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  • 1 non-normal population

    French\ \ population non normale
    German\ \ nicht normalverteilte Grundgesamtheit
    Dutch\ \ niet-normaal verdeelde populatie
    Italian\ \ popolazione non normale
    Spanish\ \ población no normal
    Catalan\ \ població no normal
    Portuguese\ \ população não-normal
    Romanian\ \ -
    Danish\ \ -
    Norwegian\ \ -
    Swedish\ \ icke-normalfördelad population
    Greek\ \ μη κανονικός πληθυσμός
    Finnish\ \ ei-normaalinen populaatio
    Hungarian\ \ nem normális sokaság
    Turkish\ \ normal olmayan populasyon; normal olmayan kitle
    Estonian\ \ mittenormaalse jaotusega üldkogum
    Lithuanian\ \ nenormalioji populiacija
    Slovenian\ \ -
    Polish\ \ populacja nienormalna
    Ukrainian\ \ відмінна від нормальної генеральна сукупність
    Serbian\ \ -
    Icelandic\ \ ekki eðlilegt íbúa
    Euskara\ \ ez-normal biztanleria
    Farsi\ \ jame-eye gheyrenormal
    Persian-Farsi\ \ -
    Arabic\ \ المجتمع الغير طبيعي
    Afrikaans\ \ nienormaalpopulasie
    Chinese\ \ 非 正 态 总 体
    Korean\ \ 비정규모집단

    Statistical terms > non-normal population

  • 2 нормальная совокупность

    Русско-английский биологический словарь > нормальная совокупность

  • 3 нормално разпределение

    normal distribution
    normal distributions
    normal population

    Български-Angleščina политехнически речник > нормално разпределение

  • 4 нормально распределенная совокупность

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь Масловского > нормально распределенная совокупность

  • 5 нормальная совокупность

    1) Engineering: normal population

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > нормальная совокупность

  • 6 (генеральная) совокупность, имеющая нормальное распределение

    Quality control: normal population

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > (генеральная) совокупность, имеющая нормальное распределение

  • 7 нормально распределённая совокупность

    Mathematics: normal population

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > нормально распределённая совокупность

  • 8 совокупность с многомерным нормальным распределением

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > совокупность с многомерным нормальным распределением

  • 9 совокупность, имеющая нормальное распределение

    Quality control: (генеральная) normal population

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > совокупность, имеющая нормальное распределение

  • 10 regular

    adj.
    1 regular (uniforme).
    Tiene ritmo regular It has a repetitive rhythm.
    Ricardo es un cliente regular Richard is a frequent customer.
    Su rutina es regular His routine is regular.
    2 average, fair (mediocre).
    María es una estudiante regular Mary is an average student.
    3 normal, usual (normal).
    por lo regular as a rule, generally
    4 fairly good, not bad, not too bad not too good, fairly decent.
    El pastel estuvo regular The cake was so-so.
    adv.
    lleva unos días regular, tiene un poco de fiebre she's been so-so the last few days, she's got a bit of a temperature
    ¿qué tal el concierto? — regular how was the concert? — nothing special
    f. & m.
    regular customer.
    Ricardo es un regular de la tienda Richard is a regular customer in the store.
    m.
    regular (military).
    v.
    to control, to regulate.
    la normativa regula estos casos the regulations govern these cases
    Elsa regula las actividades Elsa regulates the activities.
    Elsa regula el agua caliente Elsa regulates the hot water.
    * * *
    1 (gen) regular
    2 familiar (pasable) so-so, average, not bad
    ■ ¿qué tal la película? - regular what's the film like? - nothing special
    1 (gen) to regulate
    2 (ajustar) to adjust
    * * *
    1. adj.
    2) fair
    2. verb
    * * *
    I
    ADJ
    1) (=normal) normal, usual
    2) (=común) ordinary

    por lo regular — as a rule, generally

    3) (=uniforme) regular
    4) (=mediano) medium, average

    de tamaño regular — medium-sized, average-sized

    5) (=no muy bueno) so-so, not too bad

    -¿qué tal la fiesta? -regular — "what was the party like?" - "it was O.K. o all right o not too bad"

    -¿qué tal estás? -regular — "how are you?" - "so-so o all right o can't complain"

    6) (Rel, Mil) regular
    II
    VT
    1) (=ajustar) to regulate, control; [ley] to govern; [+ tráfico, precio] to control
    2) (Mec) to adjust, regulate; [+ reloj] to put right; [+ despertador] to set
    3) Méx (=calcular) to calculate
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <ritmo/movimiento> regular
    b) < verbo> regular
    c) (Mat) regular
    2)

    por lo regular — (loc adv) as a (general) rule

    3)

    ¿qué tal te va? - regular — how's it going? - so-so

    ¿qué tal la película? - regular — how was the movie? - nothing special

    b) ( de tamaño) medium-sized, middling
    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <espejo/asiento> to adjust
    b) <caudal/temperatura/velocidad> to regulate, control
    2) ley/norma to regulate
    III
    * * *
    = even, moderate, regular, regulate, routine, steady [steadier -comp., steadiest -sup.], standing order, recurring, line + Profesión, standing, habitual.
    Ex. An unvarying level of illumination, heating, cooling, ventilation and acoustics will give the even type of environment needed in an academic library.
    Ex. In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex. Book form was generally regarded as too inflexible for library catalogues, especially where the catalogue required regular updating to cater for continuing and gradual expansion of the collection.
    Ex. Built into each operator are sets of instructions to the computer which regulate where the term must appear in the printed entries generated from the string, typefaces, and necessary punctuation.
    Ex. They were a kind of localized office for the city government and would take on routine tasks like receiving license applications, although main function was to provide information.
    Ex. Susan Blanch is a fairly steady customer, taking only fiction books.
    Ex. A dynamic information centre has to satisfy 2 types of enquiry -- single requests for information and enquiries on standing order -- each contributing to and shaping the information network.
    Ex. After the probationary period, performance evaluations are administered on a recurring basis.
    Ex. In larger libraries, line librarians are also likely to be MLS graduates.
    Ex. A standing reproach to all librarians is the non-user.
    Ex. A new study confirms that male gender, obesity, and weight gain are key determinants of habitual snoring in the adult population.
    ----
    * campo petrolífero de producción regular = marginal field.
    * de forma regular = regularly.
    * de un modo regular = on an ongoing basis, on a continuing basis.
    * de venta regular = steady-selling.
    * ejército regular, el = regular army, the.
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) <ritmo/movimiento> regular
    b) < verbo> regular
    c) (Mat) regular
    2)

    por lo regular — (loc adv) as a (general) rule

    3)

    ¿qué tal te va? - regular — how's it going? - so-so

    ¿qué tal la película? - regular — how was the movie? - nothing special

    b) ( de tamaño) medium-sized, middling
    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <espejo/asiento> to adjust
    b) <caudal/temperatura/velocidad> to regulate, control
    2) ley/norma to regulate
    III
    * * *
    = even, moderate, regular, regulate, routine, steady [steadier -comp., steadiest -sup.], standing order, recurring, line + Profesión, standing, habitual.

    Ex: An unvarying level of illumination, heating, cooling, ventilation and acoustics will give the even type of environment needed in an academic library.

    Ex: In his efforts to broaden the tax base, Groome has been actively courting industry - with some moderate success.
    Ex: Book form was generally regarded as too inflexible for library catalogues, especially where the catalogue required regular updating to cater for continuing and gradual expansion of the collection.
    Ex: Built into each operator are sets of instructions to the computer which regulate where the term must appear in the printed entries generated from the string, typefaces, and necessary punctuation.
    Ex: They were a kind of localized office for the city government and would take on routine tasks like receiving license applications, although main function was to provide information.
    Ex: Susan Blanch is a fairly steady customer, taking only fiction books.
    Ex: A dynamic information centre has to satisfy 2 types of enquiry -- single requests for information and enquiries on standing order -- each contributing to and shaping the information network.
    Ex: After the probationary period, performance evaluations are administered on a recurring basis.
    Ex: In larger libraries, line librarians are also likely to be MLS graduates.
    Ex: A standing reproach to all librarians is the non-user.
    Ex: A new study confirms that male gender, obesity, and weight gain are key determinants of habitual snoring in the adult population.
    * campo petrolífero de producción regular = marginal field.
    * de forma regular = regularly.
    * de un modo regular = on an ongoing basis, on a continuing basis.
    * de venta regular = steady-selling.
    * ejército regular, el = regular army, the.

    * * *
    A
    1 (uniforme) ‹ritmo/movimiento› regular
    a intervalos regulares at regular intervals
    la asistencia regular a clase regular attendance at class
    tiene el pulso regular her pulse is regular
    2 ‹verbo› regular
    3 ( Mat) regular
    polígono regular regular polygon
    B (normal) regular, ordinary
    viajé en un vuelo regular I traveled* on a normal o scheduled flight
    iban vestidos con el uniforme regular they were wearing their ordinary uniform
    C
    por lo regular ( loc adv) as a (general) rule
    por lo regular, no trabaja los sábados he doesn't work on Saturdays as a rule, he doesn't usually work on Saturdays
    D
    1
    (no muy bien): ¿qué tal van los estudios? — regular how's school going? — so-so
    ¿qué tal la película? — regular how was the movie? — nothing special o nothing to write home about
    su trabajo está bastante regularcillo the work he produces is pretty run-of-the-mill
    2 (mediano) medium-sized, middling
    regular2 [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (ajustar) ‹espejo/asiento› to adjust
    2 ‹caudal› to regulate, control; ‹temperatura/velocidad› to regulate, control
    B «ley/norma» to regulate
    las leyes que regulan la industria the laws regulating the industry
    fair
    * * *

     

    regular 1 adjetivo
    1 ( en general) regular
    2

    ◊ ¿qué tal te va? — regular how's it going? — so-so;

    ¿qué tal la película? — regular how was the movie? — nothing special

    ■ sustantivo masculino ( calificación) fair
    regular 2 ( conjugate regular) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹espejo/asiento› to adjust

    b) ‹caudal/temperatura/velocidad› to regulate, control

    2 [ley/norma] to regulate
    regular
    I adjetivo
    1 regular
    un ejército regular, a regular army
    2 (metódico, sin alteraciones) la marcha regular de los acontecimientos, the orderly progress of events
    3 (habitual) regular
    4 (mediano) average, regular
    (mediocre) average
    II adverbio so-so
    III verbo transitivo
    1 (organizar, someter a normas) to regulate, control
    2 (ajustar) to adjust
    ' regular' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ahorcarse
    - asidua
    - asiduo
    - bribón
    - bribona
    - dosificar
    - habitual
    - milicia
    - once
    - parroquiana
    - parroquiano
    - periodicidad
    - roce
    - vuelo
    - café
    - cliente
    - controlar
    - fijo
    - gasolina
    - graduación
    - graduar
    - normal
    - ordinario
    English:
    adjust
    - average
    - control
    - lie
    - moderate
    - much
    - regular
    - regular army
    - regulate
    - scheduled flight
    - second-class
    - so-so
    - spot-check
    - steady
    - assure
    - casual
    - clock
    - even
    - flier
    - routine
    - scheduled
    - second
    - shuttle
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [uniforme] regular;
    de un modo regular regularly;
    hay un servicio de autobús regular a la capital there is a regular bus service to the capital
    2. [mediocre] average;
    una actuación regular an undistinguished o a rather average performance
    3. [normal] normal, usual;
    [de tamaño] medium;
    por lo regular as a rule, generally
    4. Gram regular
    5. Geom regular
    6. Rel regular
    ♦ nm
    Mil regular
    ♦ adv
    [no muy bien] so-so;
    lleva unos días regular, tiene un poco de fiebre she's been so-so the last few days, she's got a bit of a temperature;
    me encuentro regular I feel a bit under the weather;
    ¿qué tal el concierto? – regular how was the concert? – so-so o nothing special
    regular2 vt
    1. [actividad, economía] to regulate;
    la normativa regula estos casos the regulations govern these cases
    2. [mecanismo] to adjust;
    [temperatura] to regulate, to control; [tráfico] to control;
    las presas regulan el cauce del río the dams regulate the flow of the river
    * * *
    1 adj
    1 sin variar regular
    2 ( común) ordinary
    3 ( habitual) regular, normal
    4 (no muy bien) so-so
    2 v/t TÉC regulate; temperatura control, regulate
    * * *
    : to regulate, to control
    regular adj
    1) : regular
    2) : fair, OK, so-so
    3) : medium, average
    4)
    por lo regular : in general, generally
    * * *
    regular1 adj
    1. (en general) regular
    2. (mediocre) average / poor
    regular2 adv all right
    regular3 vb to regulate

    Spanish-English dictionary > regular

  • 11 courant

    courant, e [kuʀɑ̃, ɑ̃t]
    1. adjective
       a. ( = normal) [dépenses] everyday ; [modèle, taille] standard
       b. ( = fréquent) common
       c. ( = en cours) [année, semaine] current
    2. masculine noun
       a. [de cours d'eau, mer, atmosphère] current
    • courant d'air froid/chaud (Meteorology) cold/warm air current
       b. ( = mouvement) movement
       e. ► au courant
    • oui, je suis au courant yes, I know
    • si jamais ça recommence, tenez-moi au courant if it happens again let me know
    3. feminine noun
    * * *
    kuʀɑ̃
    I

    II
    1.
    courante kuʀɑ̃, ɑ̃t adjectif
    1) ( fréquent) [mot, pratique, erreur] common
    2) ( ordinaire) [langue] everyday; [procédure, fonctionnement] usual, ordinary; Commerce [taille] standard
    3) ( avec référence temporelle) [semaine, mois, année, prix] current

    2.
    nom masculin
    1) (mouvement de l'eau, de l'air) current

    contre le courant — lit against the current; fig against the tide

    suivre le courant — lit to go with the current, to go downstream; fig to go with the flow

    remonter le courant — fig to get back on one's feet

    le courant passe bien entre elle et lui — fig they get on very well

    3) ( tendance) trend
    4) ( déplacement) movement
    5) ( période)

    3.
    au courant locution adjective
    1) ( informé)

    mettre quelqu'un au courant — to put somebody in the picture, to fill somebody in (de about)

    2) ( au fait)

    pour les questions techniques demande à Paul, il est très au courant — for technical questions ask Paul, he knows all about it

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    kuʀɑ̃, ɑ̃t courant, -e
    1. adj
    1) (= fréquent) common

    C'est une erreur courante. — It's a common mistake.

    2) (= normal) standard

    C'est un modèle courant. — It's a standard model.

    3) (= en cours) (affaires, dépenses, balance, transactions) current
    See:
    2. nm
    1) (électrique) current, power

    le courant passe entre fig Le courant passe entre ces deux passionnés de musique. — These two music-lovers get on like a house on fire.

    2) [cours d'eau] current
    3) (= tendance) trend

    être au courant de [fait, nouvelle] — to know about

    Je ne suis pas au courant de ses projets pour l'été. — I don't know about her plans for the summer.

    mettre qn au courant (d'une nouvelle) — to tell sb, (pour un travail) to teach sb the basics, to brief sb

    mettre qn au courant de [fait, nouvelle] — to tell sb about, [travail] to teach sb the basics of, to brief sb about

    se tenir au courant — to keep o.s. up-to-date, to keep up

    se tenir au courant de [innovations] — to keep o.s. up-to-date on, to keep up with

    J'essaie de me tenir au courant de l'actualité. — I try to keep up with the news.

    dans le courant de (= pendant) — during, in the course of

    Je le ferai dans le courant de la semaine. — I'll do it some time during the week.

    * * *
    I.
    A adj
    1 ( fréquent) [mot, pratique, erreur] common; l'expression est de plus en plus courante the expression is becoming increasingly common; il est courant de faire it is common to do;
    2 ( ordinaire) [langue] everyday; [procédure, fonctionnement] usual, ordinary; Comm [taille] standard;
    3 ( avec référence temporelle) [semaine, mois, année] current; le 15 du mois courant the 15th of this month, the 15th inst.; bénéfice courant profit for the year.
    B nm
    1 ( mouvement de l'eau) current; un courant fort/faible a strong/weak current; il y a beaucoup de courant there's a strong current; nager/ramer contre le courant to swim/to row against the current; aller contre le courant fig to go against the tide; suivre le courant lit to go with the current, to go downstream; fig to go with the flow; remonter le courant [saumon] to swim upstream; [embarcation] to sail against the current; fig [personne, entreprise] to get back on one's feet;
    2 Aviat, Météo current; courant aérien air current;
    3 Électrotech current; courant électrique electric current; il n'y a plus de courant the power has gone off; remettre le courant to switch the power back on; le courant passe lit the power's on; le courant ne passe pas there's no power; le courant passe bien entre elle et lui fig they get on very well; il faut que le courant passe avec le public fig you have to have a good rapport with the audience; certains soirs le courant ne passe pas avec le public fig on some evenings there's just no rapport with the audience;
    4 ( tendance) trend; un courant culturel/politique/religieux a cultural/political/religious trend; un courant de pensée/d'opinion a current of thought/of opinion;
    5 ( déplacement) movement; les courants migratoires/de population migratory/population movements; ⇒ plume;
    6 ( période) dans le courant de in the course of; dans le courant du mois/de l'année/de la journée in the course of the month/of the year/of the day; demain, dans le courant de la journée some time tomorrow.
    C au courant loc adj
    1 ( informé) être au courant to know (de qch about sth); tu étais au courant et tu n'as rien dit! you knew and you didn't say anything!; je ne suis pas du tout au courant de ce qu'il veut faire I really don't know what he wants to do; mettre qn au courant to put sb in the picture, to fill sb in (de qch about sth); il serait préférable de les mettre au courant it would be better to put them in the picture; tenir qn au courant to keep sb posted (de qch about sth); tiens-moi au courant de l'affaire, ça m'intéresse keep me posted about the case, I'm interested;
    2 ( au fait) être très au courant to know all about it; pour les questions techniques demande à Paul, il est très au courant for technical questions ask Paul, he knows all about it; pour un spécialiste il n'a pas l'air très au courant for a specialist he doesn't really seem to know what he's doing; mettre qn au courant to bring sb up to date (de qch on sth); nous vous mettrons au courant du nouveau système we will bring you up to date on the new system; se tenir au courant to keep up to date (de qch on sth); j'essaie de me tenir au courant de ce qui se fait en informatique I'm trying to keep up to date with what's happening in computing.
    D courante nf
    1 Mus, Danse courante;
    2 ○( diarrhée) runs◑ (pl); avoir la courante to have the runs◑.
    courant d'air draught GB, draft US; faire courant d'air to make a draught (avec with); leur fils est un vrai courant d'air hum their son is never in one place for more than five minutes at a time; courant alternatif, CA alternating current, AC; courant ascendant updraught; courant atmosphérique Aviat air flow; Météo air stream; courant continu, CC direct current, DC; courant descendant Aviat downdraught; courant d'induction or induit Électrotech induction current; courant porteur carrier current.
    II.
    courant prép some time in; courant janvier some time in January.
    I
    ( féminin courante) [kurɑ̃, ɑ̃t] adjectif
    1. [quotidien - vie, dépenses] everyday ; [ - travail] everyday, routine
    en anglais courant in everyday ou conversational English
    2. [commun - problème, maladie] common ; [ - incident] everyday
    3. [normal - modèle, pointure] standard
    4. [actuel] current
    ————————
    courante nom féminin
    (familier) [diarrhée]
    II
    [kurɑ̃] nom masculin
    courant alternatif/continu alternating/direct current
    2. [dans l'eau] current, stream
    b. (figuré) to follow the crowd, to go with the tide
    nager contre ou remonter le courant
    3. [dans l'air] current
    courant (atmosphérique) airstream, current
    se déguiser ou se transformer en courant d'air (humoristique) to vanish into thin air
    4. [tendance] current, trend
    les courants de l'opinion currents ou trends in public opinion
    5. [masse mouvante] movement, shift
    ————————
    au courant locution adjectivale
    [informé]
    personne/journal bien au courant well-informed person/paper
    ————————
    au courant locution adverbiale
    mettre quelqu'un au courant to let somebody know, to fill somebody in
    ————————
    au courant de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [informé de]
    2. (littéraire) [au fil de]
    a. [rapidement] to dash something off
    dans le courant de locution prépositionnelle
    in ou during the course of

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > courant

  • 12 muestra

    f.
    para muestra (basta) un botón one example is enough
    una muestra representativa de la población a cross-section of the population
    muestra gratuita free sample
    2 sign, show (señal).
    dar muestras de to show signs of
    3 model, pattern (modelo).
    4 show, exhibition.
    5 preview, example.
    6 swatch.
    7 cross-section of population.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: mostrar.
    * * *
    1 (ejemplar) sample
    ■ ¿me da una muestra de esta tela? could I have a sample of this fabric?
    2 (modelo) pattern
    3 (señal) proof, sign
    4 (rótulo) sign
    5 (exposición) show, display
    \
    muestra gratuita free sample
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) show
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=señal) sign, indication
    - para muestra basta un botón

    ¿que si es listo? para muestra un botón, ha sacado un diez en el examen — is he clever? by way of example he got full marks in the exam

    2) (=prueba) proof
    3) (Com) sample
    4) (Med) sample, specimen
    5) (=exposición) trade fair
    6) (=en estadística) sample

    muestra aleatoria, muestra al azar — random sample

    7) (Cos) pattern
    8) (=esfera de reloj) face
    9) † [de tienda] sign, signboard
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de mercancía) sample

    para muestra (basta) un botón — (fam) for example, for instance

    b) (de sangre, orina) specimen, sample
    c) ( en labores) sample of work done
    d) ( en estadísticas) sample
    2) (prueba, señal)

    como or en muestra de mi gratitud/buena voluntad — as a token of my gratitude/goodwill

    una muestra de cansancio/falta de madurez — a sign of tiredness/immaturity

    3) ( exposición) exhibition, exhibit (AmE); (de teatro, cine) festival
    * * *
    = display, sample, smear, specimen, reassurance, sampler, show, taster, swab.
    Ex. Displays which take a theme approach, for example wild flowers, vintage cars, railways, and gather together material from different places in the library, can be useful in drawing attention to specific aspects of a library's resources.
    Ex. Also, sound recordings, samples, maps and graphic materials may occasionally merit inclusion.
    Ex. Populary light response is poor and intraocular pressure is normal and smear shows no organisms.
    Ex. An object is a tree-dimensional artefact (or replica of an artefact) or a specimen of a naturally occurring entity.
    Ex. Such reassurance becomes particularly important if the inquirer has not sampled the file, either in a printed format or in browsing online.
    Ex. The book becomes a sampler, a pattern against which we can compare what we are.
    Ex. Locate the exhibit catalog for a show of American impressionists held at the Corcoran Gallery in 1985.
    Ex. 'Free' services still predominate on the Internet: some providers offer samples of free information as a taster for their charged services.
    Ex. Two swabs were collected from each woman, one by the gynaecologist and one by the woman.
    ----
    * análisis de una muestra representativa = cross-sectional analysis.
    * botón de muestra = showplace, just an/one example.
    * como muestra de agradecimiento = as a token of thanks.
    * como muestra de + Posesivo + agradecimiento = as a token of + Posesivo + appreciation.
    * como muestra de + Posesivo + gratitud = as a token of + Posesivo + gratitude.
    * dar muestras de = show + signs of.
    * error de la muestra = sampling error.
    * feria de muestras = trade show, trade fair.
    * formulario de muestra = sample form.
    * industria de las ferias de muestras = trade show industry.
    * muestra al azar = random sample.
    * muestra bióptica = biopsy specimen.
    * muestra de aprecio = mark of appreciation.
    * muestra de arte = art exhibit, art exhibition.
    * muestra de degustación = taster.
    * muestra de hielo = ice core.
    * muestra de interés = expression of interest.
    * muestra de sange = blood sample.
    * muestra probabilística = random sample.
    * muestra representativa = cross-section [cross section].
    * recogida de muestras = sampling.
    * sala de muestras = show room [showroom].
    * una muestra variada de = a mosaic of.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( de mercancía) sample

    para muestra (basta) un botón — (fam) for example, for instance

    b) (de sangre, orina) specimen, sample
    c) ( en labores) sample of work done
    d) ( en estadísticas) sample
    2) (prueba, señal)

    como or en muestra de mi gratitud/buena voluntad — as a token of my gratitude/goodwill

    una muestra de cansancio/falta de madurez — a sign of tiredness/immaturity

    3) ( exposición) exhibition, exhibit (AmE); (de teatro, cine) festival
    * * *
    = display, sample, smear, specimen, reassurance, sampler, show, taster, swab.

    Ex: Displays which take a theme approach, for example wild flowers, vintage cars, railways, and gather together material from different places in the library, can be useful in drawing attention to specific aspects of a library's resources.

    Ex: Also, sound recordings, samples, maps and graphic materials may occasionally merit inclusion.
    Ex: Populary light response is poor and intraocular pressure is normal and smear shows no organisms.
    Ex: An object is a tree-dimensional artefact (or replica of an artefact) or a specimen of a naturally occurring entity.
    Ex: Such reassurance becomes particularly important if the inquirer has not sampled the file, either in a printed format or in browsing online.
    Ex: The book becomes a sampler, a pattern against which we can compare what we are.
    Ex: Locate the exhibit catalog for a show of American impressionists held at the Corcoran Gallery in 1985.
    Ex: 'Free' services still predominate on the Internet: some providers offer samples of free information as a taster for their charged services.
    Ex: Two swabs were collected from each woman, one by the gynaecologist and one by the woman.
    * análisis de una muestra representativa = cross-sectional analysis.
    * botón de muestra = showplace, just an/one example.
    * como muestra de agradecimiento = as a token of thanks.
    * como muestra de + Posesivo + agradecimiento = as a token of + Posesivo + appreciation.
    * como muestra de + Posesivo + gratitud = as a token of + Posesivo + gratitude.
    * dar muestras de = show + signs of.
    * error de la muestra = sampling error.
    * feria de muestras = trade show, trade fair.
    * formulario de muestra = sample form.
    * industria de las ferias de muestras = trade show industry.
    * muestra al azar = random sample.
    * muestra bióptica = biopsy specimen.
    * muestra de aprecio = mark of appreciation.
    * muestra de arte = art exhibit, art exhibition.
    * muestra de degustación = taster.
    * muestra de hielo = ice core.
    * muestra de interés = expression of interest.
    * muestra de sange = blood sample.
    * muestra probabilística = random sample.
    * muestra representativa = cross-section [cross section].
    * recogida de muestras = sampling.
    * sala de muestras = show room [showroom].
    * una muestra variada de = a mosaic of.

    * * *
    A
    una muestra de tela a swatch o sample of material
    muestra gratuita or gratis free sample
    están de muestra, no se venden they're samples, they're not for sale
    para muestra (basta) un botón ( fam); for example, for instance
    es muy detallista, para muestra un botón: mira las flores que trajo he's very thoughtful, take the flowers he brought, for example o for instance ( colloq)
    2 (de sangre, orina) specimen, sample; (de tejido) sample
    3 (en labores) sample of work done ( to check tension etc)
    muestra de población population sample
    Compuestos:
    random sample
    ( Dep, Med) B-sample
    B
    (prueba, señal): te lo doy como or en muestra de mi gratitud I'm giving it to you as a token of my gratitude
    eso es (una) muestra de falta de madurez that's a sign of immaturity
    esta visita la presentan como una muestra de su buena voluntad this visit is being presented as a demonstration of her goodwill
    no daba muestra alguna de cansancio she was showing no signs of tiredness
    C
    1 (exposición) exhibition, exhibit ( AmE)
    2 (de teatro, cine) festival
    * * *

     

    Del verbo mostrar: ( conjugate mostrar)

    muestra es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    mostrar    
    muestra
    mostrar ( conjugate mostrar) verbo transitivo
    to show;

    mostrarse verbo pronominal (+ compl): se mostró muy atento con nosotros he was very obliging (to us);
    se muestraon partidarios de la propuesta they expressed support for the proposal
    muestra sustantivo femenino
    1

    b) (de sangre, orina) specimen, sample


    2 (prueba, señal) sign;
    ◊ una muestra de cansancio/falta de madurez a sign of tiredness/immaturity;

    como or en muestra de mi gratitud as a token of my gratitude
    3 ( exposición) exhibition, exhibit (AmE);
    (de teatro, cine) festival
    mostrar verbo transitivo to show: muéstrame el camino, show me the way
    muestra sustantivo femenino
    1 (de un producto, sustancia) sample, specimen
    2 Estad sample
    3 (gesto, demostración) sign: fue una muestra de generosidad, it was a sign of generosity
    te doy esto como muestra de mi amor, I give you this as a token of my love
    ' muestra' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    botón
    - destreza
    - expresividad
    - manifestación
    - mimo
    - mostrarse
    - señal
    - espécimen
    - exposición
    - indicación
    - interesado
    - modelo
    English:
    cross-section
    - demo
    - display
    - foretaste
    - lack
    - pilot
    - portfolio
    - proficiency
    - progress
    - sample
    - specimen
    - taste
    - come
    - demonstration
    - pattern
    - show
    - slide
    - swab
    - token
    * * *
    1. [cantidad representativa] sample;
    una muestra gratuita o [m5] de regalo a free sample;
    para muestra (basta) un botón one example is enough
    2. [de sangre, orina] sample
    3. [en estadística] sample
    muestra aleatoria random sample;
    muestra piloto pilot sample;
    muestra representativa cross-section
    4. [señal] sign, show;
    [prueba] proof; [de cariño, aprecio] token;
    los recibieron con muestras de cariño they gave them an affectionate welcome;
    recibe este regalo como muestra de aprecio please accept this gift as a token of appreciation;
    dio claras muestras de alegría/enfado it was clear that she was happy/annoyed;
    este contrato supone una clara muestra de confianza en la empresa this contract is a clear indication of confidence in the company;
    existe nerviosismo, muestra de ello son las declaraciones del delegado there is some anxiety, as evidenced by the delegate's statements
    5. [modelo] model, pattern
    6. [exposición] show, exhibition
    * * *
    f
    1 de un producto sample
    2 ( señal) sign
    3 ( prueba) proof;
    como muestra, un botón for example
    4 ( modelo) model
    5 ( exposición) show
    * * *
    1) : sample
    2) señal: sign, show
    una muestra de respeto: a show of respect
    3) exposición: exhibition, exposition
    4) : pattern, model
    * * *
    1. (en general) sample
    2. (señal) sign

    Spanish-English dictionary > muestra

  • 13 población

    f.
    1 population, people.
    2 city, town, centre of population, center of population.
    * * *
    \
    población activa working population
    población pasiva nonworking population
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) city, town, village
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=gente) population
    2) (=lugar habitado, ciudad) town; (=pueblo) village; Cono Sur (=caserío) small hamlet
    3) (=acción) settlement
    (tb: población callampa) (=suburbio) shanty town; (=barrio pobre) slum area, poor quarter
    * * *
    1) ( habitantes) population; (Zool) population, colony
    2) ( ciudad) town, city; ( aldea) town, village
    3) ( acción) settlement
    * * *
    1) ( habitantes) population; (Zool) population, colony
    2) ( ciudad) town, city; ( aldea) town, village
    3) ( acción) settlement
    * * *
    la población
    (n.) = populace, the

    Ex: This would enable the majority of the rural populace who are illiterate and semi-literate to participate in cultural and intellectual entertainment.

    población1
    1 = citizenry, population, user population.

    Ex: The subpoena process represents a legal obligation and duty of citinzenry and is becoming a fact of life in the operations of many libraries.

    Ex: The new building was expected to provide for a university population of 5,500 students of which approximately 3,500 would be science and technology students and 2,000 arts and social science students.
    Ex: Given similar demographics (age, size, and user population), to what extent do community hospital libraries differ in collection content?.
    * con gran densidad de población = densely populated.
    * con mucha población = heavily populated.
    * con poca población = thinly populated.
    * de población poco densa = sparsely populated.
    * dirigido a un sector de la población específico = sector-orientated.
    * en algunos grupos de la población = in some quarters.
    * en algunos sectores de la población = in some quarters.
    * en muchos grupos de la población = in many quarters.
    * en muchos sectores de la población = in many quarters.
    * entre la población en general = mainstream.
    * envejecimiento de la población = aging population [ageing population].
    * estadística de población = population statistics.
    * excedente de población = overspill.
    * foco de población = population centre.
    * movimiento de la población = population turnover, population transfer.
    * población activa = working population, economically active population, work-force [workforce], labour force.
    * población cada vez más envejecida = greying population [graying population].
    * población civil = civilian.
    * población civil, la = civilian population, the.
    * población en general = broad population.
    * población en general, la = general population, the.
    * población estudiantil = school population.
    * población indígena = indigenous people.
    * población, la = populace, the.
    * población nativa = native population, aboriginal people, native inhabitant.
    * población obrera = blue collar population.
    * población penitenciaria = prison population.
    * población rural = rural people, rural population.
    * población urbana = urban population.
    * profesional dedicado a prestar un servicio a la población = service professional.
    * profesión dedicada a prestar un servicio a la población = service profession.

    población2
    2 = village.

    Ex: In the above example, when specifying the individual village, Ashworthy, we must employ a verbal extension to the 'normal' UDC notation.

    * población con mercado ambulante = market town, market centre.
    * población rural = rural village.

    * * *
    A (habitantes) population; ( Zool) population, colony
    tiene una población de cuatro millones de habitantes it has a population of four million
    Compuestos:
    working population
    permanent population
    floating population
    non-working population
    B (ciudad) town, city; (aldea) town, village
    Compuesto:
    ( Chi) shantytown
    C (acción) settlement
    * * *

     

    población sustantivo femenino
    1 ( habitantes) population;
    (Zool) population, colony;
    ◊ población activa/pasiva working/non-working population

    2 ( ciudad) town, city;
    ( aldea) town, village;

    3 ( acción) settlement
    población sustantivo femenino
    1 (habitantes) population
    población activa, working population
    2 (ciudad) town
    (pueblo) village
    ' población' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conmocionar
    - densidad
    - desierta
    - desierto
    - diecinueveava
    - diecinueveavo
    - EPA
    - flotante
    - fortificación
    - machetazo
    - predisponer
    - reflejar
    - refrendar
    - saquear
    - total
    - vecina
    - vecino
    - villa
    - amotinar
    - aniquilar
    - atemorizar
    - censo
    - concientizar
    - doblar
    - empobrecer
    - enriquecer
    - estragos
    - evacuar
    - infantil
    - isleño
    - localidad
    - mitad
    - movilizar
    - totalidad
    - urbano
    English:
    aerial
    - civilian
    - comprise
    - cross-section
    - densely
    - density
    - Hispanic
    - popular
    - population
    - poverty
    - town
    - vital statistics
    - working
    - community
    - deep
    - over
    - populace
    - public
    - shantytown
    - work
    * * *
    1. [ciudad] town, city;
    [pueblo] village
    2. [personas, animales] population
    población activa working population;
    población de derecho permanent population;
    población flotante floating o transient population;
    población de riesgo group at risk
    3. [acción de poblar] settlement
    4. Chile [barrio]
    * * *
    f
    1 gente population
    2 ( ciudad) city, town; ( pueblo) village
    3 Chi
    shanty town
    * * *
    población nf, pl - ciones
    1) : population
    2) : city, town, village
    * * *
    1. (personas) population
    2. (localidad) village / town

    Spanish-English dictionary > población

  • 14 habitual

    adj.
    1 habitual (costumbre, respuesta).
    es habitual it's not uncommon, it's normal
    lo habitual es dejar propina it is usual o customary to leave a tip
    lo habitual en un caso así es llamar a la policía in a case like this you would normally call the police
    2 chronic.
    * * *
    1 usual, habitual, customary
    2 (asiduo) regular
    * * *
    adj.
    usual, habitual
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ (=acostumbrado) habitual, customary, usual; [cliente, lector] regular; [criminal] hardened
    2.
    SMF [de bar, tienda] regular
    * * *
    adjetivo <sitio/hora> usual; <cliente/lector> regular
    * * *
    = commonplace, chronic, customary, habitualized, inveterate, prevalent, hardened, habitual.
    Ex. Microfilm and microfiche formats are now commonplace in most libraries.
    Ex. Stress is an inescapable fact of life and the reason one of every four persons suffers from chronic stress response is because people waste time.
    Ex. What I'm getting at is this: At least in the CIP entry that I have seen, LC, following customary practice, made a title entry for the main title, 'Women in Librarianship', but nothing under Melvil's 'Rib Symposium'.
    Ex. Habitualized actions, they further suggest, become embedded in human behavior and provide the psychological gain of narrowing choices.
    Ex. As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.
    Ex. Pre-co-ordinate indexes are particular prevalent as printed indexes.
    Ex. There is a shift from considering children as innocent victims to viewing them as hardened criminals on a par with adults who commit similar acts.
    Ex. A new study confirms that male gender, obesity, and weight gain are key determinants of habitual snoring in the adult population.
    ----
    * cliente habitual = habitué.
    * como es habitual = as always.
    * de un modo habitual = as a matter of routine.
    * normas habituales = standard practices.
    * poco habitual = unaccustomed.
    * ser algo habitual = become + a common feature, be a fact of life.
    * ser habitual = be customary.
    * * *
    adjetivo <sitio/hora> usual; <cliente/lector> regular
    * * *
    = commonplace, chronic, customary, habitualized, inveterate, prevalent, hardened, habitual.

    Ex: Microfilm and microfiche formats are now commonplace in most libraries.

    Ex: Stress is an inescapable fact of life and the reason one of every four persons suffers from chronic stress response is because people waste time.
    Ex: What I'm getting at is this: At least in the CIP entry that I have seen, LC, following customary practice, made a title entry for the main title, 'Women in Librarianship', but nothing under Melvil's 'Rib Symposium'.
    Ex: Habitualized actions, they further suggest, become embedded in human behavior and provide the psychological gain of narrowing choices.
    Ex: As an inveterate user of the British Museum Library he was able to confirm that 'a library is not worth anything without a catalogue'.
    Ex: Pre-co-ordinate indexes are particular prevalent as printed indexes.
    Ex: There is a shift from considering children as innocent victims to viewing them as hardened criminals on a par with adults who commit similar acts.
    Ex: A new study confirms that male gender, obesity, and weight gain are key determinants of habitual snoring in the adult population.
    * cliente habitual = habitué.
    * como es habitual = as always.
    * de un modo habitual = as a matter of routine.
    * normas habituales = standard practices.
    * poco habitual = unaccustomed.
    * ser algo habitual = become + a common feature, be a fact of life.
    * ser habitual = be customary.

    * * *
    ‹sitio/hora› usual; ‹cliente/lector› regular
    soy un oyente habitual de su programa I'm a regular listener to your program
    respondió con su habitual ironía he replied with his customary o habitual o usual irony
    1 (asiduo) regular, habitué ( frml)
    2 (en cine, diario, TV) regular
    * * *

     

    habitual adjetivo ‹sitio/hora› usual;
    ‹cliente/lector› regular
    habitual adjetivo
    1 (corriente) usual, habitual
    2 (asiduo) regular: es un cliente habitual, he's a regular customer
    ' habitual' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    consabida
    - consabido
    - costumbre
    - desorbitar
    - destartalar
    - domicilio
    - escollo
    - frecuente
    - fuera
    - ordinaria
    - ordinario
    - parroquiana
    - parroquiano
    - práctica
    - proveedor
    - proveedora
    - provincia
    - regular
    - residencia
    - siempre
    - acostumbrado
    - borracho
    - cliente
    - top-less
    English:
    current
    - customary
    - dinner
    - double-jointed
    - familiar
    - frequent
    - habitual
    - hardened
    - herself
    - himself
    - normal
    - originally
    - outside
    - patron
    - patronize
    - practice
    - practise
    - regular
    - unaccustomed
    - usual
    - standard
    - would
    * * *
    [costumbre, respuesta] habitual; [cliente, lector] regular;
    es habitual it's not uncommon, it's normal;
    el mal humor es habitual en él he's more often than not in a bad mood;
    lo habitual es dejar propina it is usual o customary to leave a tip;
    lo habitual en un caso así es llamar a la policía in a case like this you would normally call the police
    * * *
    I adj usual, regular
    II m/f regular
    * * *
    : habitual, customary
    * * *
    1. (usual) usual
    2. (cliente, visitante, etc) regular

    Spanish-English dictionary > habitual

  • 15 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.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 16 aldea

    f.
    1 small village.
    la aldea global the global village
    2 Aldea.
    * * *
    1 hamlet, small village
    * * *
    SF small village, hamlet
    * * *
    femenino small village, hamlet
    * * *
    = hamlet, rural village, village, homestead.
    Ex. A large proportion of the population in Britain still lives in the countryside, in hamlets and villages of varying size.
    Ex. The article has the title 'The meaning of hope and generic caring practices to nurture hope in a rural village in the Dominican Republic' = El artículo tiene el título "El significado de la esperanza y de las ayudas humanitarias de tipo general para dar esperanza a una población rural de la República Dominicada.
    Ex. In the above example, when specifying the individual village, Ashworthy, we must employ a verbal extension to the 'normal' UDC notation.
    Ex. The scattered remains of homesteads also dot the rugged landscape.
    ----
    * aldea de montaña = mountain village.
    * aldea global, la = global village, the.
    * aldea mundial de la información, la = global information village, the.
    * aldea mundial, la = global village, the.
    * aldea rural = rural village.
    * * *
    femenino small village, hamlet
    * * *
    = hamlet, rural village, village, homestead.

    Ex: A large proportion of the population in Britain still lives in the countryside, in hamlets and villages of varying size.

    Ex: The article has the title 'The meaning of hope and generic caring practices to nurture hope in a rural village in the Dominican Republic' = El artículo tiene el título "El significado de la esperanza y de las ayudas humanitarias de tipo general para dar esperanza a una población rural de la República Dominicada.
    Ex: In the above example, when specifying the individual village, Ashworthy, we must employ a verbal extension to the 'normal' UDC notation.
    Ex: The scattered remains of homesteads also dot the rugged landscape.
    * aldea de montaña = mountain village.
    * aldea global, la = global village, the.
    * aldea mundial de la información, la = global information village, the.
    * aldea mundial, la = global village, the.
    * aldea rural = rural village.

    * * *
    small village, hamlet
    * * *

     

    aldea sustantivo femenino
    small village, hamlet
    aldea sustantivo femenino village
    ' aldea' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    saquear
    - última
    - último
    - población
    English:
    chase down
    - enclose
    - hamlet
    - village
    * * *
    aldea nf
    small village
    la aldea global the global village
    * * *
    f (small) village
    * * *
    aldea nf
    : village
    * * *
    aldea n small village

    Spanish-English dictionary > aldea

  • 17 распределение

    1) <comput.> allocation

    2) allotment
    3) assignment
    4) dealing
    5) <engin.> dispensing
    6) disposal
    7) distributing
    8) distribution
    9) lay-out
    10) partition
    11) partitioning
    12) population
    13) scheduling
    – асимптотически-нормальное распределение
    – бимодальное распределение
    – биномиальное распределение
    – выборочное распределение
    – гипергеометрическое распределение
    – дискретное распределение
    – допредельное распределение
    – логарифмически-нормальное распределение
    – многовершинное распределение
    – мультимодальное распределение
    – мультиномиальное распределение
    – неоднородное распределение
    – равномерное распределение
    – распределение вероятностей
    – распределение во времени
    – распределение выборки
    – распределение генотипов
    – распределение Дрюйвестейна
    – распределение зажигания
    – распределение корней
    – распределение логарифмически-нормальное
    – распределение логарифмическое
    – распределение Максвелла
    – распределение многомерное
    – распределение на окружности
    – распределение невязки
    – распределение одномодальное
    – распределение по полу
    – распределение по энергии
    – распределение последействия
    – распределение предельное
    – распределение Пуассона
    – распределение рабочих
    – распределение спроса
    – распределение Тринора
    – распределение триноровское
    – распределение частот
    – распределение юнговское
    – совместное распределение
    – теоритическое распределение
    – частное распределение

    амплитудное распределение импульсов — pulse-height distribution


    гетерогенное или неоднородное распределение — heterogeneous distribution


    двумерное нормальное распределение — bivariate normal distribution


    зависящее от случайных параметров распределение — contagious distribution


    несобственное нормальное распределение — singular normal distribution


    параллельностное распределение в целом — parallel distribution in the large


    равное распределение энергии по степеням свободы — equipartition


    распределение генеральной совокупности — parent distribution


    распределение объектов по выборке — allocation of sample


    распределение плотности уровней — <phys.> level-density distribution


    распределение собственных значений — distribution of eigenvalues


    распределение экспоненциального типа — distribution of exponential type


    собственное нормальное распределение — non-singular normal distribution

    Русско-английский технический словарь > распределение

  • 18 ciudadano

    adj.
    civic.
    m.
    citizen, countryman, member of the public, townsman.
    * * *
    1 civic
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 citizen
    1 townspeople, city dwellers
    * * *
    (f. - ciudadana)
    noun
    * * *
    ciudadano, -a
    1.
    ADJ civic, city antes de s
    2.
    SM / F citizen
    * * *
    I
    - na adjetivo < vida> city (before n)
    II
    - na masculino, femenino
    1) ( habitante) citizen
    2) (Ven frml) ( al dirigirse - a un hombre) sir; (- a una mujer) madam
    * * *
    = citizen, national, constituent, private citizen, burgess, member of the public, punter.
    Ex. This paper reports a conference on present and future possibilities for interstate cooperation in the effective delivery of community information to citizens.
    Ex. This collection includes also works about the Maltese Islands and those written by Maltese nationals but published abroad.
    Ex. This service was formed in 1792 to give constituents free information on the activity of their government.
    Ex. Except for civil laws, and the individual right of the private citizen etc., the king is bound to public law, constitutional law and divine law.
    Ex. They claimed that they and all of their ancestors as burgesses had held a market on these days from time out of mind, without interruption.
    Ex. As well as voting for candidates it is possible for a member of the public to decide to stand for election themselves.
    Ex. It could mean simply the ability of the punter to move between pieces of information in much the same way as he or she uses the remote controller to change channels on analogue television.
    ----
    * centro de atención al ciudadano = advice centre.
    * Centro de Información al Ciudadano = Public Information Center (PIC).
    * centro de información ciudadana = community information centre.
    * ciudadano británico = Briton.
    * ciudadano de edad avanzada = elderly citizen.
    * ciudadano de la tercera edad = senior citizen.
    * ciudadano medio, el = average man, the.
    * ciudadano normal = ordinary citizen, member of the public.
    * ciudadano, particular = private citizen.
    * ciudadanos = citizenry, townspeople.
    * ciudadano soldado = citizen soldier.
    * conciudadano = fellow citizen.
    * defensor de los derechos de los ciudadanos = citizen activist.
    * defensor de los intereses del ciudadano = watchdog.
    * derechos del ciudadano = civil liberties.
    * el ciudadano de a pie = the average Joe.
    * el ciudadano medio = the average Joe.
    * grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.
    * grupo de ciudadanos desatentido = unserved, the.
    * grupo de protección ciudadana = civic trust group.
    * inseguridad ciudadana = street crime.
    * instrucción sobre los derechos de los ciudadanos = community education.
    * la ciudadana de a pie = the average Jane.
    * la ciudadana media = the average Jane.
    * Oficina de Información al Ciudadano (CAB) = Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB).
    * participación ciudadana = community involvement.
    * seguridad ciudadana = public safety.
    * servicio de información ciudadana = community information service.
    * simple ciudadano, el = man-on-the-street, man in the street, the.
    * * *
    I
    - na adjetivo < vida> city (before n)
    II
    - na masculino, femenino
    1) ( habitante) citizen
    2) (Ven frml) ( al dirigirse - a un hombre) sir; (- a una mujer) madam
    * * *
    = citizen, national, constituent, private citizen, burgess, member of the public, punter.

    Ex: This paper reports a conference on present and future possibilities for interstate cooperation in the effective delivery of community information to citizens.

    Ex: This collection includes also works about the Maltese Islands and those written by Maltese nationals but published abroad.
    Ex: This service was formed in 1792 to give constituents free information on the activity of their government.
    Ex: Except for civil laws, and the individual right of the private citizen etc., the king is bound to public law, constitutional law and divine law.
    Ex: They claimed that they and all of their ancestors as burgesses had held a market on these days from time out of mind, without interruption.
    Ex: As well as voting for candidates it is possible for a member of the public to decide to stand for election themselves.
    Ex: It could mean simply the ability of the punter to move between pieces of information in much the same way as he or she uses the remote controller to change channels on analogue television.
    * centro de atención al ciudadano = advice centre.
    * Centro de Información al Ciudadano = Public Information Center (PIC).
    * centro de información ciudadana = community information centre.
    * ciudadano británico = Briton.
    * ciudadano de edad avanzada = elderly citizen.
    * ciudadano de la tercera edad = senior citizen.
    * ciudadano medio, el = average man, the.
    * ciudadano normal = ordinary citizen, member of the public.
    * ciudadano, particular = private citizen.
    * ciudadanos = citizenry, townspeople.
    * ciudadano soldado = citizen soldier.
    * conciudadano = fellow citizen.
    * defensor de los derechos de los ciudadanos = citizen activist.
    * defensor de los intereses del ciudadano = watchdog.
    * derechos del ciudadano = civil liberties.
    * el ciudadano de a pie = the average Joe.
    * el ciudadano medio = the average Joe.
    * grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.
    * grupo de ciudadanos desatentido = unserved, the.
    * grupo de protección ciudadana = civic trust group.
    * inseguridad ciudadana = street crime.
    * instrucción sobre los derechos de los ciudadanos = community education.
    * la ciudadana de a pie = the average Jane.
    * la ciudadana media = the average Jane.
    * Oficina de Información al Ciudadano (CAB) = Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB).
    * participación ciudadana = community involvement.
    * seguridad ciudadana = public safety.
    * servicio de información ciudadana = community information service.
    * simple ciudadano, el = man-on-the-street, man in the street, the.

    * * *
    ciudadano1 -na
    la vida ciudadana town o city life
    la inseguridad ciudadana the lack of safety in towns o cities
    el deber ciudadano de acudir a las urnas the duty of every citizen to use his or her vote
    la colaboración ciudadana the cooperation of the people
    ciudadano2 -na
    masculine, feminine
    A (habitante) citizen
    el alcalde ha pedido la colaboración de todos los ciudadanos the mayor has asked everyone in the town o all of the townspeople o all of the residents to help
    la seguridad de todos los ciudadanos the security of all citizens o of the population as a whole
    Compuesto:
    el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street, the ordinary o average person
    B
    1 ( Ven frml) (al dirigirse — a un hombre) sir; (— a una mujer) madam
    ciudadana, ¿me permite su licencia de conducir? could I see your license please, madam?
    todos los ciudadanos deben acudir a la taquilla all visitors o everyone should go to the ticket office
    2 ( Ven iró) (individuo) character ( iro)
    * * *

    ciudadano
    ◊ -na adjetivo ‹ vida› city ( before n);

    la inseguridad ciudadana the lack of safety in towns o cities;
    es un deber ciudadano it's the duty of every citizen
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino ( habitante) citizen
    ciudadano,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino citizen
    el ciudadano de a pie, the man in the street
    II adjetivo civic

    ' ciudadano' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ciudadana
    - súbdita
    - súbdito
    - citadino
    - medio
    - nacional
    English:
    citizen
    - man
    - model
    - national
    - Briton
    * * *
    ciudadano, -a
    ♦ adj
    [deberes, conciencia] civic; [urbano] city;
    seguridad ciudadana public safety;
    vida ciudadana city life
    ♦ nm,f
    citizen;
    un ciudadano de Buenos Aires a citizen of Buenos Aires;
    el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street
    * * *
    I adj civic;
    seguridad ciudadana public safety
    II m, ciudadana f citizen;
    el ciudadano de a pie the man in the street
    * * *
    ciudadano, -na adj
    : civic, city
    ciudadano, -na n
    1) nacional: citizen
    2) habitante: resident, city dweller
    * * *
    ciudadano n citizen

    Spanish-English dictionary > ciudadano

  • 19 distribución

    f.
    1 distribution, division, design, sharing out.
    2 distribution, arrangement, formation, grouping.
    3 share-out.
    4 distributorship, right to supply.
    * * *
    1 distribution
    2 (colocación) arrangement
    3 (reparto) delivery
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=reparto) [de víveres, mercancías, película] distribution; [de correo] delivery; [de trabajo, tarea] allocation; [de folletos] [en buzones] distribution; [en mano] handing out
    2) (Estadística) distribution
    3) (Arquit) layout, ground plan
    4) (Aut, Téc) distribution
    5) (Mec) timing gears pl
    * * *
    a) ( reparto) distribution
    b) (de producto, película) distribution
    c) (disposición, división) layout, arrangement
    d) (Auto) valve-operating gear
    * * *
    = apportionment, arrangement, cantonment, delivery, disposition, distribution, lay-out, layout, map, mapping, publication, distribution etc. area, scatter, scattering, sequencing, allotment, floor plan, dispensing, deliverance, hosting, landscape.
    Ex. Gaps are left in the apportionment of notation in order to permit new subjects to be inserted.
    Ex. The scheme is intended to provide a systematic approach to the arrangement of books on shelves.
    Ex. He added that the different ethnic groups had clustered in well-defined colonies but that with the passage of time these cantonments have become blurred.
    Ex. Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
    Ex. Their main concern was the readable disposition of machine readable records.
    Ex. The preliminary work began immediately with the drafting of a questionnaire designed to collect pertinent data on the distribution of authority files.
    Ex. This article outlines general requirements for a well-appointed restoration laboratory: filtered light, security alarms, good flood drainage, and lay-out.
    Ex. Diagrammatic presentation of the layout of the collection conveniently placed, for example, near the entrance.
    Ex. A detailed study of a co-citation map, its core documents' citation patterns and the related journal structures, is presented.
    Ex. Recently, proponents of co-citation cluster analysis have claimed that in principle their methodology makes possible the mapping of science using the data in the Science Citation Index.
    Ex. The second element of the publication, distribution, etc. area is the name of the publisher and/or distributor.
    Ex. As we proceed down the citation order, the concepts in each successively cited facet are liable to an increasingly higher degree of scatter.
    Ex. All the concepts in the second cited facet will be liable to scattering.
    Ex. The sequencing of items on the agenda is of no particular importance.
    Ex. This law basically strives to ensure a fair allotment of economic support to the various types of organisations concerned with music.
    Ex. The winning entry in the competition to produce a design for the main library building is described and a floor plan of the building is presented.
    Ex. The role of the university library embraces 5 functions: archival, bibliophilic, circulating, duplicating and dispensing and electronic.
    Ex. Communication can be improved, both a better content of information exchange and by a more timely deliverance of this information.
    Ex. This service offers all 12,000 Elsevier Science journals as scanned images for local hosting.
    Ex. During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.
    ----
    * area de publicación o distribución = imprint.
    * cadena de distribución = timing chain.
    * cadena de producción y distribución, la = supply chain, the.
    * canal de distribución = distribution channel.
    * centro de distribución = distribution centre.
    * Centro de Distribución de Documentos de la Biblioteca Británica (BLDSC) = British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC).
    * correa de distribución = driving belt, timing belt, cambelt [cam belt].
    * distribución binomial negativa = negative binomial distribution.
    * distribución de contenido = content distribution, content delivery.
    * distribución de documentos de préstamo interbibliotecario = interlibrary loan document delivery.
    * distribución de información = content distribution, content delivery.
    * distribución de información por suscripción = syndication.
    * distribución de la página = page layout.
    * distribución de la plantilla = staffing pattern.
    * distribución del trabajo = workflow [work flow].
    * distribución de Poisson = Poisson distribution.
    * distribución de probabilidades = possibility distribution, probability distribution.
    * distribución de una materia en su índice = subject scatter.
    * distribución de Waring = Waring distribution.
    * distribución en función del género = gender distribution.
    * distribución exponencial = exponential distribution.
    * distribución geográfica = geographical disposition.
    * distribución horaria = timetabling.
    * distribución informétrica = informetric distribution.
    * distribución por edades = age distribution.
    * distribución por rangos = rank distribution.
    * distribución temporal = time scale [timescale], timeline [time line].
    * lista de distribución = mailing list, listserv(er) [list-serv(er)], distribution list, e-mail list.
    * lista de distribución electrónica = electronic list (e-list), electronic distribution list.
    * modelo de distribución probabilística = probability distribution model.
    * número y distribución de personal = staffing conditions.
    * punto de distribución = outlet.
    * redistribución = respacing.
    * servicio de distribución = host service.
    * sistema de distribución = distribution system.
    * * *
    a) ( reparto) distribution
    b) (de producto, película) distribution
    c) (disposición, división) layout, arrangement
    d) (Auto) valve-operating gear
    * * *
    = apportionment, arrangement, cantonment, delivery, disposition, distribution, lay-out, layout, map, mapping, publication, distribution etc. area, scatter, scattering, sequencing, allotment, floor plan, dispensing, deliverance, hosting, landscape.

    Ex: Gaps are left in the apportionment of notation in order to permit new subjects to be inserted.

    Ex: The scheme is intended to provide a systematic approach to the arrangement of books on shelves.
    Ex: He added that the different ethnic groups had clustered in well-defined colonies but that with the passage of time these cantonments have become blurred.
    Ex: Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
    Ex: Their main concern was the readable disposition of machine readable records.
    Ex: The preliminary work began immediately with the drafting of a questionnaire designed to collect pertinent data on the distribution of authority files.
    Ex: This article outlines general requirements for a well-appointed restoration laboratory: filtered light, security alarms, good flood drainage, and lay-out.
    Ex: Diagrammatic presentation of the layout of the collection conveniently placed, for example, near the entrance.
    Ex: A detailed study of a co-citation map, its core documents' citation patterns and the related journal structures, is presented.
    Ex: Recently, proponents of co-citation cluster analysis have claimed that in principle their methodology makes possible the mapping of science using the data in the Science Citation Index.
    Ex: The second element of the publication, distribution, etc. area is the name of the publisher and/or distributor.
    Ex: As we proceed down the citation order, the concepts in each successively cited facet are liable to an increasingly higher degree of scatter.
    Ex: All the concepts in the second cited facet will be liable to scattering.
    Ex: The sequencing of items on the agenda is of no particular importance.
    Ex: This law basically strives to ensure a fair allotment of economic support to the various types of organisations concerned with music.
    Ex: The winning entry in the competition to produce a design for the main library building is described and a floor plan of the building is presented.
    Ex: The role of the university library embraces 5 functions: archival, bibliophilic, circulating, duplicating and dispensing and electronic.
    Ex: Communication can be improved, both a better content of information exchange and by a more timely deliverance of this information.
    Ex: This service offers all 12,000 Elsevier Science journals as scanned images for local hosting.
    Ex: During the post-war period international organizations have become a prominent feature of the international landscape.
    * area de publicación o distribución = imprint.
    * cadena de distribución = timing chain.
    * cadena de producción y distribución, la = supply chain, the.
    * canal de distribución = distribution channel.
    * centro de distribución = distribution centre.
    * Centro de Distribución de Documentos de la Biblioteca Británica (BLDSC) = British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC).
    * correa de distribución = driving belt, timing belt, cambelt [cam belt].
    * distribución binomial negativa = negative binomial distribution.
    * distribución de contenido = content distribution, content delivery.
    * distribución de documentos de préstamo interbibliotecario = interlibrary loan document delivery.
    * distribución de información = content distribution, content delivery.
    * distribución de información por suscripción = syndication.
    * distribución de la página = page layout.
    * distribución de la plantilla = staffing pattern.
    * distribución del trabajo = workflow [work flow].
    * distribución de Poisson = Poisson distribution.
    * distribución de probabilidades = possibility distribution, probability distribution.
    * distribución de una materia en su índice = subject scatter.
    * distribución de Waring = Waring distribution.
    * distribución en función del género = gender distribution.
    * distribución exponencial = exponential distribution.
    * distribución geográfica = geographical disposition.
    * distribución horaria = timetabling.
    * distribución informétrica = informetric distribution.
    * distribución por edades = age distribution.
    * distribución por rangos = rank distribution.
    * distribución temporal = time scale [timescale], timeline [time line].
    * lista de distribución = mailing list, listserv(er) [list-serv(er)], distribution list, e-mail list.
    * lista de distribución electrónica = electronic list (e-list), electronic distribution list.
    * modelo de distribución probabilística = probability distribution model.
    * número y distribución de personal = staffing conditions.
    * punto de distribución = outlet.
    * redistribución = respacing.
    * servicio de distribución = host service.
    * sistema de distribución = distribution system.

    * * *
    1 (reparto) distribution
    la distribución de víveres/de los panfletos the distribution of provisions/of the leaflets
    la distribución de las tareas domésticas the allocation o sharing out of the household chores
    la distribución de la población the population distribution
    una distribución cada vez más desigual de la riqueza an increasingly unequal distribution of wealth
    la mala distribución de la carga the uneven distribution of the load
    2 ( Com) (de un producto, una película) distribution
    3 (disposición, división) layout, arrangement
    la distribución de este apartamento the layout of this apartment
    4 ( Auto) valve-operating gear
    * * *

     

    distribución sustantivo femenino
    a) ( reparto — de dinero, víveres) distribution;

    (— de tareas) allocation
    b) (de producto, película) distribution

    c) (disposición, división) layout, arrangement


    distribución sustantivo femenino
    1 (reparto) distribution
    2 (de una casa, los muebles) layout
    ' distribución' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cada
    - colocación
    - disposición
    - por
    - red
    - restringir
    - entre
    - parte
    - reparto
    English:
    appropriation
    - distribution
    - lay out
    - layout
    - pipeline
    - free
    - lay
    - syndicate
    * * *
    1. [reparto, división] distribution;
    una distribución bastante desigual de los beneficios a rather uneven distribution of the profits
    distribución ecológica ecological distribution;
    distribución de premios Br prizegiving, US awards ceremony;
    distribución de la riqueza distribution of wealth;
    distribución de tareas assignment of duties;
    distribución del trabajo division of labour
    2. [de mercancías, películas] distribution;
    distribución comercial commercial distribution
    3. [de casa, habitaciones, mobiliario] layout
    4. [en estadística] distribution
    distribución binomial binomial distribution;
    distribución normal normal distribution
    5. Tec timing gears
    * * *
    f TÉC, COM distribution
    * * *
    distribución nf, pl - ciones : distribution
    * * *
    1. (en general) distribution
    2. (de una casa) layout

    Spanish-English dictionary > distribución

  • 20 general2

    2 = all-embracing, broad [broader -comp., broadest -sup.], comprehensive, general, large [larger -comp., largest -sup.], sweeping, ubiquitous, umbrella, widespread, pervasive, blanket, all-encompassing, broadly based, wide-ranging [wide ranging], overriding, broad-based [broad based], wide-scale, overarching, received, epidemic, pandemic, wide-angle(d), generalised [generalized, -USA], embracing, encompassing.
    Ex. Some databases are very all-embracing in their coverage and attempt to provide comprehensive coverage of entire disciplines.
    Ex. This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex. One of the factors to consider in the selection of a data base is whether the data base is comprehensive or not.
    Ex. Nevertheless, the fact that these general lists cannot serve for every application has triggered a search for more consistent approaches.
    Ex. Serial searching for a string of characters is usually performed on a small subset of a large file.
    Ex. Such a statement of objectives may appear narrowly defined in its practices and yet, at the same time, rather sweeping in its assumptions.
    Ex. Worldwide, however, the printed book is still the most ubiquitous source of record = Sin embargo, el libro impreso es aún en todo el mundo la fuente de información escrita más común.
    Ex. This article describes how an ' umbrella licence' was obtained covering a group of libraries within the region.
    Ex. Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.
    Ex. The unease is pervasive, not an occasional outcropping of discontent.
    Ex. Likert in no way attempts to make a blanket prescription for employee-centered supervisory styles.
    Ex. In publishing itself there is little use made of the all-encompassing schemes such as Dewey or the Library of Congress.
    Ex. Library schools are offering broadly based courses with increasing emphasis on technology and information systems, but practising librarians still need the traditional skills.
    Ex. The contents of this handbook are comprehensive and wide-ranging.
    Ex. Consequently, the overriding demand made by the academic community is bibliographical in nature.
    Ex. However, the organisation is well on its way to becoming a broad-based provider of databases and end-user oriented information services in all areas of engineering.
    Ex. Without the stimuli of cooperative agencies, many programmes such as wide-scale interlibrary loan would not have developed so rapidly.
    Ex. There appears to be an unhealthy tendency among information technology professionals to elevate any single, highly successful practical experience instantly into an overarching paradigm for managerial success.
    Ex. It was interesting, in view of the received opinion that 'We don't have many problems round here'.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the epidemic growth of its literature' = El artículo se titula "El síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) y el crecimiento exponencial de su literatura".
    Ex. Test score data were broken down to show that the decline is pandemic throughout the culture & not limited to sex, race, or class variables.
    Ex. Except for the principal no one besides the librarian has such a wide-angle view of the school's instructional programme.
    Ex. Although it is coy about admitting the fact it is only mentioned twice in the whole of the thirty pages of publicity material it is in effect a generalized and modernized Thesaurofacet: a facetted classification with a thesaurus structure forming an integral part.
    Ex. What is needed is an embracing approach to guarantee freedom for Palestine and legitimacy for Israel.
    Ex. By drawing Russia into an encompassing coalition with Europe and other powers, the risk of conflict will be diminished.
    ----
    * abogado general = advocate-general.
    * Acuerdo General sobre Aranceles y Comercio (GATT) = General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
    * anestesia general = general anaesthesia.
    * asamblea general = general assembly.
    * biblioteca general = general library.
    * como norma general = as a general rule of thumb, as a rough guide.
    * consenso general = general consensus.
    * creencia general = conventional wisdom.
    * criterio general = rule of thumb.
    * dar una idea general = paint + a broad picture.
    * de aplicación general = general-purpose, of general application.
    * de forma general = bulk.
    * de interés general = of general interest.
    * de lo general a lo particular = from the general to the particular.
    * de lo particular a lo general = from the particular to the general.
    * de propósito general = general-purpose.
    * describir en líneas generales = outline.
    * desde un punto de vista general = in a broad sense.
    * desde un punto de vista más general = in a broader sense.
    * designación general de la clase de documento = general material designation.
    * de tipo general = broad scoped.
    * de un modo muy general = crudely.
    * de utilidad general = all-purpose.
    * director general = senior director.
    * elección general = general election.
    * encabezamiento demasiado general = much-too-broad heading.
    * encabezamiento informativo general = general explanatory heading.
    * en el sentido más general = in the broadest sense.
    * en general = at large, by and large, for the most part, generally, in general, in the main, on balance, on the whole, overall, broadly, as a whole, generally speaking.
    * en líneas generales = broadly speaking, generally, on the whole, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide.
    * ensayo general = dress rehearsal.
    * en su sentido más general = in its/their broadest sense.
    * en términos generales = in broad terms, generally speaking.
    * en un sentido general = in a broad sense.
    * en un sentido más general = in a broader sense.
    * esquema general = outline.
    * gobernador general = Governor General.
    * hablando en términos generales = loosely speaking.
    * idea general = rough idea.
    * índice general = general index.
    * informe sobre el estado general de las carreteras = road report.
    * instrucción general = blanket instruction.
    * interés general = public interest.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * la sociedad en general = society at large.
    * materia más general = broader subject.
    * norma general = rule of thumb.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivvos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * opinión general = consensus of opinion, conventional wisdom.
    * opinión general, la = received wisdom, the.
    * parálisis general = general paresis.
    * población en general, la = general population, the.
    * por lo general = on the whole, all in all, in general, generally, generally speaking, in the normal run of events, in the normal run of things.
    * público en general = broader audience, broad audience, broad public, broader public.
    * público en general, el = general public, the.
    * Secretaría General = Secretariat.
    * ser de uso general = be generally available.
    * sistema de clasificación general = general scheme.
    * Sistema General de Ordenación (SGO) = Broad System of Ordering (BSO).
    * una guía general = a rough guide.
    * una idea general = a rough guide.

    Spanish-English dictionary > general2

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