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timber ['tɪmbə(r)]1 noun(a) (wood → for building work) bois m de construction ou de charpente; (→ for carpentry) bois m de menuiserie∎ to fell timber abattre ou couper des arbres;∎ land under timber terre f boisée;∎ to put land under timber boiser un terrain;∎ standing timber bois m sur pied(roof, fence) en bois(tunnel) boiserattention!►► Nautical timber hitch nœud m de bois ou d'anguille;British timber merchant marchand m de bois;timber trade commerce m du bois;timber wolf loup m gris -
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A n1 ( for building) bois m (de construction) ; ( for furniture) bois m (d'œuvre) ; seasoned/green timber bois séché/vert ; roof timbers bois de charpente ;2 ( lumber) troncs mpl d'arbre ; to fell timber abattre des arbres ; ‘Timber!’ ‘Attention (à l'arbre qui tombe)!’ ;B modif [importer, exporter] de bois ; [treatment, preservative, trade] du bois ; [building, frame] en bois ; timber plantation futaie f.C timbered pp adj [slopes] boisé ; [house] en bois ; timbered ceiling plafond à poutres apparentes ; half-timbered house maison f à colombage. -
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noun5)timber! — Baum fällt!; Achtung! (Ausruf bei Holzfällarbeiten)
* * *['timbə]1) (wood, especially for building: This house is built of timber.) das Bauholz3) (a wooden beam used in the building of a house, ship etc.) der Holzbalken* * *tim·ber[ˈtɪmbəʳ, AM -ɚ]I. nto fell \timber Holz fällenfor \timber für kommerzielle NutzungII. interj“\timber!” „Achtung, Baum!“* * *['tɪmbə(r)]1. n1) Holz nt; (for building) (Bau)holz nt; (= land planted with trees) (Nutz)wald mto put land under timber — Land mit Bäumen bepflanzen
4) (US= character)
a man of that timber — ein Mann dieses Kalibersa woman of presidential timber — eine Frau, die das Zeug zum Präsidenten hat
2. vthouse mit Fachwerk versehen; gallery (in mine) abstützen, verzimmern* * *timber [ˈtımbə(r)]A s1. (Bau-, Zimmer-, Nutz)Holz n2. koll (Nutzholz)Bäume pl, Baumbestand m, Wald(bestand) m3. Bra) Bauholz nb) Schnittholz n4. SCHIFF Inholz n:5. fig US Kaliber n, Schlag m:he is of presidential timber er hat das Zeug zum PräsidentenB v/t1. (ver)zimmern2. Holz abvieren3. einen Graben etc absteifenC adj Holz…* * *noun4) (beam, piece of wood) Balken, der; (Naut.) Spant, das5)timber! — Baum fällt!; Achtung! (Ausruf bei Holzfällarbeiten)
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I1. [ʹtımbə] n1. лесоматериал; пиломатериал; древесинаtimber mill - лесопильный завод, лесопилка
made of /from/ timber - деревянный, сделанный из дерева
2. лес ( в аспекте промышленного использования)to fell timber - заготовлять /валить/ лес
to mark timber for felling - наметить лес к повалу /на порубку/
to put an area under timber - засадить участок лесом, пустить участок под лес
3. 1) лесистый участок, районhalf of his land is covered with timber - половина его земли покрыта лесом, половину его земли составляют лесные угодья
2) юр. лес, растущий на земельном участке (обыкн. дуб, ясень, вяз)4. 1) брус, балка; бревноrough /rough-hewn/ timber - неокорённые брёвна
round timber, timber in the round - неотёсанные брёвна
2) мор. тимберс; шпангоут3) горн. крепёжный лес, крепь5. разг. колодки6. (тело)сложение7. личное качество, достоинствоthere are few men of his timber - таких, как он, мало
he's real ministerial timber - он готовый министр, из таких людей выходят министры
presidential timber - амер. человек, имеющий шансы стать президентом; человек с задатками президента
8. уст. ладья, лодка, корабль10. охот. проф. изгородь♢
my timbers!, shiver my timbers! - чёрт побери!shiver my timbers if... - чёрт меня возьми, если...; я не я, если...
2. [ʹtımbə] aдревесный; деревянныйtimber cup [partition] - деревянный кубок [-ая перегородка]
3. [ʹtımbə] v1. обшивать деревом; укреплять балкамиthe door was heavily timbered with oak - дверь была обшита толстыми дубовыми досками
2. давать строевой лес3. горн. крепить4. уст.1) строить из дерева2) плотничать, столярничатьII [ʹtımbə] nтюк меха (сорок шкурок горностая, куницы, соболя и т. п.)II [ʹtımbə] = timbre2 -
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1. сущ.
1) лесоматериалы;
строевой лес to float, raft timber ( down a river) ≈ сплавлять лес( по реке)
2) а) деревянный брус, бревно;
балка( в строительстве и т. п.) б) мор. тимберс;
шпангоут в) горн. крепежный лес г) охот. изгородь
3) а) телосложение, анатомическая конституция б) амер., тж. разг. отличительное качество или черта характера;
достоинство to be a man of some certaint sort of timber ≈ быть человеком определенного слада характера;
обладать определенными качествами (о человеке)
2. гл. обшивать деревом лесоматериал;
пиломатериал;
древесина - stock of * запасы лесоматериалов - the * of the oak древесина дуба - * industry лесная промышленность - * mill лесопильный завод, лесопилка - made of /from/ * деревянный, сделанный из дерева - to cut * изготовлять пиломатериал лес (в аспекте промышленного использования) - standing * лес на корню - building * строевой лес - a forest of grand * прекрасный строевой лес - to fell * заготовлять /валить/ лес - to mark * for felling наметить лес к повалу /на порубку/ - Canada is rich in * Канада богата (строевым) лесом - to put an area under * засадить участок лесом, пустить участок под лес лесистый участок, район - half of his land is covered with * половина его земли покрыта лесом, половину его земли составляют лесные угодья (юридическое) лес, растущий на земельном участке (обыкн. дуб, ясень, вяз) брус, балка;
бревно - rough /rough-hewn/ * неокоренные бревна - round *, * in the round неотесанные бревна - dimension * разделанные бревна - to fasten *s скреплять бревна (морское) тимберс;
шпангоут (горное) крепежный лес, крепь( разговорное) колодки (тело) сложение - a man of this * человек такого телосложения - a man of small * тщедушный человек личное качество, достоинство - there are few men of his * таких, как он, мало - he's real ministerial * он готовый министр, из таких людей выходят министры - presidential * (американизм) человек, имеющий шансы стать президентом;
человек с задатками президента (устаревшее) ладья, лодка, корабль( спортивное) (профессионализм) воротца( в крикете) (охота) (профессионализм) изгородь - double * двойная изгородь > my *s!, shiver my *s! черт побери! > shiver my *s if... черт меня возьми, если...;
я не я, если... древесный;
деревянный - * cup деревянный кубок - a rude * coffin простой тесовый гроб обшивать деревом;
укреплять балками - the door was heavily *ed with oak дверь была обшита толстыми дубовыми досками давать строевой лес (горное) крепить( устаревшее) строить из дерева (устаревшее) плотничать, столярничать тюк меха (сорок шкурок горностая, куницы, соболя и т. п.) (геральдика) герб в верхней части щита commercial ~ лесоматериалы he is good presidential ~ разг. он обладает всеми качествами, необходимыми для президента ~ амер. личное качество, достоинство;
a man of the right sort of timber человек высоких качеств timber бревно, брус;
балка ~ охот. изгородь ~ горн. крепежный лес ~ лесоматериалы;
строевой лес ~ лесоматериалы ~ амер. личное качество, достоинство;
a man of the right sort of timber человек высоких качеств ~ обшивать деревом ~ мор. тимберс;
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6 Nobel, Immanuel
[br]b. 1801 Gävle, Swedend. 3 September 1872 Stockholm, Sweden[br]Swedish inventor and industrialist, particularly noted for his work on mines and explosives.[br]The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsImperial Gold Medal (Russia) 1853. Swedish Academy of Science Letterstedt Prize (jointly with son Alfred) 1868.BibliographyImmanuel Nobel produced a short handwritten account of his early life 1813–37, which is now in the possession of one of his descendants. He also had published three short books during the last decade of his life— Cheap Defence of the Country's Roads (on land mines), Cheap Defence of the Archipelagos (on sea mines), and Proposal for the Country's Defence (1871)—as well as his pamphlet (1870) on making wood a more physically flexible product.Further ReadingNo biographies of Immanuel Nobel exist, but his life is detailed in a number of books on his son Alfred.CM -
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управление землями различного хозяйственного назначения
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multiple use management area
1) Coordinated management for the most judicious and harmonious use of the land on a long term basis under the concept of combining two or more uses and/or purposes with attention to sustainability and nonimpairment of the natural resources and land area. 2) Use of land for more than one purpose; e.g. grazing of livestock, watershed and wildlife protection, recreation, and timber production. (Source: UNUN / EPAGLO)
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8 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
SUBJECT AREA: Civil engineering, Land transport, Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Ports and shipping, Public utilities, Railways and locomotives[br]b. 9 April 1806 Portsea, Hampshire, Englandd. 15 September 1859 18 Duke Street, St James's, London, England[br]English civil and mechanical engineer.[br]The son of Marc Isambard Brunel and Sophia Kingdom, he was educated at a private boarding-school in Hove. At the age of 14 he went to the College of Caen and then to the Lycée Henri-Quatre in Paris, after which he was apprenticed to Louis Breguet. In 1822 he returned from France and started working in his father's office, while spending much of his time at the works of Maudslay, Sons \& Field.From 1825 to 1828 he worked under his father on the construction of the latter's Thames Tunnel, occupying the position of Engineer-in-Charge, exhibiting great courage and presence of mind in the emergencies which occurred not infrequently. These culminated in January 1828 in the flooding of the tunnel and work was suspended for seven years. For the next five years the young engineer made abortive attempts to find a suitable outlet for his talents, but to little avail. Eventually, in 1831, his design for a suspension bridge over the River Avon at Clifton Gorge was accepted and he was appointed Engineer. (The bridge was eventually finished five years after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him, the delay being due to inadequate financing.) He next planned and supervised improvements to the Bristol docks. In March 1833 he was appointed Engineer of the Bristol Railway, later called the Great Western Railway. He immediately started to survey the route between London and Bristol that was completed by late August that year. On 5 July 1836 he married Mary Horsley and settled into 18 Duke Street, Westminster, London, where he also had his office. Work on the Bristol Railway started in 1836. The foundation stone of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was laid the same year. Whereas George Stephenson had based his standard railway gauge as 4 ft 8½ in (1.44 m), that or a similar gauge being usual for colliery wagonways in the Newcastle area, Brunel adopted the broader gauge of 7 ft (2.13 m). The first stretch of the line, from Paddington to Maidenhead, was opened to traffic on 4 June 1838, and the whole line from London to Bristol was opened in June 1841. The continuation of the line through to Exeter was completed and opened on 1 May 1844. The normal time for the 194-mile (312 km) run from Paddington to Exeter was 5 hours, at an average speed of 38.8 mph (62.4 km/h) including stops. The Great Western line included the Box Tunnel, the longest tunnel to that date at nearly two miles (3.2 km).Brunel was the engineer of most of the railways in the West Country, in South Wales and much of Southern Ireland. As railway networks developed, the frequent break of gauge became more of a problem and on 9 July 1845 a Royal Commission was appointed to look into it. In spite of comparative tests, run between Paddington-Didcot and Darlington-York, which showed in favour of Brunel's arrangement, the enquiry ruled in favour of the narrow gauge, 274 miles (441 km) of the former having been built against 1,901 miles (3,059 km) of the latter to that date. The Gauge Act of 1846 forbade the building of any further railways in Britain to any gauge other than 4 ft 8 1/2 in (1.44 m).The existence of long and severe gradients on the South Devon Railway led to Brunel's adoption of the atmospheric railway developed by Samuel Clegg and later by the Samuda brothers. In this a pipe of 9 in. (23 cm) or more in diameter was laid between the rails, along the top of which ran a continuous hinged flap of leather backed with iron. At intervals of about 3 miles (4.8 km) were pumping stations to exhaust the pipe. Much trouble was experienced with the flap valve and its lubrication—freezing of the leather in winter, the lubricant being sucked into the pipe or eaten by rats at other times—and the experiment was abandoned at considerable cost.Brunel is to be remembered for his two great West Country tubular bridges, the Chepstow and the Tamar Bridge at Saltash, with the latter opened in May 1859, having two main spans of 465 ft (142 m) and a central pier extending 80 ft (24 m) below high water mark and allowing 100 ft (30 m) of headroom above the same. His timber viaducts throughout Devon and Cornwall became a feature of the landscape. The line was extended ultimately to Penzance.As early as 1835 Brunel had the idea of extending the line westwards across the Atlantic from Bristol to New York by means of a steamship. In 1836 building commenced and the hull left Bristol in July 1837 for fitting out at Wapping. On 31 March 1838 the ship left again for Bristol but the boiler lagging caught fire and Brunel was injured in the subsequent confusion. On 8 April the ship set sail for New York (under steam), its rival, the 703-ton Sirius, having left four days earlier. The 1,340-ton Great Western arrived only a few hours after the Sirius. The hull was of wood, and was copper-sheathed. In 1838 Brunel planned a larger ship, some 3,000 tons, the Great Britain, which was to have an iron hull.The Great Britain was screwdriven and was launched on 19 July 1843,289 ft (88 m) long by 51 ft (15.5 m) at its widest. The ship's first voyage, from Liverpool to New York, began on 26 August 1845. In 1846 it ran aground in Dundrum Bay, County Down, and was later sold for use on the Australian run, on which it sailed no fewer than thirty-two times in twenty-three years, also serving as a troop-ship in the Crimean War. During this war, Brunel designed a 1,000-bed hospital which was shipped out to Renkioi ready for assembly and complete with shower-baths and vapour-baths with printed instructions on how to use them, beds and bedding and water closets with a supply of toilet paper! Brunel's last, largest and most extravagantly conceived ship was the Great Leviathan, eventually named The Great Eastern, which had a double-skinned iron hull, together with both paddles and screw propeller. Brunel designed the ship to carry sufficient coal for the round trip to Australia without refuelling, thus saving the need for and the cost of bunkering, as there were then few bunkering ports throughout the world. The ship's construction was started by John Scott Russell in his yard at Millwall on the Thames, but the building was completed by Brunel due to Russell's bankruptcy in 1856. The hull of the huge vessel was laid down so as to be launched sideways into the river and then to be floated on the tide. Brunel's plan for hydraulic launching gear had been turned down by the directors on the grounds of cost, an economy that proved false in the event. The sideways launch with over 4,000 tons of hydraulic power together with steam winches and floating tugs on the river took over two months, from 3 November 1857 until 13 January 1858. The ship was 680 ft (207 m) long, 83 ft (25 m) beam and 58 ft (18 m) deep; the screw was 24 ft (7.3 m) in diameter and paddles 60 ft (18.3 m) in diameter. Its displacement was 32,000 tons (32,500 tonnes).The strain of overwork and the huge responsibilities that lay on Brunel began to tell. He was diagnosed as suffering from Bright's disease, or nephritis, and spent the winter travelling in the Mediterranean and Egypt, returning to England in May 1859. On 5 September he suffered a stroke which left him partially paralysed, and he died ten days later at his Duke Street home.[br]Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1957, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, London: Longmans Green. J.Dugan, 1953, The Great Iron Ship, Hamish Hamilton.IMcNBiographical history of technology > Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
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[br]b. 8 June 1772 Glasgow, Scotlandd. 12 July 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland[br]Scottish lighthouse designer and builder.[br]After his father's death when he was only 2 years old, Robert Stevenson was educated at a school for children from families in reduced circumstances. However, c. 1788 his mother married again, to Thomas Smith, Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. Stevenson then served an apprenticeship under his new stepfather. The Board, which is still an active force in the 1990s, was founded in 1786 to oversee the lights and buoyage in some of the wildest waters in Western Europe, the seas around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.After studies at Andersen's College (now the University of Strathclyde) and later at Edinburgh University, Stevenson assumed responsibility in the field for much of the construction work sanctioned by the Board. After some years he succeeded Smith as Engineer to the Board and thereby the long connection between the Northern Lights and the Stevenson family commenced.Stevenson became Engineer to the Board when he was about 30 years old, remaining in that office for the best part of half a century. During these years he improved catoptric lighting, adopted the central lamp refracting system and invented the intermittent flashing light. While these developments were sufficient to form a just memorial to the man, he was involved in greater endeavours in the construction of around twenty lighthouses, most of which had ingenious forms of construction. The finest piece was the Bell Rock Lighthouse, built on a reef off the Scottish East Coast. This enterprise took five years to complete and can be regarded as the most important construction of his life.His interests fitted in with those of the other great men living in and around Edinburgh at the time, and included oceanography, astronomy, architecture and antiquarian studies. He designed several notable bridges, proposed a design for the rails for railways and also made a notable study of marine timber borers. He contributed to Encyclopaedia Britannica and to many journals.His grandson, born in the year of his death, was the famous author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94).[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsFRS Edinburgh.Further ReadingSir Walter Scott, 1982, Northern Lights, Hawick.FMW
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Timber grouse — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber hitch — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber mare — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber scribe — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber sow — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber tree — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Timber worm — Timber Tim ber, n. [AS. timbor, timber, wood, building; akin to OFries. timber, D. timmer a room, G. zimmer, OHG. zimbar timber, a dwelling, room, Icel. timbr timber, Sw. timmer, Dan. t[ o]mmer, Goth. timrjan to build, timrja a builder, L. domus… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English