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  • 1 level

    level [ˊlevǝl]
    1. n
    1) пло́ская, горизонта́льная пове́рхность; равни́на
    2) у́ровень;

    sea level у́ровень мо́ря

    3) ступе́нь, у́ровень;

    on a level with на одно́м у́ровне с

    ;

    to rise to higher levels поднима́ться на бо́лее высо́кую ступе́нь

    ;
    а) найти́ себе́ ра́вных;
    б) заня́ть подоба́ющее ме́сто;

    to bring smb. to his level сбить спесь с кого́-л., поста́вить кого́-л. на ме́сто

    4) ватерпа́с, нивели́р; у́ровень ( инструмент)
    5) горн. эта́ж, горизо́нт; што́льня
    6) ав. горизонта́льный полёт (тж. level flight);

    to give a level перейти́ в горизонта́льный полёт

    on the level че́стно, открове́нно

    ;

    on the level! че́стное сло́во!

    ;

    to land on the street level разг. потеря́ть рабо́ту, оказа́ться на у́лице

    2. a
    1) горизонта́льный; пло́ский, ро́вный; располо́женный на одно́м у́ровне (с чем-л. другим);

    level road ро́вная доро́га

    ;

    level crossing железнодоро́жный перее́зд

    2) одина́ковый, равноме́рный;

    level life разме́ренный о́браз жи́зни

    ;

    they are level in capacity у них одина́ковые спосо́бности

    3) уравнове́шенный, споко́йный;

    to have a level head быть уравнове́шенным

    to do one's level best разг. прояви́ть ма́ксимум эне́ргии; сде́лать всё от себя́ зави́сящее

    3. adv ро́вно, вро́вень;

    to fill the glass level with the top напо́лнить стака́н до краёв

    ;

    the horses ran level with one another ло́шади бежа́ли голова́ в го́лову

    4. v
    1) выра́внивать; сгла́живать;

    to level to ( или with) the ground сноси́ть с лица́ земли́; сровня́ть с землёй

    2) определя́ть ра́зность высо́т; нивели́ровать
    3) це́литься (at)
    4) выдвига́ть ( обвинения и т.п.), направлять (at, against — про́тив кого-л.)
    5) ура́внивать;

    to level up (down) повыша́ть (понижа́ть) до како́го-л. у́ровня

    6) сл. быть и́скренним, открове́нным
    а) выра́внивать, де́лать ро́вным;
    б) ав. выра́внивать самолёт ( перед посадкой)

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > level

  • 2 level

    ˈlevl
    1. сущ.
    1) уровень at, on a levelна уровне( чего-л.) at sea level ≈ на уровне моря on a level with smth. ≈ на одном уровне с чем-л. to reach a levelдостичь уровня eye level ≈ уровень глаз ground level ≈ уровень земли water levelуровень воды
    2) степень, ступень, уровень at the highest levels ≈ на высшем уровне on the international level ≈ на международном уровне to bring smb. to his level ≈ сбить спесь с кого-л., поставить кого-л. на место to rise to higher levels ≈ подниматься на более высокую ступень the analysis of meaning at the phonetic, morphological, syntactical, and semantic levels ≈ анализ значения на фонетическом, морфологическом, синтаксическом и семантическом уровнях to land on the street level ид. ≈ потерять работу, оказаться на улице action level ≈ пороговая доза вещества (особ. вредного для организма) ;
    предельно допустимая концентрация( нежелательного вещества в пищевом продукте) high level ≈ высокая ступень level of confidence, level of significanceуровень достоверности, степень уверенности low level ≈ низкая ступень energy levelэнергетический уровень poverty levelпрожиточный минимум international level ≈ международный уровень state levelгосударственный уровень find one's own level
    3) а) плоская, горизонтальная поверхность б) равнина
    4) ватерпас, нивелир;
    уровень (инструмент)
    5) измерять горизонтальность поверхности уровнем, нивелиром
    6) горн. этаж, горизонт;
    штольня
    7) авиац. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight) to give a level ≈ перейти в горизонтальный полет
    2. прил.
    1) а) плоский, ровный The floor was level. ≈ Пол был ровный. a plateau of fairly level groundдовольно плоское плато the level waves of broad Garonne ≈ гладкая водная поверхность широкой Гаронны б) находящийся на одном уровне (с чем-л.) He leaned over the counter so his face was almost level with the boy's. ≈ Он перегнулся через стойку, так что его лицо оказалось почти на одном уровне с лицом мальчика. Amy knelt down so that their eyes were level. ≈ Эми опустилась на колени, и их глаза оказались на одном уровне. в) горизонтальный Syn: horizontal
    2. г) кул. полный без верха Stir in 1 level teaspoon of yeast. ≈ Размешайте 1 чайную ложку без верха закваски. Ant: heaped
    2) одинаковый, равный I have done my best to keep level with the latest results of foreign investigation. ≈ Я старался не отставать от самых последних зарубежных исследований. The teams were level at the end of extra time. ≈ В дополнительное время команды сравнялись в счете. Syn: equal
    1., identical
    3) а) твердый, устойчивый She gave him a level look. ≈ Она твердо на него посмотрела. Syn: steady
    1. б) спокойный, уравновешенный to speak in level tonesговорить спокойным тоном He forced his voice to remain level. ≈ Он заставил себя говорить спокойным тоном. Syn: balanced, calm
    1., even-tempered в) сбалансированный, разумный arrive at a justly proportional and level judgement on this affair( Sir Winston Churchill) ≈ достигли справедливого по отношению ко всем сторонам и разумного решения по этому вопросу level lifeразмеренный образ жизни Syn: reasonable ∙ to do one's level bestпроявить максимум энергии;
    сделать все от себя зависящее
    3. нареч. вровень, ровно to fill the glass level with the top ≈ наполнить стакан до краев the horses ran level with one anotherлошади бежали голова в голову Syn: even, abreast
    4. гл.
    1) равнять, выравнивать to level a fieldвыровнять поле Syn: smooth
    3., smooth over, smooth away
    2) уничтожить, сравнять с землей Further tremors could level more buildings. ≈ Последующие толчки могли бы уничтожить еще больше домов. The storm levelled sugar plantations and destroyed homes. ≈ Ураган полностью уничтожил сахарные плантации и разрушил дома. Syn: raze
    3) геод. определять разность высот;
    нивелировать
    4) уравнивать love levels all ranks (W. S. Gilbert) ≈ любовь сглаживает все различия Iglesias scored twice to level the score. ≈ Иглесиас выиграл два очка и сравнял счет. Syn: equalize
    5) а) наводить оружие, целиться (at) He said thousands of Koreans still levelled guns at one another along the demilitarised zone. ≈ Он сказал, что тысячи корейцев до сих пор направляют ружья друг на друга в демилитаризованной зоне. б) направлять, нацеливать (at, against - против кого-л.) Allegations of corruption were levelled at him and his family. ≈ Ему и его семье были брошены обвинения в коррупции. He leveled bitter criticism against the government. ≈ Он направил резкую критику в адрес правительства. ∙ Syn: aim
    2., direct
    3.
    6) сл. быть откровенным (with - с кем-л.) I'll level with you, I'm no great detective. ≈ Буду с вами откровенным, я не являюсь великим сыщиком. He has leveled with the American people about his role in the affair. ≈ Он честно рассказал американскому народу о своей роли в этом деле. ∙ level against level at level down level off level out level up level with уровень - the * of the sea, sea * уровень моря - the * of the coast высота берега над уровнем моря - * of significance уровень значимостистатистике) - * gauge уровнемер - * indicator (техническое) указатель горизонтального положения, указатель уровня - at the same * на том же /таком же, одинаковом/ уровне - to be high above the * of the sea находиться высоко над уровнем моря - to reduce to one * довести до одного уровня одинаковый уровень - on a * на одном уровне - on a * with the banks вровень с берегами (о разлившейся реке) - to be on a * with smb. находиться /стоять, быть/ на одном уровне с кем-л.;
    быть игроком одного класса с кем-л. - they are on a * mentally они не уступают друг другу в уме, по уму они равны ступень, степень;
    уровень - a high * of excellence высокий уровень мастерства /совершенства/ - on /at/ the highest * на самом высоком уровне;
    на уровне глав правительств /государств/;
    в верхах, в высших сферах - on /at/ a low * на низком уровне;
    в низших инстанциях - to rise to higher *s подниматься на более высокую ступень, достигать более высокого уровня - to bring smb. to his * поставить кого-л. на место;
    сбить спесь с кого-л. - acting on the * of amateurs исполнение( роли) на любительском уровне - he is not of her * он ей не пара плоскость, ровная горизонтальная поверхность;
    горизонтальная линия - the shining * of the lake сияющая гладь озера - dead * совершенно ровная однообразная местность;
    монотонный ландшафт;
    однообразие, монотонность;
    совершенно гладкая строго горизонтальная поверхность - (L.) равнина (в географических названиях) - Bedford L. Бедфордская равнина горизонтальное положение (the *) (редкое) поверхность Земли уровень (инструмента) ;
    ватерпас;
    нивелир - spirit * спиртовой уровень - plumb * уровень с отвесом измерения уровня с нивелиром ряд( в цирке, на стадионе) (горное) этаж;
    горизонт горизонтальная выработка, штольня дренахная труба или канава( в штольне) (авиация) горизонтальный полет (тж. flignt) - to give a * перейти в горизонтальный полет (радиотехника) уровень (передачи) (устаревшее) прицеливание > on the * честно;
    прямо, открыто, правдиво;
    честный, прямой, правдивый > on the *! честное слово! > is it on the *? это правда?;
    а ты не врешь? > is he on the *? ему можно верить? > to land on the street * оказаться на улице (потеряв работу) > to find one's (own) * найти себе равных;
    найти свое место (в жизни, в науке) > he has found his own * он нашел себе подходящих друзей > he found his * among the older students он нашел свое место /прижился/ среди учащихся постарше > let the child find his own * не перегружай ребенка, пусть он развивается естественно ровный;
    плоский;
    горизонтальный - * road ровная /гладкая/ дорога - * surface ровная /плоская/ поверхность - * flyover горизонтальный полет - to make * выравнивать, сглаживать - the prairies are vast stretches of nearly * land прерии представляют собой обширные равнинные пространство находящийся на одном уровне (тж. перен.) - to attempt no work that is not * with one's capacities, to apply oneself to that which is * to one's capacities заниматься посильным делом - in the spring the rivers are often * with their bank весной реки часто поднимаются до самых берегов - buildings whose roofs are * with one another здания, крыши которых находятся на одном (и том же) уровне (кулинарное) (полный) без верха - two * spoonfuls of sugar две ложки сахара без верха равный, одинаковый;
    ровный, равномерный - * life размеренная, спокойная жизнь - to speak in a * voice /in * tones/ говорить ровным голосом /тоном/;
    не повышать голоса - to give smb. a * look пристально посмотреть на кого-л. преим. (спортивное) равный (по силе, подготовке и т. п.) - a * race гонки равных противников - to be * with other runners не отставать от других бегунов уравновешенный;
    спокойный;
    ровный - a * appraisal of the situation беспристрастная /объективная/ оценка положения - to have a * head иметь спокойный /уравновешенный/ характер;
    быть рассудительным, быть хладнокровным - to keep a * head сохранять спокойствие;
    не впадать в панику > to do one's * best сделать все возможное, сделать все от себя зависящее ровно;
    вровень;
    наравне - to fill a basin * with the brim наполнять таз до краев - to run * with another бежать вровень с кем-л.;
    не отставать от кого-л. - to draw * with the other runners догнать других бегунов выравнивать, делать ровным, гладким (тж. * off) - to * a road выровнять дорогу - to * the tennis court with a roller укатать корт катком приводить в горизонтальное положение наводить (оружие) ;
    нацеливать;
    направлять (удар и т. п. против кого-л.) - to * one's gun at a tiger прицелиться в тигра направлять, бросать - to * looks /eyes/ on smb., smth. бросать взгляды на кого-л., что-л. - to * an accusation at /against/ smb. выдвинуть обвинение против кого-л. сровнять с землей;
    полностью уничтожить - to * a building with the ground снести дом до основания - the city was *led by one atomic bomb город был стерт с лица земли одной единственной атомной бомбой (редкое) сбить с ног;
    свалить на землю нивелировать, уравнивать, сглаживать различия - death *s all men перед смертью все равны (геодезия) определять разность высот, нивелировать сводить два или несколько звуков к одному( with) (сленг) говорить правду;
    быть откровенным или честным (с кем-л.) appellate ~ уровень апелляции assurance ~ степень безопасности at the ~ на уровне bonus ~ размер премии breakeven ~ безубыточный уровень breakeven ~ объем реализации на уровне самоокупаемости to find one's (own) ~ занять подобающее место;
    to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место Cabinet ~ правительственный уровень confidence ~ доверительный уровень ~ уравновешенный, спокойный;
    to have a level head быть уравновешенным;
    to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии;
    сделать все от себя зависящее employment ~ уровень занятости exchange rate ~ уровень валютного курса ~ ровно, вровень;
    to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев;
    the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову to find one's (own) ~ занять подобающее место;
    to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место to find one's (own) ~ найти себе равных ~ ав. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight) ;
    to give a level перейти в горизонтальный полет ~ уравновешенный, спокойный;
    to have a level head быть уравновешенным;
    to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии;
    сделать все от себя зависящее ~ ровно, вровень;
    to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев;
    the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову income ~ уровень дохода indirection ~ уровень косвенности intensity ~ уровень яркости interest ~ уровень ставок процента interest rate ~ уровень ставок процента intermediate ~ промежуточный уровень intervention ~ уровень интервенции investment ~ уровень инвестирования to land on the street ~ разг. потерять работу, оказаться на улице level ватерпас, нивелир;
    уровень (инструмент) ~ выравнивать ~ выравнивать;
    сглаживать;
    to level to (или with) the ground сносить с лица земли;
    сровнять с землей ~ горизонтальный, плоский, ровный ~ горизонтальный;
    плоский, ровный;
    расположенный на одном уровне (с чем-л. другим) ;
    level road ровная дорога;
    level crossing железнодорожный переезд ~ ав. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight) ;
    to give a level перейти в горизонтальный полет ~ находящийся на одном уровне ~ одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни;
    they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности ~ одинаковый ~ определять разность высот;
    нивелировать ~ плоская, горизонтальная поверхность;
    равнина ~ равномерный ~ равный ~ ровно, вровень;
    to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев;
    the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову ~ ровный ~ сглаживать различия ~ степень ~ ступень ~ уравнивать ~ уравнивать;
    to level up (down) повышать (понижать) (до какого-л. уровня) ~ уравновешенный, спокойный;
    to have a level head быть уравновешенным;
    to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии;
    сделать все от себя зависящее ~ уравновешенный ~ уровень ~ уровень;
    ступень;
    sea level уровень моря;
    on a level with на одном уровне с;
    to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень ~ целиться (at) ;
    направлять (at, against - против кого-л.) ~ горн. этаж, горизонт;
    штольня ~ одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни;
    they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности ~ of activity уровень деловой активности ~ of confidence степень уверенности ~ of costs уровень затрат ~ of detail степень детализации ~ of economic activity уровень экономической активности ~ of interest rates уровень процентных ставок ~ of investment уровень инвестирования ~ of living уровень жизни ~ of management уровень управления ~ of prices уровень цен ~ of probability степень вероятности ~ of prosperity уровень благосостояния ~ of unemployment уровень безработицы ~ of wages уровень ставок заработной платы ~ off выравнивать, делать ровным ~ off ав. выравнивать самолет( перед посадкой) ~ out выравнивать ~ out сглаживать ~ горизонтальный;
    плоский, ровный;
    расположенный на одном уровне (с чем-л. другим) ;
    level road ровная дорога;
    level crossing железнодорожный переезд ~ выравнивать;
    сглаживать;
    to level to (или with) the ground сносить с лица земли;
    сровнять с землей ~ уравнивать;
    to level up (down) повышать (понижать) (до какого-л. уровня) levels of abstract machine вчт. логические уровни market ~ уровень рынка minimum ~ минимальный уровень ministerial ~ правительственный уровень national ~ государственный уровень national ~ национальный уровень national price ~ уровень цен внутри страны nesting ~ вчт. уровень вложенности nesting ~s вчт. уровни вложенности ~ уровень;
    ступень;
    sea level уровень моря;
    on a level with на одном уровне с;
    to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень on the ~ честно, откровенно;
    on the level! честное слово! on the ~ честно, откровенно;
    on the level! честное слово! poverty ~ уровень бедности premium ~ размер страхового взноса premium ~ размер страхового вознаграждения price ~ уровень цен quality ~ уровень качества reliability ~ уровень безотказности reliability ~ уровень надежности ~ уровень;
    ступень;
    sea level уровень моря;
    on a level with на одном уровне с;
    to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень salary ~ уровень заработной платы ~ уровень;
    ступень;
    sea level уровень моря;
    on a level with на одном уровне с;
    to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень significance ~ stat. уровень значимости stock ~ уровень запасов subsistence ~ минимальный уровень жизни subsistence ~ прожиточный минимум ~ одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни;
    they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности threshold ~ пороговый уровень to find one's (own) ~ занять подобающее место;
    to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место tolerance ~ величина допусков unemployment ~ уровень безработицы unsable ~s вчт. различимая градация user ~ вчт. уровень пользователя vacant ~ вчт. незанятый уровень wage ~ уровень заработной платы water ~ уровень воды water ~ mark отметка уровня воды

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > level

  • 3 level

    [ˈlevl]
    appellate level уровень апелляции assurance level степень безопасности at the level на уровне bonus level размер премии breakeven level безубыточный уровень breakeven level объем реализации на уровне самоокупаемости to find one's (own) level занять подобающее место; to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место Cabinet level правительственный уровень confidence level доверительный уровень level уравновешенный, спокойный; to have a level head быть уравновешенным; to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии; сделать все от себя зависящее employment level уровень занятости exchange rate level уровень валютного курса level ровно, вровень; to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев; the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову to find one's (own) level занять подобающее место; to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место to find one's (own) level найти себе равных level ав. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight); to give a level перейти в горизонтальный полет level уравновешенный, спокойный; to have a level head быть уравновешенным; to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии; сделать все от себя зависящее level ровно, вровень; to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев; the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову income level уровень дохода indirection level уровень косвенности intensity level уровень яркости interest level уровень ставок процента interest rate level уровень ставок процента intermediate level промежуточный уровень intervention level уровень интервенции investment level уровень инвестирования to land on the street level разг. потерять работу, оказаться на улице level ватерпас, нивелир; уровень (инструмент) level выравнивать level выравнивать; сглаживать; to level to (или with) the ground сносить с лица земли; сровнять с землей level горизонтальный, плоский, ровный level горизонтальный; плоский, ровный; расположенный на одном уровне (с чем-л. другим); level road ровная дорога; level crossing железнодорожный переезд level ав. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight); to give a level перейти в горизонтальный полет level находящийся на одном уровне level одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни; they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности level одинаковый level определять разность высот; нивелировать level плоская, горизонтальная поверхность; равнина level равномерный level равный level ровно, вровень; to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев; the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову level ровный level сглаживать различия level степень level ступень level уравнивать level уравнивать; to level up (down) повышать (понижать) (до какого-л. уровня) level уравновешенный, спокойный; to have a level head быть уравновешенным; to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии; сделать все от себя зависящее level уравновешенный level уровень level уровень; ступень; sea level уровень моря; on a level with на одном уровне с; to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень level целиться (at); направлять (at, against - против кого-л.) level горн. этаж, горизонт; штольня level одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни; they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности level of activity уровень деловой активности level of confidence степень уверенности level of costs уровень затрат level of detail степень детализации level of economic activity уровень экономической активности level of interest rates уровень процентных ставок level of investment уровень инвестирования level of living уровень жизни level of management уровень управления level of prices уровень цен level of probability степень вероятности level of prosperity уровень благосостояния level of unemployment уровень безработицы level of wages уровень ставок заработной платы level off выравнивать, делать ровным level off ав. выравнивать самолет (перед посадкой) level out выравнивать level out сглаживать level горизонтальный; плоский, ровный; расположенный на одном уровне (с чем-л. другим); level road ровная дорога; level crossing железнодорожный переезд level выравнивать; сглаживать; to level to (или with) the ground сносить с лица земли; сровнять с землей level уравнивать; to level up (down) повышать (понижать) (до какого-л. уровня) levels of abstract machine вчт. логические уровни market level уровень рынка minimum level минимальный уровень ministerial level правительственный уровень national level государственный уровень national level национальный уровень national price level уровень цен внутри страны nesting level вчт. уровень вложенности nesting levels вчт. уровни вложенности level уровень; ступень; sea level уровень моря; on a level with на одном уровне с; to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень on the level честно, откровенно; on the level! честное слово! on the level честно, откровенно; on the level! честное слово! poverty level уровень бедности premium level размер страхового взноса premium level размер страхового вознаграждения price level уровень цен quality level уровень качества reliability level уровень безотказности reliability level уровень надежности level уровень; ступень; sea level уровень моря; on a level with на одном уровне с; to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень salary level уровень заработной платы level уровень; ступень; sea level уровень моря; on a level with на одном уровне с; to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень significance level stat. уровень значимости stock level уровень запасов subsistence level минимальный уровень жизни subsistence level прожиточный минимум level одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни; they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности threshold level пороговый уровень to find one's (own) level занять подобающее место; to bring smb.) to his level сбить спесь (с кого-л.), поставить (кого-л.) на место tolerance level величина допусков unemployment level уровень безработицы unsable levels вчт. различимая градация user level вчт. уровень пользователя vacant level вчт. незанятый уровень wage level уровень заработной платы water level уровень воды water level mark отметка уровня воды

    English-Russian short dictionary > level

  • 4 level

    1. n
    1) рівень; однаковий рівень; ступінь

    to be on a level with smb. — а) бути на одному рівні з кимсь; б) бути гравцем одного класу з кимсь

    on (at) the highest level — а) на найвищому рівні, на рівні глав держав (урядів); б) у верхах

    2) плоска, рівна горизонтальна поверхня; рівнина; горизонтальна лінія

    dead level — а) монотонний ландшафт; б) одноманітність, монотонність

    Bedford L. — Бедфордська рівнина

    3) (the level) поверхня землі
    4) ватерпас; нівелір
    5) вимірювання рівня нівеліром
    6) прохід між рядами (в театрі тощо)
    7) гірн. горизонт; горизонтальна виробка; штольня
    8) дренажна труба (канава)
    9) ав. горизонтальний політ (тж level flight)
    10) рад. рівень (передачі)
    11) прицілювання

    on the level — чесно; прямо, відверто, правдиво

    to bring smb. to his level — збити пиху з когось, поставити когось на місце

    to find one's (own) level — а) знайти (знати) своє місце (в науці тощо); б) знайти собі рівних

    2. adj
    1) рівний, плоский, плаский; горизонтальний
    2) розташований на одному рівні
    3) який доходить (піднімається) до країв (по вінця)
    4) рівномірний, однаковий
    5) урівноважений, спокійний

    to have a level headбути поміркованим (спокійним, розсудливим)

    to do one's level best — зробити усе можливе; зробити усе, що від себе залежить

    3. adv
    рівно; нарівні, урівень
    4. v
    1) вирівнювати, робити рівним (гладким), згладжувати
    2) приводити в горизонтальне положення
    3) нівелювати, вирівнювати; згладжувати відмінності
    4) геод. визначати різницю висот
    5) зрівняти з землею; стерти з лиця землі

    to level to (with) the ground — стерти з лиця землі

    6) збити з ніг; звалити на землю
    7) лінгв. зводити кілька звуків до одного
    8) говорити правду; висловлюватися відверто
    9) націлювати (зброю); спрямовувати (удар проти когось)

    level down — опустити, знизити (до певного рівня)

    level off — а) зрівняти, звести до одного рівня; б) вирівнювати літак (перед посадкою)

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    I n

    level indicatorтex. покажчик горизонтального положення, покажчик рівня; ступінь

    2) площина, рівна горизонтальна поверхня; горизонтальна лінія; (Level) рівнина ( у географічних назвах); горизонтальне положення
    3) рівень ( інструмент); ватерпас; нівелір; вимірювання рівня нівеліром
    4) ряд (у цирку, на стадіоні)
    5) гipн. поверх, горизонт; горизонтальна виробка, штольня; дренажна труба або канава ( у штольні)
    6) aв. горизонтальний політ ( flight)
    7) paд. рівень ( передачі)
    8) icт. прицілювання
    II a
    1) рівний; плоский; горизонтальний; який знаходиться на одному рівні (перен.); кyл. ( повний) без верху
    2) рівний, однаковий; рівномірний; cпopт. рівний (по силі, підготовці)
    3) урівноважений; спокійний; рівний; розважливий
    III adv
    рівно; урівень; нарівні
    IV v
    1) вирівнювати, робити рівним, гладким ( level off)
    2) приводити в горизонтальне положення; наводити ( зброю), націлювати; направляти ( удар); спрямовувати, направляти, кидати (нaпp., погляди)
    3) зрівняти з землею, повністю знищити; збити з ніг; звалити на землю
    4) нівелювати, зрівнювати
    5) гeoд. визначати різниця висот
    6) лiнгв. зводити два або кілька звуків до одного
    7) cл. ( with) говорити правду; бути відвертим або чесним ( з ким-небудь)
    8) sound levelфiз. рівень ( сила) звуку

    English-Ukrainian dictionary > level

  • 5 level

    1. noun
    1) уровень; ступень; sea level уровень моря; on a level with на одном уровне с; to rise to higher levels подниматься на более высокую ступень; to find one's (own)
    level
    а) найти себе равных;
    б) занять подобающее место; to bring smb. to his level сбить спесь с кого-л., поставить кого-либо на место
    2) плоская, горизонтальная поверхность; равнина
    3) ватерпас, нивелир; уровень (инструмент)
    4) mining этаж, горизонт; штольня
    5) aeron. горизонтальный полет (тж. level flight); to give a level перейти в горизонтальный полет
    on the level честно, откровенно; on the level! честное слово!
    to land on the street level collocation потерять работу, оказаться на улице
    2. adjective
    1) горизонтальный; плоский, ровный; расположенный на одном уровне (с чем-л. другим); level road ровная дорога; level crossing железнодорожный переезд
    2) одинаковый, равномерный, level life размеренный образ жизни; they are level in capacity у них одинаковые способности
    3) уравновешенный, спокойный; to have a level head быть уравновешенным
    to do one's level best проявить максимум энергии; сделать все от себя зависящее
    3. adverb
    ровно, вровень; to fill the glass level with the top наполнить стакан до краев; the horses ran level with one another лошади бежали голова в голову
    4. verb
    1) выравнивать; сглаживать; to level to (или with) the ground сносить с лица земли; сровнять с землей
    2) определять разность высот; нивелировать
    3) уравнивать; to level up (down) повышать (понижать) до какого-л. уровня
    4) целиться (at); направлять (at, against - против кого-л.)
    level off
    * * *
    (n) степень; ступень деления; уровень; ученая степень; этап
    * * *
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    [lev·el || 'levl] n. высота, уровень; ступень; равнина, плоская поверхность, горизонтальная поверхность; ватерпас, нивелир; этаж; горизонт; штольня; горизонтальный полет v. выравнивать, ровнять; направлять, целиться; нивелировать, сглаживать adj. ровный, плоский, гладкий; горизонтальный; равномерный; одинаковый; спокойный
    * * *
    выравнивать
    горизонтальный
    плоский
    равномерный
    равный
    ровен
    ровный
    ряд
    степень
    ступень
    уровень
    * * *
    1. сущ. 1) уровень 2) степень 3) а) плоская, горизонтальная поверхность б) равнина 4) ватерпас, нивелир; уровень (инструмент) 2. прил. 1) а) плоский б) находящийся на одном уровне (с чем-л.) в) горизонтальный г) кулинар. полный без верха 2) одинаковый 3) а) твердый б) спокойный в) сбалансированный 3. нареч. вровень 4. гл. 1) равнять 2) уничтожить, сравнять с землей 3) геод. определять разность высот 4) уравнивать

    Новый англо-русский словарь > level

  • 6 level

    ['lev(ə)l] 1. n
    1) рі́вень; сту́пінь

    sea level — рі́вень мо́ря

    on a level with — на одно́му рі́вні з

    to rise to higher levels — підніма́тися на ви́щий сту́пінь

    to find one's [own] level — 1) знайти́ собі́ рі́вних 2) зайня́ти нале́жне мі́сце

    2) пло́ска, горизонта́льна пове́рхня; рівни́на
    3) ватерпа́с; нівелі́р
    4) гірн. по́верх, горизо́нт; што́льня
    5) ав. горизонта́льний полі́т (тж. level flight)

    to give a level — перейти́ в горизонта́льний полі́т

    ••

    on the level — че́сно

    on the level! — сло́во че́сті!

    to land on the street level — втра́тити робо́ту, опини́тися на ву́лиці

    2. adj
    1) горизонта́льний; пло́ский, рі́вний; розташо́ваний на одно́му рі́вні ( з чимсь іншим)

    a level road — рі́вна доро́га

    2) одна́ковий, рівномі́рний

    they are level in capacity — у них одна́кові зді́бності

    3) урівнова́жений, спокі́йний
    ••

    to do one's level best — ви́явити ма́ксимум ене́ргії; зроби́ти все можли́ве

    3. adv
    рі́вно, врі́вень

    to fill the glass level with the top — напо́внити, скля́нку по ві́нця

    4. v
    1) зрі́внювати, згла́джувати
    2) визнача́ти різни́цю висо́т; нівелюва́ти
    3) вирі́внювати
    4) ці́литися (at)
    ••

    to level to [with] the ground — стира́ти з лиця́ землі́; зрівня́ти з земле́ю

    English-Ukrainian transcription dictionary > level

  • 7 level

    ['lev(ə)l]
    1) Общая лексика: быть откровенным или честным (с кем-л.), ватерпас, вровень, выравнивать, выровнять, высота, горизонтальная поверхность, горизонтальный, горизонтальный полёт, делать ровным, гладким, масштаб, наравне, наставить, наставлять, нивелир, нивелировать, одинаковый, определить разность высот, определять разность высот, плоская поверхность, плоский, плоскость, подравнивать, прикладываться, приравнивать, равнина, равномерный (they are level in capacity - у них одинаковые способности), равный, расположенный на одном уровне, ровно, ровный, сгладить, сглаживать, сорваться, спокойный, сравнивать, сравнить, ступень деления, уравнивать, уравновешенный, уравнять, уровень, ученая степень, целиться, штольня, этаж, сравнять с землёй (напр, a crisis similar to which leveled the economy in 1998), быть откровенным (с кем-л.), быть честным (с кем-л.), срываться, ступень
    4) Военный термин: (geodetic) нивелир, звено, инстанция, конус, наводить, нацеливать, потолок, топ нивелир, "цель на вашей высоте" (код), сравнивать (с землёй)
    5) Техника: горизонталь, горизонтальная горная выработка, горизонтировать, градация, достигать уровня (о физической величине), заравнивать, звено градации, направлять, отметка уровня, разглаживать, ранг (системы), растекаться с образованием ровной поверхности, регулировать уровень, степень, уровень энергии, устанавливать по уровню, устанавливать уровень, установка (технологического параметра), энергетический уровень, планировать (выравнивать поверхность), отметка (высоты), производить планировку (грунта)
    7) Строительство: уровень (1. отметка 2. степень 3. прибор)
    9) Железнодорожный термин: нулевого профиля, площадка
    11) Лингвистика: план, страт, страта, стратум
    14) Горное дело: водоотливная канавка (в штольне), выверять по уровню, высотная отметка, горизонт, квершлаг, производить высотную съёмку, штрек, этажный штрек, эшелон, уступ (Krokodil)
    15) Металлургия: (энергетический) терм, (энергетический) уровень, плоская горизонтальная поверхность, ставить по уровню, уровень (инструмент)
    16) Полиграфия: дорожка перфоленты, регистр, режим работы, выравнивать (напр. гальваностереотип)
    17) Психология: сносить
    19) Электроника: громкость, ряд контактов
    21) Вычислительная техника: горизонтальная линия, степень (итерации), значение (параметра)
    23) Иммунология: титр (сыворотки)
    26) Картография: уровень (прибор)
    27) Геофизика: дорожка
    28) Парфюмерия: дозировка
    32) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: ярус
    33) Нефтепромысловый: впотай
    34) Программирование: уровневый
    35) Контроль качества: постоянный
    37) Макаров: горизонтальная плоскость, горизонтальное положение, делать гладким, делать ровным, достигать значения, достигать порядка, дренажный канал, лететь горизонтально, одинаковый уровень, полностью уничтожить, ровная горизонтальная поверхность, снести дом до основания, спрямлять, сровнять с землёй, устанавливаться, градация (в опыте), ряд контактов (в шаговом искателе или шаговом реле), ряд контактов (в шаговом распределителе), дренажная труба или канава (в штольне), уровень (ватерпас), степень (напр. интеграции), выравнивать (напр. о цвете), выравниваться (напр. о цвете), выравнивать (напр., положение воздушного судна), ровно ложиться (о краске), растекаться с образованием ровной поверхности (о краске или лаке), достигать уровня (о физ. величине), порядок (параметра), степень (параметра), выравнивать (поверхность, кривую), значение (расчётного параметра)
    39) Каспий: балансир

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > level

  • 8 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language

  • 9 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > near cash

  • 10 Artificial Intelligence

       In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)
       Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)
       Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....
       When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)
       4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually
       Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)
       What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)
       [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)
       The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)
       9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form
       The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)
       There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:
        Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."
        Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)
       Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)
       Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)
       The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)
        14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation
       It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)
       We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.
       Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.
       Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.
    ... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)
       Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)
        16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts
       Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)
       Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System
       Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)
        19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence
       The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.
       The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)
       The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....
       AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)
        21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions
       In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)
       Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)
       Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)
       The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence

  • 11 as

    æz
    1. conjunction
    1) (when; while: I met John as I was coming home; We'll be able to talk as we go.) cuando; mientras
    2) (because: As I am leaving tomorrow, I've bought you a present.) como
    3) (in the same way that: If you are not sure how to behave, do as I do.) como, igual que
    4) (used to introduce a statement of what the speaker knows or believes to be the case: As you know, I'll be leaving tomorrow.) como
    5) (though: Old as I am, I can still fight; Much as I want to, I cannot go.) aunque; por mucho que + verbo en subjuntivo
    6) (used to refer to something which has already been stated and apply it to another person: Tom is English, as are Dick and Harry.) al igual que

    2. adverb
    (used in comparisons, eg the first as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) tan

    3. preposition
    1) (used in comparisons, eg the second as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) como
    2) (like: He was dressed as a woman.) como
    3) (with certain verbs eg regard, treat, describe, accept: I am regarded by some people as a bit of a fool; He treats the children as adults.) como
    4) (in the position of: He is greatly respected both as a person and as a politician.) como, en tanto que
    - as if / as though
    - as to

    as1 adv tan / tanto
    as2 conj
    1. mientras / cuando
    2. como / ya que
    as she wasn't there, I left a message como no estaba, le dejé un mensaje
    3. como
    Liam, as you know, is a singer Liam, como ya sabéis, es cantante
    as3 prep como / de


    as sustantivo masculino ace
    as sustantivo masculino ace Locuciones: as en la manga, ace up one's sleeve 'as' also found in these entries: Spanish: abandonar - abismo - acabada - acabado - acreditar - actuar - además - adjetivar - alguna - alguno - amabilidad - amable - amarrar - ambas - ambicionar - ambos - amén - andanzas - antes - antojo - apadrinar - apellidarse - apenas - aquel - aquél - aquella - aquélla - arreglarse - arte - artífice - asesorar - así - asimismo - atar - aviar - bailar - balsa - bendita - bendito - bien - bloque - bondad - brevedad - broma - buenamente - burra - burro - cachondeo - cada - calcada English: above - acclaim - accomplished - accused - ace - acknowledge - act - action - address - advance - against - ago - aim - all - along - aloud - apprentice - arson - as - asap - assistant - bat - bell - black - bonus - both - by - by-product - capacity - cast - chalk - change - check off - cheer - class - clear - click - cluster - come on - compare - concern - construe - crop up - crow - dammit - date - dead - deaf - decision - decoy
    as
    tr[æz, ʊnstressed əz]
    1 como
    1 (while) mientras; (when) cuando
    as he painted, he whistled mientras pintaba, silbaba
    2 (because) ya que, como
    3 (although) aunque
    tall as he was, he still couldn't reach the shelf aunque era alto no podía alcanzar el estante
    as I was saying,... como decía,...
    do as you are told! ¡haz lo que te dicen!
    as you all know,... como ya sabéis todos,...
    5 (and so too) como, igual que
    she's colour-blind, as is her mother es daltónica, igual que su madre
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as against frente a, en comparación con
    as far as hasta
    as far as I know que yo sepa
    as far as I'm concerned por lo que a mí respecta
    as for en cuanto a
    as if como si
    as it is tal como están las cosas
    as it were por así decirlo
    as long as mientras
    as of desde
    as often as not las más de las veces
    as soon as tan pronto como
    as though como si
    as well as además de
    as yet hasta ahora, de momento
    as ['æz] adv
    1) : tan, tanto
    this one's not as difficult: éste no es tan difícil
    2) : como
    some trees, as oak and pine: algunos árboles, como el roble y el pino
    as conj
    1) like: como, igual que
    2) when, while: cuando, mientras, a la vez que
    3) because: porque
    4) though: aunque, por más que
    strange as it may appear: por extraño que parezca
    5)
    as is : tal como está
    as prep
    1) : de
    I met her as a child: la conocí de pequeña
    2) like: como
    behave as a man: compórtate como un hombre
    as pron
    : que
    in the same building as my brother: en el mismo edificio que mi hermano
    as
    adv.
    a medida que adv.
    como adv.
    cual adv.
    cuan adv.
    tan adv.
    ya que adv.
    conj.
    conforme conj.
    que conj.
    según conj.
    prep.
    por prep.
    pron.
    cual pron.
    que pron.

    I æz, weak form əz
    1)
    a) (when, while) cuando

    as she was eating breakfast... — cuando or mientras tomaba el desayuno...

    as you go toward the bank, it's the first house on the left — yendo hacia el banco, es la primera casa a mano izquierda

    b) ( indicating progression) a medida que

    as (and when) we need thema medida que or según los vamos necesitando

    2) (because, since) como

    as it was getting late, we decided to leave — como se hacía tarde, decidimos irnos

    3) ( though)

    try as he might, he could not open it — por más que trató, no pudo abrirlo

    much as I agree with you... — aun estando de acuerdo contigo como estoy...

    4)
    a) (expressing comparison, contrast) igual que, como

    in the 1980s, as in the 30s — en la década de los 80, al igual que en la de los 30

    it's quite reasonable, as restaurants go — para como están los restaurantes, es bastante razonable

    the situation, as we understand it, is... — la situación, tal como nosotros la entendemos, es...

    5)
    a) ( in the way that) como

    do as you wishhaz lo que quieras or lo que te parezca

    she arrived the next day, as planned/expected — llegó al día siguiente como se había planeado/como se esperaba

    use form A or B as appropriate — use el formulario A o B, según corresponda

    b) ( defining)

    Sri Lanka, or Ceylon, as it used to be known — Sri Lanka, o Ceilán, como se llamaba antes

    as it is: we can't publish it as it is no podemos publicarlo tal y como está, no podemos publicarlo así como está; we've got too much work as it is ya tenemos demasiado trabajo; as it were por así decirlo; as was: our new president, our secretary as was — el nuevo presidente, ex secretario de nuestra organización

    as... as — tan... como

    7)

    as if/as though — como si (+ subj)

    he acts as if o as though he didn't care — se comporta como si no le importara

    he looks as if o as though he's had enough — tiene cara de estar harto


    II
    1) ( equally)

    I have lots of stamps, but he has just as many/twice as many — yo tengo muchos sellos, pero él tiene tantos como yo/el doble (que yo)

    2)

    as... as: these animals grow to as much as 12ft long estos animales llegan a medir 12 pies de largo; as recently as 1976 aún en 1976; as many as 400 people hasta 400 personas; as long ago as 1960 — ya en 1960


    III
    1)
    a) (in the condition, role of)

    as a child she adored dancingde pequeña or cuando era pequeña le encantaba bailar

    as a teacher... — como maestro...

    b) ( like) como

    as for — en cuanto a, respecto a

    and as for you... — y en cuanto a ti..., y en lo que a ti respecta...

    as of o (BrE) as from — desde, a partir de

    as to — en cuanto a, respecto a

    [æz, ǝz] For set combinations in which as is not the first word, eg such... as, the same... as, dressed as, acknowledge as, look up the other word.
    1. CONJUNCTION
    You can usually use cuando when the as clause simply tells you when an event happened: cuando Alternatively, use [al] + infinitive:

    as the car drew level with us, I realized Isabel was driving — al llegar el coche a nuestra altura or cuando el coche llegó a nuestra altura, me di cuenta de que lo conducía Isabel

    Translate as using mientras for longer actions which are happening at the same time: (=while) mientras

    as we walked, we talked about the future — mientras caminábamos, hablábamos del futuro

    In the context of two closely linked actions involving parallel development, translate [as] using [a medida que] or [conforme]. Alternatively, use [según va] {etc} + gerund:

    as one gets older, life gets more and more difficult — a medida que se envejece or conforme se envejece or según va uno envejeciendo, la vida se hace cada vez más difícil

    as he got older he got deafera medida que or conforme envejeció se fue volviendo más sordo, según fue envejeciendo se fue volviendo más sordo

    When as means "since" or "because", you can generally use como, provided you put it at the beginning of the sentence. Alternatively, use the more formal puesto que either at the beginning of the sentence or between the clauses or ya que especially between the clauses. como; more frm puesto que, ya que

    as you're here, I'll tell you — como estás aquí or puesto que estás aquí, te lo diré

    he didn't mention it as he didn't want to worry you — como no quería preocuparte, no lo mencionó, no lo mencionó puesto que no quería preocuparte

    he couldn't come as he had an appointmentno pudo asistir porque or puesto que or ya que tenía un compromiso

    patient as she is, she'll probably put up with it — con lo paciente que es, seguramente lo soportará

    3) (describing way, manner) como

    knowing him as I do, I'm sure he'll refuse — conociéndolo como lo conozco, estoy seguro de que no aceptará

    the village, situated as it is near a motorway,... — el pueblo, situado como está cerca de una autopista,...

    as I've said before... — como he dicho antes...

    as I was saying... — como iba diciendo...

    she is very gifted, as is her brother — tiene mucho talento, al igual que su hermano

    you'll have it by noon as agreed — lo tendrá antes del mediodía, tal como acordamos

    it's not bad, as hotels go — no está mal, en comparación con otros hoteles

    as in all good detective stories — como en toda buena novela policíaca

    as you knowcomo sabe

    Arsenal are playing as never before! — ¡Arsenal está jugando mejor que nunca!

    as often happens — como suele ocurrir

    he performed brilliantly, as only he can — actuó de maravilla, como solo él sabe hacerlo

    as you were! — (Mil) ¡descansen!

    do as you wishhaga lo que quiera

    4) (=though) aunque

    tired as he was, he went to the party — aunque estaba cansado, asistió a la fiesta

    interesting as the book is, I don't think it will sell very well — el libro es interesante, pero aún así no creo que se venda bien, aunque el libro es interesante, no creo que se venda bien

    try as she would or might, she couldn't lift it — por más que se esforzó no pudo levantarlo

    unlikely as it may seem... — por imposible que parezca...

    as if {or}3} as though como si

    it was as if or as though he were still alive — era como si estuviera todavía vivo

    he looked as if or as though he was ill — parecía como si estuviera enfermo

    it isn't as if or as though he were poor — no es que sea pobre, que digamos

    as if she knew! — ¡como si ella lo supiera!

    as if to

    the little dog nodded his head, as if to agree — el perrito movió la cabeza, como asintiendo

    as in as it is

    as it is, it doesn't make much difference — en realidad, casi da lo mismo

    as it is we can do nothingen la práctica or tal y como están las cosas no podemos hacer nada

    as it were

    I'd understood the words, but I hadn't understood the question, as it were — había entendido las palabras, pero no había comprendido la pregunta, por así decirlo

    I have become, as it were, two people — me he convertido como en dos personas

    as was

    that's the headmistress, the deputy as was — esa es la directora, que antes era la subdirectora

    2. PREPOSITION
    1) (=while)
    2) (=in the capacity of) como

    I don't think much of him as an actor — como actor, no me gusta mucho

    Gibson as Hamlet — (Theat) Gibson en el papel de Hamlet

    such 3.
    3. ADVERB
    as... as tan... como

    she hit him as hard as she could — lo golpeó lo más fuerte que pudo, lo golpeó tan fuerte como pudo

    she doesn't walk as quickly or as fast as me — no camina tan rápido como yo

    walk as quickly or as fast as you can — camina lo más rápido que puedas

    is it as far as that? — ¿tan lejos está?

    is it as big as all that? — ¿es de verdad tan grande?

    as little as as many... as tantos(-as)... como

    I've got a lot of tapes but I haven't got as many as him or as he has — tengo muchas cintas, pero no tantas como él

    as much

    she thought he was an idiot, and said as much — pensaba que era un idiota, y así lo expresó

    as much... as tanto(-a)... como

    you spend as much as me or as I do — tú gastas tanto como yo

    it can cost as much as $2,000 — puede llegar a costar 2.000 dólares

    as one half/twice/three times as... without as {or}3} so much as as for

    as for the children, they were exhausted — en cuanto a los niños, estaban rendidos, los niños, por su parte, estaban rendidos

    as for that... — en cuanto a esto...

    as from as of

    as of yesterday/now — a partir de ayer/ahora

    as to

    as to that I can't say — en lo que a eso se refiere, no lo sé

    as to her mother... — en cuanto a su madre...

    as yet hasta ahora, hasta el momento; regard 2., 4)
    * * *

    I [æz], weak form [əz]
    1)
    a) (when, while) cuando

    as she was eating breakfast... — cuando or mientras tomaba el desayuno...

    as you go toward the bank, it's the first house on the left — yendo hacia el banco, es la primera casa a mano izquierda

    b) ( indicating progression) a medida que

    as (and when) we need thema medida que or según los vamos necesitando

    2) (because, since) como

    as it was getting late, we decided to leave — como se hacía tarde, decidimos irnos

    3) ( though)

    try as he might, he could not open it — por más que trató, no pudo abrirlo

    much as I agree with you... — aun estando de acuerdo contigo como estoy...

    4)
    a) (expressing comparison, contrast) igual que, como

    in the 1980s, as in the 30s — en la década de los 80, al igual que en la de los 30

    it's quite reasonable, as restaurants go — para como están los restaurantes, es bastante razonable

    the situation, as we understand it, is... — la situación, tal como nosotros la entendemos, es...

    5)
    a) ( in the way that) como

    do as you wishhaz lo que quieras or lo que te parezca

    she arrived the next day, as planned/expected — llegó al día siguiente como se había planeado/como se esperaba

    use form A or B as appropriate — use el formulario A o B, según corresponda

    b) ( defining)

    Sri Lanka, or Ceylon, as it used to be known — Sri Lanka, o Ceilán, como se llamaba antes

    as it is: we can't publish it as it is no podemos publicarlo tal y como está, no podemos publicarlo así como está; we've got too much work as it is ya tenemos demasiado trabajo; as it were por así decirlo; as was: our new president, our secretary as was — el nuevo presidente, ex secretario de nuestra organización

    as... as — tan... como

    7)

    as if/as though — como si (+ subj)

    he acts as if o as though he didn't care — se comporta como si no le importara

    he looks as if o as though he's had enough — tiene cara de estar harto


    II
    1) ( equally)

    I have lots of stamps, but he has just as many/twice as many — yo tengo muchos sellos, pero él tiene tantos como yo/el doble (que yo)

    2)

    as... as: these animals grow to as much as 12ft long estos animales llegan a medir 12 pies de largo; as recently as 1976 aún en 1976; as many as 400 people hasta 400 personas; as long ago as 1960 — ya en 1960


    III
    1)
    a) (in the condition, role of)

    as a child she adored dancingde pequeña or cuando era pequeña le encantaba bailar

    as a teacher... — como maestro...

    b) ( like) como

    as for — en cuanto a, respecto a

    and as for you... — y en cuanto a ti..., y en lo que a ti respecta...

    as of o (BrE) as from — desde, a partir de

    as to — en cuanto a, respecto a

    English-spanish dictionary > as

  • 12 modular data center

    1. модульный центр обработки данных (ЦОД)

     

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    [ http://loosebolts.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/our-vision-for-generation-4-modular-data-centers-one-way-of-getting-it-just-right/]

    [ http://dcnt.ru/?p=9299#more-9299]

    Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight. Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments. And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

    В настоящее время центры обработки данных являются широко обсуждаемой темой. Куда ни посмотришь, этот некогда малоизвестный аспект инфраструктуры привлекает все больше внимания. Годами ИТ-отделы испытывали нехватку средств и это выдвинуло ЦОДы в центр внимания, в то время, когда необходимость в современных ЦОДах стала как никогда высокой. Плотность серверов и стоек продолжают расти, все больше усложняя ситуацию для специалистов в области охлаждения и организаций в их попытках управлять своими ИТ-средами. И теперь гипермасштабируемая облачная инфраструктура подвергает традиционные технологии невиданным ранее нагрузкам, и заставляет ИТ-индустрию искать новые возможности.

    At Microsoft, we have focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain our global infrastructure and we want to share those learnings. While obviously there are some aspects that we keep to ourselves, we have shared how we operate facilities daily, our technologies and methodologies, and, most importantly, how we monitor and manage our facilities. Whether it’s speaking at industry events, inviting customers to our “Microsoft data center conferences” held in our data centers, or through other media like blogging and white papers, we believe sharing best practices is paramount and will drive the industry forward. So in that vein, we have some interesting news to share.

    В компании MicroSoft уделяют большое внимание изучению наилучших методов эксплуатации и технического обслуживания своей глобальной инфраструктуры и делятся результатами своих исследований. И хотя мы, конечно, не раскрываем некоторые аспекты своих исследований, мы делимся повседневным опытом эксплуатации дата-центров, своими технологиями и методологиями и, что важнее всего, методами контроля и управления своими объектами. Будь то доклады на отраслевых событиях, приглашение клиентов на наши конференции, которые посвящены центрам обработки данных MicroSoft, и проводятся в этих самых дата-центрах, или использование других средств, например, блоги и спецификации, мы уверены, что обмен передовым опытом имеет первостепенное значение и будет продвигать отрасль вперед.

    Today we are sharing our Generation 4 Modular Data Center plan. This is our vision and will be the foundation of our cloud data center infrastructure in the next five years. We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years. Joining me, in writing this blog are Daniel Costello, my director of Data Center Research and Engineering and Christian Belady, principal power and cooling architect. I feel their voices will add significant value to driving understanding around the many benefits included in this new design paradigm.

    Сейчас мы хотим поделиться своим планом модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения. Это наше видение и оно будет основанием для инфраструктуры наших облачных дата-центров в ближайшие пять лет. Мы считаем, что это одно из самых революционных изменений в дата-центрах за последние 30 лет. Вместе со мной в написании этого блога участвовали Дэниел Костелло, директор по исследованиям и инжинирингу дата-центров, и Кристиан Белади, главный архитектор систем энергоснабжения и охлаждения. Мне кажется, что их авторитет придаст больше веса большому количеству преимуществ, включенных в эту новую парадигму проектирования.

    Our “Gen 4” modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in our Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility. So what do we mean by modular? Think of it like “building blocks”, where the data center will be composed of modular units of prefabricated mechanical, electrical, security components, etc., in addition to containerized servers.

    Was there a key driver for the Generation 4 Data Center?

    Наши модульные дата-центры “Gen 4” будут гибкими с контейнерами серверов – как серверы в нашем чикагском дата-центре. И гибкость будет применяться ко всему ЦОД. Итак, что мы подразумеваем под модульностью? Мы думаем о ней как о “строительных блоках”, где дата-центр будет состоять из модульных блоков изготовленных в заводских условиях электрических систем и систем охлаждения, а также систем безопасности и т.п., в дополнение к контейнеризованным серверам.
    Был ли ключевой стимул для разработки дата-центра четвертого поколения?


    If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth as required.” Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? Well, keep in mind that these concepts have been in initial development and prototyping for over a year and are based on cumulative knowledge of previous facility generations and the advances we have made since we began our investments in earnest on this new design.

    Если бы нам нужно было обобщить достоинства нашего проекта Gen 4 в одном предложении, это выглядело бы следующим образом: “Центр обработки данных с высоким уровнем модульности, расширяемости, и энергетической эффективности, а также возможностью постоянного расширения, в случае необходимости, который можно очень быстро и дешево развертывать в любом месте мира”. Звучит слишком хорошо для того чтобы быть правдой, не так ли? Ну, не забывайте, что эти концепции находились в процессе начальной разработки и создания опытного образца в течение более одного года и основываются на опыте, накопленном в ходе развития предыдущих поколений ЦОД, а также успехах, сделанных нами со времени, когда мы начали вкладывать серьезные средства в этот новый проект.

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve had at Microsoft is something Mike likes to call the ‘Goldilock’s Problem’. In a nutshell, the problem can be stated as:

    The worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is not have enough capacity online, thus limiting the growth of our products and services.

    Одну из самых больших проблем, с которыми приходилось сталкиваться Майкрософт, Майк любит называть ‘Проблемой Лютика’. Вкратце, эту проблему можно выразить следующим образом:

    Самое худшее, что может быть при строительстве ЦОД для бизнеса, это не располагать достаточными производственными мощностями, и тем самым ограничивать рост наших продуктов и сервисов.

    The second worst thing we can do in delivering facilities for the business is to have too much capacity online.

    А вторым самым худшим моментом в этой сфере может слишком большое количество производственных мощностей.

    This has led to a focus on smart, intelligent growth for the business — refining our overall demand picture. It can’t be too hot. It can’t be too cold. It has to be ‘Just Right!’ The capital dollars of investment are too large to make without long term planning. As we struggled to master these interesting challenges, we had to ensure that our technological plan also included solutions for the business and operational challenges we faced as well.
    So let’s take a high level look at our Generation 4 design

    Это заставило нас сосредоточиваться на интеллектуальном росте для бизнеса — refining our overall demand picture. Это не должно быть слишком горячим. И это не должно быть слишком холодным. Это должно быть ‘как раз, таким как надо!’ Нельзя делать такие большие капиталовложения без долгосрочного планирования. Пока мы старались решить эти интересные проблемы, мы должны были гарантировать, что наш технологический план будет также включать решения для коммерческих и эксплуатационных проблем, с которыми нам также приходилось сталкиваться.
    Давайте рассмотрим наш проект дата-центра четвертого поколения

    Are you ready for some great visuals? Check out this video at Soapbox. Click here for the Microsoft 4th Gen Video.

    It’s a concept video that came out of my Data Center Research and Engineering team, under Daniel Costello, that will give you a view into what we think is the future.

    From a configuration, construct-ability and time to market perspective, our primary goals and objectives are to modularize the whole data center. Not just the server side (like the Chicago facility), but the mechanical and electrical space as well. This means using the same kind of parts in pre-manufactured modules, the ability to use containers, skids, or rack-based deployments and the ability to tailor the Redundancy and Reliability requirements to the application at a very specific level.


    Посмотрите это видео, перейдите по ссылке для просмотра видео о Microsoft 4th Gen:

    Это концептуальное видео, созданное командой отдела Data Center Research and Engineering, возглавляемого Дэниелом Костелло, которое даст вам наше представление о будущем.

    С точки зрения конфигурации, строительной технологичности и времени вывода на рынок, нашими главными целями и задачами агрегатирование всего дата-центра. Не только серверную часть, как дата-центр в Чикаго, но также системы охлаждения и электрические системы. Это означает применение деталей одного типа в сборных модулях, возможность использования контейнеров, салазок, или стоечных систем, а также возможность подстраивать требования избыточности и надежности для данного приложения на очень специфичном уровне.

    Our goals from a cost perspective were simple in concept but tough to deliver. First and foremost, we had to reduce the capital cost per critical Mega Watt by the class of use. Some applications can run with N-level redundancy in the infrastructure, others require a little more infrastructure for support. These different classes of infrastructure requirements meant that optimizing for all cost classes was paramount. At Microsoft, we are not a one trick pony and have many Online products and services (240+) that require different levels of operational support. We understand that and ensured that we addressed it in our design which will allow us to reduce capital costs by 20%-40% or greater depending upon class.


    Нашими целями в области затрат были концептуально простыми, но трудно реализуемыми. В первую очередь мы должны были снизить капитальные затраты в пересчете на один мегаватт, в зависимости от класса резервирования. Некоторые приложения могут вполне работать на базе инфраструктуры с резервированием на уровне N, то есть без резервирования, а для работы других приложений требуется больше инфраструктуры. Эти разные классы требований инфраструктуры подразумевали, что оптимизация всех классов затрат имеет преобладающее значение. В Майкрософт мы не ограничиваемся одним решением и располагаем большим количеством интерактивных продуктов и сервисов (240+), которым требуются разные уровни эксплуатационной поддержки. Мы понимаем это, и учитываем это в своем проекте, который позволит нам сокращать капитальные затраты на 20%-40% или более в зависимости от класса.

    For example, non-critical or geo redundant applications have low hardware reliability requirements on a location basis. As a result, Gen 4 can be configured to provide stripped down, low-cost infrastructure with little or no redundancy and/or temperature control. Let’s say an Online service team decides that due to the dramatically lower cost, they will simply use uncontrolled outside air with temperatures ranging 10-35 C and 20-80% RH. The reality is we are already spec-ing this for all of our servers today and working with server vendors to broaden that range even further as Gen 4 becomes a reality. For this class of infrastructure, we eliminate generators, chillers, UPSs, and possibly lower costs relative to traditional infrastructure.

    Например, некритичные или гео-избыточные системы имеют низкие требования к аппаратной надежности на основе местоположения. В результате этого, Gen 4 можно конфигурировать для упрощенной, недорогой инфраструктуры с низким уровнем (или вообще без резервирования) резервирования и / или температурного контроля. Скажем, команда интерактивного сервиса решает, что, в связи с намного меньшими затратами, они будут просто использовать некондиционированный наружный воздух с температурой 10-35°C и влажностью 20-80% RH. В реальности мы уже сегодня предъявляем эти требования к своим серверам и работаем с поставщиками серверов над еще большим расширением диапазона температур, так как наш модуль и подход Gen 4 становится реальностью. Для подобного класса инфраструктуры мы удаляем генераторы, чиллеры, ИБП, и, возможно, будем предлагать более низкие затраты, по сравнению с традиционной инфраструктурой.

    Applications that demand higher level of redundancy or temperature control will use configurations of Gen 4 to meet those needs, however, they will also cost more (but still less than traditional data centers). We see this cost difference driving engineering behavioral change in that we predict more applications will drive towards Geo redundancy to lower costs.

    Системы, которым требуется более высокий уровень резервирования или температурного контроля, будут использовать конфигурации Gen 4, отвечающие этим требованиям, однако, они будут также стоить больше. Но все равно они будут стоить меньше, чем традиционные дата-центры. Мы предвидим, что эти различия в затратах будут вызывать изменения в методах инжиниринга, и по нашим прогнозам, это будет выражаться в переходе все большего числа систем на гео-избыточность и меньшие затраты.

    Another cool thing about Gen 4 is that it allows us to deploy capacity when our demand dictates it. Once finalized, we will no longer need to make large upfront investments. Imagine driving capital costs more closely in-line with actual demand, thus greatly reducing time-to-market and adding the capacity Online inherent in the design. Also reduced is the amount of construction labor required to put these “building blocks” together. Since the entire platform requires pre-manufacture of its core components, on-site construction costs are lowered. This allows us to maximize our return on invested capital.

    Еще одно достоинство Gen 4 состоит в том, что он позволяет нам разворачивать дополнительные мощности, когда нам это необходимо. Как только мы закончим проект, нам больше не нужно будет делать большие начальные капиталовложения. Представьте себе возможность более точного согласования капитальных затрат с реальными требованиями, и тем самым значительного снижения времени вывода на рынок и интерактивного добавления мощностей, предусматриваемого проектом. Также снижен объем строительных работ, требуемых для сборки этих “строительных блоков”. Поскольку вся платформа требует предварительного изготовления ее базовых компонентов, затраты на сборку также снижены. Это позволит нам увеличить до максимума окупаемость своих капиталовложений.
    Мы все подвергаем сомнению

    In our design process, we questioned everything. You may notice there is no roof and some might be uncomfortable with this. We explored the need of one and throughout our research we got some surprising (positive) results that showed one wasn’t needed.

    В своем процессе проектирования мы все подвергаем сомнению. Вы, наверное, обратили внимание на отсутствие крыши, и некоторым специалистам это могло не понравиться. Мы изучили необходимость в крыше и в ходе своих исследований получили удивительные результаты, которые показали, что крыша не нужна.
    Серийное производство дата центров


    In short, we are striving to bring Henry Ford’s Model T factory to the data center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Model_T. Gen 4 will move data centers from a custom design and build model to a commoditized manufacturing approach. We intend to have our components built in factories and then assemble them in one location (the data center site) very quickly. Think about how a computer, car or plane is built today. Components are manufactured by different companies all over the world to a predefined spec and then integrated in one location based on demands and feature requirements. And just like Henry Ford’s assembly line drove the cost of building and the time-to-market down dramatically for the automobile industry, we expect Gen 4 to do the same for data centers. Everything will be pre-manufactured and assembled on the pad.

    Мы хотим применить модель автомобильной фабрики Генри Форда к дата-центру. Проект Gen 4 будет способствовать переходу от модели специализированного проектирования и строительства к товарно-производственному, серийному подходу. Мы намерены изготавливать свои компоненты на заводах, а затем очень быстро собирать их в одном месте, в месте строительства дата-центра. Подумайте о том, как сегодня изготавливается компьютер, автомобиль или самолет. Компоненты изготавливаются по заранее определенным спецификациям разными компаниями во всем мире, затем собираются в одном месте на основе спроса и требуемых характеристик. И точно так же как сборочный конвейер Генри Форда привел к значительному уменьшению затрат на производство и времени вывода на рынок в автомобильной промышленности, мы надеемся, что Gen 4 сделает то же самое для дата-центров. Все будет предварительно изготавливаться и собираться на месте.
    Невероятно энергоэффективный ЦОД


    And did we mention that this platform will be, overall, incredibly energy efficient? From a total energy perspective not only will we have remarkable PUE values, but the total cost of energy going into the facility will be greatly reduced as well. How much energy goes into making concrete? Will we need as much of it? How much energy goes into the fuel of the construction vehicles? This will also be greatly reduced! A key driver is our goal to achieve an average PUE at or below 1.125 by 2012 across our data centers. More than that, we are on a mission to reduce the overall amount of copper and water used in these facilities. We believe these will be the next areas of industry attention when and if the energy problem is solved. So we are asking today…“how can we build a data center with less building”?

    А мы упоминали, что эта платформа будет, в общем, невероятно энергоэффективной? С точки зрения общей энергии, мы получим не только поразительные значения PUE, но общая стоимость энергии, затраченной на объект будет также значительно снижена. Сколько энергии идет на производство бетона? Нам нужно будет столько энергии? Сколько энергии идет на питание инженерных строительных машин? Это тоже будет значительно снижено! Главным стимулом является достижение среднего PUE не больше 1.125 для всех наших дата-центров к 2012 году. Более того, у нас есть задача сокращения общего количества меди и воды в дата-центрах. Мы думаем, что эти задачи станут следующей заботой отрасли после того как будет решена энергетическая проблема. Итак, сегодня мы спрашиваем себя…“как можно построить дата-центр с меньшим объемом строительных работ”?
    Строительство дата центров без чиллеров

    We have talked openly and publicly about building chiller-less data centers and running our facilities using aggressive outside economization. Our sincerest hope is that Gen 4 will completely eliminate the use of water. Today’s data centers use massive amounts of water and we see water as the next scarce resource and have decided to take a proactive stance on making water conservation part of our plan.

    Мы открыто и публично говорили о строительстве дата-центров без чиллеров и активном использовании в наших центрах обработки данных технологий свободного охлаждения или фрикулинга. Мы искренне надеемся, что Gen 4 позволит полностью отказаться от использования воды. Современные дата-центры расходуют большие объемы воды и так как мы считаем воду следующим редким ресурсом, мы решили принять упреждающие меры и включить экономию воды в свой план.

    By sharing this with the industry, we believe everyone can benefit from our methodology. While this concept and approach may be intimidating (or downright frightening) to some in the industry, disclosure ultimately is better for all of us.

    Делясь этим опытом с отраслью, мы считаем, что каждый сможет извлечь выгоду из нашей методологией. Хотя эта концепция и подход могут показаться пугающими (или откровенно страшными) для некоторых отраслевых специалистов, раскрывая свои планы мы, в конечном счете, делаем лучше для всех нас.

    Gen 4 design (even more than just containers), could reduce the ‘religious’ debates in our industry. With the central spine infrastructure in place, containers or pre-manufactured server halls can be either AC or DC, air-side economized or water-side economized, or not economized at all (though the sanity of that might be questioned). Gen 4 will allow us to decommission, repair and upgrade quickly because everything is modular. No longer will we be governed by the initial decisions made when constructing the facility. We will have almost unlimited use and re-use of the facility and site. We will also be able to use power in an ultra-fluid fashion moving load from critical to non-critical as use and capacity requirements dictate.

    Проект Gen 4 позволит уменьшить ‘религиозные’ споры в нашей отрасли. Располагая базовой инфраструктурой, контейнеры или сборные серверные могут оборудоваться системами переменного или постоянного тока, воздушными или водяными экономайзерами, или вообще не использовать экономайзеры. Хотя можно подвергать сомнению разумность такого решения. Gen 4 позволит нам быстро выполнять работы по выводу из эксплуатации, ремонту и модернизации, поскольку все будет модульным. Мы больше не будем руководствоваться начальными решениями, принятыми во время строительства дата-центра. Мы сможем использовать этот дата-центр и инфраструктуру в течение почти неограниченного периода времени. Мы также сможем применять сверхгибкие методы использования электрической энергии, переводя оборудование в режимы критической или некритической нагрузки в соответствии с требуемой мощностью.
    Gen 4 – это стандартная платформа

    Finally, we believe this is a big game changer. Gen 4 will provide a standard platform that our industry can innovate around. For example, all modules in our Gen 4 will have common interfaces clearly defined by our specs and any vendor that meets these specifications will be able to plug into our infrastructure. Whether you are a computer vendor, UPS vendor, generator vendor, etc., you will be able to plug and play into our infrastructure. This means we can also source anyone, anywhere on the globe to minimize costs and maximize performance. We want to help motivate the industry to further innovate—with innovations from which everyone can reap the benefits.

    Наконец, мы уверены, что это будет фактором, который значительно изменит ситуацию. Gen 4 будет представлять собой стандартную платформу, которую отрасль сможет обновлять. Например, все модули в нашем Gen 4 будут иметь общепринятые интерфейсы, четко определяемые нашими спецификациями, и оборудование любого поставщика, которое отвечает этим спецификациям можно будет включать в нашу инфраструктуру. Независимо от того производите вы компьютеры, ИБП, генераторы и т.п., вы сможете включать свое оборудование нашу инфраструктуру. Это означает, что мы также сможем обеспечивать всех, в любом месте земного шара, тем самым сводя до минимума затраты и максимальной увеличивая производительность. Мы хотим создать в отрасли мотивацию для дальнейших инноваций – инноваций, от которых каждый сможет получать выгоду.
    Главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen4

    To summarize, the key characteristics of our Generation 4 data centers are:

    Scalable
    Plug-and-play spine infrastructure
    Factory pre-assembled: Pre-Assembled Containers (PACs) & Pre-Manufactured Buildings (PMBs)
    Rapid deployment
    De-mountable
    Reduce TTM
    Reduced construction
    Sustainable measures

    Ниже приведены главные характеристики дата-центров четвертого поколения Gen 4:

    Расширяемость;
    Готовая к использованию базовая инфраструктура;
    Изготовление в заводских условиях: сборные контейнеры (PAC) и сборные здания (PMB);
    Быстрота развертывания;
    Возможность демонтажа;
    Снижение времени вывода на рынок (TTM);
    Сокращение сроков строительства;
    Экологичность;

    Map applications to DC Class

    We hope you join us on this incredible journey of change and innovation!

    Long hours of research and engineering time are invested into this process. There are still some long days and nights ahead, but the vision is clear. Rest assured however, that we as refine Generation 4, the team will soon be looking to Generation 5 (even if it is a bit farther out). There is always room to get better.


    Использование систем электропитания постоянного тока.

    Мы надеемся, что вы присоединитесь к нам в этом невероятном путешествии по миру изменений и инноваций!

    На этот проект уже потрачены долгие часы исследований и проектирования. И еще предстоит потратить много дней и ночей, но мы имеем четкое представление о конечной цели. Однако будьте уверены, что как только мы доведем до конца проект модульного дата-центра четвертого поколения, мы вскоре начнем думать о проекте дата-центра пятого поколения. Всегда есть возможность для улучшений.

    So if you happen to come across Goldilocks in the forest, and you are curious as to why she is smiling you will know that she feels very good about getting very close to ‘JUST RIGHT’.

    Generations of Evolution – some background on our data center designs

    Так что, если вы встретите в лесу девочку по имени Лютик, и вам станет любопытно, почему она улыбается, вы будете знать, что она очень довольна тем, что очень близко подошла к ‘ОПИМАЛЬНОМУ РЕШЕНИЮ’.
    Поколения эволюции – история развития наших дата-центров

    We thought you might be interested in understanding what happened in the first three generations of our data center designs. When Ray Ozzie wrote his Software plus Services memo it posed a very interesting challenge to us. The winds of change were at ‘tornado’ proportions. That “plus Services” tag had some significant (and unstated) challenges inherent to it. The first was that Microsoft was going to evolve even further into an operations company. While we had been running large scale Internet services since 1995, this development lead us to an entirely new level. Additionally, these “services” would span across both Internet and Enterprise businesses. To those of you who have to operate “stuff”, you know that these are two very different worlds in operational models and challenges. It also meant that, to achieve the same level of reliability and performance required our infrastructure was going to have to scale globally and in a significant way.

    Мы подумали, что может быть вам будет интересно узнать историю первых трех поколений наших центров обработки данных. Когда Рэй Оззи написал свою памятную записку Software plus Services, он поставил перед нами очень интересную задачу. Ветра перемен двигались с ураганной скоростью. Это окончание “plus Services” скрывало в себе какие-то значительные и неопределенные задачи. Первая заключалась в том, что Майкрософт собиралась в еще большей степени стать операционной компанией. Несмотря на то, что мы управляли большими интернет-сервисами, начиная с 1995 г., эта разработка подняла нас на абсолютно новый уровень. Кроме того, эти “сервисы” охватывали интернет-компании и корпорации. Тем, кому приходится всем этим управлять, известно, что есть два очень разных мира в области операционных моделей и задач. Это также означало, что для достижения такого же уровня надежности и производительности требовалось, чтобы наша инфраструктура располагала значительными возможностями расширения в глобальных масштабах.

    It was that intense atmosphere of change that we first started re-evaluating data center technology and processes in general and our ideas began to reach farther than what was accepted by the industry at large. This was the era of Generation 1. As we look at where most of the world’s data centers are today (and where our facilities were), it represented all the known learning and design requirements that had been in place since IBM built the first purpose-built computer room. These facilities focused more around uptime, reliability and redundancy. Big infrastructure was held accountable to solve all potential environmental shortfalls. This is where the majority of infrastructure in the industry still is today.

    Именно в этой атмосфере серьезных изменений мы впервые начали переоценку ЦОД-технологий и технологий вообще, и наши идеи начали выходить за пределы общепринятых в отрасли представлений. Это была эпоха ЦОД первого поколения. Когда мы узнали, где сегодня располагается большинство мировых дата-центров и где находятся наши предприятия, это представляло весь опыт и навыки проектирования, накопленные со времени, когда IBM построила первую серверную. В этих ЦОД больше внимания уделялось бесперебойной работе, надежности и резервированию. Большая инфраструктура была призвана решать все потенциальные экологические проблемы. Сегодня большая часть инфраструктуры все еще находится на этом этапе своего развития.

    We soon realized that traditional data centers were quickly becoming outdated. They were not keeping up with the demands of what was happening technologically and environmentally. That’s when we kicked off our Generation 2 design. Gen 2 facilities started taking into account sustainability, energy efficiency, and really looking at the total cost of energy and operations.

    Очень быстро мы поняли, что стандартные дата-центры очень быстро становятся устаревшими. Они не поспевали за темпами изменений технологических и экологических требований. Именно тогда мы стали разрабатывать ЦОД второго поколения. В этих дата-центрах Gen 2 стали принимать во внимание такие факторы как устойчивое развитие, энергетическая эффективность, а также общие энергетические и эксплуатационные.

    No longer did we view data centers just for the upfront capital costs, but we took a hard look at the facility over the course of its life. Our Quincy, Washington and San Antonio, Texas facilities are examples of our Gen 2 data centers where we explored and implemented new ways to lessen the impact on the environment. These facilities are considered two leading industry examples, based on their energy efficiency and ability to run and operate at new levels of scale and performance by leveraging clean hydro power (Quincy) and recycled waste water (San Antonio) to cool the facility during peak cooling months.

    Мы больше не рассматривали дата-центры только с точки зрения начальных капитальных затрат, а внимательно следили за работой ЦОД на протяжении его срока службы. Наши объекты в Куинси, Вашингтоне, и Сан-Антонио, Техас, являются образцами наших ЦОД второго поколения, в которых мы изучали и применяли на практике новые способы снижения воздействия на окружающую среду. Эти объекты считаются двумя ведущими отраслевыми примерами, исходя из их энергетической эффективности и способности работать на новых уровнях производительности, основанных на использовании чистой энергии воды (Куинси) и рециклирования отработанной воды (Сан-Антонио) для охлаждения объекта в самых жарких месяцах.

    As we were delivering our Gen 2 facilities into steel and concrete, our Generation 3 facilities were rapidly driving the evolution of the program. The key concepts for our Gen 3 design are increased modularity and greater concentration around energy efficiency and scale. The Gen 3 facility will be best represented by the Chicago, Illinois facility currently under construction. This facility will seem very foreign compared to the traditional data center concepts most of the industry is comfortable with. In fact, if you ever sit around in our container hanger in Chicago it will look incredibly different from a traditional raised-floor data center. We anticipate this modularization will drive huge efficiencies in terms of cost and operations for our business. We will also introduce significant changes in the environmental systems used to run our facilities. These concepts and processes (where applicable) will help us gain even greater efficiencies in our existing footprint, allowing us to further maximize infrastructure investments.

    Так как наши ЦОД второго поколения строились из стали и бетона, наши центры обработки данных третьего поколения начали их быстро вытеснять. Главными концептуальными особенностями ЦОД третьего поколения Gen 3 являются повышенная модульность и большее внимание к энергетической эффективности и масштабированию. Дата-центры третьего поколения лучше всего представлены объектом, который в настоящее время строится в Чикаго, Иллинойс. Этот ЦОД будет выглядеть очень необычно, по сравнению с общепринятыми в отрасли представлениями о дата-центре. Действительно, если вам когда-либо удастся побывать в нашем контейнерном ангаре в Чикаго, он покажется вам совершенно непохожим на обычный дата-центр с фальшполом. Мы предполагаем, что этот модульный подход будет способствовать значительному повышению эффективности нашего бизнеса в отношении затрат и операций. Мы также внесем существенные изменения в климатические системы, используемые в наших ЦОД. Эти концепции и технологии, если применимо, позволят нам добиться еще большей эффективности наших существующих дата-центров, и тем самым еще больше увеличивать капиталовложения в инфраструктуру.

    This is definitely a journey, not a destination industry. In fact, our Generation 4 design has been under heavy engineering for viability and cost for over a year. While the demand of our commercial growth required us to make investments as we grew, we treated each step in the learning as a process for further innovation in data centers. The design for our future Gen 4 facilities enabled us to make visionary advances that addressed the challenges of building, running, and operating facilities all in one concerted effort.

    Это определенно путешествие, а не конечный пункт назначения. На самом деле, наш проект ЦОД четвертого поколения подвергался серьезным испытаниям на жизнеспособность и затраты на протяжении целого года. Хотя необходимость в коммерческом росте требовала от нас постоянных капиталовложений, мы рассматривали каждый этап своего развития как шаг к будущим инновациям в области дата-центров. Проект наших будущих ЦОД четвертого поколения Gen 4 позволил нам делать фантастические предположения, которые касались задач строительства, управления и эксплуатации объектов как единого упорядоченного процесса.


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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.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

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    [ʌp] adv
    1) ( to higher position) nach oben, hinauf;
    hands \up! Hände hoch!;
    the water had come \up to the level of the windows das Wasser war bis auf Fensterhöhe gestiegen;
    our flat is four flights \up from here unsere Wohnung ist vier Etagen höher;
    bottom \up mit der Unterseite nach oben;
    to jump \up aufspringen;
    to pick sth \up etw aufheben
    2) ( erect)
    just lean it \up against the wall lehnen Sie es einfach gegen die Wand;
    to stand \up aufstehen, sich akk erheben ( geh)
    was she standing \up or sitting down? stand sie oder saß sie?
    3) ( out of bed) auf[gestanden];
    they're not \up yet sie sind noch nicht auf[gestanden];
    to get \up aufstehen
    what time does the sun come \up today? wann geht heute die Sonne auf?
    on Tuesday she'll be travelling \up to Newcastle from Birmingham am Dienstag wird sie von Birmingham nach Newcastle hinauffahren;
    she comes \up from Washington about once a month on the train sie kommt ungefähr einmal im Monat mit dem Zug aus Washington herauf
    6) ( at higher place) oben;
    \up in the hills/ on the fifth floor oben in den Bergen/im fünften Stock
    I'll be \up in London this weekend ich fahre an diesem Wochenende nach London
    is he \up at Cambridge yet? hat er schon [mit seinem Studium] in Cambridge angefangen?
    9) ( toward sb) heran;
    a limousine drew \up to where we were standing eine Limousine kam auf uns zu;
    she went \up to the counter sie ging zum Schalter;
    to run \up to sb jdm entgegenlaufen;
    to walk \up to sb auf jdn zugehen
    10) ( at stronger position) hoch, nach oben;
    as a composer he was \up there with the best als Komponist gehörte er zur Spitze;
    to move \up aufsteigen;
    to turn the music \up die Musik lauter stellen
    11) ( at higher level) höher, gestiegen;
    last year the company's turnover was £240 billion, \up 3% on the previous year letztes Jahr lag der Umsatz der Firma bei 240 Milliarden Pfund, das sind 3% mehr als im Jahr davor;
    items on this rack are priced £50 \up [or from £50 \up] die Waren in diesem Regal kosten ab 50 Pfund aufwärts;
    this film is suitable for children aged 13 and \up dieser Film ist für Kinder ab 13 Jahren geeignet;
    the river is \up der Fluss ist angeschwollen;
    to go \up steigen;
    to push the number of unit sales \up die Verkaufszahlen steigern;
    to get the price \up den Preis in die Höhe treiben
    \up until [or till] [or to] bis +akk;
    \up until last week, we didn't know about it bis letzte Woche wussten wir nichts davon;
    \up to yesterday bis gestern;
    \up to ( to the limit of) bis zu;
    he can overdraw \up to £300 er kann bis zu 300 Pfund überziehen
    13) ( leading) in Führung;
    Manchester is two goals \up Manchester liegt mit zwei Toren in Führung
    they used \up all their money on food sie gaben ihr ganzes Geld für Essen aus;
    when are you going to pay \up the money you owe me? wann zahlst du das Geld zurück, das du mir schuldest?;
    to burn \up [ganz] abbrennen;
    to finish sth \up etw aufbrauchen;
    to fold \up a piece of paper ein Stück Papier zusammenfalten;
    to tear \up a letter einen Brief zerreißen;
    to wrap \up sich akk warm anziehen
    to be \up in sth sich akk mit etw dat auskennen;
    how well \up are you in Spanish? wie fit bist du in Spanisch? ( fam)
    16) law ( on trial) unter Anklage;
    he'll be \up before the magistrate er wird sich vor Gericht verantworten müssen;
    to be \up for sth sich akk wegen einer S. gen vor Gericht verantworten müssen
    to come \up against sth/sb es mit etw/jdm zu tun haben, sich akk mit etw/jdm konfrontiert sehen;
    the company came \up against some problems die Firma stand vor einigen Problemen [o sah sich mit einigen Problemen konfrontiert];
    18) (Am) ( apiece) pro Person;
    the score was 3 \up at half-time bei Halbzeit stand es 3 [für] beide
    now Boston's best batter is \up jetzt ist Bostons bester Schläger am Schlag
    20) ((dated) fam: yes for)
    \up with sth/sb hoch lebe jd/etw!;
    \up with freedom! es lebe die Freiheit!
    PHRASES:
    to be \up with the clock gut in der Zeit liegen;
    to be all \up with sb das Aus für jdn bedeuten;
    to be \up against it in Schwierigkeiten sein;
    to be \up for sth für etw akk vorgesehen sein; terms zur Debatte stehen;
    the house is \up for sale das Haus steht zum Verkauf;
    to be \up to sb von jdm abhängen;
    I'll leave it \up to you... ich überlasse dir die Entscheidung,...;
    to be \up to sb to do sth jds Aufgabe sein, etw zu tun;
    to be \up to sth ( contrive) etw vorhaben [o im Schilde führen]; ( be adequate) etw dat gewachsen sein, bei etw dat mithalten können;
    he's \up to no good er führt nichts Gutes im Schilde prep
    \up sth etw akk hinauf;
    \up the mountain den Berg hinauf;
    he walked \up the hill er lief den Hang hinauf;
    we followed her \up the stairs wir folgten ihr die Treppe hinauf;
    he climbed \up the ladder er stieg die Leiter hinauf
    2) ( along)
    \up sth etw akk hinauf;
    walk \up the road die Straße hinauflaufen [o entlanglaufen];
    just \up the road ein Stück die Straße hinauf, weiter oben in der Straße;
    \up and down auf und ab;
    he was running \up and down the path er rannte den Pfad auf und ab;
    strolling \up and down the corridor auf dem Gang auf und ab schlendern;
    cinemas \up and down the country Kinos überall im Land
    \up sth etw akk aufwärts;
    rowing \up the river is very hard work flussaufwärts [zu] rudern ist Schwerstarbeit;
    to swim \up the stream stromauf[wärts] schwimmen;
    a cruise \up the Rhine eine Fahrt den Rhein aufwärts
    4) ( at top of) oben auf +dat;
    \up the stairs am Ende der Treppe;
    he's \up that ladder er steht dort oben auf der Leiter
    5) (Aus, Brit) (fam: to)
    are you going \up the club tonight? gehst du heute Abend in den Club?;
    we are going \up the Palais wir gehen tanzen [o in den Tanzsaal]; (at)
    I'll see you \up the pub later ich treffe dich [o wir sehen uns] später in der Kneipe
    PHRASES:
    be \up the creek [or ( vulg sl) \up shit creek] [without a paddle] [schön] in der Klemme [o ( derb) Scheiße] sitzen;
    \up hill and down dale bergauf und bergab;
    he led me \up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off ich latschte mit ihm überall in der Gegend herum, bis mir fast die Füße abfielen;
    a man with nothing much \up top ( Brit) ( fam) ein Mann mit nicht viel im Kopf [o Hirnkasten];
    \up yours! ( vulg) ihr könnt mich mal! ( derb) adj
    1) attr ( moving upward) nach oben;
    the \up escalator der Aufzug nach oben
    what time does the next \up train leave? wann fährt der nächste Zug in die Stadt ab?;
    \up platform Bahnsteig, von dem die Züge in die nächstgelegene Stadt abfahren
    \up quark Up-Quark nt
    4) pred (Brit, Aus) ( being repaired) road aufgegraben;
    the council has got the road \up der Stadtrat hat die Straße aufgraben lassen
    5) pred ( in horseracing) zu Pferd
    6) pred ( happy) high (sl), obenauf;
    to be \up about [or on] [or for [doing]] sth von etw dat begeistert sein;
    I'm really \up for spending a posh weekend in Paris ich freue mich total darauf, ein tolles Wochenende in Paris zu verbringen
    7) pred ( Brit) (dated: frothy) schäumend
    8) pred ( functioning properly) funktionstüchtig;
    do you know when the network will be \up again? weißt du, wann das Netz wieder in Betrieb ist?;
    this computer is down more than it's \up dieser Computer ist öfter gestört, als dass er läuft;
    to be \up and running funktionstüchtig [o in Ordnung] sein;
    to get sth \up and running etw wieder zum Laufen bringen
    9) pred ( finished) vorbei;
    when the two hours were \up... als die zwei Stunden um waren,...;
    the soldier's leave will be \up at midnight der Ausgang des Soldaten endet um Mitternacht;
    your time is \up! Ihre Zeit ist um!
    sth is \up irgendetwas ist im Gange;
    what's \up? was ist los?
    to be \up for sth;
    I think I'm \up for a walk ich glaube, ich habe Lust spazieren zu gehen [o auf einen Spaziergang];
    I'm \up for going out to eat ich möchte essen gehen
    to be \up against sth/sb gegen etw/jdn stehen;
    in this case, we're \up against the law in diesem Fall stehen wir gegen das Gesetz [o kommen wir mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt] n (fam: good period) Hoch nt;
    unfortunately, we won't always have \ups leider gibt es für uns nicht immer nur Höhen
    PHRASES:
    to be on the \up and \up (Brit, Aus) (fam: be improving) im Aufwärtstrend begriffen sein;
    her career has been on the \up and \up since she moved into sales seit sie im Vertrieb ist, geht es mit ihrer Karriere stetig aufwärts;
    ( esp Am) ( be honest) sauber sein ( fam)
    is this deal on the \up and \up? ist das ein sauberes Geschäft? vi <- pp- ( fam);
    to \up and do sth etw plötzlich tun;
    after dinner they just \upped and went without saying goodbye nach dem Abendessen gingen sie einfach weg, ohne auf Wiedersehen zu sagen vt <- pp->
    to \up sth
    1) ( increase) capacity etw erhöhen;
    to \up the ante [or stakes] den Einsatz erhöhen;
    to \up a price/ tax rate einen Preis/Steuersatz anheben
    2) ( raise) etw erheben;
    they \upped their glasses and toasted the host sie erhoben das Glas und brachten einen Toast auf den Gastgeber aus interj auf!, los, aufstehen!

    English-German students dictionary > up

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    1. adverb
    1) (to higher place) nach oben; (in lift) aufwärts

    [right] up to something — (lit. or fig.) [ganz] bis zu etwas hinauf

    up into the airin die Luft [hinauf]...

    climb up on something/climb up to the top of something — auf etwas (Akk.) [hinauf]steigen/bis zur Spitze einer Sache hinaufsteigen

    the way up [to something] — der Weg hinauf [zu etwas]

    on the way up(lit. or fig.) auf dem Weg nach oben

    up here/there — hier herauf/dort hinauf

    high/higher up — hoch/höher hinauf

    halfway/a long/little way up — den halben Weg/ein weites/kurzes Stück hinauf

    come on up! — komm [hier/weiter] herauf!

    up it etc. comes/goes — herauf kommt/hinauf geht es usw.

    up you go!rauf mit dir! (ugs.)

    2) (to upstairs, northwards) rauf (bes. ugs.); herauf/hinauf (bes. schriftsprachlich); nach oben

    come up from London to Edinburgh — von London nach Edinburgh [he]raufkommen

    3) (to place regarded as more important)

    go up to Leeds from the countryvom Land in die Stadt Leeds od. nach Leeds fahren

    4) (Brit.): (to capital) rein (bes. ugs.); herein/hinein (bes. schriftsprachlich)

    go up to town or London — nach London gehen/fahren

    get up to London from Reading — von Reading nach London [he]reinfahren

    5) (in higher place, upstairs, in north) oben

    up here/there — hier/da oben

    an order from high up(fig.) ein Befehl von ganz oben (ugs.)

    halfway/a long/little way up — auf halbem Weg nach oben/ein gutes/kurzes Stück weiter oben

    live four floors or storeys up — im vierten Stockwerk wohnen

    his flat is on the next floor upseine Wohnung ist ein Stockwerk höher

    up northoben im Norden (ugs.)

    6) (erect) hoch

    keep your head up — halte den Kopf hoch; see also academic.ru/12509/chin">chin

    7) (out of bed)
    8) (in place regarded as more important; Brit.): (in capital)

    up in town or London/Leeds — in London/Leeds

    prices have gone/are up — die Preise sind gestiegen

    butter is up [by...] — Butter ist [...] teurer

    10) (including higher limit)

    up tobis... hinauf

    up to midday/up to £2 — bis zum Mittag/bis zu 2 Pfund

    11) (in position of gain)

    we're £300 up on last yearwir liegen 300 Pfund über dem letzten Jahr

    the takings were £500 up on the previous month — die Einnahmen lagen 500 Pfund über denen des Vormonats

    12) (ahead)

    be three points/games/goals up — (Sport) mit drei Punkten/Spielen/Toren vorn liegen

    13) (as far as)

    up to here/there — bis hier[hin]/bis dorthin

    I've had it up to here(coll.) mir steht es bis hier [hin] (ugs.)

    up to now/then/that time/last week — bis jetzt/damals/zu jener Zeit/zur letzten Woche

    14)

    up to(comparable with)

    be up to expectation[s] — den Erwartungen entsprechen

    15)

    up to(capable of)

    [not] be/feel up to something — einer Sache (Dat.) [nicht] gewachsen sein/sich einer Sache (Dat.) [nicht] gewachsen fühlen

    [not] be/feel up to doing something — [nicht] in der Lage sein/sich nicht in der Lage fühlen, etwas zu tun

    16)

    up to(derog.): (doing)

    what is he up to?was hat er [bloß] vor?

    17)

    it is [not] up to somebody to do something — (somebody's duty) es ist [nicht] jemandes Sache, etwas zu tun

    it is up to us to help them — es ist unsere Pflicht, ihnen zu helfen

    now it's up to him to do somethingnun liegt es bei od. an ihm, etwas zu tun

    it's/that's up to you — (is for you to decide) es/das hängt von dir ab; (concerns only you) es/das ist deine Sache

    18) (close)

    up against somebody/something — an jemandem/etwas [lehnen]; an jemanden/etwas [stellen]

    sit up against the wallmit dem Rücken zur od. an der Wand sitzen

    be up against a problem/difficulty — etc. (coll.) vor einem Problem/einer Schwierigkeit usw. stehen

    20)

    up and down(upwards and downwards) hinauf und hinunter; (to and fro) auf und ab

    be up and down(coll.): (variable) Hochs und Tiefs haben

    21) (facing upwards)

    ‘this side/way up’ — (on box etc.) "[hier] oben"

    turn something this/the other side/way up — diese/die andere Seite einer Sache nach oben drehen

    the right/wrong way up — richtig/verkehrt od. falsch herum

    22) (finished, at an end) abgelaufen
    2. preposition
    1) (upwards along, from bottom to top) rauf (bes. ugs.); herauf/hinauf (bes. schriftsprachlich)

    up somethingetwas (Akk.) hinauf

    5) (at or in higher position in or on) [weiter] oben

    further up the ladder/coast — weiter oben auf der Leiter/an der Küste

    3. adjective
    1) (directed upwards) aufwärts führend [Rohr, Kabel]; [Rolltreppe] nach oben; nach oben gerichtet [Kolbenhub]

    up train/line — (Railw.) Zug/Gleis Richtung Stadt

    be up in a subject/on the news — in einem Fach auf der Höhe [der Zeit] sein/über alle Neuigkeiten Bescheid wissen od. gut informiert sein

    3) (coll.): (ready)

    tea['s]/grub['s] up! — Tee/Essen ist fertig!

    4) (coll.): (amiss)
    4. noun in pl.

    the ups and downs(lit. or fig.) das Auf und Ab; (fig.) die Höhen und Tiefen

    5. intransitive verb,
    - pp- (coll.)

    up and leave/resign — einfach abhauen (ugs.) /kündigen

    he ups and says... — da sagt er doch [ur]plötzlich...

    6. transitive verb,
    - pp- (coll.) (increase) erhöhen; (raise up) heben
    * * *
    (to become covered (as if) with mist: The mirror misted over; The windscreen misted up.) beschlagen
    * * *
    up
    [ʌp]
    I. adv inv
    1. (to higher position) nach oben, hinauf; lift aufwärts
    hands \up! Hände hoch!
    the water had come \up to the level of the windows das Wasser war bis auf Fensterhöhe gestiegen
    four flights \up from here vier Etagen höher
    come on \up! komm [hier] herauf!
    \up it/she etc. comes! herauf kommt es/sie!
    \up you go! rauf mit dir! fam
    bottom \up mit der Unterseite nach oben
    halfway \up auf halber Höhe
    high \up hoch hinauf
    farther \up weiter hinauf
    \up and \up immer höher
    \up and away auf und davon
    2. (erect) aufrecht
    just lean it \up against the wall lehnen Sie es einfach gegen die Wand
    3. (out of bed) auf
    is he \up yet? ist er schon auf?
    to be \up late lange aufbleiben
    \up and about auf den Beinen
    4. (northwards) hinauf, herauf, rauf fam
    on Tuesday she'll be travelling \up to Newcastle from Birmingham am Dienstag fährt sie von Birmingham nach Newcastle hinauf
    she comes \up from Washington about once a month sie kommt ungefähr einmal im Monat aus Washington herauf
    \up north oben im Norden
    farther \up weiter oben
    \up here/there hier/da oben
    a long/little way \up ein gutes/kurzes Stück weiter oben
    \up in the hills [dr]oben in den Bergen
    2 metres \up 2 Meter hoch
    I live on the next floor \up ich wohne ein Stockwerk höher
    6. BRIT (towards city)
    I'll be \up in London this weekend ich fahre an diesem Wochenende nach London
    \up from the country vom Land
    is he \up at Cambridge yet? hat er schon [mit seinem Studium] in Cambridge angefangen?
    8. (toward)
    \up to sb/sth auf jdn/etw zu
    a limousine drew \up to where we were standing eine Limousine kam auf uns zu
    she went \up to the counter sie ging zum Schalter
    to run \up to sb jdm entgegenlaufen
    to walk \up to sb auf jdn zugehen
    9. (in high position) an der Spitze, oben fam
    as a composer he was \up there with the best als Komponist gehörte er zur Spitze
    she's something high \up in the company sie ist ein hohes Tier in der Firma
    10. (higher in price or number) höher
    last year the company's turnover was £240 billion, \up 3% on the previous year letztes Jahr lag der Umsatz der Firma bei 240 Milliarden Pfund, das sind 3 % mehr als im Jahr davor
    items on this rack are priced [from] £50 \up die Waren in diesem Regal kosten ab 50 Pfund aufwärts
    this film is suitable for children aged 13 and \up dieser Film ist für Kinder ab 13 Jahren geeignet
    11. (to point of)
    \up until [or till] [or to] bis + akk
    \up to yesterday bis gestern
    he can overdraw \up to £300 er kann bis zu 300 Pfund überziehen
    12. (in opposition to)
    to be \up against sb/sth es mit jdm/etw zu tun haben, sich akk mit jdm/etw konfrontiert sehen
    the company was \up against some problems die Firma stand vor einigen Problemen
    to be \up against it in Schwierigkeiten sein
    to be \up against the law gegen das Gesetz stehen, mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt kommen
    13. (depend on)
    to be \up to sb von jdm abhängen
    I'll leave it \up to you ich überlasse dir die Entscheidung
    to be \up to sb to do sth jds Aufgabe sein, etw zu tun
    14. (contrive)
    to be \up to sth etw vorhaben [o im Schilde führen]
    he's \up to no good er führt nichts Gutes im Schilde
    15. (be adequate)
    to be \up to sth einer Sache dat gewachsen sein, bei einer Sache dat mithalten können
    do you feel \up to the challenge? fühlst du dich dieser Herausforderung gewachsen?
    to be \up to doing sth in der Lage sein, etw zu tun
    are you sure you're \up to it? bist du sicher, dass du das schaffst?
    to not be \up to much nicht viel taugen
    his German isn't \up to much sein Deutsch ist nicht besonders gut
    to be \up to expectations den Erwartungen entsprechen
    her latest book is just not \up to her previous successes ihr neuestes Buch reicht an ihren früheren Erfolgen einfach nicht heran
    17. AM (apiece) pro Person
    the score was 3 \up at half-time bei Halbzeit stand es 3 [für] beide
    \up with sb/sth hoch lebe jd/etw
    \up with freedom! es lebe die Freiheit!
    19.
    it's all \up with sb es ist aus mit jdm
    to be \up with the clock gut in der Zeit liegen
    to be \up to the ears [or eyeballs] [or neck] in problems bis zum Hals in Schwierigkeiten stecken
    II. prep
    1. (to higher position) hinauf, herauf, rauf fam
    \up the ladder/mountain/stairs die Leiter/den Berg/die Treppe hinauf
    [just] \up the road ein Stück die Straße hinauf, weiter oben in der Straße
    to walk \up the road die Straße hinaufgehen [o entlanggehen]
    \up and down auf und ab
    he was running \up and down the path er rannte den Pfad auf und ab
    he was strolling \up and down the corridor er schlenderte auf dem Gang auf und ab
    \up and down the country überall im Land
    3. (against flow)
    \up the river/stream fluss-/bachauf[wärts]
    a cruise \up the Rhine eine Fahrt den Rhein aufwärts [o rheinauf[wärts]
    \up sth oben auf etw dat
    he's \up that ladder er steht dort oben auf der Leiter
    \up the stairs am Ende der Treppe
    5. AUS, BRIT ( fam: to)
    are you going \up the club tonight? gehst du heute Abend in den Klub?; (at)
    I'll see you \up the pub later ich treffe dich [o wir sehen uns] später in der Kneipe
    6.
    be \up the creek [or ( vulg sl)\up shit creek] [without a paddle] [schön] in der Klemme [o derb Scheiße] sitzen
    \up hill and down dale bergauf und bergab
    he led me \up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off er führte mich quer durch die Gegend, bis mir fast die Füße abfielen fam
    \up top BRIT ( fam) im Kopf
    a man with nothing much \up top ein Mann mit nicht viel im Kopf [o fam Hirnkasten]
    \up yours! ( vulg) ihr könnt/du kannst mich mal! derb
    III. adj inv
    1. attr (moving upward) nach oben
    the \up escalator der Aufzug nach oben
    what time does the next \up train leave? wann fährt der nächste Zug in die Stadt ab?
    \up platform Bahnsteig, von dem die Züge in die nächstgelegene Stadt abfahren
    \up quark Up-Quark nt
    4. pred (out of bed) auf[gestanden]
    5. pred (erect) collar hochgeschlagen
    6. pred (leading) in Führung
    Manchester is two goals \up Manchester liegt mit zwei Toren in Führung
    7. pred BRIT, AUS (being repaired) road aufgegraben, aufgerissen SCHWEIZ, ÖSTERR
    the council has got the road \up der Stadtrat hat die Straße aufgraben lassen
    8. pred (more intense)
    the wind is \up der Wind hat aufgedreht
    the river is \up der Fluss ist angeschwollen
    9. pred (in horseracing) zu Pferd
    10. pred (happy) high sl, obenauf
    to be \up about [or on] [or for] sth von etw dat begeistert sein
    I'm really \up for spending a posh weekend in Paris ich freue mich total darauf, ein tolles Wochenende in Paris zu verbringen fam
    11. pred BRIT ( dated: frothy) schäumend
    12. pred (functioning properly) funktionstüchtig
    do you know when the server will be \up again? weißt du, wann der Server wieder in Betrieb ist?
    this computer is down more than it's \up dieser Computer ist öfter gestört, als dass er läuft
    to be \up and running funktionstüchtig [o in Ordnung] sein
    to get sth \up and running etw wieder zum Laufen bringen
    13. pred (in baseball) am Schlag
    14. pred (finished) time, hours vorbei, um
    your time is \up! Ihre Zeit ist um!
    the soldier's leave will be \up at midnight der Ausgang des Soldaten endet um Mitternacht
    something is \up irgendetwas ist im Gange
    what's \up? was ist los?
    16. pred (informed)
    to be \up in sth sich akk mit etw dat auskennen
    how well \up are you in Spanish? wie fit bist du in Spanisch? fam
    17. pred (scheduled)
    to be \up for sth für etw akk vorgesehen sein; terms zur Debatte stehen
    the house is \up for sale das Haus steht zum Verkauf
    18. pred LAW (on trial) unter Anklage
    he'll be \up before the magistrate er wird sich vor Gericht verantworten müssen
    to be \up for sth sich akk wegen einer S. gen vor Gericht verantworten müssen
    to be \up for trial person vor Gericht stehen; case verhandelt werden
    19. pred (interested in)
    to be \up for sth:
    I think I'm \up for a walk ich glaube, ich habe Lust, spazieren zu gehen [o auf einen Spaziergang]
    I'm \up for going out to eat ich hätte Lust, essen zu gehen
    IV. n ( fam: good period) Hoch nt
    unfortunately, we won't always have \ups leider gibt es für uns nicht immer nur Höhen
    \ups and downs gute und schlechte Zeiten
    to be on the \up and \up BRIT, AUS ( fam: be improving) im Aufwärtstrend begriffen sein; esp AM (be honest) sauber sein fam
    her career has been on the \up and \up since she moved into sales seit sie im Vertrieb ist, geht es mit ihrer Karriere stetig aufwärts
    is this deal on the \up and \up? ist das ein sauberes Geschäft?
    V. vi
    <- pp->
    ( fam)
    to \up and do sth etw plötzlich tun
    after dinner they just \upped and went without saying goodbye nach dem Abendessen gingen sie einfach weg, ohne auf Wiedersehen zu sagen
    VI. vt
    <- pp->
    to \up sth
    1. (increase) capacity etw erhöhen
    to \up the ante [or stakes] den Einsatz erhöhen
    to \up a price/tax rate einen Preis/Steuersatz anheben
    2. (raise) etw erheben
    they \upped their glasses and toasted the host sie erhoben das Glas und brachten einen Toast auf den Gastgeber aus
    VII. interj auf!, los, aufstehen!
    * * *
    [ʌp]
    1. ADVERB
    1) indicating position = in high or higher position oben; (= to higher position) nach oben

    up there — dort oben, droben ( liter, S Ger

    on your way up (to see us/them) — auf dem Weg (zu uns/ihnen) hinauf

    he climbed all the way up (to us/them) — er ist den ganzen Weg (zu uns/ihnen) hochgeklettert

    we were 6,000 m up when... — wir waren 6.000 m hoch, als...

    to go a little further up —

    up on top (of the cupboard) — ganz oben (auf dem Schrank)

    up in the mountains/sky — oben or droben ( liter, S Ger ) in den Bergen/am Himmel

    the sun/moon is up —

    the tide is up — es ist Flut, die Flut ist da

    to move up into the lead —

    then up jumps Richard and says... — und dann springt Richard auf und sagt...

    the needle was up at 95 —

    come on, up, that's my chair! up! he shouted to his horse — komm, auf mit dir, das ist mein Stuhl! spring! schrie er seinem Pferd zu

    up yours! (sl)leck mich (inf), fick dich!(vulg)

    2)

    = installed, built to be up (building) — stehen; (tent also) aufgeschlagen sein; (scaffolding) aufgestellt sein; (notice) hängen, angeschlagen sein; (picture) hängen, aufgehängt sein; (shutters) zu sein; (shelves, wallpaper, curtains, pictures) hängen

    the new houses went up very quicklydie neuen Häuser sind sehr schnell gebaut or hochgezogen (inf) worden __diams; to be up and running laufen; (committee etc) in Gang sein; (business etc) einwandfrei funktionieren

    3) = not in bed auf

    up (with you)! — auf mit dir!, raus aus dem Bett (inf)

    to be up and about — auf sein; (after illness also) auf den Beinen sein

    4) = north oben

    up in Inverness — in Inverness oben, oben in Inverness

    to be/live up north — im Norden sein/wohnen

    to go up north —

    we're up for the day —

    5) = at university Brit am Studienort
    6) in price, value gestiegen (on gegenüber)
    7)

    in score to be 3 goals up — mit 3 Toren führen or vorn liegen (on gegenüber)

    we were £100 up on the deal — wir haben bei dem Geschäft £ 100 gemacht

    8)

    = upwards from £10 up — von £ 10 (an) aufwärts, ab £ 10

    from the age of 13 up — ab (dem Alter von) 13 Jahren, von 13 Jahren aufwärts

    9)

    = wrong inf what's up? —

    what's up with him? — was ist mit dem los?, was ist los mit ihm?

    10) = knowledgeable firm, beschlagen (in, on in +dat)

    he's well up on foreign affairs —

    11)

    = finished time's up — die Zeit ist um, die Zeit ist zu Ende

    to eat/use sth up —

    it's all up with him (inf)es ist aus mit ihm (inf), es ist mit ihm zu Ende

    12)

    set structures __diams; up against it was up against the wall — es war an die Wand gelehnt

    to be up against a difficulty/an opponent — einem Problem/Gegner gegenüberstehen, es mit einem Problem/Gegner zu tun haben

    I fully realize what I'm up against — mir ist völlig klar, womit ich es hier zu tun habe

    to walk up and down —

    to bounce up and down — hochfedern, auf und ab hüpfen

    he's been up and down all evening (from seat)er hat den ganzen Abend keine Minute still gesessen; (on stairs) er ist den ganzen Abend die Treppe rauf- und runtergerannt

    to be up before the Court/before Judge Smith (case) — verhandelt werden/von Richter Smith verhandelt werden; (person) vor Gericht/Richter Smith stehen

    to be up for election (candidate) — zur Wahl aufgestellt sein; (candidates) zur Wahl stehen

    to be up for trialvor Gericht stehen __diams; up to = as far as bis

    up to now/here — bis jetzt/hier

    up to £100 —

    I'm up to here in work/debt (inf) — ich stecke bis hier in Arbeit/Schulden

    he isn't up to running the company by himself — er hat nicht das Zeug dazu, die Firma allein zu leiten

    we're going up Ben Nevis – are you sure you're up to it? — wir wollen Ben Nevis besteigen – glaubst du, dass du das schaffst? __diams; to be up to sb

    if it were up to me —

    the success of this project is up to you nowwie erfolgreich dieses Projekt wird, hängt jetzt nur noch von Ihnen (selbst) ab, es liegt jetzt ganz an Ihnen, ob dieses Projekt ein Erfolg wird

    it's up to you whether you go or not — es liegt an or bei dir or es bleibt dir überlassen, ob du gehst oder nicht

    I'd like to accept, but it isn't up to me — ich würde gerne annehmen, aber ich habe da nicht zu bestimmen or aber das hängt nicht von mir ab

    shall I take it? – that's entirely up to you — soll ich es nehmen? – das müssen Sie selbst wissen

    what colour shall I choose? – (it's) up to you — welche Farbe soll ich nehmen? – das ist deine Entscheidung

    it's up to the government to put this right —

    what have you been up to?was hast du angestellt?

    he's up to no good —

    I'm sure he's up to something (child) hey you! what do you think you're up to! — ich bin sicher, er hat etwas vor or (sth suspicious) er führt irgendetwas im Schilde ich bin sicher, er stellt irgendetwas an he Sie, was machen Sie eigentlich da!

    what does he think he's up to? — was soll das eigentlich?, was hat er eigentlich vor?

    2. PREPOSITION
    oben auf (+dat); (with movement) hinauf (+acc)

    they live further up the hill/street — sie wohnen weiter oben am Berg/weiter die Straße entlang

    up one's sleeve (position) — im Ärmel; (motion) in den Ärmel

    as I travel up and down the country —

    let's go up the pub/up Johnny's place (inf) — gehen wir doch zur Kneipe/zu Johnny (inf)

    3. NOUN
    __diams; ups and downs gute und schlechte Zeiten pl; (of life) Höhen und Tiefen pl

    he/his career is on the up and up (inf) — mit ihm/seiner Karriere geht es aufwärts

    4. ADJECTIVE
    (= going up) escalator nach oben; (RAIL) train, line zur nächsten größeren Stadt
    5. TRANSITIVE VERB
    (inf) price, offer hinaufsetzen; production ankurbeln; bet erhöhen (to auf +acc)
    6. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    (inf)
    * * *
    up [ʌp]
    A adv
    1. a) nach oben, hoch, herauf, hinauf, in die Höhe, empor, aufwärts
    b) oben (auch fig):
    face up (mit dem) Gesicht nach oben;
    … and up und (noch) höher oder mehr, von … aufwärts;
    up and up höher und höher, immer höher;
    farther up weiter hinauf oder (nach) oben;
    three storeys up drei Stock hoch, (oben) im dritten Stock (-werk);
    a) auf und ab, hin und her oder zurück,
    b) fig überall;
    buttoned all the way up bis oben (hin) zugeknöpft;
    a) (heraus) aus,
    b) von … an, angefangen von …;
    from my youth up von Jugend auf, seit meiner Jugend;
    up till now bis jetzt
    2. weiter (nach oben), höher (auch fig):
    up north weiter im Norden
    3. flussaufwärts, den Fluss hinauf
    4. nach oder im Norden:
    up from Cuba von Kuba aus in nördlicher Richtung
    5. a) in der oder in die ( besonders Haupt)Stadt
    b) Br besonders in oder nach London:
    he’s up for a week Br er ist eine Woche (lang) in London
    6. Br am oder zum Studienort, im College etc:
    7. US umg in (dat):
    up north im Norden
    8. aufrecht, gerade:
    sit up gerade sitzen
    9. up to auf … (akk) zu, zu … (hin):
    he went straight up to the door er ging geradewegs auf die Tür zu oder zur Tür
    10. SPORT etc erzielt (Punktzahl):
    with a hundred up mit hundert (Punkten)
    11. Tischtennis etc: auf:
    two up zwei auf, beide zwei
    12. Baseball: am Schlag
    13. SCHIFF luvwärts, gegen den Wind
    14. up to
    a) hinauf nach oder zu,
    b) bis (zu), bis an oder auf (akk),
    c) gemäß, entsprechend:
    up to six months bis zu sechs Monaten;
    up to town in die Stadt, Br besonders nach London;
    up to death bis zum Tode; chin A, count1 C 1, date2 A 10, expectation 1, mark1 A 13, par A 3, scratch A 5, standard1 A 6
    15. be up to meist umg
    a) etwas vorhaben, etwas im Schilde führen,
    b) gewachsen sein (dat),
    c) entsprechen (dat),
    d) jemandes Sache sein, abhängen von,
    e) fähig oder bereit sein zu,
    f) vorbereitet oder gefasst sein auf (akk),
    g) vertraut sein mit, sich auskennen in (dat):
    what are you up to? was hast du vor?, was machst du ( there da)?;
    he is up to no good er führt nichts Gutes im Schilde;
    it is up to him es liegt an ihm, es hängt von ihm ab, es ist seine Sache;
    it is not up to much es taugt nicht viel;
    he is not up to much mit ihm ist nicht viel los; snuff1 C 3, trick A 1, A 2
    16. (in Verbindung mit Verben [siehe jeweils diese] besonders als Intensivum)
    a) auf…, aus…, ver…
    b) zusammen…
    B int up! auf!, hoch!, herauf!, hinauf!:
    up (with you)! (steh) auf!;
    up …! hoch (lebe) …!; bottom A 1
    C präp
    1. auf … (akk) (hinauf):
    up the ladder die Leiter hinauf;
    up the street die Straße hinauf oder entlang;
    up yours! vulg leck(t) mich (doch)!
    2. in das Innere eines Landes etc (hinein):
    up (the) country landeinwärts
    3. gegen:
    4. oben an oder auf (dat), an der Spitze (gen):
    up the tree (oben) auf dem Baum;
    further up the road weiter oben in der Straße;
    up the yard hinten im Hof
    D adj
    1. Aufwärts…, nach oben gerichtet
    2. im Inneren (des Landes etc)
    3. nach der oder zur Stadt:
    up platform Bahnsteig m für Stadtzüge
    4. a) oben (befindlich), (nach oben) gestiegen
    b) hoch (auch fig):
    be up fig an der Spitze sein, obenauf sein ( D 6, D 11);
    he is well up in that subject umg in diesem Fach ist er auf der Höhe oder gut beschlagen oder firm;
    prices are up die Preise sind gestiegen;
    wheat is up WIRTSCH der Weizen steht hoch (im Kurs), der Weizenpreis ist gestiegen
    5. höher
    6. auf(gestanden), auf den Beinen (auch fig):
    be up auf sein ( D 4, D 11);
    be up and about (again) (wieder) auf den Beinen sein;
    be up late lange aufbleiben;
    be up again wieder obenauf sein;
    be up against a hard job umg vor einer schwierigen Aufgabe stehen;
    be up against it umg in der Klemme sein oder sitzen oder stecken
    7. (zum Sprechen) aufgestanden:
    the Home Secretary is up der Innenminister will sprechen oder spricht
    8. PARL Br geschlossen:
    Parliament is up das Parlament hat seine Sitzungen beendet oder hat sich vertagt
    a) aufgegangen (Sonne, Samen)
    b) hochgeschlagen (Kragen)
    c) hochgekrempelt (Ärmel etc)
    d) aufgespannt (Schirm)
    e) aufgeschlagen (Zelt)
    f) hoch-, aufgezogen (Vorhang etc)
    g) aufgestiegen (Ballon etc)
    h) aufgeflogen (Vogel)
    i) angeschwollen (Fuß etc)
    10. schäumend (Getränk):
    the cider is up der Apfelwein schäumt
    11. be up (einwandfrei) funktionieren (Computer) ( D 4, D 6);
    up time Benutzerzeit f
    12. umg in Aufruhr, erregt:
    his temper is up er ist erregt oder aufgebracht;
    the whole country was up das ganze Land befand sich in Aufruhr; arm2 Bes Redew, blood A 2
    13. umg los, im Gange:
    what’s up? was ist los?;
    is anything up? ist (irgendet)was los?; hunt A 1
    14. zu Ende, abgelaufen, vorbei, um:
    it’s all up es ist alles aus;
    it’s all up with him koll es ist aus mit ihm; game1 A 6, time A 11
    15. up with jemandem ebenbürtig oder gewachsen
    16. up for bereit zu:
    be up for election auf der Wahlliste stehen;
    be up for examination sich einer Prüfung unterziehen;
    be up for murder JUR unter Mordanklage stehen;
    be up for sale zum Kauf stehen;
    a) vor Gericht stehen,
    b) verhandelt werden
    17. SPORT, Spiel: um einen Punkt etc voraus:
    one up for you eins zu null für dich (a. fig)
    E v/i
    1. umg aufstehen, aufspringen:
    up and ask sb jemanden plötzlich fragen
    2. up with US umg etwas hochreißen:
    3. besonders US sl Aufputschmittel nehmen
    F v/t umg einen Preis, die Produktion etc erhöhen
    G s
    1. Aufwärtsbewegung f, An-, Aufstieg m:
    the ups and downs pl das Auf und Ab;
    the ups and downs of life die Höhen und Tiefen des Lebens;
    he has had many ups and downs in his life er hat schon viele Höhen und Tiefen erlebt;
    a) Br im Steigen (begriffen), im Kommen,
    b) US in Ordnung, anständig, ehrlich;
    our firm’s on the up and up Br umg mit unserer Firma geht es aufwärts, unsere Firma ist im Aufwind;
    he’s on the up and up umg er macht keine krummen Touren
    2. umg Preisanstieg m, Wertzuwachs m
    3. besonders US upper B 4
    * * *
    1. adverb
    1) (to higher place) nach oben; (in lift) aufwärts

    [right] up to something — (lit. or fig.) [ganz] bis zu etwas hinauf

    the bird flew up to the roof — der Vogel flog aufs Dach [hinauf]

    up into the air — in die Luft [hinauf]...

    climb up on something/climb up to the top of something — auf etwas (Akk.) [hinauf]steigen/bis zur Spitze einer Sache hinaufsteigen

    the way up [to something] — der Weg hinauf [zu etwas]

    on the way up(lit. or fig.) auf dem Weg nach oben

    up here/there — hier herauf/dort hinauf

    high/higher up — hoch/höher hinauf

    halfway/a long/little way up — den halben Weg/ein weites/kurzes Stück hinauf

    come on up! — komm [hier/weiter] herauf!

    up it etc. comes/goes — herauf kommt/hinauf geht es usw.

    2) (to upstairs, northwards) rauf (bes. ugs.); herauf/hinauf (bes. schriftsprachlich); nach oben

    come up from London to Edinburgh — von London nach Edinburgh [he]raufkommen

    4) (Brit.): (to capital) rein (bes. ugs.); herein/hinein (bes. schriftsprachlich)

    go up to town or London — nach London gehen/fahren

    get up to London from Reading — von Reading nach London [he]reinfahren

    5) (in higher place, upstairs, in north) oben

    up here/there — hier/da oben

    an order from high up(fig.) ein Befehl von ganz oben (ugs.)

    halfway/a long/little way up — auf halbem Weg nach oben/ein gutes/kurzes Stück weiter oben

    live four floors or storeys up — im vierten Stockwerk wohnen

    6) (erect) hoch

    keep your head up — halte den Kopf hoch; see also chin

    8) (in place regarded as more important; Brit.): (in capital)

    up in town or London/Leeds — in London/Leeds

    9) (in price, value, amount)

    prices have gone/are up — die Preise sind gestiegen

    butter is up [by...] — Butter ist [...] teurer

    10) (including higher limit)

    up to — bis... hinauf

    up to midday/up to £2 — bis zum Mittag/bis zu 2 Pfund

    we're £300 up on last year — wir liegen 300 Pfund über dem letzten Jahr

    the takings were £500 up on the previous month — die Einnahmen lagen 500 Pfund über denen des Vormonats

    be three points/games/goals up — (Sport) mit drei Punkten/Spielen/Toren vorn liegen

    up to here/there — bis hier[hin]/bis dorthin

    I've had it up to here(coll.) mir steht es bis hier [hin] (ugs.)

    up to now/then/that time/last week — bis jetzt/damals/zu jener Zeit/zur letzten Woche

    14)

    up to(comparable with)

    be up to expectation[s] — den Erwartungen entsprechen

    15)

    up to(capable of)

    [not] be/feel up to something — einer Sache (Dat.) [nicht] gewachsen sein/sich einer Sache (Dat.) [nicht] gewachsen fühlen

    [not] be/feel up to doing something — [nicht] in der Lage sein/sich nicht in der Lage fühlen, etwas zu tun

    16)

    up to(derog.): (doing)

    what is he up to? — was hat er [bloß] vor?

    17)

    it is [not] up to somebody to do something — (somebody's duty) es ist [nicht] jemandes Sache, etwas zu tun

    it is up to us to help them — es ist unsere Pflicht, ihnen zu helfen

    it's/that's up to you — (is for you to decide) es/das hängt von dir ab; (concerns only you) es/das ist deine Sache

    up against somebody/something — an jemandem/etwas [lehnen]; an jemanden/etwas [stellen]

    sit up against the wallmit dem Rücken zur od. an der Wand sitzen

    be up against a problem/difficulty — etc. (coll.) vor einem Problem/einer Schwierigkeit usw. stehen

    20)

    up and down (upwards and downwards) hinauf und hinunter; (to and fro) auf und ab

    be up and down(coll.): (variable) Hochs und Tiefs haben

    ‘this side/way up’ — (on box etc.) "[hier] oben"

    turn something this/the other side/way up — diese/die andere Seite einer Sache nach oben drehen

    the right/wrong way up — richtig/verkehrt od. falsch herum

    22) (finished, at an end) abgelaufen
    2. preposition
    1) (upwards along, from bottom to top) rauf (bes. ugs.); herauf/hinauf (bes. schriftsprachlich)

    up somethingetwas (Akk.) hinauf

    further up the ladder/coast — weiter oben auf der Leiter/an der Küste

    3. adjective
    1) (directed upwards) aufwärts führend [Rohr, Kabel]; [Rolltreppe] nach oben; nach oben gerichtet [Kolbenhub]

    up train/line — (Railw.) Zug/Gleis Richtung Stadt

    be up in a subject/on the news — in einem Fach auf der Höhe [der Zeit] sein/über alle Neuigkeiten Bescheid wissen od. gut informiert sein

    3) (coll.): (ready)

    tea['s]/grub['s] up! — Tee/Essen ist fertig!

    4) (coll.): (amiss)
    4. noun in pl.

    the ups and downs(lit. or fig.) das Auf und Ab; (fig.) die Höhen und Tiefen

    5. intransitive verb,
    - pp- (coll.)

    up and leave/resign — einfach abhauen (ugs.) /kündigen

    he ups and says... — da sagt er doch [ur]plötzlich...

    6. transitive verb,
    - pp- (coll.) (increase) erhöhen; (raise up) heben
    * * *
    adv.
    auf adv.
    aufwärts adv.
    hinauf adv.
    hoch adj.
    oben adv. prep.
    auf präp.

    English-german dictionary > up

  • 16 ♦ dead

    ♦ dead (1) /dɛd/
    A a.
    1 morto ( anche fig.): a dead woman, una (donna) morta; a dead body, un morto; un cadavere; dead leaves, foglie morte; dead flowers, fiori appassiti; dead languages, lingue morte; He had been dead for twelve hours, era morto da dodici ore; to drop dead, cadere a terra morto; morire all'improvviso; He was shot dead, è stato ucciso ( con una fucilata, con un colpo di pistola, ecc.); She was raped and left for dead, è stata violentata e lasciata che sembrava morta; Many are feared dead after a massive earthquake, si teme che numerose persone siano morte in un violentissimo terremoto; The attack left 90 people dead, l'attentato ha fatto 90 morti; Her parents are long dead, i suoi genitori sono morti da molto tempo; When they found him he was more dead than alive, quando lo hanno trovato, era più morto che vivo; Everyone said Communism was dead, tutti dicevano che il comunismo era morto; to play dead, fare finta d'essere morto, fare il morto; clinically dead, clinicamente morto NOTA D'USO: - morire-
    2 inanimato; senza vita: dead matter, materia inanimata; a dead planet, un pianeta senza vita; dead soil, terreno sterile
    3 spento: a dead fire, un fuoco spento; a dead match, un fiammifero usato
    4 ( di colore) smorto; spento: dead white, bianco spento
    5 ( di suono) smorzato; sordo: a dead sound, un suono smorzato
    6 ( di espressione, voce) spento: a dead voice, una voce spenta; dead eyes, uno sguardo spento
    7 ( di luogo, periodo, situazione) morto; monotono: The town is pretty dead at night, di sera la città è pressoché morta; dead season, stagione morta; In the second half the match was dead, nella seconda metà la partita è stata monotona
    8 ( di parte del corpo) insensibile; intirizzito: My fingers are dead with cold, ho le dita intirizzite dal freddo; My leg has gone dead, non mi sento più la gamba
    9 (tecn.) inerte; inattivo; ( di apparecchio) che non funziona; ( di batteria) scarico, a terra: a dead microphone, un microfono che non è in funzione; to go dead, spegnersi; (di radio, TV, ecc., anche) tacere di colpo; ( di telefono) diventare muto; (autom.) My battery is dead, ho la batteria a terra; The engine was completely dead, il motore era completamente morto
    10 (elettr.) neutro; senza tensione: a dead wire, un filo neutro
    12 (solo attr.) assoluto; perfetto: dead calm, calma assoluta; (naut.) calma piatta; bonaccia; dead certainty, certezza assoluta; dead silence, silenzio assoluto; silenzio di tomba; the dead centre of the target, il centro esatto del bersaglio; on a dead level, perfettamente piano, in pari; The train slowed down and then came to a dead stop, il treno ha rallentato e poi si è fermato del tutto
    13 (solo pred.) (fam.) stanco morto; a pezzi: By the end of the walk we were half dead, alla fine della camminata, eravamo mezzi morti dalla stanchezza; to be dead on one's feet, reggersi in piedi a stento (dalla stanchezza)
    14 (solo pred.) (fam.) spacciato: If she finds you here you're dead, se ti trova qui, sei spacciato
    15 ( sport: del terreno) pesante; allentato
    B n.
    1 (al pl.) the dead, i morti; i defunti: to bury the dead, seppellire i morti; the dead and injured, i morti e i feriti; (relig.) office for the dead, ufficio dei defunti; ufficio funebre; Let the dead bury their dead, che i morti seppelliscano i morti
    2 [u] in the dead of night [of winter], nel cuore della notte [dell'inverno]
    ● ( banca) dead account, conto estinto □ dead air, aria viziata ( nelle miniere) □ (edil.) dead-air space, intercapedine chiusa □ (fam. GB) dead-alive (o dead and alive), monotono; noioso; ( di persona) inerte, moscio □ dead and buried, ( di cosa, situazione) finito da un pezzo; morto e sepolto □ dead and gone, morto da un pezzo, morto e sepolto; ► sopra dead and buried □ (fin.) dead assets, attività non realizzabili □ (autom., mecc.) dead axle, asse portante □ ( sport) dead ball, palla ferma; ( rugby) pallone morto □ ( rugby) dead-ball line, linea di pallone morto; linea di fondo □ dead bolt, catenaccio ( di serratura) □ ( Borsa) dead cat bounce, rimbalzo ‘del gatto morto’ ( piccolo e temporaneo, in un andamento generale ribassista) □ dead centre, ( di motore) punto morto (del manovellismo); (mecc.: di tornio, ecc.) contropunta fissa; (fig.) punto morto □ (fam. GB) to be a dead cert, ( di evento) essere garantito; ( di persona) vincere sicuramente: Tax rises are a dead cert for the next year, aumenti delle tasse sono garantiti il prossimo anno; He is a dead cert for the Oscar, vincerà sicuramente l'Oscar □ (fam.) dead duck, cosa fallita o destinata al fallimento; persona finita, spacciata □ dead end, vicolo cieco ( anche fig.) □ dead-end (agg.), senza prospettive; senza sbocchi: a dead-end job, un lavoro senza prospettive; a dead-end situation, una situazione senza via d'uscita □ (comm., naut.) dead freight, nolo «vuoto per pieno»; nolo morto □ (fam.) dead from the neck up, deficiente; cretino integrale □ (mil., ecc.) dead ground, angolo morto; terreno in cui si è al coperto □ (leg.) dead hand, manomorta □ ( sport: atletica) dead heat, risultato di parità: It's a dead heat between them, sono in parità; a dead-heat finish, l'arrivo alla pari di due concorrenti □ dead-house, camera mortuaria; obitorio □ dead in the water, fermo, a un punto morto □ (med., sport) dead leg, sensazione di insensibilità alla coscia ( dovuta a contusione) □ dead letter, lettera in giacenza; (fig.) lettera morta □ dead-letter drop (o box), nascondiglio dove una spia può lasciare un messaggio, ecc. ( per non incontrare il destinatario faccia a faccia); cassetta delle lettere □ (fis.) dead level, livello costante □ ( teoria delle costr.) dead load, carico fisso □ dead loss, (fin.) perdita netta (o secca); (fig. fam.) incapace; schiappa □ (bot.) dead man's fingers (o dead man's thumb), ( Orchis morio) pan di cuculo; ( Orchis maculata) manine □ ( USA) the dead-man's float, il morto ( nel nuoto) □ dead man's handle, leva di arresto automatico; (ferr.) (dispositivo di) uomo morto □ dead march, marcia funebre □ (fam. USA) dead marine, bottiglia vuota □ (fam.) to be dead meat, essere finito (o spacciato); essere un uomo morto □ (fin.) dead money, denaro infruttifero □ (bot.) dead nettle ( Lamium), lamio; ortica bianca □ dead oil, olio inerte ( estratto dal catrame) □ (fam.) dead on, perfetto; azzeccato □ (med.) dead on arrival (abbr. DOA), giunto cadavere ( all'ospedale) □ dead or alive, vivo o morto: They want him dead or alive, lo vogliono vivo o morto □ (fam. USA) dead pigeon = dead duck ► sopra □ (mecc.) dead point, ( del motore) punto morto □ dead pull (o lift), sforzo vano ( per sollevare o spostare un peso eccessivo) □ (naut. e fig.) dead reckoning, determinazione del punto stimato □ (fam.) dead ringer, ritratto vivente; copia esatta: He's a dead ringer for his father, è la copia esatta di suo padre □ dead set, ( nella caccia) punta, ferma □ (antiq. GB) to make a dead set at sb., fare una corte accanita a q. dead shot, tiratore infallibile □ dead sleep, sonno profondo □ (fam.) dead soldier, bottiglia vuota □ dead stock, (econ.) scorte morte; (fin.) capitale azionario inutilizzato; (comm.) giacenze di merce difficile a vendersi □ dead storage, custodia temporanea a pagamento (spec. di un veicolo) □ (idraul.) dead storage capacity, capacità morta □ (elettron., cronot.) dead time, tempo morto □ (fam.) dead to rights, in flagrante; sul fatto □ dead to all feeling, sordo a ogni emozione; insensibile □ (fam.) dead to the world, addormentato della grossa □ (ferr.) dead track, binario morto; binario isolato □ (tipogr.) dead type, piombo fermo □ (edil.) dead wall, muro cieco □ dead water, acqua morta □ dead weightdeadweight □ (scherz. USA) Dead White European Male (abbr. DWEM), grande figura maschile della tradizione culturale europea □ (naut.) dead wind, vento di (o in) poppa; vento di (o in) prua; vento contrario □ dead wood, legna secca; (fig.) persone o cose inutili □ as dead as the dodo, morto e sepolto; defunto da secoli □ as dead as a doornail, morto stecchito □ (fam.) over my dead body!, preferirei morire! □ (fam.) I wouldn't be seen (o caught) dead in clothes like that, non mi farei vedere vestita così neanche morta □ from the dead, dal regno dei morti; dall'aldilà: to come back from the dead, tornare dall'aldilà □ (prov.) Dead men tell no tales, i morti non parlano.
    NOTA D'USO: - dead e morto- dead (2) /dɛd/
    avv.
    1 assolutamente; totalmente: dead certain, assolutamente sicuro; sicurissimo; dead (o dead-set) against st., totalmente contrario a qc.; dead set on st., decisissimo a ottenere qc.; You're dead right, hai assolutamente ragione
    2 perfettamente; esattamente: dead level, perfettamente in piano; dead on time, puntualissimo; dead ahead, diritto davanti a qc.; (naut.) dritto di prua
    3 (fam. GB) molto; proprio: dead easy, facilissimo; dead clever, proprio furbo; dead good, eccezionale
    ● (fam.) dead beat, distrutto, esausto: I only got home after midnight and I was dead beat, sono arrivato a casa solo dopo mezzanotte ed ero distrutto □ dead broke, senza il becco di un quattrino; in bolletta (fam.) □ dead drunk, ubriaco fradicio □ (autom.) «Dead slow» ( cartello), «a passo d'uomo» □ to stop dead, fermarsi di botto.

    English-Italian dictionary > ♦ dead

  • 17 low

    low [ləʊ]
       a. bas ( basse f)
    low in
       b. ( = depressed) déprimé
       c. [behaviour] ignoble
       a. ( = in low position) [aim, fly] bas
       b. ( = at low volume, intensity, cost) to turn the heating/lights/music down low baisser le chauffage/la lumière/la musique
    3. noun
       a. ( = weather system) dépression f
    low-budget adjective [film, project] à petit budget
    low-fat adjective [diet] pauvre en matières grasses ; [milk, cheese] allégé
    low-impact adjective [aerobics, exercise] de faible impact
    low-key adjective discret (- ète f)
    to keep sth low-key faire qch de façon discrète low-level adjective bas ( basse f) ; [radiation] faible ; [job] subalterne ; [talks, discussions] préparatoire
    [rates, holiday] pendant la basse saison
    low-slung adjective [chair] bas ( basse f) ; [sports car] surbaissé
    low-tech adjective [machinery] rudimentaire ; [design] sommaire
    * * *
    [ləʊ] 1.
    1) Meteorology dépression f

    to be at ou have hit an all-time low — être au plus bas

    2.
    1) ( close to the ground) [branch, building, chair, cloud] bas/basse

    on low ground[flood] dans les basses terres; [built] dans une dépression

    2) ( nearly depleted) [reservoir, stocks, level] bas/basse; [battery] faible
    3) ( minimal) [price, wage] bas/basse; [capacity, speed] réduit; [number, rate] faible; [pressure, temperature] bas/basse
    4) ( inferior) [mark, standard] mauvais
    5) ( depressed) déprimé
    6) ( deep) [tone, voice] bas/basse
    7) ( vulgar) [humour] peu relevé; ( base) [behaviour] ignoble

    low tidemarée f basse

    3.
    1) ( near the ground) [aim] bas; [bend] très bas

    I wouldn't sink ou stoop so low — fig je ne m'abaisserais pas à ce point-là

    very low (down) on the listfig tout à fait secondaire

    3) ( at a reduced level) [speak] bas

    to turn something down lowbaisser [heating, light]

    4) [sing] bas
    4.
    intransitive verb [cow] meugler
    ••

    English-French dictionary > low

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