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not for internal use

  • 1 not for internal use

    iekšķīgi nelietot

    English-Latvian dictionary > not for internal use

  • 2 internal

    in'tə:nl
    1) (of, on or in the inside of something (eg a person's body): The man suffered internal injuries in the accident.) interno
    2) (concerning what happens within a country etc, rather than its relationship with other countries etc: The prime ministers agreed that no country should interfere in another country's internal affairs.) interior
    - internal combustion
    internal adj interno / interior
    tr[ɪn'tɜːnəl]
    1 interno,-a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    internal audit auditoría interna
    internal inquiry investigación interna
    internal examiner examinador,-ra interno,-a
    internal medicine medicina interna
    internal organ órgano interno
    Internal Revenue SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL Hacienda
    internal [ɪn'tərnəl] adj
    : interno, interior
    internal bleeding: hemorragia interna
    internal affairs: asuntos interiores, asuntos domésticos
    internally adv
    adj.
    interior adj.
    interno, -a adj.
    intestino, -a adj.
    ɪn'tɜːrnḷ, ɪn'tɜːnḷ
    adjective interno
    [ɪn'tɜːnl]
    1. ADJ
    1) [wall] interior; [affairs, conflict, divisions] interno
    2) (Med) [bleeding, examination, organ, injury] interno
    2.
    CPD

    internal audit Nauditoría f interna

    internal combustion engine Nmotor m de combustión interna or de explosión

    internal market Nmercado m interno or interior

    Internal Revenue Service N(US) Hacienda f

    * * *
    [ɪn'tɜːrnḷ, ɪn'tɜːnḷ]
    adjective interno

    English-spanish dictionary > internal

  • 3 internal

    [in΄tə:nl] a ներքին, ներսի. internal injure/bleeding ներքին վնաս վածք/ար յո ւ ն ա հոսու թյուն. not for internal use միայն արտաքին գործած ման համար. an internal combustion engine ներքին այրման շարժիչ. internal law ներ քին/ներ պետա կան իրավունք/օրենք. internal politics ներքին քա ղաքականություն. հմկրգ. internal interrupt ներ քին ընդհատում. internal me mory ներքին հիշող սարք. internal sort ներքին տեսա կա վորում internal timer ներդրված թայմեր

    English-Armenian dictionary > internal

  • 4 internal

    adjective
    1) inner...; Innen[winkel, -durchmesser, -fläche, -druck, -gewinde, -abmessungen]
    2) (Physiol.) inner... [Blutung, Sekretion, Verletzung]
    3) (intrinsic) inner... [Logik, Stimmigkeit]
    4) (within country) inner... [Angelegenheiten, Frieden, Probleme]; Binnen[handel, -markt]; innenpolitisch [Angelegenheiten, Streitigkeiten, Probleme]; (within organization) [betriebs-/partei]intern [Auseinandersetzung, Post, Verfahren[sweise]]; inner[betrieblich/-kirchlich/ -gewerkschaftlich usw.] [Streitigkeiten]
    5) (Med.) innerlich [Anwendung]
    6) (of the mind) inner... [Monolog, Regung, Widerstände, Groll]
    * * *
    [in'tə:nl]
    1) (of, on or in the inside of something (eg a person's body): The man suffered internal injuries in the accident.) inner
    2) (concerning what happens within a country etc, rather than its relationship with other countries etc: The prime ministers agreed that no country should interfere in another country's internal affairs.) Innen-...
    - academic.ru/88290/internally">internally
    - internal combustion
    * * *
    in·ter·nal
    [ɪnˈtɜ:nəl, AM -ˈtɜ:r-]
    adj inv innere(r, s); (within a company) innerbetrieblich; (within a country) Binnen-
    \internal affairs/bleeding innere Angelegenheiten/Blutungen
    \internal borders Binnengrenzen pl
    \internal investigation/memo interne Nachforschungen/Mitteilung
    \internal trade Binnenhandel m
    for \internal use only vertraulich
    * * *
    [ɪn'tɜːnl]
    adj
    (= inner) innere(r, s); (MATH) angle, diameter Innen-; (= within country) Binnen-, im Inland; (= within organization) policy, debate, investigation, mail, examination intern

    internal examiner (Univ) — interner Prüfer, interne Prüferin

    Internal Revenue Service (US)Steueramt nt, Finanzamt nt

    * * *
    internal [ınˈtɜːnl; US ınˈtɜrnl]
    A adj (adv internally)
    1. inner(er, e, es), inwendig:
    internal angle MATH Innenwinkel m;
    internal ear ANAT Innenohr n;
    internal evidence JUR reiner Urkundenbeweis;
    internal h(a)emorrhage MED innere Blutung;
    he died of internal h(a)emorrhage er verblutete innerlich;
    internal injury MED innere Verletzung;
    internal medicine innere Medizin;
    internal organs innere Organe;
    internal rhyme LIT Binnenreim m;
    internal telephone Hausapparat m;
    internal thread TECH Innengewinde n;
    he was bleeding internally er hatte innere Blutungen
    2. MED, PHARM innerlich anzuwenden(d):
    “not to be taken internally” „nicht zur inneren Anwendung“
    3. inner(er, e, es), innerlich, geistig:
    the internal law das innere Gesetz
    4. einheimisch, in-, binnenländisch, Inlands…, Innen…, Binnen…:
    internal flight Inlandsflug m;
    internal loan WIRTSCH Inlandsanleihe f;
    internal market Binnenmarkt m;
    internal trade Binnenhandel m
    5. POL inner(er, e, es), innenpolitisch, Innen…:
    internal affairs innere Angelegenheiten
    6. a) intern:
    internal union affairs gewerkschaftsinterne Angelegenheiten
    b) WIRTSCH (betriebs)intern, innerbetrieblich: auditing
    B s
    1. pl ANAT innere Organe pl
    2. wesentliche Eigenschaft
    3. MED gynäkologische Untersuchung
    int. abk
    2. WIRTSCH interest
    * * *
    adjective
    1) inner...; Innen[winkel, -durchmesser, -fläche, -druck, -gewinde, -abmessungen]
    2) (Physiol.) inner... [Blutung, Sekretion, Verletzung]
    3) (intrinsic) inner... [Logik, Stimmigkeit]
    4) (within country) inner... [Angelegenheiten, Frieden, Probleme]; Binnen[handel, -markt]; innenpolitisch [Angelegenheiten, Streitigkeiten, Probleme]; (within organization) [betriebs-/partei]intern [Auseinandersetzung, Post, Verfahren[sweise]]; inner[betrieblich/-kirchlich/ -gewerkschaftlich usw.] [Streitigkeiten]
    5) (Med.) innerlich [Anwendung]
    6) (of the mind) inner... [Monolog, Regung, Widerstände, Groll]
    * * *
    adj.
    innenpolitisch adj.
    innerbetrieblich adj.
    intern adj. n.
    innerpolitisch adj.

    English-german dictionary > internal

  • 5 not ready for prime time

    •• * В одной из статей о перспективах установления демократического режима в Ираке встретилась следующая фраза: Perhaps it won’t work. Maybe the Iraqis are not ready for prime time yet. Вспомнились 1970-е годы, Чеви Чейс, покойные Джон Белуши и Гилда Раднер, передача Saturday Night Live на NBC. Если еще сравнительно недавно это выражение можно было считать аллюзией или своего рода цитатой, то сейчас это, на мой взгляд, вошедшее в язык фразеологическое сочетание. Пока его удалось найти включенным только во Free Online Dictionary of Computing:

    •• Not ready for prime time: Usable, but only just so; not very robust; for internal use only. Said of a program or device. <...> This term comes from the ensemble name of the original cast of Saturday Night Live,” theNot Ready for Prime Time Players.
    •• Действительно, это выражение часто используется в материалах по компьютерной тематике. Например:
    •• Web Services: Not Ready for Prime Time <...> had sound and X-server config problems – again, on the desktop, not ready for prime time.
    •• Но оно все чаще встречается и в других контекстах. Вот заголовок статьи о новом подсластителе:
    •• Stevia: Not Ready For Prime Time. More Research Needed To Answer Safety Questions About NaturalSweetener.
    •• И, наконец, проникновение в политическую лексику, отмеченное выше.
    •• Еще пример – заголовок полемической статьи о кандидате на пост губернатора одного из штатов:
    •• Candidate Not Ready for Prime Time. И далее в тексте: It has become clear that she is not ready to govern the state.
    •• В технических текстах перевести это выражение можно при помощи русского довести до ума ( новое изделие еще нужно довести до ума или просто нуждается в доводке). В заголовке Linux in China: Not Ready for Prime Time подойдет условия еще не созрели. Не созрели хорошо и в политическом контексте, но иногда придется добавить косвенное дополнение. В первом примере: Возможно, иракцы еще не созрели для демократии. В последнем: Кандидат еще не созрел можно добавить для большой политики.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > not ready for prime time

  • 6 use

    use
    utilisation1 (a), 1 (b) emploi1 (a), 1 (c) consommation1 (a) usage1 (a)-(d), 1 (f), 1 (g) besoin1 (d) se servir de2 (a), 2 (b) utiliser2 (a), 2 (c) employer2 (a) prendre2 (a), 2 (e) profiter de2 (b) consommer2 (c) finir2 (c)
    1 noun [ju:s]
    (a) (utilization → of materials) utilisation f, emploi m; (consumption → of water, resources etc) consommation f; (being used, worn etc) usage m;
    the use of brick in building l'emploi ou l'utilisation de la brique dans la construction;
    to stretch (out) with use se détendre à l'usage;
    the dishes are for everyday use c'est la vaisselle de tous les jours;
    ready for use prêt à l'emploi;
    directions or instructions for use (on packaging) mode d'emploi;
    for your personal use (on packaging) pour votre usage personnel;
    for customer use only (sign) réservé à notre clientèle;
    Medicine for external/internal use only (on packaging) à usage externe/interne;
    for use in case of emergency (sign) à utiliser en cas d'urgence;
    the film is for use in teaching le film est destiné à l'enseignement;
    in use (machine, system) en usage, utilisé; (lift, cash point) en service; (phrase, word) usité;
    in general use d'emploi courant, d'utilisation courante;
    not in use, out of use (machine, system) hors d'usage; (lift, cash point) hors service;
    the phrase is no longer in use l'expression est inusitée ou ne s'utilise plus;
    to come into use entrer en service;
    to go out of use (machine) être mis au rebut;
    steam engines went out of use in 1950 on a cessé d'utiliser ou d'employer les machines à vapeur en 1950;
    to make use of sth se servir de ou utiliser qch;
    schools are making increasing use of audio-visual aids les écoles se servent de plus en plus de supports audiovisuels;
    to make good use of, to put to good use (machine, money) faire bon usage de; (opportunity, experience) tirer profit de
    (b) (ability or right to use) usage m, utilisation f;
    we gave them the use of our car nous leur avons laissé l'usage de notre voiture;
    he only has the use of one arm il n'a l'usage que d'un bras;
    she lost the use of her legs elle a perdu l'usage de ses jambes;
    the old man still has the full use of his faculties le vieil homme jouit encore de toutes ses facultés
    (c) (practical application) usage m, emploi m;
    this tool has many uses cet outil a de nombreux usages ou emplois;
    we found a use for the old fridge nous avons trouvé un emploi pour le vieux frigo;
    humorous I have my uses il m'arrive de servir à quelque chose
    (d) (need) besoin m, usage m;
    do you have any use for this book? avez-vous besoin de ce livre?;
    to have no use for sth ne pas avoir besoin de qch; figurative n'avoir que faire de qch;
    I have no use for idle gossip je n'ai que faire des cancans;
    this department has no use for slackers il n'y a pas de place pour les fainéants dans ce service
    to be of use (to sb) être utile (à qn), servir (à qn);
    this dictionary might be of use to you ce dictionnaire pourrait vous être utile ou vous servir;
    were the instructions (of) any use? est-ce que le mode d'emploi a servi à quelque chose?;
    I found his advice to be of little use, his advice was of little use to me je n'ai pas trouvé ses conseils très utiles;
    the book would be of more use if it had illustrations le livre serait plus utile s'il contenait des illustrations;
    it's not much use cela ne sert pas à grand-chose;
    he's not much use as a secretary il n'est pas brillant comme secrétaire;
    to be (of) no use (thing) ne servir à rien; (person) n'être bon à rien;
    they were no use at all during the move ils n'ont rien fait pendant le déménagement;
    you're no use! tu n'es bon à rien!;
    it's or there's no use complaining inutile de ou ça ne sert à rien de se plaindre;
    there's no use shouting ça ne sert à rien de crier, (c'est) inutile de crier;
    it's no use, we might as well give up c'est inutile ou ça ne sert à rien, autant abandonner;
    I tried to convince her but it was no use j'ai essayé de la convaincre mais il n'y avait rien à faire;
    is it any use calling her? est-ce que ça servira à quelque chose de l'appeler?;
    what's the use of waiting? à quoi bon attendre?, à quoi ça sert d'attendre?;
    oh, what's the use? à quoi bon?;
    familiar ironic that's a fat lot of use! ça nous fait une belle jambe!
    (f) Linguistics usage m;
    that's an old-fashioned use c'est un usage vieilli
    (g) Religion usage m
    2 transitive verb [ju:z]
    (a) (put into action → service, tool, skills) se servir de, utiliser; (→ product, name) utiliser; (→ method, phrase, word) employer; (→ vehicle, form of transport) prendre;
    these are the notebooks he used ce sont les cahiers dont il s'est servi ou qu'il a utilisés;
    is anyone using this book? est-ce que quelqu'un se sert de ou a besoin de ce livre?;
    it's very easy to use c'est très facile à utiliser;
    it's no longer used (machine, tool) ça ne sert plus; (word, expression) ça n'est plus usité;
    am I using the term correctly? est-ce comme ça qu'on utilise le terme?;
    I'd like to use my language skills more j'aimerais utiliser davantage mes connaissances en langues;
    I always use public transport je prends toujours les transports en commun;
    we use this room as an office nous nous servons de cette pièce comme bureau, cette pièce nous sert de bureau;
    what is this used for or as? à quoi cela sert-il?;
    it's used for identifying the blood type cela sert à identifier le groupe sanguin;
    I use it for opening or to open letters je m'en sers ou je l'utilise pour ouvrir les lettres;
    I used the money to rebuild my garage j'ai utilisé ou employé l'argent pour reconstruire mon garage;
    what battery does this radio use? quelle pile faut-il pour cette radio?;
    my car uses unleaded petrol ma voiture marche à l'essence sans plomb;
    may I use the phone? puis-je téléphoner?;
    he asked to use the British toilet or American bathroom il a demandé à aller aux toilettes;
    to use force/violence avoir recours à la force/violence;
    the police often use tear gas la police a souvent recours au gaz lacrymogène;
    to use one's intelligence/intuition faire marcher son intelligence/intuition;
    to use diplomacy user de diplomatie;
    to use discretion agir avec discrétion;
    to use one's influence user de son influence;
    use your imagination! utilise ton imagination!;
    use your initiative! fais preuve d'initiative!;
    use your head or your brains! réfléchis un peu!;
    use your eyes! ouvrez l'œil!;
    familiar he could certainly use some help un peu d'aide ne lui ferait pas de mal;
    familiar we could all use a holiday! nous aurions tous bien besoin de vacances!
    (b) (exploit, take advantage of → opportunity) profiter de; (→ person) se servir de;
    use it to your advantage! profitez-en!;
    he's only using you to get ahead il ne fait que se servir de toi pour avancer;
    I feel used j'ai l'impression qu'on s'est servi de moi
    (c) (consume) consommer, utiliser; (finish, use up) finir, épuiser;
    the car's using a lot of oil la voiture consomme beaucoup d'huile;
    have you used all the shampoo? as-tu utilisé tout le shampooing?
    they used the workers well ils ont bien traité les ouvriers, ils ont bien agi envers les ouvriers;
    I consider I was ill used je considère qu'on ne m'a pas traité comme il faut;
    how's the world been using you? comment ça va?
    (e) familiar (drug) prendre
    [ju:z] (only in past tense) they used to live here (avant) ils habitaient ici;
    he used to drink a lot il buvait beaucoup avant;
    it used to be true c'était vrai autrefois;
    it used to be a pleasant town to live in autrefois c'était une ville agréable;
    things aren't what they used to be les choses ne sont plus ce qu'elles étaient;
    she can't get about the way she used to elle ne peut plus se déplacer comme avant;
    she never used to smoke elle ne fumait pas avant;
    we used not or we didn't use to eat meat avant, nous ne mangions pas de viande;
    did he use to visit her? venait-il la voir avant?;
    do you travel much? - I used to vous voyagez beaucoup? - autrefois, oui
    [ju:z] familiar (use drugs) se camer
    (consume) consommer, prendre; (exhaust → paper, soap) finir; (→ patience, energy, supplies) épuiser;
    she used up the leftovers to make the soup elle a utilisé les restes pour faire un potage;
    did you use up all your money? as-tu dépensé tout ton argent?;
    the paper was all used up il ne restait plus de papier

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  • 7 use

    ̘. ̈n.ju:s
    1. сущ.
    1) употребление, применение, использование to make use ofизвлекать пользу из чего-л. to put smth. to good use ≈ найти хорошее применение чему-л. constant use ≈ постоянное использование Do you have any use for this old paper? ≈ Вам зачем-нибудь нужны эти старые газеты? The visitors were denied use of the library. ≈ Посетителям не разрешили воспользоваться услугами библиотеки. to be out of use, fall out of useвыйти из употребления daily use ≈ ежедневное употребление emergency use extensive use external use internal use official use practical use wide use
    2) а) (ис) пользование;
    способность или право пользования( чем-л.) He lost the use of his eyes. ≈ Он ослеп. He put the use of his house at my disposal. ≈ Он предложил мне пользоваться своим домом. б) юр. управление имуществом по доверенности;
    доход от управления имуществом по доверенности
    3) а) назначение, цель б) польза, толк Is there any use? ≈ Стоит ли? I have no use for it разг. ≈ мне это совершенно не нужно;
    я этого не выношу What's the use of arguing? ≈ К чему спорить? Is there any use in trying again? ≈ Имеет ли смысл сделать еще одну попытку? What's the use of worrying? ≈ Какой прок от того, что вы будете волноваться? It was of no earthly use to us. ≈ Для нас это оказалось совершенно бесполезным. Can I be of any use to you? ≈ Могу ли я быть чем-нибудь вам полезен?
    4) а) обыкновение, привычка, уклад Long use has reconciled me to it. ≈ Я примирился с этим благодаря давнишней привычке. б) ритуал церкви, епархии
    2. гл.
    1) а) использовать, пользоваться, применять, употреблять to use one's brains, to use one's wits ≈ 'шевелить мозгами' to use widelyшироко применять, широко использовать Let's use paper plates for the picnic. ≈ Давайте возьмем в поход бумажные тарелки. May I use your name? ≈ Могу я на вас сослаться? She used the candlestick as a paperweight. ≈ Она использовала подсвечник вместо пресс-папье. Syn: employ, utilize б) (из) расходовать, использовать They use 10 tons of coal a month. ≈ Они расходуют 10 тонн угля в месяц. Syn: consume, expend, utilize Ant: conserve, waste
    2) а) обыкн. ;
    только прош. вр. быть привычным, иметь привычку делать что-л. б) обращаться, обходиться( с кем-л.) He thinks himself ill used. ≈ Он считает, что с ним плохо обошлись. ∙ use as use to use up употребление, использование, применение - the * of the telephone пользование телефоном - to be in * быть в употреблении - to be out of * выйти из употребления - to come into * войти в употребление - in daily * в обиходе - to make * of smth. употреблять что-л., пользоваться чем-л. - to make * of smb.'s name ссылаться на кого-л. - directions for * правила употребления - he made good * of his space time он хорошо использовал свое свободное время цель, назначение - a tool with several *s инструмент, применяемый для различных целей - to put smth. to (a) good * правильно использовать что-л. - have yoi any * for a new calendar? вам не понадобится новый календарь? польза, толк, выгода - to be of * быть бесполезным - to be of little * быть мало полезным - it's no * talking нет смысла разговаривать - is there any * in discussing the matter further? стоит ли обсуждать дальше этот вопрос? - what's the *? к чему?, какой смысл?, какой толк? все это ни к чему! (выражение отчаяния) способность пользования (чем-л.) - he lost the * of his left arm он потерял способность владеть левой рукой - she lost the * of his eyes она ослепла право пользования - he gave his friend the * of his library он предоставил приятелю право пользоваться своей библиотекой - she had the * of the estate for life за ней было оставлено право пожизненного пользования этим владением привычка, обыкновение - it was his * to walk ten miles every day у него была привычка ходить ежедневно по десять миль - according to an ancient * cогласно старинному обычаю - * and wont обычная практика - * is second nature привычка - вторая натура( церковное) ритуал;
    чин( литургии) > to have no * for не нуждаться( в чем-л.) ;
    не выносить, презирать;
    быть нетерпимым (к кому-л.) ;
    не хотеть иметь дело( с кем-л.) употреблять, пользоваться, применять - to * coal for heating purposes употреблять уголь для отопления - to * gas пользоваться газом - to * a rigth использовать какое-л. право - to * one's legs ходить - to * one's eyes смотреть - to * one's brains шевелить мозгами - may I * your telephone? можно мне воспользоваться вашим телефоном? - he never *s a dictionary он никогда не пользуется словарем - to force применить силу - to * to advantage использовать с выгодой прибегать( к чему-л.), пользоваться (чем-л.) - we must * the services of an agent мы должны прибегнуть к услугам агента - may I * your name? могу я сослаться на вас? использовать в своих интересах - they *d every artifice to get our help они прибегали ко всяческим хитростям, чтобы добиться от нас помощи потреблять, расходовать - we have *d all the eggs for this omelette мы израсходовали все яйца на этот омлет - they * a ton of coal in a month они ежемесячно расходуют тонну угля тратить, проводить (время) - they *d thirty days in travelling about 1,000 miles они потратили 30 дней, чтобы проехать 1000 миль обращаться, обходиться (с кем-л.) ;
    относиться( к кому-л.) - to * smb. well обращаться с кем-л. хорошо - to * smb. like a dog обращаться с кем-л. как с собакой - to * a man after his deserts обойтись с кем-л. по заслугам приучать - to * oneself to speak aloud приучать себя говорить громко иметь в прошлом обыкновение делать что-л;
    некогда быть каким-л. - I *d to take the bus я обычно ездил на автобусе - there *d to be a cinema in this street на этой улице было когда-то кино - winters *d to be not so harsh раньше зимы не были такими суровыми - she didn't * to be so outspoken (просторечие) когда-то она не была такой откровенной (американизм) (сленг) употреблять наркотики, быть наркоманом (диалектизм) (американизм) часто посещать( человека или место) assets not in ~ неиспользуемые активы ~ польза;
    толк;
    to be of (no) use быть (бес) полезным;
    is there any use? стоит ли?;
    what's the use of arguing? к чему спорить? to be (или to fall) out of ~ выйти из употребления;
    to put knowledge to use применять знания на практике by ~ вчт. путем использования collective ~ совместное потребление common ~ общее употребление compulsory ~ пат. обязательное использование domestic ~ бытовое пользование efficient ~ вчт. эффективное использование ~ up истощать;
    to feel used up чувствовать себя совершенно обессиленным final ~ конечное использование free ~ свободное применение general ~ основное применение ~ (ис) пользование;
    способность или право пользования (чем-л.) ;
    to have the use (of smth.) пользоваться (чем-л.) he lost the ~ of his eyes он ослеп;
    to make use of, to put to use использовать, воспользоваться he put the ~ of his house at my disposal он предложил мне пользоваться своим домом;
    to lose the use (of smth.) потерять способность пользоваться (чем-л.) ~ обращаться, обходиться (с кем-л.) ;
    to use (smb.) like a dog третировать( кого-л.) ;
    he thinks himself ill used он считает, что с ним плохо обошлись I have no ~ for it разг. мне это совершенно не нужно I have no ~ for it разг. я этого не выношу I used to see him often я часто его встречал;
    it used to be said (бывало) говорили illegal ~ вчт. незаконное использование illicit ~ запрещенное использование improper ~ ненадлежащее использование ~ употребление;
    применение;
    in use в употреблении;
    in daily use в частом употреблении;
    в обиходе ~ употребление;
    применение;
    in use в употреблении;
    in daily use в частом употреблении;
    в обиходе ~ польза;
    толк;
    to be of (no) use быть (бес) полезным;
    is there any use? стоит ли?;
    what's the use of arguing? к чему спорить? I used to see him often я часто его встречал;
    it used to be said (бывало) говорили joint ~ совместное использование joint ~ совместное пользование land ~ землепользование ~ обыкновение, привычка;
    use and wont обычная практика;
    long use has reconciled me to it я примирился с этим благодаря давнишней привычке he put the ~ of his house at my disposal он предложил мне пользоваться своим домом;
    to lose the use (of smth.) потерять способность пользоваться (чем-л.) he lost the ~ of his eyes он ослеп;
    to make use of, to put to use использовать, воспользоваться make ~ of использовать make ~ of применять make ~ of употреблять ~ употреблять, пользоваться, применять;
    to use one's brains (или one's wits) "шевелить мозгами";
    may I use your name? могу я на вас сослаться? noncommercial ~ вчт. некоммерческое использование official ~ официальное использование personal ~ личное использование prior ~ пат. преждепользование prior ~ преимущественное использование private ~ вчт. индивидуальное использование private ~ личное пользование private ~ частное использование proper ~ использование по назначению public ~ общественное пользование to be (или to fall) out of ~ выйти из употребления;
    to put knowledge to use применять знания на практике simultaneous ~ одновременное использование there used to be a house here раньше здесь стоял дом ~ использовать, израсходовать;
    they use 10 tons of coal a month они расходуют 10 тонн угля в месяц ~ цель, назначение;
    a tool with many uses инструмент, применяемый для различных целей unauthorized ~ неразрешенное использование unauthorized ~ несанкционированное использование use доверительная собственность, учрежденная для обеспечения за бенефециарием права присвоения плодов вещи ~ использование ~ использовать, израсходовать;
    they use 10 tons of coal a month они расходуют 10 тонн угля в месяц ~ использовать ~ обращаться, обходиться (с кем-л.) ;
    to use (smb.) like a dog третировать (кого-л.) ;
    he thinks himself ill used он считает, что с ним плохо обошлись ~ обыкновение, привычка;
    use and wont обычная практика;
    long use has reconciled me to it я примирился с этим благодаря давнишней привычке ~ польза;
    толк;
    to be of (no) use быть (бес) полезным;
    is there any use? стоит ли?;
    what's the use of arguing? к чему спорить? ~ польза ~ (ис) пользование;
    способность или право пользования (чем-л.) ;
    to have the use (of smth.) пользоваться (чем-л.) ~ пользоваться, использовать, обращать в свою пользу ~ потреблять ~ право пользования ~ право пользования доходами от вещи ~ право присвоения плодов вещи;
    право пользования доходами от вещи ~ применение ~ применять ~ расходовать ~ ритуал церкви, епархии ~ способность пользования ~ употребление;
    применение;
    in use в употреблении;
    in daily use в частом употреблении;
    в обиходе ~ употребление ~ употреблять, пользоваться, применять;
    to use one's brains (или one's wits) "шевелить мозгами";
    may I use your name? могу я на вас сослаться? ~ употреблять ~ юр. управление имуществом по доверенности;
    доход от управления имуществом по доверенности ~ цель, назначение;
    a tool with many uses инструмент, применяемый для различных целей ~ обыкновение, привычка;
    use and wont обычная практика;
    long use has reconciled me to it я примирился с этим благодаря давнишней привычке ~ обращаться, обходиться (с кем-л.) ;
    to use (smb.) like a dog третировать (кого-л.) ;
    he thinks himself ill used он считает, что с ним плохо обошлись ~ of capital использование капитала ~ of force применение силы ~ of foreign exchange reserves использование валютных резервов ~ of income использование дохода ~ употреблять, пользоваться, применять;
    to use one's brains (или one's wits) "шевелить мозгами";
    may I use your name? могу я на вас сослаться? ~ up израсходовать, использовать;
    истратить ~ up израсходовать ~ up использовать ~ up истощать;
    to feel used up чувствовать себя совершенно обессиленным ~ польза;
    толк;
    to be of (no) use быть (бес) полезным;
    is there any use? стоит ли?;
    what's the use of arguing? к чему спорить? wide ~ вчт. широкое использование

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > use

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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  • 9 Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

    [br]
    b. 14 June 1890 Little Shasta, California, USA
    d. 3 May 1969 California, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer of diesel rail traction.
    [br]
    Orphaned as a child, Hamilton went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad in his teens, and then worked for several other companies. In his spare time he learned mathematics and physics from a retired professor. In 1911 he joined the White Motor Company, makers of road motor vehicles in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone to recuperate from malaria. He remained there until 1922, apart from an eighteenth-month break for war service.
    Upon his return from war service, Hamilton found White selling petrol-engined railbuses with mechanical transmission, based on road vehicles, to railways. He noted that they were not robust enough and that the success of petrol railcars with electric transmission, built by General Electric since 1906, was limited as they were complex to drive and maintain. In 1922 Hamilton formed, and became President of, the Electro- Motive Engineering Corporation (later Electro-Motive Corporation) to design and produce petrol-electric rail cars. Needing an engine larger than those used in road vehicles, yet lighter and faster than marine engines, he approached the Win ton Engine Company to develop a suitable engine; in addition, General Electric provided electric transmission with a simplified control system. Using these components, Hamilton arranged for his petrol-electric railcars to be built by the St Louis Car Company, with the first being completed in 1924. It was the beginning of a highly successful series. Fuel costs were lower than for steam trains and initial costs were kept down by using standardized vehicles instead of designing for individual railways. Maintenance costs were minimized because Electro-Motive kept stocks of spare parts and supplied replacement units when necessary. As more powerful, 800 hp (600 kW) railcars were produced, railways tended to use them to haul trailer vehicles, although that practice reduced the fuel saving. By the end of the decade Electro-Motive needed engines more powerful still and therefore had to use cheap fuel. Diesel engines of the period, such as those that Winton had made for some years, were too heavy in relation to their power, and too slow and sluggish for rail use. Their fuel-injection system was erratic and insufficiently robust and Hamilton concluded that a separate injector was needed for each cylinder.
    In 1930 Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton were acquired by General Motors in pursuance of their aim to develop a diesel engine suitable for rail traction, with the use of unit fuel injectors; Hamilton retained his position as President. At this time, industrial depression had combined with road and air competition to undermine railway-passenger business, and Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago, Burlington \& Quincy Railroad, thought that traffic could be recovered by way of high-speed, luxury motor trains; hence the Pioneer Zephyr was built for the Burlington. This comprised a 600 hp (450 kW), lightweight, two-stroke, diesel engine developed by General Motors (model 201 A), with electric transmission, that powered a streamlined train of three articulated coaches. This train demonstrated its powers on 26 May 1934 by running non-stop from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1,015 miles (1,635 km), in 13 hours and 6 minutes, when the fastest steam schedule was 26 hours. Hamilton and Budd were among those on board the train, and it ushered in an era of high-speed diesel trains in the USA. By then Hamilton, with General Motors backing, was planning to use the lightweight engine to power diesel-electric locomotives. Their layout was derived not from steam locomotives, but from the standard American boxcar. The power plant was mounted within the body and powered the bogies, and driver's cabs were at each end. Two 900 hp (670 kW) engines were mounted in a single car to become an 1,800 hp (l,340 kW) locomotive, which could be operated in multiple by a single driver to form a 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) locomotive. To keep costs down, standard locomotives could be mass-produced rather than needing individual designs for each railway, as with steam locomotives. Two units of this type were completed in 1935 and sent on trial throughout much of the USA. They were able to match steam locomotive performance, with considerable economies: fuel costs alone were halved and there was much less wear on the track. In the same year, Electro-Motive began manufacturing diesel-electrie locomotives at La Grange, Illinois, with design modifications: the driver was placed high up above a projecting nose, which improved visibility and provided protection in the event of collision on unguarded level crossings; six-wheeled bogies were introduced, to reduce axle loading and improve stability. The first production passenger locomotives emerged from La Grange in 1937, and by early 1939 seventy units were in service. Meanwhile, improved engines had been developed and were being made at La Grange, and late in 1939 a prototype, four-unit, 5,400 hp (4,000 kW) diesel-electric locomotive for freight trains was produced and sent out on test from coast to coast; production versions appeared late in 1940. After an interval from 1941 to 1943, when Electro-Motive produced diesel engines for military and naval use, locomotive production resumed in quantity in 1944, and within a few years diesel power replaced steam on most railways in the USA.
    Hal Hamilton remained President of Electro-Motive Corporation until 1942, when it became a division of General Motors, of which he became Vice-President.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    P.M.Reck, 1948, On Time: The History of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Ill.: General Motors (describes Hamilton's career).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

  • 10 Séguin, Louis

    [br]
    b. 1869
    d. 1918
    [br]
    French co-designer, with his brother Laurent Séguin (b. 1883 Rhône, France; d. 1944), of the extremely successful Gnome rotary engines.
    [br]
    Most early aero-engines were adaptations of automobile engines, but Louis Séguin and his brother Laurent set out to produce a genuine aero-engine. They decided to build a "rotary" engine in which the crankshaft remained stationary and the cylinders rotated: the propeller was attached to the cylinders. The idea was not new, for rotary engines had been proposed by engineers from James Watt to Samuel P. Langley, rival of the Wright brothers. (An engine with stationary cylinders and a rotating crankshaftplus-propeller is classed as a "radial".) Louis Séguin formed the Société des Moteurs Gnome in 1906 to build stationary industrial engines. Laurent joined him to develop a lightweight engine specifically for aeronautical use. They built a fivecylinder air-cooled radial engine in 1908 and then a prototype seven-cylinder rotary engine. Later in the year the Gnome Oméga rotary, developing 50 hp (37 kW), was produced. This was test-flown in a Voisin biplane during June 1909. The Gnome was much lighter than its conventional rivals and surprisingly reliable in view of the technical problems of supplying rotating cylinders with the petrol-air mixture and a spark to ignite it. It was an instant success.
    Gnomes were mass-produced for use during the First World War. Both sides built and flew rotary engines, which were improved over the years until, by 1917, their size had grown to such an extent that a further increase was not practicable. The gyroscopic effects of a large rotating engine became a serious handicap to manoeuvrability, and the technical problems inherent in a rotary engine were accentuated.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1912, L'Aérophile 20(4) (Louis Séguin's description of the Gnome).
    Further Reading
    C.F.Taylor, 1971, "Aircraft Propulsion", Smithsonian Annals of Flight 1(4) (an account of the evolution of aircraft piston engines).
    A.Nahum, 1987, the Rotary Aero-Engine, London.
    JDS

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  • 11 consumption

    noun
    1) (using up, eating, drinking) Verbrauch, der (of an + Dat.); (act of eating or drinking) Verzehr, der (of von)

    consumption of fuel/sugar — Kraftstoff-/Zuckerverbrauch, der

    consumption of alcohol — Alkoholkonsum, der

    2) (Econ.) Verbrauch, der; Konsum, der
    3) (Med. dated) Schwindsucht, die (veralt.)
    * * *
    1) (the act of consuming: The consumption of coffee has increased.) der Verbrauch
    2) (an old word for tuberculosis of the lungs.)
    * * *
    con·sump·tion
    [kənˈsʌm(p)ʃən]
    1. (using up) Verbrauch m; (using) Konsum m
    energy/fuel \consumption Energie-/Benzinverbrauch m
    2. (eating, drinking) Konsum m; of food also Verzehr m
    fat \consumption Verzehr m von Fettmachern
    to be unfit for human \consumption nicht zum menschlichen Verzehr geeignet sein
    3. (purchase) Verkauf m
    4. (use)
    for internal \consumption zur internen Nutzung
    5. no pl MED ( dated) Schwindsucht f veraltet
    * * *
    [kən'sʌmpSən]
    n
    1) (of fuel etc) Konsum m; (of food also) Verzehr m (geh); (of non-edible products) Verbrauch m
    2) (MED old) Auszehrung f (old), Schwindsucht f
    * * *
    consumption [kənˈsʌmpʃn] s
    1. Verzehrung f
    2. Zerstörung f
    3. Verbrauch m (of an dat):
    fuel consumption Brennstoffverbrauch
    4. WIRTSCH Konsum m, Verbrauch m
    5. Verzehr m:
    (un)fit for human consumption für den menschlichen Verzehr (un)geeignet;
    for public consumption fig für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt
    6. MED obs Schwindsucht f:
    pulmonary consumption Lungenschwindsucht
    * * *
    noun
    1) (using up, eating, drinking) Verbrauch, der (of an + Dat.); (act of eating or drinking) Verzehr, der (of von)

    consumption of fuel/sugar — Kraftstoff-/Zuckerverbrauch, der

    consumption of alcohol — Alkoholkonsum, der

    2) (Econ.) Verbrauch, der; Konsum, der
    3) (Med. dated) Schwindsucht, die (veralt.)
    * * *
    n.
    Genuss -¨e m.
    Verbrauch m.

    English-german dictionary > consumption

  • 12 Porta, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) della

    [br]
    b. between 3 October and 15 November 1535 Vico Equense, near Naples, Italy
    d. 4 February 1615 Naples, Italy
    [br]
    Italian natural philosopher who published many scientific books, one of which covered ideas for the use of steam.
    [br]
    Giambattista della Porta spent most of his life in Naples, where some time before 1580 he established the Accademia dei Segreti, which met at his house. In 1611 he was enrolled among the Oziosi in Naples, then the most renowned literary academy. He was examined by the Inquisition, which, although he had become a lay brother of the Jesuits by 1585, banned all further publication of his books between 1592 and 1598.
    His first book, the Magiae Naturalis, which covered the secrets of nature, was published in 1558. He had been collecting material for it since the age of 15 and he saw that science should not merely represent theory and contemplation but must arrive at practical and experimental expression. In this work he described the hardening of files and pieces of armour on quite a large scale, and it included the best sixteenth-century description of heat treatment for hardening steel. In the 1589 edition of this work he covered ways of improving vision at a distance with concave and convex lenses; although he may have constructed a compound microscope, the history of this instrument effectively begins with Galileo. His theoretical and practical work on lenses paved the way for the telescope and he also explored the properties of parabolic mirrors.
    In 1563 he published a treatise on cryptography, De Furtivis Liter arum Notis, which he followed in 1566 with another on memory and mnemonic devices, Arte del Ricordare. In 1584 and 1585 he published treatises on horticulture and agriculture based on careful study and practice; in 1586 he published De Humana Physiognomonia, on human physiognomy, and in 1588 a treatise on the physiognomy of plants. In 1593 he published his De Refractione but, probably because of the ban by the Inquisition, no more were produced until the Spiritali in 1601 and his translation of Ptolemy's Almagest in 1605. In 1608 two new works appeared: a short treatise on military fortifications; and the De Distillatione. There was an important work on meteorology in 1610. In 1601 he described a device similar to Hero's mechanisms which opened temple doors, only Porta used steam pressure instead of air to force the water out of its box or container, up a pipe to where it emptied out into a higher container. Under the lower box there was a small steam boiler heated by a fire. He may also have been the first person to realize that condensed steam would form a vacuum, for there is a description of another piece of apparatus where water is drawn up into a container at the top of a long pipe. The container was first filled with steam so that, when cooled, a vacuum would be formed and water drawn up into it. These are the principles on which Thomas Savery's later steam-engine worked.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1975, Vol. XI, New York: C.Scribner's Sons (contains a full biography).
    H.W.Dickinson, 1938, A Short History of the Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (contains an account of his contributions to the early development of the steam-engine).
    C.Singer (ed.), 1957, A History of Technology, Vol. III, Oxford University Press (contains accounts of some of his other discoveries).
    I.Asimov (ed.), 1982, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology, 2nd edn., New York: Doubleday.
    G.Sarton, 1957, Six wings: Men of Science in the Renaissance, London: Bodley Head, pp. 85–8.
    RLH / IMcN

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  • 13 domestic

    də'mestik
    1) (of or in the house or home: a domestic servant; domestic utensils.) doméstico
    2) (concerning one's private life or family: domestic problems.) doméstico, familiar
    3) ((of animals) tame and living with or used by people.) doméstico
    4) (not foreign: the Government's domestic policy.) nacional
    - domestication
    - domesticity
    - domestic help

    1. doméstico
    2. nacional
    tr[də'mestɪk]
    1 (of the home) doméstico,-a
    2 (home-loving) hogareño,-a, casero,-a
    3 (news, flight) nacional; (trade, policy) interior; (affairs, policy, market) interno,-a
    1 empleado,-a doméstico,-a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    domestic science economía doméstica, hogar nombre masculino
    domestic service servicio doméstico
    domestic violence violencia en el hogar
    domestic [də'mɛstɪk] adj
    1) household: doméstico, casero
    2) : nacional, interno
    domestic policy: política interna
    3) tame: domesticado
    : empleado m doméstico, empleada f doméstica
    adj.
    casero, -a adj.
    cívico, -a adj.
    doméstico, -a adj.
    intestino, -a adj.
    nacional adj.
    n.
    doméstico s.m.
    familiar s.m.
    sirviente s.m.

    I də'mestɪk
    1)
    a) ( of the home) <life/problems> doméstico

    domestic violenceviolencia f en el hogar

    domestic staffpersonal m doméstico or de servicio

    b) ( home-loving) casero, hogareño
    2) < animal> doméstico
    3) (Econ, Pol) <affairs/policy/market> interno; < produce> nacional

    domestic flightvuelo m nacional


    II
    noun (frml) empleado doméstico, empleada doméstica m,f, doméstico, -ca m,f
    [dǝ'mestɪk]
    1. ADJ
    1) (=household) [activities, duty, life, animal] doméstico; [fuel] de uso doméstico; [harmony, quarrel] familiar; [violence] en el hogar
    2) (=home-loving) casero, hogareño
    3) (Econ, Pol) (=internal) [flight, industry, news, economy, politics] nacional; [market, consumption, policy] nacional, interior; [affairs, problems] nacional, interno
    2.
    N doméstico(-a) m / f, empleado(-a) m / f doméstico(-a)
    3.
    CPD

    domestic abuse Nviolencia f doméstica

    domestic appliance Naparato m doméstico, aparato m de uso doméstico

    domestic help Nempleado(-a) m / f del hogar, empleado(-a) m / f doméstico(-a)

    domestic science N(esp Brit) (Scol) economía f doméstica, hogar m (Sp)

    domestic science teacher N(esp Brit) (Scol) profesor(a) m / f de economía doméstica, profesor(a) m / f de hogar (Sp)

    domestic servant Nsirviente(-a) m / f, doméstico(-a) m / f

    domestic service Nservicio m doméstico

    domestic staff N(in hospital, institution) personal m de servicio; (in private household) servicio m doméstico

    domestic worker Nempleado(-a) m / f doméstico(-a)

    * * *

    I [də'mestɪk]
    1)
    a) ( of the home) <life/problems> doméstico

    domestic violenceviolencia f en el hogar

    domestic staffpersonal m doméstico or de servicio

    b) ( home-loving) casero, hogareño
    2) < animal> doméstico
    3) (Econ, Pol) <affairs/policy/market> interno; < produce> nacional

    domestic flightvuelo m nacional


    II
    noun (frml) empleado doméstico, empleada doméstica m,f, doméstico, -ca m,f

    English-spanish dictionary > domestic

  • 14 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

  • 15 probability of default

    банк. !
    Русский аналог: вероятность дефолта
    В рамках рекомендованного Базельским комитетом по банковскому надзору подхода на основе внутренних рейтингов (IRB) - один из основных компонентов риска.
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    См. также: internal ratings-based approach (IRB); risk components
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    http:www.basel-ii-risk.com/Basel-II/Basel-II-Glossary/Basel-Probability-of-Default-(PD).htm
    The Probability of Default is the likelihood that a loan will not be repayed and fall into default. This PD will be calculated for each company who have a loan. The credit history of the counterparty and nature of the investment will all be taken into account to calculate the PD figures. Many banks will use external ratings agencies such as Standard and Poors. However, banks are also encouraged to use their own Internal Rating Methods as well.
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    o Analyse the credit risk aspects of the counterparty;
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    o Map the counterparty to an internal risk grade which has an associated PD: and
    o Determine the facility specific PD. This last step will gives a weighted Probability of Default for facilities that are subject to a guarantee or protected by a credit derivative. The weighting takes account of the PD of the guarantor or seller of the credit derivative.
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    • Probability of Default (PD) for the ""Other"" segment: is derived from a credit scoring process for a new customer and behavioral scoring for existing business. The resulting PD is mapped to an internal risk grade.
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    (PD) of an Obligor can be derived from an Internal Rating model that is used and maintained within the business area responsible for the counterparty relationship. For the purposes of the Accord there will be one PD associated with each risk grade representing the probability of Default within a 1 year time period.

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > probability of default

  • 16 Psychology

       We come therefore now to that knowledge whereunto the ancient oracle directeth us, which is the knowledge of ourselves; which deserveth the more accurate handling, by how much it toucheth us more nearly. This knowledge, as it is the end and term of natural philosophy in the intention of man, so notwithstanding it is but a portion of natural philosophy in the continent of nature.... [W]e proceed to human philosophy or Humanity, which hath two parts: the one considereth man segregate, or distributively; the other congregate, or in society. So as Human philosophy is either Simple and Particular, or Conjugate and Civil. Humanity Particular consisteth of the same parts whereof man consisteth; that is, of knowledges which respect the Body, and of knowledges that respect the Mind... how the one discloseth the other and how the one worketh upon the other... [:] the one is honored with the inquiry of Aristotle, and the other of Hippocrates. (Bacon, 1878, pp. 236-237)
       The claims of Psychology to rank as a distinct science are... not smaller but greater than those of any other science. If its phenomena are contemplated objectively, merely as nervo-muscular adjustments by which the higher organisms from moment to moment adapt their actions to environing co-existences and sequences, its degree of specialty, even then, entitles it to a separate place. The moment the element of feeling, or consciousness, is used to interpret nervo-muscular adjustments as thus exhibited in the living beings around, objective Psychology acquires an additional, and quite exceptional, distinction. (Spencer, 1896, p. 141)
       Kant once declared that psychology was incapable of ever raising itself to the rank of an exact natural science. The reasons that he gives... have often been repeated in later times. In the first place, Kant says, psychology cannot become an exact science because mathematics is inapplicable to the phenomena of the internal sense; the pure internal perception, in which mental phenomena must be constructed,-time,-has but one dimension. In the second place, however, it cannot even become an experimental science, because in it the manifold of internal observation cannot be arbitrarily varied,-still less, another thinking subject be submitted to one's experiments, comformably to the end in view; moreover, the very fact of observation means alteration of the observed object. (Wundt, 1904, p. 6)
       It is [Gustav] Fechner's service to have found and followed the true way; to have shown us how a "mathematical psychology" may, within certain limits, be realized in practice.... He was the first to show how Herbart's idea of an "exact psychology" might be turned to practical account. (Wundt, 1904, pp. 6-7)
       "Mind," "intellect," "reason," "understanding," etc. are concepts... that existed before the advent of any scientific psychology. The fact that the naive consciousness always and everywhere points to internal experience as a special source of knowledge, may, therefore, be accepted for the moment as sufficient testimony to the rights of psychology as science.... "Mind," will accordingly be the subject, to which we attribute all the separate facts of internal observation as predicates. The subject itself is determined p. 17) wholly and exclusively by its predicates. (Wundt, 1904,
       The study of animal psychology may be approached from two different points of view. We may set out from the notion of a kind of comparative physiology of mind, a universal history of the development of mental life in the organic world. Or we may make human psychology the principal object of investigation. Then, the expressions of mental life in animals will be taken into account only so far as they throw light upon the evolution of consciousness in man.... Human psychology... may confine itself altogether to man, and generally has done so to far too great an extent. There are plenty of psychological text-books from which you would hardly gather that there was any other conscious life than the human. (Wundt, 1907, pp. 340-341)
       The Behaviorist began his own formulation of the problem of psychology by sweeping aside all medieval conceptions. He dropped from his scientific vocabulary all subjective terms such as sensation, perception, image, desire, purpose, and even thinking and emotion as they were subjectively defined. (Watson, 1930, pp. 5-6)
       According to the medieval classification of the sciences, psychology is merely a chapter of special physics, although the most important chapter; for man is a microcosm; he is the central figure of the universe. (deWulf, 1956, p. 125)
       At the beginning of this century the prevailing thesis in psychology was Associationism.... Behavior proceeded by the stream of associations: each association produced its successors, and acquired new attachments with the sensations arriving from the environment.
       In the first decade of the century a reaction developed to this doctrine through the work of the Wurzburg school. Rejecting the notion of a completely self-determining stream of associations, it introduced the task ( Aufgabe) as a necessary factor in describing the process of thinking. The task gave direction to thought. A noteworthy innovation of the Wurzburg school was the use of systematic introspection to shed light on the thinking process and the contents of consciousness. The result was a blend of mechanics and phenomenalism, which gave rise in turn to two divergent antitheses, Behaviorism and the Gestalt movement. The behavioristic reaction insisted that introspection was a highly unstable, subjective procedure.... Behaviorism reformulated the task of psychology as one of explaining the response of organisms as a function of the stimuli impinging upon them and measuring both objectively. However, Behaviorism accepted, and indeed reinforced, the mechanistic assumption that the connections between stimulus and response were formed and maintained as simple, determinate functions of the environment.
       The Gestalt reaction took an opposite turn. It rejected the mechanistic nature of the associationist doctrine but maintained the value of phenomenal observation. In many ways it continued the Wurzburg school's insistence that thinking was more than association-thinking has direction given to it by the task or by the set of the subject. Gestalt psychology elaborated this doctrine in genuinely new ways in terms of holistic principles of organization.
       Today psychology lives in a state of relatively stable tension between the poles of Behaviorism and Gestalt psychology.... (Newell & Simon, 1963, pp. 279-280)
       As I examine the fate of our oppositions, looking at those already in existence as guide to how they fare and shape the course of science, it seems to me that clarity is never achieved. Matters simply become muddier and muddier as we go down through time. Thus, far from providing the rungs of a ladder by which psychology gradually climbs to clarity, this form of conceptual structure leads rather to an ever increasing pile of issues, which we weary of or become diverted from, but never really settle. (Newell, 1973b, pp. 288-289)
       The subject matter of psychology is as old as reflection. Its broad practical aims are as dated as human societies. Human beings, in any period, have not been indifferent to the validity of their knowledge, unconcerned with the causes of their behavior or that of their prey and predators. Our distant ancestors, no less than we, wrestled with the problems of social organization, child rearing, competition, authority, individual differences, personal safety. Solving these problems required insights-no matter how untutored-into the psychological dimensions of life. Thus, if we are to follow the convention of treating psychology as a young discipline, we must have in mind something other than its subject matter. We must mean that it is young in the sense that physics was young at the time of Archimedes or in the sense that geometry was "founded" by Euclid and "fathered" by Thales. Sailing vessels were launched long before Archimedes discovered the laws of bouyancy [ sic], and pillars of identical circumference were constructed before anyone knew that C IID. We do not consider the ship builders and stone cutters of antiquity physicists and geometers. Nor were the ancient cave dwellers psychologists merely because they rewarded the good conduct of their children. The archives of folk wisdom contain a remarkable collection of achievements, but craft-no matter how perfected-is not science, nor is a litany of successful accidents a discipline. If psychology is young, it is young as a scientific discipline but it is far from clear that psychology has attained this status. (Robinson, 1986, p. 12)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Psychology

  • 17 name

    neɪm
    1. сущ.
    1) а) имя (вообще) ;
    имя (в отличие от фамилии, тж. Christian name, амер. given name, first name), фамилия (тж. family name, surname) ;
    род, семья, фамилия to adopt, assume a name ≈ взять имя to give smb. a name ≈ называть кого-л., давать имя to immortalize smb.'s name ≈ обессмертить чье-л. имя to invoke God's name ≈ взывать к Богу to use a name ≈ называться (каким-либо именем) fancy name ≈ выдуманное имя by name put one's name down for know by name in name only in the name of under an assumed name under the name of without a name assumed name code name dirty name legal name maiden name married name - middle name personal name pet name proper name stage name - trade name vernacular name Syn: pseudonym;
    family, clan, people б) коммерч. билет с именем покупателя акций, передается продавцу в особый день в) имя, название, наименование, обозначение, ярлык There is no name for such conduct. ≈ Нет слов, чтобы описать такое поведение. give it a name the name of the game in all but name Syn: title г) название, слово (как противопоставленное сути, сущности), пустой звук There is only the name of friendship between them. ≈ Их дружба - одно название. virtuous in name
    2) а) грам. имя существительное common name Syn: noun б) грам. термин, слово geographic name ≈ географическое название professional name ≈ профессиональный термин
    3) а) репутация, доброе ( или не очень) имя to besmirch, smear smb.'s (good) name ≈ запятнать чью-л. репутацию to clear one's name ≈ обелить кого-л. to make/win a good name for oneselfзавоевать доброе имя bad name ≈ плохая репутация people of name ≈ известные люди He has name for honesty. ≈ Он известен своей честностью. ill name ≈ плохая репутация Syn: fame, reputation, repute б) имя, личность, знаменитость the great names of history ≈ исторические личности
    4) мн. брань (только в сочетаниях, см. ниже) call smb. names ∙ to take smb.'s name in vain ≈ клясться, божиться;
    поминать имя всуе not to have a penny to one's name ≈ не иметь ни гроша за душой give a dog a bad name and hang him ≈ считать кого-л. плохим, потому что о нем идет дурная слава
    2. гл.
    1) называть, давать имя My mother insisted on naming me Horace. ≈ Моя мать настаивала на том, чтобы мне дали имя Гораций. name after name for name from Syn: call, christen, designate, dub
    2) а) назначать, указывать Call Marty, tell him to name his price. ≈ Позвони Марти и скажи ему, чтобы он назвал свою цену. It's nearly thirty years since a journalist was jailed for refusing to name a source. ≈ Прошло почти тридцать лет с того момента, как журналист был осужден за отказ сообщить источник информации. you name it name the day б) назначать (на должность) Early in 1941 he was named commander of the African Corps. ≈ В начале 1941 года он был назначен командиром африканского корпуса. Syn: appoint, nominate, designate, assign, appoint в) называть кого-л. кем-л., что-л. как-л., давать характеристику Name them bishops, or name them not bishops, you will still have chief men. ≈ Зови их епископами, не зови их епископами, все одно - заправилы. г) обвинять члена Палаты Общин в недостойном поведении (прерогатива спикера) д) упоминать, называть;
    цитировать, приводить в качестве примера Syn: mention, specify имя;
    фамилия - Christian /first, given/ * имя - middle * второе имя (напр., May в Louise May Smith) ;
    (разговорное) характерная черта - honesty is his middle * он воплощенная честность - family /last/ * фамилия - full * полное имя;
    все имена и фамилия - maiden * девичья фамилия - married * фамилия по мужу - what is your *? как вас зовут? - Tom by * по имени Том - a tenant, John Jones by * арендатор по имени Джон Джонс - a person of /by/ the * of Smith человек по фамилии Смит - to know by * знать понаслышке;
    знать по именам /фамилиям/, знать лично каждого - to know all the pupils by * знать всех учеников поименно - under the * of под именем;
    под псевдонимом - to put one's * to smth. подписаться под чем-л.;
    подписать что-л. (воззвание и т. п.) - to put one's * down for подписаться на (какую-л. сумму) ;
    записаться на (билет и т. п.) ;
    выставить свою кандидатуру на (какой-л. пост) - of no *, without a * безымянный;
    не поддающийся описанию (о поступке) - to send in one's * записываться( на конкурс и т. п.) ;
    велеть доложить о себе - what * shall I say? как о вас доложить? - I sent up my * я приказал доложить о себе - to change one's name of Higgins to Jones сменить фамилию Хиггинс на Джоунз - to use smb.'s * ссылаться на кого-л., использовать чье-л. имя как рекомендацию - in the * of smb., smth. во имя кого-л., чего-л.;
    от чьего-л. имени;
    именем кого-л., чего-л.;
    (юридическое) от имени, по поручению кого-л.;
    на имя кого-л., чего-л. (о вкладе и т. п.) - in the * of common sense во имя здравого смысла - in God's *!, in the * of heaven! боже!, во имя всего святого!;
    - in the * of the law именем закона - in one's own * от своего имени название, наименование;
    обозначение - place * географическое название - trade * название фирмы;
    фирменное название (тж. proprietary *) - a popular * for smth. народное название чего-л. - in * (only) (только) номинально;
    (только) по наванию - a mere *, only a * пустой звук, одно название - there is only the * of friendship between them их дружба - одно название - he is chief in * only он лишь номинальный начальник - the town derived it's * from... город получил название от... /назван в честь.../ (тк. в ед. ч.) репутация;
    слава;
    (доброе) имя - bad /ill/ * плохая репутация, дурная слава - to make a good * for oneself заслуживать доброе имя - to get /to make, to win/ oneself a * создать себе имя, получить известность - to perpetuate one's * увековечить себя, обессмертить свое имя - to have a * for honesty, to have the * of being honest славиться честностью - to bear /to carry/ the * (устаревшее) пользоваться заслуженной репутацией - he is not entitled to the * of scholar он недостоин называться ученым личность, человек (особ. выдающийся) - people of * люди с именем;
    известные деятели;
    знаменитости - the great *s of history великие люди /имена/, исторические личности - the greatest * in science величайший ученый род, фамилия - the last of his * последний из рода - an illustrious * знатный род pl брань, бранные слова - to call smb. *s поносить кого-л.;
    обзывать кого-л. - he called me all *s он по всякому обзывал меня (грамматика) имя существительное - proper * имя собственное (логика) термин;
    логическое понятие > their * is legion( библеизм) имя им легион > he hasn't a penny to his * у него ни гроша за душой > to keep one's * on the books оставаться членом клуба и т. п. > to keep smb.'s * off the books не допускать кого-л. в организацию, не принимать кого-л. в члены клуба и т. п. > to take smb.'s * off the books исключить кого-л. из организации, клуба, учебного заведения и т. п. > to lend one's * /the shelter of one's * / to smb. разрешить кому-л. воспользоваться своим именем, дать кому-л. рекомендацию, поддержать кого-л. своим авторитетом > give it a *! выбирайте, я плачу (при угощении) > the * of the game самое главное, суть > the * of the game is trust все дело в доверии > in fishing, patience is the * of the game на рыбалке самое главное - терпение именной - * tag именной жетон;
    медальон с фамилией;
    личный знак( военнослужащего) авторский - * entry( специальное) авторское описание, описание под именем автора ( в каталоге, списке) заглавный - * role /part/ заглавная роль - * story рассказ, давший название сборнику рассказов (американизм) (разговорное) известный;
    с именем - * brand известная марка( товара) - * writers писатели с именем - * band оркестр под управлением знаменитого дирижера называть, давать имя - to * a child John назвать /наречь, окрестить/ ребенка Джоном - to * after /from, (американизм) for/ называть в честь - the child was *d after his father ребенка назвали в честь отца - cambric is so *d from its place of origin, Cambray ткань называется кембрик, потому что ее начали производить в Камбре - the college is *d for George Washinton колледжу присвоено имя Джорджа Вашингтона называть, перечислять поименно - to * all the flowers in the garden перечислить названия всех цветов в (этом) саду - to * the States of the Union назвать все штаты, входящие в состав США указывать, назначать - to * the day назначить день свадьбы (тк. о невесте) ;
    принять предложение руки и сердца - to * one's price назначить (свою) цену назначать (на должность) - to * for duty назначить на дежурство - he has been *d consul его назначили консулом - Mr. X. has been *d for the directorship г-на Х. назначили на пост директора упоминать;
    приводить (в качестве примера) - he was *d in the suit в иске было упомянуто его имя - the measures we have *d перечисленные /упомянутые/ нами мероприятия( парламентское) призвать к порядку - to * a member( канадское) удалить из зала( участника заседания) - he was *d by the Chairman and warned председатель призвал его к порядку и сделал ему предупреждение > not to be *d on /in/ the same day /breath/ with никакого сравнения быть не может > he is not to be *d on the same day with his brother смешно сравнивать его с братом > to * names упоминать фамилии (замешанных в чем-л.) > the witness threatened to * names свидетель угрожал тем, что он может кое-кого назвать argument ~ вчт. имя аргумента array ~ вчт. имя массива assumed ~ вымышленное имя assumed ~ вчт. псевдоним assumed ~ псевдоним assumed ~ фиктивное имя base ~ вчт. основное имя brand ~ название марки изделия brand ~ название торговой марки brand ~ торговое название brand ~ фабричная марка business ~ название торгово-промышленного предприятия business ~ название фирмы business ~ наименование предприятия ~ имя (тж. Christian name, амер. given name, first name) ;
    фамилия (тж. family name, surname) ;
    by name по имени by ~ по имени to know by ~ знать по имени;
    by (или of, under) the name of под именем;
    in name only только номинально command ~ вчт. имя команды commercial ~ торговое название ~ грам. имя существительное;
    common name имя нарицательное company ~ название компании compound ~ вчт. составное имя corporate ~ наименование корпорации device ~ вчт. имя устройства device ~ вчт. номер устройства entry ~ вчт. имя входа external ~ вчт. внешнее имя false ~ вымышленное имя fictitious ~ вымышленное имя file ~ вчт. имя файла firm ~ название фирмы firm ~ фирменное наименование first ~ имя full ~ полное имя function ~ вчт. имя функции generic ~ вчт. родовое имя give a dog a bad ~ and hang him считать (кого-л.) плохим, потому что о нем идет дурная слава global ~ вчт. глобальное имя ~ великий человек;
    the great names of history исторические личности group ~ вчт. групповое имя he has ~ for honesty он известен своей честностью;
    people of name известные люди to know by ~ знать по имени;
    by (или of, under) the name of под именем;
    in name only только номинально in the ~ of от имени;
    именем;
    in the name of the law именем закона;
    in one's own name от своего имени in the ~ of во имя;
    in the name of common sense во имя здравого смысла in the ~ of от имени;
    именем;
    in the name of the law именем закона;
    in one's own name от своего имени in the ~ of во имя;
    in the name of common sense во имя здравого смысла in the ~ of от имени;
    именем;
    in the name of the law именем закона;
    in one's own name от своего имени internal ~ вчт. внутреннее имя joint ~ общее название to know by ~ знать лично каждого to know by ~ знать по имени;
    by (или of, under) the name of под именем;
    in name only только номинально to know by ~ знать понаслышке ~ фамилия, род;
    the last of his name последний из рода logical ~ вчт. логическое имя ~ репутация;
    bad (или ill) name плохая репутация;
    to make (или to win) a good name for oneself завоевать доброе имя menu ~ вчт. имя меню middle ~ второе имя name (обыкн. pl) брань;
    to call names ругать(ся) ;
    to take (smb.'s) name in vain клясться, божиться;
    поминать имя всуе ~ великий человек;
    the great names of history исторические личности ~ давать имя ~ именная записка, по которой производится передача акций ~ имя (тж. Christian name, амер. given name, first name) ;
    фамилия (тж. family name, surname) ;
    by name по имени ~ вчт. имя ~ имя ~ грам. имя существительное;
    common name имя нарицательное ~ название, наименование, обозначение ~ название ~ назначать (на должность) ~ назначать цену ~ называть, давать имя;
    to name after, амер. to name for (или from) называть в честь (кого-л.) ~ называть ~ наименование ~ обозначение ~ пустой звук;
    there is only the name of friendship between them их дружба - одно название;
    virtuous in name лицемер ~ репутация;
    bad (или ill) name плохая репутация;
    to make (или to win) a good name for oneself завоевать доброе имя ~ указывать, назначать;
    to name the day назначать день( особ. свадьбы) ~ упоминать;
    приводить в качестве примера ~ фамилия, род;
    the last of his name последний из рода ~ фамилия ~ член страхового синдиката Ллойдса ~ называть, давать имя;
    to name after, амер. to name for (или from) называть в честь (кого-л.) ~ называть, давать имя;
    to name after, амер. to name for (или from) называть в честь (кого-л.) ~ of the company название компании ~ указывать, назначать;
    to name the day назначать день (особ. свадьбы) nominee ~ подставное лицо not to have a penny to one's ~ не иметь ни гроша за душой partnership ~ название товарищества path ~ вчт. путь доступа, маршрут доступа he has ~ for honesty он известен своей честностью;
    people of name известные люди program ~ вчт. имя программы psevdo-variable ~ вчт. имя псевдопеременной to put one's ~ down for выставить свою кандидатуру на (какой-л. пост) to put one's ~ down for принять участие в (сборе денег и т. п.) ;
    подписаться под (воззванием и т. п.) qualified ~ вчт. составное имя salt ~ остроумное название товара (в рекламных целях) secondary ~ второе имя secondary ~ имя seed ~ название семян simple ~ вчт. простое имя straw ~ фиктивное имя straw ~ фиктивное название subsidiary ~ название филиала symbolic ~ вчт. символическое имя system ~ вчт. системное имя name (обыкн. pl) брань;
    to call names ругать(ся) ;
    to take (smb.'s) name in vain клясться, божиться;
    поминать имя всуе vain: in ~ всуе;
    to take (smb.'s) name in vain говорить( о ком-л.) без должного уважения;
    to take God's name in vain богохульствовать ~ пустой звук;
    there is only the name of friendship between them их дружба - одно название;
    virtuous in name лицемер trade ~ название фирмы trade ~ торговая фирма;
    наименование фирмы;
    фирменное наименование trade ~ торговое название товара trade ~ фирменное название tree ~ вчт. составное имя unique ~ вчт. уникальное имя variable ~ вчт. имя переменной ~ пустой звук;
    there is only the name of friendship between them их дружба - одно название;
    virtuous in name лицемер without a ~ безымянный without a ~ не поддающийся описанию (о поступке)

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  • 18 BIOS

    ['baios] n. shkurtesë nga b asic i nput o utput s ystem ( BIOS) sistemi themelor për hyrje-dalje ( informatikë)
    What is BIOS?
    BIOS is an acronym for Basic Input/Output System. It is the boot firmware program on a PC, and controls the computer from the time you start it up until the operating system takes over. When you turn on a PC, the BIOS first conducts a basic hardware check, called a Power-On Self Test (POST), to determine whether all of the attachments are present and working. Then it loads the operating system into your computer's random access memory, or RAM.
    The BIOS also manages data flow between the computer's operating system and attached devices such as the hard disk, video card, keyboard, mouse, and printer.
    The BIOS stores the date, the time, and your system configuration information in a battery-powered, non-volatile memory chip, called a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) after its manufacturing process.
    Although the BIOS is standardized and should rarely require updating, some older BIOS chips may not accommodate new hardware devices. Before the early 1990s, you couldn't update the BIOS without removing and replacing its ROM chip. Contemporary BIOS resides on memory chips such as flash chips or EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory), so that you can update the BIOS yourself if necessary.
    For detailed information about BIOS updates, visit:
    What is firmware?
    Firmware consists of programs installed semi-permanently into memory, using various types of programmable ROM chips, such as PROMS, EPROMs, EEPROMs, and flash chips.
    Firmware is non-volatile, and will remain in memory after you turn the system off.
    Often, the term firmware is used to refer specifically to boot firmware, which controls a computer from the time that it is turned on until the primary operating system has taken over. Boot firmware's main function is to initialize the hardware and then to boot (load and execute) the primary operating system. On PCs, the boot firmware is usually referred to as the BIOS.
    What is the difference between memory and disk storage?
    Memory and disk storage both refer to internal storage space in a computer.
    The term memory usually means RAM (Random Access Memory). To refer to hard drive storage, the terms disk space or storage are usually used.
    Typically, computers have much less memory than disk space, because RAM is much more expensive per megabyte than a hard disk. Today, a typical desktop computer might come with 512MB of RAM, and a 40 gigabyte hard disk.
    Virtual memory is disk space that has been designated to act like RAM.
    Computers also contain a small amount of ROM, or read-only memory, containing permanent or semi-permanent (firmware) instructions for checking hardware and starting up the computer. On a PC, this is called the BIOS.
    What is RAM?
    RAM stands for Random Access Memory. RAM provides space for your computer to read and write data to be accessed by the CPU (central processing unit). When people refer to a computer's memory, they usually mean its RAM.
    New computers typically come with at least 256 megabytes (MB) of RAM installed, and can be upgraded to 512MB or even a gigabyte or more.
    If you add more RAM to your computer, you reduce the number of times your CPU must read data from your hard disk. This usually allows your computer to work considerably faster, as RAM is many times faster than a hard disk.
    RAM is volatile, so data stored in RAM stays there only as long as your computer is running. As soon as you turn the computer off, the data stored in RAM disappears.
    When you turn your computer on again, your computer's boot firmware (called BIOS on a PC) uses instructions stored semi-permanently in ROM chips to read your operating system and related files from the disk and load them back into RAM.
    Note: On a PC, different parts of RAM may be more or less easily accessible to programs. For example, cache RAM is made up of very high-speed RAM chips which sit between the CPU and main RAM, storing (i.e., caching) memory accesses by the CPU. Cache RAM helps to alleviate the gap between the speed of a CPU's megahertz rating and the ability of RAM to respond and deliver data. It reduces how often the CPU must wait for data from main memory.
    What is ROM?
    ROM is an acronym for Read-Only Memory. It refers to computer memory chips containing permanent or semi-permanent data. Unlike RAM, ROM is non-volatile; even after you turn off your computer, the contents of ROM will remain.
    Almost every computer comes with a small amount of ROM containing the boot firmware. This consists of a few kilobytes of code that tell the computer what to do when it starts up, e.g., running hardware diagnostics and loading the operating system into RAM. On a PC, the boot firmware is called the BIOS.
    Originally, ROM was actually read-only. To update the programs in ROM, you had to remove and physically replace your ROM chips. Contemporary versions of ROM allow some limited rewriting, so you can usually upgrade firmware such as the BIOS by using installation software. Rewritable ROM chips include PROMs (programmable read-only memory), EPROMs (erasable read-only memory), EEPROMs (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory), and a common variation of EEPROMs called flash memory.
    What is an ACPI BIOS?
    ACPI is an acronym that stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, a power management specification developed by Intel, Microsoft, and Toshiba. ACPI support is built into Windows 98 and later operating systems. ACPI is designed to allow the operating system to control the amount of power provided to each device or peripheral attached to the computer system. This provides much more stable and efficient power management and makes it possible for the operating system to turn off selected devices, such as a monitor or CD-ROM drive, when they are not in use.
    ACPI should help eliminate computer lockup on entering power saving or sleep mode. This will allow for improved power management, especially in portable computer systems where reducing power consumption is critical for extending battery life. ACPI also allows for the computer to be turned on and off by external devices, so that the touch of a mouse or the press of a key will "wake up" the computer. This new feature of ACPI, called OnNow, allows a computer to enter a sleep mode that uses very little power.
    In addition to providing power management, ACPI also evolves the existing Plug and Play BIOS (PnP BIOS) to make adding and configuring new hardware devices easier. This includes support for legacy non-PnP devices and improved support for combining older devices with ACPI hardware, allowing both to work in a more efficient manner in the same computer system. The end result of this is to make the BIOS more PnP compatible.
    What is CMOS?
    CMOS, short for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, is a low-power, low-heat semiconductor technology used in contemporary microchips, especially useful for battery-powered devices. The specific technology is explained in detail at:
    http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci213860,00.html
    Most commonly, though, the term CMOS is used to refer to small battery-powered configuration chips on system boards of personal computers, where the BIOS stores the date, the time, and system configuration details.
    How do I enter the Setup program in my BIOS?
    Warning: Your BIOS Setup program is very powerful. An incorrect setting could cause your computer not to boot properly. You should make sure you understand what a setting does before you change it.
    You can usually run Setup by pressing a special function key or key combination soon after turning on the computer, during its power-on self test (POST), before the operating system loads (or before the operating system's splash screen shows). During POST, the BIOS usually displays a prompt such as:
    Press F2 to enter Setup
    Many newer computers display a brief screen, usually black and white, with the computer manufacturer's logo during POST.
    Entering the designated keystroke will take you into the BIOS Setup. Common keystrokes to enter the BIOS Setup are F1, F2, F10, and Del.
    On some computers, such as some Gateway or Compaq computers, graphics appear during the POST, and the BIOS information is hidden. You must press Esc to make these graphics disappear. Your monitor will then display the correct keystroke to enter.
    Note: If you press the key too early or too often, the BIOS may display an error message. To avoid this, wait about five seconds after turning the power on, and then press the key once or twice.
    What's the difference between BIOS and CMOS?
    Many people use the terms BIOS (basic input/output system) and CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) to refer to the same thing. Though they are related, they are distinct and separate components of a computer. The BIOS is the program that starts a computer up, and the CMOS is where the BIOS stores the date, time, and system configuration details it needs to start the computer.
    The BIOS is a small program that controls the computer from the time it powers on until the time the operating system takes over. The BIOS is firmware, which means it cannot store variable data.
    CMOS is a type of memory technology, but most people use the term to refer to the chip that stores variable data for startup. A computer's BIOS will initialize and control components like the floppy and hard drive controllers and the computer's hardware clock, but the specific parameters for startup and initializing components are stored in the CMOS.

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  • 19 value

    ˈvælju:
    1. сущ.
    1) а) ценность;
    справедливое возмещение, справедливая оценка Syn: merit б) мн. достоинства, ценности to cherish values, to foster values ≈ культивировать, пропагандировать какие-л. ценности enduring values ≈ стойкие принципы Victorian values ≈ устои викторианского общества cultural values ≈ культурные ценности moral values ≈ моральные ценности sense of values ≈ моральные критерии spiritual valuesдуховные ценности
    2) а) стоимость, цена at a certain value ≈ по определенной цене contract value of the goods ≈ стоимость товаров по контракту to place, put, set a value on ≈ назначить цену They paid him the value of his lost property. ≈ Они возместили ему стоимость его пропавшего имущества. assessed value book value cash value face value fair value intrinsic value market value nominal value present value token value б) экон. стоимость surplus valueприбавочная стоимость exchange valueменовая стоимость
    3) а) значение, смысл( о слове) to acquire value, take on value ≈ приобретать значение, приобретать смысл a discovery of great value ≈ очень важное открытие;
    открытие, имеющее большое значение to attach value toпридавать значение чему-л. б) мат., комп. величина, значение absolute valueабсолютная величина, абсолютное значение numerical value ≈ численное значение в) муз. длительность (ноты) г) живоп. сочетание света и тени в картине
    2. гл.
    1) оценивать, производить оценку, устанавливать цену to value a painting at five thousand poundsоценить картину в пять тысяч фунтов
    2) дорожить, ценить, быть высокого мнения, отдавать должное to value highly, to value very muchвысоко ценить кого-л./что-л. to value smb. as a friendсчитать кого-л. другом He values himself on his genealogy. ≈ Он гордится своей родословной. ценность;
    важность;
    полезность - the * of exercise важное значение моциона - to set a high * on smth. высоко ценить что-л.;
    придавать большое значение чему-л.;
    дорожить чем-л. - to set a low * on smth. считать несущественным что-л., не придавать большого значения чему-л. - to set too high a * upon smth. переоценивать что-л. - to know the * of time ценить свое время - he had nothing of * to say он не сказал ничего интересного pl ценности - moral *s моральные ценности - sense of *s моральные критерии;
    этическое сознание;
    представление о добре и зле - to seek material *s instead of human стремиться к материальным, а не к общечеловеческим ценностям значение, смысл (слова) - to give full * to each word чеканить слова - the precise * of a word точный смысл слова - the word is used with all its poetic * слово используестя во всей его поэтической силе ценность, стоимость - to pay the * of lost property полностью возместить стоимость утраченного имущества - * journey путешествие, оправдывающее затраты - * for money ценность в сравнении с уплаченной суммой - he gives you * for your money за ваши деньги вы получаете от него хороший товар;
    сделка выгодна - he got good * for him money он удачно купил (что-л.) (экономика) цена;
    стоимость (в денежном выражении) - * letter ценное письмо - сommercial * рыночная стоимость;
    продажная цена - market * курсовая стоимость;
    рыночная стоимость - nominal * наричательная цена;
    номинальная стоимость, номинал - current *s существующие цены;
    текущие показатели - declared * объявленная стоимость( в таможенной декларации) - at * по цене - under * ниже стоимости - * of gold стоимость золота - in terms of * в стоимостном выражении - to lose in * упасть в цене - jewels to the * of four thousand dollars драгоценности стоимостью в 4 тысячи долларов - the * of a dollar fluctuates покупательная сила доллара колеблется (политика) (экономика) стоимость - exchange * меновая стоимость - surplus * прибавочная стоимость (финансовое) валюта;
    сумма векселя или тратты;
    эквивалент( суммы векселя) - * date срок векселя;
    дата зачисления денег на банковский счет - for * received эквивалент получен (фраза в тексте тратты) (специальное) величина, значение - absolute * абсолютная величина, абсолютное значение - initial * исходная величина;
    данное значение - iodine * йодное число - crest * амплитуда;
    амплитудное, пиковое значение - heating * теплотворная способность - numerical * (математика) численное значение - radiation * коэффициент излучения - geographical *s географические координаты - Greenwich * (география) долгота от Гринвичского меридиана - field *s полевые данные, даные полевого журнала - to throw away a * пренебречь какой-л. величиной( музыкальное) длительность ноты или паузы (искусство) валер;
    соотношение тонов - * of colour, colour * интенсивность цвета;
    насыщенность цветового тона - out of * слишком темно;
    слишком светло (фонетика) качество - acute accent has not always the same * острое ударение не всегда одного качества > to accept smth. at face * принимать что-л. за чистую монету;
    понимать буквально оценивать, давать оценку( в денежном выражении) - to * a house at оценить дом в 800 ф. ст. - I do not * that a brass farthing по-моему, это гроша ломаного не стоит оценивать, определять значение, полезность и т. п. дорожить, ценить - to * oneself on smth. гордиться чем-л. - to * smth. above rubies ценить что-л. дороже золота - I * your friendship я ценю вашу дружбу, я дорожу дружбой с вами( финансовое) трассировать, выставлять вексель или тратту - to * on a person трассировать на кого-л.;
    выставить вексель или тратту на кого-л. absolute ~ абсолютная величина access ~ вчт. ссылочное значение accounting par ~ учет по номинальной стоимости acquisition ~ стоимость покупки acquisition ~ цена покупки acquisition ~ ценность приобретения actual ~ действительная стоимость actual ~ действительная ценность actual ~ вчт. истинное значение actual ~ реализованная стоимость actual ~ реальная ценность actual ~ фактический показатель added ~ добавленная стоимость added ~ добавочная стоимость added ~ добавочная ценность added ~ стоимость, добавленная обработкой additional ~ дополнительная стоимость additional ~ дополнительная ценностть additive ~ аддитивная величина advertising ~ стоимость рекламы advertising ~ ценность рекламы aggregate ~ совокупная стоимость agreed ~ согласованная стоимость amortized book ~ остаточная стоимость списанного имущества annual current ~ годовая текущая стоимость appraised ~ оценочная стоимость appraised ~ стоимость по оценке appreciated ~ высокая ценность arbitrary ~ условная стоимость assessed cash ~ недв. денежная стоимость по оценке assessed cash ~ недв. оценочная стоимость в наличных деньгах assessed site ~ налог. оценка участка для застройки assessed ~ налог. оценка стоимости assessed ~ налог. оценочная стоимость assessed ~ налог. стоимость по оценке assessed ~ ценность assessment ~ налог. оценочная стоимость asymptotic ~ асимптотическое значение asymptotically optimum ~ асимптотически оптимальное значение at par ~ по номинальной стоимости at par ~ по паритету attribute ~ вчт. значение атрибута barter ~ стоимость бартерного обмена bona fide purchaser for ~ добросовестный покупатель на возмездных началах bona fide purchaser for ~ добросовестный покупатель при встречном удовлетворении book ~ балансовая стоимость активов book ~ нетто-активы book ~ нетто-капитал book ~ остаточная стоимость основного капитала book ~ полная стоимость капитала book ~ стоимость чистых активов компании в расчете на одну акцию booked ~ нетто-капитал boolean ~ вчт. логическое значение break-up ~ капитал компании break-up ~ разница между активами и текущими обязательствами break-up ~ разница между заемным капиталом и привилегированными акциями budgeted ~ сметная стоимость business ~ ценность бизнеса by ~ вчт. по значению calculated ~ вчт. расчетное значение capital ~ величина капитала capital ~ стоимость капитального имущества capital ~ стоимость основного капитала capitalized earnings ~ дисконтированная стоимость доходов capitalized ~ дисконтированная стоимость capitalized ~ of potential earnings дисконтированная стоимость потенциальных доходов carrying ~ балансовая стоимость активов carrying ~ нетто-активы carrying ~ остаточная стоимость основного капитала carrying ~ чистый капитал cash property ~ стоимость имущества в наличных деньгах cash surrender ~ выкупная стоимость cash ~ денежная стоимость cash ~ денежная ценность cash ~ стоимость в наличных деньгах certainty ~ вероятность certainty ~ значение показателя достоверности check ~ вчт. контрольное число clearance ~ стоимость реализации collateral ~ дополнительная ценность color ~ вчт. код цвета commercial ~ коммерческая ценность commercial ~ продажная цена commercial ~ рыночная стоимость commercial ~ стоимость по продажным ценам communication ~ стоимость передачи рекламы compulsory purchase ~ стоимость конфискованной собственности conditional expected ~ условное математическое ожидание conditionally optimal ~ условнооптимальное значение constant ~ постоянная стоимость control ~ вчт. контрольное значение conversion ~ конверсионная стоимость conversion ~ стоимость, созданная путем превращения одной формы собственности в другую cost ~ величина издержек cost ~ величина расходов cost ~ первоначальная стоимость cost ~ себестоимость cost ~ стоимость издержек credibility ~ степень доверия critical ~ критическое значение ~ pl ценности, достоинства;
    cultural values культурные ценности;
    sense of values моральные критерии current market ~ цен. бум. текущая курсовая стоимость current market ~ цен.бум. текущая рыночная стоимость current ~ действующая величина current ~ приведенная стоимость current ~ существующая цена current ~ существующая ценность current ~ текущая стоимость current ~ текущее значение customs ~ таможенная ценность customs ~ ценность ввозимых товаров, определенная таможней declared ~ заявленая ценность declared ~ объявленная ценность default ~ вчт. значение, присваиваемое по умолчанию default ~ значение по умолчанию depreciable ~ остаточная стоимость design ~ расчетное значение desired ~ ожидаемое значение distributional ~ распределенная стоимость domain ~ вчт. значение домена dutiable ~ ценность, подлежащая обложению пошлиной earned ~ прибавочная стоимость earning capacity ~ величина потенциального дохода индивидуумов effective ~ действительная ценность effective ~ эффективное значение empty ~ фиктивное значение end ~ конечное значение entered ~ сумма, внесенная в бухгалтерский отчет equity ~ стоимость акционерного капитала equity ~ стоимость обыкновенной акции equivalent ~ эквивалентная стоимость equivalent ~ эквивалентное значение esthetic ~ эстетическая ценность estimated ~ оценка стоимости estimated ~ рассчитанная ценность estimated ~ расчетная стоимость evidentiary ~ доказательное значение excess ~ чрезмерная величина exchange ~ меновая стоимость exchange ~ of goods supplied меновая стоимость поставленных товаров expectation ~ математическое ожидание expectation ~ стат. ожидаемое значение expected ~ математическое ожидание expected ~ ожидаемое значение external ~ интернациональная стоимость extreme ~ экстремальное значение fair ~ стоимость в текущих ценах fictitious ~ фиктивная величина fictitious ~ фиктивная стоимость final ~ окончательное значение final ~ результирующее значение financial reduction in ~ снижение финансовой стоимости finite ~ конечное значение fitted ~ подобранное значение fixed ~ фиксированная стоимость fixup ~ координаты местоположения free mortgageable ~ свободно закладываемая ценность to get good ~ for one's money получить сполна за свои деньги, выгодно купить;
    to go down in value понизиться в цене, подешеветь;
    обесцениться ~ значение, смысл (слова) ;
    to give full value to each word отчеканивать слова given ~ заданная величина to get good ~ for one's money получить сполна за свои деньги, выгодно купить;
    to go down in value понизиться в цене, подешеветь;
    обесцениться going concern ~ стоимость действующего предприятия good ~ стоимость товара gross book ~ валовая стоимость капитала gross book ~ первоначальная стоимость основного капитала gross book ~ полная стоимость капитала gross book ~ полная стоимость основных производственных фондов gross book ~ стоимость в ценах приобретения gross residual ~ валовая ликвидационная стоимость gross residual ~ валовая остаточная стоимость основного капитала hack ~ вчт. программистский трюк ~ дорожить, ценить;
    he values himself on his knowledge он гордится своими знаниями;
    I do not value that a brass farthing = помоему, это гроша ломаного не стоит heating ~ теплотворная способность high ~ верхнее значение human ~ человеческая ценность hypothetical ~ гипотетическое значение ~ дорожить, ценить;
    he values himself on his knowledge он гордится своими знаниями;
    I do not value that a brass farthing = помоему, это гроша ломаного не стоит improvement ~ стоимость усовершенствования imputed rent ~ оценочная стоимость ренты imputed rent ~ расчетная стоимость ренты increment ~ величина прироста informative ~ ценность информации initial ~ начальное значение input ~ вчт. входная величина insurable ~ страховая стоимость insurable ~ ценность, могущая быть застрахованной insured ~ застрахованная стоимость insured ~ застрахованная ценность insured ~ страховая оценка intangible ~ стоимость нематериальных активов integral ~ целое число integral ~ целочисленное значение internal ~ стоимость на внутреннем рынке interpolated ~ интерполированное значение intrinsic ~ внутренняя ценность intrinsic ~ действительная стоимость inventory ~ инвентарная ценность invoice ~ стоимость согласно счету-фактуре item ~ значение элемента данных junk ~ стоимость утиля land expectation ~ ожидаемая стоимость земли land ~ стоимость земельной собственности land ~ стоимость земли lending ~ стоимость ссуды letting ~ размер арендной платы limit ~ предельное значение liquidation ~ ликвидационная стоимость liquidation ~ стоимость реализации loan ~ максимальный размер кредита брокеру в форме процента от стоимости ценных бумаг loan ~ размер кредита loan ~ стоимость займа loan ~ стоимость кредита loan ~ сумма, которую кредитор готов предоставить под данное обеспечение loan ~ сумма, которая может быть получена страхователем loan ~ сумма займа lose ~ обесцениваться low ~ нижнее значение maintained ~ поддерживаемая стоимость market ~ биржевая стоимость market ~ курсовая стоимость market ~ меновая стоимость market ~ рыночная стоимость market-to-book ~ отношение рыночной цены акции к ее первоначальной стоимости marketable ~ курсовая стоимость marketable ~ рыночная стоимость material ~ материальная ценность mathematical ~ математическая величина maximum ~ максимальная стоимость maximum ~ максимальная ценность mean ~ математическое ожидание mean ~ среднее mean ~ среднее значение median ~ медиана minimum ~ минимальная стоимость modal ~ вчт. мода modal ~ наиболее вероятное значение monetary ~ денежная ценность money ~ денежная оценка money ~ денежная ценность money ~ оценка в денежном выражении money ~ оценка в ценностном выражении net asset ~ стоимость имущества за вычетом обязательств net asset ~ чистая номинальная стоимость активов net book ~ балансовая стоимость активов net book ~ нетто-активы net book ~ нетто-капитал net book ~ остаточная стоимость основного капитала net book ~ полная стоимость капитала net book ~ полная стоимость основных производственных фондов net book ~ чистая стоимость капитала net book ~ чистый капитал net capital ~ чистая стоимость реального основного капитала net realizable ~ чистая реализуемая стоимость net replacement ~ чистая восстановительная стоимость net replacement ~ чистая стоимость страхового возмещения net ~ стоимость нетто net ~ чистая стоимость no commercial ~ (NCV) не имеет коммерческой ценности no customs ~ таможенной пошлиной не облагается nominal ~ нарицательная цена nominal ~ номинал nominal ~ номинальная величина nominal ~ номинальная стоимость nominal ~ номинальная ценность nonguaranteed residual ~ негарантированная остаточная стоимость normal market ~ нормальная рыночная стоимость novelty ~ стоимость новинки numerical ~ численная величина numerical ~ численное значение numerical ~ числовое значение observed ~ наблюденная величина ~ ценность;
    of no value нестоящий, не имеющий ценности;
    to put much (little) value (upon smth.) высоко (низко) ценить (что-л.) of no ~ не имеющий ценности operating ~ стоимость основной деятельности original ~ первоначальная стоимость ostensible ~ мнимая ценность overall ~ полная стоимость paid-up policy ~ стоимость оплаченного страхового полиса par ~ номинал par ~ номинальная стоимость par ~ номинальная стоимость облигации par ~ номинальная стоимость ценной бумаги par ~ паритет par ~ паритет валюты permissible ~ допустимое значение portfolio ~ стоимость портфеля ценных бумаг possess the ~ принимать значение present utilization ~ текущая потребительская стоимость present ~ настоящая ценность present ~ текущая стоимость present ~ текущая цена price-to-book ~ остаточная стоимость основного капитала principal ~ номинальная стоимость probative ~ доказательная ценность production ~ стоимость продукции productive ~ производственная ценность property tax ~ оценка недвижимости для налогообложения property tax ~ стоимость имущества, облагаемая налогом property ~ стоимость недвижимости public assessment ~ стоимость при государственной оценке publicity ~ значение рекламы ~ ценность;
    of no value нестоящий, не имеющий ценности;
    to put much (little) value (upon smth.) высоко (низко) ценить (что-л.) quotation ~ бирж. котировочная стоимость quoted ~ объявленная ценность rateable ~ облагаемая стоимость real estate ~ стоимость недвижимости real property ~ стоимость недвижимости real ~ действительная стоимость, ценность real ~ реальная стоимость real ~ реальная ценность realizable ~ достижимая величина realizable ~ реализуемая стоимость realization ~ реализованная стоимость realization ~ цена фактической продажи realized ~ достигнутая величина reciprocal ~ обратная величина recovery ~ возможная стоимость при продаже объекта основного капитала recovery ~ ликвидационная стоимость redemption ~ выкупная стоимость reduction ~ величина скидки reduction ~ величина снижения reference ~ исходная стоимость reinstatement ~ восстановительная стоимость rental ~ величина арендной платы rental ~ расчетная арендная плата replacement ~ восстановительная стоимость replacement ~ оценка по восстановительной стоимости replacement ~ стоимость страхового возмещения repurchase ~ выкупная стоимость residual ~ ликвидационная стоимость residual ~ остаточная стоимость основного капитала reversion ~ стоимость возврата rounded ~ округленное значение saddle ~ седловое значение sales ~ общая стоимость продаж sales ~ общая стоимость проданных товаров salvage ~ стоимость спасенного имущества salvage ~ сумма, которую можно выручить за спасенное имущество в случае его немедленной реализации salvaged ~ стоимость спасенного имущества sample ~ выборочное значение scalar ~ скалярная величина scrap ~ стоимость изделия, сдаваемого в утиль scrap ~ стоимость лома scrap ~ стоимость металлического лома scrap ~ стоимость скрапа search ~ искомое значение selling ~ продажная цена ~ pl ценности, достоинства;
    cultural values культурные ценности;
    sense of values моральные критерии sentimental ~ чувствительность set ~ заданное значение shareholder ~ биржевая стоимость акции significance ~ уровень значимости significant ~ значимая величина site ~ стоимость строительной площадки smoothed ~ сглаженное значение soil expectation ~ ожидаемая ценность почвы stated ~ объявленная ценность steady-state ~ стационарное значение stepped-up ~ добавленная стоимость stock ~ стоимость акций stock ~ стоимость запасов street ~ внебиржевая стоимость table ~ табличное значение tabular ~ табличное значение tangible ~ стоимость реальных активов taxable ~ облагаемая налогом стоимость активов taxable ~ стоимость, подлежащая налогообложению text ~ вчт. текстовое значение theoretical ~ теоретическая стоимость ~ стоимость;
    цена;
    справедливое возмещение;
    they paid him the value of his lost property они возместили ему стоимость его пропавшего имущества threshold limit ~ нижнее пороговое значение threshold ~ пороговое значение today's ~ сегодняшняя стоимость total ~ общая величина trade ~ продажная цена trade ~ рыночная стоимость trade ~ торговая ценность tradeable ~ продажная цена tradeable ~ рыночная стоимость traffic ~ вчт. нагрузка линии связи transaction ~ рыночная стоимость transactions ~ рыночная стоимость trend ~ значение тренда trifling ~ незначительная стоимость true ~ истинная ценность true ~ истинное значение truth ~ истинностное значение unit ~ средняя цена единицы продукции unit ~ средняя цена товарной единицы unit ~ стоимость единичного изделия unmortgaged property ~ стоимость незаложенного имущества unsigned ~ вчт. величина без знака use ~ потребительская стоимость utility ~ стоимость использования utilization ~ стоимость использования valley ~ значение в низшей точке кривой value важность ~ валюта (векселя), сумма векселя ~ валюта ~ мат. величина, значение ~ величина ~ выставлять вексель, трассировать ~ выставлять вексель ~ выставлять тратту ~ муз. длительность (ноты) ~ дорожить, ценить;
    he values himself on his knowledge он гордится своими знаниями;
    I do not value that a brass farthing = помоему, это гроша ломаного не стоит ~ значение, смысл (слова) ;
    to give full value to each word отчеканивать слова ~ значение ~ оценивать ~ оценка ~ производить оценку ~ жив. сочетание света и тени в картине ~ эк. стоимость;
    surplus (exchange) value прибавочная (меновая) стоимость ~ стоимость;
    цена;
    справедливое возмещение;
    they paid him the value of his lost property они возместили ему стоимость его пропавшего имущества ~ стоимость ~ сумма векселя ~ сумма тратты ~ трассировать ~ цена ~ ценить ~ pl ценности, достоинства;
    cultural values культурные ценности;
    sense of values моральные критерии ~ ценность;
    of no value нестоящий, не имеющий ценности;
    to put much (little) value (upon smth.) высоко (низко) ценить (что-л.) ~ ценность, стоимость ~ ценность ~ эквивалент суммы векселя;
    встречное удовлетворение ~ эквивалент суммы векселя ~ at point of entry стоимость в момент поступления ~ at selling price стоимость по продажной цене ~ in use потребительная стоимость ~ of bond drawn стоимость облигации с фиксированной ставкой, которая по жребию предназначена к погашению ~ of building стоимость здания ~ of building стоимость сооружения ~ of collateral стоимость залога ~ of domestic sales стоимость внутреннего товарооборота ~ of exemption сумма вычета ~ of function значение функции ~ of game вчт. цена игры ~ of human life ценность человеческой жизни ~ of imports стоимость импорта ~ of material стоимость материала ~ of money стоимость денег ~ of note стоимость банкноты ~ of note стоимость простого векселя ~ of property in litigation стоимость имущества, оспариваемого в судебном порядке ~ of ship and freight стоимость судна и груза ~ of tax deduction сумма скидки с налога ~ of vessel and freight стоимость судна и груза ~ on balance sheet date стоимость на дату представления балансового отчета vector ~ векторная величина virtual ~ действующее значение weighted ~ стат. взвешенное значение weighted ~ взвешенное значение wild ~ аномальное значение wild ~ резко отклоняющееся значение winding up ~ стоимость активов при ликвидации компании write-down ~ величина списанной стоимости write-up ~ завышенная стоимость written down ~ остаточная стоимость имущества written-up ~ стоимость списанного имущества yield ~ выход (продукта) zero salvage ~ невозможность реализации объекта основного капитала при выбытии zero salvage ~ нулевая ликвидационная стоимость zero salvage ~ нулевая стоимость объекта основного капитала при выбытии zero ~ нулевое значение

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > value

  • 20 Ricardo, Sir Harry Ralph

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    b. 26 January 1885 London, England
    d. 18 May 1974 Graffham, Sussex, England
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    English mechanical engineer; researcher, designer and developer of internal combustion engines.
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    Harry Ricardo was the eldest child and only son of Halsey Ricardo (architect) and Catherine Rendel (daughter of Alexander Rendel, senior partner in the firm of consulting civil engineers that later became Rendel, Palmer and Tritton). He was educated at Rugby School and at Cambridge. While still at school, he designed and made a steam engine to drive his bicycle, and by the time he went up to Cambridge in 1903 he was a skilled craftsman. At Cambridge, he made a motor cycle powered by a petrol engine of his own design, and with this he won a fuel-consumption competition by covering almost 40 miles (64 km) on a quart (1.14 1) of petrol. This brought him to the attention of Professor Bertram Hopkinson, who invited him to help with research on turbulence and pre-ignition in internal combustion engines. After leaving Cambridge in 1907, he joined his grandfather's firm and became head of the design department for mechanical equipment used in civil engineering. In 1916 he was asked to help with the problem of loading tanks on to railway trucks. He was then given the task of designing and organizing the manufacture of engines for tanks, and the success of this enterprise encouraged him to set up his own establishment at Shoreham, devoted to research on, and design and development of, internal combustion engines.
    Leading on from the work with Hopkinson were his discoveries on the suppression of detonation in spark-ignition engines. He noted that the current paraffinic fuels were more prone to detonation than the aromatics, which were being discarded as they did not comply with the existing specifications because of their high specific gravity. He introduced the concepts of "highest useful compression ratio" (HUCR) and "toluene number" for fuel samples burned in a special variable compression-ratio engine. The toluene number was the proportion of toluene in heptane that gave the same HUCR as the fuel sample. Later, toluene was superseded by iso-octane to give the now familiar octane rating. He went on to improve the combustion in side-valve engines by increasing turbulence, shortening the flame path and minimizing the clearance between piston and head by concentrating the combustion space over the valves. By these means, the compression ratio could be increased to that used by overhead-valve engines before detonation intervened. The very hot poppet valve restricted the advancement of all internal combustion engines, so he turned his attention to eliminating it by use of the single sleeve-valve, this being developed with support from the Air Ministry. By the end of the Second World War some 130,000 such aero-engines had been built by Bristol, Napier and Rolls-Royce before the piston aero-engine was superseded by the gas turbine of Whittle. He even contributed to the success of the latter by developing a fuel control system for it.
    Concurrent with this was work on the diesel engine. He designed and developed the engine that halved the fuel consumption of London buses. He invented and perfected the "Comet" series of combustion chambers for diesel engines, and the Company was consulted by the vast majority of international internal combustion engine manufacturers. He published and lectured widely and fully deserved his many honours; he was elected FRS in 1929, was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1944–5 and was knighted in 1948. This shy and modest, though very determined man was highly regarded by all who came into contact with him. It was said that research into internal combustion engines, his family and boats constituted all that he would wish from life.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1948. FRS 1929. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1944–5.
    Bibliography
    1968, Memo \& Machines. The Pattern of My Life, London: Constable.
    Further Reading
    Sir William Hawthorne, 1976, "Harry Ralph Ricardo", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 22.
    JB

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