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  • 21 mando

    m.
    1 command, authority.
    estar al mando (de) to be in charge (of)
    2 control (device).
    mando automático/a distancia automatic/remote control
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: mandar.
    * * *
    1 (autoridad) command
    2 (período) term of office
    3 (persona) person in charge; (oficial) officer
    4 (botón) control
    \
    ejercer el mando to be in charge
    estar al mando de to be in charge of
    alto mando high-ranking officer
    mandos intermedios middle management
    mandos militares military officers
    mandos policiales police officers
    mando a distancia (sistema) remote control 2 (aparato) remote control unit
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=poder) command

    al mando de — [+ pelotón, flota] in command of; [+ asociación, expedición, país] in charge of; [+ capitán, jefe] under the command o orders of, led by

    con ella al mando, mejorarán las cosas — with her in charge, things will get better

    estuvo al mando del país durante muchos años — he was in power for many years, he led the country for many years

    las tropas estaban al mando de un general extranjerothe troops were under the command o orders of a foreign general o were led by a foreign general

    alto mando — high command

    tomar el mando — (Mil) to take command; (Dep) to take the lead

    dote 2), voz 3)
    2) [de máquina, vehículo] control

    a los mandos de algo — at the controls of sth

    cuadro de mandos — control panel

    mando a la izquierdaleft-hand drive

    palanca de mando — [de máquina] control lever; [de avión] joystick

    tablero de mandos — control panel

    3) (=período de mando) term of office
    4) pl mandos (=autoridades) (Mil) high-ranking officers, senior officers; (Pol) high-ranking members, senior members

    mandos intermedios, mandos medios — LAm (Com) middle management

    mandos militares — high-ranking officers, senior officers

    * * *
    1)
    a) (Gob, Mil) command
    b)
    2) (Dep) lead
    3) (Auto, Elec) control
    * * *
    ----
    * al mando = in the saddle.
    * al mando (de) = at the helm (of), in charge (of).
    * bastón de mando = gavel, ceremonial staff, staff.
    * cadena de mando = chain of command, line of command, scalar chain of authority, scalar chain of command, scalar chain.
    * Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI) = Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
    * cuadro de mandos = circuit board, dashboard.
    * cuartillo de mandos eléctricos = electrical closet.
    * en el mando = at the wheel.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * llevar el mando = rule + the roost.
    * mando a distancia = remote control, remote controller.
    * mando militar = military command.
    * palanca de mando = joystick.
    * poner a Alguien al mando de = put + Nombre + in charge of.
    * seguir con el mando = stay in + control.
    * tablero de mandos = dashboard.
    * tener el mando = rule + the roost.
    * tomar el mando = take + the helm.
    * tomar el relevo en el mando = take over + the helm.
    * vara de mando = ceremonial staff.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Gob, Mil) command
    b)
    2) (Dep) lead
    3) (Auto, Elec) control
    * * *
    * al mando = in the saddle.
    * al mando (de) = at the helm (of), in charge (of).
    * bastón de mando = gavel, ceremonial staff, staff.
    * cadena de mando = chain of command, line of command, scalar chain of authority, scalar chain of command, scalar chain.
    * Cuadro de Mando Integral (CMI) = Balanced Scorecard (BSC).
    * cuadro de mandos = circuit board, dashboard.
    * cuartillo de mandos eléctricos = electrical closet.
    * en el mando = at the wheel.
    * línea de mando = line of authority, line of command.
    * llevar el mando = rule + the roost.
    * mando a distancia = remote control, remote controller.
    * mando militar = military command.
    * palanca de mando = joystick.
    * poner a Alguien al mando de = put + Nombre + in charge of.
    * seguir con el mando = stay in + control.
    * tablero de mandos = dashboard.
    * tener el mando = rule + the roost.
    * tomar el mando = take + the helm.
    * tomar el relevo en el mando = take over + the helm.
    * vara de mando = ceremonial staff.
    * * *
    A
    1 ( Gob, Mil) command
    el mando supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas the supreme command of the Armed Forces
    tiene dotes de mando she has leadership qualities
    entregó el mando a su sucesor he handed over command to his successor
    las cosas van a cambiar con ella al mando things are going to change now she's in charge o ( colloq) in the saddle
    2
    al mando de algo in charge of sth
    quedó/lo pusieron al mando de la empresa he was put in charge of the company
    la expedición iba al mando de un conocido científico the expedition was led by a well-known scientist
    Compuestos:
    mpl military commanders (pl)
    B ( Dep) lead
    tomar el mando to take the lead
    C ( Auto, Elec) control; (de TV, DVD) remote control
    Compuesto:
    remote control
    * * *

     

    Del verbo mandar: ( conjugate mandar)

    mando es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    mandó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    mandar    
    mando
    mandar ( conjugate mandar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ( ordenar):


    haz lo que te mandan do as you're told;
    la mandó callar he told o ordered her to be quiet;
    mandó que sirvieran la comida she ordered lunch to be served


    2 ( enviar) to send;

    3 (AmL) ( tratándose de encargos):

    mandó decir que … she sent a message to say that …;
    mando algo a arreglar to get o have sth mended
    4 (AmL fam) (arrojar, lanzar):
    mandó la pelota fuera de la cancha he kicked/sent/hit the ball out of play

    verbo intransitivo ( ser el jefe) to be in charge, be the boss (colloq);
    ¿mande? (Méx) (I'm) sorry?, pardon?;

    ¡María! — ¿mande? (Méx) María!yes?
    mando sustantivo masculino
    1 ( en general) command;

    dotes de mando leadership qualities;
    estar al mando (de algo) to be in charge (of sth)
    2 (Auto, Elec) control;

    mandar verbo transitivo
    1 (dar órdenes) to order: me mandó barrer el suelo, she told me to sweep the floor
    2 (remitir) to send: le mandaré unas flores, I'll send him some flowers
    te manda saludos, she sends you her regards
    mándalo por correo, send it by post
    nos mandaron a por unos huevos, they sent us for some eggs
    3 (capitanear, dirigir) to lead, be in charge o command of
    Mil to command
    mando sustantivo masculino
    1 (autoridad) command, control: ahora es él quien tiene el mando, now he's the one in charge
    es una decisión de los altos mandos, the decision comes from the top
    2 Téc (control) controls pl: los mandos no responden, the controls don't respond
    Auto cuadro o tablero de mandos, dashboard
    mando a distancia, remote control
    ' mando' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dirigir
    - dote
    - gobierno
    - mandar
    - puente
    - puesta
    - puesto
    - timón
    - alto
    - comandante
    - comando
    - cuadro
    - don
    - mismo
    - palanca
    - recado
    English:
    assume
    - blow
    - bridge
    - busywork
    - charge
    - command
    - command post
    - control
    - joystick
    - limber up
    - remote control
    - roost
    - take over
    - under
    - cock
    - commanding
    - dual
    - flight
    - follow
    - joy
    - lead
    - leadership
    - pack
    - posse
    - remote
    * * *
    mando nm
    1. [poder] command, authority;
    entregar el mando to hand over command;
    estar al mando (de) to be in charge (of);
    el grupo de rescate está al mando de un capitán the rescue group are under the command of a captain;
    tomar el mando (de) to take command o control (of)
    2. [jefe]
    el alto mando the high command;
    los mandos [militares] the command;
    los mandos policiales se reunieron para discutir la visita papal senior police officers met to discuss the Pope's visit;
    mandos intermedios middle management
    3. [dispositivo] control;
    tomó los mandos del avión he took the controls of the plane;
    tablero de mandos [de avión] instrument panel;
    [de coche] dashboard mando automático automatic control;
    mando a distancia remote control
    * * *
    m command;
    alto mando high command;
    mando a distancia TV remote control;
    cuadro de mandos AVIA instrument panel;
    estar al mando de be in charge of
    * * *
    mando nm
    1) : command, leadership
    2) : control (for a device)
    mando a distancia: remote control
    3)
    al mando de : in charge of
    4)
    al mando de : under the command of
    * * *
    1. (autoridad) command
    2. (dispositivo) control

    Spanish-English dictionary > mando

  • 22 Geschwader

    n; -s, -
    1. NAUT. squadron; FLUG. group, wing
    2. umg., fig. troop
    * * *
    das Geschwader
    group; squadron
    * * *
    Ge|schwa|der [gə'ʃvaːdɐ]
    nt -s, -
    squadron
    * * *
    (in the air force, a group of three squadrons of aircraft.) wing
    * * *
    Ge·schwa·der
    <-s, ->
    [gəˈʃva:dɐ]
    nt squadron
    * * *
    das; Geschwaders, Geschwader (Marine) squadron; (Luftwaffe) wing (Brit.); group (Amer.)
    * * *
    Geschwader n; -s, -
    1. SCHIFF squadron; FLUG group, wing
    2. umg, fig troop
    * * *
    das; Geschwaders, Geschwader (Marine) squadron; (Luftwaffe) wing (Brit.); group (Amer.)
    * * *
    n.
    squadron n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Geschwader

  • 23 wing

    [wɪŋ] noun
    1) one of the arm-like limbs of a bird or bat, which it usually uses in flying, or one of the similar limbs of an insect:

    These butterflies have red and brown wings.

    جَناح
    2) a similar structure jutting out from the side of an aeroplane:

    the wings of a jet.

    جَناح الطائِرَه

    the west wing of the hospital.

    جَناح في بِنايَه
    4) any of the corner sections of a motor vehicle:

    The rear left wing of the car was damaged.

    جَناح السيّارَه
    5) a section of a political party or of politics in general:

    the Left/Right wing.

    جَناح الحِزب

    He made a great run down the left wing.

    جَناح مَلْعَب كُرَة القَدَم
    7) in rugby and hockey, a player who plays mainly down one side of the field.
    لاعِب الجَناح في لُعْبَة الرَّغْبي أو الهوكي
    8) in the air force, a group of three squadrons of aircraft.
    ثَلاثَة أسْراب من الطائِرات

    Arabic-English dictionary > wing

  • 24 Armed Forces Movement / Movimento das Forças Armadas

       (MFA)
       The organization of career military who overthrew the Estado Novo in a virtually bloodless military coup or pronunciamento generating the Revolution of 25 April 1974. This organization began as a clandestine group of junior career officers, largely from the army, but later including air force and navy officers, who had a series of secret meetings in Évora and other cities beginning in the summer and fall of 1973. The general grievances of these officers, who tended to be junior officers in their thirties and forties with the ranks of lieutenant, captain, and major, centered on the colonial wars in Portugal's African Empire. By 1973, these conflicts were more than a decade old, and in two of the wars, namely Guinea- Bissau and Mozambique, the Portuguese forces were taking heavy losses and losing ground. The catalyst for organizing a formal protest at first was not political but professional and corporate: a July 1973 law passed by the Marcello Caetano government that responded to a shortage of officer candidates in the African wars by lowering the professional qualifications for officer candidates for militia officers, something deeply resented by the career officers. The MFA organized the military coup of 1974 that met little resistance.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Armed Forces Movement / Movimento das Forças Armadas

  • 25 مصلحة

    مَصْلَحَة \ good: use; value: What’s the good of that? Rules are made for your own good. interest: sth. with which one is concerned; sth. to which one gives eager attention: They have many different business interests. Her interests in life are music and reading. service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force). stake: a personal interest that shows one’s faith in sth., and one’s acceptance of risk: I’ve bought a farm on the island, so now I have a stake there. \ See Also اهتمام (اهتِمام)، مرفق عام (مَرْفَق عامّ)‏

    Arabic-English dictionary > مصلحة

  • 26 good

    مَصْلَحَة \ good: use; value: What’s the good of that? Rules are made for your own good. interest: sth. with which one is concerned; sth. to which one gives eager attention: They have many different business interests. Her interests in life are music and reading. service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force). stake: a personal interest that shows one’s faith in sth., and one’s acceptance of risk: I’ve bought a farm on the island, so now I have a stake there. \ See Also اهتمام (اهتِمام)، مرفق عام (مَرْفَق عامّ)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > good

  • 27 interest

    مَصْلَحَة \ good: use; value: What’s the good of that? Rules are made for your own good. interest: sth. with which one is concerned; sth. to which one gives eager attention: They have many different business interests. Her interests in life are music and reading. service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force). stake: a personal interest that shows one’s faith in sth., and one’s acceptance of risk: I’ve bought a farm on the island, so now I have a stake there. \ See Also اهتمام (اهتِمام)، مرفق عام (مَرْفَق عامّ)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > interest

  • 28 service

    مَصْلَحَة \ good: use; value: What’s the good of that? Rules are made for your own good. interest: sth. with which one is concerned; sth. to which one gives eager attention: They have many different business interests. Her interests in life are music and reading. service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force). stake: a personal interest that shows one’s faith in sth., and one’s acceptance of risk: I’ve bought a farm on the island, so now I have a stake there. \ See Also اهتمام (اهتِمام)، مرفق عام (مَرْفَق عامّ)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > service

  • 29 stake

    مَصْلَحَة \ good: use; value: What’s the good of that? Rules are made for your own good. interest: sth. with which one is concerned; sth. to which one gives eager attention: They have many different business interests. Her interests in life are music and reading. service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force). stake: a personal interest that shows one’s faith in sth., and one’s acceptance of risk: I’ve bought a farm on the island, so now I have a stake there. \ See Also اهتمام (اهتِمام)، مرفق عام (مَرْفَق عامّ)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > stake

  • 30 مرفق عام

    مَرْفِق عامّ \ service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force).

    Arabic-English dictionary > مرفق عام

  • 31 service

    تَشْييع \ service: the act of serving in games such as tennis. \ See Also اِسْتِهْلال ضَرْب الكُرَة \ صَلاة عامَّة \ service: a Christian meeting for prayer and praise to God: a Sunday service in church. \ صِيَانَة وإِصْلاح \ service: regular attention (oiling, etc.) that is given to a machine. \ قَامَ بصيانة وإصْلاح آلة \ service: to give regular attention to (a machine): I have my car serviced every 6000 miles. \ See Also إلخ \ قُدَّاس \ service: a Christian meeting for prayer and praise to God: a Sunday service in church. \ مَرْفِق عامّ \ service: a group of people who work for the government or who supply some public need: the fire service; the fighting services (army, navy and air force).

    Arabic-English glossary > service

  • 32 командующий

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > командующий

  • 33 التحق

    اِلْتَحَقَ \ join: to become a member of: May I join your club? Yes, you may join today. \ See Also اشترك في \ اِلْتَحَقَ بِـ \ enter: to become a member of (a school, etc.). \ اِلْتَحقَ بِـ (إلى)‏ \ rejoin: to return to (a group, a ship, a train, etc.): After a year abroad he rejoined his former company. I left my friends in Venice and rejoined them in Naples. \ See Also انْضَمَّ ثانيةً \ اِلْتَحَقَ بالجيش \ join up: to join the army, navy or air force: You can’t join up till you’re 17. \ اِلْتَحَم \ solder, weld.

    Arabic-English dictionary > التحق

  • 34 mano

    f.
    1 hand.
    a mano by hand; (sin máquina) to hand, handy (cerca)
    hecho a mano handmade
    ¿tienes el encendedor a mano? have you got your lighter handy o to hand?
    dar o estrechar la mano a alguien to shake hands with somebody
    darse o estrecharse la mano to shake hands
    lavarse las manos to wash one's hands
    ¡manos arriba!, ¡arriba las manos! hands up!
    3 coat.
    4 pestle.
    ser mano to (be the) lead
    6 series (serie, tanda).
    7 handball (sport) (falta).
    8 coat of paint.
    9 dealer, hand, lead.
    10 buddy, pal.
    m.
    pal(informal). ( Latin American Spanish salvo River Plate)
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: manar.
    * * *
    1 ANATOMÍA hand
    2 ZOOLOGÍA (de caballo) forefoot; (de gato, perro, etc) paw
    3 (lado) side
    4 (de reloj) hand
    6 (de jabón) soaping
    7 (habilidad) skill
    8 (influencia) influence
    9 (ayuda) hand
    10 (de mortero) pestle
    11 (de naipes - jugada, conjunto de cartas) hand; (- jugador) leader
    12 DEPORTE (en futból) handball
    1 (poder) hands sing, power sing
    \
    a mano (escrito) handwritten, by hand 2 (hecho) handmade, by hand 3 (lavado) by hand 4 (cerca) to hand, handy, near
    abrir la mano to become more flexible, become more lenient
    a manos llenas generously
    alzar/levantar la mano a alguien to raise one's hand to somebody
    bajo mano underhandedly
    cogidos,-as de la mano hand-in-hand
    con el corazón en la mano sincerely, with one's heart on one's sleeve
    con las manos vacías empty-handed
    con una mano detrás y otra delante familiar without a penny to one's name
    dar la mano a / tender la mano a (saludar) to shake hands with 2 (ayudar) to offer one's hand to
    darse la mano (dos personas) to shake hands 2 (dos cosas) to be very similar
    de primera mano (objeto) brand-new 2 (noticia) first-hand
    dejar de la mano to abandon
    echar mano de algo to resort to something, draw on something
    echar una mano to give a hand, lend a hand
    en buenas manos in good hands
    estar en las manos de alguien to be in somebody's hands
    hecho,-a a mano handmade
    írsele la mano a alguien (no contenerse) to lose control 2 (exagerar) to go over the top
    ¡las manos quietas! familiar hands off!
    lavarse las manos figurado to wash one's hands
    llegar a las manos to come to blows
    mano sobre mano idle, twiddling one's thumbs
    ¡manos arriba! hands up!
    meter la mano en algo to get involved in something, intervene in something
    meter mano familiar (toquetear) to grope, touch up 2 (intervenir) to do something, take action
    pedir la mano de alguien to ask for somebody's hand
    ponerle la mano encima a alguien to lay a hand on somebody
    poner la mano en el fuego por alguien to risk one's neck for somebody
    poner manos a la obra to get down to work, get cracking
    quedar algo muy a mano to be very near
    ser la mano derecha de alguien to be somebody's right hand
    ser mano de santo to work wonders
    tener algo a mano to have something handy
    tener buena mano para algo to have a knack for something, be a dab hand at something
    tener buenas manos to be good with one's hands
    tener la mano (muy) larga (para pegar) to be quick to lift a hand 2 (para robar) to be light-fingered, have sticky fingers
    tener mano de hierro to rule with an iron fist
    tener mano izquierda to have a lot of tact
    traerse algo entre manos to be planning something, be up to something
    mano a mano (concurso) contest 2 (conversación) tête-a-tête
    mano de cerdo pig's trotter
    mano de obra labour
    mano dura a firm hand
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) hand
    2) coat
    - mano de obra
    * * *
    I
    1. SUSTANTIVO FEMENINO
    Para las expresiones manos arriba, al alcance de la mano, frotarse las manos, ver la otra entrada.
    1) (Anat) hand

    lo hice con mis propias manos — I made it with my own hands, I made it myself

    el asesino salió con las manos en alto — the murderer came out with his hands up {o} with his hands in the air

    votar a mano [alzada] — to vote by a show of hands

    [dar] la mano a algn — [para saludar] to shake hands with sb; [para andar, apoyarse] to take sb by the hand

    [darse] la mano {o} las manos — to shake hands

    recibir algo [de] manos de algn — to receive sth from sb

    los dos iban [de la] mano — the two were walking hand-in-hand, the two were walking along holding hands

    ¡manos a la [obra]! — [como orden] to work!; [para darse ánimo] let's get on with it!, (let's) get down to work!

    ¡las manos [quietas]! — hands off!, keep your hands to yourself!

    ¡[venga] esa mano! — shake!, put it there!

    a mano (=sin máquina) by hand; (=cerca) handy, at hand; (=asequible) handy, to hand

    cosió los pantalones a mano — she sewed the trousers by hand, she hand-sewed the trousers

    escribir a mano — to write in longhand, write out (by hand)

    ¿tienes un bolígrafo a mano? — have you got a pen handy {o} to hand?

    la tienda me queda {o} me pilla * muy a mano — the shop is very handy for me, the shop is very close {o} nearby

    en mano

    piso disponible, llave en mano — [para alquilar] flat available for immediate occupancy; [para comprar] flat available for immediate possession

    estrechar 1., 3), levantar 1., 1), b), robo 1)
    2)

    en ese colegio le cargan la mano — they ask too much of her {o} put too much pressure on her at that school

    mano a mano —

    meter mano a algo —

    hay que meterle mano a la corrupción — we have to deal with {o} tackle corruption

    ponerle a algn la mano encima —

    ¡como me pongas la mano encima...! — if you lay one finger on me...!

    poner la mano en el fuego —

    yo no pondría la mano en el fuego por Juan — I wouldn't risk my neck for Juan, I wouldn't put myself on the line for Juan

    traerse algo entre manos —

    ¿qué os traéis entre manos? — what are you up to?

    - vivir de la mano a la boca

    fue mano de santo — it came just right, it was just what the doctor ordered

    mano dura — harsh treatment; (Pol) firm hand

    3) (=posesión) hand

    [cambiar] de manos — to change hands

    la casa ha cambiado varias veces de mano — the house has changed hands several times, the house has had several owners

    de [primera] mano — (at) first-hand

    de [segunda] mano — second-hand

    ropa de segunda mano — second-hand {o} used clothes

    4) (=control)

    ha hecho cuanto ha estado en su mano — he has done all {o} everything in his power

    [de buena] mano — on good authority

    [en buenas] manos — in good hands

    a manos de at the hands of

    la carta nunca llegó a manos del jefe — the letter never reached the boss, the letter never came into the hands of the boss

    en manos de in the hands of

    írsele a algn la mano con algo —

    írsele algo de las manos a algn —

    5) (=habilidad)

    ¡qué manos tiene! — he's so clever with his hands!

    tener [buena] mano, tiene buena mano para aparcar — she's good at parking

    tener [mala] mano — to be clumsy, be awkward

    mano izquierda, tiene mano izquierda con los animales — he's got a way with animals

    6) (=lado) side
    7) (=trabajadores)
    pl manos hands, workers

    contratar manos — to sign up {o} take on workers

    mano de obra — labour, labor (EEUU), manpower

    8) (Dep) handling, handball

    ¡mano! — handball!

    9) (Zool) [de mono] hand; [de perro, gato, oso, león] front paw; [de caballo] forefoot, front hoof; [de ave] foot; (=trompa) trunk

    manos de cerdo — (Culin) pig's trotters

    10) (=instrumento) [de reloj] hand

    mano de almirez, mano de mortero — pestle

    11) (=capa) [de pintura] coat; [de jabón] wash, soaping

    dar una mano de jabón a la ropa — to give the clothes a wash {o} soaping

    12) (Juegos, Naipes) (=partida) round, game; (=conjunto de cartas) hand

    echar una mano de mus — to have a game {o} round of mus

    ser {o} tener la mano — to lead

    13) (=lote) lot, series; And, CAm, Cono Sur, Méx group of things of the same kind ; LAm [de plátanos] bunch, hand
    14) (Mús) scale
    15) LAm (=desgracia) misfortune, mishap; (=suceso imprevisto) unexpected event
    16) LAm (=suerte)

    ¡qué mano! — what a stroke of luck!

    17) LAm (Aut) direction
    2.
    SUSTANTIVO MASCULINO

    mano a mano, hubo un mano a mano entre los dos políticos en el parlamento — the two politicians slogged it out between them in parliament

    II
    SM Méx [en conversación] mate *, pal *
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (Anat) hand

    le dijo or hizo adiós con la mano — he waved goodbye to her

    en su mano — (Corresp) by hand

    levantar la mano — to raise one's hands, put one's hand up

    lo hice yo, con mis propias manos — I did it myself, with my own two hands

    manos arriba! or arriba las manos! — hands up!

    darle la mano a alguien — ( para saludar) to shake hands with somebody, to shake somebody's hand; (para ayudar, ser ayudado) to give somebody one's hand

    dame la manito or (Esp, Méx) manita — hold my hand

    me tendió or me ofreció la mano — he held out his hand to me

    b) (Zool) (de oso, perro) paw; ( de mono) hand; (Equ) forefoot, front foot
    2) (control, posesión) gen

    manoshands (pl)

    haré todo lo que esté en mis manos or (RPl) de mi mano — I will do everything in my power

    3) ( en fútbol) handball
    4) ( del mortero) pestle
    5)
    a) ( de papel) quire
    b) ( de plátanos) hand
    6) (de pintura, barniz) coat
    7) (Jueg)
    a) (vuelta, juego) hand

    ¿nos echamos unas manos de dominó? — how about a game of dominoes?

    c) ( jugador)

    soy/eres mano — it's my/your lead

    tener la mano — (Andes) to lead

    ganarle por la mano or (RPl) de mano a alguien (fam): César me ganó por la mano — César just beat me to it (colloq)

    a mano — ( no a máquina) by hand; ( cerca) at hand (AmE), to hand (BrE)

    a mano — (AmL) ( en paz) all square, quits

    a la mano — (AmL) close at hand

    en mano<lápiz/copa> in hand

    agarrar or (esp Esp) coger a alguien con las manos en la masa — to catch somebody red-handed

    agarrarle or tomarle la mano a algo — (CS fam) to get the hang of something (colloq)

    a mano alzada< votación> by a show of hands; < dibujo> freehand; < dibujar> freehand

    a manos llenas< dar> generously; < gastar> lavishly

    pedir/conceder la mano de alguien — to ask for/give somebody's hand in marriage

    bajo mano — on the quiet, on the sly (colloq)

    caérsele la mano a alguien — (Méx fam & pey) to be a fairy (colloq & pej)

    cargar la mano — (fam) to overdo

    cargarle la mano a alguien — ( en el precio) to overcharge somebody; ( pegar) to hit somebody

    con una mano atrás y otra delantewithout a penny to one's name

    dar la mano derecha por algoto give one's right arm for something

    darse la mano — ( para saludar) to shake hands; (para cruzar, jugar, etc) to hold hands; (reunirse, fundirse) to come together

    de la mano: me tomó de la mano she took me by the hand; iban (tomados) de la mano they walked hand in hand; de manos a boca suddenly, unexpectedly; de primera mano (at) first hand; de segunda mano < ropa> secondhand; < coche> used, secondhand; < información> secondhand; echar or dar una mano to give o lend a hand; echarle mano a alguien (fam) to lay o get one's hands on somebody (colloq); echar mano a algo (fam) to grab something; echar mano de algo to resort to something; echamos mano de nuestros ahorros we dipped into our savings; echarse or llevarse las manos a la cabeza ( literal) to put one's hands on one's head; ( horrorizarse) to throw up one's hands in horror; embarrarle la mano a alguien (Méx fam) to grease somebody's palm (colloq); ensuciarse las manos ( literal) to get one's hands dirty; (en un robo, crimen) to dirty one's hands; estar atado de manos or tener las manos atadas ( literal) to have one's hands tied; ( no poder actuar): la decisión es de ellos, yo tengo las manos atadas it's up to them, my hands are tied; estar/quedar a mano (AmL fam) to be even o quits (colloq); frotarse las manos ( literal) to rub one's hands together; ( regodearse) to rub one's hands with glee; írsele la mano a alguien: se te fue la mano con la sal you overdid the salt o put too much salt in; le cobré $1.000 - se te fue un poco la mano ¿no? I charged him $1,000 - that was a bit steep, wasn't it? (colloq); se te fue la mano al contestarle así you went too far answering her back like that; lavarse las manos to wash one's hands; les das la/una mano y se toman el brazo give them an inch and they'll take a mile; levantarle la mano a alguien to raise one's hand to somebody; llegar or irse or pasar a las manos to come to blows; meter la mano en la caja or lata to dip one's fingers in the till; meterle mano a alguien (fam) (magrear, tocar) to touch o feel somebody up (colloq); ( por un delito) to collar somebody (colloq); meterle mano a algo (fam) to get to work on something; poner la(s) mano(s) en el fuego por alguien to stick one's neck out for somebody; ponerle la mano encima a alguien to lay a hand o finger on somebody; ponerse manos a la obra to get down to work; por mi/tu/su mano: tomó la justicia or las cosas por su mano he took the law o he took things into his own hands; quitarle algo de las manos a alguien: me lo quitó de las manos she took it right out of my hands; tuvieron mucho éxito, nos las quitaron de las manos they were a great success, they sold like hotcakes (colloq); saber alguien dónde tiene la mano derecha to know what one is about; ser mano ancha (Arg) to be generous; ser mano de santo to work wonders; ser mano larga ( para pegar) to be free with one's hands; ( para robar) to be light-fingered; tenderle una mano a alguien to offer somebody a (helping) hand; tener algo entre manos to be dealing with o working on something; tener (la) mano larga or las manos largas (fam) ( para pegar) to be free with one's hands; ( para robar) to be light-fingered; tener la mano pesada to be heavy-handed; tener mano de seda to have a light touch; tener mano para algo to be good at something; traerse algo entre manos to be up to something (colloq); untarle la mano a alguien (fam) to grease somebody's palm (colloq); muchas manos en un plato hacen mucho garabato — too many cooks spoil the broth

    9)
    a) ( lado) side
    b) (Auto) side of the road
    10) manos masculino plural ( obreros) hands (pl)
    II
    - na masculino, femenino (AmL exc CS fam) ( apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    * * *
    I
    1)
    a) (Anat) hand

    le dijo or hizo adiós con la mano — he waved goodbye to her

    en su mano — (Corresp) by hand

    levantar la mano — to raise one's hands, put one's hand up

    lo hice yo, con mis propias manos — I did it myself, with my own two hands

    manos arriba! or arriba las manos! — hands up!

    darle la mano a alguien — ( para saludar) to shake hands with somebody, to shake somebody's hand; (para ayudar, ser ayudado) to give somebody one's hand

    dame la manito or (Esp, Méx) manita — hold my hand

    me tendió or me ofreció la mano — he held out his hand to me

    b) (Zool) (de oso, perro) paw; ( de mono) hand; (Equ) forefoot, front foot
    2) (control, posesión) gen

    manoshands (pl)

    haré todo lo que esté en mis manos or (RPl) de mi mano — I will do everything in my power

    3) ( en fútbol) handball
    4) ( del mortero) pestle
    5)
    a) ( de papel) quire
    b) ( de plátanos) hand
    6) (de pintura, barniz) coat
    7) (Jueg)
    a) (vuelta, juego) hand

    ¿nos echamos unas manos de dominó? — how about a game of dominoes?

    c) ( jugador)

    soy/eres mano — it's my/your lead

    tener la mano — (Andes) to lead

    ganarle por la mano or (RPl) de mano a alguien (fam): César me ganó por la mano — César just beat me to it (colloq)

    a mano — ( no a máquina) by hand; ( cerca) at hand (AmE), to hand (BrE)

    a mano — (AmL) ( en paz) all square, quits

    a la mano — (AmL) close at hand

    en mano<lápiz/copa> in hand

    agarrar or (esp Esp) coger a alguien con las manos en la masa — to catch somebody red-handed

    agarrarle or tomarle la mano a algo — (CS fam) to get the hang of something (colloq)

    a mano alzada< votación> by a show of hands; < dibujo> freehand; < dibujar> freehand

    a manos llenas< dar> generously; < gastar> lavishly

    pedir/conceder la mano de alguien — to ask for/give somebody's hand in marriage

    bajo mano — on the quiet, on the sly (colloq)

    caérsele la mano a alguien — (Méx fam & pey) to be a fairy (colloq & pej)

    cargar la mano — (fam) to overdo

    cargarle la mano a alguien — ( en el precio) to overcharge somebody; ( pegar) to hit somebody

    con una mano atrás y otra delantewithout a penny to one's name

    dar la mano derecha por algoto give one's right arm for something

    darse la mano — ( para saludar) to shake hands; (para cruzar, jugar, etc) to hold hands; (reunirse, fundirse) to come together

    de la mano: me tomó de la mano she took me by the hand; iban (tomados) de la mano they walked hand in hand; de manos a boca suddenly, unexpectedly; de primera mano (at) first hand; de segunda mano < ropa> secondhand; < coche> used, secondhand; < información> secondhand; echar or dar una mano to give o lend a hand; echarle mano a alguien (fam) to lay o get one's hands on somebody (colloq); echar mano a algo (fam) to grab something; echar mano de algo to resort to something; echamos mano de nuestros ahorros we dipped into our savings; echarse or llevarse las manos a la cabeza ( literal) to put one's hands on one's head; ( horrorizarse) to throw up one's hands in horror; embarrarle la mano a alguien (Méx fam) to grease somebody's palm (colloq); ensuciarse las manos ( literal) to get one's hands dirty; (en un robo, crimen) to dirty one's hands; estar atado de manos or tener las manos atadas ( literal) to have one's hands tied; ( no poder actuar): la decisión es de ellos, yo tengo las manos atadas it's up to them, my hands are tied; estar/quedar a mano (AmL fam) to be even o quits (colloq); frotarse las manos ( literal) to rub one's hands together; ( regodearse) to rub one's hands with glee; írsele la mano a alguien: se te fue la mano con la sal you overdid the salt o put too much salt in; le cobré $1.000 - se te fue un poco la mano ¿no? I charged him $1,000 - that was a bit steep, wasn't it? (colloq); se te fue la mano al contestarle así you went too far answering her back like that; lavarse las manos to wash one's hands; les das la/una mano y se toman el brazo give them an inch and they'll take a mile; levantarle la mano a alguien to raise one's hand to somebody; llegar or irse or pasar a las manos to come to blows; meter la mano en la caja or lata to dip one's fingers in the till; meterle mano a alguien (fam) (magrear, tocar) to touch o feel somebody up (colloq); ( por un delito) to collar somebody (colloq); meterle mano a algo (fam) to get to work on something; poner la(s) mano(s) en el fuego por alguien to stick one's neck out for somebody; ponerle la mano encima a alguien to lay a hand o finger on somebody; ponerse manos a la obra to get down to work; por mi/tu/su mano: tomó la justicia or las cosas por su mano he took the law o he took things into his own hands; quitarle algo de las manos a alguien: me lo quitó de las manos she took it right out of my hands; tuvieron mucho éxito, nos las quitaron de las manos they were a great success, they sold like hotcakes (colloq); saber alguien dónde tiene la mano derecha to know what one is about; ser mano ancha (Arg) to be generous; ser mano de santo to work wonders; ser mano larga ( para pegar) to be free with one's hands; ( para robar) to be light-fingered; tenderle una mano a alguien to offer somebody a (helping) hand; tener algo entre manos to be dealing with o working on something; tener (la) mano larga or las manos largas (fam) ( para pegar) to be free with one's hands; ( para robar) to be light-fingered; tener la mano pesada to be heavy-handed; tener mano de seda to have a light touch; tener mano para algo to be good at something; traerse algo entre manos to be up to something (colloq); untarle la mano a alguien (fam) to grease somebody's palm (colloq); muchas manos en un plato hacen mucho garabato — too many cooks spoil the broth

    9)
    a) ( lado) side
    b) (Auto) side of the road
    10) manos masculino plural ( obreros) hands (pl)
    II
    - na masculino, femenino (AmL exc CS fam) ( apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)
    * * *
    mano1
    1 = hand.

    Ex: Even with such a limitation and many later supplementations by various hands, by way of addition, correction and amplification, it falls far short of completeness.

    * accionado a mano = hand-powered.
    * agresión a mano armada = armed assault.
    * ahorrar mano de obra = save + manpower.
    * al alcance de la mano = within arm's reach, within easy reach.
    * a la mano de = available at the fingertips of.
    * alargar la mano = reach out.
    * alargar la mano para coger = reach for.
    * a mano = by hand, manually, nearby [near-by], handy, within reach, within easy reach.
    * a mano alzada = by a show of hands.
    * a mano derecha de = on the right side of, on the right-hand side of.
    * a manos de = at the hands of.
    * aparato de informática del tamaño de la palma de la mano = palm computing device.
    * apretón de manos = handshake.
    * arreglarse las manos = manicure.
    * asalto a mano armada = armed robbery, armed assault, heist.
    * asignado a mano = manually assigned.
    * atar de pies y manos = hogtie.
    * atraco a mano armada = armed robbery, heist, daylight robbery.
    * batidora de mano = food mincer.
    * bolsa de mano = flight bag, carryall bag, travelbag, soft bag.
    * bomba de mano = hand pump.
    * borrador escrito a mano = manuscript draft.
    * caer en manos de = fall into + the hands of.
    * caer en manos enemigas = fall into + enemy hands.
    * cambiar de manos = change + hands.
    * cambio de manos = change of hands.
    * carretilla de mano = pushcart.
    * coche de segunda mano = used car, second-hand car.
    * codificar a mano = hand-code.
    * coger a Alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed, catch + Nombre + in the act.
    * coger de la mano = hold + Posesivo + hand.
    * coger la mano = take + Posesivo + hand.
    * cogerse de la mano = hold + hands.
    * cogerse la mano = join + hands.
    * cogido a mano = hand-picked.
    * confeccionar a mano = handcraft.
    * con las dos manos = two handed [two-handed].
    * con las manos muy largas = light-fingered.
    * con las manos vacías = empty-handed.
    * conocer Algo como la palma de + Posesivo + mano = know + Algo + like the back of + Posesivo + hand.
    * conocer de primera mano = know + first-hand.
    * con una mano delante y otra detrás = penniless, broke, skint.
    * corregir a mano = hand-correct.
    * costes de mano de obra = labour costs.
    * crema de manos = hand cream.
    * crema limpiadora de manos = handcleaner.
    * croché a mano = hand crochet.
    * cubrir Algo con la mano = cup + Posesivo + hand + over + Nombre.
    * cultivado a mano = hand-reared.
    * dar a Alguien una mano y te cogen el brazo = give + Pronombre + an inch and + Pronombre + take a mile.
    * dar en mano = hand (over).
    * dar la mano = extend + Posesivo + hand.
    * dar la mano derecha = give + Posesivo + right arm.
    * darse la mano = join + hands, shake + hand.
    * darse un apretón de manos = clasp + hands.
    * dar un apretón de manos = shake + hand.
    * decir adiós con la mano = wave + goodbye.
    * dedicación de mano de obra = expenditure of manpower.
    * dejado de la mano de Dios = God-forsaken.
    * dejar las manos de uno libres de = free + Posesivo + hands from.
    * de mano = hand-held [handheld].
    * de primera mano = at first hand, first-hand [firsthand], first-person.
    * de segunda mano = second-hand [secondhand].
    * despedir mano de obra = shed + jobs, axe + jobs, cut + jobs.
    * de tercera mano = third-hand.
    * de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano = hit-and-run.
    * echarle una mano a = bat for, go to + bat for.
    * echar mano a/de = leverage.
    * echar mano a los ahorros = dip into + savings.
    * echar mano de = fall back on, call into + play.
    * echar una mano = lend + a (helping) hand, put + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, set + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, muck in, pitch in.
    * echar una mano a Alguien = give + Nombre + a hand.
    * el mundo en la palma de la mano = the world in the palm of + Posesivo + hand.
    * en buenas manos = in a safe place, in safekeeping.
    * encaje de aguja a mano = needlepoint lace.
    * en mano = in hand.
    * en manos de = in the hands of.
    * en manos de extranjeros = foreign-owned.
    * en manos del enemigo = at the hands of enemies, at the hands of the enemy.
    * en manos enemigas = at the hands of enemies, at the hands of the enemy.
    * en + Posesivo + manos = at + Posesivo + hands.
    * entre manos = at hand, in hand.
    * equipaje de mano = carry-on luggage, cabin baggage, cabin luggage.
    * escalera de mano = stepladder.
    * escaparse de las manos de = slip beyond + the grasp of.
    * escasez de mano de obra = labour shortage.
    * escribir a mano = handletter.
    * escrito a mano = handwritten [hand-written], in black and white, in handwriting, longhand [long-hand].
    * escritura a mano = handwriting.
    * estar al alcance de la mano = be at hand.
    * estar a mano = be on hand, be around.
    * estar en buenas manos = be in safe hands.
    * estar en manos privadas = hold in + private hands.
    * experiencia de primera mano = first-hand experience.
    * extender la mano = put out + Posesivo + hand, reach out, put forth + Posesivo + hand.
    * extender la mano para coger algo = hand + reach for.
    * fabricado a mano = hand-made.
    * falta de mano de obra = labour shortage.
    * freno de mano = hand brake [handbrake].
    * futuro + estar + en + Posesivo + manos = future + be + in + Posesivo + hands.
    * ganarle la mano a Alguien = steal + a march on.
    * ganchillo a mano = hand crochet.
    * golpeo a mano = hand-beating.
    * granada de mano = hand grenade.
    * hacer a mano = handcraft.
    * hacer todo lo que está en nuestras manos = pull out + all the stops.
    * hecho a mano = hand-made, hand-drawn, handcrafted.
    * hilado a mano = handspinning.
    * impulsado a mano = hand-powered.
    * ir de la mano = go + hand in hand (with), be hand in hand.
    * írsele a Uno Algo de las manos = get out of + hand, get out of + hand.
    * írsele la mano a Uno = overplay + Posesivo + hand.
    * juego de manos = sleight-of-hand.
    * juegos de manos = fingergame.
    * labores de croché a mano = hand-crochet work.
    * labores de ganchillo a mano = hand-crochet work.
    * la mano que mece la cuna es la mano que domina el mundo = the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
    * levantar la mano = raise + Posesivo + hand.
    * mano amiga = helping hand.
    * ¿mano blanda o mano dura? = the carrot vs. the stick, the carrot vs. the stick.
    * mano blanda y mano dura = carrots and sticks.
    * mano de hierro = iron fist, iron hand.
    * mano de obra = labour [labor, -USA], manpower, manpower force, work-force [workforce], work-force, labour force, manual labour.
    * mano de obra del campo = farm labour force.
    * mano de obra extranjera = foreign labour.
    * mano de obra infantil = child labour.
    * mano de obra inmigrante = foreign labour.
    * mano derecha = right hand.
    * mano dura = iron fist, iron hand.
    * mano fría de, la = cold hand of, the.
    * mano invisible, la = invisible hand, the.
    * mano negra = schemer.
    * manos libres = free hand, hands-free.
    * mantener a mano = keep to + hand.
    * más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando = a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
    * menos blandeces y más mano dura = less of the carrot, more of the stick.
    * mercadillo de prendas de segunda mano = rummage sale.
    * meter las manos en todo = have + a finger in every pie.
    * meterle mano a = get + stuck into.
    * meter mano = grope.
    * meterse mano = pet.
    * moder la mano del que + dar de comer = bite + the hand that feeds + Pronombre.
    * no caer en buenas manos = fall into + the wrong hands.
    * ofrecer la mano = put forth + Posesivo + hand.
    * ordenador de mano = Palm Pilot.
    * palma de la mano = palm of hand, palm.
    * papel a mano-máquina = mouldmade paper.
    * papel hecho a mano = hand-made paper.
    * pillar a alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed.
    * pintado a mano = hand-painted.
    * poner Algo a mano = put + Nombre + within reach.
    * ponerle la mano encima a = lay + a finger on.
    * ponerse manos a la obra = get down to + business, swing into + action.
    * que necesita bastante mano de obra = labour-intensive [labour intensive].
    * quitar de las manos = snap up.
    * realizado a mano = hand-made.
    * recogido a mano = hand-picked.
    * relato de primera mano = eyewitness report, eyewitness account, first-hand account.
    * repartir a manos llenas = dish out.
    * retorcerse las manos = wring + Posesivo + hands.
    * robo a mano armada = armed robbery, highway robbery.
    * ropa de segunda mano = second-hand clothes.
    * separar las manos = spread out + hands.
    * ser torpe con las manos = be all thumbs.
    * sierra de mano = handsaw.
    * sistema de llave en mano = turnkey system, turnkey software system.
    * situación + irse de las manos = things + get out of hand.
    * tallado a mano = hand-carved.
    * tener algo a mano = have + Nombre + at + Posesivo + fingertips.
    * tener a mano = have at + Posesivo + touch, have + on call, have + to hand, keep within + reach, be to hand.
    * tener buena mano con las plantas = have + a green thumb.
    * tener entre manos = be up to.
    * todos manos a la obra = all hands on deck, all hands to the pump(s).
    * tomar la mano = take + Posesivo + hand.
    * trabajo entre manos, el = work at hand, the.
    * traerse algo malo entre manos = be up to no good, get up to + no good.
    * untar la mano = grease + Posesivo + palm, oil + Posesivo + palm.
    * vendedor de coches de segunda mano = used-car dealer, second-hand car dealer.

    mano2
    2 = coat.

    Ex: We will not accomplish that by being timid or by giving our profession a fresh coat of paint.

    * mano de pintura = paint job, lick of paint, coat of paint.

    mano3
    3 = quire.
    Nota: Unidad de venta del papel compuesta de 25 pliegos o la vigésima parte de una resma.

    Ex: The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.

    * mano de papel = quire.

    * * *
    A
    1 Anatomía
    2 Zoología: de un oso, perro
    B indicando posesión, control
    C en fútbol
    D del mortero
    E
    1 de papel
    2 de plátanos
    F de pintura, cera, barniz
    G
    1 vuelta, juego
    2 conjunto de cartas
    3 jugador
    H
    Compuestos:
    1 lado
    2 Automovilismo
    Sentido III obreros
    A
    tengo las manos sucias my hands are dirty
    no tengo más que dos manos I only have one pair of hands
    le dijo or hizo adiós con la mano he waved goodbye to her
    con las dos manos with both hands
    entrégaselo en sus propias manos give it to him in person
    [ S ] en su mano ( Corresp) by hand
    levanten la mano los que estén de acuerdo all those in favor raise their hands o please show ( frml)
    los que hayan terminado que levanten la mano put your hand up if you've finished
    lo hice yo, con mis propias manos I did it myself, with my own two hands
    salió con las manos en alto he came out with his hands in the air o up
    ¡manos arriba! or ¡arriba las manos! hands up!
    habla con las manos she talks with her hands
    se nota la mano de una mujer you can see the feminine touch
    ¡las manos quietas! keep your hands to yourself!
    su carta pasó de mano en mano her letter was passed around
    recibió el premio de manos del Rey she received the prize from the King himself
    darle la mano a algn (para saludar) to shake hands with sb, to shake sb's hand; (para ayudar, ser ayudado) to give sb one's hand
    dame la manito or (Esp, Méx) manita hold my hand
    le estreché la mano I shook hands with him, I shook his hand
    me tendió or me ofreció la mano he held out his hand to me
    hacerse las manos to have a manicure
    me leyó las manos she read my palm
    tocaron la pieza a cuatro manos they played the piece as a duet
    2 ( Zool) (de un oso, perro) paw; (de un mono) hand; ( Equ) forefoot, front foot
    el perro se puso de manos the dog stood on its hind legs
    manos hands (pl)
    ha cambiado de manos varias veces it has changed hands several times
    cayó en manos del enemigo it fell into enemy hands o into the hands of the enemy
    nueve de estas ciudades están en manos de los socialistas nine of these cities are held by the socialists
    el asunto está en manos de mis abogados the matter is in the hands of my lawyers
    el negocio está en buenas manos the business is in good hands
    haré todo lo que esté en mis manos or ( RPl) de mi mano I will do everything in my power
    mi mensaje nunca llegó a sus manos my message never reached him
    la muerte de José Ruiz a manos de la policía secreta the death of José Ruiz at the hands of the secret police
    la situación se nos va de las manos the situation is getting out of hand
    ¡qué oportunidad se nos ha ido de las manos! what an opportunity we let slip through our fingers!
    C (en fútbol) handball
    D (del mortero) pestle
    E
    1 (de papel) quire
    F (de pintura, cera, barniz) coat
    G ( Jueg)
    1 (vuelta, juego) hand
    no gané ni una mano I didn't win a single hand
    ¿nos echamos unas manos de dominó? how about a game of dominoes?
    me ha tocado una mano muy mala I've got a very bad hand o very bad cards
    3
    (jugador): soy/eres mano it's my/your lead
    tener la mano ( Col); to lead
    ganarle por la manoor (CS) de or la mano a algn ( fam): César me ganó por la mano César just beat me to it ( colloq)
    H ( en locs):
    a mano (no a máquina) by hand; (cerca) to hand
    hecho a mano handmade
    pintado a mano hand-painted
    escrito a mano handwritten
    un tapiz tejido a mano a handwoven tapestry
    zapatos cosidos a mano hand-stitched shoes
    tuve que batir las claras a mano I had to beat the egg whites by hand
    las tiendas me quedan muy a mano the shops are very close by o near o handy
    siempre tengo un diccionario a mano I always keep a dictionary handy o by me o ( BrE) to hand
    a mano ( AmL) (en paz) all square, quits
    a la mano ( AmL); close at hand
    de mano hand ( before n)
    en mano ‹lápiz/copa› in hand
    cayó fusil en mano he fell gun in hand
    [ S ] llave en mano immediate possession
    agarrar or ( esp Esp) coger a algn con las manos en la masa to catch sb red-handed
    agarrarle or tomarle la mano a algo (CS fam); to get the hang of sth ( colloq)
    a mano alzada ‹votación› by a show of hands;
    ‹dibujo› freehand; ‹dibujar› freehand
    a manos llenas ‹dar› generously;
    ‹gastar› lavishly
    aspirar a/pedir/conceder la mano de algn to aspire to/ask for/give sb's hand in marriage
    le concedió la mano de su hija en matrimonio he gave him his daughter's hand in marriage
    bajo mano on the quiet, on the sly ( colloq)
    cargar la mano ( fam): si cargas la mano se corre la tinta if you press too hard the ink runs
    no cargues la mano con la sal don't overdo the salt, go easy on the salt
    me cargó la mano en el precio she overcharged me
    le están cargando la mano en el trabajo they are asking too much of her o putting too much pressure on her at work
    desde que me cargó la mano no le he vuelto a hablar I haven't spoken to him since he hit me
    con una mano atrás y otra delante without a penny to one's name
    correrle mano a algn ( Chi vulg); to touch o feel sb up ( colloq)
    dar la mano derecha por algo to give one's right arm for sth
    darse la mano (para saludar) to shake hands; (para cruzar, jugar etc) to hold hands; (reunirse, fundirse) to come together
    el cristianismo y el paganismo se dan la mano en estos ritos Christianity and paganism come together in these rites
    la miseria de aquellas tierras dejadas de la mano de Dios the poverty of that godforsaken o desolate region
    de la mano: me tomó de la mano she took me by the hand, she took my hand
    iban (cogidos) de la mano they walked hand in hand
    de la mano de Mao under Mao's leadership
    de manos a boca suddenly, unexpectedly
    de primera mano (at) first hand
    de segunda mano ‹ropa› secondhand;
    ‹coche› used, secondhand; ‹información› secondhand
    echar or dar una mano to give o lend a hand
    echarle mano a algn ( fam); to lay o get one's hands on sb ( colloq)
    echar mano a algo ( fam); to grab sth
    echar mano de algo: tuvimos que echar mano de nuestros ahorros we had to dip into our savings
    la gente de quien podía echar mano the people I could turn to for help
    echarse/darse una mano de gato (CS fam); to retouch one's makeup o ( colloq) face
    echarse or llevarse las manos a la cabeza (literal) to put one's hands on one's head; (horrorizarse) to throw up one's hands in horror
    ensuciarse las manos (literal) to get one's hands dirty; (en un robo, crimen) to dirty one's hands
    (no poder actuar): la decisión es de ellos, yo tengo las manos atadas it's up to them, my hands are tied
    estar/quedar a mano ( fam AmL); to be even o quits ( colloq)
    frotarse las manos (literal) to rub one's hands together; (regodearse) to rub one's hands with glee
    írsele or ( Chi) pasársele la mano a algn: se te fue la mano con la sal you overdid the salt o put too much salt in
    le cobré $1.000 — se te fue un poco la mano ¿no? I charged him $1,000 — that was a bit steep, wasn't it? ( colloq)
    se te fue la mano, no deberías haberle contestado así you went too far o ( colloq) a bit over the top, you shouldn't have answered her back like that
    jugar a lo que hace la mano, hace la tras ( Méx); to play follow-the-leader
    lavarse las manos (literal) to wash one's hands
    yo me lavo las manos de todo este asunto I wash my hands of the whole affair
    les das la/una mano y se toman el brazo give them an inch and they'll take a mile
    levantarle la mano a algn to raise one's hand to sb
    mano a mano: nos comimos cuatro raciones de setas, mano a mano we polished off four dishes of mushrooms, just the two of us o between the two of us
    (ver tb mano a mano m)
    meter la mano en la caja or lata to dip one's fingers in the till, put one's hand in the till ( BrE)
    meterle mano a algn ( fam) (magrear, tocar) to touch o feel sb up ( colloq); (por un delito) to collar sb ( colloq)
    meterle mano a algo ( fam); to get to work on sth
    poner la(s) mano(s) en el fuego por algn to stick one's neck out for sb, put one's head on the block for sb
    ponerle la mano encima a algn to lay a hand o finger on sb
    poner manos a la obra to get down to work
    ¡manos a la obra! let's get down to it!
    por mi/tu/su mano: tomó la justicia or las cosas por su mano he took the law o he took things into his own hands
    quitarle algo de las manos a algn: me lo quitó de las manos she took it right out of my hands
    tuvieron mucho éxito, nos las quitaron de las manos they were a great success, they sold like hotcakes ( colloq)
    saber algn dónde tiene la mano derecha to know what one is about
    ser mano ancha ( Arg); to be generous
    ser mano de santo to work wonders
    ser mano larga (para pegar) to be free with one's hands; (para robar) to be light-fingered
    tenderle una mano a algn to offer sb a (helping) hand
    tener algo entre manos to be dealing with o working on sth
    tener (la) mano larga or las manos largas ( fam) (para pegar) to be free with one's hands; (para robar) to be light-fingered
    tener la mano pesada to be heavy-handed
    tener mano de seda to have a light touch
    tener mano para algo to be good at sth
    tiene mano para la cocina/el dibujo he's very good at cooking/drawing
    traerse algo entre manos: los niños están muy callados, algo se traen entre manos the children are very quiet, they must be up to something ( colloq)
    untarle la mano a algn ( fam); to grease somebody's palm ( colloq)
    muchas manos en un plato hacen mucho garabato too many cooks spoil the broth
    Compuestos:
    en un mano a mano se terminaron una botella de ginebra ( fam); between the two of them they got through a bottle of gin
    jugamos un mano a mano y gané yo it was him against me and I won
    el debate se convirtió en un mano a mano entre los dos líderes the debate turned into a contest between the two leaders
    pig's foot ( AmE), pig's trotter ( BrE)
    labor*
    wage labor, wage labour ( BrE)
    right-hand man/woman
    firm hand
    hay que tener mano dura con ellos you have to be firm with them
    tiene mucha mano izquierda con sus hijos he knows how to handle his children
    ( Méx fam): no vale mano negra you're not allowed to help him ( o tell him the answer etc)
    en esa quiebra hubo mano negra there was something fishy about the way that company went bankrupt ( colloq)
    fpl:
    tierras en manos muertas lands held in mortmain
    1 (lado) side
    ¿queda de esta mano o tengo que cruzar? is it on this side of the street or do I have to cross?
    tome la segunda calle a mano derecha take the second street on the right
    la casa queda a mano derecha the house is on the right o on the right-hand side
    2 ( Auto):
    yo iba por mi mano I was on my side of the road, I was on the right side of the road
    mano2 -na
    masculine, feminine
    * * *

     

    Del verbo manar: ( conjugate manar)

    mano es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    manó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    manar    
    mano
    manar ( conjugate manar) verbo intransitivo
    to pour
    mano 1 sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (Anat) hand;


    levantar la mano to raise one's hands, put one's hand up;
    ¡manos arriba! or ¡arriba las manos! hands up!;
    con la mano en el corazón hand on heart;
    le hizo adiós con la mano he waved goodbye to her;
    su carta pasó de mano en mano her letter was passed around;
    darle la mano a algn ( para saludar) to shake hands with sb, to shake sb's hand;

    (para ayudar, ser ayudado) to give sb one's hand;

    me tendió la mano he held out his hand to me;
    me tomó de la mano she took me by the hand;
    ir (tomados) de la mano to walk hand in hand;
    mano de obra labor
    b) (Zool) (de oso, perro) paw;

    ( de mono) hand;
    (Equ) forefoot, front foot
    2 (control, posesión) gen
    manos hands (pl);

    ha cambiado de manos it has changed hands;
    cayó en manos del enemigo it fell into the hands of the enemy;
    haré todo lo que esté en mis manos I will do everything in my power;
    la oportunidad se nos fue de las manos we let the opportunity slip through our fingers;
    se tomó la justicia por su propia mano he took the law into his own hands
    3 ( en fútbol) handball
    4 ( del mortero) pestle
    5 (de pintura, barniz) coat
    6 (Jueg) (vuelta, juego) hand;
    ( conjunto de cartas) hand;
    ( jugador):
    soy/eres mano it's my/your lead

    7 ( en locs)

    hecho a mano handmade;
    escrito a mano handwritten;
    tejido a mano handwoven;
    las tiendas me quedan muy a mano the shops are very close by o near;
    siempre tengo un diccionario a mano I always keep a dictionary by me;
    a la mano (AmL) close at hand;
    de mano hand ( before n);
    en mano ‹lápiz/copa in hand;
    agarrar or (esp Esp) coger a algn con las manos en la masa to catch sb red-handed;
    agarrarle or tomarle la mano a algo (CS fam) to get the hang of sth (colloq);
    bajo mano on the quiet, on the sly (colloq);
    con las manos vacías empty-handed;
    darse la mano ( para saludar) to shake hands;

    (para cruzar, jugar, etc) to hold hands;

    echar or dar una mano to give o lend a hand;
    echar mano a algo (fam) to grab sth;
    estar/quedar a mano (AmL fam) to be even o quits (colloq);
    lavarse las manos to wash one's hands;
    levantarle la mano a algn to raise one's hand to sb;
    llegar or pasar a las manos to come to blows;
    pedir la mano de algn to ask for sb's hand in marriage;
    ser la mano derecha de algn to be sb's right-hand man/woman;
    tenderle una mano a algn to offer sb a (helping) hand;
    tener mano dura to have a firm hand;
    tener mano para algo to be good at sth;
    traerse algo entre manos to be up to sth (colloq)
    8
    a) ( lado) side;


    a mano derecha on the right

    mano 2
    ◊ -na sustantivo masculino, femenino (AmL fam) ( apelativo) buddy (AmE colloq), mate (BrE colloq)

    manar
    I verbo intransitivo to flow [de, from]
    II verbo transitivo to flow with: la cañería está manando agua, the pipe is pouring with water
    mano sustantivo femenino
    1 hand
    (de animal) forefoot
    (de perro, gato) paw
    (de cerdo) trotter
    2 (autoría, estilo) influence: se ve su mano en el asunto, he obviously has a hand in this business
    3 (maña) skill: tiene mucha mano con los niños, he's very good with children
    4 (capa) coat
    dos manos de pintura, two coats of paint
    5 (lado) a mano derecha/izquierda, on the right/left (hand side)
    6 (poder) (usu pl) hand: dejo todo en tus manos, I leave everything in your hands
    está en su mano, it's in his power
    7 (del almirez) pestle
    8 mano de obra, labour (force)
    ♦ Locuciones: a mano, (sin máquina) by hand
    (asequible) at hand
    a mano alzada, by a show of hands
    a mano armada, armed
    de mano, hand: bolso de mano, hand luggage
    de primera mano, fist-hand
    de segunda mano, second-hand
    echar una mano a alguien, to give sb a hand
    estrechar la mano a alguien, to shake hands with sb
    ¡manos a la obra!, shoulders to the wheel!
    ¡manos arriba!, hands up!
    meter mano, (a un problema) to tackle
    vulgar to touch up
    pillar a alguien con las manos en la masa, to catch sb red-handed

    ' mano' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - alzada
    - alzado
    - anda
    - antes
    - armada
    - armado
    - artesanía
    - atraco
    - azotar
    - azote
    - barrena
    - caligrafía
    - canto
    - chocar
    - cogerse
    - cuenco
    - dar
    - dedo
    - dejada
    - dejado
    - derecha
    - echar
    - esconder
    - escrita
    - escrito
    - estrechar
    - estrecharse
    - extender
    - fastidiarse
    - freno
    - fuego
    - holgazanear
    - imputar
    - izquierda
    - izquierdo
    - justicia
    - levantar
    - literalmente
    - manca
    - mancha
    - manco
    - motricidad
    - ortopédica
    - ortopédico
    - palma
    - pañuelo
    - peldaño
    - picar
    - proyectar
    English:
    add on
    - armed robbery
    - back
    - bird
    - bite
    - blow-dry
    - brake
    - brush
    - by
    - cart
    - catapult
    - chronic
    - circle
    - clammy
    - coat
    - colour
    - dip
    - dip into
    - extend
    - finger
    - first-hand
    - fit into
    - gash
    - give
    - godforsaken
    - govern
    - grip
    - grope
    - guitar
    - hand
    - hand-held
    - hand-luggage
    - handbrake
    - handmade
    - handwritten
    - handy
    - hankie
    - hanky
    - have
    - heavy-handed
    - hold
    - hold on
    - hold out
    - hold up
    - impression
    - imprint
    - inch
    - join
    - jumble
    - junk shop
    * * *
    nf
    1. [de persona] hand;
    dar o [m5] estrechar la mano a alguien to shake hands with sb;
    darse o [m5] estrecharse la mano to shake hands;
    le dije adiós con la mano I waved goodbye to him;
    bolso de mano Br handbag, US purse;
    equipaje de mano hand luggage;
    paseaban de la mano they were walking along hand in hand;
    ir de la mano [asuntos, problemas] to go hand in hand;
    de mano en mano: la foto fue o [m5] pasó de mano en mano the photo was passed around;
    entregar algo a alguien en mano to deliver sth to sb in person;
    frotarse las manos [por frío, entumecimiento] to rub one's hands (together);
    [regocijarse] to rub one's hands (with glee);
    hecho a mano handmade;
    lo tuve que hacer a mano I had to do it by hand;
    lavarse las manos [literalmente] to wash one's hands;
    ¡yo me lavo las manos! [me desentiendo] I wash my hands of it!;
    leerle la mano a alguien to read sb's palm;
    ¡manos arriba!, ¡arriba las manos! hands up!;
    ¡manos a la obra! let's get down to it!;
    pedir la mano de una mujer to ask for a woman's hand (in marriage);
    robo a mano armada armed robbery;
    mano derecha [persona] right-hand man/woman;
    ser la mano derecha de alguien to be sb's right-hand man/woman;
    Der manos muertas mortmain
    2. [de animal] forefoot;
    [de perro, gato] (front) paw; [de cerdo] (front) trotter
    3. [de pintura, barniz] coat;
    dar una mano de pintura a algo to give sth a coat o lick of paint
    4. [de mortero] pestle
    5. [de naipes] [partida] game;
    [ronda] hand;
    eres mano it's your lead
    6. [en deportes] [falta] handball;
    el árbitro pitó mano the referee blew for handball
    7. [deporte] pelota [played with hand rather than with hand-held basket]
    8. [serie, tanda] series
    9. [lado]
    a mano derecha/izquierda (de) on the right/left (of);
    10. Andes, CAm, Méx [objetos] = group of four or five objects
    11. Am [de plátanos] bunch
    12. CAm, Chile, Méx [accidente] mishap, accident
    13. RP [dirección] direction [of traffic];
    calle de una/doble mano one-/two-way street
    14. [influencia] influence;
    tener mano con alguien to have influence with sb
    15. [intervención] hand;
    la mano de la CIA está detrás de todo esto you can see the hand of the CIA in this affair
    mano negra hidden hand;
    mano oculta hidden hand
    16. [habilidad]
    tener buena mano para algo to have a knack for sth;
    ¡que mano tienes para las plantas! you've really got Br green fingers o US a green thumb!
    mano izquierda:
    tener mano izquierda con algo/alguien to know how to deal with sth/sb
    17. [poder, posesión]
    a manos de at the hands of;
    de manos de alguien: recibió la medalla de manos del ministro he received the medal from the minister himself;
    cambiar de manos to change hands;
    en manos de: caer en manos de alguien to fall into sb's hands;
    dejar algo en manos de alguien to leave sth in sb's hands;
    estar en manos de alguien to be in sb's hands;
    estar en buenas manos to be in good hands;
    haré lo que esté en mi mano I'll do everything within my power;
    ponerse en manos de alguien to put oneself in sb's hands;
    de primera mano [vehículo] brand new;
    [noticias] first-hand;
    de segunda mano second-hand
    18.
    manos [ayudantes] helpers;
    nos van a hacer falta varias manos para mover el piano we're going to need several people to move the piano
    19. Comp
    abrir la mano to be more lenient;
    alzar la mano contra alguien to raise one's hand to sb;
    CSur
    agarrar la mano a algo to get the hang of sth;
    bajo mano secretly;
    de manos a boca suddenly, unexpectedly;
    cargar la mano to go over the top;
    RP Fam
    con una mano en la cintura: esto lo hago con una mano en la cintura I can do this with my hands tied behind my back;
    con la mano en el corazón: te lo digo con la mano en el corazón I'm being perfectly honest with you;
    Fam
    con una mano delante y otra detrás: está en la ruina, con una mano delante y otra detrás he hasn't got a penny to his name;
    estar dejado de la mano de Dios [lugar] to be godforsaken;
    [persona] to be a total failure;
    echar mano a algo: echó mano al bolso y se marchó she took her bag and left;
    echar mano de algo [recurrir a] to make use of sth, to resort to sth;
    echar mano de alguien [recurrir a] to turn to sb;
    echar una mano a alguien to give sb a hand;
    ensuciarse las manos to get one's hands dirty;
    escaparse o [m5]irse de las manos: se me escapó o [m5] fue de las manos una oportunidad excelente an excellent chance slipped through my hands;
    este proyecto se nos ha escapado o [m5] ido de las manos this project has got out of hand;
    ganar por la mano o RP [m5] de mano a alguien to beat sb to it;
    írsele la mano a alguien: se le fue la mano [perdió el control] she lost control;
    [exageró] she went too far;
    se me fue la mano con la sal I overdid the salt;
    levantarle la mano a alguien to raise one's hand to sb;
    llegar a las manos (por algo) to come to blows (over sth);
    a manos llenas generously;
    llevarse las manos a la cabeza [gesticular] to throw one's hands in the air (in horror);
    [indignarse, horrorizarse] to be horrified;
    con mano dura o [m5] de hierro with a firm hand;
    Fam
    mano a mano: se bebieron la botella mano a mano they drank the bottle between the two of them;
    estar mano sobre mano to be sitting around doing nothing;
    Esp
    coger o Am [m5] agarrar a alguien con las manos en la masa to catch sb red-handed o in the act;
    Fam
    meter mano a alguien [investigar] to get onto sb;
    [sobar sin consentimiento] to grope sb; [sobar con consentimiento] to pet sb; Fam
    meter mano a algo to tackle sth;
    meter la mano en algo [intervenir] to poke one's nose into sth, to meddle in sth;
    RP Fam
    meter la mano en el tarro o [m5] la lata to dip one's fingers in the till;
    ponerle la mano encima a alguien: ¡como te ponga la mano encima…! if I lay o get my hands on you…!;
    ¡no me pongas las manos encima! don't you touch me o lay a finger on me!;
    poner la mano en el fuego: creo que es así, pero no pondría la mano en el fuego I think that's the case, but I couldn't vouch for it;
    Fam
    ser mano de santo to work wonders;
    tender una mano a alguien to give/offer sb one's hand;
    Fam Hum
    tener manos de árbol to be ham-fisted o ham-handed;
    tengo las manos atadas my hands are tied;
    tener las manos muy largas [aficionado a pegar] to be fond of a fight;
    [aficionado a robar] to be light-fingered;
    tener manos libres para hacer algo to have a free rein to do sth;
    tengo las manos limpias my hands are clean;
    tener manos de mantequilla to be butter-fingered;
    traerse algo entre manos to be up to sth;
    untarle la mano a alguien to grease sb's palm;
    con las manos vacías empty-handed
    mano de obra [trabajadores] labour, workers; [trabajo manual] labour;
    la mano de obra barata atrae a los inversores investors are attracted by the cheap labour costs;
    mano de obra cualificada skilled labour o workers;
    mano de obra especializada skilled labour o workers;
    mano de obra semicualificada semi-skilled labour o workers
    nmf
    RP Fam
    ser un mano abierta to be open-handed;
    es un mano larga [toquetón] he's always poking around where he shouldn't;
    [con las mujeres] he has wandering-hand trouble
    a mano loc adv
    1. [cerca] at o to hand, handy;
    ¿tienes el encendedor a mano? have you got your lighter handy?;
    el supermercado está o [m5] queda muy a mano the supermarket is very close by;
    mi casa es muy a mano de todo my house is very handy for everything
    2. Am [en paz]
    estar o [m5] quedar a mano to be quits o all square
    un mano a mano entre los dos candidatos a head-to-head between the two candidates
    manos libres nm inv
    [teléfono] hands free set
    mano2 nm
    Am salvo RP Fam pal, Br mate, US buddy
    * * *
    I f
    1 ANAT hand; de animal paw;
    ¡manos arriba! hands up!;
    lo hicieron mano a mano they did it between them;
    un mano a mano a contest;
    de mano en mano from hand to hand;
    a cuatro manos MÚS for four hands;
    a mano derecha/izquierda on the right/ lefthand side;
    a manos llenas fig generously;
    con las manos vacías fig empty-handed;
    ser mano de santo work wonders;
    bajo mano on the quiet;
    de segunda mano second-hand;
    de primera mano first-hand;
    ser la mano derecha de alguien fig be s.o.’s right hand;
    tener mucha mano izquierda be very skillful o Br skilful;
    atar las manos a alguien fig tie s.o.’s hands;
    dejado de la mano de Dios fig godforsaken;
    echar mano a fam grab;
    echar mano de fig use, make use of;
    echar una mano a alguien give s.o. a hand;
    estar a manos L.Am. fam be even, be quits;
    hecho a mano hand-made;
    venir a las manos come to blows;
    pedir la mano de alguien ask for s.o.’s hand in marriage;
    poner la mano en el fuego fig swear to it;
    poner manos a la obra get down to work;
    se le fue la mano con fig he overdid it with;
    tender la mano a alguien fig hold out a helping hand to s.o.;
    tener a mano have to hand;
    tener buena/mala mano para (hacer) algo be good/bad at (doing) sth;
    de hierro with a firm hand o with an iron fist;
    estar en buenas manos be in good hands;
    lo dejo en sus manos I’ll leave it in your hands;
    traerse algo entre manos be plotting sth;
    a alguien raise one’s hand to s.o.;
    llevarse las manos a la cabeza fig throw up one’s hands (in horror);
    andar cogidos de la mano walk hand in hand;
    tomar a alguien de la mano take s.o. by the hand, take s.o.’s hand;
    meter mano a alguien fam feel s.o. up fam, grope s.o. fam ;
    pal fam, buddy fam
    * * *
    mano nf
    1) : hand
    2) : coat (of paint or varnish)
    3)
    a mano : by hand
    4)
    a mano or
    a la mano : handy, at hand, nearby
    5)
    darse la mano : to shake hands
    6)
    de la mano : hand in hand
    la política y la economía van de la mano: politics and economics go hand in hand
    7)
    de primera mano : firsthand, at firsthand
    8)
    de segunda mano : secondhand
    ropa de segunda mano: secondhand clothing
    9)
    mano a mano : one-on-one
    mano de obra : labor, manpower
    mano de mortero : pestle
    echar una mano : to lend a hand
    mano negra Mex fam : shady dealings pl
    mano, -na n, Mex fam : buddy, pal
    ¡oye, mano!: hey man!
    * * *
    mano n
    1. (en general) hand
    2. (de pintura) coat
    a mano derecha / a mano izquierda on the right / on the left
    darse la mano to shake hands [pt. shook; pp. shaken]
    echar una mano to lend a hand [pt. & pp. lent]

    Spanish-English dictionary > mano

  • 35 masa

    f.
    1 mass.
    masa atómica atomic mass
    masa salarial total wages bill
    2 throng.
    en masa en masse
    fabricación o producción en masa mass production
    fuimos en masa a escuchar la conferencia a large group of us went to listen to the lecture
    las masas the masses
    3 mixture (mezcla, pasta).
    4 earth (British), ground (United States) ( electricity and electronics).
    5 cake. ( River Plate)
    6 dough.
    7 bulk, conglomerate, volume.
    8 crowd, multitude.
    * * *
    2 FÍSICA mass
    4 (de gente) mass, crowd
    5 (mortero) mortar
    6 ELECTRICIDAD earth, US ground
    \
    masa atómica atomic mass
    masa específica specific mass
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) mass
    * * *
    I
    SF
    1) [de pan] dough
    2) Cono Sur (=pastelillo) small bun, teacake; And, Cono Sur (=hojaldre) puff pastry

    masa quebrada — short pastry, shortcrust pastry

    3) (=argamasa) mortar
    II
    SF
    1) (=conjunto) mass
    2) (=volumen) mass

    masa crítica — (Fís) critical mass; (fig) (=mínimo) requisite number

    3) (Sociol)
    4)

    en masa(=en multitud) en masse

    5) (Econ)
    6) (Elec) earth, ground (EEUU)

    conectar un aparato con masato earth o (EEUU) ground an appliance

    * * *
    1) (Coc)
    a) (para pan, pasta) dough; (para empanadas, tartas) pastry; ( para bizcocho) mixture; ( para crepes) batter
    b) (RPl) ( pastelito) pastry, cake
    2) (volumen, conglomerado) mass
    a) (loc adj) <producción/fabricación> mass (before n); < despidos> mass (before n), wholesale (before n)
    b) (loc adv) < acudir> en masse
    4) (Pol, Sociol) mass

    cultura/mercado de masas — mass culture/market

    5)
    b) (Elec) ground (AmE), earth (BrE)
    * * *
    = bulk, lump, mass, dough, pastry, bread dough.
    Ex. The sheer bulk of the headings and the complexity of references structures is sufficient to confirm that a more systematic approach might prove fruitful.
    Ex. But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
    Ex. He glanced casually at the ill-balanced frontages of the buildings ahead that stretched on and on until they melded in an indistinguishable mass of gray at Laurence Street.
    Ex. A mixture of dough, using pancake flour, is used to represent the molten state of the earth billions of years ago.
    Ex. The book covers the following topics: cereals and pastas; vegetables and fruits; breads; desserts and cookies; cakes and icings; and pastry and pies.
    Ex. Freezing of bread dough is widely applied in food industry.
    ----
    * acudir en masa = flock, flock in, be out in force, come out in + force.
    * alcanzar masa crítica = reach + critical mass, achieve + critical mass.
    * asesino de masas = mass murderer.
    * atraer en masa = pack 'em in.
    * coger a Alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed, catch + Nombre + in the act.
    * comunicación de masas = mass communication.
    * control de masas = riot control, crowd control.
    * correo electrónico en masa = bulk e-mails.
    * cultura de masas = mass culture.
    * de masas = mass consumer.
    * deporte de masas = sport of the masses.
    * en masa = en masse, in bulk, bulk, in droves.
    * envío de correo electrónico en masa = bulk e-mailing.
    * envío de mensajes electrónicos en masa = bulk e-mailing.
    * espectrometría de masas = mass spectrometry.
    * ídolo de masas = crowd-pleaser.
    * importación en masa = bulk import.
    * índice de masa corporal (IMC) = body mass index (BMI).
    * industria de los medios de comunicación de masas = mass communications industry.
    * masa choux = choux pastry.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * masa corporal = body mass.
    * masa crítica = critical mass.
    * masa de = carpet of.
    * masa de aire = air mass.
    * masa de gente = throng.
    * masa de hojaldre = flaky pastry.
    * masa de pan = bread dough.
    * masa en reposo = rest mass.
    * masa forestal = forest cover.
    * masa frita = fritter.
    * masa molecular = molecular mass.
    * masa popular = mass audience.
    * masa quebrada = short pastry, shortcrust.
    * masa quebradiza = shortcrust, short pastry.
    * masas, las = masses, the, hoi polloi, the.
    * medios de comunicación de masas = mass media, mass communications media, communications media.
    * mensajes electrónicos en masa = bulk e-mails.
    * mercado de masas = consumer market.
    * mercado de masas, el = mass market, the.
    * pérdida de masa ósea = bone loss.
    * pillar a Alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed.
    * * *
    1) (Coc)
    a) (para pan, pasta) dough; (para empanadas, tartas) pastry; ( para bizcocho) mixture; ( para crepes) batter
    b) (RPl) ( pastelito) pastry, cake
    2) (volumen, conglomerado) mass
    a) (loc adj) <producción/fabricación> mass (before n); < despidos> mass (before n), wholesale (before n)
    b) (loc adv) < acudir> en masse
    4) (Pol, Sociol) mass

    cultura/mercado de masas — mass culture/market

    5)
    b) (Elec) ground (AmE), earth (BrE)
    * * *
    = bulk, lump, mass, dough, pastry, bread dough.

    Ex: The sheer bulk of the headings and the complexity of references structures is sufficient to confirm that a more systematic approach might prove fruitful.

    Ex: But the leaven of the principles, promulgated by the International Federation, has not yet penetrated into more than half the lump of documentary material.
    Ex: He glanced casually at the ill-balanced frontages of the buildings ahead that stretched on and on until they melded in an indistinguishable mass of gray at Laurence Street.
    Ex: A mixture of dough, using pancake flour, is used to represent the molten state of the earth billions of years ago.
    Ex: The book covers the following topics: cereals and pastas; vegetables and fruits; breads; desserts and cookies; cakes and icings; and pastry and pies.
    Ex: Freezing of bread dough is widely applied in food industry.
    * acudir en masa = flock, flock in, be out in force, come out in + force.
    * alcanzar masa crítica = reach + critical mass, achieve + critical mass.
    * asesino de masas = mass murderer.
    * atraer en masa = pack 'em in.
    * coger a Alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed, catch + Nombre + in the act.
    * comunicación de masas = mass communication.
    * control de masas = riot control, crowd control.
    * correo electrónico en masa = bulk e-mails.
    * cultura de masas = mass culture.
    * de masas = mass consumer.
    * deporte de masas = sport of the masses.
    * en masa = en masse, in bulk, bulk, in droves.
    * envío de correo electrónico en masa = bulk e-mailing.
    * envío de mensajes electrónicos en masa = bulk e-mailing.
    * espectrometría de masas = mass spectrometry.
    * ídolo de masas = crowd-pleaser.
    * importación en masa = bulk import.
    * índice de masa corporal (IMC) = body mass index (BMI).
    * industria de los medios de comunicación de masas = mass communications industry.
    * masa choux = choux pastry.
    * masa confusa = mush.
    * masa corporal = body mass.
    * masa crítica = critical mass.
    * masa de = carpet of.
    * masa de aire = air mass.
    * masa de gente = throng.
    * masa de hojaldre = flaky pastry.
    * masa de pan = bread dough.
    * masa en reposo = rest mass.
    * masa forestal = forest cover.
    * masa frita = fritter.
    * masa molecular = molecular mass.
    * masa popular = mass audience.
    * masa quebrada = short pastry, shortcrust.
    * masa quebradiza = shortcrust, short pastry.
    * masas, las = masses, the, hoi polloi, the.
    * medios de comunicación de masas = mass media, mass communications media, communications media.
    * mensajes electrónicos en masa = bulk e-mails.
    * mercado de masas = consumer market.
    * mercado de masas, el = mass market, the.
    * pérdida de masa ósea = bone loss.
    * pillar a Alguien con las manos en la masa = catch + Nombre + red-handed.

    * * *
    A ( Coc)
    1 (para pan, pasta) dough; (para empanadas, tartas) pastry; (para bizcocho) mixture; (para crepes) batter
    Compuesto:
    puff pastry
    B (volumen, conglomerado) mass
    una masa de agua/aire a mass of water/air
    una enorme masa forestal a huge expanse of forest
    un aumento de peso y de masa muscular an increase in weight and bulk
    Compuestos:
    atomic mass
    money supply
    payroll
    C
    en masa: producción/fabricación en masa mass production
    despidos de trabajadores en masa mass o wholesale redundancies
    hubo emigraciones en masa hacia el Nuevo Mundo huge waves of emigrants headed for the New World
    todos acudieron en masa a recibirlo they all went en masse to meet him
    D ( Pol, Sociol) mass
    no llega a la gran masa de la población it does not reach the great mass of the population
    educar a las masas to educate the masses
    E ( Elec) ground ( AmE), earth ( BrE)
    deriva a or hace masa it goes to ground o earth
    lo derivaremos a masa we shall connect it to ground o earth, we shall ground o earth it
    * * *

     

    masa sustantivo femenino
    1 (Coc)
    a) (para pan, pasta) dough;

    (para empanadas, tartas) pastry;
    ( para bizcocho) mixture;
    ( para crepes) batter;

    b) (RPl) ( pastelito) pastry, cake

    2 (Pol, Sociol, Fís) mass;

    3
    en masa

    a) ( loc adj) ‹fabricación/despidos mass ( before n)

    b) ( loc adv) ‹ acudir en masse

    masa sustantivo femenino
    1 Fís mass
    2 Culin dough, pastry
    3 (gran cantidad) mass
    una gran masa de agua, a great volume of water
    4 (personas) mass
    cultura de masas, mass culture
    en masa, en masse: sus admiradores acudieron en masa a su entierro, his fans attended en masse to his funeral
    ' masa' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cocer
    - conglomerado
    - mano
    - moldear
    - pegote
    - toda
    - todo
    - airear
    - consistencia
    - consistente
    - esponjoso
    - homogéneo
    - ligero
    - pasta
    - pastel
    - pastoso
    - plasta
    - reposar
    - trabajar
    English:
    act
    - arms race
    - bulk
    - catch
    - dough
    - dumpling
    - en masse
    - evenly
    - flaky pastry
    - mainland
    - mass
    - paste
    - pastry
    - red-handed
    - roll
    - roll out
    - strength
    - batter
    - body
    - cake
    - flaky
    - flock
    - into
    - main
    - money
    - red
    - short
    - sour
    - troop
    * * *
    masa nf
    1. [en general] mass;
    las grandes masas de agua de la Tierra the major expanses of water on the Earth
    Meteo masa de aire air mass;
    masa atómica atomic mass;
    masa crítica critical mass;
    masa molecular molecular mass;
    Econ masa monetaria money supply;
    masa salarial total wage bill
    2. [mezcla, pasta] mixture
    3. [de pan, bizcocho] dough
    4. [multitud] crowd;
    al poco tiempo se formó una masa de curiosos a crowd of onlookers quickly formed
    5.
    las masas [el pueblo] the masses
    6.
    en masa en masse;
    fabricación o [m5] producción en masa mass production;
    los fusilamientos en masa de disidentes the mass execution by firing squad of dissidents;
    fuimos en masa a escuchar la conferencia a large group of us went to listen to the lecture;
    el pueblo acudió en masa a recibir a los héroes the town turned out en masse to welcome the heroes
    7. Fís mass
    masa específica specific mass
    8. Elec [tierra] Br earth, US ground;
    hacer masa to go to Br earth o US ground
    9. RP [pastelito] cake
    masa seca = biscuit served with tea or coffee
    * * *
    f
    1 ( volumen) mass;
    en masa en masse
    2 GASTR dough;
    3
    :
    las masas (el pueblo) the masses
    * * *
    masa nf
    1) : mass, volume
    masa atómica: atomic mass
    producción en masa: mass production
    2) : dough, batter
    3) masas nfpl
    : people, masses
    las masas populares: the common people
    4)
    masa harina Mex : corn flour (for tortillas, etc.)
    * * *
    masa n
    1. (en general) mass
    2. (de pan) dough
    3. (de tarta) pastry

    Spanish-English dictionary > masa

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    автомат загрузки по скоростному напору
    Q-feel system
    автомат имитации усилий по числу М
    Mach-feel system
    автоматическое сопровождение по дальности
    automatic range tracking
    автоматическое флюгирование по отрицательной тяге
    drag-actuated autofeathering
    автоматическое флюгирование по предельным оборотам
    overspeed-actuated autofeathering
    автомат стабилизации автопилота по числу М
    autopilot Mach lock
    автомат устойчивости по тангажу
    pitch autostabilizer
    агент по грузовым перевозкам
    cargo agent
    агент по оформлению
    handing agent
    агент по оформлению туристических перевозок
    travel agent
    агент по продаже билетов
    ticket medium
    агентство по отправке грузов воздушным транспортом
    air freight forwarder
    Агентство по пропорциональным тарифам
    Prorate Agency
    анализатор с интегрированием по времени
    time-integrating analyser
    Африканская конференция по авиационным тарифам
    African Air Tariff Conference
    аэропортовый комитет по разработке и утверждению расписания
    airport scheduling committee
    балансировать по тангажу
    trim in pitch
    балансировка по тангажу
    longitudinal trim
    билет по основному тарифу
    normal fare ticket
    блок контроля скорости пробега по земле
    ground run monitor
    весовая отдача по полезной нагрузке
    useful-to-takeoff load ratio
    взлетать по ветру
    takeoff downwind
    взлет по вертолетному
    no-run takeoff
    взлет по ветру
    downwind takeoff
    взлет по приборам
    instrument takeoff
    взлет по самолетному
    1. forward takeoff
    2. running takeoff визуальная посадка по наземным ориентирам
    visually judged landing
    визуальный заход на посадку по упрощенной схеме
    abbreviated visual approach
    визуальный полет по кругу
    visual circling
    воздушная перевозка по найму
    air operation for hire
    воздушное судно, загруженное не по установленной схеме
    improperly loaded aircraft
    воздушное судно, не сертифицированное по шуму
    nonnoise certificate aircraft
    воздушное судно по обмену
    interchanged aircraft
    восстановление по крену
    bank erection
    восстановление по тангажу
    pitch erection
    ВПП, не оборудованная для посадки по приборам
    noninstrument runway
    ВПП, оборудованная для посадки по приборам
    instrument runway
    вращаться по инерции
    run down
    вращение по инерции
    rundown
    время вылета по расписанию
    scheduled departure time
    время наземной тренировки по приборам
    instrument ground time
    время налета по приборам
    instrument flying time
    время налета по приборам на тренажере
    instrument flying simulated time
    время полета по внешнему контуру
    outbound time
    время полета по маршруту
    trip time
    время по расписанию
    due time
    выдерживание курса по курсовому радиомаяку
    localizer hold
    выдерживать курс по компасу
    hold the heading on the compass
    выдерживать направление по лучу
    follow the beam
    выполнять доработку по бюллетеню
    perform the service bulletin
    выполнять полет по курсу
    fly the heading
    высота по давлению
    pressure altitude
    высота полета по маршруту
    en-route altitude
    высота по радиовысотомеру
    radio height
    Генеральная конференция по мерам и весам
    General Conference of Weights and Measure
    генеральный агент по продаже
    general sales agent
    годность по состоянию здоровья
    medical fitness
    годность по уровню шума
    noiseworthiness
    градус по шкале Цельсия
    degree Celsius
    группа, выполняющая полет по туру
    tour group
    дальность видимости по наклонной прямой
    oblique visibility
    дальность видимости по прямой
    1. line-of-sight distance
    2. line-of-sight range дальность полета по замкнутому маршруту
    closed-circuit range
    дальность полета по прямой
    direct range
    датчик рассогласования по крену
    roll synchro transmitter
    датчик усилий по крену
    roll control force sensor
    движение по земле
    ground run
    движение по тангажу
    pitching motion
    дежурный по посадке
    boarding clerk
    действия по аэродрому при объявлении тревоги
    aerodrome alert measures
    действия по обнаружению и уходу
    see and avoid operations
    действующий технологический стандарт по шуму
    current noise technology standard
    деятельность по координации тарифов
    tariff coordinating activity
    диспетчер по загрузке
    load controller
    диспетчер по загрузке и центровке
    weight and balance controlled
    диспетчер по планированию
    planner
    диспетчер по планированию полетов
    flight planner
    длина разбега по воде
    water run length
    дозаправлять топливом на промежуточной посадке по маршруту
    refuel en-route
    доставка грузов по воздуху
    aerial cargo delivery
    доставлять по воздуху
    fly in
    доступ, регламентированный по времени
    time-ordered access
    доход по контракту
    contract revenue
    Европейская конференция по вопросам гражданской авиации
    European Civil Aviation Conference
    загрузочный механизм по скоростному напору
    Q-feel mechanism
    загрузочный механизм по числу М
    Mach-feel mechanism
    закрылок по всему размаху
    full-span flap
    занимать эшелон по нулям
    be on the level on the hour
    запас по оборотам несущего винта
    rotor speed margin
    запас по помпажу
    surging margin
    запас по сваливанию
    stall margin
    запас по ускорению
    acceleration margin
    заход на посадку, нормированный по времени
    timed approach
    заход на посадку по командам наземных станций
    advisory approach
    заход на посадку по коробочке
    rectangular traffic pattern approach
    заход на посадку по криволинейной траектории
    curved approach
    заход на посадку по кругу
    circling approach
    заход на посадку по крутой траектории
    steep approach
    заход на посадку по курсовому маяку
    localizer approach
    заход на посадку по маяку
    beam approach
    заход на посадку по обзорному радиолокатору
    surveillance radar approach
    заход на посадку по обычной схеме
    normal approach
    заход на посадку по осевой линии
    center line approach
    заход на посадку по полной схеме
    long approach
    заход на посадку по пологой траектории
    flat approach
    заход на посадку по приборам
    1. instrument approach landing
    2. instrument landing approach заход на посадку по прямому курсу
    front course approach
    заход на посадку по радиолокатору
    radar approach
    заход на посадку по сегментно-криволинейной схеме
    segmented approach
    заход на посадку после полета по кругу
    circle-to-land
    заход на посадку по укороченной схеме
    short approach
    заход на посадку по упрощенной схеме
    simple approach
    заход на посадку с прямой по приборам
    straight-in ILS-type approach
    звездное время по гринвичскому меридиану
    Greenwich sideral time
    зона захода на посадку по кругу
    circling approach area
    зона обзора по азимуту
    azimuth coverage
    изменение маршрута по желанию пассажира
    voluntary rerouting
    имитируемый полет по приборам
    simulated instrument flight
    инженер по навигационным средствам
    navaids engineer
    инженер по радиоэлектронному оборудованию
    radio engineer
    инженер по техническому обслуживанию воздушных судов
    aircraft maintenance engineer
    инженер по электронному оборудованию
    electronics engineer
    инспектор по летной годности
    airworthiness inspector
    инспектор по производству полетов
    operations inspector
    инспекция по расследованию авиационных происшествий
    investigating authority
    инструктаж по условиям полета по маршруту
    route briefing
    инструктор по навигационным средствам
    navaids instructor
    инструктор по производству полетов
    flight operations instructor
    инструкция по загрузке воздушного судна
    aircraft loading instruction
    инструкция по консервации и хранению воздушного судна
    aircraft storage instruction
    инструкция по обеспечению безопасности полетов
    air safety rules
    инструкция по производству полетов
    operation instruction
    инструкция по техническому обслуживанию
    maintenance instruction
    инструкция по эксплуатации воздушного судна
    aircraft operating instruction
    информация по воздушной трассе
    airway information
    информация по условиям посадки
    landing instruction
    испытание по уходу на второй круг
    go-around test
    испытания по замеру нагрузки в полете
    flight stress measurement tests
    испытания по полной программе
    full-scale tests
    Исследовательская группа по безопасности полетов
    Aviation Security Study Group
    истинное время по Гринвичу
    Greenwich apparent time
    исходные условия сертификации по шуму
    noise certification reference conditions
    калибровка чувствительности по звуковому давлению
    sound pressure sensitivity calibration
    категория ИКАО по обеспечению полета
    facility performance ICAO category
    классификация воздушных судов по типам
    aircraft category rating
    кодирование по опорному времени
    time reference coding
    Комиссия по авиационной метеорологии
    Commission for aeronautical Meteorology
    Комиссия по нарушению тарифов
    Breachers Commission
    Комиссия по основным системам
    Commission for basic Systems
    Комитет по авиационному шуму
    Committee on Aircraft Noise
    Комитет по безопасности полетов
    Safety Investigation Board
    Комитет по воздушным перевозкам
    1. Air Transport Committee
    2. Air Transportation Board Комитет по исследованиям звуковых ударов
    Sonic Boom Committee
    Комитет по координации частот
    Frequency Coordinating Body
    Комитет по незаконному вмешательству
    Committee on Unlawful Interference
    Комитет по охране окружающей среды от воздействия авиации
    Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection
    Комитет по поощрительным тарифам
    Creative Fares Board
    Комитет по рассмотрению авиационных вопросов
    Aviation Review Committee
    Комитет по расходам
    Cost Committee
    Комитет по специальным грузовым тарифам
    Specific Commodity Rates Board
    коммерческая загрузка, ограниченная по массе
    weight limited payload
    коммерческая загрузка, ограниченная по объему
    space limited payload
    компрессор по помпажу
    compressor surge margin
    конвенция по вопросам деятельности международной гражданской авиации
    convention on international civil aviation
    конвенция по управлению воздушным движением
    air traffic convention
    консультант по вопросам обучения
    training consultant
    консультант по тренажерам
    trainers consultant
    Консультативная группа по метеообеспечению
    Meteorological Advisory Group
    консультативное сообщение по устранению конфликтной ситуации
    resolution advisory
    Консультативный комитет по управлению воздушным движением
    Air Traffic Control Advisory Committee
    Консультативный комитет по упрощению формальностей
    Facilitation Advisory Committee
    контролируемое воздушное пространство предназначенное для полетов по приборам
    instrument restricted airspace
    контроль состояния посевов по пути выполнения основного задания
    associated crop control operation
    Конференция агентства по грузовым перевозкам
    Cargo Agency Conference
    Конференция агентств по пассажирским перевозкам
    Passenger Agency Conference
    Конференция по валютным вопросам
    Currency Conference
    Конференция по вопросам обслуживания пассажиров
    Passenger Services Conference
    Конференция по координации тарифов
    Tariff Co-ordinating Conference
    координационный центр по спасанию
    rescue coordination center
    коррекция траектории по полученной информации
    reply-to-track correlation
    кресло, расположенное по направлению полета
    forward facing seat
    курс захода на посадку по приборам
    instrument approach course
    курс подготовки по утвержденной программе
    approved training course
    курс по локсодромии
    rhumb-line course
    курс по маяку
    beacon course
    курс по радиомаяку
    localizer course
    курсы подготовки пилотов к полетам по приборам
    instrument pilot school
    летать по ветру
    fly downwind
    летать по глиссадному лучу
    fly the glide-slope beam
    летать по кругу
    1. circularize
    2. fly round 3. fly the circle летать по кругу над аэродромом
    circle the aerodrome
    летать по курсу
    1. fly on the heading
    2. fly on the course летать по локсодромии
    fly the rhumb line
    летать по маршруту
    fly en-route
    летать по ортодромии
    fly the great circle
    летать по приборам
    1. fly on instruments
    2. fly by instruments летать по приборам в процессе тренировок
    fly under screen
    летать по прямой
    fly straight
    лететь по лучу
    fly the beam
    летная полоса, оборудованная для полетов по приборам
    instrument strip
    линия полета по курсу
    on-course line
    линия пути по локсодромии
    rhumb-line track
    линия пути по схеме с двумя спаренными разворотами
    race track
    Международная комиссия по аэронавигации
    International commission for Air Navigation
    Международная комиссия по освещению
    Commission on Illumination
    международное сотрудничество по вопросам летной годности
    international collaboration in airworthiness
    меры по обеспечению безопасности
    safety control measures
    меры по предупреждению пожара
    fire precautions
    меры по снижению шума
    noise abatement measures
    метеоданные по аэродрому
    aerodrome forecast material
    метеосводка по трассе полета
    airway climatic data
    методика сертификации по шуму
    noise certification procedure
    метод продажи по наличию свободных мест
    space available policy
    механизм триммерного эффекта по тангажу
    pitch trim actuator
    механизм усилий по скоростному напору
    Q-feel unit
    минимальная высота полета по кругу
    minimum circling procedure height
    минимальная высота по маршруту
    minimum en-route altitude
    минимум для полетов по кругу
    circling minima
    набирать высоту при полете по курсу
    climb on the course
    набор высоты по крутой траектории
    steep climb
    набор высоты по установившейся схеме
    proper climb
    наведение по азимуту
    azimuth guidance
    наведение по азимуту при заходе на посадку
    approach azimuth guidance
    наведение по глиссаде
    glide-slope guidance
    наведение по глиссаде при заходе на посадку
    approach slope guidance
    наведение по клиренсу
    clearance guidance
    наведение по лучу
    1. beam homing
    2. beam follow guidance 3. beam riding наведение по лучу радиолокационной станции
    radar beam riding
    наведение по отраженному лучу
    back beam track guidance
    наведение по углу
    angle guidance
    навигация по визуальным ориентирам
    contact navigation
    навигация по заданным путевым углам
    angle navigation
    навигация по линии равных азимутов
    constant-bearing navigation
    навигация по наземным ориентирам
    1. landmark navigation
    2. terrestrial navigation 3. ground reference navigation навигация по ортодромии
    waypoint navigation
    навигация по условным координатам
    grid navigation
    наставление по управлению воздушным движением
    air traffic guide
    не по курсу
    off-course
    неустойчивость по крену
    roll instability
    неустойчивость по тангажу
    pitch instability
    облако, напоминающее по виду наковальню
    anvil cloud
    обобщенные характеристики по шуму
    generalized noise characteristics
    оборудование для полетов по приборам
    blind flight equipment
    обслуживание по смешанному классу
    mixed service
    обслуживание по туристическому классу
    1. economy class service
    2. coach service 3. no frills service обтекать по потоку
    streamwise
    обтекать хорду по потоку
    stream-wise chord
    Объединенная конференция по грузовым тарифам
    Composite cargo Traffic Conference
    Объединенная конференция по координации грузовым перевозкам
    Composite cargo Tariff Coordinating Conference
    Объединенная конференция по координации пассажирских тарифов
    Composite Passenger Tariff Co-ordinating Conference
    Объединенная конференция по пассажирским перевозкам
    Composite Passenger Conference
    огни по требованию
    lights on request
    ограничение по боковому ветру
    cross-wind limit
    ограничение по времени
    time limit
    ограничение по массе
    weight limitation
    ограничение по скорости полета
    air-speed limitation
    ограничения по загрузке
    loading restrictions
    ограничения по летной годности
    airworthiness limitations
    ограничивать по состоянию здоровья
    decrease in medical fitness
    операции по подготовке рейса к вылету
    departure operations
    операции по спасению
    rescue operations
    операция по рассеиванию тумана
    fog dispersal operation
    операция по спасению
    rescue mission
    опережение по фазе
    phase advance
    определение местонахождения воздушного судна по звездам
    astrofix
    определение местоположения по наземным ориентирам
    visual ground fixing
    определение местоположения по пеленгу одной станции
    one-station fixing
    определение местоположения по пройденному пути и курсу
    range-bearing fixing
    ориентировка ВПП по магнитному меридиану
    magnetic orientation of runway
    ориентировка по радиомаяку
    radio-range orientation
    остановка по расписанию
    sheduled stopping
    Отдел по соблюдению тарифов
    Compliance Department
    отклонение по дальности
    range deviation
    отклонение по крену
    bank displacement
    отставание по времени
    time lag
    отставание по фазе
    phase lag
    ошибка по дальности
    range error
    параметр потока, критический по шуму
    noise-critical flow parameter
    пассажир по полному тарифу
    adult
    пеленг по гироприбору
    gyro bearing
    перевозка грузов по воздуху
    air freight lift
    перевозка пассажиров по контракту
    contract tour
    перевозка по специальному тарифу
    unit toll transportation
    перевозки по тарифу туристического класса
    coach traffic
    персонал по обеспечению полетов
    flight operations personnel
    персонал по оформлению билетов
    ticketing personnel
    пикирование по спирали
    spiral dive
    пилотировать по приборам
    pilot by reference to instruments
    планирование воздушного судна по спирали
    aircraft spiral glide
    план полета по приборам
    instrument flight plan
    по азимуту
    in azimuth
    поверхность управления по всему размаху
    full-span control surface
    (напр. крыла) по ветру
    downwind
    по всему размаху
    tip
    погода по метеосводке
    reported weather
    погрешность отсчета по углу места
    elevation error
    подводить по трубопроводу
    deliver by pipe
    подготовка для полетов по приборам
    instrument flight training
    подготовка по утвержденной программе
    approved training
    по запросу
    1. on-request
    2. on request полет по дополнительному маршруту
    extra section flight
    полет по заданной траектории
    desired path flight
    полет по заданному маршруту
    desired track flight
    полет по замкнутому кругу
    closed-circuit flight
    полет по замкнутому маршруту
    round-trip
    полет по индикации на стекле
    head-up flight
    полет по инерции
    1. coasting flight
    2. coast полет по коробочке
    box-pattern flight
    полет по круговому маршруту
    1. round-trip flight
    2. circling полет по кругу
    circuit-circling
    полет по кругу в районе аэродрома
    aerodrome traffic circuit operation
    полет по кругу над аэродромом
    1. aerodrome circling
    2. aerodrome circuit-circling полет по курсу
    flight on heading
    полет по локсодромии
    rhumb-line flight
    полет по маршруту
    1. en-route operation
    2. en-route flight полет по маякам ВОР
    VOR course flight
    полет по наземным ориентирам
    visual navigation flight
    полет по наземным ориентирам или по командам наземных станций
    reference flight
    полет по полному маршруту
    entire flight
    полет по приборам
    1. instrument flight rules operation
    2. instrument flight 3. blind flight 4. head-down flight полет по приборам, обязательный для данной зоны
    compulsory IFR flight
    полет по размеченному маршруту
    point-to-point flight
    полет по расписанию
    1. scheduled flight
    2. regular flight полет по сигналам с земли
    directed reference flight
    полет по условным меридианам
    grid flight
    полет по установленным правилам
    flight under the rules
    полеты по воздушным трассам
    airways flying
    полеты по изобаре
    pressure flying
    полеты по контрольным точкам
    fix-to-fix flying
    полеты по кругу
    circuit flying
    полеты по наземным естественным ориентирам
    terrain fly
    полеты по низким метеоминимумам
    low weather operations
    полеты по обратному лучу
    back beam flying
    полеты по ортодромии
    great-circle flying
    полеты по прямому лучу
    front beam flying
    полеты по радиолучу
    radio-beam fly
    положение, определенное по радиолокатору
    radar track position
    положение по направлению трассы
    along-track position
    положение по тангажу
    pitch attitude
    по оси воздушного судна
    on aircraft center line
    по полету
    looking forward
    по размаху
    spanwise
    порядок действий по тревоге на аэродроме
    aerodrome alerting procedure
    посадка по вертолетному типу
    helicopter-type landing
    посадка по ветру
    downwind landing
    посадка по командам с земли
    1. ground-controlled landing
    2. talk-down landing посадка по приборам
    1. instrument landing
    2. blind landing посадка по техническим причинам
    technical stop
    Постоянный комитет по летно-техническим характеристикам
    Standing Committee of Performance
    по часовой стрелке
    clockwise
    правила полета по кругу
    circuit rules
    правила полетов по приборам
    instrument flight rules
    превышение по высоте
    gain in altitude
    предварительные меры по обеспечению безопасности полетов
    advance arrangements
    предкрылок по всему размаху
    full-span slat
    (крыла) предоставляется по запросу
    available on request
    предполетный инструктаж по метеообстановке
    flight weather briefing
    предпочтительная по уровню шума ВПП
    noise preferential runway
    предпочтительный по уровню шума маршрут
    noise preferential route
    предупреждение по аэродрому
    aerodrome warning
    преобразователь сигнала по тангажу
    pitch transformer
    пробегать по полному маршруту
    cover the route
    проведение работ по снижению высоты препятствий для полетов
    obstacle clearing
    проверка прилегания по краске
    transferred marking
    прогноз по авиатрассе
    airway forecast
    прогноз по аэродрому
    aerodrome forecast
    прогноз по высоте
    height forecast
    прогноз по маршруту
    air route forecast
    прогноз по региону
    regional forecast
    программа сертификации по шуму
    noise certification scheme
    продажа билетов по принципу наличия свободных мест
    space available basis
    продолжительность по запасу топлива
    fuel endurance
    прокладка маршрута по угловым координатам
    angle tracking
    пропускная способность по числу посадок
    landing capacity
    противопожарное патрулирование по пути выполнения основного задания
    associated fire control operation
    пульт управления по радио
    radio control board
    работы по техническому обслуживанию
    maintenance operations
    Рабочая группа по разработке основных эксплуатационных требований
    Basic Operational Requirements Group
    развертка по дальности
    range scanning
    разворачивать по ветру
    turn downwind
    разворот по приборам
    instrument turn
    разворот по стандартной схеме
    standard rate turn
    разворот по установленной схеме
    procedure turn
    разница в тарифах по классам
    class differential
    разрешающая способность по дальности
    range resolution
    разрешение в процессе полета по маршруту
    en-route clearance
    разрешение на полет по приборам
    instrument clearance
    распределение давления по крылу
    wing pressure plotting
    распределение по размаху крыла
    spanwise distribution
    распределение по хорде
    chordwise distribution
    распределение расходов по маршрутам
    cost allocation to routes
    расстояние по ортодромии
    great-circle distance
    реакция по крену
    roll response
    регламентирование по времени
    timing
    регулировать по высоте
    adjust for height
    режим работы автопилота по заданному курсу
    autopilot heading mode
    рейс с обслуживанием по первому классу
    first-class flight
    рекомендации по обеспечению безопасности полетов
    safety recommendations
    рекомендации по стандартам, практике и правилам
    recommendations for standards, practices and procedures
    руководство по обеспечению безопасности
    safety regulations
    руководство по полетам воздушных судов гражданской авиации
    civil air regulations
    руководство по предупреждению столкновений над морем
    regulations for preventing collisions over sea
    руководство по производству полетов в зоне аэродрома
    aerodrome rules
    руководство по технической эксплуатации воздушного судна
    aircraft maintenance guide
    руководство по управлению полетами
    flight control fundamentals
    руководство по упрощению формальностей
    guide to facilitation
    руление по аэродрому
    ground taxi operation
    руление по воздуху
    air taxiing
    руление по воздуху к месту взлета
    aerial taxiing to takeoff
    рыскание по курсу
    hunting
    сбор за услуги по оценке
    valuation charge
    сводка по аэродрому
    aerodrome report
    сводка погоды по данным радиолокационного наблюдения
    radar weather report
    связь по запросу с борта
    air-initiated communication
    связь по обеспечению регулярности полетов
    flight regularity communication
    сдвиг по фазе
    phase shift
    сектор наведения по клиренсу
    clearance guidance sector
    Секция расчетов по вопросам технической помощи
    Technical Assistance Accounts section
    (ИКАО) Секция расчетов по регулярной программе
    Regular Programme Accounts section
    (ИКАО) сертификат воздушного судна по шуму
    aircraft noise certificate
    сертификационный стандарт по шуму
    noise certification standard
    сертификация по шуму на взлетном режиме
    take-off noise
    сигнал полета по курсу
    on-course signal
    сигнал синхронизации по времени
    synchronized time signal
    система балансировки по числу М
    Mach trim system
    система блокировки управления по положению реверса
    thrust reverser interlock system
    система наведения по лучу
    1. beam-rider system
    2. guide beam system система наведения по приборам
    instrument guidance system
    система наведения по сканирующему лучу
    scanning beam guidance system
    система наведения по углу
    angle guidance system
    система навигации по наземным ориентирам
    ground-referenced navigation system
    система посадки по лучу маяка
    beam approach beacon system
    система посадки по приборам
    instrument landing system
    система сборов по фактической массе
    weight system
    (багажа или груза) скольжение по воде
    equaplaning
    скорость набора высоты при полете по маршруту
    en-route climb speed
    скорость по тангажу
    rate of pitch
    следовать по заданному курсу
    pursue
    служба обеспечения прогнозами по маршруту
    route forecast service
    служба по изучению рынка
    marketing service
    (воздушных перевозок) снижение по спирали
    spiral descent
    снос определенный по радиолокатору
    radar drift
    советник по авиационным вопросам
    aviation adviser
    советник по вопросам гражданской авиации
    civil aviation adviser
    советник по проектированию и строительству аэродромов
    aerodrome engineering instructor
    Совет по авиационным спутникам
    Aeronautical Satellite Council
    Совместный комитет по специальным грузовым тарифам
    Joint service Commodity Rates Board
    соглашение по вопросам летной годности
    arrangement for airworthiness
    соглашение по пассажирским и грузовым тарифам
    fares and rates agreement
    соглашение по прямому транзиту
    direct transit agreement
    соглашение по тарифам
    tariff agreement
    состояние готовности аэродрома по тревоге
    aerodrome alert status
    (состояние готовности служб аэродрома по тревоге) специализированный отдел по расследованию происшествий
    accident investigation division
    специалист по ремонту
    repairman
    специалист по ремонту воздушных судов
    aircraft repairman
    специалист по сборке
    rigger
    справочник по аэродромам
    aerodrome directory
    справочник по аэропортам
    airport directory
    средства обеспечения полетов по приборам
    nonvisual aids
    стандартная система управления заходом на посадку по лучу
    standard beam approach system
    стандартная схема вылета по приборам
    standard instrument departure
    стандартная схема посадки по приборам
    standard instrument arrival
    стандарт по шуму для дозвуковых самолетов
    subsonic noise standard
    степень помех по отношению к несущей частоте
    carrier-to-noise ratio
    строить по лицензии
    construct under license
    схема визуального полета по кругу
    visual circling procedure
    схема захода на посадку по командам с земли
    ground-controlled approach procedure
    схема захода на посадку по коробочке
    rectangular approach traffic pattern
    схема захода на посадку по приборам
    1. instrument approach chart
    2. instrument approach procedure схема полета по кругу
    1. circuit pattern
    2. circling procedure схема полета по маршруту
    en-route procedure
    схема полета по приборам
    instrument flight procedure
    схема полета по приборам в зоне ожидания
    instrument holding procedure
    схема полетов по кругу
    traffic circuit
    схема руления по аэродрому
    aerodrome taxi circuit
    тарировка по времени
    time calibration
    тарировка по дальности
    range calibration
    тарировка по числу М
    Mach number calibration
    тариф на полет по замкнутому кругу
    round trip fare
    тариф по контракту
    contract rate
    тариф по незамкнутому круговому маршруту
    open-jaw fare
    температура по шкале Цельсия
    Celsius temperature
    точность ориентировки по точечному ориентиру
    pinpoint accuracy
    траектория взлета, сертифицированная по шуму
    noise certification takeoff flight path
    траектория захода на посадку по азимуту
    azimuth approach path
    траектория захода на посадку по лучу курсового маяка
    localizer approach track
    траектория захода на посадку, сертифицированная по шуму
    noise certification approach path
    траектория полета по маршруту
    en-route flight path
    траектория полетов по низким минимумам погоды
    low weather minima path
    транспортировка по воздуху
    shipment by air
    трансформатор сигнала по крену
    roll transformer
    трансформатор сигнала по курсу
    yaw transformer
    трафарет с инструкцией по применению
    instruction plate
    требования по метеоусловиям
    meteorological requirements
    требования по ограничению высоты препятствий
    obstacle limitation requirements
    требования по снижению шума
    noise reduction requirements
    тренажер для подготовки к полетам по приборам
    instrument flight trainer
    тяга, регулируемая по величине и направлению
    vectored thrust
    угол рассогласования по крену
    bank synchro error angle
    удостоверение на право полета по авиалинии
    airline certificate
    удостоверение на право полета по приборам
    instrument certificate
    указания по выполнению руления
    taxi instruction
    указания по порядку ожидания
    holding instruction
    указания по управлению воздушным движением
    air-traffic control instruction
    указания по условиям эксплуатации в полете
    inflight operational instructions
    указатель отклонения от курса по радиомаяку
    localizer deviation pointer
    уполномоченный по расследованию
    investigator-in-charge
    управление по крену
    1. roll guidance
    2. roll control управление по угловому отклонению
    angular position control
    управление по углу рыскания
    yaw control
    управляемый по радио
    radio-controlled
    условия по заданному маршруту
    conditions on the route
    условия, по сложности превосходящие квалификацию пилота
    conditions beyond the experience
    условия сертификационных испытаний по шуму
    noise certification test conditions
    устанавливать воздушное судно по оси
    align the aircraft with the center line
    устанавливать воздушное судно по оси ВПП
    align the aircraft with the runway
    установленная схема вылета по приборам
    standard instrument departure chart
    установленная схема полета по кругу
    fixed circuit
    установленная схема ухода на второй круг по приборам
    instrument missed procedure
    устойчивость по крену
    1. rolling stability
    2. lateral stability устойчивость по скорости
    speed stability
    устойчивость по тангажу
    1. pitching stability
    2. pitch stability устойчивость по углу атаки
    angle-of-attack stability
    уточнение плана полета по сведениям, полученным в полете
    inflight operational planning
    уходить на второй круг по заданной схеме
    take a missed-approach procedure
    уход платформы по курсу
    platform drift in azimuth
    фирма по производству воздушных судов
    aircraft company
    флюгирование по отрицательному крутящему моменту
    negative torque feathering
    характеристика набора высоты при полете по маршруту
    en-route climb performance
    характеристика по наддуву
    manifold pressure characteristic
    характеристики наведения по линии пути
    track-defining characteristics
    характеристики по шуму
    noise characteristics
    чартерный рейс по заказу отдельной организации
    single-entity charter
    чартерный рейс по незамкнутому маршруту
    open-jaw charter
    чартерный рейс по объявленной программе
    programmed charter
    чартерный рейс по установленному маршруту
    on-route charter
    чувствительность к отклонению по сигналам курсового маяка
    lokalizer displacement sensitivity
    чувствительность по давлению
    pressure sensitivity
    чувствительность по курсу
    course sensitivity
    шкала корректировки по тангажу
    pitch trim scale
    шкала отклонения от курса по радиомаяку
    localizer deviation scale
    школа подготовки специалистов по управлению воздушным движением
    air traffic school
    экзамен по летной подготовке
    flight examination
    экспедитор по отправке грузов
    freight consolidator
    эксперт по вопросам ведения документации
    procedures document expert
    эксперт по контролю за качеством
    quality control expert
    эксперт по летной годности
    airworthiness expert
    эксперт по обслуживанию воздушного движения
    air traffic services expert
    эксперт по обучению пилотов
    pilot training expert
    эксперт по производству налетов
    flight operations expert
    эксперт по радиолокаторам
    radar expert
    эксперт по техническому обслуживанию
    maintenance expert
    этап полета по маршруту
    en-route flight phase
    эшелонирование по курсу
    track separation
    эшелонирование по усмотрению пилота
    own separation
    эшелонировать по высоте
    stack up

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  • 37 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 38 قوة

    قُوَّة \ force: violence; fierce or uncontrolled use of strength: He took the money from the old woman by force. might: power; strength: He tried with all his might. power: strength; force: I haven’t the power to lift this weight, a strong and important country Russia is a great power. strength: the quality of being strong; strong condition. \ بِقُوّة \ hard: with much effort or force (often in compounds): You must try hard if you want to succeed. I hit him hard, strongly; very much: It’s snowing hard. passionately: with strong or violent feelings: He loved his country passionately. strongly: firmly; deeply: I strongly advise you to buy this. \ قُوَّة أعصاب \ nerve: boldness; the courage that is necessary to do sth. dangerous: The climber lost his nerve and fell. \ قُوَّة تَحَمُّل \ endurance: the power of enduring or bearing pain, trouble, etc.: Long-distance runners need great endurance. stamina: the power of working hard in rough conditions over a long period of time, without getting seriously tired or ill. wear: fitness for use; strength: There is plenty of wear left in that coat. \ قُوَّة تَركيز \ concentration: close or complete attention: This book will need all your concentration. \ قُوَّة جَسَدِيَّة \ force: natural or bodily power; active strength: The force of the explosion broke all the windows in the building. He had to use force to get the lid off the tin. \ قُوَّة حِصان \ horsepower: (sometimes shortened to HP) a measure of the power of an engine. \ قُوَّة الخَيَال \ imagination: the act or the power of imagining: A poet needs an active imagination. \ قُوَّة شَخْصِيَّة \ backbone: strength of character. \ القُوَّة الكامِلة \ strength: the full quantity of a group of persons who form an effective force: The nurses are not up to strength. (There are not enough nurses) They are 30 below strength. (The hospital usu. employs 30 more than it has now). \ القُوَّة المُجرَّدَة \ brute force: force used without skill or care: He had lost the key of the box, and had to use brute force to break it open. \ قُوَّة مُحَرِّكة \ power: force that can be used for doing work: electric power; water power. \ قُوَّة مسلَّحَة \ force: a controlled body of men: a police force; the armed forces. \ قُوَّة المَصّ \ suction: sucking the natural force that draws things together when there is no air between them. \ قُوَّة مُعَاكِسَة \ opposition: opposing, an opposing; force; (in a law-making group) elected members whose party is against the governing party. \ القُوَى العَقْلِيَّة \ senses: (in various phrases) a calm and reasonable state of mind: The explosion frightened them out of their senses. Anyone in his senses would take that job.

    Arabic-English dictionary > قوة

  • 39 elemento

    m.
    1 element (sustancia).
    elemento químico chemical element
    estar (uno) en su elemento to be in one's element
    2 factor.
    el elemento sorpresa the surprise factor
    3 individual (en equipo, colectivo) (person).
    4 item, entry.
    * * *
    1 (gen) element
    2 (parte) component, part
    3 (individuo) type, sort
    1 (atmosféricos) elements
    2 (fundamentos) rudiments, basic principles
    \
    estar uno en su elemento figurado to be in one's element
    ¡menudo elemento! / ¡vaya elemento! familiar he's a right one!
    elementos de juicio facts of the case
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=parte) element
    2) (Fís, Quím) element
    3) (Elec) element; [de pila] cell
    4) (=ambiente)
    5) (=persona)

    vino a verle un elemento LAm someone came to see you

    ¡menudo elemento estás hecho, Pepe! — Esp * you're a proper little terror Pepe!

    su marido es un elemento de cuidado Esp * her husband is a nasty piece of work *

    6) And, Caribe, Cono Sur (=imbécil) dimwit *
    7) Caribe (=tipo raro) odd person, eccentric
    8) pl elementos (=nociones) elements, basic principles

    elementos de geometría — elements of geometry, basic geometry sing

    9) pl elementos (=fuerzas naturales) elements

    quedó a merced de los elementosliter she was left at the mercy of the elements

    10)
    * * *
    I
    1) (Elec, Fís, Quím) element; ( fuerza natural)
    2)
    a) ( componente) element
    b) ( medio)
    3) ( ambiente)

    está/se siente en su elemento — he's in his element

    4) elementos masculino plural elements (pl)

    elementos de física — elements of physics, basic physics

    5) (de secador, calentador) element
    6)
    a) ( persona)
    b) (RPl) ( tipo de gente) crowd

    el elemento que va a ese clubthe crowd that goes o the people who go to that club

    II
    - ta masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey)
    * * *
    = component, data element, element, element, item, building block.
    Ex. The primary components in this area are place of publication, publisher's name and date of publication (that is, the date of edition).
    Ex. The Working Group undertook to determine from the data available what data elements should be included for each type of authority.
    Ex. In order to support these three elements it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.
    Ex. An element is a group of characters, a word, phrase, etc., representing a distinct unit of bibliographic information and forming part of an area (q.v.) of the description.
    Ex. Since only twenty or so items can be displayed on the screen at a time, the ↑ (Up), ↓ (Down), Page Up and Page Down keys are used to scroll through the listing.
    Ex. This article seeks to explain why current on-line products have, despite tremendous capitalisation, not yet achieved satisfactory returns, but have provided the necessary building blocks towards future products.
    ----
    * colocar como primer elemento de un encabezamiento compuesto = lead.
    * elemento afín = nearest neighbour.
    * elemento bibliográfico = bibliographic element.
    * elemento clave = key element, building block.
    * elemento de absorción = absorber.
    * elemento de búsqueda ficticio = rogue string.
    * elemento de cambio = agent of(for) change.
    * elemento de entrada = entry element.
    * elemento destacado = standout.
    * elemento esencial = essential, kingpin.
    * elemento importante = major force.
    * elemento intangible = intangible.
    * elemento integrante = fixture.
    * elemento que se repite = repeater.
    * elementos del marketing, los = marketing mix, the.
    * enfrentarse a los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * hacer frente a los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * luchar contra los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * subelemento = sub-element [subelement].
    * * *
    I
    1) (Elec, Fís, Quím) element; ( fuerza natural)
    2)
    a) ( componente) element
    b) ( medio)
    3) ( ambiente)

    está/se siente en su elemento — he's in his element

    4) elementos masculino plural elements (pl)

    elementos de física — elements of physics, basic physics

    5) (de secador, calentador) element
    6)
    a) ( persona)
    b) (RPl) ( tipo de gente) crowd

    el elemento que va a ese clubthe crowd that goes o the people who go to that club

    II
    - ta masculino, femenino (Esp fam & pey)
    * * *
    = component, data element, element, element, item, building block.

    Ex: The primary components in this area are place of publication, publisher's name and date of publication (that is, the date of edition).

    Ex: The Working Group undertook to determine from the data available what data elements should be included for each type of authority.
    Ex: In order to support these three elements it is important to have some organisation which takes responsibility for revision and publication.
    Ex: An element is a group of characters, a word, phrase, etc., representing a distinct unit of bibliographic information and forming part of an area (q.v.) of the description.
    Ex: Since only twenty or so items can be displayed on the screen at a time, the &\#8593; (Up), &\#8595; (Down), Page Up and Page Down keys are used to scroll through the listing.
    Ex: This article seeks to explain why current on-line products have, despite tremendous capitalisation, not yet achieved satisfactory returns, but have provided the necessary building blocks towards future products.
    * colocar como primer elemento de un encabezamiento compuesto = lead.
    * elemento afín = nearest neighbour.
    * elemento bibliográfico = bibliographic element.
    * elemento clave = key element, building block.
    * elemento de absorción = absorber.
    * elemento de búsqueda ficticio = rogue string.
    * elemento de cambio = agent of(for) change.
    * elemento de entrada = entry element.
    * elemento destacado = standout.
    * elemento esencial = essential, kingpin.
    * elemento importante = major force.
    * elemento intangible = intangible.
    * elemento integrante = fixture.
    * elemento que se repite = repeater.
    * elementos del marketing, los = marketing mix, the.
    * enfrentarse a los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * hacer frente a los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * luchar contra los elementos = brave + the elements.
    * subelemento = sub-element [subelement].

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Fís, Quím) element
    2
    (fuerza natural): los elementos the elements
    luchar contra los elementos to struggle against the elements
    líquido2 (↑ líquido (2))
    B
    1 (componente) element
    los distintos elementos de la oración the different elements of the sentence
    el elemento dramático de una novela the dramatic element in a novel
    introdujo un elemento de tensión en las relaciones it brought an element of tension into the relationship
    el elemento sorpresa the element of surprise
    2
    (medio): no disponemos de los elementos básicos para llevar a cabo la tarea we lack the basic resources with which to carry out the task
    Compuesto:
    mpl facts (pl)
    carezco de elementos de juicio para opinar I do not have sufficient information o facts o data to be able to form an opinion ( frml)
    C
    (ambiente): en el museo está/se siente en su elemento he's in his element at the museum
    me han sacado de mi elemento y no sé lo que hago I'm out of my element and I don't know what I'm doing
    D elementos mpl elements (pl)
    elementos de física elements of physics, basic physics
    E (CS) (de un secador, calentador) element
    F
    1
    (persona): es un elemento pernicioso he's a bad influence
    elementos subversivos subversive elements
    2 ( RPl) (tipo de gente) crowd
    no me gusta el elemento que va a ese club I don't like the crowd that goes o the people who go to that club
    elemento2 -ta
    masculine, feminine
    ( Esp fam pey): es una elementa de cuidado she's a really nasty character o a nasty piece of work ( colloq)
    su hijo está hecho un elemento her son has turned into a little monster o horror o terror o brat ( colloq)
    * * *

    elemento sustantivo masculino


    los elementos ( fuerzas naturales) the elements
    b) ( persona):


    elementos subversivos subversive elements;
    es un elemento de cuidado (Esp fam &
    pey) he's a nasty piece of work
    c) (RPl) ( tipo de gente) crowd

    elemento sustantivo masculino
    1 element
    2 (parte integrante) component, part
    3 fam (tipo, sujeto) type, sort: ¡menudo e. estás tú hecho!, you are a real handful! 4 elementos, elements
    (nociones básicas) rudiments: no tengo elementos de juicio, I haven't enough information
    5 (medio vital) habitat: cuando va a una fiesta está en su elemento, she's in her element at parties
    ' elemento' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    componente
    - disuasiva
    - disuasivo
    - disuasoria
    - disuasorio
    - nunca
    - clasificar
    - dato
    - detalle
    - estaño
    - metal
    - pieza
    English:
    air
    - deterrent
    - element
    - fire
    - lifeblood
    - solid
    - troublemaking
    - unit
    - constituent
    - creep
    - essential
    - fixture
    - ingredient
    * * *
    nm
    1. [sustancia] element;
    elemento (químico) (chemical) element;
    los cuatro elementos the four elements
    2. [medio natural] element;
    el agua es el elemento de estos animales water is these animals' natural element;
    en su elemento in one's element;
    entre niños está en su elemento he's in his element when he's with children;
    le quitaron el puesto de bibliotecario y lo sacaron de su elemento he was removed from his post as librarian and taken out of his element
    3. [parte, componente] element;
    el elemento clave en el proceso de fabricación es la materia prima the key element in the manufacturing process is the raw material;
    cada elemento del motor debe estar bien ajustado every part of the engine must be fitted tightly
    4. [factor] factor;
    un elemento decisivo en el triunfo electoral a decisive factor in the election victory;
    un elemento de distensión en las negociaciones a certain easing of tension in the negotiations;
    el elemento sorpresa the element of surprise
    5. [persona]
    tiene muy buenos elementos trabajando para él he has very good people working for him;
    elementos incontrolados provocaron graves destrozos unruly elements caused serious damage
    elementos nmpl
    1. [fuerzas atmosféricas] elements;
    se desataron los elementos the force of the elements was unleashed;
    luchar contra los elementos to struggle against the elements
    2. [nociones básicas] rudiments, basics
    3. [medios, recursos] resources, means;
    carece de los elementos mínimos indispensables para la tarea he lacks the minimum resources necessary for the task;
    no tenemos elementos de juicio para pronunciarnos we don't have sufficient information to give an opinion
    elemento2, -a nm,f
    1. Esp Fam Pey [persona]
    ¡vaya elemento que está hecho! he's a prize specimen!, he's a real piece of work!
    2. Chile, Perú, PRico [torpe] dimwit, blockhead
    * * *
    m element;
    estar en su elemento fig be in one’s element
    * * *
    : element
    * * *
    1. (en general) element
    2. (persona) little horror / little devil
    ¡menudo elemento es tu hijo! your son's a little horror!

    Spanish-English dictionary > elemento

  • 40 descontrolado

    adj.
    uncontrolled, compulsive, out of bounds, out of hand.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: descontrolarse.
    * * *
    1→ link=descontrolarse descontrolarse
    1 uncontrolled, out of control
    2 familiar figurado out of control, wild
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=sin control) uncontrolled

    elementos descontrolados — wild elements; (Pol) rebellious factions

    2) LAm (=perturbado) upset, irritated
    * * *
    - da adjetivo to be out of control

    una multitud descontrolada invadió el campo — a crowd, out of control, invaded the pitch

    * * *
    = untethered, freewheeling [free-wheeling], unchecked, uncontrolled, unbridled, runaway, unmonitored, unrestricted, riotous.
    Ex. 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.
    Ex. Yet it is argued that these fluctuations do not justify either precipitous journal cancellations or free-wheeling additions to the collection.
    Ex. The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex. Publishers are right to be concerned about uncontrolled republication.
    Ex. Unbridled photocopying will lead to the imminent demise of the communications skein.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'How to control a runaway state documents collection'.
    Ex. The causes were an unmonitored rise in heat and humidity from an air cooling system that continuously circulated hot moist air from the outside.
    Ex. Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex. I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.
    ----
    * crecimiento urbano descontrolado = suburban sprawl.
    * de un modo descontrolado = uncontrollably.
    * expansión urbana descontrolada = urban sprawl, suburban sprawl.
    * gasto descontrolado = runaway spending.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo to be out of control

    una multitud descontrolada invadió el campo — a crowd, out of control, invaded the pitch

    * * *
    = untethered, freewheeling [free-wheeling], unchecked, uncontrolled, unbridled, runaway, unmonitored, unrestricted, riotous.

    Ex: 'Out of the secretarial world it comes, the prime example of the untethered query, bobbing uselessly about till one can tell what caused it to be launched'.

    Ex: Yet it is argued that these fluctuations do not justify either precipitous journal cancellations or free-wheeling additions to the collection.
    Ex: The volume of published material tends to grow unchecked, and academic libraries are expected to provide a ready market for it.
    Ex: Publishers are right to be concerned about uncontrolled republication.
    Ex: Unbridled photocopying will lead to the imminent demise of the communications skein.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'How to control a runaway state documents collection'.
    Ex: The causes were an unmonitored rise in heat and humidity from an air cooling system that continuously circulated hot moist air from the outside.
    Ex: Although the library community advocates unrestricted access to resources for all, professional practices illustrate that librarians restrict access for youth.
    Ex: I'd like to see the full force of the law brought down on these people who are involved in this riotous behaviour.
    * crecimiento urbano descontrolado = suburban sprawl.
    * de un modo descontrolado = uncontrollably.
    * expansión urbana descontrolada = urban sprawl, suburban sprawl.
    * gasto descontrolado = runaway spending.

    * * *
    1 ‹crecimiento/uso› uncontrolled
    el descontrolado mercado de la propiedad the uncontrolled property market
    el fuego descontrolado arrasó bosques enteros the fire got out of control and swept through whole forests
    2 ‹emoción/sentimiento› uncontrolled
    3 ‹persona› out of control
    elements descontrolados uncontrolled elements
    el marido descontrolado mató a la esposa the husband lost control and killed his wife
    totalmente descontrolado por los nervios se puso a gritar totally overcome by nerves, he began to shout
    * * *

    Del verbo descontrolarse: ( conjugate descontrolarse)

    descontrolado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    descontrolado    
    descontrolarse
    descontrolado
    ◊ -da adjetivo

    out of control
    descontrolarse ( conjugate descontrolarse) verbo pronominal
    to get out of control
    ■descontrolarse verbo reflexivo to lose control

    ' descontrolado' also found in these entries:
    English:
    control
    - riotous
    * * *
    descontrolado, -a
    adj
    [automóvil, inflación] runaway; [persona] out of control;
    tengo a la clase descontrolada I can't keep order in my class;
    el tren circulaba descontrolado the train was running out of control;
    estar descontrolado to be out of control
    nm,f
    un grupo de descontrolados interrumpió la reunión a rowdy group disrupted the meeting
    * * *
    adj out of control

    Spanish-English dictionary > descontrolado

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