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1 Grand Fleet
the subst.(britisk, historisk) forklaring: den britiske marinens krigsflåte under 1. verdenskrig -
2 grand
1. adjective1) (most or very important) großgrand finale — großes Finale; see also academic.ru/67818/slam">slam II
2) (final)grand total — Gesamtsumme, die
4) (distinguished) vornehm6) (coll.): (excellent) großartig2. noun(piano) Flügel, der* * *[ɡrænd] 1. adjective1) (splendid; magnificent: a grand procession.) großartig2) (proud: She gives herself grand airs.) erhaben3) (very pleasant: a grand day at the seaside.) fabelhaft4) (highly respected: a grand old man.) bedeutend2. noun- grand finale- grand jury
- grand piano
- grandstand
- grand total* * *[grænd]I. adj1. (splendid) prächtig, großartigto make a \grand entrance einen großen Auftritt habento make \grand gestures ausladende Gesten machenin \grand style in großem Stilyou've done a \grand job das hast du großartig gemachtwe had a \grand time wir haben uns glänzend amüsiert3. (of age)\grand old age hohes Alterhe lived to the \grand old age of 97 er erreichte das gesegnete Alter von 97 Jahren4. (important) groß, bedeutendthey think they're very \grand sie halten sich für etwas Besseres5. (large, far-reaching)\grand ambitions/ideas große [o hochfliegende] Pläne/Ideenon a \grand scale in großem Rahmen6. (overall)\grand total Gesamtsumme f, Endbetrag mII. n1.<pl ->he earns over 90 \grand a year er verdient über 90 Mille [o Riesen] im Jahr fam2.<pl -s>(grand piano) Flügel mbaby/concert \grand Stutz-/Konzertflügel m* * *[grnd]1. adj (+er)1) (= imposing) grandios; architecture, building prachtvoll, grandios; scheme, strategy groß angelegt; gesture großartig; ideas hochfliegend; person, clothes, manner vornehm; job bedeutendon a grand scale — im großen Rahmen
to make a grand entrance —
to give oneself grand airs — den großen Herrn/die große Dame spielen
grand occasion — großer or feierlicher Anlass
the grand old man of English politics — der große Alte or der Grand Old Man der englischen Politik
2) (dated = great, wonderful inf) activity, experience, success, idea fabelhaft, großartig; person fantastisch (inf), phantastisch (inf), toll (inf)2. nten grand — zehn Riesen (inf)
See:→ also baby grand (piano)* * *grand [ɡrænd]A adj (adv grandly)1. großartig, gewaltig, grandios, imposant, eindrucksvoll, prächtig2. (geistig etc) groß, grandios, hochfliegend (Ideen etc)3. erhaben, würdevoll4. (gesellschaftlich) groß, hochstehend, vornehm, distinguiert:put on grand airs sich aufspielen5. umg großartig, herrlich, glänzend, prächtig:what a grand idea!;have a grand time sich glänzend amüsieren6. groß, bedeutend, wichtig7. groß (Koalition etc):the Grand Fleet die im 1. Weltkrieg in der Nordsee operierende englische Flotte8. Haupt…:grand entrance Haupteingang m;grand staircase Haupttreppe f;grand question Hauptfrage f;grand total Gesamt-, Endsumme f9. Groß…:grand commander Großkomtur m (eines Ordens);10. MUS groß (in Anlage, Besetzung etc)B s1. MUS Flügel m2. pl grand sl Riese m (1000 Pfund oder Dollar)G abk3. good* * *1. adjective1) (most or very important) großgrand finale — großes Finale; see also slam II
2) (final)grand total — Gesamtsumme, die
3) (splendid) grandios; (conducted with solemnity, splendour, etc.) glanzvoll4) (distinguished) vornehm5) (dignified, lofty) erhaben; groß [Versprechungen, Pläne, Worte]; (noble, admirable) ehrwürdig6) (coll.): (excellent) großartig2. noun(piano) Flügel, der* * *adj.gewaltig adj.großartig adj.stattlich (Gebäude etc.) adj. -
3 Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 10 June 1672 (30 May 1672 Old Style) Moscow, Russiad. 8 February 1725 (28 January 1725 Old Style) St Petersburg, Russia[br]Russian Tsar (1682–1725), Emperor of all the Russias (1722–5), founder of the Russian Navy, shipbuilder and scientist; as a shipbuilder he was known by the pseudonym Petr Mikhailov.[br]Peter the Great was a man with a single-minded approach to problems and with passionate and lifelong interests in matters scientific, military and above all maritime. The unusual and dominating rule of his vast lands brought about the age of Russian enlightenment, and ensured that his country became one of the most powerful states in Europe.Peter's interest in ships and shipbuilding started in his childhood; c. 1687 he had an old English-built day sailing boat repaired and launched, and on it he learned the rudiments of sailing and navigation. This craft (still preserved in St Petersburg) became known as the "Grandfather of the Russian Navy". In the years 1688 to 1693 he established a shipyard on Lake Plestsheev and then began his lifelong study of shipbuilding by visiting and giving encouragement to the industry at Archangelsk on the White Sea and Voronezh in the Sea of Azov. In October 1696, Peter took Azov from the Turks, and the Russian Fleet ever since has regarded that date as their birthday. Setting an example to the young aristocracy, Peter travelled to Western Europe to widen his experience and contacts and also to learn the trade of shipbuilding. He worked in the shipyards of Amsterdam and then at the Naval Base of Deptford on the Thames.The war with Sweden concentrated his attention on the Baltic and, to establish a base for trading and for the Navy, the City of St Petersburg was constructed on marshland. The Admiralty was built in the city and many new shipyards in the surrounding countryside, one being the Olonez yard which in 1703 built the frigate Standart, the first for the Baltic Fleet, which Peter himself commanded on its first voyage. The military defence of St Petersburg was effected by the construction of Kronstadt, seawards of the city.Throughout his life Peter was involved in ship design and it is estimated that one thousand ships were built during his reign. He introduced the building of standard ship types and also, centuries ahead of its time, the concept of prefabrication, unit assembly and the building of part hulls in different places. Officially he was the designer of the ninety-gun ship Lesnoe of 1718, and this may have influenced him in instituting Rules for Shipbuilders and for Seamen. In 1716 he commanded the joint fleets of the four naval powers: Denmark, Britain, Holland and Russia.He established the Marine Academy, organized and encouraged exploration and scientific research, and on his edict the St Petersburg Academy of Science was opened. He was not averse to the recruitment of foreigners to key posts in the nation's service. Peter the Great was a remarkable man, with the unusual quality of being a theorist and an innovator, in addition to the endowments of practicality and common sense.[br]Further ReadingRobert K.Massie, 1981, Peter the Great: His Life and Work, London: Gollancz.Henri Troyat, 1979, Pierre le Grand; pub. in English 1988 as Peter the Great, London: Hamish Hamilton (a good all-round biography).AK / FMWBiographical history of technology > Peter the Great (Pyotr Alekseyevich Romanov)
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4 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 -
5 Wren, Sir Christopher
SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building[br]b. 20 October 1632 East Knoyle, Wiltshire, Englandd. 25 February 1723 London, England[br]English architect whose background in scientific research and achievement enhanced his handling of many near-intractable architectural problems.[br]Born into a High Church and Royalist family, the young Wren early showed outstanding intellectual ability and at Oxford in 1654 was described as "that miracle of a youth". Educated at Westminster School, he went up to Oxford, where he graduated at the age of 19 and obtained his master's degree two years later. From this time onwards his interests were in science, primarily astronomy but also physics, engineering and meteorology. While still at college he developed theories about and experimentally solved some fifty varied problems. At the age of 25 Wren was appointed to the Chair of Astronomy at Gresham College in London, but he soon returned to Oxford as Savilian Professor of Astronomy there. At the same time he became one of the founder members of the Society of Experimental Philosophy at Oxford, which was awarded its Royal Charter soon after the Restoration of 1660; Wren, together with such men as Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, John Evelyn and Robert Boyle, then found himself a member of the Royal Society.Wren's architectural career began with the classical chapel that he built, at the request of his uncle, the Bishop of Ely, for Pembroke College, Cambridge (1663). From this time onwards, until he died at the age of 91, he was fully occupied with a wide and taxing variety of architectural problems which he faced in the execution of all the great building schemes of the day. His scientific background and inventive mind stood him in good stead in solving such difficulties with an often unusual approach and concept. Nowhere was this more apparent than in his rebuilding of fifty-one churches in the City of London after the Great Fire, in the construction of the new St Paul's Cathedral and in the grand layout of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.The first instance of Wren's approach to constructional problems was in his building of the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford (1664–9). He based his design upon that of the Roman Theatre of Marcellus (13–11 BC), which he had studied from drawings in Serlio's book of architecture. Wren's reputation as an architect was greatly enhanced by his solution to the roofing problem here. The original theatre in Rome, like all Roman-theatres, was a circular building open to the sky; this would be unsuitable in the climate of Oxford and Wren wished to cover the English counterpart without using supporting columns, which would have obscured the view of the stage. He solved this difficulty mathematically, with the aid of his colleague Dr Wallis, the Professor of Geometry, by means of a timber-trussed roof supporting a painted ceiling which represented the open sky.The City of London's churches were rebuilt over a period of nearly fifty years; the first to be completed and reopened was St Mary-at-Hill in 1676, and the last St Michael Cornhill in 1722, when Wren was 89. They had to be rebuilt upon the original medieval sites and they illustrate, perhaps more clearly than any other examples of Wren's work, the fertility of his imagination and his ability to solve the most intractable problems of site, limitation of space and variation in style and material. None of the churches is like any other. Of the varied sites, few are level or possess right-angled corners or parallel sides of equal length, and nearly all were hedged in by other, often larger, buildings. Nowhere is his versatility and inventiveness shown more clearly than in his designs for the steeples. There was no English precedent for a classical steeple, though he did draw upon the Dutch examples of the 1630s, because the London examples had been medieval, therefore Roman Catholic and Gothic, churches. Many of Wren's steeples are, therefore, Gothic steeples in classical dress, but many were of the greatest originality and delicate beauty: for example, St Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside; the "wedding cake" St Bride in Fleet Street; and the temple diminuendo concept of Christ Church in Newgate Street.In St Paul's Cathedral Wren showed his ingenuity in adapting the incongruous Royal Warrant Design of 1675. Among his gradual and successful amendments were the intriguing upper lighting of his two-storey choir and the supporting of the lantern by a brick cone inserted between the inner and outer dome shells. The layout of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich illustrates Wren's qualities as an overall large-scale planner and designer. His terms of reference insisted upon the incorporation of the earlier existing Queen's House, erected by Inigo Jones, and of John Webb's King Charles II block. The Queen's House, in particular, created a difficult problem as its smaller size rendered it out of scale with the newer structures. Wren's solution was to make it the focal centre of a great vista between the main flanking larger buildings; this was a masterstroke.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1673. President, Royal Society 1681–3. Member of Parliament 1685–7 and 1701–2. Surveyor, Greenwich Hospital 1696. Surveyor, Westminster Abbey 1699.Surveyor-General 1669–1712.Further ReadingR.Dutton, 1951, The Age of Wren, Batsford.M.Briggs, 1953, Wren the Incomparable, Allen \& Unwin. M.Whinney, 1971, Wren, Thames \& Hudson.K.Downes, 1971, Christopher Wren, Allen Lane.G.Beard, 1982, The Work of Sir Christopher Wren, Bartholomew.DY -
6 master
1. n хозяин, владелец; господинthe master of the house — глава семьи; хозяин дома
to play the master — хозяйничать, распоряжаться
I am not my own master — я не волен поступать, как хочу, я собой не распоряжаюсь
to be master of oneself — владеть собой, держать себя в руках
we will see which of us is master — посмотрим, кто из нас хозяин положения
after hard fighting, the defenders were still masters of the city — после тяжёлых боёв город оставался в руках его защитников
master of the house — хозяин, глава семьи
2. n учитель3. n глава колледжаthe master of the household — хозяин дома, глава семьи
4. n магистрGrand Master — великий магистр, гроссмейстер
5. n мастер, знаток своего дела, специалистhe is master of this subject — он глубоко знает этот предмет, он специалист по этому предмету
6. n квалифицированный рабочий; мастерmaster hand — мастер, специалист
7. n великий, знаменитый художник, мастерmaster gunner — старший инструктор по стрельбе; мастер стрельбы
8. n в названиях должностей9. n молодой барин, барчук; мастер, господинcomplete master of fence — настоящий мастер фехтования, искусный фехтовальщик
10. n шотл. старший сын титулованного лицаmaster index — главный индекс; старший индекс
11. n Христос12. n капитан, шкиперmaster mariner — капитан, шкипер
13. n ист. штурман14. n спец. модель; оригинал, образецmaster drawing — оригинал; эталонный чертеж
15. n первый оригиналfilm master — оригинал микрофильма; оригинал на плёнке
16. n руководство17. a главный, старшийmaster bedroom — спальня хозяев, господская спальня
18. a основной; сводный19. a контрольный20. v справляться, одолевать, подчинять себеto master the enemy — наносить поражение противнику, одерживать победу над противником
21. v преодолевать22. v овладевать23. v руководить, управлять24. v русск. как компонент сложных слов, соответствует компоненту -мачтовикСинонимический ряд:1. dominant (adj.) ascendant; dominant; outweighing; overbalancing; overbearing; overweighing; paramount; predominant; predominate; preponderant; prevalent; regnant; sovereign2. major (adj.) chief; excellent; leading; main; major; principal; supreme3. proficient (adj.) accomplished; adept; crack; crackerjack; deft; expert; masterful; masterly; practiced; proficient; skilled; skillful4. expert (noun) adept; artist; artiste; authority; champion; connoisseur; doyen; expert; genius; maestro; master-hand; maven; passed master; past master; pro; professional; proficient; sage; scholar; swell; virtuoso; whiz; wiz; wizard5. leader (noun) boss; captain; chief; chieftain; cock; commander; director; dominator; head; headman; hierarch; honcho; leader; lord; overlord; ruler; superintendent; supervisor6. lover (noun) boyfriend; fancy man; lover; man; paramour7. original (noun) archetype; original; prototype8. owner (noun) holder; owner; possessor; proprietor9. supreme being (noun) Christ; god; messiah; supreme being10. teacher (noun) educator; instructor; mentor; preceptor; teacher11. victor (noun) conqueror; defeater; subduer; subjugator; vanquisher; victor; winner12. conquer (verb) conquer; defeat; humble; overpower; rule; subdue; vanquish13. domesticate (verb) domesticate; domesticize; domiciliate; gentle; tame14. learn (verb) comprehend; control; dominate; gain mastery in; get; learn; pick up; study; understand15. overcome (verb) best; down; hurdle; lick; overcome; prevail; surmount; throw; triumph; worstАнтонимический ряд:inept; novice; resist; student; subject -
7 style
style [staɪl]1 noun∎ in the style of Vermeer dans le style de Vermeer;∎ style of life mode m de vie;∎ I don't like his style of dressing je n'aime pas sa façon de s'habiller;∎ written in the style of a 1940s thriller écrit dans le style du roman policier des années 1940;∎ they've adopted a new management style (approach) ils ont adopté un nouveau style de gestion;∎ they danced the charleston, 1920s style ils ont dansé le charleston comme on le dansait dans les années vingt;∎ the meal was prepared in authentic Japanese style le repas a été préparé dans la plus pure tradition japonaise;∎ you've got to admire his style! (way of doing things) on ne peut qu'admirer la façon dont il s'y prend!∎ to be dressed in the latest style être habillé à la dernière mode;∎ a new style of dress un nouveau modèle de robe;∎ all the latest styles tous les derniers modèles;∎ this winter's styles les modèles de cet hiver;∎ the boots come in two styles ces bottes existent en deux modèles(c) (elegance, sophistication → of person) allure f, chic m; (→ of dress, picture, building, film) style m;∎ she's got real style elle a vraiment de l'allure ou du chic;∎ she does everything with great style elle fait tout avec beaucoup de style;∎ to live in style mener grand train, vivre dans le luxe;∎ he likes to do things in style il aime faire bien les choses;∎ they were dressed in style ils étaient habillés avec beaucoup de chic;∎ they made their entrance in great style ils ont fait une entrée très remarquée;∎ they drove off in style in a fleet of limousines ils sont partis en grande pompe dans un cortège de limousines∎ I wouldn't have thought cheating was your style je n'aurais jamais pensé que c'était ton genre de tricher;∎ I don't like his style je n'aime pas son genre;∎ that's the style! c'est ça!, bravo!∎ February 12 old/new style le 12 février vieux/nouveau style∎ house style style m de la maison∎ she styles herself "countess" elle se fait appeler "comtesse"(b) (design → dress, jewel, house) créer, dessiner;∎ dress styled by Dior robe créée par Dior;∎ to style sb's hair coiffer qn;∎ styled for comfort and elegance conçu pour le confort et l'élégance(c) Press & Typography (manuscript) mettre au point (selon les précisions stylistiques de l'éditeur)►► Computing style bar barre f de style;Computing style sheet feuille f de style
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