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the reading of the scale

1 показание шкалы

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The reading of the scale.

Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > показание шкалы
2 отсчет по шкале

scale reading

[lang name="Russian"]цена деления шкалы … градусов — the scale reads to … degrees

шкала оценки интенсивности труда — performance rating scale

[lang name="Russian"]шкала абсолютной температуры, шкала Кельвина — Kelvin scale

абсолютная температурная шкала — absolute temperature scale

шкала оценки производительности — performance rating scale

Русско-английский научный словарь > отсчет по шкале
3 отсчет по шкале

scale reading

цена деления шкалы … градусов — the scale reads to … degrees

шкала оценки интенсивности труда — performance rating scale

шкала абсолютной температуры, шкала Кельвина — Kelvin scale

абсолютная температурная шкала — absolute temperature scale

шкала оценки производительности — performance rating scale

Русско-английский новый политехнический словарь > отсчет по шкале
4 отсчёт

( в счетных системах) count, indication, observation геод., reading, sample, sight

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отсчё́т м.
1. ( показание) indication, reading

брать [производи́ть, снима́ть] отсчё́т до … зна́ка по́сле запято́й — read to the … decimal place

дава́ть отсчё́т по шкале́ ( о стрелке прибора) — register against the scale

производи́ть отсчё́т по, напр. прибо́ру, нивели́рной ре́йке — take a reading [read], e. g., a meter, a graduated rod

сбро́сить отсчё́т на шка́лах — clear the dials

снять неве́рный отсчё́т — misread a meter

устана́вливать отсчё́т на, напр. полови́не шкалы́ — set for a meter indication about, e. g., half-scale

устана́вливать удо́бный отсчё́т по прибо́ру — set the meter for a convenient indication

2. ( выдача показаний) read-out, display

3. ( при квантовании величины по времени) sample

отсчё́т по ре́йке, дальноме́рный — (stadia) rod intercept, intercept on the (stadia) rod

брать дальноме́рный отсчё́т по ре́йке — note [take] the intercept on the rod

зерка́льный отсчё́т — mirror [light-beam] indication

отсчё́т и́мпульсов — (pulse) count

мгнове́нный отсчё́т — instantaneous reading

непосре́дственный отсчё́т — direct reading, direct indication

нулево́й отсчё́т — zero reading

отсчё́т показа́ний — reading of an instrument

отсчё́т по но́ниусу — vernier reading

отсчё́т по шкале́ — scale reading

отсчё́т радиа́ции, фо́новый — background radiation count

цифрово́й отсчё́т — digital read-out

Русско-английский политехнический словарь > отсчёт
5 показание шкалы

1) Engineering: dial reading

2) Mathematics: the reading of the scale

3) Economy: reading of the scale

4) Oil: reading, scale reading

Универсальный русско-английский словарь > показание шкалы
6 погрешность

error
разность между истинной и расчетной (или наблюдаемой) величинами, — а difference between the true value and а calculated or observed value.
-, абсолютная — absolute error
-, аэродинамическая — position error
а.п. возникает вследствие искажения потока воздуха в месте установки приемников статического давления. — position error is the instrument indication error due to location of static vents /ports/.
- в вводе данных — errors in data entry
- в показаниях высотомера, вызванная неудовлетворительной работой системы подачи статического давления — static pressure system error (of altimeter)
-, вызываемая маневрированием ла (работы к-п. системы, напр., дисс) — maneuver-induced error
- высотомера, аэродинамическая — altimeter position error
- выставки гироплатформы в азимуте — stable platform azimuth align error
-, гистерезисная (высотомера) — hysteresis error
погрешность в показаниях высотомера при наборе высоты и снижении, вызванная неидеальностью упругих свойств анероидной kоробки. — the error in the indication of an altimeter introduced during an increase or decrease in height, due to the imperfectly elastic properties of the aneroid.
-, допустимая — allowable error
- измерения — measurement error
-, инструментальная — instrument error
ошибка в показаниях прибора, вызываемая недостатками его конструкции. — the inaccuracy of the instrument.
-, курсовая (гироплатформы) — (platform) azimuth error
-, методическая — measurement-method error
-, накопленная — accumulated error
- определения — determination error
- определения курса — heading determination error
- определения текущих географических координат — present position determination error
-, относительная — relative error
- отсчета — reading error
-, (северная) поворотная (магнитного компаса) — (northerly) turning error
- показаний — reading error
- показаний на оцифрованных точках шкалы — reading error for scale points marked with figures
- пo крену (тангажу) — (аг) bank (pitch) error
-, систематическая — systematic error
погрешность постоянная или изменяющаяся пo oпpeделенному закону, — those errors which have an orderly character and can be corrected by calibration.
-, случайная — accidental error
неопределенная пo величине в природе, в появлении которой нет закономерности ·
- согпасования (гик) — slaving error
- срабатывания (прибора, сигнализатора) — response error
- счисления координат — coordinates reckoning error
-, тарировочная — calibration error
отношение между приборной и земной индикаторной скоростью. — airspeed indicating system must be calibrated to determine calibration error which is relation between ias and cas.
-, угловая — angular error
- указателя скорости, аэродинамическая — airspeed (indicator) position error
- установки (установочная, напр., датчиков, приемников, указателей скорости, высотомеров, угла атаки и т.п.) — position error
- шкаловая — scale error
знак п. — sign of error
поправка на п. — error correction
допускать п. в пределах... угл. град. — be capable of holding angular error to within... deg.
устранять n. — eliminate /remove, compensate, correct/ error

Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > погрешность
7 отсчёт

1. м. indication, reading

брать отсчёт до … знака после запятой — read to the … decimal place

давать отсчёт по шкале — register against the scale

сбросить отсчёт на шкалах — clear the dials

прямой отсчёт — direct reading

2. м. read-out, display

3. м. sample

брать дальномерный отсчёт по рейке — note the intercept on the rod

зеркальный отсчёт — mirror indication

отсчёт импульсов — count

мгновенный отсчёт — instantaneous reading

непосредственный отсчёт — direct reading

нулевой отсчёт — zero reading

отсчёт показаний — reading of an instrument

отсчёт по нониусу — vernier reading

Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > отсчёт
8 loable

adj.

praiseworthy.

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loable

► adjetivo

1 laudable, praiseworthy

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ADV praiseworthy, laudable, commendable

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adjetivo commendable, praiseworthy

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= commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, worthy, meritorious.

Ex. Simply adding a few books on rights, commendable though this may be, will not work miracles unless all aspects of the library service are relevant to the needs of all the community.

Ex. I would say that the general end of objectivity in the headings that Ms. Marshall talked about is a very laudable end and should be pursued.

Ex. So to be able to read is praiseworthy in that it shows success in the early stages of primary education and, as books are used so much within the schools, the reading of books becomes a particular praiseworthy activity.

Ex. Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.

Ex. An employee will remain at the same step even if the scale changes, since otherwise his previous reward for meritorious or continuous service would be withdrawn.

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adjetivo commendable, praiseworthy

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= commendable, laudable, praiseworthy, worthy, meritorious.

Ex: Simply adding a few books on rights, commendable though this may be, will not work miracles unless all aspects of the library service are relevant to the needs of all the community.

Ex: I would say that the general end of objectivity in the headings that Ms. Marshall talked about is a very laudable end and should be pursued.

Ex: So to be able to read is praiseworthy in that it shows success in the early stages of primary education and, as books are used so much within the schools, the reading of books becomes a particular praiseworthy activity.

Ex: Books were kept for historical records of deeds done by the inhabitants: their worthy acts as well as their sins.

Ex: An employee will remain at the same step even if the scale changes, since otherwise his previous reward for meritorious or continuous service would be withdrawn.

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loable

adjective

commendable, praiseworthy, laudable

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loable adjetivo
commendable, praiseworthy
loable adjetivo praiseworthy
' loable' also found in these entries:
English:
laudable
- praiseworthy
- worthy
- commendable

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loable adj

praiseworthy

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loable

adj praiseworthy, laudable

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loable adj

: laudable, praiseworthy

♦ loablemente adv

Spanish-English dictionary > loable
9 стрелка

pointer, needle, arrow
- (задатчика) — arrow
- (на корпусе агрегата, трубопровода и т.п.) — arrow
установить индукционный датчик в положение по стрелке, нанесенной на корпуce датчика. — install the flux-gate detector in the direction indicated by the arrow marked on the detector casing.
- (на линиях графика, чертеже, иллюстрации) — arrow. the chart may also be read in the reverse direction to the arrows.
- (прибора) — pointer, needle
подвижный индекс, перемещающийся по шкале измерительного прибора. — а slender rod that moves over the scale of a meter.
- арк (прибора нпп) — rb pointer, relative bearing pointer
- бокового движения, командная (прибора пкп, кпп) — roll command /steering/ bar
- бокового движения, командная (см. планка положения курса прибора пнп) — lateral /course/ deviation bar
- бокового канала, директор ная (прибора кпп) — roll command /steering/ bar
- (планка) высоты (прибора слепой посадки) — glide-slope (gs) pointer /needle/
- высоты и отклонения от курсовой зоны (луча крм) (прибора кпп) — radio altitude and localizer (deviation) pointer
- (планка), глиссадная (прибора слепой посадки, псп) — glide-slope (gs) pointer /needle/
-, двойная (измерителя курсовых углов, радиомагнитн. индикатора) — double pointer (of rmi)
-, директорная — command bar
-, директорная (крена, тангажа) — (roll, pitch) command bar
-, директорная, v-образная (прибора пкп) — v-command bar, v-bar command indicator
- заданного азимута — azimuth arrow
- заданного курса (прибора нпп) — heading arrow, hdg arrow
зк отсчитывается no шкале текущего курса. — heading is read against the compass card.
- заданного путевого угла (зпу) — course /track/ arrow
стрелка планового навигационного прибора (пнп), устанавливаемая на курс (луч) станции вор или курсового радиомаяка (крм) при помощи кремальеры зпу (рис. 73). — the course (or track) arrow is set to the desired vor radial or localizer course on the compass (azimuth) card by rotating the course knob.once set, the course arrow will rotate with the card to give a continuous reading of the selected course.
- "k-ot" — то-from arrow
стрелка планового навигационного прибора, показывающая направление полета к радиостанции или от рс. при пролете станции стрелка изменяет свое положение на обратное для правильной индикации направления на станцию. (рис. 73) — the to-from arrow always indicates the direction toward the vor station along the course selected by the course knob. when the aircraft passes the station, the to-from arrow reserves to give the correct indication.
-, командная — command /steering/ bar
- командная, v-образная (прибора пкп) — v-command bar, v-bar command indicator

the aircraft symbol is flown into the v-command bars until the two are aligned.
- крена, директорная (командная) (рис. 70, 72) — roll command /steering/ bar /needle/
- кур (курсового угла радиостанции прибора нпп) — relative bearing pointer, rb pointer

presentation of the relative bearing of a radio station (vor).
- курса, директорная (командная) (прибора пкп) — roll command bar
выдает команду на возвращение к заданному курсу по сту. убирается при включении сту или отказе в канале курса. — displays roll command from selected fd. retracted when fd is off or if a failure occurs in roll channel.
- (планка) курса (прибора псп) (рис. 69) — localizer (loc) pointer /needle/
-, курсовая (прибора с левой посадки) — localizer (loc) pointer /needle/
- курсового угла радиостанции — relative bearing pointer, rb pointer
- курсозадатчика (прибора угр) — heading arrow
- (малой) высоты и отклонения от курсовой зоны (прибора кпп) — radio altitude and localizer pointer. indicates aircraft altitude above terrain and lateral displacement from the center of a localizer beam.
-, минутная (часов) — minute hand
- направления, директорная — localizer (deviation) pointer
(прибора кпп см. стрелка отклонения от лзп)
- направления, директорная (прибора нпп) — localizer pointer, loc pointer
- обратного курса (следования) — reciprocal course arrow
-, одиночная (измерителя курсовых углов) — single pointer (of rmi)
- "от" (прибора пнп) — from arrow
- отклонения от заданной линии пути (планка положения курса) (рис. 73) — (selected) course deviation bar
- отклонения от заданной траектории (по глиссаде и высоте) — glide slope and (radio) altitude deviation pointer, (gs and rad alt pointer)
- отклонения от курсовой зоны (прибора пкп или кпп) — localizer (deviation) pointer. displays lateral displacement from the center of a localizer beam.
- отклонения от лзс (прибора кпп) — localizer deviation pointer, loc (deviation) pointer
- отклонения от осевой линии впп (приборов пкп и кпп) — runway symbol. representative of the runway center line.
- отклонения от равносигнальной зоны глиссады при посадке и от заданной высоты полета — glide slope and (radio) altitude deviation pointer
- по крену, командная — roll command bar
- по курсу, командная (рис. 72) — roll command bar
- полетного времени (бортовых часов, напр., ачс) — elapsed time hand
- положения (приборов нпп, пкп, кпп) — deviation pointer
- положения (пнп) — deviation bar
- положения (прибора псп) (рис. 69) — ils indicator cross pointer, zero-reader flight director indicator pointer
- положения бокового канала (прибора кпп) — localizer deviation pointer, loc pointer, loc-vor pointer
- положения (отклонения от глиссады прибора пнп) (рис. 73) — glide slope (gs) deviation bar
- положения глиссады (приборов кпп, нпп, пкп, псп) (рис. 70, 71, 72) — glide slope pointer, gs pointer
- положения заданной линии пути (прибора кпп) — l о с - v о r / v о r - l о с / pointer, loc pointer, v/l pointer
индикация отклонения от курса вор или крм. — presentation of deviation from vor radial or localizer course.
- положения (относительно) заданной траектории в вертикальной плоскости (прибора кпп) — glide slope deviation pointer, gs pointer
- положения заданной траектории (по глиссаде) (прибора кпп) — glide slope (deviation) pointer, gs pointer
- положения заданной траектории (по курсу) — localizer (deviation) pointer, loc pointer
- положения (относительно) заданной траектории в горизонтальной плоскости (прибора кпп) — localizer deviation pointer, loc pointer
- положения курса (рис. 73) — course deviation bar
- положения курса (на крм) — localizer (loc) pointer
- положения курса (по курсу) (приборов кпп, пкп) — l о с - v о r / v о r - l о с / pointer, loc pointer, v/l pointer
индикация бокового отклонения от курса вор или крм. — presentation of deviation from vor radial or loc course.
- положения, срабатывающая от сигнала "стабилизация высоты" (прибора кпп) — gs (deviation) pointer
- положения v (прибора кпп) — gs deviation pointer, gs pointer (gs pntr)
- положения (прибора кпп) — localizer deviation pointer, loc pointer (loc pntr)
- по тангажу, командная (рис. 72) — pitch command bar, pitch bar
- продольного движения (канала), командная (директор ная) (приборов пнп, кпп) (рис. 70, 72) — pitch command /steering/ bar
- радиовысоты (прибора пнп) — radio altitude pointer

" the radio alt flag appears and covers the radio altitude pointer.
- секундная (часов) — second hand
-тангажа, директорная (командная) (прибора пкп) — pitch command /steering/ bar, pitch bar
выдает команду на возвращение к заданному положению по тангажу по сту. убирается при выключении сту или отказе в канале тангажа (рис.72) — displays pitch command from selected fd. retracted when fd is off or if a failure occurs in pitch channel.
- (-) указатель угла сноса (рис. 73) — drift pointer
-, центральная секундная — sweep second hand
- часов — clock hand
вид по с. "а" (на чертеже) — view а
возвращение с. (прибора) в исходное (нулевое) положение — pointer return to zero
выдача информации на стрелку — information presentation on pointer.

steering information is presented on the steering pointer.
движение с. — pointer movement
заброс с. — pointer overswing
замедленное возвращение с. в исходное (нулевое) положение — pointer sluggish return to zero
затухание колебаний с. — damping of pointer oscillation
колебание с. — pointer oscillation
конец с. — pointer tip
недоход с. (до отметки) — pointer is short of...
неплавность хода с. — unsmooth movement of pointer
несимметричность отклонения с. — difference between pointer deflections
отклонение с. (полное) — (full-scale) pointer deflection
отклонение с. а любую сторону — pointer deflection to either side
переброс (качание) с. — pointer swinging
переход (заброс) с. (прибора при испытании на время полного успокоения) — overswing of'the pointer
по с. "а" (ссыпка на чертеж) — as indicated by arrow "a"
по часовой с. — clockwise (cw)
против часовой с. — counterclockwise (ccw)
сигнал подается (поступает) на с. (планку прибора) — signal operates pointer /command bar/
смещение с. — pointer displacement
выдерживать командную с. (по курсу) на нулевом индексе — keep (roll) command bar centered
не реагировать (на входной сигнал, о стрелке) — fail to respond
передаваться на с. (о к-л. величине на индикацию) — be indicated /displayed, presented/ by pointer
пилотировать (самолет) по командным стрелкам — fly (aircraft) using the display of command bars
поворачивать по часовой с. — turn clockwise
поворачивать против часовой с. — turn counterclockwise
прекращать пилотирование по командным стрелкам — disregard display of command bars
приближаться к нулевой отметке шкалы (о стрелке положения нпп) — be approximately centered (of gs or loc pointer)
ударяться об ограничитель (о стрелке) — slam against stop. the pointer slams against the pointer stops at either end of the scale.
устанавливать с. на отметку шкалы — set /place/ pointer to /at, against/ scale point

Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > стрелка
10 равномерная шкала

1. evenly divided scale

цена деления шкалы … градусов — the scale reads to … degrees

шкала оценки интенсивности труда — performance rating scale

шкала абсолютной температуры, шкала Кельвина — Kelvin scale

абсолютная температурная шкала — absolute temperature scale

шкала оценки производительности — performance rating scale

2. linear scale

шкала коррозионной стойкости — corrosion-resistance scale

шкала комиссионного вознаграждения — scale of commissions

тоновая шкала, серый клин — continuous-tone density scale

двоичная шкала; двоичная система счисления — binary scale

шкала с непосредственным отсчетом — direct-reading scale

Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > равномерная шкала
11 шкала

1. escalation

подвижная шкала заработной платы — wage escalation

подвижная шкала зарплаты — wage escalation

2. rank

3. dial

шкала прибора установки глубины хода — depth-setting dial

устанавливающий данные на шкалах — applying data to dials

дисковая шкала самопишущего прибора — large reading dial

стойка индикатора с круговой шкалой — dial gage support

лампочка освещения шкалы радиоприбора — radio dial lamp

4. scaleplate

5. scale

шкала твёрдости — scale of hardness

шкала твердости Моса — Mohrs' scale

поверочная шкала — calibration scale

прозрачная шкала — translucent scale

тангенциальная шкала — tangent scale

6. scale II

цена деления шкалы … градусов — the scale reads to … degrees

шкала оценки интенсивности труда — performance rating scale

шкала абсолютной температуры, шкала Кельвина — Kelvin scale

абсолютная температурная шкала — absolute temperature scale

шкала оценки производительности — performance rating scale

Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > шкала
12 Walter, Thomas Ustick

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building

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b. 4 September 1804 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

d. 30 October 1887 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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American architect, best known for his construction of the great iron dome of the United States Capitol in Washington.

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Much of Walter's work was in neo-classical style, of which the Founders' Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia, built 1833–47, is a fine example. On the exterior this is a large-scale Corinthian temple of peripteral octastyle form. Inside, Walter showed his awareness of modern needs with his brick fireproof vaulting. In 1851 Walter was appointed by President Millard Fillmore as Architect to the Capitol in Washington, DC, to enlarge the building to accommodate the greater needs of the day. Between this time and 1865 Walter extended the side wings considerably to provide more space for the House of Representatives and the Senate and, to balance the composition of this much longer elevation, built a new great dome. In style, the dome and drum resemble those of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the scale is much greater and the internal construction largely of cast iron: internally the dome measures 98 ft (29.9 m) in diameter and has a total height of 222 ft (67.7 m).

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Founder American Institute of Architects 1857; President from 1876.

Further Reading

M.Whiffen and F.Keeper, 1981, American Architecture 1607–1976, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT.

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Biographical history of technology > Walter, Thomas Ustick
13 чтение

interpretation of aerial photos
аэрофотоснимков
- графика — reading of graph /chart/

at this intersection of graph lines read off on the scale below the maximum weight.
- графика в обратном направлении — read the chart in reverse direction
график также может читаться в обратном направлениии (против направления, указанного стрелками). — the chart may also be read in the reverse direction to the arrows.
- карты — reading of map

Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > чтение
14 temps

temps [tɑ̃]

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1. masculine noun

2. compounds

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1. <

   a. (qui passe) time

• le temps time

• réaliser un très bon temps to achieve a very good time (PROV) le temps c'est de l'argent(PROV) time is money (PROV) il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything

• c'était le bon temps those were the days

• s'accorder un temps de réflexion to give o.s. time to think

• les temps modernes modern times

• les temps sont durs ! times are hard!

• les premiers temps at the beginning

• par les temps qui courent these days

• je me suis arrêté juste le temps de prendre un verre I stopped just long enough to have a drink

► ces derniers temps lately

► ces temps-ci these days

► tout le temps all the time

• l'air est presque tout le temps pollué the air is almost always polluted

• il se plaint tout le temps he complains all the time► peu de temps

• peu de temps avant Noël shortly before Christmas

• je l'ai vu peu de temps après I saw him shortly afterwards

• en peu de temps in a short time

• dans peu de temps before very long► il est temps

• il est temps de partir it's time to go

• il est temps qu'il parte it's time he went

• il est grand temps de réagir it's high time we took action► il était temps ! ( = ce n'est pas trop tôt) about time too! ; ( = c'était juste) it came in the nick of time!

► avoir + temps

• avoir le temps de faire qch to have time to do sth

• avoir le temps to have time

• je n'ai pas le temps I haven't got time

• je n'ai pas le temps de le faire I haven't got time to do it

• vous avez tout votre temps you have plenty of time► faire + temps

• il a fait son temps he has had his day

• il a fait son temps à la tête du parti his days as party leader are over

• ma machine à laver est morte, elle a fait son temps my washing machine is past praying for► mettre + temps

• la blessure mettra du temps à guérir the wound will take time to heal

• il a mis beaucoup de temps à se préparer he took a long time to get ready► passer + temps

• passer tout son temps à faire qch to spend all one's time doing sth

• cela fait passer le temps it passes the time

• comme le temps passe ! how time flies!► perdre + temps

• perdre du temps to waste time

• perdre son temps to waste one's time

• il n'y a pas de temps à perdre there's no time to lose

• le temps presse time is short► prendre + temps

• cela prend trop de temps it takes up too much time

• prendre du bon temps to have a good time

• prendre le temps de faire qch to find time to do sth

• prendre le temps de vivre to make time to enjoy life

• il a pris son temps ! he took his time!► à temps in time

• j'arrive à temps ! I've come just in time!► à plein temps full-time

• travailler à plein temps to work full-time► à temps partiel part-time

• travailler à temps partiel to work part-time► au + temps

• au temps où... in the days when...

• au temps de la marine à voile in the days of sailing ships

• au temps des Tudors in Tudor times

• au bon vieux temps in the good old days

• au temps pour moi ! my mistake!► avec le temps in time

• avec le temps, ça s'arrangera things will sort themselves out in time► dans + temps

• dans le temps in the old days

• être dans les temps (Sport) to be within the time limit ; [travail] to be on schedule ; ( = pas en retard) to be in time► de + temps

• de mon temps in my time

• il faut être de son temps you have to move with the times

• de tout temps from time immemorial

• de temps à autre

• de temps en temps from time to time► en + temps

• en temps de guerre in wartime

• en temps de paix in peacetime

• en temps de crise in times of crisis

• en ce temps-là at that time

• en temps et en heure in due course

• en temps normal usually

• en temps opportun at the appropriate time

• en temps voulu in due course

• en temps utile in due course► entre temps meanwhile

► pendant ce temps meanwhile

► pour un temps for a time

   b. ( = conditions atmosphériques) weather

• quel temps fait-il ? what's the weather like?

• il fait beau temps the weather's fine

• il fait mauvais temps the weather's bad

• le temps s'est mis au beau the weather has turned fine

• par mauvais temps in bad weather

• sortir par tous les temps to go out in all weathers

• avec le temps qu'il fait ! in this weather!

• il fait un temps de chien (inf) the weather's awful

   c. ( = phase) l'opération s'est déroulée en trois temps the operation was carried out in three phases

• dans un premier temps at first

• dans un deuxième temps subsequently

   d. (marquant un rythme) (Music) beat ; [d'exercice, mouvement] stage

• les temps forts d'un roman the powerful moments of a novel

• une valse à trois temps a waltz in triple time

• moteur à 4 temps 4-stroke engine

• un 2 temps a 2-stroke

   e. [de verbe] tense

• temps simple simple tense

• temps composé compound tense

• adverbe de temps adverb of time

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► temps d'antenne airtime

► temps d'arrêt pause

• marquer un temps d'arrêt to pause ► temps de cuisson cooking time

► temps libre spare time

• comment occupes-tu ton temps libre ? what do you do in your spare time? ► temps mort (Football, rugby) injury time uncount ; (dans le commerce, le travail) slack period ; (dans la conversation) lull

► temps de parole (dans une émission) air time

► temps partagé

• le travail à temps partagé job-sharing ► temps de pose (Photography) exposure index

► temps de réaction reaction time

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nom masculin invariable

1) Météorologie weather [U]

un beau temps — fine weather

un temps de cochon — (colloq) lousy (colloq) weather

le temps est à la pluie — it looks like rain

le temps est à l'orage — there's going to be a storm

par temps clair — ( de jour) on a clear day; ( de nuit) on a clear night

par temps de pluie — when it rains

2) ( durée) time

peu de temps avant — shortly before

dans peu de temps — shortly

dans quelque temps — before long

(pendant) quelque or un certain temps — ( assez courte période) for a while; ( période plus longue) for some time

pendant or pour un temps — for a while

pendant ce temps(-là) — meanwhile

en un rien de temps — in no time at all

les trois quarts du temps — most of the time

depuis le temps que j'en parle! — I've been talking about it for long enough!

depuis le temps que ça existe, tu devrais être au courant — you should have known, it's been around for so long

le temps d'installation a été plus long que prévu — it took longer than expected to install

ils sont restés le temps de l'élection — they stayed just for the duration of the election

il a souri le temps de la photo — he smiled just long enough for the photo to be taken

un an, le temps d'écrire un roman — a year, just long enough to write a novel

le temps de me retourner, il avait disparu — by the time I turned round GB ou around, he had disappeared

le temps de ranger mes affaires et j'arrive — just let me put my things away and I'll be with you

(j'ai) pas l'temps! — (colloq) not now!

avoir tout le temps — to have plenty of time

avoir dix or cent fois le temps — to have all the time in the world

vous avez combien de temps pour le déjeuner? — how long do you have for lunch?

nous avons du temps devant nous — we have plenty of time

plus de temps que — longer than

ne pas prendre beaucoup de temps — not to take long

tu as mis combien de temps? — how long did it take you?

ça a pris or mis un temps fou — (colloq) it took ages (colloq)

tu y as mis le temps!, tu en as mis du temps! — you (certainly) took your time!

j'y mettrai le temps qu'il faudra, mais je le ferai — however long it takes, I'll get it done

le temps passe vite — time flies

faire passer le temps — to while away the time ( en faisant doing)

j'ai perdu un temps fou — (colloq) I've wasted loads (colloq) of time

avoir du temps à perdre — to have time on one's hands

faire quelque chose à temps perdu — to do something in one's spare time

le temps presse! — time is short!

j'ai trouvé le temps long — (the) time seemed to drag

nous sommes dans les temps — we've still got time

finir dans les temps — to finish in time

3) ( moment) time

de temps en temps, de temps à autre — from time to time

il était temps! — ( marquant l'impatience) (and) about time too!; ( marquant le soulagement) just in the nick of time!

il est temps — it's about time

il est grand temps — it's high time ( de faire to do)

il n'est plus temps de faire — it's too late to do

en temps utile — in time

en temps voulu — ( à venir) in due course; ( quand il aurait fallu) at the right time

ne durer qu'un temps — to be short-lived

4) ( époque) time

au temps des dinosaures — in the age of the dinosaurs

au or du temps où — in the days when

regretter le temps où — to feel nostalgia for the days when

le bon vieux temps — the good old days (pl)

c'était le bon temps! — those were the days!

ces derniers temps — recently

ces temps-ci — lately

de mon temps — in my day

dans le temps, j'étais sportif — in my day, I did a bit of sport

dans le temps, on n'avait pas l'électricité — in those days, we didn't have electricity

depuis le temps, les choses ont dû bien changer — since then things must have really changed

il est loin le temps où — the days are long gone when

en temps normal — usually

en d'autres temps — at any other time

en temps de paix — in peacetime

être de son temps — to move with the times

être en retard sur son temps — to be behind the times

avoir fait son temps — [prisonnier, militaire] to have served one's time; [fonctionnaire, diplomate] to have put in one's time; [personne usée] to have outlived one's usefulness, to be past it (colloq); [produit à la mode, appareil, voiture] to have had its day

5) ( phase) stage

dans un premier temps — first

dans un deuxième temps — subsequently

dans un dernier temps — finally

6) Linguistique ( de verbe) tense

adverbe de temps — adverb of time

7) ( de travail) time

avoir un travail à temps partiel/plein — to have a part-/full-time job

temps de travail quotidien — working day GB, workday US

8) Sport time

il a réalisé le meilleur temps — he got the best time

rester dans les temps — to be inside the time

9) ( de moteur) stroke

moteur à quatre temps — four-stroke engine

10) Musique time

mesure à deux temps — two-four time

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Phrasal Verbs:

- temps d'antenne

- temps d'attente

- temps fort

- temps mort

- temps de positionnement or de recherche

- temps universel

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au temps pour moi! — my mistake!

le temps perdu ne se rattrape jamais — Proverbe you can't make up for lost time

par les temps qui courent — with things as they are

prendre le temps comme il vient — to take things as they come

prendre or se payer (colloq) du bon temps — to have a whale of a time

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1) (atmosphérique) weather

il fait beau temps — the weather is fine

il fait mauvais temps — the weather is bad

quel temps fait-il? — what's the weather like?

2) (qui passe) time

avoir le temps — to have time

Je n'ai pas le temps. — I haven't got time.

avoir tout le temps — to have plenty of time

avoir juste le temps — to have just enough time

prendre son temps — to take one's time

avoir fait son temps — to have had its day

Cette idée a fait son temps. — This idea has had its day.

3) (= époque) time, times pl

les temps changent — times are changing

les temps sont durs — times are hard

en temps de guerre — in wartime

en temps de paix — in peacetime

dans le temps — in the old days

Dans le temps, on pouvait circuler à vélo sans danger. — In the old days, it was safe to go around by bike.

de tout temps — always

du temps que — at the time when, in the days when

du temps où; au temps où — at the time when

4) (= moment)

il est temps de... — It's time to...

Il est temps qu'il prenne sa retraite. — It's time for him to retire.

en temps utile; en temps voulu — in due time, in due course

de temps en temps; de temps à autre — from time to time, now and again

en même temps — at the same time

à temps [partir, arriver] — in time

Il est arrivé à temps pour le match. — He arrived in time for the match.

juste à temps — just in time

pendant ce temps — in the meantime

5) LINGUISTIQUE tense

6) MUSIQUE beat

7) TECHNIQUE stroke

8) (autres locutions)

à plein temps; à temps complet [travailler] — full time, (emploi) full-time

Elle travaille à plein temps. — She works full time.

à temps partiel [travailler] — part time, (emploi) part-time

le travail à temps partiel — part-time work

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temps ⇒ La mesure du temps nm inv

1 Météo weather ¢; un or du temps gris grey GB ou gray US weather; un beau temps fine weather; quel beau/sale temps! what lovely/awful weather!; il faisait un temps merveilleux/de cochon it was marvellous^GB/lousy weather; le mauvais temps nous a empêchés de sortir the bad weather stopped us from going out; le temps est à la pluie/neige it looks like rain/snow; le temps est à l'orage there's going to be a storm; le temps se met à la pluie the weather is turning to rain; vu le temps qu'il fait (what) with the weather as it is; quel temps fait-il? what's the weather like?; ça dépendra du temps qu'il fera it'll depend on the weather; par beau/mauvais temps in fine/bad weather, when the weather's fine/bad; par beau temps, on peut voir la tour on a clear day ou when the weather's fine, you can see the tower; par un si beau temps, tu devrais sortir! with such fine weather, you should go out!; par temps clair ( de jour) on a clear day; ( de nuit) on a clear night; par temps de pluie/neige when it rains/snows, in rainy/snowy weather; par tous les temps in all weathers; ⇒ pluie;

2 ( notion) time; la fuite du temps the swift passage of time; le temps efface tout everything fades with time; oublier avec le temps to forget in ou with time; avec le temps, on s'y fait you get used to it in ou with time; le temps arrangera les choses time will take care of everything, it'll be all right in the end; ⇒ vivre;

3 ( durée) peu de temps avant/après shortly before/after; en peu de temps in a short time; dans peu de temps shortly, before long; il y a or ça fait peu de temps que le train est parti the train left a short time ago; d'ici or dans quelque temps before long; (pendant) quelque or un certain temps ( assez courte période) for a while; ( période plus longue) for some time, for quite a while; depuis quelque or un certain temps il est bizarre he has been behaving oddly for a while now ou for some time now; il y a quelque or beau or un certain temps qu'on ne l'a pas vue it's been some time since anyone saw her; pendant or pour un temps for a while; pendant tout un temps for quite a while; pendant ce temps(-là) meanwhile, in the meantime; qu'as-tu fait tout ce temps(-là)? what have you been doing all this time?; qu'as-tu fait pendant (tout) ce temps(-là)? what did you do all that time?; en un rien de temps in next to no time, in no time at all; la plupart or les trois quarts du temps most of the time; tout le temps all the time; depuis le temps que j'en parle all this time I've been talking about it; depuis le temps que ça existe, tu devrais être au courant you should have known, it's been around for so long; le temps d'installation a été plus long que prévu it took longer than expected to install; le temps de la fouille m'a paru interminable the search seemed to go on forever; le temps d'un après-midi/d'un week-end/d'un instant just for an afternoon/a weekend/a minute; ils sont restés le temps de l'élection they stayed just for the duration of the election; il a souri le temps de la photo he smiled just long enough for the photo to be taken; un an, le temps d'écrire un roman a year, just long enough to write a novel; le temps de me retourner or que je me retourne, il avait disparu by the time I turned round GB ou around, he had disappeared; le temps de ranger mes affaires et j'arrive just let me put my things away and I'll be with you; avoir/ne pas avoir le temps to have/not to have (the) time (pour for; de faire to do); je n'ai plus beaucoup de temps I haven't got much time left; (j'ai) pas l'temps○! not now!; on a le temps we've got (plenty of) time; si tu as le temps, pourrais-tu…? if you've got time, could you…?; avoir juste le temps to have just (enough) time; avoir tout le temps to have bags○ of time ou plenty of time; avoir dix or cent fois le temps to have all the time in the world; je n'avais que le temps de faire I only had time to do; vous avez combien de temps pour le déjeuner? how long do you have for lunch?; avoir du temps (de) libre to have (some) free time; nous avons du temps devant nous we have plenty of time, we have time to spare; tu as vraiment du temps devant toi! iron have you got time to kill?; je n'ai pas le temps matériel de faire, je n'ai matériellement pas le temps de faire there just aren't enough hours in the day (for me) to do; consacrer du temps à qn/qch to devote time to sb/sth GB, to spend time on sb/sth; donner or laisser à qn le temps de faire to give sb time to do; mettre or prendre du temps to take time (à faire, pour faire to do); il faut du temps pour faire it takes time to do; beaucoup de temps [mettre, prendre] a long time; moins de temps que [falloir, mettre, prendre] less time than; plus de temps que [falloir, mettre, prendre] longer than; prendre peu de temps not to take a long time, not to take long; ne pas prendre beaucoup de temps not to take long; il m'a fallu or cela m'a pris or j'ai mis beaucoup de temps it took (me) a long time; il t'a fallu or cela t'a pris or tu as mis combien de temps? how long did it take you?; ça a pris or mis un temps fou○ it took ages○; prendre le temps de faire to take the time to do; prendre son temps to take one's time; prendre tout son temps to take all the time one needs; les enfants prennent tout mon temps the children take up all my time; tu y as mis le temps!, tu en as mis du temps! you (certainly) took your time!; j'y mettrai le temps qu'il faudra, mais je le ferai however long it takes, I'll get it done; le temps que met sa lumière à nous parvenir the time its light takes to reach us; si tu savais le temps que ça (m')a pris! if you knew how long it took (me)!; le temps passe vite time flies; le temps passe et rien n'est prêt time's slipping by and nothing's ready; laisser passer le temps to let time slip by; ça passe le temps it passes the time; faire passer le temps to while away the time (en faisant doing); passer (tout) son temps à faire to spend (all of) one's time doing; passer le plus clair de son temps à faire to spend most of one's time doing; perdre du temps to waste time (à qch, en qch on sth; à faire doing); perdre son temps to waste one's time; nous avons perdu beaucoup de temps à discuter or en discussions we've wasted a lot of time arguing; j'ai perdu un temps fou○ I've wasted loads○ of time (à faire doing); avoir du temps à perdre to have time on one's hands; c'est du temps perdu, c'est une perte de temps it's a waste of time; cette visite, c'était vraiment du temps (de) perdu that visit was a real waste of time; faire qch à temps perdu to do sth in one's spare time; il n'y a plus de temps/pas de temps à perdre there's no more time/no time to lose; le temps presse! time is short!; être pressé par le temps to be pressed ou pushed for time; trouver le temps de faire to find (the) time to do; j'ai trouvé le temps long (the) time seemed to drag, time went really slowly; être dans les temps Sport to be within the time; nous sommes dans les temps we've still got time; finir dans les temps to finish in time;

4 ( moment) time; à temps [partir, terminer] in time; juste à temps just in time; de temps en temps, de temps à autre from time to time, now and then; en même temps at the same time (que as); je suis arrivé en même temps qu'elle I arrived at the same time as her ou as she did; le temps est venu de faire the time has come to do; il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything; il était temps! ( marquant l'impatience) (and) about time too!; ( marquant le soulagement) just in the nick of time!; il est temps, il n'est que temps it's about time; il est grand temps it's high time (de faire to do); il n'est que temps de partir it's high time we left; il est temps de partir or que nous partions it's time we left; il est temps que tu fasses it's time you did ou for you to do; il n'est plus temps de faire it's too late to do; en temps utile in time; en temps voulu in due course; en temps opportun at the appropriate time; en temps et lieu at the right time and place; la mesure/décision a été prise en son temps the measure/decision was taken at the right time ou when it should have been;

5 ( époque) au or du temps des Grecs in the time of the Greeks; au or du temps de mes grand-parents/de César in my grandparents'/Caesar's time; les temps modernes/préhistoriques modern/prehistoric times; le temps des semailles/examens sowing/exam time; au temps des dinosaures/de l'exploration spatiale in the age of the dinosaurs/of space exploration; au or du temps où in the days when; regretter le temps où to feel nostalgia for the days when; l'échelle des temps géologiques the scale of geological ages; les temps héroïques de the heroic days of; le bon or beau temps de l'expansion the good old days (pl) of expansion; le bon vieux temps the good old days (pl); comme au bon vieux temps as in the good old days; c'était le bon temps! those were the days!; au plus beau temps de in the heyday of; au pire temps de in the worst days of; l'événement le plus grand/extraordinaire de tous les temps the greatest/most extraordinary event of all time; les temps sont durs times are hard; ces derniers temps, ces temps derniers recently; ces temps-ci lately; en tout temps at all times; de mon/leur temps in my/their day ou time; dans le temps, j'étais sportif in my day, I did a bit of sport; dans le temps, on n'avait pas l'électricité in those days, we didn't have electricity; depuis le temps, les choses ont dû bien changer since then things must have really changed; il est loin le temps où the days are long gone when; il n'est pas loin le temps où tu n'étais qu'une enfant it's not so long ago that you were but a child; n'avoir or ne durer qu'un temps to be short-lived; en un temps où at a time when; en temps normal or ordinaire usually; en d'autres temps at any other time; en temps de paix/guerre in peacetime/wartime; en ces temps de pénurie/d'abondance in these times of hardship/of plenty; en ce temps-là at that time; être de son temps to move with the times; être en avance sur son temps to be ahead of one's time; être en retard sur son temps to be behind the times; avoir fait son temps [prisonnier, militaire] to have served one's time; [fonctionnaire, diplomate] to have put in one's time; pej [personne usée] to have outlived one's usefulness, to be past it○; [produit à la mode, appareil, voiture] to have had its day; ⇒ mœurs;

6 ( phase) stage; en deux temps in two stages; temps mort (d'activité, de travail) slack period; dans un premier temps first; dans un deuxième temps subsequently; dans un dernier temps finally; ⇒ deux;

7 Ling ( de verbe) tense; les temps simples/composés/du passé simple/compound/past tenses; adverbe de temps adverb of time;

8 Entr ( de travail) time; avoir un travail à temps partiel/plein to have a part-/full-time job; travailler à temps partiel to work part-time; travailler à temps plein or à plein temps or à temps complet to work full-time; être employé à plein temps to be in full-time work; je cherche un temps partiel○ I'm looking for a part-time job; temps de travail working hours (pl); temps de travail quotidien working day GB, workday US; temps de travail hebdomadaire working week GB, workweek US;

9 Sport time; un excellent temps an excellent time; il a fait or réalisé le meilleur temps he got the best time; améliorer son temps d'une seconde to knock a second off one's time; être or rester dans les temps to be inside the time; jouer les temps d'arrêt ( au football) to play injury time;

10 Mécan ( de moteur) stroke; moteur à quatre temps four-stroke engine;

11 Mus time; temps de valse waltz time; mesure à deux/trois/quatre temps two-four/three-four/four-four time.

Composés

temps d'accès access time; temps d'antenne airtime; temps d'arrêt Ordinat down time; temps atomique international, TAI international atomic time, TAI; temps d'attente Ordinat latency, waiting time; temps choisi Entr flexitime; temps civil Admin local time; temps différé Ordinat batch mode; temps d'exploitation operating time; temps faible Mus piano; temps fort Mus forte; fig high point; temps d'indisponibilité unavailable time; temps légal Admin local time; temps mort Ordinat idle time; temps partagé Ordinat time-sharing; en temps partagé time-sharing ( épith); temps de pose Phot exposure time; temps de positionnement Ordinat seek time; temps primitifs Ling principal parts of the verb; temps de réaction Psych reaction time; temps de recherche = temps de positionnement; temps réel Ordinat real time; en temps réel real-time ( épith); temps de réponse response time; temps sidéral sidereal time; temps solaire solar time; temps solaire moyen/vrai mean/true solar time; temps universel Greenwich Mean Time, GMT, universal time; temps universel coordonné, TUC universal time coordinated, UTC; temps de vol flying time.

Idiomes

au temps pour moi! my mistake!; il y a un temps de se taire et un temps de parler there is a time to keep silence and a time to speak; le temps perdu ne se rattrape jamais or ne revient point Prov you can't make up for lost time; par le temps qui court, par les temps qui courent with things as they are; prendre le temps comme il vient to take things as they come; prendre or se donner or se payer○ du bon temps to have a whale of a time.

[tɑ̃] nom masculin

A.[CLIMAT] weather

quel temps fait-il à Nîmes? what's the weather like in Nîmes?

avec le temps qu'il fait, par ce temps in this weather

il fait un temps gris it's overcast, the weather's dull (UK) ou gloomy

par beau temps ou par temps clair, on voit la côte anglaise when it's fine ou on a clear day, you can see the English coast

B.[DURÉE]

1. [écoulement des jours]

le temps time

comme le temps passe!, comme ou que le temps passe vite! how time flies!

le Temps Old Father Time

2. [durée indéterminée] time (substantif non comptable)

c'est du temps perdu it's a waste of time

mettre du temps à faire quelque chose to take time to do something

mettre du temps à se décider to take a long time deciding ou to decide

passer son temps à: je passe mon temps à lire I spend (all) my time reading

pour passer le temps to while away ou to pass the time

prendre du temps to take time

ça prendra le temps qu'il faudra ou que ça prendra (familier) it'll take as long as it takes

trouver le temps long to feel time dragging by

3. [durée nécessaire] time (substantif comptable)

le temps que: calculer le temps que met la lumière pour aller du Soleil à la Terre to compute the time that light takes to go from the Sun to the Earth

va chercher du lait, le temps que je fasse du thé go and get some milk while I make some tea

le temps de: le temps de faire quelque chose (the) time to do something

le temps d'enfiler un manteau et j'arrive just let me put on a coat and I'll be with you

juste le temps de les entendre just long enough to hear them

avoir le temps de faire quelque chose to have (the) time to do something

prendre son temps to take one's time

surtout prends ton temps! (ironique) take your time, won't you?, don't hurry, will you?

prendre le temps de faire quelque chose to take the time to do something

temps de cuisson/préparation CUISINE cooking/preparation time

un temps partiel a part-time job

un temps plein ou plein temps a full-time job

être ou travailler à temps partiel to work part-time

être ou travailler à plein temps ou à temps plein to work full-time

travailler à temps complet to work full-time

faire un trois quarts (de) temps ≃ to work 30 hours per week

le temps de la réflexion time to think

diminuer le temps de travail to reduce working hours

4. [loisir] time (substantif comptable)

maintenant qu'elle est à la retraite, elle ne sait plus quoi faire de son temps now that she's retired, she doesn't know how to fill her time

avoir du temps ou le temps to have time

mon train est à 7 h, j'ai grandement ou tout le temps my train is at 7, I've plenty of time (to spare)

avoir tout son temps to have all the time in the world

ne nous pressons pas, on a tout notre temps! (ironique) couldn't you go (just) a little bit slower?

avoir du temps devant soi to have time to spare ou on one's hands

temps libre free time

avoir du temps libre to have some spare time

5. [moment favorable]

il est temps: il est (grand) temps! it's high time!, it's about time!

la voilà — il était temps! here she is — it's about time ou and not a minute too soon ou and about time too!

il était temps, le bol allait tomber that was close, the bowl was about to fall

il n'est plus temps time's run out

il est temps de now's the time for

il n'est plus temps de discuter, il faut agir the time for discussion is past ou enough talking, we must act

il est temps que tu t'inscrives you'd better enrol soon, it's time you enrolled

le temps était venu pour moi de partir the time had come for me to ou it was time for me to leave

6. [époque déterminée] time (substantif comptable)

le temps n'est plus aux querelles we should put quarrels behind us, the time for quarelling is past

il fut un temps où... there was a time when...

le temps n'est plus où... gone are the days when...

la plus grande découverte de notre temps the biggest discovery of our time

être en avance/en retard sur son temps to be ahead of/behind one's time

être de son temps to move with the times

il n'était pas de son temps

a. [en retard] he was out of step with his time

b. [en avance] he was ahead of his time

dans mon jeune temps when I was young, in my younger days

j'ai cru, un temps, que... I thought, for a while, that...

il y a un temps pour tout there's a time for everything

elle est fidèle — ça n'aura ou ne durera qu'un temps she's faithful — it won't last

faire son temps [détenu, soldat] to do ou to serve one's time

la cafetière/mon manteau a fait son temps (familier) the coffee machine's/my coat's seen better days

des idées qui ont fait leur temps outmoded ideas

en temps normal ou ordinaire usually, in normal circumstances

en temps voulu in good time

en temps utile in due time ou course

en son temps in due course

chaque chose en son temps there's a right time for everything

7. [saison, période de l'année] time (substantif comptable), season

le temps des moissons harvest (time)

le temps des cerises/pêches the cherry/peach season

8. [phase - d'une action, d'un mouvement] stage

dans un premier temps first

dans un deuxième temps secondly

dans un troisième temps thirdly

9. INFORMATIQUE time

temps d'accès/d'amorçage access/start-up time

temps partagé time sharing

temps réel real time

traitement en temps réel real-time processing

travailler en temps réel to work in real time

10. LINGUISTIQUE tense

11. MÉCANIQUE stroke

12. MUSIQUE beat

valse à trois temps waltz in three-four time

13. RELIGION

le temps de l'avent/du carême (the season of) Advent/Lent

le temps pascal Easter time, Eastertide

14. SPORT [d'une course] time

elle a fait le meilleur temps aux essais hers was the best time ou she was the fastest in the trials

ESCRIME [durée - d'une action] time, temps ; [ - d'un combat] bout

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[tɑ̃] nom masculin pluriel

[époque] times, days

les temps sont durs ou difficiles! times are hard!

les temps modernes/préhistoriques modern/prehistoric times

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à temps locution adverbiale

in time

je n'arriverai/je ne finirai jamais à temps! I'll never make it/I'll never finish in time!

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à temps perdu locution adverbiale

in one's spare time, in a spare moment

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au même temps

→ link=enen même temps

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au même temps que

→ link=enen même temps que

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au temps de locution prépositionnelle

in ou at the time of, in the days of

au temps de Voltaire in Voltaire's time ou day

au temps jadis locution adverbiale

in times past, in the old days

au temps où locution conjonctive,

au temps que locution conjonctive

in the days when, at the time when

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avec le temps locution adverbiale

with the passing of time

avec le temps, tout s'arrange time is a great healer

ces temps-ci locution adverbiale

these days, lately

dans ce temps-là locution adverbiale

in those days, at that time

dans le même temps

→ link=enen même temps

dans le même temps que

→ link=enen même temps que

dans le temps locution adverbiale

before, in the old days

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dans les temps locution adverbiale

on time

être dans les temps

a. [pour un travail] to be on schedule ou time

b. [pour une course] to be within the time (limit)

de temps à autre locution adverbiale,

de temps en temps locution adverbiale

from time to time, occasionally, (every) now and then

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du temps de locution prépositionnelle

du temps de Louis XIV in the days of Louis the XIVth

du temps de notre père, tu n'aurais pas osé when our father was (still) alive, you wouldn't have dared

de mon temps, ça n'existait pas when I was young ou in my day, there was no such thing

du temps où,

du temps que

→ link=auau temps où

en ce temps-là

→ link=dansdans ce temps-là

en même temps locution adverbiale

at the same time

en même temps que locution conjonctive

at the same time as

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en temps de locution prépositionnelle

en temps de guerre/paix in wartime/peacetime

en temps de prospérité/récession in times of prosperity/recession

en temps et lieu locution adverbiale

in due course ou time, at the proper time and place

en un temps où locution conjonctive

at a time when

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par les temps qui courent locution adverbiale

(familier) (things being as they are) these days ou nowadays

tout le temps locution adverbiale

all the time, always

ne me harcèle pas tout le temps! don't keep on pestering me!

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temps fort nom masculin

MUSIQUE strong beat

(figuré) high point, highlight

un des temps forts du festival one of the high points ou highlights of the festival

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temps mort nom masculin

1. [au basketball, au volleyball] time-out

2. (figuré) lull, slack period

[dans une conversation] lull, pause

Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > temps

15 McKay, Hugh Victor

SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

[br]

b. c. 1866 Drummartin, Victoria, Australia

d. 21 May 1926 Australia

[br]

Australian inventor and manufacturer of harvesting and other agricultural equipment.

[br]

A farmer's son, at the age of 17 McKay developed modifications to the existing stripper harvester and created a machine that would not only strip the seed from standing corn, but was able to produce a threshed, winnowed and clean sample in one operation. The prototype was produced in 1884 and worked well on the two acres of wheat that had been set aside on the family farm. By arrangement with a Melbourne plough maker, five machines were made and sold for the 1885 season. In 1886 the McKay Harvester Company was formed, with offices at Ballarat, from which the machines, built by various companies, were sold. The business expanded quickly, selling sixty machines in 1888, and eventually rising to the production of nearly 2,000 harvesters in 1905. The name "Sunshine" was given to the harvester, and the "Sun" prefix was to appear on all other implements produced by the company as it diversified its production interests. In 1902 severe drought reduced machinery sales and left 2,000 harvesters unsold. McKay was forced to look to export markets to dispose of his surplus machines. By 1914 a total of 10,000 machines were being exported annually. During the First World War McKay was appointed to the Business Board of the Defence Department. Increases in the scale of production resulted in the company moving to Melbourne, where it was close to the port of entry of raw materials and was able to export the finished article more readily. In 1909 McKay produced one of the first gas-engined harvesters, but its cost prevented it from being more than an experimental prototype. By this time McKay was the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the Southern hemisphere, producing a wide range of implements, including binders. In 1916 McKay hired Headlie Taylor, who had developed a machine capable of harvesting fallen crops. The jointly developed machine was a major success, coming as it did in what would otherwise have been a disastrous Australian harvest. Further developments included the "Sun Auto-header" in 1923, the first of the harvesting machines to adopt the "T" configuration to be seen on modern harvesters. The Australian market was expanding fast and a keen rivalry developed between McKay and Massey Harris. Confronted by the tariff regulations with which the Australian Government had protected its indigenous machinery industry since 1906, Massey Harris sold all its Australian assets to the H.V. McKay company in 1930. Twenty-three years later Massey Ferguson acquired the old Sunshine works and was still operating from there in the 1990s.

Despite a long-running history of wage disputes with his workforce, McKay established a retiring fund as well as a self-help fund for distressed cases. Before his death he created a charitable trust and requested that some funds should be made available for the "aerial experiments" which were to lead to the establishment of the Flying Doctor Service.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

CBE.

Further Reading

Graeme Quick and Wesley Buchele, 1978, The Grain Harvesters, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (devotes a chapter to the unique development of harvesting machinery which took place in Australia).

AP

Biographical history of technology > McKay, Hugh Victor

16 Messerschmitt, Willi E.

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

[br]

b. 26 June 1898 Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany

d. 17 September 1978 Munich, Germany

[br]

German aircraft designer noted for successful fighters such as the Bf 109, one of the world's most widely produced aircraft.

[br]

Messerschmitt studied engineering at the Munich Institute of Tchnology and obtained his degree in 1923. By 1926 he was Chief Designer at the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg. Due to the ban on military aircraft in Germany following the First World War, his early designs included gliders, light aircraft, and a series of high-wing airliners. He began to make a major impact on German aircraft design once Hitler came to power and threw off the shackles of the Treaty of Versailles, which so restricted Germany's armed forces. In 1932 he bought out the now-bankrupt Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, but initially, because of enmity between himself and the German aviation minister, was not invited to compete for an air force contract for a single-engined fighter. However, in 1934 Messerschmitt designed the Bf 108 Taifun, a small civil aircraft with a fighter-like appearance. This displayed the quality of his design and the German air ministry was forced to recognize him. As a result, he unveiled the famous Bf 109 fighter which first flew in August 1935; it was used during the Spanish Civil War in 1936–9, and was to become one of the foremost combat aircraft of the Second World War. In 1938, after several name changes, the company became Messerschmitt Aktien-Gesellschaft (and hence a change of prefix from Bf to Me). During April 1939 a Messerschmitt aircraft broke the world air-speed record at 755.14 km/h (469.32 mph): it was entered in the FAI records as a Bf 109R, but was more accurately a new design designated Me 209V-1.

During the Second World War, the 5/70P was progressively improved, and eventually almost 35,000 were built. Other successful fighters followed, such as the twin-engined Me 110 which also served as a bomber and night fighter. The Messerschmitt Me 262 twin-engined jet fighter, the first jet aircraft in the world to enter service, flew during the early years of the war, but it was never given a high priority by the High Command and only a small number were in service when the war ended. Another revolutionary Messerschmitt AG design was the Me 163 Komet, the concept of Professor Alexander Lippisch who had joined Messerschmitt's company in 1939; this was the first rocket-propelled fighter to enter service. It was a small tailless design capable of 880 km/hr (550 mph), but its duration under power was only about 10 minutes and it was very dangerous to fly. From late 1944 onwards it was used to intercept the United States Air Force bombers during their daylight raids. At the other end of the scale, Messerschmitt produced the Me 321 Gigant, a huge transport glider which was towed behind a flight of three Me 110s. Later it was equipped with six engines, but it was an easy target for allied fighters. This was a costly white elephant, as was his high-speed twin-engined Me 210 fighter-bomber project which nearly made his company bankrupt. Nevertheless, he was certainly an innovator and was much admired by Hitler, who declared that he had "the skull of a genius", because of the Me 163 Komet rocket-powered fighter and the Me 262.

At the end of the war Messerschmitt was detained by the Americans for two years. In 1952 Messerschmitt became an aviation adviser to the Spanish government, and his Bf109 was produced in Spain as the Hispano Buchon for a number of years and was powered by Rolls-Royce Merlin engines. A factory was also constructed in Egypt to produce aircraft to Messerschmitt's designs. His German company, banned from building aircraft, produced prefabricated houses, sewing machines and, from 1953 to 1962, a series of bubble-cars: the KR 175 (1953–55) and the KR 200 (1955–62) were single-cylinder three-wheeled bubble-cars, and the Tiger (1958–62) was a twin-cylinder, 500cc four-wheeler. In 1958 Messerschmitt resumed aircraft construction in Germany and later became the Honorary Chairman of the merged Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm company (now part of the Franco-German Eurocopter company).

[br]

Further Reading

van Ishoven, 1975, Messerschmitt. Aircraft Designer, London. J.Richard Smith, 1971, Messerschmitt. An Air-craft Album, London.

Anthony Pritchard, 1975, Messerschmitt, London (describes Messerschmitt aircraft).

JDS / CM

Biographical history of technology > Messerschmitt, Willi E.

17 Roebuck, John

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology

[br]

b. 1718 Sheffield, England

d. 17 July 1794

[br]

English chemist and manufacturer, inventor of the lead-chamber process for sulphuric acid.

[br]

The son of a prosperous Sheffield manufacturer, Roebuck forsook the family business to pursue studies in medicine at Edinburgh University. There he met Dr Joseph Black (1727–99), celebrated Professor of Chemistry, who aroused in Roebuck a lasting interest in chemistry. Roebuck continued his studies at Leyden, where he took his medical degree in 1742. He set up in practice in Birmingham, but in his spare time he continued chemical experiments that might help local industries.

Among his early achievements was his new method of refining gold and silver. Success led to the setting up of a large laboratory and a reputation as a chemical consultant. It was at this time that Roebuck devised an improved way of making sulphuric acid. This vital substance was then made by burning sulphur and nitre (potassium nitrate) over water in a glass globe. The scale of the process was limited by the fragility of the glass. Roebuck substituted "lead chambers", or vessels consisting of sheets of lead, a metal both cheap and resistant to acids, set in wooden frames. After the first plant was set up in 1746, productivity rose and the price of sulphuric acid fell sharply. Success encouraged Roebuck to establish a second, larger plant at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. He preferred to rely on secrecy rather than patents to preserve his monopoly, but a departing employee took the secret with him and the process spread rapidly in England and on the European continent. It remained the standard process until it was superseded by the contact process towards the end of the nineteenth century. Roebuck next turned his attention to ironmaking and finally selected a site on the Carron river, near Falkirk in Scotland, where the raw materials and water power and transport lay close at hand. The Carron ironworks began producing iron in 1760 and became one of the great names in the history of ironmaking. Roebuck was an early proponent of the smelting of iron with coke, pioneered by Abraham Darby at Coalbrookdale. To supply the stronger blast required, Roebuck consulted John Smeaton, who c. 1760 installed the first blowing cylinders of any size.

All had so far gone well for Roebuck, but he now leased coal-mines and salt-works from the Duke of Hamilton's lands at Borrowstonness in Linlithgow. The coal workings were plagued with flooding which the existing Newcomen engines were unable to overcome. Through his friendship with Joseph Black, patron of James Watt, Roebuck persuaded Watt to join him to apply his improved steam-engine to the flooded mine. He took over Black's loan to Watt of £1,200, helped him to obtain the first steam-engine patent of 1769 and took a two-thirds interest in the project. However, the new engine was not yet equal to the task and the debts mounted. To satisfy his creditors, Roebuck had to dispose of his capital in his various ventures. One creditor was Matthew Boulton, who accepted Roebuck's two-thirds share in Watt's steam-engine, rather than claim payment from his depleted estate, thus initiating a famous partnership. Roebuck was retained to manage Borrowstonness and allowed an annuity for his continued support until his death in 1794.

[br]

Further Reading

Memoir of John Roebuck in J.Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. 4 (1798), pp. 65–87.

S.Gregory, 1987, "John Roebuck, 18th century entrepreneur", Chem. Engr. 443:28–31.

LRD

Biographical history of technology > Roebuck, John

18 Sinclair, Sir Clive Maries

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology, Horology, Land transport

[br]

b. 30 July 1940

[br]

English electronic engineer and inventor.

[br]

The son of G.W.C.Sinclair, a machine tool engineer, the young Sinclair's education was disrupted by the failure of his father's business. Aged 12 he left Boxgrove preparatory school and went through twelve more schools before leaving St George's School, Weybridge, at the age of 17. His first job was as an editorial assistant on a hobbyist's magazine, Practical Wireless, and his next as an editor at Bernard Books, writing a series of technical manuals. In 1961 he registered Sinclair Radionics and in the following year announced its first product, a micro-amplifier. This was the first of a series of miniaturized radio products that he put on the market while retaining his editorial job. In 1972 he launched the Sinclair Executive calculator, selling originally at £79.95 but later at £24.95. In 1976, the Black Watch, an electronic watch with digital light-emitting diode (LED) display, was marketed, to be followed by the TV1A, a miniature television with a 2 in. (5 cm) monochrome screen. During the latter part of this period, Sinclair Radionics was supported by investment from the UK National Enterprise Board, who appointed an outside managing director; after making a considerable loss, they closed the company in 1979. However, Sinclair Electronics had already been set up and started to market the UK's first cheap computer kit, the MK 14, which was followed by the ZX 80 and later the ZX 81. Price was kept at a minimum by the extensive use of existing components, though this was a restriction on performance. The small memory was enhanced from one kilobyte to seventeen kilobytes with the addition of a separate memory unit. In January 1985 Sinclair produced the Sinclair C5, a small three-wheeled vehicle driven by a washing-machine engine, intended as a revolutionary new form of personal transport; perceived as unsafe and impractical, it did not prove popular, and the failure of this venture resulted in a contraction of Sinclair's business activities. Later in 1985, a rival electronics company, Amstrad, paid £35,000,000 for all rights to existing Sinclair computer products.

In March 1992, the irrepressible Sinclair launched his latest brainchild, the Zike electric bicycle; a price of £499 was forecast. This machine, powered by an electric motor but with pedal assistance, had a top speed of 19 km/h (12 mph) and, on full power, would run for up to one hour. Its lightweight nickel-cadmium battery could be recharged either by a generator or by free-wheeling. Although more practical than the C5, it did not bring Sinclair success on the scale of his earlier micro-electronic products.

[br]

Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1983.

Further Reading

I.Adamson and R.Kennedy, 1986, Sinclair and the "Sunrise" Technology, Harmondsworth: Penguin.

IMcN

Biographical history of technology > Sinclair, Sir Clive Maries

19 Whatman, James

SUBJECT AREA: Paper and printing

[br]

baptized 4 October 1702 Loose, near Maidstone, Kent, England

d. 29 June 1759 Loose, near Maidstone, Kent, England

[br]

English papermaker, inventor of wove paper.

[br]

The Whatman family had been established in Kent in the fifteenth century. At the time of his marriage in 1740, Whatman was described as a tanner. His wife was the widow of Richard Harris, papermaker, and, by the marriage settlement, he with his wife became joint tenants of Turkey Mill, near Maidstone. The mill had been used for fulling since the Middle Ages, but towards the end of the seventeenth century it had been converted to papermaking. Remarkably quickly, Whatman became one of the leading papermakers in England, doubtless helped by the shortage of imported paper that resulted from the Spanish Succession War of the 1740s. By the time of his death, his mill had the largest output in England, with a reputation for good-quality writing paper.

According to his son's account much later, Whatman introduced wove paper, made in a wove wire gauze mould, in 1756. It gave a smoother paper with a more even surface, and was probably made at the suggestion of the celebrated printer and type founder John Baskerville. Whatman printed a book in 1757 on paper with an even texture but with laid lines still discernible, indicating that at first the wire gauze was placed in a conventional wire mould. In a book printed by Baskerville two years later, these lines are no longer visible, so a wire gauze mould was in use by then.

After Whatman's death, Turkey Mill was managed by his widow for three years, until his son James (1741–98) was old enough to take charge. Under the management of the son, the mill maintained the scale and quality of its output, and in 1769 it was described as the largest paper mill in England where the best writing paper was made.

[br]

Further Reading

T.Balston, 1957, James Whatman, Father and Son, London: Methuen.

LRD

Biographical history of technology > Whatman, James

20 определять

fix
(величину no пересечению линий графика) — where the two lines finally intersect, fixes the value of d and v1/r1.
- (величину no шкале графика) — read off (on the scale below the maximum weight)
- (значение величин) — determine
- (устанавливать формулировку понятия или термина) — define
- величину повреждения — determine the extent of damage
- величину по показаниям прибора — determine value by the instrument reading
- дефект в блоке, узле (точно устанавливать отказавший блок или узел и т.д.) — isolate the trouble into the unit (assembly)
- знак девиации — determine the sign of deviation
- наличие воздуха в системе — determine air in the system
- на слух — hear

should engine surging be heard, a log book entry should be made.
-, ориентировочно (напр., вес ла) — determine (aircraft weight) approximately
- отказавший двигатель — recognize engine failed
- отношением — define by the relation
- положение точки (системой координат) — define а point (by system of coordinates)
- работоспособность — determine serviceability
- систему (напр., с недостаточным давлением) — identify system (having low pressure)
- соответствие (требованиям) — determine compliance (with requirements)
- член уравнения — determine the equation term

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Словари и энциклопедии на Академике

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the reading of the scale

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Словари и энциклопедии на Академике

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the reading of the scale

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