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21 vare
article, commodity, goods, last, merchandise* * *I. (en -r)( handelsvare) article,( især uforarbejdet, fx korn, kul) commodity;( om nummer på liste) item;[ varer] goods,F merchandise; articles; commodities;(let glds om detailvarer man sælger) wares ( fx sellling his wares from door to door);[ tage for gode varer] accept (at its face value), swallow,T buy;( også) it did not go down with him;[ beskadigede varer] damaged goods;(fig) a rare thing;[ de våde varer] drink, liquor;[ den ægte vare] the real thing, the genuine article,T the real McCoy (el. Mackay).II. sb ( påpasselighed):[ tage sig i vare for] beware of, be on one's guard against;[ tage vare på] take care of, attend to, look after;[ han har nok at tage vare på] he has got his hands full;[ tag vare på din mund] mind what you say.III. vb:[ vare ad] warn;[ vare sig] take care;[ vare sig for] beware of;[ vare sig for at] take care (el. be careful) not to.IV. vb( vedvare) last,F endure;( holde) last, wear;( med efterfølgende " før") be,(se ndf);[ vare længe] take (, last) a long time,(negativt el. spørgende) take (, last) long ( fx will it takelong? it won't take long);[ gældende så længe krigen varer] valid for the duration of the war;[ det vil vare længe før vi ser ham igen] it will be a long time before we see him again;[ det vil ikke vare længe før] it won't be long before;T I won't visit him again in a hurry;[ vare ved] go on, continue. -
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I.n. m. De l'officiel: 'The real McCoy', the genuine stuff. Ces biftons, c'est de l'officiel, tu peux mefaire confiance! These are real notes, not Mickey-Mouse money—you can trust me!II.adj. Sure, certain. C'est officiel! It's a dead-cert! -
23 Carver, George Washington
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1861 USAd. 1943 USA[br]African-American agriculturalist.[br]In 1896 Carver was invited by Booker T.Washington, noted for his efforts to improve the education of African American craftspeople after the Civil War, to join the teaching staff at the Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Carver became renowned for his innovative work in developing agricultural products, particularly from the peanut, sweet potato and cowpea. He was one of the first agriculturalists of that time to promote the use of organic fertilizers, and he was noted for his work in the hybridization of local plants. In spite of these achievements, his immediate impact on the African American farming community lay in promoting agricultural education and extension work. In 1897 Carver was appointed the first director of the Tuskegee agricultural experiment station. Here, he developed teaching techniques in agricultural education, such as issuing a series of clearly-written information bulletins. He also devised the first mobile school in the American South, which consisted of a farm wagon equipped with educational material and travelled from farm to farm, demonstrating the latest agricultural techniques.Carver was granted only three patents: one in 1923 for a cosmetic and two, in 1925 and 1927, for processes for making pigments.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African American Invention and Innovation 2619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 69–70.LRDBiographical history of technology > Carver, George Washington
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24 Matzeliger, Jan
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1852 Surinamd. 1889 Lynn, Massachusetts, (?) USA[br]African-American inventor of the shoe-lasting machine.[br]He served an apprenticeship as a machinist in his native country, Surinam. As a young man he emigrated to New England in the USA, but he was unable to secure employment in his trade. To survive, he took various odd jobs, including sewing soles on to shoes in a factory at Lynn, Massachusetts, a centre of the shoemaking industry. Much of the shoemaking process had already been mechanized, but lasting remained laborious, painstaking hand work. Matzeliger turned his undoubted inventive powers to mechanizing this operation. It took him four years to achieve a working model of a mechanical last that could be patented. By this time his health and finances had been undermined by the struggle to reach this stage; to raise funds he had to dispose of two-thirds of his rights in his patent to two local investors. Eventually he demonstrated a trial model of his lasting machine and successfully lasted seventy-five pairs of shoes. Not satisfied with that, Matzeliger went on to produce two improved machines, protected by further patents. Finally, the United Shoe Machine Company bought up his patents, but that relief came too late to prevent Matzeliger from dying in poor circumstances. The mechanization of shoe lasting made a significant contribution to the manufacture of shoes, raising production and reducing costs. It also effectively extinguished the final element of skilled hand work required in shoemaking, earning him considerable unpopularity among the workers who were about to be displaced, and resulting in the machine being derogatorily nicknamed "Niggerhead".[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 70–2.LRD -
25 Rillieux, Norbert
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 1800 New Orleans, Louisiana, USAd. 1894 France[br]African-American inventor of a sugar-evaporation process.[br]A free black, he was the son of Vincent Rillieux, a white engineer, and Constance Vivant, a quadroon. The family was prosperous enough to send him to France to be educated, at the Ecole Centrale in Paris. There he studied engineering and later taught mechanical engineering, developing a special interest in thermodynamics and steampower. In 1830 he devised a vacuum evaporation system with industrial possibilities, but he was unable to interest any French firms in the device. He therefore returned to New Orleans and ob-tained his first patent in 1843. Two years later he was able to have the evaporation system installed on a plantation to refine sugar. It soon demonstrated its worth, for planters were able to recoup the cost of the plant within a year through raised production and reduced operating costs. It came to be the generally accepted method for processing sugar-cane juice, and the price of refined sugar fell so that white sugar ceased to be a luxury food for the rich.Rillieux's patents protected him from repeated efforts to counterfeit the process, which thus earned him considerable wealth. However, because of increasing hostility and discriminatory laws against blacks in New Orleans, he did not long enjoy it and he returned to France, taking up the study of egyptology.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: AfricanAmerican Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 41–3.LRD -
26 Woods, Granville
[br]b. 1856 Columbus, Ohio, USAd. 1919 New York (?), USA[br]African-American inventor of electrical equipment.[br]He was first apprenticed in Columbus as a machinist and blacksmith. In 1872 he moved to Missouri, where he was engaged as a fireman and then engine-driver on the Iron Mountain Railroad. In his spare time he devoted much time to the study of electrical engineering. In 1878 he went to sea for two years as engineer on a British vessel. He returned to Ohio, taking up his previous occupation as engine-driver, and in 1884 he achieved his first patent, for a locomotive firebox. However, the drive towards things electrical was too strong and he set up the Woods Electric Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, to develop and market electrical inventions. Woods gained some fame as an inventor and became known as the "black Edison ". His first device, a telephone transmitter, was patented in December 1884 but faced stiff competition from similar inventions by Alexander Graham Bell and others. The following year he patented a device for transmitting messages in Morse code or by voice that was valuable enough to be bought up by the Bell Telephone Company. A stream of inventions followed, particularly for railway telegraph and electrical systems. This brought him into conflict with Edison, who was working in the same field. The US Patent Office ruled in Woods's favour; as a result of the ensuing publicity, one newspaper hailed Woods as the "greatest electrician in the world". In 1890 Woods moved to New York, where the opportunities for an electrical engineer seemed more favourable. He turned his attention to inventions that would improve the tram-car. One device enabled electric current to be transferred to the car with less friction than previously, incorporating a grooved wheel known as a "troller", whence came the popular term "trolley car".[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 94–5.LRD -
27 Temple, Lewis
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 1800 Richmond, Virginia, USAd. 1854 New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA[br]African-American inventor of the toggle harpoon for whaling.[br]An African-American blacksmith, he emigrated as a young man to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and set up a shop at Coffin's Wharf that was devoted to whalecraft. In 1845 he was able to establish a blacksmith's shop at Walnut Street Wharf. There, in 1848, Temple introduced his toggle harpoon. This was found to be more effective than the barb attached to a rope used up until then, and was rapidly taken up by the whaling industry. As Temple did not patent his device, many other blacksmiths were able to make it and he gained little financial return from his invention. Injuries sustained in an accident in 1853 undermined his health and he died the following year.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: AfricanAmerican Invention and Innovation 1629– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 35–7.LRD -
28 Walker, Madame C.J.
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors[br]b. 1867 Louisiana, USAd. 1919 USA[br]African-American inventor of hair and cosmetic treatments.[br]She was born Sarah Breedlove in rural Louisiana, but she moved to St Louis, Mississippi, and settled there, first earning a living as a washerwoman. That occupation did not satisfy her for long, however; she saw a need among black women to smarten their appearance to improve their chances in city life, and by 1905 she had concocted a mixture that could straighten and groom black women's hair. She began to market her product in Denver, Colorado, under her married name, Madame C.J.Walker. After five further years of intensive marketing and persuading black women that they needed this product, she was able to establish her headquarters in Indianapolis for the national distribution of her hair and cosmetic products. She also set up beauty salons, which were especially successful in Harlem, New York.[br]Further ReadingP.P.James, 1989, The Real McCoy: African-American Invention and Innovation 1619– 1930, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 85–6.LRD -
29 класс! настоящий виски
Jargon: the real McCoyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > класс! настоящий виски
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30 класс! подлинное
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33 неразбавленный виски
1) Jargon: the real McCoy2) Scuba diving: straight whiskyУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > неразбавленный виски
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1) General subject: actual, arrant, being, bona fide, every inch (he is every inch a soldier - он настоящий солдат), genuine, honest, hundred per cent, hundred-proof, in grain, literal, live, mere, natural, perfect, practic, practicable (об окне, двери и т. п.), present, proper (he was in a proper rage - он был в совершенном бешенстве), pure, real, sheer, simon-pure, simonpure, sincere, soothfast, sure enough, true, true blue, true born, true life, true-blue, true-born, true-life, unadulterated, uncounterfeit, undoubted, unfabled, unfeigned, vera, very, modern (modern time, modern era etc.), real-life, verum, living2) Colloquial: all wool and a yard wide, regular, worth the name, card-carrying (Mary is a card-carrying lesbian - Мэри-самая натуральная лесбиянка), honest-to-john, certified (a certified ho - настоящая шлюха)3) American: hundred-per-cent, righteous, sure-enough4) French: pur sang5) Mathematics: vrai6) Religion: mature7) British English: full-on9) Australian slang: dinki-di, dinkum, fair dinkum, ridgy-didge11) Politics: absolute, blatant, dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, hardened, hopeless, inveterate, out and out, outright, paid-up, total, unrelieved, utter12) Jargon: hundred proof, square, for-real, Kosher, McCoy, real McCoy13) Business: active, full-blooded (напр., “I want someone who is a full-blooded American as president,” he said.")14) Quality control: practical15) Psychoanalysis: veritable17) Emotional: thoroughgoing -
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1) General subject: actual, authentic, bona fide, genuine, honest, in grain, intrinsic, intrinsical, original, pure, real, sterling, sure enough, true, uncounterfeit, vera, veridical, veritable, very, legitimate2) Colloquial: Simon Pure, simon-pure, simonpure, uncooked, worth the name3) American: righteous, sure-enough4) Ironical: veridic5) Mathematics: vrai6) Religion: Authentica ( "authentic", сокр. Authen.)8) Australian slang: deadset, dinki-di, dinkum, fair dinkum, ridgy-didge, true blue9) Politics: absolute, arrant, blatant, dyed-in-the-wool, hardcore, hardened, hopeless, inveterate, out and out, outright, paid-up, total, unrelieved, utter10) Jargon: McCoy, hundred proof, legit, real McCoy, straight from the horse's mouth, square11) Makarov: sincere
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