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1 when

1. adverb
1) (at what time) wann

say when — (coll.): (pouring drink) sag halt

that was when I intervened — das war der Moment, wo ich eingriff

2) (at which)

the time when... — die Zeit, zu der od. (ugs.) wo/(with past tense) als...

the day when... — der Tag, an dem od. (ugs.) wo/(with past tense) als...

do you remember [the time] when we... — erinnerst du dich daran, wie wir...
2. conjunction
1) (at the time that) als; (with present or future tense) wenn

when [I was] young — als ich jung war; in meiner Jugend

when in doubt — im Zweifelsfall

when cleaning the gun — beim Putzen des Gewehrs

when speaking French — wenn ich/sie usw. Französisch spreche/spricht usw.

2) (whereas)

why do you go abroad when it's cheaper here? — warum fährst du ins Ausland, wo es doch hier billiger ist?

I received only £5 when I should have got £10 — ich bekam nur 5 Pfund, hätte aber 10 Pfund bekommen sollen

3) (considering that) wenn

how can I finish it when you won't help? — wie soll ich es fertig machen, wenn du nicht hilfst?

4) (and at that moment) als
3. pronoun
by/till when...? — bis wann...?

from/since when...? — ab/seit wann...?

when are we invited for? — für wann sind wir eingeladen?

but that was yesterday, since when things have changed — aber das war gestern, und inzwischen hat sich manches geändert

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1. [wen] adverb
(at what time(?): When did you arrive?; When will you see her again?; I asked him when the incident had occurred; Tell me when to jump.) wann
2. [wən, wen] conjunction
1) ((at or during) the time at which: It happened when I was abroad; When you see her, give her this message; When I've finished, I'll telephone you.) als; wenn

2) (in spite of the fact that; considering that: Why do you walk when you have a car?) wenn

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when

[(h)wen]

I. adv inv

1. interrog (at what time) wann

\when do you want to go? wann möchtest du gehen?

\when's the baby due? wann hat sie Geburtstermin?

do you know \when he'll be back? weißt du, wann er zurückkommt?

to tell sb \when to do sth jdm sagen, wann er/sie etw tun soll

since \when...? seit wann...?

until \when...? wie lange...?

2. interrog (in what circumstances) wann

\when is it OK to cross the road? — when the little green man is lit up wann darf man die Straße überqueren? — wenn das kleine grüne Männchen aufleuchtet

3. rel (in following circumstances) wenn; (at which, on which) wo

when is it OK to cross the road? — \when the little green man is lit up wann darf man die Straße überqueren? — wenn das kleine grüne Männchen aufleuchtet

the week between Christmas and New Year is \when we carry out an inventory in der Woche zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr machen wir eine Inventur

March is the month \when the monsoon arrives im März kommt der Monsun

this is one of those occasions \when I could wring his neck dies ist eine der Gelegenheiten, wo ich ihm den Hals umdrehen könnte

she was only twenty \when she had her first baby sie war erst zwanzig, als sie das erste Kind bekam

Saturday is the day \when I get my hair done samstags lasse ich mir immer die Haare machen

there are times \when... es gibt Momente [o Augenblicke], wo...

II. conj

1. (at, during the time) als

I used to love that film \when I was a child als Kind liebte ich diesen Film

I loved maths \when I was at school in der Schule liebte ich Mathe

2. (after) wenn

he was quite shocked \when I told him er war ziemlich schockiert, als ich es ihm erzählte

call me \when you've finished ruf mich an, wenn du fertig bist

3. (whenever) wenn

I hate it \when there's no one in the office ich hasse es, wenn niemand im Büro ist

4. (and just then) als

I was just getting into the bath \when the telephone rang ich stieg gerade in die Badewanne, als das Telefon läutete

5. (considering that) wenn

how can you say you don't like something \when you've never even tried it? wie kannst du sagen, dass du etwas nicht magst, wenn du es nie probiert hast?

6. (although) obwohl

I don't understand how he can say that everything's fine \when it's so obvious that it's not ich verstehe nicht, wie er sagen kann, dass alles in Ordnung ist, wenn doch offensichtlich was nicht stimmt

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[wen]
1. adv

1) (= at what time) wann

since when have you been here? — seit wann sind Sie hier?

... since when he has been here —... und seitdem ist er hier

say when! (inf) — sag or schrei (inf) halt!

2)

(rel) on the day when — an dem Tag, an dem or als or da (liter) or wo (inf)

at the time when — zu der Zeit, zu der or als or da (liter) or wo (inf)

he wrote last week, up till when I had heard nothing from him — er schrieb letzte Woche und bis dahin hatte ich nichts von ihm gehört

in 1960, up till when he... —

during the time when he was in Germany — während der Zeit, als or wo or die (inf) er in Deutschland war

2. conj

1) wenn; (with past reference) als

you can go when I have finished — du kannst gehen, sobald or wenn ich fertig bin

he did it when young — er tat es in seiner Jugend

2) (+gerund) beim; (= at or during which time) wobei

when operating the machine — beim Benutzen or bei Benutzung der Maschine

be careful when crossing the road — seien Sie beim Überqueren der Straße vorsichtig, seien Sie vorsichtig, wenn Sie über die Straße gehen

the PM is coming here in May, when he will... — der Premier kommt im Mai hierher und wird dann...

3) (= although, whereas) wo... doch

why do you do it that way when it would be much easier like this? — warum machst du es denn auf die Art, wo es doch so viel einfacher wäre?

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when [wen; hwen]

A adv

1. (fragend) wann:

when did it happen?;

when ever → whenever B

2. (relativ) als, wo, da:

the day when der Tag, an dem oder als;

the time when it happened die Zeit, in oder zu der es geschah;

the years when we were poor die Jahre, als wir arm waren;

there are occasions when es gibt Gelegenheiten, wo

B konj

1. wann:

she doesn’t know when to be silent

2. (damals, zu der Zeit oder in dem Augenblick,) als:

when (he was) young, he lived in M.;

we were about to start when it began to rain wir wollten gerade fortgehen, als es zu regnen anfing oder da fing es zu regnen an;

he broke a leg when skiing er brach sich beim Skifahren ein Bein;

say when umg sag Halt!, sag, wenn du genug hast! (besonders beim Einschenken)

3. (dann,) wenn:

when it is very cold, you like to stay at home wenn es sehr kalt ist, bleibt man gern(e) zu Hause;

when due bei Fälligkeit

4. (immer) wenn, sobald, sooft:

come when you please

5. (ausrufend) wenn:

when I think what I have done for her! wenn ich daran denke, was ich für sie getan habe!

6. woraufhin, und dann:

we explained it to him, when he at once consented

7. während, obwohl, wo … (doch), da … doch:

why did you tell her, when you knew it would hurt her? warum hast du es ihr gesagt, wo du (doch) wusstest, es würde ihr wehtun?

C pron

1. wann, welche Zeit:

from when does it date? aus welcher Zeit stammt es?

2. (relativ) welcher Zeitpunkt, wann:

they left us on Wednesday, since when we have heard nothing sie verließen uns am Mittwoch, und seitdem haben wir nichts mehr von ihnen gehört;

till when und bis dahin

D s meist pl Wann n:

the whens and wheres of sth das Wann und Wo einer Sache

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1. adverb
1) (at what time) wann

say when — (coll.): (pouring drink) sag halt

that was when I intervened — das war der Moment, wo ich eingriff

2) (at which)

the time when... — die Zeit, zu der od. (ugs.) wo/(with past tense) als...

the day when... — der Tag, an dem od. (ugs.) wo/(with past tense) als...

do you remember [the time] when we... — erinnerst du dich daran, wie wir...
2. conjunction
1) (at the time that) als; (with present or future tense) wenn

when [I was] young — als ich jung war; in meiner Jugend

when in doubt — im Zweifelsfall

when cleaning the gun — beim Putzen des Gewehrs

when speaking French — wenn ich/sie usw. Französisch spreche/spricht usw.

2) (whereas)

why do you go abroad when it's cheaper here? — warum fährst du ins Ausland, wo es doch hier billiger ist?

I received only £5 when I should have got £10 — ich bekam nur 5 Pfund, hätte aber 10 Pfund bekommen sollen

3) (considering that) wenn

how can I finish it when you won't help? — wie soll ich es fertig machen, wenn du nicht hilfst?

4) (and at that moment) als
3. pronoun
by/till when...? — bis wann...?

from/since when...? — ab/seit wann...?

when are we invited for? — für wann sind wir eingeladen?

but that was yesterday, since when things have changed — aber das war gestern, und inzwischen hat sich manches geändert

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adv.

als adv.

sobald adv.

wann adv.

wenn adv.

während adv.

English-german dictionary > when
2 when

when [wen]

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1. adverb

2. conjunction

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1. adverb

quand

• when does the term start? quand commence le trimestre ?

• when did it happen? quand cela s'est-il passé ? ça s'est passé quand ?

• when was the Channel Tunnel opened? quand a-t-on ouvert le tunnel sous la Manche ?

• when's the wedding? quand a lieu le mariage ?

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► There is no inversion after quand in indirect questions.

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• I don't know when I'll see him again je ne sais pas quand je le reverrai

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► If when means what time, the more specific translation is often used.

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• when does the train leave? à quelle heure part le train ?

• when do you finish work? à quelle heure est-ce tu quittes le travail ?

► say when! (inf) (pouring drinks) vous m'arrêterez...

2. conjunction

   a. ( = at the time that) quand

• everything looks nicer when the sun is shining tout est plus joli quand le soleil brille

• I take an aspirin when I have a headache je prends un cachet d'aspirine quand j'ai mal à la tête

• he had just sat down when the phone rang il venait juste de s'asseoir quand la téléphone a sonné

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► If the when clause refers to the future, the future tense is used in French.

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• I'll do it when I have time je le ferai quand j'aurai le temps

• when you're older, you'll understand quand tu seras plus grand, tu comprendras

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► en + present participle may be used, if the subject of both clauses is the same, and the verb is one of action.

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• he blushed when he saw her il a rougi en la voyant

• take care when opening the tin faites attention en ouvrant la boîte

► when + noun/adjective

• when a student at Oxford, she... quand elle était étudiante à Oxford, elle...

• my father, when young, had a fine tenor voice quand mon père était jeune il avait une belle voix de ténor

• the floor is slippery when wet le sol est glissant quand il est mouillé

   b. (with day, time, movement) où

• on the day when I met him le jour où je l'ai rencontré

• at the time when I should have been at the station à l'heure où j'aurais dû être à la gare

• at the very moment when I was about to leave juste au moment où j'allais partir

• there are times when I wish I'd never met him il y a des moments où je souhaiterais ne l'avoir jamais rencontré

   c. ( = which is when) he arrived at 8 o'clock, when traffic is at its peak il est arrivé à 8 heures, heure à laquelle la circulation est la plus intense

• in August, when peaches are at their best en août, époque où les pêches sont les plus savoureuses

   d. ( = the time when) he told me about when you got lost in Paris il m'a raconté le jour où vous vous êtes perdu dans Paris

• now is when I need you most c'est maintenant que j'ai le plus besoin de vous

• that's when the programme starts c'est à cette heure-là que l'émission commence

• that's when Napoleon was born c'est l'année où Napoléon est né

• that was when the trouble started c'est alors que les ennuis ont commencé

   e. ( = after) quand

• when you read the letter you'll know why quand vous aurez lu la lettre vous comprendrez pourquoi

• when he had made the decision, he felt better après avoir pris la décision, il s'est senti soulagé

• when they had left he telephoned me après leur départ il m'a téléphoné

   f. ( = whereas) alors que

• he thought he was recovering, when in fact... il pensait qu'il était en voie de guérison alors qu'en fait...

   g. ( = if) how can I be self-confident when I look like this? comment veux-tu que j'aie confiance en moi en étant comme ça ?

• how can you understand when you won't listen? comment voulez-vous comprendre si vous n'écoutez pas ?

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[wen], US [hwen] 1.
pronoun

1) ( with prepositions) quand

since when? — depuis quand? also iron

2) ( the time when)

that was when it all started to go wrong — c'est à ce moment-là que tout a commencé à mal aller

that's when I was born — ( day) c'est le jour où je suis né; ( year) c'est l'année où je suis né

he spoke of when he was a child — il a parlé de l'époque où il était enfant
2.
adverb

1) ( as interrogative) quand (est-ce que)

when are we leaving? — quand est-ce qu'on part?

I wonder when the film starts — je me demande à quelle heure commence le film

I forget exactly when — ( time) j'ai oublié l'heure exacte; ( date) j'ai oublié la date exacte

tell me ou say when — ( pouring drink) dis-moi stop

2) ( as relative)

in 1993 when — en 1993 quand

at the time when — ( precise moment) au moment où; ( during same period) à l'époque où

the week when it all happened — la semaine où tout s'est passé

on those rare occasions when — les rares fois où

it's times like that when — c'est dans ces moments-là que

one morning when he was getting up, he... — un matin en se levant, il...

3) ( then)

she resigned in May, since when we've had no applicants — elle a démissionné en mai, et depuis (lors) nous n'avons reçu aucune candidature

until when we must stay calm — d'ici là nous devons rester calmes

by when we will have received the information — d'ici là nous aurons reçu toutes les informations

4) ( whenever) quand

he's only happy when he's moaning — il n'est content que quand il rouspète

when I sunbathe, I get freckles — chaque fois que je prends un bain de soleil, j'ai des taches de rousseur

when possible — dans la mesure du possible
3.
conjunction

1) ( at the precise time when) quand, lorsque

when she reaches 18 — quand elle aura 18 ans

2) ( during the period when) quand, lorsque

when he was at school — quand il était à l'école

3) ( as soon as) quand, dès que

I was strolling along when all of a sudden... — je marchais tranquillement quand tout d'un coup...

4) ( when it is the case that) alors que

why buy their products when ours are cheaper? — pourquoi acheter leurs produits alors que les nôtres sont moins chers?

5) ( whereas) alors que

he refused when I would have gladly accepted — il a refusé alors que j'aurais été ravi d'accepter

English-French dictionary > when
3 when

when ⇒ Usage note: when, US hwen

A pron

1 ( with prepositions) quand ; by when? avant quand? ; from when until when? de quand à quand? ; since when? depuis quand? also iron ;

2 ( the time when) that was when it all started to go wrong c'est à ce moment-là que tout a commencé à mal aller ; that's when I was born ( day) c'est le jour où je suis né ; ( year) c'est l'année où je suis né ; now is when we must act c'est maintenant qu'il faut agir ; he spoke of when he was a child il a parlé de l'époque où il était enfant.

B adv

1 ( as interrogative) quand (est-ce que) ; when are we leaving? quand est-ce qu'on part? ; when is the concert? c'est quand le concert? ; when is it possible to say/use…? quand est-ce qu'on peut dire/utiliser…? ; when do the first rains come? quand commence la saison des pluies? ; when was it that he died? quand est-ce qu'il est mort? ;

2 ( as indirect interrogative) quand ; ask him when he wrote the letter demande-lui quand il a écrit la lettre ; I wonder when the film starts je me demande à quelle heure commence le film ; I forget exactly when ( time) j'ai oublié l'heure exacte ; ( date) j'ai oublié la date exacte ; there was some disagreement as to when… tout le monde n'était pas d'accord sur la date à laquelle… ; tell me ou say when ( pouring drink) dis-moi d'arrêter ;

3 ( as relative) on Monday/in 1993 when lundi/en 1993 quand ; at the time when ( precise moment) au moment où ; ( during same period) à l'époque où ; the week when it all happened la semaine où tout s'est passé ; on those rare occasions when les rares fois où ; there are times when il y a des moments où ; it's times like that when c'est dans ces moments-là que ; it's the time of year when c'est la période de l'année où ; one morning when he was getting up, he… un matin en se levant, il… ;

4 ( then) she resigned in May, since when we've had no applicants elle a démissionné en mai, et depuis (lors) nous n'avons reçu aucune candidature ; until when we must stay calm d'ici là nous devons rester calmes ; by when we will have received the information d'ici là nous aurons reçu toutes les informations ;

5 ( whenever) quand ; he's only happy when he's moaning il n'est content que quand il rouspète ; when on holiday you should relax quand on est en vacances il faut se détendre ; when I sunbathe, I get freckles chaque fois que je prends un bain de soleil, j'ai des taches de rousseur ; when necessary quand c'est nécessaire ; when possible dans la mesure du possible.

C conj

1 ( at the precise time when) quand, lorsque ; when she reaches 18 quand elle aura 18 ans ;

2 ( during the period when) quand, lorsque ; when he was at school/just a trainee quand il était à l'école/simplement stagiaire ; when you're in your teens quand on est adolescent ; when sailing, always wear a lifejacket quand on fait de la voile, il faut toujours porter un gilet de sauvetage ;

3 ( as soon as) quand, dès que ; when he arrives, I'll tell him quand or dès qu'il arrivera, je le lui dirai ; when drawn up, the plan… quand le projet sera rédigé, il…, une fois rédigé, le projet… ;

4 ( when simultaneously) quand ; I was in the bath when the phone rang j'étais dans mon bain quand le téléphone a sonné ;

5 ( when suddenly) quand ; I was strolling along when all of a sudden… je marchais tranquillement quand tout d'un coup… ; hardly ou scarcely ou barely had I sat down when je venais à peine de m'asseoir quand ;

6 (once, after) quand, une fois que ; when you've been to Scotland, you'll want to go again and again quand or une fois que vous aurez visité l'Écosse, vous aurez forcément envie d'y retourner ;

7 ( when it is the case that) alors que ; why buy their products when ours are cheaper? pourquoi acheter leurs produits alors que les nôtres sont moins chers? ;

8 ( whereas) alors que ; she became a nun when she could have been an actress elle est devenue religieuse alors qu'elle aurait pu devenir actrice ; he refused when I would have gladly accepted il a refusé alors que j'aurais été ravi d'accepter.

Big English-French dictionary > when
4 when

[(h)wen] adv

inv

1) interrogative ( at what time) wann;

\when do you want to go? wann möchtest du gehen?;

\when's the baby due? wann hat sie Geburtstermin?;

do you know \when he'll be back? weißt du, wann er zurückkommt?;

to tell sb \when to do sth jdm sagen, wann er/sie etw tun soll;

since \when...? seit wann...?;

until \when...? wie lange...?

2) interrogative ( in what circumstances) wann;

\when is it OK to cross the road? - when the little green man is lit up wann darf man die Straße überqueren? - wenn das kleine grüne Männchen aufleuchtet

3) relative ( in following circumstances) wenn;

(at which, on which) wo;

when is it OK to cross the road? - \when the little green man is lit up wann darf man die Straße überqueren? - wenn das kleine grüne Männchen aufleuchtet;

the week between Christmas and New Year is \when we carry out an inventory in der Woche zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr machen wir eine Inventur;

March is the month \when the monsoon arrives im März kommt der Monsun;

this is one of those occasions \when I could wring his neck dies ist eine der Gelegenheiten, wo ich ihm den Hals umdrehen könnte;

she was only twenty \when she had her first baby sie war erst zwanzig, als sie das erste Kind bekam;

Saturday is the day \when I get my hair done samstags lasse ich mir immer die Haare machen;

there are times \when... es gibt Momente [o Augenblicke], wo... conj

1) (at, during the time) als;

I used to love that film \when I was a child als Kind liebte ich diesen Film;

I loved maths \when I was at school in der Schule liebte ich Mathe

2) ( after) wenn;

he was quite shocked \when I told him er war ziemlich schockiert, als ich es ihm erzählte;

call me \when you've finished ruf mich an, wenn du fertig bist

3) ( whenever) wenn;

I hate it \when there's no one in the office ich hasse es, wenn niemand im Büro ist

4) ( and just then) als;

I was just getting into the bath \when the telephone rang ich stieg gerade in die Badewanne, als das Telefon läutete

5) ( considering that) wenn;

how can you say you don't like something \when you've never even tried it? wie kannst du sagen, dass du etwas nicht magst, wenn du es nie probiert hast?

6) ( although) obwohl;

I don't understand how he can say that everything's fine \when it's so obvious that it's not ich verstehe nicht, wie er sagen kann, dass alles in Ordnung ist, wenn doch offensichtlich was nicht stimmt

English-German students dictionary > when
5 occasion

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n

1) случай, раз

I did what the occasion required (demanded). — Я сделал то, что требовали обстоятельства. /Я поступил так, как требовали обстоятельства.

We met only on one occasion. — Мы встречались только один раз.

There are occasions when you must not refuse. — Бывают такие обстоятельства/случаи, когда нельзя отказаться.

- favourable occasion
- on that occasion
- on the occasion of his arrival
- on many occasions
- on all occasions
- on all occasion
- on another occasion
- on similar occasions
- on the last occasion
- on the occasion of my sister's mariage
- meet smb on several occasions
- profit by the occasion
2) событие

It was quite an occasion. — Это было целое событие.

He wrote the music for this occasion. — Он написал музыку специально для этого случая.

The whole family gathered for the occasion. — Вся семья собралась по поводу этого события.

- great occasion
- historical occasion
- festive occasion
- domestic occasion
- on this happy occasion
- mark the occasion
3) возможность, удобный случай, подходящий момент

I'll do it on the first possible occasion. — Я сделаю это при первой возможности.

- unexpected occasion
- rare occasion to do smth
- offer a splendid occasion to do smth
- have frequent occasion to see him
- have a sence of occasion
- have occasion to observe the ceremony
- take the occasion
- choose one's occasion
- fit the occasion
4) повод, причина, основание

There is no occasion for alarm. — Нет никаких оснований для тревоги.

It was the occasion for a new quarrel. — Это послужило поводом для новой ссоры.

I've already had occasion to warn him about it. — Мне уже приходилось предупреждать его об этом

- have occasion for complaint
- give smb occasion to be angry

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > occasion
6 time

1. noun
1) no pl., no art. Zeit, die

the greatest composer of all time — der größte Komponist aller Zeiten

for all time — für immer [und ewig]

past/present/future time — Vergangenheit, die/Gegenwart, die/Zukunft, die

stand the test of time — die Zeit überdauern; sich bewähren

in [the course of] time, as time goes on/went on — mit der Zeit; im Laufe der Zeit

as old as time — uralt

time will tell or show — die Zukunft wird es zeigen

at this point or moment in time — zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

time flies — die Zeit vergeht [wie] im Fluge

work against time — unter Zeitdruck arbeiten

in time, with time — (sooner or later) mit der Zeit

2) (interval, available or allotted period) Zeit, die

in a week's/month's/year's time — in einer Woche/in einem Monat/Jahr

there is time for that — dafür ist od. haben wir noch Zeit

it takes me all my time to do it — es beansprucht meine ganze Zeit, es zu tun

give one's time to something — einer Sache (Dat.) seine Zeit opfern

waste of time — Zeitverschwendung, die

spend [most of one's/a lot of] time on something/[in] doing something — [die meiste/viel] Zeit mit etwas zubringen/damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

I have been waiting for some/a long time — ich warte schon seit einiger Zeit/schon lange

she will be there for [quite] some time — sie wird ziemlich lange dort sein

be pressed for time — keine Zeit haben; (have to finish quickly) in Zeitnot sein

pass the time — sich (Dat.) die Zeit vertreiben

length of time — Zeit[dauer], die

make time for somebody/something — sich (Dat.) für jemanden/etwas Zeit nehmen

a short time ago — vor kurzem

that's a long time ago — das ist schon lange her

in one's own time — in seiner Freizeit; (whenever one wishes) wann man will

take one's time [over something] — sich (Dat.) [für etwas] Zeit lassen; (be slow) sich (Dat.) Zeit [mit etwas] lassen

time is money — (prov.) Zeit ist Geld (Spr.)

in [good] time — (not late) rechtzeitig

all the or this time — die ganze Zeit; (without ceasing) ständig

in [less than or next to] no time — innerhalb kürzester Zeit; im Nu od. Handumdrehen

in half the time — in der Hälfte der Zeit

half the time — (coll.): (as often as not) fast immer

it will take [some] time — es wird einige Zeit dauern

have the/no time — Zeit/keine Zeit haben

have no time for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas ist einem seine Zeit zu schade

there is no time to lose or be lost — es ist keine Zeit zu verlieren

lose no time in doing something — (not delay) etwas unverzüglich tun

do time — (coll.) eine Strafe absitzen (ugs.)

in my time — (heyday) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.); (in the course of my life) im Laufe meines Lebens

in my time — (period at a place) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.)

time off or out — freie Zeit

get/take time off — frei bekommen/sich (Dat.) frei nehmen (ugs.)

Time! — (Boxing) Stop!; Time!; (Brit.): (in pub) Feierabend!

have a lot of time for somebody — (fig.) für jemandem viel übrig haben

3) no pl. (moment or period destined for purpose) Zeit, die

harvest/Christmas time — Ernte-/Weihnachtszeit, die

there is a time and place for everything — alles zu seiner Zeit

now is the time to do it — jetzt ist die richtige Zeit, es zu tun

time for lunch — Zeit zum Mittagessen

it is time to go — es wird Zeit zu gehen

and not before time — und es wurde auch Zeit

when the time comes/came — wenn es so weit ist/als es so weit war

on time — (punctually) pünktlich

ahead of time — zu früh [ankommen]; vorzeitig [fertig werden]

all in good time — alles zu seiner Zeit; see also academic.ru/5926/be">be 2. 1)

4) in sing. or pl. (circumstances) Zeit, die

times are good/bad/have changed — die Zeiten sind gut/schlecht/haben sich verändert

have a good time — Spaß haben (ugs.); sich amüsieren

have a hard time [of it] — eine schwere Zeit durchmachen

5) (associated with events or person[s]) Zeit, die

in time of peace/war — in Friedens-/Kriegszeiten

in Tudor/ancient times — zur Zeit der Tudors/der Antike

in former/modern times — früher/heutzutage

ahead of or before one's/its time — seiner Zeit voraus

at one time — (previously) früher

6) (occasion) Mal, das

for the first time — zum ersten Mal

next time you come — wenn du das nächste Mal kommst

ten/a hundred/a thousand times — zehn- / hundert- / tausendmal

many times — sehr oft

many's the time [that]..., many a time... — viele Male...

at all times — jederzeit

at times — gelegentlich

from time to time — von Zeit zu Zeit

at other times — sonst

at one time or another — irgendwann einmal

at a time like this/that — unter diesen/solchen Umständen

at the or that time — (in the past) damals

at one time, at [one and] the same time — (simultaneously) gleichzeitig

at the same time — (nevertheless) gleichwohl

between times — zwischendurch

time and [time] again, time after time — immer [und immer] wieder

pay somebody £6 a time — jemandem für jedes Mal 6 Pfund zahlen

one at a time — einzeln

two at a time — jeweils zwei

for hours/weeks at a time — stundenlang/wochenlang [ohne Unterbrechung]

7) (point in day etc.) [Uhr]zeit, die

at the same time every morning — jeden Morgen um dieselbe Zeit

what time is it?, what is the time? — wie spät ist es?

have you [got] the time? — kannst du mir sagen, wie spät es ist?

tell the time — (read a clock) die Uhr lesen

time of day — Tageszeit, die

[at this] time of [the] year — [um diese] Jahreszeit

at this time of [the] night — zu dieser Nachtstunde

pass the time of day — (coll.) ein paar Worte wechseln

by this/that time — inzwischen

by the time [that] we arrived — bis wir hinkamen

[by] this time tomorrow — morgen um diese Zeit

keep good time — [Uhr:] genau od. richtig gehen

8) (amount) Zeit, die

make good time — gut vorwärts kommen

[your] time's up! — deine Zeit ist um (ugs.) od. abgelaufen

9) (multiplication) mal

three times four — drei mal vier

four times the size of/higher than something — viermal so groß wie/höher als etwas

10) (Mus.) (duration of note) Zeitdauer, die; (measure) Takt, der

in three-four time — im Dreivierteltakt

keep in time with the music — den Takt halten

out of time/in time — aus dem/im Takt

keep time with something — bei etwas den Takt [ein]halten
2. transitive verb
1) (do at correct time) zeitlich abstimmen

be well/ill timed — zur richtigen/falschen Zeit kommen

2) (set to operate at correct time) justieren (Technik); einstellen

3) (arrange time of arrival/departure of)

the bus is timed to connect with the train — der Bus hat einen direkten Anschluss an den Zug

be timed to take 90 minutes — fahrplanmäßig 90 Minuten dauern

4) (measure time taken by) stoppen

time an egg — auf die richtige Kochdauer für ein Ei achten
•• Cultural note:
Times - The Times

Eine britische überregionale Tageszeitung, deren Pendant am Sonntag The Sunday Times ist. Sie ist eine broadsheet-Zeitung und zählt zur seriösen Presse. Sie ist politisch unabhängig, wird jedoch gemeinhin als konservativ angesehen. Sie ist die älteste Zeitung in England und wurde erstmals 1785 veröffentlicht

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1. noun
1) (the hour of the day: What time is it?; Can your child tell the time yet?) die Zeit

2) (the passage of days, years, events etc: time and space; Time will tell.) die Zeit

3) (a point at which, or period during which, something happens: at the time of his wedding; breakfast-time.)

4) (the quantity of minutes, hours, days etc, eg spent in, or available for, a particular activity etc: This won't take much time to do; I enjoyed the time I spent in Paris; At the end of the exam, the supervisor called `Your time is up!') die Zeit

5) (a suitable moment or period: Now is the time to ask him.) der Zeitpunkt

6) (one of a number occasions: He's been to France four times.) das Mal

7) (a period characterized by a particular quality in a person's life, experience etc: He went through an unhappy time when she died; We had some good times together.) die Zeiten (pl.)

8) (the speed at which a piece of music should be played; tempo: in slow time.) das Tempo
2. verb
1) (to measure the time taken by (a happening, event etc) or by (a person, in doing something): He timed the journey.) Zeit messen von

2) (to choose a particular time for: You timed your arrival beautifully!) den Zeitpunkt wählen

•

- timeless
- timelessly
- timelessness
- timely
- timeliness
- timer
- times
- timing
- time bomb
- time-consuming
- time limit
- time off
- time out
- timetable
- all in good time
- all the time
- at times
- be behind time
- for the time being
- from time to time
- in good time
- in time
- no time at all
- no time
- one
- two at a time
- on time
- save
- waste time
- take one's time
- time and time again
- time and again
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time

[taɪm]

I. NOUN

1. no pl (considered as a whole) Zeit f

\time stood still die Zeit stand still

\time marches [or moves] on die Zeit bleibt nicht stehen

the best player of all \time der bester Spieler aller Zeiten

in the course of \time mit der Zeit

over the course of \time im Lauf[e] der Zeit

to be a matter [or question] of \time eine Frage der Zeit sein

\time is on sb's side die Zeit arbeitet für jdn

as \time goes by [or on] im Lauf[e] der Zeit

to kill \time die Zeit totschlagen

to make \time for sth sich dat die Zeit für etw akk nehmen

\time-tested [alt]bewährt

for all \time für immer [o alle Zeit]

in \time mit der Zeit

over [or with] \time im Lauf[e] der Zeit

2. no pl (period, duration) Zeit f

\time's up ( fam) die Zeit ist um

we spent part of the \time in Florence, and part of the \time in Rome wir verbrachten unsere Zeit teils in Florenz und teils in Rom

you'll forget her, given \time mit der Zeit wirst du sie vergessen

it will take some \time es wird eine Weile dauern

sorry, folks, we're [all] out of \time now AM, AUS ( fam) tut mir leid Leute, aber wir sind schon über der Zeit

I haven't seen one of those in a long \time so etwas habe ich schon lange nicht mehr gesehen

half the \time, he misses class er fehlt die halbe Zeit

the \time is ripe die Zeit ist reif

we talked about old \times wir sprachen über alte Zeiten

breakfast/holiday \time Frühstücks-/Urlaubszeit f

extra \time SPORT Verlängerung f

they played extra \time sie mussten in die Verlängerung

three minutes into extra \time, Ricardo scored the decisive goal nach drei Minuten Verlängerung erzielte Ricardo das entscheidende Tor

free [or spare] \time Freizeit f

future \time Zukunft f

injury \time BRIT SPORT Nachspielzeit f

to have \time on one's hands viel Zeit zur Verfügung haben

at this moment in \time zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

period of \time Zeitraum m

for a prolonged period of \time über einen längeren Zeitraum

running \time FILM Spielzeit f

past \time Vergangenheit f

present \time Gegenwart f

in one week's \time in einer Woche

in one's own \time in seiner Freizeit

a short \time later kurz darauf

some/a long \time ago vor einiger/langer Zeit

most of the \time meistens

to do sth for a \time etw eine Zeit lang tun

to find [the] \time to do sth Zeit finden, etw zu tun

to gain/lose \time Zeit gewinnen/verlieren

there's no \time to lose [or to be lost] wir dürfen [jetzt] keine Zeit verlieren, es ist höchste Zeit

to give sb a hard \time ( fam) jdm zusetzen

to have the \time of one's life sich akk großartig amüsieren

to have all the \time in the world alle Zeit der Welt haben

to have an easy/hard \time with sth keine Probleme/Probleme mit etw dat haben

to make \time for sb/sth sich dat Zeit für jdn/etw nehmen

to pass the \time sich dat die Zeit vertreiben

to be pressed for \time in Zeitnot sein

to run out of \time nicht genügend Zeit haben

to save \time Zeit sparen

to spend [a lot of] \time [in] doing sth [viel] Zeit damit verbringen, etw zu tun

to take [a long/short] \time [lange/nicht lange] dauern

to take one's \time sich dat Zeit lassen

to take the \time and trouble to do sth sich dat die Mühe machen, etw zu tun

to waste \time Zeit vergeuden [o verschwenden]

to waste sb's \time jds Zeit vergeuden

after a \time nach einer gewissen Zeit

all the [or this] \time die ganze Zeit; (always) immer

for a \time eine Zeit lang

for a long/short \time [für] lange/kurze Zeit

for the \time being vorläufig

leave the ironing for the \time being - I'll do it later lass das Bügeln einst mal - ich mach's später

in no [or next to no] [or less than no] \time [at all] im Nu

3. (pertaining to clocks)

have you got the \time? können Sie mir sagen, wie spät es ist?

what's the \time? [or what \time is it?] wie spät ist es?

excuse me, have you got the \time [on you]? Entschuldigung, haben Sie eine Uhr?

can you already tell the \time? na, kannst du denn schon die Uhr lesen?

oh dear, is that the right \time? oh je, ist es denn wirklich schon so spät/noch so früh?

the \time is 8.30 es ist 8.30 Uhr

to keep bad/good \time watch, clock falsch/richtig gehen

to gain/lose \time watch, clock vor-/nachgehen

4. (specific time or hour) Zeit f

the \time is drawing near when we'll have to make a decision der Zeitpunkt, zu dem wir uns entscheiden müssen, rückt immer näher

he recalled the \time when they had met er erinnerte sich daran, wie sie sich kennengelernt hatten

do you remember the \time Alistair fell into the river? erinnerst du dich noch daran, wie Alistair in den Fluss fiel?

we always have dinner at the same \time wir essen immer um dieselbe Zeit zu Abend

I was exhausted by the \time I got home ich war erschöpft, als ich zu Hause ankam

I'll call you ahead of \time esp AM ich rufe dich noch davor an

at this \time of day/year zu dieser Tages-/Jahreszeit

for this \time of day/year für diese Tages-/Jahreszeit

what are you doing here at this \time of the day [or night]? was machst du um diese Uhrzeit hier?

this \time tomorrow/next month morgen/nächsten Monat um diese Zeit

5. (occasion) Mal nt

the last \time we went to Paris,... das letzte Mal, als wir nach Paris fuhren,...

I'll know better next \time das nächste Mal bin ich schlauer

there are \times when I... es gibt Augenblicke, in denen ich...

sometimes I enjoy doing it, but at other \times I hate it manchmal mache ich es gerne, dann wiederum gibt es Momente, in denen ich es hasse

every [or each] \time jedes Mal

for the first \time zum ersten Mal

some other \time ein andermal

one/two at a \time jeweils eine(r, s)/zwei; persons jeweils einzeln/zu zweit

at \times manchmal

at all \times immer, jederzeit

at any [given] [or [any] one] \time immer, jederzeit

at the \time damals

at the best of \times im besten [o günstigen] Fall[e]

he can't read a map at the best of \times er kann nicht mal unter normalen Umständen eine Karte lesen

at the present [or AM this] \time im Moment

from \time to \time gelegentlich, ab und zu

6. (frequency) Mal nt

the \times I've told you... [or how many \times have I told you...] wie oft habe ich dir schon gesagt...

these shares are selling at 10 \time earnings diese Aktien werden mit einem Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis von 10 verkauft

\time and [\time] again immer [und immer] wieder

three/four \times a week/in a row drei/vier Mal in der Woche/hintereinander

three \times champion BRIT, AUS [or AM three \time champion] dreimaliger Meister/dreimalige Meisterin

three \times as much dreimal so viel

for the hundredth/thousandth/umpteenth \time zum hundertsten/tausendsten/x-ten Mal

lots of [or many] \times oft, viele Male

7. no pl (correct moment)

it's \time for bed es ist Zeit, ins Bett zu gehen

the \time has come to... es ist an der Zeit,...

it's \time [that] I was leaving es wird Zeit, dass ich gehe

[and] about \time [too] BRIT, AUS (yet to be accomplished) wird aber auch [langsam] Zeit!; (already accomplished) wurde aber auch [langsam] Zeit!

it's high \time that she was leaving höchste Zeit, dass sie geht!; (already gone) das war aber auch höchste Zeit, dass sie endlich geht!

we finished two weeks ahead of \time wir sind zwei Wochen früher fertig geworden

we arrived in good \time for the start of the match wir sind rechtzeitig zum Spielbeginn angekommen

to do sth dead [or exactly] [or right] on \time ( fam) etw pünktlich machen fam

the bus arrived dead on \time der Bus kam auf die Minute genau

in \time rechtzeitig

on \time pünktlich; (as scheduled) termingerecht

8. often pl (era, lifetime) Zeit f

\times are difficult [or hard] die Zeiten sind hart

at the \time of the Russian Revolution zur Zeit der Russischen Revolution

in Victorian \times im Viktorianischen Zeitalter

she is one of the best writers of modern \times sie ist eine der besten Schriftstellerinnen dieser Tage [o unserer Zeit]

at one \time, George Eliot lived here George Eliot lebte einmal hier

this was before my \time das war vor meiner Zeit

she has grown old before her \time sie ist vorzeitig gealtert

my grandmother has seen a few things in her \time meine Großmutter hat in ihrem Leben einiges gesehen

\time was when you could... es gab Zeiten, da konnte man...

if one had one's \time over again wenn man noch einmal von vorne anfangen könnte

at his \time of life in seinem Alter

the best.... of all \time der/die beste... aller Zeiten

to keep up [or AM change] with the \times mit der Zeit gehen

to be ahead of [or esp BRIT before] one's \time seiner Zeit voraus sein

to be behind the \times seiner Zeit hinterherhinken

from [or since] \time immemorial [or esp BRIT out of mind] seit undenklichen Zeiten

in [or during] former/medieval \times früher/im Mittelalter

in \times gone by früher

in my \time zu meiner Zeit

in our grandparents' \time zu Zeiten unserer Großeltern

in \times past in der Vergangenheit, früher

9. TRANSP (schedule)

arrival/departure \time Ankunfts-/Abfahrtszeit f

10. (hour registration method)

daylight saving \time Sommerzeit f

Greenwich Mean T\time Greenwicher Zeit f

11. SPORT Zeit f

record \time Rekordzeit f

he won the 100 metres in record \time er gewann das 100-Meter-Rennen in einer neuen Rekordzeit

12. (multiplied)

two \times five is ten zwei mal fünf ist zehn

ten \times bigger than... zehnmal so groß wie...

13. no pl MUS Takt m

to be/play out of \time aus dem Takt sein

to beat \time den Rhythmus schlagen

to get out of \time aus dem Takt kommen

to keep \time den Takt halten

in three-four \time im Dreivierteltakt

14. (remunerated work)

part \time Teilzeit f

short \time BRIT Kurzarbeit f

to have \time off frei haben

to take \time off sich dat freinehmen

\time off arbeitsfreie Zeit

to be paid double \time den doppelten Stundensatz [o 100% Zuschlag] bezahlt bekommen

to work [or be on] short \time BRIT kurzarbeiten

15. BRIT (end of pub hours)

“\time [please]!” „Feierabend!“ (wenn ein Pub abends schließt)

16. ([not] like)

to not give sb the \time of day jdn ignorieren

to not have much \time for sb jdn nicht mögen

to have a lot of \time for sb großen Respekt vor jdm haben

17.

▶ \times are changing die Zeiten ändern sich

▶ to do [or serve] \time ( fam) sitzen fig fam

▶ \time is of the essence die Zeit drängt

▶ \time flies [when you're having fun] ( saying) wie die Zeit vergeht!

▶ all good things in all good \time alles zu seiner Zeit

▶ \time is a great healer, \time heals all wounds ( prov) die Zeit heilt alle Wunden prov

▶ \time hangs heavy die Zeit steht still

▶ \time is money ( prov) Zeit ist Geld prov

▶ to know the \time of the day sich akk auskennen

▶ \time moves on [or passes] die Zeit rast

▶ there's a \time and a place [for everything] ( prov) alles zu seiner Zeit

▶ there's no \time like the present ( saying) was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen prov

▶ [only] \time can [or will] tell ( saying) erst die Zukunft wird es zeigen

▶ \time and tide wait for no man [or no one] ( prov) man muss die Gelegenheit beim Schopf[e] packen

▶ a week is a long \time in politics ( saying) eine Woche ist lang in der Politik

II. TRANSITIVE VERB

1. (measure duration)

▪ to \time sb over 100 metres jds Zeit beim 100-Meter-Lauf nehmen

the winning team was \timed at 5 minutes 26 seconds die Siegermannschaft wurde mit 5 Minuten und 26 Sekunden gestoppt

to \time an egg darauf achten, dass man fürs Eierkochen die richtige Zeit einhält

2. (choose best moment for)

▪ to \time sth für etw akk den richtigen Zeitpunkt wählen

to be ill/well \timed zum genau falschen/richtigen Zeitpunkt kommen

3. (arrange when sth should happen)

▪ to \time sth to... etw so planen, dass...

we \timed our trip to coincide with her wedding wir legten unsere Reise so, dass sie mit ihrer Hochzeit zusammenfiel

to \time a bomb to explode at... eine Bombe so einstellen, dass sie um... explodiert

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[taɪm]
1. NOUN

1) Zeit f

how time flies! — wie die Zeit vergeht!

only time will tell whether... — es muss sich erst herausstellen, ob...

it takes time to do that — das erfordert or braucht (seine) Zeit

to take (one's) time (over sth) — sich (dat) (bei etw) Zeit lassen

it took me all my time to finish — ich bin gerade noch fertig geworden

in (the course of) time — mit der Zeit

in ( next to or less than) no time — im Nu, im Handumdrehen

at this ( present) point or moment in time — zu diesem or zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

to have a lot of/no time for sb/sth — viel/keine Zeit für jdn/etw haben; ( fig

to find time (for sb/sth) — Zeit (für jdn/etw) finden

to make time (for sb/sth) — sich (dat) Zeit (für jdn/etw) nehmen

time is on our side — die Zeit arbeitet für uns

he lost no time in telling her —

there is no time to lose — es gibt keine Zeit (mehr) zu verlieren

my time is my own — ich kann frei über meine Zeit verfügen

in or given time — mit der Zeit

in one's own/the company's time — in or während der Freizeit/Arbeitszeit

don't rush, do it in your own time — nur keine Hast, tun Sie es, wie Sie es können

time is money (prov) — Zeit ist Geld (prov)

time and tide wait for no man (Prov) — das Rad der Zeit hält niemand auf (Prov)

for some time past — seit einiger Zeit

I don't know what she's saying half the time (inf) — meistens verstehe ich gar nicht, was sie sagt

in two weeks' time — in zwei Wochen

for a time — eine Zeit lang

not before time (Brit) — das wurde auch (langsam) Zeit

to do time ( inf, in prison ) — sitzen (inf)

I get them mixed up all the time I knew that all the time — ich verwechsle sie immer das wusste ich die ganze Zeit

to be in good time — rechtzeitig dran sein

let me know in good time — sagen Sie mir rechtzeitig Bescheid

all in good time — alles zu seiner Zeit

he'll let you know in his own good time — er wird Ihnen Bescheid sagen, wenn er so weit ist

he does everything in his own good time — er lässt sich bei nichts hetzen

(for) a long time — lange

I'm going away for a long time — ich fahre für or auf längere Zeit weg

it's a long time ( since...) — es ist schon lange her(, seit...)

what a (long) time you have been! — du hast( aber) lange gebraucht!

(for) a short time — kurz

a short time later — kurz darauf

a short time ago — vor Kurzem

in a short time they were all gone — nach kurzer Zeit waren alle gegangen

to have time on one's hands —

too many people who have time on their hands — zu viele Leute, die zu viel freie Zeit haben

having time on my hands I went into a café — da ich (noch) Zeit hatte, ging ich ins Café

2)

by clock what time is it?, what's the time? — wie spät ist es?, wie viel Uhr ist es?

what time do you make it? — wie spät haben Sies?

my watch keeps good time — meine Uhr geht genau

the time is 2.30 — es ist 2.30 Uhr, die Zeit: 2.30 Uhr

it's 2 o'clock local time — es ist 2.00 Uhr Ortszeit

what was his time? (in race) — welche Zeit hatte er?

the winning time was... — die Zeit des Siegers war...

it's time (for me/us etc) to go, it's time I was/we were etc going, it's time I/we etc went — es wird Zeit, dass ich gehe/wir gehen etc

it's time for tea — es ist Teezeit

time gentlemen please! — Feierabend! (inf), bitte, trinken Sie aus, wir schließen gleich

to pass the time of day (with sb) — (mit jdm) über Belanglosigkeiten reden

I wouldn't even give him the time of day — ich würde ihm nicht einmal guten or Guten Tag sagen __diams; to tell the time (person) die Uhr kennen; (instrument) die Uhrzeit anzeigen

can you tell the time? — kennst du die Uhr? __diams; to make good time gut or schnell vorankommen

if we get to Birmingham by 3 we'll be making good time — wenn wir um 3 Uhr in Birmingham sind, sind wir ziemlich schnell

it's about time he was here (he has arrived) — es wird (aber) auch Zeit, dass er kommt; (he has not arrived) es wird langsam Zeit, dass er kommt

(and) about time too! — das wird aber auch Zeit! __diams; ahead of time zu früh

we are ahead of time — wir sind früh dran __diams; behind time zu spät

we are behind time — wir sind spät dran

at any time during the day — zu jeder Tageszeit

not at this time of night! — nicht zu dieser nachtschlafenden Zeit or Stunde!

at one time — früher, einmal

at any time — jederzeit

come (at) any time — du kannst jederzeit kommen

at no time — niemals

at the same time (lit) — gleichzeitig

they arrived at the same time as us — sie kamen zur gleichen Zeit an wie wir

but at the same time, you must admit that... — aber andererseits müssen Sie zugeben, dass...

it was hard, but at the same time you could have tried — es war schwierig, aber Sie hätten es trotzdem versuchen können __diams; in/on time rechtzeitig

to be in time for sth — rechtzeitig zu etw kommen

on time — pünktlich

the trains are on time — die Züge fahren pünktlich

the trains are running to time — die Züge fahren pünktlich

3) = moment, season Zeit f

there's a time and a place for everything — alles zu seiner Zeit

this is hardly the time or the place to... — dies ist wohl kaum die rechte Zeit oder der rechte Ort, um...

this is no time for quarrelling or to quarrel — jetzt ist nicht die Zeit, sich zu streiten

well, this is a fine time to tell me that (iro) — Sie haben sich (dat) wahrhaftig eine gute Zeit ausgesucht, um mir das zu sagen

there are times when... — es gibt Augenblicke, wo or da (geh)...

at the or that time — damals, zu der Zeit, seinerzeit

at this (particular) time, at the present time — zurzeit

sometimes..., (at) other times... —

from that time on since that time — von der Zeit an, von da an seit der Zeit

this time last year/week — letztes Jahr/letzte Woche um diese Zeit

to choose or pick one's time — sich (dat) einen günstigen Zeitpunkt aussuchen

to die before one's time — zu früh sterben

my time is ( almost) up — meine or die Zeit ist (gleich) um

the time has come (to do sth) — es ist an der Zeit(, etw zu tun)

the time has come for us to leave — es ist Zeit für uns zu gehen

when the time comes — wenn es so weit ist

when her time comes (of pregnant woman) — wenn es (mit dem Baby) so weit ist

when the time comes for you to be the leader — wenn Sie an der Reihe sind, die Führung zu übernehmen __diams; at + times manchmal

at all times — jederzeit, immer

at various times in the past — schon verschiedene Male or verschiedentlich __diams; between times (inf) zwischendurch

by the time it had finished — als es zu Ende war

by the time we arrive, there's not going to be anything left — bis wir ankommen, ist nichts mehr übrig

by that time we knew — da or inzwischen wussten wir es

by that time we'll know — dann or bis dahin wissen wir es __diams; by this time inzwischen

by this time next year/tomorrow — nächstes Jahr/morgen um diese Zeit __diams; from time to time, (US) time to time dann und wann, von Zeit zu Zeit

until such time as... — so lange bis...

until such time as you apologize — solange du dich nicht entschuldigst, bis du dich entschuldigst

this time of the day/year — diese Tages-/Jahreszeit

at this time of the week/month — zu diesem Zeitpunkt der Woche/des Monats

now's the time to do it —

now's my/your etc time to do it — jetzt habe ich/hast du etc Gelegenheit, es zu tun

4)

= occasion this time — diesmal, dieses Mal

every or each time... — jedes Mal, wenn...

many a time, many times — viele Male

many's the time I have heard him say... — ich habe ihn schon oft sagen hören...

for the last time — zum letzten Mal

and he's not very bright at the best of times — und er ist ohnehin or sowieso nicht sehr intelligent

the time before — das letzte or vorige Mal

the time before last — das vorletzte Mal

time and (time) again, time after time — immer wieder, wieder und wieder (geh)

I've told you a dozen times... — ich habe dir schon x-mal gesagt...

nine times out of ten... — neun von zehn Malen...

she comes three times a week — sie kommt dreimal pro Woche or in der Woche

they came in one/three etc at a time — sie kamen einzeln/immer zu dritt etc herein

four at a time — vier auf einmal

for weeks at a time — wochenlang __diams; a time

he pays me £10 a time — er zahlt mir jedes Mal £ 10

rides on the roundabout cost £2 a time — eine Fahrt auf dem Karussell kostet £ 2 __diams; (the) next time

(the) next time I see you — wenn ich dich nächstes Mal or das nächste Mal sehe

(the) last time he was here — letztes Mal or das letzte Mal, als er hier war

5) MATH

2 times 3 is 6 — 2 mal 3 ist 6

it was ten times as big as or ten times the size of... —

our profits are rising four times faster than our competitors' — unsere Gewinne steigen viermal so schnell wie die unserer Konkurrenten

6)

= rate Sunday is (paid) double time/time and a half — sonntags gibt es 100%/50% Zuschlag

7) = era Zeit f

this is the greatest problem of our time — das ist das größte Problem unserer Zeit

in my time — zu meiner Zeit

it happened before my time — das war vor meiner Zeit

of all time — aller Zeiten

time was when... — es gab Zeiten, da...

he is ahead of his time or before his time — er ist seiner Zeit (weit) voraus

in Victorian times — im Viktorianischen Zeitalter

in olden times — in alten Zeiten

times are hard — die Zeiten sind hart or schwer

when times are hard —

times change — die Zeiten ändern sich

times are changing — es kommen andere Zeiten

times are changing for the better/worse — es kommen bessere/schlechtere Zeiten

times have changed for the better/worse — die Zeiten haben sich gebessert/verschlechtert

to be behind the times — rückständig sein, hinter dem Mond leben (inf)

to keep up with the times — mit der Zeit gehen

8)

= experience to have the time of one's life — eine herrliche Zeit verbringen, sich glänzend amüsieren

what a time we had or that was! —

what times we had!, what times they were! — das waren (noch) Zeiten!

to have an easy/a hard time — es leicht/schwer haben

we had an easy/a hard time getting to the finals — es war leicht für uns/wir hatten Schwierigkeiten, in die Endrunde zu kommen

was it difficult? – no, we had an easy time (of it) —

he didn't have an easy time of it in the operating theatre — er war im Operationssaal schlimm dran

to have a bad/rough time — viel mitmachen

to give sb a bad/rough etc time (of it) — jdm das Leben schwer machen

we had such a bad time with the travel agency —

the goalkeeper had a rough time — der Torwart hatte schwer zu kämpfen

we had a good time — es war (sehr) schön, es hat uns (dat)

he doesn't look as though he's having a good time — es scheint ihm hier nicht besonders gut zu gefallen

have a good time! — viel Vergnügen or Spaß!

to show sb a good time — jdn ausführen

she'll give you a good time for £30 — bei ihr kannst du dich für £ 30 amüsieren

9) = rhythm Takt m

(to be) in time (with) — im Takt (sein) (mit)

(to be) out of time — aus dem Takt (sein)

you're singing out of time (with the others) — du singst nicht im Takt (mit den anderen)

3/4 time — Dreivierteltakt m

2. TRANSITIVE VERB

1)

= choose time of to time sth perfectly — genau den richtigen Zeitpunkt für etw wählen

you must learn to time your requests a little more tactfully — du musst lernen, deine Forderungen zu einem geeigneteren Zeitpunkt vorzubringen

he timed his arrival to coincide with... —

you timed that well — du hast dir den richtigen Zeitpunkt (dafür) ausgesucht

the bomb is timed to explode at... — die Bombe ist so eingestellt, dass sie um... explodiert

2) = measure time of with stopwatch stoppen; speed messen

to time sb (over 1000 metres) — jdn (auf 1000 Meter) stoppen, jds Zeit (auf or über 1000 Meter) nehmen

time how long it takes you, time yourself — sieh auf die Uhr, wie lange du brauchst; (with stopwatch) stopp, wie lange du brauchst

to time an egg — auf die Uhr sehen, wenn man ein Ei kocht

a computer that times its operator — ein Computer, der die Zeit misst, die sein Operator braucht

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time [taım]

A s

1. Zeit f:

time past, present, and to come Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft;

for all time für alle Zeiten;

as time went on im Laufe der Zeit;

time will show die Zeit wird es lehren;

Father Time die Zeit (personifiziert);

(as) old as time uralt;

time is money (Sprichwort) Zeit ist Geld

2. (endliche oder irdische) Zeit (Ggs Ewigkeit)

3. ASTRON Zeit f:

astronomical time

4. Zeit f, Uhr(zeit) f:

what’s the time?, what time is it? wie viel Uhr ist es?, wie spät ist es?;

what time? um wie viel Uhr?;

the time is half past three es ist jetzt halb vier;

at this time of day

a) zu dieser (späten) Tageszeit, zu so später Stunde,

b) fig so spät, in diesem späten Stadium;

can you tell me the time of day?, have you got the time? können Sie mir sagen, wie spät es ist?;

pass the time of day

a) sich Gesellschaft leisten,

b) (kurz) miteinander plaudern;

pass the time of day with sb

a) jemandem Gesellschaft leisten,

b) (kurz) mit jemandem plaudern;

know the time of day umg wissen, was es geschlagen hat;

so that’s the time of day! umg so stehts also!;

some time about noon etwa um Mittag;

this time tomorrow morgen um diese Zeit;

this time twelve months heute übers Jahr;

keep good time richtig oder genau gehen (Uhr)

5. Zeit(dauer) f, Zeitabschnitt m, ( auch PHYS Fall- etc) Dauer f, WIRTSCH auch Arbeitszeit f (im Herstellungsprozess etc):

a long time lange Zeit;

that was a long time ago das ist schon lange her;

some time longer noch einige Zeit;

be a long time in doing sth lange (Zeit) dazu brauchen, etwas zu tun;

long time no hear (see) umg wir haben ja schon seit einer Ewigkeit nichts mehr voneinander gehört (wir haben uns ja schon seit einer Ewigkeit nicht mehr gesehen);

time of a draft WIRTSCH Laufzeit f eines Wechsels;

in times of war in Kriegszeiten; → all A 1, hard A 10, no¹ C 1, probation 3

6. Zeit(punkt) f(m):

time of arrival Ankunftszeit;

an unfortunate time ein unglücklicher Zeitpunkt;

at the time

a) zu dieser Zeit, damals,

b) gerade;

at the present time derzeit, gegenwärtig;

at the same time

a) gleichzeitig, zur selben Zeit,

b) trotzdem;

at that time zu der Zeit;

at this time of the year zu dieser Jahreszeit;

at one time einst, früher (einmal);

at some time irgendwann (einmal);

for the time für den Augenblick;

for the time being

a) vorläufig, fürs Erste,

b) unter den gegenwärtigen Umständen;

in three weeks’ time in oder binnen drei Wochen; → about A 2, departure 2

7. meist pl Zeit(alter) f(n), Zeiten pl, Epoche f:

at ( oder in) the time of Queen Anne zur Zeit der Königin Anna;

in our time in unserer Zeit;

she was a legend in her own time sie war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende;

other times, other manners (Sprichwort) andere Zeiten, andere Sitten; → old A 4

8. pl Zeiten pl, Zeitverhältnisse pl

9. the times pl die Zeit: → move B 2

10. Frist f, (zugemessene) Zeit:

time of delivery WIRTSCH Lieferfrist, -zeit;

time for payment Zahlungsfrist;

ask time WIRTSCH um Frist(verlängerung) bitten;

you must give me time Sie müssen mir Zeit geben oder lassen

11. (verfügbare) Zeit:

buy a little time etwas Zeit schinden, eine kleine Galgenfrist gewinnen;

I can never call my time my own ich kann nie frei über meine Zeit verfügen;

have no time keine Zeit haben;

have no time for sb fig nichts übrighaben für jemanden;

have all the time in the world umg jede Menge Zeit haben;

take (the) time sich die Zeit nehmen ( to do zu tun);

take one’s time sich Zeit lassen;

take your time auch es eilt nicht, überleg es dir in aller Ruhe;

time is up! die Zeit ist um oder abgelaufen!; → forelock¹

12. ( oft schöne) Zeit, Erlebnis n:

have the time of one’s life

a) sich großartig amüsieren,

b) leben wie ein Fürst

13. unangenehme Zeit, Unannehmlichkeit f

14. (Zeit-)Lohn m, besonders Stundenlohn m

15. umg (Zeit f im) Knast m:

do time (im Gefängnis) sitzen ( for wegen)

16. Lehrzeit f, -jahre pl

17. (bestimmte oder passende) Zeit:

the time has come for sth to happen es ist an der Zeit, dass etwas geschieht;

there is a time for everything, all in good time alles zu seiner Zeit;

it’s time for bed es ist Zeit, ins oder zu Bett zu gehen;

it’s time for breakfast es ist Zeit zum Frühstück(en); → high time

18. a) (natürliche oder normale) Zeit

b) (Lebens)Zeit f:

time of life Alter n;

his time is drawing near seine Zeit ist gekommen, sein Tod naht heran;

the time was not yet die Zeit war noch nicht gekommen

19. a) Schwangerschaft f

b) Niederkunft f:

she is far on in her time sie ist hochschwanger;

she is near her time sie steht kurz vor der Entbindung

20. (günstige) Zeit:

now is the time jetzt ist die passende Gelegenheit, jetzt gilt es ( beide:

to do zu tun);

at such times bei solchen Gelegenheiten

21. Mal n:

the first time das erste Mal;

for the first time zum ersten Mal;

each time that … jedes Mal, wenn …;

time and again, time after time immer wieder;

at some other time, another time ein andermal;

at a time auf einmal, zusammen, zugleich, jeweils;

one at a time einzeln, immer eine(r, s);

two at a time zu zweit, paarweise, jeweils zwei; → every Bes Redew, lucky 1

22. pl mal, …mal:

three times four is twelve drei mal vier ist zwölf;

twenty times zwanzigmal;

three times the population of Coventry dreimal so viele Einwohner wie Coventry;

four times the size of yours viermal so groß wie deines;

six times the amount die sechsfache Menge;

several times mehrmals

23. besonders SPORT (erzielte, gestoppte) Zeit:

the winner’s time is 2.50 minutes

24. Einheit f der Zeit (im Drama)

25. LIT metrische Einheit, besonders Mora f (kleinste metrische Einheit im Verstakt)

26. Tempo n, Zeitmaß n

27. MUS

a) → time value

b) Tempo n, Zeitmaß n

c) Rhythmus m, Takt(bewegung) m(f)

d) Takt (-art f) m:

time variation Tempoveränderung f;

in time to the music im Takt zur Musik;

beat (keep) time den Takt schlagen (halten)

28. MIL Marschtempo n, Schritt m: → mark¹ B 1

B v/t

1. (mit der Uhr) messen, (ab-)stoppen, die Zeit messen von (oder gen)

2. timen ( auch SPORT), die Zeit oder den richtigen Zeitpunkt wählen oder bestimmen für, zur rechten Zeit tun

3. zeitlich abstimmen

4. die Zeit festsetzen für, (zeitlich) legen:

the train is timed to leave at 7 der Zug soll um 7 abfahren;

he timed the test at 30 minutes er setzte für den Test 30 Minuten an

5. eine Uhr richten, stellen:

the alarm clock is timed to ring at six der Wecker ist auf sechs gestellt

6. zeitlich regeln (to nach), TECH den Zündpunkt etc einstellen, (elektronisch etc) steuern

7. das Tempo oder den Takt angeben für

C v/i

1. Takt halten

2. zeitlich zusammen- oder übereinstimmen ( with mit)Besondere Redewendungen: against time gegen die Zeit oder Uhr, mit größter Eile;

be ahead of time zu früh (daran) sein;

be (well) ahead of ( oder in advance of) one’s time seiner Zeit (weit) voraus sein;

be behind time zu spät daran sein, Verspätung haben;

be 10 minutes behind time 10 Minuten Verspätung haben;

be behind one’s time rückständig sein;

between times in den Zwischenzeiten;

five minutes from time SPORT fünf Minuten vor Schluss;

from time to time von Zeit zu Zeit;

in time

a) rechtzeitig ( to do um zu tun),

b) mit der Zeit,

c) im (richtigen) Takt in time of in Zeiten von (od gen);

on time

a) pünktlich,

b) bes US für eine (bestimmte) Zeit,

c) WIRTSCH US auf Zeit, besonders auf Raten out of time

a) zur Unzeit, unzeitig,

b) vorzeitig,

c) zu spät,

d) aus dem Takt oder Schritt till such time as … so lange, bis …;

with time mit der Zeit;

time was, when … die Zeit ist vorüber, als …;

time has been when … es gab eine Zeit, da …; → any A 2, no¹ C 1

t. abk

1. teaspoon (teaspoonful) TL

2. temperature

3. tempore, in the time of

4. LING tense

5. time

6. ton ( tons pl) t

7. LING transitive

T. abk

1. teaspoon (teaspoonful) TL

2. territory

3. Thursday Do.

4. time

5. Tuesday Di.

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1. noun
1) no pl., no art. Zeit, die

the greatest composer of all time — der größte Komponist aller Zeiten

for all time — für immer [und ewig]

past/present/future time — Vergangenheit, die/Gegenwart, die/Zukunft, die

stand the test of time — die Zeit überdauern; sich bewähren

in [the course of] time, as time goes on/went on — mit der Zeit; im Laufe der Zeit

as old as time — uralt

time will tell or show — die Zukunft wird es zeigen

at this point or moment in time — zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

time flies — die Zeit vergeht [wie] im Fluge

work against time — unter Zeitdruck arbeiten

in time, with time — (sooner or later) mit der Zeit

2) (interval, available or allotted period) Zeit, die

in a week's/month's/year's time — in einer Woche/in einem Monat/Jahr

there is time for that — dafür ist od. haben wir noch Zeit

it takes me all my time to do it — es beansprucht meine ganze Zeit, es zu tun

give one's time to something — einer Sache (Dat.) seine Zeit opfern

waste of time — Zeitverschwendung, die

spend [most of one's/a lot of] time on something/[in] doing something — [die meiste/viel] Zeit mit etwas zubringen/damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

I have been waiting for some/a long time — ich warte schon seit einiger Zeit/schon lange

she will be there for [quite] some time — sie wird ziemlich lange dort sein

be pressed for time — keine Zeit haben; (have to finish quickly) in Zeitnot sein

pass the time — sich (Dat.) die Zeit vertreiben

length of time — Zeit[dauer], die

make time for somebody/something — sich (Dat.) für jemanden/etwas Zeit nehmen

a short time ago — vor kurzem

that's a long time ago — das ist schon lange her

in one's own time — in seiner Freizeit; (whenever one wishes) wann man will

take one's time [over something] — sich (Dat.) [für etwas] Zeit lassen; (be slow) sich (Dat.) Zeit [mit etwas] lassen

time is money — (prov.) Zeit ist Geld (Spr.)

in [good] time — (not late) rechtzeitig

all the or this time — die ganze Zeit; (without ceasing) ständig

in [less than or next to] no time — innerhalb kürzester Zeit; im Nu od. Handumdrehen

in half the time — in der Hälfte der Zeit

half the time — (coll.): (as often as not) fast immer

it will take [some] time — es wird einige Zeit dauern

have the/no time — Zeit/keine Zeit haben

have no time for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas ist einem seine Zeit zu schade

there is no time to lose or be lost — es ist keine Zeit zu verlieren

lose no time in doing something — (not delay) etwas unverzüglich tun

do time — (coll.) eine Strafe absitzen (ugs.)

in my time — (heyday) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.); (in the course of my life) im Laufe meines Lebens

in my time — (period at a place) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.)

time off or out — freie Zeit

get/take time off — frei bekommen/sich (Dat.) frei nehmen (ugs.)

Time! — (Boxing) Stop!; Time!; (Brit.): (in pub) Feierabend!

have a lot of time for somebody — (fig.) für jemandem viel übrig haben

3) no pl. (moment or period destined for purpose) Zeit, die

harvest/Christmas time — Ernte-/Weihnachtszeit, die

there is a time and place for everything — alles zu seiner Zeit

now is the time to do it — jetzt ist die richtige Zeit, es zu tun

time for lunch — Zeit zum Mittagessen

it is time to go — es wird Zeit zu gehen

and not before time — und es wurde auch Zeit

when the time comes/came — wenn es so weit ist/als es so weit war

on time — (punctually) pünktlich

ahead of time — zu früh [ankommen]; vorzeitig [fertig werden]

all in good time — alles zu seiner Zeit; see also be 2. 1)

4) in sing. or pl. (circumstances) Zeit, die

times are good/bad/have changed — die Zeiten sind gut/schlecht/haben sich verändert

have a good time — Spaß haben (ugs.); sich amüsieren

have a hard time [of it] — eine schwere Zeit durchmachen

5) (associated with events or person[s]) Zeit, die

in time of peace/war — in Friedens-/Kriegszeiten

in Tudor/ancient times — zur Zeit der Tudors/der Antike

in former/modern times — früher/heutzutage

ahead of or before one's/its time — seiner Zeit voraus

at one time — (previously) früher

6) (occasion) Mal, das

for the first time — zum ersten Mal

next time you come — wenn du das nächste Mal kommst

ten/a hundred/a thousand times — zehn- / hundert- / tausendmal

many times — sehr oft

many's the time [that]..., many a time... — viele Male...

at all times — jederzeit

at times — gelegentlich

from time to time — von Zeit zu Zeit

at other times — sonst

at one time or another — irgendwann einmal

at a time like this/that — unter diesen/solchen Umständen

at the or that time — (in the past) damals

at one time, at [one and] the same time — (simultaneously) gleichzeitig

at the same time — (nevertheless) gleichwohl

between times — zwischendurch

time and [time] again, time after time — immer [und immer] wieder

pay somebody £6 a time — jemandem für jedes Mal 6 Pfund zahlen

one at a time — einzeln

two at a time — jeweils zwei

for hours/weeks at a time — stundenlang/wochenlang [ohne Unterbrechung]

7) (point in day etc.) [Uhr]zeit, die

at the same time every morning — jeden Morgen um dieselbe Zeit

what time is it?, what is the time? — wie spät ist es?

have you [got] the time? — kannst du mir sagen, wie spät es ist?

tell the time — (read a clock) die Uhr lesen

time of day — Tageszeit, die

[at this] time of [the] year — [um diese] Jahreszeit

at this time of [the] night — zu dieser Nachtstunde

pass the time of day — (coll.) ein paar Worte wechseln

by this/that time — inzwischen

by the time [that] we arrived — bis wir hinkamen

[by] this time tomorrow — morgen um diese Zeit

keep good time — [Uhr:] genau od. richtig gehen

8) (amount) Zeit, die

make good time — gut vorwärts kommen

[your] time's up! — deine Zeit ist um (ugs.) od. abgelaufen

9) (multiplication) mal

three times four — drei mal vier

four times the size of/higher than something — viermal so groß wie/höher als etwas

10) (Mus.) (duration of note) Zeitdauer, die; (measure) Takt, der

in three-four time — im Dreivierteltakt

keep in time with the music — den Takt halten

out of time/in time — aus dem/im Takt

keep time with something — bei etwas den Takt [ein]halten
2. transitive verb
1) (do at correct time) zeitlich abstimmen

be well/ill timed — zur richtigen/falschen Zeit kommen

2) (set to operate at correct time) justieren (Technik); einstellen

3) (arrange time of arrival/departure of)

the bus is timed to connect with the train — der Bus hat einen direkten Anschluss an den Zug

be timed to take 90 minutes — fahrplanmäßig 90 Minuten dauern

4) (measure time taken by) stoppen

time an egg — auf die richtige Kochdauer für ein Ei achten
•• Cultural note:
Times - The Times

Eine britische überregionale Tageszeitung, deren Pendant am Sonntag The Sunday Times ist. Sie ist eine broadsheet-Zeitung und zählt zur seriösen Presse. Sie ist politisch unabhängig, wird jedoch gemeinhin als konservativ angesehen. Sie ist die älteste Zeitung in England und wurde erstmals 1785 veröffentlicht

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adj.

zeitlich adj. n.

Tempo -s n.

Zeit -en f.

English-german dictionary > time
7 time

1. noun
1) (the hour of the day: What time is it?; Can your child tell the time yet?) klokke(slett), tidspunkt

2) (the passage of days, years, events etc: time and space; Time will tell.) tid

3) (a point at which, or period during which, something happens: at the time of his wedding; breakfast-time.) tid(spunkt), periode, stund

4) (the quantity of minutes, hours, days etc, eg spent in, or available for, a particular activity etc: This won't take much time to do; I enjoyed the time I spent in Paris; At the end of the exam, the supervisor called `Your time is up!') tid

5) (a suitable moment or period: Now is the time to ask him.) øyeblikk, tid

6) (one of a number occasions: He's been to France four times.) gang

7) (a period characterized by a particular quality in a person's life, experience etc: He went through an unhappy time when she died; We had some good times together.) tid, periode

8) (the speed at which a piece of music should be played; tempo: in slow time.) takt, tempo
2. verb
1) (to measure the time taken by (a happening, event etc) or by (a person, in doing something): He timed the journey.) ta tid

2) (to choose a particular time for: You timed your arrival beautifully!) avpasse, velge tidspunktet for

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- timeless
- timelessly
- timelessness
- timely
- timeliness
- timer
- times
- timing
- time bomb
- time-consuming
- time limit
- time off
- time out
- timetable
- all in good time
- all the time
- at times
- be behind time
- for the time being
- from time to time
- in good time
- in time
- no time at all
- no time
- one
- two at a time
- on time
- save
- waste time
- take one's time
- time and time again
- time and again

klokkeslett
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tid

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subst. \/taɪm\/

1) tid

• give me a little more time

gi meg litt mer tid

• times have changed

tidene har forandret seg

• you must arrive in good time

du må komme i god tid

• time will show who is right

tiden vil vise hvem som har rett

• where have you been all this time?

hvor har du vært hele tiden?

• you're waisting your time!

du kaster bort tiden!

2) gang

• the first time I saw her I liked her

første gang jeg så henne, likte jeg henne

• five times four is twenty

fem ganger fire er tjue

• five times as many as this

fem ganger så mange som dette

• the animal is five times the size of me

dyret er fem ganger så stort som meg

3) ( ved tidsangivelse) klokkeslett, tidspunkt

• at what time

på hvilket tidspunkt

• at different times

ved ulike tidspunkter \/ på ulike tidspunkter

• have you got the time?

ved du hva klokken er?

• what time is it?

hvor mye er klokken?

4) arbeidstid

5) levetid

6) tid, periode, sesong

7) lønn, timelønn

8) ( musikk) takt, tempo, taktart

• I beat time with my foot

jeg tramper takten

9) ( militærvesen) marsjtakt

10) ( hverdagslig) soning, fengselsdom

• he was doing time for burglary

11) ( ofte times) tid(er), alder, dager

• it belongs to mediaeval times

about time på tide, på høy tid

about time too! det var sannelig på tide!

against time i kappløp med tiden

ahead of one's time forut for sin tid

ahead of time i god tid, før den avtalte tiden, før avtalt tid

all in good time ta det med ro, den tid den sorg, når tiden er inne, når den tid kommer

• we need not hurry, we can do it all in good time

vi trenger ikke å forhaste oss, vi kan ta det når den tid kommer

• can I have it now? - all in good time!

all of the time hele tiden

all the time hele tiden (amer.) helt og fullt, helt og holdent

any time eller anytime ( hverdagslig) når som helst

• you can come any time you like

du kan komme når som helst

uten tvil

any time! ( hverdagslig) gjerne (det)! ingen årsak!

any time now eller any minute now ( hverdagslig) veldig snart, hvert øyeblikk, når som helst

ask (somebody) the time spørre (noen) hva klokken er

as the time was etter den tids forhold, for den tiden, for sin tid

as times go som tidene nå er, under de rådende forhold, etter omstendighetene

at all times alltid, til enhver tid, til alle tider

at a time av\/om gangen

• one at a time

en av gangen

at no time aldri

at one time en gang (i tiden), før i tiden, for en stund siden, for en tid siden, tidligere samtidig, på en (og samme) gang

at the best of times under alle forhold

at the same time på samme tidspunkt, samtidig

• they arrived at the same time

de kom samtidig

på den annen side, derimot likevel, dertil

• at the same time I must admit that he is competent

jeg må likevel innrømme at han er dyktig

at the time den gang, på den tiden, den gangen, på det aktuelle tidspunktet

• he was only a boy at the time

han var bare en guttunge på den tiden

at the time of ved tidspunktet for

be at the wrong place at the wrong time se ➢ place, 1

at this time på samme tid, på denne tid(en)

at this time of day på denne tiden (av dagen), på dette tidspunktet som forholdene nå er, nå for tiden så sent

at times av og til, noen ganger, somme tider, til (sine) tider, iblant, stundom, tidvis, innimellom

be a long time before være lang tid før

before (one's) time for tidlig, før tiden

• old before one's time

gammel før tiden

behind the times umoderne, gammeldags, utdatert

behind time sen, forsinket

between times fra tid til annen, nå og da, stundom

born before one's time ( overført) forut for sin tid

buy on time (amer.) kjøpe på avbetaling

by that time på det tidspunktet, innen da

by the time når, da, på den tiden, innen

by this time på dette tidspunktet, nå

• it was two o'clock by this time

da var klokken allerede to \/ i mellomtiden hadde klokken rukket å bli to

• by this time tomorrow we'll be on the plane

i morgen på dette tidspunktet sitter vi på flyet

call time (amer., sport) blåse av (kampen)

do one's time ( hverdagslig) sone sin straff

do time ( hverdagslig) sitte inne, sone

double time dobbel timelønn (for overtidsarbeid)

fight against time kjempe mot tiden, slåss mot klokken

find the time to do something eller get the time to do something finne tid til å gjøre noe, få tid til å gjøre noe

flush times gode tider

for all time for all fremtid, i all fremtid

for a long time i lengre tid, i lang tid på lenge

• he won't arrive for a long time

han kommer ikke på lenge

for a long time past i lang tid, lenge, fra lang tid tilbake

for a long time yet på lenge, ennå

• I hope it won't happen for a long time yet

jeg håper at det ikke kommer til å skje på lenge

for some time i lengre tid, en lengre tid

for some time yet på en (god) stund ennå

for the sake of old times for gammelt vennskaps skyld

for the time being for øyeblikket, på det nåværende tidspunktet, inntil videre

from that time forward fra da av

from time to time fra tid til annen, av og til, nå og da

give someone the time fortelle noen hva klokken er

• can you give me the time, please?

kan du være så snill å si hva klokken er?

give someone the time of day hilse på noen, si god morgen til noen

• he wouldn't give me the time of day the

good old times de gode, gamle dager

half the time halvparten av tiden

hard times vanskelige tider, harde tider

have a bad time of it eller have a hard time of it ( hverdagslig) ha det vanskelig

have a fine time (of it) ha det herlig

have a good time (of it) ha det morsomt, more seg, ha det trivelig, ha det bra

have a rough time ha det tøft, ha det vanskelig

have a time of it ( hverdagslig) ha det hett (om ørene)

have no time for ikke ha noe til overs for

• I've got no time for snobbish people

jeg har ikke noe til overs for snobbete folk

ikke ha tid å avse til

have (the) time ha tid, rekke, nå

have time on one's hands ha mye tid, ha tid på seg

have you got the time? vet du hva klokken er?

a high old time ( hverdagslig) kjempegøy

• they always have a high old time

de har det alltid kjempegøy

in ancient times i gamle dager, før i tiden

in a...'s time i løpet av..., om...

• in a week's time

i løpet av en uke \/ om en uke

in due time i rett tid, i tidens fylde, når den tid kommer

in modern times i moderne tider, i våre dager, i nåtiden

in (less than) no time på null komma null, straks, i en håndvending

in one's own time i sitt eget tempo utenom arbeidstid

in one's time i sin tid

in prehistoric times i forhistorisk tid

in the course of time se ➢ course

in the good old times eller in the good old days i gode, gamle dager

in time med tiden

• in time he'll understand

med tiden vil han forstå

i rett tid

• he came in time

han kom i rett tid

tidsnok, i tide

• she came in time for dinner

hun kom tidsnok til middag

in time eller just in time (akkurat) tidsnok

• he came in time for dinner

• he came in time

in time (to) i takt (med)

in times long past i for lengst forgangne tider

it has been a long time coming det har drøyd lenge

• the answer has been a long time coming

svaret har drøyd lenge

it is about time... eller it's time det er på tide..., det er på høy tid at..., det er tid...

• it is time for lunch

det er (tid for) lunsj

it's the time tiden er inne, nå er øyeblikket

keep bad time ( om klokke) gå galt

keep good time ( om klokke) gå riktig

keep one's eye on the time holde et øye med klokken, passe tiden

keep time følge tidsskjemaet, holde tiden, være punktlig ( musikk) holde takten ( med stoppeklokke) ta tiden

know the time of day ( overført) vite hva klokken er slagen, ikke være tapt bak en vogn kjenne sin besøkelsestid

a long time ago lenge siden, for lenge siden

long time no see! (gammeldags, hverdagslig) lenge siden sist!

a long time since lenge siden

• it is along time since then

det er lenge siden den gang

• it is a long time since we met

det er lenge siden vi møttes

• it is a good long time since

det er virkelig lenge siden

make time hente inn (tapt) tid, kjøre inn (tapt) tid, ta igjen en forsinkelse kjøre fort, kjøre raskt, holde farten, holde (den fastsatte) hastigheten, holde ruten

make time with someone ( slang) lykkes med å forføre noen

many a time mang en gang, mange ganger (be)

near one's time skulle føde snart, ikke ha lenge igjen til fødselen

not before time ikke for tidlig

not give someone the time of day ignorere noen, overse noen, ikke ville ha med noen å gjøre, ikke bry seg om noen

• I wouldn't give him the time of day

jeg ville ikke ha noe med ham å gjøre

now's your time! nå har du sjansen!

of all time gjennom tidene

off time (amer., hverdagslig) malplassert

once upon a time (there was)... det var en gang...

one more time ( hverdagslig) en gang til, igjen

on one's own time (amer.) utenom arbeidstid

on time i rett tid, presis, punktlig, i rute

out of time ( også overført) i utakt, ute av takt

pass the time of day utveksle hilsener, veksle noen ord med noen

• many people are too busy to pass the time of day

mange mennesker er for travelt opptatt til å hilse på hverandre

play for time hale ut tiden, prøve å vinne tid

be pushed for time ha dårlig tid

quick time rask marsj(takt) (120 skritt i minuttet)

a race against time et kappløp med tiden

take one's own time about something gjøre noe i sitt eget tempo, gjøre noe når det passer en

take one's time ta den tiden man trenger, ikke skynde seg (spøkefullt)

• the workmen are certainly taking their time

arbeidsfolkene bruker sannelig lang tid på jobben

• take your time!

ta deg (god) tid! \/ ta det rolig! \/ det haster ikke! \/ du må for all del ikke skynde deg!

take the time from someone følge noens takt\/tempo, la noen bestemme takten, la noen bestemme tempoet

tell the time kunne klokken

• this bright two year old tells the time

den skarpe toåringen kan klokken

( også tell the right time) si hva klokken er

there are times when det finnes øyeblikk, av og til, iblant

• there are times when I wonder what the hell I'm doing

av og til lurer jeg på hva pokker jeg holder på med

this time på denne tiden, ved denne tiden

• this time last year I had a crush on you

på denne tiden i fjor var jeg forelsket i deg

time! slutt!, stopp!, tiden er ute!, (det er) stengetid!

time after time eller time and again eller time again gang på gang

time and space tid og rom

time and tide wait for no man tiden går ubønnhørlig videre, man må benytte tiden, man må ta sjansen mens man har den, det gjelder å smi mens jernet er varmt

time enough tidsnok, det haster ikke

• time enough when we are there

det kan vente til vi er der

be time for være tid for, være på tide

• it is time for lunch

time is money tid er penger

time is up! tiden er ute!, det er slutt!, det er over!, klokken er slagen!

time off fritid, fri

time of life alder

• at my time of life

i min alder

time out of mind eller time immemorial uminnelige tider

times tider

• those were the times!

det var tider, det!

time(s) to come kommende tider

(the) time was when det fantes en tid da...

(only) time will tell det får tiden vise, det vil tiden vise

universal time universaltid, Greenwich-tid

work by time arbeide på tid (mot timelønn)

the wreck of time se ➢ wreck, 1
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verb \/taɪm\/

1) avpasse, velge riktig tidspunkt for

• he timed his journey so that he arrived before dark

han beregnet reisen slik at han kom frem før det mørknet

• they timed their visit well

de valgte det rette tidspunktet for besøket sitt

• he is good at timing the ball

han er flink til å treffe ballen i rett øyeblikk

2) fastsette

• her lecture was timed at 11.30 a.m

forelesningen hennes skulle begynne kl. 11.30

3) ( sport e.l.) ta tiden (på)

• the winning horse was timed at 3.02

vinnerhesten fikk tiden 3.02

• Peter timed the runner

Peter tok tiden på løperen

• you have to time the race

du må være tidtaker ved kappløpet

4) regulere, justere, stille, avpasse, tilpasse

• time your watch with mine

still klokken din etter min

• you must time the speed of the machine

du må regulere hastigheten til maskinen

• he timed his steps to the music

han avpasset skrittene etter musikken

5) ( musikk) slå takten til, angi takten til

6) ( militærvesen) tempere, tidsinnstille

English-Norwegian dictionary > time
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time [taɪm]

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1. noun

2. transitive verb

3. compounds

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1. noun

   a. temps m

• time and space le temps et l'espace

• in time avec le temps

• we've got plenty of time nous avons tout notre temps

• have you got time to wait for me? est-ce que tu as le temps de m'attendre ?

• we mustn't lose any time il ne faut pas perdre de temps

• it works okay some of the time ça marche parfois

• half the time she's drunk (inf) la moitié du temps elle est ivre

• at this point in time à l'heure qu'il est

• free time temps libre

• he was working against time to finish it il travaillait d'arrache-pied pour terminer à temps

• it is only a matter of time ce n'est qu'une question de temps

• time will tell l'avenir le dira

• for all time pour toujours

• for the time being pour l'instant

• to make time to do sth trouver le temps de faire qch

• you must make time to relax il est important que vous trouviez le temps de vous détendre

► all the time ( = always) tout le temps ; ( = all along) depuis le début

• I have to be on my guard all the time je dois tout le temps être sur mes gardes

• the letter was in my pocket all the time la lettre était dans ma poche depuis le début► in good time ( = with time to spare) en avance

• he arrived in good time for the start of the match il est arrivé en avance pour le début du match

• let me know in good time prévenez-moi suffisamment à l'avance► to take + time

• it takes time to change people's ideas ça prend du temps de faire évoluer les mentalités

• it took me a lot of time to prepare this j'ai mis beaucoup de temps à préparer ça

• take your time prenez votre temps

• to take time out to do sth trouver le temps de faire qch ; (during studies) interrompre ses études pour faire qch► to have time for

• I've no time for that sort of thing ( = too busy) je n'ai pas de temps pour ça ; ( = not interested) ce genre d'histoire ne m'intéresse pas

• I've no time for people like him je ne supporte pas les gens comme lui

   b. ( = period) for a time pendant un certain temps

• what a long time you've been! il vous en a fallu du temps !

• he is coming in two weeks' time il vient dans deux semaines

• the winner's time was 12 seconds le temps du gagnant était de 12 secondes

• in next to no time en un rien de temps

► a short time peu de temps

• a short time later peu après

• for a short time we thought that... pendant un moment nous avons pensé que...► some time

• I waited for some time j'ai attendu assez longtemps

• some time ago il y a déjà un certain temps

• that was some time ago ça fait longtemps de cela

• some time next year dans le courant de l'année prochaine

   c. ( = period worked) to work full time travailler à plein temps

• we get paid time and a half on Saturdays le samedi, nous sommes payés une fois et demie le tarif normal

   d. ( = day) temps m

• in Gladstone's time du temps de Gladstone

• to move with the times [person] vivre avec son temps ; [company, institution] (savoir) évoluer

• to be behind the times être vieux jeu (inf) inv

• I've seen some strange things in my time j'ai vu des choses étranges dans ma vie

• in medieval times à l'époque médiévale

• it was a difficult time for all of us cela a été une période difficile pour nous tous

   e. ( = experience) to have a bad time of it en voir de dures (inf)

• what great times we've had! c'était le bon temps !

• to have a good time bien s'amuser

• to have the time of one's life s'amuser follement (inf)

   f. (by clock) heure f

• what time is it? quelle heure est-il ?

• what time is he arriving? à quelle heure est-ce qu'il arrive ?

• the time is 4.30 il est 4 heures et demie

• your time is up (in exam, prison visit) c'est l'heure ; (in game) votre temps est écoulé

• he looked at the time il a regardé l'heure

• at any time of the day or night à n'importe quelle heure du jour ou de la nuit

• at any time during school hours pendant les heures d'ouverture de l'école

• it's midnight by Eastern time (US) il est minuit, heure de la côte est

• it's time for lunch c'est l'heure du déjeuner

• it's time to go il faut qu'on y aille

• it's time I was going il est temps que j'y aille

► preposition + time

• ahead of time en avance

• behind time en retard

• just in time (for sth/to do sth) juste à temps (pour qch/pour faire qch)

• on time à l'heure

• the trains are on time les trains sont à l'heure

   g. ( = moment) moment m

• there are times when I could hit him il y a des moments où je pourrais le gifler

• come any time venez quand vous voulez

• he may come at any time il peut arriver d'un moment à l'autre

• at that time à ce moment-là

• at this time en ce moment

• at times par moments

• at all times à tous moments

• he came at a very inconvenient time il est arrivé à un très mauvais moment

• between times entre-temps

• by the time I had finished, it was dark le temps que je termine, il faisait nuit

• by that time she was exhausted elle était déjà épuisée

• from time to time de temps en temps

• some times... at other times des fois... des fois

• at this time of year à cette époque de l'année

• this time tomorrow demain à cette heure-ci

• this time last year l'année dernière à cette époque-ci

• this time last week il y a exactement une semaine

• now's the time to do it c'est le moment de le faire

• the time has come to decide... il est temps de décider...

   h. ( = occasion) fois f

• this time cette fois

• at various times in the past plusieurs fois déjà

• at other times en d'autres occasions

• (the) last time la dernière fois

• the time before la fois d'avant

• the times I've told him that! je le lui ai dit je ne sais combien de fois !

• some time or other I'll do it je le ferai un jour ou l'autre

• one at a time un (e) par un(e)(e)

• for weeks at a time pendant des semaines entières

   i. (multiplying) fois f

• two times three deux fois trois

• ten times the size of... dix fois plus grand que...

   j. (Music) mesure f

• in time en mesure (to, with avec)

• to keep time rester en mesure

2. transitive verb

   a. ( = choose time of) [+ visit] choisir le moment de

• you timed that perfectly! vous ne pouviez pas mieux choisir votre moment !

• well-timed [remark, entrance] tout à fait opportun

   b. ( = count time of) [+ race, runner, worker] chronométrer ; [+ programme, piece of work] minuter

• to time an egg minuter la cuisson d'un œuf

3. compounds

► time bomb noun bombe f à retardement

► time check noun rappel m de l'heure

► time-consuming adjective

• a time-consuming task un travail qui prend du temps

• it's very time-consuming ça prend beaucoup de temps ► time difference noun décalage m horaire

► time frame noun délais mpl

► time-honoured adjective

• a time-honoured tradition une tradition ancienne or vénérable ► time-lag noun (between events) décalage m

► time limit noun ( = restricted period) limite f de temps ; ( = deadline) date f limite

• within the time limit dans les délais (impartis) ► time-limited adjective temporaire

► time machine noun machine f à remonter le temps

► time off noun

• to take time off from work prendre un congé ► time-share transitive verb (Computing) utiliser en temps partagé noun maison f (or appartement m ) en multipropriété

► time signal noun signal m horaire

► time signature noun indication f de la mesure

► time span noun période f de temps

► time switch noun [of electrical apparatus] minuteur m ; (for lighting) minuterie f

► time trial noun (Motor racing, cycling) contre-la-montre m inv

► time warp noun faille f spatiotemporelle

• it's like living in a time warp c'est comme si on était transporté dans une autre époque ► time zone noun fuseau m horaire

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[taɪm] 1.
noun

1) ( continuum) temps m

in ou with time —

in the course of time — avec le temps

as time goes/went by — avec le temps

at this point in time — à l'heure qu'il est

for all time — à jamais

2) ( specific duration) temps m

flight/journey time — durée f du vol/voyage

I was waiting for you here all the time — je t'attendais ici et je n'ai pas bougé

she was lying all the time — elle mentait depuis le début

you've got all the time in the world —

you've got plenty of time — tu as tout ton temps

it'll be a long time before I go back there! — je n'y retournerai pas de sitôt!

you took a long time! —

what a (long) time you've been! — tu en a mis du temps!

we had to wait for a long time — nous avons dû attendre longtemps

a long time ago — il y a longtemps

we haven't heard from her for some time — ça fait un moment qu'on n'a pas eu de ses nouvelles

in no time at all —

in next to no time — en moins de deux

in five days'/weeks' time — dans cinq jours/semaines

within the agreed time — dans les délais convenus

in your own time — ( at your own pace) à ton rythme; ( outside working hours) en dehors des heures de travail

on company time — pendant les heures de bureau

my time is my own — je suis maître de mon temps

3) (hour of the day, night) heure f

what time is it? —

what's the time? — quelle heure est-il?

the time is 11 o'clock — il est 11 heures

10 am French time — 10 heures, heure française

this time last week/year — il y a exactement huit jours/un an

by this time next year — d'ici un an

on time — à l'heure

the train times — les horaires mpl des trains

it's time for bed — c'est l'heure d'aller au lit

it's time we started — il est temps de commencer

to lose time — [clock] retarder

that clock keeps good time — cette horloge est toujours à l'heure

about time too! — ce n'est pas trop tôt!

not before time! — il était (or il est) grand temps!

to arrive in good time — arriver en avance

in time for Christmas — à temps pour Noël

to be behind time — avoir du retard

twenty minutes ahead of time — vingt minutes avant l'heure prévue

4) (era, epoch) époque f

in Dickens' times — du temps de Dickens

at the time — à l'époque

time was ou there was a time when one could... — à une certaine époque on pouvait...

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

to keep up ou move with the times — être à la page

in times past —

in former times — autrefois

it's just like old times — c'est comme au bon vieux temps

peace in our time — la paix de notre vivant

at my time of life — à mon âge

she was a beautiful woman in her time — c'était une très belle femme dans son temps

it was before my time — ( before my birth) je n'étais pas encore né; ( before I came here) je n'étais pas encore ici

if I had my time over again — si je pouvais recommencer ma vie

to die before one's time — mourir prématurément

5) ( moment) moment m

at times — par moments

at the right time — au bon moment

this is no time for jokes — ce n'est pas le moment de plaisanter

at all times — à tout moment

any time now — d'un moment à l'autre

the time has come for action — l'heure est venue d'agir

by the time I finished the letter the post had gone — le temps de finir ma lettre et le courrier était parti

by the time she had got downstairs he had gone — avant qu'elle n'arrive en bas il était déjà parti

by this time most of them were dead — la plupart d'entre eux étaient déjà morts

some time this week — dans la semaine

some time next month — dans le courant du mois prochain

for the time being — pour l'instant

from that ou this time on — à partir de ce moment

when the time comes — le moment venu

in times of crisis — dans les périodes de crise

until such time as — jusqu'à ce que

I can't be in two places at the same time — je ne peux pas être partout à la fois

6) ( occasion) fois f

nine times out of ten — neuf fois sur dix

three times a month — trois fois par mois

time after time —

time and time again — maintes fois

three at a time — trois à la fois

she passed her driving test first time round — elle a eu son permis du premier coup

from time to time — de temps en temps

for months at a time — pendant des mois entiers

(in) between times — entre-temps

7) ( experience)

to have a tough ou hard time doing — avoir du mal à faire

he's having a rough ou hard ou tough time — il traverse une période difficile

we had a good time — on s'est bien amusé

to have an easy time (of it) — se la couler douce (colloq)

the good/bad times — les moments heureux/difficiles

she enjoyed her time in Canada — elle a beaucoup aimé son séjour au Canada

8) Administration ( hourly rate)

to work/be paid time — travailler/être payé à l'heure

to be paid time and a half — être payé une fois et demie le tarif normal

9) Music mesure f

to beat ou mark time — battre la mesure

in waltz time — sur un rythme de valse

10) Sport temps m

a fast time — un bon temps

to keep time — chronométrer

11) Mathematics, fig

three times four — trois fois quatre

ten times longer/stronger — dix fois plus long/plus fort

eight times as much — huit fois autant
2.
transitive verb

1) ( schedule) gen prévoir; fixer [appointment, meeting]

we time our trips to fit in with school holidays — nous faisons coïncider nos voyages avec les vacances scolaires

to be well-/badly-timed — être opportun/inopportun

the announcement was perfectly timed — la déclaration est tombée à point nommé

2) ( judge) calculer [blow, shot]

to time a joke — choisir le moment pour faire une plaisanterie

3) (measure speed, duration) chronométrer [athlete, cyclist]; mesurer la durée de [journey, speech]
3.
reflexive verb

to time oneself — se chronométrer

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from time out of mind — depuis la nuit des temps

there is a time and place for everything — il y a un temps pour tout

there's always a first time — il y a un début à tout

he'll tell you in his own good time — il te le dira quand il en aura envie

all in good time — chaque chose en son temps

only time will tell — l'avenir nous le dira

to pass the time of day with somebody — échanger quelques mots avec quelqu'un

to have time on one's hands — ( for brief period) avoir du temps devant soi; ( longer) avoir beaucoup de temps libre

to have a lot of time for somebody — apprécier beaucoup quelqu'un

I've got no time for that sort of attitude — je ne supporte pas ce genre d'attitude

to do time — (colloq) ( prison) faire de la taule (colloq)

give me Lauren Bacall every time! — rien ne vaut Lauren Bacall!

long time no see! — (colloq) ça fait un bail (colloq) (qu'on ne s'est pas vu)!

English-French dictionary > time
9 number

1. noun
1) (in series) Nummer, die

number 3 West Street — West Street [Nr.] 3

the number of somebody's car — jemandes Autonummer

you've got the wrong number — (Teleph.) Sie sind falsch verbunden

dial a wrong number — sich verwählen (ugs.)

number one — (oneself) man selbst; attrib. Nummer eins nachgestellt; Spitzen[position, -platz]

take care of or look after number one — an sich (Akk.) selbst denken

Number Ten [Downing Street] — (Brit.) Amtssitz des britischen Premierministers/der britischen Premierministerin

somebody's number is up — (coll.) jemandes Stunde hat geschlagen

2) (esp. Math.): (numeral) Zahl, die

3) (sum, total, quantity) [An]zahl, die

a number of people/things — einige Leute/Dinge

a number of times/on a number of occasions — mehrfach od. -mals

a small number — eine geringe [An]zahl

large numbers — eine große [An]zahl

in [large or great] numbers — in großer Zahl

in a small number of cases — in einigen wenigen Fällen

any number — beliebig viele

on any number of occasions — oft[mals]

in number[s] — zahlenmäßig [überlegen sein, überwiegen]

4) (person, song, turn, edition) Nummer, die

5) (coll.): (outfit) Kluft, die

6) (company)

he was [one] of our number — er war einer von uns
2. transitive verb
1) (assign number to) beziffern; nummerieren

2) (amount to, comprise) zählen

the nominations numbered ten in all — es wurden insgesamt zehn Kandidaten nominiert

3) (include, regard as) zählen, rechnen (among, with zu)

4)

be numbered — (be limited) begrenzt sein

somebody's days or years are numbered — jemandes Tage sind gezählt

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1. noun
1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) die Nummer

2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) die (An)Zahl

3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) die Ausgabe

4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) der Schlager
2. verb
1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerieren

2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) zählen

3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) zählen

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- his days are numbered
- without number
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num·ber¹

[ˈnʌmbəʳ, AM -bɚ]

I. n

1. MATH Zahl f; (numeral) Ziffer f

to crunch \numbers über Zahlen sitzen

2. (symbol) Zahl f

3. (sums)

▪ \numbers pl Rechnen nt kein pl, Zahlen pl fam

I never was much good at \numbers Zahlen waren noch nie meine Stärke

4. (identifying number) Nummer f

card/house/telephone \number Karten-/Haus-/Telefonnummer [o BRD Rufnummer] f

5. no pl, + sing/pl vb (amount) [An]zahl f

there were only a small \number left es waren nur noch wenige da

a large \number of invitations have [or ( form) has] been sent ein großer Teil der Einladungen ist bereits verschickt worden

a small \number of children are [or ( form) is] educated at home eine kleine Anzahl von Kindern wird zu Hause unterrichtet

letters of complaint were surprisingly few in \number es gab erstaunlich wenig Beschwerdebriefe

any \number of things could go wrong alles Mögliche könnte schiefgehen

in enormous/huge/large \numbers in enormen/riesigen/großen Stückzahlen

these magazines are produced in vast \numbers diese Zeitschriften werden in riesigen Auflagen produziert

6. no pl, + sing/pl vb (several)

I decided not to go for a \number of reasons ich entschied mich aus vielerlei Gründen dagegen, dort hinzugehen

7. (members) Gruppe f

one of our \number eine(r) f(m) aus unserer Gruppe

8. (issue) Ausgabe f, Nummer f

back \number frühere Ausgabe

9. (performance) Auftritt m; (music) Stück nt

he played an old jazz \number on the piano er spielte ein altes Jazzstück auf dem Piano

10. ( fam: clothing) Kluft f fam

11. AM (sl: person) Nummer f fam

he's quite a \number, don't you think? er ist schon 'ne Nummer, findest du nicht?

12. AM (sl: tale) Nummer f fam, Masche f fam

he tried his usual \number but she didn't fall for it er versuchte es auf die übliche Tour, aber sie fiel nicht darauf herein fam

13. AM (game)

▪ the \numbers pl Zahlenlotto nt (bestimmte Art)

14. no pl LING Numerus m

15.

▶ beyond [or without] \number zahllos

▶ by [the] \numbers nach Schema F

▶ to do \number one/two ( euph fam) klein/groß machen fam

▶ to do a \number on sb AM (sl) eine Nummer mit jdm abziehen fam

▶ by [sheer] force [or weight] of \numbers [allein] aufgrund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit

▶ to have sb's \number (sl) jdn durchschauen

▶ to look out for \number one ( fam) sich akk nur um sich akk selbst kümmern

▶ \number one ( fam: oneself) die Nummer eins

he only cares about \number one er denkt nur an sich selbst; (bestseller) book Bestseller m; album Kassenschlager m

▶ to be [the] \number one die Nummer eins sein

▶ there's safety in \numbers ( prov) in der Menge ist man sicher

▶ N\number Ten (residence of Prime Minister) Downing Street Nummer 10; (Prime Minister) der britische Premierminister/die britische Premierministerin; (staff) der Stab des britischen Premierministers/der britischen Premierministerin

▶ sb's \number is up ( fam) jds [letztes] Stündlein hat geschlagen fam

II. vt

1. (mark in series)

▪ to \number sth etw nummerieren

to \number sth from... to... etw von... bis... durchnummerieren

2. (count)

▪ to \number sth etw abzählen

3. (comprise)

▪ to \number sth etw zählen

each team \numbers 11 players jede Mannschaft zählt [o hat] elf Spieler

4. ( form: include)

▪ to \number sb among sth jdn zu etw dat zählen

at one time the club \numbered an archbishop among its members der Klub zählte sogar einmal einen Erzbischof zu seinen Mitgliedern

num·ber²

[ˈnʌməʳ, AM ˈnʌmɚ]

adj comp of numb

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['nʌmbə(r)]
1. n

1) (MATH) Zahl f; (= numeral) Ziffer f

the number of votes cast — die abgegebenen Stimmen

2) (= quantity, amount) Anzahl f

a number of problems/applicants — eine (ganze) Anzahl von Problemen/Bewerbern

large numbers of people/books — (sehr) viele Leute/Bücher

on a number of occasions — des Öfteren

boys and girls in equal numbers — ebenso viele Jungen wie Mädchen, Jungen und Mädchen zu gleicher Zahl (geh)

in a small number of cases — in wenigen Fällen

ten in number — zehn an der Zahl

they were few in number — es waren nur wenige

to be found in large numbers — zahlreich vorhanden sein, häufig zu finden sein

in small/large numbers — in kleinen/großen Mengen

many in number — zahlreich

a fair number of times —

times without number — unzählige Male pl

any number can play — beliebig viele Spieler können teilnehmen

any number of cards etc (when choosing) — beliebig viele Karten etc

I've told you any number of times — ich habe es dir zigmal or x-mal gesagt (inf)

to win by force of numbers — aufgrund or auf Grund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit gewinnen

they have the advantage of numbers —

they were defeated by superior numbers — sie wurden von einer zahlenmäßigen Übermacht geschlagen

3) (of house, room, phone) Nummer f; (of page) Seitenzahl f; (of car) (Auto)nummer f; (MIL, of soldier etc) Kennnummer f

at number 4 — (in) Nummer 4

Number Ten (Downing Street) — Nummer zehn (Downing Street)

the number 47 bus — die Buslinie 47, der 47er (inf)

I've got the wrong number — ich habe mich verwählt

it was a wrong number — ich/er etc war falsch verbunden

number to dial — Rufnummer f

the number one pop star/tennis player (inf) — der Popstar/Tennisspieler Nummer eins (inf)

the single went straight to or straight in at number one — die Single stieg gleich auf Nummer eins ein

he has never had a number one (inf) — er hat nie einen Nummer-Eins-Hit gehabt

to take care of or look after number one (inf) — (vor allem) an sich (acc) selbst denken

he's my number two (inf) — er ist mein Vize (inf) or Stellvertreter

I'm (the) number two in the department — ich bin die Nummer zwei in der Abteilung

his number's up (inf) — er ist dran (inf)

to do a number one/two (baby-talk) — klein/groß machen (baby-talk)

I have to go number two (baby-talk) — ich muss mal groß (baby-talk)

to get sb's number (inf) — jdn einschätzen or einordnen or durchschauen

to do sth by (the US) numbers — etw nach Schema F (esp pej) or rein mechanisch erledigen

4) (= song, act etc) Nummer f; (= issue of magazine etc) Ausgabe f, Nummer f, Heft nt; (= dress) Kreation f

the June number — das Juniheft, die Juniausgabe or -nummer

5) (GRAM) Numerus m

6) (ECCL)

The Book of Numbers — das Vierte Buch Mose, Numeri pl

7)

(= company) one of their/our number — eine(r) aus ihren/unseren Reihen

8) pl (= arithmetic) Rechnen nt

2. vt

1) (= give a number to) nummerieren

numbered account — Nummernkonto nt

2) (= include) zählen (among zu)

3) (= amount to) zählen

the group numbered 50 — es waren 50 (Leute in der Gruppe)

the library numbers 30,000 volumes — die Bibliothek hat 30.000 Bände

4) (= count) zählen

his days are numbered — seine Tage sind gezählt

3. vi (Brit MIL ETC)
abzählen
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number [ˈnʌmbə(r)]

A s

1. MATH Zahl f, Ziffer f:

be good at numbers gut im Rechnen sein

2. (Auto-, Haus-, Telefon-, Zimmer- etc) Nummer f:

by numbers nummernweise;

sorry, wrong number falsch verbunden!;

have (got) sb’s number umg jemanden durchschaut haben;

his number is ( oder has come) up umg seine Stunde hat geschlagen, jetzt ist er dran; → dial B 1, number one

3. (An)Zahl f:

beyond number zahllos;

a number of people mehrere Leute;

a great number of people sehr viele Leute;

five in number fünf an der Zahl;

numbers of times zu wiederholten Malen;

times without number unzählige Male;

five times the number of people fünfmal so viele Leute;

in large numbers in großen Mengen, in großer Zahl;

in round numbers rund;

one of their number einer aus ihrer Mitte;

win by (force of) numbers aufgrund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit gewinnen

4. WIRTSCH

a) (An)Zahl f, Nummer f:

raise to the full number komplettieren

b) Artikel m, Ware f

5. Heft n, Nummer f, Ausgabe f (einer Zeitschrift etc), Lieferung f (eines Werks):

appear in numbers in Lieferungen erscheinen; → back number

6. LING Numerus m, Zahl f:

in the singular number im Singular, in der Einzahl

7. poet

a) Silben-, Versmaß n

b) pl Verse pl, Poesie f

8. THEAT etc (Programm-)Nummer f:

do a number on bes US sl

a) einen Film etc verreißen, einen Schauspieler etc auch in der Luft zerreißen,

b) einen Antrag etc abschmettern,

c) sich über ein Thema etc (unterhaltsam) auslassen,

d) jemanden bescheißen

9. MUS Nummer f, Stück n

10. umg do number one (two) (besonders Kindersprache) sein kleines (großes) Geschäft machen;

do number three hum Papi und Mami spielen (miteinander schlafen)

11. sl ‚Käfer m, Mieze f (Mädchen)

12. sl → joint A 7

13. Numbers pl (als sg konstruiert) BIBEL die Numeri pl, das Vierte Buch Mose

14. umg schickes Kleidungsstück

15. pl (auch als sg konstruiert) → number pool

B v/t

1. (zusammen)zählen, aufrechnen:

number off abzählen;

his days are numbered seine Tage sind gezählt

2. fig zählen, rechnen ( beide:

among, with zu)

3. nummerieren:

number consecutively durchnummerieren;

numbered account Nummernkonto n

4. sich belaufen auf (akk)

5. Jahre zählen, alt sein

C v/i

1. number in sich belaufen auf (akk)

2. fig zählen (among, with zu)

3. number off MIL bes Br abzählen

n. abk

1. natus, born geb.

2. neuter

3. LING nominative Nom.

4. noon

5. north N

6. northern nördl.

7. note

8. noun Subst.

9. number Nr.

No. abk

1. north N

2. northern nördl.

3. number Nr.

num. abk number; numeral (numerals)

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1. noun
1) (in series) Nummer, die

number 3 West Street — West Street [Nr.] 3

the number of somebody's car — jemandes Autonummer

you've got the wrong number — (Teleph.) Sie sind falsch verbunden

dial a wrong number — sich verwählen (ugs.)

number one — (oneself) man selbst; attrib. Nummer eins nachgestellt; Spitzen[position, -platz]

take care of or look after number one — an sich (Akk.) selbst denken

Number Ten [Downing Street] — (Brit.) Amtssitz des britischen Premierministers/der britischen Premierministerin

somebody's number is up — (coll.) jemandes Stunde hat geschlagen

2) (esp. Math.): (numeral) Zahl, die

3) (sum, total, quantity) [An]zahl, die

a number of people/things — einige Leute/Dinge

a number of times/on a number of occasions — mehrfach od. -mals

a small number — eine geringe [An]zahl

large numbers — eine große [An]zahl

in [large or great] numbers — in großer Zahl

in a small number of cases — in einigen wenigen Fällen

any number — beliebig viele

on any number of occasions — oft[mals]

in number[s] — zahlenmäßig [überlegen sein, überwiegen]

4) (person, song, turn, edition) Nummer, die

5) (coll.): (outfit) Kluft, die

6) (company)

he was [one] of our number — er war einer von uns
2. transitive verb
1) (assign number to) beziffern; nummerieren

2) (amount to, comprise) zählen

the nominations numbered ten in all — es wurden insgesamt zehn Kandidaten nominiert

3) (include, regard as) zählen, rechnen (among, with zu)

4)

be numbered — (be limited) begrenzt sein

somebody's days or years are numbered — jemandes Tage sind gezählt

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(of) n.

Anzahl - f. (music) n.

Stück -e n. (publication) n.

Nummer -n (Ausgabe) f. n.

Nummer -n f.

Zahl -en (Mathematik) f.

Zahl -en f. v.

beziffern v.

numerieren (alt.Rechtschreibung) v.

nummerieren v.

English-german dictionary > number
10 few

[fjuː] 1.
(compar. fewer; superl. fewest) quantisostantivo femminile

1) (not many) pochi

few visitors, letters — pochi visitatori, poche lettere

very few houses — pochissime case

on the few occasions that... — le rare volte che...

their needs are few — hanno poche necessità

to be few in number — essere pochi di numero

with few exceptions — con rare eccezioni

2) (some, several)

every few days — a intervalli di pochi giorni, ogni due o tre giorni

over the next few days — (in past) nei giorni successivi; (in future) nei giorni a venire

these past few days — nei giorni scorsi

3) a few qualche, alcuni

a few people, houses — alcune persone, case

I would like a few more — ne vorrei ancora qualcuno

quite a few people — un bel po' di o parecchie persone

we've lived here for a good few years — viviamo qui da un bel po' di anni

a few weeks earlier — qualche settimana fa o prima

in a few minutes — tra qualche minuto
2.
pronome

1) (not many) pochi m.pl. (-e)

few of us succeeded — pochi di noi ci sono riusciti

there are so few of them that — sono talmente pochi che

there are four too few — ne mancano quattro

as few as four people turned up — sono arrivate soltanto quattro persone

2) (some)

a few of the soldiers, countries — alcuni dei soldati, dei paesi

I only need a few — me ne servono solo alcuni

quite a few of the tourists come from Germany — un buon numero di turisti viene dalla Germania

a good few of the houses — un bel po' di case
3.
nome

the few who — i pochi o le poche persone che

it appeals only to the few — piace solo a una minoranza (di persone)

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to be few and far between — essere rarissimi

to have had a few (too many) — colloq. avere bevuto qualche bicchiere di troppo
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Note:

When few is used as a quantifier to indicate the smallness or insufficiency of a given number or quantity ( few horses, few shops, few people), it is translated by pochi + masculine nouns and poche + feminine nouns: pochi cavalli, pochi negozi, poche persone. Equally the few is translated by i pochi / le poche: the few people who knew her = le poche persone che la conoscevano. For examples and particular usages, see I.1 in the entry below. - When few is used as a quantifier in certain expressions to mean several, translations vary according to the expression: see I.2 in the entry below. - When a few is used as a quantifier ( a few books), it can often be translated by qualche, which is invariable and is always followed by the singular: qualche libro; however, for expressions such as quite a few books, a good few books, see I.3 in the entry below. - For translations of few used as a pronoun ( few of us succeeded, I only need a few), see II in the entry below. - For translations of the few used as a noun ( the few who voted for him), see III in the entry below

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[fju:]
adjective, pronoun

(not many; a very small number of: Few people visit me nowadays; every few minutes (= very frequently); Such opportunities are few.) poco

- a few
- few and far between
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[fjuː] 1.
(compar. fewer; superl. fewest) quantisostantivo femminile

1) (not many) pochi

few visitors, letters — pochi visitatori, poche lettere

very few houses — pochissime case

on the few occasions that... — le rare volte che...

their needs are few — hanno poche necessità

to be few in number — essere pochi di numero

with few exceptions — con rare eccezioni

2) (some, several)

every few days — a intervalli di pochi giorni, ogni due o tre giorni

over the next few days — (in past) nei giorni successivi; (in future) nei giorni a venire

these past few days — nei giorni scorsi

3) a few qualche, alcuni

a few people, houses — alcune persone, case

I would like a few more — ne vorrei ancora qualcuno

quite a few people — un bel po' di o parecchie persone

we've lived here for a good few years — viviamo qui da un bel po' di anni

a few weeks earlier — qualche settimana fa o prima

in a few minutes — tra qualche minuto
2.
pronome

1) (not many) pochi m.pl. (-e)

few of us succeeded — pochi di noi ci sono riusciti

there are so few of them that — sono talmente pochi che

there are four too few — ne mancano quattro

as few as four people turned up — sono arrivate soltanto quattro persone

2) (some)

a few of the soldiers, countries — alcuni dei soldati, dei paesi

I only need a few — me ne servono solo alcuni

quite a few of the tourists come from Germany — un buon numero di turisti viene dalla Germania

a good few of the houses — un bel po' di case
3.
nome

the few who — i pochi o le poche persone che

it appeals only to the few — piace solo a una minoranza (di persone)

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to be few and far between — essere rarissimi

to have had a few (too many) — colloq. avere bevuto qualche bicchiere di troppo
••
Note:

When few is used as a quantifier to indicate the smallness or insufficiency of a given number or quantity ( few horses, few shops, few people), it is translated by pochi + masculine nouns and poche + feminine nouns: pochi cavalli, pochi negozi, poche persone. Equally the few is translated by i pochi / le poche: the few people who knew her = le poche persone che la conoscevano. For examples and particular usages, see I.1 in the entry below. - When few is used as a quantifier in certain expressions to mean several, translations vary according to the expression: see I.2 in the entry below. - When a few is used as a quantifier ( a few books), it can often be translated by qualche, which is invariable and is always followed by the singular: qualche libro; however, for expressions such as quite a few books, a good few books, see I.3 in the entry below. - For translations of few used as a pronoun ( few of us succeeded, I only need a few), see II in the entry below. - For translations of the few used as a noun ( the few who voted for him), see III in the entry below

English-Italian dictionary > few
11 few

few [fju:]

adjective

pronoun

a. ( = not many) peu (de)

• few books peu de livres

• few of them came peu d'entre eux sont venus

• he is one of the few people able to do this c'est l'une des rares personnes qui puisse le faire

• these past few weeks ces dernières semaines

• the next few days les (quelques) jours qui viennent

• with few exceptions à de rares exceptions près

• such occasions are few and far between de telles occasions sont rares

• there are always the few who think that... il y a toujours la minorité qui croit que...

• so few have been sold on en a vendu si peu

• as few as three cigarettes a day seulement trois cigarettes par jour

b. (set structures)

► a few ( = some) quelques(-uns) quelques(-unes)

• a few books quelques livres mpl

• I know a few of these people je connais quelques-unes de ces personnes

• a few thought otherwise certains pensaient autrement

• I'd like a few more j'en voudrais quelques-un(e)s de plus

• a few more ideas d'autres idées

• he has had a good few (drinks) il a pas mal (inf) bu

• there were only a few of us nous n'étions qu'une poignée► quite a few

• how many? -- quite a few combien ? -- pas mal (inf)

• quite a few books pas mal (inf) de livres

• I saw quite a few people there j'y ai vu pas mal (inf) de gens► too few trop peu

• he has too few books il a trop peu de livres

• there were three too few il en manquait trois

• too few of them realize that... trop peu d'entre eux sont conscients que...

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Note: When few is used as a quantifier to indicate the smallness or insufficiency of a given number or quantity ( few houses, few people, few shops) it is translated by peu de: peu de maisons, peu de gens, peu de magasins. Equally the few is translated by le peu de: the few people who knew her le peu de gens qui la connaissaient. For examples and particular usages see I 1 in the entry

When few is used as a quantifier in certain expressions to mean several, translations vary according to the expression: see I 2 in the entry

When a few is used as a quantifier ( a few books), it can often be translated by quelques: quelques livres; however, for expressions such as quite a few books, a good few books, see II in the entry

For translations of few used as a pronoun ( few of us succeeded, I only need a few) see II, III in the entry

For translations of the few used as a noun ( the few who voted for him) see III in the entry
[fjuː] 1.
(comparative fewer; superlative fewest) quantifier

1) ( not many) peu de

few visitors/letters — peu de visiteurs/lettres

one of my few pleasures — un de mes rares plaisirs

their needs are few — ils ont peu de besoins

to be few in number — être peu nombreux

too few women — trop peu de femmes

with few exceptions — à quelques exceptions près

2) (some, several)

every few days — tous les deux ou trois jours

over the next few days/weeks — ( in past) dans les jours/semaines qui ont suivi; ( in future) dans les jours/semaines à venir

these past few days — ces derniers jours

the first few weeks — les premières semaines

the few books she possessed — les quelques livres qu'elle possédait
2.
a few quantifier, pronoun quelques

a few people/houses — quelques personnes/maisons

I would like a few more — j'en voudrais quelques-uns/quelques-unes de plus

quite a few people/houses — pas mal (colloq) de gens/maisons, un bon nombre de personnes/maisons

a good few years — un bon nombre d'années

a few of the soldiers/countries — quelques-uns or certains des soldats/pays

a few of us — un certain nombre d'entre nous

there were only a few of them — il n'y en avait que quelques-uns/quelques-unes

quite a few ou a good few of the tourists come from Germany — un bon nombre des touristes viennent d'Allemagne

there are only a very few left — il n'en reste que très peu
3.
pronoun ( not many) peu

few of us succeeded — peu d'entre nous ont réussi

there are so few of them that — il y en a tellement peu que

there are four too few — il en manque quatre

as few as four people turned up — quatre personnes seulement sont venues

the few who voted for him — les rares personnes qui ont voté pour lui

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they are few and far between — ils sont rarissimes

to have had a few (too many) — (colloq) avoir bu quelques verres (de trop)

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12 few

few ( comp fewer ; superl fewest)

❢ When few is used as a quantifier to indicate the smallness or insufficiency of a given number or quantity ( few houses, few shops, few people) it is translated by peu de: peu de maisons, peu de magasins, peu de gens. Equally the few is translated by le peu de: the few people who knew her le peu de gens qui la connaissaient. For examples and particular usages see A 1 in the entry.

When few is used as a quantifier in certain expressions to mean several, translations vary according to the expression: see A 2 in the entry. When a few is used as a quantifier ( a few books), it can often be translated by quelques: quelques livres ; however, for expressions such as quite a few books, a good few books, see B in the entry. For translations of few used as a pronoun ( few of us succeeded, I only need a few) see B, C in the entry. For translations of the few used as a noun ( the few who voted for him) see D in the entry.

A quantif

1 ( not many) peu de ; few visitors/letters peu de visiteurs/lettres ; few people came to the meeting peu de gens sont venus à la réunion ; very few houses/families très peu de maisons/familles ; there are very few opportunities for graduates il y a très peu de débouchés pour les diplômés ; one of my few pleasures un de mes rares plaisirs ; on the few occasions that she has visited this country les rares fois où elle a visité ce pays ; their needs are few ils ont peu de besoins ; their demands are few ils sont peu exigeants, ils revendiquent peu de chose ; to be few in number être peu nombreux ; there are too few women in this profession il y a trop peu de femmes dans ce métier ; with few exceptions à quelques exceptions près ; a man of few words gen un homme peu loquace ; ( approvingly) un homme qui ne se perd pas en paroles inutiles ;

2 (some, several) every few days tous les deux ou trois jours ; over the next few days/weeks ( in past) dans les jours/semaines qui ont suivi ; ( in future) dans les jours/semaines à venir ; these past few days ces derniers jours ; the first few weeks les premières semaines ; the few books she possessed les quelques livres qu'elle possédait.

B a few quantif quelques ; a few people/houses quelques personnes/maisons ; I would like a few more j'en voudrais quelques-uns (or quelques-unes) de plus ; quite a few people/houses pas mal ○ de gens/maisons, un bon nombre de gens/maisons ; we've lived here for a good few years nous vivons ici depuis un bon nombre d'années ; a few weeks earlier quelques semaines plus tôt ; in a few minutes dans quelques minutes ; in a few more months dans quelques mois ; a few more times quelques fois de plus.

C pron

1 ( not many) peu ; few of us succeeded peu d'entre nous ont réussi ; few of them could swim ils n'étaient pas nombreux à savoir nager ; few of them survived peu d'entre eux ont survécu, il y a eu peu de survivants ; there are so few of them that ( objects) il y en a tellement peu que ; ( people) ils sont tellement peu nombreux que ; there are four too few il en manque quatre ; as few as four people turned up quatre personnes seulement sont venues ; few can deny that il y a peu de gens qui nieraient que ;

2 ( some) a few of the soldiers/countries quelques-uns or certains des soldats/pays ; I only need a few il ne m'en faut que quelques-uns/quelques-unes ; a few of us un certain nombre d'entre nous ; there were only a few of them ( objects) il n'y en avait que quelques-uns/quelques-unes ; ( people) ils étaient peu nombreux ; quite a few of the tourists come from Germany un bon nombre des touristes viennent d'Allemagne ; a good few of the houses were damaged un bon nombre des maisons ont été endommagées ; there are only a very few left ( objects) il n'en reste que très peu ; ( people) il ne reste que quelques personnes ; a few wanted to go on strike quelques-uns voulaient faire la grève.

D n the few who voted for him les rares personnes qui ont voté pour lui ; great wealth in the hands of the few une grande richesse entre les mains d'une minorité ; music that appeals only to the few une musique qui ne s'adresse qu'à l'élite.

Idioms

to be few and far between être rarissimes ; such people/opportunities are few and far between de telles personnes/occasions sont rarissimes ; villages in this area are few and far between il y a très peu de villages dans cette région ; to have had a few (too many) ○ avoir bu quelques verres de trop, être bien parti ○.

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13 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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go ⇒ Usage note: go

A vi (3^e pers sg prés goes ; prét went ; pp gone)

1 (move, travel) aller (from de ; to à, en) ; to go to London/Paris aller à Londres/Paris ; to go to Wales/to Ireland/to California aller au Pays de Galles/en Irlande/en Californie ; to go to town/to the country aller en ville/à la campagne ; they went home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; she's gone to Paris elle est allée à Paris ; to go up/down/across monter/descendre/traverser ; I went into the room je suis entré dans la pièce ; to go by bus/train/plane voyager en bus/train/avion ; we went there by bus nous y sommes allés en bus ; to go by ou past [person, vehicle] passer ; that car's going very fast! cette voiture roule très vite! ; there he goes again! ( that's him again) le revoilà! ; fig ( he's starting again) le voilà qui recommence!, c'est reparti! ; who goes there? Mil qui va là? ; where do we go from here? fig et maintenant qu'est-ce qu'on fait? ;

2 (on specific errand, activity) aller ; to go shopping aller faire des courses ; to go swimming (in sea, river) aller se baigner ; ( in pool) aller à la piscine ; to go for a walk aller se promener ; to go on a journey/on holiday partir en voyage/en vacances ; to go for a drink aller prendre un verre ; he's gone to get some wine il est allé chercher du vin ; go and answer the phone va répondre au téléphone ; go and tell them that… va leur dire que… ; go after him! poursuivez-le! ;

3 ( attend) aller ; to go to school/ church aller à l'école/l'église ; to go to work aller or se rendre au travail ; to go to the doctor's/dentist's aller chez le médecin/dentiste ;

4 ( used as auxiliary with present participle) she went running up the stairs elle a monté l'escalier en courant ; she went complaining to the principal elle est allée se plaindre au directeur ;

5 ( depart) partir ; I must go, I must be going il faut que je parte or que je m'en aille ; the train goes at six o'clock le train part à six heures ; a train goes every hour il y a un train toutes les heures ; to go on holiday partir en vacances ; be gone! va-t'en!, allez-vous en! ;

6 euph ( die) mourir, disparaître ; when I am gone quand je ne serai plus là ; the doctors say she could go at any time d'après les médecins elle risque de mourir d'un instant à l'autre ;

7 ( disappear) partir ; half the money goes on school fees la moitié de l'argent part en frais de scolarité ; the money/cake has all gone il ne reste plus d'argent/de gâteau ; I left my bike outside and now it's gone j'ai laissé mon vélo dehors et il n'est plus là or il a disparu ; there goes my chance of winning! c'en est fait de mes chances de gagner! ;

8 (be sent, transmitted) it can't go by post on ne peut pas l'envoyer par la poste ; these proposals will go before parliament ces propositions seront soumises au parlement ;

9 ( become) to go red rougir ; to go white blanchir ; his hair ou he is going grey il commençe à avoir les cheveux blancs ; to go mad devenir fou/folle ; to go bankrupt faire faillite ;

10 ( change over to new system) to go Labour/Conservative Pol [country, constituency] voter travailliste/conservateur ; to go metric adopter le système métrique ; ⇒ private, public ;

11 (be, remain) the people went hungry les gens n'avaient rien à manger ; we went for two days without food nous avons passé deux jours sans rien manger ; to go unnoticed passer inaperçu ; to go unpunished rester impuni ; the question went unanswered la question est restée sans réponse ; to go naked se promener tout nu ; he was allowed to go free il a été libéré or remis en liberté ;

12 (weaken, become impaired) his memory/mind is going il perd la mémoire/l'esprit ; his hearing is going il devient sourd ; my voice is going je n'ai plus de voix ; the battery is going la batterie est presque à plat ; the engine is going le moteur a des ratés ;

13 ( of time) ( elapse) s'écouler ; three hours went by before… trois heures se sont écoulées avant que… (+ subj) ; there are only three days to go before Christmas il ne reste plus que trois jours avant Noël ; how's the time going? quelle heure est-il? ; it's just gone seven o'clock il est un peu plus de sept heures ;

14 ( be got rid of) he's totally inefficient, he'll have to go! il est complètement incapable, il va falloir qu'on se débarrasse de lui! ; that new lampshade is hideous, it'll have to go! ce nouvel abat-jour est affreux, il va falloir qu'on s'en débarrasse! ; the car will have to go il va falloir vendre la voiture ; either she goes or I do! c'est elle ou moi! ; six down and four to go! six de faits, et encore quatre à faire! ;

15 (operate, function) [vehicle, machine, clock] marcher, fonctionner ; to set [sth] going mettre [qch] en marche ; to get going [engine, machine] se mettre en marche ; fig [business] démarrer ; to get the fire going allumer le feu ; to keep going [person, business, machine] tenir le coup ○, se maintenir ; we have several projects going at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets en route en ce moment ; ⇒ keep ;

16 ( start) let's get going! allons-y!, allez, on commençe! ; we'll have to get going on that translation il va falloir qu'on se mette à faire cette traduction ; to get things going mettre les choses en train ; ready, steady, go! à vos marques, prêts, partez! ; here goes!, here we go! c'est parti! ; once he gets going, he never stops une fois lancé, il n'arrête pas ;

17 ( lead) aller, conduire, mener (to à) ; that corridor goes to the kitchen le couloir va or conduit à la cuisine ; the road goes down to the sea/goes up the mountain la route descend vers la mer/monte au sommet de la montagne ; this road goes past the cemetery ce chemin passe à côté du cimetière ;

18 ( extend in depth or scope) the roots of the plant go very deep les racines de la plante s'enfoncent très profondément ; the historical reasons for this conflict go very deep les raisons historiques de ce conflit remontent très loin ; these habits go very deep ces habitudes sont profondément ancrées or enracinées ; as far as that goes pour ce qui est de cela ; it's true as far as it goes c'est vrai dans un sens or dans une certaine mesure ; she'll go far! elle ira loin! ; this time he's gone too far! cette fois il est allé trop loin! ; a hundred pounds doesn't go far these days on ne va pas loin avec cent livres sterling de nos jours ; one leg of lamb doesn't go very far among twelve people un gigot d'agneau n'est pas suffisant pour douze personnes ; this goes a long way towards explaining his attitude ceci explique en grande partie son attitude ; you can make £5 go a long way on peut faire beaucoup de choses avec 5 livres sterling ;

19 (belong, be placed) aller ; where do these plates go? où vont ces assiettes? ; that table goes beside the bed cette table va à côté du lit ; the suitcases will have to go in the back il va falloir mettre les valises derrière ;

20 ( fit) gen rentrer ; it won't go into the box ça ne rentre pas dans la boîte ; five into four won't go quatre n'est pas divisible par cinq ; three into six goes twice six divisé par trois, ça fait deux ;

21 (be expressed, sung etc in particular way) I can't remember how the poem goes je n'arrive pas à me rappeler le poème ; how does the song go? quel est l'air de la chanson? ; the song goes something like this la chanson ressemble à peu près à ça ; as the saying goes comme dit le proverbe ; the story goes that le bruit court que, on dit que ; her theory goes something like this… sa théorie consiste à peu près à dire que… ;

22 ( be accepted) what he says goes c'est lui qui fait la loi ; it goes without saying that il va sans dire que ; that goes without saying cela va sans dire ; anything goes tout est permis ;

23 ( be about to) to be going to do aller faire ; it's going to snow il va neiger ; I was just going to phone you j'étais justement sur le point de t'appeler, j'allais justement t'appeler ; I'm going to phone him right now je vais l'appeler tout de suite ; I'm not going to be treated like that! je ne vais pas me laisser faire comme ça! ; we were going to go to Italy, but we changed our plans nous devions aller en Italie, mais nous avons changé d'idée ;

24 ( happen) the party went very well la soirée s'est très bien passée ; so far the campaign is going well jusqu'à maintenant la campagne a bien marché ; how did the evening go? comment s'est passée la soirée? ; the way things are going, I don't think we'll ever get finished vu la façon dont les choses se passent or si ça continue comme ça, je pense qu'on n'aura jamais fini ; how's it going ○ ?, how are things going? comment ça va ○ ? ; how goes it? hum comment ça va ○ ?, comment va ◑ ? ;

25 ( be on average) it's old, as Australian towns go c'est une ville assez vieille pour une ville australienne ; it wasn't a bad party, as parties go c'était une soirée plutôt réussie par rapport à la moyenne ;

26 ( be sold) the house went for over £100,000 la maison a été vendue à plus de 100 000 livres ; we won't let the house go for less than £100,000 nous ne voulons pas vendre la maison à moins de 100 000 livres ; those rugs are going cheap ces tapis ne sont pas chers ; the house will go to the highest bidder la maison sera vendue au plus offrant ; ‘going, going, gone!’ ( at auction) ‘une fois, deux fois, trois fois, adjugé!’ ;

27 ( be on offer) I'll have some coffee, if there's any going je prendrai bien un café, s'il y en a ; are there any drinks going? est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose à boire? ; I'll have whatever's going je prendrai ce qu'il y a ; it's the best machine going c'est la meilleure machine sur le marché ; there's a job going at their London office il y a un poste libre dans leur bureau de Londres ;

28 ( contribute) the money will go towards a new roof l'argent servira à payer un nouveau toit ; the elements that go to make a great film les éléments qui font un bon film ; everything that goes to make a good teacher toutes les qualités d'un bon enseignant ;

29 ( be given) [award, prize] aller (to à) ; [estate, inheritance, title] passer (to à) ; the money will go to charity les bénéfices iront aux bonnes œuvres ; most of the credit should go to the author la plus grande partie du mérite revient à l'auteur ; the job went to a local man le poste a été donné à un homme de la région ;

30 ( emphatic use) she's gone and told everybody! elle est allée le dire à tout le monde! ; why did he go and spoil it? pourquoi est-il allé tout gâcher ? ; you've gone and ruined everything! tu t'es débrouillé pour tout gâcher! ; he went and won the competition! il s'est débrouillé pour gagner le concours! ; you've really gone and done it now! tu peux être fier de toi! iron ; then he had to go and lose his wallet comme s'il ne manquait plus que ça, il a perdu son portefeuille ;

31 ( of money) (be spent, used up) all his money goes on drink tout son argent passe dans l'alcool ; most of his salary goes on rent la plus grande partie de son salaire passe dans le loyer ; I don't know where all my money goes (to)! je ne sais pas ce que je fais de mon argent! ;

32 (make sound, perform action or movement) gen faire ; [bell, alarm] sonner ; the cat went ‘miaow’ le chat a fait ‘miaou’ ; wait until the bell goes attends que la cloche sonne ( subj) ; she went like this with her fingers elle a fait comme ça avec ses doigts ; so he goes ‘what about my money ○ ?’ et puis il dit or il fait, ‘et mon argent?’ ;

33 (resort to, have recourse to) to go to war [country] entrer en guerre ; [soldier] partir à la guerre ; to go to law GB ou to the law US aller en justice ;

34 (break, collapse etc) [roof] s'effondrer ; [cable, rope] se rompre, céder ; ( fuse) [light bulb] griller ;

35 (bid, bet) aller ; I'll go as high as £100 j'irai jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ; I went up to £100 je suis allé jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ;

36 ( take one's turn) you go next c'est ton tour après, c'est à toi après ; you go first après vous ;

37 ( be in harmony) those two colours don't go together ces deux couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ; the curtains don't go with the carpet les rideaux ne vont pas avec le tapis ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;

38 ○ euph ( relieve oneself) aller aux toilettes ;

39 US ( in takeaway) to go à emporter ; two hamburgers to go! deux hamburgers à emporter!

B vtr (3^e pers sg prés goes ; prét went ; pp gone) ( see usage note)

1 ( travel) we had gone ten miles before we realized that… nous avions déjà fait dix kilomètres quand nous nous sommes rendu compte que… ; are you going my way? tu vas dans la même direction que moi? ; to go one's own way fig suivre son chemin ;

2 ○ (bet, bid) I go two diamonds ( in cards) j'annonce deux carreaux ; he went £20 il a mis or parié 20 livres sterling.

C n (pl goes)

1 GB ( person's turn) tour m ; ( try) essai m ; it's your go ( in game) c'est ton tour, c'est à toi ; whose go is it? gen à qui le tour? ; ( in game) à qui de jouer? ; you've had two goes ( in game) tu as eu deux tours ; ( two attempts at mending sth) tu as déjà essayé deux fois ; to have a go at sth essayer de faire qch ; have another go! essaie encore une fois or un coup! ; she had several goes at the exam elle a repassé l'examen plusieurs fois ; I had to have several goes before passing j'ai dû m'y reprendre à plusieurs fois avant de réussir ;

2 ○ ( energy) dynamisme m ; to be full of go, to be all go être très dynamique, avoir beaucoup d'allant ; he has no go in him il manque de dynamisme ;

3 ○ GB ( bout) ( of illness) attaque f ;

4 ⇒ Games and sports ( board game) go m.

D adj all systems are go! Aerosp tout est paré pour le lancement!

Idioms

to have a go at sb s'en prendre à qn ; to make a go of sth réussir qch ; she's always on the go elle n'arrête jamais ; he's all go ○ ! il n'arrête pas! ; it's all the go ○ ! ça fait fureur! ; we have several different projects on the go at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets différents en chantier or en cours en ce moment ; (it's) no go! pas question! ; from the word go dès le départ ; that was a near go ○ ! on l'a échappé belle! ; in one go d'un seul coup ; to go one better than sb renchérir sur qn ; that's how it goes!, that's the way it goes! ainsi va le monde!, c'est la vie! ; there you go ○ ! voilà!

Phrasal verbs

■ go about:

▶ go about

1 = go around ;

2 Naut virer de bord ; prepare to go about! parer à virer! ;

▶ go about [sth]

1 ( undertake) s'attaquer à [task] ; how do you go about writing a novel? comment est-ce que vous vous y prenez pour écrire un roman? ; he knows how to go about it il sait s'y prendre ;

2 ( be busy with) to go about one's business vaquer à ses occupations ; she went about her work mechanically elle faisait son travail machinalement.

■ go across:

▶ go across traverser ; he's gone across to the shop/neighbour's il est allé au magasin en face/chez les voisins en face ;

▶ go across [sth] traverser [street, river, bridge etc].

■ go after:

▶ go after [sth/sb]

1 ( chase) poursuivre [person] ;

2 fig ( try hard to get) he really went after that job il a fait tout son possible pour avoir ce travail.

■ go against:

▶ go against [sb/sth]

1 ( prove unfavourable to) the vote/verdict/decision went against them le vote/le verdict/la décision leur a été défavorable or n'a pas été en leur faveur ; the war is going against them la guerre tourne à leur désavantage ;

2 ( conflict with) être contraire à [rules, principles] ; to go against the trend aller à l'encontre de or être contraire à la tendance ; to go against the party line Pol ne pas être dans la ligne du parti ;

3 (resist, oppose) s'opposer à, aller à l'inverse de [person, sb's wishes].

■ go ahead

1 ( go in front) go ahead, I'll follow you on partez devant, je vous suis ;

2 fig ( proceed) go! ( in conversation) continue! ; go ahead and shoot! vas-y, tire! ; they are going ahead with the project ils ont décidé de mettre le projet en route ; we can go ahead without them nous pouvons continuer sans eux ; next week's strike is to go ahead la grève de la semaine prochaine va avoir lieu.

■ go along

1 ( move along) [person, vehicle] aller, avancer ; to make sth up as one goes along fig inventer qch au fur et à mesure ;

2 ( attend) aller ; she went along as a witch elle y est allée déguisée en sorcière ; I went along as a witness j'y suis allé or je me suis présenté comme témoin.

■ go along with:

▶ go along with [sb/sth] être d'accord avec, accepter [plans, wishes] ; I can't go along with that je ne peux pas accepter ça ; I'll go along with you there je suis d'accord avec vous sur ce point.

■ go around:

▶ go around

1 (move, travel about) se promener, circuler ; to go around naked/barefoot se promener tout nu/pieds nus ; she goes around on a bicycle elle circule à bicyclette ; they go around everywhere together ils vont partout ensemble ;

2 ( circulate) [rumour] courir ; there's a rumour going around that le bruit court que ; there's a virus going around il y a un virus qui traîne ; there isn't enough money to go around il n'y a pas assez d'argent pour tout le monde ;

▶ go around [sth] faire le tour de [house, shops, area] ; to go around the world faire le tour du monde ; they went around the country looking for him ils l'ont cherché dans tout le pays.

■ go at:

▶ go at [sb] ( attack) attaquer, tomber sur ;

▶ go at [sth] s'attaquer à, s'atteler à [task, activity].

■ go away [person] partir ; to go away on holiday GB ou vacation US partir en vacances ; go away and leave me alone! va-t-en et laisse-moi tranquille! ; go away and think about it réfléchissez-y ; don't go away thinking that ne va pas croire que ; this cold/headache just won't go away! je n'arrive pas à me débarrasser de ce rhume/mal de tête! ; the problems aren't just going to go away! les problèmes ne vont pas disparaître tout seuls!

■ go back

1 ( return) retourner ; ( turn back) rebrousser chemin, faire demi-tour ; ( resume work) reprendre le travail ; (resume classes, studies) reprendre les cours ; as it was raining, they decided to go back comme il pleuvait, ils ont décidé de faire demi-tour or de rebrousser chemin ; they went back home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; let's go back to France rentrons en France ; to go back to the beginning recommencer ; to go back to sleep se rendormir ; to go back to work/writing se remettre au travail/à écrire ; go back! the path isn't safe reculez! le chemin est dangereux ; once you've committed yourself, there's no going back une fois que vous vous êtes engagé, vous ne pouvez plus reculer ;

2 ( in time) remonter ; to go back in time remonter dans le temps ; to understand the problem we need to go back 20 years pour comprendre le problème il faut remonter 20 ans en arrière ; this tradition goes back a century cette tradition est vieille d'un siècle ; we go back a long way ça fait longtemps qu'on se connaît ;

3 ( revert) revenir (to à) ; to go back to teaching revenir à l'enseignement ; to go back to being a student reprendre des études ; let's go back to what we were discussing yesterday revenons à ce que dont nous parlions hier.

■ go back on:

▶ go back on [sth] revenir sur [promise, decision].

■ go before:

▶ go before ( go in front) aller au devant ; fig ( in time) se passer avant ; all that had gone before tout ce qui s'était passé avant ;

▶ go before [sb/sth] [person] comparaître devant [court, judge] ; the bill went before parliament le projet de loi a été soumis au parlement.

■ go below gen, Naut descendre.

■ go by:

▶ go by [person] passer ; [time] passer, s'écouler ; as time goes by avec le temps ; don't let such opportunities go by il ne faut pas laisser passer de telles occasions ;

▶ go by [sth]

1 ( judge by) juger d'après ; to go by appearances juger d'après or sur les apparences ; going by her looks, I'd say she was about 30 à la voir, je lui donne 30 ans ; you mustn't go by what you read in the papers il ne faut pas croire tout ce que disent les journaux ; if the trailer is anything to go by, it should be a good film à en juger par la bande-annonce, ça doit être un bon film ; if the father is anything to go by, I wouldn't like to meet the son! quand on voit le père, on n'a pas envie de rencontrer le fils! ;

2 ( proceed by) to go by the rules suivre or observer le règlement ; promotion goes by seniority la promotion se fait à l'ancienneté or en fonction de l'ancienneté.

■ go down:

▶ go down

1 ( descend) gen descendre ; [diver] effectuer une plongée ; to go down to the cellar descendre à la cave ; to go down to the beach aller à la plage ; to go down to the pub aller au pub ; they've gone down to Brighton for a few days ils sont allés passer quelques jours à Brighton ; ‘going down!’ ( in elevator) ‘on descend!’ ; to go down on one's knees se mettre à genoux ;

2 ( fall) [person, aircraft] tomber ; ( sink) [ship] couler, sombrer ; [person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ; most of the passengers went down with the ship la plupart des passagers ont coulé avec le navire ; the plane went down in flames l'avion s'est écrasé en flammes ; the plane went down over Normandy/the Channel l'avion s'est écrasé en Normandie/est tombé dans la Manche ; to go down for the third time [drowning person] disparaître sous les flots et se noyer ;

3 [sun] se coucher ;

4 ( be received) to go down well/badly être bien/mal reçu ; this remark didn't go down at all well cette remarque n'a pas été appréciée du tout ; his jokes went down well/didn't go down well with the audience le public a apprécié/n'a pas beaucoup apprécié ses plaisanteries ; another cup of coffee would go down nicely! une autre tasse de café serait la bienvenue! ;

5 ( be swallowed) it went down the wrong way c'est passé de travers ;

6 ( become lower) [water level, temperature] baisser ; [tide] descendre ; [price, standard] baisser ; ( abate) [storm, wind] se calmer ; [fire] s'éteindre ; the river has/the floods have gone down le niveau de la rivière/des inondations a baissé ; foodstuffs are going down (in price) les produits alimentaires deviennent moins chers ;

7 ( become deflated) [swelling] désenfler ; [tyre, balloon] se dégonfler ;

8 GB Univ ( break up for holiday) terminer les cours ; ( leave university permanently) quitter l'université ; when do you go down? quand est-ce que vous êtes en vacances? ;

9 gen, Sport (fail, be defeated) perdre ; ( be downgraded) redescendre ; Corby went down 6-1 to Oxford Corby a perdu 6-1 contre Oxford ; the team has gone down to the second division l'équipe est redescendue en deuxième division ;

10 ( be remembered) he will go down as a great statesman on se souviendra de lui comme d'un grand homme d'État ;

11 ( be recorded) être noté ; it all goes down in her diary elle note tout dans son journal ;

12 ( continue) the book goes down to 1939 le livre va jusqu'en 1939 ; if you go down to the second last line you will see that si vous regardez à l'avant-dernière ligne, vous verrez que ;

13 ( be stricken) to go down with flu/malaria attraper la grippe/la malaria ;

14 ○ GB ( be sent to prison) être envoyé en prison ;

15 Comput [computer, system] tomber en panne ;

▶ go down [sth]

1 lit descendre [hill] ; descendre dans [mine] ;

2 ( be downgraded) to go down a class Sch redescendre d'une classe.

■ go down on:

▶ go down on [sth] ( set) [sun] se coucher sur ; when the sun went down on the Roman Empire fig quand l'empire romain commençait à décliner ;

▶ go down on [sb] ● ( have oral sex with) tailler une pipe à ● [man] ; faire minette à ● [woman].

■ go for:

▶ go for [sb/sth]

1 ○ (favour, have liking for) craquer ○ pour [person, physical type] ; aimer [style of music, literature etc] ; he really goes for blondes il craque ○ pour or il adore les blondes ; I don't go much for modern art je ne suis pas emballé ○ par l'art moderne, je n'aime pas tellement l'art moderne ;

2 ( apply to) être valable pour, s'appliquer à ; that goes for all of you! c'est valable pour tout le monde! ; the same goes for him c'est valable pour lui aussi!, ça s'applique à lui aussi! ;

▶ go for [sb]

1 ( attack) ( physically) attaquer, tomber sur ; ( verbally) attaquer, s'en prendre à [person] ; the two youths went for him les deux jeunes l'ont attaqué or lui ont sauté dessus ; to go for sb's throat [animal] attaquer qn à la gorge ; she really went for him! (in argument, row) elle l'a vraiment incendié!, elle s'en est prise violemment à lui! ;

2 he has a lot going for him il a beaucoup de choses pour lui ;

▶ go for [sth]

1 ( attempt to achieve) essayer d'obtenir [honour, victory] ; she's going for the gold medal/world record elle vise la médaille d'or/le record mondial ; go for it ○ ! vas-y, fonce ○ ! ; the company is going for a new image l'entreprise cherche à se donner une nouvelle image ; the team is going for a win against Italy l'équipe compte bien gagner contre l'Italie ;

2 ( choose) choisir, prendre ; I'll go for the blue one je prendrai le bleu.

■ go forth sout [person] ( go out) sortir ; ( go forward) aller, avancer ; go forth and multiply allez et multipliez-vous.

■ go forward(s) avancer.

■ go in

1 ( enter) entrer ; ( go back in) rentrer ;

2 Mil [army, troops] attaquer ; the troops went in at dawn les troupes ont attaqué à l'aube ;

3 ( disappear) [sun, moon] se cacher.

■ go in for:

▶ go in for [sth]

1 ( be keen on) aimer [sport, hobby etc] ; I don't go in for sports much je n'aime pas tellement le sport ; he goes in for opera in a big way il adore l'opéra, c'est un fou d'opéra ○ ; we don't go in for that sort of thing nous n'aimons pas ce genre de chose ; they don't go in much for foreign languages at Ben's school ils ne s'intéressent pas beaucoup aux langues étrangères dans l'école de Ben ;

2 ( take up) to go in for teaching entrer dans l'enseignement ; to go in for politics se lancer dans la politique ;

3 ( take part in) s'inscrire à [exam, competition].

■ go into:

▶ go into [sth]

1 ( enter) entrer dans ; fig ( take up) se lancer dans ; to go into hospital entrer à l'hôpital ; to go into parliament entrer au parlement ; to go into politics/business se lancer dans la politique/les affaires ;

2 (examine, investigate) étudier ; we need to go into the question of funding il faut que nous étudiions la question du financement ;

3 (explain, describe) I won't go into why I did it je n'expliquerai pas pourquoi je l'ai fait ; let's not go into that now laissons cela de côté pour l'instant ;

4 ( launch into) se lancer dans ; she went into a long explanation of what had happened elle s'est lancée dans une longue explication de ce qui s'était passé ;

5 ( be expended) a lot of work/money went into this project beaucoup de travail/d'argent a été investi dans ce projet ; a lot of effort went into organizing the party l'organisation de la soirée a demandé beaucoup de travail ;

6 ( hit) [car, driver] rentrer dans, heurter ; the car went into a lamp post la voiture est rentrée dans or a heurté un réverbère.

■ go in with:

▶ go in with [sb] se joindre à [person, ally, organization] ; he went in with us to buy the present il s'est mis avec nous pour acheter le cadeau.

■ go off:

▶ go off

1 (explode, fire) [bomb] exploser ; the gun didn't go off le coup n'est pas parti ;

2 [alarm clock] sonner ; [fire alarm] se déclencher ;

3 ( depart) partir, s'en aller ; he went off to work il est parti au travail ; she went off to find a spade elle est allée chercher une pelle ; they went off together ils sont partis ensemble ;

4 GB ( go bad) [milk, cream] tourner ; [meat] s'avarier ; [butter] rancir ; ( deteriorate) [performer, athlete etc] perdre sa forme ; [work] se dégrader ; ( lose one's attractiveness) [person] être moins beau/belle qu'avant ; he used to be very handsome, but he's gone off a bit il était très beau, mais il est moins bien maintenant ; the first part of the film was good, but after that it went off la première partie du film était bien, mais après ça s'est dégradé ;

5 ○ ( fall asleep) s'endormir ;

6 ( cease to operate) [lights, heating] s'éteindre ;

7 (happen, take place) [evening, organized event] se passer ; the concert went off very well le concert s'est très bien passé ;

8 Theat quitter la scène ;

▶ go off [sb/sth] GB I used to like him but I've gone off him je l'aimais bien avant, mais je ne l'aime plus tellement ; I've gone off opera/whisky je n'aime plus tellement l'opéra/le whisky ; I think she's gone off the idea je crois qu'elle a renoncé à l'idée.

■ go off with:

▶ go off with [sb/sth] partir avec [person, money] ; she went off with all his money elle est partie avec tout son argent ; who's gone off with my pen? qui a pris mon stylo?

■ go on:

▶ go on

1 (happen, take place) se passer ; what's going on? qu'est-ce qui se passe? ; there's a party going on upstairs il y a une fête en haut ; how long has this been going on? depuis combien de temps est-ce que ça dure? ; a lot of stealing goes on il y a beaucoup de vols ; a lot of drinking goes on at Christmas time les gens boivent beaucoup à Noël ;

2 ( continue on one's way) poursuivre son chemin ;

3 ( continue) continuer ; go on with your work continuez votre travail, continuez de travailler ; go on looking continuez à or de chercher ; she went on speaking elle a continué de parler ; go on, we're all listening! continue, nous t'écoutons tous! ; ‘and another thing,’ she went on, ‘you're always late’ ‘et autre chose,’ a-t-elle ajouté, ‘vous êtes toujours en retard’ ; if he goes on like this, he'll get into trouble! s'il continue comme ça, il va s'attirer des ennuis ; we can't go on like this! nous ne pouvons pas continuer comme ça! ; life must go on la vie continue ; the meeting went on into the afternoon la réunion s'est prolongée jusque dans l'après-midi ; you can't go on being a pen pusher all your life! tu ne peux pas rester gratte-papier toute ta vie! ; the list goes on and on la liste est infinie or interminable ; that's enough to be going on with ça suffit pour le moment ; have you got enough work to be going on with? est-ce que tu as assez de travail pour le moment? ; here's £20 to be going on with voici 20 livres pour te dépanner ; go on (with you) ○ ! allons donc! ;

4 ( of time) ( elapse) as time went on, they… avec le temps, ils… ; as the evening went on, he became more animated au fur et à mesure que la soirée avançait, il devenait plus animé ;

5 ( keep talking) to go on about sth ne pas arrêter de parler de qch, parler de qch à n'en plus finir ; he was going on about the war il parlait de la guerre à n'en plus finir ; don't go on about it! arrête de parler de ça!, change de disque! ; she went on and on about it elle en a fait toute une histoire ; he does tend to go on a bit! il a tendance à radoter ○ ! ; the way she goes on, you'd think she was an expert on the subject! à l'entendre, on croirait qu'elle est experte en la matière! ;

6 ( proceed) passer ; let's go on to the next item passons au point suivant ; he went on to say that/describe how puis il a dit que/décrit comment ;

7 ( go into operation) [heating, lights] s'allumer ;

8 Theat entrer en scène ; what time do you go on? à quelle heure est-ce que vous entrez en scène? ;

9 ( approach) it's going on three o'clock il est presque trois heures ; she's four going on five elle va sur ses cinq ans ; he's thirty going on three hum il a trente ans mais il pourrait bien en avoir trois ;

10 ( fit) these gloves won't go on ces gants ne m'iront pas ; the lid won't go on properly le couvercle ne ferme pas bien ;

▶ go on [sth] se fonder sur [piece of evidence, information] ; that's all we've got to go on tout ce que nous savons avec certitude ; we've got nothing else to go on nous n'avons pas d'autre point de départ ; the police haven't got much evidence to go on la police n'a pas beaucoup de preuves à l'appui.

■ go on at:

▶ go on at [sb] s'en prendre à [person] ; he's always going on at me for writing badly il s'en prend toujours à moi à cause de ma mauvaise écriture ; they're always going on at us about deadlines ils sont toujours sur notre dos pour des histoires de délais.

■ go out

1 (leave, depart) sortir ; she went out of the room elle a quitté la pièce, elle est sortie de la pièce ; to go out walking aller se promener ; to go out for a drink aller prendre un verre ; they go out a lot ils sortent beaucoup ; she likes going out elle aime sortir ; she had to go out to work at 14 il a fallu qu'elle aille travailler à 14 ans ;

2 ( travel long distance) partir (to à, pour) ; she's gone out to Australia/Africa elle est partie pour l'Australie/l'Afrique ;

3 ( have relationship) to go out with sb sortir avec qn ; they've been going out together for six weeks ils sortent ensemble depuis six semaines ;

4 [tide] descendre ; the tide is going out la marée descend, la mer se retire ;

5 Ind ( go on strike) se mettre en grève ;

6 ( become unfashionable) passer de mode ; ( no longer be used) ne plus être utilisé ; mini-skirts went out in the 1970s les mini-jupes ont passé de mode dans les années 70 ; gas went out and electricity came in l'électricité a remplacé le gaz ;

7 ( be extinguished) [fire, light] s'éteindre ;

8 ( be sent) [invitation, summons] être envoyé ; ( be published) [journal, magazine] être publié ; Radio, TV ( be broadcast) être diffusé ;

9 ( be announced) word went out that he was coming back le bruit a couru qu'il revenait ; the news went out from Washington that Washington a annoncé que ;

10 ( be eliminated) gen, Sport être éliminé ; she went out in the early stages of the competition elle a été éliminée au début de la compétition ;

11 (expressing compassion, sympathy) my heart goes out to them je les plains de tout mon cœur, je suis de tout cœur avec eux ; our thoughts go out to absent friends nos pensées vont vers nos amis absents ;

12 ( disappear) all the spirit seemed to have gone out of her elle semblait avoir perdu tout son entrain ; the romance seemed to have gone out of their relationship leur relation semblait avoir perdu tout son charme ;

13 ( end) [year, month] se terminer ;

14 ( in cards) terminer.

■ go over:

▶ go over

1 ( cross over) aller ; she went over to him/to the window elle est allée vers lui/vers la fenêtre, elle s'est approchée de lui/de la fenêtre ; to go over to Ireland/to America aller en Irlande/aux États-Unis ; we are now going over to Washington for more news Radio, TV nous passons maintenant l'antenne à Washington pour plus d'informations ;

2 ( be received) how did his speech go over? comment est-ce que son discours a été reçu? ; his speech went over well son discours a été bien reçu ; to go over big ○ avoir un grand succès ;

3 ( switch over) he went over to Labour from the Conservatives il est passé du parti des conservateurs au parti des travaillistes ; to go over to the other side fig passer dans l'autre camp ; we've gone over to gas (central heating) nous sommes passés au chauffage central au gaz ; to go over to Islam se convertir à l'Islam ;

▶ go over [sth]

1 ( review) passer [qch] en revue [details] ; she went over the events of the day in her mind elle a passé en revue les événements de la journée ; we've gone over the details again and again nous avons déjà passé les détails en revue mille fois ; to go over one's lines ( actor) répéter son texte ; there's no point in going over old ground il n'y a aucune raison de revenir là-dessus ;

2 (check, inspect) vérifier [accounts, figures] ; revoir [facts, piece of work] ; I want to go over this article once more before I hand it in je veux relire cet article une dernière fois avant de le remettre ; to go over a house faire le tour d'une maison ;

3 ( clean) he went over the room with a duster il a donné un coup de chiffon dans la pièce ; after cleaning, go over the surface with a dry cloth après l'avoir nettoyée, essuyez la surface avec un chiffon sec or passez un chiffon sec sur la surface ;

4 to go over a sketch in ink repasser un dessin à l'encre ;

5 ( exceed) dépasser ; don't go over £100 ne dépassez pas 100 livres sterling.

■ go round GB:

▶ go round

1 ( turn) [wheel, propeller etc] tourner ; the wheels went round and round les roues n'ont pas arrêté de tourner ; my head's going round j'ai la tête qui tourne ;

2 ( call round) to go round to see sb aller voir qn ; he's gone round to Anna's il est allé chez Anna ;

3 ( suffice) there isn't enough food/money to go round il n'y a pas assez de nourriture/d'argent pour tout le monde ; there was barely enough to go round il y en avait à peine assez pour tout le monde ;

4 ( circulate) there's a rumour going round that le bruit court que ;

5 ( make detour) faire un détour ; we had to go round the long way ou the long way round il a fallu qu'on prenne un chemin plus long ; I had to go round by the bridge il a fallu que je passe par or que je fasse un détour par le pont ;

▶ go round [sth] ( visit) faire le tour de [shops, house, museum].

■ go through:

▶ go through

1 ( come in) entrer ; if you'll just go (on) through, I'll tell them you're here si vous voulez bien entrer, je vais leur dire que vous êtes arrivé ;

2 ( be approved) [law, agreement] passer ; the law failed to go through la loi n'est pas passée ; the divorce hasn't gone through yet le divorce n'a pas encore été prononcé ;

3 ( be successfully completed) [business deal] être conclu ;

▶ go through [sth]

1 ( undergo) endurer, subir [experience, ordeal] ; ( pass through) passer par [stage, phase] ; in spite of all he's gone through malgré tout ce qu'il a enduré ; we've all gone through it nous sommes tous passés par là ; she's gone through a lot elle a beaucoup souffert ; he went through the day in a kind of daze toute la journée il a été dans un état second ; the country has gone through two civil wars le pays a connu deux guerres civiles ; to go through a crisis traverser une crise ; as you go through life au fur et à mesure que tu vieillis, en vieillissant ; you have to go through the switchboard/right authorities il faut passer par le standard/les autorités compétentes ; it went through my mind that l'idée m'a traversé l'esprit que ;

2 (check, inspect) examiner, étudier ; ( rapidly) parcourir [documents, files, list] ; to go through one's mail parcourir son courrier ; let's go through the points one by one étudions or examinons les problèmes un par un ;

3 ( search) fouiller [person's belongings, baggage] ; to go through sb's pockets/drawers fouiller dans les poches/tiroirs de qn ; at customs they went through all my things à la douane ils ont fouillé toutes mes affaires ;

4 (perform, rehearse) répéter [scene] ; expliquer [procedure] ; let's go through the whole scene once more répétons or reprenons toute la scène une dernière fois ; there are still a certain number of formalities to be gone through il y a encore un certain nombre de formalités à remplir ; I went through the whole procedure with him je lui ai expliqué comment il fallait procéder en détail ;

5 (consume, use up) dépenser [money] ; we went through three bottles of wine nous avons bu or descendu ○ trois bouteilles de vin ; I've gone through the elbows of my jacket j'ai usé ma veste aux coudes.

■ go through with:

▶ go through with [sth] réaliser, mettre [qch] à exécution [plan] ; in the end they decided to go through with the wedding finalement ils ont décidé de se marier ; I can't go through with it je ne peux pas le faire ; you'll have to go through with it now il va falloir que tu le fasses maintenant.

■ go together

1 ( harmonize) [colours, pieces of furniture etc] aller ensemble ; these colours don't go together ces couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ;

2 ( entail each other) aller de pair ; poverty and crime often go together la pauvreté et le crime vont souvent de pair ;

3 ○ †( have relationship) [couple] sortir ensemble.

■ go under

1 [boat, ship] couler, sombrer ; [drowning person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ;

2 fig ( succumb) [person] succomber ; ( go bankrupt) [business, company] faire faillite.

■ go up:

▶ go up

1 ( ascend) monter ; to go up to bed monter se coucher ; they've gone up to London ils sont allés or montés à Londres ; they've gone up to Scotland ils sont allés en Écosse ; ‘going up!’ ( in elevator) ‘on monte!’ ;

2 ( rise) [price, temperature] monter ; Theat [curtain] se lever (on sur) ; petrol has gone up (in price) (le prix de) l'essence a augmenté ; unemployment is going up le chômage augmente or est en hausse ; our membership has gone up le nombre de nos adhérents a augmenté ; a cry went up from the crowd un cri est monté or s'est élevé de la foule ;

3 ( be erected) [building] être construit ; [poster] être affiché ; new office blocks are going up all over the place on construit de nouveaux immeubles un peu partout ;

4 (be destroyed, blown up) [building] sauter, exploser ;

5 GB Univ ( start university) entrer à l'université ; ( start term) reprendre les cours ;

6 ( be upgraded) the team has gone up to the first division l'équipe est passée en première division ;

7 ( continue) the book/series goes up to 1990 le livre/la série va jusqu'en 1990 ;

▶ go up [sth]

1 ( mount) monter, gravir [hill, mountain] ;

2 to go up a class Sch passer dans une classe supérieure.

■ go with:

▶ go with [sth]

1 (match, suit) aller avec ; your shirt goes with your blue eyes ta chemise va bien avec tes yeux bleus ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;

2 ( accompany) aller de pair avec ; the car goes with the job la voiture va de pair avec la situation ; the responsibilities that go with parenthood les responsabilités qui vont de pair avec le fait d'être parent ;

▶ go with [sb] ( date) sortir avec ; ( have sex with) coucher avec [person].

■ go without:

▶ go without s'en passer ; you'll just have to go without! il va falloir que tu t'en passes!, il va falloir que tu fasses sans! ;

▶ go without [sth] se passer de [food, luxuries].

Big English-French dictionary > go
15 number

1. noun
1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) número

2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) gran número de, grupo

3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) número

4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) tema

2. verb
1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerar

2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) contar

3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) contar

•

- numberless
- number-plate
- his days are numbered
- without number

number¹ n

1. número

number one número uno

2. número de teléfono

I haven't got your number no tengo tu número de teléfono

large numbers muchos

large numbers of people demonstrated in the street muchas personas se manifestaron en la calle

a number of varios

a number of people asked me where I had bought my hat varias personas me preguntaron dónde había comprado mi sombrero

number² vb numerar

the seats are numbered los asientos están numerados

number

tr['nʌmbə^SMALLr/SMALL]

noun

1 número

■ if I give you my number, you can call me si te doy mi número, me puedes llamar

■ a large number of people un gran número de personas

■ I thought my number was on that one! ¡pensé que esa bala era para mí!

■ I thought my number was up! ¡creí que me había llegado la hora!

2 (on car) número de matrícula, matrícula

■ did you get his number? ¿le cogiste la matrícula?

3 (of magazine etc) número

4 (song) tema nombre masculino

■ she sang a few Gershwin numbers cantó algunos temas de Gershwin

5 (group) grupo

■ two of their number died of malaria dos de ellos murieron de malaria

6 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL número

■ adjectives agree with the noun in number and gender los adjetivos concuerdan con el substantivo en número y en género

7 familiar (garment) modelo

■ Vicky turned up in a nice little red leather number Vicky se presentó con un modelito de cuero rojo

transitive verb

1 numerar

■ the tickets are not numbered los billetes no están numerados

■ his days are numbered tiene los días contados

2 (count) contar

■ I number her among my friends la cuento entre mis amigos

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

a number of... varios,-as...

any number of... muchísimos,-as...

number one principal, más importante

to be number one ser el número uno, ser el mejor

to look after number one mirar por lo suyo

to have somebody's number tener calado,-a a alguien

... without number un sinfín de...

Number Ten el nº 10 de Downing Street: la residencia oficial del primer ministro británico

number ['nʌmbər] vt

1) count, include: contar, incluir

2) : numerar

number the pages: numera las páginas

3) total: ascender a, sumar

number n

1) : número m

in round numbers: en números redondos

telephone number: número de teléfono

2)

a number of : varios, unos pocos, unos cuantos

number

n.

• cantidad s.f.

• cifra s.f.

• entrega s.f.

• guarismo s.m.

• número (Matemática) s.m.

v.

• ascender a v.

• contar v.

• numerar v.

• poner número a v.

'nʌmbər, 'nʌmbə(r)
I

noun

1) ( digit) número m

in round numbers — en números redondos

2) ( for identification) número m; ( telephone number) número de teléfono

wrong number — número equivocado

page/room number — número de página/de habitación

I'm in number 17 — estoy en la (habitación) 17

she lives at number 48 — vive en el número 48

her/my number is up — le/me ha llegado la hora

to do a number on somebody — (AmE sl) hacérsela* buena a alguien (fam)

to do something by the numbers — (AmE) hacer* algo como Dios manda

to have somebody's number — (esp AmE colloq) tener* calado a alguien (fam)

to look out for o after number one — pensar* ante todo en el propio interés; (before n)

he's hardly your number one fan — no eres precisamente santo de su devoción

3)

a) (amount, quantity) número m

student numbers — el número de estudiantes

in a large number of cases — en un gran número de casos

in a small number of cases — en unos pocos casos, en contados casos

on a number of occasions — en varias ocasiones, varias veces

any number of things could go wrong — hay (una) cantidad de cosas que podrían fallar

b) ( group)

among o in their number — entre ellos, en su grupo

4)

a) (song, tune) número m

b) (issue of magazine, journal) número m

c) ( garment) (colloq) modelo m

she wore a smart little red number — llevaba un elegante modelito rojo

5) numbers pl (AmE colloq)

a) ( lottery) lotería f clandestina, ≈chance m ( en Col)

b) ( results)

I can't say anything till I see the numbers — no puedo decir nada hasta ver las cifras

II
1.

transitive verb

a) ( assign number to) \<\<houses/pages/items\>\> numerar

a numbered (bank) account — una cuenta (bancaria) numerada

b) ( amount to)

the spectators numbered 50,000 — había (un total de) 50.000 espectadores, el número de espectadores ascendía a 50.000

they number thousands — son miles, hay miles de ellos

c) ( count) contar*

they are worthy to be numbered among the saints — merecen que se los cuente entre los santos

his days are numbered — tiene los días contados

2.

vi ( figure) figurar

['nʌmbǝ(r)]
1. N

1) (Math) número m

think of a number, any number — piensa un número, uno cualquiera

an even/odd number — un número par/impar

to do sth by numbers or (US) by the numbers — (fig) hacer algo como es debido

• painting by numbers — pintar siguiendo los números

• to play the numbers — (US) * jugar a la lotería
lucky 1., 2), prime 4., round 1.
2) (=identification number) [of house, room, page] (also Telec) número m; [of car] (also: registration number) matrícula f

we live at number 15 — vivimos en el número 15

my number is 414 3925 — mi (número de) teléfono es el 414 3925

the number 49 bus — el autobús número 49

I don't know her room number — no sé su número de habitación

did you get his number? — ¿has apuntado la matrícula?

• his number came up — (in lottery, raffle) su número salió premiado

• reference number — número de referencia

• Number Ten — (Brit) (Pol) la casa del Primer Ministro británico

• you've got the wrong number — (Telec) se ha equivocado de número

to have sb's number —

I've got his number now * — ya lo tengo calado *

- his number is up
registration 2., serial, telephone
3) (in hierarchy)

it's (at) number three in the charts — está tercero or es el número tres en la lista de éxitos

• number one, she's the world number one — es la campeona mundial

the number one Spanish player — el mejor jugador español, el número uno de los jugadores españoles

I'm your number one fan — soy su más rendido admirador

it's my number one priority — es lo más importante para mí

• he's my number two — es mi inferior inmediato

- look after or look out for number one

he only thinks of number one — solo piensa en sí mismo
opposite 3., 3), public 1., 2)
4) (=quantity, amount) número m

equal numbers of women and men — el mismo número de mujeres y hombres

the slump in student numbers — la caída en picado del número de estudiantes

• a number of — (=several) varios

on a number of occasions — en varias ocasiones

a number of people have mentioned it — varias personas lo han mencionado

in a large number of cases — en muchos casos, en un gran número de casos

in a small number of cases — en contados or unos pocos casos

I've had a fair/an enormous number of letters — he recibido bastantes/muchísimas cartas

• there must be any number of people in my position — debe haber gran cantidad de personas en mi situación

any number can play — puede jugar cualquier número de personas

• they were eight/few in number — eran ocho/pocos

• to make up the numbers — hacer bulto

• times without number — liter un sinfín de veces
force 1., 1), safety 1.
5) (=group)

one of their number — uno de ellos

I include myself in their number — me considero uno de ellos

6) (=edition) número m

the January number — el número de enero
back 6.
7) (=song, act) número m

and for my next number I shall sing... — ahora voy a cantar...

- do a number on sb

8) * (=item of clothing) modelo m

that little number is by Dior — ese modelito es de Dior

9) * (=person)

she's a nice little number — está como un tren *, está más buena que el pan *

10) * (=product)

this wine is a nice little number — este vino no está nada mal

11) * (=job, situation)

a cushy number — un buen chollo (Sp) *

12) (Gram) número m

13) Numbers (in Bible)

(the Book of) Numbers — (el libro de) Números

2. VT

1) (=assign number to) numerar

they are numbered from one to ten — están numerados del uno al diez

numbered (bank) account — cuenta f (bancaria) numerada

2) (=amount to)

they number 700 — son 700, hay 700

the dead numbered several hundred — el número de muertos ascendía a varios centenares

the library numbers 30,000 books — la biblioteca cuenta con 30.000 libros

3) (=include) contar

to number sb among one's friends — contar a algn entre sus amigos

he numbered Beethoven among his pupils — Beethoven era uno de sus discípulos

to be numbered among — figurar entre

4) (=count in numbers) contar

- his days are numbered

3.

VI

to number among — figurar entre

4.

CPD

number cruncher * N — (=machine) procesador m de números; (=person) encargado(-a) m / f de hacer los números *

number crunching N — cálculo m numérico

number plate N — (Brit) (Aut) matrícula f, placa f (esp LAm), chapa f (de matrícula) (S. Cone)

numbers game, numbers racket (US) N — (=lottery) lotería f; (illegal) lotería clandestina

to play the numbers game — jugar a la lotería; (fig) pej dar cifras

number theory N — teoría f numérica

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['nʌmbər, 'nʌmbə(r)]
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noun

1) ( digit) número m

in round numbers — en números redondos

2) ( for identification) número m; ( telephone number) número de teléfono

wrong number — número equivocado

page/room number — número de página/de habitación

I'm in number 17 — estoy en la (habitación) 17

she lives at number 48 — vive en el número 48

her/my number is up — le/me ha llegado la hora

to do a number on somebody — (AmE sl) hacérsela* buena a alguien (fam)

to do something by the numbers — (AmE) hacer* algo como Dios manda

to have somebody's number — (esp AmE colloq) tener* calado a alguien (fam)

to look out for o after number one — pensar* ante todo en el propio interés; (before n)

he's hardly your number one fan — no eres precisamente santo de su devoción

3)

a) (amount, quantity) número m

student numbers — el número de estudiantes

in a large number of cases — en un gran número de casos

in a small number of cases — en unos pocos casos, en contados casos

on a number of occasions — en varias ocasiones, varias veces

any number of things could go wrong — hay (una) cantidad de cosas que podrían fallar

b) ( group)

among o in their number — entre ellos, en su grupo

4)

a) (song, tune) número m

b) (issue of magazine, journal) número m

c) ( garment) (colloq) modelo m

she wore a smart little red number — llevaba un elegante modelito rojo

5) numbers pl (AmE colloq)

a) ( lottery) lotería f clandestina, ≈chance m ( en Col)

b) ( results)

I can't say anything till I see the numbers — no puedo decir nada hasta ver las cifras

II
1.

transitive verb

a) ( assign number to) \<\<houses/pages/items\>\> numerar

a numbered (bank) account — una cuenta (bancaria) numerada

b) ( amount to)

the spectators numbered 50,000 — había (un total de) 50.000 espectadores, el número de espectadores ascendía a 50.000

they number thousands — son miles, hay miles de ellos

c) ( count) contar*

they are worthy to be numbered among the saints — merecen que se los cuente entre los santos

his days are numbered — tiene los días contados

2.

vi ( figure) figurar

English-spanish dictionary > number
16 number

number [ˈnʌmbə^r]

1. noun

   a. nombre m ; (when written) chiffre m

   b. ( = quantity, amount) nombre m

• a number of people un certain nombre de personnes

• large numbers of people un grand nombre de personnes

• a great number of books/chairs une grande quantité de livres/chaises

• on a number of occasions à plusieurs occasions

• there are a number of things which... il y a un certain nombre de choses qui...

• any number can play le nombre de joueurs est illimité

• I've told you any number of times (inf) je te l'ai dit mille fois

• to win by sheer numbers l'emporter par le nombre

   c. [of bus, page, house, phone, lottery] numéro m

• wrong number faux numéro

• to get a wrong number se tromper de numéro

• that's the wrong number ce n'est pas le bon numéro

• she lives at number four elle habite au numéro quatre

• registration number (of car) (numéro m d')immatriculation f

• to take a car's number relever le numéro d'immatriculation d'une voiture

• I've got his number! (inf) je l'ai repéré !

• his number's up (inf) son compte est bon

   d. [of newspaper, journal] numéro m

   e. [of music hall, circus] numéro m ; [of pianist, band] morceau m ; [of singer] chanson f ; [of dancer] danse f

• there were several dance numbers on the programme le programme comprenait plusieurs numéros de danse

• my next number will be... (singer) je vais maintenant chanter...

2. transitive verb

   a. ( = give a number to) numéroter

• they are numbered from one to ten ils sont numérotés de un à dix

• the houses are not numbered les maisons n'ont pas de numéro

   b. ( = include) compter

• I number him among my friends je le compte parmi mes amis

   c. his days were numbered ses jours étaient comptés

3. compounds

► number one noun

• to be number one (in the charts) être numéro un (au hit-parade)

• he's the number one there c'est lui le numéro un

• the number one English player le meilleur joueur anglais

• to look after number one (inf) penser avant tout à soi ► number plate noun (British) plaque f d'immatriculation

• a car with French number plates une voiture immatriculée en France ► numbers game noun

• to play the numbers game jouer sur les chiffres ► Number 10 noun 10 Downing Street (résidence du Premier ministre) → DOWNING STREET

► number two noun [of political party] numéro deux m

• he's my number two (inf) il est mon second

* * *
['nʌmbə(r)] 1.
noun

1) gen, Linguistics nombre m; ( written figure) chiffre m

a three-figure number — un nombre à trois chiffres

2) (of bus, house, page, telephone) numéro m

a wrong number — un faux numéro

there's no reply at that number — ce numéro ne répond pas

to be number three on the list — être troisième sur la liste

3) (amount, quantity) nombre m

a number of people/times — un certain nombre de personnes/fois

for a number of reasons — pour plusieurs raisons

large numbers of people — beaucoup de gens

on a number of occasions — plusieurs fois

they were sixteen in number — ils étaient (au nombre de) seize

one of our number — un des nôtres

in equal numbers — en nombre égal

any number of times — maintes fois

4) ( issue) (of magazine, periodical) numéro m

the May number — le numéro de mai

5) Music, Theatre ( act) numéro m; ( song) chanson f

6) (colloq) ( object of admiration)

a little black number — ( dress) une petite robe noire

that car is a neat little number — elle est chouette (colloq), cette voiture
2.
numbers plural noun (in company, school) effectifs mpl; (of crowd, army) nombre m

to win by force or weight of numbers — gagner parce que l'on est plus nombreux

to make up the numbers — pour compléter le nombre
3.
transitive verb

1) ( allocate number to) numéroter

2) ( amount to) compter

the regiment numbered 1,000 men — le régiment comptait 1000 hommes

3) ( include) compter ( among parmi)
4.
intransitive verb ( comprise in number)

a crowd numbering in the thousands — une foule de plusieurs milliers de personnes

to number among the great musicians — compter parmi les plus grands musiciens

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your number's up! — (colloq) ton compte est bon!

to do something by the numbers US ou by numbers — faire quelque chose mécaniquement

his days are numbered — ses jours sont comptés

English-French dictionary > number
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set
1. present participle - setting; verb
1) (to put or place: She set the tray down on the table.) poner, colocar

2) (to put plates, knives, forks etc on (a table) for a meal: Please would you set the table for me?) poner

3) (to settle or arrange (a date, limit, price etc): It's difficult to set a price on a book when you don't know its value.) poner, fijar, acordar

4) (to give a person (a task etc) to do: The witch set the prince three tasks; The teacher set a test for her pupils; He should set the others a good example.) mandar

5) (to cause to start doing something: His behaviour set people talking.) provocar

6) ((of the sun etc) to disappear below the horizon: It gets cooler when the sun sets.) ponerse

7) (to become firm or solid: Has the concrete set?) endurecer, cuajar

8) (to adjust (eg a clock or its alarm) so that it is ready to perform its function: He set the alarm for 7.00 a.m.) poner

9) (to arrange (hair) in waves or curls.) marcar

10) (to fix in the surface of something, eg jewels in a ring.) montar, engastar

11) (to put (broken bones) into the correct position for healing: They set his broken arm.) componer, encajar

2. adjective
1) (fixed or arranged previously: There is a set procedure for doing this.) fijo, determinado, establecido

2) ((often with on) ready, intending or determined (to do something): He is set on going.) listo, preparado

3) (deliberate: He had the set intention of hurting her.) deliberado

4) (stiff; fixed: He had a set smile on his face.) fijo

5) (not changing or developing: set ideas.) fijo

6) ((with with) having something set in it: a gold ring set with diamonds.) engastado

3. noun
1) (a group of things used or belonging together: a set of carving tools; a complete set of (the novels of) Jane Austen.) juego, colección, equipo

2) (an apparatus for receiving radio or television signals: a television/radio set.) aparato

3) (a group of people: the musical set.) grupo, pandilla

4) (the process of setting hair: a shampoo and set.) marcado

5) (scenery for a play or film: There was a very impressive set in the final act.) decorado

6) (a group of six or more games in tennis: She won the first set and lost the next two.) set

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- setting
- setback
- set phrase
- set-square
- setting-lotion
- set-to
- set-up
- all set
- set about
- set someone against someone
- set against someone
- set someone against
- set against
- set aside
- set back
- set down
- set in
- set off
- set something or someone on someone
- set on someone
- set something or someone on
- set on
- set out
- set to
- set up
- set up camp
- set up house
- set up shop
- set upon

set¹ n

1. juego / colección

a tea set un juego de té

2. aparato

a television set un televisor

3. decorado / plató

the actors were good and the set was wonderful los actores eran buenos y el decorado era fantástico

4. set

game, set and match juego, set y partido

set² vb

1. poner

the English teacher set us a composition el profesor de inglés nos puso una redacción

have you set the alarm clock? ¿has puesto el despertador?

2. fijar / establecer

they've set a date for their wedding han fijado la fecha de la boda

3. ponerse

the sun was setting se ponía el sol

to set an example dar ejemplo

to set fire to something prender fuego a algo

to set someone free dejar a alguien en libertad

to set the table poner la mesa

El pasado y participio pasado de set es set; el gerundio se escribe setting

set sustantivo masculino (pl
◊ sets) set

set m Ten set ' set' also found in these entries: Spanish: acondicionar - ajedrez - ambientar - aparato - azuzar - camino - cartabón - componer - conjunta - conjunto - constituir - constituirse - dar - decorado - decorador - decoradora - dentadura - destinar - determinar - disponer - ejemplo - empeño - emprender - enfrentar - engarzar - equipo - erigirse - escala - escenografía - escuadra - establecer - examen - fijar - fijarse - fraguar - frase - granada - granado - grifería - grupo - hecha - hecho - hombro - hundida - hundido - incendiar - indisponer - inflamar - instalar - jet English: adventure - ascetic - backing - barricade - beset - cassette - cat - dead - deep-set - example - film set - fire - foundation - fund - gather in - goblet - heart - intentionally - jet-set - journey - light - loose - nationalist - odds - pace - paper - pattern - preset - radio set - radiocassette - reset - rest - sail - scene - set - set about - set against - set apart - set aside - set back - set book - set down - set in - set off - set on - set out - set up - set upon - set-up - setting

set

tr[set]

noun

1 (in hairdressing) marcado

■ shampoo and set, please lavar y marcar, por favor

2 (scenery) decorado; (place of filming) plató nombre masculino

■ all actors must be on the set at 9.00 am todos los actores deben estar en el plató a las 9.00

3 (position, posture) postura, posición nombre femenino

adjective

1 (placed) situado,-a

■ a village set on a hill un pueblo situado sobre una colina

■ the cottage is set in beautiful countryside la casita está enclavada en un paisaje precioso

2 (fixed, arranged) fijo,-a, determinado,-a, establecido,-a

■ we've got set hours of work tenemos un horario fijo de trabajo

■ meals are served at set times se sirven las comidas a horas determinadas

■ my day never follows a set pattern no tengo ninguna rutina establecida durante el día

3 (rigid, stiff) rígido,-a, forzado,-a; (opinion) inflexible; (idea) fijo,-a

4 SMALLEDUCATION/SMALL (book) prescrito,-a

5 (ready, prepared) listo,-a (for/to, para), preparado,-a (for/to, para); (likely) probable

■ is everyone set to go? ¿todos estáis listos para salir?

■ the Socialists seem set to win again parece que los socialistas volverán a ganar

transitive verb (pt & pp set)

1 (put, place) poner, colocar

■ she set the divorce papers (down) before him le puso los papeles de divorcio delante

2 (prepare - trap) tender, preparar; (- table) poner; (- camera, video) preparar; (- clock, watch, oven, etc) poner

■ set the table for dinner pon la mesa para la cena

■ I've set the alarm clock for 6.00 am he puesto el despertador a las 6.00

3 (date, time) fijar, señalar, acordar; (example) dar; (rule, record, limit) establecer; (precedent) sentar; (fashion) imponer, dictar

■ have you set a date for the wedding? ¿has fijado una fecha para la boda?

■ you should set a good example deberías dar buen ejemplo

4 (price) fijar; (value) poner

■ he sets a minimum price on his services fija un precio mínimo para sus servicios

■ high values are set on safety se valora mucho la seguridad

5 (jewel, stone) montar, engastar

6 (text for printing) componer

7 SMALLMEDICINE/SMALL (broken bone) componer; (joint) encajar

8 (exam, test, problem) poner; (homework) mandar, poner; (task) asignar; (text) prescribir; (target, aim) fijar, proponer

■ the teacher set them some difficult questions in the exam el profesor les puso unas preguntas difíciles en el examen

9 (story, action) ambientar

■ the novel is set in Madrid la novela está ambientada en Madrid

■ the action is set in 1930s Spain la acción se desarrolla en la España de los años treinta

10 (provoke, start off) poner, hacer

■ you've set me thinking me has hecho pensar

■ this will certainly set tongues wagging esto sí que dará que hablar

11 (provide music for) arreglar, poner música a

12 (hair) marcar

13 (make firm - jelly) cuajar; (- cement) hacer fraguar; (- teeth) apretar

intransitive verb

1 (sun, moon) ponerse

2 (liquid, jelly) cuajar, cuajarse; (cement) fraguarse, endurecerse; (glue) endurecerse; (bone) soldarse

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be all set estar listo,-a, estar preparado,-a

to be dead set against something oponerse rotundamente a algo

to be set in one's ways tener unas costumbres muy arraigadas, ser reacio,-a al cambio

to be set on doing something estar empeñado,-a en hacer algo, estar resuelto,-a a hacer algo

to set fire to something prender fuego a algo

to set free poner en libertad, liberar

to set one's heart on something querer algo más que nada

to set somebody's mind at rest tranquilizar a alguien

to set the ball rolling / to set things in motion poner las cosas en marcha

to set the pace marcar el paso

to set the tone marcar las pautas

set lunch menú nombre masculino del día

set phrase frase nombre femenino hecha

set square cartabón nombre masculino, escuadra

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set

tr[set]

noun

1 (of golf clubs, brushes, tools, etc) juego; (books, poems) colección nombre femenino; (of turbines) equipo, grupo; (of stamps) serie nombre femenino

■ chess set juego de ajedrez

■ set of cutlery cubertería

■ set of dishes vajilla

■ set of saucepans batería de cocina

■ set of teeth dentadura

■ tea set juego de té

■ a boxed set un juego en estuche

2 SMALLELECTRICITY/SMALL (apparatus) aparato

■ they bought a TV set compraron un televisor

■ a wireless set una radio

3 SMALLMATHEMATICS/SMALL conjunto

4 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (tennis) set nombre masculino

5 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL (performance) actuación nombre femenino

■ the set included several new songs la actuación incluía varias canciones nuevas

■ the band played a short set la banda tocó pocos temas

6 (of people) grupo; (clique) pandilla, camarilla

7 (of pupils) grupo

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to make a dead set at (attack) emprenderla con 2 (seduce) proponerse ligar con

set ['sɛt] v, set ; setting vt

1) seat: sentar

2) or set down place: poner, colocar

3) arrange: fijar, establecer

to set the date: poner la fecha

he set the agenda: estableció la agenda

4) adjust: poner (un reloj, etc.)

5) (indicating the causing of a certain condition)

to set fire to: prenderle fuego a

she set it free: lo soltó

6) make, start: poner, hacer

I set them working: los puse a trabajar

set vi

1) solidify: fraguar (dícese del cemento, etc.), cuajar (dícese de la gelatina, etc.)

2) : ponerse (dícese del sol o de la luna)

set adj

1) established, fixed: fijo, establecido

2) rigid: inflexible

to be set in one's ways: tener costumbres muy arraigadas

3) ready: listo, preparado

set n

1) collection: juego m

a set of dishes: un juego de platos, una vajilla

a tool set: una caja de herramientas

2) or stage set : decorado m (en el teatro), plató m (en el cine)

3) apparatus: aparato m

a television set: un televisor

4) : conjunto m (en matemáticas)

set

adj.

• fijo, -a adj.

• puesto, -a adj.

• resuelto, -a adj.

• rígido, -a adj.

n.

• conjunto (Matemática) s.m.

• equipo s.m.

• grupo s.m.

• juego s.m.

• muestra s.f.

• partida s.f.

• serie s.m.

• servicio de mesa s.m.

pret., p.p.

(Preterito definido y participio pasivo de "to set")

v.

(§ p.,p.p.: set) = encasar v.

• engastar v.

• poner v.

(§pres: pongo, pones...) pret: pus-

pp: puesto

fut/c: pondr-•)

set
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noun

1)

a) (of tools, golf clubs, bowls, pens, keys) juego m; (of books, records) colección f; ( of stamps) serie f

a set of cutlery — un juego de cubiertos, una cubertería

a set of saucepans — una batería de cocina

a matching set of sheets and pillowcases — un juego de cama

a set of dentures — una dentadura postiza

a boxed set — un juego en estuche

b) ( Math) conjunto m

2) (+ sing o pl vb) (BrE Educ) grupo de estudiantes seleccionados de acuerdo a sus aptitudes

3) (TV) aparato m, televisor m; ( Rad) aparato m, receptor m

4) (in tennis, squash) set m; (before n)

set point — bola f de set, punto m para set (Méx), set point m (CS)

5)

a) ( Theat) ( stage) escenario m; ( scenery) decorado m

b) ( Cin) plató m

6) ( in hairdressing) marcado m

shampoo and set — lavado m y marcado

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adjective

1) (established, prescribed) <wage/price> fijo

meals are at set times — las comidas son a determinadas horas

there are no set times for visiting — no hay horas de visita establecidas

set book — ( Educ) obra f prescrita or del programa

a set phrase — una frase hecha

we ordered the set menu — (BrE) pedimos el menú del día

2) (pred)

a) (ready, prepared)

to be set — estar* listo, estar* pronto (RPl)

is everything set for the meeting? — ¿está todo preparado or listo or (RPl) pronto para la reunión?

all set (to go)? — ¿listos?

b) (likely, about to) (journ)

to be set to + inf — llevar camino de + inf

c) (determined, resolute)

he was all set to walk out — estaba totalmente decidido or resuelto a irse

she's absolutely set on that bicycle — está empeñada en que tiene que ser esa bicicleta

he's dead set on going to college — está resuelto or decidido a ir a la universidad sea como sea

3)

a) (rigid, inflexible)

to be set in one's ways — tener* costumbres muy arraigadas

b) ( solid) <yoghurt/custard/jelly> cuajado

III
1.

(pres p setting; past & past p set) transitive verb

1) (put, place) poner*, colocar*

he set a pitcher of cider before us — nos puso una jarra de sidra delante

2)

a) (cause to be, become)

to set somebody free — poner* en libertad or liberar a alguien

to set somebody loose — soltar* a alguien

to set fire to something, to set something on fire — prenderle fuego a algo

b) (make solid, rigid) \<\<jelly/cheese\>\> cuajar; \<\<cement\>\> hacer* fraguar

3)

a) ( prepare) \<\<trap\>\> tender*; \<\<table\>\> poner*

set three places for dinner — pon cubiertos para tres para la cena

b) ( Med) \<\<bone\>\> encajar, componer* (AmL)

c) \<\<hair\>\> marcar*

d) ( Print) \<\<type\>\> componer*

4) ( adjust) \<\<oven/alarm clock/watch\>\> poner*

5)

a) (arrange, agree on) \<\<date/time\>\> fijar, acordar*; \<\<agenda\>\> establecer*, acordar*

b) (impose, prescribe) \<\<target\>\> establecer*

c) ( allot) \<\<task\>\> asignar; \<\<homework\>\> mandar, poner*; \<\<exam/test/problem\>\> poner*; \<\<text\>\> prescribir*

d) ( establish) \<\<precedent\>\> sentar*; \<\<record/standard\>\> establecer*; \<\<fashion\>\> dictar, imponer*

to set a good example — dar* buen ejemplo

e) (fix, assign) \<\<price/bail\>\> fijar

6) (cause to do, start)

she set them to work in the garden — los puso a trabajar en el jardín

the news set my pulse racing — la noticia hizo que se me disparara el pulso

to set something going — poner* algo en marcha

7) (usu pass)

a) \<\<book/film\>\> ambientar

the novel is set in Japan — la novela está ambientada en el Japón

b) ( locate) \<\<building\>\> situar*

8)

a) (mount, insert) \<\<gem\>\> engarzar*, engastar; \<\<stake\>\> hincar*, clavar

the posts are set in concrete — los postes están puestos en hormigón

the crown is set with rubies — la corona tiene incrustaciones de rubíes

b)

to set a poem to music — ponerle* música a un poema

9) (turn, direct)

we set our course for the nearest island — pusimos rumbo a la isla más cercana; sail I 1) a)

2.

vi

1) ( go down) \<\<sun/moon\>\> ponerse*

2)

a) (become solid, rigid) \<\<jelly\>\> cuajar(se); \<\<cement\>\> fraguar*

b) \<\<bone\>\> soldarse*

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Phrasal Verbs:

- set about

- set against

- set apart

- set aside

- set back

- set by

- set down

- set forth

- set in

- set off

- set on

- set out

- set to

- set up

- set upon

[set] (vb: pt, pp set)
1. N

1) (=matching series) [of golf clubs, pens, keys] juego m ; [of books, works] colección f ; [of tools] equipo m, estuche m ; [of gears] tren m ; [of stamps] serie f ; (Math) conjunto m

• the sofa and chairs are only sold as a set — el sofá y los sillones no se venden por separado

• a chess set — un ajedrez

• I need one more to make up the complete set — me falta uno para completar la serie

a complete set of Jane Austen's novels — una colección completa de las novelas de Jane Austen

• a set of crockery — una vajilla

• a set of cutlery — una cubertería

• they are sold in sets — se venden en juegos completos

• a set of kitchen utensils — una batería de cocina

• it makes a set with those over there — hace juego con los que ves allá

• set of teeth — dentadura f

• a train set — un tren eléctrico

2) (Tennis) set m

she was leading 5-1 in the first set — iba ganando 5 a 1 en el primer set

3) (Elec) aparato m ; (Rad) aparato m de radio; (TV) televisor m, televisión f

4) (Theat) decorado m ; (Cine) plató m

to be on the set — estar en plató

5) (Hairdressing)

to have a shampoo and set — hacerse lavar y marcar el pelo

6) esp pej (=group) grupo m, pandilla f ; (=clique) camarilla f

we're not in their set — no formamos parte de su grupo

they're a set of thieves — son unos ladrones

they form a set by themselves — forman un grupo aparte

• the fast set — la gente de vida airada

• the literary set — los literatos, la gente literaria

• the smart set — el mundo elegante, los elegantes
jet II, 4.
7) (Brit) (Scol) clase f

the mathematics set — la clase de matemáticas

8)

- make a dead set at sb

9) (=disposition) [of tide, wind] dirección f ; [of fabric] caída f ; [of dress] corte m, ajuste m ; [of head] porte m, manera f de llevar; [of saw] triscamiento m ; mind-set

10) (Hort) planta f de transplantar

onion sets — cebollitas fpl de transplantar

2. ADJ

1) (=fixed) [price, purpose] fijo; [smile] forzado; [opinions] inflexible, rígido; [talk] preparado de antemano; [expression] hecho; [date, time] señalado; (Scol) [books, subjects] obligatorio; [task] asignado

to be set in one's ways/opinions — tener costumbres/opiniones profundamente arraigadas

• set books — (Scol, Univ) lecturas mpl obligatorias

• with no set limits — sin límites determinados

• set menu — menú m, comida f corrida (Mex)

• a set phrase — una frase hecha

• set piece — (Art) grupo m ; (=fireworks) cuadro m ; (Literat etc) escena f importante; (Sport) jugada f ensayada, jugada f de pizarra

• he gave us a set speech — pronunció un discurso preparado de antemano

he has a set speech for these occasions — para estas ocasiones tiene un discurso estereotipado

• at a set time — a una hora señalada

there is no set time for it — para eso no hay hora fija

• there's no set way to do it — no hay una forma establecida or determinada de hacerlo

2) (=determined) resuelto, decidido

• to be (dead) set against (doing) sth — estar (completamente) opuesto a (hacer) algo

• to be set in one's purpose — tener un propósito firme, mantenerse firme en su propósito

• to be (dead) set on (doing) sth — estar (completamente) decidido a or empeñado en (hacer) algo

since you are so set on it — puesto que te empeñas en ello, puesto que estás decidido a hacerlo

3) (=ready) listo

• to be all set to do sth — estar listo para hacer algo

to be all set for — estar listo para

all set? — ¿(estás) listo?

• the scene was set for... — (fig) todo estaba listo para...

4) (Culin)

the fruit is set — el fruto está formado

the jelly is set — la gelatina está cuajada

5) (=disposed)

the tide is set in our favour — la marea fluye para llevarnos adelante; (fig) la tendencia actual nos favorece, llevamos el viento en popa

the wind is set strong from the north — el viento sopla recio del norte

3. VT

1) (=place, put) poner

set the chairs by the window — pon las sillas junto a la ventana

she set the dish before me — puso el plato delante de mí

to set a plan before a committee — exponer un plan ante una comisión

• the film/ scene is set in Rome — la película/escena se desarrolla or está ambientada en Roma

• to set fire to sth, set sth on fire — prender fuego a algo

• a novel set in Madrid — una novela ambientada en Madrid

• to set places for 14 — poner cubiertos para 14 personas

• to set a poem to music — poner música a un poema

• what value do you set on it? — ¿en cuánto lo valoras?; (fig) ¿qué valor tiene para ti?

2) (=arrange) poner, colocar; (=adjust) [+ clock] poner en hora; [+ mechanism] ajustar; [+ hair] marcar, fijar; [+ trap] armar

bricks set in mortar — ladrillos puestos en argamasa

• the alarm clock is set for seven — el despertador está puesto para las siete

I set the alarm for seven o'clock — puse el despertador a las siete

• I'll set your room — (US) voy a limpiar y arreglar su habitación

• to set the table — poner la mesa

• he sets his watch by Big Ben — pone su reloj en hora por el Big Ben; see sail 1., 1)

3) (=mount) [+ gem] engastar, montar

4) (Med) [+ broken bone] encajar, reducir

5) (Typ) [+ type] componer

6) (=fix, establish) [+ date, limit] fijar, señalar; [+ record] establecer; [+ fashion] imponer; [+ dye, colour] fijar

• to set a course for — salir rumbo a

• to set one's heart on sth — tener algo como máximo deseo

• to set limits to sth — señalar límites a algo

• the meeting is set for Tuesday — (US) la reunión se celebrará el martes

• to set a period of three months — señalar un plazo de tres meses

• to set a record of ten seconds — establecer un récord de diez segundos

the world record was set last year — el récord mundial se estableció el año pasado

• to set a time for a meeting — fijar una hora para una reunión
example
7) (=assign) [+ task] dar

to set Lorca for 2001 — poner una obra de Lorca en el programa de estudios para 2001

Cela is not set this year — este año Cela no figura en el programa

• to set an exam in French — preparar un examen de francés

• to set sb a problem — dar a algn un problema que resolver

• to set sb a task — dar a algn una tarea que hacer

8) (=cause to start)

• the noise set the dogs barking — el ruido hizo ladrar a los perros

• to set a fire — (US) provocar un incendio

• to set sth going — poner algo en marcha

• to set sb laughing — hacer reír a algn

• to set everyone talking — dar que hablar a todos

• it set me thinking — me puso a pensar

• to set sb to work — poner a algn a trabajar

9) (=cause to pursue)

• to set a dog on sb — azuzar un perro contra algn

I was set on by three dogs — me atacaron tres perros

• we set the police on to him — le denunciamos a la policía

what set the police on the trail? — ¿qué puso a la policía sobre la pista?

10) (=make solid) [+ cement] solidificar, endurecer; [+ jelly] cuajar

4. VI

1) (=go down) [sun, moon] ponerse

the sun was setting — se estaba poniendo el sol

2) (=go hard) [concrete, glue] endurecerse; (fig) [face] congelarse

3) (Med) [broken bone, limb] componerse

4) (Culin) [jelly, jam] cuajarse

5) (=begin)

to set to work — ponerse a trabajar

5.

CPD

set designer N — (Theat) director(a) m / f de arte, decorador(a) m / f

set point N — (Tennis) punto m de set

set square N — escuadra f ; (with 2 equal sides) cartabón m

- set about

- set against

- set apart

- set aside

- set back

- set by

- set down

- set forth

- set in

- set off

- set on

- set out

- set to

- set up

- set upon

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[set]
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noun

1)

a) (of tools, golf clubs, bowls, pens, keys) juego m; (of books, records) colección f; ( of stamps) serie f

a set of cutlery — un juego de cubiertos, una cubertería

a set of saucepans — una batería de cocina

a matching set of sheets and pillowcases — un juego de cama

a set of dentures — una dentadura postiza

a boxed set — un juego en estuche

b) ( Math) conjunto m

2) (+ sing o pl vb) (BrE Educ) grupo de estudiantes seleccionados de acuerdo a sus aptitudes

3) (TV) aparato m, televisor m; ( Rad) aparato m, receptor m

4) (in tennis, squash) set m; (before n)

set point — bola f de set, punto m para set (Méx), set point m (CS)

5)

a) ( Theat) ( stage) escenario m; ( scenery) decorado m

b) ( Cin) plató m

6) ( in hairdressing) marcado m

shampoo and set — lavado m y marcado

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adjective

1) (established, prescribed) <wage/price> fijo

meals are at set times — las comidas son a determinadas horas

there are no set times for visiting — no hay horas de visita establecidas

set book — ( Educ) obra f prescrita or del programa

a set phrase — una frase hecha

we ordered the set menu — (BrE) pedimos el menú del día

2) (pred)

a) (ready, prepared)

to be set — estar* listo, estar* pronto (RPl)

is everything set for the meeting? — ¿está todo preparado or listo or (RPl) pronto para la reunión?

all set (to go)? — ¿listos?

b) (likely, about to) (journ)

to be set to + inf — llevar camino de + inf

c) (determined, resolute)

he was all set to walk out — estaba totalmente decidido or resuelto a irse

she's absolutely set on that bicycle — está empeñada en que tiene que ser esa bicicleta

he's dead set on going to college — está resuelto or decidido a ir a la universidad sea como sea

3)

a) (rigid, inflexible)

to be set in one's ways — tener* costumbres muy arraigadas

b) ( solid) <yoghurt/custard/jelly> cuajado

III
1.

(pres p setting; past & past p set) transitive verb

1) (put, place) poner*, colocar*

he set a pitcher of cider before us — nos puso una jarra de sidra delante

2)

a) (cause to be, become)

to set somebody free — poner* en libertad or liberar a alguien

to set somebody loose — soltar* a alguien

to set fire to something, to set something on fire — prenderle fuego a algo

b) (make solid, rigid) \<\<jelly/cheese\>\> cuajar; \<\<cement\>\> hacer* fraguar

3)

a) ( prepare) \<\<trap\>\> tender*; \<\<table\>\> poner*

set three places for dinner — pon cubiertos para tres para la cena

b) ( Med) \<\<bone\>\> encajar, componer* (AmL)

c) \<\<hair\>\> marcar*

d) ( Print) \<\<type\>\> componer*

4) ( adjust) \<\<oven/alarm clock/watch\>\> poner*

5)

a) (arrange, agree on) \<\<date/time\>\> fijar, acordar*; \<\<agenda\>\> establecer*, acordar*

b) (impose, prescribe) \<\<target\>\> establecer*

c) ( allot) \<\<task\>\> asignar; \<\<homework\>\> mandar, poner*; \<\<exam/test/problem\>\> poner*; \<\<text\>\> prescribir*

d) ( establish) \<\<precedent\>\> sentar*; \<\<record/standard\>\> establecer*; \<\<fashion\>\> dictar, imponer*

to set a good example — dar* buen ejemplo

e) (fix, assign) \<\<price/bail\>\> fijar

6) (cause to do, start)

she set them to work in the garden — los puso a trabajar en el jardín

the news set my pulse racing — la noticia hizo que se me disparara el pulso

to set something going — poner* algo en marcha

7) (usu pass)

a) \<\<book/film\>\> ambientar

the novel is set in Japan — la novela está ambientada en el Japón

b) ( locate) \<\<building\>\> situar*

8)

a) (mount, insert) \<\<gem\>\> engarzar*, engastar; \<\<stake\>\> hincar*, clavar

the posts are set in concrete — los postes están puestos en hormigón

the crown is set with rubies — la corona tiene incrustaciones de rubíes

b)

to set a poem to music — ponerle* música a un poema

9) (turn, direct)

we set our course for the nearest island — pusimos rumbo a la isla más cercana; sail I 1) a)

2.

vi

1) ( go down) \<\<sun/moon\>\> ponerse*

2)

a) (become solid, rigid) \<\<jelly\>\> cuajar(se); \<\<cement\>\> fraguar*

b) \<\<bone\>\> soldarse*

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Phrasal Verbs:

- set about

- set against

- set apart

- set aside

- set back

- set by

- set down

- set forth

- set in

- set off

- set on

- set out

- set to

- set up

- set upon

English-spanish dictionary > set
18 number

I 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]
nome

1) numero m.

a three-figure number — un numero a tre cifre

odd, even number — numero dispari, pari

2) (in series) (of bus, house, page, telephone) numero m.

a wrong number — un numero sbagliato

there's no reply at that number — non risponde nessuno a quel numero

to be number three on the list — essere il terzo sulla lista

3) (amount, quantity) numero m., quantità f.

a number of people, times — un certo numero di persone, di volte

for a number of reasons — per un certo numero di ragioni

to come in large numbers — accorrere numerosi o in gran numero

large numbers of people — molte persone

on a number of occasions — in un certo numero di occasioni

many, few in number — molti, pochi

they were ten in number — erano dieci (di numero) o in dieci

in equal numbers — in numero uguale

any number of times — mille volte, molto sovente

times without number — innumerevoli volte

4) (group)

one of our number — uno dei nostri

5) (issue) (of magazine, periodical) numero m.

the May number — il numero di maggio

6) mus. (song) pezzo m., brano m.; teatr. numero m.

7) colloq. (object of admiration)

a little black number — (dress) un bel vestitino nero

that car is a neat little number — quella macchina è un gioiellino

8) ling. numero m.
2.
nome plurale numbers (in company, of army) effettivi m.; (in school) studenti m.; (of crowd) numero m.sing.

to win by force o weight of numbers vincere per superiorità numerica; to make up the numbers — fare il conto

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your number's up! — colloq. è giunta la tua ora!

to do sth. by the numbers — AE o

by numbers — fare qcs. pedissequamente
II 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]
verbo transitivo

1) (allocate number to) numerare

2) (amount to) contare

the regiment numbered 1,000 men — il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini

3) (include) includere, annoverare

to be numbered among the great novelists — essere annoverato tra i grandi romanzieri

4) (be limited)

his days are numbered — ha i giorni contati
2.
verbo intransitivo (comprise in number)

a crowd numbering in the thousands — una folla di migliaia di persone

to number among the great musicians — essere annoverato tra i grandi musicisti

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1. noun
1) ((sometimes abbreviated to no - plural nos - when written in front of a figure) a word or figure showing eg how many of something there are, or the position of something in a series etc: Seven was often considered a magic number; Answer nos 1-10 of exercise 2.) numero

2) (a (large) quantity or group (of people or things): He has a number of records; There were a large number of people in the room.) grande numero

3) (one issue of a magazine: the autumn number.) numero

4) (a popular song or piece of music: He sang his most popular number.) brano, pezzo
2. verb
1) (to put a number on: He numbered the pages in the top corner.) numerare

2) (to include: He numbered her among his closest friends.) includere, annoverare

3) (to come to in total: The group numbered ten.) ammontare a

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- numberless
- number-plate
- his days are numbered
- without number
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I 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]
nome

1) numero m.

a three-figure number — un numero a tre cifre

odd, even number — numero dispari, pari

2) (in series) (of bus, house, page, telephone) numero m.

a wrong number — un numero sbagliato

there's no reply at that number — non risponde nessuno a quel numero

to be number three on the list — essere il terzo sulla lista

3) (amount, quantity) numero m., quantità f.

a number of people, times — un certo numero di persone, di volte

for a number of reasons — per un certo numero di ragioni

to come in large numbers — accorrere numerosi o in gran numero

large numbers of people — molte persone

on a number of occasions — in un certo numero di occasioni

many, few in number — molti, pochi

they were ten in number — erano dieci (di numero) o in dieci

in equal numbers — in numero uguale

any number of times — mille volte, molto sovente

times without number — innumerevoli volte

4) (group)

one of our number — uno dei nostri

5) (issue) (of magazine, periodical) numero m.

the May number — il numero di maggio

6) mus. (song) pezzo m., brano m.; teatr. numero m.

7) colloq. (object of admiration)

a little black number — (dress) un bel vestitino nero

that car is a neat little number — quella macchina è un gioiellino

8) ling. numero m.
2.
nome plurale numbers (in company, of army) effettivi m.; (in school) studenti m.; (of crowd) numero m.sing.

to win by force o weight of numbers vincere per superiorità numerica; to make up the numbers — fare il conto

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your number's up! — colloq. è giunta la tua ora!

to do sth. by the numbers — AE o

by numbers — fare qcs. pedissequamente
II 1. ['nʌmbə(r)]
verbo transitivo

1) (allocate number to) numerare

2) (amount to) contare

the regiment numbered 1,000 men — il reggimento contava 1.000 uomini

3) (include) includere, annoverare

to be numbered among the great novelists — essere annoverato tra i grandi romanzieri

4) (be limited)

his days are numbered — ha i giorni contati
2.
verbo intransitivo (comprise in number)

a crowd numbering in the thousands — una folla di migliaia di persone

to number among the great musicians — essere annoverato tra i grandi musicisti

English-Italian dictionary > number
19 open

open ['əʊpən]

ouvert ⇒ 1 (a)-(d), 1 (n), 1 (o), 1 (q)-(s) découvert ⇒ 1 (e) dégagé ⇒ 1 (g) vacant ⇒ 1 (h) libre ⇒ 1 (h) non résolu ⇒ 1 (k) franc ⇒ 1 (n) ouvrir ⇒ 2 (a)-(g), 3 (d) déboucher ⇒ 2 (a) commencer ⇒ 2 (e), 3 (e) engager ⇒ 2 (e) dégager ⇒ 2 (g) s'ouvrir ⇒ 3 (a)-(c)

1 adjective

(a) (not shut → window, cupboard, suitcase, jar, box, sore, valve) ouvert;

∎ her eyes were slightly open/wide open ses yeux étaient entrouverts/grands ouverts;

∎ he kicked the door open il a ouvert la porte d'un coup de pied;

∎ the panels slide open les panneaux s'ouvrent en coulissant;

∎ to smash/lever sth open ouvrir qch en le fracassant/à l'aide d'un levier;

∎ I can't get the bottle open je n'arrive pas à ouvrir la bouteille;

∎ there's a bottle already open in the fridge il y a une bouteille entamée dans le frigo;

∎ you won't need the key, the door's open tu n'auras pas besoin de la clef, la porte est ouverte

(b) (not fastened → coat, fly, packet) ouvert;

∎ his shirt was open to the waist sa chemise était ouverte ou déboutonnée jusqu'à la ceinture;

∎ his shirt was open at the neck le col de sa chemise était ouvert;

∎ her blouse hung open son chemisier était déboutonné;

∎ the wrapping had been torn open l'emballage avait été arraché ou déchiré

(c) (spread apart, unfolded → arms, book, magazine, umbrella) ouvert; (→ newspaper) ouvert, déplié; (→ legs, knees) écarté;

∎ the book lay open at page 6 le livre était ouvert à la page 6;

∎ I dropped the coin into his open hand or palm j'ai laissé tomber la pièce de monnaie dans le creux de sa main;

∎ the seams had split open les coutures avaient craqué;

∎ he ran into my open arms il s'est précipité dans mes bras

(d) (for business) ouvert;

∎ I couldn't find a bank open je n'ai pas pu trouver une banque qui soit ouverte;

∎ are you open on Saturdays? ouvrez-vous le samedi?;

∎ we're open for business as usual nous sommes ouverts comme à l'habitude;

∎ open to the public (museum etc) ouvert ou accessible au public;

∎ open late ouvert en nocturne

(e) (not covered → carriage, wagon, bus) découvert; (→ car) décapoté; (→ grave) ouvert; (→ boat) ouvert, non ponté; (→ courtyard, sewer) à ciel ouvert;

∎ the passengers sat on the open deck les passagers étaient assis sur le pont;

∎ the wine should be left open to breathe il faut laisser la bouteille ouverte pour que le vin puisse respirer

(f) (not enclosed → hillside, plain)

∎ the shelter was open on three sides l'abri était ouvert sur trois côtés;

∎ the hill was open to the elements la colline était exposée à tous les éléments;

∎ our neighbourhood lacks open space notre quartier manque d'espaces verts;

∎ the wide open spaces of Texas les grands espaces du Texas;

∎ shanty towns sprang up on every scrap of open ground des bidonvilles ont surgi sur la moindre parcelle de terrain vague;

∎ they were attacked in open country ils ont été attaqués en rase campagne;

∎ open countryside stretched away to the horizon la campagne s'étendait à perte de vue;

∎ open grazing land pâturages mpl non clôturés;

∎ ahead lay a vast stretch of open water au loin s'étendait une vaste étendue d'eau;

∎ in the open air en plein air;

∎ nothing beats life in the open air il n'y a rien de mieux que la vie au grand air;

∎ he took to the open road il a pris la route;

∎ it'll do 150 on the open road elle monte à 150 sur l'autoroute;

∎ the open sea la haute mer, le large

(g) (unobstructed → road, passage) dégagé; (→ mountain pass) ouvert, praticable; (→ waterway) ouvert à la navigation; (→ view) dégagé;

∎ only one lane on the bridge is open il n'y a qu'une voie ouverte à la circulation sur le pont

(h) (unoccupied, available → job) vacant; (→ period of time) libre;

∎ we have two positions open nous avons deux postes à pourvoir;

∎ I'll keep this Friday open for you je vous réserverai ce vendredi;

∎ she likes to keep her weekends open elle préfère ne pas faire de projets pour le week-end;

∎ it's the only course of action open to us c'est la seule chose que nous puissions faire;

∎ she used every opportunity open to her elle a profité de toutes les occasions qui se présentaient à elle;

∎ he wants to keep his options open il ne veut pas s'engager

(i) (unrestricted → competition) ouvert (à tous); (→ meeting, trial) public; (→ society) ouvert, démocratique;

∎ the contest is not open to company employees le concours n'est pas ouvert au personnel de la société;

∎ club membership is open to anyone aucune condition particulière n'est requise pour devenir membre du club;

∎ a career open to very few une carrière accessible à très peu de gens ou très fermée;

∎ there are few positions of responsibility open to immigrants les immigrés ont rarement accès aux postes de responsabilité;

∎ the field is wide open for someone with your talents pour quelqu'un d'aussi doué que vous, ce domaine offre des possibilités quasi illimitées;

∎ to extend an open invitation to sb inviter qn à venir chez soi quand il le souhaite;

∎ it's an open invitation to tax-dodgers/thieves c'est une invitation à la fraude fiscale/aux voleurs;

∎ American familiar Reno was a pretty open town in those days à cette époque, Reno était aux mains des hors-la-loi^□ ;

∎ they have an open marriage ils forment un couple très libre

(j) (unprotected, unguarded → flank, fire) ouvert; (→ wiring) non protégé;

∎ the two countries share miles of open border les deux pays sont séparés par des kilomètres de frontière non matérialisée;

∎ Sport he missed an open goal il n'y avait pas de défenseurs, et il a raté le but;

∎ to lay oneself open to criticism prêter le flanc à la critique

(k) (undecided → question) non résolu, non tranché;

∎ the election is still wide open l'élection n'est pas encore jouée;

∎ it's still an open question whether he'll resign or not on ne sait toujours pas s'il va démissionner;

∎ I prefer to leave the matter open je préfère laisser cette question en suspens;

∎ he wanted to leave the date open il n'a pas voulu fixer de date

(l) (liable)

∎ his speech is open to misunderstanding son discours peut prêter à confusion;

∎ the prices are not open to negotiation les prix ne sont pas négociables;

∎ the plan is open to modification le projet n'a pas encore été finalisé;

∎ it's open to debate whether she knew about it or not on peut se demander si elle était au courant;

∎ open to doubt douteux

(m) (receptive)

∎ to be open to suggestions être ouvert aux suggestions;

∎ I don't want to go but I'm open to persuasion je ne veux pas y aller mais je pourrais me laisser persuader;

∎ I try to keep an open mind about such things j'essaie de ne pas avoir de préjugés sur ces questions;

∎ open to any reasonable offer disposé à considérer toute offre raisonnable

(n) (candid → person, smile, countenance) ouvert, franc (franche); (→ discussion) franc (franche);

∎ let's be open with each other soyons francs l'un avec l'autre;

∎ they weren't very open about their intentions ils se sont montrés assez discrets en ce qui concerne leurs intentions;

∎ he is open about his homosexuality il ne cache pas son homosexualité

(o) (blatant → contempt, criticism, conflict, disagreement) ouvert; (→ attempt) non dissimulé; (→ scandal) public; (→ rivalry) déclaré;

∎ her open dislike son aversion déclarée;

∎ the country is in a state of open civil war le pays est en état de véritable guerre civile;

∎ they are in open revolt ils sont en révolte ouverte;

∎ they acted in open violation of the treaty ce qu'ils ont fait constitue une violation flagrante du traité;

∎ they showed an open disregard for the law ils ont fait preuve d'un manque de respect flagrant face à la loi;

∎ it's an open admission of guilt cela équivaut à un aveu

(p) (loose → weave) lâche

(q) Sport (play → free-flowing) ouvert, dégagé

(r) Linguistics (vowel, syllable) ouvert

(s) Electricity (circuit) ouvert

(t) British Finance (cheque) non barré

(u) Music (string) à vide

2 transitive verb

(a) (window, lock, shop, eyes, border) ouvrir; (wound) rouvrir; (bottle, can) ouvrir, déboucher; (wine) déboucher;

∎ open quotations or inverted commas ouvrez les guillemets;

∎ she opened her eyes very wide elle ouvrit grand les yeux, elle écarquilla les yeux;

∎ they plan to open the border to refugees ils projettent d'ouvrir la frontière aux réfugiés;

∎ Photography open the aperture one more stop ouvrez d'un diaphragme de plus;

∎ figurative to open one's heart to sb se confier à qn;

∎ we must open our minds to new ideas nous devons être ouverts aux idées nouvelles

(b) (unfasten → coat, envelope, gift, collar) ouvrir

(c) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, penknife, arms, hand) ouvrir; (→ newspaper) ouvrir, déplier; (→ legs, knees) écarter

(d) (pierce → hole) percer; (→ breach) ouvrir; (→ way, passage) ouvrir, frayer;

∎ to open a road through the jungle ouvrir une route à travers la jungle;

∎ the agreement opens the way for peace l'accord va mener à la paix

(e) (start → campaign, discussion, account, trial) ouvrir, commencer; (→ negotiations) ouvrir, engager; (→ conversation) engager, entamer; Banking & Finance (→ account, loan) ouvrir;

∎ her new film opened the festival son dernier film a ouvert le festival;

∎ to open a file on sb ouvrir un dossier sur qn;

∎ to open fire (on or at sb) ouvrir le feu (sur qn);

∎ to open the bidding (in bridge) ouvrir (les enchères);

∎ to open the betting (in poker) lancer les enchères;

∎ Finance to open a line of credit ouvrir un crédit;

∎ to open Parliament ouvrir la session du Parlement;

∎ Law to open the case exposer les faits

(f) (set up → shop, business) ouvrir; (inaugurate → hospital, airport, library) ouvrir, inaugurer

(g) (clear, unblock → road, lane, passage) dégager; (→ mountain pass) ouvrir

3 intransitive verb

(a) (door, window) (s')ouvrir; (suitcase, valve, padlock, eyes) s'ouvrir;

∎ the window opens outwards la fenêtre (s')ouvre vers l'extérieur;

∎ open wide! ouvrez grand!;

∎ to open, press down and twist pour ouvrir, appuyez et tournez;

∎ both rooms open onto the corridor les deux chambres donnent ou ouvrent sur le couloir;

∎ figurative the heavens opened and we got drenched il s'est mis à tomber des trombes d'eau et on s'est fait tremper

(b) (unfold, spread apart → book, umbrella, parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ bud, leaf) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir;

∎ a new life opened before her une nouvelle vie s'ouvrait devant elle

(c) (gape → chasm) s'ouvrir

(d) (for business) ouvrir;

∎ what time do you open on Sundays? à quelle heure ouvrez-vous le dimanche?;

∎ the doors open at 8 p.m. les portes ouvrent à 20 heures;

∎ to open late ouvrir en nocturne

(e) (start → campaign, meeting, discussion, concert, play, story) commencer;

∎ the book opens with a murder le livre commence par un meurtre;

∎ the hunting season opens in September la chasse ouvre en septembre;

∎ she opened with a statement of the association's goals elle commença par une présentation des buts de l'association;

∎ the film opens next week le film sort la semaine prochaine;

∎ Theatre when are you opening? quand aura lieu la première?;

∎ when it opened on Broadway, the play flopped lorsqu'elle est sortie à Broadway, la pièce a fait un four;

∎ the Dow Jones opened at 2461 le Dow Jones a ouvert à 2461;

∎ to open with two clubs (in bridge) ouvrir de deux trèfles

4 noun

(a) (outdoors, open air)

∎ (out) in the open (gen) en plein air, dehors; (in countryside) au grand air;

∎ eating (out) in the open gives me an appetite manger au grand air me donne de l'appétit;

∎ to sleep in the open dormir à la belle étoile

(b) (public eye)

∎ to bring sth (out) into the open exposer ou étaler qch au grand jour;

∎ the riot brought the instability of the regime out into the open l'émeute a révélé l'instabilité du régime;

∎ the conflict finally came out into the open le conflit a finalement éclaté au grand jour

(c) Sport open m;

∎ the British Open (golf) l'open m ou le tournoi open de Grande-Bretagne;

∎ the French Open (tennis) Roland-Garros

►► Banking open account compte m ouvert;

open bar buvette f gratuite, bar m gratuit;

Banking open cheque chèque m ouvert ou non barré;

Military & Politics open city ville f ouverte;

School open classroom classe f primaire à activités libres;

Stock Exchange open contract position f ouverte;

Finance open credit crédit m à découvert;

British open day journée f portes ouvertes;

Economics open economy économie f ouverte;

open house American (open day) journée f portes ouvertes; (party) grande fête f;

∎ British to keep open house tenir table ouverte;

open inquiry enquête f publique;

British open learning enseignement m à la carte (par correspondance ou à temps partiel);

open letter lettre f ouverte;

∎ an open letter to the President une lettre ouverte au Président;

open market marché m libre;

∎ to buy sth on the open market acheter qch sur le marché libre;

∎ Stock Exchange to buy shares on the open market acheter des actions en Bourse;

open mike = période pendant laquelle les clients d'un café-théâtre ou d'un bar peuvent chanter ou raconter des histoires drôles au micro;

open mesh mailles fpl lâches;

Stock Exchange open money market marché m libre des capitaux;

Stock Exchange open outcry criée f;

Stock Exchange open outcry system système m de criée;

open pattern motif m aéré;

Insurance open policy police f flottante;

Stock Exchange open position position f ouverte;

American Politics open primary = élection primaire américaine ouverte aux non-inscrits d'un parti;

open prison prison f ouverte;

open sandwich (gen) tartine f; (cocktail food) canapé m;

open season saison f;

∎ the open season for hunting la saison de la chasse;

∎ figurative the tabloid papers have declared open season on the private lives of rock stars les journaux à scandale se sont mis à traquer les stars du rock dans leur vie privée;

Aviation & Theatre open seating places fpl non réservées;

British open secret secret m de Polichinelle;

∎ it's an open secret that Alison will get the job c'est Alison qui aura le poste, ce n'est un secret pour personne;

open sesame

1 exclamation

sésame, ouvre-toi!

2 noun

British (means to success) sésame m;

∎ good A level results aren't necessarily an open sesame to university de bons résultats aux "A levels" n'ouvrent pas forcément la porte de l'université;

Industry open shop British (open to non-union members) = entreprise ne pratiquant pas le monopole d'embauche; American (with no union) établissement m sans syndicat;

open ticket billet m open;

Sport open tournament (tournoi m) open m;

British Open University = enseignement universitaire par correspondance doublé d'émissions de télévision ou de radio;

Law open verdict verdict m de décès sans cause déterminée

➲ open out

1 intransitive verb

(a) (unfold → bud, petals) s'ouvrir, s'épanouir; (→ parachute) s'ouvrir; (→ sail) se gonfler;

∎ the sofa opens out into a bed le canapé est convertible en lit;

∎ the doors open out onto a terrace les portes donnent ou s'ouvrent sur une terrasse

(b) (lie → vista, valley) s'étendre, s'ouvrir;

∎ miles of wheatfields opened out before us des champs de blé s'étendaient devant nous à perte de vue

(c) (widen → path, stream) s'élargir;

∎ the river opens out into a lake la rivière se jette dans un lac;

∎ the trail finally opens out onto a plateau la piste débouche sur un plateau

(d) British figurative (become less reserved) s'ouvrir;

∎ he opened out after a few drinks quelques verres ont suffi à le faire sortir de sa réserve

2 separable transitive verb

(unfold → newspaper, deck chair, fan) ouvrir;

∎ the peacock opened out its tail le paon a fait la roue

➲ open up

1 intransitive verb

(a) (unlock the door) ouvrir;

∎ open up or I'll call the police! ouvrez, sinon j'appelle la police!;

∎ open up in there! ouvrez, là-dedans!

(b) (become available → possibility) s'ouvrir;

∎ we may have a position opening up in May il se peut que nous ayons un poste disponible en mai;

∎ new markets are opening up de nouveaux marchés sont en train de s'ouvrir

(c) (for business → shop, branch etc) (s')ouvrir;

∎ a new hotel opens up every week un nouvel hôtel ouvre ses portes chaque semaine

(d) (start firing → guns) faire feu, tirer; (→ troops, person) ouvrir le feu, se mettre à tirer

(e) (become less reserved → person) s'ouvrir; (→ discussion) s'animer;

∎ he won't open up even to me il ne s'ouvre pas, même à moi;

∎ he needs to open up about his feelings il a besoin de dire ce qu'il a sur le cœur ou de s'épancher;

∎ I got her to open up about her doubts j'ai réussi à la convaincre de me faire part de ses doutes

(f) (become interesting) devenir intéressant;

∎ things are beginning to open up in my field of research ça commence à bouger dans mon domaine de recherche;

∎ the game opened up in the last half le match est devenu plus ouvert après la mi-temps

2 separable transitive verb

(a) (crate, gift, bag, tomb) ouvrir;

∎ we're opening up the summer cottage this weekend nous ouvrons la maison de campagne ce week-end;

∎ the sleeping bag will dry faster if you open it up le sac de couchage séchera plus vite si tu l'ouvres

(b) (for business) ouvrir;

∎ each morning, Lucy opened up the shop chaque matin, Lucy ouvrait la boutique;

∎ he wants to open up a travel agency il veut ouvrir une agence de voyages

(c) (for development → isolated region) désenclaver; (→ quarry, oilfield) ouvrir, commencer l'exploitation de; (→ new markets) ouvrir;

∎ irrigation will open up new land for agriculture l'irrigation permettra la mise en culture de nouvelles terres;

∎ the airport opened up the island for tourism l'aéroport a ouvert l'île au tourisme;

∎ a discovery which opens up new fields of research une découverte qui crée de nouveaux domaines de recherche;

∎ the policy opened up possibilities for closer cooperation la politique a créé les conditions d'une coopération plus étroite

(d) familiar (accelerate)

∎ he opened it or her up il a accéléré à fond

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > open
20 often

'ofn
adverb

(many times: I often go to the theatre; I should see him more often.) a menudo, con frecuencia

- every so often

often adv a menudo / muchas veces

I often go to the beach voy a la playa a menudo

how often? ¿cada cuánto? / ¿con qué frecuencia?

how often do you wash the car? ¿cada cuánto lavas el coche?

often

tr['ɒfən, 'ɒftən]

adverb

1 (frequently) a menudo, con frecuencia

■ we often go to the theatre vamos al teatro a menudo

■ how often do you go to the dentist? ¿cada cuánto vas al dentista?

■ I visit them as often as I can los visito siempre que puedo

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

more often than not la mayoría de las veces

often ['ɔfən, 'ɔftən] adv

: muchas veces, a menudo, seguido

often

adv.

• a menudo adv.

• con frecuencia adv.

• muchas veces adv.

• mucho adv.

'ɔːfən, 'ɔːftən, 'ɒfən, 'ɒftən
adverb a menudo

I see her quite often — la veo bastante a menudo or (AmL tb) seguido

how often do you see her? — ¿con qué frecuencia la ves?, ¿cada cuánto la ves?

as often as I can — siempre que puedo

every so often — de vez en cuando

we've often thought of emigrating — hemos pensado muchas veces en emigrar

he's right more often than not — la mayoría or las más de las veces tiene razón

you'll do that once too often and you'll hurt yourself — si sigues haciendo eso, vas a acabar haciéndote daño

['ɒfǝn]
ADV a menudo, con frecuencia, seguido (LAm)
I've often wondered why you turned the job down — me he preguntado muchas veces or a menudo or con frecuencia por qué no aceptaste el trabajo

it's not often that I ask you to help me — no es frecuente que te pida ayuda

we often meet here — solemos reunirnos aquí

do you often argue? — ¿discutís mucho?, ¿discutís muy a menudo?

• we visit her as often as possible — la visitamos tanto como nos es posible

twice as often as — dos veces más que

women consult doctors twice as often as men — las mujeres consultan a un médico dos veces más que los hombres

as often as not — la mitad de las veces

• every so often — (of time) de vez en cuando; (of distance, spacing) de trecho en trecho, cada cierta distancia

we see each other every so often — nos vemos de vez en cuando, nos vemos alguna que otra vez

• how often? — (=how many times) ¿con qué frecuencia?; (=at what intervals) ¿cada cuánto?

how often do you see him? — ¿cada cuánto lo ves?, ¿con qué or cuánta frecuencia lo ves?

how often have I warned you that this would happen? — ¿cuántas veces te he advertido de que iba a pasar esto?

how often she had asked herself that very question! — ¡cuántas veces se había hecho esa misma pregunta!

• he saw her less often now that she had a job — la veía con menos frecuencia ahora que tenía un trabajo

• more often than not — la mayoría de las veces, las más de las veces

• he's read it so often he knows it off by heart — lo ha leído tantas veces que se lo sabe de memoria

• (all) too often — con demasiada frecuencia, demasiado a menudo, demasiadas veces

you've been drunk on duty once too often — ha estado borracho una y otra vez estando de servicio

• very often — muchísimas veces, muy a menudo
OFTEN
In statements
► When often means "on many occasions", you can usually translate it using con frecuencia or a menudo:
He often came to my house Venía con frecuencia or a menudo a mi casa
She doesn't often get angry No se enfada con frecuencia or a menudo
You are late too often Llegas tarde con demasiada frecuencia or demasiado a menudo ► In informal contexts, particularly when often can be substituted by a lot or much with no change of meaning, mucho is an alternative translation:
He doesn't often come to see me No viene mucho a verme
He often hangs out in this bar Para mucho en este bar ► Muc has veces is another possible translation, but it should be used with the present only if the time, place or activity is restricted in some way:
I've often heard him talk about the need for this law Le he oído muchas veces hablar de la necesidad de esta ley
It can often be difficult to discuss this subject with one's partner Muchas veces es difícil hablar con la pareja sobre este tema ► When often describes a predictable, habitual or regular action, you can often translate it using the present or imperfect of soler as applicable:
In England it is often cold in winter En Inglaterra suele hacer frío en invierno
I often have a glass of sherry before dinner Suelo tomar un jerez antes de cenar
We often went out for a walk in the evening Solíamos salir por la tarde a dar un paseo ► Use soler also when often means "in many cases":
This heart condition is often very serious Esta enfermedad cardíaca suele ser muy grave
In questions
► You can usually use con frecuencia in questions, though there are other possibilities:
How often do you go to Madrid? ¿Con qué frecuencia vas a Madrid?
Do you often go to Spain? ¿Vas a España con frecuencia?, ¿Vas a menudo or mucho a España? For further uses and examples, see main entry
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['ɔːfən, 'ɔːftən, 'ɒfən, 'ɒftən]
adverb a menudo

I see her quite often — la veo bastante a menudo or (AmL tb) seguido

how often do you see her? — ¿con qué frecuencia la ves?, ¿cada cuánto la ves?

as often as I can — siempre que puedo

every so often — de vez en cuando

we've often thought of emigrating — hemos pensado muchas veces en emigrar

he's right more often than not — la mayoría or las más de las veces tiene razón

you'll do that once too often and you'll hurt yourself — si sigues haciendo eso, vas a acabar haciéndote daño

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