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  • 81 góra

    - ry; -ry; dat sg - rze; f
    mountain; ( ubrania) top; ( domu) upstairs; (śmieci, książek) heap

    jechać (pojechać perf) w góry — to go to the mountains

    spojrzeć ( perf) do góry — to look up(wards)

    iść (pójść perf) w górę — (o cenach, akcjach) to go up

    płacić/dziękować z góry — to pay/thank in advance

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    f.
    1. (= wzniesienie, szczyt) mountain, mount; góra lodowa iceberg; góry i doły bumps; jechać w góry go to the mountains; za siedmioma górami, za siedmioma lasami l. za siódmą górą, za siódmą rzeką ( początek bajki) once upon a time (in a distant kingdom); przen. (= daleko) far, far away; mieć pod górę l. górkę pot. have a difficult time, do sth the hard way; góra zrodziła mysz the mountain labors and brings forth a (ridiculous) mouse; góra z górą się nie zejdzie, a człowiek z człowiekiem zawsze it's a small world; friends may meet but mountains never greet; nie chciała góra przyjść do Mahometa, przyszedł Mahomet do góry if the mountain will not come to Mohammad, Mohammad must go to the mountain; łatwiej z góry niż pod górę once I (we, etc.) get over the hump, it's all downhill.
    2. (= stos) heap, pile; obiecywać komuś złote góry promise sb the moon, promise sb (all the riches of) the world.
    3. (= górna część) top, upper part, head; ( domu) upstairs; do góry l. ku górze l. w górę up; ręce do góry (np. przy zatrzymaniu przestępcy) hands up; ( w czasie napadu) stick'em up!; do góry nogami upside down; leżeć do góry brzuchem laze around l. away; głowa do góry! cheer up!, chin up!; mieszkać na górze live upstairs; od góry do dołu from top down, from top to bottom; obejrzeć kogoś od góry do dołu inspect sb from head to toe, look at sb up and down; u góry ( na górze czegoś) at the top; ( w domu) upstairs; iść w górę (= wspinać się) go uphill; ( o ludziach) advance, make a career; (o cenach l. wskazaniach termometru, barometru itp.) go up; w górze rzeki upriver, upstream; z góry ( czegoś) from the top; ( w domu) from upstairs; schodzić z góry ( domu) go downstairs; płacić z góry pay in advance; z górą over, more than; było tam z górą trzydzieści osób there were over thirty people there; traktować kogoś z góry patronize sb, look down one's nose at sb.
    4. pot. (= kierownictwo, władza) the authorities, the management; pot. the bigwigs; wojna na górze management infighting; dostać kopa w górę get bumped up a level; polecenie z góry order l. directive from the management.
    5. (= strych) loft, attic.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > góra

  • 82 strona

    - ny; -ny; dat sg - nie; f
    side; ( stronica) page; ( kierunek) direction, PRAWO party

    strona czynna/bierna — JĘZ active/passive voice

    po lewej/prawej stronie — on the left/right(-hand) side

    przejść ( perf) na drugą stronę (ulicy) — to cross the street

    strona zewnętrzna/wewnętrzna — the outside/inside

    na lewej stronie — ( ubranie) inside out

    z drugiej strony — ( z drugiego końca) from the opposite direction

    z jednej strony..., z drugiej strony... — on (the) one hand..., on the other hand...

    to jej słaba/mocna strona — it's her weak/strong point

    bilet w jedną stronę/w obie strony — single/return ticket (BRIT), one-way/round-trip ticket (US)

    druga strona — ( odwrotna) the reverse (side)

    druga lub odwrotna strona medalu — the other side of the coin

    na lub we wszystkie strony — in all directions

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    f.
    1. (= bok; skraj; aspekt) side; strona „ma” ekon. credit side; strona „winien” ekon. debit side; z jednej strony..., z drugiej strony... on (the) one hand..., on the other hand...; przejść na drugą stronę ulicy cross the street; pod drugiej stronie ulicy across the street; po prawej/lewej stronie on the right/left (hand side); racja jest po twojej stronie you're right; mieć kogoś po swojej stronie have sb on one's side; być po czyjejś stronie be on sb's side, side with sb; stanąć po czyjejś stronie take sides with sb; przejść na czyjąś stronę come over to sb's side, take one's stand at sb's side; przejść na stronę wroga defect to the enemy; przeciągnąć kogoś na swoją stonę gain sb over; walczyć po czyjejś stronie fight on the side of sb, fight side by side with sb; z mojej strony on l. for my part; to ładnie z twojej strony it is kind of you; druga strona medalu the other side of the coin; pomoc finansowa ze strony rodziców financial help on the part of one's parents; krewny ze strony matki a relative from one's mother's side; poszli każdy w swoją stronę everybody went his/her own way; włożyć sweter na lewą stronę put on the sweater inside out; po lewej stronie znajduje się pomnik... on our left we l. you can see the monument of...; patrzył w moją stronę he was looking my way; rozważyć coś ze wszystkich stron consider sth in all its aspects; pokazać się z najlepszej strony put one's best leg forward; nie należy oczekiwać pomocy z tej strony there's no help to be looked for in that quarter; cztery strony świata the four cardinal points; rozglądać się na wszystkie strony look around; rozjechać się w różne strony set off in different directions; pójść na stronę go to the restroom l. toilet; z której strony wieje wiatr? which way is the wind from?; wziąć kogoś na stronę take sb aside; strona równania mat. member l. side of an equation.
    2. (np. książki) page; strona domowa l. główna komp. home page; strona internetowa web page; strona tytułowa title page.
    3. ( cecha) aspect, angle, bearing; jasne i ciemne strony życia the rough and the smooth; znać czyjeś dobre l. złe strony know the length of sb's foot; tłumaczenie nie jest moją mocną stroną translation is not one of my strong points; ta praca ma też swoje dobre/złe strony there are also good/bad aspects of this job; znać kogoś z dobrej strony know the good side of sb.
    4. (okolica, kraj) parts; neighborhood; Br. neighbourhood; nie znam tych stron I don't know these parts; z jakich stron pani pochodzi where(abouts) do you come from?; to są moje rodzinne strony this is my homeland, that's where I come from; tęsknię do stron ojczystych I miss my homeland.
    5. (= uczestnik sporu) party; walczące strony the warring parties; te propozycje nie mogą być zaakceptowane przez stronę polską these proposals cannot be accepted by the Polish delegation.
    6. prawn. party; być stroną w czymś be a party to sth; nakłonić strony do ugody persuade the parties to reach an amicable agreement; pełnomocnik strony a party's attorney(-in-fact); wysokie układające się strony the high contracting parties.
    7. gram. voice; strona bierna passice voice, the passive; strona czynna active voice, the active; strona zwrotna the reflexive, middle voice.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > strona

  • 83 أجال النظر في

    أجَالَ النّظَرَ في
    to look around, let one's eyes wander about; to look at, set eyes on; to look closely at, scrutinize

    Arabic-English new dictionary > أجال النظر في

  • 84 ogledavati se

    vr impf look round/about, turn round/about; impf keep looking/turning round I ogledavati se za nekim look (about) for smb., try to find smb.; ogledavati se po sobi look around the room, turn one's eyes over the room; to se ogledava i u boljem prinosu this is also reflected in a

    Hrvatski-Engleski rječnik > ogledavati se

  • 85 hagilap

    English Definition: see hagilap1 see hagilap2 see hagilap3
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    Active Verb: humagilap
    English Definition: (verb) to search, to gather
    Examples: Humagilap ka ng bato sa daan. (You search for some stones on the road.)
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    Active Verb: maghagilap
    Passive Verb: hagilapin
    English Definition: (verb) to try to get hold of something at the time of need around one's environment
    Examples: Maghagilap ka ng panggatong. (You gather some firewood.) Hagilapin mo ang ano mang kahoy para panggatong. (Gather any wood as firewood.)
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    Active Verb: manghagilap
    Passive Verb: hagilapin
    English Definition: (verb) to look for someone
    Examples: Manghagilap ka ng trabahador. (You look for some laborers.) Hagilapin mo si Nena para tumulong sa kusina. (Look for Nena to help in the kitchen.)

    Tagalog-English dictionary > hagilap

  • 86 О-51

    БЕЗ ОГЛЙДКИ coll PrepP, Invar, adv
    1. бежать, убегать и т. п. - (to run, run away etc) very quickly and without turning around to look behind one: (fast and) without a backward glance
    (fast and) without looking back with abandon.
    Орозкул встал, подтянул штаны и, боясь оглянуться, затрусил прочь... Но Кулубек остановил его: «Стой! Мы тебе скажем последнее слово. У тебя никогда не будет детей. Ты злой и негодный человек... Уходи — и чтобы навсегда. А ну быстрее!» Орозкул побежал без оглядки (Айтматов 1). Огог-kul stood up, pulled up his trousers, and, afraid to glance back, ran away at a quick trot....But Kulubek stopped him: "Wait! We'll say to you one final word. You will never have any children. You are an evil and worthless man....Go from here-forever. Double quick!" Orozkul ran off without a backward glance (1a).
    2. (to make a decision, set out upon a course of action etc) resolutely, without vacillation
    without looking back
    without a backward glance without any hesitation without a second thought without thinking twice.
    3. предаваться чему, делать что и т. п. - (to do sth.) unrestrainedly, forgetting all else, (indulge in sth.) without limiting o.s. etc
    unreservedly
    without restraint (reserve) (give o.s.) completely (to sth.).
    4. любить кого, верить кому \О-51 (to love s.o.) to the greatest possible extent, (to trust s.o.) fully and completely
    without any reservations
    without reservation unreservedly unconditionally.
    ...Любить она (Кира) умела, как любят сейчас на Земле, -спокойно и без оглядки... (Стругацкие 4). Куга was capable of true love, the way women on Earth would love-quiet and without any reservations (4a).
    5. imprudently, without due consideration
    carelessly
    recklessly rashly thoughtlessly indiscriminately.
    Вместе с Ахматовой он (Мандельштам) выдумал игру: у каждого из них есть кучка талонов на признание поэтов, но она - жмот, сквалыга - свои талоны бережёт, а он истратил последний на старика Звенигородского и просит взаймы хоть один, хоть половинку... Она действительно свои талоны берегла, а в старости стала раздавать их без оглядки - направо и налево (Мандельштам 2). Не (Mandelstam) and Akhmatova even invented a game: each of them had a certain number of tokens to be expended on the recognition of poets - but while she was tightfisted and hung on to her tokens for all she was worth, he spent his last one on old Zvenigorodski, and then had to beg her to "lend" him one, or even half of one....Having hoarded them up so jealously, in her old age Akhmatova began to hand out her tokens indiscriminately, right, left, and center (2a)

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > О-51

  • 87 без оглядки

    [PrepP; Invar; adv]
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    1. бежать, убегать и т.п. без оглядки (to run, run away etc) very quickly and without turning around to look behind one:
    - with abandon.
         ♦ Орозкул встал, подтянул штаны и, боясь оглянуться, затрусил прочь... Но Кулубек остановил его: " Стой! Мы тебе скажем последнее слово. У тебя никогда не будет детей. Ты злой и негодный человек... Уходи - и чтобы навсегда. А ну быстрее!" Орозкул побежал без оглядки (Айтматов 1). Orozkul stood up, pulled up his trousers, and, afraid to glance back, ran away at a quick trot....But Kulubek stopped him: "Wait! We'll say to you one final word. You will never have any children. You are an evil and worthless man....Go from here-forever. Double quick!" Orozkul ran off without a backward glance (1a).
    2. (to make a decision, set out upon a course of action etc) resolutely, without vacillation:
    - without thinking twice.
    3. предаваться чему, делать что и т.п. без оглядки (to do sth.) unrestrainedly, forgetting all else, (indulge in sth.) without limiting o.s. etc:
    - (give o.s.) completely (to sth.).
    4. любить кого, верить кому без оглядки (to love s.o.) to the greatest possible extent, (to trust s.o.) fully and completely:
    - unconditionally.
         ♦...Любить она [Кира] умела, как любят сейчас на Земле, - спокойно и без оглядки... (Стругацкие 4). Kyra was capable of true love, the way women on Earth would love-quiet and without any reservations (4a).
    5. imprudently, without due consideration:
    - indiscriminately.
         ♦ Вместе с Ахматовой он [Мандельштам] выдумал игру: у каждого из них есть кучка талонов на признание поэтов, но она - жмот, сквалыга - свои талоны бережёт, а он истратил последний на старика Звенигородского и просит взаймы хоть один, хоть половинку... Она действительно свои талоны берегла, а в старости стала раздавать их без оглядки - направо и налево (Мандельштам 2). Не [Mandelstam] and Akhmatova even invented a game: each of them had a certain number of tokens to be expended on the recognition of poets - but while she was tightfisted and hung on to her tokens for all she was worth, he spent his last one on old Zvenigorodski, and then had to beg her to "lend" him one, or even half of one....Having hoarded them up so jealously, in her old age Akhmatova began to hand out her tokens indiscriminately, right, left, and center (2a)

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > без оглядки

  • 88 сторона

    жен.
    1) side; quarter; hand перен. тж.; direction

    по обе стороны — on each side of, on either side of.

    смотреть, глядеть, озираться по сторонам — to gaze about, to look around

    на той стороне реки, по ту сторону реки — across the river

    в стороне — aside, aloof, apart, some distance away from; to keep one's distance, to remain aloof ( держаться); to let smth. pass ( оставлять)

    в сторону — (кого-л./чего-л.) towards smb., in smb.'s direction; театр. aside; (от кого-л./чего-л.) away from smb./smth.

    на стороне — (быть на чьей-л. стороне) to be on smb.'s side; ( находиться) on the side, elsewhere, away from home

    на сторону — abroad, away from home

    со стороны — (кого-л.) from the direction of; ( человек) from the outside, outsider

    2) (в споре) part, party

    брать чью-л. сторону, принимать чью-л. сторону, держать чью-л. сторону, становиться на чью-л. сторону — to take smb.'s part/side, to side with smb.

    воюющая сторона — belligerent, combatant

    перейти на чью-л. сторону — to come over to smb.'s side

    3) ( страна) place, region, country; parts мн. ч.
    4) (точка зрения) aspect; slant
    •

    нижняя сторона, обратная сторона — underside

    ••

    обходить стороной — to avoid smth., to pass smth. by

    с чьей-л. стороны — on the part of smb.

    со своей стороны — from one's part, as far as one is concerned

    шутки в сторону — joking aside, away with jokes

    - продавать на сторону
    - смотреть со стороны

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > сторона

  • 89 бік

    ч
    (род. відм. боку) side; (сторона тж.) hand; (сторона в суперечці тж.) party; (фланг тж.) flank; геол. ( родовища) wall

    на бік, боком — sideways, laterally

    під боком — nearby, close at hand

    з одного боку…, з іншого боку — on the one hand…, on the other hand

    з обох боків — from both sides, on each side of, on either side of

    з того боку — across, on the other side (of), on the far side (of)

    зі свого боку — from one's part, as far as one is concerned

    дивитися на всі боки — to gaze about, to look around

    лицьовий бік — the right side, obverse

    Українсько-англійський словник > бік

  • 90 обводить

    (кого-л./что-л.)
    несовер. - обводить; совер. - обвести
    1) (кого-л. вокруг)
    lead/take (round, about); walk around
    2) (чем-л.) (ограждать чем-л.)
    enclose/encircle/border (with); surround (with); ring
    draw out; outline; circle
    4) (в футболе, хоккее)
    dodge, outplay; get past; sidestep
    5) (взглядом, глазами)
    see/look around
    ••

    обводить вокруг пальца перен. разг. — to turn/twist smb. round one's finger, to cheat, to take in

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > обводить

  • 91 التفت

    اِلْتَفَتَ: تَلَفّتَ
    to turn, turn around, turn one's face or head; to look around

    Arabic-English new dictionary > التفت

  • 92 fichu

    fichu, e (inf) [fi∫y]
       a. (avant le nom) ( = mauvais) rotten (inf)
    • fichu téléphone ! that damn phone! (inf)
       b. ( = perdu, détruit) done for (inf)
       c. ( = habillé) regarde comme il est fichu ! look at the way he's dressed!
    • c'est bien fichu, cette table pliante that folding table is well designed
       e. être mal fichu or pas bien fichu [malade] to feel rotten (inf)
       f. ( = capable) il est fichu d'y aller, tel que je le connais knowing him he's quite capable of going
    * * *
    fiʃy
    1.
    (colloq) participe passé ficher 1. 3, 4, 5, 2. 2, 3, 4

    2.
    (colloq) adjectif
    1) ( détestable) (before n) [temps] rotten (colloq); [pluie] dreadful; [voiture, télévision] damned (colloq), blasted (colloq); [caractère] nasty; [métier] rotten (colloq)
    2) ( condamné) [personne] done for (colloq); (usé, cassé) [vêtements, véhicule, machine] done for (colloq)
    3) ( fait)

    être bien fichu — [femme] to be shapely; [homme] to be well built

    être bien/mal fichu — ( conçu) [dispositif] to be well/badly designed; [appartement] to be well/badly laid out; [vêtement] to be well made/badly cut

    être mal fichu — ( malade) to feel lousy (colloq)

    une fichue différence — a heck (colloq) of a difference

    5) ( capable)

    3.
    nom masculin ( châle) shawl
    * * *
    fiʃy fichu, -e
    1. pp
    *
    See:
    2. adj *
    1) (= fini, inutilisable)

    Son stylo a fui dans sa poche et son veston est fichu. — His pen leaked in his pocket and his jacket has had it.

    2) (intensif: avant le nom) wretched * darned *

    Avec cette fichue neige toute les routes sont bloquées. — All the roads are blocked with this wretched snow., All the roads are blocked with this darned snow.

    3) (= capable)

    Il était trop mal fichu pour venir à l'entraînement ce soir. — He was feeling too lousy to come to training tonight., (chose) useless

    3. nm
    (= foulard) scarf, headscarf
    * * *
    A ○pp ⇒ ficher A 3, 4, 5, B 2, 3, 4.
    B ○pp adj
    1 ( détestable) (before n) [temps] rotten○; [pluie] dreadful; [voiture, télévision] flaming GB, damned○, blasted○ ( épith); [caractère] nasty; [métier] rotten○; ce fichu gamin ne veut rien apprendre this damn○ kid just doesn't want to learn; c'est à cause de ma fichue maladresse! it's because I'm so damned○ clumsy!;
    2 ( condamné) [personne, chaussures, vêtements, véhicule, machine] done for; s'il m'interroge je suis fichue if he asks me any questions, I'm done for ou sunk○; c'est fichu maintenant, c'est trop tard! it's no good now, it's too late!; s'il pleut c'est fichu if it rains that's the end of that; c'est la troisième ampoule de fichue that's the third bulb that's gone ou blown out US;
    3 ( fait) comment c'est fichu ce truc? how's this thing put together ou made?; être bien fichu [femme] to be shapely; [homme] to be well built; [mécanisme, dispositif] to be well designed; [appartement] to be well laid out; [vêtement] to be well made; [atlas, dictionnaire] to be well laid out; être mal fichu ( malade) [personne] to feel lousy○; ( mal conçu) [mécanisme, dispositif] to be badly designed; [appartement] to be badly laid out; [vêtement] to be badly cut; [atlas, dictionnaire] to be badly laid out; ce logiciel est très mal fichu this software is really badly designed;
    4 ( considérable) une fichue différence a heck○ of a difference;
    5 ( capable) être fichu de faire to be quite capable of doing; elle est fichue de réussir ses examens she's quite capable of passing her exams; il n'est pas fichu d'écrire une lettre he can't even write a letter.
    C nm shawl; avoir un fichu sur les épaules to have a shawl around one's shoulders.
    I
    ( féminin fichue) [fiʃy] adjectif
    1. [perdu]
    pour samedi soir, c'est fichu Saturday evening's up the spout (UK) ou down the drain (US)
    3. (avant le nom) [important]
    4. [capable]
    II
    [fiʃy] nom masculin

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > fichu

  • 93 a-şi băga capul sănătos sub evanghelie

    to ask / to go' asking / to look for trouble
    to take a bear by the tooth
    to put a halter around one's neck
    to put one's head / neck in / into a nose

    Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a-şi băga capul sănătos sub evanghelie

  • 94 отдавать концы

    прост.
    1) ( умирать) cf. give up the ghost; take off for the other world; kick off; cut (slip) one's (the) cable; drop (pop) off the hooks

    - А что, собственно, со мной случилось?.. - Во всяком случае, ранены вы не были, что же касается до некой острой инфекционной болезни, то разве тут разберёшь? Во всяком случае, вы едва не отдали концы... (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — 'What exactly happened to me?'... 'In any case you weren't wounded, and as for a certain acute infectious disease, could it be diagnosed here? In any case, you almost kicked off...'

    [Я] засмеялся от трусливой мысли, что, не дай бог, отдам сейчас концы, умру тихим образом среди высокой травы на солнечном поле, среди диких цветов. (Н. Евдокимов, Страстная площадь) — I laughed at the cowardly thought that God forbid, I would give up the ghost here, die quietly amid the tall grass in the sunny field, amid the wild flowers.

    - Как это ты в яму с известью попал? - Да-а, неохота вспоминать. Чуть концы не отдал. Можно сказать, уже там был. (Ф. Искандер, Должники) — 'How did you manage to fall into that lime pit?' 'Oh, that? I'd rather not think about it. Nearly took off for the other world then. You can consider I've been there already.'

    2) (спасаться бегством, удирать, убегать, скрываться и т. п.) beat it; cast off; cf. make a run of it; make a get-away; sling (slip, take) one's hook; cut and run; take a runout powder

    - Подхожу, понимаешь, к дому, конечно с задворок, стал у сарая. Смотрю: в саду кто-то стоит, к дереву прижался, но штык выдал. Я, понятно, отдал концы. Вот к тебе и притопал. (Н. Островский, Как закалялась сталь) — 'I was going home, you see, by the back way of course, and had just stopped at the shed to look around, when I saw a bayonet sticking out from behind a tree trunk. I naturally cast off and headed for your place.'

    Мужчина внимательно посмотрел на него. - Что, конфликт дома, и ты, значит, отдал концы? - Юрка потупился и не ответил. (Н. Дубов, Беглец) — The man looked at Yurka attentively. 'Had trouble at home and decided to take a runout powder, is that it?' Yurka stared at his toes and made no reply.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > отдавать концы

  • 95 ἐκνεύω

    + V 0-6-1-0-1=8 JgsA 4,18(ter); 18,26; 2 Kgs 2,24
    to turn aside, to move away Mi 6,14; to turn the head JgsA 18,26; to turn the head, to look around 2 Kgs 23,16; to bend one’s course, to deviate from the way [πρός τινα] JgsA 4,18; to bend one’s course to, to be inclined to [εἴς τι] 3 Mc 3,22
    Cf. HARLÉ; 1999 237; →LSJ RSuppl

    Lust (λαγνεία) > ἐκνεύω

  • 96 Gillette, King Camp

    [br]
    b. 5 January 1855 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA
    d. 9 July 1932 Los Angeles, California, USA
    [br]
    American inventor and manufacturer, inventor of the safety razor.
    [br]
    Gillette's formal education in Chicago was brought to an end when a disastrous fire destroyed all his father's possessions. Forced to fend for himself, he worked first in the hardware trade in Chicago and New York, then as a travelling salesman. Gillette inherited the family talent for invention, but found that his successful inventions barely paid for those that failed. He was advised by a previous employer, William Painter (inventor of the Crown Cork), to look around for something that could be used widely and then thrown away. In 1895 he succeeded in following that advice of inventing something which people could use and then throw away, so that they would keep coming back for more. An idea came to him while he was honing an old-fashioned razor one morning; he was struck by the fact that only a short piece of the whole length of a cutthroat razor is actually used for shaving, as well as by the potentially dangerous nature of the implement. He "rushed out to purchase some pieces of brass, some steel ribbon used for clock springs, a small hand vise and some files". He thought of using a thin steel blade sharpened on each side, placed between two plates and held firmly together by a handle. Though coming from a family of inventors, Gillette had no formal technical education and was entirely ignorant of metallurgy. For six years he sought a way of making a cheap blade from sheet steel that could be hardened, tempered and sharpened to a keen edge.
    Gillette eventually found financial supporters: Henry Sachs, a Boston lamp manufacturer; his brother-in-law Jacob Heilbron; and William Nickerson, who had a considerable talent for invention. By skilled trial and error rather than expert metallurgical knowledge, Nickerson devised ways of forming and sharpening the blades, and it was these that brought commercial success. In 1901, the American Safety Razor Company, later to be renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company, was set up. When it started production in 1903 the company was badly in debt, and managed to sell only fifty-one razors and 168 blades; but by the end of the following year, 90,000 razors and 12.4 million blades had been sold. A sound invention coupled with shrewd promotion ensured further success, and eight plants manufacturing safety razors were established in various parts of the world. Gillette's business experiences led him into the realms of social theory about the way society should be organized. He formulated his views in a series of books published over the years 1894 to 1910. He believed that competition led to a waste of up to 90 per cent of human effort and that want and crime would be eliminated by substituting a giant trust to plan production centrally. Unfortunately, the public in America, or anywhere else for that matter, were not ready for this form of Utopia; no omniscient planners were available, and human wants and needs were too various to be supplied by a single agency. Even so, some of his ideas have found favour: air conditioning and government provision of work for the unemployed. Gillette made a fortune from his invention and retired from active participation in the business in 1913, although he remained President until 1931 and Director until his death.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    "Origin of the Gillette razor", Gillette Blade (February/March).
    Further Reading
    Obituary, 1932, New York Times (11 July).
    J.Jewkes, D.Sawers and R.Stillerman, 1958, The Sources of Invention, London: Macmillan.
    LRD / IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Gillette, King Camp

  • 97 В-137

    В ВИДУ чего obs PrepP Invar Prep the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human, collect, or concr) or adv
    within visible distance
    within view of
    within (in) sight of (in limited contexts) in full view of.
    Войска авангарда расположились впереди Вишау, в виду цепи неприятельской, уступавшей нам место при малейшей перестрелке в продолжение всего дня (Толстой 4). The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau within sight of the enemy line, which all day long had yielded ground to us at the least skirmish (4a).
    «Это ужасно», - начал в виду их собственной деревни Юрий Андреевич (Пастернак 1). "It's terrible," said Yurii (6i) Andreievich when they were in sight of their own village (1a)
    He успели обыватели оглянуться, как из экипажа выскочил Байбаков, а следом за ним в виду всей толпы очутился точь-в-точь такой же градоначальник, как и тот, который, за минуту перед тем, был привезен в телеге исправником! (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Before the townsfolk could look around, out of the carriage jumped Dormousov, and behind him, in full view of the crowd, appeared a town governor who was the spit and image of the one the commissioner had brought by cart the moment before' (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > В-137

  • 98 С-256

    СЛЕДОМ ЗА кем-чем AdvP Invar Prep the resulting PrepP is adv
    immediately following ( s.o. or sth.) in time or space: (right) after
    (right) behind.
    И опять ему снилась какая-то чертовщина. Бабка Наталья... протягивала ему горсть мятых вишен... А потом покойный начальник службы движения Егоркин... честил его на чём свет стоит... Следом за Егоркиным выплыла из небытия собственная его - Лашкова - свадьба... (Максимов 3). Once again all hell was let loose in his dreams. Granny Natalya...offered him a handful of dried (sic) cherries....Next comes Yegorkin, the traffic manager, long since dead...cursing him up hill and down dale....After Yegorkin, his own wedding floated up from oblivion... (3a).
    He успели обыватели оглянуться, как из экипажа выскочил Байбаков, а следом за ним в виду всей толпы очутился точь-в-точь такой же градоначальник, как и тот, который, за минуту перед тем, был привезён в телеге исправником! (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Before the townsfolk could look around, out of the carriage jumped Dormousov, and behind him, in full view of the crowd, appeared a town governor who was the spit and image of the one the commissioner had brought by cart the moment before! (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > С-256

  • 99 Т-175

    ТОЧКА В ТОЧКУ ТОЧЬ-В-ТОЧЬ both coll NP or AdvP these forms only fixed WO
    1.
    adv
    precisely
    exactly
    to a T to the letter perfectly letter-perfect (in refer, to time) to the minute on the button on the dot.
    (Мурзавецкая:)...Это подлог за это Сибирь. (Отдаёт письмо Чугунову.)...Сам, что ли? (Чугунов:) Где уж самому! Руки трясутся... Племянник. (Мурзавецкая:) Горецкий? (Чугунов:) Он, благодетельница. Думали, ничего из парня не выйдет, не учился нигде и грамоте едва знает, отдали частному землемеру в помощники, так всё одно что бросили... И вдруг какое дарование открылось! Что хотите дайте, точка в точку сделает (Островский 5). (М.:) It's forgery. Siberia for this! (She hands the letter back to Chugunov)...Did you do it yourself? (Ch.:) How could I do it? My hands shake. My nephew... (M.:) Goretsky? (Ch.:) It was he, my benefactress. We thought nothing would come of the lad. He never studied
    he scarcely knows how to read and write. We apprenticed him to a surveyor
    just the same as casting him off. But what a talent he suddenly developed! Give him anything you like, he'll copy it exactly (5a).
    Всё вышло так, как думал Михаил. Правда, через милицию Першин его не разыскивал, во всяком случае при нём не заводил речь об этом, а всё остальное — точь-в-точь, тютелька в тютельку (Абрамов 1). It turned out just as Mikhail thought. Granted, Pershin had not gotten the police after him-or at least he made no mention of having done so - but as for the rest: to a T, to a hair (1 a).
    Опыты эти пока что реальных результатов не давали, хотя некоторые характерные признаки пукса (попсе word, гибрид картофеля с помидором) стали уже проявляться: листья и стебли на нём были вроде картофельные, зато корни точь-в-точь помидорные (Войнович 2). So far these experiments had not produced any actual results, although certain characteristics of the PATS (a hybrid of the potato and the tomato) had started to appear: the leaves and stems were potato-like, while the roots were letter-perfect tomato (2a).
    2. \Т-175 (похож, походит на кого-что и т. п.) ( modif or adv
    (a person or thing resembles another person or thing) very closely:
    X точка в точку похож на Y-a - X is the spitting image (spit and image) of Y X is identical in every way (to Y) X looks just like Y X is an exact copy (replica, duplicate) of Y.
    «Вводят, значит, этого китайца в кремлёвский дом и показывают на какого-то человека, точка в точку похожего на царя Николая» (Искандер 3). "So they bring this Chinaman into a house in the Kremlin and point out a man who's the spitting image of Czar Nicholas" (3a).
    He успели обыватели оглянуться, как из экипажа выскочил Байбаков, а следом за ним в виду всей толпы очутился точь-в-точь такой же градоначальник, как и тот, который, за минуту перед тем, был привезён в телеге исправником! (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Before the townsfolk could look around, out of the carriage jumped Dormousov, and behind him, in full view of the crowd, appeared a town governor who was the spit and image of the one the commissioner had brought by cart the moment before! (1a).
    Артемий Филиппович (надевает очки и читает):) «Почтмейстер точь-в-точь департаментский сторож Михеев...» (Гоголь 4). (А.Е:) (Puts on his glasses and reads) "The Postmaster is an exact replica of the department's watchman Mikheyev..." (4a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Т-175

  • 100 в виду

    [PrepP; Invar; Prep; the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human, collect, or concr) or adv]
    =====
    ⇒ within visible distance:
    - within <in> sight of;
    - [in limited contexts] in full view of.
         ♦ Войска авангарда расположились впереди Вишау, в виду цепи неприятельской, уступавшей нам место при малейшей перестрелке в продолжение всего дня (Толстой 4). The troops of the vanguard were stationed before Wischau within sight of the enemy line, which all day long had yielded ground to us at the least skirmish (4a).
         ♦ "Это ужасно", - начал в виду их собственной деревни Юрий Андреевич (Пастернак 1). "It's terrible," said Yurii Andreievich when they were in sight of their own village (1a)
         ♦ Не успели обыватели оглянуться, как из экипажа выскочил Байбаков, а следом за ним в виду всей толпы очутился точь-в-точь такой же градоначальник, как и тот, который, за минуту перед тем, был привезен в телеге исправником! (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). Before the towns> could look around, out of the carriage jumped Dormousov, and behind him, in full view of the crowd, appeared a town governor who was the spit and image of the one the commissioner had brought by cart the moment before. (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в виду

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