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  • 2 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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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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  • 3 bajo

    adj.
    1 low.
    2 short, small.
    3 low, tawdry, base.
    4 low, contemptible, lowly, base.
    5 low-lying, low-down.
    6 hushed, soft, soft-sounding.
    adv.
    1 softly, in a low voice, low.
    Let's talk low because the baby's sleep Hablemos bajo porque el niño duerme.
    2 low, in a low position, near ground level, near the floor.
    prep.
    1 under, below, beneath, underneath.
    2 under.
    3 under, under the jurisdiction of.
    m.
    1 bass.
    2 bass, double bass, bass guitar.
    3 bass singer, bass voice, bass.
    4 hem, turn-up, hemline, turnup.
    5 low lying ground.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: bajar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) low
    ■ pon la música, pero baja put the music on low
    2 (persona) short, not tall
    3 (cabeza) bowed, held low; (ojos) lowered, downcast
    4 (marea) out
    5 (despreciable) despicable, contemptible, base
    6 (territorio, río) lower
    7 (época) later
    8 (inferior) poor, low
    ————————
    1 (piso) ground floor, US first floor
    2 (de prenda) bottoms plural, US cuff
    3 MÚSICA (instrumento) bass; (contrabajo) double bass
    1 MÚSICA (músico) bass player; (cantante) bass
    2 (voz) softly, quietly, in a low voice
    1 under
    1 (planta baja) ground floor; (sótano) basement
    \
    por lo bajo (disimuladamente) on the sly 2 (en voz baja) in a low voice 3 (sin exagerar) conservatively
    bajas pasiones animal passions
    bajos fondos underworld sing
    * * *
    1. prep. 2. adv.
    1) low
    2) softly, quietly
    3. (f. - baja)
    adj.
    1) low
    4) soft
    5) base, vile
    4. noun m.
    1) bass
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=de poca altura) [objeto] low; [persona] short; [parte] lower, bottom; [tierra] low-lying; [agua] shallow

    planta baja — ground floor, first floor (EEUU)

    2) (=inclinado)
    3) (=reducido, inferior) [precios, temperaturas, frecuencia] low; [calidad] low, poor

    de baja calidad — low-quality, poor-quality

    • estar bajo de algo, estar bajo de ánimo o de moral — to be in low spirits

    estar bajo de forma (física) — to be unfit, be out of shape

    4) [sonido] faint, soft; [voz, tono] low

    hablar en voz baja — to speak quietly o in a low voice

    5) [etapa]
    6) [oro, plata] with a high level of impurities
    7) [color] (=apagado) dull; (=pálido) pale
    8) (=humilde) low, humble; [clase] lower; [condición] lowly; [barrio] poor; [tarea] menial
    9) pey (=vulgar) common, ordinary; (=mezquino) base, mean
    10)

    por lo bajo — (=a lo menos) at (the) least

    2. SM
    1) (Cos) [de vestido] hem; [de pantalones] turn-up, cuff (EEUU)
    2) [de edificio] (=piso) ground floor, first floor (EEUU)

    bajo comercial — ground-floor o (EEUU) first-floor business premises

    3) (Mús) (=instrumento) bass; (=voz) bass; (=guitarrista) bass (guitar) player, bassist
    4) pl bajos [de edificio] ground floor sing, first floor sing (EEUU); [de coche] underside; euf [del cuerpo] private parts
    5) (=hondonada) hollow
    6) (Náut) = bajío 1)
    3.
    ADV [volar] low; [tocar, cantar] quietly, softly

    hablar bajo — (=en voz baja) to speak quietly, speak softly; (=tener una voz suave) to be softly spoken, be soft spoken

    ¡más bajo, por favor! — quieter, please!

    4. PREP
    1) (=debajo de) under

    • bajo cero — below zero

    • bajo la lluvia — in the rain

    • bajo tierra — underground

    2) (=dependiente de, sometido a) under

    bajo el título de... — under the title of...

    fianza 1), juramento 1), llave 1)
    * * *
    I
    - ja adjetivo
    1) [ser] < persona> short
    2) (indicando posición, nivel)
    a) [ser] < techo> low; < tierras> low-lying
    b) [estar] <lámpara/cuadro/nivel> low
    c) ( bajado)
    3)
    a) <calificación/precio/número> low; < temperatura> low

    tiene la tensión or presión baja — he has low blood pressure

    b) <volumen/luz> low

    en voz baja — quietly, in a low voice

    4)
    5) ( grave) <tono/voz> deep, low
    6) ( vil) <acción/instinto> low, base

    caer bajo: qué bajo has caído! — how could you stoop so low!

    •
    II
    a) <volar/pasar> low
    b) <hablar/cantar> softly, quietly
    III
    1)
    a) ( planta baja) first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor
    b)

    los bajos — (CS) the first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor

    2)
    a) (de falda, vestido) hem
    b) bajos masculino plural (Auto) underside
    3) ( contrabajo) (double) bass
    IV
    a) ( debajo de) under

    bajo techo — under cover, indoors

    bajo el cielo estrellado — (liter) beneath the starry sky (liter)

    b) (expresando sujeción, dependencia) under

    bajo el título... — under the title...

    * * *
    I
    - ja adjetivo
    1) [ser] < persona> short
    2) (indicando posición, nivel)
    a) [ser] < techo> low; < tierras> low-lying
    b) [estar] <lámpara/cuadro/nivel> low
    c) ( bajado)
    3)
    a) <calificación/precio/número> low; < temperatura> low

    tiene la tensión or presión baja — he has low blood pressure

    b) <volumen/luz> low

    en voz baja — quietly, in a low voice

    4)
    5) ( grave) <tono/voz> deep, low
    6) ( vil) <acción/instinto> low, base

    caer bajo: qué bajo has caído! — how could you stoop so low!

    •
    II
    a) <volar/pasar> low
    b) <hablar/cantar> softly, quietly
    III
    1)
    a) ( planta baja) first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor
    b)

    los bajos — (CS) the first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor

    2)
    a) (de falda, vestido) hem
    b) bajos masculino plural (Auto) underside
    3) ( contrabajo) (double) bass
    IV
    a) ( debajo de) under

    bajo techo — under cover, indoors

    bajo el cielo estrellado — (liter) beneath the starry sky (liter)

    b) (expresando sujeción, dependencia) under

    bajo el título... — under the title...

    * * *
    bajo1
    1 = bass.

    Ex: Russian singer Vladimir Ognovenko is one of the most arresting basses on the opera scene today.

    bajo2

    Ex: The ground floor of the library contains a foyer with separate entrance to different departments.

    * bajo comercial = commercial premise.

    bajo3
    3 = low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], lowly [lowlier -comp., lowliest -sup.], sagging, low-lying.

    Ex: Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.

    Ex: Such a concept came as a great surprise to many information educators who rather dismissively regarded the information qua information field of activity as being too lowly in terms of salary potential.
    Ex: It was obvious that Balzac's enthusiasm for the grant lifted his spirits up from their normal sagging state.
    Ex: With the introduction of irrigation, low-lying areas are prone to waterlogging and soil salinization.
    * a bajas temperaturas = at low temperature.
    * a bajo coste = low-cost.
    * a bajo costo = low-cost.
    * a bajo nivel = low-level.
    * a bajo precio = lower-cost, lower-cost, at a low price, on the cheap.
    * altibajos = ups and downs.
    * altos y bajos = highs and lows, peaks and valleys.
    * arma de bajo calibre = small arm.
    * baja Edad Media, la = late Middle Ages, the.
    * baja resolución = low resolution.
    * baja tecnología = low tech [low-tech].
    * baja temperatura = low temperature.
    * bajo cero = sub-zero, below-freezing.
    * bajo consumo = low power consumption.
    * bajo coste = low cost.
    * bajo en ácido = low-acid.
    * bajo en calorías = low cal, low-calorie.
    * bajo en carbohidratos = low-carb(ohydrate).
    * bajo en grasas = low fat.
    * bajo en hidratos de carbono = low-carb(ohydrate).
    * bajo precio = low cost.
    * bajo presión = under the cosh.
    * bajos ingresos = low income.
    * bajo vientre = lower abdomen.
    * barrio bajo = skid row.
    * bebida baja en alcohol = low-alcohol drink.
    * cuando la marea está baja = at low tide.
    * cultura de la clase baja = low culture.
    * de baja calidad = poor in detail, low-grade [lowgrade], low-quality, third rate [third-rate], low-end, trashy [trashier -comp., trashiest -sup.].
    * de baja intensidad = low-intensity [low intensity].
    * de baja ralea = ignoble.
    * de bajo consumo = low energy.
    * de bajo contenido en grasas = low fat.
    * de bajo crecimiento = low-growing.
    * de bajo estatus social = low-status.
    * de bajo nivel = lower-level, low-level.
    * de bajo precio = low-priced.
    * de bajo riesgo = low-risk.
    * decir en voz baja = say under + Posesivo + breath, say in + a low voice, say in + a quiet voice.
    * de la gama baja = low-end.
    * de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de tacón bajo = low-heeled.
    * dieta baja en carbohidratos = low-carb diet.
    * dieta baja en hidratos de carbono = low-carb diet.
    * el más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * el punto más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * en su nivel más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en su punto más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en un nivel bajo = at a low ebb.
    * en un punto bajo = at a low ebb.
    * estar muy bajo = be way down.
    * familia de bajos ingresos = low-income family.
    * fijar precios bajos = price + low.
    * frente de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure.
    * hablar en voz baja = whisper, speak + low.
    * marea baja = low tide.
    * más bien bajo = shortish.
    * monte bajo = undergrowth, understorey [understory, -USA], fynbos, shrubland, scrubland.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * período bajo = dry spell.
    * período de baja actividad = dry spell.
    * persona de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * persona de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * planta baja = ground floor.
    * que habla en voz baja = quietly spoken.
    * que vuela bajo = low-flying.
    * sistema de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure, low pressure system.
    * temporada baja = low season.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.

    bajo4

    Ex: One of the outcomes of entry under title has been the proliferation of serials titles.

    * acoger bajo la representación de Uno = bring under + Posesivo + umbrella.
    * acoger bajo la tutela de Uno = bring under + Posesivo + umbrella.
    * bajo agua = undersea, underwater.
    * bajo amenaza = under threat.
    * bajo arresto domiciliario = under house arrest.
    * bajo cero = below zero.
    * bajo ciertas circunstancias = under certain circumstances.
    * bajo ciertas condiciones = under certain conditions.
    * bajo coacción = under duress.
    * bajo el asesoramiento de = on the advice of.
    * bajo el brazo = under + Posesivo + arm.
    * bajo el cargo de = on charges of.
    * bajo el control de = under the control of.
    * bajo el emblema = under the banner.
    * bajo el manto de la noche = under the cover of darkness, under the cloak of darkness.
    * bajo el patrocinio de = under the aegis of.
    * bajo el sol = in the eye of the sun.
    * bajo el yugo de = under the yoke of.
    * bajo juramento = under oath, sworn.
    * bajo la apariencia de = in the guise of, under the guise of.
    * bajo la competencia de = under the jurisdiction of.
    * bajo la dirección de = under the supervision of.
    * bajo las garras de = under the grip of.
    * bajo la supervisión de = under the supervision of.
    * bajo la tutela = under the auspices of.
    * bajo la tutela de = under the aegis of.
    * bajo la tutela de Alguien = under + Posesivo + auspices.
    * bajo llave = under lock and key.
    * bajo los auspicios de = under the aegis of, under the auspices of.
    * bajo los auspicios de Alguien = under + Posesivo + auspices.
    * bajo los pies = underfoot.
    * bajo lupa = under the microscope.
    * bajo ninguna circunstancia = under no/any circumstances.
    * bajo ningún concepto = on no account, not on any account, under no/any circumstances.
    * bajo + Posesivo + custodia = in + Posesivo + safekeeping.
    * bajo presión = under pressure.
    * bajo reforma = under reform.
    * bajo sospecha = under suspicion.
    * bajo tierra = underground, below surface.
    * bajo un mismo techo = under one roof.
    * decretar libertad bajo fianza = remand.
    * guardar bajo llave = keep under + lock and key.
    * libertad bajo fianza = bail.
    * mantener bajo control = keep + a rein on.
    * tener Algo bajo el control de Uno = have + Nombre + at + Posesivo + command.
    * territorio bajo mandato = mandate.

    bajo5
    5 = lowdown, mean [meaner -comp., meanest -sup.].

    Ex: The board clearly didn't care if its commissioner was a lowdown, lying, corrupt and untrustworthy creep, likely because that is the nature of the entire organization.

    Ex: Whereas in most European countries during this period welfare provision continued to develop, in Australia it languished at a level which, with the exception of Japan, was the meanest of the developed countries.

    * * *
    bajo1 -ja
    A [ SER] ‹persona› short
    ese chico bajito que trabaja en el bar that short o small guy who works in the bar
    B (indicando posición, nivel)
    1 [ SER] ‹techo› low; ‹tierras› low-lying
    un vestido de talle bajo a low-waisted dress
    2 [ ESTAR] ‹lámpara/cuadro› low
    las ramas más bajas del árbol the lowest branches of the tree
    la parte baja de la estantería the bottom shelf/lower shelves of the bookcase
    el nivel de aceite está bajo the oil level is low
    ¡qué bajo está el río! isn't the river low!
    la marea está baja it's low tide, the tide is out
    3
    (bajado): la casa tenía las persianas bajas the house had the blinds down
    caminaba con la mirada baja she walked (along) looking at the ground o with her eyes lowered
    C
    1 ‹calificación/precio/número› low; ‹temperatura› low
    bajo en nicotina y alquitrán low in nicotine and tar
    una bebida baja en calorías a low-calorie drink
    tiene la tensión or presión baja he has low blood pressure, his blood pressure is low
    liquidaban todo a precios bajísimos they were selling everything off really cheap(ly)
    artículos de baja calidad poor-quality goods
    por lo bajoor ( RPl) por parte baja at least
    les va a costar 10.000 tirando or echando por lo bajo ( fam); it's going to cost them at least 10,000, it's going to cost them 10,000 easily o at (the very) least
    2 ‹volumen/luz› low
    lo dijo en voz baja he said it quietly o in a low voice
    pon la radio bajita put the radio on quietly
    3 ‹oro› below 14 karats
    (falto de): están bajos de moral they're in low spirits, their morale is low
    está baja de defensas her defenses are low
    E (grave) ‹tono/voz› deep, low
    F (vil) ‹acción/instinto› low, base
    caer bajoor en lo bajo: ha caído en lo más bajo she stooped pretty low
    ¡qué bajo has caído! how could you stoop so low?, how low can you get!
    Compuestos:
    feminine humble origins (pl)
    la bajoa Edad Media the late Middle Ages (pl)
    estoy en bajoa forma I'm in bad shape, I'm not on form, I'm feeling below par
    la bajoa forma del equipo nacional the poor form of the national team
    feminine low frequency
    feminine ( Per) garbage ( AmE) o ( BrE) refuse collection and street cleaning service
    fpl animal passions (pl)
    fpl low pressure
    feminine low technology
    de bajoa tecnología low-technology ( before n), low-tech
    masculine Low Latin
    masculine bas-relief
    mpl underworld
    el bajo vientre the lower abdomen
    1 ‹volar/pasar› low
    2 ‹hablar/cantar› softly, quietly
    canta más bajo sing more softly
    ¡habla más bajo! keep your voice down!
    A
    1 (planta baja) first ( AmE) o ( BrE) ground floor; (local) commercial premises ( on the first ( AmE) o ( BrE) ground floor of a building)
    2 los bajos mpl ( RPl) the first ( AmE) o ( BrE) ground floor
    B
    1 (de una falda, un vestido) hem; (de un pantalón) cuff ( AmE), turn-up ( BrE)
    2 bajos mpl ( Auto) underbody
    C (contrabajo) bass, double bass
    D
    ( Chi fam) (fin): darle el bajo a algn to do away with sb ( colloq), to get rid of sb
    darle el bajo a algo to polish sth off ( colloq)
    1 (debajo de) under
    corrimos a ponernos bajo techo we ran to get under cover
    ponte bajo el paraguas get under o underneath the umbrella
    tres grados bajo cero three degrees below zero
    cuando yo esté bajo tierra when I'm dead and buried
    bajo el cielo estrellado ( liter); beneath the starry sky ( liter)
    cantando bajo la lluvia singing in the rain
    2 (expresando sujeción, dependencia) under
    está bajo juramento you are under oath
    bajo Alfonso XIII under Alfonso XIII, during the reign of Alfonso XIII
    bajo su mando under his command
    bajo los efectos del alcohol under the influence of alcohol
    bajo ese punto de vista looking at it from that point of view
    bajo el título `España hoy' under the title `España hoy'
    fianza, garantía, llave2 (↑ llave (2)), etc
    * * *

     

    Del verbo bajar: ( conjugate bajar)

    bajo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    bajó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    bajar    
    bajo
    bajar ( conjugate bajar) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [ascensor/persona] ( alejándose) to go down;

    ( acercándose) to come down;
    ◊ bajo por las escaleras to go/come down the stairs;

    ya bajo I'll be right down
    b) ( apearse) bajo de algo ‹de tren/avión› to get off sth;

    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth
    c) (Dep) [ equipo] to go down

    2

    b) [fiebre/tensión] to go down, drop;

    [ hinchazón] to go down;
    [ temperatura] to fall, drop
    c) [precio/valor] to fall, drop;

    [ calidad] to deteriorate;
    [ popularidad] to diminish;

    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    2 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    3
    a) bajo algo (de algo) ‹de armario/estante› to get sth down (from sth);

    ‹ del piso de arriba› ( traer) to bring sth down (from sth);
    ( llevar) to take sth down (to sth)
    b) bajo a algn de algo ‹de mesa/caballo› to get sb off sth

    4
    a) ‹persiana/telón› to lower;

    ‹ ventanilla› to open

    5 ‹ precio› to lower;
    ‹ fiebre› to bring down;
    ‹ volumen› to turn down;
    ‹ voz› to lower
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( apearse) bajose de algo ‹de tren/autobús› to get off sth;
    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth;
    ‹de pared/árbol› to get down off sth
    2 ‹ pantalones› to take down;
    ‹ falda› to pull down
    bajo 1
    ◊ -ja adjetivo

    1 [ser] ‹ persona› short
    2
    a) [ser] ‹ techo› low;

    ‹ tierras› low-lying
    b) [estar] ‹lámpara/cuadro/nivel› low;


    están bajos de moral their morale is low;
    está bajo de defensas his defenses are low
    3
    a) ‹calificación/precio/temperatura› low;


    bajo en calorías low-calorie;
    de baja calidad poor-quality
    b) ‹volumen/luz› low;


    4 ( grave) ‹tono/voz› deep, low
    5 ( vil) ‹acción/instinto› low, base;

    bajo 2 adverbio
    a) ‹volar/pasar› low

    b) ‹hablar/cantar› softly, quietly;

    ◊ ¡habla más bajo! keep your voice down!

    ■ sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( planta baja) first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor

    b)

    ◊ los bajos (CS) the first (AmE) o (BrE) ground floor

    2 ( contrabajo) (double) bass
    ■ preposición
    under;

    tres grados bajo cero three degrees below zero;
    bajo juramento under oath
    bajar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (descender) to come o go down: bajé corriendo la cuesta, I ran downhill ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (llevar algo abajo) to bring o get o take down: baja los disfraces del trastero, bring the costumes down from the attic
    3 (un telón) to lower
    (una persiana) to let down
    (la cabeza) to bow o lower
    4 (reducir el volumen) to turn down
    (la voz) to lower
    5 (los precios, etc) to reduce, cut
    6 (ropa, dobladillo) tengo que bajar el vestido, I've got to let the hem down
    7 Mús tienes que bajar un tono, you've got to go down a tone
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to go o come down: bajamos al bar, we went down to the bar
    2 (apearse de un tren, un autobús) to get off
    (de un coche) to get out [de, of]: tienes que bajarte en la siguiente parada, you've got to get off at the next stop
    3 (disminuir la temperatura, los precios) to fall, drop: ha bajado su cotización en la bolsa, its share prices have dropped in the stock exchange
    bajo,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 low
    2 (de poca estatura) short: es muy bajo para jugar al baloncesto, he's a bit too short to play basketball
    3 (poco intenso) faint, soft: en este local la música está baja, the music isn't very loud here
    4 (escaso) poor: su nivel es muy bajo, his level is very low
    este queso es bajo en calorías, this cheese is low in calories
    5 Mús low
    6 fig (mezquino, vil, ruin) base, despicable: tiene muy bajos instintos, he's absolutely contemptible
    bajos fondos, the underworld
    la clase baja, the lower class
    II adverbio low: habla bajo, por favor, please speak quietly
    por lo b., (a sus espaldas, disimuladamente) on the sly: con Pedro es muy amable, pero por lo bajo echa pestes de él, she's very nice to Pedro, but she's always slagging him off behind his back
    (como mínimo) at least: ese libro cuesta cinco mil pesetas tirando por lo bajo, that book costs at least five thousand pesetas
    III sustantivo masculino
    1 Mús (instrumento, cantante, instrumentista) bass
    2 (de un edificio) ground floor
    3 (de una prenda) hem
    IV mpl Mec underneath: las piedras del camino le rozaron los bajos del coche, we scratched the bottom of the car against the stones on the road
    V preposición
    1 (lugar) under, underneath
    bajo techo, under shelter
    bajo tierra, underground
    bajo la tormenta, in the storm
    2 Pol Hist under
    bajo la dictadura, under the dictatorship 3 bajo cero, (temperatura) below zero
    4 Jur under
    bajo fianza, on bail
    bajo juramento, under oath
    bajo multa de cien mil pesetas, subject to a fine of one hundred thousand pesetas
    bajo ningún concepto, under no circumstances
    firmó la declaración bajo presión, she signed the declaration under pressure
    La traducción más común del adjetivo es low. Sin embargo, recuerda que cuando quieres describir a una persona debes usar la palabra short: Es muy bajo para su edad. He's very short for his age.

    ' bajo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    auspicio
    - baja
    - caer
    - calificar
    - caloría
    - circunstancia
    - concepto
    - confiar
    - control
    - cuerda
    - dominación
    - fianza
    - fiebre
    - guardia
    - hundida
    - hundido
    - imperio
    - ínfima
    - ínfimo
    - insolación
    - juramento
    - libertad
    - llave
    - manía
    - ministerio
    - monte
    - murmurar
    - par
    - pretexto
    - próxima
    - próximo
    - rescoldo
    - ropa
    - sarro
    - so
    - tapón
    - techo
    - tierra
    - tono
    - vigilancia
    - a
    - abrasar
    - anestesia
    - arresto
    - ático
    - bajar
    - bajío
    - chato
    - chico
    - coacción
    English:
    account
    - aloud
    - auspice
    - bail
    - bass
    - bass guitar
    - below
    - beneath
    - body
    - bottom
    - clampdown
    - complaint
    - conceal
    - condition
    - content
    - control
    - cover
    - cuff
    - custody
    - depressed
    - distraught
    - down
    - drunk driving
    - DUI
    - escrow
    - feel
    - floodlight
    - foresight
    - freezing
    - ground
    - gun
    - hand
    - honour
    - hurtle
    - in
    - keep down
    - lock away
    - low
    - low-alcohol
    - low-budget
    - low-calorie
    - low-cost
    - lower
    - Lower Egypt
    - lowest
    - microscope
    - minus
    - oath
    - observation
    - off
    * * *
    bajo, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [objeto, cifra] low;
    [persona, estatura] short;
    es más bajo que su amigo he's shorter than his friend;
    el pantano está muy bajo the water (level) in the reservoir is very low;
    tengo la tensión baja I have low blood pressure;
    tener la moral baja, estar bajo de moral to be in low o poor spirits;
    estar en baja forma to be off form;
    han mostrado una baja forma alarmante they have shown worryingly poor form, they have been worryingly off form;
    los precios más bajos de la ciudad the lowest prices in the city;
    tirando o [m5] calculando por lo bajo at least, at the minimum;
    de baja calidad poor(-quality);
    bajo en calorías low-calorie;
    bajo en nicotina low in nicotine (content)
    Elec baja frecuencia low frequency; Arte bajo relieve bas-relief; Informát baja resolución low resolution
    2. [cabeza] bowed;
    [ojos] downcast;
    paseaba con la cabeza baja she was walking with her head down
    3. [poco audible] low;
    [sonido] soft, faint;
    en voz baja softly, in a low voice;
    pon la música más baja, por favor turn the music down, please;
    por lo bajo [en voz baja] in an undertone;
    [en secreto] secretly;
    reírse por lo bajo to snicker, to snigger
    4. [grave] deep
    5. Geog lower;
    el bajo Amazonas the lower Amazon
    6. Hist lower;
    la baja Edad Media the late Middle Ages
    7. [pobre] lower-class
    los bajos fondos the underworld
    8. [vil] base
    9. [soez] coarse, vulgar;
    se dejó llevar por bajas pasiones he allowed his baser instincts to get the better of him
    10. [metal] base
    11. Perú baja policía street cleaners
    ♦ nm
    1. [dobladillo] hem;
    meter el bajo de una falda to take up a skirt
    2. [planta baja] [piso] Br ground floor flat, US first floor apartment;
    [local] Br premises on the ground floor, US premises on the first floor;
    los bajos Br the ground floor, US the first floor
    3. Mús [instrumento, cantante] bass;
    [instrumentista] bassist
    4. Mús [sonido] bass
    5. Aut
    bajos [de vehículo] underside
    6. [hondonada] hollow
    7. [banco de arena] shoal, sandbank
    ♦ adv
    1. [hablar] quietly, softly;
    ella habla más bajo que él she speaks more softly than he does;
    ¡habla más bajo, vas a despertar al bebé! keep your voice down or you'll wake the baby up!
    2. [caer] low;
    Fig
    ¡qué bajo has caído! how low you have sunk!
    3. [volar] low
    ♦ prep
    1. [debajo de] under;
    bajo su apariencia pacífica se escondía un ser agresivo beneath his calm exterior there lay an aggressive nature;
    bajo cero below zero;
    Fig
    bajo cuerda o [m5] mano secretly, in an underhand manner;
    le pagó bajo mano para conseguir lo que quería he paid her secretly to get what he wanted;
    bajo este ángulo from this angle;
    bajo la lluvia in the rain;
    bajo techo under cover;
    dormir bajo techo to sleep with a roof over one's head o indoors
    2. [sometido a]
    bajo coacción under duress;
    bajo control under control;
    bajo el régimen de Franco under Franco's regime;
    fue encarcelado bajo la acusación de… he was jailed on charges of…;
    Der
    bajo fianza on bail;
    bajo mando de under the command of;
    prohibido aparcar bajo multa de 100 euros no parking – penalty 100 euros;
    bajo observación under observation;
    bajo palabra on one's word;
    el trato se hizo bajo palabra it was a purely verbal o a gentleman's agreement;
    bajo pena de muerte on pain of death;
    bajo tratamiento médico receiving medical treatment;
    bajo la tutela de in the care of
    * * *
    I adj
    1 low;
    bajo en sal low in salt
    2 persona short
    II m
    1 MÚS bass
    2 piso first floor, Br
    ground floor; de edificio first floor apartment, Br
    ground floor flat
    3 de vestido, pantalón hem
    4
    :
    por lo bajo at least
    III adv
    1 cantar, hablar quietly, softly
    2 volar low
    IV prp under;
    tres grados bajo cero three degrees below zero;
    palabra on o under oath
    * * *
    bajo adv
    1) : down, low
    2) : softly, quietly
    habla más bajo: speak more softly
    bajo, -ja adj
    1) : low
    2) : short (of stature)
    3) : soft, faint, deep (of sounds)
    4) : lower
    el bajo Amazonas: the lower Amazon
    5) : lowered
    con la mirada baja: with lowered eyes
    6) : base, vile
    7)
    los bajos fondos : the underworld
    bajo nm
    1) : bass (musical instrument)
    2) : first floor, ground floor
    3) : hemline
    bajo prep
    : under, beneath, below
    * * *
    bajo1 adj
    1. (persona) short
    2. (muro, mueble, voz) low
    habla en voz baja she speaks in a low voice / she speaks quietly
    3. (nivel, precio, número) low
    bajo2 adv
    2. (con voz suave) quietly
    bajo3 n
    1. (planta baja) ground floor
    3. (instrumento, voz) bass
    ¿quién toca el bajo? who plays the bass?
    4. (músico) bass player
    bajo4 prep under

    Spanish-English dictionary > bajo

  • 4 bajo3

    3 = low [lower -comp., lowest -sup.], lowly [lowlier -comp., lowliest -sup.], sagging, low-lying.
    Ex. Carlton Duncan discussed the difficulties built into the educational processes which led to under-performance at school and the resulting low representation in higher education and low entry into the professions.
    Ex. Such a concept came as a great surprise to many information educators who rather dismissively regarded the information qua information field of activity as being too lowly in terms of salary potential.
    Ex. It was obvious that Balzac's enthusiasm for the grant lifted his spirits up from their normal sagging state.
    Ex. With the introduction of irrigation, low-lying areas are prone to waterlogging and soil salinization.
    ----
    * a bajas temperaturas = at low temperature.
    * a bajo coste = low-cost.
    * a bajo costo = low-cost.
    * a bajo nivel = low-level.
    * a bajo precio = lower-cost, lower-cost, at a low price, on the cheap.
    * altibajos = ups and downs.
    * altos y bajos = highs and lows, peaks and valleys.
    * arma de bajo calibre = small arm.
    * baja Edad Media, la = late Middle Ages, the.
    * baja resolución = low resolution.
    * baja tecnología = low tech [low-tech].
    * baja temperatura = low temperature.
    * bajo cero = sub-zero, below-freezing.
    * bajo consumo = low power consumption.
    * bajo coste = low cost.
    * bajo en ácido = low-acid.
    * bajo en calorías = low cal, low-calorie.
    * bajo en carbohidratos = low-carb(ohydrate).
    * bajo en grasas = low fat.
    * bajo en hidratos de carbono = low-carb(ohydrate).
    * bajo precio = low cost.
    * bajo presión = under the cosh.
    * bajos ingresos = low income.
    * bajo vientre = lower abdomen.
    * barrio bajo = skid row.
    * bebida baja en alcohol = low-alcohol drink.
    * cuando la marea está baja = at low tide.
    * cultura de la clase baja = low culture.
    * de baja calidad = poor in detail, low-grade [lowgrade], low-quality, third rate [third-rate], low-end, trashy [trashier -comp., trashiest -sup.].
    * de baja intensidad = low-intensity [low intensity].
    * de baja ralea = ignoble.
    * de bajo consumo = low energy.
    * de bajo contenido en grasas = low fat.
    * de bajo crecimiento = low-growing.
    * de bajo estatus social = low-status.
    * de bajo nivel = lower-level, low-level.
    * de bajo precio = low-priced.
    * de bajo riesgo = low-risk.
    * decir en voz baja = say under + Posesivo + breath, say in + a low voice, say in + a quiet voice.
    * de la gama baja = low-end.
    * de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * de tacón bajo = low-heeled.
    * dieta baja en carbohidratos = low-carb diet.
    * dieta baja en hidratos de carbono = low-carb diet.
    * el más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * el punto más bajo = rock-bottom.
    * en su nivel más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en su punto más bajo = at its lowest ebb.
    * en un nivel bajo = at a low ebb.
    * en un punto bajo = at a low ebb.
    * estar muy bajo = be way down.
    * familia de bajos ingresos = low-income family.
    * fijar precios bajos = price + low.
    * frente de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure.
    * hablar en voz baja = whisper, speak + low.
    * marea baja = low tide.
    * más bien bajo = shortish.
    * monte bajo = undergrowth, understorey [understory, -USA], fynbos, shrubland, scrubland.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * período bajo = dry spell.
    * período de baja actividad = dry spell.
    * persona de nivel cultural bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * persona de nivel intelectual bajo = lowbrow [low-brow].
    * planta baja = ground floor.
    * que habla en voz baja = quietly spoken.
    * que vuela bajo = low-flying.
    * sistema de bajas presiones = ridge of low pressure, low pressure system.
    * temporada baja = low season.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bajo3

  • 5 технологии для автоматизации

    1. automation technologies

     

    технологии для автоматизации
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    [Интент]

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU

    Automation technologies: a strong focal point for our R&D

    Технологии для автоматизации - одна из главных тем наших научно исследовательских разработок

    Automation is an area of ABB’s business with an extremely high level of technological innovation.

    Автоматика относится к одной из областей деятельности компании АББ, для которой характерен исключительно высокий уровень технических инноваций.

    In fact, it may be seen as a showcase for exhibiting the frontiers of development in several of today’s emerging technologies, like short-range wireless communication and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

    В определенном смысле ее можно уподобить витрине, в которой выставлены передовые разработки из области только еще зарождающихся технологий, примерами которых являются ближняя беспроводная связь и микроэлектромеханические системы (micro electromechanical systems MEMS).

    Mechatronics – the synthesis of mechanics and electronics – is another very exciting and rapidly developing area, and the foundation on which ABB has built its highly successful, fast-growing robotics business.

    Еще одной исключительно интересной быстро развивающейся областью и в то же время фундаментом, на котором АББ в последнее время строит свой исключительно успешный и быстро расширяющийся бизнес в области робототехники, является мехатроника - синтез механики с электроникой.

    Robotic precision has now reached the levels we have come to expect of the watch-making industry, while robots’ mechanical capabilities continue to improve significantly.

    Точность работы робототехнических устройств достигла сегодня уровней, которые мы привыкли ожидать только на предприятиях часовой промышленности. Большими темпами продолжают расти и механические возможности роботов.

    Behind the scenes, highly sophisticated electronics and software control every move these robots make.

    А за кулисами всеми перемещениями робота управляют сложные электронные устройства и компьютерные программы.

    Throughout industry today we see a major shift of ‘intelligence’ to lower levels in the automation system hierarchy, leading to a demand for more communication within the system.

    Во всех отраслях промышленности сегодня наблюдается интенсивный перенос "интеллекта" на нижние уровни иерархии автоматизированных систем, что требует дальнейшего развития внутрисистемных средств обмена.

    ‘Smart’ transmitters, with powerful microprocessors, memory chips and special software, carry out vital operations close to the processes they are monitoring.

    "Интеллектуальные" датчики, снабженные высокопроизводительными микропроцессорами, мощными чипами памяти и специальным программно-математическим обеспечением, выполняют особо ответственные операции в непосредственной близости от контролируемых процессов.

    And they capture and store data crucial for remote diagnostics and maintenance.

    Они же обеспечивают возможность измерения и регистрации информации, крайне необходимой для дистанционной диагностики и дистанционного обслуживания техники.

    The communication highway linking such systems is provided by fieldbuses.

    В качестве коммуникационных магистралей, связывающих такого рода системы, служат промышленные шины fieldbus.

    In an ideal world there would be no more than a few, preferably just one, fieldbus standard.

    В идеале на промышленные шины должно было бы существовать небольшое количество, а лучше всего вообще только один стандарт.

    However, there are still too many of them, so ABB has developed ‘fieldbus plugs’ that, with the help of translation, enable devices to communicate across different standards.

    К сожалению, на деле количество их типов продолжает оставаться слишком разнообразным. Ввиду этой особенности рынка промышленных шин компанией АББ разработаны "штепсельные разъемы", которые с помощью средств преобразования обеспечивают общение различных устройств вопреки границам, возникшим из-за различий в стандартах.

    This makes life easier as well as less costly for our customers. Every automation system is dependent on an electrical network for distributing – and interrupting, when necessary – the power needed to carry out its various functions.

    Это, безусловно, не только облегчает, но и удешевляет жизнь нашим заказчикам. Ни одна система автоматики не может работать без сети, обеспечивающей подачу, а при необходимости и отключение напряжения, необходимого для выполнения автоматикой своих задач.

    Here, too, we see a clear trend toward more intelligence and communication, for example in traditional electromechanical devices such as contactors and switches.

    И здесь наблюдаются отчетливо выраженные тенденции к повышению уровня интеллектуальности и расширению возможностей связи, например, в таких традиционных электромеханических устройствах, как контакторы и выключатели.

    We are pleased to see that our R&D efforts in these areas over the past few years are bearing fruit.

    Мы с удовлетворением отмечаем, что научно-исследовательские разработки, выполненные нами за последние годы в названных областях, начинают приносить свои плоды.

    Recently, we have seen a strong increase in the use of wireless technology in industry.

    В последнее время на промышленных предприятиях наблюдается резкое расширение применения техники беспроводной связи.

    This is a key R&D area at ABB, and several prototype applications have already been developed.

    В компании АББ эта область также относится к числу одной из ключевых тем научно-исследовательских разработок, результатом которых стало создание ряда опытных образцов изделий практического направления.

    At the international Bluetooth Conference in Amsterdam in June 2002, we presented a truly ‘wire-less’ proximity sensor – with even a wireless power supply.

    На международной конференции по системам Bluetooth, состоявшейся в Амстердаме в июне 2002 г., наши специалисты выступили с докладом о поистине "беспроводном" датчике ближней локации, снабженном опять-таки "беспроводным" источником питания.

    This was its second major showing after the launch at the Hanover Fair.

    На столь крупном мероприятии это устройство демонстрировалось во второй раз после своего первого показа на Ганноверской торгово-промышленной ярмарке.

    Advances in microelectronic device technology are also having a profound impact on the power electronics systems around which modern drive systems are built.

    Достижения в области микроэлектроники оказывают также глубокое влияние на системы силовой электроники, лежащие в основе современных приводных устройств.

    The ABB drive family ACS 800 is visible proof of this.

    Наглядным тому доказательством может служить линейка блоков регулирования частоты вращения электродвигателей ACS-800, производство которой начато компанией АББ.

    Combining advanced trench gate IGBT technology with efficient cooling and innovative design, this drive – for motors rated from 1.1 to 500 kW – has a footprint for some power ranges which is six times smaller than competing systems.

    Предназначены они для двигателей мощностью от 1,1 до 500 кВт. В блоках применена новейшая разновидность приборов - биполярные транзисторы с изолированным желобковым затвором (trench gate IGBT) в сочетании с новыми конструктивными решениями, благодаря чему в отдельных диапазонах мощностей габариты блоков удалось снизить по сравнению с конкурирующими изделиями в шесть раз.

    To get the maximum benefit out of this innovative drive solution we have also developed a new permanent magnet motor.

    Стремясь с максимальной пользой использовать новые блоки регулирования, мы параллельно с ними разработали новый двигатель с постоянными магнитами.

    It uses neodymium iron boron, a magnetic material which is more powerful at room temperature than any other known today.

    В нем применен новый магнитный материал на основе неодима, железа и бора, характеристики которого при комнатной температуре на сегодняшний день не имеют себе равных.

    The combination of new drive and new motor reduces losses by as much as 30%, lowering energy costs and improving sustainability – both urgently necessary – at the same time.

    Совместное использование нового блока регулирования частоты вращения с новым двигателем снижает потери мощности до 30 %, что позволяет решить сразу две исключительно актуальные задачи:
    сократить затраты на электроэнергию и повысить уровень безотказности.

    These innovations are utilized most fully, and yield the maximum benefit, when integrated by means of our Industrial IT architecture.

    Потенциал перечисленных выше новых разработок используется в наиболее полной степени, а сами они приносят максимальную выгоду, если их интеграция осуществлена на основе нашей архитектуры IndustrialIT.

    Industrial IT is a unique platform for exploiting the full potential of information technology in industrial applications.

    IndustrialIT представляет собой уникальную платформу, позволяющую в максимальной степени использовать возможности информационных технологий применительно к задачам промышленности.

    Consequently, our new products and technologies are Industrial IT Enabled, meaning that they can be integrated in the Industrial IT architecture in a ‘plug and produce’ manner.

    Именно поэтому все наши новые изделия и технологии выпускаются в варианте, совместимом с архитектурой IndustrialIT, что означает их способность к интеграции с этой архитектурой по принципу "подключи и производи".

    We are excited to present in this issue of ABB Review some of our R&D work and a selection of achievements in such a vital area of our business as Automation.

    Мы рады представить в настоящем номере "АББ ревю" некоторые из наших научно-исследовательских разработок и достижений в такой жизненно важной для нашего бизнеса области, как автоматика.

    R&D investment in our corporate technology programs is the foundation on which our product and system innovation is built.

    Вклад наших разработок в общекорпоративные технологические программы группы АББ служит основой для реализации новых технических решений в создаваемых нами устройствах и системах.

    Examples abound in the areas of control engineering, MEMS, wireless communication, materials – and, last but not least, software technologies. Enjoy reading about them.
    [ABB Review]

    Это подтверждается многочисленными примерами из области техники управления, микроэлектромеханических систем, ближней радиосвязи, материаловедения и не в последнюю очередь программотехники. Хотелось бы пожелать читателю получить удовольствие от чтения этих материалов.
    [Перевод Интент]

    Тематики

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    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > технологии для автоматизации

  • 6 план

    1) General subject: arrangement, blue print, blueprint, book (suit somebody's book - совпадать с чьими-либо планами), chart, contrivance, delineation, design, device, draft, eye, idea, lay out, lay-out, map, modus operandi, ordinance, outline, plan, plane, plat, plot, program (работы и т. п.), program (работы и т.п.), programme, project, projection, projet, proposal, proposition, pro­posal, rede, schedule, schematic, scheme, skeleton, the format of a conference, syllabus
    3) Naval: frame
    4) Colloquial: dodge, set-up
    5) Sports: playbook
    6) Military: bullring, outlay, script
    8) Bookish: schema
    9) Rare: (общий) sketch
    11) Mathematics: array (эксперимента), plan view, setting, top view, trend-robust plan
    12) Law: contrivance (особ. предательский)
    14) Accounting: budget, draught
    15) Linguistics: aspect, level
    16) Australian slang: dart
    17) Automobile industry: diagram
    18) Architecture: layout (чаще всего употребляется в значении "генеральный план"), schedule (в значении "расписание действий")
    19) Diplomatic term: counsel, programme (работы и т.п.)
    20) Painting: ground
    21) Forestry: manuring
    22) Psychology: theory
    23) Jargon: lay, pitch, rinctum
    25) Oil: game, target
    26) Astronautics: drawing, setup
    27) Cartography: horizontal plan, planimetry
    28) Mechanic engineering: (календарный) schedule
    29) Advertising: makeup
    30) Patents: program (работ), programme (работ)
    31) Drilling: system
    32) Sakhalin energy glossary: master plan
    33) Automation: hang, many-stage
    34) Quality control: design (напр. эксперимента), layout (напр. эксперимента), schedule chart (работ)
    36) Sakhalin A: plot plan (участка, площадки)
    37) Cables: layout (lay-out)
    38) Aviation medicine: view
    39) Psychoanalysis: shedule
    40) Makarov: alignment chart, disposition, floor projection, ichnograph, layout (расположения), layout (стр., обычно генеральный), line, platform, protraction
    42) General subject: design (эксперимента)

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > план

  • 7 tierra

    f.
    1 land (terrenos, continentes).
    en tierras mexicanas/del rey on Mexican soil/the King's land
    por estas tierras round these parts, down this way
    tierra de nadie no-man's-land
    tierra prometida Promised Land
    tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego
    tierra Santa the Holy Land
    tierra virgen virgin land
    2 land.
    cultivar la tierra to farm the land
    3 earth.
    se me ha metido tierra en los zapatos I've got some earth in my shoes
    un camino de tierra a dirt track
    4 ground (suelo).
    bajo tierra underground
    caer a tierra to fall to the ground
    tomar tierra to land
    5 homeland, native land (lugar de origen) (país).
    vino/queso de la tierra local wine/cheese
    tierra natal homeland, native land
    7 soil, dirt.
    8 country, homeland.
    9 plot of land, territory, estate, soil.
    * * *
    1 (planeta) earth
    3 (terreno cultivado) soil, land
    4 (país) country, land
    5 (suelo) ground
    6 ELECTRICIDAD earth, US ground
    1 land sing
    \
    dar en tierra con algo to drop something on the ground, throw something on the ground
    echar a tierra to demolish
    echar por tierra figurado to crush, destroy
    poner tierra por medio figurado to make oneself scarce
    por estas tierras in these parts
    por tierra overland, by land
    ¡tierra a la vista! land ahoy!
    ¡tierra trágame! figurado I wish I was somewhere else, I could curl up and die
    tirar por tierra figurado to crush, destroy
    tocar tierra MARÍTIMO to reach harbour (US harbor) 2 AVIACIÓN to touch down
    vivir de la tierra to make a living from the land
    tierra de nadie no-man's-land
    Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego
    tierra firme terra firma, dry land
    tierra natal homeland
    Tierra Santa the Holy Land
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) land
    3) soil
    •
    * * *
    SF
    1)

    • la Tierra — the earth, the Earth

    2) (=superficie)
    a) [fuera del agua] land

    ¡tierra a la vista! — land ahoy!

    la industria pesquera genera unos 400.000 empleos en tierra — the fishing industry provides 400,000 jobs on land

    • tierra adentro — inland

    • por tierra — overland, by land

    atravesar un país por tierra — to go overland o by land across a country

    • tomar tierra — to reach port, get in

    b) (=no aire) [desde el aire] ground; [desde el espacio] earth

    • tocar tierra — to touch down

    • tomar tierra — to land

    tierra firme — (=no aire) solid ground; (=no agua) land

    3) (=suelo) ground

    • caer a tierra — to fall down

    • caer por tierra — [persona] to fall to the ground; [argumento, teoría] to fall apart

    • dar con algo en tierra — to knock sth over

    • echar a tierra — [+ construcción, rival] to knock down

    • echarse a tierra — to throw o.s. on o to the ground

    - venirse a o por tierra
    4) (=material) [gen] earth; (=polvo) dust; (=barro) mud; [para jardinería, cultivo] soil

    con los zapatos llenos de tierra — (=polvo) with his shoes covered in dust; (=barro) with his shoes covered in mud

    • sacudir la tierra — Cono Sur, Méx to dust

    tierra caliente — LAm land below 1000m approximately

    tierra fría — LAm land above 2000m approximately

    tierra quemada — (Pol) scorched earth

    tierra templada — LAm land between 1000m and 2000m approximately

    pista 3), política 2)
    5) (Agr) land

    tierra de secano — dry land, unirrigated land

    6) (=división territorial)
    a) (=lugar de origen)

    • de la tierra — [vino, queso] local, locally produced; [fruta, verduras] locally grown

    b) [en plural]

    sus viajes por tierras de Castilla, su largo exilio en tierras australianas — her lengthy exile in Australia

    no es de estas tierras — he's not from these parts, he's not from this part of the world

    - ver tierras
    7) (Elec) earth, ground (EEUU)

    conectar un aparato a tierra — to earth o (EEUU) ground an appliance

    toma 1., 1)
    * * *
    1) (campo, terreno) land

    tierras fértiles/áridas — fertile/arid land

    tierra labrantía or de cultivo — arable o cultivated land

    2) (suelo, superficie) ground; (materia, arena) earth

    echar algo por tierra — <edificio/monumento> to pull o knock down; < planes> to wreck, ruin; < argumentos> to demolish, destroy; < esperanzas> to dash

    echarle tierra a algo/alguien — (Col fam) to put something/somebody to shame, make something/somebody look bad

    echar tierra a or sobre algo — ( ocultarlo) to cover o hush something up; ( olvidarlo) to forget about something

    tragarse la tierra a alguien: como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra as if he'd vanished off the face of the earth; deseé que me tragara la tierra — I just wanted the earth to open and swallow me up

    3) (AmL) ( polvo) dust
    4) (Elec) ground (AmE), earth (BrE)

    estar conectado a tierra or (AmL) hacer tierra — to be grounded o earthed

    5) (por oposición al mar, al aire) land

    tocar tierra — to land, put into port

    tomar tierra — to land, touch down

    6)
    a) (país, lugar)
    b) ( territorio) soil
    7) ( planeta) la Tierra (the) Earth o earth
    * * *
    1) (campo, terreno) land

    tierras fértiles/áridas — fertile/arid land

    tierra labrantía or de cultivo — arable o cultivated land

    2) (suelo, superficie) ground; (materia, arena) earth

    echar algo por tierra — <edificio/monumento> to pull o knock down; < planes> to wreck, ruin; < argumentos> to demolish, destroy; < esperanzas> to dash

    echarle tierra a algo/alguien — (Col fam) to put something/somebody to shame, make something/somebody look bad

    echar tierra a or sobre algo — ( ocultarlo) to cover o hush something up; ( olvidarlo) to forget about something

    tragarse la tierra a alguien: como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra as if he'd vanished off the face of the earth; deseé que me tragara la tierra — I just wanted the earth to open and swallow me up

    3) (AmL) ( polvo) dust
    4) (Elec) ground (AmE), earth (BrE)

    estar conectado a tierra or (AmL) hacer tierra — to be grounded o earthed

    5) (por oposición al mar, al aire) land

    tocar tierra — to land, put into port

    tomar tierra — to land, touch down

    6)
    a) (país, lugar)
    b) ( territorio) soil
    7) ( planeta) la Tierra (the) Earth o earth
    * * *
    tierra2
    2 = land, ground, soil, earth, dry land [dryland].

    Ex: Until recently all libraries and some architects have maintained that an academic library should be capable of extension and that land should be reserved for future expansion.

    Ex: A profile is a scale representation of the intersection of a vertical surface with the surface of the ground.
    Ex: This article diagnoses the information needs of those who work in the area of pollution of air, soil and earth.
    Ex: Insulation techniques helpful to energy conservation are: more use of below surface areas; the mounding of earth against outside walls; sod roofs; and the correct use of glass.
    Ex: This article describes a knowledge based geographic information system for the broad scale mapping of dryland salinity in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
    * aprovechamiento de la tierra = land use.
    * asentamiento en tierras federales = homesteading.
    * bajo tierra = underground, below surface.
    * buena tierra = good soil.
    * camino de tierra = dirt track, dirt road.
    * como si se + Pronombre + hubiera tragado la tierra = into thin air.
    * con el suelo de tierra = dirt-floored.
    * confinado a la tierra = land-bound [landbound].
    * con los pies sobre la tierra = down-to-earth.
    * contaminación de la tierra = soil pollution.
    * corrimiento de tierra = landslide.
    * cultivar la tierra = farm + land, grow + crops.
    * dejar la tierra en barbecho = let + farmland lie fallow.
    * desaprovechamiento de la tierra = land misuse.
    * desprendimiento de tierra = landslide.
    * de tierra = onshore, earthen.
    * echar Algo por tierra = blow + Nombre + out of the water.
    * echarlo todo por tierra = upset + the applecart.
    * echar por tierra = scupper, blight, cast + a blight on.
    * echar por tierra las ilusiones = shatter + Posesivo + hopes.
    * echar por tierra los planes de Alguien = spike + Posesivo + guns.
    * echar por tierra una idea = crush + idea.
    * ejército de tierra, el = army, the [armies, pl.].
    * en la tierra = on the ground.
    * en la tierra de = in the land of.
    * en tierra = onshore, ashore.
    * en tierra firme = on dry land.
    * en tierras lejanas = outranged.
    * fertilidad de la tierra = soil fertility.
    * gestión de tierras = land management.
    * gran extensión de tierra dedicada a la cría de animales de pas = rangeland.
    * mala tierra = poor soil.
    * movimiento de tierra = earthwork.
    * nadie es profeta en su tierra = no man is a prophet in his own land.
    * pequeño propietario de tierras = yeoman farmer.
    * pies sobre la tierra = feet on the ground.
    * pista de tierra batida = clay tennis court.
    * poner los pies sobre la tierra = come down + to earth.
    * por encima de la tierra = aboveground.
    * rodeado de tierra = land-bound [landbound], land-locked [landlocked].
    * sin tierras, sin propiedad rural = landless.
    * sobre la tierra = on the ground.
    * temblor de tierra = quake, earth tremor.
    * tenis sobre tierra batida = clay tennis, clay court tennis.
    * ¡Tierra a la vista! = Land ahoy!, Land ho!.
    * tierra arenosa = sandy soil.
    * tierra baldía = wasteland, moor, barren land.
    * tierra buena = good soil.
    * tierra cenagosa = loamy soil.
    * tierra cultivable = arable land.
    * tierra de cultivo = soil, farmland [farm land].
    * Tierra de Israel, la = Land of Israel, the.
    * tierra de labranza = farmland [farm land].
    * tierra de nadie = twilight zone, wilderness, no-man's land.
    * tierra de pastoreo = pasture land.
    * tierra de pastos = pasture land.
    * tierra desconocida = terra incognita.
    * tierra en barbecho = fallow land.
    * tierra fértil = sod, loam.
    * tierra firme = dry land [dryland], land mass [landmass], firm ground, solid ground.
    * tierra lejana = far off land.
    * tierra mala = poor soil.
    * tierra margosa = loamy soil.
    * tierra natal = homeland.
    * tierra prometida, la = land of cream and honey, the, promised land, the, land of milk and honey, the.
    * tierras = landed estate.
    * tierras altas = highland.
    * tierras altas escocesas = Highland.
    * tierra salvaje = wilderness.
    * Tierra Santa = Holy Land, the.
    * tierras bajas = lowlands.
    * tierras celtas, las = Celtic fringe, the.
    * tierras del sur = southland.
    * tierras mejores = greener pastures.
    * tierras movedizas = shifting sands.
    * tierras perdidas = lost lands.
    * tierra virgen = uncharted territory, uncharted waters, unchartered territory, unchartered waters.
    * toma de tierra = earthing.
    * transporte por tierra = land transport.
    * tropa de tierra = ground troop.
    * uso de la tierra = land use.
    * vasallo propietario de sus tierras = yeoman [yeomen, -pl.].
    * vehículo de tierra a motor = motor land vehicle.
    * vivir de la tierra = live off + the land.

    * * *
    A (campo, terreno) land
    una distribución más justa de la tierra a fairer distribution of land
    tierras comunales common land
    compró unas tierras en Durango he bought some land in Durango
    tierras fértiles/áridas fertile/arid land
    tierra labrantía or de cultivo or de labranza or de labor or de labrantío arable o cultivated land
    tierras baldías wasteland
    los que trabajan la tierra those who work the land
    poner tierra de por medio to make oneself scarce, get out quick ( colloq)
    B
    1 (suelo, superficie) ground; (materia, arena) earth
    clavó la estaca en la tierra he drove the stake into the ground
    ésta es muy buena tierra this is very good land o soil
    cavaba la tierra he was digging the ground
    un camión de tierra a truckload of soil o earth
    no juegues con la tierra, que te vas a manchar don't play in the dirt, you'll get filthy
    un camino de tierra a dirt road o track
    ¡cuerpo a tierra! get down!, hit the ground! ( colloq)
    ya lleva un año bajo tierra she's been dead and buried for a year now
    echar algo por tierra ‹edificio/monumento› to demolish, pull o knock down;
    ‹planes› to wreck, ruin, put paid to; ‹argumentos› to demolish, destroy; ‹esperanzas› to dash
    echarle tierra a algo/algn ( Col fam); to put sth/sb to shame, make sth/sb look bad
    echarse tierra encima to do oneself down, cry stinking fish ( BrE)
    echar tierra a or sobre algo (ocultarlo) to cover o hush sth up; (olvidarlo) to forget about sth, put sth behind one
    tragarse la tierra a algn: parecía que se lo hubiera tragado la tierra it was as if he'd vanished off the face of the earth
    en aquel momento deseé que me tragara la tierra at that moment I just wanted the earth o the ground to open and swallow me up
    2 ( AmL) (polvo) dust
    Compuesto:
    ( Esp) clay
    C ( Elec) ground ( AmE), earth ( BrE)
    el cable que va a tierra the ground o earth lead
    necesita una conexión a tierra or debe estar conectado a tierra or ( AmL) debe hacer tierra it needs to be connected to ground o earth, it needs to be grounded o earthed
    D (por oposición al mar, al aire) land
    ¡tierra a la vista! land ho! o land ahoy!
    viajar por tierra to travel overland o by land
    iniciaron las expediciones tierra adentro they started expeditions into the interior
    gentes de tierra adentro people from the interior, people from inland
    misiles aire-tierra air-to-ground missiles
    tierra firme solid ground, terra firma
    quedarse en tierra to be left behind, miss one's train ( o boat etc)
    tocar tierra to land, put into port
    tomar tierra to land, touch down
    E
    1
    (país, región, lugar): después de tantos años de exilio decidió volver a su tierra after all those years in exile he decided to return to his homeland o to his native land
    las cosas que pasan por aquellas tierras the things that happen in those places o countries
    partió a tierras lejanas para buscar fortuna he set out for foreign parts o for distant lands to seek his fortune
    vino de la tierra local wine, locally produced wine
    fruta de la tierra locally grown fruit
    en el instante que pisó tierra francesa the moment he set foot on French soil
    Compuestos:
    : from Mexico to Peru, land below approx. 1,200m
    Tierra del Fuego
    no-man's-land
    the cold lands (pl), (from Mexico to Peru, land above approx. 2,200m)
    native land, land of one's birth
    Promised Land
    Holy Land
    the temperate lands (pl) (from Mexico to Peru, land between approx. 1,200m and 2,200m)
    F
    (planeta) la Tierra (the) Earth o earth
    la composición de la atmósfera de la Tierra the composition of the Earth's atmosphere
    ¿cúal es el planeta más cercano a la Tierra? what is the closest planet to (the) Earth?
    para proteger la vida en la Tierra to protect life on earth
    Creador del Cielo y de la Tierra Creator of Heaven and Earth
    * * *

     

    tierra sustantivo femenino
    1 (campo, terreno) land;

    tierra de cultivo arable land
    2 (suelo, superficie) ground;
    (materia, arena) earth;

    un camión de tierra a truckload of soil o earth;
    no juegues con tierra don't play in the dirt;
    un camino de tierra a dirt road o track;
    echar algo por tierra ‹ planes› to wreck, ruin;

    ‹ argumentos› to demolish, destroy;
    ‹ esperanzas› to dash
    3 (AmL) ( polvo) dust
    4 (Elec) ground (AmE), earth (BrE);
    estar conectado a tierra or (AmL) hacer tierra to be grounded o earthed
    5 (por oposición al mar, al aire) land;
    ◊ viajar por tierra to travel overland o by land;

    tierra firme solid ground;
    tomar tierra to land, touch down
    6 (país, lugar):

    costumbres de aquellas tierras customs in those places o countries;
    la Ttierra Santa the Holy Land
    7 ( planeta)

    tierra sustantivo femenino
    1 (planeta) la Tierra, (the) Earth o earth
    2 (medio terrestre, terreno) land
    viajar por tierra, to travel by land
    tierra adentro, inland
    tierra de nadie, no-man's-land
    (un avión) tomar tierra, to land
    Agr land
    tiene tierras de cultivo, he has cultivated land
    tierra baldía, wasteland
    3 (país, lugar de origen) homeland
    (territorio) nació en tierra inglesa, she was born on English soil
    4 (superficie terrestre, suelo) ground
    bajo tierra, below ground
    (materia) soil, earth
    un puñado de tierra, a handful of earth o soil
    un camino de tierra, a dirt track
    5 Elec earth
    toma de tierra, earth wire, US ground
    ♦ Locuciones: echar por tierra, to ruin, spoil
    echar tierra sobre, to hush up
    familiar de la tierra, (producto del país) son tomates de la tierra, they are home-grown tomatoes
    familiar (alejarse, escapar) poner alguien tierra por medio, to get as far away as possible
    familiar (para expresar vergüenza) ¡tierra trágame! I wish the earth would swallow me up
    (perder un medio de transporte) quedarse alguien en tierra, to miss a plane/train or any other form of transport
    ' tierra' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adentro
    - baja
    - bajo
    - barro
    - batida
    - batido
    - campo
    - construcción
    - criar
    - desaparecer
    - entrañas
    - escarbar
    - esquilmar
    - explotar
    - franja
    - fructífera
    - fructífero
    - global
    - globo
    - gua
    - horizonte
    - hoyo
    - hundimiento
    - langosta
    - palada
    - parcela
    - perforar
    - pista
    - polvo
    - ras
    - redondez
    - remover
    - ribera
    - rica
    - rico
    - seísmo
    - sementera
    - señorío
    - soñar
    - suelo
    - surco
    - temblar
    - terráquea
    - terráqueo
    - terrena
    - terreno
    - terrestre
    - terrón
    - terruño
    - tocar
    English:
    adjacent
    - adjoining
    - allotment
    - ashore
    - clump
    - crack
    - crumble
    - crunch
    - cultivated
    - cultivation
    - demolish
    - dig
    - dirt road
    - earth
    - earthworm
    - earthy
    - encroach
    - explode
    - face
    - fairyland
    - fall
    - farming
    - feel
    - ground
    - hedgehog
    - Holy Land
    - homeland
    - inland
    - land
    - level
    - lump
    - no man's land
    - orbit
    - overland
    - parched
    - portage
    - pull apart
    - quake
    - reclaim
    - rich
    - richness
    - rig
    - rock
    - roll
    - rough
    - sandy
    - seed
    - set down
    - shatter
    - shock
    * * *
    tierra nf
    1. [planeta]
    la Tierra (the) Earth
    2. [superficie] land;
    viajar por tierra to travel by land;
    poner tierra (de) por medio to make oneself scarce
    Am tierra caliente = in Latin America, climate zone up to an altitude of approximately 1,000 metres;
    tierra firme [por oposición al mar] land, dry land;
    [terreno sólido] hard ground; Am tierra fría = in Latin America, climate zone above the altitude of approximately 2,000 metres;
    Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego;
    tierra de nadie no-man's-land;
    tierra prometida Promised Land;
    Tierra de Promisión Promised Land;
    Tierra Santa the Holy Land;
    la tierra del Sol Naciente the land of the Rising Sun;
    Am tierra templada = in Latin America, climate zone between the altitudes of approximately 1,000 and 2,000 metres;
    tierra virgen virgin land
    3. [suelo] ground;
    trabajan bajo tierra they work underground;
    caer a tierra to fall to the ground;
    dar en tierra con algo [tirar] to knock sth down o to the ground;
    quedarse en tierra [viajero] to miss the boat/train/plane/ etc;
    muchos aviones se han quedado en tierra por la niebla many planes have been grounded because of the fog;
    tocar tierra [avión] to touch down;
    tomar tierra: tomó tierra en un campo he landed in a field;
    tomaremos tierra en el aeropuerto de Barajas en diez minutos we will be landing at Barajas airport in ten minutes;
    besar la tierra to fall flat on one's face;
    echar o [m5] tirar algo por tierra [esperanzas, planes, carrera] to ruin sth;
    [argumentos, teoría] to demolish sth; Fam
    ¡tierra, trágame!, ¡trágame tierra! I wish the earth would swallow me up!;
    era como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra he had vanished without a trace;
    venir o [m5] venirse a tierra to come to nothing
    4. [materia] earth;
    [para nutrir plantas] soil;
    se me ha metido tierra en los zapatos I've got some earth o dirt in my shoes;
    esta tierra no es buena para cultivar this soil isn't good for growing things;
    un camino de tierra a dirt track;
    política de tierra quemada scorched earth policy;
    Formal
    echar tierra a o [m5] sobre un asunto to hush up an affair
    tierra batida [en tenis] clay;
    tierra vegetal topsoil, loam
    5. [en agricultura] land;
    cultivar la tierra to farm the land
    tierra cultivable arable land;
    tierra de cultivo arable land;
    tierra de labor arable land;
    tierra de labranza arable land
    6. [lugar de origen] [país] homeland, native land;
    [región] home o native region;
    este chico es de mi tierra this lad is from where I come from;
    vino/queso de la tierra local wine/cheese
    tierra natal homeland, native land
    7. [terrenos, países]
    es el dueño de estas tierras he's the owner of this land;
    en tierras del rey on the King's land;
    en tierras mexicanas on Mexican soil;
    por estas tierras round these parts, down this way;
    ver otras tierras to travel, to see the world
    8. Elec
    (toma de) tierra Br earth, US ground;
    estar conectado a tierra, tener toma de tierra to be Br earthed o US grounded
    9. Quím tierra rara rare earth
    10. Am [polvo] dust
    * * *
    f
    1 land;
    tierra de labor, tierra cultivable arable land, farmland;
    tierras altas highlands;
    tierras bajas lowlands;
    poner tierra de por medio flee, make o.s. scarce fam ;
    por tierra viajar by land;
    2 materia soil, earth;
    echar tierra a algo fig hush sth up;
    echar por tierra ruin, wreck;
    como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra as if he had vanished off the face of the earth
    3 ( patria) native land, homeland;
    de la tierra locally produced, local
    4 EL ground, Br
    earth
    5
    :
    la Tierra the Earth
    * * *
    tierra nf
    1) : land
    2) suelo: ground, earth
    3) : country, homeland, soil
    4)
    tierra natal : native land
    5)
    la Tierra : the Earth
    * * *
    1. (terreno) land
    2. (materia) earth / soil
    3. (suelo) ground
    echar por tierra to ruin / to spoil
    Cuando se refiere al planeta Tierra, se escribe con mayúscula: Earth

    Spanish-English dictionary > tierra

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