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1 grand

1. adjective
1) (most or very important) groß

grand finale — großes Finale; see also academic.ru/67818/slam">slam II

2) (final)

grand total — Gesamtsumme, die

3) (splendid) grandios; (conducted with solemnity, splendour, etc.) glanzvoll

4) (distinguished) vornehm

5) (dignified, lofty) erhaben; groß [Versprechungen, Pläne, Worte]; (noble, admirable) ehrwürdig

6) (coll.): (excellent) großartig
2. noun
(piano) Flügel, der

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[ɡrænd] 1. adjective
1) (splendid; magnificent: a grand procession.) großartig

2) (proud: She gives herself grand airs.) erhaben

3) (very pleasant: a grand day at the seaside.) fabelhaft

4) (highly respected: a grand old man.) bedeutend
2. noun
(a slang term for $1,000 or 1,000: I paid five grand for that car.) tausend Dollar

- grand finale
- grand jury
- grand piano
- grandstand
- grand total
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grand

[grænd]

I. adj

1. (splendid) prächtig, großartig

to make a \grand entrance einen großen Auftritt haben

to make \grand gestures ausladende Gesten machen

in \grand style in großem Stil

2. ( fam: excellent) großartig

you've done a \grand job das hast du großartig gemacht

we had a \grand time wir haben uns glänzend amüsiert

3. (of age)

\grand old age hohes Alter

he lived to the \grand old age of 97 er erreichte das gesegnete Alter von 97 Jahren

4. (important) groß, bedeutend

they think they're very \grand sie halten sich für etwas Besseres

she's always acting the \grand lady ( pej) sie spielt immer die große Dame

5. (large, far-reaching)

\grand ambitions/ideas große [o hochfliegende] Pläne/Ideen

on a \grand scale in großem Rahmen

6. (overall)

\grand total Gesamtsumme f, Endbetrag m

II. n

1.

<pl ->

( fam: one thousand dollars/pounds) Mille f fam, Riese m fam

he earns over 90 \grand a year er verdient über 90 Mille [o Riesen] im Jahr fam

2.

<pl -s>

(grand piano) Flügel m

baby/concert \grand Stutz-/Konzertflügel m

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[grnd]
1. adj (+er)

1) (= imposing) grandios; architecture, building prachtvoll, grandios; scheme, strategy groß angelegt; gesture großartig; ideas hochfliegend; person, clothes, manner vornehm; job bedeutend

grand design — groß angelegter (Gesamt)plan

on a grand scale — im großen Rahmen

to make a grand entrance —

to do sth in the grand manner — etw im großen Stil tun

to give oneself grand airs — den großen Herrn/die große Dame spielen

grand occasion — großer or feierlicher Anlass

the grand opening — die große Eröffnung

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)

to have a grand (old) time — sich glänzend or großartig amüsieren

2. n

1) (FIN inf = thousand pounds or dollars) Riese m (inf)

ten grand — zehn Riesen (inf)

2) (MUS inf = grand piano) Flügel m → also baby grand( piano)

See:

→ also baby grand (piano)

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grand [ɡrænd]

A adj (adv grandly)

1. großartig, gewaltig, grandios, imposant, eindrucksvoll, prächtig

2. (geistig etc) groß, grandios, hochfliegend (Ideen etc)

3. erhaben, würdevoll

4. (gesellschaftlich) groß, hochstehend, vornehm, distinguiert:

grand air Vornehmheit f, Würde f, bes iron Grandezza f;

put on grand airs sich aufspielen

5. umg großartig, herrlich, glänzend, prächtig:

what a grand idea!;

have a grand time sich glänzend amüsieren

6. groß, bedeutend, wichtig

7. groß (Koalition etc):

the Grand Army HIST die Grande Armée, die Große Armee (Napoleons I.);

the Grand Fleet die im 1. Weltkrieg in der Nordsee operierende englische Flotte

8. Haupt…:

grand entrance Haupteingang m;

grand staircase Haupttreppe f;

grand question Hauptfrage f;

grand total Gesamt-, Endsumme f

9. Groß…:

grand commander Großkomtur m (eines Ordens);

Grand Turk HIST Großtürke m

10. MUS groß (in Anlage, Besetzung etc)

B s

1. MUS Flügel m

2. pl grand sl Riese m (1000 Pfund oder Dollar)

G abk

1. PHYS gravitational constant

2. ELEK conductance

3. good

4. US sl grand (1000 Dollar)

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1. adjective
1) (most or very important) groß

grand finale — großes Finale; see also slam II

2) (final)

grand total — Gesamtsumme, die

3) (splendid) grandios; (conducted with solemnity, splendour, etc.) glanzvoll

4) (distinguished) vornehm

5) (dignified, lofty) erhaben; groß [Versprechungen, Pläne, Worte]; (noble, admirable) ehrwürdig

6) (coll.): (excellent) großartig
2. noun
(piano) Flügel, der

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adj.

gewaltig adj.

großartig adj.

stattlich (Gebäude etc.) adj.

English-german dictionary > grand
2 grand

ɡrænd
1. adjective
1) (splendid; magnificent: a grand procession.) magnífico, espléndido, imponente

2) (proud: She gives herself grand airs.) de grandeza

3) (very pleasant: a grand day at the seaside.) magnífico, formidable, maravilloso

4) (highly respected: a grand old man.) distinguido, respetable, venerable

2. noun
(a slang term for $1,000 or 1,000: I paid five grand for that car.) mil dólares/libras

- grand finale
- grand jury
- grand piano
- grandstand
- grand total

grand adj magnífico / espléndido

grand

tr[grænd]

adjective

1 (splendid) grandioso,-a, espléndido,-a, magnífico,-a

2 (impressive) impresionante

3 (important - person) distinguido,-a, importante

4 familiar (great) fenomenal

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

on a grand scale a gran escala

the Grand Canyon SMALLGEOGRAPHY/SMALL el Gran Cañón

grand duke gran duque nombre masculino

grand duchess gran duquesa

a grand slang (pounds) mil libras 2 (dollars) mil dólares

■ a couple of grand dos mil libras, dos mil dólares

grand jury SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL jurado de acusación

grand piano piano de cola

Grand Prix gran premio

grand staircase escalera principal

grand total total nombre masculino

grand ['grænd] adj

1) foremost: grande

2) impressive: impresionante, magnífico

a grand view: una vista magnífica

3) lavish: grandioso, suntuoso, lujoso

to live in a grand manner: vivir a lo grande

4) fabulous: fabuloso, magnífico

to have a grand time: pasarlo estupendamente, pasarlo en grande

5)

grand total : total m, suma f total

grand

adj.

• airoso, -a adj.

• espléndido, -a adj.

• gran adj.

• grande adj.

• grandioso, -a adj.

• imponente adj.

• magno, -a adj.

• magnífico, -a adj.

• noble adj.

• soberbio, -a adj.

n.

• piano de cola s.m.

I grænd
adjective -er, -est

1)

a) ( impressive) magnífico, espléndido

on a grand scale — en gran escala

b) ( ostentatious) < gesture> grandilocuente; < entrance> triunfal

c) (ambitious, lofty) < vision> grandioso; < ideal> elevado

d) ( overall) (before n, no comp) global

the grand total — el total

2)

a) (formal, ceremonial) <opening/occasion> solemne

b) ( socially important) (sing) gran (delante del n); (pl) grandes (delante del n)

3) ( very good) (colloq) <day/weather> espléndido, fabuloso

II

noun

1) ( piano) piano m de cola

baby grand — piano m de media cola

2) (pl grand) (1000 dollars, pounds) (sl)

he paid six grand for the car — el coche le costó seis mil

[ɡrænd] (compar grander) (superl grandest)
1. ADJ

1) (=impressive) [building, architecture] imponente, grandioso; [clothes] elegante; [person] distinguido

the job isn't as grand as it sounds — el trabajo no es de tanta categoría como parece

I went to a rather grand dinner — fui a una cena bastante lujosa or solemne

• to make a grand entrance — hacer una entrada solemne

• grand finale — broche m de oro

for the grand finale... — como broche de oro...

last night diplomats were preparing for the summit's grand finale — anoche los diplomáticos se preparaban para la apoteosis de la conferencia cumbre

• a grand gesture — (magnanimous) un gesto magnánimo; (ostentatious) un gesto grandilocuente

• in the grand manner — por todo lo alto

• it was a very grand occasion — fue una ocasión muy espléndida

• the grand old man of English politics — el patriarca de la política inglesa

• grand opening — apertura f solemne

• on a grand scale — a gran escala

• to do sth in grand style — hacer algo a lo grande or por todo lo alto

2) (=ambitious) [scheme, plan, design, strategy] ambicioso

3) † * (=great) [adventure, experience] maravilloso, fabuloso; [weather, day, person] estupendo

what grand weather we've been having! — ¡qué tiempo más estupendo nos ha estado haciendo!, ¡qué tiempo tan estupendo hemos tenido!

we've had some grand times together, haven't we? — nos lo hemos pasado estupendamente juntos, ¿verdad?

that's grand! — ¡fabuloso!

4) (in hotel names) gran

2. N

1) ** (=thousand)

ten grand — (Brit) diez mil libras; (US) diez mil dólares

we still need another couple of grand — aún necesitamos otras dos mil

2) (also: grand piano) piano m de cola; baby 3., 3)

3.

CPD

the Grand Canyon N — (US) el Gran Cañón del Colorado

grand duchess N — gran duquesa f

grand duchy N — gran ducado m

grand duke N — gran duque m

grand jury N — (esp US) (Jur) jurado m de acusación (que decide si hay suficiente causa para llevar a algn a juicio)

grand larceny N — (US) (Jur) hurto m de mayor cuantía

grand mal N — (Med) grand mal m

grand master N — (Chess) gran maestro m (de ajedrez)

the Grand National N — (Brit) (Horse racing) el Grand National

the Grand Old Party N — (US) mote que tiene el partido republicano de Estados Unidos desde 1880

grand opera N — gran ópera f

grand piano N — piano m de cola

Grand Prix N — Grand Prix m, Gran Premio m

grand slam N — (Sport) gran slam m

to win the grand slam — ganar el gran slam

grand total N — total m

a grand total of £50 — un total de 50 libras

grand tour N — hum (=trip) recorrido m de rigor hum

we'll give you a grand tour of the house — te haremos el recorrido de rigor por la casa

the Grand Tour N — (Hist) la gran gira europea

grand vizier N — (Hist) gran visir m
GRAND JURY En el sistema legal estadounidense, un grand jury es un jurado de consulta que decide si debe acusarse a una persona de un delito y llevarla a juicio. Este jurado está compuesto por un número de miembros que oscila entre doce y veintitrés, y normalmente llevan a cabo sus reuniones en secreto. El grand jury tiene autoridad para citar a testigos a prestar declaración. Además del grand jury, existe en la legislación americana otro jurado llamado trial jury (jurado de juicio) o petit jury, compuesto de doce miembros, cuya función es la de determinar la inocencia o culpabilidad del acusado ante el tribunal.
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I [grænd]
adjective -er, -est

1)

a) ( impressive) magnífico, espléndido

on a grand scale — en gran escala

b) ( ostentatious) < gesture> grandilocuente; < entrance> triunfal

c) (ambitious, lofty) < vision> grandioso; < ideal> elevado

d) ( overall) (before n, no comp) global

the grand total — el total

2)

a) (formal, ceremonial) <opening/occasion> solemne

b) ( socially important) (sing) gran (delante del n); (pl) grandes (delante del n)

3) ( very good) (colloq) <day/weather> espléndido, fabuloso

II

noun

1) ( piano) piano m de cola

baby grand — piano m de media cola

2) (pl grand) (1000 dollars, pounds) (sl)

he paid six grand for the car — el coche le costó seis mil

English-spanish dictionary > grand
3 grand

Adj

1. बड़ा

The opening ceremony was a grand show.

English-Hindi dictionary > grand
4 improve the occasion

( improve the occasion (или the opportunity))

воспользоваться случаем, использовать удобный случай, улучить момент (тж. improve each (или the) shining hour) [выражение improve each shining hour создано поэтом И. Уоттсом (I. Watts, 1674-1748):

How does the little busy bee

Improve each shining hour,

And gather honey all the day

From every opening flower. (‘Divine Songs for Children’, ‘Against Idleness and Mischief’, 1720)]

It was in my mind to improve the occasion, but I remembered in time that she has no mother, and is our guest, so I only said: ‘You know, dear Hatty, Timothy does not like his books touched.’ (J. Galsworthy, ‘On Forsyte 'Change’ ‘Timothy's Narrow Squeak’) — я подумала было о том, чтобы отчитать Хэтти, но вовремя вспомнила, что у нее нет матери и что она наша гостья, и сказала только: - Знаете ли, Хэтти, Тимоти не любит, когда трогают его книги.

He... made himself charming with her father and mother and improved the shining hours by tapping Theron Wynne for information on the Wynne Company coal and timber resources. (J. O'Hara, ‘The Lockwood Concern’, book I) — Джордж Локвуд... старался очаровать родителей Агнессы и между прочим не упустил возможности вытянуть у Терона Уинна сведения о запасах угля и леса, которыми располагала компания Уинна.

She was something of a grand dame and, what made it worse, spoke like one. Apparently she had improved the occasion, soon after she got to the party, by announcing to Irene: ‘I think it's so sensible of people to think out how to entertain, and strike out for themselves. If they can't give dinner-parties, why shouldn't they give bits and pieces afterwards?’ (C. P. Snow, ‘The Affair’, ch. V) — Миссис Скеффингтон почитала себя гранд-дамой и, что еще хуже, разговаривала на манер гранд-дамы. Войдя в гостиную, она очень скоро нашла случай блеснуть, заявив Айрин: - я полагаю большим достоинством умение оригинально принять гостей. Если вы не в состоянии устраивать обеды, почему бы, право, не подать после приема кой-какую закуску?

Large English-Russian phrasebook > improve the occasion
5 inaugurate

1. v торжественно вводить в должность

to inaugurate the President — торжественно вводить президента в должность

2. v являться началом, знаменовать

to inaugurate a new era — ознаменовать новую эру

3. v торжественно отмечать начало; открывать

Синонимический ряд:

1. begin (verb) approach; begin; commence; embark; embark on; embark upon; enter; get off; jump off; kick off; lead off; open; set out; set to; take on; take up; tee off

2. initiate (verb) celebrate the grand opening; found; induct; initiate; install; instate; institute; introduce; invest; launch; originate; set up; start; undertake; usher in

Антонимический ряд:

conclude; impeach

English-Russian base dictionary > inaugurate
6 state

state [steɪt]

état ⇒ 1 (a) État ⇒ 1 (b), 1 (c) d'État, de l'État ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (b) officiel ⇒ 2 (c) déclarer ⇒ 3 formuler ⇒ 3

1 noun

(a) (condition) état m;

∎ the country is in a state of war/shock le pays est en état de guerre/choc;

∎ a state of confusion prevailed la confusion régnait;

∎ he was in a state of confusion il ne savait plus où il en était;

∎ he was in a state of panic il a été pris de panique;

∎ she was in a state of terror elle était terrifiée;

∎ the married state le mariage;

∎ the single state le célibat;

∎ chlorine in its gaseous/liquid state le chlore à l'état gazeux/liquide;

∎ to be in a good/bad state (road, carpet, car) être en bon/mauvais état; (person, economy, friendship) aller bien/mal;

∎ the house was in a good/poor state of repair la maison était en bon/mauvais état;

∎ to be in a terrible state (person → emotionally) être dans tous ses états; (→ physically) être dans un état lamentable; (room, papers) être sens dessus dessous;

∎ she was in no (fit) state to make a decision elle était hors d'état de ou elle n'était pas en état de prendre une décision;

∎ the car's not in a state to be driven la voiture n'est pas en état de rouler;

∎ what's the current state of play? où en sont-ils?;

∎ what's the current state of play on the project? où en est le projet?;

∎ familiar to get into a state se mettre dans tous ses états;

∎ he gets into an awful state if I don't phone si je ne lui téléphone pas, il se met dans tous ses états;

∎ there's no need to get into such a state about it ce n'est pas la peine de te mettre dans un état pareil

(b) Politics (nation, body politic) État m;

∎ a state within a state un État dans l'État;

∎ the member states les États membres;

∎ the head of state le chef de l'État;

∎ heads of state chefs mpl d'État;

∎ the separation of (the) Church and (the) State la séparation de l'Église et de l'État

(c) (in US, Australia, India etc → political division) État m;

∎ familiar the States les États-Unis^□, les US;

∎ the State of Ohio l'État de l'Ohio

(d) (pomp) apparat m, pompe f;

∎ he was in his robes of state il était en costume d'apparat

(e) archaic (social position, estate) état m

2 adjective

(a) (government → secret) d'État; (→ subsidy, intervention, pension) de l'État; Economics (→ sector) public; (→ airline, funeral) national

(b) American (not federal → legislature, policy, law) de l'État;

∎ the state capital la capitale de l'État;

∎ a state university une université d'État ou publique;

∎ the Michigan State team l'équipe de l'État du Michigan;

∎ a state park un parc régional;

∎ American to turn state's evidence or state's witness = témoigner contre ses complices en échange d'une remise de peine

(c) (official, ceremonious → ball, dinner, visit) officiel; (→ coach, carriage) d'apparat;

∎ state occasion cérémonie f officielle;

∎ the State Opening of Parliament = l'ouverture officielle du Parlement britannique en présence du souverain

3 transitive verb

(utter, say) déclarer; (express, formulate → intentions) déclarer; (→ demands) formuler; (→ proposition, problem, conclusions, views) énoncer, formuler; (→ conditions) poser;

∎ the president stated emphatically that the rumours were untrue le président a démenti catégoriquement les rumeurs;

∎ I have already stated my position on that issue j'ai déjà fait connaître ma position à ce sujet;

∎ I have stated my opinion j'ai donné mon opinion;

∎ we state the current figures on page five les chiffres actuels sont donnés en page cinq;

∎ the regulations clearly state that daily checks must be made le règlement dit ou indique clairement que des vérifications quotidiennes doivent être effectuées;

∎ please state salary expectations veuillez indiquer le salaire souhaité;

∎ state your name and address donnez vos nom, prénoms et adresse;

∎ the man refused to state his business l'homme a refusé d'expliquer ce qu'il voulait;

∎ as stated above comme indiqué plus haut;

∎ state the figure as a percentage exprimez ou indiquez le chiffre en pourcentage;

∎ to state one's case présenter ses arguments;

∎ Law to state the case for the defence/the prosecution présenter le dossier de la défense/de l'accusation

4 State noun

American (department) le Département d'État

5 in state adverb

en grand apparat, en grande pompe;

∎ to travel in state voyager en grand apparat;

∎ to dine in state dîner en grande pompe;

∎ to lie in state être exposé solennellement;

∎ to live in state mener grand train

►► state of affairs circonstances fpl actuelles;

∎ nothing can be done in the present state of affairs vu les circonstances actuelles, on ne peut rien faire;

∎ this is an appalling state of affairs c'est une situation épouvantable;

∎ ironic this is a fine state of affairs! c'est du propre!;

state apartments appartements mpl de parade;

state of the art (of procedures, systems) ce qui se fait de mieux;

∎ the state of the art in linguistics l'état actuel des connaissances en linguistique;

state attorney procureur m;

American state bank banque f de dépôt (agréée par un État);

state buildings bâtiments mpl publics;

state capitalism capitalisme m d'État;

state church église f d'État;

state control contrôle m étatique; (doctrine) étatisme m;

∎ to be put or placed under state control être nationalisé;

∎ state control of the means of communication nationalisation f des moyens de communication;

American State Department ministère m des Affaires étrangères;

state of emergency état m d'urgence;

∎ a state of emergency has been declared l'état d'urgence a été déclaré;

British State Enrolled Nurse aide-soignant m diplômé, aide-soignante f diplômée;

History States General États généraux mpl;

American state line frontière f entre États;

American state lottery loterie f d'État;

state of mind état m d'esprit;

∎ in your present state of mind dans l'état d'esprit qui est le vôtre;

∎ success is just a state of mind la réussite n'est qu'un état d'esprit;

∎ is he in a better state of mind? est-ce qu'il est dans de meilleures dispositions?;

state pension pension f de l'État;

state police police f de l'État;

American state prison prison f d'État (pour les longues peines);

British State Registered Nurse infirmier m diplômé, infirmière f diplômée (remplacé en 1992 par "Registered Nurse");

American states' rights = principe selon lequel, si la constitution des États-Unis n'octroie ni ne refuse un pouvoir à un État particulier, ce pouvoir appartient de fait à l'État et non au gouvernement fédéral;

British state school école f publique;

British state sector secteur m public;

state socialism socialisme m d'État;

State Supreme Court = instance judiciaire suprême dans chaque État américain;

the state system (education) le public, l'enseignement m public;

American state trooper ≃ gendarme m;

State of the Union address discours m sur l'état de l'Union;

Politics state visit visite f officielle;

∎ he's on a state visit to Japan il est en visite officielle ou voyage officiel au Japon

ⓘ STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS Ce discours radiotélévisé, dans lequel le président des États-Unis dresse le bilan de son programme et en définit les orientations, est prononcé devant le Congrès. L'allocution présidentielle a lieu tous les ans en janvier.

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7 Edison, Thomas Alva

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

[br]

b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA

d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont

[br]

American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.

Further Reading

M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.

R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.

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8 Stephenson, George

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, England

d. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England

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English engineer, "the father of railways".

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George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.

In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.

In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.

It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.

During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.

In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.

On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.

At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.

In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.

The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.

Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.

Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.

Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.

He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.

Bibliography

1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).

1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).

Further Reading

L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).

S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).

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Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, George
9 Vignoles, Charles Blacker

SUBJECT AREA: Land transport, Railways and locomotives

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b. 31 May 1793 Woodbrook, Co. Wexford, Ireland

d. 17 November 1875 Hythe, Hampshire, England

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English surveyor and civil engineer, pioneer of railways.

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Vignoles, who was of Huguenot descent, was orphaned in infancy and brought up in the family of his grandfather, Dr Charles Hutton FRS, Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. After service in the Army he travelled to America, arriving in South Carolina in 1817. He was appointed Assistant to the state's Civil Engineer and surveyed much of South Carolina and subsequently Florida. After his return to England in 1823 he established himself as a civil engineer in London, and obtained work from the brothers George and John Rennie.

In 1825 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) lost their application for an Act of Parliament, discharged their engineer George Stephenson and appointed the Rennie brothers in his place. They in turn employed Vignoles to resurvey the railway, taking a route that would minimize objections. With Vignoles's route, the company obtained its Act in 1826 and appointed Vignoles to supervise the start of construction. After Stephenson was reappointed Chief Engineer, however, he and Vignoles proved incompatible, with the result that Vignoles left the L \& MR early in 1827.

Nevertheless, Vignoles did not sever all connection with the L \& MR. He supported John Braithwaite and John Ericsson in the construction of the locomotive Novelty and was present when it competed in the Rainhill Trials in 1829. He attended the opening of the L \& MR in 1830 and was appointed Engineer to two railways which connected with it, the St Helens \& Runcorn Gap and the Wigan Branch (later extended to Preston as the North Union); he supervised the construction of these.

After the death of the Engineer to the Dublin \& Kingstown Railway, Vignoles supervised construction: the railway, the first in Ireland, was opened in 1834. He was subsequently employed in surveying and constructing many railways in the British Isles and on the European continent; these included the Eastern Counties, the Midland Counties, the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyme \& Manchester (which proved for him a financial disaster from which he took many years to recover), and the Waterford \& Limerick. He probably discussed rail of flat-bottom section with R.L. Stevens during the winter of 1830–1 and brought it into use in the UK for the first time in 1836 on the London \& Croydon Railway: subsequently rail of this section became known as "Vignoles rail". He considered that a broader gauge than 4 ft 8½ in. (1.44 m) was desirable for railways, although most of those he built were to this gauge so that they might connect with others. He supported the atmospheric system of propulsion during the 1840s and was instrumental in its early installation on the Dublin \& Kingstown Railway's Dalkey extension. Between 1847 and 1853 he designed and built the noted multi-span suspension bridge at Kiev, Russia, over the River Dnieper, which is more than half a mile (800 m) wide at that point.

Between 1857 and 1863 he surveyed and then supervised the construction of the 155- mile (250 km) Tudela \& Bilbao Railway, which crosses the Cantabrian Pyrenees at an altitude of 2,163 ft (659 m) above sea level. Vignoles outlived his most famous contemporaries to become the grand old man of his profession.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society 1829. FRS 1855. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1869–70.

Bibliography

1830, jointly with John Ericsson, British patent no. 5,995 (a device to increase the capability of steam locomotives on grades, in which rollers gripped a third rail).

1823, Observations upon the Floridas, New York: Bliss \& White.

1870, Address on His Election as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Further Reading

K.H.Vignoles, 1982, Charles Blacker Vignoles: Romantic Engineer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (good modern biography by his great-grandson).

See also: Samuda, Joseph d'Aguilar

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Biographical history of technology > Vignoles, Charles Blacker
10 champagne

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1. शैम्पेन/एक\champagneप्रकार\champagneकी\champagneचमकीली\champagneमदिरा

The Grand Prix champion celebrated his victory by opening the champagne bottle.

English-Hindi dictionary > champagne
11 open

open ['əʊpən]

ouvert ⇒ 1 (a)-(d), 1 (n), 1 (o), 1 (q)-(s) découvert ⇒ 1 (e) dégagé ⇒ 1 (g) vacant ⇒ 1 (h) libre ⇒ 1 (h) non résolu ⇒ 1 (k) franc ⇒ 1 (n) ouvrir ⇒ 2 (a)-(g), 3 (d) déboucher ⇒ 2 (a) commencer ⇒ 2 (e), 3 (e) engager ⇒ 2 (e) dégager ⇒ 2 (g) s'ouvrir ⇒ 3 (a)-(c)

1 adjective

(a) (not shut → window, cupboard, suitcase, jar, box, sore, valve) ouvert;

∎ her eyes were slightly open/wide open ses yeux étaient entrouverts/grands ouverts;

∎ he kicked the door open il a ouvert la porte d'un coup de pied;

∎ the panels slide open les panneaux s'ouvrent en coulissant;

∎ to smash/lever sth open ouvrir qch en le fracassant/à l'aide d'un levier;

∎ I can't get the bottle open je n'arrive pas à ouvrir la bouteille;

∎ there's a bottle already open in the fridge il y a une bouteille entamée dans le frigo;

∎ you won't need the key, the door's open tu n'auras pas besoin de la clef, la porte est ouverte

(b) (not fastened → coat, fly, packet) ouvert;

∎ his shirt was open to the waist sa chemise était ouverte ou déboutonnée jusqu'à la ceinture;

∎ his shirt was open at the neck le col de sa chemise était ouvert;

∎ her blouse hung open son chemisier était déboutonné;

∎ the wrapping had been torn open l'emballage avait été arraché ou déchiré

(c) (spread apart, unfolded → arms, book, magazine, umbrella) ouvert; (→ newspaper) ouvert, déplié; (→ legs, knees) écarté;

∎ the book lay open at page 6 le livre était ouvert à la page 6;

∎ I dropped the coin into his open hand or palm j'ai laissé tomber la pièce de monnaie dans le creux de sa main;

∎ the seams had split open les coutures avaient craqué;

∎ he ran into my open arms il s'est précipité dans mes bras

(d) (for business) ouvert;

∎ I couldn't find a bank open je n'ai pas pu trouver une banque qui soit ouverte;

∎ are you open on Saturdays? ouvrez-vous le samedi?;

∎ we're open for business as usual nous sommes ouverts comme à l'habitude;

∎ open to the public (museum etc) ouvert ou accessible au public;

∎ open late ouvert en nocturne

(e) (not covered → carriage, wagon, bus) découvert; (→ car) décapoté; (→ grave) ouvert; (→ boat) ouvert, non ponté; (→ courtyard, sewer) à ciel ouvert;

∎ the passengers sat on the open deck les passagers étaient assis sur le pont;

∎ the wine should be left open to breathe il faut laisser la bouteille ouverte pour que le vin puisse respirer

(f) (not enclosed → hillside, plain)

∎ the shelter was open on three sides l'abri était ouvert sur trois côtés;

∎ the hill was open to the elements la colline était exposée à tous les éléments;

∎ our neighbourhood lacks open space notre quartier manque d'espaces verts;

∎ the wide open spaces of Texas les grands espaces du Texas;

∎ shanty towns sprang up on every scrap of open ground des bidonvilles ont surgi sur la moindre parcelle de terrain vague;

∎ they were attacked in open country ils ont été attaqués en rase campagne;

∎ open countryside stretched away to the horizon la campagne s'étendait à perte de vue;

∎ open grazing land pâturages mpl non clôturés;

∎ ahead lay a vast stretch of open water au loin s'étendait une vaste étendue d'eau;

∎ in the open air en plein air;

∎ nothing beats life in the open air il n'y a rien de mieux que la vie au grand air;

∎ he took to the open road il a pris la route;

∎ it'll do 150 on the open road elle monte à 150 sur l'autoroute;

∎ the open sea la haute mer, le large

(g) (unobstructed → road, passage) dégagé; (→ mountain pass) ouvert, praticable; (→ waterway) ouvert à la navigation; (→ view) dégagé;

∎ only one lane on the bridge is open il n'y a qu'une voie ouverte à la circulation sur le pont

(h) (unoccupied, available → job) vacant; (→ period of time) libre;

∎ we have two positions open nous avons deux postes à pourvoir;

∎ I'll keep this Friday open for you je vous réserverai ce vendredi;

∎ she likes to keep her weekends open elle préfère ne pas faire de projets pour le week-end;

∎ it's the only course of action open to us c'est la seule chose que nous puissions faire;

∎ she used every opportunity open to her elle a profité de toutes les occasions qui se présentaient à elle;

∎ he wants to keep his options open il ne veut pas s'engager

(i) (unrestricted → competition) ouvert (à tous); (→ meeting, trial) public; (→ society) ouvert, démocratique;

∎ the contest is not open to company employees le concours n'est pas ouvert au personnel de la société;

∎ club membership is open to anyone aucune condition particulière n'est requise pour devenir membre du club;

∎ a career open to very few une carrière accessible à très peu de gens ou très fermée;

∎ there are few positions of responsibility open to immigrants les immigrés ont rarement accès aux postes de responsabilité;

∎ the field is wide open for someone with your talents pour quelqu'un d'aussi doué que vous, ce domaine offre des possibilités quasi illimitées;

∎ to extend an open invitation to sb inviter qn à venir chez soi quand il le souhaite;

∎ it's an open invitation to tax-dodgers/thieves c'est une invitation à la fraude fiscale/aux voleurs;

∎ American familiar Reno was a pretty open town in those days à cette époque, Reno était aux mains des hors-la-loi^□ ;

∎ they have an open marriage ils forment un couple très libre

(j) (unprotected, unguarded → flank, fire) ouvert; (→ wiring) non protégé;

∎ the two countries share miles of open border les deux pays sont séparés par des kilomètres de frontière non matérialisée;

∎ Sport he missed an open goal il n'y avait pas de défenseurs, et il a raté le but;

∎ to lay oneself open to criticism prêter le flanc à la critique

(k) (undecided → question) non résolu, non tranché;

∎ the election is still wide open l'élection n'est pas encore jouée;

∎ it's still an open question whether he'll resign or not on ne sait toujours pas s'il va démissionner;

∎ I prefer to leave the matter open je préfère laisser cette question en suspens;

∎ he wanted to leave the date open il n'a pas voulu fixer de date

(l) (liable)

∎ his speech is open to misunderstanding son discours peut prêter à confusion;

∎ the prices are not open to negotiation les prix ne sont pas négociables;

∎ the plan is open to modification le projet n'a pas encore été finalisé;

∎ it's open to debate whether she knew about it or not on peut se demander si elle était au courant;

∎ open to doubt douteux

(m) (receptive)

∎ to be open to suggestions être ouvert aux suggestions;

∎ I don't want to go but I'm open to persuasion je ne veux pas y aller mais je pourrais me laisser persuader;

∎ I try to keep an open mind about such things j'essaie de ne pas avoir de préjugés sur ces questions;

∎ open to any reasonable offer disposé à considérer toute offre raisonnable

(n) (candid → person, smile, countenance) ouvert, franc (franche); (→ discussion) franc (franche);

∎ let's be open with each other soyons francs l'un avec l'autre;

∎ they weren't very open about their intentions ils se sont montrés assez discrets en ce qui concerne leurs intentions;

∎ he is open about his homosexuality il ne cache pas son homosexualité

(o) (blatant → contempt, criticism, conflict, disagreement) ouvert; (→ attempt) non dissimulé; (→ scandal) public; (→ rivalry) déclaré;

∎ her open dislike son aversion déclarée;

∎ the country is in a state of open civil war le pays est en état de véritable guerre civile;

∎ they are in open revolt ils sont en révolte ouverte;

∎ they acted in open violation of the treaty ce qu'ils ont fait constitue une violation flagrante du traité;

∎ they showed an open disregard for the law ils ont fait preuve d'un manque de respect flagrant face à la loi;

∎ it's an open admission of guilt cela équivaut à un aveu

(p) (loose → weave) lâche

(q) Sport (play → free-flowing) ouvert, dégagé

(r) Linguistics (vowel, syllable) ouvert

(s) Electricity (circuit) ouvert

(t) British Finance (cheque) non barré

(u) Music (string) à vide

2 transitive verb

(a) (window, lock, shop, eyes, border) ouvrir; (wound) rouvrir; (bottle, can) ouvrir, déboucher; (wine) déboucher;

∎ open quotations or inverted commas ouvrez les guillemets;

∎ she opened her eyes very wide elle ouvrit grand les yeux, elle écarquilla les yeux;

∎ they plan to open the border to refugees ils projettent d'ouvrir la frontière aux réfugiés;

∎ Photography open the aperture one more stop ouvrez d'un diaphragme de plus;

∎ figurative to open one's heart to sb se confier à qn;

∎ we must open our minds to new ideas nous devons être ouverts aux idées nouvelles

(b) (unfasten → coat, envelope, gift, collar) ouvrir

(c) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, penknife, arms, hand) ouvrir; (→ newspaper) ouvrir, déplier; (→ legs, knees) écarter

(d) (pierce → hole) percer; (→ breach) ouvrir; (→ way, passage) ouvrir, frayer;

∎ to open a road through the jungle ouvrir une route à travers la jungle;

∎ the agreement opens the way for peace l'accord va mener à la paix

(e) (start → campaign, discussion, account, trial) ouvrir, commencer; (→ negotiations) ouvrir, engager; (→ conversation) engager, entamer; Banking & Finance (→ account, loan) ouvrir;

∎ her new film opened the festival son dernier film a ouvert le festival;

∎ to open a file on sb ouvrir un dossier sur qn;

∎ to open fire (on or at sb) ouvrir le feu (sur qn);

∎ to open the bidding (in bridge) ouvrir (les enchères);

∎ to open the betting (in poker) lancer les enchères;

∎ Finance to open a line of credit ouvrir un crédit;

∎ to open Parliament ouvrir la session du Parlement;

∎ Law to open the case exposer les faits

(f) (set up → shop, business) ouvrir; (inaugurate → hospital, airport, library) ouvrir, inaugurer

(g) (clear, unblock → road, lane, passage) dégager; (→ mountain pass) ouvrir

3 intransitive verb

(a) (door, window) (s')ouvrir; (suitcase, valve, padlock, eyes) s'ouvrir;

∎ the window opens outwards la fenêtre (s')ouvre vers l'extérieur;

∎ open wide! ouvrez grand!;

∎ to open, press down and twist pour ouvrir, appuyez et tournez;

∎ both rooms open onto the corridor les deux chambres donnent ou ouvrent sur le couloir;

∎ figurative the heavens opened and we got drenched il s'est mis à tomber des trombes d'eau et on s'est fait tremper

(b) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ bud, leaf) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir;

∎ a new life opened before her une nouvelle vie s'ouvrait devant elle

(c) (gape → chasm) s'ouvrir

(d) (for business) ouvrir;

∎ what time do you open on Sundays? à quelle heure ouvrez-vous le dimanche?;

∎ the doors open at 8 p.m. les portes ouvrent à 20 heures;

∎ to open late ouvrir en nocturne

(e) (start → campaign, meeting, discussion, concert, play, story) commencer;

∎ the book opens with a murder le livre commence par un meurtre;

∎ the hunting season opens in September la chasse ouvre en septembre;

∎ she opened with a statement of the association's goals elle commença par une présentation des buts de l'association;

∎ the film opens next week le film sort la semaine prochaine;

∎ Theatre when are you opening? quand aura lieu la première?;

∎ when it opened on Broadway, the play flopped lorsqu'elle est sortie à Broadway, la pièce a fait un four;

∎ the Dow Jones opened at 2461 le Dow Jones a ouvert à 2461;

∎ to open with two clubs (in bridge) ouvrir de deux trèfles

4 noun

(a) (outdoors, open air)

∎ (out) in the open (gen) en plein air, dehors; (in countryside) au grand air;

∎ eating (out) in the open gives me an appetite manger au grand air me donne de l'appétit;

∎ to sleep in the open dormir à la belle étoile

(b) (public eye)

∎ to bring sth (out) into the open exposer ou étaler qch au grand jour;

∎ the riot brought the instability of the regime out into the open l'émeute a révélé l'instabilité du régime;

∎ the conflict finally came out into the open le conflit a finalement éclaté au grand jour

(c) Sport open m;

∎ the British Open (golf) l'open m ou le tournoi open de Grande-Bretagne;

∎ the French Open (tennis) Roland-Garros

►► Banking open account compte m ouvert;

open bar buvette f gratuite, bar m gratuit;

Banking open cheque chèque m ouvert ou non barré;

Military & Politics open city ville f ouverte;

School open classroom classe f primaire à activités libres;

Stock Exchange open contract position f ouverte;

Finance open credit crédit m à découvert;

British open day journée f portes ouvertes;

Economics open economy économie f ouverte;

open house American (open day) journée f portes ouvertes; (party) grande fête f;

∎ British to keep open house tenir table ouverte;

open inquiry enquête f publique;

British open learning enseignement m à la carte (par correspondance ou à temps partiel);

open letter lettre f ouverte;

∎ an open letter to the President une lettre ouverte au Président;

open market marché m libre;

∎ to buy sth on the open market acheter qch sur le marché libre;

∎ Stock Exchange to buy shares on the open market acheter des actions en Bourse;

open mike = période pendant laquelle les clients d'un café-théâtre ou d'un bar peuvent chanter ou raconter des histoires drôles au micro;

open mesh mailles fpl lâches;

Stock Exchange open money market marché m libre des capitaux;

Stock Exchange open outcry criée f;

Stock Exchange open outcry system système m de criée;

open pattern motif m aéré;

Insurance open policy police f flottante;

Stock Exchange open position position f ouverte;

American Politics open primary = élection primaire américaine ouverte aux non-inscrits d'un parti;

open prison prison f ouverte;

open sandwich (gen) tartine f; (cocktail food) canapé m;

open season saison f;

∎ the open season for hunting la saison de la chasse;

∎ figurative the tabloid papers have declared open season on the private lives of rock stars les journaux à scandale se sont mis à traquer les stars du rock dans leur vie privée;

Aviation & Theatre open seating places fpl non réservées;

British open secret secret m de Polichinelle;

∎ it's an open secret that Alison will get the job c'est Alison qui aura le poste, ce n'est un secret pour personne;

open sesame

1 exclamation

sésame, ouvre-toi!

2 noun

British (means to success) sésame m;

∎ good A level results aren't necessarily an open sesame to university de bons résultats aux "A levels" n'ouvrent pas forcément la porte de l'université;

Industry open shop British (open to non-union members) = entreprise ne pratiquant pas le monopole d'embauche; American (with no union) établissement m sans syndicat;

open ticket billet m open;

Sport open tournament (tournoi m) open m;

British Open University = enseignement universitaire par correspondance doublé d'émissions de télévision ou de radio;

Law open verdict verdict m de décès sans cause déterminée

➲ open out

1 intransitive verb

(a) (unfold → bud, petals) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir; (→ parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ sail) se gonfler;

∎ the sofa opens out into a bed le canapé est convertible en lit;

∎ the doors open out onto a terrace les portes donnent ou s'ouvrent sur une terrasse

(b) (lie → vista, valley) s'étendre, s'ouvrir;

∎ miles of wheatfields opened out before us des champs de blé s'étendaient devant nous à perte de vue

(c) (widen → path, stream) s'élargir;

∎ the river opens out into a lake la rivière se jette dans un lac;

∎ the trail finally opens out onto a plateau la piste débouche sur un plateau

(d) British figurative (become less reserved) s'ouvrir;

∎ he opened out after a few drinks quelques verres ont suffi à le faire sortir de sa réserve

2 separable transitive verb

(unfold → newspaper, deck chair, fan) ouvrir;

∎ the peacock opened out its tail le paon a fait la roue

➲ open up

1 intransitive verb

(a) (unlock the door) ouvrir;

∎ open up or I'll call the police! ouvrez, sinon j'appelle la police!;

∎ open up in there! ouvrez, là-dedans!

(b) (become available → possibility) s'ouvrir;

∎ we may have a position opening up in May il se peut que nous ayons un poste disponible en mai;

∎ new markets are opening up de nouveaux marchés sont en train de s'ouvrir

(c) (for business → shop, branch etc) (s')ouvrir;

∎ a new hotel opens up every week un nouvel hôtel ouvre ses portes chaque semaine

(d) (start firing → guns) faire feu, tirer; (→ troops, person) ouvrir le feu, se mettre à tirer

(e) (become less reserved → person) s'ouvrir; (→ discussion) s'animer;

∎ he won't open up even to me il ne s'ouvre pas, même à moi;

∎ he needs to open up about his feelings il a besoin de dire ce qu'il a sur le cœur ou de s'épancher;

∎ I got her to open up about her doubts j'ai réussi à la convaincre de me faire part de ses doutes

(f) (become interesting) devenir intéressant;

∎ things are beginning to open up in my field of research ça commence à bouger dans mon domaine de recherche;

∎ the game opened up in the last half le match est devenu plus ouvert après la mi-temps

2 separable transitive verb

(a) (crate, gift, bag, tomb) ouvrir;

∎ we're opening up the summer cottage this weekend nous ouvrons la maison de campagne ce week-end;

∎ the sleeping bag will dry faster if you open it up le sac de couchage séchera plus vite si tu l'ouvres

(b) (for business) ouvrir;

∎ each morning, Lucy opened up the shop chaque matin, Lucy ouvrait la boutique;

∎ he wants to open up a travel agency il veut ouvrir une agence de voyages

(c) (for development → isolated region) désenclaver; (→ quarry, oilfield) ouvrir, commencer l'exploitation de; (→ new markets) ouvrir;

∎ irrigation will open up new land for agriculture l'irrigation permettra la mise en culture de nouvelles terres;

∎ the airport opened up the island for tourism l'aéroport a ouvert l'île au tourisme;

∎ a discovery which opens up new fields of research une découverte qui crée de nouveaux domaines de recherche;

∎ the policy opened up possibilities for closer cooperation la politique a créé les conditions d'une coopération plus étroite

(d) familiar (accelerate)

∎ he opened it or her up il a accéléré à fond

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12 wide

wide

A adj

1 ( broad) [river, opening, mouth] large ; [margin] grand ; how wide is your garden? quelle est la largeur de votre jardin? ; it's 30 cm wide il a 30 cm de large ; the river is 1 km across at its widest le fleuve a 1 km de large au point le plus large ; they're making the street wider ils élargissent la rue ; her eyes were wide with fear ses yeux étaient agrandis par la peur ;

2 ( immense) [ocean, desert, sky] vaste ; he had no-one to talk to in the whole wide world il n'avait personne à qui parler en ce monde ;

3 ( extensive) [variety, choice] grand ; [market] vaste ; a woman of wide interests une femme qui s'intéresse à beaucoup de choses ; a wide range of products une vaste gamme de produits ; a wide range of opinions/interests une grande variété d'opinions/de centres d'intérêt ; in the wide European context dans le plus vaste contexte européen ; in the widest sense of the word au sens le plus large du mot ;

4 Sport [ball, shot] perdu.

B adv to open one's eyes wide ouvrir grand les yeux ; his eyes are (set) wide apart il a les yeux très écartés ; open wide! ouvrez grand la bouche! ; to be wide of the mark [ball, dart] être à côté ; fig [guess] être loin de la vérité.

C - wide (dans composés) a countrywide search une recherche menée dans tout le pays ; a nationwide survey un sondage à l'échelle nationale.

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13 state

state ⇒ US states

A n

1 ( condition) état m ; state of health/mind état de santé/d'esprit ; look at the state of the kitchen! regarde un peu l'état de la cuisine! ; what state is the car in? dans quel état est la voiture? ; she left the house in a terrible state (untidy, dirty) elle a laissé la maison dans un état épouvantable ; the present state of affairs l'état actuel des choses ; my financial state ma situation financière ; a shocking/odd state of affairs une situation scandaleuse/très étrange ; to be in a good/bad state être en bon/mauvais état ; in a good/bad state of repair bien/mal entretenu ; in a poor state of health en mauvaise santé ; he's in a confused state of mind il ne sait plus où il en est ; to be in no state to do ne pas être en état de faire ; he's not in a fit state to drive il n'est pas en état de conduire ; in a liquid/solid state à l'état liquide/solide ; a state of alert/emergency/siege/war un état d'alerte/d'urgence/de siège/de guerre ; a state of chaos/crisis/shock un état chaotique/de crise/de choc ; to be in a state of despair être au désespoir ; what's the state of play? gen où en êtes-vous? ; ( in match) où en est le match? ; ( in negotiations) où en sont les négociations? ;

2 Pol ( nation) ( also State) État m ; the State of Israel l'État d'Israël ; the Baltic States les États baltes ; to be a state within a state former un État dans l'État ;

3 Admin, Geog (region, area) État m ; the state of Kansas l'État du Kansas, le Kansas ;

4 Pol ( government) État m ; the State l'État ; matters ou affairs of state les affaires de l'État ; Church and State l'Église et l'État ;

5 ( ceremonial) pompe f ; in state en grande pompe, en grand apparat ; to live in state mener grand train ; she will lie in state sa dépouille sera exposée au public ; robes of state tenue f d'apparat ;

6 ‡( social class) rang m.

B States npl the States les États-Unis mpl ; to go to the States aller aux États-Unis ; to live in the States vivre aux États-Unis.

C modif

1 ( government) [school, sector] public/-ique ; [enterprise, pension, radio, TV, university, railways, secret] d'État ; [budget, spending, subsidy] de l'État ; [army, tax] national ; state aid aide f de l'État or étatique ; state election ( at a national level) élection f nationale ; US élection f au niveau d'un État ;

2 ( ceremonial) [coach, occasion, opening] d'apparat ; [banquet] de gala ; [funeral] national ; [visit] officiel/-ielle ; to go on a state visit to Tokyo se rendre en visite officielle à Tokyo.

D vtr

1 (express, say) exposer [fact, opinion, position, truth, view] ; ( provide information) indiquer [age, income] ; to state that [person] déclarer que ; ‘I have no intention of resigning’ he stated ‘je n'ai pas l'intention de démissionner’ a-t-il déclaré ; applicants must state where they live les candidats doivent indiquer où ils habitent ; the document states clearly the conditions necessary for acceptance le document présente or indique clairement les conditions requises pour l'acceptation ; to state the obvious énoncer une évidence ; to state one's case gen exposer son cas ; Jur présenter son dossier ; as stated above/below comme mentionné ci-dessus/ci-dessous ;

2 ( specify) spécifier [amount, conditions, place, time, terms] ; exprimer [preference] ; the stated time/amount, the time/amount stated l'heure/la somme spécifiée ; at stated times/intervals à dates/intervalles fixes ; on stated days à jours fixes.

Idiom

to be in/get oneself into a state être/se mettre dans tous ses états.

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14 range

range [reɪndʒ]

portée ⇒ 1 (a) échelle ⇒ 1 (b) gamme ⇒ 1 (c) champ ⇒ 1 (d) étendue ⇒ 1 (d) parcourir ⇒ 2 (a), 3 (b) ranger ⇒ 2 (b), 2 (c) aller de…à ⇒ 3 (a)

1 noun

(a) (of missile, sound, transmitter, telescope) portée f; (of vehicle, aircraft) autonomie f;

∎ medium-range or intermediate-range missiles missiles mpl à portée intermédiaire;

∎ short/medium/long-range aircraft court-/moyen-/long-courrier m;

∎ Meteorology short/long-range forecast prévisions fpl météorologiques à court/long terme;

∎ at long/short range à longue/courte portée;

∎ out of range hors de portée;

∎ within (firing) range à portée de tir;

∎ to be within hearing range être à portée de voix;

∎ it can kill a man at a range of 800 metres ça peut tuer un homme à une distance de 800 mètres;

∎ at point blank range à bout portant;

∎ range of vision champ m visuel;

∎ it gives you some idea of the range of their powers ça vous donne une petite idée de l'étendue de leurs pouvoirs

(b) (scale → of prices, salaries) échelle f, éventail m; (of instrument, voice) tessiture f;

∎ there is a wide range of temperatures in these parts il existe de très grands écarts de température dans ces régions;

∎ children in the same age range les enfants dans la même tranche d'âge;

∎ beyond one's range (note) hors de son registre;

∎ within one's range (note) dans son registre;

∎ it's within my price range c'est dans mes prix;

∎ what is your price range? quel prix voulez-vous mettre?;

∎ Stock Exchange opening/closing range fourchette f de cours d'ouverture/de clôture

(c) (series, selection → of colours, feelings, products) gamme f; (→ of patterns, sizes) choix m;

∎ we stock a wide range of office materials nous avons en stock une large gamme de matériels de bureaux;

∎ the new autumn range (of clothes) la nouvelle collection d'automne;

∎ this car is (at) the top/bottom of the range cette voiture est le modèle haut/bas de gamme;

∎ the coat comes in a wide range of colours/sizes le manteau existe dans une gamme variée de couleurs/un grand choix de tailles;

∎ an actor with a wide range of expressions un acteur qui a une gamme d'expressions très variée;

∎ we talked on a wide range of topics nous avons discuté de sujets très divers;

∎ she has a wide range of interests elle s'intéresse à beaucoup de choses;

∎ to experience the full range of emotions passer par toute la gamme des émotions;

∎ the range of possibilities is almost infinite l'éventail des possibilités est presque infini

(d) (scope → of activity) champ m; (→ of knowledge, research) étendue f; (→ of inquiry, investigation) domaine m; Marketing (→ of advertising campaign) rayon m d'action;

∎ that is beyond the range of the present inquiry cela ne relève pas de cette enquête;

∎ that lies outside the range of my responsibility ça dépasse les limites de ma responsabilité

(e) (of mountains) chaîne f

(f) (territory → of animal, plant) habitat m; American (prairie) prairie f

(g) (for target practice) champ m de tir;

∎ missile range champ m de tir de missiles

(h) (cooker) fourneau m (de cuisine)

(i) (row, line) rang m, rangée f

(j) (in surveying) alignement m, direction f

2 transitive verb

(a) (roam over) parcourir

(b) (put in a row or in rows) ranger, mettre ou disposer en rang ou en rangs;

∎ the troops ranged themselves in front of the embassy les troupes se rangèrent devant l'ambassade;

∎ the desks are ranged in threes les pupitres sont en rangées de trois

(c) (join, ally) ranger, rallier;

∎ to range oneself with sb se ranger du côté de qn; (ideologically) s'aligner sur la position de qn;

∎ to range oneself against sb s'opposer à qn;

∎ the forces ranged against them les forces ralliées contre eux

(d) (aim → cannon, telescope) braquer (on sur)

(e) Typography aligner, justifier;

∎ ranged left/right justifié à gauche/à droite

(f) (classify) classer, ranger

(g) American

∎ to range cattle élever du bétail dans la prairie

3 intransitive verb

(a) (extend, vary) aller (from…to de…à), varier (from…to entre…et);

∎ prices range from £15 to £150 les prix vont de 15 à 150 livres;

∎ incomes ranging from £12,000 to £15,000 or between £12,000 and £15,000 revenus de l'ordre de 12 000 à 15 000 livres;

∎ their ages range from 5 to 12 or between 5 and 12 ils ont de 5 à 12 ou entre 5 et 12 ans;

∎ the quality ranges from mediocre to excellent la qualité varie de médiocre à excellent;

∎ the survey ranged over the whole country l'enquête couvrait la totalité du pays;

∎ our conversation ranged over a large number of topics nous avons discuté d'un grand nombre de sujets

(b) (roam)

∎ to range over sth parcourir qch;

∎ they range over the countryside ils parcourent la campagne;

∎ thugs range through the city streets des voyous rôdent dans les rues de la ville;

∎ his eyes ranged over the audience il parcourut l'auditoire des yeux

(c) (gun, missile)

∎ to range over avoir une portée de

►► Marketing range addition ajout m à la gamme;

American range cattle bétail m élevé dans la prairie;

range pole, range rod (surveying instrument) jalon m;

Marketing range stretching extension f de la gamme

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15 close

adj. nära; stängd; hopträngd; trång
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adv. nära
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n. slut; tillslutning; inhägnad; gränd; stänga; slut, slutledning; gård; gränd; när en person avslutar en mening där vissa ord saknas
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v. stänga; stängas; avsluta

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I 1. [kləus] adverb
1) (near in time, place etc: He stood close to his mother; Follow close behind.) nära

2) (tightly; neatly: a close-fitting dress.) åtsittande, snävt, tätt
2. adjective
1) (near in relationship: a close friend.) nära, förtrolig

2) (having a narrow difference between winner and loser: a close contest; The result was close.) jämn

3) (thorough: a close examination of the facts; Keep a close watch on him.) grundlig, noggrann

4) (tight: a close fit.) åtsittande, snäv, trång

5) (without fresh air: a close atmosphere; The weather was close and thundery.) kvav, tryckande

6) (mean: He's very close (with his money).) snål, gnidig

7) (secretive: They're keeping very close about the business.) hemlighetsfull, förtegen

•

- closely
- closeness
- close call/shave
- close-set
- close-up
- close at hand
- close on
- close to II 1. [kləuz] verb
1) (to make or become shut, often by bringing together two parts so as to cover an opening: The baby closed his eyes; Close the door; The shops close on Sundays.) stänga, slå igen

2) (to finish; to come or bring to an end: The meeting closed with everyone in agreement.) avsluta

3) (to complete or settle (a business deal).) avsluta, slutföra
2. noun
(a stop, end or finish: the close of day; towards the close of the nineteenth century.) slut

- close down
- close up

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16 when

when [wen]

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1. adverb

2. conjunction

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1. adverb

quand

• when does the term start? quand commence le trimestre ?

• when did it happen? quand cela s'est-il passé ? ça s'est passé quand ?

• when was the Channel Tunnel opened? quand a-t-on ouvert le tunnel sous la Manche ?

• when's the wedding? quand a lieu le mariage ?

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► There is no inversion after quand in indirect questions.

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• I don't know when I'll see him again je ne sais pas quand je le reverrai

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► If when means what time, the more specific translation is often used.

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• when does the train leave? à quelle heure part le train ?

• when do you finish work? à quelle heure est-ce tu quittes le travail ?

► say when! (inf) (pouring drinks) vous m'arrêterez...

2. conjunction

   a. ( = at the time that) quand

• everything looks nicer when the sun is shining tout est plus joli quand le soleil brille

• I take an aspirin when I have a headache je prends un cachet d'aspirine quand j'ai mal à la tête

• he had just sat down when the phone rang il venait juste de s'asseoir quand la téléphone a sonné

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► If the when clause refers to the future, the future tense is used in French.

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• I'll do it when I have time je le ferai quand j'aurai le temps

• when you're older, you'll understand quand tu seras plus grand, tu comprendras

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► en + present participle may be used, if the subject of both clauses is the same, and the verb is one of action.

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• he blushed when he saw her il a rougi en la voyant

• take care when opening the tin faites attention en ouvrant la boîte

► when + noun/adjective

• when a student at Oxford, she... quand elle était étudiante à Oxford, elle...

• my father, when young, had a fine tenor voice quand mon père était jeune il avait une belle voix de ténor

• the floor is slippery when wet le sol est glissant quand il est mouillé

   b. (with day, time, movement) où

• on the day when I met him le jour où je l'ai rencontré

• at the time when I should have been at the station à l'heure où j'aurais dû être à la gare

• at the very moment when I was about to leave juste au moment où j'allais partir

• there are times when I wish I'd never met him il y a des moments où je souhaiterais ne l'avoir jamais rencontré

   c. ( = which is when) he arrived at 8 o'clock, when traffic is at its peak il est arrivé à 8 heures, heure à laquelle la circulation est la plus intense

• in August, when peaches are at their best en août, époque où les pêches sont les plus savoureuses

   d. ( = the time when) he told me about when you got lost in Paris il m'a raconté le jour où vous vous êtes perdu dans Paris

• now is when I need you most c'est maintenant que j'ai le plus besoin de vous

• that's when the programme starts c'est à cette heure-là que l'émission commence

• that's when Napoleon was born c'est l'année où Napoléon est né

• that was when the trouble started c'est alors que les ennuis ont commencé

   e. ( = after) quand

• when you read the letter you'll know why quand vous aurez lu la lettre vous comprendrez pourquoi

• when he had made the decision, he felt better après avoir pris la décision, il s'est senti soulagé

• when they had left he telephoned me après leur départ il m'a téléphoné

   f. ( = whereas) alors que

• he thought he was recovering, when in fact... il pensait qu'il était en voie de guérison alors qu'en fait...

   g. ( = if) how can I be self-confident when I look like this? comment veux-tu que j'aie confiance en moi en étant comme ça ?

• how can you understand when you won't listen? comment voulez-vous comprendre si vous n'écoutez pas ?

* * *
[wen], US [hwen] 1.
pronoun

1) ( with prepositions) quand

since when? — depuis quand? also iron

2) ( the time when)

that was when it all started to go wrong — c'est à ce moment-là que tout a commencé à mal aller

that's when I was born — ( day) c'est le jour où je suis né; ( year) c'est l'année où je suis né

he spoke of when he was a child — il a parlé de l'époque où il était enfant
2.
adverb

1) ( as interrogative) quand (est-ce que)

when are we leaving? — quand est-ce qu'on part?

I wonder when the film starts — je me demande à quelle heure commence le film

I forget exactly when — ( time) j'ai oublié l'heure exacte; ( date) j'ai oublié la date exacte

tell me ou say when — ( pouring drink) dis-moi stop

2) ( as relative)

in 1993 when — en 1993 quand

at the time when — ( precise moment) au moment où; ( during same period) à l'époque où

the week when it all happened — la semaine où tout s'est passé

on those rare occasions when — les rares fois où

it's times like that when — c'est dans ces moments-là que

one morning when he was getting up, he... — un matin en se levant, il...

3) ( then)

she resigned in May, since when we've had no applicants — elle a démissionné en mai, et depuis (lors) nous n'avons reçu aucune candidature

until when we must stay calm — d'ici là nous devons rester calmes

by when we will have received the information — d'ici là nous aurons reçu toutes les informations

4) ( whenever) quand

he's only happy when he's moaning — il n'est content que quand il rouspète

when I sunbathe, I get freckles — chaque fois que je prends un bain de soleil, j'ai des taches de rousseur

when possible — dans la mesure du possible
3.
conjunction

1) ( at the precise time when) quand, lorsque

when she reaches 18 — quand elle aura 18 ans

2) ( during the period when) quand, lorsque

when he was at school — quand il était à l'école

3) ( as soon as) quand, dès que

I was strolling along when all of a sudden... — je marchais tranquillement quand tout d'un coup...

4) ( when it is the case that) alors que

why buy their products when ours are cheaper? — pourquoi acheter leurs produits alors que les nôtres sont moins chers?

5) ( whereas) alors que

he refused when I would have gladly accepted — il a refusé alors que j'aurais été ravi d'accepter

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17 public

public ['pʌblɪk]

1 adjective

(a) (of, by the state → education, debt) public;

∎ built at public expense construit aux frais du contribuable;

∎ to hold public office avoir des fonctions officielles

(b) (open or accessible to all → place, meeting) public;

∎ was it a public trial? le public pouvait-il assister au procès?;

∎ let's talk somewhere less public allons discuter dans un endroit plus tranquille;

∎ these gardens are public property! ces jardins appartiennent à tout le monde!

(c) (of, by the people) public;

∎ the public interest or good le bien ou l'intérêt m public;

∎ in the public interest dans l'intérêt du public;

∎ public interest in the matter was flagging le public manifestait de moins en moins d'intérêt pour cette affaire;

∎ to make a public protest protester publiquement;

∎ the increase in crime is generating great public concern la montée de la criminalité inquiète sérieusement la population;

∎ to restore public confidence regagner la confiance de la population;

∎ to be in the British public or American public's eye être très en vue;

∎ to disappear from the British public or American public's eye tomber dans les oubliettes;

∎ a public outcry un tollé général;

∎ it created a public scandal ça a provoqué un scandale retentissant;

∎ public awareness of the problem has increased le public est plus sensible au problème maintenant;

∎ the bill has public support l'opinion publique est favorable au projet de loi

(d) (publicly known, open) public;

∎ to make sth public rendre qch public;

∎ to make a public appearance paraître en public;

∎ to go into public life se lancer dans les affaires publiques;

∎ she's active in public life elle prend une part active aux affaires publiques;

∎ the contrast between his public and his private life le contraste entre sa vie publique et sa vie privée;

∎ his first public statement sa première déclaration publique;

∎ he made a public denial of the rumours il a démenti publiquement les rumeurs, il a apporté un démenti public aux rumeurs;

∎ it's public knowledge that… il est de notoriété publique que…

2 adverb

∎ to go public (company) s'introduire en Bourse; (reveal information) tout dire ou raconter;

∎ the company is going public la société va être cotée en Bourse;

∎ to go public with the story raconter toute l'histoire

3 noun

public m;

∎ the (general) public le (grand) public;

∎ in public en public, publiquement;

∎ the public is or are tired of political scandals la population est lasse des scandales politiques;

∎ Finance to issue shares to the public placer des actions dans le public;

∎ her books reach a wide public ses livres touchent un public très large;

∎ the movie-going public les amateurs de ou les gens qui vont au cinéma;

∎ the viewing public les téléspectateurs;

∎ your public awaits or await you votre public vous attend

4 in public adverb

en public

►► American Television public access channel = chaîne du réseau câblé sur laquelle des particuliers peuvent diffuser leurs propres émissions;

American Television public access television = chaînes télévisées câblées non commerciales;

public affairs affaires fpl publiques;

American public assistance aide f sociale;

public authorities pouvoirs mpl publics;

British public bar salle f de bar (dans un "pub" qui contient deux bars séparés, l'expression désigne le plus populaire des deux);

public baths bains mpl publics;

British Politics public bill ≃ projet m de loi d'intérêt général;

public body corporation f de droit public;

British public call box cabine f (téléphonique) publique;

public company ≃ société f anonyme;

British public convenience toilettes fpl publiques;

British & French Canadian public corporation entreprise f publique;

Finance public debt dette f publique ou de l'État;

American Law public defender avocat m commis d'office;

Finance public deposits = avoirs des différents services du gouvernement britannique à la Banque d'Angleterre;

public domain domaine m public;

∎ to be in the public domain (publication) être dans le domaine public;

Computing public domain software logiciel m (du domaine) public, French Canadian publiciel m;

public enemy ennemi m public;

∎ public enemy number one ennemi m public numéro un;

Finance public enterprise (company) entreprise f publique;

public examination examen m national de l'enseignement public;

public expenditure dépenses fpl publiques;

public figure personnalité f très en vue;

public finance finances fpl publiques;

British public footpath sentier m public;

public funds fonds mpl publics;

public gallery tribune f réservée au public;

public health santé f publique;

the public health authorities = administration régionale des services publics de santé;

public health clinic centre m d'hygiène publique;

public health hazard risque m pour la santé publique;

old-fashioned public health inspector inspecteur(trice) m,f sanitaire;

public health official représentant(e) m,f de la santé publique;

public holiday jour m férié, fête f légale;

public house British (pub) pub m, bar m; American (inn) auberge f;

American public housing logements mpl sociaux, ≃ HLM f inv;

American Public Housing Administration = services du logement social aux États-Unis;

American public housing project ≃ cité f HLM;

Law public indecency outrage m public à la pudeur;

∎ to be arrested for public indecency se faire arrêter pour outrage public à la pudeur;

public inquiry enquête f officielle;

∎ to hold a public inquiry faire une enquête officielle;

British public lavatory toilettes fpl publiques;

public law droit m public;

public lending right = droits que touche un auteur ou un éditeur pour le prêt de ses livres en bibliothèque;

public liability responsabilité f civile;

public liability insurance assurance f responsabilité civile;

public library bibliothèque f municipale;

public limited company ≃ société f anonyme;

public loan emprunt m public;

public money deniers mpl ou fonds mpl publics;

public monies deniers mpl de l'État;

public nuisance (person) fléau m public, empoisonneur(euse) m,f;

∎ the pub's late opening hours were creating a public nuisance (act) les heures d'ouverture tardives du pub portaient atteinte à la tranquillité générale;

Stock Exchange public offering offre f publique;

public official fonctionnaire mf;

public opinion opinion f publique;

public opinion poll sondage m (d'opinion);

public ownership nationalisation f, étatisation f;

∎ most airports are under public ownership la plupart des aéroports appartiennent à l'État;

public park jardin m public;

Law public prosecutor ≃ procureur m général, ≃ ministère m public;

British the public purse le Trésor (public);

British Public Record Office ≃ Archives fpl nationales;

public relations relations fpl publiques;

∎ giving them a free meal was great public relations en leur offrant le repas, nous avons fait un excellent travail de relations publiques;

public relations agency, public relations consultancy agence f conseil en communication;

public relations consultant conseil m en relations publiques, conseil m en communication;

public relations exercise opération f de relations publiques;

∎ it was a good public relations exercise ce fut une réussite pour ce qui est des relations publiques;

public relations manager directeur(trice) m,f des relations publiques;

public relations officer responsable mf des relations publiques;

public room (in hotel, institution) salle f de réception; Scottish (in house) salon m;

public school (in UK) public school f, école f privée (prestigieuse); (in US) école f publique;

British public schoolboy = élève d'une "public school";

British public schoolgirl = élève d'une "public school";

public sector secteur m publique;

British Finance public sector borrowing requirement = besoins d'emprunt du secteur public non couverts par les rentrées fiscales;

Finance public sector deficit déficit m du secteur public;

Finance public sector earnings revenus mpl du secteur public;

public servant fonctionnaire mf;

public service (amenity) service m public ou d'intérêt général; British (civil service) fonction f publique;

∎ she's in public service elle est fonctionnaire;

∎ Administration our organization performs a public service notre association assure un service d'intérêt général;

Stock Exchange public share offer offre f publique de vente;

public speaker orateur(trice) m,f;

∎ he's a very good public speaker c'est un excellent orateur;

public speaking art m oratoire;

∎ humorous unaccustomed as I am to public speaking bien que je n'aie pas l'habitude de prendre la parole en public;

School public speaking contest concours m d'éloquence;

Finance public spending (UNCOUNT) dépenses fpl publiques ou de l'État;

public spirit sens m civique, civisme m;

American public television (télévision f du) service m public;

public transport (UNCOUNT) transports mpl en commun;

∎ he went by public transport (bus) il est allé en bus; (train) il est allé en train;

public transport users usagers mpl des transports en commun;

public utility American (company) = société privée assurant un service public et réglementée par une commission d'État; British (amenity) service m public;

British public utility company société f d'utilité publique;

public works travaux mpl publics

ⓘ PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION Aux États-Unis, on appelle "public access television" les chaînes télévisées câblées non commerciales mises à la disposition d'organisations à but non lucratif et des citoyens. En 1984, le Congrès adopta le "Cable Communications Policy Act" afin de faire face au problème de la monopolisation des chaînes par un nombre réduit de cablo-opérateurs. Cette loi exige des propriétaires de chaînes câblées qu'ils mettent une chaîne à la disposition des communautés locales ainsi qu'un studio et du matériel d'enregistrement, et qu'ils fournissent également une assistance technique si nécessaire.

ⓘ PUBLIC SCHOOL En Angleterre et au pays de Galles, le terme "public school" désigne une école privée de type traditionnel. Certaines de ces écoles (Eton et Harrow, par exemple) sont très prestigieuses et élitistes. Les "public schools" sont censées former l'élite de la nation. Aux États-Unis et parfois en Écosse, le terme désigne une école publique.

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18 strike

strike [straɪk]

grève ⇒ 1 (a) raid ⇒ 1 (b) attaque ⇒ 1 (b) escadre ⇒ 1 (c) découverte ⇒ 1 (d) sonnerie ⇒ 1 (e) frapper ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (c)-(e), 3 (n), 4 (a) toucher ⇒ 3 (a) atteindre ⇒ 3 (a) heurter ⇒ 3 (b) sonner ⇒ 3 (f), 4 (d) jouer ⇒ 3 (g) conclure ⇒ 3 (h) rendre ⇒ 3 (j) découvrir ⇒ 3 (l) attaquer ⇒ 3 (q), 4 (b) faire grève ⇒ 4 (c)

(pt & pp struck [strʌk], cont striking)

1 noun

(a) Industry grève f;

∎ to go on strike se mettre en ou faire grève;

∎ to be (out) on strike être en grève;

∎ to threaten strike action menacer de faire ou de se mettre en grève;

∎ the Italian air strike la grève des transports aériens en Italie;

∎ railway strike grève f des chemins de fer;

∎ teachers' strike grève f des enseignants;

∎ coal or miners' strike grève f des mineurs;

∎ postal or post office strike grève f des postes;

∎ rent strike grève f des loyers

(b) Military raid m, attaque f; (by bird of prey, snake) attaque f;

∎ to carry out air strikes against or on enemy bases lancer des raids aériens contre des bases ennemies;

∎ retaliatory strike raid m de représailles; (nuclear) deuxième frappe f

(c) Aviation & Military (planes) escadre f (d'avions participant à un raid)

(d) Petroleum industry & Mining (discovery) découverte f;

∎ a gold strike la découverte d'un gisement d'or;

∎ the recent oil strikes in the North Sea la découverte récente de gisements de pétrole en mer du Nord;

∎ it was a lucky strike c'était un coup de chance

(e) (of clock → chime, mechanism) sonnerie f;

∎ life was regulated by the strike of the church clock la vie était rythmée par la cloche de l'église

(f) (act or instance of hitting) coup m; (sound) bruit m;

∎ the strike of iron on iron le bruit du fer qui frappe le fer;

∎ he adjusted the strike of the keys on the platen roll il a réglé la frappe des caractères contre le cylindre

(g) (in baseball) strike m; American figurative (black mark) mauvais point m;

∎ figurative he has two strikes against him il est mal parti;

∎ figurative being too young was another strike against her le fait d'être trop jeune constituait un handicap supplémentaire pour elle

(h) (in bowling) honneur m double;

∎ to get or to score a strike réussir un honneur double

(i) Fishing (by fisherman) ferrage m; (by fish) touche f

(j) archaic

∎ at the strike of day à la pointe ou au point du jour

2 compound-forming noun

(a) (committee, movement) de grève

(b) Military (mission) d'intervention, d'attaque; (aircraft) d'assaut

3 transitive verb

(a) (hit → gen) frapper; (→ of bullet, torpedo, bomb) toucher, atteindre;

∎ she raised her hand to strike him elle leva la main pour le frapper;

∎ he struck me with his fist il m'a donné un coup de poing;

∎ the chairman struck the table with his gavel le président donna un coup de marteau sur la table;

∎ she took the vase and struck him on or over the head elle saisit le vase et lui donna un coup sur la tête;

∎ she struck him across the face elle lui a donné une gifle;

∎ a light breeze struck the sails une légère brise gonfla les voiles;

∎ the phenomenon occurs when warm air strikes cold ce phénomène se produit lorsque de l'air chaud entre en contact avec de l'air froid;

∎ a wave struck the side of the boat une vague a heurté le côté du bateau;

∎ the arrow struck the target la flèche a atteint la cible;

∎ a hail of bullets struck the car la voiture a été mitraillée;

∎ he was struck by a piece of shrapnel il a été touché par ou il a reçu un éclat de grenade;

∎ to be struck by lightning être frappé par la foudre, être foudroyé;

∎ he went for them striking blows left and right il s'est jeté sur eux, distribuant les coups de tous côtés;

∎ who struck the first blow? qui a porté le premier coup?, qui a frappé le premier?;

∎ he struck the tree a mighty blow with the axe il a donné un grand coup de hache dans l'arbre;

∎ the trailer struck the post a glancing blow la remorque a percuté le poteau en passant;

∎ figurative to strike a blow for democracy/women's rights (law, event) faire progresser la démocratie/les droits de la femme; (person, group) marquer des points en faveur de la démocratie/des droits des femmes

(b) (bump into, collide with) heurter, cogner;

∎ his foot struck the bar on his first jump son pied a heurté la barre lors de son premier saut;

∎ she fell and struck her head on or against the kerb elle s'est cogné la tête contre le bord du trottoir en tombant;

∎ the Volvo struck the bus head on la Volvo a heurté le bus de plein fouet;

∎ Nautical we've struck ground! nous avons touché (le fond)!

(c) (afflict → of drought, disease, worry, regret) frapper; (→ of storm, hurricane, disaster, wave of violence) s'abattre sur, frapper;

∎ an earthquake struck the city un tremblement de terre a frappé la ville;

∎ he was struck by a heart attack il a eu une crise cardiaque;

∎ the pain struck her as she tried to get up la douleur l'a saisie au moment où elle essayait de se lever;

∎ I was struck by or with doubts j'ai été pris de doute, le doute s'est emparé de moi

(d) (occur to) frapper;

∎ only later did it strike me as unusual ce n'est que plus tard que j'ai trouvé ça ou que cela m'a paru bizarre;

∎ it suddenly struck him how little had changed il a soudain pris conscience du fait que peu de choses avaient changé;

∎ did it never strike you that you weren't wanted there? ne vous est-il jamais venu à l'esprit que vous étiez de trop?;

∎ a terrible thought struck her une idée affreuse lui vint à l'esprit;

∎ it strikes me as useless/as the perfect gift ça me semble ou paraît inutile/être le cadeau idéal;

∎ he strikes me as (being) sincere il me paraît sincère;

∎ it doesn't strike me as being the best course of action il ne me semble pas que ce soit la meilleure voie à suivre

(e) (impress) frapper, impressionner;

∎ the first thing that struck me was his pallor la première chose qui m'a frappé, c'était sa pâleur;

∎ what strikes you is the silence ce qui (vous) frappe, c'est le silence;

∎ how did she strike you? quelle impression vous a-t-elle faite?, quel effet vous a-t-elle fait?;

∎ how did Tokyo/the film strike you? comment avez-vous trouvé Tokyo/le film?;

∎ we can eat here and meet them later, how does that strike you? on peut manger ici et les retrouver plus tard, qu'en penses-tu?;

∎ I was very struck British with or American by the flat l'appartement m'a plu énormément;

∎ I wasn't very struck British with or American by his colleague son collègue ne m'a pas fait une grande impression

(f) (chime) sonner;

∎ the church clock struck five l'horloge de l'église a sonné cinq heures;

∎ it was striking midnight as we left minuit sonnait quand nous partîmes

(g) (play → note, chord) jouer;

∎ she struck a few notes on the piano elle a joué quelques notes sur le piano;

∎ when he struck the opening chords the audience applauded quand il a joué ou plaqué les premiers accords le public a applaudi;

∎ to strike a false note Music faire une fausse note; figurative (speech) sonner faux;

∎ his presence/his words struck a gloomy note sa présence a/ses paroles ont mis une note de tristesse;

∎ the report strikes an optimistic note/a note of warning for the future le rapport est très optimiste/très alarmant pour l'avenir;

∎ does it strike a chord? est-ce que cela te rappelle ou dit quelque chose?;

∎ to strike a chord with the audience faire vibrer la foule;

∎ her description of company life will strike a chord with many managers beaucoup de cadres se reconnaîtront dans sa description de la vie en entreprise

(h) (arrive at, reach → deal, treaty, agreement) conclure;

∎ to strike a bargain conclure un marché;

∎ I'll strike a bargain with you je te propose un marché;

∎ it's not easy to strike a balance between too much and too little freedom il n'est pas facile de trouver un équilibre ou de trouver le juste milieu entre trop et pas assez de liberté

(i) (cause a feeling of)

∎ to strike fear or terror into sb remplir qn d'effroi

(j) (cause to become) rendre;

∎ to strike sb blind/dumb rendre qn aveugle/muet;

∎ the news struck us speechless with horror nous sommes restés muets d'horreur en apprenant la nouvelle;

∎ I was struck dumb by the sheer cheek of the man! je suis resté muet devant le culot de cet homme!;

∎ a stray bullet struck him dead il a été tué par une balle perdue;

∎ she was struck dead by a heart attack elle a été foudroyée par une crise cardiaque;

∎ God strike me dead if I lie! je jure que c'est la vérité!

(k) (ignite → match) frotter, allumer; (→ sparks) faire jaillir;

∎ he struck a match or a light il a frotté une allumette;

∎ British familiar old-fashioned strike a light! nom de Dieu!

(l) (discover → gold) découvrir; (→ oil, water) trouver; (path) tomber sur, découvrir;

∎ familiar British to strike it lucky, American to strike it rich (make material gain) trouver le filon; (be lucky) avoir de la veine

(m) (adopt → attitude) adopter;

∎ he struck an attitude of wounded righteousness il a pris un air de dignité offensée

(n) (mint → coin, medal) frapper

(o) (take down → tent) démonter; Nautical (→ sail) amener, baisser;

∎ to strike camp lever le camp;

∎ Nautical to strike the flag or the colours amener les couleurs;

∎ Theatre to strike the set démonter le décor

(p) (delete → name, remark, person) rayer; (→ from professional register) radier;

∎ that remark must be struck or American stricken from the record cette remarque doit être retirée du procès-verbal

(q) (attack) attaquer

(r) American (go on strike at)

∎ the union is striking four of the company's plants le syndicat a déclenché des grèves dans quatre des usines de la société;

∎ students are striking their classes les étudiants font la grève des cours;

∎ the dockers are striking ships carrying industrial waste les dockers refusent de s'occuper des cargos chargés de déchets industriels

(s) Botany

∎ to strike roots prendre racine;

∎ the tree had struck deep roots into the ground l'arbre avait des racines très profondes

4 intransitive verb

(a) (hit) frapper;

∎ she struck at me with her umbrella elle essaya de me frapper avec son parapluie;

∎ to strike home (blow) porter; (missile, remark) faire mouche;

∎ familiar to strike lucky avoir de la veine;

∎ proverb strike while the iron is hot il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud

(b) (attack → gen) attaquer; (→ snake) mordre; (→ wild animal) sauter ou bondir sur sa proie; (→ bird of prey) fondre ou s'abattre sur sa proie;

∎ the bombers struck at dawn les bombardiers attaquèrent à l'aube;

∎ the murderer has struck again l'assassin a encore frappé;

∎ these are measures which strike at the root/heart of the problem voici des mesures qui attaquent le problème à la racine/qui s'attaquent au cœur du problème;

∎ this latest incident strikes right at the heart of government policy ce dernier incident remet complètement en cause la politique gouvernementale

(c) Industry faire grève;

∎ they're striking for more pay ils font grève pour obtenir une augmentation de salaire;

∎ the nurses struck over the minister's decision to freeze wages les infirmières ont fait grève suite à la décision du ministre de bloquer les salaires

(d) (chime) sonner;

∎ midnight had already struck minuit avait déjà sonné

(e) (happen suddenly → illness, disaster, earthquake) survenir, se produire, arriver;

∎ we were travelling quietly along when disaster struck nous roulions tranquillement lorsque la catastrophe s'est produite;

∎ the first tremors struck at 3 a.m. les premières secousses sont survenues à 3 heures du matin

(f) (travel, head)

∎ to strike across country prendre à travers champs;

∎ they then struck west ils sont ensuite partis vers l'ouest

(g) Sport (score) marquer

(h) Fishing (fisherman) ferrer; (fish) mordre (à l'hameçon)

(i) (of cutting) prendre (racine)

►► strike ballot = vote avant que les syndicats ne décident d'une grève;

Insurance strike clause clause f pour cas de grève;

strike force (nuclear capacity) force f de frappe; (of police, soldiers → squad) détachement m ou brigade f d'intervention; (→ larger force) force f d'intervention;

strike fund = caisse de prévoyance permettant d'aider les grévistes;

strike pay salaire m de gréviste (versé par le syndicat ou par un fonds de solidarité);

Finance strike price (for share) prix m d'exercice

➲ strike back intransitive verb

(a) (retaliate) se venger; Military contre-attaquer;

∎ the government struck back at its critics le gouvernement a répondu à ceux qui le critiquaient

(b) Sport (score in response) marquer à son tour

➲ strike down separable transitive verb

foudroyer, terrasser;

∎ figurative struck down by disease terrassé par la maladie

➲ strike off

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (delete, remove → from list) rayer, barrer; (→ from professional register) radier;

∎ to be struck off (doctor, solicitor) être radié

(b) (sever) couper

(c) Typography tirer

2 intransitive verb

∎ (go) to strike off to the left prendre à gauche;

∎ we struck off into the forest nous sommes entrés ou avons pénétré dans la forêt

➲ strike on inseparable transitive verb

British (solution, right answer) trouver (par hasard), tomber sur; (plan) trouver; (idea) avoir

➲ strike out

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (cross out) rayer, barrer

(b) (in baseball) éliminer

2 intransitive verb

(a) (set up on one's own) s'établir à son compte

(b) (go)

∎ she struck out across the fields elle prit à travers champs;

∎ figurative they decided to strike out into a new direction ils ont décidé de prendre une nouvelle direction

(c) (swim)

∎ we struck out for the shore nous avons commencé à nager en direction de la côte

(d) (aim a blow) frapper;

∎ she struck out at him elle essaya de le frapper; figurative elle s'en est prise à lui;

∎ they struck out in all directions with their truncheons ils distribuaient des coups de matraque à droite et à gauche

(e) (in baseball) être éliminé

➲ strike through separable transitive verb

British (cross out) rayer, barrer

➲ strike up

1 inseparable transitive verb

(a) (start)

∎ to strike up a conversation with sb engager la conversation avec qn;

∎ they immediately struck up a conversation ils sont immédiatement entrés en conversation;

∎ to strike up an acquaintance/a friendship with sb lier connaissance/se lier d'amitié avec qn

(b) Music (start playing) commencer à jouer;

∎ the band struck up the national anthem l'orchestre commença à jouer l'hymne national ou entonna les premières mesures de l'hymne national

2 intransitive verb

(musician, orchestra) commencer à jouer; (music) commencer

➲ strike upon British = strike on

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19 use

use

utilisation ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) emploi ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c) consommation ⇒ 1 (a) usage ⇒ 1 (a)-(d), 1 (f), 1 (g) besoin ⇒ 1 (d) se servir de ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (b) utiliser ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c) employer ⇒ 2 (a) prendre ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (e) profiter de ⇒ 2 (b) consommer ⇒ 2 (c) finir ⇒ 2 (c)

1 noun [ju:s]

(a) (utilization → of materials) utilisation f, emploi m; (consumption → of water, resources etc) consommation f; (being used, worn etc) usage m;

∎ the use of brick in building l'emploi ou l'utilisation de la brique dans la construction;

∎ to stretch (out) with use se détendre à l'usage;

∎ to wear out with use s'user;

∎ the dishes are for everyday use c'est la vaisselle de tous les jours;

∎ ready for use prêt à l'emploi;

∎ directions or instructions for use (on packaging) mode d'emploi;

∎ for your personal use (on packaging) pour votre usage personnel;

∎ for customer use only (sign) réservé à notre clientèle;

∎ Medicine for external/internal use only (on packaging) à usage externe/interne;

∎ for use in case of emergency (sign) à utiliser en cas d'urgence;

∎ the film is for use in teaching le film est destiné à l'enseignement;

∎ in use (machine, system) en usage, utilisé; (lift, cash point) en service; (phrase, word) usité;

∎ in general use d'emploi courant, d'utilisation courante;

∎ not in use, out of use (machine, system) hors d'usage; (lift, cash point) hors service;

∎ the phrase is no longer in use l'expression est inusitée ou ne s'utilise plus;

∎ to come into use entrer en service;

∎ to go out of use (machine) être mis au rebut;

∎ steam engines went out of use in 1950 on a cessé d'utiliser ou d'employer les machines à vapeur en 1950;

∎ to make use of sth se servir de ou utiliser qch;

∎ schools are making increasing use of audio-visual aids les écoles se servent de plus en plus de supports audiovisuels;

∎ to make good use of, to put to good use (machine, money) faire bon usage de; (opportunity, experience) tirer profit de

(b) (ability or right to use) usage m, utilisation f;

∎ we gave them the use of our car nous leur avons laissé l'usage de notre voiture;

∎ he only has the use of one arm il n'a l'usage que d'un bras;

∎ she lost the use of her legs elle a perdu l'usage de ses jambes;

∎ the old man still has the full use of his faculties le vieil homme jouit encore de toutes ses facultés

(c) (practical application) usage m, emploi m;

∎ this tool has many uses cet outil a de nombreux usages ou emplois;

∎ we found a use for the old fridge nous avons trouvé un emploi pour le vieux frigo;

∎ humorous I have my uses il m'arrive de servir à quelque chose

(d) (need) besoin m, usage m;

∎ do you have any use for this book? avez-vous besoin de ce livre?;

∎ to have no use for sth ne pas avoir besoin de qch; figurative n'avoir que faire de qch;

∎ I have no use for idle gossip je n'ai que faire des cancans;

∎ this department has no use for slackers il n'y a pas de place pour les fainéants dans ce service

(e) (usefulness)

∎ to be of use (to sb) être utile (à qn), servir (à qn);

∎ this dictionary might be of use to you ce dictionnaire pourrait vous être utile ou vous servir;

∎ were the instructions (of) any use? est-ce que le mode d'emploi a servi à quelque chose?;

∎ I found his advice to be of little use, his advice was of little use to me je n'ai pas trouvé ses conseils très utiles;

∎ the book would be of more use if it had illustrations le livre serait plus utile s'il contenait des illustrations;

∎ it's not much use cela ne sert pas à grand-chose;

∎ he's not much use as a secretary il n'est pas brillant comme secrétaire;

∎ to be (of) no use (thing) ne servir à rien; (person) n'être bon à rien;

∎ they were no use at all during the move ils n'ont rien fait pendant le déménagement;

∎ you're no use! tu n'es bon à rien!;

∎ it's or there's no use complaining inutile de ou ça ne sert à rien de se plaindre;

∎ there's no use shouting ça ne sert à rien de crier, (c'est) inutile de crier;

∎ it's no use, we might as well give up c'est inutile ou ça ne sert à rien, autant abandonner;

∎ I tried to convince her but it was no use j'ai essayé de la convaincre mais il n'y avait rien à faire;

∎ is it any use calling her? est-ce que ça servira à quelque chose de l'appeler?;

∎ what's the use of waiting? à quoi bon attendre?, à quoi ça sert d'attendre?;

∎ oh, what's the use? à quoi bon?;

∎ familiar ironic that's a fat lot of use! ça nous fait une belle jambe!

(f) Linguistics usage m;

∎ that's an old-fashioned use c'est un usage vieilli

(g) Religion usage m

2 transitive verb [ju:z]

(a) (put into action → service, tool, skills) se servir de, utiliser; (→ product, name) utiliser; (→ method, phrase, word) employer; (→ vehicle, form of transport) prendre;

∎ these are the notebooks he used ce sont les cahiers dont il s'est servi ou qu'il a utilisés;

∎ is anyone using this book? est-ce que quelqu'un se sert de ou a besoin de ce livre?;

∎ it's very easy to use c'est très facile à utiliser;

∎ it's no longer used (machine, tool) ça ne sert plus; (word, expression) ça n'est plus usité;

∎ am I using the term correctly? est-ce comme ça qu'on utilise le terme?;

∎ I'd like to use my language skills more j'aimerais utiliser davantage mes connaissances en langues;

∎ I always use public transport je prends toujours les transports en commun;

∎ we use this room as an office nous nous servons de cette pièce comme bureau, cette pièce nous sert de bureau;

∎ what is this used for or as? à quoi cela sert-il?;

∎ it's used for identifying the blood type cela sert à identifier le groupe sanguin;

∎ I use it for opening or to open letters je m'en sers ou je l'utilise pour ouvrir les lettres;

∎ I used the money to rebuild my garage j'ai utilisé ou employé l'argent pour reconstruire mon garage;

∎ what battery does this radio use? quelle pile faut-il pour cette radio?;

∎ my car uses unleaded petrol ma voiture marche à l'essence sans plomb;

∎ may I use the phone? puis-je téléphoner?;

∎ he asked to use the British toilet or American bathroom il a demandé à aller aux toilettes;

∎ to use force/violence avoir recours à la force/violence;

∎ the police often use tear gas la police a souvent recours au gaz lacrymogène;

∎ to use one's intelligence/intuition faire marcher son intelligence/intuition;

∎ to use diplomacy user de diplomatie;

∎ to use discretion agir avec discrétion;

∎ to use one's influence user de son influence;

∎ use your imagination! utilise ton imagination!;

∎ use your initiative! fais preuve d'initiative!;

∎ use your head or your brains! réfléchis un peu!;

∎ use your eyes! ouvrez l'œil!;

∎ familiar he could certainly use some help un peu d'aide ne lui ferait pas de mal;

∎ familiar we could all use a holiday! nous aurions tous bien besoin de vacances!^□

(b) (exploit, take advantage of → opportunity) profiter de; (→ person) se servir de;

∎ use it to your advantage! profitez-en!;

∎ he's only using you to get ahead il ne fait que se servir de toi pour avancer;

∎ I feel used j'ai l'impression qu'on s'est servi de moi

(c) (consume) consommer, utiliser; (finish, use up) finir, épuiser;

∎ the car's using a lot of oil la voiture consomme beaucoup d'huile;

∎ have you used all the shampoo? as-tu utilisé tout le shampooing?

(d) formal (treat physically) traiter; (behave towards) agir envers;

∎ they used the workers well ils ont bien traité les ouvriers, ils ont bien agi envers les ouvriers;

∎ I consider I was ill used je considère qu'on ne m'a pas traité comme il faut;

∎ how's the world been using you? comment ça va?

(e) familiar (drug) prendre^□

3 auxiliary verb

[ju:z] (only in past tense) they used to live here (avant) ils habitaient ici;

∎ he used to drink a lot il buvait beaucoup avant;

∎ it used to be true c'était vrai autrefois;

∎ it used to be a pleasant town to live in autrefois c'était une ville agréable;

∎ things aren't what they used to be les choses ne sont plus ce qu'elles étaient;

∎ she can't get about the way she used to elle ne peut plus se déplacer comme avant;

∎ she never used to smoke elle ne fumait pas avant;

∎ we used not or we didn't use to eat meat avant, nous ne mangions pas de viande;

∎ did he use to visit her? venait-il la voir avant?;

∎ do you travel much? - I used to vous voyagez beaucoup? - autrefois, oui

4 intransitive verb

[ju:z] familiar (use drugs) se camer

➲ use up separable transitive verb

(consume) consommer, prendre; (exhaust → paper, soap) finir; (→ patience, energy, supplies) épuiser;

∎ she used up the leftovers to make the soup elle a utilisé les restes pour faire un potage;

∎ did you use up all your money? as-tu dépensé tout ton argent?;

∎ the paper was all used up il ne restait plus de papier

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20 game

game [geɪm]

1 noun

(a) (gen) jeu m;

∎ card/party games jeux mpl de cartes/de société;

∎ a game of chance/of skill un jeu de hasard/d'adresse;

∎ ball games are forbidden il est interdit de jouer au ballon;

∎ the rules of the game la règle du jeu;

∎ she plays a good game of chess c'est une bonne joueuse d'échecs, elle joue bien aux échecs;

∎ the children were playing a game of cowboys and Indians les enfants jouaient aux cow-boys et aux Indiens;

∎ it's only a game! ce n'est qu'un jeu!;

∎ I'm off my game today je joue mal aujourd'hui;

∎ it put me right off my game ça m'a complètement déconcentré;

∎ to play sb's game entrer dans le jeu de qn;

∎ you're not playing the game! tu ne joues pas le jeu!;

∎ politics is just a game to him pour lui, la politique n'est qu'un jeu

(b) (contest) partie f; (esp professional) match m; (part of a game of cards) manche f;

∎ Chess opening/middle/end game début m/milieu m/fin f de partie;

∎ do you fancy a game of chess? ça te dit de faire une partie d'échecs?;

∎ tonight's big game le grand match de ce soir;

∎ he played 65 games for England il a joué 65 fois pour l'Angleterre;

∎ we had a good game (played well) nous avons bien joué

(c) (division of match → in tennis, bridge) jeu m;

∎ game, set and match jeu, set et match;

∎ (one) game all un jeu partout

(d) (playing equipment, set) jeu m

(e) familiar (scheme, trick) ruse^□ f, stratagème^□ m;

∎ what's your (little) game? qu'est-ce que tu manigances?, à quel jeu joues-tu?;

∎ I know your (little) game! je sais bien où vous voulez en venir!;

∎ to play a double game jouer un double jeu;

∎ to beat sb at his/her own game battre qn sur son propre terrain;

∎ the game's up! tout est perdu!;

∎ two can play at that game, moi aussi je peux jouer à ce petit jeu-là;

∎ that's not playing the game ce n'est pas loyal;

∎ let's stop playing games and come to the point trêve de plaisanteries, passons aux choses sérieuses;

∎ don't play or come that game with me! tu ne m'auras pas à ce petit jeu-là!

(f) familiar (undertaking, operation)

∎ at this stage in the game à ce stade des opérations^□ ;

∎ to be ahead of the game mener le jeu

(g) (activity) travail m;

∎ I'm new to this game je suis novice en la matière;

∎ when you've been in this game as long as I have, you'll understand quand tu auras fait ça aussi longtemps que moi, tu comprendras

(h) Cookery & (in hunting) gibier m;

∎ small game menu gibier m

(i) (idioms)

∎ to give the game away vendre la mèche;

∎ that gave the game away c'est comme ça qu'on a découvert le pot aux roses;

∎ British familiar to be on the game (prostitute) faire le tapin ou le trottoir;

∎ British the game is not worth the candle le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle

2 compound-forming noun

de chasse

3 adjective

(a) (plucky) courageux, brave

(b) (willing) prêt, partant;

∎ he's game for anything il est toujours partant; pejorative il est prêt à tout ou capable de tout;

∎ I'm game if you are! si tu es partant, moi aussi!

(c) British (lame) estropié;

∎ he's got a game leg il a une jambe estropiée

4 intransitive verb

(a) formal (gamble) jouer (de l'argent)

(b) (play computer games) faire des jeux électroniques

5 games plural noun

(international) jeux mpl; British School sport m;

∎ they have games on Wednesdays le mercredi, ils ont sport;

∎ he's good at games il est bon en sport, c'est un sportif

►► game bag gibecière f;

game birds gibier m à plumes;

∎ the partridge is a game bird on chasse la perdrix;

British Cookery game chips = frites fines servies avec le gibier;

game fish poisson m noble (saumon, truite, brochet);

game fowl gibier m à plumes;

game laws réglementation f de la chasse;

game licence permis m de chasse;

game park (in Africa) réserve f;

Cookery game pie tourte f au gibier, ≃ pâté m en croûte;

game plan Chess & figurative stratégie f; Marketing stratégie f (de marketing);

game point (in tennis) balle f de jeu;

game reserve réserve f (pour animaux sauvages);

game show Television jeu m télévisé; Radio jeu m radiophonique;

Mathematics game theory théorie f des jeux;

game warden (gamekeeper) garde-chasse m; (in safari park) garde m (d'une réserve)

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