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  • 1 куб вторичной перегонки

    1) Engineering: secondary still (бензина), sweetening still (бензина)
    2) Makarov: rerunning still

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  • 2 letra

    f.
    1 letter.
    2 handwriting.
    no entiendo su letra I can't read his writing o handwriting
    3 type, typeface.
    letra cursiva italic type, italics
    escriba en letra de imprenta please write in block capitals
    letra itálica italic type, italics
    letra negrita bold (face)
    4 lyrics.
    5 literal meaning.
    seguir instrucciones al pie de la letra to follow instructions to the letter
    6 bank bill, bill of exchange, letter.
    7 hand, script.
    * * *
    2 (de imprenta) character
    3 (escritura) handwriting
    4 (de canción) lyrics plural, words plural
    5 (de cambio) bill of exchange
    1 EDUCACIÓN arts (literatura) letters
    \
    a la letra to the letter
    al pie de la letra to the letter
    aprender las primeras letras to learn to read and write
    con la letra clara clearly, neatly
    la letra con sangre entra spare the rod and spoil the child
    letra por letra word for word
    ponerle a alguien unas letras to write to somebody, drop a line to somebody
    letra de cambio bill of exchange, draft
    letra de imprenta block capitals plural
    letra del tesoro treasury bond
    letra gótica Gothic script
    letra mayúscula capital letter
    letra menuda small print
    letra pequeña small print
    letra minúscula small letter
    * * *
    noun f.
    3) type
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Tip) letter

    letra bastardilla, letra cursiva — italics pl, italic type (EEUU)

    letra de imprenta, letra de molde — print

    escriba su nombre en letras de imprenta o de molde — please print your name in block letters

    letra negrilla, letra negrita — bold type, heavy type

    letra redonda — roman, roman type (EEUU)

    2) (=escritura) handwriting, writing
    3) (=sentido literal) letter, literal meaning

    atarse a la letra — frm to stick to the literal meaning

    pie 4)
    4) (Com) (=pago) instalment, installment (EEUU)

    letra bancaria — banker's draft, bank draft

    letra de cambio — bill (of exchange), draft

    5) [de canción] words pl, lyrics pl
    6) pl letras (=cultura) letters, learning sing

    primeras letras — elementary education, the three Rs

    7) pl letras (Escol, Univ) (=humanidades) arts
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Impr, Ling) letter

    la letra con sangre entra — spare the rod, spoil the child

    b) ( caligrafía) writing, handwriting
    c) letras femenino plural ( carta breve)

    sólo unas letras para decirte que... — just a few lines to let you know that...

    2) ( sentido)
    3) (Mús) ( de canción) words (pl), lyrics (pl)
    4) (Fin) tb

    letra de cambio — bill of exchange, draft

    5) letras femenino plural (Educ) arts (pl), liberal arts (pl) (AmE)

    licenciado en Filosofía y Letras — ≈arts graduate

    * * *
    = character, letter, script, sorts, sort, letter-form.
    Ex. A fixed length field is a field which has the same length, that is, contains the same number of characters in each record.
    Ex. There are only two sets of symbols whose orders are reasonably universally recognised: the letters of the Roman alphabet (either small or capitals), and Arabic numerals.
    Ex. Schoolchildren, students, and other whose native language is written in a non-Roman script may find alphabetical order according to Roman characters an almost insurmountable hurdle in the use of catalogues and indexes.
    Ex. Italic founts, which lacked small capitals, generally had about the same total number of sorts as roman because of the addition of extra ligatures and decorated (or 'swash') capitals.
    Ex. Italic founts, which lacked small capitals, generally had about the same total number of sorts as roman.
    Ex. They were used for elaborate illustrations, stylized ornaments, initial letters, and for words in large or complex letter-forms that were not available as type = Se utilizaban para ilusraciones compicadas, adornos estilizados, letras iniciales y para letras grandes o complejas que no se podían conseguir en tipos.
    ----
    * al pie de la letra = to the letter.
    * de dos letras = two-letter.
    * de puño y letra = in black and white, in handwriting.
    * dominado por la letra impresa = print-dominated.
    * filosofía y letras = arts and humanities, the, arts and letters.
    * hombre de letras = man of letters.
    * imprimir en letra realzada = print in + double density.
    * juego de letras = letter set.
    * la clave está en la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * las triquiñuelas de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * letra adornada = swash letter.
    * letra a letra = letter-perfect.
    * letra bastarda = bastarda.
    * letra bastardilla = italics.
    * letra contraccional = contraction.
    * letra cursiva = italics.
    * letra cuya impresión en papel no está completa = broken letter.
    * letra de cambio = bill of exchange.
    * letra de canción = song lyrics.
    * letra de imprenta = block capital, block letter.
    * letra del alfabeto = alphabet letter, alphabetic letter.
    * letra de la música = music lyrics.
    * letra del Tesoro = Treasury bill.
    * letra de madera = wood letter.
    * letra de molde = block capital, block letter.
    * letra desbordante = kerned letter.
    * letra de signatura = signature-letter.
    * letra egipcia = slab serif.
    * letra gótica = gothic type, black letter.
    * letra inicial decorada = decorated capital, swash capital.
    * letra itálica = italic fount, italic type.
    * letra, la = lyrics, the.
    * letra ligada = diagraph.
    * letra mayúscula = capital letter, upper case letter, block capital, block letter.
    * letra mecana = slab serif.
    * letra minúscula = lower case letter, small, small letter.
    * letra moderna = modern face.
    * letra negrita = bold print, bold type, bold letters.
    * letra normal = light type, light face type.
    * letra pequeñita, la = fine detail(s), fine points, the.
    * letra por letra = literatim.
    * letra romana = roman, roman type.
    * letra romana aldina = Aldine roman.
    * letra romana cursiva = sloped roman.
    * letra romana de Caslon = Caslon roman.
    * letra rota o a medio imprimir = broken letter.
    * letras adornadas = swash sorts.
    * letra saliente = kerned letter.
    * letras conjuntas = tied letters.
    * letras, las = arts, the.
    * letra versalita = small capital.
    * los detalles de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * los pormenores de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * método de ordenación letra a letra = letter by letter method, all-through method.
    * mundo de la letra impresa, el = print world, the.
    * mundo de las letras, el = world of letters, the.
    * no creerse Algo al pie de la letra = take + Nombre + with a pinch of salt.
    * ordenación alfabética letra a letra = letter by letter alphabetisation.
    * ordenación letra a letra = letter-by-letter filing, all through filing, letter by letter arrangement, all through arrangement.
    * personas con problemas de lectura de la letra impresa = print disabled people.
    * remate de una letra = serif.
    * revoltijo de letras = jumbled letters.
    * seguir Algo al pie de la letra = follow + Nombre + to the letter.
    * seguir al pie de la letra = keep + strictly to the letter.
    * sopa de letras = alphabet soup.
    * tamaño de letra = font size.
    * texto con letras grandes = large print.
    * tipo de letra = type face [typeface], typing, type font [typefont], fount, type specimen [type-specimen], fount of type.
    * uso de la letra cursiva = italicisation [italicization, -USA].
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Impr, Ling) letter

    la letra con sangre entra — spare the rod, spoil the child

    b) ( caligrafía) writing, handwriting
    c) letras femenino plural ( carta breve)

    sólo unas letras para decirte que... — just a few lines to let you know that...

    2) ( sentido)
    3) (Mús) ( de canción) words (pl), lyrics (pl)
    4) (Fin) tb

    letra de cambio — bill of exchange, draft

    5) letras femenino plural (Educ) arts (pl), liberal arts (pl) (AmE)

    licenciado en Filosofía y Letras — ≈arts graduate

    * * *
    la letra
    = lyrics, the

    Ex: The database contains 12 of the most requested songs and screens the lyrics in time with the music = La base de datos contiene 12 de las canciones más solicitadas y muestra en pantalla las letras junto con la música.

    = character, letter, script, sorts, sort, letter-form.

    Ex: A fixed length field is a field which has the same length, that is, contains the same number of characters in each record.

    Ex: There are only two sets of symbols whose orders are reasonably universally recognised: the letters of the Roman alphabet (either small or capitals), and Arabic numerals.
    Ex: Schoolchildren, students, and other whose native language is written in a non-Roman script may find alphabetical order according to Roman characters an almost insurmountable hurdle in the use of catalogues and indexes.
    Ex: Italic founts, which lacked small capitals, generally had about the same total number of sorts as roman because of the addition of extra ligatures and decorated (or 'swash') capitals.
    Ex: Italic founts, which lacked small capitals, generally had about the same total number of sorts as roman.
    Ex: They were used for elaborate illustrations, stylized ornaments, initial letters, and for words in large or complex letter-forms that were not available as type = Se utilizaban para ilusraciones compicadas, adornos estilizados, letras iniciales y para letras grandes o complejas que no se podían conseguir en tipos.
    * al pie de la letra = to the letter.
    * de dos letras = two-letter.
    * de puño y letra = in black and white, in handwriting.
    * dominado por la letra impresa = print-dominated.
    * filosofía y letras = arts and humanities, the, arts and letters.
    * hombre de letras = man of letters.
    * imprimir en letra realzada = print in + double density.
    * juego de letras = letter set.
    * la clave está en la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * las triquiñuelas de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * letra adornada = swash letter.
    * letra a letra = letter-perfect.
    * letra bastarda = bastarda.
    * letra bastardilla = italics.
    * letra contraccional = contraction.
    * letra cursiva = italics.
    * letra cuya impresión en papel no está completa = broken letter.
    * letra de cambio = bill of exchange.
    * letra de canción = song lyrics.
    * letra de imprenta = block capital, block letter.
    * letra del alfabeto = alphabet letter, alphabetic letter.
    * letra de la música = music lyrics.
    * letra del Tesoro = Treasury bill.
    * letra de madera = wood letter.
    * letra de molde = block capital, block letter.
    * letra desbordante = kerned letter.
    * letra de signatura = signature-letter.
    * letra egipcia = slab serif.
    * letra gótica = gothic type, black letter.
    * letra inicial decorada = decorated capital, swash capital.
    * letra itálica = italic fount, italic type.
    * letra, la = lyrics, the.
    * letra ligada = diagraph.
    * letra mayúscula = capital letter, upper case letter, block capital, block letter.
    * letra mecana = slab serif.
    * letra minúscula = lower case letter, small, small letter.
    * letra moderna = modern face.
    * letra negrita = bold print, bold type, bold letters.
    * letra normal = light type, light face type.
    * letra pequeñita, la = fine detail(s), fine points, the.
    * letra por letra = literatim.
    * letra romana = roman, roman type.
    * letra romana aldina = Aldine roman.
    * letra romana cursiva = sloped roman.
    * letra romana de Caslon = Caslon roman.
    * letra rota o a medio imprimir = broken letter.
    * letras adornadas = swash sorts.
    * letra saliente = kerned letter.
    * letras conjuntas = tied letters.
    * letras, las = arts, the.
    * letra versalita = small capital.
    * los detalles de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * los pormenores de la letra pequeña = the devil (is/lives) in the details.
    * método de ordenación letra a letra = letter by letter method, all-through method.
    * mundo de la letra impresa, el = print world, the.
    * mundo de las letras, el = world of letters, the.
    * no creerse Algo al pie de la letra = take + Nombre + with a pinch of salt.
    * ordenación alfabética letra a letra = letter by letter alphabetisation.
    * ordenación letra a letra = letter-by-letter filing, all through filing, letter by letter arrangement, all through arrangement.
    * personas con problemas de lectura de la letra impresa = print disabled people.
    * remate de una letra = serif.
    * revoltijo de letras = jumbled letters.
    * seguir Algo al pie de la letra = follow + Nombre + to the letter.
    * seguir al pie de la letra = keep + strictly to the letter.
    * sopa de letras = alphabet soup.
    * tamaño de letra = font size.
    * texto con letras grandes = large print.
    * tipo de letra = type face [typeface], typing, type font [typefont], fount, type specimen [type-specimen], fount of type.
    * uso de la letra cursiva = italicisation [italicization, -USA].

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Impr, Ling) letter
    aprender/saber las primeras letras to learn/know how to read and write
    la letra con sangre entra spare the rod, spoil the child
    2 (caligrafía) writing, handwriting
    tienes una letra muy clara your writing o handwriting is very clear
    no entiendo tu letra I can't read your writing o handwriting
    despacito y buena letra slowly and carefully
    (carta breve): sólo cuatro or unas letras para decirte que … just a note o just a few lines to let you know that …
    Compuestos:
    ● letra bastardilla or cursiva
    italic script, italics (pl)
    ( RPl) small print
    ● letra de molde or imprenta
    print
    escriba el nombre completo en letra de molde or imprenta please print your full name
    double letter
    Gothic script
    italic script, italics (pl)
    capital letter, uppercase letter
    con or en letras mayúsculas in capital letters, in upper case ( tech)
    lowercase letter, small letter
    con or en letras minúsculas in small letters, in lower case ( tech)
    dead letter
    ● letra negrita or negrilla
    boldface, bold type
    small print
    roman type
    B
    (sentido): la letra de la ley the letter of the law
    ateniéndonos a la letra, el texto dice que … if we read it absolutely literally, the text appears to say that …
    C ( Mús) (de canción) words (pl), lyrics (pl)
    D ( Fin) tb
    letra de cambio bill of exchange, draft
    aceptar/girar una letra to accept/present a bill of exchange o a draft
    devolver/protestar una letra to dishonor/protest a bill of exchange o a draft
    me quedan tres letras por pagar ≈ I still have three installments to pay o three payments to make
    E letras fpl ( Educ) arts (pl)
    * * *

     

    letra sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (Impr, Ling) letter;

    letra bastardilla or cursiva italic script, italics (pl);

    letra negrita boldface, bold type;
    letra pequeña or (AmS) chica small print


    c)

    ◊ letras sustantivo femenino plural ( carta breve): solo unas letras para decirte que … just a few lines to let you know that …

    2 (Mús) ( de canción) words (pl), lyrics (pl)
    3 (Fin) tb

    me quedan tres letras por pagar I still have three payments to make
    4
    ◊ letras sustantivo femenino plural (Educ) arts (pl), liberal arts (pl) (AmE)

    letra sustantivo femenino
    1 letter
    letra de molde, print letter
    letra pequeña, small print
    2 (manera de escribir) (hand) writing: me gusta tu letra, I like your writing
    3 Mús lyrics pl: no se sabe la letra, he hasn't learnt the words
    4 Fin letra (de cambio), bill of exchange
    (de un pago aplazado) instalment: aún nos quedan varias letras por pagar, we've still got a few instalments left to pay
    5 Univ mi hermana es de Letras, my sister is studing Arts o my sister did an Arts degree
    ♦ Locuciones: al pie de la letra, literally: sigue mis instrucciones al pie de la letra, follow my instructions precisely
    ser letra muerta, to be a dead letter
    ' letra' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - B
    - C
    - cursiva
    - D
    - desojarse
    - E
    - ese
    - F
    - G
    - girar
    - H
    - I
    - J
    - K
    - L
    - M
    - minúscula
    - minúsculo
    - muda
    - mudo
    - N
    - Ñ
    - O
    - P
    - pie
    - puño
    - Q
    - R
    - S
    - T
    - tilde
    - tipo
    - trazo
    - U
    - V
    - vencer
    - vencida
    - vencido
    - vencimiento
    - W
    - X
    - Y
    - Z
    - comer
    - delta
    - descontar
    - descuento
    - desigual
    - devolver
    English:
    A
    - B
    - book
    - C
    - capital
    - carve
    - close
    - cramped
    - cursive
    - D
    - draft
    - E
    - F
    - feminine
    - G
    - H
    - handwriting
    - I
    - initial
    - italicize
    - J
    - K
    - L
    - lest
    - letter
    - lower case
    - lyric
    - M
    - manage
    - masculine
    - N
    - neat
    - O
    - P
    - print
    - q
    - R
    - read
    - S
    - salt
    - silent
    - small print
    - T
    - typeface
    - U
    - unintelligible
    - upper case
    - V
    - W
    - word
    * * *
    letra nf
    1. [signo] letter
    letra doble double letter
    2. [escritura, caligrafía] handwriting;
    escribe la carta con buena letra write the letter in neat handwriting;
    no entiendo su letra I can't read her writing o handwriting;
    mandar cuatro letras a alguien to drop sb a line;
    la letra con sangre entra spare the rod and spoil the child
    Am letra chica small print;
    letra pequeña small print
    3. [en imprenta] type, typeface
    letra bastardilla italic type, italics;
    letra capitular drop cap;
    letra cursiva italic type, italics;
    letra de imprenta [impresa] print;
    [en formulario] block capitals;
    escriba en letra de imprenta please write in block capitals;
    letra itálica italic type, italics;
    letra mayúscula capital letter, Espec upper-case letter;
    en letra(s) mayúscula(s) in capitals o capital letters, Espec in upper case;
    letra minúscula small letter, Espec lower-case letter;
    en letra(s) minúscula(s) in small letters, Espec in lower case;
    letra de molde [impresa] print;
    [en formulario] block capitals;
    letra muerta dead letter;
    letra negrita bold (face);
    letra redonda roman type;
    letra redondilla roman type;
    letra versalita small capital
    4. [texto de canción] lyrics
    5. Com
    letra (de cambio) bill of exchange;
    girar una letra to draw a bill of exchange;
    protestar una letra to protest a bill
    letra avalada guaranteed bill of exchange;
    letra del Tesoro treasury bill
    6. [sentido] literal meaning;
    nos atuvimos a la letra del contrato we abided by the contract word for word;
    seguir instrucciones al pie de la letra to follow instructions to the letter
    7. Educ
    letras arts;
    soy de letras I studied arts;
    una asignatura de letras an arts subject
    letras mixtas = secondary school course comprising mainly arts subjects but including some science subjects;
    letras puras = secondary school course comprising arts subjects only
    * * *
    f
    1 letter;
    menuda fig the fine print, Br
    the small print;
    al pie de la letra word for word
    2 de canción lyrics pl
    3
    :
    letras pl ( literatura) literature sg ; EDU arts
    4
    :
    tener buena/mala letra have good/bad handwriting
    * * *
    letra nf
    1) : letter
    2) caligrafía: handwriting, lettering
    3) : lyrics pl
    4)
    al pie de la letra : word for word, by the book
    5) letras nfpl
    : arts (in education)
    * * *
    1. (signo) letter
    la palabra "mosca" tiene cinco letras the word "mosca" has five letters
    2. (manera de escribir) handwriting
    3. (de canción) lyrics / words
    ¿entiendes la letra? do you understand the words?

    Spanish-English dictionary > letra

  • 3 Schule

    f; -, -n
    1. (auch weitS. Hochschule etc.) school; höhere Schule secondary (Am. senior high) school; auf oder in der Schule at school; zur oder in die Schule gehen go to school; eine (bestimmte) Schule besuchen go to a school; in welche Schule geht sie? which school does she go to ( oder is she at, Am. in)?; zur Schule kommen start school; noch zur Schule gehen still be at school; von der Schule fliegen umg. be chucked (Am. kicked) out (of school); an einer Schule unterrichten teach at a school; aus der Schule kommen come out of school; die Schule fängt um neun an school starts at nine; nicht für die Schule, sondern fürs Leben lernen wir learning is for life and not for school
    2. fig. (auch wissenschaftliche, künstlerische Richtung) school; die Frankfurter Schule the Frankfurt School; er ist bei seinem Onkel in die Schule gegangen (hat bei ihm sein Handwerk gelernt) he learnt from ( oder was trained by) his uncle; sie ist bei den Impressionisten in die Schule gegangen she learnt her art from the Impressionists; durch eine harte Schule gehen learn the hard way; Schule machen set a precedent
    3. nur Sg.: ein Kavalier der alten Schule a cavalier of the old school
    4. hohe Schule Reitsport: manęge, haute école; die hohe Schule des Kochens haute cuisine; plaudern, schwänzen
    * * *
    die Schule
    (Gebäude) school; schoolhouse;
    * * *
    Schu|le ['ʃuːlə]
    f -, -n
    1) (= Lehranstalt, Lehrmeinung, künstlerische Richtung) school

    in die or zur Schúle kommen — to start school

    in die or zur Schúle gehen — to go to school

    er hat nie eine Schúle besucht — he has never been to school

    auf or in der Schúle — at school

    die Schúle wechseln — to change schools

    von der Schúle abgehen — to leave school

    die Schúle ist aus — school is over, the schools are out

    er ist bei Brecht in die Schúle gegangen (fig) — he was greatly influenced by Brecht

    darin hat er bei seinen Eltern eine gute Schúle gehabt — his parents have given him a good schooling in that

    durch eine harte Schúle gegangen sein (fig) — to have learned in a hard school

    Schúle machen — to become the accepted thing

    aus der Schúle plaudern — to tell tales (out of school (Brit inf))

    ein Kavalier der alten Schúle — a gentleman of the old school

    2) (REITEN) school of riding
    See:
    → hoch
    * * *
    die
    1) (a place for teaching especially children: She goes to the school; He's not at university - he's still at school; (American) He's still in school.) school
    2) (a series of meetings or a place for instruction etc: She runs a sewing school; a driving school.) school
    3) (a group of people with the same ideas etc: There are two schools of thought about the treatment of this disease.) school
    * * *
    Schu·le
    <-, -n>
    [ˈʃu:lə]
    f
    1. SCH (Lehranstalt) school
    höhere \Schule grammar school
    hohe \Schule haute école
    zur [o auf die] [o in die] \Schule gehen to go to school
    von der \Schule abgehen to leave school
    an der \Schule sein (fam) to be a schoolteacher
    in die \Schule kommen to start school
    auf [o in] der \Schule at [or in] school
    2. (Schulgebäude) school
    3. (Unterricht) school
    morgen ist keine \Schule there is no school tomorrow
    die \Schule ist aus school is out
    5. (geh: bestimmte Richtung) school
    der alten \Schule of the old school
    6.
    ▶ durch eine harte \Schule gehen (geh) to learn the hard way
    ▶ die hohe \Schule einer S. gen (geh) the perfected art of a thing
    ▶ \Schule machen to catch on fam
    ▶ aus der \Schule plaudern to spill the beans sl
    * * *
    die; Schule, Schulen

    zur od. in die Schule gehen, die Schule besuchen — go to school

    zur od. in die Schule kommen — come to school; (als Schulanfänger) start school

    auf od. in der Schule — at school

    aus der Schule plaudern — (fig.) reveal [confidential] information; spill the beans (coll.)

    Schule machen — (fig.) become the accepted thing; form a precedent

    2) o. Pl. (Ausbildung) training

    hohe Schule — (Reiten) haute école

    3) (Lehr-, Übungsbuch) manual; handbook
    •• Cultural note:
    German children have to attend school from the ages of 6 to 18. Full-time schooling is compulsory for nine or ten years, until pupils are at least 15. All children go to a Grundschule for four years (six in Berlin) and move on to a Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium, or Gesamtschule, depending on their ability. From the age of 15 some pupils attend a Berufsschule, a part-time vocational school. Some students stay at school until they are over 20 due to the system of sitzen bleiben
    * * *
    Schule f; -, -n
    1. (auch weitS. Hochschule etc) school;
    höhere Schule secondary (US senior high) school;
    in der Schule at school;
    in die Schule gehen go to school;
    Schule besuchen go to a school;
    in welche Schule geht sie? which school does she go to ( oder is she at, US in)?;
    zur Schule kommen start school;
    noch zur Schule gehen still be at school;
    von der Schule fliegen umg be chucked (US kicked) out (of school);
    an einer Schule unterrichten teach at a school;
    aus der Schule kommen come out of school;
    die Schule fängt um neun an school starts at nine;
    nicht für die Schule, sondern fürs Leben lernen wir learning is for life and not for school
    2. fig (auch wissenschaftliche, künstlerische Richtung) school;
    die Frankfurter Schule the Frankfurt School;
    sie ist bei den Impressionisten in die Schule gegangen she learnt her art from the Impressionists;
    durch eine harte Schule gehen learn the hard way;
    Schule machen set a precedent
    3. nur sg:
    ein Kavalier der alten Schule a cavalier of the old school
    4.
    Hohe Schule Reitsport: manège, haute école;
    * * *
    die; Schule, Schulen

    zur od. in die Schule gehen, die Schule besuchen — go to school

    zur od. in die Schule kommen — come to school; (als Schulanfänger) start school

    auf od. in der Schule — at school

    aus der Schule plaudern — (fig.) reveal [confidential] information; spill the beans (coll.)

    Schule machen — (fig.) become the accepted thing; form a precedent

    2) o. Pl. (Ausbildung) training

    hohe Schule — (Reiten) haute école

    3) (Lehr-, Übungsbuch) manual; handbook
    •• Cultural note:
    German children have to attend school from the ages of 6 to 18. Full-time schooling is compulsory for nine or ten years, until pupils are at least 15. All children go to a Grundschule for four years (six in Berlin) and move on to a Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium, or Gesamtschule, depending on their ability. From the age of 15 some pupils attend a Berufsschule, a part-time vocational school. Some students stay at school until they are over 20 due to the system of sitzen bleiben
    * * *
    -n f.
    school n.
    schoolhouse (US) n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Schule

  • 4 bicho raro

    m.
    oddball, freak, odd person, odd fish.
    * * *
    oddball, weirdo
    * * *
    (adj.) = flake, freak, oddball [odd ball], kooky, rare bird, odd bird, odd fish, freak of nature, rare breed, weirdo, nerd, geek, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]
    Ex. It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex. It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex. Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex. Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex. Variously described as information consultant, resource person, intelligence officer, communication scientist, etc, they are still rare birds.
    Ex. This type of service is an odd bird in an IT (Information Technology) company.
    Ex. The biographer controls the innumerable aspects of Buchan's life in an exemplary manner, without losing sight of the fact that Buchan was 'a very odd fish indeed'.
    Ex. Despite statistics showing their phenomenal growth and use, on-line data bases in US libraries are still somewhat a freak of nature.
    Ex. At the same time, all her friends are sports freaks, and they're a rare breed.
    Ex. The novel often has an unjustified negative image as a book only loved by weirdos and social outcasts.
    Ex. A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex. The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex. I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex. At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.
    * * *
    (adj.) = flake, freak, oddball [odd ball], kooky, rare bird, odd bird, odd fish, freak of nature, rare breed, weirdo, nerd, geek, nerdy [nerdier -comp., nerdiest -sup.], geeky [geekier -comp., geekiest -sup.]

    Ex: It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.

    Ex: It's not altogether its fault because the critics have been so far more or less characterized as freaks and flakes who are not to be taken seriously.
    Ex: Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex: Some librarians think people making these kinds of requests for responsive, contemporaneous headings, and for different cataloging practices are sort of kooky, unrealistic, oddballs.
    Ex: Variously described as information consultant, resource person, intelligence officer, communication scientist, etc, they are still rare birds.
    Ex: This type of service is an odd bird in an IT (Information Technology) company.
    Ex: The biographer controls the innumerable aspects of Buchan's life in an exemplary manner, without losing sight of the fact that Buchan was 'a very odd fish indeed'.
    Ex: Despite statistics showing their phenomenal growth and use, on-line data bases in US libraries are still somewhat a freak of nature.
    Ex: At the same time, all her friends are sports freaks, and they're a rare breed.
    Ex: The novel often has an unjustified negative image as a book only loved by weirdos and social outcasts.
    Ex: A stereotypical image of a teenage nerd emerged in the drawings of secondary students but not in elementary children's drawings.
    Ex: The book has the title 'The geek's guide to Internet business success'.
    Ex: I've always considered myself something of a nerd, even back when being nerdy wasn't cool -- nowadays, everyone thinks they're a nerd.
    Ex: At the heart of the novel is a geeky high-school student who lives in Preston, Idaho.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bicho raro

  • 5 ilegal

    adj.
    illegal.
    * * *
    1 illegal
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ illegal, unlawful
    * * *
    adjetivo <venta/comercio> illegal, unlawful; <inmigrante/huelga> illegal
    * * *
    = illicit, pirated, illegal, bootleg, back-street, piratical, wrongful, unlicensed, fly-by-night, against the law.
    Ex. The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.
    Ex. Beadle and Adams of New York's 'dime and nickel novels' included both new books and pirated English novels retailing as paperbacks at 10 cents a volume.
    Ex. The closed shop (an industry or organization in which employers may hire only union members) is illegal, as is the union shop (where union membership is mandatory for all employees included in a bargaining unit).
    Ex. Sometimes described as a ' bootleg' preacher, Will Campbell professes a great love and affection for Country Music.
    Ex. Women should be free to have legal abortions so that they are not 'forced' to go to ' back-street' abortionists.
    Ex. Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.
    Ex. Something must be done to resolve freelance authors' rights to remuneration for wrongful use of their property.
    Ex. Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders, they operate illegally and away from any sort of regulation that governs the financial industry.
    Ex. What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.
    Ex. Is it not against the law to release a drunk back into society who may be still under the infuence?.
    ----
    * bebida alcohólica ilegal = moonshine.
    * caza ilegal = poaching.
    * declarar ilegal = outlaw.
    * destilería ilegal = moonshine still.
    * droga ilegal = illicit drug.
    * entrada ilegal = trespassing.
    * fabricante ilegal de bebidas alcohólicas = moonshiner.
    * inmigración ilegal = illegal immigration.
    * inmigrante ilegal = illegal alien.
    * ocupación ilegal = squat, squatting.
    * prácticas ilegales = unlawful practices.
    * reproducción ilegal de libros = book piracy.
    * ser ilegal = be against the law.
    * sustancia ilegal = illegal substance.
    * tráfico ilegal de drogas = illicit drug trafficking.
    * vendedor ilegal de bebidas alcohólicas = moonshiner.
    * * *
    adjetivo <venta/comercio> illegal, unlawful; <inmigrante/huelga> illegal
    * * *
    = illicit, pirated, illegal, bootleg, back-street, piratical, wrongful, unlicensed, fly-by-night, against the law.

    Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

    Ex: Beadle and Adams of New York's 'dime and nickel novels' included both new books and pirated English novels retailing as paperbacks at 10 cents a volume.
    Ex: The closed shop (an industry or organization in which employers may hire only union members) is illegal, as is the union shop (where union membership is mandatory for all employees included in a bargaining unit).
    Ex: Sometimes described as a ' bootleg' preacher, Will Campbell professes a great love and affection for Country Music.
    Ex: Women should be free to have legal abortions so that they are not 'forced' to go to ' back-street' abortionists.
    Ex: Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.
    Ex: Something must be done to resolve freelance authors' rights to remuneration for wrongful use of their property.
    Ex: Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders, they operate illegally and away from any sort of regulation that governs the financial industry.
    Ex: What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.
    Ex: Is it not against the law to release a drunk back into society who may be still under the infuence?.
    * bebida alcohólica ilegal = moonshine.
    * caza ilegal = poaching.
    * declarar ilegal = outlaw.
    * destilería ilegal = moonshine still.
    * droga ilegal = illicit drug.
    * entrada ilegal = trespassing.
    * fabricante ilegal de bebidas alcohólicas = moonshiner.
    * inmigración ilegal = illegal immigration.
    * inmigrante ilegal = illegal alien.
    * ocupación ilegal = squat, squatting.
    * prácticas ilegales = unlawful practices.
    * reproducción ilegal de libros = book piracy.
    * ser ilegal = be against the law.
    * sustancia ilegal = illegal substance.
    * tráfico ilegal de drogas = illicit drug trafficking.
    * vendedor ilegal de bebidas alcohólicas = moonshiner.

    * * *
    ‹venta/comercio› illegal, unlawful; ‹inmigrante› illegal; ‹huelga› illegal
    funciona de manera ilegal it operates illegally
    la importación de ese tipo de artículo es ilegal it is illegal o against the law to import that type of article
    * * *

    ilegal adjetivo
    illegal;

    ilegal adjetivo illegal

    ' ilegal' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    compinche
    - desaguisado
    - enredar
    - importación
    - ocupante
    - pirata
    - tapadera
    - falluca
    - furtivo
    English:
    against
    - illegal
    - insider dealing
    - insider trading
    - law
    - lawful
    - squatter
    - squatting
    - stranglehold
    - tapping
    - tighten up
    - unlawful
    - wetback
    - outlaw
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    illegal;
    de forma ilegal illegally
    ♦ nmf
    [inmigrante] illegal immigrant, US illegal; [trabajador] illegal worker, US illegal
    * * *
    adj illegal
    * * *
    ilegal adj
    : illegal, unlawful
    ♦ ilegalmente adv
    ilegal nmf, CA, Mex : illegal alien
    * * *
    ilegal adj illegal

    Spanish-English dictionary > ilegal

  • 6 być

    impf (jestem, jesteś, jest, jesteśmy, jesteście, są, byłem, byłeś, był, byliśmy, byliście, byli, będę, będziesz, będzie, będziemy, będziecie, będą) Ⅰ vi 1. (istnieć, żyć) to be
    - jest wielu znanych aktorów there are many well known actors
    - nie ma nikogo, kto mógłby to zrobić there’s no one who could do it
    - czy jest Bóg, czy go nie ma? does God exist, or not?
    - był sobie kiedyś stary król there was a. lived once an old king
    - nie było cię jeszcze wtedy na świecie this was before you were born
    - kiedy mnie już z wami nie będzie euf. when I am no more a. I am no longer with you euf.
    - myślę, więc jestem I think, therefore I am
    - być albo nie być to be or not to be
    - to dla nas być albo nie być this is our to be or not to be, this is our Waterloo
    - nie ma już dla niej ratunku nothing can save her now
    - jest wiele powodów do zadowolenia there’s good reason to be happy
    - nie ma obaw a. strachu pot. ! no problem! pot., not to worry! pot.
    - nie ma powodu do obaw there is no reason a. need to worry
    - są sprawy, których nigdy nie zrozumiesz there are (certain) things that you’ll never understand
    - nie ma co płakać/gadać it’s no use crying/talking (about it)
    - nie ma co żałować (there’s) no need to be sorry
    - nie ma co a. czego żałować it’s no great loss
    - nie ma czemu się dziwić, że… it’s no surprise a. wonder that…
    - nie ma o co się kłócić there’s nothing to quarrel about
    - nie ma czym się martwić/czego się bać there’s nothing to worry about/to be afraid of
    - nie ma z czego być dumnym (it’s) nothing to be proud of
    - nie ma z czego się cieszyć/śmiać there’s nothing to rejoice/to laugh about
    - „dziękuję za podwiezienie” – „nie ma za co” ‘thanks for the lift’ – ‘don’t mention it’ a. ‘you’re welcome‘
    - „przepraszam, że panu przerwałem” – „nie ma za co” ‘sorry I interrupted you’ – ‘that’s all right’
    - już cię/was nie ma! off with you!
    2. (przebywać, znajdować się) to be
    - być w pracy/szkole to be at work/at school
    - być w teatrze/na koncercie to be at the theatre/at a concert
    - teraz wychodzę, ale będę w domu o piątej I’m going out now, but I’ll be home at five
    - dzisiaj nie ma go w biurze he’s not in the office today
    - w pokoju nikogo nie ma/nie było there is/was no-one in the room
    - jest już piąta, a jego jak nie ma, tak nie ma it’s already five, and he’s still not here a. there’s still no trace of him
    - „czy jest Robert?” – „nie, nie ma go, jest jeszcze w szkole” ‘is Robert in?’ – ‘no, he’s not, he’s still at school’
    - „są jeszcze bilety na ostatni seans?” – „niestety, już nie ma” ‘do you still have tickets for the last showing?’ – ‘sorry, all sold out’
    - czy będziesz jutro w domu? ‘will you be at home a. in home tomorrow?’
    - kiedy (ona) będzie znowu w Warszawie? when will she be in Warsaw again?
    - byłem wczoraj u Roberta/u babci I was at Robert’s/granny’s yesterday, I went to see Robert/granny yesterday
    - był przy narodzinach swojej córki he was present at the birth of his daughter
    - nigdy nie byłem w Rosji I’ve never been to Russia
    - „skąd jesteś?” – „(jestem) z Krakowa/Polski” ‘where are you from?’ – ‘(I’m) from Cracow/Poland’
    - „gdzie jesteś?” – „tutaj!” ‘where are you?’ – ‘(I’m) here!’
    - „jestem!” (przy odczytywaniu listy) ‘here!’, ‘present’
    - będąc w Londynie, odwiedziłem Annę when a. while I was in London I went to see Anna
    - biblioteka jest w budynku głównym the library is in the main building
    - w jednym pudełku jest dziesięć bateryjek there are ten batteries in a packet
    - w domu nie było nic do jedzenia there was nothing to eat at home a. in the house
    - co jest w tym pudle? what’s in this box?
    - gdzie jest moja książka/najbliższa apteka? where’s my book/the nearest chemist’s?
    - co jest dzisiaj na lunch? what’s for lunch today?
    - wczoraj na kolację był dorsz there was cod for dinner yesterday
    - „dużo masz tych ziemniaków?” – „oj, będzie” pot. ‘got a lot of those spuds?’ – ‘loads’ pot.
    - będzie, będzie, więcej się nie zmieści pot. that’s plenty a. that’ll do, there’s no room for any more
    3. (trwać, stawać się) to be
    - jest godzina druga po południu it’s two in the afternoon a. two p.m.
    - nie ma jeszcze szóstej rano it’s not yet six a.m.
    - zanim dotrzemy do domu, będzie ósma wieczorem/północ it’ll be eight p.m./midnight by the time we reach home
    - był maj it was in May
    - to było w grudniu 1999 it was in December 1999
    - to było dawno, dawno temu this was a long, long time ago
    - jest piękny ranek it’s a fine morning
    - jest mroźno/upalnie it’s nippy/hot
    - wczoraj był deszcz/mróz it was raining/freezing yesterday
    - ciekawe, czy jutro będzie pogoda I wonder if it’s going to be fine tomorrow
    - nie pamiętam dokładnie, to było dość dawno temu I can’t really remember, it was some time ago
    - z niego jeszcze coś będzie he’ll turn out all right
    - co z niego będzie? how will he turn out?, what will become of him?
    - będzie z niego dobry pracownik he’ll be a good worker
    - kuchmistrz to z ciebie nie będzie you’ll never make a chef
    - z tych kwiatów nic już nie będzie these flowers/plants have had it pot.
    - z naszych planów/wakacji nic nie będzie nothing will come of our plans/holidays
    - nic z tego nie będzie it’s hopeless
    - nic dobrego z tego nie będzie nothing good will come of it
    - tyle pracy i nic z tego nie ma (he’s done) so much work and nothing to show for it
    4. (odbywać się, zdarzać się) to be
    - koncert/egzamin jest jutro the concert/exam is tomorrow
    - zebranie było w sali konferencyjnej the meeting was (held) in the conference room
    - jutro nie będzie a. nie ma lekcji there are no classes tomorrow
    - był do ciebie telefon there was a phone call for you
    - czy były do mnie jakieś telefony? has anyone called me?
    - był wypadek w kopalni there was an accident in the mine
    - co będzie, jeśli nie zdasz egzaminu? what’s going to happen if you fail the exam?
    - co będzie, jeśli ktoś nas zobaczy? supposing a. what if someone sees us?
    - nie martw się, wszystko będzie dobrze don’t worry, it’ll be a. it’s going to be fine
    - w życiu bywa rozmaicie you never know what life may bring
    - opowiedziałem jej wszystko, tak jak było I told her everything just as it happened
    - co ci/jej jest? what’s the matter with you/her?
    - coś mi/jemu jest something’s the matter with me/him
    - czy jemu coś jest? is anything the matter with him?
    - nic mu nie będzie, to tylko przeziębienie he’ll be fine, it’s only a cold
    5. (uczestniczyć, uczęszczać) to be
    - być na weselu/zebraniu to be at a wedding/meeting
    - wczoraj byliśmy na przyjęciu we were at a reception yesterday
    - być w liceum/na uniwersytecie to be at secondary school/at university
    - być na studiach to be a student a. at college
    - być na prawie/medycynie to study law/medicine
    - był na trzecim roku anglistyki he was in his third year in the English department
    - być na kursie komputerowym to be on a computer course
    - być na wojnie to go to war
    6. (przybyć) to be, to come
    - być pierwszym/drugim to be the first/second to arrive
    - był na mecie trzeci he came third
    - czy był już listonosz? has the postman been a. come yet?
    7. (znajdować się w jakimś stanie) to be
    - być pod urokiem/wrażeniem kogoś/czegoś to be charmed/impressed by sb/sth
    - być pod wpływem kogoś/czegoś to be under the influence of sb/sth
    - prowadzić samochód, będąc pod wpływem alkoholu to drive while under the influence of alcohol
    - być w ciąży to be pregnant
    - być w dobrym/złym humorze to be in a good/bad mood
    - nie być w nastroju do zabawy not to feel like going out a. partying
    - być w doskonałej formie to be in excellent form a. in fine fettle
    - być w strachu to be scared
    - być w rozpaczy to be in despair
    - bądźmy dobrej myśli let’s hope for the best
    - jestem przed obiadem I haven’t had my lunch yet
    - jestem już po śniadaniu I’ve already had breakfast
    - był siedem lat po studiach he had graduated seven years earlier
    - być po kielichu/po paru kieliszkach pot. to have had a drop/a few euf.
    - być na diecie to be on a diet
    - być na kaszce a. kleiku to be on a diet of gruel
    - być na emeryturze/rencie to be on a pension
    - sukienka jest do kolan the dress is knee-length
    - wody było do kostek the water was ankle-deep
    - firanka była do połowy okna the net curtain reached halfway down the window
    - chwila nieuwagi i było po wazonie one unguarded moment and the vase was smashed to pieces
    - jest już po nim/nas! it’s curtains for him/us! pot.
    - jeszcze chwila i byłoby po mnie another instant and it would have been curtains for me a. would have been all up with me pot.
    Ⅱ v aux. 1. (łącznik w orzeczeniu złożonym) to be
    - być nauczycielem/malarzem to be a teacher/painter
    - kiedy dorosnę, będę aktorem when I grow up, I’ll be an actor
    - być Polakiem/Duńczykiem to be Polish/Danish
    - borsuk jest drapieżnikiem the badger is a predator
    - nie bądź dzieckiem! don’t be childish a. such a child!
    - jestem Anna Kowalska I’m Anna Kowalska
    - „cześć, to ty jesteś Robert?” – „nie, jestem Adam” ‘hi, are you Robert? a. you’re Robert, are you?’ – ‘no, I’m Adam’
    - co to jest – ma cztery nogi i robi „miau”? what (is it that) has four legs and says ‘miaow’?
    - była wysoka/niska she was tall/short
    - jest autorką cenioną przez wszystkich she’s an author appreciated by all a. everybody
    - mój dziadek był podobno bardzo przystojnym mężczyzną my grandfather is said to have been a very handsome man
    - wciąż jest taka, jaką była za młodu she’s still her old self
    - kwiaty były żółte i czerwone the flowers were yellow and red
    - pizza była całkiem dobra the pizza was quite good
    - pojemnik był z drewna/plastiku the container was made of wood/plastic
    - z tych listewek byłby ładny latawiec these slats could make a fine kite
    - wszystko to były jedynie domysły it was all only conjecture
    - czyj jest ten samochód? whose car is this?, who does this car belong to?
    - ta książka jest jej/Adama this book is hers/Adam’s, this is her/Adam’s book
    - żona była dla niego wszystkim his wife was everything to him
    - nie naśladuj innych, bądź sobą don’t imitate others, be yourself
    - ta zupa jest zimna this soup is cold
    - Maria jest niewidoma Maria is blind
    - jesteś głodny? are you hungry?
    - Robert jest żonaty/rozwiedziony Robert is married/divorced
    - są małżeństwem od dziesięciu lat they’ve been married for ten years
    - bądź dla niej miły be nice to her
    - bądź tak dobry a. uprzejmy would you mind
    - bądź tak miły i otwórz okno would you mind opening the window?
    - czy byłaby pani uprzejma podać mi sól would you be kind enough a. would you be so kind as to pass me the salt?
    - nie bądź głupi! don’t be a fool!
    - cicho bądź! be quiet!
    - być w kapeluszu/kaloszach/spodniach to be wearing a hat/rubber boots/trousers
    - była w zielonym żakiecie/czarnym berecie she was wearing a green jacket/black beret, she had a green jacket/black beret on
    - być za kimś/czymś (opowiadać się) to support sb/sth, to be for sb/sth
    - byłem za tym, żeby nikomu nic nie mówić I was for not telling anyone anything
    - dwa razy dwa jest cztery two times two is four
    2. (w stronie biernej) artykuł jest dobrze napisany the article is well written
    - ściany pokoju były pomalowane na różowo the walls of the room were painted pink
    - dzieci, które są maltretowane przez rodziców children who are abused by their parents
    - tak jest napisane w gazecie that’s what it says in the paper
    - samochód będzie naprawiony jutro the car will be repaired by tomorrow
    - to musi być zrobione do czwartku this must be done by Thursday
    - sukienka była uszyta z czarnej wełenki the dress was made of black wool
    3. (w czasie przyszłym złożonym) shall, will
    - będzie pamiętał a. pamiętać tę scenę przez cały życie he will remember this scene all his life
    - będziemy długo go wspominali a. wspominać we shall a. will long remember him
    4. przest. (w czasie zaprzeszłym) w Krakowie mieszkał był przed trzema laty he would have been living a. was living in Cracow three years ago 5. (w trybie warunkowym) byłbym napisał a. napisałbym był do ciebie, gdybym znał twój adres I would have written to you, had I known your address a. if I had known your address
    - co by się było stało, gdyby nie jego pomoc what would have happened if it hadn’t been for his help
    - byłaby spadła ze schodów (omal nie) she almost fell down the stairs
    - byłbym zapomniał! zabierz ze sobą śpiwór I almost a. nearly forgot! take a sleeping bag with you
    6. (w zwrotach nieosobowych) było już późno it was already late
    - jest dopiero wpół do ósmej it’s only half past seven
    - nie było co jeść there was nothing to eat
    - za ciepło będzie ci w tym swetrze you’ll be too hot in this jumper
    - byłoby przyjemnie zjeść razem obiad it would be nice to have lunch together
    - wychodzić po zmierzchu było niebezpiecznie it was dangerous going out after dark
    - nie kupić tego mieszkania będzie niewybaczalnym błędem not to buy that a. the flat would be an inexcusable mistake
    - z chorym było źle/coraz gorzej the patient was bad/getting worse
    - z dziadkiem jest nienajlepiej grandfather is poorly
    - wszystko będzie na niego he’ll get all the blame
    - żeby nie było na mnie I don’t want to get the blame
    - na imię było jej Maria her name was Maria
    - było dobrze po północy it was well after midnight
    - będzie z godzinę/trzy lata temu an hour or so/some three years ago
    - będzie kwadrans jak wyszedł he must have left fifteen minutes or so ago, it’s been fifteen minutes or so since he left
    - do najbliższego sklepu będzie ze trzy kilometry it’s a good three kilometres to the nearest shop
    - nie ma tu gdzie usiąść there’s nowhere here to sit
    - w tym mieście na ma dokąd pójść wieczorem there’s nowhere to go at night in this town
    - nie ma komu posprzątać/zrobić zakupy there’s no-one to clean/to do shopping
    - nie ma z kim się bawić there’s no-one to play with
    7. (z czasownikami niewłaściwymi) to be
    - trzeba było coś z tym zrobić something had to be done about it
    - trzeba było od razu tak mówić why didn’t you say so in the first place?
    - czytać można było tylko przy świecach one could read only by candlelight
    - jest gorzej niż można było przypuszczać it’s worse than might have been expected
    ■ bądź zdrów! (pożegnanie) goodbye!, take care!
    - być bez forsy/przy forsie pot. to be penniless/flush pot.
    - być do niczego (bezużyteczny) [osoba, przedmiot] to be useless a. no good; (chory, słaby) [osoba] to be poorly a. out of sorts
    - być może perhaps, maybe
    - być może nam się uda perhaps we’ll succeed
    - być może a. może być, że… it may happen that…
    - być niczym [osoba] to be a nobody
    - znałem ją, kiedy jeszcze była nikim I knew her when she was still a nobody
    - być przy nadziei a. być w poważnym a. odmiennym a. błogosławionym stanie książk. to be in an interesting condition a. in the family way przest.; to have a bun in the oven euf., pot.
    - było nie było (tak czy owak) when all’s said and done, after all; (niech się dzieje co chce) come what may, be that as it may
    - było nie było, to już ćwierć wieku od naszego ślubu when all’s said and done a. after all, it’s twenty-five years since we got married
    - było nie było, idę pogadać z szefem o podwyżce come what may, I’m going to the boss to talk about a rise
    - było siedzieć w domu/nie pożyczać mu pieniędzy pot. serves you right, you should have stayed at home/shouldn’t have lent him money
    - było nic mu nie mówić you should have told him nothing
    - co będzie, to będzie whatever will be, will be
    - co było, to było let bygones be bygones
    - co jest? pot. what’s up? pot.
    - co jest, do jasnej cholery? dlaczego nikt nie otwiera? what the hell’s going on? – why doesn’t anyone open the door? pot.
    - co jest? przyjacielowi paru groszy żałujesz? what’s wrong? – can’t spare a friend a few pence? pot.
    - coś w tym jest a. coś w tym musi być there must be something in it
    - coś w tym musi być, że wszyscy dyrektorzy będą na tym zebraniu there must be something in it, if all the directors are going to the meeting
    - jakoś to będzie things’ll a. it’ll work out somehow pot.
    - nie ma co a. rady oh well
    - nie ma co, trzeba brać się do roboty oh well, time to do some work
    - nie ma co! well, well!
    - mieszkanie, nie ma co, widne i ustawne well, well, not a bad flat, airy and well laid out
    - ładnie się spisałeś, nie ma co! iron. well, well, you’ve done it now, haven’t you!
    - nie ma (to) jak kuchnia domowa/kieliszek zimnej wódki nothing beats a. you can’t beat home cooking/a glass of cold vodka
    - nie ma (to) jak muzyka klasyczna give me classical music every time
    - nie ma to jak wakacje! there’s nothing like a holiday!
    - nie może być! (niedowierzanie) I don’t believe it!, you don’t say!
    - niech będzie! oh well!
    - niech ci/wam będzie! have it your own way!
    - niech mu/jej będzie! let him/her have his/her own way!
    - niech tak będzie! (zgoda) so be it!
    - tak jest! (owszem) (that’s) right!
    - „to jest pańskie ostatnie słowo” – „tak jest, ostatnie” ‘is that your final word?’ – ‘yes, it is’, ‘that’s right’
    - tak jest, panie pułkowniku/generale! Wojsk. yes, sir!
    - to jest książk. that is, that is to say
    - główne gałęzie przemysłu, to jest górnictwo i hutnictwo the main branches of industry, that is (to say) mining and metallurgy
    * * *
    (jestem, jesteś); pl jesteśmy; pl jesteście; pl są; imp bądź; pt był, była, byli; sg fut będę; sg fut; będziesz; vi

    jestem! — present!, here!

    jest ciepło/zimno — it's warm/cold

    jest mi zimno/przykro — I'm cold/sorry

    będę pamiętać lub pamiętał — I will remember

    co będzie, jeśli nie przyjdą? — what will happen if they don't come?

    nie może być! — this lub it can't be!

    tak jest! — yes, sir!

    jestem za +instr /przeciw być — +dat I am for/against

    * * *
    I.
    być1
    ipf.
    1. (= znajdować się w jakimś stanie l. miejscu) be; (= istnieć) exist, be there; być na diecie be on a diet; być na emeryturze be retired; jestem po robocie I'm finished l. done with work (for today); pewnego razu był sobie król... once upon a time there lived a king...; w ogrodzie były róże there were roses in the garden; w Galaktyce są miliardy gwiazd there are billions of stars in the Galaxy; ile ich jest? how many of them are there?; być w kinie be at the theater; być na wycieczce be on a trip; być w Warszawie be in Warsaw; być u babci na wsi be at grandma's house in the country; być z kimś sam na sam be one on one with sb; od świtu jestem na nogach I have been on my feet all day; Ewa jest na ostatnich nogach Eva is ready to drop l. dead on her feet; jesteś na drodze do zawału you are on the road to a heart attack; wszystko jest na swoim miejscu everything is in its place; to było nie na miejscu that was out of line; być na ustach całego miasteczka be on the lips of everyone in town; być jedną nogą na tamtym świecie have one foot in the grave; co dzisiaj będzie na obiad? what's for supper today?; wszystko jest pod ręką we have everything right at hand; być u steru przen. be at the wheel; no to jestem w domu (= zrozumiałem) that hits home; być w latach l. w leciech be up in one's years; być w sile wieku be in one's prime; być w opałach be in a bind; teraz wszystko jest w twoich rękach now everything is in your hands l. up to you; być w siódmym niebie be in seventh heaven; być w swoim żywiole be in one's element; być na zebraniu be at a meeting; być na wojnie be (fighting) in a war; być na studiach be at college; być na anglistyce be in the English Department; nigdy nie byłem w Chicago I've never been to Chicago; Adam jest pod pantoflem swojej żony Adam is henpecked; być nie w sosie be in a bad mood; jest gaz i woda we have gas and water; jestem takiego samego zdania I'm of the same opinion; jestem dobrej myśli I'm hoping for the best; jest mi u ciebie tak dobrze I feel so good at your place; jest mi głupio I feel stupid; to jest do niczego it's no good; być górą be on top; to nie jest czas po temu this is not the time for that; to nie jest mi na rękę this is inconvenient (for me); to nie jest po mojej myśli that's not what I intended l. what I had in mind; jestem pod wrażeniem I'm impressed; jestem bez pieniędzy I'm broke; jestem w ciąży I'm pregnant; Ewa jest przy nadziei przest. Eva is in the family way; jestem na służbie I'm on duty; byliśmy na spacerze we were taking a walk; dobrze wiesz, że jesteś na mojej łasce you know fully well that you're at my mercy; czy jesteś w stanie mnie zrozumieć? are you able to understand me?; jestem w dobrym humorze I'm in a good mood; byliśmy w kłopocie, co zrobić z... we couldn't figure out what to do with...; Ewa przez moment była w rozterce for a moment Ewa was in a dilemma; Ewa jest z Adamem w przyjaźni Ewa is friends with Adam; po czyjej jesteś stronie? whose side are you on?; Adam jest w porządku Adam is OK l. alright; to nie jest w moim guście that's not my style; jestem na bakier z gramatyką I haven't a clue about grammar; z teściową jestem na złej stopie I'm on bad terms with my mother-in-law; z prezesem jestem na ty I'm on a first name basis with the president; jestem za reformą I'm for the reform; oni są z sobą za pan brat they are on familiar terms; jestem z Ewą po słowie przest. I'm engaged to Eve.
    2. ( część orzeczenia imiennego) jestem studentem I am a student; byłam piosenkarką I was a singer; będę generałem I will be a general; ta dziewczyna jest ładna that girl is pretty; samochód jest ojca that's father's car; ten długopis nie jest mój this pen isn't mine; bądź zdrów! get well!; jesteś dla mnie niczym! you mean nothing to me; on nie był sobą he wasn't himself; dwa razy dwa jest cztery two plus two is l. equals four.
    3. ( w zdaniach bezosobowych) (= zdarzać się) jest piękny dzień it's a beautiful day; był kwiecień it was April; było to dość dawno it was l. happened quite a long time ago; był do ciebie telefon you had a call; było już późno it was getting late; nie ma co jeść there's nothing to eat; będzie z godzinę temu, jak... it's been an hour since...; a co będzie ze mną? what will happen to me?; ciekaw jestem, co z niego będzie I'm curious (about) what will become of him; jeżeli tak jest if it is so; być może maybe, perhaps; co będzie, to będzie come what may; co było, to było let bygones be bygones; jakoś to (w końcu) będzie thing's will turn out fine (in the end); co ci jest? what's wrong l. the matter with you?; z tej mąki nie będzie chleba it's hopeless; nie może być that's impossible; jest już po nim it's too late for him; he's done for; he's a goner l. a has-been; co było, a nie jest, nie pisze się w rejestr what's done is done; tak jest! exactly!, precisely!, that's right; wojsk. yes, sir!; to jest (= czyli) that is; było nie było whatever happens; no matter what (happens).
    II.
    być2
    ipf.
    1. tylko będę będziesz itd. ( w formach czasu przyszłego) will (be); będę pamiętał o tym I'll remember that; dzieci będą w ogrodzie the kids will be in the garden; będziemy śpiewać kolędy we're going to sing carols.
    2. ( w formach strony biernej) dom był sprzedany za... the house was sold for...; jesteś obserwowany you are being watched; droga jest już naprawiona the road has been repaired.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > być

  • 7 almuerzo escolar

    m.
    school lunch.
    * * *
    (n.) = school lunch, school dinner
    Ex. A preliminary report by the Department of Agriculture shows that school lunches are still fattier and saltier than they should be.
    Ex. This report provides tabular information on expenditures for teachers' salaries and retirement, school dinners, universities, primary and secondary schools, and adult education.
    * * *
    (n.) = school lunch, school dinner

    Ex: A preliminary report by the Department of Agriculture shows that school lunches are still fattier and saltier than they should be.

    Ex: This report provides tabular information on expenditures for teachers' salaries and retirement, school dinners, universities, primary and secondary schools, and adult education.

    Spanish-English dictionary > almuerzo escolar

  • 8 comida escolar

    f.
    school dinner, school lunch.
    * * *
    (n.) = school lunch, school dinner
    Ex. A preliminary report by the Department of Agriculture shows that school lunches are still fattier and saltier than they should be.
    Ex. This report provides tabular information on expenditures for teachers' salaries and retirement, school dinners, universities, primary and secondary schools, and adult education.
    * * *
    (n.) = school lunch, school dinner

    Ex: A preliminary report by the Department of Agriculture shows that school lunches are still fattier and saltier than they should be.

    Ex: This report provides tabular information on expenditures for teachers' salaries and retirement, school dinners, universities, primary and secondary schools, and adult education.

    Spanish-English dictionary > comida escolar

  • 9 escéptico

    adj.
    skeptical, doubting, cynical, incredulous.
    m.
    skeptic, doubting Thomas, doubter, sceptic.
    * * *
    1 sceptic (US skeptic)
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 sceptic (US skeptic)
    * * *
    (f. - escéptica)
    adj.
    * * *
    escéptico, -a
    1.
    ADJ sceptical, skeptical (EEUU)
    2.
    SM / F sceptic, skeptic (EEUU)
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo skeptical*
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino skeptic*
    * * *
    = skeptical, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, incredulous, unconvinced.
    Ex. Many people were skeptical that the compact disc (CD) would replace the phonograph record.
    Ex. Please accept this from the person who was probably the biggest sceptic in the State of Ohio at the beginning -- if we had waited for this from the start, I think we never would have started.
    Ex. Bill Gates, once sceptical about the Internet, has now changed his mind.
    Ex. The article 'The conversion of a secondary school skeptic' defines a stations approach to learning as a series of activities and supporting resources designed to develop student knowledge and/or skills.
    Ex. 65% reported that they were both unhappy & incredulous.
    Ex. Many educators still remain unconvinced of the value of school libraries in the school.
    * * *
    I
    - ca adjetivo skeptical*
    II
    - ca masculino, femenino skeptic*
    * * *
    = skeptical, sceptic, sceptical, skeptic, incredulous, unconvinced.

    Ex: Many people were skeptical that the compact disc (CD) would replace the phonograph record.

    Ex: Please accept this from the person who was probably the biggest sceptic in the State of Ohio at the beginning -- if we had waited for this from the start, I think we never would have started.
    Ex: Bill Gates, once sceptical about the Internet, has now changed his mind.
    Ex: The article 'The conversion of a secondary school skeptic' defines a stations approach to learning as a series of activities and supporting resources designed to develop student knowledge and/or skills.
    Ex: 65% reported that they were both unhappy & incredulous.
    Ex: Many educators still remain unconvinced of the value of school libraries in the school.

    * * *
    skeptical*
    en cuanto a la validez de sus investigaciones soy algo escéptico I am somewhat skeptical about the validity of his research, I have my doubts as to the validity of his research
    masculine, feminine
    skeptic*
    * * *

    escéptico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    skeptical( conjugate skeptical)
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    skeptic( conjugate skeptic)
    escéptico,-a
    I adjetivo sceptical, US skeptical: adoptó una actitud escéptica, he adopted a sceptical attitude
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino sceptic, US skeptic

    ' escéptico' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escéptica
    English:
    sceptic
    - sceptical
    - skeptic
    - skeptical
    * * *
    escéptico, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [filósofo] sceptic
    2. [incrédulo] sceptical
    ♦ nm,f
    sceptic
    * * *
    I adj skeptical, Br
    sceptical
    II m, escéptica f skeptic, Br
    sceptic
    * * *
    escéptico, -ca adj
    : skeptical
    escéptico, -ca n
    : skeptic

    Spanish-English dictionary > escéptico

  • 10 personaje

    m.
    1 character.
    personaje central central character
    2 important person, celebrity (persona importante).
    ¡menudo personaje! what an unpleasant individual! (persona despreciable)
    3 big name, big wheel, personage, personality.
    * * *
    1 (famoso) celebrity
    2 (en obra, película) character
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=sujeto notable) personage, important person; (=famoso) celebrity, personality

    ser un personaje — to be somebody, be important

    2) (Literat, Teat) character
    * * *
    a) (Cin, Lit) character
    b) ( persona importante) important figure, personage (frml)

    es todo un personaje — (fam) he's a real big shot (colloq)

    * * *
    = character, personage, figure.
    Ex. In the meantime, a serious oral history project is fundamental to the preservation of the memories of those characters in the drama while they are still available.
    Ex. The other systematic schedules, 38 in number, relate to particular classes of persons or things, eg 13 for subclassification under any disease or disorder, 7 for special subjects relative to any personage.
    Ex. Much potentially valuable historical material is lost to posterity because of the attitude to the collection of primary sources which always gives pride of place to the ephemeral as long as it is compiled by a well-known figure.
    ----
    * galería de personajes famosos = hall of fame.
    * película con personajes de guiñol = puppet film.
    * personaje de fantasía = fantasy character.
    * personaje de ficción = fictional character.
    * personaje fantástico = fantasy character.
    * personaje local = local figure.
    * personaje mitológico = mythological character.
    * personaje político = political figure.
    * personaje principal = lead character.
    * personaje principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.
    * personaje público = public figure.
    * personajes dramáticos = dramatis personae.
    * personaje secundario = secondary character.
    * personaje venido a menos = fallen star.
    * todo lo relativo al personaje novelesco Holmes = Holmesiana.
    * tratar como un personaje = lionise [lionize, -USA].
    * * *
    a) (Cin, Lit) character
    b) ( persona importante) important figure, personage (frml)

    es todo un personaje — (fam) he's a real big shot (colloq)

    * * *
    = character, personage, figure.

    Ex: In the meantime, a serious oral history project is fundamental to the preservation of the memories of those characters in the drama while they are still available.

    Ex: The other systematic schedules, 38 in number, relate to particular classes of persons or things, eg 13 for subclassification under any disease or disorder, 7 for special subjects relative to any personage.
    Ex: Much potentially valuable historical material is lost to posterity because of the attitude to the collection of primary sources which always gives pride of place to the ephemeral as long as it is compiled by a well-known figure.
    * galería de personajes famosos = hall of fame.
    * película con personajes de guiñol = puppet film.
    * personaje de fantasía = fantasy character.
    * personaje de ficción = fictional character.
    * personaje fantástico = fantasy character.
    * personaje local = local figure.
    * personaje mitológico = mythological character.
    * personaje político = political figure.
    * personaje principal = lead character.
    * personaje principal, el = main character, the, main actor, the.
    * personaje público = public figure.
    * personajes dramáticos = dramatis personae.
    * personaje secundario = secondary character.
    * personaje venido a menos = fallen star.
    * todo lo relativo al personaje novelesco Holmes = Holmesiana.
    * tratar como un personaje = lionise [lionize, -USA].

    * * *
    1 ( Cin, Lit) character
    2 (persona importante) important figure, personage ( frml)
    un personaje de la política an important political figure
    personajes del mundo del teatro celebrities o famous names from the world of theater
    es todo un personaje ( fam); he's a real big shot ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    personaje sustantivo masculino
    a) (Cin, Lit) character



    es todo un personaje en el pueblo he's something of a local celebrity
    personaje sustantivo masculino
    1 (de cine, teatro, etc) character
    2 (persona importante o conocida) celebrity, important figure
    3 fam, irón (persona atípica) es todo un personaje, she's quite a character
    ' personaje' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    caracterizar
    - escurridiza
    - escurridizo
    - histórica
    - histórico
    - pincelada
    - protagonista
    - vida
    - carácter
    - estereotipado
    - ficticio
    - glorioso
    - grotesco
    - hacer
    - interpretar
    - logrado
    - personalidad
    - vivir
    English:
    act
    - character
    - fictional
    - figure
    - kissogram
    - legendary
    - memorabilia
    - ordinary
    - royal
    - towering
    - VIP
    - assassin
    - assassinate
    - assassination
    - hot
    * * *
    1. [persona importante] important person, celebrity;
    acudieron personajes del mundo del cine celebrities from the movie world came;
    ¡menudo personaje! [persona despreciable] what an unpleasant individual!
    2. [en novela, teatro] character
    * * *
    m
    1 TEA character
    2 famoso celebrity
    * * *
    1) : character (in drama or literature)
    2) : personage, celebrity
    * * *
    1. (de libro, película, etc) character
    2. (celebridad) personality [pl. personalities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > personaje

  • 11 picante

    adj.
    1 spicy, hot (food).
    2 saucy (chiste, comedia).
    m.
    1 spicy food (food).
    2 spiciness, piquancy, raciness.
    * * *
    1 (comida) hot
    2 figurado (chiste, película) spicy
    1 (comida) hot food
    2 (sabor) hot flavour
    * * *
    adj.
    hot, spicy
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=que pica) [comida, sabor] hot, spicy; [vino] tart, sour
    2) (=malicioso) [comentario] sharp, cutting; [chiste] dirty; [comedia, película] naughty, spicy; [persona] naughty
    2. SM
    1) (Culin)
    a) (=especia) chilli
    b) And, Cono Sur (=guisado) meat stew with chilli sauce
    2) (=picardía) [en persona] zip, zest; [en chiste, situación] piquancy
    3) pl picantes Esp ** (=calcetines) socks
    * * *
    I
    a) (Coc) < comida> hot
    b) <chiste/libro> risqué; < comedia> racy
    II
    a) (Coc) hot spices (pl)

    el médico le ha prohibido el picante or los picantes — his doctor has told him not to eat spicy food

    b) (Chi, Per) ( guiso) spicy meat stew
    * * *
    = piquant, salty [saltier -comp., saltiest -sup.], racy [racier -comp., raciest -sup.], fiery [fierier -comp., fieriest -sup.], risqué, bawdy [bawdier -comp., bawdiest -sup.], pungent, spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], tangy [tangier - comp., tangiest -sup.], nippy [nippier -comp., nippiest -sup.].
    Ex. The causes of this interest differ from one man to another; it may be the beautiful, the terrible, the awe-inspiring, the exhilarating, the pathetic, the comic, or the merely piquant.
    Ex. Serious questions which face us may often be better understood when a modicum of salty satire is applied.
    Ex. Today, nudity, sex, and excessive violence are not an issue and even the raciest films would garner a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and most are even tamer than that.
    Ex. In the end, his crude language and fiery personality limited him to the role of redneck poltergeist.
    Ex. However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex. Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.
    Ex. The studies reported here addressed the question of whether the pungent element in chilies, capsaicin, suppresses taste and flavor intensity.
    Ex. The odour impression was a very pleasant spearmint, with green, floral, fruity, and spicy sidenote.
    Ex. Although some British seaside resorts still sell saucy postcards, they are not as popular as they used to be.
    Ex. The most boring meal can be pepped up with spicy and tangy herbs.
    Ex. Blend cream cheese with prepared horseradish for a nippy taste.
    ----
    * poner un poquito de picante = pep up.
    * rábano picante = horseradish.
    * * *
    I
    a) (Coc) < comida> hot
    b) <chiste/libro> risqué; < comedia> racy
    II
    a) (Coc) hot spices (pl)

    el médico le ha prohibido el picante or los picantes — his doctor has told him not to eat spicy food

    b) (Chi, Per) ( guiso) spicy meat stew
    * * *
    = piquant, salty [saltier -comp., saltiest -sup.], racy [racier -comp., raciest -sup.], fiery [fierier -comp., fieriest -sup.], risqué, bawdy [bawdier -comp., bawdiest -sup.], pungent, spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], tangy [tangier - comp., tangiest -sup.], nippy [nippier -comp., nippiest -sup.].

    Ex: The causes of this interest differ from one man to another; it may be the beautiful, the terrible, the awe-inspiring, the exhilarating, the pathetic, the comic, or the merely piquant.

    Ex: Serious questions which face us may often be better understood when a modicum of salty satire is applied.
    Ex: Today, nudity, sex, and excessive violence are not an issue and even the raciest films would garner a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and most are even tamer than that.
    Ex: In the end, his crude language and fiery personality limited him to the role of redneck poltergeist.
    Ex: However, some of the central premises of the film are flawed, and the risqué touches, whether racial or erotic innuendo, are primarily there to titillate and make the film seem hot and controversial.
    Ex: Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.
    Ex: The studies reported here addressed the question of whether the pungent element in chilies, capsaicin, suppresses taste and flavor intensity.
    Ex: The odour impression was a very pleasant spearmint, with green, floral, fruity, and spicy sidenote.
    Ex: Although some British seaside resorts still sell saucy postcards, they are not as popular as they used to be.
    Ex: The most boring meal can be pepped up with spicy and tangy herbs.
    Ex: Blend cream cheese with prepared horseradish for a nippy taste.
    * poner un poquito de picante = pep up.
    * rábano picante = horseradish.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Coc) ‹comida› hot
    esto está picantísimo this is really hot!
    2 ‹chiste/libro› risqué; ‹comedia› racy
    B ( Chi fam pey) ‹persona/lugar› common ( colloq pej); ‹música› trashy ( colloq)
    A
    1 ( Coc) hot spices (pl)
    le has puesto demasiado picante a la sopa you've made the soup too hot o too peppery
    el médico le ha prohibido el picante or los picantes his doctor has told him not to eat spicy food
    2
    (ingenio, malicia): la obra es un poco sosa, le falta un poco de picante the play is a bit dull, it needs something to spice it up a little
    3 (Chi, Per) ( Coc) (guiso) spicy meat stew
    B
    * * *

    picante adjetivo
    a) (Coc) ‹ comida› hot

    b) ‹chiste/libro› risqué;

    ‹ comedia› racy
    picante
    I adjetivo
    1 (comida) hot, spicy
    2 fig (espectáculo, comentario) risqué, racy
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 (alimentos) hot spices pl: le han prohibido el picante, he has been told not to eat spicy food
    2 (sabor) hot taste
    ' picante' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    pimentón
    - chiste
    - daño
    - picar
    English:
    fiery
    - horseradish
    - hot
    - juicy
    - pungent
    - racy
    - sausage
    - spice
    - spicy
    - horse
    - raunchy
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [comida] spicy, hot
    2. [chiste, comedia] saucy
    3. Chile Fam [ordinario] common;
    se fue a vivir a un barrio picante she went to live in a downmarket area
    ♦ nm
    1. [salsa] hot sauce;
    le puso demasiado picante she made it too hot o spicy;
    me gusta el picante I like spicy food
    2. Andes [guiso] spicy meat stew
    3. Chile Fam [ordinario] pleb;
    son unos picantes they're plebs
    * * *
    I adj
    1 comida hot, spicy
    2 chiste risqué
    II m hot spice
    * * *
    picante adj
    1) : hot, spicy
    2) : sharp, cutting
    3) : racy, risqué
    1) : spiciness
    2) : hot spices pl, hot sauce
    * * *
    picante adj hot [comp. hotter; superl. hottest] / spicy [comp. spicier; superl. spiciest]

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  • 12 verde

    adj.
    1 green.
    verde botella bottle green
    verde oliva olive (green)
    verde esmeralda emerald (green)
    2 unripe, green (poco maduro) (fruit).
    3 Green, green (ecologista).
    4 blue, dirty (obsceno).
    5 rookie, green.
    6 bawdy, hot, ribald, crude.
    m.
    1 green (color).
    2 foliage, green.
    3 nerd, swot, excessively assiduous student, grind.
    * * *
    1 (color) green
    2 (fruta) unripe, green; (madera) unseasoned
    3 figurado (persona) green, immature
    4 familiar (chiste) blue, dirty
    1 (color) green
    2 (hierba) grass
    3 PLÍTICA green
    \
    poner verde a alguien familiar to call somebody every name under the sun
    verde oliva olive green
    * * *
    noun m. adj.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (color) green
    - poner verde a algn
    2) [árbol, planta] green; [fruta, verdura] green, unripe; [legumbres] green; [madera] unseasoned
    3) [zona, espacio] green
    4) *
    [plan, proyecto]
    5) * (=sin experiencia) green *

    está muy verde — *he's very green *, he doesn't know a thing

    6) * [chiste, canción] smutty *, blue *, dirty
    7) (Pol) Green
    2. SM
    1) (=color) green
    2) (=hierba) grass; (=follaje) foliage, greenery; (=forraje) green fodder
    3) *
    (=billete) [de mil pesetas] 1,000-peseta note; [de un dólar] dollar bill, buck (EEUU) *, greenback (EEUU) *
    4)
    - darse un verde de algo
    5) ( Cono Sur) (=mate) maté
    6) ( Cono Sur) (=pasto) grass, pasture
    7) ( Cono Sur) (=ensalada) salad
    8) (And) (=plátano) plantain
    9) (Caribe, Méx) (=campo) country, countryside
    10) (Caribe)
    * (=policía) cop *
    3.
    SMF (Pol) Green

    los Verdes — the Greens, the Green Party

    * * *
    I
    1) <color/ojos/vestido> green

    zapatos verde claro/oscuro — light/dark green shoes

    ojos verde azulado — bluish o (BrE) bluey green eyes

    estar verde de envidia — (CS) to be green with envy

    2) < fruta> green, unripe; < leña> green

    estar verde — (fam) ( no tener experiencia) to be green (colloq); ( en una asignatura)

    3) (Pol) Green
    4) (fam) < chiste> dirty, blue (colloq); viejo II 1)
    II
    1) ( color) green; (Bot) greenery
    2) verde masculino y femenino (Pol) Green
    * * *
    I
    1) <color/ojos/vestido> green

    zapatos verde claro/oscuro — light/dark green shoes

    ojos verde azulado — bluish o (BrE) bluey green eyes

    estar verde de envidia — (CS) to be green with envy

    2) < fruta> green, unripe; < leña> green

    estar verde — (fam) ( no tener experiencia) to be green (colloq); ( en una asignatura)

    3) (Pol) Green
    4) (fam) < chiste> dirty, blue (colloq); viejo II 1)
    II
    1) ( color) green; (Bot) greenery
    2) verde masculino y femenino (Pol) Green
    * * *
    verde1
    1 = green [greener -comp., greenest -sup.], unripe, underripe, unripened.

    Ex: If the spot stays yellow the paper is decidedly acid; an in-between colour ( green, grey, grey-green, yellow-green) indicates mild acidity; while if the spot goes purple, the paper is near-neutral or alkaline.

    Ex: Unripe seeds do not have all the things they need to grow.
    Ex: Underripe and overripe melons had as much as 20% less lycopene than fully ripe melons, with maturity effects dependent on the variety.
    Ex: To ripen tomatoes, add a whole lime to unripened tomatoes in a paper bag and store at room temperature for a few days.
    * alerta verde = green alert.
    * Cabo Verde = Cape Verde.
    * color verde = green.
    * de color verde botella = bottle green.
    * de color verde oscuro = bottle green.
    * fruta verde = unripe fruit.
    * Islas de Cabo Verde = Cape Verde Islands.
    * judía verde = green bean, runner bean, French bean.
    * libro verde = green paper.
    * manzana verde = green apple.
    * menta verde = spearmint.
    * poner verde = mouth off, get + the rough edge of + Posesivo + tongue, trash, call + Nombre + all the names under the sun, slag + Nombre + off, cut + Nombre + up, tear + Nombre + down, slate, rubbish.
    * República de Cabo Verde = Cape Verde.
    * República de las Islas de Cabo Verde = Cape Verde Islands.
    * té verde = green tea.
    * verde aceituna = olive green.
    * verde botella = bottle green.
    * verde chillón = parrot green.
    * verde esmeralda = emerald green.
    * verde loro = parrot green.
    * verde manzana = apple green.
    * verde mar = sea green.
    * verde marino = sea green.
    * verde oliva = olive green.
    * verde pistacho = pistachio green.
    * verdes, los = green, the.
    * verde turquesa = turquoise green.
    * zona verde = grassy area.

    verde2
    2 = bawdy [bawdier -comp., bawdiest -sup.], racy [racier -comp., raciest -sup.], saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.], ribald.

    Ex: Their secondary aim was to print piratical, scurrilous and bawdy material for the people of Dublin.

    Ex: Today, nudity, sex, and excessive violence are not an issue and even the raciest films would garner a PG-13 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America, and most are even tamer than that.
    Ex: Although some British seaside resorts still sell saucy postcards, they are not as popular as they used to be.
    Ex: About this time several of the old crones of the tribe offered their ribald advice on how the new couple should conduct themselves off in the forest together.
    * viejo verde = dirty old man.

    * * *
    1 ‹color/ojos/vestido› green
    ponerse verde de envidia to turn o ( BrE) go green with envy
    el semáforo estaba (en) verde the traffic light was green
    estar verde de envidia (CS); to be green with envy
    poner verde a algn ( Esp fam) (hablando con algn) to call sb all the names under the sun, to give sb a dressing down; (hablando de algn) to say nasty things about sb, run sb down ( colloq), to slag sb off ( BrE colloq)
    2 (modificado por otro adj: inv) green
    zapatos verde claro/fuerte/oscuro light/bright/dark green shoes
    ojos verde azulado bluish o ( BrE) bluey green eyes
    B
    1 ‹fruta› green, unripe
    estar verde ( fam) (no tener experiencia) to be inexperienced o ( colloq) green
    (en una asignatura): está verde en historia he doesn't know the first thing about history ( colloq), he doesn't have have a clue o have the first idea about history ( colloq)
    el plan todavía está verde the plan is still in its very early stages
    2 ‹leña› green
    C ( Pol) ‹partido/movimiento› Green
    D ( fam); ‹chiste› dirty, blue ( colloq) viejo2 (↑ viejo (2))
    B (hierbas) greenery
    C ( Pol) Green
    los verdes the Greens
    D ( fam) (billete — de un dólar) greenback ( AmE colloq), dollar bill; ( obs Esp) (— de mil pesetas) 1,000 peseta note
    Compuestos:
    A masculine watery green
    B adj inv watery-green
    A masculine bottle green
    B adj inv bottle-green
    A masculine emerald green
    B adj inv emerald-green, emerald
    A masculine leaf green
    B adj inv leaf-green
    A masculine apple green
    B adj inv apple-green
    A masculine moss green
    B adj inv moss-green
    A masculine olive green
    B adj inv olive-green
    ● verde perico (Col, Ven)
    A masculine bright green
    B adj inv bright-green
    A masculine turquoise green
    B adj inv turquoise-green
    * * *

     

    verde adjetivo <s3 num="1" st="s"> ‹color/ojos/vestido› green;

    ojos verde azulado bluish o (BrE) bluey green eyes
    2 ‹ fruta› green, unripe;
    ‹ leña› green;


    ( en una asignatura):

    3 (Pol) Green
    4 (fam) ‹ chiste› dirty, blue (colloq)
    ■ sustantivo masculino ( color) green;
    (Bot) greenery
    ■ sustantivo masculino y femenino (Pol) Green;

    verde
    I sustantivo masculino
    1 (color) green
    verde esmeralda, emerald
    II sustantivo masculino y femenino Pol los Verdes, the Greens
    III adjetivo
    1 (de ese color) green
    verdes campos, green fields
    2 (fruto inmaduro) unripe, green
    3 Pol (ideología, partido) green
    4 familiar estar verde, (tener poca experiencia) to be green
    (estar en fase primeriza) su tesis está verde, his thesis is in its early stages
    5 fam (impúdico) dirty
    pey viejo verde, dirty old man
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar poner verde a alguien, to call sb every name under the sun

    ' verde' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cabo
    - chiste
    - entre
    - esmeralda
    - judía
    - luz
    - metalizada
    - metalizado
    - oliva
    - parque
    - pimiento
    - semáforo
    - tapete
    - tono
    - tuya
    - tuyo
    - una
    - uno
    - venir
    - zona
    - cebolleta
    - cinturón
    - claro
    - de
    - intermedio
    - ir
    - limón
    - poroto
    - vestir
    - viejo
    English:
    bean
    - blue
    - bottle-green
    - coarse
    - colour
    - come
    - dirty
    - French bean
    - go-ahead
    - green
    - green bean
    - green pepper
    - green salad
    - light
    - nod
    - olive green
    - pepper
    - raunchy
    - runner bean
    - slag off
    - smutty
    - trash
    - unripe
    - all
    - buck
    - dirty old man
    - emerald
    - go
    - hedge
    - hedgerow
    - immature
    - jade
    - lime
    - marrow
    - mint
    - raw
    - runner
    - spear
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [de color] green;
    Fam
    poner verde a alguien [por la espalda] to run sb down, Br to slag sb off, US to dump on sb;
    [delante] to tear into sb, to tear sb to pieces; RP Fam
    estar verde de envidia to be green with envy
    2. [poco maduro] [fruta] unripe, green;
    Fam [persona] green, wet behind the ears;
    el proyecto está aún verde the project is still very much in its early stages
    3. [ecologista] Green, green
    4. [obsceno] blue, dirty
    5. Esp Fam Antes
    billete verde = 1,000 peseta note
    ♦ nm
    [color] green;
    el verde es mi color favorito green is my favourite colour;
    cruzar con el semáforo en verde to cross when the lights are green
    verde agua pale blue-green;
    verde botella bottle green;
    RP verde cotorra bright green;
    verde esmeralda emerald green;
    verde lima lime green;
    verde manzana apple green;
    verde mar sea green;
    verde musgo moss green;
    verde oliva olive (green)
    ♦ nmpl
    los Verdes [partido] the Greens
    * * *
    I adj
    1 green;
    poner verde a alguien fam criticize s.o.
    2 fruta unripe
    3 fam
    chiste blue, dirty;
    viejo verde dirty old man
    II m
    1 green;
    verde botella/oliva bottle/olive green
    2
    :
    los verdes POL the Greens
    * * *
    verde adj
    1) : green (in color)
    2) : green, unripe
    3) : inexperienced, green
    4) : dirty, risqué
    verde nm
    : green
    * * *
    verde1 adj
    1. (en general) green
    2. (no maduro) not ripe
    no comas este melocotón, está verde don't eat this peach, it's not ripe
    3. (obsceno) dirty [comp. dirtier; superl. dirtiest]
    verde2 n green

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  • 13 πίμπλημι

    πίμπλημι, - αμαι
    Grammatical information: v.
    Meaning: `to fill, to make full', intr. `to fill oneself, to become or be full' (Il.).
    Other forms: - άνεται 3. sg. (I 679), rare - άω, - έω (Hp.), also πλήθω (intr., late also tr.; ep. poet. Il.). Aor. πλῆ-σαι, - σασθαι, - σθῆναι, (Il.), intr. πλῆ-το, - ντο (ep.), ἐν-έπλητο etc. (Att.), fut. πλή-σω, - σομαι (Od.), - σθήσομαι (Att.), perf. midd. πέπλησμαι (IA.), act. πέπληκα (Att.), intr. πέπληθα (poet.).
    Compounds: Very often w. prefix, e.g. ἀνα-(συν-ανα-, προσ-ανα- a.o.), ἐν- ( ἀντ-εν-, παρ-εν- a.o.). As 1. member in some governing compp., e.g. πλησίστιος `filling the sail' (Od., E.), `with full sails' (Ph., Plu.).
    Derivatives: 1. πλέως (also w. ἐν-, ἀνα-, ἐκ- a.o. to ἐμ-πίμπλημι etc.), Ion. πλέος, ep. πλεῖος = *πλῆος, ntr. πλέον `full' (Il.). On the comp. πλείων with sup. πλεῖστος s. esp. -- 2. πλή-μη f. `high tide, flood' (Plb., Str. a.o.), - σμη f. `id.' (Hes. Fr. 217), - μα πλήρωμα H., - σμα n. `fertilisation' (Arist.); - σμιος `saturating, causing tedium' (Epicur., medic.); - σμονή f. `fullness, congestion, (over)saturation' (IA.; Schwyzer 524, Chantraine Form. 207) with - σμονώδης (Hp., Gal.), - σμονικός (Pythag. Ep.) `(over)saturating'. On πλήμνη s. v. -- 3. πλή-ρης `full' (IA.); as 1. member e.g. πληρο-φορέω ` fulfill' (Ctes., LXX, NT, pap.); πληρό-της f. `fullness' (Plu.), πληρ-όω, very often w. prefix, e.g. ἀνα-, ἐκ-, ἀπο-, συν-, `to make full, to (ful)fill, to finish, to pay fully' (IA.) with - ωμα ( ἀνα-, συν- a.o.) n. `filling, filling piece, full number, full payment, (full) crew' (IA.), - ωσις ( ἀνα-, ἐκ- u.a.) f. `accomplishment, complement, satisfaction' (IA.; Holt Les noms d'action en - σις 128), - ωτής ( ἐκ-, ἀπο-) m. `finisher, executor, collector' (Att.), - ωτικός ( ἀνα-, συν- a.o.) `fulfilling, completing' (Epicur., medic. a. o.). -- 4. πλῆ-θος n. `fulness, mass (of people), herd' (Il., Dor., Arc.); often as 2. member, e.g. παμ-πληθής `consisting of a whole mass, very numerous' (Att.); -θᾱ f. `id.' (Locr., Boeot.); -θύ̄ς, - θύος f. `id.' (Ion. Cret. Locr. hell.; Bechtel Dial. 2, 791f., also Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 110 against Leumann Hom. Wörter 294 f.) with - θύω `to be full, to become full, increase', - θύνομαι, - θύνω `to belong to the mass, to agree with it, to augment oneself; to make full, to augment' (A., Arist., LXX, NT); from it - θυσμός m. `increase' (Procl., Simp.), - θυντικός `plural' (Gramm. a.o.); 5. πληθ-ώρα, Ion. -η f. `fulness', rnedic. `plethora, full-blooded' (Ion. hell.; on the secondary barytonesis Wackernagel-Debrunner Phil. 95, 181 f.) with - ωριάω `suffer from p.'. - ωρικός `plethoric' (Gal.), - ωρέω `to be full' (Suid.).
    Origin: IE [Indo-European] [799] * pleh₁- `fill'
    Etymology: The sigmatic aorist 3. sg. ἔ-πλησ-ε is (except for the -ε) identical with Skt. á-prās: IE *é-pleh₁s-t; with 1. pl. pres. πίμ-πλα-μεν agrees also, setting aside the secondary nasalisation of the present, Skt. pi-pr̥-más: IE *pi-pl̥-mé(s). Also 3. sg. πίμ-πλη-σι has a non-Gr. agreement, in Av. ham-pā-frāi-ti `fills up' over against Skt. pí-par-ti from IE * pi-pel-ti. Both in Greek and in Iran. came in sing. the langvocalic full grade plē- after other forms (e.g. the aor. *é-plēs-) for the prob. older Skt. pí-par-ti. After the pattern of τίθημι: τίθεμεν one made sometimes forms like ptc. pl. f. πιμπλεῖσαι (Hes.: τιθεῖσαι). With πέ-πλη-θ-α cf. still Skt. pa-prā́[u] (on θ below). -- The r-suffix in πλή-ρης (for older *πλη-ρο-ς? Schwyzer 513) is both in Arm. li-r `fullness' (from * plē-r-i-) and in Lat. plē-rus `for the greater part', plērī-que `most' (s. W.-Hofmann s. v.) attested. Also πλέως from *πλῆος (= Hom. πλεῖος), *πλη-(ι)ος can be equated with Arm. li `full' (better then li from * plē-tos = Lat. - plētus a.o.). The m-suffix in πλή-μη, - μα seems also in Lat. plēminābantur replēbantur (Gloss.; from * plēmen = πλῆμα) to be represented. -- Like πλῆ-θος: πλή-θω, πέ-πλη-θα also βρῖ-θος: βρί-θω: βέ-βρι-θα (s. v. and Schwyzer 511 a. 703); with πλῆθος, -θύ̄ς (on which Schwyzer 463f. and Frisk Eranos 43, 221) one compares Lat. plēbēs from IE *plēdhu̯ēs (cf. W.-Hofmann s. v.); well-argued doubts in Ernout-Meillet s. v. -- Further details w. rich lit. in WP. 2, 63f., Pok. 799f., W.-Hofmann s. pleō, Mayrhofer s. píparti1; older lit. also in Bq. On the Greek form still Schwyzer 689. -- Cf. πολύς, πλείων, πλήμνη.
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  • 14 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence

  • 15 escuela

    f.
    school.
    hacer escuela to have a following
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    escuela de arte school of art, art school
    escuela de comercio business school
    escuela de hostelería catering school
    escuela Oficial de Idiomas = Spanish State language-teaching institute
    escuela privada private school
    escuela pública state school
    escuela taurina bullfighting school
    escuela universitaria = section of a university which awards diplomas in a vocational discipline (e.g. engineering, business) after three years of study
    escuela de verano summer school
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: escolar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: escolar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) school
    2 (experiencia) experience, instruction
    \
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    tener buena escuela to be well trained
    escuela de artes y oficios Technical College
    escuela de conducir driving school
    escuela de idiomas language school
    escuela nocturna night school
    escuela privada private school, GB public school
    escuela pública state school
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=colegio) school

    ir a la escuela — [alumno, maestro] to go to school

    escuela de párvulos — nursery school, kindergarten

    escuela de primera enseñanza, escuela elemental — primary school

    escuela privada — private school, independent school

    escuela pública — state school, public school (EEUU)

    escuela secundaria — secondary school, high school (EEUU)

    2) (=centro de enseñanza) [gen] school; Chile (=facultad) faculty, school

    escuela de baile — school of dancing, dance school

    Escuela de Bellas Artes — art school, art college

    escuela de chóferes — LAm driving school

    escuela de comercio — business school, school of business studies

    escuela de conductores — LAm driving school

    escuela de manejo — Méx driving school

    escuela laboral — technical school, trade school

    escuela taller — vocational training centre

    escuela universitaria — university college offering diploma rather than degree courses

    buque 1), granja
    3) * (=clases) school

    mañana no hay o no tenemos escuela — there's no school tomorrow

    4) (=formación) experience
    5) (=movimiento) school
    see COLEGIO ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS The Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas are state-run language schools which offer tuition in a wide range of foreign languages. Examinations are also open to external candidates and the Certificado de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, the final qualification, is recognized all over Spain.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( institución) school

    la escuela de la vida — the school o university of life

    b) ( edificio) school
    c) ( facultad) faculty, school
    d) (como adj inv)

    hotel escuela — hotel school, training hotel

    2) ( formación) coaching, training
    3) (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school

    ha creado escuela — his theories (o ideas etc) have many followers

    * * *
    = day school, school, college, seedbed.
    Ex. This boy has never been to day school or Sunday school, can't read but he is said to be one of the best workers in the room.
    Ex. Many infant and junior schools have books in the entrance hall and in the corridors as well as in the classrooms.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. The article has the title 'The last thirty years as the seedbed of the future'.
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    * archivo de escuela = school records.
    * dentro de la escuela = in-school.
    * después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * en la escuela = at school.
    * escuela convencional = mainstream school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía = library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía reconocida = accredited library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía y documentación = LIS school.
    * escuela de buceo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela de capacitación = training school.
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de equitación = riding school.
    * escuela de formación = training school.
    * escuela de formación profesional = vocational school.
    * escuela de gestión = business school.
    * escuela de negocios = business school.
    * escuela de niños menores = infant school.
    * escuela de pago = public school.
    * escuela de pensamiento = school of thought.
    * escuela de pequeños = infant school.
    * escuela de primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela de submarinismo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela dominical = Sunday school.
    * escuela primaria = lower school, elementary school, grade school, primary school.
    * escuela privada = public school.
    * escuela rural = rural school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * escuela taller = technical school.
    * escuela universitaria de biblioteconomía y documentación (EUBYD) = school of librarianship and information science (SLIS).
    * expediente académico de la escuela = high school record.
    * granja escuela = animal farm.
    * horas después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * ir a la escuela = go to + school.
    * junta de dirección de la escuela = school board.
    * maestro de escuela = school teacher.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * patio de la escuela = schoolyard [school yard].
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * relacionado con la escuela = school-related.
    * vieja escuela, la = old school, the.
    * violencia en la escuela = school violence.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( institución) school

    la escuela de la vida — the school o university of life

    b) ( edificio) school
    c) ( facultad) faculty, school
    d) (como adj inv)

    hotel escuela — hotel school, training hotel

    2) ( formación) coaching, training
    3) (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school

    ha creado escuela — his theories (o ideas etc) have many followers

    * * *
    = day school, school, college, seedbed.

    Ex: This boy has never been to day school or Sunday school, can't read but he is said to be one of the best workers in the room.

    Ex: Many infant and junior schools have books in the entrance hall and in the corridors as well as in the classrooms.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: The article has the title 'The last thirty years as the seedbed of the future'.
    * archivo de escuela = school records.
    * dentro de la escuela = in-school.
    * después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * en la escuela = at school.
    * escuela convencional = mainstream school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía = library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía reconocida = accredited library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía y documentación = LIS school.
    * escuela de buceo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela de capacitación = training school.
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de equitación = riding school.
    * escuela de formación = training school.
    * escuela de formación profesional = vocational school.
    * escuela de gestión = business school.
    * escuela de negocios = business school.
    * escuela de niños menores = infant school.
    * escuela de pago = public school.
    * escuela de pensamiento = school of thought.
    * escuela de pequeños = infant school.
    * escuela de primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela de submarinismo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela dominical = Sunday school.
    * escuela primaria = lower school, elementary school, grade school, primary school.
    * escuela privada = public school.
    * escuela rural = rural school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * escuela taller = technical school.
    * escuela universitaria de biblioteconomía y documentación (EUBYD) = school of librarianship and information science (SLIS).
    * expediente académico de la escuela = high school record.
    * granja escuela = animal farm.
    * horas después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * ir a la escuela = go to + school.
    * junta de dirección de la escuela = school board.
    * maestro de escuela = school teacher.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * patio de la escuela = schoolyard [school yard].
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * relacionado con la escuela = school-related.
    * vieja escuela, la = old school, the.
    * violencia en la escuela = school violence.

    * * *
    A
    todavía no va a la escuela she hasn't started school yet
    la escuela de la vida the school o university of life
    2 (edificio) school
    3 ( Chi) (facultad) faculty, school
    la Escuela de Medicina the Medical Faculty o School
    granja escuela college farm
    hotel escuela hotel school, training hotel
    alto1 (↑ alto (1)), buque
    Compuestos:
    school of architecture
    ballet school
    art school, art college
    ● escuela de conductores or choferes
    ( AmL) driving school
    riding school
    ( AmL) driving school
    infant school
    primary school
    summer school
    ( RPl) school for children with special needs, special school
    military academy
    naval academy
    night school
    teachers' college ( AmE), teacher training college ( BrE)
    primary school
    public school ( AmE), state school ( BrE)
    technical college
    technical college
    B (formación) coaching, training
    juega bien pero le falta escuela he's a good player but he needs more coaching
    C (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school
    ha creado escuela his theories ( o ideas etc) have many followers
    es de la vieja escuela she's one of the old school
    la escuela flamenca the Flemish school
    * * *

     

    escuela sustantivo femenino
    school;
    escuela de conductores or choferes (AmL) driving school;

    escuela militar/naval military/naval academy;
    escuela pública public (AmE) o (BrE) state school;
    Eescuela de Medicina Medical Faculty o School
    escuela sustantivo femenino school
    escuela naval, naval academy
    buque escuela, training ship

    ' escuela' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    academia
    - antes
    - buque
    - colegio
    - conserje
    - dirigir
    - egresar
    - elemental
    - pizarra
    - recreo
    - aula
    - auto-escuela
    - clase
    - dirección
    - director
    - el
    - funcionamiento
    - fundación
    - fundar
    - hacer
    - inscribir
    - matón
    - merienda
    - monitor
    - normal
    - patio
    - picadero
    - pinta
    - plantel
    - politécnico
    - profesor
    - trabajo
    English:
    busing
    - college
    - disruptive
    - drop out
    - finishing school
    - grade school
    - janitor
    - junior school
    - master
    - primary
    - public school
    - saint
    - school
    - schoolmaster
    - schoolmistress
    - schoolteacher
    - staff college
    - state school
    - teacher
    - art
    - convenient
    - elementary
    - foot
    - get
    - go
    - grade
    - infant
    - intermediate
    - junior
    - military
    - past
    - public
    - settle
    - state
    - technical
    * * *
    1. [establecimiento] school;
    ir a la escuela to go to school;
    no pudo ir a la escuela she was unable to go to school;
    aprendió en la escuela de la vida she's a graduate of the university o school of life
    escuela de arte school of art, art school;
    escuela de artes y oficios = college for the study of arts and crafts;
    Am escuela de choferes driving school;
    escuela de comercio business school;
    CSur escuela diferencial school for children with special needs, special school; Cuba escuela elemental Br primary school, US elementary school;
    escuela de equitación riding school;
    escuela hípica (horse)riding school;
    escuela de hostelería catering school;
    escuela de magisterio Br teacher training college, US teacher's college;
    Am escuela de manejo driving school;
    escuela normal teacher training college;
    Escuela Oficial de Idiomas = Spanish State language-teaching institute;
    escuela de párvulos kindergarten;
    escuela primaria Br primary school, US elementary school;
    escuela privada private school, Br public school;
    escuela pública Br state school, US public school;
    escuela de secretariado secretarial college;
    escuela secundaria Br secondary school, US high school;
    escuela taurina bullfighting school;
    escuela de turismo school of tourism;
    escuela universitaria = section of a university which awards diplomas in a vocational discipline (e.g. engineering, business) after three years of study;
    escuela de verano summer school
    2. [enseñanza, conocimientos] training;
    tiene talento, pero le falta escuela he's talented, but he still has a lot to learn
    3. [de artista, doctrina] school;
    la escuela cervantina the school of Cervantes;
    hacer escuela to have a following;
    su forma de jugar al fútbol hizo escuela his style of football gained quite a following;
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    escuela de pensamiento school of thought
    * * *
    f school;
    crear escuela fig create a trend;
    de la vieja escuela fig of the old school
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    : school
    * * *
    escuela n school

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  • 16 étude

    étude [etyd]
    1. feminine noun
       a. ( = action) study
    • voyage/frais d'étude study trip/costs
       b. ( = ouvrage) study
       d. ( = bureau) office ; ( = charge, clientèle) practice
    2. plural feminine noun
    • études secondaires/supérieures secondary/higher education
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    etyd
    1. nf
    1) (le fait d'étudier) ÉDUCATION study, studying, [proposition, projet] study, consideration
    2) MUSIQUE study
    3) (= ouvrage, rapport) study
    4) ÉDUCATION (= salle de travail) study room
    5) [notaire] (= bureau) office, (= charge) practice
    2. études nfpl
    ÉDUCATION studies

    Il fait des études de droit. — He's studying law.

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    A nf
    1 ( recherche) study; ( enquête) survey; étude de la CEE study by the EEC (sur of); étude portant sur study on; étude des or sur les pesticides study of pesticides; étude comparative/préliminaire comparative/preliminary study; étude réalisée par study carried out by; étude de V. Rossignol study by V. Rossignol; l'étude a porté sur mille personnes/deux régions the survey involved one thousand people/two regions;
    2 ( observation) study (de of); étude attentive du phénomène/de quatre cas close study of the phenomenon/of four cases;
    3 ( prise en considération) (mise à l')étude consideration; être/rester à l'étude to be/to be still under consideration;
    4 ( apprentissage) study; l'étude des langues étrangères the study of foreign languages;
    5 (d'avoué, de notaire) ( bureau) office; ( charge) practice;
    6 Mus étude; études de Chopin Chopin's études; étude pour piano étude for piano;
    7 Art study; étude de mains study of hands;
    8 Scol ( salle) study room GB, study hall US; ( période) study period; j'ai deux heures d'étude I've got a two-hour study period.
    B études nfpl Scol, Univ studies; études bibliques/théoriques/de droit biblical/theoretical/law studies; faire des études to be a student; continuer/abandonner ses études to continue/abandon one's studies; elle a fait de brillantes études she was very successful in her studies; faire or poursuivre des études de médecine/au Canada to study medicine/in Canada; je n'ai pas fait d'études (supérieures) I didn't go to university ou college; études primaires/secondaires/supérieures primary/secondary/higher education ¢.
    étude de cas Sociol case study; étude épidémiologique Méd epidemiological study; étude de faisabilité Écon feasibility study; étude d'impact Écol environmental impact assessment; étude de marché Entr market research ¢; faire or réaliser une étude de marché to do market research (sur on); étude préparatoire Art cartoon.
    [etyd] nom féminin
    1. [apprentissage] study
    2. [analyse, essai] study, paper
    3. [travail préparatoire] study
    4. ÉDUCATION [salle] study ou (UK) prep room
    [période] study-time
    5. DROIT [charge] practice
    [locaux] office
    ————————
    études nom féminin pluriel
    ÉDUCATION & UNIVERSITÉ studies
    a. [par choix] to give up studying
    b. [par rébellion] to drop out

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > étude

  • 17 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

  • 18 Gesamtschule

    f PÄD.: ( integrierte) Gesamtschule comprehensive (school)
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    die Gesamtschule
    comprehensive school
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    The Gesamtschulen, created during the educational reforms of the 1970s, were intended to replace the traditional division of schools into Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium. They enable students to learn a subject at a level appropriate to them: for example, if their week mathematics has prevented them going to a Gymnasium, they can still study, say, languages to a high level at the Gesamtschule. They also make it possible for students who might not have been considered capable of taking the Abitur to do so. See: → Abitur, Gymnasium, Hauptschule, Realschule
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    (one that provides education for children of all abilities.) comprehensive school
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    Ge·samt·schu·le
    f ≈ comprehensive school
    integrierte \Gesamtschule ≈ comprehensive school
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    die comprehensive [school]
    •• Cultural note:
    A comprehensive secondary school introduced in the 70s and designed to replace the traditional division into Gymnasium, Realschule, and Hauptschule. Pupils are taught different subjects at their own level and may take any of the school-leaving exams, including the Abitur
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    Gesamtschule f SCHULE:
    (integrierte) Gesamtschule comprehensive (school)
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    die comprehensive [school]
    •• Cultural note:
    A comprehensive secondary school introduced in the 70s and designed to replace the traditional division into Gymnasium, Realschule, and Hauptschule. Pupils are taught different subjects at their own level and may take any of the school-leaving exams, including the Abitur
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    -n f.
    comprehensive school n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Gesamtschule

  • 19 autonomía

    f.
    1 autonomy, freedom, independence, home rule.
    2 autonomy.
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    1 (gen) autonomy
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    noun f.
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    SF
    1) (=independencia) autonomy; (=autogobierno) self-government

    Estatuto de Autonomía — Esp Devolution Statute

    2) (=territorio) autonomous region, autonomy
    3) (Aer, Náut) range

    el avión tiene una autonomía de 5.000km — the aircraft has a range of 5,000km

    4) [de pila, batería] battery range
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    1)
    a) ( independencia) autonomy
    b) (en Esp, comunidad autónoma) autonomous region
    2) (Aviac, Náut) range
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    = home rule, autonomy, self-governance.
    Ex. If secondary concepts such as parliamentary reform or Irish home rule had been stated in the subject analysis it would have been representative of the policy of depth indexing.
    Ex. The extent of each participant's loss of control and diminution of autonomy depends on structure.
    Ex. Aboriginal people assert that they want the education needed to participate fully in Canadian society and their own self-governance.
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    1)
    a) ( independencia) autonomy
    b) (en Esp, comunidad autónoma) autonomous region
    2) (Aviac, Náut) range
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    = home rule, autonomy, self-governance.

    Ex: If secondary concepts such as parliamentary reform or Irish home rule had been stated in the subject analysis it would have been representative of the policy of depth indexing.

    Ex: The extent of each participant's loss of control and diminution of autonomy depends on structure.
    Ex: Aboriginal people assert that they want the education needed to participate fully in Canadian society and their own self-governance.

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    A
    1 (independencia) autonomy; ( Pol) autonomy, self-government
    el poder judicial goza de autonomía the judiciary is independent
    obran con autonomía they act autonomously o independently
    2 (en Esp, comunidad autónoma) autonomous o self-governing region
    3 (de portátil, teléfono, etc) battery life
    tiempo de autonomía standby time
    B ( Aviac, Náut) range
    Compuesto:
    range
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    autonomía sustantivo femenino
    1

    (Pol) autonomy, self-government;

    b) (en Esp, comunidad autónoma) autonomous or self-governing region

    2 (Aviac, Náut) range
    autonomía sustantivo femenino
    1 autonomy
    2 Esp autonomous region
    ' autonomía' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    estatuto
    English:
    autonomous
    - autonomy
    - range
    - self
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    1. [de estado, región] autonomy;
    [de persona, empresa] independence;
    no tiene autonomía para tomar decisiones she is not authorized to take decisions;
    la ley otorga amplia autonomía a la región the act devolves wide-ranging powers on the region
    2. [de vehículo] range;
    [de computadora portátil, teléfono móvil] battery life; [de videocámara] recording time autonomía de vuelo [de avión] range
    3. Pol [territorio] autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers
    AUTONOMÍA
    The Spanish Constitution of 1978 approved the reorganization of Spain into autonomías (autonomous regions) corresponding to traditional geographical and/or cultural divisions. Regions with a strong sense of distinct identity such as Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country (which each have their own language) were quick to receive devolved powers and now have control over their own education, health, police and public services (and certain tax-raising powers). Other regions, however, are still in the process of obtaining this jurisdiction.
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    f
    1 autonomy
    2 en España autonomous region
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    : autonomy
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    1. (autogobierno) autonomy [pl. autonomies]
    2. (independencia) independence
    3. (territorio) autonomous region

    Spanish-English dictionary > autonomía

  • 20 interior

    adj.
    1 inside, inner.
    ropa interior underwear
    2 domestic (politics) (comercio, política).
    3 inland (geography).
    4 interior, inside, indoor, inland.
    5 internal.
    f. & m.
    central midfielder (sport) (jugador).
    interior derecho/izquierdo inside right/left
    m.
    1 interior (parte de dentro).
    el interior del edificio the inside of the building
    2 interior, inland area (geography).
    3 inner self, heart.
    en mi interior deep down
    4 underpants (calzoncillos). (Colombian Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish)
    5 inside, interior.
    6 indoor scene.
    7 provinces.
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    1 (bolsillo) inside; (habitación) without a view, interior; (jardín) interior
    2 (del país) domestic, internal
    3 GEOGRAFÍA inland
    2 (conciencia) inside
    3 GEOGRAFÍA interior
    4 Interior Ministry of the Interior, ≈ GB Home Office, ≈ US Department of the Interior
    1 (en cine) interiors, interior shots
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    patio interior inner courtyard
    * * *
    1. adj. 2. noun m.
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [espacio] interior; [patio] inner, interior; [escalera] internal, interior; [bolsillo] inside; [paz, fuerza] inner

    la parte interior de la casa — the inside o interior of the house

    en la parte interior — inside, on the inside

    habitación/piso interior — room/flat without a view onto the street

    pista interior — (Dep) inside lane

    ropa
    2) (=nacional) [comercio, política, mercado] domestic
    3) (Geog) inland
    2. SM
    1) (=parte interna) inside, interior

    el interior quedó destrozado por el fuego — the inside o interior was destroyed by the fire

    el interior de la cueva — the inside o interior of the cave

    2) (=alma) soul
    3) (Geog) interior

    no soy de la costa, soy del interior — I'm not from the coast, I'm from inland

    4)

    (Ministerio del) Interior — (Pol) ≈ Home Office, ≈ Justice Department (EEUU)

    5) (Dep) inside-forward
    6) pl interiores (Cine) interiors
    7) pl interiores Col, Ven (=calzoncillos) (under)pants, shorts (EEUU)
    * * *
    I
    a) <patio/escalera> interior, internal, inside (before n); <habitación/piso> with windows facing onto a central staircase or patio
    b) <bolsillo/revestimiento> inside (before n)

    en la parte interior — inside o on the inside

    c) <vida/mundo> inner
    d) <política/comercio> domestic, internal
    II
    1)
    b) ( de un país) interior
    c) (Méx, RPl, Ven) ( provincias) provinces (pl)
    2) Interior masculino (period) ( Ministerio del Interior) Ministry of the Interior, ≈Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈Home Office ( in UK)
    3) interiores masculino plural (Cin) interior shots (pl)
    4) interiores masculino plural (Col, Ven) (Indum) underwear
    * * *
    = interior, intra- + Nombre, indoor, inland.
    Ex. The variety of reader places in a library adds interest to the interior but also provide for the many preferences of the users, some of whom seem to prefer a very busy location.
    Ex. The Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE) was devised in order to facilitate the presentation of comparable statistics on intra- and extra- Community trade.
    Ex. If we wanted to gather everything on particular plants together under the general heading 'Horticulture,' we might change the above example to 635.9(582.675)65 to make the main facet the individual plant (in this case anemones), with environment ( indoor...) a secondary feature.
    Ex. However, diaries and photos also show the efforts of all expedition members to fulfil Wegener's plans for a meteorological and glaciological profile of Greenland's entire inland ice cap.
    ----
    * camiseta interior de tirantes = singlet, vest.
    * decoración de interiores = interior landscaping, interior decoration, interior design.
    * decorador de interiores = interior designer.
    * del interior = inland.
    * desierto interior de Australia, el = outback, the.
    * diseño de interiores = interior design.
    * en su interior = between its covers.
    * escuchar la voz interior = listen to + the voice within.
    * hacia el interior y el exterior de = in and out of.
    * interior de la cubierta = inside cover.
    * jardín interior = internal garden.
    * la voz interior = the voice within.
    * Ministerio del Interior, el = Home Office, the.
    * Ministro del Interior = Minister of Internal Affairs, Home Secretary.
    * mobiliario y decoración interior = furnishings, home furnishings.
    * patio interior = enclosed courtyard.
    * paz interior = peace of mind, inner peace.
    * planta de interior = houseplant.
    * prenda de ropa interior = undergarment.
    * prenda interior = undergarment.
    * ropa interior = undies, underclothes.
    * sólo con la ropa interior puesta = in + Posesivo + underclothes.
    * vaciar el interior de Algo = gut.
    * vuelo interior = domestic flight.
    * zona del interior = hinterland.
    * zona interior despoblada = backcountry.
    * zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.
    * zonas salvajes del interior = back country.
    * * *
    I
    a) <patio/escalera> interior, internal, inside (before n); <habitación/piso> with windows facing onto a central staircase or patio
    b) <bolsillo/revestimiento> inside (before n)

    en la parte interior — inside o on the inside

    c) <vida/mundo> inner
    d) <política/comercio> domestic, internal
    II
    1)
    b) ( de un país) interior
    c) (Méx, RPl, Ven) ( provincias) provinces (pl)
    2) Interior masculino (period) ( Ministerio del Interior) Ministry of the Interior, ≈Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈Home Office ( in UK)
    3) interiores masculino plural (Cin) interior shots (pl)
    4) interiores masculino plural (Col, Ven) (Indum) underwear
    * * *
    = interior, intra- + Nombre, indoor, inland.

    Ex: The variety of reader places in a library adds interest to the interior but also provide for the many preferences of the users, some of whom seem to prefer a very busy location.

    Ex: The Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE) was devised in order to facilitate the presentation of comparable statistics on intra- and extra- Community trade.
    Ex: If we wanted to gather everything on particular plants together under the general heading 'Horticulture,' we might change the above example to 635.9(582.675)65 to make the main facet the individual plant (in this case anemones), with environment ( indoor...) a secondary feature.
    Ex: However, diaries and photos also show the efforts of all expedition members to fulfil Wegener's plans for a meteorological and glaciological profile of Greenland's entire inland ice cap.
    * camiseta interior de tirantes = singlet, vest.
    * decoración de interiores = interior landscaping, interior decoration, interior design.
    * decorador de interiores = interior designer.
    * del interior = inland.
    * desierto interior de Australia, el = outback, the.
    * diseño de interiores = interior design.
    * en su interior = between its covers.
    * escuchar la voz interior = listen to + the voice within.
    * hacia el interior y el exterior de = in and out of.
    * interior de la cubierta = inside cover.
    * jardín interior = internal garden.
    * la voz interior = the voice within.
    * Ministerio del Interior, el = Home Office, the.
    * Ministro del Interior = Minister of Internal Affairs, Home Secretary.
    * mobiliario y decoración interior = furnishings, home furnishings.
    * patio interior = enclosed courtyard.
    * paz interior = peace of mind, inner peace.
    * planta de interior = houseplant.
    * prenda de ropa interior = undergarment.
    * prenda interior = undergarment.
    * ropa interior = undies, underclothes.
    * sólo con la ropa interior puesta = in + Posesivo + underclothes.
    * vaciar el interior de Algo = gut.
    * vuelo interior = domestic flight.
    * zona del interior = hinterland.
    * zona interior despoblada = backcountry.
    * zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.
    * zonas salvajes del interior = back country.

    * * *
    1 ‹patio/escalera› interior, internal, inside ( before n); ‹habitación/piso› with windows facing onto a central staircase or patio
    2 ‹bolsillo/revestimiento› inside ( before n)
    la parte interior del colchón the inside o interior of the mattress
    en la parte interior inside o on the inside
    3 ‹vida/mundo› inner
    oyó una voz interior que la recriminaba she heard an inner voice reproaching her
    4 ‹política/comercio› domestic, internal
    A
    1
    (parte de dentro): el interior del cajón estaba vacío the drawer was empty
    veía lo que ocurría en el interior de la habitación she could see what was happening inside the room
    el interior estaba en perfectas condiciones the interior was in perfect condition, inside it was in perfect condition
    2 (de un país) interior
    el interior es muy montañoso the interior is very mountainous, inland it is very mountainous
    3 (Méx, RPl, Ven) (provincias) provinces (pl)
    en el interior in the provinces, away from the capital
    4
    (de una persona): en su interior estaba muy intranquilo inside o inwardly he was very worried
    en el interior de su alma la amaba deep down he really loved her
    Compuestos:
    B
    Interior masculine ( period) (Ministerio del Interior) Ministry of the Interior, ≈ Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈ Home Office ( in UK)
    C interiores mpl ( Cin) interior shots (pl)
    D interiores mpl (Col, Ven) ( Indum) underwear
    E interiores mpl ( Chi) ( Coc) offal
    * * *

     

    interior adjetivo
    a) ‹patio/escalera› interior, internal, inside ( before n);

    ‹habitación/piso› with windows facing onto a central staircase or patio
    b) ‹bolsillo/revestimiento› inside ( before n);

    ◊ en la parte interior inside o on the inside

    c) ‹vida/mundo› inner

    d) ‹política/comercio› domestic, internal

    ■ sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) (de cajón, maleta, coche) inside;

    ( de edificio) interior, inside;
    ( de un país) interior;

    b) (Méx, RPl, Ven) ( provincias) provinces (pl)



    allá en su interior la amaba deep down he really loved her
    2
    ◊ Interior sustantivo masculino (period) ( Ministerio del Interior) Ministry of the Interior, ≈ Department of the Interior ( in US), ≈ Home Office ( in UK)

    3
    ◊ interiores sustantivo masculino plural (Col, Ven) (Indum) underwear

    interior
    I adjetivo
    1 inner, inside, interior: es un piso interior, the flat doesn't overlook the street
    ropa interior, underwear
    2 (espiritual) inward, interior
    monólogo interior, interior monologue
    3 Pol domestic, internal
    comercio interior, inland o domestic trade
    4 Geography inland
    II sustantivo masculino
    1 inside, interior
    figurado en mi interior estaba arrepentida, deep down I was sorry
    2 Geography interior
    3 Pol Ministerio del Interior, Home Office, US Department of the Interior ➣ Ver nota en ministerio 4 Cine (usu pl) están rodando interiores, they are filming interiors
    ' interior' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adentro
    - baldosa
    - camiseta
    - chimenea
    - combinación
    - comercio
    - corral
    - decoración
    - decorador
    - decoradora
    - dentro
    - destripar
    - faja
    - fondo
    - forrar
    - forro
    - homóloga
    - homólogo
    - iluminación
    - interiorismo
    - interiorista
    - lencería
    - linterna
    - ministerio
    - ministra
    - ministro
    - nacional
    - PIB
    - prenda
    - producto
    - revocar
    - ropa
    - seno
    - vacía
    - vacío
    - corpiño
    - enagua
    - franela
    - galería
    - planta
    - política
    - relleno
    - retrovisor
    - secretario
    - slip
    English:
    affair
    - bodice
    - brassiere
    - corner
    - design
    - emptiness
    - GDP
    - gut
    - home
    - Home Secretary
    - inboard
    - indoor
    - inland
    - inner
    - inside
    - interior
    - internal
    - inward
    - offshore
    - passage
    - passageway
    - shadow cabinet
    - slip
    - small
    - sparsely
    - stream
    - trade
    - underclothes
    - underwear
    - unspoken
    - wall
    - within
    - house
    - ledge
    - out
    - pith
    - quadrangle
    - revamp
    - under
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [de dentro] inside, inner;
    [patio, jardín] interior, inside; [habitación, vida] inner;
    ropa interior, prendas interiores underwear;
    adelantó por la calle interior he overtook on the inside
    2. [nacional] domestic;
    comercio interior domestic trade;
    un asunto de política interior a domestic (policy) issue
    3. Geog inland
    ♦ nm
    1. [parte de dentro] inside, interior;
    desalojaron el interior del edificio they evacuated the (inside of the) building;
    en el interior del hotel se agolpaban las admiradoras his admirers formed a crowd inside the hotel;
    en el interior de la botella había un mensaje there was a message inside the bottle
    2. [de país] interior, inland area
    3. [de una persona] inner self, heart;
    en mi interior deep down
    4. Col, Ven [calzoncillos] underpants
    ♦ nmf
    Dep [jugador] central midfielder interior izquierdo inside left;
    interior derecho inside right
    * * *
    I adj
    1 interior; bolsillo inside atr
    2 COM, POL domestic
    II m
    1 interior;
    en su interior fig inwardly
    2 DEP inside-forward, central midfielder
    3
    :
    interiores pl TV etc indoor shots
    * * *
    : interior, inner
    1) : interior, inside
    2) : inland region
    * * *
    interior1 adj
    1. (jardín, patio) interior
    2. (habitación, piso) inner
    3. (bolsillo) inside
    4. (comercio, política) domestic
    interior2 n interior / inside
    en el interior de inside / in

    Spanish-English dictionary > interior

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