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1 untidy

adjective

ungepflegt [Äußeres, Person, Garten]; unaufgeräumt [Zimmer]

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adjective

(disordered; in a mess: His room is always very untidy; an untidy person.) unordentlich

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un·tidy

[ʌnˈtaɪdi]

adj

1. (disordered) unordentlich; room unaufgeräumt; appearance ungepflegt

2. (not well organized) unsystematisch, schlampig fam; thesis also konzeptlos

to have an \untidy mind einen wirren Geist haben

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[ʌn'taIdɪ]
adj (+er)
unordentlich
to lie in an untidy heap or pile — unordentlich übereinanderliegen

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untidy adj (adv untidily) unordentlich

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adjective

ungepflegt [Äußeres, Person, Garten]; unaufgeräumt [Zimmer]

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adj.

unordentlich adj.

English-german dictionary > untidy
2 uncoordinated

adjective

unkoordiniert

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un·co·ordi·nat·ed

[ˌʌnkəʊˈɔ:dɪneɪtɪd, AM -koʊˈɔ:rd^əneɪt̬ɪd]

adj

1. (not well-organized) unkoordiniert

2. (clumsy) unkoordiniert, ungelenk geh

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["ʌnkəʊ'ɔːdIneItɪd]
adj
unkoordiniert
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adjective

unkoordiniert

English-german dictionary > uncoordinated
3 uncoordinated

un·co·ordi·nat·ed [ˌʌnkəʊʼɔ:dɪneɪtɪd, Am -koʊʼɔ:rd^əneɪt̬ɪd] adj

1) ( not well-organized) unkoordiniert

2) ( clumsy) unkoordiniert, ungelenk ( geh)

English-German students dictionary > uncoordinated
4 untidy

un·tidy [ʌnʼtaɪdi] adj

1) ( disordered) unordentlich; room unaufgeräumt; appearance ungepflegt

2) ( not well organized) unsystematisch, schlampig ( fam) thesis also konzeptlos;

to have an \untidy mind einen wirren Geist haben

English-German students dictionary > untidy
5 badly

comparative - worse; adverb

1) (not well, efficiently or satisfactorily: He plays tennis very badly.) mal

2) (to a serious or severe extent: He badly needs a haircut; The dress is badly stained.) seriamente, desesperadamente; muy

badly adv

1. mal

they behaved badly se portaron mal

I slept very badly he dormido muy mal

2. gravemente

he isn't badly injured no está herido de gravedad

she got badly sunburnt se quemó terriblemente

3. muy / mucho

we badly need the money nos hace mucha falta el dinero

she wants a baby very badly desea mucho tener un bebé

badly

tr['bædlɪ]

adverb

1 mal

■ he behaved badly at the party se portó mal en la fiesta

2 (seriously) gravemente

■ he was badly hurt in the bombing fue gravemente herido en el atentado

3 (very much) mucho,-a

■ he badly needs your help tiene mucha necesidad de tu ayuda

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to go badly ir mal

■ business is going badly los negocios van mal

to miss somebody badly echar mucho de menos a alguien

to take something badly tomar algo muy a pecho

to be badly off andar escaso,-a de dinero

to come off badly salir mal

■ the deal came off badly el acuerdo salió mal

badly ['bædli] adv

1) : mal

2) urgently: mucho, con urgencia

3) severely: gravemente

badly

adj.

• desacomodado, -a adj.

adv.

• con urgencia adv.

• gravemente adv.

• mal adv.

'bædli
adverb (comp worse; superl worst)

1) ( poorly) <play/sing> mal

badly organized — mal organizado

to do badly: our team did badly a nuestro equipo le fue mal; we're not doing badly — vamos bastante bien

2) ( improperly) < behaveeat> mal

3) (as intensifier) < fail> miserablemente, estrepitosamente

badly injured — gravemente herido

you're badly mistaken — estás muy equivocado

you badly need a haircut — te hace mucha falta cortarte el pelo

['bædlɪ]
ADV
1) (=poorly) mal

he did badly in his exams — los exámenes le fueron mal

things are going badly — las cosas van mal

we came off badly in the deal — salimos mal parados del negocio

badly made/written/designed — mal hecho/escrito/diseñado

to sleep badly — dormir mal
pay 2., 1)
2) (=seriously, severely) gravemente

he was badly injured — estaba gravemente herido

they were badly beaten — (in contest) sufrieron una seria derrota; (physically) les dieron una paliza tremenda

to be badly mistaken — estar muy equivocado

it was a gamble that went badly wrong — se corría un riesgo y salió muy mal

the building was badly damaged in the explosion — en la explosión el edificio resultó muy dañado

3) (=unfavourably)

to speak/think badly of sb — hablar/pensar mal de algn

to reflect badly on sb — dejar mal a algn

"how did he take it?" - "badly" — -¿qué tal se lo tomó? -fatal

4) (=wrongly)

to treat sb badly — tratar mal a algn

to behave badly — portarse mal

5) (=very much) [want, need]

badly-needed medical supplies — medicamentos mpl que se necesitan desesperadamente

it badly needs painting — hace mucha falta pintarlo

he badly needs help — necesita ayuda a toda costa

they badly wanted a child — estaban desesperados por tener un niño

we badly need another assistant — nos hace muchísima falta otro ayudante

6)

to be badly off — (=poor) andar or estar mal de dinero

we are badly off for coal — andamos mal de carbón

you're not that badly off, you only have to work 20 hours a week — no estás tan mal, solo tienes que trabajar 20 horas por semana

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['bædli]
adverb (comp worse; superl worst)

1) ( poorly) <play/sing> mal

badly organized — mal organizado

to do badly: our team did badly a nuestro equipo le fue mal; we're not doing badly — vamos bastante bien

2) ( improperly) <behave/treat> mal

3) (as intensifier) < fail> miserablemente, estrepitosamente

badly injured — gravemente herido

you're badly mistaken — estás muy equivocado

you badly need a haircut — te hace mucha falta cortarte el pelo

English-spanish dictionary > badly
6 unknown

1. adjective
unbekannt

somebody/something is unknown to somebody — jemand/etwas ist jemandem nicht bekannt

a drug unknown to us — ein uns unbekanntes Heilmittel

it is unknown/not unknown for him to do such a thing — es ist nie vorgekommen/ist schon vorgekommen, dass er so etwas getan hat

the Unknown Soldier or Warrior — der Unbekannte Soldat

unknown strengths/reserves — (unsuspected) ungeahnte Kräfte/Reserven
2. adverb
unknown to somebody — ohne dass jemand davon weiß/wusste
3. noun
the unknown — das Unbekannte

journey/voyage into the unknown — (lit. or fig.) Reise in unbekannte Regionen

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adjective

1) (not known: her unknown helper.) unbekannt

2) (not famous; not well-known: That actor was almost unknown before he played that part.) unbekannt

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un·known

[ʌnˈnəʊn, AM -ˈnoʊn]

I. adj

1. (not known) unbekannt, nicht bekannt

▪ to be \unknown to sb jdm unbekannt sein

\unknown to me, she had organized a party for my birthday ohne mein Wissen hatte sie eine Geburtstagsparty für mich organisiert

by a person [or persons] \unknown LAW von unbekannt

an \unknown quantity eine unbekannte Größe

the U\unknown Soldier der Unbekannte Soldat

2. (not widely familiar) unbekannt

as recently as six months ago her name was almost \unknown in Britain noch vor sechs Monaten kannte sie kaum jemand in England

II. n

1. (sth not known) Ungewissheit f; MATH Unbekannte f

▪ the \unknown das Unbekannte

a fear of the \unknown Angst f vor dem Unbekannten

2. (sb not widely familiar) Unbekannte(r) f(m)

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[ʌn'nəʊn]
1. adj
unbekannt
the unknown soldier or warrior — der Unbekannte Soldat

unknown territory (lit, fig) — Neuland nt

some unknown person — irgendein Unbekannter

to be unknown to sb (feeling, territory) — jdm fremd sein

it's unknown for him to get up for breakfast —

this substance is unknown to science — diese Substanz ist der Wissenschaft nicht bekannt

See:

→ academic.ru/54737/person">person

2. n
(= person) Unbekannte(r) mf; (= factor, MATH) Unbekannte f; (= territory) unerforschtes Gebiet, Neuland nt
the unknown — das Unbekannte

a journey into the unknown (lit, fig) — eine Fahrt ins Ungewisse

3. adv

unknown to me etc —

unknown to me, the contents of my suitcase were inspected — ohne mein Wissen or ohne dass ich davon wusste, wurde der Inhalt meines Koffers untersucht

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unknown

A adj

1. unbekannt (to dat):

the Unknown Soldier ( oder Warrior) der Unbekannte Soldat; → country A 1, quantity 4

2. (to sb) ohne (jemandes) Wissen

3. nie gekannt, beispiellos, (nachgestellt) ohnegleichen

B s

1. (der, die, das) Unbekannte

2. MATH Unbekannte f

ign. abk

1. TECH ignition

2. ignotus, unknown

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1. adjective
unbekannt

somebody/something is unknown to somebody — jemand/etwas ist jemandem nicht bekannt

a drug unknown to us — ein uns unbekanntes Heilmittel

it is unknown/not unknown for him to do such a thing — es ist nie vorgekommen/ist schon vorgekommen, dass er so etwas getan hat

the Unknown Soldier or Warrior — der Unbekannte Soldat

unknown strengths/reserves — (unsuspected) ungeahnte Kräfte/Reserven
2. adverb
unknown to somebody — ohne dass jemand davon weiß/wusste
3. noun
the unknown — das Unbekannte

journey/voyage into the unknown — (lit. or fig.) Reise in unbekannte Regionen

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adj.

unbekannt adj.

English-german dictionary > unknown
7 prevenido

Del verbo prevenir: ( conjugate prevenir) \ \
prevenido es: \ \
el participio
Multiple Entries: prevenido prevenir
prevenido

◊ -da adjetivo

a) [SER] ( precavido) well-prepared, well-organized;

◊ es muy prevenida she likes to be prepared o ready for all eventualities

b) [ESTAR] ( advertido) forewarned;

◊ ahora ya estás prevenido you've been warned

prevenir ( conjugate prevenir) verbo transitivo
a) ‹enfermedad/accidente› to prevent

b) (advertir, alertar) to warn
prevenirse verbo pronominal prevenidose CONTRA algo to take preventive o preventative measures against sth, take precautions against sth
prevenir verbo transitivo
1 (enfermedades, etc) to prevent: más vale prevenir que curar, prevention is better than cure
2 (advertir, alertar) to warn: me previno contra él, she warned me about him
te prevengo de que no estoy muy dispuesta a ir, I want you to know that I'm not very inclined to go ' prevenido' also found in these entries: Spanish: advertida - advertido

English-spanish dictionary > prevenido
8 set up

1. phr v помещать, ставить, класть

to set up a picture on the floor — поставить картину на пол

the portrait was set up on the stage — портрет был установлен на сцене

to set a chair at the table — поставить стул около стола

to set a guard on a house — поставить охрану вокруг дома

to set chairs for visitors — ставить стулья для гостей

to set oneself a task — поставить перед собой задачу

to set a cup on the table — ставить чашку на стол

2. phr v поднимать, ставить

to set up ninepins again — поднимать упавшие кегли

to set flowers in water — ставить цветы в воду

to set up a hullabaloo — поднимать шум

to set at nought — ни во что не ставить

set out — помещать, ставить, выставлять

to set up a row — поднимать скандал

3. phr v вывешивать

to set up a notice — вывесить объявление

4. phr v воздвигать, устанавливать, ставить

to set up a monument — воздвигнуть памятник

set on edge — устанавливать на ребро; установленный на ребро

set the limit — устанавливать предел; положить конец

set in — наступать, устанавливаться, начинаться

to set camera — устанавливать фотоаппарат

set priority — устанавливать очередность

5. phr v возводить

6. phr v основывать, учреждать

to set up a company — основать компанию

to set up a government — сформировать правительство

to set up a committee — организовать комитет

to set up a laboratory — создать лабораторию

to set up house — начать семейную жизнь

7. phr v вводить, устанавливать

to set up new arrangements — устанавливать новые порядки

set the watch — устанавливать вахту

set to zero — устанавливать на нуль

to set a tool — устанавливать резец

set a standard — устанавливать норму

set to size — устанавливать на размер

8. phr v открывать

to set up as a grocer — открыть бакалейную торговлю

9. phr v помочь устроиться

the legacy set him up in his profession — благодаря доставшемуся наследству он смог работать по выдвигать, предлагать

to set up a counter claim — предъявлять встречный иск

to set up a candidate — выдвигать кандидата

to set an ambush — устроить засаду

10. phr v излагать, формулировать

to set up a principle — сформулировать принцип

to set forth principles — излагать принципы

11. phr v подготавливать; планировать

to set up a bank robbery — подготовить ограбление банка

12. phr v снабжать, обеспечивать

13. phr v тренировать, физически развивать; закалять

physically she was not well set up — физически она была слабо развита

14. phr v вызывать, причинять

the cold air set up an irritation in his throat — от холодного воздуха у него началось раздражение в горле

to set off the depression — вызывать депрессию

to set at a gaze — удивлять, вызывать удивление

set in vibration — вызывать колебания; вызванный колебания

15. phr v полигр. набирать

to set up type — набирать шрифт

to set up a book — набирать книгу

to set up a word in capitals — набрать слово заглавными буквами

to set up as an expert — считать себя знатоком

to set flush — набирать без абзацных отступов

to set by hand — набирать вручную

set up a number — набирать номер

16. phr v набивать, делать

to set the teeth on edge — набивать оскомину

17. phr v редк. восстанавливать, подстрекать

18. phr v тех. собирать, монтировать; налаживать

to set aright — исправлять; налаживать

19. phr v платить за выпивку

set idle power — выводить на режим малого газа; выведенный на режим малого газа

20. phr v угощать

21. phr v карт. объявлять

to set up spades — объявить пики

Синонимический ряд:

1. devise (verb) arrange; concoct; contrive; devise; digest; order; plan; prepare; ready

2. elate (verb) commove; elate; excite; exhilarate; inspire; spirit up; stimulate

3. elated (verb) commoved; elated; excited; exhilarated; inspired; spirited up; stimulated

4. erect (verb) build up; construct; erect; hammer out; raise; rear

5. erected (verb) built up; constructed; erected; hammered out; pitched; put up; raised; reared

6. found (verb) constitute; create; establish; found; organize; start

7. founded (verb) constituted; created; established; founded; organised; organized; started

8. introduce (verb) inaugurate; initiate; institute; introduce; launch; originate; usher in

9. introduced (verb) inaugurated; initiated; instituted; introduced; launched; originated; ushered in

10. treat (verb) blow; stand; treat

11. treated (verb) blew/blown; stood; treated

English-Russian base dictionary > set up
9 trust

1. noun
1) (firm belief) Vertrauen, das

place or put one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

have [every] trust in somebody/something — [volles] Vertrauen zu jemandem/etwas haben

2) (reliance)

take something on trust — etwas einfach glauben

3) (organization managed by trustees) Treuhandgesellschaft, die

[charitable] trust — Stiftung, die

4) (body of trustees) Treuhänder Pl.; (of charitable trust) [Stiftungs]beirat, der; Kuratorium, das

5) (organized association of companies) Trust, der

6) (responsibility)

position of trust — Vertrauensstellung, die

7) (obligation) Verpflichtung, die

8) (Law)

hold in trust — treuhänderisch verwalten
2. transitive verb
1) (rely on) trauen (+ Dat.); vertrauen (+ Dat.) [Person]

not trust somebody an inch — jemandem nicht über den Weg trauen

he/what he says is not to be trusted — er ist nicht vertrauenswürdig/auf das, was er sagt, kann man sich nicht verlassen

trust somebody with something — jemandem etwas anvertrauen

trust you/him! — etc. (coll. iron.) typisch!

trust him to get it wrong! — er muss natürlich einen Fehler machen!

2) (hope) hoffen

I trust he is not hurt? — er ist doch hoffentlich nicht verletzt?
3. intransitive verb
1)

trust to — sich verlassen auf (+ Akk.)

2) (believe)

trust in somebody/something — auf jemanden/etwas vertrauen

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1. verb
1) (to have confidence or faith; to believe: She trusted (in) him.) vertrauen

2) (to give (something to someone), believing that it will be used well and responsibly: I can't trust him with my car; I can't trust my car to him.) anvertrauen

3) (to hope or be confident (that): I trust (that) you had / will have a good journey.) hoffen
2. noun
1) (belief or confidence in the power, reality, truth, goodness etc of a person or thing: The firm has a great deal of trust in your ability; trust in God.) das Vertrauen

2) (charge or care; responsibility: The child was placed in my trust.) die Obhut

3) (a task etc given to a person by someone who believes that they will do it, look after it etc well: He holds a position of trust in the firm.) das Vertrauen

4) (arrangement(s) by which something (eg money) is given to a person to use in a particular way, or to keep until a particular time: The money was to be held in trust for his children; ( also adjective) a trust fund) die Treuhand; Treuhand...

5) (a group of business firms working together: The companies formed a trust.) der Konzern

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- academic.ru/76891/trustee">trustee
- trustworthy
- trustworthiness
- trusty
- trustily
- trustiness
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trust

[trʌst]

I. n

1. no pl (belief) Vertrauen nt

to be built [or based] on \trust auf Vertrauen basieren

to abuse [or betray] sb's \trust jds Vertrauen missbrauchen

to gain [or win] sb's \trust jds Vertrauen gewinnen

to place [or put] one's \trust in sb/sth sein Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen

to take sth on \trust etw einfach glauben, etw für bare Münze nehmen fam

▪ to do sth in the \trust that... etw in dem Vertrauen tun, dass...

2. no pl (responsibility)

a position of \trust ein Vertrauensposten m

▪ in sb's \trust in jds Obhut

to have sth in \trust etw zur Verwahrung haben

3. (arrangement) Treuhand f kein pl, Treuhandschaft f; (management of money or property for sb) Vermögensverwaltung f

investment \trust Investmentfonds m

to hold [or keep] sth in \trust etw treuhänderisch verwalten

to set up a \trust eine Treuhandschaft übernehmen

4. (trustees) Treuhandgesellschaft f

he was guilty of a breach of \trust er verletzte die Treuhandpflicht

he has a position of \trust er hat eine Vertrauensstellung

charitable \trust Stiftung f

5. AM (union) Ring m; BRIT (trust company) Trust m

6. AM (bank name) Zusatz bei Banknamen

7. AM (monopoly) Trust m, Syndikat nt

8.

▶ a brains \trust ( hum) geballte Intelligenz fam

II. vt

1. (believe)

▪ to \trust sb/sth jdm/etw vertrauen

2. (rely on)

▪ to \trust sth einer S. dat trauen, auf etw akk vertrauen

you must \trust your own feelings du musst auf deine Gefühle vertrauen

▪ to \trust sb to do sth jdm zutrauen, dass er/sie etw tut

▪ to \trust oneself to do sth sich dat zutrauen, etw zu tun

▪ to \trust sb with sth jdm etw anvertrauen

3. (commit)

▪ to \trust sb/sth to sb jdm jdn/etw anvertrauen

4.

▶ to not \trust sb an inch esp BRIT, AUS jdm nicht über den Weg trauen fam

▶ \trust her/him/you etc. to do that! ( fam) das musste sie/er/musstest du natürlich machen! iron

\trust you to upset her by talking about the accident! du musst sie natürlich auch noch mit deinem Gerede über den Unfall aus der Fassung bringen

▶ I wouldn't \trust him as far as I can [or could] throw him ich würde ihm nicht über den Weg trauen

III. vi

1. ( form: believe)

▪ to \trust in sb/sth auf jdn/etw vertrauen

2. (rely)

▪ to \trust to sb/sth auf jdn/etw vertrauen, sich akk auf jdn/etw verlassen

to \trust to luck sich akk auf sein Glück verlassen, auf sein Glück vertrauen

3. ( form: hope)

the meeting went well, I \trust das Treffen verlief gut, hoffe ich [doch]

▪ to \trust [that]... hoffen, [dass]...

I \trust [that] you slept well? du hast doch hoffentlich gut geschlafen?

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[trʌst]
1. n

1) (= confidence, reliance) Vertrauen nt (in zu)

I have every trust in him — ich habe volles Vertrauen zu ihm

to put or place one's trust in sb — Vertrauen in jdn setzen

to take sth on trust — etw einfach glauben

position of trust — Vertrauensstellung f

2) (= charge) Verantwortung f

to commit sth to sb's trust — jdm etw anvertrauen

3) (JUR, FIN) Treuhand(schaft) f; (= property) Treuhandeigentum nt; (= charitable fund) Fonds m, Stiftung f

to hold sth in trust for sb — etw für jdn treuhänderisch verwalten

all his money was tied up in a trust — sein ganzes Geld wurde treuhänderisch verwaltet

4) (COMM) Trust m

5) (Brit) finanziell eigenverantwortliches, vom staatlichen Gesundheitswesen getragenes Krankenhaus

2. vt

1) (= have confidence in) trauen (+dat); person (ver)trauen (+dat); words glauben

don't you trust me? — vertraust du mir nicht?

to trust sb with sth, to trust sth to sb —

I don't trust her with my boyfriend — ich traue ihr mit meinem Freund nicht

can he be trusted not to lose it? — kann man sich darauf verlassen, dass er es nicht verliert?

can we trust him to go shopping alone? —

you can't trust a word he says — man kann ihm kein Wort glauben

I wouldn't trust him ( any) farther than I can throw him (inf) — ich traue ihm nicht über den Weg (inf)

2) (iro inf)

trust you/him! — typisch!

trust him to break it! — er muss es natürlich kaputt machen

3) (= hope) hoffen

I trust not — hoffentlich nicht, ich hoffe nicht

you're going to help, I trust — du wirst doch hoffentlich mithelfen

3. vi

1) (= have confidence) vertrauen

to trust in sb — auf jdn vertrauen

2)

(= rely on) to trust to sth — sich auf etw (acc) verlassen, auf etw (acc) vertrauen

to trust to luck or chance — sich auf sein Glück verlassen

I'll have to trust to luck to find it — ich kann nur hoffen, dass ich es finde

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trust [trʌst]

A s

1. (in) Vertrauen n (auf akk, zu), Zutrauen n (zu):

lose all trust in alles Vertrauen verlieren zu;

place ( oder put) one’s trust in → B 2;

take on trust jemandem, etwas glauben

2. Zuversicht f, zuversichtliche Erwartung oder Hoffnung, Glaube m

3. Kredit m:

on trust

a) auf Kredit,

b) auf Treu und Glauben

4. Pflicht f, Verantwortung f

5. Verwahrung f, Obhut f, Aufbewahrung f:

in trust zu treuen Händen, zur Verwahrung

6. (das) Anvertraute, anvertrautes Gut, Pfand n

7. JUR

a) Treuhand(verhältnis) f(n)

b) → trust account 2:

hold sth in trust etwas zu treuen Händen verwahren, etwas treuhänderisch verwalten; → breach Bes Redew

8. WIRTSCH

a) Trust m

b) Konzern m

c) Kartell n, Ring m

9. WIRTSCH, JUR Stiftung f

B v/i

1. vertrauen (in auf akk)

2. sich verlassen, bauen ( beide:

to auf akk)

C v/t

1. jemandem, einer Sache (ver)trauen, sich verlassen auf (akk):

trust sb to do sth sich darauf verlassen, dass jemand etwas tut;

you can trust him to be discreet du kannst dich auf seine Diskretion verlassen;

trust him to do that! iron

a) das sieht ihm ähnlich!,

b) verlass dich drauf, er wird es tun!; → ear¹ Bes Redew, eye A 1

2. (zuversichtlich) hoffen ( that dass)

3. trust sb with sth, trust sth to sb jemandem etwas anvertrauen

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1. noun
1) (firm belief) Vertrauen, das

place or put one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

have [every] trust in somebody/something — [volles] Vertrauen zu jemandem/etwas haben

2) (reliance)

take something on trust — etwas einfach glauben

3) (organization managed by trustees) Treuhandgesellschaft, die

[charitable] trust — Stiftung, die

4) (body of trustees) Treuhänder Pl.; (of charitable trust) [Stiftungs]beirat, der; Kuratorium, das

5) (organized association of companies) Trust, der

6) (responsibility)

position of trust — Vertrauensstellung, die

7) (obligation) Verpflichtung, die

8) (Law)

hold in trust — treuhänderisch verwalten
2. transitive verb
1) (rely on) trauen (+ Dat.); vertrauen (+ Dat.) [Person]

not trust somebody an inch — jemandem nicht über den Weg trauen

he/what he says is not to be trusted — er ist nicht vertrauenswürdig/auf das, was er sagt, kann man sich nicht verlassen

trust somebody with something — jemandem etwas anvertrauen

trust you/him! — etc. (coll. iron.) typisch!

trust him to get it wrong! — er muss natürlich einen Fehler machen!

2) (hope) hoffen

I trust he is not hurt? — er ist doch hoffentlich nicht verletzt?
3. intransitive verb
1)

trust to — sich verlassen auf (+ Akk.)

2) (believe)

trust in somebody/something — auf jemanden/etwas vertrauen

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(in) v.

sich verlassen (auf) v.

vertrauen (in) v. v.

trauen (jemandem, einer Sache) v. n.

Aufbewahrung f.

Treuhand -¨e f.

Vertrauen n.

Verwahrung f.

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10 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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
11 place

1. noun
1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

I left it in a safe place — ich habe es an einem sicheren Ort gelassen

it was still in the same place — es war noch an derselben Stelle od. am selben Platz

a place in the queue — ein Platz in der Schlange

all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

from place to place — von Ort zu Ort

in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also academic.ru/73191/take">take 1. 4)

2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

put somebody in his place — jemanden in seine Schranken weisen

know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

it's not my place to do that — es kommt mir nicht zu, das zu tun

3) (building or area for specific purpose)

a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

place of residence — Wohnort, der

place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

place of worship — Andachtsort, der

4) (country, town) Ort, der

Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

place of birth — Geburtsort, der

go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

[shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

is this anyone's place? — ist dieser Platz noch frei?

7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

8) (step, stage)

in the first place — zuerst

why didn't you say so in the first place? — warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt?

in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

9) (proper place) Platz, der

everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

a woman's place is in the home — eine Frau gehört ins Haus

the clamp is properly in place — die Klammer sitzt richtig

into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

take the place of somebody — jemandes Platz einnehmen

10) (position in competition) Platz, der

take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der

12) (personal situation)

what would you do in my place? — was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?

put yourself in my place — versetzen Sie sich in meine Lage
2. transitive verb
1) (put) (vertically) stellen; (horizontally) legen

place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

place a bet — auf ein Pferd wetten

2) (fig.)

place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

he places happiness above all other things — Glück steht für ihn an erster Stelle

3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

a badly placed window — ein Fenster an einer ungünstigen Stelle

we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)

place somebody under somebody's care — jemanden in jemandes Obhut geben

5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

be placed second in the race — im Rennen den zweiten Platz belegen

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[pleis] 1. noun
1) (a particular spot or area: a quiet place in the country; I spent my holiday in various different places.) der Ort

2) (an empty space: There's a place for your books on this shelf.) der Platz

3) (an area or building with a particular purpose: a market-place.) der Platz

4) (a seat (in a theatre, train, at a table etc): He went to his place and sat down.) der Platz

5) (a position in an order, series, queue etc: She got the first place in the competition; I lost my place in the queue.) der Platz

6) (a person's position or level of importance in society etc: You must keep your secretary in her place.) der Platz

7) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) die Stelle

8) (duty or right: It's not my place to tell him he's wrong.) die Aufgabe

9) (a job or position in a team, organization etc: He's got a place in the team; He's hoping for a place on the staff.) der Platz

10) (house; home: Come over to my place.) die Wohnung

11) ((often abbreviated to Pl. when written) a word used in the names of certain roads, streets or squares.) der Platz

12) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) die Stelle
2. verb
1) (to put: He placed it on the table; He was placed in command of the army.) stellen, setzen

2) (to remember who a person is: I know I've seen her before, but I can't quite place her.) einordnen

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- place-name
- go places
- in the first
- second place
- in place
- in place of
- out of place
- put oneself in someone else's place
- put someone in his place
- put in his place
- take place
- take the place of
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place

[pleɪs]

I. NOUN

1. (location) Ort m

I hate busy \places ich hasse Orte, an denen viel los ist

the hotel was one of those big, old-fashioned \places das Hotel war eines dieser großen altmodischen Häuser

we're staying at a bed-and-breakfast \place wir übernachten in einer Frühstückspension

let's go to a pizza \place lass uns eine Pizza essen gehen

this is the exact \place! das ist genau die Stelle!

this plant needs a warm, sunny \place diese Pflanze sollte an einem warmen, sonnigen Ort stehen

Scotland is a very nice \place Schottland ist ein tolles Land fam

that café is a nice \place dieses Café ist echt nett fam

a nice little \place at the seaside ein netter kleiner Ort am Meer

please put this book back in its \place bitte stell dieses Buch wieder an seinen Platz zurück

this is the \place my mother was born hier wurde meine Mutter geboren

sorry, I can't be in two \places at once tut mir leid, ich kann nicht überall gleichzeitig sein

\place of birth Geburtsort m

\place of custody Verwahrungsort m

\place of death Sterbeort m

\place of delivery Erfüllungsort m

\place of employment Arbeitsplatz m

\place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m

\place of performance Erfüllungsort m

\place of refuge Zufluchtsort m

\place of residence Wohnort m

a \place in the sun ( fig) ein Plätzchen an der Sonne

\place of work Arbeitsplatz m, Arbeitsstätte f

to go \places AM weit herumkommen, viel sehen

in \places stellenweise

this plant still exists in \places diese Pflanze kommt noch vereinzelt vor

2. no pl (appropriate setting) [geeigneter] Ort

this meeting isn't the \place to discuss individual cases diese Konferenz ist nicht der Ort, um Einzelfälle zu diskutieren

university was not the \place for me die Universität war irgendwie nicht mein Ding fam

that bar is not a \place for a woman like you Frauen wie du haben in solch einer Bar nichts verloren

3. (home)

I'm looking for a \place to live ich bin auf Wohnungssuche

we'll have a meeting at my \place/Susan's \place wir treffen uns bei mir/bei Susan

where's your \place? wo wohnst du?; ( fam)

your \place or mine? zu dir oder zu mir?

they're trying to buy a larger \place wir sind auf der Suche nach einer größeren Wohnung

4. ( fig: position, rank) Stellung f

she's got friends in high \places sie hat Freunde in hohen Positionen

they have a \place among the country's leading exporters sie zählen zu den führenden Exporteuren des Landes

it's not your \place to tell me what to do es steht dir nicht zu, mir zu sagen, was ich zu tun habe

I'm not criticizing you — I know my \place das ist keine Kritik — das würde ich doch nie wagen!

to keep sb in their \place jdn in seine Schranken weisen

to put sb in his/her \place [or show sb his/her \place] jdm zeigen, wo es langgeht fam

5. (instead of)

▪ in \place of stattdessen

you can use margarine in \place of butter statt Butter kannst du auch Margarine nehmen

I invited Jo in \place of Les, who was ill Les war krank, daher habe ich Jo eingeladen

6. (proper position)

▪ to be in \place an seinem Platz sein; ( fig: completed) fertig [o abgeschlossen] sein

the chairs were all in \place die Stühle waren alle dort, wo sie sein sollten; ( fig)

the arrangements are all in \place now die Vorbereitungen sind jetzt abgeschlossen; ( fig)

the new laws are now in \place die neuen Gesetze gelten jetzt; ( fig)

suddenly all fell into \place plötzlich machte alles Sinn

to be out of \place nicht an der richtigen Stelle sein; person fehl am Platz[e] sein; ( fig)

the large desk was totally out of \place in such a small room der große Schreibtisch war in solch einem kleinen Zimmer völlig deplatziert

what you've just said was completely out of \place was du da gerade gesagt hast, war völlig unangebracht

to push sth in \place etw in die richtige Position schieben

7. MATH (in decimals) Stelle f

to five \places of decimals bis auf fünf Stellen hinter dem Komma

8. (job, position) Stelle f; (in team) Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m

your \place is here by my side du gehörst an meine Seite

to take the \place of sb jds Platz einnehmen

9. (in book) Stelle f

to find one's \place die [richtige] Stelle wiederfinden

to keep one's \place markieren, wo man gerade ist/war

to lose one's \place die Seite verblättern[, wo man gerade war]; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, wo man gerade ist

10. (seat) Platz m

is this \place taken? ist dieser Platz noch frei?

to change \places with sb mit jdm die Plätze tauschen

to keep sb's \place [or save sb a \place] jdm den Platz freihalten

to lay a/another \place ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

to take one's \place at table Platz nehmen

11. (position) Stelle f

just put yourself in my \place versetzen Sie sich doch mal in meine Lage!

if I were in your \place... ich an deiner Stelle...

what would you do in my \place? was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?

12. (ranking) Platz m, Position f

the song went from tenth to second \place in the charts das Lied stieg vom zehnten auf den zweiten Platz in den Charts

our team finished in second \place unsere Mannschaft wurde Zweiter

to take [or esp BRIT get] first/second \place Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden

to take first/second \place ( fig) an erster/zweiter Stelle kommen

their children always take first \place ihre Kinder stehen für sie immer an erster Stelle

in second \place auf dem zweiten Platz

13. SPORT

to get a \place sich akk platzieren; AM Zweite(r) werden

14. AM ( fam: somewhere)

I know I left that book some \place ich weiß, dass ich das Buch irgendwo gelassen habe

15.

▶ all over the \place (everywhere) überall; (badly organized) [völlig] chaotisch; (spread around) in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerstreut

▶ a \place for everything and everything in its \place ( prov) jedes Ding hat seinen Platz

▶ in the first \place (at first) zuerst; (at all) überhaupt

we shouldn't have got married in the first \place! wir hätten erst gar nicht heiraten dürfen!

but why didn't you say that in the first \place? aber warum hast du denn das nicht gleich gesagt?

▶ in the first/second \place (firstly, secondly) erstens/zweitens

▶ to give \place to sb/sth jdm/etw Platz machen

▶ to go \places ( fam) auf dem Weg nach oben sein

▶ to take \place stattfinden

▶ there is a \place and time for everything alles zu seiner Zeit

II. TRANSITIVE VERB

1. (position)

▪ to \place sth somewhere etw irgendwohin stellen; (lay) etw irgendwohin legen

bowls of flowers had been \placed on tables auf den Tischen waren Blumenvasen aufgestellt

the Chancellor \placed a wreath on the tomb der Kanzler legte einen Kranz auf dem Grab nieder

she \placed her name on the list sie setzte ihren Namen auf die Liste

he \placed his hand on my shoulder er legte mir die Hand auf die Schulter

to \place an advertisement in the newspaper eine Anzeige in die Zeitung setzen

to \place sth on the agenda etw auf die Tagesordnung setzen

to \place a bet on sth auf etw akk wetten

to \place sb under sb's care jdn in jds Obhut geben

to \place a comma ein Komma setzen

to \place one foot in front of the other einen Fuß vor den anderen setzen

to \place a gun at sb's head jdn eine Pistole an den Kopf setzen

to \place money on sth Geld auf etw akk setzen

▪ to be \placed shop, town liegen

2. (impose)

to \place an embargo on sb/sth über jdn/etw ein Embargo verhängen

to \place a limit [or ceiling] on sth etw begrenzen

to \place ten pounds/half a million on sth etw mit zehn Pfund/einer halben Million veranschlagen

3. (ascribe)

to \place the blame on sb jdm die Schuld geben

to \place one's faith [or trust] in sb/sth sein Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen

to \place one's hopes on sb/sth seine Hoffnungen auf jdn/etw setzen

to \place importance on sth auf etw akk Wert legen

... and she \placed the emphasis on the word ‘soon’... und die Betonung lag auf ‚schnell‘

he \placed stress on every second syllable er betonte jede zweite Silbe

4. (arrange for)

to \place a call ein Telefongespräch anmelden

to \place sth at sb's disposal jdm etw überlassen

5. (appoint to a position)

▪ to \place sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwo unterbringen [o SCHWEIZ platzieren]

to \place sb on [the] alert jdn in Alarmbereitschaft versetzen

to \place sb under arrest jdn festnehmen

to \place sb in charge [of sth] jdm die Leitung [von etw dat] übertragen

to \place sb in jeopardy jdn in Gefahr bringen

to \place sb under pressure jdn unter Druck setzen

to \place a strain on sb/sth jdn/etw belasten

to \place staff Personal unterbringen [o vermitteln]

to \place sb under surveillance jdn unter Beobachtung stellen

the town was \placed under the control of UN peacekeeping troops die Stadt wurde unter die Aufsicht der UN-Friedenstruppen gestellt

6. (recognize)

▪ to \place sb/sth face, person, voice, accent jdn/etw einordnen

7. (categorize, rank)

▪ to \place sb/sth jdn/etw einordnen

to be \placed SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM unter die ersten zwei kommen

to be \placed first/second SPORT Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden

▪ to \place sth above [or before] [or over] sth etw über etw akk stellen

sb \places sth above all other things etw steht bei jdm an erster Stelle

I'd \place him among the world's ten most brilliant scientists für mich ist er einer der zehn hervorragendsten Wissenschaftler der Welt

they \placed the painting in the Renaissance sie ordneten das Bild der Renaissance zu

8. ECON

▪ to \place sth goods etw absetzen

to \place an order for sth etw bestellen

to \place an order with a firm einer Firma einen Auftrag erteilen

9. passive (good position)

▪ to be well \placed for sth für etw akk eine gute Ausgangsposition haben

we're well \placed for the shops wir haben es nicht weit zum Einkaufen fam

to be well \placed financially finanziell gut dastehen

to be well \placed to watch sth von seinem Platz aus etw gut sehen können

10. passive (have at disposal)

▪ to be well \placed for sth:

how \placed are you for time/money? wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?

III. INTRANSITIVE VERB

SPORT sich akk platzieren; AM also (finish second) Zweite(r) werden

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[pleɪs]
1. NOUN

1) general Platz m, Stelle f

this is the place where he was born —

do the spoons have a special place? — haben die Löffel einen bestimmten Platz?

water is coming through in several places — an mehreren Stellen kommt Wasser durch

from place to place — von einem Ort zum anderen

in another place — woanders

bed is the best place for him — im Bett ist er am besten aufgehoben

we found a good place to watch the procession from — wir fanden einen Platz, von dem wir den Umzug gut sehen konnten

in the right/wrong place — an der richtigen/falschen Stelle

some/any place — irgendwo

a poor man with no place to go — ein armer Mann, der nicht weiß, wohin

this is no place for you/children —

there is no place for the unsuccessful in our society your place is by his side — für Erfolglose ist in unserer Gesellschaft kein Platz dein Platz ist an seiner Seite

it was the last place I expected to find him — da hätte ich ihn zuletzt or am wenigsten vermutet

this isn't the place to discuss politics — dies ist nicht der Ort, um über Politik zu sprechen

to laugh in the right places — an den richtigen Stellen lachen

I can't be in two places at once! —

she likes to have a place for everything and everything in its place — sie hält sehr auf Ordnung und achtet darauf, dass alles an seinem Platz liegt

2) = geographical location = district Gegend f; (= country) Land nt; (= building) Gebäude nt; (= town) Ort m

there's nothing to do in the evenings in this place —

Sweden's a great place they're building a new place out in the suburbs — Schweden ist ein tolles Land sie bauen ein neues Gebäude am Stadtrand

3) = home Haus nt, Wohnung f

come round to my place some time — besuch mich mal, komm doch mal vorbei

let's go back to my place — lass uns zu mir gehen

I've never been to his place — ich bin noch nie bei ihm gewesen

where's your place? — wo wohnst du?

at Peter's place — bei Peter

your place or mine? (hum inf) — gehen wir zu dir oder zu mir?

4) in book etc Stelle f

to find one's place — die richtige Stelle finden

to keep one's place — sich (dat) die richtige Stelle markieren

to lose one's place — die Seite verblättern; (on page) die Zeile verlieren

5) = seat, position at table, in team, school, hospital Platz m; (at university) Studienplatz m; (= job) Stelle f

to lay an extra place for sb — ein zusätzliches Gedeck für jdn auflegen

to take one's place (at table) —

take your places for a square dance! — Aufstellung zur Quadrille, bitte!

places for 500 students — 500 Studienplätze

to give up one's place (in a queue) — jdm den Vortritt lassen

to lose one's place (in a queue) — sich wieder hinten anstellen müssen

if I were in your place — an Ihrer Stelle, wenn ich an Ihrer Stelle wäre

put yourself in my place — versetzen Sie sich in meine Lage

to take the place of sb/sth — jdn/etw ersetzen, jds Platz or den Platz von jdm/etw einnehmen

6) in hierarchy Rang m, Stellung f

people in high places — Leute in hohen Positionen

to know one's place — wissen, was sich (für einen) gehört

of course I'm not criticizing you, I know my place! (hum) — ich kritisiere dich selbstverständlich nicht, das steht mir gar nicht zu

it's not my place to comment/tell him what to do — es steht mir nicht zu, einen Kommentar abzugeben/ihm zu sagen, was er tun soll

to keep or put sb in his place — jdn in seine Schranken weisen

that put him in his place! — das hat ihn erst mal zum Schweigen gebracht, da hab ichs/hat ers etc ihm gezeigt (inf)

7) in exam, competition Platz m, Stelle f

Lunt won, with Moore in second place — Lunt hat gewonnen, an zweiter Stelle or auf dem zweiten Platz lag Moore

to win first place — Erste(r, s) sein

to take second place to sth — einer Sache (dat) gegenüber zweitrangig sein

8) SPORT Platzierung f

to get a place —

to back a horse for a place — auf Platz wetten, eine Platzwette abschließen

9) in street names Platz m

10) MATH Stelle f

to work sth out to three decimal places — etw auf drei Stellen nach dem Komma berechnen

11)

set structures __diams; place of + noun place of amusement — Vergnügungsstätte f

place of birth — Geburtsort m

place of residence — Wohnort m

place of business or work — Arbeitsstelle f __diams; in places stellenweise

the snow was up to a metre deep in places — der Schnee lag stellenweise bis zu einem Meter hoch

everything was in place — alles war an seiner Stelle

make sure the wire/screw is properly in place — achten Sie darauf, dass der Draht/die Schraube richtig sitzt

the legislation is already in place — die gesetzlichen Regelungen gelten schon

to look out of place —

to feel out of place — sich fehl am Platz or deplatziert fühlen

not a hair out of place — tipptopp frisiert (inf)

McCormack played in goal in place of Miller — McCormack stand anstelle von Miller im Tor __diams; to fall into place Gestalt annehmen

in the first place..., in the second place... — erstens..., zweitens...

the meeting will take place on Monday — das Treffen findet am Montag statt

he's going places (fig inf) — er bringts zu was (inf) __diams; to give place to sth einer Sache (dat) Platz machen

2. TRANSITIVE VERB

1) = put setzen, stellen; (= lay down) legen; person at table etc setzen; guards aufstellen; shot (with gun) anbringen; (FTBL, TENNIS) platzieren; troops in Stellung bringen; announcement (in paper) inserieren (in in +dat); advertisement setzen (in in +acc)

the magician placed one hand over the other — der Zauberer legte eine Hand über die andere

she slowly placed one foot in front of the other —

he placed the cue ball right behind the black he placed a gun to my head — er setzte die Spielkugel direkt hinter die schwarze Kugel er setzte mir eine Pistole an den Kopf

she placed a finger on her lips —

the vase was precariously placed — die Vase stand an einer gefährlichen Stelle

to place a matter before sb — jdm eine Angelegenheit vorlegen

I shall place the matter in the hands of a lawyer — ich werde die Angelegenheit einem Rechtsanwalt übergeben

to place a strain on sth — etw belasten

this placed him under a lot of pressure — dadurch geriet er stark unter Druck

to place confidence/trust in sb/sth — Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen

to be placed (shop, town, house etc) — liegen

how are you placed for time/money? — wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus?

we are well placed for the shops — was Einkaufsmöglichkeiten angeht, wohnen wir günstig

Liverpool are well placed in the league — Liverpool liegt gut in der Tabelle

they were well placed to observe the whole battle — sie hatten einen günstigen Platz, von dem sie die ganze Schlacht verfolgen konnten

we are well placed now to finish the job by next year —

with the extra staff we are better placed now than we were last month — mit dem zusätzlichen Personal stehen wir jetzt besser da als vor einem Monat

he is well placed (to get hold of things) — er sitzt an der Quelle

he is well placed to get information — er kommt leicht an Informationen

2) = rank stellen

to place local interests above or before or over those of central government — kommunale Interessen über die der Zentralregierung stellen

that should be placed first — das sollte an erster Stelle stehen

where do you place love on your list of priorities? — an welcher Stelle steht die Liebe für dich?

the German runner was placed third — der deutsche Läufer belegte den dritten Platz or wurde Dritter

to be placed (Sport) — sich platzieren

3) = identify context of einordnen

in which school would you place this painting? —

I don't know, it's very difficult to place I can't quite place him/his accent — ich weiß es nicht, es ist sehr schwer einzuordnen ich kann ihn/seinen Akzent nicht einordnen

historians place the book in the 5th century AD — Historiker datieren das Buch auf das 5. Jahrhundert

4) COMM goods absetzen; order erteilen (with sb jdm); contract abschließen (with sb mit jdm)

who did you place the computer typesetting job with? —

this is the last time we place any work with you — das ist das letzte Mal, dass wir Ihnen einen Auftrag erteilt haben

5) money (= deposit) deponieren; (= invest) investieren

to place money at sb's credit — jdm eine Geldsumme gutschreiben

6) phone call anmelden

7) = find job for unterbringen (with bei)

the agency is trying to place him with a building firm — die Agentur versucht, ihn bei einer Baufirma unterzubringen

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place [pleıs]

A s

1. Ort m, Stelle f, Platz m:

from place to place von Ort zu Ort;

in places stellenweise;

the goalkeeper was exactly in the right place SPORT der Torhüter stand goldrichtig;

all over the place umg überall;

his hair was all over the place umg er war ganz zerzaust;

come to the wrong place an die falsche Adresse geraten;

keep sb’s place jemandem seinen Platz frei halten ( in a queue in einer Schlange);

lay a place for sb für jemanden decken;

take place stattfinden;

win a place in the semifinals SPORT ins Halbfinale einziehen, sich fürs Halbfinale qualifizieren; → safe A 1

2. (mit adj) Stelle f:

a wet place on the floor

3. (eingenommene) Stelle:

take sb’s place

a) jemandes Stelle einnehmen,

b) jemanden vertreten;

take the place of ersetzen, an die Stelle treten von (od gen);

in place of anstelle von (od gen);

if I were in your place I would … ich an Ihrer Stelle würde …; wenn ich Sie wäre, würde ich …;

put yourself in my place versetzen Sie sich (doch einmal) in meine Lage!

4. Platz m (Raum):

give place (to) Platz machen (für oder dat) (a. fig), nachgeben (dat)

5. (richtiger oder ordnungsgemäßer) Platz (auch fig): in his library every book has its place hat jedes Buch seinen Platz;

find one’s place sich zurechtfinden;

know one’s place wissen, wohin man gehört;

in (out of) place (nicht) am (richtigen) Platz;

this remark was out of place diese Bemerkung war deplatziert oder unangebracht;

feel out of place sich fehl am Platz fühlen;

this is not the place for

a) das oder hier ist nicht der (geeignete) Ort für,

b) das ist nicht der richtige Zeitpunkt für;

such people have no place in our club für solche Leute ist kein Platz in unserem Verein;

put sth back in its place etwas (an seinen Platz) zurücklegen oder -stellen;

put sb back in their place jemanden in die oder seine Schranken verweisen; → click¹ B 4, fall into 1, slot¹ C

6. Ort m, Stätte f:

one of the best places to eat eines der besten Restaurants oder Speiselokale;

place of amusement Vergnügungsstätte;

place of birth Geburtsort;

place of interest Sehenswürdigkeit f;

place of work Arbeitsplatz m, -stelle f;

place of worship

a) Kultstätte,

b) Gotteshaus n;

go places

a) ausgehen,

b) (umher)reisen,

c) fig es zu etwas bringen; → assembly 1

7. WIRTSCH Ort m, Platz m, Sitz m:

place of business Geschäftssitz;

place of delivery Erfüllungsort;

place of jurisdiction Gerichtsstand m;

place of payment Zahlungsort;

from this place ab hier; → destination 1

8. Haus n, Wohnung f:

at his place bei ihm (zu Hause);

he came over to my place yesterday er kam gestern zu mir;

your place or mine? umg bei dir od bei mir?

9. Ort(schaft) m(f):

in this place hier;

Munich is a nice place to live in München lebt man angenehm oder lässt es sich angenehm leben; → exile A 1

10. Gegend f:

of this place hiesig

11. THEAT Ort m (der Handlung)

12. umg Lokal n:

go to a Greek place zum Griechen gehen

13. SCHIFF Platz m, Hafen m:

place of tran(s)shipment Umschlagplatz;

place of call Anlaufhafen

14. Raum m (Ggs Zeit)

15. Stelle f (in einem Buch etc):

lose one’s place die Seite verblättern oder verschlagen;

I’ve lost my place auch ich weiß nicht mehr, wo (an welcher Stelle) ich war;

the audience laughed in the right places an den richtigen Stellen

16. MATH (Dezimal) Stelle f:

of many places vielstellig;

place value Stellenwert m

17. Platz m, Stelle f (in einer Reihenfolge):

in the first place

a) an erster Stelle, erstens, zuerst, als Erst(er, e, es),

b) in erster Linie,

c) überhaupt (erst),

d) ursprünglich;

why did you do it in the first place? warum haben Sie es überhaupt getan?;

you should not have done it in the first place Sie hätten es von vornherein bleiben lassen sollen;

why didn’t you admit it in the first place? warum hast du es nicht gleich zugegeben?;

in the last place an letzter Stelle, zuletzt, als letzt(er, e, es); schließlich; → second¹ A 1

18. SPORT etc Platz m:

in third place auf dem dritten Platz;

take third place den dritten Platz belegen; → second¹ A 1

19. (Sitz)Platz m, Sitz m:

take your places nehmen Sie Ihre Plätze ein!

20. a) (An)Stellung f, (Arbeits)Stelle f, Posten m:

out of place stellenlos

b) UNIV Studienplatz m

21. Amt n:

a) Dienst m:

in place im Amt (Minister etc), im Staatsdienst

b) fig Aufgabe f, Pflicht f:

it is not my place to do this es ist nicht meine Aufgabe, dies zu tun

22. (soziale) Stellung, Stand m, Rang m:

in high places an hoher Stelle;

persons in high places hochstehende Persönlichkeiten

23. fig Grund m:

there’s no place for doubt es besteht kein Grund zu zweifeln

B v/t

1. stellen, setzen, legen (alle auch fig):

place together Tische etc zusammenstellen;

place a call ein (Telefon)Gespräch anmelden;

place a coffin einen Sarg aufbahren;

place in order zurechtstellen, ordnen;

place sb in a difficult place jemanden in eine schwierige Lage bringen;

he places hono(u)r above wealth ihm ist Ehre wichtiger als Reichtum;

place on record aufzeichnen, (schriftlich) festhalten;

he placed a ring on her finger er steckte ihr einen Ring an den Finger; (siehe die Verbindungen mit den entsprechenden Substantiven);

the referee was well placed SPORT der Schiedsrichter stand günstig

2. Posten etc aufstellen:

place o.s. sich aufstellen oder postieren

3. I can’t place him ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen oder wohin ich ihn tun soll (woher ich ihn kenne)

4. einen Wohnungssuchenden etc unterbringen ( with bei), einen Arbeitssuchenden auch vermitteln

5. jemanden ein-, anstellen

6. jemanden ernennen oder in ein Amt einsetzen

7. (der Lage nach) näher bestimmen

8. WIRTSCH

a) eine Anleihe, Kapital unterbringen

b) (with) Aufträge erteilen (dat), vergeben (an akk), eine Bestellung aufgeben (bei)

c) einen Vertrag, eine Versicherung abschließen:

place an issue eine Emission unterbringen oder platzieren

9. Ware absetzen

10. a) be placed SPORT sich platzieren, platziert sein, unter den ersten drei sein:

be placed 6th sich an 6. Stelle platzieren

b) how are you placed for money? bes Br wie sieht es bei dir finanziell aus?

11. SPORT

a) den Ball platzieren

b) Rugby: ein Tor mit einem Platztritt schießen

12. ELEK schalten:

place in parallel parallel schalten

C v/i SPORT US

a) → B 10 a

b) den zweiten Platz belegen

pl. abk

1. place Pl.

2. plate

3. plural Pl.

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1. noun
1) Ort, der; (spot) Stelle, die; Platz, der

I left it in a safe place — ich habe es an einem sicheren Ort gelassen

it was still in the same place — es war noch an derselben Stelle od. am selben Platz

a place in the queue — ein Platz in der Schlange

all over the place — überall; (coll.): (in a mess) ganz durcheinander (ugs.)

from place to place — von Ort zu Ort

in places — hier und da; (in parts) stellenweise

find a place in something — (be included) in etwas (Akk.) eingehen; see also take 1. 4)

2) (fig.): (rank, position) Stellung, die

put somebody in his place — jemanden in seine Schranken weisen

know one's place — wissen, was sich für einen gehört

it's not my place to do that — es kommt mir nicht zu, das zu tun

3) (building or area for specific purpose)

a [good] place to park/to stop — ein [guter] Platz zum Parken/eine [gute] Stelle zum Halten

do you know a good/cheap place to eat? — weißt du, wo man gut/billig essen kann?

place of residence — Wohnort, der

place of work — Arbeitsplatz, der; Arbeitsstätte, die

place of worship — Andachtsort, der

4) (country, town) Ort, der

Paris/Italy is a great place — Paris ist eine tolle Stadt/Italien ist ein tolles Land (ugs.)

place of birth — Geburtsort, der

go places — (coll.) herumkommen (ugs.); (fig.) es [im Leben] zu was bringen (ugs.)

5) (coll.): (premises) Bude, die (ugs.); (hotel, restaurant, etc.) Laden, der (ugs.)

she is at his/John's place — sie ist bei ihm/John

[shall we go to] your place or mine? — [gehen wir] zu dir oder zu mir?

6) (seat etc.) [Sitz]platz, der

change places [with somebody] — [mit jemandem] die Plätze tauschen; (fig.) [mit jemandem] tauschen

lay a/another place — ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen

is this anyone's place? — ist dieser Platz noch frei?

7) (in book etc.) Stelle, die

lose one's place — die Seite verschlagen od. verblättern; (on page) nicht mehr wissen, an welcher Stelle man ist

8) (step, stage)

in the first place — zuerst

why didn't you say so in the first place? — warum hast du das nicht gleich gesagt?

in the first/second/third etc. place — erstens/zweitens/drittens usw.

9) (proper place) Platz, der

everything fell into place — (fig.) alles wurde klar

a woman's place is in the home — eine Frau gehört ins Haus

the clamp is properly in place — die Klammer sitzt richtig

into place — fest[nageln, -schrauben, -kleben]

out of place — nicht am richtigen Platz; (several things) in Unordnung; (fig.) fehl am Platz

take the place of somebody — jemandes Platz einnehmen

10) (position in competition) Platz, der

take first/second etc. place — den ersten/zweiten usw. Platz belegen

11) (job, position, etc.) Stelle, die; (as pupil; in team, crew) Platz, der

12) (personal situation)

what would you do in my place? — was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?

put yourself in my place — versetzen Sie sich in meine Lage
2. transitive verb
1) (put) (vertically) stellen; (horizontally) legen

place in position — richtig hinstellen/hinlegen

place an announcement/advertisement in a paper — eine Anzeige/ein Inserat in eine Zeitung setzen

place a bet — auf ein Pferd wetten

2) (fig.)

place one's trust in somebody/something — sein Vertrauen auf od. in jemanden/etwas setzen

he places happiness above all other things — Glück steht für ihn an erster Stelle

3) in p.p. (situated) gelegen

a badly placed window — ein Fenster an einer ungünstigen Stelle

we are well placed for buses/shops — etc. wir haben es nicht weit zur Bushaltestelle/zum Einkaufen usw.

how are you placed for time/money? — (coll.) wie steht's mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld?

4) (find situation or home for) unterbringen ( with bei)

place somebody under somebody's care — jemanden in jemandes Obhut geben

5) (class, identify) einordnen; einstufen

I've seen him before but I can't place him — ich habe ihn schon einmal gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht, wo ich ihn unterbringen soll

be placed second in the race — im Rennen den zweiten Platz belegen

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n.

Ort -e m.

Ortschaft f.

Platzierung f.

Plazierung (alt.Rechtschreibung) f.

Plazierung f.

Stelle -n f.

Stätte -n f. v.

platzieren v.

plazieren (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

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12 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
13 best

I 1. [best]
aggettivo (superl. di 1.good)

1) (most excellent) (il) migliore

the best idea he's ever had — la migliore idea che abbia mai avuto

the best thing about sth., about doing — il lato migliore di qcs., del fare

to taste, smell best — avere un ottimo sapore, odore

this wine is best served chilled — questo vino va servito freddo

she looks best in black — sta benissimo in nero

she speaks the best French — parla francese meglio di tutti

my best dress — il mio vestito più bello

"best before end May" — "da consumarsi preferibilmente entro (la) fine (di) maggio"

2) (most competent) (il) migliore

the award for best actress — il premio per la migliore attrice

I'm best at English — la materia in cui riesco meglio è l'inglese

she's best at guitar — lo strumento che suona meglio è la chitarra

may the best man win! — che vinca il migliore!

3) (most suitable) [tool, way, time, idea] migliore

the best person for the job — la persona più adatta per il lavoro

the best thing to do — la cosa migliore da fare
2.
nome

1) (most pleasing)

the best — il migliore, la migliore, il meglio

it's the best of the stories — è la migliore delle storie

I think we've had the best of the day — penso che per oggi abbiamo fatto tanto

to look, taste, smell the best — avere un ottimo aspetto, sapore, odore

2) (of the highest quality)

the best there is — il meglio che ci sia

the best of its kind — il migliore nel suo genere

it's not her best — (of book, play) non è la sua cosa migliore

only the best is good enough for me — voglio solo il meglio

3) (most competent)

the best — il migliore, la migliore

she's one of the best — è una delle migliori

to be the best at — essere il migliore in [subject, game]

who's the best at drawing? — chi è il più bravo a disegnare?

4) (most appropriate)

the best — il migliore, la migliore, il meglio

it's the best I've got — è il meglio che ho

it's for the best — (recommending course of action) è la soluzione migliore; (of something done) è andata bene così

it's not the best of times to do — non è il momento migliore per fare

5) (most favourable)

the best — il meglio

the best we can hope for — il meglio che si possa sperare

at best — nella migliore delle ipotesi

he's a difficult man at the best of times — già normalmente è difficile andare d'accordo con lui

to make the best of things — fare buon viso a cattivo gioco

6) (peak)

to be at its best — [ wine] essere perfetto; [city, landscape] essere al meglio

this is modern art at its best — questa è la massima espressione dell'arte moderna

to be at one's best — essere nella forma migliore

he's at his best playing villains — dà il meglio di sé nella parte del cattivo

this is Austen at her best — questa è la Austen al suo meglio

7) (greatest personal effort)

to do one's best to do — fare del proprio meglio per fare

is that the best you can do? — è questo il meglio che puoi fare?

to get the best out of — tirar fuori il meglio da [pupil, worker]

to bring out the best in sb. — [crisis, suffering] tirare fuori il meglio di qcn

8) (most advantageous part)

the best of it is — la cosa più bella è

to get the best of — guadagnare il massimo da [deal, bargain]

9) (good clothes)

(dressed) in one's Sunday best — con il vestito buono, con il vestito della domenica

10) (good wishes)

all the best! — (good luck) buona fortuna! (cheers) alla salute!

all the best, Ellie — (in letter) cari saluti, Ellie

wishing you all the best on your retirement — i migliori auguri per il Suo pensionamento

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it happens to the best of us — (mishap, failure) capita anche nelle migliori famiglie; (death) sono sempre i migliori che se ne vanno
II [best]
avverbio (superl. di 2.well) meglio

to behave, hear best — comportarsi, sentire meglio

the best qualified — il meglio qualificato

the best organized person — la persona meglio organizzata

the best prepared — il più preparato

the best loved woman — la donna più amata

to like sth. best (of all) — preferire qcs. (in assoluto)

best of all — meglio ancora

to do best — riuscire, fare meglio

you'd best do — colloq. faresti meglio a fare

such advice is best ignored — è meglio ignorare questo consiglio

you know best — tu te ne intendi
III [best]
verbo transitivo (in argument) avere la meglio su, spuntarla su [ person]; (in struggle) avere la meglio su, battere [ opponent]

* * *
[best] 1. adjective, pronoun
((something which is) good to the greatest extent: the best book on the subject; the best (that) I can do; She is my best friend; Which method is (the) best?; The flowers are at their best just now.) migliore, il migliore
2. adverb
(in the best manner: She sings best (of all).) meglio
3. verb
(to defeat: He was bested in the argument.) avere la meglio su

- best man
- bestseller
- the best part of
- do one's best
- for the best
- get the best of
- make the best of it
* * *
I 1. [best]
aggettivo (superl. di 1.good)

1) (most excellent) (il) migliore

the best idea he's ever had — la migliore idea che abbia mai avuto

the best thing about sth., about doing — il lato migliore di qcs., del fare

to taste, smell best — avere un ottimo sapore, odore

this wine is best served chilled — questo vino va servito freddo

she looks best in black — sta benissimo in nero

she speaks the best French — parla francese meglio di tutti

my best dress — il mio vestito più bello

"best before end May" — "da consumarsi preferibilmente entro (la) fine (di) maggio"

2) (most competent) (il) migliore

the award for best actress — il premio per la migliore attrice

I'm best at English — la materia in cui riesco meglio è l'inglese

she's best at guitar — lo strumento che suona meglio è la chitarra

may the best man win! — che vinca il migliore!

3) (most suitable) [tool, way, time, idea] migliore

the best person for the job — la persona più adatta per il lavoro

the best thing to do — la cosa migliore da fare
2.
nome

1) (most pleasing)

the best — il migliore, la migliore, il meglio

it's the best of the stories — è la migliore delle storie

I think we've had the best of the day — penso che per oggi abbiamo fatto tanto

to look, taste, smell the best — avere un ottimo aspetto, sapore, odore

2) (of the highest quality)

the best there is — il meglio che ci sia

the best of its kind — il migliore nel suo genere

it's not her best — (of book, play) non è la sua cosa migliore

only the best is good enough for me — voglio solo il meglio

3) (most competent)

the best — il migliore, la migliore

she's one of the best — è una delle migliori

to be the best at — essere il migliore in [subject, game]

who's the best at drawing? — chi è il più bravo a disegnare?

4) (most appropriate)

the best — il migliore, la migliore, il meglio

it's the best I've got — è il meglio che ho

it's for the best — (recommending course of action) è la soluzione migliore; (of something done) è andata bene così

it's not the best of times to do — non è il momento migliore per fare

5) (most favourable)

the best — il meglio

the best we can hope for — il meglio che si possa sperare

at best — nella migliore delle ipotesi

he's a difficult man at the best of times — già normalmente è difficile andare d'accordo con lui

to make the best of things — fare buon viso a cattivo gioco

6) (peak)

to be at its best — [ wine] essere perfetto; [city, landscape] essere al meglio

this is modern art at its best — questa è la massima espressione dell'arte moderna

to be at one's best — essere nella forma migliore

he's at his best playing villains — dà il meglio di sé nella parte del cattivo

this is Austen at her best — questa è la Austen al suo meglio

7) (greatest personal effort)

to do one's best to do — fare del proprio meglio per fare

is that the best you can do? — è questo il meglio che puoi fare?

to get the best out of — tirar fuori il meglio da [pupil, worker]

to bring out the best in sb. — [crisis, suffering] tirare fuori il meglio di qcn

8) (most advantageous part)

the best of it is — la cosa più bella è

to get the best of — guadagnare il massimo da [deal, bargain]

9) (good clothes)

(dressed) in one's Sunday best — con il vestito buono, con il vestito della domenica

10) (good wishes)

all the best! — (good luck) buona fortuna! (cheers) alla salute!

all the best, Ellie — (in letter) cari saluti, Ellie

wishing you all the best on your retirement — i migliori auguri per il Suo pensionamento

••

it happens to the best of us — (mishap, failure) capita anche nelle migliori famiglie; (death) sono sempre i migliori che se ne vanno
II [best]
avverbio (superl. di 2.well) meglio

to behave, hear best — comportarsi, sentire meglio

the best qualified — il meglio qualificato

the best organized person — la persona meglio organizzata

the best prepared — il più preparato

the best loved woman — la donna più amata

to like sth. best (of all) — preferire qcs. (in assoluto)

best of all — meglio ancora

to do best — riuscire, fare meglio

you'd best do — colloq. faresti meglio a fare

such advice is best ignored — è meglio ignorare questo consiglio

you know best — tu te ne intendi
III [best]
verbo transitivo (in argument) avere la meglio su, spuntarla su [ person]; (in struggle) avere la meglio su, battere [ opponent]

English-Italian dictionary > best
14 Language

   1) The Book of Nature Is Written in the Language of Mathematics

   Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)

   2) Arranging Speech so as to Reply Appropriately

   It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)

   3) No Other Animal Has the Language Capacity of the Human

   It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)

   4) Human Beings Do Not Live Only in the World of Objects

   Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reﬂection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)

   5) Language Powerfully Conditions All Our Thinking

   It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)

   6) A List of Language Games

   [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]

   Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it

   Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another

   LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)

   7) Language Constrains Certain Modes of Interpretation

   We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic ﬂux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)

   8) We Dissect Nature in Accordance with Our Native Languages

   We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.

   The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic ﬂux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)

   9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language

   The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)

    10) The Analysis of Certain Types of Utterances

   It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)

    11) The Dictionary of a Language Is a System of Concepts

   In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)

    12) Talk about the Evolution of the Language Capacity is Beside the Point

   In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)

    13) The Development of Language

   [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chieﬂy governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)

    14) Sentential and Conceptual Levels in Language

   he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.

   The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)

    15) Linguistic Realities Have Not Yet Been Captured by Theoretical Models

   The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.

   But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)

    16) The Final Steps to Human Language

   The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)

    17) The Inadequacy of Formal Linguistic Models for Ordinary Language Usage

    t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)

    18) When a Language Is an Abstract Machine

   A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)

    19) Metaphor and Metonymy Underpin the Formation of Linguistic Signs

   Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)

    20) Language and the Analysis of Nature

   It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)

    21) Correspondence Rules for Mapping Old Theory into Subsets of New Theory

   First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....

   Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)

    22) The Inclusion of Non- linguistic Factors in a Theory of Grammar

   If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)

    23) Language Is Inevitably Inﬂuenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction

   Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)

    24) The Genetic Blueprints of Language

   By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)

    25) Languages Are Machines

   Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language
15 place

[pleɪs] n

1) ( location) Ort m;

I hate busy \places ich hasse Orte, an denen viel los ist;

the hotel was one of those big, old-fashioned \places das Hotel war eines dieser großen altmodischen Häuser;

we're staying at a bed-and-breakfast \place wir übernachten in einer Frühstückspension;

let's go to a pizza \place lass uns eine Pizza essen gehen;

this is the exact \place! das ist genau die Stelle!;

this plant needs a warm, sunny \place diese Pflanze sollte an einem warmen, sonnigen Ort stehen;

Scotland is a very nice \place Schottland ist ein tolles Land ( fam)

that café is a nice \place dieses Café ist echt nett ( fam)

a nice little \place at the seaside ein netter kleiner Ort am Meer;

please put this book back in its \place bitte stell dieses Buch wieder an seinen Platz zurück;

this is the \place my mother was born hier wurde meine Mutter geboren;

sorry, I can't be in two \places at once tut mir leid, ich kann nicht überall gleichzeitig sein;

\place of birth Geburtsort m;

\place of death Sterbeort m;

\place of refuge Zufluchtsort m;

\place of residence Wohnort m;

a \place in the sun ( fig) ein Plätzchen an der Sonne;

\place of work Arbeitsplatz m, Arbeitsstätte f;

to go \places (Am) weit herumkommen, viel sehen;

in \places stellenweise;

this plant still exists in \places diese Pflanze kommt noch vereinzelt vor

2) no pl ( appropriate setting) [geeigneter] Ort;

this meeting isn't the \place to discuss individual cases diese Konferenz ist nicht der Ort, um Einzelfälle zu diskutieren;

university was not the \place for me die Universität war irgendwie nicht mein Ding ( fam)

that bar is not a \place for a woman like you Frauen wie du haben in solch einer Bar nichts verloren

3) ( home)

I'm looking for a \place to live ich bin auf Wohnungssuche;

we'll have a meeting at my \place/Susan's \place wir treffen uns bei mir/bei Susan;

where's your \place? wo wohnst du? ( fam);

your \place or mine? zu dir oder zu mir?;

they're trying to buy a larger \place wir sind auf der Suche nach einer größeren Wohnung;

4) (fig: position, rank) Stellung f;

she's got friends in high \places sie hat Freunde in hohen Positionen;

they have a \place among the country's leading exporters sie zählen zu den führenden Exporteuren des Landes;

it's not your \place to tell me what to do es steht dir nicht zu, mir zu sagen, was ich zu tun habe;

I'm not criticizing you - I know my \place das ist keine Kritik - das würde ich doch nie wagen!;

to keep sb in their \place jdn in seine Schranken weisen;

to put sb in his/her \place [or show sb his/her \place] jdm zeigen, wo es lang geht ( fam)

5) ( instead of)

in \place of stattdessen;

you can use margarine in \place of butter statt Butter kannst du auch Margarine nehmen;

I invited Jo in \place of Les, who was ill Les war krank, daher habe ich Jo eingeladen

6) ( proper position)

to be in \place an seinem Platz sein;

(fig: completed) fertig [o abgeschlossen] sein;

the chairs were all in \place die Stühle waren alle dort, wo sie sein sollten; ( fig)

the arrangements are all in \place now die Vorbereitungen sind jetzt abgeschlossen; ( fig)

the new laws are now in \place die neuen Gesetze gelten jetzt; ( fig)

suddenly all fell into \place plötzlich machte alles Sinn;

to be out of \place nicht an der richtigen Stelle sein; person fehl am Platz[e] sein; ( fig)

the large desk was totally out of \place in such a small room der große Schreibtisch war in solch einem kleinen Zimmer völlig deplatziert;

what you've just said was completely out of \place was du da gerade gesagt hast, war völlig unangebracht;

to push sth in \place etw in die richtige Position schieben

7) math ( in decimals) Stelle f;

to five \places of decimals bis auf fünf Stellen hinter dem Komma

8) (job, position) Stelle f; ( in team) Platz m; ( at university) Studienplatz m;

your \place is here by my side du gehörst an meine Seite;

to take the \place of sb jds Platz m einnehmen

9) ( in book) Stelle f;

to find one's \place die [richtige] Stelle wiederfinden;

to keep one's \place markieren, wo man gerade ist/war;

to lose one's \place die Seite verblättern[, wo man gerade war];

( on page) nicht mehr wissen, wo man gerade ist

10) ( seat) Platz m;

is this \place taken? ist dieser Platz noch frei?;

to change \places with sb mit jdm die Plätze tauschen;

to keep sb's \place [or save sb a \place] jdm den Platz freihalten;

to lay a/another \place ein/noch ein Gedeck auflegen;

to take one's \place at table Platz nehmen

11) ( position) Stelle f;

just put yourself in my \place versetzen Sie sich doch mal in meine Lage!;

if I were in your \place... ich an deiner Stelle...;

what would you do in my \place? was würden Sie an meiner Stelle tun?

12) ( ranking) Platz m, Position f;

the song went from tenth to second \place in the charts das Lied stieg vom zehnten auf den zweiten Platz in den Charts;

our team finished in second \place unsere Mannschaft wurde Zweiter;

to take [or ( esp Brit) get] first/second \place Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden;

to take first/second \place ( fig) an erster/zweiter Stelle kommen;

their children always take first \place ihre Kinder stehen für sie immer an erster Stelle;

in second \place auf dem zweiten Platz

13) sports

to get a \place sich akk platzieren;

(Am) Zweite(r) werden

14) (Am) (fam: somewhere)

I know I left that book some \place ich weiß, dass ich das Buch irgendwo gelassen habe

PHRASES:

there is a \place and time for everything alles zu seiner Zeit;

all over the \place ( everywhere) überall;

( badly organized) [völlig] chaotisch;

( spread around) in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerstreut;

in the first \place ( at first) zuerst;

( at all) überhaupt;

we shouldn't have got married in the first \place! wir hätten erst gar nicht heiraten dürfen!;

but why didn't you say that in the first \place? aber warum hast du denn das nicht gleich gesagt?;

in the first/second \place (firstly, secondly) erstens/zweitens;

to give \place to sb/ sth jdm/etw Platz machen;

to go \places ( fam) auf dem Weg nach oben sein;

to take \place stattfinden;

a \place for everything and everything in its \place (and everything in its \place) jedes Ding hat seinen Platz vt

1) ( position)

to \place sth somewhere etw irgendwohin stellen;

( lay) etw irgendwohin legen;

bowls of flowers had been \placed on tables auf den Tischen waren Blumenvasen aufgestellt;

the Chancellor \placed a wreath on the tomb der Kanzler legte einen Kranz auf das Grab nieder;

she \placed her name on the list sie setzte ihren Namen auf die Liste;

he \placed his hand on my shoulder er legte mir die Hand auf die Schulter;

to \place an advertisement in the newspaper eine Anzeige in die Zeitung setzen;

to \place sth on the agenda etw auf die Tagesordnung setzen;

to \place a bet on sth auf etw akk wetten;

to \place sb under sb's care jdn in jds Obhut f geben;

to \place a comma ein Komma setzen;

to \place one foot in front of the other einen Fuß vor den anderen setzen;

to \place a gun at sb's head jdn eine Pistole an den Kopf setzen;

to \place money on sth Geld auf etw akk setzen;

to be \placed shop, town liegen

2) ( impose)

to \place an embargo on sb/ sth über jdn/etw ein Embargo verhängen;

to \place a limit [or ceiling] on sth etw begrenzen;

to \place ten pounds/ half a million on sth etw mit zehn Pfund/einer halben Million veranschlagen

3) ( ascribe)

to \place the blame on sb jdm die Schuld geben;

to \place one's faith [or trust] in sb/ sth sein Vertrauen in jdn/etw setzen;

to \place one's hopes on sb/ sth seine Hoffnungen auf jdn/etw setzen;

to \place importance on sth auf etw akk Wert legen;

... and she \placed the emphasis on the word ‘soon’... und die Betonung lag auf ‚schnell‘;

he \placed stress on every second syllable er betonte jede zweite Silbe

4) ( arrange for)

to \place a call ein Telefongespräch anmelden;

to \place sth at sb's disposal jdm etw überlassen

5) ( appoint to a position)

to \place sb/ sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwo unterbringen [o ( SCHWEIZ) platzieren];

to \place sb on [the] alert jdn in Alarmbereitschaft versetzen;

to \place sb under arrest jdn festnehmen;

to \place sb in charge [of sth] jdm die Leitung [von etw dat] übertragen;

to \place sb in jeopardy jdn in Gefahr bringen;

to \place sb under pressure jdn unter Druck setzen;

to \place a strain on sb/ sth jdn/etw belasten;

to \place sb under surveillance jdn unter Beobachtung stellen;

the town was \placed under the control of UN peacekeeping troops die Stadt wurde unter die Aufsicht der UN-Friedenstruppen gestellt

6) ( recognize)

to \place sb/ sth face, person, voice, accent jdn/etw einordnen

7) (categorize, rank)

to \place sb/ sth jdn/etw einordnen;

to be \placed sports sich akk platzieren;

(Am) unter die ersten zwei kommen;

to be \placed first/ second sports Erste(r)/Zweite(r) werden;

to \place sth above [or before] [or over] sth etw über etw akk stellen;

sb \places sth above all other things etw steht bei jdm an erster Stelle;

I'd \place him among the world's ten most brilliant scientists für mich ist er einer der zehn hervorragendsten Wissenschaftler der Welt;

they \placed the painting in the Renaissance sie ordneten das Bild der Renaissance zu

8) econ

to \place sth goods etw absetzen;

to \place an order for sth etw bestellen;

to \place an order with a firm einer Firma einen Auftrag erteilen

9) passive ( good position)

to be well \placed for sth für etw akk eine gute Ausgangsposition haben;

we're well \placed for the shops wir haben es nicht weit zum Einkaufen ( fam)

to be well \placed financially finanziell gut dastehen;

to be well \placed to watch sth von seinem Platz aus etw gut sehen können

10) passive ( have at disposal)

to be well \placed for sth;

how \placed are you for time/money? wie sieht es mit deiner Zeit/deinem Geld aus? vi sports sich akk platzieren;

(Am a.) ( finish second) Zweite(r) werden

English-German students dictionary > place
16 get

ɡet
past tense - got; verb

1) (to receive or obtain: I got a letter this morning.) recibir

2) (to bring or buy: Please get me some food.) traer, ir a buscar, procurar; comprar

3) (to (manage to) move, go, take, put etc: He couldn't get across the river; I got the book down from the shelf.) ir, cruzar, atravesar; tomar

4) (to cause to be in a certain condition etc: You'll get me into trouble.) meter, arrastrar, poner

5) (to become: You're getting old.) hacerse (por ej. mayor), volverse, convertirse

6) (to persuade: I'll try to get him to go.) convencer, persuadir

7) (to arrive: When did they get home?) llegar

8) (to succeed (in doing) or to happen (to do) something: I'll soon get to know the neighbours; I got the book read last night.) conseguir, llegar a, lograr

9) (to catch (a disease etc): She got measles last week.) coger, pillar, cazar, agarrar, contraer

10) (to catch (someone): The police will soon get the thief.) atrapar, coger

11) (to understand: I didn't get the point of his story.) coger, pillar, comprender, entender

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- getaway
- get-together
- get-up
- be getting on for
- get about
- get across
- get after
- get ahead
- get along
- get around
- get around to
- get at
- get away
- get away with
- get back
- get by
- get down
- get down to
- get in
- get into
- get nowhere
- get off
- get on
- get on at
- get out
- get out of
- get over
- get round
- get around to
- get round to
- get there
- get through
- get together
- get up
- get up to

get vb

1. comprar

I'll get some cheese from the supermarket compraré queso en el supermercado

2. coger / tomar

he gets the five o'clock train coge el tren de las cinco

3. recibir / conseguir

we got a postcard from Helen recibimos una postal de Helen

he got a violin for Christmas le regalaron un violín para Navidad

4. llevarse

I got a surprise when I opened the door me llevé una sorpresa cuando abrí la puerta

5. hacer / ponerse

it's getting late se está haciendo tarde

he got angry se puso furioso

she soon got better enseguida se puso mejor

we're all getting older todos nos estamos haciendo más viejos

6. traer

could you get me a coffee, please? ¿me puedes traer un café, por favor?

7. buscar / recoger

I'm going to get the car from the garage voy a buscar el coche al taller

8. llegar

what time did you get home? ¿a qué hora llegaste a casa?

how do you get to the restaurant? ¿cómo se va al restaurante?

to get dressed vestirse

to get lost perderse

to get married casarse

to get old envejecer

to get ready prepararse

to get somebody to do something conseguir que alguien haga algo

she got him to help her when she moved flat consiguió que la ayudara cuando se mudó de piso

to get to know someone llegar a conocer a alguien

to get used to something acostumbrarse a algo

to get wet mojarse

El pasado y participio pasado de get es got; el gerundio se escribe getting

get

tr[get]

transitive verb (pt got tr[gɒt], pp got tr[gɒt] (|us| gotten tr['gɒtən]), ger getting)

1 obtener, conseguir

■ I want to get a job quiero conseguir un trabajo

■ she got £1,000 for her car le dieron mil libras por su coche

■ he got a bank loan le concedieron un crédito bancario

■ what did you get in maths? ¿qué sacaste en mates?

2 recibir

■ I got your letter yesterday recibí tu carta ayer

■ I got a bike for my birthday me regalaron una bici para mi cumpleaños

■ I got the sack me despidieron

■ he got a life sentence for murder le echaron cadena perpetua por asesinato

■ how did you get that cut? ¿cómo te hiciste ese corte?

3 comprar

■ where did you get your jeans? ¿dónde compraste tus vaqueros?

■ I've got him a CD le he comprado un compact

■ she got herself a new dress se compró un vestido nuevo

4 traer

■ get the car traiga el coche

■ get the fire brigade llama a los bomberos

■ I've got to go and get Liam tengo que ir a buscar a Liam

5 coger

■ she got the flu cogió la gripe

■ he always gets a taxi when it rains siempre coge un taxi cuando llueve

6 captar, recibir, coger

7 pedir, decir; persuadir, convencer

■ get your brother to help you pídele a tu hermano que te ayude

■ get him to phone me dile que me llame

■ can you get her to lend us the money? ¿puedes convencerla para que nos deje el dinero?

8 preparar

■ can I get you something to eat? ¿te preparo algo para comer?

9 familiar entender, captar, coger

■ I don't get it no lo entiendo

10 familiar poner nervioso,-a, fastidiar

■ what really gets me is his laziness lo que me fastidia es su pereza

■ this bad weather gets on my nerves este mal tiempo me pone de mal humor

11 ganar, cobrar

■ he gets a good salary gana un buen sueldo

12 poner con; contestar, atender, coger; abrir

■ can you get me the Embassy Hotel? ¿me puede poner con el Hotel Embassy?

13 conseguir, lograr

■ I can't get the car to start no consigo arrancar el coche

14 hacer algo a uno

■ she loves getting her hair done le encanta que le arreglen el pelo

■ he got his car repaired in no time le repararon el coche en un santiamén

15 dar, alcanzar

■ she got hit by a stray bullet le alcanzó una bala perdida

intransitive verb

1 ponerse, volverse

■ she gets very angry if we're late se pone furiosa si llegamos tarde

2 ir

■ how do you get there? ¿cómo se va hasta allí?

■ can you get there by bus? ¿se puede ir en autobús?

transitive verb

1 figurative use ir, llevar

■ this isn't getting us anywhere esto no nos lleva a ninguna parte

■ where do you think she's got to? ¿dónde crees que se ha metido?

intransitive verb

1 llegar

■ we'll get there soon pronto llegaremos

■ how did you get home? ¿cómo llegaste a casa?

2 llegar a

■ you'll get to like it in the end acabará gustándote

■ I got to know him very well llegué a conocerlo muy bien

3 llegar a

■ we never got to visiting the museum no llegamos a visitar el museo

■ I get to travel quite a bit in my job tengo la oportunidad de viajar bastante en mi trabajo

4 empezar a

■ we got talking empezamos a hablar, nos pusimos a hablar

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

get along with you! ¡déjate de bobadas!, ¡no seas bobo,-a!

to get along without something pasar sin algo

■ we can get along without a dishwasher nos podemos pasar sin un lavaplatos

to get better mejorar

to get dark oscurecer

to get dirty ensuciarse

to get divorced divorciarse

to get down on one's knees arrodillarse

to get dressed vestirse

to get drunk emborracharse

to get into trouble meterse en un lío

to get late hacerse tarde

to get lost perderse

to get married casarse

to get old hacerse mayor, envejecer

to get on somebody's nerves irritar a alguien, poner nervioso,-a a alguien

to get one's own way salirse con la suya

to get paid cobrar

to get ready preparar, prepararse

to get rid of deshacerse de

to get tired cansarse

to get wet mojarse

to get worse empeorar

get ['gɛt] v, got ['gɑt] ; got or gotten ['gɑtə n] ; getting vt

1) obtain: conseguir, obtener, adquirir

2) receive: recibir

to get a letter: recibir una carta

3) earn: ganar

he gets $10 an hour: gana $10 por hora

4) fetch: traer

get me my book: tráigame el libro

5) catch: tomar (un tren, etc.), agarrar (una pelota, una persona, etc.)

6) contract: contagiarse de, contraer

she got the measles: le dio el sarampión

7) prepare: preparar (una comida)

8) persuade: persuadir, mandar a hacer

I got him to agree: logré convencerlo

9) (to cause to be)

to get one's hair cut: cortarse el pelo

10) understand: entender

now I get it!: ¡ya entiendo!

11)

to have got : tener

I've got a headache: tengo un dolor de cabeza

12)

to have got to : tener que

you've got to come: tienes que venir

get vi

1) become: ponerse, volverse, hacerse

to get angry: ponerse furioso, enojarse

2) go, move: ir, avanzar

he didn't get far: no avanzó mucho

3) arrive: llegar

to get home: llegar a casa

4)

to get to be : llegar a ser

she got to be the director: llegó a ser directora

5)

to get ahead : adelantarse, progresar

6)

to get along : llevarse bien (con alguien), congeniar

7)

to get by manage: arreglárselas

8)

to get over overcome: superar, consolarse de

9)

to get together meet: reunirse

10)

to get up : levantarse

get (s.o.) down

expr.

• desmoralizar v. (Profits, etc.)

v.

(§ p.,p.p.: got) or p.p.: gotten•) = lucrarse v. (Understand)

v.

• comprender v.

v.

(§ p.,p.p.: got) or p.p.: gotten•) = adquirir v.

• alcanzar v.

• buscar v.

• coger v.

• ganar v.

• lograr v.

• obtener v.

(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-

fut/c: -tendr-•)

• procurar v.

• recibir v.

• sacar v.

• tomar v.

get
1.

1) (pres p getting; past got; past p got or AmE also gotten) transitive verb

Sense I

2)

a) ( obtain) \<\<money/information\>\> conseguir*, obtener*; \<\<job/staff\>\> conseguir*; \<\<authorization/loan\>\> conseguir*, obtener*; \<\<idea\>\> sacar*

where did you get that beautiful rug? — ¿dónde conseguiste or encontraste esa alfombra tan preciosa?

these pears are as good as you'll get, I'm afraid — estas peras son de lo mejorcito que hay (fam)

the public can't get enough of her — el público no se cansa de ella

to get something from somebody/something: we get our information from official sources sacamos la información de fuentes oficiales; you can get any information from my secretary — mi secretaria le podrá dar toda la información que necesite

b) ( buy) comprar

to get something from somebody/something: I get my bread from the local baker le compro el pan al panadero del barrio; I got it from Harrods lo compré en Harrods; we get them from Italy — ( they supply our business) los traen de Italia

c) (achieve, win) \<\<prize/grade\>\> sacar*, obtener* (frml); \<\<majority\>\> obtener* (frml), conseguir*

he gets results — consigue or logra lo que se propone

d) ( by calculation)

divide 27 by 3 and you get 9 — si divides 27 por 3 te dará 9

got it! — ya sé!

e) ( on the telephone) \<\<person\>\> lograr comunicarse con

I got the wrong number — me equivoqué de número; ( having dialled correctly) me salió un número equivocado

3)

a) ( receive) \<\<letter/reward/reprimand\>\> recibir

I got a stereo for my birthday — me regalaron un estéreo para mi cumpleaños

do I get a kiss, then? — ¿entonces me das un beso?

he got 12 years for armed robbery — lo condenaron a or (fam) le cayeron 12 años por robo a mano armada

to get something from somebody: all I ever get from you is criticism lo único que haces es criticarme; she got a warm reception from the audience el público le dio una cálida bienvenida; I do all the work and she gets all the credit yo hago todo el trabajo y ella se lleva la fama; I seldom get the chance rara vez se me presenta la oportunidad; the kitchen doesn't get much sun — en la cocina no da mucho el sol

b) (Rad, TV) \<\<station\>\> captar, recibir, coger* (esp Esp fam), agarrar (CS fam)

c) ( be paid) \<\<salary/pay\>\> ganar

I got £200 for the piano — me dieron 200 libras por el piano

d) ( experience) \<\<shock/surprise\>\> llevarse

I get the feeling that... — tengo or me da la sensación de que...

e) ( suffer)

how did you get that bump on your head? — ¿cómo te hiciste ese chichón en la cabeza?

she got a splinter in her finger — se clavó una astilla en el dedo

he got the full force of the blast — recibió todo el impacto de la explosión

4) (find, have) (colloq)

you don't get elephants in America — en América no hay elefantes

we get mainly students in here — nuestros clientes (or visitantes etc) son mayormente estudiantes

5) ( fetch) \<\<hammer/scissors\>\> traer*, ir* a buscar; \<\<doctor/plumber\>\> llamar

get your coat — anda or vete a buscar tu abrigo

she got herself a cup of coffee — se sirvió (or se hizo etc) una taza de café

6)

a) ( reach) alcanzar*

b) ( take hold of) agarrar, coger* (esp Esp)

c) (catch, trap) pillar (fam), agarrar (AmL), coger* (esp Esp)

d) (assault, kill) (colloq)

I'll get you yet! — ya me las vas a pagar! (fam)

the sharks must have got him — se lo deben de haber comido los tiburones (fam)

7) ( contract) \<\<cold/flu\>\> agarrar, pescar* (fam), pillar (fam), coger* (esp Esp)

she got chickenpox from her sister — la hermana le contagió or (fam) le pegó la varicela

8) ( catch) \<\<busain\>\> tomar, coger* (Esp)

9) (colloq)

a) ( irritate) fastidiar

b) ( arouse pity)

it gets you right there — (set phrase) te conmueve, te da mucha lástima

c) ( puzzle)

what gets me is how... — lo que no entiendo es cómo...

10)

a) ( understand) (colloq) entender*

don't get me wrong — no me malentiendas or malinterpretes

get it? — ¿entiendes?, ¿agarras or (Esp) coges la onda? (fam)

b) (hear, take note of) oír*

I didn't get your name — no entendí tu nombre

did you get the number? — ¿tomaste nota del número?

11) ( answer) (colloq) \<\<phone\>\> contestar, atender*, coger* (Esp); \<\<door\>\> abrir*

12) ( possess)

to have got — see have

Sense II

13) (bring, move, put) (+ adv compl)

we'll get it there by two o'clock — lo tendremos allí antes de las dos

just wait till I get you home! — ya vas a ver cuando lleguemos a casa!

they couldn't get it up the stairs — no lo pudieron subir por las escaleras; see also get across, get in

14) ( cause to be) (+ adj compl)

he got the children ready — preparó a los niños

I can't get the window open/shut — no puedo abrir/cerrar la ventana

they got their feet wet/dirty — se mojaron/se ensuciaron los pies

15) to get somebody/something + pp

a) ( with action carried out by subject)

we must get some work done — tenemos que trabajar un poco

it's about time they got themselves organized — ya va siendo hora de que se organicen

b) ( with action carried out by somebody else)

he got the house painted — hizo pintar la casa

I must get this watch fixed — tengo que llevar a or (AmL tb) mandar (a) arreglar este reloj

16) (arrange, persuade, force)

to get somebody/something to + inf: I'll get him to help you ( order) le diré que te ayude; ( ask) le pediré que te ayude; ( persuade) lo convenceré de que te ayude; she could never get him to understand no podría hacérselo entender; you'll never get them to agree to that no vas a lograr que acepten eso; I can't get it to work — no puedo hacerlo funcionar

17) ( cause to start)

to get somebody/something -ing: it's the sort of record that gets everybody dancing es el tipo de disco que hace bailar a todo el mundo or que hace que todo el mundo baile; can you get the pump working? — ¿puedes hacer funcionar la bomba?

2.

get vi

1) ( reach) (+ adv compl) llegar*

I got here yesterday — llegué ayer

can you get there by train? — ¿se puede ir en tren?

how do you get to work? — ¿cómo vas al trabajo?

can anyone remember where we'd got to? — ¿alguien se acuerda de dónde habíamos quedado?

to get nowhere, not to get anywhere — see nowhere I 1), anywhere I 1) b)

to get somewhere — avanzar*, adelantar

we're finally getting somewhere! — por fin estamos sacando algo en limpio!

to get there: it's not perfect, but we're getting there — perfecto no es, pero poco a poco...

2)

a) ( become)

to get married — casarse

to get dressed — vestirse*

your dinner's getting cold — se te está enfriando la cena

he got very angry — se puso furioso

they get tired easily — se cansan con facilidad

b) (be) (colloq)

she gets invited to lots of parties — la invitan a muchas fiestas

her bike got stolen — le robaron la bicicleta

3) to get to + inf

a) ( come to) llegar* a + inf

I never really got to know him — nunca llegué a conocerlo de verdad

you'll get to like it eventually — vas a ver como termina por gustarte

b) ( have opportunity to)

in this job you get to meet many interesting people — en este trabajo uno tiene la oportunidad de conocer a mucha gente interesante

when do we get to open the presents? — ¿cuándo podemos abrir los regalos?

4) ( start)

to get -ing — empezar* a + inf, ponerse* a + inf

right, let's get moving! — bueno, pongámonos en acción (or en marcha etc)!

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Phrasal Verbs:

- get about

- get above

- get across

- get ahead

- get along

- get around

- get around to

- get at

- get away

- get away with

- get back

- get back at

- get back to

- get behind

- get by

- get down

- get down to

- get in

- get in on

- get into

- get in with

- get off

- get off on

- get off with

- get on

- get on for

- get onto

- get out

- get out of

- get over

- get past

- get round

- get through

- get to

- get together

- get up

- get up to

[ɡet] (pt, pp got) (US) (pp gotten) When get is part of a set combination, eg get the sack, get hold of, get sth right, look up the other word.
1. TRANSITIVE VERB

1) (=obtain) [+ information, money, visa, divorce] conseguir; [+ benefit] sacar, obtener

I'll get the money somehow — conseguiré el dinero de alguna forma

he had trouble getting a hotel room — tuvo dificultades para conseguir una habitación de hotel

that's what got him the rise — eso fue lo que le consiguió el aumento

• he got it for me — él me lo consiguió

• you need to get permission off or from the owner — tienes que conseguir el permiso del dueño

I got the idea off ** or from a TV programme — saqué la idea de un programa de televisión

he gets all his clothes off ** or from his elder brother — hereda toda la ropa de su hermano mayor

where did you get that idea from? — ¿de dónde sacaste esa idea?

• we shan't get anything out of him — no lograremos sacarle nada

you won't get any money out of me — no vas a sacarme dinero

what are you going to get out of it? — ¿qué vas a sacar de or ganar con ello?

a good coach knows how to get the best out of his players — un buen entrenador sabe cómo sacar lo mejor de sus jugadores

she gets a lot of pleasure out of gardening — disfruta mucho con la jardinería

you may get some fun out of it — puede que te resulte divertido

2) (=have) tener

I go whenever I get the chance — voy siempre que tengo ocasión

to get something to eat — comer algo

3) (=receive)

a) [+ letter, phone call] recibir; [+ wage] ganar, cobrar; [+ TV station, radio station] coger, captar

she gets a good salary — gana or cobra un buen sueldo

not everyone gets a pension — no todo el mundo cobra una pensión

I got lots of presents — me hicieron muchos regalos

I think he got the wrong impression — creo que se ha llevado una impresión equivocada

• how much did you get for it? — ¿cuánto te dieron por él?

he got 15 years for murder — le condenaron a 15 años por asesinato

• he gets his red hair from his mother — el pelo rojizo lo ha heredado de su madre

I didn't get much from the film — la película no me dijo gran cosa

I don't get much from his lectures — saco poco provecho de sus clases
neck 1., 1)
b)
Some get + noun combinations are translated using a more specific Spanish verb. If in doubt, look up the noun.
• I never got an answer — no me contestaron, no recibí nunca una respuesta

• they get lunch at school — les dan de comer en el colegio

• this area doesn't get much rain — en esta área no llueve mucho

• I got a shock/ surprise — me llevé un susto/una sorpresa

• this room gets a lot of sun — a esta habitación le da mucho el sol
fine II, 1., sentence 1., 2)
4) (=buy) comprar

I went out to get some milk — salí a comprar leche

where did you get those shoes? — ¿dónde te has comprado esos zapatos?

• I got it cheap in a sale — lo conseguí barato en unas rebajas

5) (=fetch) [+ glasses, book] ir a buscar, traer; [+ person] ir a buscar, ir a por; (=pick up) [+ goods, person] recoger

would you mind getting my glasses? — ¿te importaría ir a buscarme or traerme las gafas?

can you get my coat from the cleaner's? — ¿puedes recogerme el abrigo de la tintorería?

I'll get some lettuce from the garden — voy a coger un poco de lechuga del jardín

quick, get help! — ¡rápido, ve a buscar ayuda!

to get sth for sb, to get sb sth — ir a buscar algo a algn, traer algo a algn

could you get me the scissors please? — ¿puedes ir a buscarme or me puedes traer las tijeras, por favor?

can I get you a drink? — ¿te apetece beber or tomar algo?, ¿quieres beber or tomar algo?

• to go/ come and get sth/sb, I'll go and get it for you — voy a buscártelo, voy a traértelo

go and get Jane will you? — vete a buscar a Jane, ve a por Jane

phone me when you arrive and I'll come and get you — cuando llegues llama por teléfono y te iré a buscar or recoger

6) (=call) [+ doctor, plumber] llamar

please get the doctor — por favor llame al médico

7) (=answer) [+ phone] contestar

can you get the phone? — ¿puedes contestar el teléfono?

I'll get it! — (telephone) ¡yo contesto!; (door) ¡ya voy yo!

8) (=gain, win) [+ prize] ganar, llevarse, conseguir; [+ goal] marcar; [+ reputation] ganarse

she got first prize — ganó or se llevó or consiguió el primer premio

correct, you get 5 points — correcto, gana or consigue 5 puntos

he's in it for what he can get — lo único que quiere es sacarle provecho

Jackie got good exam results — Jackie sacó buenas notas en los exámenes

he got a pass/an A in French — sacó un aprobado/un sobresaliente en francés

I have to get my degree first — antes tengo que acabar la carrera or conseguir mi diplomatura

9) (=find) [+ job, flat] encontrar, conseguir

he got me a job — me encontró or consiguió un trabajo

you get all sorts in this job — te encuentras con todo tipo de gente en este trabajo

you don't get bears in this country — en este país no hay osos

10) (=catch) [+ ball, disease, person] coger, agarrar (LAm); [+ thief] coger, atrapar (LAm); [+ bus] coger, tomar (LAm); [+ fish] pescar

I'm getting the bus into town — voy a coger el autobús al centro

got you! * — ¡te pillé! *, ¡te cacé! *, ¡te agarré! (LAm)

got you at last! — ¡por fin te he pillado or cazado! *

• I've been trying to get him alone — he estado intentando verle a solas

• to get sb by the throat/arm — agarrar or coger a algn de la garganta/del brazo

• I didn't get the details — no oí los detalles

• sorry, I didn't get your name — perdone, ¿cómo dice que se llama?, perdone, no me he enterado de su nombre

• did you get his (registration) number? — ¿viste el número de matrícula?

• you've got me there! * — ahí sí que me has pillado *

to get it from sb —

he really got it from the teacher * — el profesor le echó un rapapolvo *
bad 3., religion
11) (=reach, put through to)

get me Mr Jones, please — (Telec) póngame or (esp LAm) comuníqueme con el Sr. Jones, por favor

• you'll get him at home if you phone this evening — si le llamas esta tarde lo pillarás * or encontrarás en casa

• you can get me on this number — puedes contactar conmigo en este número

• I've been trying to get you all week — he estado intentando hablar contigo toda la semana

12) * (=attack, take revenge on)

I feel like everyone is out to get me — siento que todo el mundo va contra mí

I'll get you for that! — ¡esto me lo vas a pagar!

they're out to get him — van a cargárselo *

13) (=hit) [+ target] dar en

the bullet got him in the leg — la bala le dio en la pierna

it got him on the head — le dio en la cabeza

14) (=finish)

the drink will get him in the end — la bebida acabará con él al final

15) (=take, bring)

• how can we get it home? — (speaker not at home) ¿cómo podemos llevarlo a casa?; (speaker at home) ¿cómo podemos traerlo a casa?

• I tried to get the blood off my shirt — intenté quitar la sangre de mi camisa

get the knife off him! — ¡quítale ese cuchillo!

• I couldn't get the stain out of the tablecloth — no podía limpiar la mancha del mantel

• to get sth past customs — conseguir pasar algo por la aduana

• we'll get you there somehow — le llevaremos de una u otra manera

• we can't get it through the door — no lo podemos pasar por la puerta

• to get sth to sb — hacer llegar algo a algn

to get the children to bed — meter a los niños en la cama

• where will that get us? — ¿de qué nos sirve eso?

- that will get you/him nowhere

16) (=prepare) [+ meal] preparar, hacer

to get breakfast — preparar or hacer el desayuno

17) with adjective
This construction is often translated using a specific Spanish verb. Look up the relevant adjective.
• he got his leg broken — se rompió la pierna

• to get one's hands dirty — ensuciarse las manos

• to get sb drunk — emborrachar a algn

• to get one's feet wet — mojarse los pies

• you're getting me worried — estás haciendo que me preocupe

18) with infinitive/present participle

to get sb to do sth — (=persuade) conseguir que algn haga algo, persuadir a algn a hacer algo; (=tell) decir a algn que haga algo

we eventually got her to change her mind — por fin conseguimos que cambiase de idea, por fin le persuadimos a cambiar de idea

I'll get him to ring you — le diré que te llame

can you get someone to photocopy these — puedes decirle or mandarle a alguien que me haga una fotocopia de estos

I can't get the door to open — no puedo abrir la puerta, no logro que se abra la puerta

I couldn't get the washing machine to work — no pude or no logré poner la lavadora en marcha

I couldn't get the car going or to go — no pude poner el coche en marcha, no pude arrancar el coche

to get a fire going — conseguir encender un fuego

to get a conversation going — conseguir iniciar una conversación

19) ("get sth done" construction)

a) (=do oneself)

• you'll get yourself arrested looking like that — vas a acabar en la cárcel con esas pintas

• to get the washing/dishes done — lavar la ropa/fregar los platos

we got no work done that day — no hicimos nada de trabajo ese día

• when do you think you'll get it finished? — ¿cuándo crees que lo vas a acabar?

• you'll get yourself killed driving like that — te vas a matar si conduces de esa forma

b) (=get someone to do)

• to get one's hair cut — cortarse el pelo, hacerse cortar el pelo

• he knows how to get things done — sabe organizar muy bien a la gente

• to get sth fixed — arreglar or reparar algo

I've got to get my car fixed this week — tengo que arreglar or reparar el coche esta semana, tengo que llevar el coche a arreglar or reparar esta semana

I should get my teeth fixed — tendría que arreglarme los dientes

• we're going to get central heating put in — vamos a poner or instalar calefacción central

• I must get my car serviced — tengo que llevar el coche a una revisión

20) * (=understand) entender

I don't get you — no te entiendo

(do you) get it? — ¿entiendes?; [+ joke] ¿lo coges?, ¿ya caes? *

I've got it! — [+ joke] ¡ya caigo!, ¡ya lo entiendo!; [+ solution] ¡ya tengo la solución!, ¡ya he dado con la solución!, ¡ya lo tengo!
point 1., 7), wrong
21) * (=annoy) molestar, fastidiar

what gets me is the way he always assumes he's right — lo que me molesta or fastidia es que siempre da por hecho que tiene razón

what really gets me is his total indifference — lo que me molesta or fastidia es su total indiferencia

22) * (=thrill) chiflar *

this tune really gets me — esta melodía me chifla *, esta melodía me apasiona

23)

• to have got sth — (Brit) (=have) tener algo

what have you got there? — ¿qué tienes ahí?

I've got toothache — tengo dolor de muelas

2. INTRANSITIVE VERB

1) (=reach, go) llegar

how do you get there? — ¿como se llega?

he got there late — llegó tarde

how did you get here? — ¿cómo viniste or llegaste?

how did that box get here? — ¿cómo ha venido a parar esta caja aquí?

• I've got as far as page 10 — he llegado hasta la página 10

• he won't get far — no llegará lejos

• to get from A to B — ir de A a B, trasladarse de A a B

• to get home — llegar a casa

• to get to — llegar a

how do you get to the cinema? — ¿cómo se llega al cine?

I'll make sure it gets to you by tomorrow — me aseguraré de que te llegue mañana

where did you get to? — (=where were you?) ¿dónde estabas?, ¿dónde te habías metido?

where can he have got to? — ¿dónde se puede haber metido?

it's a place that's difficult to get to — es un lugar de difícil acceso

not to get anywhere —

you won't get anywhere with him — no conseguirás nada con él

you won't get anywhere if you behave like that — no vas a conseguir nada comportándote así

to get nowhere —

we're getting absolutely nowhere, we're getting nowhere fast — no estamos llegando a ningún sitio

to get somewhere —

now we're getting somewhere — ahora empezamos a hacer progresos

to get there —

"how's your thesis going?" - "I'm getting there" — -¿qué tal va tu tesis? -va avanzando

- get to sb

don't let it get to you * — (=affect) no dejes que te afecte; (=annoy) no te molestes por eso

the whisky has got to him * — el whisky le ha afectado
lane 1., 3)
2) (=become, be) ponerse, volverse, hacerse
As expressions with get + adjective, such as get old, get drunk etc, are often translated by a specific verb, look up the adjective.
• it's getting late — se está haciendo tarde

• how did it get like that? — ¿cómo se ha puesto así?

how do people get like that? — ¿cómo puede la gente volverse así?

• this is getting ridiculous — esto roza los límites de lo ridículo

• how stupid can you get? — ¿hasta qué punto llega tu estupidez?, ¿cómo puedes ser tan estúpido?

• to get used to sth — acostumbrarse a algo

- get with it

you'd better get with it or we'll lose this contract * — espabílate o perderemos este contrato

See:

BECOME, GO, GET in become

3) with past participle

a) (=be)

• he often gets asked for his autograph — a menudo le piden autógrafos

• we got beaten 3-2 — perdimos 3 a 2

• several windows got broken — se rompieron varias ventanas

• to get killed — morir, matarse

I saw her the night she got killed — (accidentally) la vi la noche que murió or se mató; (=murdered) la vi la noche que la asesinaron

do you want to get killed! — ¡¿es que quieres matarte?!

• to get paid — cobrar

• he got run over as he was coming out of his house — lo atropellaron al salir de casa

b) (reflexive action)

• to get shaved — afeitarse

• to get washed — lavarse

4) (=begin) with gerund empezar a + infin, ponerse a + infin

• let's get going — vamos a ponernos en marcha

get going! — ¡muévete!, ¡a menearse!

once she gets going on that subject she never stops — una vez que empieza con ese tema no para

after midnight the party really got going — después de medianoche la fiesta empezó a animarse

• let's get moving — vamos a ponernos en marcha

• we got talking — empezamos a hablar or charlar

• I got to thinking that... * — me di cuenta de que..., empecé a pensar que...

5) (=come)
with infinitive
to get to do sth — llegar a hacer algo

• he eventually got to be prime minister — al final llegó a ser primer ministro

I got to be quite good at it — llegué a hacerlo bastante bien

• when do we get to eat? — ¿cuándo comemos?

• to get to know sb — llegar a conocer a algn

• he got to like her despite her faults — le llegó a gustar a pesar de sus defectos

• so when do I get to meet this friend of yours? — ¿cuándo me vas a presentar a este amigo tuyo?

• I never get to drive the car — nunca tengo oportunidad de conducir el coche

• to get to see sth/sb — lograr ver algo/a algn

6) * (=go)

get! — ¡lárgate! *

7)

to have got to do sth — (expressing obligation) tener que hacer algo

you've got to tell the police — tienes que denunciarlo a la policía

why have I got to? — ¿por qué tengo que hacerlo?

- get about

- get above

- get across

- get after

- get ahead

- get along

- get around

- get at

- get away

- get away with

- get back

- get back at

- get behind

- get by

- get down

- get down to

- get in

- get in on

- get into

- get in with

- get off

- get off on

- get off with

- get on

- get on at

- get on to

- get out

- get out of

- get over

- get round

- get through

- get together

- get under

- get up

- get up to

* * *
[get]
1.

1) (pres p getting; past got; past p got or AmE also gotten) transitive verb

Sense I

2)

a) ( obtain) \<\<money/information\>\> conseguir*, obtener*; \<\<job/staff\>\> conseguir*; \<\<authorization/loan\>\> conseguir*, obtener*; \<\<idea\>\> sacar*

where did you get that beautiful rug? — ¿dónde conseguiste or encontraste esa alfombra tan preciosa?

these pears are as good as you'll get, I'm afraid — estas peras son de lo mejorcito que hay (fam)

the public can't get enough of her — el público no se cansa de ella

to get something from somebody/something: we get our information from official sources sacamos la información de fuentes oficiales; you can get any information from my secretary — mi secretaria le podrá dar toda la información que necesite

b) ( buy) comprar

to get something from somebody/something: I get my bread from the local baker le compro el pan al panadero del barrio; I got it from Harrods lo compré en Harrods; we get them from Italy — ( they supply our business) los traen de Italia

c) (achieve, win) \<\<prize/grade\>\> sacar*, obtener* (frml); \<\<majority\>\> obtener* (frml), conseguir*

he gets results — consigue or logra lo que se propone

d) ( by calculation)

divide 27 by 3 and you get 9 — si divides 27 por 3 te dará 9

got it! — ya sé!

e) ( on the telephone) \<\<person\>\> lograr comunicarse con

I got the wrong number — me equivoqué de número; ( having dialled correctly) me salió un número equivocado

3)

a) ( receive) \<\<letter/reward/reprimand\>\> recibir

I got a stereo for my birthday — me regalaron un estéreo para mi cumpleaños

do I get a kiss, then? — ¿entonces me das un beso?

he got 12 years for armed robbery — lo condenaron a or (fam) le cayeron 12 años por robo a mano armada

to get something from somebody: all I ever get from you is criticism lo único que haces es criticarme; she got a warm reception from the audience el público le dio una cálida bienvenida; I do all the work and she gets all the credit yo hago todo el trabajo y ella se lleva la fama; I seldom get the chance rara vez se me presenta la oportunidad; the kitchen doesn't get much sun — en la cocina no da mucho el sol

b) (Rad, TV) \<\<station\>\> captar, recibir, coger* (esp Esp fam), agarrar (CS fam)

c) ( be paid) \<\<salary/pay\>\> ganar

I got £200 for the piano — me dieron 200 libras por el piano

d) ( experience) \<\<shock/surprise\>\> llevarse

I get the feeling that... — tengo or me da la sensación de que...

e) ( suffer)

how did you get that bump on your head? — ¿cómo te hiciste ese chichón en la cabeza?

she got a splinter in her finger — se clavó una astilla en el dedo

he got the full force of the blast — recibió todo el impacto de la explosión

4) (find, have) (colloq)

you don't get elephants in America — en América no hay elefantes

we get mainly students in here — nuestros clientes (or visitantes etc) son mayormente estudiantes

5) ( fetch) \<\<hammer/scissors\>\> traer*, ir* a buscar; \<\<doctor/plumber\>\> llamar

get your coat — anda or vete a buscar tu abrigo

she got herself a cup of coffee — se sirvió (or se hizo etc) una taza de café

6)

a) ( reach) alcanzar*

b) ( take hold of) agarrar, coger* (esp Esp)

c) (catch, trap) pillar (fam), agarrar (AmL), coger* (esp Esp)

d) (assault, kill) (colloq)

I'll get you yet! — ya me las vas a pagar! (fam)

the sharks must have got him — se lo deben de haber comido los tiburones (fam)

7) ( contract) \<\<cold/flu\>\> agarrar, pescar* (fam), pillar (fam), coger* (esp Esp)

she got chickenpox from her sister — la hermana le contagió or (fam) le pegó la varicela

8) ( catch) \<\<bus/train\>\> tomar, coger* (Esp)

9) (colloq)

a) ( irritate) fastidiar

b) ( arouse pity)

it gets you right there — (set phrase) te conmueve, te da mucha lástima

c) ( puzzle)

what gets me is how... — lo que no entiendo es cómo...

10)

a) ( understand) (colloq) entender*

don't get me wrong — no me malentiendas or malinterpretes

get it? — ¿entiendes?, ¿agarras or (Esp) coges la onda? (fam)

b) (hear, take note of) oír*

I didn't get your name — no entendí tu nombre

did you get the number? — ¿tomaste nota del número?

11) ( answer) (colloq) \<\<phone\>\> contestar, atender*, coger* (Esp); \<\<door\>\> abrir*

12) ( possess)

to have got — see have

Sense II

13) (bring, move, put) (+ adv compl)

we'll get it there by two o'clock — lo tendremos allí antes de las dos

just wait till I get you home! — ya vas a ver cuando lleguemos a casa!

they couldn't get it up the stairs — no lo pudieron subir por las escaleras; see also get across, get in

14) ( cause to be) (+ adj compl)

he got the children ready — preparó a los niños

I can't get the window open/shut — no puedo abrir/cerrar la ventana

they got their feet wet/dirty — se mojaron/se ensuciaron los pies

15) to get somebody/something + pp

a) ( with action carried out by subject)

we must get some work done — tenemos que trabajar un poco

it's about time they got themselves organized — ya va siendo hora de que se organicen

b) ( with action carried out by somebody else)

he got the house painted — hizo pintar la casa

I must get this watch fixed — tengo que llevar a or (AmL tb) mandar (a) arreglar este reloj

16) (arrange, persuade, force)

to get somebody/something to + inf: I'll get him to help you ( order) le diré que te ayude; ( ask) le pediré que te ayude; ( persuade) lo convenceré de que te ayude; she could never get him to understand no podría hacérselo entender; you'll never get them to agree to that no vas a lograr que acepten eso; I can't get it to work — no puedo hacerlo funcionar

17) ( cause to start)

to get somebody/something -ing: it's the sort of record that gets everybody dancing es el tipo de disco que hace bailar a todo el mundo or que hace que todo el mundo baile; can you get the pump working? — ¿puedes hacer funcionar la bomba?

2.

get vi

1) ( reach) (+ adv compl) llegar*

I got here yesterday — llegué ayer

can you get there by train? — ¿se puede ir en tren?

how do you get to work? — ¿cómo vas al trabajo?

can anyone remember where we'd got to? — ¿alguien se acuerda de dónde habíamos quedado?

to get nowhere, not to get anywhere — see nowhere I 1), anywhere I 1) b)

to get somewhere — avanzar*, adelantar

we're finally getting somewhere! — por fin estamos sacando algo en limpio!

to get there: it's not perfect, but we're getting there — perfecto no es, pero poco a poco...

2)

a) ( become)

to get married — casarse

to get dressed — vestirse*

your dinner's getting cold — se te está enfriando la cena

he got very angry — se puso furioso

they get tired easily — se cansan con facilidad

b) (be) (colloq)

she gets invited to lots of parties — la invitan a muchas fiestas

her bike got stolen — le robaron la bicicleta

3) to get to + inf

a) ( come to) llegar* a + inf

I never really got to know him — nunca llegué a conocerlo de verdad

you'll get to like it eventually — vas a ver como termina por gustarte

b) ( have opportunity to)

in this job you get to meet many interesting people — en este trabajo uno tiene la oportunidad de conocer a mucha gente interesante

when do we get to open the presents? — ¿cuándo podemos abrir los regalos?

4) ( start)

to get -ing — empezar* a + inf, ponerse* a + inf

right, let's get moving! — bueno, pongámonos en acción (or en marcha etc)!

•

Phrasal Verbs:

- get about

- get above

- get across

- get ahead

- get along

- get around

- get around to

- get at

- get away

- get away with

- get back

- get back at

- get back to

- get behind

- get by

- get down

- get down to

- get in

- get in on

- get into

- get in with

- get off

- get off on

- get off with

- get on

- get on for

- get onto

- get out

- get out of

- get over

- get past

- get round

- get through

- get to

- get together

- get up

- get up to

English-spanish dictionary > get
17 memory

ˈmemərɪ сущ.
1) память to speak from memory ≈ говорить по памяти to jog smb.'s memory ≈ всколыхнуть чью-л. память to lose one's memory ≈ потерять память The date has slipped my memory. ≈ Я забыл дату. powerful memory ≈ хорошая память good memory for names ≈ хорошая память на имена to the best of my memory ≈ насколько я помню if my memory serves me right, if my memory does not fail me ≈ если память мне не изменяет from memory ≈ по памяти in memory of ≈ в память( кого-л., чего-л.) to commit to memory ≈ вверять что-л. памяти to slip smb.'s memory ≈ выскальзывать из памяти infallible memory ≈ феноменальная память photographic memory ≈ фотографическая память, образная память, зрительная память logical memory ≈ смысловая память, логическая память long-term memory ≈ долговременная память retentive memory ≈ хорошая, цепкая память short memory ≈ короткая, плохая память short-term memory ≈ кратковременная память visual memory ≈ зрительная память lapse of memory ≈ огрехи памяти within living memory ≈ на памяти нынешнего поколения
2) воспоминание to blot out a memory ≈ стирать воспоминание to evoke, stir up a memory ≈ пробуждать воспоминание bitter memories ≈ горькие воспоминания dim, vague memories ≈ смутные воспоминания enduring memories ≈ неумирающие воспоминания fond memories ≈ нежные воспоминания haunting, poignant memories ≈ навязчивые воспоминания pleasant memories ≈ приятные воспоминания unpleasant memories ≈ неприятные воспоминания Syn: remembrance, recollection, reminiscence
3) тех. машинная память, запоминающее устройство, накопитель информации
4) тех. запись, регистрация память, способность запоминать - good * хорошая память (на что-л.) - I have a bad * for faces у меня плохая память на лица - short * короткая память - associative /content-adressable/ * (психологическое) ассоциативная память - * sketch эскиз, сделанный по памяти - * like a sieve память как решето, дырявая /девичья, куриная/ память - loss of * потеря памяти - from * по памяти, на память - to quote from * цитировать по памяти - to bear /to have, to keep/ in * помнить, запоминать, держать в памяти - to bring back /to call/ to * вспоминать, припоминать;
воскрешаться в памяти - to search /rack/ one's * (по) рыться в памяти - to come back to one's * прийти на память, вспомниться, воскреснуть в памяти - to commit to * заучивать наизусть, запоминать - to escape /to slip, to go out of, to fade from/ one's * забываться, ускользать /улетучиваться/ из (чьей-л.) памяти - it escapes my * я не помню этого - to jog smb's * помогать кому-л. припомнить;
напоминать кому-л.;
не дать кому-л. забыть - to refresh one's * освежить (свою) память - to refresh smb.'s * напомнить кому-л. (о чем-л.) - may I refresh /jog/ your *? разрешите вам напомнить? - to stick in one's * врезаться в память, запомниться, запечатлеться - to lose one's * лишиться памяти - if my * serves me well, if my * does not fail me если память мне не изменяет - to the best of my * насколько я помню - within smb.'s * на чьей-л. памяти - within living *, within the * of living на памяти живущих, на памяти нынешнего поколения воспоминание, память (о чем-л., о ком-л.) с незапамятных времен - childhood memories детские воспоминания, воспоминания детства - sweet /pleasant/ * приятное воспоминание - one of my earliest memories одно из моих самых ранних воспоминаний - in /to the/ * of smb., smth. в память о ком-л., чем-л. - to keep smb.'s * хранить память о ком-л. - to retain a clear * of smth. (со) хранить ясное воспоминание о чем-л. - to relive old memories заново пережить прошлое - I have a clear * of what happened я ясно помню, что случилось - the * of accident remained with him all his life он сохранил память об этой катастрофе на всю жизнь посмертная слава, репутация - of happy * счастливой памяти - sacred to the * of smb., smth. священной памяти кого-л., чего-л. - of famous * знаменитый, прославленный - of notorius * пресловутый, дурной славы - to leave a sad * behind оставить по себе недобрую память (компьютерное) машинная память, запоминающее устройство ЭВМ - external * внешняя память, внешнее запоминающее устройство - * allocation распределение памяти - * guard /protection/ защита памяти( специальное) память - * of generations (биология) механизм наследственности, память поколений (техническое) запись, регистрация acquire more ~ вчт. запрашивать дополнительную память add-in ~ вчт. дополнительная память address ~ вчт. адресуемая память addressed ~ вчт. адресуемая память adequate ~ вчт. достаточный объем памяти adressable ~ вчт. адресуемая память annex ~ вчт. буферная память associative ~ вчт. ассоциативная память auxiliary ~ вчт. внешняя память auxiliary ~ вчт. вспомогательная память auxiliary ~ вчт. вспомогательное запоминающее устройство available ~ вчт. имеющаяся свободная память bootstrap ~ вчт. память начальной загрузки bubble ~ вчт. память на цилиндрических магнитных доменах buffer ~ вчт. буферная память buffer ~ вчт. буферное запоминающее устройство bulk ~ вчт. память большого объема byte-organized ~ вчт. память с побайтовой организацией cache ~ вчт. быстродействующая буферная память большой емкости cache ~ вчт. кэш content-addressable ~ вчт. ассоциативная память core ~ вчт. память на магнитных сердечниках data addressed ~ вчт. ассоциативная память dynamic ~ вчт. динамическая память electrically alterable read-only ~ вчт. электрически программируемое ПЗУ erasable programmable read-only ~ вчт. стираемое программируемое ПЗУ expanded ~ вчт. расширенная память expansion ~ вчт. дополнительная память extended ~ вчт. расширенная память external ~ вчт. внешняя память fast ~ вчт. быстродействующее ЗУ fit in ~ вчт. умещаться в памяти global ~ вчт. глобальная память memory воспоминание;
he has left a sad memory behind он оставил по себе недобрую память high-capacity ~ вчт. ЗУ большой емкости high-density ~ вчт. ЗУ с высокой плотностью записи to the best of my ~ насколько я помню;
if my memory serves me right, if my memory does not fail me если память мне не изменяет to the best of my ~ насколько я помню;
if my memory serves me right, if my memory does not fail me если память мне не изменяет image ~ вчт. память изображения immediate access ~ вчт. быстродействующая память ~ память;
in memory (of smb., smth.) в память (кого-л., чего-л.) insufficient ~ вчт. недостаточный объем памяти intermediate ~ вчт. промежуточное ЗУ internal ~ вчт. собственная память keystroke ~ вчт. память клавиатуры main ~ вчт. оперативная память memory воспоминание;
he has left a sad memory behind он оставил по себе недобрую память ~ тех. запись, регистрация ~ вчт. запоминающее устройство ~ тех. машинная память, запоминающее устройство, накопитель информации ~ память;
in memory (of smb., smth.) в память (кого-л., чего-л.) ~ вчт. память microinstruction ~ вчт. память микрокоманд microprogram ~ вчт. память микропрограмм nonvolatile ~ вчт. энергонезависимая память page-interleaved ~ вчт. память с расслоением и страничным обменом phantom ~ вчт. фантомная память primary ~ вчт. первичная память random access ~ вчт. оперативная память random-access ~ вчт. оперативная память rapid ~ вчт. запоминающее устройство с малым временем выборки rapid ~ вчт. запоминающее устройство с произвольной выборкой rapid ~ вчт. память с быстрой выборкой rapid ~ вчт. память с малым временем выборки read-only ~ вчт. постоянное запоминающее устройство rule ~ вчт. память правил scratch-pad ~ вчт. сверхоперативная память screen ~ вчт. память содержимого экрана semiconductor ~ вчт. полупроводниковое запоминающее устройство shareable ~ вчт. совместно используемая память shared ~ вчт. совместно используемая память shared ~ comp. совместно используемая память stack ~ вчт. память магазинного типа staged ~ вчт. многоуровневая память to the best of my ~ насколько я помню;
if my memory serves me right, if my memory does not fail me если память мне не изменяет use up almost all of ~ вчт. использовать почти всю свободную память user ~ вчт. пользовательская память user-available ~ вчт. память доступная пользователю video ~ вчт. видеопамять virtual ~ вчт. виртуальная память volatile ~ вчт. запоминающее устройство с разрушением информации при выключении электропитания volatile ~ вчт. память с разрушением информации при выключении электропитания volatile ~ вчт. энергозависимая память volatile ~ вчт. энергозависимое запоминающее устройство women ~ вчт. сотканная память word-organized ~ вчт. память с пословной организацией write-once ~ вчт. память с однократной записью write-protected ~ вчт. память с защитой от записи

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > memory
18 go

go ⇒ Usage note: go

A vi (3^e pers sg prés goes ; prét went ; pp gone)

1 (move, travel) aller (from de ; to à, en) ; to go to London/Paris aller à Londres/Paris ; to go to Wales/to Ireland/to California aller au Pays de Galles/en Irlande/en Californie ; to go to town/to the country aller en ville/à la campagne ; they went home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; she's gone to Paris elle est allée à Paris ; to go up/down/across monter/descendre/traverser ; I went into the room je suis entré dans la pièce ; to go by bus/train/plane voyager en bus/train/avion ; we went there by bus nous y sommes allés en bus ; to go by ou past [person, vehicle] passer ; that car's going very fast! cette voiture roule très vite! ; there he goes again! ( that's him again) le revoilà! ; fig ( he's starting again) le voilà qui recommence!, c'est reparti! ; who goes there? Mil qui va là? ; where do we go from here? fig et maintenant qu'est-ce qu'on fait? ;

2 (on specific errand, activity) aller ; to go shopping aller faire des courses ; to go swimming (in sea, river) aller se baigner ; ( in pool) aller à la piscine ; to go for a walk aller se promener ; to go on a journey/on holiday partir en voyage/en vacances ; to go for a drink aller prendre un verre ; he's gone to get some wine il est allé chercher du vin ; go and answer the phone va répondre au téléphone ; go and tell them that… va leur dire que… ; go after him! poursuivez-le! ;

3 ( attend) aller ; to go to school/ church aller à l'école/l'église ; to go to work aller or se rendre au travail ; to go to the doctor's/dentist's aller chez le médecin/dentiste ;

4 ( used as auxiliary with present participle) she went running up the stairs elle a monté l'escalier en courant ; she went complaining to the principal elle est allée se plaindre au directeur ;

5 ( depart) partir ; I must go, I must be going il faut que je parte or que je m'en aille ; the train goes at six o'clock le train part à six heures ; a train goes every hour il y a un train toutes les heures ; to go on holiday partir en vacances ; be gone! va-t'en!, allez-vous en! ;

6 euph ( die) mourir, disparaître ; when I am gone quand je ne serai plus là ; the doctors say she could go at any time d'après les médecins elle risque de mourir d'un instant à l'autre ;

7 ( disappear) partir ; half the money goes on school fees la moitié de l'argent part en frais de scolarité ; the money/cake has all gone il ne reste plus d'argent/de gâteau ; I left my bike outside and now it's gone j'ai laissé mon vélo dehors et il n'est plus là or il a disparu ; there goes my chance of winning! c'en est fait de mes chances de gagner! ;

8 (be sent, transmitted) it can't go by post on ne peut pas l'envoyer par la poste ; these proposals will go before parliament ces propositions seront soumises au parlement ;

9 ( become) to go red rougir ; to go white blanchir ; his hair ou he is going grey il commençe à avoir les cheveux blancs ; to go mad devenir fou/folle ; to go bankrupt faire faillite ;

10 ( change over to new system) to go Labour/Conservative Pol [country, constituency] voter travailliste/conservateur ; to go metric adopter le système métrique ; ⇒ private, public ;

11 (be, remain) the people went hungry les gens n'avaient rien à manger ; we went for two days without food nous avons passé deux jours sans rien manger ; to go unnoticed passer inaperçu ; to go unpunished rester impuni ; the question went unanswered la question est restée sans réponse ; to go naked se promener tout nu ; he was allowed to go free il a été libéré or remis en liberté ;

12 (weaken, become impaired) his memory/mind is going il perd la mémoire/l'esprit ; his hearing is going il devient sourd ; my voice is going je n'ai plus de voix ; the battery is going la batterie est presque à plat ; the engine is going le moteur a des ratés ;

13 ( of time) ( elapse) s'écouler ; three hours went by before… trois heures se sont écoulées avant que… (+ subj) ; there are only three days to go before Christmas il ne reste plus que trois jours avant Noël ; how's the time going? quelle heure est-il? ; it's just gone seven o'clock il est un peu plus de sept heures ;

14 ( be got rid of) he's totally inefficient, he'll have to go! il est complètement incapable, il va falloir qu'on se débarrasse de lui! ; that new lampshade is hideous, it'll have to go! ce nouvel abat-jour est affreux, il va falloir qu'on s'en débarrasse! ; the car will have to go il va falloir vendre la voiture ; either she goes or I do! c'est elle ou moi! ; six down and four to go! six de faits, et encore quatre à faire! ;

15 (operate, function) [vehicle, machine, clock] marcher, fonctionner ; to set [sth] going mettre [qch] en marche ; to get going [engine, machine] se mettre en marche ; fig [business] démarrer ; to get the fire going allumer le feu ; to keep going [person, business, machine] tenir le coup ○, se maintenir ; we have several projects going at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets en route en ce moment ; ⇒ keep ;

16 ( start) let's get going! allons-y!, allez, on commençe! ; we'll have to get going on that translation il va falloir qu'on se mette à faire cette traduction ; to get things going mettre les choses en train ; ready, steady, go! à vos marques, prêts, partez! ; here goes!, here we go! c'est parti! ; once he gets going, he never stops une fois lancé, il n'arrête pas ;

17 ( lead) aller, conduire, mener (to à) ; that corridor goes to the kitchen le couloir va or conduit à la cuisine ; the road goes down to the sea/goes up the mountain la route descend vers la mer/monte au sommet de la montagne ; this road goes past the cemetery ce chemin passe à côté du cimetière ;

18 ( extend in depth or scope) the roots of the plant go very deep les racines de la plante s'enfoncent très profondément ; the historical reasons for this conflict go very deep les raisons historiques de ce conflit remontent très loin ; these habits go very deep ces habitudes sont profondément ancrées or enracinées ; as far as that goes pour ce qui est de cela ; it's true as far as it goes c'est vrai dans un sens or dans une certaine mesure ; she'll go far! elle ira loin! ; this time he's gone too far! cette fois il est allé trop loin! ; a hundred pounds doesn't go far these days on ne va pas loin avec cent livres sterling de nos jours ; one leg of lamb doesn't go very far among twelve people un gigot d'agneau n'est pas suffisant pour douze personnes ; this goes a long way towards explaining his attitude ceci explique en grande partie son attitude ; you can make £5 go a long way on peut faire beaucoup de choses avec 5 livres sterling ;

19 (belong, be placed) aller ; where do these plates go? où vont ces assiettes? ; that table goes beside the bed cette table va à côté du lit ; the suitcases will have to go in the back il va falloir mettre les valises derrière ;

20 ( fit) gen rentrer ; it won't go into the box ça ne rentre pas dans la boîte ; five into four won't go quatre n'est pas divisible par cinq ; three into six goes twice six divisé par trois, ça fait deux ;

21 (be expressed, sung etc in particular way) I can't remember how the poem goes je n'arrive pas à me rappeler le poème ; how does the song go? quel est l'air de la chanson? ; the song goes something like this la chanson ressemble à peu près à ça ; as the saying goes comme dit le proverbe ; the story goes that le bruit court que, on dit que ; her theory goes something like this… sa théorie consiste à peu près à dire que… ;

22 ( be accepted) what he says goes c'est lui qui fait la loi ; it goes without saying that il va sans dire que ; that goes without saying cela va sans dire ; anything goes tout est permis ;

23 ( be about to) to be going to do aller faire ; it's going to snow il va neiger ; I was just going to phone you j'étais justement sur le point de t'appeler, j'allais justement t'appeler ; I'm going to phone him right now je vais l'appeler tout de suite ; I'm not going to be treated like that! je ne vais pas me laisser faire comme ça! ; we were going to go to Italy, but we changed our plans nous devions aller en Italie, mais nous avons changé d'idée ;

24 ( happen) the party went very well la soirée s'est très bien passée ; so far the campaign is going well jusqu'à maintenant la campagne a bien marché ; how did the evening go? comment s'est passée la soirée? ; the way things are going, I don't think we'll ever get finished vu la façon dont les choses se passent or si ça continue comme ça, je pense qu'on n'aura jamais fini ; how's it going ○ ?, how are things going? comment ça va ○ ? ; how goes it? hum comment ça va ○ ?, comment va ◑ ? ;

25 ( be on average) it's old, as Australian towns go c'est une ville assez vieille pour une ville australienne ; it wasn't a bad party, as parties go c'était une soirée plutôt réussie par rapport à la moyenne ;

26 ( be sold) the house went for over £100,000 la maison a été vendue à plus de 100 000 livres ; we won't let the house go for less than £100,000 nous ne voulons pas vendre la maison à moins de 100 000 livres ; those rugs are going cheap ces tapis ne sont pas chers ; the house will go to the highest bidder la maison sera vendue au plus offrant ; ‘going, going, gone!’ ( at auction) ‘une fois, deux fois, trois fois, adjugé!’ ;

27 ( be on offer) I'll have some coffee, if there's any going je prendrai bien un café, s'il y en a ; are there any drinks going? est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose à boire? ; I'll have whatever's going je prendrai ce qu'il y a ; it's the best machine going c'est la meilleure machine sur le marché ; there's a job going at their London office il y a un poste libre dans leur bureau de Londres ;

28 ( contribute) the money will go towards a new roof l'argent servira à payer un nouveau toit ; the elements that go to make a great film les éléments qui font un bon film ; everything that goes to make a good teacher toutes les qualités d'un bon enseignant ;

29 ( be given) [award, prize] aller (to à) ; [estate, inheritance, title] passer (to à) ; the money will go to charity les bénéfices iront aux bonnes œuvres ; most of the credit should go to the author la plus grande partie du mérite revient à l'auteur ; the job went to a local man le poste a été donné à un homme de la région ;

30 ( emphatic use) she's gone and told everybody! elle est allée le dire à tout le monde! ; why did he go and spoil it? pourquoi est-il allé tout gâcher ? ; you've gone and ruined everything! tu t'es débrouillé pour tout gâcher! ; he went and won the competition! il s'est débrouillé pour gagner le concours! ; you've really gone and done it now! tu peux être fier de toi! iron ; then he had to go and lose his wallet comme s'il ne manquait plus que ça, il a perdu son portefeuille ;

31 ( of money) (be spent, used up) all his money goes on drink tout son argent passe dans l'alcool ; most of his salary goes on rent la plus grande partie de son salaire passe dans le loyer ; I don't know where all my money goes (to)! je ne sais pas ce que je fais de mon argent! ;

32 (make sound, perform action or movement) gen faire ; [bell, alarm] sonner ; the cat went ‘miaow’ le chat a fait ‘miaou’ ; wait until the bell goes attends que la cloche sonne ( subj) ; she went like this with her fingers elle a fait comme ça avec ses doigts ; so he goes ‘what about my money ○ ?’ et puis il dit or il fait, ‘et mon argent?’ ;

33 (resort to, have recourse to) to go to war [country] entrer en guerre ; [soldier] partir à la guerre ; to go to law GB ou to the law US aller en justice ;

34 (break, collapse etc) [roof] s'effondrer ; [cable, rope] se rompre, céder ; ( fuse) [light bulb] griller ;

35 (bid, bet) aller ; I'll go as high as £100 j'irai jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ; I went up to £100 je suis allé jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ;

36 ( take one's turn) you go next c'est ton tour après, c'est à toi après ; you go first après vous ;

37 ( be in harmony) those two colours don't go together ces deux couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ; the curtains don't go with the carpet les rideaux ne vont pas avec le tapis ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;

38 ○ euph ( relieve oneself) aller aux toilettes ;

39 US ( in takeaway) to go à emporter ; two hamburgers to go! deux hamburgers à emporter!

B vtr (3^e pers sg prés goes ; prét went ; pp gone) ( see usage note)

1 ( travel) we had gone ten miles before we realized that… nous avions déjà fait dix kilomètres quand nous nous sommes rendu compte que… ; are you going my way? tu vas dans la même direction que moi? ; to go one's own way fig suivre son chemin ;

2 ○ (bet, bid) I go two diamonds ( in cards) j'annonce deux carreaux ; he went £20 il a mis or parié 20 livres sterling.

C n (pl goes)

1 GB ( person's turn) tour m ; ( try) essai m ; it's your go ( in game) c'est ton tour, c'est à toi ; whose go is it? gen à qui le tour? ; ( in game) à qui de jouer? ; you've had two goes ( in game) tu as eu deux tours ; ( two attempts at mending sth) tu as déjà essayé deux fois ; to have a go at sth essayer de faire qch ; have another go! essaie encore une fois or un coup! ; she had several goes at the exam elle a repassé l'examen plusieurs fois ; I had to have several goes before passing j'ai dû m'y reprendre à plusieurs fois avant de réussir ;

2 ○ ( energy) dynamisme m ; to be full of go, to be all go être très dynamique, avoir beaucoup d'allant ; he has no go in him il manque de dynamisme ;

3 ○ GB ( bout) ( of illness) attaque f ;

4 ⇒ Games and sports ( board game) go m.

D adj all systems are go! Aerosp tout est paré pour le lancement!

Idioms

to have a go at sb s'en prendre à qn ; to make a go of sth réussir qch ; she's always on the go elle n'arrête jamais ; he's all go ○ ! il n'arrête pas! ; it's all the go ○ ! ça fait fureur! ; we have several different projects on the go at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets différents en chantier or en cours en ce moment ; (it's) no go! pas question! ; from the word go dès le départ ; that was a near go ○ ! on l'a échappé belle! ; in one go d'un seul coup ; to go one better than sb renchérir sur qn ; that's how it goes!, that's the way it goes! ainsi va le monde!, c'est la vie! ; there you go ○ ! voilà!

Phrasal verbs

■ go about:

▶ go about

1 = go around ;

2 Naut virer de bord ; prepare to go about! parer à virer! ;

▶ go about [sth]

1 ( undertake) s'attaquer à [task] ; how do you go about writing a novel? comment est-ce que vous vous y prenez pour écrire un roman? ; he knows how to go about it il sait s'y prendre ;

2 ( be busy with) to go about one's business vaquer à ses occupations ; she went about her work mechanically elle faisait son travail machinalement.

■ go across:

▶ go across traverser ; he's gone across to the shop/neighbour's il est allé au magasin en face/chez les voisins en face ;

▶ go across [sth] traverser [street, river, bridge etc].

■ go after:

▶ go after [sth/sb]

1 ( chase) poursuivre [person] ;

2 fig ( try hard to get) he really went after that job il a fait tout son possible pour avoir ce travail.

■ go against:

▶ go against [sb/sth]

1 ( prove unfavourable to) the vote/verdict/decision went against them le vote/le verdict/la décision leur a été défavorable or n'a pas été en leur faveur ; the war is going against them la guerre tourne à leur désavantage ;

2 ( conflict with) être contraire à [rules, principles] ; to go against the trend aller à l'encontre de or être contraire à la tendance ; to go against the party line Pol ne pas être dans la ligne du parti ;

3 (resist, oppose) s'opposer à, aller à l'inverse de [person, sb's wishes].

■ go ahead

1 ( go in front) go ahead, I'll follow you on partez devant, je vous suis ;

2 fig ( proceed) go! ( in conversation) continue! ; go ahead and shoot! vas-y, tire! ; they are going ahead with the project ils ont décidé de mettre le projet en route ; we can go ahead without them nous pouvons continuer sans eux ; next week's strike is to go ahead la grève de la semaine prochaine va avoir lieu.

■ go along

1 ( move along) [person, vehicle] aller, avancer ; to make sth up as one goes along fig inventer qch au fur et à mesure ;

2 ( attend) aller ; she went along as a witch elle y est allée déguisée en sorcière ; I went along as a witness j'y suis allé or je me suis présenté comme témoin.

■ go along with:

▶ go along with [sb/sth] être d'accord avec, accepter [plans, wishes] ; I can't go along with that je ne peux pas accepter ça ; I'll go along with you there je suis d'accord avec vous sur ce point.

■ go around:

▶ go around

1 (move, travel about) se promener, circuler ; to go around naked/barefoot se promener tout nu/pieds nus ; she goes around on a bicycle elle circule à bicyclette ; they go around everywhere together ils vont partout ensemble ;

2 ( circulate) [rumour] courir ; there's a rumour going around that le bruit court que ; there's a virus going around il y a un virus qui traîne ; there isn't enough money to go around il n'y a pas assez d'argent pour tout le monde ;

▶ go around [sth] faire le tour de [house, shops, area] ; to go around the world faire le tour du monde ; they went around the country looking for him ils l'ont cherché dans tout le pays.

■ go at:

▶ go at [sb] ( attack) attaquer, tomber sur ;

▶ go at [sth] s'attaquer à, s'atteler à [task, activity].

■ go away [person] partir ; to go away on holiday GB ou vacation US partir en vacances ; go away and leave me alone! va-t-en et laisse-moi tranquille! ; go away and think about it réfléchissez-y ; don't go away thinking that ne va pas croire que ; this cold/headache just won't go away! je n'arrive pas à me débarrasser de ce rhume/mal de tête! ; the problems aren't just going to go away! les problèmes ne vont pas disparaître tout seuls!

■ go back

1 ( return) retourner ; ( turn back) rebrousser chemin, faire demi-tour ; ( resume work) reprendre le travail ; (resume classes, studies) reprendre les cours ; as it was raining, they decided to go back comme il pleuvait, ils ont décidé de faire demi-tour or de rebrousser chemin ; they went back home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; let's go back to France rentrons en France ; to go back to the beginning recommencer ; to go back to sleep se rendormir ; to go back to work/writing se remettre au travail/à écrire ; go back! the path isn't safe reculez! le chemin est dangereux ; once you've committed yourself, there's no going back une fois que vous vous êtes engagé, vous ne pouvez plus reculer ;

2 ( in time) remonter ; to go back in time remonter dans le temps ; to understand the problem we need to go back 20 years pour comprendre le problème il faut remonter 20 ans en arrière ; this tradition goes back a century cette tradition est vieille d'un siècle ; we go back a long way ça fait longtemps qu'on se connaît ;

3 ( revert) revenir (to à) ; to go back to teaching revenir à l'enseignement ; to go back to being a student reprendre des études ; let's go back to what we were discussing yesterday revenons à ce que dont nous parlions hier.

■ go back on:

▶ go back on [sth] revenir sur [promise, decision].

■ go before:

▶ go before ( go in front) aller au devant ; fig ( in time) se passer avant ; all that had gone before tout ce qui s'était passé avant ;

▶ go before [sb/sth] [person] comparaître devant [court, judge] ; the bill went before parliament le projet de loi a été soumis au parlement.

■ go below gen, Naut descendre.

■ go by:

▶ go by [person] passer ; [time] passer, s'écouler ; as time goes by avec le temps ; don't let such opportunities go by il ne faut pas laisser passer de telles occasions ;

▶ go by [sth]

1 ( judge by) juger d'après ; to go by appearances juger d'après or sur les apparences ; going by her looks, I'd say she was about 30 à la voir, je lui donne 30 ans ; you mustn't go by what you read in the papers il ne faut pas croire tout ce que disent les journaux ; if the trailer is anything to go by, it should be a good film à en juger par la bande-annonce, ça doit être un bon film ; if the father is anything to go by, I wouldn't like to meet the son! quand on voit le père, on n'a pas envie de rencontrer le fils! ;

2 ( proceed by) to go by the rules suivre or observer le règlement ; promotion goes by seniority la promotion se fait à l'ancienneté or en fonction de l'ancienneté.

■ go down:

▶ go down

1 ( descend) gen descendre ; [diver] effectuer une plongée ; to go down to the cellar descendre à la cave ; to go down to the beach aller à la plage ; to go down to the pub aller au pub ; they've gone down to Brighton for a few days ils sont allés passer quelques jours à Brighton ; ‘going down!’ ( in elevator) ‘on descend!’ ; to go down on one's knees se mettre à genoux ;

2 ( fall) [person, aircraft] tomber ; ( sink) [ship] couler, sombrer ; [person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ; most of the passengers went down with the ship la plupart des passagers ont coulé avec le navire ; the plane went down in flames l'avion s'est écrasé en flammes ; the plane went down over Normandy/the Channel l'avion s'est écrasé en Normandie/est tombé dans la Manche ; to go down for the third time [drowning person] disparaître sous les flots et se noyer ;

3 [sun] se coucher ;

4 ( be received) to go down well/badly être bien/mal reçu ; this remark didn't go down at all well cette remarque n'a pas été appréciée du tout ; his jokes went down well/didn't go down well with the audience le public a apprécié/n'a pas beaucoup apprécié ses plaisanteries ; another cup of coffee would go down nicely! une autre tasse de café serait la bienvenue! ;

5 ( be swallowed) it went down the wrong way c'est passé de travers ;

6 ( become lower) [water level, temperature] baisser ; [tide] descendre ; [price, standard] baisser ; ( abate) [storm, wind] se calmer ; [fire] s'éteindre ; the river has/the floods have gone down le niveau de la rivière/des inondations a baissé ; foodstuffs are going down (in price) les produits alimentaires deviennent moins chers ;

7 ( become deflated) [swelling] désenfler ; [tyre, balloon] se dégonfler ;

8 GB Univ ( break up for holiday) terminer les cours ; ( leave university permanently) quitter l'université ; when do you go down? quand est-ce que vous êtes en vacances? ;

9 gen, Sport (fail, be defeated) perdre ; ( be downgraded) redescendre ; Corby went down 6-1 to Oxford Corby a perdu 6-1 contre Oxford ; the team has gone down to the second division l'équipe est redescendue en deuxième division ;

10 ( be remembered) he will go down as a great statesman on se souviendra de lui comme d'un grand homme d'État ;

11 ( be recorded) être noté ; it all goes down in her diary elle note tout dans son journal ;

12 ( continue) the book goes down to 1939 le livre va jusqu'en 1939 ; if you go down to the second last line you will see that si vous regardez à l'avant-dernière ligne, vous verrez que ;

13 ( be stricken) to go down with flu/malaria attraper la grippe/la malaria ;

14 ○ GB ( be sent to prison) être envoyé en prison ;

15 Comput [computer, system] tomber en panne ;

▶ go down [sth]

1 lit descendre [hill] ; descendre dans [mine] ;

2 ( be downgraded) to go down a class Sch redescendre d'une classe.

■ go down on:

▶ go down on [sth] ( set) [sun] se coucher sur ; when the sun went down on the Roman Empire fig quand l'empire romain commençait à décliner ;

▶ go down on [sb] ● ( have oral sex with) tailler une pipe à ● [man] ; faire minette à ● [woman].

■ go for:

▶ go for [sb/sth]

1 ○ (favour, have liking for) craquer ○ pour [person, physical type] ; aimer [style of music, literature etc] ; he really goes for blondes il craque ○ pour or il adore les blondes ; I don't go much for modern art je ne suis pas emballé ○ par l'art moderne, je n'aime pas tellement l'art moderne ;

2 ( apply to) être valable pour, s'appliquer à ; that goes for all of you! c'est valable pour tout le monde! ; the same goes for him c'est valable pour lui aussi!, ça s'applique à lui aussi! ;

▶ go for [sb]

1 ( attack) ( physically) attaquer, tomber sur ; ( verbally) attaquer, s'en prendre à [person] ; the two youths went for him les deux jeunes l'ont attaqué or lui ont sauté dessus ; to go for sb's throat [animal] attaquer qn à la gorge ; she really went for him! (in argument, row) elle l'a vraiment incendié!, elle s'en est prise violemment à lui! ;

2 he has a lot going for him il a beaucoup de choses pour lui ;

▶ go for [sth]

1 ( attempt to achieve) essayer d'obtenir [honour, victory] ; she's going for the gold medal/world record elle vise la médaille d'or/le record mondial ; go for it ○ ! vas-y, fonce ○ ! ; the company is going for a new image l'entreprise cherche à se donner une nouvelle image ; the team is going for a win against Italy l'équipe compte bien gagner contre l'Italie ;

2 ( choose) choisir, prendre ; I'll go for the blue one je prendrai le bleu.

■ go forth sout [person] ( go out) sortir ; ( go forward) aller, avancer ; go forth and multiply allez et multipliez-vous.

■ go forward(s) avancer.

■ go in

1 ( enter) entrer ; ( go back in) rentrer ;

2 Mil [army, troops] attaquer ; the troops went in at dawn les troupes ont attaqué à l'aube ;

3 ( disappear) [sun, moon] se cacher.

■ go in for:

▶ go in for [sth]

1 ( be keen on) aimer [sport, hobby etc] ; I don't go in for sports much je n'aime pas tellement le sport ; he goes in for opera in a big way il adore l'opéra, c'est un fou d'opéra ○ ; we don't go in for that sort of thing nous n'aimons pas ce genre de chose ; they don't go in much for foreign languages at Ben's school ils ne s'intéressent pas beaucoup aux langues étrangères dans l'école de Ben ;

2 ( take up) to go in for teaching entrer dans l'enseignement ; to go in for politics se lancer dans la politique ;

3 ( take part in) s'inscrire à [exam, competition].

■ go into:

▶ go into [sth]

1 ( enter) entrer dans ; fig ( take up) se lancer dans ; to go into hospital entrer à l'hôpital ; to go into parliament entrer au parlement ; to go into politics/business se lancer dans la politique/les affaires ;

2 (examine, investigate) étudier ; we need to go into the question of funding il faut que nous étudiions la question du financement ;

3 (explain, describe) I won't go into why I did it je n'expliquerai pas pourquoi je l'ai fait ; let's not go into that now laissons cela de côté pour l'instant ;

4 ( launch into) se lancer dans ; she went into a long explanation of what had happened elle s'est lancée dans une longue explication de ce qui s'était passé ;

5 ( be expended) a lot of work/money went into this project beaucoup de travail/d'argent a été investi dans ce projet ; a lot of effort went into organizing the party l'organisation de la soirée a demandé beaucoup de travail ;

6 ( hit) [car, driver] rentrer dans, heurter ; the car went into a lamp post la voiture est rentrée dans or a heurté un réverbère.

■ go in with:

▶ go in with [sb] se joindre à [person, ally, organization] ; he went in with us to buy the present il s'est mis avec nous pour acheter le cadeau.

■ go off:

▶ go off

1 (explode, fire) [bomb] exploser ; the gun didn't go off le coup n'est pas parti ;

2 [alarm clock] sonner ; [fire alarm] se déclencher ;

3 ( depart) partir, s'en aller ; he went off to work il est parti au travail ; she went off to find a spade elle est allée chercher une pelle ; they went off together ils sont partis ensemble ;

4 GB ( go bad) [milk, cream] tourner ; [meat] s'avarier ; [butter] rancir ; ( deteriorate) [performer, athlete etc] perdre sa forme ; [work] se dégrader ; ( lose one's attractiveness) [person] être moins beau/belle qu'avant ; he used to be very handsome, but he's gone off a bit il était très beau, mais il est moins bien maintenant ; the first part of the film was good, but after that it went off la première partie du film était bien, mais après ça s'est dégradé ;

5 ○ ( fall asleep) s'endormir ;

6 ( cease to operate) [lights, heating] s'éteindre ;

7 (happen, take place) [evening, organized event] se passer ; the concert went off very well le concert s'est très bien passé ;

8 Theat quitter la scène ;

▶ go off [sb/sth] GB I used to like him but I've gone off him je l'aimais bien avant, mais je ne l'aime plus tellement ; I've gone off opera/whisky je n'aime plus tellement l'opéra/le whisky ; I think she's gone off the idea je crois qu'elle a renoncé à l'idée.

■ go off with:

▶ go off with [sb/sth] partir avec [person, money] ; she went off with all his money elle est partie avec tout son argent ; who's gone off with my pen? qui a pris mon stylo?

■ go on:

▶ go on

1 (happen, take place) se passer ; what's going on? qu'est-ce qui se passe? ; there's a party going on upstairs il y a une fête en haut ; how long has this been going on? depuis combien de temps est-ce que ça dure? ; a lot of stealing goes on il y a beaucoup de vols ; a lot of drinking goes on at Christmas time les gens boivent beaucoup à Noël ;

2 ( continue on one's way) poursuivre son chemin ;

3 ( continue) continuer ; go on with your work continuez votre travail, continuez de travailler ; go on looking continuez à or de chercher ; she went on speaking elle a continué de parler ; go on, we're all listening! continue, nous t'écoutons tous! ; ‘and another thing,’ she went on, ‘you're always late’ ‘et autre chose,’ a-t-elle ajouté, ‘vous êtes toujours en retard’ ; if he goes on like this, he'll get into trouble! s'il continue comme ça, il va s'attirer des ennuis ; we can't go on like this! nous ne pouvons pas continuer comme ça! ; life must go on la vie continue ; the meeting went on into the afternoon la réunion s'est prolongée jusque dans l'après-midi ; you can't go on being a pen pusher all your life! tu ne peux pas rester gratte-papier toute ta vie! ; the list goes on and on la liste est infinie or interminable ; that's enough to be going on with ça suffit pour le moment ; have you got enough work to be going on with? est-ce que tu as assez de travail pour le moment? ; here's £20 to be going on with voici 20 livres pour te dépanner ; go on (with you) ○ ! allons donc! ;

4 ( of time) ( elapse) as time went on, they… avec le temps, ils… ; as the evening went on, he became more animated au fur et à mesure que la soirée avançait, il devenait plus animé ;

5 ( keep talking) to go on about sth ne pas arrêter de parler de qch, parler de qch à n'en plus finir ; he was going on about the war il parlait de la guerre à n'en plus finir ; don't go on about it! arrête de parler de ça!, change de disque! ; she went on and on about it elle en a fait toute une histoire ; he does tend to go on a bit! il a tendance à radoter ○ ! ; the way she goes on, you'd think she was an expert on the subject! à l'entendre, on croirait qu'elle est experte en la matière! ;

6 ( proceed) passer ; let's go on to the next item passons au point suivant ; he went on to say that/describe how puis il a dit que/décrit comment ;

7 ( go into operation) [heating, lights] s'allumer ;

8 Theat entrer en scène ; what time do you go on? à quelle heure est-ce que vous entrez en scène? ;

9 ( approach) it's going on three o'clock il est presque trois heures ; she's four going on five elle va sur ses cinq ans ; he's thirty going on three hum il a trente ans mais il pourrait bien en avoir trois ;

10 ( fit) these gloves won't go on ces gants ne m'iront pas ; the lid won't go on properly le couvercle ne ferme pas bien ;

▶ go on [sth] se fonder sur [piece of evidence, information] ; that's all we've got to go on tout ce que nous savons avec certitude ; we've got nothing else to go on nous n'avons pas d'autre point de départ ; the police haven't got much evidence to go on la police n'a pas beaucoup de preuves à l'appui.

■ go on at:

▶ go on at [sb] s'en prendre à [person] ; he's always going on at me for writing badly il s'en prend toujours à moi à cause de ma mauvaise écriture ; they're always going on at us about deadlines ils sont toujours sur notre dos pour des histoires de délais.

■ go out

1 (leave, depart) sortir ; she went out of the room elle a quitté la pièce, elle est sortie de la pièce ; to go out walking aller se promener ; to go out for a drink aller prendre un verre ; they go out a lot ils sortent beaucoup ; she likes going out elle aime sortir ; she had to go out to work at 14 il a fallu qu'elle aille travailler à 14 ans ;

2 ( travel long distance) partir (to à, pour) ; she's gone out to Australia/Africa elle est partie pour l'Australie/l'Afrique ;

3 ( have relationship) to go out with sb sortir avec qn ; they've been going out together for six weeks ils sortent ensemble depuis six semaines ;

4 [tide] descendre ; the tide is going out la marée descend, la mer se retire ;

5 Ind ( go on strike) se mettre en grève ;

6 ( become unfashionable) passer de mode ; ( no longer be used) ne plus être utilisé ; mini-skirts went out in the 1970s les mini-jupes ont passé de mode dans les années 70 ; gas went out and electricity came in l'électricité a remplacé le gaz ;

7 ( be extinguished) [fire, light] s'éteindre ;

8 ( be sent) [invitation, summons] être envoyé ; ( be published) [journal, magazine] être publié ; Radio, TV ( be broadcast) être diffusé ;

9 ( be announced) word went out that he was coming back le bruit a couru qu'il revenait ; the news went out from Washington that Washington a annoncé que ;

10 ( be eliminated) gen, Sport être éliminé ; she went out in the early stages of the competition elle a été éliminée au début de la compétition ;

11 (expressing compassion, sympathy) my heart goes out to them je les plains de tout mon cœur, je suis de tout cœur avec eux ; our thoughts go out to absent friends nos pensées vont vers nos amis absents ;

12 ( disappear) all the spirit seemed to have gone out of her elle semblait avoir perdu tout son entrain ; the romance seemed to have gone out of their relationship leur relation semblait avoir perdu tout son charme ;

13 ( end) [year, month] se terminer ;

14 ( in cards) terminer.

■ go over:

▶ go over

1 ( cross over) aller ; she went over to him/to the window elle est allée vers lui/vers la fenêtre, elle s'est approchée de lui/de la fenêtre ; to go over to Ireland/to America aller en Irlande/aux États-Unis ; we are now going over to Washington for more news Radio, TV nous passons maintenant l'antenne à Washington pour plus d'informations ;

2 ( be received) how did his speech go over? comment est-ce que son discours a été reçu? ; his speech went over well son discours a été bien reçu ; to go over big ○ avoir un grand succès ;

3 ( switch over) he went over to Labour from the Conservatives il est passé du parti des conservateurs au parti des travaillistes ; to go over to the other side fig passer dans l'autre camp ; we've gone over to gas (central heating) nous sommes passés au chauffage central au gaz ; to go over to Islam se convertir à l'Islam ;

▶ go over [sth]

1 ( review) passer [qch] en revue [details] ; she went over the events of the day in her mind elle a passé en revue les événements de la journée ; we've gone over the details again and again nous avons déjà passé les détails en revue mille fois ; to go over one's lines ( actor) répéter son texte ; there's no point in going over old ground il n'y a aucune raison de revenir là-dessus ;

2 (check, inspect) vérifier [accounts, figures] ; revoir [facts, piece of work] ; I want to go over this article once more before I hand it in je veux relire cet article une dernière fois avant de le remettre ; to go over a house faire le tour d'une maison ;

3 ( clean) he went over the room with a duster il a donné un coup de chiffon dans la pièce ; after cleaning, go over the surface with a dry cloth après l'avoir nettoyée, essuyez la surface avec un chiffon sec or passez un chiffon sec sur la surface ;

4 to go over a sketch in ink repasser un dessin à l'encre ;

5 ( exceed) dépasser ; don't go over £100 ne dépassez pas 100 livres sterling.

■ go round GB:

▶ go round

1 ( turn) [wheel, propeller etc] tourner ; the wheels went round and round les roues n'ont pas arrêté de tourner ; my head's going round j'ai la tête qui tourne ;

2 ( call round) to go round to see sb aller voir qn ; he's gone round to Anna's il est allé chez Anna ;

3 ( suffice) there isn't enough food/money to go round il n'y a pas assez de nourriture/d'argent pour tout le monde ; there was barely enough to go round il y en avait à peine assez pour tout le monde ;

4 ( circulate) there's a rumour going round that le bruit court que ;

5 ( make detour) faire un détour ; we had to go round the long way ou the long way round il a fallu qu'on prenne un chemin plus long ; I had to go round by the bridge il a fallu que je passe par or que je fasse un détour par le pont ;

▶ go round [sth] ( visit) faire le tour de [shops, house, museum].

■ go through:

▶ go through

1 ( come in) entrer ; if you'll just go (on) through, I'll tell them you're here si vous voulez bien entrer, je vais leur dire que vous êtes arrivé ;

2 ( be approved) [law, agreement] passer ; the law failed to go through la loi n'est pas passée ; the divorce hasn't gone through yet le divorce n'a pas encore été prononcé ;

3 ( be successfully completed) [business deal] être conclu ;

▶ go through [sth]

1 ( undergo) endurer, subir [experience, ordeal] ; ( pass through) passer par [stage, phase] ; in spite of all he's gone through malgré tout ce qu'il a enduré ; we've all gone through it nous sommes tous passés par là ; she's gone through a lot elle a beaucoup souffert ; he went through the day in a kind of daze toute la journée il a été dans un état second ; the country has gone through two civil wars le pays a connu deux guerres civiles ; to go through a crisis traverser une crise ; as you go through life au fur et à mesure que tu vieillis, en vieillissant ; you have to go through the switchboard/right authorities il faut passer par le standard/les autorités compétentes ; it went through my mind that l'idée m'a traversé l'esprit que ;

2 (check, inspect) examiner, étudier ; ( rapidly) parcourir [documents, files, list] ; to go through one's mail parcourir son courrier ; let's go through the points one by one étudions or examinons les problèmes un par un ;

3 ( search) fouiller [person's belongings, baggage] ; to go through sb's pockets/drawers fouiller dans les poches/tiroirs de qn ; at customs they went through all my things à la douane ils ont fouillé toutes mes affaires ;

4 (perform, rehearse) répéter [scene] ; expliquer [procedure] ; let's go through the whole scene once more répétons or reprenons toute la scène une dernière fois ; there are still a certain number of formalities to be gone through il y a encore un certain nombre de formalités à remplir ; I went through the whole procedure with him je lui ai expliqué comment il fallait procéder en détail ;

5 (consume, use up) dépenser [money] ; we went through three bottles of wine nous avons bu or descendu ○ trois bouteilles de vin ; I've gone through the elbows of my jacket j'ai usé ma veste aux coudes.

■ go through with:

▶ go through with [sth] réaliser, mettre [qch] à exécution [plan] ; in the end they decided to go through with the wedding finalement ils ont décidé de se marier ; I can't go through with it je ne peux pas le faire ; you'll have to go through with it now il va falloir que tu le fasses maintenant.

■ go together

1 ( harmonize) [colours, pieces of furniture etc] aller ensemble ; these colours don't go together ces couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ;

2 ( entail each other) aller de pair ; poverty and crime often go together la pauvreté et le crime vont souvent de pair ;

3 ○ †( have relationship) [couple] sortir ensemble.

■ go under

1 [boat, ship] couler, sombrer ; [drowning person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ;

2 fig ( succumb) [person] succomber ; ( go bankrupt) [business, company] faire faillite.

■ go up:

▶ go up

1 ( ascend) monter ; to go up to bed monter se coucher ; they've gone up to London ils sont allés or montés à Londres ; they've gone up to Scotland ils sont allés en Écosse ; ‘going up!’ ( in elevator) ‘on monte!’ ;

2 ( rise) [price, temperature] monter ; Theat [curtain] se lever (on sur) ; petrol has gone up (in price) (le prix de) l'essence a augmenté ; unemployment is going up le chômage augmente or est en hausse ; our membership has gone up le nombre de nos adhérents a augmenté ; a cry went up from the crowd un cri est monté or s'est élevé de la foule ;

3 ( be erected) [building] être construit ; [poster] être affiché ; new office blocks are going up all over the place on construit de nouveaux immeubles un peu partout ;

4 (be destroyed, blown up) [building] sauter, exploser ;

5 GB Univ ( start university) entrer à l'université ; ( start term) reprendre les cours ;

6 ( be upgraded) the team has gone up to the first division l'équipe est passée en première division ;

7 ( continue) the book/series goes up to 1990 le livre/la série va jusqu'en 1990 ;

▶ go up [sth]

1 ( mount) monter, gravir [hill, mountain] ;

2 to go up a class Sch passer dans une classe supérieure.

■ go with:

▶ go with [sth]

1 (match, suit) aller avec ; your shirt goes with your blue eyes ta chemise va bien avec tes yeux bleus ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;

2 ( accompany) aller de pair avec ; the car goes with the job la voiture va de pair avec la situation ; the responsibilities that go with parenthood les responsabilités qui vont de pair avec le fait d'être parent ;

▶ go with [sb] ( date) sortir avec ; ( have sex with) coucher avec [person].

■ go without:

▶ go without s'en passer ; you'll just have to go without! il va falloir que tu t'en passes!, il va falloir que tu fasses sans! ;

▶ go without [sth] se passer de [food, luxuries].

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19 best

best

A n

1 (most enjoyable, pleasant) the best le/la meilleur/-e m/f ; it's the best of the stories cette histoire, c'est la meilleure ; the North will have the best of the weather c'est le nord du pays qui profitera du beau temps ; I think we've had the best of the day je pense que le beau temps est fini pour aujourd'hui ; to look the best être le mieux ; to sound the best avoir le meilleur son, sonner le mieux ; to taste the best être le/la meilleur/-e ; to smell the best avoir la meilleure odeur ;

2 (of the highest quality, standard) the best le/la meilleur/-e m/f ; the best there is le meilleur qui soit ; the best of its kind le meilleur du genre ; it's not her best (of book, play) ce n'est pas le/la meilleur/-e qu'elle ait écrit/-e ; only the best is good enough for me/my son pour moi/mon fils je veux ce qu'il y a de mieux ; only the best is good enough for him seul le meilleur peut lui convenir ;

3 ( most competent) the best le/la meilleur/-e m/f ; she's one of the best c'est l'une des meilleures ; to be the best at être le/la meilleur/-e en [subject, game] ; who's the best at drawing/swimming? qui dessine/nage le mieux? ;

4 (most appropriate, desirable or valid) the best le/la meilleur/-e m/f ; it's the best I've got c'est le meilleur que j'aie ; it's for the best ( recommending course of action) c'est la meilleure solution ; ( of something done) c'est tant mieux ; to do sth for the best faire qch pour le mieux ; it's not the best of times to do ce n'est pas le meilleur moment pour faire ;

5 ( most favourable) the best le mieux ; the best we can hope for/say le mieux qu'on puisse espérer/dire ; at best au mieux ; I find it difficult to do at the best of times j'ai déjà du mal à le faire ; he's a difficult man at the best of times déjà en temps ordinaire il est difficile à vivre ; to make the best of sth s'accommoder de qch ;

6 (peak, height) to be at its best [wine, cheese] être parfait ; [city, view, landscape] être le/la plus beau/belle ; this is modern art at its best c'est ce que l'art moderne peut produire de mieux ; to be at one's best (physically, in mood) être au mieux de sa forme ; to be at one's best writing poetry/playing villains exceller dans la poésie/dans les rôles de méchants ; this is Eliot at her best c'est Eliot dans ce qu'elle a fait de meilleur ; it was not in the best of taste ce n'était pas du meilleur goût ; the best of friends les meilleurs amis du monde ;

7 ( greatest personal effort) to do one' s best to do faire de son mieux or faire (tout) son possible pour faire ; is that the best you can/the car can do? c'est le mieux que tu puisses/que la voiture puisse faire? ; to get the best out of obtenir le meilleur de [pupil, worker], tirer le meilleur parti de [gadget] ;

8 (virtues, qualities) to bring out the best in sb [crisis, suffering] inciter qn à donner le meilleur de lui-même ;

9 ( most advantageous or pleasing part) the best of it is gen le mieux, c'est que ; ( most amusing) le plus beau, c'est que ; to get the best of avoir la part du lion dans [deal, bargain] ; gagner dans [arrangement] ;

10 ( good clothes) to keep sth for best garder or réserver qch pour les grandes occasions ; ⇒ Sunday best ;

11 ( good wishes) ( on an occasion) meilleurs vœux mpl ; ( friendly greeting) amitiés fpl ; give her my best transmets-lui mes meilleurs vœux or amitiés ; all the best! ( good luck) bonne chance! ; ( cheers) à ta santé! ; all the best, Ellie ( in letter) amitiés, Ellie ; wishing you all the best on your retirement meilleurs vœux de bonheur pour votre retraite ;

12 ( winning majority) best of three/five au meilleur des trois/cinq ; to play (the) best of three jouer au meilleur des trois ; it's the best of five c'est au meilleur des cinq.

B adj ( superlative of good)

1 ( most excellent or pleasing) meilleur ; the best book I've ever read/written le meilleur livre que j'aie jamais lu/écrit ; the best idea she's had all day la meilleure idée qu'elle ait eue de la journée ; the best hotel in town le meilleur hôtel de la ville ; the best thing about sth/about doing ce qu'il y a de mieux dans qch/lorsqu'on fait ; one of the best things about sth/about doing l'un des plus grands avantages de qch/lorsqu'on fait ; to look best être le mieux ; to sound best avoir le meilleur son, sonner le mieux ; to taste best être le/la meilleur/-e ; to smell best avoir la meilleure odeur ; this wine is best served chilled ce vin est parfait si on le sert frais ; she looks best in black c'est en noir qu'elle est le mieux ; she speaks the best French c'est elle qui parle le mieux français ; she said it in her best French elle l'a dit dans son meilleur français ; in your best handwriting dans ta plus belle écriture ; my best dress ma plus belle robe ; my best sheets mes plus beaux draps ; ‘best before end May’ ‘à consommer de préférence avant fin mai’ ;

2 ( most competent) [teacher, poet] meilleur ; the award for best actor le prix du meilleur acteur ; who is the best swimmer? qui nage le mieux? ; to be best at être le/la meilleur/-e en [subject, sport] ; être le/la meilleur/-e à [instrument] ; to be best at cooking cuisiner le mieux ; the best mother you could wish for la meilleure mère dont on puisse rêver ; may the best man win! que le meilleur gagne! ;

3 ( most appropriate or suitable) [tool, example, way, time, idea] meilleur ; these ones are best for cutting paper pour couper du papier ceux-ci sont le mieux ; they're best for cutting paper, not fabric c'est pour couper du papier et non pas du tissu qu'ils conviennent le mieux ; it is best for older children cela convient mieux aux enfants plus âgés ; the best person for the job la personne qui convient le mieux pour ce travail ; the best thing to do la meilleure chose à faire ; the best thing would be to do, it would be best to do le mieux serait de faire ; it would be best if he did le mieux serait qu'il fasse ;

4 ( most beneficial) [exercise, food] meilleur ; to consider what is best for sb réfléchir à ce qui est le mieux pour qn.

C adv ( superlative of well) le mieux ; to behave/fit/hear best se comporter/aller/entendre le mieux ; the best fed/qualified/organized le mieux nourri/qualifié/organisé ; the best organized person la personne la mieux organisée ; the best prepared/equipped/loved le plus préparé/équipé/aimé ; the best loved woman la femme la plus aimée ; to like sth best aimer qch le mieux or le plus ; to like sth best of all aimer qch mieux or plus que tout ; best of all mieux que tout ; he works best on his own c'est seul qu'il travaille le mieux ; to do best réussir le mieux ; who did best? qui a le mieux réussi? ; to do sth as best one can faire qch de son mieux ; you'd best do ○ tu ferais mieux de faire ; such advice is best ignored/followed il vaut mieux ignorer/suivre de tels conseils ; you know best c'est toi le meilleur juge.

D vtr (defeat, outdo) ( in argument) avoir le dessus sur [person] ; (in contest, struggle) battre, vaincre [opponent] ; to be bested in an argument avoir le dessous dans une discussion.

Idioms

to do sth with the best of them faire qch avec tout un chacun ; it happens to the best of us (mishap, failure) ça arrive à tout le monde ; ( death) c'est notre lot à tous.

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20 order

1. noun
1) (sequence) Reihenfolge, die

word order — Wortstellung, die

in order of importance/size/age — nach Wichtigkeit/Größe/Alter

put something in order — etwas [in der richtigen Reihenfolge] ordnen

keep something in order — etwas in der richtigen Reihenfolge halten

answer the questions in order — die Fragen der Reihe nach beantworten

out of order — nicht in der richtigen Reihenfolge

2) (normal state) Ordnung, die

put or set something/one's affairs in order — Ordnung in etwas bringen/seine Angelegenheiten ordnen

be/not be in order — in Ordnung/nicht in Ordnung sein (ugs.)

be out of/in order — (not in/in working condition) nicht funktionieren/funktionieren

‘out of order’ — "außer Betrieb"

in good/bad order — in gutem/schlechtem Zustand

in working order — betriebsfähig

3) in sing. and pl. (command) Anweisung, die; Anordnung, die; (Mil.) Befehl, der; (Law) Beschluss, der; Verfügung, die

my orders are to..., I have orders to... — ich habe Anweisung zu...

while following orders — bei Befolgung der Anweisung

act on orders — auf Befehl handeln

orders are orders — Befehl ist Befehl

court order — Gerichtsbeschluss, der

by order of — auf Anordnung (+ Gen.)

4)

in order to do something — um etwas zu tun

in order that somebody should do something — damit jemand etwas tut

5) (Commerc.) Auftrag, der ( for über + Akk.); Bestellung, die ( for Gen.); Order, die (Kaufmannsspr.); (to waiter, ordered goods) Bestellung, die

place an order [with somebody] — [jemandem] einen Auftrag erteilen

have something on order — etwas bestellt haben

made to order — nach Maß angefertigt, maßgeschneidert [Kleidung]

6) (law-abiding state)

keep order — Ordnung [be]wahren; see also academic.ru/42004/law">law 2)

7) (Eccl.) Orden, der

holy orders — heilige Weihen

8)

Order! Order! — zur Ordnung!; Ruhe bitte!

Call somebody/the meeting to order — jemanden/die Versammlung zur Ordnung rufen

point of order — Verfahrensfrage, die

be in order — zulässig sein; (fig.) [Forderung:] berechtigt sein; [Drink, Erklärung:] angebracht sein

it is in order for him to do that — (fig.) es ist in Ordnung, wenn er das tut (ugs.)

be out of order — (unacceptable) gegen die Geschäftsordnung verstoßen; [Verhalten, Handlung:] unzulässig sein

9) (kind, degree) Klasse, die; Art, die

10) (Finance) Order, die

[banker's] order — [Bank]anweisung, die

‘pay to the order of...’ — "zahlbar an..." (+ Akk.)

11)

order [of magnitude] — Größenordnung, die

of or in the order of... — in der Größenordnung von...

a scoundrel of the first order — (fig. coll.) ein Schurke ersten Ranges
2. transitive verb
1) (command) befehlen; anordnen; [Richter:] verfügen; verordnen [Arznei, Ruhe usw.]

order somebody to do something — jemanden anweisen/(Milit.) jemandem befehlen, etwas zu tun

order something [to be] done — anordnen, dass etwas getan wird

order somebody out of the house — jemanden aus dem Haus weisen

2) (direct the supply of) bestellen ( from bei); ordern [Kaufmannsspr.]

order in advance — vorbestellen

3) (arrange) ordnen

Phrasal Verbs:

- order about

- order off

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['o:də] 1. noun
1) (a statement (by a person in authority) of what someone must do; a command: He gave me my orders.) die Anordnung

2) (an instruction to supply something: orders from Germany for special gates.) der Auftrag

3) (something supplied: Your order is nearly ready.) die Bestellung

4) (a tidy state: The house is in (good) order.) ordentlicher Zustand

5) (a system or method: I must have order in my life.) die Ordnung

6) (an arrangement (of people, things etc) in space, time etc: in alphabetical order; in order of importance.) die Reihenfolge

7) (a peaceful condition: law and order.) öffentliche Ordnung

8) (a written instruction to pay money: a banker's order.) die Order

9) (a group, class, rank or position: This is a list of the various orders of plants; the social order.) die Ordnung

10) (a religious society, especially of monks: the Benedictine order.) der Orden
2. verb
1) (to tell (someone) to do something (from a position of authority): He ordered me to stand up.) befehlen

2) (to give an instruction to supply: I have ordered some new furniture from the shop; He ordered a steak.) bestellen

3) (to put in order: Should we order these alphabetically?) ordnen

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- orderly
3. noun
1) (a hospital attendant who does routine jobs.) der/die Sanitäter(in)

2) (a soldier who carries an officer's orders and messages.) der Offiziersbursche

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- orderliness
- order-form
- in order
- in order that
- in order
- in order to
- made to order
- on order
- order about
- out of order
- a tall order
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or·der

[ˈɔ:dəʳ, AM ˈɔ:rdɚ]

I. NOUN

1. no pl (being tidy, organized) Ordnung f

to bring some \order into a system/one's life etwas Ordnung in ein System/sein Leben bringen

in \order in Ordnung

to leave sth in \order etw in [einem] ordentlichem Zustand hinterlassen

to put sth in \order etw ordnen [o in Ordnung bringen]

to put one's affairs in \order seine Angelegenheiten ordnen [o in Ordnung bringen

2. no pl (sequence) Reihenfolge f

the children lined up in \order of age die Kinder stellten sich dem Alter nach auf

in \order of preference in der bevorzugten Reihenfolge

in alphabetical/chronological/reverse \order in alphabetischer/chronologischer/umgekehrter Reihenfolge

to sort sth in \order of date/importance/price etw nach Datum/Wichtigkeit/Preis sortieren

to be out of \order durcheinandergeraten sein

running \order BRIT Programm nt, Programmablauf m

word \order Wortstellung f

3. (command) Befehl m, Anordnung f; LAW Verfügung f; COMPUT Anweisung f, Befehl m

\orders are \orders Befehl ist Befehl

they are under \orders to maintain silence sie sind gehalten, Schweigen zu bewahren geh

court \order richterliche Verfügung, Gerichtsbeschluss m

doctor's \orders ärztliche Anweisung

by \order of the police auf polizeiliche Anordnung hin

to give/receive an \order eine Anweisung [o einen Befehl] erteilen/erhalten

to take \orders from sb von jdm Anweisungen entgegennehmen

I won't take \order from you! du hast mir gar nichts zu befehlen!

if you don't learn to take \orders, you're going to have a hard time wenn du nicht lernst, dir etwas sagen zu lassen, wirst du es schwer haben

4. (in a restaurant) Bestellung f; (portion) Portion f

your \order will be ready in a minute, sir Ihre Bestellung kommt gleich!

we'll take three \orders of chicken nuggets wir nehmen drei Mal die Chickennuggets

to take an \order eine Bestellung entgegennehmen

5. COMM (request) Bestellung f; (to make sth also) Auftrag m

to be on \order bestellt sein

done [or made] to \order auf Bestellung [o nach Auftrag] [an]gefertigt

to put in an \order eine Bestellung aufgeben; (to make sth also) einen Auftrag erteilen

to take an \order eine Bestellung aufnehmen; (to make sth also) einen Auftrag aufnehmen

6. FIN Zahlungsanweisung f, Order m fachspr

pay to the \order of Mr Smith zahlbar an Herrn Smith

banker's [or standing] \order Dauerauftrag m

money \order Postanweisung f

7. STOCKEX Order m

market \order Bestensauftrag m fachspr

stop-loss \order Stop-Loss-Auftrag m fachspr

good-till-canceled \order AM Auftrag m bis auf Widerruf

fill or kill \order Sofortauftrag m

8. no pl (observance of rules, correct behaviour) Ordnung f; (discipline) Disziplin f

\order! [\order!] please quieten down! Ruhe bitte! seien Sie bitte leise!

to be in \order in Ordnung sein

is it in \order for me to park my car here? ist es in Ordnung, wenn ich mein Auto hier parke?

to be out of \order BRIT ( fam) person sich akk danebenbenehmen fam; behaviour aus dem Rahmen fallen, nicht in Ordnung sein

your behaviour was well out of \order dein Verhalten fiel ziemlich aus dem Rahmen [o war absolut nicht in Ordnung]

you were definitely out of \order du hast dich völlig danebenbenommen fam

to keep [a class in] \order [in einer Klasse] Ordnung wahren; (maintain discipline) die Disziplin [in einer Klasse] aufrechterhalten

to restore \order die Ordnung wiederherstellen

9. no pl POL, ADMIN (prescribed procedure) Verfahrensweise f; (in the House of Commons) Geschäftsordnung f

\order of the day Tagesordnung f, Traktandenliste f SCHWEIZ

to bring a meeting to \order eine Sitzung zur Rückkehr zur Tagesordnung aufrufen

to raise a point of \order eine Anfrage zur Geschäftsordnung haben

rules of \order Verfahrensregeln pl

\order of service Gottesdienstordnung f

to call to \order das Zeichen zum Beginn geben

to call a meeting to \order (ask to behave) eine Versammlung zur Ordnung rufen; (open officially) einen Sitzung eröffnen

10. no pl (condition) Zustand f

to be in good \order sich in gutem Zustand befinden, in einem guten Zustand sein; (work well) in Ordnung sein, gut funktionieren

to be in working [or running] \order (ready for use) funktionsbereit [o betriebsbereit] sein; (functioning) funktionieren

to be out of \order (not ready for use) nicht betriebsbereit sein; (not working) nicht funktionieren, kaputt sein fam

“out of \order” „außer Betrieb“

11. no pl (intention)

▪ in \order to do sth um etw zu tun

he came home early in \order to see the children er kam früh nach Hause, um die Kinder zu sehen

▪ in \order for... damit...

in \order for us to do our work properly, you have to supply us with the parts wenn korrekt arbeiten sollen, müssen Sie uns die Teile liefern

▪ in \order that... damit...

in \order that you get into college, you have to study hard um aufs College gehen zu können, musst du viel lernen

12. (type) Art f; (dimension)

\order [of magnitude] Größenordnung f

of a completely different \order (type) völlig anderer Art; (dimension) in einer völlig anderen Größenordnung

of the highest \order (quantity) hochgradig; (quality) von höchster Qualität

of [or in] the \order of sth in der Größenordnung einer S. gen

this project will cost in the \order of £5000 das Projekt wird ungefähr 500 Pfund kosten

13. (system, constitution) Ordnung f

a new world \order eine neue Weltordnung

14. usu pl BRIT (social class) Schicht f; (social rank) [gesellschaftlicher] Rang

the higher/lower \orders die oberen/unteren Bevölkerungsschichten

15. BIOL (category) Ordnung f

16. REL (society) [geistlicher] Orden

Jesuit O\order Jesuitenorden m

17. (elite) Orden m

O\order of the Garters Hosenbandorden m

O\order of Merit Verdienstorden m

Masonic O\order Freimaurerloge f

18. ARCHIT Säulenordnung f

Doric/Ionic \order dorische/ionische Säulenordnung

19. MATH Ordnung f

equations of the second \order Ableitungen erster Ordnung pl

20. REL (priesthood)

▪ \orders pl Weihe f

to take the \orders die Weihe empfangen

21.

▶ to be the \order of the day an der Tagesordnung sein

II. INTRANSITIVE VERB

bestellen

are you ready to \order? möchten Sie schon bestellen?

III. TRANSITIVE VERB

1. (decide, decree)

▪ to \order sth etw anordnen [o befehlen]

police \ordered the disco closed die Polizei ordnete die Schließung der Diskothek an

2. (command)

▪ to \order sb to do sth jdm befehlen [o jdn anweisen] etw zu tun

the doctor \ordered him to stay in bed der Arzt verordnete ihm Bettruhe

▪ to \order sb out jdn zum Verlassen auffordern, jdn hinausbeordern

3. (in a restaurant)

▪ to \order sth etw bestellen

4. COMM (request)

▪ to \order sth etw bestellen; (to be made also) etw in Auftrag geben

5. (arrange)

▪ to \order sth etw ordnen

to \order one's thoughts seine Gedanken ordnen

* * *
['ɔːdə(r)]
1. n

1) (= sequence) (Reihen)folge f, (An)ordnung f

word order — Wortstellung f, Wortfolge f

are they in order/in the right order? — sind sie geordnet/in der richtigen Reihenfolge?

in order of preference/merit — in der bevorzugten/in der ihren Auszeichnungen entsprechenden Reihenfolge

to put sth in (the right) order — etw ordnen

to be in the wrong order or out of order — durcheinander sein; (one item) nicht am richtigen Platz sein

to get out of order — durcheinandergeraten; (one item) an eine falsche Stelle kommen

See:

→ cast

2) (= system) Ordnung f

there's no order in his work — seiner Arbeit fehlt die Systematik

he has no sense of order — er hat kein Gefühl für Systematik or Methode

the order of the world — die Weltordnung

it is in the order of things — es liegt in der Natur der Dinge

a new social/political order — eine neue soziale/politische Ordnung

3) (= tidy or satisfactory state) Ordnung f

his passport was in order — sein Pass war in Ordnung

to put or set one's life/affairs in order — Ordnung in sein Leben/seine Angelegenheiten bringen

4) (= discipline) (in society) Ordnung f; (in school, team) Disziplin f, Ordnung f

to keep order — die Ordnung wahren, die Disziplin aufrechterhalten

to keep the children in order — die Kinder unter Kontrolle halten

or the courtroom (US)! — Ruhe im Gerichtssaal!

order, order! — Ruhe!

5) (= working condition) Zustand m

to be in good order — in gutem Zustand sein

to be out of/in order (car, radio, telephone) — nicht funktionieren/funktionieren; (machine, lift also) außer/in Betrieb sein

"out of order" — "außer Betrieb"

See:

→ working

6) (= command) Befehl m, Order f (old, hum)

by order of the court — laut gerichtlicher Anweisung

orders are orders — Befehl ist Befehl

"no parking/smoking by order" — "Parken/Rauchen verboten!"

"no parking - by order of the Town Council" — "Parken verboten - die Stadtverwaltung"

by order of the minister — auf Anordnung des Ministers

I don't take orders from anyone — ich lasse mir von niemandem befehlen

to be under orders to do sth — Instruktionen haben, etw zu tun

until further orders — bis auf weiteren Befehl

7) (in restaurant etc COMM) Bestellung f; (= contract to manufacture or supply) Auftrag m

to place an order with sb — eine Bestellung bei jdm aufgeben or machen/jdm einen Auftrag geben

to put sth on order — etw in Bestellung/Auftrag geben

to be on order — bestellt sein

two orders of French fries (esp US) — zwei Portionen Pommes frites

made to order — auf Bestellung (gemacht or hergestellt)

8) (FIN)

to order — Orderscheck m, Namensscheck m

pay to the order of — zahlbar an (+acc)

pay X or Order — (zahlbar) an X oder dessen Order

9)

in order to do sth — um etw zu tun

in order that — damit

10)

(= correct procedure at meeting PARL ETC) a point of order — eine Verfahrensfrage

to be out of order — gegen die Verfahrensordnung verstoßen; ( Jur : evidence ) unzulässig sein; (fig) aus dem Rahmen fallen

to call sb to order — jdn ermahnen, sich an die Verfahrensordnung zu halten

to call the meeting/delegates to order —

an explanation/a drink would seem to be in order — eine Erklärung/ein Drink wäre angebracht

congratulations are in order — Glückwünsche sind angebracht

is it in order for me to go to Paris? — ist es in Ordnung, wenn ich nach Paris fahre?

his demand is quite in order — seine Forderung ist völlig berechtigt

what's the order of the day? — was steht auf dem Programm (also fig) or auf der Tagesordnung?; (Mil) wie lautet der Tagesbefehl?

11) (ARCHIT) Säulenordnung f; (fig = class, degree) Art f

intelligence of a high or the first order — hochgradige Intelligenz

the present crisis is of a different order — die gegenwärtige Krise ist andersgeartet

something in the order of ten per cent — in der Größenordnung von zehn Prozent

something in the order of one in ten applicants — etwa einer von zehn Bewerbern

12) (MIL: formation) Ordnung f

13) (social) Schicht f

the higher/lower orders — die oberen/unteren Schichten

the order of baronets — der Freiherrnstand

14) (ECCL of monks etc) Orden m

Benedictine order — Benediktinerorden m

15) orderspl

(holy) orders (Eccl) — Weihe(n) f(pl); (of priesthood) Priesterweihe f

to take (holy) orders — die Weihen empfangen

he is in (holy) orders — er gehört dem geistlichen Stand an

16) (= honour, society of knights) Orden m

Order of Merit (Brit) — Verdienstorden m

See:

→ garter

2. vt

1) (= command, decree) sth befehlen, anordnen; (= prescribe doctor) verordnen (for sb jdm)

to order sb to do sth — jdn etw tun heißen (geh), jdm befehlen or (doctor) verordnen, etw zu tun; (esp Mil) jdn dazu beordern, etw zu tun

to order sb's arrest —

he was ordered to be quiet (in public) the army was ordered to retreat — man befahl ihm, still zu sein er wurde zur Ruhe gerufen dem Heer wurde der Rückzug befohlen

he ordered his gun to be brought (to him) — er ließ sich (dat) sein Gewehr bringen

to order sb out/home — jdn heraus-/heimbeordern (form, hum) or -rufen

2) (= direct, arrange) one's affairs, life ordnen

to order arms (Mil) — das Gewehr abnehmen

3) (COMM ETC) goods, dinner, taxi bestellen; (to be manufactured) ship, suit, machinery etc in Auftrag geben (from sb bei jdm)

3. vi
bestellen
* * *

order [ˈɔː(r)də(r)]

A s

1. Ordnung f, geordneter Zustand:

love of order Ordnungsliebe f;

bring some order into Ordnung bringen in (akk);

keep order Ordnung halten; → Bes Redew

2. (öffentliche) Ordnung:

order was restored die Ordnung wurde wiederhergestellt

3. Ordnung f ( auch BIOL Kategorie), System n ( auch BOT):

the old order was upset die alte Ordnung wurde umgestoßen

4. (An)Ordnung f, Reihenfolge f:

order of precedence ( oder priority) Rangordnung;

in order of importance nach Wichtigkeit; → alphabetic

5. Ordnung f, Aufstellung f:

in close (open) order MIL in geschlossener (geöffneter) Ordnung

6. MIL vorschriftsmäßige Uniform und Ausrüstung: → marching A

7. PARL etc (Geschäfts)Ordnung f:

a call to order ein Ordnungsruf;

call to order zur Ordnung rufen;

rise to (a point of) order zur Geschäftsordnung sprechen;

rule sb out of order jemandem das Wort entziehen;

order of the day, order of business Tagesordnung ( → A 10);

be the order of the day auf der Tagesordnung stehen (a. fig);

pass to the order of the day zur Tagesordnung übergehen

8. Zustand m:

in bad order nicht in Ordnung, in schlechtem Zustand;

in good order in Ordnung, in gutem Zustand

9. LING (Satz)Stellung f, Wortfolge f

10. Befehl m, Instruktion f ( beide auch IT), Anordnung f:

orders are orders Befehl ist Befehl;

order in council POL Br Kabinettsbefehl;

give orders ( oder an order, the order) for sth to be done ( oder that sth [should] be done) Befehl geben, etwas zu tun oder dass etwas getan werde;

order of the day MIL Tagesbefehl ( → A 7); → marching A

11. Verfügung f, Befehl m, Auftrag m:

order to pay Zahlungsbefehl, -anweisung f;

order of remittance Überweisungsauftrag

12. JUR (Gerichts) Beschluss m, Verfügung f, Befehl m:

release order Freilassungsbeschluss; → mandamus

13. Art f, Klasse f, Grad m, Rang m:

of a high order von hohem Rang;

of quite another order von ganz anderer Art

14. MATH Ordnung f, Grad m:

equation of the first order Gleichung f ersten Grades

15. (Größen)Ordnung f:

of ( oder in) (US on) the order of in der Größenordnung von

16. Klasse f, (Gesellschafts)Schicht f:

the military order der Soldatenstand

17. a) Orden m (Gemeinschaft von Personen)

b) (geistlicher) Orden:

the Franciscan Order der Franziskanerorden

c) auch order of knighthood HIST (Ritter)Orden m

18. Orden m:

Knight of the Order of the Garter Ritter m des Hosenbandordens; → bath² A 7, thistle

19. Ordenszeichen n: → Order of Merit 1

20. REL

a) Weihe(stufe) f:

major orders höhere Weihen

b) pl, meist holy orders (heilige) Weihen pl, Priesterweihe f:

take (holy) orders die heiligen Weihen empfangen, in den geistlichen Stand treten;

be in (holy) orders dem geistlichen Stand angehören

21. REL Ordnung f (der Messe etc):

order of confession Beichtordnung

22. Ordnung f, Chor m (der Engel):

Order of the Seraphim

23. ARCH (Säulen)Ordnung f:

Doric order dorische Säulenordnung

24. ARCH Stil m

25. WIRTSCH Bestellung f (auch Ware), Auftrag m ( for für):

give ( oder place) an order einen Auftrag erteilen, eine Bestellung aufgeben oder machen;

make to order

a) auf Bestellung anfertigen,

b) nach Maß anfertigen;

shoes made to order Maßschuhe; → tall A 4

26. a) Bestellung f (im Restaurant etc):

last orders, please Br die letzten Bestellungen!, (etwa) Polizeistunde!

b) umg Portion f

27. WIRTSCH Order f (Zahlungsauftrag):

pay to sb’s order an jemandes Order zahlen;

pay to the order of (Wechselindossament) für mich an (akk);

payable to order zahlbar an Order;

own order eigene Order;

check (Br cheque) to order Orderscheck m

28. besonders Br Einlassschein m, besonders Freikarte f

B v/t

1. jemandem oder eine Sache befehlen, etwas anordnen:

he ordered the bridge to be built er befahl, die Brücke zu bauen;

he ordered him to come er befahl ihm zu kommen, er ließ ihn kommen

2. jemanden schicken, beordern ( beide:

to nach):

order sb home jemanden nach Hause schicken;

order sb out of one’s house jemanden aus seinem Haus weisen;

order sb off the field SPORT jemanden vom Platz stellen

3. MED jemandem etwas verordnen:

order sb to (stay in) bed jemandem Bettruhe verordnen

4. Bücher, ein Glas Bier etc bestellen

5. regeln, leiten, führen

6. MIL das Gewehr bei Fuß stellen:

order arms! Gewehr ab!

7. fig ordnen:

order one’s affairs seine Angelegenheiten in Ordnung bringen, sein Haus bestellen;

an ordered life ein geordnetes Leben

C v/i

1. befehlen, Befehle geben

2. Auftäge erteilen, Bestellungen machen:

are you ready to order now? (im Restaurant) haben Sie schon gewählt?;

have you ordered yet? (im Restaurant) haben Sie schon bestellt?Besondere Redewendungen: at the order MIL Gewehr bei Fuß;

by order

a) befehls- oder auftragsgemäß,

b) im Auftrag (abk i.A.; vor der Unterschrift) by ( oder on) order of

a) auf Befehl von (od gen),

b) im Auftrag von (od gen),

c) WIRTSCH auf Order von (od gen) in order

a) in Ordnung (a. fig gut, richtig),

b) der Reihe nach, in der richtigen Reihenfolge,

c) in Übereinstimmung mit der Geschäftsordnung, zulässig,

d) angebracht in order to um zu;

the meeting has been adjourned in order for me to prepare my speech damit ich meine Rede vorbereiten kann;

in order that … damit …;

in short order US umg sofort, unverzüglich;

keep in order in Ordnung halten, instand halten;

put in order in Ordnung bringen;

set in order ordnen;

on order WIRTSCH

a) auf oder bei Bestellung,

b) bestellt, in Auftrag on the order of

a) nach Art von (od gen),

b) auch on orders of WIRTSCH bei Abnahme oder Bezug von (od gen)

c) auch on orders of auf Befehl von (od gen) out of order nicht in Ordnung:

a) in Unordnung,

b) defekt,

c) MED gestört,

d) im Widerspruch zur Geschäftsordnung, unzulässig I know I am out of order in saying that … ich weiß, es ist unangebracht, wenn ich sage, dass …;

till further orders

a) bis auf weiteren Befehl,

b) bis auf Weiteres order

a) befehlsgemäß,

b) auftragsgemäß,

c) → A 25,

d) → A 27 be under ( oder have) orders to do sth Befehl oder Order haben, etwas zu tun;

be just under orders nur Befehle ausführen;

my orders are to do sth ich habe Befehl, etwas zu tun

ord. abk

1. order

2. ordinal

3. ordinance

4. ordinary gewöhnl.

* * *
1. noun
1) (sequence) Reihenfolge, die

word order — Wortstellung, die

in order of importance/size/age — nach Wichtigkeit/Größe/Alter

put something in order — etwas [in der richtigen Reihenfolge] ordnen

keep something in order — etwas in der richtigen Reihenfolge halten

answer the questions in order — die Fragen der Reihe nach beantworten

out of order — nicht in der richtigen Reihenfolge

2) (normal state) Ordnung, die

put or set something/one's affairs in order — Ordnung in etwas bringen/seine Angelegenheiten ordnen

be/not be in order — in Ordnung/nicht in Ordnung sein (ugs.)

be out of/in order — (not in/in working condition) nicht funktionieren/funktionieren

‘out of order’ — "außer Betrieb"

in good/bad order — in gutem/schlechtem Zustand

in working order — betriebsfähig

3) in sing. and pl. (command) Anweisung, die; Anordnung, die; (Mil.) Befehl, der; (Law) Beschluss, der; Verfügung, die

my orders are to..., I have orders to... — ich habe Anweisung zu...

while following orders — bei Befolgung der Anweisung

act on orders — auf Befehl handeln

orders are orders — Befehl ist Befehl

court order — Gerichtsbeschluss, der

by order of — auf Anordnung (+ Gen.)

4)

in order to do something — um etwas zu tun

in order that somebody should do something — damit jemand etwas tut

5) (Commerc.) Auftrag, der ( for über + Akk.); Bestellung, die ( for Gen.); Order, die (Kaufmannsspr.); (to waiter, ordered goods) Bestellung, die

place an order [with somebody] — [jemandem] einen Auftrag erteilen

have something on order — etwas bestellt haben

made to order — nach Maß angefertigt, maßgeschneidert [Kleidung]

6) (law-abiding state)

keep order — Ordnung [be]wahren; see also law 2)

7) (Eccl.) Orden, der

holy orders — heilige Weihen

8)

Order! Order! — zur Ordnung!; Ruhe bitte!

Call somebody/the meeting to order — jemanden/die Versammlung zur Ordnung rufen

point of order — Verfahrensfrage, die

be in order — zulässig sein; (fig.) [Forderung:] berechtigt sein; [Drink, Erklärung:] angebracht sein

it is in order for him to do that — (fig.) es ist in Ordnung, wenn er das tut (ugs.)

be out of order — (unacceptable) gegen die Geschäftsordnung verstoßen; [Verhalten, Handlung:] unzulässig sein

9) (kind, degree) Klasse, die; Art, die

10) (Finance) Order, die

[banker's] order — [Bank]anweisung, die

‘pay to the order of...’ — "zahlbar an..." (+ Akk.)

11)

order [of magnitude] — Größenordnung, die

of or in the order of... — in der Größenordnung von...

a scoundrel of the first order — (fig. coll.) ein Schurke ersten Ranges
2. transitive verb
1) (command) befehlen; anordnen; [Richter:] verfügen; verordnen [Arznei, Ruhe usw.]

order somebody to do something — jemanden anweisen/(Milit.) jemandem befehlen, etwas zu tun

order something [to be] done — anordnen, dass etwas getan wird

order somebody out of the house — jemanden aus dem Haus weisen

2) (direct the supply of) bestellen ( from bei); ordern [Kaufmannsspr.]

order in advance — vorbestellen

3) (arrange) ordnen

Phrasal Verbs:

- order about

- order off

* * *

n.

Auftrag -¨e m.

Befehl -e m.

Grad -e m.

Kommando -s n.

Ordnung -en (Mathematik) f.

Ordnung -en f. v.

anfordern (commerce) v.

anordnen v.

befehlen v.

(§ p.,pp.: befahl, befohlen)

bestellen v.

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not well-organized

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