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  • 1 phase

    phase [fαz]
       a. feminine noun
    * * *
    fɑz
    1) ( d'évolution) stage
    2) Chimie, Physique phase

    être en phase avec quelqu'un — fig to be on the same wavelength as somebody

    * * *
    fɒz nf
    1) (= stade) phase

    malade en phase terminale — terminally ill patient, patient in the terminal phase of illness

    2)

    être en phase avec qch [réalité, actualité, exigences, société] [politique, idées, approche] — to be in line with sth

    * * *
    phase nf
    1 ( d'évolution) stage;
    2 Astron, Chimie, Phys phase;
    3 Électrotech (conducteur de) phase live wire; en phase in phase; être en phase avec qn fig to be on sb's wavelength.
    [faz] nom féminin
    1. [moment] phase, stage
    2. ÉLECTRICITÉ & TECHNOLOGIE phase
    ————————
    en phase locution adjectivale
    ÉLECTRICITÉ & PHYSIQUE & TECHNOLOGIE in phase

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > phase

  • 2 прекращение работ по

    Прекращение работ по-- 1970 will bring the phase-out of this project and the phase-in of the other.

    Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > прекращение работ по

  • 3 desfasado

    adj.
    out of phase, out of place, off-time.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: desfasar.
    * * *
    1→ link=desfasar desfasar
    1 outdated, out of date (persona) old-fashioned, behind the times
    ■ ¡eres un desfasado! you're just not with it!
    * * *
    (f. - desfasada)
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=anticuado) behind the times
    2) (Téc) out of phase
    3)

    estar desfasado — (Aer) to be suffering from jetlag

    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Fís) out of phase; <mecanismo/ritmo> out of sync; <planes/etapas> out of step
    b) <ideas/persona> old-fashioned
    * * *
    = out of date [out-of-date], outdated [out-dated], outmoded, superseded, outworn, musty [mustier -comp., mustiest -sup.], out of sync, overaged, out of touch with + reality, fossilised [fossilized, -USA], byzantine, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], stale, long in the tooth.
    Ex. It is for this reason that many special libraries have constructed their own indexing language; they have avoided being tied to a possibly out of date published list.
    Ex. For example, the outdated subject heading 'Female emancipation' could be changed to the newer term 'Women's liberation' with this function.
    Ex. With computerization some libraries took the opportunity to replace outmoded abstracts bulletins with SDI services.
    Ex. Nonetheless, shelves fill up and eventually must be relieved of duplicated, superseded or obsolete books.
    Ex. This advertisement was part of a publicity campaign which was based on a presentation of Europe so outworn as to be almost meaningless.
    Ex. Only if we continuously redefine our goals in accordance with the developments in our societies will we remain dynamic libraries and not turn into musty institutions.
    Ex. The article 'Reading: an activity out of sync' emphasizes the need for the librarian and the teacher to work together to ensure that pupils are taught about a wide range of quality literature titles and authors.
    Ex. Bielefeld University is replacing its overaged mainframe data processing systems in the library.
    Ex. Some librarians seem to be out of touch with reality.
    Ex. The article deals with matters of image and status, professional associations, cultural policies, collections, censorship, outdated infrastructure and fossilised mentalities.
    Ex. Those elderly bureaucrats and their byzantine procedures are cherished by the customers, who tend to be uninterested in the arcane details of 'digital,' and so are relentlessly passé themselves.
    Ex. He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex. So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex. Does the library continue a stale tradition, or does it interpret social change?.
    Ex. Training would be needed for the reception staff, who all said they were a bit long in the tooth for learning how to use a computer.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (Fís) out of phase; <mecanismo/ritmo> out of sync; <planes/etapas> out of step
    b) <ideas/persona> old-fashioned
    * * *
    = out of date [out-of-date], outdated [out-dated], outmoded, superseded, outworn, musty [mustier -comp., mustiest -sup.], out of sync, overaged, out of touch with + reality, fossilised [fossilized, -USA], byzantine, moth-eaten, mothy [mothier -comp., mothiest -sup.], stale, long in the tooth.

    Ex: It is for this reason that many special libraries have constructed their own indexing language; they have avoided being tied to a possibly out of date published list.

    Ex: For example, the outdated subject heading 'Female emancipation' could be changed to the newer term 'Women's liberation' with this function.
    Ex: With computerization some libraries took the opportunity to replace outmoded abstracts bulletins with SDI services.
    Ex: Nonetheless, shelves fill up and eventually must be relieved of duplicated, superseded or obsolete books.
    Ex: This advertisement was part of a publicity campaign which was based on a presentation of Europe so outworn as to be almost meaningless.
    Ex: Only if we continuously redefine our goals in accordance with the developments in our societies will we remain dynamic libraries and not turn into musty institutions.
    Ex: The article 'Reading: an activity out of sync' emphasizes the need for the librarian and the teacher to work together to ensure that pupils are taught about a wide range of quality literature titles and authors.
    Ex: Bielefeld University is replacing its overaged mainframe data processing systems in the library.
    Ex: Some librarians seem to be out of touch with reality.
    Ex: The article deals with matters of image and status, professional associations, cultural policies, collections, censorship, outdated infrastructure and fossilised mentalities.
    Ex: Those elderly bureaucrats and their byzantine procedures are cherished by the customers, who tend to be uninterested in the arcane details of 'digital,' and so are relentlessly passé themselves.
    Ex: He said: 'The outer shell of democracy is, no doubt, intact but it appears to be moth-eaten from inside'.
    Ex: So, he cleaned the bird cage from top to bottom and threw out all the mothy bird seed.
    Ex: Does the library continue a stale tradition, or does it interpret social change?.
    Ex: Training would be needed for the reception staff, who all said they were a bit long in the tooth for learning how to use a computer.

    * * *
    1 ( Fís) out of phase
    2 ‹mecanismo/ritmo› out of sync; ‹planes/etapas› out of step
    3 ‹ideas/persona› old-fashioned
    está algo desfasado it's a little behind the times o old-fashioned
    * * *

    Del verbo desfasarse: ( conjugate desfasarse)

    desfasado es:

    el participio

    desfasado
    ◊ -da adjetivo ‹ideas/persona› old-fashioned

    desfasado,-a adjetivo
    1 (objeto, moda, etc) outdated
    2 (persona) old-fashioned, behind the times
    3 Téc out of phase

    ' desfasado' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desfasada
    - atrasado
    English:
    time
    - out
    * * *
    desfasado, -a adj
    1. [desincronizado] out of synch o sync
    2. [persona] out of touch;
    [libro, moda] old-fashioned; [ideas] old-fashioned, out of date
    * * *
    adj fig
    old-fashioned
    * * *
    desfasado, -da adj
    1) : out of sync
    2) : out of step, behind the times
    * * *
    desfasado adj out of date

    Spanish-English dictionary > desfasado

  • 4 eliminar

    v.
    to eliminate.
    El líquido eliminó las manchas The liquid eliminated the stains.
    El mafioso eliminó al testigo The mobster eliminated the witness.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to eliminate, exclude
    2 (esperanzas, miedos, etc) to get rid of, cast aside
    3 familiar (matar) to kill, eliminate
    * * *
    verb
    3) kill
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=hacer desaparecer) [+ mancha, obstáculo] to remove, get rid of; [+ residuos] to dispose of; [+ pobreza] to eliminate, eradicate; [+ posibilidad] to rule out

    eliminar un directorio — (Inform) to remove o delete a directory

    2) [+ concursante, deportista] to knock out, eliminate

    fueron eliminados de la competición — they were knocked out of o eliminated from the competition

    3) euf (=matar) to eliminate, do away with *
    4) [+ incógnita] to eliminate
    5) (Fisiol) to eliminate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.
    Ex. It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.
    Ex. The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex. Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex. The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex. With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex. The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex. List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex. Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex. In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex. Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex. The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex. The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex. Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex. This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex. It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex. A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex. Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex. Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex. This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex. Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex. Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex. But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex. Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex. 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex. Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex. Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex. Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex. Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex. Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex. There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex. Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex. This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex. In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex. Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex. Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex. Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex. This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex. The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex. There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex. Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex. Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex. The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex. His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex. Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex. It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex. It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex. Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex. This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex. My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    ----
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) < obstáculo> to remove; < párrafo> to delete, remove
    b) < candidato> to eliminate; (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)
    d) < residuos> to dispose of
    2) <toxinas/grasas> to eliminate
    3) (Mat) < incógnita> to eliminate
    * * *
    = abort, cut off, delete, detach, disband, discard, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, erode, kill, obviate, purge, remove, rid, suppress, take out, withdraw, screen out, retire, squeeze out, decrement, dispel, weed out, axe [ax, -USA], abolish, pare out, chop off, excise, obliterate, scrap, take off, expunge, cut out, put to + rest, sweep away, root out, nix, drive out, deselect, strip away, roll back, efface, cashier, clear out, weed, sunset, stomp + Nombre + out, zap, take + Nombre + out.

    Ex: It is important to know what police or fire responses are triggered by alarms and how that reaction can be aborted and the alarm silenced.

    Ex: The only way to solve these problems is either to revise your catalog in its totality or to cut it off.
    Ex: Expressive notation is generally easier to truncate, that is, delete final characters to create the notation for a more general subject.
    Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex: With the completion of the draft in 1983, the Working Group on an International Authority System was officially disbanded.
    Ex: The dates should be checked regularly and updated so that old dates are discarded and new ones entered.
    Ex: List and describe the steps involved in withdrawing and disposing of books which are no longer required.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS does away with the multiplicity of files and catalogs.
    Ex: Obviously, computers and the use of notation in computerised systems may place additional constraints upon the nature of the notation, or may eliminate the need to consider some of the characteristics below.
    Ex: In this instance links would be insufficient to eradicate the false drop.
    Ex: Pressing the delete key erases a characters without leaving a blank space.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: He was looking for the book 'Flowers and Bullets and Freedom to kill' = Estaba buscando el libro "Flores, balas y libertad para matar".
    Ex: The intercalation of (41-4) after 329 obviates this function.
    Ex: The system requests the number of the borrower and then purges that borrower's name and number from its files.
    Ex: Folders allow a set of papers to be kept together when a set on a given topic is removed from the file.
    Ex: This function can be used to rid access-point files of unused entries.
    Ex: It is possible to suppress references and to omit steps in a hierarchy.
    Ex: A scheme should allow reduction, to take out subjects and their subdivisions which are no longer used.
    Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex: Subjects not in the core of major employment areas are likely to be squeezed out of the standard curriculum.
    Ex: Document terms absent from the original query were decremented.
    Ex: But years and experience do not always dispel the sense of unease.
    Ex: Information services administrators expect library schools to uphold admission standards and weed out unsuitable candidates.
    Ex: 'He's been trying to cover up his tracks; those engineers who got axed were his scapegoats'.
    Ex: Who knows? If we can abolish the card catalogue and replace it with some form more acceptable to library users, they may even begin to use library catalogues!.
    Ex: Because the assumption in this method is that none of the preceding years' operations are worth continuing unless they can be shown to be necessary, zero-based budgeting (ZZB) can be useful for paring out the deadwood of obsolete or uselessly extravagant programs.
    Ex: Others chop off old records to remain within the limits of 680 MB.
    Ex: Once a new digitized system has been introduced irrelevancies and redundant features can more easily be seen and excised.
    Ex: Typing errors cannot be obliterated with a normal erasing fluid as this would print and appear as a blotch on the copies.
    Ex: There have even been rumours of plans to scrap most of the industrial side of its work and disperse key elements, such as the work on regional and industrial aid, to the provinces.
    Ex: Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident.
    Ex: This article examines the controversial issue about whether to expunge books about satanism from the library shelves.
    Ex: In order to support a core acquistions programme of essential materials for its users, a library will more readily cut out material on the fringe of its needs if such material can be obtained by a good document supply system.
    Ex: Careful investigation by the library board of the possibilities inherent in system membership usually puts to rest preconceived fears.
    Ex: Librarians should ensure that the principles they stand for are not swept away on a tide of technological jingoism.
    Ex: Libraries should root out unproductive and obsolete activities.
    Ex: This play was nixed by school officials on the grounds that the subject of sweatshops was not appropriate for that age group.
    Ex: The development of user-friendly interfaces to data bases may drive out the unspecialised information broker in the long run.
    Ex: There is a need to provide public access to the Internet and to develop guidelines for selecting and deselecting appropriate resources.
    Ex: Like its predecessor, it wants to strip away the sentimentality surrounding male-female relationships and reveal the ugly, unvarnished truth.
    Ex: Some Russia specialists say President Putin is rolling back liberal economic and political reforms ushered in by his predecessor.
    Ex: The beauty, the aliveness, the creativity, the passion that made her lovable and gave her life meaning has been effaced.
    Ex: His case was referred to the next session, and in the following May he was cashiered.
    Ex: Pockets of resistance still remain in Fallujah, but the vast majority of insurgents have been cleared out.
    Ex: It seems to me that the electronic catalog provides the ability to build a file that can, in fact, be easily weeded.
    Ex: It's instructive to remember just how passionately the media hyped the dangers of ' sunsetting' the ban.
    Ex: Like I said, no wonder racism won't die, it takes BOTH sides to stomp it out, not just one!.
    Ex: This electric fly swatter will zap any fly or mosquito with 1500 volts.
    Ex: My lasting image of Omar is of him crouched in the rubble waiting for U.S. troops to get close enough so he could take one of them out.
    * ayudar a eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar al intermediario = cut out + the middleman.
    * eliminar ambigüedades = disambiguate.
    * eliminar barreras = flatten + barriers, tackle + barriers, erase + boundaries.
    * eliminar de un golpe = eliminate + at a stroke.
    * eliminar de un texto = redact out, redact.
    * eliminar diferencias = flatten out + differences.
    * eliminar el hielo = de-ice [deice].
    * eliminar el sarro = descale.
    * eliminar gases = pass + gas, break + wind, pass + wind.
    * eliminar la necesidad de = remove + the need for.
    * eliminar las barreras = break down + barriers.
    * eliminar las diferencias = iron out + differences.
    * eliminar los duplicados = deduplicate.
    * eliminar + Nombre = clear of + Nombre.
    * eliminar obstáculos = clear + the path, clear + the way.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * eliminar puestos de trabajo = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * eliminar puliendo = buff out.
    * eliminar una barrera = topple + barrier.
    * eliminar una ecuación de búsqueda = clear + search.
    * eliminar un error = remove + error.
    * eliminar un obstáculo = remove + barrier, sweep away + obstacle.
    * eliminar un problema = sweep away + problem, work out + kink.

    * * *
    eliminar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹obstáculo› to remove; ‹párrafo› to delete, remove
    para eliminar las cucarachas to get rid of o exterminate o kill cockroaches
    2 ‹equipo/candidato› to eliminate
    fueron eliminados del torneo they were knocked out of o eliminated from the tournament
    3 ( euf) (matar) to eliminate ( euph), to get rid of ( euph)
    B ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate
    C ( Mat) ‹incógnita› to eliminate
    * * *

     

    eliminar ( conjugate eliminar) verbo transitivo

    ‹ párrafo› to delete, remove

    (Dep) to eliminate, knock out
    c) (euf) ( matar) to eliminate (euph), to get rid of (euph)


    e) ‹toxinas/grasas› to eliminate

    eliminar verbo transitivo to eliminate
    ' eliminar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acabar
    - cortar
    - descalificar
    - michelín
    - quitar
    - sonda
    - terminar
    - tranquilizar
    English:
    cut out
    - debug
    - eliminate
    - face
    - hit list
    - knock out
    - liquidate
    - obliterate
    - remove
    - weed
    - cut
    - delete
    - do
    - knock
    - take
    - zap
    * * *
    1. [en juego, deporte, concurso] to eliminate (de from);
    el que menos puntos consiga queda eliminado the person who scores the lowest number of points is eliminated;
    lo eliminaron en la segunda ronda he was eliminated o knocked out in the second round
    2. [acabar con] [contaminación] to eliminate;
    [grasas, toxinas] to eliminate, to get rid of; [residuos] to dispose of; [manchas] to remove, to get rid of; [fronteras, obstáculos] to remove, to eliminate;
    eliminó algunos trozos de su discurso he cut out some parts of his speech
    3. Mat [incógnita] to eliminate
    4. Euf [matar] to eliminate, to get rid of
    * * *
    v/t
    1 eliminate
    2 desperdicios dispose of
    3 INFOR delete
    * * *
    1) : to eliminate, to remove
    2) : to do in, to kill
    * * *
    1. (en general) to eliminate
    2. (manchas) to remove

    Spanish-English dictionary > eliminar

  • 5 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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  • 6 retirar

    v.
    1 to remove.
    me ha retirado el saludo he's not speaking to me
    2 to force to retire (jubilar) (a deportista).
    una lesión lo retiró de la alta competición an injury forced him to retire from top-flight competition
    3 to pick up, to collect.
    puede pasar a retirar sus fotos el jueves you can pick your photos up o collect your photos on Thursday
    4 to take back (retractarse de).
    ¡retira eso que o lo que dijiste! take that back!, take back what you said!
    5 to withdraw, to draw off, to draw out, to retire.
    Retiramos nuestro dinero We withdrew our money.
    6 to call in, to call back.
    La fábrica retiró diez piezas malas The factory called in ten damaged units.
    * * *
    1 (apartar - gen) to take away, remove; (- un mueble) to move away
    2 (un carnet) to take away
    3 (algo dicho) to take back
    4 (dinero, ley, moneda) to withdraw
    5 (jubilar) to retire
    1 MILITAR to retreat, withdraw
    2 (apartarse del mundo) to go into seclusion
    3 (apartarse) to withdraw, draw back, move back
    ■ retírate, no veo move back, I can't see
    4 (alejarse) to move away
    ■ retírate de la ventana, te van a ver move away from the window, they'll see you
    5 (marcharse) to leave
    ■ cuando acabó, se retiró when he finished, he left
    6 (irse a descansar) to retire
    7 (jubilarse) to retire
    \
    no se retire (al teléfono) hold on, don't hang up
    * * *
    verb
    1) to take away, remove
    •
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    1. VT
    1) [+ acusación, apoyo, subvención] to withdraw; [+ demanda] to withdraw, take back

    retiró su candidatura a la Presidencia — he stood down from the presidential election, he withdrew his candidacy for the presidency

    2) [+ moneda, sello] to withdraw (from circulation); [+ autobús, avión] to withdraw (from service)

    estos aviones serán retirados de o del servicio — these planes are to be withdrawn from service

    3) [+ permiso, carnet, pasaporte] to withdraw, take away
    4) [+ dinero] to withdraw
    5) [+ tropas] to withdraw; [+ embajador] to recall, withdraw; [+ atleta, caballo] to withdraw, scratch
    6) (=quitar) to take away, remove
    7) [+ cabeza, cara] to pull back, pull away; [+ mano] to draw back, withdraw; [+ tentáculo] to draw in
    8) (=jubilar) to retire, pension off
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( quitar) to remove, take away; ( apartar) to move away

    retiró la cacerola del fuego — he removed the saucepan from the heat, he took the saucepan off the heat

    b) <cabeza/mano> to pull... back
    c) <embajador/tropas> to withdraw, pull out
    d) < jugador> to take off, pull... out of the game; <corredor/ciclista> to withdraw, pull out
    e) (+ me/te/le etc) < apoyo> to withdraw; <pasaporte/carnet> to withdraw, take away
    2) <afirmaciones/propuesta> to withdraw
    3)
    a) (de cuenta, fondo) < dinero> to withdraw
    b) ( recoger) <carnet/entradas> to collect
    2.
    retirarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( apartarse) to move back o away; ( irse) to leave, withdraw
    b) ejército/tropas to withdraw, pull out
    c) ( irse a dormir) to go to bed, retire (frml)
    2) ( jubilarse) to retire; ( de actividad) to withdraw

    se retiró de la carrera — ( antes de iniciarse) he pulled out of o withdrew from the race; ( una vez iniciada) he pulled out of o retired from the race

    * * *
    = pick up, withdraw, retire, take back, perfect, revoke, haul away.
    Ex. Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.
    Ex. Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex. This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex. These are some of the questions the librarian may have to answer: 'Can you recommend a baby-sitter I can trust?', 'How can I stop the hire-purchase company taking back my furniture?', 'Which is the best shoe repairer's in the neighbourhood?'.
    Ex. Even the fully-developed rotary, which soon included devices for cutting and folding the paper as well as for printing and perfecting it, remained fundamentally simple.
    Ex. I would think that we would still charge for lost and damaged books and that we would revoke borrowing privileges of chronic offenders, or whatever we decide to call them.
    Ex. City workers carried out orders to burn some of the library books, while others were buried with the aid of a bulldozer; the remaining books were loaded on trucks and hauled away to trash dumps on the outskirts of the city.
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    * retirar del mercado = withdraw from + sale, take off + the market.
    * retirar dinero = withdraw + cash.
    * retirar paulatinamente = phase out.
    * retirarse = retreat, pull back, bow out, draw back, stand down, back out, walk out.
    * retirarse a los aposientos de Uno = retire + at night.
    * retirarse (de) = pull out of, pull away (from).
    * retirarse por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirarse por miedo = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirar una acusación = drop + a charge.
    * retirar una propuesta = withdraw + proposal.
    * retirar un libro en préstamo = check out + book.
    * sin retirar = uncleared, uncollected.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( quitar) to remove, take away; ( apartar) to move away

    retiró la cacerola del fuego — he removed the saucepan from the heat, he took the saucepan off the heat

    b) <cabeza/mano> to pull... back
    c) <embajador/tropas> to withdraw, pull out
    d) < jugador> to take off, pull... out of the game; <corredor/ciclista> to withdraw, pull out
    e) (+ me/te/le etc) < apoyo> to withdraw; <pasaporte/carnet> to withdraw, take away
    2) <afirmaciones/propuesta> to withdraw
    3)
    a) (de cuenta, fondo) < dinero> to withdraw
    b) ( recoger) <carnet/entradas> to collect
    2.
    retirarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( apartarse) to move back o away; ( irse) to leave, withdraw
    b) ejército/tropas to withdraw, pull out
    c) ( irse a dormir) to go to bed, retire (frml)
    2) ( jubilarse) to retire; ( de actividad) to withdraw

    se retiró de la carrera — ( antes de iniciarse) he pulled out of o withdrew from the race; ( una vez iniciada) he pulled out of o retired from the race

    * * *
    = pick up, withdraw, retire, take back, perfect, revoke, haul away.

    Ex: Then these suggestion can be picked up by the editor, and communicated to the author.

    Ex: Thus, all cards corresponding to documents covering 'Curricula' are withdrawn from the pack.
    Ex: This article stresses the importance for libraries of making current informationav ailable on AIDS, and of retiring out-of-date information on the subject.
    Ex: These are some of the questions the librarian may have to answer: 'Can you recommend a baby-sitter I can trust?', 'How can I stop the hire-purchase company taking back my furniture?', 'Which is the best shoe repairer's in the neighbourhood?'.
    Ex: Even the fully-developed rotary, which soon included devices for cutting and folding the paper as well as for printing and perfecting it, remained fundamentally simple.
    Ex: I would think that we would still charge for lost and damaged books and that we would revoke borrowing privileges of chronic offenders, or whatever we decide to call them.
    Ex: City workers carried out orders to burn some of the library books, while others were buried with the aid of a bulldozer; the remaining books were loaded on trucks and hauled away to trash dumps on the outskirts of the city.
    * retirar del mercado = withdraw from + sale, take off + the market.
    * retirar dinero = withdraw + cash.
    * retirar paulatinamente = phase out.
    * retirarse = retreat, pull back, bow out, draw back, stand down, back out, walk out.
    * retirarse a los aposientos de Uno = retire + at night.
    * retirarse (de) = pull out of, pull away (from).
    * retirarse por cobardía = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirarse por miedo = wimp out (on), wimp, chicken out (on/of).
    * retirar una acusación = drop + a charge.
    * retirar una propuesta = withdraw + proposal.
    * retirar un libro en préstamo = check out + book.
    * sin retirar = uncleared, uncollected.

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    retirar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (quitar) to remove, take away; (apartar) to move o take away
    retiraron las sillas para que pudiéramos bailar they moved o took away the chairs so that we could dance
    el camarero retiró los platos the waiter took o cleared the plates away
    retiraron los dos vehículos accidentados the two vehicles involved in the accident were moved out of the way o were removed
    los vehículos mal estacionados serán retirados badly-parked vehicles will be towed (away) o removed
    sin retirar la tapadera without taking off o removing the lid
    retiraremos a nuestro embajador we shall recall o withdraw our ambassador
    retirar algo DE algo:
    retíralo de la chimenea un poco move it back from the fireplace a little, move it a bit further away from the fire
    retiró la cacerola del fuego he removed the saucepan from the heat, he took the saucepan off the heat
    retiraron los tres coches de la calzada the three cars were removed from o moved off the road
    el autobús tuvo que ser retirado del servicio the bus had to be withdrawn from service
    retiró el ejército de la frontera he withdrew the army from the border
    serán retirados de la circulación they will be withdrawn from circulation
    2 ‹cabeza/mano›
    en el último momento retiró la cabeza at the last moment she pulled her head back o away
    no intentes retirar la mano don't try to pull your hand back ( o out etc), don't try to remove o withdraw your hand
    retirar algo DE algo:
    retiré la mano de la bolsa I took my hand out of the bag, I removed o withdrew my hand from the bag
    3 «entrenador» ‹jugador› to take off, pull … out of the game; ‹corredor/ciclista› to withdraw, pull out
    4 (+ me/te/le etc) ‹apoyo› to withdraw; ‹pasaporte/carnet› to withdraw, take away
    me retiró el saludo/la palabra she stopped saying hello to me/speaking to me
    B ‹afirmaciones/acusación› to withdraw; ‹candidatura/propuesta› to withdraw
    retiro lo dicho I take back o withdraw what I said
    C
    1 (de una cuenta, un fondo) ‹dinero› to withdraw
    2 (recoger) ‹certificado/carnet/entradas› to collect
    A
    1 (apartarse) to move back o away; (irse) to leave, withdraw
    me retiré de la puerta para dejarle paso I moved back from o away from o I stood back from the door to let him through
    puede retirarse you may go o ( frml) withdraw
    el ejército se retiró de la zona the army withdrew from o pulled out of the area
    se retiró a un convento he retired o withdrew to a monastery
    cuando las aguas se retiraron when the waters receded o retreated
    2 (irse a dormir) to go to bed, retire ( frml)
    B
    1 (jubilarse) to retire
    2 (de una actividad) to withdraw
    se retiró una semana antes de la votación he withdrew one week before the vote
    se retiró de la vida pública she retired o withdrew from public life
    se retiró de la carrera/competición (antes de iniciarse) he pulled out of o withdrew from the race/competition; (una vez iniciada) he pulled out of o retired from the race/competition
    * * *

     

    retirar ( conjugate retirar) verbo transitivo
    1

    ( apartar) to move away;

    retirar de la circulación to withdraw from circulation
    b) ‹cabeza/mano› to pull … back

    c) ‹embajador/tropas› to withdraw, pull out

    d) (+ me/te/le etc) ‹ apoyo› to withdraw;

    ‹pasaporte/carnet› to withdraw, take away
    2 ‹afirmaciones/propuesta› to withdraw;

    3 ( de cuenta) ‹ dinero› to withdraw
    retirarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) ( apartarse) to move back o away;

    ( irse) to leave, withdraw
    b) [ejército/tropas] to withdraw, pull out


    2 ( jubilarse) to retire;
    ( de competición — antes de iniciarse) to withdraw, pull out;
    (— una vez iniciada) to pull out
    retirar verbo transitivo
    1 (de un lugar) to remove, move away: ya hemos retirado todos los muebles, we've already removed all of the furniture
    2 (de una actividad) to retire from
    3 (una ayuda, dinero) to withdraw
    4 (un comentario) to take back: espero que retires esas palabras, I hope you take back those words
    5 (el pasaporte, carné) to take away
    ' retirar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    quitar
    - saludo
    - desautorizar
    - sacar
    English:
    draw back
    - ex
    - ground
    - ill health
    - phase
    - pull out
    - recall
    - retire
    - retract
    - take back
    - take out
    - withdraw
    - call
    - disengage
    - drop
    - pull
    - reclaim
    - take
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [quitar, sacar] to remove (a from); [moneda, producto] to withdraw (de from); [carné, pasaporte] to take away (a from); [ayuda, subvención, apoyo] to withdraw (a from); [ejército, tropas] to withdraw (de from); [embajador] to withdraw, to recall (de from);
    retirar dinero del banco/de la cuenta to withdraw money from the bank/one's account;
    el entrenador retiró a Claudio del terreno de juego/del equipo the manager took Claudio off/left Claudio out of the team;
    me ha retirado el saludo she's not speaking to me
    2. [apartar, quitar de en medio] [objeto] to move away;
    [nieve] to clear; [mano] to withdraw;
    habrá que retirar ese armario de ahí we'll have to move that wardrobe (away) from there;
    retira el dedo o te cortarás move your finger back or you'll cut yourself
    3. [recoger, llevarse] to pick up, to collect;
    puede pasar a retirar sus fotos el jueves you can pick your photos up o collect your photos on Thursday
    4. [retractarse de] [insultos, acusaciones, afirmaciones] to take back;
    [denuncia] to drop;
    ¡retira eso que o [m5] lo que dijiste! take that back!, take back what you said!
    5. [jubilar] [a empleado] to retire;
    una lesión lo retiró de la alta competición an injury forced him to retire from top-flight competition
    * * *
    v/t silla, obstáculo take away, remove; acusación, dinero withdraw
    * * *
    1) : to remove, to take away, to recall
    2) : to withdraw, to take out
    * * *
    1. (en general) to withdraw [pt. withdrew; pp. withdrawn]
    2. (acusación, palabras) to take back [pt. took; pp. taken]

    Spanish-English dictionary > retirar

  • 7 auslaufen

    (unreg., trennb., -ge-)
    I v/i (ist)
    1. Flüssigkeit: run out; durch Leck: leak out; Eiter: drain
    2. Wanne etc.: empty; durch Leck: leak; Auge etc.: drain
    3. NAUT. sail
    4. Farbe: run
    5. Läufer, Motor, Propeller etc.: run out; (stehen bleiben) come ( oder roll) to a stop
    6. (aufhören) end, come to an end; Vertrag etc.: expire; run out; Modell: be discontinued; allmählich: be phased out; auslaufen lassen (Produkt, Fernsehserie etc.) phase out
    7. auslaufen in (+ Akk) in eine Ebene etc.: end in; (sich zuspitzen) taper (in)to, narrow (in)to
    8. umg. ausgehen 4
    II v/refl (hat)
    1. get some exercise; im Garten können sich die Kinder richtig auslaufen the children can have a really good run around in the garden (Am. yard) ( oder can run around to their hearts’ content)
    2. nach Rennen, Training: warm down, have a warm-down run
    * * *
    (Gefäß) to run out; to leak out;
    (Modellreihe) to phase-out;
    (Schiff) to sail; to set sail
    * * *
    aus|lau|fen sep
    1. vi aux sein
    1) (Flüssigkeit) to run out (aus of); (Behälter) to empty; (= undicht sein) to leak; (Wasserbett, Blase, Auge) to drain; (Eiter) to drain, to discharge
    2) (NAUT Schiff, Besatzung) to sail
    3) (=nicht fortgeführt werden Modell, Serie) to be discontinued; (= ausgehen Vorräte, Lager) to run out

    etw áúslaufen lassen (Produkt etc) — to phase sth out

    4) (=aufhören Straße, Vertrag etc) to run out
    5) (= ein bestimmtes Ende nehmen) to turn out
    6) (= zum Stillstand kommen) (Motor, Förderband) to come to a stop; (SPORT) (Läufer) to ease off, to slow down; (Skifahrer) to coast to a stop
    7) (= übergehen in) to run; (fig Streit etc) to turn (
    in +acc into)

    die Berge laufen in die Ebene/spitz aus — the mountains run into the plain/come to a point

    in eine Bucht áúslaufen — to open out into a bay

    8) (Farbe, Stoff) to run
    2. vr
    to have some exercise

    sich áúslaufen können (Kinder) — to have room to run about

    * * *
    aus|lau·fen
    I. vi Hilfsverb: sein
    ▪ [aus etw dat] \auslaufen to run out [of sth]; (wegen Undichtheit) to leak out [of sth]; (Inhalt austreten lassen) to leak; Auge to drain; Blase to discharge, to drain
    2. NAUT (Hafen verlassen) to [set] sail, to put out to sea
    3. (nicht fortgeführt werden) to be discontinued
    ▪ ausgelaufen discontinued
    4. (enden) to end; Vertrag to expire, to run out
    5. (ein bestimmtes Ende nehmen)
    ▪ gut/nicht gut \auslaufen to turn out well/badly
    6. (zum Stillstand kommen) to come to a stop; Läufer a. to ease off, to slow down; Skispringer to glide to a stop
    7. (übergehen in)
    ▪ in etw akk \auslaufen to run into sth; (dadurch breiter werden) to open out into sth; Berge to end in sth; Streit, Ehekrach to turn into sth
    II. vr Hilfsverb: haben
    ▪ sich akk \auslaufen to have a good run about [or enough exercise]
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) run out ( aus of); < pus> drain
    2) (leer laufen) empty; < egg> run out
    3) (in See stechen) sail, set sail ( nach for)
    4) (erlöschen) <contract, agreement, etc.> run out
    5) (nicht fortgesetzt werden) < model, line> be dropped or discontinued

    etwas auslaufen lassen — drop or discontinue something

    6) (zum Stillstand kommen) come or roll to a stop
    * * *
    auslaufen (irr, trennb, -ge-)
    A. v/i (ist)
    1. Flüssigkeit: run out; durch Leck: leak out; Eiter: drain
    2. Wanne etc: empty; durch Leck: leak; Auge etc: drain
    3. SCHIFF sail
    4. Farbe: run
    5. Läufer, Motor, Propeller etc: run out; (stehen bleiben) come ( oder roll) to a stop
    6. (aufhören) end, come to an end; Vertrag etc: expire; run out; Modell: be discontinued; allmählich: be phased out;
    auslaufen lassen (Produkt, Fernsehserie etc) phase out
    7.
    auslaufen in (+akk) in eine Ebene etc: end in; (sich zuspitzen) taper (in)to, narrow (in)to
    8. umg → ausgehen 4
    B. v/r (hat)
    1. get some exercise;
    im Garten können sich die Kinder richtig auslaufen the children can have a really good run around in the garden (US yard) ( oder can run around to their hearts’ content)
    2. nach Rennen, Training: warm down, have a warm-down run
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) run out ( aus of); < pus> drain
    2) (leer laufen) empty; < egg> run out
    3) (in See stechen) sail, set sail ( nach for)
    4) (erlöschen) <contract, agreement, etc.> run out
    5) (nicht fortgesetzt werden) <model, line> be dropped or discontinued

    etwas auslaufen lassen — drop or discontinue something

    6) (zum Stillstand kommen) come or roll to a stop
    * * *
    (Gelände) v.
    to level off v. adj.
    rundown adj. v.
    to run out v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > auslaufen

  • 8 etapa

    f.
    stage.
    las últimas etapas the final stages
    por etapas in stages
    quemar etapas to come on in leaps and bounds, to progress rapidly
    está pasando una mala etapa he's going through a bad patch
    * * *
    1 period, stage
    2 (parada) stop, stage
    3 DEPORTE leg, stage
    \
    por etapas in stages
    quemar etapas figurado to get on in leaps and bounds
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [de viaje] stage
    2) (=fase) stage, phase

    desarrollo por etapas — phased development, development in stages

    3) (Dep) leg, lap
    4) (Mil) stopping place
    5) [de cohete] stage
    * * *
    1) ( en viaje) stage; (en ciclismo, rally) leg, stage
    2) ( de proceso) stage, phase

    la etapa más feliz de mi vida — the best o happiest time of my life

    * * *
    = phase, stage, step, chapter.
    Ex. This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile for the thesaurus.
    Ex. The first stage in the choice of access points must be the definition of an author.
    Ex. The first step in assigning intellectual responsibility to a corporate body must be a definition of a corporate body.
    Ex. The late 18th century heyday of aristocratic libraries was a brief but important chapter in Hungarian library history.
    ----
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * empezar una nueva etapa en la vida = turn over + a new page, turn over + a new leaf.
    * en tres etapas = three-step.
    * en varias etapas = multistage [multi-stage], multi-step.
    * etapa anterior a la impresión = prepress [pre-press].
    * etapa de desarollo = stage of development.
    * etapa de la vida = life stage.
    * etapa de planificación = planning stage.
    * etapa final = output stage.
    * etapa inicial = input stage.
    * llegar a una etapa = reach + point.
    * marcar una etapa = mark + a stage.
    * por etapas = staged.
    * primera etapa = early days.
    * subetapa = sub-stage.
    * superar la etapa de = move on from.
    * volver a la etapa de planificación = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board.
    * * *
    1) ( en viaje) stage; (en ciclismo, rally) leg, stage
    2) ( de proceso) stage, phase

    la etapa más feliz de mi vida — the best o happiest time of my life

    * * *
    = phase, stage, step, chapter.

    Ex: This planning phase involves moving from a vague impression that a thesaurus might be useful to a fairly precise profile for the thesaurus.

    Ex: The first stage in the choice of access points must be the definition of an author.
    Ex: The first step in assigning intellectual responsibility to a corporate body must be a definition of a corporate body.
    Ex: The late 18th century heyday of aristocratic libraries was a brief but important chapter in Hungarian library history.
    * eliminar por etapas = phase out.
    * empezar una nueva etapa en la vida = turn over + a new page, turn over + a new leaf.
    * en tres etapas = three-step.
    * en varias etapas = multistage [multi-stage], multi-step.
    * etapa anterior a la impresión = prepress [pre-press].
    * etapa de desarollo = stage of development.
    * etapa de la vida = life stage.
    * etapa de planificación = planning stage.
    * etapa final = output stage.
    * etapa inicial = input stage.
    * llegar a una etapa = reach + point.
    * marcar una etapa = mark + a stage.
    * por etapas = staged.
    * primera etapa = early days.
    * subetapa = sub-stage.
    * superar la etapa de = move on from.
    * volver a la etapa de planificación = return to + the drawing boards, back to the drawing board.

    * * *
    A (en un viaje, recorrido) stage; (en ciclismo, un rally) leg, stage
    hicimos el viaje en varias etapas/por etapas we did the trip in stages
    Compuesto:
    opening time-trial
    B (de un proceso) stage, phase
    la etapa más feliz de mi vida the best o happiest time o period of my life
    C (de un cohete, misil) stage
    * * *

     

    etapa sustantivo femenino
    stage;

    la etapa más feliz de mi vida the best o happiest time of my life
    etapa sustantivo femenino stage, phase: haremos el trabajo por etapas, we'll do the work in stages

    ' etapa' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atravesar
    - contrarreloj
    - estadio
    - extensa
    - extenso
    - fase
    - interfase
    - transición
    - clasificación
    - clasificar
    - entrada
    - entrar
    - intermedio
    - ronda
    - superar
    - trámite
    English:
    degree
    - early
    - growing
    - lap
    - leg
    - stage
    - go
    - past
    - preliminary
    * * *
    etapa nf
    1. [trayecto, fase] stage;
    está pasando una mala etapa he's going through a bad patch;
    por etapas in stages;
    la reforma educativa será implantada por etapas the educational reforms will be introduced in stages
    2. Dep stage;
    una vuelta ciclista por etapas a staged cycle race
    etapa ciclista stage [of cycle race];
    etapa contrarreloj [en ciclismo] time trial;
    etapa de montaña [en ciclismo] mountain stage;
    etapa prólogo [en ciclismo] prologue
    * * *
    f
    1 DEP stage, leg
    2 stage;
    por etapas in stages;
    quemar etapas cut corners
    * * *
    etapa nf
    fase: stage, phase
    * * *
    etapa n stage

    Spanish-English dictionary > etapa

  • 9 фаза

    ( колебаний) electric(al) angle, phase angle, angle, ( многофазной цепи) branch эл., leg, phase, stage
    * * *
    фа́за ж.
    1. (в теории колебаний и волн, термодинамике, электротехнике) phase
    в фа́зе — in phase
    не в фа́зе — out of phase
    обеспе́чивать опереже́ние по фа́зе — advance a phase
    осажда́ть какую-л. фа́зу — precipitate a phase, cause a phase to precipitate
    отлича́ться [различа́ться] по фа́зе — differ [be different] in phase
    отстаю́щий по фа́зе — lagging [retarding] in phase
    противополо́жный по фа́зе — opposite in phase, out of phase by p, in anti-phase
    сдви́нутый по фа́зе — out of phase; displaced in phase
    совпада́ющий по фа́зе — in phase
    2. (стадия, этап) phase, stage
    устана́вливать фа́зу вчт. — set a phase, set the (so-and-so) phase condition
    беспоря́дочная фа́за — random phase
    во́дная фа́за — aqueous phase
    временна́я фа́за — time phase
    га́зовая фа́за — gas(eous) phase
    газообра́зная фа́за — gas(eous) phase
    грани́чная фа́за — boundary phase
    диспе́рсная фа́за — disperse(d) [discontinuous] phase
    дифференциа́льная фа́за тлв. — differential phase
    жи́дкая фа́за — liquid phase
    фа́за за́паха, втора́я — middle note
    фа́за за́паха, пе́рвая — first note, topnote
    фа́за за́паха, тре́тья — basic [lingering, residual] note
    исполни́тельная фа́за ( программы или команды) вчт. — execute phase
    испра́вная фа́за эл. — sound [healthy] phase
    конденси́рованная фа́за — condensed phase
    фа́за кристаллиза́ции — crystallization phase
    кристалли́ческая фа́за — crystal (line) phase
    фа́за Луны́ — phase of the Moon, lunar phase
    мё́ртвая фа́за хим. — dead [weak] phase
    метастаби́льная фа́за — metastable phase
    нача́льная фа́за ( периодического колебания) — epoch (angle), initial phase
    неиспра́вная фа́за эл. — faulty [faulted] phase
    нейтра́льная фа́за — neutral phase
    непреры́вная фа́за ( в дисперсионных средах) — continuous phase
    норма́льная фа́за ( несверхпроводящая) — normal phase
    обра́тная фа́за — reversed phase
    одноро́дная фа́за — continuous phase
    основна́я фа́за — master phase
    отрица́тельная фа́за — minus phase
    парова́я фа́за — vapour phase
    парообра́зная фа́за — vapour phase
    перехо́дная фа́за — transition phase
    фа́за поко́я — dwell phase
    положи́тельная фа́за — plus phase
    произво́льная фа́за — arbitrary phase
    промежу́точная фа́за — intermediate phase
    противополо́жная фа́за — opposite [reversed] phase, antiphase
    фа́за рассе́яния — scattering phase
    фа́за раствори́теля — solvent phase
    расще́пленная фа́за — split phase
    сверхпроводя́щая фа́за — superconducting phase
    си́гма-фа́за метал. — sigma phase
    сопряжё́нная фа́за — conjugate phase
    стациона́рная фа́за — stationary phase
    стеклови́дная фа́за — vitreous phase
    твё́рдая фа́за — solid phase

    Русско-английский политехнический словарь > фаза

  • 10 treten

    to stride; to kick; to tread; to pace; to march
    * * *
    tre|ten ['treːtn] pret trat [traːt] ptp getreten [gə'treːtn]
    1. vi
    1) (= ausschlagen, mit Fuß anstoßen) to kick (gegen etw sth, nach out at)
    2) aux sein (mit Raumangabe) to step

    hier kann man nicht mehr tréten — there is no room to move here

    vom Schatten ins Helle tréten — to move out of the shadow into the light

    tréten — to move or step closer to sth

    vor die Kamera tréten (im Fernsehen) — to appear on TV; (im Film) to appear in a film or on the screen

    in den Vordergrund/Hintergrund tréten — to step forward/back; (fig) to come to the forefront/to recede into the background

    an jds Stelle tréten — to take sb's place

    See:
    → nahe
    3) aux sein or haben (in Loch, Pfütze, auf Gegenstand etc) to step, to tread

    jdm auf den Fuß tréten — to step on sb's foot, to tread (esp Brit) or step on sb's toe

    jdm auf die Füße tréten (fig) — to tread (esp Brit) or step on sb's toes

    tréten — to tread on sb's toes

    getreten fühlen — to feel offended, to be put out

    See:
    → Stelle
    4) aux sein or haben

    (= betätigen) in die Pedale tréten — to pedal hard

    auf die Bremse tréten — to brake, to put one's foot on the brake

    5) aux sein

    (= hervortreten, sichtbar werden) Wasser trat aus allen Ritzen und Fugen — water was coming out of every nook and cranny

    Tränen traten ihr in die Augen — tears came to her eyes, her eyes filled with tears

    6) aux sein (Funktionsverb) (= beginnen) to start, to begin; (= eintreten) to enter

    tréten — to come into or enter sb's life

    ins Leben tréten — to come into being

    in den Ruhestand tréten — to retire

    in den Streik or Ausstand tréten — to go on strike

    in den Staatsdienst/Stand der Ehe or Ehestand tréten — to enter the civil service/into the state of matrimony

    mit jdm in Verbindung tréten — to get in touch with sb

    in die entscheidende Phase tréten — to enter the crucial phase

    See:
    2. vt
    1) (= einen Fußtritt geben, stoßen) to kick; (SPORT) Ecke, Freistoß to take

    jdn ans Bein tréten — to kick sb's leg, to kick sb on or in the leg

    jdn mit dem Fuß tréten — to kick sb

    in den Hintern tréten (fig inf) — to kick oneself

    2) (= mit Fuß betätigen) Spinnrad, Nähmaschine, Webstuhl, Blasebalg to operate (using one's foot)

    die Bremse tréten — to brake, to put on the brakes

    die Pedale tréten — to pedal

    3) (= trampeln) Pfad, Weg, Bahn to tread

    einen Splitter in den Fuß tréten — to get a splinter in one's foot

    See:
    → Wasser
    4) (fig) (= schlecht behandeln) to shove around (inf)
    5) (= begatten) to tread, to mate with
    * * *
    1) (to hit or strike out with the foot: The child kicked his brother; He kicked the ball into the next garden; He kicked at the locked door; He kicked open the gate.) kick
    2) (to place one's feet on: He threw his cigarette on the ground and trod on it.) tread
    * * *
    tre·ten
    <tritt, trat, getreten>
    [ˈtre:tn̩]
    I. vi
    1. Hilfsverb: sein (gehen)
    ▪ irgendwohin \treten to step somewhere; (hineingehen a.) to go somewhere; (hereinkommen a.) to come somewhere
    bitte \treten Sie näher! please come in!
    pass auf, wohin du trittst mind [or watch] your step, watch where you tread [or step] [or you're treading]
    ▪ an etw akk \treten to step up [or come/go [up]] to sth
    ▪ auf etw akk \treten to step on [to] [ or esp AM also onto] sth
    auf den Flur \treten to step into the hall
    von einem Fuß auf den anderen \treten to shift from one foot to the other
    ▪ aus etw dat \treten to step [or come/go] out of [or fam out] sth; Raum a. to leave sth
    er trat aus der Tür he walked out of [or fam out] the door
    ▪ hinter etw akk \treten to step behind sth
    die Sonne tritt hinter die Wolken (fig) the sun disappeared behind the clouds
    ▪ in etw akk \treten to step [or come/go] into sth; Raum a. to enter sth
    ▪ von etw dat \treten (absteigen) to step off sth; (zurückgehen) to step [or move] [or come/go] away from sth
    ▪ vor jdn \treten to appear before sb
    ▪ vor etw akk \treten to step in front of sth
    vor den Spiegel \treten to step up to the mirror
    vor die Tür \treten to step outside
    ▪ zu jdm/etw \treten to step up to sb/sth
    zur Seite \treten to step [or move] aside
    2. Hilfsverb: sein (fließen)
    der Fluss trat über seine Ufer the river broke [or burst] [or overflowed] its banks
    Schweiß trat ihm auf die Stirn sweat appeared on [or beaded] his forehead
    ▪ aus etw dat \treten to come out of sth; (durch Auslass) to exit from sth; (quellen) to ooze from sth; (tropfen) to drip from sth; (stärker) to run from sth; (strömen) to pour [or gush] from [or out of] sth; (entweichen) to leak from sth
    der Schweiß trat ihm aus allen Poren he was sweating profusely
    Wasser tritt aus den Wänden water was coming out of the walls, the walls were exuding water
    3. Hilfsverb: sein o (selten) haben (den Fuß setzen)
    ▪ auf etw akk \treten to tread [or step] on sth
    jdm auf etw akk \treten to tread [or step] on sb's sth
    jdm auf den Fuß \treten to tread [or step] on sb's foot [or toes]
    ▪ in etw akk \treten to step in sth
    du bist in etwas ge\treten (euph) smells like you've stepped in something
    in einen Nagel \treten to tread [or step] on a nail; s.a. Schlips
    4. Hilfsverb: haben (stampfen)
    ▪ auf/in etw akk \treten to stamp on sth
    5. Hilfsverb: haben (schlagen)
    ▪ [mit etw dat] \treten to kick
    ▪ jdm an/vor etw akk \treten to kick sb's sth [or sb on sth]
    ▪ gegen etw akk \treten to kick sth
    ▪ jdm gegen/in etw akk \treten to kick sb in sth
    jdm in den Hintern \treten (fam) to kick sb [or give sb a kick] up the backside [or BRIT also bum] fam
    ▪ nach jdm \treten to kick out [or aim a kick] at sb
    6. Hilfsverb: haben (betätigen)
    ▪ auf etw akk \treten to step on sth, to press [or depress] sth with one's foot
    auf den Balg \treten to operate the bellows
    auf die Bremse \treten to brake, to apply [or step on] the brakes
    aufs Gaspedal \treten to accelerate, AM fam also to hit the gas
    voll aufs Gaspedal \treten to floor the accelerator [or AM fam also gas]
    auf die Kupplung \treten to engage [or operate] the clutch
    auf die Pedale \treten to pedal
    7. Hilfsverb: haben (pej fam: schikanieren)
    nach unten \treten to bully [or harass] the staff under one
    8. Hilfsverb: sein (anfangen)
    sie ist in ihr 80. Jahr ge\treten she has now turned 80
    in Aktion \treten to go into action
    in den Ausstand \treten to go on strike
    in jds Dienste \treten to enter sb's service
    in den Ruhestand \treten to go into retirement
    in den Stand der Ehe \treten (geh) to enter into the state of matrimony form
    in Verhandlungen \treten to enter into negotiations
    9. Hilfsverb: sein (fig)
    in jds Bewusstsein \treten to occur to sb
    in Erscheinung \treten to appear; Person a. to appear in person
    in jds Leben \treten to come into sb's life
    auf jds Seite \treten to take sb's side; s.a. Hintergrund, Stelle, Vordergrund
    10. Hilfsverb: sein (selten: einschwenken)
    in eine Umlaufbahn \treten to enter into orbit
    11. Hilfsverb: haben (begatten)
    eine Henne \treten to tread a hen spec
    II. vt Hilfsverb: haben
    ▪ jdn/etw [mit etw dat] \treten to kick sb/sth [with one's sth]
    den Ball [o das Leder] \treten FBALL (sl) to play football
    jdn mit dem Fuß \treten to kick sb
    den Ball ins Aus/Tor \treten to kick the ball out of play/into the net
    eine Ecke/einen Elfmeter/einen Freistoß \treten to take a corner/penalty/free kick
    ▪ etw \treten to step on sth, to press [or depress] sth with one's foot
    den Balg \treten to operate the bellows
    die Bremse \treten to brake, to apply [or step on] the brakes
    die Kupplung \treten to engage [or operate] the clutch
    die Pedale \treten to pedal
    die Mönche haben eine Spur auf die Steintreppe ge\treten the monks have worn away the stone steps with their feet
    einen Pfad durch etw akk \treten to trample [or tread] a path through sth
    tretet mir keinen Dreck ins Haus! wipe your feet before coming into the house!
    [jdm] eine Delle in etw akk \treten to kick/stamp a dent in [sb's] sth
    etw in die Erde/einen Teppich \treten to tread/stamp sth into the earth/a carpet
    etw zu Matsch \treten to stamp sth to a mush
    etw platt \treten to stamp sth flat
    ihr tretet meine Blumen platt! you're trampling all over my flowers!
    ▪ jdn \treten to bully [or harass] sb
    8. (fam: antreiben)
    ▪ jdn \treten to give sb a kick up the backside [or in the pants] fam
    ▪ jdn \treten, damit er etw tut to give sb a kick to make him do sth
    III. vr
    ▪ sich dat etw in etw akk \treten to get sth in one's sth
    sie trat sich einen Nagel in den Fuß she stepped onto a nail [or ran a nail into her foot]
    ▪ sich dat etw von etw dat \treten to stamp sth off one's sth
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb
    1) mit sein (einen Schritt, Schritte machen) step (in + Akk. into, auf + Akk. on to)

    der Schweiß ist ihm auf die Stirn getreten — (fig.) the sweat came to his brow

    der Fluss ist über die Ufer getreten — (fig.) the river has overflowed its banks

    auf etwas (Akk.) treten — (absichtlich) tread on something; (unabsichtlich; meist mit sein) step or tread on something

    jemandem auf den Fuß treten — step/tread on somebody's foot or toes

    auf das Gas[pedal] treten — step on the accelerator

    jemandem an od. gegen das Schienbein treten — kick somebody on the shin

    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) kick <person, ball, etc.>
    2) (trampeln) trample, tread < path>
    3) (mit dem Fuß niederdrücken) step on <brake, pedal>; operate < clutch>
    * * *
    treten; tritt, trat, getreten
    A. v/i (ist)
    1. (sich mit einem Schritt oder Schritten in eine bestimmte Richtung bewegen) step, walk, go, move;
    zur Seite treten step ( oder move) aside ( oder to one side);
    jemandem in den Weg treten step into sb’s path; (den Weg versperren) block sb’s path;
    in ein Zimmer treten go into ( oder walk into oder enter; kommen: come into) a room;
    ans Fenster treten go (over) to the window;
    über die Schwelle treten cross the threshold;
    treten Sie näher! step this way!;
    sie war auf seine Seite getreten fig she had chosen ( oder joined) his side
    2. Sachen: (sich [scheinbar] bewegen) go, come, pass;
    der Mond/die Sonne trat hinter die Wolken the moon/sun disappeared behind the clouds; Sonne: auch the sun went in umg;
    die Tränen traten ihm in die Augen tears came to ( oder welled up in) his eyes;
    der Schweiß trat ihm auf die Stirn (beads of) sweat formed ( oder stood out) on his forehead ( oder face);
    über die Ufer treten Fluss: overflow (its banks), flood
    3. (unabsichtlich den Fuß auf, in etwas setzen) stand, step, tread (
    auf/in +akk on/in);
    jemandem auf den Fuß treten tread (US step) ( oder stand) on sb’s toes ( oder foot);
    hast)
    in etwas getreten you’ve put your foot ( oder trodden geh) in sth
    4. (absichtlich den Fuß auf, in etwas setzen) tread, step, place one’s foot ( oder feet) (
    auf/in +akk on/in); (stampfen) stamp; (trampeln) trample;
    auf etwas treten tread (besonders US step) on sth;
    man wusste nicht, wohin man treten sollte you didn’t know where to put your feet ( oder where to step);
    von einem Fuß auf den andern treten hop from one leg ( oder shift from one foot) to the other
    B. v/t & v/i
    1. (hat) (jemandem, einer Sache einen Fußtritt versetzen) kick, give sb (oder sth) a kick;
    nach jemandem treten (take a) kick ( oder kick out) at sb;
    jemandem gegen das Schienbein treten kick sb in the shin(s);
    Vorsicht, das Pferd tritt! look out, that horse kicks ( oder is a kicker)!;
    treten gegen unabsichtlich: accidentally kick (against), walk into; absichtlich: kick; fig (jemanden drängen) prod, put pressure on ( stärker: kick);
    man muss ihn immer treten umg, fig you have to keep prodding him; (jemanden schikanieren) ( auch
    mit Füßen treten) bully, trample on;
    nach unten treten take it out on the dog
    2. (hat) (durch einen Tritt, Tritte bewirken) kick;
    eine Ecke/einen Elfmeter treten take a corner (kick)/a penalty;
    einen Pfad in den Schnee treten kick ( oder stamp out) a path through ( oder in) the snow;
    eine Beule ins Auto treten dent the car with a kick ( oder by kicking it);
    sich (dat)
    den Dreck von den Schuhen treten kick ( oder stamp) the muck off one’s boots
    3. (hat) (durch Fußdruck betätigen, bewirken) press down (with the foot), depress; Radfahrer: pedal;
    die Kupplung/Pedale treten depress the clutch (pedal)/work the pedals ( Fahrrad: pedal, push on the pedals);
    aufs Gas treten put one’s foot down umg, step on it ( oder on the gas) umg, put the pedal to the metal umg;
    auf die Bremse treten brake, apply the brakes; Vollbremsung: stand on the brakes umg
    sich (dat)
    einen Dorn in den Fuß treten get a thorn in ( oder run a thorn into) one’s foot
    5. ZOOL (begatten) tread, mount;
    der Hahn tritt die Henne the cock treads the hen; → nah B, näher; → Dienst 3, Hühnerauge, Kraft 6, Schlips, Stelle 1, zutage etc
    * * *
    1.
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb
    1) mit sein (einen Schritt, Schritte machen) step (in + Akk. into, auf + Akk. on to)

    der Schweiß ist ihm auf die Stirn getreten — (fig.) the sweat came to his brow

    der Fluss ist über die Ufer getreten — (fig.) the river has overflowed its banks

    auf etwas (Akk.) treten — (absichtlich) tread on something; (unabsichtlich; meist mit sein) step or tread on something

    jemandem auf den Fuß treten — step/tread on somebody's foot or toes

    auf das Gas[pedal] treten — step on the accelerator

    jemandem an od. gegen das Schienbein treten — kick somebody on the shin

    2.
    unregelmäßiges transitives Verb
    1) kick <person, ball, etc.>
    2) (trampeln) trample, tread < path>
    3) (mit dem Fuß niederdrücken) step on <brake, pedal>; operate < clutch>
    * * *
    (in) v.
    to step (into) v. v.
    (§ p.,pp.: trat, ist/hat getreten)
    = to kick v.
    to tread v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: trod, trodden)

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  • 11 desfasar

    v.
    to phase out ( electricity and electronics).
    * * *
    1 TÉCNICA to phase out
    1 TÉCNICA to change phase
    2 (persona) to be out of synch
    * * *
    VT
    1) (=dejar anticuado) to phase out
    2) (Elec) to change the phase of
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    Elec to phase out
    ♦ vi
    Esp Fam [desmadrarse] to go wild o over the top

    Spanish-English dictionary > desfasar

  • 12 Verkehr

    m; -s, fachspr. -e
    1. VERK. (Straßenverkehr) traffic; öffentlicher Verkehr public transport(ation Am.); es herrscht starker Verkehr there is heavy traffic, the traffic is heavy; dem Verkehr übergeben open to traffic; für den Verkehr gesperrt closed to (all) traffic; aus dem Verkehr ziehen (Auto) take off the road; umg., fig. (jemanden) take out of circulation; fließen etc.
    2. (Verbindung) contact, dealings Pl.; (Geschäftsverkehr) business; (Briefverkehr) correspondence; den Verkehr mit jemandem abbrechen break off contact with s.o.; aus dem Verkehr ziehen (auslaufen lassen) phase out; (Geld) withdraw from circulation; in Verkehr bringen issue; (Effekten) auch offer for sale, market; Verkehr in einer Richtung EDV one-way traffic
    3. (Geschlechtsverkehr) intercourse
    * * *
    der Verkehr
    (Geschlechtsverkehr) intercourse;
    (Umgang) correspondence; business; contact; commerce; dealings
    * * *
    Ver|kehr [fɛɐ'keːɐ]
    m -(e)s,
    no pl
    1) traffic; (= Beförderung, Verkehrsmittel) transport, transportation (US)

    für den Verkéhr freigeben, dem Verkéhr übergeben (Straße etc) — to open to traffic; Transportmittel to bring into service

    den Verkéhr regeln — to regulate the (flow of) traffic

    2) (= Verbindung) contact, communication; (= Umgang) company; (= Geschlechtsverkehr) intercourse

    in brieflichem Verkéhr stehen — to correspond

    in seinem Verkéhr mit Menschen — in his dealings with people

    den Verkéhr mit jdm pflegen (form) — to associate with sb

    den Verkéhr mit jdm abbrechen — to break off relations or contact with sb

    3) (= Geschäftsverkehr, Handelsverkehr) trade; (= Umsätze, Zahlungsverkehr) business; (= Postverkehr) service; (= Umlauf) circulation

    etw in (den) Verkéhr bringen — to put sth into circulation

    etw aus dem Verkéhr ziehen (Banknoten) — to take sth out of circulation; schadhafte Produkte, Fahrzeuge to withdraw sth; altes Schiff to take sth out of commission; Blutkonserven, medizinische Präparate to remove sth

    * * *
    der
    1) (sexual act.) intercourse
    2) (a regular public supply of something eg transport: a good train service into the city.) service
    3) (vehicles, aircraft, ships etc moving about: There's a lot of traffic on the roads / on the river.) traffic
    * * *
    Ver·kehr
    <-[e]s>
    [fɛɐ̯ˈke:ɐ̯]
    1. (Straßenverkehr) traffic no pl, no indef art
    ruhender \Verkehr (geh) stationary traffic
    den \Verkehr regeln to control the [or regulate the [flow of]] traffic
    2. (Transport) transport no pl, no indef art
    3. (Umgang) contact, dealings pl
    jdn aus dem \Verkehr ziehen (fam) to take sb out of circulation, to withdraw sb from the field of operations
    etw in den \Verkehr bringen to put sth into circulation
    etw aus dem \Verkehr ziehen to withdraw sth from circulation
    5. (euph geh: Geschlechtsverkehr) intercourse
    \Verkehr [mit jdm] haben (euph geh) to have intercourse [with sb]
    * * *

    den Verkehr regeln — regulate or control the [flow of] traffic

    aus dem Verkehr ziehen — take <coin, banknote> out of circulation; take < product> off the market

    jemanden aus dem Verkehr ziehen — (ugs. scherzh.) put somebody out of circulation (joc.)

    2) (Umgang) contact; communication
    3) (SexualVerkehr) intercourse
    * * *
    Verkehr m; -s, fachspr -e
    1. Verkehrswesen: (Straßenverkehr) traffic;
    öffentlicher Verkehr public transport(ation US);
    es herrscht starker Verkehr there is heavy traffic, the traffic is heavy;
    dem Verkehr übergeben open to traffic;
    für den Verkehr gesperrt closed to (all) traffic;
    aus dem Verkehr ziehen (Auto) take off the road; umg, fig (jemanden) take out of circulation; → fließen etc
    2. (Verbindung) contact, dealings pl; (Geschäftsverkehr) business; (Briefverkehr) correspondence;
    den Verkehr mit jemandem abbrechen break off contact with sb;
    aus dem Verkehr ziehen (auslaufen) phase out; (Geld) withdraw from circulation;
    in Verkehr bringen issue; (Effekten) auch offer for sale, market;
    Verkehr in einer Richtung IT one-way traffic
    3. (Geschlechtsverkehr) intercourse
    * * *

    den Verkehr regeln — regulate or control the [flow of] traffic

    aus dem Verkehr ziehen — take <coin, banknote> out of circulation; take < product> off the market

    jemanden aus dem Verkehr ziehen — (ugs. scherzh.) put somebody out of circulation (joc.)

    2) (Umgang) contact; communication
    3) (SexualVerkehr) intercourse
    * * *
    m.
    commerce n.
    communication n.
    intercourse n.
    traffic n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Verkehr

  • 13 prometer

    v.
    1 to promise.
    (te) lo prometo I promise
    te prometo que no miento I promise you I'm not lying
    prometer el cargo to be sworn in
    Ella le prometió a Ricardo She promised Richard.
    Ella prometió sin pensar She promised without thinking.
    Ella promete favores She promises favors.
    2 to be promising (tener futuro).
    el programa de fiestas promete the program for the celebrations looks promising
    3 to show promise, to shape well, to be promising.
    Ese restaurante promete That restaurant shows promise.
    4 to promise to, to vow to, to plight oneself to, to vow.
    Ella prometió barrer hoy She promised to sweep today.
    Le prometí a María ir I promised Mary to go.
    * * *
    1 to promise
    ■ ¿lo prometes? promise?
    1 to be promising
    1 (pareja) to get engaged
    \
    prometer el oro y el moro to promise the Earth
    prometerse en matrimonio to get engaged
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=dar palabra) to promise

    ¡te lo prometo! — I promise!

    2) * (=asegurar) to assure

    no me verás más, te lo prometo — you won't see me again, (that) I can assure you

    3) (=augurar) to promise

    esto no nos promete nada bueno — this does not look at all hopeful for us, this promises to be pretty bad for us

    4) (Rel)
    2.
    VI (=tener porvenir) to have promise, show promise
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( dar su palabra) to promise
    b) ( augurar) to promise
    c) (fam) (afirmar, asegurar) to tell

    estoy harta, te lo prometo — I'm fed up, I can tell you

    2.
    prometer vi persona/negocio to show o have promise
    3.
    prometerse v pron
    a) ( en matrimonio) to get engaged
    b) (refl) <viaje/descanso> to promise oneself
    c) ( confiar en) to expect

    prometérselas muy felices — (Esp) to have high hopes

    * * *
    = have + the potential (to/for), swear to + Infinitivo, promise, pledge, hold out + prospect, hold out + promise, vow, take + oath, be promissory of.
    Ex. They have achieved this status because they have the potential to store a relatively large number of documents.
    Ex. Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).
    Ex. CD-ROM promises to revive the fading dream of cooperative centralised computerised cataloguing.
    Ex. Although Canada has pledged to phase out the use of halon gas by the year 2000, alternative gases are being developed.
    Ex. The processing of electronic signals holds out the prospect of the automation of tasks which involve representations of information.
    Ex. Information technology holds out the promise of an improved information flow.
    Ex. The prosecutor vowed to fight what he considered an unjust law.
    Ex. The library had a display of the Bible and the Koran for solicitors and others for purposes of taking oaths and swearing in.
    Ex. The movie trailer was promissory of action and adventure, but the film itself was a bore.
    ----
    * cumplir lo prometido = deliver + the goods.
    * prometer demasiado = over-promise.
    * prometer en matrimonio = betroth.
    * prometer mucho = promise + great possibilities, bode + well.
    * prometer ser interesante = promise + to be interesting.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( dar su palabra) to promise
    b) ( augurar) to promise
    c) (fam) (afirmar, asegurar) to tell

    estoy harta, te lo prometo — I'm fed up, I can tell you

    2.
    prometer vi persona/negocio to show o have promise
    3.
    prometerse v pron
    a) ( en matrimonio) to get engaged
    b) (refl) <viaje/descanso> to promise oneself
    c) ( confiar en) to expect

    prometérselas muy felices — (Esp) to have high hopes

    * * *
    = have + the potential (to/for), swear to + Infinitivo, promise, pledge, hold out + prospect, hold out + promise, vow, take + oath, be promissory of.

    Ex: They have achieved this status because they have the potential to store a relatively large number of documents.

    Ex: Some authors, of course, object to their work being subjected to compulsory dissection for exams in the traditional deadly manner and like Bernard Shaw, they swear to haunt anyone who so mistreats them (Shaw's ghost must be busy these days).
    Ex: CD-ROM promises to revive the fading dream of cooperative centralised computerised cataloguing.
    Ex: Although Canada has pledged to phase out the use of halon gas by the year 2000, alternative gases are being developed.
    Ex: The processing of electronic signals holds out the prospect of the automation of tasks which involve representations of information.
    Ex: Information technology holds out the promise of an improved information flow.
    Ex: The prosecutor vowed to fight what he considered an unjust law.
    Ex: The library had a display of the Bible and the Koran for solicitors and others for purposes of taking oaths and swearing in.
    Ex: The movie trailer was promissory of action and adventure, but the film itself was a bore.
    * cumplir lo prometido = deliver + the goods.
    * prometer demasiado = over-promise.
    * prometer en matrimonio = betroth.
    * prometer mucho = promise + great possibilities, bode + well.
    * prometer ser interesante = promise + to be interesting.

    * * *
    prometer [E1 ]
    vt
    1 (dar su palabra) to promise
    no lo haré más, te lo prometo I won't do it again, I promise o I give you my word
    me prometió un regalo he promised me a present
    prometió llevarme she promised to take me
    oro2 (↑ oro (2))
    2 (augurar) to promise
    la obra promete ser un éxito the play promises to be a success
    esas nubes no prometen nada bueno those clouds look ominous o don't look very promising o don't bode well
    3 ( fam) (afirmar, asegurar) to tell
    te prometo que es verdad it's true, I tell o assure you
    estoy harta, te lo prometo I'm fed up, I can tell you
    ■ prometer
    vi
    to show o have promise
    esta chica promete this girl shows o has promise
    un negocio que promete a promising business
    1 (en matrimonio) to get engaged
    2 ( refl) ‹viaje/descanso› to promise oneself
    3 (esperar) to hope
    prometérselas muy felices ( Esp); to have high hopes
    * * *

     

    prometer ( conjugate prometer) verbo transitivo



    verbo intransitivo [persona/negocio] to show o have promise
    prometerse verbo pronominal

    b) ( refl) ‹viaje/descanso› to promise oneself

    prometer
    I verbo transitivo to promise: prometo que iré, I promise I'll go ➣ Ver nota en promise
    II verbo intransitivo to be promising: promete como cantante, she shows promise as a singer
    ' prometer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    oro
    - asegurar
    - jurar
    English:
    promise
    - pledge
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [dar palabra] to promise;
    (te) lo prometo I promise;
    prometo hablar con ella I promise to talk to her;
    te prometo que no miento I promise you I'm not lying;
    Fam
    no aguanto más, te lo prometo I'm telling you, I can't take any more
    2. [cargo]
    el presidente prometió su cargo ante el rey the president was sworn in before the king
    3. [augurar] to promise;
    este libro promete ser entretenido this book promises to be entertaining
    ♦ vi
    [tener futuro]
    el programa de fiestas promete the programme for the celebrations looks promising;
    esto promete this is promising
    * * *
    v/t promise
    * * *
    : to promise
    : to show promise
    * * *
    1. (asegurar) to promise
    2. (tener porvenir) to show promise

    Spanish-English dictionary > prometer

  • 14 reducir

    v.
    1 to reduce.
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut
    reducir algo a algo to reduce something to something
    reducir algo al absurdo to make a nonsense of something
    Ella redujo la velocidad She reduced the speed.
    2 to suppress, to subdue (someter) (país, ciudad).
    3 to convert (Mat) (convertir).
    4 to set (medicine).
    5 to shorten, to shrink.
    Ellos redujeron las tablas They shortened the boards.
    6 to cut down, to depress, to de-escalate, to deescalate.
    Ellos redujeron los gastos They cut down expenses.
    7 to conquer, to subdue, to subjugate.
    Ellos redujeron a los nativos They conquered the natives.
    8 to hydrogenate.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ CONDUCIR], like link=conducir conducir
    1 (gen) to reduce
    2 (disminuir) to reduce, cut, cut down on
    3 (vencer) to subdue
    4 MEDICINA to set
    5 (una salsa, etc) to reduce, boil down
    1 AUTOMÓVIL to change down, change to a lower gear
    1 (gen) to be reduced; (decrecer) to decrease
    2 (resultar) to come down (a, to)
    * * *
    verb
    1) to reduce, cut
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=disminuir)
    a) [en cantidad] [+ gastos, inflación, precio] to reduce, bring down, cut; [+ tensión, ansiedad] to reduce; [+ riesgo] to reduce, lessen

    el autobús redujo su velocidad — the bus reduced speed, the bus slowed down

    el banco redujo su beneficio un 12% — the bank saw its profits fall by 12%

    • reducir algo en algo — to reduce sth by sth, cut sth by sth

    tenemos que reducir la producción en un 20% — we have to reduce o cut production by 20%

    • reducir a la mínima expresión — to reduce to the bare minimum

    • reducir algo al mínimo — to reduce o cut sth to the minimum

    • reducir algo a la mitad — to cut sth by half

    b) [en tiempo] [+ jornada laboral] to reduce, shorten; [+ sentencia] to reduce

    han reducido la mili a nueve meses — they have reduced o cut military service to nine months

    c) [en tamaño] [+ copia] to reduce; [+ discurso, artículo] to cut down, shorten
    2)

    • reducir algo a algo —

    a) (=limitar) to limit sth to sth; (=simplificar) to reduce sth to sth
    b) (=convertir) [+ cantidad, medida] to convert sth into sth; [+ fracción, ecuación] to reduce sth into sth
    3) (=someter) [+ ladrón, fugitivo, loco] to overpower; [+ alborotadores] to subdue; [+ fortaleza] to subdue, reduce frm

    • reducir a algn a la obediencia — to bring sb to heel

    • reducir a algn al silencio — [por la fuerza, por miedo] to silence sb; [por vergüenza, humillación] to reduce sb to silence

    4) (Med) [+ hueso, hernia] to set, reduce frm
    5) (Quím) to reduce
    6) LAm [en el mercado negro] to get rid of *
    2.
    VI (Aut) to change down
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.
    Ex. Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.
    Ex. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex. In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex. The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex. These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex. Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex. Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex. More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex. The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex. If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex. Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex. 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex. Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex. This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex. Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex. He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex. Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex. In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex. By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex. However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex. The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex. However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex. Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex. The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex. May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex. He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex. The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex. You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex. The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex. They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    ----
    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <gastos/costos> to cut, reduce; <velocidad/producción/consumo> to reduce

    reducir al mínimo los riesgos — to minimize o to reduce the risks to a minimum

    le redujeron la pena — they shortened o reduced his sentence

    reducir algo a su mínima expresión — (Mat) to reduce something to its simplest form

    b) <fotocopia/fotografía> to reduce
    2)

    reducir algo A algo: reducir los gramos a milígramos to convert the grams to milligrams; quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes; mis ilusiones quedaron reducidas a la nada — my dreams came to nothing

    b) (Quím) to reduce
    c) (AmS) < objeto robado> to receive, fence (colloq)
    3) ( dominar) <enemigo/rebeldes> to subdue; < ladrón> to overpower
    4) <fractura/hernia> to set, reduce (tech)
    2.
    1) (Coc) to reduce, boil down
    2) (Auto) to shift into a lower gear
    3.
    reducirse v pron

    reducirse A algo: todo se reduce a tener tacto it all comes down to being tactful; todo se redujo a un paseo por el río — in the end it was just a walk by the river

    * * *
    = abridge, compress, contract, curtail, erode, gut, narrow, prune, reduce, shorten, stifle, lower, cut back (on), cut, cut down (on), deplete, lessen, pare down, keep down + Nombre, retrench, narrow down, whittle (away/down/at), slim down, slow down, slow up, taper, wind + Nombre + down, cut + Nombre + short, scale back, downgrade [down-grade], shave off, shrink, mark + Nombre + down.

    Ex: Inevitably any abridgement poses the dilemma how to abridge, that is, what to leave out and what to include.

    Ex: A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.
    Ex: In the face of emergencies, breadth of vision tends to contract, narrowing the range of responses.
    Ex: The imposition of fee-based services may radically curtail the breadth of resources available to library users where historically information has been offered freely.
    Ex: These arrangements should also erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: Prices of European produced scientific, technical and medical serials continue to gut US research libraries.
    Ex: Hierarchical relationships must be indicated in order that the users may broaden or narrow the search parameters.
    Ex: More balanced schedules were achieved by pruning the 31000 subjects enumerated in the fourteenth edition to 4700.
    Ex: The disadvantage of inversion of words is that inversion or indirect word order reduces predictability of form of headings.
    Ex: If there are holds on the title, the loan period is shortened to 14 days.
    Ex: Excessive emphasis on the need to exact payment will stifle the flow of information.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: But higher education, which expanded between 1959 and 1979 from 164,000 to 519,600 students in full-time higher education, has also been cutting back on purchases.
    Ex: 'The word's out: all departments have to cut their staffs by 10%' -- Her voice was weak and laden with woe.
    Ex: Abstracts cut down considerably on legwork in hunting for information.
    Ex: This intermediate grade would equate with the senior library assistant, a category much depleted in UK academic librarianship.
    Ex: Two possible solutions are possible: (1) to lessen the frequency of production, or (2) to reduce the amount of detail in the entries.
    Ex: He said again that we should pare it down to something much more in line with his figures.
    Ex: Activities such as gardening or cookery are dealt with in many books in ways which go far beyond the simple keeping down of weeds or just filling empty stomachs.
    Ex: In the face of overpublishing and growing scepticism, this once booming area is now retrenching and broadening its coverage = En vista del exceso de publicaciones y del creciente escepticismo, este área que una vez estuvo en auge ahora ha venido a menos.
    Ex: By specifying the fields to be searched, the user can narrow down the search in a very convenient way.
    Ex: However, such idealism is often whittled away over time by bureaucratic problems & organizational demands.
    Ex: The abundance of book types and titles makes display and merchandising increasingly difficult; some booksellers are dealing with this by slimming down or cutting out certain categories.
    Ex: However, the flight from DC appears to have slowed down more quickly than was anticipated, and we no longer read of large numbers of libraries making the change.
    Ex: Since cataloging is the most time consuming part of digitization, it has slowed up the placement of files.
    Ex: The tube in the two types tapers almost unnoticeably from base to tip.
    Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex: May I just cut you short, because I've discussed this problem with Peter Jacobs just this week.
    Ex: He first spotted trouble when she started being short with users and so he solved the problem by scaling back her workload.
    Ex: The opposite of the 'halo effect' -- downgrading someone you dislike but whose work is good -- is also an error.
    Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex: The 'false hit' problem still arises, but becomes less likely as the 'neighborhood' of the two words shrinks.
    Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    * que reduce el estrés = stress-reducing.
    * reducir a cero = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir a la mitad = halve, cut in + half, halve, reduce by + half.
    * reducir a la nada = reduce to + nil.
    * reducir al mínimo = minimise [minimize, -USA], reduce to + a minimum, cut down to + a minimum, keep to + a (bare) minimum, cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a lo mínimo = cut to + the bone.
    * reducir a miniatura = miniaturise [miniaturize, -USA].
    * reducir costes = reduce + costs.
    * reducir de plantilla = downsize.
    * reducir de tamaño = reduce in + size.
    * reducir el esfuerzo = reduce + effort.
    * reducir el impacto = minimise + impact.
    * reducir el papeleo = slash + red tape.
    * reducir el precio = reduce + price, cut + price.
    * reducir el presupuesto = cut + monies from + budget.
    * reducir el riesgo = reduce + risk.
    * reducir el tamaño = reduce + size.
    * reducir el tiempo = cut down + time.
    * reducir el valor = reduce + value.
    * reducir gastos = cut + costs, cut + spending, make + economies, make + cuts, reduce + costs.
    * reducir gradualmente = scale down.
    * reducir la burocracia = slash + red tape.
    * reducir la posibilidad = minimise + possibility.
    * reducir la probabilidad = reduce + chances.
    * reducir las diferencias = bridge + the gap, bridge + the divide, bridge + the chasm, bridge + the gulf, close + the gap.
    * reducir las diferencias entre... y = narrow + the gap between... and.
    * reducir las distancias = reduce + distance, close + the gap.
    * reducir las posibilidades de = narrow + the vision of.
    * reducir los beneficios = cut + profit.
    * reducir los impuestos = cut + taxes.
    * reducir pérdidas = cut down + losses, cut + losses.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * reducirse a = boil down to, come down to.
    * reducirse poco a poco = dribble off.
    * reducir una limitación = push + limits (further and further back).
    * reducir una palabra a su raíz = stem.
    * reducir un obstáculo = lower + barrier.

    * * *
    reducir [I6 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹gastos/costos› to cut, cut down on, reduce; ‹velocidad› to reduce; ‹producción/consumo› to reduce
    hemos reducido el número de casos we have brought down o reduced the number of cases
    redujeron el número de plazas they cut the number of places o the number of places was reduced
    han prometido reducir los impuestos they have promised to cut o reduce taxes
    con esto se intenta reducir al mínimo el riesgo de infección this is intended to minimize o to reduce to a minimum the risk of infection
    ejercicios para reducir (la) cintura exercises to reduce your waistline
    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth TO sth
    han reducido el texto a 50 páginas they have shortened o reduced the text to fifty pages
    le han reducido la pena a dos años they have commuted o shortened o reduced his sentence to two years
    la población quedó reducida a la mitad the population was reduced to half of its former size
    reducir algo a su mínima expresión ( Mat) to reduce sth to its simplest expression o form
    el suéter quedó reducido a su mínima expresión ( hum); the sweater shrank to nothing
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth BY sth
    pretenden reducir el gasto en cinco millones they aim to reduce costs by five million
    2 ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce
    B
    1 (transformar) reducir algo A algo:
    reducir los gramos a miligramos to convert the grams to milligrams
    reducir quebrados a un mínimo común denominador to reduce fractions to their lowest common denominator
    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    2 ( Quím) to reduce
    3 ( AmS) ‹objeto robado› to receive, fence ( colloq)
    C (dominar, someter) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue; ‹ladrón› to overpower
    reducir a un pueblo a la esclavitud to reduce a people to slavery
    D ‹fractura/hernia› to set, reduce ( tech)
    E (CS) ‹cadáver/restos mortales› to exhume ( for reburial in a niche or smaller coffin)
    ■ reducir
    vi
    A ( Coc) to reduce, boil down
    dejar reducir la salsa leave the sauce to boil down o reduce
    B ( Auto) to shift into a lower gear, change down ( BrE)
    reducirse A algo:
    todo se reduce a saber interpretar las cifras it all comes down to knowing how to interpret the figures
    todo se redujo a una visita a la catedral y un paseo por el río in the end it was just a visit to the cathedral and a walk along the river
    * * *

     

    reducir ( conjugate reducir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹gastos/costos› to cut, reduce;

    ‹velocidad/producción/consumo› to reduce;

    reducir algo A algo to reduce sth to sth;
    reducir algo EN algo to reduce sth by sth
    b) ‹fotocopia/fotografía› to reduce

    2


    quedaron reducidos a cenizas they were reduced to ashes
    b) (AmS) ‹ objeto robado› to receive, fence (colloq)

    3 ( dominar) ‹enemigo/rebeldes› to subdue;
    ‹ ladrón› to overpower
    reducirse verbo pronominal:

    reducir
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (disminuir) to reduce
    reducir algo en algo, to reduce sthg by sthg
    (gastos, consumo, etc) to cut (down), minimize
    2 (convertir, transformar) to reduce: el incendio redujo el bosque a cenizas, the fire reduced the wood to ashes
    3 (subyugar) to subdue
    II vi Auto to change down, US to downshift

    ' reducir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bajar
    - ceniza
    - encaminada
    - encaminado
    - moler
    - disminuir
    - minimizar
    - mínimo
    - mira
    English:
    administrative
    - austerity
    - ax
    - axe
    - change down
    - corner
    - curtail
    - cut
    - cut back
    - cut down
    - decrease
    - deficit
    - deplenish
    - deplete
    - depress
    - downsize
    - effective
    - halve
    - lighten
    - lower
    - narrow down
    - prune
    - pulp
    - rate
    - receive
    - reduce
    - retrench
    - scale down
    - shorten
    - slow
    - wind down
    - bring
    - cost
    - deaden
    - decelerate
    - diminish
    - discount
    - get
    - lessen
    - loss
    - minimize
    - over
    - pare
    - scale
    - slacken
    - traffic
    - whittle
    - wind
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [disminuir] to reduce;
    [gastos, costes, impuestos, plantilla] to cut; [producción] to cut (back on);
    nos han reducido el sueldo our salary has been cut;
    reduzca la velocidad [en letrero] reduce speed now;
    reducir algo a algo to reduce sth to sth;
    el edificio quedó reducido a escombros the building was reduced to a pile of rubble;
    reducir algo al mínimo to reduce sth to a minimum;
    reducir algo a o [m5] en la mitad to reduce sth by half;
    tú todo lo reduces a tener dinero the only thing you care about is money;
    reducir a la mínima expresión to cut down to the bare minimum
    2. [fotocopia] to reduce
    3. [someter] [país, ciudad] to suppress, to subdue;
    [atracador, ladrón, sublevados] to overpower
    4. Mat [unidades de medida] to convert (a to); [fracciones, ecuaciones] to cancel out
    5. Med [hueso] to set
    6. Quím to reduce
    7. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    8. Andes, RP [objetos robados] to receive, to fence
    9. RP [cadáver] to exhume [for reburial in smaller container]
    ♦ vi
    1. [en el automóvil]
    reducir (de marcha o [m5] velocidad) to change down;
    reduce a tercera change down into third (gear)
    2. Culin [guiso, salsa] to reduce
    * * *
    v/t
    1 reduce (a to); gastos cut;
    reducir personal cut jobs, reduce staff numbers;
    reducir la marcha AUTO downshift, shift into a lower gear
    2 MIL overcome
    * * *
    reducir {61} vt
    1) disminuir: to reduce, to decrease, to cut
    2) : to subdue
    3) : to boil down
    * * *
    reducir vb to reduce

    Spanish-English dictionary > reducir

  • 15 progresivamente

    adv.
    1 progressively, onward, forward.
    2 advancingly.
    * * *
    1 progressively
    * * *
    * * *
    Ex. After a variety of progressively more responsible positions at LC, he was promoted in 1964 to Associate Director of the Processing Department.
    ----
    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * introducir progresivamente = spiral.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.
    * * *

    Ex: After a variety of progressively more responsible positions at LC, he was promoted in 1964 to Associate Director of the Processing Department.

    * eliminar progresivamente = phase out.
    * introducir progresivamente = spiral.
    * reducir progresivamente = phase out.

    * * *
    progressively
    * * *
    adv progressively

    Spanish-English dictionary > progresivamente

  • 16 destrucción

    f.
    destruction, devastation, ruin, havoc.
    * * *
    1 destruction
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    * * *
    femenino destruction
    * * *
    = destruction, ruin, devastation, demolition, obliteration, decimation, wiping out.
    Ex. In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.
    Ex. Information deprivation can be found among a very broad band of the population, including all those citizens whose life styles contribute towards the ruin of their environment.
    Ex. Today, we see the societal impact of library schools and the devastation caused by the lack of having them.
    Ex. The new library was built in a single phase, with stock and facilities housed in temporary accommodation during demolition and construction.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'The wayward bookman: the decline, fall and historical obliteration of an ALA president'.
    Ex. Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
    Ex. He promoted a program of racial persecution and racism involving the wiping out of the Jews.
    ----
    * armas de destrucción masiva = weapons of mass destruction.
    * causar destrucción = wreak + destruction.
    * destrucción medioambiental = environmental destruction.
    * otro paso más hacia + Posesivo + destrucción = another nail in + Posesivo + coffin.
    * * *
    femenino destruction
    * * *
    = destruction, ruin, devastation, demolition, obliteration, decimation, wiping out.

    Ex: In the event of a serious accident (a fire, deliberate destruction, or a computer error) nothing will happen to the records vital to the operation of the library.

    Ex: Information deprivation can be found among a very broad band of the population, including all those citizens whose life styles contribute towards the ruin of their environment.
    Ex: Today, we see the societal impact of library schools and the devastation caused by the lack of having them.
    Ex: The new library was built in a single phase, with stock and facilities housed in temporary accommodation during demolition and construction.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'The wayward bookman: the decline, fall and historical obliteration of an ALA president'.
    Ex: Over the past decades librarians have been variously outraged and resigned to budget cuts and spiralling prices, leading to the decimation of their holdings.
    Ex: He promoted a program of racial persecution and racism involving the wiping out of the Jews.
    * armas de destrucción masiva = weapons of mass destruction.
    * causar destrucción = wreak + destruction.
    * destrucción medioambiental = environmental destruction.
    * otro paso más hacia + Posesivo + destrucción = another nail in + Posesivo + coffin.

    * * *
    destruction
    * * *

    destrucción sustantivo femenino
    destruction
    destrucción sustantivo femenino destruction
    ' destrucción' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    secuela
    - ADM
    - arma
    - total
    English:
    arms race
    - destruction
    - nail
    - wholesale
    - demolition
    - wake
    - weapon
    * * *
    destruction;
    causar destrucción to cause destruction;
    * * *
    f destruction
    * * *
    destrucción nf, pl - ciones : destruction
    * * *
    destrucción n destruction

    Spanish-English dictionary > destrucción

  • 17 eliminar progresivamente

    v.
    to eliminate by steps, to phase out.
    * * *
    (v.) = phase out
    Ex. At the end of 1983 all customs duties between EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and EC countries were phased out = A finales de l983, se eliminaron progresivamente todos los aranceles entre los países de la EFTA (Asociación Europea para el Libre Comercio) y los de la CE.
    * * *
    (v.) = phase out

    Ex: At the end of 1983 all customs duties between EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and EC countries were phased out = A finales de l983, se eliminaron progresivamente todos los aranceles entre los países de la EFTA (Asociación Europea para el Libre Comercio) y los de la CE.

    Spanish-English dictionary > eliminar progresivamente

  • 18 reducir progresivamente

    v.
    to phase out, to scale back.
    * * *
    (v.) = phase out
    Ex. At the end of 1983 all customs duties between EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and EC countries were phased out = A finales de l983, se eliminaron progresivamente todos los aranceles entre los países de la EFTA (Asociación Europea para el Libre Comercio) y los de la CE.
    * * *
    (v.) = phase out

    Ex: At the end of 1983 all customs duties between EFTA (European Free Trade Association) and EC countries were phased out = A finales de l983, se eliminaron progresivamente todos los aranceles entre los países de la EFTA (Asociación Europea para el Libre Comercio) y los de la CE.

    Spanish-English dictionary > reducir progresivamente

  • 19 серийное производство

    1. large output
    2. lot production
    3. produce on the line
    4. production chain
    5. batch production
    6. production in series
    7. serial production

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > серийное производство

  • 20 comprometerse

    1 (contraer una obligación) to commit oneself, pledge
    2 (involucrarse) to get involved
    * * *
    * * *
    VPR
    1) (=contraer un compromiso) to commit o.s.

    • comprometerse a algo — to commit o.s. to sth

    • comprometerse en algo — to commit o.s. to sth

    • comprometerse a hacer algo — to commit o.s. to doing sth, undertake to do sth

    se han comprometido a reducir el paro — they have committed themselves to reducing unemployment, they have undertaken to reduce unemployment

    me comprometí a ayudarte y lo haré — I promised to help you and I will, I said I'd help you and I will

    2) (=implicarse socialmente) to commit o.s., make a commitment

    comprometerse políticamente (con algo) — commit o.s. politically (to sth), to make a political commitment (to sth)

    3) (=citarse)
    4) [novios] to get engaged
    * * *
    (v.) = become + engaged, vest, pledge, implicate + Reflexivo
    Ex. Their professional relationship soon blossomed into a personal one, and a year later they became engaged.
    Ex. Managers should be fully vested in the change.
    Ex. Although Canada has pledged to phase out the use of halon gas by the year 2000, alternative gases are being developed.
    Ex. In addition to convincing the assembly to vote against war, they must figure out the mystery of the burned bodies without implicating themselves.
    * * *
    (v.) = become + engaged, vest, pledge, implicate + Reflexivo

    Ex: Their professional relationship soon blossomed into a personal one, and a year later they became engaged.

    Ex: Managers should be fully vested in the change.
    Ex: Although Canada has pledged to phase out the use of halon gas by the year 2000, alternative gases are being developed.
    Ex: In addition to convincing the assembly to vote against war, they must figure out the mystery of the burned bodies without implicating themselves.

    * * *

     

    ■comprometerse verbo reflexivo
    1 (dar su palabra) me comprometo a venir, I promise to come
    se comprometen a arreglarlo en dos días, they undertake to repair it within two days
    2 (hacerse novios) to become engaged
    ' comprometerse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    comprometer
    English:
    cautious
    - commit
    - pledge
    - pussyfoot
    - tie down
    - undertake
    - engaged
    - under
    * * *
    vpr
    1. [asumir un compromiso] to commit oneself;
    se comprometió a hacerlo she promised to do it;
    me comprometí a acabarlo cuanto antes I promised to finish it as soon as possible;
    se han comprometido a cumplir el acuerdo de paz they have committed themselves to fulfilling the peace agreement
    2. [ideológicamente, moralmente] to become involved (en in);
    se comprometió en la defensa de los derechos humanos she got involved in campaigning for human rights
    3. [para casarse] to get engaged ( con to)
    * * *
    v/r
    1 promise (a to)
    2 a una causa commit o.s.
    3 de novios get engaged
    * * *
    vr
    1) : to commit oneself
    2)
    comprometerse con : to get engaged to
    * * *
    1. (novios) to get engaged
    2. (prometer) to commit yourself

    Spanish-English dictionary > comprometerse

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