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  • 21 neoconservador

    neoconservador, -a
    1.
    ADJ neo-conservative, neocon (EEUU) *
    2.
    SM / F neo-conservative, neocon (EEUU) *
    * * *
    = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    Nota: Nombre.
    Ex. Paradoxically, a major step forward in the creation of a liberal 'society' has been the abandonment of significant elements of liberal ideology in favor of neoconservative ideas.
    Ex. The writer argues that there is no important difference between Catholic conservatives and Catholic neoconservatives.
    * * *
    = neoconservative [neo-conservative], neoconservative [neo-conservative].
    Nota: Nombre.

    Ex: Paradoxically, a major step forward in the creation of a liberal 'society' has been the abandonment of significant elements of liberal ideology in favor of neoconservative ideas.

    Ex: The writer argues that there is no important difference between Catholic conservatives and Catholic neoconservatives.

    * * *
    neoconservador, -ora
    ♦ adj
    neoconservative, neocon
    ♦ nm,f
    neoconservative, neocon

    Spanish-English dictionary > neoconservador

  • 22 proponer

    v.
    1 to propose, to suggest.
    propongo ir al cine I suggest going to the cinema
    María propuso su casa para la fiesta Mary proposed her house for the shindig.
    2 to offer, to propose.
    María propuso su casa para la fiesta Mary proposed her house for the shindig.
    Le propuse a María buscar la solución I offered Mary to search for the solution
    3 to propose to.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ PONER], like link=poner poner (pp propuesto,-a)
    1 (persona, plan) to propose
    1 to intend
    * * *
    verb
    to propose, suggest
    * * *
    ( pp propuesto)
    1. VT
    1) (=sugerir) [+ idea, proyecto] to suggest, propose; [+ candidato] to propose, put forward; [+ brindis, moción de censura] to propose; [+ teoría] to put forward, propound frm

    hemos propuesto la creación de un centro de acogida — we have suggested o proposed the setting up of a reception centre

    el plan propuesto por el sindicato — the plan put forward o suggested o proposed by the union

    no creo que la solución sea esa, como parece que algunos proponéis — I do not believe that is the solution, as some of you seem to suggest

    • proponer a algn hacer algo — to suggest to sb that they should do sth

    • proponer que — to suggest o propose that

    propongo que la reunión se aplace hasta mañana — I suggest o propose that the meeting be postponed till tomorrow, I suggest we put the meeting off till tomorrow

    2) (=recomendar)

    • proponer a algn para — [+ cargo] to nominate sb for, propose sb as; [+ premio] to nominate sb for

    lo han propuesto para el cargo de secretario — they have nominated him for secretary, they have proposed him as secretary

    he sido propuesta para la beca de investigación — I've been nominated o proposed for the research scholarship

    3) (=plantear) [+ problema] [gen] to pose; (Mat) to set
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < idea> to propose, suggest
    b) < persona> ( para cargo) to put forward, nominate; ( para premio) to nominate
    c) < moción> to propose
    d) < teoría> to propound
    2.
    proponerse v pron

    cuando se propone algo, lo consigue — when he sets out to do something, he invariably achieves it

    se proponen alcanzar la cima — their aim o goal is to reach the summit

    me propuse decírselo — I made up my mind o I decided to tell her

    * * *
    = argue, come up with, propose, propound, put forth, put forward, nominate, advance, bring forward.
    Ex. Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex. Derfer corroborated her: 'I'd be very proud of you if you could come up with the means to draft a model collection development policy'.
    Ex. The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Library of Congress are proposing a joint pilot project to investigate methods of allowing RLG direct online access to the MARC Master File.
    Ex. Few who were present will forget the now classic confrontation between Professor Lubetzky and Frederick Kilgour of OCLC, who propounded the perspective of new cataloging technology.
    Ex. Relevant cultural policy issues are explored, and recommendations are put forth for enhancing Canadian cultural sovereignty through book publishing.
    Ex. One of the key recommendations put forward in the programme was the confirmation of the responsibility of the national bibliographic agency for establishing the authoritative form of name for its country's.
    Ex. Until 1979, Members of the European Parliament were nominated by their national parliaments but in June of that year the first elections by universal suffrage were held in each of the nine member states.
    Ex. The heading 'Sugar Cane: Harvesters' shows the citation order advanced by Coates.
    Ex. They also intend to bring forward legislation to provide that the maximum amount of compensation should be £500,000.
    ----
    * el hombre propone y Dios dispone = Man proposes, God disposes.
    * proponer a discusión = moot.
    * proponer a un candidato = nominate + candidate.
    * proponer como principio = posit.
    * proponer matrimonio = pop + the question.
    * proponer medidas = propose + measures.
    * proponerse = put + Posesivo + mind to.
    * proponerse hacer = set out to + do.
    * proponerse + Infinitivo = set out to + Infinitivo.
    * proponer una idea = advance + proposition, advance + idea, put forward + idea.
    * proponer una moción = propose + motion.
    * proponer una oferta = propose + offer.
    * proponer una teoría = advance + theory.
    * proponer un plan = come up with + plan.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) < idea> to propose, suggest
    b) < persona> ( para cargo) to put forward, nominate; ( para premio) to nominate
    c) < moción> to propose
    d) < teoría> to propound
    2.
    proponerse v pron

    cuando se propone algo, lo consigue — when he sets out to do something, he invariably achieves it

    se proponen alcanzar la cima — their aim o goal is to reach the summit

    me propuse decírselo — I made up my mind o I decided to tell her

    * * *
    = argue, come up with, propose, propound, put forth, put forward, nominate, advance, bring forward.

    Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.

    Ex: Derfer corroborated her: 'I'd be very proud of you if you could come up with the means to draft a model collection development policy'.
    Ex: The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Library of Congress are proposing a joint pilot project to investigate methods of allowing RLG direct online access to the MARC Master File.
    Ex: Few who were present will forget the now classic confrontation between Professor Lubetzky and Frederick Kilgour of OCLC, who propounded the perspective of new cataloging technology.
    Ex: Relevant cultural policy issues are explored, and recommendations are put forth for enhancing Canadian cultural sovereignty through book publishing.
    Ex: One of the key recommendations put forward in the programme was the confirmation of the responsibility of the national bibliographic agency for establishing the authoritative form of name for its country's.
    Ex: Until 1979, Members of the European Parliament were nominated by their national parliaments but in June of that year the first elections by universal suffrage were held in each of the nine member states.
    Ex: The heading 'Sugar Cane: Harvesters' shows the citation order advanced by Coates.
    Ex: They also intend to bring forward legislation to provide that the maximum amount of compensation should be £500,000.
    * el hombre propone y Dios dispone = Man proposes, God disposes.
    * proponer a discusión = moot.
    * proponer a un candidato = nominate + candidate.
    * proponer como principio = posit.
    * proponer matrimonio = pop + the question.
    * proponer medidas = propose + measures.
    * proponerse = put + Posesivo + mind to.
    * proponerse hacer = set out to + do.
    * proponerse + Infinitivo = set out to + Infinitivo.
    * proponer una idea = advance + proposition, advance + idea, put forward + idea.
    * proponer una moción = propose + motion.
    * proponer una oferta = propose + offer.
    * proponer una teoría = advance + theory.
    * proponer un plan = come up with + plan.

    * * *
    vt
    1 ‹idea› to propose, suggest
    propuse dos proyectos alternativos I proposed o put forward o suggested two alternative plans
    nos propuso pasar el fin de semana en su casa she suggested we spend the weekend at her house
    te voy a proponer un trato I'm going to make you a proposition, I'm going to propose a deal
    proponer QUE + SUBJ:
    propongo que se vote la moción I propose that we vote on the motion
    propuso que se aceptara la oferta she suggested o proposed that the offer should be accepted
    2 ‹persona› (para un cargo) to put forward, nominate; (para un premio) to nominate
    propuso a Ibáñez como candidato he put Ibáñez forward as a candidate, he proposed o nominated Ibáñez as a candidate
    3 ‹moción› to propose
    4 ‹teoría› to propound
    cuando se propone algo, lo consigue when he sets out to do something, he invariably achieves it
    sin proponérselo, se había convertido en el líder del grupo he had unwittingly become the leader of the group
    me lo había propuesto como meta I had set myself that goal
    proponerse + INF:
    no nos proponemos insultar a nadie we do not set out to o aim to insult anybody, it is not our aim o intention to insult anybody
    se proponen construir una sociedad nueva their aim o goal is to build a new society, they plan to build a new society
    se han propuesto alcanzar la cima they aim to reach the summit, they have set themselves the goal of reaching the summit, their aim o goal is to reach the summit
    me propuse ir a hablar con ella I made up my mind o I decided to go and talk to her
    me había propuesto levantarme más temprano I had decided that I would get up earlier, I had planned o intended to get up earlier
    proponerse QUE + SUBJ:
    te has propuesto que me enfade you're determined to make me o you're intent on making me lose my temper
    * * *

     

    proponer ( conjugate proponer) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹ idea› to propose, suggest;

    ‹ brindis› to propose;

    te voy a proponer un trato I'm going to make you a proposition

    ( para premio) to nominate


    proponerse verbo pronominal:

    me lo propuse como meta I set myself that goal;
    me propuse decírselo I made up my mind o I decided to tell her
    proponer verbo transitivo
    1 (una idea, etc) to propose, suggest: os propongo que vayamos al teatro, how about going to the theatre?
    2 (a una persona) to nominate: le propusieron para ocupar la vicepresidencia, they nominated him for the vice-presidency ➣ Ver nota en propose

    ' proponer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    decir
    - testigo
    - propuse
    English:
    advance
    - come up with
    - move
    - nominate
    - offer
    - propose
    - propound
    - put forward
    - sponsor
    - put
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [sugerir] to propose, to suggest;
    han propuesto varias ideas they have put forward a number of ideas;
    propongo ir al cine I suggest going to the cinema;
    me propuso un trato he proposed a deal;
    me propuso que fuéramos al teatro she suggested going to the theatre
    2. [candidato] to put forward;
    lo han propuesto para secretario general del partido he has been put forward as a candidate for party chairman
    * * *
    <part propuesto> v/t propose, suggest;
    el hombre propone y Dios dispone man proposes and God disposes
    * * *
    proponer {60} vt
    1) : to propose, to suggest
    2) : to nominate
    * * *
    1. (brindis, plan, etc) to propose
    2. (acción) to suggest

    Spanish-English dictionary > proponer

  • 23 usar

    v.
    1 to use.
    ¿sabes usar esta máquina? do you know how to use this machine?
    sin usar unused
    Antonio usa grapas Anthony uses staples.
    El timador usó a las personas The swindler used the people.
    2 to wear (ropa, lentes, maquillaje).
    estos guantes están sin usar these gloves haven't been worn
    Antonio usa corbata Anthony wears ties.
    * * *
    1 to use
    2 (prenda) to wear
    1 to use (de, -)
    1 (estar de moda) to be used, be in fashion
    \
    de usar y tirar throwaway
    sin usar brand-new
    * * *
    verb
    2) wear
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=utilizar) [+ aparato, transporte, sustancia, expresión] to use

    • usar algo/a algn como — to use sth/sb as

    • de usar y tirar — [envase, producto] disposable

    literatura que algunos llaman de "usar y tirar" — so-called "pulp fiction"

    2) (=llevar) [+ ropa, perfume] to wear

    ¿qué número usa? — what size do you take?

    3) (=soler)
    2.
    VI

    • usar de — [+ derecho, poder] to exercise

    usar del derecho al voto — to exercise one's right to vote, use one's vote

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (emplear, utilizar) to use

    ¿cómo se usa esto? — < máquina> how does this work?; <diccionario/herramienta> how do you use this?

    usar algo/a alguien de or como algo — to use something/somebody as something

    b) <instalaciones/servicio> to use
    c) <producto/combustible> to use
    2) ( llevar) <alhajas/ropa> to wear; < perfume> to use, wear

    estos zapatos están sin usar — these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn

    3) (esp AmL) < persona> to use
    2.
    usar vi
    1) ver abusar 2)
    2) usar de (frml) ( hacer uso de) <influencia/autoridad> to use
    3.
    usarse v pron (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) color/ropa to be in fashion
    * * *
    = adopt, call on/upon, deploy, employ, make + use of, rely on/upon, take, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], draw on/upon, use up, mobilise [mobilize, -USA].
    Ex. The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.
    Ex. It can only be a matter of time before we have in effect a complete set of MARC records to call on for details of any item we require.
    Ex. The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex. The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex. The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex. When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex. A common standard serial interface is the RS232C which takes a 24-pin plug and is commonly used to connect many peripherals including printers and modems.
    Ex. A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex. Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex. Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex. Plug-in programs have grown widely, they add functionality to a WWW browser but also use up drive storage space or conflict with other types of programs.
    Ex. It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    ----
    * al usarse = in use.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * capaz de usar el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * fácil de usar = easy-to-use, user friendly.
    * hacer que no se use = render + unused.
    * listo para usar = off-the-rack.
    * listo para usarse = on tap.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * que puede ser usado a través de la web = web-compliant.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * usando = by use of.
    * usando el tiempo de un modo eficaz = time efficient [time-efficient].
    * usar Algo bien = put to + good use.
    * usar Algo con buen provecho = use + Nombre + to good advantage.
    * usar Algo de un modo muy diluido = spread + Nombre + thinly.
    * usar como gasto deducible = write off.
    * usar como modelo = use + as a model.
    * usar con mesura = eke out.
    * usar con precaución = use + with caution.
    * usar de forma general = widely applied.
    * usar de manera general = be in general use.
    * usar de un modo descuidado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar de un modo despreocupado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar eficazmente = tap.
    * usar enchufes = pull + strings.
    * usar en exceso = overuse.
    * usar excesivamente = overuse.
    * usar fuera de contexto = use + out of context.
    * usar indistintamente = use + interchangeably.
    * usar mal = abuse, misuse.
    * usarse = be in use.
    * usarse en = be at home in.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * usar superficialmente = nibble at.
    * úsese = Use.
    * úsese en lugar de (UF) = UF (use for).
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (emplear, utilizar) to use

    ¿cómo se usa esto? — < máquina> how does this work?; <diccionario/herramienta> how do you use this?

    usar algo/a alguien de or como algo — to use something/somebody as something

    b) <instalaciones/servicio> to use
    c) <producto/combustible> to use
    2) ( llevar) <alhajas/ropa> to wear; < perfume> to use, wear

    estos zapatos están sin usar — these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn

    3) (esp AmL) < persona> to use
    2.
    usar vi
    1) ver abusar 2)
    2) usar de (frml) ( hacer uso de) <influencia/autoridad> to use
    3.
    usarse v pron (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) color/ropa to be in fashion
    * * *
    = adopt, call on/upon, deploy, employ, make + use of, rely on/upon, take, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], draw on/upon, use up, mobilise [mobilize, -USA].

    Ex: The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.

    Ex: It can only be a matter of time before we have in effect a complete set of MARC records to call on for details of any item we require.
    Ex: The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex: The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex: The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex: When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex: A common standard serial interface is the RS232C which takes a 24-pin plug and is commonly used to connect many peripherals including printers and modems.
    Ex: A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex: Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex: Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex: Plug-in programs have grown widely, they add functionality to a WWW browser but also use up drive storage space or conflict with other types of programs.
    Ex: It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    * al usarse = in use.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * capaz de usar el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * fácil de usar = easy-to-use, user friendly.
    * hacer que no se use = render + unused.
    * listo para usar = off-the-rack.
    * listo para usarse = on tap.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * que puede ser usado a través de la web = web-compliant.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * usando = by use of.
    * usando el tiempo de un modo eficaz = time efficient [time-efficient].
    * usar Algo bien = put to + good use.
    * usar Algo con buen provecho = use + Nombre + to good advantage.
    * usar Algo de un modo muy diluido = spread + Nombre + thinly.
    * usar como gasto deducible = write off.
    * usar como modelo = use + as a model.
    * usar con mesura = eke out.
    * usar con precaución = use + with caution.
    * usar de forma general = widely applied.
    * usar de manera general = be in general use.
    * usar de un modo descuidado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar de un modo despreocupado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar eficazmente = tap.
    * usar enchufes = pull + strings.
    * usar en exceso = overuse.
    * usar excesivamente = overuse.
    * usar fuera de contexto = use + out of context.
    * usar indistintamente = use + interchangeably.
    * usar mal = abuse, misuse.
    * usarse = be in use.
    * usarse en = be at home in.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * usar superficialmente = nibble at.
    * úsese = Use.
    * úsese en lugar de (UF) = UF (use for).
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].

    * * *
    usar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (emplear, utilizar) to use
    ¿cómo se usa esta calculadora? how does this calculator work?
    es una expresión poco usada it's not a very common expression, it's not an expression that's used a lot
    usó mal esa palabra he didn't use the word correctly
    usa preservativos use condoms
    usó toda su diplomacia para convencerlos she used all her tact to convince them
    usar algo/a algn DEor COMO algo to use sth/sb AS sth
    no uses el plato de or como cenicero don't use the plate as an ashtray
    ¿te puedo usar de or como testigo? can I use you as a witness?
    2 ‹instalaciones/servicio› to use
    hay una excelente biblioteca pero nadie la usa there's an excellent library but nobody uses it o nobody makes use of it
    3 (consumir) ‹producto/ingredientes/combustible› to use
    ¿qué champú usas? what shampoo do you use?
    no uses todos los huevos don't use all the eggs (up)
    B (llevar) ‹alhajas/ropa› to wear; ‹perfume› to use, wear
    estos zapatos están sin usar these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn
    C ( esp AmL) (explotar, manipular) ‹persona› to use
    me sentí usada I felt used
    D usar de ( frml) (hacer uso de) ‹influencia/autoridad› to use
    ■ usarse
    ( esp AmL) (estar de moda): el fucsia es el color que más se va a usar esta temporada fuchsia is set to be the most popular color o ( colloq) the in-color this season
    cuando se usaba la maxifalda when long skirts were in fashion
    se usan muchísimo las prendas de cuero leather clothing is very popular
    ya no se usa hacer fiestas de compromiso it's not very common to have an engagement party nowadays
    * * *

     

    usar ( conjugate usar) verbo transitivo

    ◊ ¿qué champú usas? what shampoo do you use?;

    usar algo/a algn de or como algo to use sth/sb as sth
    b) ( llevar) ‹alhajas/ropa/perfume› to wear;


    usarse verbo pronominal (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) [color/ropa] to be in fashion, to be popular;

    usar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (hacer uso, emplear) to use: no uses mi maquinilla, don't use my razor
    siempre usa el mismo método, she uses always the same method
    2 (llevar ropa, perfume, etc) to wear
    II vi (utilizar) to use

    ' usar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alquilar
    - apellido
    - baja
    - bajo
    - bastante
    - bien
    - calor
    - casarse
    - cerrarse
    - como
    - don
    - doña
    - enferma
    - enfermo
    - error
    - fácil
    - fresca
    - fresco
    - fuerza
    - gastar
    - gritar
    - gustar
    - histórica
    - histórico
    - infante
    - irse
    - mucha
    - mucho
    - padre
    - parecerse
    - poder
    - soler
    - telefonear
    - toda
    - todo
    - ver
    - viaje
    - abusar
    - aprovechar
    - aspereza
    - emplear
    - estrenar
    - manejar
    - ocupar
    - someter
    English:
    absent
    - accustom
    - advise
    - apply
    - appreciate
    - averse
    - bed
    - begin
    - delay
    - dread
    - engine driver
    - eventual
    - excuse
    - feel
    - female
    - get
    - go
    - go on
    - hate
    - help out
    - liberty
    - love
    - male-dominated
    - mention
    - mind
    - miss
    - must
    - object
    - off
    - oven
    - overdo
    - possess
    - print
    - quite
    - ready
    - Scotch
    - shall
    - sparing
    - start
    - still
    - storey
    - study
    - take
    - teach
    - try
    - ultimately
    - unused
    - use
    - walking frame
    - work
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [aparato, herramienta, término] to use;
    ¿sabes usar esta máquina? do you know how to use this machine?;
    una cafetera sin usar an unused coffee pot;
    un método muy usado en literatura a widely used method in literature;
    usar algo como o [m5]de: un cobertizo pequeño que se usa como o [m5] de almacén a small shed which is used as a store;
    de usar y tirar [producto] disposable
    2. [ropa, lentes] to wear;
    no uso maquillaje I don't wear make-up;
    estos guantes están sin usar these gloves haven't been worn;
    siempre uso la talla 40 I always wear size 40
    3. Am [persona] to use;
    cuídate de ella, suele usar a la gente que se deja watch out with her, she tends to use people if they let her
    ♦ vi
    usar de to use, to make use of;
    quien siempre usa de la verdad whoever abides by the truth
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 use
    2 ropa, gafas wear
    II v/i
    :
    listo para usar ready to use
    * * *
    usar vt
    1) emplear, utilizar: to use, to make use of
    2) consumir: to consume, to use (up)
    3) llevar: to wear
    4)
    de usar y tirar : disposable
    * * *
    usar vb
    1. (emplear) to use
    2. (llevar) to wear [pt. wore; pp. worn]

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  • 24 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

  • 25 France

       The continental European country with which Portugal has had the closest and most friendly relations since the Middle Ages and whose culture since early modern times has been the most important model for Portugal's culture. Beginning in the Reconquest, French groups assisted the Portuguese in fighting the Muslims, and Portugal's first royal dynasty was Burgundian. Various French religious orders settled in Portugal and brought new skills and ideas. Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy went through various phases after a virtual break between the two monarchies during the Hundred Years' War and Castile's campaigns to conquer Portugal up to the battle of Aljubarrota (1385), when France was the main ally of Castile. France gave Portugal vital assistance in the 16th and 17th centuries against Spanish aggression. French aid was given to Dom Antônio, Prior of Crato, who opposed Filipe's domination of Portugal, and to restoration Portugal during the War of Restoration (1640-68). With the important exception of the disastrous Napoleonic invasions and war (1807-11), Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy, trade, and culture were exceptionally good from the first quarter of the 19th century.
       In part as a response to unpopular Castilianization during Spain's domination, the Portuguese found French culture a comforting, novel foil and prestigious alternative. Despite Great Britain's dominance in matters commercial, diplomatic, and political under the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, French culture and politics came to enjoy primary importance in Portugal. Even in commerce, France was Portugal's third or fourth best customer during the 19th century. Especially between 1820 and 1960, French influence provided a major model for the well-educated.
       A brief list of some key political, literary, philosophical, and artistic ideas Portugal eagerly embraced is suggestive. King Pedro IV's 1826 Charter ( A Carta) was directly modeled on an early French constitution. French models of liberalism and socialism prevailed in politics; impressionism in art; romanticism and realism, Parnassian-ism, and symbolism in literature; positivism and Bergsonianism in philosophy, etc. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Portuguese language, including vocabulary and orthography (spelling), experienced extensive Frenchification. French became the second language of Portugal's elite, providing access to knowledge and information vital for the education and development of isolated Portugal.
       French cultural influences became pervasive and entered the country by various means: through the French invasions before 1811, trade and commerce, improved international communication and transportation, Portuguese emigration to France (which became a mass movement after 1950), and close diplomatic and intellectual relations. An example of the importance of French culture until recently, when British and American cultural influences have become more significant, was that works in French dominated foreign book sections in Portuguese bookstores. If Portugal retained the oldest diplomatic link in world history with Britain, its chief cultural model until recently was France. Until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the largest portion of Portugal's educated elite studying abroad resided in France and took French higher degrees. The pattern of Portuguese students in higher education abroad has diversified in the years since, and now a significant portion are studying in other European continental states as well as in Britain and the United States. Diplomatic posts in France rank high in the pecking order of Portugal's small foreign service.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > France

  • 26 vehículo

    m.
    1 vehicle, ride, car, conveyance.
    2 medium, means, vehicle.
    * * *
    1 (gen) vehicle
    2 (coche) car
    3 figurado vehicle
    4 figurado (enfermedades) transmitter, carrier
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Aut) vehicle
    2) [de modas, ideas] vehicle (de for)
    3) (Med) carrier, transmitter (de of)
    * * *
    masculino vehicle
    * * *
    masculino vehicle
    * * *
    vehículo1
    1 = vehicle.

    Ex: War, for example, is divided into Militaria, War, World War I, World War II, Vehicles and Equipment.

    * alquiler de vehículos = car rental.
    * en el vehículo = on board.
    * SUV (vehículo utilitario deportivo) = SUV (sport utilitarian vehicle).
    * vehículo acorazado = armoured vehicle.
    * vehículo aerodeslizante = air-cushion vehicle.
    * vehículo agrícola = farm vehicle, agricultural vehicle.
    * vehículo anfibio = amphibious vehicle, amphibian vehicle.
    * vehículo blindado = armoured vehicle, armoured car.
    * vehículo blindado para el transporte de tropas = armoured personnel carrier, personnel carrier.
    * vehículo comercial = commercial vehicle, commercial vehicle.
    * vehículo con ruedas en línea = cycle.
    * vehículo de dos ruedas en línea = two-wheeler.
    * vehículo de emergencia = emergency vehicle.
    * vehículo de pasajeros = passenger vehicle.
    * vehículo de tierra a motor = motor land vehicle.
    * vehículo de transporte de pasajeros = passenger vehicle.
    * vehículo ligero = light vehicle.
    * vehículo lunar = rover, lunar vehicle.
    * vehículo pesado = heavy vehicle.
    * vehículo propulsado por el esfuerzo físico humano = human-powered vehicle.
    * vehículo todoterreno = all-terrain vehicle, off-road vehicle.

    vehículo2
    2 = vehicle.

    Ex: This journal serves as a vehicle for the continuing education of librarians, as a showcase for current practice and as a spotlight for significant activities.

    * * *
    1 ( Transp) vehicle
    vehículo deportivo utilitario sports utility vehicle, SUV
    el programa le sirvió como vehículo para dar a conocer sus ideas he used the program as a vehicle to publicize his ideas
    3 ( Fís, Quím) medium; ( Med) carrier
    el aire es el vehículo de las ondas sonoras air is the medium through which sound waves are transmitted
    los mosquitos son vehículos transmisores de enfermedades mosquitoes transmit disease o are carriers of disease
    Compuestos:
    car, automobile ( AmE)
    spacecraft
    * * *

     

    Del verbo vehicular: ( conjugate vehicular)

    vehiculo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    vehiculó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    vehicular    
    vehículo
    vehículo sustantivo masculino
    vehicle
    vehículo sustantivo masculino vehicle
    ' vehículo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    blindada
    - blindado
    - cabeceo
    - descender
    - desmontar
    - faro
    - frenar
    - huella
    - manejable
    - montarse
    - nodriza
    - oruga
    - parada
    - parado
    - paseo
    - patinar
    - placa
    - propulsar
    - remolcar
    - remolque
    - rodar
    - rodaje
    - secuestrar
    - secuestrador
    - secuestradora
    - secuestro
    - seguimiento
    - tirón
    - tumbo
    - virar
    - aproximar
    - arrancar
    - arrollar
    - automotor
    - barrer
    - bomba
    - chocar
    - conducir
    - conductor
    - correr
    - demoroso
    - derrapar
    - descargar
    - desequilibrar
    - desviar
    - detener
    - detenido
    - documentación
    - dominar
    - embargar
    English:
    alight
    - armor
    - armour
    - caravan
    - career
    - diesel
    - dilapidated
    - drive
    - four-wheel drive
    - get into
    - get off
    - lurch
    - pile in
    - pull
    - ridesharing
    - roadworthy
    - runaway
    - RV
    - set down
    - skid
    - test drive
    - transporter
    - travel
    - vehicle
    - window
    - death
    - drunk driving
    - HGV
    - motor
    - move
    - ram
    * * *
    1. [medio de transporte] vehicle
    vehículo espacial spacecraft;
    vehículos industriales industrial vehicles;
    vehículo lanzador launching vehicle;
    vehículo pesado Br heavy goods vehicle, US heavy truck
    2. [medio de propagación] [de enfermedad] carrier;
    [de ideas] vehicle
    * * *
    m
    vehicle
    2 MED carrier
    * * *
    : vehicle
    ♦ vehicular adj
    * * *
    vehículo n vehicle

    Spanish-English dictionary > vehículo

  • 27 модульный центр обработки данных (ЦОД)

    1. modular data center

     

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    Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight. Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

    В настоящее время центры обработки данных являются широко обсуждаемой темой. Куда ни посмотришь, этот некогда малоизвестный аспект инфраструктуры привлекает все больше внимания. Годами ИТ-отделы испытывали нехватку средств и это выдвинуло ЦОДы в центр внимания, в то время, когда необходимость в современных ЦОДах стала как никогда высокой. Плотность серверов и стоек продолжают расти, все больше усложняя ситуацию для специалистов в области охлаждения и организаций в их попытках управлять своими ИТ-средами. И теперь гипермасштабируемая облачная инфраструктура подвергает традиционные технологии невиданным ранее нагрузкам, и заставляет ИТ-индустрию искать новые возможности.

    At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward. So in that vein, we have some interesting news to share.

    В компании MicroSoft уделяют большое внимание изучению наилучших методов эксплуатации и технического обслуживания своей глобальной инфраструктуры и делятся результатами своих исследований. И хотя мы, конечно, не раскрываем некоторые аспекты своих исследований, мы делимся повседневным опытом эксплуатации дата-центров, своими технологиями и методологиями и, что важнее всего, методами контроля и управления своими объектами. Будь то доклады на отраслевых событиях, приглашение клиентов на наши конференции, которые посвящены центрам обработки данных MicroSoft, и проводятся в этих самых дата-центрах, или использование других средств, например, блоги и спецификации, мы уверены, что обмен передовым опытом имеет первостепенное значение и будет продвигать отрасль вперед.

    Today we are sharing our Generation 4 Modular Data Center plan. This is our vision and will be the foundation of our cloud data center infrastructure in the next five years. We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years. Joining me, in writing this blog are Daniel Costello, my director of Data Center Research and Engineering and Christian Belady, principal power and cooling architect. I feel their voices will add significant value to driving understanding around the many benefits included in this new design paradigm.

    Сейчас мы хотим поделиться своим планом модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения. Это наше видение и оно будет основанием для инфраструктуры наших облачных дата-центров в ближайшие пять лет. Мы считаем, что это одно из самых революционных изменений в дата-центрах за последние 30 лет. Вместе со мной в написании этого блога участвовали Дэниел Костелло, директор по исследованиям и инжинирингу дата-центров, и Кристиан Белади, главный архитектор систем энергоснабжения и охлаждения. Мне кажется, что их авторитет придаст больше веса большому количеству преимуществ, включенных в эту новую парадигму проектирования.

    Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.

    Was there a key driver for the Generation 4 Data Center?

    Наши модульные дата-центры “Gen 4” будут гибкими с контейнерами серверов – как серверы в нашем чикагском дата-центре. И гибкость будет применяться ко всему ЦОД. Итак, что мы подразумеваем под модульностью? Мы думаем о ней как о “строительных блоках”, где дата-центр будет состоять из модульных блоков изготовленных в заводских условиях электрических систем и систем охлаждения, а также систем безопасности и т.п., в дополнение к контейнеризованным серверам.
    Был ли ключевой стимул для разработки дата-центра четвертого поколения?


    If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required.” Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, keep in mind that these concepts have been in initial development and prototyping for over a year and are based on cumulative knowledge of previous facility generations and the advances we have made since we began our investments in earnest on this new design.

    Если бы нам нужно было обобщить достоинства нашего проекта Gen 4 в одном предложении, это выглядело бы следующим образом: “Центр обработки данных с высоким уровнем модульности, расширяемости, и энергетической эффективности, а также возможностью постоянного расширения, в случае необходимости, который можно очень быстро и дешево развертывать в любом месте мира”. Звучит слишком хорошо для того чтобы быть правдой, не так ли? Ну, не забывайте, что эти концепции находились в процессе начальной разработки и создания опытного образца в течение более одного года и основываются на опыте, накопленном в ходе развития предыдущих поколений ЦОД, а также успехах, сделанных нами со времени, когда мы начали вкладывать серьезные средства в этот новый проект.

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve had at Microsoft is something Mike likes to call the ‘Goldilock’s Problem’. In a nutshell, the problem can be stated as:

    The worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is not have enough capacity online, thus limiting the growth of our products and services.

    Одну из самых больших проблем, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться Майкрософт, Майк любит называть ‘Проблемой Лютика’. Вкратце, эту проблему можно выразить следующим образом:

    Самое худшее, что может быть при строительстве ЦОД для бизнеса, это не располагать достаточными производственными мощностями, и тем самым ограничивать рост наших продуктов и сервисов.

    The second worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is to have too much capacity online.

    А вторым самым худшим моментом в этой сфере может слишком большое количество производственных мощностей.

    This has led to a focus on smart, intelligent growth for the business — refining our overall demand picture. It can’t be too hot. It can’t be too cold. It has to be ‘Just Right!’ The capital dollars of investment are too large to make without long term planning. As we struggled to master these interesting challenges, we had to ensure that our technological plan also included solutions for the business and operational challenges we faced as well.
    So let’s take a high level look at our Generation 4 design

    Это заставило нас сосредоточиваться на интеллектуальном росте для бизнеса — refining our overall demand picture. Это не должно быть слишком горячим. И это не должно быть слишком холодным. Это должно быть ‘как раз, таким как надо!’ Нельзя делать такие большие капиталовложения без долгосрочного планирования. Пока мы старались решить эти интересные проблемы, мы должны были гарантировать, что наш технологический план будет также включать решения для коммерческих и эксплуатационных проблем, с которыми нам также приходилось сталкиваться.
    Давайте рассмотрим наш проект дата-центра четвертого поколения

    Are you ready for some great visuals? Check out this video at Soapbox. Click here for the Microsoft 4th Gen Video.

    It’s a concept video that came out of my Data Center Research and Engineering team, under Daniel Costello, that will give you a view into what we think is the future.

    From a configuration, construct-ability and time to market perspective, our primary goals and objectives are to modularize the whole data center. Not just the server side (like the Chicago facility), but the mechanical and electrical space as well. This means using the same kind of parts in pre-manufactured modules, the ability to use containers, skids, or rack-based deployments and the ability to tailor the Redundancy and Reliability requirements to the application at a very specific level.


    Посмотрите это видео, перейдите по ссылке для просмотра видео о Microsoft 4th Gen:

    Это концептуальное видео, созданное командой отдела Data Center Research and Engineering, возглавляемого Дэниелом Костелло, которое даст вам наше представление о будущем.

    С точки зрения конфигурации, строительной технологичности и времени вывода на рынок, нашими главными целями и задачами агрегатирование всего дата-центра. Не только серверную часть, как дата-центр в Чикаго, но также системы охлаждения и электрические системы. Это означает применение деталей одного типа в сборных модулях, возможность использования контейнеров, салазок, или стоечных систем, а также возможность подстраивать требования избыточности и надежности для данного приложения на очень специфичном уровне.

    Our goals from a cost perspective were simple in concept but tough to deliver. First and foremost, we had to reduce the capital cost per critical Mega Watt by the class of use. Some applications can run with N-level redundancy in the infrastructure, others require a little more infrastructure for support. These different classes of infrastructure requirements meant that optimizing for all cost classes was paramount. At Microsoft, we are not a one trick pony and have many Online products and services (240+) that require different levels of operational support. We understand that and ensured that we addressed it in our design which will allow us to reduce capital costs by 20%-40% or greater depending upon class.


    Нашими целями в области затрат были концептуально простыми, но трудно реализуемыми. В первую очередь мы должны были снизить капитальные затраты в пересчете на один мегаватт, в зависимости от класса резервирования. Некоторые приложения могут вполне работать на базе инфраструктуры с резервированием на уровне N, то есть без резервирования, а для работы других приложений требуется больше инфраструктуры. Эти разные классы требований инфраструктуры подразумевали, что оптимизация всех классов затрат имеет преобладающее значение. В Майкрософт мы не ограничиваемся одним решением и располагаем большим количеством интерактивных продуктов и сервисов (240+), которым требуются разные уровни эксплуатационной поддержки. Мы понимаем это, и учитываем это в своем проекте, который позволит нам сокращать капитальные затраты на 20%-40% или более в зависимости от класса.

    For example, non-critical or geo redundant applications have low hardware reliability requirements on a location basis. As a result, Gen 4 can be configured to provide stripped down, low-cost infrastructure with little or no redundancy and/or temperature control. Let’s say an Online service team decides that due to the dramatically lower cost, they will simply use uncontrolled outside air with temperatures ranging 10-35 C and 20-80% RH. The reality is we are already spec-ing this for all of our servers today and working with server vendors to broaden that range even further as Gen 4 becomes a reality. For this class of infrastructure, we eliminate generators, chillers, UPSs, and possibly lower costs relative to traditional infrastructure.

    Например, некритичные или гео-избыточные системы имеют низкие требования к аппаратной надежности на основе местоположения. В результате этого, Gen 4 можно конфигурировать для упрощенной, недорогой инфраструктуры с низким уровнем (или вообще без резервирования) резервирования и / или температурного контроля. Скажем, команда интерактивного сервиса решает, что, в связи с намного меньшими затратами, они будут просто использовать некондиционированный наружный воздух с температурой 10-35°C и влажностью 20-80% RH. В реальности мы уже сегодня предъявляем эти требования к своим серверам и работаем с поставщиками серверов над еще большим расширением диапазона температур, так как наш модуль и подход Gen 4 становится реальностью. Для подобного класса инфраструктуры мы удаляем генераторы, чиллеры, ИБП, и, возможно, будем предлагать более низкие затраты, по сравнению с традиционной инфраструктурой.

    Applications that demand higher level of redundancy or temperature control will use configurations of Gen 4 to meet those needs, however, they will also cost more (but still less than traditional data centers). We see this cost difference driving engineering behavioral change in that we predict more applications will drive towards Geo redundancy to lower costs.

    Системы, которым требуется более высокий уровень резервирования или температурного контроля, будут использовать конфигурации Gen 4, отвечающие этим требованиям, однако, они будут также стоить больше. Но все равно они будут стоить меньше, чем традиционные дата-центры. Мы предвидим, что эти различия в затратах будут вызывать изменения в методах инжиниринга, и по нашим прогнозам, это будет выражаться в переходе все большего числа систем на гео-избыточность и меньшие затраты.

    Another cool thing about Gen 4 is that it allows us to deploy capacity when our demand dictates it. Once finalized, we will no longer need to make large upfront investments. Imagine driving capital costs more closely in-line with actual demand, thus greatly reducing time-to-market and adding the capacity Online inherent in the design. Also reduced is the amount of construction labor required to put these “building blocks” together. Since the entire platform requires pre-manufacture of its core components, on-site construction costs are lowered. This allows us to maximize our return on invested capital.

    Еще одно достоинство Gen 4 состоит в том, что он позволяет нам разворачивать дополнительные мощности, когда нам это необходимо. Как только мы закончим проект, нам больше не нужно будет делать большие начальные капиталовложения. Представьте себе возможность более точного согласования капитальных затрат с реальными требованиями, и тем самым значительного снижения времени вывода на рынок и интерактивного добавления мощностей, предусматриваемого проектом. Также снижен объем строительных работ, требуемых для сборки этих “строительных блоков”. Поскольку вся платформа требует предварительного изготовления ее базовых компонентов, затраты на сборку также снижены. Это позволит нам увеличить до максимума окупаемость своих капиталовложений.
    Мы все подвергаем сомнению

    In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn’t needed.

    В своем процессе проектирования мы все подвергаем сомнению. Вы, наверное, обратили внимание на отсутствие крыши, и некоторым специалистам это могло не понравиться. Мы изучили необходимость в крыше и в ходе своих исследований получили удивительные результаты, которые показали, что крыша не нужна.
    Серийное производство дата центров


    In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford’s Model T factory to the data center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T. Gen 4 will move data centers from a custom design and build model to a commoditized manufacturing approach. We intend to have our components built in factories and then assemble them in one location (the data center site) very quickly. Think about how a computer, car or plane is built today. Components are manufactured by different companies all over the world to a predefined spec and then integrated in one location based on demands and feature requirements. And just like Henry Ford’s assembly line drove the cost of building and the time-to-market down dramatically for the automobile industry, we expect Gen 4 to do the same for data centers. Everything will be pre-manufactured and assembled on the pad.

    Мы хотим применить модель автомобильной фабрики Генри Форда к дата-центру. Проект Gen 4 будет способствовать переходу от модели специализированного проектирования и строительства к товарно-производственному, серийному подходу. Мы намерены изготавливать свои компоненты на заводах, а затем очень быстро собирать их в одном месте, в месте строительства дата-центра. Подумайте о том, как сегодня изготавливается компьютер, автомобиль или самолет. Компоненты изготавливаются по заранее определенным спецификациям разными компаниями во всем мире, затем собираются в одном месте на основе спроса и требуемых характеристик. И точно так же как сборочный конвейер Генри Форда привел к значительному уменьшению затрат на производство и времени вывода на рынок в автомобильной промышленности, мы надеемся, что Gen 4 сделает то же самое для дата-центров. Все будет предварительно изготавливаться и собираться на месте.
    Невероятно энергоэффективный ЦОД


    And did we mention that this platform will be, overall, incredibly energy efficient? From a total energy perspective not only will we have remarkable PUE values, but the total cost of energy going into the facility will be greatly reduced as well. How much energy goes into making concrete? Will we need as much of it? How much energy goes into the fuel of the construction vehicles? This will also be greatly reduced! A key driver is our goal to achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers. More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in these facilities. We believe these will be the next areas of industry attention when and if the energy problem is solved. So we are asking today…“how can we build a data center with less building”?

    А мы упоминали, что эта платформа будет, в общем, невероятно энергоэффективной? С точки зрения общей энергии, мы получим не только поразительные значения PUE, но общая стоимость энергии, затраченной на объект будет также значительно снижена. Сколько энергии идет на производство бетона? Нам нужно будет столько энергии? Сколько энергии идет на питание инженерных строительных машин? Это тоже будет значительно снижено! Главным стимулом является достижение среднего PUE не больше 1.125 для всех наших дата-центров к 2012 году. Более того, у нас есть задача сокращения общего количества меди и воды в дата-центрах. Мы думаем, что эти задачи станут следующей заботой отрасли после того как будет решена энергетическая проблема. Итак, сегодня мы спрашиваем себя…“как можно построить дата-центр с меньшим объемом строительных работ”?
    Строительство дата центров без чиллеров

    We have talked openly and publicly about building chiller-less data centers and running our facilities using aggressive outside economization. Our sincerest hope is that Gen 4 will completely eliminate the use of water. Today’s data centers use massive amounts of water and we see water as the next scarce resource and have decided to take a proactive stance on making water conservation part of our plan.

    Мы открыто и публично говорили о строительстве дата-центров без чиллеров и активном использовании в наших центрах обработки данных технологий свободного охлаждения или фрикулинга. Мы искренне надеемся, что Gen 4 позволит полностью отказаться от использования воды. Современные дата-центры расходуют большие объемы воды и так как мы считаем воду следующим редким ресурсом, мы решили принять упреждающие меры и включить экономию воды в свой план.

    By sharing this with the industry, we believe everyone can benefit from our methodology. While this concept and approach may be intimidating (or downright frightening) to some in the industry, disclosure ultimately is better for all of us.

    Делясь этим опытом с отраслью, мы считаем, что каждый сможет извлечь выгоду из нашей методологией. Хотя эта концепция и подход могут показаться пугающими (или откровенно страшными) для некоторых отраслевых специалистов, раскрывая свои планы мы, в конечном счете, делаем лучше для всех нас.

    Gen 4 design (even more than just containers), could reduce the ‘religious’ debates in our industry. With the central spine infrastructure in place, containers or pre-manufactured server halls can be either AC or DC, air-side economized or water-side economized, or not economized at all (though the sanity of that might be questioned). Gen 4 will allow us to decommission, repair and upgrade quickly because everything is modular. No longer will we be governed by the initial decisions made when constructing the facility. We will have almost unlimited use and re-use of the facility and site. We will also be able to use power in an ultra-fluid fashion moving load from critical to non-critical as use and capacity requirements dictate.

    Проект Gen 4 позволит уменьшить ‘религиозные’ споры в нашей отрасли. Располагая базовой инфраструктурой, контейнеры или сборные серверные могут оборудоваться системами переменного или постоянного тока, воздушными или водяными экономайзерами, или вообще не использовать экономайзеры. Хотя можно подвергать сомнению разумность такого решения. Gen 4 позволит нам быстро выполнять работы по выводу из эксплуатации, ремонту и модернизации, поскольку все будет модульным. Мы больше не будем руководствоваться начальными решениями, принятыми во время строительства дата-центра. Мы сможем использовать этот дата-центр и инфраструктуру в течение почти неограниченного периода времени. Мы также сможем применять сверхгибкие методы использования электрической энергии, переводя оборудование в режимы критической или некритической нагрузки в соответствии с требуемой мощностью.
    Gen 4 – это стандартная платформа

    Finally, we believe this is a big game changer. Gen 4 will provide a standard platform that our industry can innovate around. For example, all modules in our Gen 4 will have common interfaces clearly defined by our specs and any vendor that meets these specifications will be able to plug into our infrastructure. Whether you are a computer vendor, UPS vendor, generator vendor, etc., you will be able to plug and play into our infrastructure. This means we can also source anyone, anywhere on the globe to minimize costs and maximize performance. We want to help motivate the industry to further innovate—with innovations from which everyone can reap the benefits.

    Наконец, мы уверены, что это будет фактором, который значительно изменит ситуацию. Gen 4 будет представлять собой стандартную платформу, которую отрасль сможет обновлять. Например, все модули в нашем Gen 4 будут иметь общепринятые интерфейсы, четко определяемые нашими спецификациями, и оборудование любого поставщика, которое отвечает этим спецификациям можно будет включать в нашу инфраструктуру. Независимо от того производите вы компьютеры, ИБП, генераторы и т.п., вы сможете включать свое оборудование нашу инфраструктуру. Это означает, что мы также сможем обеспечивать всех, в любом месте земного шара, тем самым сводя до минимума затраты и максимальной увеличивая производительность. Мы хотим создать в отрасли мотивацию для дальнейших инноваций – инноваций, от которых каждый сможет получать выгоду.
    Главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen4

    To summarize, the key characteristics of our Generation 4 data centers are:

    Scalable
    Plug-and-play spine infrastructure
    Factory pre-assembled: Pre-Assembled Containers (PACs) & Pre-Manufactured Buildings (PMBs)
    Rapid deployment
    De-mountable
    Reduce TTM
    Reduced construction
    Sustainable measures

    Ниже приведены главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen 4:

    Расширяемость;
    Готовая к использованию базовая инфраструктура;
    Изготовление в заводских условиях: сборные контейнеры (PAC) и сборные здания (PMB);
    Быстрота развертывания;
    Возможность демонтажа;
    Снижение времени вывода на рынок (TTM);
    Сокращение сроков строительства;
    Экологичность;

    Map applications to DC Class

    We hope you join us on this incredible journey of change and innovation!

    Long hours of research and engineering time are invested into this process. There are still some long days and nights ahead, but the vision is clear. Rest assured however, that we as refine Generation 4, the team will soon be looking to Generation 5 (even if it is a bit farther out). There is always room to get better.


    Использование систем электропитания постоянного тока.

    Мы надеемся, что вы присоединитесь к нам в этом невероятном путешествии по миру изменений и инноваций!

    На этот проект уже потрачены долгие часы исследований и проектирования. И еще предстоит потратить много дней и ночей, но мы имеем четкое представление о конечной цели. Однако будьте уверены, что как только мы доведем до конца проект модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения, мы вскоре начнем думать о проекте дата-центра пятого поколения. Всегда есть возможность для улучшений.

    So if you happen to come across Goldilocks in the forest, and you are curious as to why she is smiling you will know that she feels very good about getting very close to ‘JUST RIGHT’.

    Generations of Evolution – some background on our data center designs

    Так что, если вы встретите в лесу девочку по имени Лютик, и вам станет любопытно, почему она улыбается, вы будете знать, что она очень довольна тем, что очень близко подошла к ‘ОПИМАЛЬНОМУ РЕШЕНИЮ’.
    Поколения эволюции – история развития наших дата-центров

    We thought you might be interested in understanding what happened in the first three generations of our data center designs. When Ray Ozzie wrote his Software plus Services memo it posed a very interesting challenge to us. The winds of change were at ‘tornado’ proportions. That “plus Services” tag had some significant (and unstated) challenges inherent to it. The first was that Microsoft was going to evolve even further into an operations company. While we had been running large scale Internet services since 1995, this development lead us to an entirely new level. Additionally, these “services” would span across both Internet and Enterprise businesses. To those of you who have to operate “stuff”, you know that these are two very different worlds in operational models and challenges. It also meant that, to achieve the same level of reliability and performance required our infrastructure was going to have to scale globally and in a significant way.

    Мы подумали, что может быть вам будет интересно узнать историю первых трех поколений наших центров обработки данных. Когда Рэй Оззи написал свою памятную записку Software plus Services, он поставил перед нами очень интересную задачу. Ветра перемен двигались с ураганной скоростью. Это окончание “plus Services” скрывало в себе какие-то значительные и неопределенные задачи. Первая заключалась в том, что Майкрософт собиралась в еще большей степени стать операционной компанией. Несмотря на то, что мы управляли большими интернет-сервисами, начиная с 1995 г., эта разработка подняла нас на абсолютно новый уровень. Кроме того, эти “сервисы” охватывали интернет-компании и корпорации. Тем, кому приходится всем этим управлять, известно, что есть два очень разных мира в области операционных моделей и задач. Это также означало, что для достижения такого же уровня надежности и производительности требовалось, чтобы наша инфраструктура располагала значительными возможностями расширения в глобальных масштабах.

    It was that intense atmosphere of change that we first started re-evaluating data center technology and processes in general and our ideas began to reach farther than what was accepted by the industry at large. This was the era of Generation 1. As we look at where most of the world’s data centers are today (and where our facilities were), it represented all the known learning and design requirements that had been in place since IBM built the first purpose-built computer room. These facilities focused more around uptime, reliability and redundancy. Big infrastructure was held accountable to solve all potential environmental shortfalls. This is where the majority of infrastructure in the industry still is today.

    Именно в этой атмосфере серьезных изменений мы впервые начали переоценку ЦОД-технологий и технологий вообще, и наши идеи начали выходить за пределы общепринятых в отрасли представлений. Это была эпоха ЦОД первого поколения. Когда мы узнали, где сегодня располагается большинство мировых дата-центров и где находятся наши предприятия, это представляло весь опыт и навыки проектирования, накопленные со времени, когда IBM построила первую серверную. В этих ЦОД больше внимания уделялось бесперебойной работе, надежности и резервированию. Большая инфраструктура была призвана решать все потенциальные экологические проблемы. Сегодня большая часть инфраструктуры все еще находится на этом этапе своего развития.

    We soon realized that traditional data centers were quickly becoming outdated. They were not keeping up with the demands of what was happening technologically and environmentally. That’s when we kicked off our Generation 2 design. Gen 2 facilities started taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, and really looking at the total cost of energy and operations.

    Очень быстро мы поняли, что стандартные дата-центры очень быстро становятся устаревшими. Они не поспевали за темпами изменений технологических и экологических требований. Именно тогда мы стали разрабатывать ЦОД второго поколения. В этих дата-центрах Gen 2 стали принимать во внимание такие факторы как устойчивое развитие, энергетическая эффективность, а также общие энергетические и эксплуатационные.

    No longer did we view data centers just for the upfront capital costs, but we took a hard look at the facility over the course of its life. Our Quincy, Washington and San Antonio, Texas facilities are examples of our Gen 2 data centers where we explored and implemented new ways to lessen the impact on the environment. These facilities are considered two leading industry examples, based on their energy efficiency and ability to run and operate at new levels of scale and performance by leveraging clean hydro power (Quincy) and recycled waste water (San Antonio) to cool the facility during peak cooling months.

    Мы больше не рассматривали дата-центры только с точки зрения начальных капитальных затрат, а внимательно следили за работой ЦОД на протяжении его срока службы. Наши объекты в Куинси, Вашингтоне, и Сан-Антонио, Техас, являются образцами наших ЦОД второго поколения, в которых мы изучали и применяли на практике новые способы снижения воздействия на окружающую среду. Эти объекты считаются двумя ведущими отраслевыми примерами, исходя из их энергетической эффективности и способности работать на новых уровнях производительности, основанных на использовании чистой энергии воды (Куинси) и рециклирования отработанной воды (Сан-Антонио) для охлаждения объекта в самых жарких месяцах.

    As we were delivering our Gen 2 facilities into steel and concrete, our Generation 3 facilities were rapidly driving the evolution of the program. The key concepts for our Gen 3 design are increased modularity and greater concentration around energy efficiency and scale. The Gen 3 facility will be best represented by the Chicago, Illinois facility currently under construction. This facility will seem very foreign compared to the traditional data center concepts most of the industry is comfortable with. In fact, if you ever sit around in our container hanger in Chicago it will look incredibly different from a traditional raised-floor data center. We anticipate this modularization will drive huge efficiencies in terms of cost and operations for our business. We will also introduce significant changes in the environmental systems used to run our facilities. These concepts and processes (where applicable) will help us gain even greater efficiencies in our existing footprint, allowing us to further maximize infrastructure investments.

    Так как наши ЦОД второго поколения строились из стали и бетона, наши центры обработки данных третьего поколения начали их быстро вытеснять. Главными концептуальными особенностями ЦОД третьего поколения Gen 3 являются повышенная модульность и большее внимание к энергетической эффективности и масштабированию. Дата-центры третьего поколения лучше всего представлены объектом, который в настоящее время строится в Чикаго, Иллинойс. Этот ЦОД будет выглядеть очень необычно, по сравнению с общепринятыми в отрасли представлениями о дата-центре. Действительно, если вам когда-либо удастся побывать в нашем контейнерном ангаре в Чикаго, он покажется вам совершенно непохожим на обычный дата-центр с фальшполом. Мы предполагаем, что этот модульный подход будет способствовать значительному повышению эффективности нашего бизнеса в отношении затрат и операций. Мы также внесем существенные изменения в климатические системы, используемые в наших ЦОД. Эти концепции и технологии, если применимо, позволят нам добиться еще большей эффективности наших существующих дата-центров, и тем самым еще больше увеличивать капиталовложения в инфраструктуру.

    This is definitely a journey, not a destination industry. In fact, our Generation 4 design has been under heavy engineering for viability and cost for over a year. While the demand of our commercial growth required us to make investments as we grew, we treated each step in the learning as a process for further innovation in data centers. The design for our future Gen 4 facilities enabled us to make visionary advances that addressed the challenges of building, running, and operating facilities all in one concerted effort.

    Это определенно путешествие, а не конечный пункт назначения. На самом деле, наш проект ЦОД четвертого поколения подвергался серьезным испытаниям на жизнеспособность и затраты на протяжении целого года. Хотя необходимость в коммерческом росте требовала от нас постоянных капиталовложений, мы рассматривали каждый этап своего развития как шаг к будущим инновациям в области дата-центров. Проект наших будущих ЦОД четвертого поколения Gen 4 позволил нам делать фантастические предположения, которые касались задач строительства, управления и эксплуатации объектов как единого упорядоченного процесса.

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    Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight. Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

    В настоящее время центры обработки данных являются широко обсуждаемой темой. Куда ни посмотришь, этот некогда малоизвестный аспект инфраструктуры привлекает все больше внимания. Годами ИТ-отделы испытывали нехватку средств и это выдвинуло ЦОДы в центр внимания, в то время, когда необходимость в современных ЦОДах стала как никогда высокой. Плотность серверов и стоек продолжают расти, все больше усложняя ситуацию для специалистов в области охлаждения и организаций в их попытках управлять своими ИТ-средами. И теперь гипермасштабируемая облачная инфраструктура подвергает традиционные технологии невиданным ранее нагрузкам, и заставляет ИТ-индустрию искать новые возможности.

    At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward. So in that vein, we have some interesting news to share.

    В компании MicroSoft уделяют большое внимание изучению наилучших методов эксплуатации и технического обслуживания своей глобальной инфраструктуры и делятся результатами своих исследований. И хотя мы, конечно, не раскрываем некоторые аспекты своих исследований, мы делимся повседневным опытом эксплуатации дата-центров, своими технологиями и методологиями и, что важнее всего, методами контроля и управления своими объектами. Будь то доклады на отраслевых событиях, приглашение клиентов на наши конференции, которые посвящены центрам обработки данных MicroSoft, и проводятся в этих самых дата-центрах, или использование других средств, например, блоги и спецификации, мы уверены, что обмен передовым опытом имеет первостепенное значение и будет продвигать отрасль вперед.

    Today we are sharing our Generation 4 Modular Data Center plan. This is our vision and will be the foundation of our cloud data center infrastructure in the next five years. We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years. Joining me, in writing this blog are Daniel Costello, my director of Data Center Research and Engineering and Christian Belady, principal power and cooling architect. I feel their voices will add significant value to driving understanding around the many benefits included in this new design paradigm.

    Сейчас мы хотим поделиться своим планом модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения. Это наше видение и оно будет основанием для инфраструктуры наших облачных дата-центров в ближайшие пять лет. Мы считаем, что это одно из самых революционных изменений в дата-центрах за последние 30 лет. Вместе со мной в написании этого блога участвовали Дэниел Костелло, директор по исследованиям и инжинирингу дата-центров, и Кристиан Белади, главный архитектор систем энергоснабжения и охлаждения. Мне кажется, что их авторитет придаст больше веса большому количеству преимуществ, включенных в эту новую парадигму проектирования.

    Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.

    Was there a key driver for the Generation 4 Data Center?

    Наши модульные дата-центры “Gen 4” будут гибкими с контейнерами серверов – как серверы в нашем чикагском дата-центре. И гибкость будет применяться ко всему ЦОД. Итак, что мы подразумеваем под модульностью? Мы думаем о ней как о “строительных блоках”, где дата-центр будет состоять из модульных блоков изготовленных в заводских условиях электрических систем и систем охлаждения, а также систем безопасности и т.п., в дополнение к контейнеризованным серверам.
    Был ли ключевой стимул для разработки дата-центра четвертого поколения?


    If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required.” Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, keep in mind that these concepts have been in initial development and prototyping for over a year and are based on cumulative knowledge of previous facility generations and the advances we have made since we began our investments in earnest on this new design.

    Если бы нам нужно было обобщить достоинства нашего проекта Gen 4 в одном предложении, это выглядело бы следующим образом: “Центр обработки данных с высоким уровнем модульности, расширяемости, и энергетической эффективности, а также возможностью постоянного расширения, в случае необходимости, который можно очень быстро и дешево развертывать в любом месте мира”. Звучит слишком хорошо для того чтобы быть правдой, не так ли? Ну, не забывайте, что эти концепции находились в процессе начальной разработки и создания опытного образца в течение более одного года и основываются на опыте, накопленном в ходе развития предыдущих поколений ЦОД, а также успехах, сделанных нами со времени, когда мы начали вкладывать серьезные средства в этот новый проект.

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve had at Microsoft is something Mike likes to call the ‘Goldilock’s Problem’. In a nutshell, the problem can be stated as:

    The worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is not have enough capacity online, thus limiting the growth of our products and services.

    Одну из самых больших проблем, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться Майкрософт, Майк любит называть ‘Проблемой Лютика’. Вкратце, эту проблему можно выразить следующим образом:

    Самое худшее, что может быть при строительстве ЦОД для бизнеса, это не располагать достаточными производственными мощностями, и тем самым ограничивать рост наших продуктов и сервисов.

    The second worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is to have too much capacity online.

    А вторым самым худшим моментом в этой сфере может слишком большое количество производственных мощностей.

    This has led to a focus on smart, intelligent growth for the business — refining our overall demand picture. It can’t be too hot. It can’t be too cold. It has to be ‘Just Right!’ The capital dollars of investment are too large to make without long term planning. As we struggled to master these interesting challenges, we had to ensure that our technological plan also included solutions for the business and operational challenges we faced as well.
    So let’s take a high level look at our Generation 4 design

    Это заставило нас сосредоточиваться на интеллектуальном росте для бизнеса — refining our overall demand picture. Это не должно быть слишком горячим. И это не должно быть слишком холодным. Это должно быть ‘как раз, таким как надо!’ Нельзя делать такие большие капиталовложения без долгосрочного планирования. Пока мы старались решить эти интересные проблемы, мы должны были гарантировать, что наш технологический план будет также включать решения для коммерческих и эксплуатационных проблем, с которыми нам также приходилось сталкиваться.
    Давайте рассмотрим наш проект дата-центра четвертого поколения

    Are you ready for some great visuals? Check out this video at Soapbox. Click here for the Microsoft 4th Gen Video.

    It’s a concept video that came out of my Data Center Research and Engineering team, under Daniel Costello, that will give you a view into what we think is the future.

    From a configuration, construct-ability and time to market perspective, our primary goals and objectives are to modularize the whole data center. Not just the server side (like the Chicago facility), but the mechanical and electrical space as well. This means using the same kind of parts in pre-manufactured modules, the ability to use containers, skids, or rack-based deployments and the ability to tailor the Redundancy and Reliability requirements to the application at a very specific level.


    Посмотрите это видео, перейдите по ссылке для просмотра видео о Microsoft 4th Gen:

    Это концептуальное видео, созданное командой отдела Data Center Research and Engineering, возглавляемого Дэниелом Костелло, которое даст вам наше представление о будущем.

    С точки зрения конфигурации, строительной технологичности и времени вывода на рынок, нашими главными целями и задачами агрегатирование всего дата-центра. Не только серверную часть, как дата-центр в Чикаго, но также системы охлаждения и электрические системы. Это означает применение деталей одного типа в сборных модулях, возможность использования контейнеров, салазок, или стоечных систем, а также возможность подстраивать требования избыточности и надежности для данного приложения на очень специфичном уровне.

    Our goals from a cost perspective were simple in concept but tough to deliver. First and foremost, we had to reduce the capital cost per critical Mega Watt by the class of use. Some applications can run with N-level redundancy in the infrastructure, others require a little more infrastructure for support. These different classes of infrastructure requirements meant that optimizing for all cost classes was paramount. At Microsoft, we are not a one trick pony and have many Online products and services (240+) that require different levels of operational support. We understand that and ensured that we addressed it in our design which will allow us to reduce capital costs by 20%-40% or greater depending upon class.


    Нашими целями в области затрат были концептуально простыми, но трудно реализуемыми. В первую очередь мы должны были снизить капитальные затраты в пересчете на один мегаватт, в зависимости от класса резервирования. Некоторые приложения могут вполне работать на базе инфраструктуры с резервированием на уровне N, то есть без резервирования, а для работы других приложений требуется больше инфраструктуры. Эти разные классы требований инфраструктуры подразумевали, что оптимизация всех классов затрат имеет преобладающее значение. В Майкрософт мы не ограничиваемся одним решением и располагаем большим количеством интерактивных продуктов и сервисов (240+), которым требуются разные уровни эксплуатационной поддержки. Мы понимаем это, и учитываем это в своем проекте, который позволит нам сокращать капитальные затраты на 20%-40% или более в зависимости от класса.

    For example, non-critical or geo redundant applications have low hardware reliability requirements on a location basis. As a result, Gen 4 can be configured to provide stripped down, low-cost infrastructure with little or no redundancy and/or temperature control. Let’s say an Online service team decides that due to the dramatically lower cost, they will simply use uncontrolled outside air with temperatures ranging 10-35 C and 20-80% RH. The reality is we are already spec-ing this for all of our servers today and working with server vendors to broaden that range even further as Gen 4 becomes a reality. For this class of infrastructure, we eliminate generators, chillers, UPSs, and possibly lower costs relative to traditional infrastructure.

    Например, некритичные или гео-избыточные системы имеют низкие требования к аппаратной надежности на основе местоположения. В результате этого, Gen 4 можно конфигурировать для упрощенной, недорогой инфраструктуры с низким уровнем (или вообще без резервирования) резервирования и / или температурного контроля. Скажем, команда интерактивного сервиса решает, что, в связи с намного меньшими затратами, они будут просто использовать некондиционированный наружный воздух с температурой 10-35°C и влажностью 20-80% RH. В реальности мы уже сегодня предъявляем эти требования к своим серверам и работаем с поставщиками серверов над еще большим расширением диапазона температур, так как наш модуль и подход Gen 4 становится реальностью. Для подобного класса инфраструктуры мы удаляем генераторы, чиллеры, ИБП, и, возможно, будем предлагать более низкие затраты, по сравнению с традиционной инфраструктурой.

    Applications that demand higher level of redundancy or temperature control will use configurations of Gen 4 to meet those needs, however, they will also cost more (but still less than traditional data centers). We see this cost difference driving engineering behavioral change in that we predict more applications will drive towards Geo redundancy to lower costs.

    Системы, которым требуется более высокий уровень резервирования или температурного контроля, будут использовать конфигурации Gen 4, отвечающие этим требованиям, однако, они будут также стоить больше. Но все равно они будут стоить меньше, чем традиционные дата-центры. Мы предвидим, что эти различия в затратах будут вызывать изменения в методах инжиниринга, и по нашим прогнозам, это будет выражаться в переходе все большего числа систем на гео-избыточность и меньшие затраты.

    Another cool thing about Gen 4 is that it allows us to deploy capacity when our demand dictates it. Once finalized, we will no longer need to make large upfront investments. Imagine driving capital costs more closely in-line with actual demand, thus greatly reducing time-to-market and adding the capacity Online inherent in the design. Also reduced is the amount of construction labor required to put these “building blocks” together. Since the entire platform requires pre-manufacture of its core components, on-site construction costs are lowered. This allows us to maximize our return on invested capital.

    Еще одно достоинство Gen 4 состоит в том, что он позволяет нам разворачивать дополнительные мощности, когда нам это необходимо. Как только мы закончим проект, нам больше не нужно будет делать большие начальные капиталовложения. Представьте себе возможность более точного согласования капитальных затрат с реальными требованиями, и тем самым значительного снижения времени вывода на рынок и интерактивного добавления мощностей, предусматриваемого проектом. Также снижен объем строительных работ, требуемых для сборки этих “строительных блоков”. Поскольку вся платформа требует предварительного изготовления ее базовых компонентов, затраты на сборку также снижены. Это позволит нам увеличить до максимума окупаемость своих капиталовложений.
    Мы все подвергаем сомнению

    In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn’t needed.

    В своем процессе проектирования мы все подвергаем сомнению. Вы, наверное, обратили внимание на отсутствие крыши, и некоторым специалистам это могло не понравиться. Мы изучили необходимость в крыше и в ходе своих исследований получили удивительные результаты, которые показали, что крыша не нужна.
    Серийное производство дата центров


    In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford’s Model T factory to the data center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T. Gen 4 will move data centers from a custom design and build model to a commoditized manufacturing approach. We intend to have our components built in factories and then assemble them in one location (the data center site) very quickly. Think about how a computer, car or plane is built today. Components are manufactured by different companies all over the world to a predefined spec and then integrated in one location based on demands and feature requirements. And just like Henry Ford’s assembly line drove the cost of building and the time-to-market down dramatically for the automobile industry, we expect Gen 4 to do the same for data centers. Everything will be pre-manufactured and assembled on the pad.

    Мы хотим применить модель автомобильной фабрики Генри Форда к дата-центру. Проект Gen 4 будет способствовать переходу от модели специализированного проектирования и строительства к товарно-производственному, серийному подходу. Мы намерены изготавливать свои компоненты на заводах, а затем очень быстро собирать их в одном месте, в месте строительства дата-центра. Подумайте о том, как сегодня изготавливается компьютер, автомобиль или самолет. Компоненты изготавливаются по заранее определенным спецификациям разными компаниями во всем мире, затем собираются в одном месте на основе спроса и требуемых характеристик. И точно так же как сборочный конвейер Генри Форда привел к значительному уменьшению затрат на производство и времени вывода на рынок в автомобильной промышленности, мы надеемся, что Gen 4 сделает то же самое для дата-центров. Все будет предварительно изготавливаться и собираться на месте.
    Невероятно энергоэффективный ЦОД


    And did we mention that this platform will be, overall, incredibly energy efficient? From a total energy perspective not only will we have remarkable PUE values, but the total cost of energy going into the facility will be greatly reduced as well. How much energy goes into making concrete? Will we need as much of it? How much energy goes into the fuel of the construction vehicles? This will also be greatly reduced! A key driver is our goal to achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers. More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in these facilities. We believe these will be the next areas of industry attention when and if the energy problem is solved. So we are asking today…“how can we build a data center with less building”?

    А мы упоминали, что эта платформа будет, в общем, невероятно энергоэффективной? С точки зрения общей энергии, мы получим не только поразительные значения PUE, но общая стоимость энергии, затраченной на объект будет также значительно снижена. Сколько энергии идет на производство бетона? Нам нужно будет столько энергии? Сколько энергии идет на питание инженерных строительных машин? Это тоже будет значительно снижено! Главным стимулом является достижение среднего PUE не больше 1.125 для всех наших дата-центров к 2012 году. Более того, у нас есть задача сокращения общего количества меди и воды в дата-центрах. Мы думаем, что эти задачи станут следующей заботой отрасли после того как будет решена энергетическая проблема. Итак, сегодня мы спрашиваем себя…“как можно построить дата-центр с меньшим объемом строительных работ”?
    Строительство дата центров без чиллеров

    We have talked openly and publicly about building chiller-less data centers and running our facilities using aggressive outside economization. Our sincerest hope is that Gen 4 will completely eliminate the use of water. Today’s data centers use massive amounts of water and we see water as the next scarce resource and have decided to take a proactive stance on making water conservation part of our plan.

    Мы открыто и публично говорили о строительстве дата-центров без чиллеров и активном использовании в наших центрах обработки данных технологий свободного охлаждения или фрикулинга. Мы искренне надеемся, что Gen 4 позволит полностью отказаться от использования воды. Современные дата-центры расходуют большие объемы воды и так как мы считаем воду следующим редким ресурсом, мы решили принять упреждающие меры и включить экономию воды в свой план.

    By sharing this with the industry, we believe everyone can benefit from our methodology. While this concept and approach may be intimidating (or downright frightening) to some in the industry, disclosure ultimately is better for all of us.

    Делясь этим опытом с отраслью, мы считаем, что каждый сможет извлечь выгоду из нашей методологией. Хотя эта концепция и подход могут показаться пугающими (или откровенно страшными) для некоторых отраслевых специалистов, раскрывая свои планы мы, в конечном счете, делаем лучше для всех нас.

    Gen 4 design (even more than just containers), could reduce the ‘religious’ debates in our industry. With the central spine infrastructure in place, containers or pre-manufactured server halls can be either AC or DC, air-side economized or water-side economized, or not economized at all (though the sanity of that might be questioned). Gen 4 will allow us to decommission, repair and upgrade quickly because everything is modular. No longer will we be governed by the initial decisions made when constructing the facility. We will have almost unlimited use and re-use of the facility and site. We will also be able to use power in an ultra-fluid fashion moving load from critical to non-critical as use and capacity requirements dictate.

    Проект Gen 4 позволит уменьшить ‘религиозные’ споры в нашей отрасли. Располагая базовой инфраструктурой, контейнеры или сборные серверные могут оборудоваться системами переменного или постоянного тока, воздушными или водяными экономайзерами, или вообще не использовать экономайзеры. Хотя можно подвергать сомнению разумность такого решения. Gen 4 позволит нам быстро выполнять работы по выводу из эксплуатации, ремонту и модернизации, поскольку все будет модульным. Мы больше не будем руководствоваться начальными решениями, принятыми во время строительства дата-центра. Мы сможем использовать этот дата-центр и инфраструктуру в течение почти неограниченного периода времени. Мы также сможем применять сверхгибкие методы использования электрической энергии, переводя оборудование в режимы критической или некритической нагрузки в соответствии с требуемой мощностью.
    Gen 4 – это стандартная платформа

    Finally, we believe this is a big game changer. Gen 4 will provide a standard platform that our industry can innovate around. For example, all modules in our Gen 4 will have common interfaces clearly defined by our specs and any vendor that meets these specifications will be able to plug into our infrastructure. Whether you are a computer vendor, UPS vendor, generator vendor, etc., you will be able to plug and play into our infrastructure. This means we can also source anyone, anywhere on the globe to minimize costs and maximize performance. We want to help motivate the industry to further innovate—with innovations from which everyone can reap the benefits.

    Наконец, мы уверены, что это будет фактором, который значительно изменит ситуацию. Gen 4 будет представлять собой стандартную платформу, которую отрасль сможет обновлять. Например, все модули в нашем Gen 4 будут иметь общепринятые интерфейсы, четко определяемые нашими спецификациями, и оборудование любого поставщика, которое отвечает этим спецификациям можно будет включать в нашу инфраструктуру. Независимо от того производите вы компьютеры, ИБП, генераторы и т.п., вы сможете включать свое оборудование нашу инфраструктуру. Это означает, что мы также сможем обеспечивать всех, в любом месте земного шара, тем самым сводя до минимума затраты и максимальной увеличивая производительность. Мы хотим создать в отрасли мотивацию для дальнейших инноваций – инноваций, от которых каждый сможет получать выгоду.
    Главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen4

    To summarize, the key characteristics of our Generation 4 data centers are:

    Scalable
    Plug-and-play spine infrastructure
    Factory pre-assembled: Pre-Assembled Containers (PACs) & Pre-Manufactured Buildings (PMBs)
    Rapid deployment
    De-mountable
    Reduce TTM
    Reduced construction
    Sustainable measures

    Ниже приведены главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen 4:

    Расширяемость;
    Готовая к использованию базовая инфраструктура;
    Изготовление в заводских условиях: сборные контейнеры (PAC) и сборные здания (PMB);
    Быстрота развертывания;
    Возможность демонтажа;
    Снижение времени вывода на рынок (TTM);
    Сокращение сроков строительства;
    Экологичность;

    Map applications to DC Class

    We hope you join us on this incredible journey of change and innovation!

    Long hours of research and engineering time are invested into this process. There are still some long days and nights ahead, but the vision is clear. Rest assured however, that we as refine Generation 4, the team will soon be looking to Generation 5 (even if it is a bit farther out). There is always room to get better.


    Использование систем электропитания постоянного тока.

    Мы надеемся, что вы присоединитесь к нам в этом невероятном путешествии по миру изменений и инноваций!

    На этот проект уже потрачены долгие часы исследований и проектирования. И еще предстоит потратить много дней и ночей, но мы имеем четкое представление о конечной цели. Однако будьте уверены, что как только мы доведем до конца проект модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения, мы вскоре начнем думать о проекте дата-центра пятого поколения. Всегда есть возможность для улучшений.

    So if you happen to come across Goldilocks in the forest, and you are curious as to why she is smiling you will know that she feels very good about getting very close to ‘JUST RIGHT’.

    Generations of Evolution – some background on our data center designs

    Так что, если вы встретите в лесу девочку по имени Лютик, и вам станет любопытно, почему она улыбается, вы будете знать, что она очень довольна тем, что очень близко подошла к ‘ОПИМАЛЬНОМУ РЕШЕНИЮ’.
    Поколения эволюции – история развития наших дата-центров

    We thought you might be interested in understanding what happened in the first three generations of our data center designs. When Ray Ozzie wrote his Software plus Services memo it posed a very interesting challenge to us. The winds of change were at ‘tornado’ proportions. That “plus Services” tag had some significant (and unstated) challenges inherent to it. The first was that Microsoft was going to evolve even further into an operations company. While we had been running large scale Internet services since 1995, this development lead us to an entirely new level. Additionally, these “services” would span across both Internet and Enterprise businesses. To those of you who have to operate “stuff”, you know that these are two very different worlds in operational models and challenges. It also meant that, to achieve the same level of reliability and performance required our infrastructure was going to have to scale globally and in a significant way.

    Мы подумали, что может быть вам будет интересно узнать историю первых трех поколений наших центров обработки данных. Когда Рэй Оззи написал свою памятную записку Software plus Services, он поставил перед нами очень интересную задачу. Ветра перемен двигались с ураганной скоростью. Это окончание “plus Services” скрывало в себе какие-то значительные и неопределенные задачи. Первая заключалась в том, что Майкрософт собиралась в еще большей степени стать операционной компанией. Несмотря на то, что мы управляли большими интернет-сервисами, начиная с 1995 г., эта разработка подняла нас на абсолютно новый уровень. Кроме того, эти “сервисы” охватывали интернет-компании и корпорации. Тем, кому приходится всем этим управлять, известно, что есть два очень разных мира в области операционных моделей и задач. Это также означало, что для достижения такого же уровня надежности и производительности требовалось, чтобы наша инфраструктура располагала значительными возможностями расширения в глобальных масштабах.

    It was that intense atmosphere of change that we first started re-evaluating data center technology and processes in general and our ideas began to reach farther than what was accepted by the industry at large. This was the era of Generation 1. As we look at where most of the world’s data centers are today (and where our facilities were), it represented all the known learning and design requirements that had been in place since IBM built the first purpose-built computer room. These facilities focused more around uptime, reliability and redundancy. Big infrastructure was held accountable to solve all potential environmental shortfalls. This is where the majority of infrastructure in the industry still is today.

    Именно в этой атмосфере серьезных изменений мы впервые начали переоценку ЦОД-технологий и технологий вообще, и наши идеи начали выходить за пределы общепринятых в отрасли представлений. Это была эпоха ЦОД первого поколения. Когда мы узнали, где сегодня располагается большинство мировых дата-центров и где находятся наши предприятия, это представляло весь опыт и навыки проектирования, накопленные со времени, когда IBM построила первую серверную. В этих ЦОД больше внимания уделялось бесперебойной работе, надежности и резервированию. Большая инфраструктура была призвана решать все потенциальные экологические проблемы. Сегодня большая часть инфраструктуры все еще находится на этом этапе своего развития.

    We soon realized that traditional data centers were quickly becoming outdated. They were not keeping up with the demands of what was happening technologically and environmentally. That’s when we kicked off our Generation 2 design. Gen 2 facilities started taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, and really looking at the total cost of energy and operations.

    Очень быстро мы поняли, что стандартные дата-центры очень быстро становятся устаревшими. Они не поспевали за темпами изменений технологических и экологических требований. Именно тогда мы стали разрабатывать ЦОД второго поколения. В этих дата-центрах Gen 2 стали принимать во внимание такие факторы как устойчивое развитие, энергетическая эффективность, а также общие энергетические и эксплуатационные.

    No longer did we view data centers just for the upfront capital costs, but we took a hard look at the facility over the course of its life. Our Quincy, Washington and San Antonio, Texas facilities are examples of our Gen 2 data centers where we explored and implemented new ways to lessen the impact on the environment. These facilities are considered two leading industry examples, based on their energy efficiency and ability to run and operate at new levels of scale and performance by leveraging clean hydro power (Quincy) and recycled waste water (San Antonio) to cool the facility during peak cooling months.

    Мы больше не рассматривали дата-центры только с точки зрения начальных капитальных затрат, а внимательно следили за работой ЦОД на протяжении его срока службы. Наши объекты в Куинси, Вашингтоне, и Сан-Антонио, Техас, являются образцами наших ЦОД второго поколения, в которых мы изучали и применяли на практике новые способы снижения воздействия на окружающую среду. Эти объекты считаются двумя ведущими отраслевыми примерами, исходя из их энергетической эффективности и способности работать на новых уровнях производительности, основанных на использовании чистой энергии воды (Куинси) и рециклирования отработанной воды (Сан-Антонио) для охлаждения объекта в самых жарких месяцах.

    As we were delivering our Gen 2 facilities into steel and concrete, our Generation 3 facilities were rapidly driving the evolution of the program. The key concepts for our Gen 3 design are increased modularity and greater concentration around energy efficiency and scale. The Gen 3 facility will be best represented by the Chicago, Illinois facility currently under construction. This facility will seem very foreign compared to the traditional data center concepts most of the industry is comfortable with. In fact, if you ever sit around in our container hanger in Chicago it will look incredibly different from a traditional raised-floor data center. We anticipate this modularization will drive huge efficiencies in terms of cost and operations for our business. We will also introduce significant changes in the environmental systems used to run our facilities. These concepts and processes (where applicable) will help us gain even greater efficiencies in our existing footprint, allowing us to further maximize infrastructure investments.

    Так как наши ЦОД второго поколения строились из стали и бетона, наши центры обработки данных третьего поколения начали их быстро вытеснять. Главными концептуальными особенностями ЦОД третьего поколения Gen 3 являются повышенная модульность и большее внимание к энергетической эффективности и масштабированию. Дата-центры третьего поколения лучше всего представлены объектом, который в настоящее время строится в Чикаго, Иллинойс. Этот ЦОД будет выглядеть очень необычно, по сравнению с общепринятыми в отрасли представлениями о дата-центре. Действительно, если вам когда-либо удастся побывать в нашем контейнерном ангаре в Чикаго, он покажется вам совершенно непохожим на обычный дата-центр с фальшполом. Мы предполагаем, что этот модульный подход будет способствовать значительному повышению эффективности нашего бизнеса в отношении затрат и операций. Мы также внесем существенные изменения в климатические системы, используемые в наших ЦОД. Эти концепции и технологии, если применимо, позволят нам добиться еще большей эффективности наших существующих дата-центров, и тем самым еще больше увеличивать капиталовложения в инфраструктуру.

    This is definitely a journey, not a destination industry. In fact, our Generation 4 design has been under heavy engineering for viability and cost for over a year. While the demand of our commercial growth required us to make investments as we grew, we treated each step in the learning as a process for further innovation in data centers. The design for our future Gen 4 facilities enabled us to make visionary advances that addressed the challenges of building, running, and operating facilities all in one concerted effort.

    Это определенно путешествие, а не конечный пункт назначения. На самом деле, наш проект ЦОД четвертого поколения подвергался серьезным испытаниям на жизнеспособность и затраты на протяжении целого года. Хотя необходимость в коммерческом росте требовала от нас постоянных капиталовложений, мы рассматривали каждый этап своего развития как шаг к будущим инновациям в области дата-центров. Проект наших будущих ЦОД четвертого поколения Gen 4 позволил нам делать фантастические предположения, которые касались задач строительства, управления и эксплуатации объектов как единого упорядоченного процесса.

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    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > modular data center

  • 29 big

    1. adjective
    1) (in size) groß; schwer, heftig [Explosion, Zusammenstoß]; schwer [Unfall, Niederlage]; hart [Konkurrenz]; reichlich [Mahlzeit]

    he is a big man/she is a big woman — (fat) er/sie ist wohlbeleibt

    big words — geschraubte Ausdrücke ( see also academic.ru/39605/g">g)

    in a big way — (coll.) im großen Stil

    2) (of largest size, larger than usual) groß [Appetit, Zehe, Buchstabe]
    3) bigger (worse) schwerer; biggest (worst) größt...

    he is the biggest liar/idiot — er ist der größte Lügner/Idiot

    4) (grown up, elder) groß
    5) (important) groß; wichtig [Nachricht, Entscheidung]
    6) (coll.): (outstanding) groß [Augenblick, Chance]

    get or grow/be too big for one's boots — (coll.) größenwahnsinnig werden/sein (ugs.)

    big talk — Großsprecherei, die

    8) (coll.): (generous) großzügig; nobel (oft iron.)
    9) (coll.): (popular)

    be big — [Schauspieler, Popstar:] gut ankommen. See also idea 4)

    2. adverb

    talk big — (coll.) groß daherreden (ugs.)

    think big — (coll.) im großen Stil planen

    •• Cultural note:
    Eine Zeitung, die von Obdachlosen in vielen größeren und kleineren Städten in Großbritannien verkauft wird. Die Artikel haben oft ein sehr gutes Niveau, sie behandeln hauptsächlich soziale Themen oder Aspekte der Stadtkultur. Die Verkäufer kaufen die Zeitungen von einer zentralen Stelle und verkaufen sie zu einem festgelegten Preis. Den Gewinn dürfen sie behalten
    * * *
    [biɡ]
    1) (large in size: a big car.) groß
    2) (important: a big event.) bedeutend
    •
    * * *
    <- gg->
    [bɪg]
    1. (of size, amount) groß
    the \bigger the better je größer desto besser
    to receive a \big boost starken Auftrieb erhalten
    a \big drop in prices ein starker Preisrückgang
    \big eater ( fam) großer Esser/große Esserin
    \big meal üppiges Mahl
    \big screen [Groß]leinwand f
    to be a \big spender ( fam) auf großem Fuß leben
    \big stake hoher Spieleinsatz
    \big tip großzügiges Trinkgeld
    \big toe großer Zeh
    \big turnout großes Zuschaueraufgebot
    the \biggest-ever... der/die/das Größte... aller Zeiten
    2. (of maturity) groß, erwachsen
    \big boy/girl großer Junge/großes Mädchen
    \big brother/sister großer Bruder/große Schwester
    \big enough groß [o alt] genug
    3. (significant) bedeutend, wichtig
    she's \big in marketing sie ist ganz groß im Bereich Marketing vertreten
    \big-budget film Film m mit großem Budget
    \big day großer [o bedeutender] Tag
    it's the \big day then? ( fam: wedding day) heute ist also der große Tag?
    \big decision schwerwiegende Entscheidung
    to have \big ideas ( fam) Rosinen im Kopf haben fam
    \big words ( fam) große Worte
    4. ( fam: to express emphasis) groß; (on a large scale) in großem Stil
    he fell for her in a \big way er verliebte sich bis über beide Ohren in sie
    ▪ to be \big on sth auf etw akk stehen fam
    5. ( pej iron fam: generous) großzügig, nobel fam
    that was very \big of you das war aber nobel von dir
    6.
    ▶ to be/get too \big for one's boots ( pej fam: craving for admiration) größenwahnsinnig sein/werden; (feeling superior) eingebildet sein/werden
    ▶ the \big boys die Großen
    ▶ \big deal! ( fam) na und! fam
    ▶ no \big deal ( fam) nicht der Rede wert
    ▶ sb's eyes are \bigger than their stomach jds Augen sind größer als sein Magen
    ▶ to be a \big fish in a little [or small] pond der Hecht im Karpfenteich sein
    ▶ to have \bigger fish to fry Wichtigeres zu tun haben
    ▶ to give sb a \big hand ( fam) jdm begeistert Applaus spenden
    ▶ what's the \big idea? ( iron fam) was soll [denn] das? fam
    ▶ the \bigger they are, the harder they fall ( prov) wer hoch steigt, fällt tief prov
    ▶ to make it \big ( fam) großen Erfolg haben, groß einschlagen fam
    ▶ \big oaks from little acorns grow esp BRIT ( prov) alles Große hat [einmal] klein angefangen
    * * *
    [bɪg]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) (in size, amount) groß; lie also faustdick (inf)

    a big man — ein großer, schwerer Mann

    you big girl's blouse! ( Brit inf ) — du Angsthase! (inf)

    big with child/young — hochschwanger/trächtig

    2) (of age) groß

    you're big enough to know better — du bist groß or alt genug und solltest es besser wissen

    3) (= important) groß, wichtig

    the Big Four/Five — die Großen Vier/Fünf

    to be big in publishing/plastics (inf) — eine Größe im Verlagswesen/der Plastikproduktion sein

    4) (= great) cheat, bully, liar groß
    5)

    (= conceited) big talk — Angeberei f (inf), Großspurigkeit

    big talker — Angeber m (inf),, eingebildeter Schwätzer

    he's getting too big for his boots ( inf, child ) — er wird ein bisschen zu aufmüpfig (inf); (employee) er wird langsam größenwahnsinnig

    6) (= generous iro) großzügig, nobel (inf); (= forgiving) großmütig, nobel (inf); heart groß

    few people have a heart as big as his — es sind nur wenige so großzügig/großmütig wie er

    he was big enough to admit he was wrong — er hatte die Größe zuzugeben, dass er unrecht hatte

    7) (inf: fashionable) in (inf)
    8)

    (fig phrases) to earn big money — das große Geld verdienen (inf)

    to have big ideas — große Pläne haben, Rosinen im Kopf haben (pej inf)

    to do things in a big way —

    to live in a big way — auf großem Fuß or in großem Stil leben

    2. adv

    to talk big — groß daherreden (inf), große Töne spucken (inf)

    to act big — sich aufspielen, großtun

    to think big —

    to go over or down big (inf) — ganz groß ankommen (inf), großen Anklang finden (with bei)

    to make it big (as a singer/actor) — (als Sänger(in)/Schauspieler(in)) ganz groß rauskommen (inf)

    * * *
    big [bıɡ]
    A adj
    1. allg groß (Garten, Mehrheit etc):
    the biggest party die stärkste Partei;
    the win might have been bigger SPORT der Sieg hätte höher ausfallen können;
    he comes from a big family er stammt aus einer kinderreichen Familie;
    earn big money umg das große Geld verdienen;
    there’s big money in tennis umg im Tennis gibt es das große Geld zu verdienen;
    get too big for one’s boots ( oder breeches, bes US pants) umg größenwahnsinnig werden;
    he’s got a big mouth er plaudert (immer) alles gleich aus, er kann nichts für sich behalten; → band1 A 2, buck2, wolf A 1, etc
    2. groß, weit:
    this coat is too big for me dieser Mantel ist mir zu groß
    3. groß, hoch (Baum etc)
    4. groß, erwachsen:
    he’s big enough er ist groß oder alt genug
    5. a) (with) voll, schwer (von), strotzend (vor dat, von), beladen (mit), reich (an dat):
    big with fate schicksalsschwer, -schwanger;
    big with rage wutentbrannt
    b) ausgiebig, reichlich (Mahlzeit):
    have a big breakfast ausgiebig frühstücken
    6. meist big with child hochschwanger
    7. umg aufgeblasen pej, eingebildet:
    have big ideas große Rosinen im Kopf haben;
    what’s the big idea? was soll denn das?;
    what’s the big idea of shouting at me? umg kannst du mir mal sagen, warum du mich anschreist?;
    big talk große Töne umg pej, Angeberei f
    8. voll, laut (Stimme)
    9. umg
    a) groß, hoch, hochstehend, wichtig, bedeutend:
    make it big es zu etwas bringen;
    he thinks he’s Mr Big er hält sich für etwas Besseres
    b) sehr populär
    10. großzügig, nobel umg ( beide:
    of von):
    that’s very big of you; → deal1 C 2
    11. groß, Mords… umg:
    a big rascal ein Erzgauner;
    a big eater ein starker Esser
    12. be big on bes US umg stehen auf (akk), großen Wert legen auf (akk)
    B adv umg
    1. groß:
    come over big groß ankommen;
    think big im großen Stil planen
    2. großspurig:
    act big den starken Mann markieren;
    talk big große Töne spucken
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (in size) groß; schwer, heftig [Explosion, Zusammenstoß]; schwer [Unfall, Niederlage]; hart [Konkurrenz]; reichlich [Mahlzeit]

    he is a big man/she is a big woman — (fat) er/sie ist wohlbeleibt

    in a big way — (coll.) im großen Stil

    2) (of largest size, larger than usual) groß [Appetit, Zehe, Buchstabe]
    3) bigger (worse) schwerer; biggest (worst) größt...

    he is the biggest liar/idiot — er ist der größte Lügner/Idiot

    4) (grown up, elder) groß
    5) (important) groß; wichtig [Nachricht, Entscheidung]
    6) (coll.): (outstanding) groß [Augenblick, Chance]

    get or grow/be too big for one's boots — (coll.) größenwahnsinnig werden/sein (ugs.)

    big talk — Großsprecherei, die

    8) (coll.): (generous) großzügig; nobel (oft iron.)
    9) (coll.): (popular)

    be big — [Schauspieler, Popstar:] gut ankommen. See also idea 4)

    2. adverb

    talk big — (coll.) groß daherreden (ugs.)

    think big — (coll.) im großen Stil planen

    •• Cultural note:
    Eine Zeitung, die von Obdachlosen in vielen größeren und kleineren Städten in Großbritannien verkauft wird. Die Artikel haben oft ein sehr gutes Niveau, sie behandeln hauptsächlich soziale Themen oder Aspekte der Stadtkultur. Die Verkäufer kaufen die Zeitungen von einer zentralen Stelle und verkaufen sie zu einem festgelegten Preis. Den Gewinn dürfen sie behalten
    * * *
    adj.
    groß adj.
    schwer adj.
    wichtig adj.

    English-german dictionary > big

  • 30 significantly

    1) (in a significant manner: He patted his pocket significantly.) significativamente
    2) (to an important degree: Sales-levels are significantly lower than last year, which is very disappointing.) considerablemente
    tr[sɪg'nɪfɪkəntlɪ]
    1 (considerably, notably) considerablemente, apreciablemente
    2 (meaningfully - used alone) lo cual es significativo
    adv.
    • significativamente adv.
    sɪg'nɪfɪkəntli
    adverb <improve/change/increase> considerablemente, apreciablemente
    [sɪɡ'nɪfɪkǝntlɪ]
    ADV
    1) (=considerably) (with adj) [higher, lower, better, reduced] considerablemente; (with verb) [change, improve, reduce, increase] de forma significativa, considerablemente
    2) (=notably)

    significantly, most of them are Scottish — es significativo que la mayoría sean escoceses

    3) (=meaningfully)
    * * *
    [sɪg'nɪfɪkəntli]
    adverb <improve/change/increase> considerablemente, apreciablemente

    English-spanish dictionary > significantly

  • 31 comunidad

    f.
    1 community (grupo).
    comunidad de propietarios o de vecinos residents' association
    la comunidad científica/internacional the scientific/international community
    comunidad Andina Andean Community
    comunidad autónoma (politics) autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers
    2 communion (cualidad de común) (de ideas, bienes).
    * * *
    1 community
    \
    en comunidad together
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region
    comunidad de propietarios owners' association
    Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [gen] community; (=sociedad) society, association; (Rel) community; And commune ( of free Indians)

    de o en comunidad — (Jur) jointly

    comunidad autónoma — Esp autonomous region

    2) (=pago) [de piso] service charge, charge for communal services
    COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA In Spain the comunidades autónomas are any of the 19 administrative regions consisting of one or more provinces and having political powers devolved from Madrid, as stipulated by the 1978 Constitution. They have their own democratically elected parliaments, form their own cabinets and legislate and execute policies in certain areas such as housing, infrastructure, health and education, though Madrid still retains jurisdiction for all matters affecting the country as a whole, such as defence, foreign affairs and justice. The Comunidades Autónomas are: Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Islas Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, País Vasco, La Rioja, Comunidad Valenciana, Ceuta and Melilla. The term Comunidades Históricas refers to Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, which for reasons of history and language consider themselves to some extent separate from the rest of Spain. They were given a measure of independence by the Second Republic (1931-1936), only to have it revoked by Franco in 1939. With the transition to democracy, these groups were the most vociferous and successful in their demand for home rule, partly because they already had experience of federalism and had established a precedent with autonomous institutions like the Catalan Generalitat.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
    * * *
    Ex. Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.
    ----
    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
    * * *

    Ex: Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.

    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.

    * * *
    comunidad comunidad autónoma (↑ comunidad a1)
    A
    1 (sociedad) community
    para el bien de la comunidad for the good of the community
    2 (grupo delimitado) community
    la comunidad polaca the Polish community
    vivir en comunidad to live with other people
    3 ( Relig) community
    4 (asociación) association
    Compuestos:
    (British) Commonwealth
    ( Hist) European Economic Community
    ( Hist) European Community
    European Coal and Steel Community
    B (coincidencia) community
    no existe comunidad de ideales/objetivos entre ambos grupos there is no community of ideals/objectives between the two groups, the two groups do not share common ideals/objectives
    la sublevación de las Comunidades the Revolt of the Comuneros
    * * *

     

    comunidad sustantivo femenino
    community;

    comunidad sustantivo femenino community
    comunidad autónoma, autonomous region
    comunidad de bienes, co-ownership
    Comunidad Europea, European Community

    ' comunidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bien
    - CE
    - CECA
    - CEE
    - consejería
    - depender
    - EURATOM
    - homologación
    - primar
    - pueblo
    - reintegrar
    - autonomía
    English:
    Commonwealth of Independent States
    - community
    - fraternity
    - homeowners assocation
    - integrate
    - scattered
    - service charge
    - European
    - general
    - pillar
    - service
    * * *
    1. [grupo] community;
    la comunidad científica/educativa/judía the scientific/education/Jewish community;
    vivir en comunidad to live in a community
    Comunidad Andina Andean Community, = organization for regional cooperation formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela;
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers;
    comunidad de base [religiosa] base community, = lay Catholic community independent of church hierarchy;
    Comunidad Británica de Naciones (British) Commonwealth;
    Antes Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community;
    la Comunidad Europea, las Comunidades Europeas the European Community;
    la comunidad internacional the international community;
    comunidad linguística speech community;
    comunidad de propietarios residents' association;
    comunidad de vecinos residents' association
    2. [de ideas, bienes] communion
    comunidad de bienes co-ownership [between spouses]
    3. Am [colectividad] commune;
    vive en una comunidad anarquista she lives in an anarchist commune
    COMUNIDAD ANDINA
    The Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) has its origins in the 1969 “Acuerdo de Cartagena”. Over subsequent decades the various institutions which now form the CAN were set up: the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1979, the Court of Justice in 1983, the Presidential Council in 1990, and the General Secretariat in 1997. The ultimate aim has been to create a Latin American common market. A free trade area was established in 1993, and a common external customs tariff in 1994. While all members have adopted a common foreign policy, more ambitious attempts at integration have been less successful. However, with a combined population of 122 million, and a GDP in 2004 of 300 billion dollars, the community is a significant economic group. In 2004, the leaders of the countries of South America decided to create the “Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones” (“South American Community of Nations”) or CSN by a gradual convergence between the CAN and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), plus Chile, Guyana and Surinam. This will create, in time, a vast free-trade area encompassing all of South America.
    * * *
    f community;
    hereditaria heirs pl
    * * *
    : community
    * * *
    comunidad n community [pl. communities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > comunidad

  • 32 obtener

    v.
    1 to get (beca, cargo, puntos).
    2 to obtain, to gain, to get, to acquire.
    Ricardo ganó reconocimiento Richard gained renown.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ TENER], like link=tener tener
    1 (beca, resultados) to get, obtain; (premio) to win; (ganancias) to make
    1 to get, be obtained
    * * *
    verb
    1) to obtain, get
    * * *
    VT [+ resultado, información, permiso] to get, obtain; [+ mayoría, votos] to win, obtain; [+ premio, medalla, victoria] to win; [+ apoyo] to gain, get, obtain; [+ beneficios] to make

    esperamos obtener mejores resultados este año — we are hoping to get o obtain o achieve better results this year

    con la venta de los derechos la editorial obtuvo varios millones de dólares — the publishers got several million dollars from the sale of the copyright

    nunca obtuvo respuesta — he never got o received a reply

    * * *
    verbo transitivo < premio> to win, receive; <resultado/autorización> to obtain; < calificación> to obtain, set
    * * *
    = derive, gain, generate, get, obtain, procure, secure, yield, spin off, elicit, reap, receive, come by, acquire.
    Ex. The scheme was designed for the Library of Congress and many of the features of the scheme derived from this fact.
    Ex. To many, therefore, this emphasis on information can provide a much-needed opportunity to gain the public library new influence and respect.
    Ex. Human indexers sometimes make inappropriate judgements, misinterpret ideas, have lapses of memory or concentration, and generate omissions and inconsistencies in their indexing.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS does not get a new document number, but reserves this document for you, so that no one else can change it while you are working on it.
    Ex. In the event that the position in the matrix contains more than 32 entries, it is necessary for the user to interact with the system to obtain the miniature catalog that will contain the entry s/he seeks.
    Ex. They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex. They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex. This mixture of approaches is designed to yield maximum retrieval for as many users as possible by combining the different strengths of controlled and natural language indexing.
    Ex. A computerized search facility has been spun off from the basic work.
    Ex. This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex. Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex. If you receive a large number of titles on you initial search, you can narrow your search by using qualifiers.
    Ex. This article shows how teachers came by such information and the use they made it of in their work.
    Ex. Many libraries have special collections of foreign, unpublished or unusual materials which include items unlikely to be acquired by other libraries.
    ----
    * difícil de obtener = difficult to come by.
    * fácil de obtener = easy to come by.
    * obtener acceso = gain + access, gain + admittance.
    * obtener algo de = get + something out of.
    * obtener beneficios = gain + benefit, make + a profit, realise + benefits, derive + benefit, reap + rewards, reap + benefits, reap + returns, make + profit.
    * obtener conocimiento = gain + an understanding.
    * obtener credibilidad = attain + credibility.
    * obtener de = get out of.
    * obtener el derecho para = win + the right to.
    * obtener el enunciado del problema = elicit + problem statement.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * obtener el mayor rendimiento posible = maximise + opportunities.
    * obtener éxito = achieve + success.
    * obtener éxitos y fracasos = experience + problems and successes.
    * obtener fondos de = derive + finances from.
    * obtener ganancia = gain + benefit.
    * obtener gratificación = obtain + gratification.
    * obtener gratis = obtain + free.
    * obtener indicios sobre = get + an indication of.
    * obtener información = obtain + information, glean + information, gain + information, pick up + information, secure + information.
    * obtener información de = elicit + information from.
    * obtener la aprobación = meet with + approval.
    * obtener partido de = capitalise on/upon [capitalize, -USA].
    * obtener perspectiva de = gain + perspective on.
    * obtener pistas sobre = get + an indication of.
    * obtener placer = take + pleasure, obtain + pleasure from, derive + pleasure.
    * obtener placer de = get + pleasure from.
    * obtener + Posesivo + aprobación = meet + Posesivo + approval.
    * obtener promoción = arrive at + promotion.
    * obtener provecho = get + Posesivo + money's worth out of.
    * obtener reconocimiento = gain + recognition.
    * obtener resultado = obtain + result.
    * obtener resultados = get + things done.
    * obtener satisfacción = derive + satisfaction, gain + satisfaction, derive + gratification, obtain + satisfaction.
    * obtenerse = accrue.
    * obtenerse de = flow from.
    * obtener titulación = receive + degree.
    * obtener + Título = earn + Título.
    * obtener una categoría = gain + status.
    * obtener una cita bibliográfica = glean + citation.
    * obtener una idea = get + a sense of, gain + a sense of.
    * obtener una idea de = get + a taste of.
    * obtener una impresión = gain + picture.
    * obtener una perspectiva = gather + perspective.
    * obtener una referencia = glean + reference.
    * obtener un estatus = gain + status.
    * obtener un premio = earn + an award, win + award, win + prize.
    * obtener un puesto de trabajo = obtain + position.
    * obtener un título = gain + a degree in.
    * obtener ventaja = gain + advantage.
    * obtener ventajas = reap + advantages.
    * se obtendrá algo de provecho = something is bound to come of it.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo < premio> to win, receive; <resultado/autorización> to obtain; < calificación> to obtain, set
    * * *
    = derive, gain, generate, get, obtain, procure, secure, yield, spin off, elicit, reap, receive, come by, acquire.

    Ex: The scheme was designed for the Library of Congress and many of the features of the scheme derived from this fact.

    Ex: To many, therefore, this emphasis on information can provide a much-needed opportunity to gain the public library new influence and respect.
    Ex: Human indexers sometimes make inappropriate judgements, misinterpret ideas, have lapses of memory or concentration, and generate omissions and inconsistencies in their indexing.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does not get a new document number, but reserves this document for you, so that no one else can change it while you are working on it.
    Ex: In the event that the position in the matrix contains more than 32 entries, it is necessary for the user to interact with the system to obtain the miniature catalog that will contain the entry s/he seeks.
    Ex: They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex: They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex: This mixture of approaches is designed to yield maximum retrieval for as many users as possible by combining the different strengths of controlled and natural language indexing.
    Ex: A computerized search facility has been spun off from the basic work.
    Ex: This article looks at ways in which librarians in leadership roles can elicit the motivation, commitment, and personal investment of members of the organisation.
    Ex: Women suffragists reaped an unexpected publicity bonanza when the 1913 national suffrage parade in Washington was broken up by a drunken mob.
    Ex: If you receive a large number of titles on you initial search, you can narrow your search by using qualifiers.
    Ex: This article shows how teachers came by such information and the use they made it of in their work.
    Ex: Many libraries have special collections of foreign, unpublished or unusual materials which include items unlikely to be acquired by other libraries.
    * difícil de obtener = difficult to come by.
    * fácil de obtener = easy to come by.
    * obtener acceso = gain + access, gain + admittance.
    * obtener algo de = get + something out of.
    * obtener beneficios = gain + benefit, make + a profit, realise + benefits, derive + benefit, reap + rewards, reap + benefits, reap + returns, make + profit.
    * obtener conocimiento = gain + an understanding.
    * obtener credibilidad = attain + credibility.
    * obtener de = get out of.
    * obtener el derecho para = win + the right to.
    * obtener el enunciado del problema = elicit + problem statement.
    * obtener el máximo beneficio = reap + full potential.
    * obtener el mayor rendimiento posible = maximise + opportunities.
    * obtener éxito = achieve + success.
    * obtener éxitos y fracasos = experience + problems and successes.
    * obtener fondos de = derive + finances from.
    * obtener ganancia = gain + benefit.
    * obtener gratificación = obtain + gratification.
    * obtener gratis = obtain + free.
    * obtener indicios sobre = get + an indication of.
    * obtener información = obtain + information, glean + information, gain + information, pick up + information, secure + information.
    * obtener información de = elicit + information from.
    * obtener la aprobación = meet with + approval.
    * obtener partido de = capitalise on/upon [capitalize, -USA].
    * obtener perspectiva de = gain + perspective on.
    * obtener pistas sobre = get + an indication of.
    * obtener placer = take + pleasure, obtain + pleasure from, derive + pleasure.
    * obtener placer de = get + pleasure from.
    * obtener + Posesivo + aprobación = meet + Posesivo + approval.
    * obtener promoción = arrive at + promotion.
    * obtener provecho = get + Posesivo + money's worth out of.
    * obtener reconocimiento = gain + recognition.
    * obtener resultado = obtain + result.
    * obtener resultados = get + things done.
    * obtener satisfacción = derive + satisfaction, gain + satisfaction, derive + gratification, obtain + satisfaction.
    * obtenerse = accrue.
    * obtenerse de = flow from.
    * obtener titulación = receive + degree.
    * obtener + Título = earn + Título.
    * obtener una categoría = gain + status.
    * obtener una cita bibliográfica = glean + citation.
    * obtener una idea = get + a sense of, gain + a sense of.
    * obtener una idea de = get + a taste of.
    * obtener una impresión = gain + picture.
    * obtener una perspectiva = gather + perspective.
    * obtener una referencia = glean + reference.
    * obtener un estatus = gain + status.
    * obtener un premio = earn + an award, win + award, win + prize.
    * obtener un puesto de trabajo = obtain + position.
    * obtener un título = gain + a degree in.
    * obtener ventaja = gain + advantage.
    * obtener ventajas = reap + advantages.
    * se obtendrá algo de provecho = something is bound to come of it.

    * * *
    vt
    ‹premio› to win, receive; ‹resultado› to obtain, achieve; ‹calificación/autorización/préstamo› to obtain, get
    se han obtenido importantes mejoras significant improvements have been obtained o achieved
    obtuvimos los fondos necesarios del banco we got o obtained o ( frml) secured the necessary funding from the bank
    * * *

     

    obtener ( conjugate obtener) verbo transitivo ‹ premio› to win, receive;
    ‹resultado/autorización› to obtain;
    ‹ calificación› to obtain, set
    obtener vtr (conseguir) to obtain, get
    ' obtener' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conseguir
    - sigilo
    - abastecer
    - alcanzar
    - apuntar
    - capacitar
    - coger
    - diplomarse
    - ello
    - obtuve
    - sacar
    English:
    bid
    - blank
    - clear
    - derive
    - elicit
    - extort
    - get
    - get in
    - obtain
    - poll
    - procure
    - profit
    - qualify
    - raise
    - secure
    - access
    - achieve
    - cream
    - drum
    - gain
    - hope
    - length
    - lobby
    - process
    * * *
    [beca, cargo, puntos, información] to get, to obtain; [resultado] to obtain, to achieve; [premio, victoria] to win; [ganancias] to make; [satisfacción, ventaja] to gain, to obtain;
    obtuvieron dos millones de beneficio de la venta de su casa they made a profit of two million from the sale of their house;
    la sidra se obtiene de las manzanas cider is obtained o made from apples
    * * *
    <part obtuvo> v/t get, obtain fml
    * * *
    obtener {80} vt
    : to obtain, to secure, to get
    ♦ obtenible adj
    * * *
    1. (conseguir en general) to get / to obtain
    2. (conseguir premios, medallas, etc) to win [pt. & pp. won]

    Spanish-English dictionary > obtener

  • 33 salto

    m.
    1 jump (gen) & (sport).
    dar o pegar un salto to jump; to leap (grande)
    triple salto triple jump
    salto de altura high jump
    salto de esquí ski jump
    salto mortal somersault
    salto en paracaídas parachute jump
    salto con pértiga pole vault
    2 gap.
    3 leap forward (progreso).
    un salto hacia atrás a major step backward
    4 precipice (despeñadero).
    salto de agua waterfall
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: saltar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) jump, leap
    2 DEPORTE jump (natación) dive
    3 (de agua) waterfall
    4 (despeñadero) precipice
    6 figurado (ascenso) springboard
    \
    a salto de mata (vivir al día) from hand to mouth 2 (de cualquier manera) slapdash, haphazardly, any old how
    a saltos figurado in leaps and bounds
    bajar de un salto / subir de un salto to jump down / jump up
    dar un salto / pegar un salto to jump, leap
    dar un salto en el vacío figurado to take a leap in the dark
    el corazón me daba saltos figurado my heart was pounding
    en un salto figurado in a flash
    salto de agua waterfall, falls plural
    salto de altura high jump
    salto de cama negligee
    salto de la carpa jack-knife
    salto del ángel swan dive
    salto de tijera scissor jump
    salto mortal somersault
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) jump, leap, skip
    2) gap
    3) dive
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=acción) [gen] jump; [de mayor altura, distancia] leap; [al agua] dive

    • a saltos, cruzamos el río a saltos — we jumped across the river

    • dar o pegar un salto — [persona, animal] to jump; [corazón] to leap

    los niños les acompañaban dando saltos — the kids went with them, jumping o hopping about

    al hablar da muchos saltos de un tema a otro — when he speaks, he jumps from o leaps around from one subject to the next

    • de un salto, se puso en pie de un salto — he leapt o sprang to his feet

    subió/bajó de un salto — he jumped up/down

    • el libro supuso su salto a la fama — the book marked his leap to fame, the book was his springboard to fame

    a salto de mata —

    vivir a salto de mata — (=sin organización) to lead a haphazard life; (=sin seguridad) to live from hand to mouth

    salto a ciegas, salto al vacío — leap in the dark

    2) (Atletismo) jump; (Natación) dive

    • triple salto — triple jump

    salto alto — LAm high jump

    salto en paracaídas — (=salto) parachute jump; (=deporte) parachuting

    salto inicial — (Baloncesto) jump ball

    salto largo — LAm long jump

    3) (=diferencia) gap
    4) (=en texto)

    salto de línea — (Inform) line break

    5) (=desnivel) [de agua] waterfall; [en el terreno] fault

    salto de agua — (Geog) waterfall; (Téc) chute

    6)
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( brinco) jump

    se levantó de un salto — ( de la cama) he leapt o sprang out of bed; ( del suelo) he leapt o jumped up from the floor

    se puso en pie de un salto — she leapt o sprang to her feet

    los pájaros se acercaban dando saltitos — the birds were hopping closer to me/us

    dar or pegar un salto — ( dar un brinco) to jump; ( de susto) to start, jump

    dar un salto en el vacío — to take a leap in the dark

    b) (Dep) (en atletismo, esquí, paracaidismo) jump; ( en natación) dive
    2) (Geog) tb
    * * *
    = bound, leap, jump, hopping, hop, skip.
    Ex. For those involved in producing BNB, the eighties have seen this question leap in a single bound into the realm of stark reality from the cosy abstraction of AACR2.
    Ex. The information qualifications of specialists are portrayed as training on the information trampoline for a leap into new ideas.
    Ex. Hytelenet guides the user through directories of sites on the Internet using hypertext jumps.
    Ex. The sputter of gibberish, the hoppings about the floor, the violent gesticulations, were like the frenzy of a half dozen exasperated baboons.
    Ex. I told him about the doctor's explanation for my lack of weight loss and he did a few hops in place, excited for me that there's an explanation for not losing weight.
    Ex. The skipping rope seemed so long and heavy, and after a few skips, I was ready to drop dead.
    ----
    * dar el salto = make + the leap.
    * dar un salto = leap, give + a jump.
    * dar un salto mortal = somersault, do + a somersault, summersault.
    * gran salto adelante = giant leap, great leap forward.
    * incremento del salto = jump increment.
    * levantarse de un salto = spring up.
    * rampa para salto de esquí = ski jumping ramp.
    * salto a la fama = jump into stardom.
    * salto al estrellato = jump into stardom.
    * salto al vacío = leap in the dark.
    * salto de agua = waterfall, fall.
    * salto de altura = vertical jump, vertical jump, high jumping, high jump.
    * salto de esquí = ski jumping, ski jump.
    * salto de fe = leap of faith.
    * salto del ángel = swan dive.
    * salto de longitud = long jump.
    * salto de página = page break.
    * salto de pértiga = pole vault, pole vaulting.
    * salto de puenting = bungee jump.
    * salto gigante = giant leap.
    * salto hacia el futuro = leap into + the future.
    * salto hacia lo desconocido = leap into + the unknown.
    * salto mental = mental leap.
    * salto mortal = somersault, summersault.
    * salto mortal hacia atrás = backflip.
    * triple salto = triple jump.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( brinco) jump

    se levantó de un salto — ( de la cama) he leapt o sprang out of bed; ( del suelo) he leapt o jumped up from the floor

    se puso en pie de un salto — she leapt o sprang to her feet

    los pájaros se acercaban dando saltitos — the birds were hopping closer to me/us

    dar or pegar un salto — ( dar un brinco) to jump; ( de susto) to start, jump

    dar un salto en el vacío — to take a leap in the dark

    b) (Dep) (en atletismo, esquí, paracaidismo) jump; ( en natación) dive
    2) (Geog) tb
    * * *
    = bound, leap, jump, hopping, hop, skip.

    Ex: For those involved in producing BNB, the eighties have seen this question leap in a single bound into the realm of stark reality from the cosy abstraction of AACR2.

    Ex: The information qualifications of specialists are portrayed as training on the information trampoline for a leap into new ideas.
    Ex: Hytelenet guides the user through directories of sites on the Internet using hypertext jumps.
    Ex: The sputter of gibberish, the hoppings about the floor, the violent gesticulations, were like the frenzy of a half dozen exasperated baboons.
    Ex: I told him about the doctor's explanation for my lack of weight loss and he did a few hops in place, excited for me that there's an explanation for not losing weight.
    Ex: The skipping rope seemed so long and heavy, and after a few skips, I was ready to drop dead.
    * dar el salto = make + the leap.
    * dar un salto = leap, give + a jump.
    * dar un salto mortal = somersault, do + a somersault, summersault.
    * gran salto adelante = giant leap, great leap forward.
    * incremento del salto = jump increment.
    * levantarse de un salto = spring up.
    * rampa para salto de esquí = ski jumping ramp.
    * salto a la fama = jump into stardom.
    * salto al estrellato = jump into stardom.
    * salto al vacío = leap in the dark.
    * salto de agua = waterfall, fall.
    * salto de altura = vertical jump, vertical jump, high jumping, high jump.
    * salto de esquí = ski jumping, ski jump.
    * salto de fe = leap of faith.
    * salto del ángel = swan dive.
    * salto de longitud = long jump.
    * salto de página = page break.
    * salto de pértiga = pole vault, pole vaulting.
    * salto de puenting = bungee jump.
    * salto gigante = giant leap.
    * salto hacia el futuro = leap into + the future.
    * salto hacia lo desconocido = leap into + the unknown.
    * salto mental = mental leap.
    * salto mortal = somersault, summersault.
    * salto mortal hacia atrás = backflip.
    * triple salto = triple jump.

    * * *
    A
    1 (brinco) jump
    atravesó el arroyo de un salto he jumped (over) the stream
    al oír el despertador se levantó de un salto when he heard the alarm clock he leaped o jumped o sprang out of bed
    se puso en pie de un salto she leaped o sprang to her feet
    el conejo se escapó dando saltos the rabbit hopped away to safety
    los pájaros se acercaban dando saltitos the birds were hopping closer to me/us
    cuando oí el tiro pegué un salto I started o jumped at the sound of the shot
    el corazón le daba saltos de la emoción her heart was pounding with excitement
    los niños daban saltos de alegría the children jumped for joy
    el avión no paró de dar saltos it was a very bumpy flight
    de un salto pasó de redactor a director he leapt o shot straight from editor to director
    dos años más tarde dio el salto de productor a director two years later he made the jump from producer to director
    los precios han dado un salto prices have shot up
    el país ha dado un enorme salto atrás the country has taken a huge step backward(s)
    dar un salto en el vacío to take a leap in the dark
    hacer algo a salto de mata to do sth in a haphazard way
    tirarse el salto ( Chi fam); to take a risk
    vivir a salto de mata to take each day as it comes
    vivir a saltos ( Chi fam); to be on edge
    2 ( Dep) (en atletismo, esquí, paracaidismo) jump; (en natación) dive triple1 (↑ triple (1))
    Compuestos:
    bungee jump
    ( AmL) pole vault
    pole vault
    ( Fís) quantum leap
    high jump
    ( Indum) (ligero) negligée; (bata) (CS) dressing gown
    ( Impr, Inf) line break
    long jump
    ( Impr, Inf) page break
    swan dive ( AmE), swallow dive ( BrE)
    ( AmL) high jump
    ( AmL) long jump
    somersault
    B ( Geog) tb
    salto de agua waterfall
    el Salto de Teguendama the Teguendama Falls
    * * *

     

    Del verbo saltar: ( conjugate saltar)

    salto es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    saltó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    saltar    
    salto
    saltar ( conjugate saltar) verbo intransitivo
    1

    (más alto, más lejos) to leap;
    salto a la cuerda or (Esp) comba to jump rope (AmE), to skip (BrE);

    salto con or en una pierna to hop;
    salto de la cama/silla to jump out of bed/one's chair




    salto en paracaídas to parachute;
    ¿sabes salto del trampolín? can you dive off the springboard?;
    saltó al vacío he leapt into space;
    salto SOBRE algo/algn to jump on sth/sb
    2 ( pasar) salto DE algo A algo to jump from sth to sth;

    3 [ botón] to come off, pop off;
    [ chispas] to fly;
    [ aceite] to spit;
    [ corcho] to pop out;
    [ fusibles] to blow;

    verbo transitivo ‹obstáculo/valla/zanja› to jump (over);
    ( apoyándose) to vault (over)
    saltarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) ( omitir) ‹línea/página/nombre› to skip, miss out;

    ‹ comida› to miss, skip
    b) ‹semáforo/stop› to jump

    2 [ botón] to come off, pop off;
    [ pintura] to chip;

    3 (Chi) [diente/loza] to chip
    salto sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( brinco) jump;

    ◊ se levantó de un salto ( de la cama) he leapt o sprang out of bed;


    ( del suelo) he leapt o jumped up from the floor;
    ◊ se puso en pie de un salto she leapt o sprang to her feet;

    los pájaros se acercaban dando saltitos the birds were hopping closer to me/us;
    dar or pegar un salto ( dar un brinco) to jump;

    ( de susto) to start, jump;

    b) (Dep) (en atletismo, esquí, paracaidismo) jump;

    ( en natación) dive;
    salto con pértiga or (AmL) garrocha pole vault;
    ◊ salto de altura/longitud high/long jump;

    salto (en) alto/(en) largo (AmL) high/long jump;
    salto mortal somersault
    2 (Geog) tb

    saltar
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 to jump, leap
    saltar con una pierna, to hop
    saltar en paracaídas, to parachute
    2 (el aceite, etc) to spit
    3 (una alarma, etc) to go off
    4 (con una explosión o estallido) to explode, blow up
    5 (con una frase) to retort: no me vuelvas a saltar con esa tontería, don't come out with such nonsense again
    6 (a la mente) to leap (to one's mind)
    II verbo transitivo
    1 (por encima de algo) to jump (over)
    ♦ Locuciones: hacer saltar por los aires, to blow into the air
    saltar a la vista, to be obvious
    salto sustantivo masculino
    1 jump, leap
    avanzar a saltos, to hop along
    dar un salto de alegría, to jump for joy
    (el corazón) dar un salto, to pound [de, with]
    2 Dep jump
    salto con pértiga, pole vault
    salto mortal, somersault
    (en el agua) dive
    triple salto, hop, step and jump
    salto de longitud/de altura, long jump/high jump
    3 (por omisión, diferencia, vacío) gap
    4 salto atrás, backward step 5 salto de agua, waterfall 6 salto de cama, negligée
    ♦ Locuciones: (avanzar, progresar) dar el salto, to make headway
    familiar vivir a salto de mata, to live from day to day
    ' salto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alarma
    - caída
    - espontánea
    - espontáneo
    - pértiga
    - rebasar
    - tijereta
    - trenzado
    - ejecutar
    - encima
    - listón
    - pedazo
    - pegar
    - saltar
    - zambullida
    English:
    blow up
    - bound
    - dive
    - event
    - gallop up
    - headline
    - in
    - jump
    - jump across
    - jump down
    - jump off
    - jump on
    - leap
    - moving
    - over
    - parachute
    - pole-vaulting
    - show-jumping
    - ski jumping
    - skip
    - somersault
    - spring
    - spring up
    - vault
    - caper
    - dressing
    - high
    - hop
    - long
    - pole
    - robe
    - shoot
    - triple
    - water
    - wrap
    * * *
    salto nm
    1. [brinco] jump;
    [grande] leap; [al agua] dive;
    cruzó la grieta de un salto he jumped across the crevice;
    dar o [m5] pegar un salto to jump;
    [grande] to leap;
    dar saltos de alegría o [m5] contento to jump for joy;
    cuando se enteró de la noticia pegó un salto de alegría when she heard the news she was absolutely thrilled;
    el corazón le dio un salto cuando escuchó el disparo her heart skipped a beat when she heard the shot;
    la empresa ha decidido dar el salto a Internet the company has decided to go on line;
    vivir a salto de mata to live from one day to the next
    Am salto alto high jump;
    salto de altura high jump;
    salto del ángel swallow dive;
    salto entre dos [en baloncesto] jump ball;
    saltos de esquí ski jumping;
    Am salto con garrocha pole vault;
    salto inicial [en baloncesto] tip-off;
    Am salto largo long jump;
    salto de longitud long jump;
    salto mortal somersault;
    salto en paracaídas parachute jump;
    salto con pértiga pole vault
    2. [omisión] gap;
    en este texto hay un salto de varios párrafos there are several paragraphs missing from this text
    3. [progreso] leap forward;
    el nuevo modelo supone un significativo salto cualitativo this model represents a significant qualitative leap forward;
    con esta victoria el equipo da un salto importantísimo this victory is a big leap forward for the team;
    un salto hacia atrás a major step backwards;
    finalmente dio el salto a la fama he finally made his big breakthrough
    4. [despeñadero] precipice
    salto de agua waterfall; Geol salto de falla fault plane
    5. [prenda] salto de cama [liviano] négligée
    6. Informát salto hipertextual hypertext link;
    salto de página page break
    * * *
    m leap, jump;
    dar un salto adelante jump forward;
    salto atrás tb fig step backwards;
    de un salto in one jump;
    dar saltos de alegría jump for joy;
    triple salto triple jump;
    concurso de saltos showjumping competition
    * * *
    salto nm
    1) brinco: jump, leap, skip
    2) : jump, dive (in sports)
    3) : gap, omission
    4)
    dar saltos : to jump up and down
    5) or
    salto de agua catarata: waterfall
    * * *
    1. (en general) jump
    ganó con un salto de 8,95 metros he won with a jump of 8.95 metres
    3. (avance) leap
    dar un salto / pegar un salto to jump

    Spanish-English dictionary > salto

  • 34 big

    big [bɪg]
    grand ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (f), 1 (g) gros ⇒ 1 (a) aîné ⇒ 1 (c) important ⇒ 1 (e) à la mode ⇒ 1 (h)
    (compar bigger, superl biggest)
    (a) (in size → car, hat, majority) grand, gros (grosse); (→ crowd, field, room) grand; (→ person) grand, fort;
    ∎ the crowd got bigger la foule a grossi;
    ∎ in big letters en (lettres) majuscules;
    ∎ a big A un A majuscule;
    ∎ to make sth bigger (garment, hole) agrandir;
    ∎ the new wallpaper makes the room look bigger le nouveau papier peint agrandit la pièce;
    ∎ we're not big eaters nous ne sommes pas de gros mangeurs;
    ∎ to earn big money gagner gros;
    ∎ advertising is where the big money is la publicité rapporte gros;
    ∎ figurative he has a big head il a la grosse tête;
    ∎ familiar figurative he has a big mouth il faut toujours qu'il l'ouvre;
    ∎ familiar why did you have to open your big mouth? tu ne pouvais pas la fermer, non?;
    ∎ Bible & literary to be big with child être enceinte, attendre un enfant;
    ∎ familiar she's too big for her boots or her breeches elle ne se prend pas pour n'importe qui
    (b) (in height) grand;
    ∎ to get or to grow bigger grandir;
    ∎ you're a big boy now tu es un grand garçon maintenant;
    ∎ she's big enough to look after herself elle est assez grande pour se défendre
    (c) (older) aîné, plus grand;
    ∎ my big sister ma grande sœur
    (d) (as intensifier) grand, énorme;
    ∎ he's just a big bully ce n'est qu'une grosse brute;
    ∎ you're the biggest fool of the lot! c'est toi le plus bête de tous!
    (e) (important, significant → decision, problem) grand, important; (→ drop, increase) fort, important; (→ mistake) grave;
    ∎ the big day le grand jour;
    ∎ you've got a big day ahead of you tomorrow tu as une journée importante devant toi demain;
    ∎ this is your big scene (of main character) la scène est à toi; (of minor character) c'est ta scène;
    ∎ he's big in publishing, he's a big man in publishing c'est quelqu'un d'important dans l'édition;
    ∎ we're onto something big! nous sommes sur une piste intéressante!;
    ∎ familiar to be into sb/sth big time or in a big way être dingue de qn/qch;
    ∎ familiar he's been doing drugs big time or in a big way depuis quelque temps il arrête pas de se droguer;
    ∎ familiar it's going to cost them big time ça va leur revenir vachement cher;
    ∎ familiar he messed up his driving test big time il s'est planté dans les grandes largeurs au permis;
    ∎ familiar did you have fun? - big time! vous vous êtes bien amusés? - oui, vachement bien!;
    ∎ familiar to be in the big time, to have made the big time être en haut de l'échelle, être le dessus du panier, être arrivé;
    ∎ familiar to hit or to make or to reach the big time arriver, réussir;
    ∎ familiar once they've had a taste of the big time une fois qu'ils ont goûté au succès;
    ∎ familiar big deal! tu parles!;
    ∎ familiar it's no big deal il n'y a pas de quoi en faire un plat!
    (f) (grandiose) grand;
    ∎ he has very big ideas about the future il a de grands projets d'avenir;
    ∎ don't get any big ideas about doing this yourself ne crois pas que tu vas pouvoir faire ça tout seul;
    ∎ I've got big plans for you j'ai de grands projets pour toi;
    ∎ you really do things in a big way tu ne fais pas les choses à moitié;
    ∎ he went into politics in a big way il est entré dans la politique par la grande porte;
    ∎ they entertain in a big way ils font les choses en grand quand ils reçoivent;
    ∎ big words! ce sont de bien grands mots!
    (g) (generous) grand, généreux;
    ∎ he has a big heart il a du cœur ou bon cœur;
    ∎ he's a big spender c'est un grand dépensier;
    ∎ ironic you know what he's like, the last of the big spenders! tu le connais, toujours à faire des frais;
    ∎ ironic that's big of you! quelle générosité!
    (h) familiar (popular) à la mode□ ;
    ∎ Japanese food is really big just now la cuisine japonaise est vraiment à la mode en ce moment
    ∎ to be big on sth être fana de qch;
    ∎ the company is big on research l'entreprise investit beaucoup dans la recherche
    ∎ he talks big il se vante, il fanfaronne;
    ∎ to think big voir grand
    ∎ their music goes over or down big with teenagers les adolescents adorent leur musique;
    ∎ they made it big in the pop world ce sont maintenant des stars de la musique pop
    ►► familiar the Big Apple = surnom donné à la ville de New York;
    Music big band big band m (grand orchestre de jazz typique des années 40-50);
    British familiar Stock Exchange the Big Bang = déréglementation de la Bourse de Londres en octobre 1986;
    familiar Astronomy the big bang le big-bang, le big bang;
    Astronomy the big bang theory la théorie du big-bang ou big bang;
    big bank grande banque f, enseigne f bancaire;
    Big Ben Big Ben;
    Computing Big Blue = surnom de la société IBM;
    American Stock Exchange the big board = la Bourse de New York;
    Big Brother Big Brother;
    ∎ Big Brother is watching you Big Brother vous surveille;
    Commerce big business (UNCOUNT) les grandes entreprises fpl;
    Zoology big cat fauve m, grand félin m;
    the big cats les fauves mpl, les grands félins mpl;
    familiar figurative big cheese gros bonnet m;
    American familiar the Big D = surnom donné à la ville de Dallas;
    American familiar big daddy = surnom donné au gouvernement américain;
    American Astronomy the Big Dipper la Grande Ourse;
    big dipper (in fairground) montagnes fpl russes;
    American familiar the Big Easy = surnom donné à la Nouvelle-Orléans;
    British Cars big end tête f de bielle;
    British formerly Banking the Big Four = les quatre grandes banques anglaises (Lloyds, National Westminster, Barclays, Midland);
    Hunting big game gros gibier m;
    British familiar humorous big girl's blouse (wimp) femmelette f;
    American pejorative Politics Big Government = gouvernement interventionniste sur le plan social;
    familiar figurative big gun gros bonnet m;
    American familiar big hair = coiffure volumineuse et apprêtée;
    American familiar big house (prison) taule f, placard m;
    ∎ he's gone to the big house on l'a mis à l'ombre;
    familiar Marketing Big Idea, big idea idée-force□ f;
    ∎ new product development is all about coming up with a Big Idea le développement de nouveaux produits démarre toujours avec une idée-force;
    British Press The Big Issue = hebdomadaire vendu au profit des sans-logis par ces derniers, ≃ le Réverbère;
    American Sport Big League (gen) première division f; (in baseball) = une des deux principales divisions de baseball professionnel aux États-Unis;
    American University familiar big man on campus = étudiant jouissant d'une certaine popularité grâce à ses exploits sportifs etc;
    Sport big match grand match m;
    big name grand nom m;
    British familiar figurative big noise gros bonnet m;
    Cinema the big screen le grand écran, le cinéma;
    familiar figurative big shot gros bonnet m;
    ∎ he thinks he's a real big shot il croit qu'il est vraiment quelqu'un;
    British familiar the Big Smoke (gen) la grande ville□ ; (London) = surnom donné à Londres;
    familiar figurative the big stick le bâton, la force;
    big stick diplomacy diplomatie f musclée;
    American Sport the Big Ten = équipes sportives universitaires du Mid West, réputées de très haut niveau;
    Cars the Big Three = les trois principaux constructeurs automobiles américains (General Motors, Ford, Chrysler);
    Anatomy big toe gros orteil m;
    big top (tent) grand chapiteau m; (circus) cirque m;
    familiar figurative big wheel gros bonnet m
    ✾ Book ✾ Film 'The Big Sleep' Chandler, Hawks 'Le Grand Sommeil'
    ✾ Film 'The Big Chill' Kasdan 'Les Copains d'abord'
    ⓘ BIG BEN Nom de la cloche de la Tour de l'horloge à Westminster, souvent donné à tort à la tour elle-même. Elle est considérée comme un des monuments principaux de Londres.
    ⓘ Big brother is watching you Cette formule ("Big Brother vous surveille") est tirée du roman de George Orwell 1984, dans lequel Big Brother personnifie l'état tout-puissant et omniprésent. Le terme "Big Brother" est entré dans la langue pour décrire tout état totalitaire, et l'expression Big Brother is watching you s'utilise souvent sur le mode humoristique à propos d'un gouvernement ou de tout autre forme d'autorité perçus comme impersonnels et envahissants.

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  • 35 Breguet, Abraham-Louis

    SUBJECT AREA: Horology
    [br]
    baptized 10 January 1747 Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    d. 17 September 1823 Paris, France
    [br]
    Swiss clock-and watchmaker who made many important contributions to horology.
    [br]
    When Breguet was 11 years old his father died and his mother married a Swiss watchmaker who had Paris connections. His stepfather introduced him to horology and this led to an apprenticeship in Paris, during which he also attended evening classes in mathematics at the Collège Mazarin. In 1775 he married and set up a workshop in Paris, initially in collaboration with Xavier Gide. There he established a reputation among the aristocracy for elegant and innovative timepieces which included a perpétuelle, or self-winding watch, which he developed from the ideas of Perrelet. He also enjoyed the patronage of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. During the French Revolution his life was in danger and in 1793 he fled to Neuchâtel. The two years he spent there comprised what was intellectually one of his most productive periods and provided many of the ideas that he was able to exploit after he had returned to Paris in 1795. By the time of his death he had become the most prestigious watchmaker in Europe: he supplied timepieces to Napoleon and, after the fall of the Empire, to Louis XVIII, as well as to most of the crowned heads of Europe.
    Breguet divided his contributions to horology into three categories: improvements in appearance and functionality; improvements in durability; and improvements in timekeeping. His pendule sympathique was in the first category and consisted of a clock which during the night set a watch to time, regulated it and wound it. His parachute, a spring-loaded bearing, made a significant contribution to the durability of a watch by preventing damage to its movement if it was dropped. Among the many improvements that Breguet made to timekeeping, two important ones were the introduction of the overcoil balance spring and the tourbillon. By bending the outside end of the balance spring over the top of the coils Breguet was able to make the oscillations of the balance isochronous, thus achieving for the flat spring what Arnold had already accomplished for the cylindrical balance spring. The timekeeping of a balance is also dependent on its position, and the tourbillon was an attempt to average-out positional errors by placing the balance wheel and the escapement in a cage that rotated once every minute. This principle was revived in a simplified form in the karussel at the end of the nineteenth century.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Horloger de la marine 1815. Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur 1815.
    Bibliography
    Breguet gathered information for a treatise on horology that was never published but which was later plagiarized by Louis Moinet in his Traité d'horlogerie, 1848.
    Further Reading
    G.Daniels, 1974, The An of Breguet, London (an account of his life with a good technical assessment of his work).
    DV

    Biographical history of technology > Breguet, Abraham-Louis

  • 36 Birth Order

       In science, birth-order effects are driven by the ideological implications inherent in new ideas. Theories that have socially radical implications tend to be championed by laterborns and rejected by firstborns. Theories that have socially conservative implications display the opposite trend: firstborns tend to back conservative innovations, whereas laterborns are among the most vocal opponents of this class of ideas....
       The linear relationship between birth-order trends and ideological tendencies makes my argument about birth order testable in a variety of ways. For example, socially conservative innovations that are championed by laterborns should never occur in history. The discovery of even one such episode with a significant trend would constitute a formidable challenge to my claims. Similarly, evidence of radical revolutions favored by firstborns is also not to be expected. When firstborns have "rebelled" in history, it has been to bring God back into the scientific picture or to reaffirm the social status quo. Firstborns favored eugenics because this reform movement seemed to rationalize socioeconomic disparities in terms of genetics. (The word eugenics comes from the Greek, meaning "well born.") Historically, firstborns have tended to support the notion that biology is destiny. Minority races, women, and laterborns have all typically resisted such deterministic notions. (Sulloway, 1996, pp. 130, 133)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Birth Order

  • 37 अर्थः _arthḥ

    अर्थः [In some of its senses from अर्थ्; in others from ऋ-थन् Uṇ.2.4; अर्थते ह्यसौ अर्थिभिः Nir.]
    1 Object, pur- pose, end and aim; wish, desire; ज्ञातार्थो ज्ञातसंबन्धः श्रोतुं श्रोता प्रवर्तते, सिद्ध˚, ˚परिपन्थी Mu.5; ˚वशात् 5.8; स्मर्तव्यो$स्मि सत्यर्थे Dk.117 if it be necessary; Y.2.46; M.4.6; oft. used in this sense as the last member of compounds and translated by 'for', 'intended for', 'for the sake of', 'on account of', 'on behalf of', and used like an adj. to qualify nouns; अर्थेन तु नित्य- समासो विशेष्यनिघ्रता च Vārt.; सन्तानार्थाय विधये R.1.34; तां देवतापित्रतिथिक्रियार्थाम् (धेनुम्) 2.16; द्विजार्था यवागूः Sk.; यज्ञार्थात्कर्मणो$न्यत्र Bg.3.9. It mostly occurs in this sense as अर्थम्, अर्थे or अर्थाय and has an adverbial force; (a) किमर्थम् for what purpose, why; यदर्थम् for whom or which; वेलोपलक्षणार्थम् Ś.4; तद्दर्शनादभूच्छम्भोर्भूयान्दारार्थ- मादरः Ku.6.13; (b) परार्थे प्राज्ञ उत्सृजेत् H.1.41; गवार्थे ब्राह्मणार्थे च Pt.1.42; मदर्थे त्यक्तजीविताः Bg.1.9; (c) सुखार्थाय Pt.4.18; प्रत्याख्याता मया तत्र नलस्यार्थाय देवताः Nala.13.19; ऋतुपर्णस्य चार्थाय 23.9.
    -2 Cause, motive, reason, ground, means; अलुप्तश्च मुनेः क्रियार्थः R. 2.55 means or cause; अतो$र्थात् Ms.2.213.
    -3 Meaning, sense, signification, import; अर्थ is of 3 kinds:-- वाच्य or expressed, लक्ष्य or indicated (secondary), and व्यङ्ग्य or suggested; तददोषौ शब्दार्थौ K. P.1; अर्थो वाच्यश्च लक्ष्यश्च व्यङ्ग्यश्चेति त्रिधा मतः S. D.2; वागर्थाविव R.1.1; अवेक्ष्य धातोर्गमनार्थमर्थवित् 3.21.
    -4 A thing, object, substance; लक्ष्मणो$र्थं ततः श्रुत्वा Rām.7.46.18; अर्थो हि कन्या परकीय एव Ś.4.22; that which can be perceived by the senses, an object of sense; इन्द्रिय˚ H.1.146; Ku.7.71; R.2.51; न निर्बद्धा उपसर्गा अर्थान्निराहुः Nir.; इन्द्रियेभ्यः परा ह्यर्था अर्थेभ्यश्च परं मनः Kaṭh. (the objects of sense are five: रूप, रस, गन्ध, स्पर्श and शब्द); शब्दः स्पर्शो रसो गन्धो रूपं चेत्यर्थजातयः Bhāg.11.22.16.
    -5 (a) An affair, business, matter, work; प्राक् प्रतिपन्नो$यमर्थो$- ङ्गराजाय Ve.3; अर्थो$यमर्थान्तरभाव्य एव Ku.3.18; अर्थो$र्था- नुबन्धी Dk.67; सङ्गीतार्थः Me.66 business of singing i. e. musical concert (apparatus of singing); सन्देशार्थाः Me. 5 matters of message, i. e. messages; (b) Interest, object; स्वार्थसाधनतत्परः Ms.4.196; द्वयमेवार्थसाधनम् R.1. 19;2.21; दुरापे$र्थे 1.72; सर्वार्थचिन्तकः Ms.7.121; माल- विकायां न मे कश्चिदर्थः M.3 I have no interest in M. (c) Subject-matter, contents (as of letters &c.); त्वामव- गतार्थं करिष्यति Mu.1 will acquaint you with the matter; उत्तरो$यं लेखार्थः ibid.; तेन हि अस्य गृहीतार्था भवामि V.2 if so I should know its contents; ननु परिगृहीतार्थो$- स्मि कृतो भवता V.5; तया भवतो$विनयमन्तरेण परिगृहीतार्था कृता देवी M.4 made acquainted with; त्वया गृहीतार्थया अत्रभवती कथं न वारिता 3; अगृहीतार्थे आवाम् Ś.6; इति पौरान् गृहीतार्थान् कृत्वा ibid.
    -6 Wealth, riches, property, money (said to be of 3 kinds: शुक्ल honestly got; शबल got by more or less doubtful means, and कृष्ण dishonestly got;) त्यागाय संभृतार्थानाम् R.1.7; धिगर्थाः कष्टसंश्रयाः Pt.1.163; अर्थानामर्जने दुःखम् ibid.; सस्यार्थास्तस्य मित्राणि1.3; तेषामर्थे नियुञ्जीत शूरान् दक्षान् कुलोद्गतान् Ms.7.62.
    -7 Attainment of riches or worldly prosperity, regarded as one of the four ends of human existence, the other three being धर्म, काम and मोक्ष; with अर्थ and काम, धर्म forms the well-known triad; cf. Ku.5.38; अप्यर्थकामौ तस्यास्तां धर्म एव मनीषिणः R.1.25.
    -8 (a) Use, advantage, profit, good; तथा हि सर्वे तस्यासन् परार्थैकफला गुणाः R.1.29 for the good of others; अर्थान- र्थावुभौ बुद्ध्वा Ms.8.24 good and evil; क्षेत्रिणामर्थः 9.52; यावानर्थ उदपाने सर्वतः सांप्लुतोदके Bg.2.46; also व्यर्थ, निरर्थक q. v. (b) Use, want, need, concern, with instr.; को$र्थः पुत्रेण जातेन Pt.1 what is the use of a son being born; कश्च तेनार्थः Dk.59; को$र्थस्तिरश्चां गुणैः Pt.2.33 what do brutes care for merits; Bh.2.48; योग्येनार्थः कस्य न स्याज्ज- नेन Ś.18.66; नैव तस्य कृतेनार्थो नाकृतेनेह कश्चन Bg.3.18; यदि प्राणैरिहार्थो वो निवर्तध्वम् Rām. को नु मे जीवितेनार्थः Nala.12. 65.
    -9 Asking, begging; request, suit, petition.
    -1 Action, plaint (in law); अर्थ विरागाः पश्यन्ति Rām.2.1. 58; असाक्षिकेषु त्वर्थेषु Ms.8.19.
    -11 The actual state, fact of the matter; as in यथार्थ, अर्थतः, ˚तत्वविद्, यदर्थेन विनामुष्य पुंस आत्मविपर्ययः Bhāg.3.7.1.
    -12 Manner, kind, sort.
    -13 Prevention, warding off; मशकार्थो धूमः; prohibition, abolition (this meaning may also be derived from 1 above).
    -14 Price (perhaps an incorrect form for अर्घ).
    -15 Fruit, result (फलम्). तस्य नानुभवेदर्थं यस्य हेतोः स रोपितः Rām.6.128.7; Mb.12.175.5.
    -16 N. of a son of धर्म.
    -17 The second place from the लग्न (in astr.).
    -18 N. of Viṣṇu.
    -19 The category called अपूर्व (in पूर्वमीमांसा); अर्थ इति अपूर्वं ब्रूमः । ŚB. on MS.7.1.2.
    -2 Force (of a statement or an expres- sion); अर्थाच्च सामर्थ्याच्च क्रमो विधीयते । ŚB. on MS.5.1.2. [अर्थात् = by implication].
    -21 The need, purpose, sense; व्यवधानादर्थो बलीयान् । ŚB. on MS.6.4.23.
    -22 Capacity, power; अर्थाद्वा कल्पनैकदेशत्वात् । Ms.1.4.3 (where Śabara paraphrases अर्थात् by सामर्थ्यात् and states the rule: आख्यातानामर्थं ब्रुवतां शक्तिः सहकारिणी ।), cf. अर्थो$भिधेयरैवस्तुप्रयोजननिवृत्तिषु । मोक्षकारणयोश्च...... Nm.
    -Comp. -अतिदेशः Extension (of gender, number &e.) to the objects (as against words), i. e. to treat a single object as though it were many, a female as though it were male. (तन्त्रवार्त्तिक 1.2.58.3;6.3.34.7).
    -अधिकारः charge of money, office of treasurer ˚रे न नियोक्तव्यौ H.2.
    -अधिकारिन् m. a treasurer, one charged with finan- cial duties, finance minister.
    -अनुपपत्तिः f. The difficulty of accounting for or explaining satisfactorily a particular meaning; incongruity of a particular meaning (तन्त्रवार्त्तिक 4.3.42.2).
    -अनुयायिन् a. Following the rules (शास्त्र); तत्त्रिकालहितं वाक्यं धर्म्यमर्थानुयायि च Rām.5.51.21.
    -अन्वेषणम् inquiry after a matter.
    -अन्तरम् 1 another or different meaning.
    -2 another cause or motive; अर्थो$यम- र्थान्तरभाव्य एव Ku.3.18.
    -3 A new matter or circum- stance, new affair.
    -4 opposite or antithetical meaning, difference of meaning. ˚न्यासः a figure of speech in which a general proposition is adduced to support a particular instance, or a particular instance, to support a general proposition; it is an inference from parti- cular to general and vice versa; उक्तिरर्थान्तरन्यासः स्यात् सामान्यविशेषयोः । (1) हनूमानब्धिमतरद् दुष्करं किं महात्मनाम् ॥ (2) गुणवद्वस्तुसंसर्गाद्याति नीचो$पि गौरवम् । पुष्पमालानुषङ्गेण सूत्रं शिरसि धार्यते Kuval.; cf. also K. P.1 and S. D.79. (Ins- tances of this figure abound in Sanskrit literature, especi- ally in the works of Kālidāsa, Māgha and Bhāravi).
    -अन्वित a.
    1 rich, wealthy.
    -2 significant.
    -अभिधान a.
    1 That whose name is connected with the purpose to be served by it; अर्थाभिधानं प्रयोजनसम्बद्धमभिधानं यस्य, यथा पुरोडाश- कपालमिति पुरोडाशार्थं कपालं पुरोडाशकपालम् । ŚB. on MS.4.1. 26.
    -2 Expression or denotation of the desired meaning (वार्त्तिक 3.1.2.5.).
    -अर्थिन् a. one who longs for or strives to get wealth or gain any object. अर्थार्थी जीवलोको$यम् । आर्तो जिज्ञासुरर्थार्थी Bg.7.16.
    -अलंकरः a figure of speech determined by and dependent on the sense, and not on sound (opp. शब्दालंकार). अलंकारशेखर of केशवमिश्र mentions (verse 29) fourteen types of अर्थालंकारs as follows:- उपमारूपकोत्प्रेक्षाः समासोक्तिरपह्नुतिः । समाहितं स्वभावश्च विरोधः सारदीपकौ ॥ सहोक्तिरन्यदेशत्वं विशेषोक्तिर्विभावना । एवं स्युरर्थालकारा- श्चतुर्दश न चापरे ॥
    -आगमः 1 acquisition of wealth, income; ˚गमाय स्यात् Pt.1. cf. also अर्थागमो नित्यमरोगिता च H.
    -2 collection of property.
    -3 conveying of sense; S. D.737.
    -आपत्तिः f. [अर्थस्य अनुक्तार्थस्य आपत्तिः सिद्धिः]
    1 an inference from circumstances, presumption, im- plication, one of the five sources of knowledge or modes of proof, according to the Mīmāṁsakas. It is 'deduc- tion of a matter from that which could not else be'; it is 'assumption of a thing, not itself perceived but necessarily implied by another which is seen, heard, or proved'; it is an inference used to account for an apparent inconsistency; as in the familiar instance पीनो देवदत्तो दिवा न भुङ्क्ते the apparent inconsistency between 'fatness' and 'not eating by day' is accounted for by the inference of his 'eating by night'. पीनत्वविशि- ष्टस्य देवदत्तस्य रात्रिभोजित्वरूपार्थस्य शब्दानुक्तस्यापि आपत्तिः. It is defined by Śabara as दृष्टः श्रुतो वार्थो$न्यथा नोपपद्यते इत्यर्थ- कल्पना । यथा जीवति देवदत्ते गृहाभावदर्शनेन बहिर्भावस्यादृष्टस्य कल्पना ॥ Ms.1.1.5. It may be seen from the words दृष्टः and श्रुतः in the above definition, that Śabara has sug- gested two varieties of अर्थापत्ति viz. दृष्टार्थापत्ति and श्रुता- र्थापत्ति. The illustration given by him, however, is of दृष्टार्थापत्ति only. The former i. e. दृष्टार्थापत्ति consists in the presumption of some अदृष्ट अर्थ to account for some दृष्ट अर्थ (or अर्थs) which otherwise becomes inexplicable. The latter, on the other hand, consists in the presump- tion of some अर्थ through अश्रुत शब्द to account for some श्रुत अर्थ (i. e. some statement). This peculiarity of श्रुतार्थापत्ति is clearly stated in the following couplet; यत्र त्वपरिपूर्णस्य वाक्यस्यान्वयसिद्धये । शब्दो$ध्याह्रियते तत्र श्रुतार्थापत्ति- रिष्यते ॥ Mānameyodaya p.129 (ed. by K. Raja, Adyar, 1933). Strictly speaking it is no separate mode of proof; it is only a case of अनुमान and can be proved by a व्यतिरेकव्याप्ति; cf. Tarka. K.17 and S. D.46.
    -2 a figure of speech (according to some rhe- toricians) in which a relevant assertion suggests an inference not actually connected with the the subject in hand, or vice versa; it corresponds to what is popularly called कैमुतिकन्याय or दण्डापूपन्याय; e. g. हारो$यं हरिणाक्षीणां लुण्ठति स्तनमण्डले । मुक्तानामप्यवस्थेयं के वयं स्मरकिङ्कराः Amaru.1; अभितप्तमयो$पि मार्दवं भजते कैव कथा शरीरिषु R.8.43.; S. D. thus defines the figure:- दण्डापूपिकन्यायार्थागमो$र्थापत्तिरिष्यते.
    -उत्पत्तिः f. acquisition of wealth; so ˚उपार्जनम्.
    -उपक्षेपकः an introductory scene (in dramas); अर्थोपक्षेपकाः पञ्च S. D.38. They are विष्कम्भ, चूलिका, अङ्कास्य, अङ्कावतार, प्रवेशक.
    -उपमा a simile dependent on sense and not on sound; see under उपमा.
    -उपार्जनम् Acquiring wealth.
    -उष्मन् m. the glow or warmth of wealth; अर्थोष्मणा विरहितः पुरुषः स एव Bh.2.4.
    -ओघः, -राशिः treasure, hoard of money.
    -कर (
    -री f.),
    -कृत a.
    1 bringing in wealth, enriching; अर्थकरी च विद्या H. Pr.3.
    -2 useful, advan- tageous.
    -कर्मन् n.
    1 a principal action (opp. गुणकर्मन्).
    -2 (as opposed to प्रतिपत्तिकर्मन्), A fruitful act (as opposed to mere disposal or प्रतिपत्ति); अर्थकर्म वा कर्तृ- संयोगात् स्रग्वत् । MS.4.2.17.
    -काम a. desirous of wealth. (-˚मौ dual), wealth and (sensual) desire or pleasure; अप्यर्थकामौ तस्यास्तां धर्म एव मनीषिणः R.1.25. ह्रत्वार्थकामास्तु गुरूनिहैव Bg.2.5.
    -कार्ष्यम् Poverty. निर्बन्धसंजातरुषार्थकार्घ्यमचिन्तयित्वा गुरुणाहमुक्तः R.5.21.
    -काशिन् a. Only apparently of utility (not really).
    -किल्बिषिन् a. dishonest in money-matters.
    -कृच्छ्रम् 1 a difficult matter.
    -2 pecuniary difficulty; व्यसनं वार्थकृच्छ्रे वा Rām.4.7.9; Mb.3.2.19; cf. also Kau. A.1.15 न मुह्येदर्थकृच्छ्रेषु Nīti.
    -कृत्यम् doing or execution of a business; अभ्युपेतार्थकृत्याः Me.4.
    -कोविद a. Expert in a matter, experienced. उवाच रामो धर्मात्मा पुनरप्यर्थकोविदः Rām.6.4.8.
    -क्रमः due order or sequ- ence of purpose.
    -क्रिया (a) An implied act, an act which is to be performed as a matter of course (as opposed to शब्दोक्तक्रिया); असति शब्दोक्ते अर्थक्रिया भवति ŚB. on MS.12.1.12. (b) A purposeful action. (see अर्थकर्मन्).
    -गत a.
    1 based on the sense (as a दोष).
    -2 devoid of sense.
    -गतिः understanding the sense.
    -गुणाः cf. भाविकत्वं सुशब्दत्वं पर्यायोक्तिः सुधर्मिता । चत्वारो$र्थगुणाः प्रोक्ताः परे त्वत्रैव संगताः ॥ अलंकारशेखर 21.
    -गृहम् A treasury. Hariv.
    -गौरवम् depth of meaning; भारवेरर्थगौरवम् Udb., Ki.2.27.
    -घ्न a. (
    घ्नी f.) extrava- gant, wasteful, prodigal; सुरापी व्याधिता धूर्ता वन्ध्यार्थघ्न्य- प्रियंवदा Y.1.73; व्याधिता वाधिवेत्तव्या हिंस्रार्थघ्नी च सर्वदा Ms.9.8.
    -चित्रम् 'variety in sense', a pun, Kāvya- prakāśa.
    -चिन्तक a.
    1 thinking of profit.
    -2 having charge of affairs; सर्वार्थचिन्तकः Ms.7.121.
    -चिन्ता, -चिन्तनम् charge or administration of (royal) affairs; मन्त्री स्यादर्थचिन्तायाम् S. D.
    -जात a.
    1 full of meaning.
    -2 wealthy (जातधन).
    (-तम्) 1 a collection of things.
    -2 large amount of wealth, considerable property; Dk.63, Ś.6; ददाति च नित्यमर्थजातम् Mk.2.7.
    -3 all matters; कवय इव महीपाश्चिन्तयन्त्यर्थजातम् Śi.11.6.
    -4 its own meaning; वहन्द्वयीं यद्यफले$र्थजाते Ki.3.48.
    -ज्ञ a. knowing the sense or purpose; अर्थज्ञ इत्सकलं भद्रमश्नुते Nir.
    -तत्त्वम् 1 the real truth, the fact of the matter; यो$र्थतत्त्वमविज्ञाय क्रोधस्यैव वशं गतः H.4.94.
    -2 the real nature or cause of anything.
    -द a.
    1 yielding wealth; Dk.41.
    -2 advantageous, productive of good, useful.
    -3 liberal, munificent Ms.2.19.
    -4 favour- able, compliant. (
    -दः) N. of Kubera.
    -दर्शकः 'one who sees law-suits'; a judge.
    -दर्शनम् perception of objects; कुरुते दीप इवार्थदर्शनम् Ki.2.33; Dk.155.
    -दूषणम् 1 extravagance, waste; H.3.18; Ms.7.48.
    -2 unjust seizure of property or withholding what is due.
    -3 finding fault with the meaning.
    -4 spoiling of another's property.
    -दृश् f. Consideration of truth; क्षेमं त्रिलोकगुरुरर्थदृशं च यच्छन् Bhāg.1.86.21.
    -दृष्टिः Seeing profit; Bhāg.
    -दोषः a literary fault or blemish with regard to the sense, one of the four doṣas or blemishes of literary composition, the other three being परदोष, पदांशदोष, वाक्यदोष; for definitions &c. see K. P.7. अलंकारशेखर of केशवमिश्र who mentions eight types of doṣas as follows: अष्टार्थदोषाः विरस, -ग्राम्य, -व्याहत, -खिन्नताः । -हीना, -धिका, सदृक्साम्यं देशादीनां विरोधि च ॥ 17
    -द्वयविधानम् Injunction of two ideas or senses; विधाने चार्थद्वयविधानं दोषः ŚB. on MS.1.8.7.
    -नित्य a. = अर्थ- प्रधान Nir.
    -निबन्धन a. dependent on wealth.
    -निश्चयः determination, decision.
    -प्रतिः 1 'the lord of riches', a a king; किंचिद् विहस्यार्थपतिं बभाषे R.2.46;1.59;9.3;18.1; Pt.1.74.
    -2 an epithet of Kubera.
    -पदम् N. of the Vārt. on Pāṇini; ससूत्रवृत्त्यर्थपदं महार्थं ससंग्रहं सिद्ध्यति वै कपीन्द्रः Rām.7.36.45.
    -पर, -लुब्ध a.
    1 intent on gaining wealth, greedy of wealth, covetous.
    -2 niggardly, parsimonious; हिंस्रा दयालुरपि चार्थपरा वदान्या Bh.2.47; Pt.1.425.
    -प्रकृतिः f. the leading source or occasion of the grand object in a drama; (the number of these 'sources' is five:-- बीजं बिन्दुः पताका च प्रकरी कार्यमेव च । अर्थप्रकृतयः पञ्च ज्ञात्वा योज्या यथाविधि S. D.317.)
    -प्रयोगः 1 usury.
    -2 administration of the affairs (of a state)
    -प्राप्त a. derived or understood from the sense included as a matter of course, implied; परिसमाप्तिः शब्दार्थः । परिसमाप्त्यामर्थप्राप्तत्वादारम्भस्य । ŚB. on MS.6.2.13.
    -˚त्वम् Inplication.
    -बन्धः 1 arrange- ment of words, composition, text; stanza, verse; संचिन्त्य गीतक्षममर्थबन्धम् Ś.7.5; ललितार्थबन्धम् V.2.14 put or expressed in elegant words.
    -2. connection (of the soul) with the objects of sense.
    -बुद्धि a. selfish.
    -बोधः indication of the (real) import.
    -भाज् a. entitled to a share in the division of property.
    -भावनम् Delibera- tion over a subject (Pātañjala Yogadarśana 1.28).
    -भृत् a. receiving high wages (as a servant).
    -भेदः distinc- tion or difference of meaning; अर्थभेदेन शब्दभेदः.
    -मात्रम्, -त्रा 1 property, wealth; Pt.2.
    -2 the whole sense or object.
    -युक्त a. significant, full of यस्यार्थयुक्तं meaning; गिरिराजशब्दं कुर्वन्ति Ku.1.13.
    -लक्षण a. As determined by the purpose or need (as opposed to शब्दलक्षण); लोके कर्मार्थलक्षणम् Ms.11.1.26.
    -लाभः acquisition of wealth.
    -लोभः avarice.
    -वशः power in the form of discrimination and knowledge. अर्थवशात् सप्तरूपविनिवृत्ताम् Sāvk.65.
    -वादः 1 declaration of any purpose.
    -2 affirmation, declaratory assertion, an explanatory remark, exegesis; speech or assertion having a certain object; a sentence. (It usually recommends a विधि or precept by stating the good arising from its proper observance, and the evils arising from its omission, and also by adducing historical instances in its support; स्तुतिर्निन्दा परकृतिः पुराकल्प इत्यर्थवादः Gaut. Sūt.; said by Laugākṣi to be of 3 kinds:- गुणवादो विरोधे स्यादनु वादो$वधारिते । भूतार्थवादस्तद्धानादर्थ- वादस्त्रिधा मतः; the last kind includes many varieties.)
    -3 one of the six means of finding out the tātparya (real aim and object) of any work.
    -4 praise, eulogy; अर्थवाद एषः । दोषं तु मे कंचित्कथय U.1.
    -विकरणम् = अर्थ- विक्रिया change of meaning.
    -विकल्पः 1 deviation from truth, perversion of fact.
    -2 prevarication; also ˚वैकल्प्यम्
    -विज्ञानम् comprehending the sense, one of the six exercises of the understanding (धीगुण).
    -विद् a. sensible, wise, sagacious. भुङ्क्ते तदपि तच्चान्यो मधुहेवार्थविन्मधु Bhāg.11.18.15. विवक्षतामर्थविदस्तत्क्षणप्रतिसंहृताम् Śi.
    -विद्या knowledge of practical life; Mb.7.
    -विपत्तिः Failing of an aim; समीक्ष्यतां चार्थविपत्तिमार्गताम् Rām.2.19.4.
    -विभावक a. money-giver; विप्रेभ्यो$र्थविभावकः Mb.3.33. 84.
    -विप्रकर्षः difficulty in the comprehension of the sense.
    -विशेषणम् a reprehensive repetition of something uttered by another; S. D.49.
    -वृद्धिः f. accumulation of wealth.
    -व्ययः expenditure; ˚ज्ञ a. conversant with money-matters.
    -शब्दौ Word and sense.
    -शालिन् a. Wealthy.
    -शास्त्रम् 1 the science of wealth (political economy).
    -2 science of polity, political science, politics; अर्थशास्त्रविशारदं सुधन्वानमुपाध्यायम् Rām.2.1.14. Dk.12; इह खलु अर्थशास्त्रकारास्त्रिविधां सिद्धिमुपवर्णयन्ति Mu.3; ˚व्यवहारिन् one dealing with politics, a politician; Mu.5.
    -3 science giving precepts on general conduct, the science of practical life; Pt.1.
    -शौचम् purity or honesty in money-matters; सर्वेषां चैव शौचानामर्थशौचं परं स्मृतं Ms. 5.16.
    -श्री Great wealth.
    -संस्थानम् 1 accumulation of wealth.
    -2 treasury.
    -संग्रहः, -संचयः accumulation or acquisition of wealth, treasure, property. कोशेनाश्रयणी- यत्वमिति तस्यार्थसंग्रहः R.17.6. कुदेशमासाद्य कुतो$र्थसंचयः H.
    -संग्रहः a book on Mīmāṁsā by Laugākṣi Bhāskara.
    -सतत्त्वम् truth; किं पुनरत्रार्थसतत्त्वम् । देवा ज्ञातुमर्हन्ति MBh. or P.VIII.3.72.
    -समाजः aggregate of causes.
    -समाहारः 1 treasure.
    -2 acquisition of wealth.
    -संपद् f. accomplishment of a desired object; उपेत्य संघर्ष- मिवार्थसंपदः Ki.1.15.
    -संपादनम् Carrying out of an affair; Ms.7.168.
    -संबन्धः connection of the sense with the word or sentence.
    -संबन्धिन् a. Concerned or interested in an affair; Ms.8.64.
    -साधक a.
    1 accomplishing any object.
    -2 bringing any matter to a conclusion.
    -सारः considerable wealth; Pt.2.42.
    -सिद्ध a. understood from the very context (though not expressed in words), inferable from the connection of words.
    -सिद्धिः f. fulfilment of a desired object, success. द्वारमिवार्थसिद्धेः R.2.21.
    -हानिः Loss of wealth
    -हारिन् a. stealing money Ks.
    -हर a. inheriting wealth.
    -हीन a.
    1 deprived of wealth, poor.
    -2 unmeaning, nonsensical.
    -3 failing.

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  • 38 Introduction

       Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. Yet, Portuguese society had received, over the course of 2,000 years, infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous, as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from its erstwhile overseas empire.
       Other paradoxes should be noted as well. Although Portugal is sometimes confused with Spain or things Spanish, its very national independence and national culture depend on being different from Spain and Spaniards. Today, Portugal's independence may be taken for granted. Since 1140, except for 1580-1640 when it was ruled by Philippine Spain, Portugal has been a sovereign state. Nevertheless, a recurring theme of the nation's history is cycles of anxiety and despair that its freedom as a nation is at risk. There is a paradox, too, about Portugal's overseas empire(s), which lasted half a millennium (1415-1975): after 1822, when Brazil achieved independence from Portugal, most of the Portuguese who emigrated overseas never set foot in their overseas empire, but preferred to immigrate to Brazil or to other countries in North or South America or Europe, where established Portuguese overseas communities existed.
       Portugal was a world power during the period 1415-1550, the era of the Discoveries, expansion, and early empire, and since then the Portuguese have experienced periods of decline, decadence, and rejuvenation. Despite the fact that Portugal slipped to the rank of a third- or fourth-rate power after 1580, it and its people can claim rightfully an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions that assure their place both in world and Western history. These distinctions should be kept in mind while acknowledging that, for more than 400 years, Portugal has generally lagged behind the rest of Western Europe, although not Southern Europe, in social and economic developments and has remained behind even its only neighbor and sometime nemesis, Spain.
       Portugal's pioneering role in the Discoveries and exploration era of the 15th and 16th centuries is well known. Often noted, too, is the Portuguese role in the art and science of maritime navigation through the efforts of early navigators, mapmakers, seamen, and fishermen. What are often forgotten are the country's slender base of resources, its small population largely of rural peasants, and, until recently, its occupation of only 16 percent of the Iberian Peninsula. As of 1139—10, when Portugal emerged first as an independent monarchy, and eventually a sovereign nation-state, England and France had not achieved this status. The Portuguese were the first in the Iberian Peninsula to expel the Muslim invaders from their portion of the peninsula, achieving this by 1250, more than 200 years before Castile managed to do the same (1492).
       Other distinctions may be noted. Portugal conquered the first overseas empire beyond the Mediterranean in the early modern era and established the first plantation system based on slave labor. Portugal's empire was the first to be colonized and the last to be decolonized in the 20th century. With so much of its scattered, seaborne empire dependent upon the safety and seaworthiness of shipping, Portugal was a pioneer in initiating marine insurance, a practice that is taken for granted today. During the time of Pombaline Portugal (1750-77), Portugal was the first state to organize and hold an industrial trade fair. In distinctive political and governmental developments, Portugal's record is more mixed, and this fact suggests that maintaining a government with a functioning rule of law and a pluralist, representative democracy has not been an easy matter in a country that for so long has been one of the poorest and least educated in the West. Portugal's First Republic (1910-26), only the third republic in a largely monarchist Europe (after France and Switzerland), was Western Europe's most unstable parliamentary system in the 20th century. Finally, the authoritarian Estado Novo or "New State" (1926-74) was the longest surviving authoritarian system in modern Western Europe. When Portugal departed from its overseas empire in 1974-75, the descendants, in effect, of Prince Henry the Navigator were leaving the West's oldest empire.
       Portugal's individuality is based mainly on its long history of distinc-tiveness, its intense determination to use any means — alliance, diplomacy, defense, trade, or empire—to be a sovereign state, independent of Spain, and on its national pride in the Portuguese language. Another master factor in Portuguese affairs deserves mention. The country's politics and government have been influenced not only by intellectual currents from the Atlantic but also through Spain from Europe, which brought new political ideas and institutions and novel technologies. Given the weight of empire in Portugal's past, it is not surprising that public affairs have been hostage to a degree to what happened in her overseas empire. Most important have been domestic responses to imperial affairs during both imperial and internal crises since 1415, which have continued to the mid-1970s and beyond. One of the most important themes of Portuguese history, and one oddly neglected by not a few histories, is that every major political crisis and fundamental change in the system—in other words, revolution—since 1415 has been intimately connected with a related imperial crisis. The respective dates of these historical crises are: 1437, 1495, 1578-80, 1640, 1820-22, 1890, 1910, 1926-30, 1961, and 1974. The reader will find greater detail on each crisis in historical context in the history section of this introduction and in relevant entries.
       LAND AND PEOPLE
       The Republic of Portugal is located on the western edge of the Iberian Peninsula. A major geographical dividing line is the Tagus River: Portugal north of it has an Atlantic orientation; the country to the south of it has a Mediterranean orientation. There is little physical evidence that Portugal is clearly geographically distinct from Spain, and there is no major natural barrier between the two countries along more than 1,214 kilometers (755 miles) of the Luso-Spanish frontier. In climate, Portugal has a number of microclimates similar to the microclimates of Galicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia in neighboring Spain. North of the Tagus, in general, there is an Atlantic-type climate with higher rainfall, cold winters, and some snow in the mountainous areas. South of the Tagus is a more Mediterranean climate, with hot, dry, often rainless summers and cool, wet winters. Lisbon, the capital, which has a fifth of the country's population living in its region, has an average annual mean temperature about 16° C (60° F).
       For a small country with an area of 92,345 square kilometers (35,580 square miles, including the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and the Madeiras), which is about the size of the state of Indiana in the United States, Portugal has a remarkable diversity of regional topography and scenery. In some respects, Portugal resembles an island within the peninsula, embodying a unique fusion of European and non-European cultures, akin to Spain yet apart. Its geography is a study in contrasts, from the flat, sandy coastal plain, in some places unusually wide for Europe, to the mountainous Beira districts or provinces north of the Tagus, to the snow-capped mountain range of the Estrela, with its unique ski area, to the rocky, barren, remote Trás-os-Montes district bordering Spain. There are extensive forests in central and northern Portugal that contrast with the flat, almost Kansas-like plains of the wheat belt in the Alentejo district. There is also the unique Algarve district, isolated somewhat from the Alentejo district by a mountain range, with a microclimate, topography, and vegetation that resemble closely those of North Africa.
       Although Portugal is small, just 563 kilometers (337 miles) long and from 129 to 209 kilometers (80 to 125 miles) wide, it is strategically located on transportation and communication routes between Europe and North Africa, and the Americas and Europe. Geographical location is one key to the long history of Portugal's three overseas empires, which stretched once from Morocco to the Moluccas and from lonely Sagres at Cape St. Vincent to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is essential to emphasize the identity of its neighbors: on the north and east Portugal is bounded by Spain, its only neighbor, and by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and west. Portugal is the westernmost country of Western Europe, and its shape resembles a face, with Lisbon below the nose, staring into the
       Atlantic. No part of Portugal touches the Mediterranean, and its Atlantic orientation has been a response in part to turning its back on Castile and Léon (later Spain) and exploring, traveling, and trading or working in lands beyond the peninsula. Portugal was the pioneering nation in the Atlantic-born European discoveries during the Renaissance, and its diplomatic and trade relations have been dominated by countries that have been Atlantic powers as well: Spain; England (Britain since 1707); France; Brazil, once its greatest colony; and the United States.
       Today Portugal and its Atlantic islands have a population of roughly 10 million people. While ethnic homogeneity has been characteristic of it in recent history, Portugal's population over the centuries has seen an infusion of non-Portuguese ethnic groups from various parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Between 1500 and 1800, a significant population of black Africans, brought in as slaves, was absorbed in the population. And since 1950, a population of Cape Verdeans, who worked in menial labor, has resided in Portugal. With the influx of African, Goan, and Timorese refugees and exiles from the empire—as many as three quarters of a million retornados ("returned ones" or immigrants from the former empire) entered Portugal in 1974 and 1975—there has been greater ethnic diversity in the Portuguese population. In 2002, there were 239,113 immigrants legally residing in Portugal: 108,132 from Africa; 24,806 from Brazil; 15,906 from Britain; 14,617 from Spain; and 11,877 from Germany. In addition, about 200,000 immigrants are living in Portugal from eastern Europe, mainly from Ukraine. The growth of Portugal's population is reflected in the following statistics:
       1527 1,200,000 (estimate only)
       1768 2,400,000 (estimate only)
       1864 4,287,000 first census
       1890 5,049,700
       1900 5,423,000
       1911 5,960,000
       1930 6,826,000
       1940 7,185,143
       1950 8,510,000
       1960 8,889,000
       1970 8,668,000* note decrease
       1980 9,833,000
       1991 9,862,540
       1996 9,934,100
       2006 10,642,836
       2010 10,710,000 (estimated)

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  • 39 date

    ̈ɪdeɪt I
    1. сущ.
    1) дата, число, день to date ≈ на сегодня at an early date ≈ в более ранний срок, раньше at a future date, at a later date ≈ позже to fix a date, to set a date ≈ назначить, определить время, дату cut-off date ≈ крайний срок, крайняя дата due date ≈ срок, дата платежа significant date ≈ важная (историческая) дата target date ≈ оговоренная, условленная дата date of birth ≈ дата рождения bear a date of the same date of today's date of yesterday's date
    2) время;
    период, срок;
    пора Up to this date Burns was happy. ≈ До этого времени Бернс был счастлив. a flower's brief date ≈ краткий срок, отпущенный цветку Syn: season
    1., period
    1.
    3) а) разг. свидание Before parting, we had made a date for half-past four next day on the same spot. ≈ Прежде чем расстаться, мы назначили свидание на следующий день на
    4. 30 на том же месте. blind date Syn: tryst б) амер.;
    разг. тот, с которым назначено свидание In pairs we crowded into cars, our dates in our laps. ≈ Парами мы втиснулись в машины и расселись, каждый держа на коленях свою девушку.
    4) а) эпоха antiquities of Roman date ≈ памятники эпохи Древнего Рима б) возраст His date doubled her own. ≈ Его возраст в два раза превысил ее собственный.
    5) театр. ангажемент;
    представление
    2. гл.
    1) датировать, относить к определенному времени (событие и т. п.) ;
    вести начало( от какого-л. времени или события), восходить( back to, from) You cannot date the carving and it is difficult to date the stone itself. ≈ Вы не можете отнести резьбу к какому-либо определенному периоду, и еще труднее датировать сам камень. The church dates back to
    1173. ≈ Построение церкви датируется 1173 годом.
    2) проставлять дату, число ( на письме, документе и т. п.) ;
    указывать время и место The letter is dated 2 July
    1996. ≈ Письмо датировано 2 июля 1996 г. We thank you for your letter dated the 15th May. ≈ Благодарим Вас за Ваше письмо, датированное 15 мая. The letter was dated from London at eight o'clock in the morning. ≈ На письме было указано: Лондон, восемь утра.
    3) считать, исчислять Life is not dated merely by years. ≈ Жизнь исчисляется не просто годами. Six full days had passed dating from the time when the eruption appeared. ≈ Прошло полных шесть дней, считая с того момента, как высыпала сыпь.
    4) разг. устареть Blue and white is the classic colour combination and will never date. ≈ Голубой и белый - это классическое сочетание цветов, которое никогда не выйдет из моды.
    5) амер.;
    разг. назначать свидание to date a girl ≈ назначить свидание девушке They've been dating for three months. ≈ Они встречались три месяца. II сущ.
    1) финик
    2) финиковая пальма Syn: date-palm
    3) сл.;
    ласк. глупышка, дурашка (глупый или смешной человек) A kid like that ought not to talk about love at her age, the soppy little date. ≈ Ребенок в ее возрасте не должен говорить о любви, маленькая дурашка. дата, число, день - delivery * дата поставки( оборудования и т. п.) - installation * дата установки - under the * (of) January 1О за десятое января - without * без даты - the * of birth дата рождения - to bear а * быть датированным - up to thе * when до того дня, когда - what's the * today? какое сегодня число? - what's the * of this discovery? когда было сделано это открытие? - the * is set for August 5 назначено на пятое августа - it was done at а much earlier * это было сделано гораздо раньше время и место время;
    срок, период;
    пора;
    эпоха - Roman * эпоха Древнего Рима - the * of youth юные годы, пора молодости - at that * в те времена, в ту пору - the events of recent * события последнего времени возраст - his * is thirty ему тридцать лет( компьютерное) продолжительность, период (американизм) тот же день - "Тhe New York Times" of * номер "Нью-Йорк Таймс" за то же число - your letter of even * ваше сегодняшнее письмо газеты the latest *s последние газеты, последние выпуски газет (устаревшее) пора;
    конец - all has its * всему приходит конец > out of * устарелый, несовременный;
    отживший свой век;
    старомодный, вышедший из моды;
    > to go out of * устареть, выйти из моды;
    > to * современный;
    сегодняшний;
    до сих пор > the progress made to * результаты, достигнутые в последнее время /имеющиеся на сегодняшний день/ > there's по news to * до сих пор нет никаких новостей;
    > uр to * до настоящего времени;
    современный, новейший;
    стоящий на уровне современных требований;
    находящийся в курсе дела /новостей, событий/;
    (бухгалтерское) доведенный до последнего дня /до сего дня/ (о гроссбухе, отчете и т. п./ > to bring smth. up to * обновить что-л.;
    > to bring smb. up to * ввести кого-л. в курс дел;
    > to kеер smb. up to * снабжать кого-л. последними сведениями;
    держать кого-л. в курсе дел;
    > to keep smth. up to * усовершенствовать что-л.;
    пополнять что-л. последними данными проставлять дату, датировать, ставить число;
    указывать время и место - to * а document проставить дату на документе;
    - he decided to * his letter "Chicago" он решил проставить на письме обратный адрес "Чикаго" - the letter is *d from Chicago письмо послано из Чикаго - the envelope is *d the 20th of August на конверте была проставлена дата - 20 августа иметь дату, датироваться;
    содержать указание времени и места - the letter *s from London письмо послано из Лондона датировать, относить к определенному времени, возводить к определенной эпохе - to * smb.'s birth установить дату чьего-л. рождения - to * the vase from Mycenaean times датировать вазу микенской эпохой датироваться, относиться к определенному времени, восходить к определенной эпохе - thе monument *s bасk to the time of... памятник восходит ко времени... - these ideas * from before the war эти идеи возникли еще до войны считать, исчислять - geological time is not *d bv years геологическое время исчисляется не годами (from) считаться, исчисляться устареть (разговорное) свидание, встреча - to mаkе a * with smb. назначить свидание с кем-л. - I made а * with her fог supper я пригласи. ее на ужин - to go out оn а * with smb. пойти на свидание с кем-л. - to ask smb. for а * просить кого-л. о встрече - I have а * with him у меня с ним свидание человек, с которым назначено свидание (разговорное) назначать свидание - l'm *d up already у меня уже назначено свидание финик (ботаника) финиковая пальма (Phoenix dactylifera) air ~ дата выхода в эфир alongside ~ дата подачи грузов к борту appoint a ~ назначать дату ~ срок, период;
    out of date устарелый;
    up to date стоящий на уровне современных требований;
    современный;
    новейший;
    at that date в то время, в тот период availability ~ срок дата получения balance sheet ~ дата представления балансового отчета balance sheet ~ срок представления финансового отчета billing ~ дата выписки счета broken ~ нестандартный срок валютной или депозитной операции call ~ дата отказа от договора closing ~ дата закрытия closing ~ дата закрытия бухгалтерской книги closing ~ бирж. дата закрытия позиции closing ~ последний день отчетного периода cock ~ нестандартный срок валютной или депозитной операции commencement ~ дата вступления в силу commencing ~ дата начала compatibility ~ вчт. дата обеспечения совместимости contract ~ срок, оговоренный контрактом cutoff ~ дата прекращения cutoff ~ конечный, последний срок date вести исчисление( от какой-л. даты) ~ вести начало( от чего-л.) ;
    восходить (к определенной эпохе;
    тж. date back) ;
    this manuscript dates from the XIVth century эта рукопись относится к XIV веку ~ выйти из употребления;
    устареть ~ дата, число (месяца) ;
    date of birth день рождения ~ дата ~ датировать ~ вчт. датировать ~ датировать to ~ до настоящего времени to ~ на данное число ~ амер. разг. назначать свидание;
    to date a girl назначить свидание девушке ~ проставлять дату ~ разг. свидание;
    I have got a date у меня свидание;
    to make a date назначить свидание ~ срок, период;
    out of date устарелый;
    up to date стоящий на уровне современных требований;
    современный;
    новейший;
    at that date в то время, в тот период ~ срок ~ разг. тот, кому назначают свидание ~ финик ~ финиковая пальма ~ амер. разг. назначать свидание;
    to date a girl назначить свидание девушке ~ of accounts срок представления отчетности ~ of acquisition дата приобретения ~ of allotment дата распределения ~ дата, число (месяца) ;
    date of birth день рождения ~ of birth дата рождения ~ of commencement дата начала ~ of completion срок завершения операции ~ of completion срок совершения сделки ~ of consumption срок годности ~ of consumption срок использования ~ of conveyance срок доставки ~ of dealing дата заключения сделки ~ of delivery срок доставки ~ of deposit in warehouse срок хранения на складе ~ of disbursement срок выплаты ~ of earning день выдачи заработной платы ~ of expiry истечение срока ~ of expiry конечный срок действия ~ of first entitlement to dividends дата появления права на дивиденды ~ of first entitlement to interest payments дата появления права на выплату процентов ~ of inception of risk дата наступления страхового риска ~ of invoice дата выдачи счета-фактуры ~ of issue дата выпуска займа ~ of issue дата эмиссии ~ of leaving hospital дата выписки из больницы ~ of maturity срок платежа ~ of maturity срок погашения ценной бумаги ~ of maturity of coupon срок погашения купона ~ of merger дата слияния компаний ~ of patent дата выдачи патента ~ of patent дата издания описания к патенту ~ of patent дата начала действия патента ~ of payment срок платежа ~ of performance срок исполнения ~ of possession срок владения ~ of presentation срок представления ~ of presentation срок предъявления ~ of ratification( DOR) дата ратификации ~ of sailing дата выхода судна в море ~ of sailing дата отплытия ~ of sale дата продажи ~ of settlement дата заключения сделки ~ of settlement дата заключения соглашения ~ of term срок окончания ~ of transaction дата заключения сделки ~ of transfer дата перевода денег ~ of transfer дата передачи права ~ of transfer дата перечисления денег delivery ~ дата доставки drawn-on ~ дата выставления drawn-on ~ дата погашения due ~ директивный срок due ~ плановый срок due ~ срок платежа due ~ срок погашения кредитного обязательства due ~ установленный срок effective ~ дата вступления в силу event occurence ~ вчт. срок наступления события expiration ~ дата окончания expiry ~ дата окончания expiry ~ for presentation окончательный срок представления file generated ~ вчт. дата создания файла filing ~ пат. дата подачи заявки filing ~ пат. дата регистрации заявки final ~ окончательная дата final ~ окончательный срок final maturity ~ окончательный срок платежа finalization ~ дата завершения finalization ~ срок окончания fix a ~ назначать день fixed ~ установленный срок fixed ~ фиксированный срок from ~ с сегодняшнего дня from ~ с этого дня ~ разг. свидание;
    I have got a date у меня свидание;
    to make a date назначить свидание inception ~ дата начала inception ~ (уст.) дата получения ученой степени (в Кембриджском университете) initial settlement ~ первый расчетный день interest payment ~ дата выплаты процентов interim due ~ промежуточный срок платежа issue ~ дата выпуска launch ~ дата выброса товара на рынок launch ~ срок выпуска loading ~ дата погрузки loan interest ~ срок ссудного процента ~ разг. свидание;
    I have got a date у меня свидание;
    to make a date назначить свидание makeup ~ дата подведения итога maturity ~ дата наступления срока платежа maturity ~ дата платежа maturity ~ дата погашения maturity ~ срок платежа maturity ~ срок погашения on-sale ~ дата продажи opening ~ дата открытия ~ срок, период;
    out of date устарелый;
    up to date стоящий на уровне современных требований;
    современный;
    новейший;
    at that date в то время, в тот период out: ~ of date вышедший из моды ~ of date вышедший из употребления ~ of date несовременный ~ of date просроченный ~ of date устаревший policy expiration ~ дата окончания срока страхования policy expiry ~ дата окончания срока страхования premium due ~ срок уплаты страхового взноса principal due ~ основной срок платежа priority ~ пат. дата приоритета pub ~ вчт. дата публикации purge ~ вчт. дата истечения срока хранения purge ~ вчт. дата чистки redemption ~ дата выкупа redemption ~ дата погашения redemption ~ срок выкупа redemption ~ срок погашения reference ~ базисная дата reference ~ исходная дата repayment ~ дата погашения rollover ~ срок очередной фиксации плавающей ставки по кредиту sailing ~ дата отхода sailing ~ день отхода settlement ~ ликвидационный период settlement ~ расчетный день settling ~ расчетный период statement ~ дата выписки счета statement ~ дата регистрации takeover ~ дата поглощения takeover ~ дата приобретения компанией контрольного пакета другой компании tax filing ~ срок подачи налоговой декларации tender ~ дата проведения торгов termination ~ дата прекращения действия ~ вести начало (от чего-л.) ;
    восходить (к определенной эпохе;
    тж. date back) ;
    this manuscript dates from the XIVth century эта рукопись относится к XIV веку trade ~ дата заключения сделки under today's ~ за сегодняшнее число under today's ~ сегодняшним числом ~ срок, период;
    out of date устарелый;
    up to date стоящий на уровне современных требований;
    современный;
    новейший;
    at that date в то время, в тот период use-by ~ срок годности value ~ дата валютирования value ~ дата поставки валюты value ~ срок векселя

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > date

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    Общая лексика: Currently R (The term is widely applicable for all ideas, fashins, trends, personalities, must-haves, etc., which were once actually or hoped to be significant, but are now lost, nidden or conveniently forgotten.)

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