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    Синонимический ряд:
    1. in agreement with (adj.) appropriate; compatible with; concordant to; consonant; fit; harmonious; in accord with; in agreement with; in line with
    2. like (other) identical to; identical with; like

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  • 6 match

    mæ 
    I noun
    (a short piece of wood or other material tipped with a substance that catches fire when rubbed against a rough or specially-prepared surface: He struck a match.) cerilla, fósforo

    II
    1. noun
    1) (a contest or game: a football/rugby/chess match.)
    2) (a thing that is similar to or the same as another in some way(s) eg in colour or pattern: These trousers are not an exact match for my jacket.) partido, encuentro
    3) (a person who is able to equal another: She has finally met her match at arguing.) juego, combinación
    4) (a marriage or an act of marrying: She hoped to arrange a match for her daughter.) igual

    2. verb
    1) (to be equal or similar to something or someone in some way eg in colour or pattern: That dress matches her red hair.) hacer juego con, combinar con
    2) (to set (two things, people etc) to compete: He matched his skill against the champion's.) enfrentar
    - matchless
    - matchmaker

    match1 n
    1. cerilla
    2. partido
    match2 vb
    1. igualar
    2. hacer juego / combinar
    tr[mæʧ]
    1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (football, hockey, etc) partido, encuentro; (boxing, wrestling) combate nombre masculino; (tennis) partido, match nombre masculino
    when it comes to chess, she's no match for you ella no puede competir contigo al ajedrez
    3 (marriage) casamiento, matrimonio
    4 (clothes, colour, etc) juego, combinación nombre femenino
    1 (equal) igualar
    2 (go well with) hacer juego (con), combinar (con)
    3 (be like, correspond to) corresponder a, ajustarse a
    1 (go together) hacer juego, combinar
    do these colours match? ¿estos colores combinan?
    2 (tally) coincidir, concordar
    3 (people) llevarse bien, avenirse
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to be well-matched (couple) hacer buena pareja 2 (opponents, teams) ser del mismo nivel
    to match somebody against somebody enfrentar alguien a alguien
    to meet one's match encontrar la horma de su zapato
    match point (in tennis) pelota de partido
    ————————
    tr[mæʧ]
    1 (light) cerilla, fósforo
    match ['mæʧ] vt
    1) pit: enfrentar, oponer
    2) equal, fit: igualar, corresponder a, coincidir con
    3) : combinar con, hacer juego con
    her shoes match her dress: sus zapatos hacen juego con su vestido
    match vi
    1) correspond: concordar, coincidir
    2) : hacer juego
    with a tie to match: con una corbata que hace juego
    1) equal: igual mf
    he's no match for her: no puede competir con ella
    2) fight, game: partido m, combate m (en boxeo)
    3) marriage: matrimonio m, casamiento m
    4) : fósforo m, cerilla f, cerillo m in various countries)
    he lit a match: encendió un fósforo
    5)
    to be a good match : hacer buena pareja (dícese de las personas), hacer juego (dícese de la ropa)
    n.
    (§ pl.: matches) = cerilla (Fósforo) s.f.
    cerillo s.m.
    combate s.m.
    concurso s.m.
    fósforo (Cerilla) s.m.
    igual s.m.
    matrimonio s.m.
    partido (Deporte) s.m.
    torneo s.m.
    v.
    aparear v.
    casar v.
    coincidir v.
    emparejar v.
    empatar v.
    equiparar v.
    hacer juego (Textil) v.
    hermanar v.
    igualar v.
    matizar v.
    parear v.
    mætʃ
    I
    1) ( for fire) fósforo m, cerilla f (Esp), cerillo m (esp AmC, Méx)
    2) ( Sport)

    boxing/wrestling match — combate m or match m de boxeo/de lucha libre

    tennis matchpartido m de tenis

    football/hockey match — (BrE) partido m de fútbol/de hockey

    3) ( equal) (no pl)

    to be a/no match for somebody — estar*/no estar* a la altura de alguien, poder*/no poder* competir con alguien

    to meet one's matchencontrar* la horma de su zapato

    they are a good match\<\<couple\>\> hacen buena pareja

    that shirt is a perfect match for my suitesa camisa va or queda perfecta con mi traje


    II
    1.
    1) ( equal) igualar
    2)
    a) ( correspond to) ajustarse a, corresponder a

    does it match the description? — ¿se ajusta or corresponde a la descripción?

    b) ( harmonize with) hacer* juego con

    it matches my shoes — hace juego con mis zapatos, queda bien con mis zapatos

    c) (make correspond, find equivalent for)

    to be well matched\<\<competitors\>\> ser* del mismo nivel, ser* muy parejos (esp AmL); \<\<couple\>\> hacer* buena pareja

    d) matching pres p haciendo juego, a juego (Esp)

    2.
    vi
    a) ( go together) \<\<clothes/colors\>\> hacer* juego, combinar, pegar* (fam)
    b) ( tally) coincidir, concordar*
    Phrasal Verbs:

    I
    [mætʃ]
    N (for lighting) fósforo m, cerilla f, cerillo m (Mex)
    II [mætʃ]
    1. N
    1) (esp Brit) (Tennis, Cricket) partido m ; (Ftbl) partido m, encuentro m ; (Boxing) combate m ; (Fencing) asalto m

    boxing matchcombate m de boxeo

    shooting 3., shouting 2., test 4.
    2) (=complement)

    the two of them make or are a good match — hacen una buena pareja

    3) (=equal)

    to be a match/no match for sb — estar/no estar a la altura de algn

    he's a match for anybody — puede competir con el más pintado, está a la altura del más pintado

    4) (=marriage) casamiento m, matrimonio m ; (=potential partner) partido m
    2. VT
    1) (=pair off) emparejar

    they're well matched[couple] hacen buena pareja

    evenly
    2) (=equal) igualar
    3) (=correspond to) ajustarse a, corresponder a

    a man matching the police descriptionun hombre que se ajustaba a or que correspondía a la descripción de la policía

    4) (=put in opposition to) enfrentar

    to match sth/sb against sth/sb — enfrentar algo/a algn a or con algo/algn

    she matched her wits against his strengthenfrentó or midió su ingenio con la fuerza de él

    5) (=tone with) [+ clothes, colours] combinar con, hacer juego con
    6) (also: match up) (=find sth similar to)

    can you match (up) this material? (with sth exactly same) ¿puedes encontrar algo que iguale este tejido?; (with sth which goes well) ¿puedes encontrar algo que vaya bien con este tejido?

    3. VI
    1) (=go together) [colours] combinar bien; [clothes] hacer juego
    2) (=be the same) corresponderse, coincidir
    4.
    CPD

    match point N — (Tennis) bola f de partido, match point m

    match report Ninforme m sobre el partido

    * * *
    [mætʃ]
    I
    1) ( for fire) fósforo m, cerilla f (Esp), cerillo m (esp AmC, Méx)
    2) ( Sport)

    boxing/wrestling match — combate m or match m de boxeo/de lucha libre

    tennis matchpartido m de tenis

    football/hockey match — (BrE) partido m de fútbol/de hockey

    3) ( equal) (no pl)

    to be a/no match for somebody — estar*/no estar* a la altura de alguien, poder*/no poder* competir con alguien

    to meet one's matchencontrar* la horma de su zapato

    they are a good match\<\<couple\>\> hacen buena pareja

    that shirt is a perfect match for my suitesa camisa va or queda perfecta con mi traje


    II
    1.
    1) ( equal) igualar
    2)
    a) ( correspond to) ajustarse a, corresponder a

    does it match the description? — ¿se ajusta or corresponde a la descripción?

    b) ( harmonize with) hacer* juego con

    it matches my shoes — hace juego con mis zapatos, queda bien con mis zapatos

    c) (make correspond, find equivalent for)

    to be well matched\<\<competitors\>\> ser* del mismo nivel, ser* muy parejos (esp AmL); \<\<couple\>\> hacer* buena pareja

    d) matching pres p haciendo juego, a juego (Esp)

    2.
    vi
    a) ( go together) \<\<clothes/colors\>\> hacer* juego, combinar, pegar* (fam)
    b) ( tally) coincidir, concordar*
    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > match

  • 7 match

    I 1. noun
    1) (equal) Ebenbürtige, der/die

    be no match for somebodysich mit jemandem nicht messen können

    find or meet one's match — (be defeated) seinen Meister finden

    2) (somebody/something similar or appropriate)

    be a [good etc.] match for something — [gut usw.] zu etwas passen

    3) (Sport) Spiel, das; (Football, Tennis, etc. also) Match, das; (Boxing) Kampf, der; (Athletics) Wettkampf, der
    4) (marriage) Heirat, die
    2. transitive verb

    match somebody at chess/in originality — es mit jemandem im Schach/an Originalität (Dat.) aufnehmen [können]

    2) (pit)

    match somebody with or against somebody — jemanden jemandem gegenüberstellen

    3)

    be well matched[Mann u. Frau:] gut zusammenpassen; [Spieler, Mannschaften:] sich (Dat.) ebenbürtig sein

    4) (harmonize with) passen zu
    3. intransitive verb
    (correspond) zusammenpassen

    with a scarf etc. to match — mit [dazu] passendem Schal usw

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/89023/match_up">match up
    II noun
    (for lighting) Streichholz, das; Zündholz, das (südd., österr.)
    * * *
    [mæ ] I noun
    (a short piece of wood or other material tipped with a substance that catches fire when rubbed against a rough or specially-prepared surface: He struck a match.) das Streichholz
    II 1. noun
    1) (a contest or game: a football/rugby/chess match.) der Wettkampf
    2) (a thing that is similar to or the same as another in some way(s) eg in colour or pattern: These trousers are not an exact match for my jacket.) das Passende
    3) (a person who is able to equal another: She has finally met her match at arguing.) der/die/das Ebenbürtige
    4) (a marriage or an act of marrying: She hoped to arrange a match for her daughter.) die Heirat
    2. verb
    1) (to be equal or similar to something or someone in some way eg in colour or pattern: That dress matches her red hair.) passen zu
    2) (to set (two things, people etc) to compete: He matched his skill against the champion's.) ausspielen
    - matched
    - matchless
    - matchmaker
    * * *
    match1
    <pl -es>
    [mætʃ]
    n Streichholz nt, Zündholz nt SCHWEIZ
    a box of \matches eine Schachtel Streichhölzer
    to put a \match to sth etw anzünden
    to strike a \match ein Streichholz anzünden
    match2
    [mætʃ]
    I. n
    <pl -es>
    1. SPORT Spiel nt ( against gegen + akk, with mit + dat); CHESS Partie f ( against gegen + akk, with mit + dat)
    a \match with [or against] sb ein Spiel mit jdm [o gegen jdn]
    boxing \match Boxkampf m
    cricket \match Kricketmatch nt
    football \match Fußballspiel nt
    to lose/win a \match ein Spiel verlieren/gewinnen
    to play in a \match mitspielen
    tennis \match Tennismatch nt, Tennisspiel nt
    2. usu sing (complement)
    the new tablecloth is a perfect \match for the carpet die neue Tischdecke passt ideal zum Teppich
    to be a good \match gut zusammenpassen
    3. (one of pair) Gegenstück nt
    4. usu sing (equal) ebenbürtiger Gegner/ebenbürtige Gegnerin ( for für + akk)
    a good \match ein ebenbürtiger Gegner/eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin
    to meet one's \match (meet equal) einen ebenbürtigen Gegner/eine ebenbürtige Gegnerin finden; (lose) seinen Meister finden
    to be more than a \match for sb/sth jdm/etw [haushoch] überlegen sein
    to be no \match for sb/sth sich akk mit jdm/etw nicht messen können, jdm/etw nicht gewachsen sein
    5. (marriage) Ehe f; (couple) Paar nt; (person) Partie f
    theirs is a \match made in heaven sie sind wie für einander geschaffen
    they are a perfect \match die beiden sind ein Traumpaar
    to be a good \match for sb eine gute Partie für jdn sein
    to make a good \match (be good prospect) eine gute Partie sein; (find good partner) eine gute Partie machen
    6. COMPUT (search result) Treffer m
    7.
    to have a shouting [or BRIT slanging] \match sich akk gegenseitig anschreien pej [o lautstark streiten
    II. vi (harmonize) zusammenpassen; (make pair) zusammengehören
    a dress with accessories to \match ein Kleid mit dazu passenden Accessoires
    III. vt
    to \match sth zu etw dat passen
    does this shirt \match these trousers? passt das Hemd zu der Hose?
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] etw [auf etw akk] abstimmen
    I'm trying to \match the wallpaper with the curtains ich versuche eine Tapete zu finden, die zu den Gardinen passt
    I'm trying to \match the names on the list with the faces on the photograph ich versuche die Namen auf dieser Liste den Gesichtern auf dem Foto zuzuordnen
    our aim is to \match the applicant to the job unser Ziel ist es, den passenden Kandidaten für diese Stelle zu finden
    to \match colours [or AM colors] Farben aufeinander abstimmen
    to \match sb/sth jdm/etw gleichkommen
    you can't \match Jones & Son for quality was die Qualität angeht, ist Jones & Son unerreicht
    it would be difficult to \match the service this airline provides es wäre schwierig, dem [hervorragenden] Service dieser Fluggesellschaft Konkurrenz zu machen
    4. usu passive (in contest)
    to be \matched against sb gegen jdn antreten
    to \match sth etw dat entsprechen, zu etw dat passen
    he \matches the description the victim gave us die Beschreibung des Opfers trifft auf ihn zu
    6. (compare)
    to \match sth [against sth] etw [mit etw dat] vergleichen, etw [an etw dat] messen
    7. ELEC
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] impedances etw [mit etw dat] abgleichen
    to \match sth [with [or to] sth] etw [mit etw dat] vergleichen
    * * *
    I [mtʃ]
    n
    Streichholz nt, Zündholz nt II
    1. n
    1)

    (= sb/sth similar, suitable etc) to be or make a good match — gut zusammenpassen

    2)

    he's a match for anybodyer kann es mit jedem aufnehmen

    A was more than a match for B — A war B weit überlegen

    3) (= marriage) Heirat f

    who thought up this match?wer hat die beiden zusammengebracht?

    4) (SPORT) (general) Wettkampf m; (= team game) Spiel nt; (TENNIS) Match nt, Partie f; (BOXING, FENCING) Kampf m; (= quiz) Wettkampf m, Wettbewerb m

    we must have another match some time —

    that's match (Tennis) — Match!, damit ist das Match entschieden

    2. vt
    1) (= pair off) (einander) anpassen
    2) (= equal) gleichkommen (+dat) (in an +dat)

    nobody can match him in argumentniemand kann so gut argumentieren wie er

    a quality that has never been matched since — eine Qualität, die bislang unerreicht ist or noch ihresgleichen sucht

    I can't match him in chess —

    that sort of easy self-confidence which is not matched by any great degree of intelligence — jene Selbstsicherheit, die nicht mit der entsprechenden Intelligenz gepaart ist

    match that if you can!das soll erst mal einer nachmachen, das macht so leicht keiner nach!

    this climate/whisky can't be matched anywhere in the world — so ein Klima/so einen Whisky gibt es nicht noch einmal

    3) (= correspond to) entsprechen (+dat)

    match case (Comput) — Groß-/Kleinschreibung beachten

    4) (clothes, colours) passen zu

    she matched the carpet with a nice rug —

    can you match this fabric? — haben Sie etwas, das zu diesem Stoff passt?

    to match textures and fabrics so that... — Strukturen und Stoffe so aufeinander abstimmen, dass...

    5)

    (= pit) he decided to match his team against or with the champions — er beschloss, seine Mannschaft gegen die Meister antreten zu lassen

    3. vi
    zusammenpassen
    * * *
    match1 [mætʃ]
    A s
    1. (der, die, das) Gleiche oder Ebenbürtige:
    a) seinesgleichen,
    b) sein Ebenbild,
    c) jemand, der es mit ihm aufnehmen kann,
    d) seine Lebensgefährtin;
    find ( oder meet) one’s match seinen Meister finden ( in sb in jemandem);
    be a (no) match for sb jemandem (nicht) gewachsen sein;
    be no match for sb auch gegen jemanden nicht ankommen, es nicht mit jemandem aufnehmen können, sich nicht mit jemandem messen können;
    be more than a match for sb jemandem überlegen sein
    2. (dazu) passende Sache oder Person, Gegenstück n:
    I can’t find a match for this carpet ich finde nichts, was zu diesem Teppich passt
    3. (zusammenpassendes) Paar, Gespann n (auch fig):
    they are an excellent match sie passen ausgezeichnet zueinander oder zusammen
    4. WIRTSCH Artikel m gleicher Qualität
    5. SPORT (Fußball- etc) Spiel n, (Tennis) Match n, (Box- etc) Kampf m:
    the match for third place das Spiel um den dritten Platz
    6. a) Heirat f:
    make a match eine Ehe stiften;
    b) (gute etc) Partie:
    make a good match eine gute Partie machen
    B v/t
    1. a) jemanden passend verheiraten (to, with mit)
    b) Tiere paaren
    2. einer Person oder Sache etwas Gleiches gegenüberstellen, jemanden oder etwas vergleichen ( with mit):
    match one’s skill with sich messen mit;
    match one’s strength against sb(’s) seine Kräfte mit jemandem messen
    3. jemanden ausspielen ( against gegen)
    4. passend machen, anpassen (to, with an akk)
    5. jemandem oder einer Sache (auch farblich etc) entsprechen, passen zu:
    the carpet does not match the wallpaper der Teppich passt nicht zur Tapete;
    a shirt to match his suit ein zu seinem Anzug passendes Hemd; well-matched 2
    6. zusammenfügen
    7. etwas Gleiches oder Passendes auswählen oder finden zu:
    can you match this velvet for me? haben Sie etwas Passendes zu diesem Samt(stoff)?
    8. ELEK angleichen, anpassen
    9. (for, in) jemandem ebenbürtig oder gewachsen sein (in dat), es mit jemandem oder einer Sache aufnehmen können (in dat), einer Sache gleichkommen:
    no one can match her in cooking niemand kann so gut kochen wie sie;
    match that if you can mach das erst einmal nach, wenn du kannst!;
    … can’t be matched … ist oder sind unerreicht oder nicht zu überbieten;
    the teams are well matched die Mannschaften sind gleich stark
    10. US umg
    a) eine Münze hochwerfen
    b) mit jemandem knobeln
    C v/i
    1. obs sich verheiraten ( with mit)
    2. zusammenpassen, übereinstimmen ( beide:
    with mit), entsprechen (to dat):
    the carpet and the wallpaper don’t match der Teppich und die Tapete passen nicht zusammen;
    she bought a brown coat and gloves to match sie kaufte einen braunen Mantel und dazu passende Handschuhe;
    he had nothing to match er hatte dem nichts entgegenzusetzen;
    match up to sb’s expectations jemandes Erwartungen entsprechen
    match2 [mætʃ] s
    1. Zünd-, Streichholz n
    2. Zündschnur f
    3. HIST
    a) Zündstock m
    b) Lunte f
    * * *
    I 1. noun
    1) (equal) Ebenbürtige, der/die

    find or meet one's match — (be defeated) seinen Meister finden

    2) (somebody/something similar or appropriate)

    be a [good etc.] match for something — [gut usw.] zu etwas passen

    3) (Sport) Spiel, das; (Football, Tennis, etc. also) Match, das; (Boxing) Kampf, der; (Athletics) Wettkampf, der
    4) (marriage) Heirat, die
    2. transitive verb

    match somebody at chess/in originality — es mit jemandem im Schach/an Originalität (Dat.) aufnehmen [können]

    match somebody with or against somebody — jemanden jemandem gegenüberstellen

    3)

    be well matched[Mann u. Frau:] gut zusammenpassen; [Spieler, Mannschaften:] sich (Dat.) ebenbürtig sein

    4) (harmonize with) passen zu
    3. intransitive verb
    (correspond) zusammenpassen

    with a scarf etc. to match — mit [dazu] passendem Schal usw

    Phrasal Verbs:
    II noun
    (for lighting) Streichholz, das; Zündholz, das (südd., österr.)
    * * *
    n.
    (§ pl.: matches)
    = Gegenstück n.
    Kampf ¨-e (Sport) m.
    Spiel -e n.
    Streichholz n.
    Wachsstreichholz n.
    Wettkampf m.
    Zündholz -¨er n.
    dazu passende Person f.
    dazu passende Sache f. v.
    gleichkommen v.
    sich messen mit v.
    übereinstimmen (Muster) v.
    übereinstimmen v.

    English-german dictionary > match

  • 8 return

    1.
    [rɪ'tɜːn]intransitive verb
    1) (come back) zurückkommen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back) zurückgehen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back by vehicle) zurückfahren; zurückkehren (geh.)

    return home — wieder nach Hause kommen/gehen/fahren/zurückkehren

    return to work(after holiday or strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    2) (revert)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (bring back) zurückbringen; zurückgeben [geliehenen/gestohlenen Gegenstand, gekaufte Ware]; [wieder] zurückschicken [unzustellbaren Brief]; (hand back, refuse) zurückweisen [Scheck]

    returned with thanksmit Dank zurück

    ‘return to sender’ — (on letter) "zurück an Absender"

    2) (restore)

    return something to its original state or condition — etwas wieder in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzen

    3) (yield) abwerfen [Gewinn]
    4) (give back something similar) erwidern [Besuch, Gruß, Liebe, Gewehrfeuer]; sich revanchieren für (ugs.) [Freundlichkeit, Gefallen]; zurückgeben [Schlag]
    5) (elect) wählen [Kandidaten]
    6) (Sport) zurückschlagen [Ball]; (throw back) zurückwerfen
    7) (answer) erwidern; entgegnen
    8) (declare)

    return a verdict of guilty/not guilty — [Geschworene:] auf "schuldig"/"nicht schuldig" erkennen

    3. noun
    1) (coming back) Rückkehr, die; (to home) Heimkehr, die

    return to health — Genesung, die (geh.)

    many happy returns [of the day]! — herzlichen Glückwunsch [zum Geburtstag]!

    2)

    by return [of post] — postwendend

    3) (ticket) Rückfahrkarte, die

    return[s] — Ertrag, Gewinn, der (on, from aus)

    return on capital — Kapitalgewinn, der

    5) (bringing back) Zurückbringen, das; (of property, goods, book) Rückgabe, die (to an + Akk.)
    6) (giving back of something similar) Erwiderung, die

    receive/get something in return [for something] — etwas [für etwas] bekommen

    press returnReturn od. die Returntaste drücken

    return key — Returntaste, die

    * * *
    [rə'tə:n] 1. verb
    1) (to come or go back: He returns home tomorrow; He returned to London from Paris yesterday; The pain has returned.) zurückkehren
    2) (to give, send, put etc (something) back where it came from: He returned the book to its shelf; Don't forget to return the books you borrowed.) zurückstellen,-geben
    3) (I'll return to this topic in a minute.) zurückkommen
    4) (to do (something) which has been done to oneself: She hit him and he returned the blow; He said how nice it was to see her again, and she returned the compliment.) zurückgeben
    5) ((of voters) to elect (someone) to Parliament.) wählen
    6) ((of a jury) to give (a verdict): The jury returned a verdict of not guilty.) aussprechen
    7) ((in tennis etc) to hit (a ball) back to one's opponent: She returned his serve.) zurückschlagen
    2. noun
    1) (the act of returning: On our return, we found the house had been burgled; ( also adjective) a return journey.) die Rückkehr; Rück-...
    2) (especially in United Kingdom, a round-trip ticket, a return ticket: Do you want a single or a return?) die Rückfahrkarte
    - academic.ru/62025/returnable">returnable
    - return match
    - return ticket
    - by return of post
    - by return
    - in return for
    - in return
    - many happy returns of the day
    - many happy returns
    * * *
    re·turn
    [rɪˈtɜ:n, AM -ˈtɜ:rn]
    I. n
    1. (to a place/time) Rückkehr f (to zu + dat), Wiederkehr f geh
    \return home Heimkehr f
    after his \return from the war,... nachdem er aus dem Krieg zurückgekehrt war,...
    \return to school Schulbeginn m
    2. (reoccurrence) of an illness Wiederauftreten nt
    3. (giving back) Rückgabe f
    \return of goods (by post etc.) Warenrücksendung f; (handed back) Rückgabe f
    by \return [of post] BRIT, AUS postwendend
    4. (recompense) Gegenleistung f
    a small \return for your kindness ein kleines Zeichen der Dankbarkeit für Ihre Zuvorkommenheit
    in \return for your cooperation we will give you a free gift als Anerkennung für Ihre Mitarbeit erhalten Sie ein Geschenk von uns
    5. BRIT, AUS (ticket) Hin- und Rückfahrkarte f, Retourbillet nt SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR a. Retourfahrkarte f
    day \return Tagesfahrkarte f
    first-class/second-class \return Hin- und Rückfahrkarte f erster/zweiter Klasse
    weekend \return Wochenendkarte f
    6. SPORT (stroke) Rückschlag m
    \return of serve Return m
    7. ECON (proceeds) Gewinn m, Ertrag m, Rendite f
    \returns on capital Rendite f
    \return of investment Investitionsrückfluss m
    return per day/month/week FIN Tages-/Monats-/Wochenrendite f
    law of diminishing \returns Gesetzmäßigkeit f vom abnehmenden Ertragszuwachs
    8. POL (election) Wahl f [eines Parlamentsabgeordneten]
    his \return to power seine Wiederwahl
    the \returns pl die Wahlergebnisse
    \returns pl Rücksendungen pl, Retourwaren pl, Remittenden pl
    11. no pl COMPUT (key on keyboard) Return, Return-Taste f, Eingabetaste f
    12. FIN
    [income] tax \return [Einkommens]steuererklärung f
    13. (end of line indication) Zeilenbruch m
    14. COMPUT (instruction) Rücksprung m
    15.
    to do sth by \return BRIT etw sofort tun
    many happy \returns [of the day] herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
    II. adj attr, inv postage, flight, trip Rück-
    III. vi
    1. (come/go back) zurückkehren, zurückkommen; ( fig)
    is there any hope that peace will \return? besteht die Hoffnung, dass es je wieder Frieden geben wird?
    to \return home (come back home) nach Hause kommen; (go back home) nach Hause gehen; (after long absence) heimkehren
    to \return from somewhere von irgendwo zurückkommen [o zurückkehren]
    to \return to somewhere irgendwohin zurückkehren
    \return to sender zurück an Absender
    2. (reoccur) pain, illness wiederkommen
    to \return to sth etw wieder aufnehmen
    she \returned to making her own clothes sie nähte sich ihre Kleider wieder selbst
    she longed to \return to her gardening sie sehnte sich danach, wieder im Garten zu arbeiten
    to \return to office [or power] wiedergewählt werden
    to \return to a problem sich akk einem Problem wieder zuwenden
    to \return to a subject auf ein Thema zurückkommen
    to \return to a task sich akk einer Aufgabe wieder widmen
    to \return to one's old ways in seine alten Gewohnheiten zurückfallen
    to \return to normal things sich wieder normalisieren; person wieder zu seinem alten Ich zurückfinden
    IV. vt
    to \return sth etw zurückgeben
    when are you going to \return the money you owe me? wann zahlst du mir das Geld zurück, das du mir schuldest?
    to \return sth to sb/sth (in person) jdm/etw etw zurückgeben; (by post) jdm/etw etw zurückschicken
    to \return goods Waren zurücksenden
    to \return sth to its place etw an seinen Platz zurückstellen
    to \return sth etw erwidern
    to \return a blow/a salute/a wave zurückschlagen/-grüßen/-winken
    to \return sb's call jdn zurückrufen
    to \return a compliment/a greeting ein Kompliment/einen Gruß erwidern
    to \return a favour sich akk revanchieren
    let me \return your favour jetzt tue ich dir einen Gefallen
    to \return fire das Feuer erwidern
    to \return good for evil Böses mit Gutem vergelten
    to \return sb's love jds Liebe erwidern
    3. (place back)
    to \return sth somewhere etw irgendwohin zurückstellen [o zurücklegen]
    to \return animals to the wild Tiere auswildern
    4. POL
    to \return sb BRIT jdn wählen
    to \return sb to power [or office] jdn wieder ins Amt wählen
    \returning officer Wahlleiter(in) m(f)
    5. FIN
    to \return a profit einen Gewinn einbringen [o abwerfen
    to \return a verdict of guilty/not guilty einen Schuldspruch/Freispruch aussprechen
    to \return a volley einen Volley annehmen
    * * *
    [rɪ'tɜːn]
    1. vi
    (come back person, vehicle) zurück- or wiederkommen, zurück- or wiederkehren (geh); (go back, person) zurückgehen; (vehicle) zurückfahren; (symptoms, doubts, fears) wiederkommen, wieder auftreten; (property = pass back to) zurückfallen (to an +acc)

    to return to London/the town/the group — nach London/in die Stadt/zur Gruppe zurückkehren

    to return to (one's) work (after short pause) — wieder an seine Arbeit gehen; (after strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    to return home — nach Hause kommen/gehen, heimkehren (geh)

    2. vt
    1) (= give back) sth borrowed, stolen, lost zurückgeben (to sb jdm); (= bring or take back) zurückbringen (to sb jdm); (= put back) zurücksetzen/-stellen/-legen; (= send back) (to an +acc) letter etc zurückschicken or -senden; (= refuse) cheque nicht einlösen; ball zurückschlagen/-werfen; sound, light zurückwerfen; salute, visit, sb's love, compliment erwidern

    to return a/sb's blow — zurückschlagen

    to return a book to the shelf/box — ein Buch auf das Regal zurückstellen/in die Kiste zurücklegen

    to return goods to the shop —

    to return thanks (form) — danksagen, Dank sagen

    I hope to return your kindness —

    2) (= reply) erwidern, zurückgeben
    3) (= declare) details of income angeben

    to return a verdict of guilty (on sb) (Jur) — (jdn) schuldig sprechen, einen Schuldspruch (gegen jdn) fällen

    to return a verdict of murder on sb (Jur)jdn des Mordes für schuldig erklären

    4) (FIN) income einbringen; profit, interest abwerfen
    5) (Brit PARL) candidate wählen
    3. n
    1) (= coming/going back of person, vehicle, seasons) Rückkehr f, Wiederkehr f (geh); (of illness) Wiederauftreten nt

    a return to one's old habitsein Rückfall m in seine alten Gewohnheiten

    many happy returns (of the day)! — herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag!

    See:
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    2) (= giving back) Rückgabe f; (= bringing or taking back) Zurückbringen nt; (= putting back) Zurücksetzen/-stellen/-legen nt; (= sending back) Zurückschicken nt or -senden nt; (= refusal of cheque) Nichteinlösen nt; (of ball) Zurückschlagen nt/-werfen nt; (of salute, compliment, sb's love) Erwiderung f
    3) (Brit) Rückfahrkarte f; (AVIAT) Rückflugticket nt
    4) (= profit from investments, shareson aus) Einkommen nt; (on capital) Ertrag m, Gewinn m; (= product from land, mine etc) Ertrag m

    return on capital (Fin)Kapitalertrag m, Rendite f

    5) (fig

    = recompense) in return — dafür

    6) (= act of declaring of verdict, election results) Verkündung f; (= report) Bericht m

    the return of the jury — ≈ das Urteil der Schöffen

    7) (Brit PARL of candidate) Wahl f (to in +acc)
    8) (SPORT: game, match) Rückspiel nt; (= stroke) Rückschlag m; (TENNIS) Return m; (= throw) Rückwurf m; (= return pass) Rückpass m

    to make a good returnden Ball gut zurückschlagen/-werfen

    9) (COMM: returned item) zurückgebrachte Ware; (THEAT) zurückgebrachte Karte; (= book) Remittende f
    10) (= carriage return COMPUT) Zeilenendschaltung f; (on typewriter) Rücklauftaste f
    11) (COMPUT: symbol) Absatzmarke f
    * * *
    return [rıˈtɜːn; US rıˈtɜrn]
    A v/i
    1. zurückkehren, -kommen ( beide:
    from aus, von;
    to zu, nach), wiederkommen, -kehren (beide auch fig), fig wieder auftreten (Krankheit etc):
    return to work an den Arbeitsplatz zurückkehren;
    a) auf ein Thema, ein Vorhaben etc zurückkommen,
    b) in eine Gewohnheit etc zurückfallen, zurückkehren zu,
    c) in einen Zustand zurückkehren, zu Staub etc werden:
    return to health wieder gesund werden;
    normal life was returning to the capital in der Hauptstadt kehrte wieder das normale Leben ein;
    I can always return to my original profession ich kann jederzeit in meinen alten Beruf zurückgehen; normal B 2
    2. zurückfallen (to an akk) (Besitz)
    3. antworten
    4. “return to sender” Postwesen: „zurück an Absender“
    5. Tennis etc: retournieren
    B v/t
    1. einen Besuch, einen Gruß, jemandes Liebe etc erwidern, ein Kompliment etc auch zurückgeben:
    return fire MIL das Feuer erwidern;
    2. vergelten: evil C 2
    3. zurückgeben, Geld auch zurückzahlen
    4. zurückschicken, -senden:
    returned letter unzustellbarer Brief
    5. (to) leere Flaschen etc zurückbringen (in den Laden etc), ein Buch etc zurückstellen (in das Regal etc), einen Schalter etc zurückstellen (auf akk)
    6. einbringen, (er)bringen, Gewinn abwerfen, Zinsen tragen:
    return a result ein Ergebnis haben oder zeitigen
    7. JUR
    a) (Vollzugs)Bericht erstatten über (akk)
    b) einen Gerichtsbefehl (mit Vollzugsbericht) vorlegen (to dat)
    8. JUR einen Spruch fällen (Geschworene): verdict 1
    9. ein Votum abgeben
    10. (amtlich) erklären für oder als, jemanden arbeitsunfähig etc schreiben:
    11. ( besonders zur Steuerveranlagung) erklären, angeben (at mit):
    he returned his income at £20,000
    12. (amtlich) melden
    13. eine amtliche Liste etc vorlegen oder veröffentlichen
    14. POL Br
    b) jemanden als Abgeordneten wählen ( to Parliament ins Parlament)
    15. umwenden, umkehren
    16. Tennis etc: einen Ball retournieren
    17. ein Echo, Strahlen zurückwerfen
    18. WIRTSCH einen Scheck zurückweisen
    19. besonders TECH zurückführen, -leiten
    20. ARCH wiederkehren lassen:
    a) vorspringen lassen
    b) zurücksetzen
    21. Kartenspiel: eine Farbe nachspielen
    C s
    1. Rückkehr f, -kunft f, Wiederkehr f (auch fig):
    by return (of post) Br postwendend, umgehend;
    on my return bei meiner Rückkehr;
    (I wish you) many happy returns of the day herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag;
    the return to democratic conditions die Rückkehr zu demokratischen Verhältnissen
    2. Wiederauftreten n:
    return of cold weather Kälterückfall m
    3. besonders Br
    a) Rückfahrkarte f
    b) FLUG Rückflugticket n
    4. Erwiderung f, Rückgabe f:
    on sale or return WIRTSCH in Kommission
    5. Rücksendung f (auch Ware):
    a) Rückgut n,
    b) (Buchhandel) Remittenden
    6. zurückgewiesene oder zurückgesandte Sache
    7. WIRTSCH Rückzahlung f, -erstattung f:
    return (of premium) (Versicherung) Ristorno n, Prämienrückzahlung
    8. Entgelt n, Gegenleistung f, Vergütung f, Entschädigung f:
    in return dafür;
    expect nothing in return keine Gegenleistung erwarten;
    in return for (als Gegenleistung) für;
    without return unentgeltlich
    9. meist pl WIRTSCH
    a) Umsatz m:
    quick returns rascher Umsatz
    b) Ertrag m, Einnahme f, Gewinn m, Verzinsung f:
    yield ( oder bring) a return Nutzen abwerfen, sich rentieren
    10. Erwiderung f (eines Besuches, eines Grußes, der Liebe etc):
    return of thanks Tischgebet n
    11. (amtlicher) Bericht, (statistischer) Ausweis, Aufstellung f:
    official returns amtliche Ziffern
    12. (Steuer- etc) Erklärung f
    a) Umfrageergebnis n
    b) Antwortenrücklauf m
    14. JUR
    a) Vorlage f (eines Gerichtsbefehls etc) (mit Vollzugsbericht)
    b) Vollzugsbericht m (des Gerichtsvollziehers etc)
    c) Stellungnahme f
    15. POL
    a) Wahlergebnis n
    b) Br Einzug m ( to Parliament ins Parlament), Wahl f (eines Abgeordneten)
    16. Zurückbringen n, -stellen n
    17. TECH
    a) Rückführung f, -leitung f
    b) Rücklauf m, -kehr f
    c) ELEK Rückleitung f
    18. Biegung f, Krümmung f
    19. ARCH
    a) Wiederkehr f
    b) vorspringender oder zurückgesetzter Teil
    c) (Seiten)Flügel m
    d) Kröpfung f
    20. Tennis etc: Rückschlag m, Return m
    21. SPORT Rückspiel n
    22. Kartenspiel: Nachspielen n (einer Farbe)
    D adj
    1. Rück…:
    return bout ( oder fight) (Boxen) Revanche-, Rückkampf m;
    return cable ELEK Rückleitung(skabel) f(n);
    return cargo WIRTSCH Rückfracht f, -ladung f;
    return circuit ELEK Rücklaufschaltung f;
    return current ELEK Rückstrom m;
    return game ( oder match) SPORT Rückspiel n;
    return journey Rückreise f;
    by return mail US postwendend, umgehend;
    return postage Rückporto n;
    return pulley TECH Umlenkrolle f;
    return spring Rückholfeder f;
    a) Rückfahrkarte f,
    b) FLUG Rückflugticket n;
    return valve TECH Rückschlagventil n;
    return visit Gegenbesuch m;
    return wire ELEK Rückleiter m; booking 1
    2. zurückgebogen:
    a) TECH U-Röhre f,
    b) Haarnadelkurve f (einer Straße)
    3. return key COMPUT Eingabetaste f
    4. return day JUR Verhandlungstermin m
    ret. abk
    * * *
    1.
    [rɪ'tɜːn]intransitive verb
    1) (come back) zurückkommen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back) zurückgehen; zurückkehren (geh.); (go back by vehicle) zurückfahren; zurückkehren (geh.)

    return home — wieder nach Hause kommen/gehen/fahren/zurückkehren

    return to work (after holiday or strike) die Arbeit wieder aufnehmen

    2. transitive verb
    1) (bring back) zurückbringen; zurückgeben [geliehenen/gestohlenen Gegenstand, gekaufte Ware]; [wieder] zurückschicken [unzustellbaren Brief]; (hand back, refuse) zurückweisen [Scheck]

    ‘return to sender’ — (on letter) "zurück an Absender"

    return something to its original state or condition — etwas wieder in seinen ursprünglichen Zustand versetzen

    3) (yield) abwerfen [Gewinn]
    4) (give back something similar) erwidern [Besuch, Gruß, Liebe, Gewehrfeuer]; sich revanchieren für (ugs.) [Freundlichkeit, Gefallen]; zurückgeben [Schlag]
    5) (elect) wählen [Kandidaten]
    6) (Sport) zurückschlagen [Ball]; (throw back) zurückwerfen
    7) (answer) erwidern; entgegnen

    return a verdict of guilty/not guilty — [Geschworene:] auf "schuldig"/"nicht schuldig" erkennen

    3. noun
    1) (coming back) Rückkehr, die; (to home) Heimkehr, die

    return to health — Genesung, die (geh.)

    many happy returns [of the day]! — herzlichen Glückwunsch [zum Geburtstag]!

    2)

    by return [of post] — postwendend

    3) (ticket) Rückfahrkarte, die

    return[s] — Ertrag, Gewinn, der (on, from aus)

    return on capital — Kapitalgewinn, der

    5) (bringing back) Zurückbringen, das; (of property, goods, book) Rückgabe, die (to an + Akk.)
    6) (giving back of something similar) Erwiderung, die

    receive/get something in return [for something] — etwas [für etwas] bekommen

    press returnReturn od. die Returntaste drücken

    return key — Returntaste, die

    * * *
    (ticket) adj.
    hin und zurück adj. (mail) n.
    Rücksendung f. adj.
    Rückhol- präfix. n.
    Ertrag -ë m.
    Rentabilität f.
    Rückgabe -n f.
    Rückkehr -en f.
    Rücklauf -¨e m.
    Wiederkehr f. v.
    erwidern (Besuch, Gefälligkeit) v.
    erwidern (Feuer - Militär) v.
    rückkehren v.
    rückspringen v.
    wiederkehren v.
    zurück gehen v.
    zurück holen v.
    zurück zahlen v.
    zurückholen (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.
    zurückkehren v.
    zurückschicken v.
    zurückzahlen (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

    English-german dictionary > return

  • 9 near

    1. adverb
    1) (at a short distance) nah[e]

    stand/live [quite] near — [ganz] in der Nähe stehen/wohnen

    come or draw near/nearer — [Tag, Zeitpunkt:] nahen/näherrücken

    near at handin Reichweite (Dat.); [Ort] ganz in der Nähe

    be near at hand[Ereignis:] nahe bevorstehen

    so near and yet so farso nah und doch so fern

    2) (closely)

    near to = 2 a, b, c; we were near to being drowned — wir wären fast od. beinah[e] ertrunken

    2. preposition
    1) (in space) (position) nahe an/bei (+ Dat.); (motion) nahe an (+ Akk.); (fig.) nahe (geh.) nachgestellt (+ Dat.); in der Nähe (+ Gen.)

    keep near mehalte dich od. bleib in meiner Nähe

    near where... — in der Nähe od. unweit der Stelle (Gen.), wo...

    move it nearer herrücke es näher zu ihr

    don't stand so near the firegeh nicht so nahe od. dicht an das Feuer

    when we got nearer Oxfordals wir in die Nähe von Oxford kamen

    wait till we're nearer home — warte, bis wir nicht mehr so weit von zu Hause weg sind

    the man near/nearest you — der Mann, der bei dir/der dir am nächsten steht

    nobody comes anywhere near him at swimmingim Schwimmen kommt bei weitem keiner an ihn heran

    3) (in time)

    near the end/the beginning of something — gegen Ende/zu Anfang einer Sache (Gen.)

    4) in comb. Beinahe[unfall, -zusammenstoß, -katastrophe]

    be in a state of near-collapsekurz vor dem Zusammenbruch stehen

    a near-miraclefast od. beinahe ein Wunder

    3. adjective
    1) (in space or time) nahe
    2) (closely related) nahe [Verwandte]; eng [Freund]
    3) (in nature) fast richtig [Vermutung]; groß [Ähnlichkeit]

    £30 or near/nearest offer — 30 Pfund oder nächstbestes Angebot

    this is the nearest equivalentdies entspricht dem am ehesten

    near escapeEntkommen mit knapper Not

    round it up to the nearest pennyrunde es auf den nächsthöheren Pfennigbetrag

    be a near miss[Schuss, Wurf:] knapp danebengehen

    that was a near miss (escape) das war aber knapp!

    4)

    the near side(Brit.) (travelling on the left/right) die linke/rechte Seite

    5) (direct)
    4. transitive verb
    sich nähern (+ Dat.)
    * * *
    [niə] 1. adjective
    1) (not far away in place or time: The station is quite near; Christmas is getting near.) nahe
    2) (not far away in relationship: He is a near relation.) nahe
    2. adverb
    1) (to or at a short distance from here or the place mentioned: He lives quite near.) nahe
    2) ((with to) close to: Don't sit too near to the window.) nahe
    3. preposition
    (at a very small distance from (in place, time etc): She lives near the church; It was near midnight when they arrived.) nahe
    4. verb
    (to come near (to): The roads became busier as they neared the town; as evening was nearing.) sich nähren
    - academic.ru/49300/nearly">nearly
    - nearness
    - nearby
    - nearside
    - near-sighted
    - a near miss
    * * *
    [nɪəʳ, AM nɪr]
    I. adj
    1. (close in space) nahe, in der Nähe
    where's the \nearest phone box? wo ist die nächste Telefonzelle?
    in the \near distance [ganz] in der Nähe
    in the \near future in der nahen Zukunft
    3. (most similar)
    \nearest am nächsten
    walking in these boots is the \nearest thing to floating on air in diesen Stiefeln läuft man fast wie auf Watte
    this was the \nearest equivalent to cottage cheese I could find von allem, was ich auftreiben konnte, ist das hier Hüttenkäse am ähnlichsten
    he rounded up the sum to the \nearest dollar er rundete die Summe auf den nächsten Dollar auf
    4. attr (close to being)
    he was in a state of \near despair er war der Verzweiflung nahe
    that's a \near certainty/impossibility das ist so gut wie sicher/unmöglich
    a \near catastrophe/collision eine Beinahekatastrophe/ein Beinahezusammenstoß m
    5. attr (person) nahe, eng
    he's a \near neighbour er gehört zu der unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft
    \near relative enge[r] [o nahe[r]] Verwandte[r]
    his \nearest and dearest ( hum) seine Lieben hum
    6. attr BRIT, AUS AUTO, TRANSP (nearside) auf der Beifahrerseite präd, nach n
    7.
    a \near thing:
    that was a \near thing! it could have been a disaster das war aber knapp! es hätte ein Unglück geben können
    she won in the end but it was a \near thing am Ende hat sie doch noch gewonnen, aber es war knapp
    II. adv
    do you live somewhere \near? wohnst du hier irgendwo in der Nähe?
    I wish we lived \nearer ich wünschte, wir würden näher beieinanderwohnen
    I was standing just \near enough to hear what he was saying ich stand gerade nah genug, um zu hören, was er sagte
    \near at hand object in [unmittelbarer] Reichweite; place [ganz] in der Nähe
    to draw [or get] \near näher rücken
    the time is drawing \nearer die Zeit rückt näher
    3. (almost) beinahe, fast
    a \near perfect performance eine fast perfekte Vorstellung
    I \near fell out or the chair ich wäre beinahe vom Stuhl gefallen
    as \near as:
    as \near as he could recall, the burglar had been tall soweit er sich erinnern konnte, war der Einbrecher groß gewesen
    I'm as \near certain as can be ich bin mir so gut wie sicher
    there were about 60 people at the party, as \near as I could judge ich schätze, es waren so um die 60 Leute auf der Party
    \near enough ( fam) fast, beinahe
    she's been here 10 years, \near enough sie ist seit 10 Jahren hier, so ungefähr jedenfalls
    they're the same age or \near enough sie haben so ungefähr dasselbe Alter
    nowhere [or not anywhere] \near bei Weitem nicht
    his income is nowhere \near enough to live on sein Einkommen reicht bei Weitem nicht zum Leben [aus]
    he's not anywhere \near as [or so] tall as his sister er ist längst nicht so groß wie seine Schwester
    4.
    as \near as dammit [or damn it] BRIT ( fam)
    it will cost £200, or as \near as dammit so Pi mal Daumen gerechnet wird es etwa 200 Pfund kosten
    III. prep
    1. (in proximity to)
    \near [to] nahe [bei] + dat
    he stood \near her er stand nahe [o dicht] bei ihr
    do you live \near here? wohnen Sie hier in der Nähe?
    we live quite \near [to] a school wir wohnen in unmittelbarer Nähe einer Schule
    the house was nowhere \near the port das Haus lag nicht mal in der Nähe des Hafens
    don't come too \near me, you might catch my cold komm mir nicht zu nahe, du könntest dich mit meiner Erkältung anstecken
    which bus stop is \nearest [to] your house? welche Bushaltestelle ist von deinem Haus aus die nächste?
    go and sit \nearer [to] the fire komm, setz dich näher ans Feuer
    there's a car park \near the factory bei [o in der Nähe] der Fabrik gibt es einen Parkplatz
    I shan't be home till some time \near midnight ich werde erst so um Mitternacht zurück sein
    it's nowhere \near time for us to leave yet es ist noch längst nicht Zeit für uns zu gehen
    I'm nowhere \near finishing the book ich habe das Buch noch längst nicht ausgelesen
    details will be given \near the date die Einzelheiten werden kurz vor dem Termin bekanntgegeben
    his birthday is very \near Easter er hat kurz vor Ostern Geburtstag
    I'll think about it \nearer [to] the time wenn die Zeit reif ist, dann werde ich drüber nachdenken
    \near the end of the war gegen Kriegsende
    we came \near to being killed wir wären beinahe getötet worden
    they came \near to blows over the election results sie hätten sich fast geprügelt wegen der Wahlergebnisse
    \near to starvation/dehydration nahe dem Verhungern/Verdursten
    \near to tears den Tränen nahe
    4. (similar in quantity or quality)
    he's \nearer 70 than 60 er ist eher 70 als 60
    this colour is \nearest [to] the original diese Farbe kommt dem Original am nächsten
    nobody else comes \near him in cooking was das Kochen angeht, da kommt keiner an ihn ran
    5. (about ready to)
    to be \near to doing sth nahe daran sein, etw akk zu tun
    I am \near to losing my temper ich verliere gleich die Geduld
    he came \near to punching him er hätte ihn beinahe geschlagen
    6. (like)
    he felt something \near envy er empfand so etwas wie Neid
    what he said was nothing \near the truth was er sagte, entsprach nicht im Entferntesten der Wahrheit
    7. (almost amount of) annähernd, fast
    it weighed \near to a pound es wog etwas weniger als ein Pfund
    temperatures \near 30 degrees Temperaturen von etwas unter 30 Grad
    profits fell from £8 million to \nearer £6 million die Gewinne sind von 8 Millionen auf gerade mal 6 Millionen zurückgegangen
    IV. vt
    to \near sth sich akk etw dat nähern, etw dat näher kommen
    we \neared the top of the mountain wir kamen dem Gipfel des Berges immer näher
    to \near completion kurz vor der Vollendung stehen
    sb \nears his/her end ( liter) jds Ende naht euph
    V. vi sich akk nähern, näher kommen [o rücken]
    lunchtime is \nearing es ist bald Mittagszeit
    as Christmas \neared, little Susan became more and more excited als Weihnachten nahte, wurde die kleine Susan immer aufgeregter
    * * *
    [nɪə(r)] (+er)
    1. ADVERB
    1) = close in space or time nahe

    don't sit/stand so near — setzen Sie sich/stehen Sie nicht so nahe (daran)

    you live nearer/nearest — du wohnst näher/am nächsten

    to move/come nearer — näher kommen

    that was the nearest I ever got to seeing himda hätte ich ihn fast gesehen

    the nearer it gets to the election, the more they look like losing — je näher die Wahl kommt or rückt, desto mehr sieht es danach aus, dass sie verlieren werden __diams; to be near at hand zur Hand sein; (shops) in der Nähe sein; (help) ganz nahe sein; (event) unmittelbar bevorstehen

    2) = closely, accurately genau

    as near as I can tell —

    (that's) near enough — so gehts ungefähr, das haut so ungefähr hin (inf)

    ... no, but near enough —... nein, aber es ist nicht weit davon entfernt

    3) = almost fast, beinahe; impossible nahezu, fast; dead nahezu
    4)

    in negative statements it's nowhere near enough — das ist bei Weitem nicht genug

    we're nowhere or not anywhere near finishing the book —

    you are nowhere or not anywhere near the truth — das ist weit gefehlt, du bist weit von der Wahrheit entfernt

    2. PREPOSITION
    (also ADV: near to)
    1) = close to position nahe an (+dat), nahe (+dat); (with motion) nahe an (+acc); (= in the vicinity of) in der Nähe von or +gen; (with motion) in die Nähe von or +gen

    move the chair near/nearer (to) the table — rücken Sie den Stuhl an den/näher an den Tisch

    to get near/nearer (to) sb/sth — nahe/näher an jdn/etw herankommen

    to stand near/nearer (to) the table — nahe/näher am Tisch stehen

    he won't go near anything illegal —

    near here/there — hier/dort in der Nähe

    near (to) where I had seen him — nahe der Stelle, wo ich ihn gesehen hatte

    to be nearest to stheiner Sache (dat) am nächsten sein

    take the chair nearest (to) you/the table — nehmen Sie den Stuhl direkt neben Ihnen/dem Tisch

    that's nearer it —

    to be near (to) sb's heart or sb — jdm am Herzen liegen

    to be near (to) the knuckle or bone (joke) — gewagt sein; (remark) hart an der Grenze sein

    2) = close in time with time stipulated gegen

    near (to) the appointed time — um die ausgemachte Zeit herum

    come back nearer (to) 3 o'clock —

    to be nearer/nearest (to) sth — einer Sache (dat) zeitlich näher liegen/am nächsten liegen

    near (to) the end of my stay/the play/the book — gegen Ende meines Aufenthalts/des Stücks/des Buchs

    as it drew near/nearer (to) his departure — als seine Abreise heranrückte/näher heranrückte

    3)

    = on the point of to be near (to) doing sth — nahe daran sein, etw zu tun

    to be near (to) tears/despair etc — den Tränen/der Verzweiflung etc nahe sein

    she was near (to) laughing out loud — sie hätte beinahe laut gelacht

    the project is near/nearer (to) completion —

    he came near to ruining his chances — er hätte sich seine Chancen beinahe verdorben, es hätte nicht viel gefehlt, und er hätte sich seine Chancen verdorben

    we were near to being drowned — wir waren dem Ertrinken nahe, wir wären beinahe ertrunken

    4) = similar to ähnlich (+dat)

    German is nearer (to) Dutch than English is — Deutsch ist dem Holländischen ähnlicher als Englisch

    it's the same thing or near it —

    3. ADJECTIVE
    1) = close in space or time nahe

    to be near (person, object) — in der Nähe sein; (danger, end, help) nahe sein; (event, departure, festival) bevorstehen

    to be very near — ganz in der Nähe sein; (in time) nahe or unmittelbar bevorstehen; (danger etc) ganz nahe sein

    to be nearer/nearest — näher/am nächsten sein; (event etc) zeitlich näher/am nächsten liegen

    it looks very near —

    his answer was nearer than mine/nearest — seine Antwort traf eher zu als meine/traf die Sachlage am ehesten

    when death is so nearwenn man dem Tod nahe ist

    these events are still very near —

    the hour is near (when...) (old) her hour was near (old) — die Stunde ist nahe(, da...) (old) ihre Stunde war nahe (old)

    2) fig escape knapp

    a near disaster/accident — beinahe or fast ein Unglück nt/ein Unfall m

    his nearest rival — sein schärfster Rivale, seine schärfste Rivalin

    to be in a state of near collapse/hysteria — am Rande eines Zusammenbruchs/der Hysterie sein

    £50 or nearest offer (Comm) — Verhandlungsbasis £ 50

    we'll sell it for £50, or nearest offer — wir verkaufen es für £ 50 oder das nächstbeste Angebot

    this is the nearest translation you'll getbesser kann man es kaum übersetzen, diese Übersetzung trifft es noch am ehesten

    that's the nearest thing you'll get to a compliment/an answer — ein besseres Kompliment/eine bessere Antwort kannst du kaum erwarten

    3) = closely related, intimate relation nah; friend nah, vertraut
    4. TRANSITIVE VERB
    sich nähern (+dat)

    to be nearing sth (fig)auf etw (acc) zugehen

    5. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    (time, event) näher rücken

    the time is nearing when... — die Zeit rückt näher, da...

    * * *
    near [nıə(r)]
    A adv
    1. nahe, (ganz) in der Nähe, dicht dabei
    2. nahe (bevorstehend) (Zeitpunkt, Ereignis etc)
    3. nahe (heran), näher:
    4. nahezu, beinahe, fast:
    £1,000 is not anywhere near enough 1000 Pfund sind bei Weitem nicht genug oder sind auch nicht annähernd genug;
    not anywhere near as bad as nicht annähernd so schlecht wie, bei Weitem nicht so schlecht wie
    5. obs sparsam:
    live near sparsam oder kärglich leben
    6. fig eng (verwandt, befreundet etc)
    7. SCHIFF hart (am Winde):
    B adj (adv nearly)
    1. nahe (gelegen), in der Nähe:
    the nearest place der nächstgelegene Ort
    2. kurz, nahe:
    the nearest way der kürzeste Weg
    3. nahe (Zeitpunkt, Ereignis etc):
    4. nahe (verwandt):
    the nearest relations die nächsten Verwandten
    5. eng (befreundet oder vertraut):
    a near friend ein guter oder enger Freund;
    my nearest and dearest friend mein bester Freund;
    6. knapp:
    we had a near escape wir sind mit knapper Not entkommen;
    near miss FLUG, AUTO Beinahe-, Fastzusammenstoß m;
    a) knapp danebengehen (Schuss etc),
    b) fig knapp scheitern;
    that was a near thing umg das hätte ins Auge gehen können, das ist gerade noch einmal gut gegangen
    7. genau, wörtlich, wortgetreu (Übersetzung etc)
    8. umg knaus(e)rig
    C präp
    1. nahe (dat), in der oder die Nähe von (oder gen), nahe an (dat) oder bei, unweit (gen):
    near sb in jemandes Nähe;
    a house near the station ein Haus in Bahnhofsnähe;
    get near the end of one’s career sich dem Ende seiner Laufbahn nähern;
    near completion der Vollendung nahe, nahezu fertiggestellt;
    a) nicht weit von hier,
    b) hier in der Nähe;
    his opinion is very near my own wir sind fast der gleichen Meinung;
    be near doing sth nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun; bone1 A 1
    2. (zeitlich) nahe, nicht weit von
    D v/t & v/i sich nähern, näher kommen (dat):
    be nearing completion der Vollendung entgegengehenBesondere Redewendungen: near at hand
    a) A 1,
    b) A 2 near by nearby A;
    a) sich ungefähr belaufen auf (akk),
    b) einer Sache sehr nahe oder fast gleichkommen, fast etwas sein she came near to tears sie war den Tränen nahe, sie hätte fast geweint;
    come ( oder go) near to doing sth etwas fast oder beinahe tun;
    not come near to sth in keinem Verhältnis stehen zu etwas; draw near, nowhere A 3
    nr abk near
    * * *
    1. adverb

    stand/live [quite] near — [ganz] in der Nähe stehen/wohnen

    come or draw near/nearer — [Tag, Zeitpunkt:] nahen/näherrücken

    near at handin Reichweite (Dat.); [Ort] ganz in der Nähe

    be near at hand[Ereignis:] nahe bevorstehen

    near to = 2 a, b, c; we were near to being drowned — wir wären fast od. beinah[e] ertrunken

    2. preposition
    1) (in space) (position) nahe an/bei (+ Dat.); (motion) nahe an (+ Akk.); (fig.) nahe (geh.) nachgestellt (+ Dat.); in der Nähe (+ Gen.)

    keep near mehalte dich od. bleib in meiner Nähe

    near where... — in der Nähe od. unweit der Stelle (Gen.), wo...

    wait till we're nearer home — warte, bis wir nicht mehr so weit von zu Hause weg sind

    the man near/nearest you — der Mann, der bei dir/der dir am nächsten steht

    ask me again nearer the time — frag mich, wenn der Zeitpunkt etwas näher gerückt ist, noch einmal

    near the end/the beginning of something — gegen Ende/zu Anfang einer Sache (Gen.)

    4) in comb. Beinahe[unfall, -zusammenstoß, -katastrophe]

    a near-miraclefast od. beinahe ein Wunder

    3. adjective
    2) (closely related) nahe [Verwandte]; eng [Freund]
    3) (in nature) fast richtig [Vermutung]; groß [Ähnlichkeit]

    £30 or near/nearest offer — 30 Pfund oder nächstbestes Angebot

    be a near miss[Schuss, Wurf:] knapp danebengehen

    that was a near miss (escape) das war aber knapp!

    4)

    the near side(Brit.) (travelling on the left/right) die linke/rechte Seite

    4. transitive verb
    sich nähern (+ Dat.)
    * * *
    adj.
    nah adj. prep.
    nächst präp.

    English-german dictionary > near

  • 10 Cotton (India)

    " Hinganghat " or " Bant " cotton is probably the finest class of cotton grown in India, having a staple of fully 1-in. in length, and being fine and somewhat silky. This particular variety is rarely exported, being used mostly by Indian spinners for their better class yarns. The Indian cottonsof the Liverpool market are divided into three groups: Surats, Bengal and Madras Surats - Surat is a small port in the Bombay Presidency, from which a large quantity of this cotton was formerly exported. The cottons of the Surat group constitute by far the largest portion of the Indian crop They are: Surtee - This is one of the best of the Surat cottons, and has a staple of 7/8-in. to 1-in. in length Broach is a good white cotton of 7/8 in staple, with a good ginning percentage Dharwar is an acclimatised American cotton of 5/8-in. to 3/4-in staple. It has a nice colour, but is not very strong Dhollera is a cotton similar to Broach, grown in the Ahmedabad district of Bombay, and is much used in the local mills Oomra, or Oomrawuttee comprises a small group of cottons of various qualities, grown in the Central Provinces and Berar Khandeish is an Oomras cotton of a medium length. The Deccan grows a mixed Khandeish cotton of an inferior quality Comptah is a cotton descended from Broach and has a staple of 3/4-in to 3/8-in. Bagalkote is a North Bombay cotton Scinde - The native variety is the poorest of the Surat cottons. It has a very short staple, and is dirty. Recently, however, cotton from Egyptian and American seed has been grown, and shows fairly good results. Bengal - Bengal cottons are short and dirty, and of a quality similar to Scinde. They average about 5/8-in staple, and are only suitable for the coarsest counts Madras - The Madras cottons are: Tinne velly, Westerns, Northerns, and Coconada Tinnevelly is the best and is one of the few Indian cottons which may be suitably mixed with American. It is very white in colour, clean and strong. A fair quantity is imported into England. Westerns is a poorer variety than Tinnevelly, being dull and harsh and not so clean, but it has a fairly long staple. Northerns is a better cotton than Westerns, being softer and silkier, though not so white. Coconada, or Red Coconada, as it is sometimes called, is a highly-coloured cotton, with a moderate staple. Cambodia (or "Tinnevelly American") is a new Madras cotton, which is very similar to Uplands American, with a fine, strong fibre of about 1-in. staple. This cotton has been a great success, and probably has a good future before it.

    Dictionary of the English textile terms > Cotton (India)

  • 11 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

  • 12 partially type-tested low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies

    1. НКУ распределения и управления, прошедшее частичные типовые испытания

     

    НКУ распределения и управления, прошедшее частичные типовые испытания
    НКУ распределения и управления, включающее в себя узлы, прошедшие типовые испытания, и узлы, не подвергаемые типовым испытаниям, при условии, что технические характеристики последних являются производными (полученными, например, расчетом) от технических характеристик подобных узлов, прошедших типовые испытания.
    Примечание — В настоящем стандарте сокращение ЧИ НКУ используют для обозначения частично испытанных НКУ.
    [ ГОСТ Р 51321. 1-2000 ( МЭК 60439-1-92)]

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    partially type-tested low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies PTTA
    low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assembly, containing both type-tested and non-type-tested arrangements provided that the latter are derived (e.g. by calculation) from type-tested arrangements which have complied with the relevant tests
    [IEC 61892-3, ed. 2.0 (2007-11)]

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    The Standard IEC 60439-1 differentiates between two categories of assemblies:
    • TTA (Type-Tested Assembly)
    • PTTA (Partially Type-Tested Assembly)
    The term Type-Tested Assembly (TTA) is used to mean an assembly “conforming to an established type or system without deviations likely to significantly influence the performance from the typical assembly verified to be in accordance with this standard”.
    To be declared TTA an assembly shall meet at least one of the following conditions:
    1. it is manufactured in a single example and subject to all the type tests required by the Standard;
    2. it is similar to another assembly which has been subjected to all the type tests, that is it differs from the tested one only for details considered irrelevant for the results of the same tests and, consequently, for its performances, that is for its nominal characteristics;
    3. it is part of a pre-established structural system subjected to type tests in some of the many possible arrangements chosen among the most significative ones which can be obtained by combining the system elements. It is the typical case of assemblies sold as loose components.

    The term Partially Type-Tested Assembly (PTTA) is used to mean an assembly “containing both type-tested and non-type-tested arrangements, provided that the latter are derived (e.g. by calculation) from type-tested arrangements which have complied with the relevant tests”.

    A PTTA is an assembly which has been subjected to one part of the type tests, whereas the other ones have been replaced by some extrapolations (calculations) based on the experimental results obtained on assemblies which have already passed the type tests.

    The distinction between TTA and PTTA is of no weight with respect to the declaration of conformity with the Standard IEC 60439-1, since the assembly must simply comply with it apart from its having been subject - totally (TTA) or partially (PTTA) - to type tests.

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    Стандарт МЭК 60439-1 различат две категории НКУ:
    • ПИ НКУ (НКУ, прошедшие типовые испытания);
    • ЧИ НКУ (НКУ, прошедшие частичные типовые испытания).
    Термин «НКУ, прошедшие типовые испытания (ПИ НКУ) означает, что данное НКУ «соответствует без значительных отклонений типичному НКУ, испытанному согласно настоящему стандарту».
    В соответствии с этим, ПИ НКУ должны отвечать, по крайней мере, одному из следующих условий:
    1. НКУ изготовлено в одном экземпляре и прошло все типовые испытания согласно настоящему стандарту;
    2. Данное НКУ аналогично другому НКУ, которое прошло все типовые испытания, и что отличия от испытанного НКУ, не влияют на результаты типовых испытаний и следовательно не влияют на эксплуатационные качества и номинальные характеристики.
    3. Данное НКУ является частью сборки, подвергаемой таким же самым типовым испытаниям в одном из возможных вариантов монтажа, выбранного среди наиболее значимых путем комбинирования системных элементов. Это типичный случай НКУ, поставляемых в виде несмонтированных компонентов.

    Термин «НКУ, прошедшие частичные типовые испытания (ЧИ НКУ)» обозначает НКУ «включающее в себя узлы, прошедшие типовые испытания, и узлы, не подвергаемые типовым испытаниям, при условии, что технические характеристики последних являются производными (полученными, например, расчетом) от технических характеристик подобных узлов, прошедших типовые испытания».

    ЧИ НКУ являются НКУ, в которых часть узлов прошла типовые испытания, а вместо испытания других узлов использованы результаты экстраполяции (вычисления) их технических характеристик, которые основаны на экспериментальных значениях характеристик тех узлов, которые ранее прошли требуемые типовые испытания.

    Различие между ПИ НКУ и ЧИ НКУ не оказывают влияния на декларацию соответствия требованиям стандарта МЭК 60439-1, поскольку данные НКУ должны просто удовлетворять требованиям стандарта без учет того, являются ли они полностью испытанными (ПИ) или частично испытанными (ЧИ).

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  • 13 PTTA

    1. НКУ распределения и управления, прошедшее частичные типовые испытания

     

    НКУ распределения и управления, прошедшее частичные типовые испытания
    НКУ распределения и управления, включающее в себя узлы, прошедшие типовые испытания, и узлы, не подвергаемые типовым испытаниям, при условии, что технические характеристики последних являются производными (полученными, например, расчетом) от технических характеристик подобных узлов, прошедших типовые испытания.
    Примечание — В настоящем стандарте сокращение ЧИ НКУ используют для обозначения частично испытанных НКУ.
    [ ГОСТ Р 51321. 1-2000 ( МЭК 60439-1-92)]

    EN

    partially type-tested low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assemblies PTTA
    low-voltage switchgear and controlgear assembly, containing both type-tested and non-type-tested arrangements provided that the latter are derived (e.g. by calculation) from type-tested arrangements which have complied with the relevant tests
    [IEC 61892-3, ed. 2.0 (2007-11)]

    FR

    -

    Параллельные тексты EN-RU

    The Standard IEC 60439-1 differentiates between two categories of assemblies:
    • TTA (Type-Tested Assembly)
    • PTTA (Partially Type-Tested Assembly)
    The term Type-Tested Assembly (TTA) is used to mean an assembly “conforming to an established type or system without deviations likely to significantly influence the performance from the typical assembly verified to be in accordance with this standard”.
    To be declared TTA an assembly shall meet at least one of the following conditions:
    1. it is manufactured in a single example and subject to all the type tests required by the Standard;
    2. it is similar to another assembly which has been subjected to all the type tests, that is it differs from the tested one only for details considered irrelevant for the results of the same tests and, consequently, for its performances, that is for its nominal characteristics;
    3. it is part of a pre-established structural system subjected to type tests in some of the many possible arrangements chosen among the most significative ones which can be obtained by combining the system elements. It is the typical case of assemblies sold as loose components.

    The term Partially Type-Tested Assembly (PTTA) is used to mean an assembly “containing both type-tested and non-type-tested arrangements, provided that the latter are derived (e.g. by calculation) from type-tested arrangements which have complied with the relevant tests”.

    A PTTA is an assembly which has been subjected to one part of the type tests, whereas the other ones have been replaced by some extrapolations (calculations) based on the experimental results obtained on assemblies which have already passed the type tests.

    The distinction between TTA and PTTA is of no weight with respect to the declaration of conformity with the Standard IEC 60439-1, since the assembly must simply comply with it apart from its having been subject - totally (TTA) or partially (PTTA) - to type tests.

    [ABB]

    Стандарт МЭК 60439-1 различат две категории НКУ:
    • ПИ НКУ (НКУ, прошедшие типовые испытания);
    • ЧИ НКУ (НКУ, прошедшие частичные типовые испытания).
    Термин «НКУ, прошедшие типовые испытания (ПИ НКУ) означает, что данное НКУ «соответствует без значительных отклонений типичному НКУ, испытанному согласно настоящему стандарту».
    В соответствии с этим, ПИ НКУ должны отвечать, по крайней мере, одному из следующих условий:
    1. НКУ изготовлено в одном экземпляре и прошло все типовые испытания согласно настоящему стандарту;
    2. Данное НКУ аналогично другому НКУ, которое прошло все типовые испытания, и что отличия от испытанного НКУ, не влияют на результаты типовых испытаний и следовательно не влияют на эксплуатационные качества и номинальные характеристики.
    3. Данное НКУ является частью сборки, подвергаемой таким же самым типовым испытаниям в одном из возможных вариантов монтажа, выбранного среди наиболее значимых путем комбинирования системных элементов. Это типичный случай НКУ, поставляемых в виде несмонтированных компонентов.

    Термин «НКУ, прошедшие частичные типовые испытания (ЧИ НКУ)» обозначает НКУ «включающее в себя узлы, прошедшие типовые испытания, и узлы, не подвергаемые типовым испытаниям, при условии, что технические характеристики последних являются производными (полученными, например, расчетом) от технических характеристик подобных узлов, прошедших типовые испытания».

    ЧИ НКУ являются НКУ, в которых часть узлов прошла типовые испытания, а вместо испытания других узлов использованы результаты экстраполяции (вычисления) их технических характеристик, которые основаны на экспериментальных значениях характеристик тех узлов, которые ранее прошли требуемые типовые испытания.

    Различие между ПИ НКУ и ЧИ НКУ не оказывают влияния на декларацию соответствия требованиям стандарта МЭК 60439-1, поскольку данные НКУ должны просто удовлетворять требованиям стандарта без учет того, являются ли они полностью испытанными (ПИ) или частично испытанными (ЧИ).

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  • 14 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 15 fake

    ̈ɪfeɪk I
    1. сущ.;
    мор. бухта каната
    2. гл.;
    мор. укладывать( канат, трос) в бухты Syn: coil
    2. II
    1. сущ.;
    разг.
    1) хитрость, обман, мошенничество Syn: trick
    1., invention, dodge
    1.
    2) подделка;
    подлог, фальшивка Syn: forgery, fraud, sham
    1.
    3) обманщик, мошенник, шарлатан Syn: impostor, charlatan
    4) спорт финт
    2. прил. поддельный, фальшивый fake fur ≈ искусственный мех Fake whisky, the symptoms following consumption are similar to those of gastric poisoning. ≈ Симптомы после употребления поддельного виски схожи с симптомами отравления. Syn: counterfeit
    2., sham
    2., spurious
    3. гл.;
    сл.
    1) а) (воровской жаргон) грабить, убивать б) подделывать, фальсифицировать, фабриковать( обыкн. fake up) Do you really think that you can deceive experienced art dealers with an oil painting that you have faked up? ≈ Ты в самом деле думаешь, что сможешь обмануть продавцов картин своими масляными подделками? You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him. ≈ Да тебе же проще простого придумать какой-нибудь предлог, чтобы не ходить с ним. What else could the poor old chap do but fake up an answer fit for publication? ≈ Бедняге ничего не остается, как состряпать ответ, пригодный для публикации. Syn: doctor
    2., tamper with в) мошенничать, обжуливать (тж. fake out) You could try to fake out the teacher by handing in your book as though you'd done the work: he may not mark the books anyway. ≈ Можешь попытаться обмануть учителя так: дать ему свою тетрадку, хоть ты и не сделал задание;
    вдруг он не будет смотреть ее? г) прикидываться, притворяться I hid my face in my hands and faked some sobs. ≈ Я закрыл лицо руками и притворился, что рыдаю. Syn: counterfeit
    3., simulate, pretend д) спорт финтить
    2) импровизировать( о джазовых музыкантах) Whistle a few bars... and I'll fake the rest. ≈ Насвисти несколько тактов, а я сымпровизирую остальное. Syn: improvise, ad-lib( морское) кольцо, бухта каната;
    шлаг (троса) (геология) песчанистый сланец( техническое) мягкий припой для ювелирных работ( морское) укладывать( канат в бухты) (разговорное) подделка;
    подлог;
    фальшивка;
    (газетная) "утка" - the painting was not Renoir, but a * картина оказалась не Ренуаром, а подделкой под него подчищенная марка( в коллекции) плутовство, мошенничество ( редкое) мошенник, обманщик;
    самозванец( спортивное) финт - * blow ложный удар (фехтование) подделывать;
    фальсифицировать;
    фабриковать (тж. * up) - to * results подделать результаты мошенничать, дурачить;
    обманывать - he was not telling the truth, but was faking он не говорил правду, а морочил нас притворяться, прикидываться - to * surprise притворяться удивленным - she *d illness so she did not have to go to school чтобы не пойти в школу, она прикинулась больной /симулировала болезнь/ (спортивное) делать финт (жаргон) грабить;
    убивать > to * a line (театроведение) нести отсебятину;
    импровизировать fake театр. импровизировать ~ мошенничать, обжуливать ~ мошенничать ~ мошенничество ~ плутовство ~ подделка;
    фальшивка ~ подделка ~ подделывать, фабриковать (обыкн. fake up) ~ подделывать, фальсифицировать ~ подделывать ~ подлог ~ прикидываться ~ мор. укладывать (канат) в бухту ~ фабриковать ~ фальсифицировать ~ фальшивка

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > fake

  • 16 like

    ̈ɪlaɪk I
    1. прил.
    1) аналогичный, подобный, похожий, сходный Syn: similar, resembling
    2) идентичный, одинаковый, равный, тождественный like sum like dispositions Syn: equal, identical
    3) разг. возможный;
    вероятныйsomething like a dinner! разг. ≈ замечательный обед!, вот это обед так обед! like father like son, like master like man ≈ яблоко от яблони недалеко падает nothing like
    2. нареч.
    1) подобно, так
    2) вероятно, возможно
    3) разг. так сказать, как бы
    3. предл. так;
    как что-л.;
    подобно чему-л. like anything, like mad разг. ≈ стремительно;
    изо всех сил;
    сильно, чрезвычайно, ужасно He looks like Father Christmas. ≈ Он выглядит как Дед-Мороз. What was Bulgaria like? ≈ Что представляла из себя Болгария?
    4. сущ. а) нечто подобное, равное, одинаковое Did you ever seen the like? ≈ Видели ли вы что-л. подобное? б) подобный человек We shall not look upon his like again. ≈ Такого человека, как он, нам не видать больше. the likes of us (them, etc.) разг. ≈ такие люди, как мы ( они и т. п.) II
    1. гл.
    1) любить, нравиться to like a great deal, a lot, very muchочень нравиться He likes to read. ≈ Ему нравится читать She likes reading. ≈ Ей нравится читать. I'd like him to go. ≈ Я бы хотел, чтобы он ушел. I like people to tell me the truth. ≈ Я бы хотел, чтобы мне сказали правду. I'd like you to go. ≈ Я бы хотел, чтобы ты ушел. I'd like for you to go. ≈ Я бы хотел, чтобы ты ушел. We like our friends to be honest. ≈ Мы хотим, чтобы наши друзья были честными. I should/would like ≈ я хотел бы, мне хотелось бы Syn: please
    2) хотеть, желать Shall I close the window? - If you like. ≈ Можно я закрою окно? - Как хотите.
    3) предпочитать How do you like your coffee? ≈ Какой кофе вам подать?
    2. сущ.;
    обыкн. мн. влечения, склонности;
    вкусы, пристрастия чье-л. подобие;
    такой же человек - we shall not see his * again такого человека, как он, нам не видать больше - the *s of you (разговорное) такие люди как вы - not for the *s of me (разговорное) не для нашего брата, не для таких как я что-л. подобное или похожее - I never heard the * (of it) я никогда ничего подобного не слышал - and the * и тому подобное - music, painting and the * музыка, живопись и тому подобное - or the * или что-л. в этом роде - I will never do the * again я больше никогда не буду делать таких вещей > * draws to * свой своего ищет > to return * for * отплатить той же монетой > * cures * чем ушибся, тем и лечись подобный, похожий - in * manner подобным (же) образом - on this and the * subjects по этому и аналогичным вопросам - men of * disposition люди со сходными характерами - the two letters are very * эти две буквы очень похожи - * causes produce * results сходные причины приводят к сходным следствиям - what is he *? как он выглядит?;
    что он собой представляет? равный, одинаковый - a * sum равная /такая же/ сумма - * signs (математика) одинаковые знаки - * quantities( математика) равные величины - * poles( физическое) одноименные полюса > as * as two peas похожи как две капли воды > * father, * son каков отец, таков и сын;
    яблоко от яблони недалеко падает > * master, * man по хозяину и слуга;
    каков поп, таков и приход( редкое) вероятно - most /very/ * весьма вероятно - * enough довольно вероятно - as * as not не исключено (просторечие) вроде;
    так сказать;
    как бы - by way of argument * так сказать, в качестве примера - I wish I knew, * да мне вроде бы хотелось знать так;
    как кто-л.;
    как что-л - a subject * physics предмет вроде физики - * that таким образом - do it * that делай( это) так - to swim * a duck плавать как утка - to climb * a monkey лазить как обезьяна - to be /to look/ * smb., smth. быть похожим на кого-л., что-л. - she looks very much * her mother она очень похожа на свою мать - it was * this дело было так - it looks * gold это похоже на золото /выглядит как золото/ - don't ask questions * that не задавай подобных вопросов - * the stars in number бесчисленный как звезды - it was just * him to do that это так на него похоже, это как раз то, что от него можно было ожидать - that's( just) * his impudence нахальство, типичное для него - isn't that just * a boy! как это по-мальчишески! в сочетаниях: - to look * smth. предвещать что-л. - it looks * rain похоже, что будет дождь - he looks * winning он, вероятно, выиграет - the rain looks * lasting похоже, что дождь зарядил - to feel * smth., to feel * doing smth. иметь желание или намерение сделать что-л. - she felt * crying ей захотелось плакать, она чуть не заплакала - she felt * a drink again ей захотелось снова выпить - I feel * stopping work now у меня есть желание прекратить работу сейчас - I don't feel * going there мне не хочется туда идти - something * около - something * 3 miles около трех миль - it costs something * $100 это стоит что-то около 100 долларов - there is nothing * a good rest ничто не может сравниться /не идет в сравнение/ с хорошим отдыхом - there is nothing * a cup of hot tea when you are tired когда устанешь, нет ничего лучше чашки горячего чаю /ничто так не помогает, как чашка горячего чаю/ > this is something * a day! чудесный день!, вот так денек! > nothing * as good совсем не так /далеко не так/ хорош > * a shot немедленно, без разговоров > * anything /blazes, crazy, the devil, mad/ изо всех сил, изо всей мочи;
    сломя голову > he ran * mad он бежал как угорелый > I'll do it * a bird я сделаю это очень охотно( разговорное) как - she can't cook * her mother does она не умеет так готовить, как ее мать - it was just * you said все было в точности так, как вы говорили (просторечие) как будто, словно;
    как - he looks * he is signalling to us кажется, он подает нам знак - seems * he had written a novel оказывается, он когда-то написал роман - he told me * he didn't have a job for me он мне сказал, что, видимо, не может предоставить мне работу > to tell it * it is рассказать все как оно есть /без прикрас/ обыкн. pl вкусы - one's *s and dislikes( чьи-л.) пристрастия и предубеждения;
    симпатии и антипатии любить (что-л.) ;
    хорошо или одобрительно относиться к чему-л., кому-л. - to * dancing любить танцы - she *s him but does not love him он ей нравится, но она его не любит - well! I * that! (ироничное) это мне нравится! - how do you * it? как вам это нравится? - do as you * делайте, как вам нравится, поступайте, как вам угодно - I don't * you to smoke /your smoking/ мне не нравится, когда /что/ ты куришь предпочитать;
    выбирать - how do you * your tea? - I don't * it too strong какой чай вы любите /вам подать/? - Я предпочитаю не очень крепкий - I * people to tell the truth я хочу, чтобы люди говорили правду подходить, сочетаться, согласовываться - I like wine but it does not * me я люблю вино, но мне его нельзя /мне от него плохо/ хотеть, желать - I will come if you * если хотите, я приду - shall I open the window? - If you * открыть окно? - (Да,) если хотите - come whenever you * приходите, когда хотите;
    приходите в любое время - would you * a cup of coffee? не желаете ли чашечку кофе? - I should /would/ * я хотел бы, мне бы хотелось - I should * to go home я хотел бы поехать /пойти/ домой - I should * to see her хотел бы я повидать ее - I didn't * to interrupt him мне не хотелось прерывать его - I don't * to disturb you не хочу /не хотел бы/ вас беспокоить( устаревшее) (диалектизм) нравиться - it *s me well мне это очень нравится /приятно/ - it *d me not мне это не понравилось ~ нечто подобное, равное, одинаковое;
    and the like и тому подобное;
    did you ever hear the like? слышали ли вы что-л. подобное? like возможно, вероятно;
    like enough, as like as not очень возможно;
    very like весьма вероятно ~ нечто подобное, равное, одинаковое;
    and the like и тому подобное;
    did you ever hear the like? слышали ли вы что-л. подобное? do as you ~ делайте, как вам угодно;
    I should (или would) like я хотел бы, мне хотелось бы then: ~ употр. для усиления значения при выражении согласия: all right then, do as you like ну ладно, поступайте, как хотите ~, ~ anything, ~ mad разг. стремительно;
    изо всех сил;
    сильно, чрезвычайно, ужасно;
    do not talk like that не говорите так ~ хотеть (в отриц. предложениях) ;
    I don't like to disturb you я не хочу вас беспокоить ~ разг. так сказать, как бы;
    I had like to have fallen я чуть не упал ~ нравиться, любить;
    I like that! вот это мне нравится! (шутливое выражение несогласия) ;
    to like dancing любить танцевать do as you ~ делайте, как вам угодно;
    I should (или would) like я хотел бы, мне хотелось бы ~ похожий, подобный;
    like question подобный вопрос;
    in a like manner подобным образом it costs something ~ 50 стоит около 50 фунтов стерлингов it's just ~ you to do that это очень похоже на вас;
    это как раз то, чего от вас можно ожидать like возможно, вероятно;
    like enough, as like as not очень возможно;
    very like весьма вероятно ~ разг. возможный;
    вероятный;
    they are like to meet again они, вероятно, еще встретятся;
    nothing like ничего похожего;
    there is nothing like home нет места лучше, чем дом ~ нечто подобное, равное, одинаковое;
    and the like и тому подобное;
    did you ever hear the like? слышали ли вы что-л. подобное? ~ нравиться, любить;
    I like that! вот это мне нравится! (шутливое выражение несогласия) ;
    to like dancing любить танцевать ~ одинаковый, равный;
    like sum равная сумма;
    like dispositions одинаковые характеры ~ подобно, так;
    like so вот так, таким образом ~ похожий, подобный;
    like question подобный вопрос;
    in a like manner подобным образом ~ pl склонности, влечения;
    likes and dislikes пристрастия и предубеждения;
    симпатии и антипатии ~, ~ anything, ~ mad разг. стремительно;
    изо всех сил;
    сильно, чрезвычайно, ужасно;
    do not talk like that не говорите так ~ разг. так сказать, как бы;
    I had like to have fallen я чуть не упал ~ хотеть (в отриц. предложениях) ;
    I don't like to disturb you я не хочу вас беспокоить ~ cures ~ = клин клином вышибать;
    чем ушибся, тем и лечись ~ нравиться, любить;
    I like that! вот это мне нравится! (шутливое выражение несогласия) ;
    to like dancing любить танцевать ~ одинаковый, равный;
    like sum равная сумма;
    like dispositions одинаковые характеры like возможно, вероятно;
    like enough, as like as not очень возможно;
    very like весьма вероятно ~ father ~ son, ~ master ~ man = яблоко от яблони недалеко падает ~, ~ anything, ~ mad разг. стремительно;
    изо всех сил;
    сильно, чрезвычайно, ужасно;
    do not talk like that не говорите так mad: ~ буйно веселый;
    we had a mad time мы очень веселились;
    like mad как безумный ~ father ~ son, ~ master ~ man = яблоко от яблони недалеко падает ~ nothing on earth ни на что не похожий, странный ~ похожий, подобный;
    like question подобный вопрос;
    in a like manner подобным образом ~ подобно, так;
    like so вот так, таким образом ~ одинаковый, равный;
    like sum равная сумма;
    like dispositions одинаковые характеры ~ pl склонности, влечения;
    likes and dislikes пристрастия и предубеждения;
    симпатии и антипатии the likes of us (them, etc.) разг. такие люди, как мы (они и т. п.) look ~ быть похожим look: to ~ like выглядеть как, походить на, быть похожим на;
    it looks like rain(-ing) похоже, что будет дождь ~ разг. возможный;
    вероятный;
    they are like to meet again они, вероятно, еще встретятся;
    nothing like ничего похожего;
    there is nothing like home нет места лучше, чем дом to run ~ mad бежать очень быстро, как угорелый she likes him but does not love him он ей нравится, но она его не любит that's something ~ как раз то, что нужно;
    вот это прекрасно!;
    something like a dinner! разг. замечательный обед!, = вот это обед так обед! that's something ~ как раз то, что нужно;
    вот это прекрасно!;
    something like a dinner! разг. замечательный обед!, = вот это обед так обед! ~ разг. возможный;
    вероятный;
    they are like to meet again они, вероятно, еще встретятся;
    nothing like ничего похожего;
    there is nothing like home нет места лучше, чем дом ~ разг. возможный;
    вероятный;
    they are like to meet again они, вероятно, еще встретятся;
    nothing like ничего похожего;
    there is nothing like home нет места лучше, чем дом like возможно, вероятно;
    like enough, as like as not очень возможно;
    very like весьма вероятно we shall not look upon his ~ again такого человека, как он, нам не видать больше what is he ~? что он собой представляет?, что он за человек?

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > like

  • 17 SERP

    1) Бухгалтерия: Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan
    2) Сокращение: Software Evaluation and Recognition Program (Canada Post, similar to USPS CASS)
    5) Деловая лексика: System Expansion Related Pricing
    6) Образование: School Equipment Replacement Plan
    7) Интернет: Search engine results page (веб-страница, генерируемая поисковой системой в ответ на поисковый запрос пользователя)
    8) Библиотечное дело: Science Education Resource Page

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > SERP

  • 18 Serp

    1) Бухгалтерия: Supplemental Employee Retirement Plan
    2) Сокращение: Software Evaluation and Recognition Program (Canada Post, similar to USPS CASS)
    5) Деловая лексика: System Expansion Related Pricing
    6) Образование: School Equipment Replacement Plan
    7) Интернет: Search engine results page (веб-страница, генерируемая поисковой системой в ответ на поисковый запрос пользователя)
    8) Библиотечное дело: Science Education Resource Page

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > Serp

  • 19 same

    seim
    1. adjective
    1) (alike; very similar: The houses in this road are all the same; You have the same eyes as your brother (has).) parecido; mismo; igual
    2) (not different: My friend and I are the same age; He went to the same school as me.) mismo
    3) (unchanged: My opinion is the same as it always was.) mismo, igual

    2. pronoun
    ((usually with the) the same thing: He sat down and we all did the same.) lo mismo

    3. adverb
    ((usually with the) in the same way: I don't feel the same about you as I did.) del mismo modo, de la misma manera
    - at the same time
    - be all the same to
    - same here
    - same-sex marriage

    same1 adj mismo
    at the same time a la vez / al mismo tiempo
    same2 adv igual / de la misma manera
    same3 pron igual
    the same to you! ¡igualmente!
    tr[seɪm]
    1 (not different) mismo,-a
    2 (alike) mismo,-a, igual, idéntico,-a
    you men are all the same! ¡los hombres sois todos iguales!
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL (previously mentioned thing) el mismo, la misma
    1 the same lo mismo
    1 the same (same person) el mismo, la misma
    are you Phil Rogers? - The same! ¿es usted Phil Rogers? - ¡El mismo!
    the very same el mismísimo, la mismísima
    1 igual, del mismo modo
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    all the same a pesar de todo
    at the same time (simultaneously) a la vez, al mismo tiempo 2 (however) sin embargo, aun así
    in the same breath inmediatamente después
    it's all the same to me me da igual, me da lo mismo
    just the same a pesar de todo
    on the same wavelength en la misma onda
    one and the same el mismo, la misma, lo mismo
    same difference es igual
    same here yo también
    thanks all the same gracias de todas maneras
    the same again, please lo mismo de antes, por favor, otro por favor
    the same as igual que, como
    the same old story la misma historia de siempre
    the same to you! ¡igualmente!
    to amount the same thing venir a ser lo mismo
    to be in the same boat estar en el mismo barco, estar en la misma situación
    to be of the same mind opinar lo mismo
    same ['seɪm] adj
    : mismo, igual
    the results are the same: los resultados son iguales
    he said the same thing as you: dijo lo mismo que tú
    same pron
    : mismo
    it's all the same to me: me da lo mismo
    the same to you!: ¡igualmente!
    adj.
    idéntico, -a adj.
    igual adj.
    mero, -a adj.
    mismo, -a adj.
    propio, -a adj.
    adj.indef.
    mismo adj.indef.
    n.
    mismo s.m.
    pron.
    mismo pron.

    I seɪm
    adjective (before n) mismo, misma

    the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día


    II
    a)

    I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)

    b)

    all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)

    it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual


    III

    they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual

    how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual

    [seɪm]
    1.
    ADJ mismo

    if it's all the same to you *si a ti te da igual or lo mismo

    we sat at the same table as usual — nos sentamos en la (misma) mesa de siempre

    "how's Derek?" - "same as usual/ever" — -¿qué tal está Derek? -como siempre

    the same dayel mismo día

    same day deliveryentrega f en el mismo día

    same difference *lo mismo da *

    they are much the same — son más o menos iguales

    they ask the same old questions — siempre hacen las mismas preguntas, hacen las mismas preguntas de siempre

    the same oneel mismo

    it comes to the same thingviene a ser lo mismo

    at the same time(=at once) al mismo tiempo, a la vez; (=on the other hand) por otro lado

    the very same day/person — justo ese mismo día/esa misma persona

    in the same wayde la misma manera or forma

    do you still feel the same way about me? — ¿aún sientes lo mismo por mí?

    do you still feel the same way about it? — ¿sigues pensando lo mismo?, ¿lo sigues viendo de la misma forma?

    to go the same way as sth/sb — (fig) pej seguir el mismo camino que algo/algn

    boat 1., breath 1., 1), language 1., 1), mind 1., 6), story I, 1., 1), tar 2., token 1., wavelength
    2. PRON
    1)

    I'd do the same again — volvería a hacer lo mismo, haría lo mismo otra vez

    the same again! (in bar etc) ¡otra de lo mismo!

    all or just the same — (as adverb) (=even so) de todas formas or maneras

    no, but thanks all the same — no, pero de todas formas, gracias

    I want the best for him, the same as you — quiero lo mejor para él, igual que tú

    the same goes for you — eso también va por ti

    same here! * — ¡yo también!

    one and the same — el mismo/la misma

    (and the) same to you! * (returning insult) ¡lo mismo digo!; (returning good wishes) ¡igualmente!

    "Mr. Smith?" - "the very same!" — -¿el Sr. Smith? -¡el mismo!

    2) (Comm)
    * * *

    I [seɪm]
    adjective (before n) mismo, misma

    the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día


    II
    a)

    I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)

    b)

    all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)

    it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual


    III

    they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual

    how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual

    English-spanish dictionary > same

  • 20 match *****

    I [mætʃ]
    1. n
    1)

    (of colours) to be a good match (for) — intonarsi a, andar bene con

    2) (equal) uguale m/f, pari m/f inv

    to be a match/no match for sb — riuscire/non riuscire a tenere testa a qn

    3) (marriage) partito
    4) (game) incontro, Ftbl, Rugby partita, incontro
    2. vt
    1) (find similar to), (also: match up)

    they are well matched (opponents) son ben assortiti, (two friends) sono una coppia bene assortita, (husband and wife) sono una bella coppia

    2) (equal) uguagliare
    3) (go well with: colours) intonarsi a, (clothes) andare benissimo con
    3. vi
    (colours, materials) intonarsi

    with a skirt to match; with a matching skirt — con una gonna adatta or intonata

    II [mætʃ] n

    English-Italian dictionary > match *****

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