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1 University of the West Indies
University: UWIУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > University of the West Indies
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2 University of the West Indies - Cave Hill
University: UWI-CHУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > University of the West Indies - Cave Hill
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3 West-Indië
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4 Antillas, Las
= West Indies, theEx. This article presents the results of a survey of the holdings of libraries and archival repositories in Central America and the West Indies.* * *= West Indies, theEx: This article presents the results of a survey of the holdings of libraries and archival repositories in Central America and the West Indies.
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5 länsi-intia
• the west indies• west indies -
6 Batı Hint Adaları
"the West Indies; West Indian" -
7 Vestindien
the West Indies pl; the Caribbean. -
8 îles Caraïbes
the Caribbean, the West Indies -
9 le Indie occidentali
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10 le Indie occidentali
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11 Antillas
f.pl.West Indies, WI, Antilles.* * *1 West Indies, Antilles\Grandes Antillas Greater AntillesPequeñas Antillas Lesser Antilles* * *SFPL Antilles, West Indiesel mar de las Antillas — the Caribbean, the Caribbean Sea
* * *femenino plural* * *----* Antillas, Las = West Indies, the.* * *femenino plural* * ** Antillas, Las = West Indies, the.* * *las Antillas the West IndiesCompuesto:Antillas Mayores/MenoresGreater/Lesser Antilles* * *
Antillas sustantivo femenino plural:
Antillas fpl West Indies
' Antillas' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
mar
English:
Antilles
- West Indies
- Caribbean
- west
* * *Antillas nfpllas Antillas the West Indieslas Antillas Holandesas the Dutch Antilles* * *fpl West Indies;Grandes/Pequeñas Antillas Greater/Lesser Antilles -
12 Antilles
Antilles [ɑ̃tij]plural feminine noun• les Grandes/Petites Antilles the Greater/Lesser Antilles* * *ɑ̃tijnom propre féminin plurielles Petites/Grandes Antilles — the Lesser/Greater Antilles
Phrasal Verbs:* * *ɑ̃tij nfplaux Antilles [habiter] — in the West Indies, [aller] to the West Indies
* * *Antilles ⇒ Les régions nprfpl les Antilles the West Indies; les Antilles françaises the French West Indies; les Petites/Grandes Antilles the Lesser/Greater Antilles.Antilles néerlandaises Netherlands Antilles.[ɑ̃tij] nom propre féminin plurielles Antilles the Antilles, the West Indiesles Antilles françaises/néerlandaises the French/Dutch West IndiesThe French West Indies include the overseas départements of Martinique and Guadeloupe, the latter including the islands of Désirade, Marie-Galante, Saint-Barthélemy (Saint-Barth), les Saintes and Saint-Martin. -
13 Westindien
(n); GEOG. the West Indies* * *West Indies* * *Wẹst|ịn|di|enntthe West Indies pl* * *(das) the West Indies pl* * ** * *(das) the West Indies pl -
14 zachodni
adj. 1. Geog. [brzeg] west; [rejon] western- wiatr zachodni a west a. westerly wind- będziemy płynąć w kierunku zachodnim we’ll be sailing westwards2. Polit., Socjol. Western- zachodni styl życia the way of life in the West- zachodnie wzorce Western models* * *adjzachodnia Polska — the west of Poland, western Poland
* * *a.1. geogr. (= dotyczący kierunku i strony świata) western, west; Indie Zachodnie the West Indies; Zachodni Brzeg Jordanu the West Bank; zachodnia Polska western Poland, the west of Poland.2. (= dotyczący kierunku wiatru) westerly, west; wiatr zachodni westerly (wind).3. (= dotyczący Zachodu) Western, Occidental; Berlin Zachodni West Berlin; Europa Zachodnia Western Europe; półkula zachodnia western hemisphere.The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > zachodni
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15 India
1 India* * *noun f.* * *SF* * ** * ** * *la India= India.Ex: Although university education in modern India dates back to 1856, libraries developed haphazardly and were more embellishments than an integral part of the academic programme.
* Cachemira de la India = Indian Kashmir.* * *la India India* * *
Multiple Entries:
India
india
India sustantivo femenino:
indio,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino Indian
fila india, single file
♦ Locuciones: familiar hacer el indio, to play the fool
' india' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
fila
- indio
- reserva
- autóctono
- condimento
- el
- hindú
- India
- tinta
- venir
English:
brave
- correspond
- file
- for
- guide
- India
- motherland
- originally
- Asian
- be
- cashew (nut)
- hemp
- Indian
- native
- single
* * *India nf(la) India Indialas Indias Occidentales the West Indies;las Indias Orientales the East Indies* * *:(la) India India -
16 île
île° [il]feminine noun► île flottante ( = dessert) île flottante► les îles Sous-le-Vent/du Vent the Leeward/Windward Islands* * *ilnom féminin islandPhrasal Verbs:* * *il1. nf2. îles nfpl* * *île artificielle ( pour forage) artificial island; l'île de Beauté Tourisme Corsica; île flottante Culin floating island; île de glace Sci ice island.[il] nom fémininvivre sur ou dans une île to live on an islandles îles de la mer Égée the Aegean ou Greek Islands2. (littéraire & vieilli) [colonie]les Îles the Caribbean (Islands), the West Indies3. CUISINEles îles Aléoutiennes the Aleutian Islandsles îles Anglo-Normandes the Channel Islandsles îles Australes the Tubuai ou Austral Islandsles îles Bahrayn ou Bahreïn the Bahrain ou Bahrein Islandsles îles Baléares the Balearic Islandsles îles Britanniques the British Islesles îles Canaries the Canary Islandsles îles du Cap Vert the Cape Verde Islandsles îles Carolines the Caroline Islandsl'île Christmas Christmas Islandles îles Comores the Comorosl'île d'Elbe Elbales îles Éoliennes the Aeolian Islandsles îles Falkland the Falkland Islands, the Falklandsles îles Féroé the Faeroesles îles Fidji the Fiji Islandsles îles Galapagos the Galapagos Islandsles îles Hébrides the Hebridesles îles Ioniennes the Ionian Islandsles îles Kouriles the Kuril ou Kurile Islandsles îles Maldives the Maldivesles îles Malouines the Falkland Islands, the Falklandsl'île de Man the Isle of Manles îles Mariannes the Mariana Islandsles îles Marquises the Marquesas Islandsles îles Marshall the Marshall Islandsl'île Maurice Mauritiusles îles Moluques the Molucca Islands, the Moluccasl'île du Nord North Islandl'île d'Ouessant (the Isle of) Ushantl'île de Pâques Easter Islandl'île du Prince-Édouard Prince Edward Islandl'île de la Réunion Réunion Islandles îles Salomon the Solomon Islandsl'île de Sein the Ile de Seinles îles Shetland the Shetland Islands, the Shetlandsles îles de la Sonde the Sunda Islandsles îles Sorlingues the Scilly Islandsles îles Sous-le-Vent (aux Antilles) the Netherlands (and Venezuelan) Antilles; (en Polynésie) the Leeward Islands, the Western Society Islands;l'île du Sud South Islandl'île de la Trinité Trinidadles îles Turks et Caicos the Turks and Caicos Islandsl'île Vancouver Vancouver Islandles îles du Vent (aux Antilles) the Windward Islands; (en Polynésie) the Eastern Society Islands;les îles Vierges the Virgin Islandsl'île de Wight the Isle of Wight -
17 Harrison, John
[br]b. 24 March 1693 Foulby, Yorkshire, Englandd. 24 March 1776 London, England[br]English horologist who constructed the first timekeeper of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea and invented the gridiron pendulum for temperature compensation.[br]John Harrison was the son of a carpenter and was brought up to that trade. He was largely self-taught and learned mechanics from a copy of Nicholas Saunderson's lectures that had been lent to him. With the assistance of his younger brother, James, he built a series of unconventional clocks, mainly of wood. He was always concerned to reduce friction, without using oil, and this influenced the design of his "grasshopper" escapement. He also invented the "gridiron" compensation pendulum, which depended on the differential expansion of brass and steel. The excellent performance of his regulator clocks, which incorporated these devices, convinced him that they could also be used in a sea dock to compete for the longitude prize. In 1714 the Government had offered a prize of £20,000 for a method of determining longitude at sea to within half a degree after a voyage to the West Indies. In theory the longitude could be found by carrying an accurate timepiece that would indicate the time at a known longitude, but the requirements of the Act were very exacting. The timepiece would have to have a cumulative error of no more than two minutes after a voyage lasting six weeks.In 1730 Harrison went to London with his proposal for a sea clock, supported by examples of his grasshopper escapement and his gridiron pendulum. His proposal received sufficient encouragement and financial support, from George Graham and others, to enable him to return to Barrow and construct his first sea clock, which he completed five years later. This was a large and complicated machine that was made out of brass but retained the wooden wheelwork and the grasshopper escapement of the regulator clocks. The two balances were interlinked to counteract the rolling of the vessel and were controlled by helical springs operating in tension. It was the first timepiece with a balance to have temperature compensation. The effect of temperature change on the timekeeping of a balance is more pronounced than it is for a pendulum, as two effects are involved: the change in the size of the balance; and the change in the elasticity of the balance spring. Harrison compensated for both effects by using a gridiron arrangement to alter the tension in the springs. This timekeeper performed creditably when it was tested on a voyage to Lisbon, and the Board of Longitude agreed to finance improved models. Harrison's second timekeeper dispensed with the use of wood and had the added refinement of a remontoire, but even before it was tested he had embarked on a third machine. The balance of this machine was controlled by a spiral spring whose effective length was altered by a bimetallic strip to compensate for changes in temperature. In 1753 Harrison commissioned a London watchmaker, John Jefferys, to make a watch for his own personal use, with a similar form of temperature compensation and a modified verge escapement that was intended to compensate for the lack of isochronism of the balance spring. The time-keeping of this watch was surprisingly good and Harrison proceeded to build a larger and more sophisticated version, with a remontoire. This timekeeper was completed in 1759 and its performance was so remarkable that Harrison decided to enter it for the longitude prize in place of his third machine. It was tested on two voyages to the West Indies and on both occasions it met the requirements of the Act, but the Board of Longitude withheld half the prize money until they had proof that the timekeeper could be duplicated. Copies were made by Harrison and by Larcum Kendall, but the Board still continued to prevaricate and Harrison received the full amount of the prize in 1773 only after George III had intervened on his behalf.Although Harrison had shown that it was possible to construct a timepiece of sufficient accuracy to determine longitude at sea, his solution was too complex and costly to be produced in quantity. It had, for example, taken Larcum Kendall two years to produce his copy of Harrison's fourth timekeeper, but Harrison had overcome the psychological barrier and opened the door for others to produce chronometers in quantity at an affordable price. This was achieved before the end of the century by Arnold and Earnshaw, but they used an entirely different design that owed more to Le Roy than it did to Harrison and which only retained Harrison's maintaining power.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsRoyal Society Copley Medal 1749.Bibliography1767, The Principles of Mr Harrison's Time-keeper, with Plates of the Same, London. 1767, Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by the Rev. Mr Maskelyne Under theAuthority of the Board of Longitude, London.1775, A Description Concerning Such Mechanisms as Will Afford a Nice or True Mensuration of Time, London.Further ReadingR.T.Gould, 1923, The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development, London; reprinted 1960, Holland Press.—1978, John Harrison and His Timekeepers, 4th edn, London: National Maritime Museum.H.Quill, 1966, John Harrison, the Man who Found Longitude, London. A.G.Randall, 1989, "The technology of John Harrison's portable timekeepers", Antiquarian Horology 18:145–60, 261–77.J.Betts, 1993, John Harrison London (a good short account of Harrison's work). S.Smiles, 1905, Men of Invention and Industry; London: John Murray, Chapter III. Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. IX, pp. 35–6.DV -
18 Cotton (Sea Islands)
Sea Islands is of the famous Gossypium Barbadense variety and is the finest cotton grown, having a staple of 11/2-in. to 21/4-in. in length, fine in diameter, and regular in natural twist and length. It is clean, strong and elastic, and has a silkiness possessed by no other cotton. It was formerly grown in the islands off the coast of South Carolina, in Georgia and Florida, and the crop varied from 60,000 to 100,000 bales. Since the beginning of the present century it has declined in those districts and finally ceased in 1925. Today the British West Indies are almost the sole source of supply - A small quantity being grown in Fiji from seed procured from the West Indies. The crop now averages 4,000 to 5,000 bales per annum and is slowly increasing. The islands producing the cotton now are St. Vincent, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua and the Virgin Islands.Dictionary of the English textile terms > Cotton (Sea Islands)
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19 tamarind
( INDIA)tree producing flat, beanlike pods which have become essential in Indian cooking; often made into a chutney as a dip for deep-fried snacks and the juice is used extensively in South Indian cooking♦ This is the fruit pod of trees originally from Africa, now common in Asia, India, and the West Indies. The taste is bittersweet with citrus overtones. The pulp is very sticky and difficult to work with. Common forms s old are syrups and bricks of the pulp. It is used extensively in dishes of these regions as well as in candy and drinks. Within the West Indies it has the following of a wonderful and romantic story -
20 occidentale
westernEuropa f occidentale Western Europe* * *occidentale agg. western; (spec. nei nomi geografici) west; ( da occidente) westerly: la costa occidentale, the west coast; vento occidentale, westerly (o west) wind; l'Europa occidentale, Western Europe; le Indie Occidentali, the West Indies; Africa occidentale, West Africa; paesi occidentali, western countries; la parte occidentale della città fu danneggiata da un terremoto, the western part of the city was damaged by an earthquake; civiltà occidentale, western (o occidental) civilization; avere una mentalità occidentale, to have a western mentality // all'occidentale, western-style: vestire all'occidentale, to dress in western fashion // (pol.) il blocco occidentale, the western bloc◆ s.m. e f. Westerner, Occidental.* * *[ottʃiden'tale]1. agg2. sm/f* * *[ottʃiden'tale] 1.1) [zona, costa, frontiera] western, west; [ vento] west, westerly2) pol. [mondo, potenze] Western2.sostantivo maschile e sostantivo femminile Westerner* * *occidentale/ott∫iden'tale/ ⇒ 291 [ zona, costa, frontiera] western, west; [ vento] west, westerly; Europa occidentale western Europe2 pol. [ mondo, potenze] WesternII m. e f.Westerner.
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