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1. (военноморска) a naval base 2. (които се отнася до -армия, до военнослужещи) military, army, service, forces, air-force, naval 3. 1 прил.(който се отнася до война) war(time), of war;warlike, military, martial, belligerent;munition(s) 4. 3 същ. military man, ам. soldier, serviceman 5. ВОЕНЕН бунт mutiny, an army uprising 6. ВОЕНЕН влак a military/ troop train 7. ВОЕНЕН водач an army leader 8. ВОЕНЕН диктатор warlord 9. ВОЕНЕН дух a martial spirit 10. ВОЕНЕН зaвод a munition(s) factory/works 11. ВОЕНЕН камион a military lorry 12. ВОЕНЕН кораб warship, man-of-war 13. ВОЕНЕН лагер a military camp 14. ВОЕНЕН магазин an army shop 15. ВОЕНЕН музей a war museum 16. ВОЕНЕН път a military road 17. ВОЕНЕН самолет a military/an airforce plane 18. ВОЕНЕН склад an army service store/depot, an army storehouse 19. ВОЕНЕН стол a forces canteen 20. ВОЕНЕН съвет (пред -сражение) a council of war;an army council 21. ВОЕНЕН съд a court martial 22. военна база a military base 23. военна музика a military band 24. военна намеса an armed intervention 25. военна окупация a military occupation 26. военна отпуска army leave/furlough 27. военна повинност/служба national service 28. военна помощ military assistance/aid 29. военна пушка an army rifle 30. военна сила military power 31. военна тайна a military secret 32. военна униформа a military uniform 33. военна флота navy 34. военна хитрост stratagem 35. военни действия military operations, hostilities: започвам/спирам военни действия open/ suspend hostilities 36. военни подвизи wartime exploits 37. военни почести military honours 38. военни приготовления war(like) preparations 39. военни съоръжения military installations 40. военни цели war(like) purposes 41. военните the military 42. военно време time of war, wartime 43. военно гробище a war cеmetery 44. военно дело military science, warfare 45. военно изкуство art of war;generalship 46. военно нападение а military attack 47. военно обучение military drill/training 48. военно оръжие a weapon of war 49. военно положение martial law 50. военно пристанище a naval port 51. разг. build-up 52. той е ВОЕНЕН he is in the army

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Ex: Analytical cataloguing aims to emphasise the content of documents, rather than relying entirely upon cataloguing whole works.

Ex: Provision should be on the basis of quality and originality, with classic works of the genre given prominence.

Ex: Some are poorly written giving either too much or too little data, and giving undue emphasis to the author's priorities.

Ex: In each case the object of the discussion will be to highlight what appear to be the significant aspects, particularly those concerning the background which affect the nature of the scheme.

Ex: Prior to that date he had already begun to make his mark.

Ex: Conference proceedings are singled out for special attention because they are an important category of material in relation to abstracting and indexing publications.

Ex: This appraisal attempts to illuminate aspects of Irish library history omitted from international reference works.

Ex: Automated support services have heightened the sense of interdependency between libraries and vendors.

Ex: Both Dialog and Chemical Abstracts Service stand out in the text.

Ex: A long-standing but unfortunate tradition plays up antagonism between those librarians who become catalogers and those who opt for reference or public service.

Ex: Three national library catalogues stand out as highly important sources of general bibliography.

Ex: His survey of how such poetry has been edited in recent years, however, shows that a single edition is still foregrounded while other editions are only obliquely indicated via footnotes.

Ex: Her article lays emphasis on some of the concerns that are important to the continued development of effective information policies.

Ex: Those countries which were already to the fore in science and technology certainly faced problems in the handling of information.

Ex: Installation of new computer terminals may bring the problem to the fore.

Ex: As this table shows, the age profile for all borrowers is very close to that of all adults in the country but when one looks at the more frequent users, the regular borrowers, the older people come more to the fore.

Ex: This article gives highlights of a trade show on the applications of optical information systems in publishing organised by Learned Information and held in New York City, 15-17 Oct 86.

Ex: Expert systems represent an attempt to harness, as an intellectual tool, those features of the computer where it excels in the handling of data.

Ex: This article spotlights the role that authority files play in promoting uniformity of cataloguing practice.

Ex: This theft of valuable letters and documents brings to the forefront, once again, the question of collection security in the nation's archives.

Ex: The IFLA letter places great store on the number of FID members who are also IFLA members.

Ex: This article pesents an interview with George Cunningham who sees his role as creating a high profile for the library profession and fostering a love of books.

Ex: The course gives information technology a very high profile.

Ex: Before the launch of Penguin Books India in 1987, trade publishing in English in India did not have the high profile in bookstores it has today..

Ex: In crisp, economical prose, the journal calmly brought attention to the nooks and crannies, and absurdities of university life, concerning itself with both the idiosyncratic and the profound.

Ex: There are many books published in the world and of many kinds, but one category stands apart: books that come under the heading of literature.

Ex: A light box would be provided for this purpose so that the cards could be accurately stacked on top of each other to allow the light from the light box to shine through any holes that the three cards had in common.

Ex: Any attack on Iran will require that military forces quickly deploy to Dubai to forestall the closing of the strait.

Ex: If you spot an error then flag it up to your bank promptly and insist they take action to rectify it.

Ex: Even now, hundreds of years after his death, his timepieces stand proud in historic buildings around the world.

* destacar con mucho sobre = stand out + head and shoulders (above/over), be head and shoulder (above/over).

* destacar en = pull off on.

* destacar la importancia = underscore + importance.

* destacar la importancia de = stress + the importance of, emphasise + the importance of, highlight + the importance of.

* destacar por encima de los demás = stand out from + the rest, stand out above + the rest, stand out in + the crowd.

* destacar sobre los demás = stand out above + the rest, stand out from + the rest, stand out in + the crowd.

* es de destacar que = significantly.

* es importante destacar = importantly.

* hay que destacar = importantly.

* sin acontecimientos que destacar = uneventful.

 

destacar ( conjugate destacar) verbo transitivo
1 (recalcar, subrayar) to emphasize, stress
2 ( realzar) ‹belleza/figura› to enhance;
‹color/plano› to bring out
3


verbo intransitivo
to stand out;
destacar en algo to excel at o in sth
destacar vtr fig to emphasize, stress
destacar(se) verbo intransitivo & verbo reflexivo to stand out
' destacar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
brillar
- despuntar
- destacarse
- perfilarse
- realzar
- resaltar
- sobresalir
- subrayar
English:
angular
- detail
- highlight
- shine
- stand out
- crowd
- excel
- heighten
- stand
- tower
[corresponsales] to assign, to send [sobresalir] to stand out;

fo:s 1. noun 2. verb - forceful
- forcefully
- forces
- in
- into force -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- I II

   a. ( = extrémité, fin) end ; [de nez, langue, oreille, canne] tip

• bout du doigt fingertip

• bout du sein nipple

• à l'autre bout du couloir at the other end of the corridor

• on ne sait pas par quel bout le prendre it's hard to know how to tackle him

• on n'en voit pas le bout there seems no end to it

• tenir le bon bout (inf) ( = être sur la bonne voie) to be on the right track

   b. ( = morceau) [de ficelle, pain, papier] piece

• un bout de terrain a plot of land

• un petit bout de chou (inf) a little kid (inf)

• jusqu'à Paris, cela fait un bout de chemin it's quite a long way to Paris

• il est resté un bon bout de temps he stayed quite some time

• mettre les bouts (inf!) to skedaddle (inf)

   c. (locutions) à bout portant point-blank

• au bout du compte all things considered

• lire un livre de bout en bout to read a book from cover to cover

► à bout

• être à bout ( = fatigué) to be exhausted ; ( = en colère) to have had enough

• ma patience est à bout I'm at the end of my patience

• pousser qn à bout to push sb to the limit► à bout de

• être à bout d'arguments to have run out of arguments

• à bout de forces exhausted

• être à bout de souffle to be out of breath ; [entreprise, gouvernement] to be on its last legs (inf)

• venir à bout de [+ travail, repas, gâteau] to get through ; [+ adversaire] to get the better of

• à bout de bras at arm's length

• ils ont porté le projet à bout de bras pendant deux ans they struggled to keep the project going for two years► à tout bout de champ all the time

• il m'interrompt à tout bout de champ he interrupts me all the time

• il m'interrompait à tout bout de champ he kept on interrupting me► au bout de (dans l'espace) at the end of ; (dans le temps) after

• au bout de la rue at the end of the street

• au bout du jardin at the bottom of the garden

• la poste est tout au bout du village the post office is at the far end of the village

• au bout d'un mois after a month

• au bout d'un moment after a while

• il est parti au bout de trois minutes he left after three minutes

• il n'est pas au bout de ses peines his troubles aren't over yet

• être au bout du rouleau (inf) to be exhausted► bout à bout end to end

• mettre bout à bout [+ tuyaux] to lay end to end ; [+ phrases] to put together► du bout de

• manger du bout des dents to pick at one's food

• du bout des doigts [effleurer, pianoter] with one's fingertips

• du bout des lèvres [accepter, approuver] reluctantly► d'un bout à l'autre from one end to the other

• il a traversé le pays d'un bout à l'autre he travelled the length and breadth of the country

• je l'ai lu d'un bout à l'autre sans m'arrêter I read it from cover to cover without stopping► en bout de at the end of

• assis en bout de table sitting at the end of the table► jusqu'au bout

• nous sommes restés jusqu'au bout we stayed right to the end

• ce travail lui déplaît mais il ira jusqu'au bout he doesn't like this job but he'll see it through

• il faut aller jusqu'au bout de ce qu'on entreprend if you take something on you must see it through

• aller jusqu'au bout de ses idées to follow one's ideas through► sur le bout de

• j'ai son nom sur le bout de la langue his name is on the tip of my tongue

• il sait sa leçon sur le bout des doigts he knows his lesson backwards

• elle connaît la question sur le bout des doigts she knows the subject inside out

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► bout d'essai screen test

• tourner un bout d'essai to do a screen test ► bout filtre filter tip

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I bu

nom masculin

1) ( dernière partie) (de nez, branche, ficelle, table, rue, processus) end; ( pointe) (d'épée, aile, de langue, doigt) tip; ( de chaussure) toe

en bout de piste — Aviation at the end of the runway

tout au bout de la rue — at the very end of the street

ciseaux à bouts ronds — round-ended scissors

à bout carré/rouge — [bâton, doigt, aile] square-/red-tipped

au bout du jardin/champ — at the bottom of the garden/field

siège en bout de rangée — aisle seat

lire un livre de bout en bout — to read a book from cover to cover

parcourir une liste d'un bout à l'autre — to scour a list

d'un bout à l' autre du spectacle/de l'année — throughout the show/the year

marcher d'un bout à l'autre de la ville — to walk across the city

coller bout à bout — to stick [something] end to end

être incapable de mettre deux phrases bout à bout — to be unable to string two sentences together

rester jusqu'au bout — to stay until the end

aller jusqu'au bout — to go all the way

aller (jusqu')au bout de — to follow through [idée, exigence]

aller au bout de soi-même — to push oneself to the limit

écouter quelqu'un jusqu'au bout — to hear somebody out

lutter jusqu'au bout — to fight to the last drop of blood

elle est à bout — she can't take any more

je suis à bout de forces — I can do no more

ne me pousse pas à bout — don't push me

être à bout d'arguments — to run out of arguments

venir à bout de — to overcome [problème, difficultés]; to get through [tâche, repas]

au bout d'une semaine/d'un certain temps — after a week/a while

au bout du compte — ultimately

à bout portant — at point-blank range

2) ( morceau) (de pain, chiffon, fil, papier) piece; ( de terrain) bit

bout de bois — gén piece of wood; ( allongé) stick

bouts de papier/ferraille — scraps of paper/metal

par petits bouts — [apprendre, manger] a bit at a time; [payer, recevoir] in dribs and drabs; [occuper, progresser] little by little

un petit bout de femme — (colloq) a tiny woman

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Phrasal Verbs:

- bout de chou

- bout d'essai

- bout filtre

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tenir le bon bout — (colloq) to be on the right track

voir le bout de quelque chose — to get through something

ne pas être au bout de ses peines or ennuis — not to be out of the woods yet

ne pas savoir par quel bout commencer — not to know where to begin

mettre les bouts — (colloq) to leave, to clear off (colloq) GB, to split (colloq) US

II but

nom masculin Nautisme rope

filer par le bout — to slip anchor

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bu

1. nm

1) (= petit morceau) bit

un bout de fromage — a bit of cheese

un bout de papier — a piece of paper, a scrap of paper

un bout de ficelle — a bit of string

2) (= extrémité) [bâton] tip, [ficelle, table, rue, période] end

le bout du nez — the tip of the nose

Jane est assise en bout de table. — Jane is sitting at the end of the table.

Elle habite au bout de la rue. — She lives at the end of the street.

à l'autre bout de la ville — at the other side of town

à l'autre bout de la chaîne — at the other end of the chain

3) (autres locutions)

au bout de — at the end of, after

Au bout d'un moment, il s'est endormi. — After a while he fell asleep.

au bout du compte — at the end of the day

au bout du fil — on the line

emmène-moi au bout de monde! — take me to the ends of the earth!

être à bout (= fatigué) — to be exhausted, (= avoir perdu patience) to be at the end of one's tether

pousser qn à bout — to push sb to the limit

venir à bout de [travail] — to manage to finish off, to manage to finish, [adversaire] to manage to overcome

à bout de forces — to be worn out

à bout de force — to be worn out

être à bout de souffle (économie, société) — to have run out of steam

à bout portant — at point-blank range

à tout bout de champ — at every turn

bout à bout — end to end

d'un bout à l'autre — from one end to the other

de bout en bout — from one end to the other

connaître qch sur le bout des doigts — to know sth backwards

du bout des lèvres (= avec réticence) [reconnaître, accepter, approuver] — reluctantly

un système en bout de course — a system that's on its last legs

jusqu'au bout [aller, poursuivre, se poursuivre] — to the end

le bout du tunnel — the end of the tunnel

2. vb

See:

bouillir

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I.

bout nm

1 ( dernière partie) (de nez, queue, branche, ficelle, ligne, table, rue, processus) end; ( pointe) (d'épée, aile, de bâton, stylo, langue, doigt) tip; ( de chaussure) toe; au bout de la jetée at the end of the pier; aux deux bouts de la table at opposite ends of the table; en bout de piste Aviat at the end of the runway; la maison/le siège du bout the end house/seat; tout au bout de la rue at the very end of the street; l'autre bout de la pièce the far end of the room; ciseaux à bouts ronds/pointus round-ended/pointed scissors; à bout rond/carré/rouge [bâton, doigt, aile] round-/square-/red-tipped; à bout ferré [canne, chaussures] steel-tipped; chaussures à bout pointu/ferré/blanc pointy-/steel-/white-toed shoes; au bout du jardin/champ at the bottom of the garden/field; en bout de table at the foot of the table; siège en bout de rangée aisle seat; valser○/projeter qch à l'autre bout de la pièce to fly/to fling sth across the room; mener de bout en bout to lead from start to finish; lire un livre de bout en bout to read a book from cover to cover; parcourir or éplucher une liste d'un bout à l'autre to scour a list; d'un bout à l'autre du spectacle/de l'Europe/de l'année throughout the show/Europe/the year; parcourir la Grèce d'un bout à l'autre to cover the length and breadth of Greece; marcher d'un bout à l'autre de la ville to walk across the city; poser/coller bout à bout to lay/stick [sth] end to end; mettre bout à bout ( additionner) to add up; être incapable de mettre deux phrases bout à bout to be unable to string two sentences together; mettre des données bout à bout to piece data together; rester jusqu'au bout to stay until the end; essayer jusqu'au bout to try to the end; je suis/elle est avec vous jusqu'au bout I'm/she's with you every step of the way; je te soutiendrai jusqu'au bout I'm with you all the way; aller jusqu'au bout to go all the way; aller (jusqu')au bout de to follow through [idée, exigence]; aller au bout de soi-même to push oneself to the limit; écouter qn jusqu'au bout to hear sb out; brûler jusqu'au bout to burn out; lutter jusqu'au bout to fight to the last drop of blood; je suis/elle est à bout I/she can't take any more; je suis à bout de forces I can do no more; ma patience est à bout my patience is exhausted; je commence à être à bout de patience my patience is wearing thin; pousser qn à bout to push sb to the limit; ne me pousse pas à bout don't push me; être à bout d'arguments to run out of arguments; venir à bout de to overcome [problème, difficultés]; to get through [tâche, repas]; to tame [personne]; au bout d'une semaine/d'un certain temps/de trois chansons after a week/a while/three songs; au bout du compte ultimately; à bout portant at point-blank range;

2 ( morceau) (de pain, chiffon, métal, fil, papier) piece; ( de terrain) bit; j'ai vu un bout du spectacle I saw part of the show; bout de bois gén piece of wood; ( allongé) stick; bouts de papier/ferraille scraps of paper/metal; bout de crayon pencilstub; bouts d'ongles nail clippings; par petits bouts [apprendre, manger] a bit at a time; [payer, recevoir] in dribs and drabs; [occuper, progresser] little by little; un bout de temps a while; un petit bout de temps a little while; un bon bout de temps quite a long time; un petit bout de femme○ a tiny woman; ⇒ chandelle, discuter.

Composés

bout de l'an Relig memorial service on the first anniversary of sb's death; bout de chou○ sweet little thing○; bout d'essai Cin screen test; tourner un bout d'essai to do a screen test; bout filtre ( de cigarette) filter tip; bout renforcé Mode ( de chaussure) toe cap; bout de sein○ Anat nipple; bout de vergue Naut yardarm.

Idiomes

tenir le bon bout○ to be on the right track; voir le bout de qch to get through sth ; ne pas être au bout de ses peines or ennuis not to be out of the woods yet; ne pas être au bout de ses surprises to have still a few surprises in store; ne pas savoir par quel bout commencer not to know where to begin; ne pas savoir par quel bout prendre not to know how to deal with; prendre qn/qch par le bon/mauvais bout to handle sb/sth the right/wrong way; en connaître un bout○ to know a thing or two○; mettre les bouts○ to leave, to clear off○ GB, to split○ US.

II.

bout nm Naut rope; filer par le bout to slip anchor.

[bu] nom masculin

1. [extrémité - d'un couteau, d'un crayon] tip ; [ - d'une botte, d'une chaussette] toe ; [ - d'une table, d'une ficelle] end

à bouts ronds round-tipped

bout du doigt fingertip, tip of the finger

bout du nez tip of the nose

bout du sein nipple

bout filtre filter tip

à bout filtre filter-tipped

le bon bout: prendre quelqu'un par le bon bout to approach somebody the right way

plus que 40 pages à écrire, je tiens le bon bout only another 40 pages to write, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

je ne sais pas par quel bout le prendre

a. [personne] I don't know how to handle ou to approach him

b. [article, travail] I don't know how to tackle ou to approach it

aborder ou considérer ou voir les choses par le petit bout de la lorgnette to take a narrow view of things

il a accepté du bout des lèvres he accepted reluctantly ou half-heartedly

je l'ai sur le bout de la langue it's on the tip of my tongue

sur le bout des doigts perfectly, by heart

s'asseoir du bout des fesses (familier) to sit down gingerly

s'en aller par tous les bouts (familier) to fall ou to come to pieces

en voir le bout: enfin, on en voit le bout at last, we're beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel

on n'en voit pas le bout there's no end to it

2. [extrémité - d'un espace] end

on voit enfin le bout du tunnel (figuré) at last we can see the light at the end of the tunnel

le bout du monde the back of beyong

ce n'est pas le bout du monde! it won't kill you!

ce serait bien le bout du monde si ça prenait plus de deux jours it'll take two days at the very most

3. [portion de temps]

ça fait un bon bout de temps de ça (familier) it was quite a long time ago ou a while back

il faudra attendre un bon bout de temps you'll have to wait for quite some time

4. [morceau]

bout de

a. [pain, bois, terrain] piece of

b. [papier] scrap of

un bout de ciel bleu a patch of blue sky

donne-m'en un bout give me some ou a piece ou a bit

un (petit) bout d'homme/de femme (familier) a little man/woman

bout de chou ou zan

a. (familier) [enfant] toddler

b. [en appellatif] sweetie, poppet (UK)

bout d'essai screen test

bout de rôle THÉÂTRE & CINÉMA walk-on ou bit part

ça fait un bon bout de chemin it's quite some ou a way

faire un bout de chemin avec quelqu'un to go part of the way with somebody

faire un bout de conduite à quelqu'un to walk somebody part of the way

discuter ou tailler le bout de gras (familier) to chew the fat

mettre les bouts (très familier) to make oneself scarce

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à bout locution adverbiale

être à bout to be at the end of one's tether

ma patience est à bout! I've run out of patience!

mettre ou pousser quelqu'un à bout to push somebody to the limit

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à bout de locution prépositionnelle

1. [ne plus avoir de]

être à bout de: être à bout de forces: il est à bout de forces

a. [physiquement] he's got no strength left in him

b. [psychologiquement] he can't cope any more

être à bout de nerfs to be on the verge of a breakdown

être à bout de patience to have run out of patience

2. (locution)

à bout de bras: porter un paquet à bout de bras to carry a parcel (in one's outstretched arms)

porter quelqu'un/une entreprise à bout de bras (figuré) to carry somebody/a business

venir à bout de

a. [adversaire, obstacle] to overcome

b. [travail] to see the end of

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à bout portant locution adverbiale

point-blank

tirer (sur quelqu'un/quelque chose) à bout portant to shoot (somebody/something) at point-blank range

à tout bout de champ locution adverbiale

all the time, non-stop

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au bout de locution prépositionnelle

1. [après] after

au bout d'un moment after a while

2. [à la fin de]

j'arrive au bout de mon contrat my contract's nearly up

pas encore au bout de ses peines not out of the woods yet

3. [dans l'espace]

au bout de la rue at the bottom ou end of the road

être au bout de son ou du rouleau

a. [épuisé] to be completely washed out

b. [presque mort] to be at death's door

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au bout du compte locution adverbiale

at the end of the day, in the end

bout à bout locution adverbiale

end to end

de bout en bout locution adverbiale

[lire] from cover to cover

tu as raison de bout en bout you're completely ou totally right

elle a mené la course de bout en bout she led the race from start to finish

d'un bout à l'autre locution adverbiale

la pièce est drôle d'un bout à l'autre the play's hilarious from beginning to end ou from start to finish

il m'a contredit d'un bout à l'autre he contradicted me all the way

d'un bout de... à l'autre locution correlative

d'un bout de l'année à l'autre all year round

d'un bout à l'autre du pays, les militants s'organisent (right) throughout the country, the militants are organizing themselves

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en bout de locution prépositionnelle

at the end of

en bout de course at the end of the race

le régime est en bout de course (figuré) the regime is running out of steam

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jusqu'au bout locution adverbiale

to the very end

il va toujours jusqu'au bout de ce qu'il entreprend he always sees things to the very end

il est toujours soigné jusqu'au bout des ongles he's always immaculate

elle est artiste jusqu'au bout des ongles she's an artist through and through