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the Scottish Parliament

  • 1 Member of the Scottish Parliament

    General subject: MSP

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > Member of the Scottish Parliament

  • 2 Escocia

    f.
    1 Scotland.
    2 scotia, trochilus, concave molding, concave moulding.
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    1 Scotland
    \
    Nueva Escocia Nova Scotia
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    noun f.
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    femenino Scotland
    * * *
    = Scotland, north of the border.
    Ex. SCOLCAP is based on the National Library of Scotland and is financed by the Scottish Education Department, and through subscriptions.
    Ex. However, a recent debate in the Scottish Parliament suggests that problems north of the border continue to mirror those discussed in Westminster.
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    * cooperativa bibliotecaria en Escocia = SCOLCAP.
    * nacido en Escocia = Scottish-born.
    * * *
    femenino Scotland
    * * *
    = Scotland, north of the border.

    Ex: SCOLCAP is based on the National Library of Scotland and is financed by the Scottish Education Department, and through subscriptions.

    Ex: However, a recent debate in the Scottish Parliament suggests that problems north of the border continue to mirror those discussed in Westminster.
    * cooperativa bibliotecaria en Escocia = SCOLCAP.
    * nacido en Escocia = Scottish-born.

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    Scotland
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    Del verbo escocer: ( conjugate escocer)

    escocía es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) imperfecto indicativo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperfecto indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    Escocia    
    escocer
    Escocia sustantivo femenino
    Scotland
    escocer ( conjugate escocer) verbo intransitivo [herida/ojos] to sting, smart
    Escocia sustantivo femenino Scotland
    escocer verbo intransitivo to sting, smart: le escocían los ojos, her eyes were sore
    su silencio escuece, her silence is irritating
    ' Escocia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    típica
    - típico
    English:
    highland
    - hogmanay
    - Scotland
    - wee
    - from
    * * *
    Scotland
    * * *
    f Scotland

    Spanish-English dictionary > Escocia

  • 3 escocés

    adj.
    Scottish, Scotch, Scots.
    m.
    1 Scot, native of Scotland, Scotsman, Jock.
    2 Scotch whisky, Scotch.
    pres.indicat.
    2nd person singular (tú) present indicative of spanish verb: escocer.
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    1 Scottish
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (persona) Scot; (hombre) Scotsman; (mujer) Scotswoman
    1 (idioma) Scottish Gaelic
    ————————
    1 (idioma) Scottish Gaelic
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    1. noun m. 2. (f. - escocesa)
    noun
    3. (f. - escocesa)
    adj.
    Scots, Scottish, Scotch
    * * *
    escocés, -esa
    1.
    ADJ [persona] Scottish, Scots; [whisky] Scotch

    tela escocesa — tartan, plaid

    2.
    SM / F (=persona) Scot, Scotsman/Scotswoman
    3. SM
    1) (Ling) Scots
    2) (=whisky) Scotch
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    I
    - cesa adjetivo
    a) <ciudad/persona> Scottish; < dialecto> Scots
    b) < whisky> Scotch; <tela/manta> tartan
    II
    - cesa (m) Scotsman, Scot; (f) Scotswoman, Scot
    * * *
    = Scot, Scotsman [Scotsmen, -pl.], Scottish.
    Ex. There was a steady haemorrhage of Scots going abroad, and a gap between morality and experience which saw Scotland with a terrible record in terms of drink and illegitimacy.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'Wresting money from the canny Scotsman: Melvil Dewey's designs on Carnegie's millions, 1902-1906'.
    Ex. He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.
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    * güisqui escocés = Scottish whisky.
    * productos decorados con tela escocesa = tartanware.
    * tela escocesa = tartan.
    * tela escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * whisky escocés = Scottish whisky.
    * * *
    I
    - cesa adjetivo
    a) <ciudad/persona> Scottish; < dialecto> Scots
    b) < whisky> Scotch; <tela/manta> tartan
    II
    - cesa (m) Scotsman, Scot; (f) Scotswoman, Scot
    * * *
    = Scot, Scotsman [Scotsmen, -pl.], Scottish.

    Ex: There was a steady haemorrhage of Scots going abroad, and a gap between morality and experience which saw Scotland with a terrible record in terms of drink and illegitimacy.

    Ex: The article is entitled 'Wresting money from the canny Scotsman: Melvil Dewey's designs on Carnegie's millions, 1902-1906'.
    Ex: He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.
    * güisqui escocés = Scottish whisky.
    * productos decorados con tela escocesa = tartanware.
    * tela escocesa = tartan.
    * tela escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa = tartan.
    * tela típica escocesa de cuadros = tartan.
    * whisky escocés = Scottish whisky.

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    1 ‹persona/dialecto› Scottish, Scots; ‹ciudad› Scottish
    2 ‹whisky› Scotch
    3 ‹tela/manta› tartan
    masculine, feminine
    A ( masculine) Scotsman, Scot
    B ( feminine) Scotswoman, Scot
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    escocés
    ◊ - cesa adjetivo

    a) ‹ciudad/persona› Scottish;

    ‹ dialecto› Scots
    b) ‹ whisky› Scotch;

    ‹tela/manta› tartan
    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (m) Scotsman, Scot;
    (f) Scotswoman, Scot
    escocés,-esa
    I adjetivo Scottish
    familiar Scots: llevaba falda escocesa, he was wearing a kilt
    II m,f (hombre) Scotsman
    (mujer) Scotswoman ➣ Ver nota en Scotch
    ' escocés' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    escocesa
    - encargar
    - marcado
    English:
    auld lang syne
    - bonny
    - Scot
    - Scotch
    - Scots
    - Scotsman
    - Scottish
    - collie
    - haggis
    - scotch
    - whisky
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    escocés, -esa
    ♦ adj
    1. [de Escocia] Scottish;
    whisky escocés Scotch whisky
    2. [de cuadros de colores] tartan;
    ♦ nm,f
    [persona] [hombre] Scot, Scotsman; [mujer] Scot, Scotswoman
    ♦ nm
    [lengua] (Scottish) Gaelic
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    I adj Scottish;
    II m Scot, Scotsman
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    escocés, - cesa adj, mpl - ceses
    1) : Scottish
    2) : tartan, plaid
    escocés, - cesa n, mpl - ceses : Scottish person, Scot
    1) : Scots (language)
    2) pl - ceses : Scotch (whiskey)
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    escocés1 adj Scottish
    escocés2 n Scot

    Spanish-English dictionary > escocés

  • 4 парламент Шотландии

    брит. the Scottish Parliament

    Дополнительный универсальный русско-английский словарь > парламент Шотландии

  • 5 Forsyth, Alexander John

    SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour
    [br]
    b. 28 December 1769 Belhevie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
    d. 11 June 1843 Belhevie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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    Scottish cleric and ammunition designer.
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    The son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, Forsyth also took Holy Orders and took over his father's parish on his death. During his spare time he experimented with explosives and in 1805 he succeeded in developing mercury fulminate as a percussion cap for use in small-arms ammunition, thus paving the way for the eventual design of the self-contained metallic cartridge and contact fuse. This he did by rolling the compound into small pellets, which he placed in a nipple at the breech end of the barrel, where they could be detonated by the falling hammer of the gun. In spring 1806 he went to London, and so impressed was the Master-General of the Ordnance by Forsyth's concept that he gave him facilities in the Tower of London in order to allow him to perfect it. Unfortunately, the Master-General of the Ordnance was replaced shortly afterwards and his successor abruptly stopped the project. Forsyth returned to Scotland and his parish, and it was only after much persuasion by his friends that he eventually petitioned Parliament for recognition of his invention. He was ultimately awarded a small state pension, but died before he received any of it.
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    Biographical history of technology > Forsyth, Alexander John

  • 6 Watt, James

    [br]
    b. 19 January 1735 Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland
    d. 19 August 1819 Handsworth Heath, Birmingham, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and inventor of the separate condenser for the steam engine.
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    The sixth child of James Watt, merchant and general contractor, and Agnes Muirhead, Watt was a weak and sickly child; he was one of only two to survive childhood out of a total of eight, yet, like his father, he was to live to an age of over 80. He was educated at local schools, including Greenock Grammar School where he was an uninspired pupil. At the age of 17 he was sent to live with relatives in Glasgow and then in 1755 to London to become an apprentice to a mathematical instrument maker, John Morgan of Finch Lane, Cornhill. Less than a year later he returned to Greenock and then to Glasgow, where he was appointed mathematical instrument maker to the University and was permitted in 1757 to set up a workshop within the University grounds. In this position he came to know many of the University professors and staff, and it was thus that he became involved in work on the steam engine when in 1764 he was asked to put in working order a defective Newcomen engine model. It did not take Watt long to perceive that the great inefficiency of the Newcomen engine was due to the repeated heating and cooling of the cylinder. His idea was to drive the steam out of the cylinder and to condense it in a separate vessel. The story is told of Watt's flash of inspiration as he was walking across Glasgow Green one Sunday afternoon; the idea formed perfectly in his mind and he became anxious to get back to his workshop to construct the necessary apparatus, but this was the Sabbath and work had to wait until the morrow, so Watt forced himself to wait until the Monday morning.
    Watt designed a condensing engine and was lent money for its development by Joseph Black, the Glasgow University professor who had established the concept of latent heat. In 1768 Watt went into partnership with John Roebuck, who required the steam engine for the drainage of a coal-mine that he was opening up at Bo'ness, West Lothian. In 1769, Watt took out his patent for "A New Invented Method of Lessening the Consumption of Steam and Fuel in Fire Engines". When Roebuck went bankrupt in 1772, Matthew Boulton, proprietor of the Soho Engineering Works near Birmingham, bought Roebuck's share in Watt's patent. Watt had met Boulton four years earlier at the Soho works, where power was obtained at that time by means of a water-wheel and a steam engine to pump the water back up again above the wheel. Watt moved to Birmingham in 1774, and after the patent had been extended by Parliament in 1775 he and Boulton embarked on a highly profitable partnership. While Boulton endeavoured to keep the business supplied with capital, Watt continued to refine his engine, making several improvements over the years; he was also involved frequently in legal proceedings over infringements of his patent.
    In 1794 Watt and Boulton founded the new company of Boulton \& Watt, with a view to their retirement; Watt's son James and Boulton's son Matthew assumed management of the company. Watt retired in 1800, but continued to spend much of his time in the workshop he had set up in the garret of his Heathfield home; principal amongst his work after retirement was the invention of a pantograph sculpturing machine.
    James Watt was hard-working, ingenious and essentially practical, but it is doubtful that he would have succeeded as he did without the business sense of his partner, Matthew Boulton. Watt coined the term "horsepower" for quantifying the output of engines, and the SI unit of power, the watt, is named in his honour.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1785. Honorary LLD, University of Glasgow 1806. Foreign Associate, Académie des Sciences, Paris 1814.
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson and R Jenkins, 1927, James Watt and the Steam Engine, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1962, James Watt, London: B.T. Batsford.
    R.Wailes, 1963, James Watt, Instrument Maker (The Great Masters: Engineering Heritage, Vol. 1), London: Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Watt, James

  • 7 Adam, Robert

    [br]
    b. 3 July 1728 Kirkcaldy, Scotland
    d. 3 March 1792 London, England
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    Scottish architect, active mostly in England, who led the neo-classical movement between 1760 and 1790.
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    Robert Adam was a man of outstanding talent, immense energy dedicated to his profession, and of great originality, who utilized all sources of classical art from ancient Greece and Rome as well as from the Renaissance and Baroque eras in Italy. He was also a very practical exponent of neo-classicism and believed in using the latest techniques to produce fine craftsmanship.
    Of particular interest to him was stucco, the material needed for elegant, finely crafted ceiling and wall designs. Stucco, though the Italian word for plaster, refers architecturally to a specific form of the material. Known as Stucco duro (hard plaster), its use and composition dates from the days of ancient Rome. Giovanni da Udine, a pupil of Raphael, having discovered some fine stucco antico in the ruins of the Palace of Titus in Rome, carried out extensive research during the Italian Renaissance in order to discover its precise composition; it was a mixture of powdered crystalline limestone (travertine), river sand, water and powdered white marble. The marble produced an exceptionally hard stucco when set, thereby differentiating it from plaster-work, and was a material fine enough to make delicate relief and statuary work possible.
    In the 1770s Robert Adam's ceiling and wall designs were characterized by low-relief, delicate, classical forms. He and his brothers, who formed the firm of Adam Brothers, were interested in a stucco which would be especially fine grained and hard setting. A number of new products then appearing on the market were easier to handle than earlier ones. These included a stucco by Mr David Wark, patented in 1765, and another by a Swiss clergyman called Liardet in 1773; the Adam firm purchased both patents and obtained an Act of Parliament authorizing them to be the sole vendors and makers of this stucco, which they called "Adam's new invented patent stucco". More new versions appeared, among which was one by a Mr Johnson, who claimed it to be an improvement. The Adam Brothers, having paid a high price for their rights, took him to court. The case was decided in 1778 by Lord Mansfield, a fellow Scot and a patron (at Kenwood), who,
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Member of the Society of Arts 1758. FRS 1761. Architect to the King's Works 1761.
    Bibliography
    1764, Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro.
    1773, Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam.
    Further Reading
    A.T.Bolton, 1922, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1758–1794, 2 vols, Country Life.
    J.Fleming, 1962, Robert Adam and his Circle, Murray. J.Lees-Milne, 1947, The Age of Adam, Batsford.
    J.Rykwert and A.Rykwert, 1985, The Brothers Adam, Collins. D.Yarwood, 1970, Robert Adam, Dent.
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    Biographical history of technology > Adam, Robert

  • 8 Laird, John

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
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    b. 1805 (?) Greenock, Scotland
    d. 26 October 1874 Birkenhead, England
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    Scottish pioneer of large-scale iron shipbuilding.
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    When only 5 years old, Laird travelled with his family to Merseyside, where his father William Laird was setting up a ship-repair yard. Fourteen years later his father established the Birkenhead Ironworks for ship and engine repairs, which in later years was to achieve great things with John Laird at the helm. John Laird trained as a solicitor, but instead of going into practice he joined the family business. Between 1829 and 1832 they built three iron barges for inland use in Ireland; this form of construction had become less of a novelty and followed the example set by Thomas Wilson in 1819, but Laird was fired with enthusiasm for this mode of construction. New iron ships followed in rapid succession, with two of especial note: the paddle steamer Lady Lansdown of 1833, which was dismantled and later re-erected on the river Shannon, becoming one of Britain's first "knock-down" contracts; and the early steamer Robert F.Stockton, which had a double Ericsson screw propeller and the first iron transverse watertight bulkheads. With the good name of the shipyard secure, they received orders from MacGregor Laird (John Laird's younger brother) for iron ships for the West African trade. This African connection was to grow and the yard's products were to include the Ma Roberts for Dr David Livingstone. Being of steel and with constant groundings on African rivers, this craft only lasted 18 months in steady operation. In 1858 a new yard dedicated to iron construction was opened at Monk's Ferry. In 1861 John Laird was returned as the first Member of Parliament for Birkenhead and his sons took over the day-to-day affairs of the business. Laird was to suffer acute embarrassment by questions at Westminster over the building in the Birkenhead Works of the United States Confederate raider Alabama in 1862. In 1874 he suffered serious injuries in a riding accident; his health declined and he died later that year.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1858, with Fairbairn, Forrester, Lang and Sea-ward, Steam Navigation, Vessels of Iron and Wood, the Steam Engine, etc. 2 vols, London: Weale.
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Laird, John

  • 9 Napier, David

    SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing
    [br]
    b. 1785 Scotland
    d. 1873
    [br]
    Scottish engineer who devised printing machinery incorporating important improvements.
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    Born in Scotland, Napier moved to London to set up an engineering workshop in St Giles. In 1824 he was commissioned by Thomas Curson Hansard (1776–1833), who from 1803 began printing the debates in the Houses of Parliament, to make a perfecting press, i.e. one that printed on both sides of the paper. Known as the NayPeer, it was the first to incorporate grippers in order to improve register (the correct positioning of the paper on the inked type); the grippers took hold of a sheet of paper as it was fed on to the impression cylinder. Napier made several machines for Hansard, hand-powered at first but steam-powered from 1832. Napier did not patent the Nay-Peer, but in 1828 he took out a patent for a four-feeder press with a single impression cylinder, which had the then-usual "stop and start" action while the bed carrying the inked type passed to and fro beneath it. To speed output, two years later Napier patented a press with two cylinders revolving in the same direction in place of the single-stop cylinder. Also in 1830, the firm of Napier and Son introduced an improved form of bed and platen press, which became the most popular of its kind; one remained in use at Oxford University Press into the twentieth century. Another invention of Napier's, in 1825, was an automatic inking device, with which turning the rounce or mechanism for moving the type bed under the platen activated inking rollers working on the type. Napier is credited with being the first to introduce the printing machine to Ireland, for the Dublin Evening Post. His cylinder machine was the first of its kind in North America, where it was seen by Hoe and others.
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    Further Reading
    J.Moran, 1973, PrintingPresses, London: Faber \& Faber (contains details of Napier's printing machines).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Napier, David

  • 10 Stuart, James

    [br]
    b. 2 January 1843 Balgonie, Fife, Scotland
    d. 12 October 1913 Norwich, Norfolk, England
    [br]
    Scottish engineer and educator.
    [br]
    James Stuart established the teaching of engineering as a university discipline at Cambridge. He was born at Balgonie in Fife, where his father managed a linen mill. He attended the University of St Andrews and then studied mathematics at Cambridge University. In 1867 he took up a post as Assistant Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his skills as a teacher were quickly recognized. The University was at that time adapting itself to the new systems of instruction recommended by the Royal Commission on university reform in the 1850s, and Stuart took an active part in the organization of a new structure of inter-collegiate lecture courses. He made an even more significant contribution to the establishment of extramural courses from which the Cambridge University extension lecture programme developed. This began in 1867, when Stuart took adult classes in Manchester and Crewe. The latter, in particular, brought him into close contact with those involved in practical mechanics and stimulated his interest in the applied sciences. In 1875 he was elected to the newly created Chair of Mechanism and Engineering in Cambridge, and he set out energetically to recruit students and to build up a flourishing unit with its own workshop and foundry, training a new generation of engineers in the applied sciences.
    In November 1884 Stuart was elected to Parliament and embarked on an active but somewhat undistinguished career in politics as a radical Liberal, becoming amongst other things a keen supporter of the women's suffrage movement. This did not endear him to his academic colleagues, and the Engineering School suffered from neglect by Stuart until he resigned the Chair in 1890. By the time he left, however, the University was ready to recognize Engineering as a Tripos subject and to accept properly equipped teaching laboratories, so that his successor J.A. Ewing was able to benefit from Stuart's pioneering work. Stuart continued his political activities and was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1909. He married Elizabeth Colman after resigning the Chair, and on the death of his father-in-law in 1898 he moved to Norwich to take on the direction of the family mustard firm, J. \& J.Colman Ltd.
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    Further Reading
    Hilken, 1967, Engineering at Cambridge, Ch. 3, pp. 58–106.
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    Biographical history of technology > Stuart, James

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