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5 Merz, Charles Hesterman
[br]b. 5 October 1874 Gateshead, Englandd. 14 October 1940 London, England[br]English engineer who pioneered large-scale integration of electricity-supply networks, which led to the inauguration of the British grid system.[br]Merz was educated at Bootham School in York and Armstrong College in Newcastle. He served an apprenticeship with the Newcastle Electric Supply Company at their first power station, Pandon Dene, and part of his training was at Robey and Company of Lincoln, steam engine builders, and the British Thomson-Houston Company, electrical equipment manufacturers. After working at Bankside in London and at Croydon, he became Manager of the Croydon supply undertaking. In 1898 he went to Cork on behalf of BTH to build and manage a tramway and electricity company. It was there that he met William McLellan, who later joined him in establishing a firm of consulting engineers. Merz, with his vision of large-scale electricity supply, pioneered an integrated traction and electricity scheme in north-eastern England. He was involved in the reorganization of electricity schemes in many countries and established a reputation as a leading parliamentary witness. Merz was appointed Director of Experiments and Research at the Admiralty, where his main contribution was the creation of an organization of outstanding engineers and scientists during the First World War. In 1925 he was largely responsible for a report of the Weir Committee which led to the Electricity (Supply) Act of 1926, the formation of the Central Electricity Board and the construction of the National Grid. The choice of 132 kV as the original grid voltage was that of Merz and his associates, as was the origin of the term "grid". Merz and his firm produced many technical innovations, including the first power-system control room and Merz-Price and Merz-Hunter forms of cable and transformer protection.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsInstitution of Electrical Engineers Faraday Medal 1931.Bibliography1903–4, with W.McLennan, "Power station design", Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers 33:696–742 (a classic on its subject).1929, "The national scheme of electricity supply in Great Britain", Proceedings of the British Association, Johannesburg.Further ReadingJ.Rowland, 1960, Progress in Power. The Contribution of Charles Merz and His Associates to Sixty Years of Electrical Development 1899–1959, London (the most detailed account).L.Hannah, 1979, Electricity Before Nationalisation, London.——, 1985, Dictionary of Business Biography, ed. J.Jeremy, London, pp. 221–7 (a short account).GWBiographical history of technology > Merz, Charles Hesterman
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6 Blith, Walter
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. Seventeenth century Warwickshire, Englandd. Seventeenth century England[br][br]Blith was the son of a cereal and dairy farmer from the Forest of Arden. He wrote a treatise on farming which was of contemporary value in its description of drainage and water meadows, both subjects of particular relevance in the mid-seventeenth century. The book, The English Improver, contains illustrations of agricultural equipment which have become an almost obligatory inclusion in any book on agricultural history. His understanding of the plough is apparent from the text and illustrations, and his was an important step in the understanding of the scientific principles to be applied to its later design. The introduction to the book is addressed to both Houses of Parliament, and is very much an attempt to highlight and seek solutions to the problems of the agriculture of the day. In it he advocates the passing of legislation to improve agricultural practice, whether this be for the destruction of moles or for the compulsory planting of trees to replace those felled.Blith himself became a captain in the Roundhead Army during the English Civil War, and even added a dedication to Cromwell in the introduction to his second book, The English Improver Improved, published in 1652. This book contains additional information on both practice and crops, an expansion in knowledge which presumably owes something to Blith's employment as a surveyor of Crown lands between 1649 and 1650. He himself bought and farmed such land in Northamptonshire. His advice on the choice of land for particular crops and the implements of best use for that land expressed ideas in advance of their times, and it was to be almost a century before his writings were taken up and developed.[br]Bibliography1649, The English Improver; or, A New Survey of Husbandry Discovering to the Kingdom That Some Land, Both Arable and Pasture May be Advance Double or Treble, and Some five or Tenfold.1652, The English Improver Improved.Further ReadingJ.Thirsk (ed.), 1985, The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. II (deals with Blith and the agriculture of his time).AP -
7 Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. August 1860 Brittany, Franced. 28 September 1935 Twickenham, England[br]Scottish inventor and photographer.[br]Dickson was born in France of English and Scottish parents. As a young man of almost 19 years, he wrote in 1879 to Thomas Edison in America, asking for a job. Edison replied that he was not taking on new staff at that time, but Dickson, with his mother and sisters, decided to emigrate anyway. In 1883 he contacted Edison again, and was given a job at the Goerk Street laboratory of the Edison Electric Works in New York. He soon assumed a position of responsibility as Superintendent, working on the development of electric light and power systems, and also carried out most of the photography Edison required. In 1888 he moved to the Edison West Orange laboratory, becoming Head of the ore-milling department. When Edison, inspired by Muybridge's sequence photographs of humans and animals in motion, decided to develop a motion picture apparatus, he gave the task to Dickson, whose considerable skills in mechanics, photography and electrical work made him the obvious choice. The first experiments, in 1888, were on a cylinder machine like the phonograph, in which the sequence pictures were to be taken in a spiral. This soon proved to be impractical, and work was delayed for a time while Dickson developed a new ore-milling machine. Little progress with the movie project was made until George Eastman's introduction in July 1889 of celluloid roll film, which was thin, tough, transparent and very flexible. Dickson returned to his experiments in the spring of 1891 and soon had working models of a film camera and viewer, the latter being demonstrated at the West Orange laboratory on 20 May 1891. By the early summer of 1892 the project had advanced sufficiently for commercial exploitation to begin. The Kinetograph camera used perforated 35 mm film (essentially the same as that still in use in the late twentieth century), and the kinetoscope, a peep-show viewer, took fifty feet of film running in an endless loop. Full-scale manufacture of the viewers started in 1893, and they were demonstrated on a number of occasions during that year. On 14 April 1894 the first kinetoscope parlour, with ten viewers, was opened to the public in New York. By the end of that year, the kinetoscope was seen by the public all over America and in Europe. Dickson had created the first commercially successful cinematograph system. Dickson left Edison's employment on 2 April 1895, and for a time worked with Woodville Latham on the development of his Panoptikon projector, a projection version of the kinetoscope. In December 1895 he joined with Herman Casier, Henry N.Marvin and Elias Koopman to form the American Mutoscope Company. Casier had designed the Mutoscope, an animated-picture viewer in which the sequences of pictures were printed on cards fixed radially to a drum and were flipped past the eye as the drum rotated. Dickson designed the Biograph wide-film camera to produce the picture sequences, and also a projector to show the films directly onto a screen. The large-format images gave pictures of high quality for the period; the Biograph went on public show in America in September 1896, and subsequently throughout the world, operating until around 1905. In May 1897 Dickson returned to England and set up as a producer of Biograph films, recording, among other subjects, Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897, Pope Leo XIII in 1898, and scenes of the Boer War in 1899 and 1900. Many of the Biograph subjects were printed as reels for the Mutoscope to produce the "what the butler saw" machines which were a feature of fairgrounds and seaside arcades until modern times. Dickson's contact with the Biograph Company, and with it his involvement in cinematography, ceased in 1911.[br]Further ReadingGordon Hendricks, 1961, The Edison Motion Picture Myth.—1966, The Kinetoscope.—1964, The Beginnings of the Biograph.BCBiographical history of technology > Dickson, William Kennedy Laurie
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8 Houldsworth, Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 1797 Manchester (?), Englandd. 1868 Manchester (?), England[br]English cotton spinner who introduced the differential gear to roving frames in Britain.[br]There are two claimants for the person who originated the differential gear as applied to roving frames: one is J.Green, a tinsmith of Mansfield, in his patent of 1823; the other is Arnold, who had applied it in America and patented it in early 1823. This latter was the source for Houldsworth's patent in 1826. It seems that Arnold's gearing was secretly communicated to Houldsworth by Charles Richmond, possibly when Houldsworth visited the United States in 1822–3, but more probably in 1825 when Richmond went to England. In return, Richmond received information about parts of a cylinder printing machine from Houldsworth. In the working of the roving frame, as the rovings were wound onto their bobbins and the diameter of the bobbins increased, the bobbin speed had to be reduced to keep the winding on at the same speed while the flyers and drawing rollers had to maintain their initial speed. Although this could be achieved by moving the driving belt along coned pulleys, this method did not provide enough power and slippage occurred. The differential gear combined the direct drive from the main shaft of the roving frame with that from the cone drive, so that only the latter provided the dif-ference between flyer and bobbin speeds, i.e. the winding speeds, thus taking away most of the power from that belt. Henry Houldsworth Senior (1774–1853) was living in Manchester when his son Henry was born, but by 1800 had moved to Glasgow. He built several mills, including a massive one at Anderston, Scotland, in which a Boulton \& Watt steam engine was installed. Henry Houldsworth Junior was probably back in Manchester by 1826, where he was to become an influential cotton spinner as chief partner in his mills, which he moved out to Reddish in 1863–5. He was also a prominent landowner in Cheetham. When William Fairbairn was considering establishing the Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions in 1854, he wanted to find an influential manufacturer and mill-owner and he made a happy choice when he turned to Henry Houldsworth for assistance.[br]Bibliography1826, British patent no. 5,316 (differential gear for roving frames).Further ReadingDetails about Henry Houldsworth Junior are very sparse. The best account of his acquisition of the differential gear is given by D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830, Oxford.W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (an explanation of the mechanisms of the roving frame).W.Pole, 1877, The Life of Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., London (provides an account of the beginning of the Manchester Steam Users' Association for the Prevention of Steam-boiler Explosions).RLH -
9 Jervis, John Bloomfield
[br]b. 14 December 1795 Huntingdon, New York, USAd. 12 January 1885 Rome, New York, USA[br]American pioneer of civil engineering and locomotive design.[br]Jervis assisted in the survey and construction of the Erie Canal, and by 1827 was Chief Engineer of the Delaware \& Hudson Canal and, linked with it, the Carbondale Railroad. He instructed Horatio Allen to go to England to purchase locomotives in 1828, and the locomotive Stourbridge Lion, built by J.U. Rastrick, was placed on the railway in 1829. It was the first full-size locomotive to run in America, but the track proved too weak for it to be used regularly. In 1830 Jervis became Chief Engineer to the Mohawk \& Hudson Rail Road, which was the first railway in New York State and was opened the following year. In 1832 the 4–2–0 locomotive Experiment was built to his plans by West Point Foundry: it was the first locomotive to have a leading bogie or truck. Jervis was subsequently associated with many other extensive canals and railways and pioneered economic analysis of engineering problems to enable, for example, the best choice to be made between two possible routes for a railroad.[br]Bibliography1861, Railway Property, New York.Further ReadingJ.H.White Jr, 1979, A History of the American Locomotive-Its Development: 1830–1880, New York: Dover Publications Inc.J.K.Finch, 1931, "John Bloomfield Jervis, civil engineer", Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 11.PJGRBiographical history of technology > Jervis, John Bloomfield
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10 Lister, Joseph, Baron Lister
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 5 April 1827 Upton, Essex, Englandd. 10 February 1912 Walmer, Kent, England[br]English surgeon, founder of the antiseptic and aseptic principles of surgical practice.[br]Of Quaker stock, his father also being a Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied medicine at University College, London. He qualified, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1852. Wishing to pursue a surgical career, he moved to Edinburgh to study surgery under William Syme, whose daughter he married in 1852, the same year he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.Until his appointment as Regius Professor of Surgery at Glasgow University and Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1861, he was engaged in a wide variety of investigations into the nature of inflammation and the effects of irritants on wounds. Following his move to Glasgow, he became particularly involved in the major problems arising out of the vast increase in the number of surgical procedures brought about by the recent introduction of general anaesthesia. By 1865 his continuing study of wound inflammation and the microbial studies of Pasteur had led him to institute in the operating theatre a regime of surgical antisepsis involving the use of a carbolic acid spray coupled with the sterilization of instruments, the site of operation and the hands of the operator. Increasingly it was appreciated that the air was the least important origin of infection, and by 1887 the antiseptic approach had been superseded by the aseptic.In 1869 he succeeded Syme in the Chair at Edinburgh and his methods were widely accepted abroad. In 1877 he moved to the Chair of Surgery at King's College Hospital, London, in the hope of encouraging acceptance of his work in the metropolis. As well as developing a variety of new surgical procedures, he was engaged for many years in the development of surgical ligatures, which had always been a potent stimulant of infection. His choice of catgut as a sterilizable, absorbable material paved the way for major developments in this field. The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine was named in his honour in 1903.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCreated Baronet 1883. Baron 1897. Order of Merit 1902. President, Royal Society 1895– 1900.Bibliography1870, "On the effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital", Lancet.1859, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.1863, Croonian Lecture.1881, 1900, Transactions of the International Medical Congress.Further ReadingR.J.Godlee, 1924, Lord Lister.1927, Lister Centenary Handbook, London: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. H.C.Cameron, 1948, Joseph Lister, the Friend of Man.MGBiographical history of technology > Lister, Joseph, Baron Lister
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11 Poelzig, Hans
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 1869 Berlin, Germanyd. June 1936 Berlin, Germany[br]German teacher and practising architect, the most notable individualistic exponent of the German Expressionist movement in the modern school.[br]In the last decade of the nineteenth century and in the first of the twentieth, Poelzig did not, like most of his colleagues in Germany and Austria, follow the Jugendstil theme or the eclectic or fundamentalist lines: he set a path to individualism. In 1898 he began a teaching career at the Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) Academy of Arts and Crafts, remaining there until 1916. He early introduced workshop practice into the curriculum, presaging Gropius's Bauhaus ideas by many years; the school's workshop produced much of the artisan needs for a number of his buildings. From Breslau Poelzig moved to Dresden, where he was appointed City Architect. It was there that he launched his Expressionist line: which was particularly evident in the town hall and concert hall in the city. The structure for which Poelzig is best known and with which his name will always be associated is the Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin; he had returned to his native city after the First World War and this great theatre was his first commission there. Using modern materials, he created a fabulous interior to seat 5,000 spectators. It was in the form of a vast amphitheatre with projecting stage and with the curving area roofed by a cavernous, stalactited dome, the Arabic-style stalactites of which were utilized by Poelzig for acoustic purposes. In the 1920s Poelzig went on to design cinemas, a field for which Expressionism was especially suited; these included the Capitol Cinema in Berlin and the Deli in Breslau. For his later industrial commissions—for example, the administrative building for the chemical firm I.G.Far ben in Frankfurt—he had perforce to design in more traditional modern manner.Poelzig died in 1936, which spared him, unlike many of his contemporaries, the choice of emigrating or working for National Socialism.[br]Further ReadingDennis Sharp, 1966, Modern Architecture and Expressionism, Longmans.Theodor Heuss, 1966, Hans Poelzig: Lebensbild eines Baumeister, Tübingen, Germany: Wunderlich.DY -
12 Praed, William
SUBJECT AREA: Canals[br]b. 24 June 1747 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, Englandd. 9 October 1833 Trevethoe, Leland, St Ives, Cornwall, England[br]English banker and Member of Parliament.[br]Born into a wealthy Cornish family, he was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was elected Member of Parliament for St Ives in 1774, but it was alleged that his father, who was a banker, had acted as agent for both his son and Drummond, the other candidate for the same party, in the course of which he advanced money to voters "on their notes payable with interest to the bank of Truro (Praed's bank)" but with the understanding that repayment would not be demanded from those who had voted for Praed and Drummond. Praed's election was therefore declared void on 8 May 1775. He was re-elected in 1780, by which time St Ives was virtually a Praed family monopoly. He served in successive Parliaments until 1806 and then represented Banbury until 1808. Meanwhile, in 1779 he had become a partner in his father's Truro bank, c. 1801 founded the London bank of Praed \& Co. at 189 Fleet Street.While in Parliament, he was instrumental in obtaining and carrying into effect the Bill for the Grand Junction Canal from Braunston to London. He was elected Chairman of the company formed for constructing the canal and proved an excellent choice, serving the company faithfully for nearly thirty years until his resignation in 1821. Upon his marriage to Elizabeth Tyringham in 1778 he made his home at Tyringham Hall in Buckinghamshire and so was very much in the Grand Junction Canal Company's area. London's Praed Street, in which Paddington Station stands, is named in his honour and the canal basin is at the rear of this street. His monument in Tyringham Church bears a relief illustrating a pair of lock gates and a canal boat.[br]Further ReadingAlan H.Faulkner, 1972, The Grand Junction Canal, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles. L.S.Presnell, 1956, Country Banking in the Industrial Revolution, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 295–6.G.C.Boase and W.P.Courtney, 1874, Biblio-theca Cornubiensis, Vol. II, London: Longmans, p. 524.JHB -
13 Williams, Sir Edward Leader
[br]b. 28 April 1828 Worcester, Englandd. 1 June 1910 Altrincham, Cheshire, England[br]English civil engineer, designer and first Chief Engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal.[br]After an apprenticeship with the Severn Navigation, of which his father was Chief Engineer, Williams was engaged as Assistant Engineer on the Great Northern Railway, Resident Engineer at Shoreham Harbour and Engineer to the contractors for the Admiralty Pier at Dover. In 1856 he was appointed Engineer to the River Weaver Trust, and among the improvements he made was the introduction of the Anderton barge lift linking the Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal. After rejecting the proposal of a flight of locks he considered that barges might be lifted and lowered by hydraulic means. Various designs were submitted and the final choice fell on one by Edwin Clark that had two troughs counterbalancing each other through pistons. Movement of the troughs was initiated by introducing excess water into the upper trough to lift the lower. The work was carried out by Clark.In 1872 Williams became Engineer to the Bridgewater Navigation, enlarging the locks at Runcorn and introducing steam propulsion on the canal. He later examined the possibility of upgrading the Mersey \& Irwell Navigation to a Ship Canal. In 1882 his proposals to the Provisional Committee of the proposed Manchester Ship Canal were accepted. His scheme was to use the Mersey Channel as far as Eastham and then construct a lock canal from there to Manchester. He was appointed Chief Engineer of the undertaking.The canal's construction was a major engineering work during which Williams overcame many difficulties. He used the principle of the troughs on the Anderton lift as a guide for the construction of the Barton swing aqueduct, which replaced Brindley's original masonry aqueduct on the Bridgewater Canal. The first sod was cut at Eastham on 11 November 1887 and the lower portion of the canal was used for traffic in September 1891. The canal was opened to sea-borne traffic on 1 January 1894 and was formally opened by Queen Victoria on 21 May 1894. In acknowledgement of his work, a knighthood was conferred on him. He continued as Consulting Engineer until ill health forced his retirement.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted. Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1905–7.JHBBiographical history of technology > Williams, Sir Edward Leader
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14 better
I 1. ['betə(r)]to look, taste, smell better — avere un aspetto, sapore, odore migliore
2) (recovered)to be better — [patient, cold] andare meglio
to feel all the better for — sentirsi meglio dopo [rest, meal]
I feel better about doing — (less nervous) mi sento più a mio agio a fare; (less worried) mi faccio meno problemi a fare
4) (of superior quality) (di qualità) migliore, superiore5) (more virtuous) migliore6) (more skilled) [doctor, teacher] miglioreto be a better swimmer than sb. — nuotare meglio di qcn.
to be better at — essere più bravo in [subject, sport]
7) (more suitable) [way, excuse, choice] migliorethe sooner, bigger the better — prima è, più grande è meglio è
the less said about that the better — meno se ne parla, meglio è
9) (more accurate) [description, view] migliore2.the better — il, la migliore (di due)
so much the better — tanto meglio, ancora meglio
to change for the better — migliorare, cambiare in meglio
my betters — (in rank) i miei superiori; (in merit) quelli migliori di me
••for better (or) for worse — comunque vada, in ogni caso; (in wedding vow) nella buona e nella cattiva sorte
••to get the better of — avere la meglio su [ enemy]
Note:When better is used as an adjective, it is translated by migliore or meglio depending on the context (see below, and note that migliore is the comparative form of buono, meglio the comparative form of bene). The choice between migliore e meglio in the construction to be better than depends on whether buono or bene would be used originally with the noun. - Other constructions translate as follows: this is a better bag / car = questa borsa / auto è migliore; it is better to do = è meglio farlo. - For more examples and particular usages, see the entry belowII ['betə(r)]1) (more adequately) meglio, in modo migliorebetter made, organized than — fatto, organizzato meglio di
better behaved, educated — più educato, istruito
to do better — (in career, life) riuscire, meglio; (in exam, essay) fare meglio, ottenere migliori risultati; (in health) andare meglio
the better to see, hear — per vedere, sentire meglio
2) (more appropriately) meglioyou had better do o you'd better do faresti meglio a fare; I'd better go è meglio che vada; "will she come?" - "she'd better!" o "she better!" colloq. "verrà?" - "sarà meglio! better still,... — meglio ancora
••to think better of it — cambiare idea, ripensarci
III 1. ['betə(r)] 2.to think better of sb. — farsi un'opinione migliore di qcn
* * *['betə]comparative; = good* * *I 1. ['betə(r)]to look, taste, smell better — avere un aspetto, sapore, odore migliore
2) (recovered)to be better — [patient, cold] andare meglio
to feel all the better for — sentirsi meglio dopo [rest, meal]
I feel better about doing — (less nervous) mi sento più a mio agio a fare; (less worried) mi faccio meno problemi a fare
4) (of superior quality) (di qualità) migliore, superiore5) (more virtuous) migliore6) (more skilled) [doctor, teacher] miglioreto be a better swimmer than sb. — nuotare meglio di qcn.
to be better at — essere più bravo in [subject, sport]
7) (more suitable) [way, excuse, choice] migliorethe sooner, bigger the better — prima è, più grande è meglio è
the less said about that the better — meno se ne parla, meglio è
9) (more accurate) [description, view] migliore2.the better — il, la migliore (di due)
so much the better — tanto meglio, ancora meglio
to change for the better — migliorare, cambiare in meglio
my betters — (in rank) i miei superiori; (in merit) quelli migliori di me
••for better (or) for worse — comunque vada, in ogni caso; (in wedding vow) nella buona e nella cattiva sorte
••to get the better of — avere la meglio su [ enemy]
Note:When better is used as an adjective, it is translated by migliore or meglio depending on the context (see below, and note that migliore is the comparative form of buono, meglio the comparative form of bene). The choice between migliore e meglio in the construction to be better than depends on whether buono or bene would be used originally with the noun. - Other constructions translate as follows: this is a better bag / car = questa borsa / auto è migliore; it is better to do = è meglio farlo. - For more examples and particular usages, see the entry belowII ['betə(r)]1) (more adequately) meglio, in modo migliorebetter made, organized than — fatto, organizzato meglio di
better behaved, educated — più educato, istruito
to do better — (in career, life) riuscire, meglio; (in exam, essay) fare meglio, ottenere migliori risultati; (in health) andare meglio
the better to see, hear — per vedere, sentire meglio
2) (more appropriately) meglioyou had better do o you'd better do faresti meglio a fare; I'd better go è meglio che vada; "will she come?" - "she'd better!" o "she better!" colloq. "verrà?" - "sarà meglio! better still,... — meglio ancora
••to think better of it — cambiare idea, ripensarci
III 1. ['betə(r)] 2.to think better of sb. — farsi un'opinione migliore di qcn
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15 option
'opʃən(choice: You have no option but to obey him.) opción- optionaloption n opciónwe have no option, we have to do what they say no tenemos opción, tenemos que hacer lo que dicentr['ɒpʃən]■ I have no option no tengo opción, no tengo alternativa3 (optional extra) extra nombre masculino4 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL (optional subject) asignatura optativa\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto keep one's options open dejar todas las puertas abiertasoption ['ɑpʃən] n: opción fshe has no option: no tiene más remedion.• alternativa s.f.• facultad s.m.• opción s.f.'ɑːpʃən, 'ɒpʃən1) ( choice) opción f, posibilidad fI had no option but to resign — no me quedó más remedio que renunciar, no tuve otra alternativa que renunciar
to keep o leave one's options open — dejar todas las puertas abiertas, no descartar ninguna posibilidad or opción
2)a) ( optional feature) (Audio, Auto) extra mb) ( Educ) (asignatura f) optativa f3) (Busn, Fin) opción f['ɒpʃǝn]1. N1) (=choice) opción fwhat are my options? — ¿qué opciones tengo?
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I have no option — no tengo más or otro remedio, no tengo otra opción•
to have the option of doing sth — tener la posibilidad de hacer algoimprisonment without the option of bail — (Jur) prisión f preventiva
2) (Comm) opción f•
at the option of the purchaser — a opción del comprador•
to take out an option on another 100 — suscribir una opción para la compra de otros 100•
with the option to buy — con opción de compra3) (Scol, Univ) asignatura f optativa2.CPDoptions market N — mercado m de opciones
* * *['ɑːpʃən, 'ɒpʃən]1) ( choice) opción f, posibilidad fI had no option but to resign — no me quedó más remedio que renunciar, no tuve otra alternativa que renunciar
to keep o leave one's options open — dejar todas las puertas abiertas, no descartar ninguna posibilidad or opción
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16 area
noun1) (surface measure) Flächenausdehnung, die2) (region) Gelände, das; (of wood, marsh, desert) Gebiet, das; (of city, country) Gegend, die; (of skin, wall, etc.) Stelle, diein the Hamburg area — im Hamburger Raum
parking/picnic area — Park-/Picknickplatz, der
no-smoking area — Nichtraucherzone, die
4) (subject field) Gebiet, das5) (scope) Raum, der* * *['eəriə]1) (the extent or size of a flat surface: This garden is twelve square metres in area.) die Fläche* * *[ˈeəriə, AM ˈeri-]n\area of activity Tätigkeitsgebiet nt, Tätigkeitsfeld nt\area of the brain Hirnregion f\area of coverage Reichweite fdanger \area Gefahrenzone f\area of the lung Lungenbereich m\area of responsibility Aufgabengebiet nttesting \area Testgelände nt2. COMMcommercial \area Gewerbegebiet ntdollar/sterling \area Dollar-/Sterlingzone f\area of competence/knowledge Wissensgebiet nt\area of a circle Kreisfläche f50 square kilometres in \area eine Fläche von 50 km²6. (approximately)▪ in the \area of... ungefähr...in the \area of £200 etwa 200 Pfund* * *['ɛərɪə]n1) (measure) Fläche f2) (= region, district) Gebiet nt; (= neighbourhood, vicinity) Gegend f; (separated off, piece of ground etc) Areal nt, Gelände nt; (on plan, diagram etc) Bereich m; (= slum area, residential area, commercial area) Viertel nt, Gebiet ntthis is not a very nice area to live in — dies ist keine besonders gute Wohngegend
do you live in the area? —
the thief is believed to be still in the area — man nimmt an, dass sich der Dieb noch in der Umgebung aufhält
in the London area — im Raum London, im Londoner Raum
protected/prohibited/industrial area — Schutz-/Sperr-/Industriegebiet nt
drying/dispatch area — Trocken-/Verteilerzone f
dining/sleeping area — Ess-/Schlafbereich or -platz m
no smoking/recreation area — Nichtraucher-/Erholungszone
the ( penalty) area ( esp Brit Ftbl ) — der Strafraum
this area is for directors' cars —
you must keep out of this area — dieses Gebiet darf nicht betreten werden
the public were told to keep well away from the area — die Öffentlichkeit wurde aufgefordert, das Gebiet unbedingt zu meiden
a wooded area — ein Waldstück nt; (larger) ein Waldgebiet nt
the infected areas of the lungs — die befallenen Teile or (smaller)
the patchy areas on the wall — die fleckigen Stellen an der Wand
the additional message area on an air letter — der Raum für zusätzliche Mitteilungen auf einem Luftpostbrief
areas of uncertainty/agreement — Bereiche, in denen Unklarheit/Übereinstimmung besteht
area of interest/study — Interessen-/Studiengebiet nt
a sum in the area of £100 — eine Summe um die £ 100
4) (Brit: basement courtyard) Vorplatz m* * *area [ˈeərıə] s1. (begrenzte) Fläche, Flächenraum m, Boden-, Grundfläche f:what is the area of …? wie groß ist …?;a flat 75 square metres in area eine 75m2 große Wohnung;the island is about 30 square miles in area die Insel hat eine Fläche von ungefähr 30 Quadratmeilenin the Chicago area im Raum (von) Chicago;in the London area in der Londoner Gegend;area of low pressure METEO Tiefdruckgebiet3. (freier) Platz4. Grundstück n5. fig Bereich m, Gebiet n:area of activity Betätigungsfeld n;area of interest Interessengebiet;area of knowledge Wissensgebiet;in the area of auf dem Gebiet (gen);within the area of possibility im Bereich des Möglichen6. MATH Flächeninhalt m, -raum m, (Grund)Fläche f, Inhalt m:area of a circle Kreisfläche7. MATH, PHYS, TECH (Ober)Fläche f:area of contact Begrenzungs-, Berührungsfläche8. ANAT (Gehör-, Seh-, Sprach- etc) Zentrum n9. ARCH lichter Raum10. MIL Abschnitt m, Operationsgebiet n:area bombing Bombenflächenwurf m11. → academic.ru/3547/areaway">areaway* * *noun1) (surface measure) Flächenausdehnung, die2) (region) Gelände, das; (of wood, marsh, desert) Gebiet, das; (of city, country) Gegend, die; (of skin, wall, etc.) Stelle, die3) (defined space) Bereich, derparking/picnic area — Park-/Picknickplatz, der
no-smoking area — Nichtraucherzone, die
4) (subject field) Gebiet, das5) (scope) Raum, der* * *n.Areal -e n.Bereich -e m.Fläche -n f.Flächeninhalt m.Nahbereich m.Zone -n f. -
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adjective* * ** * *op·tion·al[ˈɒpʃənəl, AM ˈɑ:p-]the amount of your donation is \optional es steht Ihnen frei, wie viel Sie spendenthe insurance cover is \optional Sie müssen sich nicht versichern\optional subject SCH, UNIV Wahlfach nt* * *['ɒpʃənl]adj(= not compulsory) freiwillig; (= not basic) trim, mirror etc auf Wunsch erhältlich"evening dress optional" — "Abendkleidung nicht Vorschrift"
"fancy dress optional" — "kein Kostümzwang"
optional extras — Extras pl
optional subject (Sch, Univ) — Wahlfach nt
* * *optional [-ʃənl] adj (adv optionally)1. freigestellt, wahlfrei, freiwillig, fakultativ, nach Wahl:optional bonds US kündbare Obligationen;be an optional extra gegen Aufpreis erhältlich sein;optional insurance fakultative Versicherung;2. WIRTSCH Options…:optional bargain Prämiengeschäft nopt. abk2. optical opt.3. optician5. optimum6. optional* * *adjectiveoptional subject — Wahlfach, das
* * *adj.fakultativ adj.freigestellt adj.wahlweise adj. -
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ˈlɪbətɪ сущ.
1) а) свобода to gain liberty ≈ обрести, получить свободу individual, personal liberty ≈ личная свобода civil liberties ≈ гражданские свободы to take the liberty of doing smth. ≈ позволить себе сделать что-л.;
взять на себя смелость Are you at liberty to reveal any names? ≈ Вам позволено раскрыть имена? political liberty ≈ политическая свобода religious liberty ≈ свобода вероисповедания liberty of the press Syn: right, freedom б) освобождение Of the ten men who escaped this morning from the prison, only two are still at liberty. ≈ Из десяти сбежавших из тюрьмы сегодня утром только двое еще на свободе. Hundred of political prisoners are to be given their liberty. ≈ Сотни политических заключенных должны быть освобождены. set at liberty
2) бесцеремонность, вольность;
дерзость to take liberties {((with smb./smth.) ≈ позволять себе вольности (по отношению к кому-л./чему-л.) What a liberty to refuse the invitation on your behalf! ≈ Какая наглость отказаться от приглашения от твоего имени! Syn: unceremoniousness, undue familiarity
3) мн.;
юр. вольности, привилегии
4) мор. увольнение на берег свобода - * of conscience свобода совести - civil liberties гражданские права /свободы/ - cap of * см. liberty cap свобода, нахождение на свободе - to get one's * выйти на свободу - to lose one's * попасть в заключение право, свобода ( выбора) - * of choice свобода выбора - he has the * of coming with us он может пойти с нами, если хочет вольность;
бесцеремонность - to take the * to do /of doing/ smth. позволить себе /осмелиться/ сделать что-л. - to take liberties with smb. позволять себе вольности по отношению к кому-л.;
быть непозволительно фамильярным с кем-л. - to take liberties with smth. бесцеремонно обращаться с чем-л. - he took foolish liberties with his health он глупо пренебрегал своим здоровьем привилегии, вольности - the liberties of the City of London( историческое) вольности города Лондона район, на который распространяются привилегии (морское) увольнение на берег - L.! увольняемым на берег построиться! (команда) - * day день, когда часть команды увольняется на берег - * man (матрос) увольняемый на берег - * man to clean! увольняемым на берег приготовиться! (команда) > at * свободный, находящийся на свободе;
свободный, незанятый;
свободно, по своему выбору > to set at * освободить, выпустить на свободу > when shall you be at *? когда вы будете свободны? > you are at * to do as you please вы вольны поступать, как вам угодно > I am not at * to discuss this with you я не могу /не имею права/ обсуждать это с вами ~ свобода;
liberty of the press свобода печати;
at liberty свободный, на свободе civil ~ грражданская свобода conditional ~ условная свобода individual ~ личная свобода intellectual ~ свобода мысли liberty вольность, бесцеремонность;
to take liberties (with smb.) позволять себе вольности (с кем-л.) ;
to take liberties (with smth.) обращаться бесцеремонно (с чем-л.) ~ право выбора ~ pl привилегии, вольности ~ свобода ~ свобода;
liberty of the press свобода печати;
at liberty свободный, на свободе ~ свобода выбора ~ мор. увольнение на берег ~ man матрос, увольняемый на берег ~ of action свобода действия ~ of choice свобода выбора ~ свобода;
liberty of the press свобода печати;
at liberty свободный, на свободе ~ of the press свобода печати ~ of the subject свобода личности personal ~ личная свобода to set at ~ освободить liberty вольность, бесцеремонность;
to take liberties (with smb.) позволять себе вольности (с кем-л.) ;
to take liberties (with smth.) обращаться бесцеремонно (с чем-л.) liberty вольность, бесцеремонность;
to take liberties (with smb.) позволять себе вольности (с кем-л.) ;
to take liberties (with smth.) обращаться бесцеремонно (с чем-л.) to take the ~ (of doing или to do so and so) позволить себе (сделать то-то) you are at ~ to make any choice вы можете выбирать, что угодно -
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adjective (a matter of choice: Music is optional at our school; an optional subject.) opcionaloptional adj opcional / optativotr['ɒpʃənəl]1 (gen) opcional, facultativo,-a; (course, subject) optativo,-a\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLoptional extra extra nombre masculino opcionaloptional ['ɑpʃənəl] adj: facultativo, optativoadj.• discrecional adj.• facultativo, -a adj.• opcional adj.• optativo, -a adj.'ɑːpʃənḷ, 'ɒpʃənḷadjective <accessories/features> opcional; <course/subject> optativooptional extra — accesorio m opcional, extra m
['ɒpʃǝnl]ADJ [course, subject] optativo, facultativo; [part, accessory] opcionaloptional extra — (Aut) accesorio m opcional, extra m
* * *['ɑːpʃənḷ, 'ɒpʃənḷ]adjective <accessories/features> opcional; <course/subject> optativooptional extra — accesorio m opcional, extra m
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