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1 to be faced with a difficulty

Общая лексика: встретиться с трудностью, столкнуться с трудностью

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > to be faced with a difficulty
2 to be faced with a difficulty

встретиться / столкнуться с трудностью

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > to be faced with a difficulty
3 be faced with a difficulty

Общая лексика: встретиться с трудностью, столкнуться с трудностью

Универсальный англо-русский словарь > be faced with a difficulty
4 difficulty

проблема; трудность; преграда

to grapple with a difficulty — пытаться преодолеть трудность

to deal with a difficulty — пытаться преодолеть трудность

to be faced with a difficulty — встретиться с трудностью

to overcome every difficulty — преодолеть все трудности

deal with a difficulty — пытаться преодолеть трудность

English-Russian dictionary on nuclear energy > difficulty
5 difficulty

['dɪfɪk(ə)ltɪ]
n

трудность, препятствие, затруднение

I had no difficulty in getting in touch with him. — Мне было совсем не трудно с ним связаться.

We had a lot of difficulty in finding the house. — Мы с трудом нашли этот дом.

He reads English with no difficulty. — Он читает по-английски без труда

- an additional difficulty

- another practical difficulty
- economic difficulties
- transport difficulties
- linguistic difficulties
- many difficulties
- considerable difficulties
- transportation difficulties
- seeming difficulty
- building difficulties
- questions of varying difficulty
- with much difficulty
- in the face of grave economic difficulties
- aggravate difficulty
- come out of difficulty
- dodge difficulty
- avoid difficulty
- arrange one's difficulties
- be caught in difficulties
- find oneself in difficulties
- find a way out of a difficulty
- get smb into difficulties
- bring smb into difficulties
- get out of a difficulty
- be faced with difficulties
- breath with difficulty
- brush aside difficulties
- cause a difficulty
- have difficulties with one's wife
- have financial difficulties
- help a man in difficulty
- make no difficulties
- raise unneccessary difficulties
- overcome every difficulty
- remove all the difficulties
- settle the difficulty
- solve a difficulty
- sweep away away all the difficulties
- clean with difficulty
- do smth with difficulty
- face up the difficulties
- feel acutely the difficulty
- struggle against difficulties

- come up against difficulties
- get into a difficulty
- guide the country through difficulties
- have some difficulty in smth
- have difficulty in pronunciation
- meet difficulties
- cleap up difficulties
- point out the difficulty
- underestimate difficulties
- urge the difficulty
- difficulty is that..
- difficulties increase

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > difficulty
6 face

1. [feıs] n
1. 1) лицо, физиономия

face massage - массаж лица

face angle - антр. лицевой угол

black /blue, red/ in the face - багровый (от гнева, напряжения и т. п.)

2) морда ( животного)

2. 1) выражение лица

face of a dying calf - глуповато-меланхолическое выражение лица

his face fell - у него вытянулась физиономия

straight face - бесстрастное /ничего не выражающее/ лицо, «маска»

to straighten one's face - пытаться принять невозмутимый вид, успокоиться, перестать смеяться

to keep a straight face, to keep one's face straight - сохранять невозмутимое /бесстрастное/ выражение; удерживаться от смеха

to make /to pull, to wear/ a long face - иметь огорчённый /печальный, кислый, мрачный, разочарованный/ вид

to read people's faces - быть хорошим физиономистом

2) разг. гримаса

to make /to pull/ a face - сделать гримасу, гримасничать

to make faces - корчить /строить/ рожи

to make /to pull/ a pitiful [sad, silly] face - скорчить постную [скорбную, глупую] физиономию

to make a wry face - скорчить рожу

3. внешний вид

on /upon/ the face of (it) - судя по внешнему виду; на первый взгляд

upon the face of the document - если исходить из буквального смысла документа

on the face of it you are guilty - похоже на то, что вы виновны

the idea is absurd on the face of it - на первый взгляд, эта мысль кажется абсурдной

to carry a /the/ face (of) - казаться (кем-л., чем-л.)

this version carries no face of probability - эта версия лишена правдоподобия /маловероятна/

to carry on its face - быть совершенно очевидным /ясным/

4. аспект, сторона ( вопроса)

5. разг. наглость, нахальство

to have the face (to say smth.) - иметь наглость (сказать что-л.)

to show a face - нахально /нагло, вызывающе/ держаться

6. поверхность; внешняя сторона

face of a door - сторона двери (внешняя или внутренняя)

face of a racket - спорт. струнная поверхность /ударная часть/ ракетки

7. поверхность (земли, воды)

on the face of the earth - на земле, на свете, в целом мире

from /off/ the face of the earth - с лица земли

the north face of the mountain - северный склон горы

8. лицевая сторона, лицо (ткани, игральных карт, медали и т. п.); правая сторона

to lie on its face - лежать обратной стороной кверху

put your cards on the table face down - положите ваши карты рубашкой вверх

9. циферблат

10. фасад

the face of the building is covered with ivy - фасад дома зарос плющом

11. престиж; репутация; достоинство

(the) loss of face - унижение; потеря престижа /доброго имени/

to lose face - быть униженным; потерять престиж

to save (one's) face - избежать позора, спасти свою репутацию /свой престиж/, не уронить своего достоинства

12. 1) разг. личность, человек с именем, знаменитость

2) сл. детина, «лоб»

3) амер. сл. белый ( в речи негров)

13. 1) геом. грань

2) фас, грань ( кристалла)

14. тех.

1) (лобовая) поверхность, торец

2) срез; фаска

15. воен. фас

16. горн. забой, плоскость забоя; лава

face cut - забойка, вруб

17. полигр.

1) очко ( литеры)

2) шрифт, рисунок шрифта; гарнитура шрифта, шрифт

18. ширина ( доски)

19. тлв. экран ( трубки)

20. тех. уровень ( жидкости)

21. тех. (плоский) боёк ( молота)

22. тех. передняя грань ( резца)

23. спец. облицовка

face brick - облицовочный кирпич

♢ in /to/ smb.'s face - в лицо, в глаза, открыто; в присутствии кого-л.

it's written all over his face - это у него на лбу написано

to laugh in smb.'s face - смеяться в лицо кому-л.; открыто смеяться над кем-л.

to look full in /into/ the face of smb. - смотреть прямо в лицо /в глаза/ кому-л.

to be unable to look smb. in the face - стыдиться взглянуть в лицо кому-л.

to cast /to fling, to throw/ smth. in smb.'s face - бросать что-л. в лицо кому-л.

at /in, on/ the first face - а) с первого взгляда; б) на первый взгляд

to hear /to carry, to have/ two faces under one hood, to have two faces - а) быть двуличным, лицемерным; б) быть двусмысленным

to show a false face - притворяться, лицемерить

before smb.'s face - перед носом у кого-л.

in the face of - а) перед лицом; открыто, на глазах; б) вопреки, наперекор; под угрозой

to act in the face of direct orders - действовать вопреки прямому приказу

to succeed in the face of many difficulties - добиться успеха несмотря на все трудности

in the face of day /of the sun/ - не скрываясь, открыто; среди бела дня

face to face - а) лицом к лицу; б) лично, наедине

let's get together and talk the whole thing over face to face - давайте встретимся и потолкуем обо всём лично

to open one's face - амер. ≅ открыть рот, заговорить

to fly in the face (of) - держаться вызывающе, бравировать, бросать вызов (кому-л.)

to fly in the face of facts - игнорировать факты, пренебрегать фактами

to fly in the face of nature - действовать вопреки законам природы

to set one's face against smb., smth. - решительно воспротивиться кому-л., чему-л.; бороться с кем-л., чем-л.; относиться враждебно к кому-л., чему-л.

to put a bold face on smth. - казаться уверенным в чём-л., не растеряться

to put a good face on smth. - а) делать довольное лицо по поводу чего-л. малоприятного; б) изображать что-л. в наилучшем виде, истолковывать что-л. в благоприятном свете

to put a new face on smth. - представить что-л. в новом /другом/ свете

to run one's face, to travel on one's face - амер. использовать приятную внешность, чтобы добиться продвижения, кредита и т. п.; выезжать на хорошеньком личике

to stare smb. in the face - а) бросаться в глаза, быть очевидным /явным/; б) быть неминуемым /неотвратимым/

death stared him in the face - он был на пороге /на волосок от/ смерти

to fall on one's face см. fall1 II ♢

a face as long as a fiddle - унылое /мрачное/ лицо

the face is the index of the mind - ≅ лицо - зеркало души

a fair face may hide a foul heart - за приятной внешностью может скрываться низкая душонка

a good face is a letter of recommendation - хорошее /приятное/ лицо - лучшая рекомендация
2. [feıs] v
1. 1) находиться лицом к

they sat so as to face each other - они сидели друг против друга /лицом друг к другу/

the man now facing me - человек, который сейчас находится передо мной

stand facing the light - станьте лицом к свету

2) быть обращённым к

the house faced eastwards - дом выходил фасадом на восток

my window faces the street - моё окно выходит на улицу

the picture faces page 7 - рисунок к странице 7

3) смотреть в лицо

I can't face him now - я не могу показаться ему на глаза

to face away - отвернуться

2. встречать (что-л.) смело; смотреть в лицо (чему-л.) без страха

to face the ordeal - стойко выдержать испытание

to face the facts - смотреть в лицо фактам

to face danger - мужественно встретить опасность

I can't face the disgrace of a failure - я не смогу перенести позор провала

you'll have to face it yourself - вам самому придётся с этим справиться

3. сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.)

to be faced with a difficulty - встретиться /столкнуться/ с трудностью

to be faced with bankruptcy - оказаться перед угрозой банкротства

he was suddenly faced with the necessity of... - он внезапно очутился перед необходимостью...

the problem now facing us - проблема, стоящая сейчас перед нами

4. отделывать ( платье)

to face a coat with gold braid - отделать мундир золотым галуном

5. облицовывать

to face a building with marble - облицевать здание мрамором

to face a table with rose-wood veneering - фанеровать стол розовым деревом

6. полировать; обтачивать

this stone has not been properly faced - этот камень плохо отполирован

7. повёртывать лицом вверх ( игральную карту)

8. воен. скомандовать поворот

the captain faced his company left - капитан скомандовал роте «налево»

right face! - направо!

9. подкрашивать ( чай)

♢ to face the knocker - просить милостыню у дверей

to face the music - а) храбро встречать трудности /неприятности/; б) держать ответ, расплачиваться за свои действия

НБАРС > face
7 face

1. n лицо, физиономия

face massage — массаж лица

meagre face — худое лицо

nice face — хорошее лицо

pale face — бледное лицо

face veil — сетка на лицо

puffy face — отёчное лицо

2. n морда

3. n выражение лица

face of a dying calf — глуповато-меланхолическое выражение лица

his face fell — у него вытянулась физиономия

dismal face — угрюмое лицо

face cream — крем для лица

face pack — маска для лица

florid face — красное лицо

cleft face — расщелина лица

4. n разг. гримаса

to make a face — сделать гримасу, гримасничать

to make faces — корчить рожи

5. n внешний вид

on the face of — судя по внешнему виду; на первый взгляд

upon the face of the document — если исходить из буквального смысла документа

on the face of it you are guilty — похоже на то, что вы виновны

the idea is absurd on the face of it — на первый взгляд, эта мысль кажется абсурдной

to carry a face — казаться

type face — вид шрифта

weld face — внешняя сторона шва

outer face — внешняя сторона; лицевая сторона

his face was reflective — у него был задумчивый вид

face of the battlefield — картина сражения, вид поля боя

6. n аспект, сторона

small face — малая сторона

face side — лицевая сторона

face sheet — лицевая сторона

image face — лицевая сторона

pressure face — рабочая сторона

7. n разг. наглость, нахальство

to have the face — иметь наглость

brazen face — наглость, бесстыдство

8. n поверхность; внешняя сторона

face of a door — сторона двери

face slip — сдвиг поверхности

bevel face — поверхность скоса

end face — торцевая поверхность

face of joint — поверхность шва

lower face — нижняя поверхность

9. n лицевая сторона, лицо; правая сторона

to lie on its face — лежать обратной стороной кверху

a face a yard long — ужасно длинное лицо

face of a bill — лицевая сторона векселя

fetal face syndrome — синдром лица плода

jowly face — лицо с отвисшим подбородком

poker face — бесстрастное, каменное лицо

10. n циферблат

фасад

clock face — циферблат

the face of a clock — циферблат часов

11. n престиж; репутация; достоинство

loss of face — унижение; потеря престижа

face saving — спасение престижа

12. n разг. личность, человек с именем, знаменитость

face of fault — фас сброса

coupler pulling face — ось сцепления автосцепок

he cut the man across the face — он ударил человека по лицу

13. n сл. детина, «лоб»

14. n амер. сл. белый

face splitting — вспарывание шкуры по белой линии живота

15. n геом. грань

face of a polyhedral angle — грань многогранного угла

back face removal — удаление задних граней

batter of face — наклон грани плотины

face of tool — передняя грань резца

face of crystal — грань кристалла

16. n фас, грань

building face — фасад здания

precast face — сборный фасад

cutting face — передняя грань

crystal face — грань кристалла

downstream face — низовая грань

17. n тех. поверхность, торец

flat face hub — стыковочный ниппель с плоским торцом

face board — картон для наружной поверхности коробок

face of the wellbore — поверхность призабойной зоны

lateral face — боковая поверхность; боковой фасад

face sharpening — заточка по передней поверхности

18. n тех. срез; фаска

face of muzzle — дульный срез

face of breech — казенный срез

19. n тех. горн. забой, плоскость забоя; лава

face cut — забойка, вруб

rate of face advance — скорость продвижения забоя

face ventilation section — свободное сечение лавы

horizontal longwall face — горизонтальный забой

turning over the face — окончание цикла в лаве

cutter-loader longwall face — комбайновая лава

20. n полигр. очко

frosty face — пористое очко

21. n полигр. шрифт, рисунок шрифта; гарнитура шрифта, шрифт

face change character — символ смены начертания шрифта

light face — светлое начертание; светлый шрифт

heavy face — жирное начертание; жирный шрифт

black face — жирное начертание; жирный шрифт

fat face — жирное начертание; жирный шрифт

22. n полигр. ширина

width of tooth face — ширина зубца

face width — ширина зубчатого венца

root line face width — ширина венца

gear face width — ширина зубчатого венца колеса

total face width — общая ширина зубчатого венца

23. n полигр. тлв. экран

уровень

tube face — экран трубки

CRT face plate — экран ЭЛТ

flat face — плоскоэкранный; плоский экран

24. n полигр. тех. боёк

25. n полигр. тех. передняя грань

face piece — брусок на передней части княвдегеда

face wear — износ по передней поверхности

lead face surface — передняя поверхность

front guide face plate — передний упор

tool face — передняя грань резца

26. n полигр. спец. облицовка

face brick — облицовочный кирпич

to show a false face — притворяться, лицемерить

to act in the face of direct orders — действовать вопреки прямому приказу

to succeed in the face of many difficulties — добиться успеха несмотря на все трудности

in the face of day — не скрываясь, открыто; среди бела дня

to fly in the face — держаться вызывающе, бравировать, бросать вызов

to fly in the face of facts — игнорировать факты, пренебрегать фактами

to fly in the face of nature — действовать вопреки законам природы

death stared him in the face — он был на пороге смерти

a face as long as a fiddle — унылое лицо

27. v находиться лицом к

they sat so as to face each other — они сидели друг против друга

the blood flushed into his face — кровь бросилась ему в лицо

honey and oatmeal face pack — медово-овсяная маска для лица

her face was twisted with pain — её лицо исказилось от боли

cold-weather face mask — маска на лицо для защиты от холода

wipe off from the face of the Earth — сметать с лица Земли

28. v быть обращённым к

the house faced eastwards — дом выходил фасадом на восток

face up to — быть готовым к

face up — быть готовым; встретить смело

dead-pan face — каменное лицо, лицо как у истукана

to face a charge — быть обвинённым, подвергнуться обвинению

29. v смотреть в лицо

to face away — отвернуться

his face was drawn with pain — его лицо исказилось от боли

fear is written on his face — страх написан у него на лице

a face peppered with freckles — лицо, усыпанное веснушками

wooden face — деревянное лицо, лицо без всякого выражения

her face was worn with care — у неё было измождённое лицо

30. v встречать смело; смотреть в лицо без страха

to face the ordeal — стойко выдержать испытание

a face that denotes energy — лицо, которое дышит энергией

the mirror reflected her face — зеркало отразило её лицо

the colour rushed into his face — краска залила его лицо

his face began to swell out — его лицо начало распухать

her rigid face unstiffened — её суровое лицо смягчилось

31. v сталкиваться лицом к лицу

to be faced with a difficulty — встретиться с трудностью

to be faced with bankruptcy — оказаться перед угрозой банкротства

face to face — лицом к лицу

frowning face — хмурое лицо

old face — старческое лицо

austere face — суровое лицо

autumnal face — увядшее лицо

32. v отделывать

to face a coat with gold braid — отделать мундир золотым галуном

33. v облицовывать

to face a building with marble — облицевать здание мрамором

34. v полировать; обтачивать

this stone has not been properly faced — этот камень плохо отполирован

35. v повёртывать лицом вверх

a face scarred by smallpox — лицо, обезображенное оспой

replenishing face mask — регенерирующая маска для лица

long face — унылое, мрачное лицо; вытянутая физиономия

lettuce face mask — маска для лица с экстрактом латука

a smile enlightened her face — улыбка осветила её лицо

36. v воен. скомандовать поворот

the captain faced his company left — капитан скомандовал роте «налево»

about face — поворот кругом

37. v подкрашивать

Синонимический ряд:

1. appearance (noun) appearance; appearances; guise; seeming; semblance; showing; simulacrum

2. cheek (noun) assumption; brashness; brass; brazenness; cheek; cheekiness; confidence; effrontery; familiarity; gall; nerve; presumption; presumptuousness; temerity

3. front (noun) aspect; dial; facade; front; kisser; map

4. grimace (noun) grimace; moue; mouth; mouthing; mow; mug

5. look (noun) cast; countenance; expression; features; look; muzzle; phiz; physiognomy; superficies; surface; top; view; visage

6. makeup (noun) makeup; maquillage; paint; war paint

7. mask (noun) cloak; color; coloring; colour; colouring; cover; disguise; disguisement; false front; frontage; frontal; gloss; mask; masquerade; muffler; pretence; pretense; pretext; put-on; show; veil; veneer; window dressing; window-dressing

8. reputation (noun) dignity; image; name; prestige; reputation; self-respect; standing; status

9. beard (verb) beard; brave; challenge; dare; defy; look; oppose; outdare; outface; venture

10. cover (verb) cover; decorate; overlay; plaster; refinish; remodel; veneer

11. engage (verb) accost; affront; close; confront; encounter; engage; front; look on; meet; meet with; run into; take on

12. sheathe (verb) clad; coat; sheathe; side; skin

Антонимический ряд:

absence; back; crouch; fear; humility; inside; interior; rear; refuse; retreat; shrink; sneak; strip; withdraw

English-Russian base dictionary > face
8 face

I n

- in the face of danger перед лицем небезпеки

- in the face of overwhelming odds незважаючи на надзвичайні труднощі

- in the face of strong opposition незважаючи на сильний опір

- on the face of it на перший погляд

II v зустрічатися/ стикатися лицем до лиця

- problem facing smbd. проблема, що стоїть перед кимось

- to be faced with a difficulty зустрітися/ стикнутися з проблемою

- to face the consequences відповідати за наслідки

- to face up to smth. бути готовим до чогось; сміливо зустріти щось

- to face up to the facts (бути готовим) дивитися в лице фактам

- to face up to one's responsibilities (бути готовим) серйозно ставитися до своїх обов'язків

English-Ukrainian diplomatic dictionary > face
9 face

1. n

- in the face of danger

- in the face of overwhelming odds

- in the face of strong opposition

- on the face of it

2. v

сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.)

- be faced with a difficulty

- face the consequences

- problem facing smb.

- face off

- face up to

- face up to the facts

- face up to one's responsibilities

- he faces the music

English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > face
10 encounter

1. verb
1) (to meet especially unexpectedly: She encountered the manager in the hall.) encontrarse (con)

2) (to meet with (difficulties etc): I expect to encounter many difficulties in the course of this job.) enfrentarse, toparse (con)

2. noun
1) (a meeting: I feel that I know him quite well, even after a brief encounter.) encuentro

2) (a fight: The encounter between the armies was fierce.) encuentro

encounter

tr[ɪn'kaʊntə^SMALLr/SMALL]

noun

1 encuentro

transitive verb

1 (meet) encontrar, encontrarse con; (be faced with) tropezar con

encounter [ɪn'kaʊntər, ɛn-] vt

1) meet: encontrar, encontrarse con, toparse con, tropezar con

2) fight: combatir, luchar contra

encounter n

: encuentro m

encounter

n.

• encuentro s.m.

• tope s.m.

v.

• encontrar v.

• encontrarse v.

• topar v.

I ɪn'kaʊntər, ɪn'kaʊntə(r)
transitive verb

a) ( be faced with) \<\<danger/difficulty/opposition\>\> encontrar*, encontrarse* con

b) ( come across) tropezar* or toparse con

II

noun encuentro m

his first encounter with the law — su primer tropiezo con la ley

[ɪn'kaʊntǝ(r)]
1.

N (=meeting, fight) encuentro m

2.

VT [+ person] encontrar, encontrarse con; [+ difficulty, danger, enemy] tropezar con

3.

CPD

encounter group N — grupo m de encuentro

* * *

I [ɪn'kaʊntər, ɪn'kaʊntə(r)]
transitive verb

a) ( be faced with) \<\<danger/difficulty/opposition\>\> encontrar*, encontrarse* con

b) ( come across) tropezar* or toparse con

II

noun encuentro m

his first encounter with the law — su primer tropiezo con la ley

English-spanish dictionary > encounter
11 face

feis
1. noun
1) (the front part of the head, from forehead to chin: a beautiful face.) cara, rostro

2) (a surface especially the front surface: a rock face.) superficie

3) (in mining, the end of a tunnel etc where work is being done: a coal face.) cara de trabajo

2. verb
1) (to be opposite to: My house faces the park.) estar enfrente de

2) (to turn, stand etc in the direction of: She faced him across the desk.) estar de cara, ponerse de cara

3) (to meet or accept boldly: to face one's fate.) afrontar

•

- - faced
- facial
- facing
- facecloth
- facelift
- face-powder
- face-saving
- face value
- at face value
- face the music
- face to face
- face up to
- in the face of
- lose face
- make/pull a face
- on the face of it
- put a good face on it
- save one's face

face¹ n

1. cara

she's got a pretty face tiene una cara bonita

2. esfera

a clock face una esfera de reloj

face² vb

1. dar a

the house faces west la casa da al oeste

2. mirar hacia

he sat down facing the door se sentó mirando hacia la puerta

3. ponerse de cara a

the boy had to face the wall el chico tuvo que ponerse de cara a la pared

to face facts afrontar la realidad

we must face facts, we are lost debemos afrontar la realidad, estamos perdidos

El gerundio de face se escribe facing

face

tr[feɪs]

noun

1 (of person) cara, rostro

■ she's got a lovely face tiene una cara muy bonita

2 (surface) superficie nombre femenino

3 (side) cara

4 (of card, coin) cara

5 (of dial) cuadrante nombre masculino

6 (of watch) esfera

7 figurative use (of earth) faz nombre femenino

■ he disappeared off the face of the earth desapareció de la faz de la tierra

8 (look) cara, expresión nombre femenino

■ he looked at me with a worried face me miró con cara de preocupación

transitive verb

1 (look towards) mirar hacia

■ she turned to face me se volvió hacia mí, se volvió para mirarme

■ everybody face the blackboard! ¡todo el mundo mira cara a la pizarra!

2 (look onto) mirar hacia, estar orientado,-a hacia, dar a

■ our house faces south nuestra casa está orientada hacia el sur

3 (be opposite to) estar enfrente de

■ the two children sat facing each other los dos niños estaban sentados cara a cara

4 (confront) presentarse, plantearse; (deal with) enfrentarse a

■ many difficulties faced him se le presentaron muchas dificultades

■ the problems facing this government seem insurmountable los problemas a los que se enfrenta este gobierno parecen insuperables

■ we must face facts tenemos que aceptar la realidad

■ he faces three charges of robbery se le acusa de tres delitos de robo

5 (tolerate) soportar

■ I can't face another day in this hotel no puedo soportar otro día en este hotel

■ she couldn't face the thought of seeing him again no soportaba la idea de volver a verlo

6 (cover - building) revestir ( with, de), recubrir ( with, de); (- material) forrar ( with, de)

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

face down (person, card) boca abajo

face to face cara a cara

face up (person, card) boca arriba

in the face of ante

let's face it seamos realistas, reconozcámoslo

on the face of it a primera vista

shut your face! ¡cierra el pico!

to face the music dar la cara

to have a long face andar con cara larga

to have the face to do something tener la cara de hacer algo

to keep a straight face mantenerse serio,-a, contener la risa

to look somebody in the face poder mirar a alguien en la cara

to lose face quedar mal

to make faces hacer muecas

to pull faces hacer muecas

to put on a brave face poner al mal tiempo buena cara

to save face salvar las apariencias

to say something to somebody's face decirle algo a alguien a la cara

to show one's face aparecer

■ he'll never show his face round here again no volverá a aparecer por aquí jamás

face cloth toallita

face cream crema facial

face flannel toallita

face pack mascarilla facial

face value valor nombre masculino nominal

face ['feɪs] v, faced ; facing vt

1) line: recubrir (una superficie), forrar (ropa)

2) confront: enfrentarse a, afrontar, hacer frente a

to face the music: afrontar las consecuencias

to face the facts: aceptar la realidad

3) : estar de cara a, estar enfrente de

she's facing her brother: está de cara a su hermano

4) overlook: dar a

face vi

: mirar (hacia), estar orientado (a)

face n

1) : cara f, rostro m

he told me to my face: me lo dijo a la cara

2) expression: cara f, expresión f

to pull a long face: poner mala cara

3) grimace: mueca f

to make faces: hacer muecas

4) appearance: fisonomía f, aspecto m

the face of society: la fisonomía de la sociedad

5) effrontery: desfachatez f

6) prestige: prestigio m

to lose face: desprestigiarse

7) front, side: cara f (de una moneda), esfera f (de un reloj), fachada f (de un edificio), pared f (de una montaña)

8) surface: superficie f, faz f (de la tierra), cara f (de la luna)

9)

in the face of despite: en medio de, en visto de, ante

face

n.

• cara s.f.

• fachada s.f.

• faz s.f.

• mueca s.f.

• pundonor s.m.

• rostro s.m.

• semblante s.m.

• visaje s.m.

face (s.o.) down

expr.

• hacerle frente (a alguien) expr.

v.

• acarear v.

• aceptar v.

• afrontar v.

• arrostrar v.

• carear v.

• encarar v.

• enfrentar v.

• mirar hacia v.

feɪs
I

noun

1) c

a) (of person, animal) cara f, rostro m

if your face doesn't fit... — si no le/les caes bien...

I'm not just a pretty face, you know! — (set phrase) no te creas que soy tan tonta

I must put my face on o do my face — (hum) tengo que maquillarme or pintarme

she put on a brave face for the funeral — se mantuvo compuesta para el funeral

to feed o stuff one's face — (colloq) atiborrarse de comida, ponerse* morado (Esp fam)

in the face of stiff opposition — en medio de or ante una fuerte oposición

to argue/shout until one is blue in the face — discutir/gritar hasta cansarse

to blow up in somebody's face — salir* mal

to fall flat on one's face — caerse* de bruces; ( blunder) darse* de narices

to fly in the face of something — hacer* caso omiso de algo

to laugh on the other side of one's face: you'll laugh on the other side of your face when you're fired! se te van a acabar las ganas de reír(te) cuando te despidan!; to somebody's face a or en la cara; to show one's face aparecer*; to stare somebody in the face: the solution was staring me in the face — tenía la solución delante de las narices

b) ( person) cara f

a new face — una cara nueva

c) ( expression) cara f

to keep a straight face: I could hardly keep a straight face casi no podía aguantarme (de) la risa; to make o (BrE also) pull a face poner* mala cara; the children were making faces at each other los niños se hacían muecas; to put a brave face on it — poner(le)* al mal tiempo buena cara

2)

a) (appearance, nature) (no pl) fisonomía f

on the face of it — aparentemente

b) c ( aspect) aspecto m

c) u ( dignity)

to lose face — desprestigiarse, quedar mal

to save face — guardar las apariencias

loss of face — desprestigio m

3) c (of coin, medal, solid) cara f; (of clock, watch) esfera f, carátula f (Méx)

4) c ( of cliff) pared f

to disappear off the face of the earth — desaparecer* de la faz de la tierra

II
1.

transitive verb

1) ( be opposite)

she turned to face him/the wall — se volvió hacia él/la pared

he was sitting facing the wall — estaba sentado en frente de la pared

the hotel faces the sea — el hotel está frente al mar

2) ( confront) enfrentarse a

I don't know how I'll face him when he finds out — no sé cómo le podré dar la cara cuando se entere

to be faced with something — estar* or verse* frente a or ante algo

let's face it, we have no alternative — seamos realistas, no nos queda otra alternativa

3)

a) ( be presented with) \<\<problem/increase\>\> enfrentarse

I face that problem every day — todos los días me encuentro con or me enfrento a un problema así

b) ( bear)

I can't face going through all that again — no podría volver a pasar por todo eso

I can't face food first thing in the morning — no puedo ni oler la comida temprano por la mañana

c) ( lie ahead of)

several problems face us — se nos presentan or se nos plantean varios problemas

4) ( Const) \<\<wall/surface\>\> recubrir*

2.

vi

the house faces north — la casa está orientada or da al norte

I was facing the other way — miraba para el otro lado

Phrasal Verbs:

- face down

- face up to

[feɪs]
1. N

1) (=part of body) cara f, rostro m

the wind was blowing in our faces — el viento soplaba de cara

• the bomb blew up in his face — la bomba estalló delante suyo

it all blew up in his face * — (fig) le salió el tiro por la culata *

• I could never look him in the face again — no tendría valor para mirarle a la cara de nuevo

• to say sth to sb's face — decirle algo a la cara a algn

I told him to his face — se lo dije a la cara

to bring sb face to face with sb — confrontar algn con algn

to bring two people face to face — poner a dos personas cara a cara, confrontar a dos personas

to come face to face with — [+ person] encontrarse cara a cara con; [+ problem, danger] enfrentarse con

• face up — boca arriba

- put a brave or good face on it

- get out of my face!

- lose face

- be off one's face

- put one's face on

- save face

- set one's face against sth

- show one's face

- shut your face!
blue 1., 1), egg 1., 1), laugh 2., plain 1., 1), pretty 1., 1), slap 1., stuff 2., 1)
2) (=expression) cara f, expresión f

a happy face — una cara alegre or de Pascua

• his face fell — puso cara larga

• a long face — una cara larga

• to make or pull faces (at sb) — hacer muecas (a algn)

to pull a (wry) face — poner mala cara
straight 1., 1)
3) (=person) cara f

there were plenty of familiar faces at the party — había muchas caras conocidas en la fiesta

we need some new or fresh faces on the team — el equipo necesita sangre nueva

4) (=surface) superficie f; [of dial, watch] esfera f; [of sundial] cuadrante m; [of mountain, cliff, coin, playing card] cara f; [of building] fachada f, frente m

- it's vanished off the face of the earth

5) (=aspect)

the unacceptable face of capitalism — los aspectos inadmisibles del capitalismo

the changing face of modern politics — la cambiante fisonomía de la política actual

6) (=effrontery) descaro m, cara f, caradura f

to have the face to do sth — tener el descaro de hacer algo

7) (=typeface) tipo m de imprenta

8) (in set expressions)

• face down(wards) — [person, card] boca abajo

• in the face of — [+ enemy] frente a; [+ threats, danger] ante; [+ difficulty] en vista de, ante

• on the face of it — a primera vista, a juzgar por las apariencias

• face up(ward) — [person, card] boca arriba

- fly in the face of reason

2. VT

1) (=be facing) [+ person, object] estar de cara a; (=be opposite) estar enfrente de

face the wall! — ¡ponte de cara a la pared!

turn it to face the fire — gíralo para que esté de cara al fuego

to sit facing the engine — estar sentado de frente a la locomotora

they sat facing each other — se sentaron uno frente al or enfrente del otro

- face both ways

2) [room, building]

a) (=overlook) dar a, tener vista a

my room faces the sea — mi cuarto da al mar

b) (=be opposite to) [+ building] estar enfrente de

the flat faces the Town Hall — el piso está enfrente del Ayuntamiento

3) (=confront) [+ enemy, danger, problem, situation] enfrentarse a; [+ consequences] hacer frente a, afrontar

many people are facing redundancy — muchas personas se ven enfrentadas al desempleo

I can't face him — (ashamed) no podría mirarle a los ojos

we are faced with serious problems — se nos plantean graves problemas

he faces a fine of £200 if convicted — le espera una multa de £200 si lo declaran culpable

he was faced with a class who refused to cooperate — se encontraba ante una clase que se negaba a cooperar

faced with the prospect of living on his own, he... — ante la perspectiva de vivir solo,...

• to face facts — aceptar los hechos or la realidad

to face the fact that... — reconocer que...

we will face him with the facts — le expondremos los hechos or la realidad

• let's face it! — ¡seamos realistas!, ¡reconozcámoslo!

- face the music

4) (=bear, stand)

• I can't face breakfast this morning — hoy no podría desayunar nada

I can't face this alone — no me veo capaz de enfrentar esto solo

I can't face changing jobs again — no me veo capaz de volver a cambiar de trabajo

5) (=clad) revestir

a wall faced with concrete — una pared revestida de hormigón

6) (Sew) (on inside) forrar; (on outside) recubrir

the hood is faced with silk — la capucha está forrada de seda

3. VI

1) [person, animal] (=look) mirar hacia; (=turn) volverse hacia

face this way! — ¡vuélvete hacia aquí!

right face! — (US) (Mil) ¡derecha!

about face! — (US) (Mil) ¡media vuelta!

2) [building]

which way does the house face? — ¿en qué dirección está orientada la casa?

it faces east/towards the east — da al este/mira hacia el este

4.

CPD

face card N — (US) figura f

face cloth N — = face flannel

face cream N — crema f para la cara

face flannel N — (Brit) toallita f; (=glove) manopla f (para lavarse la cara)

face mask N — mascarilla f
(Cosmetics) = face pack
face pack N — mascarilla f facial

face paint N — pintura ornamental para la cara

face painting N — (for children) pintura f facial

face powder N — polvos mpl para la cara

face scrub N — = facial scrub

face value N — [of coin, stamp] valor m nominal

- take sb at face value

I took his statement at (its) face value — tomé lo que dijo en sentido literal

- face down

- face on to

- face out

- face up to

* * *
[feɪs]
I

noun

1) c

a) (of person, animal) cara f, rostro m

if your face doesn't fit... — si no le/les caes bien...

I'm not just a pretty face, you know! — (set phrase) no te creas que soy tan tonta

I must put my face on o do my face — (hum) tengo que maquillarme or pintarme

she put on a brave face for the funeral — se mantuvo compuesta para el funeral

to feed o stuff one's face — (colloq) atiborrarse de comida, ponerse* morado (Esp fam)

in the face of stiff opposition — en medio de or ante una fuerte oposición

to argue/shout until one is blue in the face — discutir/gritar hasta cansarse

to blow up in somebody's face — salir* mal

to fall flat on one's face — caerse* de bruces; ( blunder) darse* de narices

to fly in the face of something — hacer* caso omiso de algo

to laugh on the other side of one's face: you'll laugh on the other side of your face when you're fired! se te van a acabar las ganas de reír(te) cuando te despidan!; to somebody's face a or en la cara; to show one's face aparecer*; to stare somebody in the face: the solution was staring me in the face — tenía la solución delante de las narices

b) ( person) cara f

a new face — una cara nueva

c) ( expression) cara f

to keep a straight face: I could hardly keep a straight face casi no podía aguantarme (de) la risa; to make o (BrE also) pull a face poner* mala cara; the children were making faces at each other los niños se hacían muecas; to put a brave face on it — poner(le)* al mal tiempo buena cara

2)

a) (appearance, nature) (no pl) fisonomía f

on the face of it — aparentemente

b) c ( aspect) aspecto m

c) u ( dignity)

to lose face — desprestigiarse, quedar mal

to save face — guardar las apariencias

loss of face — desprestigio m

3) c (of coin, medal, solid) cara f; (of clock, watch) esfera f, carátula f (Méx)

4) c ( of cliff) pared f

to disappear off the face of the earth — desaparecer* de la faz de la tierra

II
1.

transitive verb

1) ( be opposite)

she turned to face him/the wall — se volvió hacia él/la pared

he was sitting facing the wall — estaba sentado en frente de la pared

the hotel faces the sea — el hotel está frente al mar

2) ( confront) enfrentarse a

I don't know how I'll face him when he finds out — no sé cómo le podré dar la cara cuando se entere

to be faced with something — estar* or verse* frente a or ante algo

let's face it, we have no alternative — seamos realistas, no nos queda otra alternativa

3)

a) ( be presented with) \<\<problem/increase\>\> enfrentarse

I face that problem every day — todos los días me encuentro con or me enfrento a un problema así

b) ( bear)

I can't face going through all that again — no podría volver a pasar por todo eso

I can't face food first thing in the morning — no puedo ni oler la comida temprano por la mañana

c) ( lie ahead of)

several problems face us — se nos presentan or se nos plantean varios problemas

4) ( Const) \<\<wall/surface\>\> recubrir*

2.

vi

the house faces north — la casa está orientada or da al norte

I was facing the other way — miraba para el otro lado

Phrasal Verbs:

- face down

- face up to

English-spanish dictionary > face
12 face

feɪs
1. сущ.
1) а) лицо;
физиономия;
лик to look smb. in the face ≈ смотреть кому-л. в глаза to powder one's face ≈ пудрить лицо to press one's face (against a window) ≈ прижиматься лицом( к окну) beautiful, handsome, pretty face ≈ хорошенькое, красивое лицо familiar face ≈ знакомое лицо oval face ≈ овальное лицо round face ≈ круглое лицо ruddy face ≈ румяное лицо ugly face ≈ некрасивое лицо face down ≈ лицом вниз I would never say that to her face. ≈ Я бы никогда не сказал ей это в глаза. to bring face to face ≈ сводить лицом к лицу to come face to face, meet face to face ≈ встречаться лицом к лицу to keep a straight face ≈ сохранять невозмутимый вид to laugh in smb.'s face ≈ смеяться кому-л. в лицо black in the face ≈ багровый( от гнева, усилий и т. п.) full face ≈ анфас half face ≈ в профиль straight face ≈ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо in the face of б) морда животного ∙ Syn: visage, countenance, features, facial features, physiognomy;
mug, pan
2) а) выражение лица angry face ≈ злой вид funny face ≈ забавный вид happy face ≈ счастливое лицо (лицо счастливого человека) sad, long face ≈ печальный, мрачный вид to keep a serious face ≈ сохранять серьезное выражение лица, сохранять внешнюю серьезность б) гримаса Don't make a face at me. ≈ Не строй мне рожи. to draw faces, make faces, pull a face, pull faces ≈ корчить рожи Syn: expression, aspect, look, countenance, air;
grimace, pout
3) внешний вид Pioneers cleared the forest and changed the face of the countryside. ≈ Пионеры очистили лес и изменили внешний вид местности. on the face of it ≈ судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд Syn: appearance, look, semblance, external aspect
4) репутация, лицо, престиж, достоинство The scandal was hushed up in an effort to save face. ≈ Скандал замяли, чтобы спасти репутацию. to lose face ≈ ударить лицом в грязь, быть униженным, потерять престиж to save face ≈ не ударить лицом в грязь, спасти репутацию/престиж, не уронить достоинства Syn: reputation, good name, dignity, repute, image, prestige, self-respect
5) передняя, лицевая сторона, лицо ( медали, ткани и т. п.) I scratched the face of my belt buckle. ≈ Я поцарапал пряжку пояса. Syn: front surface, obverse side, principal side, finished side, facade, frontage, forepart
6) циферблат
7) спорт струнная поверхность( теннисной ракетки)
8) разг. нахальство, наглость, дерзость;
самоуверенность After forgetting my lines, I didn't have the face to go back on stage. ≈ После того, как я забыл слова роли, у меня не хватило наглости снова выйти на сцену. to show a face ≈ держаться вызывающе, нагло Syn: nerve, boldness, daring, pluck, self-assurance, mettle, spunk, confidence, bravado, grit;
cheek, front, sand, brass, gall, effrontery, impudence
9) воен. фас
10) а) облицовка б) макияж put one's face on Syn: make-up
11) геом. грань
12) тех.( лобовая) поверхность;
торец;
срез, фаска
13) горн. забой;
плоскость забоя
14) полигр. очко (литеры)
15) строит. ширина (доски) ∙ it's written all over his face ≈ это у него на лбу написано in the face of serious difficulties ≈ перед лицом серьезных трудностей to disappear from the face of the earth ≈ исчезать с лица земли to fly in the face of smth ≈ кинуться на что-л. to set one's face against ≈ (решительно) противиться чему-л. to open one's face ≈ заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться to travel on one's face, to run one's face ≈ использовать привлекательную внешность для достижения цели before smb.'s face ≈ перед (самым) носом у кого-л.
2. гл.
1) а) стоять лицом к( чему-л.) ;
смотреть в лицо, в глаза The opponents faced each other across the chessboard. ≈ Оппоненты сояли лицом друг к другу у классной доски. Syn: encounter, confront, meet face to face, turn toward, look toward б) выходить, быть обращенным ( в определенную сторону) to face east ≈ быть обращенным на восток;
"выходить" на восточную сторону to face page 20 ≈ к странице 20 (о рисунке) Syn: front on, give toward, overlook
2) смело смотреть в лицо, смело встречать to face the facts ≈ прямо смотреть в лицо фактам I could not face going there alone. ≈ Я не мог поехать туда один.
3) а) бросать в лицо (кому-л.) to face smb. with irrefutable evidence ≈ бросать кому-л. в лицо неопровержимые улики б) сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.) to be faced with the necessity ≈ столкнуться с необходимостью
4) а) покрывать, отделывать The cabinet is faced with a walnut veneer. ≈ Шкаф отделан ореховым шпоном. б) обкладывать, облицовывать( камнем) ∙ Syn: surface, cover, coat, overlay
5) подкрашивать (чай) ∙ face about face down face off face out face up face the music face the knocker лицо, физиономия - * massage массаж лица - * angle( антропологоия) лицевой угол - black /blue,red/ in the * багровый (от гнева, напряжения и т. п.) морда (животного) выражение лица - * of a dying calf глуповато-меланхолическое выражение лица - his * fell у него вытянулась физиономия - straight * бесстрастное /ничего не выражающее/ лицо, "маска" - to straighten one's * пытаться принять невозмутимый вид, успокоиться, перестать смеяться - to keep a straigt *, to keep one's * straight сохранять невозмутимое /бесстрастное/ выражение;
удерживаться от смеха - to make /to pull, to weer/ a long * иметь огорченный /печальный, кислый, мрачный, разочарованный/ вид - to read people's *s быть хорошим физиономистом (разговорное) гримаса - to make /to pull/ a * сделать гримасу, гримасничать - to make *s корчить /строить/ рожи - to make /to pull/ a pitiful * скорчить постную физиономию - to make a wry * скорчить рожу внешний вид - on /upon/ the * of (it) судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд - upon the * of the document если исходить из буквального смысла документа - on the * of it you are guilty похоже на то, что вы виновны - the idea is absurd on the * of it на первый взгляд эта мысль кажется абсурдной - to carry a /the/ * (of) казаться( кем-л., чем-л.) - this version carries no * of probability эта версия лишена правдоподобия /маловероятна/ - to carry on its * быть совершенно очевидным /ясным/ аспект, сторона (вопроса) (разговорное) наглость, нахальство - to have the * (to say smth.) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) - to show a * нахально /нагло, вызывающе/ держаться поверхность, внешняя сторона - * of a door сторона двери (внешняя или внутренняя) - * of a racket( спортивное) струнная поверхность /ударная часть/ ракетки поверхность (земли, воды) - on the * of the earth на земле, на свете, в целом мире - from /off/ the * of the earth с лица земли - the north * of the mountain северный склон горы лицевая сторона, лицо (ткани, игральных карт, медали и т. п.) ;
правая сторона - to lie on its * лежать обратной стороной кверху - put your cards on the table * down положите ваши карты рубашкой вверх циферблат фасад - the * of the building is covered with ivy фасад дома зарос плющом престиж;
репутация;
достоинство - (the) loss of * унижение;
потеря престижа /доброго имени/ - to lose * быть униженным;
потерять престиж - to save (one's) * избежать позора, спасти свою репутацию /свой престиж/, не уронить своего достоинства (разговорное) личность, человек с именем, знаменитость (сленг) детина, "лоб" (математика) грань (в геометрии) фас, грань (кристалла) (техническое) (лобовая) поверхность, торец;
срез;
фаска (военное) фас (горное) забой, плоскость забоя;
лава - * cut забойка, вруб (полиграфия) очко (литеры) ;
шрифт, рисунок шрифта;
гарнитура шрифта, шрифт ширина ( доски) (телевидение) экран( трубки) (техническое) уровень (жидкости) (техническое) (плоский) боек( молота) (техническое) облицовка - * brick облицовочный кирпич > in /to/ smb.'s * в лицо, в глаза, открыто;
в присутствии кого-л. > it's written all over his * это у него на лбу написано > to laugh in smb.'s * смеяться в лицо кому-л.;
открыто смеяться над кем-л. > to look full in /into/ the * of smb. смотреть прямо в лицо /в глаза/ кому-л. > to be unable to look smb. in the * стыдиться взглянуть в лицо кому-л. > to cast /to fling, to throw/ smth. in smb.'s * бросать что-л. в лицо кому-л. > at /in, on/ the first * с первого взгляда;
на первый взгляд > to bear /to carry, to have/ two *s under one hood, to have two *s быть двуличным, лицемерным;
быть двусмысленным > to show a false * притворяться, лицемерить > before smb.'s * перед носом у кого-л. > in the * of перед лицом;
открыто, на глазах;
вопреки, наперекор;
под угрозой > to act in the * of direct orders действовать вопреки прямому приказу > to succeed in the * of many difficulties добиться успеха несмотря на все трудности > in the * of day /of the sun/ не скрываясь, открыто;
среди бела дня > * to * лицом к лицу;
лично, наедине > let's get together and talk the whole thing over * to * давайте встретимся и потолкуем обо всем лично > to open one's * (американизм) открыть рот, заговорить > to fly in the * (of) держаться вызывающе, бравировать, бросать вызов( кому-л.) > to fly in the * of facts игнорировать факты, пренебрегать фактами > to fly in the * of nature действовать вопреки законам природы > to set one's * against smb., smth. решительно воспротивиться кому-л., чему-л.;
бороться с кем-л., чем-л.;
относиться враждебно к кому-л., чему-л. > to put a bold * on smth. казаться уверенным в чем-л., не растеряться > to put a good * on smth. делать довольное лицо по поводу чего-л. малоприятного;
изображать что-л. в наилучшем виде, истолковывать что-л. в благоприятном свете > to put a new * on smth. представить что-л. в новом /другом/ свете > to run one's *, to travel on one's * (американизм) использовать приятную внешность, чтобы добиться продвижения, кредита и т. п.;
выезжать на хорошеньком личике > to stare smb. in the * бросаться в глаза, быть очевидным /явным/;
быть неминуемым /неотвратимым/ > death stared him in the * он был на пороге /на волосок от/ смерти > to fall on one's * провалиться( с треском) ;
оскандалиться;
потерпеть фиаско > a * as long as a fiddle унылое /мрачное/ лицо > the * is the index of the mind лицо - зеркало души > a fair * may hide a foul heart за приятной внешностью может скрываться низкая душонка > a good * is a letter of recommendation хорошее /приятное/ лицо - лучшая рекомендация находиться лицом к - they sat so as to * each other они сидели друг против друга /лицом друг к другу/ - the man now facing me человек, который сейчас находится передо мной - stand facing the light станьте лицом к свету быть обращенным к - the house *d eastwards дом выходил фасадом на восток - my window *s the street мое окно выходит на улицу - the picture *s page 7 рисунок к странице 7 смотреть в лицо - I can't * him now я не могу показаться ему на глаза - to * away отвернуться встречать (что-л.) смело;
смотреть в лицо (чему-л.) без страха - to * the ordeal стойко выдержать испытание - to * the facts смотреть в лицо фактам - to * danger мужественно встретить опасность - I can't * the disgrace of a failure я не смогу перенести позор провала - you'll have to * it yourself вам самому придется с этим справиться сталкиваться лицом к лицу (с чем-л.) - to be *d with a difficulty встретиться /столкнуться/ с трудностью - to be *d with bankruptcy оказаться перед угрозой банкротства - he was suddenly *d with the necessity of... он внезапно очутился перед необходимостью... - the problem now facing us проблема, стоящая сейчас перед нами отделывать (платье) - to * a coat with gold braid отделать мундир золотым галуном облицовывать - to * a building with marble облицевать здание мрамором - to * a table with rose-wood veneering фанеровать стол розовым деревом полировать;
обтачивать - this stone has not been properly *d этот камень плохо отполирован повертывать лицом вверх (игральную карту) (военное) скомандовать поворот - the captain *d his company left капитан скомандовал роте "налево" - right *! направо! подкрашивать (чай) > to * the knocker просить милостыню у дверей > to * the music храбро встречать трудности /неприятности/;
держать ответ, расплачиваться за свои действия ~ value номинальная стоимость( монеты, марки и т. п.) ;
to accept( или to take) (smth.) at its face value принимать( что-л.) за чистую монету back ~ вчт. невидимая поверхность before (smb.'s) ~ перед (самым) носом (у кого-л.) bold ~ выделительный шрифт bold ~ полигр. жирный шрифт ~ гримаса;
to draw (или to make) faces корчить рожи elite ~ вчт. элитная печать face: to set one's face (against smth.) (решительно) противиться (чему-л.) ~ уст. вид спереди;
фасад ~ внешний вид;
on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд;
to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
придать другой вид;
to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ встречать смело;
смотреть в лицо без страха;
to face the facts смотреть в лицо фактам;
учитывать реальные обстоятельства ~ выражение лица;
a sad (или long) face печальный, мрачный вид ~ геом. грань ~ гримаса;
to draw (или to make) faces корчить рожи ~ горн. забой;
плоскость забоя ~ лицо;
лик;
физиономия ~ наглость;
to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
to show a face вызывающе держаться ~ обкладывать, облицовывать (камнем) ~ облицовка ~ отделывать (платье) ~ полигр. очко (литеры) ~ передняя, лицевая сторона, лицо (медали и т. п.) ;
правая сторона (ткани;
тж. face of cloth) ~ тех. (лобовая) поверхность;
торец;
срез, фаска ~ подкрашивать (чай) ;
face about воен. поворачиваться кругом;
face down осадить;
запугать ~ полировать;
обтачивать ~ сталкиваться (с необходимостью) ;
наталкиваться( на трудности и т. п.) ;
to face a task стоять перед необходимостью решать задачу;
выполнить требование ~ стоять лицом (к чему-л.) ;
смотреть в лицо;
быть обращенным в определенную сторону;
to face page 20 к странице 20 (о рисунке) ~ спорт. струнная поверхность (теннисной ракетки) ;
to fling (или to cast, to throw) (smth.) in (smb.'s) face бросать в лицо ~ воен. фас;
right about face! направо кругом! ~ циферблат ~ стр. ширина (доски) ~ сталкиваться (с необходимостью) ;
наталкиваться (на трудности и т. п.) ;
to face a task стоять перед необходимостью решать задачу;
выполнить требование ~ card фигура( в картах) to ~ reality считаться( с реальной) действительностью;
to face danger подвергаться опасности ~ out выполнить (что-л.) ~ out не испугаться, выдержать смело ~ стоять лицом (к чему-л.) ;
смотреть в лицо;
быть обращенным в определенную сторону;
to face page 20 к странице 20 (о рисунке) to ~ reality считаться (с реальной) действительностью;
to face danger подвергаться опасности ~ встречать смело;
смотреть в лицо без страха;
to face the facts смотреть в лицо фактам;
учитывать реальные обстоятельства to ~ the music держать ответ, расплачиваться;
to face the knocker просить милостыню у дверей to ~ the music встречать, не дрогнув, критику или трудности to ~ the music держать ответ, расплачиваться;
to face the knocker просить милостыню у дверей ~ to ~ лицом к лицу ~ to ~ наедине, без посторонних to: ~ prep указывает на близость, соприкосновение( с чем-л.), соседство к, в;
shoulder to shoulder плечо к плечу;
face to face лицом к лицу ~ up быть готовым встретить (to) ~ up примириться( с чем-л.) неприятным (to) ~ value номинальная стоимость( монеты, марки и т. п.) ;
to accept (или to take) (smth.) at its face value принимать (что-л.) за чистую монету value: face ~ видимая, кажущаяся ценность face ~ нарицательная цена face ~ номинал face ~ номинальная, нарицательная стоимость face ~ номинальная стоимость ~ спорт. струнная поверхность (теннисной ракетки) ;
to fling (или to cast, to throw) (smth.) in (smb.'s) face бросать в лицо black( или blue, red) in the ~ обагровый (от гнева, усилий и т. п.) ;
full face анфас;
half face в профиль black (или blue, red) in the ~ обагровый (от гнева, усилий и т. п.) ;
full face анфас;
half face в профиль ~ наглость;
to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
to show a face вызывающе держаться in the ~ of вопреки;
in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) in the ~ of вопреки;
in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) in the ~ of перед лицом to open one's ~ амер. заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться;
it's written all over his face = это у него на лбу написано straight ~ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо;
to keep a straight face сохранять невозмутимый вид in the ~ of вопреки;
in (или to) (smb.'s) face открыто, в лицо, в глаза;
to laugh in (smb.'s) face открыто смеяться (над кем-л.) to save one's ~ спасти репутацию, престиж;
избежать позора;
to lose face потерять престиж the man now facing me человек, который находится передо мной;
my windows face the sea мои окна выходят на море the man now facing me человек, который находится передо мной;
my windows face the sea мои окна выходят на море ~ внешний вид;
on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд;
to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
придать другой вид;
to put a bold face on не растеряться to open one's ~ амер. заговорить, перестать отмалчиваться;
it's written all over his face = это у него на лбу написано pica ~ вчт. печать с плотностью 10 символов на дюйм poker ~ разг. бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо ~ внешний вид;
on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд;
to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
придать другой вид;
to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ внешний вид;
on the face of it судя по внешнему виду;
на первый взгляд;
to put a new face on представить все в новом свете;
придать другой вид;
to put a bold face on не растеряться ~ воен. фас;
right about face! направо кругом! ~ выражение лица;
a sad (или long) face печальный, мрачный вид to save one's ~ спасти репутацию, престиж;
избежать позора;
to lose face потерять престиж face: to set one's face (against smth.) (решительно) противиться (чему-л.) ~ наглость;
to have the face (to say) иметь наглость (сказать что-л.) ;
to show a face вызывающе держаться straight ~ бесстрастное, ничего не выражающее лицо;
to keep a straight face сохранять невозмутимый вид to travel on (или to run) one's ~ амер. использовать располагающую внешность для достижения цели;
выезжать на смазливой мордочке type ~ вчт. начертание шрифта

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > face
13 meet

mi:t
1. past tense, past participle - met; verb
1) (to come face to face with (eg a person whom one knows), by chance: She met a man on the train.) encontrar, encontrarse con

2) ((sometimes, especially American, with with) to come together with (a person etc), by arrangement: The committee meets every Monday.) enocontar, reunirse con, citarse, quedar

3) (to be introduced to (someone) for the first time: Come and meet my wife.) conocer

4) (to join: Where do the two roads meet?) unirse

5) (to be equal to or satisfy (eg a person's needs, requirements etc): Will there be sufficient stocks to meet the public demand?) satisfacer

6) (to come into the view, experience or presence of: A terrible sight met him / his eyes when he opened the door.) encontrar

7) (to come to or be faced with: He met his death in a car accident.) encontrar

8) ((with with) to experience or suffer; to receive a particular response: She met with an accident; The scheme met with their approval.) sufrir; recibir

9) (to answer or oppose: We will meet force with greater force.) responder (a)

2. noun
(a gathering, especially of sportsmen: The local huntsmen are holding a meet this week.) encuentro

- meeting
- meet someone halfway
- meet halfway

meet vb

1. encontrarse con

I met your mother in the bank yesterday ayer me encontré con tu madre en el banco

2. conocer

I met her at a party la conocí en una fiesta

3. reunirse / verse

they meet every Friday se reúnen todos los viernes

4. quedar

I'm meeting Jenny at eight he quedado con Jenny a las ocho

El pasado y participio pasado de meet es met

meet

tr[miːt]

transitive verb (pt & pp met tr[met])

1 (by chance) encontrar, encontrarse con; (in street) cruzar con, topar con

■ she met an old friend se encontró con un viejo amigo

■ guess who I met today! ¡a que no sabes con quién he topado hoy!

2 (by arrangement) encontrar, reunirse con, citarse, quedar con; (formally) entrevistarse con; (informally) ver

■ meet me in the park encontrémonos en el parque

■ I'll meet you tomorrow te veré mañana

■ I'm meeting Rob tomorrow he quedado con Rob para mañana

■ I've arranged to meet them in the pub he quedado con ellos en el pub

3 (meet for first time) conocer

■ I met him at a party lo conocí en una fiesta

■ have you met my wife? ¿conoces a mi mujer?

■ I'd like you to meet a friend quiero presentarte a un amigo

■ I'm pleased to meet you estoy encantado de conocerte

4 (collect) ir a buscar, pasar a buscar; (await arrival of) esperar; (receive) ir a recibir

■ he'll meet me at the station me vendrá a buscar a la estación

■ all the family were there to meet her at the airport toda la familia fue a recibirla al aeropuerto

■ there's a coach that meets the train hay un autocar que enlaza con el tren

5 (face - danger, difficulty) encontrar; (- problem) hacer frente a

6 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (opponent) enfrentarse con

7 (touch) tocar

8 (fulfil - standards, demands, wishes) satisfacer; (- obligations, deadline) cumplir con; (- requirements) reunir, cumplir

9 (bill, debt) pagar; (deficit) cubrir; (cost, expenses) hacerse cargo de

intransitive verb

1 (by chance) encontrarse

■ we'll meet again nos volveremos a encontrar

2 (by arrangement) reunirse, verse, quedar, encontrarse; (formally) entrevistarse

■ we arranged to meet on Saturday quedamos para el sábado

■ we must meet for lunch one day tenemos que quedar para comer un día

■ where shall we meet? ¿dónde quedamos?, ¿dónde nos encontramos?

■ the women's group meets on Fridays el grupo de mujeres se reúne los viernes

3 (get acquainted) conocerse

■ where did you meet? ¿dónde os conocisteis?

■ I think we've already met creo que ya nos conocemos

4 SMALLSPORT/SMALL enfrentarse

5 (join) unirse; (touch) tocarse; (rivers) confluir; (roads) empalmar; (eyes) cruzarse

noun

1 SMALLSPORT/SMALL encuentro

2 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL (hunting) partida de caza

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be more to something than meets the eye ser más complicado,-a de lo que parece

to make ends meet familiar llegar a fin de mes

to meet one's death encontrar la muerte, morir

to meet one's Maker morirse

to meet somebody's eye mirar a alguien a la cara

to meet somebody halfway llegar a un acuerdo con alguien

meet ['mi:t] v, met ['mɛt] ; meeting vt

1) encounter: encontrarse con

2) join: unirse con

3) confront: enfrentarse a

4) satisfy: satisfacer, cumplir con

to meet costs: pagar los gastos

5) : conocer

I met his sister: conocí a su hermana

meet vi

assemble: reunirse, congregarse

meet n

: encuentro m

meet

n.

• concurso s.m.

adj.

• conveniente adj.

v.

(§ p.,p.p.: met) = carear v.

• confluir v.

• conocer v.

(§pres: conozco, conoces...)

• empalmar v.

• encontrar v.

• encontrarse v.

• enfrentar v.

• juntar v.

I
1. miːt
(past & past p met) transitive verb

1)

a) ( encounter) encontrarse* con

meet me on the corner at 6 o'clock — encontrémonos en la esquina a las 6

to meet somebody halfway o in the middle — llegar* a un arreglo con alguien

b) ( welcome) recibir; ( collect on arrival) ir* a buscar

she ran to meet me — corrió a mi encuentro

he met me off the train — me fue a buscar or a esperar a la estación

c) ( oppose) \<\<opponent/enemy\>\> enfrentarse a

2) ( make acquaintance of) conocer*

John, meet Mr Clark — (frml) John, le presento al señor Clark

pleased to meet you — encantado de conocerlo, mucho gusto

3)

a) (come up against, experience) encontrar*, toparse con

he met his death there — allí encontró su muerte

to be met BY/WITH something — encontrarse* con algo

there's more to this than meets the eye — esto es más complicado de lo que parece

b) (counter, respond to)

she met their threats with defiance — hizo frente desafiante a sus amenazas

she was met with enthusiastic applause — fue recibida aplausos

4) \<\<demands/wishes\>\> satisfacer*; \<\<deadline/quota\>\> cumplir con; \<\<debt\>\> satisfacer*, pagar*; \<\<obligation\>\> cumplir con; \<\<requirements\>\> reunir*, cumplir; \<\<cost\>\> hacerse* cargo de

his income is inadequate to meet his needs — su salario le es insuficiente para hacer frente a sus necesidades

5)

a) (come together with, join)

East meets West in this beautiful city — Oriente y Occidente se dan la mano en esta bella ciudad

her gaze met his — sus miradas se cruzaron

she could not meet his eye o gaze — no se atrevía a mirarlo a la cara

b) ( strike) dar* contra

2.

vi

1)

a) ( encounter each other) encontrarse*

where shall we meet? — ¿dónde nos encontramos?, ¿dónde quedamos? (esp Esp)

until we meet again! — hasta la vista!

b) ( hold meeting) \<\<club\>\> reunirse*; \<\<heads of state/ministers\>\> entrevistarse

c) ( make acquaintance) conocerse*

have you two already met? — ¿ya se conocen?, ¿ya los han presentado?

d) ( as opponents) enfrentarse

2) ( come into contact)

the vehicles met head on — los vehículos chocaron or se dieron de frente

where the three roads meet — en el empalme or en la confluencia de las tres carreteras

their eyes met — sus miradas se cruzaron

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Phrasal Verbs:

- meet up

- meet with

II

noun

a) (AmE Sport) encuentro m

b) ( in hunting) partida f (de caza)

I [miːt] (pt, pp met)
1. VT

1) (by arrangement) quedar con, verse con; (by chance) encontrarse con, tropezarse con

I'm meeting them for lunch tomorrow — he quedado para almorzar con ellos mañana

I had arranged to meet her in town — había quedado con ella en el centro, había acordado en verla en el centro

I'll meet you outside the cinema — te veré en la entrada del cine

you'll never guess who I met on the bus today! — ¿a que no sabes con quién me encontré or me tropecé hoy en el autobús?

we will be meeting the ambassador tomorrow to discuss the situation — mañana tendremos un encuentro or una reunión con el embajador para discutir la situación, mañana nos entrevistaremos or nos reuniremos con el embajador para discutir la situación

2) (=go/come to get) ir/venir a buscar; (=welcome) recibir

we met her at the station — la fuimos a buscar a la estación

I'm being met at the airport — me vendrán a buscar al aeropuerto

she ran out to meet us — salió corriendo a recibirnos

to meet sb off the train — ir a esperar a algn a la estación

don't bother to meet me — no os molestéis en venir a esperarme

the bus for Aix meets the ten o'clock train — el autobús que va a Aix conecta con el tren de las diez
halfway 1., 1)
3) (=get to know, be introduced to) conocer

I never met him — no lo llegué a conocer

I met my wife in 1988 — conocí a mi mujer en 1988

meet my brother — quiero presentarte a mi hermano

he's the kindest person I've ever met — es la persona más amable que he conocido jamás

nice to have met you! — ¡encantado de conocerlo!

pleased to meet you! — ¡mucho gusto!, ¡encantado de conocerlo!

4) (=come together with)

where the sea meets the horizon — donde el mar se junta con el horizonte

the box met the ground with an almighty thud — la caja se estrelló ruidsosamente contra el suelo

the sound which met his ears — el sonido que llegó a sus oídos

I could not meet his eye — no podía mirarle a los ojos

her eyes met her sister's across the table — tropezó con la mirada de su hermana al otro lado de la mesa

what a scene met my eyes! — ¡el escenario que se presentó ante mis ojos!
eye 1., 1)
5) (=come across) [+ problem] encontrarse con

almost all retired people meet this problem — casi todos los jubilados se encuentran con este problema

6) (=confront) [+ opponent] enfrentarse con; (in duel) batirse con; [+ problem] hacer frente a

he met his death or his end in 1800 — halló or encontró la muerte en 1800

to meet death calmly — enfrentarse con la muerte con tranquilidad

to meet sth head-on — enfrentarse de lleno con algo, hacer frente or plantar cara directamente a algo

this suggestion was met with angry protests — la gente reaccionó con protestas de indignación ante la sugerencia
match II, 1., 3)
7) (=satisfy) [+ need] satisfacer, cubrir; [+ demand] atender a, satisfacer; [+ wish] satisfacer; [+ requirement] cumplir con; [+ debt] pagar; [+ expense, cost] correr con, hacer frente a; [+ obligation] atender a, cumplir con; [+ target, goal] alcanzar; [+ challenge] hacer frente a; [+ expectations] estar a la altura de

he offered to meet the full cost of the repairs — se ofreció a correr con or hacer frente a todos los gastos de la reparación

it did not meet our expectations — no estuvo a la altura de nuestras expectativas
deadline
2. VI

1) (=encounter each other) (by arrangement) quedar, verse; (by chance) encontrarse; (=hold meeting) reunirse; [ambassador, politician] (with interested parties) entrevistarse, reunirse

we could meet for a drink after work — podríamos vernos or quedar para tomar una copa después del trabajo

what time shall we meet? — ¿a qué hora quieres que quedemos or nos veamos?

let's meet at eight — quedemos para las ocho

they arranged to meet at ten — quedaron en verse a las diez

the two ministers met to discuss the treaty — los dos ministros se entrevistaron or se reunieron para discutir el tratado

to meet again — volver a verse

until we meet again! — ¡hasta la vista!, ¡hasta pronto!

2) (=convene) [Parliament, club, committee] reunirse

the society meets at eight — la sociedad se reúne a las ocho

3) (=get to know one another, be introduced) conocerse

we met in Seville — nos conocimos en Sevilla

we have met before — nos conocemos ya

have we met? — ¿nos conocemos de antes?

4) (=come together, join) [two ends] unirse; [rivers] confluir; [roads] empalmar

our eyes met — cruzamos una mirada

their lips met — sus labios se encontraron
end 1., 1), twain
5) (=confront each other) [teams, armies] enfrentarse

Bilbao and Valencia will meet in the final — el Bilbao se enfrentará con el Valencia en la final, Bilbao y Valencia se disputarán la final

to meet (sb) in battle — librar batalla (con algn)

3.

N (Hunting) cacería f ; (esp US) (Sport) encuentro m

- meet up

- meet with

II

[miːt]
ADJ [liter] conveniente, apropiado
it is meet that... — conviene que... + subjun

to be meet for — ser apto para

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I
1. [miːt]
(past & past p met) transitive verb

1)

a) ( encounter) encontrarse* con

meet me on the corner at 6 o'clock — encontrémonos en la esquina a las 6

to meet somebody halfway o in the middle — llegar* a un arreglo con alguien

b) ( welcome) recibir; ( collect on arrival) ir* a buscar

she ran to meet me — corrió a mi encuentro

he met me off the train — me fue a buscar or a esperar a la estación

c) ( oppose) \<\<opponent/enemy\>\> enfrentarse a

2) ( make acquaintance of) conocer*

John, meet Mr Clark — (frml) John, le presento al señor Clark

pleased to meet you — encantado de conocerlo, mucho gusto

3)

a) (come up against, experience) encontrar*, toparse con

he met his death there — allí encontró su muerte

to be met BY/WITH something — encontrarse* con algo

there's more to this than meets the eye — esto es más complicado de lo que parece

b) (counter, respond to)

she met their threats with defiance — hizo frente desafiante a sus amenazas

she was met with enthusiastic applause — fue recibida aplausos

4) \<\<demands/wishes\>\> satisfacer*; \<\<deadline/quota\>\> cumplir con; \<\<debt\>\> satisfacer*, pagar*; \<\<obligation\>\> cumplir con; \<\<requirements\>\> reunir*, cumplir; \<\<cost\>\> hacerse* cargo de

his income is inadequate to meet his needs — su salario le es insuficiente para hacer frente a sus necesidades

5)

a) (come together with, join)

East meets West in this beautiful city — Oriente y Occidente se dan la mano en esta bella ciudad

her gaze met his — sus miradas se cruzaron

she could not meet his eye o gaze — no se atrevía a mirarlo a la cara

b) ( strike) dar* contra

2.

vi

1)

a) ( encounter each other) encontrarse*

where shall we meet? — ¿dónde nos encontramos?, ¿dónde quedamos? (esp Esp)

until we meet again! — hasta la vista!

b) ( hold meeting) \<\<club\>\> reunirse*; \<\<heads of state/ministers\>\> entrevistarse

c) ( make acquaintance) conocerse*

have you two already met? — ¿ya se conocen?, ¿ya los han presentado?

d) ( as opponents) enfrentarse

2) ( come into contact)

the vehicles met head on — los vehículos chocaron or se dieron de frente

where the three roads meet — en el empalme or en la confluencia de las tres carreteras

their eyes met — sus miradas se cruzaron

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Phrasal Verbs:

- meet up

- meet with

II

noun

a) (AmE Sport) encuentro m

b) ( in hunting) partida f (de caza)

English-spanish dictionary > meet
14 meet

1. transitive verb,
met

1) (come face to face with or into the company of) treffen

I have to meet my boss at 11 a.m. — ich habe um 11 Uhr einen Termin beim Chef

arrange to meet somebody — sich mit jemandem verabreden

2) (go to place of arrival of) treffen; (collect) abholen

I'll meet your train — ich hole dich vom Zug ab

meet somebody halfway — (fig.) jemandem [auf halbem Wege] entgegenkommen

3) (make the acquaintance of) kennen lernen

I'd like you to meet my wife — ich möchte Sie gern meiner Frau vorstellen od. mit meiner Frau bekannt machen

pleased to meet you — [sehr] angenehm; sehr erfreut

4) (reach point of contact with) treffen auf (+ Akk.)

meet the eye/somebody's eye[s] — sich den/jemandes Blicken darbieten

meet the ear/somebody's ears — das/jemandes Ohr treffen

there's more to it than meets the eye — da ist od. steckt mehr dahinter, als man zuerst denkt

5) (experience) stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Widerstand, Problem]; ernten [Gelächter, Drohungen]

meet [one's] death or one's end/disaster/one's fate — den Tod finden (geh.) /von einer Katastrophe/seinem Schicksal ereilt werden (geh.)

6) (satisfy) entsprechen (+ Dat.) [Forderung, Wunsch]; einhalten [Termin, Zeitplan]

7) (pay) decken [Kosten, Auslagen]; bezahlen [Rechnung]
2. intransitive verb,
met

1) (come face to face) (by chance) sich (Dat.) begegnen; (by arrangement) sich treffen

we've met before — wir kennen uns bereits

2) (assemble) [Komitee, Ausschuss usw.:] tagen

meet together — sich versammeln

3) (come together) [Bahnlinien, Straßen usw.:] aufeinander treffen; [Flüsse] zusammenfließen

Phrasal Verbs:

- academic.ru/89078/meet_up">meet up

- meet with

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[mi:t] 1. past tense, past participle - met; verb
1) (to come face to face with (eg a person whom one knows), by chance: She met a man on the train.) treffen

2) ((sometimes, especially American, with with) to come together with (a person etc), by arrangement: The committee meets every Monday.) zusammenkommen

3) (to be introduced to (someone) for the first time: Come and meet my wife.) kennenlernen

4) (to join: Where do the two roads meet?) sich schneiden

5) (to be equal to or satisfy (eg a person's needs, requirements etc): Will there be sufficient stocks to meet the public demand?) gerecht werden

6) (to come into the view, experience or presence of: A terrible sight met him / his eyes when he opened the door.) (ins Auge) fallen, treffen auf

7) (to come to or be faced with: He met his death in a car accident.) finden, gegenübertreten

8) ((with with) to experience or suffer; to receive a particular response: She met with an accident; The scheme met with their approval.) erleiden, stoßen auf

9) (to answer or oppose: We will meet force with greater force.) erwidern
2. noun
(a gathering, especially of sportsmen: The local huntsmen are holding a meet this week.) die Jagdgesellschaft

- meeting
- meet someone halfway
- meet halfway
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meet

[mi:t]

I. n

1. (sporting event) Sportveranstaltung f

2. BRIT (fox hunt) Jagdtreffen nt (zur Fuchsjagd)

3. COMPUT Und-/Oder-Funktion f

II. vt

<met, met>

1. (by chance)

▪ to \meet sb jdn treffen

I met her in the street ich bin ihr auf der Straße begegnet

I happened to \meet him ich habe ihn zufällig getroffen

our car met another car on the narrow road auf der engen Straße kam unserem Auto ein anderes entgegen

to \meet sb face to face jdm persönlich begegnen

2. (by arrangement)

▪ to \meet sb sich akk mit jdm treffen

\meet me in front of the library at five warte um fünf vor der Bibliothek auf mich

I arranged to \meet her on Thursday ich verabredete mich mit ihr für Donnerstag

3. (collect)

▪ to \meet sb jdn abholen

I went to the airport to \meet my brother ich fuhr zum Flughafen, um meinen Bruder abzuholen

a bus \meets every train zu jedem Zug gibt es einen Anschlussbus

4. (make acquaintance of)

▪ to \meet sb jdn kennenlernen

I'd like you to \meet my best friend Betty ich möchte dir meine beste Freundin Betty vorstellen

Frank, \meet Dorothy Frank, darf ich dir Dorothy vorstellen?

[it's] a pleasure to \meet you sehr erfreut, Sie kennenzulernen

I've never met anyone quite like her ich habe noch nie so jemanden wie sie getroffen

5. (come into contact)

▪ to \meet sth auf etw akk treffen

his eyes met hers ihre Blicke trafen sich

I met his gaze ich hielt seinem Blick stand

it's where Front Street \meets Queen Street es ist da, wo die Front Street auf die Queen Street stößt

where the mountains \meet the sea wo das Meer an die Berge heranreicht

to \meet sb's glance jds Blick erwidern

6. (fulfil)

▪ to \meet sth etw erfüllen

to \meet the cost of sth die Kosten für etw akk übernehmen

to \meet a deadline einen Termin einhalten

to \meet [the] demand die Nachfrage befriedigen

to \meet sb's expenses für jds Kosten aufkommen

to \meet an obligation einer Verpflichtung nachkommen

7. (deal with)

▪ to \meet sth etw dat entgegentreten

they had to \meet the threat posed by the Austrians sie mussten auf die Bedrohung durch die Österreicher reagieren

to \meet a challenge sich akk einer Herausforderung stellen

to \meet objections Einwände widerlegen

8. (experience)

▪ to \meet sth mit etw dat konfrontiert sein

these are the kind of difficulties you \meet on the road to success dies sind die Schwierigkeiten, die dir auf dem Weg zum Erfolg begegnen

the troops met stiff opposition die Truppen stießen auf starke Gegenwehr

9. (fight)

▪ to \meet sb SPORT auf jdn treffen, gegen jdn antreten; MIL gegen jdn kämpfen

to \meet an enemy in battle einem Feind in der Schlacht begegnen

10.

▶ to \meet danger head on sich dat der Gefahr stellen

▶ to \meet one's death den Tod finden

▶ to go to \meet one's maker das Zeitliche segnen

▶ to \meet sb halfway jdm auf halbem Weg entgegenkommen

▶ to make ends \meet über die Runden kommen

▶ to \meet one's match seinen Meister finden

▶ there's more to this than \meets the eye es steckt mehr dahinter, als es den Anschein hat

▶ to \meet one's Waterloo BRIT sein Waterloo erleben

III. vi

<met, met>

1. (by chance) sich dat begegnen

we met in the street wir sind uns auf der Straße begegnet

2. (by arrangement) sich akk treffen

to \meet for a drink/for lunch sich akk auf einen Drink/zum Mittagessen treffen

3. (get acquainted) sich akk kennenlernen

no, we haven't met nein, wir kennen uns noch nicht

I've mistrusted him from the day we met ich habe ihm vom ersten Tag [unserer Bekanntschaft] an misstraut

4. (congregate) zusammenkommen

Congress will \meet next week der Kongress wird nächsten Monat tagen

the children's club \meets every Thursday afternoon der Kinderklub trifft sich jeden Donnerstagnachmittag

the committee is \meeting to discuss the issue tomorrow der Ausschuss tritt morgen zusammen, um über die Frage zu beraten

5. SPORT aufeinandertreffen, gegeneinander antreten

6. (join) zusammentreffen; roads, lines zusammenlaufen; counties, states aneinandergrenzen

the curtains don't \meet die Vorhänge gehen nicht zusammen

their hands met under the table ihre Hände begegneten sich unter dem Tisch

our eyes met unsere Blicke trafen sich

their lips met in a passionate kiss ihre Lippen trafen sich zu einem leidenschaftlichen Kuss

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I [miːt]
adj (obs)
geziemend (liter)
it is meet that... — es ist billig or (ge)ziemt sich (liter, old), dass...

to be meet for — sich (ge)ziemen für (liter, old)
II [miːt] vb: pret, ptp met
1. vt

1) (= encounter) person treffen, begegnen (+dat); (by arrangement) treffen, sich treffen mit; difficulty stoßen auf (+acc); (SPORT) treffen auf (+acc)

I'll meet you outside — ich treffe euch draußen

he met his guests at the door —

he met him in a duel — er duellierte sich mit ihm

he met his death in 1800 —

to meet death calmly — dem Tod gefasst entgegentreten

to arrange to meet sb — sich mit jdm verabreden

to meet a challenge — sich einer Herausforderung (dat) stellen

the last time the two teams met there was a riot — bei der letzten Begegnung zwischen beiden Teams kam es zu heftigen Auseinandersetzungen

his eyes or gaze met mine — unsere Blicke trafen sich

she refused to meet his eyes or gaze — sie wich seinem Blick aus

I could not meet his eyes — ich konnte ihm nicht in die Augen sehen

there's more to it than meets the eye — da steckt mehr dahinter, als man auf den ersten Blick meint

2) (= get to know) kennenlernen; (= be introduced to) bekannt gemacht werden mit

you don't know him? come and meet him — du kennst ihn nicht? komm, ich mache dich mit ihm bekannt

pleased to meet you! — guten Tag/Abend, sehr angenehm! (form)

3) (= await arrival, collect) abholen (at an +dat, von); (= connect with) train, boat etc Anschluss haben an (+acc)

I'll meet your train —

the car will meet the train — der Wagen wartet am Bahnhof or steht am Bahnhof bereit

4) (= join, run into) treffen or stoßen auf (+acc); (= converge with) sich vereinigen mit; (river) münden or fließen in (+acc); (= intersect) schneiden; (= touch) berühren

where East meets West (fig) — wo Ost und West sich treffen

5) expectations, target, obligations, deadline erfüllen; requirement, demand, wish entsprechen (+dat), gerecht werden (+dat); deficit, expenses, needs decken; debt bezahlen, begleichen; charge, objection, criticism begegnen (+dat)

2. vi

1) (= encounter) (people) sich begegnen; (by arrangement) sich treffen; (society, committee etc) zusammenkommen, tagen; (SPORT) aufeinandertreffen; (in duel) sich duellieren

keep it until we meet again — behalten Sie es, bis wir uns mal wiedersehen

until we meet again! — bis zum nächsten Mal!

to meet halfway — einen Kompromiss schließen

2) (= become acquainted) sich kennenlernen; (= be introduced) bekannt gemacht werden

we've met before — wir kennen uns bereits

haven't we met before somewhere? — sind wir uns nicht schon mal begegnet?, kennen wir uns nicht irgendwoher?

3) (= join) sich treffen, aufeinanderstoßen; (= converge) sich vereinigen; (rivers) ineinanderfließen; (= intersect) sich schneiden; (= touch) sich berühren; (fig = come together) sich treffen

our eyes met — unsere Blicke trafen sich

the skirt wouldn't meet round her waist — der Rock ging an der Taille nicht zu

3. n (Brit HUNT)
Jagd(veranstaltung) f; (US) (ATHLETICS) Sportfest nt; (SWIMMING) Schwimmfest nt
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meet [miːt]

A v/t prät und pperf met [met]

1. a) begegnen (dat), zusammentreffen mit, treffen (auf akk), antreffen:

meet each other einander begegnen, sich treffen;

well met obs schön, dass wir uns treffen!

b) treffen, sich treffen mit

2. jemanden kennenlernen:

when I first met him als ich seine Bekanntschaft machte, als ich ihn kennenlernte;

pleased to meet you umg sehr erfreut(, Sie kennenzulernen)!;

meet Mr. Brown bes US darf ich Ihnen Herrn Brown vorstellen?

3. jemanden abholen:

meet sb at the station, meet sb off the train, meet sb’s train jemanden von der Bahn oder vom Bahnhof abholen;

be met abgeholt oder empfangen werden;

come (go) to meet sb jemandem entgegenkommen (-gehen)

4. → halfway B 1

5. gegenübertreten (dat) (auch fig)

6. (feindlich) zusammentreffen oder -stoßen mit, begegnen (dat), SPORT auch antreten gegen, auf einen Gegner treffen: → fate 2

7. fig entgegentreten (dat):

a) einer Sache abhelfen

b) Schwierigkeiten überwinden, ein Problem lösen, fertig werden mit, Herr werden (gen):

meet the competition der Konkurrenz begegnen

c) Einwände widerlegen, entgegnen auf (akk)

8. fig (an)treffen, finden, erfahren

9. POL sich dem Parlament vorstellen (neue Regierung)

10. a) berühren

b) münden in (akk) (Straße etc)

c) stoßen oder treffen auf (akk):

meet sb’s eye jemandem ins Auge fallen oder auffallen;

she met his eyes ihre Blicke trafen sich;

meet sb’s eyes jemandem in die Augen sehen;

meet the eye auffallen;

there is more to it than meets the eye da steckt mehr dahinter

11. versammeln (besonders passiv):

be met sich zusammengefunden haben, beisammen sein

12. den Anforderungen etc entsprechen, gerecht werden (dat), übereinstimmen mit, Bedarf, Nachfrage etc decken:

the supply meets the demand das Angebot entspricht der Nachfrage;

be well met gut zusammenpassen;

that won’t meet my case das löst mein Problem nicht, damit komme ich nicht weiter

13. jemandes Wünschen entgegenkommen oder entsprechen, eine Forderung erfüllen, einen Termin einhalten, einer Verpflichtung nachkommen, Unkosten bestreiten oder decken, eine Rechnung begleichen:

meet a demand

a) einer Forderung nachkommen,

b) eine Nachfrage befriedigen;

meet sb’s expenses jemandes Auslagen decken;

meet a bill WIRTSCH einen Wechsel honorieren

B v/i

1. zusammenkommen, -treffen, -treten, sich versammeln, tagen

2. sich begegnen, sich (auch verabredungsgemäß) treffen:

their eyes met ihre Blicke trafen sich;

we have met (before) wir kennen uns schon;

have we met before? kennen wir uns?;

meet again sich wiedersehen

3. (feindlich) zusammenstoßen, aneinandergeraten, SPORT aufeinandertreffen, sich begegnen (Gegner)

4. sich kennenlernen

5. a) sich vereinigen (Straßen etc)

b) sich berühren, in Berührung kommen (auch Interessen etc)

6. genau zusammentreffen oder -stimmen oder -passen, sich decken:

this skirt does not meet dieser Rock ist zu eng oder geht nicht zu; → end Bes Redew

7. meet with

a) zusammentreffen mit,

b) sich treffen mit,

c) (an)treffen, finden, (zufällig) stoßen auf (akk),

d) erleben, erleiden, erfahren, betroffen oder befallen werden von, erhalten, bekommen:

meet with an accident einen Unfall erleiden oder haben, verunglücken;

meet with (sb’s) approval (jemandes) Billigung oder Beifall finden;

meet with a refusal auf Ablehnung stoßen;

meet with success Erfolg haben;

meet with a kind reception freundlich aufgenommen werden

C s

1. besonders US

a) Treffen n (von Zügen etc)

b) → meeting 6 b

2. JAGD besonders Br

a) Jagdtreffen n (zur Fuchsjagd)

b) Jagdgesellschaft f

c) Sammelplatz m

D adj obs

1. passend

2. angemessen, geziemend:

it is meet that … es schickt sich, dass …

* * *
1. transitive verb,
met

1) (come face to face with or into the company of) treffen

I have to meet my boss at 11 a.m. — ich habe um 11 Uhr einen Termin beim Chef

arrange to meet somebody — sich mit jemandem verabreden

2) (go to place of arrival of) treffen; (collect) abholen

I'll meet your train — ich hole dich vom Zug ab

meet somebody halfway — (fig.) jemandem [auf halbem Wege] entgegenkommen

3) (make the acquaintance of) kennen lernen

I'd like you to meet my wife — ich möchte Sie gern meiner Frau vorstellen od. mit meiner Frau bekannt machen

pleased to meet you — [sehr] angenehm; sehr erfreut

4) (reach point of contact with) treffen auf (+ Akk.)

meet the eye/somebody's eye[s] — sich den/jemandes Blicken darbieten

meet the ear/somebody's ears — das/jemandes Ohr treffen

there's more to it than meets the eye — da ist od. steckt mehr dahinter, als man zuerst denkt

5) (experience) stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Widerstand, Problem]; ernten [Gelächter, Drohungen]

meet [one's] death or one's end/disaster/one's fate — den Tod finden (geh.) /von einer Katastrophe/seinem Schicksal ereilt werden (geh.)

6) (satisfy) entsprechen (+ Dat.) [Forderung, Wunsch]; einhalten [Termin, Zeitplan]

7) (pay) decken [Kosten, Auslagen]; bezahlen [Rechnung]
2. intransitive verb,
met

1) (come face to face) (by chance) sich (Dat.) begegnen; (by arrangement) sich treffen

we've met before — wir kennen uns bereits

2) (assemble) [Komitee, Ausschuss usw.:] tagen

meet together — sich versammeln

3) (come together) [Bahnlinien, Straßen usw.:] aufeinander treffen; [Flüsse] zusammenfließen

Phrasal Verbs:

- meet up

- meet with

* * *

adj.

begegnen adj.

entsprechen adj. v.

(§ p.,p.p.: met)

= begegnen (+Dat.) v.

begegnen v.

sich treffen v.

sich versammeln v.

treffen v.

(§ p.,pp.: traf, getroffen)

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15 Edison, Thomas Alva

SUBJECT AREA: Architecture and building, Automotive engineering, Electricity, Electronics and information technology, Metallurgy, Photography, film and optics, Public utilities, Recording, Telecommunications

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b. 11 February 1847 Milan, Ohio, USA

d. 18 October 1931 Glenmont

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American inventor and pioneer electrical developer.

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He was the son of Samuel Edison, who was in the timber business. His schooling was delayed due to scarlet fever until 1855, when he was 8½ years old, but he was an avid reader. By the age of 14 he had a job as a newsboy on the railway from Port Huron to Detroit, a distance of sixty-three miles (101 km). He worked a fourteen-hour day with a stopover of five hours, which he spent in the Detroit Free Library. He also sold sweets on the train and, later, fruit and vegetables, and was soon making a profit of $20 a week. He then started two stores in Port Huron and used a spare freight car as a laboratory. He added a hand-printing press to produce 400 copies weekly of The Grand Trunk Herald, most of which he compiled and edited himself. He set himself to learn telegraphy from the station agent at Mount Clements, whose son he had saved from being run over by a freight car.

At the age of 16 he became a telegraphist at Port Huron. In 1863 he became railway telegraphist at the busy Stratford Junction of the Grand Trunk Railroad, arranging a clock with a notched wheel to give the hourly signal which was to prove that he was awake and at his post! He left hurriedly after failing to hold a train which was nearly involved in a head-on collision. He usually worked the night shift, allowing himself time for experiments during the day. His first invention was an arrangement of two Morse registers so that a high-speed input could be decoded at a slower speed. Moving from place to place he held many positions as a telegraphist. In Boston he invented an automatic vote recorder for Congress and patented it, but the idea was rejected. This was the first of a total of 1180 patents that he was to take out during his lifetime. After six years he resigned from the Western Union Company to devote all his time to invention, his next idea being an improved ticker-tape machine for stockbrokers. He developed a duplex telegraphy system, but this was turned down by the Western Union Company. He then moved to New York.

Edison found accommodation in the battery room of Law's Gold Reporting Company, sleeping in the cellar, and there his repair of a broken transmitter marked him as someone of special talents. His superior soon resigned, and he was promoted with a salary of $300 a month. Western Union paid him $40,000 for the sole rights on future improvements on the duplex telegraph, and he moved to Ward Street, Newark, New Jersey, where he employed a gathering of specialist engineers. Within a year, he married one of his employees, Mary Stilwell, when she was only 16: a daughter, Marion, was born in 1872, and two sons, Thomas and William, in 1876 and 1879, respectively.

He continued to work on the automatic telegraph, a device to send out messages faster than they could be tapped out by hand: that is, over fifty words per minute or so. An earlier machine by Alexander Bain worked at up to 400 words per minute, but was not good over long distances. Edison agreed to work on improving this feature of Bain's machine for the Automatic Telegraph Company (ATC) for $40,000. He improved it to a working speed of 500 words per minute and ran a test between Washington and New York. Hoping to sell their equipment to the Post Office in Britain, ATC sent Edison to England in 1873 to negotiate. A 500-word message was to be sent from Liverpool to London every half-hour for six hours, followed by tests on 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of cable at Greenwich. Only confused results were obtained due to induction in the cable, which lay coiled in a water tank. Edison returned to New York, where he worked on his quadruplex telegraph system, tests of which proved a success between New York and Albany in December 1874. Unfortunately, simultaneous negotiation with Western Union and ATC resulted in a lawsuit.

Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for a telephone in March 1876 while Edison was still working on the same idea. His improvements allowed the device to operate over a distance of hundreds of miles instead of only a few miles. Tests were carried out over the 106 miles (170 km) between New York and Philadelphia. Edison applied for a patent on the carbon-button transmitter in April 1877, Western Union agreeing to pay him $6,000 a year for the seventeen-year duration of the patent. In these years he was also working on the development of the electric lamp and on a duplicating machine which would make up to 3,000 copies from a stencil. In 1876–7 he moved from Newark to Menlo Park, twenty-four miles (39 km) from New York on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Elizabeth. He had bought a house there around which he built the premises that would become his "inventions factory". It was there that he began the use of his 200- page pocket notebooks, each of which lasted him about two weeks, so prolific were his ideas. When he died he left 3,400 of them filled with notes and sketches.

Late in 1877 he applied for a patent for a phonograph which was granted on 19 February 1878, and by the end of the year he had formed a company to manufacture this totally new product. At the time, Edison saw the device primarily as a business aid rather than for entertainment, rather as a dictating machine. In August 1878 he was granted a British patent. In July 1878 he tried to measure the heat from the solar corona at a solar eclipse viewed from Rawlins, Wyoming, but his "tasimeter" was too sensitive.

Probably his greatest achievement was "The Subdivision of the Electric Light" or the "glow bulb". He tried many materials for the filament before settling on carbon. He gave a demonstration of electric light by lighting up Menlo Park and inviting the public. Edison was, of course, faced with the problem of inventing and producing all the ancillaries which go to make up the electrical system of generation and distribution-meters, fuses, insulation, switches, cabling—even generators had to be designed and built; everything was new. He started a number of manufacturing companies to produce the various components needed.

In 1881 he built the world's largest generator, which weighed 27 tons, to light 1,200 lamps at the Paris Exhibition. It was later moved to England to be used in the world's first central power station with steam engine drive at Holborn Viaduct, London. In September 1882 he started up his Pearl Street Generating Station in New York, which led to a worldwide increase in the application of electric power, particularly for lighting. At the same time as these developments, he built a 1,300yd (1,190m) electric railway at Menlo Park.

On 9 August 1884 his wife died of typhoid. Using his telegraphic skills, he proposed to 19-year-old Mina Miller in Morse code while in the company of others on a train. He married her in February 1885 before buying a new house and estate at West Orange, New Jersey, building a new laboratory not far away in the Orange Valley.

Edison used direct current which was limited to around 250 volts. Alternating current was largely developed by George Westinghouse and Nicola Tesla, using transformers to step up the current to a higher voltage for long-distance transmission. The use of AC gradually overtook the Edison DC system.

In autumn 1888 he patented a form of cinephotography, the kinetoscope, obtaining film-stock from George Eastman. In 1893 he set up the first film studio, which was pivoted so as to catch the sun, with a hinged roof which could be raised. In 1894 kinetoscope parlours with "peep shows" were starting up in cities all over America. Competition came from the Latham Brothers with a screen-projection machine, which Edison answered with his "Vitascope", shown in New York in 1896. This showed pictures with accompanying sound, but there was some difficulty with synchronization. Edison also experimented with captions at this early date.

In 1880 he filed a patent for a magnetic ore separator, the first of nearly sixty. He bought up deposits of low-grade iron ore which had been developed in the north of New Jersey. The process was a commercial success until the discovery of iron-rich ore in Minnesota rendered it uneconomic and uncompetitive. In 1898 cement rock was discovered in New Village, west of West Orange. Edison bought the land and started cement manufacture, using kilns twice the normal length and using half as much fuel to heat them as the normal type of kiln. In 1893 he met Henry Ford, who was building his second car, at an Edison convention. This started him on the development of a battery for an electric car on which he made over 9,000 experiments. In 1903 he sold his patent for wireless telegraphy "for a song" to Guglielmo Marconi.

In 1910 Edison designed a prefabricated concrete house. In December 1914 fire destroyed three-quarters of the West Orange plant, but it was at once rebuilt, and with the threat of war Edison started to set up his own plants for making all the chemicals that he had previously been buying from Europe, such as carbolic acid, phenol, benzol, aniline dyes, etc. He was appointed President of the Navy Consulting Board, for whom, he said, he made some forty-five inventions, "but they were pigeonholed, every one of them". Thus did Edison find that the Navy did not take kindly to civilian interference.

In 1927 he started the Edison Botanic Research Company, founded with similar investment from Ford and Firestone with the object of finding a substitute for overseas-produced rubber. In the first year he tested no fewer than 3,327 possible plants, in the second year, over 1,400, eventually developing a variety of Golden Rod which grew to 14 ft (4.3 m) in height. However, all this effort and money was wasted, due to the discovery of synthetic rubber.

In October 1929 he was present at Henry Ford's opening of his Dearborn Museum to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the incandescent lamp, including a replica of the Menlo Park laboratory. He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal and was elected to the American Academy of Sciences. He died in 1931 at his home, Glenmont; throughout the USA, lights were dimmed temporarily on the day of his funeral.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Member of the American Academy of Sciences. Congressional Gold Medal.

Further Reading

M.Josephson, 1951, Edison, Eyre \& Spottiswode.

R.W.Clark, 1977, Edison, the Man who Made the Future, Macdonald \& Jane.

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16 spot

spot
1. noun
1) (a small mark or stain (made by mud, paint etc): She was trying to remove a spot of grease from her skirt.) mancha

2) (a small, round mark of a different colour from its background: His tie was blue with white spots.) punto

3) (a pimple or red mark on the skin caused by an illness etc: She had measles and was covered in spots.) grano

4) (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.) sitio, lugar

5) (a small amount: Can I borrow a spot of sugar?) poquito

2. verb
1) (to catch sight of: She spotted him eventually at the very back of the crowd.) ver

2) (to recognize or pick out: No-one watching the play was able to spot the murderer.) reconocer

•

- spotless
- spotlessly
- spotlessness
- spotted
- spotty
- spottiness
- spot check
- spotlight
3. verb
1) (to light with a spotlight: The stage was spotlit.)

2) (to show up clearly or draw attention to: The incident spotlighted the difficulties with which we were faced.)

•

- in a spot
- on the spot
- spot on

spot¹ n

1. grano

he had spots all over his face tenía la cara llena de granos

2. lunar / topo

a green shirt with yellow spots una camisa verde con lunares amarillos

3. lugar / sitio

a lovely spot by the river un lugar bonito cerca del río

spot² vb notar / ver

I spotted the mistake noté el error

they've spotted us! ¡nos han visto!

El pasado y participio pasado de spot se escribe spotted; el gerundio se escribe spotting

spot /(e)s'pot/ sustantivo masculino (pl
◊ spots) tb spot publicitario ( espacio) slot;
( anuncio) commercial, advertisement (BrE) ' spot' also found in these entries: Spanish: afear - aprieto - apuro - brete - débil - debilidad - flaca - flaco - grano - lance - llaga - luminosa - luminoso - lunar - mancha - merendero - paraje - parte - pinta - rincón - salir - sebo - solana - acto - atinado - caer - chispear - clavado - conflictivo - encontrar - espinilla - paso - preciso - punto - vaina - ver English: beauty spot - come off - commercial - penalty spot - spot - spot-check - spot-on - tight - beauty - blind - breezy - distant - frozen - hide - hot - place - rooted - sun - tender - trouble - wonder

spot

tr[spɒt]

noun

1 (dot) punto; (on fabric) lunar nombre masculino, mota; (on animal) mancha

2 (mark, stain) mancha

3 (blemish, pimple) grano

4 (place) sitio, lugar nombre masculino

■ what a lovely spot for a picnic! ¡qué lugar más bonito para un picnic!

■ this is the exact spot where he was killed este es el lugar exacto donde lo mataron

■ a night spot un local nocturno

■ accident black spot punto negro

■ trouble spot punto conflictivo

5 (area of body) punto; (flaw) mancha

■ weak spot punto débil, punto flaco

6 (fix, trouble) lío, aprieto, apuro

■ I'm in a tight spot estoy en un aprieto

7 (place in broadcast) espacio

■ she has a guest spot on a radio programme aparece como invitada en un programa de radio

8 familiar (small amount) poquito, poquitín nombre masculino; (drop) gota

■ a spot of rain un poco de lluvia

■ a spot of lunch algo de comer

■ a spot of bother un problemilla, un pequeño disgusto

9 (position) puesto

10 familiar (spotlight) foco

11 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL familiar (banknote) billete nombre masculino

transitive verb (pt & pp spotted, ger spotting)

1 (notice) darse cuenta de, notar; (see) ver; (recognize) reconocer; (find) encontrar, descubrir; (catch out) pillar

■ we spotted him in the crowd lo vimos entre la multitud

■ can you spot the mistake? ¿puedes descubrir el error?

■ a golden eagle has been spotted near here han visto una águila real cerca de aquí

■ she was spotted leaving his apartment la vieron salir de su apartamento

■ he was spotted by the Arsenal manager fue descubierto por el entrenador del Arsenal

2 (mark with spots) motear; (stain) manchar, salpicar

intransitive verb

1 SMALLBRITISH ENGLISH/SMALL (rain) chispear, lloviznar

adjective

1 (price, cash) contante, al contado

\

SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

on the spot (at once, then and there) en ese mismo momento, en el acto, allí mismo 2 (at the place of the action) en el lugar del los hechos, en el lugar del crimen 3 (without moving away) en el lugar

■ he was killed on the spot murió en el acto

■ the police were on the spot within minutes la policía llegó al lugar a los pocos minutos

to see spots before one's eyes ver manchas

to knock spots off somebody (defeat) vencer fácilmente a alguien 2 (surpass) dejar atrás a alguien

to put somebody on the spot poner a alguien en un aprieto

to spot the winner elegir el ganador

penalty spot punto de penalti

spot cash dinero contante

spot check control nombre masculino hecho al azar

spot fine multa que se paga en el acto

spot welding soldadura por puntos

spot ['spɑt] v, spotted ; spotting vt

1) stain: manchar

2) recognize, see: ver, reconocer

to spot an error: descubrir un error

spot vi

: mancharse

spot adj

: hecho al azar

a spot check: un vistazo, un control aleatorio

spot n

1) stain: mancha f

2) dot: punto m

3) pimple: grano m

to break out in spots: salirle granos a alguien

4) predicament: apuro m, aprieto m, lío m

in a tight spot: en apuros

5) place: lugar m, sitio m

to be on the spot: estar en el lugar

spot

adj.

• contante adj.

• disponible adj.

n.

• asiento s.m.

• chafarrinón s.m.

• desdoro s.m.

• deslustre s.m.

• espacio publicitario s.m.

• lugar s.m.

• lunar s.m.

• mancha s.f.

• mancilla s.f.

• mácula s.f.

• paraje s.m.

• pinta s.f.

• puesto s.m.

• sitio s.m.

v.

• amancillar v.

• chafarrinar v.

• macular v.

• manchar v.

• mancillar v.

• tiznar v.

• vislumbrar v.

I spɑːt, spɒt
noun

1)

a) ( dot - on material) lunar m, mota f, pepa f (Col, Ven fam); (- on animal's skin) mancha f

to knock spots off something/somebody — (colloq) darle* cien or cien mil vueltas a algo/alguien (fam), darle* sopas con honda(s) a algo/alguien (Esp fam)

b) (blemish, stain) mancha f

c) ( pimple) (BrE) grano m, espinilla f (AmL)

she broke out o came out in spots — le salieron granos

2)

a) (location, place) lugar m, sitio m

don't move from that spot until I get back — no te muevas de ahí hasta que vuelva

on the spot: firemen were quickly on the spot los bomberos se presentaron sin demora en el lugar del siniestro; he had to decide on the spot tuvo que decidir en ese mismo momento; they were killed on the spot los mataron allí mismo; on-the-spot fine multa que se paga en el acto; to be rooted to the spot — quedarse clavado en el sitio or paralizado

b) ( difficult situation)

to be in a (tight) spot — estar* en apuros or en un lío or en un aprieto

to put somebody on the spot — poner* a alguien en un apuro or aprieto

3) (of character, personality) punto m

science is my weak spot — las ciencias son mi punto débil

you've touched a rather sore spot there — has puesto el dedo en la llaga

to have a soft spot for somebody/something — (colloq) tener* debilidad por alguien/algo

to hit the spot — (esp AmE) caer* muy bien

4)

a) ( drop) gota f

b) ( small amount) (BrE colloq) (no pl)

do you fancy a spot of supper? — ¿quieres cenar algo?

the garden could do with a spot of rain — al jardín le vendría bien que lloviera un poco

5) (Rad, TV) ( time) espacio m

a commercial spot — un spot publicitario, una cuña publicitaria, un anuncio

6) (position, job) (AmE) puesto m

7) spotlight

II

transitive verb - tt-

1) \<\<error\>\> descubrir*; \<\<bargain\>\> encontrar*

he finally spotted her in the crowd — al final la vio or la divisó or (AmL tb) la ubicó entre el gentío

he's good at spotting talent — sabe reconocer talento donde lo hay

see if you can spot the difference — a ver si te das cuenta de cuál es la diferencia

2) ( mark) (usu pass) manchar

[spɒt]
1. N

1) (=dot) lunar m

a red dress with white spots — un vestido rojo con lunares blancos

to have spots before one's eyes — tener la vista nublada

- knock spots off sb

this can knock spots off yours any time * — este le da ciento y raya al tuyo en cualquier momento

2) (=stain, mark) mancha f

spots of blood/grease — manchas de sangre/grasa

it made a spot on the table — hizo una mancha en la mesa

there's a spot on your shirt — tienes una mancha en la camisa

3) (Med) (=pimple) grano m, granito m

• she broke out or came out in spots — (=pimples) le salieron granos en la piel; (=rash) le salió un sarpullido, le salieron granos en la piel

• he's covered in spots — (=pimples) está lleno de granos; (=rash) le ha salido un sarpullido por todo el cuerpo, está lleno de granos

• measles spots — manchas fpl de sarampión
beauty 2.
4) (=place) sitio m, lugar m ; (=scene) escena f, escenario m

it's a lovely spot for a picnic — es un sitio or lugar precioso para un picnic

a tender spot on the arm — un punto or lugar sensible en el brazo

• an accident black spot — un punto negro para los accidentes

• night spot — centro m nocturno

• on the spot — (=immediately) en el acto; (=there) en el mismo sitio

they gave her the job on the spot — le dieron el trabajo en el acto

luckily they were able to mend the car on the spot — afortunadamente consiguieron arreglar el coche allí mismo

the reporter was on the spot — el reportero estaba presente

the firemen were on the spot in three minutes — los bomberos acudieron or llegaron en tres minutos

I always have to be on the spot — estoy de servicio siempre

our man on the spot — nuestro hombre sobre el terreno

to run on the spot — correr en parada

to pay cash on the spot — (US) pagar al contado

• his soft spot — su debilidad, su punto flaco, su lado flaco (LAm)

to have a soft spot for sb — tener debilidad por algn

• his weak spot — su debilidad, su punto flaco, su lado flaco (LAm)

to know sb's weak spots — conocer las debilidades de algn, saber de qué pie cojea algn *

- touch a sore spot

5) (Brit) * (=small quantity) poquito m, pizca f

just a spot, thanks — un poquitín, gracias

• a spot of bother — un pequeño disgusto

he had a spot of bother with the police — se metió en un lío con la policía *

• we had a spot of rain yesterday — ayer se sintieron gotas de lluvia

• we're in a spot of trouble — estamos en un pequeño apuro

6) (=difficulty) apuro m, aprieto m

• to be in a (tight) spot — estar en un apuro or aprieto

• now I'm really on the spot — ahora me veo de verdad entre la espada y la pared

• to put sb on the spot — (=put in difficulty) poner a algn en un apuro or aprieto; (=compromise) comprometer a algn

7) (Rad, Theat, TV) (in show) espacio m ; (Rad, TV) (=advertisement) espacio m publicitario

8) * (=spotlight) foco m

2. VT

1) (with mud etc) salpicar, manchar ( with de)

2) (=notice) darse cuenta de, notar; (=see) observar, darse cuenta de; (=recognize) reconocer; (=catch out) coger, pillar

I spotted a mistake — descubrí un error

I spotted him at once — lo reconocí en seguida

to spot the winner — elegir al ganador

3.

VI

to spot with rain — chispear

4.

CPD

spot cash N — dinero m contante

spot check N — comprobación f en el acto, reconocimiento m rápido
spot-check
spot fine N — multa f que se paga en el acto

spot market N — mercado m al contado

spot price N — precio m de entrega inmediata

spot remover N — quitamanchas m inv

spot survey N — inspección f sorpresa

* * *

I [spɑːt, spɒt]
noun

1)

a) ( dot - on material) lunar m, mota f, pepa f (Col, Ven fam); (- on animal's skin) mancha f

to knock spots off something/somebody — (colloq) darle* cien or cien mil vueltas a algo/alguien (fam), darle* sopas con honda(s) a algo/alguien (Esp fam)

b) (blemish, stain) mancha f

c) ( pimple) (BrE) grano m, espinilla f (AmL)

she broke out o came out in spots — le salieron granos

2)

a) (location, place) lugar m, sitio m

don't move from that spot until I get back — no te muevas de ahí hasta que vuelva

on the spot: firemen were quickly on the spot los bomberos se presentaron sin demora en el lugar del siniestro; he had to decide on the spot tuvo que decidir en ese mismo momento; they were killed on the spot los mataron allí mismo; on-the-spot fine multa que se paga en el acto; to be rooted to the spot — quedarse clavado en el sitio or paralizado

b) ( difficult situation)

to be in a (tight) spot — estar* en apuros or en un lío or en un aprieto

to put somebody on the spot — poner* a alguien en un apuro or aprieto

3) (of character, personality) punto m

science is my weak spot — las ciencias son mi punto débil

you've touched a rather sore spot there — has puesto el dedo en la llaga

to have a soft spot for somebody/something — (colloq) tener* debilidad por alguien/algo

to hit the spot — (esp AmE) caer* muy bien

4)

a) ( drop) gota f

b) ( small amount) (BrE colloq) (no pl)

do you fancy a spot of supper? — ¿quieres cenar algo?

the garden could do with a spot of rain — al jardín le vendría bien que lloviera un poco

5) (Rad, TV) ( time) espacio m

a commercial spot — un spot publicitario, una cuña publicitaria, un anuncio

6) (position, job) (AmE) puesto m

7) spotlight

II

transitive verb - tt-

1) \<\<error\>\> descubrir*; \<\<bargain\>\> encontrar*

he finally spotted her in the crowd — al final la vio or la divisó or (AmL tb) la ubicó entre el gentío

he's good at spotting talent — sabe reconocer talento donde lo hay

see if you can spot the difference — a ver si te das cuenta de cuál es la diferencia

2) ( mark) (usu pass) manchar

English-spanish dictionary > spot
17 spot

I [spɒt]
nome

1) (on animal) macchia f., chiazza f.; (on fabric) pois m.; (on dice, domino) punto m.

to see spots before one's eyes — vedere delle macchioline

2) (stain) macchia f., chiazza f.

3) (pimple) pustola f., brufolo m.

to come out in spots — riempirsi di brufoli

4) (place) luogo m., posto m., punto m.

to be on the spot — essere sul posto

to decide on the spot — decidere seduta stante o su due piedi

this record has been on the top spot for two weeks — questo disco è in cima alle classifiche da due settimane

5) colloq. (small amount)

a spot of cream, of gin — un po' di crema, un goccio di gin

a spot of sightseeing — un breve giro turistico

would you like a spot of lunch? — ti va qualcosa per pranzo?

to have o be in a spot of bother — avere un bel grattacapo

6) (drop) goccia f.

7) colloq. (difficulty)

to be in a (tight) spot — essere nei pasticci

to put sb. on the spot — mettere qcn. alle strette

8) comm. comunicato m. pubblicitario, spot m.

9) telev. rad. (regular slot) spazio m. fisso, passaggio m. fisso

10) (moral blemish) macchia f.

it's a spot on his reputation — è una macchia per la sua reputazione

11) cinem. teatr. riflettore m., spot m.; (in home) faretto m.

12) sport (for penalty kick) dischetto m. (del rigore); (for snooker ball) acchito m.

••

to change one's spots — cambiare vita o abitudini

to knock spots off sth., sb. — superare di gran lunga qcs., qcn
II 1. [spɒt]
verbo transitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - tt-)

1) (see) vedere, individuare, scorgere

to spot sb. doing — vedere qcn. mentre sta facendo

well spotted! — che vista!

2) (recognize) riconoscere, distinguere [car, person, symptoms]; scoprire, individuare [defect, difference]; fiutare [ bargain]; osservare [birds, trains]

3) (stain) macchiare [carpet, shirt]
2.
verbo impersonale (forma in -ing ecc. - tt-) (rain)

it's spotting — pioviggina

* * *
[spot] 1. noun
1) (a small mark or stain (made by mud, paint etc): She was trying to remove a spot of grease from her skirt.) macchia

2) (a small, round mark of a different colour from its background: His tie was blue with white spots.) pallino

3) (a pimple or red mark on the skin caused by an illness etc: She had measles and was covered in spots.) macchia, macchiolina

4) (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.) posto, luogo

5) (a small amount: Can I borrow a spot of sugar?) un po' di
2. verb
1) (to catch sight of: She spotted him eventually at the very back of the crowd.) individuare, riconoscere

2) (to recognize or pick out: No-one watching the play was able to spot the murderer.) individuare, indovinare

•

- spotless
- spotlessly
- spotlessness
- spotted
- spotty
- spottiness
- spot check
- spotlight 3. verb
1) (to light with a spotlight: The stage was spotlit.) (illuminare con un proiettore/riflettore)

2) (to show up clearly or draw attention to: The incident spotlighted the difficulties with which we were faced.) (mettere in evidenza)

•

- in a spot
- on the spot
- spot on
* * *
I [spɒt]
nome

1) (on animal) macchia f., chiazza f.; (on fabric) pois m.; (on dice, domino) punto m.

to see spots before one's eyes — vedere delle macchioline

2) (stain) macchia f., chiazza f.

3) (pimple) pustola f., brufolo m.

to come out in spots — riempirsi di brufoli

4) (place) luogo m., posto m., punto m.

to be on the spot — essere sul posto

to decide on the spot — decidere seduta stante o su due piedi

this record has been on the top spot for two weeks — questo disco è in cima alle classifiche da due settimane

5) colloq. (small amount)

a spot of cream, of gin — un po' di crema, un goccio di gin

a spot of sightseeing — un breve giro turistico

would you like a spot of lunch? — ti va qualcosa per pranzo?

to have o be in a spot of bother — avere un bel grattacapo

6) (drop) goccia f.

7) colloq. (difficulty)

to be in a (tight) spot — essere nei pasticci

to put sb. on the spot — mettere qcn. alle strette

8) comm. comunicato m. pubblicitario, spot m.

9) telev. rad. (regular slot) spazio m. fisso, passaggio m. fisso

10) (moral blemish) macchia f.

it's a spot on his reputation — è una macchia per la sua reputazione

11) cinem. teatr. riflettore m., spot m.; (in home) faretto m.

12) sport (for penalty kick) dischetto m. (del rigore); (for snooker ball) acchito m.

••

to change one's spots — cambiare vita o abitudini

to knock spots off sth., sb. — superare di gran lunga qcs., qcn
II 1. [spɒt]
verbo transitivo (forma in -ing ecc. - tt-)

1) (see) vedere, individuare, scorgere

to spot sb. doing — vedere qcn. mentre sta facendo

well spotted! — che vista!

2) (recognize) riconoscere, distinguere [car, person, symptoms]; scoprire, individuare [defect, difference]; fiutare [ bargain]; osservare [birds, trains]

3) (stain) macchiare [carpet, shirt]
2.
verbo impersonale (forma in -ing ecc. - tt-) (rain)

it's spotting — pioviggina

English-Italian dictionary > spot
18 spot

1. noun
1) (precise place) Stelle, die

on this spot — an dieser Stelle

on the spot — (fig.) (instantly) auf der Stelle

be on the spot — (be present) zur Stelle sein

be in/get into/get out of a [tight] spot — (fig. coll.) in der Klemme sitzen/in die Klemme geraten/sich aus einer brenzligen Lage befreien (ugs.)

put somebody on the spot — (fig. coll.): (cause difficulties for somebody) jemanden in Verlegenheit bringen

2) (inhabited place) Ort, der

a nice spot on the Moselle — ein hübscher Flecken an der Mosel

3) (suitable area) Platz, der

holiday/sun spot — Ferienort, der/Ferienort [mit Sonnengarantie]

picnic spot — Picknickplatz, der

hit the high spots — (coll.) groß ausgehen

4) (dot) Tupfen, der; Tupfer, der; (larger) Flecken, der

knock spots off somebody — (fig. coll.) jemanden in die Pfanne hauen (ugs.)

see spots before one's eyes — Sterne sehen (ugs.)

5) (stain)

spot [of blood/ grease/ink] — [Blut-/Fett-/Tinten]fleck, der

6) (Brit. coll.): (small amount)

do a spot of work/sewing — ein bisschen arbeiten/nähen

how about a spot of lunch? — wie wär's mit einem Bissen zu Mittag?

have or be in a spot of bother or trouble — etwas Ärger haben

7) (drop)

a spot or a few spots of rain — ein paar Regentropfen

8) (area on body) [Körper]stelle, die

have a weak spot — (fig.) eine Schwachstelle haben; see also academic.ru/68919/sore">sore 1. 1)

9) (Telev. coll.): (position in programme) Sendezeit, die

the 7 o'clock spot — das Siebenuhrprogramm

10) (Med.) Pickel, der

heat spot — Hitzebläschen, das

break out in spots — Ausschlag bekommen

11) (on dice, dominoes) Punkt, der

12) (spotlight) Spot, der
2. transitive verb,
- tt-

1) (detect) entdecken; identifizieren [Verbrecher]; erkennen [Gefahr]

2) (take note of) erkennen [Flugzeugtyp, Vogel, Talent]

go train-/plane-spotting — Zug-/Flugzeugtypen bestimmen

3) (coll.): (pick out) tippen auf (+ Akk.) (ugs.) [Sieger, Gewinner usw.]

4) (stain) beflecken; (with ink or paint) beklecksen; (with mud) beschmutzen

* * *
[spot] 1. noun
1) (a small mark or stain (made by mud, paint etc): She was trying to remove a spot of grease from her skirt.) der Fleck

2) (a small, round mark of a different colour from its background: His tie was blue with white spots.) der Fleck

3) (a pimple or red mark on the skin caused by an illness etc: She had measles and was covered in spots.) die Pustel

4) (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.) die Stelle

5) (a small amount: Can I borrow a spot of sugar?) das Bißchen
2. verb
1) (to catch sight of: She spotted him eventually at the very back of the crowd.) ausfindig machen

2) (to recognize or pick out: No-one watching the play was able to spot the murderer.) herausfinden

•

- spotless
- spotlessly
- spotlessness
- spotted
- spotty
- spottiness
- spot check
- spotlight 3. verb
1) (to light with a spotlight: The stage was spotlit.) anstrahlen

2) (to show up clearly or draw attention to: The incident spotlighted the difficulties with which we were faced.) herausstellen

•

- in a spot
- on the spot
- spot on
* * *

spot

[spɒt, AM spɑ:t]

I. n

1. (mark) Fleck m

\spot of blood/grease Blut-/Fettfleck m

2. (dot) Punkt m; (pattern) Tupfen m

3. BRIT (pimple) Pickel m; (pustule) Pustel f

to pick a \spot einen Pickel ausdrücken

4. esp BRIT (little bit) ein wenig [o bisschen]

shall we stop for a \spot of lunch? sollen wir schnell eine Kleinigkeit zu Mittag essen?

I'm having a \spot of bother with one of my back teeth einer meiner Backenzähne macht mir etwas Ärger

a \spot of rain ein bisschen Regen

5. (place) Stelle f

on the \spot an Ort und Stelle

6. (small town, village) Flecken m

7. TV, RADIO Beitrag m

guest \spot Gastauftritt m

to have sb on the guest \spot jdn als Gast haben

to do/have a \spot einen Beitrag gestalten/haben

8. ECON (price) Sofortpreis m

9. ( fam: spotlight) Scheinwerfer m

10. COMPUT Punkt m, Spurelement nt

11.

▶ to put sb on the \spot jdn in Verlegenheit bringen

▶ on the \spot auf der Stelle

II. vi

<- tt->

impers BRIT

it's \spotting [with rain] es tröpfelt fam

III. vt

<- tt->

▪ to \spot sb/sth jdn/etw entdecken

▪ to \spot sb doing sth jdn bei etw dat erwischen

▪ to \spot why/what... dahinterkommen, warum/was... fam; (notice)

▪ to \spot that... bemerken, dass...

* * *
[spɒt]
1. n

1) (= dot) Tupfen m, Punkt m; (on dice) Punkt m; (ZOOL, BOT) Fleck m, Punkt m; (= stain) (on fruit) Fleck m; (fig, on reputation, good name) Makel m (on an +dat)

a dress with spots — ein getupftes or gepunktetes Kleid

spots of blood/grease — Blut-/Fettflecken pl

spots of ink — Tintenkleckse or -flecke pl

to knock spots off sb/sth (fig inf) — jdn/etw in den Schatten stellen, jdn in die Tasche stecken (inf)

to see spots before one's eyes — Sternchen sehen

without a spot (or stain) (fig liter) — makellos

2) (MED ETC) Fleck m; (= pimple) Pickel m; (= place) Stelle f

to break out or come out in spots — Flecken/Pickel bekommen

3) (= place) Stelle f; (= point) Punkt m

this is the spot where Rizzio was murdered — an dieser Stelle or hier ist Rizzio ermordet worden

a pleasant spot — ein schönes Fleckchen (inf)

our man on the spot — unser Mann am Ort (des Geschehens) or vor Ort

an on-the-spot report — ein Bericht vom Ort des Geschehens

an on-the-spot fine — eine sofort or auf der Stelle zu bezahlende Geldstrafe

4) (Brit inf

= small quantity) a/the spot of — ein/das bisschen

we had a spot of rain/a few spots of rain — wir hatten ein paar Tropfen Regen

there was a spot of trouble/bother — es gab etwas Ärger

we're in a spot of bother —

why don't you do a spot of work? — warum arbeiten Sie nicht mal ein bisschen?

after a spot of bother — nach einigen Schwierigkeiten

would you like a spot of lunch? — möchten Sie eine Kleinigkeit zu Mittag essen?

5) (fig: characteristic) Punkt m, Stelle f

weak spot — schwache Stelle

6) (= difficulty) Klemme f

to be in a ( tight) spot — in der Klemme sitzen (inf), in Schwulitäten sein (inf)

to put sb in a or on the spot — jdn in Verlegenheit or Schwulitäten (inf) bringen

7) (in show) Nummer f; (RAD, TV) (ein paar Minuten) Sendezeit f; (for advertisement) Werbespot m; (= announcement) Kurzmeldung f

he's got a spot on that show — er tritt in dieser Show auf

a three-minute TV spot — drei Minuten Sendezeit im Fernsehen, ein dreiminütiger Werbespot im Fernsehen

8) pl (COMM) Lokowaren pl (spec), sofort lieferbare Waren pl

9) (BILLIARDS on table) Marke f; (also spot ball) Spielball m

10) (ESP THEAT inf = spotlight) Scheinwerfer m

2. vt

1) (= notice, see) entdecken, sehen; (= pick out) signs, difference, opportunity erkennen; trends, talent, gap entdecken; mistake, bargain finden; (MIL = pinpoint) ausmachen

to spot a winner (lit, fig) — richtig tippen (inf)

2) (= stain) bespritzen

3) (BILLIARDS) ball auf die Marke(n) setzen

3. vi

1) (Brit)

it's spotting (with rain) — es tröpfelt

2) (= stain) Flecken bekommen, schmutzen

* * *

spot [spɒt; US spɑt]

A s

1. (Schmutz-, Rost- etc)Fleck(en) m: → knock B 1

2. fig Schandfleck m, Makel m:

without a spot makellos

3. (Farb)Fleck m, Tupfen m ( auch ZOOL): → leopard 1

4. MED Leberfleck m, Hautmal n, Pustel f, Pickel m

5. Stelle f, Fleck m, Ort m, Platz m:

on the spot

a) auf der Stelle, vom Fleck weg, sofort,

b) an Ort und Stelle, vor Ort,

c) zur Stelle, da,

d) auf dem Posten, auf Draht umg,

e) US umg in (Lebens)Gefahr:;

be on the ( oder in a) spot in der Klemme sein oder sitzen oder stecken umg;

the referee was always on the spot SPORT war immer auf Ballhöhe;

put sb on the spot umg

a) jemanden in Verlegenheit bringen,

b) US beschließen, jemanden umzulegen;

in spots US umg

a) stellenweise,

b) in gewisser Weise;

soft spot fig Schwäche, Faible n ( beide:

for für);

sore ( oder tender) spot fig wunder Punkt, empfindliche Stelle, Achillesferse f;

on the spot of four Punkt 4 (Uhr);

be in third spot SPORT etc auf dem dritten Platz liegen;

be in a tight spot in der Klemme sein oder sitzen oder stecken umg; → bright A 1, cold spot, high spot, warm spot

6. Fleckchen n, Stückchen n:

a spot of ground

7. THEAT umg (Programm)Nummer f, Auftritt m

8. umg

a) Bissen n, Häppchen n:

have a spot of lunch eine Kleinigkeit zu Mittag essen,

b) Tropfen m, Schluck m:

a spot of whisky

c) (ein) bisschen:

a spot of rest;

9. besonders US umg

a) Nachtklub m

b) Amüsierbetrieb m: → hot spot 2;

10. a) Billard: Point m

b) US Auge n (auf Würfeln etc);

11. ORN Maskentaube f

12. FISCH Umberfisch m

13. → spotlight A

14. → sunspot

15. pl WIRTSCH Lokowaren pl

B adj

1. WIRTSCH

a) sofort lieferbar

b) sofort zahlbar (bei Lieferung)

c) bar, Bar…:

spot goods → A 15

2. örtlich begrenzt, lokal

3. gezielt, Punkt…: → spot check

C v/t

1. beflecken (auch fig)

2. tüpfeln, sprenkeln

3. entdecken

4. Billard: einen Ball aufstellen

5. MIL ein Ziel orten, genau ausmachen

6. von Flecken reinigen

7. Bäume anschalmen

8. Turnen: jemandem Hilfestellung leisten

9. US umg jemandem einen Punkt etc vorgeben

D v/i

1. einen Fleck oder Flecke machen

2. flecken, fleckig werden

3. unpers;

it’s spotting (with rain) Br es tröpfelt

* * *
1. noun
1) (precise place) Stelle, die

on this spot — an dieser Stelle

on the spot — (fig.) (instantly) auf der Stelle

be on the spot — (be present) zur Stelle sein

be in/get into/get out of a [tight] spot — (fig. coll.) in der Klemme sitzen/in die Klemme geraten/sich aus einer brenzligen Lage befreien (ugs.)

put somebody on the spot — (fig. coll.): (cause difficulties for somebody) jemanden in Verlegenheit bringen

2) (inhabited place) Ort, der

a nice spot on the Moselle — ein hübscher Flecken an der Mosel

3) (suitable area) Platz, der

holiday/sun spot — Ferienort, der/Ferienort [mit Sonnengarantie]

picnic spot — Picknickplatz, der

hit the high spots — (coll.) groß ausgehen

4) (dot) Tupfen, der; Tupfer, der; (larger) Flecken, der

knock spots off somebody — (fig. coll.) jemanden in die Pfanne hauen (ugs.)

see spots before one's eyes — Sterne sehen (ugs.)

5) (stain)

spot [of blood/ grease/ink] — [Blut-/Fett-/Tinten]fleck, der

6) (Brit. coll.): (small amount)

do a spot of work/sewing — ein bisschen arbeiten/nähen

how about a spot of lunch? — wie wär's mit einem Bissen zu Mittag?

have or be in a spot of bother or trouble — etwas Ärger haben

7) (drop)

a spot or a few spots of rain — ein paar Regentropfen

8) (area on body) [Körper]stelle, die

have a weak spot — (fig.) eine Schwachstelle haben; see also sore 1. 1)

9) (Telev. coll.): (position in programme) Sendezeit, die

the 7 o'clock spot — das Siebenuhrprogramm

10) (Med.) Pickel, der

heat spot — Hitzebläschen, das

break out in spots — Ausschlag bekommen

11) (on dice, dominoes) Punkt, der

12) (spotlight) Spot, der
2. transitive verb,
- tt-

1) (detect) entdecken; identifizieren [Verbrecher]; erkennen [Gefahr]

2) (take note of) erkennen [Flugzeugtyp, Vogel, Talent]

go train-/plane-spotting — Zug-/Flugzeugtypen bestimmen

3) (coll.): (pick out) tippen auf (+ Akk.) (ugs.) [Sieger, Gewinner usw.]

4) (stain) beflecken; (with ink or paint) beklecksen; (with mud) beschmutzen

* * *

n.

Fleck -en m.

Pickel - (im Gesicht) m.

Plätzchen n.

Punkt -e m.

Stelle -n f. v.

beflecken v.

entdecken v.

herausfinden v.

sehen v.

(§ p.,pp.: sah, gesehen)

English-german dictionary > spot
19 Artificial Intelligence

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inﬂated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins ﬂy? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can ﬂy, so robins probably can ﬂy."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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fɪks
1. гл.
1) а) устанавливать;
прикреплять;
укреплять, закреплять The workmen fixed the antenna to the roof of the house. ≈ Рабочие укрепили антенну на крыше дома. Syn: secure, fasten, attach, affix, moor, make fast, implant, rivet, anchor, connect, place permanently б) фиксировать, закреплять ( в сознании) While the mind is elsewhere, there is no progress in fixing the lessons. ≈ Пока внимание где-то в другом месте, бесполезно пытаться закрепить пройденное в сознании. в) возлагать( вину, ответственность, расходы и т. п.) Investigators fixed the blame for the fire on the night watchman. ≈ Следователи возложили вину за пожар на ночного сторожа. Syn: place, put, impose, affix
2) приводить в порядок;
налаживать, регулировать;
ремонтировать, чинить You'd better call someone to fix that leak. ≈ Вы бы лучше кого-нибудь пригласили, чтобы заделать эту течь. Fix your hair! ≈ Причеши волосы! to fix a broken lock ≈ починить сломанный замок Syn: repair, mend, patch up, correct, set right, put to rights, renovate, put in good condition, rebuild;
adjust, regulate
3) приготовить, состряпать (завтрак и т. п.) to fix breakfast ≈ приготовить завтрак Sarah fixed some food for us. ≈ Сара состряпала нам что-то поесть. Let me fix you a drink. ≈ Давай я сделаю тебе что-нибудь выпить. Syn: prepare, make
4) устанавливать, назначать (срок, цену и т. п.) The dealer fixed the price at $
50. ≈ Торговец установил цену в 50 долларов. to fix a time for the meeting ≈ назначить время встречи The date of the election was fixed. ≈ Дата выборов была установлена. Syn: set, settle, establish, stabilize, prescribe, determine definitely
5) а) разг. устраивать;
улаживать It's fixed. He's going to meet us at the airport. ≈ Все устроено. Он собирается встретить нас в аэропорту. They thought that their relatives would be able to fix the visas. ≈ Они полагают, что родственники смогут сделать им визы. He vanished after you fixed him with a job. ≈ Он исчез после того, как ты устроил ему работу. It's not too late to fix the problem, although time is clearly getting short. ≈ Еще не поздно уладить эту проблему, хотя времени остается очень мало. б) устраиваться to fix oneself in a place ≈ устроиться, поселиться где-л.
6) а) устремлять, сосредоточивать (взгляд, внимание на ком-л., чем-л. - on, upon) Her eyes fixed themselves on Leonora's face. ≈ Ее глаза были прикованы к лицу Леоноры. The child kept her eyes fixed on the wall behind him. ≈ Ребенок не сводил глаз со стены позади него. He took her hand and fixed her with a look of deep concern. ≈ Он взял ее руку и с глубоким сочувствием устремил на нее взгляд. She kept her mind fixed on the practical problems which faced her. ≈ Ее мысли были сосредоточены на стоящих перед ней практических задачах. б) привлекать( внимание)
7) закреплять, фиксировать (краску, изображение при печатании фотографий и т. п.) Syn: stabilize
8) а) густеть;
оседать;
твердеть;
застывать Is something added to fix the cement? ≈ Что-нибудь добавлено, чтобы цемент затвердел? б) хим. связывать, сгущать ∙ Syn: harden, solidify, make rigid, make firm, become stable, become set;
congeal, consolidate
9) определять местоположение He had not been able to fix his position. ≈ Он не мог определить, где он находится. The satellite fixes positions by making repeated observations of each star. ≈ Определение расположения спутника происходит с помощью повторного наблюдения за положением звезды. Syn: pinpoint
10) разг. подстроить, организовать( с помощью взятки и т. п.) ;
договориться (тайно, нелегально) to fix a game ≈ подтасовать игру;
договориться (предложить за выигрыш взятку и т. п.) We didn't 'fix' anything. It'll be seen as it happens. ≈ Мы ни о чем не 'договаривались'. Все это будет видно по игре. Syn: rig II
2.
11) разг. разделаться, расправиться If he tries that again I'll really fix him. ≈ Если он еще раз попробует это сделать, я по-настоящему с ним расправлюсь. Syn: get even with, get back, get revenge on;
fix one's wagon, settle one's hash, cook one's goose;
retaliate, take action against
12) разг. собираться, намереваться I'm fixing to speak to her. ≈ Я намерен поговорить с ней.
13) стерилизовать, кастрировать( животных, особ. домашних) ∙ fix on fix over fix up fix upon fix with
2. сущ.
1) разг. дилемма;
затруднение, затруднительное положение, неприятная ситуация After accepting two invitations for the same evening he was really in a fix. ≈ После того, как он принял два приглашения на один и тот же вечер, он действительно оказался в затруднительном положении. fine, nice, pretty fix ≈ достаточно неприятная ситуация in the same fix be in a fix get into a fix Syn: predicament, embarrassing situation, plight, difficulty, dilemma, awkward spot, quandary, impasse, ticklish situation;
spot, jam, pickle, bind, scrape, hot water;
muddle, mess, entanglement, involvement
2) амер.;
разг. (временное) решение проблемы Many of those changes could just be a temporary fix. ≈ Многие из этих изменений могли бы быть просто временной мерой.
3) а) местоположение, позиция( судна, самолета и т. п., определяемая по ориентирам, наблюдениям или по радио) to take a fix ≈ определить свое положение в пространстве The army hasn't been able to get a fix on the transmitter. ≈ Армия не могла определить местоположение по радиопередатчику. Syn: position, location б) определение местоположения
4) оценка;
согласованная или установленная дата, цена, размер и т. д.;
особ., дважды в день устанавливаемый на лондонской бирже драгоценных металлов курс золота
5) точное определение, точное понимание Can you get a fix on the meaning of this paragraph? ≈ Ты точно понял смысл этого параграфа? It's been hard to get a steady fix on what's going on. ≈ Было трудно точно определить, что же происходит.
6) амер. (рабочее) состояние, положение What a fix this old world might have been in if our boys had not made it safe for democracy. ≈ В каком беспорядке мог оказаться наш старый мир, если бы наши парни не сохранили его для демократии. out of fix
7) а) разг. доза, определенное количество( чего-л. желаемого или получаемого, что помогает выжить и т. п.) б) сл. инъекция наркотика;
доза наркотика to get a fix ≈ наколоться need a fix ≈ нуждаться в уколе
8) амер.;
сл. взятка;
подкуп;
нелегальное соглашение (напр., между политиками или между полицейскими и преступниками)
9) метал. заправочный материал для пудлинговой печи (разговорное) затруднительное положение;
дилемма - to be in a * быть в трудном положении;
оказаться в тупике /затруднении/ - to put smb. into a * поставить кого-л. в затруднительное положение, втравить кого-л. в историю - how are we to get out this *? как мы выпутаемся из этого положения? определение местонахождения или координат (радиотехника) (авиация) засечка (американизм) состояние, положение - in good * в порядке, в хорошем состоянии - out of *, in bad * в беспорядке, в плохом состоянии (сленг) отступное, взятка - tax *es льготы по налогу, предоставляемые за взятку - big * (американизм) "договоренность" между преступным миром и какой-л. партией, попустительство преступной деятельности за помощь в избирательной кампании (сленг) игра, исход которой предрешен "фикс" (смесь алкогольного напитка с лимонным соком) (сленг) доза наркотика (психологическое) навязчивая идея, комплекс, мания - *s about cleanliness помешательство на чистоте;
чистота - ее пунктик - public * on crime нездоровый интерес публики к преступлениям (психологическое) остановка в развитии (эмоциональном, половом) ;
инфантильность укреплять;
закреплять;
прикреплять - to * a lid on a box закрепить крышку на ящике - to * a shelf to a wall прибить полку на стене - to * a post in the ground забить /вкопать/ столб - to * bayonets( военное) примкнуть штыки устанавливать, назначать, определять - to * a date for a meeting назначить день собрания - to * prices установить цены - to * a budget определять бюджет - his departure was *ed for Monday его отъезд был назначен на понедельник - there is nothing *ed yet еще ничего не решено - to * the limits of a debate установить /принять/ регламент отмечать, фиксировать, констатировать - to * a change зафиксировать /констатировать/ изменение - the city of Homer's birth has never been *ed до сих пор не установлено, в каком городе родился Гомер возлагать - to * the blame on smb. возложить вину на кого-л., обвинить кого-л. - it is difficult to * the blame трудно определить, кто виноват - to * responsibility /guilt/ возлагать ответственность /вину/ - to * smb. with costs возложить расходы на кого-л. (разговорное) устраивать, делать - I'll * it for you я все для вас устрою - we'll * the whole business мы уладим все это дело - to * a camp разбить лагерь - to * a fire развести огонь - they * their hair in the Hollywood manner они причесываются на голливудский лад /делают себе голливудские прически/ - to see one's daughters comfortably *ed удачно пристроить дочерей приводить в порядок - to * oneself привести себя в порядок - to * one's face подкраситься, подмазаться - she asked me to * the table for family dinner она попросила меня накрыть стол для семейного обеда чинить, ремонтировать, налаживать - to * a broken lock починить сломанный замок - to * the drain прочистить сток - where can I have the car *ed? где здесь можно починить /отремонтировать/ машину? приготовить, сделать на скорую руку( обед и т. п.) - to * breakfast приготовить завтрак - she *ed lunch for the children to take to school она приготовила детям с собой завтрак в школу - coffee *ed with milk кофе с молоком - he *ed himself a drink он налил себе стаканчик неотрывно смотреть;
устремлять взгляд - he *ed her with his eye он сверлил ее взглядом - his mother *ed him icily мать смотрела на него ледяным взглядом - he *ed a searching look on her он устремил на нее испытующий взгляд сосредоточить мысли и т. п. - he *ed his ambition upon surgery он решил сделать карьеру в хирургии /как хирург/ приковывать, останавливать( внимание и т. п.) - the object *ed his eye этот предмет привлек его взор - the unusual sight *ed his attention /kept his attention *ed/ необыкновенное зрелище приковало его внимание - * your attention on what you are doing не отвлекайся от того, что ты сейчас делаешь (on, upon) остановиться на (чем-л.) ;
выбрать - to * on a date for a journey выбрать день отъезда - he *ed on a cabin by the lake to spend his vacation он решил провести отпуск в домике на озере - she *ed upon a small villa ее выбор пал на маленькую виллу запечатлевать, фиксировать ( в памяти, в сознании) - to * facts in one's mind твердо запомнить факты поселиться, осесть;
закрепиться - he *ed his residence in the city он поселился в городе;
он избрал город своим местожительством - he *ed himself in New York он устроился /осел/ в Нью-Иорке (разговорное) вылечить (часто * up) - that doctor *ed my son (up) этот врач поставил моего сына на ноги - food will * her up еда быстро восстановит ее силы (разговорное) собираться, намереваться - to * to smth. решить сделать что-л. - it's *ing to rain собираться в дождь( разговорное) улаживать, разрешать - this won't * anything это ничего не решает - anything that is wrong with our life today, people expect the schools to * люди ждут от школы разрешения всех жизненных проблем (сленг) подстраивать (путем подкупа), "договариваться" - to * an election фальсифицировать выборы - the jury has been *ed с присяжными есть договоренность, присяжные подкуплены - all his fights were *ed исход всех его встреч (по боксу) был предрешен (путем сговора) - you can't * these officials эти чиновники взяток не берут (разговорное) разделаться, расправиться - I'll * you! я тебе задам!, я до тебя доберусь! - God'll * you! Бог вас накажет! (сленг) давать наркотики, снабжать наркотиками (эвфмеизм) кастрировать (особ. кота) (специальное) оседать, густеть, твердеть (фотографическое) (кинематографический) фиксировать, закреплять (радиотехника) (авиация) засекать, точно определять широту и долготу fix амер.: out of fix в беспорядке;
нуждающийся в ремонте ~ внедрять;
вводить ~ разг. дилемма;
затруднительное положение;
to get into a terrible fix попасть в страшную переделку ~ договориться, уладить ~ доза наркотика ~ закреплять ~ констатировать ~ местоположение;
to take a fix определить свое положение в пространстве ~ назначать ~ определять ~ оседать, густеть, твердеть ~ подкупать ~ подстроить, организовать (что-л.) жульническим способом или с помощью взятки ~ поселиться ~ привлекать (внимание) ;
останавливать (взгляд, внимание;
on, upon - на) ;
to fix one's eyes (on smth.) фиксировать внимание( на чем-л.) ;
не сводить глаз, пялиться ~ приводить в порядок ~ прикреплять ~ разг. разделаться, расправиться ~ ремонтировать ~ решать, назначать (срок, цену и т. п.) ~ хим. сгущать, связывать ~ точно определить местоположение ~ укреплять, закреплять, устанавливать ~ укреплять ~ амер. разг. употр. вместо самых разнообразных глаголов, обозначающих приведение в порядок, приготовление и т. п., напр.: to fix a broken lock починить сломанный замок ~ устанавливать, назначать, определять ~ устанавливать ~ устраивать, делать ~ устроиться;
to fix oneself in a place устроиться, поселиться (где-л.) ~ фиксировать ~ фото фиксировать, закреплять ~ амер. разг. употр. вместо самых разнообразных глаголов, обозначающих приведение в порядок, приготовление и т. п., напр.: to fix a broken lock починить сломанный замок to ~ a coat починить пиджак to ~ breakfast приготовить завтрак;
to fix one's hair привести прическу в порядок to ~ the fire развести огонь;
fix on выбрать, остановиться (на чем-л.) ~ up разг. починить;
подправить;
fix upon = fix on ~ привлекать (внимание) ;
останавливать (взгляд, внимание;
on, upon - на) ;
to fix one's eyes (on smth.) фиксировать внимание (на чем-л.) ;
не сводить глаз, пялиться to ~ breakfast приготовить завтрак;
to fix one's hair привести прическу в порядок ~ устроиться;
to fix oneself in a place устроиться, поселиться (где-л.) to ~ the fire развести огонь;
fix on выбрать, остановиться (на чем-л.) ~ up разг. организовать;
устранить препятствия ~ up разг. починить;
подправить;
fix upon = fix on ~ up разг. решить ~ up разг. уладить;
привести в порядок;
урегулировать;
договориться ~ up разг. устроить, дать приют ~ up разг. починить;
подправить;
fix upon = fix on ~ разг. дилемма;
затруднительное положение;
to get into a terrible fix попасть в страшную переделку in the same ~ в одинаково тяжелом положении fix амер.: out of fix в беспорядке;
нуждающийся в ремонте ~ местоположение;
to take a fix определить свое положение в пространстве

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