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61 break down
1. intransitive verb1) (fail) zusammenbrechen; [Verhandlungen:] scheitern2) (cease to function) [Auto:] eine Panne haben; [Telefonnetz:] zusammenbrechenthe machine has broken down — die Maschine funktioniert nicht mehr
3) (be overcome by emotion) zusammenbrechen4) (Chem.) aufspalten2. transitive verb1) (demolish) aufbrechen [Tür]2) (suppress) brechen [Widerstand]; niederreißen [Barriere, Schranke]3) (analyse) aufgliedern* * *2) (to stop working properly: My car has broken down.) eine Panne haben3) (to fail: The talks have broken down.) scheitern4) (to be overcome with emotion: She broke down and wept.) zusammenbrechen* * *I. vimy car broke down at the traffic lights mein Auto blieb an der Ampel liegen3. (emotionally) zusammenbrechenII. vt▪ to \break down down ⇆ sth2. (overcome) etw niederreißento \break down down a barrier eine Schranke niederreißento \break down down prejudices against sb Vorurteile gegen jdn abbauento \break down down sb's reserve jds Zurückhaltung überwindento \break down down sb's resistance jds Widerstand brechen3. CHEM etw aufspalten4. (separate into parts) etw aufgliederncan you please \break down down these figures so I can understand them better? können Sie diese Zahlen bitte aufschlüsseln, damit ich sie besser verstehen kann?* * *vi2) (= fail negotiations, plan, marriage) scheitern; (communications, law and order, theory) zusammenbrechen3) (= give way resistance) zusammenbrechen4) (= start crying, have a breakdown) zusammenbrechen5) (= be analysed expenditure) sich aufschlüsseln or -gliedern; (theory) sich unter- or aufgliedern (lassen); (CHEM substance) sich zerlegen (lassen); (= change its composition substance) sich aufspalten (into in +acc)vt sep8) (to constituent parts) expenditure aufschlüsseln, aufgliedern; argument auf- or untergliedern, aufspalten; (= change composition of) umsetzen* * *A v/t1. ein-, niederreißen, ein Haus abbrechen, abreißen2. fig jemanden, jemandes Widerstand etc brechen, zermürben, überwinden4. fig aufgliedern, aufschlüsseln, analysieren5. CHEM aufspalten, auflösenB v/i3. zerbrechen, in die Brüche gehen (beide auch fig)4. scheitern (Ehe, Verhandlungen etc): their marriage is irretrievably broken down JUR Br unheilbar zerrüttet5. fig zerfallen (in einzelne Gruppen, Teile etc)* * *1. intransitive verb1) (fail) zusammenbrechen; [Verhandlungen:] scheitern2) (cease to function) [Auto:] eine Panne haben; [Telefonnetz:] zusammenbrechen3) (be overcome by emotion) zusammenbrechen4) (Chem.) aufspalten2. transitive verb1) (demolish) aufbrechen [Tür]2) (suppress) brechen [Widerstand]; niederreißen [Barriere, Schranke]3) (analyse) aufgliedern* * *(resistance) v.brechen (Widerstand) v. v.aufspalten v.niederreißen v.versagen v.zusammen brechen v.zusammenbrechen (alt.Rechtschreibung) v. -
62 internal
1. n анат. внутренние органыinternal reference — внутренняя ссылка; внутреннее обращение
2. n свойства, качества3. a внутреннийinternal medicine — терапия, внутренние болезни
internal evidence — доказательство, лежащее в самом документе
internal revenue — государственные доходы, внутренние бюджетные поступления
4. a душевный, сокровенный5. a занимающийся в университетском колледжеinternal student — студент того университета, где он предполагает получить степень
Синонимический ряд:1. bodily (adj.) abdominal; bodily; constitutional; intestinal; mental; neurological; organic; physical2. domestic affairs (adj.) civil; domestic; domestic affairs; home; indigenous; inland; intrastate; municipal; national; native; state; within the state3. on the inside (adj.) gut; inherent; innate; inner; inside; interior; intestine; intimate; inward; on the inside; private; visceral; viscerousАнтонимический ряд:external; foreign -
63 EDP
1) Общая лексика: Engine Driven Pump (Например, "low winged aircraft use an EDP to draw the fuel from the tanks". Речь идёт о лёгких самолётах. На больших EDP может обеспечивать энергией другие системы, например, гидросистему (одну из).), electric distribution point2) Авиация: engine development program3) Морской термин: процедура заблаговременного отправления, early departure procedure4) Американизм: Economic Diversification Program5) Военный термин: ELINT Data Processor, Emergency Defense Plan, US-Canada, effective directives and plans, electronic display panel, emergency defense plan, emergency defense position, engineering data plotting, engineering design plan, engineering design proposal, engineering development phase, environment determination program, equipment deadlined for parts, estimated date of publication, expeditious discharge program, experimental development plan6) Техника: Entrance Door Plate, electron decay profile, experimental dynamic processor, электронная дозирующая пипетка (electronic dispensing pipette)7) Юридический термин: Emotionally Disturbed Person8) Бухгалтерия: электронная обработка данных (ЭОД, electronic data processing)9) Страхование: electronic data processing coverage10) Сокращение: Emergency Defence Plan, Engagement Decision Point, Executive Development Program, Experimental Development, eau de parfum11) Текстиль: легко окрашиваемый полиэфир (easy dyeable polyester)12) Электроника: Educational Development Plan, Electron Diffraction Pattern, Ethylene Diamine Pyrocatechol13) Вычислительная техника: enhanced dot pitch, обработка данных с помощью компьютера, Enhanced Dot Pitch (Hitachi), процессор для электронной обработки данных14) Транспорт: Expedite Departure Path15) Фирменный знак: Elegant Darkness Productions16) Деловая лексика: Excellent Design Practiced, электронная обработка данных (electronic data processing)17) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Emergency Depressurizing (system)18) Образование: External Diploma Program19) Сетевые технологии: electronic data processing, electronic data processor, усовершенствованная технология тиражирования данных20) Автоматика: edge position control21) Сахалин А: emergency depressurization, installation emergency depressurizing22) Медицинская техника: end-diastolic pressure (ЭхоКГ)23) Фантастика Electronic Dream Plant24) Исследования и разработки (НИОКР): engineering development procedures25) Должность: Electronic Document Professional -
64 sheet
1. лист; сфальцованный лист2. печатный листsheet pan — форма — лист
3. оттискproof sheet — корректурный оттиск, корректура
4. газета5. таблица; ведомость6. листовая бумага7. книга; брошюра8. прокладывать листыin sheets — в несфальцованных листах; в форме несброшюрованных листов
9. объявление, анонсbacking sheet — лист-основа, подложка
bar sheet — полоса, отделяемая от ленты при её продольной разрезке
base sheet — основной лист, основной оригинал
10. газета большого форматаsheet and half post — формат печатной бумаги,5Х59,6 см
11. резинотканевая пластина12. широкий лист13. широкая полосаbarred sheet — полоса, отделяемая от ленты при ее продольной разрезке
14. плакат15. формат листа 2cardboard sheet — картонный лист, лист картона
charged sheet — лист, несущий электростатический заряд
continuous form sheets — бесконечные формуляры; канцелярские формы, отпечатанные на ленте
copy sheet — лист копировального материала, лист для копирования
cork sheet — пробковый лист, лист пробкового полотна
cover sheet — настил, прокладка
16. обрезанный лист17. нарезанные листыcutting sheet — пластмассовый лист, на котором производят корректуру фотонаборной плёнки с помощью скальпеля
18. первый приправочный лист19. лист декеляdiffusion sheet — матовое стекло, светорассеивающая пластина
20. затяжной лист декеляsheet buckling force — сила, необходимая для выгибания листа
21. лист для переноса изображения сухим способом22. формная пластина, обрабатываемая сухим способом23. электрофотографический листовой материал24. электрофотографическая копияelectrophotosensitive copy sheet — электросветочувствительный копировальный лист, лист фотополупроводникового копировального материала
fanned-out sheets — листы, уложенные с роспуском; распущенные листы
final support sheet — лист, используемый для изготовления копии
form sheet — формуляр; бланк; канцелярская форма
free sheet — лист бумаги, не содержащей древесной массы
freshly printed sheet — свежезапечатанный лист, свежеотпечатанный оттиск; сырой оттиск
25. лист тонкой бумаги, лист бумаги, приклеиваемый к полю иллюстрации26. затяжной лист; верхний листink sheet — лист, используемый в качестве резервуара краски
sheet misfeed — пропуск в подаче листа, неподача листа
27. тонкий приправочный лист28. приправочный лист с поверхностным покрытиемmisregistered sheet — лист, отпечатанный без приводки
29. лист, выведенный на приёмкуsheet pick-up feeder — раскладчик — питатель листов
sheet assembly — комплект листов; многослойный лист
30. готовый оттиск на приёмке31. контрольный оттиск32. монтажный лист33. макетleveler sheet — лист, удаляемый из декеля при введении приправочного листа
litho-printed sheet — лист, запечатанный офсетным способом
34. формная пластина35. листовой оригинал для копирования36. неправильно выровненный листprogram sheet — программный бланк; лист программы
37. лист, отпечатанный без приводкиmissed sheet — пропущенный лист; неправильно поданный лист
38. листовка39. информационный листокOK sheet — подписанный к печатанию оттиск, подписной лист; оттиск хорошего качества
40. лист, подкладываемый под печатную форму41. упаковочная тканьperfected sheet — лист, запечатанный с двух сторон
plastic sheet — лист пластмассы; плёнка
press sheet — печатный лист, оттиск
print sheet — копировальный материал; лист, на котором изготавливается копия
printable sheet — лист, пригодный для печатания
printed sheet — печатный лист; запечатанный лист, оттиск
42. корректурный оттиск, гранка43. формуляр44. инвентарная ведомостьcost sheet — калькуляционная ведомость, смета
45. листы для записиrecording sheet — лист, на котором изготавливается копия; лист, используемый для записи информации
register sheet — приводочный лист, лист для контроля приводки
reverse buckle sheet — лист, выгибаемый реверсивными фрикционными роликами
roller-coated sheet — лист со слоем, накатанным валиком
setoff sheet — прокладочный лист ; макулатурный лист
shrink-control backing sheet — малоусадочная основа; подложка с малой деформацией
slush sheet — журнал, печатающий сентиментальные рассказы
stackable sheets — оттиски, готовые для укладки в стопу
stacked sheets — листы, уложенные в стопу
straight sheet — лента, движущаяся после продольной разрезки в том же направлении
46. лист, используемый для изготовления копии47. лист-основа, подложка48. верхний лист49. верхний лист пачкиoverfeed sheet — лист, поданный с опережением
50. формная пластина для конторских множительных машин51. съёмный переводной лист52. пробный оттиск -
65 Man
1. n геогр. остров Мэн2. n мужчина, человекto play the man — поступать, как подобает мужчине
man to man, between man and man — как мужчина с мужчиной
a man of thirty — мужчина тридцати лет; тридцатилетний мужчина
a man of action — человек дела, энергичный человек
a man of character — волевой человек, сильная личность
a man of his word — человек слова, господин своего слова
a man of means — человек со средствами, состоятельный человек
a man of law — законник; адвокат; юрист
3. n муж4. n унив. студент; окончивший, выпускник5. n пренебр. приятельspeak up, man!, speak up my man! — ну, говори же, друг!
hurry up, man! hurry up my man! — да поскорей же, приятель!
come along, man!, come along my man! — ну, пошли, мой милый!
6. n человечество, человеческий род7. n слуга8. n чаще рабочийmachine man — рабочий у станка; оператор
9. n солдат, рядовой, матросbutton man — рядовой член банды, бандит
10. n рядовой состав11. n пешка12. n шашка, фишка13. n игрок14. n ист. вассал15. n как компонент сложных слов означает занятие, профессиюto refresh the inner man — поесть, подкрепиться
odd man out — «третий лишний»
heavy man — актёр, исполняющий трагические роли
one-dollar-a-year man — крупный капиталист, участвующий в деятельности правительственных органов и получающий номинальный оклад в один доллар в год
a man about town — светский человек, богатый повеса, жуир
a man in a thousand — редкий человек;
the next man — всякий другой, любой; первый встречный
I have known him man and boy — я его знаю с детства; б) все как один
the man for me, the man for my money — этот человек мне подходит, этот человек меня устраивает
the man higher up — начальник, хозяин, босс; высшая инстанция
Man Friday — Пятница, верный слуга
many men, many minds — сколько голов, столько умов
every man has his hobby-horse — у каждого есть свой конёк ; у каждого есть свои маленькие слабости
to die a man — умереть, как подобает мужчине
why, shame upon you, man! — послушайте, как вам не стыдно?
16. v укомплектовывать кадрами, персоналом17. v воен. мор. укомплектовывать личным составом; занимать людьми; ставить людей; посадить людей18. v занять; стать19. v собрать всё своё мужество, мужаться, взять себя в рукиthe outer man — внешний вид, костюм
lawless man — человек, находящийся вне закона
if is great karma, man! — всё обстоит прекрасно, друг!
20. v охот. приручатьСинонимический ряд:1. boy (noun) beau; blade; boy; buck; chap; cuss; fellow; galoot; gent; gentleman; guy; he; male; skate; snap; swain; yeoman2. employee (noun) attendant; employee; worker3. human (noun) being; body; creature; human; individual; life; mortal; party; person; personage; soul; wight4. human beings (noun) flesh; folk; Homo sapiens; human being; human beings; humanity; humankind; mankind; mortality; mortals; people; populace; race5. husband (noun) husband; lord; mister; Mr.6. partner (noun) boyfriend; consort; fancy man; hubby; lover; married man; master; mate; paramour; partner; spouse7. policeman (noun) bluecoat; cop; Dogberry; gumshoe; John Law; officer; patrolman; peace officer; police officer; policeman8. policemen (noun) cops; officers; patrolmen; peace officers; police; police officers; policemen9. staff (verb) defend; fortify; garrison; guard; people; protect; staff; stationАнтонимический ряд:abandon; woman -
66 Behr, Fritz Bernhard
[br]b. 9 October 1842 Berlin, Germanyd. 25 February 1927[br]German (naturalized British in 1876) engineer, promoter of the Lartigue monorail system.[br]Behr trained as an engineer in Britain and had several railway engineering appointments before becoming associated with C.F.M.-T. Lartigue in promoting the Lartigue monorail system in the British Isles. In Lartigue's system, a single rail was supported on trestles; vehicles ran on the rail, their bodies suspended pannier-fashion, stabilized by horizontal rollers running against light guide rails fixed to the sides of the trestles. Behr became Managing Director of the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway Company, which in 1888 opened its Lartigue system line between those two places in the south-west of Ireland. Three locomotives designed by J.T.A. Mallet were built for the line by Hunslet Engine Company, each with two horizontal boilers, one either side of the track. Coaches and wagons likewise were in two parts. Technically the railway was successful, but lack of traffic caused the company to go bankrupt in 1897: the railway continued to operate until 1924.Meanwhile Behr had been thinking in terms far more ambitious than a country branch line. Railway speeds of 150mph (240km/h) or more then lay far in the future: engineers were uncertain whether normal railway vehicles would even be stable at such speeds. Behr was convinced that a high-speed electric vehicle on a substantial Lartigue monorail track would be stable. In 1897 he demonstrated such a vehicle on a 3mile (4.8km) test track at the Brussels International Exhibition. By keeping the weight of the motors low, he was able to place the seats above rail level. Although the generating station provided by the Exhibition authorities never operated at full power, speeds over 75mph (120 km/h) were achieved.Behr then promoted the Manchester-Liverpool Express Railway, on which monorail trains of this type running at speeds up to 110mph (177km/h) were to link the two cities in twenty minutes. Despite strong opposition from established railway companies, an Act of Parliament authorizing it was made in 1901. The Act also contained provision for the Board of Trade to require experiments to prove the system's safety. In practice this meant that seven miles of line, and a complete generating station to enable trains to travel at full speed, must be built before it was known whether the Board would give its approval for the railway or not. Such a condition was too severe for the scheme to attract investors and it remained stillborn.[br]Further ReadingH.Fayle, 1946, The Narrow Gauge Railways of Ireland, Greenlake Publications, Part 2, ch. 2 (describes the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway and Behr's work there).D.G.Tucker, 1984, "F.B.Behr's development of the Lartigue monorail", Transactions ofthe Newcomen Society 55 (covers mainly the high speed lines).See also: Brennan, LouisPJGR -
67 Darby, Abraham
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 1678 near Dudley, Worcestershire, Englandd. 5 May 1717 Madely Court, Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England[br]English ironmaster, inventor of the coke smelting of iron ore.[br]Darby's father, John, was a farmer who also worked a small forge to produce nails and other ironware needed on the farm. He was brought up in the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and this community remained important throughout his personal and working life. Darby was apprenticed to Jonathan Freeth, a malt-mill maker in Birmingham, and on completion of his apprenticeship in 1699 he took up the trade himself in Bristol. Probably in 1704, he visited Holland to study the casting of brass pots and returned to Bristol with some Dutch workers, setting up a brassworks at Baptist Mills in partnership with others. He tried substituting cast iron for brass in his castings, without success at first, but in 1707 he was granted a patent, "A new way of casting iron pots and other pot-bellied ware in sand without loam or clay". However, his business associates were unwilling to risk further funds in the experiments, so he withdrew his share of the capital and moved to Coalbrookdale in Shropshire. There, iron ore, coal, water-power and transport lay close at hand. He took a lease on an old furnace and began experimenting. The shortage and expense of charcoal, and his knowledge of the use of coke in malting, may well have led him to try using coke to smelt iron ore. The furnace was brought into blast in 1709 and records show that in the same year it was regularly producing iron, using coke instead of charcoal. The process seems to have been operating successfully by 1711 in the production of cast-iron pots and kettles, with some pig-iron destined for Bristol. Darby prospered at Coalbrookdale, employing coke smelting with consistent success, and he sought to extend his activities in the neighbourhood and in other parts of the country. However, ill health prevented him from pursuing these ventures with his previous energy. Coke smelting spread slowly in England and the continent of Europe, but without Darby's technological breakthrough the ever-increasing demand for iron for structures and machines during the Industrial Revolution simply could not have been met; it was thus an essential component of the technological progress that was to come.Darby's eldest son, Abraham II (1711–63), entered the Coalbrookdale Company partnership in 1734 and largely assumed control of the technical side of managing the furnaces and foundry. He made a number of improvements, notably the installation of a steam engine in 1742 to pump water to an upper level in order to achieve a steady source of water-power to operate the bellows supplying the blast furnaces. When he built the Ketley and Horsehay furnaces in 1755 and 1756, these too were provided with steam engines. Abraham II's son, Abraham III (1750–89), in turn, took over the management of the Coalbrookdale works in 1768 and devoted himself to improving and extending the business. His most notable achievement was the design and construction of the famous Iron Bridge over the river Severn, the world's first iron bridge. The bridge members were cast at Coalbrookdale and the structure was erected during 1779, with a span of 100 ft (30 m) and height above the river of 40 ft (12 m). The bridge still stands, and remains a tribute to the skill and judgement of Darby and his workers.[br]Further ReadingA.Raistrick, 1989, Dynasty of Iron Founders, 2nd edn, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (the best source for the lives of the Darbys and the work of the company).H.R.Schubert, 1957, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry AD 430 to AD 1775, London: Routledge \& Kegan Paul.LRD -
68 Houldsworth, Henry
SUBJECT AREA: Textiles[br]b. 1797 Manchester (?), Englandd. 1868 Manchester (?), England[br]English cotton spinner who introduced the differential gear to roving frames in Britain.[br]There are two claimants for the person who originated the differential gear as applied to roving frames: one is J.Green, a tinsmith of Mansfield, in his patent of 1823; the other is Arnold, who had applied it in America and patented it in early 1823. This latter was the source for Houldsworth's patent in 1826. It seems that Arnold's gearing was secretly communicated to Houldsworth by Charles Richmond, possibly when Houldsworth visited the United States in 1822–3, but more probably in 1825 when Richmond went to England. In return, Richmond received information about parts of a cylinder printing machine from Houldsworth. In the working of the roving frame, as the rovings were wound onto their bobbins and the diameter of the bobbins increased, the bobbin speed had to be reduced to keep the winding on at the same speed while the flyers and drawing rollers had to maintain their initial speed. Although this could be achieved by moving the driving belt along coned pulleys, this method did not provide enough power and slippage occurred. The differential gear combined the direct drive from the main shaft of the roving frame with that from the cone drive, so that only the latter provided the dif-ference between flyer and bobbin speeds, i.e. the winding speeds, thus taking away most of the power from that belt. Henry Houldsworth Senior (1774–1853) was living in Manchester when his son Henry was born, but by 1800 had moved to Glasgow. He built several mills, including a massive one at Anderston, Scotland, in which a Boulton \& Watt steam engine was installed. Henry Houldsworth Junior was probably back in Manchester by 1826, where he was to become an influential cotton spinner as chief partner in his mills, which he moved out to Reddish in 1863–5. He was also a prominent landowner in Cheetham. When William Fairbairn was considering establishing the Association for the Prevention of Steam Boiler Explosions in 1854, he wanted to find an influential manufacturer and mill-owner and he made a happy choice when he turned to Henry Houldsworth for assistance.[br]Bibliography1826, British patent no. 5,316 (differential gear for roving frames).Further ReadingDetails about Henry Houldsworth Junior are very sparse. The best account of his acquisition of the differential gear is given by D.J.Jeremy, 1981, Transatlantic Industrial Revolution. The Diffusion of Textile Technologies Between Britain and America, 1790–1830, Oxford.W.English, 1969, The Textile Industry, London (an explanation of the mechanisms of the roving frame).W.Pole, 1877, The Life of Sir William Fairbairn, Bart., London (provides an account of the beginning of the Manchester Steam Users' Association for the Prevention of Steam-boiler Explosions).RLH -
69 Inoue Masaru
[br]b. 1 August 1843 Hagi, Choshu, Japand. 2 August 1910 London, England[br]Japanese "Father of Japanese Railways".[br]In the early 1860s, most travel in Japan was still by foot and the Japanese were forbidden by their government to travel abroad. Inoue was one of a small group of students who left Japan illegally in 1863 for London. There he studied English, mathematics and science, and afterwards mineralogy and railways. Inoue returned to Japan in 1868, when the new Meiji Government reopened the country to the outside world after some 200 years of isolation. Part of its policy, despite opposition, was to build railways; at Inoue's suggestion, the gauge of 3 ft 6 in. (1.07 m) was adopted. Initially capital, engineers, skilled labour and materials ranging from locomotives to pencils and stationery were all imported from Britain; Edmund Morel was the first Chief Engineer. In 1871 Inoue was appointed Director of the Government Railway Bureau and he became the driving force behind railway development in Japan for more than two decades. The first line, from Tokyo to Yokohama, was opened in 1872, to be followed by others, some of them at first isolated. The number of foreigners employed, most of them British, peaked at 120 in 1877 and then rapidly declined as the Japanese learned to take over their tasks. In 1878, at Inoue's instance, construction of a line entirely by Japanese commenced for the first time, with British engineers as consultants only. It was ten years before Japanese Railways' total route was 70 miles (113 km) long; over the next ten years, this increased to 1,000 miles (1,600 km) and the system continued to grow rapidly. During 1892–3, a locomotive was built in Japan for the first time, under the guidance of Locomotive Superintendent R.F.Trevithick, grandson of the pioneer Richard Trevithick: it was a compound 2–4–2 tank engine, with many parts imported from Britain. Locomotive building in Japan then blossomed so rapidly that imports were discontinued, with rare exceptions, from 1911. Meanwhile Inoue had retired in 1893; he was on a visit to England at the time of his death.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsViscount 1887.Bibliography1909, "Japanese communications: railroads", in Count Shigenobu Okuma (ed.), Fifty Years of New Japan (English version ed. M.B.Huish), Smith, Elder, Ch. 18.Further ReadingT.Richards and K.C.Rudd, 1991 Japanese Railways in the Meiji Period 1868–1912, Uxbridge: Brunel University (one of the few readily available accounts in English of the origins of Japanese Railways).PJGR -
70 Reason, Richard Edmund
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering[br]b. 21 December 1903 Exeter, Devon, Englandd. 20 March 1987 Great Bowden, Leicestershire, England[br]English metrologist who developed instruments for measuring machined-surface roughness.[br]Richard Edmund Reason was educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal College of Science (Imperial College), where he studied under Professor A.F.C.Pollard, Professor of Technical Optics. After graduating in 1925 he joined Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Ltd, Leicester, manufacturers of optical, electrical and scientific instruments, and remained with that firm throughout his career. One of his first contributions was in the development, with E.F.Fincham, of the Fincham Coincidence Optometer. At this time the firm, under William Taylor, was mainly concerned with optical instruments and lens manufacture, but in the 1930s Reason was also engaged in developing means for measuring the roughness of machined surfaces. The need for establishing standards and methods of measurement of surface finish was called for when the subcontracting of aero-engine components became necessary during the Second World War. This led to the development by Reason of an instrument in which a stylus was moved across the surface and the profile recorded electronically. This was called the Talysurf and was first produced in 1941. Further development followed, and from 1947 Reason tackled the problem of measuring roundness, producing the first Talyrond machine in 1949. The technology developed for these instruments was used in the production of others such as the Talymin Comparator and the Talyvel electronic level. Reason was also associated with the development of optical projection systems to measure the profile of parts such as gear teeth, screw threads and turbine blades. He retired in 1968 but continued as a consultant to the company. He served for many years on committees of the British Standards Institution on surface metrology and was a representative of Britain at the International Standards Organization.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsOBE 1967. FRS 1971. Honorary DSc University of Birmingham 1969. Honorary DSc Leicester University 1971.Further ReadingD.J.Whitehouse, 1990, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 36, London, pp. 437–62 (an illustrated obituary notice listing Reason's eighty-nine British patents, published between 1930 and 1972, and his twenty-one publications, dating from 1937 to 1966).K.J.Hume, 1980, A History of Engineering Metrology, London, 113–21 (contains a shorter account of Reason's work).RTS -
71 Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von
SUBJECT AREA: Mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic engineering, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities[br]b. 24 August 1772 Durlach, Baden, Germanyd. 21 May 1826 Munich, Germany[br]German engineer.[br]While he was attending the Military School at Mannheim, Reichenbach drew attention to himself due to the mathematical instruments that he had designed. On the recommendation of Count Rumford in Munich, the Bavarian government financed a two-year stay in Britain so that Reichenbach could become acquainted with modern mechanical engineering. He returned to Mannheim in 1793, and during the Napoleonic Wars he was involved in the manufacture of arms. In Munich, where he was in the service of the Bavarian state from 1796, he started producing precision instruments in his own time. His basic invention was the design of a dividing machine for circles, produced at the end of the eighteenth century. The astronomic and geodetic instruments he produced excelled all the others for their precision. His telescopes in particular, being perfect in use and of solid construction, soon brought him an international reputation. They were manufactured at the MathematicMechanical Institute, which he had jointly founded with Joseph Utzschneider and Joseph Liebherr in 1804 and which became a renowned training establishment. The glasses and lenses were produced by Joseph Fraunhofer who joined the company in 1807.In the same year he was put in charge of the technical reorganization of the salt-works at Reichenhall. After he had finished the brine-transport line from Reichenhall to Traunstein in 1810, he started on the one from Berchtesgaden to Reichenhall which was an extremely difficult task because of the mountainous area that had to be crossed. As water was the only source of energy available he decided to use water-column engines for pumping the brine in the pipes of both lines. Such devices had been in use for pumping purposes in different mining areas since the middle of the eighteenth century. Reichenbach knew about the one constructed by Joseph Karl Hell in Slovakia, which in principle had just been a simple piston-pump driven by water which did not work satisfactorily. Instead he constructed a really effective double-action water-column engine; this was a short time after Richard Trevithick had constructed a similar machine in England. For the second line he improved the system and built a single-action pump. All the parts of it were made of metal, which made them easy to produce, and the pumps proved to be extremely reliable, working for over 100 years.At the official opening of the line in 1817 the Bavarian king rewarded him generously. He remained in the state's service, becoming head of the department for roads and waterways in 1820, and he contributed to the development of Bavarian industry as well as the public infrastructure in many ways as a result of his mechanical skill and his innovative engineering mind.[br]Further ReadingBauernfeind, "Georg von Reichenbach" Allgemeine deutsche Biographie 27:656–67 (a reliable nineteenth-century account).W.Dyck, 1912, Georg v. Reichenbach, Munich.K.Matschoss, 1941, Grosse Ingenieure, Munich and Berlin, 3rd edn. 121–32 (a concise description of his achievements in the development of optical instruments and engineering).WKBiographical history of technology > Reichenbach, Georg Friedrich von
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72 Renard, Charles
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 23 November 1847 Damblain, Vosges, Franced. 13 April 1905 Chalais-Meudon, France[br]French pioneer of military aeronautics who, with A.C.Krebs, built an airship powered by an electric motor.[br]Charles Renard was a French army officer with an interest in aviation. In 1873 he constructed an unusual unmanned glider with ten wings and an automatic stabilizing device to control rolling. This operated by means of a pendulum device linked to moving control surfaces. The model was launched from a tower near Arras, but unfortunately it spiralled into the ground. The control surfaces could not cope with the basic instability of the design, but as an idea for automatic flight control it was ahead of its time.Following a Commission report on the military use of balloons, carrier pigeons and an optical telegraph, an aeronautical establishment was set up in 1877 at Chalais-Meudon, near Paris, under the direction of Charles Renard, who was assisted by his brother Paul. The following year Renard and a colleague, Arthur Krebs, began to plan an airship. They received financial help from Léon Gambetta, a prominent politician who had escaped from Paris by balloon in 1870 during the siege by the Prussians. Renard and Krebs studied earlier airship designs: they used the outside shape of Paul Haenlein's gas-engined airship of 1872 and included Meusnier's internal air-filled ballonnets. The gas-engine had not been a success so they decided on an electric motor. Renard developed lightweight pile batteries while Krebs designed a motor, although this was later replaced by a more powerful Gramme motor of 6.5 kW (9 hp). La France was constructed at Chalais-Meudon and, after a two-month wait for calm conditions, the airship finally ascended on 9 August 1884. The motor was switched on and the flight began. Renard and Krebs found their airship handled well and after twenty-three minutes they landed back at their base. La, France made several successful flights, but its speed of only 24 km/h (15 mph) meant that flights could be made only in calm weather. Parts of La, France, including the electric motor, are preserved in the Musée de l'Air in Paris.Renard remained in charge of the establishment at Chalais-Meudon until his death. Among other things, he developed the "Train Renard", a train of articulated road vehicles for military and civil use, of which a number were built between 1903 and 1911. Towards the end of his life Renard became interested in helicopters, and in 1904 he built a large twin-rotor model which, however, failed to take off.[br]Bibliography1886, Le Ballon dirigeable La France, Paris (a description of the airship).Further ReadingDescriptions of Renard and Kreb's airship are given in most books on the history of lighter-than-air flight, e.g.L.T.C.Rolt, 1966, The Aeronauts, London; pub. in paperback 1985.C.Bailleux, c. 1988, Association pour l'Histoire de l'Electricité en France, (a detailed account of the conception and operations of La France).1977, Centenaire de la recherche aéronautique à Chalais-Meudon, Paris (an official memoir on the work of Chalais-Meudon with a chapter on Renard).JDS -
73 Yarrow, Sir Alfred Fernandez
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 13 January 1842 London, Englandd. 24 January 1932 London, England[br]English shipbuilder, naval architect, engineer and philanthropist.[br]At the conclusion of his schooling in the South of England, Yarrow became an indentured apprentice to the Thames engine-builder Ravenhill. During this five-year period various incidents and meetings sharpened his interest in scientific matters and he showed the skills that in later years were to be so beneficial to shipbuilding. For two years he acted as London representative for Ravenhill before joining up with a Mr Hedley to form a shipyard on the Isle of Dogs. The company lasted from 1868 until 1875 and in that period produced 350 small launches and other craft. This massive output enabled Yarrow to gain confidence in many aspects of ship design. Within two years of setting out on his own he built his first ship for the Royal Navy: a torpedo boat, then at the cutting edge of technology.In the early 1890s the company was building watertube boilers and producing destroyers with speeds in excess of 27 knots (50 km/h); it built the Russian destroyer Sokol, did pioneering work with aluminium and with high-tensile steels and worked on shipboard equipment to nullify vibrational effects. With the closure of most of the Thames shipyards and the run-down in skilled labour, Yarrow decided that the shipyard must move to some other part of the United Kingdom. After careful deliberation a green field site to the west of Glasgow was chosen, and in 1908 their first Clyde-built destroyer was launched. The company expanded, more building berths were arranged, boiler construction was developed and over the years they became recognized as specialists in smaller highspeed craft and in "knock down" ships for other parts of the world.Yarrow retired in 1913, but at the commencement of the First World War he returned to help the yard produce, in four years, twenty-nine destroyers with speeds of up to 40 knots (74 km/h). At the end of hostilities he gave of his time and money to many charities, including those for ex-servicemen. He left a remarkable industrial organization which remains to this day the most prolific builder of surface craft for the Royal Navy.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCreated Baronet 1916. FRS 1922. Vice-President, Institution of Naval Architects 1896.Further ReadingLady Yarrow, 1924, Alfred Yarrow, His Life and Work, London: Edward Arnold. A.Borthwick, 1965, Yarrow and Company Limited, The First Hundred Years 1865–1965, Glasgow.B.Baxter, 1986, "Alfred Fernandez Yarrow", Dictionary of Scottish Business Biography, Vol. I, pp. 245–7, Slaven \& Checkland and Aberdeen University Press.FMWBiographical history of technology > Yarrow, Sir Alfred Fernandez
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74 internal
1. [ınʹtɜ:nl] n1. pl анат. внутренние органы2. pl свойства, качества2. [ınʹtɜ:nl] a1. 1) внутреннийinternal medicine - терапия, внутренние болезни
internal aerial - радио комнатная антенна
internal evidence - юр. доказательство, лежащее в самом документе
internal revenue - эк. государственные доходы, внутренние бюджетные поступления ( за счёт различных налогов)
internal water - геол. глубинная вода
internal wiring - эл. скрытая проводка
2) душевный, сокровенный2. занимающийся в университетском колледжеinternal student - студент того университета, где он предполагает получить степень
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75 CEP
1) Медицина: Сертификат пригодности в ЕС (certificate of suitability)2) Американизм: Cultural Exchange Party3) Военный термин: Capital Equipment Plan, Committee for Energy Policy of OECD, capability evaluation plan, circular error probable, civil emergency planning, command executive procedures, common electronic parts, concept evaluation program, current evaluation phase, custodian of enemy property, КВО, круговое вероятное отклонение, Construction Electrician (Power)4) Техника: common electronics parts, Condensate Extraction Pump5) Сельское хозяйство: central experimental farm, chicken embryo fibroblast6) Химия: Chemical Engineering Progress7) Математика: круг равной вероятности (circle of equal probability)8) Фармакология: Certificate of suitability of Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia, Сертификат соответствия Европейской Фармакопее9) Телекоммуникации: Communication End Point10) Сокращение: Circle of Equal Probability, Circular Error Probability, Circular Error, Probable, Common Engine Program (US Army), Contact Evaluation Plot, Contextual Enhancement Processor, Cooperative Engagement Processor, circular error probable/probability, Проект для Центральной Европы (Central European Project)11) Вычислительная техника: channel end point13) Транспорт: Courier Express And Parcel14) Воздухоплавание: Probable Circular Error15) Экология: Caribbean Environmental Project, Community Environmental Project16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Current Estimated Potential17) Менеджмент: contractors execution plan18) Программирование: Count Enable Parallel19) Океанография: Caribbean Environment Program, Committee on Environmental Protection20) Сахалин Ю: contract execution plan21) Химическое оружие: catalytic extraction processing22) Физическая химия: Collision Cell Entrance Potential (в масс-спектроскопии)23) Должность: Certified Education Planner24) Аэропорты: Concepcion, Bolivia25) Программное обеспечение: Core Enterprise Php -
76 Cep
1) Медицина: Сертификат пригодности в ЕС (certificate of suitability)2) Американизм: Cultural Exchange Party3) Военный термин: Capital Equipment Plan, Committee for Energy Policy of OECD, capability evaluation plan, circular error probable, civil emergency planning, command executive procedures, common electronic parts, concept evaluation program, current evaluation phase, custodian of enemy property, КВО, круговое вероятное отклонение, Construction Electrician (Power)4) Техника: common electronics parts, Condensate Extraction Pump5) Сельское хозяйство: central experimental farm, chicken embryo fibroblast6) Химия: Chemical Engineering Progress7) Математика: круг равной вероятности (circle of equal probability)8) Фармакология: Certificate of suitability of Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia, Сертификат соответствия Европейской Фармакопее9) Телекоммуникации: Communication End Point10) Сокращение: Circle of Equal Probability, Circular Error Probability, Circular Error, Probable, Common Engine Program (US Army), Contact Evaluation Plot, Contextual Enhancement Processor, Cooperative Engagement Processor, circular error probable/probability, Проект для Центральной Европы (Central European Project)11) Вычислительная техника: channel end point13) Транспорт: Courier Express And Parcel14) Воздухоплавание: Probable Circular Error15) Экология: Caribbean Environmental Project, Community Environmental Project16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Current Estimated Potential17) Менеджмент: contractors execution plan18) Программирование: Count Enable Parallel19) Океанография: Caribbean Environment Program, Committee on Environmental Protection20) Сахалин Ю: contract execution plan21) Химическое оружие: catalytic extraction processing22) Физическая химия: Collision Cell Entrance Potential (в масс-спектроскопии)23) Должность: Certified Education Planner24) Аэропорты: Concepcion, Bolivia25) Программное обеспечение: Core Enterprise Php -
77 RPM
1) Компьютерная техника: Recycled Parts Management, Revolution Per Minute2) Авиация: Revolutions Per Minute( The percentage of power being produced by your engine), коммерческая пассажиро-миля (сокр. от revenue passenger-mile)3) Ботаника: Rapid Plant Matrix4) Спорт: Racing Performance And Motivation, Raw Power Moves5) Военный термин: Repair Performance Maintenance, radar performance monitor, radiation polarization measurement, real property maintenance, real property management, registered publication manual, registered publications memorandum, registered publications memorandum RPLAN, requirements plan, registrants processing manual, remote performance monitoring, remotely piloted munitions, repair parts manual, research and program management, rocket-propelled mine, ДПМ (Remote Pan-and-Tilt Multisensor; дистанционное панорамное многосенсорное устройство)6) Техника: Regge pole model, radiation protection manager, radiation protection manual, retro propulsion module7) Шутливое выражение: Radical Psycho Machine8) Религия: Revolutionary Praise Music9) Юридический термин: Revenue Policy Memoranda10) Сокращение: Real-time Page Management (internet term), Remotely Piloted Munition, Reprogrammable Memory, Revolutions / Rotations Per Minute, Revolutoins Per Minute, resale price maintenance11) Физика: Random Phase Model12) Физиология: Relative Proper Motion13) Вычислительная техника: Remote Port Module (Ascend), Radio Packet Modem (Motorola), (число) оборотов в минуту14) Нефть: reinforced plastic matrix, армированный пластик (материал для изготовления труб), число оборотов в минуту (revolutions per minute), (real-time performance management) управление процессами в реальном масштабе времени15) Транспорт: Revenue Passenger Mile, Road and Performance Modifications16) Фирменный знак: Republic Powdered Metals17) СМИ: Repeat Performance Mastering18) Деловая лексика: Retail Promotions Marketing, Reverse Pull Marketing19) Бурение: 1/мин (revolutions per minute), частота вращения в минуту (revolutions per minute)20) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: частота вращения ротора, число оборотов ротора21) Образование: Revolutions Per Mile22) Сетевые технологии: rotations per minute23) Сахалин Р: Rotation Per Minute24) Океанография: Regional Particulate Model25) Сахалин А: Right-of-Way26) Химическое оружие: Remedial Project Manager27) Безопасность: remote point module28) Электрические машины: ротор постоянного магнита (в электродвигателе с постоянными магнитами)29) Нефть и газ: reservoir pressure maintenance30) Ядерное оружие: Radiation Portal Monitor31) Электротехника: reliability performance measure32) NYSE. RPM, Inc. of Ohio33) Программное обеспечение: Real Player Media34) Единицы измерений: Rotations Per Mile -
78 cep
1) Медицина: Сертификат пригодности в ЕС (certificate of suitability)2) Американизм: Cultural Exchange Party3) Военный термин: Capital Equipment Plan, Committee for Energy Policy of OECD, capability evaluation plan, circular error probable, civil emergency planning, command executive procedures, common electronic parts, concept evaluation program, current evaluation phase, custodian of enemy property, КВО, круговое вероятное отклонение, Construction Electrician (Power)4) Техника: common electronics parts, Condensate Extraction Pump5) Сельское хозяйство: central experimental farm, chicken embryo fibroblast6) Химия: Chemical Engineering Progress7) Математика: круг равной вероятности (circle of equal probability)8) Фармакология: Certificate of suitability of Monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia, Сертификат соответствия Европейской Фармакопее9) Телекоммуникации: Communication End Point10) Сокращение: Circle of Equal Probability, Circular Error Probability, Circular Error, Probable, Common Engine Program (US Army), Contact Evaluation Plot, Contextual Enhancement Processor, Cooperative Engagement Processor, circular error probable/probability, Проект для Центральной Европы (Central European Project)11) Вычислительная техника: channel end point13) Транспорт: Courier Express And Parcel14) Воздухоплавание: Probable Circular Error15) Экология: Caribbean Environmental Project, Community Environmental Project16) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: Current Estimated Potential17) Менеджмент: contractors execution plan18) Программирование: Count Enable Parallel19) Океанография: Caribbean Environment Program, Committee on Environmental Protection20) Сахалин Ю: contract execution plan21) Химическое оружие: catalytic extraction processing22) Физическая химия: Collision Cell Entrance Potential (в масс-спектроскопии)23) Должность: Certified Education Planner24) Аэропорты: Concepcion, Bolivia25) Программное обеспечение: Core Enterprise Php -
79 rpm
1) Компьютерная техника: Recycled Parts Management, Revolution Per Minute2) Авиация: Revolutions Per Minute( The percentage of power being produced by your engine), коммерческая пассажиро-миля (сокр. от revenue passenger-mile)3) Ботаника: Rapid Plant Matrix4) Спорт: Racing Performance And Motivation, Raw Power Moves5) Военный термин: Repair Performance Maintenance, radar performance monitor, radiation polarization measurement, real property maintenance, real property management, registered publication manual, registered publications memorandum, registered publications memorandum RPLAN, requirements plan, registrants processing manual, remote performance monitoring, remotely piloted munitions, repair parts manual, research and program management, rocket-propelled mine, ДПМ (Remote Pan-and-Tilt Multisensor; дистанционное панорамное многосенсорное устройство)6) Техника: Regge pole model, radiation protection manager, radiation protection manual, retro propulsion module7) Шутливое выражение: Radical Psycho Machine8) Религия: Revolutionary Praise Music9) Юридический термин: Revenue Policy Memoranda10) Сокращение: Real-time Page Management (internet term), Remotely Piloted Munition, Reprogrammable Memory, Revolutions / Rotations Per Minute, Revolutoins Per Minute, resale price maintenance11) Физика: Random Phase Model12) Физиология: Relative Proper Motion13) Вычислительная техника: Remote Port Module (Ascend), Radio Packet Modem (Motorola), (число) оборотов в минуту14) Нефть: reinforced plastic matrix, армированный пластик (материал для изготовления труб), число оборотов в минуту (revolutions per minute), (real-time performance management) управление процессами в реальном масштабе времени15) Транспорт: Revenue Passenger Mile, Road and Performance Modifications16) Фирменный знак: Republic Powdered Metals17) СМИ: Repeat Performance Mastering18) Деловая лексика: Retail Promotions Marketing, Reverse Pull Marketing19) Бурение: 1/мин (revolutions per minute), частота вращения в минуту (revolutions per minute)20) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: частота вращения ротора, число оборотов ротора21) Образование: Revolutions Per Mile22) Сетевые технологии: rotations per minute23) Сахалин Р: Rotation Per Minute24) Океанография: Regional Particulate Model25) Сахалин А: Right-of-Way26) Химическое оружие: Remedial Project Manager27) Безопасность: remote point module28) Электрические машины: ротор постоянного магнита (в электродвигателе с постоянными магнитами)29) Нефть и газ: reservoir pressure maintenance30) Ядерное оружие: Radiation Portal Monitor31) Электротехника: reliability performance measure32) NYSE. RPM, Inc. of Ohio33) Программное обеспечение: Real Player Media34) Единицы измерений: Rotations Per Mile -
80 clutch
1. verb1) ((with at) to try to take hold of: I clutched at a floating piece of wood to save myself from drowning.) agarrar2) (to hold tightly (in the hands): She was clutching a 50-cent piece.) apretar
2. noun1) (control or power: He fell into the clutches of the enemy.) dominio2) ((the pedal operating) a device by means of which two moving parts of an engine may be connected or disconnected: He released the clutch and the car started to move.) embrague•clutch vb agarrar / estrechar
clutch /'klʊtʃ/ sustantivo masculino (AmC, Col, Méx, Ven) clutch ' clutch' also found in these entries: Spanish: aferrarse - clavo - embrague - nidada - clotch - embragar - pedal - sobre English: clutch - disengage - engage - straw - release - sliptr[klʌʧ]1 SMALLAUTOMOBILES/SMALL embrague nombre masculino2 (grasp, grip) agarrón nombre masculino1 (seize) agarrar; (hold tightly) estrechar, apretar\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto fall into somebody's clutches caer en las garras de alguiento clutch at straws aferrarse a cualquier cosato let in the clutch SMALLAUTOMOBILES/SMALL embragarto let out the clutch SMALLAUTOMOBILES/SMALL desembragarclutch bag cartera————————tr[klʌʧ]1 (of eggs) nidadaclutch ['klʌʧ] vt: agarrar, asirclutch vito clutch at : tratar de agarrarclutch n1) grasp, grip: agarre m, apretón m2) : embrague m, clutch m (de una máquina)3) clutches npl: garras fplhe fell into their clutches: cayó en sus garrasn.• apresamiento s.m.• embrague (Automóvil) s.m.• uña s.f.v.• agarrafar v.• agarrar v.• empuñar v.klʌtʃ
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1)a) clutches pl garras fplto be in/fall into somebody's/something's clutches — estar*/caer* en las garras de alguien/algo
b) (difficult, crucial situation) (AmE)in the clutch — (colloq) en las emergencias; (before n)
clutch situation — situación f de emergencia
2)a) ( device) embrague m, clutch m (AmC, Col, Méx, Ven)b) clutch (pedal) (pedal m del) embrague m, clutch m (AmC, Col, Méx, Ven)to let out the clutch — desembragar*, soltar* el embrague
3)a) ( of eggs) nidada fb) (group, bunch) puñado m
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transitive verb tener* firmemente agarradoshe clutched the child to her breast — estrechó or apretó al niño contra su pecho
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I [klʌtʃ]1. N1) (Aut) embrague m, cloche m (LAm); (=pedal) (pedal m del) embrague m or cloche m2) (=grasp)to get sth out of sb's clutches — hacer que algn ceda la posesión or se desprenda de algo
3) (US) * (=crisis) crisis f inv2.VT (=catch hold of) asir, agarrar (esp LAm); (=hold tightly) apretar, agarrar3.VIto clutch at — tratar de agarrar; (fig) aferrarse a
- clutch at straws4.CPDclutch bag N — bolso m (sin asas)
clutch pedal N — [of car] (pedal m del) embrague m
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[klʌtʃ]N [of eggs] nidada f* * *[klʌtʃ]
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1)a) clutches pl garras fplto be in/fall into somebody's/something's clutches — estar*/caer* en las garras de alguien/algo
b) (difficult, crucial situation) (AmE)in the clutch — (colloq) en las emergencias; (before n)
clutch situation — situación f de emergencia
2)a) ( device) embrague m, clutch m (AmC, Col, Méx, Ven)b) clutch (pedal) (pedal m del) embrague m, clutch m (AmC, Col, Méx, Ven)to let out the clutch — desembragar*, soltar* el embrague
3)a) ( of eggs) nidada fb) (group, bunch) puñado m
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transitive verb tener* firmemente agarradoshe clutched the child to her breast — estrechó or apretó al niño contra su pecho
2.
vi
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