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1 spiral career
упр. спиральная [многофазовая\] карьера* (модель профессионального развития, в соответствии с которой индивид меняет место работы и свою профессию несколько раз в жизни, повторяя в каждой новой сфере аналогичные этапы профессионального развития и повышения статуса, напр., опытный инженер становится преподавателем в вузе, а затем профессиональным консультантом)Syn:See: -
2 career
1. сущ.1) общ. карьераSee:career expectations, career woman, careerist, career ladder, career opportunities, career prospects, career path, career pattern, career planning, career expectations, career guidance, career ladder, career management, career mobility, career woman, individual career planning, linear career, organizational career planning, pattern of career development, spiral career, steady-state career, transitory career, moral career, career systemб) (достижение успеха, славы)в) (деятельность на каком-л. поприще)to give up one's career as a musician to concentrate on one's studies — оставить карьеру музыканта ради учебы
Progressive illness cut short his career and forced his retirement in 2001. — Прогрессирующая болезнь оборвала его карьеру и вынудила его в 2001 г. уйти в отставку.
See:career officer, careers consultant, advance, career officer, career banding, career break, career development, profession2) общ. быстрое движение, карьер2. гл.1) общ. быстро двигаться; нестись2) общ. пускать лошадь в карьер3) общ. быстро отодвинуться -
3 pattern of career development
упр. модель профессионального развития (схема развития профессиональной карьеры, которая отражает закономерности в продвижении по службе, сменах профессий или мест работы и т. п.)What is the typical pattern of career development in this field? — Какова типичная модель профессионального развития в этой области?
See:Англо-русский экономический словарь > pattern of career development
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4 cyclical pattern of career development
упр. = spiral careerАнгло-русский экономический словарь > cyclical pattern of career development
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5 Wright, Frank Lloyd
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 8 June 1869 Richland Center, Wisconsin, USAd. 9 April 1959 Phoenix, Arizona, USA[br]American architect who, in an unparalleled career spanning almost seventy years, became the most important figure on the modern architectural scene both in his own country and far further afield.[br]Wright began his career in 1887 working in the Chicago offices of Adler \& Sullivan. He conceived a great admiration for Sullivan, who was then concentrating upon large commercial projects in modern mode, producing functional yet decorative buildings which took all possible advantage of new structural methods. Wright was responsible for many of the domestic commissions.In 1893 Wright left the firm in order to set up practice on his own, thus initiating a career which was to develop into three distinct phases. In the first of these, up until the First World War, he was chiefly designing houses in a concept in which he envisaged "the house as a shelter". These buildings displayed his deeply held opinion that detached houses in country areas should be designed as an integral part of the landscape, a view later to be evidenced strongly in the work of modern Finnish architects. Wright's designs were called "prairie houses" because so many of them were built in the MidWest of America, which Wright described as a "prairie". These were low and spreading, with gently sloping rooflines, very plain and clean lined, built of traditional materials in warm rural colours, blending softly into their settings. Typical was W.W.Willit's house of 1902 in Highland Park, Illinois.In the second phase of his career Wright began to build more extensively in modern materials, utilizing advanced means of construction. A notable example was his remarkable Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, carefully designed and built in 1916–22 (now demolished), with special foundations and structure to withstand (successfully) strong earthquake tremors. He also became interested in the possibilities of reinforced concrete; in 1906 he built his church at Oak Park, Illinois, entirely of this material. In the 1920s, in California, he abandoned his use of traditional materials for house building in favour of precast concrete blocks, which were intended to provide an "organic" continuity between structure and decorative surfacing. In his continued exploration of the possibilities of concrete as a building material, he created the dramatic concept of'Falling Water', a house built in 1935–7 at Bear Run in Pennsylvania in which he projected massive reinforced-concrete terraces cantilevered from a cliff over a waterfall in the woodlands. In the later 1930s an extraordinary run of original concepts came from Wright, then nearing 70 years of age, ranging from his own winter residence and studio, Taliesin West in Arizona, to the administration block for Johnson Wax (1936–9) in Racine, Wisconsin, where the main interior ceiling was supported by Minoan-style, inversely tapered concrete columns rising to spreading circular capitals which contained lighting tubes of Pyrex glass.Frank Lloyd Wright continued to work until four days before his death at the age of 91. One of his most important and certainly controversial commissions was the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum in New York. This had been proposed in 1943 but was not finally built until 1956–9; in this striking design the museum's exhibition areas are ranged along a gradually mounting spiral ramp lit effectively from above. Controversy stemmed from the unusual and original design of exterior banding and interior descending spiral for wall-display of paintings: some critics strongly approved, while others, equally strongly, did not.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRIBA Royal Gold Medal 1941.Bibliography1945, An Autobiography, Faber \& Faber.Further ReadingE.Kaufmann (ed.), 1957, Frank Lloyd Wright: an American Architect, New York: Horizon Press.H.Russell Hitchcock, 1973, In the Nature of Materials, New York: Da Capo.T.A.Heinz, 1982, Frank Lloyd Wright, New York: St Martin's.DY -
6 Phillips, Edouard
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 21 May 1821 Paris, Franced. 14 December 1889 Pouligny-Saint-Martin, France[br]French engineer and mathematician who achieved isochronous oscillations of a balance by deriving the correct shape for the balance spring.[br]Phillips was educated in Paris, at the Ecole Polytechnic and the Ecole des Mines. In 1849 he was awarded a doctorate in mathematical sciences by the University of Paris. He had a varied career in industry, academic and government institutions, rising to be Inspector- General of Mines in 1882.It was well known that the balance of a watch or chronometer fitted with a simple spiral or helical spring was not isochronous, i.e. the period of the oscillation was not entirely independent of the amplitude. Watch-and chronometer-makers, notably Breguet and Arnold, had devised empirical solutions to the problem by altering the curvature of the end of the balance spring. In 1858 Phillips was encouraged to tackle the problem mathematically, and two years later he published a complete solution for the helical balance spring and a partial solution for the more complex spiral spring. Eleven years later he was able to achieve a complete solution for the spiral spring by altering the curvature of both ends of the spring. Phillips published a series of typical curves that the watch-or chronometer-maker could use to shape the ends of the balance spring.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsAcadémie des Sciences 1868. Chairman, Jury on Mechanics, Universal Exhibition 1889.Bibliography1861, "Mémoire sur l'application de la Théorie du Spiral Réglant", Annales des Mines 20:1–107.1878, Comptes Rendus 86:26–31.An English translation (by J.D.Weaver) of both the above papers was published by the Antiquarian Horological Society in 1978 (Monograph No. 15).Further ReadingJ.D.Weaver, 1989, "Edouard Phillips: a centenary appreciation", Horological Journal 132: 205–6 (a good short account).F.J.Britten, 1978, Britten's Watch and Clock Maker's Handbook, 16th edn, rev. R Good (a description of the practical applications of the balance spring).DV -
7 Computers
The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)[Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Computers
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8 thread
I [θred]1) sart. filo m.2) fig. (of argument, story) filo m.to pick up the threads of — ricominciare [career, life]
3) tecn. (of screw) filetto m.II 1. [θred]1) infilare [bead, needle]; mettere, introdurre [film, tape]2) tecn. filettare [ screw]3) fig. (move)2.to thread one's way through — infilarsi tra [ obstacles]
verbo intransitivo [film, tape] passare, scorrere* * *[Ɵred] 1. noun1) (a thin strand of cotton, wool, silk etc, especially when used for sewing: a needle and some thread.) filo2) (the spiral ridge around a screw: This screw has a worn thread.) filettatura3) (the connection between the various events or details (in a story, account etc): I've lost the thread of what he's saying.) filo2. verb1) (to pass a thread through: I cannot thread this needle; The child was threading beads.) infilare, infilarsi2) (to make (one's way) through: She threaded her way through the crowd.) infilarsi, intrufolarsi•* * *[θrɛd]1. n1) filocotton/nylon thread — filo di cotone/di nailon
2) (of screw) filettatura, filetto2. vt(needle, beads) infilareto thread one's way through a crowd — infilarsi or farsi largo tra una folla
* * *thread /ɵrɛd/n.1 [uc] filo ( anche fig.); refe; spago: a reel of cotton thread, un rocchetto di filo di cotone; sewing thread, filato cucirino; gold thread, filo d'oro; His life hangs by a thread, la sua vita è sospesa a un filo; a thread of light, un filo di luce; to lose the thread ( of one's discourse), perdere il filo (del discorso); to pick up (o to resume) the threads of a story, riprendere il filo di un racconto; shoe thread, spago per calzolaio5 (geol.) vena fine; filo● (mecc.) thread cutter, fresa per filettare □ (mecc.) thread gauge, calibro per filetti □ (ind. tess.) thread guide, guidafilo □ thread-lace, merletto di filo □ thread mark, filigrana ( dei biglietti di banca) □ (mecc.) thread miller, fresatrice per filetti □ (fig.) the thread of life, la trama della vita □ (ind. tess.) thread waste, cascame di filatura; filetto □ (fig.) to gather up the threads, raccogliere (o trarre) le fila del discorso; concludere □ a length of thread, una gugliata □ (fig.) not to have a dry thread on one, essere bagnato fradicio □ ( di abito) to be worn to a thread, mostrare la trama; essere logoro.(to) thread /ɵrɛd/A v. t.3 ( di solito to thread one's way through) ficcarsi in; infilarsi in; intrufolarsi in; farsi largo fra: We threaded our way through the crowd, ci siamo infilati tra la folla4 striare ( i capelli, ecc.): His hair is threaded with white, i suoi capelli sono striati di bianco (o ha dei fili bianchi nei capelli)5 (fig.) pervadere: A note of despair threaded the story, una nota di disperazione pervadeva il raccontoB v. i.1 ( di solito to thread through) infilarsi in; farsi strada fra: to thread through narrow passages, infilarsi in stretti passaggi* * *I [θred]1) sart. filo m.2) fig. (of argument, story) filo m.to pick up the threads of — ricominciare [career, life]
3) tecn. (of screw) filetto m.II 1. [θred]1) infilare [bead, needle]; mettere, introdurre [film, tape]2) tecn. filettare [ screw]3) fig. (move)2.to thread one's way through — infilarsi tra [ obstacles]
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9 thread
Ɵred
1. noun1) (a thin strand of cotton, wool, silk etc, especially when used for sewing: a needle and some thread.) hilo, hebra2) (the spiral ridge around a screw: This screw has a worn thread.) rosca3) (the connection between the various events or details (in a story, account etc): I've lost the thread of what he's saying.) hilo
2. verb1) (to pass a thread through: I cannot thread this needle; The child was threading beads.) (hilo) enhebrar; (cuentas) ensartar2) (to make (one's way) through: She threaded her way through the crowd.) abrirse (camino)•thread1 n1. hilo2. roscathread2 vb enhebrarcan you thread this needle for me? ¿puedes enhebrarme esta aguja?tr[ɵred]1 SMALLSEWING/SMALL hilo, hebra2 (of screw, bolt) rosca3 (of story) hilo1 (needle) enhebrar2 (beads) ensartar\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto hang by a thread pender de un hilothread ['ɵrɛd] vt1) : enhilar, enhebrar (una aguja)2) string: ensartar (cuentas en un hilo)3)to thread one's way : abrirse pasothread n1) : hilo m, hebra fneedle and thread: aguja e hilothe thread of an argument: el hilo de un debate2) : rosca f, filete m (de un tornillo)n.• beta s.f.• cabo s.m.• filete s.m.• hebra s.f.• hilado s.m.• hilaza s.f.• hilo (de coser) s.m.• hilo conductor (de un relato) s.m.• raspa s.f.• rosca s.f.v.• aterrajar v.• enhebrar v.• enhilar v.• ensartar v.• hilvanar v.
I θreda) c u ( filament) hilo mto follow/lose/pick up the thread of a plot/conversation — seguir*/perder*/retomar el hilo de una trama/conversación
to hang by a thread — pender de un hilo
b) c ( of screw) rosca f, filete m
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transitive verb \<\<needle/sewing machine\>\> enhebrar; \<\<bead\>\> ensartar[θred]to thread one's way — abrirse* paso
1. N1) (Sew) hilo mcotton/nylon thread — hilo m de algodón/nylon
- hang by a thread2) [of silkworm, spider] hebra f3) (=drift, theme) hilo mto pick up the thread(s) again — [of conversation, thought] retomar el hilo; [of process, problem] volver a tomar las riendas
she picked up the threads of her life/career again — tomó de nuevo las riendas de su vida/carrera
4) [of screw] rosca f, filete m2.VT [+ needle] enhebrar; [+ beads] ensartarto thread one's way through a crowd — colarse entre or abrirse paso por una multitud
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I [θred]a) c u ( filament) hilo mto follow/lose/pick up the thread of a plot/conversation — seguir*/perder*/retomar el hilo de una trama/conversación
to hang by a thread — pender de un hilo
b) c ( of screw) rosca f, filete m
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transitive verb \<\<needle/sewing machine\>\> enhebrar; \<\<bead\>\> ensartarto thread one's way — abrirse* paso
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10 thread
1. noun1) Faden, der2) (fig.)hang by a thread — (be in a precarious state) an einem [dünnen od. seidenen] Faden hängen; (depend on something still in doubt) auf Messers Schneide stehen
2. transitive verblose the thread — den Faden verlieren
1) (pass thread through) einfädeln; auffädeln [Perlen]2)thread one's way through something — (lit. or fig.) sich durch etwas schlängeln
* * *[Ɵred] 1. noun1) (a thin strand of cotton, wool, silk etc, especially when used for sewing: a needle and some thread.) der Faden2) (the spiral ridge around a screw: This screw has a worn thread.) das Gewinde3) (the connection between the various events or details (in a story, account etc): I've lost the thread of what he's saying.) der Faden2. verb1) (to pass a thread through: I cannot thread this needle; The child was threading beads.) ein-,auffädeln2) (to make (one's way) through: She threaded her way through the crowd.) sich winden durch•- academic.ru/74696/threadbare">threadbare* * *[θred]I. na \thread of light ( fig) ein feiner Lichtstrahlto lose the \thread [of what one is saying] den Faden verlierenwe lost the \thread of his argument uns war nicht klar, worauf er hinaus wollteII. vt1. (put through)▪ to \thread sth etw einfädelnthe sari had gold strands \threaded through the hem der Saum des Sari war mit Goldfäden durchwirktto \thread a needle einen Faden in eine Nadel einfädelnto \thread a rope through a pulley ein Seil durch einen Flaschenzug ziehen2. (put onto a string)▪ to \thread sth etw auffädelnto \thread beads onto a chain Perlen auf einer Kette aufreihen* * *[ɵred]1. nto hang by a thread (fig) — an einem (seidenen or dünnen) Faden hängen
to follow the thread of a conversation — dem Gedankengang eines Gespräches folgen
he lost the thread of what he was saying — er hat den Faden verloren
to pick up the threads of one's story/a conversation — den (roten) Faden/den Gesprächsfaden wieder aufnehmen
to gather up or pick up the threads of one's career/life — alte Fäden wieder anknüpfen
2. vtthreaded with silver — von Silber(fäden) durchzogen, mit Silber(fäden) durchsetzt
2)to thread one's way through the crowd/trees etc —
3. vi* * *thread [θred]A s1. Faden m, Zwirn m, Garn n:thread (of life) fig Lebensfaden;2. Faden m, Faser f, Fiber f5. dünne (Kohlen-, Erz) Ader6. fig Faden m, Zusammenhang m:there is a consistent thread running through all his novels durch all seine Romane läuft ein roter Faden;lose the thread (of the conversation) den (Gesprächs)Faden verlieren;7. pl US sl Sachen pl, Klamotten pl (Kleider)B v/t1. eine Nadel einfädelnon [to] auf akk)3. mit Fäden durchziehen4. fig durchziehen, -dringen, erfüllen5. sich winden durch:thread one’s way (through) → C7. FOTO einen Film einlegen in (akk)* * *1. noun1) Faden, der2) (fig.)hang by a thread — (be in a precarious state) an einem [dünnen od. seidenen] Faden hängen; (depend on something still in doubt) auf Messers Schneide stehen
take or pick up the thread of the conversation — den Gesprächsfaden wieder aufnehmen
3) (of screw) Gewinde, das2. transitive verb1) (pass thread through) einfädeln; auffädeln [Perlen]2)thread one's way through something — (lit. or fig.) sich durch etwas schlängeln
* * *(mechanics) n.Garn -e n.Zwirn nur sing. m. v.einfädeln v. -
11 race
1. n состязание в беге; бег на скорость; гонка, гонки2. n скачки; бегаto go to the races — ходить на скачки; ходить на бега
hurdle race — барьерный бег; бег с препятствиями
ding-dong race — бег или скачки «голова в голову»
3. n спорт. дистанция4. n забег; заезд5. n путь6. n гонка; погоня7. n быстрое движение; быстрый ход; быстрое течение8. n стремительный поток9. n ав. поток струи за винтом10. n лоток; канал11. n гидр. быстроток12. n тех. дорожка качения подшипника13. n тех. обойма14. n тех. с. -х. раскол15. v состязаться в скорости, участвовать в гонках16. v участвовать в скачкахrace meeting — день скачек; скачки
17. v редк. играть на скачках18. v мчаться, нестись, стремительно продвигаться19. v гнать; давать полный газ; набирать скорость20. n раса21. n род; племя; народthe human race — человечество, род человеческий
a race fertile in genius — народ, богатый талантами
22. n происхождение23. n поэт. род, племя, семья24. n книжн. порода; сорт25. n букет26. n аромат; неповторимый, индивидуальный стиль, особая манера27. n имбирный кореньСинонимический ряд:1. breed (noun) breed; species; stock; strain2. chase (noun) chase; hunt; pursuit3. contest (noun) competition; contest; event; marathon; match; meet4. creek (noun) brook; creek; gill; rivulet; runnel5. family (noun) clan; family; folk; house; kin; kindred; lineage; tribe6. humankind (noun) children; culture; generation; humanity; humankind; people7. river (noun) course; duct; river; sluice; stream8. war (noun) rivalry; strife; striving; war; warfare9. run (verb) bustle; dart; dash; flit; fly; hasten; hie; hurry; hustle; pelt; rocket; run; sail; scamper; scoot; scurry; speed; sprint; spurt; tear10. rush (verb) boil; bolt; career; charge; chase; course; fling; lash; rush; shootАнтонимический ряд:
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