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1 Fox, Samuel
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1815 Bradfield, near Sheffield, Englandd. February 1887 Sheffield, England[br]English inventor of the curved steel umbrella frame.[br]Samuel Fox was the son of a weaver's shuttle maker in the hamlet of Bradwell (probably Bradfield, near Sheffield) in the remote hills. He went to Sheffield and served an apprenticeship in the steel trade. Afterwards, he worked with great energy and industry until he acquired sufficient capital to start in business on his own account at Stocksbridge, near Sheffield. It was there that he invented what became known as "Fox's Paragon Frame" for umbrellas. Whalebone or solid steel had previously been used for umbrella ribs, but whalebone was unreliable and steel was heavy. Fox realized that if he grooved the ribs he could make them both lighter and more elastic. In his first patent, taken out in 1852, he described making the ribs and stretchers of parasols and umbrellas from a narrow strip of steel plate partially bent into a trough-like form. He took out five more patents. The first, in 1853, was for strengthening the joints. His next two, in 1856 and 1857, were more concerned with preparing the steel for making the ribs. Another patent in 1857 was basically for improving the formation of the bit at the end of the rib where it was fixed to the stretcher and where the end of the rib has to be formed into a boss: this was so it could have a pin fixed through it to act as a pivot when the umbrella has to be opened or folded and yet support the rib and stretcher. The final patent, in 1865, reverted once more to improving the manufacture of the ribs. He made a fortune before other manufacturers knew what he was doing. Fox established a works at Lille when he found that the French import duties and other fiscal arrangements hindered exporting umbrellas and successful trading there, and was thereby able to develop a large and lucrative business.[br]Bibliography1852. British patent no. 14,055 (curved steel ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1853. British patent no. 739 (strengthened umbrella joints).1856. British patent no. 2,741 (ribs and stretchers for umbrellas). 1857. British patent no. 1,450 (steel wire for umbrellas).1857, British patent no. 1,857 (forming the bit attached to the ribs). 1865, British patent no. 2,348 (improvements in making the ribs).Further ReadingObituary, 1887, Engineer 63.Obituary, 1887, Iron 29.RLH -
2 fox
[fɔks] plural ˈfoxes1. nouna type of reddish-brown wild animal which looks like a dog.ثَعْلَب2. adjectiveفَرْو الثَّعْلَبfox-fur.
3. verbto puzzle or confuse:يَخْدَع، يَغُشShe was completely foxed.
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3 Fuchs-...
(like a fox: She had rather foxy features.) foxy -
4 хитрый как лиса
1) General subject: as cunning as a fox, as sly as a fox2) Set phrase: a sly fox3) Makarov: crazy as a fox, crazy like a fox, crazy like as a fox -
5 коварный
1) General subject: Byzantian, Jesuitic, Jesuitical, artful, astucious, astute, cattish, catty, crafty, cunning, designing, devious, foxlike, full of deceit, full of guile, guileful, insidious, proditorous, scheming, serpentine, sly, snaky, sneaky, tortuous, treacherous, tricky, underhand, underhanded, versute, vulpine, wily, subtle, callid, dark-minded, conniving, wilier2) Zoology: feline4) Bookish: proditory5) History: Punic6) Rare: subdolous8) Australian slang: cunning as a shithouse rat9) Diplomatic term: Byzantine10) Scottish language: loopy11) Jargon: cagey, cagy, chicken, greasy, slippery, poison (Stay away from her. She's poison. Держись от неё подальше. Она коварна.), crazy12) Makarov: crazy as a fox, crazy like a fox, crazy like as a fox, subtile -
6 хитрый
1) General subject: Jesuitic, Jesuitical, arch, argute, artful, as tricky as a monkey, astute, cagey, canny, cattish, catty, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, designing, devious, disingenuous, dodgy, downy, fly, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, hard-headed, hardhead, hardheaded, ingenious, insidious, knowing, leer, long-headed, longheaded, loopy, pawky, pixieish, pixyish, politic, serpentine, sharp, shifting, shifty, shrewd, shuffling, sinuated, sinuous, sleeky, slick, slim, sly, sneaky, subtile, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, vulpine, vulpine (как лиса), wide awake, wily, subtle, callid2) Zoology: feline3) Colloquial: lairy, leary, leery, wide-awake4) Dialect: varmint6) Obsolete: cannie9) Makarov: crazy as a fox, crazy like a fox, crazy like as a fox, shifting centre, smart, smart (о механизме)10) Archaic: varment -
7 вертеть хвостом
прост., неодобр.1) (хитрить, лукавить) shift and shuffle < like a fox>; try to outwit smb.; try to wriggle out of smth.- Да не лги - и не верти лисьим хвостом-то, срамник! Зачем тебе понадобилось её в церковь манить? (А. Куприн, Олеся) — 'Don't you lie now, don't shift and shuffle like a fox, you shameless cur! Why did you have to get her to church?'
2) (уклоняться от решения, прямого ответа и т. п.) cf. dodge (shirk) the issue; beat about (around) the bush; give smb. the runaround- Не вертите хвостом, Шешеня. Если хотите выжить... говорите правду. (В. Ардаматский, Возмездие) — 'Don't you try to dodge the issue, Sheshenya. If you want to survive... tell me the truth.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > вертеть хвостом
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8 В-146
ЗЕЛЕН ВИНОГРАД (sent (with copula) usu. pres) said when s.o. criticizes, badmouths sth. unjustly, simply because he himself does not possess it or cannot get itthatis just sour grapesthe grapes are sour.Я был стыдлив от природы, но стыдливость моя ещё увеличивалась убеждением в моей уродливости... Я был слишком самолюбив, чтобы привыкнуть к своему положению, утешался, как лисица, уверяя себя, что виноград ещё зелен, то есть старался презирать все удовольствия, доставляемые приятной наружностью, которыми на моих глазах пользовался Володя и которым я от души завидовал... (Толстой 2). I was bashful by nature, but my bashfulness was increased by the conviction that I was ugly.... I was too vain to reconcile myself to my situation and comforted myself, like the fox, by reassuring myself that the grapes were still sour, that is, I tried to despise all the pleasures that were obtainable through a pleasant appearance, that Volodya enjoyed before my eyes and that I envied with all my heart (2b).From Ivan Krylov's fable "The Fox and the Grapes" («Лисица и Виноград»), 1808. English source: Aesop's fable. -
9 зелен виноград
[sent (with copula); usu. pres]=====⇒ said when s.o. criticizes, badmouths sth. unjustly, simply because he himself does not possess it or cannot get it:- the grapes are sour.♦ Я был стыдлив от природы, но стыдливость моя ещё увеличивалась убеждением в моей уродливости... Я был слишком самолюбив, чтобы привыкнуть к своему положению, утешался, как лисица, уверяя себя, что виноград ещё зелен, то есть старался презирать все удовольствия, доставляемые приятной наружностью, которыми на моих глазах пользовался Володя и которым я от души завидовал... (Толстой 2). I was bashful by nature, but my bashfulness was increased by the conviction that I was ugly.... I was too vain to reconcile myself to my situation and comforted myself, like the fox, by reassuring myself that the grapes were still sour; that is, I tried to despise all the pleasures that were obtainable through a pleasant appearance, that Volodya enjoyed before my eyes and that I envied with all my heart (2b).—————← From Ivan Krylov's fable "The Fox and the Grapes" ("Лисица и Виноград"), 1808. English source: Aesop's fable.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > зелен виноград
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10 skotta
(að), v. to move to and fro (jarl lét skotta við skip sín, ok lagði ekki at sinni til orrustu).* * *1.að, qs. skofta, which form occurs in the verse Fbr., see skopta, [skopt]:—to dangle, wag to and fro (like hair or a tail); hann lét skotta við skip sín, ok lagði ekki til orrostu, Fms. ii. 310; þeir skotta nú við útan, Fas. i. 10, see skopta.2.u, f. [skott], the popular Icel. name for a female ghost, since, as she roams about, her head-gear streams behind her like a fox’s tail, Maurer’s Volks.; Hvítárvalla-s., Leirár-s.: Skotti, a, m. a nickname, prop. a ghost (?), also used of a horse whose body and tail are of different colours. -
11 пальца в рот не клади
1) General subject: bite head off (Ему пальца в рот не клади - he'll bite your head off), horse-trader, sharpie2) American: crazy like a foxУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > пальца в рот не клади
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12 bibern
bi|bern ['biːbɐn]vi (inf)to stink, to smell like a fox -
13 умен как сто китайцев
crazy like a foxДополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > умен как сто китайцев
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14 хитрая как лиса
crazy like a foxДополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > хитрая как лиса
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15 хитрый как лис
crazy like a foxДополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > хитрый как лис
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16 jednat jako hlupák
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17 sgeamh
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18 foxy
adjective1) clever in a deceitful way:ماكِر، بارِع، خادِعHe's a foxy fellow.
2) like a fox:ثَعْلَبيShe had rather foxy features.
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19 πατέω
πατέω fut. πατήσω; 1 aor. ἐπάτησα LXX. Pass. fut. 3 sg. πατηθήσεται (TestZeb); aor. ἐπατήθην (Hom. et al.; pap, LXX; En 1:4; TestLevi 18:12; TestZeb 9:8 v.l.; JosAs 23:8 [cod. A for ἐπάταξε]; AscIs 3:3; Philo, Just.) tread (on) w. feet.① to set foot on, tread, walk, trans.ⓐ tread τὶ someth. (Herodas 8, 74) τὴν ληνόν (s. ληνός) Rv 19:15; pass. 14:20. Of a stone ὁ πατούμενος what is trodden under foot Dg 2:2.ⓑ set foot on, tread of a place (Aeschyl. et al.; LXX) τὴν αὐλήν the court B 2:5 (Is 1:12). τὸ ἁγνευτήριον Ox 840 12; τὸ ἱερόν ibid. 17; 20.② to tread heavily with feet, with implication of destructive intent, trample, trans.ⓐ tread on, trample (Iambl., Vi. Pyth. 31, 193) of the undisciplined swarming of a victorious army through a conquered city. Its heedlessness, which acknowledges no limits, causes π. to take on the sense ‘mistreat, abuse’ (so πατέω in Plut., Tim. 14, 2; Lucian, Lexiph. 10 al.; Philo, In Flacc. 65) and ‘tread contemptuously under foot’ (s. 2b; in Heliod. 4, 19, 8 π. πόλιν actually means plunder a city). τὴν πόλιν πατήσουσιν Rv 11:2; pass. (Jos., Bell. 4, 171 πατούμενα τὰ ἅγια) Lk 21:24 (ὑπὸ ἐθνῶν).ⓑ fig. ext. of a: trample in contempt or disdain (Il. 4, 157 ὅρκια; Soph., Aj. 1335, Antig. 745 al.; Herodian 8, 5, 9; Jos., Bell. 4, 258 τ. νόμους) τὸ τῆς αἰσχύνης ἔνδυμα πατεῖν despise (=throw away w. disdain) the garment of shame (s. αἰσχύνη 1) GEg 252, 57.③ move on foot, walk, tread (not in the sense of ‘taking a walk’) (since Pind., P. 2, 85 ἄλλʼ ἄλλοτε πατέων ὁδοῖς σκολιαῖς, of one who moves against an opponent like a fox, stepping now here and now there, in no straight line) with implication that the experience is not planned, intr. πατεῖν ἐπάνω ὄφεων Lk 10:19 (ἐπάνω 1b and cp. TestLevi 18:12.—Diod S 3, 50, 2f speaks of the danger of death in πατεῖν on ὄφεις).—DELG. M-M. TW. -
20 zorruno
• fox-like• foxy• vivisector• viz.
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