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this group has a large following

  • 1 following

    noun (supporters: He has a great following among the poorer people.) seguidores
    following adj siguiente
    tr['fɒləʊɪŋ]
    1 siguiente
    2 (winds, currents) de cola
    1 después de
    1 lo siguiente m sing, los siguientes nombre masculino plural
    ■ will the following please remain behind? ¿las siguientes personas podrán quedarse, por favor?
    ■ the following appeared in a national newspaper: lo siguiente apareció en un periódico nacional:
    following ['fɑloɪŋ] adj
    next: siguiente
    followers: seguidores mpl
    following prep
    after: después de
    adj.
    • próximo, -a adj.
    • siguiente adj.
    n.
    • partidarios s.m.pl.
    • seguimiento s.m.
    • séquito s.m.
    • tren s.m.
    prep.
    • previo prep.

    I 'fɑːləʊɪŋ, 'fɒləʊɪŋ
    adjective (before n) ( next) siguiente

    II
    1) ( followers) seguidores mpl; ( admirers) admiradores mpl

    he has a large following — tiene muchos seguidores/admiradores

    2) (what, who comes next)

    the following: the following are to play in tomorrow's game... los siguientes jugarán en el partido de mañana...; the letter said the following... — la carta decía lo siguiente...

    ['fɒlǝʊɪŋ]
    1. ADJ
    1) (=next) siguiente

    the following day dawned bright and sunny — el día siguiente or al día siguiente amaneció con un sol radiante

    2) (=favourable) [wind] en popa
    2. N
    1) (=supporters) [of party, movement, person] seguidores mpl, partidarios mpl ; [of product, company] clientes mpl ; [of TV programme] audiencia f, seguidores mpl ; [of sport] afición f, aficionados mpl
    2)

    the following: he said the following — dijo lo siguiente

    do you use any of the following? — ¿utiliza alguna de estas cosas?

    as for hardier plants, the following are all well worth trying — por lo que respecta a plantas más resistentes, se puede probar con cualquiera de las siguientes

    * * *

    I ['fɑːləʊɪŋ, 'fɒləʊɪŋ]
    adjective (before n) ( next) siguiente

    II
    1) ( followers) seguidores mpl; ( admirers) admiradores mpl

    he has a large following — tiene muchos seguidores/admiradores

    2) (what, who comes next)

    the following: the following are to play in tomorrow's game... los siguientes jugarán en el partido de mañana...; the letter said the following... — la carta decía lo siguiente...

    English-spanish dictionary > following

  • 2 seguito

    m persone retinue
    ( sostenitori) followers
    di film sequel
    di seguito one after the other, in succession
    in seguito after that
    in seguito a following, in the wake of
    * * *
    seguito s.m.
    1 ( corteo, scorta) retinue, suite, train: un seguito di ammiratori, a train of admirers; il re e il suo seguito, the king and his retinue; essere al seguito di un ambasciatore, to be among an ambassador's suite; fecero una tournée al seguito di un famoso cantante, they made a tour as the supporting group for a famous singer
    2 ( seguaci, ammiratori) followers (pl.): Aristotele e il suo seguito, Aristotle and his followers
    3 ( sequela, successione) series*, succession; sequence, train: un seguito di idee, di eventi, a succession of ideas, of events; un seguito di vittorie, di disavventure, a series of victories, of misadventures; la giornata fu un seguito di contrattempi, the day was marked by a series of setbacks (o things kept going wrong all day) // di seguito, in succession; ( senza interruzione) uninterruptedly (o without interruption): parlò per due ore di seguito, he talked for two hours nonstop (o without interruption) // e così di seguito, and so on (o and so forth) // in seguito, later on (o afterwards); (comm., dir.) hereafter: in seguito venne a trovarmi ogni giorno, afterwards he came to see me every day
    4 ( continuazione) continuation, sequel: il seguito di un articolo, di una storia, the continuation of (o the sequel to) an article, a story // il seguito al prossimo numero, to be continued (in our next issue) // dar seguito a qlco., to carry out sthg. // far seguito a qlco., to follow up sthg. // (comm.): a seguito della vostra lettera, following up your letter; facendo seguito alla nostra lettera del..., further to (o with reference to) our letter of the...
    5 (fig.) ( effetto, conseguenza) sequel; consequence: l'episodio di violenza fortunatamente non ha avuto seguito, the episode of violence has fortunately had no sequel; l'incidente ebbe un seguito sul piano politico, the incident had serious political consequences // in seguito a, in consequence of (o owing to o on account of): in seguito a questo, owing to this; la ditta fallì in seguito a speculazioni sbagliate, the firm went bankrupt owing to mistaken speculations
    6 ( aderenza, favore) following: ha molto seguito nell'assemblea, he has a large following in the assembly; una moda che ha grande seguito per ora, it's a fashion that a lot of people are following at the moment.
    * * *
    ['segwito]
    sostantivo maschile
    1) train, cortege, retinue, suite

    essere al seguito di qcn. — to be in sb.'s train

    2) (sostenitori) (di dottrina, partito) support, following, followers pl.
    3) (continuazione) (di racconto, film, spettacolo) continuation (di of), rest (di of), sequel (di to), follow-up (di to)

    "il seguito alla prossima puntata" — "to be continued"

    4) (conseguenza) result, consequence; (ripercussione) repercussion
    5) (serie) series, train
    6) (consenso) success
    7) di seguito (di fila) consecutively, in a row

    e via di seguito — and so on, and (all) that

    8) in seguito (poi) after(wards), next, then, later on
    9) in seguito a (in conseguenza di, a causa di) following, as a consequence of
    ••

    fare seguito a — to follow up [lettera, visita]

    facendo seguito alla sua lettera — comm. further to o with reference to your letter

    dare seguito a — to follow up [lettera, denuncia, richiesta]

    * * *
    seguito
    /'segwito/
    sostantivo m.
     1 train, cortege, retinue, suite; essere al seguito di qcn. to be in sb.'s train; la regina e il suo seguito the queen and her retinue
     2 (sostenitori) (di dottrina, partito) support, following, followers pl.
     3 (continuazione) (di racconto, film, spettacolo) continuation (di of), rest (di of), sequel (di to), follow-up (di to); ti racconterò il seguito più tardi I'll tell you the rest later; "il seguito alla prossima puntata" "to be continued"; ho un'idea per un seguito del film I have an idea for a sequel to the film
     4 (conseguenza) result, consequence; (ripercussione) repercussion
     5 (serie) series, train; la sua vita è un seguito di disgrazie his life is a run of bad luck
     6 (consenso) success; la proposta non ha avuto molto seguito the proposal was not very successful o met with little success
     7 di seguito (di fila) consecutively, in a row; tre volte di seguito three times over o in a row; ha piovuto (per) sei giorni di seguito it rained for six days running; e via di seguito and so on, and (all) that; uno di seguito all'altro one after the other
     8 in seguito (poi) after(wards), next, then, later on
     9 in seguito a (in conseguenza di, a causa di) following, as a consequence of; in seguito alla sua richiesta di informazioni following your request for information; è morto in seguito all'incidente he died as a consequence of the accident
    fare seguito a to follow up [lettera, visita]; facendo seguito alla sua lettera comm. further to o with reference to your letter; dare seguito a to follow up [lettera, denuncia, richiesta].

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > seguito

  • 3 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.

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  • 4 Stelle

    f; -, -n
    1. (Ort) place; (Punkt) point; (Standort) position; an anderer Stelle somewhere else, elsewhere; fig. at some other point; an dieser Stelle here; fig. at this point; an genau dieser Stelle at this exact ( oder very) spot; auf der Stelle treten fig. mark time; nicht von der Stelle kommen fig. not make any progress, not get anywhere; Verhandlungen: auch be deadlocked; sich nicht von der Stelle rühren not move ( oder budge); er wich nicht von der Stelle he wouldn’t budge, he refused to budge; zur Stelle sein be on the spot ( oder there); er ist immer zur Stelle he’s always there when you need him; sich zur Stelle melden report ( bei jemandem to s.o.); auf der Stelle there and then, straightaway, immediately; er war auf der Stelle tot he died immediately
    2. (Fleck) spot; abgenutzte, schmutzige etc.: auch patch; undichte Stelle leak; siehe auch Roststelle etc.; wunde Stelle sore; (Schnitt) cut; entzündete Stelle inflammation; empfindliche Stelle tender ( oder sore) spot, fig. sensitive ( oder sore) spot; schwache / verwundbare Stelle fig. weak / vulnerable spot
    3. WIRTS. (Arbeitsstelle) job; formeller: position, post; was hat er für eine Stelle? what kind of job ( oder position) has he got?; freie Stelle (job) vacancy; eine Stelle ausschreiben / besetzen advertise / occupy ( oder fill) a position ( oder post); eine Stelle sperren leave a position vacant (for a time); die Stelle wechseln change jobs; der Konzern hat 7000 Stellen gestrichen the group has cut 7,000 jobs; siehe auch Stellung 1
    4. in Rangordnung etc.: place; an erster Stelle first(ly); an erster Stelle stehen come first; Sache: auch be top priority; an erster Stelle der Tagesordnung stehen be at the top of the agenda; an erster Stelle der Tabelle stehen be top of ( oder head) the table; an erster Stelle möchte ich... first and foremost I’d like to...
    5. an Stelle von (oder + Gen) in place of, instead of; bes. JUR. in lieu of; ( ich) an deiner Stelle if I were you; ich möchte nicht an seiner Stelle sein I wouldn’t like to be in his shoes; an die Stelle treten von take the place of; Person: take over from; ersatzweise: replace, stand in for; Gesetz etc.: supersede
    6. im Buch etc.: place; längere, auch MUS.: passage; eine Stelle aus der Bibel a passage from the Bible
    7. MATH. figure, digit; (Dezimalstelle) (decimal) place; EDV position; bis auf drei Stellen nach dem Komma up to three decimal places
    8. (Behörde) authority; (Dienststelle) office; eine staatliche / kirchliche Stelle a government / church office; zuständig
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    die Stelle
    (Arbeitsplatz) engagement; position; job;
    (Ort) place; point; location; spot;
    (Textpassage) passage; place;
    (Zahl) digit; figure
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    Stẹl|le ['ʃtɛlə]
    f -, -n
    1) place, spot; (= Standort) place; (= Fleck rostend, nass, faul etc) patch

    an dieser Stelle — in this place, on this spot

    eine gute Stelle zum Parken/Picknicken — a good place or spot to park/for a picnic

    diese Stelle muss repariert werden — this bit needs repairing, it needs to be repaired here

    eine entzündete Stelle am Finger — an inflammation on one's finger, an inflamed finger

    Salbe auf die wunde/aufgeriebene Stelle auftragen — apply ointment to the affected area

    eine empfindliche Stelle (lit) — a sensitive spot or place; (fig) a sensitive point

    eine schwache Stelle — a weak spot; (fig auch) a weak point

    auf der Stelle treten (lit) — to mark time; (fig) not to make any progress or headway

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — not to make any progress or headway; (fig auch) to be bogged down

    sich nicht von der Stelle rühren or bewegen, nicht von der Stelle weichen — to refuse to budge (inf) or move

    See:
    → Ort
    2) (in Buch etc) place; (= Abschnitt) passage; (= Textstelle, esp beim Zitieren) reference; (= Bibelstelle) verse; (MUS) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere, in another place

    3) (= Zeitpunkt) point

    an früherer/späterer Stelle — earlier/later

    4) (in Reihenfolge, Ordnung, Liste) place; (in Tabelle, Hierarchie) place, position

    an erster Stelle — in the first place, first

    an erster/zweiter Stelle geht es um... — in the first instance or first/secondly it's a question of...

    (bei jdm) an erster/letzter Stelle kommen — to come first/last (for sb)

    an erster/zweiter etc Stelle stehen — to be first/second etc, to be in first/second etc place; (in Bezug auf Wichtigkeit) to come first/second etc

    an führender/einflussreicher Stelle stehen — to be in or have a leading/an influential position

    5) (MATH) figure, digit; (hinter Komma) place
    6) (= Lage, Platz, Aufgabenbereich) place

    an Stelle von — in place of, instead of

    treten — to take sb's place/the place of sth

    an deiner Stelle würde ich... — in your position I would..., if I were you I would...

    See:
    → auch anstelle
    7) (= Posten) job; (= Ausbildungsstelle) place
    8) (= Dienststelle) office; (= Behörde) authority

    da bist du bei mir/uns an der richtigen Stelle! (inf) — you've come to the right place

    bei ihm/ihnen bist du an der richtigen Stelle! (inf) — you went to the right place

    sich an höherer Stelle beschweren — to complain to somebody higher up, to complain to a higher authority

    * * *
    die
    1) (any of the figures 0 to 9: 105 is a number with three digits.) digit
    2) (the job or position to which a person is appointed: His appointment was for one year only.) appointment
    3) (a place or small area, especially the exact place (where something happened etc): There was a large number of detectives gathered at the spot where the body had been found.) spot
    4) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) place
    5) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) place
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    Stel·le
    <-, -n>
    [ˈʃtɛlə]
    f
    1. (Platz) place; (genauer) spot; (Standort) position
    an anderer \Stelle elsewhere, in another place
    an dieser \Stelle in this place; (genauer) on this spot
    auf der \Stelle laufen to run on the spot
    etw von der \Stelle bekommen [o (fam) kriegen] to be able to move [or shift] sth
    sich akk nicht von der \Stelle rühren to not move [or fam budge], to stay where one is
    rühren Sie sich nicht von der Stelle! (von Polizei) freeze!
    eine \Stelle im Wald a place [or an area] in the woods
    empfindliche \Stelle tender spot; (fig) sensitive point
    entzündete/wunde \Stelle inflammation/sore
    fettige/rostige \Stelle grease/rust spot
    kahle \Stelle bald patch
    3. (in Buch) place; (Verweis) reference; (Abschnitt) passage; (in Bibel) verse
    4. MUS passage
    5. (in Rede etc.) point
    6. (Zeitpunkt) moment
    7. MATH digit, figure
    eine Zahl mit sieben \Stellen a seven-digit [or -figure] number
    etw auf 5 \Stellen hinter dem Komma berechnen to calculate sth to 5 decimal places
    8. (Posten) place
    er hat die \Stelle des technischen Leiters übernommen he took over from the technical director
    an \Stelle einer Person/einer S. gen instead of sb/sth
    jdn/etw an die \Stelle einer Person/einer S. gen setzen to replace sb/sth
    an jds \Stelle treten to take sb's place; (eines Spielers) to sub sb; (in einem Amt) to succeed sb
    etw an jds \Stelle [o an \Stelle einer Person] tun to do sth for sb
    ich gehe an Ihrer \Stelle I'll go in your place
    schwache \Stelle (fig) weak point
    undichte \Stelle (fig fam) leak
    9. (Lage) position
    an deiner \Stelle würde ich... in your position [or if I were you] I would...
    ich möchte nicht an ihrer Stelle sein I wouldn't like to be in her shoes [or place
    an erster/zweiter \Stelle first[ly] [or first and foremost]/secondly, in the first/second place [or instance]
    an wievielter \Stelle auf der Liste taucht der Name auf? where does the name come [up] on the list?
    er ging an 25./letzter \Stelle durchs Ziel he was 25th/the last to cross the line [or to finish]
    [für jdn [o bei jdm]] an erster/zweiter \Stelle kommen [o sein] [o stehen] to come [or be] first/second [for sb]
    in der Hitliste an erster/zweiter \Stelle sein [o stehen] to have reached [or be [at]] number one/two in the charts
    an erster \Stelle auf einer Liste/der Tagesordnung stehen to be at the top of a list/the agenda
    11. (Arbeitsplatz) job, post form; (Rang) position
    was hat sein Vater für eine \Stelle? what kind of position has his father got?
    freie [o offene] \Stelle vacancy
    offene \Stellen (in der Zeitung) situations vacant
    ohne \Stelle jobless, without a job
    12. (Abteilung) office, department; (Behörde) authority
    Sie sind hier bei mir an der richtigen \Stelle (fam) you've come to the right place
    Mitleid? da bist du bei mir aber nicht an der richtigen \Stelle sympathy? you won't get any out of me [or iron fam you're knocking at the wrong door]
    höhere/höchste \Stelle higher/the highest[-ranking] authority
    sich akk an höherer \Stelle beschweren to complain to sb higher up [or to a higher authority
    13.
    ▶ auf der \Stelle on the spot, forthwith form
    er war auf der \Stelle tot he died immediately
    ▶ sich akk zur \Stelle melden MIL to report [for duty]
    zur \Stelle! reporting!, present!
    ▶ auf der \Stelle treten [o nicht von der \Stelle kommen] to not make any progress [or headway], to not get anywhere; MIL a. to mark time
    ▶ zur \Stelle sein to be on the spot [or on hand]
    wenn man sie braucht, ist sie immer zur \Stelle she's always there when you need her; s.a. Ort1
    * * *
    die; Stelle, Stellen

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — (fig.) make no headway; not get anywhere

    zur Stelle sein — be there or on the spot

    eine kahle Stelle — a bare patch; (am Kopf) a bald patch

    seine empfindliche Stelle — (fig.) his sensitive or sore spot

    3) (Passage) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere; in another passage

    an dieser/früherer Stelle — at this point or here/earlier

    eine schwache Stelle in der Argumentation — (fig.) a weak point in the argument

    5) (in einer Rangordnung, Reihenfolge) place

    an erster Stelle geht es hier um... — here it is primarily a question of...

    6) (Math.) figure

    die erste Stelle hinter od. nach dem Komma — the first decimal place

    7) (ArbeitsStelle) job; (formeller) position; (bes. als Beamter) post
    8) (DienstStelle) office; (Behörde) authority
    * * *
    Stelle f; -, -n
    1. (Ort) place; (Punkt) point; (Standort) position;
    an anderer Stelle somewhere else, elsewhere; fig at some other point;
    an dieser Stelle here; fig at this point;
    an genau dieser Stelle at this exact ( oder very) spot;
    auf der Stelle treten fig mark time;
    nicht von der Stelle kommen fig not make any progress, not get anywhere; Verhandlungen: auch be deadlocked;
    er wich nicht von der Stelle he wouldn’t budge, he refused to budge;
    zur Stelle sein be on the spot ( oder there);
    er ist immer zur Stelle he’s always there when you need him;
    bei jemandem to sb);
    auf der Stelle there and then, straightaway, immediately;
    er war auf der Stelle tot he died immediately
    2. (Fleck) spot; abgenutzte, schmutzige etc: auch patch;
    undichte Stelle leak; → auch Roststelle etc;
    entzündete Stelle inflammation;
    empfindliche Stelle tender ( oder sore) spot, fig sensitive ( oder sore) spot;
    schwache/verwundbare Stelle fig weak/vulnerable spot
    3. WIRTSCH (Arbeitsstelle) job; formeller: position, post;
    was hat er für eine Stelle? what kind of job ( oder position) has he got?;
    freie Stelle (job) vacancy;
    eine Stelle ausschreiben/besetzen advertise/occupy ( oder fill) a position ( oder post);
    eine Stelle sperren leave a position vacant (for a time);
    die Stelle wechseln change jobs;
    der Konzern hat 7000 Stellen gestrichen the group has cut 7,000 jobs; → auch Stellung 1
    4. in Rangordnung etc: place;
    an erster Stelle first(ly);
    an erster Stelle stehen come first; Sache: auch be top priority;
    an erster Stelle der Tagesordnung stehen be at the top of the agenda;
    an erster Stelle der Tabelle stehen be top of ( oder head) the table;
    an erster Stelle möchte ich … first and foremost I’d like to …
    5.
    an Stelle von (oder +gen) in place of, instead of; besonders JUR in lieu of;
    (ich) an deiner Stelle if I were you;
    ich möchte nicht an seiner Stelle sein I wouldn’t like to be in his shoes;
    an die Stelle treten von take the place of; Person: take over from; ersatzweise: replace, stand in for; Gesetz etc: supersede
    6. im Buch etc: place; längere, auch MUS passage;
    eine Stelle aus der Bibel a passage from the Bible
    7. MATH figure, digit; (Dezimalstelle) (decimal) place; IT position;
    bis auf drei Stellen nach dem Komma up to three decimal places
    8. (Behörde) authority; (Dienststelle) office;
    eine staatliche/kirchliche Stelle a government/church office; → zuständig
    * * *
    die; Stelle, Stellen

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — (fig.) make no headway; not get anywhere

    zur Stelle sein — be there or on the spot

    eine kahle Stelle — a bare patch; (am Kopf) a bald patch

    seine empfindliche Stelle — (fig.) his sensitive or sore spot

    3) (Passage) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere; in another passage

    an dieser/früherer Stelle — at this point or here/earlier

    eine schwache Stelle in der Argumentation — (fig.) a weak point in the argument

    5) (in einer Rangordnung, Reihenfolge) place

    an erster Stelle geht es hier um... — here it is primarily a question of...

    6) (Math.) figure

    die erste Stelle hinter od. nach dem Komma — the first decimal place

    7) (ArbeitsStelle) job; (formeller) position; (bes. als Beamter) post
    8) (DienstStelle) office; (Behörde) authority
    * * *
    -n f.
    digit n.
    location n.
    passage n.
    place n.
    post n.
    spot n.
    stead n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Stelle

  • 5 stelle

    f; -, -n
    1. (Ort) place; (Punkt) point; (Standort) position; an anderer Stelle somewhere else, elsewhere; fig. at some other point; an dieser Stelle here; fig. at this point; an genau dieser Stelle at this exact ( oder very) spot; auf der Stelle treten fig. mark time; nicht von der Stelle kommen fig. not make any progress, not get anywhere; Verhandlungen: auch be deadlocked; sich nicht von der Stelle rühren not move ( oder budge); er wich nicht von der Stelle he wouldn’t budge, he refused to budge; zur Stelle sein be on the spot ( oder there); er ist immer zur Stelle he’s always there when you need him; sich zur Stelle melden report ( bei jemandem to s.o.); auf der Stelle there and then, straightaway, immediately; er war auf der Stelle tot he died immediately
    2. (Fleck) spot; abgenutzte, schmutzige etc.: auch patch; undichte Stelle leak; siehe auch Roststelle etc.; wunde Stelle sore; (Schnitt) cut; entzündete Stelle inflammation; empfindliche Stelle tender ( oder sore) spot, fig. sensitive ( oder sore) spot; schwache / verwundbare Stelle fig. weak / vulnerable spot
    3. WIRTS. (Arbeitsstelle) job; formeller: position, post; was hat er für eine Stelle? what kind of job ( oder position) has he got?; freie Stelle (job) vacancy; eine Stelle ausschreiben / besetzen advertise / occupy ( oder fill) a position ( oder post); eine Stelle sperren leave a position vacant (for a time); die Stelle wechseln change jobs; der Konzern hat 7000 Stellen gestrichen the group has cut 7,000 jobs; siehe auch Stellung 1
    4. in Rangordnung etc.: place; an erster Stelle first(ly); an erster Stelle stehen come first; Sache: auch be top priority; an erster Stelle der Tagesordnung stehen be at the top of the agenda; an erster Stelle der Tabelle stehen be top of ( oder head) the table; an erster Stelle möchte ich... first and foremost I’d like to...
    5. an Stelle von (oder + Gen) in place of, instead of; bes. JUR. in lieu of; ( ich) an deiner Stelle if I were you; ich möchte nicht an seiner Stelle sein I wouldn’t like to be in his shoes; an die Stelle treten von take the place of; Person: take over from; ersatzweise: replace, stand in for; Gesetz etc.: supersede
    6. im Buch etc.: place; längere, auch MUS.: passage; eine Stelle aus der Bibel a passage from the Bible
    7. MATH. figure, digit; (Dezimalstelle) (decimal) place; EDV position; bis auf drei Stellen nach dem Komma up to three decimal places
    8. (Behörde) authority; (Dienststelle) office; eine staatliche / kirchliche Stelle a government / church office; zuständig
    * * *
    die Stelle
    (Arbeitsplatz) engagement; position; job;
    (Ort) place; point; location; spot;
    (Textpassage) passage; place;
    (Zahl) digit; figure
    * * *
    Stẹl|le ['ʃtɛlə]
    f -, -n
    1) place, spot; (= Standort) place; (= Fleck rostend, nass, faul etc) patch

    an dieser Stelle — in this place, on this spot

    eine gute Stelle zum Parken/Picknicken — a good place or spot to park/for a picnic

    diese Stelle muss repariert werden — this bit needs repairing, it needs to be repaired here

    eine entzündete Stelle am Finger — an inflammation on one's finger, an inflamed finger

    Salbe auf die wunde/aufgeriebene Stelle auftragen — apply ointment to the affected area

    eine empfindliche Stelle (lit) — a sensitive spot or place; (fig) a sensitive point

    eine schwache Stelle — a weak spot; (fig auch) a weak point

    auf der Stelle treten (lit) — to mark time; (fig) not to make any progress or headway

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — not to make any progress or headway; (fig auch) to be bogged down

    sich nicht von der Stelle rühren or bewegen, nicht von der Stelle weichen — to refuse to budge (inf) or move

    See:
    → Ort
    2) (in Buch etc) place; (= Abschnitt) passage; (= Textstelle, esp beim Zitieren) reference; (= Bibelstelle) verse; (MUS) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere, in another place

    3) (= Zeitpunkt) point

    an früherer/späterer Stelle — earlier/later

    4) (in Reihenfolge, Ordnung, Liste) place; (in Tabelle, Hierarchie) place, position

    an erster Stelle — in the first place, first

    an erster/zweiter Stelle geht es um... — in the first instance or first/secondly it's a question of...

    (bei jdm) an erster/letzter Stelle kommen — to come first/last (for sb)

    an erster/zweiter etc Stelle stehen — to be first/second etc, to be in first/second etc place; (in Bezug auf Wichtigkeit) to come first/second etc

    an führender/einflussreicher Stelle stehen — to be in or have a leading/an influential position

    5) (MATH) figure, digit; (hinter Komma) place
    6) (= Lage, Platz, Aufgabenbereich) place

    an Stelle von — in place of, instead of

    treten — to take sb's place/the place of sth

    an deiner Stelle würde ich... — in your position I would..., if I were you I would...

    See:
    → auch anstelle
    7) (= Posten) job; (= Ausbildungsstelle) place
    8) (= Dienststelle) office; (= Behörde) authority

    da bist du bei mir/uns an der richtigen Stelle! (inf) — you've come to the right place

    bei ihm/ihnen bist du an der richtigen Stelle! (inf) — you went to the right place

    sich an höherer Stelle beschweren — to complain to somebody higher up, to complain to a higher authority

    * * *
    die
    1) (any of the figures 0 to 9: 105 is a number with three digits.) digit
    2) (the job or position to which a person is appointed: His appointment was for one year only.) appointment
    3) (a place or small area, especially the exact place (where something happened etc): There was a large number of detectives gathered at the spot where the body had been found.) spot
    4) (a point in the text of a book etc: The wind was blowing the pages of my book and I kept losing my place.) place
    5) (a number or one of a series of numbers following a decimal point: Make the answer correct to four decimal places.) place
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    Stel·le
    <-, -n>
    [ˈʃtɛlə]
    f
    1. (Platz) place; (genauer) spot; (Standort) position
    an anderer \Stelle elsewhere, in another place
    an dieser \Stelle in this place; (genauer) on this spot
    auf der \Stelle laufen to run on the spot
    etw von der \Stelle bekommen [o (fam) kriegen] to be able to move [or shift] sth
    sich akk nicht von der \Stelle rühren to not move [or fam budge], to stay where one is
    rühren Sie sich nicht von der Stelle! (von Polizei) freeze!
    eine \Stelle im Wald a place [or an area] in the woods
    empfindliche \Stelle tender spot; (fig) sensitive point
    entzündete/wunde \Stelle inflammation/sore
    fettige/rostige \Stelle grease/rust spot
    kahle \Stelle bald patch
    3. (in Buch) place; (Verweis) reference; (Abschnitt) passage; (in Bibel) verse
    4. MUS passage
    5. (in Rede etc.) point
    6. (Zeitpunkt) moment
    7. MATH digit, figure
    eine Zahl mit sieben \Stellen a seven-digit [or -figure] number
    etw auf 5 \Stellen hinter dem Komma berechnen to calculate sth to 5 decimal places
    8. (Posten) place
    er hat die \Stelle des technischen Leiters übernommen he took over from the technical director
    an \Stelle einer Person/einer S. gen instead of sb/sth
    jdn/etw an die \Stelle einer Person/einer S. gen setzen to replace sb/sth
    an jds \Stelle treten to take sb's place; (eines Spielers) to sub sb; (in einem Amt) to succeed sb
    etw an jds \Stelle [o an \Stelle einer Person] tun to do sth for sb
    ich gehe an Ihrer \Stelle I'll go in your place
    schwache \Stelle (fig) weak point
    undichte \Stelle (fig fam) leak
    9. (Lage) position
    an deiner \Stelle würde ich... in your position [or if I were you] I would...
    ich möchte nicht an ihrer Stelle sein I wouldn't like to be in her shoes [or place
    an erster/zweiter \Stelle first[ly] [or first and foremost]/secondly, in the first/second place [or instance]
    an wievielter \Stelle auf der Liste taucht der Name auf? where does the name come [up] on the list?
    er ging an 25./letzter \Stelle durchs Ziel he was 25th/the last to cross the line [or to finish]
    [für jdn [o bei jdm]] an erster/zweiter \Stelle kommen [o sein] [o stehen] to come [or be] first/second [for sb]
    in der Hitliste an erster/zweiter \Stelle sein [o stehen] to have reached [or be [at]] number one/two in the charts
    an erster \Stelle auf einer Liste/der Tagesordnung stehen to be at the top of a list/the agenda
    11. (Arbeitsplatz) job, post form; (Rang) position
    was hat sein Vater für eine \Stelle? what kind of position has his father got?
    freie [o offene] \Stelle vacancy
    offene \Stellen (in der Zeitung) situations vacant
    ohne \Stelle jobless, without a job
    12. (Abteilung) office, department; (Behörde) authority
    Sie sind hier bei mir an der richtigen \Stelle (fam) you've come to the right place
    Mitleid? da bist du bei mir aber nicht an der richtigen \Stelle sympathy? you won't get any out of me [or iron fam you're knocking at the wrong door]
    höhere/höchste \Stelle higher/the highest[-ranking] authority
    sich akk an höherer \Stelle beschweren to complain to sb higher up [or to a higher authority
    13.
    ▶ auf der \Stelle on the spot, forthwith form
    er war auf der \Stelle tot he died immediately
    ▶ sich akk zur \Stelle melden MIL to report [for duty]
    zur \Stelle! reporting!, present!
    ▶ auf der \Stelle treten [o nicht von der \Stelle kommen] to not make any progress [or headway], to not get anywhere; MIL a. to mark time
    ▶ zur \Stelle sein to be on the spot [or on hand]
    wenn man sie braucht, ist sie immer zur \Stelle she's always there when you need her; s.a. Ort1
    * * *
    die; Stelle, Stellen

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — (fig.) make no headway; not get anywhere

    zur Stelle sein — be there or on the spot

    eine kahle Stelle — a bare patch; (am Kopf) a bald patch

    seine empfindliche Stelle — (fig.) his sensitive or sore spot

    3) (Passage) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere; in another passage

    an dieser/früherer Stelle — at this point or here/earlier

    eine schwache Stelle in der Argumentation — (fig.) a weak point in the argument

    5) (in einer Rangordnung, Reihenfolge) place

    an erster Stelle geht es hier um... — here it is primarily a question of...

    6) (Math.) figure

    die erste Stelle hinter od. nach dem Komma — the first decimal place

    7) (ArbeitsStelle) job; (formeller) position; (bes. als Beamter) post
    8) (DienstStelle) office; (Behörde) authority
    * * *
    …stelle f im subst
    1. (Ort):
    die Fundstelle von etwas the place where s.th was found;
    Juckstelle place where itching occurs
    Assistentenstelle job ( oder post) as assistant;
    Pfarrstelle post as parish priest ( evangelisch: pastor);
    Dreiviertelstelle three-quarter-time job
    Beschwerdestelle complaints centre (US -er)
    * * *
    die; Stelle, Stellen

    nicht von der Stelle kommen — (fig.) make no headway; not get anywhere

    zur Stelle sein — be there or on the spot

    eine kahle Stelle — a bare patch; (am Kopf) a bald patch

    seine empfindliche Stelle — (fig.) his sensitive or sore spot

    3) (Passage) passage

    an anderer Stelle — elsewhere; in another passage

    an dieser/früherer Stelle — at this point or here/earlier

    eine schwache Stelle in der Argumentation — (fig.) a weak point in the argument

    5) (in einer Rangordnung, Reihenfolge) place

    an erster Stelle geht es hier um... — here it is primarily a question of...

    6) (Math.) figure

    die erste Stelle hinter od. nach dem Komma — the first decimal place

    7) (ArbeitsStelle) job; (formeller) position; (bes. als Beamter) post
    8) (DienstStelle) office; (Behörde) authority
    * * *
    -n f.
    digit n.
    location n.
    passage n.
    place n.
    post n.
    spot n.
    stead n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > stelle

  • 6 grupo

    m.
    1 group (conjunto).
    en grupo in a group
    grupo ecologista environmental group
    grupo de estudio study group
    grupo de presión (politics) pressure group, lobby
    grupo de riesgo group at risk
    grupo de rock rock group
    2 group of people, bevy, circle, group.
    * * *
    1 group
    2 TÉCNICA unit, set
    \
    en grupo together, en masse
    grupo electrógeno power plant
    grupo sanguíneo blood group
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) band
    •
    * * *
    SM
    1) [gen] group; (=equipo) team; [de árboles] cluster, clump

    grupo de contacto — (Pol) contact group

    grupo de estafas — (Policía) fraud squad

    grupo de estupefacientes — (Policía) drug squad

    grupo de homicidios — (Policía) murder squad

    grupo de investigación — research team, team of researchers

    grupo de presión — pressure group, special interest group (EEUU)

    2) (Elec, Téc) unit, plant; (=montaje) assembly

    grupo electrógeno, grupo generador — generating set, power plant

    3) Cono Sur (=trampa) trick, con *
    * * *
    a) (de personas, empresas, países) group; ( de árboles) clump

    en grupo — <salir/trabajar> in a group/in groups

    b) (Mús) tb

    grupo musical — group, band

    * * *
    = aggregate, bank, batch [batches, -pl.], body, class, cluster, clutch, congeries, grouping, pack, cohort, camp, set, group, gang, bunch, corps, band, class group, combine, constituent group, collective, ensemble, bevy, line-up, cluster, segment, pod, order, mob.
    Ex. The result of this is to provide a distinct class number for an aggregate of subjects which are adjacent in the UDC schedule order.
    Ex. A recitation of the best thought out principles for a cataloging code is easily drowned out by the clatter of a bank of direct access devices vainly searching for misplaced records.
    Ex. A KWIC index is based upon the 'keywords' in the titles of the batch of documents to be indexed.
    Ex. The main body of criticism centred upon the treatment of nonbook materials.
    Ex. The following highlights are what this first class of Fellows recall of their time overseas.
    Ex. The local system is designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of a single library or those of a library cluster.
    Ex. This approach does tend to lead to small clutches of periodicals on a given subject.
    Ex. To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.
    Ex. This scheme aims for a more helpful order than the major schemes, by following the groupings of subjects as they are taught in schools.
    Ex. The notched cards, representing relevant documents, will drop off the needle and fall from the bulk of the pack.
    Ex. This article examines the views of librarians held by a number of faculty cohorts.
    Ex. This is a situation much debated between the two camps of those who would give everyone what he wants and those who would give each reader only the things of some constructive value.
    Ex. SELECT retrieves records containing the search term or terms you specify and stores them in sets.
    Ex. The groups continue, however, to keep alive their heritages through festivals and cultural activities.
    Ex. In the 1920s and 1930s more than 1 million books were being loaned each year to members as far afield as the most isolated settlers' gangs working on distant branch lines.
    Ex. They are a very impatient bunch, however: knowing themselves what the technology can do, they can get a little short with obstructionists who raise non-technical objections.
    Ex. Quality abstracting services take pride in their corps of abstractors.
    Ex. In recent years a band of disciples has grown up in India, and has contributed to the revision and expansion of the schedules.
    Ex. If the panel members represent class groups, they must canvass for suggestions.
    Ex. 158 public organisations with very diverse computer machinery formed a combine to develop an application which would make the database available on the organisations' different computer systems. = 158 instituciones públicas con equipos informáticos muy diversos crearon un grupo para desarrollar una aplicación que hiciera que la base de datos estuviese disponible en sus diferentes sistemas informáticos.
    Ex. Different constituent groups tend to rate aspects of the library quite differently.
    Ex. These collectives are at present seeking compensation for copies made of copyrighted material based on the nature, volume and use of copies made.
    Ex. DIANE is the name that has been given to the ensemble of available information services.
    Ex. It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.
    Ex. The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex. Various other methods of obtaining clusters have been described, including the use of fuzzy sets, but these are beyond the scope of this book.
    Ex. No such constraints exist where online display is anticipated, since only one segment at a time is displayed.
    Ex. The large pod of about 75 narwhals milled around the bay in the summer feeding grounds.
    Ex. The taxonomic subclass of acari (mites and ticks) comprises tens of thousands of species, grouped in many families and several orders.
    Ex. In the afternoon quite a few of our mob decided that they would prefer to spend a bit of time lazing about in the water and soaking up a few rays.
    ----
    * admitir a Alguien en un grupo = adopt + Nombre + into the fold.
    * análisis de grupo = cohort analysis.
    * atacar en grupo = swarm.
    * camaradería de grupo = group ride.
    * cena de grupo = dinner party.
    * cena en grupo = group dinner, dinner party.
    * como grupo = collectively.
    * crear un grupo = set up + group.
    * debate de grupo = group discussion.
    * debate en grupo = group discussion.
    * división del mercado por grupos de consumidores = market segmentation.
    * empresa de nuestro grupo = sister company, sister organisation.
    * empresa de un grupo = operating company.
    * en algunos grupos = in some quarters.
    * en algunos grupos de la población = in some quarters.
    * enano del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * en muchos grupos = in many quarters.
    * en muchos grupos de la población = in many quarters.
    * entre grupos sociales = intergroup.
    * entrevista en grupo = group interview.
    * formación de grupos de presión = lobbying representation.
    * formar un grupo = set up + group.
    * formar un grupo de presión = form + lobby.
    * G7 (Grupo de los Siete), el = G7 (Group of Seven), the.
    * gran grupo = constellation.
    * grupo activista = faction group.
    * grupo al Algo que va dirigido = target group.
    * grupo alimenticio = food group.
    * grupo asesor = advisory group.
    * Grupo Asesor sobre Redes (NAG) = Network Advisory Group (NAG).
    * grupo chantajista = extortion racket.
    * grupo cívico = civic group.
    * grupo consultivo = advisory group.
    * grupo coordinador = steering group.
    * grupo cultural = cultural group.
    * grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.
    * grupo de amigos = clan of friends.
    * grupo de amigos y conocidos = social network.
    * grupo de apoyo = interest group, support group.
    * grupo de autoayuda = self-help group, self-help group, self-help group.
    * grupo de cantantes femenino = girl band.
    * grupo de cantantes masculino = boy band.
    * grupo de ciudadanos desatentido = unserved, the.
    * grupo de consumidores = consumer group.
    * grupo de control = control group.
    * grupo de datos = data set [dataset].
    * grupo de debate = discussion group, focus group, discussion list, electronic forum, panel discussion, panel debate.
    * grupo de dirección = management.
    * grupo de discusión = discussion group.
    * grupo de edad = age bracket, age group [age-group].
    * grupo de empresas = business group.
    * grupo de estanterías = stack, stack range.
    * grupo de estudio = study circle.
    * grupo de expertos = cadre, brains trust, group of experts, network, think tank.
    * grupo defensor = interest group.
    * grupo de gestión = management team.
    * grupo de incondicionales, el = hard core, the.
    * grupo de intelectuales = intelligentsia.
    * grupo de interés = focus group, interest group.
    * grupo de investigación = research group.
    * Grupo de Investigación sobre la Clasificación (CRG) = Classification Research Group (CRG).
    * grupo de la oposición = opposition group.
    * grupo de los 20 = G-20.
    * grupo de los ocho, el = G8, the.
    * grupo del proyecto = project team.
    * grupo de negociación = bargaining unit.
    * grupo de normalización = standards group.
    * grupo de opinión = focus group.
    * grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría = peer group.
    * grupo de poder = power group.
    * grupo de presión = lobby group, pressure group, lobbyist.
    * grupo de protección a menores = Shelter group.
    * grupo de protección ciudadana = civic trust group.
    * grupo de recursos = clump.
    * grupo de referencia = reference group.
    * grupo de representantes = focus group.
    * grupo de rock = rock group.
    * grupo de seguidores = fandom.
    * grupo de términos de búsqueda relacionados = search hedge, subject hedge.
    * grupo de trabajo = study group, study team, task force, working party, task group, research group, working group, project team.
    * Grupo de Trabajo de Ingeniería de Internet (IETF) = Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
    * grupo de trabajo por tema de interés = breakout group.
    * Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la Asociaci = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).
    * grupo de tres = threesome.
    * grupo de usuarios = user group, users' group, population served.
    * grupo de usuarios al que va dirigido = target user group.
    * grupo disidente = splinter group, splinter party.
    * grupo dominante = dominant group.
    * grupo eléctrico = power unit, electrical generator, power generator.
    * grupo electrógeno = electrical generator, power unit, power generator.
    * grupo especial = special interest group.
    * grupo específico = niche.
    * grupo etario = age bracket.
    * grupo étnico = ethnic group, racial group, cultural group.
    * grupo experimental = experimental group.
    * grupo extremista = extremist group.
    * grupo incondicional, el = hard core, the.
    * grupo influyente = force.
    * grupo instrumental = ensemble.
    * grupo integrante = constituent group.
    * grupo interdisciplinar = cross-functional team.
    * grupo intérprete = executant body.
    * grupo marginado = deprived group, marginalised group.
    * grupo marginal = disadvantaged community, marginalised group.
    * grupo mayoritario = majority group.
    * grupo mínimo relacionado = minimum zone cohort.
    * grupo minoritario = minority group.
    * grupo mixto = cross-functional team.
    * grupo musical en directo = live band.
    * grupo político = political group.
    * grupo principal de usuarios = primary user group.
    * grupo profesional = occupational group.
    * grupo racial = racial group.
    * grupo racista = hate group.
    * grupo referente = reference group.
    * grupo religioso = denominational body, religious group.
    * grupos = quarters.
    * grupo sanguíneo = blood group, blood type.
    * grupos de diez = tens of.
    * grupo según edad = age group [age-group].
    * grupo social = community group, social group.
    * grupo supervisor = steering group.
    * grupo temáticamente afín = subject-related group.
    * grupo terrorista = terrorist group.
    * más débil del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * obra para grupo instrumental = ensemble work.
    * pensamiento de grupo = groupthink.
    * perfil de grupo = group profile.
    * por grupos = in batches.
    * presión del grupo = peer pressure.
    * relativo a un grupo = group-related.
    * reunión de grupo = group meeting.
    * RLG (Grupo de Bibliotecas de Investigación) = RLG (Research Libraries Group).
    * rodear en grupo = swarm.
    * SDI por grupos = group SDI.
    * sentimiento de grupo = togetherness.
    * sesión de grupo = group session.
    * tarifa de grupo = group rate.
    * técnica de grupo nominal = nominal group technique.
    * terapia de grupo = group therapy.
    * trabajar en grupo = team.
    * trabajar en grupo (con) = team up (with).
    * una grupo impreciso de = a cloud of.
    * un grupo aferrado de = a hard core of.
    * un grupo cada vez mayor de = a growing body of.
    * un grupo de = a set of, a bunch of, a crop of, a pool of, a cadre of, a cluster of, a galaxy of, a clutch of, a company of.
    * un grupo de gente variada = a cast of people.
    * un grupo incondicional de = a hard core of.
    * un grupo variado de = a collection of.
    * violación en grupo = gang rape.
    * * *
    a) (de personas, empresas, países) group; ( de árboles) clump

    en grupo — <salir/trabajar> in a group/in groups

    b) (Mús) tb

    grupo musical — group, band

    * * *
    = aggregate, bank, batch [batches, -pl.], body, class, cluster, clutch, congeries, grouping, pack, cohort, camp, set, group, gang, bunch, corps, band, class group, combine, constituent group, collective, ensemble, bevy, line-up, cluster, segment, pod, order, mob.

    Ex: The result of this is to provide a distinct class number for an aggregate of subjects which are adjacent in the UDC schedule order.

    Ex: A recitation of the best thought out principles for a cataloging code is easily drowned out by the clatter of a bank of direct access devices vainly searching for misplaced records.
    Ex: A KWIC index is based upon the 'keywords' in the titles of the batch of documents to be indexed.
    Ex: The main body of criticism centred upon the treatment of nonbook materials.
    Ex: The following highlights are what this first class of Fellows recall of their time overseas.
    Ex: The local system is designed to be flexible enough to meet the needs of a single library or those of a library cluster.
    Ex: This approach does tend to lead to small clutches of periodicals on a given subject.
    Ex: To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.
    Ex: This scheme aims for a more helpful order than the major schemes, by following the groupings of subjects as they are taught in schools.
    Ex: The notched cards, representing relevant documents, will drop off the needle and fall from the bulk of the pack.
    Ex: This article examines the views of librarians held by a number of faculty cohorts.
    Ex: This is a situation much debated between the two camps of those who would give everyone what he wants and those who would give each reader only the things of some constructive value.
    Ex: SELECT retrieves records containing the search term or terms you specify and stores them in sets.
    Ex: The groups continue, however, to keep alive their heritages through festivals and cultural activities.
    Ex: In the 1920s and 1930s more than 1 million books were being loaned each year to members as far afield as the most isolated settlers' gangs working on distant branch lines.
    Ex: They are a very impatient bunch, however: knowing themselves what the technology can do, they can get a little short with obstructionists who raise non-technical objections.
    Ex: Quality abstracting services take pride in their corps of abstractors.
    Ex: In recent years a band of disciples has grown up in India, and has contributed to the revision and expansion of the schedules.
    Ex: If the panel members represent class groups, they must canvass for suggestions.
    Ex: 158 public organisations with very diverse computer machinery formed a combine to develop an application which would make the database available on the organisations' different computer systems. = 158 instituciones públicas con equipos informáticos muy diversos crearon un grupo para desarrollar una aplicación que hiciera que la base de datos estuviese disponible en sus diferentes sistemas informáticos.
    Ex: Different constituent groups tend to rate aspects of the library quite differently.
    Ex: These collectives are at present seeking compensation for copies made of copyrighted material based on the nature, volume and use of copies made.
    Ex: DIANE is the name that has been given to the ensemble of available information services.
    Ex: It contains a bevy of fearsomely feisty female archetypes removed from domestic obligations and toughened in the brutal setting of prison life.
    Ex: The title of the article is 'The information market: a line-up of competitors'.
    Ex: Various other methods of obtaining clusters have been described, including the use of fuzzy sets, but these are beyond the scope of this book.
    Ex: No such constraints exist where online display is anticipated, since only one segment at a time is displayed.
    Ex: The large pod of about 75 narwhals milled around the bay in the summer feeding grounds.
    Ex: The taxonomic subclass of acari (mites and ticks) comprises tens of thousands of species, grouped in many families and several orders.
    Ex: In the afternoon quite a few of our mob decided that they would prefer to spend a bit of time lazing about in the water and soaking up a few rays.
    * admitir a Alguien en un grupo = adopt + Nombre + into the fold.
    * análisis de grupo = cohort analysis.
    * atacar en grupo = swarm.
    * camaradería de grupo = group ride.
    * cena de grupo = dinner party.
    * cena en grupo = group dinner, dinner party.
    * como grupo = collectively.
    * crear un grupo = set up + group.
    * debate de grupo = group discussion.
    * debate en grupo = group discussion.
    * división del mercado por grupos de consumidores = market segmentation.
    * empresa de nuestro grupo = sister company, sister organisation.
    * empresa de un grupo = operating company.
    * en algunos grupos = in some quarters.
    * en algunos grupos de la población = in some quarters.
    * enano del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * en muchos grupos = in many quarters.
    * en muchos grupos de la población = in many quarters.
    * entre grupos sociales = intergroup.
    * entrevista en grupo = group interview.
    * formación de grupos de presión = lobbying representation.
    * formar un grupo = set up + group.
    * formar un grupo de presión = form + lobby.
    * G7 (Grupo de los Siete), el = G7 (Group of Seven), the.
    * gran grupo = constellation.
    * grupo activista = faction group.
    * grupo al Algo que va dirigido = target group.
    * grupo alimenticio = food group.
    * grupo asesor = advisory group.
    * Grupo Asesor sobre Redes (NAG) = Network Advisory Group (NAG).
    * grupo chantajista = extortion racket.
    * grupo cívico = civic group.
    * grupo consultivo = advisory group.
    * grupo coordinador = steering group.
    * grupo cultural = cultural group.
    * grupo de acción ciudadana = citizen action group, community action group.
    * grupo de amigos = clan of friends.
    * grupo de amigos y conocidos = social network.
    * grupo de apoyo = interest group, support group.
    * grupo de autoayuda = self-help group, self-help group, self-help group.
    * grupo de cantantes femenino = girl band.
    * grupo de cantantes masculino = boy band.
    * grupo de ciudadanos desatentido = unserved, the.
    * grupo de consumidores = consumer group.
    * grupo de control = control group.
    * grupo de datos = data set [dataset].
    * grupo de debate = discussion group, focus group, discussion list, electronic forum, panel discussion, panel debate.
    * grupo de dirección = management.
    * grupo de discusión = discussion group.
    * grupo de edad = age bracket, age group [age-group].
    * grupo de empresas = business group.
    * grupo de estanterías = stack, stack range.
    * grupo de estudio = study circle.
    * grupo de expertos = cadre, brains trust, group of experts, network, think tank.
    * grupo defensor = interest group.
    * grupo de gestión = management team.
    * grupo de incondicionales, el = hard core, the.
    * grupo de intelectuales = intelligentsia.
    * grupo de interés = focus group, interest group.
    * grupo de investigación = research group.
    * Grupo de Investigación sobre la Clasificación (CRG) = Classification Research Group (CRG).
    * grupo de la oposición = opposition group.
    * grupo de los 20 = G-20.
    * grupo de los ocho, el = G8, the.
    * grupo del proyecto = project team.
    * grupo de negociación = bargaining unit.
    * grupo de normalización = standards group.
    * grupo de opinión = focus group.
    * grupo de personas o cosas de la misma edad o categoría = peer group.
    * grupo de poder = power group.
    * grupo de presión = lobby group, pressure group, lobbyist.
    * grupo de protección a menores = Shelter group.
    * grupo de protección ciudadana = civic trust group.
    * grupo de recursos = clump.
    * grupo de referencia = reference group.
    * grupo de representantes = focus group.
    * grupo de rock = rock group.
    * grupo de seguidores = fandom.
    * grupo de términos de búsqueda relacionados = search hedge, subject hedge.
    * grupo de trabajo = study group, study team, task force, working party, task group, research group, working group, project team.
    * Grupo de Trabajo de Ingeniería de Internet (IETF) = Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
    * grupo de trabajo por tema de interés = breakout group.
    * Grupo de Trabajo sobre los Sistemas Nacionales de Información de la Asociaci = NISTF (Society of American Archivists National Information Systems Task Force).
    * grupo de tres = threesome.
    * grupo de usuarios = user group, users' group, population served.
    * grupo de usuarios al que va dirigido = target user group.
    * grupo disidente = splinter group, splinter party.
    * grupo dominante = dominant group.
    * grupo eléctrico = power unit, electrical generator, power generator.
    * grupo electrógeno = electrical generator, power unit, power generator.
    * grupo especial = special interest group.
    * grupo específico = niche.
    * grupo etario = age bracket.
    * grupo étnico = ethnic group, racial group, cultural group.
    * grupo experimental = experimental group.
    * grupo extremista = extremist group.
    * grupo incondicional, el = hard core, the.
    * grupo influyente = force.
    * grupo instrumental = ensemble.
    * grupo integrante = constituent group.
    * grupo interdisciplinar = cross-functional team.
    * grupo intérprete = executant body.
    * grupo marginado = deprived group, marginalised group.
    * grupo marginal = disadvantaged community, marginalised group.
    * grupo mayoritario = majority group.
    * grupo mínimo relacionado = minimum zone cohort.
    * grupo minoritario = minority group.
    * grupo mixto = cross-functional team.
    * grupo musical en directo = live band.
    * grupo político = political group.
    * grupo principal de usuarios = primary user group.
    * grupo profesional = occupational group.
    * grupo racial = racial group.
    * grupo racista = hate group.
    * grupo referente = reference group.
    * grupo religioso = denominational body, religious group.
    * grupos = quarters.
    * grupo sanguíneo = blood group, blood type.
    * grupos de diez = tens of.
    * grupo según edad = age group [age-group].
    * grupo social = community group, social group.
    * grupo supervisor = steering group.
    * grupo temáticamente afín = subject-related group.
    * grupo terrorista = terrorist group.
    * más débil del grupo, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * obra para grupo instrumental = ensemble work.
    * pensamiento de grupo = groupthink.
    * perfil de grupo = group profile.
    * por grupos = in batches.
    * presión del grupo = peer pressure.
    * relativo a un grupo = group-related.
    * reunión de grupo = group meeting.
    * RLG (Grupo de Bibliotecas de Investigación) = RLG (Research Libraries Group).
    * rodear en grupo = swarm.
    * SDI por grupos = group SDI.
    * sentimiento de grupo = togetherness.
    * sesión de grupo = group session.
    * tarifa de grupo = group rate.
    * técnica de grupo nominal = nominal group technique.
    * terapia de grupo = group therapy.
    * trabajar en grupo = team.
    * trabajar en grupo (con) = team up (with).
    * una grupo impreciso de = a cloud of.
    * un grupo aferrado de = a hard core of.
    * un grupo cada vez mayor de = a growing body of.
    * un grupo de = a set of, a bunch of, a crop of, a pool of, a cadre of, a cluster of, a galaxy of, a clutch of, a company of.
    * un grupo de gente variada = a cast of people.
    * un grupo incondicional de = a hard core of.
    * un grupo variado de = a collection of.
    * violación en grupo = gang rape.

    * * *
    A
    1 (de personas) group; (de empresas, países) group; (de árboles) clump
    los grupos sociales marginados marginalized social groups
    un grupo de casas a group o cluster of houses
    se dividieron en grupos de (a) cuatro they split into groups of four
    en grupo ‹salir/trabajar› in a group/in groups
    2 ( Mús) tb
    grupo musical group, band
    3 ( Quím) group
    Compuestos:
    support group
    advisory group, think tank
    construction consortium
    control group
    consortium
    hotel chain
    ● grupo de interés or presión
    pressure group
    jazz group o band
    internet forum
    press consortium
    ( Pol) Group of Eight
    newsgroup
    working party
    user group
    generator
    ● grupo fónico/tónico
    phonic/tonic group
    target group
    ( frml); peer group
    parliamentary group
    blood group
    tener el grupo sanguíneo Rh or Rhesus positivo/negativo to be Rhesus positive/negative
    ¿qué grupo sanguíneo tiene? what blood group are you?
    tengo el grupo sanguíneo A/AB/B positivo/negativo I'm blood group A/AB/B positive/negative
    control group
    B ( Chi arg) (mentira) lie; (engaño) trick
    * * *

     

    grupo sustantivo masculino
    a) (de personas, empresas, países) group;

    ( de árboles) clump;

    grupos sociales social groups;
    de grupo ‹terapia/trabajo› group ( before n);
    en grupo ‹salir/trabajar› in a group/in groups
    b) (Mús) tb


    grupo sustantivo masculino
    1 g roup: no queda sangre del groupo B+, there is no B+ blood left
    tiene mi grupo sanguíneo, he has the same blood group as I do
    grupo de trabajo, working party
    terapia de grupo, group therapy
    2 Mús group, band
    3 Elec grupo electrógeno, power generator o electric generating set
    ' grupo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aparato
    - argot
    - beatería
    - cada
    - clase
    - comando
    - componente
    - conjunta
    - conjunto
    - contra
    - cuerpo
    - delirio
    - descolgarse
    - desfilar
    - dirigirse
    - disolver
    - disolverse
    - dispersar
    - dispersarse
    - ecologista
    - entrada
    - equipo
    - escolta
    - estamento
    - exclusión
    - figurar
    - fuerza
    - GEO
    - guerrilla
    - incorporarse
    - iniciar
    - jerga
    - junta
    - manifestarse
    - maquinaria
    - mayoría
    - minoritaria
    - minoritario
    - ninguna
    - ninguno
    - núcleo
    - nutrido-a
    - panel
    - paquete
    - patrulla
    - pertenencia
    - pesar
    - piña
    - readmitir
    - relevo
    English:
    address
    - army
    - back
    - band
    - bear down on
    - blood group
    - body
    - bracket
    - breakaway
    - bunch
    - camp
    - chain gang
    - class
    - cliquey
    - clump
    - cluster
    - collection
    - collective
    - combine
    - come under
    - commission
    - contra
    - crowd
    - demo
    - dense
    - drummer
    - dynamics
    - fervent
    - flagship
    - flock
    - foursome
    - fraternity
    - frenzied
    - gather
    - group
    - guard
    - heterogeneous
    - homogeneous
    - huddle
    - inbred
    - Ivy League
    - join
    - knot
    - lead
    - leadership
    - lobby
    - make up
    - manager
    - manageress
    - motley
    * * *
    grupo nm
    1. [conjunto] group;
    [de árboles] cluster;
    grupo (de empresas) (corporate) group;
    en grupo in a group;
    el grupo de cabeza [en carrera] the leading group
    Pol grupo de contacto contact group; Econ grupo de control control group; Informát grupo de discusión discussion group;
    grupo ecologista environmental group;
    grupo de edad age group;
    grupo empresarial (business) group o combine;
    grupo de estudio study group;
    Pol grupo mixto = independent MPs and MPs from minor parties in Spanish parliament; Informát grupo de noticias newsgroup;
    grupo parlamentario parliamentary group;
    Pol grupo de presión pressure group, lobby;
    grupo de riesgo group at risk;
    UE Grupo de Sabios Committee of Wise Men;
    grupo sanguíneo blood group;
    Informát grupo de usuarios user group
    2. [de músicos] group, band
    3. Tec unit, set
    Elec grupo electrógeno generator
    4. Quím group
    5. Ling grupo consonántico consonant cluster;
    grupo fónico phonic group;
    grupo nominal noun phrase;
    grupo de palabras word group;
    grupo vocálico vowel cluster
    * * *
    m group;
    en grupos in groups
    * * *
    grupo nm
    : group
    * * *
    grupo n group

    Spanish-English dictionary > grupo

  • 7 un grupo de

    = a set of, a bunch of, a crop of, a pool of, a cadre of, a cluster of, a galaxy of, a clutch of, a company of
    Ex. A bibliographic data base comprises a set of records which refer to documents.
    Ex. So I feel, in Mr. Kilgour's behalf, that everybody should understand that OCLC is a bunch of individuals.
    Ex. Both the original production and revision of STC spawned a large crop of such items which are worth following up.
    Ex. This article describes the simulation of a nearest neighbour searching algorithm for document retrieval using a pool of microprocessors.
    Ex. He has recruited a well-trained cadre of professional local government officials.
    Ex. Each test involves obtaining a cluster of about five documents known on some grounds to be related in subject matter, and retrieving their descriptors from at least two data bases.
    Ex. The article ' a galaxy of rustling stars: places on the web and other library and information paths for the deaf' discusses the potential of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a source of information for deaf users.
    Ex. The article 'Flying starts' features a clutch of 7 new and promising authors and illustrators on the children's book scene this year.
    Ex. And like any group, any clan, a company of children is cemented together by shared interests, which we frequently recognize as 'crazes'.
    * * *
    = a set of, a bunch of, a crop of, a pool of, a cadre of, a cluster of, a galaxy of, a clutch of, a company of

    Ex: A bibliographic data base comprises a set of records which refer to documents.

    Ex: So I feel, in Mr. Kilgour's behalf, that everybody should understand that OCLC is a bunch of individuals.
    Ex: Both the original production and revision of STC spawned a large crop of such items which are worth following up.
    Ex: This article describes the simulation of a nearest neighbour searching algorithm for document retrieval using a pool of microprocessors.
    Ex: He has recruited a well-trained cadre of professional local government officials.
    Ex: Each test involves obtaining a cluster of about five documents known on some grounds to be related in subject matter, and retrieving their descriptors from at least two data bases.
    Ex: The article ' a galaxy of rustling stars: places on the web and other library and information paths for the deaf' discusses the potential of the World Wide Web (WWW) as a source of information for deaf users.
    Ex: The article 'Flying starts' features a clutch of 7 new and promising authors and illustrators on the children's book scene this year.
    Ex: And like any group, any clan, a company of children is cemented together by shared interests, which we frequently recognize as 'crazes'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > un grupo de

  • 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 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

    (PS)
       Although the Socialist Party's origins can be traced back to the 1850s, its existence has not been continuous. The party did not achieve or maintain a large base of support until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Historically, it played only a minor political role when compared to other European socialist parties.
       During the Estado Novo, the PS found it difficult to maintain a clandestine existence, and the already weak party literally withered away. Different groups and associations endeavored to keep socialist ideals alive, but they failed to create an organizational structure that would endure. In 1964, Mário Soares, Francisco Ramos da Costa, and Manuel Tito de Morais established the Portuguese Socialist Action / Acção Socialista Português (ASP) in Geneva, a group of individuals with similar views rather than a true political party. Most members were middle-class professionals committed to democratizing the nation. The rigidity of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led some to join the ASP.
       By the early 1970s, ASP nuclei existed beyond Portugal in Paris, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sweden, and Switzerland; these consisted of members studying, working, teaching, researching, or in other activities. Extensive connections were developed with other foreign socialist parties. Changing conditions in Portugal, as well as the colonial wars, led several ASP members to advocate the creation of a real political party, strengthening the organization within Portugal, and positioning this to compete for power once the regime changed.
       The current PS was founded clandestinely on 19 April 1973, by a group of 27 exiled Portuguese and domestic ASP representatives at the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bad Munstereifel, West Germany. The founding philosophy was influenced by nondogmatic Marxism as militants sought to create a classless society. The rhetoric was to be revolutionary to outflank its competitors, especially the PCP, on its left. The party hoped to attract reform-minded Catholics and other groups that were committed to democracy but could not support the communists.
       At the time of the 1974 revolution, the PS was little more than an elite faction based mainly among exiles. It was weakly organized and had little grassroots support outside the major cities and larger towns. Its organization did not improve significantly until the campaign for the April 1975 constituent elections. Since then, the PS has become very pragmatic and moderate and has increasingly diluted its socialist program until it has become a center-left party. Among the party's most consistent principles in its platform since the late 1970s has been its support for Portugal's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Union (EU), a view that clashed with those of its rivals to the left, especially the PCP. Given the PS's broad base of support, the increased distance between its leftist rhetoric and its more conservative actions has led to sharp internal divisions in the party. The PS and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) are now the two dominant parties in the Portuguese political party system.
       In doctrine and rhetoric the PS has undergone a de-Marxification and a movement toward the center as a means to challenge its principal rival for hegemony, the PSD. The uneven record of the PS in general elections since its victory in 1975, and sometimes its failure to keep strong legislative majorities, have discouraged voters. While the party lost the 1979 and 1980 general elections, it triumphed in the 1983 elections, when it won 36 percent of the vote, but it still did not gain an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic. The PSD led by Cavaco Silva dominated elections from 1985 to 1995, only to be defeated by the PS in the 1995 general elections. By 2000, the PS had conquered the commanding heights of the polity: President Jorge Sampaio had been reelected for a second term, PS prime minister António Guterres was entrenched, and the mayor of Lisbon was João Soares, son of the former socialist president, Mário Soares (1986-96).
       The ideological transformation of the PS occurred gradually after 1975, within the context of a strong PSD, an increasingly conservative electorate, and the de-Marxification of other European Socialist parties, including those in Germany and Scandinavia. While the PS paid less attention to the PCP on its left and more attention to the PSD, party leaders shed Marxist trappings. In the 1986 PS official program, for example, the text does not include the word Marxism.
       Despite the party's election victories in the mid- and late-1990s, the leadership discovered that their grasp of power and their hegemony in governance at various levels was threatened by various factors: President Jorge Sampaio's second term, the constitution mandated, had to be his last.
       Following the defeat of the PS by the PSD in the municipal elections of December 2001, Premier Antônio Guterres resigned his post, and President Sampaio dissolved parliament and called parliamentary elections for the spring. In the 17 March 2002 elections, following Guterres's resignation as party leader, the PS was defeated by the PSD by a vote of 40 percent to 38 percent. Among the factors that brought about the socialists' departure from office was the worsening post-September 11 economy and disarray within the PS leadership circles, as well as charges of corruption among PS office holders. However, the PS won 45 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections of 2005, and the leader of the party, José Sócrates, a self-described "market-oriented socialist" became prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 10 like

    I
    1.
    adjective
    (the same or similar: They're as like as two peas.) parecido, igual

    2. preposition
    (the same as or similar to; in the same or a similar way as: He climbs like a cat; She is like her mother.) como

    3. noun
    (someone or something which is the same or as good etc as another: You won't see his like / their like again.) cosa igual

    4. conjunction
    ((especially American) in the same or a similar way as: No-one does it like he does.) como
    - likelihood
    - liken
    - likeness
    - likewise
    - like-minded
    - a likely story!
    - as likely as not
    - be like someone
    - feel like
    - he is likely to
    - look like
    - not likely!
    II
    verb
    1) (to be pleased with; to find pleasant or agreeable: I like him very much; I like the way you've decorated this room.) gustar
    2) (to enjoy: I like gardening.) gustar
    •
    - likable
    - liking
    - should/would like
    - take a liking to
    like1 prep como / igual que
    like2 vb gustar
    do you like swimming? ¿te gusta nadar?
    tr[laɪk]
    ■ what's the new boss like? ¿cómo es el nuevo jefe?
    2 (typical of) propio,-a de
    3 familiar como
    1 (such as) como
    2 formal use semejante, parecido,-a
    ■ so I thought, like, what'll happen next? y yo pensé, pues, ¿qué pasará ahora?
    1 familiar como
    1 algo parecido
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    and the like y cosas así
    to be as like as two peas in a pod ser como dos gotas de agua
    like enough familiar seguramente
    like father, like son de tal palo tal astilla
    that's more like it! familiar ¡eso está mejor!, ¡así me gusta!
    to look like somebody parecerse a alguien
    something like that algo así, algo por el estilo
    to be of like mind formal use ser del mismo parecer
    to feel like tener ganas de
    like poles SMALLELECTRICITY/SMALL polos nombre masculino plural iguales
    ————————
    tr[laɪk]
    1 (enjoy) gustar
    ■ how do you like Barcelona? ¿te gusta Barcelona?
    2 (want) querer, gustar
    ■ would you like me to leave? ¿quieres que me vaya?
    ■ how would you like your egg, boiled or fried? ¿cómo quieres el huevo, pasado por agua o frito?
    1 querer
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    I like that! familiar ironic ¡pues mira qué bien!
    whether you like it or not quieras o no (quieras), a la fuerza
    like ['laɪk] v, liked ; liking vt
    1) : agradar, gustarle (algo a uno)
    he likes rice: le gusta el arroz
    she doesn't like flowers: a ella no le gustan las flores
    I like you: me caes bien
    2) want: querer, desear
    I'd like a hamburger: quiero una hamburguesa
    he would like more help: le gustaría tener más ayuda
    like vi
    : querer
    do as you like: haz lo que quieras
    like adj
    : parecido, semejante, similar
    like n
    1) preference: preferencia f, gusto m
    2)
    the like : cosa f parecida, cosas fpl por el estilo
    I've never seen the like: nunca he visto cosa parecida
    like conj
    1) as if: como si
    they looked at me like I was crazy: se me quedaron mirando como si estuviera loca
    2) as: como, igual que
    she doesn't love you like I do: ella no te quiere como yo
    like prep
    1) : como, parecido a
    she acts like my mother: se comporta como mi madre
    he looks like me: se parece a mí
    2) : propio de, típico de
    that's just like her: eso es muy típico de ella
    3) : como
    animals like cows: animales como vacas
    4)
    like this, like that : así
    do it like that: hazlo así
    adj.
    • parecido, -a adj.
    • parejo, -a adj.
    • semejante adj.
    • vecino, -a adj.
    adv.
    • como adv.
    • del mismo modo adv.
    n.
    • semejante s.m.
    v.
    • bienquerer v.
    (§pret: -quis-) fut/c: -querr-•)
    • gustar v.
    • querer v.
    (§pret: quis-) fut/c: querr-•)

    I
    1. laɪk
    1) (enjoy, be fond of)

    I/we like tennis — me/nos gusta el tenis

    she likes him, but she doesn't love him — le resulta simpático pero no lo quiere

    how do you like my dress? — ¿qué te parece mi vestido?

    how would you like an ice-cream? — ¿quieres or (Esp tb) te apetece un helado?

    I like it! — ( joke) muy bueno!; ( suggestion) buena idea!

    I like that! — (iro) muy bonito! (iró), habráse visto!

    do as o what you like — haz lo que quieras or lo que te parezca

    to like -ING/to + INF: I like dancing me gusta bailar; she likes to have breakfast before eight le gusta desayunar antes de las ocho; I don't like to mention it, but... no me gusta (tener que) decírtelo pero...; to like somebody to + INF: we like him to write to us every so often — nos gusta que nos escriba de vez en cuando

    2) (in requests, wishes) querer*

    would you like a cup of tea/me to help you? — ¿quieres una taza de té/que te ayude?

    I'd like two melons, please — (me da) dos melones, por favor


    2.
    vi querer*

    if you like — si quieres, si te parece


    II

    her/his likes and dislikes — sus preferencias or gustos, lo que le gusta y no le gusta

    2) (similar thing, person)

    the like: judges, lawyers and the like jueces, abogados y (otra) gente or (otras) personas por el estilo; I've never seen/heard the like (of this) nunca he visto/oído cosa igual; he doesn't mix with the likes of me/us — (colloq) no se codea con gente como yo/nosotros


    III
    adjective (dated or frml) parecido, similar

    people of like minds — gente f con ideas afines; pea


    IV
    1)
    a) ( similar to) como

    she's very like her mother — se parece mucho or es muy parecida a su madre

    try this one - now, that's more like it! — prueba éste - ah, esto ya es otra cosa

    come on, stop crying!... that's more like it! — vamos, para de llorar... ahí está! or así me gusta!

    what's the food like? — ¿cómo or (fam) qué tal es la comida?

    it cost £20, or something like that — costó 20 libras o algo así or o algo por el estilo

    it's just like you to think of food — típico! or cuándo no! tú pensando en comida!

    like this/that — así

    3) (such as, for example) como

    don't do anything silly, like running away — no vayas a hacer una tontería, como escaparte por ejemplo


    V
    conjunction (crit)
    a) ( as if)

    she looks like she knows what she's doing — parece que or da la impresión de que sabe lo que hace

    b) (as, in same way) como

    VI
    a) ( likely)

    as like as not, she won't come — lo más probable es que no venga

    b) ( nearly)

    I [laɪk]
    1.
    ADJ frm (=similar) parecido, semejante

    snakes, lizards and like creatures — serpientes fpl, lagartos mpl y criaturas fpl parecidas or semejantes

    • to be of like mind — tener ideas afines

    - they are as like as two peas
    2. PREP
    1) (=similar to) como

    what's he like? — ¿cómo es (él)?

    you know what she's like — ya la conoces, ya sabes cómo es

    what's Spain like? — ¿cómo es España?

    what's the weather like? — ¿qué tiempo hace?

    a house like mine — una casa como la mía, una casa parecida a la mía

    we heard a noise like someone sneezing — nos pareció oír a alguien estornudar, oímos como un estornudo

    • I never saw anything like it — nunca he visto cosa igual or semejante

    • what's he like as a teacher? — ¿qué tal es como profesor?

    • to be like sth/sb — parecerse a algo/algn, ser parecido a algo/algn

    you're so like your father — (in looks, character) te pareces mucho a tu padre, eres muy parecido a tu padre

    • it was more like a prison than a house — se parecía más a una cárcel que a una casa

    why can't you be more like your sister? — ¿por qué no aprendes de tu hermana?

    that's more like it! * — ¡así está mejor!, ¡así me gusta!

    • there's nothing like real silk — no hay nada como la seda natural

    • something like that — algo así, algo por el estilo

    I was thinking of giving her something like a doll — pensaba en regalarle algo así como una muñeca, pensaba en regalarle una muñeca o algo por el estilo

    they earn something like £50,000 a year — ganan alrededor de 50.000 libras al año

    • people like that can't be trusted — esa clase or ese tipo de gente no es de fiar

    feel 2., 3), look 2., 4), smell 3., 1), sound I, 3., 2), a), taste 3.
    2) (=typical of)

    isn't it just like him! — ¡no cambia!, ¡eso es típico de él!

    (it's) just like you to grab the last cake! — ¡qué típico que tomes or (Sp) cojas tú el último pastelito!

    3) (=similarly to) como

    like me, he is fond of Brahms — igual que a mí, le gusta Brahms

    • she behaved like an idiot — se comportó como una idiota

    • just like anybody else — igual que cualquier otro

    • like this/ that — así

    it wasn't like that — no fue así, no ocurrió así

    he got up and left, just like that — se levantó y se marchó, así, sin más

    anything, crazy 1., 1), hell 1., 2), mad 1., 1), b)
    4) (=such as) como

    the basic necessities of life, like food and drink — las necesidades básicas de la vida, como la comida y la bebida

    3. ADV
    1) (=comparable)

    • on company advice, well, orders, more like — siguiendo los consejos de la empresa, bueno, más bien sus órdenes

    • it's nothing like as hot as it was yesterday — no hace tanto calor como ayer, ni mucho menos

    £500 will be nothing like enough — 500 libras no serán suficientes, ni mucho menos

    2) (=likely)

    • (as) like as not, they'll be down the pub (as) like as not — lo más probable es que estén en el bar

    4. CONJ
    *
    1) (=as) como
    - tell it like it is
    2) (=as if) como si
    5.
    N

    we shall not see his like again — frm, liter no volveremos a ver otro igual

    • the exchange was done on a like- for-like basis — el intercambio se hizo basándose en dos cosas parecidas

    • did you ever see the like (of it)? — ¿has visto cosa igual?

    sparrows, starlings and the like or and such like — gorriones, estorninos y otras aves por el estilo

    • to compare like with like — comparar dos cosas semejantes


    II [laɪk]
    1. VT
    1) (=find pleasant)

    I like dancing/football — me gusta bailar/el fútbol

    which do you like best? — ¿cuál es el que más te gusta?

    I like him — me cae bien or simpático

    I don't like him at all — me resulta antipático, no me cae nada bien

    I've come to like him — le he llegado a tomar or (Sp) coger cariño

    don't you like me just a little bit? — ¿no me quieres un poquitín?

    • I don't think they like each other — creo que no se caen bien

    • I don't like the look of him — no me gusta su aspecto, no me gusta la pinta que tiene *

    • I like your nerve! * — ¡qué frescura!, ¡qué cara tienes!

    • well, I like that! * — iro ¡será posible!, ¡habráse visto!

    • she is well liked here — aquí se la quiere mucho

    2) (=feel about)

    how do you like Cadiz? — ¿qué te parece Cádiz?

    how do you like it here? — ¿qué te parece este sitio?

    how would you like to go to the cinema? — ¿te apetece or (LAm) se te antoja ir al cine?

    how would you like it if somebody did the same to you? — ¿cómo te sentirías si alguien te hiciera lo mismo?

    how do you like that! I've been here five years and he doesn't know my name — ¡qué te parece!, llevo cinco años trabajando aquí y no sabe ni cómo me llamo

    3) (=have a preference for)
    4) (=want)

    I didn't like to say no — no quise decir que no; (because embarrassed) me dio vergüenza decir que no

    • take as much as you like — toma or coge todo lo que quieras

    he thinks he can do as he likes — cree que puede hacer lo que quiera, cree que puede hacer lo que le de la gana *

    • whether he likes it or not — le guste o no (le guste), quiera o no (quiera)

    • whenever you like — cuando quieras

    5)

    • would/ should like —

    a) (specific request, offer, desire)

    would you like a drink? — ¿quieres tomar algo?

    would you like me to wait? — ¿quiere que espere?

    I'd or I would or frm I should like an explanation — quisiera una explicación, me gustaría que me dieran una explicación

    I'd like the roast chicken, please — (me trae) el pollo asado, por favor

    I'd like three pounds of tomatoes, please — (me da) tres libras de tomates, por favor

    b) (wishes, preferences)

    I should like to have been there, I should have liked to be there — frm me hubiera gustado estar allí

    2.

    • as you like — como quieras

    • "shall we go now?" - "if you like" — -¿nos vamos ya? -si quieres

    3.
    N
    likes gustos mpl

    • likes and dislikes — aficiones fpl y fobias or manías, cosas fpl que gustan y cosas que no

    LIKE
    Verb
    "Gustar" better avoided ► While gustar is one of the main ways of translating like, its use is not always appropriate. Used to refer to people, it may imply sexual attraction. Instead, use expressions like caer bien or parecer/ resultar simpático/ agradable. These expressions work like gustar and need an indirect object:
    I like Francis very much Francis me cae muy bien or me parece muy simpático or agradable
    She likes me, but that's all (A ella) le caigo bien, pero nada más
    Like + verb ► Translate to like doing sth and to like to do sth using gustar + ((infinitive)):
    Doctors don't like having to go out to visit patients at night A los médicos no les gusta tener que salir a visitar pacientes por la noche
    My brother likes to rest after lunch A mi hermano le gusta descansar después de comer ► Translate to like sb doing sth and to like sb to do sth using gustar + que + ((subjunctive)):
    My wife likes me to do the shopping A mi mujer le gusta que haga la compra
    I don't like Irene living so far away No me gusta que Irene viva tan lejos
    "How do you like...?" ► Use qué + parecer to translate how do/ did you like when asking someone's opinion:
    How do you like this coat? ¿Qué te parece este abrigo?
    How did you like the concert? ¿Qué te ha parecido el concierto? ► But use cómo + gustar when using how do you like more literally:
    How do you like your steak? ¿Cómo le gusta la carne?
    Would like ► When translating would like, use querer with requests and offers and gustar to talk about preferences and wishes:
    Would you like a glass of water? ¿Quiere un vaso de agua?
    What would you like me to do about the tickets? ¿Qué quieres que haga respecto a los billetes?
    I'd very much like to go to Spain this summer Me gustaría mucho ir a España este verano Literal translations of I'd like are better avoided when making requests in shops and restaurants. Use expressions like the following:
    I'd like steak and chips ¿Me pone un filete con patatas fritas?, (Yo) quiero un filete con patatas fritas For further uses and examples, see main entry
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    I
    1. [laɪk]
    1) (enjoy, be fond of)

    I/we like tennis — me/nos gusta el tenis

    she likes him, but she doesn't love him — le resulta simpático pero no lo quiere

    how do you like my dress? — ¿qué te parece mi vestido?

    how would you like an ice-cream? — ¿quieres or (Esp tb) te apetece un helado?

    I like it! — ( joke) muy bueno!; ( suggestion) buena idea!

    I like that! — (iro) muy bonito! (iró), habráse visto!

    do as o what you like — haz lo que quieras or lo que te parezca

    to like -ING/to + INF: I like dancing me gusta bailar; she likes to have breakfast before eight le gusta desayunar antes de las ocho; I don't like to mention it, but... no me gusta (tener que) decírtelo pero...; to like somebody to + INF: we like him to write to us every so often — nos gusta que nos escriba de vez en cuando

    2) (in requests, wishes) querer*

    would you like a cup of tea/me to help you? — ¿quieres una taza de té/que te ayude?

    I'd like two melons, please — (me da) dos melones, por favor


    2.
    vi querer*

    if you like — si quieres, si te parece


    II

    her/his likes and dislikes — sus preferencias or gustos, lo que le gusta y no le gusta

    2) (similar thing, person)

    the like: judges, lawyers and the like jueces, abogados y (otra) gente or (otras) personas por el estilo; I've never seen/heard the like (of this) nunca he visto/oído cosa igual; he doesn't mix with the likes of me/us — (colloq) no se codea con gente como yo/nosotros


    III
    adjective (dated or frml) parecido, similar

    people of like minds — gente f con ideas afines; pea


    IV
    1)
    a) ( similar to) como

    she's very like her mother — se parece mucho or es muy parecida a su madre

    try this one - now, that's more like it! — prueba éste - ah, esto ya es otra cosa

    come on, stop crying!... that's more like it! — vamos, para de llorar... ahí está! or así me gusta!

    what's the food like? — ¿cómo or (fam) qué tal es la comida?

    it cost £20, or something like that — costó 20 libras o algo así or o algo por el estilo

    it's just like you to think of food — típico! or cuándo no! tú pensando en comida!

    like this/that — así

    3) (such as, for example) como

    don't do anything silly, like running away — no vayas a hacer una tontería, como escaparte por ejemplo


    V
    conjunction (crit)
    a) ( as if)

    she looks like she knows what she's doing — parece que or da la impresión de que sabe lo que hace

    b) (as, in same way) como

    VI
    a) ( likely)

    as like as not, she won't come — lo más probable es que no venga

    b) ( nearly)

    English-spanish dictionary > like

  • 11 circular

    adj.
    1 circular.
    Su forma es circular Its shape is circular.
    2 orbicular.
    f.
    leaflet, circular, circular letter, flier.
    Ella me entregó la circular ayer She gave me the leaflet yesterday.
    v.
    1 to flow or circulate.
    2 to circulate.
    El sospechoso circuló mucho tiempo The suspect circulated a long time.
    La prensa circuló el rumor The press circulated=spread the rumor.
    3 to go round.
    4 to be spread, to go round.
    El rumor circula desde ayer The rumor was spread since yesterday.
    5 to distribute, to circulate, to deal out, to hand around.
    Ella circuló las invitaciones She circulated=handed out the invitations.
    * * *
    1 circular
    1 (carta) circular, circular letter
    1 (gen) to circulate, move, go round
    2 (líquido, electricidad) to circulate, flow
    3 (coche) to drive; (trenes, autobuses) to run; (peatón) to walk
    4 figurado (rumor etc) to spread, get round
    \
    'Circule por la derecha' "Keep to the right"
    ¡circulen! move along!
    * * *
    1. noun f. adj. 2. verb
    2) run
    3) walk
    4) flow
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [vehículo] to run

    el metro no circula los domingos — the underground does not run on Sundays, there is no underground service on Sundays

    este tren circula a muy alta velocidad — this train goes o travels o runs at very high speeds

    2) [peatón] to walk

    por favor, circulen por la acera — please walk on the pavement

    ¡circulen! — move along!

    3) [ciudadano, mercancía] to move around
    4) [moneda] to be in circulation
    5) [sangre] to circulate; [agua] to flow
    6) [rumor] to go round, circulate
    2.
    3.
    ADJ (=redondo) circular

    un salón con o de forma circular — a circular o round hall

    4.
    SF (=carta) circular
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo circular
    II 1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) sangre/savia to circulate, flow; agua/corriente to flow
    2)
    a) transeúnte/peatón to walk; conductor

    circulen, por favor! — move along please!

    b) autobús/tren ( estar de servicio) to run, operate
    3) dinero/billete/sello to be in circulation
    4) noticia/rumor/memo to circulate, go around
    2.
    circular vt to circulate
    III
    femenino circular
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo circular
    II 1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) sangre/savia to circulate, flow; agua/corriente to flow
    2)
    a) transeúnte/peatón to walk; conductor

    circulen, por favor! — move along please!

    b) autobús/tren ( estar de servicio) to run, operate
    3) dinero/billete/sello to be in circulation
    4) noticia/rumor/memo to circulate, go around
    2.
    circular vt to circulate
    III
    femenino circular
    * * *
    circular1
    1 = memo [memorandum], memorandum [memoranda -pl.; memo -abr.], news-sheet [newsheet], newsletter, circular letter.

    Ex: In most cases there was little substitution of e-mail for letters, memos, telephone calls, meetings or travel.

    Ex: Among the documents that are worthy of consideration for abstracting are those which convey information that is likely to be difficult to access, such as foreign documents or internal reports and memoranda and other documents which a limited circulation.
    Ex: Short abstracts comprising only one or two sentences, for instance, may be valuable in commercial information services, or local government news-sheets of the type produced by public libraries.
    Ex: A newsletter is a serial publication consisting of one or a few printed sheets containing news and/or information of interest to a special group.
    Ex: The computer is also programmed to print out circular letters and address labels to obtain up-dated information, which are sent to agencies every six months.

    circular2
    2 = roundabout, circular, rotary, cyclic.

    Ex: 'I think that's about it, isn't it, Malcolm?' she said, rubbing her hands with a roundabout motion.

    Ex: Products under threat include; greeting cards, circulars, information sheets, newspapers and magazines.
    Ex: In 1895 a good London bindery would have the following machines: hand-fed folding machines, sewing machines, nipping machines (for pressing the sewn books before casing-in), cutting machines, rounding machines, backing machines, straight-knife trimming machines (guillotines), rotary board-cutting machines, power blocking presses, and hydraulic standing presses.
    Ex: This algorithm handles cyclic graphs without unfolding the cycles nor looping through them.
    * bandeja circular para diapositivas = carousel.
    * presentación circular de títulos = wrap-around.
    * sierra circular = buzz saw, circular saw.
    * tesauro circular = circular thesaurus.

    circular3
    3 = make + the rounds, range, pump, cruise, drive, drive along.

    Ex: You may have seen the lines making the rounds of library e-mail: 'A Zen librarian searched for 'nothing' on the Internet and received 28 million hits'.

    Ex: We will be bringing scholars from all over the world both to range widely in our multiform collections and put things together rather than just take them apart.
    Ex: All air entering the building should be pumped through tanks of water to remove pollutants.
    Ex: The system also has an add-on, which allows users with low vision to cruise the Internet using a low vision interface.
    Ex: Tomás Hernández drove cautiously in the torrential rain, trying not to swerve on the slick pavement of the turnpike.
    Ex: A motorist who drove along 20ft of a railway line told police officers his sat nav had directed him to turn on to the track.
    * apto para circular = roadworthy.
    * circulaba el rumor de que = rumour had it that.
    * circula el rumor de que = rumour has it that.
    * circular de uno a otro = flow + back and forth.
    * circular libremente = wander + at large.
    * circular por = navigate (through).
    * dejar de circular = drop out of + circulation.
    * hacer circular = pass around.
    * hacer circular por = circulate round.
    * rumor + circular = rumour + circulate.

    * * *
    1 ‹movimiento› circular
    de forma circular circular, round
    2 ‹ruta› circular
    circular2 [A1 ]
    vi
    A «sangre/savia» to circulate, flow; «agua/corriente» to flow
    B
    1 «transeúnte/peatón» to walk
    el tráfico circulaba a 25 km/h the traffic was traveling at 25 kph
    circulan por la izquierda they drive on the left
    apenas circulaba gente por las calles there was hardly anybody (walking) in the streets
    ¡circulen, por favor! move along please!
    2 «autobús/tren» (estar de servicio) to run, operate
    el autobús que circula entre estas dos poblaciones the bus which runs o operates between these two towns
    C «dinero/billete/sello» to be in circulation
    D «noticia/rumor» to circulate, go around ( colloq)
    circulan rumores sobre su divorcio there are rumors going around o circulating about their divorce
    ■ circular
    vt
    to circulate
    circular
    * * *

     

    circular 1 adjetivo
    circular;

    ■ sustantivo femenino
    circular
    circular 2 ( conjugate circular) verbo intransitivo
    a) [sangre/savia] to circulate, flow;

    [agua/corriente] to flow
    b) [transeúnte/peatón] to walk;

    ( referido al tráfico):

    c) [autobús/tren] ( estar de servicio) to run, operate

    d) [dinero/billete/sello] to be in circulation

    e) [noticia/rumor/memo] to circulate, go around

    verbo transitivo
    to circulate
    circular
    I adj (con forma de círculo) circular
    II f (notificación) circular
    III verbo intransitivo
    1 (la sangre) to circulate
    (un líquido, el aire) to flow
    2 (tren, autobús) to run: los coches circulaban a gran velocidad, the cars were being driven very fast
    (un peatón) to walk: peatón, circule por la izquierda, (en letrero) pedestrians, keep left
    3 fig (difundirse un rumor) to go round
    (moneda) to be in circulation
    ' circular' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    rotonda
    - redondel
    English:
    bandy about
    - circular
    - circulate
    - flow
    - get about
    - go about
    - move along
    - move on
    - pass round
    - pie chart
    - put about
    - roadworthy
    - run
    - disk
    - mingle
    - move
    - road
    - round
    - socialize
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    circular
    ♦ nf
    circular
    ♦ vi
    1. [líquido] to flow, to circulate ( por through); [aire] to circulate;
    abre la ventana para que circule el aire open the window to let some air in
    2. [persona] to move, to walk ( por around);
    ¡por favor, circulen! move along, please!
    3. [vehículos] to drive ( por along);
    este autobús no circula hoy this bus isn't running today;
    el tren de alta velocidad circula a 200 km/h the high-speed train travels at 200 km/h;
    en el Reino Unido se circula por la izquierda they drive on the left in the United Kingdom
    4. [moneda] to be in circulation
    5. [capital, dinero] to circulate
    6. [difundirse] to go round;
    circula el rumor de que ha muerto there's a rumour going round that he's died;
    la noticia circuló rápidamente the news quickly got round
    ♦ vt
    [de mano en mano] to circulate;
    hicieron circular un documento secreto entre los periodistas they had a secret document circulated among the press
    * * *
    I adj circular
    II f circular
    III v/i
    1 circulate
    2 AUTO drive, travel
    3 de persona move (along);
    ¡circulen! move along!
    * * *
    1) : to circulate
    2) : to move along
    3) : to drive
    : circular
    : circular, flier
    * * *
    1. (sangre) to circulate
    2. (coche) to drive [pt. drove; pp. driven]
    circulan muchos coches por esta calle a lot of cars use this street / this is a very busy street
    3. (tren, autobús) to run [pt. ran; pp. run] / to operate
    1.700 autobuses circulan por la capital there are 1,700 buses operating in the capital
    4. (rumor) to go round

    Spanish-English dictionary > circular

  • 12 Carothers, Wallace Hume

    [br]
    b. 27 April 1896 Burlington, Iowa, USA
    d. 29 April 1937 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    [br]
    American chemist, inventor of nylon.
    [br]
    After graduating in chemistry, Carothers embarked on academic research at several universities, finally at Harvard University. His earliest published papers, from 1923, heralded the brilliance and originality of his later work. In 1928, Du Pont de Nemours persuaded him to forsake the academic world to lead their new organic-chemistry group in a programme of fundamental research at their central laboratories at Wilmington, Delaware. The next nine years were extraordinarily productive, yielding important contributions to theoretical organic chemistry and the foundation of two branches of chemical industry, namely the production of synthetic rubber and of wholly synthetic fibres.
    Carothers began work on high molecular weight substances yielding fibres and introduced polymerization by condensation: polymerization by addition was already known. He developed a clear understanding of the relation between the repeating structural units in a large molecule and its physical chemical properties. In 1931, Carothers found that chloroprene could be polymerized much faster than isoprene, the monomer in natural rubber. This process yielded polychloroprene or neoprene, a synthetic rubber with improved properties. Manufacture began the following year, and the material has continued to be used for speciality rubbers.
    There followed many publications announcing new condensations polymers. On 2 January 1935, he obtained a patent for the formation of new polyamides, including one from adipic acid and hexamethylenediamene. After four years of development work, which cost Du Pont some $27 million, this new polyamide, or nylon, reached the stage of commercial production, beginning on 23 October 1938. Nylon stockings appeared the following year and 64 million were sold during the first twelve months. However, Carothers saw none of this spectacular success: he had died by his own hand in 1937, after a long history of gradually intensifying depression.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Elected to the National Academy of Science 1936 (he was the first industrial organic chemist to be so honoured).
    Bibliography
    H.M.Whitby and G.S.Whitby, 1940, Collected Papers of Wallace H.Carothers on Polymerisation, New York.
    Further Reading
    R.Adams, 1939, memoir, Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 20:293–309 (includes a complete list of Carothers's sixty-two scientific papers and most of his sixty-nine US patents).
    LRD

    Biographical history of technology > Carothers, Wallace Hume

  • 13 to

    to [tu:, tə]
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    ► à + le = au, à + les = aux.
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    ► to it ( = there) y
    • I liked the exhibition, I went to it twice j'ai aimé l'exposition, j'y suis allé deux fois
       b. ( = towards) vers
       c. (home, workplace) chez
    ► to + feminine country/area en
    • to England/France en Angleterre/France
    • to Brittany/Provence en Bretagne/Provence
    • to Sicily/Crete en Sicile/Crète
    • to Louisiana/Virginia en Louisiane/Virginie
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    • to Iran/Israel en Iran/Israël
    ► to + masculine country/area au
    • to Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït
    • to the Sahara/Kashmir au Sahara/Cachemire► to + plural country/group of islands aux
    • to the United States/the West Indies aux États-Unis/Antilles► to + town/island without article à
    • to London/Lyons à Londres/Lyon
    • to Cuba/Malta à Cuba/Malte
    • is this the road to Newcastle? est-ce que c'est la route de Newcastle ?
    • it is 90km to Paris ( = from here to) nous sommes à 90 km de Paris ; ( = from there to) c'est à 90 km de Paris
    • planes to Heathrow les vols mpl à destination de Heathrow► to + masculine state/region/county dans
    • to Texas/Ontario dans le Texas/l'Ontario
    • to Sussex/Yorkshire dans le Sussex/le Yorkshire
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    • to the Drôme/the Var dans la Drôme/le Var
       e. ( = up to) jusqu'à
       f. ► to + person (indirect object) à
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       i. ( = concerning) that's all there is to it ( = it's easy) ce n'est pas plus difficile que ça
    • you're not going, and that's all there is to it ( = that's definite) tu n'iras pas, un point c'est tout
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    • well, to sum up... alors, pour résumer...
    • we are writing to inform you... nous vous écrivons pour vous informer que...
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    • he'd like me to come, but I don't want to il voudrait que je vienne mais je ne veux pas
    • yes, I'd love to oui, volontiers
    (plural to-dos)
    * * *
    1. [tə], devant une voyelle [tʊ, tuː], emphatique [tuː]

    he looked up to see... — en levant les yeux, il a vu...

    the youngest to do — le or la plus jeune à faire

    ‘did you go?’ - ‘no I promised not to’ — ‘tu y es allé?’ - ‘non j'avais promis de ne pas le faire’

    ‘are you staying? ’ - ‘I want to but...’ — ‘tu restes?’ - ‘j'aimerais bien mais...’

    it is difficult to do something — il est difficile de faire quelque chose; ( expressing wish)

    oh to be able to stay in bed! — hum ô pouvoir rester au lit!

    2.
    1) ( in direction of) à [shops, school]; ( with purpose of visiting) chez [doctor's, dentist's]; ( towards) vers
    2) ( up to) jusqu'à

    to the end/this day — jusqu'à la fin/ce jour

    to me/my daughter it's just a minor problem — pour moi/ma fille ce n'est qu'un problème mineur

    5) (in toasts, dedications) à

    to prosperity — à la prospérité; ( on tombstone)

    7) (in relationships, comparisons)
    10) ( belonging to) de

    personal assistant to the director — assistant/-e m/f du directeur

    11) ( on to) [tied] à; [pinned] à [noticeboard etc]; sur [lapel, dress]

    to his surprise/dismay — à sa grande surprise/consternation

    3. [tuː]
    adverb (colloq) ( closed) fermé
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    that's all there is to it — ( it's easy) c'est aussi simple que ça; ( not for further discussion) un point c'est tout

    what a to-do! — (colloq) quelle histoire! (colloq)

    what's it to you? — (colloq) qu'est-ce que ça peut te faire?

    English-French dictionary > to

  • 14 территория

    territory, territory area; cм. также иерархия социальная
    The distinction between defended and home-range territory cannot always be maintained in practice, .
    Sice our knowledge of the natural behaviour of animals under the varied natural conditions of their lives is often insufficient to enable us to say to what extent others are excluded from the territory. .
    The unqualified term “territory” is therefore useful for such cases, and it can readily be qualified as home-range or defended as our knowledge justifies. .
    Erkins remark appear apt to this discussion, and I have adopted his usage of the term territory .
    No defence of a territory was noted in study and transient lions, both males and females, used these territories freely .
    In a territory were actively defended against an intruder then the resident would have to apprroach the intruder to either frighten it or to forcefully drive it from the area. .
    Both males and females invariably visit these sites and ordinarily travel much the same route, whether hunting or seemingly just traveling .
    классическая многофункциональная территория - all-purpose territory of A-type
    владелец территория - territory-holder, territory-owner
    ALl they do is fight each other, and intrude into each others territories. Owner postures, rushs up to strangers when these trespass (пересекают) its range .
    A newcomer manifested maximum self-assurance upon arrival, and even evicted the resident male from the central part of his territory in the course of the first day .
    гнездовая территория - breeding territory, nesting territory
    занятие территория - acquisition of territory, territory-establishment, settling within territory
    ONce the female has settled on a territory, she begins actively to defend its boundaries against all other conspecific females .
    см. также колония, ток
    неперекрывающиеся территория - мн. nonoverlapping territories
    Clusters composed of 10–12 nesting territories are separated by rather large areas that remain unoccupied .
    охрана границ территория - guarding territory borders, patrolling territory boundaries
    пребывать на территория - occupy territory, stay on territory
    Some pairs may remain on their nesting territories after breeding, staying until the autumn or perhaps even until the following spring .
    удерживать территория за собой - hold territory, keep territory

    Русско-английский словарь по этологии (поведению животных) > территория

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