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retire within

1 secedo

sē-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3, v. n., to go apart, go away, separate, withdraw (class.; not in Cæs.; but cf. secessio).
I.
Lit.
A.
In gen., absol.:
secedant improbi, secernant se a bonis,
Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32; Ov. M. 6, 490:
prosecutus eram viatico secedentem,
Plin. Ep. 3, 21, 2:
abite et de viā secedite,
Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 2:
de coetu,
Ov. M. 2, 465:
a vestro potui secedere lusu,
Prop. 1, 10, 9:
utinam nostro secedere corpore possem!
Ov. M. 3, 467.—
2.
Poet., of inanim. subjects, to remove, withdraw; and in the perf., to be distant:
(luna) quantum solis secedit ab orbe,
Lucr. 5, 705:
ab imis terra,
Ov. F 6, 279:
(villa) decem et septem milibus passuum ab urbe secessit,
Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 2; Claud. Epith. Pall. et Cell. 63.—
B.
In partic.
1.
To go aside, withdraw, [p. 1652] retire:
secede huc nunc jam procul,
Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 23; so,
huc,
id. Am. 2, 2, 139; id. As. 3, 3, 49; id. Capt. 2, 2, 13:
in abditam partem aedium,
Sall. C. 20, 1:
in utraque latera (cohortes),
Front. Strat. 6, 6, 3:
ad deliberandum,
Liv. 45, 36:
ad consultandum,
Suet. Ner. 15:
lex Spartana vetat secedere amantes,
Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 21:
secedit humumque Effodit,
Ov. M. 11, 185. —
b.
In post-Aug. authors (esp. in Suet.), to retire from public into private life; absol.:
integrā aetate ac valetudine statuit repente secedere seque e medio quam longissime amovere,
Suet. Tib. 10:
illuc e comitatu suo,
id. Aug. 98; so Plin. Ep. 1, 9, 3:
ab Urbe,
Suet. Gram. 3:
in insulam, etc.,
Quint. 3, 1, 17; Suet. Vesp. 4; id. Gram. 5; cf.
Rhodum,
id. Caes. 4.—
c.
To seek the exclusive society of any one, to retire from the world:
ad optimos viros,
Sen. Ot. Sap. 1, 1. —
2.
Polit., to separate one's self by rebellion, to revolt, secede (syn.:
deficio, descisco): ut anno XVI. post reges exactos propter nimiam dominationem potentium secederent,
Cic. Corn. 1, p. 450 Orell.:
saepe ipsa plebes armata a patribus secessit,
Sall. C. 33, 3; Suet. Tib. 2:
injussu consulum in Sacrum Montem secessisse,
to have marched out in rebellion, Liv. 2, 32; so,
in Sacrum Montem,
id. 7, 40; Flor. 1, 23:
in Janiculum (plebs),
Plin. 16, 10, 15, § 37.—
II.
Trop. (very rare; perh. only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):
antequam ego incipio secedere et aliā parte considere,
to dissent from the opinion, Sen. Ep. 117, 4:
a fesso corpore sensus,
Cat. 64, 189:
qui solitarius separatusque a communi malo civitatis secesserit,
has withdrawn himself, Gell. 2, 12, 1:
cum ad stilum secedet,
shall give himself up to writing, Quint. 1, 12, 12:
in te ipse secede,
retire within yourself, Sen. Ep. 25, 7.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > secedo
2 ἐνδύνω

ἐνδύνω (epic, Ionic, poet. form beside ἐνδύω, as early as Hom.; Aelian, VH 4, 22; PGM 7, 271; LXX [Helbing 83; 92], in var. senses ‘go into [freq. of clothes], enter, creep’)

① to enter into an area through devious means or pretense, slip in (Antig. Car. 172: slip εἰς τοὺς κόλπους) εἰς τὰς οἰκίας worm their way into houses 2 Ti 3:6.

② to become introspective, retire within fig. ext. of 1 μὴ καθʼ ἑαυτοὺς ἐνδύνοντες μονάζετε do not retire within yourselves and live alone B 4:10.—M-M.

Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία > ἐνδύνω
3 a se retrage în propriile tranşee

to retire within one's lines.

Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a se retrage în propriile tranşee
4 habitantes

hăbĭto, āvi, ātum, 1 ( gen. plur. of the part. pres. habitantum, Ov. M. 14, 90), v. freq. a. and n. [habeo].
I.
In gen., to have frequently, to be wont to have (anteclass. and very rare): epicrocum, Varr. ap. Non. 318, 25:
comas,
id. ib. 27.—
II.
In partic., to have possession of, to inhabit a place; and more freq. neut., to dwell, abide, reside, live anywhere (the class. signif. of the word; cf.: colo, incolo, commoror).
A.
Lit.
1.
Act.:
centum urbes habitant magnas,
Verg. A. 3, 106:
silvas,
id. E. 6, 2:
hoc nemus, hunc collem (deus),
id. A. 8, 352:
humiles casas,
id. E. 2, 29:
terras,
Ov. H. 1, 66; id. M. 1, 195:
pruinas,
Val. Fl. 2, 177:
locum,
Tac. Agr. 11; cf. Liv. 5, 51, 3. — Pass.:
colitur ea pars (urbis) et habitatur frequentissime,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 28:
arx procul iis, quae habitabantur,
Liv. 24, 3, 2:
applicata colli habitatur colonia Corinthus,
Plin. 4, 4, 5, § 11; 5, 7, 7, § 42:
Scythiae confinis est regio habitaturque pluribus vicis,
Curt. 8, 2, 14:
nobis habitabitur orbis Ultimus,
Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 127:
tellus Bistoniis habitata viris,
id. M. 13, 430; cf.:
nec patria est habitata tibi,
id. Tr. 5, 3, 21; Sil. 2, 654:
raris habitata mapalia tectis,
Verg. G. 3, 340; cf.:
(agellus) habitatus quinque focis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 2:
campi olim uberes magnisque urbibus habitati,
Tac. H. 5, 7:
quae sit tellus habitanda (sibi), requirit,
Ov. M. 3, 9; cf.:
cesserunt nitidis habitandae piscibus undae,
id. ib. 1, 74:
habitandaque fana Apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,
Hor. Epod. 16, 19:
proavis habitatas linquere silvas,
Juv. 15, 152.—
2.
Neutr.:
in illisce habitat aedibus Amphitruo,
Plaut. Am. prol. 97; cf.:
cujus hic in aediculis habitat decem, ut opinor, milibus,
Cic. Cael. 7, 17:
in gurgustio,
id. N. D. 1, 9, 22:
in via,
on the high-road, id. Phil. 2, 41, 106:
in Sicilia,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 95:
in arboribus (aves),
Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 363:
Lilybaei,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 38:
lucis opacis,
Verg. A. 6, 673:
vallibus imis,
id. ib. 3, 110:
casa straminea,
Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 20; cf.:
sub terra habitare,
Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95:
apud aliquem,
id. Ac. 2, 26, 115; cf. id. Brut. 90, 309; id. Cael. 21, 51; id. Clu. 12, 33; id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 83:
cum aliquo,
id. ib. 2, 1, 25, §
64: cum illa apud te,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 41.— Absol.:
triginta milibus dixistis eum habitare,
Cic. Cael. 7, 17; cf.:
nunc si quis tanti (i. e. sex milibus) habitet,
Vell. 2, 10, 1:
bene,
to have a good habitation, Nep. Att. 13; so,
dum sic ergo habitat Cetronius,
so splendidly, Juv. 14, 92:
avecta est peregre hinc habitatum,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 37; cf.:
is habitatum huc commigravit,
id. Trin. 4, 3, 77; and:
rus habitatum abii,
Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 27:
commorandi natura deversorium nobis, non habitandi locum dedit,
Cic. de Sen. 23, 84:
habitandi causa,
Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 8.—Part. as subst.: hăbĭtantes, ium, the inhabitants: numquam tecta subeamus: super habitantes aliquando procumbunt, Quint. 2, 16, 6; Ov. M. 14, 90:
oppidum valetudine habitantium infame,
Mel. 1, 16, 1:
ad occasum,
Plin. 2, 70, 82, § 180.— Pass. impers.:
vides, habitari in terra raris et angustis in locis, et in ipsis quasi maculis, ubi habitatur, vastas solitudines interjectas,
Cic. Rep. 6, 19:
habitari ait Xenophanes in luna,
that the moon is inhabited, id. Ac. 2, 39, 123:
vicorum, quibus frequenter habitabatur,
Liv. 2, 62, 4.—
B.
Transf., to stay, remain, dwell, or keep in any place; to keep to, dwell upon a thing (a favorite expression with Cicero):
cum iis, qui in foro habitarunt, de dignitate contendas?
Cic. Mur. 9, 21; cf.:
habitare in Rostris,
id. Brut. 89, 305:
in subselliis,
id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.
also: in oculis,
to be always in public, id. Planc. 27, 66:
illi qui hoc solum colendum ducebant, habitarunt in hac una ratione tractanda,
id. de Or. 2, 38, 160:
in bonis haerebit et habitabit suis,
to dwell upon, id. Or. 15, 49; cf. id. de Or. 2, 72, 292:
qui potest igitur habitare in beata vita summi mali metus?
id. Fin. 2, 28, 92:
cum his habitare pernoctareque curis (i. e. studiis)!
id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:
quorum in vultu habitant oculi mei,
id. Phil. 12, 1, 2:
animus habitat in oculis,
Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145; cf.:
mens ibi (in corde) habitat,
id. 11, 37, 69, § 182:
qui tibi (Amori) jucundumst, siccis habitare medullis,
Prop. 2, 11 (3, 3), 17:
peregrinatus est hujus animus in nequitia, non habitavit,
Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 1:
tecum habita,
i. e. retire within thyself, examine thyself, Pers. 4, 52.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > habitantes
5 habito

hăbĭto, āvi, ātum, 1 ( gen. plur. of the part. pres. habitantum, Ov. M. 14, 90), v. freq. a. and n. [habeo].
I.
In gen., to have frequently, to be wont to have (anteclass. and very rare): epicrocum, Varr. ap. Non. 318, 25:
comas,
id. ib. 27.—
II.
In partic., to have possession of, to inhabit a place; and more freq. neut., to dwell, abide, reside, live anywhere (the class. signif. of the word; cf.: colo, incolo, commoror).
A.
Lit.
1.
Act.:
centum urbes habitant magnas,
Verg. A. 3, 106:
silvas,
id. E. 6, 2:
hoc nemus, hunc collem (deus),
id. A. 8, 352:
humiles casas,
id. E. 2, 29:
terras,
Ov. H. 1, 66; id. M. 1, 195:
pruinas,
Val. Fl. 2, 177:
locum,
Tac. Agr. 11; cf. Liv. 5, 51, 3. — Pass.:
colitur ea pars (urbis) et habitatur frequentissime,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 53, § 119; cf. Quint. 1, 4, 28:
arx procul iis, quae habitabantur,
Liv. 24, 3, 2:
applicata colli habitatur colonia Corinthus,
Plin. 4, 4, 5, § 11; 5, 7, 7, § 42:
Scythiae confinis est regio habitaturque pluribus vicis,
Curt. 8, 2, 14:
nobis habitabitur orbis Ultimus,
Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 127:
tellus Bistoniis habitata viris,
id. M. 13, 430; cf.:
nec patria est habitata tibi,
id. Tr. 5, 3, 21; Sil. 2, 654:
raris habitata mapalia tectis,
Verg. G. 3, 340; cf.:
(agellus) habitatus quinque focis,
Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 2:
campi olim uberes magnisque urbibus habitati,
Tac. H. 5, 7:
quae sit tellus habitanda (sibi), requirit,
Ov. M. 3, 9; cf.:
cesserunt nitidis habitandae piscibus undae,
id. ib. 1, 74:
habitandaque fana Apris reliquit et rapacibus lupis,
Hor. Epod. 16, 19:
proavis habitatas linquere silvas,
Juv. 15, 152.—
2.
Neutr.:
in illisce habitat aedibus Amphitruo,
Plaut. Am. prol. 97; cf.:
cujus hic in aediculis habitat decem, ut opinor, milibus,
Cic. Cael. 7, 17:
in gurgustio,
id. N. D. 1, 9, 22:
in via,
on the high-road, id. Phil. 2, 41, 106:
in Sicilia,
id. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 95:
in arboribus (aves),
Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 363:
Lilybaei,
Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 38:
lucis opacis,
Verg. A. 6, 673:
vallibus imis,
id. ib. 3, 110:
casa straminea,
Prop. 2, 16 (3, 8), 20; cf.:
sub terra habitare,
Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 95:
apud aliquem,
id. Ac. 2, 26, 115; cf. id. Brut. 90, 309; id. Cael. 21, 51; id. Clu. 12, 33; id. Verr. 2, 2, 34, § 83:
cum aliquo,
id. ib. 2, 1, 25, §
64: cum illa apud te,
Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 41.— Absol.:
triginta milibus dixistis eum habitare,
Cic. Cael. 7, 17; cf.:
nunc si quis tanti (i. e. sex milibus) habitet,
Vell. 2, 10, 1:
bene,
to have a good habitation, Nep. Att. 13; so,
dum sic ergo habitat Cetronius,
so splendidly, Juv. 14, 92:
avecta est peregre hinc habitatum,
Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 37; cf.:
is habitatum huc commigravit,
id. Trin. 4, 3, 77; and:
rus habitatum abii,
Ter. Hec. 2, 1, 27:
commorandi natura deversorium nobis, non habitandi locum dedit,
Cic. de Sen. 23, 84:
habitandi causa,
Caes. B. C. 3, 112, 8.—Part. as subst.: hăbĭtantes, ium, the inhabitants: numquam tecta subeamus: super habitantes aliquando procumbunt, Quint. 2, 16, 6; Ov. M. 14, 90:
oppidum valetudine habitantium infame,
Mel. 1, 16, 1:
ad occasum,
Plin. 2, 70, 82, § 180.— Pass. impers.:
vides, habitari in terra raris et angustis in locis, et in ipsis quasi maculis, ubi habitatur, vastas solitudines interjectas,
Cic. Rep. 6, 19:
habitari ait Xenophanes in luna,
that the moon is inhabited, id. Ac. 2, 39, 123:
vicorum, quibus frequenter habitabatur,
Liv. 2, 62, 4.—
B.
Transf., to stay, remain, dwell, or keep in any place; to keep to, dwell upon a thing (a favorite expression with Cicero):
cum iis, qui in foro habitarunt, de dignitate contendas?
Cic. Mur. 9, 21; cf.:
habitare in Rostris,
id. Brut. 89, 305:
in subselliis,
id. de Or. 1, 62, 264; cf.
also: in oculis,
to be always in public, id. Planc. 27, 66:
illi qui hoc solum colendum ducebant, habitarunt in hac una ratione tractanda,
id. de Or. 2, 38, 160:
in bonis haerebit et habitabit suis,
to dwell upon, id. Or. 15, 49; cf. id. de Or. 2, 72, 292:
qui potest igitur habitare in beata vita summi mali metus?
id. Fin. 2, 28, 92:
cum his habitare pernoctareque curis (i. e. studiis)!
id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:
quorum in vultu habitant oculi mei,
id. Phil. 12, 1, 2:
animus habitat in oculis,
Plin. 11, 37, 54, § 145; cf.:
mens ibi (in corde) habitat,
id. 11, 37, 69, § 182:
qui tibi (Amori) jucundumst, siccis habitare medullis,
Prop. 2, 11 (3, 3), 17:
peregrinatus est hujus animus in nequitia, non habitavit,
Val. Max. 6, 9, ext. 1:
tecum habita,
i. e. retire within thyself, examine thyself, Pers. 4, 52.

Lewis & Short latin dictionary > habito
6 свивам

1. (прегьвам) bend, анат. flex

(плат) fold

свивам пръсти bend o.'s fingers

свивам юмрук clench o.'s fist

свивам крака draw/pull in o.'s legs

свивам на две bend in two; fold in two

2. (увивам на кълбо, тръба) roll (up); twist

(знаме, платно на кораб) furl, strike, roll up, take in

свивам на кълбо roll into a ball

свивам карта roll up a map

свивам цигара roll a cigarette

свивам хартия twist up a piece of paper

3. (загьвам, опаковам) wrap up

4. (тръгвам по, възвивам) turn

свивам надясно turn right/to the right

свивам по улица turn into/up/down a street

свивам бързо подир някого wheel after s.o.

5. (венец, китка) make

свивам на венец twine into a wreath

6. (дреха) take in

(при плетене) cast off, knit two etc. together

7. (сгърчвам, сбръчквам)

свивам очи screw up/narrow o.'s eyes

свивам устни purse o.'s lips

свивам презрително устни curl up o.'s lips

свивам вежди knit/pucker o.'s brows

8. (за вятър, буря) come up, rise

9. (за болка, скръб) grip

свива ме корем have a colic

10. (открадвам) разг. pinch, lift

свивам си устата hold o.'s tongue, sl. keep o.'s trap/o.'s big mouth shut

свивам гнездо build a nest (и прен.), (прен. u) pitch o.'s tent

свивам знамената прен. beat a retreat

свивам рамена shrug (o.'s shoulders)

свивам рамена, вместо да отговоря shrug off a question

свива студ a cold spell sets in

свивам си опашката put o.'s tail between o.'s legs (и прен.), (прен. u) come to heel

свивам някому сармите вж. сарма

свивам се

11. shrink, contract

(изсъхвам, увяхвам) shrivel up

свивам се при пране shrink in washing

плат, който не се свива shrink-proof/pre-shrunk material

12. (навеждам се, сгушвам се) bend (double), double up, huddle (o.s.)

(от страх, раболепие) cower, crouch, cringe, quail ( пред before)

(сгъвам се, като една част влиза в друга) telescope

свивам се от болка double up with pain, be doubled (up) with pain

свивам се от студ double up/shiver with cold

колената ми се свиха my knees doubled up under me

свивам се под масата cower under the table

свивам се в ъгъла huddle up in/shrink into the corner

свили са се в една стая they are all crowded/crammed in one room

13. (за змия) coil up

свивам се на кълбо roll o.s. up into a ball

14. (сгърчвам се) (за вежди) knit

(за очи) narrow

лицето му се сви от болка his face was screwed up with pain

лицето му се свиваше конвулсивно his features were working convulsively

15. (за птица) dart down, dive

16.(за буря. вятър) come up, (a)rise

17. прен. (пестя) live frugally, stint o.s.

(скъперник съм) screw, skin a flint, look twice at every penny

18. прен. (стеснявам се) be shy

свива ми се сърцето (от страх и пр.) my heart sinks within me, ( от мъка) my heart bleeds, it wrings my heart ( като to с inf.)

свивам се в черупката си retire/withdraw/shrink into o.'s shell, shrink into o s.. свила се е змия в кесията ми be a skinflint

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свѝвам,

гл.

1. ( прегъвам) bend, flex; анат. flex; ( плат) fold; \свивам на две bend in two; fold in two; \свивам пръсти bend o.’s fingers; \свивам юмрук clench o.’s fist;

2. ( увивам на кълбо, тръба) roll (up); twist; ( знаме, платно на кораб) furl, strike, roll up, take in; \свивам карта roll up a map; \свивам на кълбо roll into a ball; \свивам хартия twist up a piece of paper; \свивам цигара roll a cigarette;

3. ( загъвам, опаковам) wrap up;

4. ( тръгвам по, възвивам) turn; \свивам бързо подир някого wheel after s.o.; \свивам надясно turn right/to the right; \свивам по улица turn into/up/down a street;

5. ( венец, китка) make; \свивам на венец twine into a wreath;

6. ( дреха) take in; ( при плетене) cast off, knit two etc. together;

7. ( сгърчвам, сбръчквам): \свивам вежди knit/pucker o.’s brows; \свивам очи screw up/narrow o.’s eyes; \свивам презрително устни curl up o.’s lips; \свивам устни purse o.’s lips;

8. (за вятър, буря) come up, rise;

9. (за болка, скръб) grip; свива ме корем have a colic;

10. ( открадвам) разг. pinch, lift, have sticky fingers; свива студ a cold spell sets in; \свивам гнездо build a nest (и прен.), прен. pitch o.’s tent; \свивам знамената прен. beat a retreat; \свивам опашката си put o.’s tail between o.’s legs (и прен.), прен. come to heel; \свивам платната take/haul in sails; \свивам рамена shrug (o.’s shoulders);

\свивам се 1. shrink, contract; ( изсъхвам, увяхвам) shrivel up; плат, който не се свива shrink-proof/pre-shrunk material; \свивам се при пране shrink in washing;

2. ( навеждам се, сгушвам се) bend (double), double up, huddle (o.s.); (от страх, раболепие) cower, crouch, cringe, quail ( пред before); ( сгъвам се, като една част влиза в друга) telescope; \свивам се в ъгъла huddle up in/shrink into the corner; \свивам се от болка double up with pain, be doubled (up) with pain; \свивам се от студ double up/shiver with cold;

3. (за змия) coil up; \свивам се на кълбо roll o.s. up into a ball;

4. ( сгърчвам се) (за вежди) knit; (за очи) narrow; лицето му се сви от болка his face was screwed up with pain;

5. (за птица) dart down, dive;

6. (за буря, вятър) come up, (a)rise;

7. прен. ( пестя) live frugally, draw in o.’s horns, stint o.s.; ( скъперник съм) screw, skin a flint, look twice at every penny;

8. прен. ( стеснявам се) be shy; • свива ми се сърцето (от страх и пр.) my heart sinks within me, (от мъка) my heart bleeds, it wrings my heart ( като to c inf.); \свивам се в черупката си retire/withdraw/shrink into o.’s shell, shrink into o.’s.

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contract (смалявам се, сгърчвам се); compress (смалявам обема на); cringe (се и от страх); astringe ; (прегъвам): bend: свивам in two - свивам на две; fold ; double up ; (навивам): roll: свивам a cigarette - свивам цигара; twist ; constrict (устни); swerve (правя завой); wrap (опаковам); (открадвам): pinch ; lift ; coil up (намотавам)

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1. (венец, китка) make 2. (дреха) take in 3. (за болка, скръб) grip 4. (за вятър, буря) come up, rise 5. (за очи) narrow 6. (загьвам, опаковам) wrap up 7. (знаме, платно на кораб) furl, strike, roll up, take in 8. (изсъхвам, увяхвам) shrivel up 9. (от страх, раболепие) cower, crouch, cringe, quail (пред before) 10. (открадвам) разг. pinch, lift 11. (плат) fold 12. (прегьвам) bend, анат. flex 13. (при плетене) cast off, knit two etc. together 14. (сгъвам се, като една част влиза в друга) telescope 15. (сгърчвам, сбръчквам) 16. (скъперник съм) screw, skin a flint, look twice at every penny 17. (тръгвам пo, възвивам) turn 18. (увивам на кълбо, тръба) roll (up);twist 19. 1 (за змия) coil up 20. 1 (за птица) dart down, dive 21. 1 (навеждам се, сгушвам се) bend (double), double up, huddle (о. s.) 22. 1 (сгърчвам се) (за вежди) knit 23. 1 shrink, contract 24. 1 прен. (пестя) live frugally, stint o.s. 25. 1 прен. (стеснявам се) be shy 26. 1(за буря. вятър) come up, (a)rise 27. СВИВАМ бързо подир някого wheel after s.o. 28. СВИВАМ вежди knit/pucker o.'s brows 29. СВИВАМ гнездо build a nest (u прен.), (прен. u) pitch o.'s tent 30. СВИВАМ знамената прен. beat a retreat 31. СВИВАМ карта roll up a map 32. СВИВАМ крака draw/pull in o.'s legs 33. СВИВАМ на венец twine into a wreath 34. СВИВАМ на две bend in two;fold in two 35. СВИВАМ на кълбо roll into a ball 36. СВИВАМ надясно turn right/ to the right 37. СВИВАМ някому сармите вж. сарма 38. СВИВАМ очи screw up/ narrow o.'s eyes 39. СВИВАМ пo улица turn into/up/down a street 40. СВИВАМ презрително устни curl up o.'s lips 41. СВИВАМ пръсти bend o.'s fingers 42. СВИВАМ рамена shrug (o.'s shoulders) 43. СВИВАМ рамена, вместо да отговоря shrug off a question 44. СВИВАМ се 45. СВИВАМ се в черупката си retire/withdraw/shrink into o.'s shell, shrink into о s.. свила се е змия в кесията ми be a skinflint 46. СВИВАМ се в ъгъла huddle up in/ shrink into the corner 47. СВИВАМ се на кълбо roll o.s. up into a ball 48. СВИВАМ се от болка double up with pain, be doubled (up) with pain 49. СВИВАМ се от студ double up/shivеr with cold 50. СВИВАМ се под масата cower under the table 51. СВИВАМ се при пране shrink in washing 52. СВИВАМ си опашката put o.'s tail between o.'s legs (u прен.), (прен. u) come to heel 53. СВИВАМ си устата hold о.'s tongue, sl. keep o.'s trap/o.'s big mouth shut 54. СВИВАМ устни purse o.'s lips 55. СВИВАМ хартия twist up a piece of paper 56. СВИВАМ цигара roll a cigarette 57. СВИВАМ юмрук clench o.'s fist 58. колената ми се свиха my knees doubled up under me 59. лицето му се сви от болка his face was screwed up with pain: лицето му се свиваше конвулсивно his features were working convulsively 60. плат, който не се свива shrink-proof/pre-shrunk material 61. свива ме корем have a colic 62. свива ми се сърцето (от страх и пр.) my heart sinks within me, (от мъка) my heart bleeds, it wrings my heart (като to с inf.) 63. свива студ a cold spell sets in 64. свили са се в една стая they are all crowded/crammed in one room

Български-английски речник > свивам
7 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) slå ud; slå i gulvet

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) slå ud

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1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) slå ud; slå i gulvet

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) slå ud

English-Danish dictionary > knock out
8 eliminar

v.

to eliminate.

El líquido eliminó las manchas The liquid eliminated the stains.

El mafioso eliminó al testigo The mobster eliminated the witness.

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eliminar

► verbo transitivo

1 (gen) to eliminate, exclude

■ han eliminado el equipo del campeonato they've eliminated the team from the championship

2 (esperanzas, miedos, etc) to get rid of, cast aside

3 familiar (matar) to kill, eliminate

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verb

1) to eliminate

2) remove

3) kill

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1. VT

1) (=hacer desaparecer) [+ mancha, obstáculo] to remove, get rid of; [+ residuos] to dispose of; [+ pobreza] to eliminate, eradicate; [+ posibilidad] to rule out

un detergente que elimina las manchas — a washing powder that removes the stains

debemos eliminar la desigualdad entre los sexos — we must eliminate sexual inequality

eliminar un directorio — (Inform) to remove o delete a directory

2) [+ concursante, deportista] to knock out, eliminate

fueron eliminados de la competición — they were knocked out of o eliminated from the competition

3) euf (=matar) to eliminate, do away with *

4) [+ incógnita] to eliminate

5) (Fisiol) to eliminate

2.

See:

eliminarse

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verbo transitivo

1)

a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove

b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out

c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)

d) < residuos> to dispose of

2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate

3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate

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= abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.

Ex. It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

Ex. The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.

Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.

Ex. The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.

Ex. With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.

Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.

Ex. List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.

Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.

Ex. Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.

Ex. In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.

Ex. Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.

Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex. He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex. The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.

Ex. The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.

Ex. Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex. This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.

Ex. It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.

Ex. A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.

Ex. Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.

Ex. Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.

Ex. This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.

Ex. Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.

Ex. Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.

Ex. But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.

Ex. Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.

Ex. 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.

Ex. Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.

Ex. Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.

Ex. Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.

Ex. Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.

Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.

Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex. This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex. In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.

Ex. Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.

Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.

Ex. Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.

Ex. This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.

Ex. The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.

Ex. There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.

Ex. Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex. Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.

Ex. His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.

Ex. Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.

Ex. It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.

Ex. It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.

Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.

Ex. This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.

Ex. My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.

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* ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.

* eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.

* eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.

* eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.

* eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.

* eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.

* eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].

* eliminar el sarro = descale.

* eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.

* eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.

* eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.

* eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.

* eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.

* eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.

* eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar por etapas = phase out.

* eliminar progresivamente = phase out.

* eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* eliminar puliendo = buff out.

* eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.

* eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.

* eliminar un error = remove + error.

* eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.

* eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.

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verbo transitivo

1)

a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove

b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out

c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)

d) < residuos> to dispose of

2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate

3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate

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= abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.

Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.

Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.

Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.

Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.

Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.

Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.

Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.

Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.

Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.

Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.

Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.

Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".

Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.

Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.

Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.

Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.

Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.

Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.

Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.

Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.

Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.

Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.

Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.

Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.

Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.

Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.

Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.

Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.

Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.

Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.

Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.

Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.

Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.

Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.

Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.

Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.

Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.

Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.

Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.

Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.

Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.

Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.

Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.

Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.

Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.

Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.

Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.

Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.

Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.

Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.

Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.

* ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.

* eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.

* eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.

* eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.

* eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.

* eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.

* eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].

* eliminar el sarro = descale.

* eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.

* eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.

* eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.

* eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.

* eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.

* eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.

* eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.

* eliminar por etapas = phase out.

* eliminar progresivamente = phase out.

* eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.

* eliminar puliendo = buff out.

* eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.

* eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.

* eliminar un error = remove + error.

* eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.

* eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.

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eliminar [A1 ]

vt

A

1 ‹obstáculo› to remove; ‹párrafo› to delete, remove

para eliminar las cucarachas to get rid of o exterminate o kill cockroaches

2 ‹equipo/candidato› to eliminate

fueron eliminados del torneo they were knocked out of o eliminated from the tournament

3 ( euf) (matar) to eliminate ( euph), to get rid of ( euph)

B ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate

C ( Mat) ‹incógnita› to eliminate

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eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo
a) ‹ obstáculo› to remove;

‹ párrafo› to delete, remove
b) ‹ candidato› to eliminate;

(Dep) to eliminate, knock out
c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)

d) ‹ residuos› to dispose of

e) ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate

eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
' eliminar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acabar
- cortar
- descalificar
- michelín
- quitar
- sonda
- terminar
- tranquilizar
English:
cut out
- debug
- eliminate
- face
- hit list
- knock out
- liquidate
- obliterate
- remove
- weed
- cut
- delete
- do
- knock
- take
- zap

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eliminar vt

1. [en juego, deporte, concurso] to eliminate (de from);
el que menos puntos consiga queda eliminado the person who scores the lowest number of points is eliminated;

lo eliminaron en la segunda ronda he was eliminated o knocked out in the second round

2. [acabar con] [contaminación] to eliminate;
[grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;
eliminó algunos trozos de su discurso he cut out some parts of his speech

3. Mat [incógnita] to eliminate

4. Euf [matar] to eliminate, to get rid of

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eliminar

v/t

1 eliminate

2 desperdicios dispose of

3 INFOR delete

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eliminar vt

1) : to eliminate, to remove

2) : to do in, to kill

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eliminar vb

1. (en general) to eliminate

la policía lo eliminó de la lista de sospechosos the police eliminated him from the list of suspects

2. (manchas) to remove

este detergente elimina todas las manchas this soap powder removes all stains

Spanish-English dictionary > eliminar
9 près

près [pʀε]

adverb

(dans l'espace, dans le temps) close

• la gare est tout près we're very close to the station

• il habite assez/tout près he lives quite/very near or close

• ne te mets pas trop près don't get too close

• c'est plus/moins près que je ne croyais (espace) it's nearer than/further than I thought ; (temps) it's sooner than/further off than I thought

• c'est terminé à peu de chose près it's more or less finished

• je vais vous donner le chiffre à un centimètre près I'll give you the figure to within about a centimetre

• cela fait 100 € à peu de chose(s) près that comes to 100 euros, or as near as makes no difference

• il n'est plus à 10 minutes près he can wait another 10 minutes

► de près

• il voit mal/bien de près he can't see very well/he can see all right close to

• surveiller qn de près to keep a close watch on sb

• il faudra examiner cette affaire de plus près we must take a closer look at this business

• on a frôlé de très près la catastrophe we came within an inch of disaster

• de près ou de loin [ressembler] more or less

• tout ce qui touche de près ou de loin au cinéma everything remotely connected with cinema► près de near close to

• leur maison est près de l'église their house is near the church

• le plus près possible de la porte as near the door as possible

• une robe près du corps a close-fitting dress

• ils étaient très près l'un de l'autre they were very close to each other

• elle est près de sa mère she's with her mother

• être très près du but to be very close to or near one's goal

• être près de son argent or de ses sous (inf) to be tight-fisted

• il est près de la retraite he's close to or near retirement

• il est près de la cinquantaine he's nearly fifty► ne pas être près de + infinitif

• je ne suis pas près de partir/de réussir at this rate, I'm not likely to be going/to succeed

• je ne suis pas près de recommencer I won't do that again in a hurry

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pʀɛ
1.

adverbe

1) ( non loin dans l'espace) close

la ville est tout près — it's no distance to the town, the town is close by

ce n'est pas tout près — it's quite a way

se raser de près — to have a close shave

2) fig

10 kg, à quelques grammes près — 10 kg, give or take a few grammes

ce roman est plutôt bon, à quelques détails près — this novel is quite good, apart from the odd detail

à ceci or cela près que — except that

il m'a remboursé au centime près — he paid me back to the very last penny

à une voix près, le projet aurait été adopté — the project would have been adopted but for one vote

gagner à deux voix près — to win by two votes

prends ton temps, on n'est pas à cinq minutes près — take your time, five minutes won't make any difference

précis au millimètre près — accurate to within a millimetre [BrE]

à une exception près — with only one exception

à quelques exceptions près — with a few rare exceptions

2.

près de locution prépositive

1) ( dans l'espace) near

elle habite près d'ici — she lives nearby ou near here

être près du but — fig to be close to achieving one's goal

j'aimerais être près de toi — I'd like to be with you

elle est près de lui — ( à ses côtés) she's at his side

2) ( dans le temps) near, nearly

il est près de l'âge de la retraite — he's near retirement age

il est près de minuit — it's nearly midnight

être près de faire — to be about to do

je suis près de penser que — I almost think that

ils étaient près de la victoire — they were close to victory

le problème n'est pas près d'être résolu — the problem is nowhere near solved

3) (par les idées, les sentiments) close (de to)

ils sont très près l'un de l'autre — they are very close

vivre près de la nature — to live close to nature

4) ( presque) nearly, almost

cela coûte près de 500 euros — it costs nearly ou almost 500 euros

3.

de près locution adverbiale closely

regarder de plus près — to take a closer look

suivre quelqu'un de près — to follow somebody closely

surveiller quelqu'un/qch de près — to keep a close eye on somebody/sth

vu de près, cela rassemble à... — seen from close quarters, it looks like...

les concurrents se suivent de près — the competitors are close together

s'intéresser de près à quelque chose — to take a close interest in something

voir la mort de près — to look death in the face, to come close to death

à y regarder de plus près — on closer examination

4.

à peu près locution adverbiale ( presque)

la rue est à peu près vide — the street is practically ou virtually empty

cela coûte à peu près 20 euros — it costs about ou around 20 euros

il y a à peu près une heure qu'il est parti — he left about an hour ago

à peu près de la même façon — in much the same way

à peu près semblables — pretty much the same

cela désigne à peu près n'importe quoi — it refers to just about anything

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pʀɛ adv
1) (pas loin) near

tout près — nearby

J'habite tout près. — I live nearby.

près de — near

Il habite près de la poste. — He lives near the post office.

Assieds-toi près de moi. — Sit down next to me.

près d'ici — near here

Est-ce que c'est près d'ici? — Is it near here?

de près — closely

Il a regardé la photo de près. — He looked closely at the photo.

2) (autres locutions)

près de (= environ) — nearly

Il y avait près de cinq cents spectateurs. — There were nearly 500 spectators.

à qch près; à 1kg près — to within about 1kg

On n'est pas à un jour près. — One day won't make any difference., One day either way won't make any difference.

à peu de choses près — more or less

à cela près que — apart from the fact that

être près de faire — to be on the point of doing

Il était près de le dénoncer. — He was on the point of informing on him.

ne pas être près de faire qch — to be not about to do sth

Je ne suis pas près de lui pardonner. — I'm not about to forgive him.

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près

A adv

1 ( non loin dans l'espace) close; la ville est tout près it's no distance to the town, the town is close by; ce n'est pas tout près it's quite a way; c'est plus près qu'on ne pense it's closer than you'd think; se raser de près to have a close shave;

2 ( non loin dans le temps) les vacances sont tout près maintenant the vacation is nearly here ou upon us;

3 fig cela pèse 10 kg, à quelques grammes près it weighs 10 kg, give or take a few grams; ce roman est plutôt bon, à quelques détails près this novel is quite good, apart from the odd detail; à ceci or cela près que except that; il m'a remboursé au centime près he paid me back to the very last penny; à une minute près, j'avais mon train/je battais mon record I was within a minute of catching my train/breaking my record; à une voix près, le projet aurait été adopté the project would have been adopted but for one vote; gagner/perdre à deux voix près to win/lose by two votes; elles sont semblables, à la couleur près they're the same but for the colour^GB; prends ton temps, on n'est pas à cinq minutes près take your time, five minutes won't make any difference; ils ne sont plus à un vol près one more theft won't make any difference to them; je ne suis pas à un paquet de cigarettes près what does the odd packet of cigarettes matter?; précis au millimètre près accurate to within a millimetre^GB; à une exception près with only one exception; à quelques exceptions près with a few rare exceptions.

B près de loc prép

1 ( dans l'espace) near; j'aimerais être près de toi I'd like to be with you; elle habite près d'ici she lives nearby ou near here; être près du but fig to be close to achieving one's goal; la balle est passée très près du cœur the bullet just missed the heart; près d'elle, un enfant jouait a child was playing near her ou beside her; elle est près de lui ( à ses côtés) she's with him;

2 ( dans le temps) near, nearly; il est près de l'âge de la retraite he's near retirement age; il est près de minuit it's nearly midnight; elle est près de la cinquantaine she's nearly fifty; on est près des vacances maintenant the holidays are nearly here ou upon us; être près de faire to be about to do; je ne suis pas près de recommencer/d'y retourner I'm not about to do that again/to go back there again; être près de partir/sombrer to be about to leave/sink; le jour est près de se lever dawn is about to break; je suis près de penser/croire que I almost think/believe that; être près de réussir/de refuser/d'accepter to be about to succeed/to refuse/to accept, to be on the point of succeeding/of refusing/of accepting; ils étaient près de la victoire they were close to victory; le problème n'est pas près d'être résolu the problem is nowhere near solved;

3 (par les idées, les sentiments) close; elle a toujours été très près de sa mère she has always been very close to her mother; ils sont très près l'un de l'autre they are very close; vivre près de la nature to live close to nature;

4 ( presque) nearly, almost; cela coûte près de 1 000 euros it costs nearly ou almost 1,000 euros; il a cessé de fumer pendant près de 20 ans he didn't smoke for nearly 20 years; cela a nécessité près d'un an de travail it involved nearly a year's work; le chômage touche près de 3 millions de personnes unemployment affects nearly ou almost 3 million people; une toile de près de 2 m sur 3 a canvas measuring almost 2 m by 3; cela fait près d'un mois que j'attends I've been waiting close to ou for nearly a month.

C de près loc adv closely; regarder de plus près to take a closer look; regarder/examiner qch de près to look at/to examine sth closely; observer/suivre qn de près to observe/to follow sb closely; surveiller qn/qch de près to keep a close eye on sb/sth; le coup de fusil a été tiré de très près the shot was fired at close range; voir de près to see clearly close up; vu de près, cela rassemble à… seen from close quarters, it looks like…; les examens/concurrents se suivent de près the exams/competitors are close together; les explosions se succédèrent de près the explosions came in close succession; être lié de près à qch to be closely linked with sth; s'intéresser de près à qch to take a close interest in sth; frôler de près la catastrophe to come close to disaster; ne pas y regarder de trop près not to look too closely; voir la mort de près to look death in the face, to come close to death; à y regarder de plus près on closer examination.

D à peu près loc adv ( presque) la rue est à peu près vide the street is practically ou virtually empty; cela coûte à peu près 200 euros it costs about ou around 200 euros; il y a à peu près une heure qu'il est parti he left about an hour ago, it's about an hour since he left; un groupe d'à peu près 50 personnes a group of about ou some 50 people; je pense à peu près comme toi I think more or less the same as you; à peu près de la même façon in much the same way; à peu près semblables pretty much the same; cela désigne à peu près n'importe quoi it refers to just about anything; c'est à peu près tout that's about the size of it; c'est à peu près tout ce qu'on sait sur cette affaire that's just about all we know about this matter.

[prɛ] adverbe

1. [dans l'espace] near, close

cent mètres plus près one hundred metres nearer ou closer

le bureau est tout près the office is very near ou just around the corner

2. [dans le temps] near, close, soon

jeudi c'est trop près, disons plutôt samedi Thursday is too soon, let's say Saturday

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[prɛ] préposition

(soutenu)

ambassadeur près le Saint-Siège ambassador to the Holy See

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à... près locution correlative

c'est parfait, à un détail près it's perfect but for ou except for one thing

j'ai raté mon train à quelques secondes près I missed my train by a few seconds

vous n'en êtes plus à un procès près what's one more trial to you?

on n'est pas à 50 euros près we can spare 50 euros

tu n'es plus à cinq minutes près another five minutes won't make much difference

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à cela près que locution conjonctive

except that

à peu de choses près locution adverbiale

more or less

à peu de choses près, il y en a cinquante there are fifty of them, more or less ou give or take a few

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à peu près locution adverbiale

1. [environ] about, around

on était à peu près cinquante there were about ou around fifty of us

2. [plus ou moins] more or less

il sait à peu près comment y aller he knows more or less ou roughly how to get there

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de près locution adverbiale

at close range ou quarters

il est rasé de près he's clean-shaven

surveiller quelqu'un de près to keep a close watch ou eye on somebody

frôler quelque chose de près to come within an inch of something

les explosions se sont suivies de très près the explosions took place within seconds of each other

ses enfants se suivent de près her children are close together in age

regarder quelque chose de (très) près

a. (sens propre) to look at something very closely

b. (figuré) to look (very) closely at something, to look carefully into something

étudions la question de plus près let's take a closer look at the problem

cela ressemble, de près ou de loin, à une habile escroquerie however ou whichever way you look at it, it's a skilful piece of fraud

tout ce qui touche, de près ou de loin à everything (which is) even remotely connected with

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près de locution prépositionnelle

1. [dans l'espace] near

assieds-toi près de lui sit near him ou next to him

vêtements près du corps close-fitting ou tight-fitting clothes

[affectivement, qualitativement] close to

les premiers candidats sont très près les uns des autres there's very little difference between the first few candidates

être près de ses sous ou de son argent to be tightfisted

2. [dans le temps]

on est près des vacances it's nearly the holidays

il doit être près de la retraite he must be about to retire

nous étions près de partir we were about to leave

vous êtes près d'avoir deviné you've nearly guessed

je ne suis pas près d'oublier ça I'm not about to ou it'll be a long time before I forget that

3. [environ, presque] nearly, almost

on était près de cinquante there were almost ou nearly fifty of us

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temps [tɑ̃]

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1. masculine noun

2. compounds

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1. <

   a. (qui passe) time

• le temps time

• réaliser un très bon temps to achieve a very good time (PROV) le temps c'est de l'argent(PROV) time is money (PROV) il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything

• c'était le bon temps those were the days

• s'accorder un temps de réflexion to give o.s. time to think

• les temps modernes modern times

• les temps sont durs ! times are hard!

• les premiers temps at the beginning

• par les temps qui courent these days

• je me suis arrêté juste le temps de prendre un verre I stopped just long enough to have a drink

► ces derniers temps lately

► ces temps-ci these days

► tout le temps all the time

• l'air est presque tout le temps pollué the air is almost always polluted

• il se plaint tout le temps he complains all the time► peu de temps

• peu de temps avant Noël shortly before Christmas

• je l'ai vu peu de temps après I saw him shortly afterwards

• en peu de temps in a short time

• dans peu de temps before very long► il est temps

• il est temps de partir it's time to go

• il est temps qu'il parte it's time he went

• il est grand temps de réagir it's high time we took action► il était temps ! ( = ce n'est pas trop tôt) about time too! ; ( = c'était juste) it came in the nick of time!

► avoir + temps

• avoir le temps de faire qch to have time to do sth

• avoir le temps to have time

• je n'ai pas le temps I haven't got time

• je n'ai pas le temps de le faire I haven't got time to do it

• vous avez tout votre temps you have plenty of time► faire + temps

• il a fait son temps he has had his day

• il a fait son temps à la tête du parti his days as party leader are over

• ma machine à laver est morte, elle a fait son temps my washing machine is past praying for► mettre + temps

• la blessure mettra du temps à guérir the wound will take time to heal

• il a mis beaucoup de temps à se préparer he took a long time to get ready► passer + temps

• passer tout son temps à faire qch to spend all one's time doing sth

• cela fait passer le temps it passes the time

• comme le temps passe ! how time flies!► perdre + temps

• perdre du temps to waste time

• perdre son temps to waste one's time

• il n'y a pas de temps à perdre there's no time to lose

• le temps presse time is short► prendre + temps

• cela prend trop de temps it takes up too much time

• prendre du bon temps to have a good time

• prendre le temps de faire qch to find time to do sth

• prendre le temps de vivre to make time to enjoy life

• il a pris son temps ! he took his time!► à temps in time

• j'arrive à temps ! I've come just in time!► à plein temps full-time

• travailler à plein temps to work full-time► à temps partiel part-time

• travailler à temps partiel to work part-time► au + temps

• au temps où... in the days when...

• au temps de la marine à voile in the days of sailing ships

• au temps des Tudors in Tudor times

• au bon vieux temps in the good old days

• au temps pour moi ! my mistake!► avec le temps in time

• avec le temps, ça s'arrangera things will sort themselves out in time► dans + temps

• dans le temps in the old days

• être dans les temps (Sport) to be within the time limit ; [travail] to be on schedule ; ( = pas en retard) to be in time► de + temps

• de mon temps in my time

• il faut être de son temps you have to move with the times

• de tout temps from time immemorial

• de temps à autre

• de temps en temps from time to time► en + temps

• en temps de guerre in wartime

• en temps de paix in peacetime

• en temps de crise in times of crisis

• en ce temps-là at that time

• en temps et en heure in due course

• en temps normal usually

• en temps opportun at the appropriate time

• en temps voulu in due course

• en temps utile in due course► entre temps meanwhile

► pendant ce temps meanwhile

► pour un temps for a time

   b. ( = conditions atmosphériques) weather

• quel temps fait-il ? what's the weather like?

• il fait beau temps the weather's fine

• il fait mauvais temps the weather's bad

• le temps s'est mis au beau the weather has turned fine

• par mauvais temps in bad weather

• sortir par tous les temps to go out in all weathers

• avec le temps qu'il fait ! in this weather!

• il fait un temps de chien (inf) the weather's awful

   c. ( = phase) l'opération s'est déroulée en trois temps the operation was carried out in three phases

• dans un premier temps at first

• dans un deuxième temps subsequently

   d. (marquant un rythme) (Music) beat ; [d'exercice, mouvement] stage

• les temps forts d'un roman the powerful moments of a novel

• une valse à trois temps a waltz in triple time

• moteur à 4 temps 4-stroke engine

• un 2 temps a 2-stroke

   e. [de verbe] tense

• temps simple simple tense

• temps composé compound tense

• adverbe de temps adverb of time

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► temps d'antenne airtime

► temps d'arrêt pause

• marquer un temps d'arrêt to pause ► temps de cuisson cooking time

► temps libre spare time

• comment occupes-tu ton temps libre ? what do you do in your spare time? ► temps mort (Football, rugby) injury time uncount ; (dans le commerce, le travail) slack period ; (dans la conversation) lull

► temps de parole (dans une émission) air time

► temps partagé

• le travail à temps partagé job-sharing ► temps de pose (Photography) exposure index

► temps de réaction reaction time

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tɑ̃
nom masculin invariable

1) Météorologie weather [U]

un beau temps — fine weather

un temps de cochon — (colloq) lousy (colloq) weather

le temps est à la pluie — it looks like rain

le temps est à l'orage — there's going to be a storm

par temps clair — ( de jour) on a clear day; ( de nuit) on a clear night

par temps de pluie — when it rains

2) ( durée) time

peu de temps avant — shortly before

dans peu de temps — shortly

dans quelque temps — before long

(pendant) quelque or un certain temps — ( assez courte période) for a while; ( période plus longue) for some time

pendant or pour un temps — for a while

pendant ce temps(-là) — meanwhile

en un rien de temps — in no time at all

les trois quarts du temps — most of the time

depuis le temps que j'en parle! — I've been talking about it for long enough!

depuis le temps que ça existe, tu devrais être au courant — you should have known, it's been around for so long

le temps d'installation a été plus long que prévu — it took longer than expected to install

ils sont restés le temps de l'élection — they stayed just for the duration of the election

il a souri le temps de la photo — he smiled just long enough for the photo to be taken

un an, le temps d'écrire un roman — a year, just long enough to write a novel

le temps de me retourner, il avait disparu — by the time I turned round GB ou around, he had disappeared

le temps de ranger mes affaires et j'arrive — just let me put my things away and I'll be with you

(j'ai) pas l'temps! — (colloq) not now!

avoir tout le temps — to have plenty of time

avoir dix or cent fois le temps — to have all the time in the world

vous avez combien de temps pour le déjeuner? — how long do you have for lunch?

nous avons du temps devant nous — we have plenty of time

plus de temps que — longer than

ne pas prendre beaucoup de temps — not to take long

tu as mis combien de temps? — how long did it take you?

ça a pris or mis un temps fou — (colloq) it took ages (colloq)

tu y as mis le temps!, tu en as mis du temps! — you (certainly) took your time!

j'y mettrai le temps qu'il faudra, mais je le ferai — however long it takes, I'll get it done

le temps passe vite — time flies

faire passer le temps — to while away the time ( en faisant doing)

j'ai perdu un temps fou — (colloq) I've wasted loads (colloq) of time

avoir du temps à perdre — to have time on one's hands

faire quelque chose à temps perdu — to do something in one's spare time

le temps presse! — time is short!

j'ai trouvé le temps long — (the) time seemed to drag

nous sommes dans les temps — we've still got time

finir dans les temps — to finish in time

3) ( moment) time

de temps en temps, de temps à autre — from time to time

il était temps! — ( marquant l'impatience) (and) about time too!; ( marquant le soulagement) just in the nick of time!

il est temps — it's about time

il est grand temps — it's high time ( de faire to do)

il n'est plus temps de faire — it's too late to do

en temps utile — in time

en temps voulu — ( à venir) in due course; ( quand il aurait fallu) at the right time

ne durer qu'un temps — to be short-lived

4) ( époque) time

au temps des dinosaures — in the age of the dinosaurs

au or du temps où — in the days when

regretter le temps où — to feel nostalgia for the days when

le bon vieux temps — the good old days (pl)

c'était le bon temps! — those were the days!

ces derniers temps — recently

ces temps-ci — lately

de mon temps — in my day

dans le temps, j'étais sportif — in my day, I did a bit of sport

dans le temps, on n'avait pas l'électricité — in those days, we didn't have electricity

depuis le temps, les choses ont dû bien changer — since then things must have really changed

il est loin le temps où — the days are long gone when

en temps normal — usually

en d'autres temps — at any other time

en temps de paix — in peacetime

être de son temps — to move with the times

être en retard sur son temps — to be behind the times

avoir fait son temps — [prisonnier, militaire] to have served one's time; [fonctionnaire, diplomate] to have put in one's time; [personne usée] to have outlived one's usefulness, to be past it (colloq); [produit à la mode, appareil, voiture] to have had its day

5) ( phase) stage

dans un premier temps — first

dans un deuxième temps — subsequently

dans un dernier temps — finally

6) Linguistique ( de verbe) tense

adverbe de temps — adverb of time

7) ( de travail) time

avoir un travail à temps partiel/plein — to have a part-/full-time job

temps de travail quotidien — working day GB, workday US

8) Sport time

il a réalisé le meilleur temps — he got the best time

rester dans les temps — to be inside the time

9) ( de moteur) stroke

moteur à quatre temps — four-stroke engine

10) Musique time

mesure à deux temps — two-four time

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Phrasal Verbs:

- temps d'antenne

- temps d'attente

- temps fort

- temps mort

- temps de positionnement or de recherche

- temps universel

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au temps pour moi! — my mistake!

le temps perdu ne se rattrape jamais — Proverbe you can't make up for lost time

par les temps qui courent — with things as they are

prendre le temps comme il vient — to take things as they come

prendre or se payer (colloq) du bon temps — to have a whale of a time

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tɑ̃ nm
1) (atmosphérique) weather

il fait beau temps — the weather is fine

il fait mauvais temps — the weather is bad

quel temps fait-il? — what's the weather like?

2) (qui passe) time

avoir le temps — to have time

Je n'ai pas le temps. — I haven't got time.

avoir tout le temps — to have plenty of time

avoir juste le temps — to have just enough time

prendre son temps — to take one's time

avoir fait son temps — to have had its day

Cette idée a fait son temps. — This idea has had its day.

3) (= époque) time, times pl

les temps changent — times are changing

les temps sont durs — times are hard

en temps de guerre — in wartime

en temps de paix — in peacetime

dans le temps — in the old days

Dans le temps, on pouvait circuler à vélo sans danger. — In the old days, it was safe to go around by bike.

de tout temps — always

du temps que — at the time when, in the days when

du temps où; au temps où — at the time when

4) (= moment)

il est temps de... — It's time to...

Il est temps qu'il prenne sa retraite. — It's time for him to retire.

en temps utile; en temps voulu — in due time, in due course

de temps en temps; de temps à autre — from time to time, now and again

en même temps — at the same time

à temps [partir, arriver] — in time

Il est arrivé à temps pour le match. — He arrived in time for the match.

juste à temps — just in time

pendant ce temps — in the meantime

5) LINGUISTIQUE tense

6) MUSIQUE beat

7) TECHNIQUE stroke

8) (autres locutions)

à plein temps; à temps complet [travailler] — full time, (emploi) full-time

Elle travaille à plein temps. — She works full time.

à temps partiel [travailler] — part time, (emploi) part-time

le travail à temps partiel — part-time work

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temps ⇒ La mesure du temps nm inv

1 Météo weather ¢; un or du temps gris grey GB ou gray US weather; un beau temps fine weather; quel beau/sale temps! what lovely/awful weather!; il faisait un temps merveilleux/de cochon it was marvellous^GB/lousy weather; le mauvais temps nous a empêchés de sortir the bad weather stopped us from going out; le temps est à la pluie/neige it looks like rain/snow; le temps est à l'orage there's going to be a storm; le temps se met à la pluie the weather is turning to rain; vu le temps qu'il fait (what) with the weather as it is; quel temps fait-il? what's the weather like?; ça dépendra du temps qu'il fera it'll depend on the weather; par beau/mauvais temps in fine/bad weather, when the weather's fine/bad; par beau temps, on peut voir la tour on a clear day ou when the weather's fine, you can see the tower; par un si beau temps, tu devrais sortir! with such fine weather, you should go out!; par temps clair ( de jour) on a clear day; ( de nuit) on a clear night; par temps de pluie/neige when it rains/snows, in rainy/snowy weather; par tous les temps in all weathers; ⇒ pluie;

2 ( notion) time; la fuite du temps the swift passage of time; le temps efface tout everything fades with time; oublier avec le temps to forget in ou with time; avec le temps, on s'y fait you get used to it in ou with time; le temps arrangera les choses time will take care of everything, it'll be all right in the end; ⇒ vivre;

3 ( durée) peu de temps avant/après shortly before/after; en peu de temps in a short time; dans peu de temps shortly, before long; il y a or ça fait peu de temps que le train est parti the train left a short time ago; d'ici or dans quelque temps before long; (pendant) quelque or un certain temps ( assez courte période) for a while; ( période plus longue) for some time, for quite a while; depuis quelque or un certain temps il est bizarre he has been behaving oddly for a while now ou for some time now; il y a quelque or beau or un certain temps qu'on ne l'a pas vue it's been some time since anyone saw her; pendant or pour un temps for a while; pendant tout un temps for quite a while; pendant ce temps(-là) meanwhile, in the meantime; qu'as-tu fait tout ce temps(-là)? what have you been doing all this time?; qu'as-tu fait pendant (tout) ce temps(-là)? what did you do all that time?; en un rien de temps in next to no time, in no time at all; la plupart or les trois quarts du temps most of the time; tout le temps all the time; depuis le temps que j'en parle all this time I've been talking about it; depuis le temps que ça existe, tu devrais être au courant you should have known, it's been around for so long; le temps d'installation a été plus long que prévu it took longer than expected to install; le temps de la fouille m'a paru interminable the search seemed to go on forever; le temps d'un après-midi/d'un week-end/d'un instant just for an afternoon/a weekend/a minute; ils sont restés le temps de l'élection they stayed just for the duration of the election; il a souri le temps de la photo he smiled just long enough for the photo to be taken; un an, le temps d'écrire un roman a year, just long enough to write a novel; le temps de me retourner or que je me retourne, il avait disparu by the time I turned round GB ou around, he had disappeared; le temps de ranger mes affaires et j'arrive just let me put my things away and I'll be with you; avoir/ne pas avoir le temps to have/not to have (the) time (pour for; de faire to do); je n'ai plus beaucoup de temps I haven't got much time left; (j'ai) pas l'temps○! not now!; on a le temps we've got (plenty of) time; si tu as le temps, pourrais-tu…? if you've got time, could you…?; avoir juste le temps to have just (enough) time; avoir tout le temps to have bags○ of time ou plenty of time; avoir dix or cent fois le temps to have all the time in the world; je n'avais que le temps de faire I only had time to do; vous avez combien de temps pour le déjeuner? how long do you have for lunch?; avoir du temps (de) libre to have (some) free time; nous avons du temps devant nous we have plenty of time, we have time to spare; tu as vraiment du temps devant toi! iron have you got time to kill?; je n'ai pas le temps matériel de faire, je n'ai matériellement pas le temps de faire there just aren't enough hours in the day (for me) to do; consacrer du temps à qn/qch to devote time to sb/sth GB, to spend time on sb/sth; donner or laisser à qn le temps de faire to give sb time to do; mettre or prendre du temps to take time (à faire, pour faire to do); il faut du temps pour faire it takes time to do; beaucoup de temps [mettre, prendre] a long time; moins de temps que [falloir, mettre, prendre] less time than; plus de temps que [falloir, mettre, prendre] longer than; prendre peu de temps not to take a long time, not to take long; ne pas prendre beaucoup de temps not to take long; il m'a fallu or cela m'a pris or j'ai mis beaucoup de temps it took (me) a long time; il t'a fallu or cela t'a pris or tu as mis combien de temps? how long did it take you?; ça a pris or mis un temps fou○ it took ages○; prendre le temps de faire to take the time to do; prendre son temps to take one's time; prendre tout son temps to take all the time one needs; les enfants prennent tout mon temps the children take up all my time; tu y as mis le temps!, tu en as mis du temps! you (certainly) took your time!; j'y mettrai le temps qu'il faudra, mais je le ferai however long it takes, I'll get it done; le temps que met sa lumière à nous parvenir the time its light takes to reach us; si tu savais le temps que ça (m')a pris! if you knew how long it took (me)!; le temps passe vite time flies; le temps passe et rien n'est prêt time's slipping by and nothing's ready; laisser passer le temps to let time slip by; ça passe le temps it passes the time; faire passer le temps to while away the time (en faisant doing); passer (tout) son temps à faire to spend (all of) one's time doing; passer le plus clair de son temps à faire to spend most of one's time doing; perdre du temps to waste time (à qch, en qch on sth; à faire doing); perdre son temps to waste one's time; nous avons perdu beaucoup de temps à discuter or en discussions we've wasted a lot of time arguing; j'ai perdu un temps fou○ I've wasted loads○ of time (à faire doing); avoir du temps à perdre to have time on one's hands; c'est du temps perdu, c'est une perte de temps it's a waste of time; cette visite, c'était vraiment du temps (de) perdu that visit was a real waste of time; faire qch à temps perdu to do sth in one's spare time; il n'y a plus de temps/pas de temps à perdre there's no more time/no time to lose; le temps presse! time is short!; être pressé par le temps to be pressed ou pushed for time; trouver le temps de faire to find (the) time to do; j'ai trouvé le temps long (the) time seemed to drag, time went really slowly; être dans les temps Sport to be within the time; nous sommes dans les temps we've still got time; finir dans les temps to finish in time;

4 ( moment) time; à temps [partir, terminer] in time; juste à temps just in time; de temps en temps, de temps à autre from time to time, now and then; en même temps at the same time (que as); je suis arrivé en même temps qu'elle I arrived at the same time as her ou as she did; le temps est venu de faire the time has come to do; il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything; il était temps! ( marquant l'impatience) (and) about time too!; ( marquant le soulagement) just in the nick of time!; il est temps, il n'est que temps it's about time; il est grand temps it's high time (de faire to do); il n'est que temps de partir it's high time we left; il est temps de partir or que nous partions it's time we left; il est temps que tu fasses it's time you did ou for you to do; il n'est plus temps de faire it's too late to do; en temps utile in time; en temps voulu in due course; en temps opportun at the appropriate time; en temps et lieu at the right time and place; la mesure/décision a été prise en son temps the measure/decision was taken at the right time ou when it should have been;

5 ( époque) au or du temps des Grecs in the time of the Greeks; au or du temps de mes grand-parents/de César in my grandparents'/Caesar's time; les temps modernes/préhistoriques modern/prehistoric times; le temps des semailles/examens sowing/exam time; au temps des dinosaures/de l'exploration spatiale in the age of the dinosaurs/of space exploration; au or du temps où in the days when; regretter le temps où to feel nostalgia for the days when; l'échelle des temps géologiques the scale of geological ages; les temps héroïques de the heroic days of; le bon or beau temps de l'expansion the good old days (pl) of expansion; le bon vieux temps the good old days (pl); comme au bon vieux temps as in the good old days; c'était le bon temps! those were the days!; au plus beau temps de in the heyday of; au pire temps de in the worst days of; l'événement le plus grand/extraordinaire de tous les temps the greatest/most extraordinary event of all time; les temps sont durs times are hard; ces derniers temps, ces temps derniers recently; ces temps-ci lately; en tout temps at all times; de mon/leur temps in my/their day ou time; dans le temps, j'étais sportif in my day, I did a bit of sport; dans le temps, on n'avait pas l'électricité in those days, we didn't have electricity; depuis le temps, les choses ont dû bien changer since then things must have really changed; il est loin le temps où the days are long gone when; il n'est pas loin le temps où tu n'étais qu'une enfant it's not so long ago that you were but a child; n'avoir or ne durer qu'un temps to be short-lived; en un temps où at a time when; en temps normal or ordinaire usually; en d'autres temps at any other time; en temps de paix/guerre in peacetime/wartime; en ces temps de pénurie/d'abondance in these times of hardship/of plenty; en ce temps-là at that time; être de son temps to move with the times; être en avance sur son temps to be ahead of one's time; être en retard sur son temps to be behind the times; avoir fait son temps [prisonnier, militaire] to have served one's time; [fonctionnaire, diplomate] to have put in one's time; pej [personne usée] to have outlived one's usefulness, to be past it○; [produit à la mode, appareil, voiture] to have had its day; ⇒ mœurs;

6 ( phase) stage; en deux temps in two stages; temps mort (d'activité, de travail) slack period; dans un premier temps first; dans un deuxième temps subsequently; dans un dernier temps finally; ⇒ deux;

7 Ling ( de verbe) tense; les temps simples/composés/du passé simple/compound/past tenses; adverbe de temps adverb of time;

8 Entr ( de travail) time; avoir un travail à temps partiel/plein to have a part-/full-time job; travailler à temps partiel to work part-time; travailler à temps plein or à plein temps or à temps complet to work full-time; être employé à plein temps to be in full-time work; je cherche un temps partiel○ I'm looking for a part-time job; temps de travail working hours (pl); temps de travail quotidien working day GB, workday US; temps de travail hebdomadaire working week GB, workweek US;

9 Sport time; un excellent temps an excellent time; il a fait or réalisé le meilleur temps he got the best time; améliorer son temps d'une seconde to knock a second off one's time; être or rester dans les temps to be inside the time; jouer les temps d'arrêt ( au football) to play injury time;

10 Mécan ( de moteur) stroke; moteur à quatre temps four-stroke engine;

11 Mus time; temps de valse waltz time; mesure à deux/trois/quatre temps two-four/three-four/four-four time.

Composés

temps d'accès access time; temps d'antenne airtime; temps d'arrêt Ordinat down time; temps atomique international, TAI international atomic time, TAI; temps d'attente Ordinat latency, waiting time; temps choisi Entr flexitime; temps civil Admin local time; temps différé Ordinat batch mode; temps d'exploitation operating time; temps faible Mus piano; temps fort Mus forte; fig high point; temps d'indisponibilité unavailable time; temps légal Admin local time; temps mort Ordinat idle time; temps partagé Ordinat time-sharing; en temps partagé time-sharing ( épith); temps de pose Phot exposure time; temps de positionnement Ordinat seek time; temps primitifs Ling principal parts of the verb; temps de réaction Psych reaction time; temps de recherche = temps de positionnement; temps réel Ordinat real time; en temps réel real-time ( épith); temps de réponse response time; temps sidéral sidereal time; temps solaire solar time; temps solaire moyen/vrai mean/true solar time; temps universel Greenwich Mean Time, GMT, universal time; temps universel coordonné, TUC universal time coordinated, UTC; temps de vol flying time.

Idiomes

au temps pour moi! my mistake!; il y a un temps de se taire et un temps de parler there is a time to keep silence and a time to speak; le temps perdu ne se rattrape jamais or ne revient point Prov you can't make up for lost time; par le temps qui court, par les temps qui courent with things as they are; prendre le temps comme il vient to take things as they come; prendre or se donner or se payer○ du bon temps to have a whale of a time.

[tɑ̃] nom masculin

A.[CLIMAT] weather

quel temps fait-il à Nîmes? what's the weather like in Nîmes?

avec le temps qu'il fait, par ce temps in this weather

il fait un temps gris it's overcast, the weather's dull (UK) ou gloomy

par beau temps ou par temps clair, on voit la côte anglaise when it's fine ou on a clear day, you can see the English coast

B.[DURÉE]

1. [écoulement des jours]

le temps time

comme le temps passe!, comme ou que le temps passe vite! how time flies!

le Temps Old Father Time

2. [durée indéterminée] time (substantif non comptable)

c'est du temps perdu it's a waste of time

mettre du temps à faire quelque chose to take time to do something

mettre du temps à se décider to take a long time deciding ou to decide

passer son temps à: je passe mon temps à lire I spend (all) my time reading

pour passer le temps to while away ou to pass the time

prendre du temps to take time

ça prendra le temps qu'il faudra ou que ça prendra (familier) it'll take as long as it takes

trouver le temps long to feel time dragging by

3. [durée nécessaire] time (substantif comptable)

le temps que: calculer le temps que met la lumière pour aller du Soleil à la Terre to compute the time that light takes to go from the Sun to the Earth

va chercher du lait, le temps que je fasse du thé go and get some milk while I make some tea

le temps de: le temps de faire quelque chose (the) time to do something

le temps d'enfiler un manteau et j'arrive just let me put on a coat and I'll be with you

juste le temps de les entendre just long enough to hear them

avoir le temps de faire quelque chose to have (the) time to do something

prendre son temps to take one's time

surtout prends ton temps! (ironique) take your time, won't you?, don't hurry, will you?

prendre le temps de faire quelque chose to take the time to do something

temps de cuisson/préparation CUISINE cooking/preparation time

un temps partiel a part-time job

un temps plein ou plein temps a full-time job

être ou travailler à temps partiel to work part-time

être ou travailler à plein temps ou à temps plein to work full-time

travailler à temps complet to work full-time

faire un trois quarts (de) temps ≃ to work 30 hours per week

le temps de la réflexion time to think

diminuer le temps de travail to reduce working hours

4. [loisir] time (substantif comptable)

maintenant qu'elle est à la retraite, elle ne sait plus quoi faire de son temps now that she's retired, she doesn't know how to fill her time

avoir du temps ou le temps to have time

mon train est à 7 h, j'ai grandement ou tout le temps my train is at 7, I've plenty of time (to spare)

avoir tout son temps to have all the time in the world

ne nous pressons pas, on a tout notre temps! (ironique) couldn't you go (just) a little bit slower?

avoir du temps devant soi to have time to spare ou on one's hands

temps libre free time

avoir du temps libre to have some spare time

5. [moment favorable]

il est temps: il est (grand) temps! it's high time!, it's about time!

la voilà — il était temps! here she is — it's about time ou and not a minute too soon ou and about time too!

il était temps, le bol allait tomber that was close, the bowl was about to fall

il n'est plus temps time's run out

il est temps de now's the time for

il n'est plus temps de discuter, il faut agir the time for discussion is past ou enough talking, we must act

il est temps que tu t'inscrives you'd better enrol soon, it's time you enrolled

le temps était venu pour moi de partir the time had come for me to ou it was time for me to leave

6. [époque déterminée] time (substantif comptable)

le temps n'est plus aux querelles we should put quarrels behind us, the time for quarelling is past

il fut un temps où... there was a time when...

le temps n'est plus où... gone are the days when...

la plus grande découverte de notre temps the biggest discovery of our time

être en avance/en retard sur son temps to be ahead of/behind one's time

être de son temps to move with the times

il n'était pas de son temps

a. [en retard] he was out of step with his time

b. [en avance] he was ahead of his time

dans mon jeune temps when I was young, in my younger days

j'ai cru, un temps, que... I thought, for a while, that...

il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything

elle est fidèle — ça n'aura ou ne durera qu'un temps she's faithful — it won't last

faire son temps [détenu, soldat] to do ou to serve one's time

la cafetière/mon manteau a fait son temps (familier) the coffee machine's/my coat's seen better days

des idées qui ont fait leur temps outmoded ideas

en temps normal ou ordinaire usually, in normal circumstances

en temps voulu in good time

en temps utile in due time ou course

en son temps in due course

chaque chose en son temps there's a right time for everything

7. [saison, période de l'année] time (substantif comptable), season

le temps des moissons harvest (time)

le temps des cerises/pêches the cherry/peach season

8. [phase - d'une action, d'un mouvement] stage

dans un premier temps first

dans un deuxième temps secondly

dans un troisième temps thirdly

9. INFORMATIQUE time

temps d'accès/d'amorçage access/start-up time

temps partagé time sharing

temps réel real time

traitement en temps réel real-time processing

travailler en temps réel to work in real time

10. LINGUISTIQUE tense

11. MÉCANIQUE stroke

12. MUSIQUE beat

valse à trois temps waltz in three-four time

13. RELIGION

le temps de l'avent/du carême (the season of) Advent/Lent

le temps pascal Easter time, Eastertide

14. SPORT [d'une course] time

elle a fait le meilleur temps aux essais hers was the best time ou she was the fastest in the trials

ESCRIME [durée - d'une action] time, temps ; [ - d'un combat] bout

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[tɑ̃] nom masculin pluriel

[époque] times, days

les temps sont durs ou difficiles! times are hard!

les temps modernes/préhistoriques modern/prehistoric times

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à temps locution adverbiale

in time

je n'arriverai/je ne finirai jamais à temps! I'll never make it/I'll never finish in time!

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à temps perdu locution adverbiale

in one's spare time, in a spare moment

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au même temps

→ link=enen même temps

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au même temps que

→ link=enen même temps que

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au temps de locution prépositionnelle

in ou at the time of, in the days of

au temps de Voltaire in Voltaire's time ou day

au temps jadis locution adverbiale

in times past, in the old days

au temps où locution conjonctive,

au temps que locution conjonctive

in the days when, at the time when

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avec le temps locution adverbiale

with the passing of time

avec le temps, tout s'arrange time is a great healer

ces temps-ci locution adverbiale

these days, lately

dans ce temps-là locution adverbiale

in those days, at that time

dans le même temps

→ link=enen même temps

dans le même temps que

→ link=enen même temps que

dans le temps locution adverbiale

before, in the old days

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dans les temps locution adverbiale

on time

être dans les temps

a. [pour un travail] to be on schedule ou time

b. [pour une course] to be within the time (limit)

de temps à autre locution adverbiale,

de temps en temps locution adverbiale

from time to time, occasionally, (every) now and then

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du temps de locution prépositionnelle

du temps de Louis XIV in the days of Louis the XIVth

du temps de notre père, tu n'aurais pas osé when our father was (still) alive, you wouldn't have dared

de mon temps, ça n'existait pas when I was young ou in my day, there was no such thing

du temps où,

du temps que

→ link=auau temps où

en ce temps-là

→ link=dansdans ce temps-là

en même temps locution adverbiale

at the same time

en même temps que locution conjonctive

at the same time as

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en temps de locution prépositionnelle

en temps de guerre/paix in wartime/peacetime

en temps de prospérité/récession in times of prosperity/recession

en temps et lieu locution adverbiale

in due course ou time, at the proper time and place

en un temps où locution conjonctive

at a time when

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par les temps qui courent locution adverbiale

(familier) (things being as they are) these days ou nowadays

tout le temps locution adverbiale

all the time, always

ne me harcèle pas tout le temps! don't keep on pestering me!

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temps fort nom masculin

MUSIQUE strong beat

(figuré) high point, highlight

un des temps forts du festival one of the high points ou highlights of the festival

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temps mort nom masculin

1. [au basketball, au volleyball] time-out

2. (figuré) lull, slack period

[dans une conversation] lull, pause

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > temps

11 retreat

rɪˈtri:t
1. сущ.
1) а) прям. перен., тж. геол. и горн. отступление to carry out, make a retreat ≈ отступать hasty, precipitate retreat ≈ спешное отступление in full retreat ≈ отступление по всему фронту strategic retreat ≈ стратегическое отступление tactical retreat ≈ тактическое отступление intercept the retreat make good one's retreat Syn: withdrawal, recession, retrogression б) воен. сигнал к отступлению, отход;
отбой beat a retreat в) воен. вечерняя зоря, спуск флага
2) а) уединение, удаление от общества;
уединение, уединенное место, убежище, пристанище, приют Syn: retirement, seclusion;
refuge, resort;
lair, den б) дом престарелых;
психиатрическая больница;
больница для хронических алкоголиков
2. гл.
1) а) прям. перен. отступать, отходить;
шахм. отодвигать фигуру назад на более безопасную позицию At last we forced the enemy to retreat from the town. ≈ Наконец, мы заставили врага отступить из города. Our government has retreated from its hard-line position. ≈ Наше правительство свернуло со своего жесткого курса. Syn: escape б) отказываться( от обещания) ;
отступать (от обязательств) ;
брать обратно (слово) (from) You cannot retreat from your responsibility in this affair. ≈ Ты не сможешь снять с себя ответственность за это.
2) уходить, удаляться, уединяться ∙ Syn: withdraw, retire отступление, отход - to intercept the * (военное) отрезать путь к отступлению (тж. перен.) - * of the shore отступление береговой линии - * from reality отход от действительности - to make good one's * (военное) завершать отступление;
удачно отделаться - Hitler's army was in full * гитлеровские войска отступали по всему фронту (военное) сигнал к отходу - to sound the * давать сигнал к отходу (военное) отбой - to sound the * давать отбой - to beat a * бить отбой;
идти на попятный( военное) вечерняя зоря (военное) спуск флага убежище, приют;
пристанище - country * уединенный дом за городом;
дача логово, логовище - the robbers had their * among the hills разбойничье логово находилось в горах уединение - a * from public life уход от общественной жизни - to go into * уйти от мира( горное) отступающая выемка отходить, отступать - to * on the capital отступить к столице - the army *ed армия отступила (from) отказываться (от обещания) ;
отступать (от обязательств) ;
брать обратно( слово) сдавать свои позиции, уступать удаляться, уходить - he *ed to his room он удалился в свою комнату - she *ed within herself она ушла в себя /замкнулась/ (шахматное) отводить( фигуру) (американизм) отклоняться назад;
иметь покатость( техническое) повторно обрабатывать;
подвергать вторичной обработке ~ воен. сигнал к отступлению, отбой;
to sound the retreat трубить отступление, отбой;
to beat a retreat бить отбой;
перен. идти на попятный ~ отступление;
to intercept the retreat(of) отрезать путь к отступлению;
to make good one's retreat благополучно отступить;
перен. удачно отделаться ~ отступление;
to intercept the retreat(of) отрезать путь к отступлению;
to make good one's retreat благополучно отступить;
перен. удачно отделаться retreat воен. вечерняя заря;
спуск флага ~ общее снижение курсов ценных бумаг ~ отступать ~ горн. отступающая выемка ~ отступление;
to intercept the retreat(of) отрезать путь к отступлению;
to make good one's retreat благополучно отступить;
перен. удачно отделаться ~ отходить ~ психиатрическая больница ~ воен. сигнал к отступлению, отбой;
to sound the retreat трубить отступление, отбой;
to beat a retreat бить отбой;
перен. идти на попятный ~ убежище;
приют, пристанище ~ удаляться ~ уединение ~ уходить, отходить;
отступать ~ воен. сигнал к отступлению, отбой;
to sound the retreat трубить отступление, отбой;
to beat a retreat бить отбой;
перен. идти на попятный

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > retreat

12 erreichen

erreichen v 1. GEN achieve, meet (Ziel, Wachstum); 2. MGT meet (Ziel) • nicht zu erreichen GEN not available, unavailable (Person); out of reach
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v 1. < Geschäft> Ziel, Wachstum achieve, meet; 2. < Mgmnt> Ziel meet ■ nicht zu erreichen < Geschäft> Person not available, unavailable; out of reach

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erreichen
to reach, to get, to achieve, (Börse) to obtain;
• vom Bahnhof leicht zu erreichen within easy reach of the station;
• Abhilfe erreichen to obtain redress;
• Altersgrenze erreichen to reach the age limit;
• seinen Anschluss erreichen to get (make) one’s connexion;
• Gewinnschwelle erreichen (Unternehmen) to break even (coll.);
• Höchststand erreichen (Preise) to peak;
• wieder das alte Kursniveau erreichen (Pfandbriefmarkt) to settle back;
• Marktanteil von 15% erreichen to garner 15% of the market;
• Pensionsalter erreichen to superannuate, to be due to retire;
• Preis erreichen to reach a price;
• Rekordhöhen des Börsenindex erreichen to shoot up to record high levels;
• Spitzenumsatz von 40% erreichen to top 40 percent;
• j. telefonisch erreichen to get s. o. on the telephone [line];
• Zahlungsaufschub erreichen to obtain a delay of payment;
• den Zug [noch rechtzeitig] erreichen to catch (make, coll.) a train;
• seinen Zweck erreichen to succeed in one’s object.

Business german-english dictionary > erreichen

13 Tätigkeit

Tätigkeit f 1. GEN action, activity; 2. PERS occupation, activity (Arbeit, Beruf)
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f 1. < Geschäft> action, activity; 2. < Person> Arbeit, Beruf occupation, activity

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Tätigkeit
activity, agency, (Arbeit) work, (Aufgabe) function, (Beruf) profession, vocation, job, (Beschäftigung) occupation, business, employment, pursuit, (Betrieb) operation, (Laufbahn) career;
• in beratender Tätigkeit in a consulting capacity;
• angemessene Tätigkeit suitable work;
• anwaltliche Tätigkeit attorneyship, (nach Bedarf) general retainer;
• regelmäßig ausgeübte Tätigkeit regular occupation;
• außerberufliche Tätigkeit outside activities;
• auswärtige Tätigkeit field work;
• bankfremde Tätigkeit non-banking activity;
• beratende Tätigkeit advisory function (capacity, service), (Anwalt) chamber practice;
• berufliche Tätigkeit professional employment (activity), occupation;
• bisherige Tätigkeit previous career;
• ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit honorary position (service), unpaid position;
• einkommensteuerliche Tätigkeit personal income-tax job;
• entgeltliche Tätigkeit paid work;
• europaweite Tätigkeit operation across Europe;
• freiberufliche Tätigkeit occupation of a professional nature, professional employment (occupation), profession;
• führende Tätigkeit executive capacity;
• gefährliche Tätigkeit hazardous employment;
• geistige Tätigkeit brainwork, black-coated work (Br.);
• geschäftliche Tätigkeit business activity, activity in trade;
• gesundheitsschädliche Tätigkeit unhealthy work;
• gewerbliche Tätigkeit industrial activity, business occupation (activity);
• gemeinsame gewerbliche Tätigkeit carrying on a business in common;
• auf Gewinnerzielung gerichtete gewerbliche Tätigkeit (Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen) trade or business carried on for purpose of profit;
• gewerkschaftliche Tätigkeit union activity;
• Gewinn bringende Tätigkeit gainful occupation;
• gutachtliche Tätigkeit advisory service;
• hauptberufliche Tätigkeit full-time job;
• häusliche Tätigkeit housework;
• illegale Tätigkeit illegal activities;
• industrielle Tätigkeit industrial employment;
• intensive Tätigkeit an extensive activity;
• karitative Tätigkeit good works;
• kaufmännische Tätigkeit mercantile (commercial) pursuits;
• landwirtschaftliche Tätigkeit farming operations;
• leitende Tätigkeit executive work (action, capacity);
• außerhalb meines Berufs liegende Tätigkeit occupation outside of my work;
• mechanische Tätigkeit routine job;
• nachfassende Tätigkeit follow-up;
• nebenberufliche Tätigkeit sideline employment;
• patentähnliche Tätigkeit patent-related work;
• pflichtversicherte Tätigkeit covered job (US);
• produktive Tätigkeit productive activity;
• schriftstellerische Tätigkeit literary profession (work);
• selbstständige Tätigkeit self-employment, independent activities;
• sitzende Tätigkeit sedentary profession;
• sozialversicherte Tätigkeit covered job (US);
• steuernsparende Tätigkeit tax-saving service;
• streikfreie Tätigkeit strike-free work;
• treuhänderische Tätigkeit fiduciary activity;
• überwiegende Tätigkeit (Steuerrecht) paramount occupation;
• unfruchtbare Tätigkeit fruitless efforts;
• unselbstständige Tätigkeit payroll employment, employment work;
• verantwortungsvolle Tätigkeit responsible post;
• nicht vergütete Tätigkeit (Beamter) extra services;
• nicht versicherte Tätigkeit uninsured employment;
• versicherungsfremde Tätigkeit non-insurance operations;
• vervollständigende Tätigkeit follow-up work;
• wirtschaftliche Tätigkeit economic activity;
• zumutbare Tätigkeit reasonable act;
• Tätigkeiten im Ausland off-shore operations;
• Tätigkeit in der Baubranche building job;
• Tätigkeit im Dienst der Öffentlichkeit public occupation (calling);
• Tätigkeit außerhalb der Dienststunden work out of hours;
• Tätigkeit als Führungskraft managerial (executive) work;
• Tätigkeit in der Industrie industrial occupation;
• Tätigkeit in der Landwirtschaft agricultural occupation;
• Tätigkeit im Ministerium service in a ministry;
• Tätigkeit auf dem Sozialgebiet social labo(u)r;
• Tätigkeit auf Vorstandsebene working at board level;
• anwaltliche Tätigkeit aufgeben to retire from the bar;
• Tätigkeit aufnehmen to engage in an activity;
• seine Tätigkeit [wieder] aufnehmen to resume one’s activity, to enter upon one’s duties;
• seine Tätigkeit über das ganze Land ausdehnen to sell one’s services country-wide;
• Tätigkeit ausüben to be engaged in an activity, to carry on a profession;
• keine bestimmte Tätigkeit ausüben to have no regular work (occupation);
• stabilisierende Tätigkeit ausüben to serve as a stabilizing force;
• im Rahmen von jds. Tätigkeit liegen to fall within the scope of s. one's work;
• auch bereit sein müssen, eine berufsfremde Tätigkeit auszuüben to have to be prepared to accept employment of a different kind;
• einer Tätigkeit nachgehen to pursue an occupation;
• im Rahmen seiner Tätigkeit beruflich viel unterwegs sein to travel much in one’s job;
• Schauplatz seiner Tätigkeit verlegen to shift the scene of one’s activities;
• sich zur Nichtausübung einer Tätigkeit verpflichten to undertake not to perform a particular act.

Business german-english dictionary > Tätigkeit

14 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) dejar sin conocimiento

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) eliminar

knock out vb dejar sin sentido / dejar inconsciente

he was knocked out by the other boxer el otro boxeador lo dejó KO

knock out vt

: dejar sin sentido, poner fuera de combate (en el boxeo)

knock out

v.

• descabalgar v.

• noquear v.

1) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( make unconscious) dejar sin sentido, hacer* perder el conocimiento, noquear

she hit her head and knocked herself out — se dio un golpe en la cabeza y perdió el conocimiento

he was knocked out in the fourth round — lo dejó K.O. or lo noqueó en el cuarto asalto

b) (destroy, damage) (colloq) \<\<target\>\> destruir*

2) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( remove by hitting) \<\<contents\>\> vaciar*

several teeth were knocked out — perdió varios dientes

b) ( of competition) eliminar

VT + ADV

1) (=stun) dejar sin sentido, hacer perder el conocimiento; (Boxing) poner fuera de combate, dejar K.O.

2) (=strike out) [+ nails] extraer, sacar; (in fight) [+ teeth] romper

3) (in competition) eliminar

4) * (=make) [+ product] producir, fabricar; [+ garment] hacer; [+ novel] escribir

5) (=destroy) [+ enemy target] destruir; (=stop) [+ electricity supply, telephone lines] cortar

6) * (=exhaust) agotar, dejar para el arrastre *

7) * (shock) dejar pasmado *

* * *

1) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( make unconscious) dejar sin sentido, hacer* perder el conocimiento, noquear

she hit her head and knocked herself out — se dio un golpe en la cabeza y perdió el conocimiento

he was knocked out in the fourth round — lo dejó K.O. or lo noqueó en el cuarto asalto

b) (destroy, damage) (colloq) \<\<target\>\> destruir*

2) v + o + adv, v + adv + o

a) ( remove by hitting) \<\<contents\>\> vaciar*

several teeth were knocked out — perdió varios dientes

b) ( of competition) eliminar

English-spanish dictionary > knock out

15 live

I
1. liv verb
1) (to have life; to be alive: This poison is dangerous to everything that lives.) vivir

2) (to survive: The doctors say he is very ill, but they think he will live; It was difficult to believe that she had lived through such an experience.) sobrevivir

3) (to have one's home or dwelling (in a particular place): She lives next to the church; They went to live in Bristol / in a huge house.) vivir

4) (to pass (one's life): He lived a life of luxury; She lives in fear of being attacked.) vivir

5) ((with by) to make enough money etc to feed and house oneself: He lives by fishing.) vivir de

•

- - lived
- living
2. noun
(the money etc needed to feed and house oneself and keep oneself alive: He earns his living driving a taxi; She makes a good living as an author.) medio de vida, sustento

- living-room
- live-in
- live and let live
- live down
- live in
- out
- live on
- live up to
- within living memory
- in living memory
II
1.
adjective
1) (having life; not dead: a live mouse.) vivo

2) ((of a radio or television broadcast etc) heard or seen as the event takes place; not recorded: I watched a live performance of my favourite opera on television; Was the performance live or recorded?) en directo

3) (full of energy, and capable of becoming active: a live bomb) activo, vivo

4) (burning: a live coal.) candente

2. adverb
((of a radio or television broadcast etc) as the event takes place: The competition will be broadcast live.) en directo

- lively
- liveliness
- livestock
- live wire

live¹ adj

1. vivo

a live frog una rana viva

2. en directo / en vivo

live music música en directo

Se pronuncia más o menos laiv

live² vb

1. vivir

they live in the country viven en el campo

where do you live? ¿dónde vives?

2. alimentarse

some birds live on insects algunos pájaros se alimentan de insectos

3. sobrevivir / existir

I don't have enough to live on no tengo suficiente como para sobrevivir

Se pronuncia más o menos liv con una i corta

El gerundio de live se escribe living

live

tr[laɪv]

adjective

1 (not dead) vivo,-a

■ it's a real live snake es una serpiente de verdad

2 (still burning) vivo,-a, candente; (issue) candente

3 (ammunition) real; (bomb) sin explotar

4 SMALLELECTRICITY/SMALL con corriente

5 (broadcast) en directo

■ a live concert un concierto en directo

adverb

1 en directo, en vivo

■ I saw the Beatles perform live in 1969 yo vi actuar a los Beatles en vivo en 1969

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

live wire cable nombre masculino vivo 2 (person) nervio, torbellino

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live

tr[lɪv]

intransitive verb

1 vivir

■ he lived to a great age vivió una larga vida

■ cows live on grass las vacas viven de la hierba

■ for years they had nothing to live on durante años no tenían de qué vivir

■ they live by fishing viven de la pesca

transitive verb

1 vivir

■ the old woman had lived a life of luxury la vieja había llevado una vida llena de lujos

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to live and learn vivir para ver

to live and let live vivir y dejar vivir

to live by one's wits vivir del ingenio

to live from day to day vivir al día

to live in sin vivir en el pecado

to live in style familiar vivir a lo grande

to live it up familiar pasárselo bomba

to live on fresh air figurative use vivir del aire

to live out of a suitcase familiar ir de hotel en hotel

to live out of cans familiar vivir (a base) de latas

live ['lɪv] vi, lived ; living

1) exist: vivir

as long as I live: mientras viva

to live from day to day: vivir al día

2) : llevar una vida, vivir

he lived simply: llevó una vida sencilla

3) subsist: mantenerse, vivir

4) reside: vivir, residir

live ['laɪv] adj

1) living: vivo

2) burning: encendido

a live coal: una brasa

3) : con corriente

live wires: cables con corriente

4) : cargado, sin estallar

a live bomb: una bomba sin estallar

5) current: de actualidad

a live issue: un asunto de actualidad

6) : en vivo, en directo

a live interview: una entrevista en vivo

live (Performance)

adj.

• en vivo adj.

adj.

• de actualidad adj.

• en directo adj.

• encendido, -a adj.

• vivo, -a adj.

v.

• anidar v.

• habitar v.

• morar v.

• vivir v.

I
1. lɪv
intransitive verb

1)

a) (be, remain alive) vivir

(for) as long as I live — mientras viva, toda la vida

she lived to be 100 — llegó a cumplir 100 años

you'll live to regret it — algún día te arrepentirás

she had three months to live — le quedaban tres meses de vida

you'll live — (colloq) no te vas a morir (fam)

long live the king! — viva el rey!

you live and learn — (set phrase) todos los días se aprende algo nuevo

live and let live — (set phrase) vive y deja vivir a los demás

b) ( experience life) vivir

never eaten paella? you haven't lived! — ¿no has comido nunca una paella? pues no sabes lo que te pierdes or lo que es bueno!

2)

a) ( conduct one's life) vivir

we live very quietly — llevamos una vida tranquila

to live like a king o lord — vivir a cuerpo de rey

b) ( support oneself) vivir

3)

a) ( reside) vivir

where do you live? — ¿donde vives?

this house is not fit to live in — esta casa no está en condiciones

b) ( belong) (esp BrE colloq) ir*

where do these dishes live? — ¿dónde van estos platos?

2.

vt

a) ( exist in specified way) vivir

she lives a happy life — lleva una vida feliz, vive feliz

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

b) ( throw oneself into)

she really lived the part — realmente se identificó con el personaje

Phrasal Verbs:

- live down

- live for

- live in

- live off

- live on

- live out

- live through

- live together

- live up

- live up to

- live with

II laɪv
adjective

1) ( alive) vivo

wow, a real live princess! — uy, una princesa de verdad or de carne y hueso!

2) ( of current interest) < issue> candente, de actualidad

3) (Rad, TV)

the show was live — el programa era en directo or en vivo

the program is recorded before a live audience — el programa se graba con público en la sala or en presencia de público

4)

a) ( Mil)

live ammunition — fuego m real

live bomb — bomba f que no ha estallado

b) ( Elec) <circuit/terminal> con corriente, cargado

c) ( on fire) encendido

live coal — brasa f

III laɪv
adverb (Rad, TV) < broadcast> en directo, en vivo

I [lɪv]
1. VI

1) (=exist) vivir

the times we live in — los tiempos en que vivimos, los tiempos que corremos

she has only six months to live — solo le quedan seis meses de vida

to live from day to day — vivir de día en día

• to live in fear — vivir atemorizado

she lives in fear of her life/that she may be found out — vive temiendo por su vida/que la descubran

• to live for sth, I'm living for the day (when) I retire — vivo esperando a que llegue el día en que me jubile

she lived for her work — vivía por y para su trabajo

to live for today or the moment — vivir al día

I've got nothing left to live for — no tengo nada por lo que vivir

- live and let live

- we should eat to live, not live to eat

- you live and learn
hand 1., 1), happily, hope 1., 1), long I, 2., 1) shadow 1., 1), style 1., 4)
2) (=survive)

the doctor said she would live — el médico dijo que sobreviviría

you'll live! hum — ¡de esta no te mueres! hum

he lived to a ripe old age/to be 103 — llegó a viejo/a cumplir 103 años

she'll never live to see it — no vivirá para verlo
regret 2., 2)
3) (=conduct o.s.) vivir

• she lives by her own rules — vive según sus propias normas

men who lived by the gun — hombres cuya ley era la pistola

• to live modestly/ well — vivir modestamente/bien

- live like a king or a lord
dangerously, sin 1.
4) (=earn one's living) vivir

to live by hunting — vivir de la caza
pen I, 1., wit I, 1)
5) (=reside) vivir

where do you live? — ¿dónde vives?

to live in a flat/in London — vivir en un piso/en Londres

she lives in Station Road — vive en Station Road

this is a nice place to live — este es un buen sitio para vivir

• this house isn't fit to live in — esta casa está en pésimas condiciones

6) (Brit) * (=go, belong) ir, guardarse

where does the teapot live? — ¿dónde va or se guarda la tetera?

7) (=enjoy life)

let's live a little! * — ¡vivamos la vida un poquito! *

she really knows how to live — sabe disfrutar muy bien de la vida

if you've never been to an opera, you haven't lived * — si no has ido nunca a la ópera no sabes lo qué es vivir

2. VT

1) [+ life] (gen) vivir; (in particular way) llevar

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

to live a happy life — llevar una vida feliz

to live a life of luxury/crime — llevar una vida de lujos/de delincuencia

to live a life of hardship — vivir pasando penurias

how you live your life is your business — tu vida es cosa tuya

2) (Theat)

to live the part — vivir el personaje or el papel

- live down

- live in

- live off

- live on

- live out

- live through

- live together

- live up

- live up to

- live with

II [laɪv]
1. ADJ

1) (=living) [animal, person] vivo

experiments on live animals — experimentos mpl con animales vivos

a real live crocodile — un cocodrilo de verdad

a real live duke — un duque de carne y hueso

9.1 deaths per thousand live births — 9,1 muertes por cada mil bebés nacidos vivos

2) (=topical) [issue] de actualidad, candente

3) (Rad, TV) [broadcast, coverage] en vivo, en directo; [performance, show, recording] en vivo

the bar has live entertainment at weekends — el bar tiene espectáculos en vivo los fines de semana

performed before a live audience — interpretado delante del público

4) (=not blank) [shell, ammunition] cargado; [bomb] sin explotar

5) (=still burning) [coal] encendido, prendido (LAm)

6) (Elec) [cable, wire, appliance] conectado, con corriente

is this cable live? — ¿está conectado or tiene corriente este cable?

2. ADV

1) (Rad, TV) en vivo, en directo

the match is brought to you live from Madrid — le ofrecemos el partido en vivo or en directo desde Madrid

here, live from New York, is our reporter Malcolm McDonald — aquí tenemos a nuestro corresponsal Malcolm McDonald que nos habla en directo desde Nueva York

we'll be going live to Montreal later on — conectaremos con Montreal en directo más adelante

2)

to go live — (=come into operation) entrar en funcionamiento

the new computer system will go live next week — el nuevo ordenador entrará en funcionamiento la semana que viene

3.

CPD

live bait N — (Fishing) cebo m vivo

live coal N — brasa f, ascua f

live export N — [of livestock] exportación f en pie

live oak N — roble m de Virginia

live rail N — raíl m electrizado

live weight N — [of livestock] peso m en pie

live wire N — (Elec) alambre m conectado, alambre m con corriente; (fig) * torbellino * m

he's a real live wire! — ¡es un torbellino! *, ¡tiene mucha marcha! *

live yoghurt N — yogur m con biocultivos

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I
1. [lɪv]
intransitive verb

1)

a) (be, remain alive) vivir

(for) as long as I live — mientras viva, toda la vida

she lived to be 100 — llegó a cumplir 100 años

you'll live to regret it — algún día te arrepentirás

she had three months to live — le quedaban tres meses de vida

you'll live — (colloq) no te vas a morir (fam)

long live the king! — viva el rey!

you live and learn — (set phrase) todos los días se aprende algo nuevo

live and let live — (set phrase) vive y deja vivir a los demás

b) ( experience life) vivir

never eaten paella? you haven't lived! — ¿no has comido nunca una paella? pues no sabes lo que te pierdes or lo que es bueno!

2)

a) ( conduct one's life) vivir

we live very quietly — llevamos una vida tranquila

to live like a king o lord — vivir a cuerpo de rey

b) ( support oneself) vivir

3)

a) ( reside) vivir

where do you live? — ¿donde vives?

this house is not fit to live in — esta casa no está en condiciones

b) ( belong) (esp BrE colloq) ir*

where do these dishes live? — ¿dónde van estos platos?

2.

vt

a) ( exist in specified way) vivir

she lives a happy life — lleva una vida feliz, vive feliz

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

b) ( throw oneself into)

she really lived the part — realmente se identificó con el personaje

Phrasal Verbs:

- live down

- live for

- live in

- live off

- live on

- live out

- live through

- live together

- live up

- live up to

- live with

II [laɪv]
adjective

1) ( alive) vivo

wow, a real live princess! — uy, una princesa de verdad or de carne y hueso!

2) ( of current interest) < issue> candente, de actualidad

3) (Rad, TV)

the show was live — el programa era en directo or en vivo

the program is recorded before a live audience — el programa se graba con público en la sala or en presencia de público

4)

a) ( Mil)

live ammunition — fuego m real

live bomb — bomba f que no ha estallado

b) ( Elec) <circuit/terminal> con corriente, cargado

c) ( on fire) encendido

live coal — brasa f

III [laɪv]
adverb (Rad, TV) < broadcast> en directo, en vivo

English-spanish dictionary > live

16 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) rota

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) slá út

English-Icelandic dictionary > knock out

17 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) kiüt

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) kiüt

English-Hungarian dictionary > knock out

18 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) pôr nocaute

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) derrotar

English-Portuguese dictionary > knock out

19 knock out

vurup çıkartmak, nakavt etmek, yenmek, çarpmak, yormak, öldürmek, tıngırdatmak

* * *

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) nakavt yapmak, bayıltmak

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) elemek, yarış dışı bırakmak

English-Turkish dictionary > knock out

20 knock out

1) (to make unconscious by a blow, or (in boxing) unable to recover within the required time: The boxer knocked his opponent out in the third round.) knockoutirati

2) (to defeat and cause to retire from a competition: That team knocked us out in the semi-finals (noun knock-out).) premagati

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transitive verb izbiti (s kladivom); izprazniti, iztresti (pipo s trkanjem); sport knockoutirati; figuratively premagati, potolči; omamiti; sporazumno znižati ceno na dražbi; naglo napraviti (načrt)

English-Slovenian dictionary > knock out

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