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61 до смешного
[PrepP; Invar; modif or adv (intensif)]=====⇒ extremely, to an excessive degree:- absurd(ly);- to ridiculous lengths.♦ "...Согласитесь, Павел Петрович, что поединок наш необычаен до смешного. Вы посмотрите только на физиономию нашего секунданта" (Тургенев 2). "...You must admit, Pavel Petrovich, that our duel is unusual to the point of absurdity. Just look at our second's countenance" (2c).♦...Он успешно выступал на собраниях и откровенно, на глазах у живого завуча, правда, до смешного похожего на дореволюционного интеллигента, метил на его место и был близок к цели (Искандер 3)....He made some successful speeches at meetings and openly set his sights on the principal's job - in full view of the existing principal, who did in truth bear an absurd resemblance to a prerevolutionary intellectual - and came close to getting it (3a).♦ В "Новом мире" с первой же минуты получения рукописи "[Ракового] корпуса" из ней сделали секретный документ, так определил Твардовский. Они боялись, что рукопись вырвется, пойдет, остерегались до смешного: не дали читать... в собственный отдел прозы! (Солженицын 2). As soon as the manuscript of Cancer Ward arrived at Novy Mir, it became a secret document, on Tvardovsky's instructions. In their fear that it [the manuscript] would slip its leash and "go the rounds," they carried their precautions to ridiculous lengths: they wouldn't even show it to the staff of their own prose department! (2a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > до смешного
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62 class
class [klα:s]1. nouna. ( = group) classe f• first class honours in history ≈ licence f d'histoire avec mention très bien• to give or take a class faire un coursc. ( = style) classe f3. adjective( = very good) (inf) de grande classe4. compounds* * *[klɑːs], US [klæs] 1.1) Sociology classe f2) ( group of students) classe f; ( lesson) cours m (in de)to take a class — GB assurer un cours; US suivre un cours
3) ( year group) promotion f, classe f4) ( category) classe f, catégorie f5) (colloq) ( elegance) classe f6) Tourism classe fto travel first/second class — voyager en première/deuxième classe
7) GB University ≈ mention fa first-/second-class degree — ≈ licence avec mention très bien/bien
8) Biology, Mathematics classe f2.transitive verb classerto class somebody/something as — assimiler quelqu'un/quelque chose à
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63 primo
['primo] primo (-a)1. aggin prima pagina Stampa; i suoi primi quadri — his early paintings
2) (in un ordine) firstessere primo in classifica — (squadra) to be top of the league, (disco) to be number one in the charts
sul primo scaffale in alto/in basso — on the top/bottom shelf
di prim'ordine o prima qualità — first-class, first-rate
3) (prossimo) first, nextprendi la prima (strada) a destra — take the first o next (street) on the right
4) (principale) main, principal5)per prima cosa — firstlyin primo luogo — in the first place, first of all
in un primo tempo o momento — at first
2. sm/f3. sm(gen) first, (piano) first floor Brit, second floor Am, Culin first course -
64 Harrison, John
[br]b. 24 March 1693 Foulby, Yorkshire, Englandd. 24 March 1776 London, England[br]English horologist who constructed the first timekeeper of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea and invented the gridiron pendulum for temperature compensation.[br]John Harrison was the son of a carpenter and was brought up to that trade. He was largely self-taught and learned mechanics from a copy of Nicholas Saunderson's lectures that had been lent to him. With the assistance of his younger brother, James, he built a series of unconventional clocks, mainly of wood. He was always concerned to reduce friction, without using oil, and this influenced the design of his "grasshopper" escapement. He also invented the "gridiron" compensation pendulum, which depended on the differential expansion of brass and steel. The excellent performance of his regulator clocks, which incorporated these devices, convinced him that they could also be used in a sea dock to compete for the longitude prize. In 1714 the Government had offered a prize of £20,000 for a method of determining longitude at sea to within half a degree after a voyage to the West Indies. In theory the longitude could be found by carrying an accurate timepiece that would indicate the time at a known longitude, but the requirements of the Act were very exacting. The timepiece would have to have a cumulative error of no more than two minutes after a voyage lasting six weeks.In 1730 Harrison went to London with his proposal for a sea clock, supported by examples of his grasshopper escapement and his gridiron pendulum. His proposal received sufficient encouragement and financial support, from George Graham and others, to enable him to return to Barrow and construct his first sea clock, which he completed five years later. This was a large and complicated machine that was made out of brass but retained the wooden wheelwork and the grasshopper escapement of the regulator clocks. The two balances were interlinked to counteract the rolling of the vessel and were controlled by helical springs operating in tension. It was the first timepiece with a balance to have temperature compensation. The effect of temperature change on the timekeeping of a balance is more pronounced than it is for a pendulum, as two effects are involved: the change in the size of the balance; and the change in the elasticity of the balance spring. Harrison compensated for both effects by using a gridiron arrangement to alter the tension in the springs. This timekeeper performed creditably when it was tested on a voyage to Lisbon, and the Board of Longitude agreed to finance improved models. Harrison's second timekeeper dispensed with the use of wood and had the added refinement of a remontoire, but even before it was tested he had embarked on a third machine. The balance of this machine was controlled by a spiral spring whose effective length was altered by a bimetallic strip to compensate for changes in temperature. In 1753 Harrison commissioned a London watchmaker, John Jefferys, to make a watch for his own personal use, with a similar form of temperature compensation and a modified verge escapement that was intended to compensate for the lack of isochronism of the balance spring. The time-keeping of this watch was surprisingly good and Harrison proceeded to build a larger and more sophisticated version, with a remontoire. This timekeeper was completed in 1759 and its performance was so remarkable that Harrison decided to enter it for the longitude prize in place of his third machine. It was tested on two voyages to the West Indies and on both occasions it met the requirements of the Act, but the Board of Longitude withheld half the prize money until they had proof that the timekeeper could be duplicated. Copies were made by Harrison and by Larcum Kendall, but the Board still continued to prevaricate and Harrison received the full amount of the prize in 1773 only after George III had intervened on his behalf.Although Harrison had shown that it was possible to construct a timepiece of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea, his solution was too complex and costly to be produced in quantity. It had, for example, taken Larcum Kendall two years to produce his copy of Harrison's fourth timekeeper, but Harrison had overcome the psychological barrier and opened the door for others to produce chronometers in quantity at an affordable price. This was achieved before the end of the century by Arnold and Earnshaw, but they used an entirely different design that owed more to Le Roy than it did to Harrison and which only retained Harrison's maintaining power.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Copley Medal 1749.Bibliography1767, The Principles of Mr Harrison's Time-keeper, with Plates of the Same, London. 1767, Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by the Rev. Mr Maskelyne Under theAuthority of the Board of Longitude, London.1775, A Description Concerning Such Mechanisms as Will Afford a Nice or True Mensuration of Time, London.Further ReadingR.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press.—1978, John Harrison and His Timekeepers, 4th edn, London: National Maritime Museum.H.Quill, 1966, John Harrison, the Man who Found Longitude, London. A.G.Randall, 1989, "The technology of John Harrison's portable timekeepers", Antiquarian Horology 18:145–60, 261–77.J.Betts, 1993, John Harrison London (a good short account of Harrison's work). S.Smiles, 1905, Men of Invention and Industry; London: John Murray, Chapter III. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. IX, pp. 35–6.DV -
65 master
1. n хозяин, владелец; господинthe master of the house — глава семьи; хозяин дома
to play the master — хозяйничать, распоряжаться
I am not my own master — я не волен поступать, как хочу, я собой не распоряжаюсь
to be master of oneself — владеть собой, держать себя в руках
we will see which of us is master — посмотрим, кто из нас хозяин положения
after hard fighting, the defenders were still masters of the city — после тяжёлых боёв город оставался в руках его защитников
master of the house — хозяин, глава семьи
2. n учитель3. n глава колледжаthe master of the household — хозяин дома, глава семьи
4. n магистрGrand Master — великий магистр, гроссмейстер
5. n мастер, знаток своего дела, специалистhe is master of this subject — он глубоко знает этот предмет, он специалист по этому предмету
6. n квалифицированный рабочий; мастерmaster hand — мастер, специалист
7. n великий, знаменитый художник, мастерmaster gunner — старший инструктор по стрельбе; мастер стрельбы
8. n в названиях должностей9. n молодой барин, барчук; мастер, господинcomplete master of fence — настоящий мастер фехтования, искусный фехтовальщик
10. n шотл. старший сын титулованного лицаmaster index — главный индекс; старший индекс
11. n Христос12. n капитан, шкиперmaster mariner — капитан, шкипер
13. n ист. штурман14. n спец. модель; оригинал, образецmaster drawing — оригинал; эталонный чертеж
15. n первый оригиналfilm master — оригинал микрофильма; оригинал на плёнке
16. n руководство17. a главный, старшийmaster bedroom — спальня хозяев, господская спальня
18. a основной; сводный19. a контрольный20. v справляться, одолевать, подчинять себеto master the enemy — наносить поражение противнику, одерживать победу над противником
21. v преодолевать22. v овладевать23. v руководить, управлять24. v русск. как компонент сложных слов, соответствует компоненту -мачтовикСинонимический ряд:1. dominant (adj.) ascendant; dominant; outweighing; overbalancing; overbearing; overweighing; paramount; predominant; predominate; preponderant; prevalent; regnant; sovereign2. major (adj.) chief; excellent; leading; main; major; principal; supreme3. proficient (adj.) accomplished; adept; crack; crackerjack; deft; expert; masterful; masterly; practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful4. expert (noun) adept; artist; artiste; authority; champion; connoisseur; doyen; expert; genius; maestro; master-hand; maven; passed master; past master; pro; professional; proficient; sage; scholar; swell; virtuoso; whiz; wiz; wizard5. leader (noun) boss; captain; chief; chieftain; cock; commander; director; dominator; head; headman; hierarch; honcho; leader; lord; overlord; ruler; superintendent; supervisor6. lover (noun) boyfriend; fancy man; lover; man; paramour7. original (noun) archetype; original; prototype8. owner (noun) holder; owner; possessor; proprietor9. supreme being (noun) Christ; god; messiah; supreme being10. teacher (noun) educator; instructor; mentor; preceptor; teacher11. victor (noun) conqueror; defeater; subduer; subjugator; vanquisher; victor; winner12. conquer (verb) conquer; defeat; humble; overpower; rule; subdue; vanquish13. domesticate (verb) domesticate; domesticize; domiciliate; gentle; tame14. learn (verb) comprehend; control; dominate; gain mastery in; get; learn; pick up; study; understand15. overcome (verb) best; down; hurdle; lick; overcome; prevail; surmount; throw; triumph; worstАнтонимический ряд:inept; novice; resist; student; subject -
66 Scheutz, George
SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology[br]b. 23 September 1785 Jonkoping, Swedend. 27 May 1873 Stockholm, Sweden[br]Swedish lawyer, journalist and self-taught engineer who, with his son Edvard Raphael Scheutz (b. 13 September 1821 Stockholm, Sweden; d. 28 January 1881 Stockholm, Sweden) constructed a version of the Babbage Difference Engine.[br]After early education at the Jonkoping elementary school and the Weixo Gymnasium, George Scheutz entered the University of Lund, gaining a degree in law in 1805. Following five years' legal work, he moved to Stockholm in 1811 to work at the Supreme Court and, in 1814, as a military auditor. In 1816, he resigned, bought a printing business and became editor of a succession of industrial and technical journals, during which time he made inventions relating to the press. It was in 1830 that he learned from the Edinburgh Review of Babbage's ideas for a difference engine and started to make one from wood, pasteboard and wire. In 1837 his 15-yearold student son, Edvard Raphael Scheutz, offered to make it in metal, and by 1840 they had a working machine with two five-digit registers, which they increased the following year and then added a printer. Obtaining a government grant in 1851, by 1853 they had a fully working machine, now known as Swedish Difference Engine No. 1, which with an experienced operator could generate 120 lines of tables per hour and was used to calculate the logarithms of the numbers 1 to 10,000 in under eighty hours. This was exhibited in London and then at the Paris Great Exhibition, where it won the Gold Medal. It was subsequently sold to the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New York, for US$5,000 and is now in a Chicago museum.In England, the British Registrar-General, wishing to produce new tables for insurance companies, and supported by the Astronomer Royal, arranged for government finance for construction of a second machine (Swedish Difference Engine No. 2). Comprising over 1,000 working parts and weighing 1,000 lb (450 kg), this machine was used to calculate over 600 tables. It is now in the Science Museum.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsMember of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, Paris Exhibition Medal of Honour (jointly with Edvard) 1856. Annual pension of 1,200 marks per annum awarded by King Carl XV 1860.Bibliography1825, "Kranpunpar. George Scheutz's patent of 14 Nov 1825", Journal for Manufacturer och Hushallning 8.1855, with E.S.Scheutz, Machine à calcul qui présente les résultats en les imprimantellemême, Stockholm.Further ReadingR.C.Archibald, 1947, "P.G.Scheutz, publicist, author, scientific mechanic and Edvard Scheutz, engineer. Biography and Bibliography", MTAC 238.U.C.Merzbach, 1977, "George Scheutz and the first printing calculator", SmithsonianStudies in History and Technology 36:73.M.Lindgren, 1990, Glory and Failure (the Difference Engines of Johan Muller, Charles Babbage and George \& Edvard Scheutz), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.KF
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