенные пошлины dock ~ суд. доковый сбор dock ~ суд. причальный сбор dock ~ суд. сбор за докование судна dock ~ суд. сбор за пользование причалом due взнос ~ должное;
    то, что причитается;
    to give (smb.) his due воздавать (кому-л.) по заслугам;
    отдавать должное ~ a predic. должный, обязанный (по соглашению, по договору) ;
    he is due to speak at the meeting он должен выступить на собрании ~ должный, надлежащий, соответствующий;
    with due attention с должным вниманием;
    after due consideration после внимательного рассмотрения ~ должный ~ заслуженный ~ истекающий( о сроке) ~ надлежащий ~ назначенный в качестве срока платежа ~ налог ~ наступивший ~ обусловленный;
    his death was due to nephritis смерть его была вызвана нефритом ~ обязанный ~ a predic. ожидаемый;
    the train is due and over-due поезд давным-давно должен был прийти ~ ожидаемый ~ эк. подлежащий выплате ~ полагающийся ~ пошлина ~ причитающийся;
    his wages are due заработная плата ему еще не выплачена ~ причитающийся ~ сбор ~ pl сборы, налоги, пошлины;
    custom dues таможенные пошлины ~ соответствующий ~ срочный ~ точно, прямо (о стрелке компаса) ;
    they went due south они держали курс прямо на юг ~ pl членские взносы;
    party dues партийные взносы;
    for a full due основательно, прочно ~ date for interest срок выплаты процентов ~ process of law надлежащая законная процедура ~ to благодаря ~ to seasonal factors вследствие воздействия сезонных факторов energy ~ налог на энергоресурсы expenses ~ and unpaid задолженность по расходам fall ~ наступать( о сроке платежа) fall: to ~ astern мор. отстать;
    to fall due подлежать уплате( о векселе) ~ pl членские взносы;
    party dues партийные взносы;
    for a full due основательно, прочно ~ должное;
    то, что причитается;
    to give (smb.) his due воздавать (кому-л.) по заслугам;
    отдавать должное ~ a predic. должный, обязанный (по соглашению, по договору) ;
    he is due to speak at the meeting он должен выступить на собрании ~ обусловленный;
    his death was due to nephritis смерть его была вызвана нефритом ~ причитающийся;
    his wages are due заработная плата ему еще не выплачена in ~ form в должной форме in ~ form по всем правилам in ~ form по форме form: ~ порядок;
    общепринятая форма;
    in due form в должной форме, по всем правилам in ~ time в надлежащее время in ~ time в свое время instalment ~ причитающийся очередной взнос interest ~ причитающиеся проценты mortgage ~ ипотечный сбор ~ pl членские взносы;
    party dues партийные взносы;
    for a full due основательно, прочно premium ~ подлежащий уплате страховой взнос road ~ дорожный сбор tax ~ причитающийся налог ~ точно, прямо (о стрелке компаса) ;
    they went due south они держали курс прямо на юг ~ a predic. ожидаемый;
    the train is due and over-due поезд давным-давно должен был прийти VAT ~ подлежащий удержанию налог на добавленную стоимость ~ должный, надлежащий, соответствующий;
    with due attention с должным вниманием;
    after due consideration после внимательного рассмотрения

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > due

  • 72 to

    1. [tu:] adv
    1. приведение в нужное состояние или положение, передаётся глагольными приставками при-, за-

    we turned to gladly /with a will/ - мы с воодушевлением взялись за работу

    to bring smb. to with smelling salts - привести кого-л. в сознание нюхательной солью

    a ship moored head to - корабль, пришвартованный против ветра

    ♢ to and fro см. to and fro

    to and again уст. = to and fro

    to and back = to and fro

    we were close to when it happened - мы были рядом, когда это случилось

    keep her to! - мор. держи к ветру ( команда)

    2. [tu:,tʋ,tə] prep
    1) направление к, в, на

    a flight to the Moon - полёт на Луну /в сторону Луны/

    head to the sea [to the wind] - мор. против волны [ветра]

    on one's way to the station - по дороге к станции /на станцию/

    to go to town - ехать /отправляться/ в город

    to go to the sea - ехать к морю, поехать на море

    where will she go to? - куда она пойдёт?

    to turn to the left [to the right] - повернуть налево [направо]

    to point to smth. - указывать на что-л.

    to see smb. to the station [to the corner] - проводить кого-л. на вокзал [до угла]

    he wears his best clothes to church - он ходит в церковь в парадном костюме

    2) движение до соприкосновения с чем-л. на, за, к

    is it far to Moscow? - далеко ли до Москвы?

    4) положение по отношению к чему-л. к, на; вместе с сущ. тж. передаётся наречиями

    to lie to the south [to the north] of - лежать /быть расположенным/ к югу [к северу] от

    the window looks to the north [to the south] - окно выходит на север [на юг]

    placed at the right angle to the wall - поставленный под прямым углом к стене

    a line tangent to a circle - мат. касательная к окружности

    he has been to Volgograd twice this year - в этом году он дважды был в Волгограде

    have you been to bed? - вы спали?

    6) амер. разг., диал. пребывание в каком-л. месте в
    7) посещение какого-л. учреждения в

    to go to the theatre - ходить /идти/ в театр

    1) лицо, реже предмет, к которому направлено действие к, перед; часто передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    greetings to smb. - приветствие кому-л.

    to listen to smb., smth. - слушать кого-л., что-л.

    to speak to smb. - разговаривать с кем-л.

    to send smth. to smb. - послать что-л. кому-л.

    to explain smth. to smb. - объяснить что-л. кому-л.

    to reveal a secret to smb. - открыть кому-л. секрет

    to apologize to smb. - извиниться перед кем-л.

    he showed the picture to all his friends - он показал картину всем своим друзьям

    he spoke to the demonstration - он обратился с речью к участникам демонстрации

    who(m) did you give the letter to? - кому вы отдали письмо?

    2) лицо или предмет, воспринимающие какое-л. воздействие или впечатление или являющиеся объектом какого-л. отношения к, для; по отношению к; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    attitude to smb., smth. - отношение к кому-л., чему-л.

    his duty to his country - его долг по отношению к родине, его патриотический долг

    known [unknown] to smb. - известный [неизвестный] кому-л.

    clear to smb. - ясный кому-л. /для кого-л./

    favourable [unfavourable] to smb. - благоприятный [неблагоприятный] для кого-л.

    unjust to smb. - несправедливый к кому-л.

    pleasing to smb. - приятный кому-л.

    to be cruel to smb. - быть жестоким к кому-л.

    injurious to smb., smth. - вредный для кого-л., чего-л.

    it seems to me that - мне кажется, что

    smth. has happened to him - с ним что-то случилось

    3) лицо, эмоционально или интеллектуально заинтересованное в чём-л.; обычно передаётся дат. падежом

    what is that to you? - тебе-то какое до этого дело?; ты-то тут при чём?; почему это тебя интересует?

    4) лицо, в честь которого что-л. совершается или провозглашается в честь, за; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    to build a monument to smb. - воздвигнуть памятник кому-л. /в честь кого-л./

    1) объект высказывания и т. п. в, о, на или придаточное предложение

    to bear witness to smth. - давать показания о чём-л.

    to testify to smth. - показывать, что; представлять доказательства о том, что

    to swear to smth. - поклясться в чём-л.

    to speak to smth. - высказываться в поддержку чего-л.

    to confess to smth. - признаваться в чём-л.

    to allude to smth. - сослаться или намекнуть на что-л.

    2) объект права, претензии и т. п. на

    to have a right to smth. - иметь право на что-л.

    to lay a claim to smth. - заявить претензию на что-л.

    a document of title to land - документ, дающий право на владение землёй

    3) ( сознательную) реакцию на что-л. на; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    (dis)obedience to smb.'s orders - (не)подчинение чьему-л. приказу

    in answer /in reply/ to smth. - в ответ на что-л.

    to reply to smb. - отвечать кому-л.

    to come to smb.'s call - явиться по чьему-л. зову /на чей-л. зов/

    what do you say to that? - что вы скажете по этому поводу?

    what did he say to my suggestion? - как он отнёсся к моему предложению?

    what do you say to a short walk? - как насчёт того, чтобы прогуляться?

    4) эмоциональную реакцию на что-л. или оценку чего-л. к

    to his surprise [sorrow] - к его удивлению [огорчению]

    to her horror, the beast approached - к её ужасу, зверь приближался

    5) поэт. реакцию неодушевлённых предметов на что-л.:

    waves sparkling to the moonbeams - волны, сверкающие в лунном свете

    flimsy houses that shake to the wind - лёгкие домики, которые дрожат от ветра

    to the end, to the last - до конца

    to a high degree - в высокой /в большой/ степени

    to the exclusion of all others - и никто больше, и никто другой

    stripped [naked] to the waist - раздетый [обнажённый] до пояса

    rotten to the core - насквозь гнилой, прогнивший до сердцевины

    to fight to the last drop of one's blood - биться до последней капли крови

    to defend one's country to the death - стоять насмерть, защищая родину

    to count up to ten [to a hundred] - считать до десяти [до ста]

    to cut smth. down to a minimum - довести что-л. до минимума

    the membership of the club increased to 350 - количество членов клуба достигло 350

    the custom survives to this day - этот обычай сохранился до наших дней /существует и поныне/

    I shall remember it to my dying day - я буду помнить это до (своего) смертного часа

    to guess the weight of smth. to within a kilo - угадать вес чего-л. почти до килограмма

    the weather over the period was moderate to cool - погода в этот период колебалась от умеренной до прохладной

    5) изменение положения или достижение нового состояния и т. п. в, до, на; передаётся тж. глаголом

    to put smb. to flight - обратить кого-л. в бегство

    to tear smth. to pieces /to bits/ - разорвать что-л. на куски

    to beat smb. to death - избить кого-л. до смерти

    to convert a warehouse to a dance-hall - превратить склад в зал для танцев

    to sentence smb. to prison [to deportation] - приговорить кого-л. к тюремному заключению [к высылке]

    to sentence smb. to death - приговорить кого-л. к смерти /к смертной казни/

    1) переход к другой теме разговора, к другому занятию и т. п. к

    he turned to the page he had marked - он вернулся к странице, которую отметил

    to fall /to set, to turn/ to smth. - приниматься за что-л.

    he turned to eating [to reading] - он принялся за еду [за чтение]

    1) цель на, к, для, с целью

    to the end that - с (той) целью чтобы; для того чтобы

    to no purpose - напрасно, безрезультатно

    a means to an end - средство, ведущее к цели

    to come to dinner [to tea] - прийти к обеду [к чаю] /пообедать [попить чаю]/

    to come to a conclusion [to a decision] - прийти к выводу [к решению]

    3) тенденцию, склонность, намерение к

    a tendency to smth. - тенденция к чему-л.

    to be given to smth. - быть склонным к чему-л.

    a horse bred to the plow - лошадь, приученная к плугу /приученная пахать/

    a field planted to rice - поле, отведённое /пущенное/ под рис; поле, засеянное рисом

    5) возможность воздействия, незащищённость против воздействия чего-л.; передаётся дат. падежом:

    exposed to the sunlight - подвергающийся действию солнца, незащищённый от солнца

    1) сравнения или сопоставления в сравнении с, по сравнению с; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    compared to... - по сравнению с...

    equal to smth. - равный чему-л.

    superior to smth. - лучше, чем что-л.; превосходящий что-л.

    inferior to smth. - хуже, чем что-л.

    similar to smth. - подобный чему-л.; похожий на что-л.

    he prefers listening to talking - он больше любит слушать, чем говорить

    this is nothing to what it might be - это пустяки по сравнению с тем, что могло (бы) быть

    three goals to nil - три - ноль (в футболе и т. п.)

    three parts flour to one part butter - три части муки на одну часть масла ( кулинарный рецепт)

    four apples to a pound - четыре яблока на фунт, по фунту за четыре яблока

    it's a hundred to one (that) it won't happen - вероятность того, что это не случится /не произойдёт/, не больше одной сотой

    3) соответствия чему-л. по, на; передаётся тж. дат. падежом

    to my knowledge - насколько я знаю; насколько мне известно

    to my mind /thinking/ - по-моему

    (not) to one's liking /taste/ - (не) по вкусу кому-л.

    made to order [to measure] - сделанный на заказ [по мерке]

    words set to music - слова, положенные на музыку

    what tune is it sung to? - на какой мотив это поётся?

    to write to smb.'s dictation - писать под чью-л. диктовку

    1) составную часть чего-л. или принадлежность к чему-л. к, от, для; передаётся тж. род падежом
    2) фазу процесса, аспект явления:

    hand to hand - бок о бок, рядом

    they stood man to man - они стояли тесно /один к одному/

    2) близость, тесное соприкосновение, а также прикрепление к

    to be close to smb., smth. - быть близко к кому-л., чему-л.

    to tie smth. to smth. - привязать что-л. к чему-л.

    to fix smth. to smth. - прикрепить что-л. к чему-л.

    to clasp smb. to one's heart - прижать кого-л. к сердцу

    to fasten smth. to the wall - прикрепить что-л. к стене

    3) добавление, прибавление или сложение к, с

    put it to what you already have - прибавьте /добавьте/ это к тому, что у вас уже есть

    will you have sugar to your tea? - вы будете пить чай с сахаром?

    10. указывает на родственные, служебные и др. отношения; передается род. падежом

    to be engaged to smb. - быть помолвленным с кем-л.

    11. указывает на содержание или степень содержательности чего-л. в

    a book without much to it - не слишком интересная книга; книга так себе

    there isn't much to it - а) в этом нет ничего особенного /мудрёного/; б) это немногого стоит

    there's nothing to it - а) это проще простого, это проще пареной репы; в этом нет никакой премудрости; б) это яйца выеденного не стоит

    that's all there is to it - вот и всё; вот и вся недолга; это очень просто

    is there nothing more to civilization than a moral code? - неужто (вся) цивилизация сводится к морали?

    2) отнесение к какому-л. времени в прошлом к

    a ceremony dating to the first century - обряд, относящийся к первому веку

    3) диал. точное время в

    to goods £100 - 100 фунтов на товары /отнесение стоимости товаров в 100 фунтов/ в дебет счёта

    14. уст. указывает на использование в каком-л. качестве как, в

    to call smb. to witness - ссылаться на кого-л., призывать кого-л. в свидетели

    ♢ from... to см. from 9

    from dawn to dusk - с восхода до заката, от зари до зари

    to go from bad to worse - всё (время) ухудшаться, становиться всё хуже и хуже

    to a T - полностью, совершенно

    to oneself - в своё распоряжение, в своём распоряжении

    to tell smth. to smb.'s face - сказать что-л. кому-л. (прямо) в лицо

    to be used to smth. [to doing smth.] - привыкнуть к чему-л. [делать что-л.]

    would to God /to Heaven/! - о господи!

    3. [tu:,tʋ,tə] part

    to go away would be to admit defeat - уйти означало бы признать себя побеждённым

    he refused [agreed] to come - он отказался [согласился] прийти

    he was seen to enter the house - видели, что он вошёл в дом

    she would like it to be true - она бы хотела, чтобы это оказалось правдой

    I'm ready [happy] to do it - я готов [счастлив] сделать это

    you're foolish to believe it - глупо, что ты веришь этому

    he was the first [the last] to come - он пришёл первым [последним]

    that's good to eat - вкусная штука /вещь/

    write down the address not to forget it - запишите адрес, чтобы не забыть его

    we parted never to meet again - мы расстались, чтобы никогда больше не встречаться

    to hear him talk you would imagine that he's somebody - послушать его - так можно подумать, что он важная персона

    2. употребляется после ряда глаголов, чтобы избежать повторения инфинитива:

    tell him if you want to - скажите ему, если хотите

    take the money, it would be absurd not to - возьмите деньги; было бы нелепо отказываться от них

    НБАРС > to

  • 73 drive

    1. past tense - drove; verb
    1) (to control or guide (a car etc): Do you want to drive (the car), or shall I?) conducir
    2) (to take, bring etc in a car: My mother is driving me to the airport.) llevar (en coche)
    3) (to force or urge along: Two men and a dog were driving a herd of cattle across the road.) conducir
    4) (to hit hard: He drove a nail into the door; He drove a golf-ball from the tee.) hincar, clavar, mandar
    5) (to cause to work by providing the necessary power: This mill is driven by water.) hacer funcionar, mover, impulsar

    2. noun
    1) (a journey in a car, especially for pleasure: We decided to go for a drive.) paseo en coche
    2) (a private road leading from a gate to a house etc: The drive is lined with trees.) camino de entrada
    3) (energy and enthusiasm: I think he has the drive needed for this job.) ímpetu, empuje, dinamismo
    4) (a special effort: We're having a drive to save electricity.) campaña
    5) (in sport, a hard stroke (with a golf-club, a cricket bat etc).) drive
    6) ((computers) a disk drive.) lectura de disquete
    •
    - driver's license
    - drive-in
    - drive-through
    - driving licence
    - be driving at
    - drive off
    - drive on
    drive1 n
    1. paseo en coche / vuelta en coche
    shall we go for a drive? ¿vamos a dar una vuelta en coche?
    2. camino de la entrada
    drive2 vb conducir
    tr[draɪv]
    1 (trip) paseo en coche, vuelta en coche; (journey) viaje nombre masculino
    2 (road) calle nombre femenino; (driveway) camino de entrada
    3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (golf) golpe nombre masculino inicial, tiro de salida; (tennis) golpe nombre masculino fuerte, drive nombre masculino
    4 (campaign) campaña
    5 SMALLMILITARY/SMALL ofensiva, avanzada
    6 (energy, initiative) energía, ímpetu nombre masculino, empuje nombre masculino, dinamismo
    7 (need, compulsion) necesidad nombre femenino, impulso, instinto
    ■ right/left-hand drive con el volante a la derecha/izquierda
    9 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL (competition, tournament) torneo
    transitive verb (pt drove tr[drəʊv], pp driven tr['drɪvən])
    ■ what car do you drive? ¿qué coche tienes?
    2 (take - person) llevar (en coche)
    ■ could you drive me to the airport? ¿podrías llevarme al aeropuerto?
    3 (cause to move - person) hacer, obligar a; (- animal) arrear
    4 (of wind - blow) llevar; (of water) llevarse
    5 (provide power for, keep going) hacer funcionar, mover
    6 (strike in - stake) hincar; (- nail) clavar; (hit - ball) mandar
    7 (construct - tunnel) perforar, abrir; (- motorway) construir
    8 (force, compel to act) forzar, obligar; (cause to be in state) llevar, empujar
    9 (make work hard, overwork) hacer trabajar
    1 (vehicle) conducir
    ■ can you drive? ¿sabes conducir?
    ■ don't drive so fast no vayas tan rápido, no corras
    ■ in England, people drive on the left en Inglaterra, la gente conduce por la izquierda
    2 (of rain, hail, snow) azotar, barrer
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to drive a hard bargain saber cómo conseguir lo que uno,-a quiere, ser buen,-na negociador,-ra
    to drive something home hacer entender algo
    drive ['draɪv] v, drove ['dro:v] ; driven ['drɪvə n] ; driving vt
    1) impel: impeler, impulsar
    2) operate: guiar, conducir, manejar (un vehículo)
    3) compel: obligar, forzar
    4) : clavar, hincar
    to drive a stake: clavar una estaca
    5) or to drive away : ahuyentar, echar
    6)
    to drive crazy : volver loco
    drive vi
    : manejar, conducir
    do you know how to drive?: ¿sabes manejar?
    1) ride: paseo m en coche
    2) campaign: campaña f
    fund-raising drive: campaña para recaudar fondos
    3) driveway: camino m de entrada, entrada f
    4) transmission: transmisión f
    front-wheel drive: tracción delantera
    5) energy: dinamismo m, energía f
    6) instinct, need: instinto m, necesidad f básica
    n.
    • lector s.m.
    n.
    • empuje s.m.
    • mando s.m.
    • paseo s.m.
    • paseo en carro s.m.
    drive (s.o.) nuts
    expr.
    • volverle (a una persona) loca v.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: drove, driven) = clavar v.
    • conducir v.
    • empujar v.
    • forzar v.
    • guiar v.
    • hostigar v.
    • impulsar v.
    • llevar en carro v.
    • manejar v.
    • rodar v.

    I
    1. draɪv
    (past drove; past p driven) transitive verb
    1) ( Transp)
    a) \<\<car/busain\>\> manejar or (Esp) conducir*; \<\<racing car/power boat\>\> pilotar, pilotear
    b) ( convey in vehicle) llevar en coche
    2)
    a) ( cause to move) (+ adv compl)
    b) ( Sport) \<\<ball\>\> mandar, lanzar*
    c) (provide power for, operate) hacer* funcionar, mover*
    3)
    a) ( make penetrate) \<\<nail\>\> clavar; \<\<stake\>\> hincar*

    to drive something INTO something — clavar/hincar* algo en algo

    b) ( open up) \<\<tunnel/shaft\>\> perforar, abrir*
    4)
    a) ( cause to become) volver*

    he drives me crazy o mad with his incessant chatter — me saca de quicio con su constante cháchara

    she drives me wild! — (colloq) me vuelve loco! (fam)

    to drive somebody to + INF — llevar or empujar a alguien a + inf

    she is driven by ambition — la impulsa or motiva la ambición

    c) ( overwork)

    2.
    vi manejar or (Esp) conducir*

    to drive on the right/left — manejar or (Esp) conducir* por la derecha/izquierda

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) c ( in vehicle)

    to go for a drive — ir* a dar un paseo or una vuelta en coche

    2) c
    a) ( leading to house) camino m, avenida f ( que lleva hasta una casa)
    b) ( in front of house) entrada f ( para coches)
    3) c (in golf, tennis) golpe m fuerte
    4)
    a) u ( energy) empuje m, dinamismo m
    b) c ( compulsion) ( Psych) impulso m, instinto m
    5) c
    a) ( organized effort) campaña f
    b) ( attacking move) ( Mil) ofensiva f, avanzada f
    c) ( in US football) ataque m
    6)
    a) u c ( propulsion system) transmisión f, propulsión f
    b) u ( Auto)

    front-wheel/rear-wheel drive — tracción f delanteraasera

    right-/left-hand drive — con el volante a la derecha/a la izquierda

    [draɪv] (vb: pt drove) (pp driven)
    1. N
    1) (=journey, outing)

    to go for a drive — ir a dar una vuelta or un paseo en coche

    test 4.
    2) (=private road) (in front of garage) entrada f ; (to large house) camino m (de acceso), avenida f
    3) (Tennis) golpe m directo, drive m ; (Golf) drive m
    4) (=energy, motivation) empuje m, dinamismo m

    • to have drive — tener empuje or dinamismo

    • to lack drive — no tener empuje or dinamismo

    5) (Psych) (=impulse) impulso m, instinto m

    sex drive — libido f, líbido f, apetito m sexual

    to have a high/low sex drive — tener la libido or líbido alta/baja, tener mucho/poco apetito sexual

    6) (=campaign, effort) campaña f
    7) (Tech) (=power transmission system) transmisión f, propulsión f
    (Aut)

    • four-wheel drive — tracción f en las cuatro ruedas

    • front-wheel/ rear-wheel drive — tracción f delanteraasera

    • a left-hand/ right-hand drive car — un coche con el volante a la izquierda/derecha

    8) (=gear position in automatic car) marcha f
    9) (Comput) (also: disk drive) unidad f de disco

    CD-ROM drive — unidad f de CD-ROM

    10) (=tournament)

    whist drive — certamen m de whist

    11) (Mil) (=attack) ofensiva f
    2. VT
    1) (=operate) [+ car, bus, train] conducir, manejar (LAm); [+ racing car, speedboat] pilotar
    2) (=carry) [+ passenger] llevar (en coche)
    3) (=power) [+ machine, vehicle] hacer funcionar
    4) (=cause to move)
    5) (=push, hammer) [+ nail, stake] clavar ( into en)

    to drive a post into the ground — clavar or hincar un poste en el suelo

    home 2., 2)
    6) (=excavate) [+ tunnel] abrir, construir; [+ hole] perforar; [+ furrow] hacer
    7) (=force)

    high prices are driving local people out of the area — el que los precios sean tan altos está haciendo que la gente se vaya a vivir a otras zonas

    • to drive sb to drink, his worries drove him to drink — sus problemas le llevaron a la bebida

    it's enough to drive you to drink — hum te crispa los nervios

    • to drive sb mad — volver loco a algn

    bargain 1., 1), home 2., 2)
    8) (=impel, motivate) empujar, mover

    he was driven by greed/ambition — lo empujaba or movía la avaricia/ambición

    to drive sb to do sth, drive sb into doing sth — empujar or llevar a algn a hacer algo

    what drove you to write this book? — ¿qué le empujó or llevó a escribir este libro?

    9) (=overwork)
    10) (Sport) [+ ball] mandar
    3. VI
    1) (=operate vehicle) conducir, manejar (LAm)

    can you drive? — ¿sabes conducir or (LAm) manejar?

    2) (=go)

    • to drive at 50km an hour — ir (en un coche) a 50km por hora

    • we'll drive down in the car this weekend — este fin de semana bajaremos en coche

    • he drove into a wall — chocó con un muro

    • to drive to London — ir a Londres en coche

    3) (=handle) conducirse, manejarse (LAm)
    4) (=beat)
    4.
    CPD

    drive shaft N — (Aut) árbol m motor

    * * *

    I
    1. [draɪv]
    (past drove; past p driven) transitive verb
    1) ( Transp)
    a) \<\<car/bus/train\>\> manejar or (Esp) conducir*; \<\<racing car/power boat\>\> pilotar, pilotear
    b) ( convey in vehicle) llevar en coche
    2)
    a) ( cause to move) (+ adv compl)
    b) ( Sport) \<\<ball\>\> mandar, lanzar*
    c) (provide power for, operate) hacer* funcionar, mover*
    3)
    a) ( make penetrate) \<\<nail\>\> clavar; \<\<stake\>\> hincar*

    to drive something INTO something — clavar/hincar* algo en algo

    b) ( open up) \<\<tunnel/shaft\>\> perforar, abrir*
    4)
    a) ( cause to become) volver*

    he drives me crazy o mad with his incessant chatter — me saca de quicio con su constante cháchara

    she drives me wild! — (colloq) me vuelve loco! (fam)

    to drive somebody to + INF — llevar or empujar a alguien a + inf

    she is driven by ambition — la impulsa or motiva la ambición

    c) ( overwork)

    2.
    vi manejar or (Esp) conducir*

    to drive on the right/left — manejar or (Esp) conducir* por la derecha/izquierda

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) c ( in vehicle)

    to go for a drive — ir* a dar un paseo or una vuelta en coche

    2) c
    a) ( leading to house) camino m, avenida f ( que lleva hasta una casa)
    b) ( in front of house) entrada f ( para coches)
    3) c (in golf, tennis) golpe m fuerte
    4)
    a) u ( energy) empuje m, dinamismo m
    b) c ( compulsion) ( Psych) impulso m, instinto m
    5) c
    a) ( organized effort) campaña f
    b) ( attacking move) ( Mil) ofensiva f, avanzada f
    c) ( in US football) ataque m
    6)
    a) u c ( propulsion system) transmisión f, propulsión f
    b) u ( Auto)

    front-wheel/rear-wheel drive — tracción f delantera/trasera

    right-/left-hand drive — con el volante a la derecha/a la izquierda

    English-spanish dictionary > drive

  • 74 latitude

    ['lætitju:d]
    1) (the distance, measured in degrees on the map, that a place is north or south of the Equator: What is the latitude of London?) bredde; breddegrad
    2) (freedom of choice or action.) handlefrihed
    * * *
    ['lætitju:d]
    1) (the distance, measured in degrees on the map, that a place is north or south of the Equator: What is the latitude of London?) bredde; breddegrad
    2) (freedom of choice or action.) handlefrihed

    English-Danish dictionary > latitude

  • 75 to

    I [tuː] adv
    1) доведення до потрібного стану або положення, передається дієслівними приставками при-, за-

    we turned to gladly /with a will/ — ми з натхненням узялися за роботу

    they were hungry and fell to — вони були голодні, накинулися на їжу

    to bring smb to with smelling salts — привести кого-н. у свідомість нюхальною сіллю

    a ship moored head to — корабель, пришвартований проти вітру

    to and fro см. to and fro. to and again іст. to to and fro. to and back — = to and fro

    close to — поруч, біля

    we were close to when it happened — ми були поруч, коли уе трапилось

    keep her to! — мop. тримай до вітру ( команд)

    II prep

    head to the sea [to the wind] — мop. проти хвилі [вітру]

    to go to town — їхати /відправлятися/ в місто

    to go to the sea — їхати до моря, поїхати на морі

    to turn to the left [to the right] — повернути ліворуч [праворуч]

    to point to smth — вказувати на що-н.

    to see smb to the station [to the corner] — проводити кого-н. на вокзал [до кута]

    he wears his best clothes to church — він ходить в церкву в парадному костюмі; рух до зіткнення з чим-н. на, за, до

    he swung his kit-bag to his back — він закинув мішок з речами за спину; відстань до

    it is five miles to the station — до станції п'ять миль; положення по відношенню до чого-н. до, на; разом з імен. передається прислівником

    to lie to the south [to the north]of — лежати /улаштуватися/ на південь від

    the window looks to the north [to the south] — вікно виходить на північ [на південь]

    placed at the right angle to the wall — поставлений під прямим кутом по відношення до стіни; тимчасове місцеперебування (після дієслова be в перфекті) в

    have you been to bed — є ви спалиє; aмep., дiaл. перебування в якому-н. місці в

    he is to home — він вдома; відвідини якої-н. установи в

    to go to the theatre — ходити /йти/ в театр

    2) вказувати на особу, рідше предмет, до якого направлена дія до, перед; часто передається дaв. відмінком

    greetings to smb — вітання кому-н.

    to listen to smb; smth — слухати кого-н., що-н.

    to speak to smb — розмовляти з ким-н.

    to send smth to smb — послати що-н. кому-н.

    to explain smth to smb — пояснити что-н. кому-н.

    to reveal a secret to smb — розповісти кому-н. секрет

    to apologize to smb — вибачитися перед ким-н.

    who (m) did you give the letter to — є кому ви віддали листє; особа або предмет, сприймаючі яку-н. дію або враження або те, що є об'єктом яких-н. відносини до, для; по відношенню до; передається дaв. відмінком

    attitude to smb; smth — відношення до кого-н., чого-н.

    his duty to his country — його борг по відношенню до батьківщини, його патріотичний борг

    known [unknown]to smb — відомий [невідомий]кому-н.

    clear to smb — ясний кому-н. /для кого-н. /; favourable [unfavourable]to smb сприятливий [несприятливий]для кого-н.

    unjust to smb — несправедливий до кого-н.

    pleasing to smb — приємний кому-н.

    to be cruel to smb — бути жорстоким до кому-н.

    it was a mystery to them — для них це було загадкою; особа, що емоційно або інтелектуально зацікавлена в чому-л; запередається дaв. відмінком

    what is that to you — є тобі яка до цього справає; ти тут до чогоє; чому це тебе цікавитьє

    life is nothing to him — він не дорожить життям особа, на честь якої що-н. здійснюється або проголошується на честь, за; передається дaв. відмінком

    to build a monument to smb — спорудити пам'ятник кому-н. /на честь кого-н. /

    3) вказує на об'єкт висловлювання в, про, на або додаткова пропозиція

    to bear witness to smth — надавати свідчення про що-н.

    to testify to smth — показувати, що; уявляти докази про те, що

    to swear to smth — присягнутися в чому-н.

    to speak to smth — висловлюватися на підтримку чого-н.

    to confess to smth — зызнаватися в чому-н.

    to allude to smth — посилатися або натякнути на що-н.; об'єкт правовідносин, претензії на

    to have a right to smth — мати право на, будь-що.

    to lay a claim to smth — заявити претензію на що-н.

    a document of title to land — документ, що дає право на володіння землею; ( свідому) реакцію на що-л на; передається дaв. відмінком

    (dis)obediance to smb's orders — ( непокора чиємусь наказу)

    in answer /in reply/ to smth y — відповідь на що-н.

    to reply to smb — відповідати кому-н.

    to come to smb s call — з'явитися на чиєсь прохання

    what do you say to a short walk — є як щодо того, щоб піти прогулятисяє; емоційну реакцію на що-л або оцінку чого-н. до

    to his surprise [sorrow] — на його здивування [засмучення]

    to his credit — на його честь; пoeт. реакцію неживих предметів на що-л: waves sparkling to the moonbeams хвилі, що виблискують в місячному світлі

    flimsy houses that shake to the wind — легкі будиночки, які тремтять від вітру

    to the end, to the last — до кінця

    to a high degree y — високій /в большой/ ступеню

    to the exclusion or all others, — ніхто більший, ніхто інший

    stripped [naked]to the waist — роздягнений [голий]до поясу

    rotten to the core — наскрізь гнилий, такий, що прогнив до серцевини: to fight to the last drop of ones blood битися до останньої краплі крові

    to defend ones country to the death — стояти на смерть, захищаючи батьківщину

    to count up to ten [to a hundred] — рахувати до десяти [до ста]

    to cut smth down to a minimum — довести що-н. до мінімуму

    the membership of the club increased to 350 — кількість членів клубу досягла 350; the room was hot to suffocation від спеки в кімнаті нічим було дихати; часову межу до

    the custom survives to this day — звичай, що зберігся до наших днів /існує е досі/; I shall remember it to my dying day я пам'ятатиму це до смерті; ступінь точності до

    to guess the weight of smth to within a kilo — вгадати вагу чого-н. майже до кілограма

    the train arrived to a minute — потяг прибув хвилина в хвилину; межі коливань до

    the weather over the period was moderate to cool — погода в цей період коливалася від помірної до прохолодної; зміна положення або досягнення нового стану в, до, на; передається дієсловом

    to tear smth to pieces /to bits/ — розірвати що-н. на шматки

    to beat smb to death — побити кого-н. до смерті

    he grew to manhood — він став дорослою людиною; міру покарання до

    to sentence smb to prison [to deportation] — засудити кого-н. до тюремного увязнення [до висилки]

    to sentence smb to death — засудити кого-н. до смерті /до смертноъ кари/

    5) вказує на перехід до іншої теми в розмові, до іншого заняття до

    he turned to the page he had marked — він повернувся до сторінки, яку відмітив

    the conversation turned to painting — розмова плавно перейшла до живопису; початок дії за

    to fall/to set є to turn/ to smth — братись за що-н.

    he turned to eating [to reading] — він взявся /пішов/ за їжу [за читання]

    6) вказує на ціль, мету на, до, для, з ціллю
    7) = toady I 2
    8) ласк. icт. дитинка, жабеня
    ••

    to treat smb like a to under the harrow — зневажати /третирувати/ кого-н., тримати кого-н. у чорному тлі

    English-Ukrainian dictionary > to

  • 76 below

    I [bɪ'ləʊ]
    1) (under) sotto (a)

    below the knee — al di sotto del, sotto al ginocchio

    2) (less than: in quantity, degree) sotto (a)

    below 5% — sotto il 5%

    5° below (freezing) — 5° sotto zero

    those below the rank of Major — mil. quelli di grado inferiore a maggiore

    4) (south of) a sud di, sotto
    5) (downstream from) a valle di
    6) (unworthy of) indegno di [ person]

    it is below her, you to do — non è degno di lei, te fare

    II [bɪ'ləʊ]

    seen from below — visto da sotto, dal basso

    2) (later on page, in book)
    * * *
    [bə'ləu] 1. preposition
    (lower in position, rank, standard etc than: She hurt her leg below the knee; His work is below standard.) sotto, al disotto di
    2. adverb
    (in a lower place: We looked at the houses (down) below.) sotto
    * * *
    I [bɪ'ləʊ]
    1) (under) sotto (a)

    below the knee — al di sotto del, sotto al ginocchio

    2) (less than: in quantity, degree) sotto (a)

    below 5% — sotto il 5%

    5° below (freezing) — 5° sotto zero

    those below the rank of Major — mil. quelli di grado inferiore a maggiore

    4) (south of) a sud di, sotto
    5) (downstream from) a valle di
    6) (unworthy of) indegno di [ person]

    it is below her, you to do — non è degno di lei, te fare

    II [bɪ'ləʊ]

    seen from below — visto da sotto, dal basso

    2) (later on page, in book)

    English-Italian dictionary > below

  • 77 Churchward, George Jackson

    [br]
    b. 31 January 1857 Stoke Gabriel, Devon, England
    d. 19 December 1933 Swindon, Wiltshire, England
    [br]
    English mechanical engineer who developed for the Great Western Railway a range of steam locomotives of the most advanced design of its time.
    [br]
    Churchward was articled to the Locomotive Superintendent of the South Devon Railway in 1873, and when the South Devon was absorbed by the Great Western Railway in 1876 he moved to the latter's Swindon works. There he rose by successive promotions to become Works Manager in 1896, and in 1897 Chief Assistant to William Dean, who was Locomotive Carriage and Wagon Superintendent, in which capacity Churchward was allowed extensive freedom of action. Churchward eventually succeeded Dean in 1902: his title changed to Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1916.
    In locomotive design, Churchward adopted the flat-topped firebox invented by A.J.Belpaire of the Belgian State Railways and added a tapered barrel to improve circulation of water between the barrel and the firebox legs. He designed valves with a longer stroke and a greater lap than usual, to achieve full opening to exhaust. Passenger-train weights had been increasing rapidly, and Churchward produced his first 4–6– 0 express locomotive in 1902. However, he was still developing the details—he had a flair for selecting good engineering practices—and to aid his development work Churchward installed at Swindon in 1904 a stationary testing plant for locomotives. This was the first of its kind in Britain and was based on the work of Professor W.F.M.Goss, who had installed the first such plant at Purdue University, USA, in 1891. For comparison with his own locomotives Churchward obtained from France three 4–4–2 compound locomotives of the type developed by A. de Glehn and G. du Bousquet. He decided against compounding, but he did perpetuate many of the details of the French locomotives, notably the divided drive between the first and second pairs of driving wheels, when he introduced his four-cylinder 4–6–0 (the Star class) in 1907. He built a lone 4–6–2, the Great Bear, in 1908: the wheel arrangement enabled it to have a wide firebox, but the type was not perpetuated because Welsh coal suited narrow grates and 4–6–0 locomotives were adequate for the traffic. After Churchward retired in 1921 his successor, C.B.Collett, was to enlarge the Star class into the Castle class and then the King class, both 4–6–0s, which lasted almost as long as steam locomotives survived in service. In Church ward's time, however, the Great Western Railway was the first in Britain to adopt six-coupled locomotives on a large scale for passenger trains in place of four-coupled locomotives. The 4–6–0 classes, however, were but the most celebrated of a whole range of standard locomotives of advanced design for all types of traffic and shared between them many standardized components, particularly boilers, cylinders and valve gear.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    H.C.B.Rogers, 1975, G.J.Churchward. A Locomotive Biography, London: George Allen \& Unwin (a full-length account of Churchward and his locomotives, and their influence on subsequent locomotive development).
    C.Hamilton Ellis, 1958, Twenty Locomotive Men, Shepperton: Ian Allan, Ch. 20 (a good brief account).
    Sir William Stanier, 1955, "George Jackson Churchward", Transactions of the Newcomen
    Society 30 (a unique insight into Churchward and his work, from the informed viewpoint of his former subordinate who had risen to become Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland \& Scottish Railway).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Churchward, George Jackson

  • 78 England, George

    [br]
    b. 1811 or 1812 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
    d. 4 March 1878 Cannes, France
    [br]
    English locomotive builder who built the first locomotives for the narrow-gauge Festiniog Railway.
    [br]
    England trained with John Penn \& Sons, marine engine and boilermakers, and set up his own business at Hatcham Iron Works, South London, in about 1840. This was initially a general engineering business and made traversing screw jacks, which England had patented, but by 1850 it was building locomotives. One of these, Little England, a 2–2– 2T light locomotive owing much to the ideas of W.Bridges Adams, was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and England then prospered, supplying many railways at home and abroad with small locomotives. In 1863 he built two exceptionally small 0–4–0 tank locomotives for the Festiniog Railway, which enabled the latter's Manager and Engineer C.E. Spooner to introduce steam traction on this line with its gauge of just under 2 ft (60 cm). England's works had a reputation for good workmanship, suggesting he inspired loyalty among his employees, yet he also displayed increasingly tyrannical behaviour towards them: the culmination was a disastrous strike in 1865 that resulted in the loss of a substantial order from the South Eastern Railway. From 1866 George England became associated with development of locomotives to the patent of Robert Fairlie, but in 1869 he retired due to ill health and leased his works to a partnership of his son (also called George England), Robert Fairlie and J.S.Fraser under the title of the Fairlie Engine \& Steam Carriage Company. However, George England junior died within a few months, locomotive production ceased in 1870 and the works was sold off two years later.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1839, British patent no. 8,058 (traversing screw jack).
    Further Reading
    Aspects of England's life and work are described in: C.H.Dickson, 1961, "Locomotive builders of the past", Stephenson Locomotive Society Journal, p. 138.
    A.R.Bennett, 1907, "Locomotive building in London", Railway Magazine, p. 382.
    R.Weaver, 1983, "English Ponies", Festiniog Railway Magazine (spring): 18.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > England, George

  • 79 Frost, James

    [br]
    b. late 18th century Finchley (?), London, England
    d. mid-19th century probably New York, USA
    [br]
    English contributor to investigations into the making of hydraulic cements in the early nineteenth century.
    [br]
    As early as 1807 Frost, who was originally a builder and bricklayer in Finchley in north London, was manufacturing Roman Cement, patented by James Parker in 1796, in the Harwich area and a similar cement further south, at Sheerness. In the early 1820s Frost visited Louis J.Vicat (1796–1861) in France. Vicat was a French engineer who began in 1812 a detailed investigation into the properties of various limestones found in France. He later published his conclusions, which were that the best hydraulic lime was that produced from limestone containing clay incorporating silica and alumina. He experimented with adding different clays in varying proportions to slaked lime and calcined the mixture. Benefiting from Vicat's research, Frost obtained a patent in 1822 for what he called British Cement. This patent specified an artificial cement made from limestone and silica, and he calcined chalk with the clay to produce a quick-setting product. This was made at Swanscombe near Northfleet on the south bank of the River Thames. In 1833 the Swanscombe manufactory was purchased by Francis \& White for £3,500 and Frost emigrated to America, setting up practice as a civil engineer in New York. The cement was utilized by Sir Marc Brunel in 1835 in his construction of the Thames Tunnel, and at the same time it was used in building the first all-concrete house at Swanscombe for Mr White.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.J.Francis, 1977, The Cement Industry 1796–1914: A History, David \& Charles. C.C.Stanley, 1979, Highlights in the History of Concrete, Cement and Concrete Association.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Frost, James

  • 80 Knight, John Peake

    [br]
    b. 1828
    d. 1886
    [br]
    English railway engineer, inventor of the first road traffic lights in Britain.
    [br]
    Knight was initially employed as a clerk at the Midland Railway in Derby, and in 1846 he had a job in the audit office of the Brighton Railway. From 1854 to 1869 he was Superintendent of the South Eastern Railway and then became manager of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, a post he held until his death. During this period many improvements were put in hand, including the interlocking of signals, the block system, the incorporation of Westinghouse brakes (in 1878), Pullman cars (1877) and electric lighting.
    In 1868 it was decided to erect the first set of traffic lights in London in Bridge Street, New Palace Yard, Westminster, and the authorities naturally sought the advice of an engineer familiar with railway practice. Thus John Knight was called in, and red and green lights mounted on the ends of semaphore arms were duly installed. Unfortunately, a fault in the gas supply of this set of lights caused an explosion which killed a police constable.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Lieutenant-Colonel, Engineer and Railway Volunteer Staff Corps 1870–86. Associate, Institution of Civil Engineers 1872. Legion of Honour 1878.
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1886, The Engineer 62.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Knight, John Peake

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