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  • 81 Mar

    ( written abbreviation) (March.) marzo

    Multiple Entries: mar     mar.
    mar sustantivo masculino (sometimes f in literary language and in set idiomatic expressions) 1 (Geog) sea; el fondo del mar the seabed, the bottom of the sea; mar abierto open sea; la corriente llevó la barca mar adentro the boat was swept out to sea by the current; hacerse a la mar (liter) to set sail; por mar by sea; mar Cantábrico Bay of Biscay; mar de las Antillas Caribbean Sea; mar Mediterráneo Mediterranean Sea; mar gruesa rough o heavy sea 2 ( costa):
    mar
    I sustantivo masculino & sustantivo femenino sea: ayer había mucha mar, there was a heavy sea yesterday
    en alta mar, on the high seas
    mar adentro, out to sea
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 sea
    Mar Cantábrico, Cantabrian Sea
    2 (gran cantidad) un mar de deudas, a flood of debts Locuciones: a mares, a lot: lloraba a mares, he was in floods of tears
    hacerse a la mar, to set sail
    la mar de, really, very: es una niña la mar de despierta, she's a really clever girl ' mar' also found in these entries: Spanish: adentro - agitada - agitado - agitarse - alborotada - alborotado - alborotarse - arrastrar - bonanza - borde - bramar - bramido - brava - bravo - buey - cala - chalet - contramaestre - crucero - deslucir - embravecerse - encresparse - erizo - espuma - estrella - faenar - golpe - gruesa - grueso - langosta - lengua - loba - lobo - manga - mareo - nivel - nublar - nudo - oleada - orientarse - orilla - picada - picado - picarse - puerto - respeto - revuelta - revuelto - ribera - rizada English: above - afloat - bass - bathe - bed - breaker - calm - can - Caribbean - choppy - crossing - Dead Sea - facing - groundswell - hair - heavy - lap - lost - mar - Mediterranean - mighty - navigate - paddle - prospect - put out - quagmire - quit - raging - reclaim - Red Sea - rig - rise - roar - rock - rough - sail - sea - sea dog - sea-fish - sea-level - sea-water - seabed - seahorse - seashore - seasick - seasickness - shore - sink - smooth - splendid
    tr[mɑːʧ]
    1 ( March) marzo
    mar ['mɑr] vt, marred ; marring
    1) spoil: estropear, echar a perder
    2) deface: desfigurar
    v.
    corromper v.
    echar a perder v.
    estropear v.
    mutilar v.
    (= March) mar
    ABBR
    = March mar.
    * * *
    (= March) mar

    English-spanish dictionary > Mar

  • 82 mar

    ( written abbreviation) (March.) marzo

    Multiple Entries: mar     mar.
    mar sustantivo masculino (sometimes f in literary language and in set idiomatic expressions) 1 (Geog) sea; el fondo del mar the seabed, the bottom of the sea; mar abierto open sea; la corriente llevó la barca mar adentro the boat was swept out to sea by the current; hacerse a la mar (liter) to set sail; por mar by sea; mar Cantábrico Bay of Biscay; mar de las Antillas Caribbean Sea; mar Mediterráneo Mediterranean Sea; mar gruesa rough o heavy sea 2 ( costa):
    mar
    I sustantivo masculino & sustantivo femenino sea: ayer había mucha mar, there was a heavy sea yesterday
    en alta mar, on the high seas
    mar adentro, out to sea
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 sea
    Mar Cantábrico, Cantabrian Sea
    2 (gran cantidad) un mar de deudas, a flood of debts Locuciones: a mares, a lot: lloraba a mares, he was in floods of tears
    hacerse a la mar, to set sail
    la mar de, really, very: es una niña la mar de despierta, she's a really clever girl ' mar' also found in these entries: Spanish: adentro - agitada - agitado - agitarse - alborotada - alborotado - alborotarse - arrastrar - bonanza - borde - bramar - bramido - brava - bravo - buey - cala - chalet - contramaestre - crucero - deslucir - embravecerse - encresparse - erizo - espuma - estrella - faenar - golpe - gruesa - grueso - langosta - lengua - loba - lobo - manga - mareo - nivel - nublar - nudo - oleada - orientarse - orilla - picada - picado - picarse - puerto - respeto - revuelta - revuelto - ribera - rizada English: above - afloat - bass - bathe - bed - breaker - calm - can - Caribbean - choppy - crossing - Dead Sea - facing - groundswell - hair - heavy - lap - lost - mar - Mediterranean - mighty - navigate - paddle - prospect - put out - quagmire - quit - raging - reclaim - Red Sea - rig - rise - roar - rock - rough - sail - sea - sea dog - sea-fish - sea-level - sea-water - seabed - seahorse - seashore - seasick - seasickness - shore - sink - smooth - splendid
    tr[mɑːʧ]
    1 ( March) marzo
    mar ['mɑr] vt, marred ; marring
    1) spoil: estropear, echar a perder
    2) deface: desfigurar
    v.
    corromper v.
    echar a perder v.
    estropear v.
    mutilar v.
    (= March) mar
    [mɑː(r)]
    VT estropear, echar a perder
    * * *
    (= March) mar

    English-spanish dictionary > mar

  • 83 над

    предл.;
    (кем-л./чем-л.)
    1) (поверх) over прям. и перен. вешать над столом ≈ to hang over the table иметь власть над кем-л. ≈ to have power over smb. победа над врагом ≈ victory over the enemy
    2) (выше) above над уровнем моря ≈ above sea-level
    3) (при обозначении предмета труда) at;
    about;
    with работать над темой ≈ to work at/on a subject смеяться над кем-л. ≈ to laugh at smb.
    , (перед некоторыми сочетаниями согласных) надо предлог over;
    (выше) above;
    лампа висит ~ столом there is a lamp over the table;
    ~ городом пролетел самолёт an aircraft flew over the town;
    иметь власть ~ кем-л. have* power over smb. ;
    заснуть ~ книгой fall* asleep over a book;
    возвышаться ~ чем-л. rise* above smth. ;
    горе, башне и т. п.) tower over smth. ;
    ~ уровнем моря above sea-level;
    работать ~ проектом work on a plan;
    смеяться ~ кем-л. laugh at smb.

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > над

  • 84 pressure

    pressure n
    давление
    across filter pressure drop
    свес лопасти
    aerodrome pressure
    давление на аэродроме
    aerodynamic pressure
    аэродинамическое давление
    air intake pressure
    давление на входе в воздухозаборник
    air pressure
    давление воздуха
    air pressure valve
    воздушный редуктор
    ambient pressure
    давление при обтекании
    atmospheric pressure
    атмосферное давление
    at zero pressure
    при отсутствии давления
    barometric pressure
    барометрическое давление
    bellcrank pressure seal
    гермовывод поворотной качалки
    blade pressure side
    рабочая часть лопасти воздушного винта
    blood pressure
    кровяное давление
    boost pressure
    давление наддува
    boost pressure indicator
    указатель давления наддува
    brake pressure
    давление в тормозной системе
    burner pressure
    давление перед форсунками
    burst pressure
    давление взрыва
    cabin pressure
    1. высота в кабине
    2. давление в кабине cabin pressure indicator
    указатель перепада давления в кабине
    cabin pressure regulator
    регулятор давления в кабине
    center of air pressure
    центр аэродинамического давления
    center of pressure
    центр давления
    charged pressure
    давление зарядки
    compressor delivery pressure
    давление за компрессором
    compressor pressure ratio
    степень повышения давления компрессором
    constant pressure chart
    карта постоянного давления
    control cable pressure seal
    гермовывод троса управления
    control rod pressure seal
    гермовывод тяги управления
    defueling suction pressure
    давление откачки топлива
    design pressure
    расчетное давление
    differential pressure
    избыточное давление
    differential pressure indicator
    указатель высоты перепада давления
    differential pressure switch
    сигнализатор перепада давления
    diminish pressure
    уменьшать давление
    discharge pressure overboard
    сбрасывать давление за борт
    dynamic pressure
    скоростной напор
    excessive pressure
    избыточное давление
    excessive pressure drop
    падение давления на фильтре
    exhaust back pressure
    обратное давление на выходе газов
    footprint pressure
    удельное давление на поверхность ВПП
    free-stream pressure
    давление в свободном потоке
    fuel pressure gage
    манометр давления топлива
    fuel pressure indicator
    указатель давления топлива
    fuel pressure warning light
    сигнальная лампочка давления топлива
    fuel supply pressure
    давление в системе подачи топлива
    gage pressure
    манометрическое давление
    high pressure filter
    фильтр высокого давления
    high pressure pump
    насос высокого давления
    high pressure rotor
    ротор высокого давления
    hydraulic pressure
    гидравлическое давление
    inductive pressure gage
    индуктивный манометр
    inlet pressure recovery
    восстановление давления во входном устройстве
    internal pressure
    внутреннее давление
    low pressure filter
    фильтр низкого давления
    low pressure pump
    насос низкого давления
    low pressure rotor
    ротор низкого давления
    low pressure tire
    пневматическая шина низкого давления
    low pressure turbine
    турбина низкого давления
    manifold pressure
    давление наддува
    manifold pressure characteristic
    характеристика по наддуву
    mean sea level pressure
    давление над уровнем моря
    measure pressure
    замерять давление
    minimum pressure switch
    сигнализатор минимального давления
    noise pressure level
    уровень звукового давления
    nozzle exhaust pressure ratio
    степень перепада давления на срезе сопла
    nozzle-exit pressure
    давление на срезе сопла
    oil pressure section
    нагнетающая ступень маслоагрегата
    (двигателя) operating pressure
    рабочее давление
    overall sound pressure level
    суммарный уровень звукового давления
    perking pressure
    давление в системе стояночного тормоза
    Pitot pressure connection
    штуцер полного давления
    pressure altimeter
    барометрический высотомер
    pressure altitude
    высота по давлению
    pressure balance tube
    дренажная трубка
    pressure bulkhead
    гермошпангоут, герметическая перегородка
    pressure capsule
    мембранная коробка
    pressure center
    центр давления
    pressure chamber
    барокамера
    pressure control system
    система регулирования давления
    pressure control unit
    автомат давления
    pressure differential
    перепад давления
    pressure differential regulator
    регулятор избыточного давления
    pressure disturbance
    помехи от давления
    pressure dome
    гермоднище
    pressure door
    гермостворка
    pressure drop
    падение давления
    pressure equalizer
    компенсатор давления
    pressure filter
    фильтр нагнетающей магистрали
    pressure flying
    полеты по изобаре
    pressure force
    сила давления
    pressure front
    фронт давления
    pressure fueling
    заправка топливом под давлением
    pressure fueling coupling
    штуцер заправки топливом под давлением
    pressure fueling manifold
    коллектор системы заправки топливом под давлением
    pressure fueling system
    система заправки топливом под давлением
    pressure fuel system
    система подачи топлива под давлением
    pressure gage
    манометр
    pressure gage transmitter
    датчик манометра давления
    pressure head
    приемник давления
    pressure helmet
    гермошлем
    pressure instrument
    анероидно-мембранный прибор
    pressure lubrication
    смазка под давлением
    pressure map
    карта давления
    pressure measurement pipe
    трубка замера давления
    pressure meter
    манометр
    pressure pads
    решетка системы сигнализации
    pressure pipe
    линия нагнетания
    pressure ratio
    степень сжатия
    pressure refuel connection
    штуцер централизованной заправки
    pressure refuel coupling
    штуцер дозаправки топливом под давлением
    pressure refuel pipeline
    трубопровод централизованной заправки
    pressure regulator
    регулятор давления
    pressure relay
    реле давления
    pressure relief
    стравливание давления
    pressure response characteristic
    характеристика чувствительности к звуковому давлению
    pressure scale
    шкала давления
    pressure seal
    гермовывод
    pressure seal bellows
    гофрированный чехол
    pressure seal connector
    герметический разъем
    pressure sensitivity
    чувствительность по давлению
    pressure shock
    скачок уплотнения
    pressure signature
    профиль волны давления
    pressure switch
    сигнализатор давления
    pressure variation
    колебание давления
    pressure warning switch
    сигнализатор аварийного давления
    pressure wave
    волна давления
    primary static pressure source
    основной источник статического давления
    rated pressure
    номинальное давление
    reflected pressure rise
    рост давления при отражении
    release pressure to overboard
    стравливать давление за борт
    relieve pressure
    уменьшать давление
    remote-reading pressure gage
    дистанционный манометр
    service pressure
    эксплуатационное давление
    set-to-open pressure
    давление открытия
    shock pressure
    давление в скачке уплотнения
    shock-wave pressure
    давление ударной волны
    sound pressure
    звуковое давление
    sound pressure level
    уровень звукового давления
    sound pressure sensitivity calibration
    калибровка чувствительности по звуковому давлению
    sound pressure sensitivity check
    проверка чувствительности к звуковому давлению
    specific pressure datum
    установленная величина давления
    static pressure
    статическое давление
    static pressure connection
    штуцер статического давления
    static pressure tap
    приемник статического давления
    tank pressure
    давление в топливном баке
    tapping pressure
    давление в точке отбора
    test pressure
    испытательное давление
    torque pressure transmitter
    датчик измерителя крутящего момента
    total pressure contour
    контур суммарного давления
    turbine exhaust pressure
    давление газов за турбиной
    turbine inlet pressure
    давление газов
    ultimate pressure
    предельное давление
    undisturbed pressure
    давление в невозмущенном потоке
    wake pressure
    давление в спутной струе
    wheel specific pressure
    удельное давление колеса на грунт
    wind pressure
    ветровое давление
    wind-tunnel pressure
    давление в аэродинамической трубе
    wing pressure plotting
    распределение давления по крылу
    working pressure
    рабочее давление

    English-Russian aviation dictionary > pressure

  • 85 высота

    жен.
    1) height;
    altitude авиац. астр. геогр.;
    pitch муз.;
    loftiness, elevation перен. высота над уровнем моря ≈ height above sea level, altitude на высоте в 100 метровat a height of one hundred metres летать на небольшой высоте ≈ to fly at a low altitude резко терять высоту ≈ (авиац.;
    о самолете) to dip с высоты птичьего полета ≈ (to get/have) a bird's-eye view( of smth.) предельная высотаceiling набор высотыclimb
    2) (возвышенность) hill;
    eminence, ridge горные высотыmountain heights командные высоты ≈ commanding heights доминирующая высотаcommanding eminence
    3) мат. altitude ∙ быть/оказаться на высоте чего-л. ≈ to be equal to smth., to rise to the occasion быть на высоте положения ≈ to be up to the mark, to rise to the occasion не на высотеunequal to the occasion, falling short of the occasion на должной высотеup to the mark, up to par взять высоту ≈ to clear the bar
    высот|а - ж.
    1. height;
    ав., геогр., астр. тж. altitude;

    2. (возвышенность, холм) elevation;
    height;

    3. (звука) pitch;
    быть на ~е положения rise* to the occasion;
    на должной ~е up to the mark;
    не на ~е not at one`s best;
    командные высоты commanding heights (тж. перен.).

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > высота

  • 86 height

    1. n высота, вышина
    2. n рост

    what is her height? — какого она роста?; какой у неё рост?

    3. n высота над уровнем моря
    4. n тех. высотная отметка
    5. n астр. высота над горизонтом
    6. n вершина, верх, верхушка
    7. n часто холм, возвышенность, высота
    8. n верх, высшая степень; апогей; разгар
    9. n библ. небеса
    10. n арх. знатность
    11. n арх. возвышенность натуры
    12. n арх. тех. подъём стрелы
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. elevation (noun) altitude; elevation; eminence; highness; loftiness; size; stature; tallness
    2. extreme (noun) extreme; limit; utmost
    3. peak (noun) acme; apex; apogee; climax; crest; crown; culmination; meridian; peak; pinnacle; summit; top; vertex; zenith
    4. rise (noun) alp; hill; mountain; prominence; rise; slope
    Антонимический ряд:
    depth; nadir

    English-Russian base dictionary > height

  • 87 SLR

    1) Компьютерная техника: Service Level Reporter, sunlight readable
    2) Медицина: определение симптома «прилипшей пятки» ("straight leg raising" - определение «синдрома прилипшей пятки», когда больной не может поднять прямую ногу из-за перелома в области таза или смещения позвонка)
    6) Шутливое выражение: Silly Little Ranger
    7) Железнодорожный термин: St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, The Strawberry Light Railway
    8) Грубое выражение: Stupidly Low Racer
    9) Оптика: single-lens reflex
    10) Политика: Single Lens Reflex ( camera)
    11) Сокращение: Side-Looking Radar, solar, System Length Register
    12) Физиология: Straight leg raising
    13) Электроника: Small Lattice Relaxation
    14) Вычислительная техника: Scalable Linear Recording (Streamer, Tandberg)
    17) Транспорт: Sporty, Light, And Racing
    18) Фирменный знак: Sound Lab Records
    19) Деловая лексика: Small Lot Reserve
    20) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Schlumberger Russia
    22) Океанография: Sea-level Rise
    23) Безопасность: Steam Lock Release

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > SLR

  • 88 slr

    1) Компьютерная техника: Service Level Reporter, sunlight readable
    2) Медицина: определение симптома «прилипшей пятки» ("straight leg raising" - определение «синдрома прилипшей пятки», когда больной не может поднять прямую ногу из-за перелома в области таза или смещения позвонка)
    6) Шутливое выражение: Silly Little Ranger
    7) Железнодорожный термин: St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, The Strawberry Light Railway
    8) Грубое выражение: Stupidly Low Racer
    9) Оптика: single-lens reflex
    10) Политика: Single Lens Reflex ( camera)
    11) Сокращение: Side-Looking Radar, solar, System Length Register
    12) Физиология: Straight leg raising
    13) Электроника: Small Lattice Relaxation
    14) Вычислительная техника: Scalable Linear Recording (Streamer, Tandberg)
    17) Транспорт: Sporty, Light, And Racing
    18) Фирменный знак: Sound Lab Records
    19) Деловая лексика: Small Lot Reserve
    20) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Schlumberger Russia
    22) Океанография: Sea-level Rise
    23) Безопасность: Steam Lock Release

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > slr

  • 89 delta

    1. дельты
    2. дельта реки
    3. дельта (реки)
    4. дельта

     

    дельта
    Обозначение дискретных изменений или приращений сигнала, обычно на фиксированную величину.
    [Л.М. Невдяев. Телекоммуникационные технологии. Англо-русский толковый словарь-справочник. Под редакцией Ю.М. Горностаева. Москва, 2002]

    Тематики

    • электросвязь, основные понятия

    EN

     

    дельта реки

    [ http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

    EN

    delta
    A delta is a vast, fan-shaped creation of land, or low-lying plain, formed from successive layers of sediment washed from uplands to the mouth of some rivers, such as the Nile, the Mississippi and the Ganges. The nutrient-rich sediment is deposited by rivers at the point where, or before which, the river flows into the sea. Deltas are formed when rivers supply and deposit sediments more quickly that they can be removed by waves of ocean currents. The importance of deltas was first discovered by prehistoric man, who was attracted to them because of their abundant animal and plant life. Connecting waterways through the deltas later provided natural routes for navigation and trade, and opened up access to the interior. Deltas are highly fertile and often highly populated areas. They would be under serious threat of flooding from any sea-level rise. (Source: WRIGHT)
    [http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

    Тематики

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    FR

     

    дельты
    Приустьевой участок реки, схожий с начертанием греческой буквы "V" и сложенный преимущественно речными отложениями.
    [ Словарь геологических терминов и понятий. Томский Государственный Университет]

    Тематики

    • геология, геофизика

    Обобщающие термины

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  • 90 height

    height [haɪt]
       a. [of object, building] hauteur f ; [of person] taille f ; [of mountain] altitude f
    what height are you? combien mesurez-vous ?
       b. ( = altitude) altitude f
       c. ( = utmost) [of fortune, success] apogée m ; [of glory, fame] sommet m ; [of absurdity, folly] comble m
    at the height of summer/the storm au cœur de l'été/l'orage
    * * *
    [haɪt]
    1) ( of person) taille f; (of table, tower, tree) hauteur f

    to be 1 metre 60 cm in height[person] mesurer 1 mètre 60; [object] faire 1 mètre 60 de haut

    2) ( distance from ground) (of mountain, plane) altitude f

    to rise to great heightsfig aller loin

    3) fig ( peak)

    at the height ofau plus fort de [storm, crisis]

    to be at the height of one's popularity/powers — être au sommet de sa popularité/son talent

    the height ofle comble de [luxury, stupidity, cheek]

    English-French dictionary > height

  • 91 elevation

    el·eva·tion [ˌelɪʼveɪʃən] n
    ( form)
    1) ( height) Höhe f ( above sea level) of mountain Höhe f über dem Meeresspiegel
    2) ( raised area) [Boden]erhebung f; ( hill) Anhöhe f
    3) ( rise) Beförderung f; ( to peerage) Erhebung f

    English-German students dictionary > elevation

  • 92 height

    1. возвышенность; холм 2. вершина 3. высота 4. высотная отметка; максимум, предел
    height above sea level высота над уровнем моря
    height of capillary rise высота капиллярного поднятия воды
    height of damming высота подпора, высота запруды
    height of fold высота складки
    height of instrument высота инструмента (при геодезической съёмке)
    height of land водораздел
    height of precipitation высота столба или слоя атмосферных осадков
    height of water 1. высота уровня воды 2. напор воды
    absolute height абсолютная высота
    barometric height барометрическая высота
    coal height мощность угольного пласта
    critical height критическая высота
    dynamic height динамическая высота
    geoidal height высота геоида
    individual height высотная отметка
    lip height высота борта кратера (высота над поверхностью земли накопившегося вокруг кратера взрыва рыхлого материала)
    orthometric height ортометрическая высота
    relative height 1. относительная высота 2. превышение
    rim height высота края кратера
    scale height высота по шкале; вертикальный масштаб
    seam height мощность пласта
    spot height высотная отметка (на карте)

    English-Russian dictionary of geology > height

  • 93 rising

    1. n подъём, повышение; увеличение
    2. n воскресение; возрождение
    3. n восстание, бунт, мятеж
    4. n восход
    5. n вставание
    6. n прыщик, опухоль
    7. n строевая рысь
    8. n горн. проходка снизу вверх
    9. a повышающийся, поднимающийся
    10. a возрастающий, повышающийся; увеличивающийся
    11. a восходящий
    12. a растущий, подрастающий

    the rising generation — новое поколение, молодёжь

    13. a приобретающий вес, влияние, известность

    rising lawyer — юрист, начинающий приобретать известность

    14. a геральд. готовящийся взлететь, расправляющий крылья
    15. adv почти, около
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. ascent (noun) ascension; ascent; climbing; going up; mounting; rise
    2. adjourning (verb) adjourning; dissolving; proroguing; recessing; terminating
    3. arising (verb) arising; ascending; aspiring; get up; lifting; mounting; pile out; roll out; soaring; stand up; turn out; upping
    4. arriving (verb) arriving; get ahead; get on; succeeding
    5. happening (verb) befalling; betiding; breaking; chancing; coming off; developing; doing; falling out; giving; going; happening; occurring; passing; transpiring
    6. increasing (verb) augmenting; building; burgeoning; enlarging; escalating; expanding; growing; increasing; multiplying; running up; snowballing; waxing
    7. intensifying (verb) aggravating; deepening; enhancing; heightening; intensifying; magnifying; redoubling; rousing
    8. lifting (verb) advancing; ascending; climbing; lifting; mounting; soaring
    9. rebelling (verb) mutinying; rebelling; revolting
    10. rolling out (verb) getting up; piling out; rising and shining; rolling out; standing up; turning out; uprising
    11. springing (verb) coming; coming from; deriving; deriving from; emanating; flowing; heading; issuing; originating; proceeding; springing; stemming
    12. surfacing (verb) surfacing

    English-Russian base dictionary > rising

  • 94 above

    above [ə'bʌv]
    au-dessus de1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (f), 1 (h) plus que1 (c) au-delà de1 (d) par-dessus1 (g) ci-dessus2 au-dessus3 (a) en haut3 (c) plus haut3 (d)
    above our heads au-dessus de nos têtes;
    in the sky above us dans le ciel au-dessus de nous;
    smoke rose above the town de la fumée s'élevait au-dessus de la ville;
    above the equator au-dessus de l'équateur;
    above ground en surface;
    above sea level au-dessus du niveau de la mer;
    the water reached above their knees l'eau leur montait jusqu'au-dessus des genoux;
    skirts are above the knee this year les jupes se portent au-dessus du genou cette année;
    they live above the shop ils habitent au-dessus du magasin;
    a village on the river above Oxford un village (situé) en amont d'Oxford;
    his name appeared three lines above mine son nom figurait trois lignes au-dessus du mien
    above 40 kilos au-dessus de 40 kilos;
    above $100 plus de 100 dollars;
    it's above my price limit c'est au-dessus du prix ou ça dépasse le prix que je me suis fixé;
    his temperature is above normal sa température est supérieure à ou au-dessus de la normale;
    the temperature didn't rise above 10°C la température n'a pas dépassé 10°C;
    above average au-dessus de la moyenne
    he values friendship above success il accorde plus d'importance à l'amitié qu'à la réussite;
    he respected her above all others il la respectait entre toutes
    (d) (beyond) au-delà de;
    the discussion was all rather above me la discussion me dépassait complètement
    she's above that sort of thing elle est au-dessus de ça;
    above suspicion/reproach au-dessus de tout soupçon/reproche;
    he's not above cheating il irait jusqu'à tricher;
    I'm not above asking for favours je ne répugne pas à demander des faveurs;
    she's not above telling the occasional lie il lui arrive de mentir de temps en temps
    (f) (superior in rank, quality to) au-dessus de;
    to marry above one's station se marier au-dessus de son rang;
    she's ranked above the other athletes elle se classe devant les autres athlètes;
    to get above oneself ne pas se prendre pour n'importe qui
    (g) (in volume, sound) par-dessus;
    it's difficult to make oneself heard above all this noise il est difficile de se faire entendre avec tout ce bruit;
    his voice was heard above the shouting on entendait sa voix par-dessus le tumulte;
    a scream rose above the noise of the engines un cri se fit entendre par-dessus le bruit des moteurs
    (h) Music (in pitch) au-dessus de
    formal ci-dessus; Administration précité;
    the above facts les faits cités plus haut;
    the names on the above list les noms qui figurent sur la liste ci-dessus
    the stars above le ciel constellé;
    the people in the flat above les voisins du dessus;
    to fall from above tomber d'en haut;
    two lines above deux lignes plus haut
    aged 20 and above âgé de 20 ans et plus;
    £5 and above 5 livres ou plus
    we've had orders from above nous avons reçu des ordres d'en haut
    (d) (in book, document) plus haut;
    mentioned above cité plus haut ou ci-dessus;
    the paragraph above le paragraphe ci-dessus;
    as above comme ci-dessus
    (e) Religion (in heaven) là-haut, au ciel;
    the angels above les anges du ciel
    the note above un ton plus haut ou au-dessus
    4 noun
    formal the above (fact, item) ce qui se trouve ci-dessus; (person) le (la) susnommé(e); (persons) les susnommé(e)s;
    can you explain the above? pouvez-vous expliquer ce qui précède?;
    the above is a quotation from Hamlet le passage ci-dessus est une citation de Hamlet
    avant tout, surtout

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > above

  • 95 flat

    [flæt] 1. adjective
    1) (level; without rise or fall: a flat surface.) flad; jævn; plan; lige
    2) (dull; without interest: She spent a very flat weekend.) kedelig; død
    3) ((of something said, decided etc) definite; emphatic: a flat denial.) ubetinget; kategorisk; pure
    4) ((of a tyre) not inflated, having lost most of its air: His car had a flat tyre.) flad; punkteret
    5) ((of drinks) no longer fizzy: flat lemonade; ( also adverb) My beer has gone flat.) flad; doven
    6) (slightly lower than a musical note should be: That last note was flat; ( also adverb) The choir went very flat.) for lav; ikke ren
    2. adverb
    (stretched out: She was lying flat on her back.) udstrakt
    3. noun
    1) ((American apartment) a set of rooms on one floor, with kitchen and bathroom, in a larger building or block: Do you live in a house or a flat?) lejlighed
    2) ((in musical notation) a sign (♭) which makes a note a semitone lower.) (med b for)
    3) (a level, even part: the flat of her hand.) håndflade
    4) ((usually in plural) an area of flat land, especially beside the sea, a river etc: mud flats.) fladt land; slette; marsk
    - flatten
    - flat rate
    - flat out
    * * *
    [flæt] 1. adjective
    1) (level; without rise or fall: a flat surface.) flad; jævn; plan; lige
    2) (dull; without interest: She spent a very flat weekend.) kedelig; død
    3) ((of something said, decided etc) definite; emphatic: a flat denial.) ubetinget; kategorisk; pure
    4) ((of a tyre) not inflated, having lost most of its air: His car had a flat tyre.) flad; punkteret
    5) ((of drinks) no longer fizzy: flat lemonade; ( also adverb) My beer has gone flat.) flad; doven
    6) (slightly lower than a musical note should be: That last note was flat; ( also adverb) The choir went very flat.) for lav; ikke ren
    2. adverb
    (stretched out: She was lying flat on her back.) udstrakt
    3. noun
    1) ((American apartment) a set of rooms on one floor, with kitchen and bathroom, in a larger building or block: Do you live in a house or a flat?) lejlighed
    2) ((in musical notation) a sign (♭) which makes a note a semitone lower.) (med b for)
    3) (a level, even part: the flat of her hand.) håndflade
    4) ((usually in plural) an area of flat land, especially beside the sea, a river etc: mud flats.) fladt land; slette; marsk
    - flatten
    - flat rate
    - flat out

    English-Danish dictionary > flat

  • 96 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 97 flat

    flæt
    1. adjective
    1) (level; without rise or fall: a flat surface.) llano, plano, liso
    2) (dull; without interest: She spent a very flat weekend.) monótono
    3) ((of something said, decided etc) definite; emphatic: a flat denial.) rotundo
    4) ((of a tyre) not inflated, having lost most of its air: His car had a flat tyre.) desinflado
    5) ((of drinks) no longer fizzy: flat lemonade; (also adverb) My beer has gone flat.) sin gas
    6) (slightly lower than a musical note should be: That last note was flat; (also adverb) The choir went very flat.) desafinado

    2. adverb
    (stretched out: She was lying flat on her back.) horizontalmente

    3. noun
    1) ((American apartment) a set of rooms on one floor, with kitchen and bathroom, in a larger building or block: Do you live in a house or a flat?) apartamento
    2) ((in musical notation) a sign (♭) which makes a note a semitone lower.) bemol
    3) (a level, even part: the flat of her hand.) plano; palma
    4) ((usually in plural) an area of flat land, especially beside the sea, a river etc: mud flats.) llano, llanura
    - flatten
    - flat rate
    - flat out

    flat1 adj
    1. llano / plano
    a flat roof un tejado plano / una azotea
    2. desinflado
    El comparativo de flat se escribe flatter; el superlativo se escribe flattest
    flat2 n piso / apartamento
    do you live in a house or a flat? ¿vives en una casa o en un piso?
    Se dice flat en inglés británico, en inglés americano se dice apartment
    tr[flæt]
    adjective (comp flatter, superl flattest)
    1 (level, even) llano,-a, plano,-a; (smooth) liso,-a
    2 (shallow) llano,-a
    3 (shoes) sin tacón
    4 (tyre, ball etc) desinflado,-a
    5 (battery) descargado,-a
    6 (drink) sin gas
    7 figurative use (dull) monótono,-a, soso,-a
    9 (firm, absolute, categorical) rotundo,-a
    10 (exact) justo,-a
    11 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (key) bemol; (voice, instrument) desafinado,-a
    1 (plain) llano, llanura
    2 (of hand) palma
    3 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL bemol nombre masculino
    4 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL (tyre) pinchazo
    1 (completely) categóricamente
    2 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL desafinadamente
    3 (exactly) exactamente
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    and that's flat no hay más que decir
    as flat as a pancake liso,-a como la palma de la mano
    flat broke sin blanca
    to be in a flat spin (person) estar hecho,-a un lío
    to fall flat (joke etc) caer mal, no hacer gracia
    to go flat out ir a toda pastilla, ir a todo gas
    to lay flat estirar, extender
    to play flat / sing flat desafinar
    flat cap gorra
    flat racing carreras nombre femenino plural de caballos sin vallas
    flat spin SMALLAVIATION/SMALL barrena
    ————————
    tr[flæt]
    1 (apartment) piso
    flat ['flæt] vt, flatted ; flatting
    1) flatten: aplanar, achatar
    2) : bajar de tono (en música)
    flat adv
    1) exactly: exactamente
    in ten minutes flat: en diez minutos exactos
    2) : desafinado, demasiado bajo (en la música)
    1) even, level: plano, llano
    2) smooth: liso
    3) definite: categórico, rotundo, explícito
    a flat refusal: una negativa categórica
    4) dull: aburrido, soso, monótono (dícese la voz)
    5) deflated: desinflado, pinchado, ponchado Mex
    6) : bemol (en música)
    to sing flat: cantar desafinado
    flat n
    1) plain: llano m, terreno m llano
    2) : bemol m (en la música)
    3) apartment: apartamento m, departamento m
    4) or flat tire : pinchazo m, ponchadura f Mex
    n.
    apartamento s.m. (Drink)
    adj.
    sin gas (Bebida) adj. (Tire)
    n.
    pinchada (Neumático) (•Automóvil•) s.f. (Wine)
    n.
    insípido (Vino) s.m.
    adj.
    bemol adj.
    desanimado, -a adj.
    deslustrado, -a adj.
    empañado, -a adj.
    horizontal adj.
    insulso, -a adj.
    insípido, -a adj.
    liso, -a adj.
    llano, -a adj.
    mate adj.
    mocho, -a adj.
    monótono, -a adj.
    muerto, -a adj.
    plano, -a adj.
    raso, -a adj.
    tendido, -a adj.
    n.
    apartamiento s.m.
    bemol s.m.
    palma de la mano s.f.
    pantano s.m.
    piso s.m.
    plano s.m.

    I flæt
    1)
    a) < surface> plano; < countryside> llano

    flat feetpies mpl planos

    houses with flat roofscasas fpl con techos planos or con azoteas

    I lay down flat and tried to relaxme tumbé or me tendí e intenté relajarme; face I 1) a)

    b) < dish> llano, bajo (Chi), playo (RPl)

    flat shoeszapatos mpl bajos, zapatillas fpl de piso (Méx)

    flat cap o hat — (BrE) gorra f ( de lana con visera)

    c) ( deflated) < ball> desinflado, ponchado (Méx)

    you have a flat tire o (BrE) tyre — tienes un neumático desinflado or una rueda desinflada or (Méx) una llanta ponchada

    2)
    a) <lemonade/beer> sin efervescencia, sin gas
    b) < battery> descargado
    3) (dull, uninteresting) <conversation/party> soso (fam); < joke> sin gracia; < voice> monótono

    to fall flat\<\<play/project\>\> fracasar*, no ser* bien recibido

    4) (total, firm) <denial/refusal> rotundo, categórico
    5) ( Mus)
    a) ( referring to key) bemol

    A flatla m bemol

    b) ( too low)
    6) ( fixed) (before n) < rate> fijo, uniforme
    7) ( broke) (AmE colloq) (pred)

    to be flat — estar* pelado (fam)


    II
    1)
    a) <refuse/turn down> de plano, categóricamente
    b) ( exactly)
    c) (AmE colloq) (as intensifier) completamente; see also broke II
    2) ( Mus) demasiado bajo

    III
    1) ( apartment) (BrE) apartamento m, departamento m (AmL), piso m (Esp)
    2)
    a) ( surface - of sword) cara f de la hoja; (- of hand) palma f
    b) ( level ground) llano m, terreno m llano
    3) ( Mus) bemol m
    4) ( Theat) bastidor m
    5) flats pl
    a) ( low-lying ground) llano m
    b) ( shoes) (esp AmE) zapatos mpl bajos, zapatillas fpl de piso (Méx)

    I [flæt]
    1. ADJ
    (compar flatter) (superl flattest)
    1) (=level) [surface, roof] plano; [countryside] llano

    lie flat on your backtúmbate de espaldas en el suelo

    to fall flat on one's face — (lit) caer(se) de bruces

    spin
    2) (=smooth, even) [road, surface] liso, llano

    to smooth sth flat[+ paper etc] alisar algo

    3) (=shallow) [dish] llano; [box] plano
    4) [foot, shoe] plano; [nose] chato
    5) (=deflated) [tyre, ball] pinchado, desinflado

    we got a flat tyre — se nos pinchó una rueda, se nos ponchó una llanta (Mex)

    I had a flat tyretenía una rueda pinchada or desinflada, tenía un pinchazo, tenía una ponchada (Mex)

    6) (=dull, lifeless) [voice, colour] apagado; [taste, style] soso; [light] sin contraste; [drink] sin burbujas or gas; [battery] descargado

    the atmosphere at the party was a bit flat — el ambiente de la fiesta estaba un poco apagado

    I'm feeling rather flat — estoy un poco deprimido

    she meant it as a joke, but it fell flat — lo dijo de broma, pero nadie le vio la gracia

    the champagne has gone flat — al champán se le ha ido la fuerza or se le han ido las burbujas

    7) (=inactive) [trade, business] flojo

    sales have been flat this summer — las ventas han estado flojas este verano, no ha habido mucho movimiento de ventas este verano

    8) (=outright) [refusal, denial] rotundo, terminante

    his suggestion met with a flat refusalsu sugerencia recibió una negativa rotunda or terminante

    he says he's not going and that's flat *dice que no va y sanseacabó

    9) (Mus)
    a) [voice, instrument] desafinado

    she/her singing was flat — desafinaba cantando

    b) (of key) bemol
    10) (=fixed) [rate, fee, charge] fijo
    11) (Horse racing)

    flat jockeyjinete mf de carreras sin obstáculos

    12) (=not shiny) (of painted surface) mate, sin brillo
    2. ADV
    1) (=absolutely)

    to be flat broke *estar pelado *, estar sin un duro (Sp) *, estar sin un peso (LAm) *

    2) (=outright) [refuse] rotundamente, terminantemente

    I told her flat that she couldn't have it — le dije terminantemente que no se lo podía quedar

    to turn sth down flat — rechazar algo rotundamente or de plano

    3) (=exactly)
    4) (esp Brit)

    flat out: flat out, the car can do 140mph — cuando pones el coche a toda máquina, llega a las 140 millas por hora

    to go flat out — ir a toda máquina

    to work flat out (to do sth) — trabajar a toda máquina (para hacer algo)

    5) (Mus)

    to play/sing flat — tocar/cantar demasiado bajo, desafinar

    3. N
    1) [of hand] palma f; [of sword] cara f de la hoja
    2) (Mus) bemol m
    3) (Aut) pinchazo m, ponchada f (Mex)

    we got a flat — se nos pinchó una rueda, se nos ponchó una llanta (Mex)

    I had a flat — tenía una rueda pinchada or desinflada, tenía un pinchazo, tenía una ponchada (Mex)

    4) flats (Geog) (=marshland) marismas fpl; (=sand) bancos mpl de arena

    mud flats — marismas fpl

    salt flats — salinas fpl

    5) (Theat) bastidor m
    6) (Horse racing)
    4.
    CPD

    flat cap Ngorra de lana con visera

    flat pack N

    it comes in a flat pack — viene en una caja plana para el automontaje; see flat-pack

    flat racing Ncarreras fpl de caballos sin obstáculos

    flat rate N[of interest, tax] tanto m alzado; (Internet, Telec) tarifa f plana; see flat-rate

    flat screen N — (TV, Comput) pantalla f plana; see flat-screen


    II
    [flæt]
    N (Brit) apartamento m, piso m (Sp), departamento m (LAm)
    * * *

    I [flæt]
    1)
    a) < surface> plano; < countryside> llano

    flat feetpies mpl planos

    houses with flat roofscasas fpl con techos planos or con azoteas

    I lay down flat and tried to relaxme tumbé or me tendí e intenté relajarme; face I 1) a)

    b) < dish> llano, bajo (Chi), playo (RPl)

    flat shoeszapatos mpl bajos, zapatillas fpl de piso (Méx)

    flat cap o hat — (BrE) gorra f ( de lana con visera)

    c) ( deflated) < ball> desinflado, ponchado (Méx)

    you have a flat tire o (BrE) tyre — tienes un neumático desinflado or una rueda desinflada or (Méx) una llanta ponchada

    2)
    a) <lemonade/beer> sin efervescencia, sin gas
    b) < battery> descargado
    3) (dull, uninteresting) <conversation/party> soso (fam); < joke> sin gracia; < voice> monótono

    to fall flat\<\<play/project\>\> fracasar*, no ser* bien recibido

    4) (total, firm) <denial/refusal> rotundo, categórico
    5) ( Mus)
    a) ( referring to key) bemol

    A flatla m bemol

    b) ( too low)
    6) ( fixed) (before n) < rate> fijo, uniforme
    7) ( broke) (AmE colloq) (pred)

    to be flat — estar* pelado (fam)


    II
    1)
    a) <refuse/turn down> de plano, categóricamente
    b) ( exactly)
    c) (AmE colloq) (as intensifier) completamente; see also broke II
    2) ( Mus) demasiado bajo

    III
    1) ( apartment) (BrE) apartamento m, departamento m (AmL), piso m (Esp)
    2)
    a) ( surface - of sword) cara f de la hoja; (- of hand) palma f
    b) ( level ground) llano m, terreno m llano
    3) ( Mus) bemol m
    4) ( Theat) bastidor m
    5) flats pl
    a) ( low-lying ground) llano m
    b) ( shoes) (esp AmE) zapatos mpl bajos, zapatillas fpl de piso (Méx)

    English-spanish dictionary > flat

  • 98 pitch

    I
    1. pi  verb
    1) (to set up (a tent or camp): They pitched their tent in the field.) plantar, armar, montar
    2) (to throw: He pitched the stone into the river.) tirar, lanzar, arrojar
    3) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) caer(se)
    4) ((of a ship) to rise and fall violently: The boat pitched up and down on the rough sea.) cabecear
    5) (to set (a note or tune) at a particular level: He pitched the tune too high for my voice.) entonar

    2. noun
    1) (the field or ground for certain games: a cricket-pitch; a football pitch.) campo
    2) (the degree of highness or lowness of a musical note, voice etc.) tono; diapasón (música)
    3) (an extreme point or intensity: His anger reached such a pitch that he hit her.) grado, punto, extremo
    4) (the part of a street etc where a street-seller or entertainer works: He has a pitch on the High Street.) puesto
    5) (the act of pitching or throwing or the distance something is pitched: That was a long pitch.) lanzamiento
    6) ((of a ship) the act of pitching.) cabezada
    - pitcher
    - pitched battle
    - pitchfork

    II pi  noun
    (a thick black substance obtained from tar: as black as pitch.) brea
    - pitch-dark
    pitch1 n
    1. campo / terreno de juego
    2. tono
    pitch2 vb montar
    tr[pɪʧ]
    1 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (of sound) tono; (of instrument) diapasón nombre masculino
    2 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (field) campo, terreno; (throw) lanzamiento
    3 (degree, level) grado, punto, extremo
    4 (position, site) lugar nombre masculino, sitio; (in market) puesto
    5 SMALLMARITIME/SMALL (movement) cabezada
    1 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (note, sound) entonar
    2 figurative use (aim, address) dirigir (at, a); (set) dar un tono a
    3 (throw) tirar, arrojar; (in baseball) lanzar, pichear
    4 (tent) plantar, armar, montar; (camp) montar, hacer
    1 (fall) caerse
    2 (ship, plane) cabecear
    3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (in baseball) lanzar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be at fever pitch estar al rojo vivo
    ————————
    tr[pɪʧ]
    1 (tar) brea, pez nombre femenino
    pitch ['pɪʧ] vt
    1) set up: montar, armar (una tienda)
    2) throw: lanzar, arrojar
    3) adjust, set: dar el tono de (un discurso, un instrumento musical)
    pitch vi
    1) or pitch forward fall: caerse
    2) lurch: cabecear (dícese de un barco o un avión), dar bandazos
    1) lurching: cabezada f, cabeceo m (de un barco o un avión)
    2) slope: (grado de) inclinación f, pendiente f
    3) : tono m (en música)
    perfect pitch: oído absoluto
    4) throw: lanzamiento m
    5) degree: grado m, nivel m, punto m
    the excitement reached a high pitch: la excitación llegó a un punto culminante
    6) or sales pitch : presentación f (de un vendedor)
    7) tar: pez f, brea f
    n.
    alquitrán s.m.
    betún s.m.
    brea s.f.
    cabezada s.f.
    diapasón s.m.
    empega s.f.
    grado de inclinación s.m.
    lanzamiento s.m.
    pega s.f.
    pendiente s.m.
    pez s.f.
    tono s.m. (Ships)
    v.
    encabritarse v.
    v.
    amorrar v.
    echar v.
    lanzar v.
    pɪtʃ
    I
    1)
    a) (level, degree) (no pl) punto m, extremo m, grado m
    b) u c ( Mus) tono m

    to have perfect pitch — tener* oído absoluto

    2) c ( in baseball) lanzamiento m
    3) c ( Sport) ( playing area) (BrE) campo m, cancha f (AmL)
    4) c
    a) (position, site) (BrE) lugar m, sitio m; (in market, fair) puesto m
    5) u ( substance) brea f

    II
    1.
    1) ( set up) \<\<tent\>\> armar, montar; \<\<camp\>\> montar, hacer*
    2) ( sport) \<\<ball\>\> lanzar*, pichear
    3)
    a) (aim, set, address)

    they pitched their opening offer at 3% — situaron su oferta inicial en un 3%

    b) ( Mus)

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( fall) (+ adv compl) caerse*
    b) ( lurch) \<\<ship/plane\>\> cabecear
    2) ( Sport)
    a) ( in baseball) lanzar*, pichear
    b) (in golf, cricket) \<\<ball\>\> caer*, dar*
    3) (campaign, fight) (AmE)

    to be in there pitching — (colloq) estar* en la brecha or al pie del cañón

    Phrasal Verbs:

    I [pɪtʃ]
    1. N
    1) (esp Brit) (Ftbl, Cricket, Hockey) (=area of play) campo m, cancha f (LAm)
    2) (Baseball) (=throw) lanzamiento m, tiro m
    3) [of note, voice, instrument] tono m ; concert 3., perfect 4., queer 3.
    4) (esp Brit) [of market trader] puesto m ; [of homeless person] sitio m
    5) (=height, degree) extremo m, punto m

    matters reached such a pitch that... — las cosas llegaron a tal extremo or a tal punto que...

    fever 2.
    6) * (=sales talk) rollo * m

    she stood up and made her pitch — se levantó y soltó su rollo

    he made a pitch for the women's voteprocuró hacerse con or acaparar los votos de las mujeres

    sale 2.
    7) (=slope) (gen) grado m de inclinación; [of roof] pendiente f
    8) (Naut) cabezada f
    2. VT
    1) (=throw) [+ ball] lanzar; [+ person] arrojar

    he was pitched off his horse — salió disparado del caballo

    the impact pitched her over the handlebars — el impacto la arrojó por encima del manillar

    2) (Mus) [+ note] dar; [+ instrument] graduar el tono de
    3) (=present)

    to pitch one's aspirations too highpicar demasiado or muy alto

    you're pitching it a bit high! or strong! — ¡estás recargando las tintas!

    4) (=set up) [+ tent] armar, montar

    to pitch camp — acampar, montar el campamento

    3. VI
    1) (=fall) [person] caer, caerse

    he pitched head-first over the wallse cayó or cayó de cabeza por el muro

    to pitch forward, the passengers pitched forward as the coach stopped — los pasajeros salieron despedidos hacia adelante cuando se paró el autocar

    he went down on his knees, then pitched forward — se cayó or cayó de rodillas y luego de bruces

    2) (Naut, Aer) cabecear

    the ship was pitching and rolling or tossingel barco cabeceaba de un lado para otro

    3) (Baseball) lanzar
    - be in there pitching
    4.
    CPD

    pitch inspection N(Brit) (Sport) inspección f del terreno de juego

    we have arranged a pitch inspection by a referee for 9am on Wednesday morning — hemos dispuesto que un árbitro inspeccione el terreno de juego el miércoles a las nueve de la mañana

    pitch invasion N(Brit) invasión f de campo

    pitch pipe N — (Mus) diapasón m

    pitch shot N — (Golf) pitch m


    II [pɪtʃ]
    1.
    N (=tar) brea f, pez f
    2.
    CPD

    pitch blackness Noscuridad f total

    pitch pine N(=wood) pino m de tea

    * * *
    [pɪtʃ]
    I
    1)
    a) (level, degree) (no pl) punto m, extremo m, grado m
    b) u c ( Mus) tono m

    to have perfect pitch — tener* oído absoluto

    2) c ( in baseball) lanzamiento m
    3) c ( Sport) ( playing area) (BrE) campo m, cancha f (AmL)
    4) c
    a) (position, site) (BrE) lugar m, sitio m; (in market, fair) puesto m
    5) u ( substance) brea f

    II
    1.
    1) ( set up) \<\<tent\>\> armar, montar; \<\<camp\>\> montar, hacer*
    2) ( sport) \<\<ball\>\> lanzar*, pichear
    3)
    a) (aim, set, address)

    they pitched their opening offer at 3% — situaron su oferta inicial en un 3%

    b) ( Mus)

    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( fall) (+ adv compl) caerse*
    b) ( lurch) \<\<ship/plane\>\> cabecear
    2) ( Sport)
    a) ( in baseball) lanzar*, pichear
    b) (in golf, cricket) \<\<ball\>\> caer*, dar*
    3) (campaign, fight) (AmE)

    to be in there pitching — (colloq) estar* en la brecha or al pie del cañón

    Phrasal Verbs:

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  • 99 altura


    altura sustantivo femenino 1 (de persona, edificio, techo) height; 2 ( indicando posición) height; a la altura de los ojos at eye level; estar/ponerse a la altura de algo/algn: para ponernos a la altura de la competencia to put ourselves on a par with our competitors; estar a la altura de las circunstancias to rise to the occasion; no está a la altura de su predecesor he doesn't match up to his predecessor 3
    a) (Aviac, Geog) ( altitud) altitude;
    a 2.240 metros de altura at an altitude of 2,240 meters
    b)
    de alturapesquero/flota deep-sea ( before n);
    remolcador oceangoing ( before n) 4 ( en sentido horizontal):
    ¿a qué altura de Serrano vive? how far up Serrano do you live?;
    cuando llegamos a la altura de la plaza when we reached the square 5 ( en sentido temporal): ¡a estas alturas me vienes con eso! you wait till now to bring this to me!; a estas alturas del año this late on in the year; a esas alturas ya no me importaba by that stage I didn't mind 6 (Mús) pitch
    altura sustantivo femenino
    1 height
    de nueve metros de altura, nine metres high
    2 (nivel) level
    a la misma altura, on the same level Geography on the same latitude: Helena vive a la altura del hospital, Helena lives by the hospital Locuciones: figurado no está a la altura de su rival, he doesn't measure up to his rival figurado se supo poner a la altura de las circunstancias, she was able to meet the challenge
    a estas alturas ya deberías conocerlo, you should know him by now ' altura' also found in these entries: Spanish: alta - alto - betún - estatura - estirón - grandeza - salto - sobrepasar - superar - talla - alcanzar - asorocharse - caer - descender - descenso - elevar - grande - listón - mal - máximo - mayor - nivel - tomar English: dizzy - equal - eye-level - height - high - ht - inadequate - level - live up to - low - match - measure up - name - off-shore fishing - patch - rise - storey - tall - up to - deep - elevation - head - justice - league - live - measure - par - second - third - up

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  • 100 pitch

    I 1. [pi ] verb
    1) (to set up (a tent or camp): They pitched their tent in the field.) rejse; sætte op
    2) (to throw: He pitched the stone into the river.) kaste
    3) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) styrte; snuble
    4) ((of a ship) to rise and fall violently: The boat pitched up and down on the rough sea.) vippe; hugge
    5) (to set (a note or tune) at a particular level: He pitched the tune too high for my voice.) sætte i en tonehøjde
    2. noun
    1) (the field or ground for certain games: a cricket-pitch; a football pitch.) bane
    2) (the degree of highness or lowness of a musical note, voice etc.) tonehøjde
    3) (an extreme point or intensity: His anger reached such a pitch that he hit her.) grad
    4) (the part of a street etc where a street-seller or entertainer works: He has a pitch on the High Street.) sted; plads
    5) (the act of pitching or throwing or the distance something is pitched: That was a long pitch.) kast
    6) ((of a ship) the act of pitching.) vippen; huggen
    - pitcher
    - pitched battle
    - pitchfork
    II [pi ] noun
    (a thick black substance obtained from tar: as black as pitch.) beg
    - pitch-dark
    * * *
    I 1. [pi ] verb
    1) (to set up (a tent or camp): They pitched their tent in the field.) rejse; sætte op
    2) (to throw: He pitched the stone into the river.) kaste
    3) (to (cause to) fall heavily: He pitched forward.) styrte; snuble
    4) ((of a ship) to rise and fall violently: The boat pitched up and down on the rough sea.) vippe; hugge
    5) (to set (a note or tune) at a particular level: He pitched the tune too high for my voice.) sætte i en tonehøjde
    2. noun
    1) (the field or ground for certain games: a cricket-pitch; a football pitch.) bane
    2) (the degree of highness or lowness of a musical note, voice etc.) tonehøjde
    3) (an extreme point or intensity: His anger reached such a pitch that he hit her.) grad
    4) (the part of a street etc where a street-seller or entertainer works: He has a pitch on the High Street.) sted; plads
    5) (the act of pitching or throwing or the distance something is pitched: That was a long pitch.) kast
    6) ((of a ship) the act of pitching.) vippen; huggen
    - pitcher
    - pitched battle
    - pitchfork
    II [pi ] noun
    (a thick black substance obtained from tar: as black as pitch.) beg
    - pitch-dark

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